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One Piece, 710-712 · 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 seven ten through seven twelve, The
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  Speaker 1: Battle of Love, The New Leader Side versus Baby Five,
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  Speaker 1: The Man's Pride, Bellamy's Last Charge, and a Strong Wind
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  Speaker 1: and a Surge Hakuba versus Dellinger. In these episodes, I
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  Speaker 1: kind of get what I ask for with Bellamy, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't want it really.
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  Speaker 2: I take it back.
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  Speaker 1: Also, I get more Baby five. I'm pretty much getting
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff I asked for in this episode,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm into it. Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you very much
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  Speaker 1: to Florian for commissioning this episode. Yeah, guys, I just
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  Speaker 1: really enjoyed these three episodes so much, which, like, considering
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  Speaker 1: how little our main people are in these episodes is
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  Speaker 1: saying a lot like it just struck me how a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the time in the past, the thing that
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  Speaker 1: would irritate me and make me say, hey, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: enjoy this thing would be we weren't with the people
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  Speaker 1: that I care about.
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  Speaker 2: Where are they, what's going on with them?
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  Speaker 1: I don't care about these other yokals, you know, But
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  Speaker 1: this section, all of these characters are made interesting enough
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  Speaker 1: that I was fully invested still, and the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we hadn't checked in with my regular people did not matter.
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  Speaker 1: I will say I have begun to start sort of
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  Speaker 1: wonder what the hell is going on with fucking uh
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  Speaker 1: Nammy and Chopper and everybody, because like, it's been how
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  Speaker 1: many months now of me covering this and we still
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  Speaker 1: have not seen them. It's been a minute. So I
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  Speaker 1: am very much sort of like, okay, like guys, you know, however,
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  Speaker 1: I really only feel that way if I stop and
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  Speaker 1: think about it, and in the moment, I am not
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  Speaker 1: like expecting to see them and then being irritated or annoyed.
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  Speaker 1: So I feel like that's still pretty much a win.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, let's start with episode seven to ten, which
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  Speaker 1: is the one that really focuses on Baby five and Si.
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  Speaker 1: So it turns out I wasn't realizing the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Si is Dunchin Doun Chin Jaw's son. But what we
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  Speaker 1: end up getting here is some weird like we get
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  Speaker 1: we look back at Baby five's life and find out
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  Speaker 1: like how she was treated that made her turn into
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  Speaker 1: somebody who desperately just wants to be seen as useful.
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  Speaker 1: So that she always is like ripe for being taken
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  Speaker 1: advantage of. And you know, guys, this show has been uh,
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  Speaker 1: very simplistic in like the motivations for people from their
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  Speaker 1: past and like the very direct one to one ratios
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  Speaker 1: of how they behave in the present.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm really like, you know, don't I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Need this to be a whole complicated thing. It's really fine.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe Five is not a key important character or anything.
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  Speaker 1: And I what we find out is that she was
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  Speaker 1: born to a woman in I feel like, I want
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  Speaker 1: to say a tribe, because we don't ever even really
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  Speaker 1: see a village or anything. So there's a sense of
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  Speaker 1: almost them being like nomads or at the very least
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  Speaker 1: living at the razor's edge of survival. And apparently this
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  Speaker 1: lady getting pregnant and having a kid was not good
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  Speaker 1: news to anybody. I don't know if it was like
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  Speaker 1: a good idea at the time, and then things went
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  Speaker 1: badly for this community and so they didn't have the resources,
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  Speaker 1: or if it was a bad idea from the start, and.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe five gets.
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  Speaker 1: Basically dragged into the woods and abandoned and left to
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  Speaker 1: die by her mother who tells her you're useless and
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  Speaker 1: nobody in the world has any use for you whatsoever,
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  Speaker 1: And so of course this becomes the thing that's like
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  Speaker 1: in her head about how she has to earn her
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  Speaker 1: right to be alive by being useful to people. I
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  Speaker 1: understand this is something that like, her need to be
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  Speaker 1: useful is something that I personally definitely relate to. And
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  Speaker 1: it's not like it's a weird thing, because I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I'm alone in this. But I will simultaneously want
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  Speaker 1: to do a thing and resent the very desire to
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  Speaker 1: do that thing, because I will know where that desire
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  Speaker 1: is coming from and that my expectation of myself is unfair.
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  Speaker 1: But I won't be able to quite turn off the
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  Speaker 1: expectation itself, if that makes sense. So her feeling like
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  Speaker 1: I want to be useful and find somebody who needs
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  Speaker 1: me and says that they need me, it's not actually
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  Speaker 1: that different from how a lot of women are raised.
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  Speaker 1: We are not told that our existence itself is like valid.
