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One Piece, 345-347 · Spoil Me! One Piece

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  This is an unspoiled network podcast. This is spoil Me covering One Piece episodes
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  three forty four, three forty five, and three forty six. We got
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  a three B today, everybody. These episodes are feast wait No, A
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  bunch of animals, Pirona's Wonder Garden, the Vanishing straw Hat crew, a
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  mysterious swordsman appears, and Chivalry remains. The traitorous zombie protects Nami. In
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  these amazing episodes, we have all these zombie animals that turn up. We
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  have Zoro and Sandie somehow being turned into zombies. We find out Robin can
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  fucking fly. Everything is on the table. Welcome to One Piece wait,
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  oh my god, welcome, just spoil will be Welcome to the show everyone.
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  I'm Natasha, sorry about that. Thank you very much to the One
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  Piece crew for commissioning this episode. Appreciate y'all very much. We got some
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  folks in the chat today. Hi guys. These episodes, y'all were so
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  much fun. I am really loving these later arcs of this show. And
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  I don't want to, you know, make any pronouncements about how the show
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  just keeps getting better and better, because that's just an unrealistic expectation. It's
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  probably got some low points coming, and that's just part of a thing that
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  runs for fucking ever. But as of right now, I keep being pleasantly
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  surprised because I think that we have sort of seen as wild as shit's going
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  to get, and then it just does whatever it does, and I'm left
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  going, right, right, this show's crazy. I keep forgetting that part.
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  So I, first of all again have to mention the amazing titles.
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  These are just straight out of a nineteen twenties like newspaper where they you know,
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  they have like the penny dreadful that's sold by itself, but there's also
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  like the columns in sort of trashy newspapers that would run really over the top
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  stories with you know, men twirling their mustachios as they tied ladies to the
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  train tracks. And that is what these titles are giving, and I am
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  fucking into it. So the bunch of Animals episode, I was a little
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  bit sad, you guys, because these animals. I was hoping We're all
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  going to kind of be like, oh, we got made into zombies and
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  we don't like that. So yeah, we're on your side, and that
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  is super not what's going on. All of these animals seem to be somehow
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  under the total control of I guess doctor Howkback, but I don't know that
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  for sure. I'm realizing that like Pirona, it's like her garden of animals,
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  so I guess she's controlling them, but it's just a we don't really
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  like. There's no confirmation of that. I'll just say it's it's said in
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  the title, which I guess you could take as confirmation. But she isn't
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  in these episodes that much at all. She's in the very beginning of the
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  first of the three. I think that's the only appearance we get from her.
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  I could be off on that, but if that's all I remember of
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  her being, I feel like that kind of speaks for itself. So oh
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  god. There are so many people in the chat. Hi guys. What
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  Brian says right now is a low point in a lot of people's eyes.
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  So it's awesome. You're enjoint what Brian. Brian send those people to me?
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  Who is calling this the low point? I would say the low point
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  a low point for me. The low point is still fucking what's his face
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  from? Unfortunately, the arc where we meet Sanji. No offense, Sanji.
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  I can't believe people are considering this a low point. What in the
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  hell is the matter with people? Oh? Oh? You know, there
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  are times, there are times where everybody agrees, and those are beautiful times.
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  For example, when Owen and I watched there was some sort of like
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  episode where in Avatar the Last Airbender, the whole thing takes place in a
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  canyon and it's like two groups against one another and it is the most tedious,
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  boring shit, And we went and like found out about it afterwards,
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  and it turned out to be universally seen as the number one worst episode of
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  the whole show. And we felt so validated, you know, just like,
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  okay, good, we all agree this was not up to the usual
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  standard. And then there's moments like this and I don't know what metric people
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  are using. I you know what I have to say. And I was
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  talking about this with Owen the other day. People have a tendency to mistake
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  arcs or scenes where something major is revealed or there's like a huge turning point
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  and say those are the quote best episodes. And the truth is, you
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  just like that twist or you just like that change in somebody's story. That
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  doesn't mean the episode that it took place in is a good episode. Those
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  aren't the same thing. So I have this a lot with like different TV
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  shows that I have finished, and I'll be in fandoms where we're talking about
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  it, and I realize that everybody's like, Oh, I love when such
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  and such, and I'm like, I like that beat of the plot,
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  but that episode where that happened is wall to wall bummer, and I can't
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  understand how anybody says it's their like favorite episode of the show. So anyway,
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  I feel like sometimes people get so focused on like plot at the expense
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  of an actually well constructed story, which is not to say those are mutually
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  exclusive, but a lot of times with something that runs for a really long
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  time like this show, that does tend to happen because the plots are so
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  stretched out and the arcs are so long. I don't know I'm getting off
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  topic here, but I just find this fascinating because you guys, I don't
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  know if I've gone on this tangent on this show, but I've gone on
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  this tangent for sure, I think in the major Arrant series and maybe in
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  the Dandelion Dynasty series about my feelings regarding these Star Wars like Latest Trilogy and
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  how Last Jedi is by far the best of all the Star Wars movies and
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  the fact that anybody says it's the worst is laughable garbage. And the arguments
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  that I get in with people about this often cite things that make no sense.
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  So sometimes I just have to accept people are going to be wrong about
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  things. I was gonna say, let's accept that we have different opinions.
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  No, I can't do it. I'm just gonna say I will accept that
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  sometimes people are going to be wrong. They just start. So Florence says,
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  I said, I love this arc, but lots of people don't like
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  it. I forgot you said that, you did you kind of warn me?
