OP | Eps 926-928: Kiku's Babysitting Dilemma

Robin outsmarts Orochi’s ninja guards, slipping back into the banquet to keep gathering intel while the drunk Shogun spirals into conspiracy rants. Toko’s laughter sets him off, Komurasaki slaps him, and Kyoshiro shockingly cuts her down. Meanwhile, Kiku and the kids discover amnesiac Big Mom and Brook gleefully haunts the Oniwabanshu outside.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
God, I hate it. It I I can't believe we're doing
this. Oh, oh, hey, hey, hey,
Christian. How's it?
How's it going, buddy? I'm just.
So are you OK? No, no, I'm not.
I'm. I'm so done.
You know, I was relatively OK with it when it was Sabo

(00:21):
because. Not same but go.
Ahead, I liked Sabo and also I was right about him being alive.
Now it's Big Mom with amnesia problems.
Yeah, I'm so over it. I I don't, I don't care anymore.
Honestly dude, this, this makes me feel so vindicated because I
was ready to come in here and beI.
I thought I was going to be the only camp of be reminding

(00:43):
everyone at home how much I fucking hate amnesia plot lines
and how shoehorned it all feels like Oh my God.
Like can can we just stop going with these soap opera ass plot
lines? Whatever we want to convince,
yeah. Or like, power people down.
We got, we got to get Big Mom out of the water somehow.
So we'll just, I don't know, andand make her not a problem for a

(01:03):
little while. So we'll just have her forget,
you know, like, yeah. Seriously, why?
Can't we be creative? Just give me the head, the head
of Kaido and Big Mom skip right to the end.
What do I care? Get Me Out of this fucking arc.
I hear it's like the longest thing in the planet.
It do kind of be pretty long. It do kind of be pretty long.
Yeah, yeah. Well, you know what?
You know what, Brendan? Oh, I'm going to prove to

(01:24):
everyone the world right here, right now that blunt force
trauma amnesia isn't even a thing.
It's not even real. Wait, well, hold on.
It's. Not even real.
It doesn't. Happen, hold, stop.
Christian. Christian.
OK, first of all. I'm going to take this hammer
and I'm going to bash you upsidethe head with it, and you're
going to be totally fine. Watch.
But I, I don't really know if that's a good oh.

(01:48):
OK bro, how you feel Brendan? Oh.
My head oh who, who, what, who? What do you mean who?
Who, who, who are you do? You know who I am?
Don't, don't do this to me. This is this.
Who am I? It's not a bit.
Where am I? You're no shut up.
No, don't, don't, don't do that.I, I I don't know, I I need I I
think I need to get out of here.I.

(02:10):
Oh my God, there's real terror in your eyes that oh, hi, I'm
Christian. Nice to meet you.
Hi. You stay right there, audience.
I'm going to be back eventually once this is fixed and Dave
edits out the part where I claimthat this wasn't going to work.

(02:35):
OK, all right, see you in a second.
No. Jesus Christ, Christian, what
did you do to me, man? Oh my.
God, I didn't do anything. You took, you took a bad fall
out of the chair actually, afterone of the wheels broke on.

(02:56):
And it was really strange, actually.
Dude, like my, my head is throbbing right now.
I, I feel like I, I feel like I just took on a, a freight train
with, with my forehead. Let me just push this underneath
the desk real quick. Jeez man, I don't even
understand that that is the thatis the gnarly.
I don't know dude, it's weird. We just bought those chairs too.

(03:18):
That's. Crazy man.
You know, I, I think that's actually the plot line to a a
new sitcom on HBO recently. I I should that might be my new
demon arc because I'm just goingto start figuring out if this
chair company's tried to kill me.
Oh yeah, yeah, never ordering from them again.
Yeah, no, absolutely. Geez.
But wow, I, I mean, I'm, I'm glad, I'm glad we got that

(03:38):
figured out now. Yeah, right.
Absolutely. I I I guess.
Could do you feel OK enough to to read a summary?
Can we keep the show going? Yeah.
Yeah, I, I I think I can figure it out.
All right, So, shit. What what does that number say?
926 to 928. He kicked things off this week
with a little rendezvous with the Big Mom Pirates as they

(04:01):
wonder what their next move should be, having been separated
by their mother. But Pero Sparrow seems to know
what to do. Then we get to the stuff we
really care about. What's Robin going to do against
all these ninja? Well, have No Fear, for she has
a plan, and it's probably betterthan that lowlife lollipop
sucker. She hits the fattest Shadow
clone jutsu and runs off to the banquet, where she continues to

(04:23):
gather Intel from the sake for Brains Bozo Shogun.
Elsewhere in Wano, Kiku and all the kids she is babysitting
stumble upon something very unusual.
It's fucking Big Mom, or should I say Olean, because it turns
out that she suffered a case of amnesia after being underwater
all that time and Chopper gives her a new name.
Turns out the Big Mom friend Dark was the amnesia we suffered

(04:47):
along the way. Back at the banquet, Orochi is
doing his best impression of my uncle, getting 20 bottles of
sake drunk and spouting conspiracy theories to anyone
who will listen and anyone who won't.
Soko, unable to contain her laughter and his nonsense, draws
his ire and he attacks her only to be smacked by Komarosaki who

(05:08):
gives him the stone cold stare of a lifetime.
This makes him angrier. He begins eating her and random
people until for some reason Kiyoshiro cuts down the Oyron
himself. All the while, the most
important thing is happening just outside the banquet as
Brooke terrorizes the entirety of the Oniwabanshu single

(05:28):
handedly in his factor form. God, I love that Bony bastard.
You know, I I do think it's veryfunny that we got the ranting
and the raving of everyone's least favorite drunken,
politically charged uncle literally the day before.
It is American Thanksgiving, nowthat I think about it.

(05:50):
Yeah, Yeah. What a what an absolutely
fantastic happy coincidence. Incredible shout out to schedule
maker Gabe for that one I'm sure.
Totally planned. Shout out to schedule maker.
Nice job Gabe. Yeah, you totally planned that.
We we know, but you know Christian I First of all, it's a

(06:12):
dual cast tonight, in case anyone was unaware.
You know Christian, before I getinto this set of episodes, I
have one thing that I need to get off my chest from the set of
episodes that I cannot unless itwas it happened in games.
Fun facts. But I also know it, so I'm just
going to give it to you. Anyway, So last set of episodes
we had a Soba mask and I was very excited to tell you this

(06:33):
tidbit. By the way, the soba mask for
all everyone keeping driving home is Sanji's persona when he
Dons the raid suit, which lookedpretty cool by the way.
I won't even regale you with your thoughts or my own about
how we feel about the RAID suit in general.
You're going to regale me with my own thoughts.
Sorry. Maybe I will.

(06:54):
I think I already know how you feel about it.
Probably, yeah. It's Sanju.
You don't really care for the Vince folks.
I could put two and two togetheranyway.
Although maybe it's. I mean the suit is cool, though
I could admit when the suit is cool.
Oh OK, that's fair. The Now I I'm sure you noticed
that we had a transformation sequence.
Allah like magical girl energy, right?
My brother, did you know that that exact transformation lasts

(07:19):
exactly as long as it takes the Sailor Moon track and the theme
song for when she transforms into Sailor Moon?
No. Dude.
And I'm pretty sure last time I checked maybe maybe this is me
coping. I'm pretty sure last time I
checked like even some of the downbeats happen when it's

(07:42):
changing between different partsof She's.
Wow. So basically what I'm saying is
toy literally it designed that magical girl sequence to just
parrot Sailor Moon transformation time Flock so
that that you could very easily and carelessly throw the Sailor
Moon Sailor Moon right on top ofit and it would be seamless.

(08:06):
Do we need to get Panda to draw Sailor Sanji now too?
Maybe, I don't know. Maybe we do.
We might. We very well might.
Sailor Soba. I will send you there's a, a
YouTube thing out there. In fact, it might have even been
made originally by somebody in our community.
I'm, I'm a triple check that I, I, I don't want to, I don't want
to spout some nonsense, but there's somebody in our
community who historically has athing or has an infatuation with

(08:29):
our blonde bastard. And I'm pretty sure at one point
they proved that this was in fact, the case by doing this
very same thing. Wow.
I will get the receipts on that.But yeah, that's something I
really need to do, Get off my chest before we did anything in
this set of episodes, because I was very excited to tell you
that last week. And I was very disappointed I
couldn't be here. I could certainly tell you that

(08:50):
that was not in the in the factssection last week.
That's incredible, fantastic. It gives me life that that
really is a thing that they had some yes, they had that extra
little bit of fun when they wereanimating this this show that
they they put it to the basic basically the same cadence and
same just level of the Sailor Moon thing.