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  Speaker 1: Women are raised with a very different sort of metric
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  Speaker 1: than men are. And obviously I'm being very like sins
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  Speaker 1: normative here, But for the simplicity of this, you get
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. The expectation of women being useful has
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  Speaker 1: been from the ability to bear children, which not all
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  Speaker 1: women are able to do so, right there, you already
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  Speaker 1: have a problem if you can't get pregnant, to the
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  Speaker 1: ability to manage domestic affairs. A lot of the time,
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  Speaker 1: that's the expectation. Our usefulness is something that is hammered
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  Speaker 1: into us because for a long time we could not
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  Speaker 1: earn our own money. So it was like we had
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  Speaker 1: to make it worth the person to make it worth
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  Speaker 1: it for them to marry us part of the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing with a dowry as well. And it's just very
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  Speaker 1: funny to me that it was always just like the
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  Speaker 1: baggage of women that we have to like marry off
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  Speaker 1: versus the actual value of having a son. And it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: are the ones who made the world this way. Women
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  Speaker 1: could be like generating in comfort, They could there could
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  Speaker 1: be a whole thing, but you are the ones who
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  Speaker 1: decided to make it so that we are completely dependent
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  Speaker 1: on men. And now you're mad at us over it,
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  Speaker 1: Like come on, And I just know in person a
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  Speaker 1: few different women who see themselves as simply help meets
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  Speaker 1: and not really their own people. And it's so depressing
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  Speaker 1: to me to see and as somebody who like, like,
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  Speaker 1: for a little while in my youth, fell into the
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  Speaker 1: trap of like wrapping up my entire identity and self
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  Speaker 1: worth in what men thought of me. I really understand
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  Speaker 1: that impulse, especially because of the way that media works
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  Speaker 1: and what we cite as being important or not in women.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe five just has got a piece of my
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  Speaker 1: heart in this respect, And I really understand how this
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  Speaker 1: could drive somebody in a real way and not just
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  Speaker 1: like the incredibly exaggerated, over the top way it.
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  Speaker 2: Does in this episode.
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  Speaker 1: Also, it's combined with her like willfully misunderstanding everything he says,
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  Speaker 1: which is just a joke that does not get old
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  Speaker 1: for me. So overall, this whole thing is the best.
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  Speaker 1: At one point, he says something about how like it's
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  Speaker 1: you and me until one of us or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: and of course she interprets this as a proposal, and
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  Speaker 1: he's like, wait, what, That's not what I meant at all.
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  Speaker 1: She his father who is fighting nearby, He's fighting Laoji.
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  Speaker 1: He overhears this and is like, dude, you're already even engaged.
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: And his son is like, yeah, I know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: really care who I marry though, so like whatever, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's not even like that big a deal. And
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  Speaker 1: he says that she has misunderstood what's going on here
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  Speaker 1: and tries to like say to her, that's not that's
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  Speaker 1: not what's happening, and she keeps doing this sort of
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  Speaker 1: like why.
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  Speaker 2: Won't you just be honest with me? You said this and.
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  Speaker 1: This, until finally she said, what can I do for you?
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  Speaker 2: Just tell me?
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  Speaker 1: And he says, you can die, and she literally transforms
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  Speaker 1: her hand into a gun and holds it to her
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  Speaker 1: own hand head and says, I'm so glad that I
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  Speaker 1: can do something to help. This is all I have
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  Speaker 1: ever wanted. And this is let me go back into
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: the flashback so that we can fully understand how messed
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  Speaker 1: up this woman can be. That killing herself seems like
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  Speaker 1: a perfectly reasonable thing to ask, and I think it's loud.
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  Speaker 1: Later on, he gets involved in the fight with Si
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  Speaker 1: and he says something about how you should have used
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  Speaker 1: baby five as a shield. She would be willing to
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  Speaker 1: do anything you asked. She's one of the most useful
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  Speaker 1: women in the world, which is so incredibly gross. She
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  Speaker 1: gets ulterary eyed, of course, because this is what she
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  Speaker 1: wants to hear, but like the context of what he's
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  Speaker 1: actually saying is very very hideous actually, And overall where
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  Speaker 1: we eventually get is Sai is trying to convince her
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  Speaker 1: not to kill herself, and his dad, who is down
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  Speaker 1: like you know, fighting Auji. Here's him, and it's like,
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  Speaker 1: that's your enemy. What are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Just let her die?
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  Speaker 1: Then? If she wants to kill herself, she's making everything
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  Speaker 1: very easy for you, So why don't you just let her?
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  Speaker 1: I don't get your whole thing with like trying to talk.
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  Speaker 2: Her out of it, and.
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  Speaker 1: His son is it's just like I couldn't live with
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  Speaker 1: myself if this is the way things ended, Like this
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  Speaker 1: is fucked up. No, I'm not letting her do this.
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  Speaker 1: And finally he manages to talk her out of this
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  Speaker 1: and his father it's a really like sweet moment. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to find the exact spot where uh he like.
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  Speaker 2: Here it is.
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  Speaker 1: She says, if I die, I can finally be useful
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  Speaker 1: to someone, can I? And he says the world you live.
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  Speaker 2: In is twisted, which is a good.
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  Speaker 1: Way to say that they taught you all wrong. And
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  Speaker 1: she gasps as if like, oh my god, he's opening
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  Speaker 1: my eyes, and then we have Jinjau actually opening his
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  Speaker 1: eyes and his head got dented that like at a
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  Speaker 1: ninety degree angle. So he looks up at his son
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  Speaker 1: and he says, at last, your power has awakened and
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  Speaker 1: your form is true. Your training has finally borne fruit.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, oh, it's not his son, it's his grandfather.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 1: He says, I'm so proud of you. The Hassoken technique
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  Speaker 1: has finally found its true air. Ci your kick shall
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  Speaker 1: inherit the title drill Dragonnail, as my head did before it.
