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PODCAST

Emsolation

Join multi-media maven Em Rusciano—writer, singer, comedian, producer, podcast princess, and disability advocate—and her best friend of 30 years, award-winning screenwriter Michael Lucas (Offspring, Party Tricks, Rosehaven, The Newsreader), each week for an unpredictable mix of deeply personal anecdotes, obsessive pop culture dissections, and truly unhinged movie and TV reviews. If you’re after a show full of humour, heart, and hot takes, we’ve got good news for you! We should also warn

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All Episodes

37:50

Michael’s Hip Replacement Party, The Idea of You &...

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2024/05/08

Yaas, Em’s new podcast ‘Anomalous with Em Rusciano’ is out and it’s being received exactly as Em hoped it would be, with much accolades, appreciation and divine voice notes and reviews. Michael is due to have hip replacement surgery soon, so to see out his crusty old hip joints, he’s throwing himself a blow out dance party/celebration with the theme ‘Disco Cowboy’. Naturally Em has already been invited, and within hours of receiving said invite had sourced and ordered her entire themed outfit for

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45:15

Baby Reindeer, Sullivan’s Crossing & Gilmore Girls

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2024/05/01

It’s a return to our favourite combo, another mother daughter episode as Em’s eldest Marchella steps in for Michael Lucas. We begin with Chella disowning her own father’s last name and an explain on why she has a deeper voice than Em. Then Em reveals she gave in and watched the entire series of ‘Baby Reindeer’ and she is NOT OKAY! After being told in our previous episode by Michael and Chella to avoid it at all costs, Em decided they’re not the boss of her, dove right in and then promptly nearly

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45:36

Rebel’s Royal Orgy, Baby Reindeer & Taylor’s Tortured...

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2024/04/24

Your commitment to a theme dress for Em’s ‘Outgrown’ tour, and a round of singing old school TV themes gets us underway this week. Then there’s Royal orgy news from Rebel Wilson, which gets interrupted with side-quests into Em’s mum Jenni and her latest spending spree involving a giant tree, a crane and her iPad, plus bat tennis and an ‘It’s A Knockout’ rejection, before Em loses interest. We then delve into the TV series everyone is telling Em to watch, but she also probably needs to avoid, called

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44:37

Em’s New Show, Taylor & Travis At Coachella & Jenni’s...

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2024/04/17

We begin by revisiting Em and Michael’s teenage hotmail addresses, their lack of flirting skills and how much they were actual virgins in their early days. We even get a bonus retelling of Em’s fave story about Michael’s most tragic love rejection. Then Em gets Michael to give us an update on his Mum’s journey into herbal remedies, which turns out to be a little bit of a letdown. We also get a full rundown of Em’s upcoming tour ‘Outgrown’, once Michael works out the most flawless way to introduce

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45:11

Leave JoJo Siwa Alone!

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2024/04/10

To get things happening this week, Michael gets the intro right, then there’s updates from Mum land, with news that Em’s Mum could end up being a juror on a court case and Michael’s Mum is ready to start her journey into the wonderful world of medicinal herbal drops for the aches and pains in her skeleton. After that Em is campaigning for everyone to leave JoJo Siwa alone, first though she’ll have to introduce JoJo to Michael, and anyone else who’s not across her background and history. Once we’re

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29:34

In Conversation with Lizzy Hoo

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2024/04/04

Em befriended Lizzy Hoo a year ago while working at The Melbourne Comedy Festival’s Great Debate. As you’ll hear inside, it's been a while since they acted on their new found friendship, but at least when they eventually did, they invited us to be there to listen in, HUZZAH! Lizzy is a writer, equal parts noodle and pie enthusiast, designer, actor, sport enthusiast and a stand up comedian who recently hosted the Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala, which is now streaming on ABC iView. Inside she’ll

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54:16

Elio’s Easter, Beyonce’s Country Carter, Lindsay...

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2024/04/03

We start with the fact Em has a cold sore, but we’re not actually allowed to acknowledge it, or look at it, we also have issues with the use of the word ‘awareness’ instead of ‘acceptance’ in the labelling of ‘Autism Awareness Day’. There’s a negative Airbnb review to reflect, then we get into Elio’s Easter origin and Easter bunny questions, and his issues with his Easter Egg Hunt, plus Michael reveals his Mum’s bleak easter traditions too. After that we get the full debrief on how Em, Michael and

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49:15

Kate, Carlos and Cowboy Carter

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2024/03/27

We open with the news Kate Middleton is having treatment for cancer and how Em was right in her assumptions that we shouldn’t be speculating about BBL’s and the like. Especially when a woman is undergoing a medical treatment that we don’t have all the information on. Sending WTF thoughts to the Palace PR team and speculating on Kate’s marriage to Prince William though, still falls into an open season situation. Then we pivot into an update on Em and Vincie’s Friday inside the Mercedes AMG tent at

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36:21

Michael Gets Epically Rear Ended

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2024/03/20

It’s the SMS that brought much delight to Em, Michael got rear ended by a truck on his way to work, and sent an “I’ve been epically rear ended” message to alert Em to that fact. You’ll hear all about it as we start the pod, with a side quest on Beyoncé being a capitalist by name dropping brands in her songs. Then it’s onto Em’s newest obsession, Guy Richie’s new Netflix TV series ‘The Gentlemen’, which is light years better than the bad accents we get in his original movie version of ‘The

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42:35

Em & Chella Talk Oscars, Drag Queens & Wicked The...

