September 18, 2025 • 65 mins
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In this section of our adventure, the Strawhats are once again left behind by their captain as he heads onto land for a tasty treat. Luffy and Chopper are almost arrested for eating a BUILDING, but it turns out that the cafe was owned by Sanji's fiance and she rescues them and agrees to help them rescue Sanji!
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Thank you to Florian for commissioning this episode!
In this section of our adventure, the Strawhats are once again left behind by their captain as he heads onto land for a tasty treat. Luffy and Chopper are almost arrested for eating a BUILDING, but it turns out that the cafe was owned by Sanji's fiance and she rescues them and agrees to help them rescue Sanji!
Thanks so much to you all 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 eighty six and seven through
seven eighty eight Total Land. Emperor Big Mom appears the
Emperor's daughter Sanjay Soanji's fiance Pudding. I'm misspeaking a lot already.
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This doesn't bode well. A massive attack Mom's hunger pangs
in these episodes Total Land is both wonderful and terrible.
I have such deeply mixed feelings about the developments of
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this plot. Guys, I don't know where I stand. 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. So,
y'all Big Mom. Now, I'm going to set aside all
my feelings about a fat character and hunger pangs and
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YadA YadA, you know the way that this is being portrayed,
and I am just going to mean into it and
accept Big Mom's whole deal. That said, I really wanted
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her to have a much more awesome costume. I am
so disappointed, y'all. The design of this island, the design
of her ship, all of this is really giving. And
then she's just in this like plain pink, almost nightgown
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looking dress. She's got really basic makeup and like a
pink wig that's just her hair isn't even that weird
for this show, And then like a tricorn pirate hat.
The only thing about her that's really particularly stands out
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in her like overall costume is the pinkness, which you
know that I can get on board with that, but
I just I expect a lot more from the design
of this character. I really thought there would be something
inherently dessert like about her costume, and instead it's just,
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you know, I'm sad because, like I still have it
in my head that I wouldn't mind cosplaying her, and
I do still feel that way, and I think that
I would be able to do this quite well. I
have hair of a great texture to try and get
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this shape going without even needing a wig all of this.
But guys, it's so bizarre to me, considering the effort
that Oda puts into character design some of the time
for people who don't even show up in the show
very much, and then there's this like big character and
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it's just it, it's like everything got assembled out of
stuff that was already in somebody's closet, you know. Saraphim says, yeah,
she's reached the point of being old enough. She just
gives no fucks and wants to be comfy. But being
comfy and being really distinctive are not mutually exclusive, you know.
I just I really thought that I was going to
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get something in particular here and I didn't. So I
just really want to register my disappointment there, because everything
surrounding Big Mom is super fun, and she herself is
just so basic that it's almost shocking. I would be
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more inclined at this point to coseplay as her ship
than to causeplay as her. That said, I still am
very into the plot that we are beginning to see developing.
So let's start with the beginning of seven eighty six,
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where it's Sanji, it's Loofy and Chopper standing there mouths agape,
looking at this whole candy street, and they are trying
to decide what to eat first. Now, Peckham's later actually
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explains that there are very specific rules about what you
are and are not allowed to eat. You are definitely
allowed to like indulge. I will say that the rules
are overall very broad. So there's plenty of room within
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those rules to really go to town. But even so
they don't even wind up getting in trouble because they
get rescued. So this whole sequence of the two of
them just being so overwhelmed by this place that they
can't even decide where to start. And there's like all
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these different things made of chocolate that I also really
wanted to explore, a chocolate bathhouse, which Chopper rightfully is like, wait,
can chocolate make you clean? And I'm like, yeah, I
don't feel like that's how that works. And then they
see chocolate clothes, and when Chopper says can you eat them,
we immediately cut to a guy who's eating his own
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sleeve and they just yell he did it, which I
think is fantastic. This look. I have already said what
I was hoping for with the Wonka movie versus what
I got when I was a little kid, And this
is very much leaning into exactly what I was looking for,
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which is that every single item should be made of
candy slash chocolate, and it wasn't. And now I'm getting
what I asked for. And the truth is it's because
it's a cartoon, so you can. But I didn't understand
that when I was a kid. You know, there's chocolate fireworks,
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which Chopper again, is chocolate explosive. And I just really
like that we have all of these things made of chocolate.
But it's not like they're taking it for granted that
that's doable. Chopper is questioning it every time. It's just like, wait,
does that make sense? So I just love it because
it's sort of acknowledging the inherent silliness of the concept
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without actually having to answer the question, which is fine
with me. So then Chopper's nose goes up and he's like,
oh my god, I'm smelling something that's even more yummy
than the other stuff, and Lufy just says, where let's go,
and they take off, and later on we find out
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that it is a specific blend of chocolate that Putting
made and you guys, I absolutely this is something that
I have wanted for a long time. But you know
how it is. There are certain things that when they
are very expensive, we can sort of like rationalize to
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ourselves why it's worth spending the money on something. Sometimes
that's like just really going to get a lot of use,
you know, that has to last a long time, so
you can be like, oh, I need to invest and
make sure that this lasts and we don't have to
replace it. But then there are things that are one
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hundred percent pure indulgence, the kind of thing that you
would never spend money on yourself. And the problem for
me has always been in theory, those things should be
a gift. You would never spend it for yourself, so
it's something perfect for another person to give to you
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as a gift, and it's literally you would never choose
to spend your own money on it. But when it
comes to this, it is so expensive that I don't
even want to put it out there for other people
to purchase as a gift. And that is really, really,
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really nice quality expensive chocolate. If you have not actually
looked at the pricing on real high end hand dipped chocolate,
especially the types that I'm talking about, which are poured
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into these molds and hand painted with like colored cocoa fat,
it's astronomical. A box of like a half pound of
chocolate will be about seventy five dollars, and I just
it's it's almost like it's so expensive in my mind
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that I don't even want a gift giver to pay
for it, because I'd rather they spend their seventy five
dollars on a gift that I would be able to reuse.
It's one thing to spend seventy five bucks on an object,
It's another thing to spend it on an item that
is consumed and then gone. And really that's part of
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what makes it lovely, right, Like it's an ephemeral thing
that you are indulging in when you get a really,
really nice box of beautiful chocolates. But it's just as
a person who has grown up and now also still
lives with not really enough money to cover everything, it
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just feels so irresponsible. So saying all this, what I'm
getting at is that some of these really expensive chocolate brands,
they have what are called flights. You may have seen
that word used with like beers and different types of
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sliders as well. A lot of restaurants will have flights
for different types of a thing that you can sample
all of the variety of flavors, and chocolate is no different.
There are different growing conditions around the world for cocoa beans,
just the same way there are for grapes when you're
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making wine. So the types of chocolate that you get
from Africa versus South America, versus India. It's all going
to be really different from each other. And I have
always wanted to try some of these flights that have
chocolate from around the world. There's a similar thing with
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different types of vanilla. Vanilla, like Madagascar Bourbon vanilla is
the most popular, famous type of gourmet vanilla, and it's
got a flavor profile that's very familiar and is what
most people want when they use vanilla. But there are
also different types of vanilla. You know. We have Tahitian,
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we have Mexican, we have Indonesian, and I have always
wanted to see, like what's the difference. I would love
to try them side by side and see what they're
like and if I can tell. And the other thing
that really, in a way, the show is dealing with
chocolate is an extremely fraud product because it is what
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The fact is that for the majority of big chocolate
companies that make mass produced chocolates like Snickers and you know,
anything that you can get at like a grocery store,
including Gia Delli's, you know things like that, all of
them rely on slave labor. Every single one of them
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that is simply a fact, and it's why fair trade
chocolate is a thing. I have personally tried really really
hard over the last few years to severely cut back
on the amount of chocolate that I am consuming from
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those brands. And even when I buy chocolate chips, I'm
trying to get them from Boutard, which is a brand
that you can find in like nicer grocery stores, and
they their chocolate chips are fair trade and they are
extremely good quality. Once you try them, you're gonna have
a hard time going back to Nesli, I'll tell you that.
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But the show, it's like, we have a whole sequence
later where they are raiding these surrounding islands for fruit,
for flour, for all of the ingredients that they are
going to need to make things, and it seems out
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of like it seems like super villain shit. But honestly,
this isn't really that far off from the way the
United States actually handles things. We come in and we
take over and seize land and give people pennies per
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day to slave. And I use that word very purposefully
in conditions that are incredibly unsafe, with barely any rest,
barely any food, barely any medical attention. A lot of
times these folks don't even have homes. There is like
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one huge building that they are all made to come
and sleep in on the floor because we don't even
provide them beds. And this is not really unusual. What
I'm describing sounds extreme, but when you start looking into
the nature of chocolate farming, this is actually kind of
standard with bigger brands, and it's been quoted. I am
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trying to remember what company it was, because I feel
like it was somebody from Nesley, but I might be
off on this. When I was reading an article about
fair trade chocolate and slavery with chocolate, there was a
brand that had a spokesperson who actually said the words,
if we were to pay everybody a living wage, nobody
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in the United States would be able to will afford
our product. First of all, I don't believe you. Just
straight up, let's just get that out of the way.
Whenever somebody at the top of a chain tries to
say we can't give the bottom part of the chain
more because then it would inflate the price. No it wouldn't.
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It would just decrease your profits. Those are not the
same thing. But let's say that, then Americans couldn't afford
your product to be as dirt cheap as it is.
Maybe that's fine. Maybe if it were more expensive to
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buy candy, we would be okay, it would be okay.
