Smallville’s LAURA VANDERVOORT: NXIVM Gut Check 

38:57 is where the NXIVM conversation starts, for anyone curious.

I wish Smallville had Kara in more episodes. She was definitely a favorite

I love how Michael is so opened about mental health and how he sees his therapist often.

“Which part and why are you yelling?” 😂

Laura's such an awesome woman, but you can tell she's experienced so much sadness. I hope her life and career gets her everything she wants.

I met Laura at a friend's wedding. Couldnt believe it was her as we were in Nova Scotia Canada but it was her cousin. SHe was so nice, so down to earth and had a conversation just like anybody would. Great person.

Whoever broke her heart was a fool. His loss.

Laura is so lovely and classy. I love that she still gets excited when she even thinks about her first time in the harness. We all need more of those kind of moments.

Laura is the person that comes to my mind when I think of live-action Supergirl. For me, she is the character, she is the one that came closest to what, for me, Supergirl is.

I love how Smallville fans are asking basic questions that the stars of the show don’t even remember 😂

Health is always important without that you can't do your job. Laura Vandervoort so stunning and beautiful. My first introduction to her was in the 2000 Disney movie "Mom's got a date with a Vampire".

When Rosey and Laura have history, the convo has an extra touch to it. Love ya Rosey, keep it up.

"Which part and why are you yelling" - Laura 🤣🤣🤣

Michael is the BEST Lex Luther; he’s not wrong. Just sayin’!

This week’s episode was wonderful. Laura definitely opened up. As a fellow introvert I get feeling drained afterwards. Definitely worth watching.

"Which part and why are you yelling." with epic straight man delivery. Not gonna lie, the Vandrovrooms made me chuckle.

I loved you guys in Smallville. Laura was absolutely the best supergirl.

I like how normal she is. I appreciate that she isn't big on going into detail into her personal life.

Such a lovely interview! Thanks to Laura for sharing all she did, she seems like such a genuine sweet person ❤️

One of your finest interviews. Great job, everyone. Thanks for sharing so much, Laura. Good luck on your film!! Congrats!

"You're not an idiot." - Ryan 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Love when you two get together! Awesome episode and thank you for always being so candid about such important topics.

I really enjoyed this! Very honest and open! Nice to see the guest in the same room.

I was so in love with Kristin Kreuk & Laura Vandervoort growing up 😂

As soon as I noticed how guarded she was during the show I said to myself “Yeah, she and Michael dated”😆

Always a great interview with Laura. Loved it. 👍

So excited for this episode!! I know it will be amazing!! Loved the last time you had Laura on the podcast. Can't wait to hear what stories she will share in this one. Met you both and Tom the same weekend at Fan Expo Toronto. She was so sweet and kind. We had met her just before heading into your autograph line. Thank you so much for having her on the podcast and thank you so much for asking my question ❤️ Keep up the awesome work Michael. Thank you as always for everything. I'll be thinking of you today and this week ❤️ Sending lots of love, hugs, prayers and good vibes your way. Love you ❤️ Happy Tuesday 💙

Glad to stumble onto your channel. You guys who did smallville were a major part of my life. In 2010 when smallville was wrapping up or about to, I survived a brain aneurysm and i wasn't able to do a lot and smallville was a big part of my recovery. Ps I love Laura. She's awesome.

This was definitely one of my top favourite episodes. Really loved this one, the conversations you and Laura had. Also kudos to Ryan on the Top Tier shout outs. He did an amazing job ^_^ Thank you for another amazing episode as always Michael ❤️ ^_^

Rosey, so glad you got guests back in your studio. You should get back with Laura. She’s a real beauty. Laura is the real Supergirl.

So much truth in that quote! It's not always easy to choose happiness but when you do it's liberating!

How is it that your podcast doesn't have a bajillion subscribers? It's ALWAYS good. Your guests are always great, and you keep things so real.

It's cool to see repeating guests on here. I don't think I could open up about certain issues either, but good for you Michael for getting your guests to open up about certain issues too.

I really enjoy when you have Laura on the show. She's quite lovely and honest. Great conversations that I find really relaxing to listen to

Rosey, you are emotionally intelligent smart! You are a fabulous communicator, a great friend and an awesome host. The empathy you possess - is a real superpower. Always full of compassion, self-awareness, and all these attributes are reflected in you as an actor and an interviewer! Love you, mate!! xx P/S Laura is stunning as always! I hope she finds what makes her abundantly happy and content! Love the chemistry between you two and how you are just genuinely good people ❤️

Very fun interview, I actually really enjoyed that!

