TV | Episode of Skypiea! - One Piece With A Lime

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And I will fly like an eagle or a chicken into the island.
That's my bit this week. Congratulations, I hope you
loved it. It was great.
Anytime you put those vocal pipes to work, I'm a happy
camper. Yeah, well, you know, I would
have put a lot more effort in this weekend.
I was actually looking forward to it, but unfortunately life

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constraints occurred so I I had to shelve that idea in Access.
Yeah, sometimes it'll happen. Well, you hate to see it.
I was really looking forward to,you know, you know, this is this
is easily my favorite musical bit that I've done for this
podcast was when I did the the the sky Pia end of Arc special.
And I did fly me to the moon, but Enteroo's version?

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Yeah, that's a classic that lives on, in, asked him.
For me, for us and the fans is great.
Yeah, maybe after the fact. I'll, I'll, I'll do, I'll, I'll
do a track and send it to Jordy and say, hey, have a, have one
of our new editors throw this atthe end or something like that
for, for the, for the folks at home.
Honestly, we might have peaked around that time with with your

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rendition of of Fly Me to the Moon.
It's it's hard to beat, honestly.
Like what it it it it hits everybeat that the end of the that
the end of the arc covers a. 1000%.
Yeah, it's, it's it's really hard to beat.
Like, how do you fly me to the moon?
Motherfucker's literally on his way to the moon.

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So how you doing today Christian?
I'll go pretty good. Yeah, I'm doing pretty well.
And for the listeners at home, in case you didn't know, yeah,
we watched the episode of Skype here this week.
Did we tell him last week that'swe were doing?
Don't think so. I think we didn't have the plan
set in motion just yet. So we just said we're going to
do something that's not going tobe normal episodes.

(01:53):
Right, right. Wow, we're we're getting worse
and worse at this as the week's go on, aren't we?
Yeah. Well, we have.
I mean, the good news is we havea plan for the next couple of
weeks that the listeners will learn eventually.
Yeah, yeah. Hey, you know, it's even better
we we have a a fantastic summaryfor the audience this week.
Do do you mind if I give them the summary this week,
Christian? I would love nothing more.

(02:13):
I I appreciate it. Summary You need a summary for
this episode of Sky Pia is a edited and slightly abridged
retelling of the Jaya and Sky Pia arcs fit for television.
What else is there to say? You watched the arc already.
You remember right? That that's it.
That's a little summary. I, you know, I got to say I, you

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know, maybe, maybe more of a, ofa summary would have been, would
have been nice because there were, there were little parts
that I that I didn't necessarilyremember.
Is that a fact? OK, so, OK, so this is where
these are my questions. So I have, I don't want to say
hot takes. I feel like I have takes for for
the episode of Sky Pia episode of Sky Pia.
Fine. It it covers what it needs to

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cover. It's it's a decent time from
start to finish. You know, it doesn't really
leave too much out. But Christian, is there anything
that you remember from the arcs that this movie changed or just
did not cover that you were looking forward to?
Because I feel like I have a list.
I I mean some of those fights between Anna Roos guys and the

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rest of the crew are cut pretty short, which in some instances
is fine. Like hot there is.
Wait, no. What was it?
Hotary. Hotary and coterie.
Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, and what was the what's
the last? Satary.
Yeah, Satary. Is that.
Yeah, like that, that, that getting cut short, Fine.

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Whatever. I, I, who cares?
I, I do. I do kind of wish that, you
know, another thing that will always live on in infamy and in
my brain too, is your absolute outrage as to the name of the
three brothers. I hate them that that that was
that was honestly the best. It's part of the quick retelling
was having 0 hoterie and 0 coterie.

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Man, what an improvement. What an absolute magnificent
improvement. No HO3CO3 was ripe for cutting
out of these episodes. Absolutely.
But not getting to hear your outrage genuinely for a second
time was I? I was.
I'm going to miss that word a little bit.
Stupid fucking ball ass motherfucker.

(04:24):
Why do you exist? Get off my fucking.
Screen oh God, Dylan or or the new editor if you have time
could you go back and just please find the clip of
Brendan's outrage and just play it again here because the the
audience needs a a re up on thisone because.
Oh yeah, yeah, we need a RE. Up if we can, if we can get that

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sound bite in for for for this episode, I would, I would be, I
would love that. I know that was for an
anniversary special. I don't remember which one, but
I know it was for an anniversaryspecial that we ranked the five
least favorite characters. Yeah, one of those, one of those
out there. So if you could just go through
our 5:00 or so anniversaries, you don't have to go through all

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of them. It's not the first one, probably
doesn't. It's probably the second one,
right? I would imagine it's the second
or third, yeah. Yeah, one of those two is right.
So scrub through those, find that sound bite would be would
be fantastic. I'd love you forever.
I mean, I'll probably do that anyway, but I'll love you even
more forever. Yeah, I mean, we can still love
you. We can still love you forever
regardless. Yeah, I'll love you forever and

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ever and ever. That's a lot of Evers out there.
I assigned you all a top five most hated characters list.
Can I give my list Satori? He's the ball motherfucker from
Skypia. Honestly, out of all of the dumb
throwaway villains we've gotten,he's definitely on the list of
least favorite Hotari, who is his fucking brother who is on a
stupid boat. Why?
Why does he exist? And finally, Coterie, which is

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the other fucking brother. I could not be any other villain
written in any other way. I hate all three of.
Them Jesus. All right, there we go.
Anyway, did you have a thought you were going to continue with
or did you just want to enlighten the audience how much
I hate the bald motherfuckers? No, I mean, this goes into the

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larger thing of how they cut down some of these fights.
And there were there were moments that you just kind of
don't see because they they are cut down.
They they, they hit the the important parts.
Unfortunately, they really just do away with that one fight with
Chopper and the cloud sword guy and you don't get to see Chopper

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struggle through that. He's basically just one shot and
then Zorro stumbles upon him, literally drops it off of the
bird right next to Chopper this time instead of stumbling on him
in the middle of the fighters. That that's what?
That's the way it happens in regular Sky Pierre right?
Like Zorro starts fighting this guy and then sees Chopper.
Or am I misremembering? No, no.

(06:52):
Yeah, I think, I think that's right.
No, I think Zorro finishes his fight and then and then he
catches up with Chopper. But then Chopper gets iced by
whatever he got iced in this movie.
I'm pretty sure that was still the same.
Didn't Andrew do it? I forget who did.
It No, it was this Cloudsword guy.
Oh, that's the part I'm talking about.
Yeah. Like what?
In his trial or whatever. Yeah, yeah, no, I do think
that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because Zorro gets dropped and then he catches up with Chopper
and then, yeah, Cloudsword guy Ithink does something to Chopper.

(07:14):
Yeah. And then Zorro's like, how
fucking dare you? Yeah, OK, so that's that's more
or less the same. But either way, there's some
parts of these fights that are cut down.
There's also in a more general sense, some kind of awkward jump
cuts between things. Like I just I I remember I
remember there being a moment where go on the Shandians are
talking, right. Yes, and the little girl Isa is

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talking to. Fuck me.
What's what's the what's the current chief's name?
Not Wiper. Are you talking about Wiper?
Yes, Wiper. Yes.
Oh, OK. Well, sorry, I didn't mean
Chief, but the descendant of Calgara.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Wiper and Isa are talking and Isa's like you,
you use the reject dial. What the fuck is wrong with you?
And he's like, I had to do it. And then they basically just,

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but right from there to all the Shandians moving out to go and
fight Anuru in the upper yard. And I'm like, wait, there's like
a whole conversation that normally happens here between
her and him. And they just were like, yeah,
you know, who cares about feelings and all that shit?
Let's just get right to what you're looking for here, the
fight scenes. You know, I'm going to, I'm

(08:20):
going to start with this. I have, I have takes here.
So this episode summarizes both Jaya and Sky Pia, and I think
that alone was a mistake. I find that this was way too
bloated trying to include the 20or 30 some odd chapters that

(08:42):
encompass the Jaya arc. Yeah, I felt, I felt unsatisfied
with the ship falling out of Sky.
And they're just like hanging out on the sea.
Like, I, I get it supposed to like, you know, bring everything
together, like, why they're going to the sky.
But like, guys, unfortunately, Idon't know what to tell you.
There's not enough time to tell that entire story because what
you gave me here, first of all, I had no fun with any of the

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dumpster diving ship people, themonkey Bros, and honestly, that
was a fucking tragedy. They just show up there when
they are sending them off the the shoe.
Brother, it was so weird becauselike, they literally show up to
Cricket's house, which in and ofitself isn't like a horrible
transition. And then for whatever reason
they chose to include them. There's like a picture of them

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on the wall and Luffy's like, oh, hey, do you know those guys
are like, yeah, those are. That's my buddies.
Yeah, they help me dive for goldsometimes.
Anyway, moving on, We need to fix your ship up if you're going
to go to Sky Island, taking in the knock up stream or whatever.
And I'm like, OK, whatever, that's fine.
They wrote about. But then they write them back
in. They wrote them back.
In yeah, they just show up randomly when we go up the knock
up St. and I'm like wow, why? What's the point?

