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StrawChat - Alabasta Comes To An End · Anime Club Podcast

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Hello, and welcome to the final episode of the Alabaster arc.
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My name is Chris, and there's Lee I read in the straw chat.
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So we've got a new member of the crew.
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Tony. Tony Chopper.
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We've left Drum Island. Yeah.
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And we're finally heading to Alabaster.
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Finally, the Alabaster Saga, and we're getting there now.
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Yeah, because this is the last part.
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Episode 92 to 130, so 138. Sorry, 38 episodes.
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Yeah, this is this is quite a long one.
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It's a good chunk, yeah. So.
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Yeah, they're heading on the way to Alabaster.
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When, oh, how how do they meet Bond Clay?
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The Are they fishing in some fog?
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Yes, and the accidentally fog. One clay on the end of the
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fishing rod and pull them onto the boat.
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Yes, Bon Clay, what numbers are you again?
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He's Mr. 2, which is. The two.
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They don't find out until he leaves.
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Yeah, but they have like a proper like nice little dance
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and like the old mini party with them.
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And he shows them all he's devil fruit ability where he can turn
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into anyone that he touches. And he shows by turning of all
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of this Straw Hat crew apart from Sanji, who was in kitchen
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sorting dinner out. And then he gets on a boat
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because the his crew finally come to pick him up.
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And as they leave in the like, right, come on, Mr. 2.
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And they're like, wait a minute. And Vivi, I didn't think Vivi
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was as much of an idiot until this point when she's like, how
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did I not realize he was Mr. 2? Mr. 2 is a guy who wears a big
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swan outfit and he wears women's clothes, and he's got a big Cape
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with one clay on the back of it or something like that.
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And everyone's like perfectly describes the man that we've
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just been playing with. Like how did you not know?
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Yeah, yeah. But.
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He's amazing though. He's the first meeting with him.
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It's just like even even his crew, the sads that he went
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overboard. It wasn't like a oh, we've got
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to get him Gary, he'll die. It's just like, Oh no, we're
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missing, we need him back kind of thing.
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He. He's a St.
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Yeah, yeah. It's it's difficult to hit 1
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clear but when he is Mr. 2 and he's on the other side he is a
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bit of a Dick to deal with. Yeah, yeah.
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But he's just following orders. He's part of Baroque works, He's
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doing his job. He was evil when he was doing
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it, but I can't blame him. We'll have no hate for Bon Clay
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here. Till one point and I didn't like
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him for one point. Yeah, he was a bit of a Dick for
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a while, but the Straw Hats arrive in Alabaster and there's
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a civil war going on. There's been no rain for what,
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two years or something? Yeah, and the citizens unruly
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because they think that King Cobra Nefertari is keeping all
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the rain for himself using rain or dance powder, which is a
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special powder that can create rain, but it steals it from
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other places of the sky to only fall where you burn the rain
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powder. But it's all a plot from Baroque
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works where they framed the monarchy and made it look like
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they're the bad guys. And then Crocodiles wanting to
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step in and be like, I'm going to save you and become the new
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ruler of Alabaster. Well, he's not really planning
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to save them, but we'll find out what his plan is towards the end
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of this arc. Yeah, yeah.
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Is the King's name really Cobra? I didn't know that in Cobra.
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Cobra K Cobra. Santino and so the straw had
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split up when they get to Alabaster and if he just takes
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off looking for food I think and he flat he sprints into this
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restaurant and knocks a couple of people over 1 being captain
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smoker the other being Porkus. D is of the Blackbeard pirate.
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Oh no, not Blackbeard Pirates. The Whitebeard Pirates, one of
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the most beard pirate crews in the land.
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Yeah, I do want to ask who Whitebeard is as well.
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And is this some sort of color thing?
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Because there's black beard and white beard and white beards.
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Trying to find black beard. Hang on a second.
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I'm going to show you White Beards.
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Where is where is White Beard? Right.
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He's around here somewhere because it's it's important that
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I show you White Beard. Where is he?
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Where is he? Come on, White Beard.
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Where are you? Are you?
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He is where are you? Right.
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Notice anything strange about white beard?
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He's hasn't got a beard. He hasn't got a beard so.
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Did black beard nick it? No, he'd never.
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White beard has never had a beard.
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He just has a mustache. I don't know if this is some
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kind of Japanese translation of him just having facial hair.
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Does it just count as a beard? I don't think that counts.
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He should be called white mustache.
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Yeah, White Stash. Yeah, anyway, it's.
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Not the same ring to it, to be fair.
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It doesn't, does it? It's not as intimidating.
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Oh, no. White, White Tasha is coming
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after you on a white thing. It's coming after you.
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But yeah, Luffy knocks out Ace and Smoker in a restaurant, and
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then he's just, like, eating all of this food on the bar.
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And Smoker starts coming after him.
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He runs away and he's stamped by Ace.
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And it turns out, yeah, Ace is Luffy's brother.
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Yeah. How many brothers does he have?
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Is he a biological brother? No.
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No. So there's Monkey D, Luffy,
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Augusti, Ace. They've got complete separate
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names, different parents. They're not related in any way.
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That's. Not his mom.
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And that's all I'm going to say about that for now.
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So right. OK.
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Yeah, Ace has a pretty good lineage.
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What anyway? Name like Ace.
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Yeah, well, he was named after a sword.
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Right, a sword. OK.
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He was named after his dad's sword.
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Right. That's not really that
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important, it's just a little bit of useless information.
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But his dad is cool so. You gonna say that?
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No, no, I'm not spoiling that for you, but it's really, really
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important now anyway. I'm not.
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Just before you can ask any more questions, Ace takes on Smoker.
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Fire versus smoke. Because Ace has it.
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The flame. Flame fruit.
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This one, which I don't know what the Top Gun.
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This 10. Another one.
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Yeah. The flame flame fruits.
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You've got a toe. Yeah, but there can only be 1,
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Chris, like Thailand. And Ace holds off Smoker so that
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Luffy can escape. I think all the straw hats are
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like hiding behind a wall or something other at the point in
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the like oh there's some commotion going on.
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Apparently some idiots being chased by the marines.
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Idiots is. That idiots.
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Yeah, so Luffy leads the Marines right to his crew and they all
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have to run away. He stays behind, holds off the
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Marines, and then joins the Straw Hats on their ship.
