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Hello and welcome to another episode of Straw Chat, and today
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I'm joined by Lee and the wonderful Jake.
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How have you been? Well, I've seen you for ages.
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Oh, I'm all right. I'm still nursing this drink
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though. You know, drink responsibly,
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kids. Excuse us while we kill the sky.
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So yeah, we've just, we've just headed up the knock up stream
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and now we're going to enter the proper Skype PR, which is the
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main bulk of it, which I'm kind of looking forward to because
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because you were saying not a lot of people raid this ark.
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Yeah, I was going to say this is like a lot of people's drop off
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point for some reason, but to me I was like, oh, this is like a
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proper adventure in like unknown land type of thing.
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But I heard it explained quite well that I hadn't really
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connected dots on before. Like you know how the first ark
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is called romance Dawn or like the first episode like volume of
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the manga and stuff. So that that's talking about
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romance in this like adventure sense when it's like, oh, a
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grand adventure, like a way it's type of thing.
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And it's like, yeah, this is like the the show's first big
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stab at like a romantic in that kind of sense of adventure, not
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like people getting together type of thing.
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So yeah, if you're not here for that, I guess if you just want
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power scaling, you're probably not going to be that satisfied
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with Sky PR. You see, what I'm really
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enjoying about the series so far are the adventures, the learning
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about the world. I do enjoy the fights but I
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don't think that as big to my enjoyment as the the rest of the
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series like the the learning about the crew, the current
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development or all that kind of stuff.
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Yeah. And they don't stop this.
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There's a, there's a few good moments of like, how do we get
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to this place? No one's ever, no one's wrote
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down any directions and we're going to like figure it out.
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So yeah, it doesn't drop this kind of blueprint, I guess going
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forward, which is nice. They're just kind of build on
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it. I mean, even in this of the
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character development, I'm swinging on you.
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So like I thought he was a the biggest waste of space.
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I don't know why he was on the crew and then he's came into his
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own here. He's I'm starting to say, I
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mean, I can't see him as any as a as a useful fighter, but I see
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him as a valuable member of the crew.
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Now I was getting. Worried.
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About that, my mind's change on that.
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Like I've been looking into this.
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I was like, oh, Chris hates Usopp and it's like it's making
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us sad. And I was like looking.
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And I was like, I wonder if the guy who voices him is on Cameo.
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And I was like, he is like, I was going.
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I was like, oh, I might say if I can pay him and it'd be like,
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why don't you like me? And that will save us like £40
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or whatever it was. He's it is tough though because
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he is like pure comedy and he does take a lot of screen time.
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Like there's a lot of screaming and stuff or like him like
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shouting over people. So I get it like he is annoying,
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but he's definitely designed to be annoying.
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So speaking. Speaking of the voice actor as
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well, the guy who does the English version also voices
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Krillin in Dragon Ball. Oh, that's a good link.
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I'm wondering if that's like his specialty of voicing people that
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are useful but just the like the butt of the joke and just get
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done in all the time. Well, maybe, but Japanese,
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Japanese Krillin is Luffy. So like like Japanese Krillin
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got an upgrade. Yeah.
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So that's a good little link though that they hired both the
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Krillins. To do something.
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I love Krillin in there in Dragon Ball Z in Dragon Ball so.
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The best fighter in Dragon Ball. Yeah, yeah.
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He just, I don't know, he's represent, they'll say Bolton
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kings. Yeah, USAP has no redeemable
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fighting skills, but he does have decent inventions and
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ideas, so he's. He's an amazing planner.
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Yeah, he's a strategist. He's perfect at that, which
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you'll get more and more of as we watch this.
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He's brilliant with his strategies like anyone.
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I don't think I saw him as that in my head until the end of this
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arc. Yeah, he brought me in some of
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his invention. I was like, Oh yeah, he's he's,
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he's carrying. He's carrying his weight.
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He's not being carried by the crew.
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He's got a role that he's fitting into, even when he
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thinks he's. Produced he's got like he's all
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of his flags and stuff like popping out the bushes when he
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first shows up. He's been protecting the island
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from pirates and that's like coming up with.
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Applies. Yeah, no, I do like how there's
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a few moments where he's really quick to be like, oh, hang on,
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yeah, we'll, we'll roll with this situation.
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It's a bit later like in the the G8 stuff, but like when he's
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like oh, I see you, I see an angle on it, a tall tale here he
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does it to the sky peens as well like later on when he's like ah,
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look at this rubber band. It's the most amazing thing in
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the world yes actually usap rubber band is one of his like
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signature moves. Isn't it?
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It's like I. Don't think it's ever had an
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effect on anyone. Oh, it knocked down the the big
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tree and the evidence was right there.
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Yeah. But this is like a kind of crazy
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intro because they're they're on this like white sea thing and
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they sort of figure out that the, I guess the water is less.
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Is it more dense? It makes them float easier.
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I guess they say like it's easier to swim through, but then
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do something like swims all the way down at the bottom and like
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falls out of the clouds. And there's a lot of near death
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from falling in this arc. Yeah, yeah.
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Which which I don't mind because it's like they've reached the
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the White Sea and it's like this whole new, like all of the
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everything you knew from the the blue sea is the what they call
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is the normal sea that I've been on.
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It's flipped upside down where it's it's a new law, it's new
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creatures, even a new race of people.
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Did you? Say yeah.
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Who the Shandarians or the people that the Scorpions?
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All right. Sky Beans.
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The Berkins, I don't know if Berkins called.
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I don't know if that got mentioned or if this is some.
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Of the stuff that. I'm going to have to bring up
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later. I think it might be because I
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remember Sanji calling the the mechanic's daughter an Angel and
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you're a bunch of angels and stuff like that.
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So I just went with that and I was like wings on the back and
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we had antenna but. Yeah, which might, may or may
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not be their hair, I wasn't quite sure.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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It's, it's an interesting intro because, like, you wanted to
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talk about the weird old lady who's like the passport, like
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the Border Patrol office who takes the photos on the way.
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And she's like, oh, you'll be fined like 5 billion.
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I don't know, whatever kronas, whatever the sky money is, I
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can't remember. But yeah, it's not it's it's
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like an interesting intro of the city and they get took up by
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like that lobster Express train something.
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I love that which moves. Backwards for some reason.
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I did want to talk about the because when when they go there,
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they've got like a gateway into the islands.
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Yeah. And the there is like a
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gatekeeper who was a very old woman.
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Obviously she's there in retainment or whatever.
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She's got an easy gig. And she's just like, oh, you
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need to pay so much of this, this kind of money.
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And they're like, I don't know what that is.
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And then, well, you don't have to pay, but you will receive
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God's judgement. OK, bye.
