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The BNC Episode 19 - Naruto [Retrospective]

Vin, Sean and CJ Season 1 Episode 19

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In this episode the brothas tackle one of the big 3 animes, Naruto. Find out what they think in this hilarious episode of THE BNC.

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SPEAKER_18

Hello and welcome to the B and C, the Black Nerd Culture Podcast, where three brothers have deeper conversations about the Black Nerd Sphere and beyond.

SPEAKER_03

I am Sean here with Vin and CJ. Today we'll be discussing the anime Naruto.

SPEAKER_18

Originally created by Mangaka Masashi Kishimoto.

SPEAKER_17

The spin-off anime was directed by Hayato Tate and written by Katsukyuki Sumisawa and Junki Takigami. This beloved series has fans the world over and is considered one of the big three anime along with Bleach in One Piece.

SPEAKER_18

So with the preamble out of the way, let's jump right in.

SPEAKER_16

So on behest of my coworker, I decided to embark on the journey that is Naruto.

SPEAKER_17

Then and CJ have already seen uh Naruto as part of their uh anime training arc, I guess.

SPEAKER_08

Anime training arc.

SPEAKER_16

Okay. More like an anime catch up, but because we didn't grow up with Naruto. Yeah, yeah. Like Naruto became popular, what, when we were in college-ish?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, because that's when I was, I think my fresh can't I went to the freaking two years, so I don't even want to call it freshman, but my first semester of college, yeah. A friend of mine was showing me uh parts of the tune in exams, so it was already popping by the time we were in college.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, and it's created a large fan base the world over. Everybody for a long time was doing the Naruto run.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, it was a huge thing, of course. And I think the yeah, yeah, it was early, especially early 2000s.

SPEAKER_08

Didn't they do it at Area 51?

SPEAKER_16

That was a thing. I did they ever go through with that? I remember they were landing on it.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, yeah, I remember the morons, okay.

SPEAKER_16

Fucking idiots. You don't attack at fucking army base. Well, they weren't attacking.

SPEAKER_08

It wasn't a tag, bro.

SPEAKER_16

You don't yeah, you don't show up at army base. Okay, that's fair.

SPEAKER_08

You also never mind. That that's gonna go on political tirade. Never mind, never mind.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, January 6th. Yeah, anyway.

SPEAKER_17

Um yeah, but uh, so my overall take on the show, I haven't watched it the most uh the most recent it stinks. I don't like it, I don't like it at all.

SPEAKER_16

I don't like this fucking show, I don't like the fucking people. I think we're gonna have like three different uh takes on this. I find certain parts of it decent. It's just there are some parts that kind of make me eye roll. Kishimoto's uh riding for women is and it's notorious ass, though.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, yeah, it is. It's it's it's widely known. He is wild, widely panned for that.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah. Um, it wasn't so much like there's the only part that I liked in this show was the last fight between Sasuke and Naruto. It is an iconic fight. That is all it's super iconic.

SPEAKER_08

I mean, you get like little tidbits here and there. It it it's a big buildup for it as far as pretty much the first entire the first series is pretty much an entire build-up for that last fight.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, pretty much and the rest and basically delivered, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

So, and I think that's one of the big holdouts for a lot of fans is that last fight was such and and imagine at the time that was oh yeah.

SPEAKER_16

I mean, yeah, especially. I mean, because the thing is like a lot of bleach fights are just him slashing at the air and screaming get super tintro. Um, I could see the One Piece fights being maybe a little bit more entertaining, but I've never really seen One Piece, so yeah, I'm not even attacking that behemoth.

SPEAKER_08

Um hey, y'all can be mad at me. Yeah, man. One piece fans, one piece fans are the loyalist fans there are and and I respect y'all. I respect y'all, thug dizzle, but I remember seeing tidbits of that on Saturday morning cartoons. Yeah, so I'm not going back.

SPEAKER_18

Incredibly long time. I mean there are um there is going to be more truncated version coming out soon, which is good.

SPEAKER_16

And I'm I am a fan of the live action. No, there is a truncated version, kind of like um Dragon Ball Z Kai where they're um cutting down, you know, making it a little bit more digestible, the anime.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. Yeah, I still don't know. I still don't know.

SPEAKER_16

But I am a fan of the live action, the earnestness of the live action, the production behind it, they out of any live action anime series I've watched, other than there's a movie series, the Raroni Kentra movie series. I've seen the first one. I was very impressed with that. Other than that, it's probably the best adaptation I've seen.

SPEAKER_18

Anime adaptation, live action anime adaptation I've seen.

SPEAKER_06

The only one still going.

SPEAKER_16

Probably I think they Avatar. I mean, you can't really avatar isn't exactly it's like it's like a US anime. Yeah, so it's like if you want to count that, you can still kind of say that's kids still going, but yes, yeah, that's the only one. I mean, you hacker show they kind of melded everything together, so yeah, it was not good start on that. Yeah, cowboy beep.

SPEAKER_11

Oh no, didn't even name it a full season.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, I think they did a full eight episodes, but it didn't, yeah. Cowboy Bebop. I was like, Yeah, I remember they shut that thing in the head.

SPEAKER_17

They got that shit out of their expedition.

SPEAKER_08

Like, did they even try? Yeah, I was gonna wait for like you know, reviews and stuff, and then I heard it was canceled.

SPEAKER_16

Like, oh yeah, it was canceled in the GMs.

SPEAKER_13

The general movies that it was ass.

SPEAKER_16

Back to Naruto. Oh my god, yeah, sorry. I respect I respect it's I respect it as one of the progenitors. I respect it just um we were big on Dragon Ball Z growing up. We had Dragon Ball Z on channel 11, and we watched the Santa Saga, I don't know how many fucking times. So many because they won't get more episodes, so yeah, you can't just over.

SPEAKER_08

And then if you was like watching Tunami, and yeah, that's when the new episodes came out, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, no, and that was also when we were in college, yeah. Yeah. If I remember correctly, late high school, late high school, yeah. Um, because we didn't get because people were talking about it being uh them going further in Dragon Ball Z on Cartoon Network, but we just didn't get Cartoon Network. Yeah, I just remember being mad and it was like you lucky bastards, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Androids and cell saga.

SPEAKER_16

Well, why?

SPEAKER_17

Nobody talks about the garlic junior saga for good reason, but yeah.

SPEAKER_08

And we'll get into that because I don't want people, and I thought it was uh I don't remember that actually being part of the anime.

SPEAKER_19

It's canon, it's canon, it's canon, but I don't remember part of the anime.

SPEAKER_16

No, it aired. It aired because I remember watching it when I was younger. You might be thinking of the dead zone, the movie, um, which introduced us to garlic.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, like like it might be, but I don't remember. I'm trying to remember because I remember I did that run through I don't remember it being a part of the actual You probably fall asleep.

SPEAKER_16

Yes, that's what I did. I did go through my run Dragon Ball Z too. As soon as Drag as soon as Garlic Jr. saga came about, I thought, whoop, I'm out.

SPEAKER_08

Was it a very short saga?

SPEAKER_16

Oh, actually, it's not canon.

SPEAKER_08

Ah, I knew it was an offshoot.

SPEAKER_16

But it was still very much part of the anime. Yes. It's a filler mark in the anime. It's like one of the only ones. Yep.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, and you know what? And I was on filler live, uh, filler uh watching.

SPEAKER_16

Ah, that's probably what I'm saying. See, that's where it is. Yep, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Either that or the collection I had like already omitted it.

SPEAKER_16

Probably. Because yeah, when I was growing, I remember growing up and watching the Garlic Jr. saga.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, I'm sure it aired, but yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Dog shit then, dog shit now. But yeah, that's I say that to say this. I don't want people to get like if anybody is gonna listen to this. Um, I don't want anybody to get the wrong idea that you know, all I just have this affinity for Dragon Ball Z because I can no, I watch stuff as objectively as possible these days. As I got older, I realized there's no use in having nostalgic algorithms just bullshit anyway.

SPEAKER_08

I mean you you're probably one of the more objective of us. So yeah, try.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah, I'll give you that.

SPEAKER_08

Sometimes you're just a grump, but yeah, you're you're you're you're more exjective.

SPEAKER_12

You're more I mean, I'm not gonna disagree with you. I don't see the hype behind some of the fights.

SPEAKER_08

But um so um I probably like it the most out of the three of us, and that's what I'm gonna say. This is what I'm gonna say. Honestly. I look at it kind of like again, I give it the grace of the time of when it came out. So I'm like, I cool. It is kind of it's kind of more I don't know. I mean I'm trying to pit the fights against like like Dragon Ball Z ish that's rough.

SPEAKER_17

I wouldn't do it. It's only because that's it's close to the time, though.

SPEAKER_08

It is completely different style, but I'm I'm trying to think of as as far as the times versus you know, like comparing it to like compare it to Bleach, if anything else. Uh see, I don't know when Bleach ran.

SPEAKER_16

And the thing is bleach doesn't really throw hands like that. Bleach Naruto did kind of usher in the more dynamic fights for anime, like even in compared to Dragon Ball, like the fights were they, you know, everything was drawn so fast, so you couldn't see you know what was happening.

SPEAKER_08

Whereas this one, yeah, this one kind of slowed it down a little bit, you start to see a little bit. Yeah, it's just the my issue is probably it's probably one of your issues, is like it was too much teenage angst and any point teenage angst. I thought they weren't even teenage yet.

SPEAKER_16

No, it was just so much drama, it's definitely very dramatic, and it's like there's some things I just don't get about the concepts, like um, and we'll probably get into this um close towards the end, but like Sasuke uh Naruto being Sasuke's best friend, yeah. Where that's a recon.

SPEAKER_08

It was like weird because they like that man hated Naruto from the get-go, from Cheyam. And Naruto's like, I don't really fuck with you, but we're gonna be best friends, like, huh? Yeah, exactly. But honestly, that is that is honestly Naruto's whole vibe is we're gonna be friends, yeah. Except for like you have to there are a few people and you'll see them probably mostly in Shippeden once you if you yeah, I'll watch Shippeden because we'll get into it, but yeah, continue. Yeah, uh there are a few people in Shippeden where it's fuck you because they of what they've done. And even then he kind of softens.

SPEAKER_16

Oh, Rotary. He gives a lot of there's yeah, we'll we do a retrospective of um uh what you call it, shipped in, and then we'll talk about it because there's some people who should not have gotten passes, bro.

SPEAKER_08

Nah, yeah, he should he should have annihilated them fast and swift, like fast and swift, but I'm fast and yeah, yeah, that's what's like pain, pain, oh pain, pain, pain. Oh the entire fandom can't stand pain, and you will see why. Um anyway, uh that's a rough one. Hold on, I gotta shake that one off, bro. I gotta shake that one off. Because he did two things that were were okay.

SPEAKER_16

Um I feel like from watching Naruto, it feels like two things. It feels like baby's first anime. Baby's first anime. I could see that because it's like the story is so simple and remedial, and it's very much like watching these kids throw, like you guys were mentioning the fights. I didn't see any of that shit, not till the end. I didn't see any of that shit that made it actually, oh, this is peak.

SPEAKER_03

I'm like, this is children's slap fighting. This is this is this is children like children, you know, waving at each other.

SPEAKER_08

Gara was not a child, like no, no, no, not a gara.

SPEAKER_04

No, Gara was a straight up fucking serial killer. Yeah, like it's the thing is that you had fucking children, fucking children, just children going up against fucking serial killers.

SPEAKER_16

I mean I mean Gara was also child, but are you talking about Rochimaru?

SPEAKER_08

I mean, no, so Garay.

SPEAKER_16

Rochimaru is a whole that nigga's a pedophile.

SPEAKER_08

What I mean by uh child is like fighting as a child, like our Yeah, no, no, he didn't fight as a child at all.

SPEAKER_16

No, he's just straight up like to me. Gara, I don't consider Gara one of you know these people. I don't consider like I don't put Gara in the same category as the rest of the ninja, as the rest of the kids. Well, we're talking about the fights, and one of the big biggest fights was Gara versus Lee. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Well, it's Gara versus Lee was the big one. What the big one that that leaf hurricane, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Gara versus Lee, I'll give you that. And then um, but yeah. Uh I want to talk about uh uh Lee. We'll talk about Lee. But a lot of it didn't feel like the tuning exams, for example.

SPEAKER_18

Okay, aside from the Lee Gara fight, you had Neji and uh Inata. Yeah, Neji and Inata.

SPEAKER_03

We'll get let's get into the the arcs. Yeah, I have I have thoughts, plenty of thoughts, but um overall, my overarching idea of the series is that A, this is literally just baby's first anime, and B um it was all just like Shipudin is the real anime, like this is just all prologue, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, and I honestly, yeah, I'm a I'm on that.

SPEAKER_05

It's like I'm not wrong, I'm not wrong. He ain't far off, bro.

SPEAKER_08

He really is like a a build up shipped in, but uh there are standouts to me within Naruto's series that are are are are great.

SPEAKER_14

But I think that's a little harsh. It's not I think we are exclusive.

SPEAKER_07

If you simplify it, it really is.

SPEAKER_08

It really is. But but but I still I still rock. There's moments of it that I do rock with, like, like the water tower or water, I guess that is a tower, right? When we like the first times uh fucking learns that the name of the move the show.

SPEAKER_16

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about that. But um, so um the very um the very first arc uh starts off of um the land of the waves arc. Oh, that's where we're introduced to um Naruto and um the whole concept of uh ninjutsu and um as well as we see meet our other characters, um um Kakashi, Hatake, uh Sasuke, Uchia, and um Sakura Haruno when they're made a part of Team 7. Um before that it's kind of a le that's more of a prologue. It's uh sets up um just Naruto on his own, how mischievous he is, uh mischievous he is, and um just the fact that he doesn't really care, he pretends not to care what other people think. And because secretly he wants to be the most respected person in the village.

SPEAKER_17

Which is not a job for anybody, to be honest with you.

SPEAKER_16

It's worse than being the fucking president of the United States, swear to God. Yeah, I fucking got buck. The thing is, um, and that my one of my issues with uh Dr. To kind of stem from the fact that he wants to be Hokage, but he's like a fucking D student at best, bro.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, even oh, you think he's got D's?

SPEAKER_13

No, that nigga is a straight F I'm F.

SPEAKER_08

Like I'm I'm thinking D. Like his only his only thing was sexy duty. Not even that, it's just his his unlimited.

SPEAKER_01

Like even before he gets that, it's like yeah, he's he is a little battery, like yeah, his unlimited chakra, and he doesn't even know that he has that, right?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, it's it's like everybody around him knows it, like not everybody around it, but like the adults around him know about what's going on and everything like that, and he's uh a force that could be used, and like, but like in school, he was horrendous, yeah.

SPEAKER_12

Right.

SPEAKER_08

Um I mean, he barely had any control of his chakra, right?

SPEAKER_16

And I'm gonna be honest with you. I mean, they didn't really teach how Kakashi takes it upon himself to teach him chakra control, yeah. Yeah, I'm like, what the fuck is he learning in school before that?

SPEAKER_08

Well, well, because think about it, like all the other students, right? They had their parents teaching them shit before they go to school. Yeah, he had none of that.

SPEAKER_16

So honestly, he yeah, so here's so here's one of my first and early uh criticisms of the show. Fuck that village, yeah. Fuck that village. Everybody says fucking village, though.

SPEAKER_08

Everybody does say fuck that village, yeah. Oh, yeah, although it's not the worst village.

SPEAKER_18

No, it's the same village needed to go burn in a fucking fire too.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

But no, the least, yeah, they they could have kicked rocks, yes. So this wasn't even in the show. I had I found this out beforehand, and you know, I've seen clips, I've seen you know spoiler stuff already for the show, so I understood a lot good portion of the show already.

SPEAKER_00

So they didn't even mention this show. Pretty late, yeah.

SPEAKER_17

So exactly.

SPEAKER_16

Um we're all pretty late, so I've seen plenty of this stuff already.

SPEAKER_08

I mean, I at least made it before Borotool got dirty.

SPEAKER_16

Yes, yeah, I can't say that I did. I think I made it right before Borough really like got off the ground. Might have been like in the first couple of episodes, I think. About the time I finish.

SPEAKER_08

Maybe.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, that sounds about right.

SPEAKER_08

You at least started before Boruto.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah. Um, but yeah, I won't I won't not watch Boruto.

SPEAKER_08

I tried. I tried. People said it got better too, like probably like a good 100-200 episodes after I stopped watching.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, but this nigga made to me one two-thirds bad anime. One third being good so far.

SPEAKER_16

I can include the infight uh uh between Isasuke and Naruto in that one-third.

SPEAKER_03

You get that, you get that far in the Naruto.

SPEAKER_08

The rest of it, I mean, and yeah, like I will say that a lot of it is build-up for Shippeden. A lot of it is, like, uh if you don't watch and I say this because if you don't watch Naruto, there's shit in Shippin' that you won't appreciate as much. Right. You'll understand.

SPEAKER_16

I mean, exactly. The thing is, like, you could watch Dragon Ball Z without watching Dragon Ball. You can't it was made for that purpose, though. It was made for that purpose. The thing is, well, the thing is that Dragon Ball, it there is no Dragon Ball Z in the manga, it's just Drag literally goes from Dragon Ball all the way to um the boo saga. Yeah, so it's not it wasn't really made for that purpose, like that way. But you know, that's what Toraba sign wanted. That's how he made the thing. There's a huge time skip. Like but uh a lot of the stuff didn't really matter. I think he had a huge it didn't seem he forgot about characters that he wrote into Dragon Ball himself. And I think that um it was the 80s, yeah. I think Kishimoto kind of uh I think there are parts that you would miss in Ship It In had you not seen the original Naruto. Yes, absolutely, but that shit was painful to watch.

SPEAKER_08

Painful, it was painful. I would say the most painful thing, like the thing that was painful to me was the way he did Sakura.

SPEAKER_18

I don't give a fuck about that bitch.

SPEAKER_08

That's why. That's why it's painful.