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Or actually, no. Actually does Disney meet Luffy
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in an alleyway 1st and they have an arm wrestle then beat up a
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few pirates? Yeah, because a couple of I
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think it's millions are in the OR what in a rank up corner them
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and they're kind of like they just walk through the main,
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ignore them and they're like stop.
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You're like, you've got such a bounty on you.
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We can we'll get promoted in no time.
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And I can't remember what the bounty amount was for a store,
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but it's it's very high isn't it?
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Yeah, well, I think this is a good thing to show how strong
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Luffy actually is because he's arm wrestling the 1st Legion
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commander of the White Beard Pirates or something, which is
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like so White Beard, I've mentioned this before.
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There's the Seven Warlords of the Sea, which are we've
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mentioned before. They are hired by the
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government. Yeah.
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So they're allowed to be pirates by the government as long as I
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like help the government on occasion.
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And then we've got yonkos, which are the four emperors of the
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Sea. White Beard is one of the young
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who's he is an emperor of the sea.
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Right, OK. We have met another Emperor of
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the Sea already, but I won't say who.
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Is it I guess is a dragon? No.
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OK, that was just a guess. It's like in a completely
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different category to pirates and Marines.
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Right. There's another thing going on
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somewhere in the world. So anyway, yeah, so Ace is like
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the one of the first commanders of one of the emperors of the
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city, which is like a very highly esteemed rank basically
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between pirates and Luffy's, like matching him in an arm
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wrestling contest. So Luffy's heart is out.
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Yeah. But anyway, the yeah, the take
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on all these millions and then escape and get back on the go
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and marry Ace meets the Straw Hats and he's quite happy with
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how if he's built up his like friend group, all of his friends
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love Ace because why would you not love Ace his mint?
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Yeah, I also a question I wanted about wanted to ask about Ace
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meeting the crew. Why does he keep apologizing?
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Why does he keep apologizing? Ace keeps apologizing and saying
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thank you for putting up with my little brother Luffy.
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He's like, oh, I'm I'm so sorry. He's such a handful.
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And he repeats it and every time they're like, no, no, it's OK.
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But when nobody's about by now we joined him, we what we want
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to follow him in his crew body, but every time why?
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Why does he keep like is he looking for like them to talk
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shit about the muscley? No, it's test.
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It's just like a little Brook, like Luffy's like he's little
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brother, isn't it? So it's like he's just like, oh,
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this is me annoying little brother.
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I know what he's like kind of thing.
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It's just he's taking the piss a bit, I think.
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But also like he does love Luffy because they are like sort of
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brothers and they seal off. And can you remember who to meet
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next? I remember getting chased by the
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three million ships where Ace gets out.
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Pull up on shore and meet. Oh yes, the the Kung Fu, the
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dongs or whatever it's called. Dew guns.
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Dew guns and. They're like, whatever you do,
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don't fight them. And if he gets off, beats one of
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them up and they're like, you're our new master.
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Yes, I love these. Yeah.
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That doesn't last very long because USOP just bribes him
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with food to stay where they are so that they're not following
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them across the desert because they need water this five and if
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try and follow Luffy, the law will die.
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So yeah, that was nice, but he bribed them to live.
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Yeah, yeah. And good for later.
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Yeah, yeah, they do help later, don't they?
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So the set off on a journey across the desert.
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Paul would love this, wouldn't he?
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Because it's a lot of walking and we know he loves Yeah when
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people have to walk a lot. Because he's a big Lord of the
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Rings fans. And the walk a lot in the
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Goonies as well. They do a lot.
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And they meet a perverted camel called Eyelash.
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Yes, I love eyelash. And he starts helping them
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across the desert a bit and they reach a town called Uber.
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Is this where the meets total? The dad of the rebel army?
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The dad of the rebel army leader.
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I forgot he was called Toto. Is it because he blesses the
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raids? Why don't we not?
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Forgetting a lot to drag me away from you.
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Could be, you never know. Odin's always coming up like
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old. Does he ask?
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Does he ask someone to hold the line?
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I do. So yeah, we'll meet Toto and we
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learn of Phoebe's past where she was friends with Koza, the
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leader of the rebel army. He was like, he tried to like
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shit when he first met her, but then the started hanging out and
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he became a protector basically. Yeah, like they got attacked by
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adults who were like, oh, we can capture the Princess and take a
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ransom and all this, and 'cause that as a little child beats up
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these fully grown men. Yeah, yeah.
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He's pretty badass. But yeah, we meet Toto, who is
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his dad, and he's just digging like a dwarf, like.
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Because he's up, he's up there because the town or city that he
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lives in is wrecked. Sandstorms have absolutely
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ravaged the buildings and because there's been no water.
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This used to be a well an Oasis town where they had a big water
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supplies. It used to prosper where the
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rains went, everything went all of the the jobs, the and all the
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people went, all the buildings are crumbling.
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It looks like shit and he's the only one staying there.
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Like hanging out a hole because him digging he's digging for a
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water supply. Yeah, he's not very good because
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he's spent all this time digging and then Luffy digs for like 5
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minutes and digs like half a mile down or something.
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Yeah, he's like 100 years old or something though, isn't he?
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It's no excuse man, but the he gets like enough for like a
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gallon of water, doesn't he? And gives it Luffy to take on
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his journey. So he's got like this little
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flask around his neck now. And yeah, the set off and reach
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the next sort of village, which I've mentioned this to you
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before. I love it.
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There's some fake rebel army people there and they've been
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told that the Straw Hat Pirates are on the way.
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And it's like, right, you're, you guys are the rebel army.
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You need to protect our town. So they send them out and
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they're like, oh, well, we'll just pretend to go.
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And all the villagers start following them.
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So they have to go to meet the Straw Hats.
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And the Straw Hats get convinced by Phoebe, I think to be like,
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listen, like don't ruin the hope.
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Like they need hope to keep the dreams alive and know that like
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Alabaster can become a nice place again.
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Don't beat them up. So Luffy goes over and confronts
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the main guy and just makes it look like this guy wins in a
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fight, Which I love this because what I said was we know that
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Luffy is going to become King of the Pirates one day.
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Like if he doesn't become king of the Pirates, it's just going
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to be an absolute travesty. And like, One Piece order.
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What are you doing? So he has to become King of the
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Pirates one day, and his face will be known all over the
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world. Yeah.
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This guy, let's call them Gary, right?
