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EP. 34 A JOURNEY TO JAPAN! GATE episodes 7-9
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Welcome Weebs to Nelson's take over! Join us as Jon does his best to make Nelson cry... This week we did episodes 7-9 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 1 finale with Nelson pleading his case more. The boys are watching it on Hulu and are watching episodes 10-12so make sure to catch them in order to Weeb-Along for next week!!
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Transcript
Introduction and Tommy's Challenges
00:00:00
Speaker
to it with episode seven. Yeah. Yeah. So in episode seven, we have Tommy recovering from his vicious beating. And then he tries to get a little more acquainted with the the Knights of the Rose. They head back to on this hill and begin preparation for going to Japan. Yeah. Let's run it back to the beginning. Oh, yeah.
00:00:29
Speaker
Um, at the end of episode six, we had, uh, it Tommy hopping out of the Humvee and the Knights of the Rose kind of interrogating him and threatening him. And in this one, we had them actually kick the shit out of him because he doesn't, he doesn't want to shoot at anybody because you don't want to kill people.
JSTF's Rescue Plan
00:00:54
Speaker
Right. That makes diplomacy hard when you're immediately seen as the bad guy. Yeah. Well, I mean, it could make it very easy when there's no one to, you know, have to negotiate and everything technically. I mean, you're not wrong. Mm hmm. That could have worked fairly well. But yeah, so they they kind of put a wallop on him and take him away. We have the rest of the JSTF.
00:01:23
Speaker
kind of track down where he's at and begin an assault or begin to prepare an assault because their leader was taken.
Revelations and Preparedness of Elite Warriors
00:01:34
Speaker
So naturally they have to go and get him back a little strike force to extract him.
00:01:40
Speaker
We cut over to inside where we have a Tommy laying in a bed surrounded by his absolute dream. This is we had what was it? A human, a cat girl.
00:01:56
Speaker
a Medusa and a bunny girl, bunny girl. Yep. Someone get Hugh Hefner in here. He was the the fact that he just got the shit kicked out of him and was just blushing and really excited to be there.
00:02:13
Speaker
Mm hmm. Was certainly something. Right. Well, it's funny because like when people burst in later, he's literally being like spoon fed by these people. Oh, yeah. He is living his good life, which is great when you also realize that these people are also considered to be elite warriors.
00:02:40
Speaker
Mm hmm. So I remember seeing that the first time and being like, oh, the the nurses are spec ops. OK, cool. Yes. I was kind of hoping for a fight just to see what they would do, especially Medusa. Do we not get them in action ever in the series? Those four specifically, no.
00:03:04
Speaker
Oh, big sad. We get we get people who are affiliated with them, like you are part of their groups. Mm
Diplomatic Tensions and Pina Colada's Dilemmas
00:03:13
Speaker
hmm. We get to see them in action. OK, I'll take it. We also cut over to Pina Colada screaming at Bose's and Panache, I think is her name.
00:03:27
Speaker
I think that they said something about her forehead being too big, and then that's what caused them to run away and run into kankaru and tamari crazy. I fucking hate you. Which brings us to shit on feel bad. That's me right now.
00:03:47
Speaker
That is. I'm glad I finally have a clip I can consistently use for you, but I've realized like mine are, of course, and he's milking. Uh-huh. Yours is one that's mean. Yours are at your expense as opposed to mine, which is just a statement. Also at my expense. Noticing a trend here. Yeah.
00:04:17
Speaker
But anyway, getting back to it, Pina Colada is screaming at Boses being like, hey, you've already broken the treaty and the treaty has been around for four minutes. So what you need to do is you need to go sleep with the Tommy and that's going to make everything better. Yeah. And what was what was your what was your opinion on when she said that?
00:04:45
Speaker
Um, well, I mean, I know at ancient times that was like customs and shit like that. Um, modern times, fucking weird. I mean, she's, she's royalty. Moses comes from like an actual elite bloodline.
Humor and Voice Actor Recognition
00:05:01
Speaker
Yeah. So that is very much no pun intended, lowering herself to, you know, something she never thought she'd have to do.
00:05:10
Speaker
Yeah, I'm like if she does this is to make it her technically damaged goods in the eyes of like all the other elites. Is she not going to get married now because of this?
00:05:22
Speaker
That is entirely possible. But with all that and Bose is getting prepped, we have the strike team from the third recon sneaking in. And as they're sneaking in, we get two civilians who comment on them coming in, which leads to this. You tell them David Mandraga. What? That's who it is.
00:05:47
Speaker
Is it? That's 100% David Montraga. Who the hell is David Montraga? Uh, Shoto Todoroki. Are you serious? Yeah. I don't even need to look at it. That is, that is him. I am looking right now. Son of a bitch. Is it? Yeah. It's also bare told. Yeah. What the fuck? He's also in Black Clover. He's in a lot.
00:06:15
Speaker
This dude had one throwaway line as like a background character. One throwaway line as they're coming in. He's like, Oh, shit. Look at that. And you're like, Oh, I know him. That's David Matraga. Of course. Uh huh. Yeah. How do you do this? I am Lord. I've just seen more shows than you in my brain. That's what my brain focuses on.
00:06:43
Speaker
I don't even like the fact that you know the names of the voice actors is what gets me.
00:06:48
Speaker
I only know names of select few. Most of them all know for their characters. Oh, you'll be like, oh, shit, that's Barret Holt instead of. Oh, yeah. Unless it's one that's been like in a ton of stuff and then they start to like actually sink into my brain because there's a lot of voice actors and just a couple didn't notice. Yeah. Yeah. Just a handful or two. And yeah, there's lots of people.
