OP | Eps 900-903: The Mochi Ball Theory

In this episode we talk about the Tama rescue, Kiku’s samurai reveal, and an explosive sumo showdown between Luffy and Urashima.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Hey, buddy. Hey, what's going on, my guy?
Check out these sick games. Wow, I couldn't even.
Wow, I that's astonishing. I your shirt hid that so well.
Yeah, because, you know, I've been maxing nothing but carbs.
I'm getting ready for a competition.

(00:20):
Soon. Oh, OK.
I mean, carbs are not traditionally the way that you
bulk up and and make yourself more muscular.
But what kind of competition areyou going in for?
Oh, you know, the larger style of competition.
You know, it's a grand thing. I don't know if you've heard of
it. Well, you haven't said
specifically what the competition is yet.

(00:41):
So I I haven't, no, I can't say I've heard of it because you
haven't said anything. Well, it's it's, it's not really
a mainstream thing yet, but it'sa backyard sumo wrestling.
Backyard Sumo Wrestling? Is that like the hit PC video
games from the early 2000's, thelate 2000s?
Exactly, except for. It's real.
Oh, OK, so all right, well, I that's cool.

(01:05):
Whose backyard is this happeningin Walmart's?
They they have that they have they have a backyard not
legally. Is this like a Fight Club sort
of thing? Should I, should we not be
talking about this? I.
Don't know what you're talking about.
All right, cool. So how did you find out about
this? Well, it was at Walmart and.
OK. And I was challenged by who the

(01:29):
employee as I I honestly, I don't know their name.
All I know is they had pink hairand they thought that because I
was tall, I'm tall, that I was beautiful and so that they must
have me. So here I am, fighting for my
honor. Oh, I see.
You know, this is eerily reminiscent, I think, to
something that we watched this week.

(01:50):
So. So are you saying that you don't
want to marry this individual? Aren't you into?
Tall not in particular. I mean yes, 9 times out of 10
yes, but I'm the tall one. Oh, this person's not.
They're kind of in comparison tome, you know?
All right, that changes my perspective.
I thought this person was your height or taller so I was going

(02:12):
to be confused for a second because normally you're all
about tall person to fawn over. Right, right.
Giant woman. Well I wish you luck.
Is it a one and done or is this a round Robin?
Are you going to fight other people or just this one person?
Honestly, I don't really know the details.
It's this is purely you showing up to the backyard of Walmart

(02:33):
right past the lawn mower section and sumo wrestling
somebody to not have to so so doyou marry them if you lose?
I believe so. OK, the information is kind of
hazy. There was a lot of Cheeto dust
in the air. From you I assume.
Well, it's Walmart. Yeah, we were munching on
Cheetos, I bet. Just picked it up right off the

(02:54):
shelf, opened it up. You should really figure out
something that you get if you win.
Freedom. That's.
You could just not show up. You don't have to call, you're
calling of your own will. No, my honor dictates I have to.
Right. So like, get something out of it
at least. It's gas station code.

(03:17):
You cannot besmirch the honor ofthe attendant.
It's a gas station involved now.All the gas stations apply to
these rules. There's a code of honor, and
it's very important. And they challenged me, so I got
to uphold my honor. Of course, it's like Bushido.
Bushido applies no matter where you are, what time of day, who
it is. Exactly.

(03:38):
OK, well, I guess I can't argue with that.
That's fair. By the way that you look.
When did you get challenged by the way?
Three days ago. You bulked up this hard in three
days. My power is unlimiting.
Are you juicing? Well.
I mean, then do you have any extra?
I have juice. Like, like Justin?
Yeah. Where is he?
Why isn't he here? Well, you have him.

(04:00):
Yeah. Did you lock him up?
No, he, he's in me bro what the fuck.
Oh yeah, see, I juiced. That's terrifying.
Are you Kirby? Now I'm ready.

(04:29):
So yeah, no, that was just me. Hold.
On oh God, oh, oh fuck, Oh my holy, it's so dark in there and
Justin. Oh my God, Justin was Justin was
so slimy but alive for some reason.
I know you don't. You don't digest very quickly in
there, but the inside of you is like an infinite void.

(04:52):
You are. I understand why Kirby is
considered one of the most powerful video game characters
in the world. OK, shake that one off a little
bit. OK I'm I'm going to move us into
the summary now so that I don't have to think about what I just
witnessed and all of the cosmic horrors that exist inside of
you. We rejoin Luffy, Tato and Zorro

(05:19):
Judo as they are treated for their injuries and Tama enjoys a
nice bowl of red bean soup for her birthday.
However, this joy was short lived as a few goons with Timu
Devil fruits swoop in and yoink Tama away from everyone.
Our Straw Hats give chase as well as Kiku on the back of
Comachio, but they are outpaced by the one with Tama and must

(05:41):
instead make their way through the town of Bakara.
Bakarat Bakura Bakarat no no no baa chuku rah rat God damn it.
OK where all the wealthy ish people live around these parts.
There they re encounter Urushimathe Yokozuna who wants to marry

(06:02):
Kiku but she don't want none of that.
Meanwhile Tama has met the de facto leader of this town.
Hold em and his lion pet question mark.
I guess that's attached to his stomach and also they share the
same body for some reason. I don't get it either.
This show's fucking weird. Tama, however, is being tortured
for information about her devil fruit that she doesn't truly

(06:23):
know she has, just that she probably shouldn't tell anyone
about it and we're back outside.Kiku's taking it upon herself.
Take a little off the top Burushima because he's been
thinking of getting a haircut recently.
How nice of her. However, I think she took a
little too much because he gets real mad and tries to smack her,
but Luffy Taro gets in the way and challenges him to a sumo

(06:43):
match. He wins, embarrassing Urushima
and becomes the local Yokozuna. Then all three of them strike a
pose and or a farm for a hot second before the episodes
finally end. Oh, also, Law shows up for a
second to make Beppo's tummy feel better.

(07:03):
Honestly, golden ham worthy. To Beppo for being cute.
Well, to law for, you know, making his tummy feel better, I
mean. That's valid but lol was going
to walk away and Beppo used his cute cute fruit to lure Lob
strategically back in to make his tummy feel better so.

(07:25):
Yeah, you swayed me. Well, this may have to come up
later. Let's not get ahead of ourselves
too much here, but that's a goodone to keep in the back of your
head as we keep talking. So we're in the second set of
episodes for Wano now. Devin, this feels so good.
We're progressing. Yeah.
How do these episodes make you feel raw?
OK, that's an interesting statement.

(07:52):
I I don't know how to perceive anything.
So you're just taking in the episodes, sort of just absorbing
the colours and and sounds, everything, yeah.
Everything just. You don't need to activate the
Kirby suck again, otherwise thispodcast is never going to get
done. Please just let me live.

(08:15):
Again, you'll be fine. Anyways.
Feels so good. Just so good.
Good soup. Good soup.
Yeah. I feel kind of similar to Tama,
you know, continuing on into Wano.
You know, I was stuck in the toxic poison that is the river
of filler. And now I have some good soup.
Finally. Well, Thomas spent a lot of

(08:36):
these episodes being pretty sad and upset, so I don't know.
That feels like the opposite of what your sentiment is.
Well, yeah, because they didn't eat the soup yet.
She ate some of the red bean soup.
Yeah, and then after she ate thered bean soup, she got
kidnapped. I mean she was happy for like 5
minutes. Yeah.
So are are is this you predicting that very soon, like
next set of episodes, you're just going to be sad and upset

(08:58):
perchance because something bad is going to happen perchance?
I don't know that though. It could even be a boat.
A boat? Yeah.
What does a boat have to do withany of this?
Nothing. It could be a boat, though.
It could be bad things. It could even be a boat.
We don't know. The scale, The scale is horrible
atrocities to I don't know, there could be a boat.

(09:21):
I'm down with it. Exactly.
It doesn't. It doesn't get any better than
maybe there's a boat that's justthat.
That's the high end, that that'sas much excitement as you're
willing to allow yourself for the show even.
Well, of course I have to tempermyself, you know, right?
Don't set the. Bar too high, of course.

(09:43):
Yeah, you don't want to be let down or anything, exactly, lest
there be too much hype. Can't let the hype train take
off. It has to be the hype boat.
It's slow. The hype boat, you know.
The hype boat all aboard. What if it was the best of both
worlds and it was a hype C train?
I don't like that you. Should know not about it.

