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We Finally Hit the Grand Line… Straight Into a Whale Strawchat Episode 7 Reverse Mountain · Anime Club Podcast

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  Hello and welcome to another episode of Straw Chat and
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  another massive recording. I'm Chris and this is my Co host
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  Lee. Areet, hi.
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  It's nicest to say Ari. I've took your role here.
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  It's it's the easiest 1. You just react the talk.
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  But yeah, this is another recording session.
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  So we're doing the Alabaster saga now.
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  We've divvied it up in 5 arcs. So we've got the Reverse
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  Mountain arc, the Whiskey Peak, Little Garden, Drum Island and
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  Alabaster arc finally. So I.
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  Think there. Is like do.
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  We start off with an extra 1 because there's a post alabaster
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  arc, but I think that's only like 3 episodes or something.
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  We can always just add that on to Alabaster.
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  I don't know how much is. Yeah, there's not a lot for that
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  actually, no. Yeah.
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  There's a like 5 episodes at the end of this saga where it just
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  does like like one off stories, doesn't it?
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  If you can remember it, like goes through choppers, Rumble
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  ball, Zorro's back story of how he became a pirate hunter kind
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  of thing, how he met Johnny and Yosaku.
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  You know, I mean the salesman on the boat.
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  I really like that. Yeah, some of them are good.
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  Yeah, we'll go through that and those as well.
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  I don't know what would you call them one off ARC?
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  Yeah pretty much filler. I think the only one that might
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  have been in the manga was Zorro's story.
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  I think the rest are just enemy only possibly.
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  Kind of wanted the salesman to be in there because that snail,
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  the class underwater snail. Reminded us of Stanford.
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  Monkey Island, HI. Oh yeah, used chip salesman.
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  I've played that in years. But yeah, do you want to stop
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  off where we're picked? But we're left off at a reverse
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  mountain arc. Yeah, so the left Marine Ford at
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  the end of the last one didn't not Marine Ford.
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  That's miles. That's that's miles ahead log
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  town. Yeah, the Marines chasing after
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  them and stuff. Smokers in pursuit and they're
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  heading towards Reverse Mountains so they can finally
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  head to the Grand Line. So and Reverse mountain is a
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  river that flows the wrong way up a mountain.
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  Very weird. But they don't believe it's like
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  an actual thing. But I think Nami kind of figures
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  it out and the take the go and marry up this rapid river going
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  uphill. And now I'm standing doing all
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  the and it's going up the hill. It's getting bashed about all
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  over the place. Luffy's trying to like jump in
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  between the boat and the walls, trying to stop from getting
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  damaged. And they finally get to the top
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  and fly down the other side where they meet a giant whale.
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  The boon, the boon, the hollowed out whale.
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  A bit of a sad back story to Laboon but the try and fight him
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  don't. I think Luffy might punch Laboon
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  in the face a couple of times and the wheel just.
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  Eats the boat. It doesn't eat Luffy.
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  Luffy manages to get on top of the wheel and finds a hatch door
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  in the top of the wheel. What the hell?
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  Climbs inside and it's it's a hollowed out wheel and he's
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  going down all of these corridors trying to find his way
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  around. The rest of the crew are on the
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  go and merry in the sea. An island in the middle of a
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  lake inside the wheel with some man just sitting there like
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  drinking a cocktail, having the time of his life.
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  Yeah, I can't remember what Crocus.
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  Crocus. Yeah, yeah.
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  Crocus. Crocus.
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  I think there is a bit of a back story to Crocus as well.
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  I think he might have been Gold Rodgers Doctor, possibly, I
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  can't remember. He's yeah, because he's an old
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  lighthouse keeper. Yeah, he does reveal Goldie
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  Rogers. All.
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  Right, I'm just checking me note because I've actually made notes
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  this time. Last time I was just talking
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  about what I thought, but I've actually wrote stuff down.
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  But yeah. Old lighthouse keeper lives
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  inside Laboon. He doesn't really live inside of
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  them, but maintains his health. Yeah.
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  Goldie Rogers Crew Doctor Ernie. Right.
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  Yeah, so he's built tunnels inside of the Boon to make it
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  easier to treat them. So strange, but it's an anime,
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  It's One Piece. I've got.
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  A good. Things I've got a question about
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  that right. So do you know when you dig a
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  hole or dig a tunnel, right. So you get you get your shovel,
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  you stick it in the ground to make a hole, but what you taking
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  dirt out of it? So is he just was it hollow
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  originally and he's built up or is he took out loads of blubber?
