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This is an unspoiled network podcast. This is spoil Me, covering one piece
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episodes four thirty nine, four forty and four forty one. Lufy's treatment begins,
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ivon Son's Miraculous Power and Believe in Miracles, bone Clay's Cries from the
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Heart, and Lufy's beck ivan Son begins the breakout plan. In these episodes,
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we have got such amazing storytelling. I you, guys, I loved
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these three episodes so much. I loved them. Welcome to spoil Me,
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of Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much
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to Michael for commissioning this episode. What's up, Michael? Appreciate you guys.
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These were such fun what weird? What weird turn this whole story has
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taken. I never expected us to like be here, like you know.
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I think in the last episode, I was saying how I had to accept
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that most of what's being done with this queer community storyline is not in good
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faith, but that I feel like I can take it in good faith anyway
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if I just decided to purposely sort of misread some things. And I think
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it was Seraphim who said that it actually wasn't in bad way. Faith that,
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like you know, Oda is supportive of the queer community, but just
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the way that they do it for the anime has to be so kind of
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overblown, and I felt a little bit more like able to accept that in
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these episodes where things are saying that I was about to say things are toned
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down, that is not at all true. It's not toned down, but
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it feels like it's sincere. Finally it's getting past the like silly shock and
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it's getting into some actual, like emotional beats that I really really appreciate.
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So I love to you guys that y'all know there are as is the case
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with so many of these episodes, there are a few like Mo that the
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animators clearly decided, well, we're just gonna animate like two seconds of this
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and then we're gonna use that animation repeatedly over and over. And because we're
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still in this bar, there is so much repetition because these people are mostly
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dancing, and there is something extra surreal about the fact that every time we
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see them dancing, they're kind of doing the same thing. And it's not
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on purpose, I don't it's it's not meant to be surreal, but it
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felt, you know what it reminded me of personally, It really reminded me
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of like David Lynch a little bit, or I actually don't know who was
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the director of Donnie Darko, but it reminded me of like that kind of
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thing where it's it's almost dream sequence and you can just turn your head and
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somebody's apparently repeating the same motion over and over in a way that isn't actually
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the way people would normally behave. And I felt like there was a funny
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element here where that wasn't purposeful, but it was actually really effective. So
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I'm gonna have to get some help here. Remind me Florian's the only one
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in the chat. I think what the name of the hiding place is again,
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but Iva is the name of the queen, so to speak, if
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I'm not mistaken. And yet so we pick up. Everybody's still dancing.
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I was still on the stage, like you know, saying he haw and
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just like generally getting the crowd hyped up, and in the audience, Bonclay
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is watching, and there is something about the way that Bonclay is animated that
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almost makes it look like he's not happy to meet Iva, like it was
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difficult for me to decipher what his reaction really was, because it seemed like
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at first he was upset or just shocked in a sort of unpleasant way,
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but then he gradually seems to kind of get over that. And there's this
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funny part where Iva is pretending that he's going to faint maybe collapse, and
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everybody's shouting out, oh my god, are you okay? And then maybe
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I won't collapse and oh you were joking. So this is when Bond is
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like, are you the miracle Worker? And everybody in the audience is like,
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you better be more respectful when you talk to Iva. He's royalty poo
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bow down before the Queen of New Comma and uh, New Comma, that's
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what it was, okay. Oh yeah, Florian says, the hiding places
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level five point five, New Comma Land. What is also the name of
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the island that Sanji is on? Okay? Yes, thank you. So
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this there's a lot of time spent just establishing. I love the fact that
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Iva is uh calling everybody his little Candies and there's just like such a great
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name. I just really really like it. And he says, like anybody
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can call me whatever, I whatever. They want I don't sweat the salt
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small stuff. They could even call me dookie, but he just screams,
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never call me dukie, and somebody in the audience then why did you say
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it? Ah, he got me again. This is such a weird bit.
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So I have a keeps repeating never call me dukie until somebody comes stalking
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through the door. And this is really funny to me because like, I
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just want to really point out I want to step back for a second and
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point out the fact that we've got this like prison that has supposedly got such
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renowned security, and there's this entire sub space that they have created that they
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are living in that isn't on the radar. Everybody has been like, I
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guess demons are stealing people, and we're all just gonna let that be the
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story that's circulates, even though our security is legendary. We don't talk about
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this part. But then also this whole performance gets interrupted by this dude busting
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in and he is like a caricature. He almost reminds me of the animation
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from Spider Verse of h what's his name, mister Fisk, where he's got
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the really really huge shoulders and thick neck and his head almost seems to just
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float in the middle of this, like just plane of shoulders. But uh,
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he wasn't. And he's got like a bazooka. And I'm just going,
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where in the hell are you even getting this weapon from? And how
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did you get out and find this place? Like the security here is a
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joke, frankly, and he's really angry. He says, fifteen years ago,
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my father, who was the king of my homeland, like visited your
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country, and then he came home and came back to us as a queen.
