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