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One Piece, 832 & 833 · Spoil Me! One Piece

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  Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me,
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  Speaker 1: covering one piece episodes eight thirty two and eight thirty three.
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  Speaker 1: A Deadly Kiss, The Mission to Assassinate the Emperor kicks
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  Speaker 1: off and returning the Sackey cup. The manly Jimbei pays
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  Speaker 1: his debt in these episodes. It's time for Now you
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  Speaker 1: may kiss the bride, and now you may shoot the groom.
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  Speaker 1: Except she doesn't. She doesn't shoot the groom. Oh my,
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  Speaker 1: what's happening? Maybe he has won her over. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning this episode.
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  Speaker 1: that schedule in place. Anyway, thank you, Florian, appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: So these episodes are very, very fun. I was actually
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  Speaker 1: really pleasantly surprised, because y'all know, like it's it can be.
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  Speaker 1: It can be so so drawn out sometimes that there
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  Speaker 1: are times where I will realize I didn't even like
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  Speaker 1: kind of clock it initially, but I will go into
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  Speaker 1: an episode and I will suddenly realize, oh, I was
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  Speaker 1: waiting for this to take too long. I was anticipating
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  Speaker 1: that this was going to go on for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of episodes, and I cannot tell you all how genuinely
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  Speaker 1: shocked I was that now you may kiss the bride
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  Speaker 1: and the fallout afterwards actually happen in these two episodes.
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  Speaker 1: I really thought that the wedding itself wants like he's
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  Speaker 1: going up to the altar and they are beginning to
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  Speaker 1: exchange their vows or whatever. I really thought this was
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  Speaker 1: going to be at least four episodes long. And the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it's like low key on one and then
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  Speaker 1: we jump into all of the insanity afterwards once they
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  Speaker 1: get interrupted. This is shocking to me, you guys, Like genuinely,
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  Speaker 1: I am very pleased. Please do not get me wrong,
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  Speaker 1: but I fully thought this was going to take forever,
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  Speaker 1: and I cannot tell you how delighted I am. I mean, amazing,
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  Speaker 1: so much better than I was thinking. Also, the development
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  Speaker 1: of Sanji's reaction to her eye influencing her now look
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  Speaker 1: Sanchi saw her eye when he was outside her window.
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  Speaker 1: So I confess to being just a little bit puzzled
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  Speaker 1: because the reaction that he gives her when he sees
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  Speaker 1: it feels actually quite genuine It doesn't feel like he's
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  Speaker 1: playing what's the word I want. It doesn't feel like
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  Speaker 1: he planned ahead for how he was going to react
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  Speaker 1: once she revealed her third eye that he already knew
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  Speaker 1: about and was like, Okay, here's the angle I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to play it with. It really feels as if he
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  Speaker 1: is seeing her eye for the first time. So I
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  Speaker 1: think that the way that I'm meant to see this
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  Speaker 1: is like to understand that, yes, he saw her eye,
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  Speaker 1: he knows it exists, but at the time when he
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  Speaker 1: saw it, he was in the headspace of just being
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  Speaker 1: devastated at the reveal of her betrayal. And now he
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  Speaker 1: is looking at her through the eyes of somebody who
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  Speaker 1: has like turned a corner in the midst of all
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  Speaker 1: of this and has decided that maybe he's in love
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  Speaker 1: with her after all. And that makes it so that
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  Speaker 1: he is more enchanted by her eye than he had
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  Speaker 1: been the first time he saw it, because it's not
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  Speaker 1: as tainted this time around as it might have been.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's be clear, it should be, it should be
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  Speaker 1: as tainted. But because he is so he's such a
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  Speaker 1: soft touch when it comes to women. Obviously, his headspace
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  Speaker 1: like is in a very different place right now. And
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  Speaker 1: it's extremely funny to me the way that this is
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  Speaker 1: all shaking out, because I really wasn't sure how he
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  Speaker 1: was going to be playing it once he was like
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  Speaker 1: actually in the moment with her, I think that, like,
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  Speaker 1: looking back, maybe I should have known it was going
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  Speaker 1: to turn out to be like this, but I really
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  Speaker 1: genuinely didn't give it enough thought. So what happens, and
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  Speaker 1: I will never stop laughing. You guys, this is such
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  Speaker 1: a great way to play this. What happens is that
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  Speaker 1: Sangi is so attracted to her. She's so beautiful that
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  Speaker 1: despite the fact that he knows that she intends to
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  Speaker 1: kill him, he can't seem to keep that in mind
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  Speaker 1: for long enough to really make him be cautious of her.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the attraction just overwhelms all the other knowledge
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  Speaker 1: in his head and makes it so that he like can't.