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And there's a bunch of people like sort of shocked or giggling to each
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other. Do you have any idea how ashamed I was? His family and
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his country were ruined, and I fell from my princely status to nothing but
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a lowly pirate. But all the days I spent suffering living in this hell
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are well worth it if I get one shot at the monster who destroyed my
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life. And I was up here sweating bullets, knees literally knocking together,
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going no, please, don't do it. Where did you even get that
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thing? Don't point that at me, you have mercy. I'm fragile If
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you shoot me with that I'll die, you'll kill me, you can't kill
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me, And at the beginning of this he had seemed so sincerely afraid,
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but then as he reaches the end of that you can't kill me, he's
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like kneeling and fist pumping like he's just won a victory or you know.
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It's a weird like transition, and the guy with the gun just gets really
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really angry and looses a cannon ball at Iva, who then says nu uh
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uh death wink and just winks in the direction of this cannon ball, which
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releases a pink cloud of gas which catches the ball and sends it directly back
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at the guy who shot at Iva and takes him out, so he goes
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careening over, and Iva is being cheered on by the crowd. Of course,
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all of this is being observed by Bonclay in this particular way where he's
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like, I there was almost an impression of like the way that Iva was
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behaving at first was giving the impression that Iva wasn't going to be able to
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take care of himself, that he was really genuinely like helpless here and begging
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for mercy in a way that's like sort of pitiful, and all of a
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sudden is able to whip out this weapon with this wink, just a wink
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that is so impressive. And then all of a sudden, Iva like takes
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this huge leap land's in front of this guy and yells emporio female hormone.
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And these claws come up out of the gloves that he's wearing, these like
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magenta gloves, and he swipes at this guy and nails him like right in
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the pectoral with these claws, and the guy says, what was that?
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And then all of a sudden his body begins to transform until he looks like
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a woman instead, and Iva is saying, your father wanted to become a
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woman. Tell me what's wrong with that? And the prisoner is continuing to
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transform. Two mothers and one son, two fathers and one daughter, what's
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wrong with that? You're all family? And finally the prisoner's transformation is complete
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and it's a blonde woman. And because the guy wasn't wearing pants, now
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there's you know, or wasn't wearing a shirt. This is a topless woman
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in pants that are way way way too big. So he's like cleaning the
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pants up around himself and just going, oh god, this is so humiliating,
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and Bonclay of course, is just like wait, what how did this
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just happen? Are you kidding me? Everybody else begins applauding, and Iva
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is just standing watching and going, oh my god. The face. The
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spotlight comes on and he gets a mic and says, you could become a
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woman or become a man, he haw, or maybe you could be both.
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You should be able to decide for yourself, right, And everybody's out
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here dancing, cheering on, continuing as Bonclay watches, mouth agape that which
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you call gender is a label. It's nothing but a border. I have
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no need for it. No, everyone here is beyond it. We've all
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crossed over that silly border, which means you're looking at the new human race,
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New Comma, this is the garden of freedom, New Kama Land hee
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Haw, and camera backs up. We see the entire crowd going absolutely wild
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for this, and of course these dudes continuing to dance in this weird way
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that they dance, and eventually the attacker gathers himself up and it's just like
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oh my god, and just runs away. Now this is something that is
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so rife with like I don't even know what to think here, because the
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weirdness of deciding that we are going to, like the weapon is going to
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be transforming people into a different gender. It's so fascinating, like the implications
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of this, and it's honestly kind of a fucked up thing to do when
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you think about it. Like the point of the point of what IVA is
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saying, which is that gender is a construct, obviously I agree with and
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that it's up to you whatever gender you actually are. But basically what IVA
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is doing is like taking a way the identity that this guy actually aligns with
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and forcing him into a body that doesn't fit. And at the same time,
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what i've A could have done is simply kill him, because this guy
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came in to kill iv A for something that is not his fault, even
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though I was being blamed for it. His dad became a woman, and
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now he's wants somebody to blame for it. So I'm not trying to say
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that he doesn't deserve something fucked up happening to him, but I do think
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it's interesting that what IVA has done is sort of inflict upon this guy the
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experience of living in a body that you know isn't correct, Like you don't
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actually identify with your own body, and you feel like you are in the
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wrong one, and that is how your father had felt at one time,
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and now you get it. But it was done to you magically, so
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it feels more literally true, but is not actually any more valid than anybody
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else's experienced who feels like their body does not correlate, you know. So
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it's just a really interesting like the implications of this are fascinating. And also
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the overall thing with Iva is that he administers hormones, Like that's a lot
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of his attacks are hormone based. And I really like this in a way
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that's like not ironic at all, because what I think a lot of us
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fail to think about in terms of our existence and identities as people and the
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way that we feel about certain other people or ourselves or situations is so highly
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high dependent on hormones, even though we don't want to believe that, which
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I completely understand, Like why would you want to believe that? It's not
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fun to realize how completely at the mercy your health, your like mental state
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is on something that is completely outside of your control. And this is something
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that anybody who has got mental illness is all too familiar with, like,
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as somebody who suffers from pretty intense depression and also ADHD. My body just
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doesn't make the hormones and chemicals that it should, and I just get to
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sit here and be fucking suicidal because it's just not enough serotonin, really,
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and that's for real, Like, and other people just they just get that
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serotonin. They just get it. Their body's just make it. And it's
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just like fine, how unfair is that? And if I had just a
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body that functions slightly more effectively, I wouldn't feel as miserable as I feel
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a lot of the time. And there that's pure luck. Like, you
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don't choose the body that you get born into unless you believe you do,
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but there's no evidence for that. So ultimately, so much of the way
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that like we can move through the world and the ways in which we function
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and what we're able to, like the kinds of things that we are able
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to be successful at, are going to be so much more limited because our
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possibilities have been closed off to a degree by what our bodies will allow.
