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One Piece, 490 & 491 · Spoil Me! One Piece

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This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me, covering one Piece
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episodes four ninety and four ninety Wait is it yes? Four four ninety one,
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Sorry everybody. Mighty leaders face each other down, heralding the new era
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and landing at the Maiden Island, the harsh reality falls upon Loofy. In
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these two fucking bummer episodes, we get to see what happens when the violence
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is over and now there is a power vacuum. Welcome to spoil Me,
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Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much to
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Florian for commissioning this episode. Yeah, these were such a bummer, guys,
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they just were like, there is some funny, cheery stuff mixed in
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there, don't get me wrong, But for the most part what we've going
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on got going on is like people being harassed and terrorized, folks who think
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that everything is going to be great now and just getting got like without any
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warning. A lot of the time, we find out that there's like a
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bunch of islands that white Beard was protecting and he you know, it's not
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like this place has social media. So even though there's a good number of
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people who are aware of the conflict and stuff. The news that he has
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actually died doesn't necessarily try right away. So there's whole villages and stuff where
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they have been relying low key on his flag flying above them, and then
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to find out that he's dead from the people who are now attacking them.
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I mean, that is a real bummer wake up call, and I just
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can't help but wonder, like, if white Beard had considered all of this,
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would it have mattered to him, Would he have made any different choices?
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I would guess probably not. You know, it's not his first rodeo.
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I'm sure that in a way he's always considered these sorts of consequences.
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But it makes me. It gets me to thinking, like, when you
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are a captain that has amassed the kind of power that he has, maybe
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you need to like really get some things in place for if something were to
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happen to you and just you know, potentially in the future, not saying
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it's gonna happen now, but an insurance policy of some sort. And probably
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originally, this is my guess, anyway, Ace was going to be Whitebeard's
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insurance policy. I don't know that, but you know, after everything with
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him running off and trying to track down black Beard and how all of that
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happened, probably want to update things there. So then I think it might
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be Marco, who seemed to be his sort of right hand on the battlefield.
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And I don't know exactly what's going on at the moment with the pirates
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that were in the fight. Mostly what we see is that the people who
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are directly involved with Loofy going to made N Island next time. But Marco,
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I don't know where he is off to, Like what are the white
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Beard pirates just licking their wound? I'm assuming I would really like it if
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they would get out here and get into things a little bit, not like
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I'm not. I I know that they have just been in the midst of
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this terrible battle and so that that is unfair. But also it just feels
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like you have an obligation and I'm always going to side with the little people.
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I you know, that's just always that's who I am. I am
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the little people. I have no power in the world. Things that come
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on high happen to me, and I am not able to like stop them.
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I can deal with I can I can determine how I cope with them
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to a point, but it's the same thing like with the small Folk and
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Song of ason Fire. They're the ones who really tend to suffer, and
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they're only seen as pieces on a they are not seen as people. Their
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pain and their suffering is completely hypothetical. And I will admit that even in
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the grand scheme, as much as I am a little person because I am
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a privileged, white, straight American, I am still slightly more important than
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a lot of other people that exist too. There's a hierarchy. But I
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always really feel for folks who just get swept up in a conflict and they
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don't have the I think there's just a sort of thing that a lot of
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us have believed from being children and understanding, like the way that wars happened
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in the US, that you have two armies who do it out and then
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whoever wins of those armies, and like there are so many civilian casualties in
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most wars, it's astronomical. I feel like I remember reading during a test
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that I took when I was in college that somewhere around ninety eight percent or
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ninety it was definitely in the ninety percentile of casualties in wars are civilians.
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They are not people who are part of either side government or army or anything
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like that. And it's so it's so consistent. You know, this is
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just the sort of thing that has remained true throughout such a period of time
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that it's taken for granted in a way that I wish we wouldn't and I
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wish you'd stop and really think about what that means, because it's just devastating.
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And that's really kind of what the main focus is here. So the
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out of the two episodes, when we start, we see all of the
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people around, like I think that some of the folks are in Sabo,
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but we go to a bunch of different areas and really get to see like
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different buildings in the background, and there tends to be a sort of theme
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to the way they're dressed that gives us a clue that a lot of them
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are in specific areas. We also see some other marines headquarters and whatnot,
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and they are hearing that the UH Marines have been victorious. And this is
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a really well done like unrolling of the actual conflict that comes later, because
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at first it's just pure celebration, right, all of these Marines who hear
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that they are on the side of the winners really feel like fucking badasses.
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We've got confetti flying in the streets. We've got people dancing and feasting and
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praying, thanking the gods, like there is just unf fettered joy because people
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think this is this is it. It's a rap. We are not worried
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anymore. And there's like a kind of striking image of saba Ode a little
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bit later after the news is delivered, where the square that everybody had been
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sort of gathered in with the huge TV screens and speakers and everything they had
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been watching and you know, breathless waiting for any news, and then as
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things like turn a corner, all of this confetti is falling and you go
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back to that spot and there isn't a soul standing there, Like everybody they
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are done with needing information. They have heard the navy one and that is
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it. And what I think is so interesting about this is like one could
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argue that this is sort of symbolic of the fact that they hear that okay,
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we won game over, like that's it, and that they should have
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stayed and found out more so that they could be better prepared. But I
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really have to point out that the Navy is not disseminating any other information.
