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One Piece, 726-728 · 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 seven six through seven twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: Fourth Gear, the Phenomenal Bounce Man, a Massive counter Attack,
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  Speaker 1: Do Flamingo's Awakening, and Loofy an all out Leo Bazouka.
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  Speaker 1: In these episodes, Moofye debuts his new look, part car tire,
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  Speaker 1: part trash bag, part urban decay, ipalette. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what to think. Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much to
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  Speaker 1: Michael for commissioning this episode. Yeah, you guys, this was
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  Speaker 1: This was a surprise. So I didn't see until after
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  Speaker 1: I had signed off at the last episode that Saraphim
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  Speaker 1: had left one last comment, no thoughts on his last
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  Speaker 1: like final words or his last words or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, when I was watching the episode, I did
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  Speaker 1: stop and go, oh, we're getting a new gear. But
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  Speaker 1: when Saraphim asked if I had any thoughts, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: on his last words? What were his last words? Like
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  Speaker 1: in the moment, I didn't even remember what Saraphi was
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  Speaker 1: talking about. And then I uh, I went and looked
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  Speaker 1: into the like I had the episode playing because I
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  Speaker 1: was recording, and I rewatched the ending and I was like, oh, right.
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  Speaker 1: And the truth is that sometimes I think that, like
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  Speaker 1: I'll have a moment of going, oh, this is new,
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  Speaker 1: and then I start to doubt myself on whether or
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  Speaker 1: not the thing is actually new or do I just
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  Speaker 1: not remember it. So I think when he debuts Fourth Gear,
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  Speaker 1: my immediate reaction was like, Oh, a new gear. This
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  Speaker 1: is fun, and then I started to be like, is
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  Speaker 1: it a new gear? Maybe we've seen it before? Wait
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  Speaker 1: have I forgotten? Like I just really started. There's just
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  Speaker 1: a lot to keep track of with this show, and
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  Speaker 1: I really don't always feel like I firmly got a
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  Speaker 1: grasp because there are a lot of things that you
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  Speaker 1: guys will remind me of that I have utterly forgotten about,
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  Speaker 1: Like Sarahim will remind me, and I'll sometimes I'll be like, oh, okay, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I remember that, And then there are the other times
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  Speaker 1: where I'm just like what when who said that? And
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  Speaker 1: I have no earthly idea. It's as if I never
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  Speaker 1: even saw the same show that they're describing. So I
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  Speaker 1: think that's part of why I just didn't really like
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  Speaker 1: register this once it was time to talk about it,
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  Speaker 1: because I was not confident that I even had it right.
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  Speaker 1: And this, uh the way that fourth gear is shown
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  Speaker 1: to work, you guys, the reaction that Dol Flamingo has.
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  Speaker 1: I don't love that I'm having the same reaction that
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  Speaker 1: Do Flamingo is having, but I'm not going to lie
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  Speaker 1: to you. That's exactly what's going on. So he says
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  Speaker 1: fourth gear and he bites his arm. If I'm not mistaken,
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  Speaker 1: it's like it looks like he's just sort of gnawing
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  Speaker 1: on it. And for the record, guys, he ends saying
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  Speaker 1: fourth gear. But we're twelve minutes into the following episode
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  Speaker 1: before we actually see what that is. And what I
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  Speaker 1: always enjoy about these fights is the fact that like,
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  Speaker 1: he says fourth gear and is clearly just prepping to
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  Speaker 1: do this thing, and Do Flamingo just patiently sits there
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  Speaker 1: and watches him and lets him do it. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: he thinks, maybe I should cut this kid off before
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  Speaker 1: he manages to level up to his next most tough
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  Speaker 1: version of himself. Do Flamingo, I think, is arrogant enough
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  Speaker 1: to just be like, it's fine, I just am interested.
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  Speaker 1: I'd just like to see what happens, but I have
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  Speaker 1: no concern that he actually going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: beat me, so I'll just let it happen to make
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  Speaker 1: him feel like he really has a fighting chance here.
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  Speaker 1: And when Loufy bites his arm, he just kind of
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna yeah. It's like he's like inflating his own skin,
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  Speaker 1: biting a hole in it, and then like blowing air
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  Speaker 1: into it. It's it's really I don't even Honestly, it's
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  Speaker 1: sort of funny. If you're thinking about a guy who
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  Speaker 1: is rubber and you're thinking about the levels of powers
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  Speaker 1: that he might have, I think that I would have
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  Speaker 1: thought this would be lowered down on the list, just
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  Speaker 1: because the simple act of blowing up your own skin,
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  Speaker 1: your own rubber skin, actually feels like one of the
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  Speaker 1: first things that would occur to you. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Like the one where is it third
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  Speaker 1: gear where he's powered with like steam, Basically I feel
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  Speaker 1: like that is a less intuitive and I would expect
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  Speaker 1: that to fall a little bit later in the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: But as he's blowing his skin up, he's also infusing
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  Speaker 1: it with hockey, and so what we find out a
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  Speaker 1: little bit later is going on is that he has
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  Speaker 1: combined the elasticity of rubber with the strength of hockey.
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  Speaker 1: And it's only like I believe that his whole body
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  Speaker 1: is covered in hockey, I think, But for the animation,
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  Speaker 1: they just have his legs and arms be like black
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  Speaker 1: and red, and the rest of him looks like a
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  Speaker 1: larger version of himself, like inflated, but doesn't change color.
