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One Piece, 929-930 · 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 929 through 930, the bond between
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  Speaker 1: prisoners Luffy and Old Man Hyo, and a lead performer,
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  Speaker 1: Queen the Plague, emerges. In these episodes... We get a
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  Speaker 1: lot more of Luffy. We get more Discord in the prison.
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  Speaker 1: We get Queen, who we've met, but it kind of
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  Speaker 1: feels like because of this episode, no, we haven't. And
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  Speaker 1: we have a few other players added to the pool.
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  Speaker 1: It is a lot of people. We have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people. Welcome to Spoil Me. Welcome to the show, everyone.
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  Speaker 1: I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Lena for
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  Speaker 1: commissioning this episode. Lena is here in the chat. Lena,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much. Appreciate you. And appreciate you being
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  Speaker 1: here as well. And I... Yeah. Seraphim says, we've met Queen,
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  Speaker 1: but this is the first time I really see what
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  Speaker 1: he's like. And Lena says, I didn't know what to
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  Speaker 1: expect of Queen, but I loved it. Agreed. So... Just
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  Speaker 1: to clarify, I thought at one point that you guys
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  Speaker 1: might have told me that Queen's pronouns were different, but
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  Speaker 1: is it he, him? Or maybe there's a different character
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking of. Yeah. Queen is a real surprise. And
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  Speaker 1: I won't lie. I had this like zoom it, zoom it,
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  Speaker 1: zoom it in my head for a little while afterward.
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  Speaker 1: It's weirdly like catchy in a, in a way that,
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  Speaker 1: I love Brooke's songs and performances, but he doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: something that's often as easy to just repeat and remember.
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  Speaker 1: So no offense at all, Brooke, but this one kind
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  Speaker 1: of got me. And it's also very simple. That's part
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  Speaker 1: of it as well. But I don't want to start
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  Speaker 1: there because I want to be able to actually go
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  Speaker 1: through the episode and look at There are some things
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  Speaker 1: about the visuals of Queen showing up that I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. So a reminder in the last episode,
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  Speaker 1: we had the courtesan. I cannot remember her name. We
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  Speaker 1: have her killed by this dude that I think is
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  Speaker 1: the slasher. A lot of people are not happy with,
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  Speaker 1: About this, he tries to pretend that it's loyalty, but
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  Speaker 1: I think that he's just a sadist creep. And there's some...
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of the word here now. There's
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  Speaker 1: a series of reveals of who Queen is, but also
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he is very into... Kimura Saki. Thank you, Seraphim.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody wants to tell him that she's dead because
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  Speaker 1: they think that he's going to flip out. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: am surprised that it seems she's really dead because I
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  Speaker 1: just don't, the show just doesn't really do that. I
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  Speaker 1: find it kind of weird that she's really dead. There's
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  Speaker 1: a part of me that's wondering if maybe she's not
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  Speaker 1: and we're just like, putting the word out there. Like,
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  Speaker 1: did we fake her death for reasons? Maybe, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But it, the, the thing that I'm curious about is
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  Speaker 1: that nobody is like willing to stand up to this
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  Speaker 1: dude after he kills her because he's claiming it's a
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  Speaker 1: loyalty thing. And I'm wondering if queen is going to
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  Speaker 1: be the one to draw a line in the sand
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  Speaker 1: and be like, know what the fuck this guy needs
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  Speaker 1: to be punished for this it was a unilateral decision
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  Speaker 1: that's not how we do that you know i don't
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  Speaker 1: know i just want him to be held accountable and
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  Speaker 1: i like the cut of queen's jib and so if
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  Speaker 1: queen were the one to do it it would be
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  Speaker 1: satisfying um but i i do want to say by
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  Speaker 1: no means well again i'm getting out of order here
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  Speaker 1: uh So we start out with, uh, a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: colored rice being laid at this. Um, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it's a gravestone, but, uh, Conjura says your pursuers
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  Speaker 1: must have been persistent. Indeed. If you fled all the
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  Speaker 1: way here to Ringo, but rest assured, Oh, she's men
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  Speaker 1: will not follow this far. And, uh, Robin is shocked
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  Speaker 1: about Kimura Saki's death and they are actually getting a
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  Speaker 1: little bit concerned about whether the little girl is actually okay,
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  Speaker 1: which I think is fair. You know, the, the way
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  Speaker 1: that he was able to justify this here, if he's
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  Speaker 1: got a little girl in his clutches, he could kind
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  Speaker 1: of say whatever he's got all the power. And the
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  Speaker 1: one thing that I could hope is that, the little
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  Speaker 1: girl is like as resourceful as I think she seems
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  Speaker 1: like kind of a terror. So the idea of her
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  Speaker 1: being able to somehow escape him, I actually buy, he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem that smart too, but I don't know. Let's see. Oh, right.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a mention of, this Yakuza boss who is,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty positive, right guys? The old man that's in
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  Speaker 1: the prison. It's really kind of wild because he was
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  Speaker 1: a Yakuza boss, according to this, which I wasn't expecting
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  Speaker 1: Yakuza to be a thing in this universe. I, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why, because we've got Capone and a whole
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  Speaker 1: mafia thing going on. I think it's just because everything
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  Speaker 1: has been so specific to Wano and the historically feudal
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  Speaker 1: Japan that I think of the Yakuza as like a
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  Speaker 1: more modern thing, but I don't know that that's true.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know anything about it. So it might
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  Speaker 1: be really ancient. And I'm just like an ignorant American.
