July 16, 2025 • 64 mins
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These episodes are the ones where we find out what caused Sanji to depart from the rest of the group. I thought this whole time he was being kept prisoner somewhere, and like, he is? But not in the way that I thought, and definitely not for the reasons I thought.
Thank you all so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!
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Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning this episode!
These episodes are the ones where we find out what caused Sanji to depart from the rest of the group. I thought this whole time he was being kept prisoner somewhere, and like, he is? But not in the way that I thought, and definitely not for the reasons I thought.
Thank you all so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!
Wanna talk spoilers? Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/rEF2KfZxfV
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me,
covering one piece episodes seven sixty three through seven sixty five,
The Truth behind the Disappearance, Sanji gets a startling invitation
to My Buds, Sanji's farewell note, and Let's go and
(00:26):
meet Mastercat Viper. In these episodes, we find out that
Sony has some family history that he hasn't shared with
the crew. Despite saying I never meant to keep any secrets,
he definitely has kept a hell of a secret. Also,
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half of one of these episodes is literally Brooks singing
a song that has almost only one line to it.
This is filler that I can get behind. Welcome to
spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha.
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Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning this episode.
I really like I'm so back and forth on this arc, guys.
I don't know how I'm feeling about it, because it
just feels like things are a little bit all over
the place. You know, we had these weird people with
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sheep's head that swooped in, and then we have the
minks that are here and they got targeted for whatever reason.
For some reason, these people thought that they were harboring
a samurai, and now we've got Big Mom's pirates coming
into the mix and apparently having like an offer you
can't refuse. For Soanji and I, I've just not really
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gotten a good enough grip on everything to decide how
I feel about the arc. Yet overall, so I am
curious as things go forward, because it feels like, by
the end of this group of episodes, our friends are
going to go out and pursue Soanji and I had expected,
whatever the arc was, for us to remain here with
the Minx for a while, and it looks like maybe
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that's not what we're gonna do. So that's surprising, Seraphim says,
But it's such a great song and it's not filler.
It's something Brooks, Japanese Va and his wife wrote about
their in real life cat named Neiko Mamushi Cat Viper,
and when Oda heard it, he loved it so much
he asked Provision to put Neko Mamushi in the story
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and have Brooks sing the song about him. I adore
the fact that a pet song made its way into
the show. I was about to say, we all do this,
and I know that's actually not true. Many people do this,
but not everybody, because I don't think I have ever
heard Marshall sing to the animals. He talks to them
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and he has ongoing little bits with them. But I'm
the one that makes up songs. Usually I will sing
pet related lyrics along with a familiar tune, for example,
to the tune of Spider Man. I will sing Pip
and Dog, Pip and Dog does whatever Pip and Dog does.
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Does he fly? No, he can't, but he'll run around
and chase ants, look out, you know, like that kind
of thing. And my mom used to actually come up
with original melodies, which I think is like a step beyond,
so that being put into this is delightful. And listen,
I would like to say, Sarah, m it is filler. Absolutely,
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it's filler. It's fine though, because I prefer this to
the slow pan from face to face with everybody just
making a weird back of their throat sound, so you know,
like it's I have no problem with it. So okay.
The first of these three episodes were picking up right
where we had left off after uh Peckham getting shot,
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and Peckham is not dead, as we find out later.
Somebody like comes to collect him and help him out,
but at the moment he has just been like abandoned
where he lays, and uh, it turns out that Capone
wants to have a conversation with Sanji. It's also funny because,
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like I keep forgetting, I know that we have actually
seen Pone's ability once before. That was you know a
a I think back on the island with all the bubbles,
maybe was when we first saw the fact that he
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like is a building somehow that people can shrink down
and fit inside, and so he carries around his own
private army. But I definitely had forgotten. And even though
I saw that these dudes would step out from like
his gut, I think that I assumed that the way
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that the castle Castle Fruit worked was that he like
basically when he transformed into this castle, he also created
these henchmen. I didn't realize that people could go in
there and that he himself can be inside his own
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castle body to meet with them as if they are
all in a regular building together. This ability is crazy.
This is I think at like top five weirdest powers
that we have seen on this show, and there are
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some weird fucking powers on this show. So I think
that's really saying something. And a part of me is
like very into this because it makes me feel like
traveling would be so easy. You could just make this
place have everything you need, and then you would never
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have to pack and you would always have your own
very comfortable space with you at any time, and thus
you could stay in a lovely hotel if you wanted.
But if there's a place where you wind up and
there's nowhere to go, you can just open your gut
up and go sleep in your own bed. Or you
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could stay in the lovely hotel, but oh no, you
forgot your flip flops and then you just reach in
there and grab them. Like how much fits in here?
How much stuff? How many people? What are the restrictions?
I this is really speaking to the practical side of
me in a way that the powers usually don't, because
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a lot of them have like, you know, weird sort
of side effects that are very good for battle. They're
good for combat, but they're not something that I would
want to deal with, you know. But this is the
first power that I'm genuinely like, Ooh, I might pick
this one if I had a list of them, you know,
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I just might Seraphim says, you would also be the
ultimate travel agent, get a massive group together and only
have to pay from one plane ticket. Oh my god,
that's such a good idea, Sara fem I didn't even
think of that, because yeah, you can just like bring
people with you, and oh yeah, I would be I
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would be like hiring myself out for people's destination weddings.
So like pay for my plane ticket and you know,
my food and whatever, and I'll bring your whole family
and all I require is a tiny compensation of like
five grand, and I'll do it. I'll bring everybody and
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you don't even have to worry about it. I wonder how,
like how much can I divide down the room inside,
because if I could potentially provide them housing as well,
you know, if I could be the hotel so they
don't have to pay for the rooms where they're staying.
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It all depends how this power works and whether or
not it matters if you fall asleep, because you know,
I don't know how that works. But yeah, there's a lot,
a lot of possibility with this that I think is
really interesting. So yeah, Capone says to Sanji, I need
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you to come inside with me. And talk because this
dude he's gone soft, he's got feelings and he's got
a rap she he's no good to me. Now, I'll
finish the job. And he gets this like expression when
he says I'll finish the job where it clearly is
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meant to be that he's threatening Soanjy. But when we
actually hear what he is intending to do, and Sonji
points out later, I am not meant to be killed,
like you are supposed to treat me with respect and
keep me alive and you can't even cuff me. This
is definitely like for show, you know what I'm saying.
(10:04):
But yeah, we get the first bit with all these
guys like shooting out of his abdomen and the weird
force field that makes them like turn to their regular
size once they cross it, and the way that these
dudes all come shooting out like birds like headfirst out
of his stomach and gather around them. It really is
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quite an impressive skill. There are there are just so
many applications for this, you know. So let's see, I'm
trying to jump ahead here, and I'm trying to simultaneou
simultaneously jump ahead but not fuck up crunchy roll so
that it does the thing that it did last time,
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which is uh cause all of the the animation to
be invisible. So at this point, you know, Brooke and
Sanji are ready to fight, but Vito, who is off
to the side and looks and sounds like a combination
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of wet hair caribou and Caesar clown Veto, comes out
and he has a hold of both Chopper and Nami,
who pursued Soanji and Brooke because they were really curious
about what was going on. You know, there had been
a good amount of time that passed. Meanwhile, Caesar is
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hiding up in the trees, but Capone knows very well
that he is up there, and he directs his guys
to like point their guns upward. But Caesar is like
trying to stay up there, and even though they know
he's there, I think he is hoping they're just bluffing.
And then Capone threatens to use there see prism stone
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ammo on him, which finally gets him out of the
tree until he is informed, oh, we don't actually have
any of that, but we do have a spear that
that works exactly the same way. And as Caesar is
poked with this spear, He says, I can feel my
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body weakening by the second. I am going to place
a bet that Caesar Clown is reacting to a placebo
and that there is no sea prism stone function on
the spear that he is being poked with. I would
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be willing to bet many things that this isn't at
all a thing, and that he is just so suggestible
and easy to intimidate that it's all you have to
do is say a thing does something, and he doesn't
even like check. So I just want to go on
the record as saying that Caesar Clown is a chump
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and a sucker. So finally Capone is like, all right, well,
you guys are gonna have to join me because you
are completely surrounded. There is no way of fighting out
of this one, and I, you know, we have to
have this conversation. So the way that this is filmed,
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you know he's just said this, and then we jump
back over to Lufy and company, everybody who is with
him other than Sangy obviously, and I had a moment
of being so confused because again, this is n me
explaining to Lufy the story of what happened to Sonjy,
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but I keep forgetting that's what's going on. So when
we jump back to Nami and she's like in the
exact same outfit and everything, and it just kind of
feels like, all of a sudden, the same Nami is
in a different place. This is more than once. Now,
you guys. I don't know whether it would be helpful
if there was like a voiceover or if I'm just
(14:24):
a real Dodo bird or what, but there is. This
is the first time I've had a moment of like, wait,
what's going on? So, oh my god. I love it
when they're talking about how do we get into this
guy's castle if he doesn't want us in there? And
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we have Robin, who is like lit in such a
way that it's as if there's a flashlight under her face,
the way that you do when you're like camping and
telling a scary story. And she says, I imagine you
would have to slice through his abdomen. And these moments
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are when I get what's supposed to be happening with Robin.
Every now and then with the translation, it really works
and with a delivery of the voice actress, and I
always appreciate it when it does sort of work, but yeah,
both Oosap and Frankie are like, hey, enough of the
body horror, buddy, let's not do that. So Capone has
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all of them shackled up, and when they go inside,
it's this weird sort of haul that has this long
table and all of this like decor on the wall.
