One Piece Eps 854-856

This week’s episode is pure chaos, and we’re loving every second of it. We’ve got fights breaking out all across the One Piece map—from the Mirro-World to the Germa Kingdom, even Capone Bege has to throw down to stay alive. The spotlight, of course, stays on Luffy, who’s getting turned into mochi paste by Katakuri but still manages to keep a smile on his face for the crew’s sake. Meanwhile, the rest of the Straw Hats are sailing toward Cacao Island to meet up with Sanji, totally unaware their captain’s taking the beating of his life.

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Episode Transcript

(00:09):
All right. Well, hello there.
Hello, welcome. It's it's nice to see you
indeed. I feel like, I feel like it's.
It's been nary a minute since last we spoke.
Well, time works like that sometimes, you know.

(00:30):
Yeah, yeah. You know what?
Let's start off with a, with a, with a classic.
How are you doing, Devin? What's?
What's going on? Oh, I am groggy.
I stayed up way too late last night.
I was, I I've been up to a lot of shenanigans the last 24
hours. Oh, yeah.
Went to my cousins and we watched like this.

(00:53):
Summed up. The story.
Starts off like this. Hey, we're hanging out.
Kay. I show up.
Hey, we're going to call a bunchof people to come over and hang
out. All right, Cool.
Never mind. I forgot.
I have to go watch a movie with them at the theater.
What? What movie are we going to
watch? Kaiju #8 wait, Kaiju #8 have a
movie made a movie. Yeah.

(01:14):
OK, get to the movie theater. The even the movie theater is
like, yeah, by the way, it's notactually a movie.
All it is is a compressed version of the entire show plus
one spin off episode that. Makes more sense, but also lame.
I think it was just a recut. Yeah, I couldn't really.
It wasn't reanimated. Nothing visually new happened.
Cash crab. Yeah.

(01:35):
So then after that went to my, you know, cousin's house and we
just stayed up into the wee latehours of the night watching all
sorts of random fucking anime, including the apps for today.
Oh, OK, so you got to experiencethese episodes in the company of
others? Yes.
Oh, that's incredible. I can't wait to hear about this

(01:55):
all over. The place I am, forgive me
because I have what's it called,Isura.
In my head I have what was it? Man, just going to start talking
about fighting Kaiju in the middle of this somebody.
What? What?
Remember that time when Luffy punched God?

(02:16):
Yeah, I remember him punching the celestial dragon.
On a dungeon. Oh God, and then they made food
together in the same dungeon. All.
Right. Yeah, that that that would be a
One Piece plot. Well, your your last few days
sounds much more invigorating than mine.
I also this also reminded me of the one time we recorded some.

(02:37):
We were recording something and then your cousin was just showed
up in the Discord was like, hey,get ready, in 20 minutes we're
going to be at your house. When I got kidnapped.
Yeah. When you got kidnapped.
Yeah, yeah. That was that was last Thursday.
Luckily I know for a fact he can't kidnap me this week after
this recording because he's going to Tennessee unless I get

(02:57):
kidnapped and taken to Tennessee.
I was going to say, there's nothing stopping them from still
kidnapping you. I feel like unless that was a
lie, it could have also been a lie.
I have work tomorrow and unless he's paying me to go to
Tennessee, I don't really I can't really afford.

(03:18):
Wow, you know, like finds a way.Afford to, you know, miss my
job. You could definitely go to our
Red bubble store. More to come.
More to come on that in the at the end of this episode.
In fact, there's a little teaserfor you.
For anyone, stick around the endof the episode for some big
news. Oh.
All right, bigger news there. There is news.

(03:40):
There's big and bigger news. Whoa.
So with that being said, let's get this fucking episode over
with so we can get to the news. Right.
All right, I'll be all Marie this year's summary.
This week we got non-stop actionfor you folks.
There's fighting all over the map from the mirror world to the
German Kingdom. Hell, even Capone Veggie is

(04:03):
having to throw hands just to make it out alive.
Of course, most of the focus is on our stretchy boy getting
Bibbidi bopped by the mochi man for everything he's worth.
Luffy just doesn't even doesn't know when to quit.
But one thing he won't do is worry his crew as he puts on a
brave face and confidently tellshim through a mirror that he'll
make it out of the mirror world alive somehow, despite the fact

(04:25):
that he's actively being stompedinto the ground by Katakuri.
The rest of the straws, none thewiser to Luffy's problem, make
haste for Coco Island to pick upSanji, but it's going to take
about 10 hours to get there. Kind of makes you wonder how
that magic carpet got them therein like 5 minutes though, huh?
Anyway, we'll take a break from that.

(04:46):
Fighting briefly to watch German66 finally defeat the Big Mom
Pirates that were invading theirlands and also successfully
tricked Montdor into thinking that they had actually lost.
We leave them thinking that theymight continue to lend a hand,
but really, who knows what thesejerks.
Veggie, in a bit of a pickle himself, makes a clean getaway
after throwing the pirate equivalent of a smoke bomb and

(05:09):
making a sharp right turn on thenext off ramp.
After these interludes though, it's back to the main course.
Luffy is still getting rocked byKatakuri, who has now revealed
that he has awakened his Devil fruit power and similar to
Doflamingo, can transform the entities around him into that of
his Devil fruit. With this upgrade, he makes
quick work putting Luffy down, or so he thought.

(05:31):
He retreats for snack time, but Luffy has eaten away, eaten his
way out of the mochi he was buried under, and rudely
interrupts Katakuri's delectabledonut dining debauchery.
And raged by this disrespect, Katakuri comes at Luffy with
everything he's got. But what's this?
Luffy can evade the attacks now?Has he levelled up or is

(05:53):
Katakuri getting sloppy in his big angry mode?
So First things first. Go on, I'm the realist.
I called it. Which thing did you call
specifically for the audience athome?
Categories fucking jaw being funky as fuck.
Yeah, I yeah, I don't think, I don't think any of us were under
any impression that this would not be the case.

(06:16):
Gladly not a not like an iron jar or anything to that extent.
He's just got, he's got stitched, stitched up on the
side. You want to know how I got these
scars? Joker style.
And he's got the he's got some sharp teeth.
He got some sharp teeths. But he's also got that like, no
jawline. Well, yeah, I think honestly.

(06:40):
Rizz stops at his eyes. Honestly, Devin, I think that's
why he wears the scarf. I don't think it's because of
his mouth. I think it's because you got
that. I don't.
I don't even know. I'm, I'm thinking I'm trying to,
I have a vision of a character in my head that has the same
rounded jawline and I just, I don't know the name of it.
Yeah, I can't. I can't.
Yeah, I can't think of he's. Got that Jelly Bean looking chin

(07:04):
I. Don't know why but my brain went
to like the Crimson chin. But it's not the Crimson chin.
The exact opposite in fact. The flaccid chin.
But yeah, he, he just big. He he's got a testicle for a
jaw. Yeah, a little bit, a little, a

(07:25):
little bit. As as soon as he like went into
snack mode I I immediately went ohh no like what is this bit
that he's never seen laying downand he's never seen him eat?
What the fuck? Well, I the the laying down
thing I just took at the time when it was described as this,

(07:47):
they're, they're just, they're doing the same thing where they
hyped up white beard, how he never had any scratches on his
back or any wounds on his back because he doesn't, he always
takes it. He always takes the damage.
So I was just, I, I was just taking it like this basically.
And the, the, the no one's ever seen him eat thing was the

(08:07):
different thing. You know, I, I had once he puts
up the shrine, you know, something's about a hit there.
There's obviously about to be a bit here.
We don't know what it's going tobe, but we can, we can kind of
assume that it's going to be a little wonky.
There's already the fact that hethat he's making a whole shrine

(08:27):
to eat his snack at the same time every day.
And then the chefs want to go all whisper, whisper, whisper.
And nobody's ever seen him eat before.
It's crazy. He's so dignified and, and, and
secretive. Devin, I, I I can't tell you how
fucking hard I laughed with thisreveal of Katakuri.

(08:49):
Shit me. I I was dying.
No. This made me laugh so hard.
Just the complete juxtaposition.They do the they do the small
teaser of having they like they,they do a fade to black as they
go and zoom into the the shrine or something.
And, and you all you hear in thebackground is doughnuts.

