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This is an unspoiled network podcast. This is spoil Me covering One Piece episodes
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three fifty one through three fifty three, plus some of three fifty But it
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turns out I'm mostly good on that these episodes are awakening after five hundred years,
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Ors opens his eyes, a belief worth begging to live for, Brooke
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defends his afro, and a man's promise never dies to the friend waiting under
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the distant sky. In these episodes, it turns out that whales coming back
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around. Guys, I'm very excited about it, delighted in fact. Welcome
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to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank
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you very much to the One Piece crew for commissioning this episode. Yeah.
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So the last episode I recorded, I reached a point where I was like,
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oh, I only have finished covering episode the second of the three episodes.
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I'm going to have to cover the third one. But when I rewatched
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the third episode today, I was like, Oh, most of what I
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talked about happened in the third episode. Actually, I sort of had it
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in my head that a lot of like the lore stuff happened in the second
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one, but not really, so I mostly did talk about episode three fifty
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without almost missing anything. There's only a couple of things that I wanted to
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go back and mention. One of the things being the fact that Lufy is
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like subdued by Pirona with those like those ghosts that make you feel despair,
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which I am kind of enjoying those as a weapon, and I wouldn't mind
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seeing more of that deployed because it feels like it would be pretty consistently effective,
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and we don't see that much of them. The other thing that I
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had intended to mention was the fact that we find out about the salt,
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and the salt is like a weapon to use against the zombies, which,
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like this makes sense. Salt is often in a lot of different cultures and
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traditions seen as a sort of defense against the supernatural in general, and I
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don't know, like entirely where that comes from, but my theory has always
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been that salt prevents things from growing, and the idea that these things are
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like somehow alive, if you cut off their access to like the power of
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the earth, that that will kill them, and that is the only because
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you know, will sow your fields with salt. Is literally we're going to
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make sure to kill everything that will feed you and keep you alive. So
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I'm assuming it's something like this, but Florian is saying cleansing salt, and
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yeah, that's true, because they keep saying they've been cleansed, and I
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forget that. Salt baths are also like a thing to be used in a
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lot of traditions to rid yourself of spirits or there were a lot of like
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when I was a young what's the word I want, not which exactly,
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but I guess I was trying witchy things. There were a lot of rituals
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that began with bathing in salt water, and not necessarily like the ocean.
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It was more that you would like, you know, fill a tub with
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water and then add containers of salt and then bathe in it to cleanse yourself.
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And I will tell you what, I did that one time and felt
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absolutely amazing afterward, and it's the sort of thing that I think about and
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I'm like, I want to try it again because that was so great,
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But part of me feels like it was a fluke and I don't want to
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like ruin it for myself that it was, you know, not related to
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the salt at all. Maybe it was related to the ritual of it.
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I don't know, but either way, this salt is what winds up like
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keeping. It takes the spirit the shadow of whomever it was stolen from,
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out of the zombie, and the zombie just drops dead and is unusable,
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and then the shadow just automatically rejoins its owner. So that's like a nice
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convenient way for this to go. And I am really looking forward to our
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friends getting their shadows back because they can't fight in daylight, which is very,
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very inconvenient. There's also a moment where Frankie says, I have one
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last burning question, and we don't see the question. We just see him
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choked up later when he's talking about it to Robin, and eventually we find
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out that the question was essentially, what's your plan? Because you are really
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scary and I know you're a gentleman and you have a great attitude, but
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you've got to know that you go out into the world looking like this and
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it's not really going to be awesome for you. What keeps you going?
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What is driving you? And Robin is sort of like, that's really cruel,
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dude, what's your deal? But it seems like Brooke appreciates being asked
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to be honest, and we find out that Brooke is part of the crew
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that left that whale at the very very beginning of the Grand Line and promised
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to come back for it and never returned. And it turns out they didn't
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return because they were literally all killed. But this whale is still like pining
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and waiting for them. And what is his name? Guys, if you're
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there, let me know because I cannot remember he says the name, and
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when he says it, Laboon, Thank you Florian, because when he says
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it, I was like, that rings a bell? What is that?
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And then he says he was too young a whale to take with us,
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And I was like, oh my god, what because I just never thought
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this was going to come back up. I say that it's not even necessarily
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that I thought it was never going to come back up, as much as
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I just never thought about it. Again, you know, we had this
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really sad tale of this whale waiting, a whale tale hello waiting around and
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then our crew encounters it. It gets to like fight Lufy and it has
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fun and enjoys it. Lufy promises to like come back eventually and I'm thinking
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whatever we see, if we do ever, whatever we see again of the
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whale is going to be about it reuniting with our crew. I am not
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expecting to solve the issue of it being abandoned by this other crew. So
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personally, it makes me really happy that we are potentially going to go back
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and visit this guy again. I don't know how long that's going to take,
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because they have gone it feels to me like a really really long way
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since then. And it may be that, you know, they wind up
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getting Brooke to come with them on the Sunny and then they eventually make their
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way back there, but that's like after a great period of time has passed.