(10:04):
Do you not remember Eddie's lobby?
I remember Eddie's lobby. Oh.
I remember Eddie's lobby. Yeah, I.
Hated that train. Well I mean the arc that
happened on the train itself waskind of mid but.
I hate the train. We got T-bone out of it.
We had T-bone. Well, you know, I'm sure he'll

(10:26):
be back. We'll see him again.
Lies we tell herself at night. I'm a truth Sayer, I only dream
truths. I only dream truths, all right?
What are the winning Powerball numbers?
I didn't say Iowa. I mean, if I dream of them, I'll
let you know. I haven't dreamed of them
recently. OK, good.
And we'll, we'll split the pot and then you'll never have to
see another one again. But I had a personally good time

(10:50):
too with these episodes. You know, we slow down a little
bit from stuff that we were doing last set of episodes
getting back into it, but it's still great.
I had a fun time. I feel like I wish to stab many
people over Tama's sadness because God damn this little
girl just absolutely does not deserve this treatment that

(11:12):
she's getting, on her birthday no less.
Wait, do birthdays not normally go like this?
No, at least I shouldn't. Especially when she's getting
treated to some nice red bean soup and rice balls.
Dude, for the first time ever inher life, this fucked up.
So hot take. Oh boy, here we go.

(11:35):
The hot take. I understand the sentiment, but
to me personally, I cannot standbeans.
Oh, so this is like torture? That hot take could have gone a
lot worse. Oh yeah, no, yeah, no.
Like everything else was fine. It was just the fact that it's
red beans and to me I Nope. Yeah, red beans fall in a weird

(11:59):
category for me where I've had abunch of different food with red
bean and red bean paste in it, and it's that lightly sweet but
savory taste to it that sometimes is good, but in other
ways it's bad sometimes. I just can't do beans.
I can't do beans every single time.

(12:20):
It's a texture thing. It's a smell thing.
It makes me gag. So you're just.
Overall, not a beans guy. Black beans, Pinto beans, none
of this garbanzos, no beans. What garbage.
Get it out of here. Damn dude, you're missing out.
My body rejects beans. Rejects like beanery, like

(12:41):
modernity, right? Project beads become paste.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what the
second-half of that is. I don't know either and exactly
why I hate it. I don't know.
That was a bad. That was a mushy mouth feel,

(13:02):
kind of like beans. Well, you know, I thought you
were going to tell me that you were sick of Tama and I was
going to jump across this table and fight you.
Honestly, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Tama, you're chill. We're chill.
You're the cute child of the show I get.
It what number Kobe do you thinkshe is at this point?
Fuck if. I know, look.
We haven't kept track in a long time dude.

(13:23):
We're in like at least 15. Oh yeah, definitely.
We've got a Baker's dozen of Kobe's for sure.
Right, like I hate to say she isno different than any of the
other ones so far except for this one starving, but I'm
pretty sure there was other onesthat were also starving.
Yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm sure there were other ones that were
starving, but she's, I feel likeshe's playing a little bit more

(13:45):
into the plot now than a lot of others have in the past.
Yeah, they're definitely so. But at the same time it's still.
Also pretty ironic that we call them Kobe's when Kobe is now
like a semi major character. Yeah, but he did lay the
groundwork. He's the foundation.
I know. Of course, that's why he's so
strong. Yeah, I'm.
I'm a creature of habit, so I'm never going to change that name.

(14:07):
I'm just saying it's kind of funny now.
Oh yeah, 100%. But it's the nature of the
formula of the show where there's just always the cute
chibby sad, mostly sad. They're always sad, and they
have something to do with the plot.
I don't think we've seen the grand scale of the plot of Wano
just yet. No, absolutely not.

(14:27):
But like, this is definitely going to be like one of those
things where it's going to be a big moment for a bit and then
it's going to not be a big deal.I think you know what I mean.
Like Tama specifically or yeah. Oh yeah.
Well, yeah, I'm, I'm sure Tama will probably serve as some form
of introduction into how the Kozuki clan have no longer been

(14:50):
in power around here, or why herand the the master guy have
stuck around for so long. I mean, we know why she is stuck
around in that area, but the master, we don't we still don't
really know why he wanted to stay in that rundown village.
So I'm sure that there will be some relevance to this in the
somewhat near future. But then, yeah, I mean, once

(15:11):
we're taking on Kaido, I I don'tknow.
I don't know how much. Yeah, she's just the vessel to
get us into the rest of Wano. Unless maybe that mochi cheek
power has some other facet to itthat we don't know about yet
that might be useful. Gross.
What if it undoes Kaidos invincibility or something?

(15:33):
He he takes a bite and like, oh,I'm into that.
Oh. Suddenly I feel vulnerable.
Yeah. Oh no.
My insides. Oh no, my toxic masculinity is
not defending me anymore. Is is is melting away this this
cute adorable 8 year old child is handing me a mochi ball that

(15:55):
she made from her cheek fat. This is literally the cutest
thing I've ever seen. Dies.
All of the collective death blows that he should have
suffered over the years, like him just falling off of cliffs
and trying to kill himself, all hit him at once and he just dies
on the spot. That would be the funniest shit.

(16:18):
Like it obviously would be afterlike a fight with Luffy.
You know what I mean? Because I got a milk that right.
But like that alone like that being the killing blow, not all
the buildings he's flown throughor landed on or nothing or the
times he's possibly drowned. 1 mochi bomb.
Yep, like big moms weakness of her skin being so tough she just

(16:42):
needed to get really sad. Kaido just needs to have really
intense, cute aggression. Oh my God, it's so adorable I
could cry. God God damn it, this small
child. Has moved me to tears.
Look at her fucking smile and the handful of emoji balls that

(17:05):
she got. Spleen.
It's the what Fist of the North Star meme where it's the You are
already adorable, no? Explodes.
He just explode the rains, gore and innards on everyone.

(17:28):
The most metal the show has evergone.
Not even a hard left turn, just a fucking loop de loop.
Wow, that would be. Incredible.
Too bad that'll never happen, no?
No, at least that's the part about him blowing up.
I will say if cute aggression does end up being the case, then

(17:50):
damn I will. I want to be mad mostly because
I called it, but you know. If we are right, I can't wait to
see people's reactions in the future to us just calling it out
right this moment off of a bullshit me.
Just the dumbest thing. And then 120 episodes later,

(18:13):
it's proven correct and everyone's like, God, you
mother. Points finger.
Like Oh my God, did you fucking see that?
How did you know you knew who told you?
But all right, back on to more episode specific topics, I
guess. So we had those two goons show
up. The bat guy we initially hear

(18:33):
all we see with his supersonic hearing, he hears Suro.
So the bat guy, yeah, I don't remember his name.
Doesn't matter. Bat guy in gazelle band.
So when they first show him, it's just his.
Eye in his ear, I was like, oh shit, we're going to get like a
cool design, right? Like he's going to be like a
cool looking dude. And then he fucking shows
himself. I'm like, what?

(18:54):
What was I expecting? Like Devin, you did it to
yourself. He's got ass wings.
See, I don't necessarily hate the ass wings.
It's just so round. So round.
When I think of bat, I don't think of that.

(19:16):
Sick crime dude. This is like when people
complain that bumblebees should be able to fly because their
wings are too small for the sizeof their bodies, right?
Although I will say I do find ithilarious and also a nice detail
that the bat guy, they do that bat fluttering thing where he is
like a regular in his movement where it's not a straight line,

(19:39):
it's this like up, down, left, right, up, left, right, up,
down, down, left. Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Konami code of flying.
Yes, exactly. The bats to canonically love
Konami games. Huge Metal Gear fans. 45

(20:02):
Colonel, Colonel, I've got this devil through and it turns me
into a bat. I'm.
Trying to listen in on this conversation but the sound of my
bat wings clapping is making it too hard to approach the guards.

