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Speaker 1: Okay, this is Anny and Samantha and welcome to Steffan

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Speaker 1: Never Told You Protection by Heart Radio, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: another sub stub subsegment of fictional women around the world.

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Speaker 1: Today we were talking about Piper Hallowell, played by Holly

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Speaker 1: Marie Combs from the TV show Charmed, and I loved Charmed.

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Speaker 1: Piper was my favorite. I liked Phoebe more at first.

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Speaker 2: But then I moved on to Piper.

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Speaker 1: I have to say I haven't rewatched it, and even

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Speaker 1: at the time, even when I was younger, I knew.

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Speaker 2: Some of it was pretty problematic, but.

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Speaker 1: I did love it, and I think maybe I loved

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Speaker 1: her the most because she was the middle child, like

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Speaker 1: the Peacekeeper, which I related to, but also her powers

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Speaker 1: were the coolest in my opinion, and I had a

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Speaker 1: huge crush on her. In Universe son Chris oh man Man,

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Speaker 1: I bought like the DVDs of that season. I watched

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Speaker 1: that season more than once. I read the fan fiction

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Speaker 1: and I actually saw the actor who played Chris at

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Speaker 1: Dragon con once and he definitely did kind of a

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Speaker 1: double take at my disco Luke Skywalker conplay, so he's

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Speaker 1: seen me.

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Speaker 2: He knows you exist. I love it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, who knows if it was a good double taker

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Speaker 1: bad double take, but a double take was had and

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Speaker 1: not a plug. But the actors who played Piper, her

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Speaker 1: husband Leo, and their son Chris. They have a Charmed

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Speaker 1: rewatch podcast on our very own network called The House

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Speaker 1: of Hallowell. Again, I haven't listened to it, but I

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Speaker 1: ran into that when I was researching this. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: Charmed was a show that ran from nineteen ninety eight

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Speaker 1: to two thousand and six. It was rebooted in twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: It centered on the Charmed Ones, three very powerful sisters

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Speaker 1: who are good witches, which at first was Phoebe, Piper,

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Speaker 1: and Prue, but then Prue after Preue's death, Page was introduced.

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Speaker 1: While it's a very monster evil of the week kind

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Speaker 1: of show, there are some overarching themes and relationships over

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Speaker 1: the seasons.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it was really popular.

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Speaker 1: It earned a cult following, but it was also like

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Speaker 1: popular Beyond that, there's a video game which I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Books and yes I have all those books.

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Speaker 2: I have them.

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Speaker 1: Still, a board game. There's comic books soundtracks which, interestingly enough,

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Speaker 1: if you watch the show, you know at the end,

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Speaker 1: especially in the early seasons they usually would have like

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Speaker 1: a band playing at Piper's club. A lot of that

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Speaker 1: music they can't use anymore because of licensing, so it's

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Speaker 1: really interesting to see how they get around it. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: For a while, it held the title of most watch

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Speaker 1: show with all female leads. It takes place in modern

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Speaker 1: day San Francisco, and one of the common themes is

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Speaker 1: that they're modern women who are witches and are trying

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Speaker 1: to have ordinary lives, probably especially Piper, I would say.

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Speaker 1: When the show starts, the relationship between the sisters is

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Speaker 1: very strained. The youngest, Phoebe, has returned from New York

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Speaker 1: to live with her sisters and their mansion in San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: She finds a book of shadows in their attic and

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Speaker 1: their powers awaken, revealing that they are the most powerful

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Speaker 1: which is ever and it is their duty to protect

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Speaker 1: innocence in the world. At first, Piper and Prue don't

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Speaker 1: believe Phoebe, but soon they can't ignore it. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I remember very clearly aligned from this which this first episode,

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Speaker 1: Prue can be something.

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Speaker 2: That rhymes with the witch. Just reber.

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Speaker 1: Their mother was a witch, and their grandmother bound their

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Speaker 1: powers when they were born and erased some of their

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Speaker 1: like magic related memories to keep them safe. Growing up,

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Speaker 1: Piper felt very ordinary compared to her sisters. Pru often

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Speaker 1: called her Jan Brady. She stayed home for college and work.