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  Speaker 1: He even tells himself at one point, you need to
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  Speaker 1: focus and remember that if like, as soon as she
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  Speaker 1: gets the chance, she's gonna kill you. But as he
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  Speaker 1: is thinking those words to himself, it's it's almost played
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  Speaker 1: as if like he's orgasming. As he's thinking about it,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, you have to remember as soon as she
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  Speaker 1: gets the chance, she's gonna kill you. And he gets
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  Speaker 1: this like heart eyes look on his face again, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just really like it's so it's not that he
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  Speaker 1: has forgotten. It's not that it's like, you know, this,
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  Speaker 1: this whole thing has slipped his mind. It's simply not
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  Speaker 1: that important anymore now that he is seeing her and
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  Speaker 1: how gorgeous she is, and he is about to add
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  Speaker 1: actually marry her and get to kiss her, and this
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  Speaker 1: whole thing in front of everybody, the fact that she
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  Speaker 1: wants to kill him, it's just kind of a detail
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  Speaker 1: that like, I guess we can worry about that eventually.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'll like tune back in once I need
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  Speaker 1: to like consider that. But even once he's actually at
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  Speaker 1: the altar, he knows full well the whole plan is
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  Speaker 1: contingent on him lifting the veil, and as soon as
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  Speaker 1: he does that, it's supposed to be that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: now she pumps his guts full lead, you know, And
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  Speaker 1: so one would expect for the for when he like
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  Speaker 1: lifts the veil, for that to be the moment that
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  Speaker 1: he is the most on edge and kind of going,
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  Speaker 1: oh god, okay, here it comes and not only is
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  Speaker 1: that not what happens, but he is also I think,
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  Speaker 1: like taken again. It's so weird. I want to say
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  Speaker 1: he's taken off guard by her eye, even though it
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  Speaker 1: really doesn't make sense that he's taken off guard because
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  Speaker 1: like he's meant to know that it's there. But I
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  Speaker 1: just I really do. I think that it's purely all
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  Speaker 1: about the fact that he is seeing her through a
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  Speaker 1: different lens, now that he had been looking at her
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  Speaker 1: before through eyes that were like, Okay, she's the villain,
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  Speaker 1: and now he is looking at her through eyes that
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  Speaker 1: are she's about to be my wife, and so he's
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  Speaker 1: just seeing it all differently than he did. And I
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  Speaker 1: kind of love this. I mean, it's just so sony,
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  Speaker 1: is it not. It's just so absolutely in character, and
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  Speaker 1: I like this satisfies every desire that I had in
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  Speaker 1: terms of how this whole story was going to go.
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  Speaker 1: There there are a lot of ways that you could
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  Speaker 1: have played this, but if you really wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: in like, if you wanted to be true to his
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  Speaker 1: character and make this feel like weirdly endearing at the
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  Speaker 1: same time as it being tense, I just looking at this,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how else it could have gone. This
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  Speaker 1: is perfect. You have him actually falling for her initially
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  Speaker 1: having her seem to be in love with him is
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  Speaker 1: just such a delightful surprise. And then rip the rugget
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  Speaker 1: right out from under us and have it be that
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  Speaker 1: she's a lying liar, and thus we're now afraid for him.
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  Speaker 1: He finds out I'm so sad on his behalf because
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  Speaker 1: he's heartbroken. He really thought, let me just accept my
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  Speaker 1: fate and lean into it, and maybe I can make
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  Speaker 1: this relationship into something. And then finds out that she
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  Speaker 1: actually doesn't care about him the way that she pretended,
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  Speaker 1: and that she has been fully lying to him with
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  Speaker 1: this dastardly plan the whole time. Now I'm worried about
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  Speaker 1: him on the day and I'm like, but at least
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  Speaker 1: he knows. And then on the day, yeah, he knows,
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  Speaker 1: but it isn't helping. It's not actually putting him on guard,
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  Speaker 1: it's not actually resulting in a change to his behavior.
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  Speaker 1: It's fully just oh yeah, I know that, but oh well,
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  Speaker 1: she's super hot. Have you seen her? It's fine, And
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  Speaker 1: and for what happens then this was like unexpected, and
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  Speaker 1: I actually think that in the previous episode when we're
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  Speaker 1: watching the way that Big Mom talks to Putting and
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  Speaker 1: the way that she says, and then he'll see her
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  Speaker 1: hideous eye and realize that she's a monster. I think
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  Speaker 1: at the time I was sort of like, that's fucked
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  Speaker 1: up that she's saying this, Like this seems to hurt
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  Speaker 1: her feelings because the way that the camera is on Putting,
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  Speaker 1: you don't really see her face in focus. But it's
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  Speaker 1: doing that thing that when anime has a character who's
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  Speaker 1: super super angry, it's just like the top half of
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  Speaker 1: their face is in deep shadow and so there's no
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  Speaker 1: features and you only see their mouth pretty much, so
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  Speaker 1: giving the impression that this upsets her, but we don't
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  Speaker 1: really get to see it being upsetting to her. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a sort of background thing. But I didn't predict
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  Speaker 1: that her being upset was actually going to be acknowledged
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  Speaker 1: because she's being just full on played as the villain.
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  Speaker 1: So I was I was like, actually sorry for her
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  Speaker 1: in that moment watching it, and was like, that's a
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  Speaker 1: really shitty thing to say, But you know, she's about
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  Speaker 1: to kill Soanji, and so I can only spare so
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  Speaker 1: much empathy for her before being like, well, that's what
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  Speaker 1: you get, you know, And then we wind up here
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  Speaker 1: where she lifts the veil, she reveals her third eye.
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  Speaker 1: Sanji appears to recoil for a moment, and she interprets
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  Speaker 1: this as there it is. There's the reaction, and she
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  Speaker 1: actually thinks to herself, good boy, stay just like that.
