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One Piece, 377-379 · 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 three seventy seven, three seventy eight, and three seventy nine. The
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  pain of My crewmates is My pain, Zoro's desperate fight, a Promise from
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  a Distant Day, The Pirates Song, and a Small Whale, and Brooks
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  passed a sad farewell with his cheerful comrade. In these episodes, y'all,
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  I did not like this one bit, not even a little. I really,
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  oh, my current state of mind was not ideal for an animal abandonment
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  centric storyline. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I
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  am Natasha. Thank you very much to the One Piece crew for commissioning this
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  episode. Everybody is here in the chat. Hi, y'all delighted to have
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  you. Also, I hate you and get out you, guys. I'm
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  not going to stunt on any of you. I know that A lot of
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  the time when I'm getting, like get emotional about an episode, y'all want
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  to know, right, I cried like a little baby. I sobbed and
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  clung to Sam who was sitting next to me through the last of these three
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  episodes, and truly I believe that we're gonna like have a happy ending here.
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  But oh my god, you guys, look, here's the thing with
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  me. Even animal death is less difficult for me. It's the suffering that's
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  the part that I can't fucking stomach. And the aspect of it where an
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  animal is unable to quite understand why you have to do what you're doing.
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  It's like, you know, like the fucking episode of Futurama where Fry's dog
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  is waiting for him, which I think we can all agree is one of
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  the most traumatic episodes of any television show ever aired. Like it's still brought
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  up whenever anybody's like, what's the saddest show episode you've ever seen? That's
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  usually like the top of the list that people will post and get the most
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  likes and retweets or comments or whatever. So and it's the combo of like
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  an animal that doesn't understand fully what's happening. I will say that at least
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  La Boon has like more comprehension. It's not the same, you know,
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  but it just brought that up for me. You know, I have Sam
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  and he had to get fixed, and then he got the infection and I
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  had to like wash his wound out and do things that hurt him in the
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  short run to ensure that he didn't like sustained harm in the long run.
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  And it was so difficult for me to make myself do it, you guys.
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  Like at one point when he was first like the infection had first set
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  in, his leg was really swollen and it was like in his sort of
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  like underbelly as well, and so swollen that you touched it at all,
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  and he yelped and we had to figure out how to lift him into the
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  car. And I tried to lift him and he yelped, and I literally
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  put him down and turned around and started to like almost throw up because it
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  just hurt my heart so bad. And Owen had to come around and like
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  pick him up. And I just keep thinking about I'm gonna have to give
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  him away, and I know it's for the best. I'm sorry, you
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  guys. I knew this is gonna happen, But I really grow to love
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  him, And if it weren't for what's going on with him and his brother
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  and them not getting along, I would definitely like want to keep him,
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  even though he's a nightmare in some ways. And I am going to have
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  to give him away and leave him with somebody else and like drive away,
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  and they genuinely don't know how I'm gonna do it. Like it was tough
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  to say goodbye to the other puppies, and I didn't get to know them
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  the same way. You know, they were sweethearts, but there were so
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  many of them at that at that point, they were all still out side,
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  and I wasn't spending a ton of time with them. And Sam,
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  we've trained him to be an inside and outside dog now, so he's with
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  me constantly, and I know it will be what's best for him if I'm
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  able to find somebody, But oh, it's gonna rip my heart out,
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  you guys. It is going to fucking kill me. And I think it's
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  just also been at the forefront of my mind because I'm not sure what the
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  fuck is going on. I think it's there's a combination of things happening.
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  First of all, I think a lot of people got pets during the pandemic
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  and they didn't fully understand what it was going to take for them to continue
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  to care for this animal once they were no longer working from home all the
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  time. So there has been a huge influx here he is, he knows
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  I'm talking about it. A huge influx of dogs being surrendered because of the
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  fact that they their owners are either unwilling or unable to care for them anymore.
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  I think that some people were under the impression they would get to work
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  from home forever, and their companies just screwed them. So all these shelters
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  are like overflowing. And on top of that, I've had several friends recently
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  lose their dogs like kind of suddenly, and a cat as well. Those
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  of you who know Jamie from the show her like sweet Cat passed away.
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  And I had no less than five friends over the past month lose dogs and
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  like they were not sick. It was a very sudden thing. So I
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  think that I'm just sort of like surrounded by a lot of of sad stories
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  with animals in addition to what I'm dealing with with my own. And He's
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  looking at me, Hey, baby, who as you are? You're the
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  best one. Don't tell Pip And I said that he's so good you guys.
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  Um. So anyway, this was brutal. It just really really got
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  to me. And I appreciate Brooke so much more because he is truly like
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  fucked up in a way that the other pirates don't really seem to be.
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  His captain is like sympathetic, and the other pirates definitely care about Laboon.
