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One Piece, 533-535 · Spoil Me! One Piece

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  This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me, covering one Piece
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  episodes five thirty three through five thirty five. It's an emergency. The Reugu
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  Palace is occupied. The Reuga Palace in shock, the kidnapping of Shirahoshi and
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  Horty's onslaught. The retaliatory plans set into motion Himi's episode. Our friends inadvertently
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  do some things that make them look like they're pretty bad people. Loofy inadvertently
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  seems to have kidnapped the princess, and overall our friends' reputations are really taking
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  a beating. Welcome to spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone. I
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  am Natasha. Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning this episode. Florian
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  is here in the chat talking about how there is some leftover cheese from breakfast
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  at the hotel for work, and it's so weird because Florian I just recorded
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  for somebody else who is on a trip for work at the moment, so
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  I don't know why, but apparently work trips are in the air at the
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  moment. These episodes are really really fun that you guys, I have such
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  a weird relationship with the arcs in this show, I always feel I feel
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  like almost every time when a new arc begins, I'm all about it,
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  and then by the time it wraps up, I'm sort of like, can
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  we just get a move on here? Oh my god. So it's sort
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  of funny because like I was pretty stoked about the Sabaodi arc, but then
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  it doesn't really end up being a Sabaode arc. They're only there fairly briefly
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  before it turns into the War of the Best. Our friends all get separated,
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  and then there's a whole different thing going on. And that was like
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  the first arc that was actually a lot shorter than I anticipated, and I
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  almost feel like I wish we had more time there. Like that's not really
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  that I wish the arc had gone on longer. It's more that I wish
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  we had spent more time on Sabaodi, just like hanging out, maybe having
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  a couple of like filler episodes, and then we went to the War of
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  the Best, which was less like But as of right now, this arc
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  I'm really really enjoying, and I hope that by the end of it I
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  am not sick and tired of it, because like, as of right now,
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  the way that it has all been set up feels pretty tight to me,
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  like, and when I say tight, I what I mean when I
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  say that is first of all, in comparison to a lot of one piece
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  arcs, which are often not tight at all. But as of right now,
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  everything is sort of like coming together in a way that feels like different
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  pieces that are in play are being used well, and our characters and who
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  they are like have mattered for the way things have shaken out in a way
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  that sometimes it feels like we make people act out of character for certain things
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  to happen. And I also really enjoy the King and the princes a lot
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  so far. Their personalities just feel much more interesting to me than I keep
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  wanting to say, than other villains. But they're not even meant to be
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  villains, like obviously it's supposed to be Hordy and Vanderdeck and that are the
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  villains. It's I think, like in contrast to something like Alabasta, for
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  example, we're dealing with the villain Crocodile, who is very compelling, charismatic,
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  has a cool power, and is extremely intelligent. And then we have
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  a king that has very little real personality to me, and we've got the
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  princess that you guys know, I just by the end of it, I
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  could not stand her. I was so sick of her, and so even
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  though fighting for Alabasta and freeing them from clutches of the evil Crocodile was absolutely
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  the right thing to do, I just couldn't care that much by the time
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  it happened, like I was just, you know, And here I am
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  feeling a lot more invested because I like the king, I like the princes,
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  and even though the princess is, as Lufy says, a real pain
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  in the butt, I understand how she's so sensitive and crying all the time
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  because she's been like as isolated and sheltered as it gets being in one room
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  for ten years. So all together, I'm actually like, I just care
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  much more, you know. So all right, let's begin with five thirty
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  three. It's an emergency, And every time I say it's an emergency,
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  I am saying it in my head with an Australian accent, because that is
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  a Simpson's reference, And if you don't get it, I'm so sorry.
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  It's not important. But there's an Australia episode of that show that is very
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  funny and pretty famous and that's you can find a clip pretty quickly. But
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  anyway, so yeah, we pick up where we left off with like Zoro
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  coming out fighting for his friends, and all of the fishmen who are here
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  with the king are genuinely shocked at the fact that one Zoro was able to
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  get out of his prison and two that when Neptune tries to fight him,
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  Zoro is able to stand up against him. And so the tactic that the
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  fishmen plan to take is they are going to get rid of the bubble that
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  all of our earth bound friends rely on to live. But before they can
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  do it, the bubble actually begins to expand and encompass everybody in the room,
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  giving the straw hats the major advantage here, and everyone is like looking
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  around like wait the fuck, how did this even happen? And then we
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  see Nami who says, sorry, I couldn't help myself once I saw this
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  big piece of bubbly coral, which I guess is just a piece of decor
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  in the room. It is quite handy, and I love how casual she
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  is about it, like she's smiling through all of this, like, you
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  know, no big deal whatever. So I sort of was thinking like,
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  if you have guests that you know are not able to breathe underwater, and
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  they're in the main throne room and you're about to invite them to a banquet,
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  I feel like maybe you should go ahead and activate this as a indication
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  of your hospitality. This should have been on already, is what I'm saying.
