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One Piece, 661-663 · Spoil Me! One Piece

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  Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me,
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  Speaker 1: covering one Piece episodes sixty one through six sixty three,
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  Speaker 1: a showdown between the warlords Law versus do Flamingo. Two
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  Speaker 1: great rivals meet each other. Straw Hat and Heavenly Demon
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  Speaker 1: and Loofy astonished. The man who inherits Ace's will I
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  Speaker 1: think probably that's not a great translation, and it's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be more like inherits his legacy, But you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's fine. In these episodes, it turns out that Sabo
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  Speaker 1: is alive, and I am so delighted. You guys, I'm
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  Speaker 1: so pleased. I really wasn't sure. I kind of theorized,
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  Speaker 1: but I also it's been a while, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: just we need some good news for our guys. That's
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  Speaker 1: really what it comes down to. For me. It's been grim.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I
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  Speaker 1: am Natasha. Thank you so much to Florian for commissioning
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  Speaker 1: this episode. Florian is here in the chat and thankfully
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  Speaker 1: reminded me to get that one piece character sheet open,
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  Speaker 1: which I did attempt to link in the last show
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  Speaker 1: notes that I posted, But Florian, you may want to
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  Speaker 1: just check and see if it's a shareable property, because
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  Speaker 1: it's not my Google document, so it's possible that you
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  Speaker 1: haven't locked down in such a way that I can't
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  Speaker 1: share it. So I shared the link, but I'm not
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  Speaker 1: positive the people are gonna be able to access it,
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  Speaker 1: so I just thought i'd mention it in case anybody
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  Speaker 1: is interested. But this, this trio of episodes was so
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  Speaker 1: much more engaging, and I was just very rare believed.
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  Speaker 1: You guys, there are so many little things to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: and one of the things that I really I don't
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  Speaker 1: think should be as interesting to me as it is.
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  Speaker 1: I am. I am a little bit baffled by Bella
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  Speaker 1: Mere's or Bellamy. Bellamy, right is bell Mayer is NAMMY's stepmom,
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  Speaker 1: foster mom, adopted mom. I don't really know what to
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  Speaker 1: call her. So yeah, Bellamy is our face, our guy
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  Speaker 1: that I always think of as the tongue guy, which
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  Speaker 1: is kind of funny because after really paying attention to
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  Speaker 1: this episode, don't feel Me is also very much a
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  Speaker 1: tongue guy. And then we had that uh what hair Caribou,
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  Speaker 1: who is the tonguiest of guys. So apparently tongues being
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  Speaker 1: a like thing for Villains is just sort of going
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  Speaker 1: to be an ongoing something. I don't know if that's
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  Speaker 1: like an anime in general or just for this series.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't understand Bellamy's continuing devotion to do Flamengo.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really curious whether or not it's like just a
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  Speaker 1: blind devotion of I need somebody to believe in. Or
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  Speaker 1: is it that he is pretending to still be loyal
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  Speaker 1: because he feels like maybe he's being observed in such
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  Speaker 1: a way that he could prove himself. Or is it
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  Speaker 1: even an alternate to that where maybe he is thinking
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  Speaker 1: he's being tested and is hoping that by continuing to
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  Speaker 1: like keep the faith despite the appearance, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: kind of like when Jacob is being or no Abraham
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  Speaker 1: is being told by God to sacrifice his son. But
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  Speaker 1: I do not know if there's anything more to this
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  Speaker 1: than him just not really having anything else to believe
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  Speaker 1: in at this point and continuing to be loyal. I
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  Speaker 1: really I have this weird affection for Bellamy at this point,
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  Speaker 1: which is just funny because I know that I didn't
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  Speaker 1: like him at all. He was like my least favorite
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  Speaker 1: you guys probably remember, and it was just sort of
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  Speaker 1: a it's what it is, honestly, and I won't even
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  Speaker 1: try and like mince words on this. It's just nostalgia.
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  Speaker 1: We met him such a long time ago, things were
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  Speaker 1: very different, and I have this like kind of affection
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  Speaker 1: that is simply born from a the history, the romance
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  Speaker 1: of history. So I don't know that like he really
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  Speaker 1: deserves what I am saying about him now. I might
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  Speaker 1: just be kind of too generous, but I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you guys about the fact that, like, there
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  Speaker 1: is a part of me that feels sad watching him
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  Speaker 1: continue to not only just like be not just be loyal,
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  Speaker 1: but the way that he is so humiliated as well
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  Speaker 1: is really difficult. It's just you don't, like, nobody ever
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  Speaker 1: wants to see a person. Well, I was gonna say
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  Speaker 1: nobody likes to see a person humiliated. That is not true.
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  Speaker 1: There are times when I do enjoy it if it's
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  Speaker 1: somebody that I really despise, and there are plenty of
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  Speaker 1: people who get off on it. So I'm really not
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  Speaker 1: being honest there. But I think that if this humiliation
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  Speaker 1: had come more quickly on the heels of the way
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  Speaker 1: that he behaved when we first met him, I would
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  Speaker 1: have much less of an issue with it, and I
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  Speaker 1: would just be like, yeah, this guy sucks, remember, like,
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  Speaker 1: of course, and obviously he still sucks. I just want
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  Speaker 1: to remind you all about the fact that he didn't
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  Speaker 1: like really give a straight answer to Lufi's question about
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  Speaker 1: whether anybody Skypea got hurt when he went to visit.