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  It's not like they don't give a shit. But it's very clear to me
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  that Brooke and Laboon have like a particular relationship, and Brooke is a real
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  softy um in regard to I don't know if it's animals in general, but
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  definitely Laboon at least, so it's particularly difficult for him, and that is
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  just also how I am. There is just something about the fact that they
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  don't understand and that sometimes they have to go through suffering and just trust you,
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  you know. And that's what gets to me a lot about like caring
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  for Sam, is that I have to do these things that hurt him,
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  and I know they hurt him, but he like, after I do this
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  thing that hurts him, he will still climb into my lap and want cuddles
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  and love me, even though I inflicted that on him. And I feel
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  like he should be mad and just be like, well, I'm not coming
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  near you now, because he trusts me that much and understands somehow that I
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  do just want to care for him, and you guys, I just was
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  not ready. So I'm going to back up and we have to talk about
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  Zoro first. But I just needed to talk about this right out of the
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  gate because it is obviously, as you can hear, soft spot for me
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  at the moment. So yeah, well let's talk about Zoro first, because
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  this is a weird thing. I'm not entirely sure that I get what happened
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  here, So we start off. I should mention that we have a new
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  theme song, and it's not actually new, it's just a new version of
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  the last theme song. I'm not, you know, I'm not a musical
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  expert, so I can't tell you what changes were made, but it sounds
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  like it's faster paced or made a little bit more techno sounding. I'm not
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  sure, but the beginning of this episode is like a really long slow mo
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  replay of the end of the last one, where we're reestablishing everything with Kuma
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  having this like, you know, bomb basically, And I was genuinely surprised
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  because I said I was watching the scream when I said this last episode that
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  the bomb goes off and it looks like the island literally disappears, off the
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  map, like it seems like it's straight up gone, and we have like
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  trees that go flying and buildings that crack, and it's like, I mean,
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  it's serious. And then we come back and it's not remotely as bad
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  as it looks. It's like this very impressive, long drawn out explosion,
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  and then it's sort of like while the building's closest to them are rubble,
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  but most of the rest of the island seems to be like completely a fine
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  honestly, so I was a little disappointed. I'm gonna be straight with y'all.
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  This seemed like a cop out. I was hoping that we would at
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  least be like in the floating rubble of the ship slash island, and we
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  were going to have to figure things out from there. I didn't expect for
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  almost everything to be like completely intact before, like after this explosion that was
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  made so much of and Kuma is like just looking around surveying everything, and
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  we get shots of all of these people who are laid out in such a
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  way that they look like they're dead. They're not. This massive explosion that
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  he says is going to kill everybody because those are his orders, doesn't even
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  kill one single solitary person as far as I can see. I'm mean,
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  you know, like I'm nobody. I don't feel like there's any casual season.
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  You guys can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think anybody
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  dies, which that's pretty lame. I'm fine with Armine characters not dying at
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  this point. I'm even fine with some of our main side characters not dying.
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  I would like some Red Shirts mixed in, though I wouldn't mind like
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  there being any indication that his power is something to truly fear, because at
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  this point it just feels like a lot of nothing. It feels like I'm
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  gonna intimidate everybody and make all of these big promises, but in the end,
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  it's like I'm just popping a large balloon in your face. It's annoying,
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  but it doesn't actually have an effect. So yeah, I was just
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  like bewildered to this long pan over everybody who is like evidently at this moment
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  dead and their eyes are whited out, which is often like either they're dead
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  or they're just unconscious. It's really kind of up to the viewer how to
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  interpret it. Sometimes this affected me at first because I thought they were really
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  gone, you know. It seemed like the way that it's done is the
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  whited out eyes are people who are dead, and then you go to the
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  one piece crews and all of the straw hats eyes are closed. So that
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  was how I was taking it. Was like everybody else is dead, but
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  the one piece crew or you guys in the one piece crew, my bad.
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  The straw Hat crew are just knocked out, but not dead. So
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  he Kuma goes over to Lufy and is like staring down at his body and
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  like figuring out how to take him out of here. He lifts him up
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  by his front of his like vest, which I don't know why that was
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  such a weird choice to me. But as he's lifting him up, who
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  should show up but Zoro, who puts a big old slash in Kuma's shoulder.
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  And this is unexpected. It turns out, first of all, Kuma
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  has to be like ready for an attack, it turns out, in order
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  to deflect it. So it's not like you like it's an automatic thing that
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  happens. When Zoro gets the drop on him, it cuts him pretty good.
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  But the problem is he's a robot, cyborg whatever it's wild, you
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  guys. The shoulder that's showing has like a dial on it, you know,
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  and a bunch of chords that are coming out. And I was sort
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  of thinking that maybe he was it was just his arm or something, I
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  don't know, But then his one eye begins to blink red in a very
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  Terminator esque sort of way, and he opens his mouth and there's this like
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  a beam of light that gathers in his mouth. It's very dramatic, and
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  actually I thought pretty cool looking. And he's sucking the light in and Zoro's
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  watching him and just sort of like standing there prepping before he shoots it at
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  Zoro, and he causes like a pretty good sized blast. It doesn't hit
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  Zoro is able to dodge it, but like that's freaky, you know,
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  And there's all this like smoke pouring out of his mouth when he closes his
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  mouth. The look of it is it's intimidating. I'll say that, but
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  I'm just going to read a comment here. Gus says, I think it
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  was intended to knock them all out so that he could take Lufy and spare
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  their lives like he said he would. I mean, he said that he
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  would spare their lives if they handed Loofy over and if not, he was
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  under orders to kill them all and he wouldn't use the thing, and he
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  said, then this was your choice, as he supposedly lets the bomb go
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  off to kill everybody because they didn't handle Lufy over the way that they said.