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And she starts taking pictures. And I'm like, the fact that they
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have a gate system and technically a security system,
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does that mean that they're in contact with the blue sea
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regularly to facilitate a gate? Well, it sounds from what I've
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got, it sounds like there hasn't been any blue sea people since
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NRU took over as God, because I think he kind of like put a
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lockdown on any kind of, you know, activities that weren't
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approved by him. But yeah, it's weird, isn't it?
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Because they're like the No Blue Sea people, but they don't
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really know anything about them and they think they're all
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strange. Yeah.
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Which the small hats are strange, but for their own
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reasons. Yeah.
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I mean, we're doing it. We'll find out at the end that
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there has been some blue sea people there in the past or more
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recently. But it's like, I don't know.
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No one seems to know have first hand knowledge of them.
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Yeah, I think it's like, you know, this is a this is a cult
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town and the cult leader has put a lockdown on like any outside
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information coming in. He's probably just been killing
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them. Yeah, he's probably just been
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killing them as soon as the if anyone did fly up on the knock
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upstream or whatever. I wasn't even sure about whether
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it's any roost what not wanting people to come here or if the
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reason for all of these charges and saying like pay this or
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you'll receive God's judgement was the people that lived there
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trying to deter the blue sea sea people away in case they cause
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trouble and cause any room to start electrocuting everyone.
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Yeah, which he seems to. Do regularly because he's Anna
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who's got a like a very bad area of attack is not a single killer
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person. It is like this area is not bad
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to go. Like a column of light.
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Yeah. Goldeneye, yeah.
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He does think he's invincible. Yeah.
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Yeah. So like the the do just go up
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there, like I don't know what any of this means.
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And like, like unless Robin's heart just trying to figure out
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like the exchange rate and stuff like that.
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But yeah, loopy doesn't care that much and you don't have to
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pee. But they do get like attacked by
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a weird Native American guy in a in a like a tiki mask.
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Scary looking thing is. That white bear.
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Yes. OK, I wasn't sure if there would
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change his name for English because like wipers kind of
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silly in in our our language. It probably sounds fine in
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Japanese. Wiper no swiping.
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And and they get saved by the sky Night gunfall.
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Yeah, yeah. It seems like quite an
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interesting character. Because they get their ass
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kicked because of the, what do you call it, altitude.
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Yeah, Oh yes, I have a lack of oxygen.
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Yeah, they're like, oh, it sucks to move up here, but then they
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just get used to it in like 10 minutes.
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Like actually now that I've jumped around a bit, I'm used to
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it. Because much if it was that
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easy, like all of them Sherpas at my reverence, to be out of a
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job. Although it come back like super
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strong, which I have heard you can't do that.
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Can't you like, you know, run like train up there and then
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when you come down you're like good, good to go on the land for
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a little bit? I mean that.
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I mean, that sounds like some sort of like rich person's peak
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physical. Batman.
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Conditioning kind of thing, which is do you know, like when
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you see on on 80s montage films where they're underwater on a
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treadmill with a with a breathing thing on, that seems
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like that kind of over the top stuff.
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But yeah, I think you can't. We can introduce to Wave as as
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well, which is the nice cool little transportation system
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we've got. It's like a jets.
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It's a basically a jet ski and they can't ride it but Nami just
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mastered it in like 5 minutes. Because that's her superpower is
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the navigator, which apparently extends to drive and stuff also.
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Yeah. And so this is where we
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introduced to like a sort of, it's not a massive thing in the
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law, but it does carry on for a bit the dial system, which is
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like a weird shell based. And I don't know, it's not even
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a weapon sometimes. It's just like a weird shell
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based technology where it seems to store energy and stuff in
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these shells that you can then release whenever you feel like
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it. Actually, I I really like this
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in reduction to weird new technology because it's like
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when when you when you eat E blue and alabaster and stuff,
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you're like, why are they calling each other on snails?
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Because it's never really explained.
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But it's just kind. Of like me or you picking up a
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mobile phone and having to explain what a mobile phone is
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like. You wouldn't, would you?
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Yeah, you're right. There doesn't seem to be any
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transponder snails in the sky from what we see, so maybe they
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just use the shells to get around faster and like, chat to
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each other. Yeah.
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But I kind of like the new concept and the new
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possibilities of using it. It's like a new mechanic, isn't
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it? Yeah, yeah.
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And like USAP uses it a bit, but I guess he must run out after a
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while because he's just got like a sack full of them by then.
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That's all he can take with them.
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I'm including some very funny ones which we'll we'll see
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later. But one of one of my favorite
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parts of this, I don't know if it's this or the next year 1 is
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when Luffy fought in what? Yeah.
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And he's like you would put a fart in.
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This I'm sorry I. Thought it was funny.
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Which the answer is Chris, you would fart in it.
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That's for asking that theoretical.
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I wasn't too impressed by the ordeals that I had to go
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through. Like they seem like a drag.
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Like the ordeal of balls. And that's the one I would have
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went into as well. I was very much on Luffy side.
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I was like, yeah, let's go in the balls door.
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But. It doesn't reduce us to mantra
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at least and Start learning about that.
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Still not 100% sure what mantra is, whether it is something that
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comes into play later on under a different name, or if it's its
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own thing completely. Yeah, because there is a lot of
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sort of, we don't really know a lot about the sky islands.
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This is one of them. Was it like common, like lovely
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town or something? It's called but like they make
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the the reference that there is other islands in this on this
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giant cloud structure. So who knows what kind of powers
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that sort of existing up there, But yeah, it's like it's
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actually come up recently in the current like, you know, anime
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there is stuff that seems like mantra being used by completely
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different characters and like, you know, being used better than
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sort of because the the make reference that Ennaru is the
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best at it and the priests are sort of a level down.
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And there's the the the girl has like a sort of some
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understanding of it. Yeah, trouble, because they
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can't really get around it. Really.
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You have to like, you have to unnerve the the mantra user to
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sort of get around it. I did like Luffy's defence but
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you say you know it's exactly what I'm going to do.
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I'll just clear my mind. Yeah, yeah.
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Or like, or when he's like, figures out like, Oh, well, if I
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just, like, grab him and then he literally can't move, like, that
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also fixes it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But yeah. What did you think about the
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ball guy? He was pretty annoying in the
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Japanese language. I'm not sure what he was like.
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It was just a lot of high pitched, like, like stuff over
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and over again. Yeah.
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Still quite. I think all of the priests
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seemed quite annoying. It was just like, yeah, just
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hurry up and get the inner room and yeah.
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Gimmicky on the. Yeah, the ball.
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So the ordeal of balls was like all just random crap comes out
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of these floating like bubbles. Like some some of them blow up,
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some of them have like animals inside this.
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I can make a dragon out of it, which nearly kills everyone.
