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One Piece, 922 & 923 · Spoil Me! One Piece

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  Speaker 1: This is an unspoiled network podcast. This is Spoil Me,
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  Speaker 1: covering One Piece, episodes 922 and 923. A tale of chivalry,
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  Speaker 1: Zorro and Toniasu's little trip, and a state of emergency.
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  Speaker 1: Big Mom closes in. In these episodes, we get to
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  Speaker 1: see what it is that Zorro has been up to.
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  Speaker 1: I'm over here thinking that, like, maybe there's something keeping
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  Speaker 1: him against his will, but he's just gambling. Okay. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And also, that second title promised a lot more than
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  Speaker 1: I got. I was so excited to really, like, get
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  Speaker 1: to see Big Mom closing in for a minute and
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty much the end of the episode so I'll
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  Speaker 1: just say that I'm looking forward to the next one
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  Speaker 1: even more welcome to spoil me Welcome to the show, everyone.
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  Speaker 1: I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for
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  Speaker 1: commissioning this episode. Hey, Michael. Appreciate you. So, yeah, these
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  Speaker 1: two episodes I actually really enjoyed. There is a new
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  Speaker 1: dude that we're meeting who is a foodie. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I really want to say a foodie because, like,
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  Speaker 1: that really... He's a hedonist. I guess is what you
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  Speaker 1: would say. He is somebody who, while he does enjoy food,
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  Speaker 1: it's not really about the food for him. He is
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  Speaker 1: much more about the experience of indulgence. And he is
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  Speaker 1: buds with bro that I do not like, who I
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  Speaker 1: think might actually be the slasher guy. So I guess
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  Speaker 1: we'll have to see about that. The slasher thing is
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  Speaker 1: a weird plot for me because it, The way that
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  Speaker 1: it went with Zorro, it was just sort of introduced
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  Speaker 1: and then apparently solved within the same episode. But there
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  Speaker 1: weren't really, like, the consequences are solely that he is
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  Speaker 1: being seen as the slasher himself. And so they're chasing him.
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  Speaker 1: But we only since then have seen one other person
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  Speaker 1: get slashed. And there isn't a lot of talk about
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  Speaker 1: that considering that like everybody thought, you know, I was
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  Speaker 1: expecting maybe for the manhunt to be like redoubled for
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  Speaker 1: Zorro because like there was another incident of it and
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  Speaker 1: they still think it's him. But that doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 1: really be what's happening here. So I keep getting confused
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  Speaker 1: about what priority that holds in the story. But it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter much. I just have this like mental... expectation
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  Speaker 1: due to how much like, you know, true crime and
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  Speaker 1: procedural drama I consume and the way that this sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing would normally be played up as like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the whole town is so on edge. Even though in
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  Speaker 1: my experience, that's not really how people react. Like they
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  Speaker 1: will mostly assume that this happens to other people and
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  Speaker 1: not themselves. And they don't often get as paranoid as
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  Speaker 1: they maybe should be. But, um, I'm getting ahead of
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  Speaker 1: myself here. So the first episode, A Tale of Chivalry,
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  Speaker 1: Zoro and Tonoyasu's Little Trip. Tonoyasu, right? That's how you
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  Speaker 1: say that? Tonoyasu is a real weirdo. I do not
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  Speaker 1: know what to make of what's going on here. He
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  Speaker 1: has Zorro, like, come with him to his village. And
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  Speaker 1: everybody is laughing in a way that I don't care for.
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  Speaker 1: You guys know how much I value humor. But there's, like,
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  Speaker 1: a point where it just crosses over to really creepy.
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  Speaker 1: And initially I was just like, oh, this is just circumstantial.
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  Speaker 1: But as he continues talking, I keep thinking back to
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  Speaker 1: how they met. And I keep wondering, how coincidental is this?
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  Speaker 1: How much does this look like a setup? And how
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  Speaker 1: much does this look like I just prey on people
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  Speaker 1: at the casino all the time? I can't figure out.
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  Speaker 1: So he tells him his name and he also says
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  Speaker 1: something like how he's known as the number one sycophant,
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  Speaker 1: I think. Something like that. Which is really funny because
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  Speaker 1: his whole deal is just kissing Zoro's ass throughout the
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  Speaker 1: dice game and telling him that he's just unstoppable. And
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  Speaker 1: I really, really thought initially that he was in on
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  Speaker 1: the scam with the dice to begin with. And it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't look like he was, but honestly, it's still kind
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  Speaker 1: of in my head. So... Zoro is playing dice. And
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  Speaker 1: like I said, the last time that we see Zoro
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  Speaker 1: when he wanders in the wrong direction is him getting
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  Speaker 1: on like a canoe or a boat. I can't even
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  Speaker 1: remember specifically what. I thought that he was making his
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  Speaker 1: way back to our people. And it just does not
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  Speaker 1: seem like much of a priority for him. It's a
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  Speaker 1: very different energy than I'm used to seeing with Zoro
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  Speaker 1: because him getting lost all the time is his whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: But normally, his attempts to get back to his own
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  Speaker 1: people are at the forefront of things. He might get
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  Speaker 1: detoured to get in a fight with somebody, but it
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  Speaker 1: will just be a fight that he stumbles across that
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  Speaker 1: sometimes has nothing to do with him or with the
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  Speaker 1: main story. And we just get a moment to see
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  Speaker 1: him being underestimated and then what a badass he is
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  Speaker 1: and then he returns to his attempts to find the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the crew this like lackadaisical i'll get there
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  Speaker 1: when i get there sort of energy is kind of
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  Speaker 1: weird coming from him and i don't know what to
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  Speaker 1: think of it i'm i'm I'm not really sure that
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  Speaker 1: this is so much like Zorro as it is while
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  Speaker 1: we're doing a bit about a Ronin who is like
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  Speaker 1: on the road and the people that he like runs into.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to have Zorro behave a little bit
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  Speaker 1: out of character in order to play up that archetype,
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  Speaker 1: which that might be what it is. It's not a
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  Speaker 1: big deal, but it just keeps kind of throwing me.
