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One Piece, 924-926 · 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 924 through 926, the capital in
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  Speaker 1: an uproar, another assassin targets Sanji, dashing the righteous Soba Mask,
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  Speaker 1: and a desperate situation, Orochi's menacing Oniwabanshu. I hope I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying that right. In these episodes, Robin gets caught doing
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  Speaker 1: her sleuthing, but it turns out to not actually be Robin,
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  Speaker 1: so that's helpful. Also, we have got this whole geisha
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  Speaker 1: situation that seems to be kind of heating up and
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  Speaker 1: maybe going to turn into a rivalry. And fights, fights, fights,
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  Speaker 1: ending in Big Mom losing her memory. Welcome to Spoil Me.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very,
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  Speaker 1: very much to Michael for commissioning this episode. Michael, if
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  Speaker 1: you're listening, appreciate you very much. So this is a
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  Speaker 1: weird thing to start off with, but I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: do it because you guys just know that the whole
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  Speaker 1: Gesha thing is like of interest to me just in principle.
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  Speaker 1: I way, way long ago, read the book Memoirs of
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  Speaker 1: a Gesha that I think at the time I was
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  Speaker 1: simply not used to interrogating at all whatsoever the writer
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  Speaker 1: behind any particular property. I just did not have that
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  Speaker 1: kind of, not just critical thinking, but simple curiosity about it.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't until I finished the book and was
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  Speaker 1: feeling kind of impressed with the story that I found
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  Speaker 1: out it was written by a white guy and was
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  Speaker 1: sort of, oh, oh, and felt very different about everything
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden. But that said, I've never seen
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  Speaker 1: the movie. I know it got made into a film.
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  Speaker 1: But the story itself was very much like, about the
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  Speaker 1: rivalries between different women, but also the ways in which
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  Speaker 1: they are like leveraged and commodities and don't really get
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  Speaker 1: a choice in being rivals because they don't have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of agency in their lives. And I am really
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  Speaker 1: interested in like seeing what all is going on with
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  Speaker 1: that in this universe, because it's, It's feeling a little
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  Speaker 1: bit like we've got a bit, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: say more agency necessarily because that's unclear. But Komurasaki seems
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  Speaker 1: like she's able to kind of like state the terms
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  Speaker 1: of how things work for her. And I assume the
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  Speaker 1: money that she's scamming off of these guys that she's
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  Speaker 1: able to like keep a lot of it. But this
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  Speaker 1: is all assumption I don't really know enough. And we
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  Speaker 1: have this like, I can't remember his name, the prince
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  Speaker 1: type character, like he's the one that I think is
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  Speaker 1: actually the slasher. When he is asked about like taking
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  Speaker 1: a strong hand with her because she is so apparently
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  Speaker 1: it's like not that much of a secret among certain
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  Speaker 1: people that she is a hard ass, selfish bitch. And
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  Speaker 1: so somebody is saying like, you really must have had
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  Speaker 1: to take her in hand because she's got such an attitude.
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  Speaker 1: And I was genuinely surprised at him being like, she's
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  Speaker 1: not a dog. You just give people the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: like grow and flourish. And they will a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the time, which this guy is such a shit on
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  Speaker 1: so many levels that that considered and measured a response.
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  Speaker 1: I just never would have predicted coming out of his
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  Speaker 1: mouth in a million years. And I'm, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing with her, I'm assuming is that she wants
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  Speaker 1: to get close to the Orochi because she is trying
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  Speaker 1: to become his consort in a way that he is
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  Speaker 1: assuming is also true of Robin. And with Robin, there's
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  Speaker 1: like just a whole other ulterior motive, but, we know
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  Speaker 1: that with Komura Saki, like she wants wealth, she wants money.
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  Speaker 1: And I assume maybe power that goes with it. Although
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  Speaker 1: I'm really not sure how much of a priority that
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  Speaker 1: is specifically for her. And so she is like not
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  Speaker 1: taking well to the fact that Robin is moving in
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  Speaker 1: on her turf as the potential favorite. And I wish
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  Speaker 1: that it could just be like, Hey girl, On the DL,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really want to be with him. I just
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  Speaker 1: have to get a little info. Let me move in
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  Speaker 1: and get what I need. And then I can just
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  Speaker 1: like disappear and hand him over to you. And you
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  Speaker 1: can make your whole play, especially maybe if he is
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  Speaker 1: sufficiently like heartbroken. Oh, poor. My Gesher Robin disappeared. What
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  Speaker 1: could have happened to her, you know? And then you
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  Speaker 1: can just like be a shoulder for him to cry on.
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  Speaker 1: And you can be the one who's like, good and
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  Speaker 1: faithful but obviously we can't tell her what's going on
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  Speaker 1: here i understand this and i also think if we
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  Speaker 1: did tell her she has a vested interest in orichi
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  Speaker 1: staying in power she wants money she wants to be
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  Speaker 1: comfortable and toppling the people who are at the top
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  Speaker 1: of the pyramid is not going to be something that
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  Speaker 1: i would think she would throw in with at all
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  Speaker 1: so uh Again, I understand why we can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: I just wish that we could and everybody could just
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  Speaker 1: get what they want and we could all be a
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  Speaker 1: happy family. We're not at all. In the chat, Seraphim says,
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  Speaker 1: the name of the Oniwambanshu is a play on the
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  Speaker 1: term for personal bodyguard for a high-ranking lord in feudal Japan. Okay, gotcha.
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  Speaker 1: Because yeah, this is like a pretty big group, actually.
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  Speaker 1: If I recall, it was like there were 10 of them.