You know, I'm not really concerned about us not being
able to afford a luxury product like chocolate versus not
being able to afford basics like you know, fruits and
vegetables that we actually need for a balanced diet. I
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think that maybe not enslaving people is worth having more
expensive chocolate. I just call me crazy. And so you know,
there is a saying there is no responsible consumption under
capitalism or something like that, and I know that that
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is true. But I also think it can be a
real easy get out of jail free card when you
just kind of don't want to change anything about your
habits and consumption. And I think that you need to,
if you're gonna be honest with yourself, take a look
at some of the things that are crucial that you
really can't negotiate on. For example, I shop at Walmart
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for my groceries, and it sucks, but they are the
closest grocery store to me, and they have many products
that I can't get at other stores, and they are
much less expensive. All of this combines for with my income,
I have to shop there. I really can't afford not to.
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But I don't need chocolate chips. I don't have to
have them. That's not a requirement for me, and so
I am willing to take the extra step for that
and only get fair trade chocolate chips because it's not
a necessity and it is a place where I can
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choose to make a more informed and compassionate choice. And
this is not meant to shame anybody who's buying regular chocolate.
I'm just saying that, like, there is truth to you
the consumption under capitalism, but also there are places where
we could do better, and just throwing our hands up
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and being cynical about how nothing we do can help
isn't really honest either. So I'm just really I think
it's interesting the plot that's developing, and I'm curious, like
how much of this is really commentary and on purpose,
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and how much of it is just sort of a
greedy person is going to dominate everybody else in order
to get what they want. In a really basic sense,
you know, that's that's a classic storyline that you could follow.
So as this continues on, eventually we get to a
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point where we see that Big Mom has a as
they call it, a condition, and she is demanding a
chrocum bouche, which, for those who don't know what that is,
they're like, it's little cream puff that it's like a
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pastry that puffs up into a sphere. You slice it
in half, you fill it with I think Bavarian cream,
and then you stick them to a cone shaped mold
and create this like sugar thread by heating sugar, putting
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them like dipping the end of a whisk and shaking it.
So it makes these long strains of thread that are sugar,
and you decorate the chrocum bouche on top with all
of that sugar, and it's beautiful. It's extremely intricate, like
the every step to make it. It's not super difficult
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each thing, but it is time consuming. So the fact
that she's getting a craving, but the craving is for
something as complex as a chrocum boushe is very very
funny to me. I just think that is like it's
such a specific thing, and I really do enjoy that
because as somebody who is a foodie. Sometimes I will
have this as well, where I have a craving and
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it's for something so specific that, like, I don't think
my husband would even know what it was if I
tried to explain it to him, you know, And I
don't live in an area where this stuff is easy
to find. It's some of us might be able to
just go down to our local patisserie and buy a
fucking crokuombouche. I don't have one of those. I don't
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have patisseriri. I would probably have to drive an hour
and a half into Dallas to find one. And it's
a real I have no idea what the likelihood is
of it being any good. So this whole thing with
her having these like cravings and her eyes turned red
and she's just completely decimating the area around her as
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she stalks through it trying to find the thing to
solve her craving. My friend, this is the most relatable
shit in the world. This is me on my period,
and like, I know, anybody out there who gets a
period knows what I'm fucking talking about. There is actual
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science to prove that chocolate while on your period can
help with symptoms and I'm not getting into all that
right now, but it's a real thing, and I will
crave chocolate and I will also crave red meat and
carbohydrates when I am on my period. It is a
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drive that is so strong that I can't explain how
single minded it becomes. And there have been times where
I am so desperate for whatever carb I want at
the time that I will really go out of my
way to either make it scratch when I kind of
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don't have the time, or go find it out somewhere
when I probably shouldn't be spending the money. Like everything
about this is very much like recognizable behavior to me,
and I just I am. I am really enjoying all
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of this, even though there's still a little voice in
my head whispering about like the fat person being like
a glutton always as the plot point. Fine, yes that's true,
but I am willing to just look past it because
the rest of this is so much fun. I'm sorry,
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I just saw Sarah em like I said, we need
double the episodes for this arc just for the food talk.
Probably it'll be fine, but like, yeah, I could see
why you feel that way. Florian says, I had it
once loved it talking about Krokomboush. I'm assuming Florian. Yeah,
it's good. It's funny too, because you would really think
that that sugar thread is just decoration, but the pastry
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is not that sweet, so the sugar thread really adds
something because it's only lightly caramelized, but it's like a
texture thing and it's an extra sweetness thing, and it's
just divine what it's made. Those little puffballs are made
with what's called shoe pastry choux, which is a type
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of dough that is actually made on the stovetop. You
cook it on the stove to get it to the
right consistency, and then you put that dough in a
piping bag and you squeeze that out and bake it
and that's when it really puffs. And that same dough
is what they use to make it clears. And there's
another thing that they make that I remember. It's called
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religious I think is how you say it in French.
And they're these little things that are two balls, one
smaller than the other sitting on top and they are
they have like chocolate and vanilla, and they're called relig
just because they look like nuns when they have their
like chocolate and vanilla on them. They look like little nuns,
which I always thought was adorable. But anyway, I might
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have to make this stuff, guys. It's really I think
I might have to do this. It's we're getting into
baking season, and a lot of this stuff are things
that I made when I was in pastry and baking
school and then never made again. And now I'm kind
of feeling like I want to, you know what I'm saying.
So anyway, all right, I've talked about a lot of things,
so I don't feel too bad about taking us off
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topic here for a bit, because I really it's not
that off topic. I'm pretty much still talking about a
lot of the plot beats and I while i'm here,
I will talk about what's going on with this Bonker's
song that Big Mom sings, because my friends, this is
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so odd. Now I know that a lot of what
feels odd about it is actually a translation issue. It's
one thing for songs to be dissonant in order to
excuse me, in order to like get across that something
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here is very twisted, you know, about whatever it is
that they're saying or the intent. It's another thing for
it to be a dissonant tune and for the words
to not really fall into a rhythm or rhyme with
each other or anything. It's like I said, I'm certain
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that it's a translation thing, and that if you were
to see this with the actual original Japanese that it
does have like a rhyming scheme or a rhythm to it,
But something about it not having either of those things
just makes it feel all the more disturbing as you're watching.
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And then basically it's all about how I'm about to
have a party. I'm so excited about all the food,
and yes, probably people were killed in order to provide
this food. I don't care. This is what I want,
fuck you all. And it's such a bright and happy look.
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Like the sound of the song is in itself very dissonant.
But if you were only watching this without the sound
at all, if it weren't for big Mom's evil expression
and the sort of like you know, look that she
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has going on. Mostly it's like dancing furniture and to
people setting tables and a very like kind of be
our guest sort of energy with a more cartoonish feel.
That's what it looks like. But once you actually hear it.
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It's giving more the song of the Oogie Boogie sings
in Nightmare before Christmas, and it's just remind me if
I'm wrong, Guys, is this the first time we have
actually had like a full on musical number, because I
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know that we have had songs like Brooke. You know,
he's been going and doing concerts and stuff, and I'm
trying to remember if there were like a bunch of
people participating as he walked around to town singing along
with him. I feel like it's pretty much been him
one and it's very much like, yeah, but he's performing
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right now. In story, the fact that he is singing
makes sense and is part of the plot. But here
this is feeling very like spontaneously breaking out into song
because I'm so overwhelmed by my emotions like a musical,
you know what I mean, which is different and uh okay.
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Sarahim says, no, this is the first non Brook based
musical number. Musical number. Florien' says Soga king theme did
people break out and sing and dance with that? I
don't remember, Sarahim says, at least that I can think of.
That isn't a musical number that is an anime opening.
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Oh oh, okay, now I know what Floria's talking about. Yeah, no, Florian,
that doesn't count. I'm talking about people like in a
scene who are all like having a moment, and then
the entire ensemble in that scene all sings and dances.
So we've never seen that before, right, And I'm kind
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of feeling like that the fact that that is happening
with this character is also kind of a nod to
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, because there were weird
moments in that where people would sing and dance and
it was sort of like odd when it would happen.
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So anyway, I uh, all of this adds up to
I'm very into it. I really really am enjoying this
so much and so excited to see. Like it's a
shame that we have to leave this Chocolate Island as
soon as we do, but I'm sure we'll get back
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here eventually. So I'm backing up again to the episode.
The part of the episode. First of all, Nammy and
Carrot are both being given costume changes, and I just
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want to note it's for some reason only ever the
women characters that have to change their outfits where when
they go to a new place, you know, like, look,
I know that Nami's character, part of the deal with
her is that she loves clothes. However, I will point
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out in the past it's also been her and Robin
who have had to change clothes. And the fact that
it's just again the two women, it's not lost on me.
And of course the appod always has to be something
hyper sexualized, and here it's this like kind of peasant top,
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super low cut mini skirt thing, and it's very cute,
don't get me wrong, but you know, it's really I
see what you're doing here. And then we have Carrott,
who is also wearing something that's like a mini dress basically,
and she looks adorable. It's a whole weird thing with her.
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I don't know what to think about her character. And
then Brooke, of course has to be on the ground
trying to see up Nami's skirt. Guys, all I ask
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is that we just remove this part of Brooke's personality.
I just want to love him. I just want to
be allowed to love Brooke without any except fors and
I can't. I'm not allowed to do it. There's a
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there's was like somewhere I saw where a person was
saying talking about like people's least favorite one piece characters.
