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One Piece, 455 & 456 · Spoil Me! One Piece

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  This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me, covering one piece
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  episodes four fifty five and four fifty six, The Friends Warabouts Revolutionaries and the
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  Gorging Forests Trap and The Friends Wearabouts, a Huge Tomb and the Pante Debt.
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  In these episodes, we check in with Nico, Robin, with ousap
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  Masorro and with the Skeleton Guy. Sorry, I do not know how I
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  feel about these episodes. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone.
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  I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning these episodes.
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  Brooke so sorry I forgot his name is Brooke. Y'all. These were
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  weird. These were real weird vibe episodes. So I will say that I
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  appreciate at least that Brooke asking to see this girl's panties results in him getting
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  a look at all of the men's underwear over and over again, because they
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  just assume that he has the thing about underwear in general, almost like it's
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  his power source. And I just think that's adequate revenge because he is just
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  the fact that he keeps asking this. I really really enjoy Brook as a
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  character, and he keeps really bringing the energy down with this. But the
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  whole thing with him is is such a that's such a weird storyline, like
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  where that's going. Anyway, we'll get there. The mean episode that oh
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  no, I'm sorry, guys, I'm trying to play this on Hulu that's
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  where I watched it, and it's giving me an error when I try and
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  play it. And I was planning on, you know, just having it
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  playing in the backgrounds that I could talk to you about each scene, and
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  it isn't working. That's annoying. I had been, you know, on
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  Fundimation, but when I tried to log in, it wasn't. It was
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  acting as if I do no longer have a account with them, which doesn't
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  make any sense. It's just I have been having a lot of weird issues
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  today. Okay, now it looks like it's working on Fundimation, so I'll
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  go ahead and use this one anyway. Sorry. The main thing that I
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  was kind of like, I don't know how I feel about this is the
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  Nico Robin like storyline on Tequila Wolf. Every time I remember that's what that
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  place is called, it's a little bit funnier. I think I have a
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  hard time with the tonal shift between the goofiness of all the other plot lines
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  and what's happening with Robin. It's just such an abrupt shift. The change
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  in tone is so total, and I can't help but feel kind of weird
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  about like the fact that she always seems to be the one that's getting tortured.
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  You know, it just keeps happening to Robin in particular, and it
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  feels unfair way that I'm like, is this just because she's a hot woman
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  and there's like a pervy quality to this? Is it meant to be kind
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  of her figuring out how she can redeem herself because she feels like not responsible
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  for her island getting annihilated. But like, I'm sure she carries a little
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  bit of guilt with her for that, and maybe this will feel like she's
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  able to make up for that somehow with these people. But everybody else's plot
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  is so silly. What's going on with each of them is you know,
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  We've got Frankie who turns into a British man. We have Zorro who's just
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  like going around this island getting lost over and over again. We have Oosop
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  eating and getting fat and getting swallowed by a giant a flower that's actually the
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  island. I don't know what's going on him. All of them are having
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  these very silly adventures. And then we have Nico Robin who's being held prisoner,
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  endlessly tortured, and she's in like a fascist run community. It just
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  feels really, really weird, you know. I just I wouldn't. I
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  don't think I would have the same reaction to her storyline if it were the
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  main storyline and all of our other friends were also here, because that's what
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  we were doing with Sabayoti. You know, we were dealing with slavery,
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  we were dealing with a ruling class that was monstrous, and it was consistent
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  because everybody was here. But it's just a bizarre thing to go from Chopper
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  being tossed off a cliff by a giant bird and bouncing around on the floorst
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  floor to her being essentially waterboarded, Like what are we doing? So I'm
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  really curious how y'all feel about this one. It's a shame because I'm you
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  know, the past several episodes, there has been nobody in the chat and
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  so I haven't got a good idea whether I'm alone in this, you know,
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  overall assessment of everything. But I hope it doesn't seem like I'm being
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  unreasonably harsh. It's just jarring. And I don't know really how like what
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  to even say about a lot of the plot, because it's so over the
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  top, the way that the obvious nature of where we're heading with all of
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  this, right, So anyway, let's just and also, guys, like
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  the fact that she's being tort and the way that her uniform is like torn
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  open in the front, it feels very much like we're insinuating sexual assault is
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  also happening. Just the vibes are off. It's all really off. So
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  we go over to you know, we have a real short moment of her
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  being tortured, and then we go to the sort of captain I guess,
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  who is eating his dinner and talking out loud to himself about how Nico Robin
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  being here is a real hazard that like when she was only six and eight
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  years old, she was already like a legend and like sinking ships she managed
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  to break out of she didn't break out of impelled down exactly, I guess,
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  because she hadn't quite gotten there yet. But she was in custody and
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  they got her out so she is somebody that's not to be trifled with.
