Episode 864, “society.”

Summary

The One Piece Podcast – Episode 864, “Society.”

Date: April 14, 2025
Host: Zach (Maji Media)
Panelists: Steve Yerko, Stephen Paul, Delaney Jordan, Vero, Josh McKenzie
Main Theme: In-depth recap and discussion of One Piece Volume 111, SBS highlights, fandom trends, and playful social dissection of manga/anime culture.

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Episode Overview

This episode features a full-length, insightful discussion on the just-released One Piece Volume 111 (“Adventure in Elbaf”), particularly its SBS (Q&A) section, volume extras, and fan culture. The panel, featuring mainstays from the One Piece fandom and translator Stephen Paul, mixes detailed manga analysis, translation insights, and humor with vibrant conversation on fandom trends, character branding, and fanfiction. The episode also includes the popular “Yaoi Thunderdome” trivia, where fan shipping statistics are hilariously dissected.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Cast Introductions, News, and Fandom Banter

(01:34 – 11:20)

• Introductions: Usual hosts and returning guests, especially One Piece translator Stephen Paul, are welcomed.
• Casual Updates: The group jokes about age, personal anecdotes, and the One Piece Podcast’s long journey (since 2009).
• Fandom News:
  • The Baskin Robbins x One Piece collaboration in Japan is praised for its clever use of obscure characters in marketing, unlike typical western “put Luffy on it” collaborations.
  • Discussion of how diverse and deep the character roster is for branding: “Thinking One Piece is super freaking long, and I think you could pull any character out there and they could be used for advertising the right product.” – Steve Yerko [04:15]
  • Fanciful ideas for future cross-brandings (e.g., Zoro with car compasses, Pudding with Polaroids).
• Running Jokes: Age comparisons with Smoker, mock battles over character “titles,” and Delaney’s “Kaiser Clown” crossover mishap.

2. Manga Recap: Volume 111 – “Adventure in Elbaf”

(12:02 – 89:13)

a. Volume Cover and Art Critique

• Panel dissect Oda’s cover art for Volume 111: the Straw Hats in “Viking Power Ranger” outfits.
• Josh critiques the rectangle’s composition: “This is a very superfluous rectangle. I think this rectangle is a compositional nightmare.” [14:23]
• Group laments small compositional issues despite strong character art; playful banter about Oda’s layout choices.

b. SBS (Q&A) Roundup – Notable Summaries and Quotes

• Structure and Nature:

  • SBS is Oda’s Q&A section, a beloved feature in each volume. This time, it features playful, sometimes irreverent questions and a few heartfelt moments.

• Selected SBS Highlights:

  • Arlong’s Reaction to Jinbe Joining Straw Hats: Oda draws Arlong with a disgusted Whitebeard face – celebrated as “the best art Oda’s done in years.” [25:09]
  • Luffy’s Vegapunk Satellites: All labeled greed/violence, “That seems bad. That’s not good.” – Oda [26:05]
  • Cross Guild’s Business Model: Oda reveals Cross Guild’s bounties are funded by the criminal underworld and betting pools, not just by the primary trio. [28:00]
  • Zoan Awakening Clarification: The infamous Jailor Beasts in Impel Down “were humans who had their humanity basically consumed by the fruit.” [39:55]
  • Speech Bubble Design: Oda explains he moved away from vertical dialogue bubbles to aid global translation in horizontal scripts – Steven Paul’s translation featured in the Japanese reprint: “My writing is there in the Japanese volume. That was pretty cool.” – Stephen Paul [38:14]

• Oda’s Humor and Underlying Wisdom:

  • On the “noble opener” (Celestial Dragon’s banana-like hair): “Maybe I should open you guys’ heads, see how you like that.” – Oda (via Stephen Paul) [50:22]
  • Re current society/Joker meme: “Society,” Oda responds to a schoolkid who did Sanji’s Diable Jambe and got ignored [64:43].

• Fandom Lore Nuggets:

  • Blue Planet: Oda finally reveals the planet’s canonical name: “The Blue Planet.” Surprising the panel. [44:23]
  • Artificial Devil Fruits: They do not reincarnate when the user dies – “It’s just gone.” [46:49]
  • Hanafuda’s (Edge Master’s) Legacy: Revealed as Ulti and Page One’s father. “He was so enamored of Kaido’s strength…willing to send his own children.” [61:34]

c. Q&A About Translation and Localization

• Workflow: Stephen Paul discusses his process for updating and correcting the manga’s translation between digital release and finalized print edition. [94:22–96:57]

d. Usopp Gallery & Volume Easter Eggs

• Panel highlights creative “fanart” submissions (Whoopslap as fashion icon, yaoi-coded Crocodile with banana dials, Blackbeard pirates in Straw Hat poses).

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3. Fandom Engagement: Social Trends and Meta Commentary

(89:13 – 101:13)

• Fanfiction and Ship Stats: Discussion on the surprising popularity of certain character pairings, and on how shipping patterns have changed with new arcs and media.
• Audience Questions:
  • “Have you ever cried over a manga panel?” Panelists cite classic heartbreaking moments (Robin and Chopper flashbacks) and recognize how Eiichiro Oda’s storytelling is uniquely moving. [101:11]

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4. Yaoi Thunderdome: Shipping Trivia Showdown

(111:31 – 136:53)

Format

• Teams: The “Tops” (Delaney, Zach, Stephen) vs. “Power Bottoms”/“Mature Alphas” (Josh, Steve)
• Vero presents ship pairings and teams guess which is more popular on AO3/fanfiction sites, often to surprising results.

Memorable Matchups and Commentary

• Frobin (Franky/Robin) vs. Ace/Sanji: Frobin wins, but Ace/Sanji is a strong contender (500+ fics). [114:40]

• Yamato/Ace vs. Kaya/Usopp: The latter wins, to everyone’s shock. “Who is writing Kaya Usopp fic?” – Josh [119:05]

• Audience-Disjointed Ships:

  • Zoro/Tashigi (classic, wins) vs. Nami/Tashigi (“Lesbians, I need us to get it together.” – Vero)
  • Zoro with all three Vinsmoke brothers vs. Nami/Reiju (the girls’ ship wins, highlighting fan preferences).
  • Cross Guild vs. Buggy/Reader: The “Buggy thirst” is real; “People have always wanted to f*** clowns.” – Vero [128:30]
  • Shanks/Mihawk vs. Ace/Marco: Ace/Marco dominates.
  • Garp/Sengoku vs. Boa/Luffy: “Old Man Yaoi” gets a nod but canon’s canon wins; Boa/Luffy is more popular.

• Panel Playfulness: The trivia is filled with sexual innuendo, fan community self-mockery, and camaraderie:
  “You're the king of the yaoi.” – Vero to the winning team [136:08]

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Notable Quotes & Funniest Moments

• “Society,” Oda, in response to a child shunned for quoting Sanji [64:43]
• “Secondhand smoke is a myth.” – Steve Yerko, on marketing Smoker with ice cream [05:51]
• “This rectangle is a compositional nightmare.” – Josh McKenzie, on Oda’s cover art [14:23]
• “Let’s get rid of those Charmin Bears. Just hire Wiper from, you know, Shandora.” – Steve Yerko [09:02]
• “He uses a body sponge with a handle to brush his teeth. And he just grows new ones weekly.” – Oda, on Jinbe’s dental hygiene [70:07]
• “Society is a great aunt. That’s good humor.” – Zach, on Oda’s meme-worthy answer [65:04]
• “People have always wanted to f*** clowns.” – Vero, on why Buggy/Reader is so popular [128:30]
• “Old man yaoi is having a real resurgence.” – Zach, on Garp/Sengoku ship stats [132:00]
• “You're the king of the yaoi.” – Vero, after trivia [136:08]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:34: Episode and panel introductions, early jokes
• 04:04: News: Baskin Robbins collab and branding chat
• 12:02: Manga Recap and cover discussion (start of Volume 111)
• 20:00: SBS section – Eagle insignia, Oda’s author comment
• 29:15: Cross Guild bounties and economics
• 38:14: Manga translation/lettering process, dialogue bubble design
• 44:23: Lore: “Blue Planet” revealed
• 61:34: Hanafuda’s backstory as Edge Master and parent of Ulti/Page One
• 64:43: “Society” meme, Oda's reply to a fan
• 94:22: Stephen Paul on correcting digital to print editions
• 111:31: Yaoi Thunderdome – Fandom ship trivia begins
• 128:30: “People have always wanted to f*** clowns.” – Peak Buggy discourse
• 136:08: Yaoi Thunderdome winners crowned

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Tone and Style

• Language: Equal mix of technical, insightful One Piece discussion and chaotic, youthful, queer-coded banter.
• Energy: High; quick wit, overlapping anecdotes, pop culture references, running inside jokes.
• Audience: Tailored to long-time, spoiler-safe One Piece fans and fandom historians, but welcoming to casual listeners interested in manga/anime culture.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This ep is both densely informative and riotously entertaining, taking listeners behind the curtain on official translation work, authorial intent, and the intricate web of fan culture. While serious manga insights are delivered (especially about Oda’s process and lore tidbits), the episode shines by celebrating why the One Piece fandom is unique: its humor, self-awareness, diversity, and sheer imaginative force.

• If you follow the manga, you'll get deep-dive reflections on Volume 111's themes, SBS, and art.
• If you're a fandom participant or shipper, the Yaoi Thunderdome trivia will have you howling.

Don’t miss:

• Personal translation and editing anecdotes from Stephen Paul
• The infamous “Society” meme as immortalized by Oda
• Genuine reflection on fan culture, character branding, and the experience of being perpetually online

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For full details, exact timestamps, and all the funniest inside jokes, listen to the entire episode!

Transcript

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[Vero]

It's.

[Zach]

This is the One Piece podcast episode 864 for the week of Monday, April 14, 2025. My name is Zach.

[Steve Yerko]

And my name is Steve.

[Zach]

And on today's episode, we have very special guest translator for one piece in weekly Shonen, jump and Manga. Plus we have Stephen Paul with us. How's it going, Stephen?

[Stephen Paul]

Feeling. Feeling sore today. Yeah.

[Zach]

Oh, what happened?

[Stephen Paul]

Your boy ran five miles around the lake yesterday for the first time. Yeah. In like, eight years or something like that. Yeah, I'm much older now.

[Zach]

It happens to everyone usually. We also have our editor, Delaney Jordan, fresh from their YouTube fame. Welcome, Delaney.

[Delaney Jordan]

Well, you know, once you've spent a lot of time away being an important video essayist, you. You really learn to cherish going back home to your roots and, you know, getting humble again.

[Stephen Paul]

What's his character?

[Josh McKenzie]

I want everyone at home to know that Delaney is taking her hoodie and, like, inching it like a woman with her house dress.

[Delaney Jordan]

Yeah, this thing is slouchy as hell. I've had it since I went to Cape cod in, like, 20, 21.

[Vero]

Oh, she went to Cape Cod.

[Zach]

Those voices you hear first. Vero, welcome back on the show. Hello and storyboard artist and perennial person I asked to come on the show first, Josh McKenzie. How's it going, Josh?

[Josh McKenzie]

Hi, all my ghouls and goblins.

[Vero]

How come Delaney got to be video editor and Josh is a storyboard artist and I'm just beautiful.

[Zach]

Have you thought about. I did that on purpose. It was. It was.

[Vero]

It's okay.

[Zach]

It was to see if you noticed.

[Vero]

I. I know. It's okay. I am just.

[Zach]

You did notice. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Like, there's too many titles, Vera. That's what it is.

[Vero]

Thank you. Yeah.

[Zach]

Steven, today we have all these wonderful.

[Stephen Paul]

People on to go through what, volume 111. Yeah. I didn't realize this was going to be a babysitting day. Over on the One Piece podcast. Wow.

[Vero]

Gagged.

[Zach]

Wow. Before we do all that babysitting, first, a little bit of news. But I think everyone here does have a very strong opinion about it. And that is the Baskin Robbins one piece collaboration. Steve, do you want to talk about that? Just, like, your thoughts on how cool it was?

[Steve Yerko]

And I just think, like, it gets better and better because it's just more and more deep pools. Like, this is just me assuming here.

[Zach]

But I feel like if this was.

[Steve Yerko]

Like, I think just going off of something, like the recent, like, sports collaborations, it was just like, oh, you just. Just put Luffy on the poster and. Yeah, he's holding a cup of ice cream. I like how Japan. It's like there's actual a character, like a little girl who had an ice cream cone that Captain. Captain Smoker's pants ate. So why don't we. Why don't we play into that? Let's use her in the marketing. And I think it's brilliant, you know, thinking one piece is super freaking long, and I think you could pull any character out there and they could be used for advertising the right product. So it's been really charming, I gotta say.

[Zach]

You is the name right? Why you Me not. Oh, yeah, you. Vero. That was Oda also drew.

[Stephen Paul]

Okay. Smokey.

[Zach]

Oda also drew a very cute photo of her there as well. Any other thoughts on the Baskin Robbins? Oh, what? I guess. What? Baskin Robbins? That's.

[Steve Yerko]

Josh.

[Zach]

Josh. Yeah. You go first, Josh. I.

[Josh McKenzie]

We love to see it. You know, we got like a. We got like, a really cute smoker drawing out of it. I like that it would lead to a lot of questions from people who haven't read one piece because it's like, oh, his pants ate her ice cream. You know, that's kind of appalling at first glance. The pants.

[Vero]

Pants. Fruit.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's a lot of fun to be had.

[Zach]

Better than the jacket. Jacket for.

[Josh McKenzie]

Mm.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. Why is this man smoking multiple cigars next to a girl? Why are you advertising. Yeah, why are you advertising ice cream with this, you know, cigar smoke?

[Steve Yerko]

Because secondhand smoke is a myth.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Stephen Paul]

With this.

[Josh McKenzie]

With this white haired, 28 year old. Why is this happening?

[Vero]

He really 28?

[Josh McKenzie]

Maybe 30. He's not very old.

[Steve Yerko]

He's young.

[Zach]

He is 36.

[Vero]

We gotta get him some retinol.

[Zach]

Oh no.

[Steve Yerko]

Oh, cool.

[Josh McKenzie]

I'm 34.

[Zach]

Your smoker age. I'm older than smoker. I'm 36.

[Delaney Jordan]

The concept of me being closer to smoker age was briefly very terrifying. But Delaney absolved.

[Zach]

Smoker though. Just has white hair or gray white hair. Like that's just his thing. It's not that he's old, it's just.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rucker Hauer, you were born in the wrong era for playing smoker.

[Zach]

What, what collabor, like what very minute character do you guys want to see in like a crossover thing or like a sponsorship? Like the most minor character. This is just for Steve.

[Vero]

I think they should start using pudding for like Polaroid ads or something, you know.

[Zach]

Ooh, I like that. That's a good one.

[Vero]

Really sad and depressing. Really advertise to the Tumblr girlies. Be like, don't you miss this man? While you listen to Lana Del Rey and look at pictures of pudding.

[Zach]

These corporations better be listening to this advice and then paying us afterwards.

[Josh McKenzie]

The Chicky Cheetah X Puma collab writes itself. Run, don't walk to doing that.

[Zach]

Wow, that's a good answer. That's a great answer, Steve.

[Vero]

Jesus Christ.

[Zach]

You're about to say something, Steve?

[Steve Yerko]

No, because there's too many One Piece characters. As I look at my shelf of too many One piece characters.

[Zach]

But.

[Steve Yerko]

I don't know, we could think of some.

