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One Piece, 496 & 497 · Spoil Me! One Piece

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This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me, covering one piece
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episodes four ninety six and four ninety seven to the Sea Someday, the Pledge
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of the Three Brats and leaving the didn family for good. The kids hideout
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has been built. In these episodes. We are still with Loofy and Ace
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and Sabo. I didn't think we would hang out with him for this long,
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but it looks like we've got a few more episodes to go even and
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I'm actually really really enjoying this little blast from the past, this flash to
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the past, I like it. Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome to the
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show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning
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this episode. I am really enjoying how much info we're getting filled in on,
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guys, because y'all know that, like from the episode where we find
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out the basics on where Zorro comes from. And I say basics because we
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still don't know who Zorro's family is, right, so we saw how he
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was trained, but he basically seemed to like spring from the Woods, fully
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formed. I really have been asking where does Lufi come from? Who is
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his family? How did he get here, and I was surprised at the
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fact that we weren't given any of that. Like, the only things that
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we ever saw were him hanging out in the bar with Shanks and how that
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all went down. But he was already like seven or eight years old in
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those flashbacks, and even in those there's no real guardian to be seen.
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We don't actually get any information on how he's being raised, or who's doing
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the raising or anything like that. So I was sort of like, I'm
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the way that I'm used to stories like this being told it tends to be
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first, we're going to have this like kind of hero's journey of like the
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parents dying and the kid having to figure things out for themselves and struggling through
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life and eventually being taken in by somebody who's like a second family to them
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if if they're lucky or what tends to be the case? Even more excuse
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me, I have the hiccups. I don't know w what is. They
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were sent to a family that should have been their second family, and those
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people are awful to them, So this kid has to learn how to survive
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despite these people who pretty much actively abuse them. Right, But it was
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so surprising to me that, like we don't get anything about where Lufy's from
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and what the deal is with his family and how he wound up here,
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and like, guys, we're almost an episode five hundred and I'm just getting
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a lot of this information now, and it's still like it's not even like
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we know who his mother was. It's I don't think she specifically has really
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been mentioned. I know that Ace's mother carried him for two years or whatever
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it was and then died, so like, you know, her heroism in
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not giving birth, it's so like Greek mythish. I do really enjoy that.
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It's like a very goofy idea in some ways, but it's so over
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the top that I think it actually works. But I'm still waiting to find
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out who Lufy's mother was. And it's a shame because it feels like at
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this point who she is is not really going to matter that much. And
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I feel a little bit sad about that, because like, if she plays
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such a small role in his life that we don't really have like any time
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with her here and no mention of her from him, I have to assume
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that she also died when he was young, and this is kind of like
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the only thing that holds me up, And it's a continual issue with this
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series specifically, But it's not like I'm saying it's the only one that commits
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the sin. But I don't love the fact that the women are so disposable
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and the men are always the ones who are notable badasses. It really does
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frustrate me how male centric this series continues to be. And I am holding
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out hope that this gets improved upon with time, because you know, we
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have the uh mister two character played for a joke and then becoming somebody who
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is like a full fledged friend and badass and sacrifices himself for the sake of
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everybody. So it's not like this series is incapable of forward movement in terms
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of the way that it handles portraying people who are not just males and sis
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males at that. But I am not seeing a lot of evidence so far
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that that is changing, like at all. We still have so many like
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pirate groups where either it's all men led by a woman and there's one woman,
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she's the captain, and that's it. You don't really see women being
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the pirates in the crew. The only time that there's a woman is if
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she's in charge, but she can't just like be a part of things.
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And you have a choice between either women who are attractive in that they look
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exactly like Nami Robin Boa, whatever, or they are actively drawn as like
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masculine and like repulsive in some way. It's there's just no in between.
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There's there's you are either completely like fuckable hottie or revolting. You are square
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and have a wide jaw, and you're probably older and you don't have like
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a possible hip to waist ratio. So that's already been a problem with the
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way that like women just are kind of a non factor except in Lufy's crew,
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and even in the crew we've just got the two, you know.
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But also the fact that Lufy and Ace's mothers don't really have any like present
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influence or notoriety. They are just the women who carried the children of the
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powerful men that are notorious, and I just want that to not be true.
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I am hoping that I get thrown a curveball with Loufy and it turns
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out to be like a different thing than what I'm expecting, or the way
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it went down sort of like, once it's revealed, I will feel like
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that sort of makes up for it in some way. But the way that
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I'm like sitting right now, I'm just feeling kind of like, oh boy,
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can't we just do something different? So I just wanted to get that
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out of the way, just off the top. The pledge of the Three
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Brats. I really enjoy once again, this opening song. I just want
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to mention that. But I just love that it's the Three Brats because that
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is the thing that they call kids so much in this series. They throw
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the word brat around a lot, and we get a ton of training montages
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here. It's really really fun because what Lufy is doing is he's trying to
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develop the techniques with his gum gum ability. And I love the way this
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works because it's so easy to think that this was sort of an automatic thing
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that he was able to develop because it was an like just the way that
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you punch. You would just do it the normal way and then your arm
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would extend and it would be as simple as that. You know that you
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would just do it because that's the way that your arm moves anyway, And
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to find out that actually it's like not automatic, at all, that he
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doesn't have great control. He winds up. The first time we see him
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try to do like the gumgum pistol, he accidentally like aims wrong and it
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hits the ground and bounces up and he punches himself in the face, which
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so embarrassing. And it turns out that this is like all they're doing.
