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Speaker 5: This plea is remember ring we just rewatched the show
Speaker 5: and tell your little things.
Speaker 1: We think that you should know.
Speaker 2: We did a couple of shows as well.
Speaker 5: Here's your hosts, Charlie Shelby, and.
Speaker 2: We have a Google doc.
Speaker 3: No, we're waiting.
Speaker 2: We're waiting.
Speaker 1: Where we're going? We don't need Google docs. We never
Speaker 1: we never said, we never said we were Steven Universe.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, Google doc, Google, It's okay, Google Money.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it, Google.
Speaker 4: Money, like nothing has changed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, I'll start us off though.
Speaker 4: Uh. Welcome to Remembering Steven Universe rewatch podcast. We are
Speaker 4: your curators.
Speaker 1: I am Charlie, I am Shelby, I'm Ella, and I
Speaker 1: think we need to clarify the pronunciation of this podcast
Speaker 1: title being I think we need to put way more
Speaker 1: goofy emphasis on the stupid pun. Welcome to Regembering.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Sorry, this is the.
Speaker 2: First time I ever heard the name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've tried to come up with a better one
Speaker 3: and then did it. So this is what we got.
Speaker 1: Something like Poucci but.
Speaker 4: Like regemer Ring, but better sobering.
Speaker 3: Good with you guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, trying to see if there was like a better
Speaker 5: pun while I was driving anything.
Speaker 3: If there was, Ella and I would have found it.
Speaker 4: So we covered all of gravity falls if I'm remembering
Speaker 4: correct remembering correctly.
Speaker 1: Excuse I do think you garden wall recall correctly, because yeah,
Speaker 1: we did.
Speaker 4: Cover all over the garden wall next right.
Speaker 1: Yes, after after gravity falls, so.
Speaker 4: We got falls and over.
Speaker 3: It feels like.
Speaker 1: We just need someone to follow over.
Speaker 4: Who will?
Speaker 3: It's a table.
Speaker 1: Step we got a table.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So these were kind of the big three on
Speaker 4: Tumblr in twenty fourteen. And yeah, they joked it should
Speaker 4: be the next Super who Lock or Rise of the Brave,
Speaker 4: Rise of the Brave What was the word I'm missing?
Speaker 1: The Tangled Dragons?
Speaker 3: Yes, Rise of the Braive Tangled.
Speaker 4: Oh I thought it was Brave Tangled Guardian.
Speaker 1: Well, no, Guardians is covered by Rise.
Speaker 3: Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, so, uh, Stephen and Stephen falls Over refers
Speaker 4: to the twelve.
Speaker 1: Step Stephen falls Over fame.
Speaker 4: Of course, Stevens Falls Over fame first to the twenty.
Speaker 1: Thirty twenty thirteen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, animated television series Steven Universe, created by Rebecca Sugar. Yeah,
Speaker 4: who did a lot of songs and boards and such
Speaker 4: for Adventure Time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and a lot of underground comics for before that,
Speaker 1: indie comics.
Speaker 4: Underground is what the un SU stands for for for
Speaker 4: so long, for me, su meant sonic underground. And yeah, yes,
Speaker 4: one day in twenty fourteen it changed, Yeah for the better,
Speaker 4: I would say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Julia White is an in steam.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's over to time.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, uh whish did I do that?
Speaker 2: I mean that's literally the plot of the episode.
Speaker 1: So yeah, most episodes.
Speaker 4: So when did you guys first start watching this show?
Speaker 4: What was the push that got you?
Speaker 3: Did you? Were you there day one or yes?
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 1: Actually I was there before day one because I saw
Speaker 1: in front of the TV for hours.
Speaker 2: Weeks even.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean I probably was, But I also
Speaker 1: saw the pilot, uh online before the show itself was released,
Speaker 1: before the new designs even for the show were released,
Speaker 1: because they were tweaked from the pilot and everyone hated
Speaker 1: it for some reason because it was different, of course,
Speaker 1: But I remember thinking, oh, this has, you know, potential
Speaker 1: to be a very interesting show, and it turns out
Speaker 1: it was. It's one of my favorites. It's probably I
Speaker 1: always go back and forth on whether I like this
Speaker 1: more than gravity Falls. I think it's it covers like
Speaker 1: a broader like depth of just things than gravity falls.
Speaker 1: But it's also much longer than gravity falls, so it
Speaker 1: is of course coming to and it's influence. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: It's influenced me as a person, arguably more than gravity
Speaker 1: falls or maybe just in different ways. But uh, Gravity
Speaker 1: Falls I think is probably objectively the show I think
Speaker 1: is better. But they're they're the big two of like animation,
Speaker 1: especially particularly you know, this modern era of animation, but
Speaker 1: also maybe just television overall. Yeah, they're, they're, they're's.
Speaker 4: A good time to be Jackie Buscarina, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 4: Sure was except she well, the voice of Pacifica in
Speaker 4: Gravity Falls, is the line producer on Steven Universe, which
Speaker 4: basically means she writes the schedules, which is how an
Speaker 4: entire show happens.
Speaker 1: But don't worry, she also gets to be in a
Speaker 1: voice booth in this show eventually.
Speaker 3: Well spoilers, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, what is our spoiler put? Do we want
Speaker 1: to do the same policy?
Speaker 3: I say we go no spoilers?
Speaker 1: Correct? Yeah, I mean it wouldn't be that difficult to
Speaker 1: do no.
Speaker 4: So, Shelby, when did you first start watching Steven Universe?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 5: I remember, I love Adventure Time. That's one of my
Speaker 5: favorite shows of just like all time, and it was
Speaker 5: my huge hyperfixation when I.
Speaker 2: Was in college.
Speaker 1: All Adventure Time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of all Adventure Time.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I remember I learned ukulele and so I was
Speaker 5: learning songs from Adventure Time in my Little Pony and
Speaker 5: I posted some like YouTube videos and Rebecca Sugar liked
Speaker 5: my I Think on a Tropical Island cover and somebody commented,
Speaker 5: oh my god, oh Rebecca Sugar liked this, and I
Speaker 5: had no idea who she was. I didn't know she
Speaker 5: wrote who. I didn't know she wrote the songs that
Speaker 5: I like. And so then in the comics.
Speaker 1: You were in the Yesterday verse of Rebecca Sugar. You
Speaker 1: went to the Yesterday universe of Rebecca Sugar. You're like,
Speaker 1: who's Rebecca Sugar?