00:07:16
Speaker
Ridiculous. Well, anyway, they go. The third recon starts to, I guess, begin their assault and. The head nurse taking care of a Tommy is like, hey, people are coming in. If they're a Tommy's people, welcome them with open
Kurata's Introduction and Cultural Insights
00:07:34
Speaker
arms. If they're not, feel free to just dispatch them. Yeah, fuck them up.
00:07:40
Speaker
And to Tommy, he's like, what the fuck? These are these are the people that have been spoon feeding me. And that's when he learns that they are all, in fact, elite warriors who were kind of taken from their homes. And he's like, oh, well, this could be very interesting. Then the JSDF comes in the door and
00:08:02
Speaker
They're welcome in with open arms. They go to check on it, Tommy. And yeah, he is being spoon fed. Yeah. And is getting the greatest treatment he could possibly be receiving. Yeah. And, you know, they're being received with open arms while what's her nuts is preparing to receive a tummy with open legs. With arms, why do we burn?
00:08:33
Speaker
Kureta getting so excited. Over the cat girl. Over the cat girl immediately goes up and he's like, my name is Kureta. My interests are anime and Kuchi. I am single. Immediately just trying to like advertise himself. So he can come home with a cat girl. Yeah.
00:08:59
Speaker
God, it was I love Kirta's whole like the fact that throughout this, he just tries to hit on anybody with a pulse, but everybody just loves it, Tommy. Yeah. It's not for Catgirl. Catgirl was into it. Catgirl was into it. I was very happy for him. It's Keko. I know that we might not see them in action, but does Catgirl come back? I guess briefly heard. I think briefly.
00:09:27
Speaker
Cool. I'm, there's a lot of cat girls. Gotcha. Well, but yeah, they, uh, they kind of have little festivities with the, with everybody and they're taking pictures together. And as they're going to take the picture, Bose walks in the room wearing of course, extremely sheer lingerie.
00:09:51
Speaker
Yep. And because she's not expecting to see like 10 people, everybody. So she walks in, everybody's laughing and getting their pictures taken. And, you know, they're just having fun. And this kind of upsets her because she had to mentally prepare herself to be used as a as a tool of democracy.
00:10:18
Speaker
Yeah. So she goes and fucking hits him again. Yep. She she just walks up and slaps the shit out of him. I'm not going to kink shame whatever you're into. And yeah, I guess he might be into it. I mean, probably probably it taught me is I don't even necessarily want to say a flirt.
00:10:43
Speaker
Yeah, I say if not him, then probably Kurta. Yeah, Kurto would definitely be sure Kurto would ask for a second one, but they make their way over to the throne room where Pina Colada, of course, gets mad as fuck once more, because Moses is.
00:11:01
Speaker
not doing anything she's supposed to be doing. So to make up for the whole situation, Peña invites herself and Bozis to Alma's Hill with the third recon to personally apologize
00:11:16
Speaker
to a Tommy's commanding officers saying that that's not how they get things done. And he's like, that's not needed, but OK, you can you can come back, I guess. And they kind of get to see the the full force of the Japanese military. They get to see everybody, you know, on the at the firing range practicing. Yeah, this firing range. And then they also see the tanks.
Government Hearing and Strategic Retreat
00:11:40
Speaker
Oh, yeah. The steel horses.
00:11:42
Speaker
Yeah, whoever was driving those was, you know, Florida. They got air time as they came over a hill. He got like two seconds of air time in a six ton tank. Yeah. When they when they saw everybody with their rifles, the just that whole. Oh, if if we ever actually have to fight these people, we're fucked. Oh, yeah. 100 percent. Every single person has a fire staff.
00:12:12
Speaker
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they also had like mines and everything buried underneath the ground. Yeah, like right outside of. Yeah. Yeah. That's a special surprise that will come in later. Oh, is it? Is that a thing? So anyway, get that prediction nailed it. Or did you or am I just making it up?
00:12:37
Speaker
I nailed it. Yeah, you did. But yes, so Peña and friend go meet with General Hazama, where they use Lele as an interpreter, because Lele at this point is pretty much. She's somewhere in between conversational and fluent.
00:13:03
Speaker
Yeah, she's been telling the Duolingo owl not to show up. She is. She is there for her lessons. She is ready. She has her streak going. Yeah. She puts on the gas mask of the Duolingo owl is afraid of her, which is wild because the Duolingo owl fears nothing. I still can't get over the Duolingo ads for JJ Casey's and two for the Shibuya incident. Oh, yeah. But they their marketing department is fucking insane.
00:13:32
Speaker
Yeah, they're aware. They're aware of all the memes and everything, and they embrace it fully. Yeah, their TikTok account is phenomenal. Uh huh. But we have, like I said, Lalaise the interpreter and everybody is going out to dinner. They're getting the they're they're learning Japanese food. Mm hmm.
00:13:55
Speaker
Uh, the wizard dude whose name I just never remember because I don't care enough. Yeah, little horny man, little horny man to get super excited eating the was I think it was a roll. Yeah, it's just like a super soft bun. Yeah, loses his fucking mind. And yeah, Lele. Comes back and just immediately passes out on a Tommy who carries her to bed.
00:14:25
Speaker
And they prepare for the next day as they go through the gate back to the great land of Japan. They did soy sauce and mathra. Oh, my gosh. Hashtag Book of Mormon. Hashtag Book of Mormon. Not the actual Book of Mormon, the musical, the musical written by the South Park creators.
