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Banana Fish Ep.12- To Have and Have Not · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person thing, Michelle. I'm back because this
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  Speaker 1: is what we do every week, so let's just do
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: some more. I don't think I have anything to tell
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  Speaker 1: you except that between when I recorded last episode and
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  Speaker 1: when I'm recording this episode, I watched the first episode
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  Speaker 1: of Dondadaan and it was great. It was so good.
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  Speaker 1: So again, if you haven't checked that out, get on
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  Speaker 1: it if you're interested, of course. And I haven't watched
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  Speaker 1: the second episode yet, even though it came out today,
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  Speaker 1: so who knows. Maybe it's terrible, Maybe the quality just
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: goes straight down, kind of like just what happens this
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  Speaker 1: past week with Uzumaki Episode two being apparently terrible. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not watching it because I just didn't expect it to
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  Speaker 1: be good, so I am proven, right, I guess. But
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  Speaker 1: who cares about Uzumaki and don dada on, We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about banana fish because why not. So anyway, we're
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  Speaker 1: on episode twelve, obviously, which is called to Have and
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  Speaker 1: Have Not, which is also the title of a novel
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  Speaker 1: by Ernest Hemingway, which has a plot line that has
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with this anime. And before we start,
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  Speaker 1: just so you know, I have really, really bad allergies,
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  Speaker 1: So I will try to cut out any sniffing I'm doing,
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  Speaker 1: but you still might hear some. And if you notice
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  Speaker 1: that my voice sounds weird or anything, it's because I
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  Speaker 1: have really bad allergies. Yeah, I don't know. Anyway, if
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  Speaker 1: you remember at the end of last episode, Ash, well
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  Speaker 1: technically Bones and Kong had just fucking stabbed Wookie in
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  Speaker 1: the back and then Ash was like walking past the
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  Speaker 1: train and then that was it. So we don't start
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  Speaker 1: right there, but we start the episode with Arthur and
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  Speaker 1: his guys at like a bar, which maybe is there
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  Speaker 1: like hangout or something, because he always seems to be
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  Speaker 1: in this bar with his guys. Also, I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: they have like a name, like a gang name. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. So Arthur is on the phone and he says,
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  Speaker 1: what they got Wookie? And he looks pretty scared because
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  Speaker 1: they got Wookie obviously, and this guy is just like Boss.
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  Speaker 1: And Arthur says, shut up, what now? And the guy's
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  Speaker 1: like they got Dick from the Goblins. See the other
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  Speaker 1: gangs have names. You think it was Ash and another
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  Speaker 1: guy's like Boss. And Arthur is clutching his glass of
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  Speaker 1: probably alcohol very tightly and then he throws it against
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  Speaker 1: the wall and it shatters. He's like shit, he thinks
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  Speaker 1: he can just barred onto my grounds. I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: let that happen. And then we get the opening theme. Yay,
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  Speaker 1: that was really early for the opening. Usually we get
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  Speaker 1: like more than one scene. So interesting, not that interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Back from the opening, we see a cell phone that's
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  Speaker 1: open to an article about Wookie being stabbed, and Sing says,
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  Speaker 1: Ash is mad now, and we see that he is
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  Speaker 1: in a room with yuey Loung, who is working at
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  Speaker 1: like a desk as Sing sits on the couch and
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  Speaker 1: yue Lung's like oh, and singh says, it's always been
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  Speaker 1: the other gang that picks fights with him, but not
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  Speaker 1: this time. I bet Shorter's death set him off. And
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  Speaker 1: yue Lung's like probably, and he's writing something in Chinese.
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  Speaker 1: Sing walks over to him and he's like, why won't
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  Speaker 1: you tell me why Ash killed Shorter. He'd never just
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  Speaker 1: kill his best friend. There's gotta be a reason. Yuelung
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  Speaker 1: stops writing and he's like, he didn't kill him, he
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  Speaker 1: set him free, and Sing's like, cut that shit out.
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  Speaker 1: I can't take that as an answer yue Lung, very
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  Speaker 1: calmly by the way, says I'm in a living hell.
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  Speaker 1: Sing looks pretty shocked by that, and yue Lun continues,
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  Speaker 1: so is Ash. He looks pretty sad, which makes a
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  Speaker 1: ton of sense, and he says, I'm not telling you
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  Speaker 1: because I don't want to drag you into that same hell.
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  Speaker 1: Sing like kind of half gasps, and he's like, that
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  Speaker 1: is so cheesy, but you make it sound like it's real.
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  Speaker 1: It is real. Sing. You and Ash are somewhat alike.
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  Speaker 1: Uelung's like, I am nothing like that bararian. Yeah you are,
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  Speaker 1: and Sing says you hate him because you're like him.
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  Speaker 1: Yue Lung kind of puffs and looks at Sings sternly like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is exactly mirroring Ash and Ag. Actually, Ue Lung
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  Speaker 1: is so much like Ash, and Sing is proving himself
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  Speaker 1: to be kind of his Ag too. So interesting anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Sing like backs away and he's like, whoa chill, But
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  Speaker 1: I think he's only like half serious. And the door
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  Speaker 1: opens and we hear some guy say mister Hua Lung
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  Speaker 1: has arrived. Sing sighs, and he's like, I can't handle
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  Speaker 1: two venomous stakes at one time. I'm out and he
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  Speaker 1: starts to walk away, and ue Lung says, Sing, are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna fight? Ash? Sing stops and he's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if you're not gonna tell me the truth, he turns back,
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  Speaker 1: I'll settle it myself. Then he leaves. Yue Lung thinks, Ash,
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  Speaker 1: I won't ever look back again, the same way you
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  Speaker 1: never do. He stands as Swallong enters and thinks there's
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  Speaker 1: no turning back now, and then out loud, he says, welcome,
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  Speaker 1: big brother. Then we go to Max and Shunichi, who
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  Speaker 1: I guess are at Charlie's place. Shunichi is sitting with
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  Speaker 1: his laptop on his lap, I think, and Max is
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  Speaker 1: on the phone and we hear the TV and there's
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  Speaker 1: like a newscaster going the series of streaking killings, and
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  Speaker 1: Max says, yeah, hold on, and he hands the phone
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  Speaker 1: to Shunichi. It's Ash. Tunici's like Ash. He picks it up. Hello.