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So even had they tried to inform themselves, they are at the mercy of
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whatever transmission they're getting, which is going to be heavily edited and biased.
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Stares at camera. This is just this is the thing, guys. And
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I know I know that this is by no means news to anybody, but
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it is really grim for me. The way that we get our information.
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It's I think a lot of people are tempted to blame it on social media
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and forget that this is how it's always been. Any major news outlet has
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always had to be owned by somebody, and whoever owned it had a lot
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of fucking money and a lot of power and were able to squash things they
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didn't want, or have articles rewritten to a certain bent to convince people reading
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of a certain perspective. It's just been the way things are. Even before
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there were news outlets, anybody who had the power over a large number of
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people could tell all of them at once, here's the story we're going with
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and send them out into the world to disseminate this misinformation. Go into bars
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and just talk at the bar and have this person seem like they're just a
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random citizen, or say I was there when blank blank blank happened. And
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it is a really frightening thing for me anytime that I let myself think about
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it for too long. How easy it is to distribute misinformation. It's not
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just the fact that some people want to think in a certain way and so
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feeding them what they already want to hear is going to be like magic.
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It's also the fact that so many people lack basic critical thinking skills. And
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you guys know what I mean. There's just a sense of like, this
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is what's sort of funny about it, is that when you circle around and
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look at some of the folks who are saying a lot of the things that
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for me, I disagree with, the difficulties that they have match up with
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mine, like we both are concerned about the same things, but they are
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operating from such a complete place of misinformation that they are coming to a totally
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opposite conclusion. And what I mean by this is just something like, for
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example, medical care, let's talk about that. Okay, so in the
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United States, we don't have any It's very bad. You get it through
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your employer or you pay a fortune for it, like privately, there's the
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public marketplace, but that's also incredibly expensive. For me and Owen it's about
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four hundred dollars a month and it's not good coverage. We have like a
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seven thousand dollars deductible, which is insane. And that is how it works.
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Now. Right wingers have a massive issue with big Pharma, which is
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part of the whole like not getting a vaccination, that whole thing, right,
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They don't trust big Pharma that they're out to get us, which,
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don't get me wrong, Big Parma is corrupt af I'm not trying to defend
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them, but there is a point where it's like, to what end do
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they want to give us poison in our vaccines? Like come on, And
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these people are on the right track in a way, but instead of seeing
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the fact that we could all have basic health care like they do in other
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parts of the world very successfully, if we were to just reallocate the funds
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to go there instead of to our military, if we were to tax the
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rich in a way that is effective and fair, if we were to actually
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see the charges that are real from a hospital instead of the incredibly inflated charges
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that we see that lead us to believe that caring for everybody would be impossible.
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All of this adds up to the fact that somebody doesn't want us to
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have it because they need to make money off of us dying, right,
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That's what it adds up to. But if you take it to that place
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of we could afford to do this for everybody, if we just that's where
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you hit the block, because immediately then they start to think that you're like
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a communist, socialist at best, communist at worst. Frankly, I am
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a communist, so fucking whatever. But they bunk at the idea of money
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being taken from the rich because they have been programmed to think that they have
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something in common with the rich. They have no understanding that this is a
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completely unfair system that deeply penalizes anybody living in poverty and disproportionately rewards those who
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already have more money than they could ever use in several lifetimes. And they
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parrot back these same talking points about how nobody should get to steal the money
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that they earned. Fair and square one. We're not talking about your money.
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We're talking about the money of people who aren't paying their fair share and
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who secondly, did not earn it fair and square at all. But those
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two facts, one the tax that the taxes are inequal right now and need
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to be fixed, they don't believe that. And two, they genuinely think
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that they are several steps from being a millionaire themselves and that eventually those taxes
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will hurt them somehow, And they don't want to look at the fact that
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when Trump went into office and changed tax brackets, he made it so that
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the wealthy got another break and the poorest tax payments got higher. These people
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have this like basic idea about how everything works, and yet as much as
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they are like correct in the things that they are upset about and zeroing in
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on, they are accepting information from a source that is plainly biased and they
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don't see it. And I know I'm preaching to a choir. If you're
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listening to this, you know this, and you're probably bored, and I'm
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sorry, but that's what really struck me here is just the fact that the
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Marines seem to have a complete lock on any information that they just doesn't look
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like anybody else has any control. And that, for me, is something
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that we should really start to address. Like if I were a pirate at
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this point unsurprising since I'm a podcaster, I would probably try and find ways
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to break into the system and find ways to disseminate information that is correct,
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actual footage of things. I would be working on that a lot. And
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I say this with the full acknowledgment that I say that. But is that
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what I'm doing right now in the world with actual misinformation? No? I
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mean, I guess you could say with the podcast I did have the honor
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of at one point a major post that went viral asked what made you change
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into a socialist? And two people tagged on Spoiled Podcasts? So, you
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know what, maybe a little bit, maybe I'm doing it a little bit.