00:14:50
Speaker
Such a good show. So good. Plug that for that. My song for the week is Hasidiga Ibuwa. Yep. And because, you know, just like in that show and this show, we get, you know, our missionaries going two by two into Japan.
00:15:12
Speaker
What a segue. What a segue. Thank you. Yeah, which brings us to episode eight. In this one, we get to see them head into Japan, where there is a couple of differences that they notice as they're going about. We also get a whole hearing where they question them about the whole incident with the dragon. That's definitely going to come back later. That only has one arm now.
00:15:38
Speaker
that, you know, ate Tooka's dad. And then, yeah, we get to see the subway, learn that it's shitty everywhere. And then we get to meet Itami's wife or ex-wife. That is crazy. So, yeah, bringing it back to the beginning. We get to open up a very good place to start.
00:16:03
Speaker
A very good place to start. We get to open up even before, uh, the credits and everything, a little, little thing of them coming through and then seeing all the skyscrapers. And then there is a moment with Pini Kalata and her person who's going to fuck a Tommy. Uh, that's like Moses. Moses. Yeah. Moses heard. Um, and they're standing there in the street and they're just looking around at all the skyscrapers are like,
00:16:31
Speaker
Holy shit, there's so many people here that they had to build up. If we went to war against them, it would be death. Which, yeah, insane. Showing them, I mean, all you have to do for most of these, I feel like if you go to the meetings and just be like, hi, we're the nation of Japan and we have
00:16:55
Speaker
you know, millions and millions of people. It's OK. Yeah. So the population of Japan is one hundred and twenty five point one million. Uh huh. I don't think the special region as a whole even has like a third of that. Yeah. Well, especially not after all the fighting that's been happening. Yeah. And that's a I mean, that's a whole world as opposed to one country. Mm hmm. Yes. That would have been that would have been fucking insane.
00:17:23
Speaker
Yeah, it's crazy. Like, not only the numbers, but also the technological difference. Like, yeah, you have magic, which can do shit, which is awesome. But magic versus gun, I feel like is going to be very tough because usually I think for spells, you have to do a little incantation. You have to, you know, get your mana, get your focus as opposed to just and then done. It would have made Harry Potter more fun. That's all I'll say.
00:17:50
Speaker
Could've. Avada Kedavra. With a Glock. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra. Avada Kedavra.
00:18:14
Speaker
AKA the creepy guy who definitely isn't licked from Fire Force. This was first. Yeah. Well, they looks looks very similar, not the voice actor, not the voice actor at all.
00:18:32
Speaker
Uh. But yeah, he is sent by the Japanese Defense Force government agency, and he's like, all right, I'm going to be your sort of handler on this side. We find out from him that he's done his research on it. Tommy also find out that he is, you know, Tommy is a ranger.
00:18:55
Speaker
Oh, he is also in the Japanese special forces, which makes Kirby Yoshi lose it. She cannot. He's the son of a bitch. Right. She cannot fathom the fact that he has actually accomplished stuff that she is striving towards. And he did it like almost out of spite. Yeah, he's not even out of spite. He did it.
00:19:22
Speaker
Most accidentally like they sent him there with the intention to fail. Mm hmm. But he's just really good at getting out of any situation, which also includes work. He just passed.
00:19:40
Speaker
Yeah, it's like they say, you know, ask a you can ask a productive person to get something done or an overachiever to get something done and I'll get done the correct way and I'll get done or you can ask a lazy person and I'll get done eventually, but in half the time because they will have found an easier way to do it. Correct. And that is that is the embodiment of it, Tommy. Yes.
00:20:07
Speaker
But yeah, we go from that, then they start exploring Japan a little bit. They eat some of the native food. We get to see them eating a little bowl of ramen. And also they, you know, crack a little egg on top as well, which is super fun. And the people from the other side of the gate are like, the fuck is this? And then it's yummy as hell.
00:20:26
Speaker
Then after that, we go to the Q&A or the hearing. We find this questioner lady who is an old fucking mean. She is such a bitch. Oh, no reason. No reason. Other than just like I think they're trying to defund the exploration and it's her job to sort of like poke at it and make it fall apart. So.
00:20:53
Speaker
Yeah, everything gets started and they start talking about the fight with the dragon. And it turns out that there was indeed more firepower that was needed. They were saying like, all right, so you guys turn and ran from all of this because it was it was spooky, but it's your job to defend against it. And they're like, well, we did send it
00:21:21
Speaker
Packing unfortunately not as soon as you wanted to but we were able to get stuff done and then people step up and sort of fanned atomic squad by saying that the dragon scales are actually tougher than tungsten.
00:21:37
Speaker
And our tungsten carbide or whatever and so it is a Tommy's gets others like we need to like rail guns and shit like that in order to actually kill this thing we're only able to wounded a certain amount because we're able to focus on fire power on it.
00:21:53
Speaker
But we need better stuff going in there if we are going to be going up against these, which makes sense.
Rory's Rebuttal and World Diversity
00:22:02
Speaker
Because if if a dragon just haphazardly decided to come through the.
00:22:09
Speaker
the gate. I got it. Yeah. And like that would be probably the worst thing that could actually happen. Yeah. Coming across, you can handle that. But the thing that's literally bulletproof. Yeah.
00:22:24
Speaker
Because if there's anything that we've learned from Japanese cinema, giant lizard beings attacking Japan is not always the best. You have to go and get the giant gorilla to fight the giant lizard. And then in the follow up movie, another giant gorilla to fight the other giant gorilla who also teams up with the giant lizard.
