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is the One Piece Podcast, episode 797. For

1:21

the week of Monday, November 27th, 2023, my name is

1:23

Zach. My

1:26

name is Ed. My name is

1:28

Steve. And my name is Alex. And

1:31

on today's show, we

1:33

have very special guest translator for One Piece

1:35

and weekly Shonen Jump, Stephen Paul is

1:38

with us. How's it going, Stephen? Hey,

1:40

what's up? I'm going to be the good one

1:42

here. I'm not the troublemaker this episode. I'm just

1:44

getting that out of the way before we start.

1:47

Okay. Now I'm worried. No

1:51

troublemakers to follow here from

1:53

the Vintage Anime Podcast and many others returning

1:55

for the first time in a little while,

1:58

I feel like. Dennis. is

2:00

joining us. How's it going, Dennis? It's going

2:02

good. Thanks for having me back on. I

2:04

am also grateful that I got to take

2:06

a break from just sitting on my ass

2:08

all day watching Turnee Gundam. So thanks for

2:10

giving me a break. That's

2:13

one I have not seen, except that

2:15

they all have white beard mustaches, I know. And

2:20

I think we have a lot of people

2:22

here. Last but certainly not least, he's

2:26

a producer, a

2:29

contributor, an editorial writer, a crunchyroll,

2:31

Kotaku, Anime News Network, and more.

2:33

Sean Aitchson is joining us. How's

2:35

it going, Sean? Good.

2:37

I would also like to thank you for stopping me

2:39

from sitting on my ass and playing Spider-Man 2 all

2:41

day. A game I don't enjoy, but

2:43

I won't talk about that. You

2:45

know, first I think we should really figure out why you're

2:48

all doing things that you hate all

2:50

day. Well, it's not that

2:52

I hate it. It's more of, it is

2:54

very unproductive for me. Oh, okay. Well, that's

2:57

fine. As a procrastinator, I could endorse that.

2:59

And also, I assume most of the people

3:01

listening are either procrastinating or not listening and

3:03

focusing on something else. We

3:06

have a bunch of stuff to talk about

3:08

today, including the One Piece Chapter 1099 manga

3:12

recap entitled Pacifist, all

3:15

about Ralina Peacecraft. We

3:17

also have a triple, I did that just

3:20

for Steve's reaction. We also have

3:22

a triple anime recap. Ed,

3:24

do you happen to have the numbers or names of

3:26

any of those on hand? I think it's actually a

3:28

double anime recap and we'll also have a double anime

3:30

recap next week. I don't have the numbers. Hi everyone.

3:33

Delaney editing for the One Piece podcast.

3:35

I just want to let everybody know

3:37

that contrary to what Pacifist has just

3:40

stated, there will not be a double

3:42

anime recap nor triple anime recap this

3:44

week. I don't want to say

3:46

it's because someone fell asleep, but

3:48

I don't not want to say that. So

3:50

please keep an eye on our socials and we will let

3:52

you know when to anticipate the next anime recap. Let's see

3:55

if we can get it up to five, fellas. So

3:57

to transition, there's actually a bunch of news

3:59

I would. be remiss if we did not talk about.

4:02

First, we have

4:04

the Egghead arc coming to

4:06

the anime on

4:08

January 7th, 2024,

4:11

which is only a little over a month away,

4:13

a month and a week or two. Did

4:17

anyone have, there was a visual and like

4:19

a teaser showing the character

4:21

designs and stuff. Did anyone have any

4:23

super strong opinions that they wanted to

4:26

share about that? Steve? Yeah,

4:29

they're definitely going for a

4:31

different approach with the character

4:33

designs. I believe it's still

4:35

Midori Matsuda. Yeah, I believe

4:37

so. But there are

4:40

a lot. It's almost like pre-time

4:42

skip one piece where everyone's just leaner and

4:45

sleeker and not as beefy.

4:48

No one has

4:51

like those crocodile necks. It was

4:53

nice. It was cool. Kind of

4:56

seeing everyone in color. More like seeing

4:58

the backgrounds in color. It's

5:02

sure going to be interesting when we enter

5:04

that arc. I can't believe we're finally,

5:07

like we're going to be done with

5:09

Wano. No more Wano branding. Yeah.

5:11

I know. It's so weird. Steven,

5:14

sorry. It's interesting that like, I mean, I know we

5:16

haven't had a new arc in what,

5:18

four or five years at this point, but it

5:21

is interesting that they are so kind of, I

5:24

guess, branding forward as far as like, hey,

5:26

the egghead and the arc is starting in

5:28

the anime on this date where I feel

5:31

like that was never really like a thing

5:33

that they celebrated or

5:35

marked before this point. So it's

5:37

kind of interesting. Before Wano, I'd say. They

5:40

did that for Wano in 2019 in

5:42

the anime.

5:44

It's 1083 and

5:46

1084. Those are the episodes that I watched. Thank you. And

5:49

the next two, I

5:52

think we'll conclude the Wano arc that you guys

5:55

do. I think it just aired this week. 1086,

5:57

I guess. No,

6:00

1085, 1086 is the reason. You're right.

6:02

Yeah. Yeah, that's why you'll be

6:04

doing double. Now I get it. We have

6:06

other news. I'm going to go from

6:09

least funny to most funny. This

6:11

one is the Los

6:14

Angeles Rams on December 3rd

6:17

at 1.25 p.m. Pacific will be hosting

6:19

their One Piece Day. You

6:21

heard that right. And if you don't know who

6:23

the Los Angeles Rams are, they are a football

6:26

team. Oh, come on. They were. An American football

6:28

team. I thought Zach was going to run down

6:30

the starting lineup. And for

6:33

the Los Angeles Rams. They

6:36

come out of the tunnel with the dry

6:38

ice. Zach's white. And

6:42

all of them just happen to be

6:44

Japanese, so Zach's sweating. I'm trying to

6:46

figure out how to pronounce all of

6:48

them. I know One

6:50

Piece is very big in the

6:52

athlete community, but not in the

6:54

athlete spectator community. Yeah,

6:57

like the Olympic athletes. There

6:59

were definitely a bunch of football players,

7:02

basketball players, even Adam, the basketball player.

7:04

But it is certainly

7:06

that like hype anime crowd. Not

7:08

to sound negative about it. Just

7:10

like there's certainly like a big like pop

7:13

it like three big popular shown and are popular

7:15

among sports fans kind of. And also the athletes,

7:17

like you said, not the fans. Yes. No. What

7:20

I was going to say is there's definitely more athletes who

7:22

are fans of One Piece than there will be in the

7:24

stands. Like ordinarily fans of One Piece. I

7:28

mean maybe- When did that

7:30

USC halftime show thing happen? Was that last year? That

7:32

was last year. That was the one

7:35

year that was the summer. That was the

7:37

one year that was completely unpromoted. College football

7:39

to professional football. I don't

7:41

know. Japanese companies can't

7:43

really see past California. Dennis. Yeah,

7:47

I think that's why they chose the Rams. I

7:50

also want to say it is the Rams

7:52

trying to clap back at the Chargers for

7:54

their anime recap. What is that? Of

7:57

the schedule. Schedule. Schedule. They

8:00

drop those and they have a lot of like

8:02

years ago. No, they've been doing it They've

8:05

been doing it like two to three years in a row now So

8:08

they've been they've kept going I

8:11

forgot a pressing all about this You

8:16

know, I feel like that's the maximum amount of football

8:18

discussion I personally want to have one thing If

8:24

they add the going married to Rams logo

8:26

merchandise I will I will buy what I

8:28

can Then that's what I want to know.

8:30

I don't mind. The Rams logo already looks like Super Saiyan

8:32

3 Are

8:35

we getting cool merch or yeah, I don't want

8:38

to I don't want to go to you

8:40

know That part

8:42

of LA but Dennis I'll get merch You

8:45

don't Dennis They

8:48

did have like the logo that it came out with

8:50

with the one piece did have like a special Jolly

8:52

Roger Which I agree does

8:54

feel like a missed opportunity if they don't

8:56

do anything with the going married or Maybe

9:00

the actor who played Mary on the live-action

9:02

series who's dead. I'm sorry. That's a spoiler

9:04

not the actor But the actor is not

9:06

the actor is very much alive. It is

9:08

Greg. I believe The

9:11

last piece of news I want to mention Anyone

9:15

tragedy struck on the streets of

9:17

New York captain tragedy So People

9:22

may remember I was lucky enough to go

9:24

to Macy's balloon fest a few weeks ago

9:26

And I did not realize I had

9:28

the rarefied Experience

9:31

of seeing an inflated Luffy

9:34

as a Will

9:36

to steal Steve's joke. Well, actually Steve you

9:38

do the joke because it's your joke what

9:40

happened to what happened to the balloon? Yeah

9:49

You know, I don't know you see

9:51

we're already late you've seen all the

9:53

jokes online already That's true. Ryokugu got

9:55

his revenge. Sure, you know

9:58

that tree packs some Armyman

10:01

hockey. Yeah, it

10:03

ran into a branch and it

10:05

popped the brim part of Luffy's

10:07

hat. Thankfully the rest of it

10:09

was still intact so it looked

10:11

you know he became bucket hat Luffy, the

10:14

remainder of the parade. Ed gets

10:16

full credit for that. All the

10:18

way to Macy's. I believe

10:20

Shanks was furious. Steve, her

10:22

name is Brule. Thank

10:25

you. Not another one. Don't worry,

10:28

I've seen them all online. Trust me. That's

10:33

the thing these days now. I

10:35

come from the era of Y2MD when you had like a

10:38

fad for you got months out of it.

10:40

Now it's like day two you're sick of

10:42

it already. I wish that the

10:44

news was the news cycle just basically focused

10:46

on it saying area hat deflated. It was

10:50

both tragic and

10:52

immensely hilarious

10:57

simultaneously and seeing the fan art of

10:59

all the bucket hat Lufis were great.

11:03

It was... I hope Oda thinks it's funny. That's what

11:05

I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. He won

11:07

a bunch of money in the lawsuit but it's because

11:10

of the Luffy

11:12

balloon. I

11:14

have to... I hope he does. If

11:18

there was any disaster that was going to strike

11:21

this is the best possible case because it's really

11:23

funny and it wasn't really that bad. No one

11:26

got hurt. Yeah exactly. It wasn't the only

11:28

balloon that

11:31

got hit by that tree too. It wasn't burning.

11:33

Yeah I think a bunch like

11:36

in front of Luffy and maybe after I saw

11:38

a lot of them at parts of it were

11:42

they holding it too long? That was one hell of

11:44

a turn. No they steered it right into the tree.

11:46

I mean yeah I love the idea of the tree

11:48

getting like three balloons before

11:52

Luffy and then Luffy's like I'm gonna punch that

11:54

tree and then he also gets... Oh shit I

11:56

made a pair. And then that's to come back

11:58

after Emil. No,

12:01

no one's made the the joke of

12:03

when crocodile stabs Luffy outside a rain

12:05

base Yeah,

12:11

I think there was also just the gear three

12:13

and the air blowing out thing I saw that

12:15

yeah God

12:18

full focus group another joke come

12:20

back to you in a few weeks But you're very very

12:23

good that we have a character that kind of acts like

12:25

a balloon through half of the series I know yeah, it

12:28

I it was it was genuinely very funny.

