Episode 865, “And They Were Crewmates” (with Saltydkdan and Abby Denton)

Summary

The One Piece Podcast – Episode 865 “And They Were Crewmates”

Aired: April 21, 2025
Host: Zach of Maji Media
Guests: Jill Knight, Sam Leach, Saltydkdan (Derek), Abby Denton, and Steve Yerko (later segments)

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Episode Overview

This episode dissects One Piece manga chapter 1146, "Motion in Stillness," with the regular crew joined by comedian Abby Denton and returning guest Saltydkdan. The panel delivers their trademark offbeat humor and detailed analysis, focusing on the explosive developments in Elbaf, the Holy Knights’ powers, and the much-anticipated world-shaking war foreshadowed in One Piece. The hosts also recap the latest anime episodes, comment on One Piece lore and trivia, and engage with fan questions in the lively Piece Together segment.

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Main Topics and Key Discussion Points

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1. Opening Banter and Introductions [01:33–04:44]

• The episode kicks off with the hosts running with a recurring (risqué) greeting, riffing on the “happy holidays, my precious sluts” bit.
• Abby and Saltydkdan settle into the tone, with light dialogue about their respective projects (Abby’s “Gamer Mom” Kickstarter), Carrot trivia obsession, and the podcast’s own running in-jokes.
• Notably, everyone leans into embracing both "sluts and good girls" in the holiday spirit.
  • Quote:
    Abby: "I would also like to extend my well wishes to all the sluts on this Merry Easter...and the good girls who are forgotten." [02:17]
• Jill reminisces humorously about Ace's infamous death and the etiquette of wearing "Ace is Dead" merch now that there are so many new One Piece readers:
  • Jill: "I used that [Ace is Dead] bag today at Ren Fair. I have it right with me." [17:23]

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2. Manga Recap: Chapter 1146 "Motion in Stillness" [09:46–62:23]

a. Cover Story Commentary and Character Sizing [10:06–14:44]

• Focus on Yamato holding Ulti, with Abby describing body language and humorous reference to "tiny lady against the wall" meme.
• Discussion on the wild heights in One Piece:
  • Yamato is officially 8’8”, Ulti is 5’8” -- "I’m taller than Ulti? Not to brag." – Abby [12:19]
  • Commentary on Oda’s disregard for strict scale, “draws things the way he wants.”
• Lore drop about Ulti and Page One’s emo dad, former warlord Hanafuda, recently revealed in an SBS.

b. Deaths in One Piece and Ace's Legacy [14:25–16:41]

• Reflection on who actually dies in One Piece and Oda's pattern of saving major deaths for large narrative payoffs.
  • "You can die in the past, but you can’t really die in the final story." — Sam [14:44]

c. Analysis of the Straw Hats vs. Gunko Pop (Gunko) [19:10–39:20]

• The Straw Hats are ambushed by Holy Knight Gunko, a surly, teenage-coded antagonist with a penchant for declaring godhood and wielding a potent arrow-based ability.
• Gunko’s attack literally points arrows at targets who are then struck by her powers – described as “very JoJo-esque.”
• Discussion on whether her regeneration is a Logia-like Devil Fruit, or something unique to Holy Knights, with allusions to government secrets and special Logia powers.
  • "She’s an arrow Logia…that classic element of the universe." — Abby [49:42]
• Ripples of meta-humor: references to other manga (JoJo, My Hero Academia), and government privatization jokes.

d. Dream Monsters, Giants, and War Foreshadowing [40:13–46:00]

• The Dream Monsters (Sleepnids) are dispatched through a spectacular, dynamic panel: Dory and Brogy, classic Elbaf giants, own the Dream Monsters in berserk fashion.
  • "Freakin' Dory, like literally ripping the head off of the feathered one... Great panel, I love this one." — Zach [42:00]
• Gunko delivers an exposition-heavy prophecy about the coming world war and the decisive role giants will play, linking all the giant/Elbaf world-building seeds.
• Loki, a prominent giant prince, is spotted chowing down with Luffy, providing comedic levity amid tension.
• The cast debates giant heights, heritage, and Oda’s world-building intricacies.

e. The Straw Hats’ Struggle and Gunko's Powers Escalate [47:08–51:33]

• Child giant Colin tries (and fails) to take down Gunko, who easily chokes him with an arrow.
• Jinbe and Brook mistakenly punch each other due to Gunko’s arrow redirection — all played for both drama and slapstick comedy.
• Nami and Usopp each suffer rare direct hits, highlighting the real danger the Holy Knights present.

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3. Anime Recap: Episodes 1125 & 1126 [99:03–124:07]

• Sentomaru vs. Kizaru: The anime portrays their personal conflict and action sequences with strong choreography and dynamic effects.
• Recaps the emotional significance of Vega Force One being destroyed by Kizaru.
  • “It was so funny. I found myself kind of going ‘yeah boy!’ at the end of the first episode because I thought the entire sequence...was glowy aura, lightning bolt affair.” — Steve [120:18]
• The anime team is praised for fleshing out Kizaru’s complex loyalty and hesitation about his role in the conflict. The destruction of Vega Force One is presented as a genuine loss to the characters, not just the audience.
• Brief digression about how well the anime is pacing current arcs compared to the Wano days.

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4. Piece Together – Listener Questions and Community Interaction [124:11–151:57]

Highlights:

• Discussion of the running theme of child kidnapping in the arc, Nami’s fierce response, and whether Gunko is a Red Herring for a potential Revolutionary Army spy (group largely dismisses this after her villainous actions).
• Multiple, elaborate 4/20 (April 20th, a cannabis culture reference) jokes from fans.
• Amusing speculation about which villains would be less evil if they got high.
  • “How many villains in One Piece would stop being assholes if they just got high?” — Derek [129:34]
• Fan theories about the Holy Knights’ regeneration: Is it Devil Fruit, technology, spiritual, or something even stranger?
• Big ponderings on whether the Straw Hats thrown overboard by Gunko will land on Loki’s “big ol’ belly,” linking back to Oda’s common penchant for slapstick saves.
• Repeated gags about forgotten characters, the enduring ship wars among the fandom, and niche merch ideas (Sleepnid, “My Mom” – the dream monster).

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5. Meta-Discussions and Episode Tone

• Ongoing jokes about the chaos and tangents ("Interesting closet," [57:07]), meta-commentary about following action sequences, and the increasingly JoJo-like quality of Holy Knight powers.
• The group speculates about Oda’s plotting: is he retconning or executing on decade-old plans? (Unanimous awe at his execution.)
  • “You never know when he’s retconning or when he planned something all along… but the fact that he can do that is probably why I love One Piece so much.” — Zach [93:56]
• The group is skeptical but intrigued by the manga’s foreshadowing of a coming world war and the suppressed role the Giants have played until now.

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6. Endgame: Ben Wilde’s Annual Trivia Segment [160:07–end]

• Five One Piece trivia questions, including classic deep lore pulls (e.g., “Mr. 7’s dice-shooting gun,” [160:23]) and a surprising musical stumper about the live-action’s “My Sails Are Set.”
• Nonsensical and delightful team effort on dial types and cover stories; the team showcases both encyclopedic and dubious knowledge.
• Abby delivers her own comedy stylings, sneaking wordplay and musical cues into her answers.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• "Sluts are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law." — Sam [03:48]
• "I don't believe Zoro knows what sex is." — Abby [03:59]
• "This episode is brought to you by State Farm." ...frequent meta-riffs on obvious sponsor segues.
• “If you die without having dated a Mexican goth, God lets you live again so you can get it right this time.” — Abby [128:11]
• “How many villains in One Piece would stop being assholes if they just got high?” — Derek [129:34]
• "She’s an arrow Logia. You know, that classic element of the universe." — Abby [49:48]
• "Freakin' Dory, like literally ripping the head off of the feathered one... Great panel, I love this one." — Zach [42:00]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |---------|-----------| | Opening / Introductions | 01:33–04:44 | | Cover Story & Sizing | 10:06–14:44 | | Manga Recap Main | 19:10–51:33 | | Dream Monsters & World War Lore | 40:13–46:00 | | Gunko/Elders Powers Discussion | 47:08–51:33 | | Anime Recap | 99:03–124:07 | | Piece Together (Listener Q&A) | 124:11–151:57 | | Trivia Round (Ben Wilde Segment) | 160:07–174:50 |

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Episode Tone and Style

The episode is imbued with the show’s trademark absurdist, queer-friendly, meta, and referential humor. Deep analyses are regularly punctuated by side jokes, musical tangents, and self-deprecating commentary about One Piece minutiae. The hosts are unafraid to admit confusion over some of the more technical plotting (eg. the myriad dials in Skypiea), and frequently joke about Oda’s blessed lack of strict internal logic. Fandom in-jokes, internet meme references, and delightfully dumb puns abound.

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Final Thoughts

Listeners are left with:

• Fresh insights and hearty laughs about the creative world-building and story direction in modern One Piece.
• Engagement with complex power systems (regeneration, dream monsters, arrow abilities), and speculation about looming narrative payoffs.
• Affirmation that the One Piece Podcast is just as much a celebration of weird, communal fandom as it is a source for chapter analysis.

The episode closes with kind plugs for everyone’s creative works—including saltydkdan’s YouTube and Abby’s Kickstarter ("Gamer Mom: The Mom Who Games")—and a group yearning for more wild, unpredictable, and rollicking arcs from Oda as the series races toward its end.

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For more, visit onepiecepodcast.com or find them on BlueSky and other socials! Support Abby's "Gamer Mom" and check out Saltydkdan on YouTube.

Transcript

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[B]

This is the One Piece podcast episode 865 for the week of Monday, April 21, 2025. My name is Zach and on today's show, Jill Knight joins us. How's it going, Jill?

[D]

Hello, everyone. Happy holidays, my precious sluts. Incidentally, precious slut tattoo is where I got one of my tattoos back in college. The name got me. I hope everyone is doing great.

[B]

Didn't understand a word of that. We also have our anime recap host, Sam Leach with us. How's it going, Sam?

[E]

Hello, sluts.

[B]

Everyone's going with it. We have comedian Abby Denton who please support her Kickstarter gamer mom.

[A]

Gamer mom. The mom who games. Thank you, Zach. I, I would also like to extend my well wishes to all of the sluts on this, this Merry Easter. I, I would also like to extend all my regards to the good girls who are forgotten.

[D]

They had Good Friday.

[B]

That's true.

[D]

Today's for the sluts.

[B]

Oh, well done. Well done. Easter Sundays for the. Yeah. Or whatever Monday is, I guess. And last but certainly not least, it's apparently been a little while, but we have voice actor, artist, streamer, Salty, dk, Dan or Derek. Welcome. Yeah.

[F]

Salutations, sluts. How is everyone? Just, just going right into it. I don't even.

[A]

Could I just ask kindly, Salutation, Sluts and Abby. I just, I just, I'd just be very grateful.

[F]

Salutations and Abby.

[A]

And Abby. Thank you.

[D]

I respect your choices. Of course. Abby, you needn't.

[B]

I. I was gonna say, I don't think that's accurate, but okay. Today we're for all of the sluts and the good folks out there or the ones who are both.

[F]

Or the good. Or the good sluts.

[E]

Yeah, I was like, why are we drawing this line? Why are we making this distinction?

[B]

Like that's a Van Dyer.

[D]

But Also yeah. Bad sluts.

[B]

Sluts.

[A]

Bad slut girls. Bad sluts being sluts.

[F]

Good sluts. Bad sluts. Everybody is welcome.

[E]

I think sluts are innocent until proven guilty in the court of law.

[B]

This episode.

[D]

Zorro is obviously included in Sluts.

[B]

Oh no. Zorro is the first one we're talking about.

[A]

I don't believe Zorro knows what sex is.

[E]

He's true.

[D]

He doesn't need to know.

[A]

I think he has had it with Sanji. And.

[F]

Zoro's like, don't worry. Zoro's like, don't worry. I brought protection. And he has his swords.

[B]

Wow. That's. I. I'm shocked I haven't heard that joke before. That's. That's a good one. But let's please move away from Zoro swords because today we're going to be. Actually, Zoro swords aren't in this at all. Because we're talking about chapter 1146 this week, which we'll be doing momentarily. It's called Motion in Stillness and. Which sounds like a catchphrase for like a exercise thing. A gym maybe?

[A]

I'm trying to say an expensive camera.

[B]

Motion and stillness. It doesn't use motion smoothing. Or it does use motion smoothing. Anyway, I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. This week we. So we're doing that. We have piece together. We also have our annual trivia segment from front of the show. Ben Wilde, who donates a little money if we get. For every question we get right. So that's.

[D]

Oh, God. Is that this episode?

[B]

Yeah. Jill, you always make it on for that one, right?

[D]

No, I don't think I've ever been on for this. Oh no.

[B]

Well, perfect. We're.

[D]

Hi everyone.

[A]

I'm a ringer.

[B]

That's true. Abby's a ringer. Abby.

[A]

I know all about carrot and pretty much just her.

[B]

Yeah. For this. The holiest of characters.

[D]

Stupid sluts don't know anything. We need you, Abby.

[B]

Actually, Sam only knows about Cara too. So we're really fucked. Please subscribe to us Sam.

[A]

Thank you.

[B]

Please support us on Patreon.

[E]

I've been preparing for this day.

[A]

For.

[B]

For us to continue our carrot research. A character who has not shown up in many years now. Actually. Patreon.com I still believe. I did say she didn't exist anymore.

[E]

She's joining the crew.

[A]

Unlike Geen, who just.

[F]

She's hiding in a barrel. She's hiding in a barrel on the.

[B]

Ship was in the background of a panel somewhat recently. I think it was during the Egghead The.

[E]

Technically, I think he was in the foreground. Zach. I think he was.

[A]

Yo.

[B]

I don't think he was in the foreground.

[E]

I think it was like him and Don Krieg, like, passing by.

[B]

Yeah. In the background. In literally the back, wasn't it?

[E]

I thought it was like.

[B]

Like.

[E]

Like they were cut off by the frame of the.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Of course there was another man, wasn't there, who everyone thought was dead and who vanished from. From sight. And everyone thought that he'd been taken to be with his maker. But then he came back, didn't he? Much like Geen. Much like Gein today.

[B]

Geen is.

[E]

I am. I am mistaken. They are definitely in the background.

[B]

In the background. Thank you. Yes. Wow. What chapter was that? Since you pulled that up so quick, we're here for useless trivia like this. This is. Okay, I'll let Sam find it.

[A]

Oh, my gosh. He's so tiny. How are people recognizing that as Geen?

[B]

Well, this is literally.

[E]

He's normal John Krieg, who's big.

[A]

That's fair.

[B]

Yeah. This is what we do on the show. We have to. We have.

[E]

In the background.

[B]

Anyway, you could subscribe to [e-mail] One Piece podcast. Get banter like this, uninterrupted by any sort of commercial or. And also extended versions of it where we banter more about other things. And we also have alternate images and titles. The entire series forced to watch four kids and a lot more. We have, like, 13 years worth of. No, no, not 13 years, but we have, like seven years worth of material at least on there, whenever Patreon started. So check us out there.

[D]

Support your slots.

[B]

I like, support your slots. It's the. It's the sequel to Salute your shorts. I assume when they're. When they're old.

[D]

Kind of like for the boobies, you know.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, I'm not prepared to go yet. That. Please elaborate.

[B]

No, that's. I'm not gonna elaborate. Please subscribe wherever you get your podcast, but with that all out of the way, why don't we get straight into the manga recap? Anyone? Oh, I guess we'll never get into it. Okay, sorry. My bad.

[A]

We got all.

[F]

Let's get in to the manga recap.

[B]

Thank you, Derek. Thank you.

[D]

Okay, this is going about as expected.

[B]

What I do without Tarik. Yeah, this is going as well as I expected as well. Okay.

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[B]

This is the manga recap for chapter 1146, Motion in Stillness. You can read this chapter and all chapters as soon as they come out at Shonen, Jump, Viz.com or MangaPlus. Shueisha Co JP Abby, since you were talking about this cover story, do you want to tell us what's going on here or what the title is?

[A]

Well, oh, I have too many windows open to verify everyone's names. Yes, well, Alti is being held quite tenderly by Yamato. Yamato doesn't have a tender expression, but I mean, you can see in. In, in body language that, you know, there's love there, there's forgiveness, there's respect. Alti looks so small at this panel. I keep thinking of that. That photo of like the really tiny lady getting pushed up against the wall. There's one of those other guys from that big wall.

[B]

Of all the.

[A]

All the headliners that I never learned all their names from, I assume that's. That's page one. Well, good for. Good for him. He's. He's looking on with some alarm. There's the. The guy who rebuilds doors very quickly is. Is in the background, which is always nice to see him.

[B]

Minotauro.

[A]

Is that a different guy?

[B]

No, that's Mina Mo. Yeah, something like that. I'm trying that one. That one.

[A]

He has a look alike in the east blue who rebuilds doors very quickly.

[B]

I think Steve is joining us later, but I still hear him yelling at me for not knowing that offhand. Yeah, I think he's actually like the cousin of that person. Even though they're identical in every way, including names.

[A]

So I didn't even know they had identical cousins, but it makes Me miss him even more.

[B]

Yeah. So this is Ogre Child Yamato's golden harvest surrogate pilgrimage volume 31. We've had 31 of these. I'll never forget the debt I owe you. I'll be your follower for life. Yeah. Yamato, as you mentioned Abby, is huge. And I think we forgot how big he is.

[A]

Well, I guess I thought Ulti was already like freakishly tall.

[D]

I mean one of the one piece giants.

[A]

And Yamato's.

[B]

I just like ears.

[E]

I think Ulti's in like the normal human height.

[D]

No, I think she's.

[B]

No, I think she's larger.

[D]

She's larger because think larger than the average human. But Yamato is also much larger. And also Oda doesn't care. Just draws things the way he wants them to look rather than, you know.

[B]

So Ulti is 5.

[E]

Ulti is 5. 8.

[B]

Wait, that's Ulti's my height.

[A]

Really? I'm taller than Ulti? Not to brag.

[D]

Yeah, same. I don't understand that we.

[A]

We can tell this is taking place in Wano and not Elbaf because Yamato is not being drawn with like a giant, giant line thickness and just getting resized to.

[B]

Yamato is only 8 foot 8. I thought Yamato was only 8 foot 8. Yeah.

[D]

Short King.

[B]

Short king.

[E]

Basically.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. That's not really is Brook height and Kinnaman are around that, you know, they all had some growth issue. So I think we also. So we. For those who didn't listen last week, please listen our off week episodes because there are a lot of fun. Stephen went through the SBS from volume 111. So that's the most recent one that came out and they talked about Olti and Page one being siblings, who their dad was the former warlord who Ace had killed and was briefly mentioned in like a movie or something or like an offense or the novel. Yeah. So just, just know that their dad was super emo looking and is exactly like if oda was a 15 year old boy who was going through some rage issues that he's like an Ankylosaur.

[A]

Hanafuda. According to the wiki.

[E]

Why no Hanafuda he worked for Kaido. He was a warlord.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

He's cute.