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Just leave them out if you leavethem out.
Okay, so I want to inform you this is more of a Brendan
outrage. There are a lot of parts of this
arc that were like renamed for this special and I don't know if
it was Funimation like resolvingsome of the choices they made in

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their naming from the first timethey dubbed this arc.
Because again, fun fact, this isthe first arc they ever dubbed
and they chose to use a lot of the translation choices that the
official Viz English distribution uses for Sky Pia.
And since then they've like they've like chosen to use like
a lot of like this stuff. And then also like
simultaneously they kind of donetheir own thing for translation

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purposes or like, you know, western audiences and what not.
And for this special specifically is the first gripe
I had. They renamed the knock up stream
to the monstrous current and I was like, but why?
I don't like that. Yeah, it's like still just like
a current that you take or whatever, but I'm like, is
monstrous current, like the what?

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Other people translate that likeknock upstream.
Sounds sweet. So much better.
Is all I'm saying. It's the knock upstream.
Like, I don't, I don't understand why we changed that.
And you know, what's even funnier is that when you go to
Stampede, which is a movie that just so happens to have a knock
upstream in it, they still call it the knock upstream.
So what are we doing here? Somebody make up their fucking

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mind, all right? Somebody make up their fucking
minds. Also, knock upstream is
objectively cooler and. I agree.
Conversation over thank you thank you for coming to my Ted
talk all right anyway movie another thing that they changed
in this movie that just so happens to be honestly only I
care, but maybe maybe other people will care as well.
Two things that they named are renamed the lobster that takes
them to sky Pia Godland sky Pia.It used to be known as the Super

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express lobster and in the and now they changed it to the
lobster express guys way less funny.
It was so much funnier with Super Express lobster.
How the fuck dare you rename it to just only?
Took the Super. Like, why?
Why would they do that? Like, there's one piece.
If anything, Frankie would be disappointed in you, honestly.
Yeah. If Frankie was here, if he was
in the drafting room for the script writing, he would be
like, guys, what the fuck are weeven doing here?

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Who are we? Yeah, that's that's bullshit.
I this this I didn't remember, but I'm glad now that you
brought it to my attention. Outraged.
Finally, and probably finally for right now until I remember
more the the bell. So like maybe, maybe it's just
me again, but like in the original dub they named it the
Fire of Shandora. And in this it was called the

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Light of Shandora. I'm not saying it needs to be
the fire of Shandora, but when they used to like oh also like I
know you say Shandy and I say Shandora because for whatever
reason, Shandora and and Ennaru are two of the things that for
whatever reason did not get translated at all the same as
what other people get in their Subs or whatever.
But anyway, moving on Shandora, which is Shandians for those who

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are reading it, they call it thelight of Shand or the OR the
fire shed door light of Shandor.I just think the saying the fire
of Shandor, light the fire of Shandor sounds so much cooler
than ring the light of Shandora.And I'm just like, guys, what
are we doing? It light the fire of Shandora.
Yeah. What happened?

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We lost our soul. I think they still refer to it
as fire in the the. What do you call the Riddle too?
I just like, I don't understand,man.
Like why why are we getting rid of some of the funnest, like
language nuances here? Yeah, I don't know, brother.
I was I I I think, I think I like the episode of Sky Pia in a
vacuum. But like, there are some choices

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that especially the dubbed, you know, I'm, I'm a dub fan, so I
I'm allowed to criticize. I'm allowed to criticize where
criticism is due. Yeah, you earned it.
And also I I also support with my wallet as well.
Make no mistake, this is one of the things I did actually
purchase. I do not just stream this shit
for myself on those illegal sites.
I always make sure to actually own this stuff.
Very noble. I don't know why they did that
in this, to be perfectly honest with you.

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I I feel like they had a rubric that they could have pulled from
and then they just chose to liketranslate it differently.
And I don't know if that was to appease a certain audience or if
that was to appease like, Oh well, you know, we were kind of
fast and loose with our originaltranslation.
So what we're going to do instead is we're going to go to
like closer to the official translation, but then also when

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they do stamp, they're going to call it the fucking knock
upstream. So there's really no rules.
That's all I'm saying. There's 0 rules.
It's entirely arbitrary. It's all fucking arbitrary.
So all I'm saying is if you're going to be arbitrary, give me
the shit that sounds Fuego. I'm begging you.
And I say Fuego because that means fire.
Fire belongs in this, in this talk.
We need fire in this conversation.
Fire. The light is cool but it's the
fire of fucking Chandora bro. Yeah, and we all light it.

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Up we got to light up the fire of Chandora and it just it
sounds sweet. It sounds sweeter than bring the
light of Chandora or whatever the what they said in this,
which is like it's also cool, like it is still like the light
of Chandor. It demonstrates like we're here,
but like like that fire, bro, like the fire.
All right, well, I'm saying bro too much.
These are the things that you know, keep me from like really

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loving this as a fast and loose rendition of the sky PR cuz I I
love the sky PRI really do. I actually think that it does a
lot right and it's the first time I fell in love with the
formula that this stupid franchise can come up with.
It really is, especially with Luffy versus Ennaru and always
knowing that bit for the better part of like 30 episodes until
it finally fucking happens. And it absolutely lives up to

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the expectation. Yeah.
Meanwhile, the the other thing that they do and like things
that they cut right. So this is where I'm at.
There are things in Sky Pia theycut that I'm like, bro, you
wouldn't even have the Dances with Wolves.
That's like the best time in theentire hour.
Just I got what is wrong with you guys?
Yeah, they cut out the dancing wolves.

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That that one hurt. That's a podcast.
Favorite I'm shaking. I actually I did like a triple
take because I guess I forgot since the last time I watched
this that they just totally skipped the dancing with wolves.
And I was like, wait, I rewound it and then I played it again
and I'm like those fuckers, theyskip dancing with wolves.
That's the best fucking part. I, I just feel like, you know,

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Jia was a fun time, but I feel this movie would have maybe
benefited a bit if it kind of went the strong world route.
Strong world opens up and it's just the straws already
separated in the middle of random jungle, random islands
that are floating and God knows where, fighting animals or

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fighting insects, whatever the fuck.
And they're all, they're all just doing their own thing.
They're all vibing well, vibing poorly, but vibing nonetheless.
I feel like this movie would have been a bit stronger if the
story just started with them in sky Pia.
And I know a lot of the fun is like the the the, the romance
aspect of like, oh, we're shooting up into the sky.

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I get it. But like, maybe I don't know
what I would do differently. I just feel like they bloated
this film and cut too many things that I think were
meaningful in order to make thishappen.
And it makes me upset to say. Yeah, I think that's, I think
that's fair. I, I can't, I don't know the,
the, I don't know. There I, I think is I guess is

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my answer to, to you where I think that skipping straight to
the sky islands is maybe too much.
But I don't know what you do differently with Jaya that
changes things. I guess if you go straight to
the Sky Island then you lose outon cricket and if you lose
cricket in total or in its entirety, then you kind of lose
a lot of what makes the resolution of Sky PIA

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meaningful. Don't know man.
Yeah, and a lot of the a lot of the meaning the the bell gets
meaning from seeing Noland and Kyle Gora's back story again.
So they're still worth in that, but not getting cricket side of
things and his struggle I even even in the little bit that we

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get is lost in some way. You know, I will say though, I,
I find so the, the, the Nolan and Kalguru's back story.
So this is obviously made on a budget.
These specials are always made on a budget.
They, they do have new animationbecause you know, they're trying
to, they're, they're, they're recapping events of, of a older
arc that they obviously are not just going to be, you know,

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cutting and pasting. But what was kind of funny is
that they actually did cut and paste the back story episodes.
Yeah, they pretty much took thatand just said you're getting the
same shit again. You're.
Getting the same shit again, which honestly, like, I don't
know, I felt like it was actually kind of, I won't say
fire because like it's not fire,just being in the same shit
we've already seen before. But like choosing not to

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reanimate the, the flashback or like the shit that happened 400
years ago, quote UN quote, you know, it, it both saves money,
but I was kind of like thinking about it and I was like,
honestly, that was kind of it makes the 400 year gap feel so
much bigger. I guess, because now we're like
in the present where things lookpretty versus looking in the

