This week the girls take aim at Secret Identities...
But first, what were we drinking?
Sarah was drinking Pepsi Max (again)
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Amy was drinking The Butterfly Effect Cabernet Merlot
Bianca was drinking The Companions Shiraz Tempranillo
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Sarah opens the topic with a quick google on what a secret Id is, it turns out that it's just a simple way of saying pseudonym.
Sarah then goes on to explain what a pseudonym is and where the word came from and some famous people who have shed their birth names in place of a pseudonym.
Sarah chose Margaritha Zelle as her subject for the night a divorced mother of two who gave up married life to become one of the world's first exotic dancers going by the name Mata Hari, she danced for some of the world's most influential and powerful people making new friends and lovers wherever she went. That was until the day she asked to be a spy for France, she was arrested and accused of being a double agent, she was later executed by firing squad. But what happened to her body?
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| Mata Hari |
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| The day she was arrested |
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| Executed of being a German spy |
Amy decided to discuss the incredible life of Mrs. Nancy Wake. Nancy was born in New Zealand and moved to Australia at the age of two. At the age of 16, she left school to become a nurse. Finding this profession to be less than glamourous she decided to leave Australia and become a journalist in England.
The years leading up to World War II were filled with parties, luxury, and love. Nancy married a wealthy French industrialist and settled in the French city of Marseille.
After the war broke out Nancy vowed to do whatever she could to help the allied forces and the French resistance. Nancy was forced to leave her home, her husband and flee to England where she began training with the British Special Operations Executive (S.O.E).
After parachuting back into France as the war raged, Nancy gained a reputation as a formidable fighter and relentless drinker. Nancy was integral to the operations of the S.O.E and the French resistance. Nancy earned the respect of her fellow soldiers by being a strong leader and was not one to shy away from the more confronting aspects of being a leader.
Nancy was nicknamed the White Mouse by the Nazis because of her incredible ability to escape them even when there appeared to be no way out.
After the war had ended Nancy learned of the fate of her husband who stayed in Marseille and returned to Australia. After some unsuccessful attempts at running for parliament, Nancy decided to go back to England where she worked as an intelligence officer. Nancy met and married an Australian man with whom she remained married for 40 years until his death in 1997.
After her second husband's death, Nancy took up residence at the Stafford Hotel, England, where she could usually be found in the bar, sipping a gin and tonic telling war stories to patrons at the bar. It is rumored that despite selling her war medals to find her lifestyle, Prince Charles funded her lifestyle after hearing about this incredible woman from a Canadian diplomat.
Nancy took up residence at an ex-service persons home in 2003 where she lived out the rest of her days. She died in 2011 at the age of 98.
There is so much to this incredible woman's tale but you will have to listen to the episode to learn more.
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| Nancy receiving her Companion to the Order of Australia Medal |
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| Nancy during her S.O.E days |
Bianca for this episode her brain went in a different direction… as it does… so Bianca actually researched fictional secret identities across different media.
Comics
• Spyboy's partner Bombshell attended his sleeper personality's high school under the name "Marta Hari."
When Young Justice infiltrated said high school, they used even more obvious aliases, including Rob Roy (Robin) and Helena Troy (Wonder Girl).
Film
• All of the aliases used on name tags by the main character in Fight Club are names from films such as Taxi Driver (Travis) and Planet of the Apes (Cornelius).
• In Catch Me If You Can, Frank Abagnale Jr. uses the alias Barry Allen, secret identity of The Flash. One of the guys on the case figures out that the person they're looking for is probably quite young based on this information.
• In Back to The Future, Marty's name is assumed to be "Calvin Klein" because that's the name on his underwear. In the third movie, he adopts the name "Clint Eastwood" while stuck in the Old West.
• He also dresses up as an alien named "Darth Vader"
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Austin and Vanessa meet Number Two in the casino.
Austin: My name is Richie Cunningham, and this is my lovely wife, Oprah.
• Although this may have been a name that popped into his head without knowledge of their cultural meaning, given his status as a human popsicle.
• In Fletch, the title character goes by a number of aliases:
• Real people: Ted Nugent, Igor Stravinsky, Gordon Liddy and Harry S. Truman.
• Characters: Babar (the elephant), Don Corleone.
• Just plain weird: Dr. Rosenpenis
• In the second Fletch film, Fletch Lives, Fletch uses the alias "Elmer Fudd Gantry", combining the names of two fictional characters.
• In The Saint with Val Kilmer, all of Simon's aliases are names of Catholic saints.
• Real-person name example from In the Line of Fire: Would-be presidential assassin Mitch Leary uses the name Booth (as in John Wilkes -) when taunting Agent Frank Horrigan (a former JFK bodyguard) over the phone.
Leary: Why not call me Booth?
Horrigan: Why not Oswald?
Leary: Because Booth had flair, panache - a leap to the stage after he shot Lincoln.
• In The Birdcage, the flamboyantly gay housekeeper is pretending to be a stereotypical butler and introduces himself as Spartacus.
• The made-for-TV Generation X movie had Emma Frost pass herself and Banshee off as Hootie and the Blowfish without the police officer batting an eyelash.
"Agents Hootie and Blowfish." Luckily, Emma has also messed with the guard's mindsight.
• In the first Die Hard: John McClane decides that the name he'll use with Powell will be "Roy" after Roy Rogers (which McClane referred to in a previous scene—the one with his Catch Phrase).
• In Shock Treatment, it turns out that Cosmo and Nation McKinley are not real doctors, but character actors who use an assortment of last names — all those of U.S. presidents.
• In The Player, the blackmailer uses the alias 'Joe Gillis' (the narrator from Sunset Boulevard) but this is intentional because he knows the connotations will rattle his target.
• The serial killers in The Devil's Rejects use the names of Groucho Marx characters.
• In Shakespeare in Love, Lord Wessex brings a knife to Shakespeare's throat and threatens him to stay away from his future wife Viola de Lesseps. Wessex demands to know Shakespeare's name to deter any future meddling. Will uses the name "Christopher Marlowe", the name of his chief competitor. In real life, Marlowe was murdered in mysterious circumstances.
• In Notting Hill Julia Roberts' character (a famous actress) uses fake aliases taken from cartoon characters to check into hotels.
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