One Piece Eps 857-859

In this high-stakes episode, the clash between Luffy and Katakuri hits its peak as Luffy unleashes Gear Fourth—but the battle quickly shifts as Katakuri strikes back with relentless force. Out of time and energy, Luffy escapes through a mirror using Brûlée, only to land in the chaos of Big Mom’s rampage on Nuts Island. Meanwhile, on Cacao Island, the race to complete the wedding cake intensifies as Sanji, Pudding, and Chiffon push toward a culinary miracle at sea. But danger is never far—Oven threatens Chiffon, the Fire Tank Pirates arrive, and Pound’s desperate plea ends in heartbreak. With the Straw Hats’ rendezvous hanging by a thread, the clock is ticking and the battlefield is expanding.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Brandon, Brandon, you're back. Yes.
I mean, you're alive. I am I, I I.
Of course. Wait, wait.
I'm alive. What?
Are you talking about? Devin, Devin ate you.
At least that's that's what he said.
What? What?
What? What do you wait?
Why are you wanting me? This is what we talked.
We this is what we talked about.You went to dinner and then you

(00:20):
just you didn't know where he went, so we just assumed he ate.
You ate. What do you?
I never explicitly said. Anything like that?
I just said. We went out to dinner, I was
eating and he was gone. Yes, you.
Know. That that.
Didn't happen you you consumed our Brendan and I was sad for

(00:41):
weeks afterward. And then I remembered we had
Robot back up still, but I was still sad about it.
We we literally were at Buffalo Wild Wings.
I'd be do you want the B dubs you?
Know it marked the economy's, you know, in a rough shape well.
I guess that's true, but. But just so we're on the same
tape, are on the same topic, like B dubs, like what the fuck,
like you guys really need to like check yourselves because

(01:02):
your prices are starting to get a little out of control.
I'm going to be so fucking for real, like I don't know who you
guys think you are, but anyway, so be so this this this is all
true. This all happened, but, you
know, so the unfortunately, while we were having dinner that
night, you won't believe that. Or maybe you will, you know, if
you know me. Yeah.
The IRS actually came and tried to imprison me that night.

(01:25):
So, yeah, that makes more sense.I know.
Yeah. There there was like a a snafu
with, you know, I don't know howto.
I don't know how to describe this.
Have you ever heard of, I think the words fraud?
And and there's like all this talk right now about, you know,
utilizing Social Security and like whether or not you should

(01:48):
or should not be getting payments and you know, what the
minimum age requirements are to be submitting anyway.
I was just making good on, you know, a flaw within their system
that I am utilizing within my own country and yeah, lately.
The You're admitting to tax fraud, Social Security fraud on
our podcast. No, no, absolutely not.

(02:11):
I would never. Implying, implying implying to
that right you. Implied that you ate him.
Hypothetically and no, no, I didn't.
He's look at him, he's there's. No hypothetical here.
I, I am, I am telling you why I was gone.
I was. Unfortunately, the IRS was on my
tail, you see, and I simply justneeded I, you know, I sometimes

(02:34):
you just need to take a break from it all.
You know, you just got to, you know, catch yourself up on a on
a break and you know, get get reset recharge for for the
upcoming so. You Dexter yourself.
In few words, yes. Why use many words when few?
Words why use many when Dexter do trick?

(02:56):
Yeah, yeah. I did that do that essentially.
All right. You already here first everybody
Brendan commit Social Security fraud and serial murderer.
I mean, all I'm saying is this country had to come in.

(03:18):
I don't know. Well, I mean, that's true that
that part is fair. You know what I mean?
I get that. Back, I wouldn't say that.
I would say that if I had a bad attitude about it and definitely
did that shit. That's what I would say in game.
Yeah, Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, Exactly, Exactly.
But, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm glad to be back, you know, happy
to be here. You know, I missed you guys.

(03:38):
It's been, it's been so long. It has.
I feel like I've, I've missed. I've missed so much.
Do you have the? Highs.
I've missed the lows, a lot of lows.
You definitely, you've definitely missed both of those
things, that is true. But it's been a real roller
coaster these last five or six weeks or something that you've
been gone. Yeah.
It feels like, I think it's beenlike 6 weeks.

(03:59):
Yeah, something, something to that effect.
And man, there's been, what's that, 18 episodes, 18 episodes
of this show. Man, there we have, we have
seen, we have seen the, the highs and lows.
Is is is a great way to put it, the cliffs, the mountains and
the and the valleys of this, of this, this ark.
And the valleys and the valleys.The Subterra.

(04:19):
Before, before we get into too much summary talk, because I'm,
I'm more I, I have to know all your guys's thoughts or and I'll
and I'll give a few of my own. Maybe someone should do this
this summary summary. The people missed your voice.
Yeah, I think you need to. It's my time.

(04:40):
He's back, everybody. He could never let a good boy.
Never. Left.
Never left. The battle between Luffy and
Katakuri reaches a fever pitch as Luffy taps into 4th gear,
finally landing blow strong enough to take to shake the
sweet commander. But the tide quickly turns once

(05:01):
more. Katakuri regains his composure,
counters with renewed fury, and Luffy finds himself losing
ground once again. As his fourth gear runs out.
Luffy is forced to retreat, but in a chaotic twist of fate he
stumbles upon Brulee uses her toescape the Mirror World, landing
in the worst possible place, Nuts Island, where Big Mom
herself is currently in the middle of a terrifying rampage.

(05:24):
At Cacao Island, the wedding cake preparation kicks into high
gear. Sanji, Pudding, and Chiffon each
complete their parts of their masterpiece, and the chef's
prepare to finish the cake at sea in route to the 1000 Sunny.
But trouble brews fast. Oven confronts Chiffon with
brutal intentions just as the Fire Tank Pirates approached the
island outside. The fact # arrives, desperate

(05:46):
for a chance to see his daughterChiffon, but is met with
violence from Oven. Inside.
Brulee's voice slithers through a Denden Mushi informing Pudding
of the Straw Hats plan to reunite at Cacao Island.
With Luffy now loose on Nuts Island and mirrors growing
scarce, time is running out and every player is scrambling to
gain the upper hand. Oh that, that felt good.

(06:07):
You know, I, I feel like I foundmy stride later in the in the
summary though, I ain't going tolie.
It's true, it's true. There was a quick stumble at the
beginning. Got to get your your summary
legs back and you finished. Strong.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, it's it's it's you got
to you got to warm up you got towarm up the chops.
You know what I'm saying? The chops.
Oh, OK, well, and. It's it always comes out of

(06:28):
train wreck. Yeah.
Yeah. That sounds right.
But you know what? The people love it so.
If the sure, if the if the people love it, the people.
Outside of the podcast, I'm not going to hold her to read at
all, you know? I think I'm going to get I get
you a leapfrog for Christmas this year.

(06:48):
Only during the podcast. That's my reading time
designation. I'm going to get you a Duolingo
subscription for English language.
Duolingo doesn't that you learn to speak it.
Hey listen man, it sounds like you could use the help.
Yeah, you need every, every helping hand you can get.
Oh. Man.
All right. Well, Brandon, you've got some

(07:12):
brothers, you've got some some opinions to opinionate here, I
think. Oh boy, do I.
All right, well, let's. OK, so big highlights of things
that I've missed. Big Mom definitely ate them
kids. What the?
Fuck 1000. Percent.
Yeah, 1000%. Justin tried so hard to be like

(07:34):
Nah. I think he yeah, he was just in
denial for so long. I outside of the podcast mostly
because that was the night, thatwas the night that you and him
watched at the same time, right,Devin?
We were watching it together andI literally paused and I was
like holy fucking shit. She ate them and he goes what?

(07:57):
No, and I was like, do you not? I even like went like frame by
frame like going through her like you can see the change.
Those are people when the cream.Puffs start getting bigger, you
know that? Those are the children slash
slash mother caramel. Yeah, I think, you know, there's
a fun fact with Justin in this arc and that I think he'd like

(08:19):
he low key gasoline himself a couple of times.
I think he's got trauma suppression like because between
between Big mom eating them kidsand and and mother Carmel, the
other thing that he tricked himself into believing was that
Big Mom was not just a large woman, but that she had to be
part giant. Like he refused to believe
anything else. And then we get the the, the

(08:40):
thing in the beginning of her back story, she's just like, you
know, a large woman and her parents.
That particular thing is probably partially my fault
because that was my initial guess as to her lineage in the
1st place was that she was part giant and that that would then
extend to her feud with the Giants.
But that is yeah, yeah, not. But even I'm I'm telling you the

(09:01):
case outside of you, we talk on the side about, you know, things
with like spoiler contact context.
And he's like, yeah, I can't believe like did they did they
ever reveal Big Mom's like dad or mother?
And and I'm like, what are you talking about?
Dude? We met both of both of her and
she's like what are you talking about?
I've never met both of them, both of her parents, and I'm
like yes you did in her fucking back story.
Was it was this after we had watched the episodes for her

(09:24):
back story? Oh no, this was this was
beforehand, before we had gottento these episodes.
So we hadn't gotten to it yet. But like I had to remind him and
then he's like that. That sounds fake.
I don't. I don't actually.
Believe the fake news on you? Yeah.
He's like you. You can't have a person in this
series that that that's that large without having.
Like at least a. Trace of giant energy in them.
I mean it's. Like except you can.

