OP | Eps 920-922: Enter the Courtesans!

Zoro gambles away his savings and teams up with the oddball Tonoyasu, Sanji runs a wildly popular soup stand, mostly serving women, and effortlessly swats away Kyoshiro’s men. Franky discovers his work was for nothing, Robin gains access to Orochi’s chambers, and we finally meet the thumb-shaped Shogun himself alongside Komurasaki, the mysterious Oiran who charms and ruins men with ease.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
All right, do the thingy 54. 321I don't know.
I don't think I like the discordversion of it.
It honestly pisses me off. It pisses you off.
Like it doesn't feel right, brother.
It doesn't feel right. I, I feel like I, I it's.
Because it's not as loud and in your ear as the OG.

(00:22):
Yeah, I, I. Think I'm struggling to hear it
because I just hear you guys andlike I'm only just like doing it
on vibes. I'm not even listening to the
voice. I I hear 254 and then I just say
321 without really feeling it. Well.
Welcome to our world. Well, well, listen, I, I, I
understand you guys have your own problems.
All I'm saying is that life was better when I didn't have.

(00:44):
All I'm saying is life was better for me and I want to keep
it that way. Yeah, my life was improved when
I did not share your problems. In fact, I think that's going to
be my new mantra on life. Perfect, put it on a pillow.
Solve my problems and you guys fend for yourselves.
So what I'm hearing is yes, is that if we really want to make

(01:06):
it all equal, we got to break one of your joints because I got
a broken elbow, Christian's knee.
No, I, I think you're really missing the crux of the point.
No, no, my life is better when Idon't share your problems,
right? So if anything, we leave my
joints alone, right? And then you guys can feel free

(01:27):
to break another joint or something.
Yeah, on your body. What do you think Christian
split the difference back? Give him back pain.
No, I mean, he's he's he's a pain, but he's not that much of
a pain. I'm thinking like a solid
collarbone for this guy. I don't like where.
This is going. Rotator cuff you're.

(01:50):
Going to break my collarbone. That sounds horrible.
Yeah, yeah, this is feeling likea collarbone moment to me.
No. Can you, can you not?
I don't. I don't like the way that you
guys are getting out of your chairs.
Can you sit back down, please? Can you can you please sit back
down? Brendan All right.
You hold him down. I got the hammer.
No don't, don't. No one needs to hold anybody to

(02:11):
get the fuck away from him. No, no, no, wait, wait, wait,
wait. I have a better idea.
Let's make him do something ridiculous and film it and then
come out later that he injured himself.
Like let's make him do like an iron cross on gymnastic rings,
like 20 feet above the air or something.
And then obviously he can't do it so.

(02:31):
What? He just like snaps his
collarbone or a show or pops hisshoulder and then it can at
least be like mildly impressive or funny because that's just
hammering his collarbone when nobody's watching.
That's not that's not funny. Fair.
Yeah, yeah. Listen to Christian, Devin or.
Statistically, and this is a bias statistic because with my
father, but we can get him into,you know, mountain biking.

(02:55):
Oh, like downhill off Rd. mountain biking.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because statistically he'll just
go over the handlebars and at some point, because I don't
think his balance is that good. Yeah.
And it's cheaper in production because then we just slap a
GoPro on his forehead and then, you know, say, go on get.
And then we can write off all ofthe rest of our tickets exactly

(03:17):
as a tax break for going on thistrip with him, but he's the only
one that fucks up because we puta stick in his spokes.
Right, exactly. Or like I'll be on the trail
like waiting. So anyway, how you feeling about
this Brendan? I you know, we should get to the
podcast. I think excellent.
I think now is a really good time to get into the podcast.

(03:38):
I'm going to go ahead and start a summary.
I'm. Booking our tickets to Mount
Fuji as we speak. All right, 920 to 922 and we're
back with your regularly scheduled Wano based
intelligence gathering hour. Last week we spent a bit of time
with Luffy and Kid, so naturallyit's time to get the deets of
what the other Straws and Kinamone are out accomplishing.

(03:58):
Our favorite must head samurai is on his own, failing to curb
his DraftKings addiction by instead throwing away his entire
life savings on a game of guess the role in a gambling house
owned by the Kiroshiro family. He's now travelling with a funny
looking dude known as Tono Yasu.Probably more on him later.
Sanji is literally running the most successful soup stand the

(04:20):
nation has ever seen. Although his job should be to
attract warriors to the 'cause he finds himself serving
predominantly women to literally, and I mean this not a
single person's surprise, the Kiroshiro family also intimidate
him a little bit. After they find him getting a
little too much attention, Sanjiproceeds to deal with them to,
again, not a single person surprise, Otoko shows up, and

(04:44):
she's a cute little girl hoping to get a bowl of soup before the
Kyoshiro family show up. Better watch out Tama, someone's
coming for that. Best arts little darling that
you've been holding on to. It was also around this time
that Frankie learns he's been working for absolutely nothing.
As the plans for the Kaido Castle were pawned off a decade
ago, Robin is finally invited toShogun Orochi's quarters.

(05:04):
Speaking of, we finally meet thethumb looking bastard.
He also seems to have a second dragon fruit power.
In addition to this, we also meet the country's number one
Oyron Coma Rosaki. Heaven knows where the story is
going with this chick because sofar all we know is she will rob
you blinder than Stevie Wonder in a bat cave.
Can't wait to see what's next. All right, that's it.

(05:24):
That's your summary. The DraftKings got me good.
I I could hear you guys chuckling in the back.
That was a fire line. Zorro was like, man, dude, I
just, I got to get my DraftKingsitch, but they don't, they don't
play sports here. I can't.
I don't have my phone. FanDuel banned me.
Yeah, FanDuel actually approached him and said, hey,

(05:46):
what if we gave you $1000 to start gambling at this other
place? It's not sports betting, but
it's a dice rolling game where you it's all 5050.
And Zorro said, well, I guess say less, say less.
Fam And then he went the wrong way.
What else is new? Well, I mean, or did he go the
right way because he clearly waslooking to to gamble his life

(06:07):
savings away. True, the guy's already got an
alcoholic addiction so it wouldn't surprise me if he's
also a gambling addict as well. To be totally honest with you,
is. He just trying to be like a
Pokémon master with addictions. I think so.
That probably true, yeah. I think this set of episodes
teaches us a lot about the kind of person that Zorro is.

(06:28):
That's it. And honestly, I feel like he's
crying out for help. He's trying to find people to
shelter him like this Tono Yasu fellow.
He's looking for people to really help him stave off some
of the harsher demons that he has in his life.
Clearly, clearly. Here's what I think.
Oh, OK. I think he's trying to embody

(06:50):
the newest great swordsman he's encountered in his life, Admiral
Fujitora. He not only learned like, you
know, a couple of like, sword tricks for Buchi Toro, he was
also like, man, that guy was really good with a blade and he
gambled. I bet you that there's a
correlation there. Andy gambled like a
motherfucker. If I start gambling, maybe I'll

(07:16):
be a better swordsman. I can't wait for the flashback
to Mihawks Island where he's just playing solitaire or
something by himself and it's just, it's just, or he's got a
bunch of people over for poker night or something like that.
And it just, this is just going to be a continued learned
swordsman behavior. I I know where BB got this a

(07:39):
little bit, mainly because I, I just think it's really funny
that Zorro found his way into a gambling house.
I I'm also like pretty sure 99% of all of this Zorro side
content is fucking fluff and fake.
Like not if it happened. We we literally meet Zorro I
think for the first time again after the news of Luffy where
Tono Yasu and him are just like fucking walking in the desert

(08:00):
together or whatever. Now they do reference I believe
like being at a gambling house together or something and like
conversation but we never actually got to see it animated
or nothing. So this was actually kind of a
treat to see the rough adventures of of gambling addict
Zorro as he takes down the KIRO Shiro gambling outs.

(08:20):
Yeah, but now it's Canon. Well.
You know what? Now it is Canon.
It might as well be Canon. I'm going to say it's Canon.
It's my Canon. Yep, to become a great
swordsman, you have to be a crippling gambling addict.
Crippling gambling addict you. Have to be a crippling gambling
addict. Like that's a good, that's a
good bit. What's even more unbelievable,

(08:41):
too, is that he's actually winning at the beginning of it.
Yeah, he's doing great. Oh.
Yeah, they were cheating. Well, that the I don't think at
that point the other the gambling house was cheating.
They weren't doing the needle through the through the hay
floor yet. But you know, if anything,
again, learning from the best Zorro might have been cheating
using some observation hockey orsomething, I don't know.

