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One Piece, 894, 897 & 898 · Spoil Me! One Piece

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Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me,
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Speaker 1: covering one piece episodes eight ninety four, eight ninety seven,
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Speaker 1: and eight ninety eight, skipping over a couple filler episodes.
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Speaker 1: He'll Come, the Legend of Ace in the Land of Wano,
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Speaker 1: save O Tama, straw Hat Bounding through the Wasteland, and
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Speaker 1: the headliner Hawkins the Magician, appears in these episodes. Hawkins
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Speaker 1: is I I don't think I fully understand his deal.
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Speaker 1: I just don't. I just don't quite get it. Welcome
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Speaker 1: to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning this episode.
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Speaker 1: Florian is here in the chat with me. Appreciate you
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Speaker 1: very much, sir. This dude is wild. We knew we
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Speaker 1: knew about like the straw thing. I remember seeing this
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Speaker 1: and thinking how fucking weird and creepy it was. I
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Speaker 1: don't mean the men who like take damage for him,
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Speaker 1: because if I'm not mistaken, I don't think that we
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Speaker 1: knew about that, or if we did, I don't remember,
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Speaker 1: but I do remember the way that he can like
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Speaker 1: turn into straw in this odd It's something that there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of like weirdo powers that can look really
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Speaker 1: strange in one piece, obviously, but there was something about
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Speaker 1: the way this particular power looks that I remember just
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Speaker 1: making me feel very shaken. I remember just being like,
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Speaker 1: what the fuck and the way that I continued to
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Speaker 1: say what the fuck? As this episode goes on the
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Speaker 1: final of the three, I think my husband was in
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Speaker 1: the kitchen just kind of like, are you okay? And
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Speaker 1: I was like, no, no, I am not so all right.
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Speaker 1: Let's start with eight ninety four. He'll come the legend
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Speaker 1: of Ace in the Land of Wano. Now, guys, it's
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Speaker 1: something I meant to touch on, but because I was
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Speaker 1: covering the previous episodes with Florian, I got distracted because
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Speaker 1: I have fun recording with Florian, so I forgot to
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Speaker 1: bring this up. But there is a new theme song.
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Speaker 1: I don't have strong feelings about this theme song. I
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Speaker 1: don't dislike it. It's not a particular favorite of mine,
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Speaker 1: but I think maybe it'll grow on me. I've been
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Speaker 1: tending to sort of skip over the theme song when
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Speaker 1: I start the episodes lately, but I do try to
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Speaker 1: let it play when I'm in the mood to do it,
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Speaker 1: because I feel like it helps me get in the headspace.
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Speaker 1: You know, the previous episodes, those theme songs were not
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Speaker 1: the one for hole Cake because there was a different
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Speaker 1: theme song in between. I think that song was really
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Speaker 1: long and that I was just sort of like choosing
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Speaker 1: to skip a lot of the time because it just
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Speaker 1: went on a way while. But this one, it's like
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Speaker 1: it seemed more reasonable in length. I'm still doing the
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Speaker 1: thing where I try not to watch the credits because
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Speaker 1: evidently that will have spoilers in it still, so I'm
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Speaker 1: not doing that, but sorry. Florian's in the chat saying
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Speaker 1: his power has many layers, the one where you're like,
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Speaker 1: what do you even do with straw? Who wants that?
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Speaker 1: Which is exactly the question, you know what. I can't
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Speaker 1: allow myself to be distracted yet though. Okay, let's jump
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Speaker 1: over to the beginning of this episode, because like the
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Speaker 1: end of the last, is Loofy becoming friends with Otama,
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Speaker 1: who has this like ability to make dumplings. She's ate
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Speaker 1: like the dump dump fruit. I don't know, but he
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Speaker 1: stepped in and saved her from a couple of guys
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Speaker 1: that were going to I guess put her into slavery.
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Speaker 1: Is the implication here for daring to speak out against
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Speaker 1: their current ruling masters, and she is immediately very what's
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Speaker 1: the word I want? Friendly is not adequate because she
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Speaker 1: calls Loofy big bro. And it's sort of funny because
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Speaker 1: he reacts like did I miss something? How are you
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Speaker 1: already calling me big bro? Which I thought was sort
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Speaker 1: of surprising due to how immediately affectionate people often are
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Speaker 1: in this universe, So I was sort of like, what
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Speaker 1: do you mean? What does she mean? People are out
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Speaker 1: here doing this all the time. But the energy, as
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Speaker 1: we see later, is very much like she needs somebody
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Speaker 1: to care for her, and Lufy is obviously subconsciously baby
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Speaker 1: making her feel safe in the way that Ace made
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Speaker 1: her feel safe, and so she is like leaning into
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Speaker 1: him as a support in a way that I understand
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Speaker 1: I can't help but appreciate, you know, like she has
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Speaker 1: got somebody caring for her. But this dude is obviously
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Speaker 1: much more serious, much more. He just seems like less fun,
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Speaker 1: you know, and uh also clearly has like other shit
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Speaker 1: to do, because he's not around for a lot of this.
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Speaker 1: So she tells him I was on the way to
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Speaker 1: the market to help with doing some shopping when those
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Speaker 1: two big mean men with the baboon spotted me and
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Speaker 1: tried to hurt me. That's when Comacchio jumped in to
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Speaker 1: save me from them, and evidently like the decided to
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Speaker 1: hurt her. It's not clear exactly what the deal is is.
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Speaker 1: It just seems like they go out and just like
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Speaker 1: torment people and steal from them for the fun. There's
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Speaker 1: nothing in particular about why they targeted her other than
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Speaker 1: she's a little girl who has no means of really
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Speaker 1: defending herself and they were about to steal everything that
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Speaker 1: she had, which, as we find out later, Lufy does instead. Look,
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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not blaming loofy Okay, he didn't know,
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Speaker 1: but you know, so we'll get there. We'll get there.
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Speaker 1: But this is when she says the Kozuki Klan is
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Speaker 1: gonna come back and then you'll pay, because understandably, she
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Speaker 1: is really upset at her food being taken from her.
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Speaker 1: Everybody knows. If there's any podcaster that is going to
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Speaker 1: defend somebody getting angry, it is me. I feel you, girly,
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Speaker 1: you were right to get mad. It's totally fair. So
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Speaker 1: this story is very much leaving some things out about
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Speaker 1: the way that she has been living up to now,
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Speaker 1: it seems pretty clear she does not have very much
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Speaker 1: once you get to her home and the way that
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Speaker 1: things go. But I really I feel that she if
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Speaker 1: we're to believe that she is starving, I wish that
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Speaker 1: she had been drawn a little bit differently, because there
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Speaker 1: is a look about people who have been going through
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Speaker 1: this kind of hunger that we know Oda can do.