SPEAKER_18

I don't give a none of these niggas.

SPEAKER_16

The only person I liked in this fucking show was Shikamaru. And even he started being a drag after a little while because he started to get responsibilities and shit. I'm like, fuck. Yeah, see, this is why I'm like, I can't go with him on certain things because it's like I know he's gonna take it to the to another one. Because I was like, this is uh this there's another level to this and I know it's coming. It's another level hate. He hasn't reached full hate yet.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, because he ain't he ain't get he ain't get to that pitch yet.

SPEAKER_16

Exactly. Yeah, can't jump on and agree with him at 50% hate because the the your idea of a prologue is very different from what he's talking about. He's talking about this shit doesn't need to exist. Like he said it's a useless prologue. Like Alexander made it for no fucking reason.

SPEAKER_04

Listen, a lot of the shit could have looked, listen, the amount of fucking listen is basically he thinks that Naruto could have been the email.

SPEAKER_16

Exactly.

SPEAKER_14

No, not at all.

SPEAKER_08

There are there's important things in the in in our though.

SPEAKER_03

There are things we're struggling to figure that one out.

SPEAKER_08

I'm hoping like once you get into shipping and you understand what things were important.

SPEAKER_14

I don't think so. We will see nice. We will see. That's all.

SPEAKER_08

That reaper seal was very important.

SPEAKER_16

Which one?

SPEAKER_08

The Reaper seal.

SPEAKER_16

The seal on uh oh, right, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

No, I mean he's already fucked up, he's already fucked, it already fucked over Roshimaro. That was kind of funny, that was hilarious.

SPEAKER_16

Uh yeah, but I'm sure there's more to it than that, right? It doesn't matter more, but um, but yeah, like I said, like that's why I sometimes hedge my bets with strong because I uh I I knew exactly where he was going.

SPEAKER_08

I get blinded sometimes.

SPEAKER_13

I'd be like, Yeah, maybe he thinks yeah, no, no, like the way he was talking about it before. Yeah, he hates the show. I don't like the text.

SPEAKER_08

I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, yeah, yeah. I don't there's nothing I there's nothing I genuinely genuinely like about the show except for that last fight and Shikimaru for the most part. I don't like Naruto, loud as fuck, annoying as shit, dumb as fuck, worst ninja I've ever seen in my entire fucking life.

SPEAKER_16

Um terrible. The only real ninjas in this fucking show are Shikamaru, Kakashi, and I said somebody else beforehand too, and I still stand by that shit. Um I can't remember. I know you're not gonna be a good one. Yeah, there's one more person that's actually an actual real ninja. None of these all these people are just fucking magic users. This is just fucking Harry Potter.

SPEAKER_04

I don't understand that.

SPEAKER_07

What did say that last word?

SPEAKER_18

It's fucking Harry Potter for Weebs. I don't understand the hype. Wow.

SPEAKER_09

Harry Potter for Weebs?

SPEAKER_14

Tell me what's going on with them.

SPEAKER_05

If you said that for like Black Clover, Black Clover is absolutely Harry Potter for Weebs.

SPEAKER_16

100% of a doubt. But this was the first Harry Potter for Weebs. I don't give a fuck what anybody says. These niggas got magic powers throwing around sugarkin and shit like that. Those surikans never do shit.

SPEAKER_04

What even happened?

SPEAKER_16

I will say, unless you use the shuriken as like a shiv, it never works. It never works.

SPEAKER_08

Use what wasn't the dude that had the big ass shuriken for no reason. Wasn't he in this one?

SPEAKER_16

Zap Zap Oh, are you talking? Yeah. Oh no, you're I think you're talking about oh no, no, no, no, no. I don't think he was.

SPEAKER_08

No, no, because I think he was there when he um I think Naruto went against him when he uh got the scroll.

SPEAKER_16

Oh yeah, okay, I know exactly what you're talking about. So we'll back up a little bit. So again, Naruto's mischievous, like the show opens with Naruto being mischievous. You know, um, there's a great mountain of Hokage, and he messes up the mountains kind of like a Mount Rushmore of great uh uh leaf ninjas, basically.

SPEAKER_08

And um presidents, it's yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Mount Rushmore.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16

So it's basically yeah, it's basically Mount Rushmore, and um uh so uh honoring the Hokage and um Darucho's fucking it up. So um his teacher Uruka kind of um gives him the what for about it, and um kind of writer was kind of like he doesn't say this, but he's kind of like uh you know, he treats him like a problem kid, because he is. I don't mean um 100% is so one of the so one of the other ninja trainers, uh I guess uh they're all tunin, right? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Some of them are um because I I think well at this point okay, he hasn't met the uh Jonan, but I think I think Kakashi was Jonin.

SPEAKER_16

Kakashi was definitely Jonin. Um but I think the like the people who train like the kids that Naruto's the school, the school is like Junin.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The teaching school teachers, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

So um yeah, one of the other Chunin uh just basically talking, I'm like, I don't know what I'm gonna do with this kid, and one of the other Chunin uh takes Naruto aside and is kind of gives him you know the attention that he's been looking for, and it's like you're great and you could do amazing things, and then he tells him about the scroll that um that nobody else knows, it's like forbidden jutsu or whatever.

SPEAKER_15

That's right.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, so um the he and he trip basically tricks Naruto into getting the scroll, and when Naruto does get the scroll, uh he but uh betrays him. I can't remember the tuna name, it's not important, but yeah, the guy has a big fuck off shurik. Uh what was it?

SPEAKER_05

It's a shurik, like his life size, bro.

SPEAKER_16

Like, god damn, that he just chucks around, and um he finally hit somebody with it. So yeah, he he he tags Uruka when he comes to Naruto's rescue. That's right, yeah, yeah. That's just sticking out in the back hilarious. Yeah, it's okay. So, yeah, let's talk, let's talk about that real quick. We're not gonna go over every single episode, but let's at least talk about the first one real quick.

SPEAKER_08

So, yeah, so that was the first episode when that happened.

SPEAKER_16

Yes, I think if it wasn't the first, it was the second. I'm pretty sure it was the first.

SPEAKER_02

First, one or two episodes. I can't remember if it went on to the first one.

SPEAKER_16

I'm pretty sure it's just the first.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

It went to the second.

SPEAKER_16

Because the second one is where they introduce the the other kids and um uh whatchall, and I think that's when they get their teens. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's what happened.

SPEAKER_08

But okay, I got you.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, but um, so yeah, uh uh yeah, the Ruku Sensei comes to the rescue and gets a big ass shuriken in the back and is still able to talk just fine.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, this nigga should be dead, or the he's dead. Honestly.

SPEAKER_08

I think out of the entire show, Uruka Sensei has the most plot armor.

SPEAKER_16

Oh man, I don't know about that, but maybe it's possible. A lot of these motherfuckers have plot armor for days, so I don't know. They do I'm gonna say they do have definitely plot armor for days, bro. Um, I'm gonna say it's between him and Lee. Lee should have been dead. He should have died from those injuries alone. Especially from not having any kind of fucking chakra or whatever the fuck they call it.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, the magic system, whatever the fuck.

SPEAKER_05

Yes, but it is do you know what chakra is?

SPEAKER_03

It's their magic system. I don't give a fuck. I know what it is in practice.

SPEAKER_16

I know what it is in real life, but that's what this is. Nobody can use this shit. It's like key and dragon ball, it's fucking magic. It's fucking magic.

SPEAKER_08

It's it literally is, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

It is like chakra is uh the amount of fucking shit you can do with this. Come on, man.

SPEAKER_16

Come on, yeah. You you regret co-signing that prologue part, don't you? Just a little bit. I absolutely do.

SPEAKER_00

Jeez, bro, like damn.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, that's what I thought. Anyway, my thought of it being a prologue is like I can go with, but geez.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_08

He's starting to hit the pitch. We're we're getting in there, we're getting to the good shit.

SPEAKER_16

Oh, we haven't gotten to the good shit yet. No, that's all right. Yeah, yeah. Just wait till we get to fucking zappaza. I have so much to say about that. So, yeah, let's zapposa. Yep, yeah. Was that was that the water that's the land hit of land of the waves arc. Um so yeah, the so um I see where this is going to be. Um, and he This is also where he learns the clone jutsu. Yes, this is also where he learns the clone jutsu, and because of his and we don't know this at at front uh up front, but because of his large um chakra deposits, I guess you could say, he can make thousands of these motherfuckers instead of just like one or two, which most ninjas can accomplish.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, he he basically became the king of clone jutsu.

SPEAKER_16

Like, yeah, I'm gonna and I'm gonna say it's up front, they're useless. Yep, everyone is useless. Well, well, it's called Ship Udin.

SPEAKER_05

Yes, they have a purpose to like right and the only time we're talking about Naruto, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

You're right, right, you're right.

SPEAKER_08

I was ahead of I was ahead of myself.

SPEAKER_16

Yes, that's where everybody wants to go is because ship put in and took this will happen multiple times. I tried to save you, man.

SPEAKER_18

This will happen multiple times. This won't be the first time you're like that happened to ship it.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, because shippuda's a good one.

SPEAKER_16

I'm just trying to save you. Yes, you did. So I always say and throughout the and then Naruto I I will say they do have a have a use in Naruto proper. They uh do help him um create the Rasingon as a signature move.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16

So he does he's actually not able to get bound on that later, but yeah. Yeah, so he is actually not able to create the Rasingon until he kind of figures that out. But again, that's much later. So uh so team seven, so Nurto bother me a better ninja. Um, they split up the basically that um Naruto's small class into different teams where they could be trained to be you know go on to the next level of um ninja soup. Um Naruto becomes part of Team Seven, which uh which is taught uh uh Kakashi Hatake and um includes uh Sasuke Uchiha and um Sakura Hurano.

SPEAKER_08

Um graduate um primary grade.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, they they basically I I'll put it like they graduate eighth grade, I guess, or something like that.

SPEAKER_08

Just primary school.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, primary school.

SPEAKER_08

They don't have to go to the school proper, they're not taking classes anymore. Now it's it's it's training.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, I still don't understand what they fucking learn. That's school. Nothing at all. Kakashi went up teaching them shocker control, which I would have thought was like then just one-on-one.

SPEAKER_08

I I don't know. Yeah, it should have been. Yeah, the school's kind of ass.

SPEAKER_16

So the first so the team. So the team's very first mission is actually um training with uh Kakashi, who um has the bell test, and this is where um he's only has two bells, he has them on his person, and he um tells Team Seven that they need to get them um before the end of the day, or somebody's gonna one of them is gonna be kicked off the team. Um so they try everything, and this is where I can wholeheartedly agree with my brother that Naruto is one of the worst ninjas to have a ninja. Oh, yeah, because yeah, all he screams all of his attacks. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_08

He don't he he billboards all of his attacks.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, they can't even tell us to say it's a telegraph, it's a billboard. He screams uh basically never taking the butcher in the face basically.

SPEAKER_07

I'm running the witch in the face.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, if I remember correctly, Sasuke is the closest to all of them to get the get at the bells. Well he's the closest to at that age being a ninja, so yeah, and then um again Sakura was useless. Her under so Sakura is basically Hermione. We couldn't listen to the greatest space. As far as smarty was as far as uh book knowledge, yes, yes. That's what it's uh hey, that's the writer's fault.

SPEAKER_11

It's really the writer's fault.

SPEAKER_16

But if we're if we're doing a Harry Potter reference, she is the Hermione out of the group. She's closest. Book smart, capable, but in just a writer decided to stop making you know, stop her character development right there. That's right there. Oh, bro. She does get more character development during the Trunine exams, but at her after that, you're right. Her character development dies. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Like, like, dude forgot about her completely.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah. He was gonna, I think he was gonna write her off, and then he should have should have not have like you didn't care, you didn't care enough to continue. Like this will be a uh shipping error for his butt-that's what he did with Rin.

SPEAKER_10

But um Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

We'll get there um at some point. But um, so they end up failing. Um, and actually, no, I'm sorry, they don't end up failing. I believe um they work together, yeah. They end up working together, but um it's Sakura and uh Sasuke who get the ball the bells, and Naruto's tied up while they eat.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember that.

SPEAKER_16

And um Sasuke and um uh Kakashi tells them under no circumstances to feed Naruto. Um and Sasuke and uh Sakura get to eat, and Sasuke is just starts feeding um Naruto just to stop him from whining because he's just starts whining. Oh man. And um This is probably what creates this unimaginary bond here. This is because that's what's part of the flashback. I think it's I think it's more of a rival thing.

SPEAKER_08

That's why they are they were like a rival thing for the for being in because they are rivals, they consider each other best friends. It it's a yeah, it's weird.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, I don't buy that shit at all.

SPEAKER_08

It's but it's like it it's it's throughout the whole thing, like all the people like their rivals are their best friends, friends, right?

SPEAKER_16

Exactly. Because the same thing happens with Shikamaro and Mike, yeah, Mike and Kakashi.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, well, Mike and Kakashi makes sense, but um Shigamaro and uh the fat kid. Choji?

SPEAKER_08

Oh, Choji? Yeah, they're not rivals. Yeah, they're not rivals, they're just friends. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_16

But no, he's saying he's saying it kind of breaks the trope of rivals being best friends because Choji and um Shikamaro are not rivals. Oh yeah, they're just best buds. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Shikamaro has like no rival.

SPEAKER_16

Shrigamaro does not have a rival. Like again, I like until Ship would take a drink.

SPEAKER_08

Are you talking about wait you you you you talking about saying?

SPEAKER_16

Nah, I'm talking about um one of the um whatch call it? Uh why can't I remember the name right now? Um the dudes after Naruto.

SPEAKER_08

Um, the fucking um yeah, the Yakotsky, thank you.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, one of the Yakotsky, yeah. I consider that dude his rival.

SPEAKER_05

Huh?

SPEAKER_16

Who? Cursed dude.

SPEAKER_11

Man, I do.

SPEAKER_08

Nah, nah. That's the hardest he's ever gone. That but not a rival. Like that was arch enemy, bro. That wasn't a rival.

SPEAKER_18

All right, okay, I'll give you arch enemy.

SPEAKER_08

That wasn't a fucking rival.

SPEAKER_05

I was hoping. We're gonna catch it every time. Yeah, you are fuck you.

SPEAKER_08

So anyway.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, so as we're as I was saying, um, so uh even though she chastises um Sasuke um for going against uh Kakashi, she uh Sakras begins to feed Naruto too. Um and that's when Kakashi busts out and is like, and you know, he pretends like they're caught or whatever that he's mad, but he's actually that's what he wanted to begin with. The exercise was the entire exercise was about them working as a team. And they don't show teamwork with honestly until this point.

SPEAKER_08

No, because Sasuke was like, I I don't I could do it on my own.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, I don't know. I don't fuck with y'all negative.

SPEAKER_08

I'm a one-man army hero.

SPEAKER_16

It's actually kind of the same way, but uh he had unearned confidence.

SPEAKER_08

But the difference was Naruto wanted friends, he just didn't have them.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, that's true. Um, so from there we go to their first uh mission on T Sun's first very first mission.

SPEAKER_08

And um was that the cat? Gotta find a cat or something like that.

SPEAKER_16

No, I thought it was escorting the um, I mean, I'll say their very first official mission.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, okay, yeah, my bad.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, I don't know about the fucking cat thing. I don't know what that was. Might have been Philly too. I don't know. Anyway, the very first their very first mission is to, I believe, is to escort a bridge builder to the um the land of waves, if I remember correctly.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, yeah. Fuck that guy the first out of village mission.

SPEAKER_16

Right. I call that the first official mission.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got you.

SPEAKER_16

Fuck that guy. Fuck this mission.

SPEAKER_18

I hate this fucking show.

SPEAKER_06

The bridge builder?

SPEAKER_18

Yep.

unknown

I don't even remember, dude.

SPEAKER_18

He's a piece of shit, talk shit all the time. He does talk a lot of shit. About anybody else. I fucking hate that guy. Listen, this fucking the reason why you don't remember it is because it's fucking bad. Bad. Fucking bad.

SPEAKER_16

That's why you don't remember it. So um, if I remember correctly, correct me if I'm wrong, the um the land of the waves, uh, basically the the bridge kind of to the outside world was uh destroyed or something like that. I don't think they ever had one.

SPEAKER_08

Was it two with the glasses?

SPEAKER_16

Yes. I forgot about him. Yep, yeah, there's a reason.

SPEAKER_08

So um so the reason is because I watched all the way through shipping. That's why the fucking reason you mean you watch the good one.

SPEAKER_16

So anyway, they erased all the bad ones. I believe um one of the owners of the or one of the higher ups in the village doesn't don't want the doesn't want the bridge finished or something like that, and he hires Sabuza and Haku who are ninjas from a former village. Uh, I believe it's uh what's the it's the blanket on the waves, right?

SPEAKER_08

Um renegade boo. Renegade.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, they're renegade ninjas or something like that.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Let me start off by saying that nigga's a fucking pedophile. Who's abuza?

unknown

Damn.

SPEAKER_13

Nobody says that nigga's a straight chat. I was waiting to get to this fucking part. Alright. Alright.

SPEAKER_16

So yeah.

SPEAKER_13

Two of the two.

SPEAKER_04

It's like fucking America.

SPEAKER_10

Like a goddamn world.

SPEAKER_04

Like a goddamn government. Fucking pedophiles running around like goddamn cockroach.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_16

So basically, team seven runs into Zabuza and Haku. I think it's just no, it's Haku as well. Because um Haku's word.

SPEAKER_08

I thought they ran into yeah, I thought I thought they ran into Haku before.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, Naruto runs into Haku. Uh Haku's dressed as a woman.

SPEAKER_14

Yes.

SPEAKER_17

Not about their age.