(09:03):
But up to that point he's doing really well.
So so his directional skills notthere, however her gambling
skills. Counterpoint, in a world where
that is an ability that people can do things, you would think
that that wouldn't be a game because of the risk of cheating.
Facts so actually if anything, Ifeel like this gambling house is

(09:25):
in the wrong on all fronts. Also, can I also say how OK, I
understand that they cheated by,you know, they fixed the dice,
but they've. Not had a guy underneath.
I don't know how they knew. So yeah, like, like, how did
they know? Dammit, you cut me up.
This is the this is the point I was trying to get to.
They still rolled the dice normally, and Zorro still made a

(09:46):
random 5050 bet. But then they had the, the, the
fucking the, the troglodyte in the floor with his needle or
whatever. Like poking a dice to like
change its side so that it wouldgo from odd to even or even odd.
But like, neither the guy in thefloorboards nor the guy who
rolled the dice know what the final result was.
How do they know to fix? The guy's looking up through the

(10:09):
floorboard. Is he?
Can you see? But it was like straw.
Die. I mean, does it look like you
can see? No.
But is that going to be the anime's explanation?
Yeah. Brother, if he can see into the
cup with the dice, anyone can see him, and you cannot tell me
otherwise. I, I don't think that this is a
valid argument. I believe that they have a guy

(10:32):
who can like, fucking take a pinand go like, Oh yeah, I think
the dye is like right there. Or like he always lands in the
same spot so he knows like whereabouts to poke his needle
up in the sky. But like, either way, you're
just turning it from a 5050 that's random to another 5050
that's random minus moving a dye.
I don't know man. What I'm trying to say is I
don't think anybody cheated. I think just a guy in the
floorboards was like having likea side game of being like, I

(10:56):
poke the dye he's. Having his own fun.
Functionally, it doesn't really change the way the game
operates. Yeah, but at the same time, it's
like the intent behind it showedthat like he always, you know,
the dude with the smoke pipe thing kept like would be like
give the sign of like. Ah, yeah.

(11:16):
Yeah, sure. Smoke pipe by would you know de
Ash himself? But at the same time, it's like,
how does he fucking? Know yeah, that's what I'm
saying. They don't.
There's no way they could. This game doesn't change even
when you throw the cheating element in it.
It's not functionally the same fucking game.
Just like you get like a second roll after the first roll or
something I suppose. Or like a semi known roll after

(11:37):
a roll. Yeah, shit, you're right.
The guy, the guy does turn to the to the manager of the house
to to give the signal. So like the guy underneath is
not even the one calling the shots.
No, this just makes me miss the baccarat memes from Film Goals.
Why? What does baccarat have anything
to do with this? Leave her out of this.
Because Luffy played dice in themovie.

(11:58):
Well, that that did happen. They did.
They did play dice in the movie.Yeah, the big dice, it's true,
but I'm mad at you for finding any excuse to bring up baccarat
anyway. Suffer just a waste of fucking
time. All right, so that that's that's
what Zorro's up to. We're we're also in I I guess
I'll I'll be the first to say it.
We're also in party. It has split up from the major

(12:22):
plot at large, which I I will say historically, I, I do
believe the two of you are very not fans of near.
Are you guys having a bad time at this stage or are you just
like, well, it's it's never going to not happen so.
It's more than the second one. Like it's inevitable and I'm
bored but like. We're just doing set up for

(12:43):
other like side objectives. I don't understand brother, it's
boring. This is literally what you do in
every D&D game you have. Your players go on side
objectives that will all culminate into the primary
objective at the end of the major campaign.
This is literally just D&D. Play it out.
I don't understand what part of this is a problem for you.

(13:04):
You know, you know you're killing me.
He makes a good point. Just they're not really doing
anything exciting. And one of the episodes was
literally just watching a character we don't know yet.
You know, be mean. Yeah.
But we're still learning, people.
It's not bad, but it's like, it's just, it's, it's not

(13:24):
riveting. It's just it's.
I don't know, I was having a pretty good time watching that
scumbag of a dude waste his entire fucking life savings on
what was obviously a trap. Right, like like like, don't get
me wrong, like that episode was great, but you're you like it
was a good episode, Don't get mewrong your.
Argument was that oh, we're watching this random character
we never met and it's like, but oh, but simultaneously you're

(13:45):
like, oh, but it was a great episode.
In the grand. Oh my fucking God.
In the grand scheme of the picture of the arc, it's just
like, why? Why are we here?
OK, I guess this is what we're doing.
All right, let them cook. Devin, you bugged me.
It's we're at the boiling water aspect of it doesn't even smell
good. Like we haven't even gotten to

(14:05):
the pasta noodles yet. But you just said that the
Komerosaki bit was was a fire episode so it was a good or not.
It was a decent episode. It wasn't the best.
It was OK. I'm getting mixed signals from
you I. Feel like it was better than if
they did like like where they like like split up these short
stories. It was like the slow build up.
I liked that, and I like that they focused on it, but it also

(14:26):
was a little jarring because it's like, why?
Why are we focusing so heavily on just this one aspect?
All right? You know, at the same time, in
terms of like building up a quirk, it did like really, you
know, emphasize it in comparisonto how they normally build up
the quirks. Since we're already here, why
don't we why don't we talk aboutthis new character that we just
happened to get? So I also have mixed feelings on

(14:47):
this in real world. So, and this is very she takes
my money. So Odo went out of his way.
So I I did meme earlier in the arc when I said that geishas are
literally just hookers. They are not they they are they
are paid like entertainers, but they're also like they're
because they're pretty and they can also be hookers.

(15:08):
It depends. But however, a courtesan is as a
very different profession. Those are literally the hookers.
So they also exist in this country.
And Ona chose to have this subplot of there is a House of
courtesans and the number one courtesan is Komarasaki, who we

(15:30):
met in this set of episodes, also known as the Oyron, which
is all very historic, classic Japanese culture.
And that's why I, as a American will not comment or, or one way
or the other on the tastefulnessof it because it's not my
culture. So I I cannot or or or speak
upon it. That being said, the fact that
they exist is still facts. So I I just wanted to

(15:52):
preemptively say that to the audience at large that I will
probably not that's forward be calling anyone a whore, but I
will be referring to them as courtesans.
So anyways, these whores. Anyways, God damn you.
Hordesans were introduced to us,did you say?
Courtesans. I said Cortisons.

(16:15):
I just said Cortisons. I didn't say anything.
You're projecting now. Now you're just.
Projecting, We learned about courtesans who are presumably
they're just owned by the Kiroshiro family exclusively
because Boss Kiroshiro was the guy at the house when the this
old motherfucks. The featherhead guy, right?

(16:37):
No, Kiroshiro is the well, I don't know about Featherhead.
He's the guy with the pompadour.He's the giant blue pompadour.
But it's like a feather. No, it's a pompadour.
It's not his hair. It's absolutely his.
Hair that I think that's his hair.
Isn't that what are you talking about?
Yeah. I always thought it was like a
feather thing that he put on hishead.
It didn't look like real hair. It looked like it was like his
hair was like, you know, like this, like no classic samurai

(16:58):
thing. But then the pompadour was like
a feather looking like thing. They look separate.
Let me help you with this. I promise you my guy, that is
his hair. Because look, it's his hair.
It's just a pompadour. That's him.
That's the guy. Sorry audience, for the context,
I, I, I put a picture of Girochiro in the in the chat
here for for Devin to look at. He's the only samurai with both

(17:20):
a topknot and a fucking pompadour.
What a weird guy. That like, comes from the
topknot, I guess his hair is just so incredibly extra long
that he pulls it forward over his head and and styles it.
Yeah, with about an entire container of of moose.
Is this just advanced comb over?Honestly I would say yes.

(17:43):
This is just a very aggressive comb over.
This is a styled comb over if I've ever seen it.
He's got some massive hair extensions in, yeah.
Funny enough, I don't hate this.No, he's like.
He's got a great design. I love Kiroshiro, He's he's a
really fucking sweet dude. Or Kioshiro.
Like in comparison to like otherlike most one PC designs this is

(18:06):
up there. No, he's also got like that,
that weird like old Japanese like painting aesthetic with the
eyes and with the mouth. No, I actually, I love this
guy's design. I think.
I think he's fascinating as fuck.
Hey, he cooked with this one. I'm.
I'm not going to lie for sure. And I don't know if you even
remember, but we actually officially met this guy very
early in the Wanowark. He he was just kind of like a
guy who was like, oh, man, Lord Orochi or Shogun Orochi is a son

(18:30):
of a bitch, but I work for him. And that was, that was kind of
like all we got with. Yeah.
I remember. Yeah.
OK, OK. You do remember?
They flashed back to it in in these episodes too.
When Robin recalls being there because she was dancing in the
background. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But he owns the courtesans, supposedly.
And we get an entire bit play out of the new Boa Hancock, if

(18:52):
you will. Yeah, Boa Hancock Times 20.
I don't know about Boa Hancock. I think she's just the one O
Boa. Like let's be let's just be
honest and call it what it is. Like everyone, we we're playing
off the same bit just in a single island.
Her malice. Is far heavier than that Boa's
is though. Yeah, I'd say that.
Explain the mouse. Explain the malice to be people.