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Gary has beat up Luffy. Now when he come becomes King of
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the Pirates, everyone's going to be like, Gary's heart is out.
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Like, he beats the Pirate King in a fistfight, you know?
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And he's going to be like, like, he's the hardest man in him to
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mess with him. Don't mess with Gary.
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Yeah. Even now hasn't he got 100
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million berries bounty on them? 30, is it 30 million or has it
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gone up since then? I know, I'm sure.
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I think it goes up to 100 and I think it might be 30 million
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still because I don't think it's updated.
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Yeah, I think it's once he beats Crocodile.
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All spoiler for the end of the episode.
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He beats Crocodile but. He can at least say that he's
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chinned someone who's got a 30 million Berry bounty on the
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head. Yeah, well, a poor guy now of
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like a 10 million very pirate shows up.
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We're going to be like, got no chance against Gary.
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He beat up Straw Hat Luffy at a 30 million pirate and he's going
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to get absolutely done in. Yeah, yeah, because he's a
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normal bloke really. And he so the get beat up by
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these fake rebels and then they set off.
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Oh, the meat. Who is it?
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The bounty hunter. There's a bounty hunter that Ace
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has a fight with. Yes, it were these two kids
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because he originally said that's what brought Ace to
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Alabaster because this bounty hunter to get some like get some
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fear, like people being scared of them.
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He said that he took down Blackbeard.
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Yeah, and that somehow got to ace.
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So you say, oh, he's there. I need to meet this man who
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fought with Blackbeard. Yeah, Ace fights this guy, beats
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him up and just ruins his dreams.
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And then he's in. Front of these kids, yeah.
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And then he goes, Oh well, Blackbeard's not here.
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Are you going to fight one of the seven Warlords of the Sea?
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Are you Luffy? Good luck.
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And just leaves. Yeah, he has a bit of paper.
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Oh, yeah. So that is an important bit of
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paper. So this is the right.
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I mentioned it earlier on. Can you remember what it was
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called? No.
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The Viva card. Oh, is that what it is?
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Yeah. I'll not tell you what it does
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though. Right.
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So it's given to him for a reason.
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And he says don't lose it. It's our key to meeting beaten.
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You meet me again. Yeah.
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So I'm guessing that it's important.
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But when you look at it, he does absolutely 0 investigating when
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he sees it. He said, oh, there's a bit of
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paper. Oh, well, I'll just hide me
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pocket. Just even look at it.
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It could have instructions on it written on the back and he
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wouldn't know. Nami stitches it to his hat so
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he can't lose it. Yeah, yeah.
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The carry on and the retrain base, which is one of the main
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towns in Alabaster. It's where Crocodile City's
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casino. Oh yeah.
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Yeah. They get chased by Smoker and
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enter the casino in rain base. Get introduced into the VIP
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lounge and there's a sign saying Pirates this way, VIPs this way
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and they're like oh, which mean we're going, it's like, well
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we're pirates. So they go the pirate way and
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falls through a trapdoor. Yeah.
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Do you think the other door would the other VIP way would
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have been a trapdoor as well? No, I don't think it would have
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been a dead end because what if? What if the raw actual VIPs?
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No, I mean like a trapdoor, like going down into that thing,
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because I think no matter what way they would have went, I
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think would have been a trapdoor.
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No, I think, I think the other way might have actually been a
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way to VIPs and the probably just being like, yeah, pirates
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are stupid gold. Oh well, we're pirates.
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No VIPs, which is exactly what happened.
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Yeah, true. So they end up in a jail cell
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made of C prism stone, and it's the Straw Hat.
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Well, what is it? Luffy, Nami, Zorro and Smoker.
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Yeah, they're all trapped. And Crocodile finally reveals
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himself, comes out, and he's got Vivi's tied to a chair, and is
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this where he finally says what his plan is, which is the rebel
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army? You're going to go to the main
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city in Alabaster where the palace is, and while it's all
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going on, he's going to blow them all up.
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And yeah, but that's when he's captured Vivi, isn't it?
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But he's got to the chair. Yeah, and he sorts a gluten.
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Yeah, that's that. That is the scene because the
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Straw Hats are in the jail selling can't get out because of
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the sea prism stone. And Crocodile reveals his plan
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to VV and then takes off but leaves some banana Gators to eat
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everyone basically. Well, to eat VV because I can't
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jump through the sea prism stone cage.
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It tries. I think it has its teeth or
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something, doesn't it? And the key to the cage has been
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thrown into the banana Gator pit and eaten by one of them.
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Yeah. So they haven't got a key to get
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out. I mean, it was fake anyway, as
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we find out in a bit. But yeah, Stanji and Chopper are
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outside of the casino. They come up with a plan that
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Sandy is like Mr. Prince or something like that.
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Lose them outside while Chopper pretends he's Mr. Prince, runs
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away and Sanji breaks in, beats up the banana Gators.
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Sanji's heart is out for fighting these giant crocodiles.
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And we get missed $3, don't we? Yeah, waxy man, because he was
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dumped in the end in the tank for failing to actually kill the
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straw chats. One of the banana Gators ate
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them, but he engulfed himself in wax in a wax cocoon to protect
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himself and Sanji while kicking one of the banana Gators in the
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stomach caused him to sick him out.
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Yeah, and the force him to make a key that fits the cell.
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Bit of a plot hole here. All the water's rushing in, so
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Mr. 3 is standing in the water, but he still uses these powers.
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That was a thing as well because I don't know if banana Gators
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are freshwater Gators or seawater Gators.
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Yeah. It could be freshwater, it could
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be all the rainwater that is nicked from the from the whole
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island. Although they do escape and they
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have to carry Luffy out and Luffy tells Zorro to save Smoker
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because Smoker can't swim so they shouldn't be able to use
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the powers in that water then. So I don't know how Mr. Mr. 3
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used his wax Wax I was when standing in a.
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Plot. Yeah, movie magic.
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Yeah, I'm not going to. I'm not going to pick pick a
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little too much because. Well, yeah, because the saved
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captain. Or is he Lieutenant Smoker?
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No, he might still be Captain Smoker at this point.
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Yeah, let's see if Captain Smoker and he's like, all right,
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well, we need to be Even so I'm going to let us go.
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They take off to head for the capital because the rebel army
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are currently on their way to attack the palace.
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Yeah, Luffy stays behind to fight Crocodile.
