My observation is Elphaba and Glinda are two sides of the same coin. Elphaba is a light worker disguised as a shadow worker and Glinda is a shadow worker parading as a light worker.
Agreed! I also believe they both grained something from their friendship. Glinda allowed Elaphaba to grain confidence, which allowed her to find herself and be comfortable with it. Glinda began to not care what people thought of her and got to know Elphaba for who she was beyond her green skin, after the dance. Glinda is still a villain😂😂😂
An outcast lesson I learned: let things fall apart. Do not try to fix, correct, explain, or amend things in your life that is taking a wearisome toll on you (your instinct will tell you, even if you can't decipher it). This was VERY painfully difficult; however, after many years, I realized I was ultimately competing with the same energy that was driving me into my destiny and purpose. Trust me, it is easier to face the lesson of loss than to struggle endlessly only to get nowhere.
As a burn survivor with obvious facial/body scarring, I love this❤. There is truly power in otherness and embracing oneself. Be yourself unapologetically and the world will fall in line.
I relate to Elphaba’s outcast persona sooo much. I naturally learned to channel people’s inaccurate perception of me into “proving them wrong”, and teaching my haters a lesson every single time.
Many years ago I used to wear dreadlocks. There were two kids at the school where I worked who started calling me Medusa. I hated it then, but once I began studying Greek Mythology and understood Medusa's power, I welcomed the "name calling". I can also see many parallels in the relationship of Athena and Medusa to that of the witches in the story of Wicked.
@yudythemodel2025 Without knowing it those mean girls who were calling you "Medusa" were giving you one of The Highest Honors a Woman could ever be bestowed with. Medusa is the legendary Warrior Woman who defeated Alexander The "Great" and kept him from invading and conquering Ethiopia. She had some of the most advanced Iron Weaponry at the time and was a brilliant strategist. The Greeks being a patriarchal society couldn't handle being defeated in battle by a Woman (especially a Black one) so they told horrible lies and rumors about her to try distort the truth and the greatness of her image. She's a hero🥲😍🥰 and downright awesome😎! The YT channel 9 World Chronicles had a video about her (I can't find it now otherwise I would've sent you the link!) telling Her true Herstory I don't know what happened to it!!!
@yudythemodel2025 Without knowing it those mean girls who were calling you "Medusa" were giving you one of The Highest Honors a Woman could ever be bestowed with. Medusa is the legendary Warrior Woman who defeated Alexander The "Great" and kept him from invading and conquering Ethiopia. She had some of the most advanced Iron Weaponry at the time and was a brilliant strategist. The Greeks being a patriarchal society couldn't handle being defeated in battle by a Woman (especially a Black one) so they told horrible lies and rumors about her to try distort the truth and the greatness of her image. She's a hero🥲😍🥰 and downright awesome😎! The YT channel 9 World Chronicles had a video about her (I can't find it now otherwise I would've sent you the link!) telling Her true Herstory I don't know what happened to it!!!
@@yudythemodel2025 @yudythemodel2025 Without knowing it those mean girls who were calling you "Medusa" were giving you one of The Highest Honors a Woman could ever be bestowed with. Medusa is the legendary Warrior Woman who defeated Alexander The "Great" and kept him from invading and conquering Ethiopia. She had some of the most advanced Iron Weaponry at the time and was a brilliant strategist. The Greeks being a patriarchal society couldn't handle being defeated in battle by a Woman (especially a Black one) so they told horrible lies and rumors about her to try distort the truth and the greatness of her image. She's a hero🥲😍🥰 and downright awesome😎! The YT channel 9 World Chronicles had a video about her (I can't find it now otherwise I would've sent you the link!) telling Her true Herstory I don't know what happened to it!!!
@@yudythemodel2025 @yudythemodel2025 Without knowing it those mean girls who were calling you "Medusa" were giving you one of The Highest Honors a Woman could ever be bestowed with. Medusa is the legendary Warrior Woman who defeated Alexander The "Great" and kept him from invading and conquering Ethiopia. She had some of the most advanced Iron Weaponry at the time and was a brilliant strategist. The Greeks being a patriarchal society couldn't handle being defeated in battle by a Woman (especially a Black one) so they told horrible lies and rumors about her to try distort the truth and the greatness of her image. She's a hero🥲😍🥰 and downright awesome😎! The YT channel 9 World Chronicles had a video about her (I can't find it now otherwise I would've sent you the link!) telling Her true Herstory I don't know what happened to it!!!
