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One Piece, 380 & 381 WANNABE · Spoil Me! One Piece

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  This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me, covering one Piece
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  episodes three eighty and three eighty one, Bink's Booze, the song that connects
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  the past with the present, and a new crewmate, the musician Humming Brook.
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  In these episodes, I won't say that I had dry eyes the whole
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  time. That's as close as I'm getting to admitting that I wept openly.
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  Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha and
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  I'm Trish. Those listening, there may be a little bit of a lag
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  because I think that there's a disconnect. So when I introduced myself, there's
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  a good like four or five seconds before you introduced yourself. I think that
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  we have a bit of a Internet lag between us, So that's what maybe
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  going on. But I always take the sound off of crowdcasts, so normally
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  I can sort of line things up if I have two different files, but
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  I won't be able to do that this time, So everybody just bear with
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  us on that. But I'm just going to pause extra long and assume that
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  Trish is going to chime in. Thank you very much for joining me.
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  Tell me why you chose these episodes of us Cruel Cruel Soul. Uh,
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  Well, I mean what you're implying there is. The primary reason is uh,
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  these episodes make me weep. I rewatched them this morning for this episode,
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  and I cried a lot. And it's it's funny because I do.
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  These episodes really stick out to me, and I really wanted to be the
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  one to talk to you about them. It just feels funny to be doing
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  it. Also because this is one of I don't want to say this is
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  a bad arc of One Piece, but I would say in the annals of
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  arcs of One Piece, Thriller Bark is not one I'm usually interested in revisiting
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  very much. Okay, it's kind of more meth for me. But this,
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  this episode, all the Brook stuff is fantastic. It's so good.
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  These episodes are so good, and it's almost enough to make me forget the
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  parts of the middle where I was just couple like, oh yeah, I
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  can definitely see myself like looking back, conflating enjoying Brooke with being like Thriller
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  Bark was a good arc. Even though I really enjoyed Thriller Bark, I
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  didn't love the ending. I felt like it fell a little bit flat,
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  but I still really enjoyed it. But yeah, I think that Brooke does
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  a lot of heavy lifting on this, you guys. So last week I
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  fucking just cried talking about Laboon because it was making me think of how I'm
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  going to have to give up Sam eventually, and that was just devastating.
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  This couple of episodes, it was like a one two punch of the whole
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  Laboon abandonment and the guilt and wanting to get back to him, and then
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  also really getting to see what Brooke went through and there are I really feel
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  like if I were a kid watching this, it would not hit me the
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  same way. There is just something about the energy of this when you have
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  got like grown enough that you have begun to lose people in your life,
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  that makes it hit so much harder. I was just not ready, kids,
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  I really I didn't think that we were going to see any more of
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  Brooks past. Honestly, I thought that finding out about his connection with Laboon
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  was going to be kind of it. And when this started this section and
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  I saw that we were going to be spending more time with him again,
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  I was really like surprised, thinking, wait, does he already get reunited
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  with Laboon because I didn't I thought if we were with him, that was
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  going to have to be the focus. I didn't think there was enough interest
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  in what happened with him and his crewmates to to keep a whole couple of
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  episodes afloat, basically, But I'm getting ahead of myself here, so I'm
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  gonna start this episode so we can have it on in the background. But
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  I just want to mention that in on Funimation this episode is called Binks's Booze,
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  but on Hulu it's called Binks's Brew. Yeah. I don't know what's
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  up with that that. It's a bit of confusion. And I can tell
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  why they went with the Binks's Brew because the way they translated the song Brew
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  was in there for a rhyme. Originally, A lot of the fans will
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  call the song Binks's Sake instead, because that's what it is originally. Why
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  they changed it from ok to Brew. Brewis a lot easier to rhyme in
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  English, and also just sake doesn't have the same kind of cultural like attachment.
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  Yeah, that's like Binks's Brew Wood in English, Like I think they
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  personally, I don't know how other people are going to react. I think
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  they translated the song really well. In terms of how you adapt. It's
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  really hard to adapt Japanese songs in an anime into English and have it not
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  sound terrible. Yeah, because you know you're dealing with different rhythm, you're
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  dealing with different syllabic meters, things like that. You know what rhymes what
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  doesn't is going to change, and I think they handled it well. And
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  also An Sinclair, who plays the dubbed voice for Brook is just he has
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  a really great singing voice. He's amazing, just a good voice in general.
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  Yes, definitely, Yeah. I was figuring that it was Binks's Booze
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  on Funimation because they don't care as much about trying to make the titles like
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  kid appropriate, Like maybe Brew is sort of ambiguous enough about it being alcohol
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  that they felt like it was more appropriate. But it's not like, as
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  far as I have noticed, the episodes on Hulu have Sanji sucking a lollipop
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  instead of a cigarette, So I don't know how preoccupied they actually are with
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  that. I really agree, though I was thinking about sorry, go ahead,
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  I was just gonna say I think it could be a case of on
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  Funimation on somewhat services it says Binks's Booze because they had it up there before
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  the dub got there, and so when the dub got there, originally they're
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  just translating it and they're like, oh, we'll call it Binks's Booze,
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  And then the dub gets there and they're like, we can't. Binks's Booze
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  is not going to rhyme as well as Binks's Bruise, So they changed that,
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  and then the title is just left the same because it's an artifact of
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  the original translate that would make sense, Okay, I accept that. Yeah,
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  I was thinking the same, like thinking about the aspect of the translation,
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  like in the original, is the tune basically the same or is the
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  tune different as well? Please don't quote me on this. I believe the
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  tune is the same, Okay. It's the lyrics that, you know,
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  we're adapted and changed. Okay. Yeah, that is something that like,
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  even translating from a song in Spanish to English can be pretty tricky, and
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  you know, Spanish has a lot of the same syllables, even words that
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  sound so similar in English that you can sometimes stick with the same rhyming scheme
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  and everything, like, and that's still very tricky even just because of like,
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  you know, sort of jokes in another language don't necessarily translate well,
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  so you have to almost invent a whole new joke for that spot in the
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  song sometimes. So yeah, I just was like fascinated by how well this
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  song worked in the context of like it being a nostalgic link for Brooke,
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  because that's what music is for so many of us, is you listen to
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  songs that remind you of the best parts of your life so far, the
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  times where you felt the happiest or the most secure, or you know,
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  like and I enjoy when something is able to get that energy across, because
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  it's a difficult thing to do when you're watching a movie or a TV show
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  where you weren't there for everything. You know, Brooke, we're finding out
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  about his history, and the goal here is to get us back to the
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  present where he's singing the song and have us understand how he's feeling as he's
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  playing the song. And that's a really like tall order to have us in
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  the same headspace as him, you know, And I feel like they really
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  he managed it quite well, are you The question no, sorry, go
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  ahead, this is the lag I was gonna say, yeah, I was
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  gonna say they. I think they managed to pull that off simply because they
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  used Binks's brew this song as a kind of perfect trying to think like like
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  a thread between all these different points of his life, between his time with
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  the pirates, his time with Laboon, his time alone on the ship as
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  a skeleton, and now in the present, and it weaves all of those
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  things together because each of them are connected to this song and all the different
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  points of his life, and so they're able to jump back and forth and
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  back and forth in a way that feels pretty seamless and allows you to get
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  a lot of information about his life and a lot of context really clearly.
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  And the juxtaposition of him at his happiest with his crewmates and him alone in
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  horrible isolation for decades. It's just, yeah, it's too much. Um
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  what I had been going to ask you, And I know this is kind
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  of an off topic question, but you know that's just how I do.
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  UM. Are you a reader of the Hunger Games series? I have read
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  the Hunger Game series. It has to read a ballad of songbirds and snakes.
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  The latest one to come out that they're making a movie of. Oh
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  no, I didn't even know that existed. Oh it weirdly did kind of
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  fly under the radar. Yeah, I've read. I've read the Hunger Game
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  series back in like twenty eleven, twenty twelve ish and saw the movies that
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  I came out and was largely like, all right, those were okay adaptations,
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  I guess, and then like, it's just kind of been off my
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  radar otherwise, So I wasn't as a fourth book apparently, Yeah, it's
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  a it's a prequel and it's about President's snow as like a teen A real
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  weird choice in my opinion, And I read it and I didn't hate it.
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  But I will say that the audio books for the original trilogy are read.
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  They were originally read by somebody else, but they've been reread by Tatiana
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  Muslani, the actress who plays she Hulk and who was in Orphan Black.
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  She's excellent, And I think that maybe because of the movies, they had
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  the actual tune for some of the songs that happened throughout the books, because
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  Catanis sings a number of different times, so when Tatiana is reading the audio
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  book to you, she will actually sing during those moments instead of just reading
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  the words, and it makes those moments like a thousand percent more haunting.
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  And then I read Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which has a male audiobook
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  narrator, and they do not have the music for the songs he's reading.
