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you can. So we finally saw Wicked. And yeah, on people left on Thanksgiving. And I loved seeing it

on Thanksgiving. Not only was the theater on the empty side, but, you know,

Thanksgiving is always hard when you're vegan and you know that so many people are just

centering an entire event around a dead animal. But I feel like I've gotten past that. I mean,

obviously, if I, I mean, for most people, they have to go somewhere where there's a dead bird and then I wouldn't be past it. But I just, you know, I enjoy Thanksgiving. I don't think about the fact that this is a particular celebration of killing animals. I mean, they all go out there and kill animals every day and

whether it's a celebration or not. So I think you need to own Thanksgiving. But one way to own it is

to go see a great movie. About animal liberation. You know, it's so funny. So I know we've been

talking about Wicked far, far before the movie was even a glimmer in Ariana Grande's eyes because we saw it on

Broadway so many, I saw it so many times on Broadway. I only saw it once. I'm not as nearly as much of a

wicked efficiency. Well, I'm not even sure I'm like the biggest fan in the world. I just, for some

reason, tickets always landed on my lap to see the play. But it's,

it's like a manifesto about animal rights, as we've discussed. And the funny thing. I think the movie was

even more than the play. And I think the second movie was even more than the first.

Yeah, 100%. But so the funny thing is I get a text from someone the other day and she's like, do you think, this person's vegan. And she hasn't seen it. And she goes, so is wicked like animal rightsy? And I was like, oh, yeah, like totally. And she was like, oh, because a friend of mine saw it and said it wasn't. Yeah, that's what I'm hearing.

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