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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me,
covering one Piece episodes seven fifty four and seven fifty five.
A battle begins, Loofy versus the Mink Tribe and gart
you the straw Hats reunite, which is a bit of
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a lie, isn't it, my friends? Because the straw Hats
aren't fully reunited. It doesn't feel so good. Welcome to
spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha.
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Thank you very much to Floria for commissioning this episode
and for being flexible and allowing me to reschedule yet again.
But yeah, I am. I'm really relieved, actually that I
double checked the whether or not I should watch three
episodes because I was feeling like these episodes were pretty packed,
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and I was thinking maybe it was my imagination. But
the fact that I'm only meant to watch two for
this episode and two for the next one, I think
is saying something because there is a lot happening here.
And I know that I said before, how you know
how strange a beginning this is? I thought that the
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strange beginning was that Nami has been turned into a dog,
which I won't apologize for thinking that she's wearing Namies clothes,
and I am almost positive this is the same voice
actress as well. So I feel like this show was
intentionally tricking me to be perfectly fair. And that's fine
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if it were meant to be that everybody was getting tricked,
but it's played very much like the only person who
falls for it is Oosop because he is very very
much letting his imagination run away with him. And I
couldn't help but just be like, I don't appreciate that
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you're trying to put me in the same place as
USAP show. I'm not being unreasonable, same clothes, same voice actress,
and Florien is pointing out and she kind of has
brown orange hair. Yeah, exactly. It felt very much like, well,
we had people turning into toys and forgetting who there
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there the people around them, forgetting who they were. I
didn't think that it was so unreasonable that we have
people turn into animals and they forget who their friends are.
Instead we reverse it, you know. I just thought that
doesn't seem like it's out of the question. Why would
it be? And no, it turns out Nami has a
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whole other outfit on, and I guess has just lent
this bitch lol her clothing, which it just feels like
I've been baited and I don't appreciate it. That's all
I'm saying. I just feel like this is a real
little Oakie doke and that it's on purpose. So but yeah,
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it is. It is not Nam, it is a whole
other character. I really want to. I meant to mention
this last time and I forgot. There is of course
new arc new theme song, and you guys know, was
very very much loving the theme song from last season,
and I was feeling like a little dread that once
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we move on, who knows what we're gonna get. I
just kind of wanted to stick with that one. It
was a false alarm. This new theme song is also
a bop. We have had two good ones in a
row here, so I'm very excited about that. But initially
I definitely was just like, oh, no, it's gonna be
a new one. Ah, what is it? But yeah, it's great,
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and I just I didn't watch the opening credits. I
just let the music like wash over me. But I
try not to actually watch because I know that there
have been spoilers in the openings before. But I will
say that I glanced up at one point and everybody
was playing with super soakers, and I am very much
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wanting that episode. We keep getting these like really fun intros, guys,
where everybody is just chilling at the beach having a
great time. I just really you want an arc where
all the biggest thing we've got to deal with is
how to throw a really great beach party, and that's
all we need to worry about the whole time is
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just like, well we don't have enough food. No, there's
not enough tables or seating or is it gonna rain.
I literally like, that's all I want, and I don't
know if I'm ever going to get it. I would
assume if I ever do that, that's sort of a
filler episode, you know. But if it is, please warn
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me once we get to those filler episodes and let
me know. Hey, we're not gonna commission these. But you
were saying that you wanted like beach time episodes, and
those are these, so you should watch them anyway. So anyway,
I just wanted to mention it because the super soaker thing,
you guys, it was just it's so much fun and
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there's there's a shot of like Robin and Nami and
Robin has eight hands and she's holding like eight water guns,
and I just thought that was hilarious. I just really
liked that as a bit, she would have such an
unfair advantage over everybody in this case. So, okay, let's see,
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I'm Bernadette here, Hi Bernadette, Sarah Fim says, Welcome to zoo,
where Oda goes full furry bait. Yeah. A lot of
the more fun random intro bits are taken from cover
pages Oda draws of the crew hanging out, gotcha. Yeah, Like,
I don't know, maybe this is some supplementary thing out
there as well. I'm sure there's fanfic, but I don't
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want that. I want like cannon hangout times. But anyway,
this uh zoo is a really fasting concept. So there's
a few different things going on here. The one that
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I really want to know about is this like whale
shaped tree that's in the middle of everything, and how
that all came to be. Well, really, I don't think
we're probably going to wind up getting like the origin
of this place, but maybe we will, I don't know.