They were asking other folks and I just like perused
briefly to see what people said. And somebody said Brook
and I was, as you can imagine, clutching my pearls
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at that response because I love him so much. But
every time something like this happens, I kind of wonder
if this is the reason. And then I can't really
fault the person, you know, because it is m it's tedious.
So this whole thing ends with Peckham's after he gives
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this what do you call it a lecture? He delivers
this lecture to Kara about what you are and aren't
allowed to eat on the island, and I love when
he asks her, are you even listening to me? And
she says that was pretty complicated, So no, I actually
laughed out loud. I appreciate you just admitting it. That's fine.
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And then when he's starting to yell about this, he
realizes that both Lufy and Chopper are gone. They have
taken off. They don't know the rules. And I love
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the way that this the response from Nami is pure,
that's okay. They won't be missing for very long. And
then you just hear people in the town beginning to
beginning to exclaim, and she goes, see, there they are
right now, and I was just like, oh my god, really,
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so these two have gone and eaten an entire cafe,
And I you, guys, what would have happened to them
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if it weren't for putting showing up on site? What
would have happened? Would they have been thrown in jail?
I'm assuming or find or something. Anyway, the bit here
is that they are both just so overloaded with chocolate
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that they can barely move, and when pudding comes up
and is just like covering for them, she gives them
a couple of like what I keep thinking of, there
are these like mass produced cookies that you can buy
in Britain that are I think wafers or cookies with
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jam between, and then they're covered in chocolate, and what
she's handing them looks like that kind of to me.
I can't remember the name of them. I keep wanting
to say Jammy Dodge, and I don't think that's right.
But she like offers these to them and they don't
even reach out to take them. They just literally open
their mouths, and I I just the fact that they
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go ah and they just let her feed them is
endlessly funny to me. So she covers for them by
saying that her cafe was about to expire anyway, and
that she hired them to eat it, which I really
enjoy that the man who's talking to them at that
point calls them a demolition crew. I thought that was
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very cute. And basically it's like he says something like, well,
you do need to put up signs if you're going
to be doing that, and also wait till the customers
are gone, which I'm just imagining them literally eating the
chairs out from under customers, like you know what I'm saying,
just fucking like jaws coming up from underneath them. And
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they wind up like the whole crew that had been
on the ship with Peckham's the rest of them. They
come running in to try and get like fix the problem,
and they arrived just in time to see putting cover
up for them. And I should mention putting like flies
in on a magic carpet. This is a weird one.
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I don't really know what to make of this. It
doesn't feel exactly on theme. So that's part of what's
sort of odd for me. But the other thing is
that the sound effect they have decided to use for
when this carpet is flying bums me out. Man. It
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is so high pitched and kind of squeally that my dogs,
they were asleep on the couch when this sound effect began,
they both sat up. They both like awoke because they
were going, what the fuck is that noise? And I
can't help but agree with that, to be honest, like,
I did not care for this, and I don't really
I didn't feel like that sound effect suits a flying carpet.
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I thought it should have much more of like a
kind of whoosh, you know what I'm saying. So anyway,
I really wanted, like I want them to change this sound.
I wonder if it's the same one as in the
original or not. But anyway, the flying carpet thing, I
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will say, at the very least carpet carpet. We're getting
another object singing its name, and you know I'm here
for it. Kids. I love it. This thing, especially since
the word carpet actually is two syllables, is perfect. It
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works out so well. I'm very very into it. So
the arrival of her is very dramatic on the back
of this flying carpet, and then she covers for them
and invites them back to her place. And what she
says is because they thank her for getting them out
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of this jam that they were in. Eh, jam Oh,
I didn't. It's fine Jaffa cakes. That's the cookie. I'm
thinking of. Jaffa cakes. Saraphim also said, Jammie Dodgers, I know,
but they don't have chocolate. But no, it's Jaffa cakes,
that's the thing. She tells them how much it meant
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to her that they loved what she made so much
that she's like, it's because of what you said that
it was too good to resu and that was what
made me feel like it was all worth it. And
she describes the way that she made it too. And
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I'm trying to find the moment here, I'm the one
who should be thinking all of you because of what
you said that it was too delicious, And her face
gets all red and she puts her hands over her
face and sais and says, it's a new blend I
just came up with. Did it melt in your mouth properly?
I added milk to cocoa butter and mixed it with
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a high purity beet sugar needed for three days straight
at twenty six degrees precisely, and beet sugar. I'm not
sure I've had chocolate made with beet sugar. I've had
it with coconut sugar. I'm trying to think, but I
am fascinated. You know, I want a tasting. I want
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a flight of chocolate tastings like please. And as she's
talking to them, by the way, Lufy and Chopper are
continuing to eat despite having been so completely overstuffed that
they couldn't move earlier. Brooke also is very much like
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falling in love with Pudding and extremely jealous when he
eventually finds out that she is Sangie's I'm trying to
find the word not alleged, but ugh, I'm trying to
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I can't think of the word, but his fiance. And
we find out that he actually told her that as
much as he would like to marry her, he can't
do it. And this is when they all their jaws
drop at the fact that he actually rejected a woman.
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I am very much for the record shipping Soanji and
Pudding I the two of them both love to cook.
He likes to do savory stuff, she likes to do
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chocolate desserts. She takes it super seriously obviously, and is
the exact type to appreciate the over attentiveness of a
guy like Sanji that I think many women would find
really really annoying. I need Sanji to get married now.
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I'm just gonna say it. I don't care about all
of the complications that will result due to alliances, YadA YadA.
I don't care these two loo. If I'm being real
with you all, I'm very much looking at all of
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this like I'm trying to staff the Sonny with the
perfect people to sustain our friends with like fantastic food.
And if we have both her and Soangy, we have
got an unbeatable situation. You know, We've got incredible savories
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and sweets from two people who love doing it, who
are in the kitchen together and like each other. I mean,
it just doesn't seem like it gets better than that.
So I am shipping them, and if it turns out
that they can't be together for some reason, I will
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genuinely be bummed about it. I feel like there has
to be a way that he marries her and also
gets to stay with the straw hats. I don't care.
I just think there has to be a way. Figure
it out, guys, figure out a way to get her
to be removed from the family somehow or I don't know,
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but it has to be done. These two are destined
for one another. Figure it out, you know. Sarahim says,
Lufi has at least a rubber stomach, choppers should have
to go into one of his bigger forms to fit
all that food in. I like that idea. Both of
them would be a disaster. Lufy would be in a
food coma the entire time. Okay, that might not be
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a bad thing, honestly. Yeah, anything to just sort of
keep him from interfering with all of the other stuff
that he could fuck up on the ship is fine.
It's fine keep him distracted. So yeah, it was also
interesting because, like, you guys know that when we first
saw her picture in the last group of episodes, I said, like,
I wonder if she's actually as sweet as she looks
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or if she's secretly a monster. And it is funny
that I didn't even can consider the pun of like,
is she as sweet as she looks. But it turns
out like she is. She's just as sweet as she looks,
and all like almost to a point of me being like,
all right, tone it down, but I still so far
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and finding her quite likable. So we'll see if that
is sustained. Who knows, So let's see. I'm trying to
go and make sure that I'm not missing anything here
because I have to scrub over into the next episode,
did you do Let's see. Oh right, So eventually they
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get to the point where they're just like, look, here's
the thing. We're trying to rescue him from this because
of the whole alliance thing. We don't want him to
be part of Big Mom's crew. And she's like, all right,
you know what, I would give up soangy if it's
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necessary for his health and safety and happiness and whatever.
If that is what has to happen, then fine. And
it was just a nice moment, you know, of her
being like, I do actually really like this guy and
care about him, but that doesn't mean that I am
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selfish about wanting what I want. Regardless, I am willing
to put his happiness and joy first, and that is
unfortunately not something a lot of people are able to
do when they love someone. They seem to think that
love means that they just get to do whatever they
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want and use the fact that they love the person
as a kind of weapon against them. And it's always
really sad to watch that happen because I have always
felt just like, wow, you are really entirely missing the point.
But she understands how much this means to Sanji because
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of him talking to her. He actually said, I'd love
for this to be the thing, but I just can't
do it, and she heard him, Wow, I didn't think
that that was something that was going to be so
difficult to find in life, but you know, there it is.
So let's see, she says, I know it's hard to
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trust me because I'm one of Big Mom's children, and
Nami says, well, sort of, and she says, honestly, I'm
afraid to make her angry. But even so, if Soanji
is your friend and you came here to take him back,
then I'll help you. And let's see, she's my mom,
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but I'm my own person, and she mentions how many
members of the family there are. It turns out that
Big Mom has like a harem of husbands. I think
she says she's got like forty eight husbands something like that,
and each of them has got like six kids. The
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idea that she has this many biological children is bananas, Like,
how does that even work? Is that supposed to be
part of why she's craving things is that she's fucking
perpetually pregnant, Because that would be really funny. It's not
even just that she's fat, it's that she is pregnant
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all the time, and so she constantly wants weird sweets
because she's just overcome with these these pregnancy cravings. I
wouldn't hate that as a plot device, actually, I think
that'd be kind of funny. So she sits down and
she draws a map for them, and let's see, I'm
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trying to find the spot where she explains this. She says,
the people of Toto Land, they gave us their blessing.
They're celebrating, and I'm assuming everybody on this island would
be part of the party. She says, they're like the
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Vince Smoke family is excited as well. They are looking
She's looking forward to the wedding cake and I've dreamed
about my wedding day. Since I was little, I wondered
about my soulmate, what he'd be like. Then one day
I got to meet my sangi and then we get
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the scene of him walking up to her and everybody
being stunned that he rejected her. And let's see, I
can't take him away from you. Brooke is fucking sobbing, crying.
