Erin is the Funny One - Oh No They Talk About Wicked For Good The Whole Time

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

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Welcome, everyone, to a very Thanksgiving. Aaron is the funny one. Hi, I'm Jack. The other one's Aaron. How are you doing today? Aaron, how are you doing today? E-I-T-F-O. That's right, honey.

We're thinking about farm animals this week because a lot of farm animals are going to be killed. That's, that's right. That's right, honey. As we always do year after year, we always send our thoughts along to those turkeys that give up their, valiantly give up their lives. Yes. Yes. Do you like turkey? I like it on like a, I don't know.

No, I like lunch meat turkey. You're going to say you like it on a sandwich, right? Yeah. I like lunch meat, like cold cut turkey. Sure. I could not tell you the last time I had actual turkey, like a roast turkey on Thanksgiving. It's probably been over a decade. Wow, really?

Yeah, I don't like turkey. I don't hate it, but it's not like, it's certainly not a tradition for us to like get a Thanksgiving turkey. If turkey were so good, people would make it more often. That's a good fucking point, right? Yeah. There's a reason why we relic, Dennett, what a grade it? What's the word? There's a reason you relegate it.

put it on a pedestal? I guess. Wait, really? Wait, what are you trying to describe? I guess I don't know what you're trying to say. We, we isolate it to one day of fucking year. And maybe Christmas. Maybe, but no, Christmas is the Christmas ham. That's the thing you labor over. I've never, I don't know that I've ever had a Christmas ham. Oh, you got it. You got it with the honey mustard. My dad makes like steak. The brown honey mustard. It's so good. I forget what it's called. It's like a loin maybe. I don't know. It's long and tube. shaped like a Swiss roll.

You're really selling it. I know. But, and then we slice it. I'm not a big meat person. No, I don't doubt it's good. You know, I'm not a big meat person. No, you're not. But I just, I do think turkey.

I prefer pastries and carbs. I have a very cold take that turkey's overrated. It's just a very bland meat. What's my favorite Thanksgiving dish? Besides. No, if like, if I had to pick one side. Mac and cheese? Are you fucking kidding me?

No. Oh my God. Mac and cheese. is actually, first off, we had our friend Ian over for Thanksgiving a few years ago. It was like our first. Friendsgiving kind of thing. And when he was like, oh, I'll bring mac and cheese. I was like, mac and cheese.

That's not a hall. That's not a Thanksgiving side. That was the first time ever that mac and cheese has ever been on a Thanksgiving day table in front of me. And that was like four years ago or whatever. So, no. And you know, I don't even like mac and cheese. your favorite side, Aaron? I never even liked the blue box of mac and cheese. It's so simple. I grew up on the blue

craft box of mac and cheese. I hate that shit. I grew up on that shit. I am not a mac and cheese person. Okay, hold on. What's your fucking sigh, your Thanksgiving side that makes you go, mama me. I'm not telling you. I can't believe you don't know this. It's not mashed potatoes. I cannot believe you don't know this about me. Is it cheesy potatoes? I cannot believe. I don't even like potatoes. You do when there's shit on them because there's, you know, no. Not really. Oh no. Are you kidding me?

Mashed potatoes, Jack? Aaron, just tell me what it is. What the fuck? No, I'm not telling you. I'm not telling you. I'm actually like, I cannot believe you don't know this about me. Come on, man. I cannot believe you don't know this about me.

Because it is like my signature. Like this is like, first off, when we did have friends giving here, it was the only thing I fucking made. Like, what are you talking? Like, you don't, like literally I was like, well, we have to have this. And I was the only person that fucking ate it. because nobody else likes it except for me. What the fuck is it? I hate you.

Men are trash. I'm literally Googling Thanksgiving sides. And I know you would reciprocate the question, but it's a trick question for you because you eat everything that's put in front of your fucking face. Stuffing? No. Yeah, no. I know.

Obviously, it's not stuffing. This is very unhelpful. Jack is currently going through all of the sides. I guess people make on Thanksgiving. Yeah, and Google's not very helpful. I just want to list please. There are two sides. One, which comes in higher than the other, but there are only two, three things, including

a roll with a lot of butter that are on my Thanksgiving Day plate. And that is it, okay? And I cannot believe you don't know this. I'm mad. I'm mad. I'm also mad. Shit, we're both mad at Jack right now. You are an idiot.

Now, go get the pie I ordered. Oh, my God. Are onions a part of it? Um, kind of. Oh, my God. Sorry, I'm determined to get this now because I'm close. Those crispy onions in a can, right? Yes.

Like onion flakes? Yes, they're French fried onions. French fried onions. And you put them on. Oh, green bean casserole, right? Green bean casserole, Jack. Yeah, I know. It's your favorite dish on Thanksgiving.

What's my second favorite dish? Bread and butter. That's the third favorite. Damn it. Oh, cranberries. No. No, I know. Nobody likes that.