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  Speaker 1: So the plan here is very much I am going
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  Speaker 1: to like hit him in the moment when he is
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  Speaker 1: the most off his guard because he is so disgusted,
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  Speaker 1: and when he is I will then be able to
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  Speaker 1: kill him without any trouble because he is just his
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  Speaker 1: guard is down completely, you know. And then he says,
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  Speaker 1: how could you hide such a beautiful eye? And she's
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  Speaker 1: brought up short and it's just like hold on what
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  Speaker 1: and she actually collapses onto the ground. And this is
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  Speaker 1: something that we saw in I can't remember the name
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  Speaker 1: of the character, but he is the guy who can
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  Speaker 1: see into the future by like ten seconds something like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very short amount of time. But I always
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  Speaker 1: have been a big fan of this concept. This is
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  Speaker 1: something that you see in other properties as well, the
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  Speaker 1: idea of like they can see in the future, but
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  Speaker 1: not two massively important events necessarily only to things that
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  Speaker 1: are so like it will help them save their own
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  Speaker 1: lives or the lives of people around them if something
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  Speaker 1: were to happen in a certain way, but it won't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily be far enough ahead that they can like make
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  Speaker 1: major changes to fate itself, that kind of thing. So
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  Speaker 1: he sees that she collapses and actually thinks to himself, like,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? Why is she falling down? And when
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  Speaker 1: he gets this look on his face, Beije is watching
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  Speaker 1: him and sees him go hold on, what's And Beije
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  Speaker 1: is interpreting this as there is his reaction to the
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  Speaker 1: fact that the plan has gone off the rails. He
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  Speaker 1: sees that we are about to betray them, and Beija
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  Speaker 1: doesn't get at all concerned at this point. He's not like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: our plan is blown, which I was a little surprised by.
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  Speaker 1: I'll say that, like beij really takes it for granted
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  Speaker 1: that if the guy is able to see their plan
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  Speaker 1: at all ahead, that it's like not going to be
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  Speaker 1: enough of an advantage for this man to actually thwart
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  Speaker 1: the betrayal at all. And I probably I agree with him,
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  Speaker 1: like I just I will say though, that that's just
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  Speaker 1: enough of an advantage that I would be worried about it.
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  Speaker 1: But there's just not really a good way to counter
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  Speaker 1: that that I can think of. I like, I can't,
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  Speaker 1: you know, unless they know of some way to just
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  Speaker 1: utterly disable that power, but I don't think there is one.
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  Speaker 1: So you've just got a kind of hope that, like,
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  Speaker 1: if you're moving fast enough that this man can see ahead,
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  Speaker 1: won't really be of much advantage to him, which I accept.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's not always going to be a way
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  Speaker 1: around stuff, and to be honest, sometimes if there is
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  Speaker 1: a like a too easy way around stuff, that can
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit boring. So this adds an interesting
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  Speaker 1: bit of tension and the fact that it seems like
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  Speaker 1: we just have to kind of hope we can manage
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  Speaker 1: to pull this off anyway. I actually like that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of storytelling. But yeah, I was interested to
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  Speaker 1: see that Beije is observing him and assuming he is
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  Speaker 1: seeing that we are betraying them, and doesn't really seem
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  Speaker 1: to be very worried about the fact that that is
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  Speaker 1: what's happening. He just takes it for granted that they're
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  Speaker 1: still going to be able to pull all of this off.
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  Speaker 1: So then as she collapses. We get to like have
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of flashbacks to her childhood, and it's like
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  Speaker 1: really really sad of how many people just called her
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  Speaker 1: a freak, told her to get away, and the way
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  Speaker 1: that big mom tells her, you need to cover up
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  Speaker 1: your eye because you're creeping me out, and then later
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  Speaker 1: on she makes her cut bangs like explicitly to cover
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  Speaker 1: her eye. But then later the little kids at school
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  Speaker 1: jump her and cut her he bangs so that her
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  Speaker 1: eye is exposed, which is just so like gross of them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And I'm saying, like, oh my god, I
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  Speaker 1: was disgusted. Kids are like that too, And it's kids
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  Speaker 1: are a little sociopaths. It's truly, it's wild. It's just
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  Speaker 1: it's wild. So the whole flashback kind of culminates in
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  Speaker 1: her heel turn from being an innocent young girl who
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to be accepted by everybody into a person
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  Speaker 1: who is so angry and bitter at the way they
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  Speaker 1: have been treated by everybody that they have decided I'm
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  Speaker 1: just going to kill all of y'all because fuck you.
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, I kind of get it, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I was saying, like not to to rationalize a way
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  Speaker 1: becoming a total murderer, but I cannot help but to
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  Speaker 1: a degree be like, yeah, yeah, all right, fair. I
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  Speaker 1: will say that usually this sort of story beat is
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  Speaker 1: something that doesn't work for me. And what I mean
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  Speaker 1: by this sort of story beat is that I don't
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  Speaker 1: love it when somebody is like monstrously evil and then
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  Speaker 1: we get a flashback of the way that they were
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  Speaker 1: abused or bullied, and it's supposed to explain away, not
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  Speaker 1: explain away exactly, but sort of almost it feels like
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  Speaker 1: it's trying to excuse the actions in the present because
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  Speaker 1: it's like, well, they practically had no choice but to
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  Speaker 1: become a monstrous serial killer or whatever, look at the
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  Speaker 1: way they were treated. And it's something that really, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like began to happen pretty heavily in like the
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  Speaker 1: mid two thousands. It was like, we're going to have
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  Speaker 1: a villain that we then try very hard to humanize
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  Speaker 1: to a degree that sort of almost rationalizing why this
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  Speaker 1: is fine. And I think there's been enough pushback in
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  Speaker 1: the past ten years or so. It's an interesting thing
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: that sort of happened in our culture as well. It
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  Speaker 1: feels like we had a period where we tried to
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: behave as if whatever happened in your past that caused
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  Speaker 1: you trauma, it is valid that it is influencing how
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  Speaker 1: you behave now and that it explains and excuses the
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  Speaker 1: harm that you are doing other people. And then we
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  Speaker 1: began to grow a little bit beyond that and realize that, okay, no,
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  Speaker 1: it can explain why you're behaving this way, but it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make it okay the way you are treating other people.