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But yeah, you they start using this weird power though, that's
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like, that's like shredding them from the inside, isn't it?
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Because like, Luffy's not normally affected by punches and
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stuff for like the guys just like it.
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Oh, look at this and he's just like my organs, which you later
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find out is a dial type. The impact 1 probably.
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That's like lethal. What are you going to say?
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I was going to say I do like how oh, because it is a completely
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different, a different civilization and stuff that have
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a completely different way of fighting as well.
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Because they're not, they don't have access to the ground
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because they're on the clouds. So they'll not have stuff like
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metals and ore and stuff to make like swords.
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So they have these dials where they'll put in the armour or put
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in the and I just said they didn't have swords, but they put
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in the swords and lances where they'll give them attributes
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like, Oh, he has a fire Lance or he has a I've got a punch which
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repels all of the energy that's put into an attack.
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Put them in the birds mouths as well so the birds breathe fire
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and things. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, there is a there is a weird part where loads of
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birds come out of the balls and Deusop smashes them on the head
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with hammers, which are, you know, that's, that's Deusop for
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you. Weird animals shows up, the
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hammer coming. Two and Hammer.
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No, but I did like because these priests, a lot of them get taken
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out by someone other than Luffy, which is cool, you know like
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other people get to have their thing because this is like this
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is like Sanji getting a big showing because he does what is
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big like con Casa like kick thing where he like lands a
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massive like axe kick out of the sky and just like clocks them.
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I love that shit. They go and marry in this as
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well. Yeah, it's it's like proper
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wrecked at the moment and oh. God, yeah, that when they attack
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the ship, it's awful. So there's quite a few good
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scenes where it's like stuff around the Merit, like they have
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a camp out near the boats, don't they?
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And there's all the wolves, yeah.
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Yeah, because doesn't Nami just like, sort of tell the wolves to
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fuck off, basically? And they're like, oh, we're
18:05
scared of her. And then they're doing the
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little dance thing around the fire.
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Is is this foreshadowing it? Could be it.
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Is that dance? Yeah.
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It's a good dance though, sorry. Chris, I didn't get that
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reference. No, no you won't.
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Not for, not for. A little while.
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Huntington's disease. No, he said no.
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But yeah, so like, there is a there's a scary moment where
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Chopper gets attacked on the ship and he's crying and he's on
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fire a lot and that, that was horrible.
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But Gun Fall saves him, sort of. What did you think of Pierre?
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All the. Birds didn't get that right.
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And I thought exactly the same thing as Zorro where he was
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like, because obviously he's a big bird that has had some sort
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of devil food, so he can turn into a horse.
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Oh yeah. But when he turns into a horse,
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he still has wings. So he's a Pegasus.
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And it's kind of like, what? What's the point?
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But it is not. Exactly the same abilities.
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But it's not the whole that it's not the horse, horse fruit,
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Pegasus model. This is the regular horse horse
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fruit. And funny enough, you have
19:15
actually seen the Pegasus model horse somewhere else in this
19:20
group of episodes. Remember that guy in
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Blackbeard's crew who was on the sad looking horse?
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Oh, yes, yes. So that has the horse, horse,
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fruit peg, Pegasus model, right? But Pierre's just a bird with a
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horse. Horse.
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Actually, that was a question as well, because do you know when
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I've been told by Lee that there's only one type of Devil
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Fruit exists at one time? Yes.
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Like the exact same one. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah. So does it, does that not count
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for like varieties sort of Pegasus and horse?
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Because how many, how many people have human, how many
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animals have had the human human fruit?
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10 but yeah we wouldn't know but yeah there's like a lot of
20:03
different the start to get a bit silly with it where it's like oh
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this is like the fish fish thing but like a different model and
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stuff like that that's not a fish at all so yeah there's like
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there's a lot of there's a lot of weird like granularity that
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doesn't always make sense. I think it's just so you can add
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as many as he wants if I'm. If I'm honest.
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He said the human, human foot, but he has three legs though, so
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it's different. Yeah, like the three leg model,
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Yeah, they would just call it that.
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Right, right, right. You know.
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Yeah, the human human fruit is like in choppers case is just
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weird as hell because like, yeah, I mean you guys have
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already probably like that you've already talked about it.
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But yeah, who knows what Chaplas just turned like the biggest
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freak on the planet that we've seen when you think about it.
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More the merry as well. Chris Who?
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Who fixed the merry in the middle of the night that Usop
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saw? I don't.
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Know, I've been thinking about this as well because I, I
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thought, oh, did they give it away in the, the flashbacks?
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Because they have a few. USOP has a couple of flashbacks
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and it's just a figure and it smiles and that's it.
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Yeah. And I don't know.
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So it's got to be someone from Sky Pier or who can go up to Sky
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Pier. Could it have been one of the
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Shandorians? But they repaired it with metal
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so or they don't have access to that.
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So what, what what? I don't know if I know.
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Yes. Oh yeah.
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It's absolutely. It is brilliant as well.
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It's it's really nice. I'm glad you haven't predicted
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it, though, because you're good at predicting stuff that
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actually does come true. Yeah, yeah.
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He goes, he goes for a pee and then he sees a ghost and he's
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like just classes out. Of course he does too.
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So. Yeah, yeah.
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I loved Luffy being trapped in The Cave as well.
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Oh yeah, what's going on with this cave?
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And then? Yes.
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A lot of people complain about. That's one of the complaints
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I've seen. They're like, oh, Luffy spends
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like 17 hours inside of a snake. And I'm like, yeah, but who
21:58
cares? Like, the other guys are
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fighting. Like, it doesn't matter if
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Luffy's there or not. Like, you know, Zorro's Soros
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fighting in a cage match with this, like, you know, Iron Guy,
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you know, in a giant snake and a gorilla with a bazooka.
22:11
It's like, oh, you're just waiting for Luffy.
22:13
Are you not interested by any of this?
22:15
Yeah, this is. A Duke give everyone like screen
22:17
time unlike oh this is the Goku show.
22:20
Only Goku can fight these people.
22:23
Yeah. And when, when Goku's not there,
22:25
we just wait for him to show up and get beat to death.
22:28
Yeah. Like, which is fun in its own
22:30
way. And Luffy does a bit of that.
22:32
I. Mean it does happen when they're
22:33
fighting NRU like yeah those points in that like first
22:37
watching it where it's like Oh my God are these people going to
22:40
die is chopper dead it look it looks.
22:42
Like he kills Robin as well, like later on.
22:45
Like I was like, holy shit, did not remember that.
22:48
Yeah. Actually in this series, right,
22:50
I thought because everyone was dropping like flies where there
22:54
was only them, I think there's only Luffy left.
22:58
And I thought is, is the some actual kind of God power like
23:03
gone fall? Is he an actual God?