(09:11):
That's good on you, toy. Fucking chef's kiss.
Anyway, so now back to these setof episodes.
So I hate amnesia subplots. Christian Christian Christian
Christian. Can I?
I don't even know where to beginwith this.
And I kind of want to start hereso that I never have to come
back to this again. You know?
I'm going to take you back. This is probably the year of our

(09:33):
Lord 20. I'm going to say 2019, almost
20. Like, like Covid's just on the
horizon. It's coming.
Like, wait, it's not here yet. But but but you like, you can
snip it in the air. Like maybe maybe we're in like
the October time frame and like the first couple of COVID people

(09:55):
are starting to get found or something like that in, in
Wuhan, right? And my sorry ass, I probably
just got done writing a book about how much I hate amnesia
subplots is minding my own fucking business as I'm waiting
for my favorite writer and comicbook developer, ODA ODA Sensei
to release his next chapter of One Piece.

(10:16):
A mother fucker that I I speak very highly of on a regular
basis. This is before the podcast, by
the way. I speak very highly of him
routinely to people both who do like One Piece or who have never
even seen One Piece. And I'm like, man, I really
enjoy this guy's writing. He never phones it in.
He never shoot, then he does this, he does this.
So for those keeping track at home, we were left in a bit of a

(10:38):
cliffhanger with Big Mom when weleft or when we left Hole Gate.
She still wants to beat Luffy's ass and she claimed that she was
going to go to Wano in order to fuck him up.
So the the most logical answer would be they deal with Kaido
first, Big Mom either shows up or they reintegrate Big Mom
somewhere else in the story and they deal with her secondarily.

(10:59):
And instead the motherfucker actually writes her back into
the story in Wano today. Oh well, son of a bitch.
OK, we're we're off to the fucking races, which is
something I would normally like,but because we're not ready for
her, we give her this this. This this.
Christian, I words don't have enough meaning to dispel to you

(11:26):
my frustration at this moment inthis arc, and it never will.
I hate this. I hate it.
I hate everything about this is be on a shadow of a doubt my
second least favorite plot element in this entire fucking
series. And I can say that with with

(11:49):
wholeheartedness because when I'm we got to the Sabo and I
told you there are only two things I hate in this series.
Plot wise, here we are. What was Sabo now we're here
this 2000 years later all. Right back from some technical
difficulties that you guys did not hear.

(12:13):
The world just wasn't ready for pregnant ranting and raving
about. Listen, all right, all right.
This is what happened. And so I was, I was flailing my
hands as I do. Of course, you know me, I'm a
boisterous guy. I was flailing my hands and I
may or may not have smacked the microphone around a little too
much as I was getting very excited and very temperamental
because this is a very serious topic and very near and dear to

(12:34):
my heart. I, I simply hate it.
I simply hate it. I'm never going to like it.
At one point before I think I officially lost everything I
said. It's not even fun.
It's funny that she is now this very powerful character that
functionally is going to be used, I guess as a battering ram

(12:54):
is what these motherfuckers are plotting and skibbing over in
Okobo re town is they're like, oh, we should go get Luffy.
That is funny. I just hate that we're here.
I hate that we're here and I'm never going to be happy about
it. It's bad, I think I hate it less
than maybe you do. I think the only thing that semi

(13:16):
rectified in my head was I was already in this mode where I was
watching Kiku as she sat just bythe side while the three kids
trained and stuff and she's justwatching like a happy little
babysitter. And then they come across Big
mom who is already a child. Like very true.

(13:39):
Regular Big Mom is a is a child in a in a giant's body.
Facts. And then with this amnesia
thing, she reverts to even more childlike behavior.
However, she's a lot nicer. So in my head, just keep in
mind, I'm also upset that that we're doing this dumb amnesia

(14:00):
thing where instead of just keeping Big Mom out of the plot
for a while, we're making her asbasically, it seems as you said,
a battering ram to get Luffy outof jail.
Instead of that, I like I've got, I've got all that.
It's annoying, it's dumb, and I really wish Devin here was here
to to comment on it also. So I think we can probably
imagine his take on it as well because he hated Sabo.

(14:23):
The only thing that somewhat makes it funny in my head is
that we've now just thrown on a fourth child for Kiku to
babysit. It's just like we're just
adding, we're just adding children to Kiku's ward now at
this point and I'm just wondering if we're ever going to
reach a boiling point. Like, how many more kids can we
Jack on to Kiku's babysitting service?

(14:46):
How many? How many more children can Kiku
be charge of before enough is enough and Kiku goes I'm not
your babysitter? I'm done.
I am a samurai, I am one of the 9 ghosts that's supposed to come
back and kill Orochi, and here Iam babysitting.
I am one of the Akazaya 9 and I will not be treated like this.

(15:07):
I will not stand for this. I don't know, Kiku seems to do
it. Honestly, she seems to be having
a fine time. I think she is.
I think she's having a great time, honestly, and that's fine.
I'm just honestly, no, it's morethan fine.
It's, it's hilarious to me that Kiku is just here and she's,
she's living what seems to be a,you know, somewhat her best life

(15:27):
right now. Facts.
And I I it's the only thing stopping me from just completely
going batshit over this plot basically.
Yeah, I mean, I just, OK, I got,I got all my surface level
thoughts out. I will say this in a vacuum.
I will say I just hate it. But what we can do with this bit
is still fun because Big Mom is the kind of person that she is.

(15:53):
And she is very clearly, like you said, basically just a child
already in a very large woman's body.
There's a lot of gags we can play off of here.
My problem is that I need the gags happening 24/7 to keep me
from reminding myself that we'restuck here in an amnesia plot

(16:14):
line, right? The payoff needs to be not only
immediate but constant or I get upset.
If I am left with room to remember who Big Mom is supposed
to be, I'm having a bad time. Basically that, basically that,
for fuck's sakes, I, you know, it is what it is, but we're here

(16:36):
and, you know, I wasn't looking forward to getting here with you
guys. I'm going to be so fucking for
real. Yeah.
A part of me was like, I can't wait for Devin and Christian to
relive amnesia plotline numero dos.
I just, I, I yeah. I don't, I don't know why we're
here. I don't know what the point is.
If the point is to have a way tobreak Luffy out of jail, why

(16:58):
didn't we just do something elseor not put Luffy in jail?
I don't know. Or let him get out with the
Eustis kid or let Rizo find a way out.
Like why? I I'm I'm I'm obviously
speculating. This is just where we know that
they're taking Big Mom is to udon to free Luffy, but who
knows if he'll get out before then.
Yeah, I mean, the the the honestanswer is we don't really know

(17:19):
what she's going to do next. But ODA put himself in this
position where he decided that he wanted to write 2 emperors in
the same arc at the same time. He wanted them to both be a
problem simultaneously, and thisis his current resolution to

(17:39):
allowing us an opportunity to still only have one emperor
that's worth worrying about. In fact, I almost want to ask
you, Christian, is this Big Mom friend arc?
This is I I sure hope not. You know I don't want to.
Give too much away. I hope not, because I did think

(18:02):
about this what I don't want. Yes, yes.
Is for us to spend all of this time with friend Big mom.
I don't think she's going to endup freeing Luffy.
Luffy's going to get out some other way because it it just
feels like seeing Luffy is goingto be enough of a spark for Big
Mom to remember who she actuallyis.

(18:23):
So or Luffy will just Luffy's not going to accept the fact
that she's in friend mode right now.
Just punch her across the face and jog her memory or some shit
like that. I don't know.
I just don't feel like it's going to happen anytime soon.
So anyway, what I don't want is for Big Mom to spend all of this
time with the Straw Hat Pirates having a good time, probably get

(18:43):
saved from danger somehow because she's in baby mode and
doesn't know how to use her powers yet.
And she's like, it's attacked bysomebody, somebody saves her,
whatever. So we have all these positive
feelings surrounding the straw heads and then later she regains
her memories, but she still retains all the nice ones she
had. Oh, boy, you're, you're, you're,

(19:04):
you're writing the soap opera live, my boy, That's.
The shit I don't fucking want, that's the shit I don't want,
because then we're going to, I don't want to introduce moral
conflict to Big Mom with this. Like, I don't want there to be
friend Big Mom because she's conflicted after all of these
fucking extra memories that weren't there before.