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I kind of like it. I'm just gonna I'm gonna tell myself that.
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But the way that they have got a complete like just private TV station
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in a style of like the Capitol in the Hunger Games, that shit is
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so dangerous, man, that is just a really frightening prospect. And as
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frightening as it is, it's like maybe two three steps from where we currently
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exist as a people, because there are like four companies that own all media.
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When you boil it down to the like, you know, the biggest
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part, the biggest owners. It's it's like we're so we're so Oh my
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god, I wish I wish that I knew how to fight something like this,
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I really do, but it just seems so hopeless, sometimes so over
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whelming, and so cleverly built to keep us from being able to make any
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significant changes that there are times where I feel like, what's the point,
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you know, oh Florians? In the chat, Florian says, because of
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daylight savings, time between US and the EU are one hour closer, and
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I'm not used to it. Oh right, you guys do have daylight savings
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as well, right, but it just happens at a different point. I
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feel like I remember that reading that it's like for a month and a half
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we're out of sink, and then it goes back to being in sync because
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you guys do it later. Which just can we all just fucking shelve daylight
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savings for God's sake? I really, just what are we doing? It?
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Fucks us all up every year? Can we just not? Everybody that
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I have talked to agree but no, no, we cannot. So anyway,
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this it's really tough because like, at first, I'm watching it,
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and I'm seeing everybody cheering, and I'm already like, yeah, fools,
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because they're cheering for the government. Three cheers for the world government. And
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I'm over here like, hmm, that isn't exactly a Really they're not on
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your side, even though they can tell themselves that, but these people don't
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know yet, you know. And I gotta say, like the pirates,
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it's not really like easy to send a message about what side they're on because
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they aren't all on the same side either. There are bad guy pirates out
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there that are out here fucking people up, and there are some decent ones
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that want to keep that sort of thing from happening. And it's you know,
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we saw the way that like Teach just decided to fucking turn into a
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super villain, and that's not a great look. So why wouldn't people side
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with the Marines over that display. I can't really like blame them for making
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the assumptions that they do, but it's just really hard to watch them get
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this excited. And this is when we go to the seven ships out at
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sea near Marine Ford, and it's all like the the big players who are
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kind of like figuring out what comes next they it says, staring at the
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dust of the battle rising above Marine Ford, evidence of the workings of justice
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in the Great Pirate era. They sense the restlessness of the changing times,
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and they're talking like some of them are saying it's over, but there are
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others who are just like, it's not over. Are you kidding me?
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And it depends on who we're seeing the reaction that they have. Drake is
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being told like it's and that this is all over, and he says,
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well, the navy has to change. Also, then there's a guy who's
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like a mobster who says Whitebeard's territory will sink in a sea of blood in
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this whirlpool, which he is fucking correct. And let's see, black Beard
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is the key. He's gained new followers and Whitebeard's power if I'm sure they're
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going to reign for a while. And it was hard for me to tell
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how he felt about it, because this character never stops smiling, so I
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always feel like he's saying things that sound pretty terrible, but he looks pretty
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happy about it. And I don't know what side he falls on, and
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I don't know if that's on purpose or if things were going a slightly different
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way in the original, and it's just like the dub that kind of changes
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the tone. But whatever the case, So let's see who have we got
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here. I'm looking at the list that Florian made for me like a total
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sweetheart. Oh my god, there are so many people though. Seriously,
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Katerina Devin, she is just the one that keeps arresting me every time I
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see her face. I am really excited because she's just so different looking than
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so many other woman characters. But she hasn't gotten enough to do. Florian
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says. The revolutionaries seem to be the only ones that are onto the marine
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shit and want to do something about it. So we have heard like Eva
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or Dragon are with them? Oh, Florian says, Oh no, I
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have not added them. Don't Florian, Please don't worry about it. But
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he says he thinks I'm talking about Apoh okay. Then we go to the
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girl who's got the pink hair, and she's the one that's yelling it's all
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his fault. I'll track him down soon enough. Let's go to the New
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World, and I'm really excited to see everybody gathered up against Blackbeard. Just
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for the record, Oh a poo is the one with the uh piano teeth.
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According to this anyway, it looks like the guy I was talking about
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was the one who's got the black voice actor and he has the super wide
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neck and he's just always like grinning from ear to ear and looks like a
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fucking wrestler. But Appo is he or a Pooh? I think it's a
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pooh? He says, let's see, because he's like kind of got a
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different take on a lot of this, he seems. He says, what
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the hell is going on? And his people are like, what are you
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talking about? And he says that guy will become his enemy? Is he
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really gonna save him? I'm talking about Trafalgar Law. He's known for his
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brutality. He wouldn't save straw hat Loofy if there wasn't some catch, and
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I'm really curious what that could be. Then we go to Hawkins, who's
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trying to do a card reading here. I just want to mention too.
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With Hawkins, I find it really fascinating the way that he has a spot
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to place his cards in front of him. I know that this is something
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that probably nobody cares about me, but look, I am somebody who likes
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to do taro pulling, and it's difficult sometimes if you've got a big spread
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and you don't have a huge empty table to manage like all of your cards.