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  Speaker 1: We get a super close up of Ash now we
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  Speaker 1: cannot see where he is, and he says, how have
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  Speaker 1: you been, e bass On. I've got two tickets for
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  Speaker 1: a flight to Tokyo that leaves in ten days. Sinici's
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  Speaker 1: like what, Ash continues, I'll keep Agy safe until then
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  Speaker 1: you stay low too. Shunichi's like, where's a chan now?
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  Speaker 1: Ash is leaning against the wall somewhere now we see,
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  Speaker 1: and he is wearing sunglasses, and it's like an inside
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  Speaker 1: place of some sort. It's pretty like big and whitish.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how to describe the place. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like crumbly or in disrepair like a lot of places
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  Speaker 1: we see him in. Anyway, he says, somewhere safe. But
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  Speaker 1: I can't let you see him now. She Nei's like,
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  Speaker 1: you think he'll agree to go home. Ash is like,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry, he'll go back because he'll hate me by then.
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  Speaker 1: And he kind of like half smiles but looks really
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  Speaker 1: horribly sad, like he knows what he's doing is best
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  Speaker 1: for Ag, but it hurts so much. Shunichi says what
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  Speaker 1: and Ash is like, anyway, this is goodbye. Shooniji says Ash,
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  Speaker 1: but Ash doesn't let him talk, and he says, I
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  Speaker 1: wish I could have seen that picture you took of Ag.
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  Speaker 1: Shunichi gasps, yeah, me too, dude, and Ash says seeya
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  Speaker 1: and Shni's like, Ash, hey, I'm sorry, and Ash says
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  Speaker 1: why it hangs up? She needs she looks horridly distressed. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in the manga, this conversation is in person, which it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter that it's not here. But after Ash leaves,
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  Speaker 1: she says why and he leaves she Needi just breaks
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  Speaker 1: down crying, and he's like, I don't know, maybe I'm
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  Speaker 1: just getting old, but like he's such a good kid,
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  Speaker 1: and I really wish that that was in here because
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  Speaker 1: it's like super sad. And also I was like, that's me, Shunichi,
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  Speaker 1: I feel just like you. But yeah, this isn't a
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  Speaker 1: good way to end this. This sounds like Ash is
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to die because obviously otherwise he could see
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  Speaker 1: that picture that she needs you took up ag jumping,
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  Speaker 1: Like why wouldn't he be able to see that? So
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  Speaker 1: this isn't good. Also, what do you mean she's gonna
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  Speaker 1: hate you by that? What does that mean? Ash? Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we cut to someone setting down a class of champagne
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  Speaker 1: in front of Dino, and by the voices we're hearing
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  Speaker 1: like over an intercom, it's clear that this is an airport.
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  Speaker 1: Gregory is also there with him. They're like sitting in
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  Speaker 1: like a lounge, I guess, and we hear the intercom
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  Speaker 1: say passengers boarding Air France flight to A one, please
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  Speaker 1: proceed to Gate fifteen. Dino says, hmmm. Something catches his
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  Speaker 1: attention and he looks over and he sees Ash leaning
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  Speaker 1: against the wall with his arms crossed and sunglasses on.
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  Speaker 1: Dino is pretty surprised by this, because I would be too,
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  Speaker 1: because why are you coming out of hiding? Ash pulls
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  Speaker 1: down his sunglasses and smiles at him and says hi.
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  Speaker 1: We cut to Ash sitting across from Dino in the
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  Speaker 1: lounge and he says, seems like you're in a hurry.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder when you'll be able to come back. Dinas
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  Speaker 1: like it won't be long. Gregory reaches for the in
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  Speaker 1: his jacket and Dino's like, not here, It's probably good.
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  Speaker 1: It's an airport. Also, why is he carrying a gun
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  Speaker 1: in the airport? But whatever, And then to Ash, he says,
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  Speaker 1: you did well, and Ash is like you could say
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  Speaker 1: it was all thanks to your investment, okay, Ash? And
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  Speaker 1: Dino's like, and this is what I get in return?
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  Speaker 1: And Ash says I've already paid my interest far more
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  Speaker 1: than I owed. Yeah. Dino's like, no, it's not enough,
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  Speaker 1: not enough at all, And Ash says, I used to
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  Speaker 1: think I'd be free if I could get rid of you.
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  Speaker 1: But I guess I was wrong. Whatever you're up to,
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  Speaker 1: I'll stop it, Dino says, so you came to declare war.