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  Speaker 1: And it's sort of like the process that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of us go through when we actually go into therapy
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  Speaker 1: as well. Initially, oftentimes when people begin therapy there is
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  Speaker 1: a sort of feeling like this is all, Like all
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  Speaker 1: I need to say is well, I was abused when
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  Speaker 1: I was younger, and I can not make any effort
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  Speaker 1: to really change my behavior. If I explain why I'm
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  Speaker 1: like this, that's enough and it kind of gets me
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  Speaker 1: out of it. And as you grow as a person,
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  Speaker 1: you begin to realize that, like, no, I can say
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  Speaker 1: that this is why, but I have a responsibility to
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  Speaker 1: be a better person, to try and change my behavior
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  Speaker 1: that I know is hurting somebody and adapt and become
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  Speaker 1: better despite the way that I was treated, that it
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  Speaker 1: is my responsibility to take ownership of my own behavior.
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  Speaker 1: Now that I know it's harmful, Now that I have
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  Speaker 1: been made aware by that the party that I am
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  Speaker 1: harming that they feel a certain way about it, I
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  Speaker 1: must take that feedback and actually address that. And I
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  Speaker 1: I am saying all of this just to explain like
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  Speaker 1: the way that I was sort of reacting to this.
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  Speaker 1: There was a moment just for a second where a
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  Speaker 1: part of me was sort of like, oh, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: and I I decided that I like this a lot
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  Speaker 1: better than the usual way that this is done, simply
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  Speaker 1: because specifically what she was bullied about is the exact
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  Speaker 1: thing that Sanji is complimenting right now. And so the
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: fact that it's not just like I was abused in
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: this like sort of vague sense and that turned me
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: into a full on, like sadistic monster. It's really we're
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: finding out like it's a defense mechanism, and it's like
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: a response to feeling like she's never going to actually
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: be loved or accepted. And so this is the shocking moment.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: It's like if it were more open ended, if there
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: were more of a sense of like I am using
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: this as a catch all for why I'm like this,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: and then I think I would push back more. But
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: because it's so laser focused to the way she was
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: treated due to her eye and the way he is
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: reacting to her eye, I just have a very very
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: different response to it, and I think that this works
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: quite well. So yeah, I'm personally a big fan of this.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I can't help but laugh at the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: fact that she just starts yelling at Sangy basically like
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: fuck you. How could you say that to me? Like
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: how dare you? Because she doesn't even know how to
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: accept this compliment. It simply does not make sense to
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: her that what he is saying could be sincere because
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: it's like I hoped so much for this that I
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: am not trusting what I'm hearing now because it feels
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: like I'm just hearing what I want because it's exactly
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: what I've always hoped for, and so I must be diluted.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I must be the one who's like just not connected
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: to reality anymore. Or you know that this is a
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: particular weakness of mine, feeling this way about myself, and
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: that this is a way I have been treated, and
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: you are choosing to exploit that because you know how
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: self conscious I am and how much self loathing I
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: have around it, and I really I just like this
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: a lot in terms of a surprise beat. I was
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: not expecting this at all. I think it's just a
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: really compelling idea and the it's not resolved by the
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: end of these two episodes, obviously, but she does basically
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: just like collapse, and in the end Sanji has to
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: scoop her up and like carry her off using his
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: ability to like walk on the sky. Can't remember what
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: it's called. So now I'm super curious, like what is
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: going to happen with the two of them, because are
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: they technically married? Now? It feels like they must be.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: It feels like there's a like enough of a finish
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: to the what do you call it? The ceremony and
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: now you may kiss the bride. It's like I now
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: pronounce you man and wife has happened already, right, So
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: are they actually technical married? I don't really know what
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: that means for like their relationship, if it's changing anything
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: or if you know what I'm saying. I really don't know,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: but I am really really curious how they are both
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: going to be feeling about this, Like after some of
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the dust settles because putting you know, her whole thing
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: was meant to be, I shoot shot Sanji, and that
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: kicks off the whole bloodbath. And what that's when we
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: kill everybody else from Germa. And because that doesn't happen,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: the rest of the killing of people from Germa doesn't
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: get kicked off properly. Everybody is sort of like wrongfooted
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: by how the very first signal part of the plan
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: gets like screwed up. It's the priest that winds up
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: dead if Florian saying it's in the check how of Cory,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: that's the guy who can see ahead in the future.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: He's the same guy who flicks the uh the jelly beans?