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  You warn me, I forgot. I'm sorry. Krata says, it's
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  true people think it meanders a little too much and the Sanji Nami Absalom moment
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  is a low of the series for something that is true, But we're going
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  to talk about that. And then Brian says, I myself don't really care
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  much for thriller Bark. It has some great moments, but definitely near the
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  bottom for me. You know. Honestly, though, if this is kind
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  of near the bottom for people, I feel like that's a great science since
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  I'm having such a good time. So we'll see. But okay, so
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  I wanted to talk right out of the gate about Absalom and what is going
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  on with this maniac. So you know, I stand by absolutely every fucking
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  thing that I said about the episode where Nami is assaulted in the shower and
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  it's like super sexualized and just male gazy as fucking fairy gross. I will
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  not budge on that. However, I really have to say I appreciate the
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  unexpected turning of the corner here where all of a sudden we have a creature
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  that is low key assaulting Absalom. Also, so he is gross and perv
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  but he is getting what he dished out, and I did not see that
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  coming and I am here for it. I really appreciate too that the show
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  managed to sidestep something that I have seen in this show before. But also
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  it's just a trope everywhere, the trope of oh, she's fat and ugly,
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  and I think the idea of like having sex with her or being a
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  partner of hers is literally revolting they managed to make this inoffensive by having it
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  be one a non human creature, a wart hog, and two an undead
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  creature a corpse of a war hog. So I was really concerned when you
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  first like see her, there's a camera angle, and I was starting to
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  go, oh, man, are we gonna have like, oh, here's
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  the fat girl, and like it certainly tap dances on those tropes, but
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  it's not that, And for that I remain thankful, and it's just worth
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  it to see Absalom gets subjected to the same grossness that Nami is subjected to.
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  And I like the fact that it's also a creature who can physically overpower
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  him, like she is out of control and I am. I just really
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  her fucking whole thing is so ridiculous. She's like the design of her is
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  like have you guys heard of the movie Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey.
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  It's a really low budget slasher movie that because Winnie the Pooh is in
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  the public domain, somebody came up with the bright idea of like, what
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  if we did a dark, gritty Winnie the Pooh. And by gritty,
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  I mean like the reviews of this movie are so bad because it's nothing but
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  like a torture fest basically, and just really grim and unfun and doesn't it
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  takes itself extremely seriously. So I don't recommend the movie based on the reviews
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  that I have read, but there is some There are some liberties taken with
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  the design of Piglet and Winnie the Pooh in that movie to make them grotesque
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  and scary. And I can't remember the name of the wart hug help me
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  out, guys, but she is like, if they did that to Miss
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  Piggy, if they had like a really grim, dark slasher version of the
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  Muppets, that this is what I feel like Miss Piggy would be like.
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  So I don't know how everyone else feels. I personally have been a massive
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  fan of Miss Piggy my whole life, unsurprisingly. I mean, it's really
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  funny because it took a while for my personality to really develop in my humor
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  to come out, but there are really signs along the way, and the
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  fact that I loved Miss Piggy in the Muppets like the most, and I
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  loved Lucy from Peanuts the most really says a lot. I know that Miss
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  Piggy can be seen as a bit of like a punchline, but honestly,
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  she's a fucking icon and I love her forever. So it's a beautiful combo
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  for me of a come up and for Absalom because I really hate this character
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  and also getting to see somebody who really resembles an icon for me be the
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  one to like wreak this out, and I'm into it so so I there's
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  so much. She's in a wedding dress, you guys, like the whole
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  thing. Why is this? This is? Why is she so in love
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  with him? Who knows? It doesn't matter, that's not even the point.
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  It's not even that she's in love with them, because as we see,
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  she doesn't hear a word He says like there's it's not about him,
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  But that still works for me. I love too as he is like sending
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  all of these zombie generals out to fight. There is a guy named um
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  Killer John or something like. He's the pirate that had like the the swords
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  sticking out of his chest. I'm pretty sure like the first moment we see
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  him, when he turns, the swords are sticking out of him. He's
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  sort of like lounging. I don't know if it was like in a chair
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  or what. But he is drinking wine. It was a real like chef's
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  kiss first impression. But he's out here and he's walking past Absalom, who
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  is like very annoyed because this man is not giving the kind of energy that
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  he wants him to give. He isn't as enthusiastic or as I would get,
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  as like proactive as Absalom was hoping. So he's releasing the zombie generals
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  and kind of like yeah, go get him, and trying to hype them
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  up. And the zombie generals are all kind of reacting like they just clocked
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  in for the day. They're not excited, and Absalom seems genuine me a
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  little bit bummed out by that, which I love very much. I have
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  always been a big fan of the trope undead who are sick of your shit,
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  and these guys they're willing to do the job. You know. They
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  go and they confront the you know, the straw hat fighters. There's a
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  whole thing, and they get hype when it's time to fight, but they're
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  not rushing forward, they're not bloodthirsty. They're just kind of like ah ah,
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  man, I did not want to get out of bed this morning,
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  I guess, you know. And honestly, there's something really delightful about the
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  fact that Absalom has technical control over their actions, but he doesn't have any
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  influence over their emotions, you know, or their reactions to things. So
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  yeah, here Lowla. That's her name, Lola, What a good name.
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  Ah. I love her so much, you guys, she is awful.