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past, which they're a little bitlike, you know, dated and a
little bit a little bit edgier or something like that.
I don't know, maybe maybe I'm thinking too much into it, but I
actually thought that it read really well as like a medium or
as like a product seeing like all of these like 400 year old
scenes take place with like the old style animation versus like

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the new animation which is all happening in the present.
Yeah, I wonder with something like that if they maybe took
feedback from Chopper. The episode of Chopper where a
lot of that stuff was re not only re edited, but stuff that
wasn't there before is then put in and and episode of Chopper
can almost effectively be seen as a reimagining because of the

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characters that show up there that just in the normal Canon
just shouldn't be there. Yeah.
So calling episode of Chopper a summary compared to this one is
even maybe not the right way to even do that, but maybe they
took feedback from something like that and we're just
thinking, oh, well, let's just say fuck it and it go the other

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direction with it now and we'll just give you the same shit that
you already had and you'll eat it up probably.
And I think people did. I do think people kind of did.
Actually, I don't mind this, this, this movie, it's fine.
There were there were key moments that I was I was looking
to hit and they're probably the same moments that anybody would

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be looking for. I'm looking for Eneru face.
Yep, Yep, Eneru face. I'm looking for obviously the
golden bell at the end but I'm here for Eneru fucking people up
with his power. Unfortunately they didn't
reimagine this and have Sanji die like we all know he should
have. But you're.
Such a fucking animal. I think I would have liked to

(20:29):
see what they did if they reanimated Calgary versus
Noland, but seeing it the way that it was originally given to
us, I'm not necessarily mad about.
I did enjoy seeing it all again,but I think it would have been
fun to have to have seen what they did if they if they
reanimated it with the the styleat the time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was happy to see my boy

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Ennaru, I will say, and it's it's just a product of pacing,
unfortunately. Like the guy did not feel as
menacing as he did when we firstgot to Sky Pia or our first met
Ennaru in the original anime I will say.
Yes, for sure. Something about like the way he
carries himself, like the scene where he jumpstarts his heart.
It does not exist in this at all, by the way, that.
Oh yeah, that yeah. Even that alone would have

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really brought a little bit moreof the menace in Anuru for this
special. Because pretty much from start
to and and I get like people whoare watching this like they they
know the bits, but like also like give me some of the bits
again, man, like, come on, you relive these things.
Like I'm not saying I need to see him eat the entire core of
an apple, because I think that the fact that you guys keep that

(21:35):
shit living run for your brain and villain behavior.
Honestly, I just find that it's crazy.
You guys still think about that villain.
That makes no fucking differenceto me whatsoever.
But like I remember there's a scene that we lost out on where
in the anime he goes like black,black and white and you just see
Anna Roo in like a blazing whitelight, but with like black
behind him and he just like putsone finger out with his eyes

(21:56):
blacked out and like touches like one of the Shindori women
or something like that. And she just fucking gets zapped
and falls down to the ground. Something about that scene.
Oh yeah, completely gone in thisspecial.
Yes, not in there at all, which is fine.
Like we got to we got to trim the fat a little bit here and
there, but there was nothing like Wiper didn't feel as
gravitating as he did in the original arc because Wiper just

(22:17):
kind of like existed as a dude for the Chandorians and then
like used his reject dial on oneguy and one by the way, which is
great love that for him. And then basically got written
out of the rest of the movie other than to yell at Luffy at
the end. Yeah.
Like, there's too much of the struggle for characters that we
care about that that were lost here.

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And I, I want to go into the storyboard room and smack some
animators is basically what I'm saying here.
I'm just kidding. I don't need to do that.
But they should have named it the Super Express Lobster.
Yeah, there's a look. I agree with you there, dude.
It's the fire of Shandoor. Thank you.
I appreciate you. Yeah, I I agree.
The Chandorians, they really getshafted in this movie.
At least the present ones. Yes, yeah, the the the wiper and

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his band of goons. Are there fight scenes that
important to the the plot? No, not necessarily.
But having these moments where they are having to struggle
against Ennaru or having to contemplate what it means to go
up against him and then making that decision, confronting

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elders and such like. That's important to to
everything that you bring back to Calgaras age where they're
just so in in deference to what they believe to be gods and
warning signs and curses and allof this yes.
And to now just get rid of all of that in the present day in
the name of making the plot smoother and expediting it is

(23:44):
just there's something lost likewhat you're talking about that
scene with the the woman that I I think Wiper had a thing with.
I do forget her name. Yeah, I don't remember her name
either. I know they were childhood
friends, but yeah, I don't know if they had like a thing thing
or nothing. Yeah, And, you know, she runs
up, she's on the other side of the cage or whatever, and it's

(24:05):
just like a wiper. You got to get out of here.
It's not happening. This guy's fucking crazy.
He's undefeatable. And he just shows up behind her,
gives her the big fucking ZAP and is toasted.
And that, like, I don't remembera lot of what was surrounding
this specific moment other than that they were trapped and she
was on the other side of it. But I remember exactly where

(24:25):
you're talking about the menace behind it and the music swelling
and just dropping as he just absolutely decimates her.
And there is nothing that anyonecan do about it.
There's there's a lot lost. I think this movie tried very
hard to make it a lot about the straws, but they continue to

(24:45):
include the back story for the Chandorians.
I I feel like they they they missed the bit if if they chose
to include the past Chandorians and not actually flesh out any
of the major plot elements of the present Chandorians.
This story includes the straws, but it was never really about
them. It was a basically a, a holy war
between the Chandorians and the the people that overtook upper

(25:09):
yard, sky, Pia, whatever. Really, really even the old
regime that took over upper yardbecause back when the
Chandorians first landed up there, they clearly were at war
with the people of the OR the local people that live nearby.
And they were like, oh man, thisis this is obviously like very
important stuff. The holy war aspect of this
entire arc got completely lost in the present in lieu of just

(25:29):
making sure that we cover every single moment that happened to
the Straw Hats. And like, I get that, like, I
want to hang out with Robin whenshe's like, you know,
discovering the City of Gold andall that.
But also I feel like I should have gotten a lot more Wiper or
a lot more Ennaru versus Wiper or this, that and the other
thing to really help me remind myself of like what the meaning

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and the messages in this arc. Yeah, I totally agree.
Not sad and like, because it is.It is still fun time.
Yeah, it's fine. I do enjoy watching this episode
of Skype. Embrace these movies in the same
way that I embrace the other ones.
It's better than Choppers in thesense that it's it all of this
is what actually happened in theArk, one way or another, whether
it's been cut down or not. Like, this is all stuff that

(26:11):
happened. Some stuff's been left out.
Whatever. Choppers again reimagining thing
but even episode of Nami was I would never tell someone.
Watch this movie and you're good.
Never. Never in my life.
I would tell someone that if youreally want to understand the
show and watch the show I was given, I was given Nami and

(26:31):
Choppers episodes when initiallyI thought about watching One
Piece, Jordy was like, here, just watch these, see if you
like it and then just keep goingfrom there.
And they're fun as a rewatch to see what they went back and did
to try and streamline the process and expedite the

(26:52):
storytelling. And it's so in that sense, it's
fine. Now, does this also lead to
disappointment in some ways, like not getting the the dancing
wolves or a lot of this Chandorian back story?
It's crazy criminal. So yeah, it is a double edged
sword. Do you get to relive old moments
that you love but you also miss out on some that they deemed
unnecessary to the viewer? So I would say, yeah, watch it,

(27:15):
sure, but just expect that some of the stuff that you enjoyed
from watching the actual arc is potentially not going to be
there. I feel like unfortunately like
these synopsis movies, like I always want them to be these
like really fun and engaging andendearing moments that I can
like give to people. But I always find time and time
again after I watch them that like it just makes me want to

(27:36):
watch the main series again. It just makes me be like, why am
I watching this when I could just be watching the main
series, which I have so much more fun with than watching this
right now. Oh, so I can save, you know, the
the five hours that it would take to just watch it proper.
I don't remember how long Sky Pia was.
I think it was like 50 episodes from start to finish from the
moment they started, like tryingto get from Jaya to the end of

(27:57):
Sky Pia. Yeah, it sounds about right, I
think. It was something like 50, which
is really funny considering we just got done watching 150 in
Whole Cake Island. Don't fucking.
No, Whole cake was not 150. No way I.
Think it was, I think it's 150, brother.
I'm pretty sure it was no, because we're on, we're on
basically 900 and I'm pretty sure the end of Zoe was roughly

(28:19):
750. Yeah, 7:50.
I don't, I don't remember the account specifically opposite,
but I think it was around like 100 I feel like All right.
I'm just saying I I it's still funny when you consider it a.
150 feels like the number that I've usually been quoted around
for Wano which the the next thing we're watching.
Yes, I would say Wano is definitely 150A-150 potentially

(28:42):
plus, yeah, potentially plus. Yeah, but sorry, what was your
point in Oh, that is that? Yeah, that Sky P is like 50
episodes or so. Yeah, I think it's.
It's just like I feel like I don't want to be that person
that's just like, this is stupid.
Go watch the real series. But as much as I don't want to
be that person, I just they're fine.
They're just they're fine. They're only fine.
I feel like a lot of their nuances get lost.

