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One Piece, 498-500 · Spoil Me! One Piece

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  This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me, covering one piece
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  episodes four ninety eight through five hundred, Lufy becoming an Apprentice, a man
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  who fought against the King of the Pirates, the battle against the Big Tiger,
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  who is going to be captain, and freedom taken away? The Noble's
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  plot closing in on the brothers. In these episodes. There is a lot
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  going on here, but the main thing that I think is going to be
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  preoccupying all of us is the threat of the fire that is scheduled to completely
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  eradicate everybody. And I mean, is this that far from the truth?
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  Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha.
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  Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning this episode. Yeah, y'all,
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  this got me thinking, you know, like, there are some story beats
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  that I think a decade ago would have felt more outlandish to me than they
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  do now. Even though the story beats are cartoonish, I have grown to
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  realize that we do actually live in a world of cartoonish evil. In a
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  lot of ways. It's different than what I thought cartoonish evil was. I
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  used to think that being cartoonishly evil was like one of those silent film villains
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  twirling his mustache as he ties a girl to the train tracks, and that
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  still is a version of cartoonishly evil. But in this case, what I
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  mean is these people are we find out aware this fire is scheduled to happen,
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  and I think that the fact that they all react as like no,
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  no, no, it's a good thing. Yes, it's over the top.
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  It is cartoonish. And I'm not saying that's exactly how it would be
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  in real life, but I am saying that it may as well be like
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  that in real life for how much we give a shit and do the right
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  thing instead. That's really where I'm coming from. So I will back up
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  and I will talk about things from the first of these three episodes, but
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  you know, I have to just talk about this like the The issue here
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  is the fact that we have a problem with as a society of trying to
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  make it like our main problem is that law enforcement can't stop all the crimes
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  that it should. That if only people weren't so bad, so irreversibly bad,
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  we wouldn't have to treat them the way that we do. But that's
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  human nature, and there's something very grim about that outlook anyway, But it
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  leads to this very interesting sort of personality divide that I think is sort of
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  fundamental to where you fall on the political spectrum. And if you are somebody
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  who believes that people are mostly the worst and mostly lying liars who will con
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  you if they can to get a free ride, you're more likely to be
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  conservative with that mindset versus somebody who believes the best, like as do I
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  think that we are ninety percent good. No, I believe we are about
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  sixty percent good fifty five. But I think that's enough to justify being optimistic
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  and hopeful and to want everybody to have what they need to survive without feeling
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  like there need to be qualifications for that. And what happens with these people
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  who believe the worst of humanity is if you do wind up getting more of
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  the pie, if you wind up in a position of privilege, what you
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  do to justify the fact that you now have this privilege is you convince yourself
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  you deserve it and the people who don't have it do not deserve it.
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  You have to do that second one, because it's one thing to think that
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  you deserve it, but then comes the natural second thought for me anyway,
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  Well, do you think they don't. But the thing is a lot of
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  people don't realize they're setting up this dichotomy in their brain to make themselves feel
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  better, and that it's not necessarily grounded in anything, because they don't want
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  to admit that they have this privilege to begin with. Folks just ignoring privilege
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  and acting like it's not a real thing are a dime a dozen. So
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  what you have to do is you have to buy into the mentality of more
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  people being worse than good people, like more a higher percentage of people being
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  terrible than the percentage of people who are decent folks just trying to get by,
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  And you have to create this story in your head about how they deserve
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  to be where they are on the streets, living paycheck to paycheck whatever,
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  that it's their own fault. And this way you can sleep at night.
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  You can tell yourself that you aren't stealing anything from anybody by having this privilege,
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  that it's not a result of putting other people down and actively enforcing their
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  oppression and putting them into positions where they feel the desperate need to do whatever
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  they can, which creates crime. You can't tell yourself that you are indirectly
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  responsible for the crime as much as the criminals in a lot of ways.
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  So you have to tell yourself those people are all bad, all of them
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  are threats, and we would be better off without them. And this is
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  where you get gated communities. And you know, the more I think about
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  it and the way that things are working with the celestial dragons wearing these helmets
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  so that they're not even breathing the same air as everybody else, it's like
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  a teeny tiny gated community. They're living inside with their suit you know,
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  which I know that I've had these theories about whether they take their helmets off
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  and there's like suddenly they shrivel up and die out of contact with the regular
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  air. But seeing it as teeny tiny little gated communities that they're just walking
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  around inside is very, very funny. So I think I'm just gonna keep
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  with that. And I want to point when people like to illustrate my point
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  about how this thing with the fire is like feels like not that big an
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  exaggeration. There are two things that I want to point to. The first
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  one is the history in the United States of either the government or in dependent
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  parties that grow like grouped together in a mob, deciding to burn down entire
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  black neighborhoods. And this is like shockingly common and something that we really don't
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  like to talk about in this country. But there are whole financial districts that
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  were like the idea that black people have been a press up into slavery.
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  They got free, and then they have just been struggling this whole time because
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  they are so far behind. It's understandable why we think that, but it
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  actually isn't that much of a straight line. They were freed, they were
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  given for the first time access to some opportunities, and they hustled so fucking
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  hard that they actually began to succeed a lot earlier than you would think.
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  And we had like black men being elected to high positions in the government because
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  they hadn't yet figured out jerrymandering and voter suppression, and so early on black
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  folks were becoming successful and white folks really had a problem with that, and
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  so they literally physically destroyed these districts, the records, the goods, the
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  homes, the money, and reset them back to zero basically. And we
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  have done that so many times all over the country. I believe even Central
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  Park is an example. So this idea of like basically firebombing the place isn't
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  actually that far off at all in terms of undesirable elements that we want out
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  of here. The motivation may be slightly different, but it's the fundamentally the
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  same. And then if we're going to bring it up to the present day,
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  let's talk about homelessness and the ways in which we hide the homeless.
