July 5, 2025 • 62 mins
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These episodes are the ones where we find out more about the attack on Kurau City and the various Minks that stepped up to defend it. Meanwhile, the samurai are still unsuccessfully trying to climb the elephant, and we still haven't seen Sanji yet!
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Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning this episode!
These episodes are the ones where we find out more about the attack on Kurau City and the various Minks that stepped up to defend it. Meanwhile, the samurai are still unsuccessfully trying to climb the elephant, and we still haven't seen Sanji yet!
Thanks so much to you for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me,
covering one piece episodes seven fifty six through seven fifty
seven start to counterattack great moves by the Twirly Hat crew,
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and a threat descends the Beast pirates Jack in these
episodes Towirly Hat Pirates. Hmmm, really okay, why not? I
don't hate it. Also, Jack turning out to be a
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mammoth pretty fun. Wasn't expecting it? Welcome to spoil Me.
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Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you
very very much to Florian for commissioning this episode. Florian
is here in the chat, as is Saraphem, and Saraphim
had left a comment before I started, so thought, how
does human being counted as minks not make sense? The
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only similarity is they are all mammals, and a human
would be more closely related versus related to an ape
mink like uh will be more closely related versus related
to an ape mink like Babe. Then Kara and Wanda
would be to each other. Sorry, Saraphim, I'm having a
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little trouble following the this. Do you mean you mean
the similarity between all the minks as them all being
animals with humanoid qualities, so them all having fur and whatnot,
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and a human would be more closely really, oh, the
v was a type of would be more closely related. Uh.
A human would be more closely related to an ape
mink like bebe. Then Kara and Wanda would be to
each other. Uh. I honestly don't know if that's true.
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Like to me, the similarity is they are all mammals
that are not sentient or walk on two legs, and
they all are and that is a very different thing
to all human beings who do that naturally always. So
it's just me like, that's that's it. I'm not talking about, like,
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you know, the species of animal or anything like that.
I'm not even trying to get into that because then
you really start to this just falls apart. I am
just saying that the way that they're counting, like, oh, yeah, well,
we just think of you guys as minks without hair.
They're not. The minks are not. It doesn't matter. It
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really doesn't matter. But I think it doesn't even really
need explaining why I find that weird, So I'm just
gonna leave it. So let's start with the explanation that
we find out in seven fifty six as to what
the corpse of your crew or your crew's corpse was,
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which it turns out was Brooke. Now in the show
notes for a I think the previous episode, I said
that Soanji had been taken along with Momo and Brook,
and I wrote that because we don't see them in
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that episode. We're having a big kind of reunion moment,
So if Momo and Brooke had been there, I would
have thought they'd have shown up here too. Eventually we
find out why not, But it turns out Sanji is
the only one that's been taken. Momo has some sort
of issue with the minx and he keeps himself like
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closed off and locked up, and Brooke is suffering repeat
harassment from these animals. So the whole uh, the whole thing.
There's so many like bits and bobs to talk about here.
I just want to mention, like these animals going after
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Brooke and wanting to chew on him. I it was
like I simultaneously found this very funny but also really distressing.
This is the sort of thing that I think as
a kid, I'd have been like disturbed by all of
his friends turning to watch him get jumped on by
like five different animals and then just turning and walking
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away like it's no big deal. I really like, I
feel like as a kid, this would have bothered me
a little bit. And all I can think is like,
are I can't remember how durable Brook is? Will his
bone snap? Is this something that we need to worry about.
It's like the kind of affection that they feel for
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human beings where they want to rub against them, is magnified.
And you add in a weird like oral fixation here,
and Brooke has just got the worst of all worlds,
so his clothes are all raggedy and shit when he
turns up because they've just been like destroying this poor guy. Momo.
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It's like there's definitely some weird beef between the minx
and the Samurai. Unclear whether or not this is solely
the result of the Beast Pirates showing up looking for
a samurai slash ninja, or if this is something that
existed previously, but Momo seems to know something, and so
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I don't know if it's like he only has shown
them his dragon self and do they not know that
he is himself a samurai? If they did, would that
be an issue? He seems to just be aware of
something more than everybody else is, And I'm very curious
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because you know, Brooks, he warns Loofy about using the
word samurai and using another word I can't remember. There
were two words that he was warned about, and later
on Lufy mentions the samurais calling them by name and
saying the word samurai, and how it's too bad that
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they aren't here, which the episode ends on Wanda turning
and looking at him aghast and all of the people
who have been hanging out with the Minx already kind
of clapping a hand to their mouths like, oh, I
can't believe he fucking said it, which of course he
said it, because that's just Loofy, Like, of course he did.
Trying to ask Loofy to avoid a particular topic of conversation.
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It's like in Seinfeld, where anytime there is something that's
like particularly awkward or weird that you either really want
brought up badly or you want to avoid talking about
at all. As soon as walks in the room, you
know that subject is getting brought up. Kramer has like
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the vibe of Loofy in some ways where he has
no real ability to like read the room, no desire to.
He is like, you know, a five or six year
old who just blurts shit out without really considering anything
beyond the fact that they felt like they needed to
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say the thing. So I am really wondering, like what
this is going to turn out to be? That, what
the deal is with the samurai? Why these pirates are
looking for one? Like what all of this is? Saraphim
says Wanda was just too focused on how much she
wanted to jump Brooks bones. I hate you, and then
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reminds me if they if brooks bones break, he just
needs some milk to fix them. I forgot about the
milk thing. That's right, man, the dairy lobby really did
a number on us with milk and bones. Huh. They
really got in there. So the one like plot point
that I'm going to talk about just and get it
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out of the way is uh Conjureau and Kinemon, who
are still trying to get up the sides of the elephant.
With this drawing of a cat, It's so painful to
watch this cat. Eventually like starts to look real weird
because he's pushing himself too much, and they all scream
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and are terrified of the cat, but then they're like,
oh no, it's fine, you could probably keep going, right,
And I was like, I hate this so much. I
think this, like is my least favorite recurring bit in
the show period, and I am including the those bleed
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geysers from Sanjy, Like, if we're doing a recurring bit
this one, I want it to die. I don't think
it's funny. I don't think it's interesting to watch. I
don't think it's like particularly been that helpful. I mean,
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it's difficult for me because I feel like the way
that our people have powers, they could probably have just
gotten up the side of this huge elephant a million
other ways. So we're just pretending that they needed to
get up on the back of this dragon because we
need everybody together and we need it to be this
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whole thing. I can think of several other ways that
this could have been done easily with the powers that
they all have, But it's just a combo of like
this this creature looking like it's suffering so acutely for
so long and being pushed and pushed. I just hate it.
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I fucking despise it, and It would be one thing
if these things were like if condre seemed at all
conscious of the fact that these creatures are suffering, But
everybody around him seems to realize that they're suffering except
for him, and he's just like completely oblivious. So I'm like,
this is the wrong person to get this power. Anybody
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else who was prepared to be a little bit more
responsible about it and learn how to draw better so
that they don't turn out like this, then maybe I
could adult. But this particular person is incompatible with this
particular power. I disapprove. And eventually the sun is going down,
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the cat has you know, like worn itself out, and
it becomes clear that they can't continue on, so they
decide to drop back down to the sunny and try
again the next day. And I was sort of wondering
about how this fucking plotline was even necessary, and I
was just thinking, all right, well, everybody here isn't really
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part of the straw Hats, So is it just that
we just wanted a straw Hats story, but we wanted
these guys to be around still. And I couldn't really
understand that because we've had no problems before with people
that we don't really give much of a shit about
being left behind, and then we returned to them after
many episodes, so I was like, the way this is
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written and the way they keep reappearing, they're clearly meant
to be on our mind. We're being reminded constantly that
these guys are still here. That's got to have some
reason behind it, and what we like. What conclusion I
have come to is that these dudes are part of
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whatever this weird beef is with the Minx, and if
they had been with the straw Hats once they went
into the forest and encountered the Minx, it would have
thrown a massive wrench in their plans somehow. So I'm
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curious to see where this goes. I really don't want
to revisit them, just to watch them trying to get
up the side of this elephant over and over, and
I have a feeling that's what we're gonna get, and
I'm like, not excited about it because it's gonna be
more of these fucking animals. I also am curious who
this ninja is that both Conjuro and the Beast Pirates
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would be looking for them. I don't think we have
seen anybody that would fit the description, but I don't
know for sure, And yeah, it's uh, I'm curious because
like the addition of the of samurai and ninjas, it's
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what was the audience reaction to these being included in
the story, because it sort of feels weird to me
at times that they are treated so distinctly when people
talk about them, when we have got like people with
literal superpowers. It feels like the kind of thing where
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they are reacting to tales of samurai or ninja the
way that we would in the real world, and in
context of the one piece world, it doesn't really make
a lot of sense to me how they're all so
excited about it. But maybe that's just supposed to be
part of the joke, is that like even the people
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who have superpowers thinking ninjas and samurai are dope, which
I guess could work. Saraphim says, not seeing them just
means they're really good Ninja, It's possible. Florian says, Japan
loved it. They love Samuraian Ninja's I guess that makes sense.