Sweet potato casserole with a pecan brown sugar crumbull on top. You really don't like the meats. That's really funny. Fuck no. I don't like meat. Meat's boring. I love sides. Sides are where I like the variety. I like the varieties of spice of life. I get a little bit of everything. Yeah. And the meat's boring. Fuck the meat. It's not boring. Turkey's boring. You're boring. You're boring and dumb. Well, happy Thanksgiving, love. What are you thankful for this year besides me and knowing that men are trash?

What am I thankful for this year? Ah, that's a good question, hon. A loving, beautiful, funny. No, we already, no, that's already assumed. Courageous. Aaron, you're the bravest woman I know. Wife, yes. Every day I wake up and I have to brave another day with Jack Films.

Who can't remember your Thanksgiving sides. Guys, it's, every day is a battle. You know what I'm thankful for, honey? I'm thankful for this week's Wine of, the week. I'm really curious to try this. I'm actually kind of thankful for for this too. So listeners, we're doing something very different today. So we don't have a wine. We have instead something called shamee. And we have four different bottles, four different flavors, types of shameh. Aaron, could you elaborate for our listeners on what exactly shamee is?

Shame is beer. Shame is beer. And shame is beer that can get you pretty drunk. It's high ABV beer. I have not had a shemay in a long time, but my best memory of chamee, because usually when you get one, they give it to you in like a little glass because they're like higher percentage. So Philadelphia, downtown, during the summertime, I hope they still have this. But they used to have a program called Center City Sips. I think somebody, I think we talked about this. And I think somebody did say it does still exist, but it's like overcrowded with like college kids and shit. Anyway, it used to be for us yuppies, us corporate type. Anyway, all around the city, there are bars that participate in happy hour deals.

It's a ton of fun. It's a way to like get out with your coworkers. And it happens every Wednesday from like June something to August something. So when Center City Sips is over, that's when summer's over. It's very sad. Anyway, I went to a Center City Sips with my coworkers and had three shames. and then proceeded to go on a first date with a guy.

And I was drunk. It's all the way to pregame. I was drunk. And we ended up dating for like six months. He'd liked me quite a bit. And I am a great first date. And you're the bravest woman I know. Exactly.

Exactly. I was brave enough to get drunk and then go on a first date. To your credit, that's pretty fucking brave. And I had to pretend like I wasn't drunk. Yeah, that's a hard face to pull, you know? Yeah. You really had to save face.

like, yeah, but we had a good time. And I had, I was, it was a, it was a very pleasant drunk. Yeah?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm so excited. You know, that's why I always stick to wine because it's a predictable drunk. Right. It's not like,

it's not liquor, a hard liquor. It's not liquor where you don't know if you're, am I gonna get, are we gonna get in a fight? Yeah, yeah, that's you and fireball. Something.

Yeah. Can't drink fireball. She can't drink fireball guys. Um, even like, like, remember we went to Harry Potter World. Uh-huh. And I had fireball with butter beer.

Butter beer. And even after just one drink, I was like in a bad mood about something. Yeah. It's really, dude, it changes my mood. She turns into a pirate and just wants to fight about shit. Yeah, yeah. Anyway. So Shameh is different.

But Shamee, the last time I, at least my most memorable memory of Shemay, it was pleasant and fun. Well, then let's try to bottle some of that lightning. here is okay so chameh and like i'm not i'm no beer connoisseur whatsoever yeah we have four different types because i got like i went to our local liquor store and got like they have like a holiday pack yeah a little like a variety pack right a variety pack of four different types so so there are three standard flavors and then one like holiday spicy flavor so they're the regulars are red white and blue varying in strength like the bottle labels are red white and blue yeah like and i actually they I think they call them like chamois white, chamois blue, maybe.

I don't know. Gotcha. Then there's the gold one. That's the spice one. But the red, white and blue, I feel like are most known for like it's, one is stronger than the other, which is stronger than the other. I kind of want to, so I want to start at the bottom of the ladder in terms of strength and go up. Is that red or is that blue?

Oh, that's the holiday one. So the holiday one, the gold label. Yeah. Do you want to kick us off, honey? Sure. All right. So ABV for those curious, it's four. Point eight.

This is the weakest of the four shames. It says chamey d'ore ale brewed with spices. All right. Let's do it. Give it a little college try. All right, she's sipping. I don't know. I won't be able to tell how different it is until tasting the others because I'm like, I don't know what kind of tastes like Shemay.

Can I have a little, uh... Like, I don't taste any spices. Do you taste spices? Not particularly, but I really like it. Yeah, it's delightful. Chamee is delightful. It's smooth. Hold on.

I really like shame beer. So I almost never drink beer. You know me? Like, I'll drink wine with you or I'll get like a really manly cocktail. Okay, so it turns out they do have actual names. It's not just red, white, and blue. The red is Shemay Premier. Okay, so the red is premier.

What's the gold? What we just had? That's the holiday one. It's called, okay. No, it's called Dore. Okay, so I like that. We're trying, we're moving on up. So this is 7%.