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Yeah. It doesn't go very well from,
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does it? I think this was one of the
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points where I think it was it was late at night when I when I
23:13
got up with this episode and I got to that fight.
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And then it was like, do you know when things come out and
23:21
you watch them weekly? Yeah.
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And you're all and you're left on a cliffhanger.
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So the way I left it where I was like, I can't open my eyes
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anymore. And you go to sleep is when
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Luffy fights with Crocodile he gets stabbed and left for dead
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and. Buried alive.
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And buried. Yeah.
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And you're like, oh, right. So he's dead, Evan.
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It skips to something else. But Miss All Sunday, Nicole,
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Robin shows up and saves Luffy from this sand pit that he's
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been buried in. Yeah, so she's not all bad.
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And she's still working for Crocodile at the moment.
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So she's still technically bad I suppose, but there's something
24:02
there at the moment. Actually, a thing about Nicole
24:05
Robin, I don't know why she's working for Crocodile because
24:09
she's already got a lot. Massive army isn't.
24:11
She Are you making an joke there?
24:14
I'll be able to have these puns when Jake's on.
24:16
You know he hates puns. I know, I know.
24:19
So yeah, the Straw Hats, well the other Straw Hats that aren't
24:24
presumed dead, arrive at the capital and yeah, the rebel army
24:28
have already started their attack.
24:30
So they all split up to try and stop the charge and end up
24:36
taking on different members of Brokeworks, the numbered people.
24:41
So Chopper and Usop are first up.
24:44
I think they take on Mr. Four and Miss Merry Christmas and the
24:49
Gun Dog. Yeah.
24:50
It was actually it was a cannon that ate a fruit which turned it
24:54
into a hot dog pod gun. Is that what it was?
24:58
Yeah, because items can also consume devil fruits because of.
25:04
Someone put it. Science.
25:06
Devil fruit inside side of that gun to shoot it and it consumed
25:10
it. Some, somehow, I don't know if
25:13
it explains it, but Science. There's a mad scientist, Doctor
25:18
Vega Punk. Slight little spoiler, but not a
25:20
spoiler. His name will come up quite a
25:22
bit over the series. There's a mad scientist doing
25:25
experiments called Doctor Vega Punk.
25:27
If anything weird happens like that, just assume Doctor Vega
25:30
Punk's been that he's working again.
25:32
Right. Oh, because I was going to say,
25:35
if a if a gun can assume a devil fruit by putting it inside, does
25:41
that mean there's like a a box fruit, a box with the powers of
25:45
a devil fruit? You're going to get all sorts of
25:48
things, like they'll be like swords and stuff that a bit,
25:51
devil fruits and things. I think that might be a bit of a
25:54
waste of the devil fruit because you only have one until it dies,
25:57
doesn't it? Yeah, I don't know how you, I
25:59
don't know how you can kill the item as well, unless you have to
26:03
come because obliterated. Because breaking a sword doesn't
26:06
kill it, is it? Although no, I've I've just
26:09
remembered something. I'm not going to spoil that bit.
26:12
OK, no problem. So they take on these two parole
26:17
works members and Chopper is trying to find the weakness.
26:22
Usopp is doing all of his lion stuff, these techniques, seeing
26:27
that he's got like a 5 ton hammer or something like that.
26:30
I really enjoy that bit, to be fair.
26:32
Yeah, I was one of Usopp's best bits for me.
26:36
Pretty good in this part mind. He gets the shit beaten out of
26:39
them but he still keeps getting up and going back for more.
26:43
He is being a brave warrior of the sea or deserts.
26:48
Yeah, yeah. And is it him that's, I don't
26:53
know, I think it's chopped that figures out about the tunnels
26:55
and tells us up to fire the gun into the tunnels to.
26:58
No, USOP goes under because he's just like, oh, well, I kind of
27:03
fight you above ground because one of them is like a mole woman
27:06
and she keeps popping up, hitting them, popping down.
27:09
So that USOP was like, I'm calling your tunnels.
27:12
Then what can you do down there? Yeah, and then shoot the gun dog
27:16
into the tunnels and blow them up.
27:19
That still doesn't do it though. I can't remember how they
27:22
finally defeat them. Can I know?
27:24
The wind. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:26
Who's up and chopped a beat, Mr. Four and Miss Merry Christmas
27:30
and the Dog. Good.
27:32
And meanwhile, Sanji has found Bon Clear, and he's having a bit
27:38
of a struggle against him because Bon Clear keeps turning
27:40
into Nami and Sanji, this keeps going.
27:45
Every time he sees Nami, yeah, he gets all wobbly.
27:48
Is this the point where he's? Follow the kicks in it.
27:50
Yeah. Is this the point where you
27:51
didn't like Bunkley then? Yes.
27:56
Or is it like before this where Bunkley pretends to be the king
27:59
and beats up the? That's that's it.
28:01
Sorry. Yeah.
28:02
When he smacks a kid about. Yeah, yeah.
28:04
Because I'm like, are you evil bastards?
28:06
Yeah, because we've skimmed over that a bit.
28:10
Bunkley pretended to be King Cobra, wandered in a town with
28:13
loads of his loyal subjects, and beat up loads of the civilians
28:18
there just to make King Cobra look even worse.
28:21
And yeah, and hype up the rebel army a bit.
28:24
Yeah, spare them on a bit. But I really like this fight
28:27
between Unclear and Sanji. It was quite an even even match.
28:34
I think everyone's like quite an even match in this.
28:38
What was it you said? You said, like, is this the
28:42
Straw Hats, like showing that they're not as powerful as some
28:45
people out there? And it's like, is this what all
28:48
of these fights are showing? What?
28:49
Do you mean when I was saying that this is their first?
28:53
Because I thought even with the All Along Park, I think this is
28:57
their first proper challenge where it's just like they could
29:03
die here. They're just getting beaten and
29:06
beaten into inches of their lives.
29:09
And at the minute Luffy's been stabbed and he's been beaten
29:14
again, where it's just like he's fighting the big bad and he
29:17
loses. And it's the first time we've
29:20
had that really from the straw chat crew having there was.
29:26
There was something you said which I thought I said like, I'm
29:29
going to wait until we record this episode to give me a penny
29:33
on an opinion on it, Which is why I think you said like this
29:37
finally shows that Straw Hats aren't as strong as some of the
29:40
other people out there or something along those lines.
29:43
I don't think that's completely the case.
