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What are we talking about this week? I only can't buy. We're talking about wicker.

They're wickedly talented. Ariana Grande and Cynthia. Do you know what I really hate? The

fact that that meme is like so meme, like so popular that people write it into TV shows now. Do they? Yeah, and I've seen so many TV shows where they're like, they're wickedly talented. When someone's accepting an award and I'm like, They're wickedly talented. I hate it. It's my worst thing when people use internet jokes in real life telly or films. Like, think of something better. What are you what about?

Like, when people steal memes from the internet and write it into their script.

You literally quote TikToks at me all the time.

I'm not writing TV.

If I was writing TV, I think of original jokes.

Yeah, that's true.

Fair enough.

Also, my only ever thought about...

I hate it when people do it in songs as well.

What do you mean in songs? Like, that choice of on song that's like, Face Card, Dirkash, no credit, I hate it. Fair enough. That's a whole other discussion to have about internet language, I think. We're not talking about that anyway. We're not talking about that today. We're talking about Wicked. The film sensation that's about hit our screens. We're not being sponsored by W. Also, I've probably hit our screens by now by the time you're listening to this dear listener. Of course it will. It comes out on the 22nd. On the 21st, we're recording this, by the way, guys. If something like crazy happens, leave us out of it. So we haven't actually seen Wicked yet, but obviously I'm sure everyone on the internet or in

the world will have seen that it's been a huge marketing effort and a huge, like, publicity

roll out for the film, biggest film of the year probably.

Yeah, definitely the biggest, it's like this year's Barbie.

That's what people are saying, but then did you see that tweet where it's like,

Barbie and Wicked have the best two marketing campaigns of the last two years and then someone quote tweeted it like, no, because Barbie actually made like worldwide impact

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