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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I' ho come to

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Speaker 1: stuff one never told you a prediction of iHeartRadio And

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Speaker 1: today welcome to another sub sub sub sub sub sub segment,

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Speaker 1: Fictional women around the World. Yes, and for this one,

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Speaker 1: shout out to my friend Katie, who has been on

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Speaker 1: her favorite characters from one of her very favorite shows,

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Speaker 1: Tina Belcher from the ongoing animated comedy Bob's Burgers. Of course,

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Speaker 1: I actually had to check that we hadn't already done this.

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Speaker 1: I think it's just kind of gotten woven in a

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Speaker 1: couple of times we have not covered her. Also, I

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Speaker 1: haven't told Katie I'm doing this episode because I'm worried

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Speaker 1: would never. I'm gonna do my best because I have

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Speaker 1: not seen it. I've only seen a handful of episodes

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Speaker 1: through Katie. I will say before we get into this,

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Speaker 1: you can go see or hear more accurately the savorite

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Speaker 1: episode we did on the food of Bob's Burgers, and

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Speaker 1: that has a more general history of the show and

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Speaker 1: also of course delves into the wonderful food puns because

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Speaker 1: there is a food pun in every episode at least one.

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Speaker 1: So yes, even though I haven't seen a show, I

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Speaker 1: am very familiar with it because of my friend Katie.

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Speaker 1: It is her comfort show. She calls it her Bob's

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Speaker 1: and through her, I have now gone to not one,

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Speaker 1: but two Bob's Burgers drag Brunches. Dressed as Tina. She

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Speaker 1: told us we were dressing as Tina. So we all

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Speaker 1: dressed as Tina, our whole crew. There's probably like eight

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Speaker 1: to ten of us. We were a table of Tinas.

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Speaker 1: That's what they called us. This time. We up the game.

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Speaker 1: The second time, which happened like a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: we really upped the game too, Like got the costume

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Speaker 1: down pat more and she Katie gave me like super

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Speaker 1: cartoony glasses. I loved them and I looked right. Yes, yes, fantastic.

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Speaker 1: We had the burrett, we had the whole thing. We

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Speaker 1: looked good. We looked good, and we got a lot

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Speaker 1: as a group of like ten people dressed the same way.

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Speaker 1: It's fantastic anyway, Okay, So Tina is the oldest child

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Speaker 1: of Bob and Linda, Belcher and Bob and Linda run

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Speaker 1: older sibling of Gene and Louise. She is perpetually thirteen

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Speaker 1: always stay in that one state. You know. She's awkward

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Speaker 1: but owns it. She's romantic. She likes butts and writing

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Speaker 1: erotic fiction and what she calls friend of fiction, which

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Speaker 1: is fan fiction the friends in it, yeah, sometimes about

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Speaker 1: her own life. Her primary crush is Jimmy Pesto Junior,

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Speaker 1: which is fun because Jimmy Pesto is her father's enemy.

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Speaker 1: But she goes through a lot of crushes, including with

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Speaker 1: which is she's also in the fan club and I

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Speaker 1: believe the secretary of the fan club. The character is

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Speaker 1: voiced by Dan Mintz and very The lines are delivered

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Speaker 1: very flat and monotoned, typically, and she does have a

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Speaker 1: sixteenth season, so obviously we cannot cover all the shenanigans

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Speaker 1: that Tina gets up to. Also, it's like this is

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Speaker 1: For example, once she caved to peer pressure and shaved

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Speaker 1: her care always big on TikTok. Really, yeah, the whole

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Speaker 1: autistic she's autistic. No, I'm not. Yes, sure count the toothpicks. Yeah, yes,

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Speaker 1: Or she like groans when she gets really nervous or anxious. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Like there's a lot of stuff people have been talking

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Speaker 1: both her parents do experience sadness about Tina growing up. Linda,

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Speaker 1: Significance of Tina to Bob's Burger's. Tina's comedy largely stems

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Speaker 1: unapologetically delves into what being a thirteen year old girl

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Speaker 1: about about how popular Tina is. Well, I hope Katie.

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