12:30

I feel very bad for the folks at

12:32

toy I'm sure and the people

12:34

worked like hard on the balloon. I hope it

12:36

comes back next year We're PR for getting popped

12:38

and it would have otherwise I

12:40

think so as well the fact that a and n

12:42

caught that video of it is Superb

12:46

of it actually getting popped. I am

12:48

so glad that that footage exists I

12:52

was just surprised I was surprised Goku was in

12:54

the parade again like toys like shilling out the

12:56

money I think no, I mean what were you

12:58

the what you made the balloon? You

13:01

know they can keep the balloon can be reused. I think no,

13:04

but I mean like when you have to pay for

13:06

a spot Yeah, you know yeah, but

13:08

but to be it's not like no the balloon gets

13:10

you still dies Yeah, that's what happened to

13:12

that's what happened to the craft macaroni and

13:14

cheese dinosaur Unlike unlike

13:16

the LA Rams thing which

13:19

I'll have a pit. I have opinions about the source rack Got

13:22

a name Unlike

13:25

the LA Rams this does the

13:28

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in the United States does

13:30

get into the zeitgeist a lot more and I

13:33

think the fact that it did pop probably

13:35

got it even more into the zeitgeist But

13:38

the big news is they pronounced everything correctly

13:41

for the for Luffy's balloon But

13:44

what might be the fifth year in

13:46

a row they still pronounce

13:48

saying the wrong correct way Alork

13:53

is just trolling people at this point

13:55

and the saiyajin like you actually say

13:57

yeah, they're like Well,

14:00

Elver is a good old song though. This

14:04

year actually brought, it made me think about

14:06

that because of

14:08

the loopy stuff. Maybe Toei gave them pronunciation notes

14:10

and that's what they were saying. That's what I

14:12

thought. I'm sure. The Dragon Ball

14:15

side. Maybe it's the Japanese side

14:17

of Toei doing it that's giving

14:19

that pronunciation. Interesting. The

14:22

piece of news I want

14:24

to say for the podcast

14:26

is due because of the holidays,

14:28

we are giving away seven

14:31

day free trials for Patreon. You

14:33

could join us for seven days and continue if

14:36

you enjoy it until the end

14:38

of the holidays. I'm going to give a

14:40

shout out to Tara Sands for alerting me

14:42

that that's even a thing and

14:44

to Segway, Steve, you're

14:47

doing a podcast with Tara Sands. You

14:50

want to talk to him? Yeah, I am.

14:52

I got it promoted. Yeah, you did. Every

14:54

week. Yeah. We started

14:56

a new podcast months back. If you didn't know

14:58

about it already, 4Kids Flashback, it is a retrospective

15:01

podcast where myself and voice

15:03

actor Tara Sands are interviewing

15:08

anybody who's anybody that worked at

15:11

4Kids Entertainment, of

15:14

course actors, but also we've been

15:16

talking with producers, writers, directors, and

15:19

just getting a more authentic

15:21

firsthand experience and look back

15:24

on that era.

15:27

It's gone. I

15:31

think of it also like the sister podcast to

15:34

Force to Watch 4Kids because if

15:36

you listen to that show, half

15:39

of it was Alex and I just asking

15:41

the question, why? Why, why, why?

15:44

I could at least I

15:46

could happily say that some of

15:48

those questions get answered on

15:51

this show. Please check it out. It is

15:53

free to listen to. I

15:55

feel like some people are getting, getting a

15:57

twisted. We put out episodes a week early

15:59

ad free. free on Patreon, but

16:01

the show is free to listen to. So

16:05

please do go listen to it. Yeah.

16:08

Um, it's, it's a really fascinating show

16:10

and Stephen terror, both, uh,

16:12

great podcast hosts. So please

16:15

listen in. Um, I

16:17

think that's going to do it. I want to get

16:19

into the manga chapter personally, so we'll get

16:22

into it right after this. This

16:38

is the manga recap for chapter 10 99 pacifist. This

16:42

chapter and all chapters come

16:44

out of shonen, jumped up,

16:47

viz.com or manga plus. Shueisha.co.jp.

16:49

They're available for free legally

16:51

worldwide. On at the same time, it

16:53

comes out in Japan. Uh, Stephen, I have

16:55

to ask a question before we get anywhere and

16:57

I hope I'm not the

16:59

only one who noticed is the font different

17:01

on the title. Oh,

17:04

I think, yeah, it might be. I'm

17:07

not sure why. I bet you,

17:09

uh, I bet you like, uh,

17:12

they couldn't find the font or something like that. So replaced

17:14

it with the, uh, who knows? I

17:16

thought, uh, Ed had some, some author comments

17:18

or something. No, I know. That was the

17:20

most important question though. You

17:22

have some author comments for us. Sure. Uh,

17:25

the other comments this week from Oda says, um,

17:29

I like putting a little water on the zero second

17:31

chicken ramen and it's no longer zero

17:33

seconds though. Uh, so

17:35

I have to read this article about what

17:37

exactly he's talking about here. So this is an

17:39

article from Japan today.com says compared to the amount

17:41

of time it would take to make ramen from

17:43

scratch, you could argue that the three minutes of

17:45

cooking time required for instant ramen is immersively short

17:47

time to have to wait. But if

17:50

you're a true ramen fan, you know that every moment

17:52

not spent eating ramen is a moment wasted. And so

17:54

even that three minute wait can be excruciating. So thankfully

17:56

instant ramen maker Nissan is here with a way to

17:58

turn those 180 seconds agony into

18:00

Zero with its new Zero Second Chicken

18:02

Ramen. As those without the willpower

18:05

to wait three minutes already know, you can

18:07

actually eat instant ramen noodles without cooking them.

18:09

Chowing down on them is a crunchy snack.

18:11

There's a problem though, that in the seasoning

18:13

in the pack of a normal instant ramen

18:15

is supposed to be for both the noodles

18:17

and the broth, so if you're not adding

18:19

water, the level of seasoning can be unpleasantly

18:21

overpowering. The Nissan's new Zero Second Chicken Ramen

18:23

though is a disc of uncooked noodles flavored

18:25

to be eaten uncooked and as is, providing

18:27

a more balanced flavor than a bowl of

18:29

noodles and broth just without liquid.

20:00

I think I'm blind. That's

20:04

why he needed the light thing. Let's

20:08

talk about the chapter.

20:12

Ed, what's going on in the first page here? Sure,

20:16

this is a reader request for Raccoon

20:18

Dogs, fixing a Bodent's hair by

20:20

Match and Takeshi. So,

20:24

I mean, yeah, it's exactly what it describes,

20:26

and they're making his hair look like Odin.

20:32

It's a very

20:34

common theme in Japan. Yeah, I

20:36

don't know. I

20:40

can tell you that this

20:44

is a pen name that

20:46

does write in a lot. I've

20:49

either for reader requests, or for SBS,

20:52

or something like that. I've definitely seen

20:54

it before multiple times. Any

20:58

other comments on this? It's

21:00

exactly what it says it is. I

21:04

don't know if anyone watches Laid Back Camp, but I got a

21:06

lot of vibes from that. Is

21:08

it just Odin? Yeah,

21:13

they're making the Odin skewer. The

21:16

character from the Royal Kind of Bums. Ed,

21:21

you want to start out the chapter? I think we talked

21:23

enough about that. We

21:28

opened on a scene of a tremendous

21:30

fire in Kuma in

21:32

the Great Distress

21:34

series, Huffin Puffin. People were saying, you've

21:36

done enough, Kuma. There's no saving the

21:38

rest. Come back. You're only going to

21:41

lose your own life. Kuma-chi! And

21:46

we get the evil, dark shadowed King's

21:49

face, King Bakuri. Far

21:52

to the east, another kingdom used their

21:54

strategy successfully. The celestial dragons

21:56

praised their beautiful city for being cleansed of all

21:58

filth. to bring about

22:01

great bliss and prosperity. Wise

22:03

King must sometimes steal his heart and

22:05

enact cruel reforms. So is this referring

22:07

to Goa? Yeah. I think

22:09

so. The Great Terminal? That's what I

22:11

was going to remember. Yeah. I

22:13

was... He's also making a very trolly face. Well...

22:15

Maybe his face is always like that. Yeah.

22:18

He's like, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. I need

22:20

to bed the boy. Oh, you

22:22

gotta make a sacrifice. Yeah. And

22:25

he's such an asshole. Yeah.

22:29

But people are yelling at him. King

22:31

Bakori! The people are mounting a

22:33

furious resistance. And they're yelling, murderer! Step

22:36

down at once. Put out the fires in the south. Kill

22:40

a handful of them and be rewarded.

22:45

So people are going out with guns and

22:47

shooting people down in the streets and they

22:49

say, who dares defy the King's edict? Step

22:51

forward! As this woman is kneeling

22:54

over her dead husband, presumably.

22:57

And through the mist we see

23:00

the gunman like, who's that? And

23:03

I... Stop that or be executed! It's

23:06

Kuma. He's very angry. Kuma mad! Yeah.

23:11

I know this is actually, this is a

23:13

really, this is a very serious scene, obviously,

23:15

but it's great too. But I kind of

23:17

almost just now imagine it comically, like this

23:19

like chicken shit Royal

23:22

Guard here shoots one person's like, hey,

23:24

who else wants to step up, huh? And then

23:26

my Kuma just like rises from the crowd. Oh,

23:29

Jesus, fuck all gone. Yeah. I

23:32

got a Prince, I got Prince's bride vibe.

23:34

It's like, I am the Dread Pirate Kuma.

23:37

You know, just like coming through the smoke while he's on fire.

23:40

That's me. And

23:44

then at Kuma's church, hurry,

23:47

treat the wounded, stay inside Bonnie. You don't want

23:49

to be in the moonlight. And she

23:51

says, okay. And then Bonnie says, I

23:53

hope he's safe. Dad's always such a chicken. Stop

23:56

right there. You know, it'll happen if you strike the

23:58

King. You'll pay dearly for this, you country. But your

24:00

country pumpkin preacher that is a

24:02

tongue twister And

24:04

then the narration is the

24:06

incident would be known as the solo evolution

24:09

of sorbet kingdom and

24:11

in sacred Wait,

24:13

so so before they're just to describe what's

24:15

going on. I do like

24:17

the juxtaposition of Bonnie

24:20

calling him a chicken and then

24:22

kuma punching the king or

24:25

paying the king Yes, he's a little bit

24:27

from the guards to the king in one

24:29

page. Yeah, single-handedly overthrowing

24:32

the nation Do

24:35

like to she's always she's only seen

24:37

like his kind right? Yeah, yeah, you

24:40

know and then I

24:43

in Marijela

24:48

I Hear

24:52

there's a new king in sorbet strange. Who

24:54

is it? Unable to

24:56

resist the pleas of the people kuma became

24:59

And everyone's cheering kuma kuma king kuma

25:01

the king of the realms living out

25:04

of his old church King

25:06

kumachi my back hurts. I think you can

25:09

stop teasing me now the only one

25:11

in the only one Pardon

25:13

me the one actually in control At

25:16

the palace is old bulldog. I just figure I'm just

25:18

a figurehead to make the people feel better Back

25:22

in King Bulldog's day two generations ago. There

25:24

were times were poor but we were

25:26

rich in spirit She was hard not

25:28

having money to go around though So

25:34

Saturn I really I just want to I

25:36

just want to remark on two things on

25:38

this page. I really like the bottom

25:41

right panel And

25:44

I really got a foxy split head Foxy

25:52

was once a very

25:55

prominent aid to Saturn. I

25:58

like Admiral Logan Anyway,

26:03

the art on this page in particular I think

26:05

is very well done. Dennis.

26:07

In the

26:10

next page we have someone

26:12

huffing and huffing talking about doing

26:15

some cardio and everyone

26:17

is, well the old people who were

26:19

killed by Kuma were like, who's a girl running around the church?

26:22

She looks just as pretty as Ginny. And

26:25

then Kuma, I guess, what? Ginny? Huh?

26:29

And she says, why are

26:32

you all so shocked? I have to be ready and

26:34

go and see the horizon at the sea with Daddy

26:36

when I turn 10. Huh? Daddy?

26:40

Everyone's kind of confused there. And she looks

26:42

in the mirror so I have to build up strength for, huh? And

26:46

everyone screams, ahhhh! Turns

26:49

out that person, who I could guess is

26:51

Bonnie. What was that transformation? Did

26:53

you eat a devil fruit? When?

26:56

And then this faints like, oh, wake up, Kumachi! He's

27:00

speaking for the reader there. You ate a devil fruit? When?