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  And that story, just for anybody who's interested, relies so much more heavily
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  on music for its storyline than the original trilogy. But he's just reading the
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  song lyrics repeatedly, over and over with no tune and no real context like
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  in the moment, and it doesn't work. And I was really startled because
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  I have a hard time sometimes when I'm reading something that has lots of poetry
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  or lots of song breaks like Lord of the Rings is a classic example where
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  just everything causes people to break into song. And it's fucking like, you
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  know, two full pages of poetry and you're just like, yeah, okay,
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  I get it. The trees were very yellow. But when you're hearing
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  it, the effect that it has when it's well done and the music like
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  catches you and there's an energy to it. Oh my god, it's just
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  beyond belief and It was remarkable to me how well I responded to it in
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  the context of the one book where she's actually singing it, and then the
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  narrator just reading the words. I wanted to reach through the pages and strangle
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  the author for doing this to me. I was just like, we don't
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  care, stop telling me the words of this song. So when this one
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  starts, like the title of this episode is like the song that you know
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  brings his life together, I was like, ah, boy, songs,
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  I guess even though I know, like we have seen the way that Brooke
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  like he sings, he plays instruments, like we know that he's good at
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  that, but I just went into it was such a bad attitude and I
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  was really shown what a bitch I can be. In summary, the show
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  said, go sit down, I mean listen. Sometimes it's really remarkable if
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  my attitude, like if you can turn me around when I come into something
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  with a bad attitude and you can make me go all right, and I
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  was really wrong. You must have been excellent, because my attitude can sink
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  a show, you know, like anyway, all right? From the chat.
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  From the chat, Florian said that he has really enjoyed listening to the
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  song both in English, German and the original Japanese. Nice a great Uh.
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  Jessica agrees that the translation was really well done and that it couldn't have
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  been easy, and Gus said that apparently in an interview or one of the
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  sps things in the manga, Oba or Oda wrote that binks Osaka was written
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  ahead of the arc, and he basically wrote the arc so he could include
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  the song or something that effect, and that I can see that. Yeah,
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  it's just I'd forgotten it's been a while since I've seen these episodes when
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  I got to the point in the song when it's like it gets the point
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  where it's basically like, hey, you know, we all die someday,
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  so just have a good time being a pirate on the open seas while you're
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  doing it, and it's the way that's described as one day you'll become a
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  skeleton. And I was just like, oh, oh, that's that feels
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  like that moment when like the lyrics and the music kind of hit in a
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  way you're like, I am very just you managed to pull that off and
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  I wasn't even expecting it. Yep. I really I like the idea of
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  writing a song and Bean like I have to do something to fit this end.
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  I love the shit, like this is a banger. I'm writing an
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  arc for it. What a great way to do things. Uh, definitely,
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  But yeah, it's just I mean the thing I were skipping around a
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  bunch. But the thing that hits me the most from this episode, like
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  that sticks to me the most is the them all playing the song together as
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  they're dying on the ship gun he narrates it goes from a quartet to a
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  trio to a duet, and then he's upset that he's left the accompaniment by
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  himself, and it's like, oh, it's just heart wresting. And it
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  would have been so easy for that moment to be almost silly, because it
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  is kind of silly, like just in a vacuum is poisoned and they're all
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  dying at the same time and at the sea, and there's like one by
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  one as they're singing, and they all agreed to sing in their final moments,
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  like it is silly, But it was just the under There was something
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  almost understated about it, which is not something I say about this show very
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  often, but I think it was. It was the performance of Brooke when
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  he is with his friends who are dying. There's no like screaming to the
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  heavens, there's no I can't believe this is happening. He's just playing and
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  like acknowledging that one of them has fallen. But he doesn't stop, and
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  he doesn't like there's just a very little melodrama about the way he reacts to
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  it. And I think that's part of what sort of got under my skin.
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  And then the part that stood with me, And I'm definitely gonna start
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  crying, so sorry about this. I don't like crying when there's somebody else
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  on the chat with me, So sorry about it, Trish, the dream
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  that they are alive again. Oh, you guys, anybody who has lost
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  some money, there is no way that you haven't had a dream that they
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  are alive again. That it's just part of losing someone. And it's always
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  so weird, Like I dream about my dad a lot, and in the
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  dream, I'm always like, oh my god, we haven't talked in so
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  long. Why haven't I given you a call? It's like, I know
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  we haven't talked, but the fact that he's gone isn't part of the memory.
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  It's just this vague sense of like, oh my god, you haven't
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  met Owen. I can't believe that I didn't bring you to meet Owen.
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  Things like that, and then I wake up and it's like kind of losing
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  him again, you know. And it's just it's like, I don't know
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  what I would rather not having those dreams so I don't have to experience the
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  waking up, but having them it's like a little bit of a piece of
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  him again. So I don't know what I would rather have, you know,
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  But that that moment of like he really thinks I hurt myself when I
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  fell, that proves it's not a dream. And of course we as viewers
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  are like, um, Brooke, I don't know how to tell you this,
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  buddy, but that's definitely a dream. And yet it goes on for
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  just long enough that you start to be like, wait, what is going
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  on here? And then he looks up and they're gone, y'all stab me
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  in the heart like that. I mean, I've definitely had that kind of
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  experience before as well. But I'm currently recording from a different place than I
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  did the last couple of times because I'm going to be doing a big moat
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  move from the West coast to the East Coast soon and before that, I'm
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  staying. I've been here with now a month with my parents, trying to
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  get to dispense time with them. My dad has a very aggressive form of
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  brain cancer, and oh god, I'm sorry. I wanted to I wanted
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  us some time with him before I'm gonna move across the country. And yeah,
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  and it's I don't know what's going to happen, you know, So
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  I get what you mean, did I definitely get waking me? But I
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  mean, this episode brings out emotions like that because it is about loss,
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  and it's not about it in a big melodramatic way. It's about it in
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  a very quiet way. And it feels very silly to be talking about things
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  like this with One Piece of all of all shows, but like that's part
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  of the why One Piece is good is because it can occasionally dig into really
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  deep, real emotions and this is not the last time and it's going to
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  do that. Yeah, but it it's I don't know, it's powerful.
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  It's one of the reasons I love Brooks so much is as a character,
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  he's actually one of I'd say he's probably my third favorite straw Hat, Like
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  he's deep in my heart and it's he's you know, he's this fun,
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  silly, wacky character, and yet he's also this character that like will have
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  those moments of solemn solemnity. He will, you know, I don't know.
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  There's an emotional richness and a texture to him that a lot of the
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  other characters don't have as much. And I don't know. He's just a
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  treat. He's just a treat to have. Um Gus says. Some of
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  the main thematics of thriller bark surrounding loss and oppression and how people cope with
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  it more and Brooke being to the biggest examples different, very different reactions to
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  losing your crew. And yeah, that's right. I wasn't there for when
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  you talked about Maria, But yeah, Moray's whole thing is built around the
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  fact that he lost He's doing this. He did all this because he lost
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  his crew and this was his horrifying way of responding. Um. I mean,
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  you have the whole thing with oh God, what's his name, doctor
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  Hogback and the zombie lady who threw place I can't remember her name, which
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  God, that had some really creepy, disgusting undertones. Chinry Chindry, Sindry,
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  Sindry, some centry Sentry. Yes, it always takes me ages to
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  get to her name. It's in there somewhere, Uh, but yeah,
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  I mean, like the first episode, it's it is just Brooks backstory,
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  getting to get a better handle on the timeline of it, uh, and
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  the emotional texture of it, and him accepting Lufy's offer to to join the
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  crew for real. Oh. Also the learning that he had a tone dial
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  that he bought off a merchant ages ago that he keeps in his head and
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  it has the recording of their last time playing that song, so he can
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  play it for Laboon when he sees Laboon again, which that is just so
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  the extra mile and sad. This is the another thing that got me first
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  of all. One of the things that I'm going to give you a piece
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  of advice here while your dad is still around, and that is take as
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  much video as you can, because you will start to lose what they sounded
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  like and some of the like turns of phrase they used or things like that.
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  I really wish I had more video of my dad, but you know,
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  he died before everybody had videos in their pockets all the time. Or
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  cameras in their pockets, so it wasn't as easy to do, but I
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  wish so much that I had gotten video of him and of my grandmother.
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  And I can't emphasize enough to everybody listening, Honestly, if you have loved
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  one still around, get them on tape doing whatever, like even mundane stuff,
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  that's almost the best, you know. So I had on my phone
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  two voicemails, one from my father and when from my grandma, both of
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  them singing me Happy Birthday. And I had these for about eight months and
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  then one day I woke up and they were gone. And it turned out
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  that, like after a certain amount of time, voicemails just get automatically deleted
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  from your phone. Now evidently there's a lot longer of a buffer nowadays than
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  there used to be, because I've got some that are years old in my
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  voicemail still, but those were deleted, and I got in touch with the
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  phone company was like, can I get those back? And there was no
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  way, and I was devastated. So yeah, highly highly recommend voice record.
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  Like the fact that Brooke did that, it just reminded me of that
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  and I was like, I hope he doesn't lose that because if he loses
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  it before he gets a chance to like at least play it for laboon.
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  But also I'm sure he just wants to hold onto it. I don't know
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  how many times you can use uh one of those like what are they called
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  tone dial? I think it was a tone dial? Yeah, can he
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  play it? We could play it more than once? Definitely, because okay,
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  okay, could play it more than once? Good? Um, because
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  yeah, I hope that he doesn't don't don't fuck it up, brook is
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  what I'm saying. Um. But yeah, So like him joining the crew,
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  this is the other thing that sort of hit for me because of what
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  we get in his you know, anytime somebody joins the crew and and it's
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  after I have been sort of certain that we have reached the point where we
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  have the crew we're gonna have, that surprises me. But with Frankie especially,
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  I was kind of like, I mean, that's cool. I really
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  like Frankie, but I don't really like because he had his own crew threw
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  at one point there was a sort of and he was like in charge.