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  Speaker 1: So he is definitely still out here causing trouble and
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  Speaker 1: doing bad things. So I really shouldn't feel for him
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  Speaker 1: the way that I do. But I don't. Like anytime
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  Speaker 1: somebody gets bimboozled by a person that they trust, it's
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  Speaker 1: painful to watch and whether or not that person should
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  Speaker 1: have trusted the person they did. Sometimes you can't help
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  Speaker 1: it be like, lol, that's what you get, bitch, And
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  Speaker 1: I might maybe I should feel that way here, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I just don't. I really feel like some
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  Speaker 1: sympathy for him. Oh, Florian says, this gives theon from
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  Speaker 1: Game of Thrones. You know what that is actually fair.
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  Speaker 1: My instinct was to be like really, and then the
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  Speaker 1: more I thought about it, I was like, yeah, somebody
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  Speaker 1: who's like a real shit, very full of themselves, but
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  Speaker 1: like in a way that's sort of pathetic, and then
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  Speaker 1: they get got by somebody bigger and badder and made
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  Speaker 1: to be like a cartoon, and it is embarrassing and
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  Speaker 1: difficult to watch, and once it happens, you're kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: I take it back, this is not what I wanted.
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  Speaker 1: So he's the He's the first guy that I just
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  Speaker 1: want to get out of the way here because he
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  Speaker 1: has been ordered to kill Lufy and he can't go
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  Speaker 1: through with it. He goes up to Loufy and is
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  Speaker 1: like shadowing him as Lufy is talking to Zorro, and
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  Speaker 1: who's with zoro? Oh, it's the samurai whose name I
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  Speaker 1: just never remember and I don't care enough about to
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  Speaker 1: try and remember to be perfectly honest. And when Beleanie
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  Speaker 1: comes up behind him, he is like trying to make
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  Speaker 1: himself do this, and he's shaking because he's trying so
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  Speaker 1: hard and he can't. Like he is remembering the way
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  Speaker 1: that he and Lufy had a bit of a moment
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  Speaker 1: earlier where he was saying like, I don't laugh at
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  Speaker 1: you anymore. I see now that a lot of what
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  Speaker 1: you were saying is true, even though I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to give it any credence. And now I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to like have the same kind of attitude towards you
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  Speaker 1: that I did. And so as he's standing there, he
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  Speaker 1: loses his nerve. He drops the knife that he is holding,
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  Speaker 1: and when it clatters to the ground, Lufy looks over
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  Speaker 1: and doesn't really think anything of it, as he wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: because Lufy doesn't. Lufy is just not a guy who
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  Speaker 1: like connects dots really, you know. He is told what
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  Speaker 1: dots connect and is pointed in a certain direction like
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  Speaker 1: a weapon, and let go to do his thing. But
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  Speaker 1: Lufy isn't the ideas guy, and once he fucks up
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  Speaker 1: and doesn't follow through on killing Mufy, Bellamy is jumped
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  Speaker 1: by this little shit whose name is mentioned but I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember it. And this guy, at first I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was a woman. It's the voice actor might be
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  Speaker 1: a woman. I'm not positive, but it seems pretty much
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  Speaker 1: like that he is coded as being really young, like
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  Speaker 1: in that age of like sixteen or so. It feels
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  Speaker 1: like for me where he's such a young boy that
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  Speaker 1: a woman could still do the voice acting for him
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  Speaker 1: and it would be reasonable. And he is still very
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  Speaker 1: lithe and small in a way that could give feminine
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  Speaker 1: a little bit Dellinger says Florian. Yeah, Okay, so Dellinger,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what exactly his deal is, but he
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  Speaker 1: has like I don't even want to call him like
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  Speaker 1: a high school bully because it really feels much more
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  Speaker 1: like he is a bully's sidekick. He's the the bully,
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  Speaker 1: is the one who is the aggressor and the one
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  Speaker 1: that's actually intimidating. And then he has a guy like
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  Speaker 1: Dollander with him who loves to do the poking and
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  Speaker 1: prodding and fucking up of people, and the bully initiates
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  Speaker 1: it but then sort of backs off and lets his
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  Speaker 1: friend get his hands dirty. And it's the kind of
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  Speaker 1: person that like finds a bully to attach himself to
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  Speaker 1: because he doesn't really have the courage to initiate the thing,
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  Speaker 1: but he does like hurting people, so he just finds
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  Speaker 1: somebody who is out here getting the hurt started to
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  Speaker 1: attach himself to to make his own life a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more convenient. And I really do not care for
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  Speaker 1: this guy. It there's just such a like spiteful, gleeful
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  Speaker 1: quality to him, and he is I'm trying to think
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  Speaker 1: of the word that I want here, but like the
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  Speaker 1: way that he keeps saying things like I made an
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  Speaker 1: oopsie eating It's like he's infantilizing himself. It's like he
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  Speaker 1: wants to be seen as even younger than he is.
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  Speaker 1: It's very odd. I don't really get like if that's
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  Speaker 1: part of what he thinks is like frightening about himself,
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  Speaker 1: that he is so young. But I am feeling like
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  Speaker 1: I may have missed something if there is some sort
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  Speaker 1: of ability that Dellinger has. Florian let me know if
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  Speaker 1: this is something that I missed. I can't help but
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  Speaker 1: think that there is like some type of the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Bellamy isn't fighting back at all and eventually he's
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  Speaker 1: able to run. He uses his like spring legs to
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  Speaker 1: propel himself away from this kid, but he apparently is
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  Speaker 1: not able to actually defend himself. Is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: confusing to me, And I don't know if it's because
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  Speaker 1: of this kid having a power and he manages to
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  Speaker 1: cause people to not be able to defend themselves, but like,
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  Speaker 1: if that is what he can do, it ties in
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  Speaker 1: even better with my assertion about him being the sort
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  Speaker 1: of sidekick to a bully, because that is the exact
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  Speaker 1: type of person that doesn't want a fair fight. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this is not somebody who is coming into things looking
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  Speaker 1: to mix it up with another person. They are looking
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  Speaker 1: for somebody who is helpless. They are looking for prey.