He's got like shields and paintings and swords hanging and
YadA YadA. And again I'm just really curious, like, does
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the fruit just make the place look the way it
looks according to sort of your personality or is it
that he gets to like morph himself and it looks
different every time he opens up for anybody. Because the
way that it's set up right now is particularly good
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for having a guest. You've got this long table, like
a chandelier overhead, glasses of wine and a candelabra on
the table, but it doesn't feel like this would be
super practical for holding all of your guys in. So
maybe he can change what the inside of himself looks like.
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I guess we'll see. So he delivers an invitation. Your
presence is requested at Mama's tea party, and I have
to admit, guys that she wants to throw a tea party,
has me once again kind of on the fence regarding
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whose ship I would want to pick, because I don't
know how many people listening are aware of this, but
your girl is a complete and total sucker for tea parties,
and I am hoping that there's like some real animation
of a serious tea party later on. We have seen
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a little preview of what that could look like on
the interstitials of Brooks, because it's like a table with
like a teapot and a pastry and his violin I
think are all on there. So I've mentioned before how
much I enjoy that this being part of the thing.
Like Alvida's ship has a much sleeker design and it's
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just a bit more. It speaks to me in terms
of its sophistication. But Big Mom is sort of doing everything,
and there's a part of me that respects that. Even
though I know it's kind of too much, I still
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I want, almost always more than I can really have
of anything at any time you name it, and I
probably want more than I'm going to be able to
make happen. Yeah, it's just speaking to me, so anyway,
he gives Sonji this invite, and Sonji is like, why
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the fuck would I want to go there? Why would
I want to sip tea with her? And he's like, oh,
it's not just a tea party, it's also a wedding.
The groom to be is the third son of the
vin smokes and he holds it up and we get
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in the subtitles because I'm doing the dub that it
says Sonjy. Then the Lucky Dame is the thirty fifth
daughter of the Charlotte family. Pudding. Have we met or
seen Pudding? I don't like. This name is ringing a bell,
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and I can't remember if it's actually like a legit
bell because of this show, or if it's making me
think of something else. But of course, in the background
we have Brooke and Nami and Chopp are all freaking
out because this like they didn't know Sanji's family name,
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and they of course are hearing that he is supposed
to be getting married now and they don't know how
he is going to react. I'm going to go ahead
and guess that everybody related to Big Mom's names are
some sort of like dessert name. I can't tell you
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enough how much I love that naming convention. I love
it so much, like you could go in a lot
of directions with it, you know, have different whole types
of dessert. Pudding is a really interesting choice. Most people
aren't going to think of putting as like an option,
even because it's not a super popular dessert, but it
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is like a pet name. Hey, puddin, you know, like
that's the thing that people have said, so it we're
somewhat well on that level. My concern is that what
we're doing is actually a fat joke, So we're gonna
have to see. But you know, big Mom is quite
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literally very big in every sense. It's not just that
she's fat, She's also just like a large giant. And
I'm wondering, is it gonna be that like she's named
puddin because she's fat, Because that's certainly that's not out
of the realm of possibility for the show's track record.
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So yeah, we'll have to see. Oh my god, Florian says,
if there is a teapar later on, do we need
to give you just one episode for that podcast to
talk about it? You don't have to go that far,
but I do reserve the right to talk about it
more than anybody really wants to hear. Just sorry, but
it's just a thing, you guys. I don't know what
it is. I've loved tea parties ever since I was
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very little. There's a picture of me and I'm like
maybe six, and it's in my backyard and I'm gathered
around this big table made out of a tree stump
in my grandmother's yard, and I'm in this little flowered
bathing suit with my raggedy and dol and a teddy
bear and a white and blue like willow ware tea set.
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It's the most on point like tea kid's kid with
her toy's tea party photo you can possibly imagine. And
every time I see that photo, I am just like
I was who I am from the beginning. Like sometimes
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you see things about yourself and you're like, ah, who
would have thought I'd wind up here? And then there
are things that you see and you're just like, Wow,
nothing about me has changed. I am the most predictable
person alive, and uh, honestly, I'm not even mean. I'm
not even mad about it. Like I I there are
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some parts of myself that I take comfort in. So
that's all I'll say about that. So all right, this
uh invite obviously has really thrown Sanjy for a loop.
He looks completely shocked. It's a combo of like him
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being basically married off without his consent, but also that
who he is has just been outed to his friends
like this, you know, which, Uh, the the fact that
it took this long to catch up with him is
really the only surprise that he was able to get
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away with nobody knowing who he was for this long.
I mean it makes sense in a way because we
saw how young he was when he was on the ship,
and I was wondering even then, like who the hell
are this kid's parents? And now maybe it makes sense
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that nobody knows who he is because or that people
haven't been able to put together who he is because
he has been like under the radar enough and maybe
isn't familiar looking anymore. You know, when somebody disappeared as
a kid, you have to like kind of there's you know, today,
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for example, a lot of modern technology that gets used
in aging up the photos of people who went missing
when they were kids to say what they would look
like now, et cetera, et cetera, And sometimes people just
do not look the way that you would have expected
from when they were kids. You know, it doesn't always
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work out how you would expect, so anyway, I there
was a part of me that was very like, how
is this possible? But then the more I thought about it,
I was like, I guess I can sort of see
this actually, And as we find out later, this is
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why it said specifically on his bounty that he had
to be brought in alive. Only everybody else was dead
or alive except for him, And I like think that
this is delightful, both because we're getting a more history
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of him, which you guys know I want. We are
also the thing with it being a wedding. Now, this
is my concern you guys about it being a fat joke,
because it would if she were at all attractive, there
would be no fight, right, Sanji is a little bitch,
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and if there is a woman involved who is attractive
in any way, I think he will roll over and
marry her, no questions asked, no problem, no matter what
the deal is. Really, maybe I'm wrong, Like I don't
know how much he is one of those like I
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love women, but I have to be a bachelor. I
can't be tied down. You know, we've never really seen
that from him. He really does appear to be like
a hopeless romantic in a way, even though he's a
massive horn dog. So I am willing to say I
think he would be fine with getting married. But if
we need this to be a I if we need
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this to be a fight where he is determined not
to marry, I think it has to be that the
woman is objectionable in some way. And one of our
favorite go to means of making a woman out of
the question is to make her fat. So just sharing
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my concerns on that, Oh, Saraphim says, So keep in
mind this is also happening right after they finally got
an actual picture of him for his wanted poster. I
didn't even think of that, but you're right, sarahm was
like it was being circulated, this weird drawing of him.
So even if they were, like, even if they knew
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what he looked like, it wouldn't have mattered then because
it was an inaccurate image. But now they're finally working
with something is correct, So it's gonna be like the
first time that they'd have an opportunity to track him down. Interesting. Okay, Well,
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I'm curious to see what this where this goes. But yeah,
so it takes a while for everybody to calm down
from getting this information dropped. And I already mentioned Sanji
just being shocked, and we actually have the cigarette dropping
out of his mouth. I don't know if we've ever
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seen that before. I may be wrong, but the cigarette
dropping out of his mouth is a pretty big deal
in my opinion. I would love to see the complete
translation of that invitation, because we get to see the
whole thing, but it's all in characters that I don't know,
so we only get whatever the subtitles from the episode
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feel like showing me, Oh my god. So yeah, his
cigarette that he drops lights a small fire that has
to get put out, And meanwhile everybody is like, are
you really getting married? Sonji? Like what are you even
gonna do? And Sanji is like, I don't get is
this a joke? What's happening? And Capone says, you're the
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Vince Smoke? Why should I fucking know? And Brooke knows
the name. He says something about being a Vince Smoke
being like bone chilling, and Nammy thinks to herself back
at mont blancs we found that picture book called Nolan
the Liar, and we flashed back to her opening it
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and uh, I'm trying to find Oh my god, I
forgot that. Uh who's up? Says I share like the
title because he's a liar, but yeah, she says it
says here the book was originally published in the North
Blue Have you heard of it? And he says, yeah,
I was born in the North Blue territory. I'm certain
I must have told you guys that, which both of
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them seemed to be like, I don't remember you saying that,
and he says, yeah, well I grew up in the
East Blue, But what's the difference? And Nami says, I
remember feeling strange when he told us that, and is
just realizing, like, basically, I never asked that many questions,
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and Brooke is like, are you certain that's correct, because
if so, that's a really big deal. And then we
get the reminder of exactly how this world is set up.
The Grand Line, the sea route that stretches around the world,
runs perpendicular to the Red Line, delineating it into four quadrants.
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The four seas are the East Blue, the West Blue,
and the South Blue. And uh oh and the North Blue. Duh,
if you want to travel from the North Blue to
the East Blue, you'd have to cross the red line.
And Chopper is like, wait, is that hard? And Brooke
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is like, yeah, it is a big feat actually, and
he was just a kid, so how did that even happen?
So yeah, you know, I had asked at the time,
where the hell did this little kid come from? Because
I thought we were going to find out, Like I
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can't remember if his parents were on board the first
ship and you know, they wound up getting boarded and
he gets adopted by the the pirate that takes him,
or if he was alone on that ship working in
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the kitchen and his parents weren't there. I honestly don't
recall because I feel like his parents weren't there, and
that was part of what my hang up was, was
just where is he from? Because he doesn't seem to
belong to anybody, so maybe he just fucking decided to
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run away on the high seas on his own from
a kid and just never Like usually, this sort of
story is quickly followed up by and the child realized
that it's very hard that you will miss your parents
and that you don't have any money, and he turned
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around and he went home. But that Sonji never did
that part, which would be something Seraphim says, I will say,
we never saw or heard of any parents on the ship. Okay,
that's what I thought. And zeph was one who took him.