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  Speaker 1: when I see him to realize that like the urgency
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  Speaker 1: from the whole rest of the crew about this mission
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  Speaker 1: is not shared by him. And I think maybe if
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  Speaker 1: I were more familiar with the archetype of the Ronin
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  Speaker 1: as like a traveling badass, that it might work better
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  Speaker 1: for me and not be so distracting because it would
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  Speaker 1: be at the top of my mind. Oh, okay. I
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  Speaker 1: see what we're doing, you know, but because it's not
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  Speaker 1: something that is like really in my, you know, wheelhouse
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  Speaker 1: that it just feels like, why isn't he as worried?
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  Speaker 1: It almost makes me feel like he's like abandoning our people.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't like feeling like that about him. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to feel like, you know, let down by Zorro,
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  Speaker 1: even though he is notorious for just sort of sitting
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  Speaker 1: back and let things spin out of control until he
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  Speaker 1: finally steps in because he doesn't want to be bothered.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like I ever, doubt that he's going to
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  Speaker 1: step in and it's not like I'm surprised to see
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  Speaker 1: him sit back and let things unfold because he just
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  Speaker 1: wants to see what'll happen or because not even that
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  Speaker 1: but like because he's I think he just feels like
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  Speaker 1: I don't need to get involved it's like bringing out
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  Speaker 1: a sledgehammer when you just need a regular hammer you
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  Speaker 1: know but it is sort of I don't know. It's a,
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  Speaker 1: a weird thing that it's not, he knows that like
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  Speaker 1: we have this, this, the rest of the, like he
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  Speaker 1: saw the rest of the crew arrive. Right. Like I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to remember. Seraphim says Zorro got lost before he
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  Speaker 1: found out about the new plan to know he should
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  Speaker 1: be more worried, but he was there to see that
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the crew had reunited. Right. So that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of the thing is like, even if you don't
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  Speaker 1: know about the, the new plan, you know, that now
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  Speaker 1: that everybody's together, they're going to be like hatching something
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  Speaker 1: and likely, they're going to be waiting for you. And
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  Speaker 1: if anything, the fact that he doesn't know what the
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  Speaker 1: plan is or I don't know, it just it feels
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  Speaker 1: a little bit weird. I don't know. Florian says, I
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  Speaker 1: think Zorro likes the Ronin lifestyle. I could see him
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  Speaker 1: settle in the land of Wano if he were not
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  Speaker 1: with the Straw Hats. Like, at the end of the journey,
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  Speaker 1: this is what his retirement would look like. And that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what I mean, though. Right? Like, I can understand
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  Speaker 1: this for Zorro in a vacuum. But he has a
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  Speaker 1: team that I thought he was committed to. And so this, like,
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  Speaker 1: acting as if he's just on his own doesn't suit.
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  Speaker 1: the Zorro that I thought I knew because he's, it's
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  Speaker 1: like low key selfish actually. And I mean, one could
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  Speaker 1: argue about some of his actions and whether they count
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  Speaker 1: as selfish, but that's not an adjective that I would
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  Speaker 1: really assign to him very often. Seraphim says at this point,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a case of he simply has no
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  Speaker 1: idea what he's, what he's even supposed to be trying
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  Speaker 1: to get. but again if you don't know and you
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  Speaker 1: have a whole crew that you've been separated from and
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  Speaker 1: they just got back together isn't that why you would
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  Speaker 1: want to prioritize meeting up with them and figuring out
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  Speaker 1: what's going on like it just every explanation is just
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  Speaker 1: circling back to the same thing where I'm just like
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  Speaker 1: Do you just not care? You know, that just keeps
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  Speaker 1: being what it feels like. Anyway, so he is in
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  Speaker 1: this gambling house and he is having a streak of luck.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the sort of thing, because of the
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  Speaker 1: way this guy is just up his ass the whole time,
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  Speaker 1: I am really thinking this dude, Tonoyasu, I am thinking
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  Speaker 1: that he is sort of like working for the casino
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  Speaker 1: in order to like hype up their clientele and make
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  Speaker 1: them get a little bit too fast and loose with
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  Speaker 1: their money. Like, you know how that is where people
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  Speaker 1: just become reckless. And so I'm, I was really, really
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  Speaker 1: surprised later that, when this whole reveal happens and this
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  Speaker 1: guy actually doesn't, he doesn't seem to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of it in any way whatsoever. Cause he is actually
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  Speaker 1: doing the casino a huge favor in the way of like,
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  Speaker 1: I just, it's hard for me to say exactly how
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable Zorro's ego is to this kind of hype up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even trying to say that what he's doing
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  Speaker 1: necessarily is working on Zorro. But there are plenty of
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  Speaker 1: easily influenced folks that I think this would have an
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  Speaker 1: effect on. And finding out also that he doesn't work
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  Speaker 1: for the casino... makes it even weirder when I step
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  Speaker 1: back and look at the fact that he's not doing
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  Speaker 1: anything when he comes into this establishment, except finding somebody
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  Speaker 1: to hype up. Cause like the way that he's prancing around,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of casinos would just be
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  Speaker 1: kind of like, dude, get out of here. You can't
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  Speaker 1: do that. What are you like? Are you, are you,
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  Speaker 1: if this were a table where we're playing cards and,
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  Speaker 1: The way that he's prancing around would be seen as
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  Speaker 1: potentially like, are you trying to look at our cards?
