Speaker 1: Oh, this is one of my favorite musicals. It really is. Oh,
Speaker 1: She's gonna be good because she's got the funnies.
Speaker 2: Something changed within.
Speaker 1: Me, el Cynthia, Oh, Jeff goblins in it. The word
Speaker 1: should be afraid of me, I guess, and I think should.
Speaker 2: Something has changed within me, something is not the same.
Speaker 2: I'm through with playing by the rules. Someone else's okay,
Speaker 2: I ran out of breath. Welcome, I've just given myself
Speaker 2: ghost bumps. And not because I'm a brilliant singer, but
Speaker 2: because I'm singing a brilliant thorn. Wicked the movie is
Speaker 2: finally coming, and Wicked the musical, I think, is one
Speaker 2: of the best of our time. The Wizard of Oz
Speaker 2: just such a beloved movie and a really dark story.
Speaker 2: If you read the original, this is actually quite a
Speaker 2: dark story. So it's gone more with the original Wizard
Speaker 2: of Oz. And just like I guess, Dorothy found herself.
Speaker 2: And I think ever since Maleficent, we've had this little
Speaker 2: bit of a kickback with women being portrayed as the
Speaker 2: villains and being really quite misunderstood. So this was written
Speaker 2: I guess with that in mind. I remember seeing this
Speaker 2: musical and I don't know if I've ever told this story,
Speaker 2: but when I saw it, I was a nanny, so
Speaker 2: I took my two twin girls with me, and they
Speaker 2: were only like five, but we're obsessed with the soundtrack
Speaker 2: and so we used to listen to it constantly, and
Speaker 2: when we went to see it, I wasn't sure if
Speaker 2: they'd sit through it or but they were riveted, and
Speaker 2: like we're all three of us were crying by the end,
Speaker 2: and I just remember the hair standing up, the amount
Speaker 2: of inspiration I got, like the power I felt of
Speaker 2: watching this story, but not just that.
Speaker 1: I went out that night and I went out and
Speaker 1: I sat in a bar and I told a group
Speaker 1: of people the entire plot and it went for about
Speaker 1: an hour. So a two and a half three hour
Speaker 1: play musical got condensed down to only an hour. But
Speaker 1: sitting in a bar, we're drinking white wine, and everyone
Speaker 1: was riveted because I'm like, you know, Wizard of Us, okay,
Speaker 1: but did you know that there's something was something else
Speaker 1: going on at the same time. And that's when I
Speaker 1: kind of went to that. I said, I'm going to
Speaker 1: get to that part where you know, because Dorothy is
Speaker 1: in it, the scarecrows in it, the lions in it,
Speaker 1: the tin men's in it. I ruined it for these people,
Speaker 1: but I didn't care because I was white girl wasted
Speaker 1: and they were so with me on the telling of it.
Speaker 1: They were like, this is a really brilliant story, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's so clever. It is just so clever.
Speaker 1: And you know, I went I saw it again because
Speaker 1: I just did a story for postcards for it and
Speaker 1: that was given to me, and I could not have
Speaker 1: been happier. I say. The first thing I said was
Speaker 1: can I please get tickets to go and see it?
Speaker 1: Even though I'd seen it. I was like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: really need to see it because I haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: but I had seen it and it happened all over again.
Speaker 1: I was just, Oh, I forgot that. Oh anyway, the
Speaker 1: movie is Cynthia Arrivo and Ariana Grande are playing the
Speaker 1: lead roles. Jeff Goldblum is playing the Wizard. Brilliant choice.
Speaker 1: Whoever chose that. This is why the Oscars are going
Speaker 1: to have a casting category now, best Casting. This is
Speaker 1: the reason why they needed that kind of a category
Speaker 1: because Jeff Goldblum playing the Wizard. What Michelle Yeo is
Speaker 1: also in it? And she is playing matter morrible and
Speaker 1: the main characters are all pretty new to this particular story.
Speaker 1: It is about friendship, it is about women's empowerment. But also,
Speaker 1: and I'm not giving anything away, it is about cancelation.