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  Speaker 1: And then his leg lights up with fire like Sanjies,
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  Speaker 1: but it's bluish green fire instead of that red yellow fire.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing that you can split the continent device, the Haposui
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  Speaker 1: Army is yours, truly and completely. Now I shall cancel
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  Speaker 1: your arranged marriage. Your life is yours to live as
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  Speaker 1: you please. And Si, who is very moved, is sort
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  Speaker 1: of confused about what's going on, and he says, embrace me.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think that, you know, you were going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to carry on my legacy. But I have
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  Speaker 1: been dealing with this like chronic pain, and I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: really sure. And just this moment of him like this
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  Speaker 1: being tested and told just let her kill herself. It's
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  Speaker 1: the easiest way in finding out that.
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  Speaker 2: This was all just test you out.
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  Speaker 1: I really did kind of like this. Meanwhile, Looji, this
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  Speaker 1: man is a maniac. So they're in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: this touching moment. Lougi jumps in. He does the behold
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  Speaker 1: the seal of g and he not only burns a
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  Speaker 1: G in Chin Jao's chest, he also digs a G
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  Speaker 1: out of the wall of the cliff I think, or
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: something like the ground. I don't even know what it
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  Speaker 1: is that they're up against, but suffice to say it's
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  Speaker 1: a very large, very deeply carved G. And he goes
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  Speaker 1: on to explain how he has perfected this technique that
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  Speaker 1: allowed him to store up the vitality of youth like
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  Speaker 1: He calls it geofist and let's see where is it?
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  Speaker 1: Battle insurance fist a safety precaution to counteract infirmary or
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  Speaker 1: old age. By performing ggong exercises, you can store away
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  Speaker 1: muscle from your prime to draw upon later. Now I
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  Speaker 1: have combined the experience of age with the vitality of youth.
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  Speaker 1: No one can stand before me. My power is sublime,
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  Speaker 1: and like this he has busted this out after throwing
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  Speaker 1: his back out earlier on in the fight, and at
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  Speaker 1: one point he like does this weird technique that they
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  Speaker 1: call the back brace technique, which was honestly, extremely fucking
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  Speaker 1: funny to me.
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  Speaker 2: It made me think, like my.
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  Speaker 1: Husband threw his back out earlier this week. I had
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  Speaker 1: a really bad back injury in like July of last year,
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  Speaker 1: and I couldn't even get out of bed without a
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  Speaker 1: lot of help.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: It was absolutely miserable. You guys, like it was the
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  Speaker 1: motivating factor in me finding a trainer, cleaning up my diet,
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  Speaker 1: and now I have like gotten a lot more strength
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  Speaker 1: in my core, which helps support your back muscles and
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  Speaker 1: all of that.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just so easy.
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  Speaker 1: To fall out of the habit of taking care of
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  Speaker 1: yourself because for the most part, with the way a
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  Speaker 1: lot of us live our lives, we don't necessarily need
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  Speaker 1: that kind of strength every day, so we will fall
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  Speaker 1: out of doing anything that supports those muscles, and then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're called on to just like
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  Speaker 1: lift a bag of soil, and all of you can't
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  Speaker 1: move for another week and a half afterwards, and it's
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  Speaker 1: just a shame the way that it slides so under
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  Speaker 1: the radar, and then it's not until you really fuck
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  Speaker 1: yourself up bad that you find like the motivation to
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  Speaker 1: get it together and Lougie being able to pull on
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  Speaker 1: the experience of age and the vitality of youth together.
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  Speaker 1: This is the dream. I'm very, very jealous.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say.
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  Speaker 1: He looks completely different also, like you know, he's just
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  Speaker 1: a solid dorito shaped muscle basically, and Cy is looking
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  Speaker 1: at him and says, how dare you do that to him?
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  Speaker 2: I'll have my revenge.
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  Speaker 1: And I was sort of like, sigh, no offense, but
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  Speaker 1: you really just don't look like you're.
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  Speaker 2: Up for it, my guy.
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  Speaker 1: Like SI's just not that impressive. He's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: boring in his design, his voice isn't that distinctive, Like
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  Speaker 1: most of what he's got going on is very whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and he doesn't really even talk smack very well. La
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  Speaker 1: Gi meanwhile, says something like you haven't trained for years
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  Speaker 1: and years on your techniques, and shit, you are not
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  Speaker 1: going to be able to beat me.
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  Speaker 2: Get the hell out of here.
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  Speaker 1: And says, for your honor, that does not mean anything,
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  Speaker 1: And Si sails through the air with his fucking scythe
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  Speaker 1: kind of I don't even know what to call this.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's a habark. No habark is a piece
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  Speaker 1: of clothing, isn't it. It's like a piece of armor,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a blade attached to like the end of
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  Speaker 1: a pole. And he comes down with that blade and
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  Speaker 1: Loungee literally stops it with a finger, which is actually
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  Speaker 1: quite impressive. And Lougie meanwhile his face also like his
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  Speaker 1: eyes are just black and his mouth has no teeth
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  Speaker 1: in it still, so there is a very creepy sort
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  Speaker 1: of aspect there, which we wind up seeing again later
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  Speaker 1: with Cavendish's alter ego. So this is when Lougee says
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  Speaker 1: I'll protect you and this interloper and to baby five,
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  Speaker 1: and she's like, oh my god, they're fighting over me.
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  Speaker 2: And I was just like, girl, I love I love this.
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  Speaker 1: Moment for you. She's just sitting there watched him fight
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  Speaker 1: to the death with this big fucking smile on her face.