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  Speaker 1: And he also gets these sort of almost tribal looking
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  Speaker 1: tattoos that climb around his shoulders. And like I had
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  Speaker 1: said in the intro, a very new goth eye look
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  Speaker 1: that I feel is giving drag Queen a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that this is maybe I said urban decay,
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  Speaker 1: but I feel like it's more of a NIX like
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  Speaker 1: amateur like. This is the kind of thing that you
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  Speaker 1: do when you're first experimenting with makeup and you just
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  Speaker 1: go really hard and maybe get your eyeliner wings uneven
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  Speaker 1: and keep trying to overcorrect each side to get them
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  Speaker 1: so that they're symmetrical, until eventually your eyeliner is like
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  Speaker 1: an inch thick and you're just like, well, I guess
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm doing today, because you're running late now
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  Speaker 1: and you can't take it off. So all of this
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  Speaker 1: is already like a real oh that's what we're doing, okay,
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  Speaker 1: But then we get him speaking, and my friends, this
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  Speaker 1: is Bana Pence. I am so sorry, but him actually
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  Speaker 1: talking in this weird voice is so fucking funny to me.
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  Speaker 1: He literally says bounce mon in this like it's got
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  Speaker 1: an effect put on it. But also the voice actor
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  Speaker 1: is clearly like doing something. And this is when Do
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  Speaker 1: Flamingo just puts his head in his hand and just
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  Speaker 1: starts laughing. And I mean, was anybody not laughing? Don't
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  Speaker 1: get me wrong, there was no point when I thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: this is useless. I never doubted for a moment that
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  Speaker 1: Lufi's power was gonna fucking do something. Okay, Just for
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  Speaker 1: the record, I knew this was going to wind up
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  Speaker 1: being something badass. But I cannot fault the man for
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  Speaker 1: this reaction in the moment. It's a bizarre, unintimidating thing.
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  Speaker 1: The most intimidating part, I would say is the sound
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  Speaker 1: effect that they use for when he bounces, which is
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  Speaker 1: a weird combo of the sound of like rubber actually bouncing.
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  Speaker 1: That's like in there, but ahead of that, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like is almost the sound of a metal mechanical press
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  Speaker 1: clamping together or something like machinery, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me? So yeah, overall, the whole impression of this
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  Speaker 1: is what even is this doing? And his assumption is like,
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  Speaker 1: you just got bigger? Is that what you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: do is just sort of intimidate me with your size?
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  Speaker 1: And then he accuses Loufy of not taking this whole
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  Speaker 1: fight very seriously, and Lufy is like, of course, I'm serious.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to see and do FLUMINGO points out
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  Speaker 1: you can't even stand anymore on your feet, which was
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  Speaker 1: an interesting assertion because I wasn't really taking it that way.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like Lufy was bouncing because the material of
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  Speaker 1: his feet made that better. And also bouncing is like probably,
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  Speaker 1: I would think in a fight a really good tactic
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  Speaker 1: for throwing off the person that you're fighting against. Like,
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing with boxing is to be light and
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  Speaker 1: quick and stay on the balls of your feet and
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  Speaker 1: basically never pause if you can help it, and not
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  Speaker 1: present a still target. The whole thing is that it's
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  Speaker 1: more difficult to hit you if you're moving, So I
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  Speaker 1: would think that bouncing would actually be really helpful in
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  Speaker 1: that respect, and I thought it was interesting that he
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  Speaker 1: thought it's just that you can't stand, rather than this
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  Speaker 1: is part of the mechanic of how this is a
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  Speaker 1: better body to fight in you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. So then lufy Uh talks to him
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  Speaker 1: about how for two years I was fighting animals and
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  Speaker 1: if I fought bigger ones than me, I needed to
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  Speaker 1: be physically bigger and bouncier, and dofal Mingo says, okay,
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  Speaker 1: then what does the elasticity even do? And Lufi just says,
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  Speaker 1: shut up. Once I start, you won't even be able
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  Speaker 1: to fight back, and he starts to like pull his
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  Speaker 1: fists in the way that in my uh imagination, it's
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  Speaker 1: almost like cocking a pistol, you know, or like pulling
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  Speaker 1: back the elastic on a slingshot. And then he flies
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  Speaker 1: at Do Flamingo and says, now, my gum gum kong
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  Speaker 1: punch no kong gun and punches him, and Do Flamingo
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  Speaker 1: goes flying so hard that he passes through like a
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  Speaker 1: couple of buildings, clips some spires of stone, hits the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and then collides with a tower so hard and sharply
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  Speaker 1: that he knocks the whole tower down. I am going
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  Speaker 1: to say this a lot in this trio of episodes.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody in this town should be dead. I've said it before,
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  Speaker 1: I'll say it again, and I'm sorry if it's going
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  Speaker 1: to get old, but there is so much destruction and
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  Speaker 1: it is so large scale. It really is making me
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  Speaker 1: understand the way that Will White wrote some of Cradle
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of The Elder Oh my god, I
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: can't remember the rest of the name of that series,
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  Speaker 1: but there's a series where that he wrote, I think
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  Speaker 1: before Cradle, after Traveler's Gate, that there are people with
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  Speaker 1: these wild powers that accidentally kill bystanders all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and it's really fucked up because their powers are just
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  Speaker 1: so large that you can contain them to a point,
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  Speaker 1: but there's a degree to which it doesn't matter, and
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  Speaker 1: people if they get hit and aren't prepared or don't
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  Speaker 1: have a certain level of power, they're just going down.