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  Speaker 1: And I just really his whole energy is super gross
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  Speaker 1: and it's the exact type of person that I personally,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really really despicable. I you guys, like, if you
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  Speaker 1: listen to the show, you know by now I can
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  Speaker 1: be very soft hearted. It's sort of weird because there
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  Speaker 1: are times where I can be very cold hearted, but
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  Speaker 1: I kind of got to get pushed to that point,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like you've got to have fucked up
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  Speaker 1: pretty bad for me to start to be like, who
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  Speaker 1: gives a shit fuck them? You know. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: and like anybody being made totally helpless and humiliated, even
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  Speaker 1: when they maybe do deserve it, I never really enjoy
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  Speaker 1: it when it's this kind of humiliation, when it's like
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  Speaker 1: a physical beat down. There are types of humiliation I
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  Speaker 1: could get behind for certain people. For example, if we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about like Donald Trump, there's so many types of
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  Speaker 1: humiliation that I could wish upon that man and just
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  Speaker 1: delighten in were it to happen, and I would have
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  Speaker 1: no qualms about it, and it would have to go
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  Speaker 1: so very far before I was willing to be like, Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: now I'm drawing a line, but those humiliations are not
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  Speaker 1: really physical. What I would want, like, honestly, if I
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  Speaker 1: were to pick any way to sort of get revenge
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  Speaker 1: on a person like that, it would be for them
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  Speaker 1: to have the Dudley Dursley experience, which is to say,
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  Speaker 1: for those of you who don't know, Dudley Dursley is
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  Speaker 1: from the Harry Potter universe, and he is Harry's shitty
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  Speaker 1: bullying cousin, and at one point he is attacked by
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  Speaker 1: a dementor and he is basically changed forever after that moment.
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  Speaker 1: And later on in an interview, JK Rowling said that,
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  Speaker 1: and please JK Rowling is trash. I'm just repeating her
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  Speaker 1: words for her own character here. She said that what
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  Speaker 1: Dudley experienced when he was being attacked by this dementor
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  Speaker 1: was he suddenly saw himself through the eyes of everyone
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  Speaker 1: else and experienced what he had done to other people,
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  Speaker 1: and had a sudden insight into like what he had
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  Speaker 1: sown in his life and the effect that he had
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  Speaker 1: had on people, and how miserable he made others and
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  Speaker 1: how like everybody viewed him with a mixture of fear
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  Speaker 1: and contempt and that was what changed him. And that's
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  Speaker 1: all I would want is for Donald Trump to suddenly
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  Speaker 1: become self aware and realize how much of a monster
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  Speaker 1: he is or has facilitated others to become. But that
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  Speaker 1: requires a type of mind that I do not think
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  Speaker 1: this man will ever have because he if he is
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  Speaker 1: this old and hasn't reached the point yet, it's not
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. I think he is somebody who is
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  Speaker 1: actually like something is wrong with him mentally, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't mean necessarily mental illness exactly. I'm not sure what
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  Speaker 1: you would call it, but I think that there is
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  Speaker 1: something missing. And I don't know if it's a result
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  Speaker 1: of birth or a result of nurture, but I think
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  Speaker 1: that this is a guy who was, like from a child,
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  Speaker 1: probably fucked up, and never ever was going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to be made better without a massive change in
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  Speaker 1: his circumstances, which was unlikely to happen. So anyway, I
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  Speaker 1: think Dellinger is like Donald Trump, you're already here. First, fucks.
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  Speaker 1: That's probably the most cutting insult that I could make,
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  Speaker 1: So all right, let's back up here a little bit, because,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: as I said, I am getting ahead of myself jumping
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  Speaker 1: around here. But I just find Bellamy's position just particularly
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  Speaker 1: fascinating because of the fact that he is, Like the
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  Speaker 1: show deals a lot in villains who trick folks into
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  Speaker 1: working for them under whatever circumstances they create. Like they
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  Speaker 1: either straight up lie to them, they create circumstances that
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  Speaker 1: make it seem like a certain way to trick them.
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  Speaker 1: They just have this sort of force of personality or
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  Speaker 1: manage to like embody things that a character wishes they
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  Speaker 1: could have or be, and so they follow them out
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  Speaker 1: of this sort of weird admiration and envy. There's all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of ways that we have this, and eventually a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them do wind up discovering that they have
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  Speaker 1: been tricked or lied to, and I just think it's
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: interesting the variety of ways that we see them react
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  Speaker 1: to that news, because, like you know, when we were
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: in Caesar Clown's territory and his guys were finding out
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  Speaker 1: that they had been lied to, they didn't like believe it. It
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: took so many tries and so many close calls until
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  Speaker 1: they were finally actually being killed. And I put killed
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  Speaker 1: in quotes obviously, because we're not dying in the one
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: piece universe. But it's just interesting to me, like, how
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  Speaker 1: I will just take it for granted that if somebody
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: finds out another person has lied to them, that suddenly
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  Speaker 1: they will no longer be on their side anymore. And
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: that is evidently not true. And as much as you
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: can say, of course it can't be true, because in
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: this universe, you need your bad guys to stay bad guys,
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  Speaker 1: You need your bad guys to keep henchmen. This is
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  Speaker 1: not actually that far fetched. If we're going to go back,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: and I am to the Donald Trump of it all,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: how many campaign promises has this man backed out of
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  Speaker 1: or completely failed to deliver on and people are still
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  Speaker 1: sucking his dick and it is bizarre, Like you guys,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: remember the first time that he ran twenty sixteen, all
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  Speaker 1: he would talk about is how, not only are we
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  Speaker 1: gonna build the wall, we are going to have Mexico
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  Speaker 1: pay for that wall. Well, needless to say, we did
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: not do that. We did not build the wall, and
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: we did not get Mexico to pay for the wall.
