A podcast to honor the gods.

This better come with a sacrifice.

Dave X Media.

I didn't.

Know we were brothers that's weird because because you're dating my clone so does that mean.

This is true.

Maybe we're all brothers.

We can't kiss.

Well, I mean it's hosted by your favorite jam buds, Robert.

And Charlie?

Hey, Charlie, I don't know.

Hey, I sent you a message before we started recording.

Was the message received?

No, no, it was not.

I I missed your message.

I I'm sorry to have missed your call.

Well, the message was that our special guest for this episode is my boyfriend.

Hello.

Hello.

Hi, Mac.

Hi, Robert.

Hi, Charlie.

Hello.

It's me again.

It's you again.

I apologize to the listeners of the audio may or may not sound wonky.

Mac and I are sharing a microphone.

It happens.

Sometimes.

Sometimes the audio just be like that.

As you, as astute listeners of the bits will remember, the last time Mac was here was on Pride episode featuring him and Abby.

We also so at that point, shared a microphone.

Yeah, and it was fine then, so we're fine now the.

Same exact microphone actually.

I brought my mic with me.

I brought my mic with me to to Charlie's house.

Yeah, sure.

That that was almost a full year ago now.

I just remember, yeah, I remember there were four of us on one microphone.

And it just made me very glad I don't edit this podcast so.

God, So Mac, you chose this episode 20 billion years ago.

Why did you do this episode?

Because I specifically said I wanted to be on the first episode that Patti Lupone appeared.

Yes, also the the the generic, like who are you?

Why are you here?

Throwing your pronouns if you want.

I'm here because I'm dating Robert and because I love Patti, Lupone proned under key him.

Sure, we'll go with that.

Amazing, beautiful, wonderful.

Also, this is a 10 out of 10 episode.

It's also like, yes, I'm here because it's Patti Lupone, but also like I fucking love Peridot so it works out really well.

And I'm very paradot coded, so that's.

Very incredibly paradot coded.

I feel paradot coded.

Do you love Charlie Silent?

I don't know if we know each other well enough that I can say I love you yet, but I do.

I do like you.

I.

Don't know man, you you've listened to like 70 episodes of this one blabberon.

I feel like.

You tend to know more because I do sometimes listen to the Scooby-doo podcast.

I think Mac knows me better than I know Mac is the is the problem here.

Probably this is this is a.

What's our podcast?

And we'll get to know each other, really.

Well, what's, what's the word for things when you listen to podcasts?

Really.

Yeah, there we go.

It's a parasocial relationship and yet it's also my friends boyfriend.

So that's so weird.

Who has been in your house and that we have eaten dinners?

God.

It was the weirdest thing when I started dating Robert and I listened to all the Pot, like their podcasts, and I was like, you're meant to be like, Oh yeah, my friend Charlie, my friend Darren.

I was like, Oh yeah, I know that person.

Like I know them really well.

Never spoke to them.

You've briefly spoken to Darien when I had to be like on a video call in Idaho.

Yes, but I've still never met Darien.

True.

You've met Charlie though yes.

How would you rank meaning Charlie on a scale of one to 10?

I'll.

Give it a 10 out of 10.

Hell yeah.

Here, let's go through quickly all the all the podcasting friends you've met of mine.

Let's give them a quick one to 10 Rent Charlie to 10 Erica.

10 out of 10.

Owen 10 out of 10, Emily, 10 out of 10, Phoebe 10 out ten.

I'm not going to give anyone not a 10 out of 10.

Boo Rigged voting system.

Rigged voting system.

I I don't think that's a bad thing though.

I think that's just good your.

Friends are nice people.

Yeah, that's why I'm friends with them.

Shocking, I know.

Crazy.

If you had a bad friend, I don't think you would introduce your boyfriend to that person.

I used to have a bad friend.

That's what we call friends with benefits.

I said bad friend not dead friend.

So hey babe, message received which happens to be the episode we're looking at today, Season 2 episode 25 of Stevie Universe which premiere January 7th, 2016.

Now, before we continue on with the episode Charlie, did the postman bring us any post?

Hey Mr.

Postman, bring me a post.

Bring me the post I love the most.

Oh shit folks, they only sing that when there is post.

So Charlie, what is the post today?

I'm.

Not crying today.

I'm so happy I received this early this morning and I was like, fuck yeah, Robert, this is perfect timing.

At the time we're recording this, we just released the first episode that started like the whole hey guys, send us mail or Charlie will cry bit that last year for like two or three episodes.

So I I'm glad to know that guilt tripping our audience seemed to work.

Yes, this post is from our our lovely friend from the DXM discord to Kenna.

Again, always so weird when I see the e-mail and that's not what your name says your name is.

This is not your legal name that I'm seeing on the e-mail.

It's your legal name is to Kenna.