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  Speaker 1: It's the best, Like I love her, I just do.
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  Speaker 1: It's so dumb.
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  Speaker 2: I'm into it.
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  Speaker 1: And lou g does end up like getting sigh in
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  Speaker 1: the face and sends him flying, and this is when
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  Speaker 1: he says something about you even realize what baby five
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  Speaker 1: is worth. And then he says, now battle insurance, just expiration,
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  Speaker 1: devil withdrawal, immolation. That is too many words, sir, And
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: then he says genocide with a capital G, which.
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  Speaker 2: I it just.
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  Speaker 1: Hits different in twenty twenty five. That's all I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I just and so then Cy says, fine, I'll fight
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  Speaker 1: you for baby five, and then I am going to
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  Speaker 1: take her as my wife. He says it, he just
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  Speaker 1: actually says it, and this bitch loses her goddamn mind.
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  Speaker 1: She just it's so delightful. Her heart pops out of
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  Speaker 1: her chest. She's got her hands over her face with
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: those bright pink cheeks. Everything about this is just fills
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  Speaker 1: my heart with unmitigated joy. And then finally Si manages
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  Speaker 1: to get lou Gi on the head with his like
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  Speaker 1: really powerful kick that he has inherited, and Louji says,
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  Speaker 1: young master, forgive me. And as he says this, we
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  Speaker 1: see this like crack form, and the whole plateau like splits,
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  Speaker 1: and Louji falls into this crevass and calls him an
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  Speaker 1: accursed ape gorilla with a capital G and vanishes from sight,
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  Speaker 1: along with a bunch of the other don Quixote pirates,
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  Speaker 1: and I am very excited to see Baby Five's wedding.
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  Speaker 1: I really hope we get to go to it and
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I can't wait. So just on record for that, Oh,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Seraphim is in the chat I meant to read. Seraphim
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: started by saying, yes, you are pretty much alone in
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: those feelings about the will of D. So you know
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: if that's so sorry about it. I'm sorry that the
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: will of D thing is set up so goofily and
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: poorly that I had this reaction. I am not sorry
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  Speaker 1: for my reaction. Just to be clear, I am sorry
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  Speaker 1: that it wasn't established better.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it just doesn't It just does nothing.
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  Speaker 2: It's nothing.
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  Speaker 1: But I am open to my mind being changed by
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: future events, just as of right now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even get it.
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  Speaker 1: Then, Seraphims has been eagerly awaiting you getting that Baby
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  Speaker 1: five backstory with how much you loved her, think how
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: pexts are already is you want to add more stuff
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: for the other straw hats too, And the implication in
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: that flashback is she was the mom's fifth kid. Oh
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: baby five, DoD douy, I didn't even think of that
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Seraphem and was so not cared about she didn't even
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: get a name, just fifth baby or baby five. Oh,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and then Saraphim look loudy thinks he's a ferukmist, which
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: is a misporm reference for those who are not familiar.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: But yes, that's actually like not that far off. And
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: then size weapon is a glave j laive E. Okay,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I hope I'm saying that right. So yeah, So that's
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the end of the first of the three episodes. It
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: was a winner from beginning to end in my opinion.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I also just really enjoy Louji. I like there being
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: an old guy. I like Laoji's weird, fucking like just
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the whole way that he fights and the way that
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: he speaks and all of that is very fun. I
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: chin Jao actually grew on me a great deal. And
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: then maybe five, I mean all of it.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Just love it.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: So jumping into the second episode, we touch base again
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: with Zoro fighting Pica. Now, guys, I have given a
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: lot of compliments to this overall arc, and I stand
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: by all of them, but this this is the one
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: where I'm starting to like just really be like, can
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: we get this over with?
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Please?
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Genuinely, can we please just get this over with? It
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: is silly at this point. This fight is so boring,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Like at one point even Zoro himself says, two Pika,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: You're just a one trick pony, and honestly, I felt
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: like that kind of summed up what the whole fight
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: feels like. We're just watching the same three moves from
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: each of them over and over and over again.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: It's really like.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: You could absolutely recycle almost all of the illustrations from
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: the first moments of engagement, and I don't think I
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: would necessarily be able to tell the difference if you
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: did that. I just there there has been no perceptible
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: forward progress of any kind, and I genuinely have no
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: idea if anybody has the upper hand or what like.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: There's just nothing going on here. So I will say
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: since it's so boring, at least the show doesn't spend
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: that much time with them. I think that they know
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: this is nothing.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: They have to go back to him because Zorro is popular.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: But I don't get the feeling that the show thinks
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: this is interesting and it doesn't spend too much time,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: so that's something anyway, And then we have Elizabella pop
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: up this dude who you know? If he saves up
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: his punch, he has like that one super powerful punch,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: And he asks Zoro if he needs some help and says,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: King Riku's an old friend. I hope to restore him
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: to power. I'm charged and ready. I can unleash my
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: king punch once per hour. Have you figured out how
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: that stone giant's ability works? Zorro says, yeah, a long
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: time ago. And he says, then tell me and I'll
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: finish him off. And Zorro says, sorry, pal, but I
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: want to beat him myself. Hold on to that trump
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: car of yours. We still don't know what's to come.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I there was such just something about hey, let me
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: jump on in there, and Zoro just being like, no, no, no,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I want to do it, when I am so very
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: much at the point of like, oh, let it, and
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to slap and shake him there. You know,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that this is for Zora's own personal gratification,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: that's fine, but I definitely was like thinking for a
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: moment that this guy was going to come in and
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: do a punch and fucking put us all out of
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: our misery.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Here, and then Zoro just flat.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Out refuses to, like, you know, take any help, and
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I was going, oh, come on, so anyway, Uh this dude,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I guess we are just sort of keeping him in
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the wings because I'm assuming this like battle isn't going
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: to go on for more than another hour or so,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: so we probably just want to have this one punch
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: saved up and not use it up here and assume
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: that he can use it again later.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Which I guess makes sense. So Piica turns.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Up again, Elizabella hops away and says, I'll leave you
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: to it.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Zorro says, you big stupid rock.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Whatever you're plotting, it won't work, and Pika just does
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: this weird, creepy little laugh, and then we jump over
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: to another boring fight between Diamante and uh, oh my god,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: not Kiros.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: What is his name?