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  Speaker 1: So eventually a Trump support decided to start fundraising to
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  Speaker 1: build the wall on a big stretch of their own property,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: and they did a GoFundMe and so a bunch of
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Conservatives donated their own private money to a GoFundMe to
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  Speaker 1: build the wall, but still voted for the man that
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: promised them that they wouldn't need to pay for it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And I just really want us to stop and think
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: about that fucking disconnect there that like the whole like
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: half of the reason people were willing to vote for
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: him was how anti immigration he is, and then when
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  Speaker 1: he did fuck all about that, they were cheerfully painting
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: out of their own pockets and continuing to give him
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  Speaker 1: their vote, which is mind blowing. Like it's just on
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  Speaker 1: so many levels, people are such fucking morons and it's
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  Speaker 1: extremely embarrassing anyway, So Dylan's are also you guys. I
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  Speaker 1: just want to like talk about his look for a
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  Speaker 1: second here, because it is a really like different look
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  Speaker 1: than a lot of the guys in this universe. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, he is very very young, and he's got
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  Speaker 1: this when I said earlier that he has sort of
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  Speaker 1: almost a feminine look to him. Part of that is
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: the fact that he is wearing these tiny bike shorts
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  Speaker 1: that are like this is not the kind of outfit
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: that we often see male characters wearing. But it's these
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: tiny shorts and a very tight, long sleeved green it
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  Speaker 1: almost looks like a Henley shirt, like it's got a
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  Speaker 1: collar and is open at the neck a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe it's not. No, it's not. It's just got
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  Speaker 1: a design that makes it look like it's open at
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  Speaker 1: the neck, but it's like almost a turtleneck actually, And
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: he's got shaggy blonde hair, a silver hoop in each ear,
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  Speaker 1: and then he's got what kind of looks like a
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: regular ordinary and like beige like canvas ball cap, but
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: there are horns coming out of each side of the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: ball cap, like the horns of like a steer. And
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: it's really like, if you want to do one of
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  Speaker 1: the easiest caseplays in the entire world, this probably you
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  Speaker 1: could throw together in an afternoon. I don't think that
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: this would be hard to do at all. All you
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: need is to get like some kind of contact lens
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: because his eyes are almost completely colorless. It's like they're
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: gray or white. Even so, this fight and the way
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: that all of this continues to go down, it's just
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: bizarre because once again Bellamy is not defending himself, and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's a power or if he's
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: just afraid to fight back, because this is somebody who
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: works for it. And like at the beginning of the fight,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: when he says that our boss told me to kill you,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: he does one of those like oh should I not
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: have said that? Oopsie kind of things, and then he
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: like this leads to Bellamy kind of being like, no, no, no, no,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: he can't want me dead. I don't believe it, Like
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: he just absolutely isn't hearing it. And even when later
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: on it is proved to be true that this is
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: just what it sounded like, he isn't buying it, and
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I just really it's like, once he buys it, it
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It's just when you are in this kind
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: of of I guess just denial. What what is it
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: that you can even say to somebody? You know? I
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: just felt really sad for him that he is so
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: lacking in options that when he experiences this kind of betrayal,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: it's just not enough for him to quit. Let's let's
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: talk now about do Flamingo and Trafalgar's fight, because obviously
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Traffy isn't dead right, we keep establishing this. It's he
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: isn't dead, and I'm fine with that. Like, there have
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: been times where I'm like, I really wish a character
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: would die. Trafalgar's death actually probably would work really well here,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: But it's not one of those times that I'm frustrated
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: by the fact that he isn't dead. I'm really this
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: is fine, But it is sort of funny later on
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: when Nami is saying things like, well, we can't just
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: go back because then Trafalgar's fight or Trafalgar's sacrifice is
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: what she says, would have been for nothing, and a
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: part of me kind of as much as like I
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: understand what she means, I still did kind of feel
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: a little bit like saying sacrifice when somebody isn't actually
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: dead feels a little bit strong. But probably that's not
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: out of line. So the fight between him and do
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Fo Mingo, it turns out Trafalgar's got a ceiling on
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: his room ability. I will mention too that I don't
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: know if this is actually how it's said, or if
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: this is just the dub that made it sound this way,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: But when when Dophie is talking to Traffy about his
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: ability running out he says something about the opopie fruits
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: abilities are impressive, and I was like, the Opopie fruit.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I thought it was the op op fruit. Have I
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: been saying wrong this whole time? Like either, like they're
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: they're very different, and so considering how completely different they
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: they feel, I feel like somebody out there, if I
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: got it wrong, was probably like snickering to themselves over
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the just how off I was. But yeah, there's evidently
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: like it takes a lot of energy to keep this
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: ability going and he can't keep it up, and you, guys,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's like a real ripoff. I mean,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: do any other devil fruits have this sort of limit
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: on them? Here's my feeling on this. I think we
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: didn't know this right. Is this the first time that
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: we're being given this information? Because my opinion on this
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: sort of stems from the fact that, as far as
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I recall, this has never been mentioned. And so the
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: way it's hitting for me is very much like Oda
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: realized there are too many ways that Traffy can get
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: out of anything, and that he has to find some
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: kind of weakness or else there's no reasonable way do
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Flamingo beats him, And so he finally decided to just
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: throw in Oh yeah, eventually he gets tired and he
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: can't do it anymore. And that, honestly is just all
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: it seems like to me, was that he realized I
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: kind of had to nerve this guy because he is ope,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: and I didn't realize it when I wrote it, just
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: how versatile this ability could be, and that essentially he'd