Speaker 5: Yeah, And then somebody mentioned her and mentioned how they
Speaker 5: were excited about her new show, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: I like the music and Adventure Time. I'll watch her show,
Speaker 2: and so I think I was there.
Speaker 1: You're like, I just found out about this person and
Speaker 1: apparently I love her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much. That was the journey. And then like
Speaker 2: after that, I was just like, she's just pretty cool.
Speaker 5: Like the fact that she's going online and liking random
Speaker 5: covers of Adventure Time songs is rad to me?
Speaker 2: Does she just gonna say?
Speaker 5: When I watched it, I fell in love the second
Speaker 5: I heard the music, Like the music is what probably the.
Speaker 1: Music which would have been the first second of the show.
Speaker 5: In fact, yeah, like the first second, the theme song.
Speaker 5: I was like, Okay, I'm in on this show. It's
Speaker 5: like cotton candy.
Speaker 1: It's so sweet, so garn it's like we and you're
Speaker 1: like soul.
Speaker 2: Yeah pretty much.
Speaker 3: Yeah cool. Uh, now's my turn, I guess.
Speaker 4: So the day the show aired, I was at Ramapo
Speaker 4: College of New Jersey, a college I had recently at
Speaker 4: that point dropped out of, and someone messaged me on
Speaker 4: Discord and is like, are you gonna watch Steven Universe?
Speaker 4: It's by the person who wrote all these episodes of
Speaker 4: Adventure Time. I had never seen Adventure Time. I was
Speaker 4: visiting Ray that day. We weren't gonna sit down at
Speaker 4: the TV anyway, so I was like, uh, nope, probably
Speaker 4: not gonna watch it. But at a certain point it
Speaker 4: became completely intertwined with the gravity Falls Foundom, which I
Speaker 4: had gotten pretty steeped into.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we've done our symbiosis.
Speaker 1: It was this post March twenty fifteen, I guess, because
Speaker 1: that's Peaks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, it definitely was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a season two was already airing when
Speaker 4: I watched it, and Ray sold me on it because
Speaker 4: she had been catching up with it and said that
Speaker 4: Stephen reminded her of me, and Greg reminded her of
Speaker 4: my dad. Yes, and I was like, well, okay, then, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'll watch it. And it's very so I'm a big
Speaker 4: Nintendo kid. The music, to me, the music sounds like
Speaker 4: Animal Crossing, but a lot of the comments on clips
Speaker 4: of it on YouTube mentioned Pokemon, Mystery Dungeon Avy and
Speaker 4: what are their names? A. Yeah, they do a lot
Speaker 4: of chiptune stuff, including using actual game boys in their music.
Speaker 1: And the I mean, the answer is it's all of both, right,
Speaker 1: It's Animal Crossing and Pokemon and you know.
Speaker 4: And the color palette is influenced by Yoshi's Island, which
Speaker 4: is a very cotton candy looking game, and the architecture
Speaker 4: that we'll see in later episodes is very Zelda influenced.
Speaker 1: And you can say that about the music as well.
Speaker 3: A zelday smell a little bit.
Speaker 4: But uh yeah, so I I uh, I am so
Speaker 4: excited to rewatch this. I haven't I haven't revisited season one,
Speaker 4: but I remember being so hooked. We Ray and I
Speaker 4: were watching it together and we would finish an episode
Speaker 4: to be like Max spot back Slot Max.
Speaker 1: Still. Yeah, and I know, I remember, we remember we
Speaker 1: talked about so essentially the show. You know, this isn't spoilers.
Speaker 1: This is just premise, the centering around Stephen, who is
Speaker 1: a half human but also half Gem, which are these
Speaker 1: magical women who are colorful and powerful and weird in
Speaker 1: all their own ways.
Speaker 3: And uh, I love how.
Speaker 4: It kind of brings us in in media res as
Speaker 4: we'll see where it's just like exactly even lives with
Speaker 4: these magical beings, have fun, and it's like, what's going on?
Speaker 4: And I'm like, ah, there's more episodes. You'll have to
Speaker 4: find out in those.
Speaker 1: But that duality of of that human world, because he
Speaker 1: lives in this beachside tourist town that was just this
Speaker 1: algam of Ocean City and Rehoboth Beach and all these
Speaker 1: East Coast tourist spots, so he lives there, but then
Speaker 1: there's also all these magical Gem adventures. And I think
Speaker 1: that dichotomy is something you and I have talked about, Charlie.
Speaker 1: Where As it moves on and you know, gets more
Speaker 1: involved in this Gem stuff, as Stephen discovers his powers
Speaker 1: and his own gem that he has that a lot
Speaker 1: of the show moves away from from the beach town stuff,
Speaker 1: and I think that that's kind of what you that was, No, that.
Speaker 4: Was the draw for me.
Speaker 3: I mean, I have obviously am from New Jersey.
Speaker 4: I grew up in East Coast tourist trap boardwalk towns
Speaker 4: and uh, I think.
Speaker 1: Could say you were tourist trapped.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the sorry gem glow, I'm gem glowed. The
Speaker 4: aesthetics of Beach City and the the season one feel
Speaker 4: very video gamey, very nintendoly to me, and the aesthetics
Speaker 4: of when they kind of explore more of that world
Speaker 4: feel more anime influenced than the Beach City stuff does.
Speaker 1: And again it's always it's been both kind of baked
Speaker 1: in from the beginning, but you're right in that one,
Speaker 1: there's an overtone of one more so than the other
Speaker 1: at the beginning and then they kind of switch.
Speaker 4: And season one, when in the episodes that just deal
Speaker 4: with here is what is going on with the people
Speaker 4: in the town, reminds me specifically of Majora's Mask, where
Speaker 4: there are only four dungeons Majora's Mask, there's like ten
Speaker 4: in Zelda games usually, and that's because so much of
Speaker 4: the game is just interacting, helping the townspeople.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a lot to say about Majora's mask
Speaker 1: in the episode after this one.
Speaker 4: But right, you're talking, of course of Pearl's weird shaped
Speaker 4: head in the next Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now it crashes into the It kills everyone when it
Speaker 1: crashes into the plant.
Speaker 4: Oh, when was I remember another question I wanted to ask?
Speaker 4: So we're going to be watching season one episode one,
Speaker 4: gem Glow if you want to just rattle off some
Speaker 4: info about it.
Speaker 1: Wow, Oh you mean season one episode one, gem Glow
Speaker 1: the first episode in the first season of Stephen Universe,
Speaker 1: and you're never going to believe this overall in the series.