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  You know, it sort of felt a little bit weird to me because he's
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  like leaving them behind for these other people and the reason why I made sense,
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  but it just didn't. Like with Brooke, he is like starting over
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  and finding people who are going to be his new family after being alone for
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  so long, and that like really got to me as well, just getting
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  to see him. Do we go from the playing the song with his crew
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  in his memory to him alone and then to him with all of these people
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  again singing along with him in the background, and like they're not the same
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  people. It's not like they just replaced his old friends and stuff, but
• 27:59
  there is like a real hopefulness to that of if you hold on long enough,
• 28:04
  things may come back around and be okay at least. Sometimes the loss
• 28:12
  is what makes things more precious once you get to try again, even you
• 28:19
  know, because you know what it's about that family. It's kind of emphasized
• 28:29
  by you know, he has that moment looking at everyone after they're done with
• 28:33
  a song of just crying and being so happy, saying he's so happy he
• 28:38
  stuck around, so happy he kept going because it meant he got here.
• 28:42
  And it's like, yeah, that if you're the if you struggle with things
• 28:48
  that you know, I'll say I have struggled with personally, that's such a
• 28:52
  that's a mood. That's a big mood of those moments when you're just happy
• 28:56
  that you have persevered through rough times to get where you are. Yep.
• 29:03
  Yeah. Also I do love that when they have the group shots of like
• 29:06
  everyone you know, partying and everything, and you could hear when they each
• 29:10
  focus on different crewmates, you could hear their voice actors stand out a little
• 29:12
  bit more as they're also singing this song together. Like that's just a fun
• 29:18
  touch. Yeah. Yeah, I like getting to meet some of the other
• 29:22
  people, and I also get liked to get to know the captain a little
• 29:27
  bit more. Calico. I just love his name so much. He gets
• 29:33
  sick with an illness at one point, and I was sort of wondering because
• 29:41
  you know, we had seen like in flashbacks the crew was killed a lot
• 29:45
  of them in a battle. But I sort of started to be like,
• 29:48
  did I misunderstand and it just sort of looked like a battle. But it
• 29:51
  turns out they all died because they caught this illness. But no, the
• 29:56
  illness takes him. But as far as I remember, it doesn't kill anybody
• 30:00
  else, does it. It's just the captain. I think it I think
• 30:04
  I think it did kill some other crew members of the crew, but they
• 30:07
  were like, if you know, we don't want to take this this,
• 30:10
  i'llness take any more people. And so they caught it early on where they're
• 30:14
  like, hey, we're gonna go another way. You guys get a new
• 30:18
  ship and keep going. And Brook is the captain now, so the captain
• 30:23
  is definitely dead though, right, I mean it's like, oh, he
• 30:30
  went he went to sail the cam belt to to to find a doctor who
• 30:33
  might be able to kire him, which is like the cam belt is already
• 30:37
  a death sentence. Yeah, okay, Like he's definitely he's definitely dead.
• 30:44
  Also, this was fifty years ago. I think he's definitely dead. Yeah,
• 30:48
  that's true because Brook is just immortal basically. Um. But I although
• 30:55
  there is one part where Brooke is talking to him and Calico like grabs him
• 31:00
  by the wrist and I was like, don't touch him. I got very
• 31:03
  agitated post COVID at seeing that they were not respecting the six foot personal space
• 31:08
  rule that and also he had a mask goll and then like Brooke took the
• 31:15
  mask off of him or something. I was like, hey, yep,
• 31:19
  there's a fucking reason for that, demonstrating poor understanding of mask usage even in
• 31:27
  cartoons. Yeah. Look, I'm not perfect, god knows, but some
• 31:34
  of the ways I've seen people wearing masks, I mean, what are we
• 31:38
  even doing? Why have one? What are you doing? Um? So
• 31:44
  I'm trying to I just want to make sure because we only have like the
• 31:47
  two episodes for this, and we have been jumping around here, and I
• 31:52
  want to make sure that I don't miss anything. But yeah, and it's
• 31:56
  also a little challenging because it jumps around in his story really heavily. So
• 32:05
  we go at one point to uh Brooke alone on the ship, just talking
• 32:12
  to himself and like standing on his head and dancing all like it's got a
• 32:19
  real home alone after he realizes his family has gone. At first, kind
• 32:23
  of feeling if you're familiar, Like eventually I was getting more asked Away,
• 32:32
  I was getting more like cast Oh interesting, oh like mad from isolation.
• 32:38
  Yes, it's silly and goofy, but he just is trying to entertain himself
• 32:45
  out of the horrible, horrible state he's in. Yeah, I see that.
• 32:49
  I forgot about cast Away. That's a movie that I feel like I
• 32:52
  should rewatch. But I also like, it is I'm here tough, you
• 32:57
  know, So I'm like, how much would I enjoy watching because I it's
• 33:02
  tough. Man, I don't know if I can go through losing Wilson all
• 33:07
  over again. But yeah, he's like dancing around and at one point he
• 33:15
  sort of makes himself into a uh like it's like he's doing the plank and
• 33:22
  has himself like leaned diagonally up against the railing and stuff. Just a weird
• 33:27
  thing. And this is the part where he dreams that they're all back,
• 33:31
  and Kaliko is saying, oh, you were just having a bad dream,
• 33:36
  and he is overjoyed and falls on his face and is telling like saying to
• 33:42
  all of them, I'm so glad. I can't believe that it wasn't that
• 33:45
  it was just a dream. It was just a nightmare. And he lifts
• 33:50
  his head and he had been human, like his face was his human face
• 33:59
  when he was in the dream, and then when he raises his face,
• 34:02
  it's the skeleton face and everything is just like overgrown and broken. And the
• 34:12
  way he just stares and there's this long pause that's kind of part of what
• 34:16
  I meant about the understated quality, like it could easily have been I'm realizing
• 34:23
  it was just a dream and I completely break down, But it doesn't do
• 34:30
  that. It's just this like kind of silence and a shock that feels more
• 34:36
  like, how could I have been so stupid to think that it wasn't real?
• 34:40
  Of course it's real, you know. And then we jumped straight back
• 34:45
  into a flashback again of him playing the fiddle to wake everybody up and all
• 34:52
  of them being like, why are you doing this, dude? And I
• 34:57
  like that too, because sometimes I think I mentioned about how my dad used
• 35:02
  to wake me up playing the trumpet, and as much as I wanted to
• 35:08
  literally take his life from him in those moments, after all this time and
• 35:14
  having lost him, I can look back on that and be like, oh
• 35:16
  Dad, And there is like a bittersweet quality to it. And it was
• 35:22
  just so many of the like moments that he is remembering and the ways that
• 35:27
  he is coping, I just really deeply understood. And we have like a
• 35:32
  montage of the travels that they all do, and there's there's one part here
• 35:43
  that they're talking about how they got bounties for themselves and they're really like,
• 35:47
  you know, proud of themselves for having bounties. We get to see a
• 35:54
  a really quick flash of what I think are meant to be his guys going
• 36:01
  up against a bad guy with a huge spiked mace and like blonde hair,
• 36:12
  presumably in some fight that they came out on top of. So it's this
• 36:15
  like very warlike scene. But then we jump to them waving goodbye to some
• 36:22
  people who are living in these huge tents and they're all in winter clothes with
• 36:29
  like the snow falling, and I was like immediately making this into a Christmas
• 36:35
  thing in my head and was just like, oh, they they just went
• 36:37
  tree shopping and they're gonna take it home and decorate it. We have this
• 36:44
  one dude who is he's really fat and wears this like pink shirt with a
• 36:50
  ruffle down the front and he plays the cello. I guess we see him
• 36:54
  a couple of times. The designs for some of the members of the crew
• 37:00
  are really distinctive, and I love like they're like accumulated ensemble. Look they
• 37:06
  have Yes, yes, definitely, there's a lot of layering happening with some
• 37:12
  of their outfits. I'm just trying it because like the flashbacks are sort of
• 37:19
  mixed in so I just want to make sure that I don't miss anything here.
• 37:23
  But yeah, that this is when it jumps from that memory back to
• 37:29
  Frankie dancing around on the tabletop, and this is when he says about the
• 37:36
  tone dial that he wants to play this song for Laboon again. And he
• 37:45
  says something and it being recorded on my heart, but I guess you could
• 37:49
  say it's recorded in my head as well, and I was like, why
• 37:53
  is that? And then I realized, Oh, because he's keeping it literally
• 37:58
  in his head every time he says something that I'm like, wait, I
• 38:00
  have to remember that. It's probably like a pun pretty much, yeah,
• 38:07
  which I would also be doing where I a skeleton, it would be puns
• 38:14
  all guys. I really love the flashbacks. I really like the flashbacks getting
• 38:19
  a lot of time with human brook because I love Brooks designing the present.
• 38:22
  But it's also fun seeing how he looked when he was alive, like his
• 38:25
  I was also great then, like, yeah, I know, he's just
• 38:30
  like expert level character design as always from ODA, just like I this man,
• 38:37
  I want to this is just like a fully realized, fun, interesting
• 38:39
  character, like he was already a freaking what like eight seven feet eight feet
• 38:45
  tall or something like that before it was even a skeleton. Yes, humongous.
• 38:50
  There's a lot of giant people in this universe. There are, I
• 38:55
  mean, there's literal giants who are their own, like fine of people,
• 39:00
  and then there's also people that aren't giants. They're just really big humans,
• 39:06
  yes, And that's never really explained or dealt with, just like, oh,
• 39:09
  yeah, some people grow to be fifteen feet tall and that's normal.
• 39:13
  That's just that's not a giant, that's just a really tall person. Yeah.