You know, It's sort of like, how would the US
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react if we decided to put like a cowboy or
a mobster. I guess we have a mobster. We haven't
really had a cowboy, really, have we. That'd be interesting
to see. One of my favorite things that like, you know,
if you listen to other shows of mine, you are
aware how many British murder mystery shows I watch, and
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there are frequently when you've got like the serialized mystery
of the week type episodes, they will trot in an
English actor who is supposed to be a Texan. All
the time, it's a Texan. It's never just an American,
and it's rarely like a New Yorker or somebody from Brooklyn,
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you know, it's almost always a Texan who wears cowboy hats,
has a very strong accent, and is rich from oil money.
Is like the the you know, stereotype that they go with.
And it's always very funny to me because it straddles
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that weird line where if the if the actor is
good enough at doing a Texan accent, I shouldn't even
say Texan a Southern accent because, like what happens so
much of the time, people outside of a country, they
do not distinguish between regional accents as much. You know,
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the one exception I'll say is that, like Americans do
tend to know the difference between like a Manchester accent
and like a Liverpool accent something very extreme, you know,
or an Oxford accent, we can tend to know the
difference between those, even if we couldn't put a name
to them. But usually when it comes to Southern accents,
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other countries just have this one sort of standard twang
that they go for, which is fine, it doesn't bother me.
But I'm also not a native Southern person, so but
it would be kind of interesting to see how that
would play out in this show if we did do that.
Seraphim says, also keep in mind the ones most excited
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are loofy Oosup and Chopper, the most teenage boy mentality
of the crew in terms of, oh, that's cool, I
guess that's true. I could have sworn that Robin was
really excited. But Robin also has a tendency to like
get very into stuff that you wouldn't expect because she's
just a kind of curious person, So that might still
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hold anyway. Okay, so we when we open this episode,
after we have them like falling down the side of
the elephant, we go to Zoro, who is drinking this
liquor that is made from all of the different fruits
that they can find in the forest and is really
really enjoying it. The animals are rubbing against him and
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he does not like it. Later on we get to
see Frankie fully embracing the cuddles and he is one
into it. Loofy has been polishing off meat and it's
just like, can't you just be nice for a second.
They've been giving us all of this food and everything,
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and it does not move Zoro in the slightest. So
let's say I'm trying to find the uh because there's
a moment where Minkship expresses our tribe's great fondness fondness
towards Utia, so like friendship, but it's minkship and one
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of them is like laying on Robin's lap and rubbing
his head back and forth. And I was just laughing
because like Choppers watching this and doesn't seem to feel
it's just interesting, with Loofy being like, oh, it's like
an island full of choppers. I thought that Chopper might
actually like say something about how nice it was to
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not be the only animal around, or you know, but
Chopper doesn't really seem to feel that he is a
mink in any way. It's like that camaraderie thing that
I was thinking might happen isn't there. And it's not.
They're not the same thing. He isn't the result of
a devil fruit, you know. So I get that he
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wouldn't see it the same way. But I thought maybe
that even though you know that you're not really like
the product of being the same exact type of creature,
that the at least the experience of being looking like
an animal but functioning like a human being would bond him.
And maybe we're just we haven't seen that yet, but
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I don't know. So this is when Brooke pops in
and is very excited to see them, and then we
get approached by all of these animals that want to
eat him, and he huddles up with everybody and says,
I have a bit of a sensitive request, And this
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is when he tells them, while we're here, please do
not mention the land of Wano or Samurai either. Better
not risk it. It might cause a fence to the
minx or pain. More accurately, it might even make them
hate you and Frankie says, okay, but what's the deal?
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And Lufy says what's wrong with Samurai? And Brooke says
there's something about this country you don't know, and at
this moment is when he gets attacked, so he does
not get a chance to fill them in on all
of this. So let's see they're trying to sort of
figure out what could have happened, and finally Robin says
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to Nami, Okay, you've got to tell us the full
story of everything that happened, because you all left Dress Rosa.
It's been eleven days. We don't know what the fuck
is going on, and Namy's like, Okay, I'm gonna tell you.
It was sort of an interesting way that they did this,
because normally they'll just have a flashback and we get
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to see the things. It's uh. What they did here
was we get a flashback, but we also get the
what do you call it? Voiceover of Nami after a
thing happens, saying something like and that's not all you know.
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It's very much being played like she is telling them
the story, but only sometimes. And I kind of wished
that they had just let her have a voice so
over for the whole thing. But anyway, so she says,
we were barely off the coast of dress Rosa and
the Big Mom pirates appeared on a huge singing ship,
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and we get to see that indeed the uh the
figurehead of their ship. It's singing its own name. I
think it's just singing Shippy over and over again. I
don't really know what the deal is here, like whether
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or not it was something else and was enchanted to
look like a ship, or if the ship itself was
enchanted to be alive. It doesn't feel great either way.
I just there are ways in which this could be
done that I wouldn't necessarily be horrified by, but to
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be honest, they're few and far between, and I feel
like I don't want to know. I feel like i'd
kind of rather not know. Probably, So this is when
we get a refresh of these dudes that they fight.
I'm trying to get their names again, because they come
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up as their little UH title cards when they first appear.
There's the dude who looks like a lion and I
guess maybe is a mink Pickam's Pickam's, Pecom's. And then
there's the dude who's inside of an eggshell with a
teacup on his head. Baron Tomago and or Tamago. Ah,
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Baron Tamago with his teacup head and his wil Luigi
mustache and his French accent and his cane. This man
is very puzzling to me. Uh it's a weird uh. I.
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You know, guys, you would really think that after all
this time, I would have started to understand and appreciate
that the theming of what people are dressed like doesn't
necessarily go together in this show, that this is not
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necessarily something that WOULDA concerns himself with in any way
at all. But I can't help but try to make
sense of it anyway and find a pattern. And it's
just really got me sort of thinking about like years
ago with there was a co host that is no
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longer with Unspoiled for a variety of reasons. I covered
Twin Peaks, and it was the sort of thing where
like the first season I was super into, and then
this second season it started to make even less sense
than the first. And then they had the like the
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revival of it that aired probably like at this point
five or six years ago, and I just have had
to come to the realization, the acceptance of the fact
that David Lynch does not speak to me, or at
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least what I have watched has not been for me.
Maybe some of his other stuff, if I watched it,
I would be like, Okay, this works disconnected. But what
I have seen, I am just a person who wants
to make sense out of things. And maybe if I
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were really like stoned and I watched some of the stuff,
I would be like, oh, you know what. I was
able to let go of that and let it just
be vibes. But when I'm covering something for this podcast,
that is particularly difficult to do because the point is
for me to be able to articulate how I'm feeling
about something, and it's not always possible to do so.
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All of this to say our little french man Tamago
Seraphim is saying Tamago is Japanese for egg. I'm wondering
if this is like a kind of a I'm trying
to think, like why he'd be French the breakfast thing
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a cup of tea and an egg? Is there a toast?
Am I reaching? Perhaps I'm trying to just let it
sort of wash over me and not get fixated on
how they go together, and it's working fairly well. I
don't really know why, but I do kind of feel
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like the teacup and saucer and this egg do go together.
And I don't know why. I'm genuinely like, why does
this not feel like it's that weird? Actually? And it
might be that it might be that I'm just like, oh, yeah,
breakfast things association, you know what I mean. But anyway,
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I find him very very compelling in a way that
doesn't make sense. It feels like I am assigning a
whole other thing to this guy due to the fact
that I am a foodie. I love tea parties, I
love breakfast food, and him being French and there's just
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an automatic association with like, if you are French, then
you know food, which is not necessarily even true, but
you know how that stereotype goes. So I find this
whole character to be very very distracting because I want
him to be a lot more important to things than
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I think he's going to be, and maybe he will be,
maybe I never I wish, but from where I'm sitting
right now, it just doesn't even look like that. And
I don't know why. Every time he pops up, I'm like, ooh,
this guy, you know. So this is when Nami says,
but they had company, and we get the uh the
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swagger forward and she says, a fellow member of the
Worst Generation Capone, gang Bedja or Beg, I can't remember.
I'm just gonna call him Copone. His like the name
altogether is a lot, you know. I think Copone is fine.
It's very funny because I understand you guys have explained
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to me what the deal is with the Worst Generation,
so I know that it is not really about age.
I get it, but it is extremely funny to see
this guy being categorized as being part of the same
like Worst Generation as Loofy, because it just does not
feel like they should be in anything together. Frank, you
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know what I'm saying. So, yeah, it turns out that
all of them seemed to be working under Big Mom.
Now they came for Caesar, but it wasn't a rescue.
In fact, he was terrified. And what we get after
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this is this kind of bizarre fight sequence where Chopper
turns himself into the Big version of him and he
uses He takes Caesar, he holds him and stretches him
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out all some of these cannon balls that are coming
towards them are like they're all coming from the same
direction and landing in the same like three square foot radius,
which doesn't feel likely, but whatever. He catches them with
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Caesar's body and uses him like he's a piece of
fabric or something that he's like opening up and then
wrapping it all in. And then he turns and chucks
Caesar in into the air toward the other ship like
he's going to hit them with all of these cannon
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balls at once. After he does this, I'm watching this because,
like Caesar understandably, is not appreciating, as he puts it,
being treated like a bag, you know, being just bundled
up and tossed toward his enemies, which is what it
looks like. It looks very much leg we are giving
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you to them, handing you right over. Now. I'm thinking
the point of this is going to be all of
those the cannonballs will have gained altitude from being thrown
wrapped up in him in this way, and then once
they've gained altitude, Caesar will somehow like dissipate or let
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go of them, and they will all fall onto the
ship and cause damage in return. No, it is not that.