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And so the concept of actually somebody who can just affect your hormone levels is
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really really interesting, especially like in terms of mod food and things like that.
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I mean, I am just really this is there's so much to this
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that I want more answers to And it reminds me a little bit of like
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when Miles and I were covering Twilight, you know, we were talking about
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the way is that Jasper's potential power could work because it's such a strange thing
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where he can affect mood, but is that actually physically changing the like level
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of chemicals in the body. And I believe that. Eventually Miles and I
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came to the conclusion that it was because Bella is affected by Jasper's powers when
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she is not affected by a lot of other powers, and there are some
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that she is, but many she's not. And it seemed like what Stephanie
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Meyer eventually said was that any powers that were like mind related, like illusion
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sort of powers that would cause like Bella's mind to be violated or under attack,
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that is the kind of thing that she was impervious to. But when
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it came to like a physical thing, it affected her just the same as
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anybody else. So that was like what the solution sort of wound up seeming
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to be, was that Jasper was affecting chemical levels in people's bodies to relax
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them or make them more tense and angry or whatever in response to any given
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situation. And see Florian says this is not confirmed, but I think Iva's
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powers wear off after a time. It is just hormones that the body can
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metabolize. Just Headcannon though, interesting, Well, who knows. I get
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what you mean though, Like if it's a hormone injection that has made this
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guy look like a woman, And then you know, if anybody is on
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like HRT because they are transitioning, you've got to keep that up. And
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if you don't, you start to suffer some really intense like symptoms of withdrawals
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and changes back to the body that you were originally born into. And it
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can be really traumatic, like because again a lot of effect, like it
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affects mood and it also causes like the dysmorphia that you originally were suffering from.
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So yeah, that makes sense that it would be like a temporary thing,
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because hormone changes are temporary. That's like the nature of them. So
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anyway, yeah, I just think this is so interesting. It's so weird,
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Like what a wild power. And I just again want to reiterate that
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I really am enjoying the rocky horrorness of this. Look, it's just really
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funny. So this is when Bonclay comes up and I've but insist on calling
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him bond boy. But Bonclay is like, I never stop believing that you
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were alive. I'm so glad I found you, but I have to ask
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you a favor. I want you to save my friend who was poisoned by
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Magellan. Please can you save his life? No antidote can help him.
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He's lying there, dying and there's nothing that I can do. And I
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have is like, oh, if you're talking about the straw hat boy,
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I've already started to give him treatment, that's already happening. Actually, the
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reason that we took care of you was because he begged us to, and
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we get a flashback of him like yelling out. And it turns out that
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what Lufi said, he was told that it was going to cost him ten
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years of his life for IVA to help him, and the way it was
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presented at first made it sound like IVA is some like it remind me of
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like a deal with the Fay, where you give up ten years of your
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life in exchange for a favorite. But what it seems like later on,
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based on the way I was talking about it, is he, by accepting
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what Iva can do to potentially save Lufy, it's going to cause Loufy to
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lose ten years of his life. It's not like Iva is simply out here
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collecting years of people's lives like the devil or like a fay queen. It's
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like, look, I can do this and help you, but you should
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know that if you are saved, it's going to have a repercussion on the
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other end. That's what it sounded like to me anyway. But yeah,
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Lufy agrees to it. So we jump out from here at this point for
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a little bit and just crack me up to Buggy and Mister Three, who
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are fleeing from the wolves on these wax stilts that they're running on, and
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because they're on stilts, they can take bigger strides, and these wolves are
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still like almost keeping up with them, and Buggy is like, we have
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got to get a move on or we are never going to lose these things
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because they are almost catching up and they're like not even sure where they're really
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heading. They don't know where the exit is and it Finally they reach the
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crest of a hill and it looks like there's stilts just break and they go
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down. But we go back then to the tunnels where Mister two is hearing
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Loofy screaming and he's so upset by this guy's which you would be like hearing
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people and animals suffer. I it's like the whole the whole thing for me
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is pain is so cruel, and so it's a necessary thing. We need
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to have pain to signal to us when we are hurt, when we need
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to take it easy. It's like there's use to pain, there's a point
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to it. But it is so difficult for me to understand how some people
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like enjoy inflicting pain, because I feel sick to my stomach when I begin
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to hurt somebody. And I have had to do things to care for my
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dogs that hurt them because they were with Sam especially, he had this like
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terrible infection because he just got his cone off in the middle of the night
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while I was asleep and got at his stitches and yanked him out, and
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he got a really bad infection. I wound up having to bring him into
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the bathtub every day and hose this debrided wound out and eventually he healed.