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Is that right? I'm so sorry, guys. But like, for
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: those who aren't aware, the term flick the bean is
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: a slang term for like vaginal masturbation for playing with
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: your clip. And so every time I want to say
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: he flicks the bean at him, it just makes me
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: like I just giggle a little bit internally. So I
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: just really need to acknowledge that to just let you
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: know that's what I'm thinking. But so Floria, in his
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: ability to walk on the sky, I don't know what
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: it is called skywalk? Natasha skywalk? Is it? Is it
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: just called skywalk? I thought I had. So he's a skywalker,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: He's he's straight out of a fucking Star Wars. Okay, Florian, Yeah,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: he does flick the bean. I'm so sorry, but but yeah,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: So he spots the fact that like because in the audience,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Big Mom is watching and she like hisses at the priest,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: will you shoot him then? Because she can see for
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: whatever reason, Pudding isn't isn't gonna do it. And so
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the priest is about to draw a gun himself and
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, priest, it's like, he's not really you know
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And category sees Sonji is about to
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: like duck and dive real quick and completely like duck
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: that shot, So let me shoot him instead. He flicks
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: that bean lol, And Sonji still ducks and manages to
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: get around it, and he kills a guy on his
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: own side. He kills the priest, which is very embarrassing
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: to me, but you know, and yeah, and he this
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: is like kind of what makes everybody go, wait, what's
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: going on? Because Sanji's the one that's meant to get shot.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: The way that this is supposed to happen. It's not
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: supposed to be somebody on our side that got shot.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: And also we don't even know who shot him because
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: like Category is sort of in the back, you know,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: so they aren't even really aware of where the shot
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: came from. Everybody's just sort of looking around like what. Meanwhile,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: the people from drama are looking around like holl up,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: holl up, holl up, because they're they're like beginning to
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: clock the fact that shit's popping off somehow, but they're
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: not really getting like who it's directed at or what's
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: going on, because once again, this is somebody on Big
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Mom's side that just got taken, you know. So it's
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: just a real like confused moment. I sort of enjoyed that.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: And then we have loofy asterisk entrance. So this whole
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: thing with the wedding cake, You guys, this is one
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: of those things that's like yet again going to be
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: me saying that Big Mom is in the right, and
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: it's so funny because like, not only do I not
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: genuinely believe that, but also like cake is cake, and
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: that cake is still fine, and would it's fine, It's fine.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: You can eat so much cake still from that cake lady,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with it. But you know whatever, I
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: would argue, deciding to put the altar that the wedding
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: is going to take place on on the cake itself
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: is a weird choice. If the cake means that much
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to you, you know, it just sort of feels like
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: you're having them literally walk all over it. Why would
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: you do that when you're gonna be eating It's it's
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: the size of a building. This cake is huge, and
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: we get a whole song. I'm still not fully on
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: board with the musical nature of this arc. There's like,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: in theory, I actually do really kind of enjoy it,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: but in practice I think that I keep kind of
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: struggling with how I don't know if it's like I
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: should watch it when it's just subtitled and see how
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I feel about it then. But I will say that, like,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: in terms of the music itself, it's very discordant and
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: there's something really difficult to follow about it. It's like
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: the melody, there's not a sort of repetitive, you know
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, where you can begin to sort of
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: catch the melody. It's it's a really strange sound, which
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: might be on purpose to signify that this place is
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: fucked up, which valid, but I don't know if that's
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the same music in the original or if we are
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: getting different music for the dub or what. And then
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: like the singing itself, it sort of rhymes, but like barely,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: and the singing is not really seeming like connected at
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: all with the melody that's playing instrumentally underneath it. It
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: just feels like we're getting music that follows no pattern
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: from instruments, and then we're getting singing that somebody is
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: literally making up as they go along vocally. It's reminding me,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: honestly of how I sing to dogs, where you know,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: like I just begin to sing, like, here's Pip Ben.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: He's a good boy. He likes it when I scratch
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: his new I like to waggle his butt all around
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: and I have to pick up his poop. Like I
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: feel like what I just did is actually more coherent
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: really in reality. But it's been This has been kind
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: of the way it has been with every song, is
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: that the melody is just off and the vocals don't
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: really seem to go with it. The lyrics are odd
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: in a way that's like It could be the translation,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: or it could just be we made weird lyrics, you know,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but this whole moment, it's like the
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: crown glory of this chef who Florine is in the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: chat and says, the old head chef is called Strusen
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: and it means something like sprinkles in German. That's what like,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Because I was it made me think of strusel, which
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: is like the word oftentimes for the crumbles of It's
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: like basically usually sugar, butter, a little flour, and oftentimes
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: like cinnamon, and they are rubbed together into a crumble
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: that you like just put over the top of a
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: open pie, and so it's not really like a top crust,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: but it sort of forms a crust as it bakes.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Also put on the top of certain muffins or coffee cakes,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: and it's delicious, it's very lovely. But yeah, that's immediately
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: what I thought of. So the fact that it means
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: sprinkles is interesting because that would work, Florian says. The
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: music feels off and it just works for me for
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: that reason. I have things to say but can't yet.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, okay, but yeah, so whatever it is, like
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Streusen is very excited to present his cake, and I
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: just felt really bad for this guy because like it
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: just goes left so bad. It really, it's just so
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: unfortunate for him. So, you know, he has I don't
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: know if it's a shovel or an axe, or he's
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: got something that he like smashes into the ground and
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: it sort of causes the ground underneath him to split
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: and then the cake like comes up out of the ground.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Which I have a lot of questions about why you
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: would do it this way, just in terms of like hygiene,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Why would you have the cake come out of the ground.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: And if it's already come up out of the ground,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: if your big mom, why are you not then willing
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: to eat it after Lufy's crew like bus out of it?
