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EP. 35 The Unraveling of Jon!!! GATE ep 9-12
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Welcome Weebs to Nelson's take over! Join us as we learn why sleep is important. How long will it take for Jon to crash at his desk or will he just rant about Kingdom hHerts. This week we did episodes 9-12 and I hope that you guys enjoy the show as much as us! let us know what you guys think about the JSDF and our friends in the Special Region!
Next week the guys will be continuing GATE with the season 2 beginning. Be sure to listen to the end of the episode for some trigger warnings for next week. How did we feel about the finale? Did it even feel like one?
Make sure to keep up with the boys on reddit at r/theweebalongpodcast and follow us on TikTok and Instagram at @weebalongpod
Opening Track: "Smoke Break Valedictorian" https://get.slip.stream/2wSuBM
Ad Track: "Big Luck" https://get.slip.stream/Xv9zVI
Closing Track: "Yolo Times Two" https://get.slip.streamC00wn7
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Transcript
Introduction to 'Wheel Along'
00:00:03
Speaker
Welcome to Wheel Along. I'm John and I'm forcing my friend Nelson, who doesn't like anime, to watch and discuss different anime. Thanks for tuning in. Let's get started.
Exploring the Anime 'Gate'
00:00:16
Speaker
Hey, weebs. Welcome back to the show. My name is John. I got my buddy Nelson here. Say hi, Nelson. What's more?
00:00:24
Speaker
Yeah, that is you and this week we are continuing watching gate. This is Nelson's takeover show. It's got, you know, cat girls and who's and people who are almost as good as Sakura galore and all.
00:00:45
Speaker
I will not. I will not tolerate the shenanigans. And I will not let you not have to put up with this shenanigans. So fuck. So here we are. Yeah, I would slightly pirate there, but we're that we're here. We're in it. What? Here we are. Here we are. Yarr. Yarr.
00:01:10
Speaker
I would agree. Yeah. So we're watching gate. Yeah.
Critiquing 'Gate' Season Finale
00:01:15
Speaker
We finished up season one. Yeah. The whole 12 episodes. The whole 12 episodes. You got to love the short seasons. You'll have it. Yeah. But so this is the finale. It doesn't quite feel like a season finale. In my opinion, it feels like the beginning of a season two.
00:01:37
Speaker
It feels like episode 10 could have been a season finale.
00:01:43
Speaker
I agree with that. I definitely agree. Yeah, because it feels like 11 and 12. You start up the plot for a whole other arc. Yeah, it does. It does feel more like an arc ending, which honestly, it kind of is. Season two doesn't really feel like so much of a season two as it feels like just the next arc like it should flow seamlessly. But yeah, just like just like a continuation.
00:02:10
Speaker
Yeah, it's a little strange like that. But I mean, they did put season one and season two, the release dates very close together. I think it was only like five or six months in between. Oh, wow.
Release Timing of 'Gate' Seasons
00:02:27
Speaker
Yeah. So it was definitely I mean, I mean, the military was funding it. So they wanted to get it out.
00:02:33
Speaker
Mm hmm. It's I say looking at it right now, it feels like it would be a like, you know, when they get halfway through and then do like a midseason break and then they come back to finish out the season. That's what yeah. Yeah, that that's a pretty fair overall assessment.
00:02:49
Speaker
Nice. Yeah, cool. But yeah. Let's get into episode 10. Hell yeah, brother. So in episode 10, we see Rory take out all the attackers and then the group heads back to the gate. And yeah, that's what happens. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Yeah, pretty much. We get to pick up with the whole Itami and Rory being almost. Yeah, now you get to talk about it. Now you get to talk about it. Yeah.
00:03:19
Speaker
I get to talk about the, you know, brief 10 seconds where they're just about to fuck and then all of a sudden, oh no, there's gunshots and shit. Um, and then Rory jumps into battle. She grabs her hammer scythe thing and then she goes on out there and she starts dismembering bitches left and right. Uh, I like how she just cutting down everyone and
00:03:46
Speaker
I think that she takes out because the Japanese forces have left. They left. They did. Yeah. Yeah. I was going to say, because she kills everyone. So if there were Japanese forces were oops, big old oopsie daisies. Yeah. Oh, no. You know, at one point she chops off some guy's arm and it's just floating severed in the
00:04:09
Speaker
Pawn that he's in. Yeah. And she's just like walking up towards him and he's trying to shoot, but then nothing's happening. And they all die. They all die bloody deaths. She was blocking the bullets. Oh, hammer sight thing like she was doing the the spinny with it and nothing was getting by. Well, I mean, she does get shot a good few times. Yeah. Yeah. And I was about to say by that.
00:04:38
Speaker
Yeah, no, definitely not that. He's literally just like dry clicking trying to be like something helped me.
Character Analysis in 'Gate'
00:04:46
Speaker
Oh, but yeah, when she's standing on a rock, when they all get back out there and then you see the.
00:04:58
Speaker
bullets like going out of her back and then the wounds healing and they're being like steaming stuff. One, Rory's a Titan, she can heal. She is indeed the female Titan, move over Annie. Why does she have to be the female Titan? She could be the cart Titan.
00:05:16
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like she's more of a female Titan, right? Yeah, yeah, she is definitely more of the fighter. Yeah, Tuka can be the card titan. I figured it would be Pina Colada, so she's fucking useless. Well, no, because Peek does something. So can't be Pina Colada. Yeah.
00:05:45
Speaker
Man, I really didn't notice how useless she was until you pointed it out. And now I'm like, fuck. Listen, at least I was aware of how bad soccer is, especially when she starts out, she gets better over time. But at least I was aware, you know, and I am not.
00:06:10
Speaker
I was going through some season two stuff just to be like, all right, cool. Let me make sure that episode breaks are are as they should be with the three episodes. And as I'm looking through everything, I was like, oh, wow. Yeah, she does nothing.