[Delaney Jordan]

I mean, Kaiser Clown and Jack in the Box is right there.

[Vero]

They should use Zorro to advertise in car compass devices, you know, like.

[Zach]

What.

[Steve Yerko]

Did you say for Jack in the Box?

[Zach]

Delaney Caesar. Kaiser Clown Caesar call him Kaiser Clone.

[Delaney Jordan]

Because they call him that in Fallout New Vegas. Leave me the fuck alone.

[Stephen Paul]

Hold on.

[Vero]

The lady. That's crazy.

[Delaney Jordan]

Have you ever read it?

[Zach]

I was gonna let that go.

[Josh McKenzie]

Episode topic has changed.

[Stephen Paul]

We've got.

[Josh McKenzie]

We've gotta break this down.

[Vero]

No, no.

[Delaney Jordan]

Oh, come on, man.

[Zach]

I guess we have an episode title already.

[Stephen Paul]

Kaiser. Kaiser with a K and a Z. Yeah, yeah.

[Steve Yerko]

Kaiser Clown Firmamente.

[Josh McKenzie]

That's a joke for Californians.

[Zach]

No, I get it. Please get off of that. Yes, you are perfect, Delaney. And you can't edit that out because it was so funny. Stephen, do you have a crossover you were thinking of?

[Stephen Paul]

No, I was trying to remember if there was like a pizza chef who is responsible for a lot of the abominations. You know, for like a Papa John's pizza crossover or something, but I don't think so. The only. The only, like. Well, maybe. Maybe Wanze. Like Wanze as a pizza chef. Oh, God, that would be good.

[Zach]

Mm.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah.

[Zach]

Just with the noodles coming, better ingredients.

[Vero]

Papa John, he pulls the cheese from his nose.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Steve Yerko]

You know, to continue the conversation we had last week, we gotta get rid of those Charmin Bears. Just hire wiper from, you know, Shandora.

[Zach]

That is stupid. With Wanze, though, I think a few weeks ago, we discussed that the. I think Domino's in Japan had pizza with noodles on top, which I think is a sin against God and man and everything in between. But if Wanze were the spokesperson, it would be even worse.

[Vero]

Okay, it would be.

[Zach]

That was really the news I wanted to cover. I'm sure there were other things that are reported that I don't know.

[Vero]

Zach.

[Zach]

Yes?

[Vero]

Do you want to look at some pretty pictures together?

[Zach]

I do. I also want to let people know that as far as the recording, at this moment, we are also going to have our anime recap with Sam of 1125. A clash of two men's determination. Kizaru and Sentomaru. Don't even say it, Josh.

[Josh McKenzie]

All right, sorry.

[Zach]

I saw him preparing to get to the microphone. It's like, I know the joke already.

[Delaney Jordan]

You can't specifically ask all of the gay people to come on the show and then make a point out of anime. Wow. Improv is great when all you do is say, no. No jokes. We say no jokes.

[Zach]

Yes. And no jokes.

[Vero]

No.

[Zach]

See?

[Vero]

No bits.

[Zach]

No bits.

[Delaney Jordan]

No bits allowed.

[Steve Yerko]

Kids, keep acting up. I'm not making the Mac and cheese tonight.

[Zach]

Okay, let's go back to Winnipeg with our manga recap of volume 111. That was a Simpsons reference. Delaney, I see you looking at me like that.

[Vero]

Yeah, we both. We both made a face.

[Zach]

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[Josh McKenzie]

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[Zach]

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[Vero]

When did making plans get this complicated?

[Stephen Paul]

It's time to streamline with WhatsApp, the.

[Josh McKenzie]

Secure messaging app that brings the whole group together.

[Zach]

Use polls to settle dinner plans.

[Stephen Paul]

Send Event invites and pin messages so.

[Zach]

No one forgets mom 60th and never.

[Stephen Paul]

Miss a meme or milestone.

[Vero]

All protected with end to end encryption.

[Josh McKenzie]

It's time for WhatsApp message privately with everyone.

[Vero]

Learn more at WhatsApp.com.

[Zach]

This is the Manga recap for volume 111 adventure in Elbaf and Steven. It's time for some Steven Paul story time. Let's go through the volume.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. I have provided the, the picks of all the stuff I'm going to be talking about in the, in the chat for y'. All. And we'll start with the COVID which is. It is Luffy. Well, it's, it's most of the straw hats, I guess. It's the adventure party here. Luffy, Chopper, Usopp, Nami, Sanji and Zorro all aligned in cool poses in front of Loki, who is chained up but seems to be getting off on it because his tongue is waggling. He's smiling.

[Vero]

Well, he's low key. Kind of a freak.

[Josh McKenzie]

Nice, dude.

[Stephen Paul]

Up top. Wow.

[Delaney Jordan]

Hell yeah. Fuck yeah, dude.

[Vero]

Thank you. Yeah, I'll be here all week.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. I don't know. Did anybody have any thoughts that they were not able to share about this one when the art first came out?

[Vero]

It's cute. I like their outfits. You know, they kind of look like Viking Power Rangers, but it's adorable.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. Yeah. The, the colors are more coordinated than I would have guessed, but it, it works well for them.

[Vero]

I was expecting more earth tones, but I should. This is one piece I should have known better.

[Zach]

Roto has colorful doll clothes that he dressed them in.

[Vero]

Yeah, he wanted to play with his little action figures.

[Zach]

Yeah. Which is too bad we made that joke like three weeks before that because that's literally what he was doing. Yeah. Keep going, Steve.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, it's. It's a nice one. I don't think this is one that's going to be like particularly memorialized in the, in the canon. But I do appreciate that it is relatively simple. You know, the layout is. Is pretty simple, pretty easy to. To grasp. But I do think that like the, the bright, the creamsicle orange and then this kind of like olive ochre colored background, very drab background is a very strange combination. And I think that it does hurt it a little bit. It's. It. I don't know. I don't like that combination.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, I think this is a very superfluous rectangle. I think this rectangle is a compositional nightmare.

[Zach]

So I mean, I've been doing this with the YouTube thumbnails too. But I'm sure everyone here knows, but for listeners, that this. That the. That rectangle is in every volume. It's just as Oda's gone on, bust out of it more and more.

[Josh McKenzie]

I mean, I think you could have done something different where. I mean, the problem is, then it's gonna look like they're coming directly out of Loki's womb.

[Zach]

Right.

[Josh McKenzie]

But, like, if you lower. Right. If you lower the horizon line a bit and have Loki more to the bottom of the frame, where there's less of this sort of emptiness between Luffy and Chopper, I think it would fix it. But, like. Yeah, as it is, I agree with Steven. The rectangle is. It's a toxic rectangle.

[Steve Yerko]

Well, it's toxic because it's either they're escaping a big glass of beer or a big pool of pee much.

[Vero]

They're running off into the sunset.

[Delaney Jordan]

They're breaking.

[Zach]

Well, if you turn it upside down.

[Delaney Jordan]

They'Re breaking out of the iPhone Beer app.

[Zach]

Wow. No, I agree. Like, my. I. I appreciate the simplicity. I think Luffy looks great, and he's adorable. I actually think everyone, like, individually looks great. Oh, yeah.

[Josh McKenzie]

The drawings are fire. Yeah.

[Zach]

I think it is, compositionally, a nightmare. I do agree. And now when. Josh, when. When an artist points some of these things out, I don't unsee it. Like, the Chopper, Luffy, like, the space. I'm not gonna ever be able to unsee that now. So that's also ruined it for me. Thank you, Josh. Yeah. No, no, but. But seriously, I. It is very. It's not anything huge. They could have just done the whole thing within the rectangle, couldn't they? Like, that would have. I know he doesn't do that anymore.

[Stephen Paul]

But, yeah, I would have contained.

[Josh McKenzie]

I'm not a. I'm not a wildly successful manga artist. I just think I wouldn't have included Loki's legs in it. And then you could make his torso bigger. You could lower the horizon line, and I think you could kind of fix it that way. But that's just my opinion.

[Zach]

I don't know. Things like this are a shame, though, when everything is, like, good, but it's just weirdly placed. It's like, you could really have fixed this very simply, but drawing's hard, man.

[Vero]

Yeah, drawing's hard. He's got a manga to draw.

[Delaney Jordan]

And the big gap between Chopper and everyone else is like. Not that Chopper hasn't been doing anything, but, like, compared to everybody else on this.

[Vero]

Compared. Sorry, did you call the lady smelly?

[Zach]

No, Chopper. That's why everyone's away from him. Delaney's face. Oh, my God.

[Vero]

Get away from his stink.

[Zach]

Sorry, Delaney, please.

[Delaney Jordan]

I didn't hear you say he smelly. That's why I was like, oh, it's an attack now. All right. But, like, yeah, he. He out of everybody else in the team, like, Chopper, like, not Robin or something. Like, I like having, like, the. The first sort of Core 6 on the COVID But it's also like. It is a bit of a blood thinks he's part of the team moment where I'm like, you haven't done that much yet, my guy.

[Zach]

I mean, this is who's in the volume. Yeah.

[Stephen Paul]

Yes. Yeah. It's exactly because the volume goes through. Well, mostly through, like, the. The Block Kingdom stuff, which was only these characters and Robin and Jimbe and Frankie and Brooke and all them were on the other ship. So I think that's. That's. That's the reason for this particular selection.

[Vero]

It is on the team, Delaney.

[Zach]

Mm.

[Stephen Paul]

But we do also have an under undercover illustration, fairly straightforward, where we just see that the. The Panda man face has been superimposed on top of Loki, so. That's right. Loki and Panda man combine them together. What do you get? That's right. Pokeman. He just can't.

[Zach]

How.

[Stephen Paul]

How long did you have rid of the. The Pokemon Go?

[Josh McKenzie]

Stephen Paul bolts awake at 3:30am to write pokey man on his phone.

[Delaney Jordan]

Stephen Paul just watched that episode of Sopranos where they're like, we're flipping Pokemon cards. You want to come?

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. I don't know. It's not the most fun Panda man thing, but it's a. It's all right.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah. This is a working man's Panda man insertion. I like it.

[Zach]

Yeah. I. I saw some people commenting that they don't like the Panda Men in replacing faces and stuff, but I actually. I think they're. It's usually pretty funny.

[Stephen Paul]

I mean, what. Why. Yeah. Why else would you draw Panda man if not.

[Steve Yerko]

No one, really.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah.

[Steve Yerko]

Yeah. No one wants this to be the COVID anyway because it's all just, you know, sepia tone and kind of hideous.

[Zach]

So it's not supposed to be. Yeah. I don't know why. I. I never really got why they.

[Steve Yerko]

Did that, but it's crazy to me.

[Stephen Paul]

That the sepias are still.

[Zach]

I know. Yeah. The dust jacket thing is just kind of baffling to me.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. I don't know. It's just. That's the way that Japan does it.

[Zach]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Stephen Paul]

Our author comment here we have an illustration of a sort of classic eagle spread eagle like insignia that you see on various crests and RPG symbols and stuff. It's very reminiscent of Dragon Quest as well. And Oda's comment is the, the insignia with the bird with its wings outspread. You know, you see that, that this sort of thing all the time. And there's a. There's a theory that it's. The bird is saying, no, no, you don't understand. The fish was this big. I swear, this big. But I'll never look at a quarter.

[Zach]

The same way again, and nor should I.

[Stephen Paul]

And then he says, but you know what I've been thinking recently is maybe this bird was actually crucified in order to protect someone else.

[Vero]

Wow.

[Stephen Paul]

He's like, wow, that reminds me. Yeah, that's how Zorro was introduced to Zorro. And he says, zorrome, which is like, you know, basically what all ones, like repeating ones like when you roll the dice. So he's like, zoro me. So in other words, 1, 1, 1 Volume 1 1, 1. So that'd be a little tricky one. I might have to do like a, like a, like a three sword, a three one style or something like that. Yeah, some way to get around that. It's a little bit of a Japanese joke that.

[Zach]

That's one of those, like. What was the south park episode, Steve? It's been a very long time that he like, well, if this means this, then this, you know, like just like making these suppositions off of things that are completely unrelated.

[Stephen Paul]

Okay, that sounds like every South Park.

[Steve Yerko]

Yeah, too big.

[Delaney Jordan]

That's just Anaconda.

[Zach]

No, the.

[Delaney Jordan]

It's the Anaconda Malt liquor bit from Black Dynamite.

[Steve Yerko]

Exactly.

[Zach]

Thank you.

[Steve Yerko]

Thank you, Delaney.

[Zach]

It was the Jeff Goldblum bit.

[Steve Yerko]

Thanks, old lady.

[Stephen Paul]

Let's see. So this is. This volume is quite a fatty. We got 12 chapters in this one. It is the face, Josh.

[Delaney Jordan]

Okay.

[Zach]

We have to behave while we're in.

[Stephen Paul]

220 pages on this one. So it is, yeah, quite, quite a thick one. And we do have a lot of SBs in it as well. And so we'll just get right into it. The first. Oh, I guess I should point out that, yes, this is 111. It is the adventure in Elbaf. And in terms of material, it covers towards the end of Vegapunk's video message, all the way through the end of Egghead and the start of Elbaf. And we end on Robin and Saul's reunion, that very nice scene there. So back to the sbs. Our first one, we have A. A fun header. Speaking of Vegapunk's video message. It is a. An illustration of Vegapunk and one of his cats trying to drink the. The coffee, but it's too hot. And so they are both squealing in pain.

[Zach]

Is that Josh the cat?

[Josh McKenzie]

I was about to ask. I was about to ask. Yeah, nice.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, the assistant, the systabby. And so our first question here is from somebody who says, hey, Otis. And say, I just. I found this little piece of paper on the ground. Let's see what it says. And there's this little like, I don't know, photocopy of like a little strip of paper. And it says, like, starting the SBS ticket. He's like, oh, yes, yes, I found it. Okay, I get to start the sbs. And you know, he's like, okay, bye. Bye. And so that's the. That's the start of the segment. And then it's followed by another question that says, at the time. By the time the SBS started, Odon was stripped naked in front of everyone and dancing like a fool. And then we have a little picture of Odin. The. The scene of Odin, you know, doing his little dance in front of everybody, but they called him Odon. And Oda's like, yeah.

[Delaney Jordan]

Woo.

[Stephen Paul]

Hey, what's up everybody? Yeah, they started the volume on me again. All right, whatever. Let's dance. Woohoo. And then he, you know, and then he's like, yeah, stop it. Like, knock it off. So that's the. The start of the volume this time. Next one is a great one. It is. I want to know, how did Arlong react when he found out that Jinbei had joined the straw hats? And he just drew this little picture of Arlong doing the, like, the white beard face. Like the disgusted. Yeah, the disgusted face. And yeah, he's.

[Zach]

That is so excellent. That is such a great draw.

[Josh McKenzie]

That rocks.

[Zach]

This might be the best art Oda's done in years.

[Stephen Paul]

Okay, all right, let's.

[Zach]

Being a little hyperbolic.

[Josh McKenzie]

Somebody send that to him.

[Stephen Paul]

The next one is if Luffy had six satellites like Vegapunk, which. Which six would he have? This is kind of like the ones when. When Oda did like everyone's brain and it had all the different kanji in them. So he. He just drew like, with little Luffy faces. York and Atlas and. And so, so greed, greed, greed, greed, greed and violence. And Oda's comment on that is like, oh, that seems bad. That's not good.

[Zach]

Our lovable protagonist. Grief and violence.

[Vero]

Only pirate.