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: No, it is Kiros, Yes, So I don't want to
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: spend very much time on this. This is just the
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Diamante continuing to needle him about having killed his wife.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Kiros standing on one foot on a ground that is
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: like rippling all over the place, and this guy saying,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I am so glad that your daughter is still alive.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: So that I get to kill her because I had
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: so much fun killing your wife. This is gonna be awesome.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: And overall, two out of three, no, two out of ten.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I feel like pretty let down at the fact that
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: there hasn't been more done with Kiros and Rebecca. At
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: this point, we were like in a promising place with
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: them in terms of their relationship to the overall story
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: and everything, and the way that they were moving things,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: along with Kiros being the only toy that wasn't under
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: their control. There were just a lot of things that
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: were interesting about this whole setup, and it was like,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: once those things got revealed, all of the interest that
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I had in them just evaporated, because it seems like
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: it was really much more the mystery of what was
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: going on with them that was keeping the story going,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: rather than them as characters actually being compelling.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: And I.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Like, Rebecca is off to the side literally asking her
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: dad to let her fight, and her dad is yelling
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: back at her, no, this is my penance. I want
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: to do this to make up for letting your mother die,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: and I want my daughter to live in peace and
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: never swim a sword again. I cannot emphasize enough how
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: foolish this feels when his daughter barely was fighting to
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: begin with. If she had turned into a killing machine,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: that would be one thing I would have been into it.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Her just kind of turning.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Into like this bloodthirsty I'm gonna fucking take him down
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: any means necessary, and him being like, she did what
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: she needed to do to stay alive, but now I'm
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: going to take that off her plate so that she
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: isn't just you know, surviving to survive. I feel like
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: this would have had such a better, bigger impact, But
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: instead his daughter didn't fight anyway. She just ducked and
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: dodged and made people fall into the water, and then
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: him saying so that she never has to swing a
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: sword again. It's like she I get that it's supposed
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: to feel like this because she was fighting in the arena.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: It's supposed to feel like he saw her have to
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: become a gladiator and hated every minute of it and
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: is trying to make up for it.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I get what it is supposed to be, but it
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: does not feel that way.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: That's the problem. A lot of times.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: That's what it is like with story beats, where it's
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: it's less about whether it is written to be a
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: thing and much more about whether it actually connects emotionally.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: And I don't feel.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Like Rebecca ever really sacrificed any part of herself to survive.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: She managed to survive while still adhering to I don't
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: want to kill anybody. She managed to pull that off,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: which is remarkable. But it makes what he says here
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: just feel very self serving and like it's just all
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: about his own ego, and I did not care for it,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: and I just don't like him, so this whole thing,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: and plus dian Monte is just so excessive with the
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: whole way that he's like taunting him about killing his
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: wife and everything, like it's just a very like cartoonish
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: mustache twirling villain sort of thing, and it makes him
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: really boring. It just feels like we have two of
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: the most dull versions of hero and villain characters in
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: the same scenes together up against each other, and each
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: of them is a complete polar opposite of the other,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: and there's nothing interesting in their dialogue. They're not even
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: really hearing you.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Each other, you know.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: It's like it just it's the worst of both worlds,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. So let's see Saraphim says about Zoropika.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: It didn't necessarily go faster in the manga, but we
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: didn't keep getting these random cutaways to the fight with
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: nothing happening to make it feel so dragged out instead
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: of just going on in the background. The other thing
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: going on is Kiro's greatest regret is having killed a person,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: and he's desperate to make sure that his child never
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: deals with having to do that. I am going to
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: be honest, Seraphim, I don't know what you're talking about.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Kiro's greatest regret regret is having killed a person, and
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: he's desperate to make sure his child never deals with
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: having to do that. Who did he kill? That's his
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: greatest regret. I don't even remember this, and I believe you.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Just to be clear, I am saying that isn't really
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: how like maybe maybe it's a he even pops up
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: in this dialogue, and I was so uninterested that I
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: didn't even catch it. But I absolutely did not register
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: that as a motivation at all for the record, not
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: even in my vision. So if that's so, I would
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: really appreciate that being like much more front and center.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: You know, like and earlier on.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Because Rebecca her thing is that she didn't want to
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: have to fight, and she like, so what would have
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: been more interesting is instead of what he does, which
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: is she he tries to get her to fight, she
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: says she doesn't want to have to hurt anybody, and
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: so he teaches her how to fight without hurting people.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: It would have been interesting if he had killed somebody,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: regretted it and then wanted to teach her how to
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: defend herself without killing people, and that was what he
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: taught her because of his own thing, rather than it
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: just being her unwillingness to hurt people. And maybe she
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: does eventually have to hurt somebody because she get put
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: in the fucking position that she did, and you know, like,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: there's just so many more interesting ways to do all
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: of that, and it just feels like it was all
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: an afterthought kind of. So we have a brief cutaway
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: to Sabo, who's just like on the street giving people
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: soup in a very kind of silly moment. Honestly, I
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: was just like, where are you getting this? Do you
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: have a soup kitchen somewhere? You're just bouncing around with
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: bowls soup for random people on the street.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I guess whatever.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: And there's a moment where he looks up and he
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: hears that Loofy is up there fighting Bellamy and he's like,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: all right, I guess I better go and help him,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: and we jump back into Lufy and Bellamy, so we
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: get the thing last episode I said, I hope that
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: it's like Bellamy is doing all of this and instead
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: of hurting Lufy, he's actually going to use it against
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Do Flamingo. But no, it is the Sopranos thing where
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: even after.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: All of this, the.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Whole like he just feels like despite here's the part