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The fact that he just has these like tagging little stands in front of
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him in midair that just hover that he can just place a card on and
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keep track of jealous, deeply deeply jealous. And he says that he's trying
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to see whether or not Lufy is still alive and the cards are not.
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This is interesting, guys. I'm doing a thing that I haven't done in
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a minute, just to give you guys an understanding of why I might be
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sort of stammering over certain sentences as I'm reading them. I watched this episode,
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these two episodes on Hulu, but as I am covering it and talking
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to y'all, I am watching on Funimation, and I forgot that Fundimation,
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even with the dub, has the original subtitles, while Hulu has subtitles that
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match the English dub. So I'm looking at this and the way that it
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says in the dub is I am trying to find out from the cards whether
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Lufy is alive or dead. But the cards refuse to say, and in
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the original it looks like the subs says, I'm trying to determine the odds
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of whether Loofy is dead or alive. Let's see, I'm gonna read it
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exactly so you guys can get a sense of this. I've been trying to
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see the odds that Lufy's still alive. But it never reaches zero. That's
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a very different vibe to me. Like the cards refused to say means things
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are uncertain. But if it never reaches zero, that means pretty much that
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he's still alive, which I guess uncertain. You know that that isn't really
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saying that he's still alive. That's just a different thing. I think it's
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interesting every time that I see some change that kind of alters the meaning a
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little bit. So, yeah, see, there's a couple other dudes.
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I can't remember this guy's name. He's got like a well, a wild
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sort of I don't know if he's like his second in command, but the
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dude has long white hair all the way down to his butt, and he
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has like tattoos around his mouth that look like the threading of a needle.
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When you sow somebody's mouth shut for you know, like a corpse or something,
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and they're talking about how it's really over, isn't it, And here
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comes fucking Eustace. I think it's his name. I feel like I remember
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his name because I was like, really, that doesn't feel like it fits.
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But he says, uh, what's over? Like Blackbeard is the one
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in control now, it's never over because any time and again I'm going to
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compare these lines the new force who emerge during the war. That Blackbeard is
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quite a guy. And in the dub he says, anytime a big like
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a a mean man is taken down or something like that, a bigger,
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meaner man comes to take his place. So, yeah, he said before
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it was white Beard, red Hair, Kayito and big Mom. Have we
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met them? Kaydo? What was it? Redhead and Big Mom? We
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haven't met them, right, he says. But since one of them is
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dead, the world is out of balance and no one can predict the consequences.
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This is the beginning of a new era, the likes of which no
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one has ever seen. Y'all. I cannot tell you. Uh oh wow,
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Florian says, red Hair is Shanks. I didn't even realize, how
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am I that stupid? I cannot believe myself. But I didn't realize that
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Shanks was like that high up on the list. That's much more powerful than
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I really thought. But damn, okay, I you guys, this is
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just so the more that I watch one piece, the more I realize how
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much Cradle pulled from one piece, Like it was just such a clear direct
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like inspiration. And I'm not mad at that. I just want to be
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clear, like I'm not trying to be like, oh, now Cradle is
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invalid, but it really is kind of funny once you begin to step back
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and look at like the monarchs and the way that that's structured, and how
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similar that is here. So we go back to Marine Ford and there is
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this scene where, first of all, there's a bunch of these fucking Pelicans
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who are disseminating information an everywhere, and the announcer is saying, and I'm
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going to compare what it is that he says in the sub with mine,
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But the way that he said it onmine was that the in the way that
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history usually works, some facts get glossed over and people only remember the major
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points, and so a lot of people were not considering what was going to
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come next, and yeah, this is close. Like most of history,
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some facts are trimmed off as the news goes around and just the two words
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Navy victory stand out. The people, in their excitement at the news,
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failed to notice something. And this is when we have the first arrival of
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a pirate who's got three ponytails going down his back and he is wearing a
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cowboy hat and using an old rifle and there's like a I think he's got
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kind of a poncho thing on, so we're definitely going Old West, it
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feels like with this. But it was interesting because he is like shooting guns
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and just sort of yelling at the populace from this balcony. And at first
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I thought this guy was arriving to just start to like reak havoc, but
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seeing what he's actually saying, which is, did you guys not hear that
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the one piece is real? That gold Roger wasn't lying. I mean,
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we got to get on the water right now. Let's get the fuck out
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of here. And it was sort of funny to me because everybody is like
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down in the in the square, cowering and sad at the fact that these
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guys are like, you know, shooting guns, and I thought they were
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about to do some damage, but actually they're announcing that they're taking off.
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One would think might be good news for these people, but I don't know
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how much these people have gotten used to a you know, a violent presence
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that they know at least, versus being left defenseless and then a whole other
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ship of pirates showing up and plundering them. You know, maybe that's maybe
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that's the thing. It's just the devil, you know, But yeah,
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I just I really took that as like a different way. But then we
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get the other way pretty shortly. We have a whole bunch of dudes who
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descend on food Vaulton, which is just such a funny name, you guys,
32:32
And they immediately are just like, yay, you guys are dependent on
32:38
white Beard, and if you haven't heard, he's fucking dead. So we
32:42
can just basically do whatever we want now. Okay, So this is the
32:49
moment where we go back to Sengoku, who is standing there with his goat.
