OP | Eps 894, 897 - 899: Zoro's Return!! - One Piece With A Lime

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54. 321 Christian. Hi.
Look, food. It's good food.
Oh finally. Oh my God, we finally made it

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back. Oh, I'm so happy, especially
after last week. Hunger is the best spice after
all. And now that I'm starving, oh
boy, this is about a hit diff Oh.
Oddly relevant set of episodes for that comment.
Yes, Sir. Oh, it's going to be so good.
I am very excited, I think. Oddly relevant as I stare at my

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Uber Eats order progress to hopefully gain to my house soon.
I oh, what the hey, what The Whowas that?
It's not Halloween, why are theyagonist?
What's going on? What the fuck?
Who throws a rock through a? Window.
What is this I'm I'm looking outthe window we're.
On the third floor. Yeah, we're we're up so goddamn
high. How is it my food?
No, it's not your food. What are you talking about?

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Fuck. Guys, guys, jeez, y'all act like
you've never had a rock fly through your window before.
Fucking relax. Jeez, So fucking dramatic.
What do you mean? Is this such a common occurrence
where you live? This just happens.
I mean, maybe I'm choosing to say no comment.
Maybe it's just common if you'relike a victim of a crime
repeatedly. Do we have window rock
insurance? Do we have insurance?

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I thought we did. Don't houses just come with
that? No, no they do not, I don't
think. Now you gotta pay for that, bro.
What? Also we don't own this, we rent
this and that requires renters insurance and bro we don't got
that. Shit, do you know how expensive
that shit can hold on? No many.
Many. Much.
Actually, no, I I don't know at all.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. There's a there's a note on this

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fucking rock. Oh, Oh no.
So not only did somebody throw the rock through our window, but
they also put a note on it. What?
What is this? Give me this.
Is it a threat or a list of demands?
I don't know, let's fucking let's find out.
See. Somebody's just delivering our
mail, guys. Everyone fucking relax.
Why couldn't they just use the mailbox?
Oh my God, it's so long. Jesus, what does it?

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I don't, I don't understand. All right, let me let me read
whatever this is. It's it's long, so strap in.
Either during the events of Dressrosa or Punk Hazard, I
recommended you go back and watch 3-D2Y.
And it's a fan. What guy?
Wait, we've been who leaked our address?
Wasn't me. We'll address that later.

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All right, we'll, we'll get to this afterward.
Let me finish this. I mentioned it was one of my
favorite One Piece specials. I don't remember who, but one of
you said it wasn't worth it and you all loved it.
I feel very elated that you did,in fact, enjoy it.
I mean, that's great, but we, I oh, wait, there's more.
OK, now Dave or whoever can insert spy music and he's,

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they're trying to cue our our editor.
What the fuck, man? OK, so far I have remained
anonymous, but I now give you a handle.
You can call me L No, not like Death Note.
They they got that from me. Oh, they got L from you.
Oh my God, he's him. Because they stole that from
you. Where they get N from or near?

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Wait, wait. Someone's near.
I don't. I don't.
I don't know, but I mean, maybe the rest of the note will sell
us. I'm with an agency that's
currently hunting down the wand criminal Natasha Hot Lips.
Whoa, I don't know them. Never heard of them.
We've been informed that Gundam Mobile suit sightings have been
reported in the vicinity of where your podcast streams from.

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Why did I miss it? I feel like we would have seen
that, but that's kind of OK. Sorry to say, but we're
currently hacking into your Brend bot to terminate the
villainous Agent Hot Lips. So much to bring it off.
Turn him off. Turn him off.
OK, my last message implanted his sleeper agent code.

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What are you wearing? And now he's active.
See how his eyes are glowing? That means he's active.
Overriding previous actions and commands.
Oh, God, it's real. It's real.
Oh, fuck. All right, let me get through
this. That means he's active.
He will rapid fire for breakfastburritos and anchovies from his
hidden arm cannon shortly. When did she get hit in our arm?

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Cannons. Is this a threat?
Because I'm I'm kind of hungry. I was hungry.
Oh, the only way to avoid total annihilation is to hand over
Natasha Hot Lips and to sweeten the deal, will throw in overalls
outfit, Nami Body Pillow and Aniko Robin.
But OK, hold on, hold up. Wait, what?
I get burrito and body pillow. Our boats got stuck in the
cookies and cream, so our agentscan't quite reach you, but we'll

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send them via airlift. We hope to comply with our
demands, and we hope you see reason.
Breadbot is now fully under our control.
Thank you and good night. Signed LPS.
What are you wearing? Oh fuck.
I am wearing a Gray tank top anda tan shorts.
Wait. You must comply with demands or

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Breadbot will begin annihilationmode.
Wait, but the activation code from last time was already
active, so wouldn't saying the activation code again deactivate
him? Brendan bought Thoughts.
You must comply with demands or bread bot will begin a night.
What are you wearing, Brendan? No, fuck, it doesn't work like
that. Well, unfortunately, I I don't

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know where Natasha Hot Lips is. They just sort of send in mail
from time to time. And they don't tell us where
they are either. So I wait.
Wait. What if this is a test?
By who? From Natasha.
Oh, to see if we'll give them up.
Yeah. Oh, like I said, I never heard
Natasha. I don't know who that.
Is. I don't know.
Annihilation mode will begin in five.

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Oh fuck 4. I don't know.
Three. It's been a good time lads.
Two, would you like to give up Natasha Hot Lips?
Can I get a burrito at least before I go?
Well, that's how it's going to get you.
Yeah, I think it's death by burrito.
I would never give up Natasha. Hot Lips.
You have passed the Brett Bot annihilation test.
Congratulations. I knew it.

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We did it. Thank God.
Can I still get the burrito? Whoa, guys, what the fuck?
Yo, I got this burrito in my hand.
Where'd I get this from? Hey, Give.
Me that, give me that. I earn that.
Shit, all right? Well, fuck.
Jeez. All right.
Well, you relax bro. Burrito, you've got.

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Wait a minute, why are you taking that?
You've got overeats on the way, you greedy bastard.
Well. Listen, given the circumstances,
I thought I was, you know, not going to make it to my Uber's
order. And it's exasperated my hunger.
My. Man's hungry and we got.
Podcast record Any fuel? Wait a minute, Justin.
Is this your delivery driver? Breadbot?

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No. The brick?
Either one, No. My mine says Kim is 10 miles
away. OK Oh my God, take forever.
She was like 8 miles away a couple of minutes ago.
What happened? Well, that's because I ordered
food from across the line, so you know.
What did you not like Hit? Direct ship.
I didn't feel like paying an extra $3 for me to skip the
queue. Always pay the extra $3.
All right, Well, you know, now that that crisis is over with, I

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guess we can start. That was sketchy for a second,
but I guess, I guess we're good.So sketchy.
I mean, I don't know anyway. Guys, we're back.
We're. So back, yeah, yeah, we're we're
so back. I mean, for fuck's sakes, dude.
I'm back. I no longer have to dodge my own
podcast 'cause I'm so miserable.What?
What? Oh, is that?
That's why you weren't here? Are you serious?
Are you just throwing that out into the universe?

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No, no, no, no. I'm just throw this content.
Come on, play, play along. Play along.
Improv class. Come on, Brendan, we went
through this. I'm not convinced we're playing.
I'm not convinced. Yeah, nobody said Simon Says
yet. I'm I'm pretty sure we are
getting totally unfettered and unadulterated, Justin.

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Thoughts. Anyway, how does everyone feel
about today's podcast episodes 894 slash 897 to 890?
9 new change just seeing change,new word change.
All right, all right, brothers, brother, fucking relax.
Let's go through the summary first, OK?
What? Some things never change.
Some things still never change. I know it's been a while for

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you. I know you, you, you.
You've been on autopilot and allthat.
Wait, there's a pilot? Shut up.
Anyway, we return to Luffy and Otama running through the lands
of Wano as Tama takes Luffy overto her native village to treat
him to a hero's feast. Not long after Tengui Yama

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Hitetsu, a local Tengu guy, shows up out of the blue,
demanding Luffy pay for devouring all of Tama's precious
rice. We quickly learn from Hitet,
let's see that Wano is predominantly barren and poor
country. For those not residing within
the flower capital, the factories made by Kaido to
produce weapons dump their pollution in the local water
sources. They do this while

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simultaneously extorting the population outside of the
capital of their money, citizensfor labor and food For Tama,
when she's not trying to fill her empty belly with poisonous
water from the river to stave off her hunger, only gets to eat
a helping of rice. But twice a year.
Luffy tries to explain the situation but before he can,
Tama falls immediately. I'll Hitetsu tells a story of

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why they won't migrate to the flower capital.
They both wait for people that haven't returned for some time.
Tama is waiting for none other than Ace.
Turns out, Once Upon a time, Acemade a trip to Tama's neck of
the woods and fed her and her village.
It was here that Luffy had to break the news to Tama that Ace
was no more and he won't be coming back.
Tama, already crippled by her dwindling health, collapses in

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despair and Luffy and Comacio goon a quest to find a doctor.
It was here that Luffy meets none other than Rora Noah
freaking Zorro. The real reason that Justin has
come back to us this week. The two boys are happy to see
each other again, but their reunion is cut short by Basil
Hawkins, a member of the Worst Generation that's allied with
Kaido. After a skirmish and an escape

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effort by Luffy and Zorro, they make their way to a nearby
village to finally treat Thomas ailments.
Woo Hoo we did it. Full summary Full set of
episodes. Brothers.
How we doing? How we feeling?
We're so back bro. I'm so moist we're.
So I'm truly. Living.
Bro I haven't enjoyed. I mean, OK, if my kids haven't

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said it before. Wow, no.
Say that again, but slower. Say that again, but full what?
Did I say? You said I haven't enjoyed.
What was the next thing you wereabout to say?
Oh, I haven't enjoyed One Piece like this in a while.
Oh, like this. You saved it with the like this.
I appreciate that. I have enjoyed One Piece in a
while I. Don't know if I ever said it on

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this part of the podcast, but Wano is one of my favorite arcs.
Yes, yes, Sir, yes, Sir and. Granted, it's like relatively
recent, but there's so much to love and enjoy about this arc.
I love the art style, personally.
I love the whole whatever era Japan aesthetic they're using.
I like a lot of the themes that are happening now and will

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happen in the future for I love Tama.
All right, this little girl. Girl.
I knew he was going here. ODA, I'm telling you right now,
ODA, this little girl dies. I'm coming for you all.
Right, I'm killing you like youryour ass is crass.
That's all he said. It's the bottom line.
Your ass has never been more grass.
I love everything right now. Yeah, I don't think you guys

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know this. Like this is a core memory for
Justin. He loves Tama and there's a core
part of who he is in Wano, as wesee fit, he sees Tama.
I've never had a desire to be a Big Brother before meeting Tama,
That's all I'm saying. I feel like that's a lie because
there's been several children that were like we've had Big

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Brother energy towards. Not him at all.
I enjoy being on Childs. Yeah, I think he's talking about
himself personally. Yeah, yeah.
Never gave a shit about any of those brats up until right now
with this one. This one special.
He sees Tama and he's like, I wish to protect you.
That that is what goes through his head.
She is precious. Anyone who wrongs you has a
problem with me. Yeah, I mean, to be fair, she is

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precious. She do be pretty precious.
You do all remember Tama from the original set of episodes
that we met her? Incorrect.
You know, like two or three months ago.
In the before 4 times yes, yes. Yeah, it's been a minute.
It's been a minute. Just to recap for everyone at
home. You know, she met Luffy when she
was being, you know, abused by Kaido people or whatever.

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And Luffy was like, but you didn't realize that I was the
protagonist of a shown in anime.And then Tom also showed off her
ability to tame wild beasts by pulling some dongo off her
cheek. Hence why the the baboon is now
our friends. I completely forgot about the
Tonko. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she do be
having a devil fruit, which the people of Wano don't even know

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our devil fruit. She called it like her spell or
some shit, like the same thing that fucking Kinnamon did when
he put the rock on the kids headand he's like.
Yeah, it's all ninjutsu. Ninjutsu, whatever.
Yeah, he's like, let me show youmy ninjutsu, my sorcery.
And then it's like, bro, that's a Devil fruit, and also why is
that your Devil Fruit? At least that was what's going
out of Punk Hazard. Tom.
On the other hand, there's a lotof good use out of that Devil

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for if I'm going to be totally fucking on.
Tom A pinch his cheek. Friendship with blank begins
initiates. I forgot the meme.
But. She.
Just would you like to eat this and become my friend?
And then everyone's like, not really.
And then she's like, but what ifI make you?
Gulp. Yeah, and then she force feeds
you. Fucking gulp.
Excuse me? We can do this the easy way or

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the hard way. We can do this the hard way or
the harder way. We can.
Do this the easy. There's there's, there's a hard
way. I do remember when we first or
many moons ago when we saw it, my first instinct was ill
because you know, like kind of valid because you know, like

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pimple popping videos like that was the the first thing.
Like I didn't register it initially as.
I think you actually did call ita pimple popping moment and at
the time, which is kind of wild.The fact that I reminded you and
you came to the same conclusion is a little rat.

