September 27, 2025 • 61 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is an unspoiled network podcast. This is spoil Me,
covering one piece episodes seven ninety seven through seven ninety nine.
We're so close to eight hundred, guys, a very exciting
round number. This episode reveals some truly wild powers that
(00:29):
I am so here for. I cannot wait you guys
to like see how some of this stuff gets utilized.
Because ODA does tend to keep surprises under wraps until later,
we've already got some surprises to be honest. Welcome to
spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha.
(01:11):
Thank you very much to Bernadette for commissioning this episode. Yeah,
this is There are so many strange psychouts in this
particular arc. What I mean is just simply like you
know we first. I mean, if you start with the
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most basic stuff, you have the moment where you think
we've got the like snowfalling, no psych it's cotton candy. Actually,
you have the thing where it's like, oh, it looks
like clothes, it looks like buildings, it looks like whatever,
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and it's chocolate. Actually it still apparently serves the former purpose,
but it also is chocolate. Then you've got the whole
thing with like objects that are actually possessed, I guess
is probably the best way to say it. So they
just look like ordinary trees and flowers, but like not,
(02:17):
they're not. They're not though. And then you've got people
in the woods that it turns out, aren't really people,
they're animals enchanted to look like people. And then you've
got this dude who's buried in the ground who looks
like he's a giant, but then he gets yanked up
out of the ground. Nope, not a giant. He's just
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got a very large head. Although I would argue, I
would argue that man is so much larger than both
Nami and Loofy that I would still call him a giant.
He might be like a junior giant, fair, but like
a giant nonetheless in my opinion. But that's fine. Then
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you've got broad turning up. I thought it was sort
of weird that his name was Cracker, not just because
of how hilarious it is as a nickname bearing a
lot of social weight at our current point in history,
but really, what I thought was so funny was that
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everybody else has had like extremely specific dessert names that
were sort of I don't want to say, like necessarily fancy,
because pudding isn't fancy, but it's very you know, and
cracker is it's a food, yes, but it's not a
dessert specifically, And it just didn't really seem to go
(03:45):
with the theme, but it went just enough with the
theme that I was like, well, okay, I guess and
then finding out like, this dude isn't who it is either,
this guy is actually made of cookies, you guys like, again,
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for the record, I just want to say I'm not
mad at it, not even one little bit, but it
is extremely fucking funny to me, Like what or what
everything isn't anything? And I am extremely interested on how
this is going to be carried out going forward, because
(04:29):
I just really don't think we've seen the last of this.
Then we've got the uh, the reveal of who Lola is,
and you guys said like, I think it was Sarah.
I'm in the chat at one point who said something
like does what's her name's face remind you of anybody?
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And it did, but I just like could not put
my finger on who it was, and come to find
out that it was Lola that was who we were
seeing in her face and Lola's mom is big Mom,
so we get a very helpful flashback to Nami being
(05:16):
given the viaver card of Lola's mom. And this is
one of those things that you know, sometimes it'll flash
back to something that I'm like, obviously, you think I
forgot this come on show, And then there are things
like this where I'm like, no, I absolutely did not
remember this at all, And even as I am watching
the replay of it, a part of my mind is going,
(05:37):
this is new information. You didn't know any of this,
even though I know that's not true. So that's an
interesting development. And this dude who goes by the name Pound,
I am so sorry, guys, but bro basic Glee was
(06:01):
used as like a stud to get her knocked up,
and he goes by the name Pound. Like, I Am
not saying it's exactly what it looks like, but it
certainly feels like it's something that it looks like. I
don't know, is it just me, I'm just I'm just
(06:24):
asking questions. But yeah, he is Lola's dad, which makes
a lot of sense because he's just got some peculiarities
about his face that are specific to Lola as well.
So I'm into it. This is a fun series of reveals.
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I also just really like being reminded of the friendship
that Nami has with Lola, because it's so like, it's
so infrequent that there are female characters that are kind
of side characters that we stay friends with. There are
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a lot of female characters that are really crucial to
the plot that we stay friends with, but this is
a different vibe when it's somebody who's just sort of
not absolutely central to everything, and they might play a
key role in certain events or plans, but they could
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have been kind of replaced by anybody. A lot of times,
those people we don't really touch base with again, and
if we do feel friendly towards them, they usually tend
to be dudes. And I was just excited about Lola,
and you guys, remember like at the time, I found
her to be really, really funny, and I want I'm
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hoping that because Big Mama is her mother, she will
be coming to this event and we will get to
see her again, because she just was a great time.
In my opinion, I loved her. So Okay, let's start
at the beginning, because we I'm jumping ahead a considerable
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amount on all of this stuff. So there's this weird
moment the beginning of UH seven ninety seven. I just
realized that when I did my intro, I didn't name
the episodes that I was covering. That is, I feel like,
I don't usually fuck that up so bad, but I'll
just go through them as I start to cover them.
(08:36):
Seven ninety seven is a top officer the Sweet three
General Cracker appears and I didn't I tried not to
read these title cards, so when he gets named Cracker
out loud, I was just fucking dying laughing. So Cracker appears,
and this dude is a real like there's a sort
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of look to him that I found very like bland.
In this universe, we have got a high standard now
for the appearance of our baddies, And so when a
guy comes out and just sort of looks like a
spirit Halloween Viking, it's just whatever, you know, very much.
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So anyway he steps out, all of the homies that
are looking around and like seeing that he has arrived,
are sort of like, wait, what what is he doing here?
And there's a general vibe of like, this dude is
so high level that he is almost never home on
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this island, that he is always out doing big deal
shit and so for him to be in the woods
is odd. And then he does this thing that I
I didn't really understand, where he projects this light outward
and he causes a massive like crater, almost a death
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of all of these trees at once, and it's unclear
to me why he even did it. It was obviously
in terms of like its narrative purpose, it's there for
us to see his ability, but it didn't really seem
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to do anything for him in the moment. So I
wasn't totally sure why he needed to kill all of
these trees. It just seemed like kind of a flex
or like they were just annoyed with him, and or
he was annoyed with them because they were in his way.
So I don't know, but he does this. We cut
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back to like Nami and Lufy haven't seen him yet.
He's like in the forest further away when he does this,
and eventually he does it a second time in front
of them, so we kind of like know that some
shit is coming. And I don't know exactly how this
works because this guy, it's like he has this particular ability,
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but also we find out that he isn't real and
the ability that he is displaying here doesn't feel like
it falls under the what's the word I want under
the purview of the guy who ate the biscuit biscuit fruit.
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So I'm not entirely certain how this works. And I'm
not sure if it was explained and I simply missed it,
or if it isn't explained yet and it will be,
or you know, if I'm supposed to be kind of
making some assumptions here, because as far as I understand,
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General Cracker is a real guy, that this dude is
simply imitating using biscuits. So, and I may have that wrong.
It was sort of mixed for me, and I was
like trying to understand, but I figured I would wait
and that you guys could help me. I couldn't tell
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whether it was that Biscuit's a real guy and this
dude's sort of impersonating him using biscuits, or do people
think because he says something about how like nobody has
ever seen my real face or very few people, so
is he simply like going about the world kind of
using Cracker as his avatar in life, and so everybody
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thinks that General Biscuit is a real or general Cracker
is a real guy when actually he's just a biscuit man.
I maybe it's that one, but if the guy who
like makes him is using these biscuit powers, I just
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don't understand how the guy, once he is created, has
what seems to be a completely separate set of abilities.
So there's nobody in the chat today. It doesn't look
like so I don't think I'm gonna get an answer
for a little bit. But uh, everybody listening, if you
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want to help me with this eventually, please do so. Anyway,
he comes in, he grabs Pound by the hair and
yanks him out of the ground like he's a turnip
that this guy is just harvesting out of his little
vegetable garden. And it is revealed that this dude is
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not actually a giant, that he just has a really
big head, And it turns out that he was sent
here to kill Pound, and the whole like, the whole
vibe here is that Pound. I don't know if I
(14:19):
want to say that he still has like feelings for
Lynnln exactly, because I feel like maybe that's too overimp
too much of an oversimplification. But I think it's more
that like he has affection still for his daughters, obviously,
because that's why he's here. He's like risking it all
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to see Chiffon, who got married recently, and he wants
to give his blessing, and so he is here and
seems to just be like how to say this, It
seems like he has just sort of disappointed to the
extent of of being diluted a little bit at the
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fact that evidently Big Mom not only doesn't care about
him anymore, but actively wants him to be dead. And
there's just a sense for me of like, Okay, look,
I accept that it's over between us, but like it
didn't have to be like that, though, you know what
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I'm saying. And I felt bad for him because you know,
it's like the fact that she has disposed of him
and just doesn't like it's not just get him out
of here, I don't want to see him again. But
now it's like he's telling her business around. So that's
(15:48):
sort of the implication here is like he might have
been at one point allowed to just do his thing,
but because he had to hang out and open his
mouth and tell enemies all of this shit, he's sort
of ruined it for himself and now we have to
take you out, dude, and it's sort of your own fault,
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you know. So this is when Nami hears him say Lola,
and she's thinking back, and we get the flashback to
her and Lola and her lying about being a cross dresser,
and then eventually the friendship that they have when Lola
is turned back into a person again, and then the
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reminder about her giving Nami a vivercard. Now here's another thing, guys,
that I have trouble with this episode, and I really
hope that y'all can clear this up for me. Reminder again,
there'sn't anybody in the chat right now, so it's possible
that I won't get the explanation until later. I am
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assuming that there is an explanation, and I am also
kind of assuming that I'm supposed to know it, but
I will admit maybe I'm wrong about that, and maybe
it's coming as an explanation later. That's the one thing
about this show that I find frustrating sometimes is that
it and I think it's the nature at this point.