SPEAKER_13

Motherfucking allegations.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16

So basically, um, Zabuza, you know, um basically starts to fight with uh Kakashi. Um and Team Seven actually backs up Kakashi um by using a combination of um basically Sasuke skill and um Naruto Shadow Clone Jutsu. Um so uh Zabuza is basically kind of scared off at that point, and they they're able to at least get the bridge builder to where he needs to be. Um, but that's not the end of them. Zabuza and Haku show back up, and um then this time the fight is to the death, which is actually normal normal in this world. So absolutely the ninja world is just a world of wars. Um the ninjas are kind of hired out from the village to do missions, and um if they encounter other ninja that have antithetical purposes, this normally ends up in death. And this is the Team Seven's very first foray into that. Uh Kakashi is very familiar with this world, and this is why he wants Team Seven to learn about teamwork because you the they're the only people you could depend on when you're in the field.

SPEAKER_08

Oh yes, yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

This is a hard basically they're making trial soldiers, um, but it's kind of very tongue-in-cheek. Like, this is normal.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, it's normal for them. Like the the the the ninja villages, that's all it is. They're churning out weapons. That is what they do, that is their entire purpose. They don't get to live the good life, they don't get to have you know playtime, they are from birth trained to be useful as weapons, but the ones that aren't are helping support the weapons.

SPEAKER_16

That is the life, and then you just have regular as villagers.

SPEAKER_08

Well, I'm saying the regular villagers are to support the weapons.

SPEAKER_16

Well, no, there's just there are straight up support ninja, though.

SPEAKER_08

Like there are support ninja, but I mean like if you can't make ninja, yeah, your job is to support the ninja, like the food, the the clothing, all that shit is I mean, they don't get that shit for free.

SPEAKER_16

Like, they still gotta pay. So that's why I'm like support, because it's support makes them sound complicit in this, right? And the thing is, like, most not really, because most villagers don't know what the fuck is going on for the most part. Like the ninja village, yeah. They don't really know what the hell's going on. Like the like the villager villagers, like um Ichuraku and shit like that. Nah, like they know the ninja, they they have an idea of what's going on, but they don't know that world really. Like clearly the difference.

SPEAKER_08

They know their purpose, you know the ninja purpose.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, but they don't know the ninja's purpose. They don't know that protect the village.

SPEAKER_08

It's like it's it's like the uh no, not just protect the village.

SPEAKER_16

That the thing is that I feel like most of them come off as like that's that's the purpose, like yeah, because if you think about it, um, and again, we don't really see this at Tishipu then, like everybody the thing is like they don't act like they could get it. Like they don't the village does not act like they could get it at any point in time. It is very much to me, these people are living on a military base going about their day. Like it's the difference between military and civilians.

SPEAKER_08

Right. They they are yeah, they are civilians on a military base.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, so yeah. That's the way I see it. That's fair.

SPEAKER_08

That that that's probably a better best assessment, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, yeah. So through Sasuke's sacrifice uh during the fight with uh Zabuza and Haku, uh and some Tak no jutsu from um uh Naruto, who that's where it kind of starts. Um Zabuza decides to uh and um and during the fight I believe uh Kakashi like fatally injures Zabuza. Um and um Zabuza decides to tell Haku to run away, and um, but Haku decides to stay with Zabuza and they die together.

SPEAKER_17

Oh no, they don't die together. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_14

Oh no, you're right.

SPEAKER_16

What happens?

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_16

Uh what happens is uh Zabuza uh attacks Kakashi and Haku gets in the way and fucking dies like an idiot.

SPEAKER_03

And then um and then Zabuza loses both of his fucking arms or loses the the the use of his arms um from his fight with Kakashi, decides, hey, you know what?

SPEAKER_16

And um toward the end, the guy that hired them brought a whole mob with him to make sure that he doesn't that that bridge is not built because he did he was doubting Haku and uh Zabuza's um abilities here, which is understandable. Yes, yes, okay. Now I remember.

SPEAKER_03

Um so Zabuza decides, you know what? Fuck it. Takes a sword or a knife in his hands, and he goes to attack the mob boss. Knife in his mouth, I thought.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, he has something in his mouth.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, he has something in his mouth. Yeah, he didn't he couldn't move his arms. Yeah, that's what you said knife in his hands. No, I said mouth. You said hands, bro.

SPEAKER_08

Bro, you said hands.

SPEAKER_16

Okay, no, whatever.

SPEAKER_03

I'm gonna fuck. Anyway, uh, and then they proceed to murk this. Uh the mob around him proceeds to murk this man after he kills the mob boss.

SPEAKER_01

Thank you, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And then he crawls and he asks Kakashi to bring him over to uh Haku. Haku's body, his victim's body. Um god for one last, you know.

SPEAKER_16

So you look at his uh victim's never asked Raku to go with him.

SPEAKER_05

Like, Haku just follow, bro.

SPEAKER_03

What's that thing called? Stockholm syndrome. Haku does not have Stockholm syndrome. No syndrome, I don't give a fuck with nobody.

SPEAKER_08

Haku could have left at any point in time. Yep, that's how that works. Zapuza did not want that motherfucker around him. Like actually say, fuck it, he's here.

SPEAKER_16

Yep, right. So he used him, and then Haku proceeds to dress as a girl for you know that's the way Haku wants to live.

SPEAKER_03

Yep, that's the way Haku wants to live, and that's okay with this guy who doesn't know him from Adam and just decided, yeah, yeah, okay, whatever. I'll I'll take this orphan child with me.

SPEAKER_13

Oh my god, sure, why not?

SPEAKER_03

In your eyes that I do, why not?

SPEAKER_16

Had Zabuza not taken Haku in, Haku probably would have been dead. Probably because Haku was trained as a ninja, and I I don't know what it is, but ninja no other ninja, like they like it's on sight, depending on the village you come from.

SPEAKER_08

It's like I see how he moved, he a ninja, right?

SPEAKER_18

Still not a same grace.

SPEAKER_03

That means a pedophile, like for whatever reason, do it Noah, the amount of love talk between you know what Haku and how much Haku loves, and uh Zabuza loves uncomfortable, uncomfortable with a child, all right.

SPEAKER_04

I'll give you that it was very like thing is love for an older man. What are we doing? What are we doing?

SPEAKER_08

You're not wrong, you're not wrong, but what are we doing here's and here's the thing that is an issue with the culture, yeah, not even just Naruto. That's that's that's there's a lot of oh my gosh, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna say that Keishimoto is kind of the manga that kind of reached more people than so I'll say not most, but like a good portion, like him showcasing some problematic things. Some of the stuff probably served in kids, like Rochamaro, bro.

SPEAKER_18

Rochamaro is a great number one taking well back and shoot him in the fucking head pedophile.

SPEAKER_08

Like Rochimaro is probably worse than uh oh boy, what's his name? Uh the clown.

SPEAKER_16

Um Hisoka.

unknown

Thank you.

SPEAKER_18

Oh, right, yeah, yeah.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah. Um from Hunter Hunter. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, absolutely. And then unfortunately, they seem to like always throw one of those in these kind of anime. Like now. Well, actually, no, I guess they've stopped it.

SPEAKER_16

But but yeah, and I'll say the kids are as kiddish, I would say anime. Like in um we're I was watching Mashall, like these these are supposed to be these are supposed to be like teenagers, so these are grown-ass people like there's no child education here.

SPEAKER_08

Like, but like a rochamaro is way different than motherfucking yeah, way different. Oh, there's levels, there's levels.

SPEAKER_10

There's that pitch.

SPEAKER_03

So it was a one-person, one child pedophile.

unknown

Cool.

SPEAKER_05

Oh god.

SPEAKER_16

So, anyway, this the arc ends with um team seven getting a very important lesson in the way because the thing is that throughout the the arc Naruto's you know glorifying being a ninja and talks about how great it is and stuff like that, and um, and they even go through a bit of a training arc and stuff where they're learning chakra control, which we've mentioned before. Um, which Kakasha kind of teaches them because basically chakra control you gonna walk up trees and water and stuff like that. Yeah, exactly. Um and he they glory the archer very much idolizes the ninja lifestyle, but this is his very first look at how brutal and devastating and bloody this life is and can be. So with that, um, we move into the tuning exams, which um uh uh Kishimoto actually did not want to go into. He wanted to do a few more missions um before the tuning exams, and um his editor was like, nah, bro, everybody likes to train an art uh you know an exam arc. We gotta hop on this exam arc joint, and that's why it feels rushed. Absolutely. I mean, I think it seems going to get there, but they kind of moved it up. Yeah. Because after that mission, they did tuning exams. Like, what niggas did what right after the mission?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, no one of the missions, like yeah, should have had like a lot, like like two, maybe maybe a third mission or something like that. Yeah, but if I had to sit through another one of these fucking arcs, I'd probably knew you were on that wave, that's why I was just gonna let it fucking go.

SPEAKER_13

It's like I was gonna blow my fucking brain, to be honest with you.

SPEAKER_03

Jesus Christ. Listen, that arc was fucking dry as shit. I've seen like it reminded me so much of the uh bount arc and bleach really, yes, not the bound, not the bounce.

SPEAKER_08

It was so I could it tasted like it was like sandpaper.

SPEAKER_16

For something of him to learn, you heard that. I should have said that, right? You heard you heard me say it, right?

SPEAKER_04

See, I had to fucking care about the characters in order for me to actually care what happened.

SPEAKER_07

Like what you know and honestly, the thing is like part of this was supposed to get you to care about the uh literally the opposite.

SPEAKER_03

It did literally the opposite. I could have done a bell, I could have done the bell thing a couple more times and probably come out with a better appreciation. This literally did the opposite.

unknown

Wow.

SPEAKER_03

Literally.

SPEAKER_08

I listen if it if it didn't have Haku.

SPEAKER_04

Right.

SPEAKER_08

Just just just a question.

SPEAKER_04

Oh because Haku, huh? It'll be worse.

SPEAKER_12

It'd be worse.

SPEAKER_04

Really? It'd be worse because it's just this dumbass running around.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

And didn't didn't they mention he was a was this when they mentioned he was affiliated with a group? Or was that later?

SPEAKER_13

Oh yeah, you fucking left or something like that. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, no, they mentioned this was the seven swordsmen or something like that.

SPEAKER_16

Yes, yes. He was one of the I believe um when they're glazing each other, yeah. Um the 'cause that's what happens. Yes, that's what happens. Um Zapuza mentions uh you know um Kakashi is a copy ninja and stuff like that, and he actually goes on to demonstrate that. I believe Kakashi mentions that Zapuza is part of the uh seven great swordsmen or whatever. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

The pay what bothers me about this show overall, in general, the main grip I have is the fucking pacing of this show. Really?

SPEAKER_16

The pacing is god awful. Episode to episode, I'm just like, get to the fucking point.

SPEAKER_08

Please, I'm begging you. And this is crazy because you you dealt with Dragon Ball, yeah. And they dropped the reason why I don't go back.

SPEAKER_04

Why I would rather watch Kai over the original Dragon Ball Z.

SPEAKER_08

Dragon Ball Z, bro. That pet they draw those.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, no look again. This is not me putting on nostalgia goggles. Dragon Ball Z drags, it fucking drags. There's a reason why I didn't finish a rewatch and stopped at the fucking garlic dream saga, just turned on Kai. It's like this is better pacing. Let's just get to the strong to the fucking point. I don't need so many fucking reaction shots that people say, oh I won't see if there are a lot of reaction shots, not gonna lie. Super flashbacks, reaction shots, fucking shit. You don't you think is gonna happen? Doesn't fucking happen.

SPEAKER_16

Oh buddy, I got if I could put my hand on your shoulder for shit, man.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, you already know. I know you already know the spoiler of the goddamn swing. Yes, right, but and that's not even swing will be seared in your brain.

SPEAKER_18

Well, the the that's what you're calling it.

SPEAKER_13

This is swing coon and his amazing friends, supposedly swing coon and his amazing amazing friends, swing coon and amazing friends.

SPEAKER_04

So I know swing more than they show some of these fucking characters.

SPEAKER_16

I will say this there is even an arcing heavy and arpo. Yes, okay, yeah, more than I'd like.

unknown

Yeah, that's me.

SPEAKER_16

I'll say there's there are whole arcs where we go back in time and yeah, not not denar to dude and shipudin. And they're canon, they're canon as well.

SPEAKER_18

Don't make me shit on shippudun. Pissing me off. I thought shipped in was actually the good one because it's got hands and there's actual book right here.

SPEAKER_08

But I had absolutely has hands.

SPEAKER_04

God, if I see another goddamn, I'm gonna take that fucking swing. I'm gonna beat Kishimoto to fucking head with it.

SPEAKER_08

You you have to learn to ignore the fucking swing, bro.

SPEAKER_04

No, but it's taking up muscle screen. You have to learn screen time, it's taking up muscle screen time. I might as well watch it two times speed then.

SPEAKER_16

You could. Uh one and a half. I'd say one and a half, you won this much. Useless.

SPEAKER_04

Fucking useless.

SPEAKER_16

If I can't enjoy an anime at the pace that they're supposed to be setting, what the fuck am I watching this for? I'm sorry, say that again. If I can't enjoy an anime at the pace they're supposed to be setting, what the fuck am I watching this for? CJ, your thoughts. Gotta be careful with the co-sign, man.

SPEAKER_08

Hey, hey, look, I still say that it is, you know, in a at heart a prologue, but it it it has absolutely moments that are necessary. That's what makes it the prologue.

SPEAKER_13

That's what makes it a prologue.

SPEAKER_16

But you don't agree with that, Sean. Don't act like you agree with that.

SPEAKER_04

No, I'm not saying, listen, prologue are necessary. That's why you have the screen call in Star Wars. And this could have been a fucking screen crawl.

SPEAKER_14

That's what I'm saying. Don't act like you're agreeing with the like he ain't agreeing for real.

SPEAKER_08

He's like, nah, I'm gonna find a way to point out what I'm saying. I'm trying to make y'all agree with me, bro.

SPEAKER_03

I'm not, I'm not. Everybody has their own right to their own opinion, and I agree with y'all's opinion. I am going hard in the paint for this. I am, I am, I would 100% admit that, but I'm also looking at this from a very objective viewpoint. Like I said, Dragon Ball Z, so much fucking pacing, aside from the anger.

SPEAKER_18

I can kind of so much like the pacing in Dragon Ball Z is abysmal, and this is on purpose because this shit was shown to kids back in the day where they had commercial breaks, and they had to keep you guessing or waiting until the next fucking episode. Because a lot of the times, at the same time, they're writing to outpace the right, they're trying to outpace the writers because this shit's going on as the anime, as the manga is writing it. Yep.

SPEAKER_16

So I understand all of the implications that go into this. I understand why it is the way that it is. But fuck me, if this pacing didn't kill any idea any jewel I would have had gotten from this show. If that's your main argument, it should put it not better. God damn it. Uh the pacing was not better.

SPEAKER_08

Not only does Naruto get flashbacks, every like there's character development for every like all like all the teams from from the leaf, they all every one of them gets character development.

SPEAKER_16

I wouldn't even say I wouldn't even say that, dude. I would say like the main characters, like Kakashi and stuff, they get flash, like you get flash. You get Kakashi's backstory, you get um Sasuke's brother's backstory. It's all my god, this goddamn.

SPEAKER_08

Because you we get Neji's backstory, we get Hanari's backstory. We got Neji's backstory. We got Neji's backstory.

SPEAKER_16

I swear to god, it doesn't go further, dude. No, we get Neji's backstory here. Yes, not exams.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, it doesn't go further than that. But I thought they did a more explanation.

SPEAKER_16

No, I swear to god, if I had to watch that shit again. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_08

So okay, all right, yeah, all right.

SPEAKER_16

I'm gonna I'll put it this way it's mainly the war dogs that get a backstory because even my guy doesn't really get much of a backstory either. Kind of actually. I take that back. He does, yeah, he does, he does a little bit.

SPEAKER_08

But um they kind of they they kind of like tiptoe around my guy and Kakashi a little bit.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, it's mainly the war dogs that get the backstories, and um and uh Sasuke's brother is very much a war dog. Oh absolutely, so yeah, uh so we get this from two thirds bad to a three-thirds bad.

SPEAKER_08

And we we get a little bit of backstory on all the Akoski as well.

SPEAKER_16

Yes, yes, we do. Um Pain. Yes, 100%.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, pain, pain, pain gets a hell.

SPEAKER_16

Backstory, yeah, yeah. Um, but yeah, back to the trudging exams. So the trudent exams begin, and um team seven, along with the other teams from Narchus class, are entered into the tuning exams. Um, the tuning exams are uh this I don't know if they were before, but um this uh during this exam they're cross village, so the same village also takes part in the tuning exams to get the and this is to get the ring of tuning village, yeah. And the sound village, I'm sorry. Um which doesn't exist, but yeah, um the sound village also takes part of the I mean I mean yeah, but yeah, the sound village and the hidden sand is also takes part. Um, and this I believe that again this is their first time doing like a cross village thing because again, normally it's on site with other villages because normally they are at cross purposes. So um and this is basically to graduate would-be ninjas like team seven and whatnot to the next level, which is tuning, which would mean that they can command missions or go on missions on their own. And then I think Jonin is like even further up, like the they're the ninja ninjas, like you you send these are one-man wrecking crews.

SPEAKER_08

Yes, absolutely. That's what a joint is. And then we got the sign in, which is even bigger, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

The that's their one-man armies, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But um, so they we begin the exams with um uh written tests. Um, and the point is to kind of cheat the sneakiest way possible. It's either to do well on the test or cheat in the sneakiest way possible.

SPEAKER_17

Pretty much the only ninja thing that has happened thus far.

SPEAKER_14

Damn, this nigga forgets he's writing about ninjas constantly, he's not wrong, but constantly because the thing isn't thinking of that.

SPEAKER_08

That's what got me. I didn't think of that.

SPEAKER_03

Listen, I'm not listening. As objective as I can be, I'm not wrong in any situation whatsoever.

SPEAKER_08

Is I feel like he just like ran with his own fucking thing with it.

SPEAKER_16

That's why I said he has a very interesting view of what a ninja is because in pop culture, ninja are sneaky, ninja are shadows, ninja are stealth.

SPEAKER_08

Um, and Kishimoto's like, his his world of ninjas is not that name and shit, like bombs exploding and shit.