The red, the, What's it called? Reserve. Premier. Premier. This is Premiere. 7% ABV. I like this. Much darker in color.

Mm-hmm. You like that? I do like that. Okay. Okay. Chamey white is called Sank Sont, which is, looks like five cents. Cute. I don't know if I like this as much as the first.

Hold on. You're moving too fast up the ladder. I'm still working on this guy here. It's the Shemay Red premiere. Not as smooth as the first one. I don't know. I like it. It's a little too heavy.

for me, which means something tells me, I'm going to have a rough time with the next two going up. So Aaron's already got her mitts on the... The white. The white, which is 8%. And a little lighter in color. And a little lighter than color, in color than the previous. Darker than the holiday one. Lighter than the premiere red. Can we just call it red? Yeah. What do you think? That's delicious. I'm pretty sure that's the one that I got drunk off. No kidding. Yeah. I'm pretty sure. The color looks right. Let me see. I don't know if it's pure pressure, but that does taste a bit more like Shameda. me. Oh my God. You know what's wild? This is higher. But tastes better. But tastes better to me than

the last one just did. And it's a full percent higher. Yeah. Okay. Wait. I want to do the blue. Give me blow. Give me blue. Okay. All right. Here's the last one. What's this one called? Shamei what? What's it say? Grand Reserve. Is that right? Grand Reserve. It's their Belgin. Ah. Would you like a Belgian? Belgian. Like a Poro? Was he from Belgium? I think. So this is the highest ABV at 9% of the Shemmese. as we are trying tonight. No, not for me.

Not for you. Oh, boy. It was immediately the white one. It was the white one. The white one got me drunk. The white one. Okay. And you didn't even have this one.

Oh, God. Oh, I hate it. Oh, I hate it. I don't like that one. This one's mean. This one's like nasty. It's dark. It tastes dark.

It's got a mean attitude that I don't really care for. It tastes dark. It is dark. It's like a stout color. But it does not taste like a stout. No. It tastes closer to an IPA, but it's not a good idea. Yeah.

It's deceiving. I like a stout does not taste like one. No, and I like IPAs. I like their bitterness. I hate them. But chamey white, it is. Yeah, white. Sons.

I'll take the white or the holiday one. Nah, fuck the holiday one. I'd be happy with either. Nah. Okay, so how do you remember this? So, like, in the future, if given the choice, if we have choices, like, oh, we have 18 kinds of chamee. If I had a nickel for every time I wanted a chamee, I'd,

would have at least one nickel. Sank, Sont. Is that what five is? Yeah, Sank. Got it. On two, three, can't Sank. Oh, that's clever. Okay.

And that's the name of it. Sons, like, Sonsk, Sank is C-I-N-Q, which is five. Uh-huh. And I don't know if Sont, C-E-N-T-S is Sont, but it's spelled sense. So if I had a nickel for every time... That's a good way to remember because that's what is called S-S-S-S-S-M-E. If I had a nickel for every time, I had to... to tell you about something that is, should, should not be something I would have to explain to you,

such as my favorite Thanksgiving dish. I would be a very rich lady. And I'm thankful for all the song-sants that I had to do that. It's a little convoluted, but if it works, it works. You know how I'll remember it? How? Sonson-songed. Salk-s-songed. Silk-song. It's like Silk Song. No. Remember that movie we saw the preview for? Because we saw Wicked. So Jack and I saw Wicked. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll talk about that. day, which was, yeah, we'll talk about it. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I know what you're saying. Yeah, what was the trailer?

It was like sing... Sing song. Sing song. Sing song blue. Sing song. Song, song blue. Was that the one? Was that the Hugh Jackman one?

Yeah. Hugh Jackman, the biopic when he's playing Neil Diamond. Wait, that was a Neil Diamond where the wife gets like trampled by a car or something? I think so. Yeah, that's it. So there's a Neil Diamond biopic coming out where Hugh Jackman is playing Neil I thought they were just a random country couple singing in a bar. I'm pretty sure it's Neil Diamond.

Wasn't Neil Diamond? Like, wasn't he sort of like flamboyant? I actually have no idea. I don't, hold on, let me just double check. Song Song Blue. Wasn't saving Silverman about Neil Diamond? It was kind of about like getting to a Neil Diamond concert, right? Or something like that.

No, they were like a Neil Diamond like tribute band or something. Oh, that too. And they, I feel like they like were like flamboyant. Aaron, it's not a biopic. Listen to the overview. Two down on their luck performers form a Neil Diamond tribute band proving it's never too late

to find love and follow your dreams. This whole time I thought Hugh Jackman is in the biopic where he's portraying Neil Diamond. Wait, no, I thought Neil Diamond was like flamboyant of sorts. Was he not? I couldn't tell you. Didn't you were like silk, like neon tops or something?

I don't know. I don't know a single thing about Neil Diamond except he's the sweet Caroline guy. Hold on. Now I gotta look it up. What the fuck? This is blowing... He wore bedazzled country shirts.