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Speaker 1: You know, we've seen it when we're in Sanjy's POV
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Speaker 1: where he is starving. And it isn't necessarily meant to
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Speaker 1: be like quite as a cute with her, But I
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Speaker 1: feel that if we're going to have a turn around
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Speaker 1: in her fate later where she is safe and well fed,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind getting to see an actual physical change
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Speaker 1: in her from maybe having more of a drawn expression,
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Speaker 1: maybe her clothes seeming a little bit loose on her,
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Speaker 1: any of these things, and then having her face sort
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Speaker 1: of fill out and be obviously more healthy, perhaps even
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Speaker 1: changing up whether her complexion looks good. You know, she
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Speaker 1: is really drawn out of the gate as in the
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Speaker 1: pink of health, And so like finding out that she
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Speaker 1: is starving is there are times where I want to
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Speaker 1: fault Lufy for not like picking up on context clues
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Speaker 1: and being kind of oblivious. But I can't do that here,
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Speaker 1: like it, there are certainly some clues, but it's not
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Speaker 1: to the extent that I feel angry at him for
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Speaker 1: not seeing it, you know. So anyway, so they go
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Speaker 1: and hide the sonny. He manages to actually like pull
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Speaker 1: it into this cave that's off the edge of the island.
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Speaker 1: My I mentioned last time, like all of my anxiety
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Speaker 1: surrounding this, and it turns out it seems like that's
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Speaker 1: going to be no problem whatsoever. Somebody could certainly find
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Speaker 1: the ship, but it would have to they would have
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Speaker 1: to know it was there, and it would have to
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Speaker 1: really be like a determined exploration of Okay, well he
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Speaker 1: was spotted around here, so we can zero when, you know.
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Speaker 1: So for now, I'm feeling pretty good about the sunny
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Speaker 1: being left. It's fine. She here's Lufy's stomach growling and
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Speaker 1: feels that she owes him. So each of them rides
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Speaker 1: one of these giant animals back to her house and
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Speaker 1: she says that she's like on the way that she's
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Speaker 1: met some good pirates, but they aren't all good, you know,
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Speaker 1: And he just says, if you say so, and doesn't
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Speaker 1: really like go like push further or ask any questions.
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Speaker 1: Later on, once he finds out who she's gotten to know,
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Speaker 1: it probably would have been prudent for him to ask
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Speaker 1: a few more questions about this. But he couldn't know
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Speaker 1: this either, So you know, I'm not in the habit
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Speaker 1: of defending Lufy's obliviousness, as you all know, but I
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Speaker 1: just really feel he can't be faulted for this at
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Speaker 1: this point. So this is when she says, we used
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Speaker 1: to live in the mountains, but now my master and
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Speaker 1: I live together, and I am going to be really
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Speaker 1: tough one day, and says that she's going to be
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Speaker 1: a bewitching ninja, which I am deeply curious what that means.
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Speaker 1: And as they're on this like cliff top looking out
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Speaker 1: over everything, we get a pan over some smoke stacks
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Speaker 1: in the distance, and then the stream which looks lovely.
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Speaker 1: All of this water and everything is like really clear
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Speaker 1: and glassy and looks delightful. And then we get a
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Speaker 1: montage of her very traditional way of preparing this rice,
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Speaker 1: which I'm so curious about, Like, how long do you
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Speaker 1: guys ever stop and think about this that the things
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Speaker 1: that are so simple and easy for us to do
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Speaker 1: with the snap of a finger. Used to take ages.
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Speaker 1: Every bit of our energy just went into like making
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Speaker 1: sure that we didn't starve to death. And now it's
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Speaker 1: weird because we've just managed to transform that same kind
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Speaker 1: of anxiety that used to exist surrounding simple survival and
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Speaker 1: just put it into a different type of anxiety about survival.
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Speaker 1: That's just it's just different, but in a way creates
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Speaker 1: just the same kind of stress. I don't know anyway,
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Speaker 1: So she is really carefully preparing everything loofy while he
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Speaker 1: is sitting waiting for this food, is looking around at
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Speaker 1: the walls which are in disrepair, the screens having holes
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Speaker 1: that are like taped up. There's a lot of like
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Speaker 1: indicators here that she doesn't have a lot of money.
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Speaker 1: One could point to this as like he should have known.
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Speaker 1: But you can have very little money and not be starving.
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Speaker 1: It's you know, like you can be struggling but still
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Speaker 1: able to share rice with somebody. So I'm not mad
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Speaker 1: about this. However, he does say something about how it's
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Speaker 1: kind of stinky and cramped in here, which I was
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Speaker 1: just like, sir, who why would you say that? He
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Speaker 1: laughs after he says it, but not in a way
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Speaker 1: that's like changing what he's said, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: I was sort of why lufy, just he'll just say things.
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Speaker 1: He does do that, but it's not exactly usual for
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Speaker 1: him to be quite that kind of rude, and I
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Speaker 1: was surprised at him. So she makes the rice, she
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Speaker 1: serves it to him in a very chipped, cracked bowl.
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Speaker 1: It is a pile of rice. I mean, it's at
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Speaker 1: least twice the size of the bowl itself, piled up.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, you guys, this made me want
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Speaker 1: rice really bad. I'm not great at making rice. I've
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Speaker 1: gotten a lot better over the past two years because
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Speaker 1: I have begun to like do some some additional steps
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Speaker 1: and whatnot that I didn't used to do. But uh,
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Speaker 1: a well made rice, I mean it's hard to beat.
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Speaker 1: And when she puts this in front of him and
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Speaker 1: it's steaming and everything, I was just like, oh, goddamn,
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Speaker 1: that looks so good. It's just rice, that's all it is.
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Speaker 1: I don't care. Plain rice is so good. So Lofy
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Speaker 1: eats all of this rice in about seven seconds and
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Speaker 1: eats it all up, is full for a millisecond, tells
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Speaker 1: her it's yummy, YadA YadA, and then it's gone, and
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Speaker 1: he's just like, that was really good. Can I have more?
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Speaker 1: And I will say that. He at the very least
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Speaker 1: notices she's not eating and asks like, aren't you gonna
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Speaker 1: have any And she's like, oh no, I'm good. I'm
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Speaker 1: not even hungry, and starts to do some things to
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Speaker 1: kind of cover up the fact that her stomach is growling,
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Speaker 1: which later on we see her like down at the
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Speaker 1: water and she is drinking the water even though she
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Speaker 1: knows that it's not good for her, because like, literally,
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Speaker 1: what choice does she have, but it's obviously a means
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Speaker 1: of her trying to fill her stomach, because this is
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Speaker 1: I am lucky enough. I have only experienced minor food insecurity.
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Speaker 1: It was when I was living by myself, but I
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Speaker 1: had parents that I knew if things got really bad,
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Speaker 1: I could go to them. I didn't. I had like
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Speaker 1: a backup safety net, which a lot of people don't.
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Speaker 1: More people don't than folks realize, I think, so I
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Speaker 1: have not personally experienced some of the types of like
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Speaker 1: food stretching that certain folks do. I remember a friend
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Speaker 1: of mine who grew up with like hunger being a
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Speaker 1: real issue, and she would talk about how the rare
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Speaker 1: times that they could like order pizza, her mother would
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Speaker 1: had convinced her and her brother that their mom liked
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Speaker 1: the crust the best. Actually, that was her favorite part
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Speaker 1: of the pizza, and so she would insist that the
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Speaker 1: kids get to eat like the good part, and she
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Speaker 1: just wanted the crust because that's like her favorite part.