Speaker 1: It's the first episode. It aired on November fourth, twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: and was written in storyboarded by Joe Johnston and Jeff
Speaker 1: lou So this is a different type of show than
Speaker 1: Gravity Falls. Gravity Falls was a script driven show, but
Speaker 1: like I believe, Over the Garden Wall was this way too.
Speaker 1: And Steven Universe are both board driven, which means that
Speaker 1: the people who.
Speaker 4: Draw Except the sitcom episode Over the Garden Wall we
Speaker 4: talked about that was the only script driven.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, that's right, that's right. But otherwise, and for
Speaker 1: this show, the people who draw out the storyboards are
Speaker 1: also the writers. They aren't the soul writers. Like there
Speaker 1: are outlines given, like there is a story team, but
Speaker 1: as far as the actual individual dialogue and gags, those
Speaker 1: are written and drawn sort of in tandem, which I
Speaker 1: think works really well for the show.
Speaker 2: It's so sweet and simple.
Speaker 1: Definitely, Oh I was. I also will say that board driven,
Speaker 1: you know, Gravity Hall's being a twenty two minute show
Speaker 1: is kind of almost inevitably going to be script driven,
Speaker 1: I feel like, because it's so much longer, whereas an
Speaker 1: eleven minute show like Steven Universe or The Garden Wall
Speaker 1: can easily be word driven.
Speaker 3: I wanted to ask, when did you last watch gem Glow?
Speaker 1: How long has it been? It would have been maybe
Speaker 1: a month, because I've been showing my girlfriend Steven Universe
Speaker 1: and we are on, Yeah, we're we're on. We're like
Speaker 1: midway through season two right now, So so you're.
Speaker 4: You're a little more prepared. I mean, I'm, I'm I
Speaker 4: I always.
Speaker 1: I also like periodically just Watchisah. I'm you know, an
Speaker 1: active fan of the show, so.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've watched it with the audio on Yeah,
Speaker 4: since I first watched the show.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Yes, we did Stephen Universe real time fan dubs that
Speaker 4: are still on YouTube. You can check them out. All
Speaker 4: three of us are in them. I will always remember
Speaker 4: that gem Glow was when I established that anytime we
Speaker 4: do the first episode of a series, someone has to say, ah,
Speaker 4: summer break time for Lisia.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, I have not watched it since I first
Speaker 4: watched through the show, I have not gone back and
Speaker 4: revisited this episode Shelby.
Speaker 5: I believe twenty twenty one. I was trying to show
Speaker 5: my ex the show. Turns out he doesn't like Steven Universe.
Speaker 5: Red flag, huge, red flag.
Speaker 3: Wait, I don't. I mean I like season one.
Speaker 4: I think for a lot of the show, I would
Speaker 4: just like rush to keep up so I didn't get
Speaker 4: spoilers when I did Steven Universe content. You know, I'd
Speaker 4: be like, oh, I'm putting out a video with Steven
Speaker 4: Universe edit. I should catch up with the show, and
Speaker 4: i'd watch like twenty episodes in.
Speaker 1: A set obligation rather than Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, I think I think sitting here with you guys,
Speaker 4: episode by episode, I'm gonna gain a further appreciation for
Speaker 4: the later season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so too. I never thought about it
Speaker 1: that way, but yeah, but I don't know how someone
Speaker 1: could see the like the things that go on in
Speaker 1: this episode not even crack a smile, red flag Shelby red.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was just like, this show is so sweet.
Speaker 5: I was like, you just gotta get through season one
Speaker 5: and then you're gonna love it. But he wouldn't sit
Speaker 5: through season one and I was like, okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's I think that's something that will come
Speaker 1: up later in this podcast. But I think there people
Speaker 1: will put forth the argument of I mean, the term
Speaker 1: filler gets tough. We've talked about this with Gravity Falls
Speaker 1: as well. Obviously, the term filler gets tossed around and
Speaker 1: has completely lost its meaning. And imagine like trying to
Speaker 1: sell someone on a show and be like, yeah, you
Speaker 1: just have to skip like the entire first chunk of
Speaker 1: it and then it's good. Does that sound like a
Speaker 1: good show if you have to skip?
Speaker 4: I mean that's that is every you've just described every sitcom.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you have a bleak asking me, is there anything
Speaker 5: that we can skip? And I was like looking at
Speaker 5: the episode order, and I was like no, because something
Speaker 5: is introduced in every single episode, so you really can't
Speaker 5: skip the first season.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. There is no filler.
Speaker 4: Yeah well yeah, then this will be a more positive
Speaker 4: crowd to relive the.
Speaker 1: Magic Disney and you ste you.
Speaker 3: Or to regem.
Speaker 4: But I'm trying to put the emphasis as silly as
Speaker 4: you wanted. Ella was that good?
Speaker 1: Or gem Demiser and It's infinite wisdom has chosen for us?
Speaker 3: All right? They were seized? Uh? Anything left to say
Speaker 3: before we gem Glow.
Speaker 2: Now, Let's gem go.
Speaker 1: Let's Super Gem Hyper Team gem Force Glow.
Speaker 4: Hey, garn it. What's your favorite video game system?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Good, me too? Honestly, I mean the switch is fun
Speaker 1: and all but.
Speaker 2: Times, the Crystal Gems have been the guardians of humanity.
Speaker 5: Today only three remains.
Speaker 1: We've garnet.
Speaker 5: Let's do it, guys, hold on tight.
Speaker 3: But now a new hero of unknown power has emerged.
Speaker 5: To join the Jets.
Speaker 1: And big hero's name is Stephen.
Speaker 2: Anyone want a wedding?
Speaker 5: Stephen Universe a new series coming in November only on
Speaker 5: Cartoon Network.
Speaker 1: That was a silly episode full of jokes for kids. Well,
Speaker 1: isn't it?
Speaker 3: I love that episode.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's such a good introduction to the characters in
Speaker 5: the world, and.
Speaker 1: Especially the dynamics of the Gems and Stephen, I think
Speaker 1: in particular, and.
Speaker 4: The dynamics of the doughnut store employees also true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so all the Gems. I think what really comes
Speaker 1: through in this episode is that all the Gems are
Speaker 1: at least initially written based on Rebecca Sugars, the different
Speaker 1: ways she would interact with her own younger brother, Stephen,
Speaker 1: who also worked on the show as background. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes she would be sort of just wise
Speaker 1: and more stoic like Garnet. Sometimes she would be you know,
Speaker 1: completely fret and about every detail like Pearl, and sometimes
Speaker 1: she'd be just totally fun and laid back like Amethyst.