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2024/03/13

This week Michael Lucas is away filming his final scenes for Season 3 of his multi-award winning TV series ‘The Newsreader’, so stepping in to replace him is Em’s eldest daughter Marchella. Together they’ll talk through their fave moments from the 2024 Oscar Awards, covering everything from Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue to John Cena’s guttering, Ryan Gosling’s ‘I’m Just Ken’ performance, plus Jonathan Glazer’s speech, Emma Stone, Ariana Grande, Al Pacino, Mark Ruffalo, Lily Gladstone and a bunch of other

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44:08

F1, Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, Vacuum Cleaners & Italian...

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2024/03/06

Before we even get an intro out we drop chats about Em’s new glasses, Jennifer Saunders not recognising her own Ab Fab daughter, Saffy, aka Julia Sawalha on The Masked Singer, and a side quest about the TV series ‘Press Gang’. Once the intro is done, it’s onto Em’s love language, F1. Michael just has to endure it, safe to say his facial expressions express his interest throughout. Then it’s onto the drama inside Miley Cyrus’ family, with Billy Ray now married to a woman who auditioned for Hannah

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47:15

Dune: Part 2, J’Lo, Scomo, The SAGS & Mardi Gras

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2024/02/28

Your introduction to this episode covers everything from American Idol shock eliminations, to Elio discovering the delights of mooning and Michael Lucas sharing his name with a gay pornstar, so chefs kiss for all of that. Then we deep dive into Em’s spoiler free review of ‘Dune: Part 2’. Expect much giant worm chat and everything else in between, from who was giving act-TOR on the IMAX screen, to if Austin Butler brought Elvis along for the ride.Michael then goes against type by turning up with

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48:03

Taylor Killjoys, Ariana & Mariah’s Whistle Tone &...

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2024/02/21

Did somebody say gimme all the divas, because we’re at capacity when it comes to the ladies of pop bringing their main character energy to the pod this week. We start with a full recap of the first weekend of Taylor Swift’s Era’s Tour in Australia. Seems some people aren’t feeling the love and are trying to kill the joy that Swifties have been exhibiting and we are having none of that. Then it’s onto the internet being super supportive of the return of Mariah Carey’s whistle tone, as displayed on

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48:19

Beyonce, Usher, Wicked & AACTA Awards Goss

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2024/02/14

This week all of pop culture decided to unleash all of its everything, all at once and none of us are coping very well. So after admitting to being untethered and unmedicated, Em takes us through a recap of their trip to the Gold Coast for the AACTA Awards, where Michael picked up another award, and Em realised she probably didn’t even need to be there, more on that inside. We follow that up with Beyonce deciding to drop Act 2 of her Renaissance offering’s, right after Usher’s Football concert at

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49:27

AACTA Awards Prep, A Grammy Recap & Britney vs Justin

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2024/02/07

Get your clacker out (this will make sense when you listen) and get ready for another side-quest riddled edition of the pod. To begin with we need to cover off Em’s apparently excellent skin, for her age, how very DARE THEY! Then it’s on to the upcoming AACTA Awards where Em and Michael are both nominated for awards, huzzah! We’ve got outfits to tease, shoes that probably won’t arrive, and a pre-awards ceremony info sheet that is giving all of the facts a spicy brained nominee could dream of, bless

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35:02

The Swiftie Bowl

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2024/01/31

Huzzah we are BACK for 2024 and now we come with the added bonus of visuals too. Yes, you can finally watch Em and Michael in living, breathing, colour on selected podcast apps, which at this stage covers Apple and Spotify. Naturally it still works if you just want to keep listening, or maybe do BOTH! This episode kicks off with a quick catchup and the reveal of a brand-new button for Em’s soundboard, then it’s onto why the Oscars didn’t really snub ‘Barbie’ and Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig

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56:14

The Marriage Diaries Chapter 3 Part 2 - An Emsolation...

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2023/12/26

Inspired by the news that more couples breakup in the month of December than any other time of the year, Em Rusciano has decided to release every episode of an exclusive series she created with her hubby Scott, called The Marriage Diaries. Normally you’d only be able to access this series as part of our premium service Emsolation Extra, but so many Extra subscribers have gained so much from listening to this series and hearing another married couple air their issues, that we thought it might be of

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26:53

The Marriage Diaries Chapter 3 Part 1 - An Emsolation...

Emsolation ·

2023/12/25

Inspired by the news that more couples breakup in the month of December than any other time of the year, Em Rusciano has decided to release every episode of an exclusive series she created with her hubby Scott, called The Marriage Diaries. Normally you’d only be able to access this series as part of our premium service Emsolation Extra, but so many Extra subscribers have gained so much from listening to this series and hearing another married couple air their issues, that we thought it might be of

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23:43

The Marriage Diaries Chapter 2 Part 2 - An Emsolation...

Emsolation ·

2023/12/24

Inspired by the news that more couples breakup in the month of December than any other time of the year, Em Rusciano has decided to release every episode of an exclusive series she created with her hubby Scott, called The Marriage Diaries. Normally you’d only be able to access this series as part of our premium service Emsolation Extra, but so many Extra subscribers have gained so much from listening to this series and hearing another married couple air their issues, that we thought it might be of

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21:13

In Conversation with Sonny Jane Wise - An Emsolation...

Emsolation ·

2023/12/20

An Emsolation Extra Interview Today Em sits down to chat with someone who she says has “taught me more in the last year than anyone”. Their name is Sonny Jane Wise, they are an advocate, public speaker and author of the Neurodiversity Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills and the new book ‘We’re All Neurodiverse’. Their mission is to challenge neuronormativity and build a neurodiversity affirming future, where neurodivergent folks are no longer labelled as disordered. This is part one of a fascinating

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