"We dated." I feel Michael and Laura have two very different opinions on how that went.

"Which part and why are you yelling?" I love her! Damn it. I miss seeing her on my TV. I should checkout some of these movies she's been in recently.

“Laura thank you for allowing me to be inside of you” is funny cuz it really happened.

I remember working at a comic con & a friend of mine got to meet, Michael, Laura & Tom he even got his picture taken with them I'm so glad to see Michael doing so well after Smallville ended & that he's got his own podcast.

The ineffable Michael and his marvelous interviews!!! I've been appreciating your work. Thanks from Fortaleza city, Ceará state in northeast of Brazil. 😄😉👍👊

Michael, i don't know if you're book, street or common sense smart, but you're a genius at playing Lex Luthor

Great conversation! Interesting to hear how you both have coped during the pandemic: so many quarantines for Laura and Michael dealing with losses. ♥️

Looking forward to listening; the rapport you two have is unique. Good luck with everything this week, sending lots of love and positive vibes! 💚💜💚💜

Always love when smallville cast members come back. Also because of this podcast i made the choice to go back to therapy and it has definitely helped. Sending you guys all the best

Incredible discussion! Its one that everyone has, what makes one happy, or successful!?

Just wanted to say thank you, Michael! My Dad and Grandma passed away within months of each other in 2019. Watching your podcast has brought so much joy and comfort to my broken heart. Can't wait to watch this one tonight, after work. Me and my baby sister Sunshine, simply adore you. Bless your beautiful soul, sweetie!!!! Much love.♥️ Kim. From Georgia.🍑

Wow. Did not disappoint. You and Laura have a great rapport. Loved the breadth and depth of topics that you discussed. Very cool that you two are still friends after all these years. Definitely watching this one a few more times. Hope she comes back soon 😊❤️

Yes!!! I have been looking forward to this the return of Laura! Lex and Kara 💙 Amazing as always Micheal 🎉👏

Yes! So happy Laura is the guest this week ❤️🇨🇦! Simply adore her as an actor and person. Love the friendship and on screen chemistry you two share. Can’t think of a better way to kick off my birthday..Hope everything goes well for you this week. Sending much love and hugs ❤️❤️🤗

Love watching these videos. So down to earth and "real". Truly appreciate your talent and ability behind the mic.

Great podcast with Laura V and loving your new work!

"which part and why are you yelling"🤣🤣🤣

Thank you Michael for getting Laura which I admit she's my fave live action Kara Zor-El, & as a guitarist I've been looking for inspiration so I recently was able to hear and thoroughly enjoy Sun Spin's music so getting to learn more about Laura's life and be moved by your music have marked that these are the best days of my life!

Always great. Looking forward to the next one.

I really liked this episode! Normally I have a hard time sitting for an hour just straight up watching these things but I was pretty glued to this one, so thank you.

Certainly miss all of you guys from the Smallville days, but very impressed highly entertained with your podcast/RU-vid channel Michael.

I lost my mother right in the first year of the pandemic to brain cancer, so I can relate to having your mental health be in tatters during the Covid lockdowns. I hope you're doing better now Mike. Your portrayal of Lex was one of the highlights of my childhood. Wish you were in more episodes.

Love the podcast. Look forward to it every week.

Great interview, glad I watched it. She seems like a real sweetheart and comfortable in who she is as a person and an actor. Look forward to seeing more of her in the future!

How does she not remember that she had a ship in Smallville. She ABSOLUTELY did.

Laura was always great as Supergirl on Smallville. A talented actress!

Another great interview!!!!

Michael, your talking about the notion of chasing happiness resonated with me. Stumbled on your podcast by accident and now I listen weekly. Never knew who you were before since I did not watch Smallville. Thank you for your insightful podcast.

I think Laura really is Kryptonian because she doesn't age is still looks as good as she did in Smallville. Lol

Always love Laura. Such a great inspiration and friend she is to me. Who has helped in personal struggles of Cerebral Palsy with dealing with very similar ones in meningitis. Always blessed to her. And loved hearing what she has to say. Yes she is also the Real Supergirl and has always been my Supergirl.

