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>> Crazy article in the Guardian about PT's uh lecture series. Yeah.
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>> Some absolutely insane >> lines, >> some wild hot tapes >> causing crash outs. >> Yes.
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>> Um >> it's very entertaining.
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>> We had to feature this post from uh Jacob Renamaki.
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I don't know if you want to go through it and try to.
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>> So, Jacob says, "TeL being a one piece otaku honestly doesn't even honestly isn't even in the top 10 weirdest things to happen this year."
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And it's quote from the uh the Guardian uh scoop of the the leaked lecture series that uh Peter Teal has been putting on in San Francisco.
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It says, "Tio later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichristlike one world government has repressed science.
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He believes that the hero, Monkey Duffy, represents a Christlike figure.
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In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again, sort of an alternate Earth, but it's 800 years into the reign of this one world state, which as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker.
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You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world, and it's something like the Antichrist."
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Um, and so he's digging into One Piece.
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Tyler, have you watched or read any One Piece?
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>> Uh, I've watched a little bit of it.
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So, the thing about One Piece is, um, at least episodes there's like >> Yeah, there's like over >> take you months to watch. >> Yeah.
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>> But, um, I mean, so he's already written about One Piece like it was like two weeks ago.
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There was some new essay he wrote.
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Well, I think that's like in in conjunction like I think the timeline like like lines up such that he was writing about it but then also lecturing about it and so they kind of like leaked but then also had written about that but uh yeah in the piece he pulls examples from all over the place. >> Yeah. So he's comparing Yeah.
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He's comparing uh One Piece to Watchmen. Yeah.
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>> In this which is like another comic. I think it's Alan Moore. Yep.
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>> Who is like >> I guess he related to Gordon Moore >> creator of Moore's law.
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We gota we gota get to the bottom of that. Who knows?
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>> Uh you know the jungle gym and the transformer came from the same place.
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Um, but uh it's I I I think there's a few things going on here like putting your if you have a if you have like a very like esoteric philosophy or like you know thought experiment or idea that you want to like discuss with the world, putting it in terms that lots of people can understand is with with a with a metaphor or an analogy is just a timehonored way to disseminate information.
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You know, you're trying to explain things.
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You want to explain them in terms that a lot of people can know, a lot of people. >> Yeah.
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You also can try to dissect the deeper meaning. Yes.
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In a story, and it's possible that the original author had >> something bigger in mind when they were writing a a story that looks a little bit more simple. >> Yeah.
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I mean, One Piece, I think it has like millions and millions, hundreds of millions of like fans or or or sales.
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I think the the One Piece Reddit is bigger than the Star Wars Reddit, just to kind of put it in context.
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Uh, but One Piece has always been very anti- athoritarian.
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I was I was digging around because I I've never seen the show and I wanted to know more about it.
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And apparently one of the key icons from the One Piece show is this cartoon pirate flag.
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And the and the cartoon pirate flag has for years been used.
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And it's been carried at protests all over the world against the local leader like being too authoritarian basically.
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And so it's just been the type of flag like you if you go to you know some sort of protest you might see a variety of flags but the one piece uh flag is pretty is pretty iconic.
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And so uh it does feel odd in this particular context but it's actually been um one piece has been used as like a protest vehicle for for years. Um, I don't know.
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Maybe I'll have to check it out.
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The only anime I've ever watched is Akira.
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That's the only real one.
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Have you ever watched any cartoons at all? >> No.
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>> I do think it would be interesting to analyze the the Antichrist and this idea of the one world government through the lens of something that you are familiar with like Borat.
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>> Like you could put it in terms that you could understand if if Teal really wants to break through to someone like you. >> Yeah.
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I think that I think that one one piece is a little bit it's a little bit too niche, too heady, too complicated for guys like us.
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So I would love to see him break out in Borat terms. >> Yeah.
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In Borat or, you know, King of the Hill would be a good would be a good analogy that, you know, I could kind of understand.
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Maybe Futurama, Simpsons, Family Guy.
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Uh stuff like that would would probably make it resonate with me a little bit more uh than than a thousand episodes of an anime that I'm never going to be able to watch.
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Um, but still people are having fun with >> somebody putting you in the truth zone, John.
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They're saying cartoons are not anime. >> Yes, I know that.
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I I know that it's very offensive to call one piece of cartoon.
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They will they will call you. >> Yeah.
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whole the whole like the whole Guardian expose on the off off therecord lectures uh really >> I mean it's it just is like an example of one it's tough to do an off thereord talk that you're saying things that require a certain amount of context uh that then just get blasted out across the entire internet and two I can see how the average Guardian viewer is reading this being like uh okay, this guy's definitely definitely the antifax.
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>> So anyways, it's uh >> yeah, also it was >> complicated conversation.
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>> It was very clear that not only the core content leaked, but also the Q&A and so there were all these questions where people were clearly throwing questions like what do you think about Mr. Beast?
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And then the Guardian would just be like he commented on Mr. Beast.
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And so like of course the reading in this context is like he equated the two.
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It's like, well, not necessarily.
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There were lots of examples of him being like, "This person's not the Antichrist."
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Uh, for whatever reason, but uh, you know, just just you never want your name appearing in the same sentence as Antichrist generally, I think.
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Uh, you don't even want to be in the same paragraph ideally.
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Uh, and so, yeah, it was it was a rough go, but, you know, certainly seems interesting.
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I'm excited for uh, the the content to continue to get workshopped and and trickled out.
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I'm sure at some point I mean, it feels like we're on track right now. >> Yeah.
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takeaway is uh we we haven't we haven't found the guy yet.
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>> So, we haven't found the guy.
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>> Got to keep >> keep looking.
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>> Keep having these conversations. >> Keep keep [Music]