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  Speaker 1: I genuinely had a moment of like, oh boy, what
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  Speaker 1: are we about to do? And it was not what
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking, which was going to be like, a
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  Speaker 1: kind of slow introduction to each of them. We see
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  Speaker 1: all of them as a group and we get a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of interaction with like our, the dude who
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming is sort of in charge, but beyond that,
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  Speaker 1: not a lot with them quite yet. And I'm assuming
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to get there, but I do have
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  Speaker 1: to say, I just don't think we need another character
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  Speaker 1: in the mix. And I know I keep saying that,
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  Speaker 1: but holy shit, like how many people do we got
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  Speaker 1: to keep track of? Um, Seraphim says, yeah, Komurasaki is
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  Speaker 1: the top oiran in Japan. With that comes enough prestige
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  Speaker 1: and social power to get your way in most things. Right, right, right.
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  Speaker 1: So she's just such a like top performer that she
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  Speaker 1: can sort of dictate. She's a diva. She's a diva.
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  Speaker 1: And I respect the shit out of that. I wish
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  Speaker 1: that I were. I understand that that term comes with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of baggage sometimes. But with her, it's actually
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  Speaker 1: correct because she does throw her weight around in a
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  Speaker 1: particular way. That isn't necessarily true of all so-called divas.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, she has clearly figured the game out. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you've just got to respect somebody who knows
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  Speaker 1: how to play that well. Bernadette in the chat, how
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  Speaker 1: many people do we got to keep track of? I'd
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  Speaker 1: say welcome to One Piece. I mean, fair. It's just like,
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  Speaker 1: it usually is a little bit more spread out in
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  Speaker 1: terms of like, one arc containing so many new people,
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  Speaker 1: but this is like the whole new crew being added
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  Speaker 1: to the mix feels like it's happening every, like every
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  Speaker 1: five episodes in the Wano arc. It's like, there's a
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  Speaker 1: whole new group that we're dealing with and a group
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  Speaker 1: of minimum, like five people, you know, and I'm just
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  Speaker 1: kind of starting to be like, I need another spreadsheet here.
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  Speaker 1: Cause I'm, just going to have to refer to people
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  Speaker 1: by like either their powers or what they're wearing, which
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  Speaker 1: is mostly what I do tend to do anyway. But
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  Speaker 1: when you're, even that gets like too confusing once you
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  Speaker 1: start dealing with a lot of characters. So, okay, we'll
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  Speaker 1: start at the beginning here where we are still in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of the fight between all of Kaido's people
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  Speaker 1: and Mom trying to land in Wano. I don't really
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  Speaker 1: want to get too much into the nitty gritty of
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  Speaker 1: this fight because you guys know that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times that's sort of the least interesting thing for me,
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  Speaker 1: especially in light of the fact that everybody who's like
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  Speaker 1: on mom's team has kind of cool, interesting powers. I
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  Speaker 1: sort of expected this fight to be a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more interesting and compelling as it was happening than it
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  Speaker 1: wound up being, but it's not super long. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they could have easily stretched this out for more than
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  Speaker 1: one episode. And by the end of the first of
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  Speaker 1: the three episodes, we have solved temporarily the issue here.
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  Speaker 1: Her people are still like safe. So sort of, But
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  Speaker 1: they are without their leader. So I am curious where
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  Speaker 1: exactly they go from here. And there are all of
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  Speaker 1: these different levels of defense that they manage to get
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  Speaker 1: through before we have the sort of one-on-one between– is
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  Speaker 1: it King– Is that the name of the one that
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  Speaker 1: is like the pterodactyl? Somebody calls him by the name
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  Speaker 1: of another. I keep saying pterodactyl because like I have
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  Speaker 1: the equivalent knowledge of a second grader about dinosaurs. So
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  Speaker 1: when you ask me what's a flying dinosaur, pterodactyl is
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  Speaker 1: literally the only name I'm ever going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to come up with. But I think that that is
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  Speaker 1: not actually correct to like what it is he's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be. He is the one who finally like swoops
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  Speaker 1: in And knocks her off the ship. And he says
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  Speaker 1: something like, enjoy your watery grave, hag. Which was pretty great, actually,
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  Speaker 1: as a line. I will say this. I am surprised
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  Speaker 1: that he thought that was going to be enough to
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  Speaker 1: kill her. I just feel like at this point, we
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  Speaker 1: should all be a little bit more realistic about how
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  Speaker 1: you kill somebody who is an emperor of the sea. Because...
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  Speaker 1: it's so much harder than I think. Like, it's certainly
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  Speaker 1: harder than I was personally expecting. But they are working
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  Speaker 1: for Kaido. And so they should have even more like
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  Speaker 1: firsthand knowledge how difficult it is. And the fact that
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  Speaker 1: he is so confident, oh, it's her watery grave. I
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  Speaker 1: was just like, get the fuck out of here, sir.
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  Speaker 1: You know that she's not dead. Have you slowed her down? Sure.