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  Speaker 1: And I had been thinking that everybody that was up
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  Speaker 1: in that jail was there for reasons that are made
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  Speaker 1: up or at the very least, like exaggerated that like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they did something wrong, but prison is a pretty
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  Speaker 1: insane sentence. But this dude, having been like the, a
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  Speaker 1: crime boss is sounding like a valid reason to jail somebody. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's called Hyogoro the flower. And we have this like
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  Speaker 1: silhouette of this real muscular dude who like slowly turns
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  Speaker 1: toward the camera in dramatic fashion. And to see him
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  Speaker 1: later at like two feet tall, it is, it is
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  Speaker 1: a surprise. Brooke calls the name extravagant, which I really
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  Speaker 1: do like actually, because the flower is an interesting, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm always a fan of names that don't sound that
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  Speaker 1: badass because it almost makes them more intimidating. Not always.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes a badass name is just badass and that's all
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  Speaker 1: there is to it. But there are times where something
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  Speaker 1: being like, you kind of underestimate it because it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like nothing. And the flower is vague. You know, what
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  Speaker 1: exactly does that mean? Why? And Shinobu was talking about
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  Speaker 1: how he was a man of honor and that he
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  Speaker 1: would have helped the people that are falling to this dude.
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  Speaker 1: What's the, what's the name of the guy that, that
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  Speaker 1: killed her? I keep, like missing everybody's names. It's so guys,
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  Speaker 1: there are so many people in this arc. I'm just,
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  Speaker 1: just sidestepping for a second here. Every time that I've
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  Speaker 1: been covering this, there's like the introduction of one or
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  Speaker 1: two more devil fruit users, like the, the smile fruit,
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  Speaker 1: I guess. And I, I keep thinking that's got to
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  Speaker 1: be it, right? And then the next time there's two
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  Speaker 1: more or three more. And I am, I have to
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  Speaker 1: assume it's not going to be crucial for me to
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  Speaker 1: know everybody's names. but it does frustrate me when I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to cover things to not have a grasp on
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  Speaker 1: names enough to make it clear what's happening when I'm
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  Speaker 1: recounting a scene. And even if, like... It's not Seraphim, sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Florian at one point made me this like spreadsheet with
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  Speaker 1: character images and like their powers and everything, which was
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  Speaker 1: awesome for that point in the story. But at this point,
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  Speaker 1: there are so many that I think it would take
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  Speaker 1: me longer to like go through a spreadsheet and figure
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  Speaker 1: out who it is than it does for me to
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  Speaker 1: just ask you if you guys remember. but you're not
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  Speaker 1: always going to be here in the chat. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like relying completely on y'all because I know
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  Speaker 1: that there's going to be a day where one of
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  Speaker 1: you isn't able to make it. And then I'm just
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  Speaker 1: over here going, you know, the guy, you know, that guy,
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  Speaker 1: that guy, he's the one who said it. Seraphim says,
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  Speaker 1: Hyushiro is the current Yakuza boss who killed Komurasaki. Oda
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  Speaker 1: had too much fun coming up with smile designs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that is a very clear one. And I liked the
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  Speaker 1: idea too, that, It was like, oh, and I get
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  Speaker 1: to make them real fucked up and weird, especially like
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  Speaker 1: coming up with animal designs is going to be fun anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But then you're giving yourself permission to like have them
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  Speaker 1: just kind of not be right. And so you get to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Lena says it's honestly the same for me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to remember them all. Yeah, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: trying to either. But I do feel like. I'm stumbling
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  Speaker 1: over things and not repping well for myself when I
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  Speaker 1: can't remember names. And I know that like, I considering
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  Speaker 1: the number of characters in this show, I think I
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  Speaker 1: actually do fairly well. Like I give myself like a
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  Speaker 1: passing grade, like a 75 out of a hundred, but
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  Speaker 1: I cannot imagine folks who have just like watched this
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  Speaker 1: so many times that remember everybody's names because I, That's
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  Speaker 1: like so much hard drive space just for names. Florian says,
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  Speaker 1: I call the Smilefruit user by their animal. That's probably
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  Speaker 1: a good call. As long as I'm always able to tell,
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  Speaker 1: which mostly you are. Florian says, yeah, you do good,
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  Speaker 1: I say. And Lena says, yeah, you do better than me.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, as long as I'm like, as long
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  Speaker 1: as I'm making myself clear, that's the main thing is
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  Speaker 1: that I don't want somebody who's listening going, Oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what she's even talking about. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there've been a few podcasts I've listened to where somebody
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  Speaker 1: was not great about remembering character names from a book
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  Speaker 1: and they're explaining the plot to somebody. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I have read this book and I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: what you're talking about. So I just don't want to
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  Speaker 1: sound like I'm, I don't want it to be frustrating
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  Speaker 1: for listeners, you know? Um, Seraphim says, we know I'm
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  Speaker 1: a freak who absorbs this info like a sponge. And
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  Speaker 1: God bless you for it, Seraphim. So, yeah. Conjuro is saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like that dude fucking sucks. And Robin is like, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we shouldn't have taken Otoko back to his pleasure
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  Speaker 1: hall if he is that dangerous. And this is when
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  Speaker 1: everybody is sort of like, Oh God, but he was
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  Speaker 1: willing to do this thing in front of everybody. And
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  Speaker 1: she is a literal child. Probably we should go check
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  Speaker 1: on her and see what all is going on. At
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  Speaker 1: this point, Brooke comes up with the idea. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to a bath house to rest our weary bones, pun intended.
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  Speaker 1: And once, you know, we have relaxed, We'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to find the answers to our struggles, which everybody agrees to. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is surprising to me. I really want to be
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  Speaker 1: very clear. I fully approve of this plan. I love
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  Speaker 1: a good bath. I love when my friends in this
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  Speaker 1: show get to kind of chill for a minute. All
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  Speaker 1: of this is actually what I want to see. But
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  Speaker 1: it does surprise me that we're worried about this little
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  Speaker 1: girl and we decide to kind of put things on
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  Speaker 1: hold and go to a bath house. It's odd. Is
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  Speaker 1: that just me? I, this, this arc in particular has
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of pausing at points that I think
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  Speaker 1: things feel particularly urgent and going in another direction and
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  Speaker 1: in a moment that I am sort of going, why
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  Speaker 1: are we doing this now? Like not even necessarily story wise,
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  Speaker 1: but like the characters, you know, earlier on when Luffy
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  Speaker 1: is getting Otama back, he, you know, is in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of rescuing her. And then he gets like diverted
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  Speaker 1: to have this sumo fight. And, literally has left her
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  Speaker 1: undefended for a minute and it winds up being okay
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  Speaker 1: and working out but it does not make me feel
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  Speaker 1: good about his decision there was another thing just a
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  Speaker 1: few episodes back i feel like where it was a
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  Speaker 1: similar and i can't remember what it was but you
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  Speaker 1: know there was a character who's like oh we have
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  Speaker 1: to do such and such but first and they they
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  Speaker 1: like take a detour in a way that i was
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  Speaker 1: sort of like what why um zorro that's what it
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  Speaker 1: is thank you florian And our friends now being like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this little girl is stuck with this guy that's super
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  Speaker 1: dangerous and we're worried about her. Why don't we all
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  Speaker 1: go soak in the bathhouse and think it over? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I get that we don't have a plan yet, but
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  Speaker 1: that has never stopped us before ever, ever. So I
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  Speaker 1: am not feeling like upset. It's just kind of confusing.