(19:13):
What what, what? What about her is malicious?
Well, she hates poor people. Yeah, Boa hates animals.
Not the same, but it's not any better.
OK. I mean, it's the other.
The other thing is that, you know, boa boa, hating animals.
Obviously I hate that Komasaki not only hates poor people,

(19:36):
which is just like fucking. What a sentence.
Like in in this economy. What a sentence.
But but also goes out of her wayto essentially make people poor
by especially yeah, getting men me.
Holding a photo of the 1% and this woman, they're the same.
They're the same because she she, she lures in men and makes

(20:01):
them think that she loves them and then fucking Rakes them over
the coals for all they're worth basically.
And, and we don't know what other examples of, of men have
happened, but this guy in particular.
That we meet his name was something that I can't remember
right now, but it was. Easy.
I think it was Bingo Bingo. Bingo.

(20:22):
That was it. Yeah.
Bingo was his name. Oh, Bingo.
Was his name Oh. Bingo was in fact his name.
Oh that this guy scumbag totallydeserved to be ransacked for all
the money he was worth. He is a piece of shit, yeah.
He was a total asshole. That's why I'm like, it's not
the same but it's the same. But at the same time I I'm
conflicted with her. She is a fundamentally worse

(20:44):
person like a bar none than Hancock.
Like Hancock at least we've seenthe good side of her where she
cares about Luffy and it's like willing to go help her friends
and loves her sisters and all ofthis other stuff.
We don't know a lot about Komarosaki but we do know about
her right now. She's a piece of shit, you know.
She's kind of a piece of shit, and then ODA does that thing
where it's like, yeah, she's a piece of shit, but she also

(21:05):
fucked over this other guy who'sclearly a piece of shit.
But like, that's what I mean. It's like, like, what if she's
Robin Hooding? Like we don't know the full
story of what she we did with the money.
We don't. You're right, I agree.
Like what if she's giving it to like, you know, like for the
good? So then it's like, OK, she could
be a great person, but in this great moment, yes she is a piece
of shit because she's robbing pieces of shit and making them

(21:26):
poor people. Well look, that is true.
However, she did, of her own accord, just mutter under her
breath. I fucking hate poor people like
that. That sentence did come from her
mouth, right? That's it.
That, that, that was a sentence she made.
That was that was a sentence. Whether or not she is stealing
from people and giving to the poor later, that's one thing,
but the words I hate poor peopledid come from her with no no

(21:51):
pressure. That did happen.
That did happen. Right.
Like, so again, that's why I'm like conflicted, like there has
to be more to this story. I don't know if there does.
If it stays at this correct, awful human being too, right?
But like I I feel like there's more.

(22:11):
I feel like there's more becauselook at Otoko.
She seems pretty happy. Question mark.
I she seems pretty oblivious is what you mean?
I don't know about oblivious, that child looks traumatized.
Yeah. Smiling through the pain can.
I ask you guys like how how did the how did the breakdown of her
character's name joke play out? Were were you guys able to

(22:35):
follow along with why her name is funny?
Yeah. OK, OK, cool.
Yeah, they they explained that. Well, I know they did.
It was great. But it still tends to be kind of
a problem sometimes being like following, like, you know, these
language barrier jokes or whatever.
Even when they fucking throw it in your face, I find anyway when
I watch some from time to time. But yeah, Otoko is funny because
Otoko means boy. Her name is Toko.

(22:57):
So therefore you put the O in front, it becomes Otoko.
But she's a girl. But she's a girl.
She's a great attitude about it,honestly.
I agree. I I love that she's crying.
Sorry. She turns it into a whole bit.
It's like her five minute stand up routine.
She. I vibe with Otoko, she's great.

(23:18):
Otoko is a vibe. That's why I'm I like.
I don't know if I could really dislike Co.
I'm forgetting her Homer. Rosaki, that one, you got it.
What I lost it on the sheet. That's that's really what
happened. I was looking for her.
Name. No, I well, like.
Why? Why?
What's the connection here that you like?
Oh, Toko being a person, I don'tknow that exists.

(23:40):
Meaning you can't hate Komo Rosaki.
Well, they're friends. I mean, seemingly they're
sisters. I don't know if that's just not
horrific Atoko is attributing toher for being an older woman in
her presence or not, or if they literally are sisters, but.
Like that's, that's the thing. It's like there's more to the
story. There's more.
Oh, it'll be cooking. He's just.

(24:00):
This is just the first. I agree.
OK? This is the first time we see
Boa Hancock kick a dog without actually seeing her, like, being
a person. Like right now, we're just at
that moment. I just personally can't wait for
the way this bit plays out is just that she is a terrible
person and Orochi can't wait to marry Komarosaki.

(24:21):
And Komarosaki's like, yes, we're two bad people, we belong
together. And you're going to be like,
wow, that was that was the payout.
Yeah. Really cooked here.
You know what consistency. Kurosaki's just like you are
literally the richest person on the island.
Yeah, I guess we can marry Orochi.

(24:41):
That's what he's building towards.
Or she her plan could be to bankrupt him so that she becomes
the one in power and then she's just bankrupts the country and
then they all die. Wouldn't that be something?
When is enough enough? It's never a done.
And Kaido just sits there and gets drunk in the meantime.
I don't know. I don't know.

(25:01):
It's got me intrigued. That's why I like that whole
episode with the focus on it, because it's like it.
It's got me intrigued. Like there's got to be something
more to this. No, I I do like the way that
they entertain this this first character interaction with
Komarusaki where like you, you you sort of see where the bits
going like part way through because, you know, like the

(25:22):
three old guys at the at the procession was like, we hate you
Komarusaki. And then we go to this flashback
like, Oh yeah. But then the sheer heartlessness
of her was a little surprising. But at the same time, fuck that
guy. Absolutely, but at the same time
also fuck that guy. He is a piece of shit.
He's objectively a piece of shit.
Totally. He was a bad guy.

(25:44):
It's one of those things where it's like, who do I hate more,
the old man or her? And I kind of hate him more than
I hate her. All it's going to take is one
kind motherfucker that Komerosaki fucks over, and then
everyone in this podcast going to be like, we hate her, she's
the worst. Fucking put her at the stage.
But like, at the same time, it'slike, like the the reason why

(26:04):
she's bad. Yeah, OK, she hates poor people,
but they're they gifted it to her.
That's that's on them. This is also true.
Like people being idiots. For Bing Bong, he's extorting
people. Bingo was a fucking idiot.
Oh, by just agreeing to yeah, Kumarasaki's demands and like,

(26:26):
to be fair. I even asked him if he wanted a
receipt and he went Nah I trust you fam.
And surprise, surprise. That is also very true.
He did dig his own grave very quickly.
She. Literally said let me make sure
that I get this in the Ledger. For those keeping track at home,
you can buy contracts for courtesans so that they can get

(26:48):
out of being courtesans. For the rest of it's a whole
fucking thing. They go on loan to the houses
and whatnot. There's a system that predates
what you what you would think itwould be.
It's a debt repayment system. Yeah, they're, they're sold.
A lot of the courtesans are soldinto it basically because of
their parents are in debt or they're in debt, whatever it is.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So she's like, oh, let me make

(27:10):
sure I get this on the Ledger. And then he's like, no, I trust
you. Don't worry about it.
Just make sure you hold on to ituntil I get the rest.
Why would I question the woman Ilove?
And then Komosaki's like, Oh yeah, OK, I could do that.
Like that's the thing. It's like, it's the stereotype
of like the man who falls in love with the stripper at the
strip club. Like he, everyone knows.

(27:30):
I'm in love with a stripper. Exactly.
Like, who's really at fault? Well.
Now granted I I will fault her for the hating poor people
comment that came from the soul.Yeah, that came from the soul
brother. Yeah, but everything else, it's
like. That's just a hustle bro.

(27:51):
Yeah, that's just the hustle. That's just game.
I can't tell if Christian likes or dislikes Komarusaki or if he
just like, convinced himself that Komarusaki is just on the
grind. She's just on the grind.
Fine bro, we agreed that. I mean, that's just a fact.
Bingo's a piece of shit, you know?
Like, he's his money. He didn't deserve any of that
money. That shit's dirty, you know?