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  Speaker 1: And You know, an argument could be made about how
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  Speaker 1: losing your memory is almost like dying because you are
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  Speaker 1: no longer the person that you were. Like you are
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  Speaker 1: essentially you. You no longer exist in the same way.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel like this is obviously he was not
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  Speaker 1: going for a metaphorical death. And the fact that she
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  Speaker 1: does lose her memory, guys, what a wild choice. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what to expect regarding this change in the
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  Speaker 1: story because like it's her abilities are sort of weird.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm trying to decide if this could potentially affect
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  Speaker 1: anything that she is able to do or her attitude
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  Speaker 1: about things. Because the whole thing, sometimes when you have
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  Speaker 1: a character who had previously been like maybe vicious or
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  Speaker 1: selfish or something, and then they lose their memory and,
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  Speaker 1: in an overboard style situation, for example, with like Goldie
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  Speaker 1: Hawn is that, okay, well now we're going to see
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  Speaker 1: this person who had been really selfish, no longer have
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  Speaker 1: that personality trait. And then they build a new life
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  Speaker 1: or they get put into a place where that kind
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  Speaker 1: of personality would never survive. And eventually they find their
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  Speaker 1: memory again. And they're just like, I can't believe that
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  Speaker 1: I behaved that way. Overboard with Goldie Hawn is, um,
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  Speaker 1: one of those really gross ones because she is a
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  Speaker 1: monstrous person to begin with. But this dude basically just
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  Speaker 1: decides to pretend that she was married to him so
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  Speaker 1: that he can utilize her for free labor. And then
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  Speaker 1: when she comes back to her senses and her memory,
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  Speaker 1: she's just like, Oh, I really liked being free labor actually.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll just stay, which, um, you know, okay. So, um, Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: mom losing her memory. It's like, look, I have said
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  Speaker 1: how much I enjoy the weirdness of her people, her land,
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  Speaker 1: all of this. And I will be very honest with
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  Speaker 1: you guys about something that I am like low key
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  Speaker 1: hoping for. And that is I want mom to become
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  Speaker 1: like a kind of a good guy. I would like it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really have like, it's just simply because I
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  Speaker 1: feel like the only way to get to see more
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  Speaker 1: of her and have her abilities put to a use
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  Speaker 1: that isn't upsetting and, and, or like just horrible is
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  Speaker 1: to have her lose her memory and, and forget the
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  Speaker 1: way that she decided to rule everything. Um, I also
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  Speaker 1: keep thinking about like True Blood because there's a whole
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  Speaker 1: season where Eric loses his memories in True Blood. And
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  Speaker 1: he is such a like kind of selfish person. But
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  Speaker 1: when he loses his memory, he becomes this like sweet,
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  Speaker 1: supportive guy. And once he comes back to himself, you're
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  Speaker 1: sort of like, ah, damn, you know. Seraphim says, I
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  Speaker 1: don't even think he was outright trying to kill them
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  Speaker 1: so much as just kick them out of Wano. If
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  Speaker 1: they died in the process, that's just a bonus. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that he was trying, but when he says
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  Speaker 1: enjoy your watery grave, it's clear that he's assuming that
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  Speaker 1: she is going to die. Like, unless he really doesn't
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  Speaker 1: think that and he just wanted to go for the wine,
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  Speaker 1: which I guess is possible. Big Mom does have a
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  Speaker 1: history of memory issues. And yeah, we saw her flashback.
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  Speaker 1: She could have been a decent person if she hadn't
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  Speaker 1: been brought up by a manipulative human trafficker. And then
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  Speaker 1: a pirate who indulged her whims for their own gain. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a weird thing too, because she had those
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  Speaker 1: parents that like, I don't know. I feel like we're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to see her parents as terrible, but considering the
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  Speaker 1: fact that she did something as awful as like maybe
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  Speaker 1: eat her friends, it's really difficult for me to fully
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  Speaker 1: decide whether or not her parents are like as terrible
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  Speaker 1: as I would normally say about people abandoning their child
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  Speaker 1: because she's obviously way bigger than either of them. So
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  Speaker 1: she has them completely outmatched physically if they were going
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  Speaker 1: to try and restrain her or anything. And if she
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  Speaker 1: is out here potentially being a threat to like eating people,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what I do as a parent. So
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  Speaker 1: in terms of like the way that she might've been
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  Speaker 1: raised even before she being abandoned genuinely don't really have
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  Speaker 1: a clear idea on like what kind of people they were.
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  Speaker 1: Not that it really matters at this point, I don't think,
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  Speaker 1: but it was just something that I, I think about
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  Speaker 1: her origin a lot. And the fact that they like
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  Speaker 1: just left her somewhere and considering what winds up happening
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  Speaker 1: with her, what pushed them to do that? Finally, how
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  Speaker 1: bad did it have to be? You know, Seraphim says
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  Speaker 1: they did at least abandon her essentially on the doorstep
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  Speaker 1: of an orphanage famous for taking in problematic kids. True.
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  Speaker 1: So they weren't just like leaving her like, oh, maybe
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  Speaker 1: she'll just starve to death. You know, they were kind
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  Speaker 1: of like, we can't handle her, but maybe there's somebody
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  Speaker 1: who can, which I just, this is something I think
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  Speaker 1: about a lot because I have never had children. I
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  Speaker 1: have not felt the desire to have children. And a
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: big part of that is the kind of story that
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  Speaker 1: you hear where somebody has a child who is like psychologically,
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  Speaker 1: maybe psychopathic, you know, something that's like a problem that
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  Speaker 1: is more even than dealing with a physical disability, which
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  Speaker 1: is also already like as an American where we have
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  Speaker 1: the worst healthcare system in the world, that is a
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  Speaker 1: big deal to handle. if you're dealing with somebody who
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  Speaker 1: can't help the fact that they simply do not empathize
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  Speaker 1: and they are, or worse, like want to hurt people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't, the, the idea of having to deal with
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  Speaker 1: that and that child being on you to handle is
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  Speaker 1: just so incredibly overwhelming a thought to me and just really,
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  Speaker 1: really sad as well. Um, But yeah, so it's a,
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing with her also, like the fact that
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  Speaker 1: she loses her memory and she is not with her people.
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  Speaker 1: So she regains her memory like, or she loses her
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  Speaker 1: memory on her fall toward the beach where she is
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  Speaker 1: eventually discovered by Chopper and co. And if we're going
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  Speaker 1: to have potentially the ability for her to turn into
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  Speaker 1: a different person, it is essential that she not be
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by her children, because they will all just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: remind her or tell her, well, this is what you're like,
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  Speaker 1: just be like that again. And we can't have that.
