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Episode 36

Watch Along: Solo Leveling Ep 5

Published on: 8th May, 2024

Watch the very highly requested Solo Leveling Ep 5 with your favorite Southern Senpias!

Transcript
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Howdy, it's the Southern Senpai Show, where small town southerners explore

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big time Japanese entertainment, anime, manga, and everything in between.

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Here's your hosts, Nicholas and DJ.

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What's going on y'all, it's Southern Senpais.

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Two southern guys who explore Japanese culture together.

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I'm Nicholas.

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I'm DJ, and he did pause.

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But I purposely did look at him this time.

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You were so dramatic in the way you did not look.

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I just can't win, you guys.

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You hear this?

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I just can't win, I just have to leave the room and then maybe, but apparently not.

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I can't.

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You were dramatic.

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All you had to do was just sit there and wait for me to do it.

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And you were just like, no, don't look at me.

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Who was that for?

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They can't see what you're doing, Nicholas.

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Yeah, so you don't know I did it.

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Today we're watching along, first of all, Live Like Episode 5.

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And Nicholas, you want to tell us about the how you feel about it so far?

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I'm liking the anime more and more each episode.

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It started out very generic.

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But I'm also a big fan of RPGs.

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So it could be that.

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What's one of your favorite RPGs?

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Huh?

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Do you like Final Fantasy?

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One of my favorite RPGs was Lord of the Rings.

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I really liked Kingdom Hearts.

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But the Lord of the Rings Wait wait, which Lord of the Rings?

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Because there's a bunch of Lord of the Rings games.

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Lord of the Rings Two Towers and Return of the King.

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What, Game Boy Advance.

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Oh, okay, Game Boy Advance.

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Okay.

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Because in Game Boy Advance, I think on PC you didn't get a chance

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to choose the different weapons.

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But in Game Boy Advance, there were like different items that dropped and it was

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like rarities and like stuff like that.

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So that was my favorite.

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I never really got into RPGs except for the major ones.

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Technically Pokemon's an RPG Final Fantasy Kingdom Hearts.

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Yeah, just major ones.

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I wasn't cool enough to play at RPGs like you are.

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I think it's getting better.

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I personally know this episode is going to be really good for me to

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really be like, all right, cool.

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I'm along for the rest of this ride, right?

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Because what that means, it means less Judy.

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Less Judy.

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Cuz, we're saying big booty Judy ironically.

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She is truly, long back Judy.

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She is, two dented sidewalk potholes Judy.

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She is liquid death can Judy.

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She has the body shape of just like a tree log.

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And this man is Oh, I care about her, but she's been nothing

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but a bitch this whole time.

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Just a horrible person on the inside and out.

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And she's you need to stay home.

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Cause you get no hose.

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You can't fucking do anything that I usually get hurt.

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And then she acts like she cares about him, but she really doesn't.

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She this is.

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She's like the result of a toxic abusive relationship because now that he's strong.

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She's gonna be like falling more and more in love with him Yeah, and she

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was like, oh you should take me out to take dinner After this in the first

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episode, but she was saying it cuz like he owed her not because she like really

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likes him Yeah let's see what happens in this episode What do you what?

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Does this episode need to provide for you to be like, okay, I'm

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wrong for the rest of this, right?

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Just continue to get better.

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Level up?

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Yeah, level up.

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Solo leveling.

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They got a solo level.

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All right.

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As you guys know, we don't have the studio 23 minutes and 40 seconds.

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I'm gonna press play in three, two, one.

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Oh, we're back at the generic hospital.

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This man gettin ripped in there.

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This man levelin up in there.

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Yo, hey.

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Bro.

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Why is he still in the hospital if he's leveled up, like he's clearly healed.

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His face has changed and everything.

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So he's got, he gets more attractive.

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That's so funny.

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He gets more attractive the more he levels up?

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He doesn't even look like the same guy.

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He got taller.

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He got taller.

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Cuz he used to have that blue hair.

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Wait, what?

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Oh, damn, he's getting a hose.

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Man.

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See, he doesn't even look like that anymore.

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And the and it's ruined.

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And it's gone.

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This.

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Wouldn't that be great?

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Hey, I'd do three push ups and I'd get Yeah, I wish that was the case.

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Actually, it is.

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How many, fat, doughy people work out and they become like

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ripped and everyone's Oh, wow.

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Because they were ripped the whole time.

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They just had a bunch of fat on them.