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That's hilarious. Consistency is key.
Consistency do be key. But yeah, no, we open ourselves
up, guys. We're here.
We're in Wano. And if you all thought that
everything was sunshine and rainbows everywhere in Wano,
well, you'd be fucking wrong. Just like a real world, this
shit sucks. Just like the real world
Wanobeef. There's pollution, there's

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corruption, there's starvation. Yeah.
What else is there? Poverty.
Hold on, let me look, Let me look again.
Yeah, it looks all right. I just opened my blinds really
quick. I don't know I could handle it.
Devin opens door to gas station.That's about this raccoon.
Yeah, exactly. Like there's still wildlife.

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Well, at least the animals are having a good time, right?
On a real note though, someone honked at one of my raccoons at
work and I got mad. Wow, that's fucking.
Rude. Dude, how fucking dare they.
That's what I said. I I literally walked up and I
was like you having fun bullyingraccoons and they were like.
Oh sorry, we they were in your trash.
We wanted. To get out of your trash.
I was like, yeah. That's their trash.

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Fuck you all right? Yeah, fuck you.
Get your own trash and defend. Leave mine alone.
That's literally their trash. Y'all need to fucking chill out.
Actually, this is actually a somewhat relevant segue.
Can I please tell you guys my favorite character in this set
of episodes? Is there a raccoon?
I'd be offended if you didn't. Is it not Tama?

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OK, so I don't know if you guys noticed at the time that we are
with Luffy and Otama in her shack and she's like, oh, have
some rice and Luffy's like fuck yeah.
There is what seems to be a actual tanooki, which for those
at home that don't know what a tanooki is like basically called
it's raccoon dog that has a teapot on top of it.

(15:59):
Well, gentlemen, I I feel like it would be an absolute shame
not to tell you this because unfortunately I don't know the
next time we will be seeing Bunbuku again in the franchise.
My man's got a name. Bunbuku.
I love bunbuku. And do you know what bunbuku is?
It is none other than another object that consumed a devil

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fruit. What?
None other than the dog. Dog fruit.
Model Tanooki. Model Tanooki.
Oh shit. It's a fucking teapot, brother.
Teapot tanooki Teapot tanooki. Show me a photo again.

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Fucking gladly. Gladly, brother.
My man's got the receipts ready.Please, because I don't remember
seeing it in these episodes. Teapot Tanooki has five
syllables. Don't worry, I've got the
receipts just for you. Got the frame from the episode
and I'm just here like bro I didn't even know he was there.
Look at him. My God, look at.

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My God, I did see him, but I didforget though until the moment
you said it. Good old fucking Bunbuku.
How did I not see him? That's what I'm saying bro.
Bunbuku. Like it's like confusing because
at first you're like, wait a minute, is that just like a
teapot sitting on the back of a tanooki, which is also like

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equally fire? Just so we're clear.
But no, we need the additional This is none other than a
teapot. Justin, I need you to do me some
research. OK.
Can you buy a teapot that looks like that?
Hold on, results. Like have they made a product
like a physical real world product that is a teapot that

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works with that? I must know, I do not drink tea,
but I want it. Surely there has to be a Tanooki
teapot? I don't want it.
I need it. It's fundamental to my survival.
Survey's saying no so far, but. Criminal.
I feel like this is a moment formerch potential for us.
I honestly can't believe that this dude hasn't been
merchandised yet. To be perfectly honest with you,

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there's an opportunity here. I mean, it's because clearly
he's not in the rest of the show.
There's no respect put on him. It's a damn shame Bunbuku, he
deserves to be respected. Look at him, look how fucking
happy he is. I know.
Look at that. Smiling face.
What a guy. He's like my entire existence is
teapot. He's so excited to just serve
some tea. He's.
Like I just want to give you tea, bro.

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You know what I've been meaning to name the new raccoons that
are showing up at the gas station and I like Bambooku.
I like that Bambooku baby. I think that's one of them.
He's. Got He's got to find the right
one. Fucking slaps.
That's incredible. That is incredible.
I wasn't going to leave here tonight without expressing to
you my enthusiasm for Bambooku, so thank you for giving me a
couple of minutes and the floor I.

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Appreciate you because I saw thebullet point down here on the
sheet and I'm just here like what the fuck is that the?
Fucked up Bambuku. Yeah, I figure you guys are
like, what the fuck is Brendan smoking tonight?
I thought this was like a cheer or something.
Was like buku. I was like, I I don't.
Know, I thought it was a laughing tick.
It is my favorite character in this set of episodes.

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Fuck Zorro. Fuck Hawkins.
Fuck Tama. Yeah, I'll.
I'll say it. I'm not afraid.
I ain't afraid. Thank you.
Thank you. Maybe next time, Tama sake.
I'm just kidding. Yes, while we're here in this
part of our episodes, you know, I think I definitely didn't
catch it the first time this moment gets revisited in like
essentially A flashback or whatever, or like it gets

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recalled later down the line. And when I saw, I guess
technically the second time through that flashback moment,
it made me realize that, like, Ilike Luffy a lot as a character.
Before, I was just kind of like,put him in his own special
category without consideration of like, oh, he's the main
antagonist. I like, I don't even think about
him. It's like an antagonist.
Protagonist. It's like a cheap win to say

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he's like a favorite character or whatever.
He's not a role. Let him go, let him go.
We all know what he meant. So I would really just never
really pay attention to Luffy's or the things he do.
I was just like, oh, fighting, cool, great.
Anything else I just wasn't liketuned into for whatever reason.
And watching his relationship with Tama develop.
And particularly this is the wayit starts where Tama like, is so

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thankful to him that she literally gives him all of her
food. And then Luffy, you know, I
guess instinctively just ask formore because it's what he's used
to. And he doesn't understand or
know yet that, like, this nationis like dirt poor, abject
poverty, famine, all that stuff.And seeing him poorly lie about

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oh, thanks, you know, that was actually really good.
Thank you. I don't need anymore.
I'm I'm satisfied. I had Tommy just call his mouth
bullshit. Watching that moment like got
me. I was like, damn, Luffy gets it.
He he's like, you know, he just didn't pick up on the signals of
like, what's happening here. He wasn't rude because I think
it's normal to ask for seconds when you make so many
assumptions. But then him being corrected,
he's like, oh, my bad. I didn't realize that how how

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things were going. Thank you so much.
And then watching like Tama do that and her suffering, just her
living conditions. And it just my explanation will
get clearer as we progress through the story.
But like all of these themes that pop up and the relationship
that's tethered to these themes,I find it really compelling.
And this is beginning of a beautiful arc.
That's all I'm saying. It's just all these things
coming together. I also feel like and stop me if

(21:31):
you feel differently guys, the pacing can still be a little
Yikes sometimes. Some of the Hawkins stuff could
have been a little better. There were a lot of re cuts to
the same shots a lot unfortunately, which is going to
become a pattern, especially in early Wano.

(21:52):
They're still trying to beef up the buffer, but how are you guys
feeling otherwise? I mean, I enjoyed the episodes.
Yeah, let's go start off strong,baby.
Well, that's. Good, however.
Look at that. See, I'm already bringing down
the energy of the room. Yeah, I'm going to drag us even.
This is to go even further below.
The bar no. Wait, what?

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I don't know if that's a good ora bad thing.
It's bad. Wait.
I don't necessarily agree with Justin on the whole point he was
making a minute ago. It didn't resonate with me like
that because those are the you know, seeing those flashbacks
that you know, that's that was forever ago when we watched it,
when we watched it. That just felt like it wasn't
really anything new to me. It so I don't I like I see where

(22:37):
what you're talking about. It just didn't connect with me
like that emotionally. It was one of those things where
it's like I still went through with the lens of like Luffy's
just doing stupid Luffy shit, you know, eating everyone's food
and then oh, no consequences. That's just how my brain
processed it. Overall, the episodes are still
definitely a lot of fun, like seeing the Hawkins and

(22:58):
everything. Love that.
Good, good. Loved all of that.
Seeing so you know them running into Zorro Chef's kiss, thank
God. Wow.
Absolutely. Hell yeah 'cause like if it was
bad pacing it would be like a week of episodes before seeing
them run into Zorro. The fact that they ran into
Zorro in three episodes blew me away.

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He's like, wait a minute, we're moving, we're cruising.
OK. All right.
Right, Yeah. Holy shit.
Holy shit. The gas.
It's gas. Fuck the fuck out of me, all
right? I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to dog the situation.
I'm just, you know, speaking my truth as somebody who has seen
Wano a couple of Times Now, you know, I, I see some of the
chinks. Watch this just be.
Crumbs. They give us Zorro, but we won't

(23:44):
see anyone else for another 5 weeks now or we won't see Zorro
do anything cool for another year.
This is the one people wanted and they're like, all right, we
did our job. I will say Luffy's level of
excitement was my level of excitement when I first watched
this however many years ago. I was like, yes, my reason for

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watching the show was back, let's go.
Yeah, better. Once I can enjoy one piece.
I'm so surprised he didn't make a crater.
I can finally enjoy One Piece because this green headed
motherfucker is finally back on my screen.
Yes. I will say though, the fight
scenes in particular with Zorro doing new stuff that we saw of

(24:27):
him. Damn, he was eating good,
apparently all right. And they brought back the guitar
riff. Dude.
They did bring back the guitar riff.
The guitar riff for a Hey Tattoosword.
As a matter of fact, I want to say Once Upon a time we were
recording an episode, and I don't know if it was on cast or

(24:49):
just outside of cast, but we were talking during the cast
about how much you guys fucking love that guitar riff.
And I think I even said, as a matter of fact, guys, I just
watched an episode in late one piece that included the guitar
riff. I think it was this set.
I think it was in this set. No way.
I mean, it had to be, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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That's awesome. So there you go.
Fun facts. Fun facts.
Also, I have many theories aboutthat sword.
Oh. You have many theories about
that sword. I mean for those who don't know,
Luffy quite literally stumbled upon none other than Nidai
Kitetsu or Kitetsu the second, which for those who are who are

(25:32):
very unfamiliar, Zorro has Sondai Kitetsu or Kitetsu the
third. And the the the grading scale
goes. The first Kitetsu ever made is
called Shodai Kitetsu. This is neat eye.
This is the second Kitetsu ever made.
But they're all cursed supposedly.
At least that was the bit from when we first met Kitetsu that
that Zorro has. And even Zorro, like he sussed

(25:52):
it out as soon as Luffy came by.He's like, hey.
Well, they also said it was cursed in these episodes.
Yeah, well, sure, they told the audience, but Zorro's like, oh,
that sword is speaking to me. He's like, well, wait a minute,
is there something about it is like, familiar?
He's like, hey Luffy, let me touch that.
Let me see that. He's like, no, it's mine.
He's like, first of all, no, it's not let.

(26:13):
Me just. See that?
So I was watching these episodeswith my cousin and, you know,
he's adding to the hype. You know, he's like, I don't
think he ever slashes anyone with the sword.
Like, it's just a bit like, you know, he's just gonna punch her.
No, Luffy does, right? But then, like, as soon as he
said that, he immediately slashed someone with the sword.
Now I was like, really? Now, never.

(26:35):
He never does it. Like, oh really?
I like the bit but I hate it. But I like it.
What? That's that?
Luffy got a sword or he's a samurai now?
Why? What's not to like?
He's just being a samurai, no? No, no.
Luffy is not a samurai. Hold the fuck off.
No. No, hold on.
What do you mean he's got the sword?
He's got the sword, he's obviously a samurai.
Yeah, and the kimono. Fuck off.

(26:57):
He's literally a ronin. By definition, he's a wandering
samurai. I'm not going to lie.
Luffy reeling back with his first with the sword in it,
making you think that he's goingto come up with a move that
incorporates the sword only to pistol somebody and punch them
in the face might be the funniest shit this show has ever
done. Yeah, just punch somebody.

(27:19):
I honestly agree with you. Really.
That's what does it. That's what I mean by like, I
hate it, but I like it. Like I like it because it's a
good bit. This is a good bit.
We haven't had a good bit in a minute.
But at the same time I hate it because I want them to use sword
stuff and do unique sword stuff.You're never going to get that,
brother. You're never going to see that.
No, I'm with Devin on this one. It's.