00:22:48
Speaker
I didn't even see the new one. That's a new one right there in a nutshell. Haven't seen it, but I've heard of it. Yeah, but I like the scene because it also brings up the question of like, why is the government trying to disband a Tommy squad?
00:23:04
Speaker
Because they laid it out in the last thing it's like oh hey this is necessary and the reason that they're pushing into the area on the other side of the gate is for the resources because it'll give them a super strong. Hand with the rest of the world so if you have your main people that are going in.
00:23:23
Speaker
OK, Japan is not really known to be a world superpower. So, yeah, they definitely want to go and get materials to try to give them a leg up on everybody. Yeah, because why would you cripple yourself by taking out a Tommy squad? That's why. Exactly. Maybe it's because he's trying to do it peacefully, as opposed to everyone else who's just like, yeah, just fucking kill him.
00:23:45
Speaker
Right. And that's not helpful when you have people from that world sitting there in that courtroom. Mm hmm. Yeah, probably not, you know, brightest fucking move. Yeah. And also, speaking of not the brightest, we also get a little racist comment from her. Chuka takes a stand and she looks at yours and is like, I got to ask, are those are those real? And to get responses like that. Yeah, they are. Do you want to you want to touch them?
00:24:13
Speaker
And this speaker is just so stupid. I like I was listening to I was like, wow, I fucking hate this bitch. And I like that she sort of.
00:24:26
Speaker
looked at Rory and saw the little veil and was like, oh, she's grieving. If she was going to go after any of them, the one person that she should have gone after was Tuka. Yeah, Tuka just lost her whole knowledge. PTSD. Yeah, that one. That would make the most sense. So she's not only a bitch, but she's also a stupid bitch. And with leaving her, you've now met our final main character.
00:24:53
Speaker
Oh, she's going to be completely kidding. I was going to say she's going to be a regular fuck. Yeah, we never see her again. Yeah, good. Oh, good. Yeah. After two takes takes a stand and has like a whole little thing about like, you know, I'm an elf. Then we get to see Rory take the stand and the speakers like, oh, she's grieving. I'm a this is it. This is my opportunity. I'm a poker. And so she starts.
00:25:21
Speaker
Hogan away and then Rory gets pissed off because this lady thinks that she's, you know, getting in on it and just really laying into a Tommy squad and Rory calls her little miss thing. And, you know, her first rebuttal is, are you a goddamn idiot? Which echoes through the entire room, a little bit of feedback and everything. And the answer to that
00:25:52
Speaker
Yes, yes, it is accurate.
00:25:56
Speaker
Yeah, she goes on this rant about how it is so easy to call a Tommy Scott cowards and how they had to strategically retreat because there's a time that every soldier needs to prioritize their own life in order to continue fighting and also saving more people. And it's so easy to call people cowards when you are behind a desk on the other side and not on the front lines as well, which very, very fair point. Shit on feel bad.
00:26:25
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, and then they both start going back and forth calling each other little miss thing and the speaker is like, I'm sorry, but nobody probably told you how to address your elders.
00:26:44
Speaker
seeing as you're a child. Yeah, and then at that point, is it Lele or is it Itame? I think it's Itame that speaks up. It's like, actually, I would like to have the record shown because also Rory is about to fucking murk this bitch. You watch her lips change color to, I guess,
00:27:04
Speaker
Uh, like attack mode activate. She does the sports mode, the licking of her lips. Yeah. Well, she does that and then her lip color changes. Yeah, she does. It goes from pink to purple. And, uh, yeah.
00:27:22
Speaker
Then Tommy rushes up and sort of grabs or like, hey, don't fucking kill her. That'd probably be bad. Oh, out upon that. Yeah. And then he goes, actually, just so we know, uh, Rory is actually the oldest person here. We find out the ages of all of them. Rory is nine hundred and sixty one years old, which means that she has thirty nine more years left until she becomes almost like a being without a body or whatever. She essentially ascends to Godhood.
00:27:51
Speaker
Mm hmm. And then Chuka is 165 and then Lele is 15, the normal age.
Modern vs. Traditional Diplomacy
00:28:02
Speaker
Lele is actually a child. Yeah. And you know, Lele gets up on the stand after that and starts talking about their world and how there's the different races and the different cultures and how it works a little bit. And it makes them
00:28:21
Speaker
Relatable and at this point the speaker has been humbled after rory's whole thing and finding out the ages of all these people realize that she doesn't know fucking shit and she should shut the fuck up and no replace.
00:28:34
Speaker
Yeah, you really hate this lady. I don't like her. She reminds me of like every manager ever that thinks that they know best, but they really don't. And they just will not get off their own high horse. It's like you're stupid. You're trash. Go home basic. Yeah, basic.
00:28:54
Speaker
Uh, yeah, but they make some relatable, which is nifty. And it sort of ends the hearing on a high note as opposed to the speaker getting brutally murdered, which is a bonus. We we should point out that the entire time the trial was going on, it was televised. Oh, yeah. So people outside were losing their fucking minds. And we're watching that shit in the streets of Shibuya.
00:29:24
Speaker
They were like, Holy shit, elf girl, tiny goth girl and a witch, and they're just completely thirsting over everybody. Yeah, the chat was going crazy. They very quickly became like celebrities and trending on Twitter and they just kind of popped off.
00:29:47
Speaker
Yeah we are so they become you know little superstars getting there awesome and cool and amazing we then get to see the discreet side of everything happening which is princess soccer having hostage negotiations and yeah.