(09:47):
Except you can, but I I kind of agree with them like this seems
cap. I look, I I also think it's a
little cap, but whatever, man. It's a little cap.
It's a little cap. I ain't gonna lie to you.
All right. So, yeah, we Big Mom definitely
ate them kids. Strusen's a son of a bitch.
What a power, dude. Pour one out for my boy.

(10:09):
King Bomb. Oh my God, I was.
So I needed you on that episode.It was so, you know, I, I was
fucking so sad when I knew that you guys were covering the big
Bomb episodes. And I'm like, these guys aren't
going to see this one coming. They're not going to see King
Bomb making his way back in. This series.

(10:30):
Certainly not with a new love interest.
Certainly Stitch Stop down the middle from from Armand's
Amande's first slash and now andwith Small Tree Fiance.
Lady Tree. Lady tree fiance and then same
episode gets fucking naked. A little part of me still hopes

(10:54):
that he gets like AI am Groot arc.
Yeah, we've talked about that too at the time he's.
Coming back for sure. You can't keep a good tree.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Dude, that, that fan art's gottaexist out there somewhere,
right? With lady Tree holding a little
potted plant and and just a piece of king Balm in it.

(11:16):
That's gotta. That's gotta exist.
If it doesn't, we gotta make it.Somebody, somebody and somebody
in the audience. It's been a while since we've
requested specifics fan art. I need someone to make that for
me. Yeah, yeah, I need, I need that
yesterday that. Would be incredible.
Thank you. All right.
What? Oh, you know, RIP Pedro For
real. The realist.

(11:36):
The only the only P to ever die in this entire series.
Goodbye. Rest.
Rest. In Pedro, Rest.
In Pedro. We love you, buddy.
Rest. In Pedro.
But you know it for every rule that breaks the the law of PA,
law of P must also simultaneously exist because
pero Sparrow definitely fucking tank that shit.

(11:56):
Wow. You know, wait, wait, wait, wait
wait. Jim Bay being being a homie with
his with his ship finesse. What a guy.
And this is the most important thing you guys.
OK so I'm sure I'm sure you all have opinions on Katakuri at
this point. But like, can I just tell you
how fucking rad and funny it is to me that ODA came up with an

(12:20):
excuse to give Luffy a fucking mirror match in the fucking
mirror world brother. What an absolute animal.
So the SO. Because what was it last week?
I think we Christian and I talked about it, but there there
was a concept that I, I want to throw at you, which is they
pointed out in like in these episodes and like last week that

(12:42):
if you smash a mirror in the mirror world, the mirror
explodes in the real world. Yes.
So their entire like fight sequence has been in there and
there's been like moments of like they're smashing walls and
fucking shit with mirrors all over them.
So Can you imagine just like you're just sitting there in
your room and then you're just fucking, your mirror explodes?

(13:04):
Bro tell me if you have. No idea why.
Yeah. Well, you're just sitting there
vibing and you're, I don't know,you're like one of those like
mirror mazes and all of a suddenthey just all fucking.
Random. My God.
Oh my God. Mirror maze.
Yeah, dude. Oh.
Not the crazy mirror house at the circus, dude.

(13:26):
Just glass everywhere, fuck. They got the they got the House
of Mirrors and Katakuri's other snack Hut.
You don't, you don't want to break that snack Hut.
It'll cause a a a mirror nuke inthe real world.
Yeah, that would be, oh God, yeah, that would be awful.
You're just, you're just sittingin your room, chilling, vibing,
and in the bathroom you just hear what the fuck's going on.

(13:52):
Or you're just in the bathroom brushing your teeth.
Next thing you know. Your.
Glass shatter brushing, brushingyour teeth with Mirror Now.
Maybe, maybe this power, maybe this is really the the the
kicker to this power that we need to be tapping further into.
You know, you just, you just become an assassin.

(14:15):
Honestly, that's there's some good, there's some good ideas in
there, yeah. Brulee's power could be so much
more useful for espionage and and assassination, but instead
she's a bumbling idiot the wholetime.
I mean. That's that's kind of what I'm
saying. I mean, let's, let's be so
fucking honest right now. She's.
OK. Can we just listen?
I just want to talk about it first.

(14:37):
So did you guys have in your bingo card that we were going to
be doing the Brulee captured andbrought to the mirrors again?
Yes, frankly, frankly, yes, it was there.
I obviously the one of the only ways Luffy could get back out of
here is through a mirror and we kind of need Brulee for that.
So I. Feel like that was just like the
free one in the center of the bingo card, Yeah.

(15:02):
If you if you guys have been playing at home, you probably
have an entire column or row devoted to just using Brulee.
Yeah, going through the mirror. The entire card just says use
Brulee because why not? She's a little bit of the Mac
Guffin this arc for sure. Oh.
My God, yeah. It's hilarious to me, though.
I, I kind of, I kind of love this.

(15:24):
I love the brulee bets. I I think the Brulee, I think in
this episode or set of episodes especially, is one of my
favourites because like, OK, obviously we as the audience, we
already know we've been abusing Brulee for like probably the
better part of the last what, like fucking 30 some odd
episodes at this point. And and you know, we get, we get
that second, that split second moment between her and Luffy

(15:44):
where Luffy's like running from Katakuri, like, Oh no, I'm not.
I need to get out of here. He just looks over and Brulee's
like, can he see me? Then like the the grin, the grin
of just like pure evil, just like.
Yeah, and then it fades for a second as he thinks things over

(16:05):
and also hears Katakuri reapproaching.
And then Brulee catches attention again and he looks and
he goes with the with the face. He's again, he's like, you know,
he's not a smart man, but he knows he knows what he's got
when he's got it for sure. God damn it.

(16:27):
The other, the other like absolute fucking disrespect to
Brulee too. Is that like he's running away
from kind of Curry because he doesn't have hockey.
So he's just like completely unbothered at the idea of having
to like deal with Brulee with nohockey.
He's like, actually, this is great.
This is perfect. Thank you.
Thank you Branch for being here.You're the best.
Yeah, the evolution of all of this that makes it that really

(16:47):
seals the deal is when he's backon the outside and fighting some
of the other Big Mom pirates andwe we bust out a new move, Baby,
we got gum, gum, gum gum Branch.Then he does it six times in a
row, says Branch every time. The 7th time he actually says
Brulee. And then Brulee goes, no, it's

(17:08):
Branch. Oh, Oh no.
You son of a bitch. I got got.
I just got, I just got fucking Duck seasoned in my own.
Do you or a loved one possibly have the mirror mirror fruit
you? If so, you may be entitled to
financial compensation you. Might be entitled to, you know,

(17:28):
mental compensation for some stress.
Tormented by a small rubbery boy.
Only about the third the size ofanother large gentleman who has
this exact same move set but better, that's currently trapped
in a mirror world. Yeah, I I love it.
Abusing, abusing Brulee power set.

(17:49):
Great, one of the saving graces of the of the Ark.
But have you have you guys been I mean, obviously it sounds like
you guys had highs and you had lows, but for the most part how
Yeah, I feel like only burning question.
How do you how do you feel aboutKatakuri?
Because he he's become a stable torn quickly, I'd say.
Yeah, me and him went back and forth on on this last week after

(18:10):
the Donuts thing, but please go ahead I'm.
I'm OK he's he's a cool design, but he angers me because the
reason why he angers me is because he's a paramecia, right?
But he does so much fucking loggia shit that drives me nuts
and and like I. I, my cousin has told me, you

(18:31):
know, like, oh, even Oda's like commented saying that like, oh,
he's a special kind. And I was like, Nah, that's
that's bullshit, ODA. It is a little it is a little
ridiculous because like I I knowwhat he's talking about yeah,
ODA even came out and like invented a sub archetype where
he's like, oh, he's special paramecia.
That's. Fucking horseshit.

(18:52):
The dumbest redcon. Did happen.
That did happen. Redcon's Ruin series.
I'm just saying. But I don't, I don't feel like
it's a retcon. I think it's, I think the whole
point of Katakuri was to dial inso heavily the mirror match
energy that ODA didn't want to leave anything up to a leg up on

(19:15):
Katakuri over Luffy like he wanted to.
He he, he sort of forced in the,the, the, the paramecia name
just to make sure it was paramecia V paramecia at the end
of the day. But then ODA was like, but I'm
also not going to live on myself.
I'm going to have fun. I want to use this guy's power
set but like to how I feel. Yeah, like, like, and that's how
we get lying Donuts. It's frustrating.