(20:23):
Untethered. Well, you know, it's.
No, it's perfect. I love it.
But yeah, the arrows surprise deflect.
Like yeah, she gets kidnapped. Tommy gets kidnapped by a
gazelle. Yeah, now that that made me
pause for a second because I sawthe fishnets and I was like

(20:47):
Ivanka. Yeah.
And then they revealed his face and I was like, no, it's some
other schmuck. And Gazelle clothes or not
Gazelle. It's a guy in gazelle clothes.
It's a guy in fishnets and it's like, that was their thing.
You're a thief. This is stolen culture.
This is stolen valor. Yeah, I find it incredible that

(21:13):
you saw fishnets and immediatelyjumped to oh, is this actually
Ivankov and not just another oneof the new commas?
Right, like it, it could have been anything like I just see
fishnets and my mind went blank and went right, right.
Yeah, You know, it feels like I don't outwardly hate this, but

(21:35):
it does feel largely like this is a little shoehorn.
Like these two guys shouldn't really be able to get away from
Luffy and Zorro, but we just kind of made it happen for the
sake of plot. Yeah, but Gazelle guy is fast.
We don't have anyone necessarily.
Can't. Luffy like super teleport, like
shave. He should be able to shave, he

(21:57):
should be able to 2nd gear and catch up to that guy.
You know, let Zorro and even Kiku take care of the bat guy
and just second gear shave your way to the gazelle.
I feel like this is a totally avoidable situation, but we just
kind of said fuck it, turn your brain off.
Let the gazelle man in tights and the Batman with ass wings
just do their thing Batman. I'm Bat Batman, just for the

(22:22):
sake of copyright. My name is Bat Guy.
Bat guy Bat guy I. Actually don't remember what
they refer to him as in the episodes.
I know the gazelle is gazelle man but I don't remember if Bat
is bat guy or they try to do Batman also.
Honestly, genuinely didn't care enough to pay attention to it.
Yeah, kind of same. But now I'm thinking about it

(22:44):
and we're like, oh, which is not.
We're just out here teasing copyright.
Otis taking on big big DC big. DC Yeah, again, minor villain.
These are both. As soon as I saw him pop up I
was like, ah yes, the minor villains have shown up.
They do call him Batman. They do.
Yeah, he's Batman. I'm Batman.

(23:11):
You know it is true though. Like, I mean, I'm making fun of
his butt wings, but the fact that his wings do sprout from
there make him look more generally like a bat shape.
You know, bat wings in traditional media on vampires or
whoever fallen angels, they looklike sort of dragon wings, but
where the Angel wings are supposed to be bat wings, you

(23:33):
know, sort of do lead down to their tails and are kind of all
are the same structure. So right, you know I'm clowning
him for having ass wings, but itis more canonically accurate to
an actual bat. So I guess shout out to ODA for
making canonical Batman and his.Universe, hear me out.

(23:54):
Could you imagine if instead of using a bow and arrow, he used a
fucking boomerang? Like throwing stars?
That would have been great. Right.
And a utility belt the lawsuit. Odin didn't want to test it that
hard. Right.
So he had to be slightly different.
Yeah. It's not a utility belt, it's a

(24:16):
utility quiver. Yeah, oh, that's right, There
was another bat person back on Thriller Bark.
There was. Yeah, 1 of Moria's zombie slash
General things Mysterious 4 theywere called.
I don't remember a bat. Looking one, yeah, I mean, to be
fair, I didn't particularly either, but she was one of the

(24:39):
higher ups along with like Lola and Sundry and all them and
Absalom. Right, like I believe you don't
get me wrong like I just I have no memory of this.
Yeah, I mean, I definitely wouldn't have either if I didn't
see it just now after Googling Bat Guy one piece.
That's a threat. That's a potential spoiler.

(25:00):
You never know. There could be more bats.
Well, yeah, I mean, yeah, that'strue.
But also this guy doesn't even. This guy doesn't have a name.
He's just Batman. He's Batman.
The other one is Gazelle Man. Wait, that is their official?
Names. That's their names.
That is their official name. They have no other names.
Well, I should say a Batman, doesn't I?
I didn't look at Gazelle Man's page, but I just, I'm just

(25:22):
assuming that if Batman doesn't,then Gazelle probably doesn't
either. Speaking of Gazelle, Man.
I got to say, I'm so happy that they did this, which is making
fun of the fact that they're sprinting animals, they're not
persistent running animals, and how he's just fucking wheezing

(25:43):
like once he gets like Tama to whoever the guy is.
Yeah, I call him Lion Man because I don't remember his
name, nor do I care. Yeah, I mean, why stop now?
Batman. Gazelle man?
Lion Man. Right, like just the fucking
wheezing and how the guys like, hey, like fucking you're
annoying. Go outside and he's just like
I'm having an asthma attack. My fucking size her dude, right?

(26:07):
Like I'm pretty sure my legs aregoing to explode.
Never have I felt more seen. I know honestly same to me after
cardio every time. That was hilarious.
There are a couple of funny bitsin these episodes that they do
just in between semi serious moments.
Largely it's not that serious ofa of a set, but there are still

(26:30):
moments where they want you to pay attention.
But then you have moments like Thomas looking dramatically up
at the lion guy. The lion guy has his red eyes
and it looks like the lion head is talking and it's about to eat
her. We're about to reveal who Holdem
actually is, Lion man. And then because Elge is in the
back. Just fucking ruining the moment.

(26:58):
You're a tiny little thing, I almost pity you.
Go ahead and cry if you like. I got a stitch in my side.
Get out of here. This is the One Piece shit I

(27:25):
live for. Right.
Like that shit like had me wheezing, but at the same time I
was for a millisecond. For a millisecond I thought
Peckham's was alive. He does make a pretty similar
noise, that grout grout. Yeah, I guess that's just their

(27:45):
generic lion noise and not specific to Peckham's.
But like, what if Peckham's is the belt?
That would be fucking wild. Like, it would make sense for
why he's resisting arrest. What?
Because the belt attacks the dude.
Yeah. So Peckham's not wanting to be
there. Like trying to not be that,
yeah. Yeah, he's trying not to be a

(28:06):
belt anymore. God, that would be horrifying if
we found out that Peckham's was that lion.
It doesn't. Seem impossible.
No it doesn't seem impossible, but I would also wonder how the
fuck dude and also how he got there.
There's fucking teapots that aretanooki's.
Like shit just happens. Yeah, I'm so curious as to what

(28:29):
the hell this is. Agreed.
The lion is a part of Holdem. They share the same body,
especially the stomach area. Yeah, and the testes.
And yeah, I mean, they, they feel the whole thing.
Like apparently they share our stomach.
It seems like, like if the lion were to eat, Holdem would also
get full or something. But yeah, they share the same

(28:51):
nerve endings across the entire body, which we see when the lion
gets pissed off by hold them punching it and he goes all
right, guess what, I'm fucking next to Jackass and then reels
back and knocks them straight inthe fucking junk.
What? Don't give me that look, I'm
going to clobber you. That animation of the testicles,

(29:31):
like where they're glowing? Yeah, in my head, before it's
really revealed that they're onein the same, it's this feels
like the way that the animal people can make electricity, the
people of Zoe. That's why I'm like, kind of
convinced that this might be Peckham's.
It can't be packed on this. There's no way Peckham's got

(29:52):
from Whole Cake Island anywhere near there to here.
And also the last place we saw him, he fell off a Cliff into
waters that we knew the fucking.He was tied up on an island or
whatever right by the by the SunPirates.
No, no, he was in a Sioux the moon mode and quote UN quote
died. Was that the last thing we saw?

(30:12):
Yeah. Oh, yeah, I guess it was.
Yeah, you're right. So we don't really know if he's.
He's not dead. He's written off as dead, but is
he or is he a belt now? That comes as surely not dead
and also it would be insane if he ended up there that quickly.
Also also it feels like this hold them guy has had lion belt
for a long time given the way that people react to him so.

(30:38):
Would I be making bullshit up? I'm just saying.
I mean, I agree. See Tanuki teapot.
Yeah, like, besides the weird shit that happens to me, you're
right, it shouldn't make sense. But that's why I feel like it's
going to beat the truth, becauseit shouldn't make sense.
I I'm gaslighting myself. I know.

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No, I know. Yeah, We're just, we're just out
here making outlandish claims for the sake of potential, like
a 1% chance of being right in 100 episodes.
But think about the memes. Yeah, think of how possible that
roar just. Unless he's like, I don't know,
fucking Peckham's dad. Oh, now that's a theory.

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They have the same vocal tick but even still I'm just so
intrigued by what this could be.Did hold him eat a fake lion
fruit and it went wrong and became a torso belt lion instead
of giving him the ability to be half lion?
He still has lion features. Yeah, but that could be anything

(31:42):
that could just be doodled in his face.
Right. Yeah, he could have just lightly
dyed his skin. Like, that dude wears makeup.
He has fucking eyeshadow on, yousee?
I see it. Yeah.
So like, those features don't matter in my opinion.
His skin's lightly yellow. He might just have jaundice.
Who knows? He.
Might have jaundice just. A little bit of scurvy.