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  If we are going to be as a city hosting a big event, and
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  this was a really big deal last year when Biden was going to go visit
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  San Francisco. I think it was San Francisco, with their skyrocketing cost of
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  living and housing crisis, has like some of the highest percentage of unhoused people
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  in the United States. As a city, homelessness is skyrocketing everywhere because of
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  this housing crisis. But San Francisco already had such like a premium housing market,
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  and then with the fact that the Silicon Valley like boom happened there,
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  it was just a perfect storm to make everything almost unlivable like in a short
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  time. So President Biden was going to go visit for his campaign trail thing,
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  and they tried to pass an ordinance basically saying that they could level ten
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  cities that were set up by the homeless because there are so many. They
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  don't know what to do. They don't have the housing to put up all
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  these people. And finally a judge had to come in and be like,
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  uh huh no, no, you can't just do that. You can make
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  them move to clean the street and keep things accessible for people, but you
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  can't just fucking like force them out or destroy things. And even with this
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  being said by this judge, there are so many stories from homeless people talking
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  about cops coming in and literally pissing all over their stuff. They have like
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  six items their name, and the cops think it's funny to just like destroy
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  what they have. There's a video that went around several years ago of a
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  cop literally shitting into two pieces of bread and giving it to a homeless man
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  as a sandwich as a joke. This is how they are treated. And
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  Biden's coming and we can't let him see this. So what do they do
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  do They use a tiny fraction of the budget they're using to make the town
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  look prettier to buy some cheap hotel rooms and put these people in them.
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  Of course not, they just bar them. They just keep them from getting
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  into certain certain areas. So these folks are left in the outskirts of this
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  main area, sleeping under literally under bridges and overpasses and stuff. And it
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  was November, guys, We're getting into like the cold part of the month,
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  and this was what they were forcing these people to do. And the
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  disgusting quality of this, like, I'm not going to try and solve the
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  problem. I just don't want our president to see the problem. Can we
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  just stop and think about that for a second. It's like you're going to
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  see a doctor, because the president is supposed to be somebody that knows about
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  these problems and is prepared to deal with them, right, So it's like
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  you're going to see a doctor and you have this huge lesion on your face
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  and you just decide you're gonna put makeup over it and not mention it.
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  Like this man's whole job is supposedly serving us, and we are meant to
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  hold him accountable for a lot of things. If these people have no place
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  to live, it is his failing and yours in you know, much more
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  directly, but still let him see what is real? What are you doing?
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  But it's just sheer pride, the sheer inconvenience of the privileged people who
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  have money and jobs stepping over somebody when they're on a like a subway platform,
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  and they shouldn't have to do that, So that person needs to get
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  out of the way. And like, I'm not trying to pretend that unhoused
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  people just don't pose a threat, because they certainly can, but not the
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  way we pretend. And the out of sight, out of mind approach is
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  like a slightly more sanitized version. Then we're just gonna burn it all down.
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  But honestly, in some ways it amounts to the same thing. I
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  know that may sound extreme, but I'm just saying it. I'm just going
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  to say it. I just what this all comes down to for me,
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  guys as usual. What makes me so angry is that it doesn't have to
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  be this way. Like, we have options, we have resources, this
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  doesn't have to be how it works, and we keep choosing the same system
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  over and over again, year after year, and I don't understand us.
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  I just don't. So let's back it up now. Let's talk about Lufy
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  becoming an apprentice because we meet a new character and he is actually quite fun.
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  So we start off with the boys. They're trying to hunt, and
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  Loofy is like coming at this bear from above on a cliff top while Sabo
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  and Ace are on the ground and it's winter, So this is something that
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  kind of comes into play a little bit later, is the fact that it
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  starts to get warm around and things begin to change. But Loufy is going
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  for this bear and he actually manages to take it down with his final like
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  hit. I've got to be honest, you guys, I had a hard
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  time with how much of these episodes dealt with killing animals. And I know
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  that this is like a actual like survival need, and I don't blame them
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  that, and I appreciate in some ways that the animator is making them look
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  a lot more like real wild animals that are dangerous and intimidating and not as
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  much like cartoon animals that I don't want anybody to hurt. But it still
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  was really hard to watch, like a bunch of boys trying to gang up
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  a bear in the woods, like I was just sort of like the bear,
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  and later on with the tiger as well, and they're making this plan
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  of like whoever gets to kill the tiger, and I was just like tiger,
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  but gave him alone. What's he done? He stole their dinner though,
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  so I guess. But yeah, that's what happens is this tiger comes
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  up and steals the bear from Loofy, who tries to fight back and is
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  just so angry because it's his first kill. So he's taking it extremely personally
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  that this tiger just strolls up and takes it. But that's like part of
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  the deal, the law of the jungle, as they say, like somebody
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  can come and just take your shit, and that's how that works. So
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  they have to, like Sabo and Ace have to gather Loofy up and carry
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  him away because he is just prepared to keep fighting. And I just couldn't
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  help but laugh at the fact that Ace is yelling at Lufy when he does
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  this exact same thing, like I just don't I understand Lufy isn't at the
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  level that Aces in terms of fighting, but it is really funny to see
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  how indignant Ace is about this and then think back to the way he has
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  reacted every time he has ever been challenged, and that he just would never
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  back down. He doesn't do that, and we have this like incident on
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  the bridge. This was so weird, and I feel like this has to
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  come up later because the way this shook out felt strange. But they're crossing
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  this rope bridge over a river and Lufy is just still hung up on the
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  tiger taking his catch, and he says he can't steal from me. I'm
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  gonna teach him a lesson, and he jumps up and down on the bridge,
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  which causes it to sway really bad. And as it sways, he
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  gets this look on his face and he's just like, oh, I'm gonna
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  do it again, which was very correct in terms of what little children are
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  like. They just they see something happen and like the fact that it's not
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  likely to continue that way forever, that it's probably eventually going to end in
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  one of us plummeting to our death. That part doesn't occur to them.
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  All they notice is that the bridge swung, and I got a reaction out
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  of the people that I'm with and those are the things I want most in
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  life. And Loofy plunges through the wood of this bridge. They lose the
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  pack that had their meat in it, and they just managed to catch him
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  before he falls, and I was like, what is what's going on here?