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Speaker 1: And she just really managed to make them think that
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Speaker 1: was true because she wanted her children to be fed,
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Speaker 1: and she was just gonna, you know, and getting like
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Speaker 1: certain types of soup and getting cheap loaves of bread
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Speaker 1: and mashing the bread into the soup to give it
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Speaker 1: a thickness so that it would sort of fill you
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Speaker 1: up more than just the you know. And I know
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Speaker 1: that we all like will often crumble crackers into our
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Speaker 1: soup and whatnot. This is a different thing though. It's
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And the adding water to
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Speaker 1: the milk that you're pouring into the cereal to make
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Speaker 1: the milk stretch further, and the cereal obviously being like
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Speaker 1: some of the cheapest stuff that you could buy. This
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Speaker 1: is stuff I have not experienced, but I have close
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Speaker 1: friends who have and I just can't imagine what it
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Speaker 1: must be like having kids that like rely on you
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Speaker 1: and just feeding them is a struggle, Like that must
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Speaker 1: be so hard. So this is when he asks for more.
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Speaker 1: He says that it was just a joke once he
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Speaker 1: realizes that he doesn't that there isn't anymore, and he's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I don't I didn't really want any But then he
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Speaker 1: like licks the bowl, indicating very much, yeah, he does.
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Speaker 1: Her stomach growls and he looks at her, and before
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Speaker 1: she can like, before he can ask, wait, aren't you hungry,
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Speaker 1: she gets up and runs off, saying that she has
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Speaker 1: to go to the potty and that's why her stomach
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Speaker 1: is making this noise. Then we have a really odd
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Speaker 1: sequence where we're getting like close ups of all of
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Speaker 1: these weird parts of this person who we eventually meet.
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Speaker 1: Lufy mistakes them for USA for understandable reasons, because guy
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Speaker 1: has a very long nose. It's the mask that has
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Speaker 1: a long nose. But I his face moves when he's talking,
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Speaker 1: like the mask moves in such a way that I
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Speaker 1: know that this is like an animation choice, but it
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Speaker 1: did make me kind of go, wait, does his face
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Speaker 1: just look like that a couple times, you know. So,
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Speaker 1: Loofy is waiting for her and is sprawled out on
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Speaker 1: the floor, and this dude comes in and yells at
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Speaker 1: Loofy for laying out on his floor and for eating
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Speaker 1: the rice. Once he sees the bowl, there's a little
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Speaker 1: spot of like a grain of rice on Lufy's face,
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Speaker 1: and he loses his fucking shit in a way that's
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Speaker 1: deeply understandable when you know what's going on. But considering everything,
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Speaker 1: how the fuck was Lufy supposed to know? It's you know,
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Speaker 1: the kind of so anyway, Uh, he says something about,
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Speaker 1: do you know how many days it's been since she's
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Speaker 1: had a bite to eat? That poor girl weaves hats
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Speaker 1: day in and day out, and if she's lucky, she'll
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Speaker 1: sell the whole batch, earning her just enough money to
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Speaker 1: barely get by and feed herself. And as he's yelling
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Speaker 1: this at Loofy, he has like chased him outside, and
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Speaker 1: Lufy turns and begins to look around him and realize
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Speaker 1: that the buildings around him clearly reformer homes, have been
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Speaker 1: like desolated. Everything is in ruins. The trees have been
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Speaker 1: like yanked up by the roots. Most of the time
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Speaker 1: she's forced to eat millet, and that's if she's lucky.
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Speaker 1: But that's not the tragic part. She only gets rice
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Speaker 1: twice a year for New Year's and her birthday. I
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Speaker 1: sent her to the market today because she was to
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Speaker 1: buy herself a sack of rice for her eighth birthday
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Speaker 1: and you fucking ate it all. And Lufy just has
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Speaker 1: this flashback to how quickly too he downed all of
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Speaker 1: that food that was her only meal and her her
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Speaker 1: birthday meal. So this guy's name is hit Tetsu, Is
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Speaker 1: that right? I can't remember if I'm saying that right.
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Speaker 1: He's yelling at Lufy and oh god, I forgot her name. Otama.
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Speaker 1: She comes running in when she hears him yelling and
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Speaker 1: is like, you can't get mad at him. I gave
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Speaker 1: him the food because I owed him, and he saved
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Speaker 1: my life. I made this choice. We've more hats to
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Speaker 1: make it up to you. Please just don't be mad
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Speaker 1: at him. And at this point the camera finally pulls
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Speaker 1: back and we get to see that he is. Look,
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Speaker 1: he's standing on stilts, which they're like the rice patty
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Speaker 1: shoes that I have seen, which are sort of platform
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Speaker 1: but like the platform is three feet it looks like
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Speaker 1: probably and it does taper, so it really does have
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Speaker 1: a stilt like look. He has these green puffs that
23:47
Speaker 1: look sort of like moss that go down either side
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Speaker 1: of the vest that he's wearing. He's also got giant
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Speaker 1: wings and his sword blade has leaves around the edge
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Speaker 1: of the handle, the grip, the hilt. That's the one
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Speaker 1: I want, My god. Yeah, it's a very strange little
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Speaker 1: get up that he has got going on. It's like
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Speaker 1: he apparently can fly too, because we see him like
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Speaker 1: in the in mid air at one point, so I'm
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Speaker 1: assuming that those are functional wings. Right as she's yelling
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Speaker 1: at him to please understand, she starts coughing and she
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Speaker 1: vomits up water and then passes out, and he realizes,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, she was drinking the river water, and
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Speaker 1: Loofy is just like, what's wrong with drinking the river water?
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Speaker 1: And this guy is so pissed under Like again, I
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Speaker 1: understand from his perspective how frustrating it is that Lufy
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Speaker 1: has no idea what's going on here. But he can't know.
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Speaker 1: Come on, sir, please have a give him a little grace.
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Speaker 1: So he explains that the water on the island has
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Speaker 1: been polluted by Kaido's factory, which I'm not sure what
25:18
Speaker 1: these factories make, but my assumption is they're doing those
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Speaker 1: artificial dragon dragon fruits devil fruits. And because the water
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Speaker 1: is polluted, the animals who drink that water are basically
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Speaker 1: poisonous to eat. And because she is so small, if
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Speaker 1: she drinks the water, it affects her even more than
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Speaker 1: it would an adult. Understandably, so the fact that she
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Speaker 1: drank this much to try and ease her hunger pangs
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Speaker 1: is uh leading to her becoming really ill. And Lufy
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Speaker 1: is like, why are you living here if it's so
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Speaker 1: dangerous to hunt or eat anything? And this guy says
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Speaker 1: it's complicated. There are safer places, but she has chosen
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Speaker 1: to live here. She's waiting for a man who promised
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Speaker 1: he'd return. And when he says this, we get a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a view that made me kind of think, oh,
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Speaker 1: they're teasing us that this is Ace, but a maybe
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Speaker 1: it's not, and it just sort of looks like Ace,
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Speaker 1: or if it is Ace, Loofy won't find out that
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Speaker 1: it's Ace until a little later. We're getting a little
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Speaker 1: preview here. No we get told it's Ace very quickly.