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But the overall, like so Loofy leaves behind his compatriots
right and is looking around and he is just noting
that the place is really weird because the ground is
strange because it's not really ground. He looks up and
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sees that wild tree and he's like, I bet if
I got to the top of that, then I could
see the entire island. So he uses his rubber skills
to try in a monkey bar his way all the
way over. While he's calling out for his friends that
he is looking for, wondering where they are. The camera
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pans back and we go back to Carrot, who I
should mention guys. I we saw Carrot like a little
glimpse of her in the last arc when we had
just touched base with the crew here, and I thought
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we were going to be getting a whole island of
rabbit people. I didn't think it was going to be
that there are all these different animal people. I thought
it was going to be all one type and that's
like the whole island is filled with rabbits, and that
it was going to kind of be like we'll do
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a metaphor for the fact that they are prey animals
and so somebody is like taking advantage of them, you know,
that sort of thing, and instead we've got a little
bit more of like a Zootopia situation where it's all
different kinds of animals and there's not really any explanation
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how they came to be. They're just a whole different
I was gonna say, a whole different race. But like
we find out later on that talking about it in
that way isn't really looked upon kindly. But I mean,
I think that's fair to say their physiology cannot possibly
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be the same as ours when they grow fur and
their bodies are shaped totally differently, Like I'm so sorry,
but you're not human, You're just you're very clearly a
different thing. So all of them talking about like, oh,
well you're you're minx too, but you're lesser minx because
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you have less fur on your body. I was just like, nah, man,
because every single one of these people could be covered
in fur and they would not look like an animal.
They would just look like people covered in fur. It
wouldn't be like, oh, that guy's clearly a lion, you
know what I mean. So I just was sort of like,
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I get that you don't necessarily want to do the
like we're better or worse than you. And that's fine,
but like saying, oh, we're really the same thing is
just a lie. You don't have to be the same
to be equal. You can be very totally different. But
you're clearly like sentient beings who know what's going on
around you and have your ideas and you can build things,
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and you know, like you have all the same skill set,
but you're not the same species. They're just not even
thank you saying I'd say they are different species, even
Seraphim says, and it's no odder than fishmen. I guess not.
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But it feels odd because the fish like they're living
in a whole different what's the word I want, environment?
I guess you know, when you're underwater, everybody adapting to
living underwater the way that a lot of them look,
it's not really that they are distinctly a certain type
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of fish. Every now and then you would get somebody
that you're like, like, ar along for example, like he's
got that swordfish thing going on, you know, But a
lot of the fishmen, it's just sort of he's got gills,
he's got weird skin or fins on the sides of
his head or whatever. They're not like distinctive types of
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fish a lot, but these guys all look like distinct
to particular animals, and so I think that's where I'm
sort of what a weird you know? So anyway, we
have the whole like, oh, there's a situation in the
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woods where an invader is there, and she's yelling this
up to the one on the back of the Uh,
what is his name? I keep thinking that she's saying horny,
and I really can't imagine that that's the name of
this animal, but I think maybe his name is Horny.
I kind of maybe I'm right about that. But she's
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like worried about Loofy, And as we see later, there's
like a protocol that they're supposed to follow when they
come into this country because human beings are not really
meant to be here, and they didn't follow it. So
she knows that, like the guardians that are out in
the woods are going to they are not going to
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look kindly on this, which also is funny in like
thinking about how she's just like different races were the same,
You're just like lesser minx. And then I'm like, okay,
but then why do you have this rule that like
humans can't be here? That feels like you guys are
also acknowledging that you're not the same thing. So this
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uh sorry, there's so much chatter. Florence says, I think
they can procreate with humans though. That's how we got
people like Mary. I think that's interesting because you guys know,
the whole deal with Mary I found very very weird.
And we haven't met that many people who are part
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animal part human, but we have met a couple. They
tend to be a lot more, I feel towards the
beginning of the series, because we had also that marine
that was like being bribed by our along who was
like partially a rat and otherwise I don't really remember
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any I'm sure they're out there that those are just
the ones that I remember off the top of my
head because they're also in the live action, which jogged
my memory about it. But yeah, the whole thing with
Mary was really weird, and so for it to be like, oh,
I can interbreed with both, that would make sense that
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maybe there was like a fully ram man and a
human woman or vice versa, and that's how we wound
up with this weirdo guy. That works okay, because I've
just been like questioning that a lot, and Saraphim says,
given mes and humans can most likely interpret it. I
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think that was meant to be interbreed, like humans and fishmen,
they can't be different species. And Brenandette says Homo safety
and Homon Neanderthalis were also two different species and even
closer than humans and minx. Brenda did coming in here
with science facts, and Seraphim says, no, every fish man
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is noted as being based on a specific type of fish.