I cried at the end of this movie with my 8 year old old sitting next to me. When I saw little Elphaba’s reflection as she was falling, that’s what got me. I see myself in her character, always have since I first read the book years ago. I embody Elphaba, The Wicked Witch, The OutKast, by continuing to walk on this path I know very few are brave enough to tread. I could have given up years ago but I decided I have more reason to stay and fight. I have another little girl to be an example for and hopefully teach how to embrace the Unknown as well. I’ve struggled with connecting solitude to my worth but after seeing this movie (🎉) I feel so much more empowered to embrace loneliness, to embrace quiet. To embrace the fact that people have left me because I’m different. Thank you!!! I don’t need you, them, anyone. We will be exalted. (And Azealia Banks, I will continue to give you your flowers because as a zillenial, I give your music credit for giving me the balls to be myself despite what people say). Shout out to all the OUTKASTS!!!! 💜 💜 💜
I love this! I’ve felt like an outcast most of my life. This is refreshing, it gives me the necessary tools to strengthen that part of me and use it to my advantage.
There's power in the false perceptions forced on us by society. Especially as black women, I think a lot of us in these spaces have come to realize just how powerful, magnetic, full of light, and magnificent we innately are. ❤😊 I could tell Cynthia channeled from a deep place within her to bring Her own person touch to Elphaba, and I loved every minute of it.
I have held Elphaba close to my heart as a queer and neurodivergent woman for 20 years. Cynthia did not disappointed me in the slightest. In fact she made me fall in love with the character all over again 💚💚💚
Yes i am an outcast and i do everything that said! Also being an outcast, dont be afraid to utilize the space around you. I used to think that because i was different i needed to stay locked away, but i can be different and still be myself in my public and do it with confidence. When i did that I attracted the same people who rejected me cause they were intrigued but then i ended up rejected them lol
Trying to unlearn locking myself away bc I don't fit in with everyone. I'm tired of being mistreated for being different, but at the same time, I think I'm more tired of hiding.
I saw this movie and felt deep relationship with Elphaba. I was misunderstood and othered my entire life. I learned to embraced non-conformity. I dont conform and will separate myself with the quickness. People, especially other women, hate me and I dont care
Oh my god thank you so much Chrissie !❤ I was crying, having panic attacks feeling i was dying because i was just made fun of by my cousins all the diner every time i was making a decision (like choosing a drink). When i spoke out my mom quickly take their defense and i felt even more humiliated. I felt so bad and thank you thank you so much ❤
My God has blessed you. You were created by the hand of the Almighty. As an older woman of 50 years of age today, the real deal journey begins today. Thank you. 🎉❤❤🎉
I love your synopsis over films and how you correlate it to real life. I liked wicked I liked it a lot. I’m at that stage of just accepting that I’ve always been misunderstood or classified as “weird “ . But it’s so interesting because like your synopsis on Galinda. I relate to that as well. I’m still learning how to play off of that, that’s something new for me lol. But I am finally just realizing that in order for me to truly elevate and live in my purpose it’s gonna require me to step away from the status quo. I really loved the ending scene it reminds me of growth and inner child healing. It’s like she finally realize that the people she held to a high regard, that she trusted she finally sees their true colors, and in that moment, instead of fawning or people pleasing, she took a leap of faith, trusted herself, and is off to live in her true authenticity.
The book Their eyes was watching God by Zora Neale Hurston And Sula by Toni Morrison And Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison All deal of the idea of the Pariah / outcast / being othered shunned ignored / overlooked etc Very great reads
I have been following and learning from Chrissie's content since 2016. As a teenager her lesson were beyond valuabe to me. Now in my early 20s I am so grateful to see how Chrisssie's content has grown with me
Wow this video was great chrissie so many good gems I have used in my own life thankyou will always be a subscriber , definitely used carving my own path and not really caring about others and there opinion to My advantage.