00:06:27
Speaker
She doesn't get better in season two. A little bit? Uh-huh. Like a little bit. Okay. Like a little bit. Huh.
00:06:43
Speaker
I mean, I don't hate her character. Oh, she's not. Oh, you know, not a whiny bitch. No, I'm mostly just, you know, trying to make you feel bad for shitting on other characters and showing you the error of your ways. You certainly are. Oh, yeah. 100 percent. That's what I like to do. And this is what I strive for. Your inner turmoil is my inner peace. And I love it.
00:07:09
Speaker
You're such an asset. That's how you know you're good friends. Yeah, that's how you know you've made it when one of them is full of despair and that brings the other one joy. Exactly. Because what's crying without giddy laughter? Going.
00:07:34
Speaker
Anyway, back to the show. But yeah, I have written down Rory do the murder, and she do indeed do the murder. She do, she do. Yeah, and then they're all like, oh shit, well, I guess we're compromised. I guess we should probably get the fuck back to the gate. So they head out from this hot springs area.
00:07:55
Speaker
As they're walking along the road, they see this unconscious soldier, Kurabayashi's like, let's fucking kill him, and holds up her gun to his head, and they're like, no. Are you drunk? Calm down.
00:08:08
Speaker
Oh, the murder hobo. The murder hobo. And Lele's like, wait, do you need him not to be killed? But also just like, stay here. I got you. And then she goes and she uses some magic on him, keeps him unconscious. And then bada bing bada boom. Lele does more than pina colada. I mean, she's already done more and way more other episodes, but, you know, just continues to soar and exceed expectations. Proud of you, Lele.
00:08:34
Speaker
The literal child is better than the princess. The princess. The princess. Yeah. Who is raised to know how to respond this stuff. Crazy. Odd. Tragic. Yep. But yeah, they start making their way back to Ginza as they're making it there. They're like, oh, we probably can't take a direct route because if these fuckers knew where we were here, they're probably going to know which way we're going to come into the city. So what's her name, Rita? Risa.
00:09:04
Speaker
Risa, Rika, Riku. Perfect. Lisa with an R. Heard. Risa with the backbend. I don't know.
00:09:16
Speaker
I don't know. What is it, Becky with the? I know Becky with the good hair. The good hair. Yeah, that's close. Sure it is. I'll give it to you. Listen, the other one's more up Gates Alley.
00:09:35
Speaker
Yep, there we are. He's milking. I like that it's still sound clips of you. Yeah. I haven't gotten any good ones from you other than, oh God, what is it? Shit on feel bad.
00:09:52
Speaker
That one. And that one's not even embarrassing. That one's not even embarrassing. You just don't say embarrassing shit and that is my downfall. I don't know. Becky with the backbend, who knows? Becky with the backbend. Yeah, I feel like I just say stupid shit, you know? You do because you're a stupid person. Correct. I'm a super person who also can talk without thinking sometimes.
00:10:21
Speaker
Most of the time, but yeah, uh, they go their way back to Ginza and Riku decides to try to find Kairi and also Sora on their dress Don't worry about it. Oh Kingdom Hearts. What's up? No one in that fandom also knows what's going on because it's convoluted as fuck.
Kingdom Hearts Lore Explained
00:10:43
Speaker
Is it really that bad? Oh, it is so bad. I could go on a whole Kingdom Hearts rant. And in fact, welcome to my Ted Talk bitches. The fact that they have remastered versions of the games that have slightly different cut scenes and stuff like that, that you're replaying the game because a villain has done something. And so it's that character recounting their thing through different memories and also doing the whole other thing again.
00:11:11
Speaker
but it still impacts a plot in a different way and introduces characters from a sequel from another game that's somehow tied into it but it's only exclusive on the PSP and never gets continued on to any other console or version so you can't play it anymore but also ties into a Nintendo DS thing let even though it was a third-person action-adventure fantasy like melee game the original one all of a sudden now we're playing with fucking cards like it's goddamn Yu-Gi-Oh and
00:11:41
Speaker
Also somehow ties back into the plot but with different characters and a whole other thing that gets introduced That was introduced into the first game to then carry it over and then we have even more prequels going on through different consoles and Yeah, oh and there's a mobile game that also ties into it as well Jesus Christ Holy shit
00:12:05
Speaker
Yep. And then there's Mickey. Yeah. And for some reason, the Disney people, I never understood it. Granted, I didn't play it. Yeah. So I don't know if I use the concept. So I don't know if I've actually talked about this before, but Kingdom Hearts was literally an elevator pitch.
00:12:27
Speaker
You're lying. No, so Square Enix who developed it at one point for a little bit of time shared a office with Disney. And this guy had an idea for like what a Final Fantasy characters somehow like connected to Disney as well. And so he pitched this whole thing in an elevator. He's like waited for them like a lobbyist.
00:12:54
Speaker
to get into the elevator, gotten there, took the elevator right up, hit you like this could happen. This and this, this and that. And then the guy is like, you know what?
00:13:05
Speaker
I think that's cool. I think that we could do that. We can make that happen. The only thing is, instead of the guy using a sword, that's a little too harsh for Disney, even though other characters use swords. We're gonna make him use a giant fucking key. We're gonna call it a key blade. They change that, and then all of a sudden, boom, Kingdom Hearts greenlit. And now it's been, what, probably almost...
00:13:28
Speaker
It's probably coming up on 20 years now. It's probably like closer to like 15 or 18, something like that years of being out and being a convoluted fucking mess that I love. And it sits near and dear to my heart because it's my first ever PlayStation two game. Kingdom Hearts one. What's up? It's actually been 22 years. Has it really? To be exact, 22 years and one month. It came out on March 28th, 2002. Wow.