(19:37):
Like where? It's like, why not just, you
know, in the animation, just make him, you know, a paramecia
like it. It doesn't make sense.
Well, I think this this is theseare the parts that I think go
beyond just being a paramecia isthe the shit with where he can
make like random fuck off doughnuts that have fists in

(19:57):
them. That's that's fucked.
But then again. You know, Dole Flamingo kind of
could do the same shit with his stringy boys.
And you can always argue that hecan turn the world around him if
he's got awakening, turn the world around him into more
mochi, that he can manipulate whatever it will.
And the problem with mochi is that it's inherently like, you
know, a doe. So it has so much flexibility

(20:19):
and movement anyway that at any point any loggia esque move
could be very easily treated as not a loggia.
See. See, for me, it's like like the
the the ability to control it out, like away from his body.
That part didn't bother me. The parts that bother me is when
he's like literally punching through him and his body like
just vanishes. That's when I draw the line.

(20:42):
We figured. Out how but I we did this this
is the part that should make sense it's.
Still angering it's like why because like in my head like
because again correct me if I'm wrong from how paramecias work
where it's like it comes from your body right because like
the. Paramecia I can.
Always think of as as going backto like Mr. Three I think his

(21:03):
name was. Well, hold on, hold on.
It It it comes from your body. Asterisk.
Luffy's a paramecia. He just is rubber.
So how the counter to the The question is like being made of
mochi. Therefore, the way that what or
what kind of curry's doing here is he's trying to trick people
into believing he's Logia because he's got such good

(21:24):
observation hockey, which is what we got in this, you know,
set of episodes or whatever. Yes, that is that is how this
played out. That's why Luffy was like son of
a bitch. I thought you were literally
fucking invincible for a split second, but now I know and now I
know you've just got you. You've got the the good site.
You've got really fucking good site.
I want that actually 24 yeah, you got, you got 2424 vision and

(21:47):
I want it, I think. Unfortunately, if what Katakuri
says is to be believed, Luffy will never calm down enough to
accurately use Observation hockey in battle.
I mean he obviously we could useobservation hockey in battle but
the level with which Katakuri can do it is just like bro.
So next level. Very, very next level and to the

(22:10):
point where he was like, all right, fine, you know what?
You got me. I'm chill the fuck out now.
You ain't going to beat me againand you're never going to punch
me again, kid. Just so we're clear, I think.
I I think they're he's going to get him again just by saying
like you got a weird mouth like.He's going to wait a minute.
He's going to be like, this is great.
This is a great part this. Haymaker.
He'd be like fucking weird jawline ass motherfucker and all

(22:33):
of a sudden. What he's going to do is he's
going to insult Donuts if he's going to insult, insult Donuts
as a whole, and that's going to set Katakuri off.
That man, you don't, you don't insult the donut.
That's, that's just fucking that's, that's a tragedy.
Right there dude. I I watched those episodes while

(22:58):
I was at work because I was behind on watching them.
So I watched those episodes during my lunch break and holy
shit dude I was dying sitting atmy desk when that scene
happened. I I had to stifle my laugh so
hard because I was just going tothe whole office was going to
peek their heads up over the over the cubicle walls and be

(23:19):
like, what the what what are you?
OK, what is? Happening.
Are you are you or do you need help?
I, I, I was, I was loving every second of that.
Dude, fucking donut time kind ofCurry is such a vibe though.
But man's is just like the the pinnacle of humankind until he

(23:43):
goes in for snack time and then he's just like some he's a
singing slob for Donuts. You know, Honestly, I, I respect
it. I I love.
It I totally respect it dude. Like like transitions like where
he's like he's never been on hisback.
He's like falling matrix style, like grinding on it like his
feet are. Still, my God.

(24:03):
But then he like does like a headstand breaking his fucking.
Neck to not land on his back in these episodes.
That did happen. That did happen.
Have a bone crunching sound and everything from him shattering
his skull and his neck, his bending inward.
Yeah. Josh doesn't even here.

(24:24):
Doesn't even need to be. No clutch necessary.
Bona fide JoJo moment. We have clutch at home.
We do have clutch at home. It's got a Curry using his
fucking neck to keep him from falling on it.
Falling it, dude. Hold on, imagine if that was how
they defeated him. Like that moment where he just

(24:47):
like refuses and just breaks hisown neck like.
Oh my God. I thought I thought you were
going to say this Dogpile and presses back to the ground and
he just gets so depressed he gives up.
No, no, he like goes out of his way to dodge, you know a hit and
he just hits his head and crack dodge shit just.
That's the kind of. Curry the Paralyzed 1.

(25:09):
That's the R rated one piece. Yeah, he just gets $1,000,000
babies again. I don't, I don't think we'll
ever have that at that at no series or whatever.
No, yeah, I do. With that, you can definitely
dream my. Fan fiction that I'm writing
over here where people just actually get iced on screen.

(25:30):
Hey, you know Big Mom literally ate children just so we're
clear. Allegedly.
Speaking. Hold on, big.
Mom. Oh boy.
So, Brendan, how do you feel about wedding cake?
OK, so obviously the whole return.
OK, Yeah, it's a low point. All right.

(25:51):
What do you want me to say? No.
Do I love it? I absolutely not.
It is not my favorite, you know,plot element in the franchise.
No. And but you know what?
It is what it is. I'm I'm here.
I'm here for everything else that's happening, OK.
At this point, I'm here for Sanji making a cake.

(26:11):
If you want to make a pretty cake, you, you, you know what it
can't be. You can't be lazy.
And then you also made that reference.
I'm here. I'm here for cake making and
Katakuri fighting. That's what I'm here for, right?
Now, well, both of those are over now and.
Then my. Well, my final.

(26:33):
Question to you, Brendan, is do you believe that now that we've
watched Big Mom eat her mom and then suddenly get a Devil fruit,
that this kind of confirmed? Suddenly, by the way, yeah.
That this kind of confirms the Blackbeard 8 Whitebeard's heart.
Brother, you don't even got to ask me.
I have. Always been.

(26:54):
Blackbeard absolutely fucking non that heart.
All right, so if anything, yeah,back in the day when this
chapter came out or that chaptercame out, I was like guys, this
like, but but for real though, like this confirms it though,
right? Yeah, this is this this pretty
much confirms it. So, you know, you don't got to
tell me twice is all I'm saying it.
Makes you wonder how Blackbeard has this knowledge though is

(27:17):
really the question because it. I don't think it's it's
possible, but I don't think it'ssuper likely that he knows Big
Mom's back story also so question.
Curious to find out if ever how Blackbeard knows this specific.
Thing so so this is my question because I this is also me

(27:38):
failing to remember because it'sbeen 600 episodes.
Yes again I'm exaggerating but how did Blackbeard get his devil
fruit the 1st? One, he ate it.
His he, the first one was he. It's kind of left up into the
air, but it was originally givento they found it when he was on

(28:00):
Whitebeard's crew. Well, what I mean.
He was originally given to a guynamed that it.
Was confirmed that he physicallyput the fruit in his mouth.
I'm going to be so fucking for real with you.
That is not confirmed. So we all we know is Thatch had
the fruit at one point and Blackbeard was like that's
that's it. That's the fucking thing I went
out to see to fight. He kills Thatch and takes the

(28:21):
devil fruit. As for my favorite, yes,
continue. Is continuing on from again,
sorry to interrupt you, but continuing on from, you know, my
train of thought is the reason why he knows is because he's
done cannibalism before. Do you think he was?
He was already a cannibal and then Thatch consumed the fruit.

(28:45):
He kills and eats Thatch realizes that this is how it
works and then just has the knowledge now.
Yes. All right, I'm.
I like where your head's at. I really do.
The only hole. And it's I ain't gonna lie to
you. It's it's.
Almost just because the. One in Ace's chest.

(29:05):
Is in Whitebeard's chest. Where is art used to be?
Is the fact that why would Blackbeard like so heavily be
invested in the fruit and then let him eat it and then hope
that he would eat thatch and maybe get the like At the end of
the day, his goal was the power.His goal is to not eat thatch

(29:27):
and then be like, oh boy, a power.
I'm I'm wondering if there's more to the story like like.
Behind the that's. What I mean like it's like my
own head cannon. Like we get a Sanji, you know,
and Peg, you know, Zeth episode 2 essentially of a different
island and it's Blackbeard and Thatch and you know, the fruit,

(29:48):
you know, you mean like again, there's this is where the the
red string and the pictures start coming up on the wall.
Right. Yeah, of course, of course.
So yeah, there's, there's something some I, I feel like
that's how he would have learnedbecause a mixture of desperation
and or rage is a hell of a drug.Rage rage do be a hell of a drug

(30:10):
though. Let's let's be so fucking for
real. Well, it's not it's not the
worst theory. That made a lot more sense than
I would have assumed you were gonna make when you first
started speaking about it. So.
I'm gonna I'm gonna be that guy and just say that Blackbeard at
some point was like, I I've got nothing to lose.
I'm going to try to eat as. Hard guys, I'm that.