(19:26):
And so she's just torn between what happened on Whole Cake and
what's happened on Wano. I just let her be a bad.
Let her be a villain. Let her be the.
Villain. Let her stay a villain.
Just let her be the villain. You know, she's, she's done a
good job. I even came around on it like I
didn't, I didn't care for Big Mom at first.
Then by the end of Whole Cake, you know, I was like, all right,

(19:47):
She's a good barrier to entry for what it takes to be strong
enough to confront the highest level in the Grand Line at this
point. You know, it's great.
We we left the island. We didn't feel the need to beat
her or have her be beaten forever out of the story.
And she can come back at a laterpoint.
We've done the later point a lotsooner than I figured.

(20:09):
Yeah, yeah, right, right. But she's back, fine.
But now the amnesia thing is just like where we've taken
another step back. We're back in like, I hate Big
Mom levels when she was just shouting wedding cake for
fucking 30 episodes. You know, like this is yeah,
this is stupid. Like we've we've done a nerf on
Big Mom again for what seems like no reason.

(20:31):
But it really does love like using Big Mom as like just
putting a nerf on her, like between the hunger pangs where
she becomes insatiable or like uncontrollable until you give
her the exact snack that she needs.
Which in and of itself is a funny bit for the kind of
character that she is. But then to also throw in this

(20:52):
Oh, and then another way I'm going to nerf her is by giving
her this amnesia subplot line. Yeah, yeah, I he.
Loves nerfing Big Mom is what I'm saying.
He does. He loves.
He loves it. And I don't know why.
I don't know why we're doing this, you know?
It's just it'd be like that. I don't, I don't like it.
But you know, I, I'm glad that we're here.
I'm glad we're on the same page,to be totally honest with you.
I, I, I feel like some of the time I come in with hot takes

(21:16):
and it's you and Devin that haveto be like Prendan.
That's not even that creep. That's not even that wild of a
of a choice for this, for the narrative in this show.
And I'm like, what are you talking about now?
The fact that we're on the same page feels great, if anything.
No, that's fine. I think we'd probably have a
unanimous decision there. My flabbers would be gasted if
David came out here with any less vitriol than you.

(21:37):
Honestly, if all four of us wereon this episode and the three of
us expressed our opinions like that, I would fully expect
Justin to go. Well, it's like.
Kind of cool, right? That's that energy.
Justin would be like, maybe we're being too mean, maybe it's
not that bad. Yeah, that's, that's the energy
I expect that of Justin, but I Iwould expect that mostly we all
hate that he didn't like Sabo amnesia either, right?

(22:00):
I actually think he didn't. I think he was indifferent to
amnesia parts of Sabo and he liked the fact that Sabo was in
the story. Like he liked Sabo OK, but I
think he was mostly indifferent to the amnesia subplot with the
guy. Yeah.
I mean, to be fair on that one, I kind of was too, but I don't
like that where using it again and especially on Big Mom so

(22:22):
that that is that. All right, audience, I promise
I'm not going to talk about it anymore.
I won't. I won't bring the vibes any
further down than they really are.
Yeah. We're done.
We spent our 15 minutes on it, maybe more, and well, really
like the whole entire first partof this podcast up to this point
actually. Like, the entire first half of
this podcast will probably just be, yeah, Big Mom subplot.
Yeah, I'm going to talk about one thing I do like I actually

(22:43):
will say, even though the amnesia hits you, smacks you
across the face and takes all your attention in a way, the
fact that Big Mom is here and that ODA doubled down on
bringing her into back into the,the, the plot this soon actually
is kind of miraculous. Even though we we lead with an
amnesia subplot. Even when I was like reading
week to week, I was very curiouswhere the motherfucker was going

(23:03):
to take this one from the hopperbecause I, I didn't really have
faith in him that he was going to be able to, to, to satisfy
me. By the end of the, I was like,
there's no way that we're going to have a satisfactory arc where
we're going to deal with two Emperor simultaneously, So what
the fuck is he going to do with Big Mom right now?
I don't know man. I can imagine it being

(23:24):
satisfying given the the hate that the two emperors have for
each other. I just at this point I don't
know how it happens. All I know is that I want a full
power Big Mom fight against fullpower Kaido at some point.
Oh yes, well, wait, what if whatif we have like a three-way
fight between Luffy, Kaido, Oh my God.
Better yet like Kaido and Big Mom fight off like they're

(23:46):
fighting and then Luffy comes infrom the and he goes I'm here
too. And then they just like deck his
ass and say get out of here. Smoke, get the fuck out of here,
you ain't no emperor. You are nothing right now.
You are scum. Wait, that would be a great bit.
Didn't I one shot you about 135 episodes ago?
How many times do I got to teachyou this lesson, young?

(24:08):
This young whippersnapper. Just reverse the roles of that
fucking SpongeBob meme. That'd be so fucking funny if
like we do that stupid like Luffy has to lose twice and win
the third time thing. Like he just challenges Kaido a
second time, gets fucking one shot again.
Listen, it would be a good. Bit the third time, that'd be

(24:31):
maybe the only acceptable spin Icould think of off of that
formula from the early days of the show.
God, yeah. But all right, we're we'll we'll
move on to the banquet now, where I think like most of the
events of the show happened in the set of episodes.
First things first, Robin confirmed shadow clone jutsu
user. Just silly.

(24:51):
Just absolutely silly that she even called it a shadow clone.
They actually call it that in your dub too, right?
Yeah, they do. They call it a shadow clone.
Okay, perfect. It's perfect.
I love that they did it, I really do, but what the fuck?
It's so annoying. Robin knows forbidden jutsu,
dude. So by the way, for folks team

(25:12):
track at home, the last time we saw Robin, she was essentially
caught by all the ninja or whatever, the Oniwabanshu, led
by none other than the illustrious Fukuokuju.
I know you try to say that name five times fast.
And then we were like, Oh no, Robin, how are you going to get
away? Well, she got away because
shadow clones, apparently that'swhat she calls them anyway.

(25:33):
Yeah. And you know, what's really sick
is that she continued. Even though she's basically had
in this moment and she's runningfrom the ninja or whatever, she
gets back into the banquet with with Orochi and the rest of the
goons or whatever and she's like, well, I mean, I still got
to do my job though. I'll just get more information

(25:55):
for a little while longer. And then goes right back to
being a spy. Yeah, just right back to her
geisha spot. She's got the blinking 4 star
GTA like on her ass and she's just like Nah.
This is a good time to get some more information for sure.
I'll be fine. I'll be.
Fine. They totally don't know what I'm

(26:15):
wearing or anything. They didn't see my face or or my
outfit or anything like that. I'm definitely not wearing
exactly what I was wearing when they saw me snooping around the
last. Yeah, this this this mask I
pilfered off of some guy will definitely cover my face and
prevent them from knowing who I am.
Yeah, right. Exactly.
So it does. I just, I really respect the

(26:38):
hustle that she got out of that and her first thought was, Nah,
I can get more. I back to work.
Time to get back to work. Yeah, now that's facts.
She's a real one for getting right back on the grind.
She's a real 1, so we better meet Orochi in this set of
episodes. She even got to see his devil

(26:58):
through in this time without like any of the the shadows and
whatnot. You just see him in in all of
his, all of his something, whatever that is.
Yeah, all of this snakey danger noodly glory.
Yeah, I don't know what. Also, he's got a snake.
Snake model. Not, not the What was it not?
Dragon Dragon. The dragon.

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Dragon model, like all the otherfucking dinosaurs have or
whatever. Yeah, he's got the snake.
Snake model. Yamato no Orochi.
A little on the nose. A little on the nose.
Just like a little bit. Not.
Not tremendously. The guy named Orochi literally
has the devil fruit Orochi. Yeah, Which Which came first?
Do you think he changed his nameafter he got his devil fruit?