[Stephen Paul]

Yes, pretty much. All right, here we Go next. SBS is an interesting one. It is an illustration of Kuma running up and he's got the, the glove off and he's slapping something. I don't know what. And the, the letters. SBS are behind him. I guess he's maybe smacking the, the SBS letters out of the way. I'm not sure. And here we go. Here's. Here's your one dirty joke. Let's see how dirty it is for this volume. And the reader says the only one, Odachi. Odachi, the boys in school, they seem to be having an outbreak of a dirty joke. Itis. And the strange thing is that they're all one piece readers. Is one piece the cause and what his response is? Okay, let's find out about. Let's go to court, basically. So, yeah, he's gonna sue him.

[Zach]

Nice. Good answer for odor for the first time on something like that.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. The next one is an informative question. Here is about Cross Guild. As you can see from the. The, the illustration. I don't understand the Cross Guild system. They call it a company or a business, but how are they making money if they're putting out bounties for regular people to collect for killing Marines, I would assume they would just go out of business, like right away. So Oda says yes. So Cross Guild's existence is. It imperils or it. It causes trouble for the Navy. You know, you don't know who's going to come after you now or where they're going to come from. So it really saps morale and it causes their, their ability to react to things to slow down because they have to take more, you know, perils into account. And if the, if the Navy is not able to act efficiently, that makes the underground, you know, the, the underworld organizations have an easier time to do their business. So, you know, mobsters, gangsters. So they are making more money. Cross Guild, therefore, is kind of the public face for all of this. While the bounties are actually being funded and paid by the, the underworld groups. On top of that, Cross Guild also puts up their own odds on which Marine will be the next one to get killed. So they have a betting pool going and they get money from that from just regular people who are doing the gambling there. So yes, in short, they make quite a lot of money. So that's how it all works out.

[Josh McKenzie]

I guess I also just assumed all the warlords were like, independently wealthy, right? Like, yeah, they can just fund their own things.

[Vero]

Yeah, they have stake ads for the. No 100% gambling on which Marie's gonna die next?

[Zach]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, they've got Josh.

[Vero]

Are you betting on Smoker?

[Josh McKenzie]

No, I would never bet on smoker betting.

[Zach]

Not validating the grand line. Or Alabasta on Tuesdays and Fridays.

[Delaney Jordan]

This just makes the trust fund baby of the group.

[Zach]

They all are. Kind of trust fund baby. Ish. But I. I was wondering, even if the seven warlords were loaded, do they keep that money after it was disbanded? The world?

[Vero]

Well, I don't think that that in government accounts. Yeah, they did.

[Stephen Paul]

They just have their own treasure.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah. Zach, why don't you try to repossess mihawk's assets?

[Stephen Paul]

You joke.

[Zach]

There was a whole.

[Delaney Jordan]

Explain to me who gets the offshore accounts and the divorce.

[Zach]

There's a whole thing in water 7 where there was actually a financial person going through with Nami and info like it. There's probably that boring happening somewhere in the background, and we're gonna get to the bottom of it. Never.

[Vero]

You're in lawyer mode.

[Stephen Paul]

I'm just thinking of. I'm just thinking of trust fund baby mihawk with his idol, you know, just swimming around on a little rowboat and owning a castle.

[Vero]

Yeah, he's doing Nepo Pibi bullshit.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Vero]

Random stuff. You're gonna see him at Coachella.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, he's in the ocean, in Gucci long nails.

[Zach]

He's.

[Delaney Jordan]

Me becoming a Marxist on my family's lazy river.

[Stephen Paul]

Our last question here is, okay, Oda sensei, if you could eat two devil fruits and have the powers at the same time, which two would you have? I would pick the clear, clear fruit and the rumble rumble flute. The rumble rumble rumble fruit, I assume. Would you do the same, Oda Sensei? So that would be Absalom's power and Enaru's power.

[Vero]

I think this person has DBS intent.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah. Oda says dark energy here.

[Stephen Paul]

Oda says, whoa, wow, I can eat two. Okay, so I'm gonna have the clear, clear fruit and what's the other one? Which one should he pick? So he has like, clear, clear fruit, like in parentheses confirmed. So clear, clear fruit confirmed, and clear, clear fruit confirmed and warp, warp fruit. And then in parenth, goal, goal identified. And then he says, this is a dirty joke. And he says to help people. And then in parentheses, like, excuse found.

[Vero]

So, man, I need to find this man and shake his hand and be like, thanks for Robin and Nami. You have to die now, though. I'm sorry.

[Josh McKenzie]

Okay, you guys have probably answered this question 37 times on the show, but, like, which fruit are you picking.

[Stephen Paul]

For two I don't think it's been.

[Zach]

It's been a while since we've been. No, I mean, it can be.

[Josh McKenzie]

It can be one for brevity's sake.

[Vero]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Josh McKenzie]

I'm picking Robin's. It's my favorite fruit in the whole series. Unstoppable.

[Stephen Paul]

It's too cool.

[Josh McKenzie]

It's so cool.

[Zach]

No, you know what? Since it was just mentioned and it is one I would really love. The warp fruit is a fucking cool idea. All right? The one that Kuma has is pretty cool, except if you accidentally touch something.

[Josh McKenzie]

Which never happens.

[Vero]

I feel like he's gotta do it on purpose, otherwise he couldn't pick up a cup, you know? Or does he have his gloves on?

[Zach]

My coffee. It went on vacation.

[Delaney Jordan]

What the hell is. What the hell is the name of Utah's fruit? The Sing Sing Fruit.

[Zach]

Oh, that thing is op.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, that's base.

[Josh McKenzie]

That's a base dancer.

[Delaney Jordan]

It's the only one I have any practical application for.

[Vero]

Okay. What are you gonna do with it?

[Josh McKenzie]

Be a vtuber.

[Zach]

Or Vegapunk's Fruit. And then you could split yourself into different parts and accomplish everything after you've learned.

[Delaney Jordan]

We would kill each other's brain.

[Zach]

Yeah. Giving a thumbs up because I don't know why. I'm tired.

[Delaney Jordan]

This is an audio medium, so what you guys can't see is that. Zach. Thumbs up, Guys.

[Vero]

Is it shitty to say I don't think I want a fruit?

[Josh McKenzie]

No, because in the. In the tabletop. In the tabletop. Yvette didn't have one. I see that for you.

[Vero]

I just. I wanna swim.

[Josh McKenzie]

Robin, voice.

[Delaney Jordan]

I wanna swim.

[Zach]

Well, you're Floridian. That's why it's your natural habitat.

[Vero]

No, I can't. Josh. I'll be the. Your first mate that pulls you out of the water every time.

[Josh McKenzie]

Babe, you're always my first mate.

[Vero]

Thanks.

[Zach]

Whoa. I don't know what it's getting Stevie in here.

[Stephen Paul]

Let's get to the next SBS here, where we get. I can't remember if this guy's name was Hound or Urban, but it's the one Vice admiral from the. From the recent egghead arc with the big kind of pointy teeth, and he's got the giant top hat on, and he is shooting the SBS cannons out of the hat like a cannon, because I believe that was his power. Right.

[Vero]

That's a bad devil fruit. I wouldn't have that one.

[Stephen Paul]

That doesn't. Yeah, it doesn't seem like you'd have that.

[Zach]

What we should be asking is which devil fruit do you not under any circumstances want. But we could save that for another time.

[Vero]

Yeah, I'll let you think it over.

[Zach]

And we could get back to.

[Stephen Paul]

Yes, we do have a little note here. I'm not sure why it's in this particular page, but it is just pointing out. Is Oda pointing out that at the end of the volume, which I will go over as well, There is a 10 question 10 answer thing that ran in jump. I think it was during his South Africa trip. I want to say it was when he was. He was off two weeks and they did this little like 10 questions and answers with Oda sensei sort of thing. I don't remember if we covered them or not. I don't think we did.

[Zach]

I think we covered like some big items, but not. Yeah, go ahead, sir.

[Stephen Paul]

Maybe. But the thing is like, I'll go over it briefly when we get to the. The end of this. But a lot of this stuff he did already put in the SBS of the last volume, you know, two or three volumes or so. So he has gotten the information out there, but they did reprint it at the back of this book. So our next question. Question here is someone who says, like, I don't notice a lot of very tall thin dialogue bubbles in one piece. It seems like, you know, you. You have these sort of circular or even horizontal bubbles that cause you to have to, you know, to break a single line of dialogue over a bunch of different columns of text or split them into multiple bubbles. And this person says, why would you do such a thing? And Oda says, ah, you notice that, huh? Wow, I'm surprised. So I think if you go back and look at some of the early volumes, you will notice more long narrow text bubbles. But at some point I was looking at one of the foreign editions of the. Of the manga and. And I noticed some English, you know, written in horizontally. And it seemed like it was really crammed very uncomfortably into this long, long, elongated vertical bubble. And because it's, you know, it's translated into so many different languages around the world, many of those languages are written horizontally. And so I decided to change my style and make sure that the bubbles of text are able to hold the. The lang. The. The writing comfortably, no matter what language it's in. And the cool part about this is that he. He, they. They pasted a scene. Here it is. What is this scene? This is when Luffy had just like talked about his. His dream. His dream ending or the end of his dream. And on the deck of the Ship and everybody's like reacting to it, but we don't know what it is. And so they pasted it in Japanese and in English. So my writing is there in the Japanese volume. That was pretty cool.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, that's actually really interesting.

[Zach]

Yeah, it is.

[Delaney Jordan]

Yeah.

[Zach]

I think it lets us give some kudos back to Oda after that. Warp fruit.

[Stephen Paul]

No, the debacle. Yeah.

[Steve Yerko]

It reminds me, in the Mugiwara stores they'll have different language editions of volumes on display in the store. But I think the ones I've seen were pre Stevens translations. I think it might have been like around Fishman island those. But still really cool to see.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, I think, I think we knew this. Like, I think he must have said this in an interview at some point because I'm almost certainly. This isn't the first time I've heard this, but it is definitely a first for the SBS in the volumes itself. So just kind of a neat detail. The next question is from someone who says, hey Odachi, I thought of your next nickname. We're going to call you Oda Pollo. Isn't that cute? Please use this from now on. And so, yeah, Pollo is like a. You see that in a lot with like, I want to say like idols and maybe some vtubers and stuff like that. It's a very cutesy thing that the, the kids do nowadays. And Oda's like, oh, thank you. You know I'm an old man, right?

[Josh McKenzie]

The kids are woobifying Oda.

[Delaney Jordan]

Old man yaoi with H. Oda.

[Zach]

No, I won't write that one down. But how the hell do you spell Wooba Fing?

[Josh McKenzie]

How do you, how do you think you spell it?

[Zach]

You know, I'm just gonna write it down. We'll see how it goes.

[Stephen Paul]

All right.

[Delaney Jordan]

It's all vibes based.

[Stephen Paul]

Let's find out. Our last question here is about Zoan Fruits says that Shaka said that when a Zoan fruit awakens, it tends to kind of consume the personality of the. The fruits user. So you basically you become the animal rather than the other way around or the animal becomes you, whatever the. You know what I mean? And so the question is the Jailer beasts, the Minotaur and those guys in Impel down were those people. Were those humans who had their, their human, their humanity basically consumed by the fruit. And Oda says, yeah, so that was, that was a close one, Lucci. Because, you know, Lucci was. Did he. Did they say he was awakened or was he on the verge of. I. I forget Honestly, I try not to remember awakening tidbits because it just makes my head hurt. He.

[Zach]

He did do it. It was the thing. It was the thing with the black collar thing. You know, the smoke thing, like. Yes, yeah, that. I think that was his awakened, technically.

[Stephen Paul]

Okay, so yeah, he avoided a. The fate of becoming like a big ugly cheetah with a nose. Runny nose. I guess that's probably the. The takeaway from that. Let's see, where is our next sbs? We got a couple in between here. All right, and the next sbs. The header is. It looks like it's Robin's statue from Kumamoto, but it's at the bottom of the sea, perhaps. Yeah, it looks like. I don't know. There's a bunch of stuff here. This one, notably, is written by an oomphie of the. Of the podcast with a yet another permutation of his nickname. It is now Nebobo D420 land from Hong Kong.

[Zach]

Okay.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, frequent. Frequent.

[Zach]

Got to meet him. I'm trying to remember. There were a few. I might be thinking of. Notice Skywalker, actually. Anyway, go ahead.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. So the first question is about Shanks. It says, hi, Oda Sensei. If Shanks only has one arm, how does he roll up his sleeve? Oh, that's great. Yeah. So we found an arrow.

[Vero]

Sorry. That's what Ben is around for. To pamper him and roll up his sleeves for him. He wakes up and he. Ben's like, yes, honey.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah.

[Zach]

Old man Yowie, Right?

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah. I believe if Ben's busy, it's Hongo's job.

[Stephen Paul]

Would you believe that is not the answer? So he says.

[Vero]

He says he uses hockey for it, I bet. Or some.

[Stephen Paul]

He says, what? How. Why would you think of that? I mean, it's true, but. Okay, all right. Don't worry. It's. That's just what type of shirt it is. You know, there's all kinds of shirts. You got short sleeves, you got long sleeves, you got rolled sleeves. Yep, that's it. That's it. It's a rolled sleeve shirt. Have you ever seen Shanks without his sleeves rolled? No, I didn't think so. All right, so sorry.

[Vero]

So correction. Ben sat there and stitched the sleeve rolled up.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Vero]

Cause he was like, God damn it. It keeps falling down.

[Zach]

Yeah, I like the first one more.

[Stephen Paul]

Wow, you. Yep. You cracked the case. Thank you.

[Delaney Jordan]

It's like when you're cooking and you've got stuff all over your head, like schmutz on your hands, and then your sleeve, like, unrolls and you have to like, crease it against the edge of the table to get it back up every day.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Stephen Paul]

Our next one is. This is another kind of very left field observation. Hello, Oda sensei in chapter 967. This is in Odin's flashback. The Roger pirates and Odin are looking at a giant bridge. Was that Tequila Wolf or was it Bourbon Wolf? And what is the name of the planet that the Straw Hats are adventuring on? And Oda's like, that's a Zach question.

[Zach]

I'm happy about that.

[Stephen Paul]

Second one, the ODA's answer is, what? Why would you think of that? Same thing he said last time. Okay, first of all, the name of this planet is the Blue Planet. That's what people call it. Which is interesting because why, again, why. Why would you call it the Blue Planet unless you have been looking at it from a distance? So about the bridge that Odin was looking at. As a matter of fact, it is not Tequila Wolf. How did you figure that out? He says, I'm not going to tell you if it was Bourbon Wolf or not, but it is not Tequila Wolf. I will tell you that it wasn't until chapter 1125 that we learned there are four bridges. So you wouldn't have known that in chapter 967. So what made you go back and look at that scene and wonder that. Wow, that's amazing. So interesting. I wonder why.

[Zach]

Questions. Yeah.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. I wonder why he, he was so vehement that it was not Tequila Wolf. That was interesting.

[Zach]

But there must be. There must be a story reason. There's.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, maybe they're. Yeah.

[Zach]

Blue Planet. The, the. What did they call it? That's what.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, it was. Right. The Blue Planet, maybe.

[Zach]

David Attenborough.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, that's cool. I have no idea what any of that meant. So that's good for that writer.

[Zach]

Yeah, I, I think so. He's the one who said, how would you know that if it, if you. Or was that you, Steven?