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: You should be fine it. You should be totally fine
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: with it. However, I am willing to accede to the
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: fact that it's likely just the matter of the principle.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: It was supposed to be this beautiful cake. I was
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: supposed to have a moment when I got to slice
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: into it, and it was supposed to be like a
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: bit of a victory as well. After we killed this
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: whole family and now the whole plan is tanked. I
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: am not getting to kill this whole family. It's not
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: going as simply as I expected. And not only is
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: my plan tanked, but it has been tanked by them,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: destroying the very thing that I was looking forward to
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: eating afterward, which is insult to injury and like as somebody,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: I think that if I were to, like, if anybody
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: were to ask me my very favorite dessert, it probably
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: would be some kind of cake. I am very picky
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: when it comes to frostings, but cake itself is so
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: unbeatable in a lot of applications. I love the light,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: fluffy cake that you have with like a cupcake. I
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: love the dense pound cakes. I love cake pops, which
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: are denser. Still, I am a huge fan of vanilla.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: I know it gets like a lot of like people
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: malign vanilla as the boring flavor. Vanilla is not boring,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: it is it is underused. If anything, Usually when you
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: get something that's vanilla flavored, I don't think they've used
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: enough vanilla to call it vanilla flavored. I often double,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: if not triple, the amount of vanilla extract in a recipe,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: or I will use if it calls for a teaspoon
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: of vanilla, I'll do a teaspoon of vanilla, and then
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I will do a teaspoon of vanilla bean powder and
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: I'll get the lovely speckles in it from that as well.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I took choosing my wedding cake so seriously, and it
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: was one of those things where I was planning a
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: wedding out of state, and so I only had limited time,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: and I had to choose two different bakers to go
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: see while I was in Florida. And it was like,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: if I don't like one of these two, I don't
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna do because they're the only people
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: that I have time to actually see, and otherwise I
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: won't actually get to taste anything in person. So I'll
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: have to figure it out. And I went with a
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: friend and the first person that I went to see
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: it was this woman who was like she was probably
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: in her late sixties, and she had this amazing like
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: setup out of her home. It was she baked at home,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: but it was clearly that she had like a professional
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: setup within her home and she had all of these
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: like dummy cakes that were decorated and meant to be
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: an example of what everything could look like. And she
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: went very hard on tons of glitter and like kind
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: of rhinestone accents on the cake that were like edible,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: very glitzy, glammy. You know, I wasn't really looking for
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: that as an aesthetic, but her work was immaculate in
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: terms of execution, so I was sort of thinking, I
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: might not like that look, but she clearly knows what
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: she's doing, so if I chose a different look, I
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: think she'd be able to pull it off. But everything
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: that she brought out to us for tasting was clearly
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: like boxed cake mix and pre made fillings from like
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: a can from Cisco. It was so deeply disappointing, and
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: everything that I described about how I wanted my cake
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: to look, she kept like kind of bringing it back
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: around to but I don't want any sparkles. I'm not
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: looking for any glitter. And I started to realize, like,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: maybe she can't do anything else. And then the next
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: person I went to see it was this little dude
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: who looked like Elmer Fudd and spoke so similarly to him,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: and he just had this little rented office in like
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: an office park that clearly he rented it for the
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: day for like a couple hours we were meeting him.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: It had nothing in it of his, and he brought
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: several different cakes that he had made mini cakes. And
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: I sat down with my friend and we're sort of
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: looking at each other because we're like, nothing about this
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: is giving. I do this professionally, and the other woman
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: had such a setup. And we sit down and we
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: took a bite of one of the first cakes, and
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: my friend Lisa and I looked at each other and
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: we were like, holy shit. It was the most spectacular cake.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: And I think he used like Swiss butter cream or
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Italian buttercream. Unbelievable, and I wound up like saving some
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: of it and carrying it on the plane home to
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: bring to my husband to be like, you have to
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: taste this, and end up choosing a flavor he didn't
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: have on his menu. We did a dark chocolate cake
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: with a passion fruit curd filling and then just like
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: a plain vanilla frosting, and that he then covered with
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: chocolate fonda because it was like a brown and gold
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: and green cake with dark like burgundy flowers on it.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: It was gorgeous, and all of this to say, I
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: understand how much you get fixated on something like this,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: especially if you are a foodie. We wound up having
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: actually a dessert like display where there were chocolate covered strawberries,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: mini cheesecakes, mini tyrimisoux shooters, cake pops, all kinds of stuff.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: So the wedding cake wasn't actually the only dessert, but
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: for many weddings that it is, it's the only dessert
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: there is, and thus if it sucks, it's kind of
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: a dummer at the end of everything, you know, at
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: least for me. I know, plenty of people don't give
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: a shit by the time the cake is served. A
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: lot of folks are drunk already and they're just sort
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: of like, hey, snack nice and they don't even taste it.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: But uh, the way that she was fixating on this
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: cake so bad, it's just a really nice signal for
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: us of how she is going to utterly lose her
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: shit if something happens to it. And I kept thinking
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: when we heard her fixating on the cake, I kept
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: thinking about funniest home videos and like, this is a
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: thing now that is all like TikTok and YouTube. So
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: it's a different culture these days. But once upon a
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: time kids, you had to watch television and watch clip
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: shows on TV, and they would have assembled an edit
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: for you of funny videos that people physically mailed in
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: VHS tapes to show you. And it was I would
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: say probably twenty percent of those videos were people's wedding
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: cakes being ruined. It was either somebody was dancing and
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: they tripped and fell into the cake. It was like
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: the baker was rolling the cake out and it was
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: really really tall, and they were rolling a little too fast,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: and when they came to a stop, it's like kept
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: going without them and just and it is was always
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: so utterly tragic to me watching it, because the amount
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: of work that goes into baking a wedding cake. Like
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: you think, you know, I promise you if you have
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: not worked in pastry before, you don't. You don't really
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: get You don't get it. Even if you watch television
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: where they make cakes, they cut so much that it
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: just gives you a completely unrealistic idea of how easy
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: it is to do and how much like instinct is involved.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: You think watching it will get you to a point
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: where you can do it yourself, and then you start
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: to when you realize, like I don't even know how
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: to handle certain things that are happening right now because
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: my cake was a little too dry, or I cut
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: it while it was a little too warm, or I
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: put the icing on it and the icing started to
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: melt before you know. Like anyway, the destruction of a
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: wedding cake is something that I can understand her having
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: a total melt down over. I just want to say
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: that it's not even like it's not even really an overreaction.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: I was joking about there's still plenty of it that's
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: good to eat. But it's not even about that. It's
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: about what it represented. And we saw that she basically
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: waged war on a variety of islands to get the
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: ingredients for this. So she actually pulls the bakers in
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: front of her and tells them like that they had
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: better get her a new cake, which it's the amount
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: of ingredients that they had to use to make this.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Of course, they can't just get her a new cake.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: They can't do that, and they say so she's not
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: trying to hear that, and she says something to them
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: too about how like, since you wind like this cake
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: or this day, your lives are mine to do with
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: as I wish, and I was like, girl, they didn't
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: ruin your day, Loofy did it. She's blaming them because
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: they can't just like whip up another cake instantly. But
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: that's not like what you're saying. You're mad or you're
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: saying you're mad that somebody ruined the day, and they're
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: not even the ones who did that. And I really
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: felt for these guys because it was just it was
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: not their fault, you know, it was just not up
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: to them. If they had the ingredients to just make
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: a second cake, I bet they fucking would have. But
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: you wanted a cake that was literally like the size
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: of the palace itself. What are they supposed to do?