(27:41):
No, absolutely not. This is this is a universe where
for whatever fucking reason, they have the same story and
they have the same Devil fruit that exists in nature.
And this motherfucker came across it.
And that that is when fate came in and just said I must put
these two together. Yeah, yeah, these two deserve to

(28:02):
be together. Yeah.
Rochi's. Yeah.
He's like a a crazed, politically driven lunatic,
isn't he? Yeah, well, I guess he's not
actually crazy. But I really love the fact.
And this helps kind of sell a little bit of the illusion of
like the mission here for the Alliance side.
Because in my mind, I'm like, guys, seriously, how do we, how

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do we have so many secrets that are staying secret amongst the
team here? Like we're literally giving
Flyers to our allies that say please be ready at the light or
at the night of the fire festival.
Like how can nobody decipher that?
And it really helps to sell thatanyone who isn't an ally quite
literally thinks that Orochi is fucking crazy and that all of

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the Akazai samurai are already all that and there is no
alliance and they all think he'sa lunatic.
I like that that that's, that's good believable story writing I
suppose. And then they're all just like,
but nobody actually laugh at this guy 'cause he will fuck.
Can't kill you. Because he's still the Shogun
and he will just have you executed he.
Will just like, literally kill us all.

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Yeah, meanwhile Otoko from the from probably from Ebisu
village, the one where they justlaugh off poverty.
Ohh no, just. She doesn't care.
Yeah, well, well, what happens, Christian?
She acknowledges that she's not supposed to be laughing in the
in this moment, however, she just finds it too hilarious.

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The rantings and ravings of Uncle Orochi talking about the 9
ghosts coming back to kill him from 20 years ago, and that's
fucking hilarious. She's not the only one laughing,
but everyone else can stifle it.Toko however, this is the
funniest shit she's ever heard. This is everything she's ever
wanted in a stand up bit and shejust fucking belts out the

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laughter. She is go flying on this man.
And at first it seems like she'sgoing to like somehow get away
with it because the other one ofthe other geishas or attendance
just pulls her out of the room. And Orochi doesn't seem to
realize who it is until Toko continues to laugh.

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And then everyone's like, oh, itwas that little, it's that
little girl attending. She was the one laughing.
And then they sniff her out and Orochi fucking jumps through the
the wall there and yeah, and tries to attack her and it's
scary and. Scary.
I just want all the, I just wantall the kids to stop being
fucking assaulted by all these gross old men in this fucking

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arc. I mean, honestly, fags.
First Tom twice over and now we've got fucking Toko being
grabbed by around the neck and choked by this asshole and I'm
just tired of it. I'm tired.
I don't want. It genuine question though, so
this is around the time where Komarosaki comes back onto our
screen. And what were your thoughts on

(30:58):
what Komarosaki's purpose was when she was first introduced to
us to bring us to now? Well, I, I can't say I really
had a grasp on what the point ofher was.
I figured she was going to be some sort of influential
character also, but I'm just going to going to put it out

(31:18):
there right now not. Dead.
Oh, OK, well, I guess I did forget that this is one Piece
we're talking. Komarosaki not dead?
I am pretty convinced that this is some sort of ploy between
Komarosaki and Kyoshiro. I don't know what the point of
that is. Maybe some way for Kyoshiro to
have some kind of his own overthrowing of Orochi?

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And this is the where it starts I guess with Komarosaki faking
her death or something. So you think Kyoshiro is like
after the crown and he like partof his plan is to trick Orochi
into killing his own courtesan that he employed?
What I mean Kyoshiro is the one who killed her I so which is the
point where I was like well it feels like this is part of a

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plot like Kyoshiro and Komarosaki are working together
for some end. He owns the place that she works
at and is the main or Ron of despite being the most beautiful
across the entirety of Wano. She works at the one that he
owns and we already know Kyoshiro doesn't like Orochi in

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the 1st place. We had that whole other scene
where he was talking to some random dude I think and Robin
was there in the background. She overheard that conversation
about Kyoshiro dot fucking back talking or bad mouthing Orochi.
And then there was you could seehis distaste for Orochi and all
of all the men there just being like oh fuck, here he goes again

(32:47):
with this stupid ass shit. So everyone already has some
level of contempt for Orochi in the 1st place.
Probably thinks he's some kind of dumbass, which he a little
bit is. He just cares about being the
ruler and drinking and and and having sex with women.
So Piroshiro has some bigger dreams clearly.
And it seems to me like that this is part of it.

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I don't know again to what end pretending to kill Komarosaki
achieves, other than making surethat she's not attached to
Orochi through marriage, which Iwould think if he had some sort
of plot to overthrow the government, having her by his
side the whole time would make more sense.
But I don't know, maybe he had to pivot after she smacked the

(33:29):
fuck out of it. Maybe.
Maybe smacking him wasn't part of the plan, it just was the way
things ended up. Yeah, that.
Then he had to be like, all right, well, now I got to do
fucking damage control. Thanks, Komarosaki.
Why the fuck you do? Yeah, like what the fuck, dude?
So anyway, that part aside, I was a little bit surprised when
we have that whole scene of Komarosaki running to Toko's aid

(33:54):
and smacking Orochi to get him to stop attacking and then just
fully standing her ground the entire time between him in
regular human mode and about to slice and slash and him in
serpent mode when he's about to eat her.
And the entire time it's like, I'm going to do it because

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Orochi kind of a coward. Also, he's like, I'm going to,
I'm going to kill. I'm going to kill you.
I'm going to. I'm going to eat you.
I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it.
I'm going to do it, I swear. I'm, I'm going to buy you.
Look, I'm going in right now. Are you ready, 32?
And then she's just staring him straight in the eyes.
Like, just fucking do it already.
I'm not going to flinch. I am the daughter of a samurai.

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So you're either going to fucking kill me here or you're
going to make me your wife, and there's going to be no in
between. Choose one now.
She did kind of pitch that, too.Like at one point he's like,
you're not gonna bow down, but but why would you throw your
life away? Cobra aside?
And then she's like, oh, so you want a wife that's just gonna
like, take it. No, I'm not going to be one of
those. You can find some this, this

(34:57):
other, like some other girl to do that if you want to have
that. But I'm going to stand by her.
And I'm like, OK, so are you. Are you suggesting that it's
still on the table? If he forgave you that you would
wed him totally. Because that is really funny.
If he had backed out of it then she would have totally still
gone through with a marriage 100,000%.

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I love that that timeline almostexists.
It had to have been close because again, Orochi coward, he
was basically doing out of some obligation.
You know, he's like trying to prove a point.
You know, I'm I'm the Shogun, this geisha just or this, this
Oyron just backtalk me. I have to kill her.
I really don't want to because I've literally never killed

(35:38):
anyone in my entire life, but I have to do this now for my pride
or my ego. Yeah, yeah.
So that's my take on the whole situation.
My feeling on Komo Rosaki is that I'm interested to see
exactly where she goes. You know, Devin talked about the
other week. Well, she's dead.
Well, I mean, yeah, of course Devin talked about the other
week, her not being as much of an asshole person as it seemed

(36:02):
like she was initially let on. And to a certain extent, I agree
with that. Obviously, you know, all the
people that we saw her scam the fuck out of were terrible,
terrible people and deserved it.And that Justin was also
completely appalled last week when I told him about how Bingo,
who we actually see the entire timeline of, didn't get left by
his wife but like, actively soldhis entire family off just to

(36:24):
make more money. He was initially sympathetic to
Bingo. He didn't.
Know. Oh, he was, was he?
He did not. He did not realize that Bingo
was such a terrible person when he he's literally seen pillaging
and burning houses down just to get money to give to fucking
Komarosaki anyway. That's funny.
People can listen to the episodethat came out last week for
that. Yeah.
So anyway, Komarosaki seemingly a more complex person than

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initially let on, which is I'm glad it it makes for a more
interesting character in this sense.
She's shown to be a bad person, but in this episodes we see her
stick up for Toko which is great, and it seems like just on
the whole she's probably a bit defensive of any of the other
women that also work inside the Corazon house, so I am

(37:10):
interested to see. It's unfortunate that she's dead
and that we won't get to see what the rest of her character
had to offer. Yeah, yeah, right.
Because it seemed like it would have been some good story.
I like the idea that if Kyoshiroand Komasaki were like in on
this together, I like the idea that maybe they do want to
takedown Orochi, but they don't know how yet.