Speaker 1: And I think all of those personalities come through when
Speaker 1: they're trying to show Stephen how they respectively summon their
Speaker 1: gem weapons.
Speaker 5: Say, also seeing the way they interact with the centipedals,
Speaker 5: every like everybody's different reactions to it, including Steven, says
Speaker 5: so much about.
Speaker 4: Their character, like Pearl casually snapping once yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think I I that one always like
Speaker 1: unnerves me, But I didn't notice until this watch of Garnet,
Speaker 1: like ripping one in a half and you see like
Speaker 1: the bone mark that like they have in cartoons, Like,
Speaker 1: what did you say they were designed after those centipedal.
Speaker 4: They're almost certainly designed after mag tales from legend is
Speaker 4: Alda the Windwaker, which is enemy in the fire levels,
Speaker 4: and it's a centipede with one big glowing eye between
Speaker 4: its pincers.
Speaker 1: E've all looks like a pokey? What's it?
Speaker 2: Kind of yes, yeah, it kind of look like a pokey.
Speaker 2: What's it?
Speaker 3: His episode is gorgeous speaking of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I want to live there. I want
Speaker 1: to live in the in these back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good job, Steve, real Steven, I mean.
Speaker 1: And whereas with over the Garden Wall is like, oh
Speaker 1: that's really beautiful. I never want to find myself there.
Speaker 1: That Stephen universe is like I want to go there
Speaker 1: this summer.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: So as I was talking about the a lot of
Speaker 4: influence from Nioshi's Island's pastel palettes. It's just I don't know,
Speaker 4: the color theory on display is just makes me feel
Speaker 4: kinds of feel things about stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like it puts you in the mindset
Speaker 5: of Stephen too, like these are the colors that he sees.
Speaker 2: And this is the way he feels. So it's like
Speaker 2: it brings you to a softer mindset, which.
Speaker 1: Is important, which is important because it's media res.
Speaker 4: And we talked about the in media res thing. Stephen
Speaker 4: is worried about summoning his weapon because he's something called
Speaker 4: a crystal jeb and they just that's it seems.
Speaker 2: Like that's the extent and no other explanation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it seems like that's what the extent of
Speaker 1: what Stephen knows as well. This is very firmly in
Speaker 1: Stephen's perspective and they almost never break that. And you know,
Speaker 1: he he knows that his this is what his family does,
Speaker 1: and he wants to do it too, and you know,
Speaker 1: all else is just he wants to know how to
Speaker 1: get there.
Speaker 4: And when they fight monsters, they turn into little poke
Speaker 4: balls that they can bubble and make go away. It's
Speaker 4: another thing we know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's a donut story.
Speaker 2: Donut we meet.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised that the second character at second and third
Speaker 4: character we meet our our Sadie and Lars of the
Speaker 4: Big If.
Speaker 1: That's because Lars and Sadie were conceived for a separate
Speaker 1: like comic VI Rebecca Sugar or Yeah, the characters. She
Speaker 1: had worked with prior.
Speaker 4: And Sadie is is based in her uh at the
Speaker 4: time that she wrote those so like in her early twenties.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, and Lars is based on the worst person
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: Well not quite yet. He's tolerable here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I love He's just he's just kind of
Speaker 4: grubby because his dumpster keeps getting whipped into Yeah.
Speaker 1: Over and over again.
Speaker 4: Somehow can we talk about how stacked this cast is?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's insane.
Speaker 5: Like the second person we meet is Kate mccouchee like Kim.
Speaker 3: Mccut she's there.
Speaker 4: Zach Callison, who voices Stephen Child actor did a lot
Speaker 4: of voice acting.
Speaker 2: Uh was in Sophia.
Speaker 3: The first wasn't Sophia.
Speaker 4: The first was in a stray episode of Scooby Doo Mystery.
Speaker 1: Incorporation Mister Peabody and Sherman as King Tutt what apparently
Speaker 1: why not?
Speaker 4: And uh Deede Magna Hall who voices Pearl was a
Speaker 4: touring nessa rose at.
Speaker 2: Some former played Kim and Miss Saigon.
Speaker 4: Yep uh and amethysts Ye Mikayla Dats, who at this
Speaker 4: point was probably best known for Barney.
Speaker 1: But uh baby Bop on Barney I believe, yep.
Speaker 4: But she does voice some background characters in uh Grand Theft,
Speaker 4: Thought of five with yeah voice.
Speaker 1: So your drive around Athysts, Yeah is going.
Speaker 3: She's got the perfect voice for.
Speaker 1: Off we fat to be swinging in around like that.
Speaker 4: She's got the perfect voice for both that type of
Speaker 4: character and you know, the the character they come up
Speaker 4: with with Amethysts with the rap beat.
Speaker 1: I mean she she has the kind of she has
Speaker 1: the tone of voice that's the quintessential grown woman voicing
Speaker 1: young boy thing, which she does on the Ghost and
Speaker 1: Molly McGee yes. And then of course and any any
Speaker 1: any voice roll that Aquafina has done, she could have
Speaker 1: done it would have done it better.
Speaker 3: And then of course I don't know how they got
Speaker 3: a Stell.
Speaker 1: Yeah I don't either, because the crazy thing is they
Speaker 1: got her like since the pilot. They had her before
Speaker 1: this was a show.
Speaker 4: I know Rebecca Sugar did some album art for a Stelle,
Speaker 4: but that doesn't like grant you access to a person forever.
Speaker 1: I mean apart access to their voice, at least like
Speaker 1: Ursula style.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So, Estelle.
Speaker 4: Probably best known in a marria as the singer.
Speaker 3: Of American American Boy.
Speaker 1: But which was a which was a song that she
Speaker 1: did solo. There's no one else on that track.
Speaker 4: It is crazy, but she's I think at this point
Speaker 4: was like at the height of her career. She was
Speaker 4: I think I think it's a slightly bigger pop star
Speaker 4: in the UK than she is in the US.
Speaker 1: No, I mean, certainly, yeah, but I mean you don't
Speaker 1: just I know this chronologically. This is very down the line,
Speaker 1: but it's not a spoiler to say that there was.
Speaker 1: I think someone on her Instagram story was like, do
Speaker 1: the Garnet voice, and she just posted, that's what the
Speaker 1: cartoon is for, which is very in line with both
Speaker 1: her and Garnet's personality. I think I think it's really.