Oh it never You know what, Why would I know that?
Because I don't know different types of fish really to
look at anyway, So I guess I shouldn't have even
made a guess. The gators are called Marnie. It's not
humans can't be on the island. It's just that specific
area is limited to is off limits to outsider, something
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that's meant to say, okay, gotcha. So the way that
a lot of this goes like, I feel like I
can boil this down to Loofy is getting in fights
and dealing with these guardians while the rest of the
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crew worries about him and wonders what the fuck is
going on? And that's like the whole two episodes really
if we're boiling it down, but like what they can
do here, Carrot jumps up in the air, and because
I am assuming she is a bunny type of creature,
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she can jump really, really, really really fucking high. So
she is it looks to me like fifty yards in
the air, and she is looking around for any sign
of a fight to try and see what is like
where the ruckus is that Lufy is involved in, and
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she sees this like cloud of dust being kicked up.
That's where he is fighting with somebody. Carrot drops down
and informs what is the name of this nommy dog?
Even though she's not nammy like she kind of is.
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She turns to the rest of the crew and gives
them directions and says, if you turn left at the swamp,
you'll reach right flank. That's where you'll find your crew's corpse. Now, look,
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there's a point later where they're like, maybe she was
lying to us. I assert that she's using the word
corpse differently than what they are thinking, because it's too
weird a thing to say corpse singular regarding a whole
crew of people. It doesn't work, and I don't think
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that's a translation issue. I think that's like, that's a clue.
I do take great issue with the fact that she
must know what that sounds like and just takes off.
She's like, we'll handle this guy, and you guys go
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to right flank and we will meet you there, and
then she just gallops away. Her name is Wanda. Okay,
thank you, Florian. Wanda. What the fuck? Why would you
say this? Why would you say this? And if I'm
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trying to guess what she really means, you know, find
your crew's corpse. I would have guessed, if we hadn't
already seen the sonny, that maybe she was talking about
their ship. Then I was like, maybe it's like what
they call a structure and that's where there's But that
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doesn't really work either. I do not have a good
answer for this at all. I'm just not taking it
the way that everybody else is. And I'm not blaming
them for taking it the way that they do, because frankly,
how else would you take it if you were actually
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in their shoes? But I know that everybody's not dead,
So I'm just like, what way? What? So this? Uh?
When she leaves them behind, they have to theorize about
what the hell she meant by that, And this is
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this is a lot of Oosop panic TMTMTM. He is
just freaking out the way that he does. And like
at one point, Robin just mentions offhand that maybe they're cannibals,
and he he absolutely latches on to this idea and
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will not let it go. And it's just like, oh
my god, oh my god, cannibals, that's what it is.
He's being eaten. And later on he like gets a
look at them through some binoculars or something and Lufy
is indeed being like nibbled at by the carrot girl
and he so it just feeds right into SAP's idea
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that like we're being going to we're being prepared to
be eaten. You know. This was so it's like the
sort of thing that I feel I would find more
annoying if it, like, if it weren't for how this
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the Wanda fucked with them in the way that she
said this so purposefully that I can't blame oos Up
for reacting the way that he's reacting. It's just, you
know what I mean, what it really is for me,
I think is that I know the way that usup overreacts,
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and I want Wanda to factor that in even though
she does not know him. Why would she? But I
want her to be like girl, I want to say
to her, bro freaks out over everything. Can you just
explain this a little further so that we don't have
to hear him losing his mind? You are feeding into
a tendency towards drama with him that isn't healthy or
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helpful to anyone. I would appreciate it if you would
just take the time to talk him off the ledge
before you sail away into the sunset with your friend here.
So and the repeated bit of Robin just like casually
saying maybe they're cannibals, I will say also, I find
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very very funny. It's just like, I'm so sorry, but
it's genuinely I wish so much that the translation did
Robin Moore favors, because every now and then that side
of her that you guys talk about with her really
dark sense of humor does come out, and I get
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where they're going with her character. It's just that they
don't often succeed in the dub and it makes me
feel like, oh, what could have been? What maybe this
could have looked like, you know, but she doesn't care
one little bit about the fact that she is also
feeding into usup's panicked state. And maybe I can't expect
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Wanda to know better, but I fucking can expect Robin
to know better. So Robin, please, ma'am read the room,
stop it, stop fucking him. It feels like she's fucking
with him on purpose, and I don't actually think she is,
but it would be kind of funny if she did.