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  The design of her She's got a big heart shaped nose, which you
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  just love that. And whenever she makes like a kissy face with her lips,
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  her lips make almost a perfect heart, and just you know, her
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  whole look like. I have no concept of why she has to be dressed
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  like a bride, why she's obsessed with getting married. I don't know if
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  this is ever explained. If it is awesome, if it's not, I
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  am fine with it. I will I'm gonna write me some fucking Lola fan
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  fiction. So yeah, we have her like accosting him for quite a while,
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  very very predictably, he winds up being like, no, no,
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  no, I'm going to marry Nami, shows Lola the picture of Nami,
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  who of course freaks out and decides that she is going to go after Nami,
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  because if she kills Nami, then she gets to Mary Absalom. And
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  as much as I don't want her going after my girl, I do enjoy
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  that Lola's as much of an enemy to Absalom as she is to Nami.
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  So it's sort of a fucking you know, even though she doesn't see herself
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  that way in the moment, if there's both standing there, Namie and Absalom,
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  it's kind of a fifty to fifty on who she's going to assault.
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  The assault may manifest in a different way, but nevertheless that's what it's going
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  to be. So then we go to the remaining four, initially straw hats.
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  We've got remaining at this point Zoro, Lufy, Frankie, and Robin,
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  and they're walking down the hallway as this fucking porker is telling them not
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  Loofy calls them woolpig in the dub, Oh, you know what, I
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  wanted to mention this, by the way, you guys, so you know
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  how sometimes I'll be like the sub says this. The dub says that Compare
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  Contrast Funimation doesn't seem to have an option to watch the Japanese subs with the
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  American dub SO or English dub so, I get closed captioning, which is
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  the exact same script as the dub which it's fine, but I do sort
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  of miss being able to see what is different about the way the translation works
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  versus the So if you all were sort of liking those moments, apologies,
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  But because it's Funimation likes to ruin my fun. I won't be able to
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  do that for a little bit until I guess Netflix decides that they are going
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  to get the rest of these episodes. So this uh pig keeps like telling
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  all of them that they need to worry about their themselves, not their friends.
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  They're in danger, YadA, YadA, YadA. And as they're walking
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  down this hall, Zoro sees something stops and looks he can't like focus on
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  it, tells them never mind, it was just my imagination, and then
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  as he turns back and follows his friends, we see a spider dropped down
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  from the ceiling, and I realized later on when we see Lufy, who
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  has gotten wrapped up and put in one of these coffins, we see him
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  like basically sailing down what looks almost like a wash line, Like you know
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  that you would wheel in and out of your window if you lived in the
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  city or something. That probably last episode when I was like, I guess
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  that was Nami and us Up and Chopper that were in that one. No,
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  they were still being carried by the squirrel guys, So I think that
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  was Sangi that we saw. So that abrupt cut that I assumed was meant
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  to insinuate here's our where our friends are, Now, that's not what it
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  meant at all. And that's why it was so weird and abrupt, was
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  that those were two different events happening, So, you know, just interesting
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  to circle back to that. So let's see Pirona. Okay. Here,
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  here is the moment where she shows up. She's talking to Kumasi, who
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  is the little bear guy. I feel so bad for this bear. All
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  he wants to do well. I don't know how much want comes into it
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  because their motivations are corrupted by whatever is controlling them. But it seems like
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  Kumasi is just trying to do his best and she is just so mean to
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  him. And she says that the Risky Brothers, which is apparently the name
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  of those creatures which are called squirrels in the dub I'm assuming that's what they
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  are in the sub as well. She says, they'll be delivering those coffins
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  soon, pick it up from them and take it straight to our master over
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  at the dance hall. And I'm assuming that is doctor Hogback. I can't
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  tell you, guys. You know how hard it is sometimes with this show
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  to keep names straight. I feel like I do a decent job of it,
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  all things considered. I certainly could be better. But doctor Hogback I
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  always forget his name for a moment and then have to imagine a side of
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  pork and go pig side, no hog, not the side, the back,
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  and make that connection in order to remember his name. Fucking why is
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  it easier to remember a side of pork? I don't know. That's just
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  what lodged in my head. So yeah, this poor Kumussy is just like,
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  yes, I'll do it, and she's yelling at him, don't talk.
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  I told you not to talk. You're so ugly. It eventually gets
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  him to just nod, there you go. You're much cuter when you keep
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  that ugly mouth shut, and then he says, take care out there.
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  Why do you care, Kumussy, have some dignity Gus says Captain John.
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  We saw that Buggy was searching for a Captain John's treasure in a cave a
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  while ago. Oh wow, that is a distant memory. Their master is
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  Maria. I think, thank you, Gus. I fucking completely forgot about
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  that dude, because we do not see him in these episodes at all.
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  Appreciate that. So we then go to the Risky Brothers. Now, I'm
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  gonna put the Risky Brothers in like a top ten list of favorite weird side
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  characters. Their design is adorable, their voices are adorable. The script as
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  written for their little voices is also fucking adorable. I love them so much.
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  They have little vests. One of them has like what looks to be
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  kind of buttons going down his front, which doesn't make any sense because they're
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  not on a garment. I guess they're just so to his like skin.
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  But he's got also like a woll mask on. And the other one has
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  bandages around his head and his leg well actually they both have it around their
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  leg. But they're just so cute. I just really liked their voices.
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  It sounds like the same It may not be, but it sounds like the
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  same voice. Actress that does Chopper's voice, because it's a similar like soprano
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  kind of, you know sound. But I fell in love with these guys,
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  and I was a little sad that the scene kind of ends with like
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  them running off and we don't really see them again for the rest of this
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  episode or the next two. It's all much bigger, more tough creatures because
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  these guys they get put down pretty easily by Chopper in one shot, so
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  they're not going to be at the front of any assault. So, yeah,
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  Chopper, like they drop the coffin by accident, it pops open.