(28:12):
Didn't deserve to get fucked over his wife, like his original
wife didn't deserve all that smoke.
Yeah, but honestly, Komarosaki'sdone her a favor by draining of
all his money because now she can be away from that asshole.
She's back with her family. You know, unfortunately, it's
going to be kind of hard for herto remarry in the society
because that's the way that standards were like back then.
But at least she's he's not probably getting beaten every

(28:35):
night by a drunken asshole, so. Thanks.
Thanks. You know, maybe Kumarosaki has
been out here too in the Lord's work saving all of these women
from their shit ass husbands. Right, there's more to the
story, I'm just saying. I really OK this now this is a
fun idea. If that becomes her actual
motivation later. Like this is all like the Robin

(28:57):
Hood thing you're talking about,but it's really the root of it
is getting the women away from their terrible husbands.
That would be the fucking the greatest twist on this ever.
Like I said, let ODA clock. Let the man.
He has potential. Oh shit.

(29:17):
I will not be guessed slit away from this point.
It has potential to be a good plot point, but I'm holding
reserves because you never know.You never know, because it's
one. Piece it could, it could also
just be she's also just genuinely a piece of shit.
Well, in addition to Komarosaki,you guys also met Orochi for the

(29:39):
first time. How about that guy, huh?
He. Got a hydra Hydra fruit, don't
he? Yeah, it seems to be.
Well, it kind of seems to be, doesn't it?
I'm, I mean, I'm not going to name it for you because it
wasn't named for us yet, I don'tthink.
At least I, I, I tried to make sure when I was watching the
episode so they didn't name dropit.
But can I tell you if you know the story of Orochi from like
the Okami game plus what you sawon your screen?

(30:01):
My guess is that your ability tosuss this one out will not be
that hard. I imagine it's a obviously it's
a Zoen, but it's gonna be like amythical class because like, you
know, mythical, like what's his name of the Phoenix guy?
It'll be like model Hydra. Uh huh, right.
So maybe it's like, what, what? What is Drake in them's and
Kaido's like it's like. So it it's interesting.

(30:23):
So we don't know what Kaido's official Devil Fruit name is yet
and we we won't know. I don't think for a minute.
Well, that might not I don't know.
Regardless, we don't know what it is but like.
Drake, but like ex Drake, you know, like his is like what?
Like dinosaur. It is technically the dragon
dragon fruit model Allosaurus. Right.
So like could it be like the dragon dragon fruit mark Hydra?

(30:44):
Possibly. Probably.
Very possible. We don't know.
That'd be my guess. Probably.
I think your ability to sniff this one out for yourselves will
be pretty easy. To be totally honest with you,
I, I, I believe in your ability.Yeah, I can't, I can't imagine
it being that hard. If you like, like you said, if
you if if you're at all familiarwith one of the most popular
stories of this period of Japanese history, then you

(31:07):
probably have a good idea of what they're modeled after.
I have no idea, genuinely. Have you played the Okami game?
I don't even know what game you're talking about.
Yeah, he definitely has not. Well, I did what I could, Okami.
Well, I'll say Orochi. This segment of history is very

(31:29):
not known to me. I am very ignorant to this time
frame. Somehow this surprises me.
Like, a lot, actually. So I'll I'll give you the
SparkNotes as I remember it as retold through the Okami Ted
talks, minus the wolf part. There was a warrior by the name
of Susano who beheaded the the 8headed dragon Orochi and needed

(31:51):
to cut off all 8 heads and the way he did so was under the
moon. The sword got empowered and also
the dragon got super drunk. Yeah, there you go, that's the
story. That's pretty good.
OK. I'm happy for you.
There you go, with all the little Easter eggs of the other

(32:12):
characters. That's pretty good.
Dragon check. There's a very specific sword to
the the Kusanagi. Yeah, I don't know what it's
called. Yeah, that.
I believe Susano is was the wielder of and I don't know if
it's the one that he uses to kill him or he just like finds
it. But yeah.
So there'll there'll be some tieinsurance to Susano and the moon

(32:35):
God. Basically what I'm saying is
since we know a guy's name is Orochi and we know motherfucker
had a silhouette that looked like it had serpent heads on it,
my guess is you can fill in a blank.
It is kind of funny that it it feels like the drunk thing we're
going to do instead has been moved to Kaido and not Orochi,
though that part's pretty funny.Listen, you don't know anything

(32:58):
yet, all right? Fucking relax anyway, movie guy.
I don't, I don't know, I don't know anything, but the way the
first fight with Luffy wedded kind of feels like, I don't
know, maybe we've already playedit out, but.
That is true and it was very important plot element too in
the story. Like there was no way that Susan
would have won if the dragon waslike at its full capacity, like
they had to get him drunk first or whatever.

(33:18):
So whole bit of all right, yeah,Anyway, so maybe.
He's going to be drunk with lovebecause.
Yeah. Oh fuck me.
Robin's coming nearby and he she's going to break his fucking
necks. Right, right bro.
Komarosaki's right there, Robin,though.
OK, fine, fine, fair enough. So anyway, Orochi's the 8 headed

(33:39):
serpent guy so they're probably going to give him some kind of
hydra, and I wouldn't surprise me if the just for some reason
he's been in some other skirmishin the past that makes it so he
can only grow 8 heads or whatever.
Or they'll just say he's a hydrowith eight heads.
Either way, who cares? But Orochi is.
Also, Komarosaki only has two hands while Robin has infinite

(34:00):
hands for, you know, neck clutching.
OK. All true, she can slice all 8 at
once. She doesn't need to slice them
at all, she just clutches crack.Crack.
Oh. Oh, so you think Robin's just
going to clutch all eight of theheads?
There could be more heads, we don't know.
That's true. There could be more heads.
You don't. Know, but she has infinite hands
and just we could see a fucking guillotine again, you know, crab

(34:23):
guillotine. Yeah, sorry, it got really
silent after that, Yeah. I I know, all right.
So anyway, fucking Orochi's hereand he's talking to CP0.
For the folks keeping track at home, CP0 used to use Doflamingo
as the middle man when procuringweapons from the Kaido weapons

(34:44):
manufacturing houses, and now that Doflamingo is axed, they're
just like, we want weapons. And meanwhile, Orochi is like,
well, now that you're here and you're talking to me and you
want my shit, actually, while I want you to give me the Vega
Punk, I want him. That's that's who I want to.
For what reason? Nobody fucking knows.
Apparently he just he just wantsVega Punk to make weapons.

(35:05):
I was very confused for a littlewhile as Orochi was talking but
I didn't realize who he was yet.Didn't know who he was yet.
Just the sheer audacity by whichthey were regarding CP0 and CP0
is just sitting there taking it and I'm like what the fuck is
going on? They're weapons, apparently.
Apparently. Don't look at me, brother.

(35:26):
Yeah, I still haven't figured that part out yet.
What weapons? Like what specifically?
Just gunpowder. Like what are we talking?
No. I feel I feel like you're
misunderstanding how the Dolph Lamingo aspect worked in all
this. So the world government was
helping funnel black market weaponry, swords, guns,
whatever. Remember back when the in the

(35:46):
underside of Dressrosa when theyfound like a Sabo and the rest
of the Revolutionary Army people, they found like boxes of
like, you know, firearms and stuff like that.
AK-40 Sevens. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The AK-40 Sevens, Exactly. So all of those weapons came
from the manufacturing facilities on Wano in the the

(36:06):
the presumably, I guess like probably the prisons and shit
like that where I don't know where they're fucking
manufacturing them specifically,but presumably they're all slave
labor. Regardless, they all get made
here and traditionally they weretransported to Dressrosa so that
they could be like sold and distributed.
But now the dress rose is not inthe picture.

(36:27):
The World Government still needsto get that war machine a churn
in, so now they're here on Wano directly.
OK. Yeah, yeah.
So this is just the plot for Lord of War?
Got it. Basically what?
So when's Nick Cage getting a cameo?
And well. Unfortunately, Nick Cage has
never graced us with any anime voice over work as far as I'm

(36:50):
aware. I thought he was in Ponyo, the
hit movie made by Studio Ghibli,but unfortunately I mistook him
for Liam Neeson, but that's still also funny.
No, no, no, no. Don't worry.
Don't worry, Devin. I got you.
You remember Hina, right? Yeah.
Yeah. You remember her Fruit's called.
What? What's that?
Her fruit's the cage. Cage fruit, right?
I believe that is correct. Don't tell me it's like the iron
iron fruit. No, I believe it's the cage

(37:11):
cage. So anyway, Hina has the cage
cage fruit and the awakened formof that she's.
Gonna cage them and. Then no, no, the her the
awakened form of the cage. Cage.
Oh my God, shut up. It's.
A Zoen type. It's a with.
Paramecia turns into Zoen. Yeah, it's just, it's just going

(37:32):
to be Nicolas Cage. It's been a Zoen type all this
time. I imagine it's like South Park
esque 2, where it's just like a picture of Nicolas Cage.
You may look, you know what I mean?
But it's just Nicolas Cage with the oh, that would be beautiful.
Yeah, I hate it. I hate this.
This sucks. This is stupid.
Hey, WADA wants me for a new film.