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  So I don't know if it's supposed to be that he actually has a
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  soft spot and didn't kill them all because of because he just felt like it
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  was the wrong thing to do. But it's a weird thing to like threaten
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  them all as if they're going to kill them with a certain weapon and then
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  that weapon doesn't come close to killing them all. I just feel like it's,
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  you know what I'm saying, It's just a weird That's not clear to
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  me that he was intending to just knock them out from the beginning, because
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  that's not what he said. The whole thing was predicated on them handing Lufy
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  over voluntarily, which they didn't do. So I'm column bullshit. It just
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  seems like we wanted this big dramatic moment, but we didn't want to actually
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  like pay anything for it. So again, Zoro gets like thrown off and
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  Kuma is able to heal almost instantly the like wound in his shoulder, which
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  I thought was sort of interesting. It's not just his flesh that heals either,
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  it's like the clothing as well. And when Zoro looks over, I
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  think it's like one of his swords that's in the ground. No, it's
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  a steel bar. It's melted. That's how hot this beam was that he
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  shot out. So it sort of like folds over and Zoro is in pretty
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  bad shape here, it's pretty rough. So he says that I know I'm
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  not worth as much Aslofy. My bounty is not as high, but I
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  could really make y'all's lives pretty miserable. And I think that you should take
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  me seriously and consider that my head would be a decent enough replacement for Loofy.
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  Like I can't give him up. I just can't, Like that's not
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  honorable. But if you were going to have some honor yourself, you could
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  at least like fight me for it. So there's also a moment where he
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  says something that he is a Pasa fista, a creation that is an in
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  development human weapon project, so like a terminator is sort of what I'm thinking
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  of, and he has a sense of honor himself. When Zoro is like
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  telling him, I can't do this, like it's against my code, he
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  seems to understand what he means and sort of respect that. We also hear
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  that this is like a creation again from doctor Vega Punk, who we've definitely
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  heard of before. I don't remember what he's done, but this is a
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  familiar name. It's a good name. I won't lie, And Zoro,
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  for his part, is just like, you know, I'm not gonna lie.
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  It feels pretty unfair that you've got like these serious upgrades in your body,
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  but you've also got devil fruit powers, Like that's just an deeply unfair
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  advantage. He's not wrong, so he says he offers himself, and Kuma
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  is like not completely averse to this. He looks like he is considering it.
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  And while Zoro is waiting for him to come to a decision on it,
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  who should show up but Sanji, who has decided that he also is
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  going to martyr himself. And it's interesting to me the way that Zoro reacts,
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  because so Sanji when he turns up, one of his pant legs is
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  missing, one of his jacket sleeves is missing, and there looks to be
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  almost like a whole bitten out of his tie. And he tells Zoro not
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  to show him up and puts himself between Zoro and Kuma, and he's like,
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  all right, if you're gonna take ahead, take mine now. I
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  said that Zoro was in pretty bad shape, and he is, but demonstrably,
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  Sanji is in worse shape than Zoro. He's walking all weird, like
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  he's drunk. You know, there's a real sort of weaving quality. When
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  he's standing in front of Kuma, he's like trembling violently, and it doesn't
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  seem like it's fear. It seems like just trying to hold himself upright.
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  Is this like intense effort? And Zoro, for his part, I sort
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  of wondered if he was going to be like, well, then let's do
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  this together, bro, And I should have known that. Of course he
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  wasn't gonna be like that. I just thought, in this these extenuating circumstances
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  that maybe they would have learned to work together for like a second, But
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  no, apparently not. Sanji makes this whole like, you know, dramatic.
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  Just tell the others that I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to say
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  goodbye kind of moment. And then he gets kicked aside by Zoro, who
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  just puts him down so hard is just like you idiot, and he gets
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  knocked out completely. This time, he is really just down for the count.
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  When Zoro like grabs him. Sanji clings for a moment as if he's
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  going to try and prove that he can still stay upright, But that was
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  all it took, and he finally slides down and hits the floor, and
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  it's very clear he was not going to be up for shit. So this
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  is when Kuma is like, all right, well, if you want me
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  to, he says, I won't take straw Hat's head, but if you're
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  intent on taking his place, you are going to experience a living hell.
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  And this is a weird moment. He puts his hand with his little paw
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  against Lufy's chest and pushes out a giant red bubble behind Lufy that he explains
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  is his pain and exhaustion that Lufy has experienced that has essentially been separated from
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  Lufy. So when we see Lufy later, he feels totally fine, like
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  he's in great shape because this has removed all of the pain and suffering from
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  him, and that feels like something that you don't want to do with a
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  guy who's like the main target of the world government is like bring him back
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  to prime fighting shape. I was just like, why would you do this?
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  I don't It's just it's just such a stupid move. I don't know.
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  I guess Koma is meant to be dumb. I don't know. So
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  he tells Zoro that you have to inflict this pain and agony on yourself,
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  and as close to death as you are, it's not only going to kill
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  you, it's going to be slow and painful. And he pushes it toward
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  him, this like bubble, which I thought was going to completely encircle Zoro,
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  Like it's so big. At first I thought that he was going to
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  go inside it and it would be a sort of prison. Instead, it
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  turns into around the size of maybe like a tennis ball, and floats towards
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  his chest and like goes into his chest from there, and then he begins
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  to completely rack with pain and he falls to the ground and Kuma is standing
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  over him and saying, are you still sure you want to do this?
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  So Zoro says, just let me pick the location, and we go over
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  to this spot that's by the woods, and the big bubble is there again.
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  And I wasn't entirely sure about what was happening here, Like did that?
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  I think what it's supposed to be is that the initial contact with it
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  incapacitated him so badly that Kuma took it out from his chest and then put
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  it like somewhere else for him, or maybe that it was just a very
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  small ball because it was only a fraction of it and this was like the
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  full sized one. But yeah, so he puts this like at some corner
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  of the island and Kuma next thing that we see is him like looking out
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  on the ocean and saying, this kid has inspired such loyalty that he couldn't
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  be anybody's son, but yours, could he dragon. So evidently I am
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  led to understand that Kuma, who is supposed to be very intimidating, shows
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  up to this island with the orders to kill literally everybody there, and not
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  only does he not kill anybody, he also restores Lufy to prime fighting shape
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  before he goes. This guy is an op, right, Like that's this
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  is not a man who is loyal to the government. This isn't it.