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  But it does make a good little surprise moment. So Zorro says,
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  so what do you say we finish what we started? And I, you,
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  guys, this is so funny to me because the king keeps calling him
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  Zori, and Doro is getting so mad about it. And I just if
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  you had asked me how much Zorro would care that he was being like being
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  given the wrong name, I really do think I would have said he wouldn't
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  give a shit like I. It took me by surprise, in other words,
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  that he kept getting so mad about it, and I'm not you know,
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  I find it very entertaining, so it's fine. But genuinely, I
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  was sort of thinking that he was somebody who tends to just like not really
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  give a shit about a lot, and so the level of anger coming from
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  him call me off guard. Neptune tells his men to stand down and is
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  like, I'm going to fight him myself and one of his people. They're
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  like, you can't do this. He says, I won't allow you to
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  commit such barbaric acts, which I was sort of like, what is barbaric
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  like fighting? You guys fight all the time, it appears what do you
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  even mean? But Neptune is like, all right, well, I am
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  going to go up against these guys alone because these foes are actually pretty badass,
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  and I am concerned about all of y'all getting hurt. So he comes
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  at Zoro and we cut from him attacking to Loofy, who is trying to
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  convince the princess to leave her tower. And like I said, I do
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  really enjoy even though it's so annoying that she cries so much, I can't
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  help but like understand where the princess is coming from and how sheltered she is,
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  and just have a lot of sympathy for her. Which is sort of
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  funny because I this sort of thing. I'm I'm going to say out of
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  the gate, it is really possible that we are going to hit a point
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  where I don't feel this way anymore, where I don't have this sort of
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  patience with her, and I am just like, oh my god, bitch,
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  shut the fuck up. So I'll just freely cop to that. You
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  know, it may be that this is just going to fucking irritate me after
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  a time, but as of right now, I'm in this really nice spot
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  where I not only understand where she's coming from, but am truly tickled at
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  Loofy's reaction to her and his impatience with her. So I can understand both
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  sides of it and just find myself giggling because Lufy is so he's It's not
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  even that he's impatient with her exactly, it's that he is open about his
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  irritation in a way that isn't the norm for how people behave. Usually,
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  we like to keep how we feel when we're aggravated with somebody under wraps a
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  little bit, to be polite, to try and convince them to do what
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  we're wanting them to do. And Lufy just doesn't give a shit about any
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  of that because he is so used to I was about to say he's so
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  used to getting his way. I was going to change what I said because
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  I felt like that made him sound bratty. But once I stop and think
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  about it. That's kind of it, isn't it. He is really used
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  to getting his way, and it's not a bratty thing. It's more that,
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  like he is, he has such a compelling personality that he gets his
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  way by sheer force of will because he convinces those around him. So usually
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  when he convinces people, they have like real arguments about why he can't have
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  what he wants or why they can't do what he's asking. And with her,
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  she doesn't really have like a good reason beyond I'll get in trouble.
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  I've never done this before. I'm scared, and really he just doesn't want
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  to hear it. And to me, that's kind of funny. Is like,
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  there have been plenty of people that he has talked into things, but
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  every time it's felt as if he took I'm trying to think of how to
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  say this. When people have said that I can't do the thing, they
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  have had lots of like what feel like valid reasons, and even though Lufy
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  steam rolls over them, it feels like he has so much less respect for
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  her hang ups for why she can't go the fact that it really is mostly
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  just that she is afraid that he just can't hear you know what I'm saying.
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  Anyway, all of this comes down to him being like, I am
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  going to help you get out of here, and if there's any you know,
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  weapons thrown at you by this guy, I managed to save you.
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  Once, I'll do it again. It'll be fine. And she of course
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  eventually agrees to this, but it does take some time. And then when
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  we cut back to the hall, Zorro has just taken down everybody in the
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  room and they are all just like, dude, why did you have to
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  go so fucking hard. You didn't have to do it this way. You
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  could have just like put them down a major point, and instead, now
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  you've got us in a position where we look like villains. And he,
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  on his part, is like, excuse me, I saved all your asses.
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  I came into this when there was like a fight already happening. I
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  don't appreciate the fact that everybody is acting like I did something wrong when actually
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  you should be thanking me what the fuck? And it's funny because like,
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  I do get what he's saying, but also it he did go quite hard,
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  my guy, you know, like and eventually the shouting match that's happening
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  between him and Usup. Usup is like I said that we should just run
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  away, and we should have done that and just left them here and when
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  he was What Zoro replies with is that wouldn't even have worked because we don't
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  know where Lufy is and we couldn't leave without him. Husup, still yelling,
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  responds with, that's a very good point that I hadn't considered. And
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  I really do love the joke of somebody like continuing to shout at another person
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  even though they have started agreeing with them. I always think that's funny.
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  So yeah, Usup's response here and the fact that it's almost like he just
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  gets convinced this was necessary, is genuinely really a good moment. Fucking Brooke,
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  by the way, we have who is asking the guards where the treasure
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  room is, and when Oosup yells at her to knock it off, she
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  turns around with her like innocent face, and we haven't seen this innocent face
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  in a minute, and it's very fun. But then Brooke is over here
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  and he starts singing, let's take a little break and turn those frowns upside
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  down with the rock. It'll be all right, no reason to fight.
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  These words of mine aren't lies. Everybody dies. What are you doing,
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  Brooke? What do you? What is happening? I Brooke? I I
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  hesitate to say this because I feel very disloyal Brooke, maybe edging out Chopper
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  for my favorite character. That the one reason why that is still not happening
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  is just because of his pervizoid tendencies. It's very hard for me to overlook.
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  But the way he chimes in, the way he's like always punning,
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  there's like he always has some amazing There's a point later where they're all screaming
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  and he just says screaming, how fun, and then screams, also,
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  I really do adore Brooks so much. So anyway, I just wanted to
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  mention that here. So the King has sort of like woken up wrapped in
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  these fucking chains, and one of his dudes is saying like, this is
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  uh really unfortunate that they managed to take down the King of the Sea,
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  and Neptune says it wouldn't have happened if I hadn't thrown my back out.
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  I don't know when I became so old. This is all my fault.
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  Forgive me, you guys, this is so relatable I have. I didn't
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  realize what was happening at the time, but once I got the knowledge,
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  I was able to look back at some points in my life and be like,
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  oh, that's what that was. There was a point where I was
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  before my wedding. I was working with my friend Sydney, who was helping
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  me to make my dress, and we were in the living room and we
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  were spreading out this pattern that we had had to print on like eight by
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  eleven regular printer paper and then fit together like a puzzle and tape into place.