That's pretty flamboyant, sure. Oh my God, this is coming on Christmas Day. Oh my God, it looks so bad. What? Sorry, the fact that it's... It looks so bad. It's about a Neil Diamond tribute band? What the fuck?

Which is funny because the movie Saving Silverman already came out like 20 years ago. Apparently, okay, so like, it's based on a 2008 documentary of the same name. But like, I just... Wow. I had no idea. All right. The white's mine.

Sorry, I just had a sip of wine since I was like, okay, we're done with the shmay. And I can't, the wine is undrinkable compared to the ship. It's so sweet. Like I literally shuddered. Can you drink it? Your wine? Yeah. I'll find it a good home.

Like, no, drink it now and tell me how sweet it is. Wait, that's really weird. Oh my God. Wait, guys, okay, listeners, if you want to do a fun home experiment, you know how you, the There are like these berries you can eat that. The mberry. The m berry that like fucks up your taste so that. Everything tastes sweet.

Pickles taste sweet. Yeah. Sour gummies taste sweet. You know what I mean. So if you don't have any of that line around, what you do is you take a sip of shamee beer first. Oh my God. And then get some white wine and the white wine will taste like juice. But like it was like so sweet.

Like it literally made me like gag. What a fun experiment. That is a fun experiment. Okay, wait. Yeah. Sing song. sung America. It looked so bad.

Honestly, like, I don't... We saw through a lot of wretched trailers before we saw Wicked Four Good. Okay. Awful fucking trailers. There's a movie called Goat coming out. Wait, I don't even remember that one. Sure you do.

It's the one that has... It's a CG animated talking animal movie. Oh, but it's made to look stop motion. Well, it's made to look like, and you wouldn't know this, the recent Sony animation Spider-Man films. No, I wouldn't know that. And Puss and Boots, too, also has that same look sometimes. Well, I don't know, because I watched Pussim Boots, too, didn't I?

You sure did. And I had no problem with Puss-N-Bootz-2. This trailer was unwatchable. I was like, this is making me dizzy. It's like missing, it has that missing frames look, you know? And it's like smearing, like a comic book, but it doesn't really work. also it just looked like all the jokes did not land in the fucking trailer it's just I don't know look at the trailer for goat it was bad actually don't do or don't do or just trust me it was bad

trust us you know what yeah just trust us we had a blast watching all the trailers and then wicked we kind of did though by the end of the trailers I was like okay I'm ready I'm ready you literally were bouncing like a child you were bouncing in your seat saying I'm ready I'm ready I'm fucking done with all these bad trailers. So we wait. So Aaron and I, and really Aaron, Aaron is one of the biggest, wicked fans,

Wicked the musical fans in the world. Big Wicked Stan. We've seen it. Yeah, we've seen it live as a play. I don't know. Five times? No, more than that. More than that?

We're at like at least eight or nine. Ooh, dandy. Yeah. We like our Wicked. Aaron loves the Wicked. I love Wicked. I really like the musical. It's a good story.

Do you think I'm a Glinda or an Elfaba? You're a bach. Listen. You're a bach. Wait, is it buck? Is it bach? You're an idiot. It is bach.

It's bach. Yeah, I was right. How do you spell bok? B-O-Q. How did you not know that? Listen, we waited a year for this final movie of the Wicked Duology, Wicked For Good, to come out. I took a half day off work so that we could see it at what I thought was like the earliest time one could see it because I thought it was being released on Friday. Yeah, and right now, just so you know, like, it's, we saw it on a Thursday afternoon.

And then I found out a bunch of people were seeing it like fucking all week long. Like, even my boss saw it with her daughter on Wednesday night. And I was like, wait, wait, I didn't know that was an option. It's bizarre. Like, that wasn't an option last year. I don't remember that. But we want to, we have to talk about how we feel about Wicked for Good because we loved the first movie. We were both pleasantly surprised at how true to form.

Goose bumps, goosies. True to the source material. the first movie was to the musical we love. Yes. So last night, yesterday afternoon. It felt like night though because it was raining. It did. Yeah.

It's very dark. And the sun sets at like 4.30 here now. Yeah. But we go see Wicked for Good. After a year of anticipation, we see Wicked for Good. Our asses are sat in the movie theater. You know who came up with that phrase? What, Wicked For Good?

Sat. Who came up with that? Sat. An actress. I don't know how to pronounce it. That was so anticlimactic. I know. but she did come up with it and if you know you know.

Wow, that was nothing. She's like a popular actress. I just don't know how to pronounce her name. No, you literally said, you know who came up with that? I don't remember. No, I know. I can picture her. Cool.

A lot of good that does for our listeners. I can't pronounce her name. Christ, Aaron. Anyways, our asses were sat for Wicked for Good. And it's different. We took a lot of notes. And what can we say without spoiling it? Okay.