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  Chopper comes out and he has turned into his like big muscular version of himself,
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  and he takes these two down. They get like knocked out for a
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  little while, but they are not dead, and they are like, ah,
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  man, I guess we can't like fix this on our own. We're
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  gonna need to call in reinforcements. One of them says, ah turds,
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  which truly I don't know why, but that was very funny to me.
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  So they run off to go and get there basically like you just wait until
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  my big brother hears about this, And they take off and our friends sort
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  of like forget about that threat or don't take it very seriously, because those
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  guys are so small and they wind up getting surrounded pretty quick. So Nami,
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  Chopper, and USAP are looking all around trying to figure out where it
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  is they were being taken, and they noticed this like huge building that they
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  hadn't noticed before. USAP mentions, like, that place is huge. How
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  come we didn't see it? And I'm wondering if there's something magical happening or
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  if it is just supposed to be, like, oh, it's so foggy.
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  I don't know. But Nami, she says, I know what this
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  place is. That is a bridge that connects one building to the other.
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  It's kind of a passage way, and USAP is like a passage I mean,
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  this is like a forest. Well, I guess it is kind of
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  like a bedroom. But they must have been taking us to that other building
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  for some reason. It's probably better that we don't know, to which Nami
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  replies, don't be a baby. They were turning us into zombies and you
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  know it, and I really appreciate, you know how much Nami's pragmatism speaks
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  to my soul. That's exactly what was happening. Thank you Nami for getting
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  to the point. Come on, let's not dance around this. Oh God,
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  what could they have wanted with us? You know what they fucking wanted
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  with you? Stop it. So this is when Nami is like, let's
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  think for a second. And it's weird because the beat that we spend here
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  with her going let's think for a second, it's they spend longer on this
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  than it warrants. All it is is her thinking back to not very long
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  ago when that Jack in the box said there's no treasure in this room in
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  such a way that it makes her think that there's no treasure in that room,
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  but there is in another. I accept her interpretation because I can tell
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  this is what the show wants me to think. But I just would like
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  to say, for the record, I would never have heard it that way,
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  And I think it's acceptable that Nami is the only one who sort of
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  hears that and is focused on it because of who she is and what her
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  priorities are. But personally, if somebody's like, there's no blank, blank
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  blank in this room, it sounds to me kind of like not around here.
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  We don't do that here. It's it's sort of like a declaration of
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  the overall vibe of the people involved in a place, and it's not about
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  the room itself to give what I'm saying so way, it doesn't matter.
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  I'm just I keep going back to this memory because they are playing it again,
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  clearly pointing me in a direction, and I have to remind myself,
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  Oh right, Nami heard this in a way that didn't even enter my head
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  at all. So yeah, they want to run away, and she's just
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  like thinking about money, and they can tell, but they don't really seem
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  to like remember the line that's making her think about money, so she doesn't
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  explain that to them. They don't really ask. It's kind of a weird
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  moment once again where it's just reminding us that treasure is a factor, but
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  there's not a conversation about it. And I don't get the impression us UP
• 30:48
  or Chopper are really aware Nami is thinking about that. In particular, I
• 30:55
  don't know that they even remember that Jack in the Box saying that, because
• 30:59
  you know, they were both pretty scared at the time. So finally US
• 31:06
  UP is like, no, we have really got to go, like we've
• 31:11
  got to get out of here, and she says, okay, fine,
• 31:15
  well which way should we run? What should we do? And as they're
• 31:21
  deciding, these penguins come waddling up. They do A one, A two,
• 31:33
  A three. We have a blonde penguin. We have a like very
• 31:41
  stitched up faced penguin with a The first penguin is really cute. He's got
• 31:48
  a little sort of like driving cap, bow tie, one eye that has
• 31:55
  a stitch through it, blonde hair, very adorable. The second one less
• 32:01
  adorable. The stitches look like they're in such a way that he no longer
• 32:07
  has a beak. He has a regular mouth, which is awful, and
• 32:13
  a scarf and a top hat, and one of his eyes has a sort
• 32:16
  of like darkness around it that almost looks like a flower shape or flower petals.
• 32:22
  The worst one, though, is the last one, who has a
• 32:28
  dog's face and a bow tie and a red and white checked I don't even
• 32:35
  know what to call that hat. It's just a big, round looking I
• 32:38
  would almost call it like a Rastafarian hat if it were knitted or crochet or
• 32:44
  whatever instead of whatever this is. It's a human pair of eyes and a
• 32:52
  dog's mouth. There's nothing remaining of a penguin in this face. It even
• 32:59
  has like doggy years. Horrible, horrible. I hate this. And he's
• 33:06
  like, they're they're introducing themselves as like a penguin duo, and then what
• 33:12
  is it? They call us the penguin zombie duo. Wait, that's not
• 33:15
  right. Trio. We're a trio. I'm the new guy. So it
• 33:22
  turns out we'll find out later, but I'm gonna just talk about it now.
• 33:28
  This little guy is somehow linked to Sangie's mind because it's out here doing
• 33:37
  all this shit. But we do go see that Sangi is all in,
• 33:44
  still in one piece, you get it. Oh my god. But no,
• 33:49
  he hasn't been like chopped up or anything. Because at first, later
• 33:52
  when like Nami starts to think, have you noticed his fighting style and she
• 33:55
  realizes that it resembles Sangie's fight style and the fact that he's like defending her
• 34:04
  specifically, I my heart dropped and I was like, oh my god,
• 34:08
  am I gonna have to like look at its face and figure out which parts
• 34:13
  of its face are fucking Sanie's features. That's so horrifying. I didn't think
• 34:21
  that this would be a permanent thing. I figure if he's turned into a
• 34:23
  zombie and he can be unturned from that. How don't ask me, but
• 34:27
  whatever, But eventually it's clear, like the eyes don't look like him.