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  Speaker 1: I'll bring a good taxidermist with me when I come
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  Speaker 1: home then, and Ash is like taxidermist. Dino says, to
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  Speaker 1: stuff you and I can't wait. There's like a pause
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  Speaker 1: and ask kind a sigh, and he stands and says,
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  Speaker 1: I hope your plane doesn't crash. It wouldn't be fair
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  Speaker 1: to the other passengers if they had to go to
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  Speaker 1: hell with you. And he starts to leave. He's putting
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  Speaker 1: his classes back on, and he turns back and says,
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  Speaker 1: bon voyage. Dino doesn't respond to this, but he is
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  Speaker 1: gripping his cane very tightly. We see a TV with
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  Speaker 1: the news on, and there's like no translation as to
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  Speaker 1: what the newscaster is saying for some reason, but on
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  Speaker 1: the screen it says, see and see New York broadcast
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  Speaker 1: Today's topic twelve dead in an escalation in streak gang violence,
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  Speaker 1: and we see it's eleven thirty, I guess in the
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  Speaker 1: afternoon or something. We cut back a little bit wider
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  Speaker 1: and we see that the gang is watching the TV
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  Speaker 1: in Ash's new apartment, like sitting on couches and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Alex says, the Lower East Side is all broken up.
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  Speaker 1: Kung I think says this because we don't see his
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  Speaker 1: face when he says it, but it sounds like him.
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  Speaker 1: They're all pissing in their pants right now, and Ash
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  Speaker 1: is like, turn the TV off. It's irritating. First, serious, dude,
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about you guys on TV. He points to
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  Speaker 1: a picture of some guys on a tablet that he has,
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  Speaker 1: and he says, these are the next targets. Get them
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  Speaker 1: to leave Manhattan if they won't kill them. Oh fuck,
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: at least he's giving them an out. First. AG opens
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  Speaker 1: the door then though from I guess he's been in
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  Speaker 1: the bedroom, and he looks shocked. They think maybe he
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: heard that, and Ash says what. Ag gets himself together
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  Speaker 1: and smiles and he's like, sorry, it can wait. He
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: closes the door again. Once he's back at the room,
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  Speaker 1: he thinks, I'm pretty sure I just heard him say
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  Speaker 1: kill them. He closes his eyes. Stop thinking about it.
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  Speaker 1: I already decided to remember that I trust him no
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  Speaker 1: matter what. Fuck back to Ash, who says, how's Black
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: Sabbath the band. I mean, they're okay. I've never really
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: been a huge fan, but you know, if you like him,
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  Speaker 1: I understand. Sure. No, I think he's talking about a gang.
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  Speaker 1: Kong says, no action over there at all. Bones is like,
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  Speaker 1: that's kan Blood's gang, right. Alex is like, yeah, Bloody Kane,
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  Speaker 1: the Black King of Harlem. Ash says, I'll go see
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  Speaker 1: him personally. Alex, Bones and Kanan look at Ash like
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  Speaker 1: super fucking surprised, and Kng is like, that's way too dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: He hates white guys, and Alex says, and what if
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: he's already joined up with Arthur. Ash says it's the
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  Speaker 1: only way to find out what's on his mind. We
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  Speaker 1: go to Ag, who is on a laptop and he
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: hears the door open and turns and it's Ash and
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: he says, you get the pictures. AG's like, huh oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Ash looks at the laptop and he says, let's see
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: they're good. I'm lucky to have a photographer's assistant with me.
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  Speaker 1: He kind of chuckles and ad like scowls and blushes
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: and he's like, don't make fun of me. How did
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: you rent an apartment? Like this, and right near Golzine's
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  Speaker 1: office too. Ash is like looking at a book on
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  Speaker 1: the bookshelf because there's a bunch of them, and he says,
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  Speaker 1: I was lucky. Yeah, you're like the least lucky person ever.
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  Speaker 1: And AG says, you don't tell me when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the really important stuff. Am I that untrustworthy? From
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  Speaker 1: his face, I actually don't think he was being totally serious,
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  Speaker 1: like he kind of wanted to play a little because
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  Speaker 1: they do that. But Ash is still looking at the
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  Speaker 1: bookshelf and he looks hurt actually, and he says, it's
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  Speaker 1: not like that, and AG's like, no, I'm sorry. I
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  Speaker 1: know you don't tell me to keep me safe, but
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  Speaker 1: I just feel so helpless knowing I can't do anything
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  Speaker 1: to help. Ash says, you're doing plenty by taking pictures
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  Speaker 1: of the people who visit his office, and AG's like, well,
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: I mean yeah, But AG kind of trails off and
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  Speaker 1: Ash is distracted as he is looking at it. Particular
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  Speaker 1: picture that Ag took of Senator Kippard and Arthur smiles, Fuck.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think either of them saw Senator Kippard when
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: they were at the mansion. He was like up in
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  Speaker 1: that kind of like gallery area watching Ash Murder Shorter
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, so I don't think he realized
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  Speaker 1: that he was involved, but now he knows. Anyway, we
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  Speaker 1: go to Harlem, yay, finally, I guess. So we're at
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  Speaker 1: like a CD bar and there's like a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: tough looking gang members and there's like this one dude
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  Speaker 1: sitting on the bar and he's like super muscular. He's
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  Speaker 1: wearing like a vest but no shirt, and he has
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: like a chest tattoo and an arm tattoo, so that's
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  Speaker 1: probably why he's now wearing a shirt. And he's obviously black.
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  Speaker 1: This is a black gang, and he's wearing sunglasses too,
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  Speaker 1: if I didn't just say that, And he says, you're
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: just like the rumors say, like a pretty peacock and
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: a dump. So what do you want an Ash, who
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: was standing before him, says, I'm going to settle things
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  Speaker 1: with Arthur. I want you to stay out of it.
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  Speaker 1: The guy who's obviously kin says, what's in it for me?
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  Speaker 1: And ashes like, that's not all. I don't want you
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  Speaker 1: messing around in downtown. By the way, Harlem is in uptown.
