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This week, in what might be the funniest episode yet, Molly and Emese are joined by co-stars Amy Schumer and Brianne Howey. They get candid about motherhood, career evolution, and their new film, Kinda Pregnant —which unexpectedly led to Amy’s latest health discovery. Amy opens up about how public criticism led her to uncover her Cushing syndrome diagnosis, what it’s like to navigate comedy and Hollywood as a mom, and the importance of sharing birth stories without shame. Brianne shares how becoming a mother has shifted her perspective on work, how Ginny & Georgia ’s Georgia Miller compares to real-life parenting, and the power of female friendships in the industry. We also go behind the scenes of their new Netflix film, Kinda Pregnant —how Molly first got the script, why Amy and Brianne were drawn to the project, and what it means for women today. Plus, they reflect on their early career struggles, the moment they knew they “made it,” and how motherhood has reshaped their ambitions. From career highs to personal challenges, this episode is raw, funny, and packed with insights. Mentioned in the Episode: Kinda Pregnant Ginny & Georgia Meerkat 30 Rock Last Comic Standing Charlie Sheen Roast Inside Amy Schumer Amy Schumer on the Howard Stern Show Trainwreck Life & Beth Expecting Amy 45RPM Clothing Brand A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us at @sonypodcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…

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Compulsive Reader's author interviews, book chat, literary discussions, readings and more. It's an audio haven for book lovers! Recent and upcoming guests include Terry Denton, Marion Halligan, Sir Ken Robinson, Emily Ballou, Sofie Laguna, Matthew Riley, John Banville, Felicity Plunkett, Mark Coker, Peter Bowerman, Eric Maisel, Ramona Koval, Tim Flannery, Carl Zimmer, Gail Jones, Jane Smiley, Frank Delaney, Ben Okri, and many more.

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Andrea Goldsmith on The Buried Life 28:37

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Andrea Goldsmith reads from and talks about her. new novel The Buried Life . We talk about the delicate dance between death and life in the book, about the characters and their arcs, the importance of friendship, Mahler, cheese, rapture, and lots more. Find more about Andrea's work at: http://andreagoldsmith.com.au Grab a copy of the book at: https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/the-buried-life/ Compulsive Reader review: https://compulsivereader.com/2025/02/19/a-review-of-the-buried-life-by-andrea-goldsmith/…

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Karen Pearlman on Breaking Plates 28:58

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Dr Karen Pearlman, director of the new film Breaking Plates, talks about the making of her latest film, the inventive ways she engages with Cinemas First Nasty women archive, her use of dance, song, visual collage, slapstick, splicing, intertextually , feminist theory, humour, her excellent actors, on working with her talented family team, and lots more. More on Breaking Plates: http://physicaltv.com.au/breaking-plates/ Physical TV’s many projects http://physicaltv.com.au Cinema’s First Nasty Women Archive https://wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-first-nasty-women/ Breaking Plates will have its Australian Premiere on Saturday February 8, 2025, 1pm, at Dendy Cinemas Newtown, on the shorts program of the Antenna Documentary Film Festival. Info/Tix: https://tinyurl.com/BP-Antenna…

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Damen O'Brien on Walking the Boundary 34:37

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Damen O'Brien reads from and talks about his latest poetry book Walking the Boundary . We talk about such things as the way the book came together as a collection, the joy (and horror) of wriggling creatures, inheritance, apocalypse, humour, and lots more. Find out more about Damen at his website: https://www.dameno.org/ Buy a copy of Walking the Boundary at: https://pittstreetpoetry.com/book/walking-the-boundary/…

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PS Cottier and NG Hartland on The Thirty-one Legs of Vladimir Putin 33:11

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PS Cottier and NG Hartland, authors of The Thirty-one Legs of Vladimir Putin, read from and talk about their new book, which won the Finlay Lloyd 20/40 publishing prize for fiction. We talk about some of the key themes in the book like identity, semblance, what's real and what isn't, the book's prescience in dealing with power dynamics and image, their writing process, characters, works-in-progress, and lots more. More information on The Thirty-One Legs of Vladimir Putin can be found here: https://finlaylloyd.com/product/the-thirty-one-legs-of-vladimir-putin-ps-cottier-ng-hartland/ PS Cottier's website: https://pscottier.com/…

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John Kinsella on Beam of Light 33:55

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John Kinsella reads from and talks about his new short story collection Beam of Light . We talk about the use of furniture in this book, the connective themes, its malevolent undercurrent, the importance and beauty of a sentient landscape, his characters and their struggles against the colonial mindset, what poetry and fiction can do and why he might choose one form or another, and lots more. For more on John and his extensive body of work, visit: ⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kinsella_(poet)⁠ For more on Beam of Light visit: ⁠https://transitlounge.com.au/shop/beam-of-light-stories/…

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Girls on Key 10th Anniversary Zoom 59:19