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  Speaker 1: And I after watching more and more of this show,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just seeing like, oh, I understand the inspiration for that,
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  Speaker 1: because it's not acknowledged in one piece that this is
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  Speaker 1: what would happen. But that's an author who is taking
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  Speaker 1: the next step with what's clearly would be true in
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  Speaker 1: these situations and just deciding to actually acknowledge it in
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  Speaker 1: their story. So all of these people like wind up
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  Speaker 1: gathering around what seems to have just been a landed meteor,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't even realize that it's still Flamingo. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: he was traveling at such that they couldn't tell what
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  Speaker 1: he was. And Violet is talking to Oosop and tells
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  Speaker 1: him like, he's transformed. I've never seen anything like this before,
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  Speaker 1: and Do Flamingo just got knocked the fuck down. Once
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  Speaker 1: the townsfolks start to realize that it's Do Flamingo, they
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  Speaker 1: back up pretty fucking quick. Do Flamingo himself is not cowed.
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  Speaker 1: He's just well, that is more than I expected. And
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  Speaker 1: when he stands and like realizes that there is a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of townspeople around him, they ask, what the hell
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  Speaker 1: are you doing here? And he says, I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: know that myself, which is an interesting response, and I
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  Speaker 1: like that. As soon as he says that and shows
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  Speaker 1: how displeased he is, everybody around him is just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we're fucking out, bye bye, And I understand
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  Speaker 1: he looks like he is about to take out his
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  Speaker 1: irritation on anybody who is near him, so I do
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  Speaker 1: not blame them for this. Once he realizes just how
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  Speaker 1: far he got knocked down, he can't help but be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit impressed. And you can still hear Loofy
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  Speaker 1: bouncing all the way from the bottom of this plateau,
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  Speaker 1: and then Lufy begins to come down toward him. And
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  Speaker 1: I had said in the previous episode that like Lufy
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  Speaker 1: might as well just be able to fly. What are
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  Speaker 1: we doing? And that is what we get here, is
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  Speaker 1: that he is using this like as do Flamingo puts it,
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  Speaker 1: he is using elasticity force to fly. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that this is anything. You know, if somebody out there
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  Speaker 1: who's a physicist can give me a really good, like
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  Speaker 1: not even a good answer, but like a confident answer
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  Speaker 1: that yes, with the physics working a certain way, this
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  Speaker 1: actually could be possible. It's unlikely with the capabilities that
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  Speaker 1: we have, but it is possible. I would be very interested.
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  Speaker 1: I just like for the sake of this show. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: whether or not this could actually work is not relevant.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like I'm gonna go I don't like this
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  Speaker 1: because it's unrealistic. It's just that it being said in
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  Speaker 1: this way like it's a given that this would work,
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  Speaker 1: had me kind of going, wait a minute, is there
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  Speaker 1: some real basic premise here that I don't remember that
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  Speaker 1: I should know about how this force would even work. Like, so,
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  Speaker 1: anybody out there, if you know things and you want
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  Speaker 1: to tell me about them, please do come to the
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  Speaker 1: discord leave a comment. You know, I just am extremely curious.
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  Speaker 1: It's sort of funny how often it has felt to
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  Speaker 1: me like Lufy can basically fly anyway, and now we're
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  Speaker 1: finally giving him like a means to do that, and
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  Speaker 1: then the means sort of feels like, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you even had to tell me this. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I could have just accepted that he could fly
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  Speaker 1: by now you may not have had to explain it.
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  Speaker 1: So he tries to zap loofy as he calls it,
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  Speaker 1: when he shoots toward him with overheat. Now, guys, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not really sure what this is from do Flamingo. It's
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  Speaker 1: like he's trying to hit him with like a fireball
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  Speaker 1: or something. As far as I knew, this wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: power of his. How is it? But this is something
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  Speaker 1: he can even do that's not like I maybe we
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  Speaker 1: saw this before, and I just don't remember because there's
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of manifestations of Dol Flamingo's power. To
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  Speaker 1: be fair, there's been a lot of different things that
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  Speaker 1: we have seen him do. It's there are certain power
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  Speaker 1: sets where you see the same weapon over and over
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  Speaker 1: and it's used the same way and do Flamingo is
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  Speaker 1: just not one of those his power It feels like
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  Speaker 1: every time you bust it out, we get like two
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  Speaker 1: familiar attacks and four new ones. So this may be new,
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  Speaker 1: but I was just sort of like, wait, overheat, how
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  Speaker 1: is that within his power set? So then Lufy hits
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  Speaker 1: him with uh gum gum rhino Schneider according to the
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  Speaker 1: sub subtitle here. Now, I just want to say guys
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  Speaker 1: that you know, there was a time where I was
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  Speaker 1: getting very preoccupied with what the subtitle said versus the
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  Speaker 1: dub because they do not match up, and so I
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: turned the subtitles off because I just wanted to stop
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  Speaker 1: focusing on that. And thus there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times in this fight that he yells what his attack
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  Speaker 1: technique is and I don't know what the fuck he's
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  Speaker 1: saying because the words do not make any sense to me.
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  Speaker 1: So when he says Rhino Schneider. I was so lost.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know I heard rhino and then I thought slider.
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  Speaker 1: But I was like, he's not sliding though, but he
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  Speaker 1: does kick do Flamingo so hard that he basically goes
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  Speaker 1: sliding across the city. So I kind of was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it must be Slider then, and now looking at this
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  Speaker 1: and seeing that its Schneider, I don't even know what
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  Speaker 1: that what that is? Uh? Florian says he used it
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  Speaker 1: before against soanjy Oh. Regarding Dol Flamingo's overheat hot strings.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, but like I don't even I honestly don't
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  Speaker 1: remember that, Florian. But that's it's like ringing a bell.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't recall him saying overheat or whatever. But like,
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  Speaker 1: how does he make them hot? Because that's like a
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  Speaker 1: different that's a whole different aspect of his ability. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not like, obviously Loufy has different aspects to his ability.