23:05
And he has to bring them back to life and resurrect them right
23:09
there? Because it was like when I was
23:10
watching, it was Eric Zorro's gone, who's up's gone, everyone
23:14
like they look like the dead and there's no, no chance of them
23:17
waking up. I mean, they eventually do wake
23:19
up, but they did have like 40 million volts to the Dome and
23:23
that. Yeah, if you can, if you can
23:26
believe that Ennaroo's calculations are correct and
23:29
he's not just trying to be extra scary.
23:32
I did like how all all of Ennaroo's attacks were sort of
23:35
named after different lightning gods and stuff.
23:37
Like he had like L Thor and stuff.
23:39
And I'm sure I'd recognize some of the other names from like
23:43
video games and stuff. Let's be honest, I ain't no
23:45
historian, but like God names show up in like, you know, Final
23:48
Fantasy and stuff like that. So that was that was a cool
23:51
touch. What did you think of his ears?
23:53
Chris Dangling. I kept thinking they're horrible
23:58
for fighting but then again he thought he was a God and like he
24:03
would have people stab him in the head and you'd be able to
24:07
survive that. I do like how much of A
24:09
psychopath he appears like when he first shows up.
24:13
It's just the way he fights is so unnatural because he is
24:17
invincible to most people that when he shows up it's just like
24:22
he's just horrible. Like to that guy, like one of
24:24
the gorillas and he's just like it.
24:26
I'll give you like 5 seconds to try and kill me.
24:29
He just sort of sat there. Yeah, yeah.
24:31
I'll not move or do anything or retaliate for a full 5 minutes.
24:35
Yeah. Yeah, I get.
24:37
I I genuinely, I just saw him as a he's, he's got a God complex
24:41
as well. Obviously he thinks he's a God
24:43
and people worship him as a God. I just, that's what I got from
24:48
that. Where is yeah, if I thought I
24:50
was invincible, was bored waiting for me plan to hatch and
24:55
come to fruition, I'll be pissing about like that.
24:58
I'll be like, oh, he's trying to kill us.
24:59
Yeah, shoot us with that gun and see what happens.
25:01
And like, put the fear of God in them.
25:05
Yeah, And like, it sounds like he entirely destroyed his home
25:10
island. Just some reason.
25:11
Like who does that? He's a proper weird introvert is
25:14
anyways, just like I just want to be alone.
25:17
How can I do that? I'll kill everyone.
25:19
I'll get on me flying ship and just electrocute to the entire
25:23
world so that I can be by himself.
25:25
Yeah, not like a quick death, like a really like destructive
25:28
and scary one. Do you know if he managed to get
25:32
down to the blue sea? Do you think he would have?
25:35
He would have got 4. I mean his power is pretty
25:38
strong for most people but yeah there's some guys who would make
25:44
him humble. Some guys we saw you know in
25:46
that warlords chat for sure wouldn't wouldn't put up with
25:49
any of his bullshit for like 2 seconds.
25:51
Yeah, me. Hawk would just annihilate him
25:54
immediately. Yeah, but most of the like, you
25:56
know, yeah, you could run, you could run E Blue.
25:58
I'm sure you know, there's not there's not many guys who could
26:01
stand up to and plus you can just fly across the sea.
26:05
So he doesn't even need like a ship or anything.
26:07
He can just turn it a lightning sort of zip about.
26:11
Yeah, I. Don't think he wanted to go to
26:13
the blue sea though. I don't know what he.
26:16
I don't think he knew what he wanted.
26:17
I don't think anyone up there is seeing what the Earth looks
26:19
like. Yeah, sorry about that, buddy.
26:21
It's mostly sea. Yeah, he.
26:23
Was he was looking for the endless of earth which?
26:26
Which is just earth I think. So I.
26:29
Was I asked you guys? I was like is is because
26:33
obviously this is the sky islands.
26:36
I'm guessing there's other element islands and there's
26:39
probably a fire island or something like that.
26:41
But I was like, is there such thing as the endless birth?
26:44
But the more I think about it, because they've had not much
26:49
contact with the, the blue sea people, if they not come in
26:53
contact with say, Goldie Roger or something.
26:56
And it's been like, Oh yes, where I come from, there's
27:00
endless, endless Earth, like where you have clouds.
27:04
And he's took that as in to say, oh, literally, as I can see,
27:08
there's only Earth. And that's what I want.
27:11
Kind of like, because like we they have this like religious
27:15
like thing where they think the earth is like sacred, like the
27:19
land that has like been dumped in the middle of sky Pia, which
27:23
we know as Jaya effectively like from knock upstream stuff.
27:28
They say it is like sacred. So I guess he's thinking like,
27:31
oh, well, this is this is the land that was promised to me.
27:34
That's years ago. It's all down there and I'm
27:37
going to get there and, like, rule over my like, you know,
27:41
birthright sort of thing. Yeah, it's weird.
27:43
It's a good, it's a, it's a good, like, juicy reason for him
27:47
to be so, like crazy, I guess. But you must be crazy.
27:50
Like you say. We didn't revert.
27:52
Wants to kill everybody. Where did he find a Devil fruit?
27:56
Was it grown in the sky or did he like, get it from, like a
27:59
pirate? He just landed in his hand one
28:04
day. He did like fruit.
28:05
He was eating bananas and shit. So yeah, where did they grow?
28:09
So on Skype here, there's two races of people.
28:13
We've got the. Is it Shandorians in in that
28:16
one? I think it's Shandians in the.
28:18
Shandians and the Live in Shandori, yeah.
28:21
Right. But then there's the other
28:23
people, which I think, but the Skypeians who I think originated
28:26
from the Bergens, which right, so the Birkins, where does Eneru
28:31
go after he's finally beat? Oh, he leaves the planet.
28:36
He goes to the moon because that's that's where the Birkins
28:40
are originally from. Right.
28:42
Sorry, what? They come from Eneru.
28:44
I didn't get this. His ancestors come from the
28:46
moon. This is part of like some of the
28:48
stuff from the manga. Yes I've heard about this manga
28:51
only stuff like there has been an update on Eneru since this
28:56
but not in the TV show because. He gets beaten.
29:01
He goes and lives on the moon and there's like some advanced,
29:06
like civilization up there and there's like a little robot
29:10
thing and he electrocutes it like, like, I think it's like
29:13
just about to die of energy. And he electrocutes it and it
29:15
comes back like, oh, thank you, master.
29:18
And he's just like, this is fine, OK, just follow us around.
29:22
And he finds like a big city and he like he tries to blow it up
29:25
with these lightning but it just because it's a electric
29:29
electronically advanced city, it just re powers the city and it's
29:32
all lit up and everything. So he's like an accidental
29:35
saviour up there, yeah. And he's just living up there
29:38
and he's just got loads of robots following him around.