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  If I'm not believing that, then I have to believe it's extreme and utter
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  incompetence, And I just don't get the vibe from him that that's what it
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  is. I really do think that he has to be sort of rooting for
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  Lufy because of this comment that he says about Dragon as well. I'm like,
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  all right, so, either he's only commenting on the fact that he
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  has met other associates of Dragons who are also super loyal, so this is
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  like the kind of attitude that he has seen before, or he's making a
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  more personal comment and kind of being like, I get how like how they
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  feel because I am also super loyal to you. And I don't know if
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  that's reaching, but it felt like it didn't feel like it was just a
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  comment on I've seen this before. It felt personal to me. And the
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  fact that he apparently like had some honor, at least according to Zoro,
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  with the fact that he was willing to take Zoro's not his offer because he
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  doesn't like take his head or anything, but you know, he respected the
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  fact that Zoro absolutely would not be handing Moofy over and seemed to appreciate that.
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  So all I can say is that either Kuma is somebody who is like
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  low key on our side, or he is so bad at his job that
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  he is not threatening at all, and I just can't take him seriously.
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  It's just, you know, that's a problem with a show where nobody can
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  die, but like the bad guy can do things that you're supposed to believe
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  could kill people. That's the nice thing about the way that Maria was set
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  up is that his ability was about taking people's shadows, which doesn't inherently kill
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  them, and actually only really works if they aren't dead, because then he
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  loses the shadow entirely. So you've built in a really nice like way for
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  this to work within the confines of the universe that you want to build where
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  nobody's ever really in danger of death, and yet he's still very scary.
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  You know. He's like kind of taking away people's free will and making like
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  these bizarre copies and relegating them to life in this ship. That's like,
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  that's freaky, and none of that involves killing them. But Kuma's power.
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  The only thing that's particularly intimidating to me is the way that he can like
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  redirect attacks and otherwise I don't see it for him, so let's see.
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  Gus says, I'm not sure either, just headcannon. I think. He
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  just pulls his torn jacket up. No healing. Oh okay, it looked
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  like it just like fixed itself. But he pushes a tiny piece at the
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  big bubbles. Zora, okay, gotcha, and Florian says, well,
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  I guess we have to wait and see what the deal is with Kuma.
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  Twirls mustache, enjoy your thoughts. So yeah, he leaves the island and
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  I we We then slow pan to the rest of the crew here, who
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  are all waking up, and it's everybody on the island that seems fine.
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  Lufy himself is like dancing in place and talking about how amazing he feels.
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  It's so weird because he's got bandages on him and he didn't have, like
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  if he's feeling okay, I don't remember these bandages being on him from earlier,
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  but maybe they weren't. I just didn't notice. But anyway, Sanji
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  wakes up here and he's the only one who had been conscious before other than
• 32:30
  Zoro, and he's like, where the fuck did Zoro go? And I'm
• 32:34
  pretty sure in his mind it was gonna be Zoro's dead and I am gonna
• 32:39
  I'm not gonna find him anywhere. But instead he finds an incredibly fucked up
• 32:49
  Zoro off to the side, like by the tree line, and Zoro's kneeling
• 32:55
  I think in place. No, he's standing, but he is in this
• 33:00
  big bloody patch of stone and absolutely dripping with blood. I mean it's everywhere.
• 33:13
  His shirt has been totally shredded. It's pretty bad. And Sangi says,
• 33:22
  what the hell happened here, to which Zoro says, what happened here?
• 33:30
  Nothing at all. And I'm gonna give some credit here to the voice
• 33:35
  actor because the way he delivers that line is so convincing that he's like in
• 33:42
  horrible pain and is just doing his best to bear it for the moment.
• 33:47
  There's no real sense to me of I like I'm attempting to pretend I'm not
• 33:59
  in pain. It's more like I'm trying to hold it together and not completely
• 34:04
  lose my shit in front of you. And yeah, I'll let you know
• 34:07
  that I'm in pain because look at all this blood, Like there's no point
• 34:10
  pretending this doesn't hurt. But I'm very very close to like falling apart a
• 34:17
  little bit, and I'm trying not to let that happen. So yeah,
• 34:22
  the voice actor is just very effective with that line delivery. So then we
• 34:28
  go to episode three seventy eight, A Promise from a Distant Day, and
• 34:35
  we start off on a tiny little thriller bark Boat. It's so cute,
• 34:40
  guys, It's got this little like bat on the front of it. I
• 34:46
  don't think that, I'm assuming because of the stitching that Hilden had been also
• 34:57
  a zombie, So I think that he's gone forever now. And I would
• 35:00
  just like to register my profound sadness on that front, because I just enjoyed
• 35:05
  him a lot, and you know, like he just there was something bizarrely
• 35:09
  wholesome about him, even considering that he worked for like the baddest of the
• 35:13
  bad guys. So there it's Absalom and Hogback and I think there's one other
• 35:22
  person with him. I can't remember who the other one is. Oh well,
• 35:25
  Maria obviously, who's like laid out on the deck. But oh yeah,
• 35:30
  So they're talking about a new warlord and Hogback says he's a controversial figure.