(37:56):
So fucking dumb. You're mad because you know it
would work. I'm curious what kind of
president CP0 will have throughout the arc.
If they're here already, then what kind of events are they
going to play into that happen as the arc progresses at this
point? Well.
Presumably they're really only here.
I'm sure they're not going to take their chance at getting
Luffy too. Oh, you think that they're going

(38:16):
to try to get Luffy? I mean, when they find out that
he's here, they're already on the side of working with Kaido
and all of these people to funnel weapons and stuff in.
But if they see that Luffy's here, then there might be some
sort of, you know, three-way conflict here where CP0 starts
getting involved. Counterpoint OK so if we picture

(38:39):
CP0 acting like the American government does, realistically
what could be also their motive instead of just capturing Luffy?
They could give a fuck all aboutthat.
They could be just trying, you know, try and take advantage of
Luffy's quote, rebellion againsta dictatorship and to
destabilize the country to then be able to take over it to then

(38:59):
capture all the weapons productions.
They don't have to have the middleman to begin with.
So they could be acting as a theCIA doing, you know, giving
terrorists weapons to destabilize the country that
already keeps the government outof the country.
Yeah. Because, you know, they're like
anti foreigner and they literally dressed up as the

(39:20):
British Empire during the 1800s trying to call a nice.
There's a lot of similarities. Devin, you are cooking right now
and Christian's just like, yeah,that could be it.
Right. That is, I'm letting them keep
going. Before I go.
So there's a lot of parallels because they are literally

(39:41):
wearing top hats. That's where you went with this.
That's your final thought. You're nailing the coffin and
they're wearing top. Hats.
That's yeah, that's it. Well, no, no, it's the imagery
of it. It's a 2 fold piece.
It's not like just because, Oh my God, they're wearing top
hats, so therefore imperialism. It's like, no, that's just like
the subtle nod to it. Yeah, yeah.
Like because during that time frame, you know, everywhere was

(40:03):
trying to get into Japan and they were.
Being very xenophobic towards other, you know, outside
countries. So they're they're going to try
and destabilize it to open the borders so that they can get it
and, you know, factory the Factorios.
Although to be fair, wasn't Odin's dream to open Wano's
borders. But Kaido doesn't want that.
Kaido doesn't want that, right? Odin did.

(40:24):
Does the World Government want what Odin wanted?
Or do they want something different entirely?
I think they want something different entirely, OK, They
they want the country, yes. For the weapons manufacturing
possibly abilities, right, but there's also like the pone
glyphs. You know that stuff issue
because you know, the technologyfor how to make pone glyphs and

(40:45):
see prism stuff that I think they're more after that
technology. Mm hmm.
So that they can control the Devil fruit users, so they can
be like ha ha, he, he, we own the world.
I think you're cooking up some spicy meatballs here, Devin, Not
going to lie to you, I could seethese very easily playing out
this way. Any additional or or counter
thoughts Christian did? You know, he makes a great

(41:07):
point. There's a lot of historical
evidence for these things happening and I think it's just
it's easily possible that they could try it their hand at using
Luffy as an extra player to get rid of Kaido if they want to put
their eggs behind that basket. But I would feel like the World
government has to have somethingelse up their sleeves besides

(41:28):
just CP0 being here. Like there has to be some other
trump card that they've been saving the choose against Kaido.
We're just the right moment. And then they just decide that
oh shit, this Luffy kid has beenmaking waves.
He's actually can hold his own alittle bit kind of against Kaido
in some future battle. I'm not saying based off of the
time you got one shot at like 10episodes ago, right, right.

(41:48):
And then and and then they and then decide to try and use that
platform like they. Discover oil and wano right?
And then they invade. That's all they need.
Fair enough. You know, Speaking of Luffy, do
you guys have any comments on onLuffy and the kid power hour
that we got last set of episodessince neither of you were here
it. Was pretty funny.
It was funny. Yeah, it was.

(42:08):
Pretty funny to watch. OK, good.
I think my favorite line still has to be prove it.
Yeah. Like when loop, like after they
beat up the the hippo, hungry, hungry hippo, he's just like, Oh
my God, you beat up the cop and it's like, yeah.
Yeah, what the fuck was that? Hungry, hungry hippo guy?
What the fuck was that? Yeah, what the fuck was that?

(42:28):
Yeah, he, he, that dude got literally the lowest smile role
I think you can get of all time.He became, after he ate the
smile fruit, the animal was around him and he became the
tongue. That is the lowest fucking role
I think you can possibly get with a smile.
Yeah. Also what was his game plan?

(42:50):
Haha you're in my mouth and I'm going to have my desk to leave.
What the fuck is that? That is like the dumbest idea.
I don't know, dude. Apparently he thought that, you
know, it was a fucking murder room and.
Well, that was his first problem, he thought.
Somebody needed to call a doctor.
Somebody needed to call a doctor.
But that would be. He thought he wasn't in a shown
in anime. Yeah, he thought the shit was

(43:12):
hippo piece. He thought this was hippo piece.
Yeah, guy's an idiot. Granted, hippo is one of the
more deadly animals of the planet, but like this shit?
The fuck? They are, but they turned into a
joke. Yeah, they did turn to do a
joke. Caribou's also trying to buddy
up with Luffy so they can, you know, escape together.
Who? Caribou the the guy I.

(43:33):
Don't know who this is. Why you the cover story episode
already came out OK. No, I'm deleting him from my
memory. I don't want him to be here.
That's fair. That's also fair.
I, I I do respect that take. They even gave us a speed run of
the cover story animated as wellthey did.
I ignored that PowerPoint presentation that they gave us

(43:55):
I. Completely forgot they did that
too. I did not remember that in the
slightest. Yeah, they do it.
If you didn't know the cover story, it means nothing.
There is no context. It's just a series of images in
PowerPoint presentation form, like Devin said, and you just
have to accept that that's what they gave you and and then you

(44:15):
move on. Like it made me genuinely think
like, did they animate those episodes?
Or is this like, and they're just gaslighting, like how you
forgot an episode that you didn't watch and you know what I
mean? Like one of those things.
Nope, that's it. No, no, they're not trying to
gaslight. It was just the the the narrator
being like, it's probably important to tell you guys how
he got here. Well, and then he just like

(44:36):
summarizes after a series of unfortunate of events, he was
captured by an X Drake and then brought here to prison.
That was that was the longest sort of.
And then they just do the slideshow of like his actual
cover story but none of it meansanything unless you have like
the captions to go with it. Also, why did Caribou lick
Luffy? Because that's what he does.
He's gross, gross swamp man. That's just what he does.

(45:00):
He's he's just a freaky guy, dude.
Just a fucking freak. He's just all over him is.
All right. Well, in addition to Sanji doing
Sanji things that I don't think surprises anybody, Frankie his
his side objective finally came to a head.
Yeah, dude. Poor guy kind of went through

(45:20):
the ringer though, I ain't goingto lie.
Yeah, you did. That was dirty Avoda.
I'm just, I'm just saying like they've been building this up
for a hot minute and then they just go, Oh yeah, I pawned it.
The fuck? Like I thought this was going to
be a whole ass thing. I thought this was going to be a
whole ass pop Like, Nope, I pawned it.

(45:42):
And then it's just playing fucking guess.
Who you know, he goes on his wild goose chase of like trying
to figure out like the history of where it went.
But the the part, another thing that I love about this moment in
time is that as soon as Frankie learns that the the the the the
Prince of her pond, he immediately attacks the fucking
Carpenter guy. I know.

(46:03):
I would too. I would too.
And even like, shoots the fucking rocket launchers out of
his shoulder. I'm like, Frankie, fucking
relax. Just leave.
He's like, no, I want blood. I did all this work for nothing.
I've been working my ass off. I'm working 10 times harder than
all of the others just for this and you're telling me you don't

(46:25):
got it? Fuck.
You. I just found that really funny
that he went out of his way to fucking shoot rockets at the
guy. That should have made me cackle.
Couldn't he just have gotten himto fucking remake the blueprints
like. I mean presumably this guy is a
dunce so like he probably can't just recreate the blueprints

(46:45):
from memory. Ain't no way he's going to
fucking remember. Does have nails in his nostrils,
so yeah, I guess that does track.
Yeah, he's slowly lobotomizing himself.
Inching the nail further. Every time he sneezes, he comes
closer to God. I do love this fucking Frankie
side adventure though. It was.

