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By Jeffrey Mosser, michaela petro. In episode five of the From the Ground Up podcast, Michaela Petro walks us down her path on becoming an ensemble member of Strawdog Theatre Company, and how she contributes to cultivating their ar
MICHAELA PETRO (website) and MALLORY NEES (@The_Mal_Gallery) bring both kindness and vulgarity to PopFury (but mostly vulgarity)! We talk about the status of their 2016 resolutions, Mallory's freak strength, Profiles theater, Scrotox, and wonder why people just can't be kind to each other. SHOW NOTES 0:00 Intro 1:00 Sammy holds Mallory and Michaela accountable for the New Year resolutions they made on the show back in January. Mallory has 1 win, 1 loss and 1 push. Sammy asks about the ladies’ experiences at the gym. “I can’t do a pull up...but I know for a fact that I can pick a car up and spin it on my finger like a basketball.” 8:20 A girl saved her father by lifting a burning truck off him, driving it away, evacuating the family from the house, calling 911 AND using a hose to contain a fire. 11:20 Michaela sails over the low bar of a New Year’s resolution she set for herself. Sammy tries to compare Girls Gone Wild to a play that Michaela will be partially nude in--until she sets him straight. “Can’t you act like your boobs are out?” 16:10 Mallory and Michaela discuss the shuttering of Profiles Theater and the controversy surrounding the misogyny and abuse committed by those in charge. 20:00 Botox in your balls AKA Scrotox AKA Ball Ironing is a thing now. 23:55 Mallory will be attending the 2017 NAMM Show...it’s her first business trip! 27:00 Michaela is deliriously happy she got a residual check. She is in rehearsal for Cymbaline. Mallory helps break down what makes a bad director and offers “good” advice for actors. “I know that 2016 has been a rough fucking year but does it mean we have to treat each other like shit especially around the holidays?!?!” 33:25 Michaela goes on a tirade about the lack of manners. Sammy treated a barista like a human. Mallory was a superhero who saved a baby and yelled at a person. Sammy is concerned about Mallory confronting people 42:40 Sammy recalls Michaela’s vulgar phone tirades at work. 47:00 Mallory is trying to do 46 days of good deeds to make the world a better place. “I’m using social media in a way that I wished that everybody would--which is to make people think or make people smile.” 54:10 Sammy asks for the Michaela’s and Mallory’s 2017 resolutions since their 2016 resolutions were such a shit show. 56:00 Outro, during which Michaela blows her plugs and Mallory reveals the real reason she is on Twitter Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode of the PopFury Podcast, please subscribe and rate us on iTunes or Stitcher! You can also listen to PopFury on Google Play Music!
Special Guest Co-Host Michaela Petro forces Drew to eat a Tabasco Cream Pie from First Slice Pie Café. Also: Drew Issues a Formal Apology, Internet Weirdo Check-In (Chicago Fire Edition), and An Exciting Email
MICHAELA PETRO and MALLORY NEES sweat through a hot, hot, hot episode of PopFury! They talk about animal attacks, Mallory's failing body, Tom Hiddleston, onstage nudity and the most romantic things they've done for a significant other! SHOW NOTES 0:00 Intro 1:00 Mallory is too cheap to use air conditioning. Michaela is too worried about Beijing to use air conditioning. “Gurl...I wanna knock the bottom out of that.” 4:20 They share the best and worst sex line a guy has tried to use on them. 6:30 A lemur attacked a child in Colorado. Mallory has had her own run-ins with a pigeon and mouse recently. 14:45 Mallory is an old lady who brings baked goods in for her coworkers and has a body that’s falling apart. 20:45 Michaela is upset Tom Hiddleston is dating America’s Sweetheart, Taylor Swift 23:35 Tinder now has a group date option. “Sammy always keeps his bra on!” 25:30 Michaela’s theater is currently itinerant. We discuss onstage nudity. 30:30 The Playboy model who posted a naked gym patron online has a retained a lawyer to deal with the fallout. 33:10 Mallory tied for the lead in her Bachelorette league. The ladies share the most romantic thing they’ve done or had done for them. 42:15 Outro Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode of the PopFury Podcast, please subscribe and rate us on iTunes or Stitcher! You can also listen to PopFury on Google Play Music!