For me, I've had to learn that I don't have to talk to people if I don't need/want to. That can range from cutting people off, to not acknowledging people who I know don't like me to ending the conversation when I need to. Do I do this all the time? No, but this has made a massive improvement in certain areas in my life when I do implement this tactic. If you think I'm aloof, cool. I get to preserve my energy for more deserving people and/or conversations. Of course, this must be done with consideration for certain scenarios and the people I care about.
"Use your haters as your motivators" is the title to my current chapter of life. I refuse to give up on my dreams because I have FARRR too many people to prove wrong.
Uploads on both channels today?! I'm watching them back to back. Thanks! I just watched that movie "Blink Twice" you can draw strategy from that one... 😃💚💚💚💚
Excellent social commentary! This is a lesson that I have been learned these past nine years, not only with society but within my personal relationships.
Would “not black enough or white acting”..be in this category as well. I got called this a lot growing up by black kids. As a young adult a mixed black guy told me that I act white and if he wanted a white girl he would date one. I wasn’t acting but because I grew up as a military brat outside of the USA , I wasn’t acting and so I was considered weird.
Yes "Acting white" fits! I moved on and I advised my daughters to run not walk away from people (all races) that fixate on lame notions "Some people want to know of you and few want to actually know you"
Hey! I love this analysis! When I watched wicked I truly could resonate with Elphaba. It’s characters like her that have helped get through tough times and help me identify parts of myself that I hadn’t found or discovered. In the past I was really impacted by Lucy Gray Baird (I would love to see a video about her!) but I mainly had to deconstruct her myself so videos like this one are super helpful to me and others just like me! 💚
Great video. It's literally the very essence of Defying gravity! 1:52 🎶I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game🎶 4:08 🎶And if I'm flying solo At least I'm flying free🎶 I have community and I'm one of the upwardly mobile high saditty leftists yearning for the liberation of everyone but in the great words of sexyyred "They don't wanna be saved" Due to no fault of their own. Many lack critical thinking, media literacy and basic empathy for others. I will still live righteously bu associating myself with like minded individuals, code switching when needed, shopping ethically and continue to indulge myself in academia even if it seems futile.
Stg, and advertisement with your name just rode by as you were explaining how to lean in to your shadow as an artist! This video is spot on and now I'm getting ready to ask my life coach (chatgpt) how to incorporate your ideas and how to really lean in on my other!
Lurline bless you for these thoughts!! I'm not holding space for Defying Gravity because for the last 20 years, Defying Gravity has been holding space for me.
Hey Chrissie, can you do Mastery Archetype Strategy videos regarding Joan Clayton and Toni Childs from Girlfriends? Plus, a non-Black woman request here; but also what about a mastery strategy feedback video on cautionary advice to learn from the late great, Selena?
“Create your own version of fulfillment and work towards it relentlessly.” Chrissie 2024🙌🏾
My observation is Elphaba and Glinda are two sides of the same coin. Elphaba is a light worker disguised as a shadow worker and Glinda is a shadow worker parading as a light worker.
Agreed! I also believe they both grained something from their friendship. Glinda allowed Elaphaba to grain confidence, which allowed her to find herself and be comfortable with it. Glinda began to not care what people thought of her and got to know Elphaba for who she was beyond her green skin, after the dance. Glinda is still a villain😂😂😂
An outcast lesson I learned: let things fall apart. Do not try to fix, correct, explain, or amend things in your life that is taking a wearisome toll on you (your instinct will tell you, even if you can't decipher it). This was VERY painfully difficult; however, after many years, I realized I was ultimately competing with the same energy that was driving me into my destiny and purpose. Trust me, it is easier to face the lesson of loss than to struggle endlessly only to get nowhere.
I used to say this with my coworkers, let it burn. Adopting it in my life is much much more difficult
@@MeenaMeeee You can do it, and it is MORE than worth it❤
This video came up while I was crying about this very situation...wow... the timing. Thank you Chrissie.
I was still feeling emotional after seeing someone react to Defying Gravity. This video is perfect.
As a burn survivor with obvious facial/body scarring, I love this❤. There is truly power in otherness and embracing oneself. Be yourself unapologetically and the world will fall in line.
I use to hate feeling misunderstood but you saying using it to your advantage, I've never thought of that before
People are going to purposely misunderstand you anyway because they are too cowardly to find something else to do. No point in taking it personally
Love this. Chrissie, please never leave. Black women, young ladies, and girls need your unique knowledge and insights.