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  And this guy is rightfully thinking she's really capable. So I want to ensure
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  that she isn't able to like get out and do anything. And also I
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  have to make sure nobody else here knows who she is, because I think
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  his thinking is she could serve as like an inspiration for all of them.
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  So one of the other guards comes in and tells him, like, construction
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  is slowing down, we're having some difficulties, and he says to double the
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  work hours and drop to one meal a day, and you know, just
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  again like the very literally cartoonishly evil. This guy is responding about people who
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  are opposed to the construction and like we shouldn't be so we shouldn't be so
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  strict. And the captain says, there aren't that many of them and they
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  can do anything. The only threat we have is Nico rut. I mean,
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  well, anyway, uh, you need to see the laborers as expendable,
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  which this is very concentration campy. I really shouldn't use the word campy
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  next to the word concentration. That just didn't that didn't work. But anyway,
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  the you know, the whole way that things were handled in concentration camps
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  was the exact same outlook that the people were just pieces of machinery. You
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  push them till they broke, and when you broke, you replace them because
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  there was an endless supply because they were constantly bringing them in, so it
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  was just not an issue. And it's so difficult for me to understand how,
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  like how you get to the point where you can see people this way,
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  and also realizing that like that used to be something that was reserved for
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  situations in dystopian novels and you know, the dark history of World War two,
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  but we're rapidly reaching that point in simple capitalism where there's always another person
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  I can hire and just as soon as this one drops or gets broken,
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  it doesn't matter. We had a period in the United States, and I
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  say a period because this was by no means like the standard. There was
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  a brief period there where labor rights were making it so that people could like
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  have a work life balance and family and afford a home and stuff. We
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  had a like pretty good setup, but it was so brief, and we've
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  turned a corner and now we're really being trigued a lot more like this so
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  we see everybody, you know, doing the construction on the bridge and the
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  backbreaking work that they're doing. This girl is like climbing up the ducts with
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  a it looks like a giant stone like roped to her back that she's carrying.
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  She's serving food to the other soldiers. Even though she's starving, she
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  still has to carry this food to them, and like they trip her.
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  Eventually, an old man falls down and starts like it looks like he's gonna
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  die, and one of the guards is drunk and starting to like use his
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  whip, and all of the workers gather around him and it seems pretty threatening.
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  It felt for a moment like maybe they were going to rise up in
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  their numbers against him. But they then mentioned like, well, if you
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  step out of line, we're going to send you to the prison tower,
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  and none of you want that. And this is when we go up to
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  Robin again, who evidently the point of this tower is that it's simply open
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  to the elements. So she's freezing and they keep like pouring ice water on
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  her, and they say something about how they can hand her over to the
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  navy and they'll get a nice reward for it, because there's no difference to
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  them whether she's alive or dead. They're still going to collect. They keep
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  threatening this. I don't know if they've actually called the navy and notified them
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  or what, because they're right they could collect. So why are they doing
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  this to begin with? Are they just gonna kill her? They call?
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  I don't get it. There's a moment here when they start laughing and she
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  says in the sun U, what crude laughter? And the guy freaks out
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  and calls her a bitch. But in the dub she says, your mothers
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  must be so proud, which I don't know. I kind of liked better.
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  But yeah, I don't really get exactly what their deal is here with
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  like their threats. They're acting as of like, oh, if you don't
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  cooperate, and I don't. It's been a while since the beginning of this
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  like arc with her. What are they trying to get out of her?
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  I don't even understand what it is thereafter here either way, we go back
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  into the cafeteria area and the woman who had informed on them that Nico Robbin
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  was here. She gets a present from one of the guards of a box
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  of chalks, and the little girl watches her run out because somebody else says
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  something about a filthy informant, and they're shunning her, understandably because she did
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  something very shitty. But the little girl is trying to take Nico Robin's giving
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  herself up in this heroic way. She's trying to emulate her and be as
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  strong as Nico Robin is. So she decides that she's going to go out
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  there and talk to this woman and attempt to sort of like see eye to
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  why and if she can forgive her. I do enjoy this woman being like,
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  get the hell out of here. You're not getting any chocolate. This
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  is mine. That's a whole mood. And she tells a little girl,
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  I wanted to get out of here, and I don't feel sorry for what
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  I did at all, which there is a part of me that kind of
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  appreciates that she isn't immediately remorseful. She's just like, you know what,
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  I fucking did what I did, and I wanted what I wanted freedom,
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  and I was willing to sell you out for it, and that's just all
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  there is to it. She eventually apologizes, but I understand the position that
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  she's in. You know, she says, we're just all so helpless.