29:46
I think this whole arc shows that the have to learn how to
29:51
deal with Devil Fruits because each of these individual fights
29:55
that's going on, it's some crazy devil fruit that they've got to
29:59
try and learn the weaknesses for.
30:01
It's not that they're not strong enough because once they figure
30:04
out the techniques to use against them, they're really
30:09
capable and start to match them. Like, right, Usopp and yes,
30:13
Chopper have their like tactics going on and learn how to fight
30:18
against Mr. Thorne, Miss Merry Christmas and the dog.
30:22
Stanji has to figure out how to fight Bon Clear when he looks
30:26
like someone that he cares about.
30:29
Yeah, Zorro has to learn how to cut steel.
30:32
Yeah, and Luffy has to. And Luffy has to learn how to
30:35
punch sand and Nami has to learn how to fight.
30:38
Yeah, yeah. But yeah, we're under the Sanji
30:42
versus Bon Clear thing. What's your opinions on this
30:45
one? Because this was a really good
30:46
fight. It was I could.
30:49
I could see it coming though a little bit.
30:53
I think Sanji kinda needed to get over that that hurdle
30:57
anyway. I think it was important for him
30:58
to do it because he he needs to learn to smack something that
31:02
looks a little bit feminine because as as before this he saw
31:05
like AI don't know a beautiful other villain.
31:09
You've been, Oh, I kind of do anything, sorry.
31:11
And I think you need to get over that.
31:13
Yeah, and he does. He learns that, like Bon, Clear,
31:16
has to turn back into himself at the last minute before
31:18
attacking, and that's when he starts striking.
31:21
Yeah, so he doesn't really get over it.
31:23
No, you'll still be his WAVY self when there, when there's a
31:27
beautiful woman there. Yeah, but he overcomes it by the
31:31
way, he figures it out anyway and beats 1 clear.
31:35
And then I think we move on to NAMI against Miss Doublefinger,
31:40
and she's had I. Really like this.
31:42
The spike Spike fruit. Yes, it's not a finger as well.
31:46
She just does that and it just pokes tools and.
31:49
Any any part of her body she can produce spikes from.
31:52
Yeah, that was it. And Nami's got a new weapon
31:56
which Usop created for her again.
31:59
Usopp with these crazy weapons he's so good with them He makes
32:02
like a weather stuff for I can't remember the name for it though
32:05
I should have wrote down yeah she learns how to use this thing
32:08
It's got loads of party tricks in it that so put in for like
32:11
oh, if you're ever in a party pull this trick out why I'm so I
32:16
wanted a. Weapon.
32:16
I'm attacked. I'm attacked, yes, that's it.
32:19
Yeah. And so she's like using weather
32:22
against Miss Doublefinger, like electrocutor and electrocutor
32:27
and all sorts. And Nami finally kicks us.
32:32
Yeah, yeah, which I like as well.
32:35
I like that the the Climate Act wasn't a particularly strong
32:40
weapon if you just gave it to someone.
32:43
He was just like yourself, was just like, look, separately,
32:47
these are party tricks, but you have to use your brain to fight.
32:51
That's our that's our strongest. Yeah.
32:54
That's how we are strong, by using tactics and thinking about
32:59
it as opposed to raw strength like Zorro, Luffy and Sanji.
33:04
But yeah, I think it was a really good growth, growth
33:06
moment for. A final attack thing was weird,
33:09
though, where it's like she puts it all together and then it
33:12
comes out with the two cuckoo birds and then, yeah, double
33:16
fingers just standing there like, what?
33:18
What is this? And it wraps around her arms and
33:20
then turns her into like a tornado and fires her off
33:23
through a wall. And how many wins?
33:25
It does say that it's getting developed more because she must
33:29
have spent like 5-10 minutes trying to just untangle her
33:33
afterwards when she's unconscious.
33:35
And then we get onto a big fight of Zorro, the second strongest
33:41
member of the Straw Hats, fighting down bones.
33:44
Mr. One does bones. And yeah, who can turn any part
33:50
of his body or blade, isn't it? Yeah.
33:52
So it's the swordsman against the blade.
33:55
Yeah, this is a really good fight because Zorro's going to
33:59
learn how to cut through steel and he's like having flashbacks
34:02
to his old sword teacher. I can't remember his name now.
34:07
Yeah, coding without cutting. Ponytail.
34:12
Yeah, and he's getting the shit kicked out of him and then he's
34:16
like cut between it's like and finally just does one attack,
34:20
doesn't he was like style and just slice it straight through
34:25
him. Fight over.
34:28
Yeah. I'm saying this was an awesome
34:30
fight, and then I've just basically just skimmed past all
34:32
of the, like, build up to the end.
34:35
But it's just a lot of Zorro getting beat up and going like,
34:39
Oh no, I'm going to get better, Yeah.
34:41
I just think, I think it's amazing where he goes.
34:43
He goes the flashback way. Isn't that he's cutting.
34:46
Is it a cloth or a bit of paper? And he's just like, Oh yeah, the
34:50
secret to cut and steal is cutting without cutting.
34:53
And he's like, what the hell does that mean?
34:56
Why is this the only time I've thought about it since?
34:59
It makes us think of One Punch Man a bit.
35:01
Have you have you watched much of One Punch Man?
35:04
Yeah, yeah, yeah. King.
35:05
So have you seen? I don't know if it's in the
35:07
enemy yet or if it's in the manga, but there's a bit where
35:11
King like you find out that he's you know, King isn't, isn't a
35:15
real hero. He's like he's really weak and
35:19
he meets some like hard as out ninja guy and he's like they're
35:23
having like a bit of a sword jewel and he's like, I want you
35:27
to like cut this apple as fast as you can or something.
35:29
And King is like absolutely scared to do anything and and he
35:33
just gets up and walks away and the guys looking at the apple
35:36
and he's like, Oh my God, that was so fast.
35:39
I didn't see it. King didn't do anything, he just
35:41
got up and walked away. He didn't pull the sword or
35:43
anything. The guy's like that was so fast
35:46
I didn't see it. He even managed to cut through
35:48
the atoms without, so it didn't actually cut the apple.
35:52
That's kind of a skill Absorber is trying to learn here, isn't
35:54
it? Like cutting through the atoms
35:56
without actually doing it? So he can cut through steel?