[Stephen Paul]

No, that. That was Oda's answer. Was that. That. Yes. We didn't know there were four bridges at the time of this scene. So what made you, in other words, what made you, the writer, the writer of the question, think to go back and wonder if that was Tequila Wolf or one of the other, you know, wolves instead?

[Zach]

I meant, I meant the planet one you said, like, how would you know that if it wasn't if.

[Stephen Paul]

Oh, yeah, that was me. That was.

[Zach]

Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah, I. Well, I mean, there was east, blue, north, blue south. I mean, like it makes sense. And naming convention wise, but have they ever referred to the planet as Earth in ever? Like, that's. I wonder.

[Josh McKenzie]

I know, in like, in like the general sense, right?

[Stephen Paul]

Like in. In like in the sense of the. Of the world. But I don't think they ever said, look, this is the name of the planet. So. Yeah.

[Zach]

Yeah. Interesting. That's really. I think that's very interesting.

[Stephen Paul]

And another quick little sort of lore tidbit here, which is Oda Sensei, if you have an artificial devil fruit, what happens when the user dies? So Oda says, oh, you mean like, does it turn back? Does. Does a fruit. Does it turn into a fruit again? It does not. It's just gone. So there you go. The real. The real devil fruits come back, but the artificial ones do not, which is a very good thing to know. Okay, next SBS, we have a nice little drawing of a gear 5 Luffy. And he is like. Is he blowing smoke rings?

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Stephen Paul]

But he's. But he's just making boo. Like he's making circles and then connecting them to make the B. But then it just looks like he's going, boo, baby.

[Zach]

Spooce. It's spoose.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, the boost corner.

[Zach]

Is that a thing the kids say too?

[Vero]

Nope.

[Delaney Jordan]

No specifying.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, yeah.

[Josh McKenzie]

You've actually found the one thing a child has never said.

[Vero]

Yeah, yeah. I think they're saying chicken jockey right now.

[Josh McKenzie]

What?

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah.

[Zach]

Is that a fucking thing you guys.

[Vero]

Don'T know about Chicken tail?

[Stephen Paul]

Okay. Yeah. Neither of you watching the Minecraft movie?

[Vero]

Okay, well, our listeners should know, Steven.

[Stephen Paul]

They're throwing their. Yeah, they're throwing their popcorn as they hear us say that word.

[Zach]

Well, I'm just gonna loose out of here.

[Vero]

Zach, can you say the words chicken jockey just like that into the mic for me?

[Zach]

No.

[Vero]

That'S what I was hoping you'd say.

[Delaney Jordan]

Oh, Zach, give me the content. Give me the audio. I need the audio now.

[Vero]

I'm definitely not so on retainer forever.

[Zach]

No, no, you've convinced me not to. I was thinking about it.

[Vero]

Unfortunately, I think that Usopp and Luffy would be teenagers in the movie theater throwing their popcorn at chicken. I'd like to think Usopp's above it, but the peer pressure would get to him.

[Zach]

It would. Although he'd be the one who's like, I don't want us to get in trouble. Just do it. It was thought. What do you.

[Stephen Paul]

So our next question here is about, as you can see from the. The picture and the. The arrow pointing to it, is about the hairstyle of the Celestial dragons. And the person asks, is there a name for the banana thingy on the Celestial Dragon's hairstyle? And they drew a little thing where it's like, yeah, it's the, it's that little ridge, the, you know, the dark part at the stem where a bunch of bananas come together. Which is exactly what Charles's little top naughty thing looks like. And his reaction is so funny because he's like, that's, that's called a banana thingy. Oh my God. I didn't even know. I've never heard that before. That's so funny. And then, and then he's like, okay, I looked at it. Doesn't seem like there's an official name for it. He's still talking about the banana thing. But yeah, anyways, yeah, I don't know. Nobody talks about that anyway, so. Yeah, why would you have a name for it anyways, about the Celestial Dragons hairstyle? It's called a noble opener. And it's easy to remember if you think that it's like a wine opener. So yeah, maybe I should open you guys heads, see how you like that.

[Zach]

So I did a quick Google search and apparently it has a name in English it's called the Crown.

[Stephen Paul]

Okay. It doesn't have a name in Japanese I guess.

[Josh McKenzie]

Oh, that's not tricky.

[Vero]

I would say we're on an all.

[Delaney Jordan]

Timer streak of terrible phrases. We've got banana thingy. We've got noble opener and crown. Yeah, Bad. Bad in succession.

[Vero]

I'm trying to see.

[Delaney Jordan]

Thank you for that, Oda.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, they call me the noble opener.

[Vero]

Yeah, she's trying to see my banana thingy and I see her noble open, no opener.

[Josh McKenzie]

Let's go, man.

[Zach]

But, but Steven Crown actually works super well with the Celestial.

[Stephen Paul]

That is true. Yeah.

[Zach]

So for future.

[Stephen Paul]

If only. If only Oda knew. Yeah.

[Zach]

Yeah. Well you could use it for your SPS answer.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, thanks for letting me know about that, Zach. Yeah, of course.

[Zach]

Nothing has stung more than that specific.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, that was pretty brutal, Zach.

[Zach]

That was pretty brutal. I don't think I'm making it out of this episode.

[Stephen Paul]

So our next one is about the Netflix. As you can see they got a little picture of in Yaki as Luffy and the letter is it says, you know, my, my mom never wants to watch anime or cartoons because she thinks they're childish and my friend has trouble, you know, following comics. So. But once they, once they started watching the live action show, they started reading the manga and now they're just like completely hooked on the show. Like, I'm so happy. Oda Sensei, you are amazing. You know, what kind of devil fruit do you have to eat in order to be able to draw your manga and supervise the live action at the same time? And Oda's like, oh, now this. Now this makes me feel good. Like, I. This is a wonderful letter. Thank you for sending this in. And he says that this person is from overseas, which I. Which is funny because when I read the. The comment, I was like, this sounds like something like all the American, you know, manga fans were saying, oh, yeah, my mom is reading it now. My friend picked it up. So apparently they are not from Japan. But Oda says, yes, yes, this is it. The mom who thinks that anime is too childish. Exactly. In other countries, it's normal for adults not to have any interest in animation or comics. And it used to be the same way in Japan in the past. And he says, gosh, it would be so cool if there was an international magazine that adults and children all around the world could look forward to a serialized manga comic every week. That would be so cool. Wow, that makes me so motivated. I think he's describing Shonen Jump or Manga Plus. Available in the App Store for free worldwide.

[Zach]

Shonenjump.viz.com or MangaPlus Shueisha Co JP Always.

[Delaney Jordan]

Be Plugin every week.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, the last one on this page here is. Is great. It is a return from volume 33. He ODA drew a creature called Gargon or Gagon, which was a combination. That's good.

[Steve Yerko]

It's Lady Gargan.

[Stephen Paul]

I think she. I think she did. I think she did wear this at Coachella. I'm not. She really did.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, she did. Abra cadet. Deborah.

[Zach]

Ms. Fair.

[Vero]

Steve.

[Stephen Paul]

Oh, man.

[Vero]

Start drawing.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah. Pick up the pen.

[Zach]

Don't give it to peer pressure. Don't throw the popcorn at the screen.

[Delaney Jordan]

Abracadabra by Stephen Paul.

[Stephen Paul]

So this comment is. So it's been about 20 years, but why don't we do the miracle combination again? What would happen to the crew if they were all rolled into one? What would be Super Super Gargon 3? And this is also from pen name 420lan. And so we have an updated version of the homunculus here of the crew. And this one is called the Warrior of Liberation. Nuhe n u h e. And so he has labeled all of the different things. So I'll go through this. On the left side we have Nika's little, you know, feathery boa thing. Behind his. Behind his shoulders we have Frankie's you know, big, round, rounded shoulders. Usopp's nose is sticking out of like the wrist of. Of this guy.

[Josh McKenzie]

That's so troubling.

[Zach]

That's what that is.

[Stephen Paul]

Yes. Brook's skeleton hand.

[Zach]

Nose is sticking out.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. On his right hand. Jinbe's muumu, I guess. Zoro's swords, of course. That one's pretty easy. And on the right side, we have Luffy's straw hat. Of course. Chopper's antlers are just sticking up out of the shoulders. Nami's insignia. Her tattoo is just on the. The shoulder. The Frank shoulder thing. Yeah.

[Zach]

That's actually pretty funny.

[Stephen Paul]

Robin has an extra like vestigial hand on the other, coming out of the other wrist. And then Sanji's eyebrow is just like hanging off like a string from like his water canteen or something.

[Josh McKenzie]

Horrible.

[Stephen Paul]

It is terrible.

[Vero]

I need somebody to cosplay this.

[Zach]

Did you mention the cigarette at the top as well?

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, but it's not label. I don't know who's.

[Zach]

Oh, whose cigarette that possibly be.

[Vero]

Yeah, who's.

[Delaney Jordan]

You know, the substance is an incredible film. Beautiful piece of cinema.

[Zach]

And there's a lot going on on the face too. That.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, that's true.

[Zach]

We don't need to mention because it's horrifying.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. Luffy Scar. Zoro Scar.

[Zach]

Yeah. All the scars. All the scars this guy has.

[Stephen Paul]

Is it.

[Zach]

Or who's.

[Stephen Paul]

Whose stubble is that?

[Zach]

Whose stubble?

[Stephen Paul]

I know, the stubble. Yeah, the stubble was on the. The older two, so. Yeah. Yeah.

[Josh McKenzie]

I mean, Gargoyle had a time skip as well, so it's only natural.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah.

[Vero]

It got Zoro's. What is. What's the Belly band. I forgot the actual name for it.

[Stephen Paul]

The Haramaki.

[Vero]

That's what it is.

[Stephen Paul]

Yes, that's true. Yep.

[Delaney Jordan]

He's kind of got sideburns. Whose sideburns are those?

[Josh McKenzie]

Jim Bae.

[Stephen Paul]

Oh, yeah. It's Jim Bae. Yeah.

[Josh McKenzie]

Like 45 times. They're very annoying to draw.

[Zach]

Why are you drawing Jim bae?

[Delaney Jordan]

I know those handlebars.

[Josh McKenzie]

Because we have the same birthday. I've drawn Zeph just as many times.

[Zach]

Good old April 2nd. I haven't heard any of the listeners yelling through their microphone to say Happy birthday to either.

[Josh McKenzie]

That's so true. The hateful listeners have not yet wished us happy birthday.

[Delaney Jordan]

The odious members of our audience.

[Zach]

That felt. I'm trying to channel Josh as much as I can this week.

[Vero]

Hey, guys, if you're listening, I like you. Thanks for being here.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. Delaney does not speak for the one piece.

[Josh McKenzie]

That's actually True.

[Vero]

I don't think you smell bad.

[Zach]

I never said that.

[Josh McKenzie]

Before we continue. This is just for Vero, I guess, but I think that the fame monster born this way in artpop would be pre Timeskip Gaga.

[Zach]

Okay.

[Josh McKenzie]

And then Joanne Chromatica and Mayhem are post Timeskip Gaga. Lower in quality, but still the canon.

[Vero]

Yes.

[Stephen Paul]

Thanks everybody.

[Delaney Jordan]

Joker Folia do is movie Movie era Gaga.

[Vero]

Yeah, that's Movie five.

[Delaney Jordan]

House of Gucci. One Piece Movie House of Gucci.

[Zach]

Wow. This is a really specific intersection. And I'm positive there are definitely you.

[Vero]

Called in the gay battalion. I don't know what you mean.

[Zach]

No, I'm not complaining. I'm just.

[Vero]

I'm noting how specific singled us out.

[Zach]

No, we're babysitters. Okay. Didn't we agree on that?

[Stephen Paul]

All right, our next.

[Vero]

I have something to say and I'm going to keep my mouth shut.

[Zach]

I'm sorry.

[Vero]

Can you hear you? That's a first.

[Stephen Paul]

Our next segment, we have a very busy header here. It looks like it is Chopper. He's in his Elbaf fit and he is running away from Master Iscat from the castle in Elbaf.

[Zach]

Running away. He looks thrilled.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, he looks excited. The cat looks furious.

[Zach]

Maybe he doesn't have spot.

[Vero]

He's right behind me, isn't he?

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. Yeah. This actually, this could be. Oh my God. Chopper. He doesn't see it. He doesn't know. He doesn't know. This is like a split second before. Before he gets killed.

[Vero]

Yeah. Topper is not a final girl.

[Stephen Paul]

Oh, no. Our first question here is about Hanafuda, who if you don't remember, I would not blame you. Was revealed in the volume 109SBS. This was the. This was the. The Edge Master who was the Warlord of the Sea. The Seven Warlords before the series. And Ace defeated him. And that was what created the opening for Kuma to be made the Warlord that was revealed in the sbs. And so this question is, is Hanafuda the father of Ulti and Page one? And Oda's like, what? Okay, so yeah, this guy. This is. This was the guy who was in the Seven Warlords and then got beaten by Ace. Oh, man. I was trying to keep this a secret, but okay, yes, I'll admit it. He is the father of Ulti and page one. So I didn't. Just speaking at me as me Steven. Like, I had no idea where this was coming from. But then I remembered he does. He does mention a little detail that was part of Hanafuda's profile. So Oda continues. The main thing here is the relationship between Hanafuda and Kaido. They were rival pirates at one point, but due to a shared goal, they found they ended up fighting on the same side. And Hanafuda actually like, trusted. He had so much faith in Kaido that he was willing to, to send his own children to, you know, to, to work for Kaido.

[Zach]

His hobby is an internship.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, well, his, his hobby which was mentioned, which was collecting zoan devil fruits. And I remember thinking, that sounds like Kaido's thing. His hobby of collecting zoan devil fruits was for the benefit of the Animal Kingdom pirates, the beast pirates. And I was gonna ask, like, I.

[Steve Yerko]

Was gonna ask, how is he able to tell that there's own fruits? And I realized, oh, they probably all got like leopard print on them.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, yeah, like kitty ears on them.

[Stephen Paul]

Right, right.

[Steve Yerko]

I wonder, this flamingo shaped fruit is beating a dead horse with that joke.

[Stephen Paul]

But he says, yeah, Hanafuda was so enamored of Kaido's strength that, you know, he really wanted, he wanted to make Kaido the king of the pirates. After he was defeated by Ace and lost the warlord title, however, he was on his way to, to see his kids. He was, he was sailing to get to his children when, you know, some pirates who had a grudge against him. Now that he no longer has the, the backing of the government, he was waylaid by other pirates and killed. So that's why he's, he's not in the story anymore.

[Josh McKenzie]

So, fellas, is it gay to give your children to another guy to work forever?

[Delaney Jordan]

Is it, is it, is it gay to be the Edge master?

[Zach]

I saw that joke. I. Yeah, yeah, Vera, I know, I know.

[Vero]

We were edging you.

[Zach]

Okay.

[Steve Yerko]

We still don't have Delaney.

[Josh McKenzie]

Isolate the footage.

[Zach]

Don't isolate anything.

[Steve Yerko]

Like, I, I really come across some like, really high quality art of this Hanafuda drawing. So I have no idea what exactly this guy looks like, but yeah, he's either got a big grin or that's a skeleton face.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, I like that. He's like ocean Batman. Like, if he got a haircut, we could really be cooking Ocean Batman.

[Zach]

I feel like I just assumed that was a poof on the hat.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, I, I feel like I compared him to the guy in Lord of the Rings who was like the mouthpiece of Sauron or something because he had, he had a big helmet where you couldn't see his eyes. He looked real gross. And this guy kind of reminds me of that.

[Zach]

It's.