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  Speaker 1: Are you using your hands when you flail around to
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  Speaker 1: signal what cards I have to him? I know that's
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  Speaker 1: not the situation right now because it's dice, but the
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  Speaker 1: idea that he's allowed in here when he pays no money,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't play anything, is just kind of weird. But
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  Speaker 1: Zoro's having this streak. This guy is hyping him up.
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  Speaker 1: And then we find out that there is a cheat
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  Speaker 1: happening here. And it is so interesting because it definitely
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  Speaker 1: seems like the sort of thing that has precedent. Like
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  Speaker 1: we've got, I have to assume historically, this is a thing,
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  Speaker 1: but the way that the dice are played, they are
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  Speaker 1: not out in the open. They are not just being
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  Speaker 1: tossed and they hit the other wall and we see
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  Speaker 1: how they land. it's almost like roulette where the dice
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  Speaker 1: get shaken. And then after the cup is put down, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: like they're shaking inside a cup. The cup is put
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  Speaker 1: down so that you can't see the dice. And then
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  Speaker 1: you have to guess whether it's odd or even numbers.
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  Speaker 1: And then the guy lifts the cup and you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you were right, you win. And there is underneath
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  Speaker 1: as the tabletop, It's like made of wicker, some kind
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  Speaker 1: of straw mat. And this makes it really easy for
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  Speaker 1: somebody who is seated under the table to push the
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  Speaker 1: dice with a needle through the straw, push the dice
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  Speaker 1: over so that it is a different number. And thus
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  Speaker 1: when the cup is removed, whatever you bet, even if
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  Speaker 1: you were right, now you're not. Now, the only thing
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  Speaker 1: that I am curious about how this would work is
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  Speaker 1: in order to push the dice, you have to know one,
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  Speaker 1: you have to know that the person was right and
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  Speaker 1: that it is an even or odd number and that
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  Speaker 1: you need to change it. And if, Then when you
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  Speaker 1: push the dice from underneath, you need to push it
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  Speaker 1: so that it isn't correct. You need to make sure
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  Speaker 1: because you could easily like in the wrong direction. If
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  Speaker 1: they guess, even you change what the numbers say, but
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  Speaker 1: it's still an even number. Do you get what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: So what I kept thinking about here was like, how
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  Speaker 1: exactly the guy underneath can see the dice and determine
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  Speaker 1: whether or not it's something that needs to be done.
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I'm not saying that this is important for
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  Speaker 1: one piece because I accept that, you know, Zorro would
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  Speaker 1: have won. And then it turns out this guy is
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  Speaker 1: switching it, but I'm thinking like this method of cheating
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  Speaker 1: just feels so specific as to be referring to something
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  Speaker 1: that really was done at one point. And so I'm
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  Speaker 1: wondering when it really was done, how they overcame that problem.
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  Speaker 1: it's just so interesting to me cheating at like what
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  Speaker 1: should be standardized games. I find fascinating just because it
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  Speaker 1: almost takes as much effort sometimes to cheat as it
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  Speaker 1: does to simply like learn how to play well and
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  Speaker 1: have skill. And I, obviously it's a different thing when
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  Speaker 1: it's like the establishment itself is, is cheating you. But
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  Speaker 1: I really am. There's the part of me that, like,
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  Speaker 1: I can't help but always assume casinos are trying to
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  Speaker 1: scam you. So even when I see that they're cheating
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  Speaker 1: him and I'm like, oh, that's fucked up. I won't lie, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Another part of me is like, well, you fucking shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be gambling right now, Zorro. Maybe this is what you
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  Speaker 1: get for just completely abandoning the friends that you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be finding. Maybe this is the punishment is that
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  Speaker 1: you lose out on this money and maybe this will
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  Speaker 1: get your ass back out the door doing what you're
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  Speaker 1: meant to be fucking doing. Like not me rooting for
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  Speaker 1: a fucking casino, but honestly, I was just so like
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  Speaker 1: irritated with him. It reminded me of like when Luffy
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to be rescuing. What is her name? Tomato?
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I keep wanting to say tomato, like a tomato, but
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  Speaker 1: like with a, with, you know, but that is not
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  Speaker 1: her name. But I keep thinking about Luffy, like getting
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  Speaker 1: sidelined in the middle of rescuing her to get in
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  Speaker 1: this other fight. And me just being like, now is
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  Speaker 1: not the time. What are you doing? And it's like
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  Speaker 1: that for me. Seraphim says, if the wicker was loose enough,
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  Speaker 1: you could see the bottom of the die. It could work.
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  Speaker 1: That makes sense. And it would also make sense that
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  Speaker 1: maybe if you're the person who is doing the shaking
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  Speaker 1: of the die, that the wicker directly in front of
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  Speaker 1: you is thinned out a little bit and that other
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  Speaker 1: people wouldn't even be able to really see that. So
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  Speaker 1: you have a specific spot that you put the dice.
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  Speaker 1: That would work, yeah. Otama. Thank you, Florian. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: what the fuck am I thinking of? So anyway, what's
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  Speaker 1: interesting in this scene as well is the fact that
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  Speaker 1: there is no doubt whatsoever in Zoro's mind, apparently, that
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  Speaker 1: his guess was right. And that when they're telling him
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  Speaker 1: he was wrong, he knows that this is like a cheat.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming that this is somehow him using hockey to
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  Speaker 1: be able to tell me the observation hockey, perhaps. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, but there's just like, it's, it's the way
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  Speaker 1: he squints his eyes when he's told he's wrong. the
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  Speaker 1: first time it seems like he's just going, well, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I just, maybe I just misread. Okay. And then
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  Speaker 1: the second time he's like, okay, no, you're fucking with me.