29:40
And that's Anaru's life now. And there's theories like all
29:44
the Straw Hats going to go to the moon at some point.
29:47
And it's like how? Is he going to come down for the
29:50
big like final battle? Is he going to come down with
29:53
all of his robot army and stuff? Will we get portals like in
29:59
Brillica Island? Will it be like some kind of
30:01
portal where they can go through and go up to the moon and be
30:03
like, hang on a minute? Yeah.
30:07
That's right. Yeah, I didn't.
30:09
Know that I didn't know the extent of that, but I had heard
30:12
it had been followed up in sort of little bits in the manga, but
30:15
not very like seriously. But that's that sounds way more
30:18
fleshed out than I thought. But the moon to them is known as
30:22
fairy birth. Do you think that does get
30:24
mentioned at some point in the anime?
30:26
Yes it does. So if that's known as Fairy
30:29
Vert, is there a like ancestor like legend of somewhere called
30:32
the Endless verse, which is up on the moon, so that could be
30:36
what he's been looking for this whole time?
30:38
Or is Earth the endless birth where they've been trying to get
30:41
to from the moon? What a weird guy.
30:44
His lobes are mental. That's because he had big gold
30:46
earrings from all the shit he stole from the friggin city of
30:50
Gold. I do like the priests though.
30:53
They're all the kind of own brand of weirdness.
30:55
There's that shitty like flying guy who's like you said, he's
30:58
got like a firebird that he's sort of made.
31:00
He's just like a weird sky captain.
31:03
Not bad. He gets dumped in the water and
31:05
drowned. Good riddance.
31:08
My favourites. That guy Chopper fights though,
31:10
who when he gets flustered, can't control his body properly
31:14
and he's like talking with his mouth like shut and he's like,
31:17
Chopper's like, what are you doing?
31:20
And then they're like, he's trying to see with his eyes shut
31:23
and stuff like that. It's just such a weird thing.
31:25
Yes. But Chopper totally murders his
31:28
ass. Zorro fights.
31:29
There's some guy who was stupid enough to bring a gun to a sword
31:32
fight. Oh my God.
31:34
Yeah, yeah, he now he now he shoots Zorro a couple of times
31:37
till he realizes his goggles will help because he's got like
31:40
a flash bang situation going on. So like this is cool.
31:45
I don't know how much of this sorrows done in the past few
31:47
episodes, but it's sort of where he tries to start figuring out
31:51
how can I use my swords for like long range?
31:54
What kind of like fucked up sort of like thing can I do when he
31:57
learns? Like I can't remember what it's
31:59
called, but it's like a thing where like a beam shoots out of
32:01
his sword a bit so he doesn't actually have to close the
32:04
distance. 36 calibre Phoenix. Yeah, yeah.
32:08
So he's starting to, he's starting to learn is like more
32:12
inhuman abilities that, you know, he'll go on to develop.
32:15
But yeah, he's got he's got to think of a lot of stuff in his
32:17
head because he's constantly making the different references
32:21
to how heavy the phoenix is. And then he starts naming it
32:24
after like weird, like gods and stuff later on.
32:27
Like he's he does talk about religion a little bit in this,
32:30
like Zoroza. He keeps his cards close to the
32:33
chest about what he's learned about.
32:35
So I was. I did ask about this.
32:39
I don't know if you were in part of the conversation, Jake, but
32:42
do you know the the moves that he learns are obviously inhuman,
32:47
so he'll like closing, like doing long distance attacks.
32:51
Basically. Is that a kind of mantra or a
32:55
form of mantra? I don't know if it's like fully
32:58
explain what Zorro's deal is, but from what from what I
33:02
gather, he's just so strong that he can like because he's worked
33:07
out so much. That seems to be how swordsman
33:10
get like to this next level because yeah, like he'll do
33:14
stuff where he chops and he's not actually near something and
33:17
it splits in half, you know, like explodes.
33:21
And then other times you can actually like shoot sword beams
33:24
like when he feels like it. It's right.
33:26
It's like your body's energy, isn't it?
33:28
It's like key or key or whatever.
33:31
Like Dragon Ball shooting laser blasts.
33:33
It's pretty much that, isn't it? Yeah, it's not like something
33:36
only he can do, but I think it just comes from working out,
33:39
being buff. We see me Hawk do it too.
33:45
Oh yeah, yeah, that whole like classic anime thing of like you
33:48
do the chop and then the mountain goes like like, you
33:51
know, miles behind them and stuff like yeah, yeah, there's
33:54
there's just shit like that in this universe.
33:57
I. I didn't know if I had something
34:00
to do with these these cursed swords as well.
34:03
Could do. There's, there's always some
34:05
more chat on like the swords later on, like way, way later
34:08
about how swords can affect your sort of energy and things like
34:12
that and that the curse might be more of a real world thing
34:16
rather than a magical thing, if that makes sense.
34:20
Yeah, yeah. The the was that that whole
34:23
thing where when he was finding his swords in the bargain bin
34:26
like called to him, didn't this and he was like, I'll pick this
34:28
one. And I thought, all right, is, is
34:31
that like a like a vessel to like use his specific energy
34:36
because he's connected to it in some way that kind of deal like
34:40
it mantra or? Yeah, that's a big trope, isn't
34:43
it? Like the bloodthirsty sword
34:44
where it's like, Oh well, this guy's a really good swordsman,
34:47
therefore if I stick with him, I'm going to get a lot of kills.
34:51
The swords do collect like energy use, use the energy to
34:55
make power more powerful attacks like where you're shooting the
34:58
like laser beam kind of swords swipe things and the energy has
35:03
to go through the swords, which it just collects it over time,
35:07
which could make it cursed or change its colour like in like
35:12
Mihawk's got a black sword. Yeah.
35:15
So it's. His sword is generally thought
35:17
to be the best sword in the world.
35:19
I don't know if that's just because it's so big and it's got
35:21
a cool cross design, but yeah, like there is like legendary
35:25
artifacts in one piece, which is pretty fun.
35:28
What was the Beanstalk called in the Japanese one?
35:31
Because in the dub it's called like Jack's Beanstalk or
35:33
something. Giant Jack I think giant Jack
35:36
like the giant Jack, which I thought was fun.
35:39
The fun twist on it? I wasn't sure if like Air Japan
35:42
would have like in the Beanstalk.
35:44
Yeah, I often wonder about that when I watch, like, anime
35:47
because. But yeah, they must know, like
35:49
the classic fairy tales because there's a few in One Piece that
35:52
get referenced like sort of our classic like, but it's like
35:55
German anyway, So. Yeah.
35:57
But yeah. So that Iron Sword guy sucks.