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But it was definitely like the kind of thing that if we hadn't caught what
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was happening, he could have died. And I had to do it,
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and the screaming yelps this dog would let out when I was doing it.
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I came so close to vomiting a couple times because it was so so upsetting.
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So this whole thing here with like mister two who is out here in
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the hole so to speak, and hearing Lufy just screaming, and I was
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like, he's been screaming like this since we started the treatment, and it's
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gonna keep going for like another two days. And when he says two days,
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I'm just going, oh my god, that's like way too long.
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He's not going to be able to make it to his brother in time.
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But it turns out he's a different type. He built different. So uh.
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He says, I wish you a pleasant journey to the Valley of death
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that is in the flashback, and then jams his pointy fucking fingers in Loofy's
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sides as he administers some like healing hormone. I don't even know what this
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looks like. But yeah, so this is what starts things off because it's
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causing Loufy to like have to detox, essentially, is what's going on.
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So poor mister two he's out in the hall and he's like he's been wailing
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like this for ten hours and he's like fallen to his knees. He is
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so upset, And yeah, I was just like, yeah, the spirit
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and hormones combined, I've drawn out his latent immunity and his body will start
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changing. Only time will tell whether he or that poison is stronger, but
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it's raging at extraordinary speeds. He will survive only if he can withstand that
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pain and escaping from death. Let's seem sorry, uh, because it's moved
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too fat. He will survive only if he can withstand all that pain and
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escaping from death does not come cheap. And it's an interesting thing because again
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I misread it at first, so it seemed like what he was saying was
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like he had to pay a high price. But I really think I I
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misread that at first, and that's not exactly what he means. He's paying
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a price, but it's not like two Iva specifically, it is in general
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because of what it is that he has decided he wants. And later on
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Iva is talking about because like mister two is saying, how can how can
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you leave him like this? And basically Iva's response is, look, he
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decided what he wanted to do, and I don't actually play much of a
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part anymore. I administered what I do and now it's up to him how
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bad he wants it. And the way that miracles work isn't just I can
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inject him with something and it just happens. That's not it. The way
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it works is that somebody has to have the four of will to make it
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be. That's what the miracle really like comes from, is from their need
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and will power. And this is the sort of thing that I'm not too
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proud to admit. I think I wouldn't be great with you guys. Like
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there's a podcast that I listened to called Complete Guide to Everything, which is
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really fun, and there was a discussion once about, like, you know,
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the zombie apocalypse or whatever apocalypse you may have, and the ways in
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which you can survive and the variety of people out there and how they prep
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for it. Some people building bunkers, collecting supplies weapons, whatever, and
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one of the hosts was basically like, I don't want to survive if the
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world collapses and I have to like fight everybody in order to stay alive.
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Just kill me. It's fine. I don't want to stay alive badly enough
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to do the kinds of things i'd have to do to stay alive or to
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live through those things, and then carry that with me every day. I'm
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good. I'll just die and that's fine. It's really not a big deal.
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And I felt that so deeply in my heart, Like I mean,
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just let's get real, right now. Everybody, a lot of us have
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what's relatively, like, in a very relative sense, an easy life.
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We're not fighting for survival in a literal way, but we deal with enough
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problems and difficulties that sometimes being alive doesn't really feel worth it as it is.