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  And later on I find I like the way that it felt to me
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  was we're having a moment where they care so much about Loofy that they're risking
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  themselves. And he can think back on it as a sort of warm and
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  fuzzy moment when his brothers protected him and how they were all a team.
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  But I have to admit they really let go very easily. The fact that
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  Lufy decided to just jump up and down on the bridge in a way that
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  I don't know I could have done. I think I would have held a
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  lot more of a grudge about that. I'm not proud of that. I'm
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  not saying that's the right way to handle things. In fact, I think
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  it's the exact wrong way to handle things. And I think I need to
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  like just let it go a lot more quickly whenever somebody just fucks up.
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  But I have such a hard time with calling this a fuck up when it
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  was so purposeful, you know, like they're warning him how dangerous it is
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  and he is literally laughing and ignoring them. And I rarely see Loofy like
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  this. I see Loofy be thoughtless, but Loofy actively doing something because somebody
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  finds it kind of upsetting is really really rare. And as much as it
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  felt correct to like a child, I can overlook him being a total more
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  on most of the time because I understand that he didn't give something much thought
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  or didn't consider connecting these two dots. And here I was just like,
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  I can't make excuses for you. You know exactly what you're doing, and
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  maybe you just deserve to fall to your deaths or I don't know. So
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  yeah. Eventually there's a moment where they're all laying together and Lufy is like
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  really thinking back on how cool it is to have brothers and that maybe they'll
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  join his pirate crew someday. And he's sitting there like kind of giggling to
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  himself and they are like what is going on? And he says, I'm
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  just happy, that's all, And we've got to make a deal that you
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  guys are joining my crew, do you promise? And both Sabo Andy so
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  like the fuck we do? No, I didn't say you could be like.
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  Sabo's response, which I thought was really interesting, was I'm not going
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  to be somebody's lackey. He doesn't like the idea after having been sort of
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  like forced into a role by his parents, of having to do that again
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  for somebody else, which makes a lot of sense. But Ace's response is
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  it's sort of interesting, like I don't feel like he just thinks that he's
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  the best, although that's in there, don't get me wrong, but I
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  don't think that's the only motivating factor. I think that Ace sees himself as
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  the most focused, which definitely is Sabo is pretty focused, but there is
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  a single minded goal to Ace that Sabo doesn't have the same drive for.
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  Sabo wants freedom in general, but there's a lot of ways to live free.
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  Ace wants to be the strongest, most badass fighter, which is very
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  very specific, and so I can understand how he sort of sees that his
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  own laser focuses is just better for a captain. I'm not sure that's even
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  true, but I can understand how he thinks this way. And so what
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  Lufy is saying is like, why don't we just work as a team to
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  catch the tiger and whoever deals with the like final killing blow will be the
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  one who gets to be captain. We'll just see who lands the final hit.
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  And they agree to this. So they go out into the woods again
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  and there's yet another bear, which they're like, okay, we'll use this
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  bear as a warm up. But the bear is about to just like level
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  the two of them or the three of them, I should say. He
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  gets a big like bomb on his head and then begins chasing him, chasing
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  them. I'm sorry, I keep misspeaking. Eventually, though, they're running
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  into this clearing and they come across this old man and he gets between them
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  and the bear. His name is Nagoti, and he all he has to
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  do is hold up a hand and this bear stops dead, which is I'm
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  assuming the use of hockey. It's uh, maybe not that simple because the
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  way that he reacts when Lufy later says, how you just stop that bear,
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  it does not feel like somebody who for whom Lufy got the right answer,
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  and he's reacting to that. It sounds like somebody who's hearing Lufy's explanation
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  and then is like, uh, yeah, that's it, you know,
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  and it's just a real For me, it felt like that something else was
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  going on. He doesn't have hockey but he's gonna let them think he does,
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  which I don't have a problem with, like really, but I can't
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  help but feel as if these kids help him build this ship and like worship
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  him in a way that he definitely does not necessarily deserve. It works out
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  in the end, I think, for everybody. But it is when I
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  realize, like that sounds like he's just lying to Loofy and then Lufy wants
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  to become his apprentice. All I could think was, just, like,
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  you're really letting him like operate under some assumptions here that aren't I don't know
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  if this is ethical, but what can you do? Because also I'm looking
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  at this illustration here too, and just before the bear gets to him,
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  he reaches into his robes, and so when he's holding his hand up,
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  it's possible that he's holding something and showing it to the bear, and that
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  is somehow has gotten him to stop. I don't know, though I can't
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  tell. I can't tell. Anyway, we find out that he is somebody
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  who works around Great Terminal collecting stuff all the time, and that he gets
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  like picked on a lot because people like see him creating this weird stuff.
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  And I loved Lufy's reaction because when I think Sabo's the one telling this part
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  of the story, when Sabo describes how he'll get picked on and he'll just
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  sit there and take it, Lufy's response, because of the way that he
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  got taught by Shanks, is like, Oh, yeah, that's just how
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  pirate captains are, which is so funny because like that's literally the exact opposite
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  of how pirate captains are. But he it has only like one frame of
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  reference, this guy that he really admires, and so he says it with
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  total certainty, and understandably, Sabo was sort of sick of hearing about Shanks.
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  I hadn't really thought of it until this scene, but if we were
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  to extrapolate what their conversations tend to be, like, I would not be
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  surprised if Lufy talks about Shanks like twenty times as often as he does on
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  screen, you know, because all they talk about is wanting to be pirate
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  captains, and he's one of the only ones any of them knows. So
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  yeah, he would be our main reference point and I probably would get pretty
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  sick of it as well. So we find out there's there's this whole thing
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  where Ace wants to fight him Naguri, and the vibe with him is so
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  aggressive, And that comes up a little bit later, but it's in response
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  to the fact that Naguri says he himself and his crew went up against gold
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  Roger and they lost. He's basically like, we got spanked and put in
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  our place, but it sucked. And the suggestion is like, they basically
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  leveled my crew, and now I'm here like a pauper, you know,
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  sucks to suck. And the just the mention of gold Roger is enough to
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  get Ace to get up and walk away, which I just have to,
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  like, I have to give Ace a little bit of grace here and say
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  he's a child, because if you don't want people knowing somebody is related to
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  you, I really recommend simply not getting up and walking away in the middle
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  of a conversation with no explanation, because I feel like that reaction is a
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  real dead giveaway my guy, that something is up, like it just draws
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  attention to the whole thing, and allegedly that's exactly what you want to avoid.