I relate to Elphaba’s outcast persona sooo much. I naturally learned to channel people’s inaccurate perception of me into “proving them wrong”, and teaching my haters a lesson every single time.
Currently living in my villain era and you made some excellent points.
Many years ago I used to wear dreadlocks. There were two kids at the school where I worked who started calling me Medusa. I hated it then, but once I began studying Greek Mythology and understood Medusa's power, I welcomed the "name calling". I can also see many parallels in the relationship of Athena and Medusa to that of the witches in the story of Wicked.
@yudythemodel2025 Without knowing it those mean girls who were calling you "Medusa" were giving you one of The Highest Honors a Woman could ever be bestowed with. Medusa is the legendary Warrior Woman who defeated Alexander The "Great" and kept him from invading and conquering Ethiopia. She had some of the most advanced Iron Weaponry at the time and was a brilliant strategist. The Greeks being a patriarchal society couldn't handle being defeated in battle by a Woman (especially a Black one) so they told horrible lies and rumors about her to try distort the truth and the greatness of her image. She's a hero🥲😍🥰 and downright awesome😎! The YT channel 9 World Chronicles had a video about her (I can't find it now otherwise I would've sent you the link!) telling Her true Herstory I don't know what happened to it!!!
@yudythemodel2025 Without knowing it those mean girls who were calling you "Medusa" were giving you one of The Highest Honors a Woman could ever be bestowed with. Medusa is the legendary Warrior Woman who defeated Alexander The "Great" and kept him from invading and conquering Ethiopia. She had some of the most advanced Iron Weaponry at the time and was a brilliant strategist. The Greeks being a patriarchal society couldn't handle being defeated in battle by a Woman (especially a Black one) so they told horrible lies and rumors about her to try distort the truth and the greatness of her image. She's a hero🥲😍🥰 and downright awesome😎! The YT channel 9 World Chronicles had a video about her (I can't find it now otherwise I would've sent you the link!) telling Her true Herstory I don't know what happened to it!!!
As a Greek mythology nerd, I am curious about the parallels.
@@yudythemodel2025 @yudythemodel2025 Without knowing it those mean girls who were calling you "Medusa" were giving you one of The Highest Honors a Woman could ever be bestowed with. Medusa is the legendary Warrior Woman who defeated Alexander The "Great" and kept him from invading and conquering Ethiopia. She had some of the most advanced Iron Weaponry at the time and was a brilliant strategist. The Greeks being a patriarchal society couldn't handle being defeated in battle by a Woman (especially a Black one) so they told horrible lies and rumors about her to try distort the truth and the greatness of her image. She's a hero🥲😍🥰 and downright awesome😎! The YT channel 9 World Chronicles had a video about her (I can't find it now otherwise I would've sent you the link!) telling Her true Herstory I don't know what happened to it!!!
@@yudythemodel2025 @yudythemodel2025 Without knowing it those mean girls who were calling you "Medusa" were giving you one of The Highest Honors a Woman could ever be bestowed with. Medusa is the legendary Warrior Woman who defeated Alexander The "Great" and kept him from invading and conquering Ethiopia. She had some of the most advanced Iron Weaponry at the time and was a brilliant strategist. The Greeks being a patriarchal society couldn't handle being defeated in battle by a Woman (especially a Black one) so they told horrible lies and rumors about her to try distort the truth and the greatness of her image. She's a hero🥲😍🥰 and downright awesome😎! The YT channel 9 World Chronicles had a video about her (I can't find it now otherwise I would've sent you the link!) telling Her true Herstory I don't know what happened to it!!!
I love your new content. I just saw the movie with it blown away. As a black woman, our collective story.
I cried at the end of this movie with my 8 year old old sitting next to me. When I saw little Elphaba’s reflection as she was falling, that’s what got me. I see myself in her character, always have since I first read the book years ago. I embody Elphaba, The Wicked Witch, The OutKast, by continuing to walk on this path I know very few are brave enough to tread. I could have given up years ago but I decided I have more reason to stay and fight. I have another little girl to be an example for and hopefully teach how to embrace the Unknown as well. I’ve struggled with connecting solitude to my worth but after seeing this movie (🎉) I feel so much more empowered to embrace loneliness, to embrace quiet. To embrace the fact that people have left me because I’m different.