(27:41):
Like the two wolves fighting inside of me, but they're both
like equally powerful. I agree it's good bit it's on
brand for Luffy but also I hate it because what the fuck are you
doing? Just use the sword like it's.
Meant to be huge. Exactly.
He doesn't know how to. That's the point.
He doesn't know how to use a sword.

(28:01):
But like he uses it defensively and like it's like it's cool
when he does it defensively, butwhatever he goes offensively,
it's all of a sudden it's just back to gum gum pistol with a
sword in my hand. And then I worried he's going to
cut his own head off at some points because the Gatling
because I don't understand the geometry of how his wrists and
arms work. Yeah, just a reminder, it is a

(28:27):
cursed sword. Like he's, he's not like on
board to get off Scott free. Right And so like that thought
was festering in my mind, like what is the curse?
Like maybe it's a different typeof curse, like maybe it's not
actually sharp like like stuff like that.
But then he slashed, so I was like, OK, so it is sharp, but

(28:47):
maybe it's, it's not sharp. Like, again, it doesn't make
sense. Right now I'm brewing.
I'm just stirring and there's hot water and there's a rock in
it and I don't understand what the soup is yet.
Of course, of course. I also love that Luffy just big
throws the scabbard on the ground and Zorro's like what?
The. Fuck is wrong with?

(29:08):
The YEAH leads off the fight by tossing the scabbard at the
enemies and he just goes dude. Literally don't do that.
Like what is wrong with you? I'm literally going to beat your
ass after this for what you're doing right now.
The other fun thing about that was when he hands him the
scabbard back at the end of the fight.
Yeah. Yeah, he's like Zorro it for

(29:29):
you. Oh, you know, Luffy's ass.
Would have left it behind absolutely like so this.
Is oral. Being like, listen, if I don't
pick it up, it's gonna get left,so I got it.
I gotta just bite my tongue, yeah.
This is oral like if I'm gonna have any.
Chance of being able to hold that sword.
I need to do everything I can for him.
In order to touch the sword I need.

(29:50):
Him to maintain it, except I gotta do it for him.
Am I him maintain it it? Means I maintain it so it was
like this mother fucker won't give.
Me the damn sword. But I swear to God I gotta make
sure he doesn't kill himself with it for sure.
It's so good. It's so good.
Good bits, good bits. Their embrace really does give
me life though, like how they react to seeing each other.

(30:11):
Yes. Honestly what's really good is
that even Zorro, like normally your boy is the most brooding
and you know, stoic character. He's like Luffy, it's so good to
see. You brother, and then like
after. Luffy comes in and embraces him
like, you know, traditional Straw Hat energy where he's
like, Oh no, he's gonna grab me.And then the Zorro doesn't even
ask him to get off. He just gets his head out of his

(30:32):
chest and goes like, how you doing, buddy?
Is everyone here he's into? It again, I'm surprised that
they. Didn't make a crater when Luffy
landed on him. Like it wasn't like a meteor.
Hitting or building, you know what I mean?
Like it was just, he just caughthim.
Yeah, man. That's what I'm saying.
Bro love. Luffy still only like a. £130

(30:55):
not that bad. Yeah, he's probably $1.20.
Soaking wet but also going 40. Miles an hour, allegedly.
Well, I mean, yeah, he he. He is.
He is dropping in out of orbit basically, which is hilarious.
Well, with Zorro can quite. Literally bench press whatever

(31:16):
the stupid scarecrow thing was that was coming after them on
the dock or whatever. Yeah, I Luffy no problem.
I like that straw demon. So nice.
How do we feel about Hawkins in this set?
Of episodes, we have a good time.
He was sick. You know what?
Actually, I'm glad you. Asked this before we continue
Christian, I need you to go first because I have two
immediate questions for you. First is obviously, how do you

(31:38):
feel about the Oh boy. Hold on before we have
questions. Basil Hawkins, baby.
Yeah. OK.
Expected answer. Expected.
Answer. So, so that essentially answers
my first question of how do you feel about him?
Cool. Great.
Now how do you feel about him merking that lizard, Mr. Iona
bearded dragon? Oh shit.

(32:00):
That is true. The lizard had it coming.
That's crazy. You heard it here first, folks.
You heard it here. Bam, I can't believe.
He doubled down that hard with the swiftness No, no, no, no,
no. This makes sense.
This makes. Sense they're cold blooded
sometimes Christian like comes. Up with a bit on the spot and
other times he's like, honestly,I'm just, I'm going to be the

(32:20):
villain. No, yeah, I'm about to call the.
ASPCA and be like. Listen, I have a lizard in
danger. You don't understand.
That lizard was on the bad side.It was on the bad side.
To be fair, and that made it OK.I mean.
It's just the lizard, bro. He's just.
Following orders from his owner.We don't know anything about the
lizard. Yeah, that lizard could be a.

(32:41):
Stone cold killer. Yeah, he could be a bread.
Killer, you see the look in his eye.
He could also. Be like, I don't know, a bully.
Yeah, he could be a. Meanie.
You don't know Justin. Yeah, he be a big poopy.
Head. I can't believe I'm the Peter
representative. Here on this podcast right now.
What's going on? Hey you guys justify kicking?

(33:01):
Dogs and cats. I don't want to hear it from
you. Yeah, fuck you, but Christian
can justify. Killing a lizard.
Apparently that lizard was goingto try and.
Kill Basil Hawkins first of all.No, he wasn't.
Second of all, what are you talking?
About the animals were just. Chilling and doing nothing
wrong. You know the best part about
this is that. Christians making a literal

(33:22):
straw man argument. Keep your fancy words to.
Yourself, magic man. He is making a.
Straw man argument on behalf of the straw man fighting the straw
hat. Guy, it straws all the way down.

(33:45):
Brendan, where does the buck end?
It straws all the way down. Oh fuck now.
Peso Hawkins is sick. I've.
Been saying it since day one, but they even made him cooler
too on top of that. Yeah, Yeah.
Well, she. Don't got to tell.
Me twice, brother. Let me tell him I don't.
Bro, they gave this motherfuckera.
JoJo Part 3 stand like he was cool before like.

(34:08):
With doing like the tarot aesthetic, but then like they
got rid of that weird little like floaty thingy that he had
in front of him and just mount. Now he just has floating cards.
I love that you you've. Immediately honed it on that one
aesthetic choice. Yeah, you're right, they did do
that. It's a vibe.
It is a vibe. It is a vibe.
Everyone loves to be the card. Dealing throwing magic guy.

(34:28):
I'm really curious as to where things start and end because
before the floating cards were attached to a piece of straw, so
he was holding them up. Now he's just telekinetic.
Yeah. So.
I don't I. Just I need to know if that's
part of his power. Are the cards straw?

(34:48):
I've made the leap in. Logic that all of this stuff is
intrinsically tethered to his devil fruit, which I was never
either knowledgeable of or convinced of whatever.
I would assume so. See, I thought it was hockey.
Hockey can't be doing that unless he's.
Got a new brand of hockey? We don't know about.
Yeah, yeah. That's what I mean.
Like, I don't know. Like what if it's new?
It could be, you don't know. That's true.

(35:10):
We had telekinesis and I mean, you're right, but I kind.
Of doubt it. It's one piece like none of this
shit makes sense. They take the rules and go and
then you know, new stuff. Shut up.
They do throw new stuff all the time.
It could be correct. He could be.
Channeling observation hockey into the cards or something like
that. And that's what gives him his
predictions through the tarot, right?

(35:32):
I am making the leap in. Logic that all of these Taro
aesthetic related things are intrinsically related to his
devil fruit. Well, yeah, so is the cards.
Itself. So is apparently his sword
turning into straw? What if he has mantra?
That is the one thing that gets.Me where?
I'm like, brother, What the How'd that happen?
What are you doing? Yeah, I don't know.
I. Also asked the same question.

(35:53):
Of like I remember him using straw sword.
I don't remember it being an actual sword that turns into
straw. I remember that.
Don't worry, I. Remember, I always remember I
members. I mean, it feels like Devil
Fruit awakening, but it hasn't explicitly been stated.
Yeah, that's my next week in Logic.
I think it's awakening. That's true.

(36:15):
Yeah, it could easily. Be Devil Fruit awakening or it's
suspecting or giving the impression that he just casually
is an awakened Devil fruit user Daisel Hawkins.
Is pretty cool. Though I fucking love it, I like
the fact. That he's a.
RIP off character from either Shaman King or JoJo with his
fucking stand. Let me.
Tomorrow into the. Sword just his gets a giant

(36:36):
Reaper. I also love the bit.
Of just how his ability is kind of balanced where it's like
balanced, yeah, it's a 5050. Shot.
Either it helps us or it doesn'talways like when he pulls a.
Car he's talking about the fact that there's negative.
Cars OK on paper it's. Balanced.
Except I hacked the system by giving myself 10 lives by

(36:56):
sacrificing anybody under me. Yeah, Basil Hawkins, I think.
Is just a fucking joke character.
I'm going to be so fucking for real too.
That's a hot take. I don't know about this.
Joke character. I love the pit.
Though, no, I think he's a greatcharacter.
I love his aesthetic and all that, but like when you get down
to the nitty gritty of his powerset, you're absolutely right.
His cards are balanced. Why?

(37:17):
Why would he? Have a power set.
That could inherently hurt his allies.
You know what he has? He has a.
Very hunter hunter style power he does.
I would agree with that. Agreed.
Maybe that's why I like. Him there's this give and take
of well, you can obtain super strong power, which is the the
Reaper guy, or you can draw a card that harms your own friend,

(37:42):
allies or whatever it is. So you give the fact that there
can be a negative for a strongerpositive than normal, which is a
very men like ability to have. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why I
like it. There's cause and effect and
there's consequences. This man likes it.
Because he's got. Consequences, you know, I just

(38:02):
think it's really funny. That Devin loves consequences as
an anime when this man in real life avoids ball accountability.
You can't prove that. Just fucking blasted.
Him hole hole. I couldn't even finish my

(38:23):
assessment. He.
Knew I was going immediately. He's like wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait. Hold on, let me just put my
head. On this block.
OK, Justin, you're ready. You can take the swing.
I'm taking accountability now. Damn.
Dude, that easy? I've lived a good life, yeah,
don't worry. Devin, you still got a.
Lot to live for. He's actually just burying his

(38:45):
head in the. Sand don't worry about it guys.
He's he's fine. Incredible.
Damn, that was a good roast. I shook it.
Wow man, when Justin. Has the roast, you know you're
in trouble. Just kidding.

(39:07):
Oh fuck yeah, I. Fucking love that.
How do you feel about? Ace returning.
Kind of sort of through this loose connect.
I hate it really. We did skip over it a little
bit. I'm a.
Little go ahead. This is this is definitely.
Recency bias. I sighed heavily and rolled my.
Eyes. Because all of the specials we
fucking watched in the last fiveweeks incorporated Ace and his

(39:30):
fucking death. Well.
Agreed. This is unfortunate timing.
I recognize this. If we had gone straight to these
episodes, I would not be having this reaction.
However, because we've done this, I didn't want any part of
it. Shit.
I was. Like I'm so close.
To hitting the right arrow key. All right, that's rough.

(39:52):
On this. Whole.
Thing I know, this is brand new content.
This is stuff we did have not seen yet.
Wow, wow. However, I was very.
Tempted my like I had a very mechanical reaction.
That's crazy. You're the Big Brother.
I know, but this is. Separate from this, Christian
let the dark side consume you. When we got into what the actual

(40:17):
new stuff was, I went oh that's wholesome.
Ace is being Ace and and being real nice to Tama and the
villagers. Cool.
But my mechanical reaction basedoff of the my instinctive
reaction from the last four weeks was to reach for the arrow
key and skip what I was about tosee.
I can't believe her resident big.
Brother dismissed all the wholesome Big Brother content.