Thank you, flor and yes, yes, yes, So anyway, this
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is when Caesar mentions that Charlotte is the surname of
Big Mom, which means that if he marries into her family,
basically all of them, like the straw Hats, will become
her underlings. And Sanji says, don't jump to conclusions, and
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then to Capone, you can't make me do it. This
is insane. And you know the fact that they set
this up and didn't even tell me about it and
I had to get an invitation. There's absolutely no way,
and I'm certainly not going to let her incorporate these
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straw Hats into her crew this way, like the straw
Hats are way too special. He's going to be King
of the Pirates. There's like the whole attempt here is misguided,
to say it kindly. And then my favorite ongoing joke
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is him saying, if you want Caesar, you can have
him but the rest of us have to go free.
I later on, he like throws all of his friends
out of Capone's stomach except for Caesar, and I keep
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honestly kind of low key forgetting Caesar's even there. So
when I get the reminder by him just being like,
what the fuck, dude, it's really been funny every time
because I straight up block him out of my mind.
And it's not like I hate Caesar as a character.
I actually think he's quite funny, but he just feels
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so like extra ranious right now, you know, his function
in the plot doesn't really feel pressing, so I just
don't factor him in mentally, and I have to be
reminded he's there all the time. So anyway, this is
when Capone is like, I think you're misunderstanding me, as like, hey,
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I have this invitation, will you accept? You need to
look around yourself and realized realize that you are inside
of my body, are utterly outnumbered, and I am taking
you to her, whether you like it or not. And
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I'm already on my way. And they say it inside
that they can't feel that Copone is moving, which that
is particularly interesting to me that not only can he
be inside his own body, but he can also still
function when he's on the outside, at least in a
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basic way, you know, like walking somewhere. It may not
seem like that big a deal, but this means that
you've got to keep your balance, you've got to be
able to see. And the fact that he can do
that at the same time, that's a humongous advantage. It
would it's almost too much of an advantage. Oh, I
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forgot about the fact that he like makes part of
the table that they're sitting at bind Sanjy down to
his chair, and like there's other stuff that moves around.
So yeah, he can probably make the interior of this
place look like exactly what he wants it to at
any given point. I've forgotten that we get to see
all of this, And he says, I control everything here,
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so you know, he is about to come at Soanjy
with all all of this stuff to threaten him and says,
I could clabbor you with anything in this room, And
there's like an axe and a mace and a flame thrower,
and then we see Nami beginning to sink into the
floor and it's all just a demonstration of Capone's strength
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and his the advantage that he has over all of them.
Sanji keeps telling him to stop with Nami, but he
keeps going until Nami's almost completely submerged in the floor
and like unable to Breathe just to make the point that, like,
if I stop, it's because I feel like it and
not because you said which is you know? I suppose,
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So after he releases Nami, he says, even if I
didn't smack your pals around, you couldn't excuse yourself from
Mama's tea party anyhow. And this is when we get
the entrance of what is his name again, Vinnie Vito Vito.
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He comes in and he basically says, nobody ever turns
down an invitation from Big Mom. If you do, it's ugly,
and you just wish that you hadn't. Even the devil
himself wouldn't turn down an invitation from her. He has
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these tattoos on his forehead and the backs of his
hands that I don't know if this has ever been mentioned.
It's a sort of te shape, but the tea has
these horns coming up off it. And when he says,
like the devil himself wouldn't like decline an invitation with her,
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I was sort of like, is this supposed to be, like,
is there a link? Because there's the horns coming off
of the tea, and there's also sort of a pointed
bottom to the tea, and then across it is an arrow.
And there is something about like the imagery here that
I'm like, this could be sort of meant to have
like a devilish sort of design to it, but I
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can't tell. And he also, when I said that, he
has like a look that's sort of like we had caribou.
It's mostly his tongue which sticks all the way out
of his mouth and drapes down his front to his
collarbone in this weird curl like a chameleon almost, And
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he has gigantic hands and a gigantic gun to go
with those gigantic hands. I had thought initially that his
hands only looked big because of the perspective, but then
later on you see his hands from another person and
they're still very, very big. So that's just something that's
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going on with him, I guess. And he has like
one of those those little speech patterns where he says
lay low after a lot of I think it's maybe
words that end in an o sound is when he
does it like no lay Low or you know, watch
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the show Leyl. I don't know though, it's just a
sort of sort of a weird you know. He This
happens sometimes with characters in this show where they have
this speech pattern, and I always find it like a
real hit or miss. Sometimes it works quite well, and
I'm like, this is sort of a weird tick that
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adds some funny moments. And then there are times like
with the Minx where the way that they say like
uta or uto or whatever after I don't care for
it and I find it makes things more confusing. So
he comes in and he leans in on Sanjy and
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he whispers something into Sonjy's ear, and it like basically
seems to make all of the fight go out of him.
It's weird. He just like kind of seems to hunch
forward in a defeated posture. He does light a new cigarette,
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so not that defeated, I suppose. But then Sanji says
to Capone, where the hell did you get that info?
And Capone says, where do you think? And I'm sort
of wondering, like is he being blackmailed into this? And
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what would be used as blackmail. All I can think
is like, you know, him dressing like a woman on
that island, which isn't like I just really kind of
want to forget that whole thing ever even happened to
be real? But whatever, So long story short, Sanji decides
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by the next episode that he is going to He
is going to willingly go and try to keep his
friends out of it, and so he asks for a
pen and paper and writes a note to his friends that,
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as we see later, says something like, you know, let's
see what is it. He comes over, he hands the
note to Nami and let's see. I'm trying to get
to the part he says, take this, it's for the crew,
and she says, Sanji, wait, you can't, and he says,
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nammy chopper Brooke, I want you all to know this.
I never meant to hide anything from my friends, okay,
And the name Vin Smoke, that's a part of my
past I didn't think i'd ever have to deal with again,
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but it caught up to me and I have to
settle this once and for all. And they recognize this
to be like, oh, he's going off on his own,
and he gives them all a hug, and he says,
I feel a powerful presence outside, probably someone from the
mink tribe. Are you ready? Good luck you three? And
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he picks them up and he chucks them out, and
Capone is really really mad because they were, you know,
his hostages for this whole thing, and also probably could
have collected some bounties on them. This is when Caesar
yells for him to throw him too, which is again
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it was a very funny moment because I utterly forgot
about bro and he screams for him to throw him too.
He's got like teary eyes and SnO coming out of
his nose and everything. So then we have all of
the henchmen beginning to attack Sanji and he does his
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like you know, wild breakdancer stuff and manages to take
a bunch of them out, and he comes at Caesar
full speed, and Caesar is screaming. We get the signification
of just how fast this is all happening because there
is a gun that's like mid air the whole time
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that he eventually snatches the gun out of the air
and he has it on Caesar and he says, all right, everybody,
listen up, I know this guy's important to you. He
calls him a scumbag, don't make me blow his brains out,
And then I don't think that they all are allowed
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to kill me either. I think you were told to
treat me with respect. Actually, and is willing to keep
himself in this situation and deal with whatever it is.
We have the moment where cat Viper is outside of
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outside of Capone's body, standing behind him with his like
weird glowing red eye thing that gets done to the Minx.
Occasionally it seems to really be done when the Minks
see something that they want to attack. But he is
looking at Capone and is saying, I found Peckham's in
a pool of his own blood. Care to explain yourself?
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So I'm assuming that this is like aggression, specifically pointing
at Capone because he can tell this dude is the
one who did it. And Capone tries to be like, no,
of course I would, and we're on the same side,
and Nami off to the side. It has to be like,
don't listen to this fucking guy. He absolutely did it.
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So there's one moment where we get to see Sanji
still inside or no, yeah, we have the note sorry
I'm trying to get to the spot here. I don't
know why we can't join you. Let's just wait for
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everyone else. This is a brooke yelling into the tiny
hole that remains, and he's saying to Sanji, we're stronger together,
aren't we. And Sanji turns and looks at him, and
it's such a weird you know, because he's very small
in there. It's my problem to solve. I'll be back soon.
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He's giving them a big smile, so give everybody my best, okay,
and then the opening closes up up Now, later on,
they're sort of wondering is he just planning to leave
the straw Hats? And eventually I think it's Frankie that
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says specifically, I don't think that he would have worded
it the way that he did if he was intending
to leave. No, it's Zoro, because Or is the only
one who really does not give two shits that Saji
is gone. And he justifies it by being like, you
guys are also worried you'll never see him again. But
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there is a way that you say goodbye to your
friends if you are thinking you won't meet again. And
that's not the way that he said anything, So I
think he just wanted to keep you safe and was
trying to keep you from getting involved in this thing.
But he's not leaving the crew. That's not it at all.
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And then, oh my god, I forgot about this too,
and that is way more Opie even than I thought
to begin with. But capone, he turns himself into like
a tank on his bottom half, and I had forgotten
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he like, so his ability it's almost as Ops Sugar's ability,
because it's not just that he can turn himself into
like a castle where you get morphed to be small
enough to fit inside, but he can actually morph his outside.
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Like I know, we had seen him shoot from the
palm of his hands, but I just sort of thought
that that was like a separate ability. What I mean
is like it's the castle, castle fruit, and you know
castles can have like archer slits or gun turrets or whatever.