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: that I keep getting stuck on.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: What he says.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Is, I'm not going to be disloyal. I am not
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: going to turn on them after getting fired. But I
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: just really need to point out you weren't fired. You
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: weren't hired. Like he thinks that he was hired because
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: they let him fly their flag, but like, in my opinion,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: that's really not what that meant.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: That was you.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Being fobbed off because they didn't want to deal with
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: you in that moment, and so they just kind of went, yeah.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: I guess whatever.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: And it's sort of embarrassing to see him act as
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: if he was part of things and owes them something
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: when I think nobody really saw you as part of
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: things in the first place. My guy, I hate to
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: say it, but I'm gonna say it. So it's just
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: like this whole attitude is just very heartbreaking and sorry
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Saraphi is in the chat talking about heros. It was
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: during the main backstory of what got him made a
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: gladiator in the first place. Oh okay, so it was
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: that long ago. Yeah, like that does not that's not
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: even I'm not even that does not like remind me
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: very much. I don't remember that much about the circumstances.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: So yeah, not just not well done. And then Bellamy
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: is going full willful sunk cost fallacy about this stupid
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: but realistically so yeah, some cost fallacy is a good
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: way of putting it, because that really is it.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: You know. He just seems to think that, like.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I, if I turn on them, then everything that I
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: have attempted to accomplish will have been meaningless and I
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: can't allow that. So I am going to make it
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: mean something by sticking it out till the end. But
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: it's like, bruh, you dying here doesn't make that more meaningful.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: It doesn't.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: He believes it does. And he says something about how
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: like if I were to turn on them now, I'd
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: be worse than a failure. I'd be a total disgrace,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: and oh my god, like I really cannot I can't
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: disagree more with that whole statement. Just the idea that
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: somehow dying for a cause that doesn't even want you
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: means that you have somehow accomplished something like. It's agonizing.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: It's very very sad. But Bellamy is stupid. He's not
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: a smart character, and Lufy is like trying to get
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: him to fucking knock it off. Bellamy is literally bleeding
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: on him. He's like trying to intimidate Loofy in these moments,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: bouncing around him, and not only is he not Loufy,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: he's getting his own blood on Lufy by bouncing around
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: like this. It's just, oh my god, humiliating. So then
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: we go over to Law and uh.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: And do Flamingo.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Law is like at one point trying to like, you know,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: go get his sword and do something do. Flamingo comes
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: up on him, knocks him down, stomps on the arm
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: that he has left, and is just like, I don't
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: get it. Dude, your attempt at revenge isn't going to happen.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: You have to know that.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: So like, if you do, you want to die, because
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: if you do, then I'll just make sure that you
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: die really slow. Whatever it is that you want, we're
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: gonna not give it to you. That's gonna be the
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: fun of it. And so we get this sequence of
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: him and Treble basically just like torturing and toying with
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: Law until eventually Law does room and does like an
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: electrical attack on Do Flamingo, and it's I really thought
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: that it was gonna like be something. Do Flamingo seems
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: almost unaffected by it, and he says, well, you still
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: got a little fight in you, so and he says
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: have a little fall bright, and we see the strings
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: go through laws middle as if he got pierced by
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: swords from behind. It's weird, though, because when he lands,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: there's no blood and there's no holes. There's nothing that
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: really makes it look like those things pierced him. So
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I couldn't tell if it was just supposed to feel
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: that way, because as far as I understand, it's actual
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: physical threads that are doing the things that do Flamingo
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: is the you know what I'm saying. So like I
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: just expected to see injuries there and I didn't. And
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: I couldn't tell if that was like a mean misunderstanding
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: the way that attack worked, or if it was about
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: the animation just like being a little bit inconsistent about
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: the injuries themselves, you know. So finally we get to
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: a point where Lufy is being beat up by Bellamy,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: and it's not even like he's like he's just sort
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: of allowing it because he doesn't want to fight back.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: It's not really feeling to me like he's getting beaten.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: It's that Lufy isn't going to fucking go up against
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: a dude who is in this state, which is just
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: fucking moral of him, you know. So we have the
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: brief return to law. He is being told by do
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Flamingo to rest for a bit because they still want
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: to keep torturing him, I guess.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: And then we go over to Gladius.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Gladius turns the whole area that they are standing on
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: into a series of bombs. It's a wild attack that
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: I just don't like. It's just it's too much. It's
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: too much in that it's an opee kind of power,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: but also it doesn't ever really like, you know, when
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: people don't die from these apparently very intense attacks, it's
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: hard for me to like take them that seriously. So
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: Cavendish he is trying to be like, fight, don't make
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: me wait, Let's do this, and Gladius does this thing
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: where he makes the whole place a series of bombs,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: and Cavendish sees Bartolomeo behind his barrier and demands that
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: he'd be let through because otherwise he's going to die
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: from this explosion. Bartolomeo does not want to let him
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: through because he is worried about Robin's well being and
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: his own, but honestly, I really do think that is
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: genuinely a secondary consideration for him. And at first he
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: doesn't want to let Cavendish through, and then finally, at
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: the very last second, he lets him through and then says,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: if you'd been stuck out there, that would have wiped
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: you out for sure, and Cavendish kicks him in the
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: head and it's like, then, why did you wait until
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: the last second? I could have died, And Bartolomeo says,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: how about a thank you since I saved your life,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: and he's like I've been out there fighting, so where's
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: my fucking thank you? It is kind of a funny fight.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: I actually did sort of like this a little bit.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: They have a face to face moment and it was
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: a very like sort of now kiss, and then he says, Okay,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: then let me.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Out of here. We need to win.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Bartolomeo is just like, wow, I just let you in
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: and you already want to leave, Like that's kind of rude.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: Don't you think?