The heart wants what the heart wants, as they say,
which is why if this is what Sanji's heart wants,
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I'm in, let me help you. And there's all of
these different islands and she shows them the root, cacao, jam, nuts, candy,
and eventually whole Cake Island. Oh, Biscuits is another one
because some of it's out of frame so it's hard
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to see. I do wonder why it's whole cake and
not just cake island. I'm I feel like there has
to be something like idiomatic about that. I say, we
rendezvous tomorrow at the coast right here, okay, and she
points out this spot. I promise I'll bring Sanjy there,
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whatever the cost, let's all work together. And Nami's like,
do you think big mom will punish you? And she says, Mama,
And I are family, so don't worry about me. It's
worse for you because you're in hostile territory. And I'm
honestly kind of concerned at the fact that she is
so unconcerned. It feels like, I think this might go
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way worse for you than you realize. And it's probably
a good thing that you don't realize, or else you
might not be willing to help them at this point.
But you know, like I'm worried about her. Okay, here's
a full view of the map. Cacao to jam, to cheese,
to biscuits, to nuts, to candy, to whole cake. Trying
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to think what I would add in here. I think
it's surprising that we've got some things that are like
individual ingredients, and then we've got some things that there's
it's like a finished product. Like nuts, you know, that's
something it grows as it grows. But biscuits something that
like you put together. And cheese. There's different types of cheese, granted,
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but it is like one particular type of product. Cheese
and jam and candy those all kind of fall under
the same you know. I think biscuits is the real
outlier here, I guess, but I am looking forward to
seeing more of these other islands we pass eventually one
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that's got it's pouring like fruit juice into the ocean water,
so the water turns purple. And there's this thing that's
happening throughout these episodes with Pedro. He is he runs
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into somebody who knows him, and then when they're like
on the sea again, he's saying, oh, yeah, well there's
an island here that's like this, and he points out
a bunch of stuff that indicates he has been here
before and he knows his way around. But for some reason,
he doesn't really want to be honest with him about that,
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and I'm not really sure why not. It's like there's
definitely something shady going on, but I can't imagine what
it is. Like he was living with the Minx and
seemed like he had been intending to just stay there.
So I don't know if if he's like hiding from
the law, you know, if there's something that he was
involved with that was illegal, that he escaped and now
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he's like potentially risking something by coming back. Excuse me.
I don't know why I had pickuping so bad, but
it's definitely something that They're drawing our attention to repeatedly,
and I truly do not know what to make of it.
I really don't. I just keep looking at it, like,
but is what is going on there? And I'm running
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out of time, so I'm gonna just kind of jump
ahead to the part where, Oh, I forgot that there's
a moment that we spend with Sanjy. I forgot we
actually get to see him. Who is he with? He's
in like a real foggy area and smoking a cigarette
as he is wont to do. I will never get
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over the fact that they had to change this into
a lollipop. I find that sofa, and I guess they
would have had to edit out the smoke and stuff.
What a pain. Oh right, this is fucking Veto talking about?
Is it Gemma sixty six? Gemma? I don't remember. But
they're walking up to their castle. They have the big
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flag flying and everything, and Veto is just really excited
to meet his heroes from these stories and doesn't understand
why Sanji isn't more pumped or at least more appreciative
of the compliment, I guess. And we just see Sanji
walking out into the fog and then we go briefly
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over to brock Collie Island, which I am so sorry,
but that is really funny. It's very funny, kids. I
really like it, especially considering he has no problem naming
other islands directly after food. But it like being brock Alie, Like,
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come on, brock brock Collie, I mean, honestly. And this
is when we see Oh, I'm sorry, Sarah, I'm in
the chest, says Germa double six. Okay, thank you. I
was certainly not remembering that Germa double six is at
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Broccoli Island. Not entirely sure what war is being fought here,
because earlier we were seeing all of these that supply supplies.
Oh my god, you know, they provide ingredients for the
things that big Mom wants. I would imagine broccoli is
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certainly not at the top of her list. This is
a woman who isn't interested in vegetables, for sure. So
why is Jeremy sixty six here of all places? And
they come in and they get a briefing from this
man who's in charge, and I'm trying to find let's see,
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he's just labeled Commander A nietzschi and Ichigi. He says,
I take it you have the money ready, and the
commander is like, yeah, we do, and then they both
are like okay, well stand back and watch, and they
wind up just like annihilating the people on this island.
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Later on, we see this moment where a man who
has a real bone to pick with them because they
apparently killed his wife and child or something. He confronts
them and has this whole plan to take revenge, and
he winds up being It's a weird thing because one
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of them says Wall, and their henchmen just jumps in
front of him. I had thought when they said Wall
that this was going to be like a devil fruit ability,
but it appears that it's just actually pulling somebody in
front of him as a human shield, which I don't
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really know how that works. But damn the guy who
gets shot, it doesn't seem like he's happy about it.
And not to say that anybody would be, but if
these people were doing a sort of secret service kind
of I'm throwing myself in the way of the bullet
to save your life because that's my job and it's
my biggest priority, I feel like there'd be a different
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expression on his face. This guy, to me, is really giving,
like shocked and appalled, and so there's a sense for
me of like this isn't voluntary, but I don't know,
I might just be misreading his expression. And of course
then we get him just brutally shooting this guy who
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already lost his family, and it's really sad. Guys. It
was like a, oh, I don't know what's going on here.
You know, I don't have the context for it, but
I just felt like ugh. And as they're leaving, the
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commander watches them go and says, they saved our island.
They may call them demons, but they're wrong. To us.
These are angels. And I am not understanding what's happening here.
I don't understand who these They seem like an occupying force.
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So how is it that this is When he says
they saved our island, it feels like it's not, but
the emotion behind it does kind of hit like somebody
who is a native and who lives here. So I
don't know. And then the two of them from the
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double six er, they're standing on this rooftop and talking
on a transponder snail about how long they how long
the trip is to hold cake island and if they're
going to be able to get there in time for
the wedding, And one of them says that he's looking
forward to seeing Sangi, and the other is just like,
are you fucking high? What are you talking about? So
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Sarah says, I took it as two factions fighting over
the same island. I agree. It's just confusing because like
the commander, he's in uniform, and I was assuming that
he was with the the Marines. So German Double six
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is supposed to butt up against the Marines like they're
meant to be enemies, at least in the comic strip.
So I was expecting those guys to be these dude's enemy,
and instead it seems like these guys are somehow like
independents who I suppose paid Germa Double six to show up.
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And he's crying and talking about how he how much
they owe these people for saving him or saving them.
But it's also like, well, you apparently paid them to
do the job and they just did the job, So
I don't know why are so emotional. So it's just
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I was there was just a lot about different details
that felt like they didn't really go together, and I
wasn't sure what to make of it. But anyway, I'm
running out of time here, so I'm just gonna wrap
up with the part where our friends are back on
the ocean on the ship, and you know there's that
point where there's the purple ocean water. Sorry, if you
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guys can hear my cat, I don't know why she's
so upset all of a sudden, And eventually they get
attacked by a sea centipede I think is what they're called.
These things are hilarious looking. I don't know what's going
on with them, but they have like perfectly round eyes
and it just looks like somebody took a like a
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sea creature and just stuck googly eyes that you get
at a craft store on these things. They are very
funny and it's a whole like oh yes, yes, yes,
Florian says. Also, Peckham's is gone, thank you. I completely
forgot about that. He vanishes on them, and I think
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that it's supposed to be he bounced once they were
picked up by Pudding, like once they got into town.
That he's been gone since that moment, which he has
been very like pro big mom. When they're first pulling
up to the island. He's talking to Nami about how
this is Big Mom's vision for everybody to coexist peacefully,
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and you know, it certainly sounds nice and it seems
like he believes her, but that is clearly not actually
what's going on here. So I'm wondering what she's done
to gain his trust in this regard. And yeah, so anyway,
the whole thing, like with this this sea centipede, it's
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very funny because the whole crew is like kind of
gearing up to fight it, and then it seems like
Loofy just manages to take it out by himself and
they're all standing there like, oh, really, we don't have
to do anything. I was kind of looking forward to something,
and it looks like there's a second one or the
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first one just wound up being not as hurt as
it seemed to be. But either way, they're facing a
little bit more of an obstacle here than they at
first thought. You know, it's still I'm not worried about them, obviously,
but uh, yeah, these creatures are very funny looking. I
just have to mention that because my god, I don't know,
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it feels almost like whoever designed them the day they
were asked to do it, they were just sort of like, ah,
I don't know when he collapses, it's too big. Our
attacks don't do a thing, not with that thick shell.
All right, everyone aim at the belly at once, and
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fucking Carrot gets a crazy expression on her face when
she is ready to attack this thing. She looks bad
nanas for a second, y'all, Oh my god, let's see.
Lufy jumps up and does jet stamp, which I don't
remember seeing this before. We probably have, but I'm just
it's not ringing a bell. And he gets it right
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in the head and the whole thing just like cracks
and falls apart. It's pretty, uh, kind of an awful
way to die, to be honest, and let's see, okay,
And then the episode ends with Big Mama's like rampage
because she's craving crogambush. So all right, I'm gonna wrap
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this up. Thank you guys again so much for hanging
out with me. I'm having a lot of fun. Thank
you Florian for commissioning this one. And until next time
to loom motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network. Pat
This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me,
covering one piece episodes seven eighty six and seven through
seven eighty eight Total Land. Emperor Big Mom appears the
Emperor's daughter Sanjay Soanji's fiance Pudding. I'm misspeaking a lot already.