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And you add on the need to like commit violence or endure violence or
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observe violence and have to carry that memory with you and like the levels that
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could reach in order to stay alive in a world that has otherwise kind of
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fallen apart, and I just feel like I'm barely interested in staying alive right
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now that doesn't sound like something that would interest me at all. Count me
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out, you know what I'm saying, Like, I'm good. So the
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way that I was framing this of just like you have to really want to
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stay alive, A big part of me kind of was like, oh yeah,
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I mean it makes sense because a lot of us just wouldn't fight this
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hard. We would just be like, hey, I did my best win
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some, loose some, and then we would lose one. That would be
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it. But Loufy is just built of different stuff. I'm sorry Florine is
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in the chat. I think what Iva did is speed up the process how
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cells are built and broken down. You know how we say after seven years,
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you're made out of completely new cells. That happens to loofy within hours
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to fight the poison. I see that's an interesting Okay, I like that
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theory. It is funny, though, Can we just talk about the fact
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that we're like, we're all new cells after seven years? How come we
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don't look new every seven years? Then? How come we're all fresh and
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new cells but we're still aging? That seems really unfair. I don't like
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that. So anyway, this results in the next episode, which is bon
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Clay outside of Lufy's door, simply like cheering him on. And I would
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have thought that this would be more annoying than it was, but I actually
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wound up feeling very touched by it, because the whole point of this is
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that Bonclay decides if he's going to have to experience this horrible pain and go
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through all of this, the least I can do is prove to him that
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he's not alone. And you guys, this is really this got me,
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like it just really did. I love this concept, and especially because I
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I love mister too so much I can't I know, I've said it so
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many times, but I really really mean it. The joy I have gotten
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from the story taking the turn it has with him is it's probably like my
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favorite development of the whole series. I almost thought that Lufy wasn't going to
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recover, and that what was going to happen was that Bonclay was going to
36:34
have to go ahead and try and save Ace on his own, and that
36:37
like maybe Lufy would begin to recover toward the end of that ordeal and he
36:43
would finally be able to step in. But the main thing we were going
36:46
to see was Bonclay having to step up to the plate in Lufy's place,
36:54
and I would have believed he would do that because he is just so devoted
37:02
and sweet natured, and I just love that he has been given the chance
37:10
to like be more than a villain. This is so so much more interesting,
37:19
and he had seemed to have so many very delightful, likable qualities to
37:23
me, and I really wasn't sure if that was going to be explored at
37:29
all. There so many times, not just with this series, but with
37:31
so many others where a character gets introduced that you find like really fascinating and
37:37
then they just sort of are very much like a side character, or even
37:40
they get killed off pretty quickly and you're just like, oh, that's too
37:44
bad. And so I didn't have any expectations at all about what was going
37:49
to happen with him, and seeing that he was popping up in this arc,
37:52
I was delighted, of course, but I never expected it to go
37:55
where it has gone, and it's just completely exceeding all my expectations. The
38:01
only thing now that could really bring it to the next level for me where
38:05
I'm feeling truly satisfied is if Bonclay became a member of the crew, which
38:10
I don't think is going to happen, but I desperately wish would happen.
38:16
I would love that, like it just he belongs, you know, he
38:22
just does. And I don't know, I could really see there being like
38:28
a camaraderie with pretty much everybody because he is so he's such an encouraging type.
38:35
You know, once he knows that he's got your friendship, he's going
38:37
to be a cheerleader for you and always like be building you up. And
38:44
I just don't see that there's anybody that he wouldn't get along with except may
38:47
Bee Zoro because he's just kind of a stick in the mud a lot of
38:50
the time with you know, he's just a pain in the ass. So
38:54
anyway, oh my god, and I forgot because the horm horm fruit is
39:02
the one that I've had. It gave me this fabulous power to alter the
39:08
hormones of anyone I see. I can change their sex, body temperature,
39:14
skin color, growth, even their emotions. I can remodel people from the
39:19
inside out, like an engineer of the human body. The candy boys and
39:23
candy girls you see here used my help to really kick gender in its sorry
39:29
pants. Is that the best line kicked gender in its sorry pants. That
39:37
is so hilarious. And as somebody who has frequently especially at the heights of
39:43
my body body issues, fantasized about finding a genie with three wishes and choosing
39:53
a like a body and exact body that I wanted, this would delightful.
40:00
I would definitely like, I don't I'm not interested in changing gender, but
40:04
I wouldn't mind some some tweaks. Sure wouldn't anyway, But all those hang
40:10
ups are a thing of the past. Those aren't the kind of miracles we
40:14
deal in here. I just provide the hormones. Everyone else provides the dream.
40:22
So yeah, bon Clay, I was sort of wondering whether he was
40:28
going to want a change himself. But it doesn't seem like bon Clay is
40:35
interested in becoming a woman. It seems like Bonclay just wants to be able
40:38
to, like, you know, dress and be how he wants to be.