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  Speaker 1: it's just a little bit like I wouldn't, I would
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  Speaker 1: like a little bit more of a, an excuse for
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  Speaker 1: everybody to go off and do what they want to
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  Speaker 1: do in that moment. So that it doesn't just feel
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  Speaker 1: like they're completely sidestepping their responsibilities. Um, because like, I
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  Speaker 1: want to see Luffy get in a sumo fight. I
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  Speaker 1: want to see Zoro wandering around as a, uh, What
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  Speaker 1: is it? Ronin, right? And I want to see all
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  Speaker 1: of our friends going to a bathhouse. Like, I want
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. But when I'm so used to them taking action, action,
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  Speaker 1: action almost all the time, even if that action is
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  Speaker 1: drawn out, it just kind of stymies me and makes
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  Speaker 1: me go, oh, okay. I thought I knew what was up,
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  Speaker 1: but I guess not. And confuses me about the characters
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  Speaker 1: who seem to not be as worried as they just
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  Speaker 1: claimed to be. So I wouldn't have minded just a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of something in there to make it like
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  Speaker 1: Zorro thinks his friends have got it and he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have to rush back. Or for Luffy to think Otama
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  Speaker 1: is safe and that he doesn't have to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it would not have taken much to, for example, what
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  Speaker 1: if the bathhouse happens to be really close to where
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  Speaker 1: the pleasure house is? And we're going there allegedly for
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  Speaker 1: the bathhouse, but we're also, it's a recon mission. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like there could be some more connective
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  Speaker 1: tissue there that would make it feel less jarring and
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  Speaker 1: make it feel less out of character as well. Because
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  Speaker 1: I kind of expected when Brooke says, why don't we
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  Speaker 1: go to the bathhouse? I thought everybody was going to
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  Speaker 1: be like, what now? Like I expected this to be
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  Speaker 1: a moment where there's a disagreement. And if anything, it,
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  Speaker 1: would be like, Brooke is here. What's going on with
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  Speaker 1: Sanji later where Sanji is super preoccupied with the bathhouse
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  Speaker 1: and everybody is just like, dude, oh my God, shut
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  Speaker 1: up about it. But instead everybody just agrees immediately and
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  Speaker 1: thinks that this is a good idea. And I was
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  Speaker 1: just not expecting that at all. Um, so let's see. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: One question first. Arobi, perchance were you able to collect
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  Speaker 1: any valuable information? This is hilarious. Robin, and I think
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  Speaker 1: she's being sincere here in feeling like she didn't do enough,
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  Speaker 1: but she lowers her head in shame and says, I'm
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  Speaker 1: so sorry I wasn't able to get very much, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll share my meager scraps. I know what time Orochi
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: will wake up on the day of the battle. I
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  Speaker 1: know what offerings they will take with them to Onogashima.
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  Speaker 1: I know Kaido's favorite food and his crew's hierarchy and
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  Speaker 1: the number of soldiers and weapons that... And then she
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  Speaker 1: just like sighs. This is delightful, Robin. I appreciate this.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: feeling of like, I really could have done more when
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  Speaker 1: actually you're the star pupil. And also this is when
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  Speaker 1: Brooke mentions having found a Poneglyph and says like, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a red one, but nevertheless. And Let's see. I
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  Speaker 1: forgot that they're calling Brooke Bone Keechie, which is just great.
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  Speaker 1: It was in a basement room with a reinforced door,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: an odd place full of wooden dolls. And it had
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  Speaker 1: me remembering this giant straw hat. You know, it was
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: in like a frozen place somewhere. I don't know how
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I just kind of, no, I do know. I was
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  Speaker 1: going to say, I don't know how I forgot about
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the giant straw hat. There's a lot to fucking keep
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  Speaker 1: track of. So I'm not surprised. I forgot about the
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: giant straw hat. Like, who am I kidding? Bernadette says, yeah,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Wano is a bit unusual when it comes to pacing.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I always thought that is because of the premise of
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: them being somewhat undercover. I see that. Seraphim says, in
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  Speaker 1: this case, I think it's that your idea of what
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: sort of sadistic murderer Kiyoshiro is, isn't the way, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the others are seeing him. So I don't, so they
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  Speaker 1: don't think time is of the essence. Um, the thing
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  Speaker 1: is Sarah femme that they're just always ready to do shit.
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  Speaker 1: Even when it really isn't that urgent. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: the time, you know what I mean? It just feels
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  Speaker 1: like the, the characters that we have seen, if there,
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  Speaker 1: if there's a child that's in trouble, And they're like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm worried that he might, you know, I know that
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  Speaker 1: he's probably a literal sadist. They don't need to know
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  Speaker 1: that he's sadistic. They know that he just murdered a
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: woman in front of everybody and are worried that maybe
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  Speaker 1: he would be willing to kill a child. That feels
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  Speaker 1: like enough urgency. It's just what they just said. That
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  Speaker 1: feels like enough that those straw hats I know would
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  Speaker 1: have in other circumstances immediately gone out there to rescue her.
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like that's perfectly adequate as urgency, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, it's, it's anyway. So let's see. Oh, sorry.