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This doesn't bode well. A massive attack Mom's hunger pangs
in these episodes Total Land is both wonderful and terrible.
I have such deeply mixed feelings about the developments of
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this plot. Guys, I don't know where I stand. 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. So,
y'all Big Mom. Now, I'm going to set aside all
my feelings about a fat character and hunger pangs and
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YadA YadA, you know the way that this is being portrayed,
and I am just going to mean into it and
accept Big Mom's whole deal. That said, I really wanted
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her to have a much more awesome costume. I am
so disappointed, y'all. The design of this island, the design
of her ship, all of this is really giving. And
then she's just in this like plain pink, almost nightgown
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looking dress. She's got really basic makeup and like a
pink wig that's just her hair isn't even that weird
for this show, And then like a tricorn pirate hat.
The only thing about her that's really particularly stands out
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in her like overall costume is the pinkness, which you
know that I can get on board with that, but
I just I expect a lot more from the design
of this character. I really thought there would be something
inherently dessert like about her costume, and instead it's just,
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you know, I'm sad because, like I still have it
in my head that I wouldn't mind cosplaying her, and
I do still feel that way, and I think that
I would be able to do this quite well. I
have hair of a great texture to try and get
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this shape going without even needing a wig all of this.
But guys, it's so bizarre to me, considering the effort
that Oda puts into character design some of the time
for people who don't even show up in the show
very much, and then there's this like big character and
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it's just it, it's like everything got assembled out of
stuff that was already in somebody's closet, you know. Saraphim says, yeah,
she's reached the point of being old enough. She just
gives no fucks and wants to be comfy. But being
comfy and being really distinctive are not mutually exclusive, you know.
I just I really thought that I was going to
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get something in particular here and I didn't. So I
just really want to register my disappointment there, because everything
surrounding Big Mom is super fun, and she herself is
just so basic that it's almost shocking. I would be
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more inclined at this point to coseplay as her ship
than to causeplay as her. That said, I still am
very into the plot that we are beginning to see developing.
So let's start with the beginning of seven eighty six,
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where it's Sanji, it's Loofy and Chopper standing there mouths agape,
looking at this whole candy street, and they are trying
to decide what to eat first. Now, Peckham's later actually
(05:26):
explains that there are very specific rules about what you
are and are not allowed to eat. You are definitely
allowed to like indulge. I will say that the rules
are overall very broad. So there's plenty of room within
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those rules to really go to town. But even so
they don't even wind up getting in trouble because they
get rescued. So this whole sequence of the two of
them just being so overwhelmed by this place that they
can't even decide where to start. And there's like all
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these different things made of chocolate that I also really
wanted to explore, a chocolate bathhouse, which Chopper rightfully is like, wait,
can chocolate make you clean? And I'm like, yeah, I
don't feel like that's how that works. And then they
see chocolate clothes, and when Chopper says can you eat them,
we immediately cut to a guy who's eating his own
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sleeve and they just yell he did it, which I
think is fantastic. This look. I have already said what
I was hoping for with the Wonka movie versus what
I got when I was a little kid, And this
is very much leaning into exactly what I was looking for,
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which is that every single item should be made of
candy slash chocolate, and it wasn't. And now I'm getting
what I asked for. And the truth is it's because
it's a cartoon, so you can. But I didn't understand
that when I was a kid. You know, there's chocolate fireworks,
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which Chopper again, is chocolate explosive. And I just really
like that we have all of these things made of chocolate.
But it's not like they're taking it for granted that
that's doable. Chopper is questioning it every time. It's just like, wait,
does that make sense? So I just love it because
it's sort of acknowledging the inherent silliness of the concept
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without actually having to answer the question, which is fine
with me. So then Chopper's nose goes up and he's like,
oh my god, I'm smelling something that's even more yummy
than the other stuff, and Lufy just says, where let's go,
and they take off, and later on we find out
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that it is a specific blend of chocolate that Putting
made and you guys, I absolutely this is something that
I have wanted for a long time. But you know
how it is. There are certain things that when they
are very expensive, we can sort of like rationalize to
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ourselves why it's worth spending the money on something. Sometimes
that's like just really going to get a lot of use,
you know, that has to last a long time, so
you can be like, oh, I need to invest and
make sure that this lasts and we don't have to
replace it. But then there are things that are one
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hundred percent pure indulgence, the kind of thing that you
would never spend money on yourself. And the problem for
me has always been in theory, those things should be
a gift. You would never spend it for yourself, so
it's something perfect for another person to give to you
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as a gift, and it's literally you would never choose
to spend your own money on it. But when it
comes to this, it is so expensive that I don't
even want to put it out there for other people
to purchase as a gift. And that is really, really,
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really nice quality expensive chocolate. If you have not actually
looked at the pricing on real high end hand dipped chocolate,
especially the types that I'm talking about, which are poured
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into these molds and hand painted with like colored cocoa fat,
it's astronomical. A box of like a half pound of
chocolate will be about seventy five dollars, and I just
it's it's almost like it's so expensive in my mind
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that I don't even want a gift giver to pay
for it, because I'd rather they spend their seventy five
dollars on a gift that I would be able to reuse.
It's one thing to spend seventy five bucks on an object,
It's another thing to spend it on an item that
is consumed and then gone. And really that's part of
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what makes it lovely, right, Like it's an ephemeral thing
that you are indulging in when you get a really,
really nice box of beautiful chocolates. But it's just as
a person who has grown up and now also still
lives with not really enough money to cover everything, it
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just feels so irresponsible. So saying all this, what I'm
getting at is that some of these really expensive chocolate brands,
they have what are called flights. You may have seen
that word used with like beers and different types of
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sliders as well. A lot of restaurants will have flights
for different types of a thing that you can sample
all of the variety of flavors, and chocolate is no different.
There are different growing conditions around the world for cocoa beans,
just the same way there are for grapes when you're
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making wine. So the types of chocolate that you get
from Africa versus South America, versus India. It's all going
to be really different from each other. And I have
always wanted to try some of these flights that have
chocolate from around the world. There's a similar thing with
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different types of vanilla. Vanilla, like Madagascar Bourbon vanilla is
the most popular, famous type of gourmet vanilla, and it's
got a flavor profile that's very familiar and is what
most people want when they use vanilla. But there are
also different types of vanilla. You know. We have Tahitian,
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we have Mexican, we have Indonesian, and I have always
wanted to see, like what's the difference. I would love
to try them side by side and see what they're
like and if I can tell. And the other thing
that really, in a way, the show is dealing with
chocolate is an extremely fraud product because it is what
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The fact is that for the majority of big chocolate
companies that make mass produced chocolates like Snickers and you know,
anything that you can get at like a grocery store,
including Gia Delli's, you know things like that, all of
them rely on slave labor. Every single one of them
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that is simply a fact, and it's why fair trade
chocolate is a thing. I have personally tried really really
hard over the last few years to severely cut back
on the amount of chocolate that I am consuming from
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those brands. And even when I buy chocolate chips, I'm
trying to get them from Boutard, which is a brand
that you can find in like nicer grocery stores, and
they their chocolate chips are fair trade and they are
extremely good quality. Once you try them, you're gonna have
a hard time going back to Nesli, I'll tell you that.
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But the show, it's like, we have a whole sequence
later where they are raiding these surrounding islands for fruit,
for flour, for all of the ingredients that they are
going to need to make things, and it seems out
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of like it seems like super villain shit. But honestly,
this isn't really that far off from the way the
United States actually handles things. We come in and we
take over and seize land and give people pennies per
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day to slave. And I use that word very purposefully
in conditions that are incredibly unsafe, with barely any rest,
barely any food, barely any medical attention. A lot of
times these folks don't even have homes. There is like
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one huge building that they are all made to come
and sleep in on the floor because we don't even
provide them beds. And this is not really unusual. What
I'm describing sounds extreme, but when you start looking into
the nature of chocolate farming, this is actually kind of
standard with bigger brands, and it's been quoted. I am
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trying to remember what company it was, because I feel
like it was somebody from Nesley, but I might be
off on this. When I was reading an article about
fair trade chocolate and slavery with chocolate, there was a
brand that had a spokesperson who actually said the words,
if we were to pay everybody a living wage, nobody
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in the United States would be able to will afford
our product. First of all, I don't believe you. Just
straight up, let's just get that out of the way.
Whenever somebody at the top of a chain tries to
say we can't give the bottom part of the chain
more because then it would inflate the price. No it wouldn't.
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It would just decrease your profits. Those are not the
same thing. But let's say that, then Americans couldn't afford
your product to be as dirt cheap as it is.
Maybe that's fine. Maybe if it were more expensive to
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buy candy, we would be okay, it would be okay.
You know, I'm not really concerned about us not being
able to afford a luxury product like chocolate versus not
being able to afford basics like you know, fruits and
vegetables that we actually need for a balanced diet. I
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think that maybe not enslaving people is worth having more
expensive chocolate. I just call me crazy. And so you know,
there is a saying there is no responsible consumption under
capitalism or something like that, and I know that that
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is true. But I also think it can be a
real easy get out of jail free card when you
just kind of don't want to change anything about your
habits and consumption. And I think that you need to,
if you're gonna be honest with yourself, take a look
at some of the things that are crucial that you
really can't negotiate on. For example, I shop at Walmart
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for my groceries, and it sucks, but they are the
closest grocery store to me, and they have many products
that I can't get at other stores, and they are
much less expensive. All of this combines for with my income,
I have to shop there. I really can't afford not to.