40:45
So I think he seems pretty content in that respect. And I was
40:52
explaining how all of the people here were once prisoners that made their way here
40:59
by sheer love. Every level of impel down has an entrance to this area,
41:07
which that is really really important information because the fact that there's an entrance
41:16
on every level means that they can get out onto every level, So they
41:21
have a whole network now that they could be traveling through that isn't anywhere on
41:28
the actual maps. And he says there's even one in the mortuary, which
41:35
I'm going to call right now. Maybe a way for them to sneak out
41:42
if you're in the mortuary. I don't know if you like burn the bodies
41:45
there or what, but like if you're being sent somewhere to be buried,
41:47
you could maybe sneak out inside a coffin or something. I don't know,
41:54
but yeah, he says that we can get everything we need in this prison,
42:00
a paradise hiding in the bowels of hell itself. The jailers would never
42:06
believe such an absurdity exists. And we are still able to keep tabs on
42:13
what's going on outside because we have a transponder snail, so we're able to
42:19
like watch what the security guards are watching and keep up with other parts of
42:22
the world. And I love the way this is like animated here. It's
42:28
sort of like the transponder snail is just showing them like a movie, like
42:34
everybody's in what seems to be a huge theater and eating popcorn and watching what's
42:39
transpiring on those screen and he says, it's not every day that we get
42:45
to see a break in and break out, so we've been really following what
42:50
you've been doing with great interest. But this place wasn't always here. Some
42:55
prisoner had a devil fruit power that was good for digging through stone, and
43:00
they were the first to start chipping away at these caverns. That led other
43:05
prisoners here a long time ago, and bit by bit, new recruits started
43:08
building this place together. This paradise of ours is actually a bit like an
43:14
ant farm made made through digging tunnels through the rock. And we are located
43:19
between levels five and level six, and we get to see like just how
43:24
big it is. It's quite an expansive area. And when he says level
43:29
six, when Clay says six, wait, I thought there were only five
43:36
and I thought we had heard about level six already. But maybe I'm mistaken.
43:45
But yeah, I almost says it's not widely known, but that is
43:49
where the true villains are kept locked away. They are all condemned to a
43:52
lifetime sentence without parole. It is known as the Eternal Hell, exceedingly wicked
44:00
crimes often covered up by the world government, and incidents that could damage the
44:05
reputation of the powers that be. If you had tried to pull the same
44:10
maneuver a little while back, it wouldn't have been so easy. And this
44:15
was really interesting. There was another beastly batty guarding this prison not too long
44:20
ago. You see, he was the jail manager of impelled Down, Sure
44:23
you of the rain, And to size him up, he was just as
44:28
strong as Warden Magellan. Honestly, considering most of the time that Magellan's spend
44:34
sitting on the crap or you might have said, sure you, was even
44:36
more fearsome. And we find out that sure it was like a fucking sadist
44:43
maniac, to the point where Magellan had to step in a couple times and
44:49
be like, dude, what are you doing? Oh my god, we
44:52
have a reputation. You can't be pulling this kind of shit. If the
44:57
atrocities that he calls them a trot cities that you're committing get out, our
45:04
entire reputation is going to be fucking ruined. And the way that this conversation
45:13
goes, I am not sure how exactly Magellan like takes him out. He
45:19
says, I remind you were jailers, not butchers. No one cares about
45:23
the lives of these vermin. And Magellan says, I won't tolerate this any
45:30
longer. Impel down would be disgraced beyond measure. I must exercise my authority
45:36
as warden and place you under arrest. And we just hear like the cell
45:46
closing, and we see that this guy was behind bars. But I don't
45:54
know why he didn't put up more of a fight, like or you know,
45:58
if he's still alive. I have to sum he still is. I
46:01
was saying he killed prisoners when and as he saw a fit, even on
46:07
the slightest whim, he was completely out of control. So now they hold
46:10
him in the darkest levels of six as a high security risk. Now,
46:16
is this supposed to be somebody that we saw him when the camera was like
46:20
down, so to speak, in ACES level because his face does not look
46:25
familiar. But we've also had a lot of like shots of the people in
46:30
the surrounding cells TOACE that are all shadow with just like eyes, and you
46:37
don't really get any features. So I suppose it's possible that we kind of
46:43
saw him, but we didn't actually get a look at his features. But
46:51
yeah, and then I goes on, he's in fine company. Catalina Davon
46:58
the world's most dangerous woman is down there, which is perfect timing because this
47:02
wasn't This was a point when I started to be like, where are the
47:07
women kept? Because clearly in this area nw COMA, there are women,
47:15
but they could have just been transformed from men. So I wasn't really sure
47:20
if the prison held women at all. We haven't seen any women prisoners,
47:27
so apparently there are San Juan, Wolf, the Great Battleship, even heavy
47:36
drinker Vasco shot names to make anyone tremble with fear. And I'm like,
47:43
or not because we never heard of these people in our lives. I don't
47:46
know what to tell you. Half the crimes these villains committed were so heinous
47:52
that even the newspapers dared not to mention them. Your former boss is there
47:57
too. I suppose it was pretty wild in his own way, and that
48:05
is crocodile. And we get a little bit of like a, this is
48:09
so funny, you guys, A little like sort of I don't know what
48:16
to call this the animation is just like a confrontation between all of these characters
48:22
facing down with each other and one like, we've got everybody here facing off
48:29
with all of the baroque works people, but Oostap's got a really goofy expression
48:36
on his face and like NAMMYA is sticking her tongue out. Everyone else is
48:39
mean mugging except for those two, which I did find really really funny.