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: be like almost unbeatable. So now I've got to retroactively
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: come up with something that keeps him a little bit
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: like more reasonably beatable. And I don't really I understand
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: that that might be necessary, and I don't even really
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not mad at it exactly, but it does just
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: feel a little bit cheap to me. And again, if
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: it's been mentioned way earlier on that he has this
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: limit and I just missed it fair But it's not
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: ringing a bell. So that's just me saying how I'm
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: feeling from right now. So yeah, there's this like interruption
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: in their fight where the transponder snail is ringing, and
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: eventually Dophie answers the call, but he answers it like
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: right after dealing what's almost a killing blow to Traffy.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Eventually later he actually shoots him, which once again, I
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: don't get how bullets work in this world because you
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: just if nobody dies, but you do have guns, I
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: don't get how that's supposed to happen. I just kind
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: of wish that we just didn't have guns in the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: One Piece universe, Like it doesn't. It doesn't make any sense, guys,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: unless we actually this. This is the caveat for this
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: if you have somebody with an ability that allows them
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: to heal, or like if we establish that people with
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: devil fruit powers were able to do things to recover
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: from physical wounds of certain type, I think that would
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: make more sense. And if we saw, for example, that
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: bullets penetrated but were rejected, like this is something that
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: happens in the the True Blood series. Is like vampires
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: get shot, but then you see their bodies like beginning
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: to revitalize and the bullet gets pushed back out of
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: their flesh and the wound begins to knit itself, like
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: right in front of your eyes. And so the fact
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: that they can resist bullet wounds is made very obvious.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: But in One Piece it's just really weird because like
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: people go down from a gunshot wound and they lay
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: there unconscious and bleeding and apparently having been shot like
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: any person would be shot, and then they're fine, and
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: there's never a real like in between where we see
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: how they're fine. It's just taken for granted that in
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the moment they're shot, we're all going to act like
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: they died, and then later on, when they're alive, we're
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: all just gonna be like, yeah, of course they're alive,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: and it's not shocking to anybody. And I don't get
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: why there isn't something if we're gonna have a universe
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: where like nobody dies basically, I don't get why we
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: don't have something built into the way the story is
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: told or animated that shows us a little bit more
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: detail on why people manage to survive these things, because
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: that would work for me a lot better. I think
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: you guys know that the nobody dying bothers me. I
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: don't like that as a storytelling convention in general. I
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: think that it takes the stakes away from everything. And
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I understand that he didn't want to do that in
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: this world, but I think that was a mistake, and
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I think the story would be way stronger if he
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: did kill people but if we're gonna go with not
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: killing people, there has to be some sort of explanation
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: for it. And with the bigger weapons that we have seen,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: like we have had people that are turned to stone
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and then they turned back again, And that is a
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: way that I can understand. These people seemed like they
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: were essentially dead and now they're not. But when it's
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: individuals like this and the way they that everybody reacts
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: to them being shot and acts as if they are
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: dead or they just witnessed a murder, it just rings
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: really false because I know they're not dead, and evidently
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of people knew that this person was likely
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: not dead, but they're all behaving as if that is
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: indeed what happened, and they talk about it for a
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: little while as if that's what happened as well. Florian says,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: he said at one point he talking about Trafalgar. He
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: said at one point he needs to preserve his powers
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: when he was with oos up and rob him. But yeah,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: it feels weak, Okay, yeah, when they were crossing the bridge.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: I remember that now, Flora. Okay, yeah, I that helps,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: that helps, Okay, I will say that. But anyway, so
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: this is when the call comes into Uh, Dophie and
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I can't remember this weirdo's name who likes calling himself
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: a genius, but he is saying that Violet betrayed us,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: and Dophie says, well, you know, since black Leg is
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: still alive, I really should have expected that. Oh it's Diamante.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: He says, well, we weren't able to use her Glare
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Glare power to see what the straw Hats were up to,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: so we're still in the dark on that, and Dophie says,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: it's all under control. Here's the deal. I need you
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: to deploy Louji and the others the entrance of the
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Smile Factory and Diamante says, we already announced those guys
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: will be participating in the finals. The crowd's going to
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: be angry and do Flamingo says, they've got you. That's
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: more than enough, and he does that, No, you're making
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: me sound like I'm some sort of genius. I'm nothing
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: like that, honestly, and he says, you are the only
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: one who can do this. Fine, I'm a genius. You
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: can count on me, and then he hangs up. Honestly,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: it's very fun. I do kind of enjoy this like
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the moments where I don't obviously like do Flamingo. There
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: are times where you like a villain. Dophie is not
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: one of those. For me. I can understand if people
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: do like him because he has a certain possess I
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: won't deny that, but he is a guy who is
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: just too truly vicious for me to really enjoy. That.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Said I I do like seeing the way that he
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: plays the people around him and gets their loyalty to him.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: It's still not really clear to me why he has
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the loyalty of somebody like Bellamy, because Bellamy is like
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: it should just be so much clearer to him. But
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I feel like somebody like this where you watch how
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: he is able to manipulate exactly the thing about them
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: that they are either most sensitive to or maybe most
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: proud of. But it's just sort of fun, and I'm
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: always interested in general, and this is like, probably this
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: is actually something that I'm going to be kind of