It's such a long running series that I think the
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author just takes it for granted. You're gonna keep watching,
You're gonna keep reading the manga, so even if he
doesn't explain things right away, you'll get there and it'll
be fine. But because events are often told out of order,
it can be really confusing how the whether or not
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I'm supposed to know things, whether or not something is
just far enough behind us that I've forgotten, you know
what I mean? Because there's just so many episodes that
the assumption is both that you will definitely keep watching
and also probably that you've like watched the whole series
several times so far, so you will remember everything at
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this point. And like with me covering it for the
first time, the way that I'm covering it, it can
just be a little bit tough with not just the pacing,
but the timing in which things are revealed, and so
things like this, I'll get hung up on a little bit.
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But is the Viver card supposed to be like basically
a signal that Nami is either friends with Big Mom
or that she carries enough social cachet to represent Big Mom,
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Because like she pulls out the Viver card and you know,
out of the gate. First of all, the viv card
has the name Lola written on it, which is very
confusing because it's not Lola's Viver card. It's from Lola,
but it's her mom's card. So I already was sort
of like, wait, hold on, did I have it wrong?
And no, I didn't. For whatever reason, it just says
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Lola on it, and then the whole forest of homies
reacts really dramatically when they see it, as if Nanmy
is carrying around a heart in a cube, the way
that Caesar's heart is being kept in a cube. And
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I don't know why they're reacting this way, because it
just to me, I guess it's just supposed to be that,
like a Viver card is rare enough that it's only
going to be given out to people who are important,
and so if she has one, then that must mean
that she is somebody who is very high level. But
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she literally just told the story about getting this card
from Lola, So it doesn't make sense to me that
they're reacting this way when she has revealed the source
of it and has said that it wasn't big Mom
who gave it to her, it was her daughter, who's
like out and about and and you know, even if
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she does have some standing, I don't get the impression
that that should have that much of an effect on
the homies that they would freak out kind of the
way that they are. So I just didn't really understand
like their reaction to this whole thing. It felt. It
felt just like incredibly over the top for what's actually
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what this actually is. But anyway, I'm just realizing now, guys,
last episode, did I ever I thought that I had
covered everything, and I don't remember if I actually ever
talked about Caesar Clown and what happened with him. I
thought I had covered everything, but I'm thinking I didn't.
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I'm just gonna mention it really quick now though, because
I touched on it briefly, but I don't think I
ever went into depth regarding the scene, because it turns
out that Caesar Clown his you know, Sanji was the
one who had his heart, and Sanji just tosses it
off to fucking I think Veto, and so Bro has
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his heart and now there's a whole thing with uh,
oh my god. I just was saying, Caesar Clown being
forced to work on this drug that will make people
into giants, and we find out that like part of
what Big Mom is wanting, part of her goal is
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that she wants everybody to be like her. She wants
all of the rest of the world to be giants
as well. In a way that's genuinely kind of sad
because it's giving lonely. You know. It's like, I think
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that it's really supposed to be just that she feels
so that she's like wants people to join her in
her gluttony, and it's supposed to just be kind of
selfish seeming, and of course it is selfish seeming, like
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she wants to change people into other things in order
to hang out with them, so it is selfish, but
there is something about that goal that like it was
unexpectedly sad, And every day I was watching that episode
again with my husband and he was like, as she
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was saying, this is what I want for the world,
and she's showing like a dope tea party and everybody's
giant and eating food, Marshall's like, that doesn't sound bad.
Why are we fighting this? And honestly, I couldn't help
but agree. It does seem for me like maybe that's fine,
but of course we don't have a safe way to
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do this. And when we're in Caesar Klan's head. You know,
what he decides to do is he had been given
apparently this assignment years earlier, and we get an amazing sequence. Honestly,
it was genuinely really funny where he is drinking with
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you know, it's partying with like hot chicks, but there's
a sense a very strong like these are sex workers
or strippers, you know, because it's like we're trying to
do that sort of debauchery vibes to the scene. And
it's just really funny because there has been no hint
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of this in his personality thus far, so it does
feel like it's sort of coming out of nowhere, but
evidently it's supposed to be that. Like, he wasn't entirely
squandering the money. He was actually trying to accomplish what
she wanted. However, he was not succeeding, and rather than
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like continuing to push using that money, he decided to go, well,
I guess I can't do it, and then kind of
throw his hands up in the air and use up
the rest of the money for fun. So initially he
was going for it in good faith, and then he
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eventually just sort of throws all of the money at
the window out the window, not at the window. So yeah,
he he doesn't have the money left and he doesn't
have anything to show for it because that gigantism drug
that he was testing on the children didn't work out
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super well as we have seen, so he is calling
it a complete impossibility. In his opinion, if I couldn't
accomplish it, then it is impossible. And the way he
decides to play it is, I'm going to blame all
of the straw hats for the fact that this didn't
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work out, and she won't be able to hold it
against me because I tried my best and they came
in and wreck shit. But even as he was thinking like, oh,
this is a perfect scapegoat, and I was agreeing honestly,
like the plane itself in a vacuum isn't too bad.
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But all I kept thinking was yeah, but you are
standing right in front of her now, and that means
that she is going to just ask you to re
create the scenario that you just described. You are not
out of it, not by any means. And he just
is all surprised Pikachu face when she wants him to
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like recreate those results with a new lab, and she
offers him unlimited funds essentially, and he knows that this
isn't something that really works, but it's under pain of death.
So he's in this predicament now where they have his heart,
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and he has told her that he has gotten successful
results before. Now the thing is that it causes really
bad what do you call it, Oh, my god, detox
not exactly, but you know what I'm talking about. When
you take the drug away, the kids kind of lose it.
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And so I would argue that despite the fact that
the kids lose it when they get the drug taken away,
and despite that, I would definitely call that a failure.
I think that probably Big Mom doesn't care that much,
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you know what I'm saying. I can't help but feel
like even if it requires people to constantly take it,
if anything, the fact that this would put folks more
under her control might be a plus to Big Mom.
And I don't know, I understand why he's so worried.
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I definitely get it, but I do sort of think
that it might be fine in the end, so long
as it succeeds in the first part. Are the side
effects might not matter to her? I don't know. So anyway,
I just wanted to mention that now that I was
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reminded of it right here. So okay, this is again
we have Oh I forgot that there's this wild view
because the dude who shows up here, I don't remember
if we actually get his name. It's the guy that's
a rabbit and he's riding on a crane. I guess
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that guy. I think the subtitle has just said Randolph
and Randolph's crane. So the crane isn't doesn't have like
a name really, but it can talk. And the two
of them are very kind of sibling ish in the
way that they behave with each other because they are
so ready to point and blame at one another if
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something goes wrong. So the crane comes in hard about
to attack, and we see Cracker getting really really pissed
and yelling halt, and as he's getting angry, he is
emitting that force field again and it causes all of
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the homies around him to die, and we just see
a series of like dead trees and piles of like
dirt and ash that have just the impressions of faces
where their faces used to be. It's very haunting, actually,
it's really creepy, but I don't understand exactly how this
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works if it's supposed to be that he can take
back the life force. So this guy, the fact that
he's like killing homies left and right, I was sort
of feeling like, is he on her side or not?
Like it just felt inefficient. You know, We've got all
of these willing henchmen and you're taking all of them out,
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and like for what reason. It doesn't even seem like
in the moment he needs to do this here either.
It almost feels like a pure reaction to Randolph jumping
in and him being pissed that Randolph is like fucking
with his just his catch. Essentially, he's like, I wanted
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credit for this. How dare you you know? That's that's
the energy. It's uh, it's weird. I don't understand why
he keeps doing it. I don't understand what is happening here.