Ooh Seraphim says, it's more oda puneri Wan is the
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Japanese on a monopea for a dog, spark on a
monopea's for animal. Sounds are insane across the world, the
ways that we have decided things sound, it's it's very
funny like and even in English we've got wolf, but
we also have bow wow, which I always as a
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kid was just like bow wow. Who has ever heard
a dog and thought that sounded like bow wow? Where's
the buch sound even coming from? They don't do that
with their lips. Woolf sure got that woof makes sense.
Wan close enough to woof, absolutely, but bow wow is nothing.
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That's nonsense. Oh Seraphim says, did she not care or
is she low key trolling him? In Floren says, I
think Robin is fucking with Oosop on purpose. Okay, So
I was saying, like I kind of would like that.
I wasn't really getting that in the scene, but like
I do prefer to think that, so I'll go with it. Yeah,
let's do it. So Wanda is uh running after Lufy
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with carrot because she knows that the Guardians are not
going to show him any mercy since he has gone
into the like whale forest or whatever it's called. And
Robin is like trying to comfort Usop by saying, well,
they probably weren't eaten because she said that there was
a corpse, so if they ate them, then there wouldn't
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be a corpse. So that's not it. And I just
can't get enough of this, like theorizing out loud and
the cold bloodedness of it. I can this way myself
just saying shit out loud and realizing like a moment later,
oh that was a little bit too. That was a
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little bit heartless, Natasha. So we have a lot of
like I said, us up just flipping the fuck out.
We go back to Loofy and he is fighting two
different dudes, one of whom looks like a gorilla and
the other looks like a bull. I think the bull
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is named Roddy, is that right. I can't remember the
name of the gorilla guy though. And the it's not
just the bull, it's also some of the other guards
that they meet outside of the gates to the city.
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They seem to have like electric powers. And I was
just kind of like trying to figure this out because
the electric powers, it's not this is clearly not like
a devil fruit saying, because it seems like all of
them have this, So I don't know if it's like
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a tool that is distributed amongst them all, or if
it's all minks just have this power. It's just a
really the way that this works, it doesn't obviously affect
Loofy one little bit because he is rubber. So they
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are very surprised because they expected the attack that they
just levied on him to really fucking like flatten him,
and he's still standing there, absolutely fucking fine. So him
and the bull keep crashing and they actually are butting
heads against each other, which, if I'm being honest, as
much as like it's silly that they are butting heads. Literally,
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I don't think there's anybody on the crew that I
think is going to have a harder head than Loofy, Right,
I mean right, I feel like that's it. He's the
one if you're gonna pick somebody who's got the thickest,
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most durable skull. Now I know that he's using hockey here,
but like I'm taking that out of the equation. I'm
not factoring that. I'm just talking pure skull strength. And
I think it would be either Loofy. One could say
Brook because he's all bone and he's already dead, so
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even if you did damage on him, it's probably not
really anything. I would all say Zorro because that is
like a very stubborn man, but he's stubborn in like
a different way. I don't know. So yeah, I think
my money is on movie there as well. Bernadette is
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asking about Frankie. That's fair because he is literally metal.
Does that count though, like if he's actually physically made
of something different, I don't know. His head has to
be made out of something different because he like changes
his hair up and stuff, so he's essentially a cyborg entirely.
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And yeah, right, so I think his skull has got
to have been straight up replaced with some other moving
parts type stuff. So I don't know if he really
strictly counts, but if we're gonna just say, you know,
performance wise, then sure he would probably beat Loofy. Even
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Sarahim says, gorilla is black back play on silverback. Gorilla
or bebe black back feels like the kind of thing
that I will mess up saying it. It's like unique
New York. So I'm gonna go with bebe. So everybody,
when you hear me say bbe this, I'm talking about
our gorilla friend for the mink electricity power. All that
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fur lets them build up static electricity. Oh come now, okay, sure,
why not? Oh boy? So anyway, they are in the
midst of this pretty serious fight. Lufy is doing his
best to like back his head all the way up
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on his rubber neck twenty feet away to bash into
this dude as hard as he can. And then this
fight gets interrupted by Trafalgar's friend, the bear, who I
cannot remember his name. Guys, and I keep wanting to
just say boo boo, but I don't think that's it.