00:13:58
Speaker
Wow. So 22 years of insanely convoluted lore. I've heard the music is actually pretty good. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh, the opener for one and two is bop.
00:14:19
Speaker
And I love it. There's great. There's a there's an antique store close to me that just has one booth. That's a giant Kingdom Hearts banner. But there's pretty much nothing else in there. There's like two chairs and I think I've stuffed deer.
00:14:39
Speaker
Oh, the entire booth is just fucking Kingdom Hearts. I was waiting for it's just a bunch of custom key blades. Oh, I did find out that in Virginia Beach, there's a mall ninja store, which is just a bunch of anime swords.
00:14:58
Speaker
Like shuriken and kunai as well I was like why the fuck is that there? It's like right on the boardwalk. I'm just I'm saying I'm expecting you to purchase it or yeah, the executioner's blade and I Mean if you were to pose for a tick-tock and throw the kunai and hold it like Sakura
00:15:24
Speaker
I stitched that all the way from Florida. It would be my favorite. You could just be, you could be Sasuke doing the whole, like get your, get your wife to be fucking. You find a boardwalk at the beach and then I'll go to Tampa and I'll find a boardwalk as well. And then we'll stitch it. Honestly, be kind of fun.
00:15:47
Speaker
We belong does Naruto. Oh, God. And I get to be Sakura. Fucking. Thanks, man. Anytime, buddy. Anytime. What a true friend. Oh, I got you. Shit. I feel bad. Yeah. Yeah. Are we talking about? As I say, I think that we derailed enough.
00:16:08
Speaker
Are we talking about gate? Is that is that what we're talking about? Maybe. Who knows? Who the hell knows? Who the hell knows? Not me. Yeah. Gate. Oh, you know, we were talking. We said the name of Tommy's ex-wife and then that got to Kingdom Hearts and all that shit. Oh, my God. You're right. Yeah. Oh, that's right. Because you threw in a bunch of character.
00:16:34
Speaker
Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. So the reason why I said that is because so Riku.
00:16:40
Speaker
Riku in Kingdom Hearts is sort of like the Sasuke of Kingdom Hearts. And you play the main character, Naruto, and then the Sakura is Kairi. And so they all get separated from their island and the whole game is, you know, you get found by Pluto and then you meet up with Donald and Goofy and then, you know, you go on all these different adventures through the Disney World trying
00:17:08
Speaker
to find your friends and yeah, then we just throw in a whole bunch of other shit and boom, 22 year franchise right there. So gate. So gate.
00:17:22
Speaker
Oh, gait. He's like, this is how you feel during your shows when I'm like, here's a weird tangent about like in whatever. I really hope our listeners may be playing the part. I mean, I feel like the crossover is.
00:17:45
Speaker
Very much there. I think Disney. I knew a girl in college who was very into Kingdom Hearts, but also very much anime. So I'm hoping like she's just the normal. Well, there is. I can't remember who it is because I've looked at so many different voice actors for Naruto, but somebody who voices a character from Kingdom Hearts to who voices Axel, which is fucking cool ass character, voices another character in Naruto as well. And I was scrolling through this like, hey, look at that shit. Cool.
00:18:16
Speaker
So, Reesa? Yeah, so Reesa. This bitch Reesa with the Riz. Uh, she... I don't know.
00:18:26
Speaker
Again, I'm just saying stupid shit. It's like, you know, just like throwing stuff at a wall, seeing what sticks, um, hopefully anything. Uh, mostly it's just like that little like gummy hand thing where you just slap it and it holds on for like maybe a half a second and then just falls off the wall. That's my life.
00:18:51
Speaker
So Risa, Risa Puffs, peanut butter chocolate flavor, posts on the internet saying that the girls are going to be going to the shrine to pay their respects. She posts on the internet so that way people can get the word out and hopefully draw a crowd so they can have a crowd cover so that way the people who are trying to, you know, fucking murder them don't.
00:19:16
Speaker
It gets out there where it gets spread they're like hundreds maybe like thousands of people to be there and they're like awesome we can do that and so the next day they go to the shrine they find out that it worked a little bit too well there is bumper to bumper traffic so Risa stays with the truck. Bye Risa we'll see you maybe in season two.
00:19:36
Speaker
and the girls and the tummy and kurbayashi and tall brooding guy get out and they all go to the shrine to pay their respects. As they're paying their respects, it all goes over pretty smoothly. However, creepy guy returns. Yay, creepy guy.
00:19:55
Speaker
Um, I can't remember his name right now, but he's just going to be labeled as creepy guy. Um, he comes over and he talks some shit to the, uh, us people who are trying to still kidnap the girls who was like, Oh yeah, your other contacts. Hmm. You should check up on them because they might get fucked. Uh, that's pretty accurate.
00:20:18
Speaker
Yeah and he already detained all the other people is like you ain't got no backup so fucking try me bitch. And the guy decides not fuck around and find out so easy peasy lemon squeezy.
00:20:35
Speaker
They get some nice coverage of them paying their respects. Roy's like, a bell needs to toll. And then the time is that I don't know. And then all of a sudden, boom, the bell tower fucking tolls. By the way, in case you didn't know, Risa is also in another show. Ooh.
00:20:57
Speaker
And it's Vinland Saga. I was like, shit, what the fuck does her voice sound like? She plays a young boy in Vinland Saga. Nice shout out to Chelsea McCurdy. A baby baby. Actually, sister of Jeanette McCurdy. Crazy. The fact that for a moment, I believe I was like, really? Yeah, he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about.
00:21:27
Speaker
Bing, bing, bing, we have a winner. It's good. Have I mentioned on the pod yet that I'm running on about three hours of sleep or not? You have not. Okay, yeah. Hi, guys. We're here. We're in it. We are thriving. I don't know about that, but we're here.