(30:30):
Hard. That's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to eat this man's heart.
I think I I think it's going to work.
I can't tell you how I know. Scenario doesn't work and I go
find it again. We go look for it. 1st place
scenario out there. It tastes bad because I forgot
the salt and pepper, but Oh well.
Yeah, like that's, that's where my head's at.
I'm just like they're. Supposed to represent like the

(30:50):
worst kind of pirate. Like the piratiest pirate
they're. Pirate, pirate, yes, correct.
So he's supposed to be cannibalson the traditional pirate, I
think absolutely. Cannibalism is on that on that.
Fucking ticket. That was very fair.
Sure. I just, I really like the idea
of Blackbird. Like strolled up after it fell
down, just being like, guys, I know you're gonna think I'm

(31:11):
crazy. I'm gonna eat his heart.
I think I get his power if I eathis heart.
And then all the rest of his cronies are like, I don't know,
I guess we came this far. Why not let him drive?
I kind of imagine it the same way where it's just like they're
just like not even fazed, like that's it.
I guess let's give it a shot andfuck, fuck me I.
Guess crazier shit like and leave it.
You're just going to leave it and eat his heart.

(31:32):
I would have eaten the heart andkilled his family like.
Why stop at his heart? New recruits, the new recruits
at the time were like, I mean, we just got out of prison.
Like, I don't know, that sounds kind of funny.
Let's do that, yeah. For the meme.
Yeah, what we don't? See is actually Blackbeard doing
a selfie as he's eating hard. Oh God, yeah.

(31:56):
That's why they put the tarp over in because it's like one of
those old timey cameras where you need to protect the the
exposure levels, but it's. Backwards.
Yeah, yeah. Man takes a fucking Instagram
photo of his food before he. Hashtag no filter.
Fine dining at the new restaurant, White Beard
Restaurant. You won't believe the kind of

(32:22):
courses they got here at White Beard's Fine Dining.
White beard. Alamode It's a family
restaurant. When you're when you're here,
you're a gorilla. I wasn't.
Expecting that. We, we try out here, buddy, we

(32:49):
try out here. Oh.
Look, also another thing that you might be surprised to hear
from my mouth. I think Jim Bay is going to die.
Oh my God, yeah, this is crazy. Everything he's been.
Through this was crazy. I I I saw some I saw some death

(33:09):
flags going off. I.
Ain't going to lie to you. I ain't going to lie to you.
I do think I I think inside of me specifically, there are two
wolves. There are the wolf, there's the
wolf that says, Oh my God, all the signs are there.
We find we, we, we Jim Bay is not only going to be on the but
he he has a designated role. He he is, he is now the
helmsman. He's proved that to us.

(33:30):
Simultaneously. The other wolf is like, you
know, the most, the the most likely time to kill a
motherfucker is after they showed you all their guards.
I know. I do know where you're coming.
I do know where you're coming from.
Like he's flexing everything andhe's doing.
He's like, don't get me wrong, Ilove Jimbey.

(33:51):
I don't wish this upon him, but it kind of do me looking like he
gonna be dead. I know where you're coming from,
all right. Anime logic does dictate that
the most likely time for a motherfucker to get axe is after
they show all. They're going all some cool ass
shit. Yeah.
That is true. That is true flashback.

(34:12):
And some and some flashbacks is true.
Man, he do be having some flashbacks too.
Wait a minute and. I'm doing cool shit in the
present day too. You know when he faced down Big
Mom and was like, I ain't afraidof.
You is raised. Insert iron blooded orphan song.
Raise your flags. I still think this is crazy, but

(34:33):
I understand. Yeah, I, I do know where you're
coming from. I I can understand it.
I, I, I'm just going to be so fucking for real.
Ain't no way you and and if you do take tube 8 from me in this
arc, I will, I will be in. I will be insufferable.
I feel yeah, I will not because I know you've seen this.
Well, this is either you genuinely being like honest,
like don't you dare, or you're just gaslighting me.

(34:56):
This is what I'm telling you right now, Devin.
If he dies, it's because you made it happen.
You did this. I'm going to tell you Bernstein
Bears did. You Bernstein bears this shit?
No, I'm blaming you. I'm.
I'm making you. Responsible.
No ODA. Listens to this podcast and goes
back in time to fix it. Retconza.

(35:17):
Yeah, Jimbei's dead. By the way, I heard this one
white dude on the Internet talking about my show.
He had mad points. Should have killed.
Him, everybody goes to Japan andgoes like, wow, this art doesn't
look like I thought the current art looked like for some reason.
Well, I had to retcon a few things, mainly some characters

(35:39):
and what happens to them. Yeah.
Pal dead, Sanji dead, Jimbei dead as fuck.
The will, the will of pee people, the will of pee.
You will always keep him alive. Except for Pedro.
Pedro, somehow he's the exception.
That person no peas in Jimbei. And yet.
And yet we still don't know if Pedro's really dead or not.

(36:02):
I guess there's. We still don't really know.
We we still don't. Do I want do I want him to be
dead? Yes.
Will he? Will, will he?
Can he come back? Yes.
I, I actually, I am curious. So like you guys have obviously
been burned on this one 2-3 too many times.

(36:24):
Do you think he's dead? Pardon me, doesn't.
I, I just, a part of me has to reserve that there is a way that
ODA brings the character back there.
There it is. It is bar none, full stop.
There is always a chance. There's always a change.
Paris Pharaoh survived the same blast radius.

(36:46):
I look, they did, they did the bullshit that they did with that
they they pulled a Gara with him.
He just went Oh no, my, my candyarmor got shattered by this
explosion, but it didn't save myarm.
Fuck. They did guard his ass didn't.
They just straight up guarded. He just, he went.
My candy armor is dead now. I can't.
Ah fuck me those explosions and all that.

(37:10):
I am glad that he lost an arm because if he had walked away
from that Scott free and they had just been like Oh my candy
armor shattered I would have been pissed.
Yeah, I agree. Sure it is.
That would have been a very. That explosion was bigger than
the Tomate box it. Was though, like actually was.
Oh, fuck. You know, Well, you know, I

(37:31):
really, I really hope that for your guys's sanity, Pedro
actually made the ultimate second.
I do too buddy. I do too.
I don't I. Don't trust you with your.
Laughing. Listen, man, I'm just, I'm just
a laughing guy. He's.
Just happy to be. Back.
We're just happy to be back as, as all things are.

(37:53):
Yeah. Shit.
We never talked about anything other than Katakuri Luffy for a
split second. So we got we got they're they're
doing their thing. You know, at one point Luffy has
him, like, pegged. And then Katie's like, I'm, I'm
back to normal. Just kidding.
And Luffy's like, fuck. All right, well, I'm going to
leave this fight then. And he does.
He succeeds. Meanwhile, Big Mom is fucking up
nuts. Island nuts.

(38:14):
Nuts. Nuts.
Yeah, I'm so sad that they didn't.
When when Luffy like gets there like.
First thing he says is nuts. No, they, they, they still have
an opportunity here. At some point when he sees like
Big Mom, like breaking shit, he could be like, man, that's nuts.

(38:36):
There's still some Anybody. Out here or anybody is open to
this joke. Somebody's got to make a nuts
joke here. Somebody has to make a nuts joke
somewhere. We can't.
We can't be going to the island where where jokes go to go to
land and not make any use of. Ads my nuts, right?

(38:58):
Would that be good too actually?That'd be a real a real under a
joke. Yeah, we're under the belt,
below the belt. Real, below the belt, sort of
human. Reminding the the the usual I I
got to say that when we ended upon when we ended up with Luffy

(39:21):
and Brulee on nuts island, I groaned.
I I just didn't want any part ofit.
I, I don't want any. I don't want Luffy anywhere near
Big mom right now. Man, I just can't stand it.
It's it's. I'm over all of this big Mom
stuff to be done with. I just, I want Big Mom to go
back to to being more of a menace, not in hunger pang mode

(39:45):
because it's just so irritating listening to wedding cake this
wedding cake that straw eyed Luffy, get over here so I can
have my wedding cake. I'm I'm done with it.
I'm over. I've been over it.
I know, I do know. And I, I know we're, I know
we're stuck for a while yet because it's still going to take
4 hours for the cake to get anywhere remotely close to her.

(40:06):
So we're just, we're just stuck.Hey, you know, but life comes at
you fast, brother. I mean, I think we got the last
set of episodes was Nami saying in 10 hours we're going to meet
up with Big Mom and the cake. And now we're 4 hours away from
that. So like life, I'm just saying
we're moving through. Yeah, we really just powered
through that four hours out of nowhere.

(40:26):
Yeah, like we're for six hours. Well.
That's the magic of One Piece. We can either drain a minute for
two days, or we could make 7 days go by in one second.
I, I, I, I love that it feels soarbitrary.
This, this time limit. I'm not going to lie to you.
It feels so nonsense because they go, oh, it's going to take
us 10 hours to sell the cacao island when Sanji chiffon and

(40:50):
putting flu there on their magiccarpet in fucking 2 minutes.
You know, they just, they just fucking teleported there
basically. But it, it's a 10 hour boat ride
away. What are you talking about
anyway? Well.
I mean, look at the carpet goes fast.
Christian, what do you want? From me they failed to mention
that it it flies at Mach 3 or animated that way even.

(41:12):
Listen brother, come on, just let them have their fun.
The problem is. Is involving us watching,
walking and yelling wedding cakefor three.
Yeah, the fun involves watching putting Fawn over Sanji every 3
minutes in the kitchen. Again, I I still I.
Love. No we don't.
No, we don't. You, you're a fucking animal.