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  Speaker 1: We can't just keep doing the same thing. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to have somebody who's a bad guy
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  Speaker 1: and who loses their memory, and you have to pick
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  Speaker 1: one of the straw hats for them to wake up
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  Speaker 1: near to be taught how to be a good person,
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  Speaker 1: Chopper is just the one, you know? I can't like,
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  Speaker 1: I think all, I think all of the straw hats
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  Speaker 1: would bring something to the table on that front, but
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  Speaker 1: I feel like Chopper is the most pure. Luffy is,
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  Speaker 1: is definitely a good person, but he is just so
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  Speaker 1: inconsistent and easily distracted. Usopp's a coward. Nami is money driven.
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  Speaker 1: Sanji is very obsessive about women. If we could, if
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  Speaker 1: we could take that out as a factor, potentially that would,
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  Speaker 1: that would be better. Zoro, he's not a bad person,
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  Speaker 1: but like, I just feel like he wouldn't participate. I
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  Speaker 1: just feel like he wouldn't really do the job. Frankie
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  Speaker 1: would work. Frankie's pretty good. Brooke... Yeah, I think he
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  Speaker 1: would mostly work. Same issue as Sanji, to a degree,
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  Speaker 1: but if we just remove that as a factor to
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  Speaker 1: worry about it first, most of the Straw Hats, I think,
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  Speaker 1: would do a good job. But there's just no contest
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the type of cinnamon roll that
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  Speaker 1: you would want more personalities like theirs. It's of course chopper.
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  Speaker 1: And I will be taking no further questions. So the, the,
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  Speaker 1: the whole aspect of this is what I'm really looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to because I didn't know how it was going
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  Speaker 1: to work, including mom in this storyline. Like I know
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  Speaker 1: that I've said before how I forget and lose track
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that she and Kaido are not, allies.
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  Speaker 1: But I also know there's no way we can simply
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  Speaker 1: just repulse her and her people and they don't get
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  Speaker 1: to Wano at all. She's not coming all this way
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: for us to simply fail to get into Wano. And
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: then we have to deal with that plot point. It's
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: going to have to be that she like is in
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  Speaker 1: the mix. And I just couldn't think how that would
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  Speaker 1: happen because, without it just be constantly fighting Kaido's people
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: all the time. And this being the way that we're
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: doing it, I am like fully on board. I think
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: this is a really fun, clever way and I'm looking
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: forward to it. Honestly, I really am. Florian is saying,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: just not mentioning Robin, the shade. Oh my God. I
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: didn't even mean to, that was inadvertent shade, but like,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: one could argue that's the greatest shade of all where
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not even like purposely, you just don't matter much
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: to me. I feel so bad because like, it's not
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: even really that I dislike Robin at all. It's just
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: that she, even in this section, she's doing some things
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: that are interesting. And yet I don't know, guys, I just,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I really do tend to forget her. Um, Anyway, I
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: kind of just wanted to deal with the whole, like,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: initial fight out of these three episodes. And then we have, like,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the assassin targeting Sanji. And this is Drake, right? Oh, no,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: this is page one. Drake's the other one. This is
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: such a weird... The... Choice being made here by page
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: one is I'm going, I heard this guy make soba noodles.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: So I'm just going to knock over every single building
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: that is a soba shop trying to find this guy.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: And if they, if he is not there, I will
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: make them find him for me, even though there is
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: no reason they should know where he is because they're
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: not associated with him. It is kind of funny, too,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: because at one point, Page One says that he's going
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: to destroy every Soba shop if he has to, and
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: he's already destroyed the one. And I kind of wanted
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the owners, not like I wanted them to do this
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: because that it would be very shitty, but it would
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: have been very funny if one of them were like,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: maybe we should encourage him to destroy the other shops
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: since ours got destroyed. So there aren't competitors that are
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: like still making money. And then we could all be
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: in the same boat of having to like reestablish our
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: business together. But yeah, page one is he sucks so
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: bad guys. He really fucking, I love later. when Sanji
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: looks around and he just then looks up at page
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: one and says, you asshole, because this guy is just
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: destroying the whole town. And while one, you know, could say, oh, well,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: it's the, he, he is not going after just Soba shops.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: He is knocking down the whole like district of the city.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: And it seems like for a, the fun of it,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: And B, the laziness of like, I don't want to
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: just like, you know, go around and knock and talk
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to people. I just want to pull the lid off
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the box, so to speak, take the roof off and
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: then demand what I want. And he just really fucking blows.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: So he's holding these Soba shop owners hostage and is like,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: find him. or I will, you know, make your lives miserable,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: kill you, whatever, any number of threats. And these people
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: start screaming for Sanji. Now, I'm going to be real,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: you guys. I'm so sorry to do this, because I
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: feel that I keep probably being very infuriating to some listeners.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Because our friends are going by more antiquated versions of
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: their names in this plot, where we're in Wano, I
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: just keep fucking forgetting what those are. And so when
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: these people start yelling, I don't want to tell you
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: quite how long it took for me to realize they
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: were yelling for Sanji. Like I understand that I should
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: have like, but look, I'm just, I'm being very vulnerable