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Or it could be that they like make it a priority to turn around
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and go back and bring him directly there. But it also maybe that,
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like we don't actually accompany Brooke, which I don't see, I feel like
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we would have to go back. But anyway, I really like this moment,
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and I think that I have talked about this on other shows, so
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forgive me if this is something you guys have all heard before, but I
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am so the whole thing here is that Brooke feels I made a promise to
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this little animal. And even though I am dead technically and all of the
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crew is dead, I still have it in my power to make good on
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this promise and let him know what happened. And I have an obligation to
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do so because I said I would, and I have no doubt he's still
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there waiting, Like, yeah, it's been fifty years, but like,
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who knows he could still be there, and if on the off chance he
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is, I have to make an effort, and I fully approve this.
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My reasons for approving it, though, are like very much wrapped up in
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this universe. Because one, I know that he is still waiting and that
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broke my heart, so getting some closure on that, I'm all about it.
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I also know that even if I weren't, like even if I hadn't
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seen Laboon with my own eyes and our friends had not encountered him, because
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of the way one piece tends to function, I would have assumed, yes,
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Laboon is still waiting for him. And also because Brooke does have it
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within his power, this isn't something that's an unreasonable ask. He made this
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promise, it's weighing on him and he if he just like makes it through
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what's going on here at Thriller Bark. He will be able to fulfill that
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promise, and there's really no good reason not to do it. He hasn't
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got other goals or other obligations that are weighing him down. It is really
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the one thing that's keeping him going. So for all these reasons, I
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fully fully support his attitude about this promise. But I just want to mention
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now because I may have said before I tend towards hating the like concept of
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promises in stories, and that the reason for that is that I tend to
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be like I won't say that I tend towards being a logical person, because
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that's one of those things that I feel like gets said a lot by people
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who are unaware that they're like unaware of their own emotions, and they think
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somehow that their emotions are objective fact instead of understanding that they are just emotionally
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like illiterate. So I won't say that I tend towards logic. But I
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am somebody who feels that the conditions of something should be dependent on circumstances.
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So if I'm watching something where a person makes X y Z promise and then
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they make that promise, for example, to somebody who's like on their deathbed
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or somebody who's working without all the information, and then circumstances change and that
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person finds out the promise that they made is actually kind of a fucked up
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thing to have promised, or that the person who made them promise it didn't
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fully understand what was happening, or that maybe the person who made them promise
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is themselves a bad person. They're all kinds of ways that this can shake
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out, and the story will depend on that person taking their promise so seriously
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that everything else falls to the wayside in a way that's like that I find
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really sort of cheating because it creates this like drama because they start to be
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willing to get really ruthless for the sake of this promise and are genuinely caught
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up in it while I'm sitting there like, just don't do the promise.
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It's fine. One they're dead, or two they were wrong or three.
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Like there's all sorts of reasons to not keep a promise, And it feels
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to me every time somebody makes one and they take it super seriously and they're
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doing it with like this like really laser focused objective. What's the word I
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want. I was gonna say objectivity, that's the wrong word, but you
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guys know what I'm talking about. It's just to me like basically agreeing tacitly
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that you will never evolve your opinion on a matter and that the facts don't
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matter. It's simply the promise itself that matters, and everything around it is
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like not a factor at all, which I think is a bad way to
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go through the world. So that said, you know, my issue would
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promise. I would never ask somebody to like make me a prompt because,
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like I just never believe that things go the way you expect. So there's
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all sorts of things that I have said in my life with total conviction and
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then wound up like backtracking on because I turned out to be wrong or things
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fell out a certain way. So that said, because of the circumstances surrounding
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everything that's going on with Brooke, I fully support his promise and what it
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is that he is going for. Whereas a promise like Choppers, for example,
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where he's determined to like get the cherry trees to bloom again, it's
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not possible to do so. Instead, he does this weird thing where he
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just makes pink float in the air and then counts that promise as kept,
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which is super weird to me and isn't actually fulfilling the promise itself, and
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to me, is cheating. And if you're going to cheat, then just
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don't do it, because what are you accomplishing. So this bit with Brooke,
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I have to say, I really really enjoy Broke as a character.
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I like this motivation for him, and there's something about the fact that the
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promise he's keeping isn't even to a person, it's to an animal that makes
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me respect him even more because a lot of people wouldn't take that too seriously
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because it's an animal. And I have a real soft spot, as you
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all know, for the animals in this series. And I also have this
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like real struggle with letting down animals because they don't understand what's going on exactly,
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and if you are able to communicate and make things easier for them,
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I just always feel like you should because they're working with like within difficulties with
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communication and whatnot. And I don't know if Brooke will become a real member
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of the crew because it seems like Lufy is prepared to fucking invite anybody at
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this point, but if he gets to travel with them temporarily, I will
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really really enjoy it, and I hope it lasts a while because he is
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just so much fun and I really like the fact that he's like he is.
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I was sort of worried when Frankie asks him what keeps you going?