(41:34):
You haven't warmed up to the idea that that Pudding has
fucking decided that Sanji is actually a really good person on
his own fucking merits. Then you know you you can't be
safe. You know I don't want to be.
Two devils on your shoulder. You have no angels.
What's good? Fuck you.
Go ahead. I don't want to be saved if
that's if that's what it costs. If.

(41:57):
This is the. Same.
I'd rather live in. Depravity Brendan is this what
it's like to be on your side because normally that Christians
me in this point in the show because.
I don't this is crazy, this is crazy turn I, he, he.
He has mentioned this before andI, I just, I don't understand
how he's on this side of the lawon this one.

(42:20):
Listen, I'm I'm just saying, I think that again, I know last
time we talked about last time Iwas here was the the Pudding
episodes where we got her backs.Well, quote UN quote back story,
trauma back story, really. Everyone in her fucking this
fucking family is trauma. In case you haven't noticed,
they're all got fucking trauma. And Pudding's trauma is being
completely rejected and disheveled by her own family

(42:41):
very similarly to Sanji. And wouldn't you know what?
The one motherfucker that saw her, who she is and liked her
for it. Yeah, she'd be like, well, wait
a minute, maybe I do. Like, that's good, That's fine
writing. That's fine.
I don't even care. Fuck you.
You're right, it's fine. At best.
It's not good. It's not great.
It's fine. Fuck you dude.
I don't. It's fine at best.

(43:02):
I think it sucks. You suck.
You're the. You're the villain Fire.
You're the. Actual I.
Accept this role for once, I'm more than happy to take.
This one, I'm done with this arc.
I'm going to forget everything about Big Mom.
I'm going to forget all about Katekar.
I'm going to be like, you know who the villain of Whole Cake
Island was? It was Christy.
It was you. It was always you.
It's yeah, it's always, it's my time.

(43:23):
Meanwhile me over here been shitting on this whole arc this
entire time. That's fine, you can.
You can enjoy your popcorn. I've got a bone to pick with
Christian right now. OK, run, run, run around the the
studio screaming popcorn. Similarly a big bomb or
something so we can just like you could be a part of the
story. Yeah, there you go.

(43:45):
That could be your contribution to this narrative.
Oh boy. Oh yeah.
And those slugs got, you know, they got seduced by the the only
thing that every single person on this planet could be seduced
by. And that's a musical number,
baby. You're.
Going to say shark women. Well, that too, actually.

(44:09):
Because in the show, all the shark women, nice.
All two of them now. All two of them.
So far also orcas are more dolphin than shark, but sure.
Was she an orca? I thought she was a shark.
It's been a minute. You're talking about.
A great Charlie. Oh, go ahead.
Sorry. Yeah, CC was.
She was a orc, killer whale, whatever.

(44:31):
I mean, but she was Arlung. Shy that.
Doesn't mean anything. You know this better than
anyone. That's true that that is true
that yeah, Fishman genetics can kind of like, you know, do
whatever they want. You can just like you need me.
Like you have a shark, marry a fucking blowfish.
And the next thing you know, like, Oh yeah, I've got all the
genes for my great, great, greataunt and she and she fucking

(44:55):
nematode. All right.
I looked it up quickly just to see if I was right.
I'm not right? I figured she's.
She's a Mako shark. All right, You, you got it.
You won. She she.
She looked more like an orca to me, but apparently she's a short
fin maker. Those best girls?
You better get used to that saying that other people want

(45:15):
Christian because by the end of this arc you know the villains
always lose is all I'm saying. That's what you think the
villains are currently winning? Pretty not not handily, but they
I would still consider that the villains are winning.
Bro, are they like their their shit's fucked right now.
Actually, I I, I think I disagree with that entirely.
The Straw Hats are in full retreat mode.

(45:35):
That's fine. That's like that's honestly
they've done enough and any, anytotal retreat is AW in my book.
Absolutely. They've accomplished 100% of
objectives. No, they didn't.
What? What haven't they accomplished?
Killed big man. That was their objective.
Well, OK, no, that's not that's not true, actually, Yeah.
It was their objective. That's what I fucked about.

(45:55):
No, it wasn't their. Their two objectives were get
Sanji back and get and sub sub objective was get.
What do you call it rubbings? And they have done both of
those, yes. The the the kill big mom part of
the planning was veggies shit, and they were just kind of like,
I mean we could use some allies.So like we'll help you try and
like when that went S they were like, I don't know.

(46:16):
We still got ours, though. All I'm saying is I got 100% of
their objectives. One right now.
I think they're doing great and I'm on door on the side is like,
where the fuck are the slugs? What why is why is German not
captured? Where the fuck is veggie?
What what is happening? I hate it here.
And then you got the fucking French dude on the side going.
Wait, wait. Yeah, everybody's favorite.

(46:40):
Everybody's favorite. French chicken.
Fuck you, I love the stupid. Fucking hate the chicken.
Yeah, I don't. This one I don't get either.
He just like, straight up doesn't like Baron Tamago or
whatever his actual name is now.Doesn't make sense.
It's inconsistent. What's what do you mean what's
inconsistent? The physics he's complaining

(47:00):
about the physics of teacup, howit stays on his eggs of.
Teacup and how the liquid only. I'm the liquid, but it's.
Convenient to the plot? I'm not sure I'm fog.
Just don't, just don't take a little grain of salt dude.
It doesn't mean anything. It's it's a nonsense argument
and and doesn't doesn't require more attention than it's already
been given. Just.

(47:21):
Just know I'm going to say I love this.
This is a salt in the ocean joke.
I do. I do love though, the fucking
evolution of Barantamago to Viscount Hiyoko to Count
Nuatori. Yeah, Nuatori now.
That's just, he's just a fuckingchicken.
He just became a chicken for some reason.

(47:41):
Or a rooster? Is he a rooster now?
Or is he just chicken? I, I, I, you know, you might be
Rooster. It's probably Rooster.
That would make a lot more sense.
Honestly, it'd make a lot more sense.
I fucking love this stupid shit.So yeah, all of the all the
slugs disappearing and finally getting the the confirmation of
that. I feel like I feel like this

(48:01):
wasn't I I don't remember if I actually said it or not at any
point, but I. Brought it up.
Sure. Yeah, I I'm pretty sure we had
already talked about how the theSun Pirates were in some way,
shape or form responsible for all of this, and it was just
funny that it ends up being a musical number instead of
anything else. The sweet seduction of Praline

(48:25):
as she sings sings this the slugs into submission about a
day. Off about a day.
Off about a day, hey? You know what?
Those slugs, they work really fucking hard.
Today is their day. True, they definitely earned.
It they've definitely unionized.Day off.
Sure. Yeah, do unionize after all
this. They're using their PTO finally
that they've saved up. Saved up.
And they have that. Was on the contract, yeah.

(48:46):
They, they, they've been building up all this PTO and
then, you know, their employers have always been like, yeah, for
sure you can, you can carry overyour PTO in the next year.
Yeah, it's surprisingly understanding they let it roll
over. Not, not, not very common.
Not very common. Not very common, actually.
And then the cake got done. AO cake is done.

(49:06):
It's not done very well. Yeah.
I mean, it's like basically. Done.
It's not Done. That's not.
It's like a little this, it's inthree pieces, that's it.
I don't consider my legs like put together when they're on
the. Floor Oh, and then how about how
about fucking pound coming out of nowhere and beating the shit
out of. Him Oh yeah he he sure gave him
showed him what for you should see the other guy and.

(49:27):
The old one too. I didn't know he was that.
This is the one thing that annoyed me about that whole
interaction. Well, Dad, you know, you know,
stopped. What's it called?
You know Oven from beating up Chiffon.

(49:48):
Let's hide her under a blanket. Yeah, that was a choice.
I mean, where else you going to put her?
Just don't you know you're goingto hide her in?
What do you mean just don't Just?
Don't but. The point is that they they need
her to go with them, but not don't hide her, Yeah.
There's no point. I I mean they have to at least
try, you know it. Was like immediate.

(50:09):
It was not even like a minute after he's like, all right, I'm
back. Well, because he disappeared and
or she disappeared and there's really only one place she could
have gone. But you have to try at least.
Come on. But what like what if oven like
didn't find her though, that's what.
I'm saying dude, whatever. Infuriating.

(50:29):
What if Oven was a bumbling idiot and didn't realize?
That would have made me so goddamn mad.
I also love the shit eating grinthat Oven had in that entire
interaction. He's like she's under the
blanket. And.
Then he's like, he picks up the blanket.
He's like, I fucking knew it. It's like playing hide and seek
with five year olds. They got they got both their

(50:52):
legs sticking out from underneath 3 pillows they just
stacked on top of them and they're giggling while they
while they lay their weight. Only have their head covered.
Yeah, like. If I can't see, if I can't see
you, you can't see me type ass shit.
That that as as oven like open like look to the blanks like
they always try to run, but he'slike no oven please.

(51:15):
We need her. I need, I need, I need the
flashback to when they were little and this is the same
exact pole that chiffon used to do when they when they were
children and oven oven just there.
There's, there's a lot of backs,there's a lot of trauma in these
children's lives. All right.
I wouldn't put it past. I need, I need the What was
that? What was that asshole?