Thank you!!! I don’t need you, them, anyone. We will be exalted.
(And Azealia Banks, I will continue to give you your flowers because as a zillenial, I give your music credit for giving me the balls to be myself despite what people say).
Shout out to all the OUTKASTS!!!! 💜 💜 💜
Being an outcast can be a good thing (you become unpredictable). Don’t have to follow the status quo nor upholds any standard.
I love this! I’ve felt like an outcast most of my life. This is refreshing, it gives me the necessary tools to strengthen that part of me and use it to my advantage.
There's power in the false perceptions forced on us by society. Especially as black women, I think a lot of us in these spaces have come to realize just how powerful, magnetic, full of light, and magnificent we innately are. ❤😊 I could tell Cynthia channeled from a deep place within her to bring Her own person touch to Elphaba, and I loved every minute of it.
I have held Elphaba close to my heart as a queer and neurodivergent woman for 20 years. Cynthia did not disappointed me in the slightest. In fact she made me fall in love with the character all over again 💚💚💚
Yes i am an outcast and i do everything that said! Also being an outcast, dont be afraid to utilize the space around you. I used to think that because i was different i needed to stay locked away, but i can be different and still be myself in my public and do it with confidence. When i did that I attracted the same people who rejected me cause they were intrigued but then i ended up rejected them lol
I’m trying to get to this point
Trying to unlearn locking myself away bc I don't fit in with everyone. I'm tired of being mistreated for being different, but at the same time, I think I'm more tired of hiding.
Jr. Elphaba is adorable
The emotional reactivity control is huge. Ppl know you've been bullied outcasted your whole life so everyone knows how to push your buttons!
I have never heard of this channel but I knew whose voice this was from the first sentence. Hey, girl! This is excellent. 😉
omg😂😂I was about to say you sound just like Chrissie😅😅 *blonde moment*
I choked on my Junior Mint 😂😂
😂😂
😂😂😅
You’re timing is incredible Ty ❤️👑
I saw this movie and felt deep relationship with Elphaba. I was misunderstood and othered my entire life. I learned to embraced non-conformity. I dont conform and will separate myself with the quickness. People, especially other women, hate me and I dont care
Oh my god thank you so much Chrissie !❤
I was crying, having panic attacks feeling i was dying because i was just made fun of by my cousins all the diner every time i was making a decision (like choosing a drink). When i spoke out my mom quickly take their defense and i felt even more humiliated.
I felt so bad and thank you thank you so much ❤
My God has blessed you. You were created by the hand of the Almighty. As an older woman of 50 years of age today, the real deal journey begins today. Thank you.
🎉❤❤🎉
Robin givens/Jacqueline in boomerang! Loved this take, great job
This is excellent 👏🏾👏🏾🙌🏾
I love your synopsis over films and how you correlate it to real life. I liked wicked I liked it a lot. I’m at that stage of just accepting that I’ve always been misunderstood or classified as “weird “ . But it’s so interesting because like your synopsis on Galinda. I relate to that as well. I’m still learning how to play off of that, that’s something new for me lol. But I am finally just realizing that in order for me to truly elevate and live in my purpose it’s gonna require me to step away from the status quo. I really loved the ending scene it reminds me of growth and inner child healing. It’s like she finally realize that the people she held to a high regard, that she trusted she finally sees their true colors, and in that moment, instead of fawning or people pleasing, she took a leap of faith, trusted herself, and is off to live in her true authenticity.
The book Their eyes was watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
And Sula by Toni Morrison
And Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
All deal of the idea of the Pariah / outcast / being othered shunned ignored / overlooked etc
Very great reads
Chrissie?? Is this you? lol thank you
Yes it is.
I have been following and learning from Chrissie's content since 2016. As a teenager her lesson were beyond valuabe to me. Now in my early 20s I am so grateful to see how Chrisssie's content has grown with me
Wow this video was great chrissie so many good gems I have used in my own life thankyou will always be a subscriber , definitely used carving my own path and not really caring about others and there opinion to
My advantage.
