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TV Talk: Lupin Part 1 & 2 Review Discussion · Dad Needs To Talk

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What's up? Y'all, and welcome back to Day
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Needs to Talk. I'm your host, Robert.
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And today, Today, we're going to be diving into the French
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thriller series from Netflix called Lupin, now Lupin,
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starring Omar Sai. Hope.
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I'm pronouncing that right now. I hope all y'all out there are
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doing well whenever y'all are seeing this because it's
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probably going to be many months from when I'm actually recording
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this because there is a Part 3 coming out later this year.
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But before I jump the gun as I was here Danny to talk, it's all
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about fatherhood and family manga, anime, TV, movies and
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video games. So like I said, I'm going to be
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talking about the Netflix French thriller series Looping, which
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off the bat I will say was a fantastic surprise for me.
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I have watched both of the current parts that are out,
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which is think 1010 episodes total.
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They're all about an hour a piece on Netflix and like I
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said, there is a third part coming out in early October Now,
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one thing I'll say about this series though, is that not only
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was it a pleasant surprise for what it was, but it kind of
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helped me get educated on the looping series in general
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because. So I don't know about a lot of
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y'all who might have watched this or heard about this series
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or whatever. But for myself, the only looping
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that I know or have known most of my life is looping the Third
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which which is a Japanese anime and manga series that I watched
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growing up back in the early 90s.
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That I recently found out because because there was a
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there was a manga collection that came out within the last
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year and found out that the manga started back in the late
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60s late 1960s. And so on top of that learning
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this and and just just a little bit of context the anime the
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character Lupin the third in the anime such manga series.
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He is the grandson of the Lupin of Lupin from a French novel
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series, which I learned about through watching this this TV
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show which the Lupin novels started in the early 1900s, like
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19 O five or something crazy like that.
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So I learned a lot, and this show was kind of a reminder to
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do a bit more homework before you assume or just things off of
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just the name. Because like I said, the only
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thing I've ever really known of Lupin is the Japanese stuff, the
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anime. And so when I heard that it was,
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it was like a live action looping.
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But the main character was a black guy and I was like OK, you
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know, like you know my dice isn't connecting with you know
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the Japanese dude I see in the green or red, no suit jacket or
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whatever. So you know I just kind of
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always just put it off for the longest time.
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Would it just because I'm like live action Siri anime series,
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whatever, Nah. But I kept on hearing like I
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said hearing people who's and I trust him.
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I'm like yo, no Rob this is a good show.
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So recently I was down bad and bad sick for several days and I
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don't know I I've been going through watching a bunch of
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different series that hopefully I've seen reviews for and
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discussions for like silo and severance and different stuff
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like that. And so I was like you know what,
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I'm in the mood. Let me check out Lupin.
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So this looping series, it basically follows a guy who is
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basically on a journey to clear his father's name.
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So his father was immigrants, brought him over to France when
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he was a child, which. And let me let me just make
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sure, give the proper name the main character and the loop and
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show his name is assign a diop. Assign a diop.
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And so his father brought him over when he was a kid, like I
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said, to try to give him a better life and stuff.
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And his day is of getting a job working for this very wealthy
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guy who is a Framingham for the theft of this very expensive
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necklace. And his father ends up, you
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know, dying. And and I guess I'll say this,
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I'm just giving just a general synopsis, whatever of the show.
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I'll get into more specifics, spoilers and stuff later on,
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which I will put time stamps and stuff on the video version and
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the audio version of this. So just as a heads up on that.
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But but yeah, so so like I say, his father got framed and then
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ends up dying in the process of all this, whatever.
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And so one of the gifts that his father gave him when he was when
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he was very young was the first Lupin novel series.
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And so of course, over his years growing up alone in like a like
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a in, like a foster home thing. No, not a foster home brother
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kind of kind of like a shelter type of place for like for kids
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who don't have families or whatever.
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And then it's his adulthood is he, you know grew up reading
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these looping novels which Lupin is known as the gentleman thief
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and taking a lot of tips and tricks from looping and becoming
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a thief himself and being very good at it.
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Which that was like one of like the pleasant things that I
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enjoyed about the show is just watching this guy's journey and
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uncovering all these mysteries of like OK, what really happened
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to his father and all the people that he's connected to over the
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years and stuff and just seeing how the pieces start to come
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together. The truth is really revealed.