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  Very tricky, and I was trying to help Sydney, but I couldn't
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  bend over and I couldn't figure out why not. My back was killing me
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  and I was like, I didn't even do anything. And since then I
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  have realized I threw my back out, and like, after a few days
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  it calmed down, But at the time I was so frustrated with myself because
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  this was something that we needed to do. It really did require two hands,
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  and I was being useless and I felt really really guilty about it because
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  Sydney had to do everything, and man, when you throw your back out,
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  it is rough. Kids It's like it's so annoying as you get older
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  how little it takes, and it shocks me, like I've done it at
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  this point, I think like three times in my life. And I'm trying
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  really hard now to start doing another weightlifting program in order to get my core
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  strength back, because that is what helps with this. But anyway, the
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  fact that the king threw his back out and that's why he couldn't fight as
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  well is extremely funny to me. So Zora is saying, uh, we've
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  got to gather everybody up and get the sonny and get the fuck out of
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  here, and Ousap points out, even if we found the sunny, we
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  lost our coating on the ship as we came in here, so we wouldn't
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  be able to get out anyway, my friends, I am so glad he
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  pointed this out, because that did not even occur to me at all,
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  Like, you know, we see the coat and get taken off the ship,
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  but because of the way it comes off, I think that I was
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  under the impression that if they just passed through the same bubble wall, it
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  would go back on, which is not anything like I just decided that was
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  you know what, I feel like a real Dodo Bird. So yeah,
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  that's a concern, and that winds up being part of the deal. Later
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  when Zorro is talking to the princes and is like, Okay, you're going
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  to do something for us. He wants them to find the sonny and to
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  get the coding put back on, and I am not sure if this is
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  if they're going to actually uphold their end of things. That Prince feels pretty
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  what's the word I want? He feels like he is trustworthy, and so
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  I don't think that he would trick them for the sake of tricking them exactly,
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  But I do feel as if he feels such duty to his people and
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  such suspicion of the straw hats that he would think tricking them might just be
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  the right thing to do under certain circumstances. So I'm just sort of concerned,
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  you know, at this point, on whether or not I can buy
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  that he would carry this through n me. At this point when they're talking
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  about, you know, getting the coding put back on, she says,
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  also, my log pose isn't working. It's been going hey wire since we
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  got here. And one of the dudes off to the side, who I'm
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  calling in my head the Mermaid, mister Peanut, He says, you can't
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  be serious, which is so if you believe a primitive pose like that will
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  get you through the New World, then you're even dumber than you look.
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  And Nam says, well, wait, are you saying my gear isn't good
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  enough? And he says, I'm not saying anything unless you untime me first.
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  This is very fascinating and it's something that I am like, I really
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  like this development that, in addition to getting a coating on the ship,
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  also we've got to deal with the change in the whole way things work in
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  the New World. I'm into it. And the log post thing, you
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  guys know, like I just didn't really get it. It just felt like
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  it just overall didn't make a lot of sense. I mean, it doesn't
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  make any sense really, you know, if we're gonna be very literal about
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  it, But overall it always just felt so thin to me, despite being
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  super important to everything, that I decided kind of consciously to set it aside
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  and not really pay any attention to it. I am hoping that whatever it
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  is we've got going on with the new equipment that she's going to need is
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  gonna feel more compelling. I just cross my fingers about it because I don't
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  I want the rules to mean more. And I know I sound like such
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  a fucking nerd when I say that. I'm sorry. I am not somebody
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  who needs an intricate magical system. I don't. You guys know if you
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  listen to my other shows that writers who go real, real hard on that
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  sort of thing, I can respect it, but it's not something that particularly
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  like is my bag. I just want everything to be internally consistent and to
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  make sense. And as long as I can say, okay, that makes
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  sense, I'll walk away from it and you don't need to tell me anymore,
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  it's fine. But the log post thing, as much as it's like
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  meant to sort of seem internally consistent in the show, let's be real,
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  like, it was kind of jerk off motion. So anyway, that's all
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  I'm gonna say about that. So the princes they get back to the palace
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  and they essentially ring the doorbell and zorro answers it. I this voice actor,
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  so most of the time, I'm gonna be real, this voice actor
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  phones it in, and it's lucky for him that he does, because it
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  works for Zorro, like I feel like it, you know, but I
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  can't say with confidence that the actor is consciously doing this because he understands that.
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  I'm not trying to say he doesn't get that, but what I'm what
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  I'm saying is it works out that he owns it in because of who Zoro
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  is, and whether he means to or not is sort of irrelevant. I
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  feel like the same voice actor who does Zorro does a lot of like the
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  soldiers and the side character guys, and I feel the same way about those
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  dudes a lot that whatever he's doing with their voices feels very much like,
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  all right, let's just get this done, and I like, normally it
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  works just fine. But Zorro's voice answering this like doorbell ring, is truly
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  so hilarious to me because he is just so does not like he answers it,
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  but it's really giving, like I don't want to be here, as
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  if he were actually on the job at work and feeling a bit of a
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  way that he got called in on his day off because Matt is hungover and
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  called in and here he is doing this shit to cover from Matt again,
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  who he told him don't drink too much that night, And did Matt listen,
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  No, he did not. It's just got this whole feel to it.