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: How do you even bake something like this? You would
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: have to I'm trying to imagine, and I'm thinking, like,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: you'd have to get a bunch of cake pans, and
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: you would have to bake thousands of separate cakes in
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: ovens all over the island, and then get those cakes
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: together and begin to assemble them into what looks like
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: one hole. But it wouldn't actually be a whole cake.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: It would be thousands of smaller cakes crammed together. Anyway.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Florian says the clips were funny, but they made weird voiceovers.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Why oh, funniest home videos. It was not just voiceovers too.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: They would do like slide whistles when people fell down,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: and like Boyeong whenever somebody like jumped up or down.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: It was a very They were very cartoony with it.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: It was a real era. Guys. Just know that if
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: you run across that sort of thing in videos now,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: it's probably an older person who's done the edit and
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: they are remembering funniest home videos and it's like kind
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: of a reference to that if anything. So she winds
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: up killing these guys, like I say killing, and again
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: with the show, like sometimes it's unclear if people are
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: really dead. The cooks don't seem to be important enough
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: that they are going to turn up later and be okay.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: But there have been plenty of people that I wouldn't
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: really have thought were worth it, so to speak, that
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: they did do that with. So I don't know for
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: all I know we are going to like see them
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: later and that they wind up surviving all of this somehow,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But it was just a moment of
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: opportunity for it to be explained to us. The audience
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: that the reason that these guys are like able to
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: be treated like this, I'm trying to find the word
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: I want. The reason that she is able to exploit
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: them is because they are afraid for their lives, and
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: if they weren't so afraid, they wouldn't be affected. But
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: it's sort of impossible to not be afraid for your
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: life when you are facing her down and she's doing this,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: So that gives us the setup for later on when
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: we have this whole thing happen with Jimbei, because the
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: face down that he does with her, she keeps trying
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: to harm him and nothing is happening, and she's just
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: sort of like, why isn't it working? What the fuck?
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: So we will get there, but first we have to
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: have a little bit of a flashback to what was
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: going on between Lufy and Beget, because Lufy had been
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: saying before about how he wanted to make a funny entrance,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: and Bejet was getting annoyed and being like, it doesn't
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: have to be funny, we just need to get this
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: thing done, to which Lufy makes an actually cogent response
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: of I will still get it done. I can be funny.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: At the same time it's fine, And I was like,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: you know what, he's not wrong. I don't want to
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: side with Lufy on this. I don't, not really, but
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: I have to acknowledge that you know that's true. You don't.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: It's not one or the other. The thing is, when
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: it's Loofy, it does sort of feel like it's one
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: or the other. It does sort of feel like you know,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: like you I don't know. So anyway, what it turns
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: out he was getting all of those animals together for
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: was because he was going to have Ballet turn the
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: animals into copies of himself. And then they put a
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: mirror inside the cake and they have all of the
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: animals go through the mirror doorway and interrupt by busting
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: out of the cake itself and ruining everybody's day. Amazing,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: no notes, none whatsoever. You guys, you know that I
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: don't off inside with Loofy when it comes to this stuff.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: But what am I supposed to do? Like this is
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: just a very good plan. It's a one to two punch.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: You have the distraction and the utter mayhem of all
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: of these animals running around, and you have shitting all
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: over the thing that Big Mom is so excited about
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: the cake itself. I mean, I'm hard pressed to think
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: of a better way to give her the finger and
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: get this party started. It's a perfect combination, you know,
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just like, as soon as I
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: realize exactly how this was going, I was sort of like, oh, yeah,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: that's pretty fucking solid actually, And you know, to his credit,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Beij is rolling with it and seeing the benefits of
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: this plan himself until the moment when big Mom is
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: like show yourself. And it is such a great moment
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: because you know, as soon as Bej is like why
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: would he do that? Of course he's not gonna show himself,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Like all of us were like, yeah he is, of
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: course he is. You know, we know Loufy at this
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: point and I was fully just like here it comes,
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: wait for it, and and yeah, he comes through dead last.