I'm I'm just I'm just telling you there.

It's titled Sigh post.

Oh boy, oh boy, that's gonna be a good one.

Dear Charles and I, she wants me to roll the R.

Roberto.

Roberto the R Charlie.

That's definitely, that's definitely the R role of someone who enjoys their tacos the way you do.

I am too white for this shit, OK?

There's a reason I'm not attempting.

Come on, roll your Rs, it'll be funny.

Nope, come out for me.

No Roberto, no thank you.

Fine.

You can know why no one can see this?

Because we don't record the video portion of our recording progress.

But because of my ceiling light, it overexposes the fuck out of me and subsequently Max in the camera view and Mac is essentially blending into the wall like the white part of the wall.

I was going to say the wall behind you is black, actually.

Thank you SO.

Charlie, no fucking pulse.

What?

Mac is actually just completely white.

Actually, there's there's there's nothing but white.

He might be whiter than you.

I don't remember if we did that test when we saw each other.

Oh, I don't remember if we did either.

We're going to have to do that again someday.

We're going to have to figure that out.

Well, we're head babe.

We're going to Chicago, like right now.

Let's go.

All right.

Hell yeah.

Cool.

I have a couch.

For you, I was going to say we've never been to Chicago.

We have once on a layover.

And you did not visit me.

How?

How dare you?

Yeah, we hate you, Charlie.

No, we don't.

Anyway, read the fucking e-mail.

My God.

I will read the fucking e-mail.

OK OK, so I don't send posts because I just stream of consciousness.

I just stream of consciousness my thoughts on the discord or answer the question on Instagram.

Y'all can always read any of that out if you want.

We could do that.

We could always do that someday because Takana does always respond to every single one of our question posts on Instagram.

I love her for that.

I always forget to, you know, post them at correct moments but she always answers.

Personally I think my answers are a riot.

Yes they are.

Also this e-mail is now super old since I took a week to listen to the episode and another to write the e-mail and then listen to another episode.

And I know you're recording in advance anyway about proposals.

Oh God.

So I was living in Germany when my boyfriend suggested we take a weekend trip.

I came up with ideas and he said if we are if we're going to go that far we should go to Paris because we won't be able to see everything in our already planned trip to Paris.

I was like cool.

The night before we hung out with friends who all knew the proposal was coming and drank it enough that we were hungover on the train the next day.

I had no clue.

I didn't dress up but asked in front of the Eiffel Tower in a very sweet way.

Although was it was in public it was private for me because I didn't know any of those people.

A proposal shouldn't come as a shock unless your person has said it's something they want.

Don't set them up to feel like they have to say yes.

Like if all your friends having one friend.

Hidden way to capture the moment is really nice though.

See, I've been like, hey babe, that when I propose, what do we have like your friends hiding so that they take photos and stuff and he's like, no, I hate my friends.

That's not what I said.

I'm paraphrasing.

You were like, no, I want it to be an intimate, private moment.

Because you asked like, oh, what if like all of our friends and family were there and I was like, no, please don't do that.

But he's what have I asked you to marry me like in a Cracker Barrel?

Maybe.

Oh God.

But I think there's probably better ways to do it than the cracker.

But thank you to Takana for sending us this lovely e-mail.

Oh, it's not.

It's not over.

That would be halfway through.

Oh my God.

I made bits the other day by cutting up fries and pan frying them in butter.

It was so so tasty.

But like Steven, I am a big fan of the bits.

Taketa, you need to, you need to proofread these just a little bit.

It's fine.

Question, what is something your parents had to teach you so you weren't afraid of it?

I'm going to go with heaven so I wouldn't be afraid of death.

But Mormon heaven has a lot of rules and is stressful, so that didn't work.

Big RIP Taketa.

Well, not ripped, because I don't think she wants to find out anytime soon if she's getting into Mormon heaven.

Yeah, why is fascism bad?

I mean so many reasons but I'm going to go with their meth of control being limiting knowledge.

The people in power want you uninformed.

There's something wrong with what they're doing.

Book bans, policies to control birth rates, controlling what schools can teach are all signs of this happening.

I'm bad at robots, but here's proof of my proposal happening the way I said it did.

There's a picture of her and her now husband.

They're very cute.

They're in front of the Eiffel Tower.

Do you want more nonsense emails like this?

Because I can do that.

And that's the end we love.

All the.

Emails.

I love it.

It's beautiful, it's wonderful, I do remember her saying earlier today.

In fact, in Discord I learned that because of you, although my Instagram was created after I was already engaged because she was looking for this picture.

Well, it's funny that Max here.

Hey Mac.

You're not proposing me on the podcast.

That would be so funny if I did that.

I thought, I thought that was going to happen too.

Oh man, now we're already so derailed.