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They are just fighting one another, and it's one hundred matches a day apparently.
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And we have Ace like saying to himself it's inside his head that he's
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never gonna lose a fight to anybody, even Sabo, like, sorry about
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it, Bud, but that goes for you too, And Sabo, for
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his part, is saying, I can't stop until I'm stronger than Ace and
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or till I'm the strongest in the world the two of them. While Ace
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is definitely like the superior fighter between him and Sabo, the two of them
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are light years ahead of Loofy. Lufy has never won against either one of
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them, and he is trying so hard and he really believes that like,
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well, when I get older, I'll finally be able to like show you
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two what's up. And they have to be like, you know, when
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you're older that will also be older, right, Like, do you get
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that? And it doesn't seem like he does. I don't think he gets
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that at all. So I'm sorry guys this. I'm just watching the two
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of them fighting here and it is really really funny to me, the way
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that they are going at each other, like it it reminds me there's a
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I wish that I could post things in the chat here, even though there's
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nobody in the chat today, but there is a video of a couple of
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like jack rabbits fighting at the side of the road that gets reposted a lot,
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and they're basically just like their front paws or just like bitty bat bitty
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bay at each other and it's one of the funniest fights you've ever seen.
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Like it's so and I'm not trying to say that Sabo and Ace aren't fighting
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for real. What I'm trying to say is that the two of them are
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illustrated, as if they're just kind of skibbity bopping on each other and not.
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It doesn't I believe that it's a real fight, but there's something about
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it that feels almost like a cat fight for lack of a better term.
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But yeah, so they're really like taking this seriously though, and I have
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to admire that because this kind of training and focus is not the sort of
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thing that you expect out of children. And it makes sense that these are
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kids that don't have a lot of other options, because they're just like,
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what else are they going to do other than chores? So fighting, of
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course that's going to sound much more appealing. And if they have these this
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competitive spirit, it'll be really motivated to always feel like you're on the verge
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of out doing one of the others, to keep pushing yourself, you know,
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it's part of what keeps people competitive with like video games and whatnot.
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I love the part where Sabo's about to attack Loofy and Lufy just makes this
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like kind of net out of his fingers, and when Sabo comes up to
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him, he's like, does he think I'm just gonna run into it?
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And he runs forward, grabs Lufy's fingers and yanks them back, and then
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when he lets go, they bounce back into Lufy's face and send him flying
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in the way. That's like it's like when he like, when somebody's got
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a rubber band, if you grab it and sort of pull on it and
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it makes them flinch back. It made me think of that move. So
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it's just really adorable that Lufy seems to think they're just gonna walk right into
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this. That is such a kid like this felt like Oda wrote this scene
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after having played with children and laugh to himself about the way they are because
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it's so it's so transparent and silly what he's doing, Like you can see
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right through it, but I could see how a little kid would think they're
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being really really clever, do you know what I mean? Kids are just
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they function still on like Looney Tune's logic, so they think they're being sly
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and doing something that nobody's going to see this coming. And it's like everybody,
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babe, everybody saw that company. I'm so sorry, but we all
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knew what you were doing there. So Ace, for his part, is
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just like you should just learn to fight like a normal person and then you
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mix in the rubber stuff afterwards. You're trying to do the rubber stuff first
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and you're not good at it, and you've got to let it go.
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And Lufy is determined to keep fighting, and I love when he's like,
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well, you know the rule. It's one hundred matches per day and he
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has to like make Loofy stop the fact that Lufy has had his ass handed
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to him the number of times he has in this training day and still wants
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to keep going. He's got a little bit of a masochistic streak in him,
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for sure, you know. So they go and they are able to
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get a crocodile for dinner. Again. I love how Lufy once again can't
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wait and just throws himself in there. And as they come home, there
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is the uh, the whole thing with the don basically being like, well,
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fuck you guys, but they're like, well, we got dinner though,
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And that keeps being a theme to the point where I was sort of
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wondering about it, like do these people know how to find food themselves?
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Like if the kids don't bring home a kill for the day, do they
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eat or do they depend on these children? And I didn't think they did,
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and it doesn't seem like they fully do. But there was sort of
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a suggestion sometimes like everybody is so hungry once they bring food home, like
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they haven't eaten until now, you know. So we have another moment where
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we go over to Great Terminal and we see all of the scavengers who are
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hanging out in the dump waiting for a new load of stuff to come in,
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and they go through it all and pick out what's good and bring it
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into the town to sell as recycled goods, and we get to see Lufy.