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  And eventually he's like, we'll let you in and we won't hurt anybody
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  here as long as you run some errands for us, not me. Cannot
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  help but chime in and demand one million berries in unmarked cash. She just
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  can't help herself. She just can't do it. So the Prince agrees to
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  like do this stuff. But again, we'll see. He says, I
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  wouldn't normally share this information given the circumstances. However, I am honor bound
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  to deliver the message regardless, and he tells them Jimbay is reaching out to
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  Loofy. These were meant to be delivered upon your arrival to the island as
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  part of your welcoming. But here we are, and all of these people
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  who have been who work for in the palace are like, Jimbay, wait
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  what. And it's very clear that this dude has a sort of standing with
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  things with everybody that him being friends with Lufy is kind of like important and
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  impressive, despite the fact that he's got his reasons for not actually coming down
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  here. And it's Kami, who is like, yeah, Jimbae is essentially
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  a hero to all of these guys. So Zorro says, well, Lufy's
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  not here, but I will pass the message on. And the first one
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  is do not fight Hordy, and the second is Jimbey will wait in the
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  sea forest. That is all, which is great because we end up finding
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  out that is where our friends are heading, and by friends, I mean
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  the Princess and Loofy. It's delightful. And that is also where Frankie winds
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  up. So it's pretty like I am curious, and I don't know if
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  anybody even has an answer to this, but you guys know that for me,
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  it started to get a little bit old with our friends always getting separated
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  and having to deal with separate people and then coming back together again. And
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  I was wondering if there was a point where Oda mentioned the fact that he
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  wanted to mix that up a little bit more, because like, our friends
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  have been separated here, but the intersection that it looks like is coming that
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  is something that we didn't really get to see that often. You know,
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  they would be separated, and they would kind of stay separate until it was
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  time to deal with our big bad and then all of a sudden, we'd
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  all find ourselves in the same place. So I am curious on whether or
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  not the the writer actually tired of this trope himself, or maybe I'm wrong
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  about how this is going to shake out. It looks like we're all going
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  to wind up regrouping, and then that, you know, doesn't even happen.
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  I don't know, but uh, the Prince takes off to like fulfill
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  their requirements, and then we go back to town and oh my god,
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  this is so funny. You guys. You know about that group of like
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  tiny mermaids that all say different things, and how much I love the patterning
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  of that. But when we go back to town, I think one of
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  the fishman says, have you heard the rumors going around about the straw Hat
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  pirates? It's crazy. I think they really took over the palace? What
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  is it there? Even after? And one of the mermaids is like,
• 31:04
  that can't be. I met them. They seemed like such nice people.
• 31:07
  I can't believe they do such a thing. And then we have the little
• 31:11
  Mermaids. I can't believe they do that, can't believe they do that.
• 31:15
  I can believe they do that, maybe I can't believe it either. Who
• 31:19
  cares if I can't believe it. This is not going to get old for
• 31:22
  me. I don't think it's gonna It's just funny. But yeah. One
• 31:29
  of the guys is like, well, if they're doing this now after with
• 31:33
  vision she had, Madam Charlie, then they are definitely going to be coming
• 31:37
  for us shortly. And one of them says, let's see. Oh,
• 31:45
  I've heard that two of them have been hiding around here in the back of
• 31:48
  the Mermaid Cafe. That's why the guards are inspecting it right now. And
• 31:53
  all of a sudden, the door slams out of the back of the building
• 32:00
  and here comes Chopper in a form that we have not seen before. This
• 32:07
  is I don't it's giving Gopher a little bit. He says it's time for
• 32:20
  kung fu point, and understandably all the guards are like, what even is
• 32:22
  this thing? Chopper just fucking handles these dudes in like a whirlwind. He's
• 32:30
  given Tasmanian devil here and is yelling at everybody that Sanji needs peace and quiet
• 32:38
  to recover. And I do really love this being his motivation. He's not
• 32:45
  like you tried to attack me. What the fuck? He's like, you're
• 32:50
  disturbing my friend who is unwell. So anyway, yeah, this is a
• 32:58
  real fun little development. And he's like, you want to take us to
• 33:02
  the palace. I don't know what's happening there, but we're not going.
• 33:07
  And then Sangi comes out and Chopper is like, you're not supposed to be
• 33:10
  out of bed. What are you doing? And he's just got like a
• 33:16
  band aid over his nose. That's really all there is to indicate how unwell
• 33:20
  he has been. And he looks around and we cut from there to Loufy
• 33:28
  and the princess again arguing, and eventually she agrees to go with him.
• 33:34
  But it's like the way that they set it up is that she is going
• 33:38
  to hide in the mouth of her pet shark, and that way, it
• 33:44
  just looks like Loofy and the shark are leaving this shark. It looks like
• 33:52
  this is really difficult for him. I really felt for him, you guys.
• 33:55
  At one point, he like kind of vomits her up. She gets
• 33:59
  right back in, but it definitely is a moment of oh no, you
• 34:04
  know, and as Lufy is trying to convince her, all of a sudden,
• 34:08
  there are these thuds, and the walls begin to shake, and when
• 34:15
  we see when we go outside, there's just these sort of comment like dark
• 34:21
  shapes that are hitting the tower. And the king is saying to all of
• 34:27
  the straw hats guys, you have got to go and help the princess.
• 34:30
  You've got to do something, and Zorro is saying, dude, you're a
• 34:35
  fucking hostage. You don't get to tell us what to do. But King
• 34:38
  Neptune is like, look, I have been a good sport about this,
• 34:45
  all things considered, but if you don't fucking do something for my daughter,
• 34:52
  I am going to rip you to fucking shreds as soon as I get out
• 34:58
  of these chains. I do not give a shit. So Brooke says,
• 35:05
  oh, well, how could I possibly resist. I'll rush to her aid
• 35:07
  in this greatest moment of need, completely selflessly, of course, not a
• 35:14
  hint of an ulterior motive, although if she wanted to show me her panties
• 35:19
  that would be fine. I hate it, but also that was very funny.
• 35:24
  That was it was good. So he heads off, and then finally
• 35:29
  one of the guys like, you know, this assistance clerk, I don't
• 35:34
  know what you call these dudes who are close to the king. But one
• 35:38
  of them yells out, like, you know, please take me with you.
• 35:45
  You don't have to untie me, but I insist that I accompany you,
• 35:50
  and if anything happens to the princess, I will never be able to
• 35:53
  overcome my shame. And Brooke stops. There's a long paw and then he
• 36:00
  turns around and says, I understand you desire to see panties too, and
• 36:07
  grabs this guy up. I really want somebody to ask, Brooke what kind
• 36:15
  of panties he imagines a mermaid would even have? How would that even work?
