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[0:01] Quincy Brown: My name's Quincy, and my name's Kevin, and this is Sentimental Men. We're here to talk, and maybe scream, about our favorite women in musical theater.

[0:16] Kevin Bianchi: Oh my god. Pull yourself together.

[0:25] Quincy Brown: I'm drunk and I just watched the Wicked trailer.

[0:29] Kevin Bianchi: You know what crossed my mind as I was watching it?

[0:31] Quincy Brown: Tell me.

[0:32] Kevin Bianchi: I genuinely think this is why I'm emotional. It has to be.

[0:35] Quincy Brown: I was like...

[0:36] Kevin Bianchi: One, it was the first time I'd ever watched it with headphones in, full computer screen on.

[0:42] Quincy Brown: I've been like phone viewing.

[0:47] Kevin Bianchi: It's a brilliant trailer, but I also was like, this is the last trailer for Wicked we're ever getting.

[0:54] Quincy Brown: Then I was like...

[0:57] Kevin Bianchi: It's wrapping up.

[0:58] Quincy Brown: Yeah, it's over. We waited so long.

[1:01] Kevin Bianchi: We're at No Good Deed right now. The ensemble's putting their street clothes on.

[1:09] Quincy Brown: No, the ensemble's supposed to do March of the Witch Hunters.

[1:11] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, you're right. My bad.

[1:13] Quincy Brown: It's just really, it's very sad and emotional to be at this stage of the journey.

[1:18] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah, I agree. I can't imagine how they all are feeling.

[1:23] Quincy Brown: Right.

[1:24] Kevin Bianchi: Because you think about everyone involved with the movie has been going through this for two years longer than us.

[1:31] Quincy Brown: I almost...

[1:33] Kevin Bianchi: Tell me if this is a wrong take.

[1:35] Quincy Brown: I almost feel like they're in a better position than we are because they shot the damn thing a year ago at this point.

[1:43] Kevin Bianchi: It is just a fond memory for them at this point that they now have to promote, but they're not in the thick of it.

[1:49] Quincy Brown: Yeah, I wonder if any of them are like, okay, let's wrap this up. I'm ready to stop talking about this.

[1:54] Kevin Bianchi: I actually imagine a lot of them probably are.

[1:59] Quincy Brown: But we're not ready.

[2:00] Kevin Bianchi: But we're not, so...

[2:02] Quincy Brown: We got our final Wicked trailer.

[2:04] Kevin Bianchi: We did get our final trailer.

[2:06] Quincy Brown: How do you want to do this?

[2:07] Kevin Bianchi: Let me ask you some questions.

[2:10] Quincy Brown: So, Quincy, of the trailer, since you are freshly reacquainted with it, talk to me.

[2:17] Kevin Bianchi: Talk to me. What are your favorite parts?

[2:20] Quincy Brown: Something that surprised you?

[2:24] Kevin Bianchi: We get Thank Goodness vocal.

[2:29] Quincy Brown: Just like overarching, what struck me is...

[2:33] Kevin Bianchi: I feel like this felt like a movie trailer in a way that the first movie ones didn't.

[2:41] Quincy Brown: Only because the first movie, we've talked about this, was kind of beat for beat act one of Wicked the musical.

[2:49] Kevin Bianchi: This one, it is so clear that we are going into different territories and getting different things.

[2:56] Quincy Brown: And so there was like a lot to be discovered.

[2:59] Kevin Bianchi: And that felt like genuinely new.

[3:02] Quincy Brown: I love...

[3:03] Kevin Bianchi: I love...

[3:10] Quincy Brown: The look at me, not with your eyes, but with theirs.

[3:14] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah.

[3:15] Quincy Brown: I thought was like...

[3:19] Kevin Bianchi: I'm sorry to queen out so much.

[3:25] Quincy Brown: It's okay.

[3:27] Kevin Bianchi: Do I need to come up there and give you a hug?

[3:31] Quincy Brown: I don't know what's happening.

[3:33] Kevin Bianchi: My therapist says I should feel my emotions, so I'm going to feel my emotions.

[3:38] Quincy Brown: I also love the...

[3:40] Kevin Bianchi: Okay, here's the plan. I have no plan.

[3:42] Quincy Brown: I just feel like we're getting new colors that we didn't necessarily get in the first movie because it was such a faithful adaptation of act one of Wicked.

[3:51] Kevin Bianchi: And there wasn't as much leeway to take it into different places.

[3:56] Quincy Brown: Also, F us, I guess.

[3:59] Kevin Bianchi: The...

[4:04] Quincy Brown: Yeah, I know.

[4:05] Kevin Bianchi: You guys were all right.

[4:07] Quincy Brown: I was wrong.

[4:08] Kevin Bianchi: I'm not sure if you were with me on this.