(40:39):
That's crazy. I didn't miss any of it.
OK, so. On Behalf of the Ace fans out
there, because I am one of them,I will simply say I have two
notes from this number one, I think it is really fun that we
get a little bit more context and we get to learn where Ace
learned how to make the hats that he made for ORS ORS Junior

(41:01):
from back in the the the white beard arc, because that was like
the bit that they had. They were friends because at one
point ORS was sitting in the rain and then Ace was like, yo,
let me let me make you something.
And he made him a big buck off hat so that he would be shielded
from the rain. Well, now we know where Ace
learned how to make them. Tama taught him.
That's fun. That is a fun context to have #2
I think this is very understated, and maybe I'm just

(41:22):
a little too much of A Luffy fanboy these days.
There was one part of the scene where Luffy explained to Tama
that obviously Ace is dead. And he's a very blunt
individual. He, he doesn't sugarcoat
anything ever. And when Tama mentioned that she
was waiting for Ace to come backand like, you know, help him out
or whatever. And Luffy's like, well, I don't
know how to tell you this, but Ace is dead.
You got to know. And there's one thing the anime

(41:43):
really did here, because Luffy is a character that has grown
from this trauma in his life. And one thing that anime can do
in moments like these is block out the character's eyes to make
it feel more impactful, like, oh, you don't know what the
character's thinking. So they're maybe they're getting
choked up or maybe they're angry, or maybe this that they
didn't do that here. Luffy said, perfectly blank,

(42:03):
straight up, Ace is dead. He is no longer with us.
And whenever they cut back to Ace's expert aces, Luffy's
expression, he was like, that's it.
That's the truth. It is what it is.
And he never broke down. And I appreciate that because I
understand that directionally what they've just demonstrated
to me is that their main character is not only giving

(42:24):
this information to another character, they are also
demonstrating that said character has grown from that
trauma and they accept the consequences of that horrible
thing that had happened to them.And I appreciate that that is
that is a note that I took away from from the scene when.
They're leaving. The forest on Camacho's back
Thomas starts crying and has youknow starts reacting and she's

(42:46):
like, you know, punching on Luffy and expressing herself.
Luffy has his like pseudo stoic expression on his face.
And when I get from in his, he'sunderstanding of her like pain
because he went through it himself.
And what I found interesting is that he never like tries to I
guess, like he's not like scolding her.
Yeah, you know, he never like, yelled at her.
Yeah, he just lets her. Go through emotions, and at

(43:08):
first I did. The first time I didn't
understand why he did this, but maybe now I understand a little
bit. He never tells her about his
relationship with Ace or how he knows Ace is dead because he was
there, because he was the reason.
He never inserts himself in thatparticular context.
I thought that was very interesting and maybe a little
weird. Like I I wonder what would
happen if he did. It's like, you know, like when

(43:31):
you absorb. Too much information or just
shock and you wouldn't process it.
So just processing the first aspect, you know, maybe I think
what's fun. About that interaction is what
it says about Luffy here in thathe has no intention of taking
the sorrow away from Tama, but he does think it's important

(43:53):
that Tama knows that he is not coming back and why he's not
coming back because he doesn't want her to feel like she has to
be waiting for forever for a person to, you know, save them
or whatever that's never going to come back.
He's not belittling her feelingstowards it at any point and he's
not inserting himself like like Justin had said.
But the kind of person that Luffy is is more like, listen,

(44:14):
you clearly don't know a truth that I have.
These are the details done unfortunately, that it is what
it is, and I appreciate that here.
And I think I agree with Justin,like a lot of people thought it
was kind of weird that Luffy never was like, well, he was my
brother. So like I deserve to feel more
than you or maybe not even like playing it that that like
harshly, but saying like he was my brother and unfortunately he
is no longer with us. Like he never mentions that to

(44:36):
Tama, which probably would have changed the the mood of the
situation for Tama being maybe she'd be a little bit more
understanding of how he felt or she.
But at the end of the day, he's like, it doesn't really matter
it what my relationship days. But I do know he's no longer
with us and he wants Tama to learn from that on her own, just
like he did. And I appreciate that about him
as a character. Yeah.

(44:57):
So anyway, fuck you guys for saying that the.
A step was stupid. That is a gross.
Overstatement of what I said. How would you know, Mr. I
skipped past it. I didn't say I skipped past.
It I said I almost skipped. You said you were slamming.
That right mouse key, but no. What do you got open your?
Ears, I said. I almost did.

(45:17):
You're right. You're right.
You said your instinct is to skip past anything that includes
this dead fiery boy. Yeah, but I watched.
It I still watched every second of it out about every second he
was seeing it 5. Seconds gets out of time well,
but you still LED. With man, I got to tell you that
when I saw Ace on my screen, I started rolling my eyes.
All I'm saying is you, you're really playing both sides of the

(45:39):
field here. All right?
I missed 2. Seconds while I was rolling my
eyes. OK, it was good.
All right, Good, good. I had a.
Decent time with it. I would have had a better time
I'm if we didn't have the overexposure, but it is what it
is. It's just unfortunate timing and
these things happen. You're probably right.
For me, I think it didn't matterabout the overexposure to me.
It was just the whole, I'm just so done.

(46:00):
I'm so done with this thing. Just done.
Stop talking about. I'm tired of it.
Wow, you know. I have another fun fact about
this that I think is fun, but maybe you guys don't care.
Go on. Luffy is played by the same
voice actress that plays Hawk Guy in Full Metal Alchemist.
I think her name is Hawkeye, right?
Lieutenant Hawkeye, Yes. And the.

(46:23):
Person who voices Ace is the same person that plays Mustang,
so it's very fun that they get to be brother and brother in One
Piece. But they were Mustang and
Hawkeye and Full Metal Alchemist.
The guy who voices Mustang joined a union sometime after
they finished dubbing the White Beard War and he was actually no
longer allowed to return to the Funimation studio to record for

(46:46):
One Piece specific. I don't know what the terms of
their agreement, but he actuallydid convince them to let him
come back for Wano and he's still in that union today I
believe. And he was still here for Ace.
Obviously they love this character enough to make sure
that they hold on to the guy that made him a staple at least
for the Funimation side, and I appreciate that.

(47:07):
Damn. And also the fact that.
I know that, Colleen. Flinkenbeard and Travis.
Travis, that's exactly. Correct.
The both of them having done thefull metal stuff and having been
Ace and Luffy together in One Piece.
I just, I can't see it going anyother way at this point.
They have too much chemistry. They have too much fucking
chemistry. Anyway, that's all.
I, I Brendan note on the side. No, that's great.
Aren't they married? Or is that a different actress?

(47:29):
I think you're right. No, I think it's Travis.
I believe yeah, because aren't they both on critical?
Role. No, I mean, I know.
Colleen, ain't that Travis. Might be.
That sounds right, Travis says. Is it Travis?
Willingham They're not married then.
Oh, no, no, no, they're not married.
Married. No, no.
No, they're not married or anything like that, but they're
they're just good actors. They work together very well.
I know Travis is. Married yes, but not to someone
named Colleen. Correct?

(47:50):
I also don't know all their names.
Just to be clear, that guy from Critical Role is married to
Laura Bailey, who's also on Critical Role.
That's who it was. OK, it is Travis Willingham.
You are absolutely correct. I knew.
I knew it was him. I fucking knew it was him.
That's the guy. Anyway.
Hawkins is weird and note and we.
Like that about him I. Like it and I'm here for.

(48:11):
It give me more straw. Speaking of weird and.
Liking it? Whatever animal Hawkins is
writing, I love it. This lion, reindeer, moose thing
looks great. You want to talk about animals?
In these episodes that we love, let's talk about Benbuku again.
Baby. Bunbuku baby.
What I was actually going to say.

(48:32):
Was I? For whatever reason the the
shark a dial really tickled me. Shark a dial was really.
Funny to me for some reason, maybe because it was just a
Pokémon? It's like basically shark pedo
with legs from from the Pokémon games.
But something about the way it looked chasing the other
animals. Just I, I was laughing real hard

(48:54):
at that. Probably more than I should
have. Waka waka waka waka waka.
Waka waka waka waka waka. It honestly feels.
Very Avatar the Last Airbender to be because they just combined
2 animals. Kind of it, really.
Did yeah. I mean, I One Piece is known for
this too, obviously, because, you know, they've got like the
Yeah, but they normally do something even weirder, like a

(49:15):
banana dial, right? They do?
Yeah, the banana Gator. Yeah, well, it's.
Just a crocodile. With a banana on it said, you
know, right, Right. But like this time, they're
mixing well. Is it a banana that grew a?
Crocodile or a crocodile that grew a banana.
We'll never know. See like like that is like to
me. Like if I if I were to go into
animal like differences like crocodile banana is more one PC

(49:38):
in my mind than the crocodile shark.
That one feels more avatar. Yeah, but we got, we got stuff
like Kung Fu dugongs where it's just, it's a seal with a turtle
shell. That's one PC.
It's Kung Fu. That's one PC.
To me, yeah. Yeah, it's Kung Fu and a.
Dugong because they have a Kung Fu bit.
That's why, yeah, because they can do Kung Fu.
Yeah, it's not. Avatar enough.

(49:59):
It's not Avatar enough I feel like.
Avatars. Almost.
Strictly take one animal, mix itwith another animal.
New animal one piece just has mostly gags for further animal
species like South bird points. S also makes funny noises that
that is a very one piece. Animal.
I can't. Wait to see what the shark adile
bit. Is crocodile.

(50:20):
Bit is just he's. He's a crocodile on land and
shark. Hell yeah.
Put together he is an apex predator.
That's all I needed. Just two apex.
Predators put together. That's his bit.
Oh fuck yeah. Then the what the last like
major event that happened here was they do get eventually get
away from Hawkins. I feel like Hawkins just kind of

(50:42):
like let it happen to because hedrew the card that said that
they were going to get guidance or whatever.
And then he's like, well, there's nothing more I can do.
The card. Said it in my.
Mind, it kind of painted like hedoesn't actually you want to
fight them, you think so I don'tthink that's.
True, I think he was. More than happy to keep fighting
him, but he lives by the heart of the cards.

(51:04):
He is a Yu-gi-oh character. Through and through, I also felt
that heavily. I was like, Oh no, he's going to
duel him. They put 2 cards face.
Up in attack mode. Oh shit, oh shit.
He. Shuffles.
Funny. Too.
Oh my God. No, no.
And he? Literally summoned the.
Straw Reaper thing. So all I'm saying is he did do

(51:26):
that. I.
Summon Straw Reaper in attack mode.
Now I want to crossover. Episode between Yuki and.
He's with the. Hawkins, I feel.
Like Hawkins breaks a couple. Rules you just you just have a
random Yuki. Oh, episode you got Yuki who's
like, ah, I'm here to duel the the best duelist here on the
island and then fucking Hawkins comes out of nowhere and he's

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like, I came from Alaska and faraway.
Yeah, dude, like we've got the. Goku crossover and the the food
eating one with One Piece. Why can't Hawkins fall into the
Yu-gi-oh universe? Yeah.
Why can't we have card game? Yeah.
I want to see Hawkins fight. Blue Eyes.
White Dragon maybe? That's where Hawkins gets the.
Telekinesis. It's all just the shadow realm

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that he's manifesting into the One Piece world.
Hawkins is an Egyptian. God Nah, he's got the Millennium
item. Somewhere on him, we just, we
haven't seen it. Yeah, the.
Sword. It's the sword.
Dude, the sword is the Millennium piece.
Millennium. Sword, of course.
It's right in. Front of us it.

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Was there the whole time. Also straight up, that one
screenshot of the Reaper's face the with the red in the mouth
overlaid on top of Basil Hawkins's face.
Sick. Fucking pretty sick.
Incredible. I screenshotted it.
I'm gonna be keeping that for later.
That's like a that's a background waiting to happen.

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I need that in Ultra 8 KHD. This shit right here.
This this makes me hard. That better?
Be in an AMV. Of him, yeah, that would make a
really. Good like screensaver if it if
it was like animated like like kept the frames and stuff
moving, yes. Yes, yeah, if there was like the
like cloud. Was like rolling around or

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something like that. Yeah, that would be pretty sick.
I like this. So fucking metal.
Y'all, there's a good 5 or 6 seconds in the show whether we
can make that happen. I think you're cooking,
Christian. Me too.
I think I'm cooking too. I'm glad somebody else agrees in
response. I'm going to tap too mana to
play cook harder. Oh great.
How many TCGS can we stuff? Into this, anyone know how to

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play the Pokémon game? Burn 3 energy.
To bring a Pikachu one piece. Has its own card game too.
Anyone want to play that? Definitely not I I don't.
Didn't. Fall into that trap.
I I know someone who does, it's going to be enough for me to.
Like whenever I go to the card shop and.
Because I sell them there with my cousin.

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He always like covers his with his body.
He's like do not look. And I'm like, OK, sorry, Jesus.
I'm sure the packs have. Plenty of spoilers, you don't
have to worry about the cards. Right.
Like, but he's like, do not look.
At this and I'm like OK, OK, geez yeah, don't look at my
ultra rare. HD super shiny special edition

(54:18):
beach swim tsunami card. Don't look at it my. 10 graded
ace. Card with a doughnut hole in it.
Donut ace card. It was stabbed in with a pencil
by the actual voice actor. That would ruin.
It wait a minute. Oh, would it?