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  Speaker 1: So it may be that he is able to access
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  Speaker 1: some other function in there, but it's just I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's it just feels surprising. Rhino Schneider was some kind
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  Speaker 1: of weapon model or manufacturer, says Florian, Lufy's attacks are
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  Speaker 1: weapons themed, like pistol oh. I see, so it would
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  Speaker 1: be like the equivalent of saying like rhino shotgun or
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  Speaker 1: rhino sniper or something like that. Makes sense. Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: see what you're saying. Yeah, as somebody that is like
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  Speaker 1: really not familiar with guns at all, it doesn't surprise
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  Speaker 1: me that I would not have known what that is then,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, Lufy sends him flying, and then Lufy himself
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  Speaker 1: lands and winds up surrounded by all of these townspeople
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  Speaker 1: who are staring at him as he bounces around, And
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  Speaker 1: it's such a weird moment because nobody knows what to
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  Speaker 1: make of him, and he looks different enough from his
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  Speaker 1: regular self that later on there is an argument over
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  Speaker 1: whether he is Lufy at all. Meanwhile, Bartolomeo is watching
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  Speaker 1: and the way he is fanboying over the fact that
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: this is a new technique that he gets to see
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: is for him, Like he goes up to Kiro's and
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: calls him, Stumpy, do you get what this means? We
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  Speaker 1: got to be witnessed to a never before seen, super
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  Speaker 1: secret move and you're just standing there like a statue.
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  Speaker 1: I can't stop shaking. This is the best day of
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: my life, and Kiros just puts his hand on his
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: face and shoves him down to the ground. I really
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: cannot get enough of Barcelomeo. I really can't. I adore
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: him so much, so then do Flamingo up again. Little
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  Speaker 1: bastard is hardening his skin with armament hockey and using
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: tensile force to multiply his strength several times over, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I see tense. That's interesting. I
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  Speaker 1: kind of like this idea. So he goes looking for Loofy.
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  Speaker 1: Lufy himself is bouncing around trying to figure out where
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  Speaker 1: Dolfla Mingo is, and they meet once again at the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: top of this like. I don't think they go back
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  Speaker 1: to the exact same spot on the plateau, although maybe
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  Speaker 1: they do, but it doesn't really matter. He comes at
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  Speaker 1: dofl Mingo, who says, you know what, I am sick
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: of this crap. And as he begins to fight against Lufy,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: he makes tons and tons of strings, and every time
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Lufy attempts to punch him, there are barriers in the
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: way made of string. He just keeps shielding himself with them,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and Lufy says, I told you I'm using fourth gear
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: and you can't keep up, and he tries to say,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: this is it, This is the end now. Unsurprisingly, Do
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Flamingo has something else in his little bag of tricks
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: that he pulls out in the next episode. But first
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: we see him get his arms and legs covered in
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: hockey as well. They collide fists and his hand comes
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: away like trembling and like a little fucked up, looking
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: like his punch was not actually able to withstand the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: force of Lufy's punch. Lufy is like headbutting him and
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: sending him up into the bird cage itself, which I
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: understand as a tactic, but I also was wondering if
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: that would even hurt the guy who made it, you know.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: And just as he is about to deliver a punch,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Do Flamingo does an athlete kick and we see Lufy's
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: side like cave in like it's nothing. If this were
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: a real body, the cave in would be a problem.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: This would be oh, you're crushing his internal organs. But
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: because Lufi is rubber, when it caves in like that,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: it's just like when Lufy tried to punch Trouble and
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: his fist just went through. It's nothing. So dope Flamingo
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: here is starting to get really really agitated because Lufy
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: is beginning to kick his actual ass. And then we
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: get the start of the next episode where it turns
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: out he is able to summon more strings even than
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: he normally is able to do, and turn whole buildings
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: around him into strings to utilize. Everybody in this town
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: should be dead. I'm just gonna keep saying it. Excuse me,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: you guys are coffin today. I think I have allergies. Yeah,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: this is, this is I think this is too much.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I think we've officially reached a point with Do Flamingo's
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: power that I'm sort of like, Okay, that's that feels excessive.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: It's one thing if he could like turn things that
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: were near to him, but he's like reaching out and
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: turning buildings into string, and like quickly, It's not like
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: he does this and it takes a minute and then
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: finally it begins to like unravel and the string comes
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: to him for him to use. It's like he reaches
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: out the building is string like instantly, and then he
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: can just pull it all toward him in a moment,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: as if it were a spear or something, and we'll
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: get there in a second, but first with the other
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: things that start with the With the second of these
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: three episodes, we've got the townsfolk who are watching this fight.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: We go over quickly to Cavendish, who is still with Law,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: and Cavendish is like, good God, he's pulling off something
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: that I can't even believe. And I'm sitting here and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: watching it. If he can like beat do Flamingo. He's
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: actually a lot stronger than I expected. And Law says
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: he's over using his hockey. And when he said that,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I was like, ah, shit, because if he is saying this,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: it's just set up that eventually Lufy's going to run
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: out of power. And I was just devastated, to be honest,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: because as soon as he said it, I thought, Uh,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: now I'm going to have to watch Lufy run out
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: of gas and I was not excited about it. But
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: it doesn't happen this episode, so at least I got
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: a little bit more time out of it. So okay. Oh,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: there's also this whole thing with Jesus Burgess. I don't
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: know what to make of this, dude, because I have
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: not been keeping track of what's happening with everybody else.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I know that he is one of the Blackbeard pirates,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: and I know that he wants to kill Loofy to