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: It made me think of like how I get with
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: my cat sometimes. So he lets Caven to shout and
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: they still continue to fight. Bartolomeo sticks his tongue out
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: at him. Cavendish disappears into the smoke, and as he disappears,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: he Bartolomeo realizes like, oh, oh my god, is miss Robin. Okay,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: I forgot I lost track of her for a second.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: We see that she is still running up the cliff face,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: which I just want to say again, what she's doing
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: is she's sticking out her own legs from the cliff
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: face and then using them as steps. I just think
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: it would be much easier to make giant hands that
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: carry you up. You could just go on a straight
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: line vertically and probably be up there in like an
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: eighth of the time, but you know, nobody asked me so.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: And as she is heading up there, we see gladyas
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: zeroing in and he calls her a cunning little tramp,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: which I was like, goddamn, that was some language there.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: So he shoots a couple of uh he does catapult pop,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Bartilameo sends up a barrier that looks just like a
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: ping pong ball paddle, and it was very very funny
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: to me, And Bartolomeo says the rest can suck it,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: but new an't laying a finger on Robin, And Robin
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: looks down at Bartolomeo and says, thank you, rooster and
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: winks at him, and he has a moment. Yeah, that's stuff.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: She was totally like, thanks, little rooster. You can be
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: my sleeve.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: I'll even step on you if you be.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Guys.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: I don't remember if he has said he wants her
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: to step on him before where if I said that
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: he wants her to step on him, But somebody said it,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: And I just love that.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: It's like.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Fucking explicitly stated, because that was already how I felt
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: about it. I this, oh, this got me. This really
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: got me bad. This just cracked me up so much,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: and he tells himself, got to keep that one in
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: the realm of fantasy, which I will say, as much
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: as Bartolomeo is like an unmitigated fanboy and just goes
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: hard with his like worship, he does have self awareness
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: around it and tries to keep it cool as much
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: as he possibly can. And I appreciate that about him,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: I really do so. Anyway, I do love too that
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: as he's doing all of this and sort of celebrating,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: we back up and we get to see that the
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: barrier he has erected around himself is like a silhouette,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: a large silhouette of him. So while he's dancing, the
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: barrier is also dancing, which I hadn't realized that it
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: like would follow his movements in that way, and that
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: was fun. So then we have Cavendish coming up to
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Gladias and starting to attack him, but then a bunch
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: of the other pirates are yelling like, hey, Gladias, we
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: got a problem here, and we turn around and we
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: see that Bartolomeo has his barrier up, his arms crossed
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: in front of him, and he says, barrier bulls and
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: is doing a sort of bulldozer motion and his eyes
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: have turned bright red and he says, thanks, miss Robin.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: All it takes is one little wink in my heart
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: lights up like an inferno. So he's like scooping everybody
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: toward the edge of the plateau. I guess, of course,
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: Cavendish is very annoyed because he is supposed to be
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Bartolomeo's ally, and he bart is not making any distinctions
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: between enemies and friends right now. He is just like,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: I'm too jazzed. I there's no stopping this train. Caven
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Dish says, hit the emergency brake, and he says, no
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: can do. And I forgot about this moment. There's a
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: fucking Dellinger is literally just standing off to the side
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: watching this whole thing. I totally like, just incredibly uninvolved,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: asking if Gladias is going for a jog, like, oh
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: my god. And it's here that I see a fin
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: sticking out of Dellinger's back, which I don't think that
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: we have seen before. And I said something about how
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: he was called like a fish person in one of
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: the summaries under the episodes, and I said, like, I
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: don't remember that. There's nothing really fish like about him.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: I don't think I knew that. This is the first
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: time I remember seeing this fin I might be about this,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: But then later we get like a real good look
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: at his fishiness and it is extremely creepy. So he
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: gets involved in this fight with the dude who I
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: cannot remember his name, but he has a really weird
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: like it's like they're shoulder pads, but I think that
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: they are actually extensions of his arms that go upward
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: in a bat like fashion. I don't know, but this
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: dude and Dellinger fight, and I'm going to just summarize
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: this because it goes on a long time. This guy
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: beats the ever loving shit out of.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Shoulder pads.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: Dellinger is extremely scary to me, honestly, Like there have
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: been a few times where I've said how unnerving I
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: feel him, But overall this scene really cemented for me, Like,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: here is a guy that I want no parts of,
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: and there is a single moment where shoulder pads seems
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: to be like about to maybe get the better of him,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: and Dellinger's teeth pop out. His fish teeth come out
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: that are very pointy and horrible.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: And he.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Takes a bite out of this guy's shoulder and his
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: eyes get huge and red, and then he has all
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: this like blood dripping from his mouth. He is so
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: freaky looking, like no, no, no, no, I do not
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: like him. Dellinger thumbs down forever, please stay out of everything.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: I don't like you. So later on it seems like
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: he's trying to catch up to Gladia.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: He's like going into the battlefield area and is looking
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: around like, where is everybody, Gladias, where did you go?