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Or why do you have such a good attitude or why are you such a
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gentleman? I was worried that his response was going to be something like,
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well, I'm a gentleman to like show people that there's nothing to be afraid
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of, which is not that's a completely valid thing to do to keep people
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from being afraid, but it also starts to get into this sad area where
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it's almost like respectability politics, like you have to be better and kinder and
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more respectable than anybody else around you to make up for the assumptions people are
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going to make about you, which it just seems to me that Brooke is
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just this kind of guy and always was and he's just kept that personality and
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I hope that's true and that it's really mostly about that, because him looking
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so scary but then being in a lot of ways, like the most cultured
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and reasonable of the crew and sensitive, you know, other than maybe Chopper,
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I'm really really here for it. I wouldn't mind a skeleton friend being
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a part of the crew for at least an extended period, if not forever.
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He brings a whole different angle to everything. You know. It's interesting
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because if we've got like we acquired Robin on the grand line, we acquired
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Chopper as well Chopper being non human, then we've got Frankie who is like
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part human, like he is human, but he's a cyborg, so not
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not anymore fully, And so if we had joined permanently, he would be
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the second fully non human, third non human asterisk member of the crew.
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And I think that would be a really great way to sort of shake things
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up. I like this so anyway. Use those are the things that the
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salt and then the beginning of that conversation were the things that I had not
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gotten a chance to talk about. And also the fact that like we see
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Brooke going back into the castle to deal with some shit, and he is
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completely shredding all of the zombies that are coming out of the portraits and gets
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in the mouths with salt and manages to like completely eliminate all of them as
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threats. So that's good because those guys in the frames were genuinely like they're
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not even exactly a huge threat or obstacle. They're just like the kind of
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thing that I could see forgetting about and then sneaking up on people, and
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the whole thing with him and the way that he's trying to get his shadow
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back. It turns out that the skeletal swordsmen that our friends ran into is
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the one who has his spirit, his shadow inside it, So it's just
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coincidence that they kind of look pretty alike. But I felt so bad because
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Brooke is like, you're just my shadow, Why are you beating me?
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And I'm assuming that it's because the swordsman was like trained and has like the
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right strength in his body because of having done this, that he can do
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what Brook can do, but even better. He's working from a place of
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more physical strength because he's got like actual muscles versus our guy being just bones.
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It's hard to tell exactly how strong he is. I will say that,
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and I should mention guys, if you hear some sounds in the background,
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I have my dog Sam in here with me, who just had that
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surgery to get his little tumor removed, and he is wandering around. I
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just put him in his crate for most of the day. I intended to
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leave him in there while I recorded, but he needs I wanted to give
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him a change of scenery. He's been there a whole day, and he
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slept in there as well, So I was like, let me just bring
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him in here, and as long as he's quiet and he's not whining like
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he was the other day. I think the medications have gotten to him and
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he has wound up more tired. So stop liking that, Sam, stop
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it. Oh my god, I wish you guys could see the face he
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just gave me. What a good boy. He's so sweet, y'all.
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He has eyebrows and so sometimes can look at me with like the most sad
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expression. All right, So this is when we go to the actual moment
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of truth where they put Lufi's shadow into number nine hundred and he finally opens
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his eyes. And I will tell you what, kids, I don't know
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what this thing is, but it's like even us Up says something like it
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looks like a giant. But even for a giant. This guy is fucking
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huge, like what And I would also like to know very very curious because
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everybody else has looked like they're stitched together with the parts of different people or
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animals and stuff, and he looks like he's just a fully a full corpse.
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Like I'm not really sure what the deal is there, but I was
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pretty gratified to find out that my assumption about Lufy's main focus in life being
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food and him having an insatiable appetite turned out to be correct. I started
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to second guess myself. I thought, maybe his sole purpose has been I'm
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going to be King of the Pirates. So when he is awoken inside this
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creature, because his quote master's objective is also to become King of the pirates,
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that maybe Lufy would be like uncontrollable due to that, you know,
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because it would just be such a complete conflict with his main driving desire in
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life. And maybe that will turn out to be a thing. But as
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of right now, it's just that he wants to eat NonStop, and they
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have no more food except for stuff that's got salt in it, which we
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wind up finding out it doesn't matter the type of salt if it's in something,
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that's the end of the story, which that's a lot of food that
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they've got that doesn't have salt in it. All things considered, we live
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on a boat and most things would probably be preserved in some sense and that
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would require salt. So they're lucky that they managed to catch that in time.