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A little bit, just a sprinkle. There are pirates.
True, and this place isn't knownfor its medical care
necessarily. No, there's no 20 doctors here
like Drum Island or anything. Yeah, I can't wait to see what
happens with this, because at first it seems like the Tanooki
teapot where we just fed a belt the lion fruit.

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But the fact that they have the same nervous system, I'm, I'm so
curious to see what it is. Yeah, there's genuinely no way
for me to guess. I feel like it's going to be its
own new thing or it's going to be something really dumb.
I mean, my guess, truly I think if I were to put one down, is
that this is just a defunct bad smile.

(32:49):
This is a lion smile that wasn'tfully baked.
And instead of making him like Batman or Gazelle man, it made
him half man, half lion abomination thing.
That's my real guess for what's going on here.
OK, so do you think the Gazelle and the Batman are also

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obviously, I think those two aredefinitely using.
Bastardized fruits. Well, yeah, they say in their
epitaphs when they first are introduced that they're smile
users. So the, you know, he has the bat
smile and he has the gazelle smile.
But because that's the whole point of Kaido's crew, Kaido's
making the world's largest and best crew of Zoen Fruit, Devil

(33:31):
fruit users. So all of these people that have
like the mouse guy, you know, the fucking mouse asshole in the
in the bar who gaslights Urushima into going out and
taking what he wants, they've all consumed smiles.
But these are incomplete devil fruits and seem to just give
them features of the animal and not really an ability to

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transform necessarily like a true Zoen.
So I don't know what this will, I assume, be expanded upon as
the art goes on. But yeah, it seems to me that
lion man Holdem is. He was an early adopter and it
went bad. Yeah, I can.
I can't believe that. Damn, got the formula right.
Too much sugar? Not enough lime.

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Yeah, yeah. Too sweet, not enough savory.
Yeah, I. Don't know.
I genuinely don't know how to like what to think of it.
What? Do you think of Kiku now lover?
OK, lover. Tall woman so.
Tall woman, woman with a sword. She goes swish swish and also
just good moral compass. Love that.

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Oh totally. Yeah, I really liked.
I wish she had thrown more hands, slashed swords.
She was clearly playing the angle of sweet innocent woman
while in the crowd of people to make it look like Urushima was
going to beat a helpless woman even though she jumped over the
30 stories tall sumo wrestler and chopped his top knot off and

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then landed gracefully. But you know, whatever, she's
innocent so she's playing this card.
But I was so hoping that she would just fuck him up basically
after jumping on the stage. I agree, but I knew on my heart
I was like, they're not going tomiss a chance for Luffy to go
fucking sumo mode. Like, you're right.

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It's like, you know, trying to defy fate.
Like you just see it happening and you go, I know what's going
to happen. Damsel in distress, but not
really. Yeah.
Although like at the beginning of their match, the fucking
metal riffs. Yeah, we got a little bit more
of that. Just when Luffy like steps like

(35:38):
teleports in and like you know, stops that attack on Kiku and
just the shredding of the guitar.
But with the fucking like theme,I guess it's the One Piece theme
more finally. Good music, good soup.
Who would have thought that the Arc based around traditional

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Japan and Japanese motives culture would end up featuring
guitar riffs so heavily in the beginning, right?
Like you would think that would be like the Xiaomi sun or
something. Yeah, or some other traditional
style of music or instrumentation, but they go,
Nah, electric guitar. Breathe.

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The amount of aura farming in this art already.
Dude they all get in on it. All three of them just hit some
pose at some point to to just befucking farming that aura man.
In the last episode, there's at least three screenshot worthy
moments between all of them. Oh yeah, 100%.

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Also, to backpedal a little bit,Speaking of aura farming, when
Luffy uses his Conqueror's Hockey, it was gold, right?
It was gold. That's different.
That is different. Weird.
I am not sure. But I don't hate it.
I like the fact that they're using more color variation.
Like, you know, it's visually pleasing, but it also feels

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wrong because we have 900 episodes of hockey not being
colorful. Well that's true but also not.
There have been moments where conquerors hockey has been shown
to be this reddish aura also right?
And I believe was it Doflamingo or was it?
Well, Doflamingo did. They did have a moment.

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They had a moment together whereone of theirs was red and one
was sort of bluish, I think. I think Don Chinchao was also a
fight where hockey was colorful.My memory is a little hazy.
I think Katakuri also, I think there was a moment with Katakuri
where they're both using conquerors, but it might have
just been armament hockey clashing.

(37:54):
I don't that one. I don't remember in specific,
but right, yeah, this is definitely the first time where
Luffy, or really anyone I think has had a yellow golden version
of their conquerors. So that is cool.
I do like that. But also there's like the other
aspect, like Zorro, like he's clearly using hockey, right?
Like with that purple aura around his blades.

(38:16):
Yeah, that's armament. Oh, I love purple.
Oh, I love it. Yeah.
I sound like Justin. Justin, you're.
I know you're in there. Yeah.
This is him. This is just you coming out.
Unconsciously speaking from the depths of your stomach, right?
Actually, I'm going to walk backmy statement a little bit.
I don't know if it's necessarilyarmament hockey, unless the

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blade itself turns that purplishblack color.
I know it's surrounded by the purple aura.
But one of them was already a black blade.
Yes, the cursed blade has alwaysbeen dark in color, but it gets
even more purplish blackish whenhe uses armament hockey on it.

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Right. The aura I think just is that.
I think that's supposed to represent some extension of
either Zorro's fighting spirit or just a latent power of the
swords. Right.
Because they've kind of showed that to be the case to earlier
when Zorro notices Luffy's the sword he's got from the master
and he looks at it and it glows.So something along those lines

(39:23):
maybe is what that is. If it's not armament anyway.
Right at the same time, still fucking.
Oh, absolutely, undeniably bad ass.
We haven't had him in so long. Oh, I know.
And we're just kidding. After.
After from him. Yeah, More.
More. Yeah, I love the moment too,

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when Zorro notices that Kiku hasthe blade also and he's just
studying her and Luffy's lookingat her.
And surprisingly, both of them are very observant in this
moment and are like, you're not just a waitress at a tea house,
are you? Also Zorro's comment.
Damn, you're big. He does go, Yeah.

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Wow, you're tall. Well, he doesn't even just say
you're tall, he says you're huge.
Yeah, which, to be fair, she is.She towers over both of them.
Oh, she's probably around Brooke's height.
Fired I guess. Yeah, no, not a not afalon.
Afalandra. No, I I would say Afalandra is
definitely taller. Yes, she's like twice her

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height, but like, yeah, she definitely is a tall woman.
Yes, way above average for this area.
Being 59 in the 17th century. Which, which which which?

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What do you think of the Hiroshima fight?
I thought the Hiroshima fight, for what it was, was pretty
entertaining. I loved Dude undefeated versus
Luffy's intro when he first takes up the the match and he
does the the sumo stomps and they give him a new epitaph and
it it just it's like sumo piratewannabe and then it's.

(41:20):
Undefeated versus USA. Yeah, it's the thing you're
saying. The bar so low.
So incredibly low. He's like I'm a sumo faster.
I've never lost before and then it just undefeated against
Dewsop. At the same time it makes me

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think like is this what it feelslike to like the episode of
South Park where it's like oh I'm going to go into the woods
and hunt both level 1 boars for 300,000 years?
Like is this what the power looks like?
Yeah, yeah, he's undefeated against USAP.
What it doesn't say is he's got 136,572 wins against 0 losses.

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So I'm surprised Frankie hasn't gotten in on that action.
Or Chopper. Yeah, or Chopper doesn't scream
Zumo as much. He could go big form.
I mean Kung Fu. Form he could probably.
No Kung Fu form gets washed. He needs to be in buff semi
human chopper form. Wendigo or Wendigo?
Yeah, Wendigo's the opposite endof the spectrum.

(42:29):
It's just like cheating, almost.Yeah, I like the fight.
It was nice. I'm kind of bummed that I didn't
predict it 100% correctly that Luffy inflates himself Yeah to
look like a sumo. Yeah.
But at the same time, you know what?
This is still good. Totally.
Yeah. Plus, you know, you got to have
that cool juxtaposition of the tiny guy being able to just rock

(42:49):
the humongous man's world. Right the what was it David and
Goliath esque feel? Pretty much, yeah.
Except for Goliath is beating upDavid because David is 8 foot 4
be at that final shot of them just standing on the stage.
Like Yep, you think we got theirattention?
Yep. Dad, like Luffy wins that fight
and is looking out. He's standing with his arms

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crossed or whatever. Zorro walks up.
All the people in the crowd go wait a minute, they're fucking
Zorro. Juro, the murderer of the
magistrate. And he turns around and hits him
with the yeah, what of it? And he sits down on the stage
with his swords over his shoulder, does the hand inside
the kimono pose and just like, oh, hit that shit.
He got up. I totally thought he was going

(43:33):
to pull out a fucking, what are they called a gourd.
The socket gourd? Yeah, I did too.
I really was hoping he had the gourd to Sake left and then even
Kiku gets in on it. She's she's got her one sword.
She takes up a position in frontof Luffy, hits that hand on the
hilt sword. To unite the world from
devastation. Luffy's definitely meowed.