26:49
Speaker 1: He almost immediately says to Lufy, he's a pirate that
26:54
Speaker 1: goes by Ace, and Lufy once again not really having
27:03
Speaker 1: any sensitivity because this guy is like later he says,
27:06
Speaker 1: have you no sensitivity? And I was like, no, of
27:09
Speaker 1: course he doesn't, what do you mean. Otama wakes up
27:14
Speaker 1: at one point and says something about Ace, and Lufy
27:17
Speaker 1: is like he's dead and just fucking tells her in
27:22
Speaker 1: the baldest terms and she cannot accept it. By the
27:28
Speaker 1: time we get to the third of these three episodes,
27:32
Speaker 1: she's still kind of not accepting that he is dead
27:37
Speaker 1: and keeps telling herself, but you promised me, Like the
27:42
Speaker 1: fact that Ace promised means that he can just avoid death,
27:45
Speaker 1: which I know she's only eight years old, but this
27:47
Speaker 1: is not an unheard of thing that I have heard
27:50
Speaker 1: in other fictions, people being like, but they promised, and
27:53
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I think you know that's meaningless. It's
27:57
Speaker 1: a I understand grief. It takes many different forms and
28:01
Speaker 1: that people react to different things different ways, but that
28:04
Speaker 1: is always one that I have just been like, what
28:07
Speaker 1: relevance does that have? Do you think they chose to
28:10
Speaker 1: break their promise and not come back to you, like,
28:12
Speaker 1: what are you even trying to suggest here? So at
28:19
Speaker 1: this point they like Lufy is talking to this guy
28:26
Speaker 1: because she has, you know, passed out, and Lufy is like,
28:30
Speaker 1: since you know Ace is gone, you guys should leave
28:34
Speaker 1: and go somewhere that's safer and better. And he says,
28:38
Speaker 1: I have no greater desire than to do that, but
28:41
Speaker 1: I too have been awaiting someone for quite some time.
28:47
Speaker 1: There are only two of us now, but this was
28:50
Speaker 1: once a village called Amigasa. Around a year ago, our
28:55
Speaker 1: peaceful little home was attacked by one of Caido's newly recruits,
29:00
Speaker 1: Rooted Headliners, Headliners being their names, is really weird, a
29:06
Speaker 1: pirate by the name of X Drake, and we get
29:10
Speaker 1: to see his little weird silhouette. The five samurai who
29:15
Speaker 1: protected our territory were soundly defeated. Our buildings were destroyed,
29:22
Speaker 1: and I sorry, I'm He says, like, uh because there's
29:32
Speaker 1: like a flashback here and you see like another one
29:35
Speaker 1: of these lizard mounts. But he says, presently, there's only
29:38
Speaker 1: one place in the land of Wano that still flourishes,
29:41
Speaker 1: the Flower Capital where shogun O Rochi resides. Everywhere else
29:48
Speaker 1: has been reduced to a lawless wilderness by the wicked
29:52
Speaker 1: acts of Caido and his followers. And that fiend came
30:00
Speaker 1: here four years ago. The people who lived here never
30:05
Speaker 1: had much, so when they took away what little we had,
30:09
Speaker 1: many of us succumbed to starvation. But then when all
30:15
Speaker 1: seemed lost, and we have a moment of oh my god,
30:22
Speaker 1: I almost called her Tomato, My guys, oh Tama, we
30:27
Speaker 1: have her like kneeling in front of what is clearly
30:30
Speaker 1: like the grave of one of her parents. He says,
30:34
Speaker 1: Ace washed ashore on our beach. Our villagers tied up
30:38
Speaker 1: all the weakened pirates and consumed their food and water supplies.
30:43
Speaker 1: We were desperate. It was our only means of survival.
30:48
Speaker 1: And I really love this. Ace takes one look at
30:52
Speaker 1: them all and is like, oh, yeah, these guys are
30:54
Speaker 1: in bad shape and does not hold it against them
30:59
Speaker 1: at all. He's tied up, but because of his powers,
31:02
Speaker 1: he's able to get out of that in a millisecond.
31:06
Speaker 1: And everybody is so afraid because like, oh, we just
31:09
Speaker 1: ate all your food. And he comes and he stands
31:12
Speaker 1: in front of Otama and he's like, oh, hey, did
31:15
Speaker 1: you get enough to eat? You probably want dessert, right,
31:20
Speaker 1: it's the best. I love it. It's so he's like,
31:25
Speaker 1: looks over at one of his friends and he's like, hey,
31:29
Speaker 1: where's cake. Let me get some cake. Stay put, I'll
31:35
Speaker 1: go find us something. We were all utterly stunned. Ace
31:40
Speaker 1: and his crew ended up staying with us for several weeks,
31:44
Speaker 1: and Otama grew particularly fond of him, and we see
31:50
Speaker 1: him making these hats with her. Unclear if he taught
31:55
Speaker 1: her how to make them or if she taught him
31:57
Speaker 1: how to make them, but they hit clearly got this bond,
32:02
Speaker 1: and it's just tragic that he was such a light
32:06
Speaker 1: in her life. And you know, when you're that young,
32:09
Speaker 1: it really feels like somebody has been hanging out with
32:12
Speaker 1: you for a while, when it's only a few weeks,
32:14
Speaker 1: like it feels like ages. And then he leaves, but
32:19
Speaker 1: he says he'll come back, and he doesn't, And now
32:23
Speaker 1: Lufy has just straight up told her he's dead. Ugh,
32:29
Speaker 1: poor oh Tuma. So Lufy obviously is like, are right, well,
32:36
Speaker 1: we clearly have to take her somewhere where there is
32:39
Speaker 1: food and a doctor, and I need to find the
32:42
Speaker 1: rest of my crew, and her master is like, well,
32:47
Speaker 1: I don't know how we're going to like pay for
32:50
Speaker 1: any of this, and Lufy's saying very confidently, well, if
32:56
Speaker 1: I find my crew will help for free, it's no problem.
33:00
Speaker 1: I was sort of expecting this guy to push back
33:02
Speaker 1: on that, but he doesn't, and I appreciated it because, like,
33:05
Speaker 1: we don't need to have this battle right now, you know.
33:10
Speaker 1: And then he brings up the men at Kory Beach.
