Bullseye with Jesse Thorne Thor. There's a show a show called Stephen Universe.

It's on Cartoon Network.

Maybe you've heard of it.

Very special show.

It's about a boy named Stephen, who is about 11 when the show starts.

He lives in a seaside town with his dad.

Pretty early on, Stephen realizes that there's something special about him.

He's half human, half gem. Gems in the world of Stephen

Universe are these beings from another planet with superpowers. Most of them want

to destroy Earth, but three of them want to save it. So together,

Stephen and those three good gems fight to, you know, save the world.

But the show is about more than a fight for Earth's future.

It's about more than even just Stephen.

It's about the town he grows up in, the guy who makes pizza, a kid who is an onion.

As I said, special show.

The whole thing is created by Rebecca Sugar, my next guest.

Rebecca is a veteran animator who also worked on the acclaimed Cartoon Network show Adventure Time.

She's earned a total of seven Emmy nominations. When I talked with Sugar in 2019, it was just after the release of the

Stephen Universe movie and an accompanying soundtrack. Many of the songs were written and

composed by Rebecca. The show just celebrated its 10th anniversary, it's as

beloved as ever. Sugar also recorded an album, their first ever, it's called

spiral bound. Let's hear a song from it. Good morning, afternoon.

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