32:52
Guys, I know that this goat has likely come up before. I
33:00
feel it in my gut that we've seen this goat before, but I don't
33:06
remember it, and it's very distracting to me, Like I keep just thinking,
33:14
what a weird little tether this is, this goat. But anyway,
33:20
so he's there just sort of looking up at the damage that was done in
33:22
this war, and he gets approached by one of his men, who he
33:30
is like completely wrapped in bandages, by the way, But this dude who
33:36
comes up has got bright green hair and he's wearing pink pants and a shoes
33:43
and shirt made out of like the same striped blue and white material. And
33:51
this guy is apparently sharing some information from impelled down, which I hadn't like.
33:59
The the consideration that they are not up on the news from impel down
34:05
had not occurred to me. And he's like, you know, Magellan is
34:12
under intensive care because he got beaten really really badly and was almost killed.
34:19
But he is blaming himself for the whole thing. They said that if he
34:23
could move now, he'd kill himself, and Sengoku says, don't let him
34:29
do such a stupid thing. And then what has been going on at the
34:34
prison? Allow me to tell you the condition as it stands. It is
34:38
especially bad at level six, literally a disaster and we find out that the
34:45
way things went back when was that Blackbeard went into the prisons and he told
34:54
everybody who was like in each cell, because they're grouped together, and it
35:00
looks like there's like, you know, ten or fifteen people per sell.
35:05
It looks like what he told them was all of you have, you know,
35:12
just like until the last man standing go at each other, and whoever
35:15
is left alive is going to get to join my crew. And I was
35:22
sort of wondering if these people were going to push back against that a little
35:27
bit more. But the prisoners that are left at impelled down are not being
35:34
treated in the same way as the prisoners that came out with Loofy. There's
35:37
a real sort of suggestion here. And I don't know if this is like
35:43
something that is actually meaningful and explained, or if it's simply the way it's
35:47
working because of how the story has to go. But what it feels like
35:53
is that the prisoners who were particularly decent and not necessarily worthy of being imprisoned
36:05
the way that they are here, they're the ones that all left with Loofy,
36:09
and that the people that are actual dangerous criminals are all left. And
36:16
so when they are presented with this like kill each other and one of you
36:20
gets to come with me. They all respond with a lot of excitement,
36:24
and the animation is very specific. The way that they're depicted is not like
36:30
at first, it's not even quite human. We have a lot of sort
36:32
of impressions of eyes and faces and hands, but they're all done in a
36:37
way that's almost like animalistic and tongues hanging out and lolling. There's just not
36:43
a lot of like the feeling of them being people until after he makes the
36:47
announcement. And then when we see them, like one of these guys has
36:52
literally got pointed teeth when he's screaming like all right, let's do this.
36:57
Who have I got to kill first? Like there's more than one do with
37:00
pointed teeth, And it's just like the whole way that these prisoners are being
37:07
depicted, it's just really really different. And we see like the camera go
37:17
from one to the other of the people that he wound up actually teaming up
37:23
with, and the shadows of the folks in the cell falling on them and
37:30
them looking really excited about it. And it seems to me like the suggestion
37:37
here is that absolutely nobody there stands a chance because it's just a given that
37:42
the folks we've seen him with are going to win, because there is no
37:45
contest at all. So yeah, he says four prisoners were taken San Juan
37:51
Wolf, Avolo Pizarro, Vasco Shot, and Katerina Devin, but they're obviously
37:58
more prisoners missing from level six, which means and he looks down and uh,
38:07
the goat is like chewing at him, and he's sort of like distracted,
38:14
but some Goku finishes, I understand. Then there are more escapees from
38:20
level six, and we see the uh, like all of the gates on
38:27
these prisons being opened and then just sort of wandering out. So apparently,
38:34
like I'm confused about whether or not he actually did do the like fight each
38:37
other to the death, if all of the people who are actually getting out
38:42
did kill their cellmates and just weren't chosen, or if like Blackbeard did that
38:47
to just cause chaos and then didn't follow through with it. But there's like
38:52
a lot of people left. Florian says they are in level six where Krock
39:00
and Ace was, so the worst of the worst or at least strongest,
39:05
gotcha, okay, And he says. Sengoku says, if even one of
39:09
the prisoners from Level six sneaks into a country somewhere, the people will be
39:15
in grave danger. Check to see how many there were their names, get
39:20
a most wanted list out now. And this guy bulks a little bit and
39:25
says, I'm really sorry, but I was given orders from the world government
39:31
directly to keep everything that happened at Level six totally secret. And Sengoku kind
39:40
of like loses his patience here and he just says, I don't give a
39:46
damn, and I'm gonna be honest, guys. This is an interesting change
39:52
from the subtitles that I don't know what how to interpret it, because in
39:58
the dum that's what he says, like, I don't give a damn,
40:01
which in my opinion, sounds like I'm gonna do what the fuck I said.