• 34:34
  It's and the eyes, there's enough of that part of whoever's face it was
• 34:37
  taken off of that their eyebrows are there and we do not have the curly
• 34:40
  eyebrows. And other than that, there is nothing human about that face.
• 34:45
  And eventually we do see his body and he seems to be fully intact.
• 34:51
  So somehow Sangie's mind is linked. And I don't know if it's like because
• 35:01
  you know, we have this whole thing with their shadows being taken away.
• 35:07
  I'm wondering if that's the way, like what you get out of it,
• 35:12
  that if you take somebody's shadow, you get their abilities or they're like,
• 35:17
  it's not It doesn't make sense though, because there are still dudes with full
• 35:21
  consciousness walking around without shadows. It's not like they are going comatose or anything.
• 35:31
  I don't know. I don't know how this is happening. And it's
• 35:36
  not quite that Sangi is fully aware. He it's like this penguin has some
• 35:46
  some weird vestiges of Sangie's personalities and motivations, his ability to fight like instinctual
• 35:53
  stuff, his desire to protect women. But it doesn't know our friends when
• 36:00
  he when it looks at them, like he isn't going, oh my god,
• 36:05
  you guys. He is defending Nami because of his deep desire to protect
• 36:10
  women that for some reason is still there. But he is still attempting to
• 36:16
  fight us up and Chopper like everything is as it seems on the surface,
• 36:23
  which is to say that he is just their enemy, a zombie animal.
• 36:29
  So I'm really really curious to find out how this is happening. Um so
• 36:36
  this, uh, these creatures, these little animals. We have some really
• 36:39
  adorable ones and some really upsetting looking ones. There is a hippo who's like
• 36:46
  in a suit with a flared collar, and this this hippo dude really reminded
• 36:52
  me of the design in Spider Verse for mister Fisk. I don't know how
• 36:58
  many if you haven't watched into the Spider Verse, the animated Spider Man movie
• 37:02
  that came out like two years ago or three years ago, please do yourself
• 37:07
  the massive favor of watching that absolutely delightful movie. Gorgeous and very unique animation,
• 37:15
  a flawless script that is truly laugh out loud funny, and also a
• 37:23
  banger of a soundtrack, very very good soundtrack. But yeah, so we've
• 37:30
  got the hippo guy, We've got a sheet. We've got a amazing combo
• 37:36
  that works really well of a zebra and a kangaroo, which I love.
• 37:42
  Later when Who's up is about to fight it and he's like a kangaroo zebra
• 37:47
  or a zebra kangaroo? What do you like better? I don't know why,
• 37:52
  but him just being like, how how would you like me to refer
• 37:55
  to you? How do you identify? I think I love that of that
• 38:00
  so much, Thank you USA. We have a little guy that looks like
• 38:02
  a raccoon with a star around one eye, like he's like from Kiss,
• 38:08
  A huge hulking what looks like was originally a panda bear, but with this
• 38:15
  like tiny little almost cowlike face sewn on the front. Just a whole variety.
• 38:22
  There's what appears to be the face of like a dog or a fox
• 38:28
  on the body of a animal that seems tigerish but has the mane of a
• 38:34
  lion. And I really have to wonder how Oda comes up with these like
• 38:39
  does he just have a list of animal characteristics that are distinctive and he just
• 38:46
  like closes his eyes and just puts his pencil down and adds up whatever he
• 38:52
  clicks on. Like it's just really wild. But yeah, so this whole
• 39:00
  thing, we have each of our friends needing to fight in their own way.
• 39:05
  Nami runs across the weird dog one, usap faces off for a little
• 39:10
  while with the zebra just kangaroo, and eventually him and Nami wind up running
• 39:20
  off because Chopper says that he can hold these guys back, but there are
• 39:25
  kind of too many of them, and we get this a sort of hilarious
• 39:30
  chase scene where a bunch of the animals are pursuing Us up and Nami up
• 39:37
  and down these stairs that seem to go in a weird circle. I don't
• 39:40
  know if that's like part of the magic or if it's just a goof,
• 39:44
  but they end up making themselves surrounded, if that makes sense. Like they
• 39:52
  end up with some behind them and some in front of them, and they
• 39:54
  have to leap off onto some pillars, which all results in a eventually them
• 40:00
  leaping onto one that crumbles and they dropped down and wind up right with Chopper
• 40:07
  again. So the oh, there's so much with these animal guys, but
• 40:19
  what it comes down to is the whole thing with Sanji and figuring out that
• 40:23
  there's something up with one of these guys and Sanji is somehow connected to it.
• 40:29
  So going back to Lufy and Lufy Zoro Robin and Frankie, Zoro is
• 40:38
  now missing and they didn't notice him vanish, but of course we saw that
• 40:45
  he picked up on the fact that there was a weird spider thing, so
• 40:47
  we can assume probably that's what got him. And I do love There's a
• 40:52
  gag where there's this huge, hulking figure that comes walking out of the arc
• 41:00
  and it's in armor, and it turns out it's just Lufy that he saw
• 41:05
  armor and put it on, because of course you would. And Frankie is
• 41:08
  like, dude, what the fuck? How could you put armor on?