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  Speaker 1: This is, this is bullshit. Um, it is sort of
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  Speaker 1: funny to try and scam somebody with observation hockey. I
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  Speaker 1: know that like this kind of thing is not super common,
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  Speaker 1: so there's no reason for them to like know that
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  Speaker 1: he has it, but, When observation hockey exists and somebody
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  Speaker 1: is on this kind of winning streak, this would be
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  Speaker 1: the sort of thing that would get you thrown out
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  Speaker 1: of an establishment. When you're having too good a streak
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  Speaker 1: in poker, they assume that you're a card counter and
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  Speaker 1: they escort you out. But because they are so confident
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  Speaker 1: that they can fuck him, they are willing to let
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  Speaker 1: him go here. It's just because he has this hockey,
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  Speaker 1: he knows he's being scammed. Whereas if he were just
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  Speaker 1: on a real lucky streak, he wouldn't be so sure
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  Speaker 1: that this is wrong. So anyway, he employs no sword style,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm going to be honest, guys, I'm sure that
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  Speaker 1: he has used this before, but I don't remember him
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  Speaker 1: having used it before. And when he shouted no sword style,
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  Speaker 1: I just found that really great. I really immediately was like,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. What just three sword style is funny
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  Speaker 1: enough because it's such a bizarre, but no sword style
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  Speaker 1: takes it to another level for me. I, yeah. So
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  Speaker 1: he flips this table, reveals this dude who is hiding
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  Speaker 1: under it, who is by the way, in just like
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: one of those, uh, Oh, my God. I keep wanting
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  Speaker 1: to call it like a loincloth, but that's not what
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  Speaker 1: it is. A clout, maybe, is what you call it.
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  Speaker 1: This dude is just exposed for everybody. And again, I
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  Speaker 1: am still over here thinking that this is, Tonoyasu was
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  Speaker 1: in on it. So I'm thinking that he's going to
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: try and come up with like, oh, well, maybe that
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: guy's only there for such and such. But immediately he's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: there's a rat. And a bunch of, like, security turns up.
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  Speaker 1: And Zorro says, wow, this place even provides punching bags.
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  Speaker 1: You guys really do have everything. That is such a
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: great line. I am so sorry. But even as annoyed
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  Speaker 1: as I was with him, I cackled at that a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody who is about to go up against him should
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  Speaker 1: know better. Like once you, once this dude, first of all,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: is able to clock that he's being scammed, but set
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: that aside. Once he says no sword style and he
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: just makes your whole table and like the roof of
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: your establishment tear off. That's when you realize you're not,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: you're dealing with somebody you shouldn't be fucking with. So,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: getting all of the security involved is just asking to
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: be embarrassed. And yeah, he puts them all down. And
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: then we get Tonya being like, so, uh, Hey, my
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: friend was on a real winning streak. I think you
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: might owe him some money. And that was when I
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: was truly surprised because I just kept thinking that maybe
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: he was in on it, even up to that point,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: even when he said, Oh, there's a rat. Maybe he's
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: just pretending like, oh, how could I know? But once
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: he is advocating for Zorro to get his money, I
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, oh, okay. And I'll say that at
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: least he isn't ever lying about his intentions from the beginning.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: he says something about how I can see that you
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: are a winner and sticking around you. I won't be
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: able to go wrong or everything is going to work
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: out or essentially I'm planning to like sponge off you. And, uh,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Zorro seems to have no problem with that, which is
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: a little, I don't know if it's exactly out of character.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's fair, but, He was much more
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: like chill about it than I really thought he'd be.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: And then we have Tonoyasu inviting him back to his village,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: walking with him. And the village is so, everybody is
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: laughing as they walk up. And Zorro was like, why?
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: What's the deal with all these people cracking up like this?
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: And Tonya is like, oh, God, you are so smart.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I can't believe you already clocked it. And I'm just like, look,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I know you're a sycophant and this is sort of
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: your thing. But who wouldn't clock this? Who wouldn't clock this?
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: This is the weirdest shit. So evidently, this is down
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: to their philosophy. on life, which is everything in life
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: is hard and awful. And you may as well have
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: a sense of humor about it because there's really not
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: a lot that you can change. And honestly, same. I like,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I believe that we do have control over some things,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: but it's a lot less than we'd like to think.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: And it's something that we don't like to face. how
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: much is really out of our control. However, there is
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: a difference between making the best of a situation and
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: trying to roll with the punches and see the funny
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: side of things. And what these people are doing, which
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: is simply standing around laughing hysterically at everything that happens
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: is which is bizarre behavior. And like, it's, it's just,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: there's a, almost a feeling of, are we under a spell? Like,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: what is this? You know? So they come into town
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: and everybody is joking around with Zorro, which like, I'm
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: going to go on record here. I actually really do
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: like this simply because, by virtue of the fact that
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: he is such a stick in the mud so often
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: that being around a bunch of folks who are literally
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: going to like push the sides of his face up
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to make him smile is really something to watch him
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: deal with and tolerate. Like I, it was very funny
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: to me. I'm not going to lie. So yeah, Eventually,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: there's this little girl who comes up to him and
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: she has a glass of clear water and is offering
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: it to him because they somehow got some money. Is
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: this from the money that he gave? Did they spend
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: it already? Is that what it's supposed to be? But
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: they purchased this pure water, which they offer to him
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: in a way that I actually kind of don't think
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: there's something... wrong with the water, but if circumstances were
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: just a little different, I'm pretty sure I'd be real
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: suspicious of this. I'm pretty sure I would just be like, don't,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: don't drink that. Don't put that in your body. I
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: don't know what's going on here, but, and I, I
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: get the impression in the scene that Zorro's kind of
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: having the same thought as me as like, they're being
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: so pushy and insistent about the water that maybe there's
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: something wrong with it. but I also get the sense
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: that he is just a little bit like off kilter
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: because of the way these people are acting in general.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: And so now he's sort of looking around going, maybe
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: it's fine. Maybe these people are just weirdos, but this
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: is the way they share, you know? And yeah, I
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: think I come to the conclusion by the end of
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the scene, he hasn't, drank it, but like we cut away,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: but I really turned a corner where for a second