And Randolph and the Crane are extremely apologetic and are
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bowing to him and asking for forgiveness and everything, and
so Noamy and Lufy are realizing like, Okay, this guy
is probably somewhat high up the food chain. And this
is when Cracker says, uh, you know how mom always
wants to say ahead of the curves. Considering straw hat
Lufy was the man who beat Do Flamingo, she assumed
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Brulai would have a hard time, so she sent me
and Brulay, who is off somewhere else for the duration
up till now, is apparently making her way over, and
she turns up as soon as he says this, She's like,
excuse me, did I fucking hear you right? Did you
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say that she thought I was going to have a
hard time? And it is wild, dude, because she comes
out and it's like, you see her face, you see
her actual face, but then you see what almost looked
like tentacles or something. And it turns out that this
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is a separate character, a tree king Baum, the master
of the Seducing Woods. And I don't know if it's
just that he was like formed early on in the
creation of the Seducing Woods, and so he was made.
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He was one of the first made from people's soul pieces,
and that's why he just happens to be in charge
now by default kind of. But I couldn't tell if
he was just a homie like the others, or if
he was his own being. And yeah, let's see I'm
(32:43):
trying to the moment where he's talking about, yeah, that
she sent more than one because she knew that nobody
should be let like nobody should walk out of this
forest alive, and so we need to cover all of
our bases. But Brulay, Yeah, she is very cranky at
the fact that her abilities were doubted, despite apparently that
(33:09):
being correct. Now, I you know, I say that, but
I will cop to the fact that, like she's captured too.
So far, she's got Chopper, she's got Carrot, and I
could see her feeling like if you'd given me a second,
I would have gotten to the rest of them too.
I just didn't get a chance. But uh, the thing
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that's being mentioned here over and over is just the
fact that, like we've got this wedding coming up. It's
only like a day away at this point, maybe still
two days, but like you know, the clock is ticking,
and it means a lot to Big Mom to get
this alliance in place. So it's not even necessarily like
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we didn't think you could do it. It was more
so even we didn't know if you would be able
to get it done in time. So at this point,
bruleat first of all, she like releases all of the
animals that were enchanted to look like straw hats, and
so they all run off. I want to mention too, guys,
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that I had asked about her mirror in a previous episode,
and here it turns up and it's like that she
can just make mirrors out of nothing with her bare hands.
So I had somehow missed that last time. I think
that I just thought when she gestured that she was
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pulling a mirror that she carried with her out of somewhere,
and I wasn't realizing that she was creating a portal. Really,
it's like it's it's I don't even really want to
call it a mirror exactly, because it feels too versatile
for that, but uh, I think it just I will
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just call it that for the sake of simplicity. And
she holds up the mirror that has Carrot and Chopper
in there, and we eventually get to go inside the
mirror where they are, and I was pretty stoked with
this because it just seemed like a cool opportunity. I
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don't really know where we're going to wind up with it,
but I really thought that the idea of them being
in a different world where maybe they could do something.
I don't know what kind of possibilities there are, whether
if you're being held by somebody's devil fruit ability, maybe
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you're going to be very limited, you know, on what
it is that you're able to do. But I did
find it really funny that we hop in there with them,
because I should have seen it coming and I didn't,
and it was just another moment of me being like, God,
I am not exercising my not my intelligence even but
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my imagination, I guess to its full capacity, and I
really need to up my game on that. So anyway,
they like, we don't get a lot when they are inside.
We just sort of get them trying to explore because
there are other mirrors around and they're trying to figure
out what they do and just sort of exploring, and
(36:37):
there's not a lot of forward progress on that. But
you know, we're beginning the move. So Okay, this is
when I'm still in the first episode, but I have
been jumping around a ton guys, so I'm sorry, but
this is when Cracker goes to decapitate Pound and Loofy
(37:00):
jumps in and uses his hockey on his leg to
stop the blade of the sword and keep him from
getting sliced up. And as the fight begins between Loofy
and Cracker there's that force emanating off of Cracker again.
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It's like the way it's animated is these sort of
streaks and black lines, and the implication keeps being to
me that like it's going to kill the things around him,
but they're not always killed. It seems like it has
to reach a certain pitch before everything within range dies.
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And when he starts doing it, they don't automatically begin
to flee because I guess they just assume it's not
always going to result, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
But there they're splitting up here and is running is
fighting with Cracker while Nami runs off with Pound, and
those streaks are happening, and she pulls out the Viaver
card and this is when like Pound has a strong
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reaction to her having the Viaver card, and.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
When she turns around, there's like a purple light coming
off of it. In I think it's Brulai that says,
what's come over all of you? Because everybody stops dead
and holds their hands up like, oh shit. But Brulay
doesn't seem to know why they're behaving this way. It's
(38:41):
everybody else, it's all the homies and King baumb so
I guess he is a homie. And he says we
can't proceed and it's spelled p r o hyphen seed
as a little all right, fine, homie can't disoacbey her.
(39:03):
It's treason. Oh my god, I didn't have the uh
subtitles on when I watch this, and I am just
getting to see all of the puns because of them
now that I'm recording, and that is excessive. Calm down.
We sense mama's soul and again, you guys, is this
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the way that like it's Is it just her fever card?
Is that why? Because like we've seen favorite cards before
and there's been no mention that people's souls are in them.
But she has the ability to like do things with souls.
So did she impart her soul into her views? And
why would she do that? What additional benefit does it give?
(39:49):
Is it simply things like this where it's an additional
sense of authority? It's just it's I guess, I guess
it's just That's what it comes down to, is that
her vever car just functions differently than everybody else is
because she's done this with it. So anyway, another moment,
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we go over to uh Loofy and Cracker has killed
a bunch more homies. Again I don't really get it,
and he also can grow more arms and more legs
and he is just shivaing it up really hard here
coming at Loofy and Loofy ish put through his paces
(40:36):
a little bit more than I was expecting. I just
didn't think it would be at all a close match
between him and the Sky. And granted, like he does
win in the end, but I just thought Lufy would
put him down much much more quickly. There is back
(40:57):
and forth with him where he is using hot as well,
and as this fight is going on, Nami is talking
to Brule and Brulet is telling the story about how
Big Mom was able to take down basically every big
player and either kill them or get them to join her,
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and she mentions that Beije Capone is one of the
only ones that like understood the danger that he was
in and threw in with Big Mom, and everybody else
tried to defy her and wound up getting taken out,
And we cut over to a scene where it's Cracker
(41:41):
versus I can't remember the guy's name, but he's got
the uh. He's shirtless with the like big red beads
around his neck and a sort of like Samoan look
to him. And he's always weird to me, because like
his expression ever changes from this wide smile, even when
he's in the middle of a fight, even when he's
(42:02):
like hurt, he's still grinning and like complimenting the dude.
And he gets taken down in the end, of course,
Rele says something about she sent brother Cracker to finish
the job. Your friend has nowhere to run. Imagine he
(42:26):
must be taking his last breath by now, and it
will never cease to make me laugh. How confident everybody
always is when it comes to Loofy, as if absolutely
everybody didn't, along the way also think that they could
take Loofy down no problem. They always think this, and
(42:47):
they are always wrong, and it's just embarrassing how frequently
they think this is not going to be a challenge.
You are so boring. You just keep making the same
mistake as everybody else. I want there to be a
bit of I'm trying to think of the word, I
(43:10):
guess kind of like a meta moment. I want there
to be a conversation with a bad guy and one
of the straw hats where they basically say what I've
just said, like, you are not only are you wildly
underestimating him, but you sound just like every other person
(43:32):
that we have already defeated. And I cannot tell you
how bored I am by this, because you are that
unoriginal and that diluted. Everybody thinks they can take him
down and we're still fucking here. So you know, I
don't know, guys, I just I want that to be
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used as an insult because it just seems to me
like there has to be somebody out there who is
a villain who wants to take movie down, but who
also has some self awareness around the whole thing. And
that's like some of what I'm missing, I think from
(44:16):
the villains in this show in general. It's not like
it never happens, but it's sort of it's rare enough.
Most of the villains have the same kind of speech
about how like, yeah, you've come a long way and
you've done some crazy things, and good for you, but
(44:37):
now you've reached the end of the road. You really
thought that you could come at me. You could do
this in my house. It's always the same sort of
energy of like, finally it's over for you, even though
this whole time when everybody thought that it was never over.
Now it is for real. And I want there to
(44:59):
be some who goes up against Loofy and expresses repeatedly,
this guy is not to be underestimated. I Am not
going to make the mistake of cockily declaring he has
met his match, because everybody has said that, and everybody
has been beaten. So obviously the common wisdom about what
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this goofball is capable of and how much of a
threat he actually poses is wrong. Otherwise he wouldn't be here.