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  Speaker 1: I guess. The gang members all gasp, but this, and
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  Speaker 1: Kin says, you came here alone to tell me that
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  Speaker 1: you've really got some balls. If I'd already teamed up
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: with Arthur, you wouldn't have made it home alive. You
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: know that, right, And Ash says, but you wouldn't. Kine's like,
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: and why is that? And Ash just like, because you're
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  Speaker 1: like me, you'd rather die than let anyone control you.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Aw Cain like chuckles, and he's like, and if I
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: say no, Downtown is really too good to give up.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: And Ash's like, then you've got it coming. Some dude
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: who's listening to this. One of the gang members is like,
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  Speaker 1: what did you say? And he starts to pull out
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  Speaker 1: a gun, but Ass shoots first before he can even
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  Speaker 1: do that, and he hits the guy in the hand
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: and the guy screams. Tensions are like super high now,
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  Speaker 1: and Kin is looking towards Ash little worried, and that's
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: probably because the Ash has turned the gun towards him. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Kane is like, nobody move. He's aiming right at my temple.
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  Speaker 1: He could pull the trigger before you can touch him.
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  Speaker 1: There's a slight pause as Ash is silently aiming the
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  Speaker 1: gun at Kin, and then Kane says forgive me. It
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  Speaker 1: was honorable for you to come alone. They won't lay
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  Speaker 1: a finger on you. You have my word. Ash slowly
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: puts down the gun. Kine continues, I'll be straight with you.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: I don't give a holy fuck about your war, but
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: you better not drag me into it. If anything happens
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: to any of my men, you'll pay for it big time.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: I need you to leave for today, though. Guys like
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: you make my boys thirsty for blood cheese dude, and
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Ash is like, okay, thanks for your time. Kane says,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: take care of yourself. You're too good to fall to
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  Speaker 1: the mafia. Ash, she was walking out, stops at the
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  Speaker 1: door and he says, yeah, I agree. Kane chuckles and
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  Speaker 1: he's like smooth talker. I like him. Good. He found
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  Speaker 1: a new friend. We then cut to Ash, who is
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: looking super freaked out, but we can't see what of
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: and he says, what is this? And AG's like dried
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: horse mackerel, boiled spinach, and some rice and mes soup.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: And we see that they're sitting at a table in
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  Speaker 1: the apartments with lots of food spread out in front
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  Speaker 1: of them. Ash picks up a small bowl and a
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: She says that's nato. Oh no, So if you don't
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: know what nato is, it is fermented soybeans and it's
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: pretty popular in Japan. Has like a breakfast food, I think,
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  Speaker 1: but it's got like a really apparently pungent smell and
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: it's like super super slimy. So I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: well liked by like foreigners very often. I've never had
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Nato before, and I really really want to try it now,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: so maybe I should figure that out. Maybe if I do,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: I'll let you know about it. Man, I really want
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  Speaker 1: some now. Anyway, it seems like a bad choice to
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: give someone as a yay, look at this thing, I like,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: but whatever. Anyway, Ash sniffs it and he's like, it
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: smells like it's rotten, and AG says, that's how it's
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: supposed to smell. Ash is being a super good sport,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: and he's like, how do you eat it? AG says,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: add soy sauce, mustard and green onions, then makes it
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: till it's all sticky and he's doing that and Ash
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: stirs the Nato, but he's like not convinced, looking, and
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: AG's like, yeah, you got it, and he says pour
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: it over rice and he's doing that and dig in.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Ash takes a bite, and we see AG also take
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: a bite, and he's like, hm, tasty, and poor Ash
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: looks like this is the worst thing that's ever happened
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: to him. AG's like like it. Ash is like turning
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: blue and he says, I'm gonna throw up. Then he
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: picks up the whole dried mackerel and he's like this
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: stinks too, and AG says it's a post. Ash grimaces,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: but he's like still examining it, and he says, do
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Japanese people only eat stinky food? He takes a bite
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: of the head though, and AG looks kind of surprised,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: and he says healthy Japanese food is good for guys
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: like you will only eat meat. Ash says yeah, and
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: he starts putting some cream cheese on a knife. Continues,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I grew two inches last year and I haven't gained
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: a pound. He starts to spread the cream cheese on
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: a bagel. I think, now, I'm pretty sure this was
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: just a manga gag, like saying, like, hey, Ash's character
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: design has changed a lot, right, guys, so we probably
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: didn't really need it in the anime. But that's fine.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: AG says, lucky you, I think I've stopped growing. He
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: looks pretty sad. Age's pretty short, and Ash is like,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I'm in the middle of my growth spurt, not like
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: some old geezer. AG kind of grumbles and huffs and
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Ash says, what's wrong, big brother, You'd have to go
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: back fifteen years if you wanted to beat me up.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I actually think the two year old Ash could still
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: take Agy. But whatever. Age he's like, don't I wish
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: i'd beat you a pulp and he tries to grab
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the knife from Ash, but Ash doesn't let him, and
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: then they both kind of like laugh a little because
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: they're cute. Then we cut to Arthur saying what and
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: he's in the bargain with his gang people and one
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: of the guys says, they got Clyde from the Quasars. Wow,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: that's a weird name for a game. And another guy says, boss,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: what do we do? Arthur slams his fist on the
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: bar and he's like, I know, and he thinks he's
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: got that gulloble boy with him. How come he keeps
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: getting away? Jeez. We then go to a really tough
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: looking but horribly terrified dude against a brick wall in
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: a dimly lit area has like a greenish glow to
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the scene. It's pretty cool, and we hear Ash say
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: did you have fun hunting down my boy's Waxy? This
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: intensifies Waxy's terrified look and I think they're in an
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: alley by the way, Waxy says, please forgive me, Arthur
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: made me do it. Ash, who looks kind of resigned,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: sad maybe, says, you shot my friends while they pleaded
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: for their lives the same way you are. He raises
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: his gun, Waxy gasps, and Ash just shoots him in
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the head. Fuck And then we see that the rest
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: of the gang is there too, and it looks like
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: they have some other people from Waxy's gang with them,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: and Alex says, what do we do about the others?