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But there's another zombie who takes a bite out of it. And did
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we ever find out, like does Robin get bit by a zombie? Because
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I feel like we see one of them bite her and she doesn't turn into
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one, because that's not really the way that zombies like, you know,
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this isn't a virus, they're being made. I just don't recall if one
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of them bit her and if that was meant to be an expression of hunger
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or if it was just the way it fought, because I'm so used to
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zombies being like brains, you know, and going after people in order to
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infect them because they're drawn to their life force or whatever. And the fact
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that we've got like these guys are zombies, but apparently they still get hungry
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and can eat is fascinating because I am not used to this being a thing
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at all, and we just needed to see. Of course that eating something
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with salt and it causes the same thing to happen. But considering how I
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was sort of like, oh, you're gonna have to like force this down
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their throat. But if the zombies just get hungry enough and you just put
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the food in front of them, they just eat it. And well,
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I say that at one point some guy says he ate salted fish? What
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was he? A new guy? Was this his first day? So I
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guess a lot of the zombies know not to do that. It's interesting to
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me because of I'm sure the orders that they're given that they haven't got the
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kind of like self preservation for their shadow and soul where they're like, oh,
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yeah, let me go and eat something so that I can release this
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spirit. It's not about that. They're like, no, I have to
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preserve this weapon that I am. So yeah, this this whole thing with
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Lufy. He wakes up and the moment when he opens his eyes for the
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first time is the most drawn out thing. And it's really funny to me
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because you know, I get that, like, in practice, it's probably
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a very thing to see something this size that looks for all intents and purposes
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quite dead open its eyes. It's very, very shocking. However, as
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somebody who has just like watched so many zombies running around this whole place,
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the fact that USAP and Nami and Chopper all give it away that they're in
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the room because of the shock of him opening his eyes. I was like,
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kids, come on, you guys are so bad at this, Like,
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get it together. You knew this was going to happen. Don't look
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then, how about that if it's gonna be so difficult for you, just
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don't look. So yeah, the moment when he opens his eyes is like
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the very very end of the episode cuts off and then to be continued,
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and then we go into Awakening after five hundred years, which is when we
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really get to hear Lucy's voice echoing over another deeper voice, you know,
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and he starts to eat them out of house and home, which is something
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that evidently Gecko Moria had not been prepared to deal with at all. And
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why would you? I really I want to mention something here because you guys
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know that a big part of what I love about this show is the absolutely
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banana pants designs of the characters. And I haven't spent remotely enough time on
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what Gecko Moria looks like. Like, this dude is bananas looking, and
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he is, so I'm just trying to like figure out where to start.
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So he's got these like pants that go there there. They look like shorts.
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The thing is that he is shaped like an easter egg or a tear
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drop. So the pants they come up halfway, but they it looks like
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it's much further than that, like the way that old men wear their pants
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buckled above their belly, you know, that kind of vibe. And it's
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really an amazing combo because the pants themselves are like checkered yellow and orange,
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like a buffalo plaid kind of vibe or or I guess that would be known
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a argyle. I don't know. But the point that I wanted to make
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is that the belt he's wearing with it is like grommetted in a way that
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reminds me of the kinds of belts that you would buy at like Hot Topic
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or something. So it feels very much like we're seeing the like somebody just
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went to a closet full of punk style clothing and pulled out virtually everything that
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was in there underneath this jacket thing, which I will get to. He
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is wearing a fish net top, which this illustrator is very fond of fishnet.
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It is all over the place, and I'm not gonna say it's a
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bad choice, because fishnet is a very distinctive look and it changes the whole
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vibe of an outfit. You can have a whole like dress, shoe,
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purse combo and feel like you know what's going on, and then you throw
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fishnets in there, and the vibe is totally different. So I'm not mad
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at it, but it is funny to me how frequently fishnet turns up.
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So he's got that underneath a long sleeve black blazer. I hesitate to use
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that word. It's got a big popped collar in the style of like a
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Dracula costume that you would buy somewhere, you know, the sort of fan
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collar that comes up behind your head, like in Elizabeth Elizabethan collars that went
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in that direction. There was the roffs, but then they became like those
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sort of fan shaped things. It's like that, and it's shaped in a
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very bat like, like bat wing kind of style. And then he has
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got this huge ruff that comes down in a really similar way. To Brooks
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Ruff. His like is much bigger and wider, but they both have this
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like look to them, and I am When I first saw Brooke, I
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was thinking that we were going for like a Michael Jackson sort of look,
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especially with the thriller thing going on, you know, and I'm not sure
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that's really it's. It sort of goes back and forth with what I think
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is going on there. But then I saw this Rough and he has a
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symbol that looks like the symbol that Prince changed his name to, very very
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similar. It's not identical, but it's like a cross with a sort of
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like crescent at the top that has a really really similar look when you look
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quick, and I was like, is it, Prince, Is that what
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we're doing? But I don't think there's any consistent, like necessarily one to
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one theme here exactly. And of course then he's got like a little scalloped
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edges to his sleeves, but he's got black gloves on, so it's all
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one long black you know, from fingertips to shoulders. The most Bonker's part
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of his design though, is his neck and head. His neck is longer
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than his whole face, and considering that his face is very long, that's
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really saying something, and it's split up the front and then has like X
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stitches over it, as if to suggest that he himself is like a reanimated
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corpse that was cut open and stitched back together, which maybe is the case,
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but it seems to me that's just really meant to underscore what it is
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that he does. And those stitches like go up to his chin, and
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then we have his face, and then between his eyes up his forehead the
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stitches continue in a really odd look. And then he has pointed ears,
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very very pointed horns that come out of his forehead above his eyes, and
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they're not very big horns. They're just kind of decorative, really really wide
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mouth full of sharp, sharp teeth, and dramatically outlined, canted black,
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simple like dot eyes. His eyes are not particularly interesting in comparison to the
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rest of him, I'll say that, but the whole look of him is
33:37
actually pretty great. Like I have had, you know, there's just sort
33:45
of some villains who turn up and I'm like, I don't even know what
33:47
I'm supposed to think here, because this person is so ridiculous looking that he's
33:53
not scary, and I feel like Geko Maria manages to be ridiculous looking and
34:00
scary. He just really kind of does both and I respect that, you
34:05
know, I feel like that's not an easy thing to pull off, Brian
34:09
says. Colleen. Clickin'beard, the voice actress who voices Lufy, says that
34:15
doing the voice of Oors is the favorite voice she has ever recorded for an
34:20
anime. That's fun. Her name is Clinkinbeard. I really read that as
34:25
chicken Beard at first, which is only a little weirder actually, like Clinkinbeard
34:30
is a wild name, but Oors his voice is It felt to me just
34:39
like Lufy's normal voice, with like another voice that had been modulated under it.