40:07
I don't. I have no interest in what you just told me.
40:09
It's not relevant. In this sub it says damn them, which does not
40:19
imply rebellion of any kind. It more seems just like the frustrated outburst of
40:25
somebody who is like going to do what he was told, but he's gonna
40:32
let you know that he's really pissed about it, And so I'm not totally
40:37
sure what way sing Oku's gonna go with this, because if it's just damned
40:43
them and he's actually listening to them, I mean, it makes sense that
40:47
he would be like that. He would just be loyal and take orders and
40:52
obedient to the world government because of his position. But I also kind of
40:58
hope that he just like sides screw the reputation of the government. We're going
41:02
to do what we need to to save these people. Because honestly, what
41:07
I would like is to respect Sengoku a little bit more. I don't feel
41:10
like I know him well enough, and I don't need him to be like
41:15
a likable person. That's not it at all. But I would like to
41:20
feel that there is some sort of moral code that he operates by and that
41:24
the lives of these people matter to him in a way that supersedes the reputation
41:32
of the government. You know. So just gotta sort of wait and see
41:37
on that and see find out where that goes. Then we have a sort
41:43
of interesting thing with fucking Moria, who he has been it seems gripped up
41:52
by the Pacifistas. There's like a lot of explosions happening, and Dol Flamingo
42:00
is standing over him and is telling him, like, let's be real,
42:07
you know that you are too weak to be a war lord. And I
42:15
don't know. I was a little bit surprised about this, you guys,
42:16
because Maria's power to me seems pretty impressive. And Do Flamingo being so dismissive
42:25
of it. I was like, but why, I mean, I don't
42:28
know he's doing something with it. And he says, died in the War
42:37
of the Best sounds better than done in by the government. And Maria says,
42:44
whose idea was this, Sengoku? And do Flamingo says no, someone
42:49
much higher up the ladder, and Maria just looks upset. But we don't
42:54
actually see what happens here, and I'm super curious what that's all about.
43:00
So then we go back to the submarine where they're taking care of Loofy,
43:08
the one with law, and we've got this this fucking BEPO, the bear.
43:15
He's down here, crying about how hot it is and sounding like Michael
43:19
Sarah. He says, I don't like it. When we submerge, we
43:22
have to say stay in such a cramped place with messy people. And he
43:29
says this with a real sort of side eye, but they take it,
43:34
take exception to this, and he says, well, I have no choice
43:37
but to bear it, but I'm gonna make you guys feel it too.
43:42
Oh my god, I said I have no choice but to bear it.
43:44
Oh my god, I just heard that. Sorry, guys, I didn't
43:46
do it on purpose. Yeah, So he just starts rubbing his face on
43:52
them. He is very funny. I don't know what it is like we're
43:55
doing with him ultimately, but he's getting his sweat all over them, and
44:00
it is very funny to me. So when they surface, that is when
44:08
Hancock lands on the deck of the ship, and of course Beppo is immediately
44:14
like, who the fuck are you all got? Because he isn't exactly a
44:16
uh He's not like I don't want to call him a coward, but he's
44:22
definitely somebody who tries to avoid conflict. I get the sense, you know.
44:28
So, yeah, he jumps outside and is looking around and really excited
44:31
that he's, you know, finally getting fresh air and stuff again. And
44:37
he looks side to side and nothing is there. It's one of those funny
44:40
things where, like, you know, there's no possible way you run onto
44:45
that deck the way that he did and don't see this giant coiled snake,
44:50
but he has to check left and right, and then in front of him
44:53
is the huge coiled snake with a skull like draped over its head, adding
45:00
a whole other level of creepiness to it. And they look up and they
45:04
see one of the Navy ships next to them, which absolutely dwarfs them by
45:08
the way, teeny teeny tiny. They just look so insignificant next to it.
45:15
And they look up and they see Boa Hancock and knowing that she's on
45:20
the side of the Marines, so they think they are very upset, feeling
45:24
like, well, shit, we went through all of this and we fucking
45:27
got caught anyway, and they're worried, but she says, don't worry.
45:36
I turned all the Navy soldiers to stone and we get to see them all
45:40
with their little heart eyes falling all over her, and it is just really
45:45
funny. Still, that's never really gonna get old for me, I don't
45:46
think. And she wants to know like Louvi's status and whether he's going to
45:53
recover, and Pepa was just like, wait, how did you know we
45:58
were going to surface here. I thought the navy was after us and that
46:00
you were with them, and she says, I made Salome follow you underwater.