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  And I'm not sure whether I should believe that, but what happens and
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  I thought this was hilarious, not really like, but he walks away and
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  I think it's not go to ustake. Did he just leave? And Sabo
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  just says, oh, yeah, well his dad's called de roj so but
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  don't tell him though. You can't tell him that I told you, Sabo.
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  I am going to need you to not blame Lufy later when he blurts
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  out this whole secret, because the fact that you ever thought somebody who's personality
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  I thought we had gotten to know pretty well by now. If you ever
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  thought somebody like Loofy was going to be able to keep that secret, you
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  are brain dead. And that's setting aside entirely the real issue, which is
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  the fact that they don't know Nagodi at all, like they've seen him around.
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  There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to think that this secret is safe with
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  Nagurdy. None just because you like him, because you hung out today,
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  like just because he gets picked on and so you think, oh, he's
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  not friends with other pirates, like, no know, this person has information
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  to trade for resources. Now that's a problem you put. You put him
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  in this position, and it's just completely luck. Whether he decides he's going
• 31:12
  to cash in on that or not, and he doesn't. But it really
• 31:17
  was sort of like, to me, there were some moments where I was
• 31:22
  waiting for him to betray them. I thought that was where this like whole
• 31:26
  plot was going to turn was going to be no good going into town and
• 31:32
  letting everybody know, oh gold Roger's son is hiding in the woods and basically
• 31:37
  putting a target on Ace's back because I didn't know him very well. Florine
• 31:45
  is in the chat saying, I love in one piece people, just no
• 31:48
  big secrets and deliver them like, yeah, no big deal. Garp did
• 31:52
  it, and Lufy as well. Oh yeah, I guess Garp did too,
• 31:56
  huh. But yeah, this the like fact that Sabo told is very
• 32:06
  quickly revealed to Ace later because Lufy just like blurts it out, and Ace
• 32:13
  freaks and just beats the shit out of Loufy and Sabo. And it's sort
• 32:20
  of a weird thing because like they've been getting along really well and they all
• 32:27
  seemed to be like on the same page here and this guy shows up and
• 32:31
  I think Lufy just like barely mentions that he's like, can you teach me
• 32:37
  some stuff? But the title of this episode is loofy becoming an apprentice,
• 32:44
  and at no point does it feel like this dude is taking him under his
• 32:49
  wing. And I kept waiting for the moment where Lufy walks off with this
• 32:55
  old man into the sunset, and it doesn't happen. The next episode just
• 33:00
  begins with Loofy having left, and I was so confused, and I don't
• 33:06
  know if I miss something or if there is a scene that is cut in
• 33:07
  like the dub version. But I actually went back to the end of the
• 33:15
  previous episode and rewatched it because I was certain that I had like pressed next
• 33:21
  episode too soon. I always wait for when it says to be continued or
• 33:25
  whatever it is, and I thought like, oh my god, is there
• 33:31
  sort of post credits scene for lack of a better word, But no,
• 33:36
  not that I saw. So if I miss something like really obvious and direct,
• 33:40
  I'm sorry. But I was totally at sea. So they get they
• 33:47
  like get in this big fight and it ends with a saying like all of
• 33:51
  you guys are dead to me, and what like the appearance of this fight
• 33:58
  is sort of weird because it almost gave the suggestion that they had like torn
• 34:01
  down the whole tree house. There's all kinds of stuff all over them,
• 34:07
  and after they both respond to hit like you bastards are dead to me with
• 34:10
  took the words right out of my mouth, everything sort of shifts. And
• 34:15
  I thought it was all shifting because the place was like falling, and evidently
• 34:22
  not, so it was a weird beat, but I just wanted to mention
• 34:23
  that as well. And then right before we have our you know, the
• 34:30
  end of the episode, blue Jam is talking to his pirates and we find
• 34:36
  out that Sabo's father is coming to these pirates to find his son, and
• 34:43
  I'm just thinking, like, oh, okay, he's got he's had enough
• 34:47
  of his son being missing, didn't know for sure what had happened to him,
• 34:52
  and now he's like initiating getting him back. But Sabo is very much
• 34:57
  more like why does my dad want me to come back? All of it
• 35:00
  sudden later on, like he feels like this is weird when he didn't really
• 35:02
  put much effort in before. And then we find out about the fire that
• 35:07
  scheduled and that he clearly just wanted to get his son out of there before
• 35:10
  it went down, which makes sense, and Blue Jam is determined to like
• 35:16
  ring as much as he can out of Tsabo's father and is like, all
• 35:22
  right, well, we're going to have a bit of a difficult time locating
• 35:28
  his son so that we can make him feel really really grateful to us and
• 35:32
  perhaps get a favor out of him, which is a smart move. And
• 35:37
  then we have the one tiny little scene with the Dawn where she is reading
• 35:44
  the newspaper and finding out that the celestial dragons are like coming to their island,
• 35:50
  which she didn't even know the name of their island. And I found
• 35:52
  that really funny, but it just immediately ties right in with the Homeland and
• 36:00
  Joe Biden thing like that was just it was so one to one that comparison.