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: at first, I'm like, oh, they're generously offering him some
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: of the water that they had to spend money for,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: which is like just a nice thing to do. And
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: then as they get pushier and this girl starts this
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: chant about how it's yummy and won't hurt your tummy,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I start to get more and more suspicious. And then
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: somewhere in there, I finally turn a corner again and
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I think these people are just freaks
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and they are being generous and they are just doing
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: a nice thing. But it comes across as fucking weird
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: because they are weird. And that's just going to flavor
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: everything that they do. So I really did kind of like, look,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the fact there comes a point, this is the thing
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: that I was talking about at the beginning. Tonoyasu says
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: something to the other villagers, like, I'm very proud of
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: my catch or something like that. And that was the
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: main thing that had me– it may simply be a
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: translation thing. But in the moment, I was like, that
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: sounds like this is something nefarious, that he targeted him
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: for something in a specific way. But then I kind
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: of stopped and I was like, well, he did literally
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: say to Zorro– I am hanging around you because you
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: have good luck. And I think that could rub off
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: on me and like, you know, the people around you.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: So then I backpedaled a bit and was like, I
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: don't know, maybe it's fine. Maybe this isn't as like
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: sus as it's looking like. I went back and forth
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: so many times on so many things. And I, even now,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not really sure what I think. I'm not really
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: sure like what robbing him would be the thing, but me,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I was going to say if they were going to
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: rob him, they would have done, but they could be
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: like putting something in the water to knock him out
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: and then take from him. But then do what? Drop
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: them down a hole somewhere. Probably like, I don't know.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: These people don't seem like they're all a bunch of
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: hardened criminals to me. So yeah, I don't know. They're
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: just strange and off-putting. And perhaps that's just it. Perhaps
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: that is the summary of why I felt so weird
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: about the whole thing is simply I find you guys off-putting.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: It's a shame to feel that way about people whose
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: overall philosophy I actually endorse. But you're taking it to
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: an extreme that feels like you're all on drugs. or
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: like your mind has simply cracked due to the pressure
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: and you can't handle anymore. Like there's a kid whose
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: stomach hurts because he hasn't eaten in so long. And
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: when his stomach growls, they all start laughing and joking
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: around about it. And then there's another like guy, an
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: old man and his tooth falls out. And he's like,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: this is so funny. Look, my tooth fell out due
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: to malnutrition, which is, a crazy line. And this other
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: woman like chimes in and they make a joke about
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: it and just start cracking up. And I was just like,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: I really don't care for it. I just, yeah, I
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: don't know. I think maybe though, when I, when I
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: really stop and consider whenever I have had something going
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: on with like, because I, For those who are outside
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: the United States, you need to understand that we have
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: really weird health care things. And we decide that like
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: your teeth and your eyeballs don't count as part of
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: your body. So those have a completely different type of
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: health care and aren't covered by most plans that come
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: with your job or that are provided with like subsidies
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: by the government. And thus, even if you are insured,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: if you have an issue with your teeth, you have
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: to like take out a loan to pay for them,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: which I had to do. I finally paid it off
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: like earlier this year, but I had to pay $ 2, 500
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: for a root canal and I didn't have $ 2, 500. And
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: so I had to take a loan out with like
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: fucking 20% interest, something insane to get a root canal.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: And I am pretty sure. I made some really dark
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: jokes about it when I had to do it because
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: it's fucked up. I mean, the way our healthcare system
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: works is stupid and illogical and cruel and unusual. So
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: I think maybe that's what I have to keep in
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: mind is that even though these people are all laughing
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: continually in a way that feels like a fever dream,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I think I just need to like keep in my
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: head the fact that this is just a hugely exaggerated
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: example of like what trying to make jokes in the
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: face of hardship really looks like. And sure. No, it's
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: not continual laughter all the time about everything, but even
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: so it's the same sort of behavior. I just hope
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: that like, if we stay hanging around here, that we're
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: not going to have to hear people in the background
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: constantly cracking up because I think that's part of it
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: as well is like the voice actors having to do
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: this continuous laughter feels, it feels unhinged in a way
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: that's more about them being sick of doing it and
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: it bleeding through a little bit, you know? Anyway, so I, uh,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: want to make sure that I haven't skipped anything within
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: this storyline because we're pretty much like just with him
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: almost the entire episode until we eventually cut over to
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: this other guy Orochi and I think this is the
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: first time that we are seeing him is that right
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I don't remember him and his look so if we
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: have met him I didn't remember And, you know, his
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: look is not so unique. So it wouldn't be like
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: too unbelievable if I kind of forgot about him. But
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: it is a little bit different than I was expecting.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I kind of thought he was going to be more
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: of a slick. What's the word I want? Somebody who
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: felt more like God. silent and intimidating. And instead he's
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: almost giving the vibe of like a WAPL where he's
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: really loud and aggressive in the way that he talks
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: and has like the bulging eyes and a not like,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: it's like he has the knowledge that what he is
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: doing is fucked up and that's part of what is
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: fun for him is that nobody can stop him from
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: doing whatever he wants. Whereas I was sort of expecting
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: somebody who was like, what I'm doing is fucked up,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: but it doesn't bother me because I don't have a
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: conscience and I don't really care about other people. And
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: so I don't think about that aspect of it because
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: it matters so little, but it, he's much more seeming
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: like somebody who enjoys the petty and power that he
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: has and like pushing people around much more like a bully. Um,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I don't prefer one to the other, you know, just
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: to be clear. It's just that I, I realized once
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: we met him that I didn't clock who he was
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: right away because I had a mental image that was
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: just so specific. Um, and he is talking to a
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: group of, uh, What do you call them? What is
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: the name of this? They're not CP9, right? What are