(47:06):
It was fucking gas, yeah. I agree it was good.
That one was good. Frankie going to all these like
schmucks and they're like, Oh, yeah, I do remember having those
blueprints, but you know, they got stolen or I, I moved so I
left him behind with my old, my old landlord or this, that other
thing. Frank, he's just like, God damn

(47:26):
it. Why?
I think it would have been funnier if they had him like
slowly ripping his hair out likemissing chunks each time he got
to the next person. Do you know what I mean?
No no, he rips his hair out but then he like fucking makes it
grow again by pressing his nose then rips his hair out.
Every new person. Oh yeah, till he goes through

(47:48):
all all of his haircuts. Yeah, dude, that would be funny.
That would have been a good guy.Shit dude, that's so good.
But other than that, we saw Kenemone for a minute.
Actually, that was when Frankie said yeah.
The last place they that I heardis it's in somewhere in Curry,
which for those keeping track athome, it is an entire like state
of Wano. So who the fuck knows where they
land. They ended up in Curry, if

(48:09):
they're even still around. That plot element might have
just been completely abandoned at this point.
Then Kenemone's trying to gaslight the Beast Pirates into
thinking that Ashura Doji's attacking them.
That's his. Grand idea, this arc really do
be just gaslighting the ark. Yeah, well, what other parts are
gaslighting? Well, OK, Komosaki, to gaslight
that old man into thinking that she loved it.
Yeah, that did happen. Yeah, it's gaslighting the

(48:35):
episodes. That was that other thing that
happened to these set of episodes.
I do want to ask, I know you guys don't really care about
Usher Doji. This like present moment in
time. I I vie with Usher Doji.
I really do. But like, is this really going
to be the way that we convince our homie to join us in the
fight? It's just by making the Beast

(48:56):
Pirates become his problem and then he's going to be like,
you're right, I should help you guys fight.
Are we just going to lie to him and not tell him that kind of
fucked up? It is a little fucked up.
It's, it's kind of fucked up, you know?
But it's also kind of funny. Wow.
Yeah, really. Really, the crux of my question

(49:16):
is, are we going to get away with it or are we going to like,
you know, come clean and cut ourlosses and say, all right, fine,
Doji, you do whatever you want. Oh, I'm sure at some way,
somehow this will come to light,whether immediately, even if
it's actually effective and getsDoji into the fight, at some
point somebody's going to slip and admit that they were the
ones that stole the stuff out and left the note.

(49:38):
And then there's going to be some, I don't know if it's going
to be a serious conflict or justsome gag that happens later
between Doji and kidney moan. But some, some way I'm, I'm, I'm
positive this will come back. I love to dog storms sitting
there very ponderously thinking basically the same thing.
Like, you know, I really feel for the guy because, you know,

(49:59):
you guys have been gone for 20 years and he went through some
shit eyes. Like he went through the ringer
and Kenny was basically just like, yeah, I don't really care.
Yeah, get fucked. Get in fucking lying bro.
That is pretty much how that went down.
Also did they make Carrot like the expert digger just because

(50:23):
she's a rabbit and they Burrow? Is that the joke behind that?
Like. Well, yeah, I mean, I mean I, I,
I assume. Because they didn't really
expand upon how she dug the tunnel.
Yeah, I've it seems pretty straightforward, right?
Yeah, I mean, I that seems like a pretty straightforward.
Yeah, she isn't. She's a literal rabbit.
OK, that'd be my guess. Also, we we end these set of

(50:44):
episodes with Momonosuke himselfbeing like, yeah, I wonder what
happened to my sister. Kind of like what you guys said
a couple weeks ago when they went into the future and they
just said like fuck you sister. Yeah, that, that's definitely
not going to ever come up. Ever.
Never. Why would that ever come up
later? Never.
Ever. Surely not.

(51:05):
Surely not. Yeah, he's definitely going to
keep his word. Dude, what if Komarosaki is her?
But sure, her hair is blue. What do you think?
Fucking hair dye doesn't exist in this world, what are you
talking about? Did we even see his sister's
fucking hair color in the 1st place?
Yeah, it was black. I'm pretty sure she's only been
a silhouette for you guys up until now.
It seemed dark like a like a dark blue or a black to be fair,

(51:28):
but do you think people don't know how to change their hair
color in this universe? Nah, fucking One Piece.
It's one piece, why would they need to?
Everyone's hair is fucking look at Buggy.
Do you think Buggy dyes his hair?
I don't know, maybe. I don't think he does.
That shit grows in natural. I've seen blonde buggy before.
Yeah, I was just going to say, Imean, I do want to be the
naysayer in the back. He was literally blonde in film

(51:49):
in Stampede. There you go, that's a movie.
Doesn't count. OK.
Well you know that that that is also true non Hannon.
Jimbe had to have dyed his hair once when he was a younger
younger lad because he had blackwith like blonde low lights or
something. Were they blonde?
I thought it was just early graying.
No, I think. I think he had like blonde.
Let me look this up. Hold on, young Jimbei.

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Also he can they can just like probably be black and yellow
right? But then turn silver as he goes
older. Yeah, look at this guy.
He's he's literally got like blonde low lights with black on
the top. Look at this.
Look at my dude. Here, Yeah, see he.
He fucking dyed his eyebrows, bro.
So Jimbei went through a Yaroo phase.
Whatever. Right, so there's dye in this
universe. That's bleaching.

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It's different. Oh boy, I.
Will gonna fucking kill you. I'm going to jump over this day.
They will, and I'm going to strangle you.
He bleached his hair in that one.
It's different bleaching your hair and dyeing your hair or
it's it's one step more. It it takes, it's different.
Right. So you think that nobody in this
universe thought that, hey, we could know how to turn our our

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hair color to a base that's moreconducive to coloring?
Nobody thought to take the extraleap.
Nope. All right, cool.
It's one piece. Why would?
They got it cool, fuck me then. I, I love it here.
I I love it here. I.

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Guess like gatekeep girl boss. What if it's a wig, Devin?
What if she's wearing a wig? We know wigs exist.
How's how's that? Chew on them fucking apples.
I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, I'm sure you know.
I'm gonna let you guys do with that one.
Is there any other burning talking points that you guys

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want to get into before we move on to the other stuff?
That pompadour's really convincing.
I hope to never run into Zorro and that other guy again because
the other guy's voice actor is waffle and I can't separate the
voice from that character. Is it really?
I don't know that for certain. I didn't look it up.
I just, I heard the inflection and I went, that's waffle.
I hate this guy. See, I thought it was Foxy.

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OK, that doesn't make it better.Dude, that'd be so much better.
I will say for the dub, the sameguy who voices Django voices
Tono Yasu, which is kind of fun.Oh, that's pretty cool.
Every time I hear him talk I keep waiting for him to say 1-2
Django but he never does. I'll be waiting until I die, I
think. I have not confirmed that for
myself. That is entirely just vibes off

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of the the way that he sounded and it sounded a lot like
waffle, but it also might have been foxy, but who knows.
OK, fair enough. Fair enough.
All right. Next part of the evening is
going to be Gabe's Fun Facts. Hello, this is Gabriel once

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again speaking to you from a shelter I've built in the woods.
The winds blow cold, but my conviction to provide you with
fun facts is burning bright. A blanket would be nice though.
Anyways, this Komarosaki girl seems to be just the sweetest
honey pie in all of guano, doesn't she?
But what's with all these labels?

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Courtesan Oyron Taiyu? What is this, a school lesson?
Well, yes it is. The explanation is, at least
courtesans are the easiest to explain from this bunch.
They're prostitutes. Specifically, they are
prostitutes who are usually hired and sought out clients in
the upper echelon of societies such as King Shoguns and other
people in the ruling class for which they performed
entertainment and sexual favors.Prostitution is claimed to be

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one of the oldest professions inhistory.
So it is by no means the Japanese concept.
However, they did have a very specific title to the highest
ranked courtesans in the profession.
They were given the collective title Oyron.
They were notably remarked for their various refined talents in
the arts of entertainment. While they did certainly engage
in regular courtesan activities,they were also given a degree of
personal choice in what customers they took.

