Alright everybody, welcome to the musical splitting podcast. I am your host and Internet

service provider, Kavita Herian. And I'm cultural appropriation, Lindsay Ellis.

Personified. Yeah, this is a joke because apparently someone on TikTok is saying that buying

the BTS happy meal at McDonald's is cultural appropriation if you're not a BTS stan.

I don't I don't understand things because BTS stand them is a culture. There's just there's

a lot of things. It's not Korean culture that's being appropriated. It's BTS stan culture

that they're upset about. I don't know. Being appropriated. I don't understand anything. But

thankfully I'm in a position of being an old person so I can just shake my fist at the

clouds and say I don't understand what young people do.

It's literally your job not to understand. My job's a lot easier than yours. I have to say.

Yeah, it's true. I just kind of have to be. You're allowed to be wrong. Right. I can just be

an idiot though. And before we get into it, we need to issue a retraction. Oh, right. Yeah,

like I don't know how I miss this, but there was in fact a Charlie the Chocolate Factory Broadway

musical. It ran for about nine months in 2017. It makes sense that I'm missing because that was

like right as I moved away from New York again. But apparently like there was a West inversion

that people liked and nobody liked the Broadway version. And that's all I know. Look at us.

Growth, retractions. We can admit we can admit when we're wrong. We're admitting that we're

hadn't made me a mistake. Yeah, so sorry to all you. Charlie's. What are they called? Yeah.

Wanks. Wanks. So today we're going to talk about as you probably guessed from the episode

title in lines, which was if I'm not mistaken, our boy Lynn Manuel Miranda's first musical,

right? It was 50% of his over, yes. Okay. Yeah. Oh, that's true. He's only done two. He's only

done two. I mean, I guess when the one that is 50% of what you've done is like the most influential

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