(09:11):
And I'm like, oh, Oh my goodness, what is happening in
there? Fans face my Lord.
I know in my 1. Piece too intimate with those
doughnuts, dude. He is all about doughnuts.
We should introduce him to Ace sometime and, and then a couple

(09:32):
minutes later, it's like, and then a couple minutes later we
get the whole actual reveal of, of Katakuri with the doughnuts.
And I part of this part of my enjoyment was also the fact that
I'm, I was watching my episodes at lunch on my lunch break at
work too. So I'm sitting, I'm sitting on

(09:55):
my desk having finished lunch, watching this episode.
Luckily, I'd already finished myfood, otherwise who knows what
would have happened. And, and this whole scene plays
out and I'm, I'm, I'm on the verge of, of, of tears because
it was just so it was just so good.
After everything that Katakuri has done this entire time.

(10:17):
There's even the he has, he has the moment where he's flashing
through all the things people have said about him.
Brulee hyped him up. He's never been on his back.
He's our Big Brother. He's undefeatable, So, so
dignified, so reliable. And then there's there's this.
And it definitely killed me. I, I, I loved this bit so much.

(10:41):
I well, yes, I didn't literally die, but he definitely I was
about to like one of those chefsfor sure.
It it was a pretty solid bit like just him be with his pants
caught down and just like the realization and the panic and
then the rage. Yeah.

(11:02):
Yeah, I it didn't make me laugh as hard.
I definitely snorted, you know, like, you know, deep exhale.
Granted, I'd also been burned out at this point while watching
my episodes because you know, itwas 5 in the morning and this
was the 8th anime I'm watching at the night.
Yeah, I got to say, it disappoints me to hear that,

(11:25):
Devin. I I don't know what it is like.
It was a funny idea, but I don'tknow if it was just like the
execution or I don't know. I just, I don't know.
I think my brains just fried right now.
I, I, I, I wish, I wish I had a Brendan here with me, if Brendan

(11:46):
would understand me. And you probably Justin too,
just as a big doughnut guy. But man, I've never, I've never
wished we had a full cast more than just to discuss this one
moment. Yeah, because like, I don't
really know what to talk about, like in these episodes, like
about like that reaction. Like to me it was like it just
felt like any other One Piece, little bit short and sweet.

(12:09):
Now granted, I don't know doughnuts.
Doughnuts, dude. It's it's the it's the
juxtaposition of characters, obviously, but there's also just
something about there's the way that he's eating the Donuts,
there's his goofy look with the chin and everything to just all

(12:33):
of these things together. And also I feel as though we've
been a little deprived of these sorts of good one piece gags,
like quintessential one piece dumb things.
You could argue that the Tomataybox is kind of like that too.
And I I'd probably agree with you.
But outside of that, it's I feel, I feel as though I've been

(12:54):
starved for especially good one piece bits in Whole Cake Island.
So I I disagree, I feel like this whole adventure so far of
hold cake island has been bit after bit after bit and I don't
know if I'm just like it's over saturated for me because we've
had so many bizarre like like like let's say everyone was like

(13:19):
normal looking, right? Like they didn't look like
fucking sludge people or whatnot, right?
And they like legitimately likely had that Katakuri energy
the whole time, right? And then the reveal of all of
them being like weird, that would have been, you know,
jarring for me. And like, it made me laugh.
But like, because of how physically diverse everyone in a

(13:41):
Whole Cake island has been and how weird it is to me, it's just
like, all right. So he's so he's also weird
looking, you know, like it. I don't know, it just doesn't
hit my funny bone. Yeah, I'm not saying there's
been a lack of bits as a whole. I just have I haven't vibed
especially as much with a lot ofthem as maybe some other arcs in

(14:02):
the past. On the whole, the the post time
skip has been lighter on good bits anyway.
But this, this arc is just especially been this moment is
is is a light in the darkness. This, this is this feels like a
harkening back to the good old days of of One Piece.
Dumb bitch like like interface like bit.

(14:23):
Yeah, like something completely out of left field that you maybe
wouldn't have expected or wasn'tbrought to the forefront, wasn't
teased, couldn't have been as guessed as before as some other
bits. Because again, after this point,
Katakuri's just been, he's been a guy and he's just been
throwing hands out. Right.

(14:45):
And I don't know of the like, I,I feel like I, I'm like the
opposite of you right now. Like it's like to me like, like
I miss, like I agree, I miss like the Inneroo bits, like
those reactions where it's like,wait, it didn't work.
What do you mean? Like like shit like that.
But this one it just felt because, you know, like I said,
like, you know, like how, how funny would it be?

(15:06):
Like I even said, you know, likea couple weeks ago or last week
or God knows what, you know, like how funny would it be if
his face is fucked up? Like I wasn't serious.
I didn't mean that. I didn't want him to be fucked
up in the jawline, but here he is.
And I'm like, ODA, why'd you listen?
ODA, why'd you? Retcon this right?

(15:27):
Like why? Why is this the case if?
You're going to Berenstain bearsme.
Then at least erase my memory soI don't remember.
At least delete my brain. Don't let me live with this
cosmic horror in my head. I don't know it again.
It just didn't. It didn't hit my funny.

(15:49):
But bits aren't for everyone, soI guess we'll, I guess we'll
move on or really move backwardsto some of the other stuff that
happened in these episodes before, before donut category.
Right, I gotta say, seeing what's his name, why am I
blanking at Capone or Beggie's ship?

(16:11):
Just be a ship. What if tank?
Yeah, that shit had me rolling. That's the one that got you
going it. Did it really did?
It was. Like this is so.
Fucking dumb. Like it it it totally fits but
this is so dumb. Why would you have tank treads

(16:34):
on your boat? I don't know man.
The multi multi use vehicle all terrain.
Yeah, all terrain boat. He puts it as a literal all
terrain. Yeah, I mean, you're right.
It was. It is funny he died.
The fact that Veggie just slaps tank treads on anything and says

(16:56):
all right, Yeah, it's perfect. And also I don't know if it's
only me but I actually like putting currently, like how
she's acting around Sanji and everything, like how she's
getting jealous of Lola, like feeding him cookies and shit
like that. Those are the bets I enjoy.
And I, I don't think I can agreethere.

(17:18):
I think I got to disagree with you on that one.
I don't I the cooking in the kitchen has not led to the
shenanigans re that I had hoped for.
We're really just sort of here and we, we flashback to them
every now and then when we want some kind of break in the

(17:38):
action. And it's always just the same
thing. It's just, it's just putting not
paying attention to what she's supposed to be doing because
she's thinking about Sanji, or in this case it's Chiffon having
Sanji taste test something and then her getting real jealous
and all of this shit. And I just don't.
I just don't want it. I agree that it's it's really

(18:03):
boring and it's like as a as a whole picture like because of
how it's implemented, but the fact that it's happening like
like the bit itself, I enjoy thebit itself right like the whole
gimmick of like her fawning overSanji.
I think that's hilarious You. Know she's like.
I want him fucking. I don't it.
It's just different. I don't know.

(18:23):
It's like Sanji's getting his own medicine back.
But but he's not because he's not like picked out by this.
He loves this shit. Yeah, but he's also I agree, but
it it's it's the same energy. I don't know how to explain it.
It's the he's getting his same energy back and I vibe with
that. But what's it called?
Like I agree with you. Like the the whole like I feel

(18:45):
like we've literally just watched a whole lot of nothing
happening where like people are fighting and allegedly plot is
moving, but in reality everything stayed the same.
Like I feel like I didn't miss much watching these three
episodes. Like if I had missed this week,
caught the last 20 minute or 15 minutes of the last episode, I
would have been caught up. I feel like nothing has

(19:06):
progressed. Well, yeah, I, I feel the last
these three episodes were reallyjust loopy versus Katakuri with
some, with some brief interludesfrom other characters to sort of
what in Jeremiah's case, wrap upa timeline or wrap up a loose
end. In Veggie's case, also maybe

(19:27):
wrap up a loose end, but probably not.
And we just check in with the baking crew.
You know that you're right there.
There isn't like a whole lot of substance to what goes on
exactly. Here so So there is one thing
though, that of all like those like, you know, like, I'll just
call them the collage effect, you know, of all that.