00:30:05
Speaker
Yeah, you're welcome. Just negotiating with the Japanese government. We find out that they have prisoners of war, that they're ready to start releasing, and they're like, oh my god, how much is that going to cost us? And they're like, well, for you? Free. Because we don't believe in charging for people's lives. And they're like, oh, shit, really? And they're like, yeah.
00:30:27
Speaker
We've even, you know, tried to do an enrichment program. So I'm wondering how many of these prisoners of war are going to go back and be speaking Japanese as opposed to whatever the native language is for the other side of the gate. Wow. That would be a really cool thing if they ever touched on it. Oh.
00:30:47
Speaker
No. Yeah, super unfortunate. I would have been cool because the guy who was in that the guy who was in that meeting is actually an important character. Oh, OK. OK. Um, Sugawara, who by her one day you're going to not do this one day. Not today. One day, though. And our final episode of gate is when you're going to get all the names right. But I'm going to be too astonished that you're getting them right. I'm going to fuck them up.
00:31:17
Speaker
Listen, I have been saying it Tommy and I've been saying Lele correct this episode of slice of salami. And Lele Pons. I forgot your Lele Pons. Oh, yeah.
00:31:35
Speaker
But yeah, the negotiations and everything are going well. It's interesting, again, to see the different styles of diplomacy that are expected from either side in between Japan and the other side of the gate and how far we've come in negotiation since, you know, olden days and shit like that. Nobody had to come in and fuck Sugawara.
00:32:02
Speaker
Yeah, they could have if they wanted to, but I mean, Moses was there. Missed opportunity show. We find out that there are a lot of senators that have gone missing from the gate world and they're like, oh, they're probably here as prisoners of war.
00:32:24
Speaker
so it'll be interesting to see again with that whole enrichment or enlightenment thing how that affects the like senate of the other side and whether or not it helps with the coup of the king or it uh you know cuts it off and i'll be interested to see where that goes if it goes and if it's touched on probably it will go it will be touched on
00:32:51
Speaker
Yeah, as I say, if not in season two, then definitely in season three. We're doing we're doing gate yet solely to revive for the show.
00:33:01
Speaker
Yep, that's it. This is the the call to arms. Make sure get in the comments. Start, you know, emailing the JSDF yourself and boom, we're ready. There we are. Send them an email and say, hey, we're we're thirsting over Rory Mercury. Yeah, I need more girls in my life. I feel like I would join the military.
00:33:26
Speaker
If I saw a poster with Rory Mercury on it, but unfortunately there aren't any. Yeah, it's OK. You'll get some some gate ish stuff in season three of if we do my hero, then. Oh, really? Season three. Yeah.
00:33:43
Speaker
Yeah. So since we're talking about cat girls, let's go. Let's go. Yeah. But anyway, they have a nice little negotiation. It ends with a handshake. This is
00:34:00
Speaker
Princess Pinicolata's first handshake she has ever done for a deal. So that's cool and exciting and nifty. Then we see the transportation of Itame and all of the people that he brought through. They go from an RV to the subway after getting separated and then on
Cultural Surprises and Subway Incident
00:34:21
Speaker
the subway. Why do you think subway like that? I don't know. I could hear Jared in the back of my head. I'm so sorry. And it could be weird.
00:34:31
Speaker
whispering in my ear saying, do it weird, do it weird. So get back into it.
00:34:40
Speaker
They get separated and then they decide to take the subway. When they get into the subway, creepy guy gets on there. Kumakado is what I have written down for his name. And I think that's how you pronounce it. Kumakado. Kumakado, yeah. And so they start taking the subway.
00:35:04
Speaker
As they start going, they're bumping around. The girls, this is their, obviously, first subway ride they've ever had, so they're bumping into people. Moses bumps into What's His Nuts, and you see them sort of, like, exchange a look of, like, oh, oh, I'm sorry, the chaplain guy. Yeah, and leads the groundwork for a little, little something, something, maybe later on.
00:35:29
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Well, now we never touch on that. Oh, I'm sure that there will be many touching on that. But as they start going. Yep.
00:35:43
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Uh, I have blonde is flirty with soldier guy for that as a note. Uh, then we also get to hear Rory freaking out. She's like, Oh no, this is Hardy's territory. And then he's like, Tommy's like, the fuck is Hardy? And apparently Hardy is this like God of the underground. Yeah, it's the God of the underworld.
00:36:07
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Yeah, it was a thing for Rory and his astral. Yeah. Yeah. And Rory shut her down every single time. And then she's like, yeah, so she holds a grudge. So I'm sort of in her domain. I don't.
00:36:21
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feel good about that so I want to leave and it's like I'll be your mail and I will protect you and yeah and then they wind up getting off the subway because she starts really freaking out and then as they're getting off the subway it turns out that the power was connected to the whole subway line so someone is trying to make them
00:36:46
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stopped and is trying to isolate them so that way they can find them and do stuff and things to them, which will be interesting to see what happens in the future.
00:37:01
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they get up they get some fresh air some guy comes over tries to you know take rory shit rory then proceeds to kick the shit out of him and then creepy guy pulls it back and then they're like oh shit what do we do now and then they go and look around and tom is like i know what to do and then we see this lady who is writing fan fiction is forcing herself to finish another chapter and a whole bunch of anime and stuff like that.
00:37:31
Speaker
And there's a knock at the door, the door opens and a tummy is there bringing hot food for her. And then we find out that it is Ritsa or Risa. Risa, Risa, Rika comes to the door and a tummy is like, oh, yeah, this is my ex-wife. And there's a whoa. And then that is what we end on, bringing us to episode nine.