• 41:13
  What are you thinking? You scared the hell out of us, And Lufy
• 41:20
  is like, how could you not understand that, I'm like fulfilling the dream
• 41:25
  of every dude wearing a suit of armor. You pass a suit of armor
• 41:30
  and you fucking put it on, hello, to which Frankie actually apologizes and
• 41:38
  then say something about how even though he had to replace his heart, that's
• 41:44
  no replacement for a heart that's full of dreams. And we get him under
• 41:50
  the spotlight with his guitar again, and I forgot about this, and I
• 41:54
  didn't realize how much I missed Frankie singing a song for no reason. Realizing
• 42:01
  I've lost something so precious has blown a cold wind through the rusty cracks of
• 42:07
  my heart. I call this one steal Cyborg Traveler blues, and then the
• 42:14
  camera pans back over to their little pork friend, who says, I think
• 42:20
  you've forgotten the situation here genuinely funny, you guys. This guy is like,
• 42:27
  what is this? Is this a bit? What are you doing?
• 42:32
  So this is when we get to a really weird there's basically what looks like
• 42:44
  an arena, and there's a huge guy that's like a zombie inside of a
• 42:52
  suit of armor that blocks their way to even I think, like getting into
• 42:59
  the arena itself, or maybe they're they have just gotten through the door.
• 43:04
  But this guy fights Frankie. It's a tough like Frankie takes him down,
• 43:10
  but it's still like he knows he was in a fight after And the thing
• 43:16
  is he takes a guy down, but this dude can't die, and he
• 43:22
  can't get knocked unconscious and he doesn't experience pain, so he just stands up.
• 43:28
  And all of the other zombie generals wind up coming in, and it
• 43:34
  becomes very clear, very quickly that while under ordinary circumstances, these three guys
• 43:42
  could take out all of those dudes because they are zombified, they could just
• 43:49
  keep doing this all day. And Frankie is like, I mean, I
• 43:55
  can kick their asses, but keeping that up is really gonna wear us out.
• 44:01
  Like, I don't see how we get past these dudes, and I
• 44:06
  should mention too, Like a door slams behind them and locks them into this
• 44:10
  room and it's a zombie door, which I don't even know what that means,
• 44:16
  but I do know that he's got a big angry face stretched over the
• 44:22
  wall and it's really giving that character. And like the first Doctor who episode,
• 44:28
  well with the ninth Doctor now the first ever. So this whole I'm
• 44:37
  kind of jumping around here because there's so much going on, you guys,
• 44:40
  like genuinely, Oh, here we go. Here's another sighting of Pirona.
• 44:49
  We have her in the room. I think, when what happens to Zoro.
• 44:54
  Happens he gets pulled out. Oh, I said Maria wasn't in this
• 45:00
  episode, but of course this is Maria here that's grabbing him, is it.
• 45:05
  No? Maybe not start for Hogback. No, I think that's Maria.
• 45:08
  He's got the sharp teeth of Hogback, but his lower half that we
• 45:14
  see isn't. He isn't wearing the same outfit. I don't think the Hogback
• 45:17
  was wearing. I don't know, but either way, there's something real weird
• 45:22
  with like a light that shines and sort of makes it obviously scares Zoro and
• 45:30
  makes him like pass out and he gets tossed over onto the pile with Sanji.
• 45:39
  So the fight against all of these dudes, we eventually get a guy
• 45:45
  who clearly is like channeling Zoro's spirit, and he's wearing a shirt that says
• 45:54
  your song on it, which I really don't know what that's meant to be
• 46:00
  about, but it doesn't matter. I love the fact that he's like,
• 46:05
  I don't recognize you, and you are my sworn enemy, and Lufy is
• 46:09
  just like I am in a genuine sort of like oh that's interesting kind of
• 46:14
  way, and he says I'm going to cut you into little pieces, and
• 46:16
  Lufy says, man, you are a lot like Zoro, only dumber.
• 46:22
  And then something comes at Lufy from behind and he turns and this, uh,
• 46:30
  it's a weird moment. So he turns. Things cut and then you
• 46:38
  see like a backpack that comes sailing through what looks almost like a ventilation shaft.
• 46:44
  And I don't recall what this has to do with, but that's like
• 46:47
  the cut before. We then go to Frankie and Robin has gotten up towards
• 46:58
  the ceiling. She swoops in on like a rope, swings and tells Frankie
• 47:05
  to grab on and they start running, but like Lufy is still in there,
• 47:12
  which I thought was surprising that they don't attempt to, you know,
• 47:15
  eventually they're like where is he? And Frankie says something like he's really hard
• 47:21
  to see in this crowd with that armor on. But I thought it was
• 47:25
  weird that they begin running without checking on Lufy to begin with. Frankie tries
• 47:30
  to do like a fresh fire and they all use water to just douse it
• 47:36
  and it's no problem for them whatsoever. And the attack from rob and they
• 47:45
  get out of this room and they're on the bridge, y'all, I don't
• 47:52
  know how the door is open. Did he go? Oh? Okay,
• 47:57
  so thus said, I think Lufy was wearing the backpack. They took him
• 48:02
  and left his backpack. He got snatched. Oh that's what that meant.
