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One Piece does have some good filler arcs · Anime Club Podcast

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Straw Charts.
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And we are going to finally close up the Sky PR Arc, the Sky
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PR saga with the G8 Marine Base arc.
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But thanks for joining us once again.
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Jacob Lee, me Gee. Yeah.
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Anyway, how are you just doing? I almost finished my drink.
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I still got strong. 4 weeks, 5 weeks now in the in the
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drinking. Well, still, but yeah, this was
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interesting. I did not remember this being
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stuck on the end of Sky Pier as a sort of like, like, yeah, this
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is this is where they land after falling off right in the middle.
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They call it like the hedgehog or something, like an
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impenetrable fortress. You know, it keeps everyone out.
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And unfortunately, in that we learn.
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It's a good luck especially there's like 1000 marines in
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this space or something they say and the straw chats have to go
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like Metal Gear Solid style and start sneaking round.
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Yeah, but they're bad at sneaking because Luffy's with
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them and they've got. Agent 47 style as well going
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let's just put this costume on and just blend into the crowd.
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Yes, so like I'm I'm guessing a lot of people forget about this,
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but this is where we get some very like funny images like
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Doctor Chopper with his like mad scientist glasses on and stuff
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as they like go undercover. But yeah, it's it is weird how
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hands off the commander is about like immediately murdering them
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because the ship lands in the middle and like, now we're going
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to like, oh, it looks like all these teacups are still warm and
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stuff like that. You know, like they're having a
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like having a coffee before the drop.
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Yeah. And yeah, they don't really go
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on a full scale manhunt until a bit later because you find out
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the leader is sort of like a weird, like he's very into
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fishing. So he's treating this like a,
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well, I'll just like sit here and set the trap, like, you
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know, bit the hook type of thing.
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But it's it's quite interesting. It's better than just a full
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scale like battle from the start I suppose.
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I love Jonathan, the Marine like commander of that base, just how
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late back he is and it is because of he's fishing.
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But like he's got like a respect as well.
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Like he's not just like our dirty pirates when he had killed
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them. Yeah.
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He's like respectful to his enemy and he tries to think of
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what the enemy like. He tries to think in their shoes
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and figure out what's going on before actually jumping to any
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conclusions or jump into an attack immediately.
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Yeah, and like he says later, like I'll make sure your crews
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looked after, but the guys with bounties, like sorry, you have
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to go there, the chopping block or whatever.
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But yeah, like, I don't know, I'm guessing the voice actor was
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good in English. But like the the Japanese guy
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had like a very like pleasing to listen to your voice.
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And I'm like, yeah, he seems laid back and happy.
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I mean, who wouldn't be? He's got a the smoking hot chef
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wife, even though she does make him eat healthy food, which I
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thought it was really. They're going hard on it.
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Like I don't like broccoli or carrots.
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It's like, what do you eat? Like, like, yeah, you live on
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the oceans. Yeah.
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You relate. But yeah, I think, Chris, like
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you said this in our, like, chats where you're like, oh, it
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feels like the Straw Hats are coming into their own in this
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art. And like, I agree.
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Like. And yeah, any chance Sanji gets
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to show everyone up with cooking skills is always good in the
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show. Yeah, yeah, because Chopper gets
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like he becomes the doctor at one point on this base and he's
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like he mentors a very shy, not bad doctor, but like, she's a
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bad doctor. She's only read textbooks and
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then when like the body start open and she's like.
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She's like she's. Got like hemophobia or something
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like that, like scared of blood and Chris, not the other thing.
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She's not for me. Well, she is kind of terrified
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of Chopper. She's a raccoon, dog or
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whatever. Yeah, and obviously we're
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getting Nurse Nami, which Sanji is very much pleased about when
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he sees later on. I did.
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Enjoy. That would be fair.
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Enjoy. Sanji's reaction.
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Not yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, there's a lot of wiggly
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leg Sanji to come where it's like.
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When you first mentioned people loved Sanji for his like, wiggly
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moments, I'm like, why? It kind of takes it away, but
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yeah, I'd get it. Now no like to be honest with
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you, the fan base now hates it. They're like oh Sanji should be
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cool and should fight everyone all the time and like the fans
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now hate when he's like all like googly eyes and I'm like that's
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his character troll. Like he's been consistent.