27:04

And then I'll- You know, this was like

27:07

a point of criticism I was almost going to

27:09

make with like, oh, it would have been

27:11

interesting to see Bonnie actually eat

27:13

the devil fruit, but you know, sorry, sorry

27:15

I keep going back to chopper slash comparison,

27:17

but I realized like, you know, we didn't

27:20

see chopper eat the fruit

27:22

in his and we didn't see Robin

27:24

eat hers either. She

27:26

got it from, let's say, Moe. Bonnie

27:29

eats everything. I

27:33

guess the bigger question is how did it end

27:35

up in there, which

27:37

they don't really explain, but

27:40

maybe it doesn't need to either, you know, like- Maybe

27:42

one of the- Might have been stolen from the castle

27:44

when they went to the government. Just

27:47

brought some stuff from the castle here. We

27:49

know what eating a fruit looks like and we

27:51

know what eating a devil fruit looks like, so

27:54

I get it on that end. Just eat the

27:56

tamper. She's a growing

27:58

girl. She needs to eat and she always eats everything. She's

28:00

got the same appetite. All right,

28:03

top of the next page, we have Mr.

28:05

Explanatory over here going, hmm, is this it?

28:08

The age age fruit? Where did she? Meanwhile,

28:12

one of the other guys is saying, try doing

28:14

it with your mind. Future

28:16

crew member. Future crew member right there.

28:18

I'm seeing a little Bonnie going, get older, get

28:20

older. She's

28:23

going to go super saying. Just going

28:25

to bust an O ring. I love that

28:27

little drawing. It's very cute. I love that

28:29

Charlie Brown. Yeah. Oh,

28:33

it does look like her. Yeah.

28:35

Kuma goes, stop that Bonnie. You're going to wear yourself

28:37

out. I think he faints

28:39

again. Maybe no, no, this is just someone

28:42

calling King Kuma at the door going,

28:44

please your majesty grant us an audience. And

28:48

the crew member then just realizes looking

28:50

back. Oh no, Bonnie turned

28:52

into a wrinkled bag. It really works.

28:56

He's hideous. Meanwhile

28:58

you have Bonnie behind them going, it's not

29:00

working. It's hard to get older. Look

29:03

on that old lady's face. It's so

29:05

good. Why are you calling me here?

29:07

Who are you? So funny. Like

29:10

this, the expression on her face

29:12

is perfect. This is me. This

29:15

is me coming into your house, picking up your

29:17

cat. Her

29:22

facial expression looks like a little Muppet. She does.

29:25

She looks like a Muppet and she also

29:27

looks like the grandma in Knives Out. I

29:29

can see here going, ransom? You

29:31

know, that person right there. I

29:35

feel like this is going to be the next square root goo. Yeah.

29:38

Oh yeah. Crank it up. Yeah.

29:41

Yeah. Let's get a parade float

29:44

of that one. Punco Pops. Punco Pops. It was

29:46

going to say that Steve, but I held my

29:48

time. As Steve showed up. Such

29:51

a thing should not be unleashed upon. So

29:55

Connie, by the way. Yeah. Don't

29:57

make any of that, Punco Pops. Ah, Connie, one of three girls

29:59

at Bluff All

30:01

right, Bonnie answers the door. Who

30:08

are you, mister? And this

30:11

older gentleman goes, Oh, you must be Princess

30:13

Bonnie then. My name is Bulldog.

30:15

I'm something like an aide to your father.

30:17

I have a weighty manner to discuss.

30:20

And we have the old box of

30:22

sorbet kingdom former king, two gensigo Bulldog.

30:25

Oh, my mother's here. I see. She's

30:28

Connie, the one time queen dowager. This

30:31

one's the only one. Well,

30:35

yeah, previously. So so it was

30:37

mentioned that or it was found

30:39

that he was potentially

30:41

at that roundtable and the reverie

30:43

sitting next to King Taco. Yeah.

30:48

There were I know Mr. Mr. One

30:50

Piece, I believe is the pseudonym for

30:54

the fan in Japan who was also a

30:56

One Piece mania. And

30:58

at least one other person I saw point

31:00

that out. I

31:03

would take that with a gigantic grain

31:05

of salt, but there are

31:07

some similarities, I suppose. And

31:11

it's totally possible that he's there.

31:13

We'll see what happens next week.

31:15

But Stephen, I'll throw this. Yeah,

31:17

this guy has a very generic design.

31:20

Yeah, that's kind of why. Aside from

31:22

the fact that he's got Bulldog gels. Kind

31:26

of. Yeah. Aside from

31:28

like the hat that he wears that is

31:30

also the same as his mother's hat. You

31:32

know, there's not a lot that's notable about

31:35

the hat. I always down like Bulldog ears.

31:38

He is not wearing a hat in the referee

31:40

chapter. I will say so. Hey Bulldog. I

31:44

will say this Ed might be

31:46

the figurehead, but Bulldog is going to be the king

31:48

whether he wants to or not. Yes,

31:51

yes you will. So

31:54

on the next page, Kuma

31:57

is saying, you know, King Becker or somebody is

31:59

saying. King Bekkori's coming back as

32:01

they are looking at a

32:04

news article that says,

32:06

Wicked Dictator with a big old

32:08

picture of Kuma looking menacing. And

32:11

the guy, I think this is, yeah,

32:13

this is the Bonnie's crewmate who's

32:16

saying, look at the nonsense in this article. I'm

32:18

certain Bekkori set this up. I

32:21

mean, really, sees the throne with

32:23

violence by burning villages? And

32:26

we see that he's talking

32:28

to it. Bulldog is there. Kuma

32:30

is there. And down in the corner,

32:33

Bonnie is still working on her

32:35

aging with old Connie. Yeah,

32:38

with old Connie. I

32:40

like how Kuma's face here is the

32:43

exact same picture. Yeah. It's

32:45

like, that's the most menacing photo we could get. I

32:49

mean, honestly, they didn't even get my nose right. Kuma

32:53

reading the news of criminal on the run. Yeah.

32:57

I wonder who they are. If I read

32:59

the article, then just the title of the article

33:01

wasn't just Big Meanie. He's not

33:03

wearing... I

33:05

wonder who that's for. He's not wearing

33:07

his bucket hat in this case. But

33:11

yeah, the man says, he's trying to

33:13

overthrow us from abroad. And

33:15

Bulldog is pointing out, he's literally pointing out,

33:17

it means he has the world government on

33:19

his side. Bekkori will be back to take

33:21

control. Mark my words. There's intel

33:24

that he's preparing battleships. Kuma

33:27

is absorbing all of this in silence. And

33:30

some old folks are there too. I like the good

33:33

designs on these clothes. I like how

33:35

much detail Oda put into these

33:38

little mob characters. And

33:40

they're saying, we can't have Bekkori coming back here.

33:43

He'll have us killed this time. Of

33:45

course, remembering all of the events of

33:48

the past. And Kuma

33:50

says, don't worry. He won't set a single toe

33:52

within the country again. Whatever he

33:54

tries to bring back with him, I'll drive it all away.

33:56

But once that happens, I'll be seen as a

33:59

criminal. able to stay here

34:01

anymore. And somebody,

34:03

maybe Bulldog, or maybe that's

34:06

the the folks in the background, are

34:08

silent. And he says, once that happens,

34:10

I'll need you to be king, Bulldog.

34:14

And Bonnie is successful. She's poofed

34:16

into her adult form that we've

34:18

seen. And

34:21

Kuma continues, would

34:23

you take Bonnie under your wing in that

34:25

case? Even his church will be in danger.

34:27

And Bulldog says, all right, I'll find her

34:29

a place with the same conditions. And

34:32

meanwhile, we have two little

34:34

ETs. What a great, what

34:36

a great image. I was

34:38

just calling California Raisins. Nice,

34:41

yeah. He's

34:45

like, I did it! You did it, Bonnie!

34:47

It's interesting that

34:50

this also

34:52

does confirm that when Bonnie when

34:59

we saw Bonnie transform into Queen

35:02

Connie back in the

35:04

reverie section, that that was not like

35:06

her grandmother or whatever. It was just,

35:09

you know, it was just old woman

35:11

look alike, I guess. If

35:14

all the women looked the same in one piece, they would

35:16

all look the same when they're old as well. I

35:19

mean, I guess so, yeah. I think the

35:21

property. Yeah, Joey had an interesting comment where

35:23

he was like, maybe Oda was thinking of

35:25

doing that at the time of her every,

35:27

but then once he got here and he

35:29

was actually putting together everything, he was like,

35:31

oh, wait, I can't, you know, that's not

35:34

gonna fit in the story. I think that's

35:36

probably. Yeah, that's probable. Which very, yeah, seems

35:38

very likely. I think a

35:40

lot of people give Oda too much

35:42

credit for like planning everything from the

35:44

beginning when it's actually pretty easy to just

35:47

improvise your way through details.

35:50

I was gonna make a facetious joke about it,

35:53

but I'm kind of glad Alex. I don't even

35:55

think, I think it is more

35:57

of a credit that he is willing to go back.

36:00

and try and find pieces that fit

36:02

together, even if you

36:04

hadn't planned it from the beginning, versus there's

36:07

a lot of stories that they just don't

36:09

care and they'll wreck on it or forget

36:11

that they haven't. I mean, I think just

36:14

with a lot of manga artists, it's that

36:16

there's a certain amount of challenging

36:18

yourself by kind of flying by the seat of

36:20

your pants a little bit. I

36:22

think they obviously all write with a

36:25

plan in mind, but I think part

36:27

of the storytelling tradition of it is there's

36:29

a few things I won't figure out until

36:31

I get there. Yeah, I

36:33

think of a combination. Yeah, yeah.

36:37

So two old ladies, Kuma, you

36:39

got a one and two shot, flip a coin,

36:42

and he picks up one of them and he says,

36:44

Bonnie, be a good girl while I'm gone. I'll be

36:46

back when I'm able. And

36:48

then the bulldog is like, Austin, that's my

36:51

mother. Yeah, exactly. Damn

36:57

it, man, you're talking about my mother. Steven,

37:00

two winners in two panels. That's...

37:03

Oh, God. And

37:06

then poor little Bonnie, she's like, you're leaving,

37:08

I'll miss you. And

37:10

we get a smash cut to a

37:12

very dramatic showdown here with the marine

37:15

ships in the background and then Kuma

37:19

just on the little, this is like Nami's

37:21

little boat that she

37:23

had. But he's half the size of

37:25

it. Yeah, he's gigantic. And

37:28

Bekori is there. We can see that he's got

37:30

a, it looks like

37:32

he's got a bandage over one eye or

37:34

something. It's kind of hard to tell. It's

37:36

very, very scribbly, but in this bubble, he's

37:38

saying, that's him, Navy, kill him. He's the

37:41

man who stole Solbe Kingdom from me,

37:43

a true tyrant who's committed all manner

37:45

of atrocities. And then very

37:47

cool panel where he just jabbing his finger,

37:49

kill him now, I am the true king.

37:52

And Kuma responds, you were a fool to

37:55

show your face around here again. Oh,

37:58

naturally Kuma. thank all the ships.

38:01

That's probably one of my favorite Oda boxes

38:03

in a while. I

38:05

was gonna say, you know, you made

38:07

the comparison to Anami Steven. This makes

38:09

me think more of Ace. Yeah, oh

38:11

yeah. Imagine telling your daughter

38:17

you're gonna leave her, but looking into the eyes

38:19

of a stranger, just a strange

38:21

old woman. Yeah, I mean,

38:24

I get it if your kid just learned how

38:26

to age up. But

38:29

yeah, it's really funny. And

38:31

also that that one panel of

38:33

Bonnie is adorable, the one right

38:35

after he picked Bonnie for Connie.

38:39

Their names are also very similar to be fair. We

38:43

go to the next page as we

38:45

learned that Kuma fled to sea and

38:47

a bounty was placed on his head,

38:49

and I thought we knew that bounty

38:51

at some point, but maybe I'm incorrect.