33:13
Speaker 1: We lost communication with them. I su speculate someone may
33:17
Speaker 1: have taken them down. We're unsure how many pirates we're
33:23
Speaker 1: dealing with, but they must have come in from the
33:25
Speaker 1: outside world. So this is when we go over to
33:30
Speaker 1: Hawkins and he is writing this creature that also kind
33:34
Speaker 1: of looks like a lion but has the antlers of
33:38
Speaker 1: a deer, and Hawkins is telling his men to keep
33:45
Speaker 1: what's going on secret from Kaido, which is interesting. I'm
33:52
Speaker 1: really wondering if it's that he's going like would he
33:55
Speaker 1: get in trouble, would it be simply that he doesn't
33:59
Speaker 1: want Ido coming here and interfering, Like what is the
34:04
Speaker 1: danger in Kaido knowing cause we know that Kaido really
34:08
Speaker 1: wants a piece of loofy, like he's kind of fiending
34:14
Speaker 1: for a fight. So I feel that Hawkins, I don't
34:19
Speaker 1: know how mad. I don't know if you know how
34:22
Speaker 1: mad he might potentially be once he finds out that
34:26
Speaker 1: you've been hiding that Lufy is here, you know. I
34:28
Speaker 1: feel like that's more It's going to be more of
34:31
Speaker 1: a thing than you even realize. But anyway, so the
34:38
Speaker 1: next episode is all of us getting ready to travel,
34:44
Speaker 1: and by all of us, I mean Loofy and two
34:46
Speaker 1: other people to take her to a doctor and get
34:51
Speaker 1: some food. And we are riding on these awesome giant animals,
34:55
Speaker 1: which is very convenient, and Lufy is planning. He's like,
35:00
Speaker 1: gets into full garb of a robe and he's got
35:07
Speaker 1: a samurai sword that he just takes. He's like, hey,
35:11
Speaker 1: I can borrow this right and just takes it before
35:14
Speaker 1: the guy can even say anything. And he does take
35:16
Speaker 1: a little too long to respond, I will admit, but
35:20
Speaker 1: Lufy has decided to sort of blend in, and I
35:23
Speaker 1: was a little surprised that he had the foresight to
35:26
Speaker 1: do this feels almost out of character, but I guess
35:33
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm thinking now, maybe there was something that
35:37
Speaker 1: her master said that tipped him off that he wanted
35:39
Speaker 1: to kind of stay undercover. I don't remember, Florian says,
35:44
Speaker 1: she taught him later he made a hat for Ors Junior,
35:48
Speaker 1: as we learn in the Marine Force battle. This is
35:51
Speaker 1: where he learned it. Oh, I do not remember that,
35:55
Speaker 1: but Florian says, I think Lufy just wants to be
35:59
Speaker 1: a cool samurai. That's understandable. Okay, I feel that, But yeah,
36:06
Speaker 1: this sword is apparently in heirloom. It's like one of
36:09
Speaker 1: the legendary swords. They're fifty fine grade and twenty one
36:15
Speaker 1: Excellent grade and twelve supreme grade blades. Kittetsu in particular
36:22
Speaker 1: has a rich folklore behind it. And he opened like
36:27
Speaker 1: he's like getting real into his subject closes his eyes
36:30
Speaker 1: and he opens them and movie's fucking gone, which is correct.
36:35
Speaker 1: It's just, sir, I don't know who you think you're
36:39
Speaker 1: dealing with, but I feel like at this point it
36:41
Speaker 1: should really be self evident. So Hittetsu runs after him
36:46
Speaker 1: and tries to be like, I forbid it, and Lufy says, fine,
36:50
Speaker 1: then give me that one and tries to take the
36:52
Speaker 1: one that is at his waist, and he says, the
36:55
Speaker 1: one you have is cursed. It's a ghastly thing. You
36:59
Speaker 1: don't want to wield. That whoever does will face misfortune,
37:03
Speaker 1: which is that the one that Zoro had. I feel
37:10
Speaker 1: like I remember the sword that Zoro winds up with
37:13
Speaker 1: had been allegedly cursed, right, is this an additional cursed
37:17
Speaker 1: one or is the same one? Did Zorro get his
37:20
Speaker 1: own sword back? I can't remember what even happened there,
37:22
Speaker 1: because I know they took custody of it when he
37:24
Speaker 1: was arrested. So we begin heading out. Or Otama wakes
37:37
Speaker 1: up and she is just like freshly hit by the
37:42
Speaker 1: grief of realizing that Ace is gone and is just crying.
37:47
Speaker 1: And I'm wondering, now, maybe he TETs his wings don't work,
37:51
Speaker 1: because like he's just sitting there yelling at Lufy for
37:55
Speaker 1: running off, but he doesn't even try getting up into
37:58
Speaker 1: the air and flying after him. So maybe the decorative
38:01
Speaker 1: I don't really know what the dealer is with them,
38:03
Speaker 1: but okay, okay. So we're getting on the road, and
38:12
Speaker 1: as o Tama begins to cry thinking about Ace, we
38:16
Speaker 1: have the flashbacks of the relationship that she had with
38:20
Speaker 1: all of them, and the way that they said goodbye,
38:24
Speaker 1: and how Ace promised that he was going to come back,
38:28
Speaker 1: And you know, I believe that he meant that shit
38:31
Speaker 1: for sure, but she is sort of taking it out
38:34
Speaker 1: on Loofy, which he accepts with good grace, just lets
38:37
Speaker 1: her grab at him, stretch his face out as she's
38:41
Speaker 1: just yelling at him. And then they reach the end
38:45
Speaker 1: of the forest and they wind up in what is
38:49
Speaker 1: definitely a wasteland. The foot of the dog hits a
38:55
Speaker 1: skull to just signal, yeah, here's the point where everything
38:59
Speaker 1: begins to just and he's looking out and it's just like, God, damn,
39:06
Speaker 1: this really is a wasteland. It's all of these dead trees,
39:11
Speaker 1: there's like some crows around, and in the distance all
39:16
Speaker 1: of these different smoke stacks that are just pouring black
39:20
Speaker 1: smoke into the air, and yeah, this, like the whole
39:28
Speaker 1: thing is just a really bleak image. We have a
39:35
Speaker 1: little interstitial moment, and when we come back, we're actually
39:41
Speaker 1: back in town and we're dealing with fucking Zoro. Everybody
39:49
Speaker 1: is talking about how they haven't caught the Slasher yet,
39:52
Speaker 1: even though Slasher is dead. But you know, there there
39:58
Speaker 1: was no proof when Zorro ca that guy, so they
40:01
Speaker 1: can't there's no reason to believe him. But obviously all
40:04
Speaker 1: of these homes are being searched for him, and we
40:09
Speaker 1: see that Zoro himself is like off camping and hunting
40:15
Speaker 1: and eating lots of these various animals that he has killed,
40:21
Speaker 1: and doesn't he comments later when he's talking to Loofy,
40:27
Speaker 1: how incredibly great the hunting, is not really thinking that
40:32
Speaker 1: maybe there's a reason all of these animals are available
40:37
Speaker 1: when there is a population that could be eating them
40:40
Speaker 1: and nobody else seems to be out hunting them themselves,
40:43
Speaker 1: you know. And obviously the meat does not actually taste
40:48
Speaker 1: like there's anything wrong the uh, I'm sorry, guys, it
40:53
Speaker 1: just got distracted for a second because there is there
40:56
Speaker 1: was a roll of thunder. I don't know if you
40:57
Speaker 1: heard that, but my dogs were outside, and so now
41:00
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like, do I need to go grab them?
41:03
Speaker 1: I only have fifteen minutes left on this episode, so
41:06
Speaker 1: I'm just sort of keeping an eye out. But I
41:12
Speaker 1: was sort of wondering if the meat was going to
41:14
Speaker 1: taste like it was infected. Is the wrong word tainted?
41:19
Speaker 1: I guess is the word I want? And it seems
41:23
Speaker 1: not because Loofy has to warn him later and he
41:29
Speaker 1: is like, oh, that makes sense. My stomach has been
41:32
Speaker 1: hurting me and even though Lufy says to him, yeah,
41:35
Speaker 1: the meat's poisoned, he just starts eating it himself, and
41:40
Speaker 1: I was like, sir, please, But I kind of understand
41:44
Speaker 1: it when something is you know, going to be bad
41:49
Speaker 1: for you down the road, but you're hungry now, spoken
41:53
Speaker 1: like a true person who struggles with eating, it can
41:57
Speaker 1: be difficult, you know. So anyway, sorry, Florian says, Zoro
42:06
Speaker 1: has the sister blade from the same line. Okay, cool.