So maybe we should take this shit more seriously and
look at what he has accomplished thus far, not as
if it's a fluke and that he got here by accident,
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but that the series of victories that he has won
over time is all due to the fact that he
himself is powerful and he has powerful friends who work
well together. I want there to be a villain who
like feels like he's a little nervous, you know, that
(46:07):
is looking at Lufy's track record and is sort of like, oh,
damn all right, guys, I need this to be taken
seriously by all of you and me. If there's like
some lowered on the hierarchy folks who are like, uh,
(46:29):
my boss, he really thinks this idiot kid is somebody
that's fine. But you know, there's just a sort of
swagger that everyone has had about really just not thinking
Lufy's going to be any sort of problem. And I
understand that like to a degree, people don't get to
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be huge, powerful villains without having a type of confidence
that a rational person doesn't have or at least isn't
a slave too. But I would also say that there
is something too. If you're going to be this powerful,
(47:15):
like on Big Mom's level, where she controls a series
of islands and where she's got lots of people who
are under her employ this is somebody who needs to
be better at their job and more conscious of their limitations,
(47:36):
and that's how they got there. You know. I just
don't think that you can rain this long and be
either foolishly overconfident or incompetent. And yeah, so anyway, that's
my kind of wish list here. But anyway, so we
(47:59):
get this weird moment where Brulay, she like disappears and
Nammy is watching her, like where did she what? Where
did she go? And there's just a mirror that comes
and falls at her feet and Brulay, it turns out,
(48:19):
is in there and this she grabs Nmmy by the
ankles and drags her in like toward the mirror, and
she causes Nammy to drop her her climatetacked staff. So
(48:40):
you know, Nammy had been able to do a couple
of cool things because of that, but then it gets
totally scooped out from under her, and uh, the dude
Pound saves Nommy. He grabs her and yanks her away
just before she gets into the mirror world, and Nammy
(49:04):
is able to get a hold of her climate tacked
staff again, and Zap's Brulay with thunderbolt tempo, and I
was sort of surprised at how effective this is. Brulay
like screams to high Heaven. We have a long slow
(49:26):
mo of her hair sticking out and all these lightning
bolts and everything, and then she sinks into the mirror
and Namy is sort of like, hey, not too bad
if I say so myself, And I was like, girl,
I don't know what you're thinking about. That bitch is
not dead, Like she's got smoke pouring out of her
mouth and everything. Sure, And right after that, Pound says,
(49:47):
and I'm like, oh, she'll be back, And NAMMY's like genuinely,
what really? And I was like, girl, that's never Yeah,
of course nobody dies that easy in this if only.
I'm kind of glad she's not dead, to be honest,
because Brulee is so weird and I really enjoy her
(50:08):
role in everything. But yeah, he says that her ability
lets her appear pretty much any place that has a mirror,
which is a That's one of those things that I
find really unnerving. There is a line that appears once
(50:29):
really early in Dressed and Files and then later on
again that I found haunting enough that it made me
surprised it doesn't come up more. But he says something
about how he doesn't keep mirrors in his apartment because
too many people can use them as windows or even doors,
(50:51):
and you know, there are all kinds of creatures out
there that are able to and I just like found
that so incredibly spooky. I was very much like, Nope,
don't like that. So her having this ability, it's like
almost on par with beings that can use shadows to
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spy or to travel or whatever, you know, Like that's
something that I've always found extremely unnerving, and I am
looking forward to seeing her again and seeing her pop
up because I'm probably gonna be hyper aware of if
there are windows or mirrors in the backgrounds of any
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scenes and just sort of low key waiting for her
to appear every time I see one. Anyway, Okay, so
I feel like I've kind of talked through everything in
this episode. The first one ends with like Nami brandishing
(51:57):
the Viver card and being extremely certain that none of
the homies are going to take up against her because
they have to follow her orders now because she has this. Again,
just because she's got a piece of her soul doesn't
mean that Big Mom would want them, Like is this
(52:17):
just having this put Big Mom in danger in any way?
I don't know, I don't know. But anyway, so the
second episode is taken up in great part by the
fight between Loufy and or No this is that was
the second episode. I'm so sorry by the fight between
Lufy and Cracker, and then all out duel Is when
(52:42):
we finally get to see him come to the surface,
the dude who is actually running these weird bodies, and
it's a result of Lufy going to fourth gear? Is
it fifth gear? I'm trying to remember which is the
one where he like bounces the way that he does
(53:02):
guys this whole thing with the bouncing. I wish I
could remember what it is that it's reminding me of.
It's driving me nuts. There is something both in the
face and in the stance that is extremely familiar, and
I can't put my finger on it, but it's part
(53:24):
of what's cracking me up so bad. And like the
argument before Cracker vanishes here that he is making to
Loofy is basically, if you really cared about your friend Sanji,
you would let him get married because he's better off
with his great standing from the academy or from the
(53:48):
act why did I say academy from the organization. He
will live in the lap of luxury, he will have
all these privileges, you know, all this sort of thing,
and you and your friends are trashy, low class nothing's
and you don't really fit in with him because he
(54:11):
is part of a really wealthy, powerful, famous family. So
it's actually sort of pathetic that you think he's gonna
stay your friend and gives a shit about you when
there's absolutely no benefit to him in remaining a straw
hat in comparison to marrying this woman and being accepted
(54:33):
into Big Mom's organization. And it's just the kind of
thing that is the exact wrong argument. I can't emphasize
enough how much this is not the tack to try
and pull with Loofy. It's just not going to work.
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It's just not going to work. But sure, of course
Lufy is all the more determined to like take this
guy down because Sonji would never fucking talk to us
that way. You don't know him at all, you don't
know what's best for him. And he eventually flattens Cracker
(55:18):
and then there's this moment where his head flies off,
and I'm like, wait what because he's in literal pieces
but there's no blood really, and so I'm like, hold on,
hold on, wait, what's going on here? And then you
see a couple of hands clasping the edges of the
(55:39):
of like the inside of the torso, and this guy
pulls himself up so it's like he made a mech
suit out of cookies and he says, I'll admit that
impressed me. Well done breaking my armor. And he has
(55:59):
this weird thing with his hair where it's there's three
kind of ponytails that stick straight out, but one of
them is flashing like a fuse that slit. And he
is the one. He can do all of these different
(56:22):
biscuit based defenses. And I am extremely curious to see
more of this, because I mean, first of all, all
of this being made out of cookies, it's just rat
as hell. I wish this guy wasn't so like goofy looking,
but what can you do. He consumed the biscus fruit
(56:47):
instead of biscuit biscuit fruit, But yeah, he can make
like powder and thus fog out of biscuits that sort
of coalesce into these other beings and it's like they're
not He can make them move, I guess. But he
was only fighting as the one guy initially, but yeah,
(57:09):
I can duplicate them as many times as I desire.
And all of these dudes are sort of behind him,
menacing Loofy, and he says, now do you see why
you will never see Vince smoke Sanji again? And Lufi
is sweating. I will say it doesn't seem like he's
(57:30):
not worried at all. But I mean, if anybody thought
that he was going to give up, you've never even
heard of Lufy. Come on now, dude. And the episode
ends with him just saying, I'm gonna see Sanjy. You're wrong,
and that's the end of the third episode. Now, the
one thing that I haven't touched on. There are two things. Actually.
(57:53):
One we touch base briefly with Sanjy at the window,
and there's like a butterfly that comes to him. I
don't know because he gets a sudden surprised expression when
it touches his skin, as if it looked like a
regular butterfly until he felt it and then he realized
it was something more. So I am really curious whether
(58:19):
or not this is something from like putting if she
was able to send him a message somehow, but I
didn't think that she really had any like superpowers like this,
so it must be something that maybe we haven't seen yet.
Although the butterfly is a really what's her name? The
poisoned girls thing, So maybe this is a message from
(58:41):
his sister because she has sort of seemed like the
weaklink in his family, you know, the one person that's
apparently sympathizes with him a bit more than other people do.
But uh that we don't really get any clothes. And
then we go over to Brooke and uh Pedro again
(59:05):
and they are just doing some reconcept. There's a point
where he's Brooke is asking Pedro like, what's the security
like as they approach a whole cake palace I think
it's called the palace or chateau. I think it's chateau,
And when he says, like, what's the security like, he says, though,
(59:28):
it's it's fiercely guarded by biscuit soldiers. And there's a
little pause, and then Brooke goes so like cookies and
you guys, his delivery never fails. It is so fucking funny,
and it's like he's reading my mind too, you know
the way he says it of just like do I
(59:51):
have this right? Is that? Okay? You know? Oh my god,
it kills me. It's so good. But yeah, yeah, not
a lot of for we're just sort of touching base
with them to see where they are, and there's not
a lot happening with them yet, so so okay, I'm
going to wrap this up. But I'm really really enjoying
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this section, y'all, I really am. I'm looking forward to
seeing where we're going because it has all been really
interesting and full of surprises. So thank you again everybody
for listening, Thank you Bernadette for commissioning this one, and
until next time to the lou Motherfuckers was an Unspoiled
(01:01:01):
Network podcast
This is an unspoiled network podcast. This is spoil Me,
covering one piece episodes seven ninety seven through seven ninety nine.