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Oh, maybe or. Would it?
Well, it ruined its market value.
But but like you can't put a price on something special like
that. Yeah, but like if.
Travis Hole punched an ace card and signed it.
Bro not like hole punch, got to be more.
Creative than that. Like he'd like he had someone
hold it out like a karate chop board and then he stuck a pencil

(55:01):
through it or something. Oh, wait, wait, wait.
No, no, no. You get the voice actor for a
kainu to hole punch it, then sign it.
Yeah, there we go. Oh my God.
Now that's cooking, I will say. The one unfortunate thing about
Hawkins is that he he is in exactly 0 frames of this show so

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far where they do not animate his gigantic 6 head well, I.
Think he just. Has A6 head brother man I I know
but. Like every single shot of him
is, I feels like I'm all I'm seeing half the time.
And it also doesn't help that the the eye makeup he's got on
very exacerbates the the length of it.
Yeah. Yeah, it does.

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Kind of funny they. Really bumped up the forehead
real estate after the time skip for him.
Come land a fucking jet on that thing.
I truly you could land 6 jets onthere and still have room for an
aircraft carrier. OK, call it a port.
Jesus. Fucking Christ.
He's got. 6 landing strips. Above his eyes.

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Dude, he OK, Fine, you got me. There you do.
Got me there. He's got 6 landing strips.
Oh fuck man, plenty. Of time for deceleration.
And acceleration, yeah, yeah, OK.
I love. It's great.
Do you guys believe that? Zorro.
Actually did that fucking gorilla move again?
Did y'all think he was ever going to do that?
Fucking Popeye. Mode, baby, he turned Popeye.

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Mode back on brother, no spinachneeded.
I don't love the Popeye look, but the move was.
Cool. Seeing him change the weather
with the swords that was that was sick.
He literally cut the vibes in half.
At first I was like, he changed the weather and.
Then I realized, oh, right afterthe scarecrow demon evaporated.
Then for some reason the sun started shining again.

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So I guess in a roundabout way you're right.
He cut the vibes. In half.
He cut the vibes with a knife. Yeah, I mean, I mean.
Hawkins is the one who changed the weather in the 1st place
because we were having a nice bright shiny day and then he
summoned the Reaper and it was suddenly overcast and
thunderstorming. People don't fear the.
Reaper. I don't know why I don't spot.

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My head. And then Osuru came up.
I fucking love Osuru's design. That's intentional, right?
It is, of course it is, but it's.
Like so fun and it like fits in with the One Piece vibe so
seamlessly. Can I tell you guys a real
story? This is a real Brendan thought.
When this chapter first came out, I was like, enamoured with
the fact that ODA could get away, which is casually

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designing a character like this,and no one blinks.
Everyone's like, Yep, that person exists in this world for
sure. Charity.
Yeah, it fits. Wait, who are we?
Talking about the girl that was in the tail.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, the woman he saves.
Oh, dude. Suru.
Oh suru OK right? How the fuck do two people with
high level observation hockey don't know she's just chilling

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in the dude's tail because she doesn't pose a threat?
Also also Justin, they're dumb. They are dumb.
You know what it was she she didn't.
Present a threatening aura. That's what it was.
That's what I'm saying, Justin, you just.
Watched the demon Slayer movie, she had no fighting spirit.
She's invisible to them. Also, listen, I love.

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Zorro, everyone knows I love Zero.
It's not a secret. You do Zero.
Kind of a Dick head for only saving Suru just to get some
hand on some booze. He's like oh that's just zappy
low sequence. Now that makes sense that.
Tracks. Listen, you know Zorro.
Always says that stupid shit, but we all know he's a softy.
Yeah, but we're not supposed to.Know that he definitely saw a

(58:38):
woman in peril. 1st And then he saw the socket.
He was like two birds, one stone.
Let's get it. Yeah, I mean that that's what
I'm. Saying like, if they didn't have
anything you wanted, he would have just been like, yeah, don't
mention it. And then walked away.
But now he he has an excuse. To say, Oh no, I wasn't trying.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

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He's a Sunder in his own way. Zorro in a way that.
Makes me want him even more I. Did audibly.
Guffaw, at the moment when Zorrogoes, we should go right and
then. Do we go?
The left where there's definitely nothing bad, or right
where there's a trail and a lot of dead things.

(59:19):
We should go right. And then my instinct was when I
first heard it, I was like, you know what?
No if if Zora was in the car with me he would be the best
like passenger to like give me the directions because then I
would just ignore every one of his like you do.
Literally the opposite of. Everything he says, yes.
Yeah. Exactly and I will get.
To where I need to go. Yeah.

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When Zorro said we should go right, I was really hoping Luffy
would just be like, all right, going left.
That also would have been a great bit.
That would have been incredible if Luffy.
Himself acknowledged that Zorro is the least trustworthy with
directions. The woman coming up immediately
right behind and being like hey we got to go left was also
funny. But if Luffy had done it, I
would have been even more over the moon for that.

(01:00:02):
I would have been wheezing. Yeah, I've been on the floor for
sure. That would have been that
classic one. Piece shit that keeps me alive,
that makes my. Heartbeat.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Oh boy. I don't know.
I mean, I think, I think we covered pretty much every major
thing that happened to these episodes.
Well, there's a sumo guy. Should yeah, fuck that guy.

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There is a sumo guy. Very clearly an asshole, but you
know I can't wait for Luffy to punch him.
Real hard in the schnoz. Well, why would be Luffy?
Why wouldn't it be? Zorro when Zorro's always got
beef with him because Luffy can inflate to.
Sumo size and Zorro could just be his ass with.
Regular size. He's got a point, I.
Really like this argument that Devin.
'S making the argument is not and I quote that Luffy will

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fight hand to hand where Zorro fight with sword.
It is. Well, Luffy can make himself
sumo sighs. Therefore he can sumo dude.
Honestly, I can see. Where a Devin's thing could
happen. Yeah, no, I don't disagree.
They end up in town. Right, and they need to enter
the sumo competition for some reason, right?
And Luffy goes, don't worry guys, I got this.

(01:01:08):
I can be sumo size. He goes 3 kids in a trench.
Coat mode, Yeah, except there's just gum.
Gum balloon. I do like.
That that's a good bit. Like this is clearly what's
going to happen. Next stupid listen, I think.
That. Bahashirama guy, he's going to
see Zorro somehow because they're going to make their way
to, I think it was called BakaraTown.

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Don't know why they're going to go there, but they're going to
go there and he's going to lay his eyes on Zorro, be like hey
that's that guy who made me lookbad and feel bad in front of
Okiku. Hey you ronin criminal green
haired dude, come here and get in my sumo ring and suck it.
Beat your ass in the only fighting style I know and the
one that doesn't allow swords. And then Zorro's going to give
him the fade counterpoint. Oh boy, Luffy.

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Does the. Sumo step thing, you know, like
how they do like that sidestep thing, you know, 1 foot in the
air, but then axe kicks him. Is that legal in sumo?
Yeah, I don't. Think that's a.
Legal move in. Sumo.
Probably not. It's actually not.
Illegal. All right, an axe kick.
I know Palm. Strikes our thing, tossing and
whatnot. I you can hit, you can't grab
the. Hair.
Can sumo wrestlers even get their feet that high?

(01:02:10):
Yes, they can. To do an axe kick.
No, no, no, not like that axe kick.
Like to think of it like this. He's doing it sideways.
He's doing an axe kick, right? So a Roundhouse kick.
No, no, it's straight. Down.
No, no, no. He's talking about basically the
same way they would. You know the step that Tashi
Rama does, You know that you seesumo wrestlers do where they do
their like, like the big sidestep.

(01:02:30):
Yeah, but make it an axe kick. Instead of actually just landing
on his foot. You land with a heel on
somebody's forehead, is what he's saying.
I don't think you're allowed. To axe kick like that in sumo,
there's not many rules. Against it.
The only rules that I know if you can't have your knees touch
the ground if your hands or knees touch, you lose the match.

(01:02:51):
Throwing them is fine. That's totally legal, which is
why I would say even if it's a legal move, it's probably a
terrible idea because you're putting yourself on one leg when
the I the whole idea is to bringyou to the ground right, but
it's Luffy. Well, right it is Luffy.
He's right. He's.
He's got that, He's got that down.

(01:03:12):
He's got that foolproof argument.
Right there. That part Foolproof, yeah.
Signing sealed. What if Lufigo's fourth gear?
Dude, that would be so. Good.
Wait a minute, he just goes bounce man.
He. Goes bounce man.
But like he doesn't like do any actual attacks.
He's just like, I just want to make this sumo match really

(01:03:34):
fair. Yeah.
On this bounce, he's also bad because if he goes outside the
bounce of the circle, then he's out.
Yeah, the problem. With bounce man is that he
literally never stops physicallybouncing, so he's just
constantly popping around. But bounce man can fly.
So as long as he never touches the ground outside the ring, he
will never lose the match. That is true too.

(01:03:56):
So maybe. Luffy won't do bounce man
because he knows it's cheating and he wants a fair fight.
Yeah, gum. Gum ballooned.
His. Brother.
I'm imagining like his little, like the little.
Sash thing in the front, like that's what's keeping him all
like clearly like a cinch. Like.
Like it's helping. Him like keep.
Balloonified. Actually this is a great bit.

(01:04:17):
Because you know the best part about like a stupid part of a
shonen like trope in this point?Because right now our character
is supposed to be like really strong and they can handle like
all the, the, the stupid fodder.Because we are here to beat like
one of the biggest baddies in the franchise.
It justifies Luffy being underpowered because he's like
Oh no I've never held gum gum. Balloon their slog.
I don't know if I'll be able to beat him like this or some

(01:04:37):
stupid shit. Right, right.
Like it's. He has rules, but he has to
abide by Oh no Devin, we just got to do what we said last week
or the week before when, well actually for the listeners, it's
like 4 weeks ago, but where you just tape his mouth shut so that
he can't really see air. He got sorrow on the side.

(01:05:00):
Be like, you're doing great, Luffy.
And he's like. He just got duct tape.
Over his mouth and nose, he fills his mouth with Dong.
Go Dong, go Dong, go Dong. Go.
Why'd you put that song in my head?
I hate you. Look dude, he said it first.
He did say it. I'm not going to.

(01:05:21):
Lie to you, but you, you, I said.
The food. You sang the song.
You sung it. You were the.
First one to sing I I did sing the song.
But I can't though. Those things are inextricably
LinkedIn my mind. I can't hear Dong go and not
sing the song in my head. That's fair, Respectable.
I think we got there right. I think we.
Got there? Anything else you.
Guys want to talk about I don't.Think we did it?
No, no, I covered the sumo. Thing that was the most

(01:05:43):
important thing to me. There was, there was the most.
Important thing. Oh, wait, wait wait wait.
I have a. Question.
OK, yes, I'm looking back on my notes for stuff that we may or
may not have talked about yet. Yes, the epitaph for the
swordsmith guy who was living with Tama the master.

(01:06:03):
Yeah, on my sub it said it said blacksmith and then underneath
it it also said a beautiful girlKokeshi doll collector.
Yes, that is very. What are we talking about here?
I. Think it's a bit brother.
I think no, no, no, hold on, I. Assume as much, but I also don't
know. What a Kokeshi doll is.
So aren't they the same dolls that are in a My Dress up,

(01:06:26):
darling? Like they're like geisha dolls
like the one that she cosplays as in that?
Well, no, no, It's what the boy makes in that show.
Oh, I will show you. What a Kokeshi is here is a
picture of a Kokeshi doll, a selection of them, in fact.
So you can just yeah, those. Things.
They're like little dolls. Why is that A oh Hancock

(01:06:47):
figurine? Why not?
Those are kokeshi. Dolls, I don't know why they're
a thing. Yeah, they're, they're like
wooden. Dolls, if you if you wish to
call them that, they're kind of like Matrushka dolls.
But they don't Matrushka. Yeah, I see.
These aren't. The same dolls from Dress Up
Darling, are they? I thought those were more
lifelike. No, Yeah, those are more life
like. This is different.
OK, Yeah, it is not the Japanese.

(01:07:09):
Equivalent of American Girl Doll.
I can. I can promise you that I'm gonna
be. Honest with you when you look.
At the production or or like themanufacturing if you will of
these Kikashi dolls, you wouldn't think of it after
that's all polished and decorated, but these dolls are
just honestly glorified wooden pegs.
Yes, that is correct that. Purple 1 is.
Concerning me, just don't look at it too hard I.

(01:07:30):
Just love the fact that ODA. Made a point to make sure that
everybody knew that he is a finecollector of Kikashi.
Yeah, at. No point is it relevant to their
conversation. It's just in his epitaph.
For some reason I'm like I OK, did we even see any?
Kokashi dolls in his home, no. Well, it's not his home.