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I don't like that they haven't done this with the live action
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like Sanji in the live action he is proper suave and
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sophisticated. Like hello darling, you want?
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Some like. That like, I don't know why you
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tended to call Urban for a second, but I mean when he.
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First show, when he first shows up, he is cool, but then you
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sort of learn that Sanji can only like pull it together
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temporarily and as soon as he gets any kind of like attention,
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he's just like immediately like falls.
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But no, I loved, I loved how he like turned all of the food
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scraps into like the best meal that ever had.
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Yes. Which I don't really know what
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he made. It was some kind of like
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circular dumplings made out of trash.
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It was everyone. Everyone loved it.
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It was tuna scraps. It was in the bone, in the meat
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that was left on from when they made the the base chefs made
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their meal mixed with like, oil and bread crumbs and yeah.
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All right. Together in the balls.
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And nice bone meal. Bone meal.
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Fish dumpling. He does use impressive like he
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chucks the sauce up in the air and it like perfectly covers
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everything somehow. And then like, they also think
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Luffy might be a master chef and he's just like, oh, this is all
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great. He's like, oh, your friend is.
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Great. Also on the floor just.
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Yeah, yeah. That's an interesting thing,
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though. What?
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What, Chris, what do you think about Luffy's, like, cartoon
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moments like that? Like when he gets giant and then
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just like, shrinks down immediately?
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I think it's class. I love that part of it because
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it's like it is part of his character.
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I hope it doesn't lose that because when you're saying oh
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good, because it's like asking Sanji not to do his his WAVY.
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Cartoon body. Cartoon body when he's around
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like an attractive woman is like asking Luffy not to be addicted
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to food. It's like taking the part of his
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car away from. Yeah, yeah.
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I think like just, it's just there is a lot of serious like
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power scalers out there who don't like the cartoon moments.
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But I'm glad you're enjoying them because like you said, it's
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part of everyone. And Sanji finds out that this
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woman is married to the Marine captain.
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Or what would have happened if she turned around and was like,
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oh, Sanji, like, I'm really impressed by you.
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I want you right now. Marry me and become, like, just
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joining us in this base. Do you think Sanji would have
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been like, all right, I'll be a Marine?
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I think he I think he would have, you know, Brock did it in
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Pokémon. He stayed behind for like an
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entire season and a half because some lady was like, you know
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what, all right, I'll, I'll accept your date.
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He's like like 1000 times the charm.
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No, yes, Angie. But The thing is, though, if
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Nami had asked him to come back to the ship, he would have.
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It's like he's got a hierarchy in his mind.
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Nami is at the top. Then Robin and you know it's he
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has to he would work his way down the list, be very
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conflicted. I did love all of the like chef
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bits in this but I feel like the shouldn't have had.
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There was a filler episode in the first saga where Sanji ends
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up on the boat with the little marine chef.
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Right, like a similar idea. Yeah, I think that episode
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shouldn't have happened, and it would have been better for this
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one as well. Yeah, I think this is just, I
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mean, I think everyone except Zorro gets a chance to show off
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what they're good at in in this mini sort of bad situation
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because Nami is like pretty much undetectable until like the very
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last sort of half of the episode, like.
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Still think she's a hostage? You know, yeah, right to the
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last second, basically when they see a given orders like in the
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nurse outfit. And yeah, like you, like you
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said, it's it's like, it's like the old Fox Kids song.
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Sanji's cooking, Chopper's doctor.
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He stops doing that Moxman thing.
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Apart from he's not because he never snipes anybody.
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But he does have a nice chat with that old shipwright guy who
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actually tells him a little bit of how to fix the ship better
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ways. Like you should pay attention to
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the areas that don't normally get repairs.
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They're they're the things that might fall apart.
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But then I bet. On the man.
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I was going to say I bet Chris you hated this how it teased
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information about the the secret thing and then then he got
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dragged away it. Is if I was watching this as a
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weekly anime as it was coming out, I'll be like, for fuck's
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sake. He's like, oh, there's one thing
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you've got to know about that, that mysterious person.