36:00
He has already gone through steel at this point I think is
36:03
there. It's like a chain or something
36:05
gets shot onto the ship in one of the earlier arcs.
36:09
Was iron all? Right.
36:11
Fair enough. Iron Barricade, which was the
36:15
because I thought the same because I was.
36:17
I distinctly remember him cutting a chain which was
36:21
attaching ships when they were closing in like a net against
36:24
the against the Straw Hat and then I'm sure it was iron.
36:29
Potato. Potato, yeah.
36:31
It's a metal. I mean, it's hard.
36:33
But yeah, he learns to cut and defeat Stan's bones.
36:38
Does bones. Crocodile shows up at the
36:42
palace, ruins everyone's day and throws Vivi off a Cliff.
36:48
Oh, those five guys threw up under the the royal God.
36:52
What a waste of time that was man.
36:55
They just committed suicide in front of him.
36:57
So like this made us angry because I was just like, at this
37:01
point you're getting all of these Ketchburn, the, the
37:05
baroque works people like coming out of nowhere.
37:09
Everyone's coming to try to fight everyone.
37:11
And then it's just like right, there's these 5 royal royal gods
37:16
and I'm like, oh, who are they? They look quite tough and it's
37:19
like, oh, they've had the forbidden portion or something
37:23
like that, which which gives them like a massive boost in
37:26
strength but kills them straight after.
37:29
And it's just like, you see them for a second, they're like tense
37:33
up and then they just die. And it's like, that's just
37:36
wasted 5 minutes of my time. Yeah.
37:38
And I feel like you've robbed us of that time.
37:40
Well, yeah, so those guys die. Crocodile throws VV off a Cliff,
37:45
and I've. I've got some shit to say about
37:47
this, right? Well, she's falling off the
37:49
Cliff. Luffy shows up on the back of
37:54
who has one type devil fruit, he turns into a bird and he's
37:57
flying around and the swoop down and save Vivi about that far off
38:03
the floor before she dies. So when Pell found Luffy it was
38:08
like take us to get some meat first.
38:11
If Luke Luffy ate one more bite of food or like a burger or
38:15
something like that before leaving, he wouldn't have made
38:17
it in time to save Vivi. He ate the exact right amount of
38:21
food before leaving to save her. Yeah, yeah.
38:26
But yeah, he seems spreevy. And then he tries to take on
38:29
Crocodile again. Actually, sorry, on that note,
38:33
if them five gods lasted more than 5 seconds then he could
38:37
have ate that other bit of meat. Yeah, exactly.
38:41
Stupid gods, man. So now we get Water Luffy versus
38:45
Crocodile when he's drunk an entire barrel of water and he's
38:50
just round and gushing the water because water pardons sand and
38:58
it means he can punch Crocodile. Everyone's like impressed by
39:02
him, and it's like, Oh my God, this child's beating him up, but
39:05
then he loses his water somehow. I can't remember.
39:08
If he, if he cools onto something, he can absorb the
39:12
water from him and I think he gets him down to his last
39:16
reserve and then he's just like, yeah, you've run out and oh.
39:21
He spits him up in the air, doesn't he?
39:23
And then gets like drained and chucked down the bottom of the
39:27
Cliff and Crocodile takes off. But then that waterfalls back
39:31
down and lands on Luffy and rehydrates.
39:33
And we got lucky. I can't believe his mom's doing
39:36
this to a man. So we're going next to the
39:39
underground having things. Yes, yes, we should do, Yeah,
39:44
because this is. That's the whole point of the
39:47
sorry, the hidden reason why Crocodile wants to take over
39:51
Alabaster, isn't it? Yeah, specifically Alabaster.
39:54
Pluton. Pluton, Yeah.
39:58
See, I don't know anything about this pluton and crocodile and
40:04
knows that the king, which is the Nefertari family God, the
40:11
secret of the whereabouts of this pluton and it's in their
40:15
family crypt. Which is in a hidden entrance
40:19
which he needs to get the king to open the go down there with
40:24
them. Is she called Miss Wednesday?
40:28
Miss Olson, do you go? Robin also.
40:30
Yeah, Nico Robin, because she can actually read the text.
40:35
Yeah, which is to talk about this pluton.
40:38
But she lies and says she lies when she's reading the pony
40:41
glyph and says that it's just about the royal ancestry, like
40:46
the Nefertaris. It's not.
40:49
It's about Pluton. Do you find out what it says?
40:52
Because, because when when she's reading it quite, I was like,
40:57
you're lying. You've betrayed us.
40:58
Then then it advances because they start fighting and stuff.
41:03
But it's not mentioned again that I've seen.
41:06
I mean, you do find out where Pluton is, and I think that
41:09
might be what it says on the Pontiac Glyph.
41:10
Like Pluton is buried in this place, which is one of the arcs
41:15
that we're going to get to in like 10 more sagas.
41:20
So in about 1000 more episodes, you'll find what would reach the
41:25
place where it's at. It's not L buff.
41:28
It's like, I know we mentioned that in the earlier episode.
41:30
It's before that. So it's still sooner than the
41:33
most recent stuff. I think somewhere in your brain
41:37
you do have the information about what Pluton is because I
41:42
sent you a screenshot the other week going on.
41:45
I've got all my notes ready and, and you went Pluton is and it
41:49
was like, oh, so that's what it is.
41:51
Can you remember what it was? Oh.
41:54
Oh, it was. It was some kind of super
41:58
weapon, and there was more than one.
42:01
They were named after planet or something.
42:03
Oh, that, that there is more than one super.
42:06
There's more than one ancient weapon.
42:08
I think there's three. There's like Pluton, Poseidon
42:13
and Uranus. How can I forget Uranus?
42:16
Seen that how many times? But but yeah, Pluton is a
42:20
specific thing, but if you can't remember what it is, I'll just
42:25
leave it at that. But it is.
42:27
Yeah, I mean, I did. I did read it and then I
42:30
mentioned it because it was the first thing I saw and he was.
42:32
And then he said, oh, I didn't expect you to read it.
42:36
Just look at how much there was. Yeah or yeah, Luffy shows up
42:40
again and he's bleeding and he's like, oh, I'm going to punch you
42:45
because blood also pardons sand. So he's just fighting Crocodile
42:50
with bloody fists. Yeah, yeah.