(01:07:51):
It's Thomas Home. Well, I mean, you know, maybe.
I don't like the shape of that. Stop looking at it.
All right, I don't. Like that.
All right. Well, moving on from that.
Oh, other question about. Gramps.
Yes. He has wings.
Yeah. Why can't he fly?
Yeah, why can't the sky? Peons fly.
Well, the sky peons can't fly. Either, which is my point, but
his wings are substantially larger than his, the average sky

(01:08:13):
peon we've seen so far, so I'm conflicted.
Maybe they're too dense? Both.
Of you to assume his wings are. Real and not just an aesthetic
choice like his mask. Well, I, I mean, that's, yeah.
That's his mask. Also, I don't know about that
mask. That mask might be part of him.
The mask also makes no. Sense because it does move with
his. Lips, it moves with his.

(01:08:34):
Lips and his eyes and his chin and all.
All of it. So also the nose bends I.
Interpret the mask to like it has like a mouth hole and his
lips poke out of the mouth hole and that's how it works.
But it moves when. He's in shock about something
and his jaw drops. The whole mask comes with.
Yeah, well, when the fucking Shaw hat crew.

(01:08:55):
Gets shocked. Their eyes pop out of their
head. What are we doing here?
It's cartoon, right? I know it's a cartoon.
But this cartoon also lies to us.
What are you just this? Way I think he was.
I genuinely think that is his face.
Maybe it's only mask? Maybe he's an actual Tangu?

(01:09:15):
Which is like like some Japanesespirit thing.
I don't remember exactly what a Tangu is.
It's a mountain spirit. He's the.
Real deal What if? Tangu's are like a.
Species in Wano slash One Piece and he's a Tangu.
That's exactly what I think it. Is he could be, yeah.
Stilts and everything. We'll just.
Have to wait and find out when. They were originally just.
Showing his feet. I was really excited that this

(01:09:35):
guy was just a double peg, like double.
Peg leg. Double peg leg Double peg leg I
was. Going to be real excited.
For the megazoid of of limbs that we were creating that one
time, Doctor Frankenstein Blair.He's also just casually rocking.

(01:10:02):
Another sword. Famous sword as well.
Yeah, that's what he said. But we didn't.
Get a name for that one or a grade.
Also I love the fact that he starts re explaining the grade
system to the audience and loopy's like you are so fucking
boring I'm out. Yeah, nobody cares.
We've heard this already. Bye.
We know this bit. We know this bit.
Moving. On moving on, ha ha theft.
Theft is so funny, guys. Bro he literally took that.

(01:10:27):
Man's sword with such eagerness to then just not use sword as
sword straight up yeah, which isa.
Great bit by the way. Exactly, he did use sword.
Somewhat like sword, Yeah. You know, just like a little.
Bit he did boop him with the sword.
He just hasn't done a lot of swoosh with the sword he hasn't
mastered. The swoosh.
No, yeah, he got Clank. And boop.

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That's what he knows, he has thepower of anime, but not God on
his side, not. The God of the blade.
No, hey, no, God's on the moon right now, so we.
Can't offer services to anyone. Facts.
Facts. All right, we all say.
Any other questions, Christian? I'm I'm.
Satisfied. Why is grass green all right?
Then. Moving on, listeners, we have a

(01:11:11):
new thing. This is going to be Gabe's Fun
Facts. Who's Gabe?
Our local. Podcast intern by the name of
Gabe or Gabriel. He.
Sent in the following. Hello, this is Gabriel.

(01:11:34):
Yes, that very same Gabe, the one with the cover stories from
ages ago. The hamster broke into my house
and asked me whether I could introduce a new segment for the
show where I tell you fun facts about this week's episodes.
So. Welcome to.
Gabriel's semi useful fun fact variety hour Say that three

(01:11:58):
times in a row. Gabriel's Fun Facts or.
Gabe's fun facts. For shorts, shut up.
This first installment is going to be a big one, so let's get
started. How about some facts about
everyone's favorite straw boy tostart, no.
Not that one I'm. Talking about Hawkins, Oh thank
God. OK.

(01:12:19):
Sorry about. That well, Devin liked that one,
but I don't think anybody else did anyway, Hawkins.
Devil Fruit. Powers and it's relation to his
tarot cards is very loosely explained within the show, so I
feel it's worth explaining the fruit's powers in detail here.
Having eaten the straw straw fruit, it primarily gives him
the ability to control and seemingly manifest straw, as
well as being able to summon nails at will.

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Hawkins uses these abilities forvarious combat purposes, such as
covering himself in straw or by creating a giant straw doll to
send after others, which was seen in these episodes.
Additionally, he gained the ability to create straw dolls of
other people who will subsequently absorb any damage
that his body receives if he is damaged in any way.
If the damage he receives would result in his death, the damage
is redirected to that individualwho dies in his place.

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The straw doll associated with that person becomes a regular
straw doll, plopping right out of Hawkins body.
The process by which these dollsare created is unknown, but
presumably prerequisites that Hawkins is close to the victims
emotionally, as no one outside of his crew has been seen to be
afflicted so far. Damn, that seems crazy.
Emotionally connected to the people.

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He doesn't give a fuck about this career.
Maybe it's like a contract. Thing like Big Mom, I feel like
there were definitely a. Few goons that were just
straight up Kaido like like maybe allies for sure.
I guess that is possible. This is 1.
Hell of intense polycule. Yeah, also, wait, didn't

(01:13:47):
literally. A marine get fucked when we saw
this exact bit play Outback in Saba Oti and like a random
pirate goon that was also escaping.
Probably, yeah, but. Like the power?
Wasn't exactly fleshed out back then, Probably, yeah.
But what you didn't know is. That him and that marine used to
play checkers on Tuesdays and they couldn't anymore after he

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got in the Marines right? They were roommates.
Oh boy, here we go again with the straw.
Man arguments a slightly. Unknown part.
Of his power is that everyone always defends him with none
other than straw man arguments. Who would have guessed.
Anyway, moving on, it's very meta power.
Wait, wait, I do want to make one quick comment that I forgot

(01:14:29):
to mention about the straw. I I kind of find it silly how,
like, it makes me giggle every single time he gets like slash
and like, it just plops out. Yeah, just like a little straw
dudes. Like, Oh no, I've been
vanquished. You got me.
I want them to be more. Melodramatic.
Exactly. And it's just like plop.
It's like watching a movie wherelike a horse poops in the

(01:14:50):
background, you know? What I mean?
Like it's like. You can't stop the horse from
pooping on camera, so it just does.
One of them falls to the ground and just starts.
Doing the fucking like the frog dance from Looney Tunes.
Hello, my baby. Hello.
My honey. Hello my ragtime girl.
I want these little puppet guys.To have their own bits, they

(01:15:12):
fall out, they land on the ground, they do.
You got me like a 2 minute. Monologue on the ground.
I want one of these puppets to do a 5 minute death monologue in
the middle of the show. My dreams.
Totally uncut. Like we are in the in it for the

(01:15:32):
long haul. We are watching this random
puppet give a 5 minute death speech.
With flashbacks and. Everything.
I want it with every. Straw.
Fiber of my being, I want to sitthere and uncomfortably watch
this puppet voodoo doll die for 5 minutes while all of the

(01:15:55):
characters just watching this stupid fucking puppet and
reacting to his death. And then and then as.
Soon as he finally keels over everyone, everyone just like OK.

(01:16:17):
I think. I think Christian just made
himself hyperventilate. I'm crying.
That's crazy. That would be a really good.
Bitch I want it so bad. Oh fuck bro.
Watch it be like Bart. Like it'll be like Bart's like
strong. All right.

(01:16:42):
Sorry about. That interlude.
For the fun facts, we could keepgoing now, no problem.
Next fun. Fact.
His cartomancy, his tarot cards is not actually directly tied to
the fruits powers. As in, if anyone else would have
his fruit, he wouldn't necessarily have to be a
cartomancer to use the fruits powers.
Whether his cartomancy is actually an ability or just a
gimmick he utilizes is never actually revealed, But given

(01:17:04):
that all of his predictions turnout to be true, and that the
probabilities he gives are unverifiable because the story
events are obviously dictated byODA and not by random chance, it
can be presumed that it is legit.
I like my head. Canada.
That's tight to. His own fruit?
Fair enough. We need to.
Get Usopp some. Tarot cards for his.
Lies. Wait.

(01:17:25):
That's how Hawkins. Gets defeated is by Usopp's
bullshit tarot card. Swap out Usopp does a tarot.
Card swap. He's like, Oh no, a normal deck
of cards. My only weakness, anyway.
There are some ties to the themeof fate and destiny and whatnot
which I can't comment on for spoiler's sake, but within the

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story it's never explained, so we're just left to assume that
he does it because he's weird. There's a guy in the show who
has to open his mouth with a zipper to talk.
Carter Mancy is not what should make you stop suspending your
disbelief at this point. He's a well, you know, he.
Got a point that? Comments directed to all.

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The Devons out in the world. No, no, no, he, he has a point.
He's got a. Point, yeah.
It's true. Brought to you by Chappa Chappa,
Chappa Chappa. Chappa, I like that that that
that works. I like that next Kumachio.
Kumachio's design, as well as his species name, is very

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obviously based on Kominu, A mythological creature who is
most seen in a pair with anotherKaminu.
Commonly placed in the front of the gates of Shinto shrine
grounds. Kaminu very heavily resemble
Chinese guardian lions, who are similarly lion statues that date
back several millennia. The lion in Asian culture is
believed to have the power to repel evil, which is why it was

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commonly used for such grandstone ornaments in front of
places of religious importance. When you used in a pair, one is
usually depicted having an open mouth while the other is closed.
They are thus meant to representthe beginning and end of all
things. Comochio is only related to the
creature and design. However, personality and power
wise, he's essentially just a big dog.
Moving on, how about? Some.

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Manga facts from the adapted chapters in this set in the
scene in which Hawkins summons the Straw Monster the anime
simply to pick Zorro grinning excitedly in response.
In the manga, Zorro actually also licks his blade on top of
this because he's a fucking freak.
Bro what the fuck tell? Me.
Why are we? Why are we nerfing my boy?
Because he's a freak. My man.

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Hasn't stretched his. Swords in like 2 years.
Let him cook. Hold on, I simply have to.
Say the F bomb in the middle of that was a Brendan add in, not a
Gabriel. But let's be so fucking for
real, I. Mean it's.
It's valid. Thank you.
Wait. He licks his blade.
To what? Because he's horny for battle,
he licks. His blade, Yes.
Yes. So he does a blade lick where

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he's like, oh I love to fight, let my man be a freak on.
Maine, bro, that's true. Yeah, that's.
A nerf that's kind of hot smash he's.
Already done it honestly. That's what I'm saying.
Let's be so. Fucking real.
I'm surprised. The animators would even choose
to like, I guess censor that moment because they've already
animated Zorro licking his bladeback in Thriller Bark when ORS

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was like bound for a little while and all this draws had
their demon moment and Zorro waslike Oh yeah, I'm a fuck this
man up and licks his blade like we've already done it.
Like don't be cowards. I can't believe you remember
that. Of course I remember that.
Remember. Anyway, moving on.
That's a very oddly. Specific thing to remember, I
think I remember the faces. Of every single straw in that

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demon moment. You know, it's like with the
backgrounds, like all red and they get silhouetted and then
Robin has that. You don't realize how fucking
pissed how much I'm going to enjoy this look.
I'm kind of. Sad that I don't.
Remember this dude man, They're good bits.
I think a GIF. Of each and every one of their
reactions exists and like Frankie, like he's like looking
at ORS and then he takes his sunglasses off, but his eyes are

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just like it's all white. No pupil.
He's like, oh, you, you fucked. You're fucked now, buddy.
That's a That's a great one too.I wish I.
Remembered this as. Vividly, as you did Anyway,
we'll be gone. Also around the time.
Of these chapters released, Shokugeki no Sanji started
releasing this non Canon spin off manga written and
illustrated by the creators of Shokugeki no Soma of One Piece

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follows Sanji as he cooks for various people all over the
world during and before the Straw Hats adventures.
The 1st chapter of the spin off was originally intended to be a
one shot but was later turned into a full series of chapters
due to popularity. The series began on July 13,
2018 and ended on August 4th, 2022 with a volume release which
collected all six chapters plus a bonus chapter exclusive to the

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volume which the official English translation released by
Viz Media on March 12th, 2024. Lastly, you might be wondering
how Drake ended up working for Kaido's crew.
Good question. As you might remember shortly.
Before the two year time skip, we saw Drake talking to Kaido's
subordinate, Scotch. After asking him whether
attacking A subordinate would attract Kaido's attention, he

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very promptly did just that whenScotch answered yes.
Turns out that worked. As far as the anime watches are
concerned concerned, this was the first time this information
was revealed to them. However, for manga readers, the
story goes a bit different. You see in the manga there what?
I got to save that for a cover story.
Special, but it's really fine. I guess you'll have to find out

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about that riveting story another time.
What? Trust me, I won't disappoint.
Anyway, that's about all for funfacts this week.
See you on the next one. Have a nice day.
Well, look at that. Thank you.
Gabriel appreciate that. Damn.
Hey lady, Blue balled us crazy. We got blue balled at the end.