(19:48):
What there's it's the part wherelike they're trying to like
constantly talk to Luffy and like Katakuri in the first
episode just literally just letsLuffy run away for like a hot
minute with a piece of glass so he could talk to his friends.
Yeah, you know, and like they'resmashing the glasses, you know,
like the windows and everything,right.
There's a moment where. What's it called?
Like they smash or Luffy smashesone of the glass panes from

(20:09):
inside the mirror world. But it just makes the mirror
explode in the real world, right?
Because, you know, he's like trying to stop the air of people
from, you know, doing the thing,which, yeah, makes sense, right?
But then it had me thinking, they've been fighting like crazy
in this mirror world and like, like smashing mirrors left and
right. So you gotta bet believe it that

(20:31):
there's like places all over theplace where beers are just
fucking like you're in your living room.
Imagine your mirror just explodes for no fucking reason
because people are fighting in the mirror dimension.
Like you're just sitting there, you know, Ah, just got back from
work. Take your shoes off, you know,
and also your fucking mirror. Explodes the hallway mirror.
Essentially what's happening exactly not not just like

(20:53):
shatters explodes like it's violent because you got Katakuri
and Luffy punching walls and mirrors constantly and like
fucking indenting each other into them.
Or eventually Katakuri just breaking entire walls are
forming them into mochi and throwing them at Luffy like a

(21:15):
whole. Household, like you're in your
house and your entire house, every single mirror explodes
simultaneously. Yeah, like that, that.
Happened, and if you're near anyof them, you're getting hit with
a with a grenade's worth of shrapnel from this fucking
mirror explosion. Sitting there in the mirror,
like doing your makeup or something, then all of a sudden

(21:35):
just you're, you're blind. You'd be made blind and
disabled. You'd be made.
They'd be. Horrifying.
I want to see that. That's what I want to see.
Like that's what I wanted to seewas just like the effects on the
real world of their fight in themirror world.
This is the equivalent of a Marvel movie where all of the

(21:58):
all of the heroes and the aliensare destroying things in the
city and we just have no, it's just a wanton disregard for any
life that is inside of those buildings potentially, right?
We just don't ever address it. And so this is a lesser extent
of that. But yeah, I, I would, I would

(22:19):
love to see a see now that wouldmake a good bit.
And since we're on the top of ontop of Marvel movies, it'd be
the same thing where we just have the the Stanley Cam and
he's just doing a thing like thelike the one where he's in the
library or something and he's just sweeping up and the action
sees Spider Man's going behind him.
Yeah, something like that, but with all these fucking mirrors

(22:40):
exploding. Like for real, like I feel like
that like it's a low hanging fruit of a of a bit that they
could have easily done. Yeah, and you put some happy go
lucky music over the back. Exactly.
Or even just like just even likethe the the edgy music where
it's like Oh my God people are reacting to the world, the

(23:03):
mirrors just fucking being. Imagine every single mirror in
your house is now an active grenade potentially.
Yeah. And then we cut and then we cut
to a group of people who form this, this, this cultish group
about the mirror conspiracy, bigmirrors after you.

(23:23):
Yeah. The government, they're in your
mirrors, they're monitoring you while you take a shit.
Yeah, or they or they think somemystical being that lives in the
mirrors after them because trying to enforce bad luck on
the world. Yeah, how much bad luck do you
think that all the characters have?
Currently millennia, millennia, millennia of bad luck.

(23:46):
You know, look at although there's so many mirrors in there
dude. What is it 7 years of bad luck
for per mirror? Right, There's so that that
sounds like not a lot, but in the grand scheme of things,
they're they've shattered hundreds of mirrors.
Yeah, honestly. Who, who even gets that bad
luck? I mean, I get they're they're
both breaking all of it. If there were to be a tally, I

(24:08):
guess I I. Don't know.
Happen but yeah, this is this islike this is like a thought I've
had with friends before where when I when I die, whether there
is an afterlife or not of any kind I I want I want an after
action report video game style. I just want, I want to be handed
a book with all of the stats, all of the stats I could ever

(24:31):
want. You know, I want to know, I want
to know what I want to know how many calories I ate across my
entire life. Just see, just see the that
giant number or, or how many times I came close to dying but
didn't even realize it. You know, now that I'm dead,
that means nothing to me anymore, but I just want to
know. Like who was that time almost to
death? Yeah, dude, I just, I just want,

(24:54):
I want the stats. I wanna I I could spend, I could
spend years going through my stat book alone in the
afterlife. Dude, that I would too.
Or how many inadvertent kills. Oh God, actually, that one I
might not want to know about. Like you, I want.
I might not want to know about that one, I'll be honest.
Yo what's this kill feed? Why do I have a nuke?

(25:20):
Why? What's this?
What's this really long run on number?
Sorry, what? I was just saying what's this
really long run on number doing here and why does it say?
Why is it under the almost killed the category?
What's Π doing here, but with commas?
Oh God no. I thought that would be a fun

(25:44):
ass. I would.
Book to read. I would love that.
That's my 1:00 ask for the afterlife.
Give me the stat book. Let just please let there be a
stat book. And is there competitive and
ranked? Dude, yes, give me the ranking
too. Give me, give me the percentage
of of of people you know. Right.

(26:06):
Like top, like shitter of one, Like out of a billion.
Give me, give me a, give me a special couple pages of the book
where I'm I'm in the top .1% of this one very niche thing.
You know, I want to know. There's got to be something.
I want to see the scoreboards. Yes.

(26:26):
Because like we already know where the kill count ones are.
Like we get that one. Like don't don't care about that
one. I want to see like, for the dumb
shit like Miles Droven, Yeah. Any anything.
Like like who's the number one? Like furthest travelled.
Yeah, yeah. And I want to be able to compare

(26:47):
to my friends too. That would be, that would be
nice too. I want, I want to know, I want
to know who of so that when theyget there, if they're not
already there in that afterlife,I can, I can shit on them or
brag to them. Get Rex nerd.
Yeah, I shit a larger brick wallthan you did.
I travelled more times around the sun walking backward than

(27:10):
you did, idiot. Or just see how close.
Like oh dude, we almost had the same amount of steps.
Yeah, All right. Well, that that, that that side,
the aside. We, we, we.

(27:30):
Yeah. So, so Luffy, Luffy breaks all
breaks these mirrors that scene.It was good.
What did you make of Luffy? Just putting on a brave face for
the rest of the crew and being like, yeah, don't worry, guys,
I'm going to I'm going to be there.
I'm I'm I'm, I'm doing fine. No problems here.
As he's covering his mouth to active to not scream in pain as

(27:55):
he's actively getting the beat down from Cali.
Grabs his lips and, like, pulls them forward.
I was like, First off, you're not even like doing a good job
of it. Just hang up like.
You can't know. I mean, you could throw the
mirror piece again away, I guess.
Break. It yeah, like just hang up just
hang up. You don't have to put on the
face. Like what is this all about?

(28:18):
Like I I was indifferent to it. Like I was like this is a dumb
in my mind I mean. I thought that's how I go.
I'll continue. There wasn't really much thought
left. I, I thought it was sweet, you
know? I mean, it just felt like, like
my brain like didn't interpret it like or didn't store it in my
head in a sweet way. I was I I I stored it in my head

(28:41):
as like. This is just the milking time.
I I think there's way more egregious things in these
episodes so that waste time than.
Agree, but this is just just another one like here you, you
go on the shelf too. Like, all right, We're we're
putting everything on the these three episodes.
We got a milk because we got 10 hours to go.

(29:02):
Yeah, like the peanut island thing.
I don't know Big Mom's heading towards.
Peanut island Like what the fuckis this about?
Why this is? So dumb.
Although I did. There was another bit that I, I
I personally thought was funny, which was when it shows like the

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German, you know, guys like you know, winning their fights and
everything, but there's the one guy who just takes 2 swords and
then suddenly makes a Destructo disc and throws it.
Oh yeah. I was like, holy shit, it's
Krillin. Like, man, they're really
stealing everything from Dragon Ball Z.
Like they're not even, they're not even being ashamed of it.