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All right, you you kind of have old man, but yeah, it you don't
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have to wait that long is all I'll say, Chris, you'll be OK
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and it's and it's cool. It's worth the wait it.
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Does tease it pretty well. I mean the bits are get
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frustrated. That is when like the lead up to
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the big bad fight where it's just like you'll meet, you'll
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get knocked down, then you'll meet again, maybe he's getting
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knocked down again and then there'll be some sort of
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stumbling block to reach for the final fight.
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And that's where I'm like, come on, can we just get quicken up
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the pace and get the big fight? It's doing that to you on
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purpose though, so that when that one moment happens, like,
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you know, hitting the, the, the golden bell, you just like it.
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I know why they're doing nothing.
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At the moment, man, just wait until we get to the one O arc
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and it's 180 episodes long and it's.
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But when? But when Luffy throws that
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punch, you will be jumping out of your seat.
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And I think Robin was a bit of a Dick in this.
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Yeah, Usopp, where he's like, oh, I'm actually the marine
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inspector. And then all of a sudden Robin
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comes in. She's like, oh, I'm a marine
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inspector. And it's like that was I was
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pretending to be. That's what you're doing.
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Yeah, it was almost pulled it off.
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And then, yeah. And then she's like, I've never
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seen this man before in my life. But then, you know, it turns out
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she was trying to get him and Zorro, like, linked back up at
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the prison, I guess because, you know, she's smarter than
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everyone. I think that was a happy
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accident, you. Think.
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I don't think you had that in mind at all.
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Yes, and then the the the real Marine inspector who she like
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did the Backbreaker on her like like flower clutch thing.
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He gets thrown in prison also, and then he's like what?
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I'm the inspector. Let me out.
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And then who stops? Like our good friend, like he
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just stinks on his feet. He.
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Thought of a lie, He thought of the coin, and even Zorro's like
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Condorino. Shut up and then this is what Oh
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yeah, we forgot to we forgot to fully talk about the fart dials
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like as in like the the ball guy the the the Skype here ball
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guy's brothers use farts on nami for some reason, but just like.
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Oh yeah. And yeah, the gate he he was up
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gives it to Sanji to try and open up the gate.
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And 1st it plays the little snake recorded line.
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He's like a big snake and he recorded just to be annoying.
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And then second it's the fart one which then explodes the
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prison because science. And he connects with the the
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lanterns, doesn't it? I.
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Guess so. Must have been a big fart.
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Yet the the dude managed to pretty much escape at that
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point, don't they? But then.
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They basically have free reign, to be honest.
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Like let's face it, like there's a few times where they're almost
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get in a little bit of tinge, but for the most part they're
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just like, I don't know, we're out of here.
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And the the Marines can barely like stop them.
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It's pretty. Fun.
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I don't think anyone on that marine base would have actually
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been a challenge to them. Like they had numbers, but that
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was about it. They would get tired maybe, but
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besides that. Yeah, no, you're absolutely
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right. Because I was thinking like, Oh
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well, we'll probably bring some Lieutenant out at some point who
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has like some kind of gimmick power.
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Like the closest you get is that guy who's got spring loaded
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boxing gloves which does catch Luffy slightly off guard but he
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still ducks it. That that weird.
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Was it the the 55 men that we had?
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Yeah, Guys are called the bridge.
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Yeah, because when he when when they were, oh, he was like, oh,
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I'll have to call them. And I was like, all right, so
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they've got like a super squad of freaks.
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And it's like, not really just some some people were like feel
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the fire of our hearts type of thing, but just more fired up
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than everyone else. But no, that bridge fight was
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pretty cool where you see how how Luffy generally fights
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without with like careless abandonable surroundings.
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Yeah, he just assumes his crew will mostly look after
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themselves at this point. Yeah, it's kind.
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It's kind of a game at this point because they're not even
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like fighting to kill the other person.
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It's very much knockout and move on for this gold.
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These are just people. It was standard and in between
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1:00. But you're starting to like see
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that in like a tactic sense. Luffy is like suited really well
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for like crowd control fighting because of his leg really long
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lives because there's that part where he just does like the whip
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kick and like, takes out like 50 guys, including Zorro and Sanji
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because he can't see through the plug.