Speaker 4: Just kind of her voice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean it helps that she's not she's just,
Speaker 1: out of all of them, the one who's not like
Speaker 1: an experienced actor slash voice actor, because Garnet is fairly
Speaker 1: monotone and fairly stoic, and that's yeah, her character.
Speaker 5: It gives some of the best line deliveries the fact
Speaker 5: that she's not so I like I.
Speaker 4: Exactly because this is someone who has never done like
Speaker 4: voice acting, maybe never done acting.
Speaker 3: They write her.
Speaker 4: With these very deadpan monotone lines and she nails them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Fascinating because the last time I had watched this show
Speaker 4: was probably I rewatched the movie at some point and she, like,
Speaker 4: as if you're doing anything regularly, gets really really good
Speaker 4: at voice acting. Not to say she's bad here, but
Speaker 4: they're playing with the roughness of her voice act.
Speaker 2: That's part of the texture of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're pretty sure her first project, or at least
Speaker 1: her first major acting project.
Speaker 3: And then we get a little song too. We'll get
Speaker 3: two songs, counting the theme song.
Speaker 1: Two songs. We get the theme song with the same
Speaker 1: chord progression as Creep by Radioheads.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, I could see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, m m. And then we also get cookie Cat,
Speaker 1: which is a little rap that Stephen performs about the
Speaker 1: snack itself, the ice cream sandwich that he loves, which
Speaker 1: is discontinued.
Speaker 3: He's probably singing a jingle, right.
Speaker 1: I mean it is. It's a commercial jingle, because at
Speaker 1: the end we talked about.
Speaker 4: Ever actually see the original jingle, we just see Stephen
Speaker 4: wrapping it, which is like my experience of being whatever
Speaker 4: age is supposed to be just going around singing songs
Speaker 4: I heard in.
Speaker 2: Commercials that arm or hot a structured settlement.
Speaker 1: Stephen goes around like eight hundred five eight two three
Speaker 1: hundred m pop today today.
Speaker 4: But it's also, like we talked about the game Boy instruments,
Speaker 4: they're very prevalent in the Cookie Cat instrumental.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is something that you don't necessarily notice
Speaker 1: in the sound mix of the episode, but the sound
Speaker 1: mix of the song on the soundtrack, when he gets
Speaker 1: to the chorus in the background, you're here, Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now he is. He is super duper yummy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I hope so because Stephen had the
Speaker 1: last cookie cats like on Earth, I guess, well.
Speaker 2: Now available nowhere.
Speaker 3: Not at Gerkins. They just sell pickles.
Speaker 1: Now, man Yeah, hence the name.
Speaker 4: We call my cat manic cookie Cat sometimes because she
Speaker 4: loves cookies, which Mia tells me is not a normal
Speaker 4: cat thing. The first time, I was eating some peanut
Speaker 4: butter cookies I made, and Manik was like, let me
Speaker 4: see what you're you're eating.
Speaker 3: Let me look at what you're doing. So I held
Speaker 3: it up for her to sniff it, and then.
Speaker 4: She ate it and it was like freaking cat like
Speaker 4: what it wasn't apparently just a one time thing. Apparently
Speaker 4: anytime I offer her a cookie obviously eddie that doesn't
Speaker 4: have chocolate in it, she will eat it. So we
Speaker 4: we call her cookie Cat because she's she's our little cookie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, tastes sugar. What what is she getting from this experience?
Speaker 5: The appeal and flower, just the texture she likes, the reaction.
Speaker 1: Maybe she's just doing it at the death now.
Speaker 4: No, because when I'm eating cookies and she's not in
Speaker 4: the room, she'll be.
Speaker 1: Like please Yeah. What other any other thoughts on on
Speaker 1: on gem Glow. I mean it's you know, it's a
Speaker 1: fairly straightforward introduction, but it's really effective.
Speaker 3: I thought it was straightforward but effective.
Speaker 2: I mean, like it's the best actually pretty gay. We
Speaker 2: don't get to see the well.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's about a guy with three moms.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's about a guy with three moms who discovers
Speaker 1: that his color motif is pink. He discovers he has
Speaker 1: a defensive power, which again from the beginning, is something
Speaker 1: that they wanted to achieve with this show was a
Speaker 1: different model of masculinity in that Stephen idolizes these these
Speaker 1: three strong women mother slash sister figures, and he himself
Speaker 1: has a more defensive power.
Speaker 3: And yet all out war will break loose.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've never thought of Stephen as a gender.
Speaker 4: No, I mean, I wouldn't have known this when I
Speaker 4: started watching the show, but that was probably obviously another
Speaker 4: thing that appealed to me about about the show and
Speaker 4: the character.
Speaker 1: Right, the gender of it all, I mean, the I
Speaker 1: It's something that I kind of knew but didn't know
Speaker 1: the extent of why it appealed to me. But you know,
Speaker 1: Stephen's clearly a fan of Pink Salmon obviously, Samon, do
Speaker 1: you want to know?
Speaker 5: I think that's a it's a pretty perfect first episode
Speaker 5: of the show.
Speaker 3: But what about the second episode?
Speaker 4: Ella?
Speaker 3: Who has the wiki pulled off?
Speaker 1: You mean the second episode being Laser Light Cannon, the
Speaker 1: second episode of the first season A Stephen Universe that
Speaker 1: aired on November fourth, twenty thirteen, which happens to be
Speaker 1: the same day that the first episode aired, And it
Speaker 1: was written in I know who. This definitely wasn't planned
Speaker 1: by anyone. It was written and storyboarded by Kat Morris
Speaker 1: and one Rebecca Sugar.
Speaker 3: These people have lovely names, that's true, they do. What
Speaker 3: was the what was the Jeff lou was on the
Speaker 3: last one Jeff Lou.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Kat Morris, Jeff Lou, Like they could be Joe Johnston.
Speaker 1: Joe Joe Johnston is just a classic Sunday like that
Speaker 1: sounds like like a Marvel Comics name. Yeah, yeah, all
Speaker 1: Joe Johnson.
Speaker 3: These these names could all be characters in this show. Honestly,
Speaker 3: mm hmmm.
Speaker 4: Speaking of this show, Uh, garn it, are you having
Speaker 4: fun on this slide?
Speaker 2: What you're saying? Yes?
Speaker 3: And french Gard it going down the slide. We don't worry.