(37:31):
And then they just like, stumbleupon the alliance and they're
like, well, wait a minute, we might have aligned interests.
Oh, like they they weren't planning this before, but
they'll figure it out now. Well, well, I think, I think
maybe like in my mind what's what's happening right now is
Kiyoshiro and Komarosaki are well really Kiyoshiro is is
maybe like playing, trying to play 5D chess to eventually

(37:54):
usurp Orochi in this moment. Or maybe he just like dislikes
Orochi and he loves where he's at and but he would love if
Orochi stopped like meddling or being the king or whatever.
Maybe he doesn't want to be Shogun, but either way, he
doesn't like Orochi and his lifewould be better without him.
And maybe because him and Komarosaki are working together
to that aim and then he had to pivot to, you know, get

(38:15):
Komarosaki out of out of dodge or whatever.
Assuming that this is how this plays out, they're just like,
all right, now what are we goingto fucking do to deal with this
guy? And then they stumble upon the
Allies in their efforts to take down Orochi and Kaido, and
they're like, well, wait a minute, Are you guys trying to
take down Orochi and Kaido? Because maybe.
Just. Spitballity.

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Yeah, imagine the look on KyoshiChurro's face when he realizes
that the 9 ghosts are actually real and are going to come back.
I'm just saying. And then he'd be like, son of a
bitch. That motherfucker was right.
Yeah. I think that would be really
funny if he catches up with the kid of O and he's just like, so

(38:58):
you're, you're real, really. And the kid was just like, well,
yeah. And then he's like, but then
like, how? And then get him one's like Lady
Toki through us in the future. You can't make this shit up.
I. Have more questions now even?
More. Questions that didn't answer
anything you. Answered absolutely nothing
anyway, so I I just think that could be a very fun outcome.

(39:20):
But maybe we'll see. We'll see how how it pans out
because it did seem like the Kyoshiro and the Beast Pirates
at least were relatively chill, so they might not be as keen to
align with our allies if they know that they're taking down
both of she and Kaido. Because they they might like
Kaido for all I know. Who fucking knows?
Were those other guys Beast Pirates, or were those just
Kyoshiro's boys? So the the ones were.

(39:41):
You talking about a different thing?
Yeah, the ones that originally fucked with Sanji were
Kyoshiro's boys, yes, but then Kyoshiro called in a favor to
the Beast Pirates and that's where Drake and Page One come
in, and they are both not only part of the Beast Pirates, but
they are of the top 6 just below.
King, Queen and Jack. Right, Right.

(40:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, I don't think I ever
realized that that was a favor that they were doing for
Kyoshiro. I thought they just had caught
wind because, you know, they they'd also been fucked with by
now. So I, I'm sort of making a like
a minor leap in logic, but part of that, like narrative was sort
of explained in this set of episodes where a guy was like,
didn't you want to like, you know, go down to town and deal

(40:24):
with the Soba guy yourself because like he betrayed your
people. And he's like, listen, I've got
a lot going on. But anyone who's a part of the
Kyoshiro fan who swears they're fealty, definitely.
They're like my children and I didn't have enough time on my
hands and the Beast Pirates had nothing but time, so I asked
them to do it for me. OK, that's fair.
Or at least that's like the paraphrase like sort of
situation that I got out of the out of the deal, Right, Right.

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And then Komerosaki died. Goodbye.
Right. And she'll never be seen again.
She'll never be seen again. Ripped the most beautiful woman
in the land. And then also, can I just say I
don't know if this surpasses therule of threes or not.
The amount of time spent with Brooke doing the fucking bit of
I'm a young guy. Nah, this is great.

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Everyone running away from him, in my mind, I'm like, you get,
you get one, maybe 2 scenes out of me, of me being like, yeah,
that's funny. Then they continued the bit and
I, you know, but then they held on so long that I almost, I
think I double backed. It was like, Nah, this is a good
bit again. This is this is a good bit I I

(41:32):
could hear the Scooby-doo running in place that like of
their feet running around on theground as they tried to run away
from him cartoonishly. Fucking stupid.
And then like the last moment when they're like, wait a
minute, he's not really doing anything.
And then he's like, oh, spooky. And then they're like, what if

(41:54):
we just turn around? And then Brooke Abele goes, ah
shit, they figured it out. It's like, fuck, all right, bye
bye. Later get you later, guys.
Yeah. Fucking Brooke.
Never fucking change. And then he can just peace out
back to his body, which is stilljust chilling in his well.
Just hanging out in the well, which to be fair, that's where

(42:15):
the young guy would go because Ithink he's actually, this is a
fun fact too. There's a famous young guy where
you know his like outfit that he's in with the weird like
paper hat that he puts over his Afro and like his white like
robe or whatever. I'm pretty sure there is a young
guy of like a lady dressed literally like that who fell in
a well and her ghost just like haunts the halls or whatever.

(42:36):
Like that's like a real young guy.
So he's basically just cosplaying as the young guy, the
lady in the well. Fucking this is a.
Fucking idiot, huh? You're reminding me of the of
the grudge. The girl comes out of the the
well in the videotape. Or is it the ring?
Excuse me, is that the ring? The.

(42:57):
Ring. The ring.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The ring.
The Ring. Yeah, that's what that sounds
like. I wish I could remember what
I'm. I would be willing to bet that
that movie is based off of the exact same yokai that you're
talking about. I would also agree that that is
probably the case. Yeah, here she is.
Oh, her. Her name is Even Okiku.
Who would have guessed? Wait, that's the name of the

(43:20):
that's the name of the the spirit in the ring too.
I don't know about the spirit inthe ring, but the the the one
I'm thinking of is literally named Okiku.
Oh, OK. Which is really funny.
That's that's the same bit. There's a character already
named Okiku. It's been so long since I.
Oh it's amazing where you get all your fucking bits from.

(43:41):
Sadako Yamamura is the name of the monster from the ring, so
not the exact same, but maybe isa back story rooted in the
Japanese folklore called an own Rio.
So maybe not the exact same thing, I don't know.
Own Rio. Let me look this up for a
second. Own Rio.

(44:02):
Might be the same Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what I was thinking of too.
I think it's the same bit. OK, so it is the same lit I.
Think it's the same bit, but Okiku is just like a specific
one maybe. OK, I don't know.
I ain't an expert in this shit. I'm not.
I'm not from Japan. Somebody, somebody who's more
involved and knows more about the world of Japanese folklore

(44:24):
and yokai, let us know how ignorant we're being.
How stupid we are. Yeah, OK, Anyway, I lost track
of thought or I lost my train ofthought.
So anyway. Brooke isn't own real.
Brooke isn't own real Eustis kidhas escaped the labor camp,
sure. Has somehow.
Somehow, yeah, I guess he he just could do that the entire

(44:44):
time or something. We saw the silhouette of some
other figure on top of some rocks.
We did. We did do that.
What do you think that guy is, Christian?
I mean, I didn't recognize them immediately and I did not freeze
frame to even just look for longer.
He was just standing there. Menacingly, I'm just going to

(45:06):
assume that it's someone off of Deuces kids crew that has
managed to free him. Oh.
Wow, that'd be interesting. Yeah.
Yeah, I like that. I like that.
So that's how he got out, huh? Yeah, some mysterious figure
that was able to free him and wejust don't know.
Or maybe it was someone that's related to that other character

(45:26):
that we don't know, the one who likes to spit fish bones at
people. Oh yeah, yeah, that person in
the in the jail cell that you never feed bones then they
because they'll turn them into blow darts or whatever.
Yeah. And also I was, I was kind of
worried too, because that personis we're getting the scene of
the older guy that Luffy saved that one time.
And it looked like that guy was kind of menacing over the old

(45:50):
man. And I was like, Oh, you better
not touch that old that that oldman, that old man.
It's kind of chill. And also is like shoulder tattoo
set up things kind of kind of sick.
Well, I mean, Christian, you didsay that we need to stop fucking
around with with children, stop abusing children.
So obviously the next step is tosay.
That we're fucking with the elderly.
Is to start fucking with the elderly Exactly, exactly.

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Yeah, that guy did have a weird like helmet thing on or whatever
that looked like a scorpion tail, so I don't know what
that's supposed to be. Don't.
Look at me, man. They kind of look like Captain
Falcon. His helmet.
Like Captain Falcon, OK. The whole the helmet situation,
then he's like he's got, he had like a collar or something too,
I don't remember. Falcon Punch.

(46:35):
Just Falcon Punch used his kid out of the jail.
Just the loudest jailbreak ever.I like that.
That would be fun shit. You just hear a resounding
Falcon punch and then just like what?
What happened Be like the best Smash character in existence
just arrived. Yeah, a new challenger.

