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Speaker 1: Oh, this is one of my favorite musicals. It really is. Oh,

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Speaker 1: She's gonna be good because she's got the funnies. Something

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Speaker 1: changed within me, el Cynthia, Oh, Jeff goblins in it.

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Speaker 1: The should be afraid of Me, I guess, and I

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Speaker 1: think should something has changed within me, something is not

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Speaker 1: the same. I'm through with playing by the rules. Someone

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Speaker 1: else's okay, I ran out of breath. Welcome. I've just

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Speaker 1: given myself ghost bumps. And not because I'm a brilliant singer,

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Speaker 1: but because I'm singing a brilliant thorn. Wicked the movie

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Speaker 1: is finally coming, and Wicked the musical, I think, is

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Speaker 1: one of the best of our time. The Wizard of

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Speaker 1: Oz just such a beloved movie and a really dark story.

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Speaker 1: If you read the original, this is actually quite a

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Speaker 1: dark story. So it's gone more with the original Wizard

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Speaker 1: of Oz and just like I guess, Dorothy found herself.

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Speaker 1: And I think ever since Maleficent, we've had this little

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Speaker 1: bit of a kickback with women being portrayed as the

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Speaker 1: villains and being really quite misunderstood. So this was written

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Speaker 1: I guess with that in mind. I remember seeing this

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Speaker 1: musical and I don't know if I've ever told this story.

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Speaker 1: But when I saw it, I was a nanny, so

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Speaker 1: I took my two twin girls with me, and they

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Speaker 1: were only like five, but we're obsessed with the soundtrack

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Speaker 1: and so we used to listen to it constantly, and

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Speaker 1: when we went to see it, I wasn't sure if

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Speaker 1: they'd sit through it or but they were riveted, and

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Speaker 1: like we're all three of us were crying by the end,

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Speaker 1: and I just remember the hair standing up, the amount

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Speaker 1: of inspiration I got, like the power I felt of

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Speaker 1: watching this story, but not just that. I went out

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Speaker 1: that night and I went out and I sat in

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Speaker 1: a bar and I told a group of people the

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Speaker 1: entire plot and it went for about an hour. So

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Speaker 1: a two and a half three hour play musical got

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Speaker 1: condensed down to only an hour. But sitting in a bar,

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Speaker 1: we're drinking white wine, and everyone was riveted because I'm like,

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Speaker 1: you know, Wizard of Us, okay, but did you know

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Speaker 1: that there's something was something else going on at the

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Speaker 1: same time. And that's when I kind of went to that.

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Speaker 1: I said, I'm going to get to that part where

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Speaker 1: you know, because Dorothy is in it, the scarecrows in it,

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Speaker 1: the lions in it, the tin Man's in it. I

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Speaker 1: ruined it for these people, but I didn't care because

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Speaker 1: I was white girl wasted and they were so with

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Speaker 1: me on the telling of it. They were like, this

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Speaker 1: is a really brilliant story, and I'm like, it's so clever.

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Speaker 1: It is just so clever. And you know, I went

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Speaker 1: I saw it again because I just did a story

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Speaker 1: for postcards for it and that was given to me,

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Speaker 1: and I could not have been happier. I s The

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Speaker 1: first thing I said was can I please get tickets

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Speaker 1: to go and see it? Even though I'd seen it.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna really need to see it

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Speaker 1: because I haven't seen it, but I had seen it

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Speaker 1: and it happened all over again. I was just, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I forgot that. Oh anyway, the movie is Cynthia Arrivo

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Speaker 1: and Ariana Grande are playing the lead roles. Jeff Goldblum

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Speaker 1: is playing the Wizard. Brilliant choice. Whoever chose that. This

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Speaker 1: is why the Oscars are going to have a casting

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Speaker 1: category now, best Casting. This is the reason why they

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Speaker 1: needed that kind of a category because Jeff Goldblum playing

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Speaker 1: the Wizard. What Michelle Yeo is also in it, and

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Speaker 1: she is playing matter morrible, and the main characters are

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Speaker 1: all pretty new to this particular story. It is about friendship,

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Speaker 1: it is about women's empowerment. But also, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: giving anything away, it is about cancelation. And it is

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Speaker 1: so relevant to today, trans kids, people of color, women, minorities,

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Speaker 1: having them pushed out of their land, people being taken over,

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Speaker 1: rules being put in place, caging animals, making them the villain.