• 36:07
  So the next episode, all of them are continuing to try and go
• 36:15
  after this tiger because they are going by the rules of figuring out who is
• 36:21
  going to be the captain. And I can't help but wonder, like I
• 36:25
  have to think they probably would, But I wondered if they were to all
• 36:30
  like become pirates together, would they stick to this deal? And I feel
• 36:37
  like the deal is meant to be quite serious and for real in the moment
• 36:43
  while they're children, But I also can see how a promise made when you
• 36:51
  were children that's this like long standing would almost start to take on a sort
• 36:54
  of sacredness. And so even when you were older and it really didn't make
• 37:00
  sense to continue going with this plan, that you would still follow it anyway,
• 37:05
  because it's just become that meaningful that the actual letter of it isn't what
• 37:12
  you like think about anymore. And so I kind of was interested to see
• 37:17
  who was going to take the tiger down because I was like, I don't
• 37:21
  know, I could see that like being definitive actually, but yeah, so
• 37:27
  this this episode, it's just Ace and Sabo figuring this out, and Lufy
• 37:30
  isn't with them, and Saba's talking to Ace about how to catch this tiger
• 37:36
  and Ace is just being fucking surly. This is like the most unexpected thing
• 37:40
  for me about Ace as a kid is how bad tempered he was, because
• 37:46
  he's so likable. As a grown up, he has a temper for sure,
• 37:53
  but as a kid, he's sullen all the time time, and there
• 38:00
  is just this constant feeling of like this chip on his shoulder that he doesn't
• 38:05
  have once he's gotten older. And it makes sense, especially if he finds
• 38:09
  a crew that feels like family and he can sort of get over the baggage
• 38:13
  with his dad. But it just really has come as a surprise to me.
• 38:17
  I thought that, like the attitude that he has had about being too
• 38:22
  cool was only directed at Loufy from the beginning, just to establish an obstacle
• 38:30
  that Lufy has to overcome for them to be friends. And the longer that
• 38:35
  this whole arc has gone on and Ace has continued to have this shitty attitude,
• 38:39
  I've been surprised because I thought it was just a temporary thing and that
• 38:44
  it was like directed at Loofy and not his actual personality. But no,
• 38:50
  it turns out it's just his personality at this point, which is very irritating,
• 38:54
  and I appreciated Sabo just kind of biting his head off here and being
• 38:59
  like, don't you give a shit about Loofy? Like why are you trying
• 39:02
  to act like you don't care about this? And at one point he says,
• 39:09
  maybe we haven't heard from him because he's dead already, and Ace just
• 39:15
  turns around and is like, did you say something. Oh my god,
• 39:17
  he's so annoying. Uh he's finally well, you know, he's the one
• 39:23
  who left, so I don't really care what happens to him because he made
• 39:28
  that choice, and Sappho's response is listen, I don't know who you're trying
• 39:35
  to impress with this, which was such a good line. It really was.
• 39:42
  Sava's like, I know it's not me because I fucking know better,
• 39:45
  and you can't think that I believe this bullshit. And there's nobody else here,
• 39:51
  so what exactly is your fucking problem? And as they're discussing this,
• 39:55
  a tree falls and they just managed to get out of the way and there
• 40:00
  is Loofy and he's like, ay, sorry about that, and he winds
• 40:07
  up leading them back to the campsite with the old man at Great Terminal,
• 40:13
  who tells them basically, I haven't been training Loofy, because they're like,
• 40:16
  what have you been teaching him? And he's like, all he's been doing
• 40:22
  is just cutting firewood, and I mean it's probably made him, like physically
• 40:27
  stronger, but it hasn't been combat stuff or anything like that. And this
• 40:31
  just made me so mad again that he like let Lufy think he had a
• 40:37
  magical ability that he I am becoming more and more certain simply never had,
• 40:42
  because that feels like it's just taking advantage of a child for child labor and
• 40:49
  I was like, sir, I get that you're an old man, but
• 40:52
  like, at least be fucking for real with this kid. And then we
• 40:57
  finally get the thing where he an Ace face off and Ace is convinced that
• 41:05
  he's going to be able to take him down no problem. He really has
• 41:09
  a visualization in his head about how this is going to go, and this
• 41:19
  man is just it's kind of funny, all things considered, because we see
• 41:24
  Ace beating the shit out of adults a fair amount. So the fact that
• 41:30
  this man is able to hold his own against Ace shows that he is actually
• 41:35
  above average in terms of fighting, even amongst younger men, which is pretty
• 41:40
  impressive. But it's just really something to see Ace walk into that so sure,
• 41:46
  and even when he gets beaten, he's like, I'll beat you next
• 41:50
  time and is fully planning to come and rematch this guy again. And that's
• 41:57
  part of what separates people a Ace from people like me. You know that
• 42:01
  I'm thinking, well, you just got completely poned in front of everybody.
• 42:07
  Maybe just like take your l and go sit in the corner and lick your
• 42:12
  wounds and just try and get better and see this as a humbling moment.
• 42:16
  But Ace sees things in such a so much more a competitive you versus me
• 42:24
  kind of way than I do. You know, I would be viewing this
• 42:29
  as like an indictment of my overall progress. But what Ace is seeing is
• 42:32
  like that guy beat me and that's all he cares about, is not winning
• 42:38
  in a way that's like extremely immature. Also again with very laser focused and
• 42:47
  oddly effective. It seems like the fact that he is competitive and just determined
• 42:54
  to beat everybody around him no matter what, does seem to improve his skill
• 43:00
  overall, So I can't fault him for it. Actually, but yeah,
• 43:07
  the he finally like he hasn't said that he is gold Roger's son, And
• 43:13
  I don't remember if Sabo even confesses that he said it in front of Noagorty
• 43:16
  or if it's just Loofy that he's like taking responsibility for. But he is
• 43:22
  talking to this guy and it's a weird conversation, and I'm wondering if there's
• 43:27
  something about this that is sort of missing me as having to read the dubs,
• 43:34
  you know, but uh A's is saying because this guy is sort of
• 43:39
  talking up gold Roger, and as is saying, if he's so great,
• 43:44
  then why does everybody hate him? And it's just thinking back to the way
• 43:49
  that he was treated. Uh, But this dude makes a point of like,
• 43:54
  wait, did those people actually meet gold Roger? Like, do the
• 44:00
  people who hate him actually fight him and see him face to face? In
• 44:07
  the world of pirates, if you lose a fight, you lose your life.