So he's in mid air, Sanji does his like weird
sort of cloud walking thing, and he lights his legs
up as he does, and with his flaming legs, he
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kicks Caesar apart. This not only breaks Caesar up and
releases the cannon ball, but also lights the cannonballs themselves
on fire. And so when they hit the other ship,
it takes a whole lot of damage. They clearly were
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not expecting anybody to to fuck with them on this level. Now,
I just want to can anybody give me the name
of this ship, in particular that they are on the
Singing Ship, because every glimpse I get of it, you guys,
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it's like a cancel in Gretel's Witch's house where it's
made out of candy. It looks like, and you know,
we know the whole thing with Big Mama's addiction to candy.
But there's also like in the back on the slightly
upper deck a what looks like a huge layer cake,
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like a wedding cake type of thing, and big candy
canes that are kind of like peeking over the sides.
The reason I'm asking about this is because I have
a sort of mental in my You guys know that,
like I used to do, costuming was what I like
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originally went to college for. So I get very preoccupied
with what they're wearing in terms of who I would
want to cause play. But I also like to think
about if I were going to make a little model
or something of particular items from this universe, what I
would make because I'm a creative person and I paint
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and I draw, and I make things out of clay
and resin and all this stuff, So it is not
outside the realm with possibility that I might actually do this.
And you all probably remember that Alvida's ship in the
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very very first episode ever with the Heart the heart
like themed ship and the Heart I Jolly Roger really
just fucking got me, and I have been saying for
a long time, Alvida fat Alvida, I'll clarify, and her
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original ship would be a big temptation. If I were
ever going to do a one piece cosplay, it would
be on the top of my list. Now, I don't
remember how good a look we've gotten at Big Mama
or Big Ma? Is it Big Ma or Big Mama
Flying is saying, big Mom, I think you might be right,
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Sarahim says the Queen Mama Shanter. I'm gonna check and
see what we get, Chanter. It's ch which I guess
makes sense if it's a singing ship. I'm looking at
this from far away, and basically this ship is themed.
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From the outside, it looks to me like an overflowing
ice cream Sunday. I don't know, my friends, this ship
might this might be edging out al Vida's ship for
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my favorite ship. I can not stress enough what a
fucking sucker I am. For a candy theme or like
a pink frosting and sprinkles kind of theme. I love
that imagery if it's like a pink frosted cupcake donuts
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as well, although I really prefer cupcakes and cakes like
I was so excited when I heard that we were
going to be getting a cupcake emoji a few years ago.
And then we got it and it's got like vanilla
icing and I just cannot tell you how disappointed I was.
But this there's a bunch of different like illustrations of it.
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But oh my god, you guys, I just found there
is a collector's model that you can build. It's got everything,
it's got the cake in the front. Oh my god.
I don't know. I don't know. There is a simplicity
in Alvida's ship that I do really like. I'm gonna
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look up Alvida's right now and just compare them, because
I like, this is something that's just on my mind.
Alvida's got that that uh swan's head. I do really
like the design of her ship. Like Big Mom's ship's
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got a lot going on. So that's the one thing
I could say is that, like Alvida's is very cute,
see in a way, in a way that's got a
sort of old fashioned quality, while Big Mom's is like
somebody just took everything they could think of and put
it into one ship. It's a very large, sort of
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bottom heavy, overdone kind of look. So I think if
I were going to pick, I'd probably go for Alvida's.
But Big Moms is pretty fucking good anyway. Kids. I
just really even in the live action I'm looking at it,
and the live action I think that version of the
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ship is not as cute. This is a concept or
I'm looking at my bad, this is not the thing.
The concept art that they did, I don't love so
just saying that anyway, I know that this is not
here nor there, but it's the kind of thing that, like,
it's rare for me to have a moment in the
show where I see something and I'm like I want that,
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I want that exact thing, and I kind of had
that with this ship. Every time I saw another side
of it or another angle of it, I was like,
this thing is rad as hell? What on earth? And
it's so weird because like, since the ship can sing,
it's got a face that sings on the figurehead, but
then the figurehead itself is wearing this like, uh, there's
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sort of a layered effect with a lot of different
parts of the ship. But there's like a duck, like
a rubber ducky type duck that's got a crown on
at one point, and it seems to be like sitting
above the head that's singing. So it's almost like there's
two figurehead. It's weird. But anyway, this is when Nammy
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earns her keep by coming in on this fight, and
she uses her weather controlling abilities to create a bunch
of fog and rain, which gives the ship cover to escape,
so that they can't just keep shooting rockets at them.
I said, rockets, cannonballs, you know whatever. So then we
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come back to the present and after she has explained
all of this, everybody is applauding wildly, and you know,
it's a good moment. I think it's Loofy that says,
you guys really kick some ass, and Choppers like, yeah, whatever.
That doesn't make me blush, And of course he is
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losing it. Noamy, Oh stop, I know I'm awesome, but please.
This reminded me a little bit of the Barbie movie
where you know, they're getting awards. I deserve this. And
Robin says, so how long did that all take exactly?
And she says, yeah, well, Zoo was like really close
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to us, so we've been here for ten days. And
this is when Robin is like, all right, so what's
the deal with the city, because whatever happened to it
that totaled, it looks like it was really recent. And
this is when Wanda chimes in and is like, yeah,
you're right. By the time your friends got here, our
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city had already been destroyed. But if we didn't have
them to help us, we would be lost. You know.
They fought for us. Also, there was his medical expertise, Choppers,
and she says, like we were nearly wiped out, helpless
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to resis And I'm sorry, guys, Frankie says, I know
the wounds are pretty pretty fresh on this whole thing,
So if you don't want to talk about it, I'm
okay with that. And she says, no, no, no, we're allies,
and you guys do need to know. I'm gonna tell you.
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Just as she is about to do this, of course,
we get some little creature that looks like a sloth.
He is hanging upside down from the doorframe and he
is yelling to all of them that the Duke is
awake from his coma. We don't even know who this
is yet all of the minks are very very excited.
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Frankie not Frankie. Chopper is like says, finally, because obviously
Chopper has been involved with whatever's been going on with
the duke. Duke dog Storm, which is the one that
I am assuming in one does like thoughts and memories,
the dude who was getting his ass beat, I'm thinking
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that that's probably who this is. So Chopper grabs his
bag and is like all right, let's go do a
check up and see what he what he needs. And
I love that he calls out for this little goat
who is dressed like a doctor. And they are being
followed by a girl that looks like she's got a
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chipmunk's tail, or maybe a squirrel's tail. It looks like
a chipmunk because it's striped, but there's possibility that like
squirrels in other countries have striped tails. I don't know,
but uh, they all head out together. They're obviously all
meant to be, like the ones that are handling the
medicine in this place. And Wanda explains that he is
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the ruler of all of zoo and was hurt really
badly in the attack, same as our other leader. And
Frankie is like, you've got two and she's like, yeah, yes,
I know it seems weird to you guys, but we
have duke dog Storm king of the day and master
cat Viper king of the night. So I guess this
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is like a nocturnal daylight kind of situation. Maybe I
don't know, are dogs like I know the word nocturnal
for nighttime animals, but is there a ernal type word
for daytime animals. I actually don't know if there's a
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counterpart to Nocturnal. I have to assume there is, so anyway,
that's the end of the first of these two episodes,
and then when we get into the second one we
get some more of these details. First, we have a
very brief check in with Trafalgar Law, who finds his
pirate his crew. Beppo gives him a big hug and
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rub against him the way that the minks do, and
it is adorable. There's not really much time spent here,
it's just all of them like being happy to see
each other. And he says, oh, hey, I heard the news.
Nice job beating Dofla Mingo, and Law says, well, it
was really straw Hat who did it. And the other guy,
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Penguin is on his hat says, let's catch up back
at the base, Captain, and that's all we see of them.
So we go back to the fortress and they are walking.
It's sort of interesting because like the fortress looks as
if it's made out of like giant tree trunk or something,
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and there are these fruits inside that give off light.
So it's a pretty neat system the way that it's built,
and kind of tidy. I would say, even oh my gosh, diurnal,
says Sarahphem. I don't like that at all. It doesn't flow.
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Nocturnal just goes, you know, like diurnal sounds. I don't know.
I think it's that nocturnal. The Knox just does enough
of the work in that word that you're really focusing
on that more than the urnal diurnal. The focus feels
like it's on the urnal. And that makes me think
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of urinals. And also that die makes me think of diarrhea.
So we've got diarrhea urinal and I don't like it. Ugh,
what a shame. What can you do? So as they're
all walking along, at one point they turn, Wanda turns
and she's like, was about to talk about the plants,
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and Loofy isn't there. And then they hear his voice
and when they look out one of the windows, they
see him hanging off of a huge bunch of grapes.
So there's a you know, we had seen these giant
pineapples before, and I didn't realize that it was gonna
be like all of the fruit here is huge, apparently,
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and he can just like stick a straw. The the
grapes are roughly the size of like a beach ball
each grape. So he just dicks a straw and drinks
the juice right out of it, and this is rad
as hell. I love this so much. Us Up says, dude,
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we do not have time for this. We had this
giant fucking feast. How are you still hungry? And Lufy
sort of hangs off the side and oos Up implies
that maybe he's drunk. I'm not sure if that's like
meant to be a thing that we'll find out is
true later. He doesn't seem to be like as the
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scene goes on, it seems like he's not and he's
just being silly loofy. But I did sort of wonder
if we're going to find out that's a thing that
can happen. And because he stopped drinking quickly enough, it
didn't affect him that way, but it can. I don't know.