SPEAKER_16

There's mines. The only person that actually dresses in black is Kakashi. Everybody else is has colorful clothing on, is easily spottable and uh fucking trees and shit. Like they then they don't even try to blend into their environment.

SPEAKER_08

Nah, they don't. Like ninja in here is is is widely like yeah, like they're superheroes, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Ninja, I don't I don't know what the word I would call wizard, wizard.

SPEAKER_08

You're a wizard high. Like you I feel like you've been trying not to say that.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah. So yeah. Um uh the tuning exams begin, and um again, the test is basically to um see who gets either smart enough to pass the test or is the sneakiest. Um, I think Naruto gets down in the wire. Um, I can't remember how he passes, though.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, I don't remember.

SPEAKER_16

Sean.

SPEAKER_11

You just watched it!

SPEAKER_13

Did I give a fuck?

SPEAKER_18

Anyway, anyway, there's some I knew he was gonna pass, so I didn't do some hoots pass.

SPEAKER_03

No, he doesn't cheat. He doesn't that's his ninja way.

SPEAKER_16

He doesn't cheat. He does he he I forget, he guesses the answer, some bullshit, man. Yeah, he gets I think he guesses enough to get past the test basically if I remember correctly. Anyway, um it doesn't it really matter that's why I don't remember the next level, which is basically a team battle where the one team where the teams get was it two scrolls, or no, they get one scroll and they have to get the other one, yeah. Am I I believe I remember that right. So the so each team gets one scroll, but another, but everybody scrolls different, basically.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, this is the force or death one.

SPEAKER_08

I was so sorry, I looked it up. His test was completely blank, right? Because he made this bold declaration to never back down. Right. They said, I you got it, bro. You got the mental fortitude.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_13

That's why I don't remember. Well, he passes a plot armor. Yeah, I thought it was plot armor.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, I knew it was plot armor. I knew it was plot armor, I just couldn't remember exactly how. That's why I had to look at it.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, they said they said, nigga, I guess this nigga wanna be Hokage. Like, this is like this is uh no trial left behind kind of shit.

SPEAKER_08

I'm talking about I mean they left behind some, but I got you.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, they were definitely people who did pass, and I don't think Teruto deserved a pass, but yeah, that was me. Uh yeah, and I mean to be honest with you, he doesn't, but that's for a different reason. Um, so yeah, so what's next is the team battle. And so team seven is basically trying to find um uh another team scroll, and this when they come across Orochimaru. This thing is a fucking pedophile.

unknown

There we go.

SPEAKER_16

So Orochimaru takes a special interest in, and we don't even know we don't know it's Orochimaru. Um we don't know or what the ninja's name is, but this this ninja, we'll say just Orochimaro, takes a special interest in Sasuke, his abilities, so he pull so he he has the weirdest fucking abilities. So basically, Orochimaro has the abilities of a snake, like he can extend his body and make it snake-like, and it's a whole fucking thing. Um so he extends his head over to Sasuke and bites him and gives him a curse mark.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, because it wasn't on a neck or a shoulder.

SPEAKER_16

Yep, exactly where it is. Yeah, and he basically vampire bites um and gives him his curse mark. Well, Sakura is just standing like useless, yeah. Um Naruto goes to fight um was it or Chamaro, but I believe that's when he calls up um what is the giant snake's name? Naga, something like that.

SPEAKER_08

Oh his uh yeah, yeah, but he that's what they call that thing, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Usually he has a pack with yeah, but I believe he basically transforms into a giant snake, which um because and um Sasuke is basically hurting from the curse mark.

SPEAKER_07

Um did you just make a sound shot? Harry Potter.

SPEAKER_16

Yes, because uh which call it, yeah, it's um yeah, Voldemort, yeah, yeah. I mean, maybe Harry Potter.

SPEAKER_08

Um Harry Potter came out after that, I thought. The books came out after this, I thought.

SPEAKER_16

Books came out in the 90s, I wanna say. We just didn't know about it, but uh but hold on, let me just double check. I could be wrong. 97.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_17

But the manga started when did that 99.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, oh shit. So yeah, I mean we don't talk about it with a book there were the books there though. It's possible. It's quite possible. But I mean, we don't talk about it, but there are some things there, like the the main protagonist is a snake dude, like a lie, like there are some echoes to Harry Potter.

SPEAKER_17

I mean, look, I'm uh US UK.

SPEAKER_19

Let me see if Japan really. Uh Japan. I need to see one of the Japanese translation, but you know, Kichimoto could understand English. I don't know.

SPEAKER_16

That's also true. I don't know. But um there, you know, maybe it's just cross minds thinking of like possible.

SPEAKER_18

Just like with um um the Hunger Games and uh Battle Royale.

SPEAKER_17

Sure, yeah. I don't believe what fucking Terratino says, fuck that nigga.

SPEAKER_16

Anyway, so um 99 was when it was translated, by the way.

SPEAKER_08

He's already raining. Anyway, let's go like lines. Let's go like lines.

SPEAKER_16

So um after, yeah, like I said, after um Sasuke gets the curse mark, he's basically unable to fight because he's in so much pain. And um Naruto actually takes on the giant snake for as much as he can. Um, but and this is when you start to see um more of his well first you see it in the first arc that he there's something not right with uh Naruto. Um he's got more energy than he should, and it's his chakras turn from blue to red. Um you see it again here when he starts to fight um the giant snake, but it's not really explained what's happening until later.

SPEAKER_08

Did he have the chakra fucking um armor little deal thing?

SPEAKER_16

You mean um you mean the nine-tail armor?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, the one where like he showed like I think he has like one or one or three little tail things. It's just like like that's like around him. Was that in this thinks this early?

SPEAKER_16

I think he may have at least maybe one tail. It might not even be cloak be a tail. The cloak. Here we go. The nine the cloak.

SPEAKER_08

Did he have the cloak at this point, or was he just he starts to get the cloak?

SPEAKER_16

Like I said, it's any his chakras tries to change color. Yeah, and that's when we we we really first see it, or at least I remember seeing it when he fights um the uh the giant snake. Let me guess the cloak becomes a thing of Shooper Dun, right?

SPEAKER_08

Oh very much way much more. Way much more prologue.

SPEAKER_16

Oh we get so yes, so um did they explain Naruto became Naruto?

SPEAKER_19

No in Naruto, just the first episode, but they don't explain to him.

SPEAKER_08

So they don't throughout the whole Naruto, they don't they don't do the backstory on him.

SPEAKER_16

Nope. No, that does not come from true.

SPEAKER_08

Damn, yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_16

No, yeah, so I will say um we do get a glimpse at the um the the ceiling jutsu of the that keeps the nine tails um intact. Um Jurai actually fixes it um because uh because I believe during this encounter um Rochamara fucks it up um and burns part of it.

SPEAKER_08

I don't know if it was this one. Um this one with the next arc because technically Junin is like two arcs. This is an arc right after.

SPEAKER_16

That's it, I could be wrong on when it happens, but I'm pretty sure I know that throwing away some of his curse mark to believe it's there because he doesn't meet Orochimaru again anytime within the month within the anime. And well, the Tsunate arc. No, I mean, yeah, but that's alright, like he'd already fixed Jiraiya'd already fixed it by then.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, I was gonna say because that's when like when Jariah shows up, is when he fixes it.

SPEAKER_16

It has to be here because in the at the end of the exam, um, what's called takes his arms. Yeah, and they don't fight each other.

SPEAKER_08

They don't like during that. No, no, but no, so it had to be here, yeah. You're right.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, because they don't fight like they literally like they see each other in the Tsunati arc, but other than that, they don't fight each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. Um cool.

SPEAKER_11

All right.

SPEAKER_16

So yeah, the um so yeah, during the far it's called the forest of death. So during this forest of death uh trial is what we also see more of the um the sound ninjas and the um sand ninjas, and we see that Gar is a straight up psychopath, fucking serial killer murdering people, literally just murdering people.

SPEAKER_18

Yep, that's why I don't count him as part of the rest of the the kids.

SPEAKER_16

He's beyond that. This nigga needs to go to jail, right? So uh so basically Naruto uses up a lot of his energy, and um Sasuke is still in pain from the cursed mark bite. And um, so Sakra does the only helpful thing she ever she's ever done. Yeah, she tries to protect the two. Wow.

SPEAKER_08

It's just the writing for her, man. It's just she was so done wrong, bro. She could have been so much more.

SPEAKER_16

The sound ninja decide to um try to take on team seven, and um Sakura is tries to protect the um the Archasuke, and um she kind of makes her declaration here that she's not she's not gonna be a burden to the other two because she's gonna stand on her own feet. Fucking lie, it's her ninja way. It's her ninja way.

SPEAKER_03

Fucking lie.

SPEAKER_16

Declarations are bullshit because they lie all the fucking time.

SPEAKER_18

What the declarations are bullshit, they lie all the time all the fucking time.

unknown

I mean, okay.

SPEAKER_18

This bitch said she wasn't gonna be a burden. Guess what the fuck she is for the rest of the fucking show. But again, here's what bothers me it's a fucking declaration, it's a promise. It's not a I'll try to be better. Hey, I mean you can't don't make promises you can't fucking keep. That's why I said to her again, she said it. Don't make fucking promises you can't fucking keep, kid. She could have easily kept that promise, but the right staying out of the fucking way, sure.

SPEAKER_05

God damn.

SPEAKER_01

You're not gonna win any of these battles, man. I'm not gonna write this fucking shit.

SPEAKER_04

I don't give a fuck. This is his job. I'm saying he's bad at his job. Why are you gonna prove with me that he's bad at his job?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, he he he he really dropped the ball on all the women in this fight.

SPEAKER_16

So after this, it was kind of expected that Sakura take a bigger role in the story, but she actually ends up getting saved by um Lee, who actually takes a liking to uh Sakura. I don't know why. When I saw it, I was like, I don't know. So is this so I think before this is where Lee stunts on them, isn't it? Or is this right or is it that right before the fights?

SPEAKER_03

It was right before no. Um it was right before yes, right before the forest. Okay, they're going to they're going to the forest, and that's when Lee calls out Sasuke.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, that's right. Okay, so because I had thought originally that it was going to be the start of the of the tournament. That's why I was like, oh no, it's the tournament. No, we got this fucking forest.

SPEAKER_08

I forgot that the forest before the tournament.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah. So um the tuning exam is basically the largest chunk of the uh anime. Yeah, it really is. Um, so before that, and we skipped this, but um Sasuke uh Sasuke is called out by uh Lee, who basically declares himself Sasuke's rival. Rock um because he named it's on metal Lee. We're not gonna talk about that. That's a different whole different thing.

SPEAKER_12

Yep.

SPEAKER_16

So yeah, uh Lee um it basically calls uh Sasuke's rival because Sasuke kind of is the epitome of talent. Yeah, he's a prodigy, he's a prodigy, and um Lee is basically the antithesis. He was born without any abilities whatsoever in um ninjutsu.

SPEAKER_08

But he's a Taijutsu motherfucking beast.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, but he's a Taijutsu beast, and which is why my guy um were they team six? There might be damn damn teams, bro. Yeah, I'm not gonna remember.

SPEAKER_08

But like they're called my only team I remember is Team Seven, yeah. That's for life for they just talked about team seven so fucking like team seven is the number you heard all the damn time. I am not gonna remember anybody.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, so they're my team, they sp they have a special name. Yeah, so my is uh my guy rival takes a number takes um a special liking to um Lee because no they got a number, they're team guy, just yeah, team guy. Um so my guy takes a special liking to Lee because my guy also doesn't can't do any other ninjitsu stuff.

SPEAKER_08

No, guy absolutely can.

SPEAKER_02

When I never seen that nigga do shit. He never doesn't face it.

SPEAKER_08

He's not as good as it. He's he's a tajjutsu uh what's it called? But he can do he he's got more sk more uh ability than Lee. He absolutely does.

SPEAKER_16

Well motherfucker, I have never seen it. He only uh the only thing he fights with is the gates. He never does anything else besides the gates.

SPEAKER_08

He just doesn't have it as much.

SPEAKER_16

Nah, you're remembering wrong, dude. Say this with full confidence. He never does anything besides the gates and you know what he does before he opens those gates.

SPEAKER_17

Which I mean he can't use ninjutsu despite being primarily a Taijutsu specialist.

SPEAKER_16

He's not talented in it, though. He naturally basically techniques such as summoning. So that's the turtle thing that incorporated in your point to summon. Oh no, I do remember turtle. I do remember the turtle come up. That's right. But yeah, you're right. He is very good, and he has at least two chocolate nature transformations, fire and lightning.

SPEAKER_08

Yes, he that's what I was saying. He has abilities, he just doesn't use them like that.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, fair enough. I take it back. He does my guy does have is has some talents in um ninjutsu, but other but it's uh he takes a special liking to Lee because he has none. Yeah, so he decides to teach him.

SPEAKER_08

He reminds him of himself because he struggled good at the other shit.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, he struggled really hard.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16

So um the uh sousuke is basically like, what do you want, dude? And Lee basically stunts on um Sasuke. Um actually has to be called call back from uh play uh doing his finisher on Sasuke.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah, forgot about that.

SPEAKER_16

Oh, yeah, that reminds me. Uh another reason why I hate Sakura.

SPEAKER_03

Her her I don't know. Is there I need a I need a a good way to say this, but I'm just gonna say it. Her fucking love boner for Sasuke is fucking ridiculous.

SPEAKER_18

Every other fucking time, Sasuke this, Sasuke that, Sasuke can't do no wrong.

SPEAKER_08

Sasuke was the jock, bro.

SPEAKER_18

I understand. I didn't give a fuck.

SPEAKER_08

Nino was on his ass too, right?

SPEAKER_16

Oh, yes, yes, that much too. Yes, boom. Sean is not wrong. That's another contention for a lot of people.

SPEAKER_08

And is she she was completely blind for that motherfucker?

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

It's and then and then wait, did she did she did she do the the the change in this one? Was that shipping?

SPEAKER_17

Huh?

SPEAKER_08

Well, she's like, oh no, I think I like Naruto.

SPEAKER_12

That's shipped in.

SPEAKER_08

Okay.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah. Stop it.

SPEAKER_08

I don't remember if that was this early or not. Bring it up shipping.

SPEAKER_16

You're making it worse.

SPEAKER_08

I'm sorry, it's it's it's all I have a hard time dil uh delineing the fucking difference.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that's a total issue for her. One is bad.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, okay. Now I remember when it happened. I remember okay, all right. And the other because it it's gonna give it okay. It's an entire issue with her. And again, he wrote her so

SPEAKER_18

He did her Kishimoto did her dirty.

SPEAKER_08

He was super dirty, bro. Like he put her through the mud. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, yeah. She she she stands for fucking Sasuke so hard, bro.

SPEAKER_18

I can't listen.

SPEAKER_02

Every time it was just her inner fucking dialogue talking about, oh my god, Sasuke looking at oh my god, shut the fuck up. Shut up.

SPEAKER_08

Her her inner dialogue shit too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

So and honestly, with her inner dialogue, she was mental.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, she was definitely on Starper timing. Um so where was I? So going back to the um the uh Farster Death. Yes, yeah. So going back to the Farsta Death, Lee shows up and kind of saves uh not kind of saves Sakura and um actually uh takes out one of the sound ninja before getting his before and this is this is the um this is the problem with Lee. Yep um he's got piccolo he's got piccolo syndrome got piccolo syndrome yeah fair enough yeah he's definitely Lee has Piccolo syndrome because Lee we see Lee take out basically the best ninja of that class is Sasuke so we know Lee is nothing to fuck with.

SPEAKER_18

So in order to make everybody else seem stronger than Lee or smarter than Lee or how smart Lee uh they show Lee getting his ass whooped constantly this is why I can't co-sign how you know the fights with Lee or I can't co-sign any of this shit because it's Piccolo syndrome. I'd be cosigning Piccolo shit. Piccolo has some great moments, stand up moments fantastic. He does they amount to jack fucking shit in the grand scheme of things.

SPEAKER_16

Not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, I can't.

SPEAKER_16

Same thing with Lee. Yeah, I think Bitcoin is like uh it's a trope in Star Trek, it's the Wharf trope, where um because in order to show how bad somebody is, because Wharf was the you know the biggest, baddest uh motherfucker on you know um what was the Enterprise, and um uh in order to show that somebody was badder than you know the the uh a bigger bad, they uh had him yeah, they dropped out Wharf.

SPEAKER_08

So same thing. Yep, yeah, Brooklyn Brawler bullshit.

SPEAKER_03

Yep, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

So yeah.

SPEAKER_03

It's a wrestling term when uh uh jobber for the uninitiated is uh just a fucking guy that gets crushed by an opponent they want to make look stronger.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, to job somebody out is to they basically do and it's a major trope in anime. It's like in order to show how badass this dude is, or this bad this bad guy is they have to uh basically uh put a pickle up, you know, put up a a formerly strong bad guy who's turned into a good guy, and he has to get his shit kicked in.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, that's why I don't rate none of the motherfuckers in Dragon Ball Z except for Goku and Gohan.

SPEAKER_16

And you know, that's not fair. And what's Goku and Gohan at all? I you're right. I may be wrong in my approach, but I'm right in what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_09

The objectiveness again.

SPEAKER_16

There you go. That's uh uh it's not fair at all. Because the thing is that literally you put any Dragon Ball Z any other Dragon Ball Z partner, not named Goku or uh uh Gohan or Vegeta in any other verse, they solo.

SPEAKER_18

Yes, 100%.

SPEAKER_03

We're not in any other verse though, we're in their verse where they get the shit kicked in and wait for Gohan and Goku to show up, mostly Goku.

SPEAKER_08

Anyway, so Lee got his ass whooped.

SPEAKER_16

So Lee So Lee gets taken out and um basically gets a surprise attack, and um then um Shikamaro's team shows up uh to um to try to help out. They also get styled on by the sound ninjas, um, who are gaining, by the way, I believe. Um or at least close to it. They're like powerful, so and they're just there for one reason.