[4:10] Quincy Brown: I don't remember.

[4:13] Kevin Bianchi: But I do live for that being the why.

[4:19] Quincy Brown: We see Cynthia kind of like shoot up and fly.

[4:22] Kevin Bianchi: Yes, which I love that she is the flying entity, not the broom.

[4:27] Quincy Brown: The magic is from within, etc.

[4:30] Kevin Bianchi: I believe the lyrics are everyone deserves a chance.

[4:33] Quincy Brown: Everybody's flying.

[4:35] Kevin Bianchi: Fiyero, flying.

[4:36] Quincy Brown: Nessa Rose, flying.

[4:38] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah, what was Nessa Rose doing?

[4:40] Quincy Brown: She's flying.

[4:41] Kevin Bianchi: Everyone deserves a chance to fly.

[4:43] Quincy Brown: All right, sure.

[4:44] Kevin Bianchi: Right?

[4:46] Quincy Brown: I'm really, really interested to see that scene.

[4:50] Kevin Bianchi: Speaking of...

[4:52] Quincy Brown: Yeah, I would assume.

[4:55] Kevin Bianchi: Like you're saying, that's clearly a new thing that is going to be really fun to discover.

[5:03] Quincy Brown: One of my favorite parts of the trailer is...

[5:08] Kevin Bianchi: Well, one of my favorite parts of the show and the first movie is when Elphaba stands up and you get the full silhouette for the first time.

[5:16] Quincy Brown: And I like in this trailer, when the bubble goes around her for the first time, you also get the...

[5:24] Kevin Bianchi: And it's because it's like the iconic silhouette for the first time.

[5:29] Quincy Brown: I love...

[5:30] Kevin Bianchi: Obsessulated.

[5:31] Quincy Brown: Yeah.

[5:32] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, I am obsessulated.

[5:34] Quincy Brown: What a perfect new entry into the like...

[5:38] Kevin Bianchi: The lexicon.

[5:40] Quincy Brown: Yeah.

[5:41] Kevin Bianchi: Vernacular.

[5:42] Quincy Brown: I also am very excited...

[5:43] Kevin Bianchi: We gotta ask if that was her idea.

[5:45] Quincy Brown: It's gotta be her.

[5:47] Kevin Bianchi: That feels like such a...

[5:49] Quincy Brown: You think it was?

[5:50] Kevin Bianchi: I think.

[5:51] Quincy Brown: Should we DM her?

[5:52] Kevin Bianchi: Go for it.

[5:54] Quincy Brown: I'm also very excited because I think a lot of my favorite elements of Michelle Yeoh's performance in the first movie are the kind of like shadier parts of her Madame Morrible.

[6:07] Kevin Bianchi: And I just feel like we're going to get more of that in this.

[6:10] Quincy Brown: I can't wait for...

[6:12] Kevin Bianchi: Now you listen here. You may have fooled the rest of us with that art I good at.

[6:18] Quincy Brown: That I know is gonna...

[6:19] Kevin Bianchi: She's gonna eat that up.

[6:22] Quincy Brown: What else did I like?

[6:23] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, I love the little glimpse of As Long As You're Mine.

[6:28] Quincy Brown: As soon as John Chu said that...

[6:29] Kevin Bianchi: When?

[6:30] Quincy Brown: Did you not clock it?

[6:31] Kevin Bianchi: When?

[6:32] Quincy Brown: In the trailer.

[6:35] Kevin Bianchi: So at the end, it's a...

[6:37] Quincy Brown: Oh my God, Quincy.

[6:38] Kevin Bianchi: It's Elphaba and Fiyero and they're like embracing in midair.

[6:42] Quincy Brown: Like they're Superman and...

[6:44] Kevin Bianchi: Not in midair.

[6:45] Quincy Brown: Yes.

[6:46] Kevin Bianchi: Because John M. Chu was like, oh, you're gonna feel the ascension.

[6:49] Quincy Brown: And I was like, oh, they're flying.

[6:51] Kevin Bianchi: They're gonna kiss and fly.

[6:53] Quincy Brown: Flying while fucking?

[6:54] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah.

[6:55] Quincy Brown: And then there's the morning after scene where you see a little shoulder.

[6:58] Kevin Bianchi: There's a house and it's flying through the sky.

[7:01] Quincy Brown: Wait.

[7:02] Kevin Bianchi: Quincy, I love how differently our brains absorb things.

[7:06] Quincy Brown: Okay, hot.

[7:07] Kevin Bianchi: It's at 238.

[7:08] Quincy Brown: It's also right after a shot of Elphaba in the dune desert, which is gorgeous.

[7:13] Kevin Bianchi: Wait.

[7:14] Quincy Brown: Okay, so we could talk about that.