36:00
And like, there's that horrible part where, like, Zorro's like,
36:03
Oh no, Chopper's corpse is over there.
36:06
Like the guy like, splits the earth and he's like, no.
36:09
And he like, actually, like, you know, risks his life so that
36:12
Chopper's corpse doesn't, like, land on the concrete.
36:16
It's really sad, but it shows how.
36:18
I do like he's. I was going to say it shows
36:20
eventually though. Oh yeah but like it shows how
36:22
much Sorrow cares. Even though he's a big like
36:25
grumpy guy, he would like risk his life for the the weak
36:28
members of the crew. The Protector.
36:30
Oh yeah. Getting up the Beanstalk when
36:33
it's like collapsing. I do love that as well.
36:36
That's like, I can't remember if the music's playing behind that
36:39
bit like I was on the knock up stream, what it should have
36:42
been. Yeah, so like that, that's when
36:44
they're sort of trying to get to Ennaru, who's like so, oh, by
36:48
the way, he was building an ark on this island.
36:52
It's just for him, It's not like an ark to carry everyone to
36:55
safety. It's like, Nope, this is my
36:58
electric golden ship that I power with my own mind.
37:03
He's such a Dick. We haven't mentioned the bell
37:05
yet either, that that bell was quite important in this story,
37:09
which is what Henry's flying towards because he's like, I'm
37:11
going to take that bell. This is going to be like my
37:13
prize possession. Yeah, because we've had, like,
37:16
some intrigue around, like, Robin walking around the ancient
37:20
city that is no longer gold because Andrew stole it all.
37:23
But she's like, there's supposed to be something really cool
37:26
hidden under the belfry, like the golden bell tower thing.
37:29
And then and it was like, what do you mean?
37:31
And he's like, oh, I guess I'll have that.
37:34
So also like for the bell, there's like there's a myth that
37:38
when the bell rings, it's going to end the 400 years of war that
37:41
they've been fighting between the Shandians and Scorpions.
37:46
And boy does it. I love that thing about One
37:50
Piece, though. Like they do that a lot where
37:52
it's like, you know, the prophecy, like the prophesized
37:54
thing that's going to happen. It's like, well, you know,
37:56
Luffy's going to do it, but it's like, how is he going to do it?
37:59
It's like, it seems impossible right now.
38:01
But yeah, yeah, it's, it's it's interesting.
38:04
And there's just so much near death on that on his ship
38:07
because he takes Nami and you're like, holy shit.
38:09
Like, you know, like Nami can't stand up to electric zaps.
38:13
And like you were saying earlier, Chris Usopp is like,
38:16
I'll get us to the ship with my crotch grappling.
38:21
And he actually does get Sanji up there so they could try and
38:24
rescue Nami. What, What's it called that
38:26
grappling rope extension or something like that?
38:28
Yeah. A lot of Tarzan.
38:30
But yeah, I did like how I loved how Sanji met Ennaru the second
38:35
time because he doesn't nearly kill him earlier on.
38:38
The second time is when he like saves Usop and Nami basically
38:42
kicks Usop onto the the the waiver so they can ride away.
38:46
He takes a full on like, you know, L4 blast and it just
38:50
lights his cigarette and he's like, thank you.
38:52
I was going to ask for a light. And it's just like it.
38:55
Sanji, you're so cool. Takes a lot of punishment as
38:59
well. Luffy's big gold hand as well,
39:01
man. Yes.
39:04
So like Luffy, Yes. That it should be a Christmas
39:08
ornament. Yeah.
39:11
And the big bell on top. Luffy is nuts in this fight.
39:14
I guess this is the big reveal moment, isn't it?
39:17
That that Chris predicted early on when you were like, oh, the
39:21
Woodward fruit guy would kick out of his ass and you're like,
39:25
hang on, wait a SEC. He's made of rubber.
39:28
So that face that he makes is one of the biggest one piece of
39:31
memes when Anna was just like, like when he finally realizes
39:35
it, there's a few memed faces which are all going to get cards
39:39
soon, as I saw like in the in the train card game.
39:42
So that that and Luffy's like no brain mode face, which you
39:45
already referenced, is another one where he's just got the
39:48
weird nose. Yeah, like, it's an interesting
39:51
fight because you wouldn't expect the main character to
39:54
literally be the weakness for the bad guy, but they still
39:57
managed to give it stakes because, like you say, he drops
39:59
them off with that big gold hand, which means he has to run
40:02
all the way back. So if you're ever wondering why
40:06
Luffy is so strong, it's stuff like this where he just doesn't
40:09
give up. He's just getting like the most
40:11
immense workout you can imagine. Sometimes during One Piece as
40:17
well, he gets power ups where it's just they'll they'll show a
40:20
flashback and it'll be like, oh, he actually trained with this
40:23
when he was like 7 year old. Like he was like when he's
40:27
grandeurys Grande was like, oh, why don't you do this?
40:30
And then it comes in to play in like episode 400 and it's like,
40:34
yeah, I didn't use this in any of the previous episodes.
40:36
You don't get some weird power ups just randomly.
40:39
Like gum gum fireworks as well which he never uses again I
40:42
don't think, where it's just him shooting out limbs at all
40:45
directions. Oh yes.
40:47
But yeah, like there's a couple of times where Luffy has the
40:49
most horrible shit thrust upon him and uses it for a power up
40:54
because he's like, no, I'm just going to grip my teeth and just
40:57
go. But yeah, it's it's super
41:00
awesome because they make you really wait from the meet Henry
41:03
again, because he's just so far like out of the reach, like
41:06
literally. And they have to do that whole
41:07
thing where the ride of the Beanstalk on like Nami's waiver
41:11
and he's like, no, it's he's like, it's fine, I've got it
41:13
from here. Oh, he jumps into the big cloud
41:16
as well, doesn't he? Yeah, what about that?
41:18
Because it already blew up Angel Village and he's moving across
41:22
to do another one and Luffy just swings his big gold bell around,
41:26
collects all the electricity, clouds gone and then he finally
41:30
just gum gum yeah pistols or something to Andrews face.
41:34
It's like. Yeah, I don't think I wrote it
41:36
down, but it's a special like Golden, like rifle move or
41:39
something where he's got like a new name for it.
41:42
Because if if Chris hasn't realized already, Luffy is top
41:45
of the classic coming up with new attack names like in the
41:48
moment, like with maybe only like a minute time to think
41:52
about it. But yeah, it's it's beautiful
41:54
because it it rings the bell of Shandora and everyone's just
41:58
like it. The island sings and all that
42:00
stuff. It just.