38:54

And through his pirate reputation

38:56

and great strength, its value

38:58

swelled over time. I've talked

39:00

about this a lot. I

39:02

love the fact that his

39:06

pupil-less eyes are really just glasses.

39:08

He's just some middle-aged guy and it looks

39:11

like a good medicine. I always thought they were. I think

39:13

now they're more. Yeah,

39:17

I think now they're cyborg like glass eyes.

39:19

His bounty is 296 million. Okay,

39:22

that's where it ends up before he becomes a

39:25

warrior. He becomes a warrior. We don't

39:27

know what it started out with though. And

39:30

we begin a... 69. We

39:32

begin just 69

39:35

berries, that's it. We

39:38

begin a little montage here as

39:40

we see Bonnie and

39:42

Connie, who is taking care of

39:44

Bonnie. Is this confusing to anyone

39:47

else? Bonnie's saying, I wish daddy

39:49

was here. I want to see

39:51

him again pouting. I want

39:54

to see daddy fly. Hearing up

39:56

a little bit. No, Bonnie. That

40:02

is our most quoted episode. And what

40:04

comes back and he's like, half robot. Don't

40:07

look at me! There

40:10

it is. And

40:13

Connie says, I'm sorry Bonnie dear, remember Kuma's the

40:16

hero who saved this land. And Bonnie's just like,

40:18

I don't care, he's my daddy. And I will

40:20

say when we get to the end of the

40:22

chapter two, I do like the selfishness of being

40:25

a child and a parent go both ways here.

40:27

It's like, I don't care about the rest of

40:29

the world. I just care about my dad or

40:31

I just care about my kid. Don't

40:34

make me tear up. And then

40:37

we have Bonnie

40:39

over the reconstructed.

40:42

Reconstruction, yeah. Yeah,

40:44

palace saying once I'm 10 and I'm all

40:46

better, I'll be a pirate too. And

40:49

Connie's like, no, don't do that dear. No,

40:52

I don't care about you. You're old. I

40:54

could turn into a grown up. And

40:57

then we get a montage of familiar

40:59

places. I meant to look up all

41:01

of the different ones. Benoro

41:04

Island, is that the first one? No.

41:07

This is Birdie Kingdom. Birdie Kingdom,

41:09

Benoro Island is the one Ace

41:11

gets beaten at, right? Yes. Is

41:14

that what I'm thinking? Birdie Kingdom. This is

41:16

going to be my version of Jammer trying

41:18

to remember names for things. So let's find

41:20

this out. I think I remember most of

41:22

these. We'll find out. So

41:25

this is where Chopper went during the

41:27

flashback. And Kuma

41:29

is sailing in his little boat. We

41:31

see the giant bird, hence the name.

41:34

I should have gotten. And

41:36

he's talking to the residents saying,

41:39

have you ever seen this

41:41

disease before? I guess showing

41:43

a picture of Bonnie. And

41:48

they're asking, oh, she can't be in

41:50

the sunlight? The poor thing, empathizing. That's

41:53

great. Very fitting for Kuma to go here

41:55

because I think from what I recall, they have like a pretty.

41:58

Yes. Like, great. Well, library, they're

42:00

actually a lot more... That's why Chopper was

42:03

there. Chopper gave them credit for it. Yeah,

42:05

they're like medical herbs too, yeah. Yeah, there

42:07

was... Actually, yeah. It was

42:09

a medicinal... It was like a medical island,

42:11

or whatever you want. I think Chopper said

42:14

like the... I

42:16

think Chopper said the quiet part loud and the loud part

42:18

quiet. You know, he's just

42:20

like, oh man, like, they may look dumb. They're like, oh,

42:22

we're right here. That

42:26

was a good gag. And here,

42:28

Kuma is at... This

42:33

is where Meehawk is, and where Zora

42:35

was sent with the mandrills. The

42:37

Maguire Island. Yeah. What? Kregana.

42:41

Yeah, I was never gonna get that, actually. That's called the

42:43

Moody Kingdom? I thought it was called... That's what I thought.

42:45

Muggy. I knew it was like

42:47

an adjective describing something kind of crappy. Meanwhile,

42:51

Kuma, you know, bumps into Jack Skeleton

42:54

who asks, excuse me, is this Halloween

42:56

doll? No, no, he

42:58

took a left. And

43:00

here's Abdullah... That was Temple Beth Ejel, I'm Pope Shlomo.

43:02

What is that? No, it's the Vatican, I'm Pope Shlomo.

43:07

And here's Abdullah and Jeet

43:09

saying, I spy a bounty.

43:11

Everyone's favorite Tressros aside characters.

43:14

Jeez, Ed was... Abdullah

43:17

always... Was he always sticking

43:19

those forks in his head way back then? Yes,

43:21

yes, that's exactly... That was his only skill. Including

43:26

that's birth Ptolema Yucuma, and then we see Kuma

43:28

blowing up their boat. It's

43:30

good for him. And

43:33

we had toward Baltimore,

43:35

where Otacon used to

43:37

take place, as

43:40

you see here, as they respond,

43:42

your daughter has... Or no, I'm sorry, this

43:45

is his internal memory. Your daughter has five

43:47

years to live at best. Going

43:50

over all these scenes, she won't see her

43:52

10th birthday. But yeah, we

43:54

see Baltimore before the great beast of

43:57

Baltimore. We see the bridge

43:59

to nowhere. Tequila

44:01

Wolf. Thank you, Tequila Wolf.

44:05

I thought Leonard Nimoy was involved somehow.

44:08

And Kuma talking to

44:10

them, we see the

44:12

place where Nami goes, the sky

44:14

is... I couldn't

44:16

make out... Can anyone recognize

44:18

the architecture in that panel next to Tequila

44:21

Wolf at all? No.

44:23

It is so generic.

44:25

Well, is there a place we're

44:27

missing here, I guess? Who do we have? We

44:29

have Zorro? No,

44:32

it's not Amazon Lily. No,

44:35

Frankie, it's Baltimore. Oh,

44:38

no, no, it's where Brooke ended up, right? Oh,

44:41

yeah. With the Ronald Reagan. The

44:43

Satanist kingdom. Yeah. It

44:46

could be, yeah. That's the only one missing.

44:49

My process of elimination. How

44:51

do you remember all this? We

44:55

do it every week for 15 years. Just

44:58

do it every week for 14 years. That's

45:00

all it takes. And you're trying with the rest

45:02

of the podcasters. Then

45:05

the joy that when you recognize

45:07

Heracleson... Yeah. Yeah, that's

45:09

why you do it. Wait, what was

45:11

the Nami... It was just Heracleson. It's

45:14

just Heracleson. Yeah, Nami's Island was with

45:16

area. Thank you, with area. How

45:19

do you not remember that one? Of

45:22

all of them, yeah. What

45:25

was Heracleson's Island called? Boin, the

45:27

Boin Archipelago? That I knew.

45:29

Wait, wait, wait, wait. The

45:32

Schwing Island. Okay.

45:39

And we see the photo that Kuma's been showing

45:41

everyone, and Kuma's just distraught that he

45:43

has not been able to find an answer after going

45:45

to all of these islands on the

45:47

Grand Line that happened

45:49

to be where the straw hats go. This

45:52

is probably the coolest and most detailed look

45:55

at Dragon's ship we've gotten. I'm gonna pause

45:57

it, at least to figure it out. It's

46:00

a painted black. Yeah, well he's,

46:02

you know. It's the

46:05

Maleficent bops from

46:07

Fantasmic. It's gonna catch on

46:09

fire, yeah. It's gonna catch on fire. It's

46:12

on the ocean. And if Kuma's

46:14

boat is passing and someone says,

46:16

hey there, and I assume... Morley

46:20

is saying, oh you. Hey there, do you come with

46:23

the car? Oh you.

46:26

Oh you. And

46:29

you see... You come with the

46:31

boat. I have

46:33

like a lot I need to write down after this, and I'm not

46:35

gonna remember them. And you see Bella

46:38

Patty, you see Morley, and you

46:40

see Eggman, who is one

46:42

of the vice, I think, district heads,

46:44

or whatever they're called. I forgot his

46:46

name. I do

46:48

too. I could go look

46:51

later, but we only learn frequently. Yeah.

46:56

And we have a few fathers talking about how great a

46:58

father they are. Before

47:01

we get to that, any other

47:03

comments on this page? You

47:06

are correct, Zach, that that is definitely

47:08

Morley who's going, you. Okay.

47:10

Kuma. It felt like

47:12

Morley is the one who would do that.

47:15

Yes. Morley's very outspoken.

47:20

Who's next? Steve. So

47:23

we get to the

47:25

next page, and the panel has a big vibe.

47:29

Look at Morley's head. It's

47:31

huge. It's...

47:35

But yeah, I think like... Morley

47:39

is like... About

47:42

the size of Kuma's chest, his head, I

47:44

should say. One chest. Anyway,

47:49

yeah, everyone's hanging out and having a drink, having a

47:51

brewski. Catching up.

47:54

Yeah, on the stoop. And

47:56

we have Dragon Air saying, Eva and Inazuma were

47:58

thrown in prison. And since I

48:00

last saw you, you've been a king, a

48:03

tyrant, and a pirate, eh? Um...

48:06

I think it was interesting because we kind

48:08

of thought like, oh, maybe like Kuma like

48:10

gives up like, Ivankov and Yuna

48:13

Zuma, you know, it's like to the government and they

48:15

get thrown in and fell down. I bet those idiots

48:17

probably just like, I don't know, got like pulled over

48:19

for like, speeding. You know? Some

48:22

little offense, yeah. Hey,

48:25

aren't you guys those revolutionaries? No.

48:29

Uh, yeah. Carry

48:32

on. Yeah, so we have

48:34

Kuma here who's got a, he's got a

48:36

big boy barrel. He's holding it with

48:38

one finger. I know. I

48:41

thought that's funny. It's like when you have the

48:43

pinky out except it's the opposite. Or

48:45

like the tiny little T. Well, I just

48:49

have those because Noah has those. It's

48:52

like when the apprentice bride cast members tell that

48:54

anecdote about under the giant, like he

48:57

can't, but they're just talking about Kuma. Yeah,

49:00

this is Kuma the giant's

49:03

like fourth barrel of beer. He's

49:08

in a lot of pain. And

49:10

we have a bell of Betty like sitting on the

49:12

shoulder with a heart there, clearly

49:15

fortacious what he says. But Kuma

49:17

says, must have come as a surprise to you. And

49:21

Betty says, nobody in the revolutionary

49:23

army took those articles seriously, of course,

49:26

but uh, Oh, that was Morley. Oh,

49:28

that was, I was going to say that sounds

49:31

more like, you know, it's a, it's a, it's

49:33

a double tail. It is confusing. It is confusing.

49:35

No, no, I thought that too at first. But

49:40

this is Bella Betty. Right. Saying,

49:42

Hey Kuma, can I be the captain of the Eastern forces?

49:46

And Kuma asked like,

49:48

why ask me? And apparently, uh,

49:51

dragon has said that the position is eternally Kuma.

49:54

Uh, no, internally, sorry, internally, uh,

49:56

guineas until you give permission. Okay.

50:00

Oh, I could have just said that when I messed

50:02

up. But,

50:13

it takes a foul-mouthed woman to run the

50:15

Eastern Forces, I don't mind. And she says,

50:18

yay! Yay. As

50:25

we know, I was like, only spunky women. It

50:29

all takes just to be a spunky woman in this story.

50:34

Anyway, Dragon says,

50:36

Sabo Kual and the others want to

50:38

see you. We have promising young members

50:40

rising through the ranks. I

50:43

want to show them off to you. And Kual

50:45

is like, nah, I'm all right. He

50:48

doesn't actually have a sponsor, to be fair. Yeah.

50:52

It's like, Hack really wants to say hi. Who?