[7:16] Kevin Bianchi: So, yes, I love that as long...

[7:20] Quincy Brown: Everybody's flying in part two is the point that I was making.

[7:24] Kevin Bianchi: The ending, that dune desert shot, is definitely giving the trapped...

[7:31] Quincy Brown: Like she's in the kind of like trapdoor looking outfit.

[7:35] Kevin Bianchi: And Stephen Schwartz's original ending was like Elphaba and Fiyero going out to live.

[7:45] Quincy Brown: This is spoilers, I guess.

[7:47] Kevin Bianchi: Going out onto the impassable desert and like living out there with a bunch of animals.

[7:54] Quincy Brown: Capital A animals in like a refuse, which is kind of a slay if that's what that is.

[8:02] Kevin Bianchi: Because that was where she ended The Wizard and I.

[8:05] Quincy Brown: Looking out over...

[8:06] Kevin Bianchi: Saying, I'm going to get there.

[8:07] Quincy Brown: I'm going to cross that rainbow.

[8:09] Kevin Bianchi: And then if that's where she ends it, bitch, I'll die.

[8:13] Quincy Brown: Confirmed, I believe, that Glinda is the horse rider.

[8:17] Kevin Bianchi: Is it?

[8:18] Quincy Brown: Why else would she be wearing those boots?

[8:20] Kevin Bianchi: Because we see the shot of her pulling the boots out.

[8:22] Quincy Brown: And then the next shot is the horse.

[8:26] Kevin Bianchi: Okay, Ariana Grande on a horse is going to be wild.

[8:28] Quincy Brown: Yeah, I can't wait.

[8:30] Kevin Bianchi: Like an intense horse ride too.

[8:32] Quincy Brown: I was surprised to see the Tin Man and hear his voice.

[8:36] Kevin Bianchi: Yes.

[8:37] Quincy Brown: At the Wicked taping thing that I went to, which we'll get into, there were a bunch of other Oz influencer types.

[8:45] Kevin Bianchi: And the head of Universal came up and was talking to us and asking for thoughts on the trailer.

[8:51] Quincy Brown: And everyone was ripping into him for giving away the Tin Man and the Scarecrow.

[8:57] Kevin Bianchi: Well, I do think you have to be a little more eagle-eyed to, quote, give away the Scarecrow.

[9:05] Quincy Brown: Because you only really see, you see like this.

[9:08] Kevin Bianchi: And so it's like, okay, well, who else would Elphaba be touching like that?

[9:11] Quincy Brown: And does Tin Man saying, what have you done to me, give away the plot point of the Tin Man?

[9:17] Kevin Bianchi: Well, I think if you can clock it as Ethan Slater's voice.

[9:22] Quincy Brown: Which can you?

[9:23] Kevin Bianchi: Maybe.

[9:25] Quincy Brown: It's hard to tell because it's like, I know it is.

[9:28] Kevin Bianchi: Like, I know that the Tin Man is Bach.

[9:31] Quincy Brown: Sorry, guys.

[9:32] Kevin Bianchi: So like, it's hard for me.

[9:34] Quincy Brown: I wouldn't even clock that as Ethan Slater.

[9:36] Kevin Bianchi: I listen to it now and I'm like, is that Ethan Slater?

[9:38] Quincy Brown: Yeah.

[9:39] Kevin Bianchi: I guess if you, at the very least, it gives away that the Wicked Witch did something to the Tin Man.

[9:50] Quincy Brown: Sure.

[9:52] Kevin Bianchi: Which is...

[9:55] Quincy Brown: I'm like, I don't really care about spoilers in that regard.

[9:59] Kevin Bianchi: The musical has been out for 22, 23 years.

[10:02] Quincy Brown: And the book has been out for many longer.

[10:08] Kevin Bianchi: I actually appreciate them showing us that kind of stuff.

[10:12] Quincy Brown: What I will say is like, overall, the whole thing feels way more drama than part one.

[10:18] Kevin Bianchi: Which is nice because that leads me to believe that the new things will not feel like filler.

[10:25] Quincy Brown: Like, they feel like substantial things that are being added.

[10:30] Kevin Bianchi: Not a lot of wizard in this trailer.

[10:33] Quincy Brown: I know, just the scary.

[10:34] Kevin Bianchi: So I know that she's good.

[10:37] Quincy Brown: And this is kind of his time to shine.

[10:39] Kevin Bianchi: I can't wait to see what they do with Wonderful.

[10:41] Quincy Brown: Because they've clearly added Glinda.

[10:44] Kevin Bianchi: I feel like Ariana Grande is going to sing...

[10:47] Quincy Brown: Trust me, it's fun.

[10:50] Kevin Bianchi: What is happening on that swing?

[10:53] Quincy Brown: I don't know.

[10:55] Kevin Bianchi: And I almost...