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Oh, hundred percent, 1000% Speaking of a Kiku, have you
noticed that they've been focusing heavily on her eyes and
how her eyes look? Kind of similar to like Zorro's
cursed swords, like the pointiness of the iris.
I have not been so diligent a watcher, is that no I they've

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given her a lot of close-ups andher eyes have always been very
big, but I can't say I paid special attention to them.
Shinsukai has done me well. I think, yeah, that might be
true. That could be true.
But no, I don't know. Part of me, like I keep seeing
her eyes and it's like it's either a creative twist on the
iris or there's something like we really don't know about her.

(44:48):
Like she's really powerful. I hope it's that one, but at the
same time I have a feeling it's still going to be the.
It's just unique. I'll take your word for it, I'm
not going to go out of my way and Google any pictures just in
case that's an actual thing, butI don't remember looking at her
eyes and seeing anything in particular about.
Are you saying the pupils are like slitted or something along

(45:13):
those lines or? Well, it's the iris.
It's the the the color aspect around the is it the iris?
I don't know. I'm not an eye doctor.
The iris is the colored part. Yeah.
So it's the colored part. It's like jagged, OK.
And like it leads into like points towards her pupil.
So it sounds like they've animated her eyes to look more

(45:34):
like real people eyes instead ofcartoon eyes.
Kind of, but more pointy. I don't know how to explain.
It well, we'll have to wait and see.
Like you just have to look at. It now I'll look at it next time
see what's up with that. That's an interesting
observation. I would I'd be interested to see
if that actually pans out with something.
That would be sick. That would be a real hype train.

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I think that's like mostly it. We accidentally save Otama at
the end here when we said Urshima flying, so there is that
for the time being. Yeah, there was torture.
Yeah, she was getting the shit pinched out of her cheeks by
hold them trying to make more mochi balls out of them.
That would fucking hurt. Oh, yeah, I really thought too

(46:19):
that they were going to go for her teeth.
Like, those are the stereotypical vice grips that
you see characters go when they want to just RIP teeth and nails
out. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, but then he's pinching hercheeks with it.
Makes you wonder if in like the manga or something like that
they did like actually. Oh my God, if this is yeah.
Oh. Like, they pulled like a white

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beard on us right here, you know, instead of, you know,
showing brain matter, it's just,you know, pulling actual teeth
out. Yeah, it's cheek pinch instead
of ripping teeth and nails. It's been censored for the
anime. I doubt it.
Though I doubt it too, there's no way Otto is that hardcore to
do this to an 8 year old child. Straight up no shot.
But yeah I mean I think largely that's about it for the most

(47:04):
part. Laws here still.
He's planning to go and stop Luffy from making a scene in
Baccarat, but not successfully because he gets stopped by
Beppopo's unruly tummy because he ate a river fish and he got
poisoned when they. First, like, show them like

(47:24):
they're like, Oh my God, we got to go right now and stop this.
And then like, you know, we'd gothrough all these episodes and
it cuts to this and it's like, why aren't we moving?
And it's, yeah, I got a tummy ache that I was like, of course,
a fucking course like this is, this is such a dumb reason.
Yeah. Just a dumb reason to let Luffy

(47:47):
do Luffy things but at the same time.
We got to blue ball the audiencemore, yeah.
Other than that, there wasn't really a whole heck of a lot of
like development necessarily. Like we haven't learned anything
really new. It's just we've seen a lot of
fighting. That was essentially this week's
episodes was just a lot of aura farming, fighting, no new info.

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Yeah, the newest bit of information, I think, is really
just that Kiku is a samurai of some kind and clearly has some
sort of business here that was outside the tea house.
I think she's got that big old notebook too, with all the names
and whatever information that she scouted out from the area.
My guess is that she is an ordained samurai from before 20

(48:36):
years before Kaido's takeover. OK, and of the Kozuki clan, you
think? Yeah, and so she's here looking
up research to try and make thisplace fall.
And now that Luffy's here, she'sjust like, all right, I guess we
ball. All right, I guess we're doing
this now. All right.
Cool. Yeah, This swing.
Swing. Yeah, I think probably somewhat
similarly, although I don't know, I mean, this could just be

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a case of she's got an incredible skin routine because
she doesn't look and initially like she would be that old, you
know? That's why I'm saying I don't
think she's that old. I think she was just trained
like she is part of that clan, like the quote evil clan that
the bad guys surprise surprise are saying.
Oh I'm not saying that she was from 20 years ago.

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If anything she would have been like a child then.
Yeah, like if she was, if she was at an age where she could
learn enough samurai skills to be proficient, she was probably
a teenager. And then 20 plus years has
passed, which would put her probably somewhere in her 30s
then, which, you know, I, I guess is not impossible.

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People look older than that. You know, Robin's close to that
age. Yeah.
Like I would put her in the sameage category as Robin.
Yeah. So.
Well, we'll see What? Happens I'm I'm I'm interested
to see what what Kiku's back story is and how this is going
to go for, for us and and the straw hats for that matter.
What do you what do you think? When?

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When do you think we get introduced back to some more
Straw Hats, by the way? I think it's going to be a
decent chunk after like at least4 episodes after the final fight
with Lion Man. OK, then we'll get like
sprinkled in with like another character, you know?
Sure, sure it. Won't be a chunk of them.
It'll be like one of them, and then it'll be two of them, and

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then it'll be the rest. You know, like, maybe like a
Robin might pop in, right? I feel like a Robin's a very
quick one to run into. And then it'll be like Usopp and
Chopper, and then it'll be Frankie and, you know, everyone
else. Sure, sure.
Yeah, that's my theory. This will just be we're getting
the band back together style thing where we're just going to

(50:45):
go down the line and pick up andregroup everyone together.
Pretty much slowly but surely. Yeah, that could be the case.
It feels more likely to me that there will be some other group
of them that end up together andthen they run into somebody out
of like Kid Amon and the other two.
I don't whose names I don't remember.
I don't remember the ninja's name and I don't remember the

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villain painter's name. Fucking crazy person makes the
tortured animals. Right, I like how you call him a
villain even though he's clearlya friend.
He's a villain. But he is a villain.
He is a fucking villain in his painting's eyes.
Yeah, for those fucking paintings, man.
Like they're tortured. The bird, it wasn't equipped for

(51:30):
for flying. The dragon wasn't equipped for
walking up the mountain. Dude.
Like this guy's just straight upa villain for this behavior.
Just just a crazed animal. But yeah, I don't know.
I imagine they'll probably be some group that is more involved
with them going forward, right? Because I feel like I feel like
the rest of the crew that were on the ship, like Nami, Brook,

(51:53):
Chopa. Was.
Shot No. Chopper wasn't with them.
Chopper wasn't on hold. Cake.
Yeah, he was. I could have sworn he wasn't.
I'm pretty sure it was Nami Brooke, Sanji Luffy because they
also had a what's her name the Bunny Correct they they went to
hold cake. And the whole time Carrot was
calling Chopper big bro Oh. Right.

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OK, no, yeah, you're right. I don't know why I just deleted
that from my memory of Chopper not being there.
Yeah, yeah. Straw Hat crew that went here to
Wano is Robin, Zorro, Frankie and USAP.
OK, yeah. So I think they're going to be
focusing on collecting those ones 1st and then we're just
going to get like a the the boat, the people who are still

(52:34):
on the boat, that that's how that's the progression of the
narrative. Like you know what I mean?
Sure. I feel like at some point
they'll probably check in first with the boat people, just
because we haven't seen anythingout of them yet, right?
Like we've checked in with the people who initially started
here on Wano, but we know nothing about them.
So I feel like they'll probably come first.
Not that I really care, I'm justI'm speculating at this point.