• 44:12
  And yet Roger chose to spare mine. And if those pirates did face
• 44:20
  him, they should be grateful, complaining like that is a luxury one they
• 44:27
  only have because their lives were spared. And Ace doesn't really seem to know
• 44:31
  how to react to that. He replies with if he had a son,
• 44:36
  do you think he should be grateful too, which felt like a little bit
• 44:38
  of a non sequitur. I was like, that's not really relevant exactly to
• 44:45
  what's I mean, Like everybody would say everybody should be grateful, but this
• 44:51
  dude just responds, knowing full well who he is. I'd feel sorry for
• 44:54
  him because I know that his father's name would just haunt him wherever he went
• 44:58
  with a legacy like that, wouldn't blame him for resenting the man. And
• 45:01
  it's not like you could talk it out with him either at any rate.
• 45:06
  If I were his son, I wouldn't want to be a pirate. His
• 45:09
  name could scarcely do me any favors, and more likely than not, it
• 45:13
  would put a target on my back. And Ace gets really mad about that,
• 45:21
  which I thought was funny because I fully expected that he had thought about
• 45:25
  this already. It's it feels like he's reacting as if he's just been told,
• 45:35
  don't become a pirate, you idiot because of this, And I'm just
• 45:38
  like, you had to know that it was going to put a target on
• 45:43
  your back, that if you became a pirate as his son, you'd be
• 45:45
  compared to him even more, Like it's weird that he's somebody that you hate
• 45:51
  so much, but you're actually following in his footsteps. It's never occurred to
• 45:55
  you before. I was just really surprised at his reaction. Could I thought
• 46:00
  it was going to be like lead up to an explanation of why he's making
• 46:07
  this choice, and instead it just seems like this caught him totally off guard.
• 46:14
  So anyway, this is the point where the uh, you know,
• 46:19
  he gets got within the fight, and then they find out about the huge
• 46:23
  ship that this guy has been building with all of the stuff that they've been
• 46:28
  collecting, or that he's been collecting, but he wants their help. And
• 46:34
  I was cracking up so much because Ace says something about like why should we
• 46:37
  help you? And he says, because I spared your life you in grateful
• 46:42
  little snot, which is then followed up with Sabo saying that's fine for Ace,
• 46:50
  But how did I get looped into this mess? What is this a
• 46:53
  child labor scheme? Which, considering the fact that he's just you sing loufy
• 47:00
  to like cut firewood and isn't actually teaching him anything, isn't an unjust accusation.
• 47:06
  In my opinion, I feel like this has some basis. I feel
• 47:08
  like if you were going to make a case, you could probably do it
• 47:13
  in a court of law and it would be compelling. But he tells them
• 47:20
  all, I can give you some tiger fighting tips if you stick around too.
• 47:27
  But A says I got one question, what are you going to do
• 47:30
  when the ship is done? And he says, I'm taking it on the
• 47:32
  sea of course, like I'm going to find my crewmates after we got spanked
• 47:38
  and split up. And their response is basically, do you know that you
• 47:45
  are old? Are you aware that you have very little time left to live,
• 47:55
  because it really feels like it's just ambitious, it's optimistic. I feel
• 48:04
  like you probably should give up on that, and he just basically says,
• 48:09
  what's a pirate, always a pirate, and you're never too old to give
• 48:13
  up on your dreams. You kids have a problem with that, and Loufy
• 48:17
  is delighted. Sabo just says, well, I'm not gonna stop you.
• 48:22
  But Ace walks away and eventually again, I guess I'll help you for now
• 48:30
  since you spared my life, but I'm beating you tomorrow. And I was
• 48:35
  just like, oh my god, Ace, I never thought you could be
• 48:37
  this boring, but you really are. I'm tired of you. So I
• 48:42
  just I really really liked this because, like, especially as somebody who's entering
• 48:46
  what's probably going to be like the second half of my life, or at
• 48:51
  least the dead center of it, I feel sometimes like it is too late
• 48:57
  to pursue certain things, and it's always inspiring to see somebody who's older just
• 49:01
  being like, yeah, I'm gonna fucking do it, because sometimes it's not
• 49:05
  just as simple as like, well, I know for sure I can't,
• 49:07
  but it's more of a sense of like, well, I can't I have
• 49:13
  passed the point that people who I see as being successful achieve that, Like
• 49:21
  there's no models out there for me to look at, and it can get
• 49:25
  very discouraging, feeling like you had to start your way towards success from when
• 49:29
  you were a teen or else you're just never gonna reach it. So yeah,
• 49:34
  I just like this little moment here, and when a says I'm going
• 49:39
  to beat you tomorrow, the old man just seems like pleased by that.
• 49:44
  He doesn't he doesn't react badly. So then we have the training and the
• 49:51
  building of his ship, which is, uh, that's really what the training
• 49:54
  is. It's it's sparring matches as well, but for the most part they're
• 50:00
  doing a lot of physical labor, and it's what turns out to be the
• 50:07
  like it's like weight training. We see them carrying huge bundles of logs and
• 50:14
  gears that are like the size of them, things like that. But eventually
• 50:20
  we have springtime coming up and the time where we have to say goodbye to
• 50:29
  Naguri. It's really like I just really liked the fact that I cared that
• 50:36
  he was leaving, you know, like he isn't actually taking off on this
• 50:42
  day, but the ship is ready and he is going to go fairly soon.
• 50:46
  So all I could think by the end of this trio of episodes is
• 50:52
  that the people of this area great Terminal may be able to like evacuate on
• 50:59
  him his ship. But I don't know. I don't know. You know.
• 51:06
  Eventually, when he's working on the ship in the middle of the night,
• 51:08
  like everybody's asleep, and Ace comes up to him and says, what
• 51:12
  does it mean to be a captain? Because he mentions like a strength beyond
• 51:17
  the physical, And when Lufi says, well, what is it? He
• 51:21
  then laughs and just says, well, I've forgotten. And when Ace asks
• 51:28
  him, he says, I'll be honest, Even after all these years,
• 51:30
  I'm not sure. Frankly, I don't think I was a very good captain.
