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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to stuff.

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Speaker 1: When ever told you a production of iHeartRadio? And we

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Speaker 1: are back with another Birthday edition Fictional Feminists around the World. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'd put feminists in there. Fictional women around the world.

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Speaker 1: I guess that's up for a debate. And this one

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Speaker 1: I mentioned recently in the episode we did on Aris,

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Speaker 1: and I said I was really excited to talk about her.

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Speaker 1: So here we are. We're doing Yuna from the video

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Speaker 1: games Final Fantasy ten and Final Fantasy ten two, and

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Speaker 1: she is a favorite of my Final Fantasy ten is

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite games. I loved her so much.

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Speaker 1: I did an art project on her in high school. Famously,

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Speaker 1: the lowest grade I ever got was in art. Famously,

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Speaker 1: to me, I'm so mad about it. Okay, but the

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Speaker 1: art piece was good. And I have so many stories

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Speaker 1: about playing these games. I'm not someone who normally grinds,

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Speaker 1: you get to the top level or whatever. I did

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Speaker 1: in this game. And one time it was Christmas Eve,

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Speaker 1: I remember, and I was trying to get this like

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Speaker 1: It was a random thing and you had to be

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Speaker 1: a certain level. And I got and I kid you not.

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Speaker 1: The power went out too and I lost Oh my

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Speaker 1: progress did I was like I was in shock. I

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Speaker 1: think it was as like depressive state day. Did you

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Speaker 1: I did all of the things that you know won't work,

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Speaker 1: but you're so pair to your like blowing all the

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Speaker 1: dance because if that will do anything, You're getting the

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Speaker 1: We plug? I remember it so and I never did

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Speaker 1: it again. I was like, well, I'm not gonna that's

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Speaker 1: The music also very good. I have the soundcheck and

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Speaker 1: I love it, and she has Yuna has an intro scene,

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Speaker 1: that time, it was one of the most beautiful cutscenes

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Speaker 1: very beautiful. It's like a sun setting and she's walking

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Speaker 1: on water and she does this dance where she's sending

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Speaker 1: It was so pretty, the music was great. So I

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Speaker 1: be like, who are you congratination? Like what? Okay? So

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Speaker 1: all that to say, I have fond memories of that

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Speaker 1: game and this character. I will talk about the second

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Speaker 1: one too, though. So as described in previous Final Fantasy

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Speaker 1: episodes that I've done, this is a series of video

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Speaker 1: games that generally fall under the fantasy genre, but they

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Speaker 1: do a bunch of other things, like sci fi. They

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Speaker 1: are not necessarily connected. In fact, I believe Final Fantasy

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Speaker 1: to explain these games. This one is a doozy even

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Speaker 1: the second one, which is also a doozy, but in

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Speaker 1: a different way. All right, So Fantasy ten starts with

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Speaker 1: a pilgrimage mini seminars undertake to basically put Sin in

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