• 36:22
  What do you? I just want somebody to ask the question, that's
• 36:23
  all, you know. So eventually there comes the moment of Lufy and the
• 36:32
  princess leaving, and I love him just being like because she's like, can
• 36:38
  I have a minute, And he's like, yeah, but just a minute
• 36:40
  because I don't like you. Oh god, it's so good you guys.
• 36:45
  I just love him constantly saying this to her. I really do. I
• 36:49
  think it's it's like it's mean spirited, but also it isn't exactly mean spirited
• 36:54
  coming from Loufy. He's just so matter of fact about things, you know.
• 37:01
  So then we go to Frankie who he is with this guy named Den,
• 37:10
  who was apparently Tom's brother. I don't remember if we saw how he
• 37:16
  found this guy. This is like it feels a little bit out of nowhere
• 37:21
  for me, and I was a bit confused over this because I'm like,
• 37:23
  did we see him going and finding a taxi at one point? I'm so
• 37:29
  sorry if we did, and I don't remember, but my memory has been
• 37:31
  shot lately. I don't know what's happening. But he's asking Den to help
• 37:37
  him find the Sonny, and you know, he's understandably, like, this
• 37:44
  place is humongous, So where do I even start with looking for it?
• 37:47
  And Den says it's weird, but every ship that winds up sinking always ends
• 37:54
  up in the same place, so I guarantee that we're going to be able
• 37:59
  to find it. And it turns out it's the Sea Forest, which is
• 38:04
  the place that Lufy and the Princess are also heading and the place where Lufi
• 38:07
  has been asked to meet up with Jimbay as well. So the I'm trying
• 38:16
  to jump past the spot where, uh where Lufy escapes with the princess because
• 38:22
  we saw this already a bunch of the dudes who have been slammed into the
• 38:28
  tower, which is what those comment like moments. I was so I didn't
• 38:34
  know what was going on, you guys. I thought that maybe all of
• 38:37
  these dudes were axes, But then I was like, how can they be
• 38:43
  if they're not going straight for the princess because we saw how that went with
• 38:46
  the axe and it was like it was really coming for her person. But
• 38:54
  evidently these dudes don't exactly have that same accuracy or being that they are people
• 39:00
  and not solid metal, they can't just go through the wall. And so
• 39:07
  we see just like thirty guys, I guess, just on the ground outside
• 39:15
  of the tower. Some of them it seems like, aren't going to get
• 39:20
  up again, but there's a good number that are able to get back to
• 39:23
  their feet, and Brooke is disgusted with them when they begin to try and
• 39:30
  come at him. He calls them rude, which I really do appreciate.
• 39:38
  So this, uh, the fight, it's like kind of nothing ultimately because
• 39:45
  Brook is such a badass. But let's go. Let's go to the pirate
• 39:49
  ship because they're talking about what they're gonna do. We've sort of like backed
• 39:54
  up a little bit and we're finding out exactly what's even happening. So the
• 40:06
  I'm trying to remember, oh that's right, it's uh hordy hoardy. I
• 40:14
  keep wanting to say HOGI, But yeah, this is the point where Vanderdken
• 40:19
  is telling all of the humans you have the chance to be part of an
• 40:24
  amazing mission. And the way that they frame this is just I there,
• 40:35
  you get to sacrifice your lives for something that's incredibly important and you should be
• 40:39
  really grateful for it. Now what I liked about this a lot because I
• 40:47
  was wondering this. So there's a guy in stripes that Vanderdkin is like,
• 40:53
  hey, come here, and as he is asking this dude to come forward
• 41:00
  forward, Hachi comes out of the dark. I love that he's got crutches.
• 41:04
  I really thought that maybe he was gonna have like several crutches because he's
• 41:08
  got several armpits, but no, he has just got the one set.
• 41:15
  And Hachi is yelling at them like, you guys are fucking up your bodies
• 41:21
  and destroying the island is gonna you know, it's really undermining everything. You're
• 41:27
  gonna regret this, and Hordy, for his part, is like, h
• 41:34
  fucking Hatchie. You know, dude, I can't believe that you were part
• 41:38
  of the Aurlong pirates. I actually respected you at one point, and now
• 41:45
  here you are whining and complaining about all of this and trying to defend humans
• 41:52
  and it's fucking pathetic, and I'm disappointed in you. We're the superior race
• 41:59
  and you wouldn't have joined Arlong if you didn't believe that, So what the
• 42:02
  fuck? And he says there is no superior race. The two of you
• 42:07
  refused to help Arlong when he was in power, so why Because he's talking
• 42:12
  to like the two assistant guys, and the drunk dude says, I'm doing
• 42:17
  it for the money. Arlong didn't pay very much, like he was just
• 42:21
  stingy, but Horty is out here giving me plenty. So yeah, I
• 42:27
  am one here for this. That's fine. And let's see Decan a sight
• 42:35
  for sore eyes and angry Hatchie. I remember what happened back then. Arlong
• 42:39
  had the nerve to ask me to work underneath him. What a preposterous IDEA
• 42:45
  Vanderdecken never works under anybody. Horty gets that better than anyone. I mean,
• 42:52
  Horty's saying that. Now, I wouldn't rely on that is all I'm
• 43:00
  saying. Oh, Florian's in the chap, so sorry. I went away
• 43:06
  from the chat because I didn't think there was anybody there anymore. But Florian
• 43:09
  says, Minister of the Left and Minister of the Right is what the two
• 43:13
  dudes closer to the king are called, but I do not know who's who.
• 43:17
  Also, they have real names, but I can't remember right now.