• 39:17
  I feel like somebody had said in a comment that it was theorized that
• 39:22
  there was like interbreeding between giants and people, which I mean maybe, but
• 39:28
  unless I hear anything specific about that, that just feels like people making stuff
• 39:32
  up. Um, that's that sounds like a headcanon. Yeah, exactly.
• 39:38
  That's like there's a I can't remember are you a Song of Ace and Fire
• 39:45
  person? Oh? I still love to wish I wasn't, but I am
• 39:52
  fucking same. Um. There's the whole thing with like Duncan the tall and
• 39:59
  like potent actually being giantish blood like way back in his background, and he's
• 40:05
  related to the Mountain and sand Or distantly as well. Isn't he or is
• 40:09
  it? Like I feel like it's supposed I know as I thought it was
• 40:15
  then as well as far as I can recall, I think it's only brand
• 40:22
  because I mean, there could be a theory about the sand Or brothers,
• 40:24
  as are the Clude Gang brothers. From what I remember. The Clude Gang
• 40:29
  brothers, though, were commoners originally who were uplifted into nobility because of Thai
• 40:36
  Wind picking them out. Okay, he was like, like, give me
• 40:44
  sounds like well, it was like their grandfather. Their grandfather raised hounds and
• 40:50
  like bred them for specific qualities. It was basically like I could do this
• 40:53
  with my own kids, Chris, and Thaiwan was like hired and it's like
• 41:00
  horrifying. You're a horrifying person. Christ. It says a lot about you,
• 41:06
  Tiewin that you enabled this. So glad he's dead. I'm glad you're
• 41:10
  dead. I'm so glad he's dead. Feudalistic asshole. So we then have
• 41:20
  this. I appreciate it as well, because, like you know, we
• 41:22
  have had a lot of suggestions with the way that Brooke is like so emotional
• 41:28
  about laboon In even the flashbacks, there have been times where I sort of
• 41:34
  felt as if he cared for Laboon more than everybody else. And I still
• 41:38
  think that probably he had more of a connection with La Boon. But there's
• 41:44
  a moment where they're like forcing themselves to sit up after this attack, and
• 41:50
  one of the guys says, I just have one regret, and another guy
• 41:52
  says La Boon, And I really appreciated that even in this moment, these
• 42:00
  two dudes who are not Brooke are both like feeling that same burden and obligation
• 42:07
  to Laboon, and you know, there's just it was a nice reminder that
• 42:13
  like the rest of the crew was in on that as well. It wasn't
• 42:17
  just Brooks is like private packed which is sort of how I tend to think
• 42:23
  of it, is it being mostly about Brooke and Laboon. But it wasn't.
• 42:29
  Everybody was in on this and was fond of him, and they're like
• 42:32
  in their last moments and they're thinking of him, you know, And I
• 42:37
  don't know, I just really appreciated that it was It was a good reminder
• 42:44
  of that. I think you know it in a way, Brooke, it
• 42:47
  is a private packed out just because Brooks the only one who's left, oh
• 42:51
  for sure, now, yeah, because of that it feels that way to
• 42:53
  us. Yeah, that's that's pretty much everything in the first episode, I
• 42:59
  think, yeah, I think so he when he starts saying, like,
• 43:04
  we should in our last moments, we should sing a song. I also
• 43:07
  appreciated that I sort of expected them to be like, dude, what are
• 43:12
  you talking about, But a couple of the guys start laughing and are just
• 43:15
  like, yeah, all right, why not? Like that seems like a
• 43:19
  perfectly good way to go out. And I like that as well, that
• 43:23
  they're so like receptive to this because they, like I guess, I'm just
• 43:30
  kind of used to characters who are goofy and creative and you know, have
• 43:37
  a connection with animals to be sort of like maligned by their crewmates a lot
• 43:44
  of the time. You know, there's so much there's such a trope about
• 43:49
  them being like the one person who like sees the beauty in the world while
• 43:55
  other people are distracted or not connected or whatever. And I just really liked
• 44:00
  getting to see that, Like Brooke is the one who is left and so
• 44:06
  he is the one that we personally appreciate the most, but he was with
• 44:08
  a crew full of like decent dudes. It seems like who all had similar
• 44:15
  value systems to him, because I think that I, well, just by
• 44:20
  virtue of him being the only one left, I think of him as being
• 44:22
  like very unique out of the crew, and it's not necessarily true. There
• 44:30
  was a point where we heard the Captain's like, hey, joined my pirate
• 44:36
  crew or something like that, and like the whole thing was, you could
• 44:38
  join this crew if you have a love for music. So it gives me
• 44:43
  this this crew's thing in the way that so many Pire crews have themes.
• 44:46
  Their theme from the very beginning was they're all musicians, they're all artists,
• 44:51
  they're all extremely emotional people who care about others, and that's like just kind
• 44:54
  of always been their jam. And so it really in a way that makes
• 45:00
  Brooke standout in the sense of like, yes, he's the last one carrying
• 45:04
  on this flame from this very unique group of people who came together for that
• 45:08
  purpose. That's right. I forgot that he says that. He says also
• 45:13
  like we'll bring joy to children wherever we go, which was just such a
• 45:19
  weird like mission for pirates to have the motto. Yeah, it's a weird
• 45:27
  motto. Florian says, their jam good one. Oh, Florian you get
• 45:35
  out of here. Um. So yeah, that's that's pretty much the first
• 45:42
  of the two episodes. And and then we're going on to a new crewmate,
• 45:47
  the musician Humming Brook and developments in this one. So we come back
• 45:59
  to the present, which should we start with? The thing that I want
• 46:02
  to talk about first really is the paper and I can't remember what they call
• 46:13
  it because it sounded so weird that you're not sticking. It's called a Vivra
• 46:19
  card, which that is a very weird thing I remember, because like Vivra,
• 46:24
  like vitals, like it's it's there's a root word in there that has
• 46:28
  to do with life and you know, living things, and so yeah,
• 46:32
  there are bits of paper that it is possible to make out in the New
• 46:36
  World where you tie a piece of paper to your life force, and it
• 46:39
  can if you give someone a piece of your Viva card, it can always
• 46:44
  lead them to you. And it also gives them an idea of what state
• 46:47
  you're in. It'll tell them if you're in danger or dying. Right,
• 46:52
  So first of all, what how does that work? I would like some
• 47:00
  more details on this please. We're just throwing this fucking thing in here,
• 47:05
  and it's not necessary that I get more details, but I want them.
• 47:09
  I would like them. I just want to I love them too. How
• 47:14
  does this happen? And Lola is talking about it, and it's just like
• 47:17
  you don't know what that is and somebody has to be like nobody outside of
• 47:22
  like where we grew up as these and are you born with like do you
• 47:29
  just get the one? And you have to be super careful about how they
• 47:32
  start out. I don't know if you can have more than one. But
• 47:37
  they said you take a piece of paper and like a fingernail or something like
• 47:42
  a bit of a fingernail to a specific shop in the New World and they
• 47:45
  will make you a Viver card using that paper. It's so it's like they
• 47:50
  need a bit of you to like huye your life essence to the card.
• 47:54
  So there are things you buy and you they make so you can get probably
• 48:01
  more than one and just like hand him out like candy. I would guess
• 48:07
  that's pretty cool. So the way that the thing that we find out here
• 48:13
  is that that paper that Ace gave Lufy two hundred episodes ago at this point,
• 48:22
  yeah, is a Viver card. And he said to Lufy when he
• 48:25
  gave it to him, this will like reunite us someday and lufy he sewed
• 48:34
  it to like the inside of his hat what I can't remember where he So
• 48:40
  he pulls it out of his hat right and it's smoldering at the edges.
• 48:50
  It's not like on fire exactly, but it looks like it had recently been
• 48:54
  on fire. I'll say it that way up until a second ago, which
• 49:01
  everybody is like, well, that's not awesome, dude. That's an indicator
• 49:08
  that his life is like in some real danger. You probably want to go
• 49:14
  and help him, which I of course assumed would be our next leg of
• 49:21
  our journey. Instead, Lofy is just like, nah, he'll be fine.
• 49:32
  I would say, it feels like he gave it a little bit of
• 49:35
  thought first, but he does come down on pretty quickly on like, no,
• 49:39
  my brother's fine. He's my big brother. He can handle himself.
• 49:44
  He says that, like he'd be upset with me if I went to try
• 49:46
  and help him, like if you embarrassing if if his little brother tried to
• 49:50
  save him. So he'll handle it and we'll meet up later. Is his
• 49:54
  attitude, which is like, I mean, that's a lot of faith to
• 49:57
  have in your in your brother. But it's the sort of thing that,
• 50:00
  like, I believe that Lufy knows his brother well enough to make this judgment
• 50:07
  call. So it's not even that I think that Lufy isn't correct. It's
• 50:13
  more that it felt super out of character for Lofy to me, as somebody
• 50:19
  who has historically not cared if people have actively told him to not save them.
• 50:27
  I'm looking at you, Lufy, with Robin standing next to me,
• 50:30
  and I am pointing at Robin. She actively was like, don't save me,
• 50:36
  stop it, and you were like, I can't hear you because I'm
• 50:38
  saving you so hard. The fact that he is so willing to be like
• 50:45
  NA, my brother wouldn't like it. That did not feel like Lofy to
• 50:49
  me. That was a weird response. And I wish that I knew Ace
• 50:53
  better as a viewer so that I could understand where he's coming from on this
• 51:00
  little bit better myself, because, like I said, I trust that Lufy
• 51:02
  knows him enough to say this, but I don't know Ace well enough.