I between getting back on track and getting through this episode and proposing to you on the podcast, like which one do you think I'm picking?

It's a solid 5050 how often you fake propose.

True, I should fake propose in a restaurant and get us like a bottle of 1.

Should I've been telling you to do that?

But you need a ring for that.

We need like like a cheapo wing wing Wing should kill yourself anyway.

Wild Wings, OH.

My God I hate, I hate you both.

There's gotta be if you're going to propose.

In the podcast you need to video record the podcast for that one episode.

Or the podcast.

Hey, Charlie.

Hey, Robert, Can we talk about Steven Universe?

Do we want to?

Is that what we're here to do?

Is that why we have a podcast called The Bits also now I want to make The Bits.

I'm still not over that.

No, I'm here to get bullied by my friend and my boyfriend who are essentially the same person.

Feel that happens every day anyway.

God damn, recording it this time.

It's gonna happen man, I already.

Bullied you earlier today because you said you were wearing a dad hat and you were not wearing a dad hat.

That was a flat top.

That's too fancy.

For that dog hat.

Dog hat?

Yeah, the dog hat.

Oh, the only dog hat I have.

What the fuck were you going?

Oh, for what?

Because I was picturing like like a like a hat with like dog ears on it.

The damn mean page hat kind of.

Damn I love how even furry.

Hats do you own?

1/2.

What other furry hat do you?

I don't know if I threw it out or not.

I used to like League of Legends a lot, so I had a Teemo hat.

Yeah, leave me alone.

Anyway, so glad I got you.

Out of that, yeah.

I'm going to download League of Legends right now as we record this and play a game.

So the episode starts with the gems.

They're all outside the barn inspecting the drill.

Steven spots Peridot walking to the barn and he's suspicious of her because she took that diamond shaped object from the moon base.

Yeah, You remember that last episode where it was like, oh, what's going to happen?

She took a thing.

Drama, Drama.

All I know is that Peridot failed her sneak, sneak check, stealth check, whatever the fuck it is because like she she successfully took the item but she went not unnoticed.

She she passed the stealth check, but I think Stevens passive perception is just too high, I guess because no one else noticed, only him.

Sorry, we're gonna, we're gonna get into D&D things because you were like, hey, what if we started AD and D group in the Seaweed Brain server?

I may be starting AD and D group.

How many clubs do you have?

Just the one.

Just.

With just ten people.

Yeah, we fine.

10 people responded.

We already have.

Book club and I can have D&D too, maybe?

Bro book club might also turn into like hey because typically there are two nights where everyone's free so that that night my alternate weekly between a movie night and a game night.

He enters the barn and leads Peridot to the car.

I love how Peridot fell for the oldest trick in the book, AKA getting locked in a car.

Listen, listen, OK, I the reason I was I we started this episode and I was like, this is a 10 out of 10 episode.

Like everything, there are iconic lines, there are iconic facial expressions and this is like very plot relevant and very character arc relevant like.

And also Patti Lupone in here.

And also Patti Lupone's in here.

What?

What isn't good about this episode?

Nothing.

Everything is amazing about this episode.

Right.

So he's, well, the way he gets her locked in is that like, first of all, like they're just chilling in the car and he's like, hey, tell me about the diamonds and paradox.

Oh my God, great.

The diamonds are incredible people.

They're like the best of the gem race.

They're perfect and my loyalty is to Yellow Diamond forever and ever.

Yeah, he's like trying to distract her with something that she loves to talk about anyway.

And because he knows that, you know, that's he he's probably figured out that that is a Direct Line special interest.

Like, anyway, yeah, it is her special interest, truly.

But he's probably figured it out because like that it's it's the it's the diamond symbol.

It's got all four of them.

It's literally shaped like a diamond itself.

And she's keeping it very close to her chest.

So what could it be?

What's possible?

She's like, I would never forsake yellow diamond.

I mean, we have this little, you know, alliance, but Yellow Diamond is everything, everything to me.

Is Yellow Diamond mommy?

Is that the the the statement we're making here today?

Is she mommy?

Mac, you are the Patti Lupone expert.

Is she mommy?

Absolutely.

I think she's mother.

Yes.

You know what?

That's actually better?

She's mother.

She, she feels like a mother.

And this is when Steven is like, well, I, I guess this means you're going to betray me.

Child safety lock bitch.

I I want to pretend like I am a 20 year old 28 year old adult who can escape a child lock, but sometimes it just catches me off guard.

It really does.

Now see it coming.

No.

But it is in fact the the the strongest thing that can contain her, is it not?

But also, she calls herself the great and lovable paradot.

Tell me that's not iconic.

I feel like that is a poke at like the fans.

The writers definitely knew that Paradot was going to give him a fan favorite to some people at least, like a lot of the fan base.

So they're like, you can't lock me away.