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But it's really funny because he at first is irritated
that Loofy doesn't recognize him because he in Trafalgar helped
to nurse Loofy back to health after he got his
fucking heart almost ripped out. But Lufy does recognize him,
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he just needs his memory jogged for a sec. And
the oh friend Florine is like, Sarah him, that's a spoiler,
all right, it's not my fault. But later on, Lofy
is talking about Traffy and BEPO, I think you're right,
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Bernadette Beppo doesn't know what Traffy means and keeps being like,
who are you talking about? And eventually Lufy is like,
that's what I called Trafalgar, and he's like, oh, you
really didn't make that clear. And it was the kind
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of joke that like I was laughing because of how
like irritated he was by it, But I also was like,
if you could not figure that out from context, Beppo,
I cannot imagine Lufy's the only man to have ever
called Trafalgar trafvy. But yeah, it's uh. I it was
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just funny that he gets so mad, just like I
don't know what you're talking about him, like you should though,
you should put two and two together, for God's sake,
come on, and this whole fight, like the way that
they get it to stop because Beba's trying to intervene
and just be like, this is a dude that I know,
he's a friend, please stop, And Roddy isn't interested in stopping.
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This was reminding me a little bit of him. I
recently watched The Accountant with Ben Affleck and then the
second one The Accountant too, and the like the bit
in this movie which is like definitely problematic is that
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Ben Affleck's character is autistic and that he has like
weaponized that or not even that he has that his
dad has, but he has this thing that he he
cannot handle when something isn't finished. You know, it's like
a compulsion, which I really understand. It's not obviously at
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the level for him that it is like I don't
have this, but I understand that feeling of like it is.
You know, if you start something and you can't quite
finish it, it just gets under your skin and bothers you.
And so there's like multiple time where he's on a
job and he's supposed to kind of pull back because
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they get new information and they realize they can't actually
carry things out like this, and he's just essentially like,
I am so sorry, but I can't pull back. I am,
I'm here doing it. It's too late. If you didn't
want it, not my problem, it's happening. And that was
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sort of what I felt was coming off of Roddy
a little bit. It's just like, I'm in the fight.
I don't know what to tell you all. Wait till
it's over, I guess. And Bepo finally like chucks a
or is it Bepo and maybe it's one of his
friends chucks a banana into the mix, and because it's
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not even like Roddy wants the banana, it's that they
throw the banana in front of Roddy so that Babe
will jump in and try and grab it out of
the air and interrupt the whole fight. And it's pretty funny. Actually,
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I am always a fan of there being like one
particular food that somebody is kryptonite that they can't like,
you know what I mean. It's just very relatable, I'm
just saying. And he looks so happy, like after this
whole thing falls apart and they're all just standing there,
sweating and panting, Babe is sitting there with his banana,
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looking like the world is okay. He's not bothered at
all by the fact that he came into the midst
of this and fucked it up for everybody, And I
love that for him. He is one hundred percent on
his business with this banana. So I find it funny. Guys.
I'm watching this, like you know, as I talk about it.
I scrub through the episode and I want to make
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sure I don't miss things. This is the point where
Wanda and Carrot Land and we get their title cards.
Carrot a rabbit Mink, Wanda a dog Mink show. I
don't know how to tell you this. It's too damn
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late to be introducing these two. This needed to have
been done way earlier than this, at the beginning of
the end. Why would you do it now? Why would
you do it now? It's a weird choice, that's all
I'm saying. Normally this show, people's title cards get shown
as soon as they turn up, and this is just weird.
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I didn't even notice this the first time. And let's see,
there's a dude named Pedro who he like, pops up
and signals to everybody and says everybody get out, and
Loofy is left sitting there and there's like a blur
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of motion and it makes it clear that like a
ton of them were hidden around and he didn't even
see them. He says, I didn't even notice they were here.
And then we have Wanda and Carrot with their eyes
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like glowing the way that like light will off of
a nocturnal beast size. Be grateful you Tea didn't encounter
them on a moonlit night, which there is something about
this that feels like it's hinting towards like a werewolf thing,
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but they are already animal creatures, so I don't really
get this. I'm wondering if it's like they just revert
to holy animal behavior when you know, what I'm saying,
like is that it I just don't know what that
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could mean. And she says this like, be grateful you
didn't encounter them, but she doesn't really include herself or
Carrot in this, even though her and cart are also
looking pretty threatening at the moment. So I don't know
if that's just like an you know, it's just the
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manner of speech that she chose here, or why she
phrased it that way. But I found it confusing, and
I'm interested to see what we're getting out of this
a little bit later on. So then we go back
to the rest of the straw Hats and they have
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gotten to Corrause City, And it's so funny because the
world that these these characters live in, they're at this
city and they're looking around, and Robin says, no doubt
about it, this city was attacked, and I think that
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she's right, you know, based on how this world works.