Because the movie at the time of this podcast is still name. Spoiler-free review of the movie. Yeah. I feel as though we can talk about... We can talk about a lot, actually. Yeah. We can talk about anything that is original to the play because it's literally 20...

What year is it? 20-25? Yeah. Okay, it's like 20 years old at this point. Absolutely. Okay? If you didn't know it was in the play, that's on you, not on me.

True. Okay? You've had 20 years to catch up. I feel like we can talk about that. Or we can talk about generalities of reactions. to things without specifying what that was. For example, I think I was about 30 seconds into the movie and I said, could have left that out.

Do you remember? It was very back to the future-esque. Oh, sure. They did a thing and I go, oh, could have left that out. I don't think that's a spoiler. Let's talk about it. There's a part where we both, like, I think grabbed each other and laughed out loud. there were actually

I will say mate at least five times you and I slap each other and go what the fuck was that I want to talk about the first time and I don't think listeners will care that it's a spoiler

it's not a spoiler so like there's a sequel I don't even get in the details but there's a sequence where we're introduced to the badass wicked witch of the West Wicked witch and she's doing some heroic shit to like save the animals

or whatever. So. Trying. Attempting. And she's on the ground. And, you know, the soldiers are like, after her, get her, get the wicked witch. So she, Elfaba, takes her fucking broomstick, slams it on the ground ahead of her. And it hovers. It hovers like a skateboard.

Like a hover. No. Like a hoverboard. That's better. Thank you. And then she runs up and jumps onto it like a fucking skateboard. Like Marty McFly. Like Marty McFly.

Like, Marty McFly. Allah hoverboard. And then like surfs over. way. And we laughed fucking out. It's not meant to be, it's not comedy. It's not even winking at the,

at the audience like, hey, isn't this epic? Yeah. It was supposed to be like cool and empowering. And it was the dumbest fucking shit. Or we could have just gotten on the broom and flown away. She's,

and by the way, that never comes back. No. No. That is the spoiler. Is that that, that was the first and only time that that, that move happens.

Her fucking. Proof. a hover portion. And I get they're trying to add something cinematic that the play can't do. Like you can't really do that on a stage. And sure, but also nah. Neither could flying on a broomstick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, which they do plenty of.

It was ridiculous. I literally, we were 30 seconds in and I look at Jack and I'm like, could have left that out. Like, that was so unnecessary. I will, here's something else I want to throw in. Like, can movie musicals stop the trend of adding original songs. Oh yeah, I didn't. Because there were like three new songs in part two. Okay, so one of the things that I love about Wicked. And they don't need to do it. One of the things I love about Wicked is I feel as though

all of the songs are kind of woven together. Yeah. They, they use the same phrases over and over again that are also illusory. Just a clocktick. To the, or what's the word? They like are forecasting. What's- foreshadowing? Foreshadowing. Thank you. They foreshadow some of the things as well. Like, and this is not, but like,

Fierro, one of Fierro's repetitive things is that he's brainless. Right. Yeah, that comes back a lot. Yes. In dancing through life. Uh-huh. Then again, in as long as you're mine, right? I might be brainless.

Uh-huh. Whatever. And there are certain, I don't, listen, I'm not a music person. I don't know shit about music. But, like, the themes, like, you could do like a. really like all of the songs could lay on top of each other really nicely they all have that same sound to a degree like they can play off of each other really well they're very cohesive i hear that and they're one of the original songs or one of the no i'm sorry one of the new songs

i felt like was in line with it felt very like okay i could have seen that being part of the original like yeah you did say that there were were at least two others that I was like, what the fuck is this? This sucks. I will say like the lyrics for, I think all the new songs are way too on the nose for me. Oh, interesting. This is what's happening right now. Okay. Okay. This is not an allegory for anything. It's just what's happening right now. And I really didn't care for that. I hate when I have to like fucking Mickey Mouse you through like plot details and the lyrics just felt clunky and the music didn't do anything for me and I love I couldn't tell it like what's the name of the guy who wrote the music for Wicked Stephen Schwartz

Steven Schwartz fantastic songwriter apparently and he had his hand in I don't know if he wrote them himself or if he had like if he collaborated for the new songs somebody told me he collaborated but in the credits of the movie it said it was his so I don't know they didn't I need to do more research into them. Yeah. They didn't do anything for me at all. I don't know. And it's not just like, oh, I like what's familiar. Like, no, musically, like I'm trying to appreciate like musically how it sounds. I'm, I'm barely listening to the lyrics. I've always been a chords harmony melody guy first and foremost. The lyrics could be, you know, go kill your sister. Whatever. But like, I'm like, oh, don't go kill your sister. Yeah. Right. Jack, didn't you not see that article today that came out about

the kid that may have killed a sister? Wait, what the fuck? No? Yes, on a cruise, on a carnival cruise. No, Aaron, I did not. They found an 18-year-old girl dead under her bed in her cruise cabin. Holy fuck. Yeah, and her stepbrother, her younger stepbrother is in custody. Oh, no, I'm not like referencing that. Like, no, I had no idea.