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It was also really interesting.

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They're like, Oh, you people say Oh the fat, ugly person, them are

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the same person as I was then.

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So you should have liked that fat, ugly person.

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You're clearly not the same person.

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You're the person who now has learned discipline to get into

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shape and be a better person.

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You are not the same person as previously.

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You evolved.

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I feel like a lot of people go through that, that's why

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middle school sucks so hard.

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Because you see everyone else leveling up and you're like,

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Damn bro, when's my chance?

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Why am I gonna level up?

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Bro, you ain't lying.

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I was like 4 foot 11, 50 pounds.

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I still am.

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Yeah, I'm glad I had that growth spurt.

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Yes!

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Yes!

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Oh, what's a ultra morning?

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It's better than a regular morning, clearly.

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The White Tiger Guild.

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So this is Power Rangers, we are doing Power Rangers.

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I don't blame you guys, Power Rangers is awesome.

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Dude, that's All Might.

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I think you mean Vegeta.

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It's the same guy though, I'm just, I'm switching, but yeah it is.

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Or at least sounds like him.

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I remember when I was working out a lot, like last year.

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And I finally hit my PR.

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Deadlifting 400 pounds.

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And I remember it like it was yesterday.

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And the only reason why is because I deadlifted and I was like, Wow!

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I can't believe I reached my goal.

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I'm going to stop trying now.

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Laughter.

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And I totally regressed.

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Laughter.

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Cool.

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I'm done.

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I just wanna see if I can do it.

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That is clearly not what's happening.

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Obviously.

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I grew a foot and a half.

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He doesn't even sound the same anymore.

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a different voice actor.

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That would be awesome.

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Level up and you become more attractive for no reason.

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Oh, he's level 18 now.

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Intelligence 27.

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Turn it up.

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He's whispering like I hate this about freaking there's so many

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shows out there in which they have zero audio mixing abilities

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This is also so unrealistic if you were in the hospital your landlord

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did not give two fucks right my money

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Why what was up with the crush shot I guess it's dual fan service, these right?

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Dual.

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It's equal rights.

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Aren't you already like supposedly the weakest person, so like it

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doesn't everyone already know you?

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So he's still, yeah, he's still a eran because 'cause there's no one

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can level up so he's still an eran.

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But here's the thing, everyone, he's already the most famous person.

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'cause everyone knows he's the weakest one.

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So I don't get why having more notoriety would change your life in any aspect.

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Yeah, so it's okay, so he's super famous.

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He's already really famous So why would you care if you stick out

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like a nail this makes no sense?

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Okay, you need minimum 800s, but there's seven of you

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Two million dollars for participating.

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Yo, I would love to actually sign me up dude.

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Let me rank

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Probably I

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love how insurance and contracts are still a part of this thing

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Probably.

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Damn.

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I didn't know you turned into Sasuke all of a sudden.

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Yeah, he went from straight up soy boy to, oh, I guess I'm a cool protagonist now.

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You know what I think?

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I honestly believe that whoever created this, He might be like, an incel person,

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who like, now he envisions himself doing this, but instead of actually doing

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those pushups and situps and becoming more attractive, he just made this mug.

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That's fucked up.

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We don't even know who made this.

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Time to find out!

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It could be a woman made this.

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Yeah, but it was one of those things that was made online.

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It was one of those online web mangas first.

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So I'm pretty sure it's a dude.

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This was an online web manga?

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Yeah, I hate to say it, because I'm a male writer.

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But usually females can write better than this.

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Actually, I don't hate to say that.

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Some of my favorite stuff has been written by a woman, actually.

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It was written by It was a Korean webtoon written by Chu Gong.

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Chugong, I don't, there's no pictures of Chugong.

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Who is Chugong?

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Oh, here he is, Chugong.

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You think they're all gonna die like last time?

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Oh wait, no, this is not Chugong, this is somebody else.

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I think they're all gonna die like last time.

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Man, I sure hope they do.

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All I see is what happened to Solo Leveling.

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Wait, is it, the author of Solo Leveling?

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Oh, there's a rumor that he died.

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But he's not.

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There's always a rumor.

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Oh yeah, definitely.

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There's a portal to a big empty cave.

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This is why you're D rank.

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Shut the hell up.

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Batman?

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I want him to be millipedes and not ants.

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That'd be cool.

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Oh, they're ants.

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Are you attracted to me, bro?

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What is wrong with you?

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Oh, they're like termite looking.