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: try and absorb his gum gum fruit power. Right, But
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: in like this whole time with this fight, did Jesus
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Burgess hide and avoid getting like in the rest of
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the fight against the executives and everything, Like, I can't
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: recall what it is that he has been up to
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: for the main part of the conflict here, because he
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: is sort of stepping into this as if he was
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: in the bathroom and just missed it all and now
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: he's come out and he's just like, yeah, let me
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: track down Loofy, like all of this other stuff hadn't happened,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like it's just sort of
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: a weird uh there's a feel to it of like
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: him literally stepping into the story from outside of the story,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: like the author just went, oh, yeah, Jesus Burgess, I
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: have him here somewhere, Oh, he's in this drawer, and
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: then just sticks him into the midst of it. Because
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: it is a weird disconnect between him and everything else
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: around him. He's not looking about as if like he's
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: stunned and horrified by the extent of the horror around him.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: There's nothing, no comment about the destruction or like wow,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: look at this place, Like he doesn't reference how bad
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: things have got at all. So I definitely was just like,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: what are yeah, what is this? And in the background,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Koala is like watching him and trying to get in
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: touch with Sapo to be like, dude, this guy is
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: sort of biting his time over here, and Sapo isn't
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: responding to her, and I'm not remembering what his scenario
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: is right now if there is a reason that he
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: isn't answering that we should know about. But yeah, Jesus
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Burd just like inserts himself into the midst of this,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: and it's just so it is a real drag. I'm
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: curious how you guys felt about this when he turned up,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: But like, personally, I was really like, we don't need
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: this right now, and not in a oh you've upped
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the stakes kind of like it was. It was just
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: a I'm I'm plenty interested now that Lufy has gone
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: into fourth gear, we don't need anything more. Don't do
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: this now. It's too much. We've got too many things
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: in this stew we were doing pretty well with everything
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: being like, you know, a nice red wine based beef stew,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: and now you're just like pouring in white wine. And
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going, but we had this whole other thing happening.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: What are you doing? You're just you're ruining it. And
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: maybe I'll take it back, maybe I'll take it back.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: But I think it's a combo of like the motive
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: behind that, the reason that he's jumping in, which is
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: that he wants to kill Lufy and take his fruit.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about Loofy. I know Lufy is going
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: to wind up alive. Whether he wins against Do Flamingo,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: that's a slightly different question. I could see Dol Flamingo
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: like getting away to live another day and ultimately dress
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Rosa is saved. But Don Flamingo isn't defeated. You know
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Jesus Burge is coming in here. It
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: feels like you aren't gonna it. Fucking Do Flamingo hasn't
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: killed him. I am even less worried about you, and
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: I know the point it's supposed to be. Oh, he's
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: showing up just as Louviy runs out of power. I
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: do not believe that it's going to matter because either
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Lufy manages to defend himself. Being rubber is makes it
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: so that he is difficult to attack, or he has
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: so many allies that everybody else winds up stepping in
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: because he is defenseless at the moment. But either way,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: this just feels like it's gonna be something I kind
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: of have to sit through, even though I know ultimately
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: it's going to come to nothing. So I'm not particularly
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: excited about this whole thing. We have a little like
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: interlude where the guys are trying to and by the guys,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I mean Condre and Zoro and I can't remember the
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: name of the other guy. They're trying to find their
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: way to the city, like the middle of the city,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: and they are riding on this poor little sparrow that
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: keenum on that's his name, that Condrea drew. You guys,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I hated this so much. I really hated this poor
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: bird being like forced to carry everybody. I don't like
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: this at all. I know the bird isn't even like real,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: but it's distressing. I was not a fan of it.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: So they're coming in to try and find some way
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: to stop the strings from continuing to destroy the whole city,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: and we go from them to Frankie, who is yelling
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: to the tantatas like, you guys, we have got to
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: fucking get out of here. Let's move, and they all
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: begin to flee the factory and head for Frankie. And
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: then Frankie notices that the strings are going up against
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: the walls of the Smile Factory, but are not actually
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: knocking it or not actually cutting through it. The strings
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: are pressing against it and causing the whole tower to
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: begin to bend over, but not succeeding in actually breaking
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: through the walls themselves. And as he is discovering this,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Zoro and Conjurea and Quinemon land in front of him,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: and he's like, guys, if you're trying to run, you're
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: going in the wrong direction. And Zoro like, we're not
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: trying to run, we're trying to stop the strings, and
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Frankie says, huh, I never even thought of that, And
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: then they just fly away. And then then Frankie says,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: stopping the strings does sound good, but how you guys,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I was so angry. I was so mad right here.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: You just saw that these strings don't cut through the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: wall and you say to your little friends, oh, it
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: must be because it's made out of sea prism stone,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: so you even know why it's not cutting through. And
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: yet he doesn't think to mention that when they're saying
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: how to that we want us try and stop them.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: He even asks how can we stop them to himself, Frankie,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: you know I love you, baby, but you this is
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: such a hymbo moment. Oh my God, get it together, sir.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Connect the fucking dots. Jesus Christ, this was agonizing. You're
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: supposed to be this brilliant engineer. What are you doing?