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Double crosses, characters dying along the way and but also just
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figuring out OK how is how is assigned A going to get out of
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this. How's he going to weasel his way
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out of the situation because it's like you know the the
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actor, he is 6 three so he's like a hair ton because I'm
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about 6-2 myself but it's like he's a pretty like stocky built
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dude. So it's like watching this giant
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black man in France, weasel his way out of these situations,
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stealthily sneaking in and out of these people's homes and
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these buildings and stuff, whatever.
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It's like is a how. How do you not see this dude
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coming? How's he been?
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Freaking Agent 47 stealth guy with his size and stuff.
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Whatever. But, but yeah, but, but, but
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that's kind of like like the basic framework of the show and
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honestly like from from start, from episode one to the to the
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last episode I watched. So for the at the end of Part 2
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I was enthralled the whole way through.
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Cuz like I said, they do a good job of mixing in present day
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stuff, stuff from back when he was a child, his child growing
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up and then even kind of doing like the things where they show
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a current situation. And then and then they might be
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like OK, you know, five hours earlier or three days earlier or
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two weeks early or whatever. Kind of showing some of the
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setup that he did to get him prepared for a situation that he
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ends up in present time or to help him get out of different
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situations and stuff. And it is just such a masterful
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thing to see. Like I said, just just seeing
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this character find his way in different situations and getting
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out. But also of course you know kind
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kind of like the looping character.
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At least I can slightly looping the third in the anime a lot
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that I watched growing up and stuff like sometimes maybe
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getting a little bit too cocky or overconfident or too
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comfortable in a situation and then sometimes it costing him
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either him personally dearly or or those around him they get
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dragged into his situation or into his messes, seeing how that
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cost them or whatever. Another pleasant surprise that I
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didn't expect is seeing all of these amazing father son bonds
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both with a son A and his father and to currently where he's with
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his own his own son who is who is about the same age that he
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was when he lost his father when when when a son a lost his
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father. He was about 1314 years old or
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whatever. And now in the course of the
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show he has a a teenage son that is turning 14 and stuff like
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that. So and then with, you know, his,
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his childhood sweetheart, who's the mom and all these different
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things, as well as his connections that he has with
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this wealthy benefactor who kind of set up his father and stuff
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along the way. And so y'all know me this, this
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is, of course dad needs to talk. So y'all know, those of y'all
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that have been listening or watching me for a while.
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I know that I enjoy seeing a good family bond situation or or
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or I guess, maybe, you know, of course, things weren't always
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good, 'cause like I said, a sign that he was getting himself in
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his and friends and family stuff around him and some messy
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situations and stuff. But I know at the core of it,
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there was true love and concern somewhere in the midst of of the
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chaos. But yeah, like I said that this
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was just such a great watch went by pretty quickly.
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Like I say for a being currently about 10 episodes a hour of
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roughly 40 minutes per hour a piece.
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They they varied in length or whatever but they went by pretty
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smoothly because I I breezed through this pretty much in a
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day. You know I started this last
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night and then watched it through all day today when I'm
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recording this and stuff. So, but, but yeah, so
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definitely, if if you enjoy a good kind of like mystery
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thriller type of show, then looping is one that I definitely
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recommend. And like I said, you don't have
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to have any knowledge or connection with the anime series
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that I mentioned earlier. Like I said, that was my fault
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for making those assumptions based off of, like I said, just
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just 'cause there was a name connection didn't mean that, OK,
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they were trying to do a live action adaptation of.
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There was like, no. This is a character who is kind
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of modern himself and how he maneuvers and and does things
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after this character that he adored in this novel that he
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received from his late father doing some crazy stuff that
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happened and stuff. So but but yeah so great show.
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Like I said, Fantastic has the characters also.
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Big thing if you are able to, I highly recommend watching it in
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French with English subtitles because I've watched a lot of
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shows I like. I said I watch a lot of anime
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and stuff, whatever. So of course I'm used to reading
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subtitles and stuff, whatever or stuff in different languages,
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but I had initially started watching it in in in the English
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dub and immediately I was like I was OK.