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00:39:06
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Yeah, in episode nine, we get a little more backstory on it. Tommy's ex wife. We get a nice little shopping trip and then we get a day at the spa and they at the spot gets a little more interesting to say the least. Yeah. More ways than one. So back to the beginning of the episode, we have it. Tommy explaining the situation to Risa and everybody being like, I'm sorry, hold on a minute.
00:39:37
Speaker
You're a ranger. Special forces and you were married. Why did we not know any of this? And he's like, oh, well, I mean, you never asked. You never asked. But, you know, it's. This is my ex wife, like I'm not going to bring up an ex. It's also interesting to see how similar she looks to girl by Ashi.
00:40:06
Speaker
Yeah, it is. It is very similar. Mm hmm. But I don't think he has a thing for kuribayashi. Oh, I don't think so either. Oh, thank. But yeah, they they kind of explore her apartment a bit and do some some talk in and eventually she's like, hey, we should get new clothes. So they take Rory
00:40:35
Speaker
Lele and Tuka to the mall. Wow. Why am I forgetting your name? Pina Colada and Bose's. Oh, sorry. I forgot. Sakura. I got you. Fuck you. But while they were in the apartment, Pina and Bose's discovered manga.
00:40:59
Speaker
Yep. It was some kind of of boy love, I think is what they call it. Yeah. It was just a gay romance manga and they lost their minds and they loved it. So they want to go to where the books are. I believe they say they just want slice of life.
00:41:21
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Mm hmm. And it Tommy goes and meets with the the minister of defense, who's actually an old friend of his that he knew from his younger days. Yeah, because he would sneak him fucking animation. He would sneak him animation because he can't just go to the store anymore. Yeah, because we've got each other back.
00:41:43
Speaker
Exactly. But yeah, we get a nice little montage of the girl shopping and getting new outfits, even though Rory is like what I am wearing now is the formal garb for my God. Anything other than this would be seen as sacrilege. Yeah. And then she finds some cute outfits. Oh, yeah, she does.
00:42:11
Speaker
She's like, wait a minute, hold on. I have never seen anything like these before. I need all of it. And yeah, it's kind of just a nice little bonding thing. Mm hmm. They then. Start heading toward the hot spring. And yeah, we got a hot springs episode, which that's a trope. Oh, yeah.
00:42:37
Speaker
That's insane. Well, I mean, hot springs and everything are just like big in Japan. Oh, that's true. And seeing as a safe place in Japan. I've never been to a hot springs. Well, that's not true. I've never been a hot springs that you can, you know, actually.
00:42:54
Speaker
get into. They're hot. Yeah, I've seen like I've been to Yellowstone and everything. I've seen lots of lots of hot too hot. Yeah, too hot. But that's like the melt the skin off your body hot.
International Tensions and Supernatural Relations
00:43:08
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There's one in West Virginia. It's the Berkeley Springs hot spring. If you ever get a chance.
00:43:16
Speaker
All right. It is the most relaxing thing I've ever done. I've swam in the natural springs down here in Florida. Yeah, but that's not like 110 degrees. No, it's 68 degrees year round. Oh, 68. Ah, man, we're one off. I know. So close. Almost there. So close. But yeah, they go to the hot springs, which is being watched over by the Japanese special forces.
00:43:43
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led by Tarou who is the defense minister he's kind of in a situation room providing overwatch the girls go into a room and they change and as they're changing Rory looks out the window and locks eyes with the special forces sniper and he's like what the fuck how did she see me
00:44:04
Speaker
I'm three hundred and twenty five meters away, but she knows all on full on eye locking. What? She's a demi god. I don't know what they were expecting. Right. Like she she is fully aware. Yeah, she she 100 percent knows.
00:44:20
Speaker
And then we kind of have a really nice bonding talk in the hot springs with all the girls like, hey, I heard or I can tell you have the hots for so and so. And we get some girls locker room talk. We do. And then we get a little more background art, though, is the lay there with her magic little water bubble bubble.
00:44:47
Speaker
Everybody's having these nice conversations in the lays, just hovering a bubble of water like a foot above her. Yep, just chilling, just doing some magic. I get that. We feel like that would be me. Oh, one hundred percent. I would just be chilling there with my little magic water bubble, just like.
00:45:09
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Yeah, that I don't even remember what part of drops on her head. I think it's at the very end. I think it might be. But we get a little more backstory on Risa and Itami's relationship. It was a very amicable divorce. Yeah, they're still friends. Yeah, it was more of like a wedding out of convenience or marriage out of convenience.
00:45:30
Speaker
She stays at home all day and, you know, he was getting deployed to the special region and he's like, hey, it probably won't work if I'm living in a completely different dimension. So let's just get divorced. And she's like, oh, OK, cool. Just nice and easy. Well, also because she was she was nervous about him risking his life and like didn't want to stand by while he went away. Right. So did not work out. Very sad for them.
00:45:59
Speaker
Yeah, Kurbayashi really presses on. Why the fuck would you marry this guy? Yeah. It's weird to think that, like, in season one, Kurbayashi is kind of an antagonist. A little bit. All she does is bully the shit out of our main characters.
00:46:19
Speaker
Yeah, again, shit on feel bad shit on feel bad. Yep. Yeah. While they're going through and doing all this, we cut over to it, Tommy and the chaplain guy who no locker room talk. They're just chilling. Yeah. Two bros chilling in hot springs. Five feet apart because they're not gay. It was about two feet apart. Yeah. Which calls the second half of that into question. Correct.