42:53
Crocodile poisons him. It's just one thing after
42:56
another, isn't it? Yeah, Luffy's just still just
42:58
like right, I don't care. I'm having none of this and just
43:02
absolutely decks and punches him up into the sky, knocks him out
43:07
and he falls. It that Crocodile falls into the
43:09
middle of the proud that is going on or the big battle
43:13
between the rebels and the Royal Army.
43:16
Yeah, and that's the Crocodile fight over.
43:19
Finally, Crocodiles defeated but.
43:22
Yeah. Haven't finished because the
43:24
town square is going to be blown up by a giant cannon and they've
43:28
got to find where it is and they've got like 2 minutes to
43:30
find it. Yeah, yeah.
43:35
I don't know why, but I think it would have been better without
43:38
this. I mean, I like that the Marines
43:40
showed up and Tashigi's even helping the Straw Hats and just
43:43
like, well, what are you doing here?
43:45
You need to go this way. And yeah, the Marines like
43:48
guiding the Straw Hats around, actually helping them because
43:51
they know that even though the pirates, not the bad pirates.
43:55
See I forgot about that. I just remember that every so
43:58
often it would do a freeze frame and a number and it was like,
44:02
that's how many seconds it was to it.
44:04
And I was like this, this is taking a long time, but it's
44:07
like it's tense because there's a there's a cannon going to go
44:11
off that's going to destroy the whole city and they're running
44:15
around. You don't.
44:16
You don't know what time flow is like when you're watching an
44:21
anime like once like 10 minutes could be one minute in the
44:26
episode or the other way around. Yeah, Goku fighting Freezer.
44:30
It was like the planets going to blow up in 3 minutes and it's
44:33
like 60 episodes later and it's like yeah, why isn't it blowing
44:37
up your heads? Yeah, yeah.
44:39
Am I meant to feel tense or not? I'm not sure.
44:42
So yeah, the find the cannon in the clock tower, the throw Vivi
44:47
up and she defeats the two people in there.
44:51
Yeah, I think it's on a self destruct sequence, isn't it?
44:54
The bomb? So Pell flies up into the sky
44:56
with the bomb and sacrifices himself.
44:59
Or does he? But anyway, everything's been
45:03
solved. Now the rebels realize that
45:06
Crocodile was the bad guy all along.
45:08
Bebe gives a big speech to the crowd, but it's actually eager.
45:12
Ram again dressed as Bebe while she's trying to say bye to the
45:17
Straw Hats and the dude. Coming of age ceremony.
45:22
Oh yes, it's the coming of age ceremony.
45:24
They don't want to wave to us or because the Marines are
45:27
watching, so they do the whole like kind of thing and show the
45:31
X on the wrists. Yeah.
45:34
Oh and one player has 1 clear stole the go and marry keep it
45:38
safe from the Marines because what a guy 1 clear is what is
45:43
he's? Just the best.
45:44
So thoughtful. And I love that he's like, if we
45:50
weren't never not friends, we were just on opposite sides of
45:54
the fight. Yeah.
45:56
Yes, it's so nice. What a guy.
45:58
I hope he comes back. Yeah, I hope he comes back.
46:05
Push past that. Yeah, I do want to spoil things.
46:09
I know, I know. But they did invite Phoebe to
46:11
become one of the Straw Hats. Butcher declines the offer
46:14
because there's too much to do with rebuilding Alabaster and
46:20
the Straw Hats sail off and then go, oh, who's this on our ship?
46:25
None other than Nico Robin, the new member of the Straw Hats.
46:30
Yeah, yeah. So now they've put an
46:33
archaeologist on the crew. Yeah, I thought her joining
46:37
right was spoiled from I think it was episode 113.
46:42
The opening shows as part of the.
46:45
Yeah. Straw Hat crew which?
46:48
Which is fair enough, but her joining was like there was no
46:52
build up to it. It was just like, she's here.
46:55
Yeah, I like that. Everyone's going like, oh, no,
46:57
she's just evil. She was part of Baroque works.
47:00
But then she just goes around each person going like, oh,
47:03
yeah, I'll tickle you. And now you're happy.
47:06
And now you're like, is oh, here, I've got this for you.
47:08
And she just, like, basically bribes every single one of the
47:11
Straw Hats apart from Zorro is still like, I'm on to you.
47:14
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
47:16
Which I get. To be fair, she helped them
47:19
along the way. She didn't seem like necessarily
47:21
evil or bad. She was just.
47:24
Yeah, I mean, she didn't have to.
47:25
Try Angie. Did she?
47:26
She just had to be like, I'm a woman and he's like, OK.
47:30
You can. You can stay true.
47:32
And the set off for the Grand Line to continue their
47:36
adventure, the. Grand Line, Yeah.
47:39
So that's Alabastar. Yeah.
47:42
Oh, we've got a pal. We've got a pal.
47:44
Oh yes, so we see Pell has been He landed in the desert
47:50
somewhere after the explosion, and some doctor helped him and
47:54
he's actually alive. He's still alive.
47:56
Yeah. I just thought I'd mention that.
47:58
That'll probably come in later. Maybe.
48:00
I don't know. I don't even.
48:01
Remember, I like Pell. He's an honorable guy.
48:05
Birdman. Yeah.
48:07
Any questions about this ark then?
48:09
Yes, right. I've asked you this before, but
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I'll ask you this on camera. What are them tablets called?
48:15
With the right nod. Pony glyphs.
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Pony glyphs right there is a part in this.
48:23
When Luffy is wandering the desert, he accidentally falls
48:27
through the ceiling and into a chamber which has polyglyphs on
48:33
and. Lock the door.
48:34
It's filler. Filler.
48:36
Yeah, it's just just ignore it. That's what we can do.
48:42
Oh hand it though because I want it to be something.
48:45
I wish this was currently coming out so I could make some
48:47
conspiracy theories on on Reddit or something.
48:50
There probably was a lot of conspiracy theories going on
48:53
about it, but it's just filler. It doesn't matter.
48:55
Fair enough. And I don't think I do have any
49:01
other other questions. Nope.
49:04
No, I'm not I. Think I've already asked
49:06
everything I'll need to. Oh yes, sorry.
49:09
And the Nefertari family, they must mean something if they have
49:15
the location to Pluton and they were chosen to guard the
49:23
location. So what's a crap with their
49:26
family lying? They're just an important
49:29
family. Do you know the Levelly that I
49:32
mentioned in last episode? So there's like 12 families that
49:36
formed the World Government. The Nefertaris are one of the
49:40
families that so with Nefertari Lily, it was one of the original
49:46
founding members. So the Nefertari family are part
49:50
an active part of the world government.