46:08
So yeah, what they wind up doing is heading over to Maiden Island
46:17
so that there is some place for them to hold up for a little while
46:22
and for Loofy to recover. When law comes out, he says like,
46:25
I've done everything I could to stabilize him, but whether he actually recovers depends
46:30
entirely on his own will to live, basically, And you can see like,
46:42
how's devastated Boe is. And then you hear Eva yelling it's no wonder
46:47
Strawboy couldn't even stand up at Impelled Down once, And all of the people
46:54
on board with Eva are like cheering and saying how much they owe to Loofy
47:00
because of him. We owe getting out of Impelled Down to him, and
47:07
now we are going to be able to make the Kama Baka Kingdom come to
47:15
life and be real. So they are like, all right to the new
47:20
Kama's home from New Kama Land and they're waving. I love this moment when
47:25
the guys on deck are like, who are they? What the fuck is
47:30
going on and Boa just has to explain. She says, they've you know,
47:37
snuck on the ship. They were his allies. So even it comes
47:40
down and does a little summersault because he can't help it. I'm surprised he
47:46
doesn't summersault everywhere, honestly, And he does a little recap about how much
47:52
Lufy sacrificed in order to save Ace and the fact that Ace died anyway,
47:59
if there's no justice in the world, and it's really should not be a
48:01
surprise that he completely lost his marbles basically, like after everything he had been
48:08
through. So I'm trying not to skip anything here, you guys, because
48:15
this is sort of setting up what happens next episode. And boah, what
48:20
a tragedy. I wish I could take his place, poor Loofy. And
48:23
then she just starts sobbing, and the guys are over here like, oh,
48:29
I'm jealous. It would be really nice to have her care about you
48:31
that much, and Law admits he's not like a friend of Lufy's. He
48:42
said, I didn't have to save him at all. If you're wondering about
48:45
my motivation, I can come up with a reason. And Eva doesn't want
48:52
it. Eva says, no, that's okay. Sometimes your instinct tells you
48:57
what to do, and I was like, no, no, no,
49:00
no, no, Eva, he was about to offer. He did not
49:04
say anything about instinct. He has spoken the word reason, which is a
49:13
that is just a whole different energy. Let the man speak. But of
49:16
course no, we can't find out this is soon how that went. So
49:22
I'm spending a lot of time on this episode because really, when you get
49:25
down to it, guys, this is the episode where like anything happens.
49:30
The next episode is, in my opinion, the same conversation like four times
49:36
and then Lufy having a meltdown is really what happens. So first let's go
49:44
over there and deal with his complete like implosion. Here. The main thing
49:52
is the fact that we have to get permission from the lady on Maiden Island
50:00
to get to get into the harbor with all of these men. At first,
50:10
Boa wants for Hancock wants law to come ashore, and that's when what
50:20
is her name, Neill? I think now she says essentially like what the
50:27
fuck has he got that our own doctors haven't got? If you can give
50:31
me any reason why he should be allowed on our island, I would be
50:36
willing to listen. But as far as we know, he doesn't have access
50:40
to like any technology or medicine that we haven't also got access to. So
50:46
what exactly are we putting ourselves out like that for him for when he hasn't
50:53
Like, we aren't supposed to let men on the island. That's like a
50:59
firm law, and we can't just be throwing that to the side because you
51:02
want to. And so like, eventually the fact that they're even in the
51:10
harbor or the bay, I don't I can't remember exactly what they call it.
51:14
Even that starts to become a problem, and there's a lot of conversation.
51:21
And when I say it's like the same argument over and over, it's
51:23
really between her and Hancock because they are just at odds right now over what
51:31
to do. Hancock is in love with Lufy, and so it's like no
51:37
question to her that she's going to go and help nurse him, that she's
51:43
going to get food and bring it to him and serve him. All of
51:46
this is just a given. And she keeps having to be reminded as her
51:52
position of her position as princess of this island that excludes men and the fact
52:00
that they shouldn't even be speaking to all of the men. Like there's a
52:06
few different instances where maidens are bringing supplies to the men on the ships and
52:13
talking to them for just an extra second it's nothing, and they're getting yelled
52:19
at and just one of them gets told like have some self respect, when
52:25
all she said was like make sure to wait your turn, like she was
52:30
just giving instructions, and she's being treated like she's such a whore for this,
52:36
you know. And that's really when I say that there's the same argument
52:39
over. That's what I'm talking about. It's just, well, we need
52:43
to help them, but there are men, so we can't. Well we
52:45
need to let them on the island, but they are men, so we
52:47
can't when we need to do something for them, well they are men,
52:51
so you aren't allowed to. She's not allowed to. Just back and forth
52:55
and back and forth and the like. It's sort of frustrating because I just
53:07
sort of want to be like, why is this really I guess this is
53:13
the safest place for them because the Marines are still thinking that she is on
53:17
their side. I'm not really sure how long that can possibly continue. That's
53:22
the thing is like she really got in the way to keep Loofy safe a
53:30
lot during that fight, and it's hard to tell how much of that was
53:35
actually witnessed by anybody, Like is it going to be reported back that she
53:40
just completely threw in for him or I don't know how long it will take
53:47
and whether they'll think to come here for Loofy you know. Oh yeah,
53:54
this is when the ladies come up with all of the food, and it's
53:58
the giant tech who is saying, please don't push and wait for your turn,
54:04
and uh yeah, afha, Landre gets yelled at don't talk to men.
