Hello everyone. Once upon a time I saw the Broadway musical Wicked and was forever changed by the story of a green woman named Elphaba and her popular roommate, Galinda, the Gah, is silent.

As these two ladies introduced me to another side of Oz, launching their friendship at the University of Shiz and getting into trouble in the Emerald City.

Not once did I think about Seattle. Not once.

Hey everyone, I'm Lindsay and welcome to the I Hate Green Beans podcast. During each episode,

I'll be discussing television, movies, music, and books with friends who love pop culture as much as I do.

For those of you wondering, yes, we will be talking about the Bachelor franchise.

And no, I do not want to try your grandmother's famous green bean cassero recipe.

But thanks for offering.

Now sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

It's episode 352 of the I-Hak Green Beans podcast. I'm your host Lindsay. I'm here with

some guy in Austin. And we're going to talk about episode six of Jen's journey to find

love where she walked down the yellow brick road in Emerald City. Question. Did you know that Seattle

was called the Emerald City? I did actually. What? Nobody knows that. Yes, I do. I don't know how I knew

that. I knew it. I would have known that, I think. I don't know how I would know, but I do know.

That was brand new information to me.

Even so much so that I Googled it, thinking they've totally made this up to be a wicked

crossover. And yet it was called the Emerald City in the 80s.

Yeah, I was looking for, I saw the Willy Wonka thing this weekend, and I thought about the Unpa Lumpas when I thought about the Emerald City, because they're very similar to the, what do you call them, Little Pusch, what do you call them? No, that's, little Pusians is Gulliver's Travel. What do they call them in Wizard of Oz? The munchkins. Munchkins, yeah, so whatever.

Did you, were you a fan of the Wizard of Oz back in the day?

Yeah, sort of.

I mean, I kind of, you know, in retrospect, like with perspective and time, I realize that

the Wicked Witch of the West actually has a legitimate reason for being the way she is.

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