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And they're just like, yeah, there's some good comedy.
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And especially just how like annoyed all of the gods are with
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like how hands off the captain is where he's just like, no,
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I'll be fine. And the guy's like, no, I
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wouldn't need to hunt them down like.
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Yeah, honestly, I've got a trap. I've got.
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If they'll go into the trap, they'll do this, I think.
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Should you not go and get them now?
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No, no, I just retreat. It's fine.
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Yes, but we do get a weird turn around the blow up the just blow
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up the gate by Luffy being like oh hi, I've got this.
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I'm just going to like balloon bounce like 10 cannonballs into
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the gate to let us out. But then they realized the gold
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has been taken off the ship and we just spent an entire arc
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getting that gold, so we better not leave it behind.
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I think they did get caught by the Marines trying to get into
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that safe, but then, oh, thanks to Condoriano.
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Yeah. With these stupid missile
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launcher that he doesn't even know which way.
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To hold it. I love how it's like, so it's
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like a like a Gundam weapon almost as well.
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It's like not it's not even like a One piece design.
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Like he's just brought it from another anime.
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I mean, yeah. Then then Robin uses her power
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to just take control of the gun, like while he's still holding
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it. And I thought that was a really
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smart use of her power. Like yeah, she could pull a
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trigger like while it was facing the wrong way.
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Yeah, I don't know if it's the same in the in the dope than the
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soap, but when I when I watched it in the dope and Condoriano
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the the member of the straw straw heart crew, he starts
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blaming the the instruction booklet and stuff when you know
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the wrong way. He does start reading the.
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Damn instruction manual. Yeah.
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And then yeah, so like he gets like blown up and that's that's
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not really a big deal. But I did like how they had a
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little sit down because they do have some breaks where they sort
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of get a little thing and have a little sit down chat about what
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they're going to do next. And it's like, oh, we're going
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to save the money up to get ship repairs because they're all
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like, yeah, the Mary's our home. So like we should fix it.
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And then if he's like, we're finding a ship, right, that's
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our next, that's our next quest. And yeah, like he sort of lays
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it out and everyone's like, yeah, sure, Captain, good idea.
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Because like, as much as they all kind of hit Luffy sometimes,
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because he doesn't, he's like, careless.
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Like, they do actually listen to him.
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Like at the end of the day, yeah.
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Yeah, when he has, when he has a good idea, according to them,
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they'll follow him. Yeah, but that's.
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About it. The reason, mate?
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And there's like times where he like, when they're like, you
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know, help us get up on the ship and he just sort of like, boots
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them out of there. They're like, oh, it hurts for
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normal people. You know, he's just like, I
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think he knows they're all tough enough to take it.
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That's, that's Luffy. He can like tell.
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You can tell how much you can push things with different
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people. Yeah, I've noticed that Zorro
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constantly gets gets it in the. In the head.
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The tough enough to take it, but poor us off the finally ready to
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escape and like, right, we can use this impact dial to escape.
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Who's going to use it? And everyone's just like.
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But do that like scary eye thing, like it's all like the
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glimpse. Yeah.
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And. Like, oh, we still haven't
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gotten far enough, we need to do another one.
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Get ready yourself. Yeah, we didn't actually talk
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about the the impact on the reject dial nearly killing
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Wiper, but yeah, some of the dials hurt you if you use them
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too much. I don't.
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I guess you just get like residual blowback or whatever.
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But yeah, yourself gets ran over by a Gurney as well and looks
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pretty messed up. And then Chopper has to pretend
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to be a scary pirate. That's all good stuff.
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I did not see the exit coming at all.
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I was like how are they going to get out of this one?
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Like the water level has lowered and now they're like stuck on
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the rocks with the damaged ship well.
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Like all thanks to Luffy and his brilliant thinking of Oh well if
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we only we had that octopus from before.
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He just pulled it straight out of his pants.
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Octopus. And they do, they do like a
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proper like comedy thing of like everyone going like if only we
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had the octopus, if only we had it, if we had it.
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And then Luffy is like, I have it.
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Like we have to go like, and then round everyone.
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And they're like, what? He's just like, yeah, well, you
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know, it saved us and stuff. So I thought I'd like, you know,
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keep hang on to it. Pulls it out of his short.