(52:57):
I would like to see what happened with them.
Like how they've got so far awayfrom where Luffy was.
Like Luffy has the ship and himself and then everyone else
just fucking gone. So I'd be interested to see what
happened with them first before seeing what happens with other
people on Wano. But I'm not opposed to it if it

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goes the other direction and we just kind of lose them for, you
know, 20 or 30 episodes. Well, like, that's kind of like
the formula with Sanji in every arc.
It's just gone. Like whoever is with Sanji,
they're just gone for a good chunk of time, right?
And then it's several weeks of watching what they've been up

(53:39):
to. Yeah.
Yeah. That's why I hate Sanji.
But. This is the fundamental flaw
with Sanji, yeah. Exactly.
The fundament. So like they're going to meet up
with the people who are in Wano because, you know, we got Zorro
now, we're going to get, you know, Robin, Frankie and Usopp
and we're going to have our shenanigans.
And then all of a sudden. Whoa, flashback to.

(54:02):
The adventures of Sanji and everyone else.
Yeah, plus we've also just spentan entire arc with all of those
other people besides Luffy, right?
Luffy's the main character. He's going to end up in these
episodes, but everyone else we've been with for a while.
Give the others a spotlight now.Right, it's been a several 100
episodes. Truly.
Let them have their time. Yeah, let Zorro do the swish,

(54:24):
swish in the Land of Swords. I want to see more clutches.
Oh yeah, maybe a crab guillotine.
I can't wait for the first. The dream, Surely we get crab
guillotine back in the land of Wano.
I can dream. What a glorious dream it is.
All right, That I think probablymarks about good for talking
about the episodes, unless you have any other burning thoughts

(54:46):
or theories. No.
All right, cool, cool. Now we're going to take this
time to move on to more. Gabe's fun facts, baby.
Gabriel's back at it again, morestuff for us to read because

(55:09):
Brendan's not here. This is normally going to be his
bit, but I am here and he is not, so it's going to be May.
Hello, this is Gabriel once again.
The initial pipe for Gabriel. Semi useful fun fact variety
hours. Say that three times in a row,
or Gabe's Fun Facts for short, seems to have been a smash hit

(55:31):
so it was picked up for an entire season.
Due to some trickery from my hamster executive though, I was
forced into a contract where I'mnot to use the full name
anymore. The entertainment industry can
be so cruel. Anyway to start us off, how
about some fun facts about a character I'm sure everyone here
loved? That's right, it's Orashima
time. Oh really?

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You. You're telling me you didn't
like the guy who kept pestering Kiku for five episodes and got
his ass handed to him? OK, well, you'll be happy to
know that basically everyone in this community hates him too.
But the reason why might surprise you.
You've noticed that his fight against Luffy drags on just a
smidge too long. This is because the anime

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adapted a fight that takes and Ishit you not, 7 pages in the
manga, but it stretches out to take 12 minutes in the anime
pages, mind you, which do not contain a lot of dialogue
because the fight scene Episode 9 O3 in total, only adapts 10
pages from Chapter 916, which isactually not unusual for the

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show's pacing. This episode's just really bad
at hiding it. Why am I bringing this up?
Well, this fight in particular became quite infamous in the
community due to a video someoneuploaded that compared the fight
between One Piece and the Fan Edit 1 Pace. 1 Pace's adaptation
of Urashima Versus Luffy cuts out seven minutes of the fight
without losing any content besides one single filler scene,

(57:00):
making the whole thing 5 minutesin total.
Said filler is the one of Luffy trying to lift Hiroshima and
subsequently being thrown out ofthe ring.
Yeah, that one was. I didn't get why we were doing
that either. You know what the like?
Luffy goes in a couple of times to grab him by the belt and
throw him out, but then Hiroshima gets tired of it,
throws him like a doll over his shoulder.

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Yeah. It was kind of weird.
Yeah, it was a thing. Like we kind of talked about it
before. It was cool watching Usop.
So God, Usop. Watching Luffy do the giant sumo
slap with third gear was pretty funny.
Like to finish him. I like that.
Or at the beginning when he starts off with it to save Kiku

(57:42):
in the 1st place right? Pretty funny.
Love when we get a new Luffy move out of some part of these
arcs. Is it really a new Luffy move
though? No, but it's funny that he calls
it a new move. Right, it's just the same thing
but slightly different. Yeah, it's the same punch or
third gear punch, but open hand instead of fist, so you know.
Luffy's the iPhone of you. Stop that right now.

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All right, back to Dave's fun facts here.
This never actually happens in the manga, where Urushima never
even manages to touch him until Luffy throws him out of the
ring. Outside of his scene, everything
else 1 pace removed with repeated animation and
stretching of certain shots, most infamously in the scene
where Luffy and Urushima struggle to regain balance for
45 seconds, which one? Pace cuts to 18.

(58:33):
You know, that's cool at all, but I kind of like the just 45
seconds of them try to regain their balance.
It was pretty funny. It was solid courage, the
cowardly dog energy that. Yeah, really, that is true.
Like, could it have been cut down?

(58:54):
Yes. But the fact that it went on for
just slightly a little too long and made it uncomfortable did
kind of make it kind of funny. Yeah, the rest of the fight
stuff getting cut, sure, but leave the 45 seconds over.
That one got me for a little while, just the two of them so

(59:16):
intensely, just immediately thatthere is no reason for them to
be doing this anyway. This is just a street fight and
they're in the middle of this sumo ring.
So they just both decide independently, like, no, I can't
leave this ring or I'll lose. This fight doesn't actually mean
anything, but you know, they decide to go for it, and it's
funny, all right? This comparison was once one of

(59:39):
the most viewed videos relating to One Piece on all of YouTube
before being presumably Copy Strike by Toee.
Thanks to all that. This fight, and by extension
this episode, is still to this day one of the primary examples
that gets brought up in community discussions when
discussing the anime's pacing, and is the only reason why
anyone remembers this piece of shit character even exists.

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Here's another fun fact. Do you know that Urushima having
tattoos on his body is actually a violation of the rules of sumo
wrestling? Sumo wrestlers called Rishi are
required to keep their bodies clean, which includes tattoos
due to the stigma surrounding them in Japanese culture due to
the yakuza. So outside of him cheating in
his matches, his fundamental appearance violates the rules of

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the only thing he's. Good at what was OTA thinking?
He'll never change. He'll never change, ever since
he was introduced, always the same.
Couldn't keep his hands off Kiku, but not.
Our. Urushima couldn't be precious.
Urushima stealing the art of sumo wrestling blind.
And he gets to be voiced by the same Japanese voice actor and

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voices Patrick Star in SpongeBob.
What a sick joke. Telly should have stopped him
when they had the chance. And you you could have stopped
him all. Right.
All right, moving on from whatever that is, I how about
another delightful character? You better pinch my cheek,
because here's some fun facts about hold em.
Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow, wow, wow, wow.

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OK, I didn't mean it like that. Anyways, what a funny character
design, right? No, it would agree.
I can't wait to see what Gabe has dug up about this guy.
He has stated in an SBS that Holdem, whose name is obviously
based off of the poker variant Texas Holdem, has his design

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based on the main character of the show, Future Robot
Daltaneus, which is an anime starring a robot with a lion's
head embedded on his chest as a prominent feature of his
character design. You know about this show?
I've never heard of this. Never heard of it.
Yeah, that's a very niche one. I'm going to keep reading.
You should Google what the hell that is.
I want to see a picture of this guy.

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Right. Sure, robot.
ODA used to watch this series when he was a kid and
subsequently based Holdem's design off him.
In fact, he has stated that all of the gifter designs in Wano
are inspired by this one character.
Holdem is, by his own admission,his favorite of the bunch
though. Finally, Holdem's favorite food
is eggplant, as revealed on his Vever card.

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What's a vever card? Don't worry about it, I'll
explain what they are and if we know what vever cards are, we
know about this. These are like the trading cards
where it explains all the characters like favorite stuff
and traits and whatever. All you need to know for now is
they're collectible cars that contain various bits of
information about various one piece characters such as our
height, blood tape, fair, food, among other things.
I mean, if there's actually moreto this that's more interesting

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than I'd love to know. Hope Devin has dropped a picture
of the guy here. Yep, let's see what that is.
It looks like a Zoid. Oh, OK of some kind.
Yeah. It's an animated series and it's
a Power Ranger. Yeah, it looks like Omegazoid,
looks like a Transformer. Take your pick of insert mech
character here but. Instead of like pterodactyl in

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the chest, it's a lion. It's a lion guy anyways, what
was I talking about? Oh yeah, hold em.
His favorite food is stated to be eggplant, though.
Because the Viva cards don't list the character's sexual
orientation, I cannot confirm what whether this is hinting at
something. So my initial giggle is
justified. Just an egg flan emoji.