For me, I've had to learn that I don't have to talk to people if I don't need/want to. That can range from cutting people off, to not acknowledging people who I know don't like me to ending the conversation when I need to. Do I do this all the time? No, but this has made a massive improvement in certain areas in my life when I do implement this tactic. If you think I'm aloof, cool. I get to preserve my energy for more deserving people and/or conversations. Of course, this must be done with consideration for certain scenarios and the people I care about.
"Use your haters as your motivators" is the title to my current chapter of life. I refuse to give up on my dreams because I have FARRR too many people to prove wrong.
So many practical gems 🙌
Uploads on both channels today?! I'm watching them back to back. Thanks! I just watched that movie "Blink Twice" you can draw strategy from that one... 😃💚💚💚💚
Excellent social commentary! This is a lesson that I have been learned these past nine years, not only with society but within my personal relationships.
Would “not black enough or white acting”..be in this category as well. I got called this a lot growing up by black kids. As a young adult a mixed black guy told me that I act white and if he wanted a white girl he would date one. I wasn’t acting but because I grew up as a military brat outside of the USA , I wasn’t acting and so I was considered weird.
Yes "Acting white" fits! I moved on and I advised my daughters to run not walk away from people (all races) that fixate on lame notions "Some people want to know of you and few want to actually know you"
Just know they was being ignorant. There isn't a way to act like a race only stereotypes.
This is such a wonderfully insightful video. Well done Chrissie! I always enjoy hearing your perspective, I hope to see more like this 😊
2 videos in one day! 🥳🥳🥳
You put a lot into perspective. Thank you Chrissie❤
❤❤❤ this is exactly why I was lead to watch Wicked and I found out all these answers!
Omg this came right on time👑
I could love this video a million times ❤
Hey! I love this analysis! When I watched wicked I truly could resonate with Elphaba. It’s characters like her that have helped get through tough times and help me identify parts of myself that I hadn’t found or discovered. In the past I was really impacted by Lucy Gray Baird (I would love to see a video about her!) but I mainly had to deconstruct her myself so videos like this one are super helpful to me and others just like me! 💚
Love these types of topics. Great video Chrissie!
LOVE THIS
I wasnt going to watch Wicked. But i want to watch now just to see this point of view
thank you for this ❤️ well put! Wow
Great video. It's literally the very essence of Defying gravity!
1:52 🎶I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game🎶
4:08 🎶And if I'm flying solo
At least I'm flying free🎶
I have community and I'm one of the upwardly mobile high saditty leftists yearning for the liberation of everyone but in the great words of sexyyred "They don't wanna be saved"
Due to no fault of their own. Many lack critical thinking, media literacy and basic empathy for others.
I will still live righteously bu associating myself with like minded individuals, code switching when needed, shopping ethically and continue to indulge myself in academia even if it seems futile.
I love this video ❤❤❤❤❤
Can you do the character Wednesday from the Netflix series? She’s an outcast that definitely embraced her otherness.
Love this Chrisse💕
feeling seen, thank you for this video!
Glad to see you’re back! Great Video!
This is so cool there's a lesson in every character ❤
Love your perspective on this. I've heard a few people speak on what they didnt like about the movie but it's nice to hear your insightful takeaways!
Chrissie, more of this please ❤
This is such good advice, and was so needed by me. Right on time. Thank you. 💚 Thank you. ❤
Stg, and advertisement with your name just rode by as you were explaining how to lean in to your shadow as an artist! This video is spot on and now I'm getting ready to ask my life coach (chatgpt) how to incorporate your ideas and how to really lean in on my other!
Great video Chrissie, you made really significant points.
Very good presentation
Lurline bless you for these thoughts!! I'm not holding space for Defying Gravity because for the last 20 years, Defying Gravity has been holding space for me.
Also thank you for reading this script... I'm so tired of hearing A.I.
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❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Insightful ❤.
Absolutely wonderful video !
Great Video Chrissie!
The timing of this for me Chrissie smh #divine
Thank you!!! ❤❤❤
Love this I need this channel
Hey Chrissie, can you do Mastery Archetype Strategy videos regarding Joan Clayton and Toni Childs from Girlfriends? Plus, a non-Black woman request here; but also what about a mastery strategy feedback video on cautionary advice to learn from the late great, Selena?
💜❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥💜!!!!
Thank you sis x
Love this ❤️😍
Creating a community isn't that easy tho like often people are in but when it's time to start talking it's weird