• 35:37
  His names Teach. From what I hear, he's a nasty piece of
• 35:42
  work. And he tosses over a newspaper. On the back of the newspaper,
• 35:50
  I just want to mention that there's a picture of Iceberg and it just
• 35:54
  says the Secretary wanted, but nothing further. And I'm very cure what bat
• 36:00
  articles about. Absalom's reading this, and he says, second division commander of
• 36:06
  the white Beard Pirates Firefist Ace now awaiting execution at the prison. Ace is
• 36:13
  easily the most famous henchman white Beard has got working under him. A fine
• 36:19
  gift for Teach to present to the world government. And Hogback says, I
• 36:25
  feel like this could spell very bad news to our great pirate era. The
• 36:30
  tides are turning toward a Maelstrom. There couldn't be a worse time for Maria
• 36:37
  to be flat on his back. And Absalom says, I see where you're
• 36:43
  going with this, and I was like, am I following it too?
• 36:49
  I don't think so. I am assuming that what he's saying is basically,
• 36:53
  we should go after Ace, and wee like Teach is on the rye.
• 37:00
  But maybe if we captured this dude or did something with him, that he
• 37:05
  would be we could like supplant him. But I'm not feeling like I totally
• 37:14
  get it because, like you know, Maria was basically sanctioned by the government,
• 37:19
  right, being one of the warlords, right, So is are they
• 37:25
  saying that they're going to try and like step into his place? Gus says,
• 37:35
  Absalom survives. Sad Oh Florian says, that's why this is called in
• 37:42
  the fandom the arc where nothing happened, because nobody like dies or anything.
• 37:46
  Okay, I can understand, like in the end why they feel that.
• 37:52
  I really do. I enjoyed this so much, but like in the end
• 37:59
  with it just being like, oh, Maria just couldn't handle the shadows and
• 38:01
  kind of just crumpled, you know, in the end, and then you're
• 38:09
  like, oh, well he crumpled so that we could make room for this
• 38:13
  other, big bad Kuma, and then Kuma doesn't do anything either. I
• 38:16
  gotta say, I understand people's frustration. I enjoyed so much of this,
• 38:22
  you all know that, But in terms of ultimate payoff, yeah, very
• 38:28
  weak. Sauce Gus says, Teach is Blackbeard, by the way. Oh
• 38:35
  that's right, I remember hearing that now, so I don't. I'm not
• 38:44
  entirely clear what it is that Hogback is suggesting that Absalam is picking up on.
• 38:50
  I'm assuming that it's something to do with Ace, but because Ace is
• 38:52
  like already in prison and awaiting execution, I'm like, not sure what they're
• 39:00
  planning to do. If it weren't for the fact that he had been got
• 39:05
  then I'd be like, oh, they want to capture him for his bounty
• 39:07
  or something, but it's too late for that, so I don't know,
• 39:13
  and maybe I'm not supposed to. And this is when Amsalem says, I
• 39:21
  understand what you're getting at, but the only thing I really care about is
• 39:24
  having a nice wife. I want a living woman full of blood and passion.
• 39:31
  Because he says, sure, go pick out a corpse. That's your
• 39:35
  type. So creepy. So we go back to big thriller Bark and our
• 39:42
  friends are loading up the sunny Lufy is trying to make do with just a
• 39:49
  chunk, like giant body sized chunks of cheese, but he wants me and
• 39:53
  is getting pretty frustrated over the fact that they don't have any and Sangi is
• 39:59
  like, well, you could help me out a little bit here, because
• 40:01
  none of the dudes who have gotten their shadows restored. None of them want
• 40:07
  to help because they don't want to leave the sunshine. And I was like,
• 40:13
  yeah, I gotta say, if I had been them, I also
• 40:15
  wouldn't want to leave the sunshine, like it's been how long? Yeah,
• 40:21
  No, that's I would be camping out for sure. And Sanji says,
• 40:30
  we got all the food back that was stolen from us, and it looks
• 40:34
  like somebody stocked us up with Maria's food. I'm assuming once again that this
• 40:40
  was Kuma. I have to like, it's gotta be right. Who else
• 40:46
  would do this because he's talking a lola when he says this, And she's
• 40:52
  like, I wonder who would have done that? And I would have thought
• 40:57
  it was her and her people. If not them, I'm a go with
• 41:01
  Kuma. And then we get a really nice moment. You guys, she
• 41:08
  says, as if food weren't enough, they left you all this too.
• 41:12
  You don't even have to hunt for treasure, it just delivers itself. And
• 41:16
  Nami says, I'm in heaven and she's like laid out on a huge pile
• 41:23
  of loose gold and trinkets and boxes and weapons, everything is sparkling around her.