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It's like clearly like Loofy's nose, and I was sort of like,
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wait is it because this figure is way too tall, but it looked like
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his nose. And the guard stops them and is like, well, what
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is that and he says, well, it's crocodile skinned. Do you want
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it? And when he shows the guy, he says, ew, no,
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just go ahead with it, which I was surprised by because I would
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have thought this would be sort of valuable, And the fact that the guy
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immediately rejected it, I was like, huh, I would have thought he'd
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want it. But once they get inside the grounds, it seems like that's
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when we start to find other people who understand the worth of this thing.
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So they're dragging it on like a sort of sled, and some guy comes
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up to them and is like, hey, you need help with that,
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and they don't respond, and then Ace it's his voice who had spoken so
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I was like, oh, okay, so it wasn't lofy. But he
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says, buzz off. And then he knocks this guy down and says,
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you got to pick your targets more carefully or you might get more than you
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bargained for, and he yanks off this case. This is three kids in
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a trench coat basically, and when they reveal themselves, these grown men just
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say, ah, damn it, not them. Look out which uh if
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you are a child, a literal child, and upon revealing yourself to your
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enemies, their response is, ah shit, I've got to say, that's
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pretty badass. It's just it is like, who out there is a threat
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to grown men. I mean, that's just impressive. It just is.
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I can't help but be amazed at the way they come sailing out and it's
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just like a cut. You hear everybody like groaning, and then we resume
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our transport into town, and everybody who has been about to try them has
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just apparently been like taking care of and leveled. I mean, really that
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easily these guys they're training against each other. I had expected if they couldn't
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take each other down, that they were just not quite up for it against
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adults. But what I think is happening is that they're meant to be so
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good at fighting that they are challenges to each other, but regular people are
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not challenging to them. Wild I mean, these adults should be embarrassed,
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so then we have I've grown to really love the musical cues in this show,
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because anytime that something's supposed to be fancy, we get that that like
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string music that's sort of waltz, and that signals that we're dealing with like
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rich people, or at least people who like think really highly of themselves.
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And it turns out that this is high town where those with noble blood are
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separated from their lesser neighbors, so they it's supposed to be the most beautiful
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country in all of the East Blue not a hint of trash can be found
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in its streets. Okay, guys, look, I have to take a
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moment here because this is just relevant to something that I did yesterday. So
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I wanted to get a little patio table. And I try as often as
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I can to not buy things new. I try to go on Facebook market
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and find it used because it's just cheaper and easier. And I found this
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table that was perfect, and this person gave me their address to pick it
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up, and it turned out that they lived in a gated community. Now,
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I just want to preface this with the fact that, like, my
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idea of what a gated community was was that it's just basically like a nicer
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suburb that has a pretty simple gait with like a code and some cameras,
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so it's got slightly better security, but it's not really like that, do
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you know what I'm saying? Like, I never thought of it as being
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a whole different world inside, and I wasn't understanding the level to which some
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of these I'm not assuming all gated communities are like the one I visited,
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but this was just not on a level I grasped. So I apologize if
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you've heard this story before, because I'm probably going to tell it on another
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episode, like with Rashaun or something, because I haven't told her this story
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yet. But uh, first things first, is this person gave me their
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address and Google sent me to the gate. But it turns out that like
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the gate that Google sent me to wasn't the gate for guests. They only
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have one gate to get into the community for guests, but they've got four
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gates total for residents, so it basically was like go round the side if
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you're the help was the vibe, even though I know guests doesn't mean help
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necessarily, but it kind of feels like that. And so I had to
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find my own way there because Google didn't know that there was another gate.
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It sent me to the closest one and I pull up. Guys, this
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is just it was so beyond what I was expecting, immaculate, like landscaping
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all the way up these trees, and like in such a way that you
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can barely see the gates at all from the street. Right, you pull
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up and there's a gatehouse with two uniformed attendants, the only black people that
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I saw the whole time I was there, both of them black men,
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and they were so like they stood so carefully and clearly took their jobs very
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seriously, and they took my ID and like scanned it and took all my
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info before they opened the gates for me. I had to show them the
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message on Facebook messenger to indicate that I was allowed in what the address was
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that I was going to, and then they raised the They raised the arm.
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But there are two like gold and black gates that fold inward, and
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as you pass through there's this fountain and these trees hanging down and like fucking
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tulips blooming. And it was like I was on the set of a movie.