42:01
Couldn't. It's like, oh, he's rang the
42:03
bell, the Sky island's real, my family name is redeemed and all
42:09
this. Yes, which is which we all
42:12
wanted to happen because what happened to Nolan was horrible
42:16
when you actually see the real story of it, which comes super
42:19
late. Yeah, because that's like,
42:21
that's now, isn't it? It does a flashback sort of like
42:25
nowish you get. About 5 episodes or something of
42:29
like. Yeah.
42:30
What, like 400 years in the past or something?
42:33
Yeah, which is not really how they normally do it.
42:36
They normally sort of drop the flashback sort of in the middle
42:39
of the big story. That's probably why people
42:41
didn't like this either, because they probably thought it sort of
42:44
took you away. But I think it was sort of
42:45
resolved at that point, so I was quite happy to see some back
42:48
story. I don't know, questions
42:50
answered. I quite like the way this was
42:53
paced and done the own. I do have things that I don't
42:56
like about this ark, but that wasn't one of them.
42:59
I liked the little flashback ark as well.
43:01
It was like a nice little wholesome thing till the end of
43:04
it. Yeah, this was, it didn't get me
43:08
this time, but I'm pretty sure this was the first time I cried
43:10
at One Piece when it was like just the whole Calgary thing
43:13
because it's just so it's just so tragic how they send them off
43:17
the island and then they're like, no, wait, come back.
43:19
And it's like, Nah, it's too late.
43:20
You're never going to see your friend again.
43:22
I mean, they didn't know they were never going to see each
43:24
other, but it was just that like, yeah, One Piece does
43:27
tragedy. But it's so sad that they just
43:30
want to see each other as well. And they're both like, oh, I
43:31
hope Nolan's OK. And he's like, he's about to be
43:34
beheaded or something. And he's just like, I hope my
43:36
friend Caliger is OK. So nice, but it's so sad.
43:40
Yeah. And they're basically become
43:41
friends from being, like, so manly around each other because
43:44
it's like, Nolan gets like trapped in a ditch, like, and
43:47
he's just like, but you can't get out of that in time to save
43:50
your friends. And then he like, just powers
43:53
out of it. And he's like, perhaps you're
43:54
more of a man than I thought. It's just pure, like anime, like
43:58
macho on us. Now you have the privilege of
44:01
curing my village of a disease. Yeah, yeah.
44:05
But yeah, there's it's like you said, I think you mentioned it's
44:08
a lot like Native American style, like style stuff where
44:11
it's like, you know, people coming in from ships to try and
44:14
mess about with their like whiz. So they're like very angry.
44:18
But it turns out he was just trying to help.
44:19
Unfortunately, they have to cut down some sacred trees that have
44:23
the disease in them and they think like that's their
44:25
ancestors, their thing, like these white trees.
44:27
But it turns out it's just like trees that are affected by a
44:30
virus. And then, yeah, they get they
44:33
get cast off the island and they leave the treasure as well,
44:36
which is like, ah, see, Nolan was like the best guy.
44:40
Can't believe you betrayed him. Yeah, yeah.
44:44
But. It is sad.
44:45
Thinking back, it is sad. And then the king murders him.
44:49
Yeah, he's like you Jackass. There's no friggin island here.
44:53
Time to die. You've made me come all this way
44:55
and you're chatting shit, OK? He gets the friggin Gold Roger
44:59
like next stab, you know, like the, the public execution while
45:02
everyone's like he's a liar and his crew's like, no, he's not.
45:05
But then like. I guess they're paying somebody
45:08
else. It wasn't part of the crew to be
45:10
like to. Testify.
45:11
Yeah. False flag event.
45:13
Yeah, you'll, you'll, Chris, you'll see that a lot of the
45:16
kings of the in the world of One Piece are all corrupt pieces of
45:19
shit. There's only a handful.
45:21
Of that Cobra. Cobra is a good one.
45:23
Not a Buster 1. He was alright, King Cobra.
45:26
Yeah, yeah. There's some that are OK guys,
45:28
but there's a lot of, there's a lot of bad royal lineages.
45:32
In this world, it's weird because it's so far like the
45:37
opposite from real life. Because, as we know, all people
45:40
in power in real life are utterly uncorrupt and only half
45:44
the one of the well, failed people.
45:47
Above reproach, yeah. So anyway, it's it's time to
45:52
party on Sky PA because we've saved everybody apart from
45:56
everything's destroyed. But now they're going to live
45:58
together in harmony. And one of the most important
46:03
part of this whole saga, Robin finds the poniglyph, yes, And
46:08
it's got like a little message called from Goldie Roger as well
46:11
about like the real poniglyph and stuff like that.
46:13
Yeah, I wrote down what it said in the Japanese subtitles, so as
46:17
I made it here, I will guide this text to the end of the
46:20
earth. I don't know if it was any
46:21
different in I. Think it was similar.
46:23
Yeah. So I don't know what that means
46:26
exactly, other than I guess like Robin sort of puts it together.
46:30
So this is one of the road poniglyphs, is that right?
46:33
Yeah, which is a network of them that have possibly a different
46:38
colour, I think as well, where all of the text connects
46:41
together into some like larger message.
46:44
So that's busy. Robin's goal is to like decode.
46:47
It must be how you get to like laugh tail, I guess, or you need
46:50
it there to see whatever the one piece is.
46:54
But yeah, it's it's a pretty insane law drop in a saga that
46:58
some people skip the talk about the D as well, don't they?
47:01
Yes, the talk about the D and the talk about M is it Neptune?
47:06
Poseidon. Yes, Poseidon 1.
47:08
Of another weapon that we find out because we've got Pluton and
47:12
Poseidon. Now that's two weapons.
47:14
Yes, I knew it was a planet, but there was.
47:17
There was a more interesting thing as well, where Nico
47:20
wouldn't read another part of it.
47:23
She was like, Oh yeah, it's got something written down there,
47:26
doesn't interest us. I wouldn't know what it said.
47:30
Possibly. Well, I think, I think the
47:31
problem is, I think it's gibberish until you have all of
47:35
them together like it looked when it's sort of because it
47:38
joins them together with a big line in a circle, doesn't it, in
47:41
her mind. So you will get a sort of
47:43
abstract flash thing. So I think it's like the lines
47:46
are kind of gibberish on their own until you get more.
47:51
I hope it was just like just random stuff at the bottom that
47:53
wasn't important and whoever was like carving these stuff into
47:56
the pony glyph that got so far. And then we're like, oh.
47:59
Shit there, sorry. Just a little bit you.
48:02
Froze. It's all right.
48:03
Hope they got the bottom and they're like right I'm done.
48:05
Oh shit I need to go to the shop.