Maybe he's not in custody, but he's like already been named as the suspect. You said Carnival Cruise? Carnival Cruise? Yeah, we're not safe anywhere. Free ice cream or not. They will never recover financially from this. It's going to ruin the tour. Aaron, that's fucked up.

You're fucked up. Listen. All right, listen. Let's go back to not killing our sisters. I'm just saying like I'm a music guy first and foremost. So I tried my best to appreciate musically the original songs. And they did nothing for me. Like none of, I remember some lyrics.

And I don't remember the melody for any of them. Or melodies. One of them. I was like, all right. I'm not mad at this. At what, the lyrics or the music or both? Both. Okay.

All right. Because I felt like it was in line with, I don't know. I feel like I'm used. The themes. Yeah, I hear you. Like even like in the wizard and I, and this is just another example of how it like, there's all this foreshadowing. The wizard and I in the first act, the first movie.

Yes. She says, Elfabah goes, I'd be so happy. I could melt. Right. Cute things like that. Cute little thing. Like, when you're in the theater,

you're ripping each other. Yeah. Right? And one of the songs gave you that feeling. You said one of the new songs in part two. I just, I hate the trend. I don't like this trend.

Remember, honey, when you and I, one weekend, years ago, we decided to go into town to see the live action Disney Aladdin movie in theaters. Okay.

First off, I'm like, go into town as if we live in the country it no we were in Santa Barbara for the weekend and we went into downtown Santa Barbara that's hence hence my phrase we went into town but that was why I was like going to town what do fuck you talking about we live in town don't sidetrack me woman anyways yeah I'm aware you're aware but I don't remember shit about shit right I don't remember anything about that movie and I so we go in and by the way just so you know like my favorite childhood movie of all time. What year was that? Was 2019? Oh my goodness gracious.

2017? It was like 20. Yeah, I think it was 2019. Okay. But my favorite movie in my childhood, like growing up as a kid, my favorite movie of all time was the animated Aladdin movie. So only because you're a perv and you like that she wore a belly shirt. Princess Jasmine. I mean, she's pretty hot. Pretty hot. She's pretty hot. Right. One time I made my mom draw her and I, I was like, that's not good enough. What a. brat. God, you're such an asshole. I was like, can you do it again?

Erase it. No, it's not good enough. Did you rip the paper in front of her? I don't know. I just remember being upset about it not being good enough. So anyway, I, hold on. Let's go back to live action. Alway is hitting hard, guys. Couldn't tell. So, you always do that too. You always go, the

What always? What? The, when did I just say that? Yeah. Did I have a thought? So some people say, um, uh, your filler. word is the. The. So the. And then you like, you like short circuit or laugh or something.

Wait. The. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Wow. Interesting. Maybe you do this all the time. You go, wait. The.

Huh. And I love it because no one else in the world does that. I've never heard that tick from anyone but you. I bet you I say, um, too though. You do, but you, your signature is wait. The. Uh, oh, wait. The.

Uh, wait. The. Uh-huh. the uh there's no quiz today guys just so you know we're not getting there so aladdin live action aladdin i'm like sure like i'd begrudgingly like even by this point like the live action disney movie's kind of a meme at this point like it's not gonna be great but i'll see it because i love aladdin so we go see it they add a couple of new songs i don't remember that exactly of course you don't i don't even remember the original songs from there all right that's on you

But, no, from the live action, I mean. Like, I don't remember them at all. No, me neither. I don't remember anything about the movie. Yeah, no, same. No, I couldn't tell you like. How'd they do the Jafar scene? I couldn't fucking tell you.

And we saw the same movie together. Did he have a little, like, did he have a parrot? Yeah, but guess what? Calm yourself, I go. The parrot didn't talk. It wasn't funny. Oh, that's bullshit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

My friends and I, in high school, that's what we would always say, calm yourself, Eago. It's very funny. The anime, it's so. good. So anyways, the live action movie. What about the sultan? Couldn't tell you a fucking thing about him. He was like, he would have been, like, Danny DeVito would have been a great sultan. Yeah, he would have. But, yeah. No, but like, you know, it was so forgettable. And they added new songs. At least one new song. Like, they give, they give Princess Jasmine a really empowering song about how she won't be held prisoner anymore.

Some bullshit like that. It's the girl in the bubble. Mm-hmm. If you know, you know. And it's just like, stop it. Stop adding songs in, like, there's no reason for this. Like, stop it. Stop putting new songs in familiar musicals. We're going to see the musical for the songs we know.