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  We have to stay here for the rest of our lives and just be treated
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  like this. And she gives the chocolates to the little girl, who decides
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  that she's going to hand them over to Nigo Robin, which is a frankly
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  superhuman level of restraint that this kid has. I can't even imagine being that
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  small and that hungry. And somebody gives me a box of candy, and
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  I decide to save it for somebody else, like, truly, she is
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  a saint and should be honored among children. So Robin is in her cell
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  and she is uh, I won't say passed out, but she has basically
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  like laid down. She's exhausted, and they finally have left off like torturing
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  her for the day, and she hears this voice and there's a man in
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  the next cell over who apparently he is just elderly and was imprisoned for the
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  simple fact of being elderly. That like, they say, we're worthless if
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  we can't work, so they put me in here and she, you know,
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  the kind of camaraderie that develops between the two of them. They're chatting
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  and she's sort of like getting urgent about really She has his Viver cards still
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  in her hand and is watching what direction it's going there, and she's like,
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  I have to get out of here, even if I I've got to
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  cut my arms off. And this old man hears her and he's like,
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  look, don't be hasty, listen carefully, and he says, don't you
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  hear something? And we see the little girl again, just like I guess,
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  hauling rocks to the edge of the bridge. It's so funny because she's
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  shown doing all of this different work throughout the day, but everything looks like
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  a completely independent project that she's been sent on. There's nobody around like also
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  doing the same task as her. It all feels very disconnected from each other,
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  which is it doesn't matter. But it's just amusing to think that she's
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  just walking around finding like random shit to do. But she has to find
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  her way to the tower, and she is, you know, the place
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  is heavily guarded, and she's attempting to hide behind things, and eventually there
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  is this explosion in a guard tower and it's a very sudden, out of
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  nowhere thing, and you see these two figures running away from the tower.
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  One of whom is wearing like a giraffe headdress and seems underneath that to have
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  an almost like feline nose. It's a brief glimpse. I'm paused on it.
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  Now. The sides of his headdress also almost look like speakers. It's
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  really weird. And the other person is wearing what looks to be almost a
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  wide brimmed bowler hat. I'm sure there's another name for that kind of hat,
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  but it's got a green feather in it. And they're wearing a heavy
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  like yellowish cloak, and they have coral colored pants, and they're carrying they're
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  both carrying pistols, and they're hurrying away. So clearly these are like confederates
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  working with that old man, I think. But they begin to fire on
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  the the guards, and one of them comes up and says, the warden
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  ordered all of us to go and break it up. And the dude who
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  tells them this, he says it, and he's got a mouse tattooed on
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  his cheek or something. And when he says this and they run off,
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  he looks around as if to be like, I hope nobody caught that.
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  So he's clearly up to no good, as well, and when I say
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  up to no good, I mean up to very good because he's on the
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  right side of things. Well, the little girl comes up to the tower.
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  Soren that is her name. Thank you Robin for saying it out loud.
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  So when I got to see it and she's trying to bring Oh it's
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  not a mouse, it's like a serpent or something. Oh my god,
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  wait, wait a second, hold on, is this dragon? Who is
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  this? Hold on? Wait a second, hang on. I he's got
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  a glowing eye. There's something going on here. What's up with this guy?
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  He comes up to her anyway, and it's just like what are you
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  doing here? And looks very threatening. But I was not worried for her
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  because clearly something is going on, right. We cut then to one of
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  the guards going up to the captain and telling him like, oh, hey,
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  there was an incident, but as ordered, all of the teams went
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  to break it up, so don't worry, it's taken care of. And
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  the Captain's like, wait, what, I didn't give that order. What
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  are you talking about? Oh, don't tell me that you sent all of
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  the dudes who were guarding the fucking tower, did you? And oh no,
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  that's right. I'm an agent of the revolutionary Army. He because that's
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  why I thought he had a mouse on his face, because he has the
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  mouse ears. He I knew there was a mouse thing, but like,
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  the drawing on his cheek is really weird. It's very stylized. So he
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  lets the old man out, who then says, oh yeah, and hey,
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  while you're at it, let the other girl out too. So they
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  get the keys, and I love the fucking captain being like, I do
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  not give a shit about the dissidents. You have got to deal with Nico
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  Robin and y'all. They have to go through all of the keys to like
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  get her unlocked, and I was starting to get so agitated. I figured
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  it's a cartoon. She puts the one key in, done and done.
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  Not so lucky. Actually, they finally get her undone, and just as
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  this one guy yells Nico Robin she's right there, shoot her to death,
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  the whole screen goes black and white, and her arms come up out of
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  their shoulders and she snaps all their necks, and you guys, the cheer
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  that I let out it was so rad It was so sudden, like she
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  had just barely gotten her hands free. It was really well done. The
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  timing of this. I loved it so much. So Nico says goodbye to
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  Soren and it's like the people here have done so much for me and I
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  have to repay the favor. The warden is sobbing. Oh my god,
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  I love Sorin saying you have a nice name. And just the weirdness of
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  that moment. She's just standing in the middle of like the walkway, watching
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  Nico walk away, all cheerful about her name. I feel like there was
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  supposed to be something significant about her saying this, but I couldn't figure out
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  what it was meant to be. It just you know what I mean.