[10:57] Quincy Brown: I'm trying not to think about it too much.

[10:59] Kevin Bianchi: Because I'm sure I will love to be surprised at when that is.

[11:03] Quincy Brown: The natural instinct is for good.

[11:07] Kevin Bianchi: But I can't think of how or why.

[11:11] Quincy Brown: Is that the natural instinct?

[11:13] Kevin Bianchi: I don't know.

[11:14] Quincy Brown: I just can't think of...

[11:16] Kevin Bianchi: I guess in the spirit of there is lots to discover in this.

[11:20] Quincy Brown: I can't think of another moment in the stage show that would necessitate the two of them sitting on a swing together.

[11:31] Kevin Bianchi: Maybe the goat moment after Wonderful doesn't happen after Wonderful anymore.

[11:35] Quincy Brown: And there's a section of everyone is happy and friends again.

[11:38] Kevin Bianchi: Before we stumble upon Dylan and Dina Cage.

[11:42] Quincy Brown: I do think that that swing with all those pink lights.

[11:47] Kevin Bianchi: It does feel very akin to the Walt Disney, Wizzomania, It's a Small World kind of vibe.

[11:56] Quincy Brown: So I wonder if that...

[11:57] Kevin Bianchi: And the wizard's little model.

[12:00] Quincy Brown: So I almost wonder if that's some kind of thing that the wizard puts them in.

[12:07] Kevin Bianchi: Because it feels like then that's a moment where Glenda says, think of what we could do.

[12:12] Quincy Brown: Look at how wonderful it could be.

[12:15] Kevin Bianchi: Maybe it's a much less sentimental moment than the trailer and the underscoring of the trailer.

[12:22] Quincy Brown: It's manipulative.

[12:23] Kevin Bianchi: Is telling us it is, yeah.

[12:25] Quincy Brown: I'm excited for whatever is happening with Glenda running with her gaggle of workers behind her doing choreo.

[12:34] Kevin Bianchi: Bring back, bring back the loathing choreography.

[12:37] Quincy Brown: I would like a reprise.

[12:41] Kevin Bianchi: Yes.

[12:42] Quincy Brown: With their little clipboards.

[12:44] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah.

[12:45] Quincy Brown: I know Fanny and Shen Shen are going to plan the fuck out of that wedding.

[12:49] Kevin Bianchi: I also feel like we're seeing a lot of whacks in this trailer.

[12:53] Quincy Brown: We see Glenda whacking Elphaba in Catfight.

[12:55] Kevin Bianchi: And you also see Elphaba whacking a guard as she's landing from flight, which is intense.

[13:03] Quincy Brown: I am so excited to see all of the ways that she flies.

[13:07] Kevin Bianchi: Sure.

[13:08] Quincy Brown: Because we've seen her flying like she's on a skateboard.

[13:11] Kevin Bianchi: Flying like she's on a broom as we know it.

[13:13] Quincy Brown: Flying with it just in her hand.

[13:15] Kevin Bianchi: I think the flight vocabulary is going to be very cool.

[13:19] Quincy Brown: This is really exciting.

[13:20] Kevin Bianchi: This is an excellent trailer.

[13:21] Quincy Brown: Yeah.

[13:22] Kevin Bianchi: It makes me sad and excited and all of the feels.

[13:27] Quincy Brown: Yeah.

[13:28] Kevin Bianchi: I think it's great.

[13:29] Quincy Brown: Do you think we're getting scenes or featurettes or is this it until the movie?

[13:35] Kevin Bianchi: I feel like this is going to be it.

[13:37] Quincy Brown: I don't know.

[13:38] Kevin Bianchi: I feel like they gave us a lot last cycle.

[13:40] Quincy Brown: Maybe we'll get a little sneak peek at the new songs.

[13:47] Kevin Bianchi: It's already over.

[13:49] Quincy Brown: Ugh, depressing.

[13:51] Kevin Bianchi: God.

[13:55] Quincy Brown: Okay, what else?

[13:57] Kevin Bianchi: Well, I don't know. Are you allowed to talk at all about going to the thing?

[14:02] Quincy Brown: Yeah.

[14:03] Kevin Bianchi: I just can't talk details.

[14:05] Quincy Brown: Yeah. Why don't you tell me, Quincy, last week you went to a super cool thing, which I trust you to know how much you can say or not say about it. But why don't you tell me what you can?

[14:21] Quincy Brown: We got invited to the taping of the NBC special Wicked One Wonderful Night, I think it's called. Something like that. That's airing on November 6th.

[14:34] Kevin Bianchi: It was, I saw you earlier today and I told you that you really should have come.

[14:41] Quincy Brown: Yeah, I remember.