We're so close to eight hundred, guys, a very exciting
round number. This episode reveals some truly wild powers that
(00:29):
I am so here for. I cannot wait you guys
to like see how some of this stuff gets utilized.
Because ODA does tend to keep surprises under wraps until later,
we've already got some surprises to be honest. Welcome to
spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I am Natasha.
(01:11):
Thank you very much to Bernadette for commissioning this episode. Yeah,
this is There are so many strange psychouts in this
particular arc. What I mean is just simply like you
know we first. I mean, if you start with the
(01:34):
most basic stuff, you have the moment where you think
we've got the like snowfalling, no psych it's cotton candy. Actually,
you have the thing where it's like, oh, it looks
like clothes, it looks like buildings, it looks like whatever,
(01:54):
and it's chocolate. Actually it still apparently serves the former purpose,
but it also is chocolate. Then you've got the whole
thing with like objects that are actually possessed, I guess
is probably the best way to say it. So they
just look like ordinary trees and flowers, but like not,
(02:17):
they're not. They're not though. And then you've got people
in the woods that it turns out, aren't really people,
they're animals enchanted to look like people. And then you've
got this dude who's buried in the ground who looks
like he's a giant, but then he gets yanked up
out of the ground. Nope, not a giant. He's just
(02:39):
got a very large head. Although I would argue, I
would argue that man is so much larger than both
Nami and Loofy that I would still call him a giant.
He might be like a junior giant, fair, but like
a giant nonetheless in my opinion. But that's fine. Then
(03:01):
you've got broad turning up. I thought it was sort
of weird that his name was Cracker, not just because
of how hilarious it is as a nickname bearing a
lot of social weight at our current point in history,
but really, what I thought was so funny was that
(03:23):
everybody else has had like extremely specific dessert names that
were sort of I don't want to say, like necessarily fancy,
because pudding isn't fancy, but it's very you know, and
cracker is it's a food, yes, but it's not a
dessert specifically, And it just didn't really seem to go
(03:45):
with the theme, but it went just enough with the
theme that I was like, well, okay, I guess and
then finding out like, this dude isn't who it is either,
this guy is actually made of cookies, you guys like, again,
(04:06):
for the record, I just want to say I'm not
mad at it, not even one little bit, but it
is extremely fucking funny to me, Like what or what
everything isn't anything? And I am extremely interested on how
this is going to be carried out going forward, because
(04:29):
I just really don't think we've seen the last of this.
Then we've got the uh, the reveal of who Lola is,
and you guys said like, I think it was Sarah.
I'm in the chat at one point who said something
like does what's her name's face remind you of anybody?
(04:52):
And it did, but I just like could not put
my finger on who it was, and come to find
out that it was Lola that was who we were
seeing in her face and Lola's mom is big Mom,
so we get a very helpful flashback to Nami being
(05:16):
given the viaver card of Lola's mom. And this is
one of those things that you know, sometimes it'll flash
back to something that I'm like, obviously, you think I
forgot this come on show, And then there are things
like this where I'm like, no, I absolutely did not
remember this at all, And even as I am watching
the replay of it, a part of my mind is going,
(05:37):
this is new information. You didn't know any of this,
even though I know that's not true. So that's an
interesting development. And this dude who goes by the name Pound,
I am so sorry, guys, but bro basic Glee was
(06:01):
used as like a stud to get her knocked up,
and he goes by the name Pound. Like, I Am
not saying it's exactly what it looks like, but it
certainly feels like it's something that it looks like. I
don't know, is it just me, I'm just I'm just
(06:24):
asking questions. But yeah, he is Lola's dad, which makes
a lot of sense because he's just got some peculiarities
about his face that are specific to Lola as well.
So I'm into it. This is a fun series of reveals.
(06:48):
I also just really like being reminded of the friendship
that Nami has with Lola, because it's so like, it's
so infrequent that there are female characters that are kind
of side characters that we stay friends with. There are
(07:09):
a lot of female characters that are really crucial to
the plot that we stay friends with, but this is
a different vibe when it's somebody who's just sort of
not absolutely central to everything, and they might play a
key role in certain events or plans, but they could
(07:31):
have been kind of replaced by anybody. A lot of times,
those people we don't really touch base with again, and
if we do feel friendly towards them, they usually tend
to be dudes. And I was just excited about Lola,
and you guys, remember like at the time, I found
her to be really, really funny, and I want I'm
(07:53):
hoping that because Big Mama is her mother, she will
be coming to this event and we will get to
see her again, because she just was a great time.
In my opinion, I loved her. So Okay, let's start
at the beginning, because we I'm jumping ahead a considerable
(08:14):
amount on all of this stuff. So there's this weird
moment the beginning of UH seven ninety seven. I just
realized that when I did my intro, I didn't name
the episodes that I was covering. That is, I feel like,
I don't usually fuck that up so bad, but I'll
just go through them as I start to cover them.
(08:36):
Seven ninety seven is a top officer the Sweet three
General Cracker appears and I didn't I tried not to
read these title cards, so when he gets named Cracker
out loud, I was just fucking dying laughing. So Cracker appears,
and this dude is a real like there's a sort
(08:59):
of look to him that I found very like bland.
In this universe, we have got a high standard now
for the appearance of our baddies, And so when a
guy comes out and just sort of looks like a
spirit Halloween Viking, it's just whatever, you know, very much.
(09:25):
So anyway he steps out, all of the homies that
are looking around and like seeing that he has arrived,
are sort of like, wait, what what is he doing here?
And there's a general vibe of like, this dude is
so high level that he is almost never home on
(09:48):
this island, that he is always out doing big deal
shit and so for him to be in the woods
is odd. And then he does this thing that I
I didn't really understand, where he projects this light outward
and he causes a massive like crater, almost a death
(10:13):
of all of these trees at once, and it's unclear
to me why he even did it. It was obviously
in terms of like its narrative purpose, it's there for
us to see his ability, but it didn't really seem
(10:34):
to do anything for him in the moment. So I
wasn't totally sure why he needed to kill all of
these trees. It just seemed like kind of a flex
or like they were just annoyed with him, and or
he was annoyed with them because they were in his way.
So I don't know, but he does this. We cut
(10:56):
back to like Nami and Lufy haven't seen him yet.
He's like in the forest further away when he does this,
and eventually he does it a second time in front
of them, so we kind of like know that some
shit is coming. And I don't know exactly how this
works because this guy, it's like he has this particular ability,
(11:17):
but also we find out that he isn't real and
the ability that he is displaying here doesn't feel like
it falls under the what's the word I want under
the purview of the guy who ate the biscuit biscuit fruit.
(11:41):
So I'm not entirely certain how this works. And I'm
not sure if it was explained and I simply missed it,
or if it isn't explained yet and it will be,
or you know, if I'm supposed to be kind of
making some assumptions here, because as far as I understand,
(12:02):
General Cracker is a real guy, that this dude is
simply imitating using biscuits. So, and I may have that wrong.
It was sort of mixed for me, and I was
like trying to understand, but I figured I would wait
and that you guys could help me. I couldn't tell
(12:22):
whether it was that Biscuit's a real guy and this
dude's sort of impersonating him using biscuits, or do people
think because he says something about how like nobody has
ever seen my real face or very few people, so
is he simply like going about the world kind of
using Cracker as his avatar in life, and so everybody
(12:48):
thinks that General Biscuit is a real or general Cracker
is a real guy when actually he's just a biscuit man.
I maybe it's that one, but if the guy who
like makes him is using these biscuit powers, I just
(13:13):
don't understand how the guy, once he is created, has
what seems to be a completely separate set of abilities.