42:11
Speaker 1: So Zoro runs into some villagers who are making trouble
42:20
Speaker 1: for this woman. I'm trying to get to the spot
42:23
Speaker 1: where this even happens because it's such a weird thing.
42:28
Speaker 1: The she's like running from them and they're chasing her on.
42:34
Speaker 1: They keep calling them lizards, but they look like fucking dinosaurs,
42:38
Speaker 1: and the fact that the people are just riding dinosaurs.
42:41
Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of this, but this
42:44
Speaker 1: lady is running. It is unclear what these guys are doing.
42:51
Speaker 1: If it's like, oh, she said something that was against
42:54
Speaker 1: our you know, ruling government as well, and so oh
43:00
Speaker 1: this is our pretense to I feel like, because she
43:05
Speaker 1: is pretty, that maybe there's this sort of underlying suggestion
43:10
Speaker 1: of they were going to sexually assault her, perhaps that
43:14
Speaker 1: they're just terrorizing her because she's beautiful and she's screaming
43:21
Speaker 1: for help. Zoro steps in, and not only is he
43:25
Speaker 1: just like totally willing to fight them on the principle
43:27
Speaker 1: of the thing. When he was eating that meat earlier,
43:31
Speaker 1: he wanted some sake to go with it, and he
43:34
Speaker 1: spots that one of these guys has clearly got a
43:36
Speaker 1: jug that's like hanging at his waist, and Zorro's like, oh,
43:41
Speaker 1: nice sake, Yeah, I'll take that. So once he has
43:45
Speaker 1: these two men soundly beaten, which does not take long,
43:49
Speaker 1: this woman just watches as he chugs this sake like
43:52
Speaker 1: it's water, and I just really want to know how.
44:00
Speaker 1: I guess he's got a belly full of meat, and
44:02
Speaker 1: so that probably helps keep it from becoming too much
44:05
Speaker 1: of an issue. But I definitely was like, sir, you
44:09
Speaker 1: were really gonna that it's coming back up if you don't,
44:12
Speaker 1: if you're not a little bit careful about this whole
44:14
Speaker 1: thing anyway. So this is when Lufy, like from far away,
44:20
Speaker 1: spots Zoro and yells and it's so great. I just
44:24
Speaker 1: really enjoy Zorro is so taciturn and stoic, so much
44:30
Speaker 1: of the time, any moment where he shows some real
44:34
Speaker 1: excitement about anything other than fighting somebody is enjoyable. And
44:40
Speaker 1: so him seeing Lufy and being really excited and it's
44:43
Speaker 1: just like you made it. It was just a really
44:45
Speaker 1: nice moment. And Lufy like catapults himself off of the
44:50
Speaker 1: dog and jumps on Zorro with his entire body, and
44:55
Speaker 1: Zorro's like, is everybody with you? And Lufy's like, yeah,
44:58
Speaker 1: but we got split up. They're okay, And then he
45:02
Speaker 1: sniffs and this is when he's like, I smell meat,
45:05
Speaker 1: Give me a snack, gimme, gim me, gimme, gimme. Tells
45:08
Speaker 1: him that the snack is not safe, but then goes
45:11
Speaker 1: ahead and eats it anyway. So at this point is
45:18
Speaker 1: when Hawkins arrives, and Hawkins is I'm still trying to
45:28
Speaker 1: really understand, because he asks Loofy, are you the one
45:32
Speaker 1: that's behind the assault on that beach? Because I've lost
45:36
Speaker 1: two subordinates and a baboon And he has these cards
45:41
Speaker 1: that are telling him the likelihood he was behind the
45:44
Speaker 1: attack is ninety eight percent, which you know, needless to say,
45:49
Speaker 1: this is not how tarot cards work, but I accept
45:55
Speaker 1: that they work differently for him because this is a
45:57
Speaker 1: whole different thing. And Hawkins draws his blade and is
46:02
Speaker 1: just like, all right, well, straw Hat is here, It's
46:06
Speaker 1: time to deal with this fucking problem. And he begins
46:09
Speaker 1: to approach and Lufy and Zoro standing next to each
46:13
Speaker 1: other in their awesome gear with their swords. When Loufy
46:21
Speaker 1: has this sword, of course, the first thing Zoro thinks
46:25
Speaker 1: is like, uh, you're you're not a sword guy. I'm
46:28
Speaker 1: a sword guy. What's the deal with that sword? You
46:32
Speaker 1: should let me have it? You guys. This is so
46:36
Speaker 1: funny because at one point when he's like, just give
46:40
Speaker 1: it to me, Lufy literally says never, like the voice
46:46
Speaker 1: actor for the Dubs says it in that way, and
46:49
Speaker 1: I genuinely laughed because there was something about it that
46:51
Speaker 1: was so it felt almost like Marv in the second
46:56
Speaker 1: Home Alone movie, which I do not like the second one,
46:59
Speaker 1: but there are moments so they are arguing about this
47:05
Speaker 1: sword for a little bit. Loofy refuses to hand it
47:09
Speaker 1: over and insists that he is going to make spaghetti
47:12
Speaker 1: out of these guys shred them up, but jumps into
47:15
Speaker 1: this fight and really, look, Zoro keeps saying you're using
47:19
Speaker 1: it wrong. That's not how you're supposed to do it.
47:22
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure you're right, Zoro, but Lufy looks
47:27
Speaker 1: like he's doing okay. I don't know, he looks like
47:33
Speaker 1: he's doing okay. I just think maybe it's not ideal
47:38
Speaker 1: the way that he's using it. But what's going on
47:42
Speaker 1: is very much Zoro wanting Lufy to not be using
47:45
Speaker 1: it right because Zora wants it. That's what's really happening here,
47:49
Speaker 1: which I do understand. So anyway, they get so caught
47:56
Speaker 1: up in yelling at each other about this sword that
47:59
Speaker 1: eventually Hawkins just says kill them to his own men,
48:02
Speaker 1: and both of them are like, oh right, Hawkins is here,
48:05
Speaker 1: which is truly a funny moment. Loofy chucks the scabbard
48:10
Speaker 1: at them first for some reason, and then we have
48:14
Speaker 1: the cavalry coming in. They are not on horses, I
48:17
Speaker 1: will remind you. They are basically on dinosaurs, and Loofy
48:21
Speaker 1: does gum gum pistol, but he just happens to be
48:25
Speaker 1: holding a sword. It's not like he's using the blade,
48:28
Speaker 1: which is what I think Zorro takes issue with. But
48:32
Speaker 1: I think it's fine. He's having a good time. Just
48:34
Speaker 1: let him have a good time. And the fight itself
48:38
Speaker 1: is it's not like, this is not what I'm particularly
48:45
Speaker 1: interested in all of these other guys. What I am
48:48
Speaker 1: interested in talking about now is Hawkins, because there comes
48:53
Speaker 1: a point where we land a killing blow and Hawkins
48:57
Speaker 1: sort of slumps, but then the guy behind him just
49:03
Speaker 1: suddenly there's a gash that opens across his torso and
49:07
Speaker 1: he drops to the ground dead, and Hawkins just sits
49:11
Speaker 1: up and it's just like, oh word, that was a
49:13
Speaker 1: hell of a shot, and they're like, what the fuck?