[B]

You think he's cute? Okay, well, I don't know.

[A]

He's got a big. A big stick. He's got a big mace. That's classic cartoon stuff.

[E]

That's.

[A]

That's Viggy the Viking showing through.

[B]

I know. Ulti is a power. No, not Parasaurolophus. The Pachycephalosaurus. Yeah. I only know these because I have a three year old. Page one is an allosaurus, right? Or no, not an allosaurus, he's a spinosaurus. Yeah. Yeah. Spinosauruses are probably the creepiest looking of the dinosaurs.

[A]

So the wiki has pointed out, and I'm horrified to realize this, that Hanafuda, Alti's dad, is the only confirmed dead warlord. Which just sounds like there have been so many of them, you'd think more of them would be dead. No one really dies in this comic.

[B]

I guess they need a culling of warlords is what you're saying.

[E]

You can die in the past, but you can't really die in the final story.

[F]

The final arc. They're gonna start dropping like flies.

[B]

Oh my God.

[A]

I would love it. Bad guys win. Everyone is dead.

[F]

Oda. Oda has been saving up his massive kill count for the final arc. And just for one, people don't die enough in my series. Well, check this out.

[E]

Every. Every fake out is just like, like going into like a piggy bank.

[F]

Yeah, that's saving up for a rainy day.

[B]

Yeah. I mean that's what happened with Ace and Whitebeard kinda.

[D]

I mean, I'm convinced he killed Ace and Whitebeard off at the same time because people kept saying that he killed no one in the series 100.

[B]

Although he had always said that Ace was someone anyway. Jill, Ace is dead. I don't know if you've heard.

[D]

I.

[A]

What?

[D]

What? Really? Sorry to spoil you guys.

[F]

Spoilers on this up to date manga podcast.

[D]

What the hell?

[B]

Jill has shirts.

[A]

I have a hole in my heart now.

[B]

Jill, are you were talking about wearing your Ace is dead shirt at some point?

[D]

I can't. I feel like I morally can't wear that shirt because like back in the day where people didn't read one piece in America, like, sure, no one knows what that means, but now like there are people who are reading it for the first time and I'm like, I can't even wear it to work. I literally have. I accidentally spoiled Ace's death to a co worker the other day. She's like, what? I was like, were you reading it? It's an actual problem. I know.

[B]

That is an actual problem. Let Jill wear her spoiler shirt.

[D]

I know. I've created. You know what we're suffering from success.

[B]

Yeah. That is what that is.

[F]

It's very hilarious that I'm gonna make.

[D]

A quilt out of it.

[F]

I feel like 10, 15 years ago you could wear that Shirt. No problem. But now so many new people are getting into the series. I have a friend of mine that's like, boy, I sure hope nothing bad happens to Ace. I really like him. I'm like, oh.

[B]

So, Derek, the little bit of trivia that I'm sure Joe remembers as well is that. So. When the manga chapter came out the week before, I think the official merch store, for one piece online came out with a shirt of, like, the Breakfast Club Club. Like, don't you forget about me. With Ace walking away saying, start living or start dying or something like that. Oh, my God. Start living before you start dying. In English and in, like, a nice tropical pink color. I remember it was. It was just so. We all got spoiled. The merch store.

[F]

That's crazy.

[D]

You don't understand. I literally use that bag. It's. I used it today at Ren Fair. I have it here right with me. One moment.

[B]

I'll take a picture. You should. I would hate to go to a.

[A]

Ren Faire and spoil people about Ace dying or the existence of printed comic books.

[B]

That's Jill. That's Jill. That's our.

[D]

You know what? I don't even think about it. I guess it's kind of a spoiler. But even if it's not like it says, Ace is dead. No, it doesn't say Ace is dead. Bloody body on it.

[B]

You should show your other Ace is dead stuff. We should post those on our description.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

So much Ace is dead merch that you've created. Anyway, any thoughts on Ulti and page one? Or is that it?

[D]

I'm ready for the new ODIN to have his new Akazaya 9 starting with Ulti.

[F]

I. I gotta be honest. I never really considered this before, but that. That first, that. That cover page really got me feeling like, is there a ship here?

[B]

Is there a ship here?

[F]

That could happen between these two characters. They look kind of cute together.

[E]

I won't lie.

[A]

I don't care if there's a ship to be spoken for, but if. If Yamato at 8 foot 8 wanted to hold me in this similar way, you know, I completely agree. I'd be fine with this.

[B]

You know, we all agree with that.

[F]

I completely agree. And I'm sure that I'm way smaller too, that I like minuscule.

[B]

So I'm Ulti's height, so I know exactly what that would look like. I mean, I only have a good reference. That's true. My hair is multicolored. No, it isn't. Because I'm a coward. I do not have Multicolored hair.

[A]

Salt, pepper. Perfect.

[B]

Oh, that's. Yeah, that's true.

[A]

Gorgeous.

[B]

Thank you. Thank you. Abby. Abby's here defending me. Jill, what's going on? On the.

[A]

I can see you're a silver fox. Mink. Sorry. Go on.

[B]

Oh, thank you. Chill.

[D]

Okay, so we go immediately to the scene with the straw hats. And Gunko Pop here with Usopp shouting, hey, who are you? Jinbe. Who? God. Jinbe with the hair. Man with the braids. Impeccable. Impeccable. Going. I'm guessing it's as Nami just shouts an intruder. Which. Okay, thanks, Nami. That's helpful. And the child also being helpful. Intruder. One of the human intruders who the castle guards couldn't handle.

[B]

That was the rest of Junpei's sentence. I'm guessing it's one of the human intruders, who.

[D]

That would make sense.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And then Nami, you're the ones who are kidnapping the children then. Which, of course, Nami always, you know, defending children, which I love her for. What a queen?

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Love it.

[D]

Yeah. And then this really cool zoom in on. God. What? Like a emo girl? Like, I could totally see someone dressing like this at the MALL in like 13 years.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

And even saying this. You dare call me a human?

[B]

Yeah, you're right about that. I don't like that teenagers are looking up to celestial dragons, but I also could see that happening.

[D]

Let's see. Isn't the term celestial dragon kind of an awesome sounding name?

[B]

You know, maybe they're all teenagers. Maybe they're like, all. Yeah.

[A]

What's the Middle School syndrome word? What is that? You always see it in anime. What is it? Oh, it's like, oh my. My eye must be covered at all times. You know, you're pretending it's.

[E]

I know exactly what you're talking about.

[B]

Some reason I. I hear the fence yelling the correct answer through my headphones. But I.

[E]

It's like Middle School syndrome or something in Japanese.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah, it's very cute.

[B]

Why don't you Google it? Although. Yeah, go. Go ahead.

[D]

So we go from this. This zoom in on the. The emo kid eye over to Brooke, who's just confused.

[A]

Well, she's even got the. She's holding the hat like the. The. The student council president. On which watch? Or he's cool.

[B]

Or Joseph. Joseph Jotaro. Yeah, well, whichever. I do want to mention that I. Do you think. When do you think she's going to realize that Brooke is like. She's not Brooke's number one fan here. How many?

[D]

I Can't wait for it to happen.

[F]

Yeah, I guess she's going to fangirl out.

[B]

I was disappointed.

[A]

She's sailing away to go to the rest of the story arc. And she's like, this. Pirates are oddballs. They have a dead skeleton just sitting. Sitting on the deck of their ship all the time.

[B]

And wait, you know, that is right.

[D]

And she's like, what? I hope it creates, like, an actual, like, mental dilemma, like a philosophical dilemma that eventually brings her to our side, where she has to, like, go with, like, her love of music, like, tending to be like, oh, this dude's just, like, a lowly human. And how can they have, like, such heavenly beats? So that's how I want the music to turn her around.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

Didn't, like, a few chapters ago, she was listening to New World, right?

[E]

Yes.

[D]

Which, yeah, I think about that song all the fucking time.

[B]

Well, that's why we're waiting for that to happen. It is a great song. Waiting for that to happen. Yeah, like.

[E]

Like a homophobe listening to, like, Pink Pony Club.

[D]

So we. Yeah, we. We zoom out as. Wait, is her name Funko or Gunko? It's Gunko, right?

[B]

You could. You got confused by your own joke.

[D]

I think you're right. But I think it's what we call it.

[B]

I wrote it down. It was a good joke.

[D]

Okay. As she shouts, we are gods, lady. There's a few more of those around that you might have thought. As Usop shouts gods. You sound like Eniru or the celestial dragons. And Nami goes, what would gods want with the children of Bel'veth? Probably nothing good. Generally when gods take children, I can't think of honestly any good things, so. So there's that.

[B]

Oh, shit. That does happen a lot.

[A]

Does the government, like, know about Enaru? Like, is this the equivalent of Usopp being like, you sound like this guy Jim. We met once several years ago. You won't have heard of him.

[D]

He took over a few cities. Yeah.

[B]

Oh, God. Let's all talk about the God. The arc where Jim was the main villain. Oh, that was.

[D]

I'm gonna be real. I'm actually convinced Henry was coming back in this arc. Like, I can feel it.

[A]

Yes, well, they wouldn't mention him again if they didn't want us to remember him.

[F]

I don't want to spoil it too much, but doesn't will name dropping happen?

[B]

Yeah. Isn't that. Right here?

[A]

Right here?

[B]

Yeah, Right here.

[D]

No, I mean, like, I think he's physically gonna show up.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Like a Bolt of lightning. He will arrive as a bolt of lightning.

[B]

It's also, I mean, that we have the sky island clouds and all that. I mean, it's totally possible we're closer to the moon than we usually are.

[D]

I think I'm at the point where every arc. I'm gonna be saying that I think this is the one until it finally happens. Yeah. As giant child. Son of a Cool, dude. I don't remember your name.

[B]

Colin.

[F]

Colin.

[B]

Colin.

[D]

What a lady.

[F]

It's Colin, but with a U instead.

[B]

Of an I. Yeah, we talked about this. So the translator who is usually on, but I think is celebrating some holiday today.

[A]

He's been avoiding me.

[B]

Oh, that's what it is. You're right. Didn't want to name him Colon, because then you think of the body part. So it is Colin.

[F]

I dig the name. It's great.

[B]

No, it is Jill.

[D]

All right, well, he says, yeah, what she said. Those are my friends. As you can. In a very creepy panel, actually, with, like, the burned remains of parts of the tree behind them and, like, the kids being, like. With the line through them almost makes them look like they're speared as they step along.

[A]

Great. Cool Hand Luke. I don't know that it's a good movie. It's, you know, a lot of. Lot of Paul Newman with a shirt off. It's a movie for sluts. You'll love it.

[D]

All right. As. As he shouts, where are you taking them? Give me back my friends. As all the. The children are just snoozing away and Gunko. Hold your tongue, boy.

[B]

We move away from that scene as we go to the next one. And one of the. What were they called again? The Sleep, Damn it. Sleep. Nids, I think they're called. Anyway, there the. The lightning one has half its face in the ground here as Gunko Pop continues her monologue here saying, we prefer a simpler method, but at that size, our options are limited. And so, yeah, you see the. The lightning cloud with his face half in the ground as it looks like Frankie had just attacked them in his super cool outfit. Not quite the last one, which we all agreed was the best Frankie outfit. But this one. This one's good, too. And behind him we have Ripley. I always remember, believe it or not, that that is Ripley. That's a joke for just Abby, because I feel like. Yeah, and we have. We have Bonnie, and we have the favorite girl of Sam. Why am I forgetting? Freaking Nami. Right? Nami. God.

[D]

Caribou.

[B]

Caribou.

[D]

Caesar.

[B]

Caesar.

[E]

Anyway, and there's an increasingly Large cannon.

[A]

Wait, was it really Nami? Because I was trying to. No one ever remember. Okay. Phew.

[D]

Oh, this is Vega.

[B]

Thank you. Vegapunk. Lilith or Lilith. Vegapunk, if you have a Western sensibility. And we see Gunko here standing atop the giant boys ship saying, so they'll just have to walk the plank. And. Yeah, I'm surprised we haven't had any walking the plank in this series, now that I think about it. Yeah.

[F]

Anyway, I can't think of any examples, actually.

[B]

Yeah, that feels like a real pirate.

[D]

I've never had a devil fruit using brown.

[A]

It's gonna be like a giant plank that leads to the end of the.

[D]

World and that bridge they're making.

[F]

Yeah. Do you think that eventually, when they. When Oda reveals the Eyepatch character, we'll get our first walking the plank of the series?

[B]

And a good are. I mean, Blackbeard are. Blackbeard is the closest to that, so I could see him doing both of those things, to be honest.

[A]

I hope they set all that up and. And they get out a guy, peg leg, eye patch, he has a pirate. He says, walk the plank. And then all of these guys with like, the power of gods are just like, no. And. And obliterate him and that's the end of it.

[B]

Amazing.

[A]

We waited 2,000 years for nothing.

[B]

Amazing how off topic we're getting this week. It's fine. That's what we're here for. Anyway, Gunko continues. We will take them to the Holy Land via an appropriate route. And Nami, not Lilith, put two and two together, saying, ah, the Holy Land. Mary Joa. And Jim's like, oh, you are a celestial dragon. Then, oh. And Usopp's like, oh, you mean those ugly annoying people that I crushed one with my butt. Everyone forgets that happened in Sha body. But he crushed one of the Charles's dad with his butt. Which I think is a way better way to get back at that kind of tyranny than punching a guy. Like, he fell straight on his face.

[A]

Oh, yeah, I remember the color went away from the animation for that scene.

[B]

Oh, really?

[A]

He switches in slow motion.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, it should have intense.

[A]

Oh, it's great anime.

[F]

Poor Usopping.

[B]

In probably one of the more interesting panels of the chapter, Brooke is the one who puts two and two together here, saying, I suspect it's something above that. The Holy Knights and Gunko. The very same. Confirming Usopp's suspicions. Anyway, someone's tapping Usopp on the shoulder as he says, does that mean you're capturing all those kids to turn them into slaves. And Usopp notices an arrow is pointing at him. And we don't get a Bugs Bunny fourth wall joke thing going on here. But this is Gunko's arrow power. As Nami says, ah, you'll do no such thing. Takes out Zeus. Usopp, meanwhile, running away from the arrow. Very funny panel there, Abby. What happens next?

[A]

Well, next, Nami starts charging up a really cool superpower. She goes, thunder shark tempo. And Zeus turns into a lightning cloud shark. And he looks real cool. And I want him painted on the side of my plane that I own. Is this in my imagination?

[F]

Is this Zeus and Nami's first time doing this attack?

[B]

Yes.

[E]

I haven't seen it, unfortunately. Very cool.

[D]

They had to ask Jinbe if it was culturally sensitive. And he gave the A. Okay.

[B]

That's true. A okay with me.

[E]

It's fine. I gave you the pass.

[B]

He's here.

[A]

I like to imagine it's one of those things where Jinbe just had to, you know, weigh his options and he's like, it's not worth fighting with you about this. Yeah, do what you want.

[F]

Is it culturally insensitive?

[A]

Maybe do what you want, land lovers.

[B]

But once again, Nami has a lightning.

[E]

Attack, a victim of respectability politics.

[A]

I wash my hands of this in seawater.

[B]

Go ahead, Abby.

[A]

But unfortunately, Zeus goes, ha. Because he gets turned around by Gunko's magical arrow. And Gunko announces, one day the world as we know it will cease to exist. I don't even know if my microphone is picking that up or if it sounds like I'm Julie Kavner. Homer.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

The world's going to die. Homer. Mr. Burns. And then she says, the world's going to end. Or so we thought. Which is, I think, a very. It's not as ominous as she wants it to be. The world's going to end. Or so we thought.

[B]

Good news.

[F]

Maybe not.

[B]

Yeah, it's ominous to her, since she wanted the world to end.

[A]

I think I'm sick of these edgy tweens.

[B]

That's what she is.

[A]

And yeah, poor Zeus. Now a shark is being forced to chase Nami with this magic arrow power. And he goes, run, Nami. Look out. Nami's. Oh, it's like this cool high contrast panel. Nami looks cool. And then, oh, my gosh, poor Zeus. He. He's. He's electrocuting his target. And you see a. A skellington going, ah. And Zeus yells, I'm sorry. And he's crying, and you even See the little, little cloud version of Zeus with a little baby hat just to remind you who he is inside.

[B]

And the shark is crying too. The lightning shark. Oh, well, that's Zeus too, I assume so Watches.

[F]

Zeus is double crying. He's crying in the. Crying in the form and crying in.

[A]

The speech bubble and. But then Brooke gives the thumbs up and says, that's just me. Zeus is like, what you? And says thank you.

[E]

Yeah, they're doing the thumbs up pose together.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. I assume Brooke would have his tongue out if he had one. No, not everyone's going to.

[A]

And Gunko's. Oh, we're seeing flashbacks to all the people of Ohara and, and, and what's his face? Dr. Vegapunk. And she's saying, but a small number of humans realized it about the world ending and they warned the world of the danger. You know, she's not even paying attention to all this funny slapstick with Brooke. She's. She's too busy in her monologue that no one really.

[B]

Come on. The humor is important here. Like, don't just. Yeah, come on.

[A]

I, I like the, the wits of Usopp's jaw when he has this mustache beard combo. Like he. When he had his mouth open on page five, he looks very funny. And here again, he's. He's got his teeth gritted and he throws his mouth open. And I, I don't think we usually have seen his. His mouth looking this sort of cartoonish. And I, I just like the way it looks. And he, he manages to. To get a perfect shot off at. At Gunkou. And Gunko just, just solemnly looks like she bears the weight of the world on her shoulders.

[B]

As all 16 year olds. Sam.

[E]

We turn the page and Usopp is getting a bullseye with his attack into the big. The big skull cloud coming out from. From Gunko. And they're shouting, oh, you thought we'd be intimidated by celestial dragons. And then they see the remains. Her like top half has just been blown off. She's like perfect cell after the Kamehameha. Like, oh my God. You didn't have to be so gruesome, Usopp. And then Usopp immediately goes into praying. Forgive me. I didn't mean to blow your upper head half off.

[B]

I hate it when that accidentally happens. Guys.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, you apologize to the enemy that you just killed. You killed him too hard is the problem. But they're now reacting like what? Because she's reforming with all crack crack sound effects. Oh, I felt bad for her, but the way she's regenerating is gross. That's Nami. And Brook says, you're right. It's really creepy seeing someone come back to life. That's such a stupid. And then somebody's ellipses right below that.

[D]

I'm assuming Nami.

[E]

They're like, I could comment, but I'm not gonna. And now. Yeah. So Gunko says, and now with Nami and Usopp, big goofball, screaming scared faces.

[B]

That Nami one is fantastic. I haven't seen a Nami that surprised in a very long time. I feel like.

[E]

She'S saying, and now it is unstoppable. And then she, like, gets up on the. On the. On the side of the ship. No one can stop it. Which means the same thing as what you just said.

[B]

Just.

[F]

Just reiterating, like, just in case. In the second that you just heard.

[E]

Me say, just in case you. Yeah.