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Ashes like, kill him, don't ask me again. He pulls
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: up his hood and he starts to walk away. Alex
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: looks pretty surprised and he's like, oh okay. One of
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the guys says, please Ash, save me, but Ash just
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: continues to walk away as his guys just fucking shoot
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: them all. We get a close up of Ash as
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: he walks and he looks just so emotionally distant, and
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: he thinks, I really am becoming a murderer. He kind
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: of winces and looks down at his hand, which he
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: imagines has just like a ton of blood on it,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: and he thinks, who am I. We cut to a
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: street light with a moth fluttering by it, and then Ag,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: who is sitting in one of the beds reading and
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: he hears the door open and looks up. Ash walks
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: in and says, you're still up. AG's like, welcome back.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: You're out late these days. Ash sits at the edge
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: of the bed, kind of slouched, and he says, I've
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: got stuff to do. I'm beat. AG looks kind of concerned.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: He says, there's blood on your shirt. Ash looks down
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and sees the blood splatter on his stomach and he
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: covers it with his hand. He looks so fucking hurt,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: and he says, what are you trying to say? Ag
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: places his phone on the bed, and it has an
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: article from the New York Herald open and the headline reads,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Execution and violence continue to intensify in ongoing conflict between
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: street gangs. AG says, did you do this? It says
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: that the victims had thrown down their weapons but were
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: still shot precisely between the eyes. I don't want to
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: believe it, but only you could do something like that.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Ash says, so what, and AGI's like, so what, why
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: are you doing this? He gets up, You're not the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: kind of guy who chewed an unarmed person, And Ash says,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: who do you think I am? I told you I'm
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: a murderer. They shot my friends to save themselves. They're
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: paying for what they did. AG's like, sure, the strong
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: can say that, but not everyone has a talent like yours,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and Ashes like a talent for what killing. Ag looks hurt,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: and he says, what do you keep saying that you're
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: not like other people? You don't get how unngifted people feel. Fuck? Agy,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: don't say those things. And Ash is clenching his fists
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: as Age's saying this, and he stands and he's like,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I've had it with you. You want to let them
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: run free so they can kill us. It's not about reasoning.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Power is everything. That's the world I live in. What
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: would you know about that? And there's a long pause
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and AG says, I don't. I'd probably be dead now
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: if I lived in your world, but I have to
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: say it. You're not being yourself right now, not the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Ash that skip shorter and I know, okay, that really
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: shocked and hurt Ash. And he doesn't say anything. He
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: just grabs his jacket and he turns to leave, and
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: AG says, where are you going? Ash stops and says,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: you said I don't get how unngifted people feel, but
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: you understand how I feel. Ag like kind of gasps,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: and Ash continues, I never wanted this gift, not once
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: in my entire life, and he just kind of runs
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: out the door, and Age's like Ash and the door slams,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: and AG kind of exhales and covers his face with
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: his hand. It's daytime outside the apartment building, and then
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: we see Kong and Bones ring in the apartment doorbell.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Ag opens it like panicked, and he's like, isn't Ash
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: with you? And Kng says boss, and AG's like, he
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: didn't come home last night. I want to apologize to him.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Bone says, apologize why, and AG's like we got into
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: a little fight, and Bones and Kong together say you
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: fought with boss. Ag looks so confused, like there's literally
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a question mark next to his head, and Bones is like, damn,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: you got balls. Next, we see the exterior of the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: New York Public Library, specifically the stephen A. Schwartzman Branch,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: which is the main branch of the New York Public
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Library at four seventy six Fifth Avenue. He is gorgeous, guys,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: really really fucking gorgeous, and I have never been in there,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and I would like to go. We hear Kanan say
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Boss comes here a lot when he wants to be alone,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and we see that Ag and Bones and Kan of
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: walked inside, and Bones and Kan kind of like wave
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Ag off, and we continue this voiceover and Bone says,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't go if I were you. He hates being interrupted.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: And we see Age walking up the stairs and we
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: hear him say, I know, but I'm going wish me luck.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Now we see Ash sitting at one of the many
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: long tables in the Rose reading Room, and he's got
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: a bunch of books and he's obviously reading a book,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and Ag is just kind of looking on silently, and
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: he walks over and says, hey, Ash looks up and
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: AG says, you knew I was here. Don't pretend like
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: you didn't. Oh. He knows his hyper vigilance really well.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Ash just like huffs and turns away, and Age thinks, yep,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: still mad, and he sits and says, sorry about last night.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't have said all that, and Ashes, like Japanese
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: are quick to apologize. Huh, eBay apologize too. Oh Agy
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: stands and he's like, you spoke to him, and everyone
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: turns and shushes him. So I think it's really interesting
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: that Ash is safe space is a public library also
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: not that interesting. It's perfect, is what it is. I'm
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: sure that you are aware, maybe that it's pretty common
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: for homeless people and children who have had a rough
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: time in their homes to seek refuge in the public