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So I was willing to put down that he can
shoot out of his hands as part of like the
castle defenses. But castles don't just turn into a tank
so that they can roll around. So this guy can
do a lot more even, And I just have to
say that, like, yeah, I feel like, this power is
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unbeatable at this point. If you have that combination of
abilities where it's not just that you transform your body
to be something, but you can transform your body to
do things that are like mechanical, that's a big deal,
you know, something with moving parts. Even the Team one
thousand couldn't do that. He could do stabbing weapons, blades,
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you know, spears, things like that, but couldn't do anything
that was like complex or had chemical agents or moving
parts to it. So this is, uh, the original power,
as I understood it was already pretty bonkers, but this
is even more so. I feel like that's all that's
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almost too much. I don't know. It was adding to
the fact that he can transform stuff inside, like being
able to transform his outside. I feel like there should
be a barrier on that, you know, that should be
the line we don't cross. I don't know. But anyway,
So Wanda chases after Capone as he rolls away, and
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Brooke has to stop her and is like, he made
his choice, he knew what he was doing, and we've
just kind of got to let him go. And then
we have the note to all my buds. I've got
to go seeing a woman I'll be back and literally
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says I'll be back, and they still are worried that
maybe he's not going to come back. But yeah, so
all right, let's let's jump to the part where we
talked to cat Viper, because my friends, Cat Viper is Garfield.
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He's eating lasagna. Later. I made a joke about how
he looks like Garfield in his design, and I never
dreamed that we were actually going to get him eating lasagna.
And that is all one hundred percent reference and I
will hear no objections. But yeah, he's like unwilling to
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what's the word. He's unwilling to convalesce. You know, he's
had these terrible injuries and he needs to calm his
ass because he won't get better if he keeps moving
around and doing shit. And yet he cannot help himself.
So we've got Chopper constantly telling him, you need to
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slow down, you can't be doing all this, and him
just being like what as he leaps off of his
bed to get a ball or to And when I
tell y'all, this was hitting hard for me because I
have got a dog these days, like Pippin is active,
but he isn't the kind of hyper anymore that puppies are.
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And Arwin is about a year now and she's slowing down,
but she still has got that intensity, and I think
personality wise, just has more intensity in general anyway. But
she got Spade a couple months ago, and I tell
you it did nothing to slow her down. I had
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to call the vet and be like, she's trying to
wrestle with Pippin. It was literally the next day and
my vet started laughing and was like, God, she is
so hardcore fucking piples. Okay, I'm gonna fill a prescription
for something that will help sedate her, because, like all,
I was trying to keep her from moving around too
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much for her recovery, and she was trying to climb
over the gate. She was picking stuff up and shaking it.
She was like just doing barrel rolls on the floor,
you know, which, like that pressure can do enough to
do some damage. I can't. The only other option was
to put her inside a crate, and we don't have
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a crate, and a big enough one is expensive and
takes up basically, it would take up our entire kitchen.
We wouldn't even be able to walk in and out
of the room. So it wasn't an option, and this
just reminded me a lot of that, because Cat Viper
is just like pawing at this ball, taking a bath
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and eating and singing. At one point, he asks Robin
to like hold something above him, like this little tuft
of fluff that he bats at, and I really really
enjoy the joke that he is this badass warrior but
also is a cat. I just think this is fun.
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It's the sort of thing that it's like. I would
say that a lot of people will call this a
kind of an easy joke, but it even so with
a character that is supposed to be so tough a
lot of times, you know, it's it can be. This
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show goes back and forth on like on where it
places its humor. So it's not like there's never humor
involved with characters that are also badasses. But it feels
like oftentimes we will pick a character that is the
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kind of joke one either they are funny or they
are always like making a fool of themselves in a
particular way. And usually the kind of person that's always
making a fool of themselves, that's the way that we
sort of meet them the first time is like their
introduction to us is them being a goober, and caf
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Viper is introduced as a badass first, and then we
are slowly allowed to see the way that he is
a goober. And because it's like unexpected and sneaks up
on us in that way, I just find it really fun,
you know, I just think that's very that's an enjoyable
way to do it. So anyway, yeah, that whole thing.
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I mean, I'm kind of jumping ahead here because there
is the journey on the back of these alligator thingies
that we have to talk about first, but I just
had to talk about him out of the gate because
he is very funny. I like the voice acting that
they've done with him, and just the jolly nature that
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he has. I was wondering because you know, like the
vibe of a cat often is shorthand for like they're
kind of an asshole. You know, there's somebody who does
their like, does like people, but doesn't want to let
on that they like people. They're very independent or aloof whatever,
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And so I kind of thought maybe we would do that,
and I'm glad that we're not, and that he is
a different kind of cat than what we normally see,
because a lot of times characters that are designed after
a cat, we give them those sort of specifically asshole qualities.
And I understand why, but I have met way more
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doofy goober fur balls than I have met aloof uptight cats.
The aloof thing is like the rep that they have,
and I don't really know if it's warranted, because it's
the minority in my opinion anyway, like one of I
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have like a combo. I have two cats and one
is almost perfectly spherical, with longer fur and no tail.
We don't know what happened to her tail. When we
found her. She had no tail. It's like a little
bob in like a like a bunny, and she is
the dopiest idiot you ever saw. You look in that
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cat's eyes and nothing is happening in there. It's like
you could literally hear birds twittering. It's nothing. And then
the other cat is longer and more slender and tabby,
and you look in her eyes and you see the
schematic for the murder plot that she's planning on a
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whiteboard with the little piece of red yarn. Because that
cat knows everything and is keeping track of it and
knows you and your schedule and your future plans and
hopes and dreams, and it's just she's biding her time.
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And they are complete opposite ends of the spectrum and
they hate each other. Sometimes cats that are opposites still
get along. Not mine. They are literally kept apart from
the dogs almost all the time now. And they met
in the hallway yesterday while the dogs were in the
house at the gate and they were like passing one
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another in the hallway with the dogs watching them, a
perfect target for both of them to be irritated with.
And what do they do. They look at each other
and hiss and swat at each other as they pass
in the hallway. There was like they were a foot
and a half away from one another and they couldn't
stand it. It was hilarious. Anyway. The thing that I
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wanted to mention before I wrap up is the attack
of these basically mosquitoes on crack at the in the
woods and these days it's so funny because earlier I
was recording an episode where there is an attack of
fire ants. They are literally on fire, so they're not
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fire ants like real ones. But I would argue I
prefer them to be on fire than what they are,
and then we have these mosquito things, which also living
in Texas, the mosquitoes here, I know there are places
that are worse. I've been to Florida. I haven't been
to Louisiana, but I've heard it's pretty bad, so I
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know it's not as bad as it could be. But
the mosquito situation here is pretty intense, and it was
really satisfying to see all of our friends use all
of their little tricks and abilities to take these guys down.
I will say though, that I found it funny how
incredibly effective Robin's ability was, because it did sort of
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feel like as long as Robin's here, nobody else really
had to do anything. She wraps their arms around them
and so their wings can't move and they just drop,
you know. And I understand that that doesn't kill them,
but it makes it so easy to kill them that
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I feel like it could just be like her and
any somebody else with any of the things that they
can do, and it would be a wrap. But it
was really satisfying to see all of these mosquitos taken
out at the same time. Mosquitos are one of those
things that, like I am certain if mosquitoes were deleted
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from the face of Earth, that it would cause the
collapse of our entire ecosystem probably, you know, I don't
know if they do any pollinating I don't think so,
but I know that they are like a major food
source for a lot of other animals, so it would
be a problem. But I can't help but think it
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might be worth it. I just hate them so much.
I hate them so much. Ugh, And the fact that
they can carry diseases that can paralyze you too. You know,
this is not it's a very low percentage chance that
will happen to you, but it's not zero. It's out there.
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It just you're already taking my blood and you could
potentially be infecting me with something like Really, It's just
I think that is extremely uncalled for. So yeah, I
don't know anyway. Oh, Serphrum's making some dungeon crawler, Carl
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jokes in the chat that's what I was covering before
with the fire ants guys, and Florian says more than moths.
It's different moths I hate in a way that is
like contemptuous, because moths are very stupid insects that are
actually harmless, but they bother me in a way that
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they don't intend that I find really upsetting because they
they follow the light, so they wind up in my
house and for some reason, they bounce against my lips
a lot. They're so erratic, and I have had more
than one moth almost in my mouth, like it happens
a lot more than it should. And also I have
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a paranoia of them getting caught in my hair because
I have very big hair. All of those things are
like just a side effect of them existing, and I
find it very annoying that they can't exist without doing
things that bother me. But mosquitoes, it's like spiteful, you know.
I have an issue with mosquitos that's way more personal
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because it's like you are targeting me and my friends.
Mos they're more of like a Rubus Hagrid type thing
where I know you mean well, but you're fucking everything
up for everybody around you because you are so thoughtless
and not in control of yourself. But a mosquito is
like a malfoy, where it is out there with malice
(01:02:57):
to ruin your day. So I hate mosquitos more than moths,
But hatred for mosquitoes feel so universal to the human
experience that it's not unique. So I tend to mention
moths specifically because they are something that a lot of
other people find surprising, so it's just more interesting, you know.
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But yeah, I just I've come around a little bit
on moths, guys, because some of them are super pretty.
I actually saw a Luna moth in person the other
day for the first time, and it was stunning. It
was like, so beauty. I took a photo and I
was like, no wonder, these moths are in so many
designs for things all over the place. Gorgeous. But I
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had a lot of internal conflict about liking how much
it looked. I really did, all right, So I have
to wrap things up. But thank you guys again so
much for listening for joining me. I hope y'all are
enjoying the coverage and I will be seeing you soon
with a new episode. Until then, to the lou motherfuckers.
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That was an Unspoiled Network podcast.
This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me,
covering one piece episodes seven sixty three through seven sixty five,
The Truth behind the Disappearance, Sanji gets a startling invitation
to My Buds, Sanji's farewell note, and Let's go and
(00:26):
meet Mastercat Viper. In these episodes, we find out that
Sony has some family history that he hasn't shared with
the crew. Despite saying I never meant to keep any secrets,
he definitely has kept a hell of a secret. Also,
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half of one of these episodes is literally Brooks singing
a song that has almost only one line to it.