So there's nobody in the chat today. It doesn't look
like so I don't think I'm gonna get an answer
for a little bit. But uh, everybody listening, if you
(13:34):
want to help me with this eventually, please do so. Anyway,
he comes in, he grabs Pound by the hair and
yanks him out of the ground like he's a turnip
that this guy is just harvesting out of his little
vegetable garden. And it is revealed that this dude is
(13:58):
not actually a giant, that he just has a really
big head, And it turns out that he was sent
here to kill Pound, and the whole like, the whole
vibe here is that Pound. I don't know if I
(14:19):
want to say that he still has like feelings for
Lynnln exactly, because I feel like maybe that's too overimp
too much of an oversimplification. But I think it's more
that like he has affection still for his daughters, obviously,
because that's why he's here. He's like risking it all
(14:39):
to see Chiffon, who got married recently, and he wants
to give his blessing, and so he is here and
seems to just be like how to say this, It
seems like he has just sort of disappointed to the
extent of of being diluted a little bit at the
(15:04):
fact that evidently Big Mom not only doesn't care about
him anymore, but actively wants him to be dead. And
there's just a sense for me of like, Okay, look,
I accept that it's over between us, but like it
didn't have to be like that, though, you know what
(15:25):
I'm saying. And I felt bad for him because you know,
it's like the fact that she has disposed of him
and just doesn't like it's not just get him out
of here, I don't want to see him again. But
now it's like he's telling her business around. So that's
(15:48):
sort of the implication here is like he might have
been at one point allowed to just do his thing,
but because he had to hang out and open his
mouth and tell enemies all of this shit, he's sort
of ruined it for himself and now we have to
take you out, dude, and it's sort of your own fault,
(16:10):
you know. So this is when Nami hears him say Lola,
and she's thinking back, and we get the flashback to
her and Lola and her lying about being a cross dresser,
and then eventually the friendship that they have when Lola
is turned back into a person again, and then the
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reminder about her giving Nami a vivercard. Now here's another thing, guys,
that I have trouble with this episode, and I really
hope that y'all can clear this up for me. Reminder again,
there'sn't anybody in the chat right now, so it's possible
that I won't get the explanation until later. I am
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assuming that there is an explanation, and I am also
kind of assuming that I'm supposed to know it, but
I will admit maybe I'm wrong about that, and maybe
it's coming as an explanation later. That's the one thing
about this show that I find frustrating sometimes is that
it and I think it's the nature at this point.
It's such a long running series that I think the
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author just takes it for granted. You're gonna keep watching,
You're gonna keep reading the manga, so even if he
doesn't explain things right away, you'll get there and it'll
be fine. But because events are often told out of order,
it can be really confusing how the whether or not
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I'm supposed to know things, whether or not something is
just far enough behind us that I've forgotten, you know
what I mean? Because there's just so many episodes that
the assumption is both that you will definitely keep watching
and also probably that you've like watched the whole series
several times so far, so you will remember everything at
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this point. And like with me covering it for the
first time, the way that I'm covering it, it can
just be a little bit tough with not just the pacing,
but the timing in which things are revealed, and so
things like this, I'll get hung up on a little bit.
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But is the Viver card supposed to be like basically
a signal that Nami is either friends with Big Mom
or that she carries enough social cachet to represent Big Mom,
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Because like she pulls out the Viver card and you know,
out of the gate. First of all, the viv card
has the name Lola written on it, which is very
confusing because it's not Lola's Viver card. It's from Lola,
but it's her mom's card. So I already was sort
of like, wait, hold on, did I have it wrong?
And no, I didn't. For whatever reason, it just says
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Lola on it, and then the whole forest of homies
reacts really dramatically when they see it, as if Nanmy
is carrying around a heart in a cube, the way
that Caesar's heart is being kept in a cube. And
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I don't know why they're reacting this way, because it
just to me, I guess it's just supposed to be that,
like a Viver card is rare enough that it's only
going to be given out to people who are important,
and so if she has one, then that must mean
that she is somebody who is very high level. But
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she literally just told the story about getting this card
from Lola, So it doesn't make sense to me that
they're reacting this way when she has revealed the source
of it and has said that it wasn't big Mom
who gave it to her, it was her daughter, who's
like out and about and and you know, even if
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she does have some standing, I don't get the impression
that that should have that much of an effect on
the homies that they would freak out kind of the
way that they are. So I just didn't really understand
like their reaction to this whole thing. It felt. It
felt just like incredibly over the top for what's actually
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what this actually is. But anyway, I'm just realizing now, guys,
last episode, did I ever I thought that I had
covered everything, and I don't remember if I actually ever
talked about Caesar Clown and what happened with him. I
thought I had covered everything, but I'm thinking I didn't.
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I'm just gonna mention it really quick now though, because
I touched on it briefly, but I don't think I
ever went into depth regarding the scene, because it turns
out that Caesar Clown his you know, Sanji was the
one who had his heart, and Sanji just tosses it
off to fucking I think Veto, and so Bro has
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his heart and now there's a whole thing with uh,
oh my god. I just was saying, Caesar Clown being
forced to work on this drug that will make people
into giants, and we find out that like part of
what Big Mom is wanting, part of her goal is
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that she wants everybody to be like her. She wants
all of the rest of the world to be giants
as well. In a way that's genuinely kind of sad
because it's giving lonely. You know. It's like, I think
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that it's really supposed to be just that she feels
so that she's like wants people to join her in
her gluttony, and it's supposed to just be kind of
selfish seeming, and of course it is selfish seeming, like
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she wants to change people into other things in order
to hang out with them, so it is selfish, but
there is something about that goal that like it was
unexpectedly sad, And every day I was watching that episode
again with my husband and he was like, as she
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was saying, this is what I want for the world,
and she's showing like a dope tea party and everybody's
giant and eating food, Marshall's like, that doesn't sound bad.
Why are we fighting this? And honestly, I couldn't help
but agree. It does seem for me like maybe that's fine,
but of course we don't have a safe way to
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do this. And when we're in Caesar Klan's head. You know,
what he decides to do is he had been given
apparently this assignment years earlier, and we get an amazing sequence. Honestly,
it was genuinely really funny where he is drinking with
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you know, it's partying with like hot chicks, but there's
a sense a very strong like these are sex workers
or strippers, you know, because it's like we're trying to
do that sort of debauchery vibes to the scene. And
it's just really funny because there has been no hint
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of this in his personality thus far, so it does
feel like it's sort of coming out of nowhere, but
evidently it's supposed to be that. Like, he wasn't entirely
squandering the money. He was actually trying to accomplish what
she wanted. However, he was not succeeding, and rather than
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like continuing to push using that money, he decided to go, well,
I guess I can't do it, and then kind of
throw his hands up in the air and use up
the rest of the money for fun. So initially he
was going for it in good faith, and then he
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eventually just sort of throws all of the money at
the window out the window, not at the window. So yeah,
he he doesn't have the money left and he doesn't
have anything to show for it because that gigantism drug
that he was testing on the children didn't work out
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super well as we have seen, so he is calling
it a complete impossibility. In his opinion, if I couldn't
accomplish it, then it is impossible. And the way he
decides to play it is, I'm going to blame all
of the straw hats for the fact that this didn't
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work out, and she won't be able to hold it
against me because I tried my best and they came
in and wreck shit. But even as he was thinking like, oh,
this is a perfect scapegoat, and I was agreeing honestly,
like the plane itself in a vacuum isn't too bad.
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But all I kept thinking was yeah, but you are
standing right in front of her now, and that means
that she is going to just ask you to re
create the scenario that you just described. You are not
out of it, not by any means. And he just
is all surprised Pikachu face when she wants him to
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like recreate those results with a new lab, and she
offers him unlimited funds essentially, and he knows that this
isn't something that really works, but it's under pain of death.
So he's in this predicament now where they have his heart,
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and he has told her that he has gotten successful
results before. Now the thing is that it causes really
bad what do you call it, Oh, my god, detox
not exactly, but you know what I'm talking about. When
you take the drug away, the kids kind of lose it.
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And so I would argue that despite the fact that
the kids lose it when they get the drug taken away,
and despite that, I would definitely call that a failure.
I think that probably Big Mom doesn't care that much,
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you know what I'm saying. I can't help but feel
like even if it requires people to constantly take it,
if anything, the fact that this would put folks more
under her control might be a plus to Big Mom.
And I don't know, I understand why he's so worried.
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I definitely get it, but I do sort of think
that it might be fine in the end, so long
as it succeeds in the first part. Are the side
effects might not matter to her? I don't know. So anyway,
I just wanted to mention that now that I was
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reminded of it right here. So okay, this is again
we have Oh I forgot that there's this wild view
because the dude who shows up here, I don't remember
if we actually get his name. It's the guy that's
a rabbit and he's riding on a crane. I guess
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that guy. I think the subtitle has just said Randolph
and Randolph's crane. So the crane isn't doesn't have like
a name really, but it can talk. And the two
of them are very kind of sibling ish in the
way that they behave with each other because they are
so ready to point and blame at one another if
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something goes wrong. So the crane comes in hard about
to attack, and we see Cracker getting really really pissed
and yelling halt, and as he's getting angry, he is
emitting that force field again and it causes all of
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the homies around him to die, and we just see
a series of like dead trees and piles of like
dirt and ash that have just the impressions of faces
where their faces used to be. It's very haunting, actually,
it's really creepy, but I don't understand exactly how this
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works if it's supposed to be that he can take
back the life force. So this guy, the fact that
he's like killing homies left and right, I was sort
of feeling like, is he on her side or not?
Like it just felt inefficient. You know, We've got all
of these willing henchmen and you're taking all of them out,
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and like for what reason. It doesn't even seem like
in the moment he needs to do this here either.
It almost feels like a pure reaction to Randolph jumping
in and him being pissed that Randolph is like fucking
with his just his catch. Essentially, he's like, I wanted
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credit for this. How dare you you know? That's that's
the energy. It's uh, it's weird. I don't understand why
he keeps doing it. I don't understand what is happening here.