34:45
But based on the fact that she said that, I'm assuming she had
34:47
to do something different actually than just like the regular Lufy voice. So I
34:53
would be interested in like seeing, you know. I don't know if they
34:57
have like video of her recording both or what they did for his voice,
35:02
but that would probably be fun to see. So anyway, Yeah, this
35:07
dude brings this creature to life using Lufy's shadow, but is not prepared for
35:15
what Lufy's vibe is going to be. And notably, I think I'm not
35:25
sure. It doesn't seem like Lufy's devil fruit power transferred. He reaches a
35:32
handout and nothing happens, and then says, weird, I expected my arm
35:38
to stretch out, and maybe it's just that it works differently because it you
35:46
know, like, but it seems as if that didn't work, which if
35:52
this creature is only Lufy's desire to eat and explored the sea, I am
36:02
so sorry Gecko Maria that you wasted number nine hundred on this guy, but
36:07
you're not going to get your money's worth at all. And I really wonder
36:12
like if Lufy's if his shadow gets released from this creature's mouth and the creature
36:20
drops dead, I feel like that's going to mostly destroy the whole ship,
36:25
Like Killer Bark is toast i'd or is it possible to refreeze him and just
36:32
like use another shadow at some other point, because the vibe I get when
36:39
they bring him to life is like, this is our one chance to use
36:45
this corpse and probably in practice it's not totally like but also he busted out
36:54
of the frigerated sort of area that he was in. Eventually he just breaks
37:00
through the wall, So I don't know, how well he'd keep and also
37:04
because he is so huge, getting the body like picked up and transported back
37:09
into that refrigerated area would probably be pretty challenging. So yeah, I feel
37:15
like that would be That's not a thing that our guy wants. I have
37:22
to mention two MVP of this episode, Sindury like ducking in front of him
37:28
over and over again and just being like, why are you blocking me?
37:30
I can't get enough of that. It is such a stupid, repeated joke,
37:35
and the fact that it doesn't matter and that she's not actually accomplishing anything
37:40
is what makes it so funny. But yeah, and the thing too when
37:45
they're talking about, you know, like we have Lufy being brought into this
37:50
guy's body because Lufy has such a high bounty on him that this man is
37:53
assuming that Lufy is like a particularly talented like Marshall artists or something, who
38:00
knows. But he also says something about how this is the man who was
38:07
like the only warrior powerful enough and ruthless enough to be given the name Devil.
38:14
And his name is Ores, which is a terrible name. I don't
38:16
know why you would call somebody ores when they're meant to be like intimidating,
38:21
but I'm going to just forget that and call him nine hundred. And I
38:27
don't know anything beyond the fact that this thing is huge why he is considered
38:35
such a badass fighter, saying like, oh, his name was Devil and
38:38
he was ruthless and powerful. I don't trust your judgment on this anymore,
38:44
sir, because you just stuck a shadow into him without doing much apparent due
38:50
diligence to find out whether or not it was going to be the type of
38:54
person you wanted. So the fact that he has this huge body ready to
39:01
go, I'm not convinced that this guy ors was the fighter. This guy
39:08
seems to think like maybe he's big enough and he looks scary, but otherwise
39:15
who knows what the deal is with this guy? And this is when our
39:24
friends, like they freak out because this thing opened its eyes, they get
39:30
caught. There's a moment where it looks like they're just gonna be gripped up
39:36
again, but then Lufy says meet and completely like this roar rocks the entire
39:46
island. And later on when they run into like Robin and Frankie, Robin
39:52
is like, what was that noise? Because we fucking heard it, but
39:55
we didn't see anything. And as they're running away, all like the three
40:05
of them are talking over the thing with the shadow and what's probably going on,
40:09
and they're realizing this probably what happened to Brooke. And eventually as they're
40:17
running, there is like this, this is this made me so upset.
40:24
They're running and all of a sudden, this like flame comes out of nowhere.
40:31
Nami doesn't get got it's just Chopper and us up and they are taken
40:38
out of the running. They go flying down the stairs that they were heading
40:44
for. Nami is standing there like, what the hell just happened? And
40:49
here comes Absalom creeping up like a creepy creep and he kidnaps her, and
41:00
we of course have to get the obligatory leering shot of like the edge of
41:07
her skirt as she's struggling against this guy's grip. And later on he like
41:14
brings her to some room with a little lackey who's puttering around and tells this
41:20
guy to like put her in her wedding gown, and we have the zombies
41:27
in the portraits leering down at her waiting for this guy to undress her.