[Steve Yerko]

It's amazing. What? Like what different people are interpreting it as? Like, some think it's, oh, it's like a big, toothy, like, grimace. Other people like, oh, it's a mustache.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. I don't know. Couldn't tell you. Our next comment here is from a school child here who says, hi, Oda Sensei. At school, I said, I quoted Sanji's diabla jamb, and I spun around on the spot and all of my friends completely ignored me. Where did I go or what? What's wrong with this picture? And Oda's answer is society. So this aunt is out here joker pilling our children.

[Vero]

I was gonna say I see Sanji as in the joker makeup.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah.

[Josh McKenzie]

The jokerfication of Japan's youth.

[Vero]

Oh, God.

[Zach]

Your opinions of Oda Vero have been all over the place this week.

[Delaney Jordan]

It's been a trip.

[Vero]

Saying it's been. That's good. I was expecting him to make a clear, clear fruit joke or something, but.

[Zach]

No, he just says, society is a great aunt. That's good humor.

[Delaney Jordan]

I can't wait for next week when Sanji whips out that folly. Ado, starring Joaquin Phoenix.

[Vero]

How does it go? You do three sword style and nobody bats an eye.

[Delaney Jordan]

Nobody bats an eye.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah.

[Vero]

You turn your leg on fire and.

[Delaney Jordan]

Society, suddenly everybody goes crazy.

[Stephen Paul]

Our next. Our last SBS segment here starts off with an illustration of Roto and his cat, and he is putting together Legos to make sbs. This one is very heartwarming. I dig it.

[Zach]

I do like this one.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, me and Jupiter. Yeah, it's me and Simba.

[Zach]

It just knocks it down.

[Vero]

Who is that?

[Zach]

That was me.

[Josh McKenzie]

Delaney.

[Delaney Jordan]

Once again, enjoy having that footage immortalized.

[Zach]

Hey, I go around the house. I go around the house. Delaney.

[Steve Yerko]

Zach, when he calls the ocelot un.

[Zach]

Why do I open myself up to you people?

[Steve Yerko]

This is Zach at 4:30 Pacific Time on Sunday.

[Stephen Paul]

Come, kittens, it's time to podcast.

[Zach]

How did you know? That's what I say to myself before I God to the cat cave.

[Josh McKenzie]

And then, ooh, shalazaka.

[Zach]

Oh, sorry, Stephen, we've ruined this podcast already. Go for it.

[Stephen Paul]

The first one here is. Is very adorable. You can see the. The pen name is Catella Valentin. So I think this might be a French person. And their message is, hello, my little Oda. How. I want to know, how did kid steal the poneglyph of big Mom? I send you many kisses. And Oda says, okay, thank you. This is from France. I appreciate the mistranslations are very cute. I receive your kisses with little heart.

[Vero]

This is how French people talk.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Zach]

I was gonna say this is. I send you the kisses. I'm off. I am just gone today.

[Steve Yerko]

This is just more inspiration for how Oda writes Sanji.

[Zach]

Yeah, a little bit of French.

[Vero]

He's gonna have Sanji in the next chapter be like society. And then he turns around and he's.

[Delaney Jordan]

Like, nami, I blow you some kisses.

[Zach]

If Steve doesn't draw that, Vero, you should draw that.

[Stephen Paul]

So the. The answer to the question of how did Kid steal the poneglyph from Big Mom? So Kid. First Kid attacked the. A. A ship, a pirate ship of the Big mom fleet. And he totally beat up Snack. The. The. The. The. What would they call it? The Four Generals or the. No, the Sweet Four. That was what they were called. And Snack was the fourth one. And he got beaten so bad by Kid that they. She just contracted them to the Sweet Three rather than naming a replacement. Okay, so Kid beat Snack. Snack was pleading for his life, and Kid forced him to get a copy of the Road Poneglyph and bring it to him. And then Kid left. That's it. That's the story. Now, because he left, the rest of the world has assumed that he. He got it and he ran away from Big mom in order to escape. But the truth is that, no, he just did what he came for and. And left successfully. So that is the truth of their encounter. One more here from a reader who says when Jimbe brushes his teeth, does he use the same type of toothbrush as the rest of them? I would assume that it would be difficult to brush his teeth with a, you know, a regular human sized toothbrush. And Oda says Ajimbe brushes his teeth with a. With like a. Like a rubbing sponge. Like a body sponge with a handle on it. And he only. He only really focuses on the big fangs, the big tusks that he has.

[Steve Yerko]

He has a floss.

[Josh McKenzie]

You have got.

[Stephen Paul]

Wait, wait, the other teeth. Once a week, he simply goes and grows a new pair, a new set of teeth. Since he is a shark, he could easily grow new teeth and replace them.

[Vero]

Jinbe has crazy breath.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Zach]

He's Gang Fishman. He has fish breath.

[Vero]

Okay, Sanji, today's.

[Delaney Jordan]

Why would you.

[Vero]

Sanji's like, thank God I can use garlic.

[Delaney Jordan]

Why would you assume that he has fish breath, Zach?

[Vero]

Huh? It's kind of racist. Good.

[Delaney Jordan]

Fucking hell, man.

[Vero]

I don't think he's eating fish.

[Steve Yerko]

I brush my teeth with a rag on a stick.

[Zach]

Oh my God.

[Josh McKenzie]

Finally some good lore.

[Zach]

No, that's fantastic.

[Vero]

The only thing that I've heard that makes Jinbe sound not attractive so far.

[Delaney Jordan]

It took us a while. We finally found one con.

[Vero]

Every. Every man has a flaw.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. Now you. Now Steve has to draw Jim Bey just with a little white washcloth on his junk. Last one here to take us out is someone who says, Gear five Gum Gum, dawn paper. And so you get a little, you know, Gear five Luffy with his white. And Oda is like, oh, oh no, stop. It's. It's turning blank. It's going back to a blank page. And like the. The font strength is getting lighter and lighter as you go down each line. He's like, okay, all right. This is the end of the sps. See you next time. And so that is the end of our SBS commentary this week. However, as I told you earlier, we do have this little 10 questions and answers segment with Oda. And so I'll try to go through these briefly, because as I said, some of these have been covered in the volumes already. Let's see. The first one is about the Gear five. You know, the. The little. The robe, the Hagomoto Hagoromo as they call it in Japanese. The little sort of sacred robe thing that floats around Luffy's back and it says, how does it. How does it work that Luffy is pulling like baseball helmets and goggles out of this thing? Please tell me how it works. And Oda says it is the entrance to Nika's imagination. So little pithy answer there. Yeah. The second one is Sabo pretty much immediately started using the flame Flame Fruit, you know, with. With almost a masterful level. Uh, has he been doing or. He's been. He's been exhibiting the power quite impressively. Has he done any kind of training in order to use the flame Flame Fruit? Better notice. Yes. He's been training every single day. You know, he says now that he has his memory back, I'm sure that SAO has many thoughts about this, which I guess is just supposed to be like he thinks about Ace as he trains or something. So yeah, that's got to be tough for Sabo, I suppose. Next question. Number three. Has Dragon ever lived with Luffy? And he says at the very least, Luffy does not remember living with Dragon. Unlike Bartholomew Kuma, Dragon is the leader. He's. He's the full on leader of the revolutionary army. And because of that, if his family connection to Luffy were to be made public, it would cause danger to Luffy as well. I wonder how he feels being separated from his family. I wonder what he thought, seeing his son at Loguetown.

[Vero]

Dragon has the reputation as, like, the most deadbeat of deadbeat dads in the fandom. And I wonder if Oda one day is going to be like, you stupid bitches. You thought Kuma's backstory was sad?

[Stephen Paul]

Oh, yeah.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Vero]

You're gonna take it back. Okay.

[Josh McKenzie]

He went to Logtown just to save him. He loves his weird little boy.

[Steve Yerko]

Jury's out on Yasop, though. I don't know what the heck.

[Zach]

Yeah, yeah.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yasop's actively a worse father, I think.

[Steve Yerko]

And I will defend Kuina's father. Kawina's father's only shitty in the anime.

[Vero]

Oh.

[Stephen Paul]

Oh. Is there a difference? Oh, yeah.

[Steve Yerko]

Oh, they like. I mean, the. The anime flashback is just more extended. And he's the one who tells, like, Kawina to her face that she'll never be.

[Josh McKenzie]

I was gonna say. What'd he do, push her down the stairs?

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, it was very suspicious that she just fell down the stairs.

[Vero]

Yeah, those late term abortions those fucking crazy Republicans are talking about.

[Zach]

Oh, what's you freaking.

[Stephen Paul]

I don't know.

[Steve Yerko]

Is it Koshiro? What was his name again?

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, I think Koshiro.

[Vero]

Yeah, I don't think pushing kids down the stairs is kosher.

[Steve Yerko]

Hey, Koshiro, why do you have a bloody handprint on your white bronco?

[Stephen Paul]

Wow.

[Josh McKenzie]

Oh, no.

[Zach]

Is this an O.J. simpson?

[Josh McKenzie]

Yes. Yes, it is.

[Delaney Jordan]

Koshiro answering the door and the no, officer, I don't know where my husband is.

[Josh McKenzie]

Oh. In the just killed my husband robe.

[Zach]

In the same sweater you're wearing right now. Delaney with Debbie Todd.

[Vero]

She is not wearing I just killed my husband sweater, thank you very much.

[Zach]

Do you have one of those? No. Okay, I was just gonna say I 100%. I 100% agree with Vero, though, about the Dragon backstory. I think that's.

[Vero]

I can't wait. Personally, I don't give a fuck who Luffy's mom is. I never have to know. It's so not important to me.

[Zach]

It's Dadan as far as we should care.

[Vero]

It's exactly.

[Stephen Paul]

Okay, question four is about the Blackbeard ship being called the Saber of Xebec. Does this have anything to do with Rox D. Xebeck? And Oda says, well, Xebec is the name of a type of sailboat. So it could be a coincidence or it could not be a coincidence.

[Zach]

What a great answer.

[Vero]

Thanks.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, I feel like. I feel like I definitely did that same cadence when reading these Questions before, but question five, the. Let's see, comics. The Divine Departure. Was that in it? The, the one that Shanks used that destroyed Kid in one blow. Was that a move he learned from Roger or did he just sort of copy it from, you know, based on imit? Did he imitate him? And Otis says he learned it by watching Roger. It was the kind of thing. It was the kind of thing that no one else in the Roger Pirates could ever copy. So the fact that Shanks could do it was just a sign of his incredible talent. Very cool.

[Zach]

Steve, you're not going to make the reference. Go ahead. I learned it by watching you. That one.

[Steve Yerko]

Yeah, I was thinking about it, but then like kind of the time passed. You know me. I don't, I don't like trying to get my, my shit in.

[Delaney Jordan]

Shanks beating the shit out of Kid's ship while screaming, this is what your family goes through and your friends and your money.

[Josh McKenzie]

I don't know what that is, Selene, but I love the energy.

[Vero]

I'm invincible.

[Zach]

This is your brain on drugs.

[Steve Yerko]

Yeah. This is your brain on drugs with.

[Delaney Jordan]

Yeah, that's what I was doing.

[Vero]

Yeah, I get it.

[Josh McKenzie]

I'm too young. I wouldn't know it.

[Vero]

Yeah, we're too young and youthful and.

[Zach]

Full of what's her face with what's.

[Steve Yerko]

Her face from Charmed.

[Zach]

Like the early season.

[Josh McKenzie]

Alyssa Milano.

[Zach]

Okay, now the time has passed.

[Stephen Paul]

Question 6 is how the Cross Guild bounty. I definitely remember doing this in the sbs. It is just an explanation of the Cross Guild bounty posters and how a crown is worth, what was it, 10 stars and each star, so star is worth 100 million berries. So a crown is worth 3, 1 billion and so an admiral is worth 5 crowns. Or excuse me, the. The fleet admiral is 5 crowns and admirals worth 3 crowns. And then 5, 2 and 1 for like vice admiral, rear admiral, etc. Etc. So basically just breaking down the numbers on what the, the bounties are worth. Question seven is. Let's see. So as the 10th ship captain of the Blackbeard crew, Kuzan, aka Aokiji, what sort of jobs is he doing for them and does he have followers on his crew? Otis says he does have subordinates on the. Within the Blackbeard crew, he doesn't seem like the type of guy who would just do whatever Blackbeard tells him to do. To Kuzan, joining a pirate crew is less about the opportunity to commit acts of evil than it is to live freely. But you know, as, as a member of the Blackbeard pirates It is undeniable that his. His presence and his actions have led to victims. It has created victims in, you know, among innocent people. So, yep, he's not. He's no angel, that's for sure. Question 8 is about the addition of Fujitora and Ryokugyu to the Navy through the World draft. Like, how did that work? This is another one that he did cover in the sbs. Just in short, the world draft was held. They were picked from like, basically defense, like military positions, soldiers from members, member countries of the world government. And so the. The Navy basically headhunted the ones that they wanted and pulled them into the Navy structure. And so that's where Fujitora and Ryokugyu came from. I don't think he says it here, but he did. He did give their backstories of where those two guys specifically came from in the SBS recently. But the. The eight country revolution that happened recently, one of the causes of that was the weakening of national defense in those nations because of the world draft. So it has backfired in a sense. Very interesting.

[Josh McKenzie]

Ryoku is so gross, man. He's like that person in the Guinness Book of World Records with like the. The fingernails that have grown into like.

[Stephen Paul]

Oh, yeah, yeah, he's icky, ma'.

[Vero]

Am.

[Zach]

He's supposed to be gross. He's a fascist.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, well, they nailed it. They nailed it with the gross fingers.

[Zach]

As all fascists have.

[Stephen Paul]

Question nine again, another. Another retread here is how did. What happened in the Rocky Port incident, which was the reason that Kobe was known as a hero. And so, yeah, the basic refresher on that is that there was a ship called the Rocky Port. It was not an actual port called Rocky. It was. Yeah, it was a. A giant, see, what is it? It was a big, like a cruise ship that got hijacked and taken to Pirate Island. And the. The crew on the board the ship were a king of a certain nation and a couple of dignitaries. Let's see. And what was it? It's a complicated thing. It is in the sbs. I did go over that before, and I'm starting to lose my voice here. So let's just quickly round out with question 10, which is Saint Garling, since he was called upon to help quell the incident at God Valley. How much battle power does he have? Like, how strong is he? And Oda says he is very strong. And he has. There is a reason for his strength. That's all he tells us. And yeah, we know that he's strong now because he is now one of the five Elders.

[Zach]

So I still liked the idea that existed in my brain that the five Elders were just a couple, a bunch of old guys without any sort of actual physical strength. But here we are.

[Stephen Paul]

No, it's a. It's a shonen comic. It's got to have badasses. Yeah.

[Steve Yerko]

These guys kind of have million kajillion power levels.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah.

[Steve Yerko]

Steven, sorry. I wanted to ask because I was on mute earlier. I think I missed this part. What was the reason for, like, including some of these questions again?

[Stephen Paul]

It was. It was a Q and A that he did in Jump when he was on an extended break. I believe it was the. The South Africa trip that we later found out it was the South Africa trip. And so they. They ran this, like, to. To hold people over. They did this little 10 question and answer thing with him that ran in Jump in one piece's absence, and he did cover a lot of it. But I. I feel like eventually they reached the decision, like, oh, actually. Well, what probably happened, this is my guess is when they make these volumes, they have to have. I want to say it's like multiples of 16 are the, like the. The leafs or the. The. The booklets of paper when you. When you bind a book together and so you always end up with certain numbers of pages. Like, it's not just going to be any random multiply multiple of two. It's always going to be a multiple of something larger. I think it's 16. It might be 8. I'm not sure.