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Everything was uniform. All the grass on everybody's lawns was the exact same
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height, which I assume they just include lawn care and stuff in whatever membership
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you pay, like you know, housing, whatever it is. There was
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not a piece of trash or even a weed growing up between the cracks and
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the road or anything. There weren't even cracks in the road now that I
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stop and think about it, like the roads were just absolutely It looked like
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a Hallmark movie town. And if you haven't seen a Hallmark movie town,
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what I mean is they are the towns in those movies are complete, like
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Norman Rockwell style, perfect like versions. If you were imagining, like what
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does a general store look like? The platonic ideal a general store is what
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will be in like a Hallmark movie. And it was like that with the
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houses, and every house they weren't all identical. I was expecting it to
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be like row after row of identical. No, you've got like Adobe Southwestern
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houses you've got Victorian style houses, you've got like mod style houses that look
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almost like Art Deco, but absolutely perfect sidewalks. Everything is manicured to within
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an inch of its life. All of the front porches and everything looked like
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they came out of a magazine. They probably hired people to design them with
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these like gorgeous wreaths and furniture and multiple gates and fences with pouring roses.
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And I mean, it was so frustrating because it was absolutely beautiful, stunning.
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I felt this wave of envy over it. But also I know that
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everybody who lives here these houses. The sign outside said start at two million
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dollars apiece. Start. This is a neighborhood full of very likely shitty people,
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and yet I want to be part of it. I wanted to be
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in it. I wanted to live there. I really did. Like I
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saw all of these people just out for their morning jog with their dog on
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actual sidewalks. I haven't seen a neighborhood with a sidewalk in a fucking minute.
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Sidewalks they don't do that anymore unless you live in a richer suburb or
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if you are in the city. That's it. You don't get sidewalks,
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You walk in the street and hope that the cars see you if it's too
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dark, and just everything about it. It was so frustrating because I was
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like, we could all be living like this, We could all just pay
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our fair share of taxes, and our cities could just look like this,
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our towns could just look like this. But no, we have to save
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it for our area where the rich people are, because we don't want to
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share, and we want to definitely have things better than the other people,
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because we need something to assure everyone more better than they are. And I
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was so conflicted the whole time driving around, switching between this odd jealousy and
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then like this acute rage. And they even had this gorgeous like green like
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a sort of in the center of everything. It was sort of like a
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town square where there was a big outdoor amphitheater where they clearly like put concerts
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and plays on. There was a racquetball and swim club as well, which
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I don't know if you have to pay extra for that or if that's included,
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but it was all just within walking distance, a few blocks from these
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incredible homes. And then they even had a school and While the school was
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technically outside the gates, I have read that this is for tax purposes.
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It was clearly that school was part of the neighborhood. Like I was talking
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to Candice and she was like, I bet that's a charter school, and
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it felt very separate from everything. You couldn't see the school from the main
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road, and it just had the look of a place that's got all the
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amenities. You know. It's probably the kind of place that comes with the
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equipment that you see on TV shows that you're like, these kids are in
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high school and they have Wait, where is it that they are, Like,
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we didn't have that in my school. This school likely had it.
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And it just made me so angry to know how people can be like paying
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into this fund for all of them in this neighborhood to live like this,
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and yet they don't understand the appeal of socialism, which is just what that
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is, but like on a grander scale. But their assumption is that,
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yeah, but we deserve it, And if I put it into socialism,
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then people who don't deserve it are going to get access to the same good
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stuff that I have access to. And they don't deserve it. They just
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think that they know that there's no reason to assume that people in this neighborhood
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deserve to be there, Like there's just none what do you mean by deserve
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even anyway, this just it really really reminded me of that, this whole
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sequence, and uh, it's a real line in the sand. And you
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guys, I don't feel self conscious about the fact that I'm a poor most
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of the time. There have been times in my life where I've been hyper
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aware of it, but that was a lot of it was in high school
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and college and I was around other kids that had money, but I wasn't
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immersed in a world where everybody had money, and I was the only one
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who didn't. I was one of half the population that didn't. And then
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there were people who did. Driving around in my scratched car with the cracked
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windshield, I felt so so conspicuous and like I had to get out of
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the car and go up and get something off somebody's porch and lead money under
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the mat and I was like really self conscious getting out of the car,
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worried somebody was gonna say something about me taking things from the porch because I
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look sketchy, you know, like just the whole feeling of who you yourself
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are. It's bizarre how dependent it is on your surroundings. So anyway,
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this mention about like this is the shining jewel of the Goa Kingdom, said
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to be the most beautiful country, and all of the East blue. Not
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a hint of trash can be found on its streets. The same can Windmill
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Village can make no such claim. Although it's technically a part of the Goa
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Kingdom, the fact is often swept under the rug by its more wealthy inhabitants.
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And we go to downtown and apparently because Sabo says, see, I
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told you they'd love that crocodile skin, our pirate savings are really piling up,
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and we see him saying like that they I knew they'd love it.
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But the faces of everybody looking at them do not look welcoming. They look
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disgusted and sort of horrified, and people are getting out of their way.