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Now this being Japan, there werein fact ranks within ranks.
The highest ranked among these were the Taiyu, who were
traditionally set apart by theirintensive training in
traditional arts and their perceived beauty.
That is the rank that Komorosakibelongs to.
Finally, to end this long section off, if you search up
Oyron on Wikipedia, the first piece of text reminds you that
Oyrons are not to be confused with Ooran or Uoran High School

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Host Club, which I just found really funny.
Me too, Gabe. That's awesome.
I'm really glad that we didn't do that bit in the beginning.
We we did make an Oron host clubjoke but I don't know if it was

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before we started recording or not.
It was before we hit the record button.
That's awesome. Oron High School host club.
Moving on from that, this is your reminder that this is the
first time that Frankie, Robin, and Usopp have met Sanji since
he left at the beginning of the Dressrosa arc, which I will

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remind you was 174 episodes ago in 746.
Crazy how time flies. Why didn't they fucking react to
him? Now I think about it.
They literally did who stop literally said man, it feels so
we. Did this earlier.
Yeah, they literally said. I'm so glad to have you back,
Sanji. Your food is the best.
I don't know, I feel like they weren't as explosive as they
should have been. Oh, I'm sorry, Devin, did you

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need more fluff in your anime that already has fluff that you
don't like? Yeah, OK.
All right. Good fluff?
Where's that good fluff at? I got bad fluff here.
Flip it and ship it, Dave. Beyond that, there doesn't seem
to be a whole lot more. There are how many manga
differences in this set? Yeah, you wouldn't expect it

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from this short set, but there are a lot of differences this
time around compared to the manga, so I'm just going to get
started. Nami and Shinobu were never
actually informed explicitly that Zorro had gone missing in
the manga. His absence is actually never
acknowledged. Which makes sense because Zorro
is the absolute last person whose personal safety I would
ever worry about in the manga. Frankly, Frankie actually

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consults Conjuro before going onhis Zelda fetch quest for the
blueprints, whereas he only meets him after hitting a dead
end in the search. In the anime, the guard hitting
one of the men who were trying to kill Komarasaki several
times. Multiple times is made-up by the
anime. Not only does he only hit him
once in the manga, he actually takes down all three assassins

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with one single strike. Whoa.
Future Zorro victim in the making here.
Now. Bingo.
The old guy who sacrificed everything with Komarasaki.
Oh boy. Okay, this parts good.
Here we go. I didn't get into this, but I'm
glad Gabe did. Incredible.
What a poor fella, right? The scenes at the beginning of
his flashback where he indulges in his riches and exploits some

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town folks are entirely made-up by the anime.
Why would Toei do this? Poor old Bingo ain't done
nothing. Well, except that he did.
Strangely, while the anime decided to put in these extra
scenes to make him look worse, they changed one crucial detail
about his story. His family didn't leave him, he

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sold them. Holy what?
I think I'll retract my previousstatements about him.
No, the anime actually censored one of the shittiest things
about his character. And then in lieu of just adding
a bunch of fluff to also make him look bad.
Oh no, this totally ruins my theory about the why Kurosaki's

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doing this. Fuck he sold his wife off Oh my
God. Yeah, he did.
He sold his wife or sold his family, all right.
Did he have kids? I will go back to the manga.
I was under the impression therewas at least one child in the

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mix, but I could be wrong. Oh my God, yeah.
Fuck this guy. Fuck you.
Bingo. This guy's a piece of.
Shit, all my homies hate bingo. All my homies hate bingo.
If there's a Valentine award this week, Big Bingo was his
name. Oh, totally.
Finally, you know all those scenes of Zorro gambling in the
Cafe with Yasui? Yeah, I think I talked about
this. Those scenes that made-up almost

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half of episode 922. Yeah, they're all made-up in
their entirety In the manga, Yasui first appears in the
desert scene already at Zoroci, telling of the things that we
see him do in this episode. This is your reminder that me
pointing out these differences is not me making any judgement
about the anime's changes in theslightest.
There are simply differences which I think are interesting
and worth pointing out. The bingo thing is worth

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pointing out just so we're clean.
That's very worth pointing. Yeah, no, give me that and the
anime. Don't fucking censor my human
trafficking. Give me that shit.
We already did this. We had a whole arc about it.
Why are we censoring this now? Yeah, why did they censor?
That I know, I don't know why. Like Japan is trying to censor
shit that they already have as plot elements.

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I don't understand it either. We've done this already.
Anyway, that's about all for facts this week.
I think I'm going to go out to the town nearby to get myself
some warm clothes, so I'll see you guys next week.
Have a nice day. Now that's it for Gabe's fun
facts. Thanks again, Gabe, as always.
You know, I will say though, as far as censoring things that

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maybe went too far from a coupleweeks ago, the woman who was
going to like kill her kid and then the old woman was going to
hang herself, that that may haveactually been a good call to not
do that one. That's pretty fucking brutal.
And and for for One Piece anyway, like I know I want
consequences for things and I want there to be more stakes

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that might have been going a little too far in a different
show. Fine, where the setting makes
sense and the tone makes sense. Totally about it.
One Piece, I think for once theydid a good job on that one.
I am OK. Wow, man, clamors and raves for
more dark in there in this fucking children's battle shown.

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And then the one time that ODA did he ODA had that dog in him
until he said Nah fam, that's too much.
And you're like honestly, totally.
That was a good call. Honestly, you probably, you you
probably did the right thing there.
Would I have enjoyed it still? Yeah, probably.
But for the general masses, thatwould have been extremely
jarring. Yeah, yeah, but this week's

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though. Why censor that?
What the fuck? Yeah, I agree.
I agree. I don't know why they would do
that. It is a little strange.
I'm glad they sort of branched Astoryline out of Komarsaki and
Bingo just for like, the sake oflike, actually savouring like
the the punchline. But in the same token, I don't
understand why they chose not toacknowledge the one major aspect

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of his shittiness that really sets him apart in a plot over
that we're already familiar with.
Yeah, very strange. All right, Next week is going to
be 923 to 925. Moving on to quotes.
Anyone got quotes? I hate poor people.

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Sorry you are. Please fall upon deaf ears.
I resent the poor. I knew somebody was going to
come in here with it. I'm going to come in with my
favorite quote of the episode. So pretty much all of my quotes
are Frankie quotes. As soon as Frankie learned that

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homie didn't have the blueprintsand he starts getting his rocket
launchers ready and they start fighting.
You must think really highly of yourself to put your hands on
the master Carpenter. You are grateful, Lunk.
I'll never get that time back. Suck on this for a new scary
rocket launcher. Great moment in time, but my

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favorite specific quote is when he's during the goose chase.
So the anime does this bit wherethey do like a a caricature of
every new MPC that Frankie is trying to find before he like
just before he meets them. And at one point in time they do
a a card that just literally hasa camel on it.

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And Frankie in in the dub, he literally goes, oh, come on,
that's, that's just a camel thatisn't anybody.
Then he catches up with the MPC in question that it is the
camel's supposed to be based offof doesn't like anything like
this camel. By the way.
I just thought it was really funny because every time they do
the title card, he's the, the, the guy who voices Frankie is

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always just like, God damn it, Igot to go to this next person.
No, not again. And then it goes to the the, the
camel title card and he's like, bro, that's literally a camel.
There's no way he looks like that.
They were stolen, Rakuta said. They were worth a great deal and
ran off with them. OK, that can't be what he looks
like. That is a camel.

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Fucking 4th wall breaking shit. I love that.
All right, that's my quote. I, I have one further quote from
the first episode where the, that, that old woman that's been
training Robin in the, the ways of the geisha comes up and it
explains the what's going on basically with the procession
that's going to happen. And Usop refers to her by like

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old paper Lantern woman or whatever.
And she like she smacks the shitout of him with a fan or or
something and says I'll illuminate your hide your little
snap and that who stops just sitting there getting getting
ramshackled by by this old womanfor a for a few seconds I
thought it was funny. Bouncing off that one, I liked
how he called her. What was it A A.

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Paper Lantern, yeah. Paper Lantern like they animated
too. Yeah, she turns into a paper
Lantern too, and it's like, I'llilluminate your ass.
It's a wrinkled up paper Lanterncome to life.
Lou, you calling a paper Lanterna.
Little burner home. Then you're high, you little
snot. What an odd interaction.

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An absolutely strange interaction.
That's on my quotes. All right, moving on to the
Golden Ham, I mean. Zorro did do a pretty kick ass
dragon single strike thing, no? I ain't doing that.
Nah, fuck that. No, I ain't doing that.
I'll give it to Toko because shecute and she's funny.

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I kind of want to give it to Frankie.
Actually, I I will also give it to Frankie.
That's an easy one for me too for.
Having to follow that rabbit hole down and then just having
the greatest reactions to the whole thing.
I could live with that. I vibe with this.
His interaction with the with the master Carpenter too is just
funny on a base level, even without all of the telephone
game of people that he had to gothrough.

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Yeah, yeah, that was that was those good bits.
Those good bits. Yeah.
I'll give it to Frankie. That sounds great.
Frankie finally gets one again for the first time in a long
time. Probably like, what, 400
episodes? It's been a minute.
But probably a decent bit. I feel like the last time we got
one was probably back in Thriller Park if I had to guess.
Yeah, I was going to say it was a Fortnite stairs the last time

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he. Probably fortnight stairs was
one of the last times, no? Like surely, surely Captain
Frankie or whatever the battle Frankie came up and and we can
we consider that host timescape.That that's a possibility.
Oh you know what I bet you the last time was actually in punk
hazard when he fended off against Buffalo and baby five

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when they were still like tryingto break out or whatever does
that does that ring a bell? He it was in battle Frankie
mode, but the gas is like all around the island anyway.
I I think that was the last timewe he gave it to Frankie.
Yeah, or when he's fighting senior Pink.
That might have happened also. But I think you guys hated him
in that. I think you hated that fight.
I don't think he won. I'm not convinced he won.

