How Does Steven Universe Expand Our Ideas of Family? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios

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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea Tweet us! http://bit.ly/pbsideachanneltwitter Idea Channel Facebook! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelfacebook Talk about this episode on reddit! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelreddit Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelirc Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com We love Steven Universe! But what makes it so great? It's a story of mismatched characters trying to save the world, but maybe there's more to it than that? Maybe Steven Universe is really about Family, and how it's impossible to define it... universally. What else, or who else can we call family? Are Fandoms family? Can THINGS be family? Watch the episode to find out! ~~ Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship ~~ Links: The Electric Cybercast II: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/electric-cybercast-ii-online/id828490520?mt=2 Asset Links: 00:20 Rebecca Sugar interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9rQlh0KxYo 1:44 Hub City Way Rule #4: www.vimeo.com/97830330 1:45 Joel Blake AGP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XkuEbxsRwQ 1:47 Lowry Law: youtube.com/watch?v=bMvy8hn_gqo 1:49 Feeny Autos: youtube.com/watch?v=1vhtkhszsxM 1:50 Handlery Hotels: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIKbrbi8xWs 2:08 Simpson's family tree: http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6239 7:07 Matt Burnett's tweet: https://twitter.com/mcburnett/status/577643324934397953 ~~ Comments: Mica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJdLl8qLgeU&lc=z13pyz3pwxzdczt0u23mixdxuoebsb4id04 Axylon http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsideachannel/comments/30av0k/do_upvotes_show_democracys_flaws_idea_channel_pbs/cpqqiht xeroxgirl http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsideachannel/comments/30av0k/do_upvotes_show_democracys_flaws_idea_channel_pbs/cpqwg0m Christopher Willis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJdLl8qLgeU&lc=z131uxki5qnxs142o23kvlyw1ongdzrhd04 mesocyclonic4 http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsideachannel/comments/30av0k/do_upvotes_show_democracys_flaws_idea_channel_pbs/cpqskvk MirumExMachina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJdLl8qLgeU&lc=z13xvhgrjlibvjx1x23wgj5pyrmsg1swr04 TheNinerion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJdLl8qLgeU&lc=z13lhvpaeqqah1mhk04chr2xzuyiwrmg1w00k mg7757 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJdLl8qLgeU&lc=z12shjfhymaqdzphp04cg31hsl2ydhcjj30 T. Dalton Combs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJdLl8qLgeU&lc=z12szx5jdm2tydqoj04cjtxzsub2zv5yfvw0k Tweet of the Week Meags https://twitter.com/meags/status/582026006166310912 Link from Tweet: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/03/25/its-a-me-ishmael/ ~~ Ship us stuff: Thanks to everyone who sent us records! Our mailbox is now closed and we are no longer accepting submissions. MUSIC: "Europe" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Level 5" by Room for the Homeless (http://bit.ly/10N0Ykm) "Bouncy Castle" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) ":P" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Squarehead" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Number Cruncher" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Little Birthday Acid" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Topskore" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Anti Vanishing Spray" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Tarty Prash" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Carry on Carillon" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Uptown Tennis Club" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Squarehead" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net) "Dream Of Autumn" by Night Shift Master https://soundcloud.com/dj-darkmatter- "Insert Toy For Coin" by Eatme (http://eatme.pro/music/) "Dizor" by Outsider https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/440 "Lets go back to the rock" by Outsider https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/440 "Something like this" by Outsider https://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/440 ~~ Written and hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) (who also has a podcast! Reasonably Sound: http://bit.ly/1sCn0BF) Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com)