This is filler that I can get behind. Welcome to
spoil Me, Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha.
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Thank you very much to Florian for commissioning this episode.
I really like I'm so back and forth on this arc, guys.
I don't know how I'm feeling about it, because it
just feels like things are a little bit all over
the place. You know, we had these weird people with
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sheep's head that swooped in, and then we have the
minks that are here and they got targeted for whatever reason.
For some reason, these people thought that they were harboring
a samurai, and now we've got Big Mom's pirates coming
into the mix and apparently having like an offer you
can't refuse. For Soanji and I, I've just not really
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gotten a good enough grip on everything to decide how
I feel about the arc. Yet overall, so I am
curious as things go forward, because it feels like, by
the end of this group of episodes, our friends are
going to go out and pursue Soanji and I had expected,
whatever the arc was, for us to remain here with
the Minx for a while, and it looks like maybe
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that's not what we're gonna do. So that's surprising, Seraphim says,
But it's such a great song and it's not filler.
It's something Brooks, Japanese Va and his wife wrote about
their in real life cat named Neiko Mamushi Cat Viper,
and when Oda heard it, he loved it so much
he asked Provision to put Neko Mamushi in the story
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and have Brooks sing the song about him. I adore
the fact that a pet song made its way into
the show. I was about to say, we all do this,
and I know that's actually not true. Many people do this,
but not everybody, because I don't think I have ever
heard Marshall sing to the animals. He talks to them
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and he has ongoing little bits with them. But I'm
the one that makes up songs. Usually I will sing
pet related lyrics along with a familiar tune, for example,
to the tune of Spider Man. I will sing Pip
and Dog, Pip and Dog does whatever Pip and Dog does.
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Does he fly? No, he can't, but he'll run around
and chase ants, look out, you know, like that kind
of thing. And my mom used to actually come up
with original melodies, which I think is like a step beyond,
so that being put into this is delightful. And listen,
I would like to say, Sarah, m it is filler. Absolutely,
(04:05):
it's filler. It's fine though, because I prefer this to
the slow pan from face to face with everybody just
making a weird back of their throat sound, so you know,
like it's I have no problem with it. So okay.
The first of these three episodes were picking up right
where we had left off after uh Peckham getting shot,
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and Peckham is not dead, as we find out later.
Somebody like comes to collect him and help him out,
but at the moment he has just been like abandoned
where he lays, and uh, it turns out that Capone
wants to have a conversation with Sanji. It's also funny because,
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like I keep forgetting, I know that we have actually
seen Pone's ability once before. That was you know a
a I think back on the island with all the bubbles,
maybe was when we first saw the fact that he
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like is a building somehow that people can shrink down
and fit inside, and so he carries around his own
private army. But I definitely had forgotten. And even though
I saw that these dudes would step out from like
his gut, I think that I assumed that the way
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that the castle Castle Fruit worked was that he like
basically when he transformed into this castle, he also created
these henchmen. I didn't realize that people could go in
there and that he himself can be inside his own
(06:04):
castle body to meet with them as if they are
all in a regular building together. This ability is crazy.
This is I think at like top five weirdest powers
that we have seen on this show, and there are
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some weird fucking powers on this show. So I think
that's really saying something. And a part of me is
like very into this because it makes me feel like
traveling would be so easy. You could just make this
place have everything you need, and then you would never
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have to pack and you would always have your own
very comfortable space with you at any time, and thus
you could stay in a lovely hotel if you wanted.
But if there's a place where you wind up and
there's nowhere to go, you can just open your gut
up and go sleep in your own bed. Or you
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could stay in the lovely hotel, but oh no, you
forgot your flip flops and then you just reach in
there and grab them. Like how much fits in here?
How much stuff? How many people? What are the restrictions?
I this is really speaking to the practical side of
me in a way that the powers usually don't, because
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a lot of them have like, you know, weird sort
of side effects that are very good for battle. They're
good for combat, but they're not something that I would
want to deal with, you know. But this is the
first power that I'm genuinely like, Ooh, I might pick
this one if I had a list of them, you know,
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I just might Seraphim says, you would also be the
ultimate travel agent, get a massive group together and only
have to pay from one plane ticket. Oh my god,
that's such a good idea, Sara fem I didn't even
think of that, because yeah, you can just like bring
people with you, and oh yeah, I would be I
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would be like hiring myself out for people's destination weddings.
So like pay for my plane ticket and you know,
my food and whatever, and I'll bring your whole family
and all I require is a tiny compensation of like
five grand, and I'll do it. I'll bring everybody and
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you don't even have to worry about it. I wonder how,
like how much can I divide down the room inside,
because if I could potentially provide them housing as well,
you know, if I could be the hotel so they
don't have to pay for the rooms where they're staying.
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It all depends how this power works and whether or
not it matters if you fall asleep, because you know,
I don't know how that works. But yeah, there's a lot,
a lot of possibility with this that I think is
really interesting. So yeah, Capone says to Sanji, I need
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you to come inside with me. And talk because this
dude he's gone soft, he's got feelings and he's got
a rap she he's no good to me. Now, I'll
finish the job. And he gets this like expression when
he says I'll finish the job where it clearly is
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meant to be that he's threatening Soanjy. But when we
actually hear what he is intending to do, and Sonji
points out later, I am not meant to be killed,
like you are supposed to treat me with respect and
keep me alive and you can't even cuff me. This
is definitely like for show, you know what I'm saying.
(10:04):
But yeah, we get the first bit with all these
guys like shooting out of his abdomen and the weird
force field that makes them like turn to their regular
size once they cross it, and the way that these
dudes all come shooting out like birds like headfirst out
of his stomach and gather around them. It really is
(10:28):
quite an impressive skill. There are there are just so
many applications for this, you know. So let's see, I'm
trying to jump ahead here, and I'm trying to simultaneou
simultaneously jump ahead but not fuck up crunchy roll so
that it does the thing that it did last time,
(10:50):
which is uh cause all of the the animation to
be invisible. So at this point, you know, Brooke and
Sanji are ready to fight, but Vito, who is off
to the side and looks and sounds like a combination
(11:15):
of wet hair caribou and Caesar clown Veto, comes out
and he has a hold of both Chopper and Nami,
who pursued Soanji and Brooke because they were really curious
about what was going on. You know, there had been
a good amount of time that passed. Meanwhile, Caesar is
(11:36):
hiding up in the trees, but Capone knows very well
that he is up there, and he directs his guys
to like point their guns upward. But Caesar is like
trying to stay up there, and even though they know
he's there, I think he is hoping they're just bluffing.
And then Capone threatens to use there see prism stone
(12:02):
ammo on him, which finally gets him out of the
tree until he is informed, oh, we don't actually have
any of that, but we do have a spear that
that works exactly the same way. And as Caesar is
poked with this spear, He says, I can feel my
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body weakening by the second. I am going to place
a bet that Caesar Clown is reacting to a placebo
and that there is no sea prism stone function on
the spear that he is being poked with. I would
(12:50):
be willing to bet many things that this isn't at
all a thing, and that he is just so suggestible
and easy to intimidate that it's all you have to
do is say a thing does something, and he doesn't
even like check. So I just want to go on
the record as saying that Caesar Clown is a chump
(13:14):
and a sucker. So finally Capone is like, all right, well,
you guys are gonna have to join me because you
are completely surrounded. There is no way of fighting out
of this one, and I, you know, we have to
have this conversation. So the way that this is filmed,
(13:40):
you know he's just said this, and then we jump
back over to Lufy and company, everybody who is with
him other than Sangy obviously, and I had a moment
of being so confused because again, this is n me
explaining to Lufy the story of what happened to Sonjy,
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but I keep forgetting that's what's going on. So when
we jump back to Nami and she's like in the
exact same outfit and everything, and it just kind of
feels like, all of a sudden, the same Nami is
in a different place. This is more than once. Now,
you guys. I don't know whether it would be helpful
if there was like a voiceover or if I'm just
(14:24):
a real Dodo bird or what, but there is. This
is the first time I've had a moment of like, wait,
what's going on? So, oh my god. I love it
when they're talking about how do we get into this
guy's castle if he doesn't want us in there? And
(14:44):
we have Robin, who is like lit in such a
way that it's as if there's a flashlight under her face,
the way that you do when you're like camping and
telling a scary story. And she says, I imagine you
would have to slice through his abdomen. And these moments
(15:04):
are when I get what's supposed to be happening with Robin.
Every now and then with the translation, it really works
and with a delivery of the voice actress, and I
always appreciate it when it does sort of work, but yeah,
both Oosap and Frankie are like, hey, enough of the
body horror, buddy, let's not do that. So Capone has
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all of them shackled up, and when they go inside,
it's this weird sort of haul that has this long
table and all of this like decor on the wall.
He's got like shields and paintings and swords hanging and
YadA YadA. And again I'm just really curious, like, does
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the fruit just make the place look the way it
looks according to sort of your personality or is it
that he gets to like morph himself and it looks
different every time he opens up for anybody. Because the
way that it's set up right now is particularly good
(16:10):
for having a guest. You've got this long table, like
a chandelier overhead, glasses of wine and a candelabra on
the table, but it doesn't feel like this would be
super practical for holding all of your guys in. So
maybe he can change what the inside of himself looks like.
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I guess we'll see. So he delivers an invitation. Your
presence is requested at Mama's tea party, and I have
to admit, guys that she wants to throw a tea party,
has me once again kind of on the fence regarding
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whose ship I would want to pick, because I don't
know how many people listening are aware of this, but
your girl is a complete and total sucker for tea parties,
and I am hoping that there's like some real animation
of a serious tea party later on. We have seen
(17:15):
a little preview of what that could look like on
the interstitials of Brooks, because it's like a table with
like a teapot and a pastry and his violin I
think are all on there. So I've mentioned before how
much I enjoy that this being part of the thing.