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You're right, I didn't like thatfight.
I loved that fight or I gave it to senior Pink.
I'm just thinking. I'm just thinking of Frankie
moments that it might have been.Oh yeah.
All right, well, Frankie gets the W again.
Your boy. All right, moving on to fan
mail. I'm going to be honest, I think

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we do have fan mail. Dustin did say that there was
fan mail we could read. I didn't look.
I don't know which one it is, all right.
So I mean, unless I, I don't know which one it is and I don't
want to, I don't want to ruin the queue.
So that's that's my problem right now.
I don't want to fuck the queue up.
All right, so we will get to it next week.
Moving on to the garb gap. And we're doing something a

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little different this week. Actually, there won't be a
traditional garb yet. It has come to our attention
that a powerhouse in the directorial industry for toe
animation has unfortunately passed away.
A gentleman by the name of Tatsuya Nagamine.
And this gentleman, I don't think Christian or Devil

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wouldn't know too much about him, but he's directed the vast
majority of Whole Cake and also Wano for toe animation on these
fucking shoestring budgets. So he is pretty much solely
responsible for any pacing or animation direction changes that
have corresponded with Whole Cake and Wano respectively.
Which I don't know about you guys.

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I personally love where the anime went after Dresserosa
because I'm not a big Dresserosafan, but we have a little thing
to read in his memory so I'm going to do that now.
Tatsuya Nagamine, the series director of the entire Wanoart

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from episode 892 to episode 1122, sadly passed away this
summer. As announced on the 13th of
November 2025. This segment will be dedicated
to him. Tatsuya Nagamine started out his
career as director in 2003 by directing an OVA called
Interluke based off a visual novel of the same name before
continuing on to direct numerousother animes such as Beat the

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Vandal Buster and Heartbatch PreCure before being hired as the
director of One Piece Film Z in 2012.
Afterwards he directed the TV special One Piece Heart of Gold
in 2016 which tied into the thennew movie One Piece Film Gold
before landing the position thatwould define his legacy and
predominantly alter the trajectory of toy animation.

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Alongside Co director Ryota Nagamura, he became the series
director of Dragon Ball Super during its later half for
episode 82 until the end of its anime run.
This later run of the show wouldsee him as Riona revamp the
show's production to salvage it's then poor public
perception, with him serving as series director during the

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iconic Ultra Instinct reveal which broke the Internet and the
series excellent 2 parter final battle of Goku and Freeza versus
Jiren. After concluding his run on the
series, he directed the movie Dragon Ball Super Broly, which
brought with it an entirely new vibrant art direction for the
series that was praised and celebrated worldwide, becoming
one of the highest grossing anime movies of all time.

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He then went on to become seriesdirector for One Piece,
beginning with episode 892 and encompassing the entire Wano
art. His reign as series director saw
the series reach unprecedented heights we've never seen before,
with the series finally seeing mainstream popularity in many
Western countries due to his revamp in the series art

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direction and production. Tatsuya Nagamine is one of the
single most talented and important people to have touched
not just One Piece, but anime asa whole, and his talent and
skills as a director will never be forgotten.
May he rest in peace. Fantastic.

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Rest in peace. How do you want to chime in?
He did not direct all of, but hewas also a large part of the
whole cake. But he became sole director for
Wano. OK.
Sweet, so the dragon fight was him.
The dragon fight do be him, yeah.
The dragon fight was his idea, or at least he directed it.
I love that. Now there so he was like the

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main director of all of Wano. Now the way that they do it at
TOWIE is they'll have like a lead animator and a storyboard
director and then there's like alead director that overseas
everything right like it. It is still a hierarchy.
So they'll do like a storyboard director is in charge of like
one to two episodes at a time and there's like four or five
people in that basket. So they'll just like, you know,

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this is for you guys, this set of episodes for you guys, then
this episode's for you, this episode's for you.
But he's still like the main head honcho that has to like,
it's up to him to make sure thatevery thing flows together so
that doesn't look like a different person is touching
every new episode. OK?
Very talented man. Very multi talented man and I
mean illustrious career considering he got to touch two
of the biggest anime this world knows.

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It's also really interesting andthis is more just Brendan's
speculation, so I'm sure you guys are aware that the anime
actually went on its first hiatus ever back in what was it
like last April or something like that?
Or last last February. So since he was the director
till 1122, that that was actually the episode in question
that the anime ended on before it went on to that hiatus.

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So in large part he was he was the active director at what I'm
saying for One Piece going into that hiatus and just me
speculating, we pretty much owe him the sole authority on being
the guy who finally put his footdown and said, guys, we're going
to treat this show with just a atiny bit of respect and give

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make it seasonal so that we don't make it ass anymore.
And I love that. I'm pretty sure we owe that to
him. And that is a a legacy,
hopefully for the better that hewill put upon one piece for a
long period of time, my ongoing favorite series of all time.
And I will always appreciate that because I'm, I'm very pro

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give it the the My Hero treatment where you just, you
spend a good amount of quality time on like 26 episodes at a
time and you take a minute. Give it some time to breathe.
Yeah, yeah, I'm very pro that. I know some people aren't, but I
am. Gotta let them cook.
Gotta let them breathe, yeah. Eat dinner.
You know, I think that's entirely possible if he was the
acting director up to that point.

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And that's the, the moment that we, we got the hiatus that I, I
think what you're saying is probably very likely to be true.
And I think he's a hero for that.
He's my hero. All right, that is your non meme
garb gap for the evening. Thank you again to Tatsuya
Nagamine for all of your hard work and legacy over the years.
You will be sorely missed. Moving on to the end of Show
Social Plex. Haven't do the thing.

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Thank you if. He needs his activation phrase.
He needs it. I I need my sleeper cell, you
know, or key phrase. If you wish to support the show
or, you know, want to get into our little oiler and host club,
you know, you should consider signing up for the membership at

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pandasightings.com where you'll get extra content like in person
recordings and vlogs. There's also a merch store where
you'll buy a little something for you or a love one.
Please. The hamster will eat us if we
they don't get fed. Also, I need money for the GoPro
to glue to his head, which I already bought and I'm already
gluing to Brendan's head. Do you mean for when we'd have

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him do the gymnastics and the downhill dirt biking?
Yeah, yeah. Right, right, right.
Oh my God. Why do you think I'm gluing this
on his head right now? Yeah, yeah, I hate everything
about being. Here why spend the money on a
strap when you can get $0.99 super glue?
Yeah, strap comes off this. Just don't come off.
This is Gorilla Glue. Yeah, it's the industrial kind
too. My Barber is going to be so

(01:15:31):
upset. Thanks.
Appreciate that. Yeah.
There's a new merch item in the store, I think actually I, I
don't know what was up or announced last week, if anything
at all, but there's a couple of new things.
Did you did you talk about any of the stuff that's in the
store? Brendan last week with Justin.
We did, we did. Yes, we we have the minimalist
golden ham or minimalist ham thing really.
OK, cool, cool, cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool.

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Yeah, there's a new shirt designthat has gone up.
It's the it's, it's the golden ham design.
And actually you can watch me design that very shirt if you
become a member on panasonic.com.
We have a little a little vlog where Justin and I just sit and
brainstorm with Geordie some design ideas and it was a lot of

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fun and we're probably going to try and do some more in the
future. I did not think that the exact
thing that I drew that night wasgoing to end up on a T-shirt,
but here we are. So that's fun.
There's also the bandana too, like that.
I don't know if it was this was a prior or not, but there's
there's a pet club bandana so you can adore in all of your the

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animals in your lives with a panda siding pet.
Which I got by the way. You do all you have to send a
picture. I'll do it.
Wait, you got the window? There is a bandana in the store
right now that is the Panda Siding Pet Club bandana and it's
a red and black checkered thing with our yellow logo for the
Discord on it. Yeah, yeah, I'm looking at it

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right now. Yeah, and he has one.
OK. He has a dog he can put it on.
Yeah, when he obtains it. So I am I require pictures as
soon as possible. Fuck yeah.
I also have one. It was shipped to me.
Rory knew about it before I did,I guess because his name was on

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the package when it came. So however, he's gone into
hibernation mode. So he is he's he's not
particularly engaged with pictures right now, but as soon
as he feels like it again, I'm going to I'm going to snag him
for a photo op. But anyway, thank you very much
for listening everybody. And I guess suppose we'll see
you next time when pandascience.com debuts are

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Brendan downhill Derby video that he totally doesn't shatter
his collarbone in. So Brandon, stand right here.
Just I'm just going to shuffle you.
I'm I'm, I'm shoving. You, I'm not doing anything.
No, fuck you. I mean, I'm.
Down the stairs he goes. My collarbone.

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I'll called it nailed it. I guess that's one way to do it.
I mean, it's not going to be as fun, but we'll have the hall
security cameras. So I.
Think that first person view will be pretty funny to watch
though.