• 41:34
  She has the kind of like happy expression that you don't see that often
• 41:37
  on her face, like a little smile and giant eyes of just like pure
• 41:44
  bliss. And Lufy picks something out and Usap is clearly worried she's gonna be
• 41:50
  like, pop my shit down, but instead she's like, oh, yeah,
• 41:53
  that's just costume jewelry. Of course he can have that. I you,
• 42:02
  guys, I know that, like so much of the time, the
• 42:07
  point of a storyline where people get a bunch of money is that then you
• 42:13
  have to take it from them somehow, right, And I can't bear to
• 42:21
  watch them lose this treasure. I'm just gonna say this right now. I
• 42:24
  just can we sidestep that like plot requirement for just a little while and only
• 42:34
  enjoy this treasure next treasure they come across, Fine, take it, make
• 42:38
  it a big thing, But can we just like have this one and really
• 42:45
  just get to enjoy it for what it is? Pretty please, though,
• 42:49
  I'm saying, oh, Pironas stopped all the food and treasure on the sunny
• 42:58
  before Kuma erased her. I forgot that she was like taking other stuff out
• 43:02
  of the kitchen as well, because they took okay, because I was thinking
• 43:07
  that she was the one who took stuff off the sunny. I was misremembering,
• 43:10
  forgetting that they took everything off the sunny when they were trying to feed
• 43:14
  oars. And then when she's about to flee, she's going to take the
• 43:19
  sunny and like reloads it again. Right, thank you, thank you,
• 43:22
  thank you. Gus says nothing happened is a reference to Zoro's ordeal, where
• 43:29
  nothing at all happened here, not due to the fact that nobody dies at
• 43:31
  this point. That's normal for this show. I mean, I would say
• 43:38
  still like there's been arcs that and it still feels like despite their not being
• 43:47
  any like deaths, there's been forward movement on things. I guess. The
• 43:52
  only thing that's for me pretty major that's changed for them is that they have
• 43:58
  Brooke now who previously they'd met him and invited him to be part of their
• 44:02
  crew, but he couldn't go out in the sun, so that was super
• 44:06
  impossible. And now they've got him with his shadows, so he could potentially
• 44:10
  become a crew member, which I really hope he's like a permanent addition,
• 44:15
  but I don't know, Maybe he's just gonna stail off into the sunset with
• 44:16
  Laboon. I don't know, I'm gonna. I believe you, but I
• 44:23
  also feel a little bit like, I don't know, but it does kind
• 44:27
  of feel in a way in the end that the payoff was not The payoff
• 44:31
  on so many other things has felt pretty significant and this one doesn't. But
• 44:38
  anyway, so they're loading everything up, and I love just this bit here.
• 44:49
  Nami is like vaguely aware that Lola called her Nami Zough, and Lola
• 44:58
  herself is sort of like, I don't get why I even said that I
• 45:01
  have never met you, but I feel like I know you, And Nami
• 45:06
  realizes who she is and like runs up and hugs her and is saying,
• 45:10
  oh my god, I'm so glad to meet you again. And this really
• 45:15
  made me so happy. You guys, I wish that they could like stay
• 45:19
  friends. Like you know, they're each going to go their separate ways,
• 45:22
  so I'm assuming we won't see her for a while, and probably if we
• 45:27
  do, it'll be in like a filler episode. But I just was glad
• 45:34
  that the little friendship that they began between the two of them got some closure.
• 45:40
  You know. I liked this a lot, and she hands over a
• 45:49
  bunch of treasure and it's like, please take this, and everybody is so
• 45:53
  shocked at the fact that she's like giving something away. This is like super
• 46:00
  super out of character. So then we jump over to the crew carrying all
• 46:06
  kinds of stuff over to the guys who are out in the sun, and
• 46:10
  they Zoro is still asleep, and he winds up like still being asleep.
• 46:15
  When they get him on the boat, he's literally passed out. I think
• 46:19
  it's a Nami who says something like, yeah, I've seen him sleep through
• 46:22
  a typhoon, so he's not going to be in fighting shape anytime soon.
• 46:29
  He really took one for the team in the most literal sense. So we
• 46:36
  then have a conversation between Sanji and two of the guys who were just conscious
• 46:45
  enough to see what happened with Zoro, and they had been going to tell
• 46:50
  Lufy about it, but Sanji is extremely serious about how it would Lufy up
• 47:00
  to hear what Zoro did for him. It would just you know, and
• 47:05
  I think that he's right. So he tells them not to say anything to
• 47:10
  Lufy. He makes them promise, and there's a pretty funny moment where there
• 47:15
  are, you know, like characters around their heads and they're holding their arms
• 47:20
  up, and I appreciated that Funnimation does translate it as saying, want to
• 47:24
  talk, wanna talk, wanna talk, wanna talk, So they have to
• 47:30
  keep the secret. But Robin in one of the very creepy moments of her
• 47:39
  powers yet again, is she's pushing her ear out of some guy's back so
• 47:47
  she can listen to the whole conversation. I really really hated it. I
• 47:54
  love that this is like a possibility and all of this is well and good,
• 47:59
  but truly, every time I get reminded of some of the ways she
• 48:02
  can use her power, it just grosses me out. It's like body horror,
• 48:06
  you know. So he convinces these guys that they won't talk. Robin
• 48:15
  knows, I don't know if she'll ever spill the beans or not. But
• 48:16
  then we go over to the party scene, requisite party scene, and Brooke
• 48:23
  is making lots of jokes about not having taste buds and whatnot. I love
• 48:30
  that the rest of the crew, even though Frankie's annoyed, everybody else is
• 48:35
  thinking it's hilarious. He says something about how he thinks he's gained some weight,
• 48:42
  and he also, like we see him playing the fiddle in his flashbacks,
• 48:47
  but evidently he also plays the piano. He's just like a real musician
• 48:53
  of many types. And it's a cute moment because when he starts to play,
• 49:04
  Robin recognizes the song and she says something about how nostalgic it is to
• 49:08
  hear again, And I just thought that that was a nice I don't know,
• 49:14
  because we get so little from Robin that gives her personality for me.
• 49:19
  Any time that I get reminded that she has feelings, to be honest,
• 49:23
  that is like fascinating, and I wish we had a little bit more of
• 49:30
  it. Just I understand her history and I it's awful, Like you guys,
• 49:36
  remember when I found out about it, how really terrible it felt.