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Oh fuck. All right, now for some other
uncategorized facts about these episodes.
The fight scene between Luffy, Zorro, and sumo wrestlers where
Kiku gets kidnapped never actually happens in the manga.
Instead, Kiku simply gets snatched while they're all still
riding Comocio. Was Zorro himself using the
defense that it didn't seem right to slice up a naked guy?

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There's a lot of like little filler things even in these
episodes. Huh, yeah, I've heard that the
pacing in Wano gets kind of bad at some point, but it seems like
it's already a little bit started.
Yeah, but they're subtle though they're not as obvious in my
opinion. Sure, like some of them are
obvious, like the, you know, the.
But like how they get kidnapped,they're just keeping continued.

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Yeah, so I don't hate it. Yeah, it's not the worst thing
in the world. I'm just noting it for later
when the pacing actually does get bad and I'm like damn, all
right, We've been kind of doing this since the beginning though.
I thought the pacing was normally fine in Wano.
I thought that's what I heard. No, I've heard that the pacing
in Wano gets pretty egregious atsome point.
The arcs that I remember hearingwere egregious were Doflamingos

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Island and Whole Cake. I didn't know Wano was
egregiously bad. Maybe I'm conflating something
that's not true, but I do know that people have complained
about pacing in Wano, so maybe it's not egregiously bad, but I
feel like I've definitely heard that it gets pretty bad at some
points. Based on my initial, you know,
these couple apps that we've been going through, I think it's

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trauma from those two arcs that are seeping into this arc.
You know, it's like blaming yourcurrent boyfriend for your ex's
behavior, right? You know, I think that's what
this is. Now, I could be wrong.
I probably am. But until I see it, I can't
really point it out. Be like, let me groan when it
happens. Yeah, I'll be the judge of it.

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So I'm wondering if a lot of this gripe with it, it's a lot
of people who are re watching tome, the pacing of like these
episodes that we watched this week, not too bad.
Like, sure, they milked a couplethings, but that's not out of
the ordinary. If they had milked the chase
between the gazelle for three episodes, then I'd be like OK,
yeah, this is egregious, but they.

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Didn't. Yeah, well, what are we doing
here? Yeah, like that's egregious in
my mind, but like 7 minutes of afight, like it's a fight scene.
Let them fight. It's not like they're repeating
the same animation of just, you know, Gum gum Gatling over and
over again. It's all unique stuff happening
in my personal thing. It's like, it's filler, yes, but

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it's tasteful filler. Do you see what I mean?
Like where it's like, it's not detracting away from the fight.
It's not prolonging unnecessarily.
If anything it's just it's giving more oomph to the fight
because they're adding new moves, new new shenanigans, new
gags. It's not just OK, we're going to
repeat the teleports behind, youmean 8 times.

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Yeah, it's largely OK for now. We'll see what our opinions hold
for the future when we get deeper into Wano.
Mouse Man, the character who talked to that piece of
Hiroshima in the bar, is voiced by the same person who voices
Bob the Tomato and Veggie Tales.All right, cool.
I imagine this is the dubbed voice actors.

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Well, who knows, maybe it's both, maybe it's sub and dub.
They got both. They wanted this one weird
connection. Lastly for today, the one true
Dark Knight himself, Batman. Just to be clear, the script
says Bat hyphen man just so it'snot copyright.
We won't get copyrighted, but ODA certainly still can.
When I looked up the wiki it wasdefinitely spelled like Batman

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the superhero. Batman using armament hockey to
block Luffy's punch is a filler scene added by the anime and the
manga. Batman simply shows up,
distracts everyone with arrows, and then leaves.
Once Tomo gets kidnapped, Luffy never once clashes with him.
This filler scene unintentionally scales up
Batman, a random Kaido goon to be able to use hockey, something

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half the Straw Hats can't even do, and block the attack of a
fucking Emperor of the Sea. You know, I was fucking thinking
this too. There's no reason that these
asshole goons should just be randomly able to fight Luffy and
Zorro. This is what I'm talking about
earlier, where why isn't Luffy just second gear shaving up to
the gazelle and and punching theshit out of them?
You know whatever man it's plot.It's plot.

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That's how my brain process. I was like, OK, yeah, sure, they
totally can hold up. Yeah, yeah.
Like we'll get to the good soup later.
Like, I get it, they're getting their minutes and.
You got to eat the dregs of the last soup we made first so we
can make the new stuff. This edition was commonly made
fun of at the time of the episode's release, with several
community members jokingly calling him the strongest Yonko

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commander and stating that he could be Katakuri, the Straw Hat
Grand Fleet, and of course, Superman.
I still find this anecdote to bereally funny.
Anyway, sorry about blabbing so long again.
I'm being carried to a mental hospital now, so I guess I'll
see you guys next week. Have a nice day.
The fact that you think you're getting out of a mental hospital
in one week is admirable, Gabe, but.

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That's why he's going into the mental hospital.
He thinks he's going to go. Yes, it's perfectly cyclical.
All right, well, thank you, Gabefor your fun facts again this
week. Those were delightful.
All right, next week we will be doing nine O 4 to 9 O 8, but we
will be skipping nine O 7 because that is an entire filler
episode. I might peek at it anyways just

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to see. Like not to watch it, but I'll
skim through it just to see how egregiously filler it is.
Might fuck around watch some filler.
Yeah, if I have the time. Look up the wiki page for
episode 9 O 7. Also might even be faster.
All right, so once again, 9 O 490-5906, not nine O 7 and then
nine O 8 women out of quotes. You got any quotes?

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Just Zorro, you're huge there. That should do it.
It's only a field dressing though.
Looks good, thanks a ton. Damn.
You are a sizable woman. I don't know.
Compared to Big Mom, she looks pretty tiny.
Just yeah, honestly, enough said.

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Pretty valid. She is huge.
She was standing over him imposingly with that sword.
I said one of my own earlier where I commented on how Zorro
says who are you really like? What is this?
What is this? You're more than just a normal.
Waitress, aren't you? Start talking.

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Harken. Well I am samurai then I wrote
down one other one from Kiku. She says stop your joking.
The only vulgar thing here is your heart.

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Ye vulgar beast, the only filth before me is thine own heart.
And this is right after she's done away with his top knot and
Urushima had just previously called all the people in the
crowd worthless and vulgar and meaningless and ants and all of
that. And she gets pissed off, jumps
over and cuts the top knot. Which I'm kind of surprised that

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Gabriel didn't go over this in general in the fun facts also.
But top knots have a lot of meaning in Japanese culture for
warriors. So I don't know if maybe Gabe
was planning to get into that atsome point in the future, or
maybe our fact checker didn't even know that.
But that is a very significant piece of his identity and honor

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that she just did away with in two seconds.
So this isn't just a show of power.
This is like a display of dominance over him.
Like cutting off his might as well have cut his Dick and balls
off, honestly. Like it would have had the same
effect. Genuinely.
Yeah. Because like, it's bad to do
that. Like you lose that.
Oh, you fucked up? This is like the thing that you

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watch samurai do in movies when they're about to go ronin.
They stand in front of their court and cut the top knot off,
let all their hair fall down to their backs.
It's still really long, but a jagged or whatever and they're
just officially renounced their house or whatever.
Not gryffindor -200 points to samurai.

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So yes, this is this is a very significant thing that Kiku has
done to this man and it's mostlyunderplayed for comedic
purposes, but maybe we'll get some other instance of this
happening where it's more meaningful, but we will see.
I did like the line that she says following that when he's
like, I'm going to fucking crushher head and she's like, I knew

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it. You are the type of man to hit a
woman. Yeah.
In the end. You are the.
Kind of beast who would strike awoman.
Damn. Just putting this man on blast
in front of everybody, which he deserves, of course, but 100.

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Percent. OK, we got a golden ham to give
out. I know we kind of talked about
it earlier, but let's rehash it a bit.
OK, so I don't actually want to give it to Bebo.
Wow, OK. Like, if there was like, you
know, a fourth party or third party here to, you know, giving
solid points, I probably would have thrown it out.
But now it's just the two of us.We can get real shit time, OK?