[F]

If you want to know how unstoppable it is, I'm going to reiterate it to you as I attack you with an arrow. With an arrow pointed.

[E]

It's uncomfortable. So you got the full. And it can't be stopped. We've covered all our bases.

[B]

Boo.

[A]

She ate the tautology. Tautology. Fruit.

[F]

It feels like she's kind of trying to be badass. And she's like, it's unstoppable. It can't be stopped.

[D]

No. She totally feels like a middle schooler. Like some kid who's just like, I'm a holy knight. Guys, I need to. You guys are not as cool as me, because my church says that I'm going to heaven.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

And I'm getting community service hours, so who's laughing at me?

[D]

And they let me listen to my music when I want to.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

So think about that.

[E]

And Usopp's like, oh, I had a feeling that the arrows were pointing towards the targets of her attack. Every time. Every time an arrow pointed at someone, they got attacked. Jinbe says, we've got this one. Usopping. And Brook says, it would be the height of folly to take a hit. As predicted, the countdown has begun.

[F]

I find it a little bit interesting that Nami is just grabbing the arrow in this panel.

[E]

Is she pointing it at Usopp or. No, she's trying to take her.

[B]

No, she's trying to get her away from it.

[F]

I think she's trying to divert it. It might not be working, but it's interesting that it's like a tangible thing.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Stabbing people. And she's surfing on it.

[B]

And it.

[E]

Yeah. It's Like a comic book.

[A]

Yeah.

[F]

It's a really. I'm really digging this ability. I think. I think it's very cool.

[B]

It is.

[A]

It was like a guy in. In my hero academia that had like comic powers that I felt like. Was like, why. Why are we using this for anything cool? And like, I feel like this is finally someone's doing like a weird self self indulgent meta. Metatech. It's. It's good. I love this power.

[B]

It's a very Jojo esque power. I think we mentioned.

[F]

I was gonna say. I. I believe that there is. I might be wrong about this, but I think that there's a Stand user in part eight that has very similar powers to this. Where they can put arrows on stuff and redirect attacks.

[B]

Is.

[F]

I don't remember their name.

[B]

Is it Rohan in part four?

[A]

Oh yeah.

[B]

I mean, Part four.

[F]

Like I. I don't really think he can. I mean he can redirect attacks, but like he. It doesn't really work the same way in the comic.

[B]

Right. Didn't he do that? Wasn't that like one of them? Yeah.

[A]

Three has a. Has a book guy. Yeah, he.

[F]

He can open your face like a book and write things in you.

[B]

Like, all right, that was like that.

[A]

Part three has like a. Like a guy that creates a children's book. That's the story of him killing you.

[B]

Is that Oingo Boingo.

[A]

Boingo brothers.

[F]

Yeah, it's. It's basically just like a. You got the JoJo guy in call, so I know a lot.

[B]

Perfect. No, I. Yeah. No.

[F]

Part three, the Oingo Boingo Brothers Toth. The manga just predicts the future. I'm almost 100% sure that Jojoli in part 8 has a character that has a very similar ability that just. They plant like arrows and it just redirects attacks to wherever the arrows are pointing.

[B]

It is such a JoJo power.

[F]

And it is very JoJo.

[B]

Yeah. Which is. Which is a compliment and probably why.

[F]

I like it so much. It might be reminiscent to JoJo. And I'm like, oh, JoJo, my one piece. Oh, is it my birthday?

[B]

I think. I mean, it's also interesting cause it like the powers we're seeing, particularly here with the Holy Nights, the three of them, we don't really know much about it and we haven't gotten to the point like, like what happens in Jojo where first you see the power and you're like, what the hell is happening?

[F]

It's like figuring out how it works.

[B]

Yeah. It's like a puzzle. Which is fine.

[F]

This is very much like. We see what the powers do pretty early on.

[B]

We don't know how to. How. We don't know how it works and we don't necessarily know how it works.

[F]

We've. We're seeing them like the. The whole dream power is very interesting to me. I'm wondering what the limits to that are.

[B]

Good transition because. Yeah.

[F]

Because here we go with some of the. The dream monsters we can talk about.

[B]

Yeah. The very last panel on page. What is that nine. We see the Nidhogger, Abby's favorite. And the rest of them. The Ghost, the Loki, I guess the. You know, the rest of them the Draugr or whatever. Yeah, you're right. I think Dragger. I think. Yeah. Anyway, they're also.

[A]

I just want to see my mom come back or your mom.

[B]

Your mom is a great one.

[A]

That's my favorite one.

[B]

Your mom. Oh, it's your mom.

[A]

Your mom was great to all the sluts.

[F]

You weren't all the sluts.

[B]

Oh my God. Anyway, so we have. We see all the dream. The what a sleep Nids I think come together and just kick. They get their asses handed to them.

[A]

Dory and Brogy together at last.

[B]

They're always together.

[A]

They were enemies.

[B]

That's true. Yeah.

[D]

But they're still like physically together on one island together.

[B]

Yeah, they were roommates.

[A]

I. I don't Very big.

[F]

I don't think that they were necessarily roommates. I just think that they were like, well, I could beat you. It's like, well, I could beat you too, bro. Okay. Let's go to an island and fight each other.

[A]

They're love girls.

[D]

They were fighting bigger guys.

[F]

There should be Dorian, Brogy Shipping.

[B]

That's true.

[F]

And they were island mates shape wise.

[A]

They're kind of an Ernie and Bert thing going on.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

I would love to see these guys.

[B]

As Ernie and Burns. They're. I would just. Now I just want to see Muppets of the two of them.

[A]

Hey, Dory, I forgot to pick up my toys today. That's okay, Broggy.

[F]

You want to fight on an island for decades? Sure.

[B]

Decades. A century.

[F]

Oh yeah. All century.

[B]

Just. Just a century. Yeah. Those things come and go. That's true. Anyway. Yeah. What a cool, cool panel. I love this one. Like freaking Dory. Like literally ripping the head off of the. The. The feathered one. The. The bird like one I forget the name of. Maybe it's Trogger with a sword through its head and Brogy acts what A great panel. I love this one.

[F]

Odo's been doing a lot of really good paneling recently. I. I've been really liking it and.

[B]

I really love how he's been. I guess you could call it inking. The.

[E]

Yeah, the like angle. Like.

[F]

Yeah, I think.

[E]

I think forces him to be like, have more clarity in the.

[F]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

Like, it's also a lot easier when half the panel isn't covered with the words bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

[F]

The way that these dream monsters are shaded in grayscale is like really cool. And yeah, it works really good with the contrast. It's very like easily readable to me.

[B]

No, it's great. This chapter, it was also especially so I think. Yeah. So the teenager has more to say. A vast war will ensue and drag the entire world into it. And which side the giants pledge their allegiance to will have a profound effect on the outcome of the war. And just to really drive home the seriousness of the statement, we see Loki having stuffed his freaking face. Glad he's doing well. Glad our boy's doing well.

[F]

You can even see Luffy next to him.

[B]

Oh my God, I missed.

[D]

He looks like a roll.

[F]

The. The boys are binging over there.

[D]

Pyridin is like shaking his head, man. He's like, we're so screwed.

[E]

How much bigger is Loki than Harudin Significantly.

[D]

Just ate a lot.

[F]

So he's very large.

[E]

When he digests all that. Is it? Is he? Is he. Are him and Hyrudan like completely different sizes? I assume they were close.

[F]

No, no, no. Loki seems way big.

[D]

He's like.

[A]

Or size Hyrudan and Loki is like 5 foot 9 to 5 foot 10.

[B]

Yeah. So Hyrudan is the world of difference. 72ft. What?

[F]

Wasn't it. Wasn't it said that Harjin and Loki like came from like technically different parents, but they're like brothers.

[B]

They're step brothers.

[F]

So like Loki is like a full blooded giant because he's got the horns and harder than is like a half blood.

[B]

So. Yeah, well no, it's not even half blood giant. So from what we know and it's going to be important.

[E]

Warrior giants. The giant.

[B]

The ancient. The ancient giants is what he descends from. But there's another giant clan and there's a lot of inter giant racism apparently. And that's where Haradin came from.

[F]

Okay, got it.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Yeah, that makes more sense because Hardin is still very large.

[B]

Yeah. 72ft.

[F]

A lot bigger because he's descended Directly from the older giant race. Which is why he has the horn.

[B]

He's like at least triple I think the size. So. Yeah. Yeah. He's big.

[F]

There's also you know a big power discrepancy between the two. Just because size difference and all that. At least from what we've seen so far. We haven't really seen harder. Didn't fight really yet.

[B]

Well.

[A]

Luffy kicked hard to say his Loki's Chojin power right now.

[F]

That's true.

[A]

Let's start power scaling. You know what? You know what?

[F]

Let's start power scaling. Why not?

[B]

No.

[A]

Bring back the Choriki.

[B]

It's not. I'm sorry. Well. Luffy.

[F]

Luffy beats Loki.

[E]

So what is that?

[B]

Transit.

[A]

What are their bounties?

[B]

He Transitive properties. So anyway. We go Nami and Jim Bay here. Nami refuting how her civics lessons here. The whole world at war twice. That would never happen.

[D]

So Would never also never happen a third time. Hopefully it never happened.

[B]

Oh, you're just fucking us. Jill. That's not good.

[F]

I'm knocking on wood so hard right now.

[B]

Yeah. My. Unfortunately this is ikea. I don't know if it's real wood. I'm trying.

[F]

It's okay. I got the wood knocking on my end. We're good.

[B]

Okay. Good. As long as Derek.

[D]

Thanks. We always need someone with wood here.

[F]

Thank you. And there's plenty of wood around me.

[B]

Okay. God. Anyway. Jimbo's saying. So you're trying to seize control of Elbaf in preparation for it by taking the children as hostages. What cheap cowardice. I didn't have my Jim Bay voice. I should have. And Gunko said I perform my duty as commanded. But it could all be for nothing. The lives of a few children might as well be trash. I do not understand the concept of hostages. Because I'm too close. Cool. I'm a holy knight. Right guys? And who's saying this? Usa. Usa. What's wrong with you? You got a few screws loose and Colin steps up. I'll fight you. This will go perfectly well. What happens next? Abby.

[F]

Not Colin. Solos. We got a nice double page spread of Colin stabbing Gunko through the chest.

[B]

It's like the Toki. Is it that they. They. They have all those meme panels of her just kicking everyone's ass. I love it. I. Not Token.

[A]

I know that. Like I don't know the meaning of the word. Danger is a popular line. You know. People announce we don't know the meaning of the word. I feel like if I didn't understand the concept of hostages. I wouldn't be bragging about it. I would. I would look it up and accept this knowledge into my heart.

[D]

Well, she's like a middle schooler making dead baby jokes is what it is.

[A]

She's like, okay, yes, you just don't like humor.

[F]

Yeah, you just listen. What do you don't like? Edgy jokes. Liberal.

[B]

Yeah, well, she's.

[A]

She's about to make another dead baby joke. Her arrow wraps around Colin's neck.

[F]

Speaking of dead babies, check this out.

[A]

I'm gonna strangle this child.

[B]

I'm 20 years old.

[A]

Oh my gosh, that's sad.

[F]

That is true.

[B]

It doesn't. I still don't get it. Because they still have 20 years. Why are they still 6 like or 8 year olds or whatever it is?

[F]

Anyway, they learn slowly.

[E]

Like Red XIII in Final Fantasy 7.

[A]

I mean, like if. If you're. If your. Your fetus has to grow to like a million feet tall. I could imagine needing more time. Although maybe his brain should be more. I don't know how brains work. Also, it's pretend. In hindsight, I shouldn't have put that much thought into it. The imaginary man ages slowly and is older than Luffy. Good for him. And so Jinbe and. And Brooke, they start charging up. Super moves that I don't know if we've seen finished before. And they. We still don't see them. Jim B. Goes 5,000 brick and. And Brook goes Gavat.

[B]

But gym base, we definitely. That's Fist. I think 5,000 print. I think Something like that.

[F]

Well. Well, we. We do get to see them.

[B]

We.

[F]

We do get to see them completed, just not. Not at the appropriate targets.

[A]

This is. Oh my God. Wait a second. She so good. And copy.

[B]

Follow the arrows.

[A]

Okay. Yes. So. So Jinbei and Brooke punch each other. But Gunko's arms are like unraveling. So she. When she got blown up, she rebuilt herself. She's an arrow.

[B]

So her arrows, she could build things out of. It's very confusing. It is such a joke.

[A]

Herself out of them.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, she did the same thing.

[E]

Yeah. So she. She. She would be an arrow logia.

[A]

You know, that classic element of the universe.

[F]

The classic arrow element.

[A]

Oh my gosh. If she's a comic Logia. And the comic ends with her crawling out of the page and murdering you. What a comic. What a. That's Oda does it again.

[F]

Peak fiction. It killed me.

[E]

Or a special logia like Katakuri.

[B]

No, that was special power.

[E]

Or special.

[B]

Yeah, okay.

[A]

Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, I was trying to figure out how she. You know, that was someone else's power when she rebuilt herself. And poor, poor Nami gets kicked in the face.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[F]

Yeah, she gets decked.

[A]

I'm. It's. It's only taken what, 20, 23 years for NAMI to get another knockdown, drag out fight.

[D]

What would Sanji do? Couldn't fight Gunko, like in retaliation.

[F]

Just like I'm gonna close my eyes and hope for the best.

[A]

You would try to feed Nami.

[D]

Put all your arrows on me.

[B]

Also.

[A]

That's a rare actual chivalrous idea. Hello, Steve.

[F]

Steve. Steve is up.

[B]

Oh, hi, Steve. Oh, Steve, not during the Sanji slander. You. You enter, I call. Okay. Please go ahead.

[A]

Yeah. So then. So then Usopp takes out his. His pop greens and shoots at Gunko again. And Gunko's just. She's no selling everybody. And then she knees him in the face so hard as his. His skull. You know, it.

[B]

It.

[A]

It distends. It. It contorts. We're getting some great Looney Tunes faces out of Usopp in this chapter. And he goes, I have to make the most of all the dialogue I get in this page. He goes, bleh.

[B]

A little more. I think it needs a little more emphasis. Abby, can you. Now it says.

[A]

Okay, hang on. Sorry. I'll test it out. Let's. Let's see what happens if I bunch. If I knee myself in the face.

[B]

Okay, okay, Better. Better chill.

[D]

And then we. We zoom out here.

[A]

As.

[D]

Who is As. I can't even tell who's communicating.

[A]

So.

[B]

So I think. I think this is. This might be. What's his name? Summers. Saint Summers.

[D]

Okay. Yeah. All right.

[B]

It's either that or Gunko now talking on. On a communicator. It's. It's unclear which, but I don't think it's Gunko.

[D]

It doesn't sound like her. It's not edgy enough to be like, yo, we're good here.

[B]

Actually, no, the next. The next line is very edgy, I would think. Go ahead, Jill. I'm gonna let you talk.

[D]

All right. As. As. Over. Over the transponder, it goes. How's it looking? You all set up killing him? Which. Damn, what a name they gave him.

[A]

It's a great pun. We were talking about it a while back. It's on the greatest mythological creature, one of them. It's fun. I like killing him.

[D]

As. We get a cool series of smaller panels here of all the crew on the ship and the kid that I Won't be calling Collins because I won't remember it. As he gets pulled up into the air. Goes, the means of communication are so inadequate in Elbaf. And then I guess killing him responds. Or this is the first person. It's very hard to tell. Goes no kidding. But it seems like every village and important facility has its own transmission tool. As we get a scene back at the school has no Principal Tusk with a big kabam in the back as we see here. Oh God, the Kirin.

[A]

Principal Tusk.

[D]

No, Kira going corner, corner. Nice hard corner as Principal Tusk. So what's happening here? Is he dreaming up a corner or has he just found a corner and he hit him into it?

[C]

No, he's working in a kitchen.

[B]

Hey, corner behind is hard corner. That was a corner.

[C]

I need hands.

[B]

Good. That's a good bear joke, gorgeous.

[C]

The bear stole it from reality.

[B]

What?

[F]

Zach, it's a reality reference.

[A]

Wait, are you telling me there are restaurants were real?

[B]

Are there chefs in real life?

[C]

Zach, I was referencing reality.

[B]

Wait, Steve, you were referencing reality.

[F]

Nice reality reference, bro.

[A]

I wish reality was real.

[C]

You always have the sickest, sickest references to reality, bro.

[F]

Big fan of reality. I binged every moment since I got.

[B]

There watching the same reality.

[C]

Are you guys all caught up with reality? I've seen hoping.

[F]

This should have gotten canceled ages ago.

[D]

They should say it's all a dream at the end.

[A]

Shout out to reality. Gotta be one of my.

[B]

I'm seven months behind on reality.

[D]

Recast some characters at this point. It really blows, I think.

[B]

You know what I think they did.

[A]

With Avril Lavigne, didn't they?

[B]

It needs a reboot. Just like. Yes. New plot, new people.

[F]

I mean, there was some, there was, there was rumors of a reboot in 2012 when the, when it was everything was supposed to end, but that didn't really follow through. So.

[B]

No, you can't trust rumors, you know?

[F]

Yeah, the rumors. You know, I mean, I think that's.

[A]

The trouble is they, they canceled it in 2012 and this is the, the fan made continuation.

[F]

Oh, that's why it's.

[B]

So Is this the AO3 version?

[F]

We're in the AO3 version.

[D]

Cuz then it would fix the problems. AO3, that would.

[B]

AO3 would fix the problem. Yeah.

[F]

There's not enough Yowi in reality.

[D]

I feel this is the.

[F]

If this is AO3.

[A]

Really? Wow.

[F]

Okay. I, I, I got to tune in. I'm not up to date.

[A]

Yeah, they're much nicer to me since I came out. Oh, very nice. Bunch. Very nice bunch.

[B]

Yeah. Well, to specifically Yaoi, though.

[A]

Well, I mean, the pastor doesn't really like it when I look in his library, but. Nice bunch.

[B]

Nice bunch, Jill.

[D]

Okay, so I'm still not sure what happens here, but there is a corner, and Principal Tusk does get smacked down into it.

[F]

Maybe that's like his attack name thing.

[B]

No, I think.

[D]

Was he just carrying around till he found a corner? He's like, I need a corner. I need a corner, like, for 30 seconds.

[B]

So fucking confusing.

[F]

He's smacking him into the corner of something over and over again because it's like. Well, corners hurt, obviously. You ever stub your toe on the corner of something?

[B]

Oh, yeah. I have no fucking idea.

[C]

This is like a soda bottle that, like.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

That you save some for later, but the cap is, you know, screwed on too tight, so you're just, like, hitting it on everything.

[B]

Is that.

[A]

Has anyone ever had. My mom has, like, a linen cupboard with, like, a little inside corner that's just for. For bottleing. Yeah, for bottle opening. Is that, like, a thing anywhere else?

[B]

Yeah. Jill, what happens next? Jill, please. The linen closet talk has to end. I am here.

[A]

Interesting closet.

[B]

I'm here to end the linen closet talk.