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And I was like, really wishing that we got to see the response to
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the alligator skin, because I'm guessing that's sort of like a designer thing,
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But we don't get to see that part. We just see them still sitting
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on each other's shoulders in this cape making their way to a restaurant and they
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go inside and this dude answers the he's like the host, and he says,
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forgive my bluntness, but we simply do not serve your kind. And
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Sabo holds out this what looks almost like a compact with like a pearl chain
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attached to it, and it's got a flower on top. It's made of
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gold, and he says, VIP room please, and the guy says,
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but that mark it can't be. Please excuse my impertinence, or would be
32:39
honored to have a noble such as yourself, Grace are establishment, and this
32:44
guy just keeps bowing. They go inside and Ace is like, where did
32:49
you even get that? And Sabo says, uh, oh, yeah,
32:53
it's weird. I found it lying on the street. And of course I'm
32:58
just like, oh, Sabo's a noble, okay, that explains his clothes,
33:02
like it's very you know, I was saying to you guys, we
33:06
didn't know anything about where he was from, so this is our info dump
33:09
in this episode about that. So they get let inside and they're gonna have
33:15
ramen, which evidently Sabo has never even heard of and they eat so much
33:21
of it they ask for one bowl after another, and eventually it becomes clear
33:28
as they they have managed to pretend that there's only one of them, just
33:34
eating a lot and uh. The waitress just keeps getting sent out to like
33:40
bring more. But eventually she opens the room after this like pause to breathe
33:47
outside because she has been run ragged, and as she comes in, she
33:52
sees that there are actually First of all, I think it's Loofy that's got
34:00
his like weird rubber arm, but she screams, and when they burst in,
34:07
it's the three of them, so it's clear that this is not a
34:10
grown adult, and also that they don't have any fucking money, so they
34:15
just jump out the window. I love. As they're jumping out, Sabo
34:22
is just on his way down, going wow, Raman, sure is good.
34:28
You are correct sir. I never had like proper ramen, you know,
34:32
not not the twenty five cent per pack ramen, but proper like restaurant
34:40
ramen until like two years ago, and I got so hooked. I needed
34:46
to give myself an intervention because I was spending way too much money. It's
34:50
very involved to make yourself, so I have never made it myself, and
34:54
I still want to. But every time I look into what I need,
34:58
none of the restaurant or none of the grocery stores around here carry the stuff
35:01
I would use, and it would take a whole special trip, and I've
35:05
still never gotten around to it. But yeah, as they jump out,
35:09
like you know, people are yelling about how they're criminals and this. The
35:14
people down on the street are like, but they're just kids. What.
35:17
There's a security guard who's like, how did they get through the gate?
35:21
I've had enough of their antics. I don't care if they're kids. They
35:24
belong in jail. The waitress is like, did they know they were on
35:29
the fourth floor when they jumped out the window? That's a long fall.
35:31
And the restaurant owner is like, well, great, now we can replace
35:36
the window. And they ate twenty six bowls of ramen, so that sucks.
35:44
And they have left a note that apparently says like something like put it
35:49
on our treasure tab and this guy is just like, well, what the
35:53
hell does that mean? But we know the uh what they're saying is eventually
35:59
we'll be rich enough to pay you back. I would love to see Louvi
36:02
actually do this Louvy actually like come around and be like, hey, ten
36:09
years ago, when I was a child, we ate a bunch of ramen
36:13
and then ran, here's the money for that, sorry about it. As
36:19
they're running away, there's a man on the street who yells for Sabo,
36:23
and we find out later that it's his father, but Sabo, when he
36:28
sees him, just immediately is like, I don't know who that is,
36:31
so fuck this guy. And later on we get the story where Sabo is
36:38
like, he is not a royal. He's high enough on the food chain
36:49
to be somebody of enough importance that his marriage would be like, if not
36:57
actually pre arranged, and it would certainly be a marriage made for the alliance
37:02
and not like, oh, you get married for love and the whole like
37:09
story. It starts off with him as a very young child and him telling
37:15
them that his parents said, you know, just studied so that you can
37:21
be good to the family business and get married and have children and we'll be
37:27
so happy, and we're sure you'll be happy too, and he's like,
37:31
oh, just study and find the right girl and everybody will be good,
37:35
like happy for as long as I live. And you know, just the
37:39
way that a child understands like, this is how I can make my parents
37:45
proud, and that's pretty simple and straightforward, so I'll just go ahead and
37:49
do that. And we see the two of them like looking down at him
37:54
with this kind of curious expression on their faces, which later on we sort
37:59
of begin to understand is greed. It's just a sort of looking at their
38:06
child like he's a resource, you know, not like he is a person.