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: And you just hear people.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: Screaming, and Dellinger is clearly like, what wait, what's going on?
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: And you just see these pirates getting mowed down, but
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: the person actually doing it you don't see. Gladias yells Dellinger.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: Get the fuck out of here. Something's really really wrong.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: You need to leave.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: And Dellinger's like, dude, you and me together, nobody is
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: gonna take us out. Come on, let's do this, and
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: then he like bows backward. We see this gout of
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: blood come up, and then we see the face of
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: Cavendish's alter ego. I had forgotten all about this guy,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Hakuba I you guys, this animation is s tier like
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: it's so wild. How unnerving. Dellinger just was a moment
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: ago with all of those pointy teeth and the red eyes.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: And then you go to Hakuba, who has no pupils,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: no irises, no teeth, He's got none of the things,
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: and he is so much for here for it. I
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: just really liked the contrast between the two of them
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: and how totally opposite their faces are, and how one
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: of them is just exponentially more upsetting. And I got
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: very excited right away because Hakuba, having forgotten about him,
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh yeah, let's fucking see what this
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: guy can do here. Like I was into it, and
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Dellinger is flipped out and it's just like, wait, who
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: are you even It's like you're a monster. And hakubuck
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: goes up and like you just see all of these
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: strikes on Dellinger, but you never actually see Hakuba. And
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: then Dellinger just goes down and as he hits the ground,
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: Hakuba is like thirty feet away already. It's really something.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: I really loved this.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: So then to uh wrap up this.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Whole thing, we get a pretty funny sequence where Bartel Mayo,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: who is inside a cylinder barrier, is watching this and
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: is just like, what in the fuck is happening, and
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: he finally remembers, oh wait, something like this was like
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: happened in the arena. It was cavendish, but that is
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: not his face. What is happening? And finally Hakuba comes
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: up to the cylinder and tries to slice him to ribbons.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Bartelomeo is feeling extremely smug because this guy does not
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: get through the barrier, but then he notices Hakuba looking
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: upward at the hole at the top of the cylinder,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: and it's just like, oh shit, and he has to
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: close it up. He like twists it like it's a
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: candy wrapper, and he's trying to reason with Hakuba, who
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: does not speak. His face doesn't change at all, and
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: he is just willing to camp out inside this cylinder
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: until he sees Hakuba looking over at Robin, and once
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: he realizes this guy is going after his girl, he's
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: just like, oh, absolutely the fuck not. And honestly, I
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: was in it because him just being able to stay
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: inside the cylinder. It was very funny to see him
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: just kind of being like, hey, buddy, you in there,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: seventh and cool. But he finally drops the barrier and
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: he tries to jump Hakuba, but Hakaba is like the
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: speed of light, so he jumps lands on nothing. Hakuba
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: is already halfway up the face of the cliff and
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: he is coming at Robin, who sees him. But like again,
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: he is so fast, and so what she does is
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: she has her arms come out of his body and
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: wrap him up so that he can't keep moving. He
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: like is in mid air and she has two giant
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: hands come out of the cliff face and completely envelope him,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: basically putting him in a kind of like weird straight jacket.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: And Bartolomeo starts crying in relief, Eve and it's like
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: I was so scared for a second, but that was
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: a dope move. That was like really awesome. Bartie l Mayo,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: please be my best friend. I really want a wanted
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: poster of him. And Robin says to him, Oh, poor cabbage,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: did you need something? And that's the end of the episode,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: which was a wild place for it to leave off,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: like a really weird choice. But honestly, I loved it.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: I really did. This whole thing is fun. What a
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: weird guy?
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: I just.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: This is this is a fun development. I like this
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: a lot.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Sara from says feared Dellinger the death
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: Twink Death Twink exactly.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: That's exactly it.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: So yeah, anyway, guys, I really really enjoyed these episodes
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: a lot, and uh, I'm just so delighted with the arc,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: you know, I really really am. There have been some
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: some low points here and there, but for the most part,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: I have been very pleasantly surprised, like consistently, So all right,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: I'm going to wrap this one up, but thank you
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: guys again for listening, Thank you Florian for commissioning this one,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: thank you for Sarahan for joining me in the chat,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: and until next week to the Loo motherfuckers. That was
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: an unspoiled Network podcast.