Yeah. We're not going in for like, oh, we should give Glinda a new song and Elphaba. We're going to give Elphaba a new song. Did you ever stop it? Did you ever see the live action lying? King? I never did. Me neither. Do they add songs to that? They may have. I'm laughing because I genuinely don't know. Did they add? I don't remember. And I loved the animated Lion King, but I mean, like all the, and Aaron, yeah, you're in the, you're in the, you're in the minority for this. Like, but I, but the whole thing is like, I remember seeing commercial and trailer after commercial and trailer for the live action Lion King. And it's just like, why are we doing this? They don't even like animated. These look like photo realistic.

animals whose mouths move, but they don't emote. You didn't even see it. Why are you fucking talking about the Lion King? Hold on. Did they do it in the Little Mermaid? Now I'm like trying to go through live action. They did add, they added a few songs in Little Mermaid. And I do remember one of them, they gave Aquafina like a little rap song.

Was she Sebastian? Squawk, squawk, squawk. No, she's a seagull. Oh. What was the seagull's name in Little Mermaid? Oh, don't tell me. Don't tell me. Don't say it. Just got it.

Does it start with an S? Yes. Sorry. She's like, she just came. to the surface. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, this is a dingle hopper.

Uh-huh, uh-huh. Scuttle. Good one. It's, yeah. They added a few songs, and one of them is the worst in the live-action Disney canon, sung by Aquafina. It's pretty rancid. Nice.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's called the Scuttle butt, I think. Well, that would track. Uh-huh, yeah. Um, so anyways, yeah. Okay, so you were not a fan of the original music. No. Okay, can we talk about how disgustingly attractive Jonathan Bailey is?

Oh, the guy who plays Fioro? Yes. He's a good-looking dude. He is, I know, like, it's funny. He was actually named 2025's Sexiest Man Alive. Which is People, right? Yeah. People Magazine.

That's a big deal. I want you to know. Yeah. He is the Sexiest Man Alive today, yesterday, 2026, 2027, 2028. Aaron, I'm not going to disagree. He's a good-looking dude. No, like, I would never be able to date somebody that was that good-looking. It's distracting.

It's not okay. Well, honey, I have good news for you. You will never date him. He is perfect. Like, grossly perfect. Like, fuck you, you motherfucker. What do you think it's like, like, I wonder if that's, like, hard being that good looking. No, it's probably not.

I'd imagine he gets on pretty well. Do you know what I mean, though? Like. Not really, no. It'd be amazing to be good looking. He could be. You know how evil he. could be and get away with it. Sure. Well, he could be evil and we don't know. That's true.

But I doubt it. Why do you doubt it? Just because he's good looking. Because he likes wicked. Anybody who likes wicked is good people. Is good people. Yeah, fair. I'll give you that. I agree with that. Right? Yeah. Wait, am I an alphabet or a Glinda? Do you really want to know? Yes. You're an alphabet. I'm such an alphabet, right? Come on. It's not even close. I am such, wait, why do you think I'm an alphabet? Because you're real. You're fucking real. An alphabet is real. Oh. I am fucking real. Right? She calls out people's bullshit.

Yeah, that's true. The wizard tries to butter up and she's like, nah, you're a fraud, fuck yourself. Yeah, that's you. That is true. Yeah. Do you know, I think a lot of people who don't really know me might think I'm a Glinda because I'm kind of happy?

You have the bubbly personality like sometimes. Sometimes. Uh-huh. Yeah. And you turn it on, you know, like, Hi, I'm Aaron. Ha-ha. Wee.

Ha-ha. Just like Linda. But I'm so. Such a fucking Elfabah. Yeah. No, you, yeah. Through and through. If Elfaba were on Lexapro, we would be fucking sisters.

Like, she would definitely chill out if she got on Lexapro. Dude, Elfabah just needs to chill out. Like, why are you so obsessed with the animals? Oh, she, yeah. Girl. She's like me in 2022 when I crashed out over capitalism. Holy fuck. Like, that's why you are Elfaba and she is you.

You both care way too much about like certain things And it's like just chill man Just relax Oh my God Anyways would you Okay would you recommend Seeing Wicked too Yeah

A thousand percent I would too I already want to rewatch Wicked One Yeah Because that was such an experience And what I feel like I'm kind of like Chasing that dragon Or at least I felt like yesterday

when we saw Wicked 2, Part 2, whatever you want to call it. To me, I felt like we were chasing that dragon, or I was, because I was like, I just wanted all the highs I experienced when I saw the first wicked movie, because I was so pleasantly surprised at how funny it was. I had goosebumps the entire movie. How faithful it was. He was crying the entire movie. I loved it.

It was faithful, but it also added just enough, like the movie adaptation justified its own existence by doing very creative things that a stage play simply could not physically possibly do. Like doing montages and such when appropriate. Like, I think it's a loathing. Loathing has a great, like the music, or sorry, I was going to say the music video, like a fucking idiot. But the loathing scene in the movie is done so well because it takes full advantage of what cinema can do that a stage play can't show and can't do.

And I loved that. And I felt like I didn't have a lot of those moments in Wicked part two. Some of the fucking songs were straight up boring. Or at least some of the visualizations were straight up boring. Relatively speaking to part one. And I was kind of bummed about that. Like, oh, we could do so much more given the material. We could be showing this and I don't know.