Speaker 4: Come on, let's put on your CD.
Speaker 3: Really, come on, you've heard it.
Speaker 1: You come on.
Speaker 3: I know I'm not that tall. I know I'm not
Speaker 3: that smart, but let me let me drive.
Speaker 4: Your I know i'm not that rich.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get my start, so let me drive
Speaker 3: my van into your card.
Speaker 4: Let me drive my van into your card and if
Speaker 4: we look out of place, well baby, that's so okay,
Speaker 4: I'll drive us into outer space.
Speaker 2: T me again. I think I'm cracking it.
Speaker 3: I know I'm spaticy.
Speaker 5: She really had it.
Speaker 2: Your stay.
Speaker 3: Glad Ladd drawn my man into you.
Speaker 2: We have to use it now.
Speaker 3: Boo doo, scubi.
Speaker 1: Dude, I never noticed that Jackie is the I mean
Speaker 1: as she should be. I never noticed that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jackie kind of downplays her influence on Steven Universe.
Speaker 3: She's like, I'm just the line producer and.
Speaker 2: She wouldn't get made without you, your.
Speaker 3: Live producers, like your second in command.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So we just watched Laser Light Canon. I love this episode.
Speaker 1: I mean, this was my favorite episode for a while,
Speaker 1: and of course of early season one. It's uh, it
Speaker 1: just sheds a lot more light on laser lights, human life,
Speaker 1: and particularly laser light. Yeah, well not until the end,
Speaker 1: but it shed sort of a red palette light on
Speaker 1: on on Stephen's home wife, particularly his relationship with his father,
Speaker 1: who we meet in this episode. We meet Greg Universe,
Speaker 1: who you were told Revines.
Speaker 4: So I told my dad to start watching the show
Speaker 4: because I loved that it reminded me so much of
Speaker 4: our bond, and he started watching and then he said, I.
Speaker 3: Only lived in my car for two weeks, Charlie.
Speaker 1: But it's more that he's you know, he's an audio guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's an audio guy.
Speaker 1: If he needed to drag something out of a storage locker, he's.
Speaker 4: The drag things out of it. We've dragged We've dragged
Speaker 4: many a thing out of a storage locker together.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, yeah, it's there's a lot of exposition in
Speaker 3: this one.
Speaker 4: They go rose Quartz and Steved looks at the cabin
Speaker 4: and says, for those just tuning in, that's my mom.
Speaker 4: And then Greg is.
Speaker 3: Like, Steven, could I could I narrate about how I
Speaker 3: met your mother?
Speaker 4: Real quick?
Speaker 1: Yeah? It won't take a whole series, right, you know,
Speaker 1: I rarely just think that that finale did not stick
Speaker 1: the land.
Speaker 3: Uh So Greg is voiced by Tom Sharpling, who is
Speaker 3: what is the show called.
Speaker 4: Why It's the best Show, the best show, which is
Speaker 4: like niche alt comedy radio station podcast.
Speaker 1: Thing out of uh you know East.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's he's got a very strange career. He was
Speaker 4: also a writer on Monk, which had a new had
Speaker 4: a New Jersey based writer's room. Andy Brickman, fellow radio
Speaker 4: guy from New Jersey, didn't want to move to Los Angeles,
Speaker 4: so he's like, no, I'm going to do the first
Speaker 4: New Jersey ricks roup.
Speaker 1: I'd have to move all my stuff.
Speaker 4: And you know, Tom Sharplink sings a song in this episode,
Speaker 4: let Me drive my Van into your Heart. He's not banger, Yes,
Speaker 4: he's not the most trained singer on the staff, but
Speaker 4: Rebecca specifically really in the roughness of his singing, and
Speaker 4: it's like, I think a garage band type music, which
Speaker 4: kind of really contrasts everything else we've heard.
Speaker 1: Suits his character. It's us. It clues us into what
Speaker 1: this character is like, you know, and it does.
Speaker 4: He does have some singing experience because when he was
Speaker 4: in his thirties, I believe he became a kid's pop
Speaker 4: kid amazing. If you've ever heard, I'll play you a
Speaker 4: snippet of it. He is the lead vocalist on the
Speaker 4: Kids Bop cover, the only vocalist there's no kids present
Speaker 4: on the.
Speaker 3: Kids Bop cover of all the small things, you know, I.
Speaker 1: Mean there are some like gremlin types going.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so there are some kids going on and
Speaker 4: on and on and out. But other than that, stop
Speaker 4: you know it, Miss Greg sings the song like this.
Speaker 4: But I love We talked about this with Gravity Falls
Speaker 4: because Jackie Buscarino, first name in the Steven Universe credits,
Speaker 4: is a major role on Gravity Falls because Alex Hirsch
Speaker 4: liked her podcast, and like, I love when the creator's
Speaker 4: taste have that much influence over a show where it's
Speaker 4: like just by watching it, you kind of feel like
Speaker 4: you're sort of not getting to know them but skimming
Speaker 4: their DVN R R.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where they're just like, oh, can we get that?
Speaker 1: Can we get that actor? Can we get that person?
Speaker 1: Oh we can Okay, awesome. I am.
Speaker 5: I went to a Stephen Universe convention. This is my
Speaker 5: side note because I'll bring this up later when Rose
Speaker 5: is introduced. But I was talking to Yes, it was
Speaker 5: I was talking to a lady at that convention who
Speaker 5: asked Rebecca Sugar why she chose those for Steven's parents,
Speaker 5: and reportedly she blushed and said, I ship their voices.
Speaker 4: I get that.
Speaker 1: I get that. I get it too.
Speaker 4: Yeah. There's a great gag at this episode where they
Speaker 4: so so the threat is there's a big old eyeball
Speaker 4: kind of Majora's masking its way towards the Earth, and
Speaker 4: there's this great gag where Garnet keeps throwing Amethyst at
Speaker 4: it and it doesn't seem to be helping at all,
Speaker 4: but we just kind of keep seeing it go in
Speaker 4: the background whenever.
Speaker 1: Both very game for it, like anytime, Like Amethyst keeps
Speaker 1: wanting to be thrown and Garnet does not question like
Speaker 1: she's all right, yes, and so all day yes wouldn't
Speaker 1: be a great number of partner.
Speaker 4: Yes and.
Speaker 1: They're playing with So.
Speaker 4: It's something I always joke about when I watched this episode.
Speaker 4: Obviously not any one's fault. You know that the show
Speaker 4: didn't have us consisted a look yet Pearl is really
Speaker 4: off model.