(51:36):
The wolf guy from Annie's Lobby?I need crayon drawing style
Jabra. Thank you.
I need Jabra crayon drawing backstory of Alvin and Chiffon
playing hide and seek and her pulling the same exact maneuver.
And that's how Alvin really found her.
Yeah, yeah. Oh God, that.

(51:56):
'D be good though, that'd be really funny.
I like that. I'm surprised they don't take
advantage of that more often. That's a what?
The crayon bit. Yeah, instead of just giving us
a whole ass episode of back story, they just summarize it in
like a little like thought bubble crayon style.
Well, it's not really out of style.
That's because it was fake. Back story.
Yeah, yeah, it was, it was only like a cartoon like that

(52:17):
because, you know, the the wholepoint was it was it was all
bullshit. It was all made-up.
Why don't they lie about? Joke's gonna be on us.
Joke's gonna be on us in like another 300 episodes.
We're gonna find out who's telling the truth.
I'm just saying. Oh shit, USAT mode.
It's going to be a genuine usat moment.
Just you wait, I promise. Jabra's lies always come.
True. Oh, man, dude, what if what if,

(52:42):
though, you know, I'm I'm happy to be back.
I I know you guys have been going through the ringer with
just an old woman shouting wedding cake over and over and
over again. It's not that I know, I know.
Just try to be here for the for the other moments, the rest of
the the rest of the series. I do love those moments when
they happen, but sometimes, sometimes.

(53:04):
It's too much. Just just think of just think of
King Balm and what he sacrificedto give you this to get you this
far. Remember, Remember the King and.
King we trust. And king we trust.
As the Hound. Of the Dancing Tree.
As a Hound from Game of Thrones once said, Buck the King.

(53:32):
All. Right.
Well, I feel pretty good. How you guys feel.
Do you guys have any any other dying things you guys want to
bring up? How'd you feel about the Tama
tape box? Me in general, just like the
Tama tape. I mean I love the bit, I really
do because I mean I remember here's a fun like story.
So when I was reading the manga,that was probably, I'm going to

(53:54):
say like top five or 10, most hyped, not hyped, but like
anticipated things that was going to transpire during this
arc. Everyone and their fucking
grandmother had an idea for how the Tamate box was going to play
into this, because we've had thecontext that there was a fucking

(54:15):
bomb in it since Fishman Island and we after it got re brought
up earlier into the arc right before the the wedding started.
Everyone and their fucking grandmother was like, Oh my God,
the tamate box. It's going to do this.
It's going to it's going to killbig mom this way.
It's going to blow the fuck up out of out of Curry.
It's going to it's going to do this.
It's going to do everybody fucking.
And I was just like, all right, we'll, we'll get there.

(54:36):
We'll get there when we fucking get there, you know, Incredibles
dad and and then it it blew up the the Chateau and I was like,
nice, I like, I like it. I like what you're selling,
fancy man. I like that it destroyed an
entire fuck off mountain of cake.
Well, it became cake I guess. Originally it was like it was

(54:57):
like made to look like cake and then Strusen was like, OK, I
better make a really cake otherwise we're fucked.
Strusen's ability literally is the Is it cake?
Yeah, that's literally what Strusen's ability is.
And I remember when I first like, like we first got to that
part in the manga, everyone was like, well, that's just fucking.
Like, you just turn anything into food.
Like that's, that's, that's fucking and crazy.

(55:18):
That's ridiculous. Like it doesn't taste good.
So like, he, he, he just makes food wherever he wants.
Like that sounds broken as fuck.Like there's so many ways you
can fuck with that. And then there was the part
where Big Mom, after eating someof the cake that got to herb the
mountain that got turned into cake.
She was like, Oh yeah, I forgot Strusen's food.
It can fill you up, but it tastes like dog shit if you
don't actually make it, make it.And I'm like, all right, well,
at least it's got some fucking drawback because that would be

(55:40):
fucking, that kind of pissed me off actually.
Gross food is still better than no food.
Very true. Gross food.
Still better than no food. Like.
Well, yeah, there's that that that Devil fruit would have
would have gone crazy for Zeph if they if they had that bag of
the ducks. I'm.
Going to try what is wrong. Slowly eating there.

(56:01):
They would have slowly eaten their little mount like Cove
down to the down to the water. I wonder if you can cut the
water with? It that's a great question.
I don't know all right, but anything else, any other any
other things? No, I'm trying to think of.
Things I would want to ask you because the guy, it's been like
forever. I know brothers throw them at
me. Throw I I wanna, I wanna talk.
That's. What I'm trying to think.
There's only so many things I can talk about without without

(56:24):
wasting the listeners time obviously.
What do you think of Cracker? Well in in what regard I was
here for. Now we do.
I think we did this. Yeah.
This is all. This is all news.
Again, I wasn't there for. It though, I mean, I like
Cracker. I think Cracker's cool.
OK, Cracker's eyed. He fine he.
Fine, dog. He fine.
All right, well, I'm going to move this on then, all right?
No, no, no, no. Your your questions have been

(56:45):
completely rescinded. I I despise you.
I despise every listener. I'm just kidding.
I. Hate me?
You can hate Christian for our takes, but the listeners?
You're right, I should never do that to the listeners.
I love the listeners. It's only you, you 2.
I hate Good. Yeah, that's fair.

(57:07):
All right, cool, cool. All right.
Well then moving on next week will be, believe it or not, 860
to 862. I almost said 660.
Could you imagine if we went? When was the first time we made
that mistake? Wait.
A minute I got I want to know what One Piece 660 was.
I just want to know where we would have been 660.
I think it would have been Punk Hazard.
I think it would have been Punk.That's got to be like the end of

(57:29):
Punk Hazard, right? No, actually we would have been
in Dressrosa Six 60s in Dressrosa.
It, it was the same episode. Oh, it was the episode where
Robin, Frankie and Usopp figuredout that they're the reason that
the Tintata got fucked over fromDoflamingo pretending to step
down. And they were like, oh, no,

(57:49):
we're the ones that put them in that position.
Fuck, that's funny. That's a good app.
All right, wait. Moving on.
What did I what did I say? Yeah, we're doing 860.
Yeah, 86862. Moving on to quotes.
Quotes. I've got two.
I've got 2. Go for it buddy, my quotes have
already been sniped. You hate to see it.
All right, my first quote is, isMondor when he's being contacted

(58:12):
by one of his siblings or being talked to by one of his siblings
and they were like, they were like, Mondor, I've got bad news.
And he's like, oh boy, more fucking bad news.
Why don't you just stack it up? We got plenty of that going on
today. It's like, all right, it's OK,
Mondor. Well, it's not, but like it's
OK. I do be like that sometimes.
It it do fucking be like that sometimes.

(58:37):
Oh, fuck. I forgot my other quote.
What happened? I had it on the top of my
tongue. No, it's gone.
It evaporated. Oh, shit.
I think it's gone. All right.
Somebody else go. Maybe I'll.
Maybe I'll remember it before weclose out.
I I have one quote and it comes from everybody's favorite
punching bag, Brulee. In this episode, she goes, hey,

(58:58):
Luffy's Luffy somehow loses track of her when he's hauling
her away before he puts her in the bag and he's calling for
her. Come out, Branch, get out here
right now, Branch. And then she and her in her
basket is thinking to herself, what kind of idiot comes out
like that after being told to? And then he yells, Branch, where

(59:19):
are you? And she jumps out seconds later
goes it's Brulee off. Fuck, I did it to myself.
I got myself. What have I done?
That's it. That's that's my only quote.
Did you remember, buddy? Did it come back to you?
No, no, it's, it's still, it's evaporated.
It's it's just like that time that Zorro saw the mermaid, just

(59:40):
completely gone. Yeah, damn shame those were.
Just the ones that we mentioned earlier where it's like, you
know, the gum gum, you know, branch gum, gum, branch gum, gum
brulee, you know that. Wabbit season Duck season
wabbit. Season.
Wabbit season wait. Hold on, Bull Shotgun.

(01:00:04):
Bull shotgun. All right.
Moving on from that though, we have the Golden Ham.
The golden ham, yo, I say. I either want to give it to
Sanji for making that sweet ass cake, or more importantly, I
want to give it to pound for beating the fuck out of oven

(01:00:25):
that one time. Counterpoint, I want to.
I want to give it to Brulee for always being right where you
need her when you need her. Right where you need her, right
when you need her most. Oh, shit.
OK, no, you got me there. Definitely got me there.

(01:00:48):
It's hard not to just, like, give it to Brulee.
She always knows right where youneed her.
I don't know. I feel like we probably have for
making for having her be the skeleton key in the past.
Maybe not. Maybe this is the first time.
Golden golden ham brulee. I don't know.
I I want to say we haven't. I don't think we did.
We'll see. Well, you know, hey, we'll give

(01:01:08):
it, give it to her tonight, you know, and the, the, the, the
night is young. And then we'll, we'll cross
examine later. All right, we got, we got a
golden ham for Brulee, No. Fan for fuck's sakes, who would
have guessed? Also, by the way, the Tomate box
got a golden ham one week. I don't know if you know that.
Oh no, I did not know you can. You gave it to the boys.
We gave it to the box for for progressing the plot in those

(01:01:30):
episodes. Well, you got you guys were
having a bad time on like that, that bad of a time.
I would. They were going through the plan
dude. Painful.
No that those that episode and Ithink the following one were not
the best. Oh, the following episode big.