41:34
And I just it's remarkable to me that we've got animals, we've got zombies,
41:42
we've got human beings. Nobody is immune to Nami's charms. Even the
41:52
undead are still out here being fucking perverts. And one in a season titty,
41:58
and they mentioned explicitly her measurements and it had to be in centimeters because
42:07
those were very high numbers. I'm like, that does not sound right.
42:09
But I, y'all, this is going to be the one thing that I
42:15
say about that. And this is as a young girl who was already at
42:22
a really really young age dealing with a lot of body image issues. I
42:30
would hear specific measurements about what the ideal body for women was supposed to be
42:36
and would struggle and obsess over meeting those ideals. And if I had heard
42:42
her measurements, I would have been really like, I just would have felt
42:49
so terrible about myself. And they're like an impossible standard. They're just they're
42:53
not even needable, and yet it would feel to me like I was somehow
42:59
failing. And those kinds of jokes, I feel like they're very throwaway line
43:05
that a lot of people don't think about when it's written. But I can't
43:09
tell you how they lodge in the minds of young women. They really do.
43:15
It is not easy to shake. And even things like you know,
43:20
there's an episode of Twin Peaks that I was recording a while back, and
43:24
I was they mentioned that this girl is like, you know, five ft
43:29
one and one hundred pounds. I'm sorry, No, she's not one hundred
43:31
pounds. You look at her. This is clearly like one hundred and thirty
43:36
pound woman. It's fine, one hundred pounds just it's no, it's absolutely
43:43
impossible. But they throw that line now in the show like it's unimportant,
43:51
And I would have been fixated on the fact that this very beautiful character only
43:58
weighed one hundred pounds. It would have been like, you know what I'm
44:01
saying. So I just wish that as a society, we would It would
44:08
be cool if we just stopped with the leering altogether, but just making particular
44:14
like statements like this. I we have such a terrible relationship with body image
44:23
in general. If we could just like steer away from things that feel almost
44:30
prescriptivist, even though it's not on purpose, that would be great. And
44:35
also just the fact that she's being leared at while she's unconscious and about to
44:38
be undressed, like it hate all of this. I want to know where
44:43
the fuck Lola is because she needs to come and help us out, and
44:47
there is an attempt by us up to get her back. And even though
44:52
he's like really not feeling like he's going to be able to actually really accomplish
45:00
anything, he has to try or else how can he call himself a man?
45:06
And he uses the weapon that he used as Sniper King, which Chopper
45:12
notices but doesn't put two and two together. He is looking at him and
45:17
says, why is he using that weapon? And that's all we get and
45:21
this doesn't come back up again, and unfortunately what he fires at them,
45:29
it's weird because like the way the scene goes is supposed to be. I
45:34
think that since this guy is holding Nami, he vanishes and she vanishes with
45:44
him, like they both go invisible because he is making contact with her.
45:49
However, USAP had fired that thing at them, and whether they were invisible
45:54
or not, it should have still made contact. They were invisible, they
46:00
weren't incorporeal as far as I understand it, So it's this really weird moment
46:07
where his like whatever the firestar it seems to kind of fizzle and go away,
46:15
even though there's no real reason why it wouldn't have still done some damage.
46:21
And eventually Nami's voice comes from another spot in the room, so it's
46:27
supposed to be that they have moved, but that's after you see the fizzle,
46:34
and they take a minute to disappear, like vanish from the spot that
46:38
they're standing in, and they were still there when it would have hit.
46:43
So it's just a strange thing where it seems to be like the show is
46:47
trying to make it like they actually physically vanished from the spot, but that's
46:52
not what's happening because otherwise this guy couldn't go around invisible and grabbing people because
47:00
his body is still there. So anyway, this is when a bunch of
47:06
zombies appear, all of them like us. Up and Chopper are both kind
47:09
of overwhelmed and I Love us specifically saying this isn't fair you guys. There's
47:16
way too many of you. You're supposed to come at me one at a
47:20
time, and one of the guys the zombies is like, man, we
47:24
just want your shadow. There's no need to totally freak out. It's fine,
47:30
but oh here, Hey, body, he put his head on me.
47:37
I'm so sorry everybody, but I think that everybody can agree that when
47:42
a pupper comes and he puts his head on you and he's not feeling too
47:45
good, you gotta rub it. It's the required requirement of the pupper.
47:52
He's so sad. I posted a picture on Facebook of him looking at me
47:57
with this like really morose expression. He's doing his best, but anyway,
48:06
Yeah, so us Up attempts to like fight all of them off, and
48:10
they start like grabbing at him in this really weird way that I was like,
48:15
this, isn't you trying to get his shadow away from him? You're
48:21
just like yanking on his person. Which makes a little bit more sense because
48:24
later on when we're at the Sunny we find we find Lufy and Zoro and
48:34
Sangi left in place in the like kitchen area with straws and chopsticks and stuff
48:44
like jammed into their orifices to make them make really dumb faces. And I
48:51
am just imagining right here where this this bit of them just yanking on his
48:57
face is just them fucking with him, Like there was no objective, it
49:00
was just to freak him out. But anyway, they get interrupted by the
49:07
appearance of Robin and Frankie, who drops salt into the mouths of a bunch
49:15
of these zombies and they collapse and are taken out. Not all of the
49:22
ones in this scene are dead, Like, there's a bunch of them that
49:24
say, oh my god, they know our secret? How did they figure
49:28
it out? And they start to run. But it's a quite a number
49:34
you see, Like the black little weird bubble that that goes up into the
49:39
air, that's the shadow, and there's a good like fifteen of them.