50:55

I know. I know. He

50:57

says he's Jimbei's best friend. We

51:00

talk to Jimbei, and he's like, this

51:03

is a 10-year-old joke. They're not

51:06

mutuals. Jimbei doesn't follow him. No,

51:08

he doesn't. Kuma

51:11

says, as we peer, we see his eyes

51:13

through his glasses. He says, I've seen what's

51:16

happening around the world, and I often wondered

51:18

what you would have done, Dragon. I

51:21

want to return to the fold, but... And

51:24

I think, yeah, this is Dragon saying, Bonnie,

51:26

like kind of just reading Kuma's mind. He

51:29

says, as a matter of fact, I want to talk about her. You're

51:32

aware of the Navy scientist, Dr. Vega-Punk, aren't you?

51:35

After the recent accident, he's going

51:37

to transfer to a new lab. I'm

51:40

guessing this is referring... Punk Hazard. Punk

51:43

Hazard, yes. Yes, Caesar. You finished my

51:45

sandwich. Ordinary. Ordinary.

51:49

So this is the era of Caesar clown with a bob at the moment.

51:53

Yes, that's where we were in the timeline. That's where

51:55

we are. That's

51:57

how we determine time in one time. I

52:00

still can't get over how Vega Punk silhouette in that flash record at Punk Hazard

52:02

is 100% accurate

52:14

to how he wound up looking. Nobody

52:17

was reading everyone's thoughts like, yeah, I guess that's

52:19

like an arm or something. No, that's just a

52:21

tongue. The

52:23

one silhouette. The one correct silhouette

52:25

in the series. Oh yeah. It's

52:28

so great. Um, but

52:30

Dragon adds like ordinarily he's, he's

52:33

kept under heavy security, but

52:35

it's more approachable during the transition. Uh,

52:39

but we get a wide shot here of

52:41

like the revolutionary armory is a really cool

52:43

ship and Kuma's a small little

52:45

dinghy. Thank you, Dragon. No,

52:48

honestly, I'd given up. Uh, I've given

52:50

it up for a loss. I'll, I'll go

52:52

and speak with him. And

52:54

we get, uh, an optimistic Kuma here saying if

52:56

they could just cure body disease, I'd be

52:59

happy to fight with you again. I,

53:02

this is like some of the most Dragon

53:04

has ever emoted here. Yeah. Does

53:07

the, the fifth to the chest. I love

53:09

that too. Me too. It's

53:12

great. If I could cure body disease, I

53:14

would be so happy. He

53:17

just like Dragon did the movie.

53:20

He would spoil my friend. He's like,

53:22

my man. I

53:24

love it. Nailed it. I

53:27

swear, I feel like this is the most

53:29

like emotion we've got out of Dragon. The only

53:31

other time was when we first saw him.

53:33

He had a lot of emotion. It's

53:37

time to start making Dragon a character. God damn it.

53:39

Yeah. It's only at the

53:42

end of the three chapters, you know, that's a, it's

53:44

a good one. I think I might've mentioned this a couple

53:46

episodes ago, but the Dragon that we see the first time

53:48

we see him, we never see again in like

53:51

flashbacks or, or in the series. It just

53:53

seems like, oh, that's a whole different character

53:55

than anything we've seen. And I'm just like

53:57

staring off into the space or whatever. Be

54:00

like, you know, did we mention I

54:02

don't have one of those did we mention the

54:04

pun in winds of fate? I feel

54:07

like he does those a lot like the

54:09

the pun or is it just like a

54:12

reference? I don't know stick stick stick. That's

54:14

my power, you know. Yeah something along those

54:16

lines We have time for motion. He's got

54:18

to stand there and think about revolutions

54:21

and Rebellion and

54:25

in the distance and squinting

54:27

into the distance Yeah,

54:29

go ahead go ahead Steve So

54:31

anyway, we we cut back to

54:34

a I think a slightly older

54:36

Bonnie here It

54:39

doesn't say how much later this is to be fair Yeah,

54:42

maybe maybe not that much times pass with it.

54:44

Maybe it's just the the force perspective stuff But

54:46

she seems a little bit older

54:48

here, but she's she yelled out. Yeah as

54:51

we see some some

54:53

goon here Just

54:56

beaten up to a buddy Paul because I was

54:58

going easy on her and

55:00

that's the guy that's your crewmate He's

55:06

all beat them neck his hat off or whatever, okay,

55:08

yeah And

55:12

I believe this was Kuma walking through the door

55:14

saying Bonnie that was amazing daddy's home Daddy

55:17

I'm back. I'm back from the war And

55:22

yeah, and Bonnie's so excited to see

55:25

him and we got a little

55:27

bit of exhibition here Some

55:29

narration and this is naval science

55:31

division laboratory 8 later

55:34

known as egghead and Yeah,

55:38

just like you know before Disneyland was built. It's

55:40

just all orange groves at the moment Soon

55:43

they'll build tomorrow and over here and a

55:47

building that looks like a Game Boy Advance But

55:51

we have like an exterior here of this laboratory And

55:56

I think this is by saying where are

55:58

we and this is going to work? We're

56:00

seeing a doctor to get a checkup before your

56:02

disease is healed So it I

56:05

think this is around six years ago. He

56:08

built that entire thing in

56:10

six years Or

56:12

so, I think the robots do most of the work, right?

56:14

Oh, that's true. The robots always do most of the work

56:17

Who do you think is recording this podcast right

56:19

now? Oh anyway

56:24

So hey, it's Vega Punk he says I've

56:26

never seen that man like you before and

56:30

Kuma says I was just thinking the

56:32

same thing and he's carrying Bonnie

56:35

and a little a tiny Looks

56:38

like a little barrel trailer

56:40

thing I

56:42

want to get a carrier. Yeah, it's like a

56:44

cat carrier basically what yeah you put her in

56:47

a cat carrier. Yeah Yeah, it's really cute And

56:50

she's saying great beasties what's happened to his

56:52

head Sorry that that line lives rent free

56:55

in my head Yeah,

57:09

anyway, she's like ah head gross So

57:13

yeah, we get this we see Vega

57:15

Punk's gigantic head the shading

57:17

on the tongue is like unnecessary

57:23

Yeah, yeah prepare for my time. It's the person

57:25

we've seen the back of his head like that

57:27

with like the hair going All the way. Yeah,

57:29

we've seen it before. Yeah, I think okay anyways

57:34

Vega Punk is super excited. He's saying what a

57:36

body you have to let me study your mother

57:39

For science, of course, and

57:41

that's your sickly daughter a kind of a brat,

57:44

huh? I don't mind a little

57:46

lip though And he

57:48

continues. Yeah, I mean look at that

57:50

tongue. I know I

57:53

should have said I don't know that would sound much worse.

57:55

I Want to

57:58

see I mean, I guess we've seen Vega Punk as a kid Right

58:01

and he still has the tongue um

58:03

we saw him younger younger man I don't think

58:05

we've seen him as a kid no no Bonnie

58:07

turned him into a little kid. Oh You're

58:11

right. You're right. You're right. He did yes

58:14

Once your tongue sticks out like that that's when when

58:16

adult when parents are like don't make that face or

58:18

else It's gonna get stuck that way Back

58:22

and then that's it. Yep turn him into

58:24

a little vega pump bigger

58:33

Imagine a puppy Like

58:36

a puppy All

58:41

right, I gotta do more of egg a punk boy, please do All

58:44

right, so he's saying uh Sapphire

58:47

scares you've done world to limit them

58:49

for so long she'll survive

58:51

and Come with

58:53

excited. She will and then we see

58:55

some panels of Bonnie getting

58:57

babysat by Santo Maru She's

59:00

playing with his huge axe and he's worried No,

59:03

no, no, he's doing a collector's item. No,

59:06

he's a sumo pose. No No,

59:09

he's worried. Yeah Bonnie's

59:12

here. It's like I came in like a wackin

59:17

To be fair for that yeah, this

59:20

is too young yeah, okay That's

59:24

my that's my glaive signed by Liam Nees I Think

59:30

upon goes on to say I'll use the medical

59:32

tech that I've been holding back from the public

59:34

market Technically speaking I'll

59:36

be generating new stem cells and

59:39

translating them. I'm sorry Transplanting

59:42

them Transplating is

59:44

a different scientific procedure Yes,

59:47

it is he's and he goes

59:50

on to say that it's about just

59:52

as much work and cost as creating

59:54

a cyborg and

59:58

Kuma says she'll turn into a cyborg And

1:00:00

and figure punk says it'll cost as much

1:00:04

Kuma tuning out he's like what

1:00:07

cyborg yeah to be fair like

1:00:09

when your car needs to repair and you just kind of

1:00:11

be like Yeah

1:00:15

Wait go back to the cyborg thing I love

1:00:18

how I I think it'd be

1:00:20

great if he had the little sparkles next to him

1:00:22

when He was saying cyborg like Literally

1:00:24

everybody in this comic. Yeah, press fight the

1:00:27

concept of a robot to be fair Yeah,

1:00:30

impressive so

1:00:32

looks like Vega

1:00:36

Bunks going through the Various

1:00:38

tests that he's done on Kuma on this

1:00:40

long sheet of paper and he has a

1:00:42

face fault news And

1:00:46

he says yes You

1:00:48

know, I'm with the government don't you and I

1:00:53

Sweatin bullets here and Kuma says

1:00:55

I trust dragon wouldn't put me in danger. What

1:00:57

makes my blood different than other people's Oh Kuma

1:01:00

you sweet summer child and

1:01:05

He says effect punk says Well,

1:01:07

I don't have enough of a sample size to explain

1:01:09

and we get sort of a

1:01:12

yada yada yada and We

1:01:15

see kumas freak out is so much it

1:01:17

shakes the laboratory to be very big enough

1:01:20

to the to its core. Yeah He says you want to

1:01:22

make clones of me? And

1:01:24

he goes is that right? I've

1:01:26

been looking for the right person to be the base

1:01:28

for my clone soldiers soldiers

1:01:33

We take that again Just

1:01:37

provide me with blood samples and permission to

1:01:39

Create clone soldiers and

1:01:42

I'll cover the entire immense cost of Bonnie's

1:01:44

operations You

1:01:46

can't pay for it yourself. I assume

1:01:48

well, you're the musical what a devious

1:01:50

look Yeah,

1:01:52

well, it's money related. That's just that's

1:01:55

insurance. Yeah, this must be add to the

1:01:57

point where he's like, oh boy, I better

1:02:00

You know what, I should probably split up the evil

1:02:02

part of my brain into a

1:02:04

hot lady. Yeah. I

1:02:09

really like this drawing of vagapunk though.

1:02:11

Like the side eye works really well.

1:02:13

Even though he's stuck in this goofy

1:02:15

face, you can really tell like, oh,

1:02:18

oh, oh. Well, you

1:02:20

know, at the heart of it, he's all

1:02:22

about funding for his projects. Yeah. And

1:02:25

these aren't so different than today. He

1:02:27

did mention that in the flashback with

1:02:29

Dragon and Ohara, how the reason

1:02:31

he joined the government in the first place was so

1:02:34

he could get the money to research his projects and

1:02:36

so on. So, yeah. It

1:02:38

fits together. And- That page.

1:02:41

Yes. Kuma continues. I

1:02:44

won't be declining the offer either way. What

1:02:46

will you do with them? All

1:02:49

these soldiers that look just like me, will they

1:02:52

be in the Navy? That's right. Tell

1:02:55

me. Do you like electromagnetic energy?