(46:57):
You've got the Captain Falcon onyour fucking crew, dude.
What the fuck, kid? Where's Killer He's?
Like don't worry about him rightnow.
I also have MU 2 Don't don't askabout him either.
Yeah, that's that would be fucking sweet.
But all right, I think we prettymuch cover everything that
happened this out of episodes. We pretty much just sort of, we
met Orochi a little bit more. Komarosaki came and went as fast

(47:20):
as she or left just as quickly as she appeared.
And Big Mom is doing that. Big Mom is here.
Is here somewhat sort of kinda. All right, All right, excellent.
Moving on then, to Gabe's fun facts.

(47:45):
Hell yeah. It will be Gabriel reading
Gabriel's fun facts of course. Hello, this is Gabriel speaking
to you from. I honestly don't know where I
found this dark and abandoned cabin deep in the woods with
lots of food that I'm currently eating.
The sign in front of me said something like Odachi Onegai
Shimazu I think. Not sure, might have misread.

(48:08):
Anyways, this week's events all take place in a single building,
mostly focused on characters that we already know, which
doesn't lend itself to many interesting facts,
unfortunately. As such, this week's set of fun
vax will be presented in a different format.
Everybody get excited for our new and surely reoccurring
segment Meet the Orochi Oniwabanshu.

(48:32):
In this segment I will be introducing every member of the
gang. Oh my God, there's a lot and
give some quick fun facts about them.
Let's get it started, shall we? I'll be going in alphabetical
order. The first one is Bishamon.
Bishamon was born on August 1st,God bless Switzerland, and is 28
years old. His name is derived from

(48:54):
Bishamon 10, the Japanese translation for Vice Shravana.
Really making you work for this one.
I I assume that's how that's pronounced?
Oh, that's not a speck on my screen.
That's actually an accent mark underneath the end.
Yes, yes it is. I did know that.
Oh. I wonder how you're supposed to
say. That maybe like with the neo in

(49:16):
in Spanish with like the little squiggle on top.
So I'm going to say it's Vice Sravania.
Vice Ravana like. Dasvidania.
My Corona. Vice Sarvanya specifically is
the God of War and the guardian of holy Buddhist sites.
He is also part of the Seven Lucky Gods in Japanese

(49:36):
mythology, where he serves the same role and is also the
protector of those who follow the rules and behave
appropriately. Bishamon shares no resemblance
to the God beyond the name, though he probably still acts as
a Big Brother given his profession.
His favorite food is Sweeten, which it is boiled flour dough
served in Japanese soup dishes. OK, fair enough.

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Next meet kome. I'm going to say it's Kome.
It's CHOME. Chom com chom chom chom.
We're in cyberpunk. Com I'm going to say chom.
Maybe it's Chom. Chom.
We'll call her Chom Chom. Chom was born on April 24th and
is 14 years old. Jesus, Orochi have some dignity.
Anyways, her name is possibly derived from Mochizuki Chiome.

(50:26):
Oh dude, it's got to be Chom then.
OK. Mochizuki Chiome, a Japanese
poet and noblewoman who is rumored to have created a group
of kunoichi in service to a Takeda clan.
When I typed her name into Google Docs it auto corrected
into Chrome. What a narcissistic piece of
software. Her favorite food is chocolate.

(50:49):
Someone please save her. I'll please ever.
Next, meet Daikoku. Daikoku was born on May 15th and
is 42 years old. His name likely derives from
Daikoku 10/1 of the other members of the Seven Lucky Gods
of Japan. Daikoku 10 specifically is the
God of commerce and prosperity and the patron St. of cooks,

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farmers, and bankers. Beyond the name, Daikoku shares
nothing in common with him, though, so we don't know whether
he's a capitalist. Taikoku's favorite food is
Ohagi, a type of rice cake confectionery from Japan.
Meet Fujin. Fujin was born on February 4th
and is 45 years old. His name is derived from the

(51:31):
Japanese God of Wind of the samename, whose name literally
translates to Wind God. Interestingly enough, the second
kanji of the character's name, Jean, has been altered to
translate into Blade, meaning that the One Piece character's
name more accurately translates into Wind Blade.
His big scarf heavily resembles the God's Bag of Wind.

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Better carries around in most illustrations.
That's pretty sick. Fujin's favorite food is NATO,
which are fermented soybeans served as a breakfast food
alongside rice. Now next meet Fukurokuju.
Fukurokoju is the leader of the bunch.
He was born on March 29th and is59 years old.
His name and appearance, aside from the sunglasses, are based

(52:14):
on another member of the Seven Lucky Gods of Japan who shares
his name. Though this particular God is
sometimes omitted from that lineof Fukurokuju, the God
specifically serves as the God of Lut, longevity, wealth,
commerce, and wisdom. The reason that we know
Fukurokuju doesn't share the personality of the God is
because he kidnapped Robin, which marks him as exceptionally

(52:35):
stupid. Fukurokuju's favorite food is
daifuku, A mochi confectionery made in Japan.
Next meet Hanzo. Hanzo was born on August 3rd and
is 42 years old. His name is likely derived from
Hatori Hanzo, a legendary samurai from the Sengoku period
who helped in the founding of the Tokugawa Shogun 8, the

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single longest regime to rule Japan, whose reign is known as
the Ito period. Hanzo.
The character shares nothing in common with him beyond the name,
though because Hanzo is a bum. His favorite food is Fugashi, a
food item so Japanese that the only Wikipedia article on it is
in Japanese. Apparently it's a confectionery
made of wheat gluten made in Japan.

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Go figure. OK, that's interesting.
Next meet Jigoku Ben 10, Ben 10,Ben 10, the Ben 10.
The Ben 10 is in this. Apparently, Jigoku Ben 10 was
born on October 18th and is 21 years old.
Her name is derived into two parts.
Jigoku literally translates to hell, while Ben 10 derives its

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origin from the Japanese Buddhist goddess of arts and
wisdom. Her design is heavily based on
the Hell Courtesan, a famous courtesan from Japanese
mythology who in her story pronounced her courtesan
profession after witnessing the visions and teachings of the
monk EQ, whose teachings and visions of hell inspire her to
turn to Buddhism and pursue enlightenment.

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I personally don't think Jagoku Ben 10 will be going to heaven
anytime soon though. Her favorite food is BY Yokan, a
Japanese confectionery made of red bean paste, Agar, and sugar.
Next, meet Kazeka Kaze Kage. Not to be confused with the guy
from Naruto. I was.
Going to say we got we got fucking Gar up in here.
What's going on? Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Kaze Kage was born on February 28th.

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That is 43 years old. His name translates into Wind
Shadow. What does that even mean?
Wind doesn't cast shadows, dumb ass.
It's wind. OK, What a stupid.
Name. Sure.
His mother ought to be a shave. Wow.
Kaze Kage's favorite food is maki mono, a type of sushi.
Next, meet Sarutobi. Not to be confused with that

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other guy from Naruto. There's no original ideas in
this world. Sarutobi was born on March 12th
and is 45 years old. His name is likely derived from
Sarutobi Sasuke, a famous ninja who is said to have assisted the
warlord Sonata Yuki Mora at the Siege of Osaka.
I'm sure Sarutobi is the only character in fiction who is

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inspired by this figure to death.
Yeah, I bet. Sarah Toby's favorite food is
party Kiwis, a type of Kiwi without the hairy skin that's
native to East Asian regions, including Japan.
That strikes me as something that would make it less hearty
without the hair. Don't don't like me, man.
I don't, I don't know. Just I don't know.

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Next we meet Sugamichi and Warizane.
Not to be confused with Warzone,the Call of Duty games.
What the double feature? Yeah, these are actually just
two land dwelling catfish that are official members of the
Orochi Odiwabadshu. I love them.
Wow. Those guys had names.

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I didn't know they had names. This is actually news to be I
had no idea they had names. Their names are likely derived
from the poet Sugawara no Michizane, who according to
legend, once defeated a giant catfish with his sword because
it was blocking the road, which caused the catfish to turn to
stone. Oh.
OK, why not? Of course, the everyone's

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favorite tale. Also, according to Japanese
mythology, catfish live underground and cause
earthquakes. OK, that's one way to explain it
I guess. All right.
Next we have everyone's favorite, Raijin.
Raijin was born on June 4th and is 45 years old.
He shares his name with the Japanese God of Thunder.
Though the second kanji of his name, much like Fujin, has once

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again been changed to mean Bladeinstead of God, making his name
translate to Thunder Blade. The ring of fireballs behind him
heavily resembles the ring of Tycho drums that the God is
commonly depicted wearing. Yes, Enel takes inspiration from
this God as well, as you can clearly tell by this set of 12
brand new original characters created for this minor group of

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antagonists. Ona is running out of ideas.
Raja's favorite food is Yamimo, a type of yam native to East
Asian countries including Japan.And finally, meat Yazaiman.
Yazaiman was born on August 8th and is 24 years old.