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Right, right. That was the red herring to get
people to come down to the end of the episode.
And now that we're here, we've what?
We swapped it out on you. We pulled the rug out from.
Under you, because we were goingto give the golden ham to Kiku
this week. Agreed.
Agreed. Genuinely she just that topknot

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slash throwing the disrespect just.
Playing his man like a fucking fiddle the whole time.
What I see are people just trying to survive, not vermin.
Oh yeah. Like I know we didn't really
talk about her heavily earlier on, but like just the stuff,
like the small simple things that she did, just everything

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that she did had impact in my opinion.
Yeah, I'm just so interested in what this character is going to
end up being. She is clearly heavily invested
in everything that's going on here.
She has this notebook of all of this information, probably on
the leaders. Yeah, Hawkins, hold them in the
third one who is like a horse guy or whatever, I don't know.

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Could make a really bad joke. Go on, she has the esteem tiles.
Oh shit, OK sorry I asked. I knew that was a bad idea but
my heart took over. Yeah, Kiku just interested me
and what she is going to potentially do next or what her

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arc is going to look like. I imagine she's going to be here
for the long haul. So what happens as the story
progresses? There's so many ways that I
think she can go, and I think that basically all of them are
probably going to prove to be entertaining and worthwhile, so
I feel. Like the reveals are going to be
huge. Like it's going to be like eye
opening for like the whole tone of the effects of this

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continent. I hope that's true.
That's my gut feeling and that'swhy I heavily like, oh, this is
good. Like we're getting some culture
stuff, we're getting some lore like oh also plus side tall
woman hauga. Right.
Yeah, and potentially stuff thatcould have broader implications

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for the world of One Piece, right?
Because the Kozuki clan has clearly been heavily involved in
a lot of what goes on, at a minimum, just being the makers
of so many of the swords that are considered the best in the
world. So just on this level alone, you
can get so much out of what's happening here, but there's

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probably going to be a lot more because we also know that they
are in some way, shape or form manufacturers of the home glyphs
as well. So there's so much extra stuff
here that could potentially be learned about expanding the
entire world and lore. That just seems so fascinating.

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It's quite literally a lore nuclear weapon.
Yeah. That.
I'm just waiting for it to blast.
Yeah. And once it does, oh man, yeah,
I'm not going to be able to walkfor a week.
OK well Kiku 909 O 3 golden ham.Easiest shit of my life.
Moving on to the fan mail segment where there is no fan

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mail. This.
Week unfortunately, unfortunately the lock box is
the key is inside of me. Oh right.
Yeah, Justin. Justin has it and I need him in
there. Got it.
Yeah, That would prove to be a problem, wouldn't it?
You don't have Wi-Fi in there. You never, you never got not
that installed or anything. Well, the problem is it's a

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mechanical key. Like, it's not like a password,
it's like a key. They print them out.
Oh, I see. Yeah.
And then they put them in the lock box, so yeah.
Well, that's tough, so maybe next week you'll have some fan
mail to listen to this time whensomebody who's not one of us is
here to give it to you. With that being said, we'll just

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move on to a gab here garb gabbing time.
So I had the gab. OK, I'm glad that I left it with
you. And it's in this bag here that's
next to our ring. Where the gab is in another bag.
Yeah, why'd you do that? The gab is already a bag.
Well, if you look inside the. Bag Are you ashamed of the gab
now? No, no, no.

(01:17:24):
It's for, you know, ritual sense.
Yeah. I had it surrounded by the salt
to cure the the spirits. Oh, OK.
Is this some like home remedy medicine stuff?
What do they call that stuff? Holistic?
Yeah, like holistic medicine, I'm pretty sure.
Is it salt? Or is it rice that sumos do when
they throw it in the ring? It's one of the other.
Either way, I was trying to copythat.

(01:17:45):
OK, and so here you go. Here's the bag of salt, here's
the garb gab and I'm opening it.Here you go, Stick your hand in.
OK, I'll reach in and oh, Oh, well, it looks like you didn't
stop it. Rice on the outside.
You put it on the inside too. OK, I'm digging through is, is
there anything else in here? Is this just rice?
Am I going to have to pull out amicroscope and read etchings on

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a a grain of rice to? Just just keep her going.
So I'm looking for something that's not oh, oh, wait.
Oh, there is some. There's more in here.
OK. Oh, it's little, little little
mochi balls like Tama. Oh this is adorable.
Oh OK, this is so much better. See it cleansed it.

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Yeah, it cleanse the whatever you put in here and made it a
little mochi balls. I love this.
OK, let's see what it All right,Well, this is just ironic now
I'm a such a roller coaster of emotions.
So the cute little mochi ball I pulled out says Miss Valentine
award on it. So now we're going to talk about
the character we hated in these episodes after all.

(01:18:51):
Right time to get salty, boys. So that explains all the salt, I
guess. All right.
I feel like there's a couple pretty easy contenders here.
So obviously you know Lion Man for torturing a child, right?
Yes. Definitely, but then there's
also Batman, because just fucking look at them.

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I think you're more upset by Batman than I am, truthfully.
But. Right.
So I'm leaning more towards LionMan because that ain't cool.
We don't do that. Yeah I agree with you, but just
so it's out there, the other option here is probably
Urushima. Just depends on who you think is
more egregious in the episodes. I am definitely going to lead

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towards hold them along with you.
Also because fuck you for putting Tama through any of
that. She doesn't deserve this at all.
She's just trying to have a goodbirthday for once in her fucking
life. It's her birthday.
It's her goddamn birthday, dude.Fuck you, hold them.
Like he could handled it just appropriately.
She could defend herself. This one no birthday girl?

(01:19:58):
Come on. Come on, 8 year old birthday
girl who was only eating rice inher entire life?
Dude, what the fuck? Just experienced beans, I'm
sorry but like no, put them in acoffin.
Yeah, put them in the ground, put them in jail.
Throw the way the jail. Yeah, throw away the jail into
the sea. Yeah, put them.
Put them in jail, wrap it in seastone, throw it in the ocean.

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Be done, end of story. Fuck you all my homies hate hold
them. Like I understand the Urushima,
you know, hatred, but like this,no.
Yeah, no, this is definitely easy.
Takes the cake. Miss Valentine award.
No problem. In my terms of tears, it goes
Boa Hancock for kicking pets, Yeah.
Torturing children, Yeah. The rest everyone else is PS and

(01:20:44):
QS compared to them. I should have an FBI most wanted
list for One Piece characters. You should totally do that one
day. Like put my own bounties for and
their crimes. Dude you should totally do that

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and solo record it. Just sit there and talk at the
mic for 30 minutes about why you're setting the bounties at
what you are. That sounds amazing.
That sounds incredible. I'll.
Write this down. Like somebody else being there

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with you till bounce off numberswould be good, but there's
something about you just rambling at people for 30
minutes that sounds way more entertaining.
Just being a schizo reading off the reasons why.
Like she gets she kicks dogs andcats.
That's just not cool. He took the fucking teeth

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pullers to her cheek. What?
Who the hell does that? Psychopaths plus 30 million
berries. What else can we add?
Note to self, do that later. Yeah, find some free time, write
out a little script or something, even totally do that.
All right, Speaking of things you have to do by yourself, hit

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the thing. If you wish to support the show,
consider signing up to our membership on pandasightings.com
where you'll get extra content like in person recordings and
vlogs. Maybe that's where I'll post
that That's. Absolutely where that should go.
There's also merch store over there where you could buy a
little something for you, a loved one, your dog I think
maybe probably buy stuff for dogs in there.

(01:22:33):
I don't know. Please.
The hamsters will eat us if we don't get fed.
Fuck perfect, you never look so clean doing the thing.
Well, that's all the body oil. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now, if you don't mind Speaking of body oil, I'm going to need
some of that. I've put some on my body, just
kind of slather it on. Yeah.

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I kind of realized over the course of this recording that
you ever heard of, you ever heard of a phenomena called Call
of the Void? Yeah.
Yeah. Where like, normally you stand
at the edge of a Cliff and you go like, damn, weirdly jumping
off sounds kind of cool right? Now This is an actual thing, by
the way, like for people. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Call the void. Yeah, no, I know, you know, but

(01:23:14):
for the people who are staring at their phones right now going
what the fuck are you talking about?
For the people who are saying. This is the thing, just look it
up. I was feeling that while we were
recording because I could see inside your mouth the whole time
and and I was just remembering what it was like initially and
at first it was terrifying, but now, now I'm curious.

(01:23:35):
Well, Christian, I'm glad you think of that because you know
what they say about, you know, staring into the void, right?
You know it. You look into the void and it
looks at you. Take me.
OK, time to go to Walmart. All right.