1:02:58

When they see our human beings, the laser

1:03:00

beams, those pirates who go mute with shock,

1:03:02

they'll be laid low by the overwhelming power

1:03:05

of science. I saw

1:03:07

those bodies behind the shields, deflecting bullets

1:03:09

and saving the populace. They'll

1:03:11

be heroes to the common man. The

1:03:13

mighty warriors from the future. And

1:03:17

then- But Kuma is thinking and

1:03:19

he sort of puts it. He's

1:03:21

an odd man, but true to his

1:03:24

desires and trustworthiness. And he steams

1:03:26

a good hand. No, I was going to say

1:03:28

that the soldiers could take a chair to the

1:03:30

back of a

1:03:32

head like nothing. I'm

1:03:41

just saying, like, you know, you know, Vega

1:03:43

Funk is so optimistic. He's having the speech

1:03:45

and just the scene that's running through

1:03:48

my mind right now when I close my eyes is

1:03:50

the opening of T2 Judgment Day where you just see

1:03:52

the field of human skulls and then just get stomped

1:03:54

on by the end of the year. We're all- We're

1:03:57

science. We're all about Kuda. I

1:04:00

hate to speak to this panel because

1:04:03

of the perspective

1:04:05

on Vagapung's head. It just looks weird.

1:04:08

The middle one? Weird, yeah. All

1:04:11

right. So Vagapung immediately

1:04:13

recognizes and says, that's what dragons said

1:04:16

about me. The nerve. But

1:04:20

Kumar says, perhaps if

1:04:22

clone soldiers based on me save other people's

1:04:25

lives, then my own life would have

1:04:27

meant something. Dragon's

1:04:30

going to be furious about the terms. Vagapung

1:04:34

says, well, I'm nothing but grateful to you both.

1:04:36

No, I think... Or is that him saying both?

1:04:38

I think you flimid. No, so Dragon's going to

1:04:40

be furious with Vagapung. He's

1:04:42

also Vagapung. Well, I'm nothing but grateful to you

1:04:44

both. He's Kumar. He's Kumar.

1:04:46

Talking about Dragon and Vagapung. Right.

1:04:51

All right. So

1:04:53

Kumar continues, I would make a deal with you to save Bonnie's

1:04:55

life, even if he was the devil himself. Just

1:04:58

save Bonnie. And Vagapung

1:05:01

says, you're a true

1:05:03

saint. But

1:05:06

back at Sacred Mary Joa, the godhead

1:05:08

of science and technology or whatever his

1:05:10

exact title is, says,

1:05:14

clone soldiers are weapons, and weapons are valued

1:05:16

by how many they can kill. Vagapung

1:05:19

would let a golden opportunity slip through his fingers. But

1:05:21

I have a plan to deal with this. And

1:05:24

someone on the other end here says, as

1:05:26

you say, my lord. And... But

1:05:30

back with Kumar and Vagapung, we

1:05:32

continue. A saint? No,

1:05:34

I'm nothing like that. Just a weak-billed

1:05:36

pacifist. And Vagapung,

1:05:39

with the look of absolute joy and delight,

1:05:41

his eyes closed in glee, says, I

1:05:44

like that. I think I'll use it for

1:05:46

the name of my future soldiers. That's

1:05:49

ironic. What a shithead. What

1:05:53

the fuck? What concept of light is that? It's

1:05:56

the exact opposite of the image from

1:05:58

the previous. There's two pages

1:06:02

in the same place on the page. I

1:06:04

got shame sauce for hands. I

1:06:07

had built Adrian Barboba.

1:06:10

Two things I want to note here.

1:06:14

We have a black transponder snail,

1:06:16

so presumably this is Saturday with

1:06:18

eavesdropping. He's listening. I

1:06:20

see. Yeah, he's listening on this conversation. The

1:06:24

second thing is, I don't know if this

1:06:26

is in the Japanese as well, but

1:06:29

I do like the juxtaposition with

1:06:32

Begga Punk, Colin Kumah, a saint, a

1:06:35

thing that he basically is, versus Saturn

1:06:38

being called my lord and actually

1:06:41

being a god

1:06:43

amongst everyone else,

1:06:45

I thought, and being

1:06:47

insanely evil, I thought

1:06:50

was interesting. That does it for

1:06:52

1099. We

1:06:54

have 1100 next week, but

1:06:57

before next week, we have to talk about this

1:06:59

chapter. Stephen, you want to kick

1:07:01

us off? Yeah,

1:07:04

it's another really dense

1:07:06

chapter. I

1:07:11

think this one was much

1:07:13

more successful. There were lots

1:07:15

of issues of various types

1:07:17

with the previous chapter, the

1:07:20

one that, to say nothing

1:07:22

else, had all of the

1:07:24

art issues and whatnot. I

1:07:28

remember that was definitely a point of

1:07:30

contention. I think Steve was talking about a tour, which

1:07:32

is kind of hard to follow, hard to tell what

1:07:35

was going on. I feel like this one

1:07:37

is back to being much more, it flows

1:07:40

much better. It's the usual level of hard

1:07:42

to read. Yeah, sure. I

1:07:45

messed up twice the last day. Yeah.

1:07:50

It is back to the normal level.

1:07:55

I do think it does continue the trend of this.

1:08:00

I guess the general pattern of this

1:08:02

flashback for Kuma, which is to

1:08:05

say that it's um You

1:08:08

know, it's it it tugs up

1:08:10

the heartstrings a lot for for

1:08:12

Kuma and for his relationship with

1:08:15

Bonnie and you know sort of the

1:08:17

lengths that he's going to I feel like it's doing a

1:08:19

really good job of of Really

1:08:21

painting the picture of his priorities

1:08:23

and what is driving him? From

1:08:26

moment to moment or from year to year in

1:08:30

terms of you know, like showing you the

1:08:32

different sides of his personality when he is

1:08:35

I mean when he becomes comes this kind of

1:08:37

war It's almost like a warrior

1:08:39

of goodness or a you know, a

1:08:42

vigilante I made the joke about you know, Frank

1:08:44

Miller's Kuma, but it really does kind

1:08:46

of feel like You know,

1:08:48

he's he's the guy who is gonna

1:08:51

he's gonna go he's gonna get devious

1:08:53

in order to Take

1:08:55

out the people that are doing truly evil things

1:08:58

like the Corey But

1:09:00

he also obviously has this this very

1:09:03

soft side at his chicken side as

1:09:05

a Bonnie calls it I

1:09:07

feel like it's all it's all

1:09:09

done very well and it is

1:09:11

is really painting an effective portrait of Who

1:09:15

he is as a character in and why

1:09:17

all of these things that he's been seen

1:09:19

doing in

1:09:21

the story prior to this point Kind

1:09:24

of what what helps put them

1:09:26

into perspective Obviously,

1:09:29

I think that with the

1:09:31

last page and with Saturn you

1:09:33

get an idea that like,

1:09:35

you know Obviously,

1:09:38

I don't know how much control

1:09:40

Vega Punk has over what

1:09:42

happens with his you know His creations

1:09:44

once he has kind of sold

1:09:46

them off or put them into mass

1:09:48

production So,

1:09:51

you know whether or not this was inevitable or if it is

1:09:53

a particular event that we are going

1:09:55

to see where you know Saturn

1:09:58

causes the

1:10:02

roboticization of Kumo or not,

1:10:05

where he loses his personality. It doesn't really

1:10:08

seem like this is something that is a

1:10:10

necessary part of what Vega Punk

1:10:12

wants to do with him. So clearly that

1:10:14

seems like it is something that

1:10:17

Saturn is preparing. We'll

1:10:20

see how that happens. I

1:10:22

mean, I guess the last thing is I do really

1:10:25

like, we talked about it a bit. I do

1:10:27

really like the depictions of

1:10:29

Vega Punk as, he

1:10:32

is acting in a way that is befitting of a

1:10:34

guy who we have seen slice

1:10:37

up his personality into six different

1:10:39

segments, which include evil and greed.

1:10:42

And I've always been hoping that Oda

1:10:44

would continue to be consistent about that

1:10:47

because, there's

1:10:49

been too much bad stuff also associated with

1:10:51

Vega Punk's creations for him to be a

1:10:55

perfectly funny and kooky and

1:10:57

blameless character. And so I like

1:10:59

getting to see him be a little devious here

1:11:02

in various ways that make him a

1:11:04

very human character and

1:11:06

kind of show the, I guess

1:11:09

the naivete that he has in certain

1:11:11

regards. And I do really appreciate

1:11:13

the way that he's been showing a

1:11:15

Vega Punk off that way. And

1:11:17

that's what I got to say. Dennis

1:11:21

agreed with a lot of stuff that Steven

1:11:23

has said. I also really enjoyed mainly about

1:11:25

like that

1:11:27

doesn't seem like this would be the process

1:11:29

on how Kuma becomes kind of robot cyborgy.

1:11:32

So definitely something that Saturn

1:11:34

probably has a hand in. I did

1:11:37

enjoy the beginning part of

1:11:39

the chapter where Kuma does

1:11:41

his solo revolution. And now

1:11:43

we get more insight into why he's been

1:11:45

labeled like the King Tyrant and

1:11:48

stuff. When seeing the other flashbacks, like

1:11:50

wonder what caused him to get that?

1:11:52

Now we know and I'm okay with

1:11:54

that. I also enjoyed Bonnie

1:11:58

using her powers to turn into Connie. That

1:12:00

running joke was great. I

1:12:03

kept laughing at it all the time. I loved it a lot

1:12:05

and See,

1:12:08

I'm sure what else I want to talk about because I

1:12:10

want to give other people a chance to I guess the

1:12:13

throwback to all The places that the

1:12:15

straw hats were sent to during the

1:12:17

Shabondi arc That

1:12:20

was a fun thing to catch in the morning

1:12:22

reading it and then getting to talk

1:12:24

more about it in peace Which places which cuz

1:12:26

like Zach I also forgot all of the names

1:12:28

for those places So yeah The

1:12:33

poster child now Steve

1:12:37

what did you think of the chapter? It

1:12:40

was really good, I think probably the things

1:12:43

I liked about it, I

1:12:45

think everyone else was gonna say Yeah, I

1:12:47

did like seeing like this,

1:12:49

you know, the destinations the shot were

1:12:51

sent to I think it's

1:12:53

just more really You know some

1:12:55

great scenes with like Kuma

1:12:57

and Bonnie and Vega punk really to flush out

1:12:59

these characters some more As

1:13:02

I talked about dragon too. It's

1:13:04

like just a little bit just

1:13:06

I don't know it did wonders

1:13:08

for that character Just

1:13:13

going through the chapter here I'm

1:13:15

just trying to think if there's anything else I might

1:13:17

be able to bring up that maybe someone might

1:13:20

pass on Not particularly

1:13:22

this is very well drawn chapter. I really like some

1:13:24

of these panels You know some of these intense ones

1:13:26

with Kuma in the beginning or just

1:13:29

beautifully rendered. I Just

1:13:32

the one thing that that's gonna stand out

1:13:34

to me from this chapter is the the

1:13:36

gag with Connie. It's so

1:13:38

funny it's I

1:13:43

Oden nailed it just like that That

1:13:45

helpless expression of just like an old woman

1:13:48

being picked up Is

1:13:50

hilarious and it threw me off at first because I read

1:13:52

that first I'm like Oh, she's

1:13:54

able to like age up and also and get a hat and

1:13:56

all that and then I look to the left I see its Bonnie.

1:13:58

I cracked up and And then the

1:14:01

ET panel as Steven called it is really

1:14:03

great too. And then I was not expecting

1:14:05

a callback to the gag again with Kuma

1:14:08

picking up his own daughter unable to recognize

1:14:10

her. It's

1:14:12

wonderful. It's just great gags here. I

1:14:14

don't know. It's just

1:14:16

like this was a, this

1:14:18

was a, I think this one

1:14:20

just, it feels a lot better, of

1:14:23

course. And I mean, it's, you

1:14:25

know, last chapter had so much

1:14:27

going against it for like multiple

1:14:29

reasons, but, you know, having like

1:14:31

a complete chapter here, it's just,

1:14:33

of course, I think definitely, you

1:14:35

know, makes me a little more biased to it, but I just

1:14:37

think it's, I think it's great. And like

1:14:39

I said, like, you know, like I've been saying, these flashbacks move

1:14:42

at a breakneck pace now, but I

1:14:44

still think all

1:14:46

the beats are there. Like we, I don't think

1:14:48

there was any moment in the chapter where I

1:14:50

felt lost. Um, as

1:14:53

opposed to some others where I just couldn't understand

1:14:55

the flow of the pages, but this was, this was

1:14:57

good. And I'm glad Oda got a break because I

1:14:59

think some rested and wonders

1:15:02

for this chapter. It's a good one. Sean.