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: here and explaining that like, I'm not that smart. Sometimes
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: it's just the way it works. Sometimes I can be
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: quite smart and it's just not now. This was not
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: a time when that was true. So this guy is,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: you know, causing everybody to yell for Sanji. And Sanji
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: is with Usopp, Frankie and Trafalgar Law trying to escape.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Law says, is very much taking the tack of like,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the biggest priority is for us to get out of here.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: He says something about the fact that like, if one
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: of you falls behind, you're just going to have to
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: let yourself be killed. We're not waiting for you. Like,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: to which Usopp says Luffy would never say that. And
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Law's like, yeah, and I'm not him. What? What? Like,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: It's such a mystery to Law. Like, why are you
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: saying that like it is relevant? He's not here. I
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: don't aspire to be a leader like Luffy, if that's
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: the impression you're under, you know. But the way that
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Sanji stops and hears these people screaming and finally is
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: just like, I gotta turn around, dude. I can't. I
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: can't just leave these people. I... by the time he
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: finally turns around, I was just like, thank you. Would you,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: because I know that in terms of the pacing of
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the show, this is actually a quite reasonable amount of time,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: but there's just no way that I would be able
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: personally to take it. If I knew that there were
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: people that were being harmed because they were what stood
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: between me and the bad guy. And I'm, hearing them
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: screaming and I'm realizing they are being put through it
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: right now. Potentially. I, I simply could not live with myself.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I can be a massive coward when it comes to like,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: you know, just tolerating pain. And I've said before how I,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: I am not somebody you even need to torture. If
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: you need information, you just need to show me a
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: tool for torture and I'll tell you whatever you want.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: But I, when other people are being tormented due to me,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: now we're in a different situation. This has changed. And
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: that would haunt me for the rest of my days.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I simply couldn't do it. It's not a deal breaker with,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: with law that he is like this, because I understand
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: narratively that he is simply supposed to be kind of
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the foil for Luthi. where we're going to see somebody
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: who is successful because they are a little bit more cutthroat,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: a little bit more ruthless and, you know, smarter and
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: more mature to a degree on a number of different things.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: But I will say I wouldn't want to be on
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Trafalgar's team. I think that it's, I look, I get
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: it again. I'll say I get it. I understand why
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: he's like this, but I would just be so filled
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: with anxiety all the time at potentially being like left
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: behind as a vulnerability if I don't get it right
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: all the time. That's the thing that's so lovely about
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: being part of Luffy's crew is that you begin to
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: develop this absolute faith that he would never leave you
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: high and dry. He simply would not do that. And
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: we need to see somebody like Law to remind us
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: that is not the default. That is unusual. And some
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: of the bad guys actually managed to cultivate this sort
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: of relationship with their crews as well. where they're a
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: bad person and they're doing bad things, but they still
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: have their loyalty to their own people and would never
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: turn their back on them. Um, so it's not exclusive
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: to good guys, so to speak, but the fact that
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: law is so prepared to drop anybody who becomes a liability,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: it's kind of sobering, you know? Um, And as they are,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: as like Sanji is turning around now, here comes a
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: plot point. I really love. And Seraphim is in the
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: chat and Seraphim was part of the conversation in discord
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: recently where I was talking about, there's a sub thread
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: that I made because I'm reading the wandering in and
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: there is a kind of side series of, with the
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: first book being called Gravesong, that I was recommended to
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: read before I went on to the next book. So
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I'm in the midst of that. And there is a
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: character who has this like power, but she is from
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: our world. She's not used to handling this power. And
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: she has a moment where she's kind of on the
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: spot to use it to help some people. And she's
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: just having a really hard time reconciling herself to the
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: fact that she has the power to do something huge
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: to help people that is, in her opinion, out of
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: proportion to what the average human being's influence and ability
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: to change things should be. There's a lot of reasons
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: at the base of her character for why she is
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: sort of panicking like this. But suffice to say, when
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: she is asked to do something that could save a
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: lot of people and she starts arguing about how this
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: world is unjust and unfair and she shouldn't even have
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: this power. I had less than zero patience for the
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: whole argument and the fact that she was doing, choosing
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: to like talk about this. Now, eventually she snaps out
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: of it and she's just like, right, right, right now
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: is not the time. But, I, as soon as she
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: starts talking, I'm just like, girl, what are you doing?
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: There are people dying. Get your fucking ass moving. And
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: this moment with Sanji is just such a beautiful, he
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: pulls out what looks like a can of soda, which
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: we are familiar with the fact that this is some
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: tech from Germa double six. And he says out loud,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: even if it hurts my pride, if this could help anybody,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: it's my responsibility to use it. And I was just like,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: fucking thank you. Can you please go talk to Kara?