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The voice setting was was OK, but it was throwing me off
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because the what I was hearing wasn't matching with the lip
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syncing. So I was like, OK, this is very
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weird if they're speaking English, but the lip syncing is
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off, whatever. So I so I do a little bit of
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digging and found out that oh OK, no, this is actually a
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French show. So I decided to give it a shot
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watching it in French. And I'm so glad that I gave
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that. I made that change because not
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only did that make things flow smoothly, it felt proper because
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the show takes place in France. So saying all the light, light,
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light, the signage, the writing and everything, whatever the
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text messages, all this stuff is in French.
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So hearing them actually speaking French and reading the
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the subtitles, whatever was a a nice icing on top.
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Like I said, if if you're able to handle that or whatever,
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because because honestly for the most part the show doesn't go so
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fast to where it was, you know, too frantic and me having to
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know reading and watching or whatever.
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There was a couple times where I had to maybe like pause and
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rewind a little bit because I had maybe missed something,
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whatever. But like I said and of course
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once again going back to me watching anime for many years or
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whatever, a lot of those kids kind of come from that and stuff
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as well. So but yeah, so Lupin, awesome
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show, Highly recommend, please go watch it and let me know your
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thoughts, you know, on what you thought of the series if you
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have checked it out. So I'm about to dive into some
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specific story spoilers. So if if you haven't watched the
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show yet, thank you so much for watching to this point, go
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follow me everywhere at Danny's to talk and come back after
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you've watched this. But we're about to difference
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into some spoilers right now. So this show y'all spoilers,
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spoilers, Spoilers for Olive Lupin through the end of Part 2.
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First of all, I got to give a shout out to the chair that he
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sat in and he was kind of like hot at area or whatever was
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super dope at being this kind of like mask on the back of the
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chair, which those of you watching the video version, I
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have it on screen or whatever, but that was super dope.
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But so I I don't even know where to begin.
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Of course I'm not going to try to cover everything beat for
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beat, but just some of the highlight moments and stuff I
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want to talk about. Like honestly, a couple of
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things. Like I didn't expect characters
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to actually die and stuff, whatever in this show
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originally, but once characters started getting legit hurt and
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killed and stuff, I was like oh oh, and I I wish I would mention
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this, but of course some trigger warning for some suicide stuff
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as well. So I wish I would have mentioned
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that earlier on, but once I started seeing stuff like that
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earlier, I was like oh, OK, you know, kind of kind of shift my
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focus a little bit. It's going to be a little bit
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more of a serious tone, which I kind of thought it would be
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whatever. But like I said once again,
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looping, you know the anime or whatever but by us saying
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different stuff like that just kind of a great.
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Gave more gravity to the situations because they honestly
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made you feel like hey, nobody is safe in the show.
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And especially like that part where his son got kidnapped and
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then you know not looping a sign a slipped up a bit or whatever
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when he was chasing the dude in the house and the guy you know
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ends up kind of getting to slip on them or or kind of tricking
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loop a sign if you want to say looping tricking a sign A to get
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out the house and trapped his son in the trunk of the car and
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set the car on fire. And then I legit thought that
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his son was gone. But I was so happy and relieved
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that that detective that ended up going with him or whatever
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managed to get his son out of there in time and get him to
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safety. So that was a super awesome and
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welcomed into seeing that Unfortunately, like I said, not
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all characters made it out safely.
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The the reporter lady that helped him and that was just
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another one's moments where I was like, OK, started getting a
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little bit too cocky, a little bit too comfortable sometimes be
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a little bit too straightforward.
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Putting himself in the line of fire for for the showmanship of
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it all like like looping in the books and stuff, whatever.
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And kind of sometimes putting himself in unnecessary
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crossfire. Because it's like, OK, you could
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you brought this lady out of retirement, this this journalist
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lady out of retirement. She kind of got stuff riled up
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at the at this media thing with with the old guy, can't freaking
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remember his name. Hubert Pellegrini.
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Pellegrini. And then you know that she get
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entailed back to his place or her place and his place and she
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getting killed in all this. And then, you know him almost
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getting caught up going on freaking TV to try to oust the
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guy with this tape that they ended up doctoring and changing
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the truth on the tape. Whatever.
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And now you on national television, of course, and
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disguise, whatever. But still, the fact that you put
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yourself in that situation to where you almost got boxed in,
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man, Like I said, plenty of moments like that.