00:21:51
Speaker
But anyway, bless you. Thank you. The prayers go smoother, smoother than this episode. We get back to the other side. I think sandpaper might be smoother than this. Yeah, just nails on chalkboard. Yeah, it's good. It's good. It's good. But yeah, back to the show.
00:22:12
Speaker
Getting into it. They go to the other side of the gate. They're all nice and safe now. They can all breathe, relax. Woo. We made it. And we get to see them going back into the base. Lil A got a laptop and is using that. Now, how that going to work on the other side where there's no Wii-Fi? Because there ain't no satellite. They have Wii-Fi. They have Wii-Fi. Remember, Itami was super excited because his mobile games were working again. Oh, yeah. That's right. They have Wii-Fi.
00:22:40
Speaker
Yeah. Now I'm just imagining like a super fucking long ethernet cable going going all the way through the gate through the gate to like the day. That's true. I don't want to know how much it costs to have interdimensional Internet. Mm hmm. I'm getting screwed enough. I'm right down the road. Jesus.
00:23:07
Speaker
Jesus Christo, um But yeah They make a battle again. It has a laptop and like oh, what sorcery is this is you know, it's technology cool. Awesome. Um Chuka walks in and she's like, oh no my dad you're playing hide-and-seek. He's just really good. Oh
00:23:27
Speaker
I don't know where he is. Fucking dead, bitch. And then Pina Colada writes a letter. And then she is like, hey, don't fucking fight Japan because they're big and it'll be the end of the empire and not good. So her job is going to be to try to persuade some, you know, her dad to fucking not be stupid.
00:23:52
Speaker
Yeah, that's where season one is supposed to end. Oh, yeah, pretty much. Episode eleven. Over to you, buddy. Yeah. Oh, boy. Episode eleven. We are you just are you just cackling? I did the the Mickey boys. Oh, God. The boy. Oh boy. Oh boy, Sora. Let's go get your friends.
00:24:14
Speaker
bringing it back to Kingdom Hearts. Uh, so... Okay. On to episode 11. On to episode 11. We see that Ole Miss Hill has become quite the bustling city. Uh, we try to convince Touka that her dad is dead. And then we have Rory.
00:24:37
Speaker
Kind of screwing over Itami, but not in the way she wants. A little different. A little different, yeah. So anyway, bringing it back to the beginning. Yeah, honestly still has some of those connotations though as well. It does, and we'll touch on that as Rory would like to touch on Itami.
00:24:55
Speaker
So, yeah, we get to see that on this hill because of all the refugees and everything has actually become its own kind of real economic city within the special region. They have bars set up. There's a bunch of stores. They have the commissary for the Japanese.
00:25:17
Speaker
is actually super popular with the locals because they're like, holy shit, we've never seen these kinds of things before. And it's kind of popping. We have Pina taking Sugawara, who is with the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He's one of the ambassadors. They go over to the empire.
00:25:39
Speaker
so that he can talk to them and kind of say, hey, what's up? So they go talk to Lord Cicero, who is super high up with the emperor, and he's on the pro war side. Cicero wants to go to war with the Japanese because he's like, what if we win and we get all their technology? We'll be unstoppable forever. But he's an uneducated fuck.
00:26:05
Speaker
Correct. He is a very uneducated fuck. He's like, I have a horse. I'm technologically advanced bitches. No, we have howitzers. Yeah. We have H bombs. Yeah. But Sugawara starts talking to him and is like, hey, we brought you.
00:26:27
Speaker
some stuff from Japan and he hands him a katana and he's like this was made by one of the best I guess blacksmith that they have in Japan and he's like the sister is like oh yeah that's uh that's really cool maybe I've been too harsh on you
00:26:44
Speaker
And then they start talking about POWs because the Japanese have kept all of the people alive and there is apparently like a couple thousand POWs. You know, just a couple, a handful. A few.
00:27:01
Speaker
And one of those POWs is actually Lord Cicero's nephew. So he kind of realizes, oh, these guys have a lot of power over us right now because they have a bunch of our people. Yeah, they have some say over it. Yeah. And we get to kind of see what's going to develop with that as we go further into season two.
00:27:23
Speaker
So you're going to get a lot of the diplomacy side mixed with a lot of the the action. Nice. A fun combo. I say I am interested to find out more about how the actual world on the other side of the gate.
00:27:38
Speaker
Works. Yeah, we get a lot more of that. Yeah, especially because we also again, I don't think that we have a fucking name for it other than the world on the other side of the gate. So we in the region. This. Well, that's not what they call themselves. Correct. And guess what, buddy?
00:27:56
Speaker
You'll never learn. The world may never know. We may not because we won't get a fucking season three, and that's probably when they would tell us. But we head back to all this and Touka is wandering around looking for her father because she has crippling PTSD. Yeah. Refuses to accept the fact that he's dead.
00:28:21
Speaker
It Tommy and Lay and Rory are talking about, hey, maybe somebody should tell her because it's kind of sad that she's just walking around looking for a dead man. Uh huh. I like it. It's so sad. It is. She gets two of everything just so that when he shows up, he'll have stuff and won't be going for scraps. Uh huh. But he's not showing up.
00:28:50
Speaker
Uh, Kurokawa, the medic. Is like, yeah, you guys need to tell her because the longer it goes on, the worse it's going to be when she actually finds out. Yeah, which I feel like would be the responsible thing to do.
Itami's Role in 'Gate'
00:29:05
Speaker
It would. But it Tommy being a Tommy, he's like, nah, we're not responsible for her. She's an adult. She can figure it out, bro. Yeah, this is your friend. Yeah.