49:43
I would say that wind up there. So I've pretty much talked about Lufy
49:52
wanting me as much as I can. Let's talk about real Qui Well.
49:59
I talked about Brooks like fight against the Swordsman and his frustration at the fact
50:06
that despite this being fueled by his own shadow, this guy is still beating
50:10
him. We also have Brooke walking through Killer Bark like all of the forest
50:19
and trees and whatnot, and he is you, guys, I enjoy a
50:27
lot the fact that Brooke isn't a fearless character. He gets scared pretty easily.
50:38
A grasshopper at one point causes him quite a fright but he doesn't completely
50:45
lose his head the way that like Usop or Chopper do, And when he
50:52
realizes that he is getting freaked out, he decides that he's going to sing
51:00
to himself to make himself feel better. And the song he's humming is that
51:06
like, yo, so spooky you guys like this is him intending to make
51:19
himself cheer up, but it is the most eerie thing, especially in that
51:24
setting and coming from his weird hollow skull mouth. So he's humming this and
51:30
all of these zombies are like, where is that coming from? What's the
51:36
deal? And he has told himself like I'm not giving up, And he
51:40
cuts through all these zombies while he's singing this song, and he gets the
51:47
reputation of the humming Swordsman, despite the fact that at one point they're running
51:54
away in a crowd and he is like in the crowd with them, like
52:00
things got so confused that he didn't notice where who he was with. It's
52:05
such a weird moment, but we see in the aftermath of this that he
52:09
has really taken out a lot of zombies, and Absalom hears about this and
52:15
is like what the fuck. So later on, when it is revealed that
52:21
the Spider Monkey was defeated and that his spirit has left. It's immediately like,
52:29
oh, that has to be the Humming Swordsman, Like there's nobody else,
52:34
but now there is because he has shared his knowledge with Frankie and Robin,
52:38
who tell the rest of the crew. So now everybody knows the secrets
52:43
out kids. And there is something I really enjoy about the concept of having
52:50
to face yourself in battle, which is like, what's going on here?
52:53
It's what if something had your spirit but more physical power. That's like a
52:59
nightmare scenario. Nobody wants that. I hate that. And I felt so
53:04
bad for poor Brook, like crashing and burning, because he clearly didn't expect
53:08
to be taken out so easily. And when we see this like is a
53:15
flashback, but when we see him going face to face with this guy again,
53:21
the swordsman, I'm sorry, you guys, what are you doing?
53:24
Dog? Stop it? I'm sorry, I don't even know what he's got
53:30
his mouth around, but he whose Swordsman says something like it's gonna be the
53:37
same as last time. No, not the Afro anything but the Aro.
53:44
And then you like get to see the moment where he threatens to cut it
53:47
off and it is like, do you realize how ridiculous this looks to everybody
53:52
else? And he's like, well, my body has stopped growing, so
53:57
my afro would never grow back. It would just be gone forever. And
54:00
he's like, and who the fuck gives a shit? Nobody cares. And
54:08
I appreciate this, you know, it's like the one part of his body
54:13
that is at all familiar to him. Still, yeah, you want to
54:15
recognize up a bit of yourself. So his shadow is calling him like ridiculous
54:22
and pathetic and it sucks. I felt so bad for him because he is
54:27
just truly getting schooled and he runs away, but he is determined to take
54:35
this dude down and get some salt into his mouth and get his shadow back.
54:42
So yeah, Brooke is really he has his work cut out. So
54:49
I want to talk like the next episode, which is the last of the
54:52
three two fifty three, A Man's Promise Never Dies. I talked about the
54:59
main thrusts of this episode, which is finding out about the thing with Laboon
55:04
and how it was Brooks's crew that left him behind. We also have the
55:13
reuniting of everybody on the Sunny I keep wanting to say to marry. But
55:22
the whole thing with all of them is having to explain like how things work
55:28
with these shadows and exactly what happened, because like to a degree, they
55:30
don't remember anything, you know, they have to be told what the danger
55:37
is, which I find kind of fascinating because like, if just going out
55:43
into sunlight means that you turn to dust and people don't remember what happened to
55:46
them, you must have a pretty high rate of losing shadows because people are
55:52
just not aware that they can't go in the sun like they would just do
55:57
by a mistake, I would think. But anyway, this is indeed a
56:04
moment where Lufy finds out that all of the food is gone except for like
56:08
a bunch of other stuff, which I appreciate Sanji pointing out. He's like,
56:13
you literally have your mouth full of food and you're whining about how there's
56:15
no food, But Lufy is like, it's only cheese. I can't believe
56:20
they only left the cheese, to which I'm like, genuinely surprised they left
56:24
the cheese, Are you for real? Cheese is like the best and the
56:29
fact that he has some is extremely lucky. And I will not hear anything
56:35
against cheese. Sir. I understand your preferences meat, but let's not be
56:38
disrespectful about it. Okay, keep your head on. And speaking of keeping
56:45
your head on, Sangi finds out about Nami being kidnapped, and he freaks
56:52
out to begin with, at the fact that she has been kidnapped at all,
56:57
that she's not here and get it's very much in usap's face, but
57:06
when he finds out that the intent is to marry Nami, he loses his
57:10
entire shit and is basically like, well, I'm going to do absolutely anything
57:16
I need to do to get her back. And it's as simple as that.