• 43:21
  That's fine. Minister of the Left and Right is what I shall call them
• 43:23
  when I am referring to them as a as a group. So to jump
• 43:31
  ahead a little bit there, Hordy is talking about like we were able to
• 43:38
  watch the r Long Pirates and see what you fucked up on and learn from
• 43:43
  your mistakes. So thank you for that. We are going to pick up
• 43:47
  where he left off, and this time it's going to be done right.
• 43:51
  I don't really get why you aren't supporting us, since you supported our along
• 43:54
  for so many years, but it is quite disappointing. And you should know
• 44:01
  that straw Hat Loofy is on Fishman Island and we see this as the perfect
• 44:07
  opportunity to get some revenge on him for what he did. Hachi can't help
• 44:15
  but be like, oh God, he looks at me as his friend.
• 44:20
  How can I face him when you're clinging to our lung's legacy and he's Horty
• 44:24
  is genuinely horrified that he's friends with a human and says, essentially, oh,
• 44:31
  this is a human, lever, get the fuck out of my sight.
• 44:35
  So at this point, Vanderdecken comes up to Hachi and says, I
• 44:44
  feel like you've really forgotten the way things are done around here. But with
• 44:49
  pirates you use violence. So I'm gonna show you something. He tosses a
• 44:54
  dagger up in the air after touching Hachi on the shoulder, and he turns
• 45:01
  to Hachi and says, did you see how when I touched you, I
• 45:05
  marked you as my new target? No matter what I throw or where I
• 45:10
  throw it, it will always make its way back to whatever I mark.
• 45:15
  Not only that, but it'll come back at you full speed. The dagger
• 45:22
  soars toward Hatchie's face, Hatchie ducks, and then it just turns around and
• 45:27
  stabs him in the back. So he's the one that ends up being the
• 45:31
  example instead of Stripesky, and he says, of course, there are some
• 45:37
  limitations. Can you figure them out? And he goes and gets a whole
• 45:45
  quiver of arrows. Hatchi is yelling at Horty, you've got to make him
• 45:51
  stop. But of course Horty is just like, dude, you're not even
• 45:54
  a fish man, and Vanderdekin doesn't answer to me. We're all so you're
• 46:01
  fucking getting on my nerves. Yeah, he could do what he wants,
• 46:06
  go ahead, decond. Hatchie gets up and starts to run, and Vanderdeckin
• 46:14
  throws all of the arrows into the air and they all go for Hatchie at
• 46:20
  once, and he he's trying to get like into the water so that he
• 46:24
  can swim away from them. It does not matter these things. It's really
• 46:30
  like anxiety inducing the way that they follow him. But yeah, he gets
• 46:37
  into the water and he thinks, once I'm in here, they'll have to
• 46:42
  sink, and he looks behind him and no, they are still coming through.
• 46:46
  They go right through that bubble. It doesn't have any effect whatsoever.
• 46:51
  And so he is trying to swim towards the like the this the other bubble
• 46:58
  and I'm not sure if he's getting trying to get out or in. I
• 47:02
  think he's trying to get back into Fishman Island that the pirates are outside of
• 47:07
  the bubble of the island. But whatever it is, he winds up getting
• 47:12
  nailed, and I really felt bad for him. This was just so grim,
• 47:15
  like he I'm sure it's still alive, but I just don't like seeing
• 47:24
  somebody being pursued in this way where they have the illusion that they're going to
• 47:30
  be able to get away somehow, and we know it's just not going to
• 47:34
  happen. So anyway, Vanderdecken just begins to chuck dudes. So I'm gonna
• 47:45
  back up a little bit here to the way that Hordy explains how this is.
• 47:54
  Vanderdecken is going to treat your bodies like live ammunition. You'll be cannon
• 48:05
  fodder. He is going to throw you at the walls of the tower,
• 48:13
  and since weapons can't smash it, most of you guys aren't going to be
• 48:16
  able to do anything either. But you can't open the gate from inside the
• 48:23
  palace and let us in. That's the only thing that you have to do.
• 48:30
  And all these dudes are like, there's no possible way that will still
• 48:34
  be alive to do this, and Hordy is like, well, probably,
• 48:42
  but who cares. You're humans. We don't give a shit. If you
• 48:46
  can survive the impact, do what I sent you to do, and I'll
• 48:51
  set you free. But if you won't do it, I'll kick you out
• 48:55
  of this bubble right now. And of course, if they get kicked out
• 49:00
  of the bubble, they die, so they have to agree to this whole
• 49:04
  thing. So I'm realizing like I'm edging on running out of time here.
• 49:13
  So eventually one of the dudes does indeed open the gate and manages to give
• 49:20
  them the inn. We go back to Sanji and Chopper, and Sanji is
• 49:25
  saying, I have a question for you guys. I just want to ask
• 49:30
  them about the Ryugu Palace. Is the Mermaid princess there? Understandably, Chopper
• 49:37
  is like, you can't go see her. If she's beautiful, it may
• 49:40
  kill you, and Sanji's like, well, it might be fine, but
• 49:46
  I'm sure she is beautiful. And he asked one of the guards and they're
• 49:49
  like, well, they have said that she's quite lovely. Then lead the
• 49:53
  way, stop fighting, take me. Wait, which way is the palace?