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: they now? CP0. Thank you, Florian. And he is talking
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: to them about how he is in charge and I
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: know it must be hard with Doflamingo being gone, but
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: you don't have a middleman. We have the upper hand
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: and now you have to deal with us directly in
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: a way that, you know, is going to be much
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: more advantageous to us. And one of them says, you
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be making such unreasonable demands. And this guy is like,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Wano is entirely self-sufficient as an island and my people
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: are happy so we don't really you know need almost
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: anything from you guys the only thing that I want
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: is more power And I had asked for a warship,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: but I've changed my mind. And what I actually want
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: is Dr. Vegapunk. And all of them are just like shocked. Well,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I say that they're shocked, but they also don't, they
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: have masks on. So you, but you know, you still
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: get that. And when one of them says we can't,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: he literally shoots the dude's like top of his head off.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: It does not kill the guy. He just, looks down
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: and boom, his face is back in place. But he
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: says after that, that wasn't me asking. That was me telling.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: And then he starts to say celestial dragons, the Navy,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: you must have caught on by now the land of
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Wano fears, none of these things. And as he says this,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: his face begins to elongate. And I was like, oh,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: we have another dragon like Kaido. Well, not really. Apparently,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: we've got a fucking Hydra. Because, like, as he is
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: doing this, there's like a bunch of other heads that
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: sort of swoop in from the outside edges. Like, he
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: has six heads. And I don't know if that's just
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: an effect of the exaggeration of the animations. But because
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: we don't get a good look, we just get this
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: sort of silhouette effect. But I think it's literal and
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: that he has more than one head, which I wonder
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: if we do get a good look, how this will
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: actually look. Because we have had a lot of varying
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: results with these weird, you know, what's the word I want? Synthetic.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: devil fruits. And they have all had the animal aspect,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: but they have some of them have manifested in a
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: way that is really upsetting. And then there are some
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: like Kaido's that's just badass as fuck and really intimidating.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: And I'm wondering if this guy is actually badass as
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: fuck and intimidating the way he looks in silhouette, or
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: if once I get a full on view of him,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be like, Oh, this is really like
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: just as upsetting as all as like the hippo man
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: or something, you know? Um, so then we have, uh,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a check-in with everybody else and
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: their positioning before we go into the next episode, a
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: state of emergency. And we see Robin who is about
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: to head into the, um, to entertain this like high
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: level guy. And we have Nami and the ninja lady,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: whose name I just can't remember for some reason, uh,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: like perched on a roof watching. And we see Sanji
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: outside observing everything as the gates open. Um, and Komura
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Saki is announced and she comes in that we get
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: to see her, uh, shoes and she is wearing like,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: those platform, like thong sandals with socks. I didn't clock
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: how tall they were until this moment. I think that
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: they're like a foot high. They are really, really tall,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: which I guess makes sense to have, like, you know,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: they're hidden under her dress or her kimono. So it's
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: a really, to make her seem probably like, more than
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: human in a way and tower above everybody, which is
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: a fascinating thing. I'm always interested in the use of
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: like clothing or accessories to make a person like, make
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: them look less human on a certain level. I remember
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: when I first learned about I don't remember what tribe
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: it is, but there was a group of people in
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Africa who would put these metal collars as somebody was
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: growing to extend their neck. And it would like literally
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: stretch their neck to these unnatural lengths and the collar
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: would sort of support their head. It was a very
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: odd look. And I, and you know, foot binding as
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: well as a thing like these, these choices and how
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: they come to be are, really weirdly fascinating to me.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Seraphim says, Oda didn't even try to hide it. The
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Yamato no Orochi is a major figure in Japanese myth
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: that in look is basically the Hydra. Oh, okay. So
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: his name is like, okay, I got it. Well, that's,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: kind of promising then for my question about whether he's
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: going to actually look intimidating because I'm guessing if we're
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: basing it on a myth that it's probably going to
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: be cool rather than upsetting, but who knows? And then
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: we have a check-in with Momonosuke and he is in
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: that area where Otama had been living and is doing
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: some fighting exercises. I love when he's like, you should
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: address me properly to Otama. And she's like, yeah. And
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: you're Momo because he wants his title, you know? And
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: she's just like puzzled at what he even means. But
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: he mentions his sister and that he believes that she
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: is still alive, but he doesn't want to actually meet
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: her until he has fixed things. the kingdom. Because he's like,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: if I actually do figure out who she is and
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: anybody is watching me, then it will bring attention to her.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: And if she survived all this time, I don't want
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: to be the reason that Orici is like zeroing in.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: So I actually appreciated that logic. It made a lot
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: of sense. I also do understand the, the urge to,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: ensure that everything is in place so that you can
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: sort of stunt on your sister a little bit, you know? So,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: all right, I'm going to like jump into the next
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: episode here and make sure that I'm not missing things. Okay. Yeah.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: So we have the series of different doors that are
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: opened as we are going to see the Shogun. He is,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: he's in front of a bunch of kneeling, bowing men.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: And he says like, Hey, don't be so reserved. Raise
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: your heads for me. In a way that was unexpectedly like,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: we know he loves power. So I was just thinking
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: it was going to be the power play of making
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: them be uncomfortable. Instead, what we are getting is the
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: power play of what he wants for dinner. And, I'll
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: tell you what, kids. The first thing they start with
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: are whole, boiled chickens. Let's bring our A game here.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: You know how difficult this guy is going to be. Nobody,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: and I mean nobody, is getting excited over a whole,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: boiled chicken. Like, it's got the skin on still. They're
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: very pale. They haven't been roasted. The skin hasn't been
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: crisped up. It just sounds revolting. I was just like,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: I agree with him. The one thing that's very funny, though,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: is when he's like, I don't want chicken. This guy
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: is like, fine, then we'll discard them, which that's obviously
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: how we're meant to take. This is like anything he
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: doesn't eat gets literally tossed in a dumpster. But what?