48:06
I need eggs, milk and that's all it is at the bottom of the
48:11
paniglip. Did you notice when I started
48:13
talking about the Rio Paniglip that the World Government cut me
48:16
off to say Oh yes yes, because there is there is some law drops
48:19
about the void century here as well because the the Shandorans
48:25
were apparently part of the war that is now deleted from
48:28
history, which Nico Robin knows about from reading a lot I
48:32
guess. Which which is which is good as
48:35
well, because I really think Nico came into a bit of our own
48:39
and this as well. Yeah, and she got quite where
48:43
she like spine broke, that giant guy I.
48:46
Wish she would like I wish she was getting along with the straw
48:48
hats a little bit better after like spending more time with
48:51
them but she still refers to like you stop as long nose and
48:54
Zorro as swordsman. Yeah, like everyone's just their
48:57
title. Yeah, Navigator and stuff like
49:00
that. I know, but like, I'd, I'd, I
49:02
didn't mind that because I didn't really accept that.
49:05
So yeah. Chris, we were annoyed at the
49:08
end of this where they're like, Oh well, gift, use this giant
49:13
gold pillar and there would have been like rich beyond their
49:16
wildest dreams. And they're like, we've got this
49:19
little bag of gold. Quick Robin, run, get on the
49:21
ship. Do you know what?
49:24
No, I liked that better because that was more Straw Hat crew
49:28
than if they would have just accepted it.
49:30
There's always that rushed goodbye and a weird
49:33
misunderstanding where they leave, they leave.
49:36
And I liked how Robin just went with it though.
49:38
She's like, it's just like this. And she ran as well, even though
49:41
she knew full well what the situation was.
49:45
Yeah, she literally could have said, oh, hang on, they're
49:48
wanting to give her some gold. No, no, we'll just go.
49:50
It's more important that they think they got away with
49:52
something cheeky. I think even that's a very small
49:55
part, but I think it is a very big development in Robin's
49:58
character where she does just go, all right, this is
50:01
happening, this is what the Straw Hats through are.
50:05
I'll just run and we'll steal this gold.
50:07
Yeah, yeah. Which they find inside the snake
50:11
though they're like they go in the snake and fish all the gold.
50:14
Oh, the snake who has its own little ark where he used to live
50:17
on Shandor it back in the old days and loves like the sound of
50:20
the bell his. Granddad.
50:22
I could say it was him, I think. Because no, not Noland killed
50:26
the Giants. The big one.
50:27
Which was the granddad of the little snake which grows up to
50:31
be the one that swallowed everyone?
50:34
Which is why he freaks out when he sees the the lost city and
50:37
he's like crying and stuff. Yeah, One Piece will even make
50:40
you care about the giant money and snake eventually.
50:44
Yeah, I'm still because I've got obviously I've I'm only up to
50:49
here, I've watched ahead, but I'm interested to know that how
50:53
good the feature series sagas are compared to this for people
50:57
to think this is worth skipping. I don't know.
50:59
I really don't know why people skip it.
51:01
I think it's literally just because it's not on the land
51:04
mass and doesn't connect with any of the other characters.
51:07
You know like any of the wider world.
51:10
It's literally just people trying to speed run to like I
51:13
want the next crew member right now type of thing I think.
51:16
Right. But once they get on the moon,
51:19
then they'll have to come back and watch it and be like, all
51:22
right. Well, like, like we're saying
51:24
though, like the void century does come up obviously later on.
51:28
And it's like, yeah, this is the first time it's properly
51:31
mentioned on screen with some, like, drips of information about
51:35
people who are actually there, like a civilization that was
51:38
actually involved. And yeah, I think Ganfall says,
51:42
like about the DS, like, I'm sure it's a big issue that has
51:45
something to do with history. Like, that's all we get.
51:49
Yeah, I guess so. Also, did you guys think the
51:52
Shandy and Elder looked a bit like Garp because he had, like,
51:56
a dog's head? And, like, so it's got from the
52:00
sky. Who can tell?
52:01
Who can say? I didn't think that at first,
52:03
but then you mentioned it and now then when I was watching it,
52:06
it was all I could think of. They've never been, they've
52:09
never been connected or I couldn't find anything online
52:11
about any mentions, but maybe that's where you got his idea
52:15
for the dog hat. He's been to Skype here.
52:19
I thought you look like God fall.
52:21
I was just saying this, but to be fair, it was.
52:23
Not so different, you and I, Yeah.
52:25
I don't know why they all had wings either.
52:27
That wasn't really explained how the Jaya people ended up with
52:31
wings and the sky peon's already had it.
52:35
Yeah, because they don't seem to use them.
52:37
And that's it's like geographically, that part of the
52:40
earth from the ground all the way to the sky, evolved wings.
52:44
And movies. Yeah, they are just for show.
52:46
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There is one more thing that
52:48
I'll haven't mentioned that I want to bring off is how unlucky
52:53
is the captain of the White Berets?
52:55
How many things slammed against his face?
52:58
Yeah, Nami just ran him over at some point when they were about
53:01
to get arrested. And then I think it happens
53:04
again like 5 minutes later and then like towards the end of the
53:07
arc like he shows up again and something I think it might be
53:10
another way of hits him. Yeah, so they will.
53:13
Yeah, the evil, the evil police force that were just trying to
53:16
follow orders and protect the citizens.
53:18
Why do they crawl everywhere? I don't know.
53:21
They're called them like they're pretty in Japan.
53:24
They're pretty much call them the hentai Knights in a
53:26
roundabout where like they call it like the Henson, like you
53:30
know, the first part of pervert or like weird.
53:32
I think it means, I think that's what they're called Ganfall a
53:35
lot of the time as well, Like hen or San or like something or
53:39
hen sentry. Like weird night.
53:40
Do you know why I thought the these the crawled?
53:44
The white berets crawled to ground themselves in case they
53:47
get some electricity from Enol's blast.
53:52
Maybe. I'm just pulling stuff at me all
53:54
see I like. Yeah, I don't know.
53:56
They made everyone creeped out. So in Japan.
54:01
It's a belly button. But yeah, everyone's happy.
54:04
They send the Straw Hats down and they're like, Oh yeah, you
54:09
just drive off here and you'll get down and they're like, OK,
54:12
we'll trust you on that. And the giant octopus.
54:15
I forgot that was the end of this arc as well.
54:17
Oh yeah, just like the halfway point of falling to the.
54:21
It's mental how no one seems to think about should we tell them
54:26
about the giant octopus parachute there be all right?
54:30
I mean, Luffy's fine with it. He's just like, whenever
54:33
anything like this happens. Yeah.
54:37
Where do they land, though? That's the question.
54:40
Next time, straw chat. Yeah, so next next week on Straw
54:45
Chat, we'll start the little filler orc, the G8 Marine base
54:51
orc. Not the summit.
54:53
Sorry, not the summit. No, but yeah, thanks for thanks
54:58
for joining me again and bye.