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But I don't need chocolate chips. I don't have to
have them. That's not a requirement for me, and so
I am willing to take the extra step for that
and only get fair trade chocolate chips because it's not
a necessity and it is a place where I can
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choose to make a more informed and compassionate choice. And
this is not meant to shame anybody who's buying regular chocolate.
I'm just saying that, like, there is truth to you
the consumption under capitalism, but also there are places where
we could do better, and just throwing our hands up
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and being cynical about how nothing we do can help
isn't really honest either. So I'm just really I think
it's interesting the plot that's developing, and I'm curious, like
how much of this is really commentary and on purpose,
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and how much of it is just sort of a
greedy person is going to dominate everybody else in order
to get what they want. In a really basic sense,
you know, that's that's a classic storyline that you could follow.
So as this continues on, eventually we get to a
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point where we see that Big Mom has a as
they call it, a condition, and she is demanding a
chrocum bouche, which, for those who don't know what that is,
they're like, it's little cream puff that it's like a
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pastry that puffs up into a sphere. You slice it
in half, you fill it with I think Bavarian cream,
and then you stick them to a cone shaped mold
and create this like sugar thread by heating sugar, putting
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them like dipping the end of a whisk and shaking it.
So it makes these long strains of thread that are sugar,
and you decorate the chrocum bouche on top with all
of that sugar, and it's beautiful. It's extremely intricate, like
the every step to make it. It's not super difficult
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each thing, but it is time consuming. So the fact
that she's getting a craving, but the craving is for
something as complex as a chrocum boushe is very very
funny to me. I just think that is like it's
such a specific thing, and I really do enjoy that
because as somebody who is a foodie. Sometimes I will
have this as well, where I have a craving and
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it's for something so specific that, like, I don't think
my husband would even know what it was if I
tried to explain it to him, you know, And I
don't live in an area where this stuff is easy
to find. It's some of us might be able to
just go down to our local patisserie and buy a
fucking crokuombouche. I don't have one of those. I don't
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have patisseriri. I would probably have to drive an hour
and a half into Dallas to find one. And it's
a real I have no idea what the likelihood is
of it being any good. So this whole thing with
her having these like cravings and her eyes turned red
and she's just completely decimating the area around her as
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she stalks through it trying to find the thing to
solve her craving. My friend, this is the most relatable
shit in the world. This is me on my period,
and like, I know, anybody out there who gets a
period knows what I'm fucking talking about. There is actual
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science to prove that chocolate while on your period can
help with symptoms and I'm not getting into all that
right now, but it's a real thing, and I will
crave chocolate and I will also crave red meat and
carbohydrates when I am on my period. It is a
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drive that is so strong that I can't explain how
single minded it becomes. And there have been times where
I am so desperate for whatever carb I want at
the time that I will really go out of my
way to either make it scratch when I kind of
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don't have the time, or go find it out somewhere
when I probably shouldn't be spending the money. Like everything
about this is very much like recognizable behavior to me,
and I just I am. I am really enjoying all
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of this, even though there's still a little voice in
my head whispering about like the fat person being like
a glutton always as the plot point. Fine, yes that's true,
but I am willing to just look past it because
the rest of this is so much fun. I'm sorry,
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I just saw Sarah em like I said, we need
double the episodes for this arc just for the food talk.
Probably it'll be fine, but like, yeah, I could see
why you feel that way. Florian says, I had it
once loved it talking about Krokomboush. I'm assuming Florian. Yeah,
it's good. It's funny too, because you would really think
that that sugar thread is just decoration, but the pastry
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is not that sweet, so the sugar thread really adds
something because it's only lightly caramelized, but it's like a
texture thing and it's an extra sweetness thing, and it's
just divine what it's made. Those little puffballs are made
with what's called shoe pastry choux, which is a type
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of dough that is actually made on the stovetop. You
cook it on the stove to get it to the
right consistency, and then you put that dough in a
piping bag and you squeeze that out and bake it
and that's when it really puffs. And that same dough
is what they use to make it clears. And there's
another thing that they make that I remember. It's called
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religious I think is how you say it in French.
And they're these little things that are two balls, one
smaller than the other sitting on top and they are
they have like chocolate and vanilla, and they're called relig
just because they look like nuns when they have their
like chocolate and vanilla on them. They look like little nuns,
which I always thought was adorable. But anyway, I might
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have to make this stuff, guys. It's really I think
I might have to do this. It's we're getting into
baking season, and a lot of this stuff are things
that I made when I was in pastry and baking
school and then never made again. And now I'm kind
of feeling like I want to, you know what I'm saying.
So anyway, all right, I've talked about a lot of things,
so I don't feel too bad about taking us off
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topic here for a bit, because I really it's not
that off topic. I'm pretty much still talking about a
lot of the plot beats and I while i'm here,
I will talk about what's going on with this Bonker's
song that Big Mom sings, because my friends, this is
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so odd. Now I know that a lot of what
feels odd about it is actually a translation issue. It's
one thing for songs to be dissonant in order to
excuse me, in order to like get across that something
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here is very twisted, you know, about whatever it is
that they're saying or the intent. It's another thing for
it to be a dissonant tune and for the words
to not really fall into a rhythm or rhyme with
each other or anything. It's like I said, I'm certain
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that it's a translation thing, and that if you were
to see this with the actual original Japanese that it
does have like a rhyming scheme or a rhythm to it,
But something about it not having either of those things
just makes it feel all the more disturbing as you're watching.
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And then basically it's all about how I'm about to
have a party. I'm so excited about all the food,
and yes, probably people were killed in order to provide
this food. I don't care. This is what I want,
fuck you all. And it's such a bright and happy look.
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Like the sound of the song is in itself very dissonant.
But if you were only watching this without the sound
at all, if it weren't for big Mom's evil expression
and the sort of like you know, look that she
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has going on. Mostly it's like dancing furniture and to
people setting tables and a very like kind of be
our guest sort of energy with a more cartoonish feel.
That's what it looks like. But once you actually hear it.
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It's giving more the song of the Oogie Boogie sings
in Nightmare before Christmas, and it's just remind me if
I'm wrong, Guys, is this the first time we have
actually had like a full on musical number, because I
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know that we have had songs like Brooke. You know,
he's been going and doing concerts and stuff, and I'm
trying to remember if there were like a bunch of
people participating as he walked around to town singing along
with him. I feel like it's pretty much been him
one and it's very much like, yeah, but he's performing
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right now. In story, the fact that he is singing
makes sense and is part of the plot. But here
this is feeling very like spontaneously breaking out into song
because I'm so overwhelmed by my emotions like a musical,
you know what I mean, which is different and uh okay.
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Sarahim says, no, this is the first non Brook based
musical number. Musical number. Florien' says Soga king theme did
people break out and sing and dance with that? I
don't remember, Sarahim says, at least that I can think of.
That isn't a musical number that is an anime opening.
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Oh oh, okay, now I know what Floria's talking about. Yeah, no, Florian,
that doesn't count. I'm talking about people like in a
scene who are all like having a moment, and then
the entire ensemble in that scene all sings and dances.
So we've never seen that before, right, And I'm kind
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of feeling like that the fact that that is happening
with this character is also kind of a nod to
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, because there were weird
moments in that where people would sing and dance and
it was sort of like odd when it would happen.
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So anyway, I uh, all of this adds up to
I'm very into it. I really really am enjoying this
so much and so excited to see. Like it's a
shame that we have to leave this Chocolate Island as
soon as we do, but I'm sure we'll get back
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here eventually. So I'm backing up again to the episode.
The part of the episode. First of all, Nammy and
Carrot are both being given costume changes, and I just
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want to note it's for some reason only ever the
women characters that have to change their outfits where when
they go to a new place, you know, like, look,
I know that Nami's character, part of the deal with
her is that she loves clothes. However, I will point
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out in the past it's also been her and Robin
who have had to change clothes. And the fact that
it's just again the two women, it's not lost on me.
And of course the appod always has to be something
hyper sexualized, and here it's this like kind of peasant top,
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super low cut mini skirt thing, and it's very cute,
don't get me wrong, but you know, it's really I
see what you're doing here. And then we have Carrott,
who is also wearing something that's like a mini dress basically,
and she looks adorable. It's a whole weird thing with her.
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I don't know what to think about her character. And
then Brooke, of course has to be on the ground
trying to see up Nami's skirt. Guys, all I ask
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is that we just remove this part of Brooke's personality.
I just want to love him. I just want to
be allowed to love Brooke without any except fors and
I can't. I'm not allowed to do it. There's a
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there's was like somewhere I saw where a person was
saying talking about like people's least favorite one piece characters.
They were asking other folks and I just like perused
briefly to see what people said. And somebody said Brook
and I was, as you can imagine, clutching my pearls
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at that response because I love him so much. But
every time something like this happens, I kind of wonder
if this is the reason. And then I can't really
fault the person, you know, because it is m it's tedious.
So this whole thing ends with Peckham's after he gives
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this what do you call it a lecture? He delivers
this lecture to Kara about what you are and aren't
allowed to eat on the island, and I love when
he asks her, are you even listening to me? And
she says that was pretty complicated, So no, I actually
laughed out loud. I appreciate you just admitting it. That's fine.