But also if I were looking at this same landscape
and the way it's like, I would think that this
was an earthquake or even just the result of building
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a city on the back of a moving creature. Maybe
this just happens because it's unstable, inherently very unstable. It
is sort of weird, how like it's difficult to run
and walk on the elephant's skin, but a pair apparently
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like we can build stuff on it and that's not
really a problem and doesn't move around. But anyway, this
whole city looks like it should be full of people,
as she puts it, like hundreds of thousands should be
able to live here. Us Up is freaking out that
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they should go, but they need to investigate, so they
start looking around. Robin comes across a little area that's
obviously still being lived in currently. There's like a pot
of soup on the stove that's still hot, and they
come across. It's sort of odd, guys, because correct me
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if I'm wrong. Here. There's I don't want to call
them stocks, but there's like those wooden x's that I
now just associate Holly with S and M. But they're
in the center of the town with the you know,
manacles for urris and ankles, and there is blood on
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the all over the wood and Zorro is looking at it,
going what is this some kind of torture device? And
I was like, Zorrow, do you not remember your own
origin story? Like it just felt like it resembled so
strongly the way that he was strung up and left
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out that I really thought he was immediately gonna recognize
it and be like, ah, this is bringing up some
unpleasant memories. And no, instead he's just like the fuck
is this? And I was like, I feel like you
should really know that. I don't feel like this should
be weird to you. There's also some huge gouge marks
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that look like claws in the sides of a couple
of the buildings, and this is what, you know, like
they're thinking, oh, maybe the animal creatures got attacked by
something by like people or something, but this is making
it look like it was an animal that attacked the
place itself. And there is also a huge impression in
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the ground that looks like a footprint. It looks like
a big it's a round footprint as well, which understandably
I think they say, maybe that's another elephant. I really
couldn't think what else would leave a footprint that shape
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except for maybe a machine. It might not even have
been afoot, it might be something else, you know. I
don't know if they find anymore. It seems like they
see this one singular impression and they zero went on that.
But I don't know if there's like a series of
them that points to it being something that moves, like
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in other words, could something have just dropped in this
one spot and that's it, or is there something that
was like moving across the landscape and leaving prints like this.
So we go to Wanda and she is talking about
the history of the place. It's called the Macomo Dukedom.
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It goes back centuries only a month and a half ago.
I could still see everyone's smiling faces, and we pan
across to all the animals looking very grieved, and we
see the uh like kind of weird bits of flashback,
but there's nothing concrete. And she says, the name of
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the man who caused all of this suffering is Jack.
And she just says Jack, which felt like it wasn't
enough to me when I was watching it, I almost snorted,
because Jack, it's just like, that's it, that's all you got.
And then in the next episode, when they do the
little like recap, she gives a last name. They quote
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this moment, but that's not what it was what she
actually said anyway. This is when the ground begins to shake,
and we are about to get a water moment, a
rain eruption as they call them, which does indeed prove
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to be the trunk of the elephant pouring water on
its back because it is bathing itself. And they have
figured out a way to make this work for them
where the water gets filtered and turned into safe, clean
drinking water, and there's fish in the water, so they
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wind up with food to eat as well. They don't
have to worry about protein because that fish is is
ready and uh and alive and still kicking and apparently
can survive like up here for a little while. It's
a very neat little system. I thought that was kind
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of a fun idea, And it's just a shame at
the way that everybody periodically just has to get the
fuck up out of the way, because I'm imagining this
isn't the sort of thing that happens like at the
same time every day. It may be on a bit
of a schedule, like just because oh, at three o'clock,
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that's the hottest time of day, and so the elephant
cools itself down when it's hottest, and so that tends
to be around this point. But like I could see
that this might be not predictable at all, which would
be a real pain in the ass considering that you
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could get away, considering how much water there is. Like
it's a pretty serious thing happening, you know what I'm saying.
So anyway, this uh, of course results in Loofy getting
swept off the back of the crocodile, alligator or whatever,
and you know, he can't swim, so they have to
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rescue him. We also briefly jump over to Conjureau and Kinemon,
who are once again on the back of one of
these paper animals climbing the side. It's a cat this time.
I really hate this, guys, I really hate this. I
get that it's supposed to be funny, but it's not funny.
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I just hate it. It makes me sad. Okay, it
just bums me out, friends, I don't like watching it.