I'll keep my eye on it. So let's see she's talking.
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Wanda is continuing to tell them about the city and
how the place that they saw that's been destroyed was
the capital only a few weeks ago. It was vibrant
and bustling, and we get to see everybody like down
at the market and how everybody really seemed to get
along with each other pretty well. There is a point
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where these two dudes are sort of fighting and they
stop and immediately go, who cares, as long as we're healthy,
and begin like sort of dancing together. They've decided to
just drop their differences, which I don't know. I just
sort of thought this was adorable, you know, And then
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all of a sudden, let's see, I'm trying to find
the spot here where the bell begins to ring, and
I feel like they've called it the danger bell or
something like this. I'm sure that this is a thing
that exists and existed in many many places, that there
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is a signal to let people know a problem is
happening and that you should take cover what it reminded
me of because of what I'm doing right now in
terms of some of my own creative writing stuff, I've
been looking into the history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, which
was like a really particularly racially diverse community in the
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eighteen hundreds. I think that Massachusetts abolished slavery in the
late seventeen hundreds, so it was one of the earlier
places that black people could be free and even though
technically on a countrywide like federal level, people could be
recaptured and re enslaved. There were a lot of communities
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that were heavily populated with Quaker abolitionists in Massachusetts and
in New Bedford in particular, they had a bell they
would ring whenever anybody saw a slave catcher, and they
would ring it and everybody who was at risk of
being and this means all black people, because even if
you were not originally a slave and you were born
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free in Massachusetts, that didn't matter, because slave catchers could
just say you were an escape slave and take you,
and a lot of times there was nothing to be
fucking done about it. So they would basically use this
to organize and team up and hide people. And so
a lot of houses had like secret rooms in their
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cellars or false backs to their closets, and they would
hide people until the slave catcher was gone. Except for
one time. And I'm just telling this story because it's
so good, you guys, but I think his name was
Nathaniel Johnson, and he and his wife owned businesses that
were very successful, and really she was the one doing
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the work. He gets a lot of the credit because
he was a man, but he was the one who
was really really financially irresponsible, as it turns out. But
he uh found out that there was a slave catcher
in town staying at this like rented place, and him
and a group of dudes. Nathaniel was black, and I
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don't remember if he was a former slave or if
he was born free, but he got a group of
dudes together and they went and broke this slave catcher's
door down, yanked him out onto the street and beat
the shit out of him, and they got arrested for
doing this to the guy. But then at trial, Nathaniel
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the black man was found not guilty, which I would
have never believed ever. Like that story. When I read it,
I was ready for like the really frustrating, depressing ending.
And when I found out that he was acquitted and
everybody was like, oh, yeah, it was a slave catcher.
Fuck that guy, it just warmed my heart so much.
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And then recently with everything that's been going on with
Ice and how communities have really been stepping out and
just been like, I don't think so, it has been
really reminding me of the stories I was reading about
New Bedford in particular, and it's just you know, when
we decide that we are going to have each other's backs,
it's sort of like unbeatable as long as we hold
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tight enough and there are enough of us, and there
almost always are enough of us if we all were
to do it. So anyway, it's just a little delicious
morsel for you to think back on. How even in
like the eighteen forties, there was a point where white
people were like, no, this black man who beat the
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shit out of a white man, it's fine because that
man was a slave catcher and therefore garbage. I love it.
I love this for them. So anyway, okay, this is
when the overall attack begins. The gates on the front
of their city are like caving in under repeated barrages,
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and it feels like somebody has got this massive battering
ram and the gates are knocked off their hinges, which
we did eventually see, or I say eventually we did
see earlier as they came in looking at how like
the hinges had been torn out and the gates were
on the ground, and you see this massive shadow fill
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up the entire gateway, And all I could think was,
like they built these gates to the exact specifications to
showcase this creature, because if they had built it's lower,
this thing could probably have literally stepped right over them,
you know. So yeah, this little monkey guy is like
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frantic about ringing the bell and trying to warn everybody
as best he can, but it's clear like they are
going to suffer a lot of casualties because whoever is
about to come in here does not give a fuck,
and that it turns out, is Jack. We also get
like that she's talking about how they invaded the city
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and that Zunesha, the elephant whose back they are all on,
could feel all the disruption, and we get this weird
illustration of Zunesha like screeching and the smoke coming out
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of or her mouth around her front. It's a weird
like I wasn't sure where the smoke was meant to
be coming from or if that was supposed to be
like directly coming out of her skin. I don't know.
But yeah, this is when we find out that they
were looking for a ninja. At one point, Jim Rummy
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calls him a samurai, and the other dude whose name
I am not remembering, he makes fun of her for
calling him a samurai and She's like, it's the same thing,
basically whatever. Everybody knows what I mean. And I wondered
if that was like a sort of inside joke of
some kind. It felt like very pointed in a way
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that I was wondering what that was about. And Jack
the drought, that's what he is. How did he earn
that title? You may ask. Every nation he passes through
is left so barren. It looks like they suffered a drought.
And we wouldn't want your country to meet such a
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cruel fate. So tell us where Riiso is, or your
children won't have a future anymore. And they do not
know who he is talking about, and it does not
seem as if any of these guys actually believe their denials.
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And we get a moment of them being like kids,
children and women who cares kill them all. And they
go up to a little kid who is sort of
raccoonish looking type, and they have fucked with the wrong
one because they put their hand on him and they
get sent flying backward and electrocuted. And this is when
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we find out with the thing with their fur, and
that all of this this is a power that like
apparently all the mink have so people come in here
really thinking that they're going to have an easy time
of it, but even little kids know how to use
this ability and that it is not as easy as
folks expect to take these folks down. And it was fun.
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I liked it. I liked seeing this little kid just
be like, you know what, no fuck you. And then
his mom also joins in the fight, and the pirates
are like laid out, all like twitching and still like,
you know, the shock of the electrocution is lasting quite
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a long time after they've been touched. I thought that
was interesting. At one point, the dude gets the one
who is still continuing to tremble with shock. He gets
stomped on by Jack, who says, what are you idiots doing?
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And I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be
that I'm putting him out of his misery, that I'm
literally killing this guy, or if it's supposed to be
that like stomping on him because I'm so big I
can absorb that electricity and it doesn't affect me, and
I'm saving him, you know, if that was what it was.
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But you know, there is an attempt to mitigate all
of this and be like you guys can just search
and see if you can find him, and he isn't here,
and Jack decides that by search, you mean I knock
all your buildings down so that I can just see
inside all of them, right, And so that is what
he does, and Wanda says, we don't know how he
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managed to make his way to our country, or why
he even thought that Raiso was here in the first place.
And it's hard for me to tell whether or not
they really don't know who Raiso is or if they're
just protecting somebody I genuinely couldn't tell. It feels like
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they genuinely don't know who he is. But it may
be that we find out actually he was here this
whole time, and you know, I don't know. Long story short, though,
the like whole thing ends with them starting because they're
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heading towards the Duke as all of this is being told.
They are journeying out to see the guy who has recovered,
and this is when Loofy blurts out, it's really too
bad that our Samurai friends aren't here to see this,
because they would think it was so cool. And that
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is how the episode ends. Is Wanda looking horrified and
everybody else looking upset. So what else is new fucking
loofy him smiling, saying a thing while everybody around him
claps their hand to their face, and it's just like,
I cannot believe he fucking said that, And I forgot that.
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Like right before he says that, Brooke repeats his warning
if they find out that Kinimon has a possible connection
to this tragedy, it could be a complete disaster, and
he's thinking that, but right before he actually said out
loud to Frankie, like remember what I said, don't say
any of those words. So it is extra perfect when
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Lufy says, what a bummer? Where's that ninja? From Juana?
Kinimon wanted to see him write what a shame? And
I had completely like missed the fact that what Brook
says and what Lufy's sisters that close together. So yeah,
so that's the end of the episode, and I just
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wanted to mention I'm so sorry, Florian, because I just
saw before recording that you had messaged me, and I
think Florian was telling me about like the uh, seven
fifty six through seven fifty seven and then seven fifty
eight through seven sixty are coming up. We could break
it down differently and do three episodes and then two.
I haven't looked at either, and so apologies on just
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doing it the way that it was originally done. I
didn't even see your message in time, so I'll just
be doing three next time. But I just wanted to
let you know that I did see it, but not
until it was too late. So next time it'll be
three episodes. Friends. Yeah, I'm having fun with this so far.
It's just very weird, but you know, it's weird in
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a It's weird in a way that I kind of
like in comparison to the weirdness of Dress Rosa, because
you know, the whole thing with like toys living amongst them.
I was just flabbergasted. And it takes a long time
before we actually find out what the hell is going on,
whereas here it's very weird. But I also we get
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to find out what's happening quickly, and I like that.