48:47
And yeah, here it is. This is when h This is when Bunkley
48:53
says, it just goes to show you the power of friendship, and he
49:00
begins to do his little like pure wet spin. So this there's a sort
49:09
of a I'm trying to like jump ahead here because I only have a few
49:13
minutes left. Here it is, Oh yeah, So he knows that Lufy
49:23
is Ace's brother. He's aware of that, but later on when he mentions
49:30
the Dragon, who is one of his close friends, it turns out,
49:34
because he is unsurprisingly a revolutionary, he had no idea that Lufy was related
49:40
to Dragon. And it's interesting because Lufy says, like, I don't think
49:45
it's a big deal. I think I can tell you my grandfather didn't keep
49:47
it a secret. But he did keep it a secret because he doesn't tell
49:52
Loofy until, like, you know, Lufy's sixteen or whatever. So I
49:59
don't know if he's should be just like saying that shit, but it's probably
50:02
fine. Too bad his plan is dead in the water. Now he's talking
50:09
about Loofy because Lufy is still not woken up. But we can jump ahead
50:15
and we get to the point where bon Clay is just outside his doors yelling
50:22
for Lufy to like keep going. You can do it. You can just
50:25
keep hanging on, and everybody is sort of like what is He's like wearing
50:30
himself out, he needs to take a rest, and bon Clay is eventually
50:37
iva steps in because people are kind of wanting to pull Bonklay away from the
50:40
door, and I was like, no, he wants to prove to his
50:45
friend that he isn't alone and it's not going to do him any harm and
50:50
it very well maybe could help, so let him go ahead with it.
50:58
So meanwhile, with the uh the other like security guys, they are reporting
51:06
to Magellan that Loofy has disappeared. We have the discovery of Hannibal and him
51:14
like tied to the ceiling without any of his clothing, or anything. It's
51:19
an interesting like I had thought that, uh, mister two was able to
51:23
transform himself into wearing actual clothing, but I guess he isn't. Like I
51:32
thought that there had been a couple moments where he was able to do that,
51:35
but or maybe it's just not really that consistent. I don't know.
51:39
But yeah, So everybody else gathers around with blonclay and helps cheer Loofy on
51:45
and his screen. I love how absolutely everybody here is wearing thigh high fish
51:50
nets with uh, what do you call it? Garter belts? But we
51:58
go back down to eight and the dude that he's with is like, well,
52:04
maybe this woman was just pulling your leg And Ace is like, are
52:07
you saying that she made her way all the way down here to talk to
52:13
me? Just to lie to me? And I was like that's really like
52:17
yeah, what do you even mean? And eventually he calms down and it
52:22
is just like, look, I know you mean, well, but my
52:24
brother absolutely would do this shit and bust in here. He just would.
52:30
And then we cut back to Loofy, who is breaking his way out of
52:38
the cell that he has been kind of like locked into, and he looks
52:43
like hell, he is skinning bones and the whole like there's a corpse like
52:52
quality to him, and he just yells out meat. And when we go
53:01
to the next episode, they are feeding him like crazy, and he is
53:07
taking several times his body size in steak at a time and just put like
53:15
just fucking hosing it down. And eventually there's this weird sequence where he like
53:22
pushes the nutrients of the food that is in his like he's swollen in the
53:27
center with real skinny arms and legs, but then he like pushes that into
53:31
his arms and legs in a very literal sense and manages to become healthy looking
53:38
again. But he isn't actually back to normal, and they keep trying to
53:45
tell him, you're going to have to take more time to heal, and
53:50
he's like, I just don't have it. But when he tries to get
53:52
up and walk, it's obviously an effort for him. Meanwhile, Bonclay has
54:00
collapsed himself, and I've explains he basically sacrificed his own health in order to
54:09
be able to cheer you on, and your recovery was so miraculous that I
54:15
have to assume what he was doing did help. And again Lufy is just
54:20
so touched and he's like, look when he heads out later, he says,
54:23
I hate to ask you to do this, but can you keep an
54:29
eye on him while I go do what I need to do. And I
54:34
love how much Lufy respects Bonclay and how like, just this is some real
54:38
shit, you know, And he pulls out the viaver card. It's a
54:45
tiny scrap. At this point, I assume now you want to go and
54:51
rescue your brother, regardless of what advice we might give you. It's your
54:54
life, after all, and you can do whatever you want with it.
55:00
And Lufy says, are you going to make an escape too? Because the
55:04
point of coming down here was that Bohem was going to try and rescue you.