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  Speaker 1: When Seraphim is saying that was in Marie Joie. So anyway,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: We're so, okay, so we're not finding out what that
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: is for, like, ages then, probably. How weird. Okay, okay, okay, sorry. Um,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the mission was a resounding success. I thank you all
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: to have such reliable allies is truly a gift. Gift.
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  Speaker 1: A gift. Um, so, yeah, Conjuro is feeling pretty good
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  Speaker 1: about everything, which, um, they have done a good job.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in agreement there. So then we go to a
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  Speaker 1: guy selling newspapers on the street, telling everybody about Kimura
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  Speaker 1: Saki's death. And there's like a picture of her and
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: everybody's wailing and gnashing their teeth, but nobody more so
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: than Sanji, who really wants to go to the women's
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: bath house, of course. Um, and, everybody else is just like,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: can you please fucking focus? There's, let's see, they're asking
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Trafalgar law because he's reading the paper. If there's anything
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: in there about Luffy and there isn't, and they're all
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: just saying like, it's only a matter of time until
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: there's some rampage that he goes on that is going
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: to make it into the news, which is probably true.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I am curious, like, Hmm. Because the thing about publicizing
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: when somebody is being badass and standing up to authority
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: is that you give everybody ideas that it's possible to
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: stand up to authority. So if you're somebody who's really
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: got a handle on keeping control, you actually just wouldn't
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: put that in the newspaper at all, unless it's to
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: emphasize that you're making an example of him because you
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: caught him. So I wonder if they're right about that.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: and how that would be handled. Um, I forgot about
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the fact that there's a mention of how kid got
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: out of prison somehow. And immediately Sanji is just like, wait,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: is he going to get to the bath house before me?
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: And everybody is like, what are you fucking talking about? Um,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: he's been working with Hawkins. So when I saw him,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I should have guessed his partner would be here as well,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: or ex-partner since he escaped from the prison in Udon.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: And they're all rather surprised that he was able to
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: escape and Luffy wasn't. So that's, you know, the idea
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: that like, this is going to make it even harder
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: for him to break out because they're going to be
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: on high alert. They've lost law. Now it's going to
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: be very, very locked down. And again, Sanji, okay, but
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: do you think they have nice bathhouses there? And what
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I like about this is that they keep having the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: camera handle Sanji as if he's being like badass and
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: serious in these statements. And thus, when he just keeps
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: talking about the bathhouse, it's extra funny because it's just like,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: why are you doing it in such a, You know
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? In such a voice with such an
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: expression on your face. And I forgot, they just yell,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: come here, you idiot. And like jump on him and
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: just begin fighting him. And we have this moment where
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: they knock down the door and they, like Sanji has
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: his can that has the suit in it roll away.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: And when they knocked on the door, there's these little
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: boys that are outside that see it and come running
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: and grabbing it. And then we cut over to Trafalgar Law,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: just calmly sitting, still reading the paper. But we just
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: had these three little kids in the background who were
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: fighting over this like suit. And I really like that
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: they feel like a metaphor for our guys who are
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: acting like little children, just scuffling and unable to like
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: control themselves. While Trafalgar is being the father figure who
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: has control of himself and is just calm, you know,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: despite everything. Um, so then we go to mom's kids,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: big mom's children, and they're licking their wounds and lickety
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: licking their wounds. LOL. Um, and, remarking on the fact
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: that since they survived without a scratch, like, first of all,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: they're all surprised by that, but they're also thinking there's
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: no way that mom is actually dead. She is so resilient.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: And if we are okay, there's no way. And, and
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Prospero has her beaver card. So that confirms, but they, they,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: do begin to talk about if something were to have
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: happened to her, then what happens to all of us?
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: And Prospero immediately is just like, oh, well, then we'd
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: all be the Prospero pirates. And of course, everybody is like, wait, what?
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I thought it was going to become a like, oh, no,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I should be the pirate captain. It should be like
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: named after me. But it actually is about what's-his-face, the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: brother that they are all worshipping, essentially, that Luffy was
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: managing to beat. Can't remember his name, guys. Help me
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: out here. I want to say Kimura Kami, and I'm not, like,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: where did I get that? I don't know what that is.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: But I kind of appreciated that. That the kids aren't, like... Katakuri,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: thank you, Seraphim. I appreciate that kids aren't squabbling amongst themselves,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: each wanting to personally be the one in charge. It's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: that Katakuri is so superior to all of them and
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: they all recognize that and are weirdly supportive of that
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: in a way. It seems like Prosper is the only
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: one who kind of isn't. And he says something like,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I'm the oldest and so it should go to me.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: But they're arguing that it's quality that's important here not
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: seniority which um i have to agree with i say
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: let them fight for it if we're gonna do this
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: let him go up against category and let's see what
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: happens and i think that should decide it um but
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: yeah i i was just pleasantly surprised at the fact
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: that they Are more united than I was expecting them
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: to be. There's of course going to be infighting to
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: a degree. There always is, but it's just not what
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I was anticipating. So then we cut over to Big Mom.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: They're riding on the back of this giant alligator that
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: has a single like tear coming out of its eye
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: because she apparently hit it in the head, but it's
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: letting them ride its back. I thought that it was
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: going to be that that tear was because she's so
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: heavy that carrying her because she's just huge. Like she's,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: towering over everybody else and you know i had mentioned
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: in a previous episode about how like i wondered about
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: her fugue states and exactly how they would manifest now
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: that she doesn't have her memory like is that something
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: that will still be there or not and like the
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: fact that she was able to have some food, but
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: then kind of like just go, oh, thanks so much.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: This was really generous and not start to throw a fit.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I thought that that was like pretty compelling actually as
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: evidence that perhaps she isn't going to be a problem
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: in that department anymore. But, as things begin to unfold
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: with this group, it's beginning to look more and more
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: like maybe this is potentially stirring under the surface here.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You know what I'm saying? Like, I
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: don't know if it's just, what's the word I want?