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: normally you could just be like, alright, well the staff
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: will eat this or we'll give it away or something,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: but we're not doing that. We're just purely throwing stuff
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: in the trash, which I never actually finished watching Unbreakable
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Kimmy Schmidt, but in I think the very first episode
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: there comes a point where she meets this wealthy woman
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: who has a whole mini fridge stocked with bottled waters
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: and she reaches in and pulls out a bottled water
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: and offers it. And lady's like, Oh no, I'm fine.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: And she's like, Oh, okay. And she turns around and
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: throws the entire bottle in the garbage instead of putting
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: it back in the refrigerator. And this was like very
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: much making me think of that. And the next thing
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: that they bring up are all of these vegetables. We
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: gathered the most fresh and ripe vegetables. Again, This is
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: a man who wants to feel like he's getting something indulgent.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: You're going to start with boiled chicken and vegetables. Is
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: he on Weight Watchers? What are you doing? What is this?
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, like, come on. So Florian says,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: I think he always says no to the first thing.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: So they don't even try anymore with the first dish.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: I love that idea. You know what? That's going to
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: be my headcanon is that somebody out there really does
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: like boiled chicken. And they're just like, oh, that'll be
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: the first dish because he always refuses it. And I
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: have been craving this all week. So once he doesn't
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: want it, I'll just eat it. I don't see what
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: kind of psychopath is excited about boiled chicken, but you know,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: that's none of my business. So, and then the third
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: thing that he is offered is, Some fatty sari might
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: appease your distinguished palate. I have never heard of this
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: fish before. S-A-U-R-Y. Known as a mackerel pike or sanma
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: in Japan, it is a slender migratory schooling fish famous
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: for its oily, rich flavor. and a body shape that
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: resembles a small silver sword, which it really does. When
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: you're looking at these in the picture, they have almost
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: straight sides for a long, there's something vaguely eel-like about them,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: which does make some sense because eel are also quite fatty,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: and that's part of what was so popular about them.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: But I love fatty fish. It's part of why I
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: love salmon so much. So this would probably be up
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: my alley. I think I might be down for this.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: And Oricchi's mouth starts watering. They have finally found something
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: that is appealing to him, at least as an appetizer.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: There's only two on the plate with like a pile
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: of rice. Pair it with tuna sashimi. We also brought
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: you A hand-selected variety of sakes from across the land
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: of Wano. And when they say that, I'm thinking like, oh, nice. No,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: Orochi says enough already and knocks all of the sake
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: to the ground. I could just imagine because like we've
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: got the wastefulness of the food, which is offending Sanji.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: But then wasting all of that sake, like Zoro would
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: be pissed. I'm more concerned about the assortment of women
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: you brought me. What about my entertainment? And they say
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: that was our top priority of ours, sir. And this
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: is when we have Robin pulled into the mix. And
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: this dude is very like, what's the word I want?
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: I was expecting him to be a lot more, um,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: I guess like, I don't want to say unpleasant because
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: even though it, it would be, I guess I thought
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: he was going to get like maybe a little bit
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: like physically aggressive and violent with them. And instead he
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: seems to be very much like a victim to their
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: charms in a way that I really didn't see coming.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: He's so, he is somebody that manipulating has to be
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: quite easy. He's got a like little kid, adolescent kind
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: of quality to him. And when I think about somebody
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: who is in charge, who is young and spoiled nowadays,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: my first thought is like Joffrey Lannister, who was also
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: a sadist psycho. And so I think that's part of
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: what happens is like a person with this attitude, I
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: begin to assign to them that they are a sadist
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: in all ways because of the way that you're wasting
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: food and how you're yelling at servants who are just
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: trying to please you. It seems really cruel, but I
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: realized like for him, the cruelty doesn't seem to really
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: be the point here. It's just a side effect of
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: him wanting what he wants and, being very impatient about it,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: like a child. So anyway, it was just, I had
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: been like a little bit dreading the women being in
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: his presence and what that was going to be like.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: And instead he's more like harmless seeming. And I don't
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: think he actually is harmless to be clear because he
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: has so much power. He could do great harm, but,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: The energy that he has in the scene makes it
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: feel like the women have the power and not him
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: in that moment, you know? So anyway, he's looking at
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Robin and is like, wow, you must be new. You
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: are quite a beauty. And he's very, very happy with her.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: But he does stop and go, I think we're missing
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: an important guest, though. And then we see Komurasaki getting
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: let inside. And all of the staff, as she's passing
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: them in the hallways, are just staring at her with
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: heart eyes. And she comes in and does the, I'm
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: so pleased to see you, my lord. And he is drooling,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: like literally. Heart eyes and drooling. So we cut from
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: there to outside where Sanji is cooking. And And we've
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: got Trafalgar coming up behind him. And Sanji is like, dude,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: what are you doing? If you stop and talk to me,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: it's going to be suspicious. And Traffy's like, we got
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: to go. And he says something about the people who
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: attacked earlier and how it's not a big deal. I'll
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: just deal with them again if they want to come back.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: And Trafalgar says, no, no, no. There are going to
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: be some people heading toward us that actually know our
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: faces and know who we are. It's a different type
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: of threat. And it's Hawkins coming with more backup. The
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: Toby Ropo are the headliners. They sent two. Don't mess
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: with them. I think he says there's six. The first
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: is page one, which is such a bonkers name. And
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: we cut over at this point to dude writing the
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: fucking it's a it's a What do you call it?