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  It just felt like a weird, pointed moment that I wasn't picking up on.
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  We have a really brief bit where we go back to the ship that
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  has Sloofy on it and he's just sitting up on the figurehead and there's it's
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  this episode and the next one where they're talking about their plans, and it's
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  like meant to be that there's a bit of an argument between everybody, but
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  it just seems like we're just checking in with them, and anytime that there's
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  a conversation to be had. It doesn't seem to matter all that much.
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  It's just we had to have something happen while we were over here, you
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  know. And Jim Bay is saying, like, I don't know about the
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  wind. I'm not sure if we're actually going to be able to get there
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  in time, but dude, you really should rest. You can't just stay
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  awake this whole time. And he almost says something to Lufy about how he
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  isn't sure if they'll get there in time, but decides that he isn't going
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  to feed into Lufy's anxiety, which is good because Luviy is sitting there just
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  staring at the beaver card and has an expression on his face. He is
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  determined as usual. So this is when we go back to us Up and
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  harrih Clesan. You guys, this is such a weird story. So Harrik
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  Clesan is what a weird character. He is feeling a lot like Usop's alter
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  ego. I said that last time, but really here when Usup is telling
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  him, well, you're a strong, cool hero and I want to be
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  like you, it just really motivates him to like get up and do shit
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  in a way that feels like Oosup, and they are still being chased by
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  these carnivorous plants, which truly is so rude. This giant, pointy toothed
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  fucking sunflower like it really was reminding me of the the flower in the movie.
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  I can't remember the name of the Baron, but you know the one
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  I'm talking about. It's not as incredibly creepy as that, but pretty close.
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  I love fucking Hercules and Heraclesan. He punches Oosop by accident and sends
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  him like flying into the sunflower in such a way that it's almost as if
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  he punched the sunflower, but not exactly. The whole bit is very silly.
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  But eventually they all collapse headfirst in the dirt and they have a little
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  bit of a respite here and he says something about how he's so hungry,
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  and Heraclesan is like, oh, okay, I have someplace that we can
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  go and get you something to eat. And they turn a corner and there
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  is a ramen waterfall with like it's gotten noodles. It's like a whole thing
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  spaghetti on plates that are like growing out of the ground. There are hams
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  growing down from the trees like fruits and there are rocks made of chocolate as
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  well, and he says, you can eat whatever you see. Everything is
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  safe, and you guys, there's like horn dogs in the background and stuff
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  like this is delightful. I really wish that Lufy got to come here.
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  Can you imagine he would lose his entire mind. I was a little bit
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  surprised at how hard Usup goes, because while he can be greedy, it's
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  never usually like this kind of greedy. I was just not expecting him to
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  completely go off the deep end the way that he does. So what Heraclesan
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  is saying is like, eat up and build your stamina and then you'll be
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  able to be strong. And he's like, well, you can't just eat.
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  As he's watching us Up continuing, he's like, you need to work
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  out too, and Usup's like, yeah, I know, I know,
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  but I need to be a lot, like eat a lot to become a
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  cool hero of the forest like you, right, And Heraclesan has this moment
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  of like, you want to become like me and gets very pumped about this.
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  We see this amazing moment of him like flexing and looking really dashing,
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  and then Oosop standing up next to him, absolutely jacked wearing nothing but a
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  loincloth with like these thick fies and huge delts and everything, and I was
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  like, wow, okay, did this did this actually happen? But no,
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  that's in his imagination. And then he turns and looks at Oosop and
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  he's gone, and there's a chunk dug out of the ground because evidently the
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  ground is also ham you can see like the pink inside it's there's there's a
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  cake like off in the background. He runs after Oosup and he's running past
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  like a couple of vegetable kebabs. There's all of these chicken legs coming off
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  of a bush. We've got giant doughnuts and what looks like the top of
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  either an ice cream or a cupcake, just all of these different types of
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  food. And he's saying it's too good. I can't stop even though I'm
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  full. And finally, when this dude catches up with Oosop, Usup has
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  gotten fat. Now, you guys know, as a fat person, I
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  have some sensitivity to fat jokes, and I actually was pleasantly surprised that this
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  wasn't worse as much as it's annoying that he is fat and the whole way
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  that, like Heracles And is like what did you do to yourself? I
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  was just glad that like it. They don't make him so revolting. Actually,
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  fat oos Up is kind of adorable, you know, he's kind of
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  cute. And the main thing that Heracles and is saying is like, dude,
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  if you're too heavy, like you were having trouble here because you were
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  being pursued and you were too weak to fight back, all you've done is
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  gain weight. This does not help, Like what do you think this is
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  going to do? And there's no arguing with that. That's true. So
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  at this point, the ground begins to move and you see an outside view
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  of the island which looks like this giant, weird cactus like flower and its
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  prongs begin to lift like it looks like two petals, and you find out
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  that like it's got a mouth in the center, and the ground it's just
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  where it's prey hangs out until it feels like tilting them back into its mouth.