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They like, had me on the edge of my seat.
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But like I said, it just made it all that much thrilling.
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Even him getting his, his, I don't know, ex-wife, wife,
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whatever you want to call her, putting her in a position to
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his. OK hey, y'all son has now been
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kidnapped. She can't really trust you to
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come through on this. Whatever.
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So then she ends up cutting a deal with this guy with
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Pellegrini or whatever for like, OK, I'll turn in my husband if I
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can get my son back. You know it is what it is and
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it's like situations like that And then him getting the
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ex-girlfriend, Pellegrini's daughter that he kind of had a
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relationship and stuff over the years with back mixed up and
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stuff, whatever, for getting the mom in the mix of stuff,
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whatever. Which I I honestly kind of
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thought that, like, OK, when Pellegrini got out of jail that
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time, or got out of being taken to jail or whatever, I thought
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that the mom was going to get. Taken out though we never saw
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her again. At least no so far anymore in
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the show after that point. But man, this show just has so
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many highlights man. Shout out to what was the one,
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what was the name of that one detective.
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So I'm trying to see, I'm trying to see if I can find that one
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detective. I can't remember I can't
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remember his name. But any who the the the one
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detective that was that was also a fan of the looping books and
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was kind of seeing the signs that assigned a kind of or like
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like the calling cards of like of like the different undercover
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names that assignee was using was was it was it called
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anagrams or basically like like like a mixture of words from
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characters in the looping book and different stuff like that.
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And so to like the way he kind of like handle different things
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whatever. Like, it's like we need to be
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looking at the connections to this book and da da, da da.
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And so it was kind of nice to finally see him get his due and
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his diligent work finally coming through and helping him figure
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out who a Sonny was. But also being able to be there
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to help him save his son and also kind of help him uncover
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the actual truth of what happened to a Sonny's father and
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the wrongdoing of all that. So all of that stuff was just
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very dope. And like I said, I just loved
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seeing all the different gadgets and disguises and methods of
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escape and different stuff that he found along the way.
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Which now I think about it. Where's the dog?
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I just thought about that. Where is the dog at the end of
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all this? Because.
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Because because the Cyanates hideout pretty much got blown
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up. Or not blown.
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Not literally blown up, but got got discovered.
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Which that whole situation was crazy where the one guy was
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coming to kill him, but then somebody else came and killed
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that guy, left the body, called the police.
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And then by the time assignee realized what was going on, he
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barely escaped out of there, but then became the most wanted
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person in the country. Because like, hey, found this,
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found this body at this guy's thing.
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He's connected to this necklace and all this stuff.
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Whatever. Which man.
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Oh, other big thing I got to talk about too.
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The reveal that they didn't reveal until freaking like
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Episode 9. This investment, young
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investment person or whatever that was helping Pellegrini was
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going to quote, UN quote, help Pellegrini scam all the donors
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for his daughter's foundation, $10 million or whatever to this
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offshore account, yadda yadda yadda.
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Discovering that that person was somebody that Assani and and his
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best friend Benjamin, yeah, Benjamin helped discover.
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And I loved how they went about finding another accomplice in
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the situation to where they went to this library type of place,
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hung out basically in the looping section and just watched
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people kind of come and go and be like, no, that's he's not a
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good fit, that person not a good fit, she's not a good fit or
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whatever. And then this young person
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basically figure out, OK, hey, what do y'all two want?
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You're fake reading your newspaper.
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Your buddy over here is the book.
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He's only is upside down. What do y'all want?
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And seeing the transformation from this kind of like gothic
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emo kid to this kind of like clean cut business entrepreneur,
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tech person or whatever was just super fantastic.
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And I love stuff like that. To where I was like this
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character that you've kind of seen along the way you found out
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was like a secret, a secret plant for the main character and
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their plot in the long term plan of this.
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Heck, even even then with the stuff of them using the
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catacombs that they had went on a tour of when they were kids
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and how they borrowed this map from the lady at the at the
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ticket booth of of the of the the secret tunnels and stuff,
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whatever, that's not part of the tour that somebody had mapped
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out some years ago, Whatever. And so they kind of like overlay
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the tour map on top of the acts, like the bigger map of the
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catacombs. And the fact that all these
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years later, 25 years later, that came in clutch in their
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escape. And the fact that they had this
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escape route within their escape route of they had this kind of
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like storage closet and it's like warehouse thing, whatever.