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: I can't remember what you call this, this side haircut.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: It's the, oh my God, you guys, what is it?
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: What do you call this? But he can turn into
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: a dinosaur that has like a side shaved, you know,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: the pouring purple hair coming down the other side. And
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: we see him just attacking a village, it seems like,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: for simply the fun. There's nothing really that he appears
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: to be after, but he is enjoying toppling buildings and
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: chasing people. And honestly, he's also wearing these weird purple...
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: They look like pants, but they're not quite, because they
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: fit him when he's even... a huge dinosaur. I don't
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: know how exactly this works. And then Sanji says, who's
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: the other? And he says, X, that's Drake. No more questions.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: We better start moving. And Sanji says, no kidding. One
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: of the worst generation, huh? And we cut over to Drake,
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: who is actually a Drake, a lizard guy. Like, It
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: comes up over the top of his head, and so
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: a big chunk of him is human-looking. But he's more
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: animal-like as a default, it seems like, than a lot
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: of them get to be. I am so puzzled by
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: Page One and why his name is Page One. I
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: don't know what to think. But he also has this
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: fin coming up out of his back that is reminiscent
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: of of like a triceratops, but it's, it's too low.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's bone or if it has
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: some sort of function, but I don't believe that we
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: see it. If there is a function to it. Seraphim
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: says per the theme, it's a card. Oh, page one
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: is a card game. Oh, I never heard of it.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: And he's a Spinosaurus. Is that a real thing? Oh
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: my God. I'm over time. I'm really, I need, you know,
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but I'm going to just look it up
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: really quick. Okay. Wow. Okay. Semi aquatic predatory dinosaur during
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: the late Cretaceous period and described as massive reached up
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: to 46 to 59 feet, making it one of the
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: largest known meat-eating dinosaurs. Wow. Wild. Dinosaurs are crazy. Drake
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: is an Allosaurus, but he's in his hybrid form. Okay.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: We've seen Drake on Sabaody a long time ago. Wow. Okay. Yeah,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: I do not remember that. But we met so many
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: people on Sabaody. That was a real crowded time. So
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised. I forgot. So they're just talking about how,
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: you know, we're setting an example of what happens to
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: someone stupid enough to set foot in the land of
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Wano and ballsy enough to cross the beast pirates. And
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: Hawkins is there. They're like, well, then why are you
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: even here? And he says, I'm in search of a
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: particular man. You'll find this mission to be more than
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: you bargained for, believe me. Which I do appreciate Hawkins
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: just basically being like, I know that you guys think
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: this is going to be a simple task, but trust me,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: don't underestimate these people. Really, really quickly, because I'm over time,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: I've just got to touch on the fact that we've
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: got Luffy and Wet Hair Caribou. like what her care
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: would is still trying to team up with Luffy who
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: has zero interest. And he's talking some shit about kid
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: and how like, you know, his name is mud because
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: he went up against big mom and she just tore
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: his arm off. I think he says something about actually
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: that it was an underling. It wasn't even her that
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: tore his arm off, but that he got defeated by
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: her and like fled in disgrace. And it turns out
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: kid is there listening. And it's just like the fuck
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: you say. I don't, Lost my arm before I ever
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: went there. Seraphim says, Shanks, not Big Mom. Oh, really?
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: I thought he said... Shanks took the arm. No, but
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. He's... Big... Like, the story is
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: that Big Mom... or one of her people took the arm.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: And Seraphim says, but Caribou is just wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because, yeah,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: when King comes out, he's just like, I don't know
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: where you're getting your info from, but you are wrong
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: on pretty much all counts of what happened here. And
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: that he had lost his arm before he ever even
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: went to Big Mom's, and that he was there to
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: steal something, which he successfully stolen and left with, which
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: I don't remember if we know what that is or not, but, uh,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: suffice to say this whole thing, you know, is still the,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: the rivalry between him and Luffy and what hair caribou
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: trying to just sign on with whoever will help him
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: get the fuck out of here. But neither of them
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: want his ass. And that is more than fair because
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: he sucks so bad. Um, we also quickly just, what
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: do you call it? Check in with Brooke, who is
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: using the ability to like separate his soul from his
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: skeleton to investigate. And he actually finds the next Poneglyph,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: which again, I don't care about these that much at
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: this point, but that is significant progress. So that's cool.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: And we, We also get the arrival of Big Mom,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: who they are trying to, like, because she and Kaido
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: are not friends, which I think that I forget sometimes.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: Both of them wanting to take down Luffy does not
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: mean that they are allies with each other in that mission.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: So Kaido is telling his people to fire on her.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: which of course has no effect because her people are badasses.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: But I had just forgotten the fact that they were
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: going to be at odds in this way. And yeah,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: it pretty much like ends with her being like, I'm
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: going to fucking get Luffy this time, which considering that
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: he's currently like in prison right now, feels more likely
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: than it would otherwise. But I have no doubt, of course,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: that she will not be getting Luffy this time. However,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: throwing another person of her level into the mix here
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: at Wano is going to be very disruptive. So I
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: am sort of interested to see how that works out.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: All right. I got to wrap up. Thank you guys
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: again for hanging out. Thank you again, Michael, for commissioning
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: this episode. And I'm really looking forward to seeing where
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: we go from here. Until next time, toodaloo, motherfuckers. That
• 1:04:44
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