(01:01:52):
Father, you know, like the giantfuck.
Off Big Father, Big Father was the episode before.
To be fair, the reveal of Big Father and Big Father got the
golden ham that that episode too.
So don't you? Don't you fret.
OK, all right, I was going to say because I love Big Father.
Big Father is a great bit. I I, I love the giant fuck off
Gundam tank thing. Yeah.

(01:02:15):
I don't I I don't think what wasthe?
Last weeks, I know we were struggling for it last week.
Last week had Katakuri versus Luffy at one point, and then
also Luffy doing that thing where he's like, I don't want my
friends to know I'm struggling out here.
I think we gave it to something dumb.
Katakuri. Snack time?

(01:02:35):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we gave itto something dumb for both those
weeks. Only give it to Katakuri for
Katakuri snack time. I wanted to no.
OK, so we didn't actually talk about this.
I love it. Devin hated that Devin did not
like Katakuri snack time. Oh boy, here we go.
I hate you I. Was I was all for it and I

(01:02:55):
wanted to give it to him, but I also I.
Hated it. I also look, this is the this is
the worst part about you. You just you just hate and don't
and don't remember. There's just.
There's just. You have no conviction.
No, there's no recollection of why.
There's only the there's only the lingering feeling of hatred,
and that's all you remember, andthat's all that's important to
you. I simply remember the hate.
I don't. I don't.
I don't believe in the hate. I just remember.

(01:03:16):
He lets the hate flow through him and become him.
For flag sakes. Moving on to the fan mail
section where we have none. Woo.
This is where I put it if I had.This is where I put my fan mail
if I had some. Apparently we're all hit.

(01:03:36):
Apparently nobody wanted to hearwhat I had to say about
anything. There's been no ranting or
raving. Just kidding.
To be fair, there probably is fan mail, but Justin's not here
to to bring it to the table so. So fuck that guy.
Yeah, fuck that guy and fuck hisand fuck his job.
Moving on to the producers shoutouts.
We've got Taco and it's me Rabbit.

(01:03:58):
Thank. You.
It's me, Rabbit. Let's go.
I love you both. Thank you.
Thank you. You're you're lovely.
I have. Don't worry, I.
Have it's me. Rabbit is the one who gave us
time Bandit this month and Devinis and Devin.
Devin has feelings. I I like that movie a lot.
It's a good movie. I, I, I had a time.

(01:04:19):
I had a good time. It's true.
I thought you were going to say I.
Had a time, I had a time. No, Devin had a time.
I had a good time. I had AII like, you know, it's,
it's a part of a trilogy, you know?
Wait, is it really? No, it's yeah.
It's a part of a spiritual trilogy.
Oh, I know what you're talking about.
Yeah. It's it's, it's not, it's not a

(01:04:41):
trilogy in the true sense of theword.
It's just actual trilogy but. It's part of three.
It's part of a a threesome of movies that is referred to as an
overarching imagination theme from the director.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't think I talked
about it in the episode. We didn't get to it, but yeah,
that is the case. Gonna put.
A more ultimate evil in your microwave.

(01:05:03):
All right, well. Yeah, moving on, what's what's,
what's next, Christian? Next is your favorite Brandon.
It's and you know, I, you know, I, I'm, I'm, I'm loath to do
this on most occasions, but it'sbut it's special.
It's it's a special time. You're back, you're alive,
You've made it. I am I to.
To celebrate your return. I have brought her out for you.

(01:05:27):
It is the illustrious grab bag. I love it all you love, darling,
it's been so long. What I see the tag on it.
Don't. Don't worry about that.
It's fine. Don't worry.
Yeah. Yeah, you're just as beautiful
as the day I lost you. Girl, I can't believe it's been
so long. Brandon, why don't you, why

(01:05:49):
don't you reach on in and find out what we're gonna do tonight
This. Is crazy.
She looks brand new man. You've been taking great care of
her. Of course, of course I know how
much you love the grab bag and Iyou know as much as I love the
garb gab as its replacement now,I would never sully the the good
times we had with the grab bag all.
Right, well, I'm reaching my hand and now and oh, are these

(01:06:11):
fortune cookies. They they are I know that you
love fortune cookies and you know to to wish you well on your
on your return here at to to many more weeks of you recording
with us. I, I I got you these fortune
cookies all. Right.
Well, cheer, Brandon. Thanks.
Oh wait, so so the fuck down. How'd you shove sticks in your

(01:06:32):
mouth already? You're supposed to read them
before you eat them. You're supposed to eat the
cookie or crack them open. Eat the cookie, then read it.
Oh, eat the whole cookie. Put the note in it.
That's there's a note? Yep, there's a note in it.
Hold on. Oops.
My fault. Yep, I got this this thing right
here and it says we are Vega punking today and what, what?

(01:06:58):
How do we do the Vega punk pieceof paper?
What are we? Oh, we are Vega punking, meaning
we are giving a devil fruit to apile of Lego blocks.
As in like a pile or a single block?
Like a a pile. You know what?
What can an entire pile of Lego blocks do with with with a devil
fruit, you know? Well, I don't fucking know,

(01:07:20):
dude. What the?
Hell, well, it's just it's it sounds more interesting than one
Lego block because then, you know, maybe you could do
something fancy with it and then, you know, the amalgam of
Lego blocks maybe could utilize a devil from better.
OK. I got one in my head right off
the bat. Go on, go on.
Flower, flower, fruit, say. More.

(01:07:41):
I like that doing it in like Lego blocks, anthropomorphic
arms and limbs to walk around and assemble themselves into
their own weapon. Self assembly, no assembly
required. Lego blocks.
Dude, it's it's literally Minecraft in a, in like a in a
pile. If you just have Minecraft,

(01:08:03):
that's a great idea, Devin. That's that's a gold fucking
star for me. I like that.
That's good. I like that you literally just
give a pocket dimension that is Minecraft now.
Oh no. I'm.
Being attacked by Luffy builds 20 blocks up.
I just imagine like a pile of Lego blocks like you've got,

(01:08:25):
you've got like one of each unique block in existence or at
least like one color of each block.
And then they just like they, they, they, they pop out of the
ground like fucking daisies and,and turn into like, you know,
Immaculate designs or whatever, whatever colour you need.
I love that. That's a great idea.
There's a lot of weird shapes. I can't believe I'm going to
reference Gara for the second time in this episode, but I'm

(01:08:47):
imagining, I'm imagining like the the spirit of his mom in in
inside the sand, except this time it's Lego blocks.
And anytime you're about, anytime you're in danger, the
Lego blocks. Yeah, can Legos.
Come out. Yeah, the Lego blocks build
themselves. I'm saying, brother, that was

(01:09:09):
pretty good. Fuck, I got to think about it
now. Hold.
On What if What if, to amplify the torture of of stepping on
Lego blocks, they had the slow, slow beam and you got to watch
yourself in slow motion step on a pile of Lego bricks.
That's just, I mean, you're justbeing a demon for the sake of
being a demon. Look.

(01:09:29):
I'm in my I'm in my heal arc, dude.
It's it's that's, that's on the brain.
Bro, that's, that's fucked up. Like you've, you've, you've made
a weapon of mass destruction. You've made the eighth wonder of
the world. Time slowing Lego blocks.
Oh God, it would be so painful. It'd be worse than it'd be worse
than stepping on coals. Or even even worse, it's it's

(01:09:54):
the Millennium, Falcon said, which has 10,000 pieces in it
and you're forced to complete itin slow motion.
Or, you know, you know what I like, I like, I like float.
Float as in Sheiki's fucking power.
So that you know no matter what like Lego set you make, it could
just like exist and float around.

(01:10:16):
I. Really like that idea.
So so with the The Stepping on Lego Pain theme, I I eventually
went to Das Bones. Oh my God, it has the blade.
Blade for Jesus Christ, now you've now you've really created
caltrops. You've literally you just.

(01:10:38):
Made caltrops with extra steps dude.
Oh for fuck's sakes. I want a zoen fruit, but you
know the Zoe it just instead of transforming it just builds into
a Lego elephant or something. I don't know.
I shouldn't be elephant. I think we're a fun.

(01:11:00):
A fun one would be like. The smog.
The smog. Smog.
OK, the dragon. The smog, yeah, yeah, that'd be
cool. No, I like maybe give them like
the bird like like a bird Lego set and then you have like the
Falcon Falcon. It can like fly around, hang out
on your shoulder or some shit like that that'd.
Be kind of fun. It's just a Lego bird.
Lego sets to fly is what I'm saying.