57:22
So yeah, we know that that's going to be his priority. Lufy's
57:27
priority is he like mentions Nami first to his credit and then recovering the food
57:37
that was stolen, and then oh yeah, and I guess our shadows too,
57:42
and USAP has to be like, well, I really think that we
57:45
should move the shadows up on the list. Actually, let's focus and he's
57:51
being, as Zoro puts it a little bit later, all business. And
57:54
then we have like a cutaway where they explained some stuff to us up and
57:59
Chop and once they realize that the big bad on this island that they're fighting
58:07
is one of the great Warlords of the Sea, they both kind of lose
58:12
a lot of their nerve and say that they didn't know well enough to be
58:15
scared in the first place the way they should have been, which I don't
58:21
know, guys, I guess like finding out what his title is just implies
58:27
that he's capable of even more than you have seen. But I feel like
58:30
we watch this man rip somebody's shadow off of that they're like body and use
58:35
it as a means to reawaken dead bodies. I feel like, without knowing
58:39
that he's a Warlord of the Sea, he's still plenty intimidating. We don't
58:44
need that title. You should have been just as scared of him anyway.
58:47
Like, it's just completely fine working with what we've got. That's enough.
58:57
So let's see. I'm trying to to see if I missed anything in this
59:02
third episode, because there are a lot of flashbacks because of everything that we
59:09
find out with Brooke and the whale, and I love that we get the
59:16
reminder Chopper and Robin weren't with them, so both of them are kind of
59:21
mystified about everybody else's reaction, but Zoro and Lufy and Oosup and Sanji are
59:28
all just like, well, I'll be damned, no shit La Boon,
59:32
and they all know who he is, and they're kind of moved finding out
59:37
the rest of the story behind all of this, And then we get the
59:43
another flashback where Lufi has painted the straw hats like skull and crossbones over the
59:51
scars on the front of La Boom's snout and says, don't rub your head
59:55
against anything, or you'll wash it off. And I really wonder if he's
1:00:00
still going to have it on his head when they see him again, because
1:00:04
he is so I mean, it's been a while, you know, even
1:00:07
if he doesn't rub his head against things, I would think it would just
1:00:09
come off anyway. But that is pretty much how the episode ends, is
1:00:16
like all of them being like, Wow, that's Laboon, Okay, I
1:00:22
guess we have got to figure out a way to get you back to him.
1:00:27
And that's it. So I yeah, you guys am still having a
1:00:34
really good time. I really like the prospect of our friends having to fight
1:00:38
versions of themselves. One of my favorite bits and this is not mentioned so
1:00:47
nobody says anything to Sanji. I don't think about what the zombie looked like
1:00:57
that his spirit is in. But I feel like Sanji is going to take
1:01:02
real exception to finding out that his spirit was stuck inside this weird dog penguin.
1:01:10
I think he's going to find that very very insulting. And then we
1:01:15
have Lufy who describes an encounter with what he thinks was Zoro's shadow and he
1:01:22
says to Zoro, well, he looked just like you. And then we
1:01:27
get the slow pan of this fucking creature and I cannot wait for Zoro to
1:01:31
see it and be like, you think this looks just like me. Basically,
1:01:36
the way that Lufy frames it is the only reason he could tell that
1:01:39
it wasn't Zoro was because he was wearing wooden clogs. And I am looking
1:01:47
forward to that bit. I am also the fact that Chopper notices the weapon
1:01:53
from Sniper King. I really hope that we're getting a reveal about Lufy or
1:01:59
about us up being a Sniper King. Really really hoping that's on the horizon
1:02:04
soon. I just really I want my gratification. I want to see it.
1:02:09
It's been such a while and it feels like us up is aware based
1:02:15
on the fact that they were sailing away that they didn't realize it was him
1:02:22
the whole time, But it hasn't come up for him to say anything to
1:02:27
them about it, which I think is odd. I don't know. I'm
1:02:31
wondering if maybe they'll be like a mention of something that happened in the battle
1:02:35
and his lobby and they'll be like, you weren't even there, how do
1:02:37
you know? And he's going to have to explain. But I really really
1:02:40
want that moment and it's been a long time. Where is it? Where
1:02:44
is it? Where is it? All right? Everybody? Thank you all
1:02:49
so much for coming, hanging out listening. I appreciate you all and hope
1:02:52
you're enjoying the content. Until next time to the loom. Motherfucker's That was
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