(29:46):
Like they're just, they're just doing it.
Yeah. I feel like we're I'm in pain
with these episodes. The these episodes have been
pain. I, I, I don't feel the same
about these episodes in previousweeks, I feel as though I was on
the same wavelength, but these episodes in last week's episodes
I felt pretty good about well, last week's episodes were more

(30:07):
about active progress. This week's episodes I was just,
I was entertained mostly by the the Katakuri snack reveal, but
the fight with Luffy is it's just mostly him getting the shit
beaten out of him over and over again.
So there's not a whole lot of substance to it outside of what
happens in the last episode, more or less so.

(30:29):
Right. I but I still had a good time.
And I feel like that's my gripe with it, is that there is no
substance to the fights. So the fights themselves seem
underwhelming, you know what I mean?
Like because it's just like, we've already seen three
episodes of Luffy getting his shit rocked.
Why do I need three more? Yeah, I mean, luckily it's

(30:50):
really, when it boiled down to it kind of more like 1 episode
worth of of Luffy getting rockedand then all of the other stuff
that sort of fills in the time gap and then the third episode
happens. So it's not entirely filled up
with Luffy and Katakuri, but. But but my brain is only

(31:11):
registering it like that though.Because it's, it's the most
important piece of the puzzle in, in these episodes.
It, it's the part we end off with.
So it's what's going to be on the forefront of your mind.
And I, I, I can't blame you, butI, I, I had, I had a decent
time. And I think in terms of fights

(31:32):
that have no meaning across thisarc, this is at least a little
bit better because it's going tolead somewhere as opposed to
some of the other stuff that happens even during right when
the wedding is crashed, you know, with all of the random
matchups that just sort of get thrown at you and then tossed
away. They don't actually ever end up

(31:54):
happening in some cases. So at least in this one, it's
going to lead somewhere. And we get the little tease of
that at the end of the of 856 with Luffy realizing he has
either caught on to Katakuri's tactic, which we'll find out
next week perhaps what exactly is going on.

(32:16):
But might be might be my called it moment for for the week if he
has upgraded his observation hockey for this fight.
I, I think you're, you're right on this one because again, like
I was with my cousin and I thinkhe, he slips, he's not perfect.
He ain't no Justin. He tries, he tries his best not

(32:36):
to spoil, but sometimes he goes like, hey, yo.
And then it's like I look at him, he goes, Oh no.
And I'm like. Right.
You goofed, you goofed. My bad.
So I, I think you're, you're right.
He did upgrade it and they kind of implied it heavily at the end

(32:59):
of this episode where he's like oh I'm dodging more.
Yeah, he he's, they have those. I I like the way that they they
animated it too, with these frames of Katakuri throwing
punches and then Luffy disappears.
You hear the their version of the Dragon Ball Z teleport noise
and same. Version it's the same teleport
well. It's not exactly the same, but

(33:21):
it's pretty close. Same.
It's pretty. Close the exact same thing.
And, and they just have what I can only describe as Samurai
Jack esque moments where they have the the they split the
screen in a funky way and then some some form of action
happens. In this case it's Luffy

(33:42):
teleporting away from a punch and then or seeing in slow
motion the categories punches coming at him.
So it's and then also flashes ofKatakuri's red eyes in the 1st
place, which are obviously him using observation hockey in an
active way. So all of this combined seems to

(34:03):
very much lend itself to the idea that Luffy is upgrading his
observation hockey on the fly, which is, as I figured, probably
the only thing that's going to get him out of this fight,
whether he actually beats Katakuri or just gets to run
away somehow. I I think at this point he's
locked into to beating Katakuri.I agree.

(34:23):
I have a feeling that he's goingto be he's, he's got the
official 4th gear going so. Yeah, yeah.
It's it do be looking like a a finishing moment?
I'm I'm actually kind of mad because of, in my opinion, the
substance of this week was so watered down that we stopped

(34:44):
where we did because I was like,no, finally some good shit's
about to happen. Yeah.
No, like even my cousin was like, what do you mean we have
to stop watching the episodes? I was like, because this is
where I'm supposed to stop? Yeah, I can't go beyond.
Yeah. It is it is unfortunate, but
this is This is the web we weavewith the podcast.

(35:07):
Unfortunately, I feel like. I've been edged in a bad way.
Yeah, a little. Like I just got anime blue bald.
Yeah, we've been here before andit's, it's not surprising.
I'm, I'm a little used to it by now.
But at the same time, I, I just want to see him do it.

(35:31):
I want to see him do it. Do the thing.
I want to see them do the thing to each other, yeah.
I don't know exactly what that thing is, but it's definitely
going to involve a Kong and a Grizzly cannon.
You know what I was kind of, I guess worried about for my own
prediction, but intrigued if it actually would have happened is
I thought for about 20 seconds when we are seeing.

(35:56):
Well, first of all, we got another devil fruit paramecia
user with an awakened devil fruit doing basically the same
thing that we saw Doflamingo do,where he can touch the ground
and Katakuri can turn the walls and everything else into mochi
the same way Doflamingo could turn things into strings.

(36:17):
So with the with that, I don't think it was that surprising to
know that Katakuri has awakened his devil fruit.
I I think that that's not necessarily a far cry from from
possibility. No, it really wasn't.
And on top of that, like becauselike I had made a comment, and I
don't know if this is if we've talked about this before, but

(36:37):
like I literally like like at the beginning of these episodes,
like at the beginning of the fight, I literally said I was
like, how is he not a logia? He's doing Logia things.
And turns out that ODA himself actually, like, he'd been asked
this so much that he actually had to do like, not a retcon,

(36:58):
but like a, according to my cousin, he had to like, be like,
yeah, no, his parame, he's a paramecia, but he's like,
special. And that's the explanation for
why he's able to do such crazy things, not just the fact that
he's, you know, upgraded, you know, devil Fruit, but he he
himself has a special form of paramecia.

(37:18):
And I literally just said this is bullshit.
Like this is this is a bullshit excuse.
Like you're just this is the same moment.
And like, you know, like when you're on in 3rd grade playing
like, you know, like war and allof a sudden like the buddy goes,
no, I have a space shield and he's like, what the fuck Timmy?
You can't make up. Make it up as you go.
This anti tag armor. Exactly.

(37:40):
Like no, this is dumb. Be consistent.
You didn't tag me. You tagged my sweater.
My sweater isn't me. Exactly, it made me mad because
it brought me back to 3rd grade and I was a victim of that.
Join the join the club butter buddy.
I don't know, I said butter hungry bud.

(38:02):
I can always eat. Speaking of eating, Yeah, so, so
this was this was the part that I was trying to get to is that
we watch Luffy eat his way out of this giant pile of mochi,
which is actually in some instances just the wall and

(38:22):
mirrors, but in mochi shape. I was it mochi shape because I
thought it was just like a pile of poop.
I well, that definitely looks like with cherry, definitely
looks like that. And it is all mochi really.
I should say the OP, it's the opposite.
It's it's mirror and wall shapedmochi.
It's still all mochi and edible because that's what Katakuri

(38:44):
did. He turned it all into mochi, but
for the second time in this arc at least.
Really in A1V1 combat scenario. Anyway, we have watched Luffy
eat his way out of a huge problem and Luffy even comments
on it. Luffy.
Luffy is Luffy. That man loves eating but you

(39:08):
know he's reached. Do you know what's a problem
when even Luffy is complaining that he has to eat his way out
of these situations? Well, not alone just that, but
like, you know, he has the jiggle physics going on next
following that, but then they had to do another bit where he
runs away and comes back skinny because he's burned the calories

(39:33):
that quickly. This is so dumb.
This is like why? Why reintroduce the bit of him
solving a problem by eating it and then like immediately like
undo like the effects of that byjust saying he runs away for a
minute and then comes like why didn't he just escape?
Because it's funnier if he eats his way out again.

(39:57):
Shut up. No it's not.
This is a dumb bit and we're just dragging the shit on like
he did not need to. Come back to go see what's
inside the like to to reveal it.Like I understand that yes, this
was like a bit that ODA was setting up for, you know, the
reveal of kind of Currys, you know, fucking face.