MICHAELA PETRO and MALLORY NEES are body positive and Sammy negative when they return to Penthouse Studio 4W! They talk about Michael Phelps' body, naked art bodies, naked sauna bodies and a movie about Harry Potter's dead body. NOTES 0:00 Intro “I feel very little about Michael Phelps when he has a shirt on.” 1:10 Michael Phelps posted a shirtless photo of him and his newborn online. 5:20 It was Body Positivity week. They discuss their personality deal breakers in a relationship. 13:00 100 nude women will gather for a photoshoot before the GOP convention in Cleveland. “Not to belittle this guy’s journey...but he sounds like a perv, right?” 16:45 A Canadian dating website will pair Americans fleeing a Trump presidency with Canadians. Michaela is anti-baby picture and baby-having. 22:00 An Edmonton strip club is offering free lap dances to Ft McMurray fire evacuees. 25:45 A Finnish Burger King has an in-store spa and sauna. Sammy learns about “naked friends” “I love you, Mallory...but I don’t know if I could share naked time with you.” 30:45 Mallory is excited for the farting corpse movie, Swiss Army Man. They ponder the acting roles they’d be happy being remembered as forever. They HATE HATE HATE Manic Pixie girls. 39:00 Mallory is starting a new job and is a little nervous. She also worked at Dude Club Central Cinema. 47:45 Outro Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode of the PopFury Podcast, please subscribe and rate us on iTunes or Stitcher! You can also listen to
MICHAELA PETRO and MALLORY NEES ascend the steps to Penthouse Studio 4W to profess their love of cheese and adoration of Idris Elba! They also patent Fauxoyote Fur (tm), get disgusted by Tinder Snowmances and Mallory shares a creepy story.... SHOW NOTES 0:00 Michaela immediately distracts Sammy during the intro 1:05 Michaela is acting in a short film, Limerance. Sammy is intrigued that Mallory and Michaela get hit on by other ladies. "If I spend $800 on a Canada Goose jacket...I'm gonna wear that down the aisle." 7:00 Cheese thieves struck twice in Wisconsin. Canada Goose jackets are theft targets; Mallory has ethical issues with how they're made. We delve into past fashion choices they've made. 20:00 Michaela is reading the Dark Tower series; Idris Elba will be playing the lead in the adaptation. We discuss the Oscars So White controversy, Chris Rock's rewritten monologue and the Academy's changes to their voting policies. Michaela & Mallory are Jeff-recommended actors. 32:00 Mallory is losing her in Bachelor Fantasy League. Also, there is a Bachelor Fantasy League. Sammy adores the Great British Bake Off. "Once a woman's been all up inside my mouth I'm done with her." 39:00 Please listen to our friends at Rabbit Hole and Remake! 40:30 Tinder has agreed to include a link to preventing and testing for STDs. Ahead of last weekend's snowstorm, people were advertising for snowmances and storm hookups. "They're missing the whole 'Unicorn-shitting-money step'..." 50:20 Mallory discusses her New Year resolutions. She shares a creepy story about a postcard she once received. 59:45 Outro Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode of the PopFury Podcast, please subscribe and rate us on iTunes or Stitcher!
MICHAELA “TABLE BUSTER” PETRO and MALLORY “ON YOUR” NEES defend their championship belts in Studio 1Q when they talk about showmances, reality cooking shows, the Paris attacks, the Ronda Rousey fight and JNCO's comeback. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 Intro, where--despite having a written reminder--Sammy yet again mispronounces Michaela's last name. 1:15 Michaela left her former job and now (beeps) people at the gym for money and also does something altruistic with pie. She humblebrags about playing a recruiter for an Aborting School on Chicago PD. Mallory went to THE Acting School. “This is not an objectively attractive person...but talent is erotic.” 11:00 Michaela and Mallory dig into showmances and working with your significant other on a creative project. Mallory won't date coworkers. 20:40 Mallory is a fan of Great British Bake Off & MasterChef Junior but not of the stylish Guy Fieri. We discuss our feelings about Gordon Ramsay. Mallory is a hippie baker. 29:00 Michaela's bike, “Foxy,” was recently stolen and recovered. Sammy thinks she's way too into her stupid bike. “There is no sense of fulfillment greater than getting a lot of Likes on a Facebook post.” 35:50 A study shows that going a week without Facebook makes you happier. We get a dark unfiltered look at Michaela's mind. 41:00 We get serious when Mallory and Michaela ponder the social media response to the Paris attacks and their personal way to show their support. “I don't know when it happened, but we all forgot we are human...” 51:45 Please listen to fellow podcasts Remake and Rabbit Hole! 53:00 Undefeated Ronda “Rowdy” Rousey lost to Holly “The Preacher's Daughter” Holm. We determine our fighting nicknames and walk-in music. Mallory trained to slap a boyfriend in the face. “I really feel like I could unleash...there's an untapped reservoir of rage that lives in me.” 1:04:30 Sammy thinks Michaela's fighting philosophy is her dating philosophy. Mallory provides foley FX as we talk about leaving exes behind. 1:07:10 JNCO is returning. Michaela and Mallory share their JNCO fashion past. Michaela wishes Technicolor T-Shirts & Mr T cereal would come back. 1:14:45 Jose Conseco's finger fell off. 1:18:00 Outro Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode of the PopFury Podcast, please subscribe and rate us on iTunes or Stitcher!
Chicago actor and troublemaker Michaela Petro sets Studio 1Q ablaze when we talk about Chicago theater, TBOX, dyeing your armpit hair, Layaway Angels and movies. SHOW NOTES: 00:00 Intro 00:26 Sammy mispronounces Michaela's last name to start the show. She shares the process of determining her SAG name because of her voiceover work. 4:10 Michaela is from Waterbury, Conneticut which is the brass capital of the world. She explains her college trials and tribulations and how she eventually ended up at Columbia College in Chicago. 10:45 She is still figuring things out and finding her creative voice. We talk about the Chicago theater scene. Michaela shares her favorite show she's done over years and why it meant so much to her. 20:25 Sheis an Irish Twin and her mother supports her artistic endeavors. Michaela recently just wrote a horror short piece called The Sirens. 25:35 TBOX was this weekend in Chicago. That's not her style and she explains what her drinking style is. 30:54 Women are dyeing their armpit hair. This leads us to wondering about being in-touch with modern online stuff like Vine, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat (which Sammy 100% believes is for dick pics). We talk about America's sexual puritanism. 44:15 We talk about the IUD and birth control. Michaela talks about breaking up with the guy she moved to Chicago with. She doesn't use Tinder but has friends who do. 48:25 A Layaway Angel paid off everyone's layaway gifts at a Toys R Us. We talk about money and generosity. I ask her about her ideal life...which involves Tom Hiddleston or a French guy who knows capoeira 57:15 We talk about the Sony hack and the rumored Men In Black / 22 Jump Street crossover movie. Michaela is only on board for ½ of that combo. Sammy saw Bronson and we rave about Tom Hardy. Sammy saw Love Actually right after and Michaela shits all over it. 1:04:50 Sammy segues into the outro to let Michaela plug herself, but she ends up plugging and praising other people.