And Randolph and the Crane are extremely apologetic and are
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bowing to him and asking for forgiveness and everything, and
so Noamy and Lufy are realizing like, Okay, this guy
is probably somewhat high up the food chain. And this
is when Cracker says, uh, you know how mom always
wants to say ahead of the curves. Considering straw hat
Lufy was the man who beat Do Flamingo, she assumed
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Brulai would have a hard time, so she sent me
and Brulay, who is off somewhere else for the duration
up till now, is apparently making her way over, and
she turns up as soon as he says this, She's like,
excuse me, did I fucking hear you right? Did you
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say that she thought I was going to have a
hard time? And it is wild, dude, because she comes
out and it's like, you see her face, you see
her actual face, but then you see what almost looked
like tentacles or something. And it turns out that this
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is a separate character, a tree king Baum, the master
of the Seducing Woods. And I don't know if it's
just that he was like formed early on in the
creation of the Seducing Woods, and so he was made.
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He was one of the first made from people's soul pieces,
and that's why he just happens to be in charge
now by default kind of. But I couldn't tell if
he was just a homie like the others, or if
he was his own being. And yeah, let's see I'm
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trying to the moment where he's talking about, yeah, that
she sent more than one because she knew that nobody
should be let like nobody should walk out of this
forest alive, and so we need to cover all of
our bases. But Brulay, Yeah, she is very cranky at
the fact that her abilities were doubted, despite apparently that
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being correct. Now, I you know, I say that, but
I will cop to the fact that, like she's captured too.
So far, she's got Chopper, she's got Carrot, and I
could see her feeling like if you'd given me a second,
I would have gotten to the rest of them too.
I just didn't get a chance. But uh, the thing
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that's being mentioned here over and over is just the
fact that, like we've got this wedding coming up. It's
only like a day away at this point, maybe still
two days, but like you know, the clock is ticking,
and it means a lot to Big Mom to get
this alliance in place. So it's not even necessarily like
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we didn't think you could do it. It was more
so even we didn't know if you would be able
to get it done in time. So at this point,
bruleat first of all, she like releases all of the
animals that were enchanted to look like straw hats, and
so they all run off. I want to mention too, guys,
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that I had asked about her mirror in a previous episode,
and here it turns up and it's like that she
can just make mirrors out of nothing with her bare hands.
So I had somehow missed that last time. I think
that I just thought when she gestured that she was
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pulling a mirror that she carried with her out of somewhere,
and I wasn't realizing that she was creating a portal. Really,
it's like it's it's I don't even really want to
call it a mirror exactly, because it feels too versatile
for that, but uh, I think it just I will
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just call it that for the sake of simplicity. And
she holds up the mirror that has Carrot and Chopper
in there, and we eventually get to go inside the
mirror where they are, and I was pretty stoked with
this because it just seemed like a cool opportunity. I
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don't really know where we're going to wind up with it,
but I really thought that the idea of them being
in a different world where maybe they could do something.
I don't know what kind of possibilities there are, whether
if you're being held by somebody's devil fruit ability, maybe
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you're going to be very limited, you know, on what
it is that you're able to do. But I did
find it really funny that we hop in there with them,
because I should have seen it coming and I didn't,
and it was just another moment of me being like, God,
I am not exercising my not my intelligence even but
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my imagination, I guess to its full capacity, and I
really need to up my game on that. So anyway,
they like, we don't get a lot when they are inside.
We just sort of get them trying to explore because
there are other mirrors around and they're trying to figure
out what they do and just sort of exploring, and
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there's not a lot of forward progress on that. But
you know, we're beginning the move. So Okay, this is
when I'm still in the first episode, but I have
been jumping around a ton guys, so I'm sorry, but
this is when Cracker goes to decapitate Pound and Loofy
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jumps in and uses his hockey on his leg to
stop the blade of the sword and keep him from
getting sliced up. And as the fight begins between Loofy
and Cracker there's that force emanating off of Cracker again.
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It's like the way it's animated is these sort of
streaks and black lines, and the implication keeps being to
me that like it's going to kill the things around him,
but they're not always killed. It seems like it has
to reach a certain pitch before everything within range dies.
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And when he starts doing it, they don't automatically begin
to flee because I guess they just assume it's not
always going to result, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
But there they're splitting up here and is running is
fighting with Cracker while Nami runs off with Pound, and
those streaks are happening, and she pulls out the Viaver
card and this is when like Pound has a strong
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reaction to her having the Viaver card, and.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
When she turns around, there's like a purple light coming
off of it. In I think it's Brulai that says,
what's come over all of you? Because everybody stops dead
and holds their hands up like, oh shit. But Brulay
doesn't seem to know why they're behaving this way. It's
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everybody else, it's all the homies and King baumb so
I guess he is a homie. And he says we
can't proceed and it's spelled p r o hyphen seed
as a little all right, fine, homie can't disoacbey her.
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It's treason. Oh my god, I didn't have the uh
subtitles on when I watch this, and I am just
getting to see all of the puns because of them
now that I'm recording, and that is excessive. Calm down.
We sense mama's soul and again, you guys, is this
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the way that like it's Is it just her fever card?
Is that why? Because like we've seen favorite cards before
and there's been no mention that people's souls are in them.
But she has the ability to like do things with souls.
So did she impart her soul into her views? And
why would she do that? What additional benefit does it give?
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Is it simply things like this where it's an additional
sense of authority? It's just it's I guess, I guess
it's just That's what it comes down to, is that
her vever car just functions differently than everybody else is
because she's done this with it. So anyway, another moment,
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we go over to uh Loofy and Cracker has killed
a bunch more homies. Again I don't really get it,
and he also can grow more arms and more legs
and he is just shivaing it up really hard here
coming at Loofy and Loofy ish put through his paces
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a little bit more than I was expecting. I just
didn't think it would be at all a close match
between him and the Sky. And granted, like he does
win in the end, but I just thought Lufy would
put him down much much more quickly. There is back
(40:57):
and forth with him where he is using hot as well,
and as this fight is going on, Nami is talking
to Brule and Brulet is telling the story about how
Big Mom was able to take down basically every big
player and either kill them or get them to join her,
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and she mentions that Beije Capone is one of the
only ones that like understood the danger that he was
in and threw in with Big Mom, and everybody else
tried to defy her and wound up getting taken out,
And we cut over to a scene where it's Cracker
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versus I can't remember the guy's name, but he's got
the uh. He's shirtless with the like big red beads
around his neck and a sort of like Samoan look
to him. And he's always weird to me, because like
his expression ever changes from this wide smile, even when
he's in the middle of a fight, even when he's
(42:02):
like hurt, he's still grinning and like complimenting the dude.
And he gets taken down in the end, of course,
Rele says something about she sent brother Cracker to finish
the job. Your friend has nowhere to run. Imagine he
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must be taking his last breath by now, and it
will never cease to make me laugh. How confident everybody
always is when it comes to Loofy, as if absolutely
everybody didn't, along the way also think that they could
take Loofy down no problem. They always think this, and
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they are always wrong, and it's just embarrassing how frequently
they think this is not going to be a challenge.
You are so boring. You just keep making the same
mistake as everybody else. I want there to be a
bit of I'm trying to think of the word, I
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guess kind of like a meta moment. I want there
to be a conversation with a bad guy and one
of the straw hats where they basically say what I've
just said, like, you are not only are you wildly
underestimating him, but you sound just like every other person
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that we have already defeated. And I cannot tell you
how bored I am by this, because you are that
unoriginal and that diluted. Everybody thinks they can take him
down and we're still fucking here. So you know, I
don't know, guys, I just I want that to be
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used as an insult because it just seems to me
like there has to be somebody out there who is
a villain who wants to take movie down, but who
also has some self awareness around the whole thing. And
that's like some of what I'm missing, I think from
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the villains in this show in general. It's not like
it never happens, but it's sort of it's rare enough.
Most of the villains have the same kind of speech
about how like, yeah, you've come a long way and
you've done some crazy things, and good for you, but
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now you've reached the end of the road. You really
thought that you could come at me. You could do
this in my house. It's always the same sort of
energy of like, finally it's over for you, even though
this whole time when everybody thought that it was never over.
Now it is for real. And I want there to
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be some who goes up against Loofy and expresses repeatedly,
this guy is not to be underestimated. I Am not
going to make the mistake of cockily declaring he has
met his match, because everybody has said that, and everybody
has been beaten. So obviously the common wisdom about what
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this goofball is capable of and how much of a
threat he actually poses is wrong. Otherwise he wouldn't be here.