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Because I just don't need, you know, he says essentially
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: like how I feel about it is irrelevant because this
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: is not fucking about me. And I was like, thank you.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: That's all, you know, and he just is so level
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: in the moment of just, I don't like these people.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: And as he's like, activating it so that the suit
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: like covers him he he's starting to say and just
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: because i'm using it don't make the mistake of thinking
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: that i'm like them which it's very funny because he
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: keeps saying this sort of thing we understand what it
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: is that he's getting as he's saying it But he's
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: talking to Page One, and Page One, who is waiting
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: for this friggin' fight to start, just keeps being like, dude,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: what are you fucking talking about? Will you just get
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: to the point where we fight? Can we just fucking
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: get this on the road here, please? And honestly, I
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: was thinking, like, if I didn't know what he was
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: talking about, I would be very irritated as well by
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the way that he's doing this. But it is funny.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: And obviously, I fully agree with Sanji's take and appreciate
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: that he is willing to set aside how he personally
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: feels about the whole thing because grow up, you know,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: and that's, that's lovely to see. So I was very,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: very proud of him for this. So he activates it.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: And this is so wild because he becomes, it's like
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: a particular character that his suit is like, a recognizable
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: design so that when he activates it, Trafalgar law, who
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: is a, an avid reader of the comics, apparently is
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: immediately like, Oh my God, that's so-and-so. And it's a
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: really wild moment to me because what we get in
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: terms of the dynamic here, first of all, he like
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: reels off a bunch of things that this character has
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: gotten up to, which, uh, Sanji can hear him well
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: enough to just be like, how do you even know
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: all that? And we find out he read the comics.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: In the midst of all of this, you've got Usopp
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: and Frankie who are like very sort of little boy
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: impressed with a superhero in their midst. Like just the
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: fact that it's still Sanji whom they know, but he's
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: wearing the suit and it sets him apart. They both
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: are very starry eyed about it in a way that's like,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: very funny. I, I really do enjoy this sort of thing,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: especially cause we haven't seen, um, what's his name? Shoga,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Shoga King. Is that, I can't remember, but you know,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Usopp's like kind of alter ego hasn't appeared for a while.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Soga King, right? I think. Um, and so the, both
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: of them are really loving this whole transformation and, And yet,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: at one point, Usopp says that Trafalgar Law sounds like
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: a nerd right now because he's able to like cite
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: all of this lore. And I was just like, is
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: he the nerd? Even though you guys clearly like pissed
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: your pants over how cool you think it is. You
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: all know if you had access to this same comic,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: you would be massive fans. Please do not play in
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: my face about it. But I'll say that the one
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: time that Usopp does say Trafalgar Law sounds like a
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: nerd is right after Trafalgar says something kind of insulting
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: about Sanji's MO. And I'm going to put it down
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: to that. It's not that he's really making fun of Law.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: It's more I'm defending Sanji in that moment, which that's
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: just my headcanon for that. But yeah, so the... name
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: of the, the character is like shadow double six, or
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: it's like something, something sort of generic sounding, but also
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: vaguely bad-ass. And I think that page one actually asks what,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: who are you? Or like, what is your name? And
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: everybody is just waiting with breath that is baited. And
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: it's unclear whether or not they expect, Sanji to use
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: the name of the character from the comics, or if
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: they are planning for him to pick his own name
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: to begin with. I think they know that he's picking
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: his own name here, but sorry, I'm looking at the chat.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: So what he comes up with in English is Soba Mask,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: which while not a name that I think is that cool,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: It also is sort of like so strange a name
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: that part of me can't help but kind of approve
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: of it a little bit. Lena says in the German translation,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Sanji calls himself Buckwheat Ranger, which honestly is actually unironically
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: kind of an amazing name. I sort of love that.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: But yeah, Suffice to say, everybody seems pretty devastated at
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: this choice of name because it is not as cool
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: as they thought it was going to be. I am
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: going to think on it and see if I can
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: come up with something better, but I'll be honest, coming
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: up with like a superhero name is always tough because
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: you have to straddle this line where it's not too
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: on the nose as to be like, I'm trying so
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: hard to be cool and badass, but it also... if
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: you go too far in like a classic direction like
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: just thinking about it's spider-man and batman and ant-man it's
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: just a blank and then and then man after You
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: start to get into the territory of things just kind
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: of falling flat in a way that feels very like,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: oh my God, really? That's the best you could do?
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: So I really would want his name to have something
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: to do with food. I understand why he chose that,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: especially in light of the fact that it was all
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: of these Soba restaurants that were getting destroyed. But I don't...
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Soba mask. He's not wearing a mask. If it were
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Soba Cloak or Soba Suit even, because he has a
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: raid suit on, I would kind of enjoy that. But
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: because it's like calling Whitebeard Whitebeard when he doesn't have
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: a beard, you know, where I just go, why? Why
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: did you do it? So that's my main issue. It's
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: not like how lame the name is itself, but just
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: how irrelevant it really feels to the costume and who
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: he is. The raid suit, however... Turns out to be
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: kind of bananas in terms of its overall power. He
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: can literally turn invisible. And as soon as they say,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: oh my God, he's invisible. I'm like, how has he
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: not been using this? We know his whole thing had
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: been that he wants to be invisible so that he
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: can spy on girls in the shower. it turns out
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Sanji didn't know it could do this. So he's in
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: the middle of the fight going, Oh my God. Oh
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: my God. It does. What? I didn't know that. And
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: starts to get very, he has to like stop and
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: make himself focus because he gets almost instantly sidelined toward,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: you know, just like, I got, I got to go
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: find a shower. I got to go find girls. I
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: will say for myself, they're, he's a huge conflict going
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: on within me. I don't want him to be a peeper.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I don't like it. However, him being given the opportunity
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: to be a creeper is interesting because maybe what if
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: he didn't take it? What if the, the question is,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: if he didn't, would he still be Sanji? So what
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of feeling is he has to take it,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: but get stopped. It's gotta be, maybe he catches like
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: a tiny glimpse, And then somebody comes along and just
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: ruins his fun. Whether that be on purpose or not,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But I am interested to see, now
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: that he has some means of weirdly fulfilling this dream
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: of his, how that all works out. Suffice to say,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: he handles page one. But he makes sure everybody runs
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: on without him. Because at first they're watching the fight
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: and he has to be like, guys, get your asses
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: out of here. I really love, too, that there is
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: a point where he gets knocked down. It's a pretty
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: one-sided fight for the most part where he's just beating
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: the shit out of Page One. But at one point,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Page One smacks him down and he lands on a
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: building and knocks it down. And In a moment of great,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: what's the word I want here? Sensitivity, perhaps? He goes, okay,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: we're going to move this fight up into the air
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: because one thing I'm not going to do is participate
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: in destroying this fucking town any further. So I'm going
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: to get you out of here so that we don't
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: have just tons of fucking collateral damage. And yes, appreciate
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: your looking out there. Stealth Black is the name. Thank you,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: thank you guys. Seraphim says, it makes more sense in
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Japanese given just adding mask to the end of a
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: name is common. See Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon. It's
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: kind of their version of just adding man to the
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: end of the name. Bernadette says, white beard sounds a
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: lot better than white mustache though. Well, we just didn't
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: have to go in that direction of facial hair at all.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Just thinking about maybe that possibility white beard is again
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: a translation thing because Japan doesn't have a separate term
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: for beard and mustache just one overall term for any
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: facial hair yeah I just like that guy had so
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: many other distinctive traits that it's uh do we ever
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: find out that he had like a name because like
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: nobody's calling a child white beard right so it's a
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: it's a nomenclature but what was his actual name Edward Newgate,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: says Sarah Femme. Okay, I'm remembering this now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, okay, so...