[14:43] Kevin Bianchi: It was probably, and I don't think I'm being hyperbolic, the best live show I've ever attended or experienced to date.

[14:55] Quincy Brown: It was so sensational. I cannot talk about specifics of what happened, but it's great. It's Ariana, Cynthia, some of the other movie cast performing live songs that just gooped and gagged me.

[15:17] Kevin Bianchi: And what was really cool is because it wasn't truly live, they were taping the special to air on NBC, the only other TV situation I have gone to is the Tony Awards, which is live-live. This was not. So we got to see this cast do songs multiple times, which was just thrilling.

[15:41] Quincy Brown: And we got to see them in between takes, which is just cool to see people of this caliber break down and chill. Something really magical that happened, which I think it's fine to talk about, is they would have breaks as they set up for the next song and they would play pop music and whatever. They played Thank U, Next, and the whole audience started singing Thank U, Next, and then Ariana came out and was genuinely like, stop, why are we doing this? And then everyone stood up and started singing Thank U, Next at her, and she was like, whatever, if you guys want to do this, and then walked away. And it was just like, that's a crazy moment.

[16:23] Kevin Bianchi: And in this era where we're all struggling to get tickets to Ariana Grande's concert, I almost got scammed out of $900 today for tickets to her concert. It was so cool to see her and Cynthia do their thing so close, so close and live. It's going to be amazing. As I was there, I was like, this is a once in a lifetime experience that I'm experiencing, and I'm so grateful to be here. Thank you, NBCUniversal. Everyone obviously should and will tune in to watch it. And I'm so happy that what happens in that show is going to be preserved for posterity on record. That's crazy to me.

[17:06] Quincy Brown: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[17:08] Kevin Bianchi: I also feel like I would imagine, you tell me if I'm right, that it probably gave a little bit of, or even more appreciation for how they filmed the movie. Like singing these songs multiple takes in a row.

[17:21] Quincy Brown: I have visions, almost like prophecies, of some of the action that happened as they were singing. And so it's like, I think it almost feels a little like first step in the Oscar for your consideration is like, look, they were doing this live. And they can do it live. Like to me, it was such a testament of like, these are performers with a capital P.

[17:50] Kevin Bianchi: Yes, who can do it and are happy to do it.

[17:55] Quincy Brown: Not even just singer, but because like a performer, like these are, I can't wait to watch it.

[18:01] Kevin Bianchi: I can't wait to watch it. It was really crazy. I wish you were there.

[18:04] Quincy Brown: I also did something really fun and mortifying beforehand. If that sees the light of day, it's going to be super, super, super mortifying for me.

[18:15] Kevin Bianchi: I don't want that for you, but I do want that for me a little bit.

[18:18] Quincy Brown: I wish you could have been there.

[18:19] Kevin Bianchi: I wish I could have been there too. But something tells me that between October 1st and November 30th, we're going to have plenty of things to go to together.

[18:31] Quincy Brown: May we all be so lucky.

[18:37] Kevin Bianchi: Okay, well, speaking of things that I wish you could have attended, last night I went to see Tim Murray's show, Witches at Joe's Pub. That's the second year that they're doing it there.

[18:48] Quincy Brown: So funny. It's basically, it's like comedy set with like parody songs interspersed. And it's all just about like being a little gay kid and like wanting to play witches instead of wanting to like play superheroes and how like first you're like obsessed with the Wizard of Oz and then you're obsessed with like, you know, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and then it's Wicked and then it's Ursula and then it's this, which is really fun.

[19:22] Kevin Bianchi: One of the songs in the show is Dr. Dillamond's Lament and it's all about being like the best character in the show, but nobody appreciating you. And then by the end of the song, he comes out as a faggot, a fag goat. It was really fun.

[19:39] Quincy Brown: And of course like...

[19:40] Kevin Bianchi: Is it an original song?

[19:41] Quincy Brown: Yeah, it's like a parody song. So it sounds like a song from Wicked, but it's, it's, yeah, but it was really fun. And then it ends with this really, you know, nice sentiment about like as gay people, as queer people, we like grow up and find our coven of witches. So it was very sweet. And it was a nice ease into spooky season and Wicked season.

[20:07] Kevin Bianchi: Does he do that Elphaba roulette thing?

[20:11] Quincy Brown: He did not do it last night, but he did talk about it. Tali was there. I learned after the fact.

[20:17] Kevin Bianchi: Oh really?

[20:18] Quincy Brown: Yeah.

[20:19] Kevin Bianchi: Aw.

[20:20] Quincy Brown: Danny Quadrino was there.

[20:21] Kevin Bianchi: Aw, the girls were out.

[20:23] Quincy Brown: Yeah, it was really great. And if they, if there's another performance of it at some point, we should go, especially now knowing that it's a little different than it was last time. It feels like maybe there's new surprises every time you go.