Speaker 1: If you yeah, I mean so. A lot of times
Speaker 1: these episodes are split down the middle between the two
Speaker 1: board artists, and you know, obviously Rebecca Sugar, being the
Speaker 1: creator of the show, is going to have the more
Speaker 1: tied down drawing to these characters, even when other board
Speaker 1: artists haven't necessarily like gotten the word of like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is how we really want this to look. And
Speaker 1: even then, you know, they do famously have a lot
Speaker 1: of flexibility where as long as you know the character
Speaker 1: is overall recognizable, they are you know, they push expression, and.
Speaker 4: They push expressions with Stephen so well in particular, Yeah,
Speaker 4: he does this wonderful little bobbing his head down and
Speaker 4: like his cheeks are just kind of squishing into his
Speaker 4: lack of neck.
Speaker 1: And his eyeballs like flatten, Like yeah, just delightful.
Speaker 4: Anyone else got something to dress?
Speaker 1: Let's see I liked that. They don't like they save
Speaker 1: the town, but it's still kind. It creates a pretty
Speaker 1: bad situation because instead of one giant eyeball crashing into
Speaker 1: the planet, you have several large chunks crashing into the
Speaker 1: most of Beach Sorry about that?
Speaker 5: What what?
Speaker 1: What's Oh? And of course the bits.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so Steven goes to the fry store as it's
Speaker 4: closing and insists on getting the little chunks that are
Speaker 4: stuck at the bottom of the Stephen an amethysts insist
Speaker 4: on eating the bits, which are the little chunks of
Speaker 4: very fried fries stuck at the bottom.
Speaker 2: Of the bits.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we meet, uh, the owner of the fry shop.
Speaker 3: I don't think we've learned his name yet, so it's guy.
Speaker 2: And see where it goes, A bit of a fry man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Yeah. I love just seeing more of this town.
Speaker 3: I love learning this lore just so slowly, it just
Speaker 3: kind of seep it in there.
Speaker 4: Because now we know Stephen's mom is a gem named
Speaker 4: Rose Quartz, and Steven's dad is a human musician who
Speaker 4: was touring and stopped in Beach City when he fell
Speaker 4: in love with her.
Speaker 1: An alligator not an alligator.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, I think my favorite visual gags
Speaker 5: are in the storage unit.
Speaker 2: I really like the there's so by t shirt cannon's cannon.
Speaker 1: The biggest laugh of it.
Speaker 3: That's hilarious.
Speaker 4: There's so many good little easter eggs because the storage.
Speaker 4: Greg is like an absolute hoarder because he lives in
Speaker 4: his van and clearly at one point lived in a
Speaker 4: much larger even an apartment would be larger place, and
Speaker 4: so he just has all of this stuff that he
Speaker 4: has no space for, like six mattresses's a lot bigger
Speaker 4: on the inside, stew balls, tennis ball's croquet set, golfs
Speaker 4: that he sees himself was the type of person who
Speaker 4: would go eventually. There's a little cameo from a super
Speaker 4: mushroom from Super Mario with a face on it.
Speaker 5: I also really like Stephen just running back and hitting
Speaker 5: the drum for a second, the bongo the bongo and
Speaker 5: the pulling out of the light cannon and everything comes
Speaker 5: with it and then sells in place.
Speaker 2: It's such a good joke.
Speaker 4: Greg owns so many extension cords that it's just easier
Speaker 4: for him to use them as rope.
Speaker 3: One of them is like clearly ripped.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I said, working together. They're pretty strong.
Speaker 5: The visual jokes are just so good, Like you can
Speaker 5: tell this is board driven because like the timing on
Speaker 5: the jokes.
Speaker 4: Is so good. And they can't fit the laser light
Speaker 4: cannon in the in the van, so they put it
Speaker 4: on a radio flyer and it immediately crushes through the bottom.
Speaker 3: So then the van is just loudly behind.
Speaker 1: I might as well. I've not had the wagon at all.
Speaker 3: Greg can't go over fifty miles an hour. I can't drive.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that van would get that fast
Speaker 1: without Yeah, pretty crappy, awesome paint job, though, I gotta say.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, so the paint job is going to make
Speaker 4: it faster. L listen, I've seen enough of these things.
Speaker 1: They didn't put flames on the side though, No, right, that's.
Speaker 5: Not his shticks are underneath, are underneath, They're underneath the
Speaker 5: light cannon from sparking on the road.
Speaker 3: Oh yep, right, good thing, good thing. There's no yeah.
Speaker 1: All the shots of the townspeople, just the shots of
Speaker 1: the townspeople just staring at it, like this van dragging
Speaker 1: this giant cannon along along the road as let me
Speaker 1: drive my van into your heart is playing and also
Speaker 1: as the giant Red Eye almost crashes into the planet,
Speaker 1: killing everyone didn't though barely, just most and property damage yeah,
Speaker 1: just just a car. Yeah, it's fine, the doc fine.
Speaker 1: I think we've talked about most of Laser Light Cannon.
Speaker 4: On a similar note, the next episode of this podcast
Speaker 4: is already out on Patreon.
Speaker 3: You gotta pay the so h yeah you all. This
Speaker 3: episode's this.
Speaker 4: We're gonna be releasing monthly from this point on on
Speaker 4: the Patreon feed. This is just a you've just been
Speaker 4: listening to a little preview of our new Patreon show.
Speaker 1: It's in a moosee bousch, and I trust that your
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Speaker 4: If you don't have three dollars to send us, get
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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna be I'm not gonna.
Speaker 4: Tell on you.
Speaker 1: We won't even know.
Speaker 3: No, we won't be able to tell, but God will know.
Speaker 4: But I mean, if if you bought a CD at
Speaker 4: a store for three dollars and you showed your friend
Speaker 4: the music, that's not stealing. So I think we need
Speaker 4: to kind of abide by those rules with digital birth.
Speaker 1: If you send you know, if if a podcast gets
Speaker 1: sent from say, one peer to another peer. I think
Speaker 1: I think that's as long as.
Speaker 4: As long as it's not like actually completely interrupting our income.
Speaker 4: But true, yes, like, don't tweet, don't tweet out the
Speaker 4: MP three, but you could send it to your friends.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's gonna be.
Speaker 4: Twenty two minute blocks of eleven episodes as they aired
Speaker 4: together on.
Speaker 3: Ri air once a month.