[D]

Zach, you want us to leave the closet here on this podcast?

[A]

Yeah, I took my girlfriend to my church the other day. It was lovely.

[F]

I was just saying we need more. Yeah.

[A]

Feel very happy. No, well, Yuri. But yes.

[F]

Well, Yuri, I was just saying let's all leave the closet. And there's bound to be some Yuri after leaving.

[A]

All right. Who do we ship on this podcast?

[B]

No, don't just ask the most uncomfortable possible question. We don't do real life.

[F]

Who do you ship? In reality?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Who do you.

[B]

Oh, in reality.

[A]

I think we should all get together.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

Oh, my God. What was going on on this page? I won't even know. I didn't know before this conversation.

[D]

This is what I said. See? So Principal Tusk fucked. Just completely out. Missing a tooth. That sucks, dude. And then cute librarian teacher chick. Don't know her name. She's there also. I can't move. And then Kieran. Dude, I like that. Beer goes. Yes. That's because your body has been slumber ties. And I have a special note from special dude Stephen Paul here about this. He says slumber ties is a combination of slumber and privatized. The government is ruining everything.

[B]

I don't know if I believe that comment rules.

[F]

They're privatizing sleep now.

[B]

Maybe this.

[A]

This guy has the best like, absurd.

[B]

I thought it was, like, hypnotized. I, I. Now I don't know if I believe Steven or not, but I guess I have to.

[A]

And he's, like a rich, evil guy. It works. It's perfectly thematic. Like, it. It's great. I love this. I love the powers just get even.

[B]

More abstract on the desk.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[D]

So, yeah, as he. As there's like a tiny den. Den Mushi in his hand and a bigger Denden Mushina's face goes. It's this big one, right? I've never heard of a transponder pill bug. And then try talking through this transponder snail Summers, which, wow, would never have guessed that's how they work after 1146 chapters of that being how they work. And it goes. This should send it all across Elbaf. All right, I'll give it a shot.

[B]

Jill, what do you think is the message that he's gonna send?

[D]

The one piece is real.

[B]

I don't like that answer. Derek. You could finish. Finish the chapter up.

[F]

Okay, we're on the final two pages, and we cut over to St. Sommers, and I believe that's him talking over the. The transponders nail that he might have. And he's just like, oh, just give me. Give me a minute first. Killingham, he's almost down. This is the guy who should have died at o'.

[B]

Hara.

[F]

And then we see our boy getting beaten and bloodied. I always. I always forget his name. What's the name of the giant here again?

[B]

Saul.

[F]

Oh, my God.

[B]

He's a doctor now.

[F]

Yeah, a doctor, Saul.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

And he's. He's huffing and puffin, and there's thorns everywhere. He's getting his shit rocked right now. And Summers is clarifying the former vice admiral really playing up the like, oh, yeah, this guy should have died. He's a betrayer, you know, we're gonna take care of him. So Saul is huffing and puffing, and he's thinking to himself, robin, Chopper, don't come out. Stay hidden around the back of my head. Which is hilarious, visually, that they're just behind the back of his head. But, I mean, you know, when you're a giant, I guess, you know, you can do that. And he. He also thinks, you gotta help rescue the children for me. You gotta. And then Sommers follows up by being like, ah, come on, fall forward. And down he goes. Saul falls over into the thorns, which I would imagine would not feel very great. And Robin is having, like, an actual crisis through this. I can't imagine what she's feeling after reuniting with Saul a couple of chapters ago. And just to see him get near death or potentially killed. I don't think that he's going to die, but like, it's traumatic nonetheless. Summers follows up. He says, schools, libraries. What kind of peace loving nonsense is this? You people are warriors once again. Calling back to the whole like, you know, like they're not like a warrior clan anymore, that they've kind of taken that lifestyle and put it to the side. They're more peaceful now. You're going to use the vicious, violent power that once terrified the world in service to us as mercenaries. Isn't that right, King Harald? And then stupid Harald had to go and screw it all up. And I assume that we'll get more information on, you know, all that next week, Next chapter next week.

[B]

I don't think we're off next week, right? Are we off? I don't think so. I'm always. I'm always wondering because it's been happening no seven days according to shonen jumps. So that is 11:46. Derek, I'll start with you. What were your thoughts on this chapter?

[F]

I really like this chapter. I was going to bring it up earlier, but I really like that it's. It's kind of rare for us to get other crew members besides like Luffy, Zorro and Sanji doing things. So seeing that Go was fighting Nami, Usopp, Jinbe and Brooke was really cool. Even if they're kind of getting their asses beat a bit, it was cool to see Usopp even just launch an attack in the first place. The same with Nami. And honestly, I like reading this chapter. I was thinking about how like, you know, how this could be eventually adapted in the anime and I would really love to see how Goonko gets animated in some of these panels because the regeneration I'm sure is gonna look great. Some of the choreography, the fight choreography was really cool. And obviously, you know, the new abilities that we got to saw see the Thunder Shark was really cool. I can already see a figure of that being made like in my mind's eye that feels very like, okay, I can see it. And yeah, overall I really liked it. I'm really hoping that we get more of that fight with Gunko soon because I'm loving it so far and I'm hoping that they won't have to get saved by somebody else and they can actually pull out a win or something or just delay her enough for everybody else.

[B]

Are they falling out of the boat on page 14, though, I'm like, oh.

[F]

Yeah, that's a good point. They're kind of getting. Yeah, they're kind of getting kicked off of the boat, like, midair.

[B]

So something's going to happen going on. Yeah, I see Brooks Kane, I think.

[F]

I'm kind of shocked that that Gunko actually, like, straight up kicked Nami in the face. Like, I always expect Nami not to get hit against anything, but she took a pretty direct blow, so I'm interested to see how this shakes out.

[B]

Didn't she get. She was in that fight with. With Ulti, actually, speaking of.

[F]

Oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah, she got headbutted over and over and over again. Oh, that was that honestly, really good Nami moment too.

[B]

It was.

[F]

I mean, I'm. I'm hoping Nami pulls out a win.

[B]

Oda's not afraid. Oda's not Sanji in that one respect.

[F]

Yeah.

[B]

So that's good.

[D]

It does tend to be women hitting her, though. That's how he does.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Which is. You know what? Whatever. I'll take it.

[B]

As long as someone's getting. Wait a second. I'm not saying the rest of that sentence. Jill, what did you think?

[D]

Yeah, I definitely enjoyed it. I will say it was a bit hard to follow some of the action, even with literal arrows telling me what was happening. But honestly, how much does that matter to me when I could just, you know, see what the results are? So I really liked, like, a ton of these panels I thought were fantastic. Like, the Nami and Zeus shark I thought was really good. Everything with Gunko's, with her arrows is so interesting. And of course, the. The shading that he's been using on the. The sleep tids. I. One thing I want to bring up is, like, that one panel with Brook, who recognized the Holy Nights. Definitely interesting. There's been hints before that Brook, like, knows stuff that, like, probably just because he's older and knows how things used to be before, like, the current pirate arc. So I don't know, wouldn't it be fun if we got, like, a mini Brook, like, flash?

[B]

Yes. I've been asking for this for something like that.

[D]

Like, I'm so convinced we're gonna see stuff like that and throw Kureaha somewhere in the background there. Just put her in there somewhere. Yeah. So I. This arc is so interesting. I really love that. Not only is there, like, interesting action and the giants the world is worlding is great, but, like, we're getting, like, all these, like, extra political stuff and man, these Holy Nights are so interesting. Like, some of them just complete douchebag and you can tell. And then there's like, you know, Gunka, who's somewhat humanified because she's like, listening to Brooks music, but she's also, like, horrible. So I really want to just. I like diving into these kinds of characters, but I'm just. I'm so excited to just, you know, continue. Elbaf. My God. Can't believe we're still here, honestly.

[B]

Agreed. Abby, your thoughts?

[A]

I. Yeah, I guess. Off. Off Jill's comments. I think it's really interesting how Gunko has sort of established that, like, the Holy Knights outrank the Celestial Dragons. I. I gather from. From how she was talking, but then also, like, she's clearly, like, so indoctrinated into her own sort of service to, I. I assume emu. You know, you're like, oh, it's a. It's a big bird. It's not an ostrich, it's an emu.

[B]

It.

[A]

You've been indoctrinated wholly into their service. And, and that seems like a weird position to be in because, like, they actually work, whereas the Celestial Dragons lead these bizarre lives of leisure. And so the, The. The social structure there. I don't. I don't know. Like, like, it makes sense, you know, it. It's not a thing where you're like, well, that. That's ridiculous. But it is something that I'd like to see sort of picked out a little more.

[D]

Yeah, total. Like, like, do you. I want to see more about the structure of the Celestial Dragons here. Like.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Do the Holy Knights think of the Celestial Dragons as, like, lesser? Or do they just think that, like, oh, maybe we're just stronger, like, I guess doflamingo would have been or something?

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Like, do the. So do the Celestial Dragons think they can boss them around? And is it. Is it more just, like, because we have the power?

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Or is it, like, outrank them, like, spiritually, emotionally?

[D]

Is it individuals who, like, like, their power grows and they become Holy Nights? Or is it like a family that, like, the Holy Knight title is passed down and they're just like, higher level of Celestial Dragons? It's really interesting. I never expected Oda to go into so much detail about the Celestial Dragons, to be honest, but it's, It's. It's kind of a great way to like, continue building the, the enemies in this, in the government further than what we've seen.

[A]

Yeah, you need something scarier than an admiral now that they well, when you're.

[D]

When you're. When you know, when Luffy's a God, you've got the holy knights against him. It's. It's. It's so interesting. It's like a Skype. Skype all over again. Guys. Everything.

[A]

I am stoked that we're seeing an Enaru come back before we've seen him.

[D]

Watch him. He's gonna be like, holy nights. We absolutely kill one of them.

[B]

Exactly. Oh, you did.

[D]

And then holy. The dog shows up.

[A]

Yeah. And. And as we established for Derek, we're not allowed to curse here. Holy nights.

[B]

That's what we have to say here.

[A]

Yeah. We mince our oats. Carrot sticks. That's what I've been trying to say, Abby.

[B]

Any other thoughts?

[A]

I know. I mean, I. I think that's kind of the coolest part of the chapter. I. I guess it is nice to finally have confirmation that it's not just, oh, we want more giant slaves where. Where this had kind of seemed like a little more trouble than they would usually be going to for that since they have this whole economy built around enslavement. So knowing that it's. It's hostages.

[B]

The whole economy confirmed. At least the whole economy is built around them, period.

[A]

Well, yeah. Yeah. Like, I. I know they were trying to. To create the giants with the breeding programs that. So that's, I guess, a different thing since that was for the creation of armies and slaves, but then to be able to use it to. Although I guess I still don't quite understand the last page where Summers is yelling about. Is yelling about the king. And then I can't tell what. What was a flashback. So it was reminiscence and.

[B]

What. No, no. So I think it was all present day. And so the. The ongoing fan theory has been up to this point that Harold sold out the giants and that that's why Loki took him down or something along.

[A]

Oh, right.

[B]

That's been the running fan theory. But this seems to turn it on its head and say that actually Harold sacrificed the warlike culture in order to not be used in this war in the future either. Yeah, I assume by the government.

[E]

But the government were going to use the giants war culture to build their army. And then. And Harald was complicit in that. And then something happened and then Harald sabotaged that.

[D]

I have to assume, relationship that Mother Carmel was connected to this because she was on Elbaf. So like, I'm sure.

[E]

Oh my.

[B]

Also doing human trafficking.

[D]

And I'm. I'm 100% convinced that their Big mom was like tested on in the womb or something.

[B]

Absolutely.

[D]

It's like everything kind. I don't know. She feels like an experiment that got fucked up.

[B]

Yeah. The hunger pangs thing.

[D]

I think we're still gonna get like more flashbacks with stuff like that.

[E]

Especially gigantification was Caesar's thing.

[B]

The gigantification has been a very important plot point. Even pre time skip. There were points like, I like all the Vice Admiral. The giant ones. John Giant early on. And yeah, it's been. It's. It's been there. And we've talked about it a bunch. Like, very interested to see how it all comes together here.

[A]

I hope we get such a flashback to Big Mom's origins that if you go back and watch whole cake and watch her like sucking out people's souls and you're like, oh, my baby, they were so big to you.

[D]

I already do that. Abby. Big mom was groomed. That dude who found her as a child is the one who gave her her first kid. Yeah.

[B]

Well, we are. No.

[D]

Was that Big mom did nothing wrong.

[A]

Lazy Struzan.

[E]

I feel like that's between the lines.

[B]

Yeah. I don't think that was confirmed, but I don't.

[E]

I don't think we're not. Not supposed to make that.

[B]

I don't. I don't know. I.

[A]

She's as dead as hell.

[B]

I mean, she was very young at that time and that would be exceptionally creepy and more that they had met while on Reddit.

[D]

People be going, red flag age gap.

[B]

Yeah. At minimum. Who was talking? Was it?

[A]

That was me. But that's all. We've reached the end, I think.

[B]

No. Sam.

[A]

Hey.

[B]

Yep.

[E]

I liked this chapter a lot. I like the.

[F]

I.

[E]

There's a couple panels in here with Gunko, like, looking down on the rest of the characters at, like, cool angles. I think those shots are cool. I think he's been pretty good at paneling the action. Like. Like, like. Yeah. It is a sort of complicated power that requires some parsing. But like, he's. He's landing on like, clear, easy to read shots that sort of organize it in your head as you're. As you're like moving your eye through it. And I just think that the ongoing questions we have about the Holy Nights are still very interesting. Like, I like that. Like, you know, we were asking a couple weeks ago what's going to happen when Gunko and Brooke meet and our answers are still kind of not. Our questions are not really answered yet. Like, we, like, we don't know that she doesn't recognize him yet. We don't know if, if, if, if she. She cares if she's separating from the artist or if she is ignorant or if even among the holy knights, there's this idea of the old world versus a new world. And maybe her idea of a new world is actually not a cool one. Maybe she's got a super evil idea of a new world.

[B]

That's what it's looking like.

[D]

I feel like I should go back and read the lyrics to that song. Like, I don't know if, like, I'm gonna be more meta about it.

[E]

Yeah, like, like, like there's still room to go either direction with her as far as, like, yo. Like, whether whether her liking that song is. Is a window into sympathizing with her or window into understanding her or if it's just like an irony. If it's just like, like, oh yeah, here's. Here's an example of somebody who can like the. The art of something of a pirate but still think that pirate deserves to die.

[B]

Yeah, go ahead, Sam. Yeah.

[A]

I think one piece pirates are great at separating the art from the artist violently if need be.

[E]

And yeah, like, I. When the thorn Sommer's thorn powers were introduced, I was thinking like, okay, here, how are we going to make this a metaphor? Right? Like, and now we're hurting Saul, right? Robin has to watch Saul be hurt by this power.

[D]

Can you imagine?

[E]

I really want to learn if Oda.

[D]

Brought Saul back just to kill him in front of Robin again.

[E]

See, like, that would kind of fix the disappointment of like, bringing him back in the first place a little bit.

[D]

I would make a shirt that says Saul is dead.

[B]

I'm going to be honest, I'm sadism there.

[F]

Out of all of the fake out deaths in this series, I actually was kind of okay with Saul coming back, if only to see Robin happy. Like, you know, I think it was worth it for me. However, the angst of him dying in front of her a second time is also very enticing to me, especially after he now knows that she's being taken care of with a new family. I doubt that it's going to happen, but the angst would be great.

[B]

No, I think, I think he's. What are they going to do?

[A]

He's definitely not going to die without giving a speech.

[F]

Yeah, 100%. And if he does, it's going to be a great speech.

[B]

He's a D. So, yes, with a smile on his face.

[E]

We still get to learn. Like, do you think that's something that could come up in the near future. Just like here's a little insight as to how the D initial can be inherited between all these different races. Even.

[D]

I sure would hope so. Can someone please explain that?

[A]

Well, the government's been trying really hard to wipe it out, but it's because it's a tenacious deal.

[B]

I think it's. Oh, my God.

[D]

If Law was here, we would already know is all I'm saying. He would have shown up like, hey, we're going to have this talk right now.

[B]

No, no, I, I think it's already been. There's a soft confirmation that it's. It's not as much a inherited as genetic as it is like, idealized kind of thing. Like, it may have been like the. Maybe I'm playing too much Zelda lately, but it's like the, The. The allies of Joy Boy maybe all had, you know, you know, that, that running through them.

[A]

It's like naming your son Jesus. You don't think he is Jesus? He's not related to Jesus. You want him to inherit the will of Jesus?

[B]

Yeah, kind of.

[E]

They're.

[B]

They're.

[E]

They're descended from the apostles of, Of Joy Boy?

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. That's really more, I guess, of what I'm. What I would be getting out there.

[E]

Because I'm still trying to just figure out the lineage of like, you know, the different. I guess the shared origin of the different of.

[B]

Of races, more of what. I mean, to go back to the original point, though, I think Saul's fake out is better because first of all, Kuzan's attack was time capsule. Like, I think.

[A]

Oh yeah. And Kuzan has weird.

[E]

I see the pieces. Like, I, I can see how that was the plan from the beginning, and I can see. And I, And I was moved by their reunion, but I also was sad that the, that the intense emotions that I felt when he died, like decades ago, you know, are recontextualized. But if it's, if it's a matter of like, okay, we're. We're repealing those. That emotional experience. We're healing that one. But now we're going to break another one.

[B]

Not to get too onto this topic, since it's not super important to this chapter, but there are two reasons why I think it is. A good initial instinct was the same as you, Sam. And this was years ago now in Egghead, when this was initially revealed. But I think it's important for two reasons. One, we needed Robin to go to the library and see what was there. And Saul is a very good Conduit to all of that happening. It's like an essential conduit to that happening in. In Elbaf second. Like it's been a little bit since I last reread or watched the o' Hara flashback, but that flashback is plenty depressing without even take out Saul's death. Even if you knew he survived, it still would be immensely. Just heart wrenching. The stuff that's the most heart wrenching in that. In that to me at least is the Olvia stuff with Robin. Like the, oh, I finally got to see my mother and then is torn away and dead. Like that to me is the most heart wrenching. But I mean, yes, the Saul thing is a piece of that. But I don't think it like, yeah.

[E]

Like, I see the argument for why it's fine for him to be brought back, but it still disappointed me when he was brought back. And then this. If something terrible was to happen to him in the present, that was awful.

[B]

You were like, let's murder this guy. Why is he still alive?

[F]

Kill him in front of me.

[D]

I was out with friends and one of them asked me, like, what? Because we were discussing Saul and one of them asked me, what death in one piece do you like, would absolutely, like, ruin it if Oda like reversed it somehow, like the way this all does. And I said, I replied, like, probably Ace. I don't think he could bring back like Ace. Like as an actual person. I could see, like, I'm. I'm low key hoping for like an Ace. Oh my God.

[B]

What's the little Star Wars Obi Wan Seraphim.