I appreciate that it doesn't feel like that part's necessarily
going to be super drawn out. Maybe there's another whole
aspect that will be super drawn out. I don't know,
we'll see, but I remain optimistic, all right, everybody, I
will see you on Thursday with a new episode, and
until then, to the Loo, motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled
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network podcast. Yeah,
This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me,
covering one piece episodes seven fifty six through seven fifty
seven start to counterattack great moves by the Twirly Hat crew,
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and a threat descends the Beast pirates Jack in these
episodes Towirly Hat Pirates. Hmmm, really okay, why not? I
don't hate it. Also, Jack turning out to be a
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mammoth pretty fun. Wasn't expecting it? Welcome to spoil Me.
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Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you
very very much to Florian for commissioning this episode. Florian
is here in the chat, as is Saraphem, and Saraphim
had left a comment before I started, so thought, how
does human being counted as minks not make sense? The
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only similarity is they are all mammals, and a human
would be more closely related versus related to an ape
mink like uh will be more closely related versus related
to an ape mink like Babe. Then Kara and Wanda
would be to each other. Sorry, Saraphim, I'm having a
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little trouble following the this. Do you mean you mean
the similarity between all the minks as them all being
animals with humanoid qualities, so them all having fur and whatnot,
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and a human would be more closely really, oh, the
v was a type of would be more closely related. Uh.
A human would be more closely related to an ape
mink like bebe. Then Kara and Wanda would be to
each other. Uh. I honestly don't know if that's true.
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Like to me, the similarity is they are all mammals
that are not sentient or walk on two legs, and
they all are and that is a very different thing
to all human beings who do that naturally always. So
it's just me like, that's that's it. I'm not talking about, like,
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you know, the species of animal or anything like that.
I'm not even trying to get into that because then
you really start to this just falls apart. I am
just saying that the way that they're counting, like, oh, yeah, well,
we just think of you guys as minks without hair.
They're not. The minks are not. It doesn't matter. It
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really doesn't matter. But I think it doesn't even really
need explaining why I find that weird, So I'm just
gonna leave it. So let's start with the explanation that
we find out in seven fifty six as to what
the corpse of your crew or your crew's corpse was,
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which it turns out was Brooke. Now in the show
notes for a I think the previous episode, I said
that Soanji had been taken along with Momo and Brook,
and I wrote that because we don't see them in
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that episode. We're having a big kind of reunion moment,
So if Momo and Brooke had been there, I would
have thought they'd have shown up here too. Eventually we
find out why not, But it turns out Sanji is
the only one that's been taken. Momo has some sort
of issue with the minx and he keeps himself like
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closed off and locked up, and Brooke is suffering repeat
harassment from these animals. So the whole uh, the whole thing.
There's so many like bits and bobs to talk about here.
I just want to mention, like these animals going after
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Brooke and wanting to chew on him. I it was
like I simultaneously found this very funny but also really distressing.
This is the sort of thing that I think as
a kid, I'd have been like disturbed by all of
his friends turning to watch him get jumped on by
like five different animals and then just turning and walking
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away like it's no big deal. I really like, I
feel like as a kid, this would have bothered me
a little bit. And all I can think is like,
are I can't remember how durable Brook is? Will his
bone snap? Is this something that we need to worry about.
It's like the kind of affection that they feel for
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human beings where they want to rub against them, is magnified.
And you add in a weird like oral fixation here,
and Brooke has just got the worst of all worlds,
so his clothes are all raggedy and shit when he
turns up because they've just been like destroying this poor guy. Momo.
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It's like there's definitely some weird beef between the minx
and the Samurai. Unclear whether or not this is solely
the result of the Beast Pirates showing up looking for
a samurai slash ninja, or if this is something that
existed previously, but Momo seems to know something, and so
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I don't know if it's like he only has shown
them his dragon self and do they not know that
he is himself a samurai? If they did, would that
be an issue? He seems to just be aware of
something more than everybody else is, And I'm very curious
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because you know, Brooks, he warns Loofy about using the
word samurai and using another word I can't remember. There
were two words that he was warned about, and later
on Lufy mentions the samurais calling them by name and
saying the word samurai, and how it's too bad that
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they aren't here, which the episode ends on Wanda turning
and looking at him aghast and all of the people
who have been hanging out with the Minx already kind
of clapping a hand to their mouths like, oh, I
can't believe he fucking said it, which of course he
said it, because that's just Loofy, Like, of course he did.
Trying to ask Loofy to avoid a particular topic of conversation.
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It's like in Seinfeld, where anytime there is something that's
like particularly awkward or weird that you either really want
brought up badly or you want to avoid talking about
at all. As soon as walks in the room, you
know that subject is getting brought up. Kramer has like
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the vibe of Loofy in some ways where he has
no real ability to like read the room, no desire to.
He is like, you know, a five or six year
old who just blurts shit out without really considering anything
beyond the fact that they felt like they needed to
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say the thing. So I am really wondering, like what
this is going to turn out to be? That, what
the deal is with the samurai? Why these pirates are
looking for one? Like what all of this is? Saraphim
says Wanda was just too focused on how much she
wanted to jump Brooks bones. I hate you, and then
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reminds me if they if brooks bones break, he just
needs some milk to fix them. I forgot about the
milk thing. That's right, man, the dairy lobby really did
a number on us with milk and bones. Huh. They
really got in there. So the one like plot point
that I'm going to talk about just and get it
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out of the way is uh Conjureau and Kinemon, who
are still trying to get up the sides of the elephant.
With this drawing of a cat, It's so painful to
watch this cat. Eventually like starts to look real weird
because he's pushing himself too much, and they all scream
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and are terrified of the cat, but then they're like,
oh no, it's fine, you could probably keep going, right,
And I was like, I hate this so much. I
think this, like is my least favorite recurring bit in
the show period, and I am including the those bleed
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geysers from Sanjy, Like, if we're doing a recurring bit
this one, I want it to die. I don't think
it's funny. I don't think it's interesting to watch. I
don't think it's like particularly been that helpful. I mean,
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it's difficult for me because I feel like the way
that our people have powers, they could probably have just
gotten up the side of this huge elephant a million
other ways. So we're just pretending that they needed to
get up on the back of this dragon because we
need everybody together and we need it to be this
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whole thing. I can think of several other ways that
this could have been done easily with the powers that
they all have, But it's just a combo of like
this this creature looking like it's suffering so acutely for
so long and being pushed and pushed. I just hate it.
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I fucking despise it, and It would be one thing
if these things were like if condre seemed at all
conscious of the fact that these creatures are suffering, But
everybody around him seems to realize that they're suffering except
for him, and he's just like completely oblivious. So I'm like,
this is the wrong person to get this power. Anybody
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else who was prepared to be a little bit more
responsible about it and learn how to draw better so
that they don't turn out like this, then maybe I
could adult. But this particular person is incompatible with this
particular power. I disapprove. And eventually the sun is going down,
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the cat has you know, like worn itself out, and
it becomes clear that they can't continue on, so they
decide to drop back down to the sunny and try
again the next day. And I was sort of wondering
about how this fucking plotline was even necessary, and I
was just thinking, all right, well, everybody here isn't really
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part of the straw Hats, So is it just that
we just wanted a straw Hats story, but we wanted
these guys to be around still. And I couldn't really
understand that because we've had no problems before with people
that we don't really give much of a shit about
being left behind, and then we returned to them after
many episodes, so I was like, the way this is
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written and the way they keep reappearing, they're clearly meant
to be on our mind. We're being reminded constantly that
these guys are still here. That's got to have some
reason behind it, and what we like. What conclusion I
have come to is that these dudes are part of
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whatever this weird beef is with the Minx, and if
they had been with the straw Hats once they went
into the forest and encountered the Minx, it would have
thrown a massive wrench in their plans somehow. So I'm
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curious to see where this goes. I really don't want
to revisit them, just to watch them trying to get
up the side of this elephant over and over, and
I have a feeling that's what we're gonna get, and
I'm like, not excited about it because it's gonna be
more of these fucking animals. I also am curious who
this ninja is that both Conjuro and the Beast Pirates
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would be looking for them. I don't think we have
seen anybody that would fit the description, but I don't
know for sure, And yeah, it's uh, I'm curious because
like the addition of the of samurai and ninjas, it's
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what was the audience reaction to these being included in
the story, because it sort of feels weird to me
at times that they are treated so distinctly when people
talk about them, when we have got like people with
literal superpowers. It feels like the kind of thing where
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they are reacting to tales of samurai or ninja the
way that we would in the real world, and in
context of the one piece world, it doesn't really make
a lot of sense to me how they're all so
excited about it. But maybe that's just supposed to be
part of the joke, is that like even the people
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who have superpowers thinking ninjas and samurai are dope, which
I guess could work. Saraphim says, not seeing them just
means they're really good Ninja, It's possible. Florian says, Japan
loved it. They love Samuraian Ninja's I guess that makes sense.
You know, It's sort of like, how would the US
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react if we decided to put like a cowboy or
a mobster. I guess we have a mobster. We haven't
really had a cowboy, really, have we. That'd be interesting
to see. One of my favorite things that like, you know,
if you listen to other shows of mine, you are
aware how many British murder mystery shows I watch, and
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there are frequently when you've got like the serialized mystery
of the week type episodes, they will trot in an
English actor who is supposed to be a Texan. All
the time, it's a Texan. It's never just an American,
and it's rarely like a New Yorker or somebody from Brooklyn,
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you know, it's almost always a Texan who wears cowboy hats,
has a very strong accent, and is rich from oil money.
Is like the the you know, stereotype that they go with.