00:46:48
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But while all this is going on, we go over to the special forces team who has made contact with opposing forces. Yeah. The Americans, the Americans. You can tell because they do a lovely sort of like cowboy esque accent. That is, I feel like that really is how other countries just see America.
00:47:17
Speaker
Oh, sir, just wait until we get to my hero academia because that takes place in Japan. It's like a
00:47:24
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interesting japan where obviously you have superheroes and stuff like that going around in season six we get to uh hear of essentially the main hero from the us and we get to see their costume and it is american as fuck like it is essentially homelander but oh god but more stars and stripes and i'm pretty sure their name is stars and stripes oh my god
00:47:50
Speaker
Or it's like Lady Liberty or something like that. That's incredible. Yeah. But yeah, they're they're American as fuck in this. They did go full cowboy. Oh, yeah. Yeehaw motherfucker. Yeehaw motherfucker. Giddy on up to the gate.
00:48:09
Speaker
But we have the Japanese special forces are basically just one tapping all of these guys. And the prime minister is like, hey, we got to we got to do something about this. So he calls the prime minister of Japan who calls the U.S. And then he gets blackmailed. Yeah. So not really.
00:48:36
Speaker
anything he can do about it because the the president is like, hey, we don't want to hurt anybody. We just want to bring them to America. Let me show them around Washington, which just stop for a minute and try to imagine. Yeah, like they're going to leave Washington immediately upon getting there as somebody who has been to D.C. many, many, many times. I don't even want to be there.
00:49:06
Speaker
The driving in DC. Oh, I will. I have never and will never drive in DC. I would rather drive in New York. Yeah, no, it's oh, I mean, New York is easy because New York is a grid system as opposed to DC, which like has elements of grid system, but then other elements are just fucking weird and then weird tunnels and shit where you're supposed to be going some way and then all of a sudden you're
00:49:34
Speaker
Your exits like right here and then you're like, oh, there's a wall. Shit. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's why I will never drive that. I think I had to once. And then the next day when I had to go back, I just planned for an extra hour and took the metro. Yep. Was not about that shit.
00:49:54
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But yeah, he wanted he wanted all of them to come to Washington, black notes, prime minister and the prime minister is like, you know what? I will tell my guys to stand down then. And I got to step down.
00:50:07
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myself. I cannot. I can no longer be in this position when I can be swayed in such a way. Yeah. You know how politicians have honor. And yeah, something like that. Something like that. And yeah, he calls up to to Tarou. Tarou is like fine. Fuck it. Whatever. Stand down, guys. We'll let it be. And that's when the Americans kind of make their push. Yeah, they make their move.
00:50:37
Speaker
They make their move. We got the dawn's early light. We cut back to inside where I'll play this clip just so we know in advance what we're getting into. And we're done. Dear God, I'm glad that that's your episode. Fucking is in it. Yeah, I got the middle one. I have that clip just titled. What a good friend. Such a good friend.
00:51:06
Speaker
Because after everything that happened, you were like, oh, hell no, I am so glad that you have to explain everything. Yep. And I stand by that. So without further ado, let's get into the explanation, I guess. Yeah. Well, while all the whole blackmail and everything is going on, all of them.
00:51:27
Speaker
get together and they start fucking partying and they're going hardcore. And so we get the whole, you know, the, we get a time being like the first one up and then that's where things get a little, little, little saucy. And I'm a toss it back over to you for that. No, no, no, you can keep explaining. Oh no, I'm okay. No, I mean, I, I took a lot during these episodes. I think that the listeners would really want to hear what you would like to say on the matter.
00:51:57
Speaker
I think it's only fair to our listeners to have you explain it as opposed to me. What a gentleman you are. I would, but you know, for the listeners. He's milking?
00:52:14
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That's unfortunately kind of a relevant clip here. Yes, we have a Tommy is the first one awake and he is approached by Rory Mercury, who all of the death and everything is going on outside.
00:52:33
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which as we learned from the battle for Talika, all of the souls kind of go through her in a manner that one could describe as pleasurable. Yeah. And God, I'm trying to figure out the best way to word this. Rory's trying to fuck a Tommy.
00:53:02
Speaker
Yeah, no, I think you nailed it. That's I think really the only way I can do it. But I think it's it's less of like a. She wants to fuck him because she wants to fuck him. It's because she has to fuck him. It's because she needs she has like this pent up energy from all these people that are dying around and she's like, I need to do something, otherwise I'm going to lose my mind very much just like in the battle and everything where she's sitting there squirming and then she just runs off because she's like, I got to do some.
00:53:33
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when she Naruto runs across the rooftops. Yeah. And there she was, I got to do some time ago, kill people as opposed to I got to do something. So I'm a do you, which is what she's currently in. Yeah. And everybody's literally asleep in the next room over. Mm hmm. And it taught me being a Tommy. When he saw Rory initially, he was, you know, excited. Mm hmm.
00:54:00
Speaker
And now it's become less of a hey, she's hot and more of a this is a friend of mine. Yeah. So he's very put off by the entire situation and Rory doing the things that she is doing that I don't want to get into. Oh, no, I think that you should. The listeners would like to know. No, they saw the episode. Yeah, but it's always good to refresh the memory just in case.
00:54:28
Speaker
So Rory just kind of climbs on top of him. Mm hmm. And I don't want to do this. This is your show, motherfucker. But I'm really mad I divvied up the episodes. I see the goal was to get you to do this. Mm hmm.
00:54:49
Speaker
Or planning on my part. And now Sorori kind of climbs on top of him. It's obvious struggling to say the least. Yeah. And our our episode. Ends with him about to grab her ass.