[D]

I'm hoping for an Ace Seraphim. But, oh, I said probably Ace. And then my friend sitting next to me goes, ace is dead. So that's my friend.

[B]

Oh, everything full circle, circle.

[F]

Just like the, the hole in his chest.

[A]

Yeah, I would like to see him pull off. Gold Roger never really died.

[E]

See, I. I kind of. I kind of entertain. Yeah, I kind of entertain. That would be a possibility sometimes. Like, how crazy would that be? That would be really.

[F]

Gold Roger had a secret devil fruit that when he dies activates.

[E]

Like, that's like when they faked out Odin being back in Wano. It's like, oh, that's disappointing. And then if that was just like a secret, like planting the seed in our heads to be surprised when like the much crazier revival of Gold Roger, like, I don't know.

[B]

That's.

[E]

That's a completely.

[C]

That was like. That was a conversation we did not.

[F]

Gold Roger comes back in. He has the eye patch. He was just like, my eye got infected. I didn't die.

[E]

That would be a ridiculous twist. But, like, there's. There's a part of me that's like. That's like, entertaining it. All right, so I kind of dig. I kind of dig the swing.

[B]

Sam, anything else about the chapter that about does it. Okay, Steve, I heard your voice. So what did you think of this week's chapter?

[C]

This was a really good one. I thought this was a fun action chapter, I think expertly assisted with arrows. Because I was even looking at a lot of this Gunko stuff with. Without these arrows, and I'm like, yeah, the direction here wouldn't be quite as clear if it wasn't for some of these. So I kind of. I was reveling in the. The irony maybe of that, but I don't know. Going back to the COVID story with Yamato, I see that, you know, Yamato was owed what the Gungans call a life debt. So it could be possible that he's recruiting his own crew of folks like Odin did. It would be. That'd be interesting. The new the Whatchamacallit's.

[D]

Yep. I agree.

[C]

Akazine. Yeah, I think it would be pretty cool who's who. No, though, you're not welcome.

[F]

I do.

[E]

It would be kind of cool if this cover story gave us a little tease as to, like, how the oni horns are related to these three.

[D]

Right. It's all fucking connected.

[C]

Yeah, well, maybe. What's their dad's name again? Summer Wars. Hanafuda.

[B]

Thank you.

[C]

Their father's name is Summer Wars.

[E]

Please. My father's name was Summer Wars.

[A]

The greatest Digimon.

[C]

They must be. Kaido must be some sort of matchmaker or something.

[B]

Or. I don't know.

[C]

It's just like, I know the single girl with horns. You two got to meet, I think. Yeah, you'll really connect. At the very least, he'll have two children.

[A]

You know, the musical hello Dolly has a much different implication if you replace the word matchmaker with eugenicist.

[E]

Well, if Ulti and Pedron's mom was like, a human, Is that why they're there? Human size but still have the ogre horns.

[B]

Hmm.

[C]

I thought the Matchmaker song was from Fiddler.

[A]

Well, I mean, there are lots of musicals with matchmakers in them.

[B]

That's more of a.

[C]

Yes, very popular subject. I thought this was a fun chapter, though. It didn't need to set up. It still set up some interesting developments here, but I thought the action was great. Nami continues to just only have lightning based attacks now. But at least this one turned into a shark.

[A]

At least she understands how she's being electrocuted.

[C]

That was neat. And the gag, because I almost thought like, wow, Nami's getting electrocuted. But nope, the. The streak goes on. And it was, it was a funny gag. So.

[D]

Nami only using lightning on the tree that has the lightning weakness.

[A]

Oh my gosh. That's right. I hadn't thought about that.

[B]

Steven. Yeah, go.

[C]

But my, my favorite panel from the entire chapter was just Usopp taking a V trigger knee to the face.

[A]

What a great panel.

[C]

Just really great impact panel there. Great face fault there. But yeah, I really liked the note this chapter went out on with the dude just dropping more and more vague things about Harold. I thought that was. That rocked. So things are getting more intriguing. And I also liked Loki blowing up like a big balloon after having his fill of hot, hot soup. So I'm really looking forward to seeing Loki further develop as a character. And he's probably going to be a lot more of a big softy or comical character than initially led on to be.

[D]

Yeah, I was about to say this panel, I think just convinced me he's not a bad guy. Like, I mean he might be like a little dick child, of course, but you know kids. But you know, he's probably gonna not be an antagonist.

[B]

Loki. No, I, I never really thought. I just was wondering how they wiggle out of, you know, the, the whole legend that surrounds them. Steve, did you have any other thoughts?

[C]

No, no, I'm good.

[A]

I like the idea of Luffy adopting the same logic we just did for Loki and being like, anyone who likes food can't be a bad man.

[D]

I think that's actually his logic.

[B]

I believe that might be his logic.

[A]

You enjoy.

[D]

The only thing is Blackbeard. But then he didn't like his kind.

[B]

No, no, no. It's how, it's what food and how you obtain that food.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And how you distribute that food. And I mean it is, but it's very food based. Yeah, it is. He's what. What they call about dogs food motivated. That's, that's, that's how you know how trainable they are. So my thoughts. I loved this chapter. This was a lot of fun. I, I echo what everyone said. I hope they don't kill Colin. I wonder if we're gonna see Scopper Kaban come in in some regard here because of what's going on there. He had heard the three voices. This is Just occurring to me. It's not like I planned to say this. He had heard the three voices last chapter, I think, which we assume is Summers, Killingham and, and Gunko Pop, as Jill termed her. So we'll see if there's an intervention here in that regard. There's this, this is like kind of the most. This chapter really made me feel like, oh, we're in the ark now, more than anyone we've had so far. We were talking before the show with Derek and they're like, I was on the show during the previous arc. I'm like, this hasn't been going on that long, but it's been going on since October and it's almost the end of April, so there you go. And now it feels like, Sorry, go ahead.

[F]

No, I was just gonna say I, I, I've been, I've been super stoked. Like post wano. It feels like a lot of the arcs have just been like really snappy. Like, like I, I enjoyed wano well enough. I just think it's like, like so long that I was like, okay, you know, like, I'd like to see some other sites and stuff like that.

[A]

In the.

[F]

The previous arc was quickly became one of my favorites. And now that we're getting the shorter, snappier arcs again, I think the pacing is just really good and fast. And I'm, I'm. They're doing a lot of big lore drops like every other chapter. It's, it's great. I've been loving it.

[B]

I, I mean, Steve, I don't know if you noticed this, but I, I'm just sorry. I have this page open though, with Colin on like the very first spread. It even looks like the, the outlines are thicker. Like, I think the perspective was especially well done in, in this chapter with giants versus non giants, so that I will give kudos to. I think where the issue has been and we've all talked about it is that sometimes action is hard to follow. I think some of that, you know, is.

[E]

I think it's been significantly better lately than it was like in the wano days.

[B]

I think sometimes I like, I think the wano days also had their issues. Yes. I have to go back to actually have like a real opinion about that. But I think some of the reason though is that Oda is willing to forego things because he trusts the anime a lot more in adapting it. We've discussed this here before, but I feel that particularly with the Killingham scene where I still have no idea what happened. As Jill read through earlier And I'm like, that feels like Oda just being like, I'm not gonna waste time on this. Let the anime do something cool here. We'll see what happens. And I'm sure they will. But I, I don't, I don't love that in that. Whatever that idea that, that ODA had there that, that Oda may be leaning on there. That being said, I do appreciate the snappier stuff. Anyway, the one thing we didn't mention that I at least wanted to bring up was Gunko's emo teenager speak speech. The. This is kind of. So for those who have not listened to our off week episodes, the sgs, we have Greg Werner, who's a serious advisor for the live action series and friendly enough with oda. And Stephen, who's the official translator, is usually on, but forsaked us this week because Abby's on. Apparently it was some beef that they had. I don't know.

[A]

We'll never forgive each other.

[B]

No. But they were talking a lot and they have talked a lot about the final war in one piece. And this like feels like right out of that discussion in, in a big way. The. I remember, I think Greg had mentioned something along the lines of like, there needs to be a good reason why the Giants haven't been in the story up until this point. Like in a significant way. I mean, we had Oymo and Kashi and Dorian Brogy and the Vice Admirals and you know, they've been kind of in the background, but they haven't played any real role in the story for the foreseeable past. Meaning like through Gold Rogers Day, we haven't heard of any like big Giant thing. And this really begins to explain why and also shows how pivotal the Giants are as characters and why they kind of had to have that story reason to be suppressed up until this point. But I like how ODA is giving it more than a story reason. This is obviously something he has thought about, like, how do I get out of not having the Giants be front and center? But also why in the story, you know, what's a good reason in the story why they weren't front and center? And this is just the stuff with Harold that we're gonna probably get sooner rather than later. Hopefully in a good meaty flashback, as everyone's mentioned, with lots of big mom scenes and Mother Carmel stuff. I, I think that is some really good storytelling. I think that and, and a lot of the stuff we mentioned with Saul. I think the thing I really love about Oda is you Never know when he's retconning or when he had planned something all along. I mean there are times. There are times. There are. Sabo is. This is a very good exception to that. But like he is someone who will plan something and then 15 years execute on it and then there are times you don't know when that's happening and then there are times he doesn't do that. But the fact that he can do that and does do that successfully, repeatedly is probably one of the reasons why I love One piece so much. And I, I kind of feel like that's something that's happening here with the giants and, and the stuff that we saw in Egghead with Vegapunk speech and the. The world literally being turned on its head. And so the last thing I'll mention, I just closed the window. Why did I do that? Is the, the song New World by Brooke. I'm not going to sing it, but I'll say it's the story of a hero, the story of a man who will become king. I'm going to do this. William Shatner, I guess this is the.

[A]

Story of a girl in war.

[B]

There are no do overs but he stands firm with sandals on his bare feet. Who could this be talking about? Oh yeah. Come on, baby.

[C]

Well, you know. Wait, wait. Gets the part where she drowned. Drowned the whole world because she cried.

[A]

I just said that.

[C]

Definitely happening in one piece. Yes, I'm finishing it.

[B]

Today is the day we got tired of waiting. We don't need nights because we're short tempered and so on and so forth. But I think you could. I think our question was could we interpret Gunko thinking that it's, you know, from her point of view. Her shitty version of a new world where everyone gets flesh things.

[D]

If you include that with like her fear of Nika, it's like.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

I don't know. Interesting stuff with her for sure.

[E]

Yeah, it does. Does. Is she an example of somebody in the government who wants literally anything other than power and, and luxury is the, is the undetermined part.

[B]

But, but here, here are the lines that I think definitely resonated the most with Gunko. Move forward without turning back. May I see your, see your panties? 40 degrees diagonally is harder than 45 degrees. Yeah, that's in the song. That is in the song.

[C]

I think you're. I think you're getting to the.

[B]

That is the end of the song.

[C]

When he's just like.

[D]

If Brooke asked to see Gunko's panties, is that when she realizes it's Sulking.

[B]

We have. We have. We have. Yes. Well, he doesn't have to ask. She's not wearing pants.

[D]

I mean, he has that have mermaids. It's. It's about the panties.

[B]

Oh. Yeah. It's more about asking about it than actually getting the response.

[A]

I think you know, the police don't take that answer. Jill.

[B]

What?

[C]

Steve, have you talked about that's probably the likely reason why she's not wearing pants?

[B]

Yeah, we talked about that.

[E]

That was like a couple weeks ago.

[B]

Yeah, we did. But it. It never hurts to say so.

[C]

Don't you hate pants?

[B]

That's also a good title for today. That'll do it. Thank you all.

[E]

What if all of our questions about Gunko and Brooke are just never addressed?

[B]

I would be disappointed. I would drop the series right there.

[E]

What if they have no relation to each other at all?

[A]

I hate pants. They're coarse and rough and they.

[D]

Yeah, someone just recommended her that song and she's listening to it for the first time and she's like, not really my thing, but they recommended it to me, so. Dislike.

[E]

Spotify pushed it to her.

[D]

The algorithm, you know.

[B]

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This is the double anime recap for episodes 1125 and 1126. I'm your host Sam and today with me we have Old Spices Zone, Steve Yerko.

[B]

Power.

[C]

That's what I have. So I use Old Spice.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

I think I realized I was doing McDonald's at first.

[E]

I was like okay, maybe, maybe I forgot about an Old Spice commercial.

[C]

It's. It's about stupid and what's his name was Papa.

[B]

Papa. Papa Power. See?

[E]

Yeah. Our first episode on the docket is 1125. A clash of two men's determination. Kizaru and Sentomaru. And it begins with Kizaru and Sentomaru having their fight. They are clashing and this is a great looking segment of action of good cool fight choreography as Kizaru fights with his hands in his pockets to show that he is not, not, not sweating it.

[C]

He's freshly squeezed. For anyone out there that might understand that, but don't think about it. Sam.

[E]

Yes. Santomaru is trying to really exert himself. Really push. Yeah. Last the previous episode he was bragging about his having the greatest defense in the world.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

They really, they give some shine to Sentomaru here. They really kind of made him look like he was worth a damn. Not that he isn't just, you know, they gave him his due.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

I mean he's been Vegafunk's bodyguard this whole time. He's been, you know, he's not Admiral Strength, but he's certainly something.

[B]

Mm.

[E]

But then we have a scene of the Vice Admirals as a part of the the Super Buster call. They're all landing on the ship on the shore. We get some our good friend Naotoshi Shida action from between the the Vice Admirals and the Sea Beasts.

[C]

The the Wobbly lion Sea Beast.

[E]

Lots of Red King action. If you're a big fan of Red.

[C]

King, I I have a non One Piece fan friend who, who does like that character. So they're, they're, they're happy to see Red King in the anime now.

[E]

Bluegrass the old lady. I I Her voice sounded familiar enough that I had to go looking it up. She's also the voice of Chiaotzu.

[B]

Wow.

[E]

Dbz wow.

[C]

The original.

[B]

Yeah, I guess.

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

Chiatzu hasn't really changed voices. Tension on had had some different voice actors unfortunately because the original passed away.

[B]

But.

[E]

The straw hats back in the the lab are watching the fight on the monitor. Vegapunk assures them that Sentomaru's control of the Pacifistas. It means that the island's defense is strong and reliable. And I like when, when Kizaru he's he's sometimes when he's going in like, you know, we're seeing him in like slow motion and we're in the, you know, this very kind of science lab area island. He's just kind of like when he goes to slow mo, it's like he's like entering this like Tron mode and he's doing like this, this cool lean in as he's like Tron mode.

[C]

Was he like leaving a trail that if sent to Maru hits it.

[E]

He just like the grid, the grid styling on everything around him. The, the fact that like he, he, you know, the slow mo view is, is sort of feels like an alternate reality. He's, he's doing an Akira slide with his feet. And I didn't pick up on that. It's not really. He's just leaning very coolly and very dramatically. And we get a little flashback of young Kizaru and a middle aged Vegapunk meeting a child, Sentomaru, for the first time. I guess there was news of bears attacking the island, but now this child has just beat up all the bears and the kid is like, I'm strong and I don't even get hungry and I want work so that I can get money. And then Vegapunk asks him what he wants the money for. And then Sentomaru admits he wants rice balls. And his stomach gurgles and then everybody laughs because the child who's bragging about not getting hungry is clearly hungry. And Vegapunk agrees to hire him for bodyguard work since he's clearly strong. And then, you know, this is, this is the pathos behind the Sentomaru vs. Kizaru fight. Kizaru is also having memories of basically Sentomaru asking Kizaru for help on, on how to better protect Vegapunk. And then that's that. We respond to that in the present with Kizaru saying, you're strong, but. And I've taught you well, but unfortunately my defense is stronger than yours. So he's, he's able to block Sentomaru's attack and blast him right back. And that brings us to the eye catch of the episode. He has thoroughly defeated Sentomaru and he's able to pick up the Pacifista control device which is like a, like a little glass cube with a ball in it. And the ball has like a little like puck that's going outside the cube. I don't know how, I don't know how to describe it. It's like.

[C]

No, I'd say you described it to the best of your Abilities. That's pretty much it.

[E]

It's like a Christmas tree ornament or something.

[C]

I was gonna say it looks like a holiday ornament.

[E]

And so now he's got control so he can give the Pacifistas orders. And they all start to turn back on the Sea Beasts. And now Doberman, Vice Admiral Doberman is relaying this information back to Jay Garcia Saturn, letting him know that we are turning the tide of the battle. We've got. We've got the Pacifistas under our command. And Vegapunk is ordering the, you know, in preparation for leaving the island.

[D]

They.

[E]

They order the shield to go down, even though that means that they're leaving a brief window for Kizaru to get in. And Vega. The Vega Force One is carrying Luffy's group on the Sunny. And they're. They're. They're running to the shore to. To, you know, set up their plan. And Kizaru is flying up in the sky. He's appearing before Punk Records. Inside the lab, we have Stucy just kind of sitting cross legged drinking tea. But then like, her instincts alert her. Her spidey sense goes off and her instincts alert her to Rob Lucci lunging at Vegapunk like a cool very like harsh shadows shot of Lucci like swooping in with the killer intent in his eyes. And Stussy jumps in the way to. To stop Lucci from killing Vegapunk. And then Sanji takes the moment to nab the. The bubble gum from Nami's hands. And he. He captures Kaku just in case, even though Kaku's still bedridden.

[A]

I don't.

[C]

I don't know. Did this happen in the manga?

[E]

I don't know. Zorro swoops in and he starts to clash with Lucci who is acting like Sanji now and like blocking with his leg with his like, arm.

[C]

Yeah, very. Yeah, very much so. Not that this really matters to me. I think it's just for the sake of the plot because you kind of have to take out Stussy a little bit. But I just. I was watching this. I forgot that she took this hit for Vegapunk, but I was like, where was. Where was Zoro's and Sanji's hockey here? How did they not see Lucci?

[E]

I mean, clearly Stussy is definitely like quite strong.

[C]

She's like, yes, but it's the, It's. It's because the plot. Because this has to happen. The story.

[E]

Well, and she. And she has. She. She has.

[B]

She.

[E]

She's In Team Vegapunk, she's. She's not just like an ally. She's. She's like part of. Part of the gang. She's. She's like Sentamaru almost. And Kizaru, he sees Vega Force One and he starts readying his. His laser to shoot it. And that's when Luffy is already off to action. He, like, swings off the Master and lands into Kizaru's field of view. And then Kizaru is like, ah, long time no. He gets hit immediately. Well, not immediately, because the. The anime has to show Luffy like, turning into a big zigzaggy lightning bolt as he, like, drill kicks Kizaru. And Kizaru just blocks him and goes, oh, that's rude of you. And Luffy, with a crazy look in his eyes, he says, Kizaru, we're 100 times stronger than we were two years ago. Dun dun dun. To be continued. In episode 1126, Looming Despair, Admiral Kizaru's depressing mission. And we get a little flashback to the day before in Mary Geoa, where the Mary Geo Guards are, like, trying to take down Kuma, who ran away from the Revolutionary army base to get revenge on the Celestial Dragons. And then Sakazuki's here in the flesh. I don't know if he was just, like, already on the island when this happened, or Magma.