(40:17):
But the fact that he ran away had and no one stopped him.
No one did. Who's going to stop them?
What do you mean no one stopped them?
Nobody's there. Brulee.
Literally any of them. Brulee.
'S not there, None of them are there anymore.
That's the problem. Brulee doesn't can't do shit
anymore dawg. She's worthless in a fight.
Agreed. And then, and then all the rest

(40:38):
of the no names behind her are even less likely to put up a
fight. They might.
They're no better than the threechefs that get merked.
Brulee's a punching bag at this point.
It just, it just hurt me becauseI was like, you could have moved
the plot forward now, you could have escaped Katakuri and ran

(40:59):
away and you chose to run away to get skinny to then come back
to ignore the problems of you being fat.
Luffy. Yeah, I'm angry.
Let me be angry. All right, I mean, that's fine.
I'm not I'm not going to hear behere and try and convince you to
be UN angry because that I I'd have a better time trying to
push a mountain. Exactly.

(41:20):
And so I all I can say is I I don't I don't mind this.
The point that I was looking to get to though eventually was and
bringing up the awakened devil fruits.
Anyway, the the the sound effects that they use for eating
for for Luffy eating his way outof the pile of mochi that looks

(41:42):
like poop with the cherry on top.
That actually really didn't looklike a cherry.
It looked like a tangerine or anorange or something.
Yeah, it was something weird. The sound effects that they were
using, plus the reintroduction of awakened devil fruits almost
made me think that Luffy was about to awaken his devil fruit
on the fly instead. And because they use they use

(42:04):
sound effects where the the mochi pile gets bigger and
bigger as if it's inflating likea balloon.
So I'm thinking to myself, oh, and obviously we've watched
Luffy for hundreds of episodes now use blow up his arms and
legs like a balloon to to do things.
So I'm thinking to myself, oh, is this act instead of

(42:26):
observation hockey? Are we instead going to have him
awaken his devil fruit here? It would be a little soon, but
I'm not entirely opposed to this.
And then the mochi, the top of the mochi explodes and we get
Fat Luffy and I went, oh, well, that's slightly disappointing
that we're not getting somethingmore interesting out of this,

(42:47):
especially because the music too, the music is swelling as if
there's going to be some badass moment that happens.
And then right. And then Fat Luffy pops you
something. Epic.
Yeah, it's just fat Luffy. Yeah, I I agree.
I hated that Hoodwink like it. It did make you feel like he was
about to like get like a major level up.
I was just, I was just laid down.

(43:09):
I felt, I felt, I felt, I felt like a catfish by the show a
little bit. They used balloon inflating
noises, dude. They they did.
They could have used munching orsomething instead.
And and and the chefs could havebeen leaning in close to me.
Like what's that noise? Hold on, watch.
Watch Luffy's fucking double fruit awakening.

(43:29):
Just be advanced cannibalism because he always just eats his
way out of all his problems. Like he just consume anything,
Yeah. He he levelled up that skill too
much and that became his secret hidden class instead.
Right. He's an eater.
Double swallow. Yeah.

(43:53):
Gomu gomu no binge. Yeah, sucks everything in his
mouth. Like Kirby, he just becomes.
Kirby. Exactly.
And then it punches a star. Punches a star?
Yeah. If there's one thing I know
about Kirby, it's that Kirby hasthe power to end universes in

(44:16):
that tiny little pink body. That.
Ditto with shoes. Hey yo, Ditto with the Jays.
Yeah, so I, I, you know, for forthe purposes of having my
prediction be correct, great. For the purposes of interesting

(44:39):
things happening, a bit of a letdown.
So I guess we'll have to wait a little bit more on on Luffy's
Devil Fruit awakening. Maybe this will be maybe we'll
get that later. Who knows in this arc, I don't
know. I I imagine we'd probably get it
in the next one. Maybe I we're getting a lot of
exposure to awaken devil fruits.I I would hope at some point

(45:00):
that I mean, we can't have the introduction of it and then have
Luffy never do it. So that's already like it'll
happen eventually. I'm just curious now if it's not
going to be here, if it's if it'll be maybe in the next arc,
Luffy will like really get his act together and think about it.
How old overpowered Doflamingo at the end there was and then

(45:21):
and then what? What Katakuri was able to?
Well as far as we know Big Mom hasn't hasn't displayed any
awakened devil through powers yet.
So, well, I meant just like he he needs to, you know, get
stronger. So therefore needs to upgrade.
Yes, Yeah, he needs to put thosethose points he's eating into

(45:41):
other, you know, stat. Yes, so I I would assume at by
the end of this arc, whether he has to actually face down Big
Mom in a fight or not, he would learn that awaken, like trying
to master awakening, would be a valuable skill to have before
anything else. Which once again, it kind of
surprises me that he didn't learn this from Rayleigh.

(46:03):
I well, OK, I, I would say, I think the only reason we don't
know this he wouldn't have gotten it from Rayleigh is
because Rayleigh has not shown to have a devil fruit, so he
wouldn't innately know that. But Rayleigh knows about devil
fruit, it like he would have some some knowledge of like hey,
you should probably get that shit awakened, especially if

(46:24):
you're going in the new world and you're going to go hang out
with the big Mom and beat her upand stuff.
Sure. I know I.
Well, at this point, at this point he doesn't.
At that point I should say he doesn't have beef with Big Mom
because Fishman Island hasn't happened yet.
But in general, yes, I I think Iagree in that Rayleigh would
know about awakened devil fruitsand he he should have probably

(46:46):
mentioned it at some point. I don't think Rayleigh has the
capacity to actually teach him about it, not having a Devil
Fruit himself, but mentioning itto him going, hey, by the way,
there's this thing called awakening that you'll probably
experience at some point and youmight want to master it because
it'll be a real big help along with all this hockey stuff that
I've been teaching you. Right.

(47:07):
Or like even like the advanced hockey, like come on, really
should have known to like that. Like the fact he just taught him
like apparently vanilla hockey. Well, I guess you know, they
only had two years. They only had two.
Years. They only had two years, Devin.
Two years. These other guys have been

(47:28):
fighting their whole lives and they're older than him.
Luffy's only 18 or something to that effect.
I don't know. It's mad.
Damn it, Hoda. What did you think of?
OK, so Speaking of advanced hockey, what did you think of
Minecraft arms category? Yeah, he went, he went half

(47:51):
Steve mode and and his I think he called, I think he referred
to it as edge mochi or somethingto that effect.
But then also talked about how this is advanced form of hockey
where his is superior to Luffy's.
I I And for some reason it made Luffy's hands hurt a lot.
A lot. I liked the bit of seeing

(48:13):
Luffy's hands hurting, like I liked that part.
But the the visual demonstration, I was like, this
is so dumb. Why is why is he why is he
square? Like why is why?
What is going? On category square.
Yeah, exactly. Like, why is he square?
Why? Why do I feel like I'm in the

(48:33):
Minecraft movie? Like what's going on?
I don't know man, I it made me giggle though.
I didn't, I didn't care. This is whatever I think it was.
I think it was more I, I think Minecraft mode was more
specifically about him making itEdgemochi and less about the
hockey, but it was still, it wasstill funny.
When you combine them, it's. Like, is it sharp now?

(48:54):
Yes, like. I I think that's the point.
I edge emoji. It's just sharp and more
condensed or something. That's fucking again, that's
just that that that would that would happen without the hockey.
That's just a that's just a catacurry special.
But the hockey makes it even funnier because he talks
specifically about how he has stronger armament hockey and
then he makes Minecraft arms. And I'm, I'm thinking to myself,

(49:16):
all the secret is just make, make edge, put polygons, more
polygons. More, less polygons.
Yeah, less polygons. Sorry.
Yes, less polygons. Got to get them Tomb Raider.
Yes, that's right. Oh God, yeah, I it did remind me
of like Final Fantasy, like 7 like.