• 51:36
  But my crew they still followed me right to the end. They called
• 51:39
  me captain without any doubt. And so in a way, I'm still captain
• 51:45
  of the Neguri pirates, not because of my strength, but because of the
• 51:49
  approval of my crew. That's the true test of a captain, or so
• 51:53
  I always say. So essentially, what it what it's coming down to is
• 52:00
  like, did you earn your men's respect? Do they trust you? If
• 52:06
  they do, you're you've proven yourself to them. You know. Ace does
• 52:13
  not take this well though, and I can understand that because I remember as
• 52:15
  a child being given like advice that felt as nebulous as this, when I
• 52:22
  just wanted to be given like a math problem to solve, to tell me
• 52:27
  the answer, and you just want something a lot more concrete than this.
• 52:30
  So he's giving Ace a real genuine answer that I think is more useful than
• 52:37
  Ace realizes at the time. But for the moment, Ace is dismissing it
• 52:42
  utterly, and it is kind of funny to see how like he just has
• 52:45
  a bunch of crap as he's walking away, but eventually he begins to understand
• 52:52
  the reality of it, and it's part of what plays into all of them
• 52:59
  working together to catch this tiger. Which it's really cute the way that they
• 53:07
  the trust that is so implicit and how quickly they fall into line when Ace
• 53:15
  has a plan that is sort of what defines a leader, Like if you
• 53:22
  put forth an idea and people are sort of like, I don't know,
• 53:28
  man, because they've seen you do some dumb shit in the past because you
• 53:32
  have a tendency towards a certain type of behavior and this is just like more
• 53:37
  of the same. But if you say something and people actually listen because they
• 53:43
  have grown to see that you have good judgment, that's leadership, you know.
• 53:50
  And I really like how it's not obvious in the moment to me that
• 53:55
  that's the the sort of city that he has set up with this fight with
• 54:01
  the tiger, but it works out that way, and even when he wins
• 54:07
  and they're all just like, God, damn it, I can't believe he
• 54:09
  won. They can't be that mad about it because he earned it. What
• 54:15
  surprised me is that Ace turns it down and it's just like, I'm not
• 54:22
  gonna be captain. It just doesn't feel right, really really compelling. I
• 54:29
  have so much like I have so much curiosity about what he means by that,
• 54:36
  and I don't know if it's tied into having daddy issues or exactly what
• 54:42
  the deal is there, but it was really surprising that he made this point
• 54:46
  the way that he did and then declined to be in charge, And yeah,
• 54:53
  I just kind of liked it. It was really surprising. So Okay,
• 55:01
  at the end of the episode is, uh, I'm trying to see
• 55:07
  to make sure that I haven't skipped over anything here, but we have the
• 55:13
  reveal of the sigil. It's the Jolly Roger and Noguri. Finally he takes
• 55:22
  off all by himself, and oh guys, I forgot that he actually does
• 55:25
  leave, because I was thinking that he might be an option. But I
• 55:29
  guess he's gone. He could come back. I don't see it, though.
• 55:34
  So the third episode, which I've mostly talked about already, is the
• 55:39
  one where Sabo gets brought back to live at home, and he's basically brought
• 55:46
  under duress because he's told that his father is gonna hurt his friends if he
• 55:52
  doesn't come along quietly. So he agrees to come along quietly, but it's
• 55:58
  not too long before he realizes that he's been had. I fully expected for
• 56:04
  his father to like fuck up his friends anyway, so when it turned out
• 56:09
  that there was this whole fire thing, it made more sense to me because
• 56:13
  it looked almost at first like his father was going to keep his word and
• 56:16
  be like, all right, well, since you came, I won't hurt
• 56:19
  your friends. But I was sort of like, that doesn't feel like a
• 56:22
  one piece villain type. The whole thing with them is that they don't keep
• 56:27
  promises right. They'll say one thing and then just do whatever, and finding
• 56:31
  out that it's just like a bigger picture. Breaking of the promise made a
• 56:36
  lot of sense. But Sabo is just so devastated to walk away from this,
• 56:42
  and Ace is like piling it on in a way that I was like,
• 56:45
  dude, can you have a little tact here? Because he keeps being
• 56:46
  like, are you just gonna give up on your dreams like this? And
• 56:50
  I'm like, Ace, Brauh, that's not like, that's not fair because
• 56:54
  he's saving you guys. You're surrounded. You guys could just be skeword right
• 57:00
  now, give him a break. But eventually, uh, he comes home
• 57:07
  and it's so weird, you guys, because it turns out that they have
• 57:13
  like adopted this other kid while he was gone. And the way this kid
• 57:17
  is animated is weird. He looks like he is from a different cartoon,
• 57:28
  if that makes sense. The style his name is Stelly, and the way
• 57:32
  his nose is drawn is that it like comes down all the way from his
• 57:37
  brow, like straight down. It's just a style of drawing that looks totally
• 57:44
  out of place, and even like the look of his eyes is weird.
• 57:49
  It's like kind of reminding me there were there are different eye styles that I
• 57:53
  remember specifically seeing on uh Killer Bark, but his eyes look much more dull
• 58:02
  like and they are extremely creepy. And the whole point with this kid is
• 58:10
  that he's gonna poke in prod and be a real like Helmepo type spoiled and
• 58:20
  in like insidious and really not insidious insinuating, that's the word I want,
• 58:25
  and trying to get under Sabo's skin right away, because it clearly matters to
• 58:31
  him that he be the favored child, and he doesn't seem to understand how
• 58:36
  little Sabo cares about that, because as much as it's annoying to him,
• 58:40
  like here, it would be better for me if you had never come back,
• 58:44
  and your parents like me better than you, all that's doing is making
• 58:50
  Sabo realize why he didn't come home again. And I feel like what this
• 58:57
  kid had intended was to establish dominance and beat Sabo down and kind of bully
• 59:04
  him so he doesn't get what he's after here. And yeah, this is
• 59:09
  when he says, to think, if you had stayed in Great Terminal,
• 59:14
  just one day longer, you'd be dead like the rest of them. And
• 59:17
  Sabo is like, wait, what are you talking about, And he explains
• 59:22
  the whole thing with the fires, and Sabo is like, they're going to
• 59:25
  just kill all the people, And he gets dressed and jumps right out the
• 59:31
  window, and we find out even though he watches some folks and thinks,
• 59:37
  oh, they're too happy, they couldn't possibly know what's going on. When
• 59:43
  he walks away, we hear them say, oh yeah, and tonight tomorrow
• 59:46
  is going to be even better because then we won't have that trash living so
• 59:51
  close by. So he is like certain, Oh, they couldn't be acting
• 59:55
  this way if they knew about it. But then he overhears some soul just
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  talking about it, and it turns out that Blue Jam is in on this
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  somehow. He asks himself, what could Blue Jam be getting out of it?