But if you're a fan of Wicked, you owe it to yourself to see it. That song is called What Is This Feeling? It's not called Loathing. Oh, really? Yes. Oh, well, everyone knows it as loathing. What is this feeling? So sudden.

Terrible title. It's called loathing. Okay. I just want to end on this. Okay. Oh, no, I know what you're doing. Oh, no. Find me a day that's totally wicked witch for you.

That's all. That's all. That's all. Oh, why did they cast her? Wait. That was a moment we both grabbed each other in the theater. Yeah. Oh, it was a full-on.

I was very startled. But still, if you're a wicked fan, even if you're a fucking Wizard of Oz fan at all, go see it. Did we ever talk about the sphere, Wizard of Oz experience on the podcast? Yeah, I think so. It gave me COVID.

Aaron, you got COVID at the sphere in Vegas? I did. That's true. I actually think I got it before then. No, you did. But I definitely had COVID. That's way funnier to say. I definitely had COVID while at the sphere.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it just wasn't. It was at like 50%. It wasn't fully kicked in yet. Correct. Yeah. Correct. Oh, my God.

Listeners, do you know what time it is? Do you know whose birthday it is this week? I actually do, Aaron. Do you know whose birthday it is the day that this episode comes out? Really? Really. Is it our Girl Sunday's 10th birthday? It is Our Girl Sunday's 10th birthday.

Sunday. Happy 10th birthday. This is for you, honey bunny. Wherever you are, wherever she is right now. Stop, don't. Sorry. No, she's in a crate. Like, yeah, listeners, it sucks, but we have to crate our dogs whenever we record these podcasts.

They just get so excited. Seriously, we try. Every other week, we're like, let's just try it. We'll leave them out. And we turn on the microphones, you know, we start rolling. And then it's usually Sunday. He starts going, oh, what? I say, God damn it, Sunday, no.

Sunday, this. Sagittarius. This one's for you, honey bunny. Wicked. Sunday. You. Mongrel. How do you chew your food without bottom teeth? Baby, that's cute, but our listeners, we have to do it for the listeners. They don't give a fuck about Sunday. Sunday doesn't have a big tooth on the bottom. She's all sideways.

Remember she's missing her big cane, her like the big pointy one on the bottom? Oh, I remember, honey. I just, I fear and feel that our listeners don't give a shit. And this really should be for them. So listeners. I cannot. I'll just say this. That was your cue.

All right. I cannot believe that once again, Sunday is being disregarded by her own father. Well, she's the middle child. And being treated like the middle child that she is. I mean, yeah, well, she has to act the part. If it were Chipwich, you know she would get her own. own bucking horoscope, okay? Oh.

And then some. That's actually true. So let's, here's another horoscope this time for you guys. Listeners. Sunday. No. Stop. Fine.

Sunday the day will find you. Sunday. Sunday. Sunday will find you Sunday. Sunday will find you. Sunday. No. You're so hell bent on bringing it back.

to the Sunday of it all. It is her birthday after all. Oh my God, Aaron. Her 10th birthday. Listeners, I just want you know I'm trying so fucking hard to make this about you. This is the last time she's going to have a 10th birthday. Fine. This is her first and probably only decade celebration.

Okay, fine. Sunday. Has. No. Will. Oh, but she does have a. a tongue. One time we measured

said tongue. Actually. Never mind. One time we walked Sunday. And a woman saw Sunday tongue. So she said

Wow. Her tongue is so long. Is the true story, by the way? Is she? Okay. So we said.

No. The. We don't take Sunday out in public anymore after that. After she was body shamed. Yeah. Yeah. Listen, I don't care how big your tongue is. It's beautiful.

Okay. Listeners, if you have a big old tongue, let us know. Actually, I don't. I actually don't. Never mind. that came out weird like your tongues listeners we do apologize for not getting into the hotline this week oh yeah we kind of drank chamois and then like kind of forgot about it then we talk about wicked for an hour but listen we do have some awesome updates from some of our awesome callers

and texters and by the way if you want to call or text or both to our hotline that number that you can text in or call in on your phone is dad Hug me 10. Just look for the corresponding letters on that keypad on your digital iPhone or smartphone screen, the corresponding, you know, dad hug me 10. We have a lot of fascinating, like, honey, I've screenshoted awesome text exchanges that I've had with some people with peculiar professions and jobs and careers. Love that.

So we will be getting into, we were going to try to get into that today, but then the Chameh took over and the Wicked took over. and as always, Michelle Yo took over. So we will get into that next time. We'll also finish the quiz we were supposed to finish today next time as well. Maybe I'll get distracted again. Who knows? You?

That doesn't sound like you. You feed me some booze and I just get rolling. Great seeing you. Happy Thanksgiving to anybody celebrating. We're thankful for you, listeners. Thank you for tuning in. We hope you have a wonderful holiday should you celebrate. Have a wonderful green bean casserole experience.

think of me. And a sweet potato casserole. With pecans and brown sugar on top. All the trimmings, guys. And until next time. Bye!