SPEAKER_08

Well they the the the kids are getting.

SPEAKER_16

Oh, okay, right, right, right. My bad.

SPEAKER_08

I think they're I think they're tuning level.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, so they're at least yeah, I'll say that.

SPEAKER_08

They are they were they were level, they were leveled higher than you're you're right, you're right. Um because of Rochamaro, why would he play fair?

SPEAKER_16

Right. And we find out later that this the sound village is Orochamaro's creation. He is a village that doesn't fucking exist. He just grabs some ninjas that were powerful, put them in this exam because he has a plan, uh overarching plan to take out the leaf. The village had been leaf. Um, because he hates them.

SPEAKER_14

But um I don't blame him.

SPEAKER_09

Still a you said he's still a pure.

SPEAKER_16

So so um right twice a day. What ends up happening is that the cursed marker awakens in Sasuke, and Sasuke goes ballistic and actually breaks one uh breaks the arms of one of the sound ninja, and they're like, this guy's crazy, man. The amount the amount of ridiculous reaction they had to Sasuke breaking somebody's arm, meanwhile, Gara's over here motherfuckers.

SPEAKER_18

Well the thing is they didn't see the people who did see that were dead. True, but it's also called the forest of death. It's also called the force of death. But I mean apparently they thought it was just there as a tourist attraction. I don't fucking know.

SPEAKER_03

But there were stories of the tuning exams that had been there, bro. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Go ahead, Sean. Uh there were stories of the tuning exams as well. And they they've been told not to take this ain't a fucking joke.

SPEAKER_19

That's true.

unknown

Correct.

SPEAKER_16

But yeah, there were hidden dangers in the sound niggas and the and or tomorrow being there, which also means that the forest leaf hidden uh forest village, whatever the fuck hidden leaf, hidden leaf village. There you go. Hidden Leaf Village is also ass at their security. Ass. Complete ass. Yeah, they did let them the thing is that the sound the Sound Village Animal tomorrow, as well as the Sand Village actually had were going to take out the we're trying to take out the village and then leave. They didn't let a goddamn one of these motherfuckers.

SPEAKER_08

But they let them in though for this. Yeah, they let them in.

SPEAKER_01

They should have.

SPEAKER_08

But I mean, it's not saying I'm just gonna say it's not they're not the only village to do the shit.

SPEAKER_17

I mean to be stupid.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, sure.

SPEAKER_17

There are plot like a lot of them. These villages are dumb for plot.

SPEAKER_08

It was for plot.

SPEAKER_16

Sure. I mean, sure, but it's still pretty damn dumb. But dumb as hell. Like those you have wisdom, you have literally, and that was on third.

SPEAKER_08

So you know that was that was on third. And we know what happens to third.

SPEAKER_16

Third is the consummate fuck up. Yep. And I'm glad he's dead.

SPEAKER_18

I'm glad he's dead. So that was my refrain throughout this entire thing, but we'll get to it.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, so um after the teams go through their emotionally traumatizing um arcs their experience in the forest of death, um, they decide that the uh a tour, well, they don't decide it was part of the thing already. The next step is a tournament.

SPEAKER_19

Even though they know this shit is corrupted by Rochamaru.

SPEAKER_16

At this point, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

They at least they don't know about the sound village, like the betrayal that's coming. But they at least very much know that Orochimaru certified pedophile and fucking enemy of the leaf village is is around somewhere.

SPEAKER_13

Damn, certified level four, certified pedophile pedophile, like certified pedophile will always be first perhaps.

SPEAKER_16

That is that's how he operates. But you're absolutely right. Like at that point, they won't say it should have shut down the exams.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, and so we'll do this later because most of these motherfuckers didn't pass anyway.

SPEAKER_16

That's true.

SPEAKER_04

Uh yeah what was the point of that?

SPEAKER_16

No, yeah. At the end of the day, like maybe pointless, pointless. They wouldn't do that for nothing, literally nothing. Yeah, people literally risk their lives for nothing in this exam. No reason, constantly.

SPEAKER_08

I mean, that's the that's that's that's that's the life.

SPEAKER_03

I was I can understand if it for was for a reason or a purpose.

SPEAKER_08

But yeah, I got you, but I mean, they literally always risk their lives for the chance of getting nothing.

SPEAKER_16

To be fair though, putting kids up against one of the legendary signing, and especially after you know he's around, insane work.

SPEAKER_08

It is around like the Jonas pedophile, it's crazy because they knew this man's they knew his emotionality to a certain point.

SPEAKER_18

The leader of the security team was one of his victims. Say what the leader of the security team was one of his victims.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, she's part of the security team, yes, yes. Okay, I forgot.

SPEAKER_16

I I remember her role before things, but yeah, she's part of the security team or exam proctors, whatever the fuck.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, proctor, yeah. She's a proctor.

SPEAKER_16

I'm gonna say she kind of held both jobs, basically. Yeah, because she did coordinate before that, yeah. Yeah, she did coordinate security for you know after the shit went down, right? And even a little bit before, yeah. But yeah, you're absolutely right. Once they found out Earl Jamaro was part of the deal, she was like down, yeah, shut it down. Something's wrong, something's really wrong. Why would he pick now of all times to strike? Exactly. But yeah, um as fuck clot.

SPEAKER_08

Because she was the one that clocked it with him, right?

SPEAKER_03

Yes, because of the uh because of the Marcos Oscar question mark, yeah. And she met him, she had it, yeah. She met him. Um uh Rochimaro was going to leave, and she she uh encountered him, right?

SPEAKER_16

So yeah, um but the the exam keeps going and we get into our little tournament arc. Um, of note, I think honestly, one of the only fights of note is Lee versus Gara.

SPEAKER_03

Yep, that's why again I can't co-sign the tournament being anything special because the only thing that came out of it was Lee versus Gara. Where Lee gets his ass kicked again.

SPEAKER_18

Uh but again, he's going up against the serial killer. He put on a fight, though.

SPEAKER_08

He put on, yep, he put on a Sam Coffin what was he gonna do?

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, so he couldn't kick the coffin, that's all it was. Yeah, and what the worst fights is soccer.

unknown

Yep.

SPEAKER_08

Who was it? It was Eno and Sakura.

SPEAKER_16

Yep, that's what I was told to see.

SPEAKER_08

Nobody I even because again, this man could not write women for his life.

SPEAKER_03

Um and Shikumaru, like I don't know what it is with him pitting Shikamaru against women, but this like this was had to be Shikumar. No, he doesn't fight until the later, until later.

SPEAKER_17

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

But yeah, that later one. What the fuck? Um who did he fight? The fangirl.

SPEAKER_08

Um was that when they were in the open arena or the closed arena?

SPEAKER_16

Open arena.

SPEAKER_08

Open arena. Because the closed arena was the like trials before the open arena.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, basically.

unknown

Yep. Yeah.

SPEAKER_16

I mean yeah, but the Neji, uh yeah, so the trials were bullshit. I was gonna say the Neji That was the Neji Hinata fight.

SPEAKER_13

Sir, listen that was the trials, right? Yes, that was the trials.

SPEAKER_08

Naruto, yeah.

unknown

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_03

So the trial fights were bullshit.

SPEAKER_16

The open arena. And actually, um uh Chickamar fights the sound ninja, but yeah, it is a female as well. But yeah, yeah. And gets her to bunk her fucking head. That's the one that is the one. That is the one that is the one where I'm like, come on, man.

SPEAKER_03

Seriously, like this is what made it the level of slap fights to me. Like, serious, this is what we're doing. Bunker head.

SPEAKER_07

Why are you hitting yourself?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, exactly. Bunker head, bunk her head, and he walks off, like, what the fuck are we doing? What is this? Yeah, patty cake bullshit we got going on here. That's what it felt like.

SPEAKER_13

Patty cake fucking bullshit.

SPEAKER_16

What are we doing? All right, so we're talking about like tournament arcs and stuff like that. Like, if you were to compare this with like uh My Hero Academia's tournament arc, it there's no contest.

SPEAKER_03

Listen, I wouldn't compare this with listen.

SPEAKER_16

I mean, you Hakasho's tournament arc was even it's beyond compare.

SPEAKER_03

Beyond compare, yeah, beyond compare. What are we talking about here?

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, we're talking about caveat here and filet mignon versus dog shit. I mean, I can't think of another tournament arc that was. Is this bad? No, yeah, you can't. There's a reason for that. Yeah, there was so Keishimoto. God love him. Um, he really he with the Sakura Eno fight, that has to be that is literally the that is that is what this feels like to me. That is that is the crux of this whole thing with this tournament, with this little trial tournament we got going on here. That is the crux of it.

SPEAKER_03

The Inno Sakura fight.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, the that fight is so that it goes over there's flashbacks with um you know being Sakura's friend and stuff like that, and they kind of grow apart uh adolescence. Um when you know decides that she wants to be one of them popular kids, and it's basically literally a flashback, and then they knock each other out. Yeah, you know, uh yeah, for some reason, you know, can't use her jutsu on um Sakra, and Sakra doesn't have any jutsu to really unique jutsu.

SPEAKER_08

All she was was hands, and it wasn't good.

SPEAKER_16

And at that point it was not good. No, this is why I'm like, I can't ride with any of this shit because this shit exists.

SPEAKER_18

It exists, it's a thing that happened.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, I mean, yeah, and the only fight of note in the I'll say in the prelims is um is Gara versus um Lee. Um Gar and coffin on Lee, who was actually besting him, or seemed to be besting him after he took his weights off. Most people will know that this is where you get the giant uh sand clouds from um uh the taking off his weights because they're like a thousand tons or whatever the fuck. That kind of goes on along with the piccolo moment. Yeah, yeah, because Piccolo will also do the same thing. It's like, alright, I gotta get serious. Let me take off my weighted clothes.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16

But it's also Goku does the same thing.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Um but he gets it from him. Hmm. I thought he got it from Piccolo.

SPEAKER_16

No, they had he trained with uh uh that was the old turtle hermit stuff. Yes, that was the old turtle her they originally trained with giant shells, and then um Goku was like, you know what? Um he kind of uh gets his own clothing that are because at the last when they go to fight when Piccolo Jr. and Goku go to fight each other, they're both wearing way to clothes.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, that's right. All right. It was like, oh yeah, because it was like, oh yeah, you do the same thing, okay, all right, all right.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, so um what was it? Uh so yeah hurricane. So yeah, the so Gara gets off with some good moves, uh the Leaf Hurricane and stuff like that, but it's no match for um not Gara, I'm sorry, Lee gets off some good moves, but it's no match for Lee's um goddamn, I keep mixing up, but it's no match for Gara's um sand coffin.

SPEAKER_14

Oh right, he's the other open a gate.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, he opened up the seven gates. One I think he got to what four?

SPEAKER_08

I think he got he even didn't uh short in seven. He did not near level to get to that high.

SPEAKER_16

No, yeah, no. I think I got to like four. Yeah.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah. So um he even so yes, uh Lee taps into one of my guys' techniques, um, the seven uh gates, and um starts to blitz Gara, but yeah, um at the end. He got up to five. Okay, five. So at the end he's no match for Gara who Yeah, who's a fucking magic user. Yeah, so Gara's thing is sane.

SPEAKER_03

You put a kid again, you pit a kid in a fucking karate class against a fucking wizard. No fucking wonder he lost. Same thing with Tintin and uh old girl. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Literally the kitchen fucking sink at this bitch. No, she didn't do it. Not realizing that hey, wind's gonna jump everything I got because it's weighted. It's got fucking weights on it.

SPEAKER_16

She went up against Samara. Fucking fight her. I mean, Tintin does it really matter anyway. She barely gets any fucking sharing.

SPEAKER_04

No, she has a use, but no, she doesn't.

SPEAKER_16

She she never does anything, dude. Is that her use? She fucking lost. She loses all the time. She never wins a fight.

SPEAKER_08

No, her ability is a useful thing.

SPEAKER_13

Is it useful if for hunting trips?

SPEAKER_08

If Kishimoto had told me, I'm not gonna say this again.

SPEAKER_03

If Kishimoto had told me he was gonna have he was gonna have her do housewife powers out in the house.

SPEAKER_08

In in housewife powers. Oh, sir, sir, sir. Let's let's walk that back before we get. Let's let's walk that back. Let's walk that back. Because here's here's what we're gonna come over with a different term. Let's come over the different term.

SPEAKER_16

Fine, okay. Uh okay, I'll put it this way. She definitely does have the big purse. Like she has the mom big purse. Yes. Like that's her whole power.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. Housewife name, bro. That was sure. I'm putting it in. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. They uh let me just put this out there. Stay-at-home mothers are wonderful and they provide an excellent service to their families by sacrificing their livelihoods or their chance to make money to raise their family.

SPEAKER_06

And again, no woman being in their mental well-being.

SPEAKER_16

Yes, and their mental well-being to raise their family. It is a sacrifice, and I appreciate it very much. But I'm taking it from Kishimoto's perspective, who does not respect women?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, you got that one.

SPEAKER_16

I couldn't say like if somebody was like, Oh, you think Kishimoto respects women? I'm like, Yeah. How yo, how's your day going? Like, real, like shit. No, uh, because the thing is, one of Tintin's she tin's abilities, she has these scrolls where she literally stores fucking weapons and shit, and she'll bust that out. Don't know what the fuck that was gonna do against her, and it's not just cool, it's kunai, it's fucking maces, it's fucking she's boards, she's the armory.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, everything you will find in the kitchen wouldn't shock me.

SPEAKER_16

I or the field, but the thing is, she's useful in like uh yeah, in the armory. But we already went over how uh uh shirt kids don't do shit. Don't do shit in this world.

SPEAKER_04

I mean she pulled out just a bunch of scroll of useless fucking weapons. I I watched this. It never works in awe at how useless this was.

SPEAKER_08

Like I could say it's I mean that fight was bad, bro. And honestly, they never give her any good fights, they never give her any good fights. She does have she she has a purpose, but it's not in fighting.

SPEAKER_16

And for her thing is she shouldn't be a ninja.

SPEAKER_08

Like I she's a good support ninja, but she's not support how these niggas don't use weapons, they're magic users. Because there's I'm other things she can do with the scrolls. That's it.

SPEAKER_04

She's doing these niggas once.

SPEAKER_08

There's a potential, there is an absolute support potential with 1010. But fighting as fighting as fighting as fighting, no, 1010 is useless.

SPEAKER_09

Water sucks. It really, really sucks. Anyway.

SPEAKER_14

Oh my god. That's so fucked up. Oh again, that man cannot cannot write a word in the same way.

SPEAKER_16

Uh Tamara gets the closest to like um an empowered straw woman. Yeah. But it that kind of goes south too later.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah, I think.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, it does. Um still a problem, but still a problem. Yeah, oh man. So yeah. Um, this is what you guys wanted, by the way. I didn't want to do this. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_08

Honestly, this is what we this this is exactly what we wanted.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah. But so um the fight, the fights move on, and I will say, uh, so the fights move on, and um uh basically, you know, uh some people move up, we get some backstory in during the some of the fights and whatnot. And um by the way, again, right? Two times we did 1.5 to 2 times speed from now on. I I was trying to be respectful and watch it through and get the real full experience. But if shipped in is the same way, 1.5 times. I'm just yeah, do this. No, you're right. Noted.

SPEAKER_08

Anyway, just make sure you have your filler.

SPEAKER_03

Oh no, that's I had that on main, sir. I had that on main.

SPEAKER_18

It will be on main for shipped in.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, just absolutely because Menma or Genma, whatever the fuck, yeah, yeah. Let's not do that one.

SPEAKER_03

So that's that's the one thing I do want to say, point out, is before anybody says, Oh, we just like the new stuff, you Haka Show, which came out in the fucking 80s, yeah, it was really had some of the best fucking pacing that has that only now, the only the only anime that are topping it now are the anime now.

SPEAKER_16

Some of the and some of the best fights, too. Honestly, nothing one of the best tournament articles.

SPEAKER_03

Some of the best pacing, wham bam, thank you, ma'am. I didn't watch a full fucking show about flashbacks or commercial break. No, none of that.

SPEAKER_08

None of that are you calling the flashbacks commercial breaks?

SPEAKER_03

It might as well be.

SPEAKER_14

But yes, you can tell when there's commercial breaks.

SPEAKER_07

That's hilarious. That is fucking awesome. That is hilarious. I yeah, I love that. Commercial breaks.

SPEAKER_16

So I did so, um, like I said, the people some people move on Naruto, of course, moves on Sasuke, Gara. Um sorry, early 90s for Yu Yu Haka show. Neji move on early 90s. Um Naruto fights against Neji. Um Neji talks about talent and you know, destiny and all this other bullshit. And Naruto basically uh moles him to death.

SPEAKER_08

So he gets this the uppercut from hell?

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, it was the uppercut from hell. So um so so Naruto basically finds a way to defeat Neji, who has this basically Oh, there's one more fight I wanted to bring up on the zone.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, there's one more fight I wanted to bring up from the trials. The the Neji versus Hinata fight.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I don't know if you don't shut the fuck up.

SPEAKER_16

It's not a killing that woman, the girl on the game.

SPEAKER_04

Shut her the fuck up. She kept calling you get up. I believe in you, and she kept getting the fuck up. Man, sit down. Please another thing.

SPEAKER_08

That was an important that was an important moment for them, though. That was an important moment for them.

SPEAKER_18

I mean, it wouldn't have been more important stuff before that. She was already on not too uh Naruto's, she was already clocking Naruto before that.

SPEAKER_16

Yes, yes, yes, very much so like she even was modeled her nindo her Nindo actually like yeah, but it was it was important for her to that recognition from him, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Because she didn't she she saw him, but she didn't know he saw her.

SPEAKER_16

I'm I'm gonna say this. Um they really wasted Hanata, though they did, they wasted all the women, all the women, like not only that, but like if she gets her shit pushed in for absolutely the Hanata Naruto falling in love with Nara uh Hanata was forced. Plot it's forced to shit plot. Uh and the thing is like you don't even see it in Naruto. He's just egging her on because he thinks that she's you know a good person and deserves that fire underneath there. Yeah, there's no love there.