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: library because you know it's climate controlled. You're allowed to
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: be there without buying anything obviously, because you don't buy
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: things in a library, and you can stay there for
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: a long time without being suspicious. So the idea that
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: this former homeless kid is seeking refuge in a library
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: makes like perfect sense to me. And I loved that
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: that is in there. Also, I've been thinking about Max
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: said to Ash and maybe, like Pisode three, he said
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: something like that Ash isn't anything like his brother, because
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: his brother was a quiet poet, and I actually think
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Ash is a lot more like that than Max, at
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: least believed at that time. In this situation where he
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: was upset with everything, I mean with ag his thought
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: was like not to go out and like blow off
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: steam at like a bar or something. It was to
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: like read some books in a library. And I mean,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: we know that he's read kind of like weird obscure
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: newspapers before, but we also missed this really cool part
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: of the manga, like way back when Ash had given
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: doctor Meredith banana Fish to research and figure out what
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: it was, and doctor Meredith was like, oh, banana Fish,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: that's like a JD. Salinger novel, and then he said
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: something like, I'm sure you don't read any of that
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: stuff though, And Ash's response is basically like, no, I
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: wasn't into Sallenger, like I was more into hemingway more
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: or less. So right then we were already getting an
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: idea that this character isn't going to be so straightforward.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: But yeah, anyway, public libraries are cool, I guess, especially
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: if you are a nineteen eighties or twenty tens I
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: guess delinquent murderer. Now we see them in like a
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: food truck hot dog place, and Ash holds out a
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: hot dog to Ag and it has like a ton
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: of toppings on it, and he says, eat up. It's
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: an American NATO dog. AG makes some sort of discontented noise.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Next we see the skyline across the water and the
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: sun is low, So I guess they're on the New
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Jersey side, maybe of the Hudson, I assume. And we
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: hear AG say do you come here often? They're kind
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: of standing against the railing near the river somewhere, and
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: it's kind of windy, and ashe says, sometimes when I
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: feel like seeing what the place where I live looks like.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: AG says about last night. Being a good friend is
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: about saying what you really feel, even if it's painful.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: But I didn't mean to hurt you. I'm sorry. Ash says,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I know I lashed out because what you said was true.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: We cut back two Black Sabbath's Hangout, which is either
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the coolest name for a gang or the stupidest, depending
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: on how you feel, and Arthur is there. He and
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Kan are sitting at a table and Arthur says he
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: came here too, and Kane's like, yeah, but he came alone.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Arthur kind of chuckles. I guess he's confident in himself
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: and he says that's because he's not afraid of Diye.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: So here's the deal. We go to a nicely lit,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: expensive looking bar where Ash and Kin are sitting next
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: to each other, and Kin looks like normal Kine with
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: the vest and no shirt and Ashes dressed for very
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: nicely with glasses and how he looks when he goes out,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: when he's trying not to be noticed. And Kin says,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: he wants to have a fair fight with you. He
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: asked me to be the observer. And Ash says, tell him,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I accept. Kin's like, really, you know it's a trap, right,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Ash says, yeah, but I want have to kill meaninglessly anymore.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: He takes off his glasses. Ever since we first met,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I knew this day was gonna come eventually. Kin kind
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: of like chuckles, and he says, it's your call. I'll
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: accept the post. We go to Max, who is looking
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: at a picture of Senator Kippard and he says, this
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: is William Kippard. We're like in an office, like a
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: home office of some sort. Maybe Max is I don't understand.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: We're somewhere, and Max is at a desk, which is
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: why I think it's an office, and Ash is like
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: seated at a window seat for like bay windows, which
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: is super nice and I wish I had bay windows.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Max says, this big shot congressman was there. Ash is like,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: and get a load of this dad. He shows him
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: a picture of Arthur smiles, and Max is like the
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: White House chief of staff, so and Ash cuts him off.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: The Middle East, Max says, you're probably right. We get
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: some sort of world map images here that are like
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: not great. I mean, they're not bad, but this is
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: obviously to save animation budget. So throughout this scene and
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: explaining we're getting like lots of images of world maps
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: where like things are and like pictures on the world
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: map of people that they're talking about. It's really not
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: that great. I don't really like this, but I'd barely
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: even noticed it the first time because I was reading
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: all of the subtitles. So it's fine. Whatever they needed
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: to save money, I understand. Anyway, Max says, the government's
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: strong measures in the Middle East have been an issue.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: The guy held responsible for all this was Colonel Thomas Holstock,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: which we've also met in charge of Middle Eastern affairs,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and the men backing him up were kipperd and smiles.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: So what's your take from all this? And Ash says,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: the government has to take a strong stance against the area,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: but they don't want to send in troops. So how
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: do they legally intervene while pretending to help them out?