38:12
And then we get a telling moment where his father is on the phone
38:15
and he finds out that one of his ships sank. He explicitly says he
38:22
doesn't give a shit that the crew died. He just wants to know about
38:25
whether the supplies are safe because they were really expensive and someone will pay for
38:30
this, YadA, YadA, YadA. And as Sabo comes in, he's
38:37
lamenting that he can't afford this and just in a bad mood. And Sabo
38:42
comes in and is like, hey, I drew this for you, dad,
38:45
And he drew a picture of his father, who crumples it up and
38:51
then tears it in half and says, your father is having a trying day
38:55
at work. If you have time for this, you have time to study,
39:00
and he just throws it all on the ground, and poor Sabo is
39:04
like, I really was thinking to myself, Oda, did you did this
39:09
happen to you? Like, you know, as an artist, were you
39:13
actively discouraged from this? Because I could definitely see that he was able to
39:16
make a living out of it, But it was like, there's a part
39:20
of me that's sort of at what costs knowing what Oda has gone through to
39:23
be constant in production and the health risks of that and everything, like,
39:32
it's really not that different from the United States, where if you want to
39:37
work in a creative field, you've got to be willing to kind of kill
39:40
yourself and it's brutal, you know, Like yeah, anyway, So eventually
39:52
he runs into some kid on the street who's like, I'm from the royal
39:55
family and that means you have to do everything I say, so carrying me
40:00
back to my house, and Sabo just begins to walk past him, and
40:05
he says, I want a piggyback ride right now? How dare you?
40:09
And he begins to like grapple with him, and Sabo knocks him off and
40:15
just starts to walk away, and the boy pulls a knife and comes at
40:22
Sabo and says, this ought to teach you, and we don't actually see
40:30
what happens. It cuts after he comes at Sabo, and then we jump
40:36
to like this kid's parent's appearing, and they're, of course like, because
40:45
they're higher up socially, are threatening that they're going to like do something to
40:52
Sabo and his mother immediately like the fact that Sabo has been hurt does not
41:00
matter. This kid went to assault him with a fucking knife. And she
41:05
does not even want to hear it. She actually hits him in the face.
41:10
And she turns to this woman and says, my son can be such
41:15
a little beast. I blame myself. I do hope you weren't hurt.
41:19
It's terrible, I know. Please forgive us. I assure you he will
41:22
be severely punished. I'll do anything I can to make things right. Shall
41:25
we go to the doctor to make sure your son isn't injured? And come
41:31
to the present, and Sabos says, then I realized that they love their
41:37
money, their property, their status more than they love their son or no,
41:43
he doesn't even say more than he just says, but not their son.
41:47
If I couldn't marry into a royal family, I was useless to them.
41:52
They try to teach me culture and literature, but I guess I didn't
41:57
learn fast enough because they were always arguing, getting mad that family had no
42:01
place for someone like me. I know, you guys have it worse,
42:06
but even if I had parents, I was still alone. And we go
42:14
like another flashback to his father being like, well, you've been sneaking around.
42:17
Where have you been going? I shouldn't have to tell you this,
42:21
but stay away from Great Terminal if you know what's good for you. We
42:24
nobles are privileged to live in high Town with the King and his family.
42:28
It's a life people down there can only dream of. By the same token,
42:32
you do not belong in their world. And we have this like like
42:42
weird scene where all of these dudes who are in Great Terminal, they're sitting
42:46
around and they're like eating, and when Sabo comes in, they recognize him
42:52
and are like you again, what are you doing here? Your parents are
42:57
going to string you up? And he says, tell me another story.
43:01
I want to hear all about the countries that you've been to and your adventures
43:05
on the high seas. And these dudes who like seem like they're ready to
43:09
you know, pound this kid into paste. Are basically like yeah, oh
43:13
right. And so this is where he finds his escape and he tells Lufy
43:21
and Ace, I ran away from home. It's so funny the way that
43:23
they react because I'm like, yeah, he ran away from home, as
43:28
like self explanatory. Guys like, clearly that's why he's out here, what
43:31
do you mean? But I guess they just had not put two and two
43:36
together. And so Ssabo is just determined, we're gonna set sail and we're
43:40
gonna see the world, and once we've done, like seen it all,
43:45
I'm going to write a book about kids like me, or write a book
43:51
about it all for kids like me, which I really liked that idea of,
43:57
you know, for kids that don't get to be free and go and
44:00
live the way they want to live, I'll give them a window into what
44:04
it's like. So this is the first time that Lufy says that he's going
44:08
to be King of the pirates, and they all start to realize, like,
44:14
what are we going to do in terms of captaining this shit, because
44:19
we have all apparently assumed that we would be the captain and everybody else would
44:24
be like our first mates or something, and we never even really like talked
44:30
about that, and they don't come up with a solution here. But this
44:34
is the scene where Ace goes and gets some sake and pours some for all
44:38
of them and says, this is like all it takes to become brothers is
44:43
to share some sake. So they all drink it together, and I was
44:49
just like waiting for a reaction of them sort of spitting it out. But
44:52
evidently sake is not new to them. Apparently this is old hat and they
44:58
are not impressed by it. I really kind of I thought we were gonna
45:00
have a moment of like, ew, what is this? Oh my god?
45:04
You know? But no we do not. So the next episode is
45:15
the as I'm running out of time, I'm like trying to figure out exactly
45:20
how I'm going to break down this part of the story. But we these
45:29
boys have like dug a hole in front of the door of Da Don's.