Like Alvida's ship has a much sleeker design and it's
(17:40):
just a bit more. It speaks to me in terms
of its sophistication. But Big Mom is sort of doing everything,
and there's a part of me that respects that. Even
though I know it's kind of too much, I still
(18:02):
I want, almost always more than I can really have
of anything at any time you name it, and I
probably want more than I'm going to be able to
make happen. Yeah, it's just speaking to me, so anyway,
he gives Sonji this invite, and Sonji is like, why
(18:24):
the fuck would I want to go there? Why would
I want to sip tea with her? And he's like, oh,
it's not just a tea party, it's also a wedding.
The groom to be is the third son of the
vin smokes and he holds it up and we get
(18:46):
in the subtitles because I'm doing the dub that it
says Sonjy. Then the Lucky Dame is the thirty fifth
daughter of the Charlotte family. Pudding. Have we met or
seen Pudding? I don't like. This name is ringing a bell,
(19:09):
and I can't remember if it's actually like a legit
bell because of this show, or if it's making me
think of something else. But of course, in the background
we have Brooke and Nami and Chopp are all freaking
out because this like they didn't know Sanji's family name,
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and they of course are hearing that he is supposed
to be getting married now and they don't know how
he is going to react. I'm going to go ahead
and guess that everybody related to Big Mom's names are
some sort of like dessert name. I can't tell you
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enough how much I love that naming convention. I love
it so much, like you could go in a lot
of directions with it, you know, have different whole types
of dessert. Pudding is a really interesting choice. Most people
aren't going to think of putting as like an option,
even because it's not a super popular dessert, but it
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is like a pet name. Hey, puddin, you know, like
that's the thing that people have said, so it we're
somewhat well on that level. My concern is that what
we're doing is actually a fat joke, So we're gonna
have to see. But you know, big Mom is quite
(20:33):
literally very big in every sense. It's not just that
she's fat, She's also just like a large giant. And
I'm wondering, is it gonna be that like she's named
puddin because she's fat, Because that's certainly that's not out
of the realm of possibility for the show's track record.
(20:55):
So yeah, we'll have to see. Oh my god, Florian says,
if there is a teapar later on, do we need
to give you just one episode for that podcast to
talk about it? You don't have to go that far,
but I do reserve the right to talk about it
more than anybody really wants to hear. Just sorry, but
it's just a thing, you guys. I don't know what
it is. I've loved tea parties ever since I was
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very little. There's a picture of me and I'm like
maybe six, and it's in my backyard and I'm gathered
around this big table made out of a tree stump
in my grandmother's yard, and I'm in this little flowered
bathing suit with my raggedy and dol and a teddy
bear and a white and blue like willow ware tea set.
(21:41):
It's the most on point like tea kid's kid with
her toy's tea party photo you can possibly imagine. And
every time I see that photo, I am just like
I was who I am from the beginning. Like sometimes
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you see things about yourself and you're like, ah, who
would have thought I'd wind up here? And then there
are things that you see and you're just like, Wow,
nothing about me has changed. I am the most predictable
person alive, and uh, honestly, I'm not even mean. I'm
not even mad about it. Like I I there are
(22:24):
some parts of myself that I take comfort in. So
that's all I'll say about that. So all right, this
uh invite obviously has really thrown Sanjy for a loop.
He looks completely shocked. It's a combo of like him
(22:46):
being basically married off without his consent, but also that
who he is has just been outed to his friends
like this, you know, which, Uh, the the fact that
it took this long to catch up with him is
really the only surprise that he was able to get
(23:07):
away with nobody knowing who he was for this long.
I mean it makes sense in a way because we
saw how young he was when he was on the ship,
and I was wondering even then, like who the hell
are this kid's parents? And now maybe it makes sense
(23:27):
that nobody knows who he is because or that people
haven't been able to put together who he is because
he has been like under the radar enough and maybe
isn't familiar looking anymore. You know, when somebody disappeared as
a kid, you have to like kind of there's you know, today,
(23:51):
for example, a lot of modern technology that gets used
in aging up the photos of people who went missing
when they were kids to say what they would look
like now, et cetera, et cetera, And sometimes people just
do not look the way that you would have expected
from when they were kids. You know, it doesn't always
(24:11):
work out how you would expect, so anyway, I there
was a part of me that was very like, how
is this possible? But then the more I thought about it,
I was like, I guess I can sort of see
this actually, And as we find out later, this is
(24:32):
why it said specifically on his bounty that he had
to be brought in alive. Only everybody else was dead
or alive except for him, And I like think that
this is delightful, both because we're getting a more history
(24:55):
of him, which you guys know I want. We are
also the thing with it being a wedding. Now, this
is my concern you guys about it being a fat joke,
because it would if she were at all attractive, there
would be no fight, right, Sanji is a little bitch,
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and if there is a woman involved who is attractive
in any way, I think he will roll over and
marry her, no questions asked, no problem, no matter what
the deal is. Really, maybe I'm wrong, Like I don't
know how much he is one of those like I
(25:41):
love women, but I have to be a bachelor. I
can't be tied down. You know, we've never really seen
that from him. He really does appear to be like
a hopeless romantic in a way, even though he's a
massive horn dog. So I am willing to say I
think he would be fine with getting married. But if
we need this to be a I if we need
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this to be a fight where he is determined not
to marry, I think it has to be that the
woman is objectionable in some way. And one of our
favorite go to means of making a woman out of
the question is to make her fat. So just sharing
(26:27):
my concerns on that, Oh, Saraphim says, So keep in
mind this is also happening right after they finally got
an actual picture of him for his wanted poster. I
didn't even think of that, but you're right, sarahm was
like it was being circulated, this weird drawing of him.
So even if they were, like, even if they knew
(26:51):
what he looked like, it wouldn't have mattered then because
it was an inaccurate image. But now they're finally working
with something is correct, So it's gonna be like the
first time that they'd have an opportunity to track him down. Interesting. Okay, Well,
(27:12):
I'm curious to see what this where this goes. But yeah,
so it takes a while for everybody to calm down
from getting this information dropped. And I already mentioned Sanji
just being shocked, and we actually have the cigarette dropping
out of his mouth. I don't know if we've ever
(27:35):
seen that before. I may be wrong, but the cigarette
dropping out of his mouth is a pretty big deal
in my opinion. I would love to see the complete
translation of that invitation, because we get to see the
whole thing, but it's all in characters that I don't know,
so we only get whatever the subtitles from the episode
(28:00):
feel like showing me, Oh my god. So yeah, his
cigarette that he drops lights a small fire that has
to get put out, And meanwhile everybody is like, are
you really getting married? Sonji? Like what are you even
gonna do? And Sanji is like, I don't get is
this a joke? What's happening? And Capone says, you're the
(28:25):
Vince Smoke? Why should I fucking know? And Brooke knows
the name. He says something about being a Vince Smoke
being like bone chilling, and Nammy thinks to herself back
at mont blancs we found that picture book called Nolan
the Liar, and we flashed back to her opening it
(28:49):
and uh, I'm trying to find Oh my god, I
forgot that. Uh who's up? Says I share like the
title because he's a liar, but yeah, she says it
says here the book was originally published in the North
Blue Have you heard of it? And he says, yeah,
I was born in the North Blue territory. I'm certain
I must have told you guys that, which both of
(29:09):
them seemed to be like, I don't remember you saying that,
and he says, yeah, well I grew up in the
East Blue, But what's the difference? And Nami says, I
remember feeling strange when he told us that, and is
just realizing, like, basically, I never asked that many questions,
(29:33):
and Brooke is like, are you certain that's correct, because
if so, that's a really big deal. And then we
get the reminder of exactly how this world is set up.
The Grand Line, the sea route that stretches around the world,
runs perpendicular to the Red Line, delineating it into four quadrants.
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The four seas are the East Blue, the West Blue,
and the South Blue. And uh oh and the North Blue. Duh,
if you want to travel from the North Blue to
the East Blue, you'd have to cross the red line.
And Chopper is like, wait, is that hard? And Brooke
(30:17):
is like, yeah, it is a big feat actually, and
he was just a kid, so how did that even happen?
So yeah, you know, I had asked at the time,
where the hell did this little kid come from? Because
I thought we were going to find out, Like I
(30:40):
can't remember if his parents were on board the first
ship and you know, they wound up getting boarded and
he gets adopted by the the pirate that takes him,
or if he was alone on that ship working in
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the kitchen and his parents weren't there. I honestly don't
recall because I feel like his parents weren't there, and
that was part of what my hang up was, was
just where is he from? Because he doesn't seem to
belong to anybody, so maybe he just fucking decided to
(31:22):
run away on the high seas on his own from
a kid and just never Like usually, this sort of
story is quickly followed up by and the child realized
that it's very hard that you will miss your parents
and that you don't have any money, and he turned
(31:44):
around and he went home. But that Sonji never did
that part, which would be something Seraphim says, I will say,
we never saw or heard of any parents on the ship. Okay,
that's what I thought. And zeph was one who took him.
Thank you, flor and yes, yes, yes, So anyway, this
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is when Caesar mentions that Charlotte is the surname of
Big Mom, which means that if he marries into her family,
basically all of them, like the straw Hats, will become
her underlings. And Sanji says, don't jump to conclusions, and
(32:28):
then to Capone, you can't make me do it. This
is insane. And you know the fact that they set
this up and didn't even tell me about it and
I had to get an invitation. There's absolutely no way,
and I'm certainly not going to let her incorporate these
(32:49):
straw Hats into her crew this way, like the straw
Hats are way too special. He's going to be King
of the Pirates. There's like the whole attempt here is misguided,
to say it kindly. And then my favorite ongoing joke
(33:14):
is him saying, if you want Caesar, you can have
him but the rest of us have to go free.