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: For God's sake? So we go back to the fight
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: between Lufy and uh Do Flamingo, and this is when
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Do Flamingo begins to like do his new like level
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: of power. He calls it awakening, and he says that
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: it's really rare, but with it, I'm trying to wait
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: for it. My strings can affect more than just my
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: own body. That's it. And he's standing in the midst
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: of like a bud. It's almost like he has been
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: shrunk down and placed in gray wig, you know, is
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: what it looks like because he is just in the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: midst of all these strings, and he's yelling to Loofy like, no,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: no matter which way you go, there's gonna be more
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: of them. At this rate, you won't even be able
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: to get near me. And it shows him taking a
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: step forward on the surface of the building and when
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: he takes a step, briefly the ground beneath him turns
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: into strings, and then it goes back. It turns back
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: into rock, it seems. But yeah, he says to Lufy that,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: you know, my, let's see where is this moment? Because
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Lufy says something about how then he can't be a
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: paramesia type, and Do Flamingo says, I can see that
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: your power is gonna run out any second, but mine
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: is going to keep on going because he still got
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: his body sort of held together with these strings on
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: the inside. I once again would like to know how
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: sustainable that is, but that's not the issue at hand
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: right now. What we really need to do is to
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: lock up Do Flamingo and see prism somehow get his
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: whole power cut off, and then will you know, deal
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: with him and as a normal person, Florian says, So
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Dophie calls this awakening, and we have seen another warlord
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: turning into turning things into sand when touched by him. Normally,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: devil fruits don't do that. Oh okay, so him being
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: able to do this is like kind of crocodile and
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: what he can do, But this is not usual, you know.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I never even clocked that crocodile turning things into sand
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: didn't really make sense. I guess I assumed that it
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: was him just drying things out, because like his power
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: is that he can can troll water, right, so he
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: can pull all of the moisture out of somebody and
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: turn them into a husk. And I think that he
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I was assuming when he turned things to sand, that
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: he was just completely pulling any moisture out of them
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: so that they disintegrated into like the molecules that they
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: are when there's nothing holding them together. But that, you know,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: that doesn't really necessarily make sense, because then people might
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: just turn to stone or something like turn sand specifically.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: That's a slightly different idea. So okay, that's interesting. I
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: wonder what Lufy's like if he awakens turns other things
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: to rubber. Could he turn a ship to rubber? Would
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: it still float? Probably? I feel like they've made rafts
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: out of rubber anyway, So do Flamingo is really feeling
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: himself here as he does this, and he starts to
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: turn more and more things into string, and as he
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: is doing this, we cut to the townsfolk. Now I
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of time left here, but I
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: just want to talk about the townsfolk in this episode
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: and the next episode. So I'm sort of torn because
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: the thing is that the townsfolk are very, very unlikable people.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: But I also think part of the reason that I
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: find them so unlikable is that they are depicted as
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: like real human beings are, which is to say, easily frightened, fickle,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: and selfish. I don't want to say all human beings
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: are like that, you know, but what we're seeing isn't
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: necessarily all human beings. It's just that we're seeing examples
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: of the worst of them at different times on this island.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Even knowing that, though, it kind of was difficult for
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: me to root for them. So we have a few
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: different scenarios here. First, we have this little girl who's
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: with her grandmother and they're trying to flee these strings
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: that are bearing down on them, and the grandmother falls
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: down and can't run anymore and tells her granddaughter, I
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: AM not going to be able to make it. You
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: have to keep going, get out of here quickly. It's
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: going to come for you. And the little girl like
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: crying and looking upward and trying to decide what to do.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: And then we cut from her to this hospital that
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: has been completely abandoned by some of the people that
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: work there, and there remains a doctor and some nurses
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: who are asking everybody who is running past them for
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: help evacuating the place and saying like, there's nobody here
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: is going to be able to get out if you
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: don't help us, and everybody just straight up passes them,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: doesn't make eye contact, doesn't answer them, and they are
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: left standing there with all of these like completely helpless
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: patients on their hands and they don't have anything to do.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: And there's just this real sadness of him like hanging
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: his head and then looking between the two nurses. And
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: it's such a weird moment, you guys, because like the
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: hanging the head made it look like, h all, like
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: we're screwed. And then the way he looks at both
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: of the nurses, all I could think was that there
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: was something very like lecherous about it, and I'm sure
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: that's not what's meant to be happening. I think it's
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: supposed to be. I'm gonna look at the only two
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: people who remained with me, and we're gonna try and
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: get these people out, just the three of us. But
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: all I could think was him going, well, I got
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: two hot nurses with me. I guess I'll just make
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: the most of this last moment, you know. And then
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: we have a mother who has lost her child and
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: is trying to find her son and yelling for somebody
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: to please help her, describing what he is wearing. Has
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: anybody seen him? And nobody is paying any attention to her,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: and they're just continuing to run by her. And lastly
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: we come across a guy who is on crutches and
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: he says, essentially, what's the point. We're all going to
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: be killed, either by the strings coming at us or
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: by do Flamingo in the end anyway, so there's no
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: point in trying to fight it. And he just puts
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: his crutches down and sits on the ground and waits
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: for the strings to come toward him. Now, this is
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: something that the show does a lot, which is they
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: pull away from our main people and the big overarching
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: fight and they show us the everyman and his struggle,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: especially the most vulnerable people, which, of course is what
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: do Flamingo specifically referenced when he began to draw the
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: strings inward. Was he warned Loofy about how old people
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: and children and whatnot are going to be the ones
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: that really suffer because they won't be able to get
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: out of the way in time. And I have to
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: be honest, I just don't like it when the show
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: does this most of the time. Occasionally there will be
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: a tie in with other things that we have seen
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: already that makes it feel like it's less of a manipulation,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: but mostly it just feels like a huge manipulation. And
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: what I think would work is if we had anybody