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: incorporating into the book that I'm writing right now. Manipulating
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: people has always been a little bit fascinating to me,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: just because I have over time felt like if I
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: had decided to turn my ability to observe folks in
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: a certain direction. I could have been very good at this,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: and it's the sort of thing that makes for like
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: a really good con artist. I don't have the interest
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: in doing that because it takes a type of energy
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: that I don't want to expend. But I really do
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: get what could make people who are like this tick
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: and how there's just a satisfaction in getting people to
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: do what you want them to do and having that
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: person really believe it's all their own idea, and just
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: how like it's sort of a push pull for me
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: because I'm also somebody who wants credit right, So, like,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: if I do something awesome, I want everybody to know
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: I did it, and I want them to be like,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Natasha did this awesome thing. I have pride and I
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: want acknowledgment. If you want to be a good con artist,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: you can't have that kind of pride. You need to
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: be willing to let everybody around you underestimate you. You
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: need to be willing to let everybody assume certain things
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: happen by accident, or that somebody else did something wrong,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: or that you fucked up. You have to be able
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: to totally set aside your personal reputation and image in
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: the hopes of reaching this other larger goal eventually, and
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: that would have to be something that I worked on
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: if I were going to do this sort of thing.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: But it is really fascinating to watch a character do
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: this stuff. And Dophie clearly like he isn't doing this
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: job and in this position of such power because he
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: just sat on his ass and watched TV all the time.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: This is a guy who understands his people pretty well
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: and is figuring out ways to like handle folks each
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: according to what their weaknesses and strengths are. And honestly,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: it's kind of reminding me of crocodile And that's just
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: good management, you know. It is like and if you've
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: worked for bad managers, you know how rare that is,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: and that this is something that like, yeah, maybe I
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: do admire this a little bit. I don't like it,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: but I can certainly respect it. So okay, I'm trying
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: to get around here. Oh right, So we have then
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: this moment with what is the name of this wild
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: shark slicer B Steele. That's right. He's sitting outside of
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: this the coliseum and one of his men is saying
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: to him like, I'm pretty sure that's louviy in there
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: by the way, and he's like, Oh, that would make
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of sense. Actually, that's why this kid was
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: so incredibly tough, so unexpectedly. And they're in the midst
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: of talking about all of the really strong badasses that
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: are in this competition, and he all of a sudden
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: seems to completely lose track of who's who and why
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: we are after any of them. And it's a really
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: weird moment because like, I think it's supposed to be
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: part of this whole weird memory thing that's going on.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: But the memory thing is is we haven't gotten adequate
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: information on this yet, so I am still feeling a
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: bit in the dark here. I have to assume that
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: that's on purpose, But there's been a little bit of like,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: we've got things conflated so and not the show has,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: but I am getting things conflated, I guess, because we
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: had the all the people who get turned into toys,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: who we later find out that's being done by a
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: little girl. That is not being done by that dude
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: at all. So the little girl is like under his
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: protection and he is sort of her chaperone, but she
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: is the one actually with this ability, and once those
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: people are turned into toys, the memory of them is
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: wiped from all of the people who knew them. Right. However,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: there are also other memory issues going on and people
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: being made to forget really important things, and some of
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: that forgetfulness does not seem like it's linked with the
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: like toys being created at all. So I'm really not
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: sure what the deal is here with like the memory
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: stuff and who is controlling that and how they're controlling that.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: It's It's definitely there's there's more more than one person
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: I am assuming that is doing this, and I don't
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: know what to make of that. Guys, Like, I feel
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: like we're slowly rolling out all of these different characters
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: and their abilities, and I'm getting a little bit worried
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: at this point that we've got too much in the mix.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: It's you guys, know, Like from the start, I was
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: feeling a little bit concerned because of the fact that
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the number of people introduced via this whole Colisseum fight
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: was already starting to be like, this is an awful lot,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: you know, and I was taking comfort in the fact that, like,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: I don't think I need to remember all these people
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: I don't think that this is all crucial. We can
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: just let this fight wash over us, and whoever it
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: is that winds up like in the top five or whatever,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: those are the people who are going to wind up
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: being in And mostly that has seemed to be true. However,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: there is that whole thing with the guys who were
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: defeated down in that sewer like garbage area, and some
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: of them apparently still being in the mix, but we'll
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: set them aside. It seems like that's mostly true. But
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: now we're getting into do Flamingo's like henchmen, and each
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: of them is more important than the henchmen usually are
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: we all normally the way that these stories unfold, we've
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: got our main guy, and then we've got a couple
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: henchmen that sort of wind up separated from the main group,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: and they are set up to just fight our other
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: straw hat friends in whatever situation they each find themselves
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: paired up in. And it's clear that they have been
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: sort of drawn to be an adequate foil to whoever
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: they go up against, whether it beat usap or Sonji
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: or whoever. And that may ultimately be where we wind
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: up here as well. Right now, do. Flamingo's guys are
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: all participating a whole lot more in the actual like
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: main accomplishment of controlling dress Rosa. It's not like there's
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: just one guy who is sort of he's the the
