I'm looking forward to this part. This is something about this part that I love, right? It's so inspiring. This is the part where there's that little conversation of, no, no, you know, she's not the one that you want, like, I'm the one, I'm the one. It's me, it's me, and then that nice long it's me. And so she says, so if you care to find me, look to the western sky. As someone told me, lately, everyone deserves the chance to fly. And if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free. To those who ground me, take a message back from me, tell them how I am defying gravity. I'm flying high, defying gravity, and soon I'll match them in renown. The reason why I find this so inspiring is she's obviously off on her on her broom, and saying, like, if you care to find me, look to the western star. Now, for me, this is very relatable, because I live in Western Australia. Well, I'm in Melbourne currently, but Western Australia is my home, and it's a very different world than speech pathology. That's what I've learned from now living in Melbourne. And so being in Western Australia, I didn't realize how disconnected I was from the beast that is SPA coming here. You can really feel its presence and its control. And in WA it's kind of, it doesn't really have a presence. So for me, look to the western side. It's kind of like me personally, that's where I am. If you need me, I'll be over there doing my own thing, but you know, Fix SLP, it'll be this is where we are, right? We're on Instagram, we have a podcast, right? So this is where to find us. As someone told me, lately, everyone deserves a chance to fly. That feeling of, okay, I might be free now. I might be flying. I'm very lucky in that I have a hospital job that it doesn't require certification. Other people are lucky that they have a hospital job or a department of education in a school they don't require it. But for a lot of people now, the majority of the work in speech pathology is in the community, working in the disability sector, using NDIS funds. And for a lot of people, that opportunity to fly, like us, to not be a part of Spa just isn't possible. If you're a new grad and you want a job, the job you're going to get is in the community doing Medicare, private health and NDIS related work. So this feeling of, everyone deserves the chance to fly like hoping that everyone, knowing that not everyone can do that right now, but hoping that everyone gets that chance in the future. And that feeling of, if I'm flying solo, at least, I'm flying free, that kind of liberation of, I know I'm doing it alone, like Glinda, you're not, you're not joining me, and that's okay, because I'm content in knowing that I'm doing what's what's right for me, at least, and starting there with the hope that other People can eventually join me. And those who want to join me want the chance to fly, look for the western sky. That's where I'll be, come and find me. And then that point of those who would ground me, those who want to pull me back in, those who want to stop me from doing what I'm doing. See, you know, seeing it as a threat, right? Take a message back from me saying to people, tell them I'm defying gravity. I don't need you. I'm doing this, and no matter what you do, you've got no control over me. I no longer have certification with SPA. What can SPA do to me now? There's nothing they can do, right? I'm following the national code of conduct. I'm following all the requirements of the hospital that I work for. I'm meeting all these standards so I don't need you. And if you want me to need you, there's nothing you can do that will make me feel like I have to need you in the future. And then that pointed and soon I'll match them in renown. That's not a boast of everyone's going to know me, right? It's a everyone's going to know me because they'll make sure to not be like me. I think that's something that people don't realize, is that's what comes with challenging these systems. Is that when a system is in a mode of self preservation, it will do anything it can to preserve itself, and that includes letting people know what not to do. And so some people know me for different reasons, but a lot of people will know me because of me, challenging SPA, questioning the things that we do as well in the profession, and so usually, if I'm known, I'm known because I'm an example of what happens when you challenge spa, right? And it's a, oh, you're doing this thing. Love your work, but like, you might not want to be associated with that, right? Because wo wants to challenge SPA? what? What might that do to my career and all that type of stuff. So that I'll match them in the renown is acknowledging people are going to know me, but not, not for the bright reasons they they're going to know me because they'll make sure people know me. And that's in that point of that movie, too, where they make that announcement, no, she's the Wicked Witch of the West. She's wicked. Don't trust her, right? Wanting people to not believe that there are issues within the system, that the system isn't actually helping the people, that it's actually creating issues for it to then be relevant, so that it exists. And that's what, that's what, that's what the Wizard of Oz says. He's like, people need something to unify them, and so we need this threat. And this threat is the talking animals. So this is what we're going to do, and we're going to be united, and it's going to be a stronger place. And that's, that's the price that we pay. And then she goes into and nobody in all of us, no wizard that there is or was is ever going to bring me down? And there's that confidence of I've made my choice. This is, I know this is what's going to happen. I'm doing all this. People are going to know about me, and I'm not going to let anyone or system that wants to preserve itself, to stop me from creating change that's for the good of the profession. And so that's why I look forward to this section of the song. One, because musically, I think it's amazing. And two, it's just it's inspiring to say, go and do the work. Be confident, but go ahead and do it. This is my favorite part. And then it obviously ends with that part of Glinda, then saying, I hope you're happy. I'm still wishing you know, seeing her fully go rogue. Take, take it all on, flying off to the west, doing her thing. While there's that in the background, you can hear them chant, look at her. She's wicked. Get her so already, you know the profession, the people of us are already seeing her as this thing that they shouldn't trust. And listen to, she's causing havoc. She's wicked, right? And I'm sure Fix SLP get that too. Where people I look at Fix SLP, they're rocking the boat. They're causing issues. They're stirring problems. We just need to work together. Why they doing this? And then Elphaba says, you bring me down. And they say, No one mourns the wicked, so we've got to bring her down. So there's this effort to bring her back down. We can't let you challenge this system. And I think that's because people are worried about because this system does have power, and it does do good things. It's not evil. It's not inherently evil. And that's another episode, another podcast might do is like, the point of wicked, right? Is that these characters are inherently good or bad. To say that someone is a Glinda isn't an insult. To say that someone is an Elphaba means that you know, they're they're always being picked on and hurt. But it's showing that these things are complex. It's not just as simple as people good or bad, it's we all have choices, and these choices have implications. And this system, while it does good, it's also doing bad, and people are wanting to change that bad. But the problem is that people are worried that if we address the bad, it might bring the system down, and then who's left to bring out the good? Right? Like, if there's no Wizard of Oz uniting the people in this world, then we might be divided again, and then we're back into those old times where things weren't as great as they were. So there's a reason why it's self preserving. There's a reason why we have a lot of glindas in the profession, because they understand that the status quo is currently working and it's comfortable, and it's not hurting them enough for them to feel what the health of this feel of we do need to step up. We do need to change. But the Glindas are like, that's a lot of work like and I'm more worried of the system collapsing rather than realizing maybe it's just about the system improving itself, and we can't improve the system until we recognize the bad part. But if you're not willing to acknowledge the bad, then this is where we are. And I think this is why we have these difficulties with ASHA with SPA, is that there is this internal thing of this is bad on our image. We can't look like a bad look like a bad organization. We've got a system that needs change. There are things that are wrong, and we are not willing to have a look at it. And so that's why we have Glindas. That's why we have Elphabas, because there's this wizard who's doing this stuff behind the scenes that most people aren't aware of.