[C]

I'm trying to remember. Oh, because New Navy Headquarters is on opposite side.

[E]

Yeah, it's. He wouldn't be able to just get to Mary Geoa from his. From, like, his office. Unless he was, like, already in the middle of, like, a meeting with the Five Elders or something.

[C]

Could have been. Yeah, I'm trying to remember.

[E]

Which would be plausible.

[C]

I'm trying to remember the last, like, off the top of my head, the last time we saw him. And I was most likely getting pissy on the. On the. On the.

[E]

Looking out at the horizon, I better keep my ass inside. And the Celestial Dragons are crying out to Sakazuki, we wanted lobster for dinner last night, but they were out.

[C]

Lobster for dinner.

[E]

Please flee, Admiral Sakazuki, save us. Save us from not having lobster. And Sakazuki is using Hellhound on Kuma, and he gets a hit and he's surprised to see Kuma still bleeding like a human.

[C]

Isn't this the same attack he used on Whitebeard that, like, clawed off his face?

[E]

Very well could have been.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Well, at least in the manga, the anime just lost the mustache.

[E]

Yeah, Kuma outruns. Kuma is now on the. On the Evasion. He's outrunning the different like flying magma fists going his way and he eventually just. He just like pops out of there. He just flies like Superman.

[C]

Which, you know, it makes me wonder if Kuma could always do that. Why didn't he just have like. I'm wondering if he's just doing like. This is my. This is my farewell tour. I'm just gonna just up a bunch of. I'm just gonna stop by the red line and just fuck up a world government town.

[E]

Yeah. I mean like he. Yeah, he flew to the. To Mary Joa and now he's flying away now that he's losing the fight.

[B]

Mm.

[E]

But this prompt a flashback. It's no. What it's exactly like. Have you seen Taxi Driver?

[C]

Not in a long time.

[E]

But I just think it's funny how Taxi Driver is like. Like it builds to this assassination attempt and then he gets caught immediately and then just runs and does the ending to a different movie instead.

[C]

Oh, Zoe talked about Kuma.

[B]

Okay.

[E]

Yeah. Kuma is Travis Bickle in this scenario.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

What a comparison.

[E]

But this prompts a flashback with Sakazuki when Sakazuki confronted Bonney when she's all chained up after Blackbeard had her captured.

[C]

Was this in the manga?

[E]

The. The. The where they mentioned Kuma? No.

[C]

Yeah. I. I don't recall. And I. What's nice is since the anime is actually behind the latest English volume covers, a hell lot of what's going to be coming up in the anime in the next few weeks. First of all, I like double checked like three times because the way it goes to the flashback, it just briefly cuts to black and comes back. I'm like. I'm like. Is Crunchyroll like messing up? Because it's like this is supposed to be an ad break for non premium members, but I think that's intentional. It just blips and then it's there which is interesting transition. But I love this. I thought this was great. Like oh, here's finally the rest of the conversation with Akainu and Bonnie. Way back in the post war stuff.

[B]

This is.

[C]

This was a pretty cool addition.

[E]

Yep. Where they. They met. They acknowledge the their relationship with Kuma. And back on Egghead it is Snakeman Luffy versus Kizaru which is a very cool matchup with the Speed Focus. We. You know the show gets to go like kind of matrix mode where it's kind of. Or it's like it's more Zack Snyder where it's like ramping up on the slow motion and whatnot.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

And like with their arms, like zigzagging around. And Vegapunk is asking, why do you defend Vegapunk? You're a pirate. And then Luffy's like, well, I could ask you the same thing. Why are you trying to kill the old apple man? And Kizar doesn't seem to like being asked that. And he. He like spin kicks against one of Luffy's punches. And then he goes up fly. He goes up high in the air and he's like kind of talking to himself now. He's like, I don't want to kill him. This is. This is very difficult for me. I've known him for a long time, so don't. Don't presume my. My feelings on the matter. And he basically gets distanced so he can fly back down and kick Luffy super hard and send like a big laser blast flying at the. The Vega Force One that's still running towards.

[D]

Sure.

[E]

And now we get little memories of Vegapunk proudly completing the Vegaforce One and talking about how it's the dreams of mankind, a giant robot, the thing all children want to have or want to see.

[C]

I sure hope nobody breaks it.

[E]

I got real bad news, Steve.

[B]

Oh no.

[E]

Big explosive laser blast just tears it right in half.

[C]

Is Vega Force One okay?

[E]

And then that brings us to the eye catch of this episode. I really like the dramatic tone that the anime has that the manga doesn't hear where, like, you really do feel bad that this thing that has history to the characters, even if not so much history to the audience and kind.

[C]

Of kicked off this arc to begin with. This was, you know, if you're not counting the sea beast shark, this was like the first, you know, hint, this little essence of Vegapunk that, you know, like. Yeah, that's not like scary that we saw as a.

[E]

As a gesture of, you know, like how. How much Kizar is willing to do against someone who he knows as a friend.

[B]

Mm.

[E]

We come back from the eye catch and Lilith gets to have a moment to cry about the Vegaforce One. Bonnie gets mad and starts charging at. At Kizaru. Luffy just got went. Got sent flying with the blast. So he went through the Vega Force One. He just like hit a wall somewhere. Yeah.

[C]

He got blown up in the. The force field. I forget if that's the.

[B]

The.

[C]

The Fabio phase. Labio.

[E]

Whatever we call it the Truman Show Wall. The Truman Show Dome. And Bonnie's charging at Kizaru and Kizaru is just kind of like sidestepping her Like I'd rather not kill an acquaintance. So he just kind of swats her away with a kick.

[C]

Does he still swat away at a kick? And then she goes flying into the force field and also blows up.

[E]

It was a love tap.

[C]

At least the kick didn't hurt.

[E]

The the Vegapunks are celebrating having finally cracked York's code. So they're like, okay, cute little piece.

[C]

Of animation here too. There's sometimes like some animators when they animate the Stella his. There's not a whole lot of squash and stretch. His face kind of stays kind of stagnant and his pupils are bigger. And sometimes I find that really it's a. It's a cute drawing of Vega Punk. I mean he's still such a. Such a ridiculous looking character. But I think sometimes when he looks like a toy, it's.

[E]

It's funny like a. Like a squeeze toy that with like the eyeballs that pop out.

[C]

Something like that. Yeah, he looks like. Sometimes he like he's drawn like he. Like a Pixar character character. Like a Toy Story toy, I should say.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, the anime definitely. Because in the manga I was like, man, this guy's like a monstrosity. But the anime, he's just like a silly little guy. I like him.

[C]

Yeah, I think, yeah, they've done a really good job adapting this for animation.

[E]

So now Vegapunk's trying to ask over the phone, is the Vega Force ready? Is our plan in place? And that's when Kizaru uses his dramatic sensibilities to appear in the room with the bad news that he's destroyed the giant robot of dreams. And Kizaru says, listen, this is very difficult for me. I'd rather not draw it out. And then this is when gear 5 Luffy's eyes bug out from the wall of the labo phase. And we get the Gear five overtaking music and he's. And he's bursting out of. Out of the wall, bouncing on the ground, goofing, laughing and goofing around. And then we. We come back to, you know, Luffy heads back to the lab, but people can only like really hear his voice. And like Kizaru's eyes are like trying to find the voice and they're like going around in circles until the big hand shows up and grabs him. And then everybody, all of the straw hats and all the allies, they get to have their crazy bug eye, goofy eye reaction to the sight of a giant gear 5 Luffy coming through the broken wall, just grabbing Kizaru like stay Here we're not done fighting. To be continued. General thoughts on these two episodes, Steve?

[C]

Pretty standard fare episodes, I gotta say. I mean, I think the highlights are the Sentomaru and Kizaru fight. The Luffy versus Kizaru stuff, what we've seen so far. It was so funny. I found myself kind of going like yeah boy. At the end of the first episode because I thought the entire sequence from when Luffy jumps off the Sunny in vegaforce one and he like lands down on the ground. And just the bit of animation directing from that point to the end, it's very glowy aura, lightning bolt affair. And it worked on me that time. I was actually very charmed by it. I think what I really appreciate about this episodes is I forgot just how intimidating Kizaru is supposed to be. I'm like, yeah, this is the guy that basically was one of the walls in the straw hats path at Chimandi two years ago. And he just brought. He brought their progression to a screeching halt. So I'm enjoying how intimidating he's come off in these two episodes. And he's. And treated very seriously too. Like everyone's like, you know, no one's.

[B]

Like.

[C]

You know, taking it lightly that he's here. It's the next step. It's like, yeah, they managed to stop York, but now York and the Seraphims, but now they gotta deal with Kizaru. This is, you know, definitely step up in the pecking order. And I think the anime did a really good job conveying him as a threat. Like solid episodes, I would say. Yeah, I liked the. I think like, yeah, the highlight of this really is going to be the action sequences for sure.

[E]

Yeah, I think, I think the anime is doing a really good job of getting me to, you know, really, really centering the inner conflict of, of Kizaru and his allies. You know, the infighting between the normally allies but right now on different sides of a conflict. And yeah, like, I just think a lot about like what is. What is Kizaru's deal? Like why what what what. What's so important about him to. To fulfill his role as an admiral that he's willing to go through this assassination that he, they. They clearly isn't a fan of. Like he's not. He doesn't like that this is his job to do. No, but he's still doing it anyway. I just think that character conflict is super interesting, especially with giving us that moment to really feel the tragedy of the Vega Force One being destroyed and reminding us that it Means something to the characters in question. I think that's, I think that's adding to the experience quite a bit for me.

[C]

For sure.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

And as you said, the action scenes are quite solid.

[C]

We were talking about this off mic, but the Lilith and Edison educational segments are gone, which makes sense because now they got a little more, they have a little more slack now and. Because these episodes. Yeah, but these episodes still, like, I feel like the pacing has been pretty, pretty stellar in my opinion.

[E]

Yeah, like it hasn't been, it hasn't been the, the. Any egregious in any area.

[C]

No, not even like, you know, the previous episode recaps are not very long, if there's any. And yeah, they flashback to Kuma.

[B]

You.

[C]

Know, getting, getting the hell off of Kamabaka Queendom. And I think that was necessary to kind of, you know, be like a refresher. Like, hey, here's what's, here's, here's what's been going on with Kuma. So I thought it was fine.

[B]

Yeah, it's been.

[C]

I think the pace has been good. And these were just, you know, just some solid ass episodes.

[E]

Yep, I like them. Me too. Anything else you'd like to say before we move on to the next segment?

[B]

Steve?

[C]

All good here.

[E]

All right, let's go. Ikuzo.

[C]

Ooh, brushing up in Japanese.

[B]

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[E]

Our first segment would be this piece.

[B]

Wow. So matter of factly. So, Sam, what do we got this week?

[E]

Our first disc piece this week would be from Big Mike who says, hey opp, happy Easter 4:20 and Barney Gumbel's birthday. Should I be worried about Ripley? Mothers don't live very long in the world of one piece. If ODA is going to kill any of them off, it should be someone more disposable like Law or Sabo. Instead of A beloved character whose death would make a lot of men cry. At least Scott, per Gabon is there, so hopefully that doesn't happen. No moms have died in the present day story.

[B]

I have to think about that now. I mean, Tadan's still alive.

[E]

Moms die in flashbacks.

[D]

Well, not many people die.

[E]

Right? Right. And when they die, it's going to be men. Because it's okay when men die.

[D]

Yeah. We had one dad, which was.

[B]

The one thing to be sexist about. Like, I don't want to die. Why are we doing that? Men are allowed. What?

[A]

Now you see how it feels to be dead.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

Only.

[E]

Only women can hurt women. And only men can only die for the sake of dramatic.

[B]

That explains a lot about Easter, actually.

[D]

You got to kill the moms off in the flash.

[B]

We know because Jesus comes back, doesn't it? Jesus, they like. They do like a thing where he comes back again.

[D]

I'm Jewish.

[A]

There's actually a lot of debate about that.

[B]

Oh, oh, oh, oh. Okay.

[E]

Among our tribes, they put Yasu on a cross and he hasn't come back.

[A]

Oh, my gosh.

[B]

Yeah, but he's a man. Now I'm confused.

[E]

My point.

[A]

Wait, so. So women are especially.

[B]

Zoro was against crosses. What?

[E]

Okay, this is. I feel like we're all trying to make, like, a different joke happen.

[A]

And all of them are blasphemous.

[B]

They're all awful. They're not just blasphemous. They're not good.

[D]

You know what? Jesus would be a fan of the One Piece podcast.

[A]

I do kind of feel like God has to forgive you if it's funny. That's always been my. My secret.

[D]

That's what Gunko says about the Ted baby jokes.

[E]

I bet Jesus wasn't even a good carpenter.

[A]

I don't care who you are. That's funny. Says Gunko. Big fan of Larry the Cable Guy. Big fan of Jeff Dunham.

[E]

Well, no, like this whole. This whole episode, I've been imagining Gunko as like. Like a South Park Goth.

[A]

Perfect. Perfect.

[B]

That's right.

[D]

The religious goths are always like the interesting ones, you know?

[E]

Yeah. How did you come to that conclusion?

[A]

I've always been of the opinion that if you die without having dated a Mexican goth, God lets you live again so you can get it right this time. That's my philosophy.

[B]

That's very specific.

[A]

I recommend it highly. I recommend it very highly.

[B]

Okay. I always take out these recommendations, as Jill said.

[E]

Anybody any opinion on.

[B]

No, Sam, please continue.

[E]

Our next disc piece is Vanessa Palmer's La AKA Slay. Hi. How are you? My fellow takers of the tokes on this. Meg, on this glorious 420. What a chapter. That attack on Brook was brutal. It sure left him smoking. What could have messed seriously messed with his. That could have seriously messed with his joints. I sure hope the crew weed out these absolute menaces for their high crimes. These people are not gods. They are devils. And let us pray those fiends realize the sins that they have committed. Why can't Gunko be more like our gentleman skeleton? Maybe then she would have forgotten to kidnap the children because she got high. And then a little, like, disappointed emoji face. Have a great week.

[B]

No comment.

[A]

I respect the cut of your jib.

[D]

Gunko probably enrolled in DARE and it had a strange impact on her.

[A]

She wears that shirt ironically.

[D]

Yeah, it works because she's part of the church.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

How many villains in one piece would, like, stop being assholes if they just got high?

[D]

Probably most of them.

[B]

Enaru. Definitely.

[D]

Rob Lucci just needs some fucking catnip.

[A]

I do imagine Enaru trying to use his powers while high and just missing.

[F]

And, like, just throwing out lightning bolts.

[D]

And he could read other people's mind, too, so he'd probably be going crazy, right? Paranoid.

[A]

Does this person know I'm high? Yes, he does. I. I know this for a fact.

[F]

I'm freaking out.

[B]

I know you're high.

[D]

God. Enteru's acting strange today.

[B]

No, you don't.

[C]

Enter is just, like, permanently making the Enteru face all the time.

[B]

Just how he walks down the. Holy shit.

[F]

It was laced.

[D]

Scarfing down those bananas.

[C]

Danner was like. I could feel the cross hatching on my tongue.

[F]

Has my tongue always felt like this?

[B]

Oh, my God. That's a good one. Okay, what's next?

[D]

Don't get big mom high, though.

[C]

This is too much.

[D]

Nothing would survive.

[B]

You don't want munchies on Munchies.

[A]

Can you imagine Caesar clown getting high and then just turning into the George C. Scott pot smoke? From cartoon All Stars to the red.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Fighting.

[F]

Make you feel real good.

[E]

He can be his own smoke.

[A]

That's his new life.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

If he gets high like his. His smoke also becomes like. Like other people can get high off of him.

[E]

Yeah, his. Like his, like, smoke jacket thing.

[F]

Yeah.

[A]

He's tormenting a young boy and his little sister in America.

[F]

And also Ducktales are there.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Sam, what's the next question?

[A]

And only Michelangelo.

[B]

The only Michelangelo.

[A]

Yeah. I don't know why his brothers didn't care about that poor kid's Drug habit.

[D]

Yeah.

[F]

I mean, because they're probably on drugs somewhere.

[A]

I. You see, Michelangelo was the one we all assumed.

[F]

Yeah, apparently he's straight.

[A]

Anyway, back to.

[F]

Anyway, I've learned.

[E]

I've learned that all.

[A]

Digressing all the time.

[F]

Sorry, I. I love tangents. I apologize.

[B]

No, it's okay.

[E]

I think it's very funny that I have not been able to open my mouth without. Without the joke continuing with Thumb Jab. Our next dispiece comes from Sailor Karna, who says. Hey, Opp. I simply love that Nami showed no hesitation once she learned that Gunko was the one kidnapping the kids. Now, how did Gunko regenerate? Is she not there? And there's some sort of clone made of arrows.

[B]

I did want to mention this, but I don't have any ideas.

[D]

I totally forgot about that. It's. I assumed that the regeneration thing was only going to be for, like, the Elders. It's interesting what happened here with her. I don't know.

[B]

Did the Elders do that? Oh, yeah, they did.

[D]

They regenerated. So is it all the Holy Knights.

[E]

Do they regenerate the same, like, style? Was it like the same, like, maybe.

[F]

Maybe. Maybe it's Emu's Devil Fruit power. Or maybe it's related to all the Holy Knights.

[A]

They're like, trapped forever as his eternal servants. They can't even die.

[F]

They can't be. They can't be killed by conventional means.

[B]

Maybe it's related to the Mark. What's. What's that called again? The. The thing that transports them. Like, maybe it's not Satanic. Like, yeah, they hadn't. They came. They actually said the name for it recently, and I don't remember off the top of my head, but maybe. Maybe it's like their whole bodies aren't actually transported there.

[D]

Like, maybe Saturn was physically there. Like, why would he show up on a ship?

[B]

Because he was. Right. Exactly. Why would he show up on a ship if he could just transport there? That's. That's the thing. I feel like when they transport, they're not fully. It's not fully them. It's. It's most of them, but it's not the puppet.

[A]

Puppet fruit?

[B]

Yeah, like. Well, no, not even like a devil Fruit. I think it's something else, personally.

[D]

Oh.

[F]

Like a magical sort of, like, item from, like, before. A lot of stuff.

[B]

Yeah. I don't even know if magic is the word I'd use, but I think it is something that either has yet to be introduced or that has been introduced. But we haven't kind of put two and two together because we don't have enough information yet.

[A]

I think it's very interesting that we're talking about whether Gunko's powers are all devil fruit powers. Because her. She very literally has a lineage factor. Because it's an arrow.

[E]

I get it.

[B]

No, I, I. My silence was on purpose.

[E]

I like the direction your brain is thinking.

[A]

Thank you. Thank you.

[B]

Well done. Oh God. Everyone does. Girl out.

[A]

Do you guys know there are arrows hidden in the FedEx logo?

[B]

Yes, I did know that. In the E. And the X Makes me so mad. It does. It also makes me angry.

[E]

Angry.

[A]

It's too good. It's too good.

[C]

Graphic design is wasted on you people.