00:55:13
Speaker
Yeah. And kind of accept it. Give in. So anyway, that's the end of our episode. Yeah. Oh, thank God. OK. He's milking. All of those. All of them. All of those. And also shit on feel bad. I don't know how kinky we're going out. I don't know if you can play that yet.
00:55:39
Speaker
Oh god. Oh, what the fuck? You're welcome for that. John! Uh-huh, that's what I'm here for. John! What's up? Got that good humor. Fuck, man. So silly. So stupid. So bad.
00:56:03
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Anyway, next week we're doing episodes. Wait, hold on. You didn't want to break down into a deep dive of what was going on. Of which part? Go ahead. Fill me in. I forget. I don't know. All the other stuff, the stuff that you just went over. I felt like, you know, we touched on it, but we haven't really like talked about it. I was wondering if since it's your episode, if you had any notes prepared for any questions or any statements or anything that you notice about like certain art styles or anything like that, like going into it.
00:56:33
Speaker
Oh, that's a good point. Hey, John, what did you think about Rory trying to fuck it, Tommy? It was interesting. Care to elaborate on why it was interesting? It was interesting. Because you got a yes, and come on, that's improv 101. Yeah, no, I am. And you're not yes, any my interesting. No, no, no. Why was it interesting? Because it was because of because of the fact that it was interesting.
00:57:02
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So anyway, next week, 10, 11 and 12. You see, the real reason that we started up a podcast is because we have such a good rapport with each other. 15 years of talking and the best we get is because it was interesting. Why? Because it was. But why? Because it was. But why?
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00:57:26
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But next week will bring us to the end of season one. I've got to.
00:57:32
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And then we will be beginning season two the following week. Don't forget just three episode episodes. I understand it's very easy show to binge. So everybody should just go and binge it.
00:57:48
Speaker
Hey guys, Future Nelson here. Gate is definitely a great show to go and binge. However, I do want to warn you that episode 13, which is the season two opener, does contain a scene of sexual violence. The timestamps on that are 306 to 438. So if that's something you're uncomfortable with, definitely go ahead and skip that.
00:58:12
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and just know that 800-799-7233 is the national domestic violence hotline. So if you or anybody is affected, just please go ahead and call. Thanks. Enjoy the show guys.
00:58:29
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And then we'll yeah, we'll we'll discuss as we go as as John learns. And if you guys have any questions on anything or any comments you want to make, you can hop over to our Instagram at We Belong Pod. You can go comment on our tiktoks of the same name. You can ask us questions on our subreddit or slash the We Belong podcast. And if you really want to, which I recommend,
00:58:58
Speaker
Come talk to us on Discord. Yeah. Link is in all of our bios. Just hop in and yeah, we've got some cool stuff going on over there. A lot of interaction, which is fantastic. And yeah, we just have a good time. Hell yeah. Anything you want to plug this week, buddy? Uh, so plug in for this week. Um, continuing magic of muscles, shingle off frontier, done. I have started, uh, free range.
00:59:26
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I believe it's called Beyond Journey's End is the other part of that, but it's really good. The production quality and everything is phenomenal. It makes me feel like I'm watching a
01:00:01
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Sort of like a D&D setting or something like that or like say the hobbits from Lord of the Rings take the ring back and then they come and then Legolas who is outliving everyone else from the party watches like Gimli and Aragorn and everyone else age and die and then they are disconnected because they don't attach to human feelings because it's like oh well I
01:00:05
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like a movie.
01:00:27
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You're just there for like a blink for me. You're only there for like 80 years or so. And then being like, oh, but these people sort of meant something to me. So I'm going to retrace my steps and get all those memories back while also going on new adventures. And yeah, that's sort of the premise of Freerin and it is great. I enjoy it. It is. Yeah. Fantastic. What you got?
01:00:52
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So let's see, my plugs for the week. We're going to go ahead and music plug. We'll go with, let's see, 21 gun salute by Catch Your Breath, metal band at a not so metal song. They normally do screaming, but this one is cleans and very pleasant to listen to, very relaxing.
01:01:16
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Um, I will also go ahead and plug. Fuck, what show was I watching? Oh, there's a movie on Hulu called Quiz Lady. Yeah. Aquafina and Sandra. Oh, funny fucking movie. Uh huh. It was it was pretty good. Heard. But yeah, highly recommended. Nice. I thought the wife know she loves Sandra. Yeah.
01:01:38
Speaker
She's really good. It's very not Sandra. Oh, yeah. Also a fan of her as a voice actor as well. Is she really? Yeah. Well, you've seen less anime. She invincible. Oh, that's right. She's a mom. Yeah. And then she also does other voices for some other shows and stuff like that. But she is very talented, very talented to enjoy.
01:02:05
Speaker
That's awesome. Mm hmm. Maybe maybe we'll eventually get something with her in it. And I won't even know. Be nifty. I don't think that she voices for anime. I'm going to look up real quick. You know, very much. No, no, I mean, more like American animation and stuff like that. Gotcha. OK. Yep. Including Kate Winslet in Robot Chicken. Oh, my God. Yeah. I feel like everybody's done Robot Chicken, though. Mm hmm.
01:02:35
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So I don't know. But I think that's going to wrap it up for us this week. Yeah. Definitely come back and see us next week for our season one finale of Gates. Yeah. Got it. Yeah. We appreciate you guys stopping by and have yourselves a lovely day. Have yourself a merry little week and hang.
01:03:12
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Ooh-ooh!