(01:11:20):
It's the only thing they don't already do, I mean.
They fly if you throw them hard enough, OK.
Well. We give the we give the Lego
bricks the mochi fruit. Why are no, we're not giving the
Lego bricks the mochi fruit? Because I don't want to eat my
Legos. Than the wax.
Fruit such an arbitrary pick. I guess, I guess if you gave the

(01:11:42):
Legos the wax wax fruit, then you could like make more Legos
or something like that. That's not useless, but I feel
like we that every time we give somebody the wax wax, we give
something the wax wax fruit. And it make a Lego castle.
Each Lego ball, each Lego brick is its own mini castle, and you

(01:12:03):
just hide inside of it. Yeah, it's it's the ultimate
form of hiding, because if you're just being chased, you
could just dive into the Lego brick castle and nobody's going
to suspect the Lego brick on thefloor.
Shit, dude, no, hold on. That's actually fucking genius.
Hold on. Like imagine.
OK bear with me here. Imagine you have like a shelf
and you just have like 3 fuckinglegos on it, and on another

(01:12:25):
shelf you have 4 like three other fucking legos.
And in each individual brick youhave like an Immaculate
Playhouse. Like you have like your own
fucking home in there. Dude that would actually be so
sad. You're just living The Lego
Movie inside of these bricks. Brother, wait a minute, you're
telling me that I can be the Lego guy?

(01:12:46):
You can be Lego, you could also.Shit.
Wait, hold on, that's just buggy.
Why buggy? He's just a walking Lego.
Oh, I see. Well, in a way, yes.
Yeah, yeah, congratulations. Giving giving the Lego, giving a
Lego a double fruit is just buggy because buggy already has

(01:13:08):
the chop chop fruit. Sure.
Like what would happen if you gave a Lego the chop chop fruit?
Like would they just make more legos?
Well, maybe. Maybe the world will never.
Know may never know. Now I want to see a double fruit
that is the Lego Lego fruit and they just say like Lego my ego.
That is not the right catch phrase, I know.

(01:13:32):
That, that that's their quirk. That's like, that's their, like
that's their gun. You know what I mean?
Like that's. They're laughing take except
it's like my ego. They love waffles.
They they love Legos and they love waffles and they can't
decide. And I want the waffle waffle
fruit. What does it do?

(01:13:53):
I don't know. It's just a.
It's just a Berry Berry fruit, so the waffle waffle fruit isn't
too far from. I mean, we've got the mochi
mochi fruit. It's also not like terribly far
away. It's just dough of a different
kind. Like I said, it's just a chef
with a bulletproof vest working at a.
Waffle House. Christ.

(01:14:14):
Throwing chairs? Exactly.
Oh. Hell no.
Hell no. All right, Well, thank you for
participating in yet another Grab a bag this time.
Welcome. Welcome back, Brendan.
Give me the bag. Yeah.
Good. I left the receipt still on the

(01:14:34):
counter. Don't forget to you know I still
can't. Believe how good you guys
treated that bag. Man, that's crazy.
So with that being said, we, we're at the we're at the end of
our our show here. Thank you all for listening to
yet another week of us rambling about this anime.
If you would like to follow us on social media, you can do so
at Panda Sightings on Instagram,Twitter, and TikTok.

(01:14:58):
If you would like to send us some fan mail that Justin will
still not show up to read on this podcast, you can do so at
[e-mail]. If you would like to support us
monetarily, you can do so on ourDiscord where we have the
membership program built in now and you can be a lovely producer

(01:15:20):
like Taco, or you can be a lovely Voyager like a bunch of
other people at the lower money tier.
That's totally fine too. We love you as well.
Discord link is in the podcast description and in the BIOS of
our social medias. If you would like to get
something for your money more specifically, I have.

(01:15:40):
I have great news for you guys. The thing that I was vaguely
referencing, but also not so vaguely referencing last week is
here. If you're listening to this
episode, you have probably also seen the little two or three
minute teaser that Geordie put out on the feed about a week or
two ago. Now we have our own merch shop

(01:16:00):
baby. We got.
The merch shop, we did it real merch outside of just the
stickers now, so we've got T-shirts and a sweater and.
That's crazy dude. Baseball cap and a beanie and a
set of pins too. Even.
We got pins bro. This is literally the first I've

(01:16:23):
heard of it. I've I've got to buy this shit
right now. Oh.
Dude, it's so. Good one shirt that you're going
to buy right off the cat. Get go.
Fantastic. Yeah, we, I can't wait.
We. Got we got a couple fun designs
here and you can find [e-mail].
The link will be in the description of the podcast.
I'm sure we have. We have a real domain.

(01:16:46):
Panda sightings.com is ours. We own that.
I'm finding out about this in real time people.
I'm not even kidding. Brendan doesn't check our
discord or our messages. Dot.
Com Panda sightings.com will bring you to the merch store and
you will see all of the gloriousitems that are going to be on

(01:17:08):
sale for us until the end of May, potentially a little bit
afterward. We're not sure yet because I was
kind of sort of supposed to alsoconfirm this last week, but then
I wasn't sure and I didn't. So there's a chance that we keep
it open a little longer for anyone who is just now hearing
about it because this episode that you're listening to hasn't
dropped until probably the second week of May or so.

(01:17:30):
So we may leave a little bit of extra time for the for the
podcast only listeners and thosewho aren't in the discord.
If you were in the discord, you would have seen that we dropped
that link about a week ago at this point in our in our time,
so late April. So be sure to join our discord
for potential future fun stuff in the in the future.
Additionally, I should tell you now, while it is timely at the

(01:17:55):
roughly three weeks from now, real time, I believe May 17th is
our tentative date for a 12 hourlive fun Discord day where we're
going to do a big palooza for 12hours on the live on the on the
live streaming channel of our discord where we play games,

(01:18:15):
we'll watch a movie together, we'll do fun activities.
There will be a live recording towards the end of the night
where we 17th, you said 17th. I believe Saturday, Saturday the
17th is the, is the tentative date.
And we will for the, for the astute listeners who who
remember this better than us, weare going to be doing our, our

(01:18:40):
anniversary recording in the middle of May only only roughly
3 weeks late. It's our, excuse me, three
months late. It's fine.
We didn't forget, only a little,OK, only a little bit did we
forget. But it's fine.
Better, better late than never. So come, come join us, join the

(01:19:01):
discord, hang out and, and be there for the live broadcast of
our, of our three months late anniversary recording that will
then not release to the the the Spotify feed until probably two
weeks after that. And so our anniversary episode
will be about 3 1/2 months late for anyone who only listens to
this. I'm sad.

(01:19:21):
Devin Sad. You know, it'd be like that.
Do be like that. Oh, I should also mention
quickly some of the, if you go to pansettings.com, our red
bubble is still there too. And we put a couple of the
designs that are on the shirts in the Red Bubble Shop.
So if you don't have the money for a shirt or a sweater or any
of the other things that are in there, you can still potentially
buy a sticker from the Red Bubble Shop with one of those

(01:19:44):
designs on it. This puffer fish, though, do it
with gusto. I love it.
I do love that fucking fish. That's a great fish.
But all right, that's it. That's the end of my spiel.
Thank you for. Exciting times.
I've I've ordered 66 things. 11 of everything on the menu.
Well, not quietly. But, but sort of kind of nearly.

(01:20:04):
Wow. And it only cost me $23.
I'm just kidding, no? Hold on, hold on.
I want to try to entice them make.
Them complete false advertising.Just just lie, you know?
Just. I could say whatever I want,
guys. I got, I got 17 items for $6.

(01:20:25):
It's a steal out here. Also also I should say I should
say this here too, that the store does ship internationally.
I am, I am we. The rates are funky depending on
where you specifically are in the world, but but for the most
part they do ship internationally.
So if you are overseas and not in America, you still have the

(01:20:46):
opportunity to to to buy the merchandise.
Let's go. I'm giving thumbs up to the to
the camera in my room, office style.
I'm looking out. At the regulations.
To the person on the street. Walking.
Giving them the thumbs up. Any other announcements that
either you guys got? No, I, I, I, I said what I came

(01:21:07):
here to say. I, I did, I really did this
whole podcast with you guys tonight just to do that, that
last 6 minutes. Oh, that.
Was that was the only reason? Yeah, there's, there's really
nothing else. I really came here to talk about
which. It made along the way.
It was all. Oh no.
Not this week. Definitely not this situation.
And the microtransaction, yeah. As.
Well, you know, in addition to what we you can find on the

(01:21:28):
store, if you ever want to know more about how to evade the
government and make money on Social Security, you can always
hit me up. Wait, I knew we ate them.
I knew it. They said I was crazy.
You're not crazy. I'm crazy.
Wait, no, I'm not crazy. You're crazy.
It's OK, Christian. It's OK.
It's OK. We're fine.
I I'm OK. I'm here.

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Nobody. No one was eating, buddy.
It's OK. But if you're here, then what?
What's in his? What's in his mouth right now?
I don't know, probably all the fortune cookies.
Oh, shit, yeah, OK, yeah, I well, all right.
I mean, I guess that's. Good.
It's OK, bud. It's OK, buddy.
You're you're among friends here.
That was a close one, Devin. You almost let them.

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Slip. I know, I know.
I'm going. To go check into the hospital.