• 48:08
  How did they get out of the room though? Did they get past these
• 48:15
  like because they're they're back to outside, and I know Robin like swooped Frankie
• 48:22
  up, but I don't know. Did she just go to another entrance in
• 48:27
  a different spot. It's not super clear for me. It doesn't matter that
• 48:31
  much. I was just sort of wondering because I'm looking at them now being
• 48:35
  in a whole other spot, and I'm like, wait, I know that
• 48:37
  they did get out, but I don't remember how that happened, and I
• 48:39
  don't see it on the screen. That's it's in a clear way. So
• 48:44
  yeah, as they're running at this point, they noticed that Lufy isn't there,
• 48:49
  and this is the moment where they hear his voice and they look up
• 48:53
  and there's this rope that is carrying a huge what do you call it?
• 49:00
  It's got a coffin wrapped in like spider silk, and it's moving across and
• 49:05
  Lufy is yelling for them to let him out, and they begin to try
• 49:08
  and like charge into the building that Lufy's being taken into, and they get
• 49:16
  interrupted by a giant spider monkey. Y'all, this thing is a horror.
• 49:29
  This is a true nightmare. All of these animals and creatures are upsetting,
• 49:37
  you know. Of course, this one, though, I could see being
• 49:40
  an actual, for real scary horror movie. I hate this thing. It's
• 49:50
  of course the combo of the monkeyishness with the spiderness. So it's not only
• 49:54
  got eight legs, but it also has fingers on its front legs, and
• 50:00
  it's got a monkeyish face. And I'll say it, I don't like monkeys.
• 50:08
  I'm just saying there are there I have, you know, strong feelings
• 50:14
  about certain animals, and then they're animals that I can take or leave,
• 50:20
  and then they're animals that I really just don't like. I could take or
• 50:24
  leave Pandas because they are just a drag. Pandas don't even want to still
• 50:30
  be alive anymore. They do the bare minimum and they fail at that.
• 50:35
  Honestly, they just want to die out. It seems pretty clear to me.
• 50:37
  So screw Pandas. I don't like them, Okay, monkeys I hate
• 50:45
  They're like the combination of the worst parts of animals and people. They're able
• 50:54
  to do more and smart enough to do more, but not quite smart enough
• 50:59
  to like really restrain themselves in a way that is, you know what I
• 51:04
  mean. So they're not only out here just like shitting into their own hand
• 51:08
  and chucking it at you depending on Like if you've got an ape, they
• 51:15
  will eat your face off and you could do nothing because they are so insanely
• 51:19
  strong, very scary. Don't like it. So this guy, I love
• 51:25
  his little introduction where he's just like, you've heard of spider monkeys before,
• 51:30
  and I am one. He's just so proud to like be this new creature.
• 51:37
  So he drops down in front of them, blocks their way and you
• 51:45
  know, monologues about how they have to get through him, and it's a
• 51:49
  whole villain moment. And then the sort of I'm trying to get to the
• 51:58
  spot here, you guys, because I'm running out of time, so I
• 52:01
  want to make sure that I talk about every moment that really matters. I
• 52:07
  feel like I've talked about Absalom and what's going on with him for the most
• 52:10
  part, that I don't really need to go any further into that. Oh
• 52:16
  we have I almost forgot you guys. Nami gets like picked up and carried
• 52:21
  off by Absalom. I thought I covered everything with him, but I forgot
• 52:24
  that. She gets gripped up. He is invisible at first, so her
• 52:30
  friends are like, oh, you can fly, and then he turns visible
• 52:34
  again and they realize what's going on, and she starts to tell him that
• 52:37
  he's a sick voyor who's treating her like a piece of meat, and she
• 52:43
  jabs him with the thing that Usa made her and electrocutes him, and it
• 52:47
  is pretty great. I really did a like fist pump at this scene.
• 52:54
  So she gets away from him and she's just like, keep running, don't
• 53:00
  stop. We have got to get out of here. Absalom, of course,
• 53:06
  is extremely agitated that she managed to get away with get away from him
• 53:13
  and the fact that he was trying to attack Nami that like Penguin who was
• 53:20
  defending her, is still kind of in that mode, and Absalom has to
• 53:25
  throw him into a wall. This is the point where Lola turns up and
• 53:31
  she is also running after Nami, and Nami's like hearing for the first time
• 53:37
  that she considers herself to be Absalom's wife, So you know, she's like,
• 53:45
  basically, give me my husband back. So back to the monkeys or
• 53:52
  the monkey I guess these. Let's see, it looks like that big web
• 53:59
  that caught the sunny when we came here was your work. If I'm not
• 54:02
  mistaken. This is Frankie talking. And I had forgotten all about that web
• 54:08
  and this monstrous monkey thing being the one that made that web. The fact
• 54:16
  that it can make a web so gross. I hate this. I don't
• 54:21
  know why it's so much grosser. I think it's because he's a mammal,
• 54:24
  you know, like he's got a mammal like face. So the idea of
• 54:29
  him making spider silk, it just feels like it's gonna have to be a
• 54:34
  lot more body fluid ish. Oh gross, gross gross. Anyway, he
• 54:45
  tells them that, you know, getting caught in that was the beginning of
• 54:50
  the end, and that they have been doomed from the start. There is
• 54:52
  a really weird moment where Robin says that his big ears must be good for
• 54:58
  collecting information, and he puts a hand to his ear and says, hum,
• 55:00
  what was that? I don't know if that's gonna like matter later,
• 55:05
  but it was like a weird, extremely dumb joke. There are also a
• 55:08
  couple of moments one their friends are getting picked off that Robin is saying something
• 55:15
  like maybe they're being strangled so they can't call for help, and then later
• 55:19
  I hope they still have all their limbs, and Frankie keeps yelling at her
• 55:22
  for being like really depressing, and it made me think about what you guys
• 55:25
  have said that Robin in the sub has a very dry sense of humor that
• 55:30
  is kind of like a bit we've got a bit of nihilism in there,
• 55:38
  and that it doesn't come across in the dub, and I think that is
• 55:44
  probably a moment where the sub might be funnier than the dub. But anyway,
• 55:52
  so the two of them realize that they are completely surrounded. Robin calls
• 55:58
  this worst case scenario and Frankie says, well, we need a last second
• 56:02
  miracle. Do you think I can handle it? And Robin says, I'd
• 56:07
  like to see you try put on a good show for me, which I
• 56:13
  was surprised by because it's not like she can't fight. She's sort of acting
• 56:15
  like you're just going to be the only one that does the thing. But
• 56:22
  it turns out what he intends to do is bust the bridge that they're standing
• 56:30
  on, that they have been cornered on. And the fucking spider Monkey in
• 56:37
  the dub you guys, the flawless line delivery. You can't break the Fraggan
• 56:45
  bridge, man like true indignation, and the Fragan makes it like it's just
• 56:57
  perfect. He's so he's like, we all agreed, I thought on the
• 57:01
  rules here. This is well outside of what I thought. Again, we
• 57:07
  were all operating on genuinely l old at that moment. And he says that's
• 57:15
  cheating, and everybody begins to slide downward. And this is when Frankie's like,
• 57:22
  all right, so what do you think of my plan? And Robin's
• 57:23
  like, well, it's violent, so it's got that going for it.