And it's always very funny to me because it straddles
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that weird line where if the if the actor is
good enough at doing a Texan accent, I shouldn't even
say Texan a Southern accent because, like what happens so
much of the time, people outside of a country, they
do not distinguish between regional accents as much. You know,
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the one exception I'll say is that, like Americans do
tend to know the difference between like a Manchester accent
and like a Liverpool accent something very extreme, you know,
or an Oxford accent, we can tend to know the
difference between those, even if we couldn't put a name
to them. But usually when it comes to Southern accents,
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other countries just have this one sort of standard twang
that they go for, which is fine, it doesn't bother me.
But I'm also not a native Southern person, so but
it would be kind of interesting to see how that
would play out in this show if we did do that.
Seraphim says, also keep in mind the ones most excited
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are loofy Oosup and Chopper, the most teenage boy mentality
of the crew in terms of, oh, that's cool, I
guess that's true. I could have sworn that Robin was
really excited. But Robin also has a tendency to like
get very into stuff that you wouldn't expect because she's
just a kind of curious person, So that might still
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hold anyway. Okay, so we when we open this episode,
after we have them like falling down the side of
the elephant, we go to Zoro, who is drinking this
liquor that is made from all of the different fruits
that they can find in the forest and is really
really enjoying it. The animals are rubbing against him and
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he does not like it. Later on we get to
see Frankie fully embracing the cuddles and he is one
into it. Loofy has been polishing off meat and it's
just like, can't you just be nice for a second.
They've been giving us all of this food and everything,
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and it does not move Zoro in the slightest. So
let's say I'm trying to find the uh because there's
a moment where Minkship expresses our tribe's great fondness fondness
towards Utia, so like friendship, but it's minkship and one
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of them is like laying on Robin's lap and rubbing
his head back and forth. And I was just laughing
because like Choppers watching this and doesn't seem to feel
it's just interesting, with Loofy being like, oh, it's like
an island full of choppers. I thought that Chopper might
actually like say something about how nice it was to
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not be the only animal around, or you know, but
Chopper doesn't really seem to feel that he is a
mink in any way. It's like that camaraderie thing that
I was thinking might happen isn't there. And it's not.
They're not the same thing. He isn't the result of
a devil fruit, you know. So I get that he
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wouldn't see it the same way. But I thought maybe
that even though you know that you're not really like
the product of being the same exact type of creature,
that the at least the experience of being looking like
an animal but functioning like a human being would bond him.
And maybe we're just we haven't seen that yet, but
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I don't know. So this is when Brooke pops in
and is very excited to see them, and then we
get approached by all of these animals that want to
eat him, and he huddles up with everybody and says,
I have a bit of a sensitive request, And this
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is when he tells them, while we're here, please do
not mention the land of Wano or Samurai either. Better
not risk it. It might cause a fence to the
minx or pain. More accurately, it might even make them
hate you and Frankie says, okay, but what's the deal?
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And Lufy says what's wrong with Samurai? And Brooke says
there's something about this country you don't know, and at
this moment is when he gets attacked, so he does
not get a chance to fill them in on all
of this. So let's see they're trying to sort of
figure out what could have happened, and finally Robin says
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to Nami, Okay, you've got to tell us the full
story of everything that happened, because you all left Dress Rosa.
It's been eleven days. We don't know what the fuck
is going on, and Namy's like, Okay, I'm gonna tell you.
It was sort of an interesting way that they did this,
because normally they'll just have a flashback and we get
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to see the things. It's uh. What they did here
was we get a flashback, but we also get the
what do you call it? Voiceover of Nami after a
thing happens, saying something like and that's not all you know.
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It's very much being played like she is telling them
the story, but only sometimes. And I kind of wished
that they had just let her have a voice so
over for the whole thing. But anyway, so she says,
we were barely off the coast of dress Rosa and
the Big Mom pirates appeared on a huge singing ship,
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and we get to see that indeed the uh the
figurehead of their ship. It's singing its own name. I
think it's just singing Shippy over and over again. I
don't really know what the deal is here, like whether
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or not it was something else and was enchanted to
look like a ship, or if the ship itself was
enchanted to be alive. It doesn't feel great either way.
I just there are ways in which this could be
done that I wouldn't necessarily be horrified by, but to
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be honest, they're few and far between, and I feel
like I don't want to know. I feel like i'd
kind of rather not know. Probably, So this is when
we get a refresh of these dudes that they fight.
I'm trying to get their names again, because they come
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up as their little UH title cards when they first appear.
There's the dude who looks like a lion and I
guess maybe is a mink Pickam's Pickam's, Pecom's. And then
there's the dude who's inside of an eggshell with a
teacup on his head. Baron Tomago and or Tamago. Ah,
(23:38):
Baron Tamago with his teacup head and his wil Luigi
mustache and his French accent and his cane. This man
is very puzzling to me. Uh it's a weird uh. I.
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You know, guys, you would really think that after all
this time, I would have started to understand and appreciate
that the theming of what people are dressed like doesn't
necessarily go together in this show, that this is not
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necessarily something that WOULDA concerns himself with in any way
at all. But I can't help but try to make
sense of it anyway and find a pattern. And it's
just really got me sort of thinking about like years
ago with there was a co host that is no
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longer with Unspoiled for a variety of reasons. I covered
Twin Peaks, and it was the sort of thing where
like the first season I was super into, and then
this second season it started to make even less sense
than the first. And then they had the like the
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revival of it that aired probably like at this point
five or six years ago, and I just have had
to come to the realization, the acceptance of the fact
that David Lynch does not speak to me, or at
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least what I have watched has not been for me.
Maybe some of his other stuff, if I watched it,
I would be like, Okay, this works disconnected. But what
I have seen, I am just a person who wants
to make sense out of things. And maybe if I
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were really like stoned and I watched some of the stuff,
I would be like, oh, you know what. I was
able to let go of that and let it just
be vibes. But when I'm covering something for this podcast,
that is particularly difficult to do because the point is
for me to be able to articulate how I'm feeling
about something, and it's not always possible to do so.
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All of this to say our little french man Tamago
Seraphim is saying Tamago is Japanese for egg. I'm wondering
if this is like a kind of a I'm trying
to think, like why he'd be French the breakfast thing
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a cup of tea and an egg? Is there a toast?
Am I reaching? Perhaps I'm trying to just let it
sort of wash over me and not get fixated on
how they go together, and it's working fairly well. I
don't really know why, but I do kind of feel
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like the teacup and saucer and this egg do go together.
And I don't know why. I'm genuinely like, why does
this not feel like it's that weird? Actually? And it
might be that it might be that I'm just like, oh, yeah,
breakfast things association, you know what I mean. But anyway,
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I find him very very compelling in a way that
doesn't make sense. It feels like I am assigning a
whole other thing to this guy due to the fact
that I am a foodie. I love tea parties, I
love breakfast food, and him being French and there's just
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an automatic association with like, if you are French, then
you know food, which is not necessarily even true, but
you know how that stereotype goes. So I find this
whole character to be very very distracting because I want
him to be a lot more important to things than
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I think he's going to be, and maybe he will be,
maybe I never I wish, but from where I'm sitting
right now, it just doesn't even look like that. And
I don't know why. Every time he pops up, I'm like, ooh,
this guy, you know. So this is when Nami says,
but they had company, and we get the uh the
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swagger forward and she says, a fellow member of the
Worst Generation Capone, gang Bedja or Beg, I can't remember.
I'm just gonna call him Copone. His like the name
altogether is a lot, you know. I think Copone is fine.
It's very funny because I understand you guys have explained
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to me what the deal is with the Worst Generation,
so I know that it is not really about age.
I get it, but it is extremely funny to see
this guy being categorized as being part of the same
like Worst Generation as Loofy, because it just does not
feel like they should be in anything together. Frank, you
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know what I'm saying. So, yeah, it turns out that
all of them seemed to be working under Big Mom.
Now they came for Caesar, but it wasn't a rescue.
In fact, he was terrified. And what we get after
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this is this kind of bizarre fight sequence where Chopper
turns himself into the Big version of him and he
uses He takes Caesar, he holds him and stretches him
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out all some of these cannon balls that are coming
towards them are like they're all coming from the same
direction and landing in the same like three square foot radius,
which doesn't feel likely, but whatever. He catches them with
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Caesar's body and uses him like he's a piece of
fabric or something that he's like opening up and then
wrapping it all in. And then he turns and chucks
Caesar in into the air toward the other ship like
he's going to hit them with all of these cannon
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balls at once. After he does this, I'm watching this because,
like Caesar understandably, is not appreciating, as he puts it,
being treated like a bag, you know, being just bundled
up and tossed toward his enemies, which is what it
looks like. It looks very much leg we are giving
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you to them, handing you right over. Now. I'm thinking
the point of this is going to be all of
those the cannonballs will have gained altitude from being thrown
wrapped up in him in this way, and then once
they've gained altitude, Caesar will somehow like dissipate or let
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go of them, and they will all fall onto the
ship and cause damage in return. No, it is not that.
So he's in mid air, Sanji does his like weird
sort of cloud walking thing, and he lights his legs
up as he does, and with his flaming legs, he
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kicks Caesar apart. This not only breaks Caesar up and
releases the cannon ball, but also lights the cannonballs themselves
on fire. And so when they hit the other ship,
it takes a whole lot of damage. They clearly were
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not expecting anybody to to fuck with them on this level. Now,
I just want to can anybody give me the name
of this ship, in particular that they are on the
Singing Ship, because every glimpse I get of it, you guys,
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it's like a cancel in Gretel's Witch's house where it's
made out of candy. It looks like, and you know,
we know the whole thing with Big Mama's addiction to candy.