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That's a lot of work, and he left.
Us on a cliffhanger? Fuck me.
OK, he left us on an actual cliffhanger.
You know what? You know it's a One Piece Fun
fact week when even the fun facts are left on a cliffhanger.
Motherfucker. Motherfucker.
I. Can't believe you've done this.
All right, shout out to. Gabe.
Shout out to Gabe for reminding me.
Fuck X Drake, all right out hereruining Thomas Village.

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Fuck you. That is true.
That did happen. Yeah, we did get.
Context. But yeah, X Drake was the dude
that fucked up her village. That's a damn shame.
We hate that Drake. What's wrong with you?
All my homies see X Drake. Yeah, all my homies.
Hate X. Drake, we don't even call you
Diaz because fuck you you. Haven't even earned your name?
Anymore you're just a you're a letter to me.
Fuck, I don't even like dinosaurs.

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That much like dinosaurs. That much?
You're such a liar. You're such a liar.
Leave me alone, I'm coping rightnow.
He's Suffocopium. All right, anyway, with that,
thank you, Gabriel so much. Here's to many more.

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Thank you for all that hard work.
You're a hero, Gabe. Next week is going to be 900 to
9 O3. It feels pretty good to say
that. Feels pretty good to say that.
I'm not going to lie. We're in the 9 hundreds.
Boys. What?
Is this feeling that's a. Milestone.
So sudden and new. Whoa.
My skin. My my.
Hair it's sticking up on my armswhoa are you excited oh we're

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moving on the plot whoa what is the sensation so we're.
At. The 1st 5.
Episodes of the arc and it's like holy, I think he's
experiencing time. Travel.
I'm not sure what's happening. He's moving.
At warp speed, he's. Moving at warp speed.
All right, moving on to. Quotes, quotes quotes quotes.
I'm gonna say my first and only.One shout to my boy Zorro when

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he was walking to Zuru's tea shop or whatever and Hashirama's
in the way. He's like hey sorry but your fat
ass is in my way. Hey, big boy.
You're blocking the way with that huge ass of yours.
Move it. Fuck yeah, I.

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I that. Watering down to so good.
Big snipe. Big snipe.
Anything else, I think that was his only one, he said it was.
Only one. Yeah, there's good moments like.
Nothing quotable else for me besides that.
I'll go since I had one. Of my 2 quotes, Snipe, my other
one is also from Zorro and I'm going to do, I'm going to do a
direct quote. I'm going to practice my voice
acting skills here too for a second.

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I'm trying to do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Come on. Just let.
Me. Hold it.
Dude, I think you've got a. Future.
Was that good? Did we like that?
I think you've got what it takes.
Come on, Luffy Senpai. Let me hold it, because that's

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what that sounded like. To me it's.
So big and sharp. You don't even.
Play with swords Luffy. You're a fist guy.
Come on, look how they massacredmy boy.
Mom said it's my turn with this.Cursed sword.
That's crazy. That's.
It that's that's. That's my 2 quotes this.

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Is my new head cannon. I have.
I just want to. Reiterate blind from Luffy
saying Ace is dead. This Ace, you're waiting for
his. Full name it's.
Port Dusty Ace, isn't it? He's dead now.

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I just love everything about. Papa scene plays out.
I stand by that. My second we've already talked
about as well. The sheer joy that these two men
feel for seeing each other again.
It does fill me with absolute joy.
Hey, Thorough. It's me over here.
Loopy, yeah. You finally made it.

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It's been a while. Delightful.
I'm happy that they're happy. Finally, the only quote not
snipe tonight. When Luffy's like, oh, buddy, I
think, I think you got some meaton you.
I smell that mean. Can I have that meat?
And he's like, yeah, sure, go ahead.
Why not? He's like, dude, there's so many
animals worth getting around here.
And then Luffy's like, no, Zorroas he's eating the meat.

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All the animals around here are poison because they drink the
poison water. They'll make you sick.
And then Zorro looks over. He's like, oh, shit, yeah, that
does track. My stomach's been hurting all
day. I smell.
Meat give his neck. There are so many fishing
animals. Around here you would not
believe it, Luffy. There you go.

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No be. Careful, the water in this place
is poisonous and the wildlife drink it.
So you got this off an animal here then it's poison too.
Checks out guess. That's.
Why my stomach hurts? Is so good that.
One, I do remember this, I do. Recall fucking idiots.

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Idiots. With iron stomachs.
Both of them and then. They proceed to eat.
The ham anyways. Idiots.
Oh yeah, yeah, Lu Luffy's actively.
Eating the meat he know he heard.
Where it came from, but he's. Like, yeah, we can't do that
because it's poisonous. Yeah, that's that's.
Fucked up Zorro. You sure other shouldn't be
eating? This is me here.

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I have a poison resistance so I'm good, but you probably
shouldn't be. Hold on.
That goes track though. Hold on, I.
Think Roofie's fine. I know Luffy's fine.
Turns out Zorro is also. Just like totally fine I I think
Luffy. Has nothing but opportunity
here. Honestly, I'm surprised that.
Luffy still didn't just immediately use that to his
advantage when Tama was like, hey, these are all poisonous

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because poison in the water poison.
And I was expecting Luffy to go oh, that's no problem.
And then just immediately go andhunt something.
Fuck yeah, concrete. So basically maybe the flavor
from. Poison just doesn't sit well
with that. Clearly it's fine.
Fairly is tolerable. Another good quote is when he's
eating the ham and they're like,hey, we got to go.

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And he's like, hold on, let me finish my meat.
But she's actively dying in our hands.
Yeah, but let me finish my meat.In the dub, it was kind of
funny. Because like, Zorro's like,
dude, we got to, like, leave because the little girl is,
like, dying over there. And then he's like, yeah, but
I'll finish my meat real soon. Don't worry about it.
I'm OK. It's kind of wild that Luffy's

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the one taking the stance. Yeah, you're like, you're like
a. Real homie all but like 5
seconds ago. What happened?
Now he's got to have his snack. Anyway, Zorro, we should.
Probably get going now. I ran into this little girl, one
thing led to another, and now I need to take her to a doctor.
She's not feeling good. Oh.
Yeah, the brats in rough shape. Why the heck are you stopping to

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eat then? It'll be OK.
I'll be. Done in a SEC.
He's got meat on the brain, motherfucker.
Luffy, you're lucky. That none of your actions ever
harm people permanently other than your brother.
Oh. Damn, what the fuck?
Man dead, brother. That's tough, I know I.

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You know, sometimes I got a roast in me too, just like that
hambone. Anyway, moving out of the golden
ham this week. You know brothers, I feel like
y'all are going to be very tempted to give it to Hawkins,
but may I please make a case forPunbuku?
B Punbuku. Who is the best character in the

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set of episodes? There's really no better option.
I I hear you buddy. I raise you a shark.
A dial no. You can't raise me another cool
animal. That's not fair.
Blotry. How dare.
You. I have so many good choices.
I only got Zora on the brain. I I.

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Know you do, Just you. You know, we didn't even.
Talk about because it. Just but we were talking about
animals that appear in these episodes, and we even talked
about the fact that Law and his crew just showed up at the end
of 899. Oh, we just forgot that.
Well, we didn't get enough of them yet.
We got. To we got to savor it when we
actually see him. This is the tease.
This is the taste. Well, right.
Yeah, I'm sorry #2 husband. Husband number one was more

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priority. I'll get to you next week.
I'm sorry, backup protagonist. I mean truly at this point.
He really, he really is. I mean there wasn't really much
to comment on because all you could see was him laying in his
tent listening to Evanescence. Like there wasn't really a
whole. Heck of a lot going on.
No I know but it it happened is there feel like people are going

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to yell at us if we don't. Also I forgot which one of.
These OK so there's Beppo and one of these other two fuckers
names are they say them but I don't even remember.
Penguin. Well, one's Penguin and the.
Other was like I used to know their names just off the Dome.
But I don't remember the other guy's name. 1 is Penguin, I
forgot the other. Guy's name?
Shaka. Shaka.
Flocka. Shaka.
There it is. Shaka.

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No, I don't think it's Shaka that's.
Wrong. That's not it.
I'm just saying words I know. Because there is a shaka.
In the franchise and that is nothim.
I know it's a SH name. Shaka lekin shiki.
No, that's dumb. There is a.
Shiki also. Not him.
Anyway, I'm going to blame Penguin.
Here Penguin over here or somebody with a fucking hat on
on this crew is paying the people of wano in a poor light

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because what the fuck do you mean my boy beppo can't walk
around in town without scaring people being like whoa it's a
bear fuck you brother he's. Literally a talking polar bear
and they got a fucking. Banana Nader shark thing you
gives a fuck. Yeah, but it's not sentient.
Brother Wano, don't. Have talking polar bears?

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You don't know that. You're right, I don't.
Hey look, this is. The straw man argument night.
Apparently that's what we're doing tonight.
I think we've always done straw.Man arguments.
We just never had a reason to make it a bit.
And that's why I'm voting for Basil Hawkins.
Now we have Hawkins. So like, what are we?
Part of a Church of Hawkins or something.
But yeah, the cult of Hawkins. I'm glad you brought it up.

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Yeah. The Hall of Hawkins.
I don't think you need to. Convince them, Justin.
I think they're all in, actually.
Well, I'm really just looking for an official.
Naming here the cult of Hawkins that sounds.
Good. We're Hawkins Homies Hawkins.
Holies Hawkins. Homies Hawkins.
OK, but memes aside, I do. Think I do think Hawkins

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probably gets the win here. I'll just say Hawkins, follow
the strong or. Become their prey.
There is no in between with the honorable mention.
For. Bambuku shout to my little
Sunuki dude. Well, let's say if if anyone
else would. Have gone with me that we would
have we would have maintained the bit but no one went with me
you went for Zorro Christian went for a different animal
entirely so our choices I mean the Devin Devin could have gone

(01:33:54):
for bamboo Devin are you into bamboo or what I'm.
I'm dissuade. Because of my own failure?
Huh. What?
Because I didn't see him in the the episodes, because I didn't
pay attention to the background.Oh, I can't vote for him
because. I didn't see him the first time.
What the fuck is this argument? Who cares?
Let's go. Hawkins Homies.

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All right, we. We did it, ladies, gents, folks,
non binary pals. Hell yes.
Hell. Yeah.
All right. Well then finally.
We have the garb gab. Justin, you're making your
famous. Return to the show.
Why don't you reach onto the garb, Gab?
Oh fuck. All right, all right, all right.

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It's why does everything. Feel rough in here.
Don't tell me. A bunch of straw?
No. No, no it's not.
Actually, it's actually more bricks.
Or bricks. Or I guess rocks.
Whatever they threw in the window got more of these.
Well, what the fuck did? El get into the garb gab too.
Oh shit dude. I mean, he's an international

(01:35:05):
spy. Clearly I I totally filled it
with. Straw.
That's crazy. Dear, how hard it is to get
straw. In this city, that's what I'm
saying like, well, like well, why do they even throw the brick
through the window if they had access to the garb gab, I don't
know, maybe they want to taint the.
Purity and the sanctity of the garb gab and I can respect that.
I think the brick was for the. Shock factor now the carb cabs

(01:35:27):
to send a fucking message that's.
The. Real message.
Oh shit, this is. The real threat the.
One that says nothing at all, but says everything.
Oh wait. Robo Brendan.
Probably did this now if you didit.
Tim Burritos. Robot what?
Don't worry. About it anyway.
Take a brick, I guess the brick says here.

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Rain check. Oh OK.
And the question here is, with the increase in popularity of
anime studios using theatrical movie releases to cover Canon
events slash arcs, do you think this is a good thing overall for
the industry? Why or why not?
It's a hard hitting question, Damn.
Son, I really like this question.
Sorry, what? Wow, what's wrong with you,
Mommy? I was asleep.
That's crazy. No, no, I just zoned.