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His name is likely derived from Keto Yazaiman, a famous ninja
from the Sengoku period who onceattempted to assassinate the
then Daimyo of Japan, OTA Nobunaga.
I don't know why OTA would put his own murderer into this
story. That seems like something he
should bring up to his therapist.

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Yazaiman's favorite food is fushiag gay, a Japanese dish
consisting of a deep fried skewered meat and vegetables.
And that's it. I'm going to leave out the manga
to animate differences this time, as they aren't too
terribly interesting. Anyways, I can sense an
assortment of about 12 people hiding in the shadows behind me,
and I'm starting to think I've made a big mistake.

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I'm going to start running now. See you guys next week.
Have a nice day, all right? Well, you did just indulge all
of their secrets, so I'm not surprised they found you.
Literally all of them. They they have nothing left to
the imagination. They're all just laid bare.
Incredible. Yeah, there were a couple in
there that I don't know very well.

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I know most of them. Like the characters themselves
in the show. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Like I, I didn't really even know what their names were.
I'll be totally honest with you,only a couple I knew.
I knew a good chunk of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I did not know the catfish, though.
The catfish having names is kindof fucking crazy, actually.
I love that they have names justlike, just like every one of Big

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Mom's kids having names because why not?
Well, it's not even just the fact that all all of her kids
have names, but they all have anime and manga debuts.
Now that should just keeps me upat night.
That, that's the stuff I'm goingto be thinking about on my
deathbed. That is literally the shit that
I'm, I'm going to be thinking about at length for the rest of
forever. All right, well, thank you,

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Gabe, as always. Anyway, moving on.
Next week will be 929 to 932. Booming.
On to quotes. How about you, buddy?
Sure, I'll I have two quotes. I'll lead off with the less
serious of the two of them. At one point, Brooke is talking
to Robin. They've met up outside of one of

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the areas. They got a quick little downtime
after all of the shenanigan, andBrooke just simply proud of what
he's done and all the work he's accomplished and looking for
confines and a friend. He goes, I'm awesome, right?
And Robin just looks at him and goes, yeah, you're, you're
pretty cool Brooke. And then he blushes, even though
he has no blood. No, I don't care.

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Did you add the skull joke in there?
Of course you got to got to dropthe skull joke.
Oh my God, he's now he's writingskull jokes.
Folks, the brain rod is so real.The Brook Rod.
The Brook Rod. I'm pleased to see you're safe,
that I am. Thank you, that was close does

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this. Color look good on me.
It's amazing and keep it up. So yes, just a cute little
interaction. I loved it, so I kept it in
mind. The other one I wrote down is
Komarosaki and she's facing downOrochi when just after she
smacked the fuck out of him and she says I forget exactly what
point the conversation is but just know that he has tried to

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talk her out of the getting in the way or like apologizing and
she goes what? I know I am right.
I do not need to give an inch. Apologize, bow your head, get on
your knees and grind your forehead into the floor.
I'll do no such thing. I won't travel.
I kneel before no one. That's some heat.

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That's some heat from KomarusakiI got.
I can't lie. Oh.
Man, I can feel the heat from here, buddy.
I can feel the heat from here. So.
So that was some heat. Oh wait, that's just because
she's attractive. Well, you know, that's, you
know, that's, that's definitely one part of it.
And the way she played that Shammi sand, you see her tear
that shit up dude. Dude that's what I'm saying.
She can fucking rip bro. She fucking rips those cords,

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man. That's what I'm saying.
She puts that mask on and she's like a whole other person, dude.
Yeah, I've got 2 quotes. So actually I have a fun fact
that I don't think you've been here that I've explained to
Justin. There are a couple of severely
stand out performances on the dub side during Wano.
Wano kind of goes hard for the dub cast.

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Like the the side characters that aren't the main cast have
so much fun. This arc especially I don't know
if they like got done with WholeCake and they were like honestly
I think we should go back to just like having fun again and
stop taking ourselves so fuckingseriously because there are a
lot of opportunities and times where they take themselves less
seriously and I have a great time. 1 stand out in this set of
episodes. So Orochi for the folks track at

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home and I should probably just fucking look his name up.
He's the same guy who voiced thevillain in film Gold.
OK, and for those keeping track at home like he's he was already
one of my favorite villains and he's got he's got a great voice.
Tesoro. Tesoro Thank you.
Gil Tesoro. Now the the guy who voices
Orochi is the same gentleman that voices Gil Tesoro.
And when I tell you, even thoughOrochi doesn't have a laughing
tick, my brother, he invented a laughing tick for Orochi that

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reads perfectly. And I'm not going to say like he
invented it, like the way that Orochi laughs in the dub and
maybe he's just parroting what they do in the sub, but it's
almost like scooby-doo meets madscientist.
And it just tickles me when thisman, anytime Orochi says or does
anything and he just starts going Gomer.

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Rosaki God stop. Just like, I don't know how to
put it. I don't know how to put it.
You just have to, I, I hope thatlike shoot whoever our editor is
now, Dylan can put like a line in here of Orochi just like
speaking and then do a day like flying into like a, a little bit
of his like laughter, 'cause my dude, the dude sells it.
He's having a the time of his fucking life.

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Hell yeah is this stupid fuckingvillain.
And I love it anyway, right, It's over.
Here my Lord, Enjoy. When Kumarasaki pours the socket
runs deeper. Straight down to my soul.
My actual real quote next in line comes from Brooke who was

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perusing the halls going and then as soon as he found the
fork in the road and saw two of the ninja he literally like went
back to reality. Was like oh shit.
Hope not that way. Well, but in the dub he was
really like, oh, I'm a go, oh shit, just fucking it bounced,

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moving up in the ceiling maybe. Oh, shoot.
Who was that? So stupid.
Fuck this shit, I'm out. Fuck this shit.
I'm out. That was a little bit of Ian
Sinclair, the guy who voices himcoming out to pass your
preacher. He was Brooke.

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And then he was like, oh shit, Ian came out.
Oh shit. See, what they don't tell you is
that he was just doing lines in the studio and he like dropped
something and he was just doing whoo.
And then he goes, he drops it and go oh shit.
And then they animated an entirescene just for that.
And then they, they, they said they had it on, on, on recording
and they were like, well, we might as well throw it in.

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Why not? We might as well just.
Use this. It's gold.
Let's fucking use it, dude. Anyway that that's it.
Those are those are right quotes.
Awesome. I love when you bring in these
little dub facts, they're so much fun.
Yeah, yeah, no. And another one that is a huge
standout that I can't wait till we get more of his queen,
because I'll give you the rant on him when Queen comes back and
graces our screens in the future.
But moving on to Golden Ham, youknow, I mean, it's got to be

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Comerosaki. Then she was the one that stood
up for Toko. And then she was like, you can't
talk me down, Sir. I will not grovel for my life.
I'm the Oyron or whatever she was trying to fucking get at.
I'm an Oyron and the daughter ofa samurai.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then Orochi wants to talk
about you know nothing of samurai while she's looking him

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dead in the eye, smirking at himlike you fucking sorry son of a
fucking asshole. You, you don't know the first
thing about being a samurai. I I agree.
All right, well, fucking easy then.
Fucking Komarosaki it. Is I don't know that I would
have expected to be on Team Komarosaki at this time. 2 weeks
ago when me and Devin were talking about her this quickly.

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I was open to changing sides should the time arise, but like
Big Mom showing up in the show, I didn't think it would happen
this quickly. You know I'm here for it.
That's a golden ham for the mostbeautiful woman in or the
formerly most beautiful woman inBuono.
I will not beg, not even for my life.

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All right, well, as an easy golden ham.
All right. Well then moving on from here,
we have fan mail. Which we actually do have fan
mail this week. It is a fan mail.
But oh, it even says question make sure bread boy is on.
Well it just so happens. Oh yeah, it just so happens.

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So we have a fan mail this comesto us from Sporadic silver.
Oh, that makes a lot more sense.Sorry.
Sporadic silver. Hi, hello Sporadic silver here
writing in for the first time. I have been listening to you
guys for about two years now andyou guys make this a
one-of-a-kind most interesting one piece podcast out there with
all the differing opinions you guys have.