[Zach]

Yeah, there's no ads in this one, right? I don't think there's a single one.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, the ads are only on the dust cover, But I'm guessing that what happened was they wanted. They were like, okay, how many chapters can we fit into this? You know, which. Which chapter do you want to end on? And I think they just ended up with a couple extra pages. And I think they just said, all right, well, we've. We. Yeah, we've covered some of these things before, but we can, you know, we can redo the graphics on these and put them in at the end of this volume to fill, you know, another four pages. That would be my guess. But before we.

[Zach]

Before we leave this segment, I'd be remiss. I don't know who has it in front of them, but the USOPS gallery this week has some, like, excellent ones, including the fashion magazine Whoopslap. That's my personal favorite.

[Vero]

That's cute.

[Zach]

It's excellent. Damn.

[Josh McKenzie]

Come on, gq.

[Vero]

Yeah, I wanted world sexiest Man, I.

[Zach]

Want more really boring characters featured in such a way.

[Vero]

Who's your favorite boring one piece character?

[Zach]

I think whoopslap is my answer for that.

[Stephen Paul]

It is pretty good. Yeah.

[Josh McKenzie]

Well, check out this. Check out this Kizaru one in the bottom left.

[Zach]

Yeah, like, that is so like. It kind of reminds me. Almost a Muppet. Yeah. I was gonna say they're. Yeah, they're kind of. Yeah, the super. I want to say grim, but like.

[Josh McKenzie]

No, I mean, it's yaoi for sure. Like, look at that.

[Zach]

Oh, no. The crocodile is yaoi. Do you see that one, Josh?

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, he just likes his little banana dials. I don't know what the problem.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, yeah.

[Zach]

Okay. I'm sorry. No one's imagining.

[Stephen Paul]

What is.

[Josh McKenzie]

Why can't I hold all these banana dials?

[Vero]

Is taking the picture. Do Flamingo's taking the picture.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, there it is.

[Vero]

Family photo.

[Zach]

There's also in the middle because they have some Usopp gallery in the middle version. I'm gonna try and find it again. But they have a version of one of the summer color spreads. But it's the Blackbeard Pirates. And it's excellent just because I do always like the idea. Like, oh, imagine the pirates doing. I'm trying to find it here, but it's page 92. That doesn't help me. There's not really page numbers on any of the pages except the sps, but I'll find it.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, it's. It's that I. I realize this also doesn't narrow it down, but it's the one where Nami is like perpendicular to the camera here. And I got it.

[Zach]

If anyone wants to look at. If anyone of you.

[Stephen Paul]

It's really hard to see because it's a very small reproduction and it's was probably originally colored, but I don't know.

[Zach]

I think it's funny when I. When you see the BlackBerry pirates trying to be the straw hats. Okay, thank you, Steven. Any other questions for Steven?

[Stephen Paul]

Oh, I forgot. I did. I did include a little bonus illustration which if you don't recognize that it is a photo evidence of the redrawn ax on Luffy's back that he accidentally drew as a sword in that one chapter in Elbaf where we were so confused and it was.

[Zach]

Everything was wrong.

[Stephen Paul]

He said gear four elephant gun. Like this. MF said Gear four Elephant gun. And so they changed it back to gear third and they redrew. He redrew it so that it's an ax handle properly now. And yeah, it's all consistent again.

[Zach]

I I knew it. At that. I feel like I. Yeah, it's almost definitely a mistake, Steven.

[Stephen Paul]

It was so weird.

[Vero]

Do you have a favorite piece part segment blurb that you got to translate? And in this volume, like in the manga, like itself, like a scene.

[Zach]

Oh, in the chat, yeah.

[Vero]

Was there anything you had the most fun with, I guess in this.

[Zach]

Or is that. I guess even just.

[Vero]

Or is this just always long and arduous and awful and.

[Stephen Paul]

Or doing the sbs?

[Zach]

You mean either way or. Or the.

[Vero]

I meant the actual manga itself. It's okay if you want to say the sbs.

[Stephen Paul]

I mean, I don't know. It's hard. There's always highlights, but.

[Zach]

Which is a great.

[Stephen Paul]

There's probably some. Some shtick that I remember really enjoying. But it's like I have to. I have to actually see it too. Sure, yeah. And have it on the tip of my tongue.

[Zach]

I'm sure it's a pun.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah. Those are usually the most fun.

[Zach]

Like King Baum, you know. That's best part of whole cake island, as we all know. Okay, thank you again, Steven. Always fun. We'll do. I think we have a couple of piece together. So we'll do that and then we'll round off. Do we have a yaoi Thunderdome?

[Vero]

Do you want a Yaoi Thunderdome? I can put one together.

[Delaney Jordan]

I've never done yaoi Thunderdome, like ever once.

[Vero]

Delaney wants yaoi Thunderdome, I think. Is that what the request is?

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Vero]

So I'll stop sewing. Hold on.

[Zach]

Okay, so we'll do that after we do some piece together.

[Vero]

Okay. Yeah.

[Stephen Paul]

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[Josh McKenzie]

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[Stephen Paul]

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[Vero]

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[Zach]

Hold on to your banana thingy because the noble opener is coming. Here is the piece together segment. Look, that's what they're called. That's the official scientific name. What's our first segment, Josh?

[Josh McKenzie]

Our first segment is this piece. So SMP says. Hey, Opp. Not sure if this is the break week when Steven translated SBS Volume 11 or SGS. You now know the answer to this question. So I was in my usual reread chapters and break week routine and this panel on the Last page of 1143 kind of confused me. But what is it with the take a look at the woods around us line from Loki? It seems to not make sense in this context for me. Is this some English or Japanese idioms that I don't know of? I'm not a native English speaker, so perhaps that's why. And I can link you the panel if you like.

[Zach]

Let's see, it's the.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, instead of indulging in your petty personal drama, take a look at the woods around us. They all say went and killed dead with pure murder. That might be one. Yeah. So that might be one where I will end up changing it. Because in retrospect, now that we're a couple chapters past that, I don't think we've really seen any follow up from the woods. So it might have been intended more of like a take a look at the. At the. The, you know, you, you miss the. The woods for the trees sort of an idiom where you need to look at the big picture is maybe what he is intending for Loki to say. But at the time I didn't know because he did. He does say. He does just say look at the woods and you know, they're surrounded by woods. So it would stand to reason that maybe there's some plot reason, maybe he's referring to something specific. But now I'm not quite so sure about that. So he could just be talking about, you know, the big picture.

[Josh McKenzie]

Can I ask a quick Josh question? How much.

[Zach]

Are you able to change.

[Josh McKenzie]

The dialogue between the releases and the volumes?

[Stephen Paul]

I mean, I can pretty much write down anything that I want changed. I submit a list of changes basically once the volume is out. And I'm like, okay, it's time to translate the sbs do all that stuff. I do go with a fine tooth comb through each chapter and I will check for any changes in the text in Japanese. And then I will also update my Word documents with all of the, you know, any Changes that may have happened in editing, just so I. I have an updated version of that. And then I will say, okay, is there anything I want to change? Sometimes I'll make notes on certain things. Like, if I learn something about a certain scene and I'm like, oh, I. I got this wrong, or, oh, I need to take a second look at that. I will like, highlight them and kind of save them to look at again later. And then I usually just compile a big list of changes of things that I want adjusted. And sometimes it'll be just like little proofreading things like, oh, I don't. Like, I didn't realize I was using this word in consecutive sentences or something like that. Sometimes I'll do little tweaks like that. But usually it's just like, if there was an error or some kind of text, like, there was a problem with the text. But I don't generally go back and just be like, I'm not feeling this anymore. I want to do it this other way. I usually try to stick to my guns with that and cause less work for everybody else. But, yeah, I don't know. Hypothetically, there's probably some type of stuff where if I was trying to ask for something a little too far out into left field, the. The editor might say, like, nah, let's not do that. But I don't know. I don't really. Like, there's no dialogue after that. Like, I just turn it in. I'm like, here's the changes. Here's the. The bonus material. And then the next time I see it, it's, you know, on the shelves.

[Zach]

That's interesting to piggyback off of that. Now, I have a question. Sorry to make you talk so much this week, Steven. Can you think of the most substantial change you made between the lease and the volume?

[Stephen Paul]

I mean, not off the top of my head. You know, there's definitely been. Yeah, there's definitely been stuff where there was a. You know, there have been mistakes. There have been, like, stuff we didn't know that you see in retrospect. And you're like, oh, well, well, let's definitely change this. But I. I don't. I. There's nothing that in my head is like, oh, that was the big one.

[Zach]

No tree puns or anything that you, you know, improved upon on a second.

[Stephen Paul]

No, I. I give them a perfect script every time. That's.

[Zach]

That's true. That's true. That's.

[Josh McKenzie]

Print it. Print it. I've done it.

[Zach]

That's it. We're done with that.

[Josh McKenzie]

Thank you, Stephen.

[Zach]

Thank.

[Josh McKenzie]

So this, this is not a question. This is a demand that we have already failed. Big Mike says, I wish those perverts on the One Piece podcast would stop trying to corrupt our youth by reading out loud the horny SBS questions during the volume recap. Sorry, Big Mike, we've. Yeah, we've done it again.

[Vero]

Us or some.

[Stephen Paul]

I told. I said no horny questions this time. And I stick by that.

[Delaney Jordan]

Big Mike, the OPP failed you, but Stephen Paul also failed you.

[Stephen Paul]

Wow.

[Vero]

Really?

[Delaney Jordan]

When you think about it, society failed you.

[Vero]

Society. This is society.

[Zach]

And this is society's fault. Yeah, it's mostly society's.

[Vero]

Guys, I think this is Toei's fault.

[Josh McKenzie]

So that's piece.

[Zach]

So is is toy part of society. So I, I. There's a, there's a few other things in this segment I want to do. First. I asked the question earlier. Which devil fruit would you most not want?

[Stephen Paul]

Like, oh, are you giving us homework?

[Zach]

Yeah, earlier. And now we're at this point in the show. If any of you had thought of one. If not, it's fine.

[Vero]

Hold on.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, easy, Kaiser clown. That devil fruit sucks. It's gross. It's gross. I don't want to be the gas guy. That's not a very sexy way to be.

[Vero]

Gas guy is what they call me.

[Josh McKenzie]

After I. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying. Because you show up to the function with the gas gas fruit and it's over. You're not going home with anybody and.

[Zach]

You make that annoying noise that's in the anime for like every scene he's in.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, they're whooping your ass in the group chat for sure.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Vero]

And see, I'm struggling to remember what is a devil fruit and who's just a weird guy.

[Zach]

Give me some examples. Now I'm curious who you're debating that with.

[Vero]

I don't know, Mom. I'm running through some whole Cake island people because there were some freaks there.

[Zach]

I mean, the Funk brother. What's the. The jacket fruit is an easy.

[Vero]

Actually, I retract my earlier answer. I do want Big Mom's fruit. I do in fact want to make all of my stuffed animals alive with other people's souls. I think that rules.

[Delaney Jordan]

Fuck yeah.

[Vero]

That like to be a terror. And you know what? I would do it too. Back when I used to work at Starbucks, I would, I would do it to customers without.

[Zach]

Yeah, you know, I just realized that therapists should ask this question upon sending in people.

[Delaney Jordan]

What you just learned is that me and Vera are the scariest Clear Fruit podcast.

[Vero]

Thank you.

[Zach]

Yeah, no, we knew that.

[Vero]

I reign with terror.

[Zach]

You both scare the shit out of me. I wish there was. There wasn't truth in that.

[Vero]

Steve, do I scare you?

[Zach]

He nodded.

[Delaney Jordan]

Listeners, since this is an audio medium, Steve just gave the most beleaguered look I've ever seen him make him back to the ground.

[Vero]

I'm annoyed. Zoom isn't showing me his face, so I actually. I don't know, I just have to imagine.

[Zach]

Yeah, we're trying to help. We also got a few weeks ago a question on Blue skypiea that I meant to ask. It was literally asked like four minutes after we stopped recording saying. And it is so relevant because it's still going on in the manga. I broke down and cried when I got to the panel that told what the thorn. Thorn fruit had done to the children and the implications for what may be to come. I'm a 48 year old mom, so the evil broke me and I had to stop and find a tissue. So I wonder, have you ever cried over a manga panel? I think most of us.

[Vero]

Boy, have I.

[Josh McKenzie]

Welcome to the One Piece podcast.

[Vero]

This is the crying podcast. I wish I still had that picture of me reading Marine Ford. I think I remember it was ugly. I feel like I can answer for everybody. Yes, Zach, what made you cry the most?

[Zach]

The Robin flashback in the anime. Definitely, definitely. Because that was a kid's voice too. And at the time I watched it. So this is like 17 years ago or something. But chopper stuff, I think even on reread in the manga, like is very. I don't know, it's like those are both stories about like kids who are like kind of just treat like crap and it's just awful. Making me tear up a little now. So similar, similar vibe here to this guy is so comically evil though. It's like I'm able to enjoy him on a. Wow, this guy's really evil and ridiculous on that level a little bit. Versus like I know Sakazuki or something who's just, you know, a dick. Yeah, that's for you, Josh, specifically.

[Josh McKenzie]

He's. He's. He's hot. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say.

[Zach]

If I learned anything from Delaney about improv, I'm shutting that down. No more jokes. See, that's what we call bringing it back. That's what they do in the improv thing. Anyway, let's round off the podcast and wait, do we have some other segment for people that we already mentioned anime. We did that already.

[Vero]

Are you. Are you in the mood for some trivia, Zach? Some. Some well researched and very enlightening trivia.

[Zach]

Okay, we'll get to that in a moment. Let's round off and do that, whatever that may be.

[Delaney Jordan]

Eczema isn't always obvious, but it's real.

[Stephen Paul]

And so is the relief from Ebglis.

[Vero]

After an initial dosing phase, about 4.

[Delaney Jordan]

In 10 people taking EBGLIS achieved itch.

[Stephen Paul]

Relief and clear or almost clear skin at 16 weeks.

[Vero]

And most of those people maintain skin.

[Delaney Jordan]

That'S still more clear at one year with monthly dosing.

[Stephen Paul]

EBGLIS Lebricizumab LBKZ, a 250mg 2ml injection.

[Zach]

Is a prescription medicine used to treat.

[Stephen Paul]

Adults and children 12 years of age older who weigh at least 88 pounds.

[Zach]

Or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe eczema, also called atopic dermatitis, that is.

[Stephen Paul]

Not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin or topicals or who cannot use topical therapies. EBGLIS can be used with or without topical corticosteroids.

[Zach]

Don't use if you're allergic to Ebglis.

[Stephen Paul]

Allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. Eye problems can occur. Tell your doctor if you have new or worsening eye problems. You should not receive a live vaccine.

[Zach]

When treated with Ebglis.

[Stephen Paul]

Before starting Epglis, tell your doctor if.

[Zach]

You have a parasitic infection surgeon.

[Stephen Paul]

For real relief, ask your doctor about.

[Delaney Jordan]

Epgliss and visit epgliss.lily.com or call 1-800-lilyrx or 1-800-545-5979.