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: brains of the operation, and everybody else just completely does
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: as they're told. These folks do as they're told when
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: they get in touch with him and are given orders,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: but he trusts them to like to handle things on
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: their own a lot, and this means that they are
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: taking up more space in the story, and thus I
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: feel more of a need to like keep track of
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: them and who they are. And it's got me just
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: sort of worried that, like adding in all of these
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: different people, plus we have got the different marines mixed
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: in now, like the steel, it's getting to be a lot,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: lot a lot of people. And I am just gonna
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: say right now, you guys know that I already struggle
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: with keeping track of folks, and I do deeply appreciate
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: this spreadsheet that Florian has made to help me keep
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: track of people. But even so, even with this, it's
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: going to be tough because once you make a spreadsheet
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: long enough, the amount of time that I spend just
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: like scrolling through to find the person that I'm trying
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: to find. When you've got a list of characters this long,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: it starts to get very ungainly, you know. So eventually,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: once we get to the end of the very first episode,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: we've got Frankie who's like talking to Lufy and telling
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: him basically, Hey, I know that we said to Trafalgar
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: that we were going to like take down the Smile
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Factory and then we were gonna bail and take Do
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Flamingo with us, and we were going to, you know,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: just like the It was going to be kind of
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: a hard hit, take out this weapon and then use
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Do Flamingo against to leverage our own position. I know
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: that we said that, but I don't think that I
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: can do that now that I have seen what's actually
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: happening here. It's not right for us to bail and
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: leave these people to their fate, because Do Flamingo is
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: a really bad guy and what he has going on
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: here is fucked up. And I'm sorry, Lufy, but like
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: I know, we agreed to this plan, and I love
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: you as a leader, but I've got to follow my
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: conscience and we have got to back them up on
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: this attack because they have a very legitimate grievance, and
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: of course, surprising nobody, Lufy is fully like, yeah, all right, brother,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: we're bhind you. We'll do this. And then what I
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: really do appreciate how Frankie sets this up as well,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: because like Usup is the one that's at first on
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: the call and Frankie takes over. And I was very
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: grateful for that, because Frankie is just going to get
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: right to the fucking point, whereas Usup would beat around
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: the bush and also has a tendency to let fear
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: dictate everything he does, and it would be a whole thing,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: you know. So let's see, I'm trying to find the
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: spot because we have like do flamingo killing, traffic killing
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: not really in the midst of his city and Zorro
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: and the samurai coming at him. Uh. And one of
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: the guys who is talking to best Deal is like, hey,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: we've got the pirate hunter on the move. Do you
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: want us to go after him? And he says, well,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: sounds good, but uh, hold on a second, as he's
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: watching this whole thing unfold. Meanwhile, I want to remind
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: you all that like there's a lot of emphasis on
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: the transponder snails. In this episode, everybody is basically on
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: a call with everyone else, and so whenever something is
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: happening to a particular group of our straw hats, a
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: bunch of other straw hats are hearing it, but they're
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: not able to see anything, so they don't know what's
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: going on, and they keep asking, can you just explain?
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Please tell us what's happening, And sometimes they're not able
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: to sometimes they're just not concerned about explaining. Lufy's usually
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: the one who's explaining and communicating has never been something
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Ify gives over much of a shit about so and
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: And in the midst of this fight against do Flamingo,
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the square, we have the dude,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: the admiral who's blind. I can't remember this guy's name,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: we'll get there in a second, but he is it.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: This is the moment when Zoro finds out that he's
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: with the Navy and that this guy is like. This
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: is probably the reason why when Lufy said what is
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: your name? Who are you? And he said, I think
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: it's best for us both if I don't answer your question.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: That's probably what he meant. Fujiitra, he says Fate can
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: be a cruel and ironic mistress at times, and the
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: fact that he is having to fight alongside do Flamingo,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: it's really funny how much he hates this. Like I
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: I have to assume that this is something that a
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: lot of people who work in government jobs probably feel like.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: You have to, for whatever reason, team up with some
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: folks sometimes that you wish you didn't, And I know
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: this it's just how it is in regular life as well,
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: and it can be this way, just as like something
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: as simple as being a consumer in the world. You
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: have to buy certain goods in order for your life
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: to work, but in doing that, you have to support
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: evil companies and be basically rubbing shoulders with people who
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: are monsters and who you well know are monsters. But
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: you can't get by without whatever it is that they sell.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: And I just really felt for Fujita in this moment
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: because he just seems to be very ashamed of this,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: And I know that part of it is probably me
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: reading into his body language because him being blind, it
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: means that he is not like his eyes are cast down,
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: and he just always has this sort of slumped attitude
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: that makes it feel like he is upset in a
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: way that he's trying not to make eye contact and
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: obviously he's blind and he cannot make eye contact. But
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: it's it just felt for me, and like he just
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: hated this and was doing what he had to do
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: because this is his duty, but he does not like
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: it and he wishes he could do something else. So
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Lufy meanwhile, is still stuck in the coliseum and he
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: is trying to find a way out, and eventually when
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: he runs into Bellamy, Bellamy is like, dude, there is
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: no way out of here. I am so sorry about it,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: but promise you the place is entirely surrounded by marines
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: and you are not going to get out. And Lufy