I'm the lovable paradigm.

It's almost like so much of their fan base was gay and neurodivergent.

Hey babe, are you gay and neurodivergent?

Unfortunately.

You didn't become a fan until like last year.

Two years ago.

Has it been two years already?

I started watching the show when we started dating.

Holy shit, we've.

Been dating almost two years.

Holy Share.

For.

Holy shit.

Therefore, therefore, that's more math than I've seen you do in our entire relationship.

Why are you rude to?

Me, because I love you.

Because that's how Robert shows love.

It's.

Honest to God it is Robert showing affection without being a bully.

Challenge impossible.

Also I I really wish I could screenshot this exact moment from the show of Like Paradot.

Like her, her shadowed face with the little eyes right while she's in the car.

There's such gremlin.

It's kind of giving that moment when Yisma gets a shit ton of potions dropped in her and she's like, I am this great powerful monster and then she's a little Kitty cat.

Yes it does.

Absolutely.

It's also giving Ominous Triangle, but with gremlin eyes.

What was the the what was the thing that Steven called paradise when she was at the foot of his bed?

Ominous triangle at the foot of my bed.

Yeah, why the fuck are you shaking your head like you remembered that?

Because that's who Charlie gave a pro .2.

Oh yeah.

And I'm yes I did actually tracks the pro points.

Better than Charlie.

Hey, Lamel.

How dare you.

I'm trying to write them down as we go.

They're on the.

Schedule.

You're probably doing better than me because my issue with tracking the pro points has become that I usually listen to this at work and almost every time that the pro points section has come up I've been busy so I just scribble them on a post it and so I just have I think like 5 or 6 post.

Its in my bag with the Pearl points and shorthand that I have yet to put into the Google doc.

So we're doing great.

I'm I'm trying to go into a backlog, so I have like all of the questions and all of the Pearl points from this season and last season, like by episode right now and.

It's the issue with my Google sheet I never tracked like what's from what?

Episode.

It's just I'm trying to do that and then like then if I have to also put it into like, I don't want to mess with your your system over there as well.

I I appreciate that me and my loose post it.

I would probably make it a separate one to see if if we're if we're getting the math correctly.

Hell yeah.

All right, ominous triangle.

What's better than one independent study, two independent studies?

And those studies are just the the pro points segment of the like 6th best Stevie Universe podcast.

No, I think we're the best.

We're the best in our hearts.

That's.

All that matters.

Yeah, I I'm getting like Percy Jackson podcast Deja Vu because I gave a quick search around to be like, are there other Stevie Universe podcasts that are currently active?

And yes, there are.

There are like three other ones.

I did not know that.

Neither did I, but like off the Record, hey, maybe we should hit him up and be like, hey, you guys want to collab on an episode?

Should man let's set up some Stevie Universe podcast.

Let's just make more friends.

That taught me to make friends.

Let's.

Make a League of Steven Universe podcast.

God discord Surf God.

Not a kid.

Not a kid.

Very familiar.

Well I was going to say not again because we the league is such a dumb name actually excuse.

Me.

Excuse me, That is the league's at least a less cringier name than the friend group I had from college.

We call ourselves the Savages.

My my friend group from college keeps changing our our our our group chat name.

Right now it's called Only Friends.

That's funny, Steven shows the communicator to the gems because he like locked Peridot in the car in the barn and Pearl is shocked that Peridot took it.

Amethyst lost all her respect and Steven is like OK, we have to teach Peridot the value of life and how we we, we try to teach Peridot that life good.

But she decided not to listen to those lessons.

Garden is like, even though it's great that's even try to help, sometimes people just can't be helped and they don't deserve the patience.

This can apply to a certain group of people.

Hey guys, fuck fascism anyway.

Yeah, fuck fascism.

He did, you know, kind of threaten to break it to figure out what the heck it was.

That is an interrogation tactics right there, Steven.

He he did some good shit.

Also another.

I didn't hear you say fuck fascism.

Oh, fuck fascism.

Thank you.

You're.

Welcome.

Good good shit.

Fuck fascism.

Also, another important frame from this episode is Steven putting his hood on his head and pulling pull it.

What are those things called?

You know what I'm talking about pulling the drawstrings and then his his poofy hair and everything.

Tell me that's not the most iconic little little boy face.

I love him and his little grouchiness.

I feel like the most iconic little boy face is probably a cursed phrase to say.

The most iconic Steven face.

There you go, that works better.

So Pearl's like, oh, you know, I'm going to try to cheer him up about how, hey, taking the commuter care was the right thing to do.

And then suddenly, for no fucking reason, Peridot like, emerges out of the barn with her giant mech.

How did she figure out how to roll down the window of the truck?

She, she rolled lock picking and I don't know, somehow she got in.

Maybe she broke the window, who knows?