[20:37] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah. And like I said, that's a nice lead into Wicked month.

[20:41] Quincy Brown: Speaking of lead into Wicked month.

[20:43] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah.

[20:44] Quincy Brown: Today we went to a townhouse in the West Village.

[20:49] Kevin Bianchi: Yes, we sure did.

[20:51] Quincy Brown: That was decked out with Wicked movie merch and apparel to tour all of the upcoming Wicked movie to marketing, licensing, brand product promotions.

[21:06] Kevin Bianchi: Yes. And I genuinely had a lot of fun. I know it was definitely, I was like, what is this going to, is it just gonna be like shelves of stuff? No, it was literally like walking into the sentimental men clubhouse.

[21:22] Quincy Brown: Honestly, like if, if we had watched what happens live, it would look like this. It was like a three story townhouse, three stories.

[21:31] Kevin Bianchi: Well, I think there were more stories, but like the event was like three stories. It was like a living room, a kitchen, a kid's bedroom, a grownup bedroom, a bathroom, dining room, bar, dining room. It was very extensive.

[21:49] Quincy Brown: Yeah.

[21:50] Kevin Bianchi: And everywhere you look, there was just like Wicked movie merch from various brands. And, but it was like cool to see it all laid out.

[22:01] Quincy Brown: Yeah. You know, there was a guy named Ginger Minj who was very excited about all of the merch and it is like, oh yeah, there's a shit ton coming.

[22:09] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah. And there's a lot to, cause we talked to somebody there, um, who was like part of the activation, who was saying how last year they didn't focus on like lifestyle branding as much. Like it was a lot of apparel, um, and like cosmetic products. But this year there's like cooking wear and like flatware and China dog toys.

[22:35] Quincy Brown: And yeah. And like, uh, complete bar set or lacrosse set. And like, yeah, really like every brand you can think of any item in your house we saw today in either.

[22:47] Kevin Bianchi: What were the standouts for you?

[22:49] Quincy Brown: Okay. The chess board, hands down. It's a chess board of Wicked. One side.

[22:55] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah.

[22:56] Quincy Brown: One side. I think.

[22:57] Kevin Bianchi: I think.

[22:58] Quincy Brown: Or black and green. Maybe. Definitely. One side is them.

[23:05] Kevin Bianchi: The characters in their act one iterations or costumes.

[23:09] Quincy Brown: And then the other side is there. Act two. Um, Kevin clocked immediately. I'm one of the universal workers flag, but that was the fastest they had ever seen anyone clock that Kevin.

[23:19] Kevin Bianchi: Then I proceeded to spill his.

[23:21] Quincy Brown: I'll kill you.

[23:22] Kevin Bianchi: I'll kill you, Quincy.

[23:25] Quincy Brown: Of this very expensive West.

[23:29] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah.

[23:30] Quincy Brown: And that was a right around the time when you turned around and were like, I wish she would have come to that.

[23:34] Kevin Bianchi: Oh my God.

[23:39] Quincy Brown: Okay. What else?

[23:41] Kevin Bianchi: I also really liked. I also, I liked a lot of those clothes that we saw upstairs would wear a lot of them.

[23:52] Quincy Brown: Yeah.

[23:53] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah. I liked all the water bottles and stuff. I love a water bottle.

[23:58] Quincy Brown: I can't wait for the Starbucks cups to drop this year. Presumably if they dropped last year, I got one the morning of the premiere last year in LA.

[24:10] Kevin Bianchi: I also loved the China a lot. If I was in a different phase of life, I would have bought the table China.

[24:20] Quincy Brown: Charger plates and actual plates that like aren't overtly wicked.

[24:25] Kevin Bianchi: Right.

[24:26] Quincy Brown: They're kind of just like art deco looking, but kind of wizardy.

[24:30] Kevin Bianchi: If you really look at it hard, I loved the bar set, especially the hot air balloon ice bucket.

[24:36] Quincy Brown: Yeah.

[24:37] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah. That was really cool.

[24:39] Quincy Brown: Yeah. The pink and green kind of like crystal like tumblers were really gorgeous.

[24:45] Kevin Bianchi: That absolute bottle.

[24:49] Quincy Brown: You swipe up, it turns pink, you swipe down, it turns green.

[24:53] Kevin Bianchi: Okay.

[24:54] Quincy Brown: Glenda.

[24:55] Kevin Bianchi: My on espresso martini was great.

[24:58] Quincy Brown: It was just, they really built a beautiful environment for like anyone who loves a wicked to just feel like you walk in and you're just like, ah, wicked was playing on the TV.

[25:08] Kevin Bianchi: Yes. The karaoke tracks were pumping through the, they had grimmeries out. The bathroom were green and pink lights. Like, yeah, we were like, what's like special about these bathrooms? And they're like nothing. It's just, we just put pink lights in there.