00:29:22
Speaker
And like she literally just went into another realm in order to testify for your people. Yeah. You're like, fuck this bitch. Yeah. The least you can do is at least give her like a little bit of health care. Yeah. Just something. Which that's another Ted talk that we won't get into. No, we will not. We certainly won't. Yeah, because that. Yeah. That'd be the rest of the episode. The rest of the episode. Um.
00:29:51
Speaker
But yeah, no, I feel bad for Tuka. Same. She's the last surviving member of a race of people that unless somebody kills them, they live forever. And she's just like Sasuke. She's the last of her people. But Sasuke is not the last of his people. But she's an Avenger. There's someone. Oh, my God. And I have to kill.
00:30:17
Speaker
So you have a brother in season two? Does Tooka have a brother in season two that she's trying to kill? I will not answer that. I really hope that she does. I will not answer that. I hope that she has a sibling that's evil and she tries to kill. Refuse to answer that.
00:30:38
Speaker
Oh, I hope it happens. I'm not going to tell you whether or not you are correct. I do not have a clip titled once again, he is correct in his prediction. Fuck yeah. I do not have that clip, so I may be pulling your leg. The world may never know until next week when we get to season two. Ooh.
00:31:05
Speaker
Um, but after they have their whole discussion, uh, they go out for drinks and Rory and a Tommy, you're sitting there knocking back a couple of beers when in walks a mysterious dark elf, uh, named Yau Hadushi. Mm-hmm.
00:31:26
Speaker
And Yao comes in in quite possibly the most revealing outfit of the entire show so far. Yeah. So everybody does kind of turn their heads like, oh, shit, look at that. Yao immediately makes a beeline for Rory and a Tommy and proceeds to go off on a Tommy for giving beer to a child. Mm hmm.
00:31:55
Speaker
And he's looking over at Rory like, hey, how about you chime in here? Yeah. And help me. Hello, that you're old as shit. Yeah. Tell them that you're nine hundred and sixty years old, for God's sake. And we get a we get a. Little jump to what Rory's plan is, where she's trying to get drunk enough that a Tommy has to carry her home. And then she's going to fuck a Tommy.
00:32:25
Speaker
But by this happening, her plan has been ruined. Yep. So she just goes, how dare you, sir? I am a child. I am an international businessman on international business. What is that from? I met your mother. That's right. Thank you. I knew that I knew the reference, but I could not place it. It's OK. It's OK.
00:32:50
Speaker
I'll let you. I have seen that show. Yes. I have seen all of that show. That's another TED Talk we can do.
00:32:57
Speaker
So let it be known. So let it be known there is a pop culture show that I have seen. Weird. The one, the only. And once again, not a great ending, but I don't want to get into that. The only other show that he's definitely seen and like modeled his life after is CW's The Flash. I fucking hate you. Also fun fact, yesterday was the day that The Flash mysteriously vanished in a crisis.
00:33:26
Speaker
Uh-huh. Was it April 24th? April. Oh, no, it was the 25th. So it was three days ago. Bye bye. Grant Gustin. He's a local. Yeah. His dad teaches down the road. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, so you kind of pulls out a sword and is like, get behind me, small child. I will defend you from this predator. Mm hmm. If only she knew.
00:33:54
Speaker
That Rory is realistically the predator here. Oh, 100 percent. She's. Yeah. Yeah. She's she's damn near a thousand years old going after 28 year old Tommy. Fucking cradle robber. God damn it. Yeah. Right. Cougar. And yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was demanding to speak to the men in green while she is holding up at Tommy and is like, if anybody knows
00:34:21
Speaker
Where's green? Who's literally wearing green? I feel like that was an oversight on the part of the animators. I think it's an oversight of her character. Of of Yao, probably. Yeah. She is not the brightest.
00:34:39
Speaker
Yeah, I also don't know how to say the rest of her name, and I was. Do she? Because they say Yaga Dushi or something like that in it, and I was 100 percent ready to like come in with like some weird like Lisan Al Gahib or something like that. He said like a heap. I'm not. I still haven't seen dude two or dude one.
00:35:05
Speaker
But I know screams and uncultured anger. Are you saying you're uncultured? No, John, come on. You have to watch these things, man. They're the icons. No. Well, you know, I figured I'd just write it off because it's different. So it can't be good and nothing. Thank you. You finally agree. You fucking animal.
00:35:37
Speaker
Oh, why? Yeah, we we have fun here. We try. But while Yao is yelling about the men in green, it's homie fucking bolts. She's sprinting down the road and.
00:35:56
Speaker
Yao goes to talk to the bartender who's like, what can you tell me about the men in green? Also, what can I do to help this child? And the bartender's like, yeah, you're helpless child just ran out the window. So you might want to reconsider. But Yao tries to enlist the men in green to help her with a mission. What are you chuckling about? The way that you just said Yao was like, Yao. Yao, fuck.
00:36:26
Speaker
The worst part is I'm going to hear that in editing. It tickled my brain. Yeah. It was like someone took like a whammy bar to your voice for like two seconds. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. So anyway. So anyway, back to gate back to gate. Yeah. Oh, tries to.
00:36:55
Speaker
The men in green to help her on a mission and all the patrons of the bar are like, hey, you don't need them. We can do it. And she shows off the prize to whoever comes and kills the flame dragon that's been annihilating her people is like a giant fucking diamond like huge like the size of a basketball. Oh, yeah. Shine bright like a diamond.
00:37:23
Speaker
Beyonce. Right. Honestly, I made the reference. I don't know. But I feel like that's also wrong. I'm not looking this up. Are you looking it up? I am currently looking up. It is Rihanna. Fucking.
00:37:48
Speaker
Anyway, I'm going to play some voices. Yeah. But yeah, Yao is trying to find people to kill the flame dragon and she is heading toward the JSTF base to go inquire while it Tommy is leaving for the capital. That brings us to the end of episode 11.
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00:39:21
Speaker
Yes I do, which brings us into episode 12. Season finale. He's milking? He's milking?