That feels more logical than her picking the child lock.

Although wait, wait, she she does take out the door.

Is the window broken on the door?

I don't know.

She applied logic, is what she says.

So she rolled the window down.

Yeah, the window is rolled down on the door.

That's what she fucking did.

Crazy attention to the detail.

You're welcome.

Yeah, so she's down here.

Giant Mac.

The Gems try to fight her, but Paradox steals A communicator.

Amethyst, I'm going to say this sentence was just straight as possible.

Amethyst angrily turns into a helicopter.

How else do you turn into a helicopter?

The way Dog copter does.

He doesn't turn into a helicopter.

He is a helicopter.

His name is Dog Copter.

Like that's his last name.

Mr.

Copter We I had a whole discussion about this on the podcast.

That's just his state of being.

He doesn't turn into that.

He's just he's just a little guy.

But yeah, no.

Angrily turns into a helicopter and the gems chase Peridot.

I do love how we get the return of Garnet stretchy hands, which is something that not a common power, but she does have stretchy hands.

She to to quote my life as a teenage robot.

She has stretchy arms and extendo fingers.

Yes.

I mean, it's just shape shifting like any of them could technically do that.

And Steven is just like, oh why oh why was I so nice to her?

I love this episode and Stevens just like.

What was it mean?

I love how I love how pearls like that's OK, you can't feel bad now.

Feel bad after we get her and we go back to the temple.

Exactly.

Sometimes you need that kind of advice where it's like, I know you feel bad, you can feel bad later.

Right now we have stuff to do time for.

It Yeah, we got to deal with the plot right now, Steven.

OK, later you can feel bad about it, but right now, what's happening?

So get in the car, get in the helicopter, get in the Amethyst.

Statements that I've never been said in mine in your entire life until now.

You're welcome.

So after a lot of struggling for the communicator, they keep fighting Stevens.

Like dude, I wasted all my time teaching you to be like good and paradox like it's not my problem you have emotions and sympathy and then the communicator gets activated so the gems have to hide like immediately.

The way that she gets out of the robot through the arm.

I didn't know you could do that bro.

I.

That feels illegal.

I imagine that's like not a generic like mech thing to do that you have like a little exit that goes after the arm.

Probably not, but that's what Peridot wanted for her mech, so that's what she did.

Yeah, it's probably specifically designed for her that way and her tiny body that she's getting used to right now.

Boy, and now Bubsy's she's here on symbol.

First there's yellow Pearl, who was like excuse me, this is an official diamond line.

Who the fuck are you?

And then?

Yeah, do all pearls know each other?

Oh, wait, that's that.

That's set up.

That's, that's for something later.

That's for sad later.

She actually does know her though.

Yes, but but hey, hey Mac, who shows up?

Patti Lupone.

Yes, or Yellow Diamond.

Close enough, Sir.

Yes, I do remember.

I don't know if it was this episode specifically or one of the next couple ones that Yellow Diamond appears on Texting you in all caps.

Why didn't you tell me Patti Lupone was in this?

Because I clopped the voice immediately and I was like, no, surely this can't be.

And so I started Googling who's the voice yet I was like talking Patty Lupo.

And I was like.

How the hell did?

This Cartoon Network show get Patti Lupo and what a get.

I was beside myself.

Patti side quests.

Listen, this cell phone is just doing side quests now.

They got a lot of people on this show that is like so weird to have gotten.

I realized that once I started because like, do Google, like, oh, who voices this person in this show?

You get like the Google search, which we'll call it recommendations of like, oh, who's the voice of so and so.

And I was like, because Kyle Poem was the only person who was like, I know that voice, but really, they're here too.

What the fuck?

It's like, it was very surprising.

Estelle is on this show.

Nicki Minaj is on this show.

For some reason.

Her name?

Do we have to pay her again?

We don't have to pay her.

We're not cartoon.

No, we're.

Hell yeah, brother.

So she asked Peridot what's going on.

Peridot said that she failed her mission and that her ship was destroyed in an accident and that the cluster is to emerge shortly.

Which does please Yellow Diamond because it's like, hey, good job Peridot.

You did one thing correctly.

You made sure that the cluster is still clustering.

Good, good job you.

You did one thing, but actually you failed in most of your missions so.

Task failed successfully.

Peridots to be her best.

And the way that Peridot is trying to be like the Earth is full of life and all of this stuff, like we shouldn't destroy it, you know, Can we, can we not have the cluster emerge?

Can we stop that?

Can we not have the cluster emerge?

Can we stop that because there's life on Earth?

There's so many things here.

And OK, the mirroring between now and the the later things that we learned about Rose and Pink and how Pink tried this.

She tried the communication route with the diamonds.

Her pull meant nothing to them.

Why would they listen to a fucking paradot?