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: A military coup? Deta, I get terrorists to overthrow the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: current government, and the new government asks the US military
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: for support. America's objective is to establish a public state
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: in the Middle East. Of course, normally that would be
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: impossible to execute, but with the help of the horrific
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Banana fish, it'd be like taking candy from a baby.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Max says, say, you're right about this. Where does the
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: mafia come in? And we see like an image of
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the globe and some money again, yay, I know you're
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: saving budget. It's fine, Ash continues with money. Of course,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: government leaders would never invest in such a precarious project.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Afghanistan harvests ninety percent of all the heroin distributed in
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the world. I look that up. By the way, Afghanistan
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: is respond for about eighty five percent of heroine supply,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: So wow, and I assume we're talking about Afghanistan here,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and it just has a chaon it for some weird reason,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: so that they could have a fictional country and it
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be weird whatever. Anyway, Ask continues, if they could
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: obtain all of that, and Max says, they'd be the
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: de facto leaders in the black market. Huh. Ash is like,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: and it's possible if the US is behind them, realistic, right,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Max says, do you realize how huge this is? Ash says,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you how it is. I know from
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: personal experience how vulgar politicians can be. What they do
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: to boys as young as their sons and grandsons. Shit,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: if you ask me, the White House is full of shit.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Max makes a sad, discontented noise and Ask continues, somebody's
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: got to let the world know that this is the
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: reality we live in. Jeez. Max says that goal scene.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I'll go and collect it evidence. Ash is like, right, go,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: He's like getting ready to head out and walking to
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: the door. Max says, how's age you doing? Ash stops
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: and says, same as always? Why? Max is like, innocence
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: can be more dangerous than guns sometimes? Probably not? Did
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: you tell him he's leaving tomorrow, right, Fuck, it's already tomorrow.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Ash says, not yet. Ash. Max is like, well, you're
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: running out of time. Ash says, I know that. Max
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: is like, you have a brain that works like a computer,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: but you can't think straight when it comes to him. Huh.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Ash is blushing slightly now, and he says, shut up,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: it's none of your business. He opens the door, but
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: then stops again and says hey. He turns back to Max.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Max looks kind of confused. Ash continues, would you keep
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: working on this even if I died? What? Max is like,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: why are you saying that? Ash thinks better of it,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: and he's like, it's it's nothing, forget it. Later he leaves.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: We now go to the front of the fifty ninth
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Street apartment building and it's all like decorated and lit
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: up for Halloween. Yeah, it's Halloween time, guys, in the
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: anime and in real life. Sort of. I think you
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: still have a week listening to this, but it's coming soon.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Ash opens the door to the apartment. It's kind of dark,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: it's like in the hallway, and he walks inside and
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: he opens the door to I guess the living room,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: and he looks in horrified of whatever he sees. And
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: we hear Ag and Bone say, hey, welcome home, Ash.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is so many jack o lanterns
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: and pumpkins. That is so mean. Oh my god. Ag
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Ag is wearing a witch hat and a cloak, and
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Bones has on like some maybe like wolf costume. He's
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: got like a hood with like wolf ears and like
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: a tail, and he looks so adorable. Bones is totally
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: adorable guys all the time, but especially right now. Ash
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: is kind of freaking out, and he's like, what's with
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: all the pumpkins? Age. He's like, come on, it's Halloween,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: and he kind of winks geez. Agy Kung is dressed
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: up as Frankenstein too, And then we see like an
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: assortment of baked goods and like maybe like a roasted chicken,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: and Ag says, this one's from our neighbor, miss Coleman,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: and this one's from missus Owen's downstairs, and Ash is like,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: your buddy's with the housewives here, and Ag says, we
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: meet at the supermarket downstairs all the time and we
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: became friends. Ag has like a pumpkin on his head
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: and he's kind of like getting way too close to
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Ash for Ash to be comfortable with someone with a
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: pumpkin on his head, and he keeps like having a
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: back away, and Ash says, stay away or I'll cry Gez.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, they're traumatizing this poor child. Ag and
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Bones both have pumpkins on their heads now and they
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: go triggers poor Ash. We cut to I guess a
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: little bit later because Bones and Kung are sleeping on
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: the couch. Specifically, Bones is like laying on Kongs. It's
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: like really cute, and Ag is like drinking something from
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: a can and Ash says, hey, do you have a girlfriend?
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Ag is kind of startled and he's like, why did
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: you just ask me that out of nowhere. I guess
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: it's something you need to know. You need to know
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: if your boyfriend also has a girlfriend. And Ash says,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: why not you have one back home? Right? He's like,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: of course not. I bet the girls like you though,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: and Ash says yeah. AG's like sweating a little and
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: he says thought so, and he kind of like laughs
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: and he thinks, you little lot. Ag. Anyway, Ash continues,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: everyone wants to be the Boss's girl, not that I
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: give a damn about them. But there was this one
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: girl that I really liked when I was four. AG's like, really,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: how far did you get with her? Ash says, nowhere.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: She died. She was murdered. Someone thought she was my girlfriend.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: I couldn't save her. Oh, that's a way to bring
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: the conversation down. He looks terrible by the way Ag
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: is staring at him. He kind of didn't realize this
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: was gonna go this way tonight, and Ash says, feeling
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: bad for me again. AG looks down and says, yeah, Ash,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: just like the world won't let me mingle with normal
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: people anymore. A She's like, if my being here is
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: a burden to you, and Ash says, no, that's that's
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: not it. He puts his hand on his head and
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: he's kind of blushing a little bit. He says, let's
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: forget it. I don't want to fight for tonight. No
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: more gangs in warfare and they kind of clink cans
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: and Adie says, yeah, you should probably tell him that
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: you're sending him away by the way, Ash. We cut
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: to black and we hear a phone vibrating, which is
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: a weird thing to say that you can hear a
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: phone vibrating, but you can't obviously. And then we see
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Ash picking up the phone and he says, yeah, it's me.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: There's a pause. He says, okay, he puts the phone down.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: At this point, the ending theme starts up. Ash is
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: still in the living room, sitting quietly as Age sleeps
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: on the couch, and he just kind of sits there
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: motionless for a minute, clearly upset, and then he heads
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: outside outside of the apartment building. He puts on his
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: sunglasses and walks off into the dark city. Then we
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: go to the title card to have and have Not,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: and then we go to the ending theme for the
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: first time in weeks. Finally, Yeah, and that's it, So
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: we did it. Closing thoughts, there are a couple of
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: things I wanted to talk about that he didn't feel
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: like there was a spot to interrupt, So I'll say
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: this first, because it's just not really that important. We
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: like lost a scene here when Max was showing Ash
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: the picture of Senator Kippard and they were kind of