I later on, he like throws all of his friends
out of Capone's stomach except for Caesar, and I keep
(33:35):
honestly kind of low key forgetting Caesar's even there. So
when I get the reminder by him just being like,
what the fuck, dude, it's really been funny every time
because I straight up block him out of my mind.
And it's not like I hate Caesar as a character.
I actually think he's quite funny, but he just feels
(33:59):
so like extra ranious right now, you know, his function
in the plot doesn't really feel pressing, so I just
don't factor him in mentally, and I have to be
reminded he's there all the time. So anyway, this is
when Capone is like, I think you're misunderstanding me, as like, hey,
(34:22):
I have this invitation, will you accept? You need to
look around yourself and realized realize that you are inside
of my body, are utterly outnumbered, and I am taking
you to her, whether you like it or not. And
(34:45):
I'm already on my way. And they say it inside
that they can't feel that Copone is moving, which that
is particularly interesting to me that not only can he
be inside his own body, but he can also still
function when he's on the outside, at least in a
(35:07):
basic way, you know, like walking somewhere. It may not
seem like that big a deal, but this means that
you've got to keep your balance, you've got to be
able to see. And the fact that he can do
that at the same time, that's a humongous advantage. It
would it's almost too much of an advantage. Oh, I
(35:31):
forgot about the fact that he like makes part of
the table that they're sitting at bind Sanjy down to
his chair, and like there's other stuff that moves around.
So yeah, he can probably make the interior of this
place look like exactly what he wants it to at
any given point. I've forgotten that we get to see
all of this, And he says, I control everything here,
(35:55):
so you know, he is about to come at Soanjy
with all all of this stuff to threaten him and says,
I could clabbor you with anything in this room, And
there's like an axe and a mace and a flame thrower,
and then we see Nami beginning to sink into the
floor and it's all just a demonstration of Capone's strength
(36:17):
and his the advantage that he has over all of them.
Sanji keeps telling him to stop with Nami, but he
keeps going until Nami's almost completely submerged in the floor
and like unable to Breathe just to make the point that, like,
if I stop, it's because I feel like it and
not because you said which is you know? I suppose,
(36:40):
So after he releases Nami, he says, even if I
didn't smack your pals around, you couldn't excuse yourself from
Mama's tea party anyhow. And this is when we get
the entrance of what is his name again, Vinnie Vito Vito.
(37:01):
He comes in and he basically says, nobody ever turns
down an invitation from Big Mom. If you do, it's ugly,
and you just wish that you hadn't. Even the devil
himself wouldn't turn down an invitation from her. He has
(37:24):
these tattoos on his forehead and the backs of his
hands that I don't know if this has ever been mentioned.
It's a sort of te shape, but the tea has
these horns coming up off it. And when he says,
like the devil himself wouldn't like decline an invitation with her,
(37:44):
I was sort of like, is this supposed to be, like,
is there a link? Because there's the horns coming off
of the tea, and there's also sort of a pointed
bottom to the tea, and then across it is an arrow.
And there is something about like the imagery here that
I'm like, this could be sort of meant to have
like a devilish sort of design to it, but I
(38:06):
can't tell. And he also, when I said that, he
has like a look that's sort of like we had caribou.
It's mostly his tongue which sticks all the way out
of his mouth and drapes down his front to his
collarbone in this weird curl like a chameleon almost, And
(38:27):
he has gigantic hands and a gigantic gun to go
with those gigantic hands. I had thought initially that his
hands only looked big because of the perspective, but then
later on you see his hands from another person and
they're still very, very big. So that's just something that's
(38:48):
going on with him, I guess. And he has like
one of those those little speech patterns where he says
lay low after a lot of I think it's maybe
words that end in an o sound is when he
does it like no lay Low or you know, watch
(39:12):
the show Leyl. I don't know though, it's just a
sort of sort of a weird you know. He This
happens sometimes with characters in this show where they have
this speech pattern, and I always find it like a
real hit or miss. Sometimes it works quite well, and
I'm like, this is sort of a weird tick that
(39:34):
adds some funny moments. And then there are times like
with the Minx where the way that they say like
uta or uto or whatever after I don't care for
it and I find it makes things more confusing. So
he comes in and he leans in on Sanjy and
(39:54):
he whispers something into Sonjy's ear, and it like basically
seems to make all of the fight go out of him.
It's weird. He just like kind of seems to hunch
forward in a defeated posture. He does light a new cigarette,
(40:16):
so not that defeated, I suppose. But then Sanji says
to Capone, where the hell did you get that info?
And Capone says, where do you think? And I'm sort
of wondering, like is he being blackmailed into this? And
(40:38):
what would be used as blackmail. All I can think
is like, you know, him dressing like a woman on
that island, which isn't like I just really kind of
want to forget that whole thing ever even happened to
be real? But whatever, So long story short, Sanji decides
(41:05):
by the next episode that he is going to He
is going to willingly go and try to keep his
friends out of it, and so he asks for a
pen and paper and writes a note to his friends that,
(41:26):
as we see later, says something like, you know, let's
see what is it. He comes over, he hands the
note to Nami and let's see. I'm trying to get
to the part he says, take this, it's for the crew,
and she says, Sanji, wait, you can't, and he says,
(41:46):
nammy chopper Brooke, I want you all to know this.
I never meant to hide anything from my friends, okay,
And the name Vin Smoke, that's a part of my
past I didn't think i'd ever have to deal with again,
(42:10):
but it caught up to me and I have to
settle this once and for all. And they recognize this
to be like, oh, he's going off on his own,
and he gives them all a hug, and he says,
I feel a powerful presence outside, probably someone from the
mink tribe. Are you ready? Good luck you three? And
(42:34):
he picks them up and he chucks them out, and
Capone is really really mad because they were, you know,
his hostages for this whole thing, and also probably could
have collected some bounties on them. This is when Caesar
yells for him to throw him too, which is again
(42:54):
it was a very funny moment because I utterly forgot
about bro and he screams for him to throw him too.
He's got like teary eyes and SnO coming out of
his nose and everything. So then we have all of
the henchmen beginning to attack Sanji and he does his
(43:14):
like you know, wild breakdancer stuff and manages to take
a bunch of them out, and he comes at Caesar
full speed, and Caesar is screaming. We get the signification
of just how fast this is all happening because there
is a gun that's like mid air the whole time
(43:36):
that he eventually snatches the gun out of the air
and he has it on Caesar and he says, all right, everybody,
listen up, I know this guy's important to you. He
calls him a scumbag, don't make me blow his brains out,
And then I don't think that they all are allowed
(44:00):
to kill me either. I think you were told to
treat me with respect. Actually, and is willing to keep
himself in this situation and deal with whatever it is.
We have the moment where cat Viper is outside of
(44:22):
outside of Capone's body, standing behind him with his like
weird glowing red eye thing that gets done to the Minx.
Occasionally it seems to really be done when the Minks
see something that they want to attack. But he is
looking at Capone and is saying, I found Peckham's in
a pool of his own blood. Care to explain yourself?
(44:45):
So I'm assuming that this is like aggression, specifically pointing
at Capone because he can tell this dude is the
one who did it. And Capone tries to be like, no,
of course I would, and we're on the same side,
and Nami off to the side. It has to be like,
don't listen to this fucking guy. He absolutely did it.
(45:07):
So there's one moment where we get to see Sanji
still inside or no, yeah, we have the note sorry
I'm trying to get to the spot here. I don't
know why we can't join you. Let's just wait for
(45:27):
everyone else. This is a brooke yelling into the tiny
hole that remains, and he's saying to Sanji, we're stronger together,
aren't we. And Sanji turns and looks at him, and
it's such a weird you know, because he's very small
in there. It's my problem to solve. I'll be back soon.
(45:50):
He's giving them a big smile, so give everybody my best, okay,
and then the opening closes up up Now, later on,
they're sort of wondering is he just planning to leave
the straw Hats? And eventually I think it's Frankie that
(46:12):
says specifically, I don't think that he would have worded
it the way that he did if he was intending
to leave. No, it's Zoro, because Or is the only
one who really does not give two shits that Saji
is gone. And he justifies it by being like, you
guys are also worried you'll never see him again. But
(46:32):
there is a way that you say goodbye to your
friends if you are thinking you won't meet again. And
that's not the way that he said anything, So I
think he just wanted to keep you safe and was
trying to keep you from getting involved in this thing.
But he's not leaving the crew. That's not it at all.
(46:56):
And then, oh my god, I forgot about this too,
and that is way more Opie even than I thought
to begin with. But capone, he turns himself into like
a tank on his bottom half, and I had forgotten
(47:19):
he like, so his ability it's almost as Ops Sugar's ability,
because it's not just that he can turn himself into
like a castle where you get morphed to be small
enough to fit inside, but he can actually morph his outside.
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Like I know, we had seen him shoot from the
palm of his hands, but I just sort of thought
that that was like a separate ability. What I mean
is like it's the castle, castle fruit, and you know
castles can have like archer slits or gun turrets or whatever.