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going to jump over to what's going on with
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Luffy really briefly because it's almost nothing. Like, he's barely
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: in these three episodes. All we get from him is... First,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: I think it's Raizo is meeting him and it's just like, hey,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: everything is cool. And Luffy keeps insisting on like talking
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: really loud and drawing attention to himself. And Raizo keeps
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: having to be like, would you fucking shut up? And
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: at one point, Luffy looks over and sees a big pile. Like,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: I think it's just a bag like him and Kid
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: have won before that he's assuming is full of dumplings.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: And it's like, give me some of your dumplings. You know,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: I'll pay you back. Where's my share? We don't actually
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: see Kid in that scene. And we also don't see dumplings.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: So my suspicion, because we see the bag sort of move,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: is that there's something else going on here and it's
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: not dumplings. But it is just a really weird scene
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: to like have this moment of him demanding a thing.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: And then we cut away and then we don't cut
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: back for two episodes. It's just odd, you know? Um,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: so that's all for Luffy for now. And then we
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: have to deal with the actual orichos banquet. Um, Orochi. Sorry.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I keep wanting to do that. I do that a lot.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: I've noticed with this show, especially it's like, I want
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: to transpose the, uh, vowels in people's names. And I
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: do not know why that is, but, um, So Robin
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: is wandering around investigating and I have to ask guys,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: because like you all know, there's a lot to keep
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: track of. Have we seen Robin make a full on
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: clone of herself with her power before? I believe not.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: This is something that is in the live action, like
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: as an intro to her as a person, if I'm
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: not mistaken. But I can't remember like an instance in
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: the animated show. Florian says on the Mermaid Island. Oh,
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: the Mermaid Island. Seraphim says, yes, it's something she learned
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: to do during the time skip. Okay, that's what it is.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: I was just so like, I don't remember this power.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if I mentioned it at the time.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: But if not, I'll say at this point, I do
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: feel like it's a little bit overpowered considering what her
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: ability is to simply be able to like make a
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: full on functioning clone of herself that can pick things
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: up that looks exactly like her. is indetectable from the
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: actual person. It's almost too much, but I also, you know,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: people are able to do such wild shit in this show.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Lena says, honestly, I don't remember that. Thank you. I'm
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: glad I'm not the only one because it's something, it just,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: We haven't busted this out as often as I would
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: think if we have established this as a power she
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: has already. I would think this would just be utilized
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: left and right. It's part of the problem when you
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: do establish that somebody can do something that's like borderline
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: overpowered is there are so many points that it could
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: have been used that we have to all pretend that
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: we don't know that they can do this thing or
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: that it simply didn't occur to our people to utilize
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: it this way. And it can be, you can kind
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: of get yourself in a corner, I think, as an author,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: you know, showrunner or whatever. Seraphim says she used it
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: to steal the key to the king's shackles from Hottie. Okay. Yeah.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: It's like, what's sort of also interesting to me is like,
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: this is clearly for the benefit of the viewing audience
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: that we don't know that this isn't really Robin. So I, if,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: if we're just trying to steal stuff, her like normal
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: ability of just being able to use, her hands to
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: like pass things along probably would have worked just as
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: well for stealing things. But there, like there have been
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: other times that I've mentioned before where I have wanted
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: her to simply use her regular, like I can make
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: hands appear power because I thought it would make things
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: a lot easier. And she hasn't done that. Like when
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: we were going up the side of the elephant, earlier
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: and everybody is like struggling to get up there and
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: i'm just like why doesn't robin just like hand them
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: up the way that she does many things with her
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: hands um so all this to say she gets caught
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: really quick it's not even like she's the the the
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: speed at which they catch her Definitely suggests they've been
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: watching her and like observe her going to the room
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: and finally confront her, but that she's been in their
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: crosshairs for a minute, which is like honestly pretty embarrassing.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: You know, when you think you're kind of getting away
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: with something to find out that not only are you
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: not getting away with it because they caught you, but
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: you haven't been getting away with it either. And they
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: have been on to you since the start. I always
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: find that sort of thing to be really, really cringy
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: because there's going to be a million times where you
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: did or said something that you thought was genius. And
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: now it's recontextualized as like kind of cringe because they
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: were aware, you know? So they want her to tell her,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: to tell them who she really is. And this dude
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: in charge is like, if you're honest with us about
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: what it is you're doing, we'll give you the favor
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: of a quick death. And then she tries to pull
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: something where she says that she is so-and-so and I
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: can't remember who she is claiming to be here. Um,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: but she like misjudges because she really thinks that she's
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: going to be able to fool them and they are
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: not fooled kids. They know that that's not who she is.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: So it's just like another kind of moment of embarrassment
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: where she's trying to be high handed and it's like,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: come on, stop wasting all of our time. Um, So
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Florian says, because they had Ryonosuke the dragon to help
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: them up the elephant, never forget. See, this is the
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: thing was that they like mistreated that poor creature to
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: force it up and just have Robin do it. And
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: then that poor little creature's life wouldn't have been spent
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: almost entirely in suffering, but you know, yeah. Anyway, so
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: they're like, okay, well, if you're not going to tell
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: us the truth and we're going to have to get
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: it out of you, And we have a moment of
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: like terrible screams. And I got to say, the actress
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: is like killing it. The voice actress for Robin, I
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: feel like doesn't get called on to emote very much
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: because of who Robin is. And so it's even more
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: shocking when Robin just starts screaming. And then we see