(49:37):
They're like they're the algae. Oh God damn it.
I'm curious. I I I I'm I'm curious to see
what happens next week with the fight.
Now if it'll take I I would assume it will only take Luffy 1
rotation of gear 4 because obviously he goes into low power

(49:57):
mode after that. So if you guys in the.
Feeling that we're going to get one episode of like finishing
the Katakuri fight and learning eyeball.
Stuff I hope it's not one there better be at.
Least two I have AI have a feeling it's going to be just
one and then it's going to be more episodes dedicated to
wasting time for, you know, Big Mom to get there, making the

(50:22):
cake. Well, Big Mom fucked off the
peanut island so. Well, yeah, so Big Mom's gonna
fuck up Peanut Island. Yeah.
It's gonna be like, that's gonnabe a whole episode.
And then, you know, just baking the cake.
Yeah, I don't know. I that's the part obviously that
I'm not excited for and I don't I don't think anybody would be,

(50:42):
especially when there's there's potential in this category,
Luffy fight, but just all of theother things that are
surrounding it right now are just kind of not fun to watch,
for lack of a better term. So boring.
Yeah, it's there's no substance.There's no where Where's where's
the sauce? Where's the where's the
substance? I feel like I'm drinking the

(51:04):
diet water of One Piece right now.
Yeah, it's just. People doing repeated actions
and then saying haha we're winning.
The one other thing that was relatively entertaining we've
taken care of now, which was just the the rest of the Straw
Hats dealing with what was goingon in the Sunny so.
Smashing mirrors and so. Smashing mirrors, but also

(51:25):
directly previous directly previous to that dealing with
the fire and the, you know, before they blasted off, take
care of the remainder of the thebig Mom pirates that were there
or even the when they when they were actually being chased by
Big Mom and the tart ships, you know, but now we're just going
to make a beeline. And I just so I just so hope

(51:46):
that we skipped that 10 hours somehow.
I don't. I don't want to watch a montage
of of random things happening over the course of 10 hours
because I. Think that's exactly what we're
going to get. What are we even going to do,
man? I just.
So this is this is this is what I think is going to happen
because they've implied it heavily.

(52:07):
First off, we're going to get the explanation for what the
hell is going on with all their,you know, sub.
You know, the slimes that are like, you know, scanning
everything because they're disappearing.
The. Slugs.
Yeah, the slugs are disappearing.
We're going to get more shit battles of just Veggie going
neener, neener neener shooting cannons at each other that are
smiling and then fleeing. We're going to get more cooking.

(52:29):
We're going to get like a of Katakuri and Luffy fighting in a
badass way. And then we're also going to see
Big Mom just having tantrum on Peanut Island.
That's what we're going to get the next three episodes.
I'm, I'm anticipating the next even even beyond the next three
episodes, because I'm sure, I'm sure we won't, we won't be done

(52:52):
for in, in the next three episodes either.
I, I, I still firmly, maybe, I, maybe I hope more than believe,
but I, I firmly believe that we will spend at least 2 episodes
with Luffy Katakuri and interspersed in there the, the
one extra episode and interspersed in the other two
will be some of this other stuff.
It'll they'll definitely be cooking.

(53:13):
They'll definitely be Big Mom wreaking havoc.
And then we'll just sort of sprinkle in some other stuff.
Maybe we'll see what Germa gets up to with their now that
they're free. Move their ship.
They'll move, yeah, they'll, they'll move their fucking
Kingdom because it's the entirety of their Kingdom there,
right? Because they've been sitting
still this whole time. They've been fighting and just
sitting still. Yeah, but now that they've done

(53:34):
with the problem, they they decided to set sail, but we
don't know where they're going. So I I hope that I don't know.
I both I both want to and I don't want to see anymore of
Germa. It's it feels weird because the
way that one piece goes and the way that it ends that scene with
Germa, it seems to sort of lightly imply that they're going

(53:57):
to go try and help the straw hats more.
And that doesn't feel like it's very in line with their
characters at all. But it would be something I
could see one piece doing Otto writing into this story.
What what would make sense for their characters if it is, if at
this point they just fuck off, you know, they're they're

(54:18):
they're parts done. They got betrayed.
They're they're finally free. They've got everything they
have. No ties to anything else.
There's no reason for them to loop back.
No reason to be here or to look back, but for some reason it
feels as though they're going tostill feel like they need or
want to help the Straw Hats. Or even worse, maybe Judge will
feel like he needs or wants to help the Straw Hats and then

(54:42):
he'll order the rest of them because they just blindly obey
orders of the leader. Although now that he got the
shit kicked out of them, they made respect him less and also
for crying in front of everybody.
They all they might they might just respect him less, less the
three brothers and just do theirown thing.
Who knows. But I just I worry now that that

(55:02):
German they're going to try and make German slightly more
sympathizable outside of Reju, which is already she's already
been in the sympathy boat for for being the only nice one.
Asanji but agreed I yeah, I, I I'm sure we have formula last of
them, but. Formula is not looking too
bright. Yeah, it is I I agree with that.

(55:23):
I'm sure we'll also, at some point outside of the next three
episodes, watch Big Mom hop to abunch more islands before they
finally get to Cocoa Island, giving them the necessary time
to bake the whole cake or some shit like that.
Right. Paraspara will worry more.
I don't know dude. I I, I just I, I I just want to,
I want to take a long rest and let to that 10 hours pass just

(55:45):
in an instant. I I want Luffy to be catacary
and then I just want to take a long rest and have and skip all
of it. I, I, I I'm so over this arc at
this point, I'm not. Over the arc.
But this I'm worried about this being a drag like run piece, you
know? I, I agree.
I like, I feel like we are in it.

(56:06):
What is a float piece now? Sail piece, sail piece.
But like, I'm, I don't know, like the best way to describe it
is I'm so fatigued by this arc because there's, there's
nothing, there's no gas in the tank, but we're still going and
it's crumbling. The ship and car is falling

(56:26):
apart as we're going down the hill, but there's no gas in it.
So it doesn't feel like we're going anywhere, but the plot is
somewhat moving because the wheels are turning, and I hate
it because the wheels are turning so goddamn slowly.
Yeah, I, I'm, I'm cautiously optimistic.
I think things can still turn out good, but like when we were

(56:50):
worried about the Tomate box andmore Mcguffins getting them off
the island. I, I, I worry that the next 6
episodes, two weeks more or lessof, of this podcast will just be
filling up this 10 hour structure of time, this 10 hour
block of time, I should say. Agreed.
So I will, I will, I will see speculation on it now because

(57:14):
there's an endless number of things that can happen.
Is there anything else I think we need to talk about or that
we've missed? This, we can't really milk
anymore out of these episodes. The fact that we've made it to
this point, like it amazes me. I thought this was going to be
like a 30 minute in and out. No, these episodes are that bad

(57:35):
for me. Like I did not retain any new
information really from these episodes, like except for like a
bit here and there. Like that's how painful it is
for me to process this. So no, I I am good.
Yeah. Nothing else I want.
That's. Nothing new to me.
I I this this is. This is almost a weekly

(57:57):
experience at this point. Honestly, it really, it really
does feel like that and I feel bad for the fans.
I don't know fans, the listenersto you know that I don't have
much to say, but it's just like I I'm so fatigued by this arc is
so mind numbingly boring to me. I am.