00:39:37
Speaker
I don't have the air horn, so we just have to go with these milking. OK. I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, you're milking there heard. But I mean, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's just your face, just your own noise. Just babe, I'm always there. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Oh. Oh.
The Flame Dragon's Return
00:40:16
Speaker
Uh, so anyway, episode 12 in this episode, we watch as another elf joins a fray and tries to find people to help her village. After being met with disappointment, she is given a little hope by being told to look for a Tommy. Uh, and yeah, that's, that's his episode. So we'll get into it. It opens up with the flame dragon back and making everyone super crispy again. Uh, and then we get to see, yeah. And how can we be, how can we be sure it's the same flame dragon?
00:40:34
Speaker
So you brought it here. This is all your fault.
00:40:45
Speaker
Oh, because he missing that arm. Oh, so the foreshadowing. So this this is all actually a Tommy's fault. Yeah, because if it had been able to feast on the village and the villagers and maybe it might have gone farther before landing and go on for some food. So it's all the Tommy's fault. And I'm interested to see if that's going to blow up in the future. Probably.
00:41:15
Speaker
Probably not, I don't think it's going to. It'd be fun, could be fun. Be a nice little bee. But it's not gonna happen. Not gonna happen.
00:41:25
Speaker
But yeah, Yao gets in this little cave with some guys and they're like, you who has done this and this and this will be guarding and all that and you find out that amongst that, she's just lost her fiance and also her best friend. So she's not in the best of moods. Here's why.
00:41:47
Speaker
They look like you need to go find these people and bring them to help take on the dragon. This is your mission if you choose to accept it and she does. She then go to her and she's a- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What is she supposed to pay them with? Her body?
00:42:10
Speaker
the giant diamond. Oh, the giant diamond. I don't know. Her body just seemed like, you know, that was actually the second part in this show. That was actually the second part. It was we give we give to you our tribe's most prized possession. And also, you got to use your body. She's coochie. Yeah.
00:42:34
Speaker
Oh, my God. Oh, three hours of sleep. Oh, sleep deprivation really fucked your filter. Whoo. Oh. R.I.P. headphone users. Yeah, I looked over, I saw a little red dot pipe up on my microphone. I was like, Oh, no. Oopsie daisy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. She shows up at.
00:43:01
Speaker
at the fucking... She shows up to the gate of the fort and she's like, hey, can you guys help me? I need help. There's a fucking dragon and you guys need to take care of that shit. And then she goes on this little like plea for help and they're like,
00:43:28
Speaker
The fuck you say? You need the bathroom? Don't they? It's the ball Zavalu. Yeah, that one. Yeah, I guess. Just hello. How are you? Yeah, Commander Zavala. Oh, Andrew, Zavala. Yep. It's all good. Don't worry about it. OK. Yeah.
00:43:48
Speaker
And so then they're like, you fucking, I don't know. I don't know what you're saying. They got their little books, but they didn't go to the class so they don't know how to speak the native tongue. So they're like, oh no. And she's like, they had no idea what the fuck they're doing. But anyway, she goes in and then we get to see Itame. He's flying up in the sky in a helicopter. And we get to see some jets going by nearby as well.
00:44:15
Speaker
and uh we get a little tap gun thing got the whole thumbs up uh tom cruise exits gate and um yeah nice little cameo from him he's really in everything these days
00:44:27
Speaker
He truly is. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, we get through that and he's with the I think he's with the senator guy, right? Yes. Yeah. He is with Sugawara. Sugawara, not by Gora. That is a different show. And some of that you don't even fucking know yet. I was going to say, I'm like, sure, it is. I don't. One last name. What is it?
00:44:57
Speaker
Boo by guara. Okay. Yeah, I think the first name is either John or John
00:45:04
Speaker
I hope it's John. Yeah, I think I think it's John or Jean. It's something like that. I don't know. It's from my hero. We'll get there eventually. One day I have a funko for him. I know his superhero name. It's twice because he duplicates. He does. Does he really? Yep. You nailed it. Let's go, baby. You were right on something. Yeah.
00:45:33
Speaker
Shit on feel bad. I didn't even have to play the clip that time. Wow. Because I can just say it. Because it's not embarrassing for me to say it.
00:45:48
Speaker
But anyway, Top Gun, Bubai Gowara, and Itame, they go to try to see Pina Colada, and they're flying off into the distance. We then cut back to Lisan Al-Gahib in the town, and she's gotten approached by all these guys, and like, you need H&H Scratch, you need some help, little girl, I'll help you. Don't worry, just come into this back alley.
00:46:12
Speaker
And then she goes back there and then they, you know, try to do some creepy shit and she kicks them on the nuts and takes some money because that's what you fucking deserve. Correct. Yeah. So she makes a killing off of, you know, squashing some nuts. And then she journeys into a store because she sees. Right.
00:46:35
Speaker
Yep, uh, she sees some japanese goods for scale And scale for scale they're pretty big and also pretty small so you can put it up next to shit and know how it stands um But yeah goes in there and she sees cat girl at the register and cat girl. Oh cat girl cat no
00:46:57
Speaker
One is and the other is OK. Oh, throwback to that. How long ago was that? That's probably that's like also like to also like 2002. I think is when it ended. I was going to say, yeah, I was going to say it's probably if it was Nickelodeon show, the three year run before that, if it ended in 2002, probably started in 1999 with the movie. There was a cat dog movie. There was the cat dog. We find out the origin of cat dog. And then there's a war.
00:47:26
Speaker
The fuck? I'm not even kidding. Catdog goes into combat, bro.
00:47:36
Speaker
For a second, I thought that that was what you were saying. The title of the movie was that dog gets a purple.