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: is like, you have got to know away. You worked
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: for Do Flamingo, You've got to know away. As this
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: is happening, all of the straw hats who are on
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: their ship and are trying to get out run into
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: the biggest pirate ship I think that has ever been
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: on this show, and it is Big Mom's pirate ship.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: This thing is so fucking humongous. I don't even know.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: It's the size of an island. It's huge, and I
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: am a little disappointed that we don't actually get to
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: see Big Mom too much in these episodes, but uh,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: I'm still like kind of interested in her as a
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: character and looking forward to that a little bit. I'm
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: not gonna lie. So then the the whole conversation with
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: because I kind of jumped past it. But Diamante gets
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: in touch with uh Dellinger and tells him to lay
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: off of Bellamy that he has a new order and
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: that is what Bellamy overhears, which makes him realize, oh,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: so then he was here on orders to kill me
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: like he wasn't lying. It's true, and I thought that
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: would change things. It doesn't. But Dellinger gets called away
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: and is very mad at the fact that he doesn't
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: get to kill Oh I forgot Dellinger is wearing like
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: pump high heel is don't you're supposed to be like
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: a twink? Is that what we're doing? It just feels
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: like we're really we've really got like a very like
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: femme sort of look for him in a way that
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if we're supposed to be taking away
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: that he is androgynousts, that he is queer, or if
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: it's supposed to be that he's being feminized by somebody else.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: But like the tiny shorts and the high heels and
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: the earrings are it all has Like the earrings are
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: not just stud earrings, they're like hoops a little bit
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: that look a little bit more feminine. So I'm just
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: wondering what the deal is. But again, this would be
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: the easiest couseplay in the world because those are just
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: some straight up plain black pumps. You could do that
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: so easy. And yeah, he keeps trying to kick at him,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: and this is when Bartolomeo jumps in and stops him. Uh,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: And Bartlameo basically is like, you need to get out
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: of here. You're gonna make your boss mad if you
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: keep doing this. And the way that he runs away
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: is so funny. Guys, he is doing this Phoebe from
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Friends kind of run. He looks nuts. But Bellamy is
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: sitting there having this like flashback about the moment that
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: he was told to win the tournament and how stupid
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: he was and the fact that he fell for this
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: whole thing, and Bartolameo is saying to him, like, we're
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: comrades now, we're like brothers because we fought in battled together.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: I never turn my back on a comrade and is like, honestly,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Bartolameo just keeps becoming more and more my favorite. I
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: just really really do like him so much. And once
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: it's like clear that we have got this thing going
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: on where he is going to help Loofy, and he's
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: like the one who steps in between. Oh my god,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: why do I keep wanting to say Soba? It's not soba?
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Sabo, I'm getting the vowels inverted there,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Sabo shows up. I love the fact that like Lufy
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: is reacting so strongly to seeing Saba because he starts
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: to recognize him and realize who he is, and Barticlameyo
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: is immediately like what are you doing? Why are you
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: upsetting him? And is so protective of him so immediately
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: I could not stop laughing. Guys, I loved it so much.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: It was just I really really like how absolutely ride
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: or die he is. And he tells Loofy the thing
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: that I think I had said earlier was very likely
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: he intended to win the flame flame Fruit and then
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: give it to Lufy because it rightfully belongs to him
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: as far as he is concerned. And I just love
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: that so much. I suspected that was the case, and
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: I'm so glad. So once Lufy, apparently with like an
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: open heart, tells Sabo, obviously you are the one that
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: gets the flame flame fruit, like this is for you,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: Bartolomeo turns over his utter loyalty to Sabo because this
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: is a guy who has Lufy's seal of approval, and
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: so clearly Bartolomeo is about to go into this just
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: completely ready to do whatever it takes to make sure
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: Sabo wins, and I am very excited about it. Also,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: last thing before I wrap this up, we meet this
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: girl named Kowala who is on a transponder snail with Sabo,
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: and she has a very nammy look to her, but
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: with a different outfit very similar like hat with goggles,
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: sort of steampunk look Tosabo, and she is apparently like,
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know if she's actually romantically invested in him
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: or if it's just that they're sort of partners like
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: the straw Hats are. But she is talking to him
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: about Loofy and how it went and everything, and he
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: gets very emotional talking about it, and she teases him
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: a little bit about the fact that he's crying, and
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: then says something like, you're trying to like figure out
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: whether or not Ace would still be alive if you
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: had been there at Marine Corps, aren't you? And she
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: just tells him, who knows what would have happened, but
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: you have got to stop blaming yourself, and he says okay,
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: which you know, it's very easy to say, but it
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: seems like he knows that she's right. Just whether or
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: not he can actually internalize that, that's different question. But yeah,
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: I really really liked these episodes. There was a lot happening,
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of things move forward. Very excited to see
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: that Sabo is alive and interested in what's going on
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: with him because since he doesn't have since he wants
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: a flame flame proof, he doesn't have a double fruit
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: power of his own, but he must have something going
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: for him to have made it this far and to
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: have gotten out of there alive, and we don't get
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: that story yet. So eventually I'm sure we'll sit down
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: with him and hear everything that he has done, but
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: I think it'll probably be a while before we hear
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: about it. So all right, Well, I got to wrap
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: this up, but really really fun. Looking forward to watching
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: on Thursday. Again, thank you to Florian for joining me
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: in the chat. Appreciate you a lot, Bun, and until
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: next time to the lou motherfuckers. That was an Unspoiled
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: Network podcast.