So maybe we should take this shit more seriously and
look at what he has accomplished thus far, not as
if it's a fluke and that he got here by accident,
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but that the series of victories that he has won
over time is all due to the fact that he
himself is powerful and he has powerful friends who work
well together. I want there to be a villain who
like feels like he's a little nervous, you know, that
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is looking at Lufy's track record and is sort of like, oh,
damn all right, guys, I need this to be taken
seriously by all of you and me. If there's like
some lowered on the hierarchy folks who are like, uh,
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my boss, he really thinks this idiot kid is somebody
that's fine. But you know, there's just a sort of
swagger that everyone has had about really just not thinking
Lufy's going to be any sort of problem. And I
understand that like to a degree, people don't get to
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be huge, powerful villains without having a type of confidence
that a rational person doesn't have or at least isn't
a slave too. But I would also say that there
is something too. If you're going to be this powerful,
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like on Big Mom's level, where she controls a series
of islands and where she's got lots of people who
are under her employ this is somebody who needs to
be better at their job and more conscious of their limitations,
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and that's how they got there. You know. I just
don't think that you can rain this long and be
either foolishly overconfident or incompetent. And yeah, so anyway, that's
my kind of wish list here. But anyway, so we
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get this weird moment where Brulay, she like disappears and
Nammy is watching her, like where did she what? Where
did she go? And there's just a mirror that comes
and falls at her feet and Brulay, it turns out,
(48:19):
is in there and this she grabs Nmmy by the
ankles and drags her in like toward the mirror, and
she causes Nammy to drop her her climatetacked staff. So
(48:40):
you know, Nammy had been able to do a couple
of cool things because of that, but then it gets
totally scooped out from under her, and uh, the dude
Pound saves Nommy. He grabs her and yanks her away
just before she gets into the mirror world, and Nammy
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is able to get a hold of her climate tacked
staff again, and Zap's Brulay with thunderbolt tempo, and I
was sort of surprised at how effective this is. Brulay
like screams to high Heaven. We have a long slow
(49:26):
mo of her hair sticking out and all these lightning
bolts and everything, and then she sinks into the mirror
and Namy is sort of like, hey, not too bad
if I say so myself, And I was like, girl,
I don't know what you're thinking about. That bitch is
not dead, Like she's got smoke pouring out of her
mouth and everything. Sure, And right after that, Pound says,
(49:47):
and I'm like, oh, she'll be back, And NAMMY's like genuinely,
what really? And I was like, girl, that's never Yeah,
of course nobody dies that easy in this if only.
I'm kind of glad she's not dead, to be honest,
because Brulee is so weird and I really enjoy her
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role in everything. But yeah, he says that her ability
lets her appear pretty much any place that has a mirror,
which is a That's one of those things that I
find really unnerving. There is a line that appears once
(50:29):
really early in Dressed and Files and then later on
again that I found haunting enough that it made me
surprised it doesn't come up more. But he says something
about how he doesn't keep mirrors in his apartment because
too many people can use them as windows or even doors,
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and you know, there are all kinds of creatures out
there that are able to and I just like found
that so incredibly spooky. I was very much like, Nope,
don't like that. So her having this ability, it's like
almost on par with beings that can use shadows to
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spy or to travel or whatever, you know, Like that's
something that I've always found extremely unnerving, and I am
looking forward to seeing her again and seeing her pop
up because I'm probably gonna be hyper aware of if
there are windows or mirrors in the backgrounds of any
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scenes and just sort of low key waiting for her
to appear every time I see one. Anyway, Okay, so
I feel like I've kind of talked through everything in
this episode. The first one ends with like Nami brandishing
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the Viver card and being extremely certain that none of
the homies are going to take up against her because
they have to follow her orders now because she has this. Again,
just because she's got a piece of her soul doesn't
mean that Big Mom would want them, Like is this
(52:17):
just having this put Big Mom in danger in any way?
I don't know, I don't know. But anyway, so the
second episode is taken up in great part by the
fight between Loufy and or No this is that was
the second episode. I'm so sorry by the fight between
Lufy and Cracker, and then all out duel Is when
(52:42):
we finally get to see him come to the surface,
the dude who is actually running these weird bodies, and
it's a result of Lufy going to fourth gear? Is
it fifth gear? I'm trying to remember which is the
one where he like bounces the way that he does
(53:02):
guys this whole thing with the bouncing. I wish I
could remember what it is that it's reminding me of.
It's driving me nuts. There is something both in the
face and in the stance that is extremely familiar, and
I can't put my finger on it, but it's part
(53:24):
of what's cracking me up so bad. And like the
argument before Cracker vanishes here that he is making to
Loofy is basically, if you really cared about your friend Sanji,
you would let him get married because he's better off
with his great standing from the academy or from the
(53:48):
act why did I say academy from the organization. He
will live in the lap of luxury, he will have
all these privileges, you know, all this sort of thing,
and you and your friends are trashy, low class nothing's
and you don't really fit in with him because he
(54:11):
is part of a really wealthy, powerful, famous family. So
it's actually sort of pathetic that you think he's gonna
stay your friend and gives a shit about you when
there's absolutely no benefit to him in remaining a straw
hat in comparison to marrying this woman and being accepted
(54:33):
into Big Mom's organization. And it's just the kind of
thing that is the exact wrong argument. I can't emphasize
enough how much this is not the tack to try
and pull with Loofy. It's just not going to work.
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It's just not going to work. But sure, of course
Lufy is all the more determined to like take this
guy down because Sonji would never fucking talk to us
that way. You don't know him at all, you don't
know what's best for him. And he eventually flattens Cracker
(55:18):
and then there's this moment where his head flies off,
and I'm like, wait what because he's in literal pieces
but there's no blood really, and so I'm like, hold on,
hold on, wait, what's going on here? And then you
see a couple of hands clasping the edges of the
(55:39):
of like the inside of the torso, and this guy
pulls himself up so it's like he made a mech
suit out of cookies and he says, I'll admit that
impressed me. Well done breaking my armor. And he has
(55:59):
this weird thing with his hair where it's there's three
kind of ponytails that stick straight out, but one of
them is flashing like a fuse that slit. And he
is the one. He can do all of these different
(56:22):
biscuit based defenses. And I am extremely curious to see
more of this, because I mean, first of all, all
of this being made out of cookies, it's just rat
as hell. I wish this guy wasn't so like goofy looking,
but what can you do. He consumed the biscus fruit
(56:47):
instead of biscuit biscuit fruit, But yeah, he can make
like powder and thus fog out of biscuits that sort
of coalesce into these other beings and it's like they're
not He can make them move, I guess. But he
was only fighting as the one guy initially, but yeah,
(57:09):
I can duplicate them as many times as I desire.
And all of these dudes are sort of behind him,
menacing Loofy, and he says, now do you see why
you will never see Vince smoke Sanji again? And Lufi
is sweating. I will say it doesn't seem like he's
(57:30):
not worried at all. But I mean, if anybody thought
that he was going to give up, you've never even
heard of Lufy. Come on now, dude. And the episode
ends with him just saying, I'm gonna see Sanjy. You're wrong,
and that's the end of the third episode. Now, the
one thing that I haven't touched on. There are two things. Actually.
(57:53):
One we touch base briefly with Sanjy at the window,
and there's like a butterfly that comes to him. I
don't know because he gets a sudden surprised expression when
it touches his skin, as if it looked like a
regular butterfly until he felt it and then he realized
it was something more. So I am really curious whether
(58:19):
or not this is something from like putting if she
was able to send him a message somehow, but I
didn't think that she really had any like superpowers like this,
so it must be something that maybe we haven't seen yet.
Although the butterfly is a really what's her name? The
poisoned girls thing, So maybe this is a message from
(58:41):
his sister because she has sort of seemed like the
weaklink in his family, you know, the one person that's
apparently sympathizes with him a bit more than other people do.
But uh that we don't really get any clothes. And
then we go over to Brooke and uh Pedro again
(59:05):
and they are just doing some reconcept. There's a point
where he's Brooke is asking Pedro like, what's the security
like as they approach a whole cake palace I think
it's called the palace or chateau. I think it's chateau,
And when he says, like, what's the security like, he says, though,
(59:28):
it's it's fiercely guarded by biscuit soldiers. And there's a
little pause, and then Brooke goes so like cookies and
you guys, his delivery never fails. It is so fucking funny,
and it's like he's reading my mind too, you know
the way he says it of just like do I
(59:51):
have this right? Is that? Okay? You know? Oh my god,
it kills me. It's so good. But yeah, yeah, not
a lot of for we're just sort of touching base
with them to see where they are, and there's not
a lot happening with them yet, so so okay, I'm
going to wrap this up. But I'm really really enjoying
(01:00:12):
this section, y'all, I really am. I'm looking forward to
seeing where we're going because it has all been really
interesting and full of surprises. So thank you again everybody
for listening, Thank you Bernadette for commissioning this one, and
until next time to the lou Motherfuckers was an Unspoiled
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