I was just relieved when we go away from this,
and I like, we don't linger on it the way
that I was thinking we might, and I because I
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didn't want to see it. I just didn't want to.
So they let's see. Yeah, the water comes down and
let's see. I understand swift action must be necessary, but
what can be done from such a height? And the
water hits them and the poor cat gets pushed back,
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and it's just a nightmare for all of them. Loofy meanwhile,
unshaken by the fact that he was almost washed away,
it's just like, oh wow, that was really some rain, huh,
And they have to explain to him about what this
water actually is. Meanwhile, the rest of the straw Hats
are starting to put this together on their end because
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they can taste that this is salt water, this is
not regular rain. And we get Wanda again with her
like impassioned looking at the sky while tears brim in
her eyes. And there's somebody named dog Storm that was
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apparently being beaten that she's remembering. That's what the uh
what do you call him? The subtitles are saying, and
then the sky Jack yelling bring him to me, or
I'll destroy the whole country dog Storm. I've never met
this person that Ugara speak of. I'm not sure what
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the deal is with it, because he says Ugara, and
she earlier says like she says something you with an
extra syllable or two at the end as well. And
I don't know if this is supposed to be like
an honorific or if this is supposed to be a
peculiarity of them being like dog people and this sort
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of being a joke about the way a dog would talk.
But either way it was, it kept confusing me, and
I was just like, wait a second, what, Oh, no,
I think that's just I'm not really meant to pay
attention to it, but yeah, this is the kind of
thing that it's so weird where she's trying to like
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impress upon Loofy the depth of whatever it is that
they just went through. But she doesn't actually want to
share in any real information beyond this guy's name. When
she said, he asked later like, what did you say
his name was? Again, she again just says it's Jack,
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and I was like, come on, earlier on she said
his last name in the like flashback thing. But and
then she says, I saw his obituary in the newspaper
a few days ago. After wreaking havoc here, he left
and apparently attacked four navy vest is transporting Do Flamingo
to impel down. He was able to sink two of
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them in the battle, but in the end he was defeated,
and one of the ships he attacked had an admiral
and the former fleet admiral on board. Jack certainly seems
to have a screw loose, which I always think it's
funny when there's like that kind of idiom used in this.
The article said his body wasn't recovered, he's likely still alive,
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and I was so relieved that she's just like, the
fuck he's dead, get the hell out of my face.
Of course, he's not like the idea that they would
even print an obituary this man, like you jump in
the gun. This is wishful thinking, all of you who
are doing this. So, like I said, we're just getting
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lots of like bits and pieces here. But it just
this kind of storytelling can really bug me because it's
not as if we're doing anything else. You know, we've
gotten interrupted, yes, by the rainstorm, and you know, just
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like other things happening, But overall, there really is no
good reason why she can't just be like this. This
is when he showed up, this is what he did,
this is who he hurt, this is why he did it,
and then he went and you know, she's just saying
things in a kind of disjointed way that I'm certain
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isn't really the whole story. And I just want a
straight narrative here. And it feels like, are you just
being a dramatic bitch right now? It feels like you're
just being a dramatic bitch right now, because yeah, the
fact that she keeps like thinking about storms specifically, and
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you know, there's obviously there was something specific happening there.
So they pick up speed and they finally get to
the area with the gates to get into the community.
I love the fact that Lucia says, I thought this
was the bright flank, why is it foggy? And she's like,
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it's the right flank. But there are two guards outside,
one of whom looks like a horse and the other
one who looks like a lion, and the both of
them are spoiling for a fight. Clearly. Oh no, I
guess he isn't a horse. I think maybe he is
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meant to be a goat, because he's got like two horns,
so there's something very horse like. I think about his
face more so than go like, But that's just my opinion.
And she has to explain to them, these guys are
our friends. They didn't understand about the welcoming bell, and
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you need to go in there and deliver the message
that the straw Hat pirates have arrived. And both of
them immediately their whole demeanor changes when they hear her
say that, and are just like, oh shit, is that
who they are? Let me go inside the building on
the interior of the fortress, and there's this dude, I
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think it's he's named Yomo, and he is a little
I say little. He is a very giant actually sheep dude.