49:53
Pretty much, yeah. So why didn't they get help from
49:58
other nations when they had so much civil unrest and no water
50:03
for two years? I don't know.
50:05
No, I mean, who are they going to ask?
50:07
I mean, you've seen you've seen what hole?
50:09
He was one of the people on the world government, like family
50:12
things. Yeah.
50:12
Do you think he's going to come and help?
50:14
If there was something in it for him.
50:16
Nice, he's a Dick. Yeah, well, no, I want to see
50:19
more of Bon Clay and the only goal now really is to reach the
50:24
the end island of the the grand lane now isn't it?
50:28
Yeah, for the crew. Yeah.
50:29
Well, I mean that there's other there's other goals.
50:31
Find the old blue. Become the world's greatest
50:33
swordsman. Map the world.
50:35
Become the world's greatest doctor.
50:37
Become a brave warrior of the sea.
50:38
I mean like destination wise. Yeah, but I mean they have to
50:42
find directions to laugh peel first, which is where the
50:46
ponteglyphs come in. Right, because I thought was
50:49
just the, the, the, the compass that they have the special
50:53
compass, because I thought I'd just lead you, let you in
50:55
sequence until you get to the end.
50:58
No, the they have to find ponteglyphs.
51:01
Wrote ponteglyphs. There's ponteglyphs like you saw
51:04
in Alabaster and then there's other ones which will come into
51:06
play which will help direct people to left here.
51:10
Right. Oh well, I think that's all my
51:12
questions that you could probably answer.
51:16
So yeah, that's it then. So next we we still have the the
51:24
post Alabaster arc, But yeah, that's pretty much it for
51:29
Alabaster, though, rests just kind of full of stuff.
51:33
Alabaster Yeah, on to the next one.
51:36
So what we're doing next? I don't know, are you wanting to
51:38
do the the next 5 episodes as a another episode of this or do
51:44
you? Want to yes can do I?
51:45
Don't know if you wanted to skip past it because it's filler and
51:48
just move on to Skype Saga. Oh, well, actually, right.
51:52
So we'll, we'll go on to Skype here and it because it's just
51:56
Zorro's bit of Zorro's back story, isn't it?
51:59
That's actually in the manga, isn't it?
52:01
Yeah, and I don't think I can remember what happened to the
52:05
other ones unless your reminders.
52:09
Right. So just quickly what makes the
52:14
rumble balls where he's been experimenting with Doctor Corey
52:16
has medicine things and he makes a rumble by ball by mistake
52:22
pretty much that whole episode. Nami wants some paper from this
52:28
weird salesman that shows up on like the big amount the sea and
52:33
I have all the items you could want and he's tries to sell them
52:36
paper. But then he realizes he's on
52:38
Straw hat Luffy's pirate ship and makes a run for it.
52:41
Leaves all of his shit behind and Nami has some paper now to
52:45
draw maps that all episode. Sanji goes aboard a marine ship
52:52
on the next episode with some Little Chef dudes that
52:56
accidentally falls under their ship and he helps them make
52:59
Curry. Yes, Yeah, yeah, I remember
53:01
that. That's that whole episode.
53:04
Yeah. Usop helps a little girl in the
53:07
next episode with some fireworks because a parents died and The
53:13
Wanted make some giant work as a Well, yeah, and he does.
53:20
And that's that whole episode. And then the best one is the
53:24
Zoru one, where it shows how we met Johnny and Yusaku and there
53:30
was pirates and Raiders coming into this town.
53:34
The Johnny and the Shaku tried to fight them, but they couldn't
53:37
do anything against it against them.
53:39
Zoru beats the shit out of the mall and Johnny and you were
53:42
like, oh, can we team up with you and follow you around and
53:45
that was that. Yeah.
53:47
Well, I think that's we've done the man, yeah.
53:49
Yeah, that's it. It's still hot.
53:51
I've got a couple of questions just over the whole saga, which
53:54
is do you wish VV joined the Straw Hats?
53:56
No, because I wouldn't want to see her leave our country in
54:01
ruins like that. I.
54:02
Also think like what's so special about her?
54:05
She was swings a little necklace around and it's like, that's not
54:08
going to be good fight scenes, is it?
54:10
I don't know, she'll probably get stronger though.
54:13
You know for a fact if if she did join what she would do is
54:17
she'd mourn about a ruined country and then she would.
54:20
She would get stronger though but there wouldn't be that
54:24
purpose. I don't think Luffy would have
54:27
would have taken her if she was just like, oh, I feel really
54:29
guilty about leaving my country in ruins.
54:33
And he would have been just said, well, why did you come?
54:36
Yeah, the last thing that I need to ask about this whole arc was
54:41
the end of this arc. Smoker is talking to the higher
54:44
ups in Straw Hat. Levy has defeated Crocodile and
54:48
saved Alabaster and the World Government.
54:51
No, he didn't. You did.
54:53
You're promoted. So they covered it up.
54:56
How many other things do you think the World Government have
54:59
covered up? Oh Lords, Probably Lords, I bet
55:04
you I don't. Have we heard a lot of covered
55:08
up things though at this moment? Background wise, yes, there's.
55:12
There's always stuff going on where it's not.
55:15
So true. OK, OK.
55:17
Well, no, that's it. That's all I've got for this.
55:20
Right. Well, thanks very much for for
55:23
doing this with us again. And I cannot wait for continue
55:27
on with Skype. Yeah, because I did.
55:29
I did have a week's break from watching One Piece and it's been
55:32
weird because I've went from watching 130 on episodes like
55:36
that's all I was doing consumers to nothing for a week.
55:41
I think I'm getting withdrawal so I cannot wait to get back to
55:44
it again. And next time, I think we've got
55:47
Jake. Yes, hopefully.
55:49
We've got a proper expert on. I know he's the one that used to
55:52
it and then got you into it as well.
55:55
He's like Jake's the OG man. He's been watching it since it
55:57
came out. Yeah, Jake's been watching this
55:59
for 27 years. Yeah, yeah, I think he's going
56:04
to come on dressed as Nami, isn't he?
56:06
Yeah. So got that.
56:07
Looking forward to but yeah, till next week.
56:11
Yeah. Skype.
56:12
Yeah, just bye.