I I do love how because of how the show is and how they introduced us, the character Paradot, we're like, Oh yeah, it's just Paradot.

If you say Steven Paradot from Steven Universe, you think of the one singular character.

But I do love how again, hey, fuck fascism, that when Paradot's like my diamond, it's me Paradot.

She's like which Paradot?

And she has to say her, her facet, her cut all of that bullshit.

Government name.

Yeah, it's ridiculous.

Yeah, I.

Want to know how many gems chose new names after the fascism was gone?

Good.

Question because like choosing a name while the fascism is currently active is like frowned upon.

You're like, no, you are a Peridot, but you are a certain cut and clarity and whatever.

But it's like you could choose your own name, so that makes you unique and not part of like this whole fascist system, so.

But also what that because we have like we have Garna, amethyst and Pearl and they just go by Garna, amethyst and Pearl.

I mean, they don't have to differentiate themselves because they're not among a whole bunch of other rooms like all the other ones.

I'm just, I'm just thinking about that because they do hang out with each other.

And then paradise spending like the rest of the Colby and like, listen, we can't destroy the Earth.

And then finally yellow diamonds, Like listen, you fucked up a bajillion times.

The least you could do is sit there, wait for the ship to get you, and then let the cluster destroy the Earth.

Do I make myself clear?

No, you clawed.

And then the iconic face that Yellow Diamond makes, which is absolutely a fucking Stevie Universe name like that.

That is peak right there.

The space giraffe.

She is the space giraffe.

Also another iconic face is Yellow Pearl.

The entire time that Yellow Diamond was talking to Peridot, she's just got this like smirk like he.

Like the Kitty face, kind of.

Yeah, it is Evil Kitty face so.

And then Paradot's like Paradot out.

Like she's a fucking rapper like.

Paradot out the crystal gems are like woo you did it, you disobeyed Yellow Diamond.

Meanwhile she's freaking the fuck out.

She's also like hey can someone hold this?

Why it's?

It can be exploded remotely and then it starts blinking.

Of course it can be like, of course, wouldn't it?

We put it in a bubble, Garnet throws it, and it explodes in the air.

And you know what?

Steven is so fucking happy.

I'm so glad that he's over his little emo grouchy boy phase of the episode, because then he gets to be like, you're a crystal gem, you're my bestie and we get to hug and then the star closes out on Earth.

And the episode ends.

And Earth is a certain fate.

This is low key reminding me.

I mean, that's a different vibe, but it's reminding me of the scene in Infinity War where Iron Man is like, hey, Spider Man, cluck cluck, you're an Avenger, you're going to forget the spoiler, so I don't care.

OK, yeah, I haven't seen Infinity War yet.

You have not.

We are.

We just saw Homecoming last night or like this week, you still have Black Panther.

You already saw Ragnarok and I think that's it.

And then I think after that, is Infinity War an end game?

Too many of these.

Fucking movies.

How do you think we feel?

There's a new one that that just came out.

Liam invited me to a special screening in Manhattan and I'm like, dude, I'm not driving the Manhattan at like 6 in the to be there at like 6:00 in the afternoon.

Robert Yeah.

Are you making Mac watch all of the MCU content or just the movies?

I cannot fathom, I cannot fathom forcing this man to sit down and watch a Marvel television show.

Because there is one.

I I am interested in Agatha all along.

Or where it's like, is that the name of it?

Agatha all along.

You know why?

Because Patty Lupone's in it.

I'm aware you.

Know.

You know.

You know what, Charlie?

You're aware.

You know what Charlie thought the second they heard Patti Lupone in the show in Agatha all along.

They're like, wait a minute, that's Yellow Diamond.

You need to familiarize yourself with what else Patti Lupone has done.

Do what?

Outside of the past like 10 years?

You should yes icon the legend.

It's so much funnier to be like this.

You know, it's even funnier, Charlie.

What if we went to the Crystal Temple?

For some Crystal Temple trivia.

Yeah.

As the diamond communicator is activating and while Peridot is speaking with Yellow Diamond, a variation of Blue Diamonds theme can be heard, suggesting that the diamonds have an overarching musical theme.

Ian Jones Cordy has stated via Twitter that he considers this episode to be the mid season finale, Season 2.

What the fuck do you mean by that?

Like this is, this is the halfway point, this is.

The ultimate This is the second last episode of season 2.

Like in production or whatever.

So I'm like what does he mean by this?

Did he forget how to say penultimate episode?

This is the penultimate episode of season 2.

I don't know what the fuck he's talking about.

I do think this would have been a better ending possibly than the next one.

Not I love the next episode but I don't think it's gonna give us like season finale vibes as much as this one does.

Probably not.

So I forgot season.

2.

The rest of them are all short, so.

And not for cultural references.