• 51:08
  I feel like, so I have a thought on that, and this is
• 51:15
  I'm going to tell you, this is just a thought. I don't know
• 51:16
  if this is the real reason. This is my speculation on the inside of
• 51:21
  Lupy's head, which is always is an exceptionally dark place to look into,
• 51:24
  and you don't think they're gonna find them there. I would say I would
• 51:29
  say that the difference is that Robin and Nami also. Nami also like pushed
• 51:34
  him away and said I don't want you to help me or save me a
• 51:37
  lot in her arc back in East Blue. The difference in those cases are
• 51:42
  those are people he's entrusted onto his crew, and with that, I think
• 51:46
  Lufy sees that as a like, well, we have made a pact,
• 51:51
  we are on a crew together. I am going to help you even if
• 51:54
  you tell me not to. His brother has a on a crew. He
• 52:00
  is on white Beard's crew, one of the most powerful pirates in the world.
• 52:05
  He is not Lufy's responsibility. He doesn't owe that debt to his brother.
• 52:10
  He in addition to just feeling like his brother take care of himself,
• 52:14
  he's probably assuming, like you know, white Beard can take care of him.
• 52:19
  So that's what I would say. The difference is is it's just it's
• 52:22
  a different how Pete. Different people are categorized differently in Lufy's brain. Lufy
• 52:29
  has a very weird way of looking at the world, and I do my
• 52:32
  best to make sense of it. But you know, that's that's my guests.
• 52:38
  But yeah, there was that stuff about Ace, so that's worrying that
• 52:44
  he is, that he's not doing very well after that fight with Blackbeard.
• 52:47
  Yeah, and then also, uh, we also with the viper cards stuff,
• 52:53
  Lola gave Nami piece of her mother's fear card because of her mother is
• 53:00
  a very powerful pirate in the New World, and she thinks, hey,
• 53:04
  yes, maybe having this with like my signature on it will be like a
• 53:07
  boon to you. And also I don't like have a huge like positive like
• 53:13
  I'm not like, yeah, Lolo's grape. I I'm like, this is
• 53:15
  nice. It felt like like a nice, cute, little friendship moment between
• 53:19
  her Anomie that I appreciated. Agree. Yeah, I'm just really glad because
• 53:23
  like the way that things had started out, I was so sure that I
• 53:27
  was going to get this like weird rivalry thing, and the fact that that
• 53:30
  was subverted just I really I'm I think that I wouldn't be as enchanted with
• 53:38
  Lola if it weren't for the fact that I was like expecting the worst out
• 53:43
  of what was going to happen with her, And in terms of like what
• 53:47
  you're saying about the way that Lufy sees things, I am willing to accept
• 53:52
  that because you're right, like, his priority set doesn't make a lot of
• 53:57
  sense to me in many ways, So I'm definitely able to see. It's
• 54:05
  just such a strange thing because I'm so used to in any story, like,
• 54:12
  I can't even really think of one in which this isn't the case other
• 54:15
  than one piece at the moment, and I'm sure there's one out there,
• 54:16
  but at this point, I'm drawn a blank. Anytime that somebody's family is
• 54:24
  being fucked with, that person usually sets everything aside to deal with their family
• 54:34
  being fucked with, even if it's somebody that they had a bad relationship with
• 54:39
  in the past. It doesn't ultimately matter, even when I think it should
• 54:45
  matter, Even when I'm like, they have screwed you so many times you
• 54:50
  need to let them go and suffer the consequence, it doesn't matter. They're
• 54:53
  always written as being like, yeah, but family, for she's my sister,
• 55:00
  is my mother, And I'm like, well, they don't seem to
• 55:01
  be real able to remember that when you need them to remember that. So
• 55:07
  maybe you should just let it lie. So I'm so used to like family
• 55:14
  being the ultimate line in the sand for any character, and I the fact
• 55:22
  that he is just not only willing to like be like, oh, I'm
• 55:30
  sure he'll be able to take care of himself, but also like finding out
• 55:34
  that he has a dad and a grandpa out there as well, that he
• 55:39
  never talks about that. We have like run into one of them by accident,
• 55:45
  and the other one swooped in and like helped him out at Lowtown,
• 55:51
  but then we never saw him again. That is the part that I'm I
• 55:55
  find so bizarre I think about this universe is because we don't know Loufy's history.
• 56:04
  All these like people who would be important in another character's life, they're
• 56:09
  kind of acquaintances for him. Yeah, well, I mean Lufy when he
• 56:16
  was told about his dad, he didn't even know that Dragon is his dad,
• 56:21
  right, He wasn't even aware. Ye in his mind, they've never
• 56:25
  even met before as far as he can remember, Like, this is a
• 56:30
  stranger to him completely. And You're right. I think that's one of the
• 56:34
  interesting things about One Piece, because we get these you know, these digs
• 56:37
  into each of the crew members backstories, and we got some lufy backstory at
• 56:40
  the very very start, but that didn't include any of his family stuff.
• 56:45
  And so we have a lot of these big blank spots of his life that
• 56:50
  are just kind of there for us to wonder about and speculate about at this
• 56:55
  point in the story where you have to wonder, yeah, like why isn't
• 56:59
  he like that, like deep into his family. And I'm and I don't
• 57:01
  know if it's just how he was raised. I mean, his time with
• 57:07
  his grandfather seems to have been mixed at best. But is it that Is
• 57:14
  it just his own weird priorities in general of how he sees the world and
• 57:19
  how he what he thinks is important when he doesn't think it's important. I
• 57:22
  don't know, but yeah, it is a really fascinating deviation because, like
• 57:25
  you said, in so many stories family, I mean you recently Ish went
• 57:29
  through full model Alchemist's Brotherhood, you know, in the whole the Brothers.
• 57:32
  The family thing is so huge and central to that show in so many ways,
• 57:37
  and I know of people who've seen it and gone, I don't have
• 57:42
  any siblings. I cannot I personally watching media like this that focuses so heavily
• 57:47
  on like a sibling relationship. I can't relate to that at all, Like
• 57:52
  I can try to understand, but I don't. I'm never going to understand
• 57:58
  like that deep connection idea. And yeah, it is interesting having a something
• 58:05
  that subverts that, where for Lufy his family is not the most important thing.
• 58:08
  The most important thing is his dream, and then his crew, and
• 58:14
  then his basic needs like eating and sleeping, Yeah, and then everything else.
• 58:19
  Was kind of like even mi Zoro. We haven't really seen any of
• 58:23
  his family either. We saw him stumbling into a town and getting training to
• 58:29
  become this amazing swordsman, but we have no idea what his family was like
• 58:34
  or where he was coming from, none of that information. And like with
• 58:37
  Lufy, all the relatives that we have seen of his or mail, so
• 58:42
  still no idea if he if like his mother is still alive. I don't
• 58:46
  remember him mentioning anything. I like, wasn't there a woman that was coming
• 58:53
  after him when he was in the bar with Redhead's his name? Yes,
• 59:00
  she I think she would, she like ran the bar. I can't remember
• 59:05
  her name, But she wasn't his No, I mean not officially. I
• 59:12
  don't think, but you know she watched after him. Where we are in
• 59:15
  the story, we have had no mention. Thus you know where you are
• 59:17
  right now. There's been no mention of any family, any mother for Lufy.
• 59:22
  There's also been no mention you bring up store. There's also been no
• 59:25
  mention of any family for Sangi. Uh. You know, we just show
• 59:30
  him on a ship working as a as a as a kid. Let's see,
• 59:34
  we had also uh Nami. We went to her family, and we
• 59:38
  went to Ustav's family. Chopper kicked out of his dear clan people. We
• 59:43
  don't know what Frankie's family's like. I mean, we know the Frankie family
• 59:46
  that was his like gang of thugs, but we didn't know, but we
• 59:50
  didn't know, like where the hell are we didn't They might have mentioned his
• 59:53
  parents, but I don't recall. Yeah, I don't remember because he gets
• 59:58
  adopted by he became a pirate um. Oh yeah, but I didn't think
• 1:00:07
  about Sanji because you know what I'm realizing now, and this is so funny.
• 1:00:10
  When this happens, you were have this where you don't realize that you've
• 1:00:15
  made a massive assumption, and then once somebody, why do you think that
• 1:00:21
  you're like, well, obviously because of this thing that I realized now I
• 1:00:24
  made up. Oh, I don't know where I got this, but I
• 1:00:31
  had it in my head that Sangie's family, like his parents brought him to
• 1:00:37
  this like restaurant on the ship and abandoned him and bailed there is I don't
• 1:00:44
  know where I got I just like made this up that they just bounced and
• 1:00:47
  left him and he had to figure out how to how to work his way
• 1:00:52
  up through the kitchen to like get by. Like this was like an Oliver
• 1:00:55
  Twist situation, except Oliver was actually an ord And I don't know where about
• 1:01:01
  that from, but that's what's been in my head was that he was like
• 1:01:06
  purposefully abandoned Zoro. I what I am imagining for Zoro, which is not
• 1:01:13
  an actual assumption, it's just it's an actual imagining. His dad was not
• 1:01:20
  tough enough for him, and he was like, I am not going to
• 1:01:22
  learn what I need to learn from you, So I'm going to run away
• 1:01:25
  from home and find somebody who is actually worth a damn to teach me some
• 1:01:29
  things because you suck. Like I see Zoro as being like just way way
• 1:01:39
  over the top macho as an infant, to the point where his own father
• 1:01:45
  was like, lighten up a little bit, and Zoro was like, lighten
• 1:01:47
  this up and just left in the middle of the night. Oh that's very
• 1:01:55
  funny. You can't you can't say. Patricius is sitting on a lot of
• 1:02:07
  comments right now, get back on the topic of the episode. There's uh
• 1:02:16
  uh, there's the the scene of Brooke going to the grave that Frankie made
• 1:02:27
  for made for his crew, and Chopper got the flowers, and he takes
• 1:02:32
  special care to thank Chopper for the flowers, which I thought you would appreciate.