Love it! You two are so comfortable with each other, Michael. Nice vibes. 😘

It's cool that you can have guests in your home studio again. You rock.

"I'm medium smart, but that's okay" WOW now that's a T-shirt right there!!!!! :)

Man, I forgot all about the V show and her being in it. That was a good show, too bad they cancelled. Good episode, she's a doll.

great interview Michael, Laura is awesome! You guys are fun to watch, she seems very grounded and smart and cool.

I am so excited for this episode.

You should definitely invite Laura again!!! Like ASAP. So fun to watch, fantastic job.

Can't believe I've only just found smallville...Rosey and Laura smashed it. Love the podcast 💪💪

I met Laura at a Con in Houston, she was SOOOO sweet. ✌️ Peace 🕊️

Another great interview

You are people smart! You are great at being able to speak with and interact with others, both one on one and at large events like the cons. Not everyone can do that.

"which part and why are you yelling?" Love her!

A tremendous conversation!

So happy about this episode!

You're emotionally and interpersonally smart. Don't sell yourself short, Rosey!

I've loved watching Laura for many years now. She is amazing and I'm glad that she is doing well and got to make her own film. Great video and interview!

I'm halfway through the episode, great episode Rosey. Best Lex Luther. Cheers!

I was relistening to this at work and had a thought. I think u are socially smart. You are able through your charisma and empathy to connect with many different kinds of people in different ways.

Lex Luthor is one of my favorite characters in comic books, and I really enjoy what you bring to him in Smallville. The dimensions and layers, I can feel it when I watch. Thank you for that!

Love the "How ya doin" segment. Mental health checks are extremely important 🙏💚

Great episode!!!! Good luck with your movie

Big fan of you in Smallville and Impastor. Subbed since you asked and seemed so genuine. Looking forward to listening to more of your stuff!

I loved Smallville. Every actor was great. You were one of my favorites Michael, as well as Tom. I still love Allison Mack. She just got hypnotized.

Gr8 interview and I yelled out thats SMALLVILLE SUPERGIRL when I saw handmaids. 👏👏👏🍻

Great interview.

This was great! I was lucky enough to meet you once on a con and what you said in this interview that you try to make everyone feel special, you did that! Like we took two photos together with my phone you actually did it and later we saw you in a hallway and you said hi guys to us again like you remembered us and it was such an amazing experience for me. Because you were so real and cool. We always tell people about that. Usually people say don't meet your heroes but meeting you was such a good experience. The quote you said about not wanting for life to stop being hard to be happy I heard it a few days aga and I know where you've seen it/heard it and it is true. I do think you are smart and I agree with some of the people in the comments that said your emotional intelligence is high and I do believe that that is sometimes way better and more important than anything else. I am actually sorry that Laura had bad experience on set I like her I will definitely look for that movie she made and when I saw her on Supergirl I was like oooo look original Supergirl! You guys from Smallville are original to me. You are original Lex Luthor, she is original Supergirl and Tom is original Superman. Sure I like other TV shows but you guys were my first experience with that and you all left an impact. Definitely love your podcast which you told me about on that con in Ireland and been listening to you more and more. Keep it up and you are just amazing and great! Thank you !

Michael is baseline respectful to every guest - but after they revealed they dated before 😂, I begin seeing how extra respectful he is towards Laura. Like she allows Laura to playfully cut him off in a sentence and tease him really. 😂 love this and thanks for this, made me happy ❤

You are a phenomenal actor never doubt that! You are absolutely, hands down the best Lex no matter what!! No offense to Gene Hackman, Kevin, Jesse, either Jon/John or any of the animated series and anywhere else he may have appeared, but you nailed that role and no one else could ever top it!

It was great hearing from Laura. Love you guys!

Love watching your interview here in UK

I'm Canadian and I NEVER pronounced "bag" like "beg".

I didn't know she was this cool. I love her honesty

Michael Rosenbaum, I gotta say man, you're great. You're real, and I love that. It may be only on yt, because I don't have time for podcasts all the time, but I will do my best to watch all of your shows. Just because of how real you are, and how level you keep it. You have a great head on your shoulders, so, and I thank you!

Excellent podcast, thanks for the content Michael!!! New subscriber