Hello, hello, and welcome back to A BitFruity, the podcast where we, as connoisseurs of queer media, hold space for the lyrics of divine gravity.

I know you think I just tried to shoehorn that joke in there, but that's literally what we're going to be doing today.

Today we're going to be doing today. Today we are talking about wicked, and it is just me.

So brace yourselves and pray that I don't fly off the handle.

But Matt, why are you talking about wicked?

You don't need to.

This isn't a film podcast. I know. That's what makes

me so nice. This is a podcast where we tend to talk about politics, the internet, gay things,

and unless you've been living under Iraq, you're probably aware right now that Wicked is what is

currently occupying the intersection

of all three of those things. And as someone in gay media who wants to hold space for that moment,

here we are. I talk about politics and Wicked is a deeply political story. I talk about gay things

and one could argue that Wicked is a deeply gay story.

I had no intentions of making an a bit fruity episode about Wicked, but I want to tell you

what landed us here today.

So I saw Wicked on Thursday night and I saw it with a few friends and as I was leaving the

theater, my literal first reaction to the film was, oh my God, Glinda is Megan Kelly.

Well, Kelly's court is back in session on the docket today.

Dirty Words in Disguise for the Princess of Pop.

Brittany Spears pushing the envelope on obscenity getting

rather crass in a crafty way on her new hit recording. Love me, hate me, all of the boys and

girls are begging to, and then she says, if you seek Amy.

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