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So I was willing to put down that he can
shoot out of his hands as part of like the
castle defenses. But castles don't just turn into a tank
so that they can roll around. So this guy can
do a lot more even, And I just have to
say that, like, yeah, I feel like, this power is
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unbeatable at this point. If you have that combination of
abilities where it's not just that you transform your body
to be something, but you can transform your body to
do things that are like mechanical, that's a big deal,
you know, something with moving parts. Even the Team one
thousand couldn't do that. He could do stabbing weapons, blades,
(48:57):
you know, spears, things like that, but couldn't do anything
that was like complex or had chemical agents or moving
parts to it. So this is, uh, the original power,
as I understood it was already pretty bonkers, but this
is even more so. I feel like that's all that's
(49:19):
almost too much. I don't know. It was adding to
the fact that he can transform stuff inside, like being
able to transform his outside. I feel like there should
be a barrier on that, you know, that should be
the line we don't cross. I don't know. But anyway,
So Wanda chases after Capone as he rolls away, and
(49:45):
Brooke has to stop her and is like, he made
his choice, he knew what he was doing, and we've
just kind of got to let him go. And then
we have the note to all my buds. I've got
to go seeing a woman I'll be back and literally
(50:06):
says I'll be back, and they still are worried that
maybe he's not going to come back. But yeah, so
all right, let's let's jump to the part where we
talked to cat Viper, because my friends, Cat Viper is Garfield.
(50:30):
He's eating lasagna. Later. I made a joke about how
he looks like Garfield in his design, and I never
dreamed that we were actually going to get him eating lasagna.
And that is all one hundred percent reference and I
will hear no objections. But yeah, he's like unwilling to
(50:54):
what's the word. He's unwilling to convalesce. You know, he's
had these terrible injuries and he needs to calm his
ass because he won't get better if he keeps moving
around and doing shit. And yet he cannot help himself.
So we've got Chopper constantly telling him, you need to
(51:16):
slow down, you can't be doing all this, and him
just being like what as he leaps off of his
bed to get a ball or to And when I
tell y'all, this was hitting hard for me because I
have got a dog these days, like Pippin is active,
but he isn't the kind of hyper anymore that puppies are.
(51:41):
And Arwin is about a year now and she's slowing down,
but she still has got that intensity, and I think
personality wise, just has more intensity in general anyway. But
she got Spade a couple months ago, and I tell
you it did nothing to slow her down. I had
(52:04):
to call the vet and be like, she's trying to
wrestle with Pippin. It was literally the next day and
my vet started laughing and was like, God, she is
so hardcore fucking piples. Okay, I'm gonna fill a prescription
for something that will help sedate her, because, like all,
I was trying to keep her from moving around too
(52:26):
much for her recovery, and she was trying to climb
over the gate. She was picking stuff up and shaking it.
She was like just doing barrel rolls on the floor,
you know, which, like that pressure can do enough to
do some damage. I can't. The only other option was
to put her inside a crate, and we don't have
(52:47):
a crate, and a big enough one is expensive and
takes up basically, it would take up our entire kitchen.
We wouldn't even be able to walk in and out
of the room. So it wasn't an option, and this
just reminded me a lot of that, because Cat Viper
is just like pawing at this ball, taking a bath
(53:09):
and eating and singing. At one point, he asks Robin
to like hold something above him, like this little tuft
of fluff that he bats at, and I really really
enjoy the joke that he is this badass warrior but
also is a cat. I just think this is fun.
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It's the sort of thing that it's like. I would
say that a lot of people will call this a
kind of an easy joke, but it even so with
a character that is supposed to be so tough a
lot of times, you know, it's it can be. This
(53:51):
show goes back and forth on like on where it
places its humor. So it's not like there's never humor
involved with characters that are also badasses. But it feels
like oftentimes we will pick a character that is the
(54:12):
kind of joke one either they are funny or they
are always like making a fool of themselves in a
particular way. And usually the kind of person that's always
making a fool of themselves, that's the way that we
sort of meet them the first time is like their
introduction to us is them being a goober, and caf
(54:37):
Viper is introduced as a badass first, and then we
are slowly allowed to see the way that he is
a goober. And because it's like unexpected and sneaks up
on us in that way, I just find it really fun,
you know, I just think that's very that's an enjoyable
way to do it. So anyway, yeah, that whole thing.
(55:03):
I mean, I'm kind of jumping ahead here because there
is the journey on the back of these alligator thingies
that we have to talk about first, but I just
had to talk about him out of the gate because
he is very funny. I like the voice acting that
they've done with him, and just the jolly nature that
(55:24):
he has. I was wondering because you know, like the
vibe of a cat often is shorthand for like they're
kind of an asshole. You know, there's somebody who does
their like, does like people, but doesn't want to let
on that they like people. They're very independent or aloof whatever,
(55:50):
And so I kind of thought maybe we would do that,
and I'm glad that we're not, and that he is
a different kind of cat than what we normally see,
because a lot of times characters that are designed after
a cat, we give them those sort of specifically asshole qualities.
And I understand why, but I have met way more
(56:14):
doofy goober fur balls than I have met aloof uptight cats.
The aloof thing is like the rep that they have,
and I don't really know if it's warranted, because it's
the minority in my opinion anyway, like one of I
(56:34):
have like a combo. I have two cats and one
is almost perfectly spherical, with longer fur and no tail.
We don't know what happened to her tail. When we
found her. She had no tail. It's like a little
bob in like a like a bunny, and she is
the dopiest idiot you ever saw. You look in that
(56:57):
cat's eyes and nothing is happening in there. It's like
you could literally hear birds twittering. It's nothing. And then
the other cat is longer and more slender and tabby,
and you look in her eyes and you see the
schematic for the murder plot that she's planning on a
(57:22):
whiteboard with the little piece of red yarn. Because that
cat knows everything and is keeping track of it and
knows you and your schedule and your future plans and
hopes and dreams, and it's just she's biding her time.
(57:43):
And they are complete opposite ends of the spectrum and
they hate each other. Sometimes cats that are opposites still
get along. Not mine. They are literally kept apart from
the dogs almost all the time now. And they met
in the hallway yesterday while the dogs were in the
house at the gate and they were like passing one
(58:05):
another in the hallway with the dogs watching them, a
perfect target for both of them to be irritated with.
And what do they do. They look at each other
and hiss and swat at each other as they pass
in the hallway. There was like they were a foot
and a half away from one another and they couldn't
stand it. It was hilarious. Anyway. The thing that I
(58:29):
wanted to mention before I wrap up is the attack
of these basically mosquitoes on crack at the in the
woods and these days it's so funny because earlier I
was recording an episode where there is an attack of
fire ants. They are literally on fire, so they're not
(58:51):
fire ants like real ones. But I would argue I
prefer them to be on fire than what they are,
and then we have these mosquito things, which also living
in Texas, the mosquitoes here, I know there are places
that are worse. I've been to Florida. I haven't been
to Louisiana, but I've heard it's pretty bad, so I
(59:13):
know it's not as bad as it could be. But
the mosquito situation here is pretty intense, and it was
really satisfying to see all of our friends use all
of their little tricks and abilities to take these guys down.
I will say though, that I found it funny how
incredibly effective Robin's ability was, because it did sort of
(59:37):
feel like as long as Robin's here, nobody else really
had to do anything. She wraps their arms around them
and so their wings can't move and they just drop,
you know. And I understand that that doesn't kill them,
but it makes it so easy to kill them that
(59:57):
I feel like it could just be like her and
any somebody else with any of the things that they
can do, and it would be a wrap. But it
was really satisfying to see all of these mosquitos taken
out at the same time. Mosquitos are one of those
things that, like I am certain if mosquitoes were deleted
(01:00:18):
from the face of Earth, that it would cause the
collapse of our entire ecosystem probably, you know, I don't
know if they do any pollinating I don't think so,
but I know that they are like a major food
source for a lot of other animals, so it would
be a problem. But I can't help but think it
(01:00:38):
might be worth it. I just hate them so much.
I hate them so much. Ugh, And the fact that
they can carry diseases that can paralyze you too. You know,
this is not it's a very low percentage chance that
will happen to you, but it's not zero. It's out there.
(01:01:02):
It just you're already taking my blood and you could
potentially be infecting me with something like Really, It's just
I think that is extremely uncalled for. So yeah, I
don't know anyway. Oh, Serphrum's making some dungeon crawler, Carl
(01:01:24):
jokes in the chat that's what I was covering before
with the fire ants guys, and Florian says more than moths.
It's different moths I hate in a way that is
like contemptuous, because moths are very stupid insects that are
actually harmless, but they bother me in a way that
(01:01:49):
they don't intend that I find really upsetting because they
they follow the light, so they wind up in my
house and for some reason, they bounce against my lips
a lot. They're so erratic, and I have had more
than one moth almost in my mouth, like it happens
a lot more than it should. And also I have
(01:02:10):
a paranoia of them getting caught in my hair because
I have very big hair. All of those things are
like just a side effect of them existing, and I
find it very annoying that they can't exist without doing
things that bother me. But mosquitoes, it's like spiteful, you know.
I have an issue with mosquitos that's way more personal
(01:02:33):
because it's like you are targeting me and my friends.
Mos they're more of like a Rubus Hagrid type thing
where I know you mean well, but you're fucking everything
up for everybody around you because you are so thoughtless
and not in control of yourself. But a mosquito is
like a malfoy, where it is out there with malice
(01:02:57):
to ruin your day. So I hate mosquitos more than moths,
But hatred for mosquitoes feel so universal to the human
experience that it's not unique. So I tend to mention
moths specifically because they are something that a lot of
other people find surprising, so it's just more interesting, you know.
(01:03:20):
But yeah, I just I've come around a little bit
on moths, guys, because some of them are super pretty.
I actually saw a Luna moth in person the other
day for the first time, and it was stunning. It
was like, so beauty. I took a photo and I
was like, no wonder, these moths are in so many
designs for things all over the place. Gorgeous. But I
(01:03:44):
had a lot of internal conflict about liking how much
it looked. I really did, all right, So I have
to wrap things up. But thank you guys again so
much for listening for joining me. I hope y'all are
enjoying the coverage and I will be seeing you soon
with a new episode. Until then, to the lou motherfuckers.
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