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What is that, a Rasengan?

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What was that one anime where the guy had like fire baseball,

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and it was like the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my entire life?

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Oh, come on, man.

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Don't hate on Blue Clo Black Clover.

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First of all you said Blue Clover.

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That just proves my point.

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Black Clover.

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Second of all, I didn't say all of it was terrible.

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That man specifically, his powers are stupid.

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Fire ba You're gonna look me in the eye and tell me fire baseball.

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His powers are from Mario.

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I was a big fan of Black Clover.

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I'm a big fan of a lot of those characters, just not him, specifically.

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Is I'm sorry, is he your favorite character?

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No.

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The Mario motherfucker is your favorite character?

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No.

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Okay.

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I'm not a bitch ass nigga like you are.

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Oh, no.

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Literally anything.

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What part about Magic Dungeon don't you understand?

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They're gonna turn on him?

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It's probably more oh i've seen this before these people are about to

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make go into something like smaller

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Wow,

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this is the weirdestly drawn belly button i've ever seen in my fucking life.

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Yeah Actually, I don't even know if that was necessary.

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Yeah, that was like I don't even know why you noticed that on there's

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just abs on the screen Like this whole thing has been like a dual fan

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service thing and it's like it's very weird First of all, this guy All I

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want to see is female fanservice.

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What?

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This person is not even the same guy from the intro of the anime anymore.

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No.

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And this man has a blonde afro.

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You know you need to die.

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You know you're gonna die.

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You have a blonde afro, dog.

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Huh?

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I don't know.

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I think this party is about to die.

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And then Yeah, they do look very generic, don't they?

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Ol boy is about to get some serious leveled up.

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So what do you think it's some sort of spider?

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Yeah.

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Oh, you mean with the webs and everything?

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Maybe it's a spider.

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Ugh.

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I just said, it's the statues for the second time.

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Is your brother a guild?

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If I was him I'd be like, alright cool, I'm about to murder everyone

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and then put all this in my inventory.

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Let's do it together guys!

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Are

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you gonna murder this guy?

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They're gonna abandon him.

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Yeah, so you're just gonna leave them here to die.

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So that way they don't split it all the ways.

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Yep.

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Called it.

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Yep.

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Yeah, see that's not even the same guy.

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It's not.

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No.

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That man did that, what, bone lengthening?

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Yeah.

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From Bucky.

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From real life?

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It's so interesting, look at the people who have done the

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guys who do bone lengthening.

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And apparently women do it too.

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Which is interesting.

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But, the bone lengthening they'll be taller, but they have shorter arms.

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They don't have the wingspan of Yo.

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I'm always like, There's a really good way for to tell

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someone's done bone lengthening.

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You'd be like, Hey man, Touch your toes.

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What?

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Most people can easily touch their toes.

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Unless you're like, fat or out of shape.

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You don't seem fat.

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You don't seem out of shape.

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Go ahead and touch your toes.

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If you can't, You did that bone lengthening, did ya?

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Is this going to be the theme?

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It's like I've battled God, so nothing else is scary to me?

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I think he's gonna, yeah, he's hitting that part like,

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Naruto with the swing set, bro.

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He's oh yeah.

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Oh, he about to flex.

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I swear to God, they're about to end the episode.

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They are.

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You bitch.

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I told you.

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I told you.

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You bitch.

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You bitch.

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Alright, Nicholas, what are you thinking?

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I This is one of those rare animes where it's getting

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better and better each episode.

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Yeah, because they replaced the main character with this other guy, clearly.

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I'm really starting To come around, eh?

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Come around on this anime.

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I don't know who this is, like It is getting ironically lev

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It each episode is leveling up.

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It's interesting.

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Yeah.

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So I'm yeah, I'm really getting into this anime.

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Cool.

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We're excited to watch more.

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I'm DJ.

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I'm Nicholas.

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And we'll see you next time.

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See ya.

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Southern Senpais
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Far from the far East, two American Southerners explore Japanese culture in Southern Senpais! Hosted by Derek Johnson (@derek.johnsonii) and Nicholas Killian (@nicholaskilliann), they discuss popular Japanese anime, manga, and video games from a Southern eye. Tune in as they navigate the culture from the perspective of two guys that grew up in small rural towns!

About your hosts

Nicholas Killian

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Nicholas Killian is an American actor From Louisiana.

Derek Johnson

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Derek Johnson II is an American screenwriter and director from Tennessee.