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: If it's, if we're being trolled, I guess is really
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the best way to say it. I don't know if,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: you know, it's really not going to turn into what
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: it has been, but Oda wants us to be scared
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: and wonder about it and be worried about it. And
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: so we're getting a lot of like false starts that
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: it turns out are nothing. Or if it is genuinely
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: hinting at the fact that like, yeah, no, no matter
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: if she remembers who she is or not, that is
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: not something she necessarily has control over and it is
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: going to come up again and be an issue. So
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I'm just kind of interested to see where that goes,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: because it's a lot of her like saying, oh, we're
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: going such a long way. I really think I need
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: a snack before we go there. Or, oh, you know,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: like I, I'm looking at the map and realizing it's
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: going to be even further to such and such than
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I was expecting. So I would really like something to eat.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: And when she says this, she's looking over at Chopper,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: who understandably is really twitchy about the fact that she
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: seems to want to eat him. And the thing is, ordinarily,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I would just be like, calm down. It's, you know,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: she's not going to fucking just eat you, dude. But
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: when he expresses some concern at how she's looking at
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: him while saying she wants a snack, she does not
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: contest his assertions at all. That's the part that really
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: has got me preoccupied is there's no argument. coming from
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: her going, what eat you? No, I mean, that's not
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: what's going on here. She is, it feels tacitly admitting
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: that's what she's saying or thinking as you know what
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I'm saying? I just felt for chopper on this one. And, um, it,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: I'm really, really curious to see how this is going
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: to continue because the fact that mom is a maniac, well,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: you know, the nature versus nurture thing. I'm curious where
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Oda is going to fall on what kind of a
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: person she is. He says something also about how her hat, uh,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: what is her hat's name? Bonaparte is, is not talking.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Its eyes are closed. And he says like, maybe her
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: hat has lost its memory too. And then mom says,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: it's all coming back to me now. And of course
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: you're starting to be like, oh shit. But then she
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: says the flavor of that sweet soup melting in my
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: mouth is You're so cute and sweet, Chopper. I could
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: just eat you up. And she's literally like salivating when
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: she says this. I'm just concerned. That's all it is. Like, what? What?
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: What are we doing? I really just. I want to
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: be able to dismiss this and I just don't think
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: that I can. So then we have a weird thing.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: So Momo is practicing with his sword. Well, I guess
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: it's like a staff. It's he's got the, um, what
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: do you call it? It looks like a practice sword,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: but he's practicing and he keeps yelling the word Tsunachi.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: And when Momo, Tomo asks what the word is he
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: says it's a word that fills you with energy which
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: she proceeds to yell a bunch of times and it's
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: like oh hey it's working I'm totally full of energy
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: but then we get interrupted here with what's her face
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: saying where did you learn such a word and I
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: don't know what to think of this at all. It's Kiku, right? Kiku. Oh, Florian, yes. Okay, good.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: She has such a reaction. He says it's what they
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: yell in sword fights overseas, and she looks like pissed.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: And he says that Zoro taught it to him. It's
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: a good luck word to uplift your spirit when your
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: courage falters. And she says, then I forbid you to
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: say it, which was a sort of a weird, I
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: don't know if this is like significant at all, but
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: the way that she says, then I forbid you almost
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: is like, well, it's the fact that Zorro is the
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: one who taught you the word that proves that the
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: word is like a problem. But then she goes on
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: because he's just like, well, why? And she says, perhaps
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: it's merely a coincidence, but the same word, was once
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: used in an old Kuri dialect. It's not an appropriate
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: thing for a person of your standing to say. And
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: they both protest. And Kiku is just like, no means no.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, that's not really what that phrase means.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine what's happening here. Like, I'm trying to
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: come up with a word that I could think of.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: That's like a similarly seen as a low class thing
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: to say, but is used in fighting commonly, you know,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: and I can't really think of anything, but it was
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: just such a weird combination of her on the one
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: hand acting like, Oh, it's because there's like a different
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: translation of that word, which she doesn't say what it
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: means to, in that language either, by the way, she
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: just says it's not appropriate, but also the way that
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: she's like, well, if Zorro taught it to you, it's,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: it seems almost like that dude is a bad influence.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: And if he's the one who taught it to you,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: it makes sense that he would be saying something that's
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: so inappropriate that you don't want to follow in his footsteps.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: That's the way I'm interpreting it. But again, we are
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: not given anything specific about what it means. And I
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: am really curious because the, like, I'm wondering if it's
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: something that is, if it's just a class thing or
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: if she has her own baggage surrounding it specifically, if
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: it's a different thing where it's like, it doesn't even
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: mean something that bad to most people. It's just that
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: she has a history related to that word and she
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: takes it particularly personally. So yeah, just kind of got
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: my eye out to, to see what all materializes from this.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: But that's pretty much, we like are, you know, continuing
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: on the way to this prison and the whole thought,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: here is we're going to take Big Mom, who is
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: super powerful, to the prison where Luffy is being held.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: And while she does not remember who she is, we
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: are going to utilize her to break Luffy out of
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: the prison. Honestly, this is like, to me, a pretty
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: solid plan. But I am concerned about the way in
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: which they are choosing to proceed. Because the concern that
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: I have is just how they're not telling mom that's
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: what their goal is. They're just really pretending to. that
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: they're bringing her somewhere where there's going to be more
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: of this food that she likes. And they're, they're just
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: not being honest with her about how they need her
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: help to get their friend out of prison. And I'm
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: not really sure why not. I'm worried that maybe it's
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: that they think if we say Luffy's name, it'll somehow
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: like joggle her memory, you know? Um, but, yeah, they're
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: looking at this map and they're, you know, she's saying,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: where's Udon on this map? Because again, she wants to
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: eat the food that's at Udon. And we're heading for
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: the labor camp, which is here. And this is when,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: oh my God, I can't remember. I'm going all over
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: the place with all these different names, but The flower
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: capital is at the foot of this mountain. Its prosperity