But there's also like in the back on the slightly
upper deck a what looks like a huge layer cake,
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like a wedding cake type of thing, and big candy
canes that are kind of like peeking over the sides.
The reason I'm asking about this is because I have
a sort of mental in my You guys know that,
like I used to do, costuming was what I like
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originally went to college for. So I get very preoccupied
with what they're wearing in terms of who I would
want to cause play. But I also like to think
about if I were going to make a little model
or something of particular items from this universe, what I
would make because I'm a creative person and I paint
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and I draw, and I make things out of clay
and resin and all this stuff, So it is not
outside the realm with possibility that I might actually do this.
And you all probably remember that Alvida's ship in the
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very very first episode ever with the Heart the heart
like themed ship and the Heart I Jolly Roger really
just fucking got me, and I have been saying for
a long time, Alvida fat Alvida, I'll clarify, and her
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original ship would be a big temptation. If I were
ever going to do a one piece cosplay, it would
be on the top of my list. Now, I don't
remember how good a look we've gotten at Big Mama
or Big Ma? Is it Big Ma or Big Mama
Flying is saying, big Mom, I think you might be right,
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Sarahim says the Queen Mama Shanter. I'm gonna check and
see what we get, Chanter. It's ch which I guess
makes sense if it's a singing ship. I'm looking at
this from far away, and basically this ship is themed.
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From the outside, it looks to me like an overflowing
ice cream Sunday. I don't know, my friends, this ship
might this might be edging out al Vida's ship for
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my favorite ship. I can not stress enough what a
fucking sucker I am. For a candy theme or like
a pink frosting and sprinkles kind of theme. I love
that imagery if it's like a pink frosted cupcake donuts
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as well, although I really prefer cupcakes and cakes like
I was so excited when I heard that we were
going to be getting a cupcake emoji a few years ago.
And then we got it and it's got like vanilla
icing and I just cannot tell you how disappointed I was.
But this there's a bunch of different like illustrations of it.
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But oh my god, you guys, I just found there
is a collector's model that you can build. It's got everything,
it's got the cake in the front. Oh my god.
I don't know. I don't know. There is a simplicity
in Alvida's ship that I do really like. I'm gonna
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look up Alvida's right now and just compare them, because
I like, this is something that's just on my mind.
Alvida's got that that uh swan's head. I do really
like the design of her ship. Like Big Mom's ship's
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got a lot going on. So that's the one thing
I could say is that, like Alvida's is very cute,
see in a way, in a way that's got a
sort of old fashioned quality, while Big Mom's is like
somebody just took everything they could think of and put
it into one ship. It's a very large, sort of
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bottom heavy, overdone kind of look. So I think if
I were going to pick, I'd probably go for Alvida's.
But Big Moms is pretty fucking good anyway. Kids. I
just really even in the live action I'm looking at it,
and the live action I think that version of the
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ship is not as cute. This is a concept or
I'm looking at my bad, this is not the thing.
The concept art that they did, I don't love so
just saying that anyway, I know that this is not
here nor there, but it's the kind of thing that, like,
it's rare for me to have a moment in the
show where I see something and I'm like I want that,
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I want that exact thing, and I kind of had
that with this ship. Every time I saw another side
of it or another angle of it, I was like,
this thing is rad as hell? What on earth? And
it's so weird because like, since the ship can sing,
it's got a face that sings on the figurehead, but
then the figurehead itself is wearing this like, uh, there's
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sort of a layered effect with a lot of different
parts of the ship. But there's like a duck, like
a rubber ducky type duck that's got a crown on
at one point, and it seems to be like sitting
above the head that's singing. So it's almost like there's
two figurehead. It's weird. But anyway, this is when Nammy
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earns her keep by coming in on this fight, and
she uses her weather controlling abilities to create a bunch
of fog and rain, which gives the ship cover to escape,
so that they can't just keep shooting rockets at them.
I said, rockets, cannonballs, you know whatever. So then we
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come back to the present and after she has explained
all of this, everybody is applauding wildly, and you know,
it's a good moment. I think it's Loofy that says,
you guys really kick some ass, and Choppers like, yeah, whatever.
That doesn't make me blush, And of course he is
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losing it. Noamy, Oh stop, I know I'm awesome, but please.
This reminded me a little bit of the Barbie movie
where you know, they're getting awards. I deserve this. And
Robin says, so how long did that all take exactly?
And she says, yeah, well, Zoo was like really close
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to us, so we've been here for ten days. And
this is when Robin is like, all right, so what's
the deal with the city, because whatever happened to it
that totaled, it looks like it was really recent. And
this is when Wanda chimes in and is like, yeah,
you're right. By the time your friends got here, our
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city had already been destroyed. But if we didn't have
them to help us, we would be lost. You know.
They fought for us. Also, there was his medical expertise, Choppers,
and she says, like we were nearly wiped out, helpless
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to resis And I'm sorry, guys, Frankie says, I know
the wounds are pretty pretty fresh on this whole thing,
So if you don't want to talk about it, I'm
okay with that. And she says, no, no, no, we're allies,
and you guys do need to know. I'm gonna tell you.
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Just as she is about to do this, of course,
we get some little creature that looks like a sloth.
He is hanging upside down from the doorframe and he
is yelling to all of them that the Duke is
awake from his coma. We don't even know who this
is yet all of the minks are very very excited.
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Frankie not Frankie. Chopper is like says, finally, because obviously
Chopper has been involved with whatever's been going on with
the duke. Duke dog Storm, which is the one that
I am assuming in one does like thoughts and memories,
the dude who was getting his ass beat, I'm thinking
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that that's probably who this is. So Chopper grabs his
bag and is like all right, let's go do a
check up and see what he what he needs. And
I love that he calls out for this little goat
who is dressed like a doctor. And they are being
followed by a girl that looks like she's got a
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chipmunk's tail, or maybe a squirrel's tail. It looks like
a chipmunk because it's striped, but there's possibility that like
squirrels in other countries have striped tails. I don't know,
but uh, they all head out together. They're obviously all
meant to be, like the ones that are handling the
medicine in this place. And Wanda explains that he is
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the ruler of all of zoo and was hurt really
badly in the attack, same as our other leader. And
Frankie is like, you've got two and she's like, yeah, yes,
I know it seems weird to you guys, but we
have duke dog Storm king of the day and master
cat Viper king of the night. So I guess this
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is like a nocturnal daylight kind of situation. Maybe I
don't know, are dogs like I know the word nocturnal
for nighttime animals, but is there a ernal type word
for daytime animals. I actually don't know if there's a
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counterpart to Nocturnal. I have to assume there is, so anyway,
that's the end of the first of these two episodes,
and then when we get into the second one we
get some more of these details. First, we have a
very brief check in with Trafalgar Law, who finds his
pirate his crew. Beppo gives him a big hug and
(43:59):
rub against him the way that the minks do, and
it is adorable. There's not really much time spent here,
it's just all of them like being happy to see
each other. And he says, oh, hey, I heard the news.
Nice job beating Dofla Mingo, and Law says, well, it
was really straw Hat who did it. And the other guy,
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Penguin is on his hat says, let's catch up back
at the base, Captain, and that's all we see of them.
So we go back to the fortress and they are walking.
It's sort of interesting because like the fortress looks as
if it's made out of like giant tree trunk or something,
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and there are these fruits inside that give off light.
So it's a pretty neat system the way that it's built,
and kind of tidy. I would say, even oh my gosh, diurnal,
says Sarahphem. I don't like that at all. It doesn't flow.
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Nocturnal just goes, you know, like diurnal sounds. I don't know.
I think it's that nocturnal. The Knox just does enough
of the work in that word that you're really focusing
on that more than the urnal diurnal. The focus feels
like it's on the urnal. And that makes me think
(45:25):
of urinals. And also that die makes me think of diarrhea.
So we've got diarrhea urinal and I don't like it. Ugh,
what a shame. What can you do? So as they're
all walking along, at one point they turn, Wanda turns
and she's like, was about to talk about the plants,
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and Loofy isn't there. And then they hear his voice
and when they look out one of the windows, they
see him hanging off of a huge bunch of grapes.
So there's a you know, we had seen these giant
pineapples before, and I didn't realize that it was gonna
be like all of the fruit here is huge, apparently,
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and he can just like stick a straw. The the
grapes are roughly the size of like a beach ball
each grape. So he just dicks a straw and drinks
the juice right out of it, and this is rad
as hell. I love this so much. Us Up says, dude,
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we do not have time for this. We had this
giant fucking feast. How are you still hungry? And Lufy
sort of hangs off the side and oos Up implies
that maybe he's drunk. I'm not sure if that's like
meant to be a thing that we'll find out is
true later. He doesn't seem to be like as the
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scene goes on, it seems like he's not and he's
just being silly loofy. But I did sort of wonder
if we're going to find out that's a thing that
can happen. And because he stopped drinking quickly enough, it
didn't affect him that way, but it can. I don't know.
I'll keep my eye on it. So let's see she's talking.
