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

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Speaker 1: I never told you a prediction of iHeartRadio, And today

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Speaker 1: we are back with another edition, a sub sub sub

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Speaker 1: sub segment of fictional women around the world. And it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a fun one because Smitha has no idea

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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, none at all, And it's a

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Speaker 1: fun one to try to explain to someone who has

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Speaker 2: Is it the age difference? This is why I have

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Speaker 2: no idea what this is.

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Speaker 1: You also don't like animated stuff that much. I think

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Speaker 1: it's probably both. But we're gonna We're gonna get through

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Speaker 1: this and I'm very, very excited about it. So today

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Speaker 1: we are talking about Paradot, a character from the animated

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Speaker 1: series Stephen Universe. And fair warning, I have seen most

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Speaker 1: of the show. I think I've seen all of the show,

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Speaker 1: but it's been a long time. I think it ended

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, but that feels like forever ago. It

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Speaker 1: did have like some like a movie and all that

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Speaker 1: other stuff. But I do have a friend who cosplays

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Speaker 1: as characters from Stephen Universe at Dragon Con. Amazing, amazing,

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Speaker 1: all right, So Steven Universe is an animated children's show

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Speaker 1: created by Rebecca Sugar. It started as a show in

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen and then led to all kinds of things

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Speaker 1: a movie, comics, games, soundtracks. Music is a big part

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Speaker 1: of the show. It's a coming of age story. It's

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Speaker 1: really sweet that centers on Steven Universe, who is half

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Speaker 1: human half illienoid life form called Gym's. He's a young

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Speaker 1: boy who occasionally has to help save the world with

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Speaker 1: his family, including the wide group he's found, so like

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Speaker 1: the Gems kind of help, the Crystal Gems kind of

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Speaker 1: help raise him with his dad. It's very interesting dynamic. Now.

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Speaker 1: The Gyms are created by the Diamond Authority for specific purposes,

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Speaker 1: like you're a fighter or you're a farmer. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of the society belief about which is the best, which

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Speaker 1: confused together to become sort of a bigger, stronger version

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Speaker 1: of themselves. But the Gems aren't supposed to fuse the

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Speaker 1: gems of different types. As you might imagine, not all

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Speaker 1: gems follow this rule, and two of the main characters

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Speaker 1: and best friends slash lovers Ruby and Sapphire fuse to

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Speaker 1: create Garnet. They also get married. There's a whole marriage episode.

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Speaker 1: They both use she her pronouns because of this act.

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Speaker 1: They take refuge on Earth, not the marriage, but because

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Speaker 1: And if you're like, does that mean it's sort of

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Speaker 1: a metaphor for sex. Yes, that's how a lot of

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Speaker 1: people view it, which we'll get to in a second.

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Speaker 1: But there's a lot of growth and introspection in the

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Speaker 1: It's just nice. Stephen Universe is often praise is one

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Speaker 1: it makes it even rarer. There are several characters that

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Speaker 1: with Paradot because she is Ace and also arrow Ace,

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Speaker 1: which is funny because over on the other show I

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Speaker 1: do Saver. We did an episode on the fictional foods

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Speaker 1: of Stephen Universe and for that, we did a quiz

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Speaker 1: of which character are you and I got Paradot, which

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Speaker 1: is also my birthstone, So hell, wow meant to be.

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Speaker 1: And I also know some of you might be like,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, is this just your read of this. No,

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Speaker 1: the creator has said the character is aeroace, and I

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Speaker 1: anybody can interpret it how they're going to interpret it.

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Speaker 1: That's a bigger conversation for later. But I just was

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Speaker 1: reading this, I was like, paradigt. I was just, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'd never thought about it that way, but now that

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Speaker 1: to fandom Wikis for compiling all this info, because wow,

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Speaker 1: too many people have written a whole history of this character,

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Speaker 1: so appreciate it. With people doing that here we go. Paradot,

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Speaker 1: or specifically Paradot Facet two F five L cut five

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Speaker 1: gim Paradot because I mean perhaps obviously they're based on

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Speaker 1: When we are first introduced to her, she is an

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Speaker 1: antagonist to Stephen and the Gems, having been sent to

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Speaker 1: It's really sweet. However, the Crystal Gems are very suspicious

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Speaker 1: need an excuse to hang out. It's really cute, I understand.

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Speaker 1: In like other media, where you can be like the

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Speaker 1: During this transition period of an antagonist to anti hero,

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Speaker 1: because of this dislike, she insults Garnett, who was the

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Speaker 1: she's really awkward. She doesn't understand social cues. She's kind

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Speaker 1: She also forms a friendship with Lapis Lazuli, another gem. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I could have picked a lot. There's

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Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, thank you for coming on this journey. When

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