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And then when he's starting to yell about this, he
realizes that both Lufy and Chopper are gone. They have
taken off. They don't know the rules. And I love
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the way that this the response from Nami is pure,
that's okay. They won't be missing for very long. And
then you just hear people in the town beginning to
beginning to exclaim, and she goes, see, there they are
right now, and I was just like, oh my god, really,
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so these two have gone and eaten an entire cafe,
And I you, guys, what would have happened to them
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if it weren't for putting showing up on site? What
would have happened? Would they have been thrown in jail?
I'm assuming or find or something. Anyway, the bit here
is that they are both just so overloaded with chocolate
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that they can barely move, and when pudding comes up
and is just like covering for them, she gives them
a couple of like what I keep thinking of, there
are these like mass produced cookies that you can buy
in Britain that are I think wafers or cookies with
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jam between, and then they're covered in chocolate, and what
she's handing them looks like that kind of to me.
I can't remember the name of them. I keep wanting
to say Jammy Dodge, and I don't think that's right.
But she like offers these to them and they don't
even reach out to take them. They just literally open
their mouths, and I I just the fact that they
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go ah and they just let her feed them is
endlessly funny to me. So she covers for them by
saying that her cafe was about to expire anyway, and
that she hired them to eat it, which I really
enjoy that the man who's talking to them at that
point calls them a demolition crew. I thought that was
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very cute. And basically it's like he says something like, well,
you do need to put up signs if you're going
to be doing that, and also wait till the customers
are gone, which I'm just imagining them literally eating the
chairs out from under customers, like you know what I'm saying,
just fucking like jaws coming up from underneath them. And
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they wind up like the whole crew that had been
on the ship with Peckham's the rest of them. They
come running in to try and get like fix the problem,
and they arrived just in time to see putting cover
up for them. And I should mention putting like flies
in on a magic carpet. This is a weird one.
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I don't really know what to make of this. It
doesn't feel exactly on theme. So that's part of what's
sort of odd for me. But the other thing is
that the sound effect they have decided to use for
when this carpet is flying bums me out. Man. It
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is so high pitched and kind of squeally that my dogs,
they were asleep on the couch when this sound effect began,
they both sat up. They both like awoke because they
were going, what the fuck is that noise? And I
can't help but agree with that, to be honest, like,
I did not care for this, and I don't really
I didn't feel like that sound effect suits a flying carpet.
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I thought it should have much more of like a
kind of whoosh, you know what I'm saying. So anyway,
I really wanted, like I want them to change this sound.
I wonder if it's the same one as in the
original or not. But anyway, the flying carpet thing, I
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will say, at the very least carpet carpet. We're getting
another object singing its name, and you know I'm here
for it. Kids. I love it. This thing, especially since
the word carpet actually is two syllables, is perfect. It
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works out so well. I'm very very into it. So
the arrival of her is very dramatic on the back
of this flying carpet, and then she covers for them
and invites them back to her place. And what she
says is because they thank her for getting them out
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of this jam that they were in. Eh, jam Oh,
I didn't. It's fine Jaffa cakes. That's the cookie. I'm
thinking of. Jaffa cakes. Saraphim also said, Jammie Dodgers, I know,
but they don't have chocolate. But no, it's Jaffa cakes,
that's the thing. She tells them how much it meant
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to her that they loved what she made so much
that she's like, it's because of what you said that
it was too good to resu and that was what
made me feel like it was all worth it. And
she describes the way that she made it too. And
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I'm trying to find the moment here, I'm the one
who should be thinking all of you because of what
you said that it was too delicious, And her face
gets all red and she puts her hands over her
face and sais and says, it's a new blend I
just came up with. Did it melt in your mouth properly?
I added milk to cocoa butter and mixed it with
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a high purity beet sugar needed for three days straight
at twenty six degrees precisely, and beet sugar. I'm not
sure I've had chocolate made with beet sugar. I've had
it with coconut sugar. I'm trying to think, but I
am fascinated. You know, I want a tasting. I want
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a flight of chocolate tastings like please. And as she's
talking to them, by the way, Lufy and Chopper are
continuing to eat despite having been so completely overstuffed that
they couldn't move earlier. Brooke also is very much like
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falling in love with Pudding and extremely jealous when he
eventually finds out that she is Sangie's I'm trying to
find the word not alleged, but ugh, I'm trying to
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I can't think of the word, but his fiance. And
we find out that he actually told her that as
much as he would like to marry her, he can't
do it. And this is when they all their jaws
drop at the fact that he actually rejected a woman.
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I am very much for the record shipping Soanji and
Pudding I the two of them both love to cook.
He likes to do savory stuff, she likes to do
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chocolate desserts. She takes it super seriously obviously, and is
the exact type to appreciate the over attentiveness of a
guy like Sanji that I think many women would find
really really annoying. I need Sanji to get married now.
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I'm just gonna say it. I don't care about all
of the complications that will result due to alliances, YadA YadA.
I don't care these two loo. If I'm being real
with you all, I'm very much looking at all of
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this like I'm trying to staff the Sonny with the
perfect people to sustain our friends with like fantastic food.
And if we have both her and Soangy, we have
got an unbeatable situation. You know, We've got incredible savories
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and sweets from two people who love doing it, who
are in the kitchen together and like each other. I mean,
it just doesn't seem like it gets better than that.
So I am shipping them, and if it turns out
that they can't be together for some reason, I will
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genuinely be bummed about it. I feel like there has
to be a way that he marries her and also
gets to stay with the straw hats. I don't care.
I just think there has to be a way. Figure
it out, guys, figure out a way to get her
to be removed from the family somehow or I don't know,
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but it has to be done. These two are destined
for one another. Figure it out, you know. Sarahim says,
Lufi has at least a rubber stomach, choppers should have
to go into one of his bigger forms to fit
all that food in. I like that idea. Both of
them would be a disaster. Lufy would be in a
food coma the entire time. Okay, that might not be
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a bad thing, honestly. Yeah, anything to just sort of
keep him from interfering with all of the other stuff
that he could fuck up on the ship is fine.
It's fine keep him distracted. So yeah, it was also
interesting because, like, you guys know that when we first
saw her picture in the last group of episodes, I said, like,
I wonder if she's actually as sweet as she looks
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or if she's secretly a monster. And it is funny
that I didn't even can consider the pun of like,
is she as sweet as she looks. But it turns
out like she is. She's just as sweet as she looks,
and all like almost to a point of me being like,
all right, tone it down, but I still so far
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and finding her quite likable. So we'll see if that
is sustained. Who knows, So let's see. I'm trying to
go and make sure that I'm not missing anything here
because I have to scrub over into the next episode,
did you do Let's see. Oh right, So eventually they
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get to the point where they're just like, look, here's
the thing. We're trying to rescue him from this because
of the whole alliance thing. We don't want him to
be part of Big Mom's crew. And she's like, all right,
you know what, I would give up soangy if it's
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necessary for his health and safety and happiness and whatever.
If that is what has to happen, then fine. And
it was just a nice moment, you know, of her
being like, I do actually really like this guy and
care about him, but that doesn't mean that I am
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selfish about wanting what I want. Regardless, I am willing
to put his happiness and joy first, and that is
unfortunately not something a lot of people are able to
do when they love someone. They seem to think that
love means that they just get to do whatever they
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want and use the fact that they love the person
as a kind of weapon against them. And it's always
really sad to watch that happen because I have always
felt just like, wow, you are really entirely missing the point.
But she understands how much this means to Sanji because
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of him talking to her. He actually said, I'd love
for this to be the thing, but I just can't
do it, and she heard him, Wow, I didn't think
that that was something that was going to be so
difficult to find in life, but you know, there it is.
So let's see, she says, I know it's hard to
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trust me because I'm one of Big Mom's children, and
Nami says, well, sort of, and she says, honestly, I'm
afraid to make her angry. But even so, if Soanji
is your friend and you came here to take him back,
then I'll help you. And let's see, she's my mom,
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but I'm my own person, and she mentions how many
members of the family there are. It turns out that
Big Mom has like a harem of husbands. I think
she says she's got like forty eight husbands something like that,
and each of them has got like six kids. The
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idea that she has this many biological children is bananas, Like,
how does that even work? Is that supposed to be
part of why she's craving things is that she's fucking
perpetually pregnant, Because that would be really funny. It's not
even just that she's fat, it's that she is pregnant
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all the time, and so she constantly wants weird sweets
because she's just overcome with these these pregnancy cravings. I
wouldn't hate that as a plot device, actually, I think
that'd be kind of funny. So she sits down and
she draws a map for them, and let's see, I'm
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trying to find the spot where she explains this. She says,
the people of Toto Land, they gave us their blessing.
They're celebrating, and I'm assuming everybody on this island would
be part of the party. She says, they're like the
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Vince Smoke family is excited as well. They are looking
She's looking forward to the wedding cake and I've dreamed
about my wedding day. Since I was little, I wondered
about my soulmate, what he'd be like. Then one day
I got to meet my sangi and then we get
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the scene of him walking up to her and everybody
being stunned that he rejected her. And let's see, I
can't take him away from you. Brooke is fucking sobbing, crying.