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  He us Up falls and Heracles And tries to save him, but us
• 31:11
  Up has gained so much weight that he can't hold him and he has to
• 31:17
  let go. You see us Up falling and he's like at one point all
• 31:23
  of this, like ramen appears in front of him, the noodles, and
• 31:29
  instead of like grabbing it like I thought, what we see is us up
• 31:36
  eating his way up the ramen so that it pulled like his mouth is pulling
• 31:42
  him back to safety. It is the weirdest effect. And by the time
• 31:52
  he's done with that, he's not only just fat, he has also grown
• 31:56
  like six feet vertically some how. But yeah, this is when this her
• 32:05
  Heraclesan is like, dude, if you're fat, you're a much more appealing
• 32:12
  target for this thing. You're gonna get eaten. Like you're not gonna escape
• 32:16
  these islands. That's that's impossible. And Heraclesan just starts to say his name
• 32:23
  again and like pose and that's the end of the episode. So you see
• 32:29
  what I mean with like the tone after everything that happens with Ego Robin and
• 32:31
  it's just feeling kind of like, what are what are we doing here?
• 32:35
  Guys? So the next episode, oh man, y'all, this is so
• 32:44
  weird. So we start off on the ship with Loofygue again and there's a
• 32:52
  little bit of an argument. I feel like it was. It was a
• 32:55
  Crocodile or Jim Bay. One of them is saying, like, I'm going
• 32:59
  to be the one that's uh that fights white Beard and I can't remember,
• 33:06
  but they kind of like snipe at each other about it. Oh, I
• 33:12
  think that's a little bit later on in this episode, my bad. I
• 33:15
  thought it started that way, but it looks like it doesn't. We start
• 33:16
  off with Pirona and Zorro and this thing with Zoro like it's gonna take almost
• 33:22
  no time to talk about this. There is very little to this entire plot.
• 33:30
  Zoro is like being taunted by Pirona, and she for herself has been
• 33:38
  super lonely, so she sent him on uh to. She sent him to
• 33:45
  find the sword that she like took away from him, but evidently she told
• 33:51
  him exactly where that sword is and where to find it, and because he
• 33:55
  is so bad with directions, he cannot find his way back again. So
• 34:00
  we just see her sort of waiting around for him to Like, I don't
• 34:06
  know if the point was supposed to be that she put it in her bedroom
• 34:08
  and she's trying to seduce him and luring him to her bedroom is like part
• 34:13
  of her plan, but she's waiting around and he is not showing up,
• 34:17
  and we see him continuously going in like every wrong direction, and she's getting
• 34:22
  really frustrated, and it's just like, what am I even doing? This
• 34:28
  was supposed to be fun, and I'm just fucking bored. And you know
• 34:34
  this, I thought that I had struck on a really great idea, but
• 34:37
  it's been two days since I told him where his sword is and I've given
• 34:44
  him every hint and he's not finding it. What more am I supposed to
• 34:49
  do? I really enjoy her just floating around looking sad, and when he's
• 35:00
  upset, he accuses her of using her power on him, and she's like,
• 35:04
  I don't have to, you're already depressing enough, which I did think
• 35:08
  was a pretty good response. So she says again, I told you go
• 35:14
  up the stairs and down the hall. Your sword's right there, and he's
• 35:19
  like, you're just not being clear enough, and she's like, I genuinely
• 35:22
  do not know how I can be any clearer. It's sort of sad how
• 35:28
  pathetic you are when you don't have a sword, Like I thought you were
• 35:31
  kind of a badass, and look at you right now. This is so
• 35:35
  pitiful. And she just starts crying, which was honestly hilarious, and then
• 35:43
  all of a sudden she gives him a thumbs up and says, good things
• 35:46
  will happen to you someday. What is happening here, guys, It's like,
• 35:55
  I think what it's supposed to be is that she's crying because he's so
• 36:00
  pathetic. But then she feels bad about letting him see that. She feels
• 36:06
  sorry for him, and she decides to try and like cheer him on,
• 36:09
  but in the most patronizing way possible. I think that's what's meant to be
• 36:16
  happening here. It's just such a weird little scene, you know. But
• 36:23
  finally she just like leads him to the room and says, here, you
• 36:30
  can have it back, And he's like, why are you doing this,
• 36:32
  and she's like, well, I'm not concerned because even if you do try
• 36:37
  and attack me, I'm not in my actual body. This is just one
• 36:39
  of those projections, so you won't be able to hurt me. And you,
• 36:46
  guys, just the whole thing that he can't find his way to the
• 36:50
  sword, this is our whole you know. Like it's just such a weird
• 37:00
  I don't know, it just feels really uh limp. I guess, and
• 37:07
  she seems to be thinking that if she manages to take advantage of him,