[25:23] Quincy Brown: It was really cool. It was different than like anything else we've ever gotten to do totally related to the show. And we got goodie bags on the way.

[25:36] Kevin Bianchi: I literally went back to the office and gave everything away to my coworkers.

[25:41] Quincy Brown: So you're going to have to, okay.

[25:43] Kevin Bianchi: I will give us the what's in my bag.

[25:46] Quincy Brown: Okay. So can I start with the three things that are still in my bag and then you do that? And I'll do the rest.

[25:51] Kevin Bianchi: Okay.

[25:53] Quincy Brown: First is the cherry blossom bubble, the loose, but candle shout out to ginger. I know she's going to light this up and sing define gravity into a hairbrush. She's saying such praises of this. I can't wait to light it in my apartment. It smells really good.

[26:10] Kevin Bianchi: Next.

[26:12] Quincy Brown: Our alpha and Glenda bookmarks. The fuck am I going to do with two bookmarks?

[26:18] Kevin Bianchi: Well, I'm on a reading journey, so you're reading actual books.

[26:22] Quincy Brown: We talked about this. I'm pretty sure in the episode I just edited for this podcast, I said, I'm reading and you said, I'm more into audio books. And I said, see, I'm nervous. If I read, listen to...

[26:27] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, that's right. That's right.

[26:30] Quincy Brown: Care about me.

[26:32] Kevin Bianchi: So bookmarks, we had this, which I thought was alphabet slime. And so I opened it and shoved my fingers in only to find out that it's a body scrub.

[26:48] Quincy Brown: Oh wait, I don't have that.

[26:49] Kevin Bianchi: It's a lush body scrub. You might, it might be tucked away.

[26:54] Quincy Brown: So no, I have a different lush product.

[26:56] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, okay.

[26:58] Quincy Brown: And then the bag itself is lug and mines has a little E which hat tag. Mine has a little G butterfly.

[27:04] Kevin Bianchi: Okay. You take us through.

[27:10] Quincy Brown: Okay. So then the rest of the items are, do you want my bookmarks since you're on such a journey for all the books?

[27:20] Kevin Bianchi: I'm reading.

[27:21] Quincy Brown: Yeah. Um, we, we have the other half lip balm set. You give one to your bestie and keep one for yourself. So since I heard that you already gave yours away, I guess I'll find someone else to give my green lip balm to.

[27:38] Kevin Bianchi: I gave both.

[27:39] Quincy Brown: Um, we have this game for Nintendo switch. So I think probably my niece will like this or something. I walked up to someone at work. I go, do you have a Nintendo switch? He goes, yeah, I go, I have a gift for you.

[27:55] Kevin Bianchi: Um, we have, my lush product is, uh, it's got Jeff Goldblum on it. Um, the wise and wonderful, wait, the wise and magnificent wizard shower gel.

[28:07] Quincy Brown: Look at Jeff Goldblum while I'm in the shower.

[28:10] Kevin Bianchi: That's your fantasy.

[28:12] Quincy Brown: Um, we, we have a full line of Kristen S hair products.

[28:24] Kevin Bianchi: That's how I started to give stuff away. Cause my coworkers like, what'd you get? And the first thing that I pulled out was a shampoo and conditioner. And she goes, Oh my God, that's the brand I use. And then I'm standing there being like, well, I'm not, I was like, do you want, well, I'm glad she said something cause I wasn't going to.

[28:44] Quincy Brown: Um, we also have a more hair product.

[28:48] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, you got more hair product than me.

[28:51] Quincy Brown: Well, that's good.

[28:53] Kevin Bianchi: Um, I also got, um, the REM lip plump, uh, pumping lip gloss in Poppy. I was going to wear it for the episode, but I forgot.

[29:06] Quincy Brown: Oh, you feel like what Connor would wear that.

[29:09] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah, he will. I'm sure. I'm, I'm sure. I would almost bet money on it.

[29:16] Quincy Brown: Um, what is the actual, can you take it out of the box?

[29:19] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah, it's cute.

[29:22] Quincy Brown: This is what it looks like.

[29:24] Kevin Bianchi: I know this unboxing.

[29:26] Quincy Brown: Cute.

[29:27] Kevin Bianchi: REM got a little Poppy.

[29:29] Quincy Brown: Put it on.

[29:30] Kevin Bianchi: Is that the kind that tingles?

[29:32] Quincy Brown: No, you're a make fun of me. You're like, put it on Kevin.

[29:36] Kevin Bianchi: Put it on.

[29:37] Quincy Brown: Put it on.

[29:38] Kevin Bianchi: We got to try out the product.

[29:40] Quincy Brown: Oh my God. Okay. I'll put it on. You keep talking while I do this.