55:08
And is just like, oh, really, that's really nice, that's
55:15
charming. But no, it's a sweet gesture. But I don't need to
55:22
be saved. I'm cool down here. It's not my time to break out,
55:27
not quite yet. I know what's going on in the world right now.
55:32
There's been a shift in tide and big changes are coming. The Navy
55:37
and the white Beard Pirates are taking center stage. Even so, the big
55:42
Man's still waiting things out. I'm of course, referring to my comrade,
55:45
the leader of all revolutionaries in the world. And this is when he mentions
55:53
you may know him as Dragon, and Lufy says, oh, yeah,
55:55
my dad. And I was thinking there was gonna be reaction, but instead
56:01
I've just keeps going, Yes, that's the plan. When your dad makes
56:06
a move with that army of his, and then I shall make a maneuver
56:08
of my own. And all of a sudden it registers and he just ye
56:17
knows, like, wait a second, did you say your dad, And
56:25
Lou's like yeah, and he then puts it together. Wait, if Ace
56:31
is your brother, then that's his dad too. Oh my god. I
56:37
had no idea about any of this, And I love when he just goes
56:44
flying into the wall and then collapses. Dragon doesn't have any children. That's
56:50
crazy talk. And Lucy's like, hmm, maybe I shouldn't have said anything.
56:53
No, I think it's probably fine, but yeah. When he says
57:00
where did you come from, Lufy says the east Blue, and we get
57:04
a flashback of I have a talking to Dragon and being like, every time
57:09
you go on take breath of air, you seem to face in the same
57:12
general direction. What's the deal? With that, it's clear like he's looking
57:15
toward home, so he tells Lufy not to let anybody know Dragon is his
57:23
father and movie, yeah, I just figured that out. I'm his dear
57:29
friend and one of his trusted commanders, and that means I'm a revolutionary.
57:34
That's the reason I was arrested. So it's my duty to help you,
57:37
whether you like it or not. I can't just stand around and let my
57:39
friend's son die before my eyes. Listen up, Tell everybody in the new
57:45
Kamma Land. We're going to move fast and rescue Ace Boy before his execution,
57:50
and then we'll break out of impeal down. Guys. I am so
57:55
here for this. I am so here for the Queer Army getting together behind
58:01
Loofy and fighting like hell wearing fishnet thigh highs to help him save his brother
58:07
and then join the revolution against the government. Are you kidding me? Like?
58:14
What is this like? Am I being punked? Like? This is
58:19
so graz Oh my god, it's so wonderful. I am so here for
58:27
it really really quick because I'm out of time here. But we touch base
58:32
briefly with Mister three and Buggy, who they have managed to make it back
58:37
to level four, I think. But they run into a transponder snail and
58:43
they're having to like sort of work their way around it without being spotted by
58:46
it. But they're still poison in the air because of fucking Magellan, so
58:52
they're each trying desperately not to like sneeze, and their eyes are turning red.
58:57
It's like a whole thing. Meanwhile, Hannibal like they're you know,
59:04
discovering exactly how far things have gone with him being impersonated, and the transponder
59:12
snail winds up dying because of the poison. So these two managed to find
59:16
a way past it, but it's pretty it's a bad scene. Magellan meanwhile
59:22
having some Tommy trubs and he is like going in for this ceremony where they
59:30
collect ace and it's supposed to be a really big deal for their reputation that
59:36
they are on time. So he has to be gotten out of his latrine
59:43
even though he isn't quite ready to go, and Iva pumps Loofy up with
59:50
some adrenaline in order to give him the strength he needs. He's like,
59:53
it's going to catch up with you in a few days, so before warned,
59:57
but hopefully by then it won't matter and you'll be able to rest.
1:00:01
And I love fighting the wolves and everything like and in a Zuma is the
1:00:10
one with that's like got the part of colored hair and the wine glass.
1:00:15
And they open up the doorways and it's just like, well, who's who's
1:00:21
gonna come at us? And Iva just says, well, who cares?
1:00:24
Just let him come, and all of the security guys like lock in and
1:00:30
realize, oh my god, that's iv A who has been missing for years.
1:00:36
And there's the straw hat kid that we thought got eaten by wolves.
1:00:39
And it ends with uh loofy yelling hold on, Ace, I'm coming for
1:00:45
you, and the the you know moment where they go to gather Ace and
1:00:55
put him in cuffs and bring him out, Bring him out, bring him
1:00:59
out. So that is the end of the episode. This is a really
1:01:05
fun one. You guys really really enjoying this. All Right, I have
1:01:08
got to go. I'm over time. But thank you again so much for
1:01:12
hanging out with me. Thank you Florian, thank you Michael for commissioning this.
1:01:15
And until next time to the Loom motherfuckers. That was an Unspoiled Network podcast