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: her disappear into a bunch of petals. And it turns
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: out that it was not Robin. It was a clone.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: She's in conference mode. on one of the, uh, transponder
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: snails with Nami and the ninja. And it's like, it's
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: a real good thing that I use the frigging clone
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: instead of going in there myself, that would have been bad.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: And as they're talking, this guy is like, Hey, everything. Okay.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: What's going on? And we had seen like a, um,
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: shrub moving outside when she's like in the midst of
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: getting supposedly tortured. Uh, I think that is meant to
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: have actually been her, right? But this guy, for a moment,
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: I thought, is this dude like a setup or part
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: of the plan or what? Apparently not. He's just an
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: actually like drunk dude who's here to enjoy himself. And
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, that was the most surprising thing
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: was to have him just be what he seems to
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: be because I was not ready for that. And she
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: steals a mask off him and goes back into the,
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: room with orochi and goes back to like being a
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: geisha in her mind because the best place to hide
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: a leaf is in a forest which i the the
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: the thing is here if they hadn't seen her face
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: maybe but i am confused about how these people who
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: are like his personal guard they're not The explanation that
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: we get is essentially we don't want to disturb his
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: banquet by busting in there. But if there is a
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: spy and you realize that they have like slipped, given
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: you all the slip, I'm going to be very worried
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: about the guy I'm here to protect. That's going to
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: like the idea that they just won't even go in
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: there to check is kind of wild, but it's fine.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: And this is where we get the thing where she
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: is like, getting him to agree to take her to
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: this like festival thing that, that is being set up.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: And he says something like, it sounds like you want
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: to be my consort. And then all of a sudden
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: we get the rivalry. Very like it's, it's beginning, but
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: it's just in its very first moments of Kimura Saki
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: looking over and being like, excuse me, what the fuck?
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: And she has been playing her instrument and sort of,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: the center of focus on stage. There's like a little stage,
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: but once she sees that Robin is ingratiating herself is like, okay,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: clearly I can't just like be the star of the show.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: I have to get down there in the mix if
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: I want to make some things happen. So Seraphim says,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: that makes sense. But given what we've seen of Orochi,
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: he could very much be the type to have someone
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: punished for disturbing him, regardless of if they have a
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: good reason. This is the thing with that, though, is
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: that that headcanon makes sense. And I would accept it
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: if we just showed him doing that. All we have
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: to do is have these guys beginning to poke their
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: head in and Orochi going, what the fuck? I told
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: you guys to leave me alone. I'm having a good time.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: And then the explanation of why they aren't looking for
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: her here is taken care of and we don't even
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: have to wonder about it. so that's, what's frustrating is
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: like when it's really easy to kind of come up
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: with a headcanon about a thing, then I shouldn't have
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: to headcanon it because it should just be there. It
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: should just be part of things. You know, it doesn't
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: take long for us to think of it. Why didn't you,
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: but you know, it's fine. It doesn't matter. The whole
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: thing is just that he is becoming enchanted by Robin and,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: And it's too much. If she is able to outplay
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: Kimura Saki, that's the problem, is that she has to
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: in order to achieve this mission and find out what
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: she needs to. But the more that she tries to
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: do that, the more she's going to be drawing attention.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: And we don't really know much about Kimura Saki's overall
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: MO other than what we have seen regarding how she
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: scams these men. I have to assume that Because she
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: is so utterly ruthless, she would not be above hurting
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: somebody like Robin if she saw them as a rival
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: and doing something to like cripple them. And I mean
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: that literally and figuratively, you know. So I have to
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: worry about Robin's safety a little bit in this. What
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: this keeps making me think of, honestly, you guys, is Showgirls.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: And that's a movie that I can't recommend because it's
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: not great. But there is a very over the top
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: soapy melodrama of like the rivalry between performers and how
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: far they're willing to go to like be the headliner.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: So I also like last section forgot to mention about
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Frankie who finds out that the guy he's been working
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: for that he was depending on getting all of these
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: blueprints from. actually like sold them to somebody and that
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: person gave them away and yada, yada. And Frankie just
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: starts to like completely lose his shit because he goes
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: from one person to another following the trail of like
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: who bought them and where they are. And he is
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: not able to track them down. And I think Frankie
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: says something about like, that's like a year of my
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: life that I won't get back. And he is genuinely
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: like distraught over it. And I was like, oh man,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: that really does suck. But anyway, I'm over time here.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: So I am going to have to wrap this up.
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: But I think that I talked about pretty much everything here.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: If there's something major that I'm forgetting, let me know.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: But I am really looking forward to seeing how things
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: develop with Big Moms. And also like what the fuck
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: with Luffy in jail right now? I've talked before about
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: how we always need to have a way that we
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: can sideline Luffy because he's a little too powerful. And
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: having him get arrested is actually one of my favorites
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: so far. Um, arrested in this particular way because we
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: we had a whole impel down thing and i really
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: loved that especially because he's teaming up with buggy of
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: course but um this being like he gets brought to
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: the place that the rest of like innocent villagers are
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: being exploited as well. It gives us good insight into
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: what's going on and how things are being handled over there.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: So it feels like it's serving two purposes. Yeah. I'm
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: a fan of this so far. All right, guys, I'm
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: going to wrap up. Thank you again for hanging out.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Thank you to Michael for commissioning this one. And until
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: next time, Toodle-oo, motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network podcast.