[Zach]

This has been the One Piece podcast episode 864 for Monday, April 14th. Thank you all for coming on the show. If you haven't, please subscribe to us on Patreon. I forgot to plug that at the beginning. Patreon.com One Piece podcast. Amazing stuff. Including Steve. Very good images once again this week. Alternate images and all that alternate titles. My doodle of a banana that I think is in orange instead of yellow. So that's pretty good. You could check all that out. And also we have exclusive episodes, exclusive podcasts, including forced to watch 4Kids ad. They're all ad free. So it's five bucks a month. Why not? Why are you waiting? Why don't you just stop this podcast, go subscribe and then continue listening. Or you could do two things at once, I guess. Whatever. Steven, Steven, huge thanks for once again taking us through. Despite all of Our interruptions.

[Stephen Paul]

And I knew what I signed up for.

[Zach]

Yeah, yeah, okay, Stephen, thanks. Thanks again. Where can people find you?

[Stephen Paul]

You can find me on blue sky at StevenPaul, BSGuy Social, and as always, every week you've got Akane Banashi, One Piece, you got Shoha Shoten and Trillion Game. All those are simulpubbed on Shonen Jump and Manga plus, so check them out.

[Zach]

I need to read Akane today. I haven't had a chance. Geez, Delaney, where could people find you? You're muted, so I guess we won't be able to find you.

[Delaney Jordan]

Well, whatever then. You can find me. Usual places. Infinite Snow, Blue Sky. Still on Twitter. Delaney L. Jordan. Trying to get off of Twitter, but you know, I have Patreon, which is also, I think, at Infinite Snow, but you can find it if you go check out my latest video, man, Bad Horror, which is doing absurdly well and it's a bit intimidating, but if you've watched it already. Thank you. And if.

[Josh McKenzie]

Always be plugging. Amen, Delaney.

[Delaney Jordan]

Always be plugging.

[Vero]

Go.

[Delaney Jordan]

Go watch the essay that critics are calling, and I'm quoting directly from my held comments here, what Zero Dick does to a bish.

[Vero]

Jesus Christ.

[Delaney Jordan]

You know, the. The critics are raving. It's everyone's favorite.

[Zach]

But why wouldn't that affect straight men too? Like if you don't. Anyway, go ahead.

[Delaney Jordan]

Maybe you have to watch the video to find out, Zach.

[Zach]

Oh, yeah, it's true. Yeah, I should.

[Delaney Jordan]

Sorry me outing you for not watching it. Anyway, that's it for me, you know, that's usual. Usual strokes for usual folks. I'm gonna cut that out. That was a terrible fucking.

[Josh McKenzie]

No, no, leave that. No.

[Vero]

I don't know.

[Josh McKenzie]

That was cute. I like cut.

[Delaney Jordan]

That is. That's.

[Vero]

Oh, she's joking for it. I didn't.

[Delaney Jordan]

I. No, okay, it's. It's.

[Zach]

You're gonna leave in all my embarrassing shit and cut out yours? Josh. Just weaving this straight into the conversation. Josh, where could the good people find you?

[Delaney Jordan]

Speaking of usual strokes, Josh, there it is.

[Josh McKenzie]

BBS always be stroking. You can find me online, damn it. At every social media that's user Amon's a M O N S. You can see my drawings, my storyboards, my stray idol thoughts, all of which are very funny. Thank you.

[Zach]

All true. Vero. Where can people find you?

[Vero]

You can find me at Ginkgo Crown. I don't know, literally anywhere. And if I'm debating, if you're going to be at MobileCon, say hi. That's all.

[Zach]

Yeah, okay. Steve, your co. Where could people find you co?

[Steve Yerko]

Go to my website, steveyerko.com find all the links there. Follow me on social media, mainly Bluesky, Instagram, Twitter to an extent. Listen to Me on 4Kids flashback with Tara Sands. Listen to me on Prozd plays games with Prozd. Speaking of him, I'll be at Castle Point Anime Convention in a couple weeks helping him out. So if you see us there, come say hi. Other than that.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah, that's it.

[Zach]

Where is that? I haven't heard of that.

[Steve Yerko]

That's in Seclaucus, New Jersey. New Jersey.

[Zach]

That's how they say it.

[Vero]

Seclaucus.

[Josh McKenzie]

This MF is in Transylvania, up at Castle.

[Zach]

Secaucus, New Jersey. You're on the air. You could find us at One Piece podcast anywhere, really. OnePiecePodcast.com is our website and our Blue sky handle. Please subscribe to us on Facebook. Instagram. Those are the ones that are owned by one person.

[Vero]

Ew.

[Zach]

We're. Yeah. Not knowing.

[Vero]

Saying the word Facebook.

[Delaney Jordan]

Yeah, I'm on the Facebook.

[Zach]

Yeah. No, I so don't use. I've told this story before. Don't use Facebook. I do agree, but if you are there, you should subscribe to us. You should follow your account.

[Delaney Jordan]

I agree with you on Facebook. I deleted be on Facebook.

[Zach]

I mean, I deleted my Facebook account many years ago. Like six years ago now. Anyway, check that out. And where else you get, oh, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, where you YouTube. Please subscribe to us there. Give us similar comments to the ones that Delaney is getting.

[Vero]

Nope.

[Zach]

No, no. Okay, okay.

[Delaney Jordan]

Not on this one.

[Vero]

Don't leave weird misogynistic comments anywhere.

[Zach]

Yeah, no, just the one when it's just the one where it's like, you know, the. Just the guys there. And then you should leave that specific.

[Vero]

Hey, if you hate women, just, like, stop listening. You know, you're two hours into this podcast.

[Zach]

At the beginning we said, if you hate women, you should be listening. Now I'm confused. Yeah, no, don't. You could check us out at all those places. We also have been collecting our voicemails for the inevitable demise of Skype next month. So please call us at that phone number. 347-497-6254. Call anytime. Phone number again, 347497. Maji, I did that backward. Fantastic. Okay, I think it's time we get to the main show here. The thing everyone's been waiting, what, three hours for? Here we are. Vero, please take us to the Thunderdome.

[Vero]

Delaney. Yeah. You cue the music. It's time for the Yowie Thunderdome. Except actually, it's pretty straight this time. Well, it's. It's a mixed bag for listeners who've never been here before. During Yaoi Thunderdome, we do a thing where we do some trivia. I pull up a fanfiction website, I look at how many fics are written about a specific character relationship, and then I make the guys and gals guess what is going to be more popular. The results will shock you. The tastes. The tastes of the median fandom participant are unpredictable and awe inspiring, if I may say.

[Josh McKenzie]

But it's good to keep a finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist here.

[Vero]

Yeah, exactly.

[Zach]

I think you want that finger far away from the pulse.

[Vero]

There's horror to them. A few minutes ago that I scrolled past a fic that was listen. And I don't like to yuck anyone's yums. Just Luffy pounding the entire grand line. It was kind of crazy. I didn't ever want to see that.

[Zach]

But I assume you mean pound the character from Whole Cake Island.

[Vero]

Yeah, yeah. In a fight. In a fight, sure. Anyway, because Zach. Yes. In every single one of these fan fictions, they're just holding hands and getting ice cream and I don't know, Hiro whose teams. So. Thank you, Josh. Thank you. Yeah, I know. Delaney, Zach and Steven, I believe will be together. And then Steve, Steve and Josh, you guys will be your own team.

[Josh McKenzie]

Because I think you have the powerhouse.

[Vero]

The power, bottom, whatever, the underdogs. So, yeah, Delaney, Zach and Steven are on top. So we'll call them the tops.

[Josh McKenzie]

First for everything.

[Steve Yerko]

Hold on, hold on.

[Zach]

Wait a second. Wow.

[Stephen Paul]

Right here.

[Steve Yerko]

Remind me, what was my personality quiz again?

[Vero]

I am mature Alpha and you need us. Y. Yeah.

[Steve Yerko]

I am a man.

[Vero]

Yes. We made everyone in my home take an. Are you an Alpha? Or make a quiz. And Steve is in fact an Alpha.

[Steve Yerko]

I was not there. I was at Alex's wedding.

[Josh McKenzie]

No, no, I was there. And I am in fact also a mature Alpha I met again like three weeks ago, so.

[Vero]

Whatever. Anyway, for my non Alphas, I guess Delaney, Zach and Steven, we're gonna keep it to the classics. To start off with before I dive into anything too crazy. And. And your first matchup is going to be frobin classic. Gotta love it. And Ace and Sanji. Sanji's alabaster bisexual awakening or mom and dad of the crew. What do you guys think is more popular?

[Zach]

One more time.

[Vero]

Ace and Sanji or Frankie and Robin?

[Zach]

I'm Frankie Robin here.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah.

[Zach]

Well, you Always bet with yaoi.

[Stephen Paul]

Is it a trap?

[Josh McKenzie]

This is what I said at the live show. Always bet on yaoi. How are you in this instance? In this instance, I also. My gut is also saying Frobe Josh.

[Vero]

You'Re not on their team. Why are you helping them?

[Zach]

He might be hurting us. It could be a mind game.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, you didn't even think about that.

[Delaney Jordan]

Yeah, maybe. Josh is a generous soul. Have you ever refused considered that?

[Vero]

No. The Josh I know is bloodthirsty and comes to win this title.

[Delaney Jordan]

Yeah, I mean, on the one hand, Frobin is a beloved and established ship with a lot of potential. But on the other hand, Sanji Ace is gay.

[Vero]

Yeah, it is.

[Zach]

Delaney really put it into words there. That's exactly right.

[Delaney Jordan]

Like they've had five shared lines of dialogue.

[Vero]

You know what? That's all you need.

[Delaney Jordan]

I'm going to gamble. I personally. I'm personally gonna gamble. But it's for the rest of the team to decide if I like that.

[Stephen Paul]

Because we can blame Delaney if we get it wrong.

[Zach]

That's a good point.

[Vero]

Okay, Delaney, final answer. Give it to me.

[Delaney Jordan]

Oh, well, now, now. The only she her here is getting burdened with.

[Vero]

They're making you do emotional labor right now.

[Delaney Jordan]

I wonder if anyone's discussed this in any meaningful way. Um, you know what? Yeah, I'm going. Sanji, Ace. Let's. Let's say it.

[Vero]

That is not correct, Delaney.

[Delaney Jordan]

No, it's okay. They came to. Frobin supreme has one other way.

[Vero]

346. And Ace and Sanji actually just hit an even 500. So, you know, but I. I was going to say.

[Stephen Paul]

But Delaney said that just to prove a point.

[Vero]

But I will say the burning of the Library of Alexandria, when fanfiction.net was purged. The girlies back in the day were probably way more Aon now. Steve, Josh, Stosh.

[Zach]

Wait, what's their team name? Where the tops. What are they?

[Vero]

They're the power bottoms. The mature Alphas. There's only two of them, so they got to generate. Anyway, we're keeping it nice.

[Zach]

I assume that's when you're skipping a.

[Steve Yerko]

Generator during a brown out.

[Josh McKenzie]

Do not say brown out, man.

[Stephen Paul]

Oh, God.

[Vero]

Don'T make this any sense.

[Delaney Jordan]

Maybe I'm going through the usual strokes during a brown out of jitter. I stop saying strokes.

[Vero]

Jesus Christ.

[Josh McKenzie]

All right. Go, go. Vero.

[Vero]

Yamato and Kaya and Usopp. You fucking pervert.

[Steve Yerko]

O Yamatone. Ace is probably a recent fave, but okay. But Kaya and Usopp is Kaeya. And Usopp is straighter than an arrow.

[Zach]

Right?

[Steve Yerko]

That's all fantasy. That's like all just. But that's all fan fiction.

[Vero]

If you ask the average Dragon Con attendee, Usopp is already married to that woman.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, but what is there heat there? You know what I mean? Like, were the fans passionate about the situation?

[Zach]

What about people who are cottagecore like me?

[Steve Yerko]

That's early East Blue one piece. That is pure vanilla. That's pure handshake. Thank you, man.

[Josh McKenzie]

I think it's Ace Yamato. That's just my intuition.

[Steve Yerko]

I've seen a lot of fan art and I think no one's thirsting for Usopp like that. I'm gonna.

[Vero]

I'm final answer. Zach.

[Zach]

I was just gonna say that. Remember, we're friends with Ken, so it might be skewed slightly toward the Yamato. Ace.

[Vero]

Why are you helping them? You people need to understand the concept of teams come for blood.

[Zach]

I didn't say I'm helping. I'm just giving.

[Stephen Paul]

Anyway, stirring the water.

[Vero]

Yamato, your final answer.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yes.

[Vero]

That is not correct. Kaya and USOPP have 541 fics. Ace. Yamato have 153. Who is writing Kaya Usopp fic?

[Josh McKenzie]

Well, it's a satirical song.

[Zach]

I like it. It's. They're a nice married couple in the mountains.

[Josh McKenzie]

All right, all right. Proceed.

[Vero]

Now, speaking of early one piece for my My tops who are. Who are not doing anything quite successful yet. Who do we think no one did is wooing Tashiki? Do we think that Zorro and Tashigi is more popular than Nami Tashigi or vice versa? Who's she loving?

[Zach]

I mean, Nami Tashigi makes more sense.

[Vero]

So true. Like, so true.

[Delaney Jordan]

Just saying what we're at. But that also us last time. AKA me. Here's the thing. I don't know how much like I would have guessed Yamado Ace in a heartbeat.

[Zach]

Mm.

[Delaney Jordan]

But because I don't know like, how much recent one piece fanfic is being written like I would have expected.

[Vero]

I will say AO3 people are writing fic a lot. Like, it's. It's. It's pretty consistent. And this website that I'm pulling from has been around since like 2010. I want to say I was in high school, so. Yeah, you do have. It does have some, you know, length.

[Delaney Jordan]

Don't say length.

[Vero]

I. I wasn't even.

[Zach]

It's nothing. Not a euphemism.

[Vero]

You said nodding. Maybe.

[Josh McKenzie]

Focus.

[Zach]

I Hate all of you people.

[Delaney Jordan]

I don't know. What do the. What do the boys think?

[Vero]

Huh? What about.

[Delaney Jordan]

What do the guys think?

[Zach]

Steven is very good at this game. So I want to.

[Stephen Paul]

I mean I. I just think that like Zoro Tishigi is such a slam dunk for enough people that. With the longevity that it. Yeah. If. What. Whatever. Whenever the site started like they. That would have already been a thing at that time. So I just feel like the. The amount of time it has to be that.

[Zach]

Let's not forget Punk Hazard too. With both of them. That's the thing. It could affect both. Because Zorro has that really dickish moment with Tashigi.

[Vero]

The foundation of all romance.

[Zach]

Actually, yes, you're right. If I've learned anything from Delaney's video. Bad Man Bad. But yeah, I personally like the Nami Tashigi one more because I think that makes more sense. But I agree with Steven for many reasons. I also think Zorro is probably asexual or just completely aloof as to the idea of anything but swords.

[Vero]

Oh, he's thinking about swords.

[Stephen Paul]

Swords have never meant anything else.

[Zach]

Not that I could think of.

[Vero]

He's gonna show you his fourth sword style sometime. Anyway. So what's your final answer?

[Zach]

I'm going with Steven Natalini.

[Delaney Jordan]

I'm going with Stephen Thorough.

[Vero]

Tashigi.

[Delaney Jordan]

They've been in the mines. They've been in the mine.

[Vero]

That would be correct. They have 240 fix. And NAMI and Tashigi. Only 57 lesbians. I need us to get it together. Thank you.

[Zach]

Agreed.

[Vero]

Now.

[Zach]

Not that I have the position to speak on that.

[Vero]

Speaking of Zorro and Nami. Back to my power bottoms.