45:38
I was about to say to Damn's they were allegedly going to catch some wild
45:45
bores, but it was right outside the door, so she walks right into
45:49
it, and then another dude like collapses into another hole while she's yelling at
45:52
them. All we jumped into town at this point, and Sabo is real
45:59
cocky with this group of dudes around him, being like, all right,
46:02
let's get the chit chat and get straight to ask kicking. And we see
46:06
Ace swing in on one of Lufy's arms like a it's very sort of tarzan
46:12
ish. Looviy lets go of Ace and his arm snaps back and kind of
46:16
sends him flying and then he lands in h He hits one dude like a
46:24
cannonball as he lands and knocks him down, but he takes way too much
46:29
time on his wind up with the other dude, and he gets punched in
46:34
the face so that this dude's hand sinks in because his face is made of
46:38
rubber and so his features are so smush that he can't see at all.
46:45
And it is the creepiest looking thing. I don't feel like we've seen this
46:49
happen to Loufy before, and I did not care for it. It's very
46:52
buttholesque. I do not like it, not one bit. And the cops
46:58
arrive just as they're fleeing and find a bunch of dudes like on the ground
47:01
having been beaten to death. Probably not to death, but you know,
47:07
so this is when they come home and they bring a deer and basically tell
47:14
to Don like, yeah, we're late, get over it. Here's some
47:17
food. We have the extended sequence of everybody like trying to get in on
47:22
the food and the kids just eating most of it, apparently everybody fighting over
47:28
it. Eventually there comes a point where didn finally is able to like lay
47:39
down and go to bed, and you, guys, I found this so
47:44
funny. She's laying she's asleep and she's dreaming, and in the subtitles it
47:51
says hot to Don because she's imagining herself in her dreams as being beautiful.
48:00
I don't know how common a thing this is, be guys. I have
48:02
this dream all the time that I'm like back to the shape I was in
48:07
as a teenager, or that I got like this immaculate hair style or color
48:13
and I look amazing now, or just like any number of changes that have
48:20
been made that all of a sudden, I'm just like super hot, and
48:25
I just really like hid a nerve for me. I sympathize greatly. And
48:30
eventually this wonderful dream gets interrupted because the boys have decided to start training in
48:36
the middle of the night. And they fall right on top of her,
48:43
and she is like, I have about had it with these fucking kids.
48:50
She's saying, they've become hazardous to my health. And Dogras says, I
48:54
think they've been running the show for a while now, and she's like,
48:59
well, then I remind them whose fucking family this is. Garp can suck
49:04
it. He doesn't own me. And as she's saying that, she turns
49:12
around and she thinks it's Garp behind her, but it does not. It
49:16
is Mikino and I can't remember the guy's name, but it's the mayor and
49:22
the bartender from the town that Lufy is originally from, and they have just
49:29
come to visit because apparently six months have gone by, and they're just like
49:32
checking up on him, but they say, don't tell Garp, and I
49:38
was like, that's interesting. Why aren't they allowed to see him? But
49:45
the interaction here like I'm kind of, ah, this is great. I
49:50
love the fact that like there are people who care about him, and Makino
49:55
is like, I brought you some new clothes because I'm sure gar didn't like
50:00
leave you anything, and I also brought some stuff for your friends as well.
50:06
But probably they'll have to be altered a little bit, and she smiles
50:10
at Ace and sabo. Ace doesn't want to like participate. He acts like
50:15
he's too cool, but he can't help but be like a little interested,
50:19
and he seems embarrassed by that. I love what she says, you seem
50:23
like a good boy, And Ace says, who told you that? And
50:27
Lufy is like, you're blushing. Oh god, these two, It's very
50:34
very cute. I enjoy anytime that Ace taking himself seriously kind of becomes the
50:38
butt of the joke because he does really need to like calm down with that
50:45
a bit. The Mikino like makes all of this food and everybody just has
50:51
this wonderful night, and I love that. You see the shadow of Garb
50:54
coming up to the house and he falls into one of the whole for the
51:00
bores, and as Ace is saying he's going to become the best pirate and
51:08
Lufy is arguing, like, I'm going to be a pirate before either of
51:12
you. Two. We see Garp standing in the doorway and his eyes are
51:17
shining like stars because he's so angry that they're still talking about becoming pirates,
51:25
and he basically like beats the shit out of them. It's such an ongoing
51:30
thing in this show that people who beat you love you. It's really fucked
51:34
up. But he also beats to Don and is like, well, obviously
51:40
you're raising them wrong because they still want to be pirates, so of course
51:45
you are going to get some of this as well. He calls Sabo squirt,
51:50
and Lufy's immediately like he's not a squirt, he's Sabo, and we're
51:54
going to become pirates whether you like it or not. And Garb is like,
52:02
well, if you want to be treated like criminals, that I can
52:05
beat the shit out of you like criminals, no problem. Meanwhile, Machino
52:09
and the Mayor have left apparently got out of there just before Garb arrived,
52:17
and they're just thinking as they're leaving and hearing all the ruckus, like,
52:22
uh, these kids better figure it out because they're in some trouble and they're
52:27
so like relaxed about it. I'm like, do you guys hear these kids
52:30
being beaten the fuck up and you're just like, well, well, you
52:34
know what a weird culture. So what the boys decide they're going to do
52:43
is they're going to create their own hideaway and just going to like leave the
52:52
Dedan household, and it's a really like garb sort of makes them think it's
53:01
their own idea, but I get the feeling that this is what he was
53:05
hoping for them to do. So they go out into the woods and in
53:12
the morning, Do Donna is sort of like, what the hell are we
53:16
gonna Like they could get murdered out there. I don't want to be taken
53:20
care of these kids, but I also don't want anything bad to happen to
53:22
them, And he's like, well, I'm gonna leave, and by the
53:28
time I get back, you better have made them proper marines. And Don
53:31
is like, yeah, that's not gonna fucking happen. What is that you
53:36
said? Nothing? By Oh my god, I did think that was really
53:39
funny. But Do Donna eventually is like, let me go and find out
53:46
where they are. And the boys have been working really hard on putting this
53:52
hideout together. It's super like this is like the fantasy right when you were
54:00
a little kid, Did you want a clubhouse? Did you have a treehouse?