SPEAKER_08

But I it but it was important for her.

SPEAKER_16

Uh yeah, sure, it was important for her. But like again, I wish they don't keep from a don't moor with it.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, they really shouldn't.

SPEAKER_16

Because even after the time skip, it's like Um, I'm gonna warn you now, Sean, you're gonna be so mad at one episode, not a later. If you at least had some inkling of liking her as a person.

SPEAKER_17

I didn't care about her to begin with.

SPEAKER_16

Okay.

SPEAKER_17

Like I said, the only person I actually care about is Shikamaru, and you know, that's happening.

SPEAKER_16

I'm gonna say he gets he gets an arc. Cool. Yeah, he does not even oh, he does some amazing. He gets a comlet, but and but after that he kind of disappears too. Not surprising. That's yeah, like I said, this this is bad. It's bad. So yes, um in my opinion.

SPEAKER_08

Is the time gonna cut off?

SPEAKER_16

I'm keeping an eye on it. So yeah, um let's speed things up a little bit. The fight, so um Sasuke sees how powerful Gara is because that's his next fight, and um he's basically has a uh um Adrian and Rocky moment in um uh Rocky 4 who's like he's not strong enough to fight um Gara. And um, this is when Kakashi takes uh Sasuke under his wing and teaches him that she's already um which is like an electrical attack. A huge fucking mistake. Yeah. Yeah, it's not great. So um uh well so yeah, the narrative fight happens, um, and we'll just skip over the Gara. So um Sasuke fights uh Gara who um and um Sasuke using his um Sharangan actually imitates some of Lee's moves.

SPEAKER_06

Shidori.

SPEAKER_16

He uses Chidori later, but he imitates um because he imitates some of um uh Lee's moves enough for Gara to basically shell up uh with his Saiyan um jutsu, and um he pe and um uh sasuke pierces the um the shell with um the chidori, which basically drives uh um Gara mad because he's never really felt pain before.

SPEAKER_11

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Not physical pain, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's called emotional pain. Yeah. Um he actually starts to get taken over by his tail beast. He has a tail beast, which is the um is it Chicago?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, Chicago.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah. He gets ends up getting taken over by his tail beast, and this is when um the sand village and sound village attack um the village and leave. I do have to say, plot being what it is, it's a plot.

SPEAKER_17

Uh Naruto got the better end of the deal with uh his tail beast because Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_09

Well say what? Say the thing.

SPEAKER_17

I mean, again, I didn't hear what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_08

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I just didn't hear what you said. What was that?

SPEAKER_16

Oh, sorry. Uh comparing the tail beast demon possession, Naruto got the better end of the stick so far in this series.

SPEAKER_08

Because Shikaku, I'm gonna give you because Shikaku Shikaku is is nuts. Shikaku's fucking crazy.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, but the thing is that he also Shikaku isn't crazy crazy because we do see later that it's mainly Gara driving the bus.

SPEAKER_08

But that is later.

SPEAKER_16

Well, the thing is I'll there we go. So I'll say this. Shikaku um doesn't help things, but Gara's mad. He's he's nuts.

SPEAKER_08

I mean, he has his trauma and he he nah he's been full of nuts before.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, he's full of trauma, though. But he should have burned down though. I'm not saying this for no reason, I'm just saying he's nuts.

SPEAKER_08

But yeah, Chicago, Chicago didn't help.

SPEAKER_16

No, not at all.

SPEAKER_03

Because Chicago kept him up literally, he could not sleep because of Chicago.

SPEAKER_08

Chicago was fucking with his ass.

SPEAKER_17

Yes, the entire time. That's why I'm saying uh Naruto.

SPEAKER_08

Chicago's nuts. Chicago was a problem, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Because from childhood, he could he was insomniac, he could not sleep. Yeah, that was a recipe for fucking disaster.

SPEAKER_02

Fair enough.

SPEAKER_16

At least Naruto can get a fucking night's sleep. Well, the thing is, he was barely bothered by uh that's been the seal.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, I was gonna say there's a difference on how they were, right? That's why.

SPEAKER_16

And the thing is that then that's why Naruto sees himself in Gara because literally that could have been him had um the nine tails not been sealed. Yeah, yeah. Right, and the thing is that the tail beasts are all angry because they're being putting aside these people, and that's the it's a way to basically secure them and hold them down.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, they're they're tethered, right?

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, and that's the only way that the villagers have to uh to leash these tail beasts because they're hella powerful.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Um so yeah, the the attack is launched. Um, we find out that um who uh so uh Rochimaro begins to fight Haruzun um the third Hokage and this please don't die. Um and uh so Sasuke tries his hand at fighting Gara once they move from the tournament because basically the tuning exams are over at this point. Yeah, and this is yeah, this begins what is called the Konaha Crush Arc, where they try to kill or they try to destroy the leaf, basically, the sand and the sound. We also get the first Sasuke retrieval arc because I count it.

SPEAKER_06

Huh? How do you figure that?

SPEAKER_16

Because they run it, they all uh they send the tuning after uh Sasuke in particular, because Sasuke is following Gara. Right, okay. I guess you can call it that. What interesting way to no, no, no, no, no, no. When a man leaves the leaf, that's that's yeah, because the thing is he wasn't leaving the leaf, he was just what is the what is the purpose of sending them out to retrieve Sasuke? That was the purpose, that is what happened to go retrieve.

SPEAKER_05

You know what? Fucking what they did.

SPEAKER_16

Let the man it the first target. I agree with CJ, it is not uh a retrieval arc because the thing is it was long enough. God damn it, it was quite there's a few other retrieval arc, not a retrieval arc, okay. Going on, yeah. Sasuke had no he was not leaving the leap. No, I didn't say he was, they were just retrieving his ass.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, the retrieval is to get him back to the leap. So fuck no, no, that was not a retrieval arc twice. You know what? They didn't, and we're moving on.

SPEAKER_16

So we're moving on, so yeah, Sasuke goes after Gara, and Naruto also follows along. Um, and Sasuke wants up, shut it. So Gara so Gara starts to fully transform into um his tail beast version of and uh and sasuke can't handle it basically. Um could yeah, he gets his shit pushed in by uh Gara. And Naruto uh well we we do see who the fuck could Naruto steps up, and um, I believe I guess this is really the first name of the show, right? And this is after he's made a bond with the toads, basically. This is after he gets some training, a little bit of training from um Jariah, who kills well how does he get a channel?

SPEAKER_08

Yes, I thought he showed up after the tune.

SPEAKER_16

No, he shows up during because uh Sasuke goes off the train, and um uh Naruto happens upon Jariah, who's trying to get into um uh uh right women's staff or something like that. Yeah, because there's a period but like the trials happen and then the um the tournament happens a little bit after. Right.

SPEAKER_08

We got this little break. Okay, all right. I yeah, the pacing is weird. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_16

So yeah, um, so uh so Dryas sees something in Naruto. We find out later that he's former pupil's son. So but yeah, not here. I was gonna say, I didn't think they said that in the they do not say it here, but Dray takes takes it upon himself to try training well, trains Naruto a little bit and shows him how to um summon um or make a contract to summon um totes, giant totes. Meanwhile, throughout this entire anime, nobody tells this kid shit. Nobody tells him shit. They don't, not a thing, no, and that is directly because of the third Hokage.

SPEAKER_08

Absolutely, yeah. Third is an issue.

SPEAKER_16

Third is what bothers me is that Durai was away from the vote, like he could have just said, hey, they don't want to tell you this, but such and such. The thing is that you're third, one third, but also he's in the middle of fighting to become a chooney, like he's not ready to hear that shit yet. He's in the middle of a whole test.

SPEAKER_08

You can't find out a whole life altering information.

SPEAKER_16

I will say they could he could have told him later because he could have. Because the thing is that Naruto doesn't find out who his father is until middle of shipboarding. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_05

Right, right, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

He doesn't find out who his father is until yeah, until also in the middle of shipboarding. Fantastic. And even though he looks just like the fucking fucking does.

SPEAKER_08

Um did he find out about his mother before that or after the father?

SPEAKER_16

I believe it's after the father. Um because she gives him the ability to tame um the nine tails.

SPEAKER_08

Well, they they go into her backstory, right?

SPEAKER_16

Well, they go she also her basically the image that she's left inside of him gives him the ability to tame.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, right, and the okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mental little exactly.

SPEAKER_16

But first he meets his father.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16

When he tries when he tries to rip the seal off the nine tails himself for more power.

SPEAKER_08

Right, because right, because that was the yeah, yeah. And we're talking about shipping again. Well, no, yeah, I didn't you went into it.

SPEAKER_16

I did, but yeah.

SPEAKER_08

That was your fault.

SPEAKER_16

Um but I will say, yeah, we we talk about um because the audience didn't even almost met him, but didn't meet him. Right, right. Yeah, because that was that one, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Okay.

SPEAKER_16

So uh what was so um Gar goes full um beast mode, tail beast mode, and um Naruto steps up and summons um one of the giant toads, and they have themselves a good old fight. Um and this and also kind of during the fight, Sasuke realized that uh Naruto's outclassed him.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, because where the fuck does Big Toad come from?

SPEAKER_16

Right. Well so the thing is uh at this by this point at the and also I think he um Naruto learns Rosengon at this point as well. Um working with um Jariah. Yes, yeah. No. He learns Rosengon after uh when they go off and uh when they're gonna when they're uh going to retrieve Tsunata. Okay, my bad. You're right, you're right, you're right.

SPEAKER_17

Um people getting retrieved here.

SPEAKER_16

Yes, because they retrieved Tsunata because um Zasuka is in such a bad way, and so is Lee. Well, it's mainly because they wanted to replace the third Hokage. Well the thing is that it was one well, there's multiple reasons why. Yeah, but it's to replace the third Hokage, but also because Lee is in such a bad way. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

There were two reasons they wanted Sonate.

SPEAKER_16

Right. So um so yeah, so uh the toad the toad in um the tail beast do battle, uh Naruto winds up getting the better of um Gara, but just barely, and he's hurt himself. Um in uh I believe ends up with ends the fight with a head, but yeah, it's hilarious because Gara's like, get away from me. Yeah. That was funny.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, yeah. Gara's trying to crawl. Yeah, uh, because Naruto has to inch himself over because they both can't move. They inch themselves over or over to Gara and uh while uh gives him the Tottenoj and you know, headbutt him.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_17

But yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Using using one of his most powerful jutsu, Totno jutsu.

SPEAKER_16

Yes. So also That was what the thing gave me. So yeah, it's right, it's correct, but while that fight is going wrong, the fight between um Orochimara and Haru Haruzun are also is also going wrong. Took for fucking ever. It does a long fight. Orochimara and Haruzun the third.

unknown

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Wow, that's it.

SPEAKER_03

Like they're these people stay in stalemate for so fucking long and then they go back to they go to other do do other things and then they go back, and they're still in the staleme.

SPEAKER_16

I'm like, oh my god. Right. Meanwhile, they're just in there drawing at each other. I'm like, oh god, please. Like they did like a few cool things, and then the rest of it was just stalemate. So there so Haruzin uh ends up using one jutsu to stop Urochamaru. And it also ends up killing him. So he uses this um basically this death god to take away um a reaper teacher. Yeah, to um take away uh rochamaro's ability to use hand signs.

SPEAKER_07

Um jutsu.

SPEAKER_16

Hmm? Yes, it's a sealing jutsu. I believe it was a sealing. It's a ceiling jutsu, yeah. That's why I die with him, and it's hilarious. Yeah, so Rise of World is dying, and so is away Orochimaru's. And I will say that that that stalemate goes because there's a back and forth that's happening where basically um the Reaper is basically cutting away. Uruchamaro's soul basically. But also um Uruchamaro's doing damage to Haruzin. And so he's a stalemate back and forth. Yeah, he stabs him with a sword. Yes. So there's a lot. I would be remiss to say it takes like one full episode to for the one and a half episode, maybe for this whole thing to conclude.

SPEAKER_06

I honestly thought it was longer.

SPEAKER_16

It might be. I I could be three episodes. It could be three episodes where just going back and forth. Yeah.

SPEAKER_18

Let go! No! Let go! No! Right. This is what I'm talking about with the fucking pacing. Like, well, how long do I have to watch this struggle go on for?

SPEAKER_16

Yeah. Fucking ridiculous. It definitely doesn't. I want to say it's at least three episodes.

SPEAKER_04

It's fucking ridiculous.

SPEAKER_16

Like it started off cool. Like when especially when Rochamaro pulled out the other Hokage and he and he and the third um made sure that one didn't open. And I was assuming that's uh the whatchamid the fourth Hokage's coffin.

unknown

Yes.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, I believe so. He didn't want to see that shit. And more than likely, he didn't want to see what his father, what he what uh how his son was living under the third. And there's other reasons why there would have been an ass beating. There should have been an ass beating later on when um they he does reawaken, but that's the shit that I yeah, I would have woke.

SPEAKER_04

Listen, my kids eating sour milk ramen in the fucking him village hates him.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, I didn't tell you to do this. I didn't tell you to do that. Not what I sacrificed for. What the fuck? He definitely did tell him to take care of Naruto. Yes, that's why I'm glad he's dead.

SPEAKER_04

Meanwhile, his fucking grandsons live in the lap of luxury.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, like if you can compare the two, like that.

SPEAKER_04

I get it, but he didn't have to put him in the lap of luxury. Fine, but at least give him a fucking chance.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, yeah, he he didn't have to like push him away the way he did. He like looked on him, but he didn't look on him.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Can't we drink his sour fucking milk? It was definitely sour milk in the fridge.

SPEAKER_08

Like, he definitely should have had some money for some reason.

SPEAKER_16

He did give him or he would give him money, and that's how um Naruto ends up having so much money because the third gives it to him, and he is fucking stingy with that shit. Keeps it in that front. Remember the frog purse?

SPEAKER_05

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

It's full, it's full of shit, but that's because the third was giving him money, but that's it. He didn't give he could have literally this man is literally the president of the Leaf Village.

SPEAKER_03

He could have had people cook for this kid, he could have had people show up with groceries for this kid, teach him how to take care of himself all night.

SPEAKER_16

I I agree, I can't not agree with you.

SPEAKER_08

There's so much he should have been taking care of me.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, yeah. He didn't have to live in the label tree in the palace or anything like that.

SPEAKER_16

He at least could have had a helper.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, could have called it uh or could have at least told didn't tell, like, why would you say don't talk about this? But then everybody knows this kid's got the fucking ninetale sealed up in him.

SPEAKER_08

Well, I mean, because they know what is the point in that though? Like a lot of them were there, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

But what is the point being like, don't talk about it though, don't fucking tell the kid about it though.

SPEAKER_16

It is wild to not tell him about his past and what you know honestly.

SPEAKER_08

I have no, I'm not trying to excuse them not telling him that I I agree that boy had every right to fucking know. I guess they thought they were gonna cause too much trauma, but fuck he didn't know shit. You caused more trauma, right?

SPEAKER_16

I don't know why people hate me, bro. So he kind of this was why it becomes mischievous because people already fucking hate me, so what does it matter? Exactly.

SPEAKER_08

Fuck else am I gonna do it? He grew up hated, but yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Third, absolutely 100% dropped the ball on Art. I'm glad he died.

SPEAKER_17

I was happy when he died. It pleased me.

SPEAKER_13

It pleased you, pleased me when he died.

SPEAKER_16

So, yes, um Haruzen sacrifices himself for the Leaf Village, and um Naruto ends up beating um Gara, who is basically the biggest, baddest uh Sand Village um fighter they had, and it kind of ends the battle. Um the sand village goes away with the tail type between the legs. I don't think there's anybody left from the Sound Village. Uh but um and Oro Tomaro goes away with no fucking jutsu, which uh use of his arms, which was hilarious. He just waves them around. The so him having his arms sealed basically seals his jutsu, so he can't use it.

SPEAKER_08

That was the whole purpose of it.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, yep. But it yeah, it's just hilarious watching him flail around with his busted busted ass arms.

SPEAKER_08

I feel like that should have started the Naruto run.

unknown

That's cool.

SPEAKER_16

So yeah. Um the next arc is um the tsunami arc. This this is where they search for one of the legendary the other legendary shot signing um tsunate. Uh ask her to become Hokage and also ask her to come back to the village to help the um the people injured by um Orochimaru and the same village as well.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, because she's like supreme medical ninja.

SPEAKER_16

Yep. Um decimated. So I believe Naruto joins Juraya to find Tsunade. Um Sasuke's laid up.

SPEAKER_17

Sasuke shows up for some reason later. Does he? Which one was which one did he show up and meet, see Hitachi?

SPEAKER_16

That's um right before Okay, right before the Yeah, this is towards the end of the Tsunade arc. Right, right, right, right, right. Yeah. Um so so yeah, um, and I I gotta laugh about the the when um what Hitachi shows up. But yeah, um so they find okay. So uh Juraya and um Naruto find Tsunade who's getting hammered sloshed. Sloshed. So um and uh Naruto basically you know is incredulous that this woman who's getting sloshed could be the Hokage because the Hokaga is so high and mighty in his his eyes. Or she could be of any help at all because she's in here getting fucking hammered, and when they bring bring up her going back to the league, she's like, nah. Um and then um Orochumaro shows up fresh off of his fucking fight, his defeat. I forget why Orochimaro shows up to fix his arms. Oh, so he wanted Tsunati to fix his arms. Yes.

SPEAKER_06

He knows her building too.

SPEAKER_16

Yep, yeah, that's right. Thank you. They came up together. I wanted to guess that, but I just wanted to be sure. But um, so yeah, so yeah, Rochamaro shows up, and now there's a fight with the three legendary signing uh so Rochamaro and um uh Juraya, not uh Rochamaro and Jirai, so Jiraiya and Tsunade versus um Rochamaru. Um and they oh we messed up because the signing fight is before. So at the beginning of the arc, the Kotski uh try to kidnap Naruto.