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They cover all of the main beats, yes, but you lose out on
the things that I would say makethe most endearing parts of the
franchise shine. And even when they include tiny
bits here and there, like Luffy falling off the waiver when they
first start playing with the waiver.
Thank you for including that. I don't think it's as important
as dancing with wolves, but you do you.

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For every, like, one thing they throw in there to keep the heart
and soul of the endearing parts,they choose to throw out three.
And like, no matter what you do,especially with these longer
arcs, they try to pack it into an hour and a half runtime.
And they choose not to reanimatethe the past stuff, which
basically means they're going tocommit to 45 minutes of just
flashback material. Yeah.
Because I don't really think they even edited it.

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I think for the most part it wasa baby.
No, I think. I think they literally took it
and and pasted it into this movie.
Yeah, I think they did too. So an hour of your runtime.
Which, to be fair, I'm like, I'mkind of fine.
Like it couldn't have been cut down in order to have Dances
with Wolves. Yes.
Am I that upset about it? Yeah, a little.
I would have liked Dancing with Wolves, but Nolan's back story

(30:09):
with Calgara is actually pretty good as far as back stories go,
you know? Yeah, I agree like that, that is
that is a very important part ofthis.
So I'm glad that they didn't cutthat much of that back story.
But like, still, I don't know, man.
It's just they have to make so many compromises that I feel
like at some point you have to start like recognizing how much
hollower the the overall experience is.
Sure. And that's honestly my take away

(30:30):
with a lot of these specials. Like I feel like the only one
that gets away with it is honestly Nami, because the Nami
one has the luxury of only having like 12 episodes of
content. Yeah.
So yeah, you take 1225 minute episodes, you can find a way to
condense that into an hour and ahalf.
I I would be surprised if she couldn't.
Sure, but we're talking about about, you know, 50 episodes.
OK, now we're we're starting to really get a little wishy washy.

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Yeah, now we're going a little the wrong direction here,
fellas. Yeah, I, I don't know, I feel
like this whole experience in this story would have been much
better serviced as either 2, maybe even 3 movies.
Like maybe you do like one that like completely reanimates the
back story in the past, like completely reanimate it and
maybe even like maybe like freshen it up.

(31:15):
Like add a few things, things like maybe like new character,
like changing up a little bit. Like really, really dial in that
bad that back story. Like add some like fucking anime
only material or some shit just to really like spice it up.
And then like the other two episodes are, you know, Jaya
Slash early Sky Pia and then therest of Sky Pia respectively or
something like that. I don't know.
Or you could just do it in two. You probably just get away with
doing it too. Nah.
I think you definitely get away with two.

(31:36):
You don't need the stretches to three.
That feels too much. All right, well, egregious,
almost, but two, I could definitely get behind.
You make this a Part 1, Part 2. Expand Jaya a little bit more
and the the Monkey crew a littlebit more.
Give them more flush. And I'm on the fence about not
even having Bellamy. I feel like I missed Bellamy.
Bellamy. I I look, Bellamy is a piece of

(31:58):
shit in that part of the arc. I.
Just want to see the punch man. I love the punch.
The punch is great. I I know, I know.
Actually, to be totally honest, isn't it really funny that you
probably re saw that moment morein Dress Rosa than you did in
this fucking movie? It is.
It is kind of interesting, isn'tit?
Yeah, yeah, actual rehash of themovie, just they said fuck that

(32:20):
and. It's not important enough.
We yeah, we don't need that. But in Dressrosa, man, they love
to remind you that it happened. You know, maybe, you know,
Speaking of feedback, maybe thatwas more feedback.
This the episode of Sky. Pia came out and they went,
where the fuck's Bellamy in thatpunch?
I need that punch. And then they went, all right,
all right, fuck. Well.
All right, we'll give you the punch.

(32:41):
We'll give you the goddamn punch.
Well, this will be fucking Hitachi killing the whole clan.
But in our show, Fuck OK. Shit brother, you might be on to
something. The timing might add up
actually. I I bet you it does.
There's no way. Episode of Sky Pia came out
before dresser Rosa I. I don't think it did, honestly.
So I yeah, I mean, I don't even I don't even really know what

(33:03):
what kicked off this hash of theof this movie, but I'm just
going to roll it back to stuff that we did maybe enjoy Nolan
and Kalgora, I think is probablythe.
Number one for sure. The highlight for sure, like
getting to just see all that again.
It could have been better, sure,but just even just seeing it
again, I'm I'm I'm on board, I'mhere, I'm here for it.

(33:25):
You know the I I it lacked some of the flavor, obviously,
because we don't spend so much time with cricket this time, but
the bell at the bell scene at the end still hits.
It's great. I'm here for it.
It it doesn't have the same amount of power as the original
show because you don't have the elaborate lengths we went to to
explain the symbolism behind allof it.

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We just, you know, we get Calgar's back story with Nolan.
That's it. That's like most mostly what you
have to go off of. So does it hit quite as hard?
No, but if this was your first experience with watching this
arc, you can still glean the importance of what's going on.
So I I'm glad that they still invested the time into that.
They cut down on Ennaru versus Luffy fights a little bit, but

(34:11):
watching Anaru in real time realize that Luffy is his hard
counter still fucking slaps Anaru face.
Fucking awesome. What are the greatest moments in
fucking anime history? Honestly one of my favorite
moments in anime history. Awesome.
Truly a timeless moment in animehistory.
Timeless when a God got humbled by 1 stretchy boy.

(34:33):
Stretchy, rubbery boy. Oh man, I yeah.
Where do Do you have any other specific moments that just were
still good the second time around or third, fourth, fifth
time around? What?
What is the number that is on your Sky Pier rewatch with this
movie? Like the number of times that
I've seen Sky Pia through this movie.
No, no, no, just in general. How many times have you seen Sky

(34:55):
Pia, including having watched this movie now?
Well, OK, including the number of times I've watched this
movie. In addition, cause I've seen
this movie a couple of times. Movie in addition to the art in
the show. OK I'm going to be so fucking
for real. This is probably my third time
watching episode of Sky Pia. OK, but I've definitely watched
Skype like 5 times so. So this is 8:00-ish if you

(35:18):
include all of them together. We're maybe shy of double
digits, might still be double digits, who knows.
Who's counting? Certainly not Brendan.
Because I definitely watched Episode Skype when it first got
dubbed because I was excited because it was first I was going
to watch it and then I was like,yeah, that was fine.
And then like I think like a year or two went by and then I
was like, I wonder if that held up.
And then I, I remember it was like just after we watched like

(35:39):
regular Sky Pia. And then I watched the episode
Sky Pia and I'm like, brother, they like, I feel like they
missed some of the beats, like what am I am I am I crazy?
And then I honestly, I stopped thinking about it.
And now that I'm here again, yes, they did.
That's why you get bitter Brendan today, because I've
already this is my third go around with this exact episode.
And now that I know what we could have had, I have to bleed
salt unfortunately. I have to put my foot down.

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Yes, it's on the other side of this.
Do you have any other moments that you felt still were good or
that they did right with reanimating or something like to
that effect? Rocket Power Chandorian still
slaps. I mean, I'm glad we didn't lose
Rocket Power, Chandorian. Yeah, yeah.
Because we could have we could have lost rocket power.
Chandorian. Yep, she was great.

(36:21):
And you know, no, I'm not going to say that I like that I the
ball motherfucker got introducedway earlier than he did in the
regular arc. And I'm happy about that because
then I got to spend less time dealing with the ball
motherfucker. But maybe I shouldn't say that.
No, I think, I don't know. I think the best parts are Luffy
ring of the bell, because that'swhat I'm here for.

(36:43):
I'm here for that big the big ring Rygo still looks cool, like
all the main things that got animated.
They look good in this animation.
It's just that I don't think there was a lot that they turned
like there's nothing in this special that I think like
surpassed what the original animation originally set out to
solve right. Like they just kind of like
redid a lot of the best parts with fresher animation and

(37:06):
called it a day, which is fine. It's good.
I like it Fun time. Like imagine if they like really
reanimated, then a rooface into the first, like gum gum pistol
or something like that. Like you have like a like a 3D
like rotation, right? It Leslie punches him slow, slow
motion into the chest and sends him flying across the room or
something like that. Like they could have reinvented
the wheel, but they didn't. They just they just did the same
with the current animation, which is good.