The heart wants what the heart wants, as they say,
which is why if this is what Sanji's heart wants,
(50:14):
I'm in, let me help you. And there's all of
these different islands and she shows them the root, cacao, jam, nuts, candy,
and eventually whole Cake Island. Oh, Biscuits is another one
because some of it's out of frame so it's hard
(50:35):
to see. I do wonder why it's whole cake and
not just cake island. I'm I feel like there has
to be something like idiomatic about that. I say, we
rendezvous tomorrow at the coast right here, okay, and she
points out this spot. I promise I'll bring Sanjy there,
(50:56):
whatever the cost, let's all work together. And Nami's like,
do you think big mom will punish you? And she says, Mama,
And I are family, so don't worry about me. It's
worse for you because you're in hostile territory. And I'm
honestly kind of concerned at the fact that she is
so unconcerned. It feels like, I think this might go
(51:20):
way worse for you than you realize. And it's probably
a good thing that you don't realize, or else you
might not be willing to help them at this point.
But you know, like I'm worried about her. Okay, here's
a full view of the map. Cacao to jam, to cheese,
to biscuits, to nuts, to candy, to whole cake. Trying
(51:43):
to think what I would add in here. I think
it's surprising that we've got some things that are like
individual ingredients, and then we've got some things that there's
it's like a finished product. Like nuts, you know, that's
something it grows as it grows. But biscuits something that
like you put together. And cheese. There's different types of cheese, granted,
(52:05):
but it is like one particular type of product. Cheese
and jam and candy those all kind of fall under
the same you know. I think biscuits is the real
outlier here, I guess, but I am looking forward to
seeing more of these other islands we pass eventually one
(52:26):
that's got it's pouring like fruit juice into the ocean water,
so the water turns purple. And there's this thing that's
happening throughout these episodes with Pedro. He is he runs
(52:46):
into somebody who knows him, and then when they're like
on the sea again, he's saying, oh, yeah, well there's
an island here that's like this, and he points out
a bunch of stuff that indicates he has been here
before and he knows his way around. But for some reason,
he doesn't really want to be honest with him about that,
(53:09):
and I'm not really sure why not. It's like there's
definitely something shady going on, but I can't imagine what
it is. Like he was living with the Minx and
seemed like he had been intending to just stay there.
So I don't know if if he's like hiding from
the law, you know, if there's something that he was
involved with that was illegal, that he escaped and now
(53:31):
he's like potentially risking something by coming back. Excuse me.
I don't know why I had pickuping so bad, but
it's definitely something that They're drawing our attention to repeatedly,
and I truly do not know what to make of it.
I really don't. I just keep looking at it, like,
but is what is going on there? And I'm running
(53:57):
out of time, so I'm gonna just kind of jump
ahead to the part where, Oh, I forgot that there's
a moment that we spend with Sanjy. I forgot we
actually get to see him. Who is he with? He's
in like a real foggy area and smoking a cigarette
as he is wont to do. I will never get
(54:19):
over the fact that they had to change this into
a lollipop. I find that sofa, and I guess they
would have had to edit out the smoke and stuff.
What a pain. Oh right, this is fucking Veto talking about?
Is it Gemma sixty six? Gemma? I don't remember. But
they're walking up to their castle. They have the big
(54:42):
flag flying and everything, and Veto is just really excited
to meet his heroes from these stories and doesn't understand
why Sanji isn't more pumped or at least more appreciative
of the compliment, I guess. And we just see Sanji
walking out into the fog and then we go briefly
(55:06):
over to brock Collie Island, which I am so sorry,
but that is really funny. It's very funny, kids. I
really like it, especially considering he has no problem naming
other islands directly after food. But it like being brock Alie, Like,
(55:29):
come on, brock brock Collie, I mean, honestly. And this
is when we see Oh, I'm sorry, Sarah, I'm in
the chest, says Germa double six. Okay, thank you. I
was certainly not remembering that Germa double six is at
(55:50):
Broccoli Island. Not entirely sure what war is being fought here,
because earlier we were seeing all of these that supply supplies.
Oh my god, you know, they provide ingredients for the
things that big Mom wants. I would imagine broccoli is
(56:11):
certainly not at the top of her list. This is
a woman who isn't interested in vegetables, for sure. So
why is Jeremy sixty six here of all places? And
they come in and they get a briefing from this
man who's in charge, and I'm trying to find let's see,
(56:35):
he's just labeled Commander A nietzschi and Ichigi. He says,
I take it you have the money ready, and the
commander is like, yeah, we do, and then they both
are like okay, well stand back and watch, and they
wind up just like annihilating the people on this island.
(57:00):
Later on, we see this moment where a man who
has a real bone to pick with them because they
apparently killed his wife and child or something. He confronts
them and has this whole plan to take revenge, and
he winds up being It's a weird thing because one
(57:21):
of them says Wall, and their henchmen just jumps in
front of him. I had thought when they said Wall
that this was going to be like a devil fruit ability,
but it appears that it's just actually pulling somebody in
front of him as a human shield, which I don't
(57:41):
really know how that works. But damn the guy who
gets shot, it doesn't seem like he's happy about it.
And not to say that anybody would be, but if
these people were doing a sort of secret service kind
of I'm throwing myself in the way of the bullet
to save your life because that's my job and it's
my biggest priority, I feel like there'd be a different
(58:03):
expression on his face. This guy, to me, is really giving,
like shocked and appalled, and so there's a sense for
me of like this isn't voluntary, but I don't know,
I might just be misreading his expression. And of course
then we get him just brutally shooting this guy who
(58:25):
already lost his family, and it's really sad. Guys. It
was like a, oh, I don't know what's going on here.
You know, I don't have the context for it, but
I just felt like ugh. And as they're leaving, the
(58:47):
commander watches them go and says, they saved our island.
They may call them demons, but they're wrong. To us.
These are angels. And I am not understanding what's happening here.
I don't understand who these They seem like an occupying force.
(59:11):
So how is it that this is When he says
they saved our island, it feels like it's not, but
the emotion behind it does kind of hit like somebody
who is a native and who lives here. So I
don't know. And then the two of them from the
(59:35):
double six er, they're standing on this rooftop and talking
on a transponder snail about how long they how long
the trip is to hold cake island and if they're
going to be able to get there in time for
the wedding, And one of them says that he's looking
forward to seeing Sangi, and the other is just like,
are you fucking high? What are you talking about? So
(59:59):
Sarah says, I took it as two factions fighting over
the same island. I agree. It's just confusing because like
the commander, he's in uniform, and I was assuming that
he was with the the Marines. So German Double six
(01:00:20):
is supposed to butt up against the Marines like they're
meant to be enemies, at least in the comic strip.
So I was expecting those guys to be these dude's enemy,
and instead it seems like these guys are somehow like
independents who I suppose paid Germa Double six to show up.
(01:00:43):
And he's crying and talking about how he how much
they owe these people for saving him or saving them.
But it's also like, well, you apparently paid them to
do the job and they just did the job, So
I don't know why are so emotional. So it's just
(01:01:06):
I was there was just a lot about different details
that felt like they didn't really go together, and I
wasn't sure what to make of it. But anyway, I'm
running out of time here, so I'm just gonna wrap
up with the part where our friends are back on
the ocean on the ship, and you know there's that
point where there's the purple ocean water. Sorry, if you
(01:01:29):
guys can hear my cat, I don't know why she's
so upset all of a sudden, And eventually they get
attacked by a sea centipede I think is what they're called.
These things are hilarious looking. I don't know what's going
on with them, but they have like perfectly round eyes
and it just looks like somebody took a like a
(01:01:52):
sea creature and just stuck googly eyes that you get
at a craft store on these things. They are very
funny and it's a whole like oh yes, yes, yes,
Florian says. Also, Peckham's is gone, thank you. I completely
forgot about that. He vanishes on them, and I think
(01:02:15):
that it's supposed to be he bounced once they were
picked up by Pudding, like once they got into town.
That he's been gone since that moment, which he has
been very like pro big mom. When they're first pulling
up to the island. He's talking to Nami about how
this is Big Mom's vision for everybody to coexist peacefully,
(01:02:39):
and you know, it certainly sounds nice and it seems
like he believes her, but that is clearly not actually
what's going on here. So I'm wondering what she's done
to gain his trust in this regard. And yeah, so anyway,
the whole thing, like with this this sea centipede, it's
(01:03:01):
very funny because the whole crew is like kind of
gearing up to fight it, and then it seems like
Loofy just manages to take it out by himself and
they're all standing there like, oh, really, we don't have
to do anything. I was kind of looking forward to something,
and it looks like there's a second one or the
(01:03:26):
first one just wound up being not as hurt as
it seemed to be. But either way, they're facing a
little bit more of an obstacle here than they at
first thought. You know, it's still I'm not worried about them, obviously,
but uh, yeah, these creatures are very funny looking. I
just have to mention that because my god, I don't know,
(01:03:48):
it feels almost like whoever designed them the day they
were asked to do it, they were just sort of like, ah,
I don't know when he collapses, it's too big. Our
attacks don't do a thing, not with that thick shell.
All right, everyone aim at the belly at once, and
(01:04:10):
fucking Carrot gets a crazy expression on her face when
she is ready to attack this thing. She looks bad
nanas for a second, y'all, Oh my god, let's see.
Lufy jumps up and does jet stamp, which I don't
remember seeing this before. We probably have, but I'm just
it's not ringing a bell. And he gets it right
(01:04:32):
in the head and the whole thing just like cracks
and falls apart. It's pretty, uh, kind of an awful
way to die, to be honest, and let's see, okay,
And then the episode ends with Big Mama's like rampage
because she's craving crogambush. So all right, I'm gonna wrap
(01:04:52):
this up. Thank you guys again so much for hanging
out with me. I'm having a lot of fun. Thank
you Florian for commissioning this one. And until next time
to loom motherfuckers. That was an unspoiled network. Pat
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