SPEAKER_08

So the tachi was before.

SPEAKER_16

Um so yeah, at the beginning of the Oh, that's what gets um Sasuke laid up. That's right. You're right.

SPEAKER_07

Yes, yes, yes, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_16

Not for my bad. You're absolutely right. So um we won Naruto. So yeah, um Sasuke gets real emo about it. Yeah, so the frog throat or whatever the fuck it was.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, frog belly emo. Yeah, nobody can tell me that wasn't something else.

SPEAKER_05

Oh my gosh!

SPEAKER_16

So yes, sorry, we did skip apart. The Akatsuki show up who um Itachi and um I can't remember Shark Voice.

SPEAKER_08

Kisimi isn't a thing.

SPEAKER_16

Kisumi Kisimi show up to the village and uh is immediately stopped by Kakashi and uh two other uh Jonin um useless as fuck. So uh this one that we'll talk about. No, um uh whatch call it the two team other team leaders.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, I don't know. I thought they were like the security dudes.

SPEAKER_16

No, no, no. Um it's the other team leaders, um, and I can't remember his name. Um, the wind user and um this is gonna suck.

SPEAKER_13

I don't think we give a fuck, but okay.

SPEAKER_08

No, it's fine. You don't have to look them up.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_16

So well I do kind of want to break up one of them tries to use um genjutsu against Itachi.

SPEAKER_10

Oh, badly.

SPEAKER_16

So Itachi is like this super level ninja, like uh everybody that the ninjas want to aspire to, um, besides the fact that he kills the entire Uchiha clan besides his brother. Um but he's the hilarious powerful enough because he's powerful enough to have done such a thing, and this was when he was a teenager. So they try so one of the people tries to uh use a Juju against uh Itachi, and basically anybody who watched the root show is like, yo, what the fuck is you doing? Exactly. Because I was like, bro. So um so paper ball like the Hulk.

SPEAKER_08

It's like throwing a paper ball like the Hulk.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, so Itachi and um Kisume get past um Kakashi and the other two, and um Kakashi until um Mike Guy shows up.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, and like Mike showed up or something.

SPEAKER_16

Yes, you're absolutely right. Mike Guy shows up and puts an ass whooping on Kisume. Um Pete doesn't get to put an ass whooping on um Idachi though, because he knows better. Yeah, Itachi you dip.

SPEAKER_08

And um so you got it, yeah, basically.

SPEAKER_16

So he winds up um Itachi winds up going to Naruto and actually ends up at Naruto's door. Um and Sasuke hearing that Itachi is in uh town is in the village and possibly looking for Naruto, also goes to um find Naruto. Um and not because he's uh his friends. Yeah, it's it's about to get back for his whole plane on site for Itachi. So the thing about this is um Otachi.

SPEAKER_08

Well, that's because that's one thing we didn't really point out. That like it uh uh Sasuke's entire reason, entire reason for becoming the best ninja possible is so he can kill his brother Itachi.

SPEAKER_16

Yep, and um Atachi shows them the shows him the difference in their abilities. Oof by just just with Taijutsu, and he throws in a genjutsu, which is genjutsu, by the way, is a mind control thing. Um, you see things that aren't really there, and um it could basically torture you in your mind. It feels like it feels like eternity inside a genjutsu, but outside is actually just like a few seconds have passed. So just with Taijutsu alone, Itachi pizza breaks off of Sasuke, breaks his arm the whole night. Real upset about it, real sad. He goes, real sad boy. Um he uh he basically tells um uh Sasuke that he doesn't have enough pain. Yeah, hate more basically, and um he throws him into a injuries who wig see his family die. Which is wild. It's already beating. He just turns into a gibbering mess on the floor, and uh and then um Jariah shows up, and uh basically the uh Tachi knows that he's not gonna best one in the legendary Sonny right now, so that's when um he and Kisume dip. But yeah, uh Sasuke is put up in the hospital, um, and then that's when they go to try to achieve Tsunade. And um, yeah, so the fight between the three legendary Sani happened. Um and also during this arc is when um uh No Return learns the Rosinga, which becomes his staple move besides the Shadow Clone jutsu. And the talkingoj. And the Takuma Jutsu is not a real power, but yeah.

SPEAKER_17

He does wield a lot of power. Yeah, we get shit popping off all the time. That shouldn't be real power, but you know, right.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, fair enough. So they end up bringing um Sunelai back to become the Hokage of the village, and she's looks in on um she's the only useful woman I've seen in this show. Yeah, she usually loses that later too. Um but um she she I mean she does her best though, but um they all do, yeah. After a while, after a certain point where her nervous powers up to a certain level, or she's kind of useless. Um yeah, yeah, actually, no, she she tried, they the there's a fight with um oh yeah, they try. She tries, I'll say this. She she you you're right, she is the best. Yeah, she's the best written woman in the entire series, honestly. If you really think about it, besides Naruto's mom, I like her, but um yeah, but we don't get to spend too too much time with her. Yeah, we'll see her. No, but um, so yeah, she ends up going back to the village and um becomes Hokage. She looks in on Lee, but she gets tells she tells Mike that he might never hide again. And um, but she also looks in on Sasuke, who she ends up healing, and Sasuke is the huming. He's so mad that he that this show is called Naruto, and that's basically his gripe because at this point, Sasuke uh Naruto knows uh summoning jutsu, the shadow clone jutsu, and the Rosinga. And the only thing that um Sasuke has really unlocked is the Chidori and um his Sharinga. And um but and also he's got that fire ball jutsu, and he he can throw good hands. Um, but also Naruto's has learned a bit of Taijutsu too, so it kind of and so honestly Naruto edges him out at this point, as as far as talent goes. Um so Naruto challenges not I'm sorry, by the way, Sasuke challenges Naruto to a fight um on the roof of the hospital, and uh Naruto doesn't back down, he they fight, and um they're about to do uh Chidori versus Rasing sort of Rasing off and um Kakashi intervenes throwing both of their attacks into uh two water two different water towers. Um at first Sasuke looks smug as fuck because he sees how much damage the Chidori did to the water tower and is like, yeah, I'm that guy. And he also sees that there's only a pin prick where um Naruto's attack landed. Um Sasuke tries to not Sasuke, I'm sorry, Kakashi tries to talk both of them down. Naruto kind of is like, alright, whatever. But Sasuke's like, nah, fuck this shit. I'm out. I'm I'm cock diesel already. So he gets so he starts to leave, and then he sees blown out that bitch sees the blown out the water tower where Naruto's attack would have hit. And he realizes that would have killed me.

SPEAKER_08

Obliterated, yeah.

SPEAKER_07

And this man is like, yeah, how is he still this strong?

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, and that's and that's that's exactly the point at which uh Sasuke finds out that the show is called Naruto, and not he gets real sad boy about that too. He gets real sad boy about that, and he decides that in order to gain more power, um, well, actually, I'm sorry, the sound ninjas show up. Um are they called the sound ninja, or is it just um, yeah, they will be the sound ninja. Um the sound uh village ninjas show up to uh test Sasuke basically to see if he's ready. Um at Orochimaro's behest. And um they he they sh do see that he's ready for the next level, and um they say you gotta go to Orochimaro, and we're gonna we're gonna take you there. So they pack uh Sasuke up into this ceiling uh I don't even know what to call basket, basically.

SPEAKER_17

Basket drawer.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, for him to basically marinate in his powers to grow stronger. Um while they're they beat Feet out of the Yeah, they say they they tell him they have to kill him first, so he kind of dies. So he kind of dies, basically, technically, to wake in his true powers. Um and they beat Feet out of the Leaf Village. Um before that though, uh Sasuke meets with Sakura, basically kind of tell her goodbye, I guess. Or does she run him down or does he meet with her? Oh, good question. Um I just remember they ended up on the fucking bench. Yeah, so Sasuke, well let's just say Sasuke and Sakura meet up and they talk, and Sasuke's like, I gotta leave. And Sakura was like, No, don't, and he's like, shut up, bitch, and like there's nothing for me here. Yeah, basically. I can't try to play more. I can't learn no more. Um so he so Sakura then goes to tell Tsunade about it, and Tsunade sends out a team of teenagers to attack full-grown ninja. Genius player. But I will say the teenagers did beat the shit out of these fucking grown-ass ninja. Yeah, that's true. So basically, um the and leading the team is Shikamaru. So Shikamaru's team ends up catching up with um the Sound Ninja, then they basically peel off uh Sound Ninja in order to fight off the team or keep them busy while the others go forward to Orochimaru. Um This is the true Sasuke retrieval arc, but for no fucking reason.

SPEAKER_19

Because Sasuke didn't want to fucking stay. So they wasted their lives for nothing.

SPEAKER_16

Uh yeah. I will say Sasuke, yeah, the Sasuke retrieval arc is good, but it's kind of nonsense. Exactly. Because the thing is that Sasuke does not want to stay. And they decided they were gonna save that hoe anyway.

SPEAKER_13

Yep.

SPEAKER_16

But uh because they were super saver hoes. Yep. And decided that they were gonna try and save Sasuke from himself because they knew that Sasuke left willingly. No, they didn't. Okay, go ahead. Tsunade knew. Okay, they thought that he was taken. Oh, right, okay. So yeah, Tsunade never tells them he left willingly.

SPEAKER_13

Happens a lot, apparently.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah. So yeah, he does they and then um he the archer finds out later that he wanted to leave. But yeah, he wanted to leave. Um, the other thing is that um Tsunade Tsunade had crossed purposes.

SPEAKER_17

The kids wanted their quote unquote comrade back or their friend back, whatever the fuck that means, because they never really interact with each other all that much anyway. And nobody really liked Sasuke, even Shakespeare. Kamar's like, I don't fucking like the guy, but he's a fucking comrade, I guess. Those were their preferences. Tsunade didn't want to lose a fucking Sharon God, which makes another Sharongon, which makes sense.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, because it was the only one they had in the village, besides Kakashi's kind of stolen one. Yeah. Um again, we'll get to that. Um, that's in Shik. Uh take a drink. So, um, so yeah, um, there there are some good fights during the Swasky Retrieval arc.

SPEAKER_19

Um, they were alright. So it was still more slap fighting in some of them, more like, you know.

SPEAKER_16

You know how this is gonna go. Yeah, you're just gonna disrespect Med G like this. Oh my dang. Is that what you're referring to with slap fighting?

SPEAKER_19

Oh, I was thinking more along the lines of um Choji. That fight was awesome. It was okay.

SPEAKER_18

I mean, you knew how it was gonna go. This nigga's just gonna pop more pills and get more power, get more power, and then you know, out, you know, basically just outpills.

SPEAKER_08

He did pop pills, yeah. What do you mean? Call them food pills, I think, is is ridiculous, but yeah, they are food pills, but it's not that's that's what he did.

SPEAKER_09

Things are huge.

SPEAKER_19

But still, food pills.

SPEAKER_02

He pop more pills, got more power, then you know, edge the guy out. Wow, still lost. I mean, not lost, he still got you know wrecked, he still got wrecked, but you know, he did his job. Good job.

SPEAKER_16

So, yes, so each uh member of the team, Choji, Shigamaru, Neji, and Kiba um are split off to fight against the sound four individually, and end up winning their fights. Uh, there was one fight, Kiba. I wouldn't say Kiba won that fight.

SPEAKER_08

Was this the pisser?

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, I was gonna say Akamaru.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, Kamaru wasn't he split in in the air when he was pissing.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, he went pissed and every fucking win. I got to that fucking fight. I was like, this nigga's pissing everyone. Yes, dynamic marking. And then fucking tried to hide it by saying it was slobber. Oh, we got slobber on me. I was like, no, no, wait, that's pissed. Fucking piss on him.

SPEAKER_08

You had you you used the dub version, of course.

SPEAKER_04

Uh okay, sir. You know how fucking interminable this would have been if I had to watch subtitles with this? I'd have killed myself.

SPEAKER_09

You ready?

SPEAKER_08

Absolutely. I'm pretty sure you knew it was pissing uh.

SPEAKER_03

It crossed my mind. I was like, wait, I was like, it's this dick a is that marking? Piss.

SPEAKER_04

I was like, I looked it up, like no, Acomaro pisses everyone.

SPEAKER_08

I was like, Oh yeah, you you that's why I was like slobber, I don't remember that part.

SPEAKER_04

So I have a flashback with fucking Kiba and Akamaro, and this nigga pissed and Akamaro pisses in Kiba's mouth. I tossed that fucking dog.

SPEAKER_16

So yeah, some of the fights are weird. Weird, weird. But um also fight barely. Kiba survived his fight barely. Kiba did survive the fight barely, but also the sand now the reform sand ninjas uh show up. Um yeah, Tsunade calls for them. Yeah, Tsunade calls for the reform sand ninjas because uh yeah, because Gara's turning a new leaf after getting ass whooping into talking to him. Yep, so Gara, um, Tamari and um what's his name?

SPEAKER_08

I never remember the brother's name.

SPEAKER_16

Kankro. Um, yeah, Gara, Tamari, and Kankoro show up to aid um uh during the fight. Um so uh and also uh it's revealed that Lee is actually better and able to fight again. Because um one of the last fighters uh that shows up is basically a prodigy. Um yeah, Kimmy Morrow. Kimmy Morrow shows up and um a bone nigger. Yes, yep, a bone nigga. Uh and basically told you, I don't know, countless fucking times that this nigga uses bones, and I'm sitting there watching the fucking show myself. I'm like, yeah, I can I can see that. So um uh by this time Sasuke is basically fully baked. So um Kimimaru tells Sasuke to go for go ahead. Hmm.

SPEAKER_08

Nah, you you did like a stutter.

SPEAKER_16

Oh. So um, yeah, Sasuke uh is basically fully baked at this point. Um Kimaro tells Sasuke to go ahead and um that he will hold off uh Naruto. Naruto starts to fight Kimaro, finds out he's outclassed. And um that's when Lee shows up. Lee fights Kimaro, finds out he's outclassed, and that's when Gara shows up. That takes more time. That takes a little bit more time. But um, and then Gara shows up um and basically uh ends Kimaro. Um the rate at which these sand niggas took out the sound, the sound niggas.

SPEAKER_02

I'm like, Eroshamaro, are these niggas weak on purpose?

SPEAKER_16

To be fair, um well they're all kind of experiments, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

I guess it's there's there's there they all have a a flaw because of experiments, because they couldn't beat children, and then they just literally got outclassed.

SPEAKER_16

I mean, also the sand ninjas are still children.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, they're actually trained worse than the leaf, though, like more rigorous than the leaf.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah, that's why they outclassed them. So, like I said, they beat they got beat by children, and then when the sand niggas showed up, it's like what was this this was like elementary, like you couldn't handle this?

SPEAKER_08

Like, like if you look at all the villages, like the leaf are the more happ, the most happy go-lucky in their training, comparatively speaking, yeah. Yeah, yeah, you can tell because the mist, ooh, the mist right.

SPEAKER_16

The mist is weak as shit, though, too, though.

SPEAKER_08

The mist is weak as shit, but they're brutal.

SPEAKER_16

They are brutal for no reason because it doesn't pay off. Yeah, it doesn't find like there's not one mist ninja that's like, yo, that's the guy. Like, yeah, they're all ass.

SPEAKER_08

But um the cloud motherfuckers, the motherfuckers is a person.

SPEAKER_16

No, they go hard. You haven't seen them yet.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, no, because it's in the better show. Yeah, saying you stuck watching the fucking prologue for god knows how many hours.

SPEAKER_16

Well, um Naruto goes off um to try to stop Sasuke from uh leaving, and they have a uh final battle at the Valley of the End.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, that's the name of the damn thing. I can't remember the damn name. That's why it was like uh river, lake, whatever the fuck they call that shit.

SPEAKER_19

So yeah, my wife my wife was like, if I were Sasuke, I would as soon as he said, uh, as soon as Naruto said, I'll break every bone of your body and bring you back, I was like, you know what, man?

SPEAKER_16

He definitely did he did say that. So Naruto um and Sasuke face off. Uh uh Sasuke at a certain point gives it his curse mark and Naruto's um uh sh the Ninetales begins to take over.

SPEAKER_19

Oh yeah, the Ninetales takes over because uh because uh Sasuke hit Naruto with the goddamn Owen Heartpile driver, broke his fucking neck.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, so that was close to the end of the fight, but the Ninetales uh shaka starts to take over, and um he starts to get more fear off. Yeah, and uh doing the teeth and the fucking nails and shit.

SPEAKER_08

Yep, yep, yep, yep. The whiskers are a little more prominent. Yeah, Sasuke Whiskers from jump, it was crazy.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, uh and uh Sasuke grows fucking hands out of his back.

SPEAKER_08

Oh that part, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Um, so the fight goes on and um is with uh Chidori versus Rasinga uh battle, which um and uh Naruto gets knocked out, um and Sasuke is about to finish the job, um but he's also badly injured. But he but um he's able to actually does Orochimaru show up or does uh uh Sasuke get away.

SPEAKER_19

Sasuke gets away, he walks away.

SPEAKER_16

And so yeah, Sasuke uh walks away, leaving his uh leaf headband behind as well.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, um Kichimaru is one for symbolism, but it's symbolism that beats you over the head, like the one with Kimimaru, you keep seeing a flower, the flower that he found when he when a rochamaru found him.

SPEAKER_16

Um you keep seeing that, and then at during the fight, that flower when he's about to die fades or you know goes away.

SPEAKER_17

And uh, you know, just kind of yeah, just kind of bullet obliterates saying that you know this it snuffed out his life and all this other stuff. It is cute. Um and then um and then in the fight with Naruto, Sasuke puts on his headband, and Naruto scratches the headband, so uh with giving it the same scar as uh Itachi's um the other Akaski. And the other Akashis. And at the end of the fight, the headband just kind of falls off.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, cute. I understand. You know, this is the end of that. He doesn't want to be, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

I I get what they call him rogue ninja. That's what they call them rogue ninja.