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Wanda is continuing to tell them about the city and
how the place that they saw that's been destroyed was
the capital only a few weeks ago. It was vibrant
and bustling, and we get to see everybody like down
at the market and how everybody really seemed to get
along with each other pretty well. There is a point
(47:39):
where these two dudes are sort of fighting and they
stop and immediately go, who cares, as long as we're healthy,
and begin like sort of dancing together. They've decided to
just drop their differences, which I don't know. I just
sort of thought this was adorable, you know, And then
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all of a sudden, let's see, I'm trying to find
the spot here where the bell begins to ring, and
I feel like they've called it the danger bell or
something like this. I'm sure that this is a thing
that exists and existed in many many places, that there
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is a signal to let people know a problem is
happening and that you should take cover what it reminded
me of because of what I'm doing right now in
terms of some of my own creative writing stuff, I've
been looking into the history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, which
was like a really particularly racially diverse community in the
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eighteen hundreds. I think that Massachusetts abolished slavery in the
late seventeen hundreds, so it was one of the earlier
places that black people could be free and even though
technically on a countrywide like federal level, people could be
recaptured and re enslaved. There were a lot of communities
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that were heavily populated with Quaker abolitionists in Massachusetts and
in New Bedford in particular, they had a bell they
would ring whenever anybody saw a slave catcher, and they
would ring it and everybody who was at risk of
being and this means all black people, because even if
you were not originally a slave and you were born
(49:27):
free in Massachusetts, that didn't matter, because slave catchers could
just say you were an escape slave and take you,
and a lot of times there was nothing to be
fucking done about it. So they would basically use this
to organize and team up and hide people. And so
a lot of houses had like secret rooms in their
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cellars or false backs to their closets, and they would
hide people until the slave catcher was gone. Except for
one time. And I'm just telling this story because it's
so good, you guys, but I think his name was
Nathaniel Johnson, and he and his wife owned businesses that
were very successful, and really she was the one doing
(50:09):
the work. He gets a lot of the credit because
he was a man, but he was the one who
was really really financially irresponsible, as it turns out. But
he uh found out that there was a slave catcher
in town staying at this like rented place, and him
and a group of dudes. Nathaniel was black, and I
(50:30):
don't remember if he was a former slave or if
he was born free, but he got a group of
dudes together and they went and broke this slave catcher's
door down, yanked him out onto the street and beat
the shit out of him, and they got arrested for
doing this to the guy. But then at trial, Nathaniel
(50:56):
the black man was found not guilty, which I would
have never believed ever. Like that story. When I read it,
I was ready for like the really frustrating, depressing ending.
And when I found out that he was acquitted and
everybody was like, oh, yeah, it was a slave catcher.
Fuck that guy, it just warmed my heart so much.
(51:17):
And then recently with everything that's been going on with
Ice and how communities have really been stepping out and
just been like, I don't think so, it has been
really reminding me of the stories I was reading about
New Bedford in particular, and it's just you know, when
we decide that we are going to have each other's backs,
it's sort of like unbeatable as long as we hold
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tight enough and there are enough of us, and there
almost always are enough of us if we all were
to do it. So anyway, it's just a little delicious
morsel for you to think back on. How even in
like the eighteen forties, there was a point where white
people were like, no, this black man who beat the
(52:03):
shit out of a white man, it's fine because that
man was a slave catcher and therefore garbage. I love it.
I love this for them. So anyway, okay, this is
when the overall attack begins. The gates on the front
of their city are like caving in under repeated barrages,
(52:24):
and it feels like somebody has got this massive battering
ram and the gates are knocked off their hinges, which
we did eventually see, or I say eventually we did
see earlier as they came in looking at how like
the hinges had been torn out and the gates were
on the ground, and you see this massive shadow fill
(52:45):
up the entire gateway, And all I could think was,
like they built these gates to the exact specifications to
showcase this creature, because if they had built it's lower,
this thing could probably have literally stepped right over them,
you know. So yeah, this little monkey guy is like
(53:09):
frantic about ringing the bell and trying to warn everybody
as best he can, but it's clear like they are
going to suffer a lot of casualties because whoever is
about to come in here does not give a fuck,
and that it turns out, is Jack. We also get
like that she's talking about how they invaded the city
(53:33):
and that Zunesha, the elephant whose back they are all on,
could feel all the disruption, and we get this weird
illustration of Zunesha like screeching and the smoke coming out
(53:53):
of or her mouth around her front. It's a weird
like I wasn't sure where the smoke was meant to
be coming from or if that was supposed to be
like directly coming out of her skin. I don't know.
But yeah, this is when we find out that they
were looking for a ninja. At one point, Jim Rummy
(54:16):
calls him a samurai, and the other dude whose name
I am not remembering, he makes fun of her for
calling him a samurai and She's like, it's the same thing,
basically whatever. Everybody knows what I mean. And I wondered
if that was like a sort of inside joke of
some kind. It felt like very pointed in a way
(54:37):
that I was wondering what that was about. And Jack
the drought, that's what he is. How did he earn
that title? You may ask. Every nation he passes through
is left so barren. It looks like they suffered a drought.
And we wouldn't want your country to meet such a
(54:58):
cruel fate. So tell us where Riiso is, or your
children won't have a future anymore. And they do not
know who he is talking about, and it does not
seem as if any of these guys actually believe their denials.
(55:19):
And we get a moment of them being like kids,
children and women who cares kill them all. And they
go up to a little kid who is sort of
raccoonish looking type, and they have fucked with the wrong
one because they put their hand on him and they
get sent flying backward and electrocuted. And this is when
(55:45):
we find out with the thing with their fur, and
that all of this this is a power that like
apparently all the mink have so people come in here
really thinking that they're going to have an easy time
of it, but even little kids know how to use
this ability and that it is not as easy as
folks expect to take these folks down. And it was fun.
(56:08):
I liked it. I liked seeing this little kid just
be like, you know what, no fuck you. And then
his mom also joins in the fight, and the pirates
are like laid out, all like twitching and still like,
you know, the shock of the electrocution is lasting quite
(56:30):
a long time after they've been touched. I thought that
was interesting. At one point, the dude gets the one
who is still continuing to tremble with shock. He gets
stomped on by Jack, who says, what are you idiots doing?
(56:51):
And I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be
that I'm putting him out of his misery, that I'm
literally killing this guy, or if it's supposed to be
that like stomping on him because I'm so big I
can absorb that electricity and it doesn't affect me, and
I'm saving him, you know, if that was what it was.
(57:12):
But you know, there is an attempt to mitigate all
of this and be like you guys can just search
and see if you can find him, and he isn't here,
and Jack decides that by search, you mean I knock
all your buildings down so that I can just see
inside all of them, right, And so that is what
he does, and Wanda says, we don't know how he
(57:35):
managed to make his way to our country, or why
he even thought that Raiso was here in the first place.
And it's hard for me to tell whether or not
they really don't know who Raiso is or if they're
just protecting somebody I genuinely couldn't tell. It feels like
(57:57):
they genuinely don't know who he is. But it may
be that we find out actually he was here this
whole time, and you know, I don't know. Long story short, though,
the like whole thing ends with them starting because they're
(58:19):
heading towards the Duke as all of this is being told.
They are journeying out to see the guy who has recovered,
and this is when Loofy blurts out, it's really too
bad that our Samurai friends aren't here to see this,
because they would think it was so cool. And that
(58:41):
is how the episode ends. Is Wanda looking horrified and
everybody else looking upset. So what else is new fucking
loofy him smiling, saying a thing while everybody around him
claps their hand to their face, and it's just like,
I cannot believe he fucking said that, And I forgot that.
(59:04):
Like right before he says that, Brooke repeats his warning
if they find out that Kinimon has a possible connection
to this tragedy, it could be a complete disaster, and
he's thinking that, but right before he actually said out
loud to Frankie, like remember what I said, don't say
any of those words. So it is extra perfect when
(59:29):
Lufy says, what a bummer? Where's that ninja? From Juana?
Kinimon wanted to see him write what a shame? And
I had completely like missed the fact that what Brook
says and what Lufy's sisters that close together. So yeah,
so that's the end of the episode, and I just
(59:51):
wanted to mention I'm so sorry, Florian, because I just
saw before recording that you had messaged me, and I
think Florian was telling me about like the uh, seven
fifty six through seven fifty seven and then seven fifty
eight through seven sixty are coming up. We could break
it down differently and do three episodes and then two.
I haven't looked at either, and so apologies on just
(01:00:19):
doing it the way that it was originally done. I
didn't even see your message in time, so I'll just
be doing three next time. But I just wanted to
let you know that I did see it, but not
until it was too late. So next time it'll be
three episodes. Friends. Yeah, I'm having fun with this so far.
It's just very weird, but you know, it's weird in
(01:00:42):
a It's weird in a way that I kind of
like in comparison to the weirdness of Dress Rosa, because
you know, the whole thing with like toys living amongst them.
I was just flabbergasted. And it takes a long time
before we actually find out what the hell is going on,
whereas here it's very weird. But I also we get
(01:01:04):
to find out what's happening quickly, and I like that.
I appreciate that it doesn't feel like that part's necessarily
going to be super drawn out. Maybe there's another whole
aspect that will be super drawn out. I don't know,
we'll see, but I remain optimistic, all right, everybody, I
will see you on Thursday with a new episode, and
until then, to the Loo, motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled
(01:01:55):
network podcast. Yeah,
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