54:08
A treehouse was really the dream, right. I didn't even have like
54:15
the kind of backyard that had a tree in it because I lived in a
54:16
condo, so that was just absolutely not on the table for me. And
54:22
treehouses are dangerous enough that a lot of parents are like, yeah, I
54:24
don't think so, we're not doing that. However, if I were to
54:30
ever have a kid, it would just be I would I would definitely do
54:37
a treehouse. It's for me. Having like a place that was sort of
54:40
a way that felt like my own, even if it was sort of under
54:45
surveillance in some way, was such a huge important part of growing up that
54:55
I would just want my kid to have that. I might put a ring
54:59
camera in there somewhere, just to keep an eye and make sure that they're
55:01
all right, but probably after they reached a certain age I would stop with
55:07
that as well, so that they could have their privacy. I'd probably do
55:09
that up until they were like maybe like ten or so, just to make
55:14
sure that they're not playing with matches or about to fall out. But yeah,
55:20
I really just watching them put this together. Kept thinking about as a
55:24
kid how much I wanted to have a sort of like secret society meeting up
55:32
place sort of like what I always thought of when I was little was like
55:37
the Midnight Society from Are You Afraid Of the dark and they would just get
55:42
together in the middle of the night and tell ghost stories and that was all
55:45
they did. But the fact that they had like a place that they gathered
55:47
and a sort of ritual to it where right before you told the story,
55:52
you would take some of that sand and throw out on the fire so that
55:54
the flames would turn a different color. It all just felt really magical to
55:59
me, and I was fascinated by it. So, yeah, they've managed
56:04
to go through all of the stuff at the dump to get the equipment and
56:08
supplies that they need, and we get the montage of them putting this all
56:13
together, and then there's a really funny bit where Dedan is she has finally
56:20
found them and is trying to check up on them in the middle of the
56:28
night while they're asleep with like good motivations. She's looking at them and she's
56:31
like, oh, they're actually kind of adorable when they're asleep. And she's
56:36
like, let me just put this blanket that blew off of Loofy, I'll
56:40
put it back, and as she steps forward, it triggers a booby trap
56:47
which Sabo had said he was going to construct, but it causes the whole
56:58
like this this room Goldberg machine to go off that releases a giant I don't
57:07
know, a mallet, I guess to fall and just bashed Don in the
57:12
stomach and it sends her flying in this like slow motion. It's really funny,
57:15
honestly. I just love the fact that every time she starts to warm
57:20
up to them, they're immediately like fuck you, but not even on purpose
57:23
necessarily, And she falls and they're so high up that they can't even see
57:30
her after she lands. So when they wake because of the noise, Saba
57:35
is like, that's weird. I thought, like the thing went off,
57:37
but I don't see anybody. I made it in a hurry, so I
57:42
may have goofed it up somehow. I'll just check tomorrow. And they all
57:45
basically just like go back to bed. Meanwhile on the ground, Don is
57:51
like, fine, go ahead and be pirates. I don't give it amn.
57:53
In fact, I he'll ball three if you drown in the sea.
57:58
And I couldn't tell if Ace see circus. He stands at the window for
58:01
longer than anybody. I don't think he spotted her. But yeah, this
58:06
is the transition from being part of her household to doing their own thing.
58:09
And I for one am proud of them. All Right, guys, I
58:15
have to wrap this one up, but it was really fun. I'm looking
58:19
forward to the next one and seeing where we're going with this. So thank
58:22
you guys again so much for listening, and until next time to lou motherfuckers.
58:58
That was an unspoiled Network podcast.