49:17
Speaker 1: And then we get the sequence that really had me unnerved.
49:20
Speaker 1: Kids because Hawkins. I remember the straw thing, right, I do.
49:26
Speaker 1: But Hawkins' arm, it's clearly made a straw, but something
49:31
Speaker 1: begins to like poke its way out. This is just
49:36
Speaker 1: really upsetting. I don't like it. It's a tiny little
49:40
Speaker 1: figure that bears a strong resemblance to like a voodoo doll,
49:45
Speaker 1: and clearly that's sort of what we're doing, is the
49:47
Speaker 1: occult thing with him voodoo dolls. We've got the tarot
49:51
Speaker 1: cards already, you know. I am sure that there are
49:55
Speaker 1: going to be other things that we wind up bringing
49:56
Speaker 1: into the mix. But for now. This is what we're doing,
50:01
Speaker 1: and this doll is one of ten I think that
50:06
Speaker 1: he has at this point. I don't know if ten
50:09
Speaker 1: is the maximum that he can make, or if it
50:13
Speaker 1: just happens to be that he has ten right now.
50:16
Speaker 1: But he can take a hit that is a mortal blow,
50:22
Speaker 1: and that damage will be transferred to one of his subordinates,
50:28
Speaker 1: who will die instead of him. I am not clear
50:34
Speaker 1: on whether the subordinates are aware that they are expendable
50:40
Speaker 1: in this way. I don't know if they know that
50:43
Speaker 1: they are on the table. I have to assume at
50:47
Speaker 1: this point they've seen this guy's power in action, so
50:52
Speaker 1: they must know. But that's really all I've got as
50:58
Speaker 1: far as evidence is like Otherwise, it could simply be
51:03
Speaker 1: maybe this guy doesn't take killing blows all that often
51:06
Speaker 1: and they haven't actually gotten to see it in action.
51:10
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I just look. I don't want
51:16
Speaker 1: to get too preoccupied in what the power itself is,
51:19
Speaker 1: despite the fact that it is quite cool, because I
51:23
Speaker 1: feel like we need to spend a good amount of
51:25
Speaker 1: time on the part that got me, which was the
51:28
Speaker 1: look of it. This little voodoo doll digging its way
51:33
Speaker 1: out of the straw of Hawkins's arm really distresses me.
51:39
Speaker 1: I do not like this. It's so creepy looking. The
51:42
Speaker 1: thing comes out looking like weirdly shriveled in a way,
51:48
Speaker 1: you know, which makes sense as we're indicating that here's
51:51
Speaker 1: one life down. You know. It's just something about it,
51:58
Speaker 1: like pushing its way out of his insides that feels
52:04
Speaker 1: like I shouldn't be able to see this. I don't
52:06
Speaker 1: want to watch this, you know. And then there's the
52:09
Speaker 1: whole aspect of the cards themselves. So the whole the
52:18
Speaker 1: thing with the tarot cards is that he sort of
52:25
Speaker 1: seems to be using them as a instruction. I'm trying
52:32
Speaker 1: to think how to say this, because he says to
52:34
Speaker 1: like Lufi and Zoro, do you want to play a game?
52:38
Speaker 1: And he draws a card and it's the Fool reversed,
52:44
Speaker 1: and he says, oh, that's a shame. The fool reverse
52:53
Speaker 1: indicates internal strife, I think, is the way he phrases it,
52:59
Speaker 1: which which isn't exactly true actually, but you know whatever,
53:06
Speaker 1: And this leads to some of his men dying. I
53:11
Speaker 1: don't remember if he kills them himself or what, but
53:14
Speaker 1: it's like he interprets the fact that the card he
53:17
Speaker 1: draws like means a certain thing to be that now
53:21
Speaker 1: he has to do the thing the cards said. But
53:25
Speaker 1: I think the way he sees it is the card
53:28
Speaker 1: is like telling me the future and what will happen,
53:34
Speaker 1: even though from my side of things, it looks like
53:37
Speaker 1: you're letting the cards dictate your own actions, which is
53:42
Speaker 1: a very real thing that happens when you try and
53:44
Speaker 1: deal with people who believe in fortune telling stuff, that
53:48
Speaker 1: they can begin to think that they have no choices
53:51
Speaker 1: or they will make choices that lead to a thing happening,
53:53
Speaker 1: and then try and act like the cards and told
53:56
Speaker 1: me this would happen, And it's like, well, you made
53:59
Speaker 1: a serioes of choices after finding out what the card
54:01
Speaker 1: said that led to a thing, and that's not at
54:04
Speaker 1: all the same. Actually, now, I just want to make
54:10
Speaker 1: it clear for my end. I actually think that tarot
54:13
Speaker 1: cards are quite useful, but I don't see them as
54:16
Speaker 1: telling the future. I see tarot cards as a way
54:18
Speaker 1: for you to like connect with your own internal like
54:25
Speaker 1: what's the word I want? Like your gut instinct. We
54:29
Speaker 1: often kind of know the answer to our own questions,
54:32
Speaker 1: but we don't slow down enough to let ourselves hear
54:35
Speaker 1: the answer, and using taro is just a really good
54:38
Speaker 1: way to make yourself stop and focus and listen to
54:42
Speaker 1: what your like greater like subconscious, I guess is telling you.
54:51
Speaker 1: And by no means am I an expert in taro
54:56
Speaker 1: at all. By the way, I know some of what
55:00
Speaker 1: things mean. There is a certain pattern to what certain
55:04
Speaker 1: numbers represent and what certain symbols represent that makes it
55:07
Speaker 1: easier as you go along to understand. But it is
55:13
Speaker 1: the meaning of the cards is loose enough that another
55:17
Speaker 1: card being drawn at the same time can change the
55:20
Speaker 1: context all of this stuff. The way that it's being
55:23
Speaker 1: played in the show is a much more decisive meaning.
55:31
Speaker 1: The fool reversed, which he says means internal strife, actually
55:38
Speaker 1: tends to mean like it signals that you are walking
55:43
Speaker 1: into something with a naivete and a blind optimism and
55:50
Speaker 1: you are about to walk right off a cliff because
55:52
Speaker 1: you're not paying attention. The fool, much like death, is
55:57
Speaker 1: not an inherently negative card at all. It just indicates
56:00
Speaker 1: a certain archetype and a certain mental headspace. So the
56:07
Speaker 1: fool really is loofy I mean, in my opinion, But
56:12
Speaker 1: because he is like that blind optimism is kind of
56:15
Speaker 1: his hallmark. You know, there's not that doesn't necessarily mean
56:20
Speaker 1: a bad thing, but it can if it's taken to
56:22
Speaker 1: a certain extreme. And I'm trying to remember what it
56:27
Speaker 1: is that he draws later, I think he's it's the
56:30
Speaker 1: higher Refhant reversed, and the higher refin usually represents somebody
56:34
Speaker 1: who is almost always a spiritual leader, and somebody who
56:40
Speaker 1: follows the rules and is less guided by their internal
56:48
Speaker 1: subconscious or morals and more by traditions and rituals and
56:55
Speaker 1: practices that are already in place. But he said this
57:01
Speaker 1: indicates pursuit the fool I could understand, interpreting it as
57:09
Speaker 1: internal strife. The pursuit I don't see at all, So
57:13
Speaker 1: you know, it does not matter. I'm just wanting to
57:15
Speaker 1: in case anybody out there is wondering. But yeah, so
57:20
Speaker 1: it's just an odd thing where he's like standing there
57:24
Speaker 1: as Lucy and Zorro take off and apparently is not
57:28
Speaker 1: going to chase them until he draws this particular card
57:32
Speaker 1: and then is like, oh, okay, so I should chase them. Then,
57:38
Speaker 1: you guys, this thing that he manifests is the worst.