• 37:15
  she'll be able to somehow ditch him on the island but find her way back
• 37:21
  to thriller Bark and I truly don't know why she thinks that, what it
• 37:27
  is that she believes he's going to be able to do to get her back
• 37:30
  there. But she's in the middle of thinking about this when she looks up
• 37:34
  and he has used his sword to cut a hole in the castle wall and
• 37:38
  has fled, so she's already lost track of him, and he's running away
• 37:45
  through the forest, and we have a flashback again of what happened at Sabodi
• 37:52
  and he's like the She eventually catches up with him and is like, you
• 38:01
  really thought that you were running in the right direction. You have no sense
• 38:05
  of direction, Like why are you even out here by yourself, and realizes
• 38:08
  that she's kind of trying to help him and sort of thinks, maybe I'm
• 38:14
  more kind hearted than I thought, because I just can't seem to be able
• 38:17
  to resist helping him, which is kind of funny. I like Pirona,
• 38:25
  She's such a weird character, but yeah, she's like, just follow me,
• 38:30
  and he's like, okay, sounds good, and then he immediately begins
• 38:34
  to like veer off into the undergrowth and she's like, I don't understand how
• 38:39
  you can't even follow me properly, Like what is wrong with you? And
• 38:49
  we have a kind of jump ahead in time, and she's thinking to herself
• 38:54
  how exhausting it is to be with him, and he's like, well,
• 38:59
  you're lying. You're not even walking. How are you flying? And she's
• 39:01
  like, or not, how are you flying? How are you tired?
• 39:05
  And she's like, just being around you, dude, it's fucking draining.
• 39:09
  And as they're talking about this, you see these like red eyes in the
• 39:15
  forest. You hear an axe go through a tree and the tree gums goes
• 39:20
  down. And she had thought that, like you know, it was just
• 39:22
  the two of them on this island. So she's a little bit startled and
• 39:28
  uh. As he's like, are you just gonna leave me here? She
• 39:31
  says to him basically that I was only hanging out with you because I was
• 39:37
  bored. If there's somebody else here that's not as boring, I will definitely
• 39:43
  I would rather be with them. And as she flies off, she's like,
• 39:45
  I hope it's somebody cute this time, and she's flying and he turns
• 39:52
  around and looks for her and is like, where are you going? It
• 39:55
  was him in front of her somehow. It's confusing, and she's like,
• 40:00
  I don't understand this. Are are like, are you some kind of creature?
• 40:06
  What's going on here? Unclear to me as well? Did she lose
• 40:12
  track of her own location and think that she had been flying forward but actually
• 40:16
  flew in a circle. What's meant to be happening? I do not understand
• 40:22
  the implications of this. At one point, they're like walking through all of
• 40:30
  this rubble and there's a tree that's clearly it's the one that was just cut
• 40:35
  down, and she's sort of like, oh, I guess that noise I
• 40:37
  heard was just a tree falling down, but it's clearly been cut, like
• 40:40
  there's an axe there, and she's not really asking, like, well,
• 40:45
  who could have chopped it? What's going on there? She continues talking to
• 40:51
  herself about how maybe it was like evil spirits. You guys, this is
• 40:57
  like there's no plot to this. It's so oh bizarre. I cannot emphasize
• 41:01
  enough how nothing The whole thing with Zoro is it's it takes so long for
• 41:07
  like anything to happen, and once it happens, it's it's almost like it
• 41:12
  didn't, you know, the amount of walking that they do, but their
• 41:17
  surroundings really barely change until they get to these ruins, and even here,
• 41:24
  like they're just exploring, looking around, nothing happening. The whole atmosphere is
• 41:32
  meant to be spooky, that's about it, right, And eventually they get
• 41:37
  to this spot where there's a cross and there's a like mound of moss or
• 41:45
  something at the base of it, which they both take to be a tomb,
• 41:49
  and she says, like it looks like it's been carved out of a
• 41:52
  single tree, which takes a lot of skill, And as she's looking at
• 41:59
  it, there's a sort of flash behind him. He turns and has his
• 42:02
  sword like almost out of its sheath. He can tell something's up, but
• 42:07
  he can't see anything, and she is not paying attention at first, so
• 42:14
  she turns and sees him like ready to fight, but clearly doesn't understand where
• 42:19
  this is coming from. When all of a sudden, this like shadow comes
• 42:22
  at him and it goes so fast it manages to slash him in the face,
• 42:28
  which is quite a feat considering what we know of Zoro's reflexes. And
• 42:35
  when he strikes back, it just like bounces off, and Parona is just
• 42:43
  up in the air yelling like hey, look out, because it turns and
• 42:46
  gets another sword. It looks like a it's covered in fur, you know.
