Facts & Frivolities
A curated podcast salon; come hear about your favorite topics, our favorite topics, and no one's favorite topics. Your hosts are Margaret French (@mrgtfrench) and Janie Coppola (@janiecfrank), two women married to the same man in Chattanooga, TN (don't worry, it's consensual).
Episodes
Can you believe it's our tenth episode already?! And that doesn't even count the ones over on Patreon! Crazy.
In this episode, Maggie and Janie join up to discuss the relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini - a tense, passionate (?), friends-to-enemies story with two of the most well-known men from the early 1900s. With a focus on spiritualism and mysticism, we think this episode is as fun to listen to as it was t...
In this episode, Maggie talks about the 1964 World's Fair (which was neither in 1964 nor a World's Fair) and Janie discusses how everything can always work out for you. Sorta.
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In this episode, Maggie talks about the disappearance of Agatha Christie, and Janie discusses the importance of local journalism and the World Press Freedom Index.
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In this episode, Maggie and Janie discuss Lindy West's second memoir, Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane. The book, which focuses on the author's new experiences with polyamory, came out in March of 2026. Since the hosts are in a throuple themselves, they thought they would weigh in on the discourse.
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In this episode, we discuss movies that made Janie realize she was going to hell and that time Fabio rained blood on a bunch of muses on a roller coaster.
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Welcome to our first official Gab! In these episodes, we'll chat about anything and everything. Today, we're chatting about our weekends, because they were VERY different. Maggie went to Disney, Janie went on a yoga retreat in the middle of Tennessee. Hear all about it!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/FactsandFrivolities Website: FactsAndFrivolities.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/factsandfrivolities YouTube: https://...In this episode, Janie ranks all of the Whitneys on reality TV (or, at least, most of them) and Maggie discusses the greatest love of her life - the book universe of Tortall by Tamora Pierce.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/FactsandFrivolities Website: FactsAndFrivolities.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/factsandfrivolities YouTube: https://youtube.com/@factsandfrivolities TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fact...In this episode, Janie presents the solution to the male loneliness epidemic and Maggie explains what happened over 100 years ago to allow Salt Lake to be the best Real Housewives franchise today (which it is).
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Our first "real" episode of the podcast is here! Join us to discuss Shakespeare adaptations, bird-watching, and aging.
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In this episode, Margaret and Janie talk through their polyamorous throuple wedding - what worked, what didn't, and everything in between. Join us in this teaser episode before we launch our first one!
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