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: He's the fine. He lets all the animals go before him,
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: and we do see. I also want to point out
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: another somebody coming down the side of the cake as well.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: It's not the real Loofy, but it's also not a
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: copy that the animals are. The animals look like actual
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: full on copies. Their facial expressions might not look like loofy,
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: but their bodies do, but this other one it doesn't.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: It looks like a marionette a little bit like kind
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: of a Pinocchio vibe. And we then when we come
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: to the present and Lufy just like outs himself so
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: to speak to big Mom and is just like, here
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: I am, what are you gonna do about it? I
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: was just like, yeah, that makes sense, and poor Begi
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: is just like whah, why did he do it? And
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: I'm like, because he's very dumb, Beggie. I love Lufy,
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: but you know he isn't that smart. He came up
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: with this decent plan, but it was because it was funny.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: It wasn't because it was a smart Like what Beggi's
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: saying is this is obviously a huge distraction, so why
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: would he tell you which one is him? That is
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: not what Lufy was going for in executing this plan.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: It wasn't how excited he was for a big distraction
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: that is incidental to how fun it is to bust
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: out of a cake with a bunch of copies of yourself.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: It's a completely different objective. So Benji thinks that he
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: understands and he doesn't. He's being tactical about it. Loofy
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: is just here for the showmanship. He is the class
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: clown right now, you know. So Beggi is just so
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: certain that, like this is going to be handled a
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: certain way, and then Luff he doesn't do that, and
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: he's like surprise, Pikachi face, and I'm going over here,
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: like how do you not know who it is you're
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: working with? By now? Bro? Come now? And as this
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: is all going down, we have this you know thing
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: with Kardakuri and his like realization that, oh, I think
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: the reason that he is coming at you is not
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: actually to hurt you. I think he's trying to come
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: for the portrait of your mother. And if he is,
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: this means that somebody inside warned him about how important
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: this is to you. This is somebody who has insider info,
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: and that means there's a traitor and who could it be?
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: And Jimbay just straight out and it's like, hey, it's me,
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: the trader with no compunction whatsoever. It's so funny. He's like,
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: I'm the one who told him, and Big Mom is like,
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: so were you telling me you're a trader? And Jimbay
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: in the first moment of me being delighted by him, goes.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: I would say that is a fair assessment of the situation,
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: which is just honestly hysterical to me, just being like, uh, yeah,
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: I think that's right. Yeah, I think that's a fair
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: fair way to see this is I'm a huge trader
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: who's turning his back on you. Yeah, pretty much. I
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: was just cracking up. And then he does like the
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: whole and I'm leaving you and I'm joining the straw
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: Hat Pirates, and Lufy gets this shocked face, and I'm like,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: I thought we all knew this already. That's the one
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: thing about like how things will happen in this show
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: sometimes is folks will all act surprise, like we didn't
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: have this convo. I was like, I thought, like this
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: was we all knew this was the point. But regardless, yes,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: he is fully uh you know, copying to the fact
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: that he is turning his back on Big Mom. And
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: so she begins to try and use her ability on
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: him to like take his life for us. But surprise, motherfucker,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: he's not afraid. He isn't worried about, you know, like
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: losing his life. There's no sense of fear, so her
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: ability simply doesn't work right on him, it's not doing anything,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: and she's getting pretty salty about it, which I find
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: very fun because like I understand that it's gonna be
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: a very rare person that isn't afraid of death and
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: how do you even like deal with that when it
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: begins to pop up? Like what you know? So yeah,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: it's uh, I just this. This is the first time,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: like I said that, I was really enjoying Jimbe because
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: like I don't care about him much, and every now
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: and then he pops up and he does something absolutely clutch,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: and I'm just sort of like, oh you even then
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: he's super useful, but it's not enough to make him interesting.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: But here I at least had a moment of like
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: there we go, okay, nice, you know, And then at
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: the very last like moment, as it's feeling like okay,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: we've got this under control, we have loofy like gripped
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: up because like he got caught up in the sticky
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: thing that is category is like mochi ability. Mochi is
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: super sticky. It's why it's coated in that powder. So
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: you need water like of some kind to get out
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: to get free of it because it sort of I
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: guess dissolves it a little bit, but it seemed like
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: they had Loofy gripped up, but jimbe frees him and
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: then you know, cops this whole thing. But Category is
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: sort of feeling like, well, at least I have figured
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: out exactly what it is he's really after, and I
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: can protect the portrait, and he's got his eyes on
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: Loofy and thus misses that there is somebody else coming
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: up from behind who hits the portrait with a hammer
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: and breaks it into like ten pieces and he looks
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: into the camera and giggles and it's Brooks laugh. But
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: it just doesn't look like Brooke because he is this
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: weird kind of Loofy copy, but like not a proper copy.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: He just looks so weird, guys, he really does. And yeah,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: it's a good like surprise attack. And that is the
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: end of episode two. So I don't know how Bonker's
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: big mom is going to go because of this, Like
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: I feel like that being warned this is what they
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: are going after. There are certain personalities who would push
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: themselves to be as level headed in this moment as
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: they could because they are aware the point of this
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: is to throw me off and to make this whole scene,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: and I'm not going to give them the satisfaction because
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: it would be falling into their hands or into their
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: trap or whatever. I do not think Big Mom has
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: enough self control to avoid that. She is somebody who
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: is going to get as upset as she's going to get.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: It's simply impossible from what I see of her to
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: like sidestep it. She just isn't. She just doesn't have
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: self control on a lot of levels. And that seems
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: to be like a big, you know, failing of hers.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: So I guess we are going to see how this
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: all shakes out. And I'm really curious about like how
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: long Brook's disguise is going to last as well, because
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: she thought that Brooke was dead, that he was like
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: the little creature that she woke up with in her hand.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: And is it going to change anything for her if
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: she sees that it's Brooke who is still alive and
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: he's the one who did this, Like will it matter?
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: Will you know? I don't know. I don't know how
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: much that's going to play into anything, if at all,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I am very interested to see the next
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: one and see how much she falls into their trap
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: because I just feel like it's sort of inevitable. Well,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: we'll have to see everybody. I gotta wrap up. Thank
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: you all again so much for hanging out with me.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you Florian for commissioning this one and being in
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: the chat and whatnot. Appreciate you very much. And until
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: the next time, do the lou motherfuckers. That was an
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: Unspoiled Network podcast.