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  Like, what's in it for him? I kind of wonder if he
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  even knows what's going to happen, because I think he's being played and set
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  up for his own destruction and doesn't know it. But that is the job
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  that Blue Jim has paid lufian Ace to take on. He wants them to
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  bring these boxes all over and place them in certain places, and he'll pay
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  them for it. And I don't know if he's just giving them the same
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  like message that he was given and hasn't checked the boxes, or if he
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  knows what the plan is and he's just planning to save only himself and his
• 1:00:46
  crew, maybe not even his crew. But I was just sort of operating
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  under the assumption that Blue Jam doesn't actually know what's happening here, and knowing
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  that like lufian A, had become unwilling participants in creating this. It's just
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  so shitty, like it reminds me of There was a point when I worked
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  at Whole Foods. I left and I was like still very close with a
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  lot of my friends who worked there, and so I heard the stories after
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  I left. But there was a series of firings, and looking back now,
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  I'm beginning to understand that it was right around the time that Whole Foods
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  was transitioning from being like more of a cooperative company to much more capitalist and
• 1:01:36
  there were clearly made up reasons for firing folks because they were just trying to
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  lower the labor budget by hiring new people at lower wages. Because Whole Foods
• 1:01:45
  had been pretty great about steadily giving raises, and if you do that and
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  people stay for a long time, your labor budget becomes pretty huge. So
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  one of my friends had been told not that folks were getting fired, he
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  was just asked to help them in the break room, or not a break
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  it was like a conference room. Will you go get so and so from
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  the front and bring them here and just wait outside for a little bit,
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  and we'll give you the next name of somebody to bring in. And after
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  the first one and they come out crying. He realized they're sending me to
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  bring people to get fired, and he felt awful, but like he had
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  to do what he was told, so he kept doing that, bringing people
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  back, and then at the end of the day they brought him in and
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  they fired him too. And I still think about that all the time,
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  somebody who's like doing what he thinks he has to to save himself, not
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  realizing that he is just as disposable as everybody else, counting himself lucky that
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  he still has a job, and all day watching other people be tormented,
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  and being just as much of a victim at the end of that day as
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  the rest of them and not seeing it coming at all, And that is
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  kind of what I feel like, this is comparable to with them setting all
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  of this up and having no idea what they're like really participating in. So
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  when t Sabo like runs into some people on the street and ask them if
• 1:03:17
  they know about it, and they blurt out like of course they of course
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  we know, he is horrified. And as he's like running away, he's
• 1:03:25
  looking around the neighborhood at all of these people who are just smiling and having
• 1:03:30
  like a perfectly normal, lovely day, and it's just like, what the
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  fuck is wrong with everybody? Which is a good question, What is wrong
• 1:03:38
  with us? What is wrong with us? You know? Like I just
• 1:03:44
  really felt this. It just brought up a lot of emotions for me,
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  because this is essentially how it works. It's an extreme like it's an extreme
• 1:03:57
  example nowadays, but very recently it wasn't that extreme, and it's only a
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  little a little bit more sterilized now, so it's pretty upsetting. Like when
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  he runs into this guy on the street and after the people that he like
• 1:04:23
  goes and talks to at the cafe, there's a kindly old man that he
• 1:04:28
  runs into and he asks as well, like have you heard about the fire
• 1:04:30
  are and you're not worried at all. Nobody in this town cares what happens.
• 1:04:35
  Nobody in the town thinks to stop this thing. The old man says,
• 1:04:40
  that's admirable of you. You must have a very kind heart. But
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  don't say a word. It's important we keep our mouth shut. Think what
• 1:04:50
  would happen if someone outside of high Town found out about the plan. You
• 1:04:57
  and I are special. We come from great, noble families. And it's
• 1:05:02
  just so funny because of the way he starts it off. Oh that's really
• 1:05:05
  kind of you. You really think that, like he's going to be one
• 1:05:11
  of the different ones, and instead it's just like, oh, that's so
• 1:05:15
  sweet of you. But don't be too sweet, Like don't don't really care,
• 1:05:20
  Like you could say something that's placating, but like, don't get invested
• 1:05:26
  in that and actually give a shit about other people. That's a real slippery
• 1:05:29
  slope, which isn't too far off from the way a lot of white liberals
• 1:05:35
  operate. Actually, So yeah, the episode just ends with him like saying
• 1:05:42
  to himself, there's something wrong with these people. They're going to die and
• 1:05:45
  they're happy that they're all going to die. This place is sick. I
• 1:05:48
  have to get out of here. I have to tell them right now.
• 1:05:54
  And as he's running out and the like, there's the wind is picking up,
• 1:06:00
  which is not good for just causing a fire to get even worse.
• 1:06:05
  He gets spotted by some people and they begin to chase him down because he's
• 1:06:11
  the runaway boy and his father noticed a lot more quickly than he was hoping.
• 1:06:15
  I think that he had gone missing. And that is the end of
• 1:06:18
  the episode. So yeah, I really really like this arc. I'm fascinated
• 1:06:24
  by it and I'm really interested to see where it goes. All right,
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  I'm gonna wrap up, but thank you guys again so much for hanging out
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  with me. Thank you Florian for commissioning this one. And until next time
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  to Ulu. Motherfuckers. That was an Unspoiled Network podcast.