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: talking about all of this stuff. I mean, obviously it's
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: different in the manga because it's not the same war
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: or the same part of the world anymore. But that's
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: totally irrelevant for what I'm about to say. Anyway, Max
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: says something about Senator Kippard and is like, oh, I
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: bet he's really like well off and Ash says, yeah,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: he has a house in Florida, and Max is like,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: why do you know that? And of course it's because
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: he was one of Ash's clients. And it's like this
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: whole incredibly awkward scene where like Ash is like kind
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: of delighting and making Max uncomfortable. And it's sad that
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: we lost it because a it's good to know Kippard's
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: involvement because we're gonna see more later, so it's nice
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: to know it early. And it just kind of shows
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Max and Ash's relationship really nicely in a way that
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: we don't see it very often. So I hate that
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: we lost it. I know it's not super important, but
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I miss it. So that's the first thing. So if
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: you remember last week, there was that whole scene where
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Ash was buying guns from Fly and he paid him
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: with the jade earring and Ag asked like, where did
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: you get that from? And he said it was a
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: gift and AG asked from who, and he wouldn't tell him,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: and he kind of like blushed. I was thinking about
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: that specific scene while I was watching the scene in
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: this episode where Ag asks how he got the apartment
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: and he won't tell him, and Ag eventually is like, well,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: you know, I know, you're just protecting me, And I
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: guess that makes sense, except it doesn't at all, because
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: we know how Ash got the money. Dino knows how
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Ash got the money. It's not like Dino is gonna
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: go to the cops because dirty money. So really there's
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: no reason Age shouldn't be able to know. It's not
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: like he's gonna be interrogated or something. It's not like
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: it's really gonna do anything negative to him. So the
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: only thing I can come up with is that Ash
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: is afraid that it will change AG's view of him
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: because he would have to explain. He would have to
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: explain how intimate he was with Dino and how Dino,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: like I guess, lavished him with gifts and stuff and
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: kind of thinks of him like a lover sort of,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: and that might lead AG to believe that Ash had
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: manipulated the situation, which is like so fucking stupid to
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: even think. Sorry everyone who thinks that, but I'm bringing
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: it up because we saw in last episode when he
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: was telling Max about all of this stuff and what
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: he did, Max basically called him the devil. And there's
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: another scene, well, there's a couple of pages in a
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: one shot manga that is supposed to be read after this,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: but it's from the past where a character basically accuses
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: him of being a manipulator because he he's gone along
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: with this kind of stuff. So I don't think he
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: could handle ag thinking that too. If you remember, I've
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: talked about him fawning as a trauma response in the past,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: and what he has done to survive really required him
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: to just go along with things in a way that
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: he didn't want to, so that he wouldn't you know,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't be hurt even more than he was being hurt.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: And from the outside I could see that looking like manipulation,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: but it is really just a survival tactic for someone
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: who literally has no other options. If he fights, he
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: pretty much dies, you know. I mean, as we've heard
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: him say, happens to a lot of the other kids
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: in circumstance. So yeah, it's sad that he'd even think
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: that about himself, and that that's been put out there,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: but it has been so yeah, I feel really really
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: bad about that. It's basically just too much for him,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I think, to have to explain that to AG. So
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: that's my thought process there. The other thing, besides the
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: fact that he's like not telling AG that he's gonna
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: send him back to Japan, which is probably not great,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: but I get it, the other thing is that when
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Ash was talking to AG after he murdered a bunch
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: of people, which is really not good, I think that
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: he actually brought up some pretty good points. Not that
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: I think that him murdering people is good. In fact,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: it's pretty fucking scary. But I don't know what else
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: he is supposed to do. I really don't know what
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: else he is supposed to do in these situations. He
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: is no one that can help him. He is up
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: against two mafia's and he has fucking Arthur just sicking
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: gang members on him and apparently his friends. It sounds
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: like they've killed a bunch of his gang members. So
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: what is he supposed to do? Is he supposed to
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: go to the police. First of all, he's wanted, so
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: if he goes to the police, he's going to jail.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Second of all, When have the police ever helped him?
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: And I mean this very very seriously. He has had
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: terrible experiences with the cops, starting from when he was eight,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: right when he was in Cape cod and then we
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: know that the cops in New York are corrupted, at
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: least some of them are. There was that Evenstein guy
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: from episode two, right, who obviously knew what was going
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: on with Ash. I still think he was a client.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: I didn't say that to you before, so this still
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: doesn't make sense, but I think about it in my
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: head all the time. But you know, he knew stuff
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: was going on that he shouldn't have known. He was
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: taking money from Dino. He probably planted the gun at
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: the crime scene. And I know that there are cops
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: like Charlie who really care and really want the system
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: to work like it's supposed to work. But so far
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: we haven't seen him do any good. And I know
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: that he's trying, but he's working in a corrupt system,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: you know, So who does he trust? Who does he
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: go to to save himself and the people around him,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Like literally, there is no one who can help, and
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: he's kind of up against the government a little bit now,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: So I don't know what else he should have done,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: And I don't like that it was just murder a
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: bunch of guys who put down their weapons, obviously, but
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: had he spared them, they would have just come for him. Again,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: he is terrified all the time of what's going on,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: and he just doesn't have anyone who can help, and
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: it's really fucked upsetting, honestly. So yeah, I just wanted
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: to put that out there. But he's still killing a
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: lot of people, which isn't great obviously. And also Age
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: talks about him having like a like a talent or
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: a gift or whatever. He doesn't really know the whole story.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, Ash is obviously talented with a gun, but
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: there's more to it than that, so we're gonna find
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: that out as well in a few episodes. But yeah,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: this was a rough one honestly. And then with the
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: stuff at the end with him almost having a girlfriend
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: and how he can't be around normal people anymore, like
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: he's so fucking isolated. It just sucks, man, It really
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: sucks because we know this is not the life he
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: would have chosen for himself if he had any real options,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: you know. So now I'm really fucking sad. I think
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: that's pretty much it. So I'm gonna go and be
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: sad without you guys listening to me be sad, and
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: I will see you next week if you still exist.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: So I hope you have a really good whatever later.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Weeps