1:15:07

Uh, I agree with everything, uh, Steven

1:15:09

and Steve were saying, uh, about like

1:15:12

this feels a lot better. It's

1:15:14

back to no, but, but also kind of what, what we were

1:15:16

talking about with like, it's back

1:15:19

to normal pace where it's, it's not ideal, but

1:15:21

it's, it's certainly not as bad as the last

1:15:23

couple of chapters were. And Zach on blue sky,

1:15:25

we were talking about how like it

1:15:28

still, like it's still suffering from the fact of

1:15:31

like these flashbacks don't have a lot of time

1:15:33

to breathe. And

1:15:35

this is the highlight of the flashback so far,

1:15:37

because I think we get a lot of like

1:15:39

good momentum and good pacing of like leading

1:15:42

up to, okay, oh, here's how, you

1:15:44

know, with a smile he accepted becoming a

1:15:46

robot, um, or at least sealed his fate.

1:15:49

Um, and it's kind of tragic that

1:15:52

he's making this deal and for, and, and all that,

1:15:54

like all the motivation stuff is really strong. I really

1:15:56

like all of that, but I think like

1:15:58

if we had had more time to breathe with. some

1:16:00

of the other parts of the flashback this would hit a little

1:16:02

harder. Regardless I

1:16:04

think like the actual like story

1:16:06

and stuff is all really strong. I

1:16:09

do like finally getting to like Kimo

1:16:12

was always this big figure when he first

1:16:14

appeared and when he came around later on

1:16:16

before the time skip. So to

1:16:18

actually have like this solid answer of

1:16:21

like where he came from

1:16:23

and what his motivations were

1:16:25

and how he became what he became.

1:16:27

And you know he was

1:16:29

always this hulking beast but much more

1:16:32

kind-hearted. And I don't know

1:16:34

it's just cool to finally

1:16:36

see like you know I tend

1:16:38

to describe one piece of art sets the

1:16:40

pieces of a puzzle being like thrown out

1:16:42

across the floor and then

1:16:44

slowly coming together. And it

1:16:47

finally feels like we have that for Kumas

1:16:49

character arc and it was it

1:16:51

was just really well done. I thought this

1:16:53

chapter like I said could have could I felt like

1:16:56

it could have been spread out a little bit more

1:16:58

but it wasn't so so

1:17:00

muddled like the last few were. Alex.

1:17:06

Yeah great chapter echoing

1:17:08

a lot of what other people said

1:17:10

really gorgeous looking chapter that panel and

1:17:12

that first panel of

1:17:14

Kuma like really enraged like

1:17:17

the lower left of

1:17:19

that first spread

1:17:22

is really awesome.

1:17:26

So I don't

1:17:29

think has been brought up at all about

1:17:31

Kumas like what he

1:17:33

wears like his his his well in the SGS

1:17:35

Steven Ewing Greg brought up that he sort of

1:17:37

wears a target which I think is

1:17:39

interesting. His clothes are

1:17:42

sort of like a target but he also

1:17:44

has like the priest collar too.

1:17:46

Yeah which I think is cool

1:17:48

as a cool like part of

1:17:50

the design that I don't know

1:17:52

was intentional initially. I mentioned

1:17:54

it a little I think a few weeks ago

1:17:56

but we see when we see Bonnie reading that

1:17:58

Bible And also when he's

1:18:01

holding the Bible like in his first appearance

1:18:03

it has that same target Yeah,

1:18:06

and it just makes it a little half-and-half

1:18:09

It's a priest-caller thing that that really that really

1:18:11

like stands out to me more than anything besides

1:18:13

the target Which I think is a really cool

1:18:15

read on it But the I'm gonna say too

1:18:17

that I do like that we are seeing These

1:18:20

like badass like like the panel

1:18:22

you're talking about that he's like

1:18:24

really awesome looking We

1:18:26

get this juxtaposition between those and like

1:18:29

the softer moments with With

1:18:31

Bonnie so it's like we're seeing what he's gonna be

1:18:33

calm and what's gonna be Focused on

1:18:35

what's gonna be pulled out of him the softer moments that can

1:18:37

be pulled out of him and the more

1:18:40

like angry Badass

1:18:42

fighter is gonna be amplified Good

1:18:51

Good observation there so

1:18:55

While I do like the fact that we saw

1:18:57

all the islands that like Oh, these are all

1:19:00

the places up the straw hats were sent to

1:19:02

I still don't get a sense of like why

1:19:05

You sent them there. It's not

1:19:08

it's really not clear to me I think it it

1:19:10

almost seems like a box checky thing to me I

1:19:13

think it's cool but I also think that like

1:19:15

okay if you like it sort of needed to

1:19:18

be put in there somewhere in his flashback and

1:19:21

I don't know Then

1:19:23

this seemed like a sort of hand wavy way to

1:19:25

do it, I guess I Don't

1:19:28

know not that I was expecting anything. I

1:19:30

kind of agree. I get what you're coming from. Yeah So

1:19:34

that's that's sort of how I felt about that. I'm

1:19:37

like, okay, this is cool, but Okay,

1:19:40

whatever I

1:19:43

just kind of wish there was a little more to

1:19:46

it than that. I suppose at some point we will

1:19:48

see You Know

1:19:51

what Kuma did whisper to to Rayleigh

1:19:54

in that lost in translation moment on Shabandi

1:19:59

I think we got that After

1:20:01

the time skip, right? Doesn't really say

1:20:03

what Kuma whispered? I

1:20:06

don't think so. I don't know.

1:20:09

I look forward to hearing that at some point. Great

1:20:12

to see the revolutionaries, I love them. Such

1:20:15

a great eclectic group of character

1:20:17

designs. Just

1:20:20

really good stuff. Dope

1:20:22

ship, really really cool. One of the cooler ships that we've

1:20:24

seen in a while. Dragon

1:20:27

ship anyway. Sorry,

1:20:29

I'm just going through the chapter.

1:20:31

Yeah, Ditto on seeing

1:20:34

Fagapunk as sort of like a fully realized person

1:20:38

with scruples and

1:20:40

weaknesses. Because

1:20:42

at this point in the arc

1:20:45

we've only seen him as this

1:20:47

lovable, goofy, Einstein-like figure. Where

1:20:50

we don't see him during the

1:20:53

production of the horrors that he has wrought on

1:20:55

this world. Another

1:21:00

thing that I think is interesting is Saturn. Because

1:21:04

I think the five elders are

1:21:06

sort of depicted as these high

1:21:10

tower guys who never leave their room

1:21:13

really. Saturn

1:21:15

is the only one we've seen leave the

1:21:17

room really, like in this flashback, right? Because

1:21:20

we don't see the other ones during... We

1:21:22

might see them I guess when we come back to God Valley at some

1:21:24

point. We

1:21:26

see him there. He runs into Kuma. He

1:21:28

knows who he is, the Buccaneer boy. And

1:21:31

here he is again. I

1:21:34

guess because he's supposed to be

1:21:38

involved in the world defense and science and stuff like

1:21:40

that. It just seems like it's sort of... I

1:21:43

don't think it's that sweaty I guess of putting

1:21:46

him into the main story. Because we

1:21:48

see what we need to see for this. But

1:21:51

it just seems sort of...

1:21:53

It makes

1:21:55

sense that the godhead of science

1:21:58

and technology would be spying on vagabonds. Constantly.

1:22:01

Yeah, I guess it's just coincidence

1:22:03

and happenstance that that Kuma just happens

1:22:05

to be in With

1:22:07

an eye shot again of this guy Also,

1:22:13

I think it's kind of funny that like we everything

1:22:16

that we see what Connie is wearing and it's basically

1:22:18

Bonnie's Yeah, pretty time

1:22:20

skip outfit Yeah, I noticed

1:22:22

that yeah. Yeah All

1:22:26

right. It's also I think Bulldogs wearing the same

1:22:28

sort of thing so oh, yeah The

1:22:32

sorbet yeah So

1:22:34

that could be like sort of sort of like a I

1:22:36

don't know if it's a retcon or not But like that's

1:22:38

it's a convenient way to Put

1:22:41

a context to Bonnie's outfit and Alex. I'm

1:22:43

here to correct you chapter 603 We

1:22:46

find out he says I'm an executive of the

1:22:48

Revolutionary Army And I have a certain connection with

1:22:50

the straw hats and I want to help them

1:22:52

escape And that's

1:22:54

pretty whispered. Yeah, okay So

1:22:56

I mean then I want to find out

1:22:58

the connective tissue like I want to find

1:23:00

out like more about that then because yeah

1:23:04

You know, I guess we're going to find out

1:23:06

that last protocol that he gave himself before he

1:23:09

became full cyborg We had a mission complete obviously

1:23:11

we haven't gotten yet. Yeah, so anyway great great

1:23:13

chapter Ed oh Yeah,

1:23:17

it's a great great chapter for faces.