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: in these situations that we had met earlier in the show,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: you know, just have some by that our friends come
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: across interact with that is likable in just a few
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: moments that we are immediately like, oh, I like this
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: lady or I like this guy, and then we don't
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: see them again until a moment like this and we
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: get reminded, oh my god, this poor like you know,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: bystander that we didn't really get to know. Even though
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I didn't, I still kind of give a shit about
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: what happens to them. But because it's so obviously reaching
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: for our heartstrings and having there be like an old
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: lady and a baby, and then a mother whose last
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: or child, it just feels so it almost reminds me.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: There's a bit from the the old Batman movie from
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: like the sixties where he has found a bomb and
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: he's trying to find somewhere to dispose of it before
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: it goes off, and everywhere he turns there is like
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: another different type of vulnerable group that he has to
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: run away from. So all he's trying to do is
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: get to the edge of this dock and throw the
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: bomb over so that it'll go into the water and
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: explode there and not harm anybody. But you know, he
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: turns one way and it's like a you know, an
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: old person and a cane or they're in a wheelchair.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: He turns another way and it's like two mothers walking
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: with their prams with their children. He turns yet another
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: way and it's like a group of nuns leaving a church,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: and it's just like all very over the top innocent
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: bystander energy, and he just keeps having to like run
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: away from each of these groups and try and find
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: somewhere to throw it off. That's what this feels like
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: to me, is that we are going to like f
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: mind the most extreme version of each situation and show
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: it to you in such a way that it's like
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: it feels like a joke. You know, it fails to
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: tug my heart strings because I'm just over here going Jesus, Okay,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: I get it. It's very sad, but because they're going
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: so hard, instead of actually feeling sad, I just feel
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: irritated at the attempt. So yeah, there's ways of doing
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: this sort of thing that do work, and that I
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: think in the past have worked. But considering how big
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: this arc is and how long it's gone on, it
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: is sort of surprising to me that we don't have
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: anybody who's just a regular person on the ground dealing
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: with stuff. Everybody that we have gotten to know is
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: like a player in the game somewhere, whether they were
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: enslaved and now they got out of it and they're
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: fighting back, whether they're one of the tantanta who was
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: being lied to, or royalty or whatever. Everybody that we
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: know they're in it, and we haven't met anybody who
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: just is a regular guy, which is surprising because I
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: feel like that could probably be worked in somewhere. But anyway,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: all this to say that this just this whole thing
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: didn't work for me really at all, and I kept
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: wanting to have a moment with the townsfolk where I
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: felt like I was proud of the way they were
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: behaving or more concerned. But we get the next episode
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: where Lufy finally does it. Seems he uses the the
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Leo Bazouka and I it took me a little while
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: to understand that the animal names are because of the
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: animals that he was fighting in the woods. But he
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: uses this. He manages to knock dol Flamingo out enough
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: that dolfl Mingo is like in a huge crater in
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: the side of this cliff face, and the entire town
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: thinks that he is now dead. Now I personally was like,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: I don't understand why anybody assumes this man is dead.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: We have seen how many times this guy has been
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: knocked down. There's no reason to think this. Everybody starts
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: really prematurely celebrating and Loofy meanwhile, isn't stopping his whole
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: bouncy shtick, which one of the guys is like, what
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: is going on with this? And as he's standing there
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: bouncing the right before he had delivered this punch, King
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Riku made a big speech to inspire everybody, because you know,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: folks on the ground, they're panicking, they're acting badly, they're
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: giving up. And he sees this and so he gets
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: on the like loud speaker, so to speak, and yells
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: for everybody to continue to have faith. Lufy is on
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: the case. He is going to save us. There is
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: still hope. Don't give up. And he says something specifically
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: like even if you have broken legs, which I was like,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: is he just saying that as an example or just
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: you actually see this guy over here who has literally
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: sat down. I was not sure, but he the whole
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: speech itself. I was like, Okay, I get we need
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: him to have a moment of being a leader. I'm
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing them be better. Cool. I was annoyed,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: but let's do this now, people stepping up and being better. Nope, nope,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Like maybe they have some will to fight back, that
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: doesn't really change the fact that like, later on there's
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: somebody who's looking at Loofy and then just like, he
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: doesn't look like what he did look like, though, are
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: we sure that's him? And they all start to like
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: question him in the midst of this in a way
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: that I'm just like, this dude just delivered what y'all
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: are thinking is like the death blow to do Flamingo
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: in front of you, and you're still just like, I
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: don't know about this guy. And eventually, when Lufy collapses,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: does anybody offer him so much as a glass of water? No,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: we have somebody saying that we should help him, and
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: then we have another guy stepping up and being like,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: don't forget he's a pirate. He could be just as
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: bad as Do Flamingo. Bruh. I am really going to
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: need anybody to listen to this speech that King Ricu
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: gave because they bring this up to him and he's
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: just like, yeah, but who knows. I just don't trust him,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: and I just wanted to be like, who fucking asked
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: you get out of here? I was so disappointed, you guys,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: I really was. I thought it was going to be
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: King Riku inspiring folks, and then lufy like he winds
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: up on the ground because he's run out of steam,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: and finally the townspeople step up and do something to
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: help him, and then they all just stand to the
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: side and talk cash shit about how maybe he is
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: garbage while this man is like dying due to over
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: using his power to try and save all your asses. Disgusted,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: and maybe next episode all of a sudden and they're
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: going to decide like, oh, maybe we should help him,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: maybe we should give him a chance. Too late. I
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: don't like you. You fucked up, you ruined it. I
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: am not going to root for these guys at all. Again,
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: it's not happening. It's too late. I don't care if
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: they come around. It shouldn't have taken you any time.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: You should have been there already. So that's how I
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: feel about this. It's just like these people. There comes
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: a point where I'm just like, maybe you all deserve
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: to die now. Maybe I just don't care if he
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: saves you. Fuck all, y'all, what are you good for?