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: is built upon the backs of the common people. And
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: the work of the wicked Orochi. And both Momo and
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Tomo both keep psyching themselves up and yelling this word
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: or starting to yell it that they were just told
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: they are not allowed to say anymore. Uh, so evidently
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: that's going to be a whole thing now for reasons.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: I'm surprised that they don't push a little bit more
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: and ask exactly what the problem is. Um, so the
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: region of Hakumai is located directly South of the land
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: of Wano in, uh, and where we plan to attack,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: we're going to need allies from across the country. That's
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: how we'll defeat Kaido. And, uh, they are agreeing that like, yeah,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: we need allies, but first we have to, you know,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: get Luffy out. And this is when mom is like, well,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: this is, I need a snack even more than before
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: seeing how far away Udon looks on that map. So, uh,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to have my eye on them and
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: the way they proceed because it's, it's odd. They're talking
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: about rescuing Luffy in front of her. They're not like,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: whispering behind their hands. It's, it's not exactly like they're
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: keeping it secret. They're just treating mom as if she
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: is a child, like, and that she won't put two
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: and two together about what they're talking about and where
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: they're heading. And so far that does seem to be
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: what's she's capable of. Like mom does not seem to
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: have been putting two and two together. which is part
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: of what sort of like losing your memory of who
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: you are. I don't really know. And obviously what I'm
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: about to say here has no bearing on what's going
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: on in one piece necessarily, because this is detached entirely
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: from reality. But I am curious about amnesia and, You know,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: there are cases where people, like, folks will have strokes
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: and stuff where they don't know how to read all
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: of a sudden. Or they lose motor function that they
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: used to have. And her not remembering who she is,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: but also seemingly being, like, almost childlike in the way
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: that she is interacting with the world is interesting. And is... Honestly,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: in a bizarre way, not even really that far off
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: what she was like when she did remember who she was.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Because she was handled a lot like a child that
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: we have to appease before she has a tantrum. So
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: it actually is probably pretty in line with her personality
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: overall that she behaved this way. Because she was just
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: demanding things and getting them. You know, that was like
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: the way that she operated pretty much from childhood. So
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: I guess this really isn't that far off. Okay, so
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: we go over to Luffy at this point. And you know,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: we're doing this thing where we're breaking up these blocks
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: of stone and he is doing unimaginable shit with this giant, like,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know, this tool that he's got that he's
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: able to lift that is, it's later mentioned the sea
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: prism stone handcuffs should just leave him enough strength to work. But,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: should not allow him to do what it is that
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: he is doing. And as one of the guards puts it,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: eventually he shouldn't be any stronger than a normal schmuck,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: which leads to the guy that he just trounced going.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: So are you saying that I'm weaker than the average schmuck?
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: And he's like, no, no, no, that's not what I meant.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's a, Luffy is treating this as training.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: And seeing the fact that he is being restrained by
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: these handcuffs as like a really great way of holding
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: his power back so that he is forced to use
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: his actual bodily strength only, which of course is apparently
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: more than any other human somehow. I don't really know how... What's...
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: sort of tough for me is because the show doesn't
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: really seem to want to deal with the reality of
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: like there. And by they, I mean the straw hats
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: in general, but Luffy, especially doesn't want to deal with
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: like the training as much. It becomes unclear why Luffy
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: is able to do things that other people approximately are
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: like apparently not able to do other than, well, that's
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: how determined he is. He's just Luffy and he just believes.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: And so he pushes himself and he succeeds. And I
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: just don't, I don't personally feel like that's really enough. I,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think maybe that's just a me
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: issue and that, probably for most people watching this, that's
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: the point for them is the fact that like, well,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Luffy is just special and he's just always capable of
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: more than anyone because that's the, the whole thing with
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: him is, is, and who he is, is that he
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: is abnormal, honestly, in a lot of ways. But most
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: of the time I can just put it down to like,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: I'm headstrong and, I have really good, talented allies that
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: I am able to depend on, and they can kind
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: of pick up the slack for me. And I have
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: devil fruit powers, which is key. And the fact that
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: this is supposed to be without the devil fruit powers
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: is what I keep getting kind of hung up on,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: because if there is some kind of other huge strength
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: that he is able to access in another way that
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: is separate from his powers... I really would like to
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: just know what that is. And I don't feel like
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: that's asking all that much. It doesn't feel like everybody's
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: sort of puzzling over it in these episodes and how
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: he could, how it could be, but not in a
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: way that leads me to think we're going to actually
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: answer that question. It's all in a way that is
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: just sort of look at how he astonishes everyone around him. And,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: That's really the only reason that we're sort of going, wait,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: how was he able to do that, is simply to
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: establish that it's remarkable what he's capable of, and he
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be capable of it, and everybody is super impressed.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: But I want to know why he actually can lift
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: something that like a regular person shouldn't be able to
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: lift when he's not using and like you know i
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: wouldn't mind a little bit more in this department it
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: just it's it turns into something else once you decide
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: to take his devil fruit powers out of the equation
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: some um Seraphim says, yeah, Oda is famous for avoiding
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: the fuck out of the usual Shonen training arc, which
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: is usually brought up as a plus for One Piece,
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: given how overused that trope can be in this kind
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: of anime. And that, yeah, that's what you guys have
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: mentioned before. And that this is like something, especially that
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: in Dragon Ball is like, there's too much focus put on.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: And I think maybe that's sort of the issue is
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: that like, I don't have the exposure to those. And
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: so to me, It just feels like I don't want
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: to explain. It just, it feels almost lazy, you know,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: but if you do, then like, if you do have
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: exposure to all of that, and maybe this is exactly
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: what you want to see. It just, I, I don't,
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: I don't have that kind of frame of reference. And
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: it just feels like we've simply decided that he's Spider-Man,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: but I, the whole way that he was Spider-Man was
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: this devil fruit power. So how are we deleting that?