He's got a black face, white fur, and Nami is
napping on his tummy looking comfortable a f wearing a
whole gown with like jewelry, and Chopper also has like
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a floor length pink fur trimmed cape thing and a
crown with pearls hanging off it. Like the two of
them are just decked out, and it's obvious that they
are being paid all kinds of honors, and like Nami's
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whole look, it's just awesome. I really enjoy it because
first of all, her dress laces up the side. It's
really very much giving, like early early two thousands, and
she's got pearls and beads draped over her head and
her shoulders and everything. And then we cut to well,
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Chopper comes in tells her the rest of the crew
is here. They finally found us. She's like, oh shit, awesome,
and they run out to meet them. Meanwhile, the rest
of the crew is being greeted by all of the
citizens and they are living in these rad little apartments
that look like pineapples. It's a very SpongeBob esque sort
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of situation. There's also tucked in amongst the pineapples, what
looks like a wrecked pirate ship that's like run aground.
It looks awesome, It looks really really cool, But the
whole look of this place is it's surprising because like
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the pineapple thing, I don't know if they're built to
just look this way or if those are actual giant
pineapples that they like hollowed out. But anyway, this is
the point when the conversation happens between Zoro and Wanda
about being different specie or not being different races at all.
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She like flirts very very strongly with Loofy and licks
his face and says how lesser minks definitely have their
charms as well, because they're very rare here, And like,
I could not stop laughing because she's like trying to
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flirt with the wrong guy. Like I don't know if
Lufy even gets what's happening. It just feels like you're
flirting with a child. Don't do it. I don't think
there's anybody in this crew that I feel would react
better except for maybe Soanji, and I have to assume
Sanji would react just to the boobs, even if she
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is a dog woman. I think he'd probably be fine.
You know, if he's okay with a mermaid, I feel
like a dog woman, it's also fine. But otherwise I
don't know who would really be like super receptive to this.
I feel like they mostly be kind of weirded out,
but maybe I'm wrong. And this is when Nami comes
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running out and she is trying to greet her friends,
and she gets stopped by all of these other minks
who are so excited and delighted to see her that
they just like rub up against her and are showing
her so much affection and aren't letting her pass to
like actually get to the people that she's here for,
and she finally has to shove them off so that
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she can get to them. Chopper, meanwhile, is so little
that he's able to squeeze through and he is just
very excitedly greeting them. And I'm so glad to see Chopper.
I really miss this little guy, and I love this
pink coat that he is wearing and kind of want
to like get a mini pink coat to put on
my little old stuffy behind me, get some pearls and
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make a little adorable crown. I think that'd be pretty fun.
But yeah, this is when he says, so, Sanji, Brooke
and Momo are here too, right, and Nami jumps into
his arms and hugs them, and then she says I'm
sorry and finishes not by like explaining everybody. She just
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says Sangy's gone, which I thought was sort of weird
that it's like no mention of Brooke or Momo, And
I don't know why they're not included in this unless,
like the way that they got separated from everybody is
different from Sanji. Obviously, the way that she says Sanji's
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gone is supposed to hit like he died, but I
don't think there's a soul on earth who would have
thought that he was dead, So you know, I don't know.
And yeah, we saw earlier like Lufy tried to ask Wanda, well,
Sanji's with him, right, and she got all like sweaty
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faced and did want to make eye contact, and it
was clear something was very, very wrong. And this I
have to assume, Like we saw them fighting with these
other people in the previous the end of the last
arc when we caught up with our crew, so I'm
assuming it's something to do with those other dudes, and
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he has gotten wrapped up with them somehow, but we'll
have to see. So, yeah, yeah, strange start to things.
The other dude who was fighting them, he was able
to like turn each of his hands into sharks or something.
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What was he doing. He had some bizarre power that
I was sort of like, I don't even get how
that makes sense. But Seraphim is agreed. This is one
of the best Nami looks, and Florian says, I want
to sleep on the sheep man, which, yeah, that looked
so cozy. Anytime that you've got a bed or a
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bathtub that's like super oversized, I am going to be
very very envious of that character. There is nothing as
luxurious as having like neck deep hot bathom water that
you can do the breaststroke in because you've got so
much room, I mean amazing, and a bed that you
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can lay on and roll back and forth in like
a bunch of different directions and you aren't falling off.
Incredible the best. So yeah, very very much want that
hands into ram horn, says Florian. That's right. Yeah, it
was weird. So it's like he's got like some mink
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thing going on with him, but like he isn't fully one.
I don't know what that guy's deal is, but I
suppose we shall see. So that's it, those two episodes,
and then there's only two next time as well, so
everybody be prepared for that to be only two episodes
of coverage. Appreciate all of you being here today with
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me having a reschedule, and I hope that you enjoy
the coverage. And I'm really looking forward to the next episodes.
I am probably gonna go watch those right now. So
until then, to the loom, motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled
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network podcast.