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: This dude is actually one handedly attempting to defeat the
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: bad guy, and you're doing fuck all, and you have
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: the nerve to stand there and be like oh, I
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: don't know about him jump off a cliff literally go away,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: and in the end don't and go turns out to
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: still be alive. This is what causes Lufi to run
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: out of steam because he sees do Flamingo moving and
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: he's just like, ugh, he's still alive. And I was
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: laughing here because you guys, like, I feel like it
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: was last episode or the episode before that. I was like,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: if they don't take care of this fight pretty surely,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: I'm going to start to lose my patience. And I
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: stand by that. But I recently, I think I've mentioned
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: this on other shows, but I was watching the series
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: on Amazon Prime called Reacher. Just you know, for your knowledge,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: it is not a good show. It has immaculately choreographed
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: action scenes. If you are into that, which I am.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: I love seeing men beat each other up. This is
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: for you. But it is a badly written cliche of
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: a television show. And there was the end of the
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: last season, the third season that I watch, there is
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: a dude who is even larger than Reacher himself, and
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: the joke in that final finale episode becomes each of
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: them doing something that they think has taken the other
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: out finally, and then realizing that nope, he's still alive
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: as they're like walking away and just saying, oh Jesus
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: Christ as they turn around to resume the fight that
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: they had thought was over. And it is genuinely really
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: funny because the two of them, they're both so enormous
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: that watching them fight looks fake. It's like, so that
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: was what I was thinking about here. I feel like
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: I would have been much more annoyed with how do
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: Flamingo is still alive if I hadn't just watched that
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: Reacher finale and had it remind me of that, and
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: so Lufi. Once he is still like alive, he goes,
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: all right, well, I'm gonna fucking go and take care
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: of it. You're still alive, but one more hit should
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: do it, and he's almost there, and then it's just
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: like and he just falls, and it's so sad and
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: so frustrating because I just wanted this fucking thing to
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: be done. I'm done. We're all done, okay, show of hands,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: who at this point was ready for it to end. Now,
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: for the record, I am nowhere near as done with
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: this as I was with Fishman Island, So I don't
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: want anybody to think that I'm turning on the dress
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: Rosa arc in general. Overall, I have enjoyed most of
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: this arc. It's been much more that I have liked
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: than I have not. But this, this, this is this
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: is enough already? Okay? Can we all just like you know?
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: And the episode ends with Lufy like just barely able
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: to pull himself up off the ground, saying damn it, Mingo,
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: And as he does, dofl Mingo is like peeling himself
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: out of the crater that he got shoved into, with
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: his little smile on his face because now he's going
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: to start some shit and because I'm not actually worried
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: about Lufy now, it just feels like I got to
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: sit through more of this, you know, but it's gonna happen.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: You know. This is from what I understand, a lot
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: of this is filler, and it shows it feels like filler.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: Oh I'm seeing uh sorry, Florian is in the chat
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: regarding the townsfolk. Oh yeah, I like your way better,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: but honestly still like it. In Marge Simpson voice, I
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: just think it's neat. And then oh my god. The
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: animal part of the name comes from the animals he
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: fought I was today years old. I may be wrong.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: This is what I assume, but I might be wrong.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: I will say, guys, honestly though, the fact that Lufy
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: pure trained his skills by fighting wild animals does that
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: not hit for anybody else? I really hate it. Like,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: first of all, I don't like fighting animals in general,
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: because I always side with animals all the time, so
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: that's just going to be a default thing for me.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: But also, animals don't have the kind of applied intelligence
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: that a human being would have in a fight. So
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: it feels for me like you purely worked on strength,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: but not tactics, not using the understanding of your enemy
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: necessarily as like something to bounce off of. It feels
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: like incomplete training, in my opinion. But maybe there was
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: another aspect of it that I just don't know about yet.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just I don't like beating up animals,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: my friends. I just don't like it. So you know,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Florian says, I think he
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: most trained with Slash against Riley, if that's so fine,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: But like when he's talking about training against animals with
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: do Flamingo, we get like a montage of him beating
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: the shit out of tigers and stuff, which it's just
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: very difficult for me to be pleased with. It feels
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: like the sort of montage that you would get to
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: make sure you really hate a villain and you get
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: to see how shitty he is to animals, you know
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: what I mean. I was like, Eh, you're acting like
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: this should be impressive, and I'm having a hard time
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: seeing it that way. But anyway, so that is the
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: end of these three episodes, and I really hope, you
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: know what, it would be great you guys, here's my
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: wish list. Do you guys remember how in one of
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: the Indiana Jones movies he's facing off with this guy
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: who has a sword that he's like really dramatically swinging
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: in these patterns and making a big show of how
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: clever with the blade he is. And then Indy just
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: pulls out a gun and shoots the guy in the chest. Now,
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: this was like an ad lit. This was not something
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: in the script, but he just did it the actor
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: because he was so tired that he didn't want to
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: do the fight scene, so he just pretend shot him
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: and they decided they loved it and kept it in
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: the movie. What I would love is something similar where
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: you think it's gonna be a whole thing, where Jesus
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: Burgess shows up and he's like, I've got you now,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: and then unexpectedly do Flamingo just instantly kills him and
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: is like, this is our fight, what are you doing here?
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: You are nobody? Get out and just cracks him in
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: two pieces because he's just interfering in something that he
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: was not asked to be here for. That's what I
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: would like, is if Jesus Burgess is being built up
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: to be a whole thing and then he just gets
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: fucking wiped out, and not even by Loofy, and it's
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: like embarrassing on the sidelines that he has no relevance
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: actually at all. That's what I would like, So I'm
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: gonna write a fan fiction. All right, Thank you guys
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: again so much. I can't remember if I opened and
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: said thank you to Florian for commissioning this episode. Actually
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry if I did, because I'm remembering now
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: that it was Michael that commissioned this episode. So if
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: I said Florian in the beginning, apologies, and I'm going
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: to try and remember to go back and edit that
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: and say Michael, because I hope I gave him the
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: correct credit, but thank you Michael if I didn't. And yeah,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: I'll see you guys next week. Until then, to lou Motherfucker's.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: That was an Unspoiled Network podcast.