[B]

Oh no. Steve is gonna come rain his blows down.

[C]

You people only deserve ads with the owner of the business as a Bitmoji. Is that what you want?

[B]

And Comic Sans.

[C]

Sure. Comic Sans.

[B]

Yeah. And Papyrus.

[D]

I like Papyrus. I use that middle school.

[A]

Well, I know Sans is like the popular one, but Papyrus is a lot more. You know. He's a. He's a fun guy.

[E]

Good for Avatar.

[B]

Steve, I do agree with you generally. What's next? Sam, please.

[E]

Our next dispiece comes from straw hat pirate 9. I can't believe they are taking the kids to get the giants to fight for them in this war.

[F]

Too bad.

[E]

That plan is obviously going to freaking fail. The Straw Hats will save the kids. Luffy is gonna kick butt in Nika form. The giants are totally already on his side in this. Also, I know some of you have been loving the Gunko as a spy from the Revolutionary army theory. This chapter does not help this theory for me. I just. Just can't see it.

[B]

No, I think that. I think that squashes it.

[C]

What were some of the reasons why she could possibly be a spy? And please don't tell me it's because of Goggles.

[E]

Because of Goggles.

[D]

That has got to be the Goggles.

[E]

Goggles. And she listens to the young people.

[B]

Music and she listens. No, but they also were talking and.

[D]

It'S because she's cute and they want her to be a good person.

[B]

Well, they were also talking about how annoyed she was with like there were. She.

[E]

She stands out from. Yeah, yeah. She's not a saint like the other Holy Nights. She's. He's just like the odd one out for a lot of reasons.

[B]

Shamrock wasn't a saint either though. So I. I mean. Or introduced this one.

[A]

Oh yeah.

[C]

My mother was a saint though. So don't ever say anything.

[E]

She's got heterochromia, so she's probably some sort of.

[B]

No, their mom is the. Is the thing that's rampaging through Elbaf right now. Thank you, Abby. Abby's laughing quietly.

[C]

Are you doing, like, what are you doing? Like, like mother in law jokes?

[A]

It's one of the nightmare monsters. It's the best one.

[B]

It's the sleep tid. My mom.

[A]

I hope they make a figure of her.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, I would buy that.

[A]

I was wondering because I couldn't find any conjuro like, merchandise of his. His drawings, which I would have loved.

[B]

Oh, my God.

[A]

Although, like. Like, it's also one of those things where you're like, oh, just make something feeble out of play. Doh at your set, actually. And I feel like this is the same thing where I'm like, I would love to see a representation of this, but I would feel very silly spending money on one.

[D]

There's no. There must be Rio.

[B]

No, there must be a Ryu. No, I would love.

[F]

I would love to see a figure of Ryunosuke, like half outside of the page and like half in, like, real life.

[A]

Oh, that's good. That's good.

[B]

Well, nothing's coming up on a.

[A]

There's a playmat.

[B]

There's one of those keychains, but those are by. Yeah, but those are by fans. Good fans, but fans nonetheless. Well, we'll find it. We'll get to the bottom of that at some point. Yeah, that is.

[A]

Yo, there's a really cool Bandai Spirits Momonosuke statue. Sorry, go on. Yes. Okay, I'll stop looking.

[B]

Sam, what's next? Please?

[E]

Sam, final disc piece is from. Sorry, I just questioned.

[B]

Oh, you're good. You're good.

[E]

Our final disc piece comes from Rev. Ello. Eschatology Patch.

[B]

Eschatology.

[E]

I think Eschatology Patch, AKA Reverse eye patch.

[B]

That is a branch of theology concerned with the study of the last things encompassing death. Death, judgment and. Why was I reading the AI answer from. From Google? That's. That's on me. They push it. I know it's the first thing that came up, but the actual definition is right below.

[F]

Fun fact for anybody listening. If you don't want the AI Google image, the AI Google results. If you're searching for something, just add the word fuck into your Google search. Like, how the fuck do I do insert thing here and it just won't pop up.

[D]

Oh, well, that doesn't help me at work, but I appreciate that. Or I might get a unfortunate visit from our IT guys.

[F]

Try to avoid that.

[B]

It Depends what you're putting the word fuck before. I think that could have. It could go a lot of different ways, but. Yeah, go ahead. Sorry. The eschatology patch.

[D]

Opp.

[E]

I want Gunko to knee me in the face. I mean. Wait. She wants the world to end? What is she, an Evan evangelical? She wants to indoctrinate kids into her worldview. What is she, an evangelical? And she gets.

[B]

Why are you saying it like that? I don't know.

[E]

Like I. I. Yes. I've been saying Evangelion for my whole life. Is where my. My mouth muscles. It's the word my mouth muscles want to say.

[B]

Are you an Evangelionist?

[E]

And she gets told off by her dad for listening to devil music. What is she, an evangelical? Listen, two things can be true. And I can fix her.

[B]

I'm learning a lot about Sam. And by learning, I mean confirming.

[A]

You brought it back at the end there. Well done.

[F]

It feels like everybody wants her to be a spy so that they don't have to do the I can fix her part.

[E]

I can fix her. If I can't. If I. If I can't fix her. I was wrong to try.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

She could make me worse.

[E]

Right?

[F]

I'd love to be made worse.

[A]

She could break me.

[C]

I could excuse the child slavery. And I draw the line at being a baddie.

[B]

All right, that's it for disbease. Right?

[E]

That's it for disbease.

[B]

Thank you. Let's move on to Blue skypiea. Up in the sky with Enaru. Oh, wait. He destroyed blue Sky. Let's see our first question.

[C]

Still there, Zach? It's still there.

[B]

Yeah, I guess. What is that noise? Do you guys hear that?

[F]

Oh, I heard a little bit.

[D]

Like a fire alarm.

[B]

It sounds like a fire. It does. But I don't see a fire alarm.

[D]

That's.

[B]

Oh, that fire. Yeah, you're probably right. I'm going to. Let me. Does anyone want.

[C]

In the background?

[B]

Where should I look for the best.

[A]

Way I can do that? Blueskas.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Is it just in the replies to that?

[B]

Yeah, just hashtag Blue skypiea. You could just look at that.

[D]

Alrighty.

[A]

Hashtag.

[B]

And I'm gonna look for the fire.

[A]

Blue Sky. Pia. Hey, good luck. Hey, where's the fire?

[C]

Hey, make sure to touch. Make sure to touch doorknobs first.

[B]

No, I'm just.

[D]

Stand up real tall so you get a good.

[B]

There it is.

[C]

Scares the fire.

[E]

Make a lot.

[A]

I'm only seeing one. Blue skypiea. Is that right? One that isn't months old?

[B]

No, you have to go by latest. Yeah. Now, do you see more? Hashtag Blue skypiea.

[A]

I see four hours ago. Four months ago. Five months ago.

[B]

No, for six hours. Four hours. Four hours it should.

[A]

I, I, I do mute a lot of people, but I. This seems statistically unlikely.

[B]

Okay.

[F]

Does the skypie is spelled right?

[A]

Oh, you know what? That might be it.

[F]

Because I can't spell Skype.

[A]

Oh, you know what? Okay. Yeah.

[B]

Oh, wait. Now I should look at.

[A]

Although we did get one four hours ago. That I.

[B]

Okay, I gotta check if I'm gonna be on fire in a second. One second, please.

[C]

It would be beeping. I think it would be beeping faster.

[D]

I think it's usually a shrieking noise if there's a fire, but could be fancy one.

[C]

It's like. Hey, I don't want to interrupt, but when you're done, when you get a moment, there's a fire.

[D]

I'll remind you again in five minutes.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

I'll put it aside for you when you're done.

[D]

Sorry to bother you.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

Zach looks over and he's like, whoa, there's a fire in my house. Just like one piece fire in that.

[D]

Mug all the time.

[B]

In Elbaf especially.

[E]

And his.

[B]

Well, we'll see. Zach, the kitchen's on fire.

[A]

So nothing's on fire.

[D]

Zach.

[C]

No, mother, it's just the northern lights. It's just a one piece reference.

[A]

All right, so Blue Skype.

[B]

See if it happens for Blue Skype. Yeah, go ahead.

[A]

Do you have a jingle for Blue skypiea?

[B]

Can you make one for us?

[A]

Blue sky P. But Blue sky, all I see. Oh, I don't even know what song I'm trying to sing.

[B]

No. Blue skies. I know. That is a.

[A]

Isn't that a Blue sky? Don't bother me. Blue. No, that's not even Blue Sky I like.

[B]

You want me to just read it at this point?

[A]

I turned to stone.

[F]

No, no. We got like 10 more minutes of this.

[A]

I think we can.

[F]

We can workshop it.

[A]

Alrighty. So Nacho has tweeted at us, saying, hey, hey, thank you for work. You may have already talked about it, but if Oda spams the regeneration gimmick with the Holy Knights, would the five Elders look less threatening to you? I think they'll end up figuring out the secret sooner. And the Elders may feel like just a step up. Pretty cool.

[D]

Luffy already turned one of those dudes into a pizza.

[A]

That is true.

[B]

Helped a little bit.

[A]

You know, let's give credit Hungry man, that Luffy.

[F]

I was kind of I was kind of shocked with them defeating Saturn like that. I was like, oh, wow. We're at this point they're actually fighting.

[B]

And winning a bit.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I mean.

[E]

I mean, they're old men.

[D]

I mean, so we're.

[B]

He was fine after where.

[D]

Until he got point of power scaling, you know, because Luffy, like, if you go by literal, just titles. One of the four Emperors. Supposedly one of the strongest people in the entire world. So who do you throw at him that's not going to be instantly destroyed? Right? You've got the Emperor or you got the. You've got the Elders. But now you've got to have like their underlings. And how do you keep them from being destroyed? They've got like the regeneration. It's. Yeah, we're at this weird part. Part where like, technically Luffy could probably get rid of each of these people on his own, but so now we have to make ways where that doesn't work.

[F]

Now they have a bunch of extra bullshit that they're pulling out. Like, oh, yeah, you could probably be me, but I can regenerate. And also I have two other guys that can make dreams real and thorns.

[A]

Yeah, Thorn guy feels like he's a bit of a downgrade.

[F]

It's like, yeah, I have arrows that can redirect any attack. And this guy can make dreams real. And the other guy has thorns.

[D]

You know, that's probably why he leans into the puns. He's overcompensating. It's like Kaku who's like, giraffes are cool. Like, the guy's like, yeah, thorns are pretty sick, guys. They're pointing.

[E]

Thorns are pretty sick.

[D]

Love hurts, dude.

[A]

He is a little older. I wonder if it's like he, you know, he was the pre Gold Roger era Holy night head. And he, you know, he just. He's. He. He was coasting by in an earlier time. You know, he's. He's a baby.

[B]

They're immortal. They've been around for like thousands.

[A]

Are they all.

[D]

I mean, we don't know that bit.

[F]

All these newfangled devil fruits with their complicated abilities. Yeah, not like the. Not like the good old days when.

[A]

You gotta have a doctorate.

[F]

Have a thorn of some kind.

[B]

The.

[E]

The meta. The meta has changed.

[A]

The meta's changed.

[F]

The meta's changing. Keep up, old man. I make dreams real.

[A]

We. We have a triptych of questions from Ice Fisher Tenacity.

[E]

He's the first.

[A]

I noticed that the straw hats after losing to Gunko were thrown overboard. Do you think they'll fall right onto Loki's big old belly land somewhere else in the overworld? Or will they perhaps find a way to keep from plummeting out of the sun world? Love the pod.

[E]

I feel like this is where Gabon's gonna come in.

[D]

Yeah, well, Gabon's gonna get a question.

[A]

For my fisher Tenacity. Should we do them all at once or. Or, Or.

[B]

Yeah, go for it. Yeah, go for it.

[A]

Alrighty. Second from ice Fisher's tenacity, the mystery of king Harald continues to unfold. Hark, King Harold. Angels sing. Based off of what Summers has said over this arc, I am slightly editorializing. I apologize. Based off of what Summers has said over this arcade, I believe that Harald led the W. Gov to trust that they'd have his world government and by extension Elbaf's support. But really, he was deceiving them and in defiance, subtly pacified Elbaf. Thoughts?

[B]

I think we mentioned this.

[A]

And finally, last one. Who would you like to see as a Yamato scabbard slash retainer? Should it just be Ulti in page one? Or would you also want Sasaki and Black Maria to tag along? I think Geen would do a great job in this performance personally. And Carrot.

[B]

Yes, yes, a little ninja, but like, legitimately. Tom.

[F]

Yeah, yeah, no, I agree.

[B]

I don't even care if she's strong. Yeah, just. That's the end of that sentence. I'm trying to think of who else I would want in, like Yamato's employees. I mean, I know I hear all of a 03 yelling at me now. All of their answers. I have this very weird power I have. I never. I'm never able to understand what they're saying. But I hear. Yeah, I don't know. Anyone else have anyone in mind specifically?

[E]

What's the question?

[B]

Who else would you like to see in Yamato's nine Scabbards.

[E]

Page one? But Yamato. Yamato. I think that's where, like Yamato going to sea means we could get like an actual pirate group or.

[B]

I think so. Yeah. That would be really cool, I think. Or you know what?

[E]

May not be just wano people.

[B]

Pluton's there. They could literally sail off on Pluton, the. This. This crew that he's assembling. Did I make this too cool for a cover story?

[A]

I love it.

[D]

Well, we're definitely leading somewhere with this. And I can't see Ulti and Pa, like, just like. Yeah, I can't see the next page just being Yamato going like, no it's just like putting her down.

[A]

I could see revealing Pluton in the COVID story, and you just get this weird image and then you never explain. Like, What? Yeah, like 100 chapters later.

[B]

Yeah, like those Shadows and Thriller Burke we never found out about.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Pissing me off always.

[B]

It's probably a giant elephant. Is there anything else, Abby? Or is that.

[A]

It was those three. It was those three. The King, Harold. You know, do we think that Summers was working with Harold or against Harold? What was going on?

[B]

No, yeah, I think we addressed that already, so I think we're good. We have trivia after the very end.

[F]

The first question.

[B]

Oh, what was the first.

[A]

Oh, the first one was about where they're going to land. Sorry.

[B]

Oh, sorry.

[F]

When they got knocked off the boat when we were talking about it earlier, I think the question suggested that they could fall on Loki's very large, cartoonishly large belly. And I'm going to be honest, I didn't even think of that. But that's a very ODA sort of thing. I feel like that would be kind of funny if it happened.

[D]

I could see most of them landing on Loki and then one landing on Luffy, but.

[B]

But they. He did just do that gag with Hiredin's crew, and they all fell and grievously injured themselves. Remember? Because when you land on a big balloon, you don't just sink into it, you bounce off of it with equal force. So just saying that that's also maybe grievous injury for everyone except Brooke. Yeah.

[F]

A part of me really hopes that they don't just, like, fall off and that's, you know, the end of their fight with Gunko. I would really like to see that continue. And as much as I think it would be hilarious if they fell on, you know, Loki and all that, I don't want that to happen because that means that Luffy will be right there, and then it will be a Luffy fight from that point on. And, you know, as much as I love seeing Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji do their thing, I really wanted this chunk of the crew to really kind of get their time to shine after a little bit. So we'll. We'll see. But I hope it's. It would be funny if it was Loki, but I hope that, you know, I don't know, Nami pulls out Zeus and like, they jump on top of him and ride back up or something. I don't know.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Riding a cloud shark.

[F]

Yeah, that would go hard.

[B]

Okay, man.

[A]

If she somehow gets, like, land Cloud making power. That'd be pretty cool.

[B]

Yeah. Agreed. I want give give Nami more things besides lightning. Okay, that'll do it for piece together. That's round off and do a little bit of trivia. Our annual trivia that Jill said. Oh shit about. Let's do it.

[D]

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[A]

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You have a parasitic infection.

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[B]

This has been episode 865 of the One Piece podcast. Thanks ever everyone so much for coming on. Before we get into a little bit of trivia, Derek, where could people find you and your work?

[F]

If you look up salty DK Dan, that is salty. The letters D and K and then just D A N, you can Find me on YouTube. I would suggest places like my TikTok, but that is currently hacked by a drop shipper, so don't look for me there. Unless you want products that are overpriced and probably scams. But you can also find me on Twitter and I starting to post on Blue Sky a little bit. Again, I'm not calling it X by the way.

[B]

Good. At the very least we could do that. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks so much again for coming on. Yeah, of course.

[F]

Love, love One Piece Love you guys. So it's always. It's always a joy to be on.

[B]

Thank you. Abby, do you love One Piece?

[A]

Yes, if I also love One Piece.

[B]

Okay, good. Okay.

[A]

Was that what you asked? Yeah.

[F]

When you project for this podcast, then.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Yeah. I've been wondering when they'll have me on all this time.

[B]

Then you could plug your Kickstarter. Thank you. Thank you.

[A]

I have a Kickstarter on at the moment. It ends this Saturday morning, so get to it before Friday. Ideally. It's called Gamer mom, the mom who games. We will be. It doesn't look like we're close. We will be funded because this is within my. My budget. It's great. You can get it for as little as a dollar. It's a great comic. Well, I don't want. I don't want people to be like, oh, it's just a hassle. I'll have to reback when they redo it. It's fine. Everything's fine. Don't look at it and think it'll be a hassle. You'll get your comic. It'll be a dollar. You'll love it. You could get a print copy if you. If you wanted to have a print copy. We got. My. My. My friend, the great Javier Martin Caba is. Is doing the line art and the coloring, and he's. He's. He's just. Just incredible. If you look at the pages we have already, like, you will be flabbergasted. If you like One Piece, you will also like Gamer mom because they are both very silly comics by very silly people about very silly people doing very silly things. You will love it. Yes. Yeah. Moms who game.

[B]

Who Game. Much like Big Mom. Sure. No. Yeah. Please check out Abby's work.

[A]

It's cute and I'm really proud of what we're making, and I hope that you will enjoy it.

[B]

Yeah.

[E]

Sam, they can find me on Blue sky at or lc. Sam Sky Social.

[D]

Jill, you can find me at Pirates Unluck on Blue sky and most other social media and you can find me in The Final Fantasy 14 primal data center Ultrals World as Pura Unluck pretty much every other time that I'm awake and not at work.

[B]

Wow, Jill, you haven't changed at all.

[D]

It's always bloody as ever.

[B]

Yeah, I've been saying this. Steve.

[A]

Hello.

[F]

HR/positive./ positive.

[C]

It's. It's the meme, but it's the one person. The first person entering the cubicle is Jill saying, what's up?

[A]

It's the person in the cubicle is also outside of the cubicle saying it to herself.

[C]

And then the second is Zach.

[B]

I didn't say it. I just said you too. It's like when you say, you know, have a nice trip and you too, and the person's not going anywhere. It's like that. Steve, where can people find you?

[C]

Sure, kid.

[A]

Thanks, Mom.