• 50:00
  My true love awaits. All these guards are like, the fuck is
• 50:02
  wrong with this guy? And they're like, all right, you know what
• 50:06
  if he wants to go, fine, great, we'll just go clap them
• 50:10
  in irons. Let's head out. But once they actually start to put the
• 50:16
  irons on him, he kicks them and says, how am I supposed to
• 50:21
  cook for her if you put me in handcuffs? This is his reasoning,
• 50:27
  So the fact that he fights back they're taking as evidence of him being a
• 50:31
  bad man who is you know, belongs in jail. He accuses all of
• 50:38
  them of being jealous of his love, and he beats the shit out of
• 50:45
  them and turns them into basically like a guard cyclone. And I love Chopper
• 50:52
  just being like, you were fucking innocent before you did that. And I
• 50:55
  couldn't help but be like, Chopper, do you remember one episode ago when
• 51:00
  you were kicking the shit out of these guards? Also, what are you
• 51:04
  doing why? I don't know if it's Chopper just thinking like it was fine
• 51:07
  if they thought I was guilty, but now you're in trouble. Maybe that's
• 51:12
  all he means, but it felt like he was sort of accusing Sanji the
• 51:15
  same way us up accused Zoro, except he like he was also fucking up
• 51:22
  everybody around him, so I don't understand it. But yeah, so they
• 51:31
  are standing there, some woman starts screaming. Sanji is like, oh,
• 51:36
  a woman in distress. He runs to help her, and it turns out
• 51:39
  that she's screaming because Hachi's body has washed up. He's still alive, but
• 51:45
  he is covered in arrows like a pincushion, and he says, it's you,
• 51:53
  guys, I'm happy to see you. Oh my god, there's something
• 51:57
  about him saying I'm happy to see you when he's injured so severely that is
• 52:02
  really really sad. It got to me it's so pitiful. And he tells
• 52:07
  Sanji, you guys, I've got to get the fuck out of here,
• 52:10
  like, get on your boat and leave. You don't want any of this
• 52:14
  smoke. And I was sort of like, you have got to know that
• 52:19
  they can handle these guys, right, you don't. I just guess how
• 52:23
  she hasn't seen how much they have advanced. But yeah, he's insisting that
• 52:30
  the entire kingdom will fall to these dudes, and you probably want to book
• 52:36
  it while you still can. Brook has come back and he's got the uh
• 52:44
  what is it? The Minister of the Left or right one of them,
• 52:47
  and they report to the king the princess has been kidnapped, that there are
• 52:52
  people slamming into the tower and that's what they heard, and all of the
• 53:00
  this is just like, you know, really, it's interspersed with Lufy and
• 53:06
  the princess traveling. He mentions at one point that he sneezes every now and
• 53:16
  then here, and I don't know if that's what's going on with the shark.
• 53:20
  Also, but when he asked the princess, like what the deal is
• 53:25
  with the sea forest, she explains that it's a graveyard and that's where her
• 53:34
  mother is buried. So we get a little bit of that story, but
• 53:42
  I feel like we're gonna get more of it later, so I'm not going
• 53:45
  to talk about that because I'm like really running out of time here. So
• 53:50
  okay, let's jump into the third of these episodes. Let's see, Oh
• 53:57
  yeah, here is So first, we've got all of these guards who are
• 54:02
  watching a bunch of fish coming in from the fishman district. He's like,
• 54:09
  there's I don't know, there's something seems to be wrong with the snail,
• 54:15
  and all these people it seems like a lot just for shopping. It may
• 54:20
  be dangerous, but I don't really have any evidence to go on here.
• 54:25
  And when we see him, like looking out his window, we see that
• 54:32
  this is Hordy and his guys coming in with all of their crazy fucking animals.
• 54:40
  Oh my god, you guys. I started to talk about it,
• 54:44
  and I forgot, but when I said there was something, I was glad
• 54:45
  they addressed. I was wondering how the marking people worked for the mark mark
• 54:52
  Fruit, because I was like, he can still hit the princess, but
• 54:54
  he's got to touch other people. And then it's mentioned that he wears a
• 54:59
  glove explicitly so that he can maintain his mark on her. But evidently if
• 55:05
  you're able to get that glove off and get him to touch somebody else,
• 55:07
  his mark won't work anymore on her unless he touches her again. So that's
• 55:14
  a pretty big like weakness. I guess. We have Robin who is waiting
• 55:22
  for a bus, which I'm guessing is a fish with a bus attached,
• 55:28
  and all of these guards begin like running up to her and telling her that
• 55:31
  you know, she's a suspect, and we're taking you into custody, and
• 55:37
  she's like, I don't know what you're talking about. And also you just
• 55:42
  said you're here because of a psychic, which sounds idiotic. I really expected
• 55:46
  better of this place's culture. That's silly. And I want to go to
• 55:52
  the forest, and you're gonna make me miss my bus, so I'm not
• 55:55
  gonna go with you. Thank you, but pass and they start to come
• 56:00
  at her and she uses her ability. It's so good mill floors and all
• 56:08
  of these hands like it's not like they come up out of the ground like
• 56:14
  I'm used to and yank her down. They are covered with the shadow of
• 56:19
  the piles of hands, and I was you don't even get to see exactly
• 56:24
  what she did. It's just a massacre. And one of the dudes just
• 56:30
  says, if anybody can get up, try to stop her, and that's
• 56:34
  the best they can do. And then we see her on the ship and
• 56:38
  she's saying to herself, oh, there is a ponent glyph somewhere. I
• 56:43
  know that the crew can take care of themselves. I'm gonna go find the
• 56:46
  thing. I think it's genuinely funny, how like disconnected from everything Robin is
• 56:55
  so often she's literally like fuck that crew. They could do whatever they need.