Speaker 1: Don't send it to your rich friends.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, the rich friends, they're gonna pay up. Well,
Speaker 4: the rich friends can give us ten dollars to.
Speaker 2: Be two hundred two hundred a month, you're rich.
Speaker 4: No, But so if they give us ten dollars, they'll
Speaker 4: be able to sit in a discord call and type
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Speaker 4: we forget anything, In case you'll you've done more research
Speaker 4: than we have, because we're not exactly fully going Time
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Speaker 1: Here and all very burnt out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the forty dollar tier, why you could guess on
Speaker 4: the podcast once a year.
Speaker 3: Indeed, I don't expect.
Speaker 1: You to do that.
Speaker 4: I'm not asking you to give us forty dollars. It's
Speaker 4: just an option that exists.
Speaker 1: There's already an option on our Patreon, so we just
Speaker 1: retro fitted it to suit this podcast.
Speaker 4: Do we want to do plugs or yeah, I plugging
Speaker 4: the Patreon enough of a plug.
Speaker 1: I have a bunch of extension chords we can do somewhere.
Speaker 3: Some of them are kind of ripped. I don't worry
Speaker 3: about very about.
Speaker 5: I think we've got at least we've got at least
Speaker 5: three plugs, so we should be okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah. For instance, you know you can find me at
Speaker 1: drawn without ref on Instagram and whatever Twitter is now
Speaker 1: and maybe even other places who knows, who cares. My
Speaker 1: website is where most of my stuff, you know, can
Speaker 1: easily be found being elichezri likely dot com or should
Speaker 1: I say dot com like my other podcast, Mystery Shack podcast.
Speaker 1: Another one my other other podcast, Yeah, that being the
Speaker 1: Matrix Reclamations that I do with the Lovely Hope and
Speaker 1: Lichner and we we we do that also once a month,
Speaker 1: give or take.
Speaker 4: It's funny how often people are lovely when they collaborate.
Speaker 1: Well there, I mean, I can't tell because I'm not
Speaker 1: in the room with them. I assume they're lovely when
Speaker 1: when they're not collaborating.
Speaker 3: You have seen them, they've been lovely, they could.
Speaker 1: Be, could be secretly even, but probably not.
Speaker 3: Shelby.
Speaker 5: You can find me at Shelby Sessler on just about everything, Instagram, whatever.
Speaker 2: The site formerly known as Twitter, TikTok.
Speaker 5: YouTube is a shelbanie Va I think and shelbanie cosplay
Speaker 5: in a couple of places too. I'm just I'm in
Speaker 5: a lot of places, in a couple of things, but
Speaker 5: mostly just my name.
Speaker 2: That's my website too.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be talking about Zelda a lot on these
Speaker 4: Steven Universe podcasts, more so than I did on the
Speaker 4: Gravity False one, as you've already heard, I am, though.
Speaker 1: Maybe the same amount as you did in that one
Speaker 1: episode of the Gravity False podcast.
Speaker 4: That's True, which kind of spun off into its own
Speaker 4: series separate from this podcast. I decided I wanted to
Speaker 4: keep making Zelda content, and I have a web series
Speaker 4: called Well Abridgemy. Princess Ella helps write it and has
Speaker 4: a little voice cameos here and there. Shelby co stars
Speaker 4: in it. It is an act of gender expression where
Speaker 4: I get to voice the non binary coded link not
Speaker 4: non binary coded in the show, but I can in
Speaker 4: yours shall.
Speaker 3: As of nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1: But not non binary and coded in the video.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, a canonically non binary character and a woman.
Speaker 4: I wanted to void those in kind of a swashbuckling setting,
Speaker 4: And so I built this whole series around just being
Speaker 4: like me as a show. So like, if you like
Speaker 4: my vibes, you'll like this show. If you don't like
Speaker 4: my vibes, you won't like this show.
Speaker 1: It's basically while recontextualizing that horrible eighties legend of Alda
Speaker 1: cartoon in the process in a very Harvey bird minesque way.
Speaker 4: Did I did I ever tell you guys about the
Speaker 4: person who created the Celta cartoon. No, So Bob Forward
Speaker 4: Robert L. Forward, who is the son of a very
Speaker 4: well known science fiction author, created the Zelda cartoon as
Speaker 4: well as Transformers, Beast Wars, and underwear the shocks your balls.
Speaker 1: Okay, now where would you rank those?
Speaker 5: In?
Speaker 4: Well, so, Transformers be Sports. I have heard great things
Speaker 4: about the Zelda cartoon. It's all right for the time,
Speaker 4: like nineteen eighty nine cartoon, Like obviously link is a
Speaker 4: creepo creep shops at the Creepo Depot. But yeah, I
Speaker 4: would place then I would place underwear that shocks your balls.
Speaker 4: A patent that's held in his name. Yes, really, and
Speaker 4: then under that I would place the first episode of
Speaker 4: Captain En. I would rather have my balls shot than
Speaker 4: watch it. My newest episode of Well Bridgeman Princess uses
Speaker 4: footage from Captain End that I uploaded so and finished
Speaker 4: the episode so I never have to look at again.
Speaker 4: I'm also in a relatively new escape from Valt Disney
Speaker 4: on The Fox and the Hound.
Speaker 3: But that one was pretty funny.
Speaker 4: But then, one of the funniest things I've ever done
Speaker 4: was the episode on Once Upon a Time where I
Speaker 4: was brought in as the resident expert.
Speaker 1: Sort of like on a on a procedural crime drama
Speaker 1: when they bring in someone who's an expert on the cry.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, yeah, that's Rupple stilt Skin. He's also
Speaker 3: the Beast and TikTok the Crocodile, and Carl from up.
Speaker 1: She has Wild and the Devil.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, I adhd. It's taking me a long time
Speaker 4: to say a couple of things. I also stream as
Speaker 4: the link from will Abridgmy Princess on twitch dot tv
Speaker 4: slash well and then the letter X excuse me, yes really,
Speaker 4: every time I plug this, someone's like, oh, that's a
Speaker 4: funny little gag. No, I have an eighties cartoon link
Speaker 4: YouTuber model and.
Speaker 1: The we wrote it in as a joke into.
Speaker 4: The like just because it's a joke, just because it's
Speaker 4: one joke that's funny to hear once, doesn't mean I won't.
Speaker 3: Continue it to the point where it's exhaustic every weekend.
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Speaker 2: But we're still working on a theme, so I think
Speaker 2: that you should keep bless.
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