54:10
Lufy is the exception because of the Princess's decree? And I'm kind of
54:16
concerned, guys that what we're getting here is going to be the eventual reversal
54:24
of the law against men. Look, I know that probably it's supposed to
54:34
be like a good thing, but I can't help but think it isn't.
54:42
Like you know what I'm saying. I just really feel that maybe we should
54:47
just have some islands that are all women and have that be how it is
54:52
sometimes and let that continue to be a refuge away. I That's all I'm
55:01
gonna say about that. So That's just my concern is that, like,
55:07
as everything sort of progresses, I don't know if Lufy is going to be
55:13
able to leave this place by the time. Like I'm still imagining his friends
55:17
trying to meet up with him. I don't even know if that's true,
55:21
because the way that we saw things going in a lot of their povs,
55:25
they were just trying to like get by and they weren't attempt like actually traveling,
55:31
So that may not be even a factor. There may be something else
55:36
that like winds up bringing them back together. But I'm starting to really believe.
55:42
I thought, Okay, we're gonna have the arc without everybody in you
55:47
know, impeled down, and then we got to the marine headquarters and it
55:52
continued, and I was like, Okay, well then we'll have to wait
55:54
for this to resolve. And now that's basically resolved, and I'm starting to
56:01
be like, are we getting another arc without his friends? Like? How
56:06
long are we going to be separated? This has been a really really long
56:09
time now. But Okay, Loofy, for his part, who's being kept
56:20
on the equivalent of like life support, is really struggling. We see him
56:28
sort of having these like nightmares remembering like Ace telling him that you always do
56:34
such crazy shit and you never listen to me. We have him witnessing Ace's
56:39
death and just like kind of there's a real sense of like PTSD basically happening
56:52
here. And eventually he comes out of the room and the whole ship is
56:59
sort of rocking because of the emotions that he's having, I think. But
57:05
he stumbles out complete head to toe bandages, covered in sweat, and he
57:13
just says Ace, and all of a sudden comes like there's an explosion from
57:20
the submarine. He comes flying out of it and he hits the ground like
57:25
a wrecking ball, which you know, really should kill him, but he's
57:30
loofy, so it doesn't. And it just leads to Law saying like,
57:37
if he keeps moving around like he is, he's going to break his stitches
57:40
and then he probably will bleed out. But it's suggested I think that the
57:47
implication is supposed to be that his emotions from his grief cause him to be
57:55
able to like just break out of the top of the submarine, which I
58:00
am I have a lot of questions about, and I'm wondering whether that's something
58:05
that's going to occur again or what because that's a pretty that's a wild ability
58:13
to suddenly have. And he screams, wears ace, and everything like shakes
58:22
in that moment and the like whole he is coming to terms with what happened,
58:32
but it's sort of happening alongside him, arguing with himself that it wasn't
58:38
real, that it couldn't have gone that way, and uh yeah, the
58:43
amount of damage that he's doing. He basically like punches a tree in half
58:49
and is standing there with like blood pouring off his fist. This dude is
58:53
not in a good place. And when he punches that, you see his
59:00
like eyes and they're doing that thing where the pupils are like multiple lines,
59:06
and then all of a sudden, he sort of comes back to himself and
59:08
his eye becomes solid again, and he looks up and says, wait,
59:14
where am I? Maybe that was all a dream after all, And then
59:20
all of a sudden everything turns like black and white as he remembers again,
59:24
and he just dissolves into sobbing tears. And when his friends gather around him,
59:34
like he gets very defensive and it's like, you know, you guys
59:43
think that I don't know what's going on. Do you think that I am
59:47
in denial about it, that I don't believe it? You know, I
59:52
know that this isn't a dream. I know that this is all really happening.
59:58
If it were a dream, I would have woken up by now.
1:00:02
And I just really, guys, I'm gonna be honest. I'm not trying
1:00:08
to say that this display from Lufy is unjustified, but I am saying that
1:00:15
the casualness with which Lufy dismissed Ace's viver card being so small and on fire
1:00:28
way back when things were really starting to go left, in the light of
1:00:31
his reaction here is surprising. I feel like maybe he should have given more
1:00:39
of a shit when all of that was initially going on. You know,
1:00:45
That's all I'm saying is just you put things off, man in a weird
1:00:50
way that fell out of character to me. And I don't know if we're
1:00:53
gonna find out like or maybe there was a mention even already of Ace having
1:01:00
told him like not to try and jump in and help. But I just
1:01:04
kind of keep thinking about the moment and how it felt false to me at
1:01:10
the time, and seeing the way that Lufy is losing his mind over losing
1:01:15
ace. Now, I am sort of like, well, if he meant
1:01:20
this much to you, then why weren't you more worried? Dude? You
1:01:24
know, like I don't. I'm not trying to say necessarily that things would
1:01:30
have gone a totally different way if he had cared. Saying cared is harsh
1:01:35
if he had taken action, but maybe they would have. I don't know
1:01:40
so anyway, all right, I've got to wrap up, But thank you
1:01:44
guys so much again for commissioning these, for hanging out with me, for
1:01:46
listening. I really hope y'all are enjoying the coverage, And until next time
1:01:52
to the lou motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network