57:46
Speaker 1: It sucks. I hate it. I don't know what it's called,
57:50
Speaker 1: but it's like a straw man that hovers over him
57:56
Speaker 1: in this sort of cloud. I believe he is supposed
58:00
Speaker 1: to be made entirely of straw. He does not look
58:03
Speaker 1: like he is, because he's got a lot of color
58:05
Speaker 1: variation and whatnot. I would venture that this thing, as
58:13
Speaker 1: upsetting as it is to look at from just here,
58:19
Speaker 1: if it had chosen to illustrate it a different way,
58:22
Speaker 1: could have been even creepier. But they don't go that way,
58:27
Speaker 1: which is fine. It just is also exactly Florian's in
58:36
Speaker 1: the chat saying the sound it makes haunts me. This
58:39
Speaker 1: is something that, because it doesn't actually say anything in words,
58:44
Speaker 1: I expect that the sound I got from the dub
58:47
Speaker 1: is the same as the sound in the Japanese version.
58:51
Speaker 1: But you guys, it is a weird fucking noise and
58:54
Speaker 1: it's like it's described as laughing, but it doesn't sound
59:00
Speaker 1: like that to me. It's I don't even know how
59:06
Speaker 1: to describe it. It's it's almost sounds like something on
59:12
Speaker 1: a speaker that's like breaking up. And you know when
59:16
Speaker 1: you use like a bluetooth that's got a bad connection,
59:19
Speaker 1: or you have the speaker in one room, but the
59:23
Speaker 1: phone's in your pocket and you start to walk away
59:26
Speaker 1: and it begins to like break up. It's got that
59:29
Speaker 1: sort of weird quality to it, and it's also a
59:35
Speaker 1: like electronic noise. Like the sound is not natural. It
59:40
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like the kind of noise that comes out
59:42
Speaker 1: of a human throat. It also doesn't sound like the
59:45
Speaker 1: kind of noise that would be produced by anything like
59:49
Speaker 1: straw or hay. So I don't I don't know, but
59:56
Speaker 1: it's very, very unsettling. And yeah, this thing, it's got
1:00:03
Speaker 1: like these weird I'm trying to think what the word
1:00:08
Speaker 1: is that I want here. It's my assumption because like
1:00:15
Speaker 1: he uses his weapon, the straw weapon to take down
1:00:21
Speaker 1: a bunch of dudes like on his own side. One
1:00:24
Speaker 1: of them is he takes out a lizard mount and
1:00:29
Speaker 1: I really felt bad for this poor lizard. It's on
1:00:32
Speaker 1: his side and he just like punches a hole in
1:00:35
Speaker 1: it in such a way. And you know, this is
1:00:39
Speaker 1: all like going down as Loofy and Zorro are on
1:00:45
Speaker 1: the back of the dog and fleeing because the little
1:00:49
Speaker 1: girl is sick and they are trying to get her
1:00:52
Speaker 1: to a doctor before it gets worse. And the dog
1:00:55
Speaker 1: is starting to freak out a little bit because they've
1:00:58
Speaker 1: been delayed by this fight, and she's getting worse. So
1:01:01
Speaker 1: it's sort of like pawing at the ground and looking
1:01:04
Speaker 1: at them like, hey, can we fucking get a move
1:01:06
Speaker 1: on here, let's go, let's go. So they're fighting like
1:01:08
Speaker 1: from the back of the dog in you know, lufy
1:01:12
Speaker 1: is like punching into the air and whatnot. And uh,
1:01:18
Speaker 1: the the way that this straw creature it's got like
1:01:23
Speaker 1: fingers that end in knots and then these nails that
1:01:27
Speaker 1: go through the knots. It's so odd, you know. And
1:01:32
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that this is again sort of tying to
1:01:34
Speaker 1: the voodoo thing, where it's like you drive pins into
1:01:39
Speaker 1: the voodoo doll in order to inflict pain on whomever
1:01:42
Speaker 1: that doll is supposed to represent. So I think that's
1:01:44
Speaker 1: supposed to be where this is like coming from. And
1:01:47
Speaker 1: also it's got these beads that are around its neck
1:01:51
Speaker 1: and whatnot. Sorry, guys, I just got distracted thinking it
1:01:56
Speaker 1: was raining. It's not. It's fine, but I'm assuming that
1:01:59
Speaker 1: the beads have some other meaning. Perhaps that is, like,
1:02:06
Speaker 1: what's the word I want? A cult as well, But
1:02:08
Speaker 1: I don't know, Florian says, I would call it a
1:02:12
Speaker 1: straw demon. I think that's fair. Yeah, it's just later
1:02:17
Speaker 1: it actually has like a weapon that it draws that's
1:02:21
Speaker 1: like a big mace with pins coming off. It looks
1:02:25
Speaker 1: like almost like Lucille the baseball bat wrapped in barbed
1:02:30
Speaker 1: wire the Megan uses in The Walking Dead. This creature,
1:02:36
Speaker 1: just sufficed to say, is really upsetting. I don't like
1:02:39
Speaker 1: it and the way that it can just swoop down
1:02:42
Speaker 1: in how huge it is really makes it feel like
1:02:45
Speaker 1: our guys don't stay at a fucking chance, and I
1:02:48
Speaker 1: know that they do, but this is probably this is
1:02:55
Speaker 1: one of the more effective introductions to a power that
1:02:59
Speaker 1: we have seen in a while. Dude is truly intimidating.
1:03:04
Speaker 1: And yeah, so that's how the episode ends, is it's
1:03:10
Speaker 1: like bearing down on them as they're trying to flee
1:03:13
Speaker 1: at top speed and it just is laughing with that
1:03:16
Speaker 1: fucking voice. And that's the end of the episode. So
1:03:20
Speaker 1: I didn't care for it at all, Just going on
1:03:23
Speaker 1: record saying that, Yeah, I really liked these episodes though,
1:03:29
Speaker 1: and I am super I really feel for Otama being ill,
1:03:35
Speaker 1: and I hope that we find like, look, anytime that
1:03:38
Speaker 1: things are about people who are like impoverished. It's always
1:03:42
Speaker 1: going to get to me and I want this fucking fixed.
1:03:46
Speaker 1: And there's not an easy way to fix pollution that sucks.
1:03:51
Speaker 1: So I don't know how we fix this, but we
1:03:53
Speaker 1: gotta figure something out, all right, I'm going to wrap up.
1:03:58
Speaker 1: Thank you guys again for hanging out with me. Thank
1:03:59
Speaker 1: you Florian as well for being here in the chat.
1:04:02
Speaker 1: Appreciate you. I hope that y'all are enjoying the coverage,
1:04:06
Speaker 1: and until next time to little motherfuckers. That was an
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