(58:17):
Yeah, we'll see. I expect on almost no grounds
really that we'll we'll be done with this arc in, I don't know,
maybe 5 weeks is going to be my guess, 4. 4-4 or five.
Weeks would be my guess. What's that, 15 episodes or so?
I don't know. It actually might be more than
that. But yeah, I I expect something

(58:40):
like maybe maybe six or seven weeks is probably closer to the
the truth. There's a lot of things that
they could still do here. And there's also a lot of
potential for how they can milk it.
Yeah. So maybe, maybe it'll be longer,
maybe we'll make it all the way up to episode 900, which would
be another 50 episodes of this. If we get up to episode 900, I'm

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going to fist fight what? What episode are we on 85656?
I will fist fight ODA if we get to episode 900 so.
And we're still not done with Whole Cake 40. 444 episodes,
that's basically, that's basically, it's basically 15

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weeks if we get to 900. I will fist fight ODA if we're
not out of on site. On site I will deck him if it
takes him this fucking long to get out of this arc I am in I.
That's how much pain this arc isgiving me.
I am willing to catch a felony. Yeah, and and also risk illegal

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travel to Japan or something like that probably.
You know, we haven't been like, you know, Devin, we actually
haven't even been in this episode for 100 episode, 101
Piece episode. Oh.
No. We I I, yeah, we this arc.
How long has this arc been? It feels like it's been 100

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episodes. No, unfortunately not.
It it 7 seven 80s was basically the yeah, something like.
That so at 870. 88880 will be 100 episodes.
Yeah. Cutting it close, soda.
And keep keep in mind, keep in mind, Dress Rosa was like 100

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episodes too. So Dress Rosa had better, better
moments. It really did.
It really did. Early early parts of Dressrosa
outside outside a run piece. There were there were more
moments to to to dig your teeth into and Dressrosa and.
I feel like that's that's that'sthe problem I have with a whole
Cake. There's nothing for me to really
save her in my mouth. I'm just sitting here watching a

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fat lady get mad about not having food.
Yeah, that particular part is especially annoying that that
the the big bad has just been turned into this when she was so
broken, we just had to make her go on a hunger pang so that it
was actually possible for them to get the fuck out of there,
which is very one piece. I think in any other show it
would anger me a lot more, but in this I'm just, I'm just

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thinking to myself, I whatever. Yeah.
Could you imagine? Jiu jitsu, Kaisen, Hunter,
Hunter, Naruto, take your pick, dude.
That Attack on Titan, take your pick.
If this happened in anything else, I'd be like, what the fuck
are we doing? But but, but this I just go.
I just shrug my shoulders and I go, well, this is boring, but

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it's it's one piece. She's the the the big lady.
Just she gets so hungry for one specific thing and and and loses
her mind, whatever it. Just be like it.
This time it just is. It just is.
This is the way. I hate the way, but this is the
way. So we're we're encroaching on
100 episodes here for for Whole Cake and I think we'll probably

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get there. We'll probably skim close to it.
So ODA. Look at me, look at me in the
face right now, ODA, these righthand, left hand.
I swear to God. Look, getting to 100 episodes on
this, I think is I think is is plausible getting to not episode
900 on this, I don't think that's going.
To happen why? I'm saying if it's after 900, we
fighting. Yeah, I don't think that's going

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to happen. I think ODA will be safe.
For new episode 900 and we're still.
Here, you're catching hands. Yeah, I think we get to.
I think we get close to 880, if not past 880.
But 900, I don't think it's going to happen.
That's my pop prediction for this.
All right, enough about the episodes.
We've we've hammered them home. Next week, we're going to be
doing 857 to 859. Devon, do you happen to have any

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quotes this week? Not a damn thing I didn't
retain. I mean doughnut.
Yeah. Just keep loaning in doughnuts.
I guess that's it. I feel like that's the only one
you could really give. I mean, it's true.
He's a he's a big, that big doughnut guy.

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All right, so I have a couple, Ihave a couple quotes here you.
Do where'd you pull them? I do I do I do I I pulled them
from the episodes that we watched.
Of course the 1st is when Luffy is trapped in the mochi pile.
Not the first time but well, I'msorry I should say the first
time when he turns the floor into into mochi and reveals his

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awakened devil through power status.
Luffy's trapped in the mochi andhe's trying really hard to get
out but he can't. And so he decides he's going to
try and kill 4th gear, but then kind of Curry starts punching
the absolute shit out of him. And, and he says this, he goes,
why do I have to just stand hereand watch when I know you'll
upgrade your power? And honestly, round of applause.

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We don't, we don't, we don't getenough, we don't get enough
interrupting the, the, the transformation sequences, you
know, so, so, so that's what that's what I'm here for is his
somebody getting put in their place, whether it's the good guy
or the bad guy. This is this is fine.
The second is I will, you know, we, we talked about it and I
already briefly mentioned the quote, but I'm going to say it

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in specific detail now. When Luffy gets out of the pile
of Donuts, he goes, what is withthe, the pirate battles in this
place? I have to eat at something every
time to win. And I'm also just thinking to
myself at the same time, bro, you're on, you're on a food
island. This isn't.
This shouldn't be that unexpected, you know?

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Yeah, this isn't that out of pocket, but I I understand.
Yeah, I understand your frustration.
Yeah. Doughnuts so delicious.
Doughnuts delectable. At one point he says delicious
to the whole though in my sub and I thought that was a strange
choice of of translation. Again, this is kind of SUS.

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First, for a millisecond, my pervert brain went, he's going
to fuck those doughnuts. I that that's too.
We're doing too much dude. Again.
Again, that's how I interpreted it.
And I was like, no, no, he's just going to be eating them.
Yeah, but it went there. I saw it.
That, that doesn't surprise me. I'm sure a lot of people did,
Especially with the way you hearthat first doughnuts, you know,

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it's just so sensual. He he's making love via mouth to
them. Yeah, I also just love that, you
know, we talked about how he doesn't have much of A jawline.
He kind of does, but when he's in normal form.
But because we're watching him in this mode, eating all the
mochi, don't eating all the Donuts.

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Rather he's using his mochi fruit to expand his jaw like
kind of like Luffy would for. In his defense, nobody looks
good when they're laying on their bed, eating ice cream,
laying down. Yeah.
Like we all got that double chinlook.
Yeah, you're looking. You're you're tennis.
Your chin is tucked. You're looking down.

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You're looking at the TV, watching the latest episode of
Black Mirror, scarfing down a pint of ice cream by yourself
because you can. That moment when your phone dies
and you see your reflection in your phone.
Disgusting. Oh God, a monster.
It's the throw your phone acrossthe room.

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Exactly who is this beast? Yeah, yeah.
So anyway, that that, that, thatthat ends my quotes.
I'm I'm good there. So it's that out of the way.
We've got the golden ham pick ofthe week.
What are we going to do? Can we can we give it to the to

(01:06:50):
the the shrine? I I don't know that I want to
give it to the shrine. Dude, I got to be honest.
To be fair, the shrine is like very bit funny.
That's it was like the one positive.
I was like, it's a shrine. Yeah, like I I got right.
Literally got no one else on docket for like.
Nobody deserves anything in these episodes in my opinion.

(01:07:13):
I, I don't, I don't know, I, I mean, my, my default because he
was the most entertaining for mewould just be give it a cat, a
Curry again. But I, I definitely, I don't
want to give it to the shrine. The shrine doesn't act.
It was funny bit yeah, but in and of itself it didn't, it
didn't do anything. Sure, he could have just built a

(01:07:35):
house or a shack or whatever, but it's a it's a shrine and
he's worshipping Donuts inside. But I don't I don't I don't know
Katak Katakuri is my is my only is my only default here.
I can't. I can't.
I don't want to give it to Luffy.
Luffy does. Luffy doesn't win anything
outside of the last three minutes of these episodes where

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he figures out hockey and I'm not going to give it to anyone
in German. Veggies we.
Can give it to the chefs. For making Donuts, yeah.
And then die. Yeah, I, I, I, I ain't got
nothing. You just don't want to give it
to Katakuri. I really don't.
Yeah, yeah. These these are these are hard

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maybe. We can give it to the pile of
poop. I'm not going to give it to the
pile of poop mochi either. Come on, give it to the poop
emoji. That's what this episode does.
Not giving it to poop emoji. You know what crossed my mind
was like, we didn't talk about him for a single second up to
this point. But what if we gave it to
Peckham's? Fuck it my.

(01:08:46):
Boy is just sad he lost big bro allegedly.
Give it to him, I don't care. Give it.
Just get these episodes cold man.
This one's disgusting. Give it to Peckham's, it'll make
everyone fucking confused. I, you know what?
I'm fine. I'm fine with that.
I I want the record to show thatI I would have picked Katakuri,

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but I don't. I also don't want to do numbers.
Because. Mostly because Devin doesn't
even have a real pick to go against Katakuri.
He just doesn't want to vote Katakuri.
I just don't. So last week he got it.
Last week he earned it. Last week, this week, Nah, no
one earned. I think.
I think he earned it this week, but I digress.