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  Yeah, just imagine that he's building tunnels, like digging
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  through lagoon and lagoon, just like.
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  Just. Screaming the entire time.
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  I'm a doctor, I know what I'm doing.
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  So the have a little bit of a back and forth with Crocus.
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  Does he like try and ship them? No, he he originally meets them
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  and Zorro. And is it Usopp or the kind of
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  like? Arguing.
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  Yeah, yeah. It's like, what's your name?
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  And it's like, well, what's your name 1st?
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  And he's like, OK, my name? And he's like, well, my name's
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  Crocus. And he's like Dickhead.
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  Yeah, yeah. It's just a proper troll without
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  even knowing it. Yeah, Luffy.
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  'S running fire because he's hit.
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  Yeah. Because he's in the laboon
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  stomach. Because the water that they're
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  in with the island in the middle is stomach acid.
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  Dinner. Yeah, so that's probably going
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  to wreck the Golden Mary even more, just sitting there
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  dissolving in some acid. It seems like a bit of a TARDIS
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  wheel as well, like that inside seems way much bigger.
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  I said TARDIS, not I wasn't going.
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  To bring it up. And yeah, it seems a lot bigger
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  inside somehow. I don't know why but like for
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  there to be an island in there with like a house and everything
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  that seems a bit too much inside.
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  Yeah, yeah. But here we get the start of
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  Baroque Works, really, where Luffy's running around and he
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  bumps into Miss Wednesday and Mr. 9.
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  Yes, the Posh 1. Yeah, so Luffy has a bit of a
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  fight with them and. Because they're trying to kill
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  Laboon to try to get the BLOB and the meat for their village.
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  Because they're like, we're starving, we need some food.
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  Yes, that's what it was. They're trying to kill the
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  wheels so they can feed the village.
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  Apparently it's hard, isn't it? Because this is episode 61 to 63
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  and we've completed to 100. And was it 30?
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  Yeah. So this is like 3 three
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  episodes, 60 episodes back so and so much stuff has happened
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  since then. So talking about.
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  I've got notes for what's happened, but there's just like
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  it's trying to like fill the gaps between what I've wrote
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  down. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  So they have a fight against these two.
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  They eventually beat them and escape from the boon and Mr. 9
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  and Miss Wednesday asked for a lift to Whiskey Peak I think.
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  Yes, well, they say their their village and before that it kind
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  of goes through Laboon story where he was he followed a
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  passing pirate ship and the kind of like took him on as like a
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  mascot where they would like wrestle them and give them some
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  ROM and stuff like that. And the kind of formula bond.
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  And then these pirates where they were going.
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  I don't know if they were going back up Reverse Mountain, but
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  they were saying you wait here, I'll return because you're too
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  big to fit in these narrow channels.
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  And so Laboons has been like going a bit mad waiting for
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  these pirates to come back because it's been what, 20
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  years? Eight years?
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  So it's been a long time anyway. 50 years. 50 years, right?
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  Yeah. So yeah, it's going a bit mad.
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  And he's like hitting his head against the is it the red line?
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  Yeah, he's smashing his head against the red line trying to
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  destroy it. So.
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  He's all cut up. But that's that's Laboon story.
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  Yeah. Yeah, and they're saying like,
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  oh, stop breaking bashing your head against that.
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  You're never going to break the red line, which were mentioned
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  in one of the earlier episodes of.
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  This where? We're saying like they're saying
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  that, which means that that that probably will get broken.
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  Is this like a foreshadowing thing?
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  Do you think Laboon might break the red line?
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  Like he finally gets that strong but he destroys the red line and
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  creates the old blue? Or is like Luffy or someone
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  going to do it? Probably, probably Luffy.
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  I bet it's just like a footballing thing, but it's just
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  like a oh so it it potentially could if they think it's
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  impossible. So it must be possible.
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  And Luffy decides that Laboon is like an unofficial Straw hat.
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  He has a bit of a skirmish fight against him because that's what
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  the wheel wants according to Luffy.
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  He just wants a challenge. So Luffy gives him a bit of a
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  scrap and then paints the shittest Straw Hat logo we can
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  on Laboon's head. It's the same.