• 1:02:37
  I not only do I love that he specifically thanks Chopper like everybody involved,
• 1:02:44
  but yeah, I think Chopper mentions I picked out the flowers because he
• 1:02:47
  had originally only thanked us up and Frankie. And then when he mentions the
• 1:02:53
  flowers and and Brooke specifically thanks him in the dub, Chopper says like,
• 1:03:04
  knock it off, you phony bastard. You're not gonna suck up to me
• 1:03:09
  by saying thank you or something like that, which I get that it's supposed
• 1:03:14
  to be like this cute woman of like, I'm totally delighted, but I
• 1:03:16
  can't. But the idea of that attitude accompanied by the words you phony bastard,
• 1:03:22
  Like that's just not the language one would actually use in that situation.
• 1:03:27
  It feels very aggressive. So even though Chopper's being animated with that cute like
• 1:03:34
  kind of swirly thing that they do with him, I was just like Chopper,
• 1:03:38
  I was a little shocked at his language and wanted to be like,
• 1:03:40
  you need to tone it down, sir. Well, that's a reoccurring thing
• 1:03:45
  for Choppers. He does that. Whatever anyone compliments him, he does that
• 1:03:50
  kind of like ah shucks kind of pose, but then he insults them really
• 1:03:53
  harshly through his words, which like it doesn't feel his personality in general,
• 1:03:58
  but it just makes me think of a doctor Kreha, the witch doctor who
• 1:04:04
  helped teach him, Like that's probably her influence, just like, oh yeah,
• 1:04:09
  it's stilt the shit out of people, like who gives a hell he
• 1:04:12
  does, but it's never that harsh. I felt like phony bastard was taking
• 1:04:16
  it an extra step. Usually he'll just be like, oh, shut up,
• 1:04:20
  you stupid, which like that is a thing that I'll say, like
• 1:04:24
  affectionately to my husband. Occasionally he'll make a joke, and I'll just shake
• 1:04:29
  my head and just be like, God, you are so stupid, and
• 1:04:31
  then he'll giggle hysterically to himself because he knows that I thought that was actually
• 1:04:38
  funny. But if I ever was just like owing you phony bastard, and
• 1:04:43
  he would be like, what the hell? What is that? Where are
• 1:04:49
  you that coming from? I don't remember what it was like years ago at
• 1:04:54
  this point, like probably like a good twelve years ago, and there was
• 1:04:57
  some podcast I was listening to where a guy like made a comment and his
• 1:05:02
  co host said, you are a sham and a hell beast, and that
• 1:05:10
  like lodged itself in my brain, and that is the thing I think all
• 1:05:14
  the time now, but I never say it out loud because without context,
• 1:05:16
  it sounds like I'm being incredibly aggressive for like no reason calling somebody a sham.
• 1:05:25
  I mean that's harsh. Yeah, I'm just like, this is anyway
• 1:05:43
  fucking monument. It's like a ship. Yeah that has a what looks like
• 1:05:50
  the Lion's head of the Sunny on it. I don't remember what his ship
• 1:05:57
  actually looked like, but did the figurehead look like this or is this supposed
• 1:06:01
  to be? I thought that this was like a nod to who built it,
• 1:06:06
  like Frankie being like, oh, we'll include some of the Sunny just
• 1:06:10
  to like sort of it's just signal that we had a hand in this.
• 1:06:16
  But it's the Sunny like Lion Maine. But then there's like a skull in
• 1:06:21
  the middle of it with horns, and I don't know, like I don't
• 1:06:27
  remember at all. The the skull with horns was the Rumbar pirates like thing
• 1:06:33
  on at least their first ship. Yeah, so I think the Sunny the
• 1:06:39
  other thing is a reference to the Sunny. But yeah, their figurehead specifically
• 1:06:43
  was all a skull with horns, like it almost looked like a like a
• 1:06:45
  cow skull or something. Yeah, which I thought was weird because like,
• 1:06:49
  their whole thing is music. I thought I thought there would be something referencing
• 1:06:55
  that. I don't get what this is. Everybody's about, like pretty strong
• 1:07:00
  thematic ties between their their gimmick and the symbol on their ship and this one
• 1:07:09
  I didn't understand. I also don't understand Rumbar either, where that name comes
• 1:07:15
  from, if there's anything there, Okay, I just wanted to check because
• 1:07:19
  you know, I'm gonna I just had their page open on the wiki,
• 1:07:23
  so I'm gonna check. But okay, yeah, um ah, says Cowbell.
• 1:07:30
  Combination of two words. Okay, so it's rumba, which refers to
• 1:07:38
  a family of musical rhythms and dance styles to date originate in Africa, and
• 1:07:42
  then combining that with lumbar aka the section of bones and spinal cord, which
• 1:07:47
  is part of the skeletal system, so that it's it's another skeleton. Pun
• 1:07:55
  that was the point that is in a hat. Also, it's a stretch
• 1:08:01
  and a half. It's a stretch and a half. I don't feel like
• 1:08:04
  that works, but it's not important, so it's fine. But m Oda
• 1:08:12
  is all over the place. Sometimes he'll do things and I'm like, oh,
• 1:08:15
  that's fun. And then he'll do stuff and I'm like, why did
• 1:08:17
  you bother? Who is going to get that. I'm half convinced that what
• 1:08:23
  you just read me is also just headcannon. That's just like completely nature.
• 1:08:29
  It did end, it ended a citation needed, and so I'm guessing great,
• 1:08:33
  probably Oh that's good. Um but yeah, like the volument is kind
• 1:08:44
  of silly looking, but I do really appreciate, like, you know,
• 1:08:47
  Brooke is like taking this moment very like he's being very quiet and sincere in
• 1:08:53
  his appreciation, and then everyone else just like, all right, we're gonna
• 1:08:58
  go. You chill out here, I guess, and it is just like
• 1:09:02
  lovely, like I could get like Yetta leave him to kind of grieve a
• 1:09:05
  little bit. Yeah, and then Zoro shows up, who's finally awake.
• 1:09:13
  It was so unexpected. I thought that his waking up was going to be
• 1:09:16
  a lot more of a production. And the fact that he just like strolls
• 1:09:20
  on up and he's like awake. Now, I was not expecting this at
• 1:09:26
  all, and he is very respectful. I wasn't sure how he was gonna
• 1:09:35
  behave here, you know. Um Yeah, Brooks says, in case you
• 1:09:40
  haven't heard, I officially joined the crew, and Zoro says, well,
• 1:09:45
  that's too bad for you. This is a crew that can be a real
• 1:09:49
  handful and it's an easy thing for Zoro's day with Zoro is a good handful
• 1:09:58
  and a half him selling God a lot of the time. That felt very
• 1:10:03
  innuendoe. But I'm going to not mention what I was thinking at all.
• 1:10:12
  I would never I would just not even I didn't even say it. So
• 1:10:18
  I'm very mature and everybody should appreciate me about hero. I would have said
• 1:10:26
  that about hold on, I have a brand here, a handful and a
• 1:10:32
  half. You say, mmmm, well, well, well, but yeah,
• 1:10:42
  if it sits with him. I always enjoy by the way, I
• 1:10:45
  know I've talked about these, but the little interstitials where they would normally put
• 1:10:51
  it like a commercial, you know, they don't have those on the Netflix
• 1:10:56
  one and then going to Funimation, I forgot they existed. They come back,
• 1:11:00
  and the one for Zoro is him like yawning widely, and then when
• 1:11:08
  he like finishes yawning, there's like a tear at the corner of his eye,
• 1:11:11
  like he just woke up, and his eyes are sort of gummy.
• 1:11:15
  Not what I would expect. I would think that Zoro's little interesting would be
• 1:11:19
  like him fighting and being a badass. And I don't know why, but
• 1:11:21
  I really enjoy the fact that it was he just was asleep, because really,
• 1:11:29
  if you look at the ratio of how much time he spends sleeping to
• 1:11:32
  fighting, the sleeping is a lot higher, So that makes sense. And
• 1:11:39
  I don't know, I just wanted to mention that because that this was the
• 1:11:42
  interstitial right after they're a little seen together. Oh, my god, I
• 1:11:48
  forgot when we come back, Brooks got an interstitial now, you guys,
• 1:11:55
  I think this is the first one. Oh, I don't remember what it
• 1:12:00
  is. Oh my god. Okay, So he's running on the surface of
• 1:12:02
  the water really fast like a Looney tune. Oh, yes, which I
• 1:12:09
  don't know that I knew that was a power of his, but I yes,
• 1:12:13
  I got a little bit spoiled by the interficial there. It's come up
• 1:12:17
  at least once or twice this arc, but it's okay to forget it.