When Stephen puts the hood of his hoodie up and pulls on the strings, he briefly briefly resembles Kenny McCormick from South Park.

Sure, I did not get that reference because I don't.

I get it, but like it's not a good reference.

I highly doubt that's sure fine.

Yeah, he just looks like sad boy to me.

And now for my favorite segment continuity.

This episode takes place immediately after returning from the moon base and it could have been great.

Peridot uses the parabot she built in back to the bar to attack the Crystal Gems.

Parrot mentions that the gem worship was destroyed in an accident in jailbreak.

Yellow Diamond also asks her about the Jasper that was assigned to her.

Previously in Marble Madness, Parrot stated that she would report about the Crystal Gems to an unknown superior based upon Yellow Diamond, mentioning assigning her Jasper as an escort and asking about the Gem warship.

She most likely reported this to Yellow Diamonds.

And finally, Pearl claimed that not all Pearls know each other when asked about Yellow Pearl.

But Now We're Only Falling Apart reveals that she has met both Yellow and Blue Pearl.

They're they're Pearl, they're diamond pearls.

Therefore they do know each other, but otherwise they would not.

Yeah, and now for our Pearl points.

Who are we giving our Pearl points to?

My friends.

Why are you looking?

Because I know you're giving your Pearl point to it's.

Going to Patti Lupone because she deserves.

It not even yellow Diamond Patti Lupone.

No, because Yellow Diamond is terrible, at least at this point.

Patti Lupone, however, could do no wrong.

Also arguably even after her like quote UN quote redemption.

Yeah, she's never great, but I mean.

She gets a little better.

Sure, I'm giving it to Amethyst Copter.

As you should.

I'm just gonna you know what?

I'm giving it to Peridot for not only the character development, but also Gremlin ominous triangle.

Because peak.

Everything about this was peak the great lovable Peridot.

Yes.

And then for the question I thought of, it's kind of a low key dark question, but I'm also paraphrasing a lion from Percy Jackson, so I'm going for it even though it didn't like fully happen.

Have you ever been prayed by 1 you call friend?

Yeah, it's called being broken up with your friends.

You know that thing that happens?

You know when that happens to you when you're in middle school and it's like you're your best friends and they e-mail you saying, hey, I want to be popular, I don't want to hang out with you anymore.

And then you're like, wow, you're a jerk.

And then they they respond with I hate you more than I hate satin because they couldn't spell Satan 12 year olds, am I right?

Was this bitch Galinda?

Like what the fuck?

This person has since apologized like, you know, 10 years too late, but still.

Damn bro.

Still, you know, if if you want to talk about betrayal, that's how I was was sitting in the lunchroom reading all of Heroes of Olympus books.

You know, during lunch instead of talking to friends.

God damn I can't even talk.

I was friends with the librarian at my school.

Shut the fuck up, Shut up.

I was.

Real good friends, The music teacher, it's okay.

I was, I was really good friends with my all my English teachers in high school.

The librarian, my art teacher did it was music class in high school or in middle school, I think it was middle school.

And I was friends with her too.

Oh, I was friends on my history teachers.

They were fun.

I was friends with a lot of my teachers.

And, like, often times it'd be like, I don't have friends to talk to at lunch.

I'm going to sit with the teacher or in the library.

Shout out to that librarian who, like, 10 years ago was like, the only good part of Will Grayson.

Will Grayson is the part that John Green didn't write.

Yeah.

Have I ever been betrayed by someone who I call friend?

I mean, I guess, yeah.

I went to middle school.

Yeah, no, my like my childhood best friend stopped talking to me really once we got into high school because he got with a popular clique and I, as I have again said, did not do popular stuff.

The most popular thing I did in high school was break a toilet.

How does one break a toilet?

Have I not told you this story?

I don't think so.

OK, Hey, listener retention, I'll tell you I'll the story.

I'll tell that at the end after the credits.

All right, now he's segue into and Mac, your story is just I was in middle school TM the tent.

I mean I don't if I get too into it.

Like the police almost got involved with my shit.

God.

Damn, that's fine if you don't want to share any more than that.

You know, sometimes people do drugs.

Oh, Rep.

Oh Rep Yeah.

Don't do drugs irresponsibly.

Kids do drugs, but like learn how to do them safely, responsibly.

Yeah, I can't stop you from doing drugs.

But like hey, look up what Narcan is.

Yeah, you can get Narcan for free in most places.

Yeah, I don't do drugs.

I do ice cream.

Honestly, the better.

Charlie, do you even take medicine when you get sick?

I do, I take Dayquil and Nyquil.

I take Advil.

You shut up.

That's.

Crazy.

You shut the fuck.

Up Do you not take medicine?

I sometimes take medicine.

When I tell you to.

Sure.

And then the other times I'm like I if I just lay here and die, maybe I'll get better.