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Speaker 1: She was very much like I'm staying here, and she

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Speaker 1: But after this, which thing happens, it all comes out.

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Speaker 1: Piper develops the power of molecular immobilization. Basically she can

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Speaker 1: freeze time, but later it develops where she can speed

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Speaker 1: things up or even explode things. She can do witchy

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Speaker 1: things like spellcasting, all that stuff. At first, she hates

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Speaker 1: She I totally forgot about this. She went so far

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she was not.

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Speaker 1: Together, the sisters by a variety of demons, monsters, the

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Speaker 1: source of all evil, all of that, all while balancing

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Speaker 1: their social lives and personal relationships. When Prue died in

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Speaker 1: season three and younger half sister Page was introduced, Piper

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Speaker 1: struggled with. Piper also struggled with her feelings for the

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Speaker 1: sister's white Lighter, which is kind of like your guardian

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Speaker 1: angel Leo, and this relationship is a forbidden relationship. However,

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Speaker 1: they eventually went on to Mary and have their son,

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Speaker 1: Wyatt and later Chris. A supernatural force separates them in

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Speaker 1: the fifth season and Piper went all, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: but later they were reunited and just because I have to.

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Speaker 1: In the sixth season, a mysterious white Lighter from the

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Speaker 1: future named Chris is introduced, and the sisters are incredibly suspicious,

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Speaker 1: especially because he's introduced after Leo is kept from them.

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Speaker 1: He warns them that Piper's son and the future Wyat,

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Speaker 1: becomes evil and he's here to find out why. But

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Speaker 1: it turns out he is Piper's second son that she

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Speaker 1: is currently pregnant with. Oh yes, adult time traveler Chris

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Speaker 1: is killed trying to protect baby Wyatt while his current

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Speaker 1: baby self is born, and you can bet I was

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Speaker 1: not happy, And yeah, this is like, we don't have

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Speaker 1: enough time to go into everything that Piper went through.

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Speaker 1: The show explores all kinds of things like monster transformation, hallucinations,

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Speaker 1: which of the deadly sends to you embody, time travel,

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Speaker 1: past lives. Piper tries to banquished Phoebe at one point

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Speaker 1: for reasons for reasons, but she also has a daughter,

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Speaker 1: Melinda halliwell later on that sour's end the show.

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Speaker 2: She loves cooking. In the beginning of the show, she

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Speaker 2: owns the club.

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Speaker 1: P three because you know P three, which is where

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Speaker 1: the show would frequently end. And yes, the musical acts

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Speaker 1: would play, and a lot of them are pretty impressive.

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Speaker 2: Up at one point.

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Speaker 1: I was like what what. Piper later went on to

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Speaker 1: open her own restaurant called Hallowell's. Leo gives up his

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Speaker 1: wings and they grow older with Piper in Possession of

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Speaker 1: the Book of Shadows. Obviously, sisterhood is a huge part

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Speaker 2: That's kind of the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: I think it's interesting that Piper, you know, she's my

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Speaker 1: favorite character. She's definitely the most like she's got the

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Speaker 1: motherhood arc that's like her thing. She's got the kind

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Speaker 1: of they all have relationship arcs. Do not get me wrong,

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Speaker 1: but she's got kind of like the steady I'm with

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Speaker 2: She had her she had a couple other guys in

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Speaker 1: She likes cooking like she's a very she's kind of

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Speaker 1: very maternal a lot ways or like traditionally feminine is

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Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say. But yeah, she was. She

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Speaker 1: was definitely my favorite, and she was the one. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, she learned a lot from her grandmother. There

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Speaker 1: was a lot of Yeah, that was just a lot

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Speaker 1: of learning from people in your family, balancing people in

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Speaker 1: your family. And Piper's often called the heart of the family.

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Speaker 1: She volunteers, she knits, She knits things for others. She

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Speaker 1: tries to help you where she can. She's very romantic.

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Speaker 1: She's a very very romantic person. But she was super popular.

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Speaker 1: She frequently is in the top ten. But at least

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Speaker 1: which is so she resonated. Her powers are so cool,

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