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: And we're still, you know, he even mentions that he
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: can't use his hockey because of these restraints. So I just,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I keep kind of coming up against this,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: this feeling of like, I don't, I, I know that
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: I'm supposed to just be like, yeah, go Luffy, you
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: show him and be happy that he's impressing everybody and
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: is so intimidating, intimidating. But, I kind of can't let
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: myself enjoy it because I just keep going. Yeah. How
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: does he do this? What is going on here? You know,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: it just feels so hand wavy and like, ah, don't
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: worry about it. Just don't worry about it. It's he,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: he just can. Okay. And I personally want more than that. I,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: and I think that there are, ways to balance not
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: going too much into a training thing with explaining things
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: like this. I feel like there's got to be a
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: happy medium where you don't go too far down that
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: road and you don't make there be like a 20
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: episode training montage sequence, but you also just don't not
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: explain things. So that's my critique on this one. Um,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: So anyway, this is when Hyogoro comes and is, you know,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: he's getting all of these tickets from Luffy in order
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: to get these dumplings. And he's like, how could you
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: do this? Like, thank you so much for doing all
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: of this for me. And Luffy is like, oh, I'm
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: not doing it for you. I'm using this as an
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: opportunity to train because I got to get stronger so
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: that I can get out of here. And he's like, actually,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: that's a really great attitude. I should do that too.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: And he starts to like lift his pickaxe and, you know,
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: treating this like a workout, but immediately falls over. And
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Luffy sees him and is just like, oh, bro, you
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: haven't had enough to eat. You can't work out on
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: an empty stomach. And he gives him all the tickets
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: and is like, go ahead and get something to eat.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: And when Luffy gets up and turns around, He almost
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: gets spat on. And we've got a guy who is
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Alpaca Man, according to the subtitles. There are times when
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: I'm covering things where I just feel like the kismet
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: of what I'm covering and what I'm doing in my
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: personal life is so wildly overlapping that I'm like, is
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: somebody doing this on purpose? So yesterday, there's a YouTube
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: channel called Smosh, and their whole thing is mostly doing
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: comedy skits and shorts and whatnot. But the thing that
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: I tend to watch from them are Reddit stories. And
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: one of the ones that I was listening to yesterday
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: was a Reddit story about Am I the asshole for
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: holding the door shut when my roommate tried to get
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: in the house after she was spit on by a camel?
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: And the story is essentially that it smelled so horrific
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: that she almost vomited on the spot just from her
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: roommate being on the front porch and was instantly like,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: you are not bringing that smell into the house. Absolutely not.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: And I learned through this that the Camel spit is
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: not saliva. It is the regurgitated, like cud, like cow's chew.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: So when they spit on you, it's heavily tainted with vomit, essentially,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: which I did not know. Camel spitting is from cartoons,
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: like a thing, you know, I've known as a little kid.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: It's in Aladdin all over the place. But nobody has
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: ever really emphasized how disgusting it is for understandable reasons.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: And according to somebody who was in the comments of
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: this post, they were like, I am not defending the OP,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: but I will say that I have smelled camel spit
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: and it smells like a, I think they said a
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: New York City restaurant dumpster on a hot day. Something
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: like that, where they were just like, it is so
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: fucking gross. So when Alpaca Man appears and his weapon
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: of choice is spitting, all I could think about was
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: just like how disgusting I have since learned. And I
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: have to assume with alpacas, if they spit, that it's
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: probably like a similar thing, you know? And it's like
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: spraying all over the place and the spit itself is
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: is yellowish in the animation. And Luffy even says it stinks.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: So I just can't get over the fact I literally
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: listened to this Smosh story at midnight last night and
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: then watched this episode today. And I was just like,
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: what are the fucking odds of this? It's just wild.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: But yeah, so that's some information for all of you
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: to know. So if somebody complains about having been spit
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: on by a camel or almost having been That's serious.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: And don't laugh at them or act like they're being precious.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: That's like just not wanting to be vomited on, essentially.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: So this old man, he goes and gets a bunch
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: of these dumplings. And it's such a weird sequence of events.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: So he has all of these tickets and he gets
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: like intercepted. By. Spider-Man. I know I can't. I can't.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: His name is like. Difogo or something. But. He's about
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: to eat all of the dumplings. That are in this bowl.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: And he's got a bunch of them piled up. And
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: this guy says. You want to share some of those
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: with me? Looks like you're having a feast over there.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: And I'm thinking. Maybe he's more meant to be like a. Oh, yeah.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: Lena in the chat says scorpion guy is the worst.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: And I'm seeing his hair. And that was when I
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, maybe it's not a spider. It's a scorpion.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Because the hair is like kind of up and coming
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: up from the back of his head like the stinger.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: So what we get here is that this dude is
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: essentially like, I know that you are old and frail
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: and that there is no reason way in hell that
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: you earned all of those dumplings that I am looking
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: at and just decides to like stomp this dude in
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: front of everybody. And they, the other prisoners try and
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: like come to his defense. They, you know, it's not
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: like they're just letting it happen. But this guy is
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: obviously some sort of minion who's in charge of things.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: And they don't want that smoke either. And what happens
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: is that this guy eventually starts to make a speech
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: about how you are earning your dumplings fair and square.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: But he didn't earn his. And do you think it's fair?
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: for him to get more than any of you are
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: getting because somebody decided to give it to him, but
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: he didn't earn it. And really it's, it's just the
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: talking points of like fucking right wingers, you know, just
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: there they're gaming the system and you deserve more. And
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: so it's not that I, the person who is actively
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: enslaving you am the problem it is that this person
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: who wants to eat enough to live is and what's
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: sort of funny as well is the reason that he
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: wants to eat more is so that he can work
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: harder because he's like trying to emulate Luffy training to
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: get out of here So it's really like this dude
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: is actually wanting to increase his productivity. That's the reason
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: that he wants to do more and eat more. But
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: this guy is still managing to paint it as like,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: he's just trying to get one over on you. He's
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: just trying to make sure that you don't get your
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: fair share because he'll have taken everything already. And the
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: way that like, it's just so Watching this kind of
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: thing and the rhetoric is so gross and so, you know,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: he's trying to say, like, oh, you must have stolen tickets,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. And meanwhile, the old man is
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: on the ground and the dumplings have been tossed and
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: he is grabbing them up out of the dirt and
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: still eating them and just saying, like, I am never
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: going to let these go to waste. after what Luffy
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: did for me, I'm going to make sure, you know, meanwhile,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: alpaca man brings Luffy over here and shows him this
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: old man getting stomped. And it's just like, this is
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: what happens to the people that you try and help.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: So don't bother because they're just going to be, you know,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: and the, it's just, folks just don't learn about Luffy.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: Like you're going to show that you're beating the shit
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: out of an old man. And you're thinking that's going
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: to make Luffy like back off is just so fun.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: Have you ever even heard of him? Hello? Oh my God. Um,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: so he goes over to start a fight with him,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: but we first have to jump to the next episode where,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Because Raizo is undercover as a prison guard pretending to
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: be returning a key that the crab man dropped somewhere
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: or left. Like, you know, the whole thing is to
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: get him to open the box that he keeps the
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: keys in and whatnot. And I am... This crab guy... Look...