• 42:52
  But he turns and there's a bunch of them. It looks like there's
• 42:57
  maybe twenty, and it's hard to tell whether they're actually real or if it's
• 43:02
  like projections, if they're able to do. I think that it's like a
• 43:06
  real number. Right, there's multiples of them. But it's weird because like
• 43:12
  Pirna's been here for a while and evidently has never seen these. She seems
• 43:15
  as shocked by them as Zorro does. So I don't know what to make
• 43:21
  of them. But guys, that's where it ends, is just like all
• 43:24
  of these creatures growling at him. We go through all of that and like
• 43:30
  nothing happens. It's just it's so boring. Then we go to Brook and
• 43:38
  evidently after appearing amongst these Satanists I suppose you could call them, he's waking
• 43:46
  up and feeling really like lonely, trying to enjoy the morning but missing his
• 43:52
  friends. He comes outside and he realizes how the whole place is in ruins,
• 44:00
  and that yesterday he clearly interrupted some sort of weird ritual and he doesn't
• 44:07
  know what it was they were after. But evidently the name Satan does not
• 44:13
  mean anything to him. He does not know that this is like the devil,
• 44:16
  or that they assume he is a god exactly. The villagers come forward
• 44:27
  to make an offering to him, and you know, as he is wont
• 44:31
  to do. He's just, oh, thank you all so much, and
• 44:37
  they Becory is the one that introduces himself, and they're like, please accept
• 44:45
  this food, and this girl is holding the offering, and of course he
• 44:50
  has to say the thing about seeing her panties. So all of these dudes
• 44:54
  lift their robes and show him their boxers, which I frankly appreciated a great
• 45:00
  deal. And we jump ahead in time. He starts like yelling, no,
• 45:07
  no, no, I don't I don't need to see that. Thank
• 45:09
  you, I'm good. Abruptly we jump ahead in time. It was a
• 45:15
  weird cut to him saying how full he is and thank you all so much.
• 45:22
  And it turns out he in this interval has eaten like a full week's
• 45:27
  worth of food, which they did not intend for. It seems like he
• 45:31
  either is simply unaware of how little they have, or they are used to
• 45:39
  making such a small amount of food stretched for so long that it never occurred
• 45:45
  to him that was not meant to all be one meal. I think it's
• 45:50
  supposed to be the first one, though, that he's just like eaten an
• 45:52
  ungodly amount. So this is when he tells them all like, hey,
• 45:59
  guys, so hate to do this, but I need a favor. I
• 46:04
  have got to get back to my friends. I've got to sail off.
• 46:07
  Do you have a ship. And these people are really upset because they thought,
• 46:12
  you know, he had been summoned for their benefit, that he had
• 46:15
  appeared here to save them, and they don't understand why he wants to leave,
• 46:22
  and they're assuming they did something wrong. And so instantly all of them
• 46:24
  show him their underwear again because they figure that's what he wants, that's what
• 46:29
  he's after, and he might stay if they keep doing it. But at
• 46:35
  this point the dude in charge, whose name I have already forgotten, says,
• 46:42
  well, if you leave, then that's it for us. If we
• 46:45
  can't keep you here, These people are going to completely run rough shot over
• 46:51
  us. There is this I think they're called the long Arm Clan if I'm
• 46:55
  not mistaken, but they're a a group of like fearsome people that are looting
• 47:05
  their village and taking their people, the long Arm tribe, that's what it
• 47:12
  is. And what't Brook sees their despair. He's like, all right,
• 47:16
  why don't you tell me about the problem, exactly what's going on, because
• 47:21
  maybe I can help you before I leave. And yeah, he says,
• 47:27
  they take not only goods and food, but they also take men and women
• 47:30
  in their prime from us. And as you can see, our country is
• 47:35
  devastated and suffering from extreme poverty. And that's when Brooke is like, oh
• 47:42
  my god, wait those meals. Was that all of your food? And
• 47:46
  they're like, yes, that was everything we had in order to get out
• 47:51
  of the situation. We keep praying to all of the gods and goddesses,
• 47:53
  trying to find somebody out there to help us, like just throwing darts basically
• 47:59
  and praying that they hit something. And this guy is like, we want
• 48:05
  you to curse our enemies to death. When that didn't work, we resorted
• 48:10
  to black magic. And then you showed up the King of the Devils,
• 48:15
  summoned here, you're our one and only hope. And at this point they
• 48:23
  get interrupted by these guys showing up and just picking up a woman and running
• 48:30
  off with her. It's a bizarre scene because Brooke is like, why aren't
• 48:38
  any of you doing anything? They're just saying, hey, give her back,
• 48:44
  stop it. Meanwhile, they're not trying to fight back, they don't
• 48:51
  have weapons. They're backing away even as they're saying, hey, we're gonna
• 48:55
  give you hell. And Brooke is like, why aren't you doing anything?