• 49:42
  But in the present, she still feels like a stranger. So this party
• 49:53
  with all of them sort of winds up dissolving into the memories of what happened
• 50:02
  with Laboon, because Lufy comes over and tells Brooke that we did meet Laboon.
• 50:10
  We know where he is. He's still waiting for you. He remembers
• 50:13
  the promise that you made. And it's sort of funny because like and this
• 50:16
  is just the way that the show will often work. But I really thought
• 50:22
  that we had sort of established that they had met Laboon and knew where he
• 50:27
  was. But it seems as if Brooke just didn't really believe them or understand,
• 50:35
  Like I don't know, It's like he's hearing this for the first time
• 50:38
  and he just starts sobbing crying, and the again voice actor who does his
• 50:45
  voice the sobbing is so hysterical. It's very very good. And then we
• 50:52
  get to see exactly what it was like with meeting him and what the crew
• 50:59
  was like and how much they like cared about each other. And I actually
• 51:05
  really liked this storyline. So we go. The first scene of Brooke with
• 51:13
  his crewmates is him waking them all up with a song. Have you guys
• 51:19
  ever had somebody do this to you? I just question, just a quick
• 51:22
  question, because I my father could play the trumpet. It was like pretty
• 51:28
  rudimentary, but he could definitely play, and he more than once came into
• 51:39
  my room when he felt I had slept long enough and played it in my
• 51:46
  room. A fucking trumpet, you know, in a room like the size
• 51:51
  of this office. I cannot emphasize enough, you guys, how angry it
• 51:59
  made me. I would wake up in a towering rage with nowhere to direct
• 52:06
  it. Because my dad thought it was hilarious. You like, forget it,
• 52:13
  absolutely imm even just thinking about it now, I am One of my
• 52:21
  favorite favorite things that we have managed with technology is that I now have an
• 52:28
  Apple Watch which vibrates as an alarm to wake me up, and it's very
• 52:32
  effective. It wakes me up and I don't have to have any annoying sound
• 52:39
  to force me awake, which is, in my opinion, no matter how
• 52:45
  gentle a sound, it is the worst way to wake up. It's so
• 52:52
  just it doesn't matter how nice the sound is, or if it's a song
• 52:58
  you love, I guarantee you, within six days of you using that song
• 53:02
  for your alarm, you will not like that song anymore. It's just how
• 53:07
  it works, you know. So anyway, him doing this, I was
• 53:12
  sort of like, I absolutely cannot with you right now, Brooke. I'm
• 53:20
  a fan of you. I really like you, but the fact that you're
• 53:22
  doing this to your people, I can't approve of it. I just can't
• 53:27
  do it. They're all real pissed at him. So finally we go up
• 53:34
  to the deck and the captain's up there brushing his teeth. His name is
• 53:39
  Calico and he's got like tattoos around his eye and mouth. He's awesome looking,
• 53:46
  and I'm super bummed that he's dead because what a great name, what
• 53:52
  a great character design, and he just seemed cool, you know, like
• 53:57
  goodhearted dude. He's the one who comes with the idea of eventually turning around
• 54:02
  and coming back for Laboon. I just really like him, and it makes
• 54:07
  me so sad to know that he's gone. And this he's playing the music
• 54:13
  on the deck, Brooke is for the captain, and this is when a
• 54:16
  whale, a little baby whale shows up and starts making sounds, and it's
• 54:23
  like the music drew him, which makes sense because whale sounds there is a
• 54:30
  sort of almost string instrument kind of quality to them. And I love when
• 54:35
  he shows up and everybody's just like, oh my god, he's so cute.
• 54:37
  And the way that Brooke speaks to Laboon is it just reminded me so
• 54:44
  much of the way that Owen speaks to the dogs, especially to Sam though
• 54:51
  like it. He calls him buddy and he's like, oh, good boy,
• 54:54
  and it's just everything about the interactions that they have. It felt it
• 55:00
  felt for me like very familiar, and I think that's part of why it
• 55:06
  started to get me so emotional. There's a moment when they're like in the
• 55:10
  midst of a fight with another ship and a couple of guys get thrown overboard.
• 55:17
  At this point, we Brook already he has eaten the devil fruits,
• 55:24
  so he can't swim to go help his friends, and he turns and looks
• 55:29
  and he's like planning to send them a raft, and Laboon came up from
• 55:32
  underneath them and like lifts them up and saves them because he's a precious,
• 55:37
  sweet little baby who can do no wrong. Ever, So we then get
• 55:46
  a sort of like montage of what they go through as they're like, you
• 55:52
  know, making their way through the high seas with Laboon by their side,
• 55:58
  and how Brooke is bonding with him, and it's just all of this is
• 56:05
  so cute. He's so adorable. The illustrations in this show of animals,
• 56:13
  they can really make things heartbreakingly adorable. And eventually we have a moment where
• 56:22
  they are going to be going over to the Grand Line and they're telling him
• 56:25
  that he can't follow and you guys, this was this was the part.
• 56:31
  Later on they have to say goodbye again, but at this point it looks
• 56:37
  like it's going to be their main goodbye and Brooke. They have to hide
• 56:45
  so that Laboon can't see them and call to them, so they like sit
• 56:51
  down behind the the like rails of the ship. This was really hard.