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of different animals that we have at
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: play here, but not all of them get like tons
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: and tons of puns. I don't know what it is
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: about some that is like, apparently it really inspires Oda.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: And he's just like, oh, I am about to go
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: all in on the puns. Everybody hold on to your butts.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: But like some folks, it's just very barely a little
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: joke here or there. And then others, it's all of
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: their dialogue. It's everything they fucking say. And the crab
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: man is, it's one thing after another. And even at
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: one point, he's like, he says something about, he just,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: plod them away from me and didn't even try to
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: butter me up. Something like that, because you dip crab
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: in butter. I was just like, my God, how did
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: you push it? That, that's a real stretch, that one.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: But I also can't really be mad at it because
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: it is, look, nobody's beating Brooke is the thing. Everybody
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: is going to pale. It's simply the way that Brooke delivers.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: His delivery is like 80% of why the joke is
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: even funny. Um, But yeah, so Raizo is able to
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: get the keys away from him by tricking him into
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: opening this box. And then later on, he gets like
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: confronted by one of the other guards who is like,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: I think is she, she's solitaire, right? She is like,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: what the fuck? I can't believe that you got your,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: the wool pulled over your eyes so easily. Like that
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: is so embarrassing. And he just keeps on, you know,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: bowing and scraping and apologizing. Um, and let's see, I'm
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: trying to, oh, right. So that's going on there. And
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: then we have, uh, back to Luffy and he's having
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: this confrontation with Scorpion man and he kicks Scorpion man
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: in the face to get him off of the old man. And,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: It's so weird because all of the guards begin chanting,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: kill him, kill him to kill Luffy, which goes on
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: for such a long time. And it's a bizarre thing
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: where you guys have all the power. You don't have
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: to chant. You could just overwhelm him and do it. Eventually,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: we get there. But the nature of how long it
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: takes for them to get a move on and begin
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: to take action after chanting. I'm just like, do you
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: guys just like the chanting? Is that it? Is that
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: what you're like enjoying about this? It's simply like chanting
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: is fun because it just takes them absolute ages. Luffy
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: is able to fight off a bunch of the guards,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: but eventually we get an elephant man appearing who apparently shoots, sneezes, sorry,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: sneezes cannonballs out of his trunk at Luffy. And, you know,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: despite the fact that Luffy apparently still has superhuman strength,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: he gets trounced. This hit really takes him down a
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: peg or two. I was kind of surprised at how
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: effective it is. I didn't think it was going to
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: do that much, but he is, goes flying and is
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: kind of wrecked after. And when he sits up, he's
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: just like, Jesus Christ. And that's when he is complaining
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: about the fact that he can't even use his hockey
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: or anything. This is when Queen shows up. And I
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: don't understand why the full title is Queen the Plague.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is something that I should
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: know or if it's something that will be revealed later
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: or what. But I just wanted to mention it because
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: I was sort of waiting for, you know, and I
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: don't know what this is. Maybe there's like a devil
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: fruit power related to like disease or something. I don't know.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: But regardless, Queen's entire entrance, first of all, is very
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: much giving like Fury Road. It was super intense. And
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: Queen is, there's a point where I think the scorpion
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: man or the alpaca man says to Luffy, if you
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: may be Miss Queen's performance, I'll fucking kill you. Something
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: like that, which I found hilarious. And we get to
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: see Queen standing up and doing a whole, a literal
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: like song and dance with backup. And the song is
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: about how He's not going to lose any weight because
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: there's more of him to appreciate. I'm round as a ball,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: but it's all muscle, y'all. Which you guys know that
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: I'm always going to be here for a fat character
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: who does not apologize for being fat. I just wish
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: they weren't always villains. That's the main thing. It's always
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: a villain, you know? It's like, oh, well, if it's
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: a woman who's fat and doesn't hate herself, she's delusional.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: you know, like Alveda or this guy who's like, I
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: think probably you could say folks would call him delusional
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: as well. But I just really did enjoy this whole performance.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: Queen is just so odd. And I'm looking forward to
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: seeing more of him and finding out exactly where the
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: name comes from. Everybody seems to really like him. They're
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: like fucking cheering for him as he comes in, like
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: Jerry Springer, you know, I'm telling you, these guards love chanting.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: I think that's really what it's about is like that.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: That's more fun for them than anything is just that
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: the chanting is the thing. So I think that that's it.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: Making sure. Oh, my God. I forgot about the fact
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: after Queen finishes his song. somebody comes up to him
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: and it's just like, Hey, so there's a bunch of
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: bullshit that you need to deal with and tells him
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: all this bad news. And at one point they're like,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: also Luffy's escaping. He's right there. And they point and
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: queen just goes, man, come on. And I left so hard.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: He's just so frustrated. Oh, but yeah, that's the end
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: of that episode. All right. I have to wrap up. See,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: I was so short in my last episode, but this
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: one I went over. So it all evens out. um
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: thank you guys again appreciate you all very much um
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: i might need to rearrange things again next week because
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: of getting surgery potentially so i'll keep you all notified
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: and until then toodaloo motherfuckers That was an unspoiled network podcast.