• 49:00
  You guys they're taking her and they're like, yeah, yeah, we know.
• 49:05
  Quick put a curse on them, go ahead, do it. And
• 49:08
  Brooke is like, why I don't need to put a curse on them.
• 49:14
  You could literally just stop them. There's like thirty of you, and there
• 49:19
  were three of those guys, and as he turns around, they just disappear
• 49:24
  into the brush with this girl and Brooke is like, I do not understand
• 49:32
  what's happening. He turns around and they're all like trying to cheer him on
• 49:37
  to go and punish these people, and they're bowing to him, and he's
• 49:43
  like, so wait, they're just this dependent on other people. This is
• 49:49
  really bad. She doesn't deserve to just be abandoned like this. And he
• 49:55
  says, all right, guys, so you showed me a lot panties and
• 50:00
  due to that, I'm going to help you. But it's clear like he
• 50:07
  is figuring that we're going to find another way to do this. We go
• 50:13
  inside and he starts writing music. And it's weird because like, as he's
• 50:22
  writing this music, it's almost like he's writing a letter. And I was
• 50:28
  like, is this supposed to be his language? Is he writing a letter
• 50:30
  but it's a song. I wasn't really sure what this was supposed to be
• 50:34
  implying. But he's thinking to himself, how if after everything, he doesn't
• 50:42
  repay them for all of they've done for him, he will basically not be
• 50:47
  a man anymore. But he says it'll spoil my skeleton hood and is asking
• 50:55
  for more time, and it's just like, hey, don't worry, I'll
• 50:59
  be there soon. And it's like, I don't know who where you're sending
• 51:01
  this. I don't know who's carrying the mail. I don't know why you're
• 51:06
  writing musical notes instead of letters if that's supposed to be your language, but
• 51:12
  we don't see his plan here. That's how that section ends. And this
• 51:15
  is when we jump back to Crocodile and Jimbay, and Crocodile is saying,
• 51:21
  we're moving too slowly, dude, Like by the time we get there,
• 51:24
  everything's going to be over. The navy isn't the one that's gonna beat white
• 51:29
  Beard? I am? And jim Bay says, is that still the way
• 51:32
  you feel? And Crocodile says, I can beat you first if you want,
• 51:39
  and they just like glare at each other for a moment, and then
• 51:44
  all of a sudden they start to fight, and Loofy gets up and just
• 51:49
  punches his fist into the other like he has his back to them, and
• 51:54
  they still stop in response to him standing up. I've thought he was gonna
• 52:02
  yell at them for fighting amongst themselves. That he was like, guys,
• 52:07
  we can't afford to be bickering right now. We have a bigger prize ahead
• 52:13
  of us. He doesn't say anything to them at all. He just stands
• 52:17
  up and says, Ace, I'm on my way, wait for me.
• 52:22
  It's not over yet. That's the end of the episode. It's really weird,
• 52:30
  and I did not care for the structure of these at all. So
• 52:35
  apparently there's some filler episodes next that I am meant to skip, and then
• 52:39
  I go into let me make sure, just like as I'm talking to you
• 52:44
  guys, that I have the right idea in my head here of what I'm
• 52:47
  meant to watch next. So episodes four fifty seven and four fifty eight are
• 52:52
  skips, and then I'm meant to do four fifty nine and four sixty.
• 52:58
  So that's what's on the docket. But I really hope that we wrap on
• 53:06
  these little side quests because they do not feel like they were thought out.
• 53:12
  I don't know if these are from Cannon or if they were added to sort
• 53:16
  of flesh things out on the side of the show. I don't know what's
• 53:21
  going on, but it feels like a lot of nothing. The only thing
• 53:24
  that seems at all really thought out is Robin's storyline, which is part of
• 53:30
  what makes it seem like such an outlier. So, yeah, you know,
• 53:37
  while our friends are getting eaten by giant plants and thrown around by giant
• 53:43
  birds, or wearing dresses and seeing panties, she's being waterboarded and breaking men's
• 53:50
  necks. Very different energy. But yeah, that's about all I've got to
• 53:57
  say about these too, So I'm a little undertime, rare that that happens,
• 54:00
  but I've gone over enough that I feel okay with it. So thank
• 54:05
  you again, so much you guys for listening. I hope you're enjoying the
• 54:07
  coverage even though I was not feeling these episodes. And until next time to
• 54:13
  loom, motherfuckers, that was an unspoiled network podcast.