• 57:00
  I have my shit to do. Oh, Robin, I don't understand
• 57:06
  you. Sometimes I do understand you, but also like she shouldn't, you
• 57:13
  know, whatever, It's fine, it's fine. So let's say I'm going
• 57:17
  back to the palace and oh yeah, this is the part where the uh,
• 57:23
  the pirates are able to actually open the door. And this is when
• 57:30
  Megelo is like gagging, and Loofy is like, are you okay? Are
• 57:36
  you sick? Or do you need to take a break? And she pops
• 57:39
  out of his mouth and then goes right back in, but he still seems
• 57:43
  distressed when he goes back in when when she goes back into his mouth,
• 57:47
  So I don't know, my god. One of the dudes is suggesting that
• 57:57
  we have tea with the pirates because that will maybe like calm them down,
• 58:02
  and Zorro is just screaming, yelling at this guy, and Nami and Usop
• 58:08
  are over there, just like how did we wind up here? And Usub
• 58:12
  says that's because our crew or a bunch of idiots who always get violent about
• 58:15
  everything. Brooks says, speaking of Loofy, I wonder if he came across
• 58:22
  the mermaid princess, I still quite like to meet her, and Neptune here
• 58:30
  collapses and it's just like, I can't believe that you would do this to
• 58:34
  my little girl, and all of them are like, we didn't though,
• 58:37
  dude, we had nothing to do with it. And eventually he's like,
• 58:44
  oh, you know what, I figured it out. Straw Hat had my
• 58:46
  daughter swim into her shark's mouth, and then the two of them went out
• 58:50
  together, and all of his men just start laughing at him and are like,
• 58:53
  dude, that's hilarious, but come on, let's be serious. And
• 58:58
  I love the fact that he just got that come completely right. Oh yeah,
• 59:02
  that's the Loofy says, the shark is making him sneeze, and when
• 59:10
  the princess is like, sharks make you sneeze, that's kind of weird,
• 59:14
  he says, they don't, but sometimes I sneeze out of nowhere. It's
• 59:17
  weird, and I'm really curious what that's going to turn out to be.
• 59:24
  So I'm just trying to make sure that I don't miss anything major in this
• 59:29
  back half, because I have talked about things out of order, and so
• 59:32
  it's sort of hard to know. But Frankie finds the Sonny. He is
• 59:37
  really impressed with this sea forest and there's all these like whales and fish and
• 59:45
  everything, and he talks to Den about why he doesn't look anything like Tom,
• 59:51
  and Den's like, oh, yeah, it just has to be that
• 59:53
  you've got a certain type of like fish in your lineage, and your kid
• 59:58
  could have one of those trees. It really doesn't work the way that it
• 1:00:00
  does with humans, where it's the parents specifically that a kid ends up looking
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  like. And he keeps asking also why, like whether or not Frankie's parents
• 1:00:13
  were robots, and Frankie has to be like, no, that's really just
• 1:00:17
  not how this works either. And he also keeps saying with Gusto, the
• 1:00:22
  way that Tom did, we find out about jimbe waiting over here in the
• 1:00:29
  forest because he's a wanted man. We go back to all of the pirates
• 1:00:35
  coming in, and let's see he's looking around at all of the guards and
• 1:00:40
  grinning to himself, saying, Oh, they look really scared, and they're
• 1:00:46
  clearly taken completely by surprise, despite the fact that they were warned it was
• 1:00:52
  a bunch of pirates slamming into the tower, and Zorro is looking at them
• 1:00:58
  and is just eyes narrow. You can see that he is getting ready for
• 1:01:01
  another fight and is very excited about all of this. Neptune doesn't like he
• 1:01:07
  recognizes Horty's name in a vague sense, but I expected him to be like,
• 1:01:12
  oh, it's you. Not so though, he's just kind of like,
• 1:01:16
  oh, I think I know that name, and it's a real sort
• 1:01:20
  of like this dude isn't as important as I expected. So this is when
• 1:01:28
  Zoro says, h more visitors, this is not like the last batch,
• 1:01:34
  And one of the fucking dudes is like, oh, here, they're here
• 1:01:38
  because of you. Clearly you're in league with each other. You let them
• 1:01:42
  in, and oos Up is like, how fuck do you figure that?
• 1:01:45
  We wouldn't even have come here if you guys hadn't explicitly invited us. We
• 1:01:50
  don't even know who these people are. And the guards are like, you
• 1:01:53
  have got to give us our weapons back. We need to fight these guys.
• 1:01:58
  Neptune does recognize Vanderdken and is like, oh, so you're the one
• 1:02:04
  who stole my daughter. It wasn't one straw hat, but Vanderdecken is like,
• 1:02:12
  wait a second, stole your daughter? Wait, she's not here,
• 1:02:19
  What the fuck are you serious? And he goes to her tower and he
• 1:02:24
  sees that she is gone and is up set and is like, I am
• 1:02:30
  going to go and find her. This is just, you know, this
• 1:02:34
  is the only thing that he is interested in. I love when he's just
• 1:02:40
  like, how am I to find her? And Horty is like, what
• 1:02:43
  do you mean how are you to find her? You've got a fucking power.
• 1:02:46
  Are you that blinded with love that you just forgot that you can do
• 1:02:51
  that? That's your whole thing, literally, And I was like, yeah,
• 1:02:54
  but I think it's just meant to be a moment for everybody in the
• 1:02:58
  room to understand his power, to like, here about it for the first
• 1:03:00
  time, because it's not me who is just like what power? What does
• 1:03:05
  that even mean? So Vanderdekin turns around and leaves, and everybody is just
• 1:03:10
  sort of like, wait, why where is he going? And he uses
• 1:03:15
  one of those pieces of coral and creates a little bubble for himself and just
• 1:03:19
  sails out, and he says, okay, Coral, find my princess for
• 1:03:22
  me, and he breaks off a huge chunk outside of the palace and sends
• 1:03:28
  it flying and then just rides on it like it's a like a bus,
• 1:03:35
  and it ends with him saying nothing can separate us. Our love is too
• 1:03:39
  intense. The only thing that can separate us is death. And that is
• 1:03:46
  the end of the episode, except for Loofy telling her about the fart that
• 1:03:52
  he some fart story. I don't know, but that's really We're gonna ignore
• 1:03:59
  that part and talk about vanderdecken Is at the end of the episode. All
• 1:04:03
  Right, I've got to wrap this one up. Thank you guys so much
• 1:04:05
  for hanging out with me. Sorry, this one on so long. I
• 1:04:09
  appreciate you all. Thank you Florian for being here. And until next time
• 1:04:14
  to the Loo motherfuckers. That was an Unspoiled Network podcast.