(01:36:12):
Out for a. Second, I don't know why.
Yeah, I know. What's wrong with you?
I don't know. I got mixed feelings.
On this one, no. I think this is a really good
question. Because of that, may I actually
take the floor? I feel like I have the least
necessary opinion on this because of my current resume on

(01:36:35):
the subject. So for those that don't know, I
barely watch anime at all anymore other than One Piece.
But I will say I do catch a movie from time to time and for
shows that I don't actually watch, shout out to Demon
Slayer. So that being said, I think from
my perspective, I love the fact that I can experience a

(01:37:02):
franchise that I would otherwiseI'm going to be so fucking I
would otherwise never spend the time consuming.
And now I get to experience it. I get to be a part of the team.
I I get to, you know, see these sorts of things or whatever.
I do think it might be a case bycase basis sort of deal like,
you know, a a show that I have actually watched in you know,
that was made post 2015 that I have actually seen most of the

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way through, not even all the way through.
So don't get too excited is attack on Titan.
If I just saw attack on Titan inmovie formats, I mean they
better be damn good movies that do damn good at pacing because I
can't see the kinds of episodic nature play out with as much
vigor and resolution that I would look forward to in just a
movie. I say that knowing full well

(01:37:46):
that I've seen the demon Slayer Infinity train movie and have
not seen the show at all and I had a great time.
That being said, it it's really good for people who would
otherwise never experience the show.
Now they can experience it at their own pace.
They can also pay. I did not pay to go see the
movie in theaters, to be fair, but I did buy the Blu-ray that
did happen because I didn't wantto be a piece of crap that wow,

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what a hero listen. Brother, I'm doing.
The best I can. He's a hero, doesn't.
Pay for dinner No, it's true. I wake up every day, I.
Put my pants on one leg at a time.
By the way, that that's those are my thoughts.
Is it a great thing for the industry?
Maybe not. I don't think anything is great.
Always there need to be checks and balances because, you know,
we don't want animator. We don't want like the people

(01:38:31):
who are in seasonal animation orinto the seasonal animation
space. We don't want them to get gimped
because studio decides that theycan, you know, get top dollar or
far less investment by switch, by pivoting over to a movie that
is obviously something that we need to be careful of that that
would hurt my soul. But anyway, those are my
thoughts, my stance on it because.

(01:38:51):
I've only seen a couple of them in theaters, right?
Like I saw the Kaiju number 81 recently.
My problem with them, it's like for example, movie trade, like
sometimes they're good because you know, they have the more of
a higher budget they can go harder on like, you know, like
the fight sequences, stuff like that.
I like that aspect of them, but I feel like it's limiting in the

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narrative aspect a lot of the times.
And then there's also the industry aspect of it, which is
like for Kaiju #8's movie, that one was just awful because it
was just a SparkNotes of the whole series as a whole.
And then like a little cookie cut, like here's a beach
episode. And it was, it was poorly done
and just not good at all in my opinion, compared to the show.

(01:39:34):
But it's like it's one of those things where it's like,
sometimes they're good, sometimes they're bad and I
enjoy them. But I don't know.
I'd rather, you know, hear that they got vetted first before
watching them myself and spending money myself because
sometimes it's it's hot garbage.Other times they're bangers like
Moogan train. That's kind of where I sit with
it. I think I'm.

(01:39:55):
Close to the center, but leaning.
More toward positive overall, I think it's a good option to have
because I think it's good to have the option of like, OK,
maybe there's something that isn't worthwhile, you know?
Turning into a whole season worth of episodes when you could
realistically just pump it out in a single movie.
And it's a better storytelling experience that way.

(01:40:17):
I also personally just enjoy theatmosphere of a theater.
So that's a personal just plus one for me.
I like the idea that potentiallyand hopefully, you know,
animation studios and therefore their employees are getting
better dividends off of theatrical releases as opposed
to, you know, just streaming services like Crunchyroll and
stuff like that. You know what's interesting
about this, I think earlier thisweek Google like pushed some

(01:40:40):
like screenrant.com blog posts to me about someone who had
their own opinion about this question and it was largely
negative. I think a low key underrated
aspect of this model is there's like a social aspect being
introduced to like the weep community in a, granted, very
controlled environment for the most part, but there's just
something cool about being a theater full of other weeps

(01:41:02):
going crazy about some weep shithappening on the screen.
So I think a lot of like anime watching experience tends to be
like secluded to like you and your laptop.
You don't necessarily get to share space on anybody else,
which is, you know, good and badin its own ways.
But yeah, I think I'm largely positive on this for the moment.
Yeah, it's interesting there's. Two sides to the argument and I
think that largely it's a good thing to have around, but I

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worry about studios seeing how successful Demon Slayer is
making their movies and transitioning into models that
just become we're going to make these manga into just straight
up movies because they're breaking down an arc into 3

(01:41:48):
movies first of all, basically. So it's not just a singular
thing, but I but it's one of three, oh, this, this one that
came out recently. Is like the first of soon to be
30. I didn't even know that.
Yeah, this is this is going to go.
On for two more movies spread roughly 2 years apart.
I I don't like that the loose release date is 2027.

(01:42:12):
I don't know, that's almost likea.
Better answer like in my mind. I'm like the the limitation of a
movie is that you like, you don't get to have enough time to
like cut your, your pacing. Well, but now you're telling me
they're getting six hours. But sometimes those like pauses.
In in like episodes like where people like are just rumining on
feelings like they they they addto it, but it might be good
flop. I don't know.

(01:42:32):
I. Shit dude, well there's no
season. In between here, this is the
end. There's no.
Nothing else in. Between they're doing 3 movies 2
years apart each. So we have Infinity Castle Part
1. Let's say for the sake of it,
there's no demon Slayer content for two years and then the
movie, the next movie, and then no demon Slayer content again

(01:42:53):
for two more years ish and then the third movie and then it's
over. Which brings me to one of the
more negative aspects of this isthat, well, if we do just movies
or we do movies more often like this, some of the hype dies
down. Because with seasonal anime, you
get 12 to 24 weeks of watching this thing consistently,

(01:43:16):
especially if it's 24, you've got half a year generating hype
over and over again on a week byweek basis for this thing.
And then, you know, there's a, there's a break, however long it
is. And that's cool.
I'm personally not usually someone who ends up watching
week to week, but I know a lot of people are and that's what
keeps people going. You watch the movie once, maybe

(01:43:38):
a couple of times and that's it.There's nothing left to really
talk about After that. You can maybe go on online and
talk about it on forums or Reddit or Twitter or what have
you with people for a couple of weeks.
But then we got two years. So on the side of the consumer,
I think potentially it's less engaging.

(01:43:59):
The movies in a vacuum are really fucking good and cool,
and if they could come out within a couple of weeks of each
other, that'd be amazing. But obviously it's not possible,
which is the part that Justin pointed out that I think is
decent is that it helps the animators.
They get time to be able to workon these things.
Now, I'm not going to pretend toknow what deadlines look like

(01:44:21):
for them, but I imagine two years to make a movie means that
they're not critically missing out on their families and their
social lives like normal anime industry.
So I don't know anything about it.
I'm making entirely an assumption here.
But and then I also again, at the same time, I wonder, well,
they have more time to make thisone thing.

(01:44:41):
Are they getting paid as much asif they were working on a normal
seasonal animate? I don't know.
There's no numbers for this thing, so my guess is probably
not. But maybe they are.
I don't know. So I think largely they're
positive, but they could have drawbacks, severe ones, if
something like that would come to light, like, you know,

(01:45:03):
animators still being underpaid,unforeseen ones.
Yeah, yeah, if like everyone. Started making their movies then
we as like a consumer in the anime space might start being
like brother we we have nothing to watch yeah.
But like I feel. Like that's.
One of the problems I kind of have with the One Piece
community is like, I think they're level headed people.
The people who are like, I wish we would just do what My Hero

(01:45:26):
Academy does and just become a seasonal anime.
Give up the fact that, yeah, we're only going to have a 24
episode, you know, year and thenthe other half of the year is
just gone. I I would be for that because I
can't stand and some of the pacing choices that the week,
the week anime does. Yeah.
And also I think it gives the animators a break.
I'm very pro that then by saying, do I hate the fact that

(01:45:46):
it's two year? Is that where I draw the line
where it's like a year is fine, but now two years, now we're
talking too much. I don't know.
I don't know if I'm that guy yet.
I feel like if it gives them more time and animators are
still being compensated appropriately.
Because that's my big concern isthat if they start going super
anime route, like their workload, their work life
balance might get improved, but also like the amount of work

(01:46:07):
might start to slow down or like, you know, this, that and
the other thing. I guess I don't know, like how
that changes. If it's a directionally only
positive improvement to their day-to-day lives and their
overall paid never changes, I'm all fucking for it.
I'll wait two years. That's fine for me as like a
personal consumer, but I don't everyone sound like that.
Yeah, I'm not. I'm not a big.
Week to week. Watcher so I, I I prefer binging

(01:46:29):
things. Agreed.
So I'm going to now, in between now and the next Demon Slayer
movie, I'm largely going to forget that Demon Slayer exists.
And then two years from now, Justin's going to hit us up and
go, Hey, Demon Slayer. Movies happening next?
Month and I'm going to go, oh shit, that's right.
We're doing that. That's right.

(01:46:50):
Bro yeah. So really, I'm going to forget
that the Demon Slayer movie exists also because I don't tend
to read manga stuff very often. So for me the waiting thing
isn't like a huge deal, but for some people I think it's going
to dampen the hype for some things.
All right. Great question.
That was a. That was a good.
Question, I like that question. I I think I also saw some

(01:47:13):
article like you said, Justin that pushed kind of the same
dilemma about whether or not it was good.
I don't know if it was the same article or not, but I thought it
was interesting. Time will tell and hopefully
we're in the good. Timeline time will tell I.
Want to hear how the? Animators feel because I just
want them to succeed. Yes.
OK All right. Devin.
Devin. Time to do the thing, and it's a

(01:47:34):
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(01:47:55):
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You heard that right. Listener who may have skipped
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We have our own website nowpandasightings.com.

(01:48:17):
That is hopefully up and. Fully functioning by the time
that this episode is live. If it's not, you'll get a link.
It'll be working. The website will just be locked.
Yeah. And we're not giving out the.
Password. You can't pay for that.
You can't pay for that. You can't pay.
Zombie pay me for the password. I'm down for that.
It's not 4356I. Don't know you can't pay Justin

(01:48:38):
for the password either. I got so.
Everyone has cell. Now I would.
Encourage you, listener. If it's a shock that we have our
own website now, go back and listen to our episode that I
probably came out two weeks ago.I don't know what what order
Jory's going to end up releasingthese in, but I believe I
believe two weeks ago because last week should have been a

(01:48:59):
different thing. I'm not even going to say it in
case it doesn't happen. Time is an illusion.
We're in the future, bro Wibbly.Wobbly timey why me all this is
getting? Redacted.
Imagine if like there's just a big bleeping sound for the.
Yeah, I mean. Well, I mean, this.
This is the future, right? Yeah.
This is, this is the future. It would have happened.

(01:49:20):
There's no way. There's no way Jordan doesn't
release these. Last week should have been our
anniversary episode. Yeah, only.
Six months late, we had it recorded a number.
Of months ago which I we probably talked about in that
episode I don't even remember anymore but we saved it for this
particular moment so anyway yeahyeah yeah I would encourage you
to go listen to the episode whatever it's titled where me

(01:49:42):
Justin and Devin answer some questions and we we talk about
stuff and it's fun and the website is included in that and
some of our future project ideasoh wait I forgot one important
thing in the to do the thing fuck Oh yes of course yeah I got
to keep that Oh yeah yeah sure sure I.
Well, since we got. So many more bricks.

(01:50:03):
I'm going to wait. Why is that one ticking?
Devin? I don't know.
And stop my brick. Oh, OK.
Are we just? Going to like fucking.
Sit around and let it sit there?Or are we going to, like, throw
it out the window or something? Well, yeah, yeah.
I'm going to throw it out. I'm returning to sender.
Oh shit. Christian.
You got an arm? Fuck me.
Oh, absolutely. I.

(01:50:23):
Was I was all all elite pro baseball pitcher in high school?
Dude, you you made it to the protein.
Shake River? What the fuck?
That's crazy. Right where their boats are,
actually. You can kind of see them still.
Oh shit. Would.
You. Up the brick blew up instead of
those boats. Yeah.

(01:50:44):
Take that. LL.
Must stand for. Loser, very aptly named.
Loser. You'll never get Natasha hot.
Lips out of me, Yeah. Oh great, you know.
That we end of the day. With a near death experience,
what more can you ask for? My Uber order actually.

(01:51:05):
That's what I could ask for. Oh my God, you still haven't
gotten that. Nope.
You know what I didn't consider?The cookies and cream protein
shake Moat we got going on, I mean, if they even bother to get
on the boat, I I think they get 5 stars.
And your big ass tip for all that effort, at least the best I
can do is meet them halfway. Hey, anyways, I'm going to go
grab my food. You guys have fun.
All right, I'm going to go get some.
Cookies and cream. All right.
Catch you later, dude. I'm hungry.

(01:51:25):
Yeah, same dude. I'm going to.
Stare at paint dry. You know what?
Do you have fun with that buddy?All right.
Wait, Dave, instead of? The regular outro play, the
guitar riff. Yeah, guitar riff.
Hope it's fucking copyrighted. And we get our asses grasped.
I love you.

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