[29:44] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, it's a squeezy thing. And yes, I think pumping mean it tingles.

[29:48] Quincy Brown: Yes. It's going to look like this.

[29:50] Kevin Bianchi: I feel like I'm that girl in the devil wears product.

[30:02] Quincy Brown: Thanks for this ruptured.

[30:06] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, you're going to get it.

[30:07] Quincy Brown: Get it wet.

[30:10] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, okay.

[30:12] Quincy Brown: Slay.

[30:24] Kevin Bianchi: Is it gorge?

[30:25] Quincy Brown: It's cute.

[30:27] Kevin Bianchi: No tingle.

[30:28] Quincy Brown: No, I feel a little something now.

[30:31] Kevin Bianchi: Okay.

[30:32] Quincy Brown: Yeah, I'll give it a minute.

[30:34] Kevin Bianchi: I like it.

[30:35] Quincy Brown: It is. I feel like there's probably, it's probably more pigmented further down. Like I think I probably got an unmixed dose of it, but so yeah, this is it.

[30:49] Kevin Bianchi: Cute.

[30:50] Quincy Brown: Thanks.

[30:51] Kevin Bianchi: Sorry.

[30:53] Quincy Brown: Wow. I feel so pretty now. Let's keep talking.

[30:58] Kevin Bianchi: Okay. What else?

[31:00] Quincy Brown: Oh, I think that's it.

[31:02] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, and a bracelet. That's his dream on us, which like, I don't even know if they say the word dream and mindset. Own your power. It is the colors of like her.

[31:12] Quincy Brown: Thank goodness dress.

[31:15] Kevin Bianchi: Oh, all your dreams come true. Happy. I'm excited to have this bag.

[31:19] Quincy Brown: Me too.

[31:21] Kevin Bianchi: It's nice. It stands up on its own. Like it's got these.

[31:26] Quincy Brown: It's a good beach bag.

[31:27] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah. Um, so that was a really fun thing to go to. So thank you for inviting us. Super cool.

[31:35] Quincy Brown: Thank you. Universal. I can't wait to wash my hair with my Elphaba shampoo and my Glinda condition.

[31:41] Kevin Bianchi: Your newly cut hair.

[31:43] Quincy Brown: My newly cut hair.

[31:44] Kevin Bianchi: You're fixated on it, which everyone is obsessed.

[31:46] Quincy Brown: I'm obsessed.

[31:47] Kevin Bianchi: You waited with it.

[31:50] Quincy Brown: No, literally Quincy Quincy's like in another state. And he texts me. He's like, everyone at this party is talking about your haircut. Mind you, you are the only person I knew at that party.

[32:02] Kevin Bianchi: No one actually knows.

[32:03] Quincy Brown: No one actually. And everyone consensus is thank God.

[32:10] Kevin Bianchi: Everyone close to me in my life.

[32:13] Quincy Brown: Couldn't be happier.

[32:15] Kevin Bianchi: Look at now.

[32:18] Quincy Brown: I feel like it's getting pinker as it dries.

[32:23] Kevin Bianchi: Get the haircut.

[32:27] Quincy Brown: Yeah. I mean, that's the update guys.

[32:30] Kevin Bianchi: That's the update.

[32:32] Quincy Brown: Oh, well, and coming up wicked 22nd anniversary. I don't know if there's anything we can talk about yet, but keep your eyes peeled.

[32:39] Kevin Bianchi: You know, we are always.

[32:46] Quincy Brown: Yes. And that was all like everyone at the LA thing was very excited about the wicked Broadway anniversary. So the crossover is crossovering and we can't wait.

[32:57] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah. To celebrate.

[32:59] Quincy Brown: It's a big year for wicked overall. I'm seeing wicked in Madrid, a non replica production in a couple of weeks.

[33:07] Kevin Bianchi: Yeah.

[33:09] Quincy Brown: In October. Yeah, I think I'm flying out on like October 17th ish. I still need to book it.

[33:15] Kevin Bianchi: And we hope to talk to you guys soon.

[33:19] Quincy Brown: We will talk to you guys.

[33:21] Kevin Bianchi: You've been listening to sentimental man. If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a rating and a review on whatever platform you're using to listen. And to be sure you never miss a new episode, subscribe on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever else you get your podcasts. If you're looking for a way to support the pod, you should join us on Patreon at patrion.com slash sent men pod. Patreon members get early releases, extended episodes, and more exclusive content. Special thanks to Julia DeMarzo and Michaela Reynolds for our logo design and key art photography to get in touch. Find us on Tik TOK, Instagram, or X at sent men pod, or shoot us an email at sent men pod at gmail.com till next time. I'm Quincy.

[34:06] Kevin Bianchi: And I'm Kevin.