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They had a secret freaking bookshelf entrance that led into
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the freaking catacombs beneath Paris.
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Yo, man, it was. Or France, wherever the
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catacombs are. But that was just so freaking
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dope, seeing that and then them coming back.
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And I loved how they kept on referencing as his son, as
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assigned a son, was reading through the looping series or
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whatever. At that point in time, he was
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reading the kind of like book or chapter or whatever about the
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blonde lady who helps, who helps looping out in the books,
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whatever. And the blonde lady and assign a
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in Benjamin's case was the lady from the from the toll booth of
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the childhood. And how when they finally
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escaped the catacombs wherever gave the cops a slip.
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Benjamin gave back to gave her the the map with a piece of the
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the diamond from the necklace whatever wrapped up in it or
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whatever being like thank you. We promise you we will bring it
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back. And here it is.
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All that stuff was just so beautiful.
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Just seeing all these various loops and plot points and stuff
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like all the dots connect and come back full circle and like I
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said for this kind of like wrap up pretty nicely with them
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finally getting accusation out of out of a Pellegrini and stuff
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and you know and even though the the the the cop they kind of
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like the head cop. What is it kind of that was kind
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of a what's it do what was his name.
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DuMont. Seeing those who kind of both
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get busted and all this Asani, you know making up and showing
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his family like hey I'm good but I got to disappear for a while I
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I just loved it. It was just a fantastic end and
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honestly if that would have been the end of the series that
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honestly would have been a great rap for it and so but I'm
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excited to see what they're going to do in this third part.
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I'm like I said, I hope that they don't drag this out super,
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super long because now that the initial goal of, hey, I'm trying
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to solve the 25 year mystery and clearing my father's name, I
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want to see him. You know see, no, they they've
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wrapped that part up. Whatever.
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Now I kind of want to see, OK, what do they do in this third
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part? Hopefully after this third part
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maybe they stop it there. You know hopefully and other
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other saying I got a shout out to man just just showing this
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dude's dedication to his craft to solving the mystery was when
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he figured out that somebody that knew his father back in the
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day was in prison and it was just kind of just so silly to
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see that he basically broke into prison where he found somebody
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another black guy or whatever. And the fact that this guy had
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been kind of like I don't know if he was an isolation river for
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a while but he got the stars aligned to where he came to
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visit. The guy during a guard shift
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change on top of the guy was getting moved to a different
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area of the prison. So the guards went and noticed
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that OK this is a different guy also the he's got a new bunk
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mate or whatever. So the fact that this guy that
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he freaking swapped places with this guy and this guy's
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assumably just wandering free right now, whatever, somewhere
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in the world, That was just super dope, man.
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Just even like like the handcuffed trick to where he was
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like kind of like resting like on the guy's handcuffs where the
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guy was like well, well how how are you going to break out of
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these genius? Whatever.
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He kind of did this like thing and flip the cuffs over from the
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guys to his hands or whatever and like man, he went above and
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beyond. He went freaking getting shanked
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to get into the into the the the room that the guy was being
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hospitalized at to getting the other looping book that his dad
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left for him in this guy's care to faking his own death to a son
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who's faking his dad to getting out of the prison and stuff,
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whatever. Like, yo, this show was
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fantastic, but I'm not. I'm going on 30 minutes to talk
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about this. But like I said, this was just
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such a fantastic watch that it was worth giving this much time
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to. But like I said, if if you've
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gone through all this movie and you haven't watched the show,
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please go watch it. And if you haven't watched it,
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please let me know. What did you think of the show?
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Were you as intrigued by it as I was?
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Did you have any previous experience with the Lupin
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series, whether it's the anime, the manga, the French novels?
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What is your history with Lupin in general?
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And yeah, and so with that being said, like I said, thank you so
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much for watching and or listening.
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As always, you can catch me everywhere at Danny's a talk and
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I'll catch you on the next one. And I'm looking forward to
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watching part three, which hopefully will be coming out
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soon from when y'all are seeing this.
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But y'all be easy, Thank y'all so much for all the love and
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support and I'll catch you on the next one.
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Be easy, Peace.