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Speaker 1: It touches on all of it. There's subplots going on

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Speaker 1: in this movie that you will all watch this with kids,

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Speaker 1: because you know, a lot of people live rurally regionally

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Speaker 1: and they don't get to their capital cities to see

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Speaker 1: these musicals. So it's so wonderful that they make these

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Speaker 1: movies that everyone can watch. And I've just watched the

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Speaker 1: trailer and because we've just watched the musical and the

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Speaker 1: movie is exactly it, and you know, sometimes they really

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Speaker 1: get it wrong, and this one is exactly how it

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Speaker 1: should be and it's exactly how it should look. Ah,

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Speaker 1: they've just gone, we've got a winning formula. Let's just

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Speaker 1: stick with that. Why don't we just stick with that?

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Speaker 1: So I can't wait and we will be discussing it again.

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Speaker 1: So go and watch the trailer. Get yourself. So it's sad, right,

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Speaker 1: why are you talking what cat's got your tongue? Because

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Speaker 1: you're not on air? And I am okay, But that's

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Speaker 1: a pretty good segue for myself to lead into another

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Speaker 1: useful fact. Do you know where the term cat got

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Speaker 1: your tongue comes from? Haws? It can't actually got someone's tongue.

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Speaker 1: Cat got your tongue? Well, I thought bert was coming in,

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Speaker 1: and it's still it is coming, but it's deep down

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Speaker 1: and bannels on my guts. But there it is, da

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Speaker 1: da da da. Look, cat's got your tongue means when

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Speaker 1: someone is at a loss for words. The origin is

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Speaker 1: the English Navy used to use a whip called the

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Speaker 1: Cat o nine tails. Oh, the cat of nine tails

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Speaker 1: not a good one. It was for flogging and it

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Speaker 1: was painful, and it had nine whips on it. The

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Speaker 1: pain was so severe that it caused the victim to

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Speaker 1: stay quiet for a long time. Another possible sauce could

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Speaker 1: be from ancient Egypt, where liars and blasphemer's tongues were

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Speaker 1: cut out and fed to the cats water a treat

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Speaker 1: for the cats. I reckon it could be either or

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Speaker 1: both like cat and nine tails. I mean, just to

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Speaker 1: flog a human is anyway, let's go with that one,

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Speaker 1: because to have your tongue cut out and fed to

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Speaker 1: a cat, because cats in ancient Egypt were everything. They

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Speaker 1: were God's sphinx. S where the sphinx comes from? Is

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Speaker 1: the sphinx still around? I think it is. I think

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Speaker 1: it is. I mean all cats are beautiful, but the

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Speaker 1: sphinx is special because of that. So cat got your tongue.

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Speaker 1: Why are you still not saying anything? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever eaten tongue? Anyone at home? We're listening,

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Speaker 1: Have you ever eaten tongue? Well, I thought i'd try

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Speaker 1: it one day, and of course I tried it add

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Speaker 1: a deli with a boyfriend, and I nearly vomited. And

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Speaker 1: I can eat anything because I come from a European

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Speaker 1: background where we used to eat raw fish and you know,

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Speaker 1: chicken necks and you know feet and all sorts of

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Speaker 1: like you know, like you do when you come from

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Speaker 1: portslavic countries, you eat the entire animal and you learn

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Speaker 1: how to make it taste good though lamb's brains all

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Speaker 1: of the things. Right, Yeah, cow toungue is exactly how

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Speaker 1: you think it's going to be. You know, on your tongue.

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Speaker 1: I feel your tongue right now. You know you've got

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Speaker 1: the little what is that what is the top of

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Speaker 1: your tongue on there the taste buds. Yeah, yeah, you can.

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Speaker 1: You can feel those in your mouth when you're eating

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Speaker 1: a cow tongue. So it didn't go well. And anyway,

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Speaker 1: he's wonderful. Today is going to be the day