• 57:04
  This is this is the part that kind of like got to me, is
• 57:07
  having to get an animal to understand by removing yourself so that they can't like
• 57:16
  keep appealing to your emotions even though they still are but they can't see it
• 57:22
  happening. And I had to do this with the puppies a lot, especially
• 57:28
  when we were down to just like two or three, and I would bring
• 57:32
  Pippin inside and they would like come to the window and cry because they weren't
• 57:38
  also inside. And now I like switch Pippin and Sam out, and they
• 57:44
  have to be separated, so there's always one of them in the yard,
• 57:46
  and sometimes one of them will like be at the window and I have to
• 57:52
  sort of stand out of sight and wait for them to stop crying and like
• 57:57
  go play, because once they get accustomed to the idea that I'm not right
• 58:02
  here, it's okay, and they go play and they, you know,
• 58:07
  have a good time. But when they are still preoccupied with maybe getting me
• 58:13
  to let them inside, they will stand there and like make sounds. You
• 58:17
  guys, they're half husky, and I don't know how many of you are
• 58:21
  familiar, but huskies are an animal that makes sounds beyond belief, frankly,
• 58:27
  and they have inherited some of that, so they will howl in this way
• 58:32
  that just recks me, and I have had to do this little trick myself.
• 58:40
  So they get to the other side, they meet Crocus, and this
• 58:46
  is when he's like, so what about this whale? Is this a pet
• 58:50
  of yours? And everybody's like what. And Brooke is so excited. He
• 58:54
  has been so bummed out, like since they first said goodbye to Laboon.
• 59:00
  They run into Crocus and they're like gonna get supplies and they're gonna have a
• 59:04
  celebration, and everybody's cheering, and Brooke is off in the back, the
• 59:08
  only one who isn't cheering because his heart is shattered from saying goodbye to Laboon.
• 59:15
  And I just fucking felt him on that so hard. So when it
• 59:19
  turns out that Laboon crossed and is here with them. He is overjoyed,
• 59:23
  but is also like, dude, truly though, you can't come with us
• 59:29
  past this point, And it seems like Laboon really gets it this time.
• 59:34
  And that's when Calico comes up and is like, how about this. You
• 59:39
  chill here for like two maybe three years max, and we will come back
• 59:46
  for you, because I don't think it's going to take that long, but
• 59:51
  you'll be bigger by then and you know, more able to handle things,
• 59:54
  will be done with what we're trying to do. And Laboon agree and they
• 1:00:00
  sail away and Brooke, for his part, as much as it's like painful
• 1:00:07
  to say goodbye to Laboon, this promise of eventually being able to see him
• 1:00:14
  again is enough to take the edge off of the sadness. Which is it
• 1:00:21
  really like, is so understandable to me how obsessed Brooke is with getting back
• 1:00:30
  to La Boon after all of this. I would be the exact same way.
• 1:00:35
  I mean, I can't. This is the sort of thing that you
• 1:00:40
  know, I understand that there are times where people do have to surrender their
• 1:00:45
  pets, and it's like totally valid. Especially I have a friend right now
• 1:00:49
  who is disabled and something has happened, and she has three little dogs and
• 1:00:55
  she is having to surrender all of them. She found a home for one,
• 1:00:59
  but there are two more, and it's basically what She went from three
• 1:01:05
  dogs to no dogs within like four days, and it's killing her to have
• 1:01:12
  to do it. But she literally is like so ill that she can't move
• 1:01:16
  a lot of the time, and they aren't getting cared for. So it's
• 1:01:21
  not like always surrendering your dogs or animals in general is a bad thing,
• 1:01:25
  but there's a difference between surrendering with the like conscientious sensation of responsibility and people
• 1:01:37
  who just ditch their animals and bail, which truly, the number of people
• 1:01:44
  that do that, it's astounding to me. And I know that I could
• 1:01:52
  have probably tried to surrender some of the puppies. There were every place seemed
• 1:01:58
  to be pretty full. I probably could have somewhere and they would have taken
• 1:02:04
  them, and I just couldn't bear to do it. I don't If I'm
• 1:02:07
  leaving them with a family and a home, fine, that's good for them,
• 1:02:13
  but just leaving them somewhere and not knowing what's going to happen to them
• 1:02:16
  and if they're going to find a place I couldn't do it. I you
• 1:02:22
  know, I would just feel so much responsibility and I would probably like obsessively
• 1:02:27
  check in and be like, hey, how is Sam doing even after And
• 1:02:31
  so this feeling that Brooke has a responsibility to LABOONA was like, totally get
• 1:02:37
  it. Agree with you wholeheartedly, and I think that's like evidence that you're
• 1:02:42
  a good person, honestly. So yeah, that's the end of the episode,
• 1:02:46
  is them sailing away from Laboon and Crocus who is hanging out with Laboon,
• 1:02:52
  and we get like a brief thing three years later and it says the
• 1:03:00
  Florian Triangle and it's just this like desolate moment of only Brooke aboard the ship
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  and the fog, and then that's the end of the episode. So yeah,
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  fucking devastating, guys, truly mean spirited of you all, and I'm
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  hurt by it, and I I wasn't ready for it. I just wasn't
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  ready for it. So anyway, that is it. I'm gonna have to
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  wrap this one up, but I appreciate you all a lot. The next
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  episode on Tuesday is going to be a wanna be I can't remember who it's
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  with. I think it's with Nope, I thought I knew, but I'm
• 1:03:52
  excited about it. Anytime that there's a want to be it's fun. So
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  I hope that you guys will join me for that and appreciate all of you
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  listening. Until next time, tittle motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network podcast.