• 57:30
  Everybody begins to just fall through the air down to the ground. I'm assuming
• 57:35
  that the Spider Monkey is going to save himself by using spider silk to catch
• 57:37
  himself, but we see Robin falling above Frankie. First of all, I
• 57:44
  absolutely must mention that as she's falling toward him, the shadows of the animation
• 57:52
  like make it look like she's wearing a see through dress and that you can
• 57:57
  see her black underwear under the dress through it and it's just the shadows,
• 58:02
  but it is like a real optical illusion. She does sien flur, and
• 58:09
  these are arms that all come out of her body, out of her back
• 58:15
  and form into wings. Like it's so many arms. It's a really weird
• 58:22
  moment because you see very clearly that this is all arms. But then when
• 58:30
  she flaps the wings, it looks like feathers are coming off her or petals
• 58:35
  or something, and I know that she has the flower petal thing, so
• 58:38
  it's just like we just see that these wings are actually arms for a moment,
• 58:45
  and then the animation sort of puts that to the wayside because I'm sure
• 58:50
  that's way too much detailed to keep drawing over and over. So they pretty
• 58:53
  much just look like big fluffy wings from then on. And I loved that
• 59:02
  it turns out she can fly, but only for like five seconds, and
• 59:08
  not only is it like a short period of time, but obviously holding onto
• 59:13
  Frankie makes it extra difficult, so she's able to keep them aloft for just
• 59:19
  a second, and then Frankie uses his ability to like grab onto something with
• 59:25
  that big chain hand thing he's got going on, and Robin leaps off of
• 59:31
  him to safety on the balcony while Frankie has to like drag himself up,
• 59:38
  and he seems really salty about the fact that she was like using him as
• 59:44
  a stepping stone. But I don't really know what the other option was,
• 59:47
  like if you if she didn't do that, he'd have to haul her up,
• 59:53
  which I feel like she saved him some trouble, honestly, So I
• 59:58
  don't know. He asks for an apology and she just ignores it, and
• 1:00:01
  I feel like she is right to do so. So yeah, this is
• 1:00:07
  when he says, you can help me up at least, and she gets
• 1:00:10
  a look on her face and he says, what do you see something?
• 1:00:13
  And she's looking down. Oh, I forgot that. We see what happens
• 1:00:15
  to the spider. He landed. He didn't save himself, but he is
• 1:00:19
  still fine because duh, he's undead. I completely forgot, and the spider
• 1:00:25
  monkey is real man. He's basically like, I'm gonna get you for this.
• 1:00:30
  You realize I'm a spider. Give me two seconds and I'll be right
• 1:00:34
  there. All I'd start running if I were you. And there's something about
• 1:00:38
  the fact that he just like says that he can be there in two seconds
• 1:00:44
  that makes me think he can't be there in two seconds, but maybe I'm
• 1:00:49
  wrong. And then we hear laughter and we get pretty awesome, in my
• 1:00:57
  opinion, animation of what looks to be Brooke falling toward them at a great
• 1:01:04
  speed. I am just loving this animation. It's really reminiscent of camera work.
• 1:01:09
  You know, he is falling towards them, yelling at the top of
• 1:01:15
  his voice, and everybody is sort of like, do you see that?
• 1:01:21
  What is this? And then Brooke says, what do you call a flying
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  skeleton? Airbone? And then it just says to be continued. Y'all don't
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  know how bummed I was to have to press stop. I wanted so badly
• 1:01:43
  to watch the next episodes. I was just like, what an ending airbone
• 1:01:47
  warst stroke? I've ever heard most amazing entrance? And where has he been
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  all this time? What has he been doing? Why is he here now?
• 1:01:58
  Like that is a chef's kiss? Love it, love it all right,
• 1:02:04
  I've got to wrap up, but thank you guys so much for hanging
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  out with me. Thank you all so much for commissioning these episodes. What
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  a light in my life this show has become, and I hope y'all are
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  enjoying it as much as I have been enjoying it. Until next time,
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  did loom motherfucker's That was an unspoiled network podcast.