[Delaney Jordan]

Zach. Lesbian.

[Vero]

Can you chill out for the listeners? My cat is rubbing her face on the microphone. Microphone. And I'm really sorry for Delaney. Steve. Josh, Darling. We are gonna. We're bringing. We're bringing back.

[Zach]

So distracted by their cat family.

[Vero]

And people are all about Zorro and Sanji. Right? And I like to ask the question, what about his other brothers? And so this is. Do you think that we're mixing it up a little bit? This is Zoro with Ichiji. Niji and Yonji. Any combination. Or Nami and Reiju. So you think Zoro's fucking the rest of them weirdos more than Nami's hitting up with his sister. That's the.

[Josh McKenzie]

Okay. This is tough because we're betting on yaoi. But also none of all of Sanji's brothers blend together into one shitty guy to me. So Reiju's the only one who's distinct enough to be a completely different.

[Steve Yerko]

That's why I put them on the Sanji's brothers. Sanji's brothers have like the personality of like an ink cartridge.

[Vero]

Annoying.

[Zach]

You know what? Yes to both of that. Very well said.

[Steve Yerko]

I mean, all they are is their colors. And I guess one of them is.

[Zach]

Shittier than the others.

[Vero]

I guess the green one's kind of.

[Zach]

And they break all the time.

[Josh McKenzie]

Can I ask a.

[Steve Yerko]

People like Yoonji.

[Josh McKenzie]

Can I ask a. Clarifying the previous one.

[Zach]

Yoonji sucks the most.

[Vero]

Oh, he's hot. Josh Guess.

[Steve Yerko]

But he's the most popular.

[Josh McKenzie]

I think this is a really important clarifying question. Are these fics with just Zoro and Sanji's brothers, or are they Zoro, Sanji's brothers and Sanji as in it's like a love triangle with Zoro if.

[Vero]

Yes. If a relationship is tagged at all. So sometimes I have a feeling kind of what fucked you guys with Kaya and Usopp was the fact that, like, people could be writing about, like, Nami and somebody else or whatever, but if they're gonna have Kya and Usopp as like a background secondary relationship, sometimes they'll put that in there. Not necessarily. There's no way to, like, filter who's only those two. She's making Steve.

[Josh McKenzie]

Steve. I think it's gotta be Zoro and Sanji's brothers. Because I'm seeing there's gotta be so many plots where, like, there's a. Where they try to make Sanji. Where he tries to make Sanji jealous or something, or he tries to get back at him. That's what I would write. You know what I mean?

[Delaney Jordan]

They clearly love the plot of, like, oh, what if you date everybody? It's. It's Vince.

[Vero]

Stop helping Delaney again. Teams, people.

[Josh McKenzie]

We're losing. We need help.

[Vero]

You don't need help. You guys are the power bombs.

[Steve Yerko]

I agree. I agree with you, Josh. I don't think. My heart's not in it with. Not me and Reiju. So it's Zoro and the brothers. He's hooked on the brothers.

[Josh McKenzie]

Many have said this.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah.

[Steve Yerko]

Vero is wrestling their cat right now.

[Vero]

He was angled in my headphones, man.

[Josh McKenzie]

My breath is baited.

[Vero]

Anyway, the boys. Your final answer? Yeah, I have bad news. That is not really.

[Josh McKenzie]

Are you kidding?

[Vero]

There's only 10 fix with that. Whoa, wait.

[Josh McKenzie]

Do Nami and Reiju even spend time together?

[Vero]

There was a spread illustration of all the girls together and Nami and Reiju were hanging out and the Food that.

[Stephen Paul]

Came out like two years ago.

[Vero]

Yeah. And there's 20 FICs about it. But there's only 10 FICs with Zoro. With Zoro, Ichiji, Niji and Yonji. So I'm sorry to say, guys, there.

[Josh McKenzie]

Is such good material here for if Zoro wants to piss Sanji off. He fucks her brother.

[Stephen Paul]

Let's get it going.

[Delaney Jordan]

Does Vegas.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah.

[Zach]

Now, Josh, why not do what you're. Why not just do it yourself?

[Vero]

I'm bringing it around town. Back to the the Tops. Because they're on top. Because they're in the league with one point.

[Zach]

I get it.

[Vero]

It's Buggy time. Do you think more people are writing about Cross Guild or do you think more people are writing Buggy slash reader? Do they want to fuck Buggy or do they want to see Buggy get live action?

[Zach]

Buggy or. You know, that's.

[Delaney Jordan]

That would have given it a boost though. Like a recent.

[Zach]

You know. It would have. What are you doing here?

[Delaney Jordan]

An evil crossfield is nuclear weapons grade Yowie.

[Vero]

Yeah, it is.

[Delaney Jordan]

Like. That's some.

[Vero]

I will say it has been very explosive. The tag does get bigger every time I check it.

[Stephen Paul]

Is it specifically tagged Cross Guild or is it just any tag?

[Vero]

Buggy, Mihawk and Crocodile. So it's all three of them.

[Steve Yerko]

Okay, Josh, you gotta teach me how to twirl.

[Vero]

Shut up. We're talking about yaoi.

[Zach]

Why are we doing so many visual jokes here?

[Delaney Jordan]

That was Yaoi hero. Didn't you catch it?

[Zach]

I gotta.

[Steve Yerko]

I gotta talk to my teammate here.

[Vero]

I know. Steve wants to learn how to twirl a pen. It's about time.

[Delaney Jordan]

What's not? What's not yaoi about a man admiring another man's pen Twirl.

[Zach]

Why is everything a euphemism?

[Vero]

Because we're in the gay coining fact that you gave.

[Josh McKenzie]

We're refocusing on you guys guessing.

[Vero]

Yeah, it's horrible. Cross Guild or Buggy Reader Self ship or.

[Zach]

So Cross Guild's been around for like three to four years now, right?

[Vero]

Yeah, but Buggy's been around forever.

[Zach]

Yeah, but Buggy wasn't. Buggy wasn't the idea Buggy wasn't hot.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah. It took until Covid for Buggy to become a sex symbol. I think that really pandemic broke the.

[Zach]

Virus affected people's brains.

[Stephen Paul]

Yes.

[Delaney Jordan]

Vero, do you hear this? What the.

[Vero]

These are people who don't understand sex appeal.

[Josh McKenzie]

It's a lot.

[Vero]

People have always wanted to fuck clowns.

[Zach]

Two things could be true. I could not understand that. And also think that buggy.

[Vero]

You haven't considered his buggy balls?

[Zach]

No, I've never considered his buggy balls.

[Steve Yerko]

You know, I forgot you guys might be on top. But like Josh and I.

[Zach]

Cross guild is my answer.

[Steve Yerko]

We make up our mind pretty quick.

[Vero]

We just get sidetracked by you guys for dilly dallying. Come on.

[Zach]

Hey. No. I said cross skill.

[Vero]

3, 2, 1.

[Zach]

Cross skilled is your.

[Vero]

Cross skilled is your final answer.

[Stephen Paul]

Cross skill. Fine. Cross skill.

[Vero]

I'll go.

[Delaney Jordan]

Cross skill.

[Vero]

That is not correct. Oh, fine.

[Zach]

Why did you listen to me?

[Delaney Jordan]

I listened to Steven.

[Vero]

268 Fix and Buggy slash reader has 380.

[Zach]

That's. No, it's not that.

[Steve Yerko]

Yeah, That's. That was a lot of people got Covid. That's all I. Yeah.

[Vero]

Steve.

[Zach]

I love you.

[Vero]

Back to the cutie pies. That's what I'm renaming you guys to. We're gonna. We're gonna go back to some of the classics. Do you think Shanks and Mihawk is more or less popular than Ace and Marco? Some real old school Yowie happening here.

[Zach]

I have strong opinions. I won't mention Josh. This is tough.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah. Okay. So every single time that I've chosen what I would read, I've been wrong. So I feel like maybe we should choose what I wouldn't read.

[Zach]

Yes.

[Vero]

What are you gonna read?

[Josh McKenzie]

And we might be right.

[Steve Yerko]

And you are not an Ace and Marco.

[Josh McKenzie]

Not nearly as much as I'm a Shanks Mihawk fan. I'd watch that all the time.

[Zach]

Jesus.

[Vero]

Boom.

[Zach]

Let me talk.

[Vero]

Shanks is a point into the microphone.

[Steve Yerko]

Saying, I definitely think like Ace and Marco is old hat.

[Zach]

But then again, Ginger really has no play here.

[Steve Yerko]

I don't know. I feel like that was like a big thing at the time. But Shanks and Mihawk? I don't know. I don't feel confident about any of these.

[Josh McKenzie]

No.

[Steve Yerko]

Why don't we go with your gut? Let's go with Shanks and Ace.

[Vero]

Shanks and Ace.

[Steve Yerko]

That way we. No matter what, we get it right.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah. Ace and Marco.

[Vero]

I'm edging you because I'm googling Shanks and Ace on AO3 right now.

[Stephen Paul]

No. Do your job.

[Zach]

Don't call it that.

[Vero]

Chase, you said Ace Market was your final answer. Yeah, that is correct. 2,788. Jesus vs 1164.

[Josh McKenzie]

So here are the rules.

[Vero]

Shanks Ace54 it is there.

[Josh McKenzie]

Always bet on Yowie unless it's my opinion. And then bet against Josh. Always bet against me.

[Zach]

Okay. I'm Gonna be asking your opinion in a sec.

[Vero]

Okie dokie. Back to do you guys want yowie or straight question? I don't know. I can't decide.

[Zach]

Thunderdome. Also, should.

[Josh McKenzie]

Should this be the final death round?

[Zach]

Yeah, we probably should. We're.

[Vero]

I have a final death round after this one. Well, we'll see. I mean, I can. Well, you know what?

[Zach]

Let me carry the one.

[Vero]

Are you. Anyway. Okay. Garp and Sengoku or Boa and Luffy?

[Zach]

What was the first one?

[Vero]

Garp and Sengoku or Boa and Luffy?

[Delaney Jordan]

I feel like it's Boa and Luffy.

[Zach]

Well, Old Man Yaoi is having a c. Like a real resurgence.

[Vero]

It is.

[Steve Yerko]

How do you know?

[Delaney Jordan]

Cops.

[Zach]

Severance.

[Vero]

Oh, the people love the Marines, Delaney. They don't give a fuck.

[Delaney Jordan]

I know they love the Marines.

[Zach]

Didn't you do a whole essay on how bad men or whatever.

[Vero]

The more you say, I don't think you misrepresented that you did not watch the video. Zach.

[Steve Yerko]

I never intended.

[Zach]

I watched it.

[Vero]

Thanks, dad.

[Zach]

I'm going to watch it. I just haven't.

[Steve Yerko]

Delaney made a video about the history of men.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah. For the record, it is not a video about how men are bad. It's actually about the opposite of that. I'm going to save Delaney here. It's not about men.

[Zach]

But men are bad.

[Delaney Jordan]

Men are killing me. God damn it.

[Vero]

Anyway. Boa and Luffy or Garp and Sengoku.

[Delaney Jordan]

I got it. My gut is screaming Boa.

[Vero]

Luffy.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah.

[Zach]

My gut is screaming Sengoku. Garp. So I'm always wrong. Except when I'm not. So go with you guys. Yeah.

[Vero]

A final answer.

[Stephen Paul]

The thing is, who else would Garp be paired with? That's the thing. Like if that's his main squeeze.

[Vero]

Roger.

[Josh McKenzie]

Kobe. Kobe. Kobe.

[Zach]

Kobe Rogers.

[Stephen Paul]

Oh, that's.

[Zach]

That's horrible.

[Stephen Paul]

Age gap. Disgusting.

[Josh McKenzie]

Not gross. Not gross. There are. There are dozens of us.

[Zach]

How old is Kobe?

[Vero]

It doesn't matter if it's. It's gross. It will exist.

[Zach]

It might be illegal.

[Vero]

That doesn't stop anybody on the Stan website.

[Delaney Jordan]

Nope. I gotta.

[Vero]

Zach is inventing anti versus Pro shipping as we.

[Zach]

True.

[Vero]

Okay.

[Delaney Jordan]

With Bo Luffy.

[Vero]

Bo Luffy.

[Stephen Paul]

Yeah.

[Vero]

Congratulations. That is correct.

[Zach]

Told you to go with the opposite.

[Vero]

Versus only 46, which is kind of surprising. I wonder. Something's got to be wrong. Somebody must have done a purge. I'm gonna give the other. I'm gonna. Josh, Steve. I'm gonna. Guys. One chance. We'll see. If not, I have a tiebreaker. Zorro And Usopp or Eustace, Kid and Luc.

[Josh McKenzie]

I don't even know what. I don't even know what Zoro and Usopp would look like.

[Steve Yerko]

Well, Long nose, Greenhouse.

[Josh McKenzie]

I don't mean literally.

[Vero]

I guess that's the fourth sword, right?

[Delaney Jordan]

An entanglement of men and foes.

[Steve Yerko]

I love Usopp. I never believe he has a ton of fan fiction. Even though he's got shooters. Yeah, sharpshooters is what they call.

[Vero]

All right. Fucking pick your answer.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, I'm picking. What was the other one?

[Steve Yerko]

Kid and Luffy is pretty popular, but it's like really like. I don't know, like Luffy and Law is like the Coca Cola of that. And like Kid and Luffy feels like rc.

[Josh McKenzie]

It would be RC for sure.

[Delaney Jordan]

This is the Professor Cherry of Luffy ships.

[Josh McKenzie]

I feel like it's got to be Kid Luffy. I can't imagine there's that much Zoro, Usopp, Vic.

[Vero]

I agree with that. As your final answer, Delaney, Zack and Steven are winners because. That was kidding.

[Josh McKenzie]

Steve. Just shit win.

[Zach]

Shocking.

[Vero]

Zoro, USOP fix. And 191. Kid Luffy fix.

[Steve Yerko]

What was the numbers again?

[Vero]

218 versus 191. They were close. That's close also.

[Zach]

That's a hard one.

[Vero]

As a connoisseur of Zora Usopp, there's very cute potential there. I'm just saying.

[Stephen Paul]

Whatever.

[Vero]

It's fine.

[Delaney Jordan]

Oh hell yeah.

[Steve Yerko]

You might as well call us the.

[Vero]

You never heard of shipping the nerd and the dock together? God damn.

[Zach]

How long did you have that one, Freddy?

[Stephen Paul]

A few minutes.

[Josh McKenzie]

Oh, yeah.

[Vero]

Well, anyway. Steven, Zach, Delaney, give yourselves a pat on the back. You're the king of the yowie.

[Josh McKenzie]

Josh.

[Steve Yerko]

It was a hand. It was a handicap match.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, exactly.

[Vero]

Not a handy. No handy.

[Josh McKenzie]

Yeah, I'm hungover. So that's the reason why I.

[Vero]

All right.

[Zach]

Like I'm 7:30 there.

[Josh McKenzie]

No, I'm kidding. I'm not actually hungover listening.

[Zach]

Oh, okay. Great.

[Vero]

Good night.

[Delaney Jordan]

That was a joke.

[Zach]

Good night. We'll be back next week with chapter 1146, I believe. But until then, my name is Zach.

[Steve Yerko]

And my name is Steve.

[Zach]

And we'll see you next time in the yaoi. Thunderdome.

[Josh McKenzie]

Bye.

[Delaney Jordan]

Kiss a boy in the mouth.

[Steve Yerko]

What? Who, man? Kiss bad.