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  It's the same Straw Chat logo that he paints originally on the
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  sale. Yeah, before you still made the
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  proper one, Yeah. So yeah, because it's like,
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  don't get it wet or I'll come off.
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  But have you got any questions about this arc?
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  It's a very short like flew through that.
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  Yeah, to be fair, this is the this is kind of like the lead up
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  to Whiskey Island though, isn't it?
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  Whiskey Peak? So it doesn't have to be long.
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  I did like meeting the lighthouse keeper and questions
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  I would have is why is he so secretive about why?
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  Because he didn't really say why he left Gold Roger, did he?
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  No, I don't think he does, but I don't think many people actually
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  talk a lot about Gold Roger apart from that guy in the bar
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  in Log town. Any of these crew members don't
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  really speak much about him or tell stories about what
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  happened. Maybe it's out of fear of the
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  world government coming after them or killing whoever finds
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  out information about stuff. Yeah, true, but how good would
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  it be if because like you've established that you can hollow
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  out animals and use them as submarines now, so do any of the
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  other pirates have like living ships?
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  No, I don't think so. What?
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  There is one pirate with a submarine.
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  Right. Which is, oh, it's 1.
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  So eventually when you meet him, it says Trafalgar Law and he's
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  got the Polar Tang, which is his little yellow submarine.
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  I love. Trafalgar Law in the English is
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  voiced by Matt Mercer as well. Oh, is he pretty?
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  Oh, I have that look forward. To be fair, I think the voice
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  act was pretty good at this. Because we've been watching dub.
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  Yeah. And a lot, loads of people have
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  been kicking off like whenever I've been posting stuff on
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  TikTok. Oh yeah, we've got a TikTok.
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  Go and follow it. Just look for straw chat.
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  Yeah, But when I've like posted stuff about like commented about
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  dub, but so I mentioned someone called Sniper King and those
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  loads of people started commenting going like it's so
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  good King stupid dub versions and like proper trying to insult
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  isn't it's like I don't speak Japanese.
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  So yeah, it's an English version.
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  What's wrong with watching the English version shake your face?
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  There's there's always a sub dub debate and I'm like, well I'm
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  always really busy at the minute and I can watch dub and listen
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  to dub while I'm busy at work, while I'm doing something and if
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  I can still consume it like that then isn't it wrong with it?
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  Yeah, I had to do that on me first walk through if.
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  It's if it's soap like you've got to lock in, you've got to
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  read the subtitles. Yeah, so.
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  And for something that's like over 1000 episodes long, you're
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  trying, we're trying to get through this so that we can
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  review it all. If you're not watching Yeah dub,
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  it's going to take even longer because you can't do stuff while
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  it's on. Yeah, that's exactly what you've
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  just said. I'm just sending in a different
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  way. Just tell us to shut up.
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  No, I'll not. I'll not interrupt you because
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  you're saying I'm right. Really.
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  Yeah, you are. Any other questions about this
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  arc? And Oh yeah, right.
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  So the reverse, when they're going up and down, there's
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  little poles at certain lengths because that's what Luffy grabs
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  on to when he's when they're going down.
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  Right and. Who put them there?
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  I don't know, I. Knew you probably wouldn't
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  answer it, but I was just like where did they come from?
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  Like who's building these? Not a clue.
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  Someone, someone put them there. Oh yeah, yeah, fine.
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  Right, I've got a question for you then.
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  What do you think happened to the crew that Laboon was waiting
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  for? I think that because I know
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  there's loads of callbacks and Laboon wouldn't have been put in
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  it and that little story unless it was setting up for something
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  for a callback. So I think Luboon's pirate crew
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  are stuck on an island or something.
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  Well, they've been missing for 50 years.
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  I mean, look at that. Look at them.
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  Or what's he called the guy who's got his bum stuck in a
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  treasure chest? Yeah, I think he's only been
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  trapped for like, what, seven years or something.
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  Like Abdul, wasn't it 50 years of a long time?
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  Odd. Are they dead?
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  Yes. What does that mean?
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  No. Comments Ghosts.
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  Zombies. No, no comments.
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  OK. Right.
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  So are we done with Reverse Mountain?
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  Yeah, I think so. So are we going to end this
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  episode here and reconvene next week with.
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  Yeah, sounds good. Whiskey Peek.
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  Yeah, All right. Thanks for watching.
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  Bye. Thanks for watching today's
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  episode. Make sure to like and subscribe
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  and TuneIn next time for more straw chat.