And most of the time it works.

Robert.

Robert, no.

This is also how you miss recordings, so don't do that.

To be fair, most of the recordings I've missed or almost missed have been because I took a nap and then I woke up too late.

It's also how you why do you take out?

Because you I'm tired.

When I come home from work, Yeah the fuck.

Because you tired and you're not feeling good.

Hell yeah.

Why use many word when few word do trick?

Yes, you're the reason I have Gray hair.

One of the one of the great.

I got a haircut today.

One of my favorite things about the haircut is that it cuts away a lot of the Gray and I don't feel as old.

If you find 1 Gray hair, I'm divorcing you right fucking now.

I hate you.

Well Mac, thank you for coming on here and bullying me for an hour.

If the people want to find you on the Internet, where can they find you?

I mean, first of all, don't Second, I.

Think you're on the podcast, baby?

Yeah, huh.

You've only Oh yeah, I'm here.

You're here and you can find me aggressively commenting first on any damn meme page YouTube video.

That's where you can.

Give me as you should.

Thank you so much for joining us today for this episode.

Anytime.

How many more petty La Pone episodes you want?

Whenever you need me.

Hell yeah, brother, there's.

A few available.

Hell yeah, there are.

Our cat is doing she's like micro aggressively being like, hey, it's.

Getting closer and staring at us.

Maybe she skipped the dinner vibes and she's like oh it's bedtime.

I'm like baby girl, it's 9:00 if.

You're not going to feed me, I might as well take a nap.

OK, OK, Mack, I want to know right here now, do you want the Yellow Diamond song?

Sure, I'll take it.

Because I fucking love that song.

Hearing hearing Patti Lupone sing God twist Mack's arm right on you.

Honestly.

All right, well, Charlie Mack, who are both twins, I guess, have every podcast.

We're perfect.

We wouldn't have the bits.

Bye.

Bye bye.

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And this is burn before reading.

The podcast about shitty richer.

We're here to examine the terrible writing we did when we were younger.

Like that school project you were really proud of?

Or that poem you wrote when you got dumb.

Well, how about that apology letter you wrote to your mom when you got into that fight?

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Oh well, do we want to get the clips rolling?

I don't think I ever recovered from this in terms of being cool.

Why did I say any of this?

Guy, do you like the drama?

So there is actually quite a bit to unpack here.

Oh, all this drama was so addictive as a teenager.

There's no.

Punctuation to it.

I'll start with that.

I actually have no memory of this.

There were so many, so many lies that I was telling it.

It's not terrible.

No one like really taught me how to write a good short story.

That was a journey.

Listen to Burn before reading.

Every Wednesday, wherever pods are cast.

So when I was in high school there, I went to the bathroom and I went to use the, the the toilet as one does.

And suddenly I'm finishing my business and suddenly I hear there's a commotion outside and I stand on top of the toilet to be like, OK, who's fighting?

What the fuck's happening?

How, how do I escape this?

And then suddenly I lean forward and then suddenly there's porcelain broken all over the floor and toilet water spraying on the back of my legs.

You just lean forward.

I just, I stood on top of the toilet and it like leaned like detached from the wall.

All right, folks, do not stand on toilets.

No, that is.

The funniest part was that my dad was already there for like paperwork for the school or whatever.

And they should tell you how what my reputation was in high school, my principal and my dad were on first name basis.

And so he saw my dad and he was like, Pat, what are you doing here?

Did you already hear about the news?

And my dad was like, oh fuck, what do you do now?

Robert, were you a menace?

Yes, yes, I was.

Arguably I still am.

But.

You still are.

Yeah, A.

Memus.

My dad got me out virtually scarfree.

I had to be suspended for like a week.

I think it was originally they wanted him to pay for the toilet and they wanted to expel me.

And so they took me downstairs to the to the toilet.

And they were going off of what the other kid had said, which was we saw Robert's head above the toilet stall.

And my dad was like Robert stand, stand in the toilet, stand in the stall, close the door.

I was clearly telling off that my head could be above the stall without me standing on the toilet.

And my dad was like, well, I see his head above the stall.

I also see a toilet that fell that wasn't properly secured and could have hurt my son and the principal picked up when my dad was putting down and he was like Wick suspension deal.

Am I?

My question every time you tell the story, if you could see above the stall just by standing up, why did you stand on the toilet?

Oh, I didn't know at first that I could see above the stall.

You had to stand up first to get on top of the toilet I presume.

I guess.

I think the answer we're we're learning here is that Roberts, your, your intelligence is a -, 2 maybe.

I I have shit intelligence, I have shit Dexterity, I have decent charisma, I have decent strength, I have.

Barely You broke a toilet.

But like, you're clearly supposed to be an artificer, so why is your intelligence so low?

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