(37:26):
It's fine. I like it.
Yeah, I'm here. Those are my thoughts.
I'm glad you be on this journey with me once again, Christian.
Yeah, there was something about the they do the quick countdown
right from 75 of all the contestants in enters game here.
And at first I was thinking to myself, I mean, as far as ways
they could have done this goes, they could have cut just a lot

(37:48):
of this and just not acknowledged it because a lot of
this is where wipers guys fall and you lose what's your face in
the moment. We talked about earlier and all
of this other stuff. So at least they semi
acknowledge it. They gave you the clip from the
show where the person gets got and then have this tiny little
counter slot machine looking thing in the bottom and we just

(38:10):
get down to the number eventually.
I I remember you couldn't play the same sort of game that we
did in the recordings of the podcast where we're trying to
guess as the weeks go by, like, oh, who's going to be the last
ones that that enter predicted? Like who's going to be the
number? Who's going to be the five?
And because they take, they takeall that away from you, they
just, they just go and we're at 7 now.

(38:34):
We're we're, we're down to our seven, we're down to seven.
Who's who's going to be left? Yeah.
Which to be fair, like it is just a single movie.
Like you're there, there's no episodic, you know, bit to latch
your teeth into where you can belike, oh, I wonder who's going
to make it? Yeah.
So, but that, I mean, that's a very US specific thing.
It makes total sense that they would cut down on these aspects
of it in order to keep the keep the plot going.

(38:56):
So I'm lamenting a very specificUS thing that we did.
And even even regular people maynot have necessarily been
engaging in this, but you have more opportunity to to speculate
and, and think to yourself as you watch the show and like, oh,
I wonder who is going to be? And you just, you know, you
don't get the chance to do that because it's basically over as
soon as it starts. Yeah, no, I.

(39:19):
Mean and they they cut all of Luffy inside the sky God Snake 2
adventures, so you don't really need any of that.
They did. They did cut all that they did.
They did cut a lot of that. They also cut Pagia.
Pagia wasn't in this movie at all.
That's fine. Just evaporated.
Yeah, that's fine. As far as characters that should

(39:40):
have died gone. Like he's effectively dead by
not being in the movie. Wow.
Wow, rude dude. It's the will of P.
Yeah, who else wasn't in this movie at all?
The the the the other like holy member of Eduru's crew that
Robin absolutely kills or whatever.
I yeah, I know. I saw that.

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I I said that to myself too. As we get the quick countdown,
just go. And I was like, oh, right, yeah,
there was we, we don't get. Her fucking hanging that dude
with a clutch. Did not happen.
Did not happen. But yeah, that's what it is.
Yeah. All around fun time.
I I would always recommend watching the mainstay arc and
against this one especially maybe not more than Choppers.

(40:23):
Choppers is just a little too egregious.
They change too much. At least this is like the right
elements. They just don't happen with the
same savouriness that I come to appreciate about One Piece is
writing, which I also inflate. One Piece is writing in a big
way, and I'm not. I'm not naive to that.
That being said. However.
However, I still stand by what Isay.

(40:44):
Yeah, yeah, choppers of of any of them is a very, this is
candy, you know, like this, thisthis is not the show, but if
you've seen it already, here's this thing that we did to make
it a little sweeter. Yeah.
And that's fine. This as a summary of the show to
supplement what actually happened.
Not good, not worth that. No, yeah.
Not, not not replacement. But if you go back and watch it

(41:06):
after already seeing fine, it's whatever it it is what it is,
you're going to lose stuff. You you might gain a little
something. You'll you'll you'll revisit
touching moments and that'll be that'll be your hour and a half
ish gone. Could this movie have been
longer? Sure, but it would have needed
to be like double feature lengthlike you're saying, in order to
really get all of the effect in a cohesive manner like the

(41:27):
original show. So.
Right. These things are all supposed to
be like, you know, they're supposed to be cheap.
They're supposed to be easy in and out, quick adventure.
I get it. Like Toby's not investing, you
know, millions of dollars on their animators to, you know,
perfectly retell the sky. PNR, as much as I would love if
they did, they're just not goingto do that, which is fine.
Totally chill. Yeah.
I mean, eventually we're going to get it with the One Piece as

(41:49):
that comes out over time. Yeah, I'm still, I mean, I'm
interested because supposedly they're only in the market for
doing E blue, which like I'm here for.
But also, how many times are we just going to do the E blue and
only the E blue whether it be live action, anime or anime new
version insert. Anime, but again.
Yeah, anime, but again here, like I I we'll see, but as of

(42:12):
right now, I think whatever thatstudio was, I forget who they're
called, it's wit Wit Thank you. I I think wit as of right now,
they they only requested to do Eblue because that's their
parent, like the people that work there.
That's like their favorite arc or time on the franchise.
And I'm like, I respect you. I respect that.
But like, really? I respect that, but also, what
choice do you have? You're really going to let

(42:33):
somebody grab hold of this IP and then start at fucking
Annie's Lobby as the remake of it, the official remake of the
show? Like, who's going to what?
What? Listen I'm just saying the show
it becomes way less palatable pacing wise at a very specific
point in the series and if they started there I personally would

(42:54):
not be sad. It's all I'm saying.
I love the original version of this show, I really do.
I think there's a lot to like. However, I understand that I
might be biased there. I think the show becomes not
bad, but directionally harder topalette because of pacing
problems much much later in the franchise.

(43:15):
That's my hot take, and it's noteven that hot.
I think that's just a take that I have.
Yeah, I believe that. That's all I'm getting in.
I totally believe it. Oh cool man.
I I guess this one's not going to be super long because I don't
feel like there is a need to dive into specifics.
The summary is crass, but somewhat correct.
You've probably seen this already.
How much of this is really goingto be new to you?

(43:37):
The answer is none of it. It's going to be new.
Some of it's going to be different, but nothing is going
to be new. So you know, the end of the line
is fun enough watch, but don't expect it to be a replacement
for the actual show. Quick summary, quick and dirty.
Fantastic. Say that again, fantastic.
Yes it is. Couldn't say it better myself.
So with that being said, I thinkwe're done here with that.

(43:59):
All right. What are we going to do next?
Next week folks, we will be doing the three D2Y movie
special starring you're everyone's favorite stretchy boy
himself. I was just telling Christian
about this earlier. I didn't realize we never did
this special. I thought we already did it and
it sounds like we didn't, so we're going to do that next.

(44:22):
Yeah, I, I feel, I feel like we haven't watched this, but I feel
as though I've loosely heard about it somewhere.
Maybe we plan to watch it and wejust like didn't and that's just
our our fault. Maybe or there was some other
point in the past where it was just being described as we got
through that area of the Ark andthen I, I don't know, like

(44:45):
something happened that we just didn't watch it or didn't find
the worth in watching it. Yeah, for those keeping track at
home, this special came out, I feel like around like Film Z
time, but I could be mistaken. And it stars a Luffy that is
still learning hockey or whatever, just after the events
of Marine Ford. But before he gets back together

(45:05):
with all the crew, there's like a small little Side Story that
occurred. It's fun time.
I enjoyed it. So we will be watching.
That yeah, three to two wives 2014 movie.
All right. Moving on to quotes.
Christian, do you have any quotes?
I have a quote. The the only quote I would say
is is worth repeating here is probably Calgara's last words to
Nolan. Wow, what a softy.

(45:28):
Like as far as as far as impactful things that I'm that
I'm going to remember or are going to hit me the second time
around, this is that like there's there's not really a
whole lot else you want to you want to jot down Sanji's one
liner again about needing the light the whole time.
Be my guest. But for me, it's Calgara sending
his buddy Nolan off with a I'll be waiting for you here.

(45:51):
I'll keep on ringing the bell sothat your ship won't get lost at
sea when you return, so that youwon't lose sight of this island
during a storm. I'll ring this bell and wait for
you. Nolan, I swear I'll always be
waiting for you. And they'll keep ringing the
light of Shandora until the day when we meet again.

(46:16):
So that you don't get lost at sea.
You'll know where we are in the storm.
Please come back soon. I'll remember you forever.
Hell, yeah. I have three quotes.
One comes from Usop, and it's when Gonfal is explaining that
he used to be God of the territory.
And then Usopp in the back goes.What happened?
Did you get fired? Until six years ago, I held the

(46:39):
title of God. What'd you do?
Get fired because gods can be fired now, apparently.
Fucking got him. Anyway, moving on, my second
quote is Nami, which he realizesthat.
Wait a minute, of course Luffy might be the only man that can
beat Hederu. He's made of rubber, he doesn't

(47:00):
conduct electricity. 100 millionfolks fine lightning is not
hurting him. Is that because he's rubber?