• 1:12:21
  It comes up rarely, and the idea is supposed to be because he's just
• 1:12:26
  a ghost animating bones. He's light enough that he can run over water,
• 1:12:30
  which doesn't make yes, because he like runs from the sunny to thriller bark
• 1:12:39
  m hmmm, Why I forgot about that? What a weird Okay, yeah,
• 1:12:44
  that doesn't make sense, but sure, and no sense. But listen,
• 1:12:49
  it's a fun idea. And you know how like the it goes from
• 1:12:54
  the character and then it's it's like you're looking through a telescope and then it
• 1:12:59
  slides down to like an object of theirs. So for Zoro, it's his
• 1:13:02
  swords for Brooke, and this is my favorite out of all of them,
• 1:13:09
  for what will be very obvious reasons. We've got an intricately carved wooden straight
• 1:13:15
  back chair with a violin and bow resting on it, and the chair is
• 1:13:20
  sitting by a table with a truly gorgeous tea set and a full cup of
• 1:13:28
  tea and what looks like some cakes sliced bread and like a three layer like
• 1:13:36
  maybe me if we are or Napoleon type pastry with like a bunch of frosting
• 1:13:42
  and fruit on the top. So Brooke favorite character officially now because of his
• 1:13:49
  interesticial, I would like to go to their thank you. Oh that looks
• 1:13:56
  great. You guys have attempted to take a screenshot of this, but it's
• 1:13:59
  going to have all of the writing from the episode over it, ruining it.
• 1:14:02
  I need you guys to find me a good, like clean picture of
• 1:14:05
  this and I'll make it like a background image on my ipatters something. Um
• 1:14:15
  so, so go ahead. Sorry, Oh I was just gonna say yeah,
• 1:14:20
  but so uh Zoro came up because he's burying his uh he's burying his
• 1:14:27
  sword right the loss of the sword that broke in I think Eddie's lobbyist when
• 1:14:33
  the sword broke. That sounds right. Yeah. I think it was like
• 1:14:39
  a yeah, somebody who was wielding sand or rust rust It was no,
• 1:14:45
  it was a rust. It was a rustability and everything. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:14:49
  Oh that was so freaky. And it was like the sort was important
• 1:14:53
  to him too, and so he yeah, and so you know, yeah,
• 1:14:57
  he's giving it a little kind of own little burial here. Um trying
• 1:15:02
  to think because we started off with the beaver card stuff. They're going they
• 1:15:08
  want to go to mermaid uh Fishman Island next, Um, yep, uh,
• 1:15:17
  that's that's stop. They're talking about how mermaids don't wear panties. I
• 1:15:25
  forgot about Brooks unfortunate. Maybe she could, maybe she'll show me Brooks.
• 1:15:30
  Can you just stop it with that? It's just truly, could you stop
• 1:15:34
  it? Could could say stop it? Could it just that whole thing,
• 1:15:39
  just all of them start bleeding. I do just appreciate that all that's happening.
• 1:15:47
  And then it just cuts over to Torom just goes mermaids have a bottom
• 1:15:53
  half. That's just fish. Yes. She's just like so befuddled by their
• 1:15:57
  interest in this entire topic. Yep. And I'm like, see, I
• 1:16:01
  know you're not as big a fan of Robin, but that's like why I
• 1:16:03
  enjoy Robin. I don't know what's wrong with the rest of you. But
• 1:16:09
  Okay, there's a Futurama episode I think where like Fry falls in love with
• 1:16:15
  a mermaid and they go to have sex and he's thinking mammal ish sex,
• 1:16:21
  but she's like, yeah, I'm gonna lay my eggs and then you'll just
• 1:16:25
  like come on top of them, and he's like, I'm gonna that.
• 1:16:31
  They go. I feel like Fry says something to them later about like we
• 1:16:35
  realized we loved each other, but we weren't in love, and somebody just
• 1:16:40
  goes problems in the bedroom really loud. I still remember that. That's a
• 1:16:46
  good, good mermaid joke. But yeah, this, uh, this dude
• 1:16:50
  as well. He's one of the risky brothers. Is that you know,
• 1:16:58
  the one I'm I'm talking about. But he's the one who's like talking to
• 1:17:00
  them about what mermaids are. He's not joining them though he's part of Lola's
• 1:17:03
  crew. I guess so. Florian says Headcannon for Brooke. He has been
• 1:17:12
  so desocialized by being alone for life fifty years, so he does not know
• 1:17:15
  how to talk to women anymore. I want to believe that, Florian,
• 1:17:18
  but I just have a really bad feeling that he is just like this.
• 1:17:24
  I want, I want to think that you're right, but I don't want
• 1:17:30
  to get like if that were true, then it would follow that as he
• 1:17:34
  becomes socialized again, he will stop saying things like this. And I don't
• 1:17:39
  have a lot of hope that's going to happen. I just feel like I'm
• 1:17:41
  gonna have to put out with it, which I don't love, but be
• 1:17:45
  gonna do. Jessica says, when we first met Brook, he was drinking
• 1:17:51
  tea. I forgot about that. That's right. When he was he was
• 1:17:55
  just like singing to himself, drinking a cup of tea as they passed him
• 1:17:59
  in the fog. That was a hell of a first meeting too. I
• 1:18:03
  forgot about that, Thank you, Jessica. Okay, So yeah, this
• 1:18:10
  is when the viver card thing is introduced and we have everybody thinking that we're
• 1:18:15
  going to go and rescue Ace and that is definitely not what Lufy wants to
• 1:18:19
  do. And also, as we're departing Thriller Bark all of the other crews
• 1:18:27
  saying like, you know, maybe we'll meet again someday, so I'm sort
• 1:18:30
  of interested to see if we do ever run into them again. I'm also
• 1:18:34
  very curious whether or not Lola's mom is going to turn out to be anybody
• 1:18:38
  we know, or if it's going to be a completely brand new person.
• 1:18:43
  I'm gonna go with probably brand new, because this show doesn't seem to want
• 1:18:46
  to do the like everything is super interconnected thing all the time that some shows
• 1:18:56
  in series is fall prey to. I won't name any names, but it's
• 1:19:00
  definitely a thing. I Oh, I know exactly what you mean. I
• 1:19:04
  there is like some there's something with some writers where they're like, the more
• 1:19:11
  tightly knit and the more interconnected things are, the better things are. And
• 1:19:15
  I'm always like, I'm much more like the what's the word, like,
• 1:19:18
  the maximalism, not minimalism. Don't keep cutting. Just make your world expansive
• 1:19:24
  and beautiful and richly full of a bunch of different stuff. People was like,
• 1:19:28
  Oh, what's a coincidence that? Blah blah. I'm like, yeah,
• 1:19:30
  there's billions of people in this world because happened. I don't know what
• 1:19:34
  to tell you. Coincidences do, in fact happen, and it's not bad.
• 1:19:40
  Storytelling, Like why did this character go here at this time? I
• 1:19:44
  don't know, because they felt like it because they wanted to get some new
• 1:19:47
  body washed and it just happened to be sold there. Who knows, who
• 1:19:50
  cares? But yeah, your theory, Oh yeah, kids say think about
• 1:20:00
  your theory, but I will say I will ask you about rather. The
• 1:20:05
  way that the episode ends is with this like, oh yeah, a lot
• 1:20:09
  of ships have always disappeared in the Florian Triangle and it happened long before Thriller
• 1:20:15
  Bark was ever there. And you just see this horrified, like this outline
• 1:20:19
  of something in the mists. It's like, maybe it's a good thing the
• 1:20:23
  mists are there, so the people there aren't aware of what's near them,
• 1:20:27
  and it's like, what does that mean? Though? What the whole hell?
• 1:20:32
  Because like we had so I'm trying to remember it was right before they
• 1:20:36
  went to Skypea. I think that they saw those giant shadows and it turned
• 1:20:42
  out to be like a weird trick of light, right yeah, like yeah,
• 1:20:51
  it was shadows of people on the White White Sea being sent down to
• 1:20:56
  the cloud layer, right, okay, giants, Because I was like,
• 1:21:01
  we've seen something like this very sort of intimidating, and then it turned out
• 1:21:09
  to kind of be nothing, even though in the moment I was like,
• 1:21:13
  what is happening, it wasn't really anything. It just was like, Oh,
• 1:21:17
  that's a weird optical illusion. But this we've got like three what almost
• 1:21:23
  looked like chimneys, like peaks that are sticking up straight out of the water,
• 1:21:30
  and what do they look like to me? Or like tree trunks?
• 1:21:35
  And one of them has these two bright red what you want to say,
• 1:21:43
  our eyes because of the way that they're set, But it may not be.
• 1:21:48
  It might just be a trick to make you think that it's eyes.
• 1:21:50
  I don't know. And they're not all the same height. The one with
• 1:21:55
  the eyes is the one in front, middle and I say front. It
• 1:21:59
  looks like it's closest, but maybe not. And then there's one next to
• 1:22:04
  it and further back, and I can't tell if they're actually shorter or if
• 1:22:09
  it's just that the way the fog is falling makes them look like they're shorter.
• 1:22:15
  But yeah, they're just like hidden by the fog. So we get
• 1:22:20
  this little aside with the voiceover guy who makes an appearance for the first time
• 1:22:26
  in a while. I think and then no further explanation as our friends like
• 1:22:31
  sail away from it, and I have to assume that this is going to
• 1:22:33
  eventually come up again. But I do find it really funny that it seems
• 1:22:39
  like we're being told this and then going to leave it behind for a while
• 1:22:44
  and who knows when the hell we're coming back to it, which is like
• 1:22:47
  how the show operates a lot of the time. They'll introduce an idea or
• 1:22:51
  a character and then just drop it for a hundred episodes and then boom,
• 1:22:58
  bring them back again and like, oh, I literally forgot all about it.