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This was a special zoom session of poetry to mark the 10th anniversary of Girls on Key featuring Sophia Wilson, Mikaela Nyman, Kiri Piahana-Wong, Patricia Sykes, Nancy Holland-Shroder, and open mic readings from Anna Forsyth (GoK founder), Lou Steer, and Magdalena Ball (host) Video link: https://www.facebook.com/830439988/videos/1307289250655911/ Girls on Key: https://girlsonkey.wixsite.com/.../copy-of-girls-on-key... Sophia Wilson: https://sophiakwilson.wordpress.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bluetree_poet/ Sea Skins: https://flyingislandspocketpoets.com.au/?s=Sophia%20wilson Mikaela Nyman: https://www.otago.ac.nz/.../otago.../robert-burns-fellowship https://www.read-nz.org/writers-files/writer/nyman-mikaela Kiri Piahana-Wong: https://www.anahera.co.nz/books/tidelines Patricia Sykes: https://www.spinifexpress.com.au/patriciasykes Nancy Holland-Schroder: https://www.instagram.com/nancylouiseholland/?hl=en https://www.aucklandacademyofdance.co.nz Lou Steer: https://www.facebook.com/lousteerartist/…

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Sarah Temporal on Tight Bindings 34:13

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Sarah Temporal is a prize-winning poet, producer, and educator who runs the well-respected regional arts initiative Poets Out Loud. She joins us to read from and talk about her debut book Tight Bindings . Visit Sarah’s website at: https://sarahtemporal.com/ Watch videos of Sarah performing and order Tight Bindings : https://puncherandwattmann.com/product/tight-bindings/ Damien Becker’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seasaltskin?igsh=MWVqNDFkYzR0M3J1MA==…

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Patti Miller on the newly revised version of Writing True Stories 35:39

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Patti Miller joins us to read from and talk about her book Writing True Stories which has just been extensively updated and extended. She talks about what has changed in the 30+ years since she started teaching Life Writing, the impact of technology, her best tip, her own work in progress, and lots more. Find out more about Patti and Writing True Stories at her website: https://lifestories.com.au Find a copy of Writing True Stories here: https://www.routledge.com/Writing-True-Stories-The-Complete-Guide-to-Memoir-Creative-Non-Fiction-Personal-Essay-Diaries-Biography-and-Travel/Miller/p/book/9781032765631…

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Julia Levitina on The girl From Moscow 35:23

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Julia Levitina reads from and talks about her new book The Girl From Moscow including such things as how the book came about, why fiction, how the book follows her own departure from the Soviet Union, the importance of 1983 as her setting, inherited trauma and her protagonists, antisemitism, the theatre, her work-in-progress and lots more. Find out more about Julia at her website here: https://www.julialevitinaauthor.com/…

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Omar Musa on The Fullness 33:54

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Omar Musa joins us to perform from and talk about his new album The Fullness. We talk about collaboration and his amazing collaborators, pushing into liminal spaces of multiple identities, leaning into grief and joy ("our lives given shape by shadows"), ego deflation, how some of the songs on The Fullness were created, the percussiveness of rap and its conjunction with poetry, the alchemical process of art, the dissolving of borders between artforms and nationalities, the resonance of the mother tongue, poetry as a language of feeling, the value of working on multiple projects at once, and lots more. Listen to The Fullness: https://open.spotify.com/album/4KTsmsM6AlcoZbno4rlpax?si=91db8a8708684c52 Omar's website: https://www.omarmusa.com.au/…

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Kent MacCarter on Fat Chance 31:56

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Kent MacCarter joins us to read from and talk about his new poetry book Fat Chance . We talk about Kent's process, about having written the "feel bad book of the year”, his journalistic process, the nature of Gossypiboma (retained medical objects), memoir, reverse ekphrasis, and lots more. For more information or to purchase a copy of Fat Chance visit: https://upswellpublishing.com/product/fat-chance Kent will be a guest at this year's Brisbane Writers Festival. For details about his two events, visit: https://bwf.org.au/2024/brisbane-writers-festival/artists/kent-maccarter…

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Robbie Coburn on Ghost Poetry 31:36

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Robbie Coburn reads from and talks about his new book Ghost Poetry. Topics covered include the many ghosts that haunt the pages of the book, dreams and nightmares, the relationship between horses and people, subject and object, the subconscious, confessional poetry and the creative act/the artifice, horses, gothic country as a genre, and lots more. Where to buy the book: Upswell - Ghost Poetry (upswellpublishing.com) Robbie's website: Robbie Coburn…

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Marina Kamenev on Kin 32:22

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The author of Kin: Family in the 21st Century reads from and talks about her new book, about the many permeations of family both nuclear and otherwise, about the book's origins, some of her key themes and challenges including such things as donor privacy versus the rights of a child to know their origins, helping people start families vs the commodification of reproduction, future tech and the risk of Eugenics, and lots more. Find out more about Marina and Kin at: Marina Kamenev Marina's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kamenevwrites…

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Eugen Bacon on Serengotti 33:33

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Award winning author Eugen Bacon reads from and talks about her latest book Serengotti. We discuss such things as the books themes including notions of privilege, racism, misogyny and the multiplicity of the self, the book's unique narrative voice, the protagonist Ch'anzu and other characters, on working through and beyond binaries and genres, on world and app creation, and much more. Find out more about Eugen at: https://eugenbacon.com Grab a copy of Serengotti at: Serengotti | Transit Lounge…

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Valerie Werder on Thieves 37:47

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