(47:24):
The way the edit the music fucking picks up is fucking
crazy. And my third one wasn't in this
movie but I'm going to say it anyway.
It is in the original franchise and it is easily one of my
favorite lines in the arc. And it comes from Wiper and it's
after he basically resigns to dealing with being able to ring
the bell himself or see the bellhimself because they're still

(47:46):
dealing with the underoo problem.
And at first they're like tryingto tell Luffy or he's in his
position. He's like well I can't just let
you know fucking straw head be the guy.
He knows nothing, something of our conflict that was something
of our heritage, history, whatever.
And then, you know, at some point, he just kind of resolves
himself after he hears that, youknow, they've met one of Nolan's
ancestors down in the blue sea who's still been looking for
remnants of their culture to this day for 400 years.

(48:08):
And, and Wiper in as he, you know, just falls to the ground
and resigns after screaming for Luffy to ring the bell.
He's like, Nolan's ancestors arewaiting.
It's really time that we reward their patients.
And I fucking love that line. Oh God, the descendant of your
best friend from the blue. Sea.
He's waiting for it. The ringing of your golden bell.

(48:33):
It's time we rewarded his patience.
Reject. What a fantastic fucking line
and it it deserves to be remembered and the fact that it
doesn't exist in this special ishonestly a little criminal.
If you haven't noticed. The theme of this is too many
things are not included, therefore Brendan Angie anyway.
Therefore criminal. Exactly so, and also changed

(48:54):
when it should not have been changed because screaming light
the fire of Shandora is objectively cooler than ring the
light of Shandora is all I'm saying.
Obviously literally the same thing.
Thematically way less cool. Moving on.
Thank you for for my Ted talk all.
Right. Very nice, very nice.
Well, I I suppose we still got to do this then we have or we
should maybe give out. Yeah, we should do this.

(49:17):
A golden ham for this movie. Can I can I just throw the one
in the ring that I that I feel like and you know what it's
they're they're they're my favorite.
Please do in this movie. So that's why they're going to
win here. It's Nolan.
Well, and and Calger. I mean, I love them both like
almost evenly, but I just think,you know, there's something just

(49:37):
a little bit more tragic about Nolan's story and that's why he
gets to be the one on top today.But if you were to ask me who my
favorite character in all of Skype, Pia, it actually is
Wiper. I love wiper.
I think he's I think he's a fantastic one off character, a
lot of heart, very interesting, gripping.
He's like a disheveled ruler of of a clan that he doesn't even

(49:58):
really he barely understands hisown identity because they've
haven't even grown up in their homeland, but he still, you
know, wants to, you know, maintain this heritage that
they've lost over the years. I think that he's a very
compelling character. I love Wiper, I really do.
They did him dirty in this special.
Unfortunately, that just is whatit is.
Yeah, he's a side character whenhe was already a side character
in a franchise not about him. So therefore, the one that had

(50:21):
staying power that I still appreciate to this day, that I
think did not get The Dirty treatment during this film.
It's Nolan. It's Nolan all the way down.
I I do agree that of the events that are in this episode,
Nolan's stuff is very compelling.

(50:43):
I I'm not sure what it is. I don't even really remember if
I felt this way the first time around either, but Calgara's
struggles in his aspect of all of this felt a little more
compelling to me in the sense that.

(51:04):
Man, crazy. He's really having his straight
up the foundations of everythingthat he knows are completely
shaken and torn apart in front of him, and he acts on it far,
far sooner than I think normallysomeone would in his situation.

(51:25):
Nolan is sitting there in this Fisher that is crushing him and
killing him. And also the snake just chilling
there is crazy. The snake, the snake just
chilling next to Calgara and listening.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, so funny to me.
But as no, Nolan's describing all of this, and Calgara is
sitting there having the fabric of everything that he knows

(51:47):
challenged. And even after living his entire
life in service to what he believes are gods and curses and
blessings, this one guy comes along and is so passionate about
what he does. That and, you know, this is this
sounding like an ode to to Nolan, but I promise I'm getting
somewhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He then stabs and kills the the snake.

(52:10):
He puts his faith in Nolan because he thinks that he can be
a good man or that he's telling the truth and that he can help.
And then Nolan does and repeatedly Calgar until the
very, you know, until the very end of the back story where he
does the very egregious thing ofof cutting out their ancestor
trees. But he goes to bat for Nolan for
everyone on behalf of everyone. He has to take that leap for his

(52:33):
tribe, challenging everything that they believe in.
And it pays off in this case. But in a lot of cases, even in
the real world, trusting the outsider like that did not go
well at all. Yeah.
So my vote is for Calgara, and I'd be interested to go back and
listen to my own opinion on the episodes that we covered this

(52:56):
back story and see what I said at that time and wonder what has
changed, if anything, since thattime, probably three years ago
now or something like that. You know, this is fascinating.
I want to give you some lore. There's Laura that I don't have,
that I don't I'm unprivyed to, but there's Laura that I am
Privy to. There is an episode where we
were deciding between the goldenham of Nolan and Calgara and

(53:20):
there's at least one episode thumbnail where they're both on
it. Now, what I also know is that it
is not an episode where we gave it to both of them.
I believe we've only given a double golden ham exactly like 2
maybe 3:00-ish times. And I think the first one was
with Sodom and Gomorrah because I think it was Geordie or

(53:41):
something at one point in time that was very adamant we are not
allowed to give two man golden hams ever.
And then we proceeded to do thatjust eventually.
So what I'm saying is I believe in that episode so only one of
them got a reward. It would be interesting to give
the either both of them the reward now because we don't give
a fuck or miraculously pick the other to get the reward today.

(54:07):
I don't know what would be cooler actually.
Yeah, I don't know. I we we have no way of knowing
whether or not I. Must say this because I I really
like the danger game. If I was a betting man, I think
we gave it to Nolan and if I was, if I was to continue my
thought, Kalgura I think got shafted and therefore that alone

(54:28):
I want Kalgura to win today. I I think I would venture to
guess that you're probably right.
Learning about the redemption arc for Nolan, what you hear
from the story as opposed to what actually happened.
I can see us having voted for Nolan at the time and then the

(54:48):
thumbnail is obviously just to keep the audience in limbo.
Keep the audience guessing, yeah?
Yeah, let's do it. I, Kyle Gara, is going to be the
winner here and I'm going to personally make it my mission to
go back sometime in the next couple of days, as of the day of
this recording and see who we gave it to at that point because

(55:10):
I'm fascinated. It's a 5050 and we're either
rectifying a potential loss in our judgement, which maybe we we
just so happen to be at those back story episodes, like in a
single sitting, which I also believe there's a really good
chance that it was like the perfect week where we only got
those two characters for three episodes and then never again.

(55:30):
Yeah. So we only had a chance to give
them the reward once. Yeah.
But yeah, I would also be very interested and actually, can I
be honest if we did pick Kalguratwice, which I don't think we
did, but maybe we did. That actually be kind of
fascinating too, because it doesmean that you've really stuck.
We really stuck to our guns, I suppose.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, regardless, regardless,

(55:51):
I think we come out, we come outwith an interesting and
interesting perspective on whether or not we've changed our
decisions. If it, if we gave it to Nolan
initially, if we've come out consistent, especially I vouched
for Calgara in those episodes, which I would I would venture to
guess that I I probably fell into line with more Nolan

(56:12):
centric ideas. But I can see I can see Justin
having sided with Calgara. I would guess that Devin also
probably was a Nolander. If I was to guess, I think it
was a Nolander as well. I, I will, I will find out.
And I mean obviously nothing, nothing can be done with the
recording. Like there, I, we, there
probably won't be. I, I would love if we had time

(56:33):
to, for me to find that out and then like insert a, a, a stitch
here of like, hey, found it did the thing after the fact.
Hey, future, future Christian here found out blah, blah, blah
was the case and so go us. You know what that that would be
great, but I don't think we havetime for for editing to do that
or that's or maybe that's an editing and nightmare.

(56:55):
But regardless, Calgary gets thewin this time and I'm, I'm, I'm
pretty satisfied with that Calgary.
Wins and no place to criticize me now atone to the shots.
All right. Now moving on to fan mail and I
do have the fan mail open and I think we've got a bit of a
backlog. I think that's true.

(57:16):
And I believe I have the right one in front of me because
there's a couple here. This is our e-mail July 14th.
Lay it on me. Also, I have a note here that
says can Dylan or Dave add some tense spy music while I read

(57:37):
this? Oh jeez.
OK. So to Dylan and or Dave, that is
the request, whatever you see fit, and I trust your judgement.
If you choose to play Dragon Tales on top of me, I would also
think that's also perfectly finethat.
'D be pretty funny, that. 'D be really funny also don't do
that because we'll probably get content ID match.
So just let's just, you know, all jokes aside, do the AI
version of Dragon Tales maybe that maybe that'll be funnier

(57:59):
anyway. No, no AI content here.
Top secret nerdy ass eyes only yo.
So apparently sending an e-mail admitting I was an agent for the
HOCPOA wasn't a good idea. So now I'm being chased across
73 states. Wow, I didn't know they made
that many after I escaped from execution.