SPEAKER_16

That's what the rogue major have. They still wear the headbands, but the scratch, I don't know why I would be to wear the headband.

SPEAKER_08

Fuck the headband, like exactly.

SPEAKER_16

You don't have to just the ninja without a headband. Yeah, I mean the robes should be enough to differentiate you, yeah.

SPEAKER_17

Make you part of the akotsky, but okay.

SPEAKER_08

But it's like, well, I mean, it's not just the Akotsky that are rogue ninja. I guess. Rogue Ninja, just rogue ninja, because key yeah, but that's what you got the robes for. Right. But I said rogue, not rogue, rogue ninja rogue, what it is.

SPEAKER_02

No, I get it.

SPEAKER_19

I get it.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. And not rogue, would it be?

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, no, but I'm thinking because the akotsky are the only ones that wear those particular particular robes. This is correct.

SPEAKER_08

We talking about the robes, but okay, yeah, yeah. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_16

Because it denotes them being a Kotsky and Rogue Ninjas, basically. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. Uh all right. I'm just saying like all the rogue ninjas. I don't understand why they wear the headband, is what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_16

I don't need any sense. But so that ends the ends Naruto proper. The rest is basically filler. The rest is filler. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Wait, there's more after the fight?

SPEAKER_16

Yes. Yes. Nothing but more. Fucking filler. Actually, no, there's a couple episodes that are canon and mixed canon.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, because it's just like wrapping up series.

SPEAKER_16

I think the very last, what, maybe one or two episodes is canon. Like the last episode is mixed canon. Yeah.

SPEAKER_17

And I spent through that just to get to the canon part where he leaves. Yeah. Where uh Naruto leaves with Dry.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, yeah. At the very end, Naruto leaves with Dry to be trained to train him because he tells them that the Akatsuki are coming. Yeah. He needs to be trained. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

He should have been from John.

SPEAKER_16

And also Naruto makes the declaration that he will get Sasuke back.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, I don't I don't fucking know why.

SPEAKER_16

I mean, he made a promise to Sakura, I guess.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, he did, he did. Because Saka was crying and shit.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah. Even though Jura is kind of like, let him go.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

For real. It's like, man, fuck that ain't.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, because they went through the same thing with Royal Jamaro.

SPEAKER_08

Yep. And so you you pretty much have already I'm assumed put together that the whole thing is like repeating Team Seven.

SPEAKER_19

Yep. Cycles. Yeah, cute.

SPEAKER_16

Team Seven repeats basically the legendary Sonny. Because also um Sakra goes to get trained by um. So yeah, that's the end of Naruto.

SPEAKER_10

Naruto.

SPEAKER_16

Um we have differing viewpoints on one of us hates it.

SPEAKER_08

One Sonomically hates it.

SPEAKER_16

It's fine. It's fine. It's not bad. It's not bad. For what it is, it was fine. I I it was coming, it came out uh during formative years for a lot of people, so they rock with the hardcore special massage goggles. Um could have been were there parts that could have been written better? Absolutely.

SPEAKER_19

There were parts that could have been written better, there's pacing that could have been better. That could have been the show or the manga. I am gonna read the manga. Are you? I will.

SPEAKER_10

Alright.

SPEAKER_02

I'm giving up at the first chapter after the first uh arc.

SPEAKER_16

I don't think it gets better, but alright. Yeah, I think that for the most part, like just won't have the filler, is this basically what happened?

SPEAKER_08

You just won't have the filler, bro.

SPEAKER_16

For the most part, uh I don't think they breeze through to the series, but I could be wrong. See, that's my problem.

SPEAKER_19

See, we'll see. I'll read the first I'll try to redo the first arc. I mean, it's free, it doesn't cost me anything.

SPEAKER_17

I'll try to read through the first arc and uh see if it's a Kishimoto problem or if it was a production problem with page Kishimoto problem. Probably that makes him bad, bad at his job. He's terrible, shows a Kishimoto problem.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, because like I didn't read the manga, but I did see um a lot of talk about it, and everybody blames Kishimoto.

SPEAKER_19

So yeah, that that makes him bad at his job. This is a terrible anime.

SPEAKER_15

Because uh, I will say this like the way soccer gets done is that that's the way it happened.

SPEAKER_16

Oh no, I know that I have no complexions about that. I'm just talking about the pacing. That's that's what was mostly driving me nuts.

SPEAKER_08

And like that was like so annoying because like if you you were gonna like ride her out, right, and then you make her like the second coming of Tsunade.

SPEAKER_16

Which does happen.

SPEAKER_08

She does become the second coming of Tsunati, absolutely does still could have used her better.

SPEAKER_16

100%. Yeah, she gets her time to shine, like in the very beginning of Shippedin. Um she gets a little at the end. I'm not fucking counting that shit. Nope. Nah.

SPEAKER_08

She does say some stupid shit towards the end, though.

SPEAKER_16

And if are you talking about final fight, or are you just talking about like her during the war? Uh because during the war she's kind of useless too.

SPEAKER_08

No, no, I wasn't not during the war. I mean, she has served literally one purpose during the war.

SPEAKER_16

Right.

SPEAKER_08

So no, I'm talking about like her declaration towards the end of the war. I don't consider her part as I don't consider her part as final fight, but her final fight. I'll say her final fight. Uh that's when the three of them kind of really that's the fucking final fight. But she's not really part of the final fight to me, though. I think it's it it that one's when it's when they go off from the legend of the three to the legend of the two.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

So her little final fight, she says some stupid shit. Wait, wait, wait, ma'am, hold on. You got me, but let's no, yeah.

SPEAKER_16

She says, Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. That I don't count that shit. Like that her final fight is is is with the fucking uh puppet dude. That's it.

SPEAKER_05

Like oh damn, the puppet, yeah, that was a dope fight.

SPEAKER_16

She should be proud.

SPEAKER_05

That was like her only good fight.

SPEAKER_16

That was that was her only fight, my nigga. Like, that don't count nothing else. Like, where else did she fight? You am I blacking something out?

SPEAKER_08

Like she okay, throughout both series, she had a couple fights. That was her only fight that she shot.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, that was her only good fight. I'll put it that way.

SPEAKER_08

That's what I was saying. And you're like, it was a really fight. Like, what the fuck is that?

SPEAKER_16

You found that fucking fight with Eno. I don't you need your head examined. That's not a fucking fight.

SPEAKER_08

It was I mean, all right, fine. Fucking I'll be trying to like I'd be I guess we'll be throwing niggas mail.

SPEAKER_17

We appreciate you for it, but don't do that for it.

SPEAKER_16

The death fight with Eno, oh my god, dude.

SPEAKER_17

No, that was bad.

SPEAKER_13

You can't count that as a niggas don't need bails, they'll be very great.

SPEAKER_08

I be feeling bad. Like they did they they people shouldn't know soccer as like I don't feel bad at all. I I guess that's why I feel bad. Like because they could have done better, she could have been written so much better, yeah. And they didn't, yeah.

SPEAKER_19

But she's part of a bad show that was written by a bad writer.

unknown

Damn.

SPEAKER_08

Should have known he was gonna do another one.

SPEAKER_10

I don't even know what it was.

SPEAKER_08

It's just what honestly, obviously, we know what the hot take was.

SPEAKER_10

This entire show was a hot take.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, this entire show was a hot take.

SPEAKER_13

That's fair.

SPEAKER_08

Might as well name it hot take on our top.

SPEAKER_13

Basically. Basically.

SPEAKER_08

Oh man. When you hit that new like level of pitch, it was crazy, though.

SPEAKER_14

So man. So much anger.

SPEAKER_08

He obviously hates a narrow. He would have beat atache.

SPEAKER_00

Right. Shit on me.

SPEAKER_07

Why so much hate?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, you wanted to talk about the other bullshit?

SPEAKER_06

The shit that pissed you off.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, sorry. Fucking Carano.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, Junior Carano. Uh I wanted to do a hot day corner uh about Junior Carano and um uh fighting um Ron DeRazi. Because who the fuck acts for that fight?

SPEAKER_08

But um yeah, Sagarino. I mean, this is Jake Paul, bullshit ass organization, so I don't fucking that's what I thought because I saw him in the store.

SPEAKER_16

I was like, uh and my thing is this uh most of these fighters do this shit for like money and shit like that. Like the thing is is that uh what you call it? Ronda Rousey Rousey Ronda Rousey retired, and I won't say at the top of the game, but like as close to the top as you could get after getting smashed twice. Like she was still a contender, like within the 145 division. So for her you know, like they gave her the fights, like, but um for her to come back and be like, Oh, I want to fight June Crying, what the fuck for?

SPEAKER_08

Well, I I know they were they were ducking each other like I think Ronald uh Blank says that Rousey was ducking her or some shit like that. I remember reading that years ago before uh Rousey got into UFC.

SPEAKER_16

Crying of sucking 43 now. Like who the fuck wants to see uh did and I think um what Rousey's like 38 or something like that. Like who the uh no, I think she's forty.

SPEAKER_08

I was gonna say I think Rousey was that young.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, who the fuck wants to see these two forty year olds fucking going at it? Like I mean, this is Jake Paul's whole thing, so yeah. They're broke. Yeah, she's taking right. Okay, 39. Um, normally fighters participate because they're broke. The thing is that neither of these two are broke. Like, what are you doing? You can't tell me Anderson Silva is broke, he just does it for the love of the game. Yeah, okay. Silva just because he likes putting paws on people. Yeah, stop. Everybody else, though, like we'll do shit like that.

unknown

Broke.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, you can't tell me she's doing it for the love of the game.

SPEAKER_17

She got nothing. She got she literally has nothing else to do. She hasn't been she hasn't fought in God knows how many years at this point. And who which one?

SPEAKER_08

Carano.

SPEAKER_17

Oh, too. No, both of them haven't fought in years.

SPEAKER_08

But I'm saying Corano hasn't fought longer.

SPEAKER_17

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

So this is gonna be kind of a time UFC took on women, Corano was out of the game.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah. So is this gonna be a boxing match or is it gonna be an MMA?

SPEAKER_09

Oh shit, I didn't think about that.

SPEAKER_16

2009. I think it might be MMA. They don't know how to box.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, we've seen fucking Ronda Rouse.

SPEAKER_08

They've been boxing. Yeah, there's people.

SPEAKER_02

But we've seen uh if she's striking with her, then Gina's gonna win because Rhonda Rouse can't strike for shit.

SPEAKER_08

Because I think was Gina a kickboxer. Was that her style? I can't remember what her style was because I honestly I think I've only seen one fight, and that was me going back to watch a fight.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, it's MMA because there's no fucking way. No fucking way.

SPEAKER_16

No shot. Oh, this is built as a super fight and a dream fight. Yeah, okay. Fuck out of here, bro.

SPEAKER_08

A long time ago, people always wanted this fight. That's what it is.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, a long time ago. Yeah, a long time ago. Long time ago. I wanted a burger. Like, I'm not gonna call it a super burger because I get that bitch now.

SPEAKER_08

Well, of course they're gonna throw it. You know, they gotta they gotta try and have fun.

SPEAKER_02

And this is on Netflix, too.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, it is a Netflix fight. I knew that. Most valuable promotions, get the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_16

So yeah, the last time Coral fought was in 2000 goddamn nine.

SPEAKER_08

That's why I said it was before USGT. She she was in strike force for a little bit. Yeah, both of them. She left Strike Force.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, but at least like 17 years. Yeah. Yeah, 17-year break.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. And Robin year and a and a 17 break.

SPEAKER_16

10 year and 17 year. This is ridiculous. That's absolutely nuts. There's no way they're still in fighting shape, especially not Corano. No. She doesn't even look like she's about to fight. Like she's got a face full of makeup issues. Like you showed up, she showed up to freaking um stare off of a face full of makeup. What is happening?

SPEAKER_10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16

What are you doing? Why would who cares? Like or look good for this face up. No, you don't have to. Don't do that.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, that's what it was. She she fought against uh uh cyborg. That was her last fight. I can't remember what that's what it was. Yeah, yeah, cyborg retired her.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, that makes sense because cyborg is a beast. Like, uh see a cyborg again, that'd be a great fight, but fuck.

SPEAKER_08

I don't think either of them can beat cyborg, so no, no, and I mean I was gonna say, I think uh they were ducking each other, and then Corano took on cyborg, and then cyborg was gonna for Rousey. I think Cyborg was gonna for Rousey and then Rousey dipped out.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, sure. Yeah, and then and uh fucking Amanda Nunes beat Cyborg. Yeah, but none of them could be fucking Amanda Nunes.

SPEAKER_08

Nah, nah, Amanda Amanda, Amanda Amanda's a monster, Leo. Man, shit, that's a beast. I mean, because she she beat Rousey, didn't she? Did she fight Rousey?

SPEAKER_13

She beat the fuck out of Rousey.

SPEAKER_08

I could have sworn she was like she disrespected the fuck out of her.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, that was uh her second fight back. Holly Holm took her head off. And then uh Amanda retired the carcass, yeah, retired her. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

I feel bad for Holly, man. She could her only like Holly was a problem until she had a title fight, bruh.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, yeah, definitely. She could always get to that point, but she couldn't really seal the deal. At least unless it was Ronda, unless it was Rhonda. She was her special crit tonight. Right.

SPEAKER_08

Well, I mean, you put Rhonda Rousey against a striker like Holly.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Like Momat.

SPEAKER_16

She's getting rocked. That was her own little Rocky moment.

SPEAKER_10

Did not work out.

SPEAKER_16

It was Rocky versus Mr. T all over again. Yeah, buddy.

SPEAKER_08

But yeah, that's that that it is a really silly fight. Because when I heard this, I'm like, are you serious? And I knew the hype that was had it before, because again, I look back when Rousey joined UFC. I looked into her history and shit. Um this was this is unnecessary. In 2026, this was absolutely unnecessary.

SPEAKER_16

The thing is, they're so rich, like y'all don't need the brain damage. What's the point?

unknown

Point, point, point.

SPEAKER_16

Like, y'all got enough shit to worry about.

SPEAKER_08

Y'all and don't rousey, don't her and her husband have like a farm and shit, don't they?

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, she's freaking rich, dude.

SPEAKER_08

Like, but I mean, like, she got other shit to do than fight. The check must have been astronomical.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, it had to be because there's no way. Even Dana Carano's net worth is in four million, even though that's inflated and bullshit, but still, she's not yeah, the network thing, I never really fucking remembered. Yeah, but she's not, you know, these people aren't going to the soup kitchen anytime soon, I'll put it that way. Right.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

I mean, the biggest loss that Carano had was the fucking Disney deal, but yeah, whatever what that is.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

She could have bounced. I'm sure she could bounce back from that in somehow, some way, and that's what people do. That's that's Hollywood, you know, fucking bounce back.

SPEAKER_17

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, another network so she could have joined that would have taken her ass in. I think she's already she already had movies in those other networks, too. So she was okay.

SPEAKER_16

Um, so apparently Rhonda Riley wants to rewrite her ending against Gina Crano. Sure. The only way you could do that is by fighting Amanda Nunez, and Manes beat the brakes off you. So yeah, exactly. Cause I mean, that was that's why she's not fighting a man, she's fighting somebody that hasn't fought in 17 fucking years because the man of nunes will bust her shit.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, Amanda was ready to jump back in the ring, and then her opponent got hurt. Like I said, ring, uh, back in the octagon, and then her opponent got hurt. Like the one opponent she was like, I uh yeah, we can do that.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, interested in because I uh Amanda retired with the belt, no?

SPEAKER_08

She retired with two belts, I thought.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, yeah, yeah. She did she did. Fuck out of here, bro. Fuck out, bro.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, I think she moved up and took that belt.

SPEAKER_16

Like snatched that bitch. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Like, like decisively, like ridiculous. Like, man, they a different breed, bro.

SPEAKER_16

Like talking about some oh, you're gonna re-roll it up. So you're gonna fight Amanda Nunes? No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

SPEAKER_17

Nobody mentioned after you know both of them retired. Nobody mentioned that fight. Nobody said never got to Ronda Ross.

SPEAKER_16

Again, Jira Carrado got retired by fucking cyborg. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Cause like, like, what do you do after you fight cyborg?

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, fuck a retire. You lose. Yeah, if you lose, you retire. If you win, you get another belt. Yeah, man has a 135 and retire with the 135 and the 145. That's what I thought.

SPEAKER_17

Nobody, no woman is ever gonna beat that, I don't think.

SPEAKER_08

It's possible. Definitely possible. Yeah, anything's possible.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, right now. Yeah. She retired at the top, at the pinnacle. She was very smart about it.

SPEAKER_08

Right now, she's a benchmark, bro.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, I guess I would say probably the greatest woman of all time in sport, in uh conference sports.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_17

And at least MMA. Because there's also Clarissa Shields for boxing. Yeah, Clarissa, god damn. Yeah. But yeah, Chris.

SPEAKER_09

I'm mad about people talking about why why Clarissa fighting these old people or fighting these young people, fight somebody.

SPEAKER_08

That's how it's up in the ranks. Get them up in the ranks, bro.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

They have to get up in the ranks. Yeah. It's the point where they have to fight. They have to find people for her to fight. There was at one point in time she was putting money down for people to fight her because they didn't want to fight her. They were too fucking scared.

SPEAKER_09

So I was gonna do what she gotta do.

SPEAKER_08

People come up in the ranks. They get put up in the, you know what I'm saying? That's what they put up against her. Like do better.

SPEAKER_09

Like, do what you want.

SPEAKER_08

Right. Oh, geez. Gina Coronel's like they've got movies out that I didn't even know existed.

SPEAKER_13

Okay.

SPEAKER_16

Anyway, nobody cares. All right, uh, Dick Dudes. Good enough for her. Uh all right. Uh since your malouke's gotta be told what to do, hit that like button, smash that subscribe, leave a fucking comment, or I'll come to the house and I'll smack your parents. And if you got problems, you can reach us at the bnccast at gmail.com. For Sean, CJ, and myself, we'll see you next time on the BNC.