Nostalgia for 90s Cartoons
00:47:43
Speaker
Yeah, I was like, wow, they are Nickelodeon Greenlit some shit back in the day, but OK. You act like you're surprised. Renan Stimpy was a thing. Yeah, like.
00:47:56
Speaker
That's what, you know, they green lit a lot of really weird things. They really, really did. Cat scratch came out not long after. Uh huh. Oh, what was it? Scratch. Renan Stimpy. I just said that. Yeah. Yeah. What was the other one, though? Oh, no. Cow and chicken. Oh, yeah. Cow and chicken. And often Meyer did one of those. Probably.
00:48:26
Speaker
But anyway, back to gate. It's one of those guys. We're nailing it. Thank you so much for tuning in and bearing with us. And by us, I mean me. Oh, yeah. Oh, fuck.
00:48:47
Speaker
Tom Cruise. They had the jets. Tom Cruise kicking nuts. Oh, yeah. Yeah. After the nutcracker, Catgirl returns. That's right, Catgirl's where it all started. Yep, absolutely. But yeah, Catgirl is there and she's like, oh, no. Oh, wait, you talked to Japanese people? How you do that? And she's like, I got this nifty book. It's free. Just join the book.
00:49:18
Speaker
The conflict in me to make the Mormon joke. Or not. All of this is staying in. All of it. I hope it does. Um, yeah. Episode 30 fuck is just John has a breakdown. Might be what it's called. The unraveling of John.
00:49:49
Speaker
John sleeps, but not with you. That's another anime joke that you don't fucking know because you're uncultured. I'm getting cultured. What is I'm getting cultured. I saw it. I watched a show without you. I know I'm again proud of you. Proud of you. Um.
00:50:15
Speaker
Still can't believe it took so much to get this fucking point, but, you know, we're here. We're here. We're in it. We're thriving. It's not about the destination. It's about the journey. Wait, no, hold on. It's not about the journey. It's about the destination. Listen here, you little shit. We're on a roll. Oh, OK. Who? Yeah.
00:50:40
Speaker
We're, yeah, again, we're thriving. We're here. Three hours. I shag three more years. I don't know. I don't know at this point. I'm just taking a nap after this. I wish I could. I'm going to go drink alcohol instead. Cause choices. Is this being an adult?
00:51:05
Speaker
This is what adulting is. It's a smart financial decisions calling off work to get drunk with your friends. Oh, it's a good time. But yeah, anywhere. There's a free book that you don't have to convert to a religion and give away all your money for. That's anyway, that's a different TED talk that it's definitely not getting started.
00:51:31
Speaker
Um, but yeah, some door shoulders, some what? Some more, some more stories to cry on, pop up as these soldiers show up and talk to Lisan Al-Gahib. Um, and they're like, listen, uh, you, you match a description and we're going to profile you. Um, so anyway, uh, the dark elf gets pulled in for questioning.
00:52:01
Speaker
Why weird that I don't know Fuck it. Why not? Um, but yeah, it's an injustice in the world and we should fight against it Anyway recovery. Thank you
00:52:22
Speaker
Yeah, so she gets brought in. They're like, you know, they want to they want to hear you out and like they have questions for you. And so they, oh, they want to help me. And that's actually just no, you were defending yourself against this week's episode of Law and Order SVU. And yeah, done done. And they decided that they were mad at you. So they lodged a false complaint. They don't know what the fuck she's saying. So Lele comes in and translates everything.
00:52:51
Speaker
and does everything. She's very like cold about it. She's very like neutral.
00:52:57
Speaker
And like Lele. Yeah. Oh, yeah. She she's like shows the facts all the time. Yeah. She's very much like Bill Nye in the consider the following. Oh, you know. Yeah. Also, speaking of Bill Nye in science, we get before Lele gets brought in. She also is practicing her magic and we see I had no idea where you were going with that.
00:53:22
Speaker
This is one thing that does make sense. She is practicing her magic and her teacher's like, wow, you got fucking better. And he is very impressed with it because she has been studying science and shit and figuring out how technology and all that stuff works and read about chemical reactions and all that. So she was like, if stuff gets heated, then it usually has more of a combustion to it. So she combines heat with also some
00:53:50
Speaker
other stuff to make her explosions even bigger. So I'm excited for season two when Lele learns the nuke spell and just mushroom cloud, mushroom cloud, mushroom cloud, fuck that dragon. It'll be great, is that? I'm pleading the fifth on that one.
00:54:13
Speaker
Uh, because kind of. Oh, yeah. Uh, yeah. But anyway, she takes a break off from being Oppenheimer to go translate the general talks with them and then hears out. Yeah. Oh, and general general who Grievous? I don't know. I wrote down the general. See, names are hard. Yep. General Hasama.
00:54:42
Speaker
Hasma, heard. Hasma, beta. Um, fuck. Uh, but yeah, the Hasma, da, doo, da, ba, da, yow, da, ba, dee, da, ba, die. Um,
00:55:02
Speaker
Hazuma is like, I wish I could help you, but I fucking can't because of the fucking geography. It's too close to here and it can be seen as aggression towards the fucking empire. And I can't do that. So, no, go fuck yourself kindly. But you know what? Who might be able to help? Itame. And so then they even.
00:55:20
Speaker
her and Lele go out and they're like, oh no, it's a fan.
Manga Distraction
00:55:24
Speaker
But then we go see Tommy, who is talking with Pina Colada and giving her the goods and not in the way that Rory wants to give the goods, instead is giving smut. So in that realm, but not really, but given that slice of life,
00:55:43
Speaker
manga to piña colada already has it translated and everything and they have requested some background information about atame so he includes a little insert about him as well in there which is fun and cool and neat and i enjoy it
00:55:57
Speaker
Um, because apparently her and all of her soldiers instead of, you know, doing shit are just sitting around reading the fucking manga. And I'm like, hey, I can relate. Oh, spirit animal. Uh, but yeah, your spirit animal is Sakura.