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But you know, when as soon as I saw him pull out that octopus
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out of his out of his pants, my first thought was because Lee
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had a character in Is it the Dagger Hog campaign who wore
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underpants and kept everything in his pants?
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Yeah. Sandwiches.
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And was that based on that? No.
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I mean, I don't, I don't think it's the only time Luffy puts
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something and he doesn't really have much pockets or, you know,
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he doesn't carry anything with him, so he doesn't have many
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more places to store things. Poor octopus though.
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And they were like, oh, didn't it feel like weird and gross?
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He's just like it. Yeah.
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Luffy's just like that, like gross child who like, digs
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around in the mud, basically doesn't have any like,
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forethought about that kind of thing.
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We all went to school with someone who put like spiders and
19:03
bugs in that in the pockets. He does love bugs.
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I don't know if that's come up in the show yet, but whenever he
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sees like a beetle, he's like, he's like a beetle collector.
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In Jaya, Yeah, the beetle. I can't what was called.
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Either the Yeah beetle or something.
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Yeah, Emperor, which I think is a popular pastime for Japanese
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children to collect beetles because it shows up in a lot of
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games and stuff. Yeah, the escape using the
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octopus that reinflate it with the flame dial, The impact dial
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blows them up into the sky and they managed to fly out of the
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base. Yep.
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And again, Condorino ruins the plan of he like, shoots the
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cannon by accident so they can't actually shoot them down.
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And then everyone's like, well, I've told you, they dropped out
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the sky, therefore they have a flying ship and we're going to
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have to let them go. But yeah, it's pretty great.
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I do love that moment when they pull off something that is
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incredibly impossible to normal people's eyes.
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And then everyone just has to be like, so that's the Straw Hat
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crew. And This is why they're like
20:08
becoming famous in the world government.
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I do really like this arc and I feel like this has all of the
20:16
elements in One Piece combined even though it's just a filler
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rock and when people say like I don't know if I would like it.
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I think this would be a good little mini arc to show someone
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where it hasn't got any spoilers or anything in and there's no
20:30
like wardrops or anything too important.
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It just shows you the fun of the show and what the Straw Hat crew
20:37
were all like. Apart from it doesn't show you
20:39
it's over or doing anything. But he gets his time to shine in
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like every other place. Yeah, but not.
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It's really good. Jordan is that this feels
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shorter than the pumpkin pirate one.
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Sorry for breaking it up. Every time I was.
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So I thought it felt a little long, especially when they
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turned back around to go inside. But the second-half was actually
21:01
better. So once it got into it, I was
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like, it's good. Yeah.
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And then it sort of leaves us with a tease of like, where are
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they flying next? Where are they going to land?
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Will the octopus survive? Come back down these pants so.
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Yeah, Next up we've got the Water 7 saga.
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Right, see, I didn't even know that because no, I haven't
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looked ahead. I finished 205 today and sorry,
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no, yesterday and I haven't even looked ahead at all.
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But yeah, I'm looking for this ship, right?
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And I have no idea what else. Next episode.
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The next box called the Long Ring Rd.
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Land. That's what we're doing.
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Next rolls off the. Long ring.
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Blue long ring, Yeah, but what what A7 and stuff is like
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another fan favorite. So, you know, we're in.
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We're in other good stuff now for sure.
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I don't think boring. One thing that I've mentioned
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before that there's been much bad stuff.
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Yeah. Comparatively, I mean, it's
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different looking back, yeah, but from me just doing it for
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the first time now, there's nothing been bad.
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All in on the Straw Hats, yeah. Forget another crew member.
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Shipwright Movies. Is that it for the day then?
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I think so. Maybe Jonathan was a bit
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psychic, but that was about it. Did you just write down was he
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psychic? Yeah, I was like, oh, did he use
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that? Was he using that mantra?
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We didn't know if he could fight.
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Maybe he could, who knows? You'd probably not be able to do
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it. Yeah, that's, I think that's us
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for the G8. Next we'll go to that title That
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I cannot say. Long Ring Rd.
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Land. That one, right.
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So thanks for coming. I'll see you.
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See you next week. Bye everyone.