(58:21):
I was wondering if I could use the studio as a safe house
please. Their boats aren't equipped to
travel through Cookies and creamprotein shake, and I doubt they
can get pets as the mini tanks. Fuck yeah they can.
If it helps my 'cause I will be able to bring a couple of 6
packs of Doctor Pepper and a Nami and Robin body pillow, I
will be showing up in a Gundam Mobile suit.

(58:41):
I can loan you guys it if you need while I'm there.
I can't make any promises that there won't be accidental arson
because I have experiments to dofor reasons I can't disclose of
as of this moment. Brother, take a number.
You guys probably have the extinguishers, right?
Especially because of Devin. Always.
Oh crap, there's a helicopter onme.
I got to go. See you soon.
No, come back, come back. We lost him.

(59:02):
With lots of trouble Natasha HotLips, this e-mail will transform
into a free ham and cheese sandwich in 54321.
By God, he's right. Hell yeah, I got lunch tomorrow.
We'll just put that in the fridge for tomorrow.
Why? Thank you to Tasha for for both

(59:23):
the snack and the e-mail where we, we, we appreciate some some
memery once in a while. Love that for us.
That's it. It's a whole e-mail that that's
all I got from that. So there you go.
Just a story, just a fun bit. Just a just a little just a
little check in with Natasha Hotlibs.
I love it. You love to see it.
It's great. All right, moving on, Moving on
to producer Shout outs before I do anything, is this it's blank?

(59:46):
Is it? Is it actually blank?
It is blank so I think I startedmentioning this last week and if
I didn't then Oh well. I think you did.
So we're going through some changes and as part of it, we're
revamping the whole producers and the way people support us.
Now. Part of that is going to be that
we're moving away from from fromyet another service.

(01:00:09):
In in favor of another one that we think is going to be more
long lasting. We had hoped Discord would be
that for us because we were trying to centralize a lot of
the content that we produce and that we give out.
You know, we were most active inthe discord over the social
medias. We we post there and we'll have
we have shorts for the tick tockand, and the Instagram reels and

(01:00:29):
so on. But a lot of what happens in our
community is in discord. And so instead of having the
also Patreon feed where you would go to donate, Discord had
the built in membership program.So we were like, let's just all
put it in one box. Now a year and some change
later, maybe at this point, I don't really remember exactly
when we rolled out the Discord version of this, but the

(01:00:51):
limitations have been realized on what Discord can and can't
do. A lot of that is merch based.
Having now done our first merch drop and realizing that there's
no way to do it through that. Patreon had its own version of
this where you could buy into a program or have them help you
distribute and release merch as part of your membership tier
programming. But there were limitations on

(01:01:13):
that too. So I'm not at liberty to speak
on what exactly we're doing yet.But the producers tier, the
membership on Discord has at this point been shut down and
everyone was notified ahead of time.
So they weren't just immediate, they were, they were just cut
off one day from being able to support us.
Everyone was told in advance that this was going to be

(01:01:35):
happening and that there's goingto be something in the future so
that if they still want to very generously support us, there
will be a way to do that later. Just right now while we go
through these changes. This shutdown is part of what's
happening. And for at least probably the
next couple of weeks, maybe a month or two as we rebuild
stuff, there will be no producershoutouts because there will be

(01:01:57):
no, there is no producer membership tier at this time.
You hate to see it, but we will take the moment to who
appreciate anyone that has ever supported us.
And you know, people like Rin and Taco and it's me, rabbit and
and and and many others that I'mjust you know, these are the
most recent ones that have that have been part of us.
And you know, there's there's been plenty in the past that

(01:02:20):
have supported us and we love all of them.
And we're trying to make just a holistically better product and
package for all of you so that we feel even more confident that
your hard earned money that you've given to us is going to
do something that is going to improve what you get back.
So that's my spiel. That's what's going on right
now. You're you're the best Christian

(01:02:41):
and well, while we figure that out, please bear with us and
thank you again for everyone whohas supported us.
At least we're doing our best not to waste anybody's money
when we you do go through changes.
How about that? See.
Can you say that your podcastershave your interests in mind?
Maybe you can actually. I don't know.
I'm not. I'm.
Probably there's a lot of good people out there to be fair, so
yeah. There's a lot of decent people

(01:03:02):
out there. All right.
Anyway, moving on to the garb, gab and Christian, I do have a
garb and a gab for you. Awesome.
Let me let me just take a take alittle old dive on in.
Hold on. Before, before you, before you.
Just don't. Don't.
Easy. Easy there, buddy.
Easy there, bud. Oh oh.
OK, OK, what are I waiting for? I actually I lost my train of

(01:03:25):
thought entirely. Just stick your hand in the bag.
It's it's gone. All right, you.
Completely out the brain. All right, cool, Let me just
stick on in here. Oh, it's kind of fluffy and
silky, but in some like weirdly disturbing way.
I don't know. This is like almost.
It's like so soft it's giving mea sensory overload.
I don't really the fuck. I don't think I've ever felt

(01:03:46):
something this soft before. Brother, do you have the the
fucking milk cloud that they make in the in the one piece
Skype VR? What is?
I guess so like it's this. I didn't put that in there.
It's just so I, I don't, I don'tknow this is real.
I think, I guess maybe don't look at me man.
I mean, I'm, I'm holding it kindof barely like it's, it's still

(01:04:09):
cloud like in its structure where it's really just condensed
water vapor, but. Whoa dude, that's crazy.
Yeah, here, hold it, feel it like it's silky and soft, like,
like nothing I've ever felt before.
Dude, it's like you, you can like feel it, but you can't, you
know what I'm saying? Like, like it's there.
Yeah, I feel like I'm, I'm dreaming the the fact that this

(01:04:31):
is in my hand right now. Whoa, dude, it's so weird.
It's like, it's like almost. It almost feels slimy, but like,
not really though, you know whatI mean?
It, it's like it's definitely moist.
Yeah. Whoa.
Yeah. Well, all right.
That's that's cool all. Right.
I don't even know. I guess I'm going to like, I
don't. Maybe I'm going to I, I don't

(01:04:52):
visibly see anything on it. I'll I'll like I'll ring it out
or something. Maybe get the?
Yeah, yeah. Ring, ring.
Ring it out. Ring it.
Out, get the get the juices, getthe juices out or all right.
Oh Yep, that was. That was fucking sopping wet.
Geez. There it was sopping wet and you
know, I'm still not oh, wait. Oh, the the like spillage of the
water is has fallen on this other piece of paper that was

(01:05:15):
just on the ground or whatever. OK.
We'll just, I guess we'll just do this.
OK, Yeah, we can just do that. Maybe this fell out of the gab
or something. Oh, OK.
Well, it's a good thing. I I guess it's convenient that I
pulled out of the the gab this week because we're doing a
recommendation from me. Recommendation from you, man.
Who wants to listen to you. I'm just kidding.
Go ahead. Literally nobody, or like a

(01:05:37):
couple or like hundreds, I don'tknow.
People listen to this apparently.
At least like 12 people. We have like we have like 300 or
something reviews on our podcast, so at least 300 and
like like 298 of them. You know, the ones that gave us
five stars and not Geordies one star bandits.
They they want to listen to me. I guess.
You know, I try to vary what I recommend from time to time, and

(01:06:01):
I think I've done a five years of doing this.
You run some overlaps. I try to vary the genre of thing
and and stretch out as much as possible.
But every now and then you just kind of got to go back to an
oldie but a goodie sort of style.
So yeah. Hell yeah, brother, do it.
My recommendation this week is going to be a video game.
And unfortunately with stuff that's just going on across my

(01:06:22):
life, I don't have as much time to video game as much as I
could. And and so naturally that has
developed the backlog of things that I want to play something
that before it came out, it was on my radar and then came out
and people were gushing over it.I think I know what this one is
then. I I've talked to you about this

(01:06:43):
game and given the back story I've said with not having a lot
of time, you probably have a good idea of what I'm talking
about here and I've made it a little farther into the game.
I'm still not done with it, believe it or not, but I'm
farther into the game than I waswhen I last spoke to you.
People were gushing over this and it falls into the style of
game. It's one of those turn based
games. So if you ever play something

(01:07:04):
like Persona or a Final Fantasy,it falls into that.
It falls a little more into the Persona style.
At this point you probably know what I'm talking about.
Listeners. Yes, Sir.
It was a type of game that when I played Persona 5, which was
the first of the Personas I'd ever played on Simi's
recommendation at the time, I really liked it, but then never
really got into similar games, even though there's a ton of