(01:06:45):
Thank you for helping me get through the boring days at work.
So the question I have is what powers if any do you think the
goers say or five elders have? Like do they all have mythical
zoens? Are they all logias or all
different powers to each other? Thanks for an awesome 2 years of
listening and hopefully many more to come.
Sincerely, sporadic silver. Well, how do I want to go about

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this? Now this is a question you don't
actually even know the answer to, as far as I understand.
I I have with where I am in the series, I think I have more
context than you. Okay, not much, but somewhat.
No, nothing definitive. Correct.
I'm going to say this, I think beyond a shadow of a doubt.

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Whatever they do have going on, I don't think is from a devil
fruit. I think they are what they are
as given to us by ODA. I think ODA does not want to
give them devil fruit. Yes, that is my opinion.
OK, why? Why do you think that?

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Well, you know, for a couple of reasons, some more spoilery than
others, but I will say this. I think that them being on
screen and not being debuted with Devil Fruits is very
deliberate. I feel as though there might be

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something in the hopper that ODAhas cooking, assuming that they
even have strength, right? Because we don't know if they
have strength that ODA has been cooking specifically for them or
people within their ranks. And that is where I want to keep
it. I think that ODA has given us
them in Piece meal, yes. Simultaneously, I think it's

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very deliberate that they have never been hinted to have devil
fruit. So whatever structure they go
by, like power structure or whatever, anime logic be damned,
I think it is unique to their ranks.
OK, interesting that. Is that is my hot take.
Yeah, OK, that's fucking lame. They've all got super powers.

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That's fair. They've all got super powers.
Here's what I'm going to say. I'm going to say all of these
guys have different versions of human human model fruits of just
like notable figures or mythological figures.
So they're all just gods? They're all Buddha.

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They're all, yeah, they're just gods with extra steps.
They're all just Buddha. They're all Buddha's with extra
steps, yeah. Oh my God.
So that that that's what it is. They're all just like carbon
copies of Sengoku. That's what we're doing here.
They're just better Sengoku's, yeah.
Oh my God. Like I don't know what it is,
but I don't know which ones they'll be.
But I think that they all just have different illustrious

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figures throughout. I almost, I almost want to say
they're like they're devil fruits don't even actually give
them powers. They're just it's like it's like
a choppers human, human model where it just gives them human
qualities. It's like they have the like he
has the I I, you fucking I don'tknow.
I'm just going to pick a random like he's got, he's got the like

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Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc fruit, you know?
Human. Human model Chad.
Yeah, like it's just just a notable figure from from human
history. And it did.
Now it's a multiverse. We've got a multiverse theory
going on. You know, all of the five elders
are based off of somewhat like real historical figures.

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Yeah, and that's real in the world too.
That's Canon in universe. So you're telling me that
fucking SIM 7 Gandhi in the backis just human?
Human model Gandhi. Yes, exactly.
With a sword. Oh, that's awesome.
That's actually great, Mr. Gorbachev.

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Give me your fruit. Yes.
Give me your devil fruit. Give me your devil fruit.
That's that's what I think. I love that answer.
That's a good bit. That's a good.
That's way better than my idea. Yeah.
All right. Well.
Thank you, Sporadic Silver, for that e-mail.
Thank you sporadic silver. Hopefully my answer satisfies

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you while simultaneously tiptoeing knowledge I do have
over Christian. And please feel free to continue
emailing. That was delightful.
That was awesome. That was.
Yeah, I enjoyed that. All right, moving on to what?
What do we move on to from here?Moving on to the garb gap.
Oh, oh, oh, yeah, oh, oh, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry.

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I think, I think maybe the the symptoms of something are coming
back. I don't, I don't know what
you're talking about. How?
How's that bump doing, by the way?
You know, it's suddenly it's like, it's like pulsing again.
I don't know what happened. It it kind of, I think I might
be bleeding internally in my skull.
We we should probably. Nah, I'm sure it's fine.
Well, you'll, you'll be fine. You know, we'll wrap this up in

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a in a few minutes and you can just like take a take a little
rest. I'm sure you'll be OK.
Yeah. Yeah, you're probably right.
OK. Anyway, reaching, reaching this
garb gap that I've filled and, and, and we'll, we'll, we'll
keep on trucking. All right, All right.
Christian, you you only you put a single hammer in this bag this
week. Oh, sorry, that's the wrong.
Let me just get the other the real gab.

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I'm just trying to stuff that underneath the other part of it.
Josh, what was? Here we go.
Oh, OK. I I just a little carpentry
project and I needed something to transform my hammer in.
Don't it just, I was, it was, there was red paint on the the
thing that I was doing. So I was helping chip that away,
yeah. I I noticed that it I thought I
saw some hair too. No, no, no, no, no, no, that was

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probably just crashed because I was working outside, right?
So it just like got a little bitof the red paint on it or
whatever. So here, here's the actual garb
Gab. OK, all right.
Well, sure. No problem.
Yep, Yep. There's paper in there this
time. OK.
And all right, and on this pieceof paper, please don't give me a
paper cut money. We did it this week.
Yeah. Haiku.

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OK, little haiku action. I feel like it's been a minute
since we've done a little haiku.Little haiku action, A little
haiku action. All right, you know what,
Christian? I was, I was sort of proud of my
haiku this week. All right.
Do you mind if I go first? No, by all means.
OK wait I have to change it because I just came up with a
better 5 lines or syllabus. All right, OK.
Should I? Should I go first first or?

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No, no, I got, I got. I just needed to change one
thing. OK.
Shadows from the past fuelled bya 20 year grudge.
Take your meds, grandpa. Snaps.
Snaps. At first I said old man, but
grandpa felt better. Grandpa was better.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you.
Thank you all. Right, my haiku.
New arc means new friends, threekids meet a weird New Girl.
Is this Stranger things? That's funny actually.
I like that a bunch of kids likejust be like they they, they

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stumble across a a mysterious girl who lost her memory.
New season of Stranger Things looking different.
Yeah, dude, the new new StrangerThings season is kind of wild,
actually. Crazy what happened to the
Upside Down? I think we're in it.
I think it's Wano. This is a crazy new direction
they decided to take this show. Yeah, animated.

(01:14:34):
All right, Christian, thank you for being here, as always.
My my head is killing me. I think I'm I need to go lay
down really quick. Can can you possibly.
Oh, I'm sorry. Hold on.
I forgot. See, I'm forgetting again.
We we still have to do the social plugs.
Yeah. Do do do you mind covering for
the social plugs? I'll take care of that.
Yeah, you can get ready to lay down, get yourself comfy and and

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Please, the hamsters will eat us.
There's a there's cool stuff up there.

(01:15:16):
We, we just put out some new, some new merch.
There's a T-shirt up there that you can watch get designed by me
and Justin in a vlog. There's a cute little 3 or 4
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projects that was thrown together by Dylan and that was
really fun. I just watched that for the

(01:15:37):
first time the other day. So you know, whatever, whenever
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going to be a lot more on the way.
Woohoo yay. So with that being said,
Brendan, yeah, I think you should take this ice pack and
you know, just. Christian, I'm going to be so

(01:15:58):
fucking for real. Yeah, I've never felt pain like
this before. I think you might need to call
like the hospital. I don't know if we need to do
all that. You just you look like you're
just a little tired and I'll here let me if you lay down in
the in on the couch here in the office and I'll just I'll give
you a little blanket here. We keep it for Justin because he

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sleeps here all the time. OK.
And don't worry, it's washed. It smells like tacos.
Yeah, Oh, oh, well, all right, Iguess.
I guess Devin lied about washingit.
Well anyway, enjoy the let the let the sweet scent of bidia
tacos lull you to sleep and hopefully you'll wake up and
it's not that bad. But I mean, can you do me a

(01:16:39):
favor? Can you come back in a couple
hours though? Like.
Seriously, just to make sure I'mOK, Totally.
Because I, I don't know, I'm not, I don't feel very good
right now. Not.
A problem I'll I'll. I'll be here.
OK. Thanks dude.
I'll, I'll. I'll take a quick nap.
Just Yeah, just all right. Well, now that Princess has been

(01:17:01):
laid down for for his nap, I'm. I'm going to head out here.
Oh, I better not be late for my flight for Thanksgiving dinner.
I'm sure he'll be fine. He doesn't need me to come back
in a couple of hours. Bye everybody.