Speaker 1: And it is so relevant to today, trans kids, people
Speaker 1: of color, women, minorities having them pushed out of their land,
Speaker 1: people being taken over, rules being put in place, caging animals,
Speaker 1: making them the villain. It touches on all of it.
Speaker 1: There's subplots going on in this movie that you will
Speaker 1: all watch this with kids, because you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of people live rurally regionally and they don't get to
Speaker 1: their capital cities to see these musicals. So it's so
Speaker 1: wonderful that they make these movies that everyone can watch.
Speaker 1: And I've just watched the trailer and because we've just
Speaker 1: watched the musical and the movie is exactly it, and
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes they really get it wrong, and this
Speaker 1: one is exactly how it should be and it's exactly
Speaker 1: how it should look. Ah, they've just gone, we've got
Speaker 1: a winning formula. Let's just stick with that. Why don't
Speaker 1: we just stick with that? So I can't wait, and
Speaker 1: we will be discussing it again, So go and watch
Speaker 1: the trailer. Get yourself. So it's sad, right, why are
Speaker 1: you talking what cat's got your tongue? Because you're not
Speaker 1: on air? And I am okay, But that's a pretty
Speaker 1: good segue for myself to lead into another useful fact.
Speaker 1: Do you know where the term cat got your tongue
Speaker 1: comes from? Haws, It can't actually got someone's tongue. Cat
Speaker 1: got your tongue? Well, I thought bert was coming in
Speaker 1: and it's still it is coming, but it's deep down
Speaker 1: and bannels on my guts. But there it is. Da
Speaker 1: da da da. Look, cat's got your tongue means when
Speaker 1: someone is at a loss for words. The origin is
Speaker 1: the English Navy used to use a whip called the
Speaker 1: Cat o nine tails. Oh, the Cat of nine tails
Speaker 1: not a good one. It was for flogging and it
Speaker 1: was painful, and it had nine whips on it. The
Speaker 1: pain was so severe that it caused the victim to
Speaker 1: stay quiet for a long time. Another possible sauce could
Speaker 1: be from ancient Egypt, where liars and blasphemer's tongues were
Speaker 1: cut out and fed to the cats water a treat
Speaker 1: for the cats. I reckon it could be either or both,
Speaker 1: like cat and nine tails. I mean, just to flog
Speaker 1: a human is anyway, let's go with that one, because
Speaker 1: to have your tongue cut out and fed to a cat,
Speaker 1: because cats in ancient Egypt were everything. They were God's
Speaker 1: sphinx s where the sphinx comes from? Is the sphinx
Speaker 1: still around? I think it is. I think it is that.
Speaker 1: I mean, all cats are beautiful, but the sphinx is
Speaker 1: special because of that. So cat got your tongue? Why
Speaker 1: are you still not saying anything? I don't know. Have
Speaker 1: you ever eaten tongue? Anyone at home we're listening, Have
Speaker 1: you ever eaten tongue? Well, I thought i'd try it
Speaker 1: one day, and of course I tried it add a
Speaker 1: deli with a boyfriend, and I nearly vomited. And I
Speaker 1: can eat anything because I come from a European background
Speaker 1: where we used to eat raw fish and you know,
Speaker 1: chicken necks and you know, feet and all sorts of
Speaker 1: like you know, like you do when you come from
Speaker 1: portslavic countries, you eat the entire animal and you learn
Speaker 1: how to make it taste good though lamb's brains all
Speaker 1: of the things, right, Yeah, cow tongue is exactly how
Speaker 1: you think it's going to be. You know, on your tongue.
Speaker 1: I feel your tongue right now. You know you've got
Speaker 1: the little what is that what is the top of
Speaker 1: your tongue on there the taste buds. Yeah, yeah, you can.
Speaker 1: You can feel those in your mouth when you're eating
Speaker 1: a cow tongue. So it didn't go well. And anyway,
Speaker 1: here's wonderful. Today is going to be the day