[C]

SteveYerko.com, social media. Steve Yerko, BlueSky, Instagram, the usual. Listen to me on 4Kids Flashback. Listen to me on Prozd Plays games. Catch me at Castle Point Anime convention next week. I'll just be around helping out, but you'd see me say, hey. Also, I'll plug this for Jill as well. If you're going to Universal FanFest night on May 2nd.

[A]

Woo.

[C]

And myself, Jill and Dennis from the show are all we're gonna be going that night. So if you see us there, feel free to say hey.

[D]

Hell yeah, I'm excited.

[B]

Yeah, awesome.

[C]

Let's try overpriced One piece.

[A]

We need to go to Universal, but we have yet to. So maybe this, this will be an impetus.

[B]

I hope so.

[A]

It was a very solemn.

[B]

You can find us@one piece podcast.com anywhere or One Piece Podcast, wherever your social media, you know, desires go. Blue sky, we're One Piece Podcast. Twitter, One piece Podcast. We don't really, we're not very active there except, except for promoting ourselves. But if you want the good stuff, it's on Blue Sky, Instagram and the rest. And for a limited time, since Skype is shutting down, we have our phone number still available until pretty soon you could call that number at 347497. Maji that phone number. Thank you, Jill. That phone number again. 347-497-6254. Call anytime, anytime with your questions, comments, theories, or why you hate pants. They get everywhere. But seriously, I have like already, like a good couple dozen voicemails saved up and we're gonna do a special episode at some point soon, hopefully with just, you know, just this one's. Oops. All voicemails. But before we end today's show, I'd be remiss if we didn't do our annual Benjamin Wild Game show. And so I'm going to read this is his email gimmicky game show opening. Delaney if you want. If you don't, that's fine. Hello, podcast. It's that time of the year again. For the 11th year in his annual trivia. Really 11 yours. Your record stands at 37 and a half out of 58. The half is confusing me, but whatever. In case you've forgotten the rules, you get $20 for every correct answers. Official answers from me, Zach only. So are you all ready for this? And Steve specifically, are you ready?

[D]

But I'm here.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Some say I read the manga, so.

[B]

You do. You're the only one who does. Okay, first one, there's five questions. First, this character's gun shoots dice as bullets. Oh.

[C]

In tribute to our good friend Alex as Mr. Seven.

[B]

Oh, wow. Okay, Mr. Seven, everyone. Good. Anyone have anyone?

[A]

I believe it.

[F]

I, I, I don't know if I do.

[B]

Can you. Can I hear the question one more time?

[A]

I'll add up to seven, so I'm saying it makes sense.

[B]

Oh, they're like loaded dice, maybe.

[A]

And 777 gambling motif. Perfect.

[B]

That's true.

[D]

Ms. Father's Day. Is that the pairing there?

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah, it can. Zach, can I just hear the question.

[B]

One more time just to make sure this character's. It's not really a question. It's like a Jeopardy answer.

[C]

This character, they sign this character.

[B]

Okay, yeah, this character. Gun shoots dice's bolts.

[C]

Because I think Ms. Father's Day shoots some sort of frog shaped bullet, so.

[B]

Yeah, no, it makes sense. Yeah, no, they did both. Mr.

[C]

Seven's pretty cubed, so I'm gonna say it's Mr. Seven.

[B]

I think you're right. I'm gonna go with Mr. Seven here. Unless there's.

[F]

Am I allowed to guess?

[D]

Yeah, you can guess.

[F]

I would say. Who is beige? Beji.

[D]

Not dice.

[F]

I don't know, I just get a vibe.

[B]

The podcast answer.

[C]

I think his favorite pastime is board games, so that's not too bad.

[A]

I do like the idea of vibes oriented board games, though. Like, I do feel like I'm winning at Monopoly. Bankrupt. But I feel great about my life.

[B]

I don't mean to shut you down, Salty, but it's just the. I think he shoots bullets.

[F]

I literally, I just went off of vibes.

[B]

No, that's fine.

[C]

I mean, good guess.

[D]

He probably tried it.

[B]

Yeah. If I didn't have the Steve Yurko here, I wouldn't, I would have thought about that.

[C]

If Alex was here, Alex would have just. Oh, yeah, he would have buzzed in.

[B]

But Alex is cosplayed as Mr. 7. That's not a very.

[C]

Really, like, he is like, I need.

[A]

To look this up.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

If anyone's a fan of Mr. 7.

[B]

I think add him next, you know? Yeah.

[A]

I'm glad someone in the history of Forever has cosplayed Mr. Seven.

[B]

I know. Me to them. Right.

[C]

I'll add them right now.

[B]

And I'll do it right now. Yeah. Everyone listening? Well, yeah, I. Maybe. Maybe he'll let us post it somewhere. All right.

[C]

Lock it in, zach.

[B]

Locked in, Mr. Seven. Second question. What is the title of the songs that Brooke uses to wake up his crew? New and old.

[D]

God, it's like White Handkerchief, right? Something like that.

[B]

So I don't know the answer to this, clearly. If you just said something completely.

[C]

We're naming two songs.

[B]

You see, that's the problem here. It does. It is plural, but it does not say how many. It just says new and old.

[D]

And White Handkerchief. There's some song with a handkerchief. It's killing me.

[B]

I thought he was saying bink sake a lot like I thought that was. No, no, no, no.

[C]

Not to wake them up.

[B]

No.

[C]

Been a while. Been a while since I've seen this flashback, so I don't remember.

[B]

I mean, I find locking in Jill's answer as that's the only one I've heard.

[C]

Yeah, go for it.

[B]

White Handkerchief. Is that what you said?

[C]

And, well, we. There's new and old, so new White Handkerchief.

[B]

An old white handkerchief. No, sure. Ivory White Handkerchief. What other songs did he sing besides Bink Sake in that flashback, do you think? Any others that we could think of? Okay. White Handkerchief it is. For both. Oh, no, no. The new crew is the Straw Hats. What do you use to wake up the Straw Hats?

[A]

Them bones. Them bones. Them dry bones.

[B]

Them.

[D]

It was like white. White Handkerchief. Black Handkerchief. I can't remember.

[B]

I don't know.

[D]

I don't remember anything else.

[C]

Bachman, Turner. Overdrives. Taking care of business.

[B]

Sam, are you muted and trying to say something or no? Or maybe he's.

[E]

I was.

[B]

Okay, what did you want to say?

[E]

Is the question asking, like. Like, did he have a different song pre timeskip and post timescape? No, I have old and new crew.

[C]

I wonder. Him playing the song when the crew was alive and him playing the song on the ship after the crew had died.

[B]

No, but it says wake up his.

[A]

I feel like it's dirty pool to do a trick question.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

He could have had an alternate version. Post.

[B]

I'm looking this one up.

[C]

Demise, Wake up.

[B]

Get out there.

[C]

He had to kill a lot of time when he was alone on that. On that boat, so.

[B]

All right, so we'll say White Handkerchief. And what other songs did he even sing to the crew? Pre. Like time.

[C]

Skip the trivia question.

[A]

Isn't it partial credit?

[B]

Okay, fine, Three. What is the first type of dial that we see used in the skypiea arc. That's tricky because it says in the skypie arc, and we have the one in Jaya, right? Oh, yeah.

[D]

What do they consider.

[B]

Was it tone dial? Was the fur. It was the one we saw. Oh, no, but the waivers, too.

[E]

Yeah, the waiver, the. The jet.

[B]

The.

[F]

Are the. Are the waivers considered dials?

[A]

Yeah, well, they run on.

[D]

The one that Nami has is specifically a jet dial because it was a prehistoric one that they didn't have up right here.

[A]

I would.

[F]

I would say jet dial.

[D]

Right.

[B]

I think that's the kind of tricky, though.

[D]

Giant.

[B]

Well, that's technically giant. Yeah, go ahead.

[F]

Oh, wait, you're right.

[C]

Because did. Did Cricket have a dial or Giant?

[B]

But it's also confusing of the question. Well, it's confusing. I'll add also that Nami uses that jet tile, like, as, like, one of the early things in skypiea, too.

[E]

She's using it on the beach, like, almost immediately.

[C]

You guys are forgetting something, though. They have a run in with Wiper early on before, I think they go through the gate. And Wiper's obviously using jet dials on his.

[D]

Or he's got the cloud dials.

[B]

Oh, yeah. You write the cloud one, too.

[A]

Yeah. And they have to shout wiper. No wiping.

[B]

Yep. Bold by High Heights. Very far back into my head for that one.

[C]

But the thing is, though, that technically they're up in the sky, but they hadn't entered.

[B]

Yeah. But this says, what is the first type of dial that we see used in the skypiea arc? So that's like a very. That's like a subjective not to.

[D]

I always think of Jaya as part of skypiea, but I could see why people would consider it being, like, once you're up there.

[B]

Yeah.

[F]

I mean, if that's the case, it's not necessarily saying that, like, because if they use the jet dial on Jaya and then use the jet dial separately in skypiea, I think the jet dial still counts.

[D]

They didn't know what it was.

[C]

I don't think there was any dials introduced in Jaya. It wasn't till skypiea.

[B]

No, they didn't. They filed it until they got into the sky.

[E]

But did they do anything with the.

[B]

Jet dial when they might not have known how to use?

[D]

Didn't Cricket have a dial that he showed off? He said, I. I found this in the sea. That was a thing.

[B]

Cricket.

[C]

It was gold. That's the thing. I realize. I think that's what's chipping.

[B]

Yeah. Because we go up.

[E]

We go up to the sky. We're on the beach, we meet Conus. Conus is like, oh, hey, did you know that you can press this button and then the shell?

[B]

Yeah, I think. I think that's correct.

[E]

And then there was also the wiper example. That. That feels like that's where the trick question is. It's to talk about wiper's introduction because.

[C]

That before they enter. It's before they enter skypiea. Literally. So this one.

[E]

Oh, does the old lady with the. Does the old pole booth lady. Does she have secretly using Asia.

[D]

She has a camera.

[E]

No, no, the old lady. The camera lady.

[B]

Asia. Asia master.

[E]

Wait, no, I. I was thinking. I'm thinking about Isa.

[A]

Is that woman's name is an underappreciated steely dance song.

[F]

Also under underappreciated Amazon Adventure.

[C]

No, it was Amazon. Sorry. I keep saying sorry.

[E]

Yeah. Isa's the little girl.

[C]

I was saying it, and I'm like.

[A]

No, I'm dancing is through.

[B]

I just believe Steve because he reads the manga.

[C]

I do.

[B]

Okay, what's our final answer here? It says that the cloud dial.

[E]

I think whatever wipers using.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

So what is that one? When the tone dial.

[E]

I would go with tone dials. Like, that's. Like after.

[B]

That's when they go up the stairs. Yeah.

[C]

Tone dial. No, it's. God, it's. This is just a bunch of nerds recalling what happened. Recalling a bunch of facts.

[B]

I. Before.

[C]

Let's say that the. The run in with wiper doesn't count.

[E]

No. I think it wouldn't be a trick question without you.

[B]

We should caveat our. We should caveat our answer saying if.

[E]

Let's just answer every possibility.

[D]

Right, Right.

[B]

That's how you hedge your bet.

[D]

Zach, can you read the question one more time?

[B]

Yes. What. What is the first type of dial that we see used in the skypiea arc?

[D]

Used in Skype.

[A]

Used.

[E]

It would have to be white.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Jet dial.

[B]

Okay, wait.

[D]

No, no, it's not.

[B]

You're right.

[D]

Is it a cloud dial? Is that what it's called?

[C]

No, the cloud, actually. But the cloud dials are the ones where they. They billow out the white clouds.

[D]

That's right. He was on the sea. So it was the breath dial. The breath dial.

[B]

Right. Yeah. It wasn't the jet one because the jet was the ancient One. It's the one. It's the regular.

[D]

Right. I think I'm so mad that I.

[A]

Came into this and I was like, how hard could this be? I've read this My head hurts once.

[B]

By the way, we need more dials in the series. I think they're great, and I'm always upset.

[D]

Very interesting.

[A]

Have we had an explanation for how tone dials have been distributed all over the sea now? Or is that just sort of something alien?

[B]

Oh, vegapunk. I think.

[E]

Somebody'S just, like, tossing a bag of them off the edge. Like Ryu dropping the deck.

[D]

No, they're broken headphones, actually. They're like. These aren't fucking working. Okay, okay, so what is.

[C]

What?

[B]

Breath dials. Are we final?

[C]

No, no, no, no. Hi, Nerd.

[B]

Hi, Steve. Me.

[F]

Hello, Nerd.

[C]

Breath dials, those tend to, like, have fire. Those are used, like, in the big. The giant bird's mouth. They're used on the stove. Jet, I think is used to propel, but I think the. What's on wiper shoes.

[D]

Yeah, you're right. It's just the jet is the extinct version. What is it, like wind dial or something?

[F]

I think it might be.

[B]

I would do wind dial or something like that.

[C]

No, because it's. I think it's.

[B]

I wish I could just look this up.

[D]

I wish there was a device, but does it, like, suck up a lot and then push it out?

[B]

The fart dial.

[F]

Oh, funny.

[D]

Well, it's not Impact.

[B]

No, it's not Impact. There was another one, but that's a different thing.

[C]

It's not Reject.

[B]

Reject is the. Is the one above Impact.

[D]

Yeah, that's the other one.

[B]

Sorry. Yeah, I. I did these because the. Our TTRPG that we did, like, a year or two ago. I had a lookup dial with that.

[A]

I like that.

[B]

I know. Well, everyone got busy.

[A]

Could I. Could I ask for. For a line repeat? Could someone say reject dial again?

[B]

Reject dial.

[A]

No, not that one.

[B]

Why did I even. Okay, I should have rejected that premise.

[F]

No, that was a good one.

[A]

Thank you. Thank you very much. I am a professional, you know.

[B]

I know.

[A]

Actually, I think I've net lost. Steve.

[B]

Can I lock in my answer, please? We've been talking for 10 minutes about this. I don't know. Tell.

[C]

Sounds standard for this show.

[B]

For this episode.

[A]

What is this one?

[B]

Are we not doing breath dial or jet dial?

[D]

I don't know. It's definitely not Jill.

[C]

Okay, I'm gonna trust Jill. I think Jill is.

[D]

I just can't remember wind dial being an actual thing. I mean, maybe.

[C]

No, I don't recall it either.

[D]

And breath. Only thing I can think of.

[B]

Breath of the Wild dial. No breath. It's breath dial. Final answer four. We only have two left. This artist saying it will be here.

[C]

For 30 more minutes.

[B]

This artist saying my sales are set in the live action one piece. I know it's not the people we interviewed that someone else sung sang it.

[C]

Have fun.

[B]

Have fun.

[D]

Sorry.

[B]

I remember I could. I know the song. I just don't.

[E]

Oh, that's.

[B]

That's famous.

[E]

Right on the top of my same.

[B]

Top of your tongue.

[F]

Your song on repeat when it first came out.

[B]

Yeah, me too. It's a good song.

[E]

It's some European blonde girl, right?

[A]

Kim Petrus.

[F]

There's a lot of European blonde girls that I know.

[B]

Gonna have to. Bjorn.

[C]

Say Bjorn.

[A]

I like young, Young Baby Bjorn. My favorite.

[B]

Does this show where my mind is generally.

[C]

Are you trying to say Bjork?

[B]

I was trying to say Bjork.

[A]

Billie Piper.

[B]

I don't care about that.

[A]

Probably Billy Piper. Kylie Minogue sang one piece.

[E]

It's like somebody who's not famous enough that it's like a fun trivia fact to share.

[C]

Ky is also Australian, so I.

[A]

Is she good friend?

[B]

Sam, can you say something of an answer?

[E]

Oh, no, sorry, I don't. I'm not getting.

[B]

Blonde.

[C]

Blonde European lady.

[F]

I can't believe I don't remember the name of this artist. I have friends that love this artist.

[B]

They're very. They are famous. Like, they're generally famous. Well known. I just.

[F]

I just got so lost in the music. I didn't realize that somebody wrote it.

[B]

Art. You're separating the art from the artist. That's what you're doing.

[F]

I'm separating the art from the artist. Too much. I'm lost.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Separating the art from the artist with extreme prejudice.

[B]

Sorry, Steve.

[C]

Also, some of us might not have had a chance to get lost in the music because Netflix immediately skips. It skips the credits after three seconds.

[B]

No, no, that. That one's just at the end, right? Because that's the one. That's the Nami one, right? The one sale. My sales are set. I don't think that's the end. Yeah, doesn't help, though. Avril Lavigne, I was gonna say.

[F]

I thought it started with an A, like Aurora or something.

[B]

I think you're right. I think it does.

[F]

I don't think it. I don't think it's Aurora, but I.

[B]

Think it's not Aurora. You are right, though. I think it does start with an there.

[F]

I'm gonna look like real silly if it's like Bingus Bangus or something.

[B]

I don't know.

[C]

Is she like Cher where It's just Aurora.

[B]

I'm just gonna say Aurora. Even though it's not correct.

[F]

It's gonna not even be close.

[C]

Sweet half places.

[F]

It's gonna not even be close.

[B]

Last question. Because we just gotta move on. The money just the money stops being important at around 12 midnight. This character. This character's first appearance was in chapter 528. They are born. They are. I'm sorry, they are 46. Born on April 2nd. 301 cm tall. Can I look that up? Because I don't know what the hell that. And have a card of 1.1 billion berry. Okay, wait. I could do this with Steve though, because we did this game recently. 528 is after Shaw body. Right.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

No. What.

[C]

What's the. The height?

[B]

Because we could have 301 centimeters. Can we look up what, 300, 112ft. Right?

[E]

1112 bounties came into the equation. What? Go back.

[B]

1.1 is their current.

[C]

Well, well, here's the thing.

[B]

It's not a supernova, though. That was earlier.

[C]

It's a good thing I have a lot of friends born in early.

[E]

Their current bounty is.

[B]

Oh yeah. Shit. Oh, it's Jim Bae.

[C]

April 2nd is Jim Bae.

[B]

Jinbe.

[C]

You know, it's either. It's. It's either Jinbe or Zeff. And I don't think we're counting the hat into the height.

[F]

Also, it's around like nine feet.

[B]

So. Yeah, and Jim Bae. And Jim Bae's is. And Jim Bae's is over a billion.

[E]

Jinbe is 1.11. He's slightly under Zorro.

[B]

Yeah, Sanji, that one is under Zoro. Okay, he's definitely got one of these.

[F]

I. I thought that. I thought that was going to be a lot harder from the way it.

[B]

Was described, but yeah, you're right.

[C]

I give all the credit to Josh. I just like tapped into that like, thing from Avatar where I just speak to dead people.

[F]

The Josh state.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do they call it?

[C]

We can only be so lucky.

[B]

Wow, you're really sucking up to Jack.

[A]

That's Kylie Minogue. I should be so lucky.

[B]

Okay, that'll do it for the One Piece podcast. We'll be back next week to go through chapter 1147. But until then, my name is Zach.

[C]

And my name is Steve.

[B]

We'll see you next week, everyone. Goodbye.

[D]

Good night. I love you. My precious lunch.

[A]

Bye, everybody.

[B]

Asia.