• 1:23:04
  I don't know what to make of that, genuinely no idea. Yeah
• 1:23:09
  I don't either. I mean, it may really just makes me think of
• 1:23:13
  just how wide and expanse of the one piece world is. It's I think
• 1:23:16
  up there with among fantasy is like one of the most like hugely scoped fantasy
• 1:23:24
  settings in a good way of just you know, we're spending all this time.
• 1:23:29
  Most of the series thus far has been on the Grand Line. The
• 1:23:31
  Grand Line is just like a bit of a bit of water on the equator.
• 1:23:36
  Basically, it's just the water around the Equator, and we're having all
• 1:23:40
  of these adventures here, there's this whole rest of this world, and we
• 1:23:44
  get little bits. I mean, they mentioned with the grave thing. You
• 1:23:46
  know, Brooke is originally from the West Blue, which is comp opposite end
• 1:23:49
  of the world where we started in East Blue, and the and so is
• 1:23:54
  Thriller Bark. Thriller Bark itself is from the West Blue, which he mentioned,
• 1:23:59
  and that he felt it was nice that his fellow countrymen could be buried
• 1:24:03
  in soil of their homeland, which is like a nice idea there, But
• 1:24:11
  yeah, I would feel away about them, not not the place I would
• 1:24:16
  want, but I get it. Yeah, But yeah, it's you know,
• 1:24:21
  it's this. They could come back to the these Florian Triangle creatures or
• 1:24:27
  they could not, and I could see either possibility being, you know,
• 1:24:30
  equally likely, just because this is one piece. It's a big world.
• 1:24:33
  Some of it we're not I don't know if you've heard the Monka's kind of
• 1:24:39
  close. We're on the final arc apparently right now or something close to it,
• 1:24:42
  and so it's it's not going to be able to wrap up every single
• 1:24:45
  little little referenced piece of world building at this right. I didn't know that
• 1:24:50
  there was any end in sight. So that is really surprising to me.
• 1:24:56
  I mean, who knows this, and this ending arc could take another three
• 1:25:00
  or four years, but still we're in the home stretch, man, and
• 1:25:05
  it feels like it. Trust me, it feels like we're in the home
• 1:25:09
  stretch. But yeah, that's the episodes. Did you have any thing you
• 1:25:15
  want to talk about otherwise about the arc or the I don't know really the
• 1:25:23
  only thing and I don't know that this like because we've seen a little bit
• 1:25:27
  of the sunny but not all of it. We haven't seen, for example,
• 1:25:31
  where everybody sleeps, which I know that this is not usually important to
• 1:25:36
  a lot of people, but it's something that I'm always very preoccupied by.
• 1:25:40
  And if you listen to the Doctor Who episodes, you'll hear me like really
• 1:25:45
  wanting to know what it's like to live in the Tartists and we never really
• 1:25:48
  get good details on that, but I really want to know if everybody does
• 1:25:56
  get their own bedroom, and if so, what does Brooks room look like,
• 1:26:00
  because I want to see I have to imagine it's like very intricately carved
• 1:26:04
  in the style of his little you know, that little moment. But I
• 1:26:12
  want to see more of the sunny I'm just going to say that right now,
• 1:26:15
  because it's so huge, and it seems like to a degree, things
• 1:26:20
  are being kept from us on purpose so that we can bring it out as
• 1:26:23
  a surprise. But I want to I want to get to explore it a
• 1:26:29
  little bit more. And I am going to go back and watch some of
• 1:26:31
  the episodes that were filler where apparently it becomes a submarine or there is like
• 1:26:35
  a submarine that got launched which I missed, so I'm looking forward to getting
• 1:26:42
  to see that. But that's not really a common on this episode. It's
• 1:26:45
  just now that he has joined, I'm wondering if we're going to get more
• 1:26:47
  of a tour. Maybe not, but mostly I honestly, I have a
• 1:26:51
  similar complaint about the show and Doctor Who. Want to say someone actually doesn't
• 1:26:56
  you know personally character flaw? I like Doctor Who, uh the the I
• 1:27:01
  do wish I got to see more of the artist. I do wish I
• 1:27:04
  don't like The Thousand Sunny personally that much. I can kind of prefer the
• 1:27:08
  Mary, but I do wish we had more downtime between episodes of just the
• 1:27:14
  crew hanging out and like, what's there downtime? Like we don't get enough
• 1:27:18
  crew downtime. Um, that's what I live from down in stories everything.
• 1:27:28
  Gus says, Oda drew the floor plan of the Sunny in SPS and the
• 1:27:30
  Mary too earlier. What's neat cool that we have the floor plan. Maybe
• 1:27:36
  someone could post that in the discord. Also on that topic, I did
• 1:27:43
  want to bring up to you. Uh, there's a bunch of cover those
• 1:27:47
  cover art stories from the manga that don't get adapted into the anime at all.
• 1:27:53
  There's a couple that you haven't uh, we haven't had you go through.
• 1:27:58
  We'd probably recommend reading him sometimes soon because you know, there's it is
• 1:28:01
  possible, like with the hell Mepo Kobe stuff and Lufy's grandfather one, it's
• 1:28:08
  possible these things can become relevant. Um, gotcha. But yeah, just
• 1:28:15
  some of us. One of us will probably send you that soon. Okay,
• 1:28:18
  cool. I thought I would deliver that onto you. As you know
• 1:28:21
  from the One Piece Crew, that's a thing we've been talking about. I
• 1:28:27
  also want to mention, did you watch the trailer for the live action?
• 1:28:30
  I have watched the trailer. I am trying to I don't. I try
• 1:28:38
  to never get excited about trailers because trailers are by their nature deception and true,
• 1:28:45
  like they're never going to really show you that what the finished product is
• 1:28:48
  going to be, like it's not possible, and so I don't. I
• 1:28:51
  try not to hold too much stock in them, but like, I'm tentatively
• 1:28:55
  excited. I think the casting is on point. I love the cat top
• 1:29:00
  to bottom. I think the like some of it feels a little weird,
• 1:29:05
  but almost like, well, yeah, I'm used to this being in cartoon,
• 1:29:06
  this is in life action. It's going to the transition is going to
• 1:29:10
  feel a little odd. I want to give it a shot. The sets
• 1:29:13
  look nice. It seems like they're doing a lot of things practical where they're
• 1:29:15
  able to you know, I'm going to give it a shot. Yeah,
• 1:29:20
  I'm pretty excited about it. And it's been commissioned for those listening who didn't
• 1:29:25
  know the whole first season, so I'll be watching it. I think it
• 1:29:30
  doesn't come out until August, and I think I actually started in August,
• 1:29:34
  so it won't be too long after, might be September, but either way
• 1:29:41
  it's it won't be too long of a wait between when it drops and when
• 1:29:44
  I get to cover it. So I'm really excited about it because I was
• 1:29:47
  sort of expecting that it was going to come out and I wasn't going to
• 1:29:49
  be able to watch it. And there's a possibility, I guess very slight
• 1:29:56
  that, like there's spoilers for later stuff in the main series that they decided
• 1:30:01
  to just drop into the live action as like Easter Egg stuff, or maybe
• 1:30:06
  they're telling some stories out of order. I don't know, but hopefully not.
• 1:30:11
  I don't. I don't see any reason to expect that, just sometimes
• 1:30:15
  they'll do that with things that are huge series. Um, but yeah,
• 1:30:18
  I'm pretty stoked back in into cover that. So anybody's listening who wants to
• 1:30:23
  hear you talk about it, you'll get to it's coming. And Zoro is
• 1:30:27
  bay as hell, oh my god, Lord of Mercy also, so I'll
• 1:30:34
  just pretty bay. I also really like the actor they got for USAP because
• 1:30:39
  USAP is also one of my personal bays. And then, yes, speaking
• 1:30:42
  of I did want to say, well, I'm not the biggest fan of
• 1:30:45
  this ark in general, USA. I'm actually really behind a listening to the
• 1:30:50
  episodes. I Since moving, I haven't had a lot of time for listening
• 1:30:54
  to podcasts except for A Song of Ice and Fire, which is the one
• 1:30:57
  thing. I'm staying on top of you, Rashwan on that one. Um,
• 1:31:01
  But so I don't know what your reaction to it was. But the
• 1:31:04
  USA Perona fight is to me another one of the lights of this arc.
• 1:31:09
  Like that one was so fun and I don't know why it gives me so
• 1:31:13
  much joy. But the whole thing that her power doesn't work on him because
• 1:31:16
  he's basically already depressed and has low steam is just so it was a genius.
• 1:31:21
  It was. It was very genius. Yeah, I love that that
• 1:31:27
  being like the one time that he's like trusting the Eye can handle her.
• 1:31:30
  You guys go on ahead of course, it's it's the depression monster. Yeah.
• 1:31:36
  And then eventually and the ghosts get depressed themselves and they they stop and
• 1:31:47
  like a hang their heads, and he's had the same effect on them that
• 1:31:51
  they're supposed to have on him. That was so good. I loved it
• 1:31:55
  so much. Anyway, all right, it's to wrap up. Is there
• 1:32:00
  anything else that you wanted to say before we finished this episode off? I
• 1:32:05
  guess before we finished it off. I mentioned this before we started, you
• 1:32:09
  know, doing the podcast part. But I'm actually a regular podcaster. Now
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• 1:32:18
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• 1:32:25
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• 1:32:36
  cool, all right, Well everybody looked for Trish and look for me
• 1:32:43
  again on Thursday until then to the loom, motherfuckers. That was an Unspoiled Network podcast