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So here with the Peckham's nobody, nobody understood up to
this until this very moment. Why Peckham's got it?
Because we literally didn't talkabout him whatsoever.
The golden hams are the friends we make along the way.
Yeah, and the, and the big Bros that blow up along the way too.

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So, so that being said, we have no fan mail this week.
Justin's not here to have checked the the e-mail and or to
to give us an e-mail and he didn't send us anything ahead of
time. So lost.
He got lost on the way to the mailbox.
Didn't he? Probably?
I don't know All in all honesty.Ran into another bodega.
Very lastly. So that being said, we're going

(01:10:13):
to move on to the Patreon shout outs or excuse me, the producer
shout outs. We don't have that other P word
anymore. Producer shout outs of the month
are Taco and it's me rabbit. Thank you, thank you, thank you
so much, every you guys. We love you dearly.
We've recorded one of your episodes, in fact, and it was

(01:10:34):
better than then I then I think we both expected Devin here
joined me. I managed to get Devin on for
another a second recording this year, new record.
So Deb let's, I hope to keep that streak going.
Maybe we'll see what happens though.
This is kind of an anomaly. Cease to exist after.

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This you basically do as far as the interview of listeners are
are concerned most of the time. So honestly, a second time this
year is a treat that nobody was saw coming.
And it was an actual, what's theword I'm looking for, enjoyable.
I don't know if that's the word I choose, entertaining.
It was definitely an entertaining podcast.

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Yes, I agree. The the the the two hours flew
by, the almost two hours. Now how long that edit will be,
who knows, but I it'll be it wasa good one.
Good shout out, shout out. It's me rap.
That was it's me rap. It's one.
When this when this comes or this episode that we're
currently recording airs, would that episode be out yet?

(01:11:38):
Unsure, because now that we've built up our backlog here, this
episode won't release for two weeks from the time of
recording. So OK, I if Dylan gets to it in
two weeks, there's a there's a decent likelihood that it'll be
out, but there's no guarantees. OK.
So with that being said, we're going to move on to the garb Gab

(01:12:01):
baby. All right, so I have the bag
here. Very good, very good.
I'm glad you listened when I told you I dropped it off.
And here you. Go all right, dude, I'm I'm
excited. I I haven't gotten to I haven't
gotten to pick out of the bag ina in a long time, and I'm I'm
looking forward to being able toindulge in a what is?

(01:12:22):
Why is it feels so coarse? Why does it it feels like hair
like really thick hair. What is?
Going on here. Yeah, why?
Why is it what what is all this matted?
Oh, they're these are like theselike brushes.
Oh, that I'm with like a steel wire brush.
Why? What, what?
What is with a? Bunch of brushes in here.
Yeah. What?
OK, I I this one's just a toothbrush.

(01:12:42):
Is this used? Never mind.
I don't want to know. I don't want to know anymore.
I regret asking. OK, well, I, Oh, this one, this
one actually feels pretty nice to touch and looks really.
I could, I could see myself using this one.
You know, I'm going to take thisone.
I I guess. I guess you put the, the, the,
the, the garb gabs on the back of the, the things here.

(01:13:06):
Yeah. There you go.
OK, this one set. Oh, nice and simple.
Oh, Ted, Devin, you know, love this one.
I bet you got some choice words for this one.
This is Miss Valentine this time.
I bet, I bet, I bet. This guy's got some choice picks
for Valentine. OK, who did I like the least in
these episodes? Honestly, I'm going to have to

(01:13:29):
go with Luffy. Luffy.
They drove me fucking nuts. Really.
All the bits that he did were like most of them were just like
what the fuck is going on? Like the running away and then
coming back skinny. The the just everything around
him the the him holding his lipsto not show pain.

(01:13:50):
Like it. I did not interpret it as
sincere I just hated it. I was like this is dumb we're
just milking hate it. I don't.
I don't. Would throw ODA as my you know
thing, but I've already done that.
Before, no, we're not doing, we're not doing that.
Did we even actually agree on itthat one time?
I don't remember. I think that I think, Devin,
that we were given a a pass by Brendan to use it one time.

(01:14:14):
And I don't think we've used that yet for some reason.
But I also don't remember. We've done too many episodes of
this fucking podcast. So somebody else can tell us if
we've if we've given ODA the Valentine award yet and also
tell us what it was because I clearly don't remember.
Yeah, I don't I don't feel like I can agree with a Luffy pick

(01:14:34):
here for this Valentine award. What I think I don't know, I
part part of me wants to say I Ijust part of me wants to give it
a big mom because she show she does show up and doesn't do fuck
all anymore. She's been watered down to this
version of her. There's also, well, Nah.
Right, like there's like not a whole lot of substance to really

(01:14:56):
like like Thumbtack someone in as this is the villain that we
all despise. Yeah, I I still don't want to
give it. I still don't want to give it to
Luffy. But you know, I had, I had
another pic, but I can't call it.
What? I mean, I'd give an obligate,
I'd give an obligatory putting out there just because her
character annoys me. Still.
What else happened? Beggie's thing.

(01:15:17):
There's Germa's. Wait, what?
What's the teapot? Is it the tea chicken guy's name
again? Oh, Aaron Baron Tamago.
He's not. Yeah, Ham.
You want to give it a tamago? Yeah, because like, at one
point, like, he's all like, ah, well, all the stupid stuff has
happened and it's really bamboozled us.
We should be on our toes. Like, fuck you.

(01:15:37):
How do you know the plot? He's the only one giving credit
to the Straw Hats. I'm I'm not giving it a barren
time ago. He respected Pedro too.
I refuse. Teacup.
Can we hate his teacup at least?I, I, I can hate it.
I'm sure you can hate the teacup, but it's not getting the
Valentine award either. Damn it.
I'm not giving it to the to the Baron Tomago's.

(01:15:58):
Teacup. We can give it to Peckham's,
too. I'm not giving to Peckham's
either. Peckham's doesn't deserve that
smoke dude. Just a double Peckham's pick.
No shot, dude. Why are you crying?
No, you always crying. Stop crying.
Ain't happening. I don't know.

(01:16:18):
I'm out of gas. Just let me give it a big.
Mom Sure. Big Mom all.
Right Big Mom, I hate that she'sbeen reduced down to this
nothing threat now until 10 hours from now when they finally
get to Cocoa Island. All right, with that.
With that being said, the show is now over.
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(01:17:03):
Well, the big, the big, the big news here is that we have made
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talking to you about and Justin and the audience in general
about the bigger merch store that we are planning to have and

(01:17:24):
that it was probably not going to be ready until the end of
this month. Which if by the time you're
you're actually listening to this, the end of the month will
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You the time this episode comes out, we're already liars.
I, I would encourage you at thispoint, since it'll be the end of
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(01:18:09):
We got some, we got some some test versions of the stuff that
we're going to be putting in thestore and I was a big fan of all
of it and how. Do we like it actual physical
like? We got we got physical versions
of it. Yeah, Jordy, Jordy and I got a
couple of versions of one of a few of the things that are going

(01:18:31):
to be in the merch store shippedand we were able to look at them
and actually hold them. God, it's so weird to hold
merchandise for a thing that is,is for my podcast, for our
podcast, I made this. I, I, you know, I, I'm part of
this thing that has physical merchandise outside of the

(01:18:51):
stickers. The stickers are one thing.
They're cool. I love the stickers too.
But the other stuff that we actually are going to have in
this new merch store, it was just so surreal to be able to
hold something with. You ought to send me some some
nice pics. Yeah, I'll send you, I'll send
you pictures of the stuff that we got and, and also some of

(01:19:12):
your things. I, I, I can, I can wear it.
So there's your, there's your big news everybody.
And there, there will be more tocome probably in the next
recording. We will talk about it in more
depth. And also again, by the time
you're listening to this, the official website store merch

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will have gone live. So head over there by by finding
the links most likely in our in our socials in discord.
I, I don't know if I can talk about it in a, in a in a
completely official capacity right now, which is why I'm
being slightly vague about it, but do the thing.
That's all I'm saying. Do the thing, Julie, Do the
thing. Thank you again everybody for
listening and au revoir. Good night, I love you.