00:56:18
Speaker
Oh, 100%. Not having to do shit. You betcha. But yeah, there's some flies. They get there with the smut. They all read the smut. And then Lele and Yao are in the cavern. That's never going away, is it? Never going away. Because I don't have access to the soundboard now, so that's the best that I can do to
00:56:42
Speaker
that something is just continually reiterated to you. Yow, yow, but yow and Lele are in this place and Lele and she's like, oh no, I must've been dreaming. It's no way that I could possibly be rejected by all this and nah, nah. And then she's like, no, fucking happened. I didn't miss translate. It's not happening.
00:57:05
Speaker
and move on. And then the soldiers at the table next door are like, you know, that's that girl who was asked for help. I feel bad for her. Maybe we could do something, but we can't. But maybe we could. I don't know. We have those new things. We could have, you know, Maverick get in there and just go zigzag and zigzag and go up, climb, and then invert, come back down, shoot the missile, and then go away, and then also rescue Miles Teller. And that's the plot of Top Gun Maverick, everybody. You're welcome.
00:57:35
Speaker
And the guy from anyone but you is there. Whoa. Shout out to Sydney Sweeney. Sydney, is she in there? Anyone but you? Oh, anyone but you. OK. Yeah, it's the dickhead from Top Gun Maverick is the love interest in anyone but you. All right. OK. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Best romcom of the last decade, by the way. I will stand on that.
00:58:01
Speaker
Nice. Just like you wish that Sydney Suini would stand on you. Correct. Okay.
00:58:13
Speaker
Anyway, we're all we're we are so close. We are we're getting toward the end. Yeah. But anyway, they're talking about that. They break down all of Top Gun Maverick to tell this person, you know, about it, but they don't actually interact with her crazy because they're just hypothesizing at the table next door and you're like, you know what, we can't do this, but you know who could?
00:58:33
Speaker
Itami. And so it ends with I got Itami Might be able to do it, which is why the episode is named Itami Might. Weirdly enough, I think that's only the English version because the actual one is what would Itami do? W. W. I. T. Heard or I. D. There we go.
00:58:57
Speaker
There you go. Letters are hard. They are. Listen, my brain just went to I.T. I'm looking at a computer, bitch. But yeah, that's the episode. We're done. We're done. That's it. That's the end of the episode. We're done talking about it right now. We're here. Holy shit. Stay in school.
00:59:25
Speaker
Stay in bed. That's the opposite of staying in school. Do drugs. I don't know. Well, I do. I do not condone that previous statement. Me either. Anything you want to plug, buddy?
00:59:47
Speaker
Uh, my mouth with a shotgun. I don't know. Um, but yeah, I know.
00:59:57
Speaker
So, yeah, that's our episode this week. Plug in. Watching some shit. I finished free run. Free run was beautiful and amazing and a fantastic show. I in the previous episode, I think it was a training exam episode. I asked for recommendations and realized I had not
01:00:21
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giving you guys what I've seen so if you go on to my any list I believe I have a profile listed on there I'm gonna have another one created for we belong so it'll be we've John
01:00:39
Speaker
And that will be how you can find what I've seen for any suggestions that you may have for any anime shows to watch. But yeah, currently up to date with the dub of Magic and Muscle. But yeah, Magic and Muscle is great. I'm very much enjoying that. Again, just a fun Harry Potter-esque type show. And I'm also starting Hell's Paradise because I've heard that's top tier. And also it's only 13 episodes, so I can get it and get back into another show real quick.
01:01:10
Speaker
Um, but yeah, those are those are my plugs. So I'll throw it over to you for your plugs this week, sir. Hooray. I'm going to plug our socials. You can go ahead and follow us on Instagram and TikTok at we belong pod TikTok as long as it'll last, because who knows what's going to happen with all that? I'm hoping it does not get banned. I enjoy wasting my time on that app. You know, scrolling is the best kind of scrolling. It is.
01:01:38
Speaker
You can also go ahead and follow us on our Reddit r slash the we belong podcast. I'm also going to plug sleep this week. The act of sleeping. What's that? You know, it's something you should probably look into. That seems overrated. Yeah. Yeah. Music wise this week, we're going to go ahead and plug Chelsea by dragged under.
01:02:07
Speaker
It is a not so metal song from a metal band. So it's a lot of fun. It's a good song. Oh, yeah. But yeah, I think that just about sums us up this week. Everybody finished this episode and take a nap. Yep. And also before you watch the next couple episodes of gate. Oh, that is correct. I we should discuss that. Yes. So season two.
01:02:35
Speaker
of Gate, the very first episode, it does contain a scene of sexual assault.
Content Warning in 'Gate'
01:02:44
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So if that is something that you need to skip, the timestamps are 306 to 438 on Hulu. 306 to 438. It picks back up still in that same room.
01:03:01
Speaker
But after the act is done, so if need be, kill it. And when we do our discussion of it, we are just going to hit the plot points and not actually be discussing what happened. Yeah, so. Oh, yeah, I know that is a very sensitive topic.
01:03:22
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Yeah. So we'll also put out a disclaimer at the beginning of the next episode as well. Yes. So you guys are aware because we we love you all and we don't want you to encounter anything that you are not comfy with as well. We want you guys to have fun, too. Yeah. Fun, not trauma. Trauma should come from embarrassing your friend, not from anime that you watch. Fuck you.
01:03:50
Speaker
But yeah, I think that we will not really be touching on it. So yeah, no, no, no. Yeah. Very brief about it. But I think that should sum us up for the week now. Yeah. Cool. So without further ado. We hope you guys have yourselves a fantastic day. Bye. You play now. Yeah, it's playing right now.
01:04:19
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Well that scares me.