(01:07:25):
them out there. JRPGS are all like this.
I'm sure there's plenty of examples of it.
So I was, I, I, I was, I was missing this sort of style of
gameplay. So this came out and everyone
was all over it and I was like, you know what this is?
This is basically what I've beenlooking for.
I'm a, I'm a single players kindof guy.
It's been really compelling fromwhat people have said.
So I said to myself, I'm going to jump Claire Obscure

(01:07:49):
Expedition 33 straight to the front of the playlist and I'm
going to dive into that game. And boy was it fucking worth it.
Hell yeah. That game again, still not done.
I think I'm close to the end of Act 2.
For the people that know the game, I don't know how many acts
there are in it, but I've just gotten I, I, I'm, I'm basically

(01:08:10):
where I believe to be close to the end of Act 2.
If it's not, then so be it. I for for to try and keep it as
spoiler free as possible for anyone who may pick up this game
or still playing it. I just fought in Act 2, one of
the like really large figures that are in the game.
There's like the group of I think three of them that you

(01:08:31):
have to fight. And I've fought and and beaten
the first one. So that's context for the people
that that know the game already.But basically it has one of the
most inventive, I think, story hooks that I've heard in a game
in a long time. I can't even talk about it
because it it takes away the emotional impact of the first

(01:08:55):
hour of the game. Yeah, yeah.
I've told Brendan about it already because he wanted to
know. But yes, yes, anyone that has
this on their radar, like I couldn't believe how much impact
they stuff into the first hour, the prologue of this game.
And it's not unheard of, but it's again, the first time in a

(01:09:15):
long time that I felt this way about a game.
And I lament the the part where I don't get the time to play it
as often as I want to. I'm going to finish it
eventually. And when I do, there's going to
be a bunch of people that are really happy in the Discord.
I'm mentioning this for the first time on this just so that
they get this moment of like, ohshit, he's been playing this

(01:09:37):
whole time. They've been talking about
Exhibition 33, a couple of people in the discord 4 weeks.
Someone just picked it up for the first time.
I don't know if it was on one ofthe other Discord person's
recommendation or they were already going to play it, but
they've been talking about in the gamers chat and I've just
been watching. I, I think they made me pass the
point where I'm at now so I can't look at their

(01:09:58):
conversations in more specific anymore.
But I have enjoyed their enjoyment of it already.
And so I kept it to myself because I knew in my heart of
hearts this was probably going to be my right my next
recommendation unless some some other spectacular thing came
across in my life that made me change that.
But nothing did, so I'm excited for when this episode drops of

(01:10:20):
the podcast to then see what they say.
Shout out those peeps that be playing that game bro.
Yeah. So I'm having a great time and I
expect to continue having a great time because it is not
slowed down and it is it introduced, it does introduce a
lot of mechanics overtime. Like you get the hang of some

(01:10:41):
stuff and then they go, OK, now here's this evolution, or here's
this slightly different version of that same thing, but new.
And so, but luckily, and this ispart of also for me, why what
makes Exhibition 33 great is I do go like several days, even a
week at a time, not playing the game.
But every time I I pick it back up again, I go, Oh yeah, I

(01:11:02):
remember how to do all of this. Fantastic.
So as far as game design goes, that's just cream of the crop.
You know, someone could pick up your game and go, oh, I remember
how to play this. I don't need a refresher.
I don't need to YouTube anything.
I don't need to go back to the tutorials.
I don't need to go through the menus and look up the button
mashing. All these complex systems and
and my brain just knows how to do it.

(01:11:24):
I'm just here for it and it's great.
So there's a whole laundry list of other things that makes it
great. The story being some of the the
most compelling that I've seen so far, but or that I've seen in
a while I should say. And so Exhibition 33 is my
recommendation. If you're into single player
stories and don't mind turn based combat then pick this shit
up. Pick it up yesterday and it's on

(01:11:44):
my list as well to get. Also last point I'll make for
the people on a tight budget, it's got less than a trip.
It's probably on sale these days, but base price was already
2/3 of your average AAA game. It this this should tailed
normal for $40. Hell yeah, brother.
That is the highest this game has ever been priced at and it's
probably, like I said, probably at this point found on a lot of

(01:12:06):
sales. So you know, something to be
said there too for anyone on a budget.
All right, well, well, well, thank you My, my, my brother, my
friend, that that was a great recommendation.
I actually can't wait to pick itup myself.
I I did pick up a different gameentirely in, in, in recent
memory that I have not finished yet, but I think I'm getting
close. But I also too do not have that
much time for video games. So you know, it's a struggle out

(01:12:27):
here. But but but, but but hey, you
know, I think there's only, I think there's only one thing
left the end of the end of the special social plugs.
Do you want me to do it? You want to do it.
I I mean I I can keep going please.
Please I I only ask you because I've been told by people in our
discord that I suck at it so I shouldn't do it.
I think they're, I think they just miss Devin sometimes when

(01:12:49):
when Devin doesn't do it. Well listen, it hurt my
feelings. So even even if I do it, they,
yeah, they, they're, they're mean sometimes, but they have
their moments. Thank you for listening and
joining us once more. If you would like to follow us
on social medias, you can do so at Panda Sightings, Instagram,
TikTok. Most of what goes up there is
Reels and Shorts and Tik Toks. So enjoy those.

(01:13:15):
If you would like to send us an e-mail like Natasha Hot Lips
did, you can do so at pandasightings@gmail.com.
From from what Brandon has said,we've got a bit of a backlog and
so it might be a couple of episodes before we get to your
e-mail, but that's great. Having a backlog is wonderful
and we'd love it. And we read every single e-mail,
whether they are read in a timely manner or not, we get to

(01:13:36):
them. We're being better about them.
And if you would like to join the Discord so that you can also
join in on gaming, talk, talk about One Piece spoilers, when
the Mongo chapters drop, so on and so forth.
You want to talk about music? You want to talk about other
anime? We want to talk about nature and
going to the gym. We got we got a little bit of
something for everyone. So you can do that.

(01:13:57):
Find the find the link tree in the social the social BIOS.
The one thing we still have intact for supporting us
monetarily is our red bubble that will be staying.
Hell yeah. It's so far has been one of the
best places that we can find to support sticker sales.
Maybe that'll change in the future, but right now that's
what we got. We like it.
We love it. You can find a whole host of

(01:14:19):
different sticker templates thatwe've got their designs that
have been made over time and they're great.
You can put them on a bunch of other stuff too, besides just
having a sticker. And I would love if you give us
five stars on whatever platform you listen to.
Sometimes we'll go through and read comments.
So if, if you, if your platform's got comments, leave a

(01:14:40):
comment. And usually Justin is a big
proponent of, of, of we're goingthrough those and finding them.
And so he he gets a big kick outof it.
So make make Justin's day one once in a while and and drop A
and drop a fatty review. Hell yeah.
All right. And thank you for that
Christian. I feel like.
And with that, the the only thing really left to do is to

(01:15:00):
lead us out with another musicalbit.
Please do. Well, no, I I think it's your
turn. Actually.
I already did it twice. Yeah.
Oh, well, I mean, I guess that'sfair.
You know what, what's what's what's gone falls got Pierre.
You know what now now with now with her rise in fame, Pierre, I

(01:15:26):
think needs to star in I I don'teven know if the a music video
probably exists for this already, But and, and I'm not
going to sing too much because we're probably just going to get
copy written if I if I go too hard, because people have said
that I, I have a voice like, like an Angel, so.
Sure, sure. Yeah, yeah.
Pink Pony Club That's that's what makes me Pierre Pere made

(01:15:50):
me think of a pink pony club by by D Chapel Roan.
I was like, wait, you said Pierre?
And I was like, is there an artist named Pierre?
You just did a Chapel roan. So no, no, no.
It's Chapel Roan. He's a, he's a pink pony.
I'm gonna keep on dancing at thePink the Air Club.
All right. Hell, hell yeah.

(01:16:10):
All right. I like it.
I like. It There you go, there's your
remix. I see the vision, I see the
vision. Not bad, not bad.
There was a song we were supposed to do like 2 years ago
that we just got tossed to the wayside.
I don't remember what it was anymore.
I don't. There was there was some other
song that we thought of. I don't even know if we actually
said this on recording or not, but there was some other song

(01:16:31):
that we really wanted to remix. And is this still at the bottom
of the sheet that might be gone by now?
No, it's gone. Well, you hate to see.
It Oh well, it'd be like that. All right thanks for listening
everybody. I'll catch you next time, and so
will Brendan and hopefully Justin and maybe even Devin.
Later, dudes. Bye.

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