1:23:19

I think Just

1:23:21

King Bacori has great great

1:23:25

evil facial expressions in this chapter and

1:23:27

the Kuma like just

1:23:29

that the first page that I read where he you

1:23:32

know punctuates the page with Like

1:23:35

I don't know if it is used like this much black

1:23:37

ink on a page Ever before

1:23:40

early in a panel like that's one of the

1:23:42

darkest panelies he's ever drawn on Things

1:23:46

are on fire, but also like his

1:23:48

rage is coming through So but just like the

1:23:50

way like Kuma emotes like throughout the rest of

1:23:52

the chapter he's this plastin sort of he really

1:23:54

is this pacifist and We

1:23:57

just see him and go through you know

1:23:59

his sort desperation and

1:24:03

with looking for a doctor for as parallels

1:24:07

to the Corazonan law scene except

1:24:09

you know he's much better at

1:24:11

finding a doctor who can actually cure

1:24:13

something. It

1:24:16

is interesting that

1:24:21

Saturn would be informed of that

1:24:24

there's a new king in the sorbet. I mean

1:24:26

I understand why he's monitoring vagapunk but I

1:24:29

mean I guess the all the elders are

1:24:31

told so he's the only one we're looking

1:24:33

at right now but yeah yeah that might

1:24:35

be it. Yeah it's

1:24:37

a very funny chapter as

1:24:40

everyone's been saying the Connie, Bonnie jokes

1:24:42

it really it really works just to

1:24:44

have that into the future just the

1:24:46

way that Connie is drawn

1:24:48

or Bonnie is drawn when she's trying

1:24:51

to transform and can't just and that's

1:24:53

what's happening in the background but this

1:24:55

makes this chapter very I think

1:24:58

Oda he brings the lightness back after

1:25:00

how dark last chapter was and it

1:25:03

has the usual one piece let's

1:25:06

say you know there's jokes on

1:25:08

there's jokes everywhere there's jokes everywhere in

1:25:10

in in this chapter which

1:25:12

is the which is more the norm for

1:25:14

Oda than keeping it so brutally dark as

1:25:16

it was last last chapter so

1:25:20

I just like to like to see Oda bringing bringing

1:25:22

that back but we get the

1:25:24

contrast again between the good leadership and the bad

1:25:26

leadership I was looking at and there's something thinking

1:25:28

about King Bakuri and just you know

1:25:31

the way that he sucks up to the world

1:25:33

government the way he's sort of just never

1:25:36

ending no caring for his people but just

1:25:38

trying to get into their good get

1:25:41

into their good graces it's just you

1:25:43

know it's the most selfish way

1:25:46

to act and Kuma's provides

1:25:48

the sort

1:25:50

of diametric opposite of that

1:25:52

by being this completely selfless character

1:25:55

who's willing to give up basically

1:25:57

everything you know you would make

1:25:59

a deal with a kapunk even if he

1:26:01

was the devil just to save his daughter so

1:26:04

he just started this you know sacrificing figure yeah

1:26:06

I think Otis been watching a lot of Game

1:26:08

of Thrones lately and this is the very very

1:26:10

you know season 7-8 Game of Thrones it was

1:26:13

talked about a lot but

1:26:16

yeah there's a really really great chapter I

1:26:19

was loving the the humanity of dragon as

1:26:21

well just the way you know he interacts

1:26:23

with you know he's interacting with

1:26:25

his crew like he's a normal person as opposed to

1:26:27

just being the commander all the time which

1:26:30

is that's that's the cut the dry you guys

1:26:32

were saying it's the dragon that we see but

1:26:34

this is a dragon that I'm more interested in

1:26:36

it's time for dragon to be a character in

1:26:38

this in this series and not just sort of

1:26:41

staring into the middle distance but yeah

1:26:44

is it the way

1:26:46

a vagapunk about vacillates between you know

1:26:49

him with his human problems of

1:26:52

these things that he's tried to divorce himself of

1:26:55

with really no thought as

1:26:58

to the consequences of it it just seems that

1:27:00

these aspects of

1:27:03

himself weren't you know they

1:27:05

weren't conducive to his work so he split them up

1:27:07

and turned them into six different people that

1:27:10

yeah he's just all about you know

1:27:12

he explicitly didn't he explicitly say that he

1:27:15

signed up with the government for the money

1:27:17

to pursue his his ideas and

1:27:20

no matter where that no matter where it

1:27:22

takes him he's gonna follow his ideas and

1:27:24

whatever happens afterwards

1:27:27

well you know is

1:27:29

the inventor really responsible

1:27:31

for the consequences of his of

1:27:34

his invention I don't

1:27:36

know watch out watch up and I

1:27:40

so I mean that transitions did you have

1:27:42

more ed I don't want to know that

1:27:44

was pretty much yeah that like just his

1:27:46

joy the ironic

1:27:48

like dark joy it's not

1:27:50

dark to him but yeah I was very joyful

1:27:53

in this last panel here and he's not thinking

1:27:55

really at all of what he was

1:27:58

right soldiers kill people And

1:28:01

what are you

1:28:03

doing, Vacapunk? You're happy that

1:28:05

this guy is a pacifist. He's

1:28:08

a saint. You're congratulating him. I'm going to take your

1:28:10

body and use it to make soldiers to kill people.

1:28:12

Fuck you. And called him Pacifista.

1:28:14

Let me say a few things. Alex, go

1:28:16

ahead. I

1:28:20

just want to mention that

1:28:23

Oppenheimer, the movie is

1:28:25

basically based on

1:28:28

this book that equates Oppenheimer himself to

1:28:30

Prometheus, stealing the fire from

1:28:32

the gods and giving it to the world. And

1:28:35

I think it's kind of funny that Vacapunk

1:28:37

wants to create this ultimate energy source,

1:28:40

which is like an undying fire. And

1:28:42

I do wonder if Oda looked

1:28:45

into this particular

1:28:47

figure in his room. Oh,

1:28:50

what's up, and I also watched The Wind

1:28:52

Rises. I'm one of the few people who

1:28:55

have not. The One Piece Podcast, Oppenheimer

1:28:57

connection, that's the OPP in Hymer.

1:29:01

There were a few things I want to say

1:29:04

specifically about Vacapunk. And specifically

1:29:07

from a Japanese perspective, I'm

1:29:09

interested in how

1:29:11

Albert Einstein is viewed as

1:29:13

a figure in history

1:29:16

because I think it

1:29:18

was also- They based Dr. Wily after

1:29:20

him. I

1:29:24

don't know that reference. Mega Man. Mega

1:29:26

Man, the bad guy in Mega Man. I

1:29:30

played Mega Man. I had a game gear. But

1:29:32

I think with-

1:29:36

I try to read up

1:29:39

a little bit on Albert Einstein. I

1:29:41

used to know more when I was

1:29:43

younger, but he has a very interesting

1:29:45

arc in his career. He

1:29:47

was someone who was very opposed to war

1:29:49

and yet was kind

1:29:52

of one of the voices that made

1:29:54

the atomic bomb possible. And

1:29:57

a lot of his work was obviously used

1:29:59

in that- with or without

1:30:01

his consent, but he wrote

1:30:04

the letter to Roosevelt suggesting

1:30:06

that if we don't do this, Hitler

1:30:08

will use it against us. And

1:30:13

understanding where

1:30:15

he's coming from, but at the same time

1:30:17

knowing the evil that atomic

1:30:19

weaponry has unleashed on the world, it

1:30:22

feels, especially as

1:30:25

someone in Japan, I am

1:30:29

sure it resonates the

1:30:31

idea of someone who

1:30:33

has such a wealth

1:30:35

of knowledge, but also

1:30:37

such a naivete about how

1:30:40

his knowledge is going to be used. I think

1:30:43

this is obviously an exaggeration

1:30:45

of Einstein's

1:30:50

contradictory positions

1:30:53

in pacifism and

1:30:56

in being instrumental in one of

1:30:59

the great tragedies of history.

1:31:01

Well, I think that's interesting

1:31:04

too, because wanting to separate himself

1:31:06

seems like very much a type

1:31:09

of thing that somebody with that kind of weight

1:31:11

and impact of their career

1:31:13

and knowledge would want to do. They'd want

1:31:15

to pull away the part that makes them

1:31:17

feel guilty, the part that makes them feel

1:31:19

angry or that wanted it. I

1:31:22

don't know how much... What

1:31:24

I'm trying to also figure out for Vega Punk

1:31:27

is how much guilt and

1:31:29

recognition of the consequences does he have in the

1:31:31

current day. So I

1:31:34

think that will come. I think his

1:31:36

come-up ends will happen. And I really do

1:31:38

think that... Isn't that what's caused his break

1:31:41

with the world government that's occurring currently? Yeah,

1:31:43

I think... You're right. You're

1:31:45

right. That's true. I think in this

1:31:47

moment that we see at the end

1:31:50

of the flashback, I really think that

1:31:52

he believes he is doing a service

1:31:54

for humanity. Whether

1:31:56

or not that's true, and it's very clear it's not,

1:31:58

because we know what happened. But I

1:32:01

think it's more for the dramatic irony of the moment

1:32:03

to show this man thinks

1:32:05

he's doing

1:32:08

the right thing. He says, you

1:32:10

know, I want to build

1:32:12

these things to protect kind of

1:32:15

exactly the thing that happens in

1:32:17

Sorbet Kingdom. Like we'll have

1:32:19

a bunch of kumas to save the

1:32:21

populace. That's what's going through his mind.

1:32:23

Right. Normally pirates are the bad guys,

1:32:25

right? Right. That's what we

1:32:27

thought. I think Vega-Punk thinks he's coming from

1:32:29

the right place. He is not very

1:32:32

clearly. Surely war machines will

1:32:34

help stop this war. But

1:32:38

that's like exactly what

1:32:40

Einstein did. Like

1:32:42

that's what he was thinking. I mean, when you have

1:32:45

not seen him. Vega-Punk is single-handedly inventing the military industrial

1:32:47

complex. He is. Yeah. And

1:32:49

I think part of the reason is it also

1:32:51

the other half of it and the greed half

1:32:54

of it is that doing those

1:32:56

things for the government are

1:32:58

what enable him to do the things he actually

1:33:00

wants to do. The

1:33:03

bloodline elements and like really

1:33:05

finding the secrets of

1:33:07

science that drive him. I think

1:33:09

it's a super- Isn't that everyone's

1:33:11

day job? The secrets of science?

1:33:14

No, it just means the fun, the things we actually

1:33:16

want to do. Yeah. I mean,

1:33:18

to be fair, especially freelancers, and I know we

1:33:20

have several in here, it makes sense

1:33:25

why he does what he does. But

1:33:28

we know- I apologize. I just equated war

1:33:30

crimes to a nine to five. Don't

1:33:33

look into that. I'm just- It's okay. Zach

1:33:35

followed it up with equating it to freelancing.

1:33:37

We are on chapter 1099, so. Oh.

1:33:41

Ooh. Ouch. I

1:33:44

mean, oh, don't worry. Wow. The

1:33:47

taxes. So- I'm almost done. I

1:33:53

think this flashback is

1:33:56

unique in that it really

1:33:59

is conglomerating. generating things we've

1:34:01

seen throughout the series in

1:34:04

this one character who's touched so

1:34:06

many stories from, you know. Yeah,

1:34:08

when did Kuma first appear? He

1:34:11

first appeared in Skypia. Jaya.

1:34:14

Jaya. Yeah, Jaya. But he

1:34:16

first appeared with the Straw Hats in

1:34:18

Thriller Bark and thereafter

1:34:20

repeatedly. So

1:34:23

he has been weaved

1:34:25

through this story. And

1:34:27

I think because of that, us as

1:34:29

readers know the consequences of his and

1:34:32

Vega-Punk's actions. Obviously, they do not. And

1:34:34

I think that's good storytelling because we're

1:34:36

filling in the gaps because of what

1:34:38

we know. I really

1:34:40

am curious if in the

1:34:42

next few weeks, the next chapters or 1100, you know,

1:34:44

we get a

1:34:48

rehashing of, as Alex said, you know,

1:34:50

the stuff in Jaya, the stuff

1:34:52

in Shabbat, the stuff in

1:34:54

Thriller Bark, the stuff that

1:34:57

has followed. And you

1:34:59

know, that is Kuma's story. Do we

1:35:01

see what happened with the Straw Hats

1:35:03

getting separated through Kuma's eyes? Like

1:35:06

how much rehashing, quote unquote, do we get?

1:35:08

Vashomon, you know, kind of like this is

1:35:10

from his perspective. I think the point that

1:35:12

we're going to get like, we're going to

1:35:14

get him becoming a

1:35:16

cyborg and then the sword turned off

1:35:18

of like his free will. Yeah. I

1:35:22

just wonder how Oda plans

1:35:24

to weave the story into

1:35:26

stuff we've already seen, if

1:35:29

it's going to be glossed over or if it's

1:35:31

going to be kind of pivotal.

1:35:35

And as Alex mentioned, the connection with

1:35:37

the Straw Hats raises lots

1:35:40

of questions. I

1:35:42

don't think I have much else to say

1:35:44

that hasn't been said. I think it, I

1:35:46

think this was a vast improvement from

1:35:49

last week. I think this fixes

1:35:52

a lot of the problems I was complaining

1:35:54

about on the last manga recap. Sans

1:35:57

some big ones, but it

1:35:59

fixes a lot of the problems. problems with

1:36:01

the pacing, I think. This chapter did not

1:36:03

feel rushed. I felt like all the things

1:36:05

I said about the last few, I

1:36:08

don't feel on this one. Like

1:36:10

I fixed the chapter to chapter

1:36:12

pacing, but because the flashback overall

1:36:14

has had rough pacing, it, I

1:36:17

don't know if I'm in a place yet

1:36:20

to, I feel like I need to really read the

1:36:22

whole thing before I'm like, the

1:36:24

pacing is all bad. And also I'm sure

1:36:26

Oda towards the end. I'm sure I wanted

1:36:28

to just give it a full read. I'm

1:36:31

sure Oda will also do

1:36:34

some like real review on that

1:36:36

previous chapter we had because

1:36:39

he didn't finish it. So I don't know

1:36:41

like how in depth he'll go. But

1:36:45

this makes me a little more optimistic

1:36:47

of the rest of the flashback and

1:36:50

certainly wonder Saturn, we

1:36:52

still know is going to do something

1:36:54

pretty horrific to Kuma, which

1:36:57

is one of the reasons Bonnie stabbed him. And

1:37:01

I'm curious how that's all going to fit in. Any other

1:37:04

final thoughts? That's probably also going to

1:37:06

end Sega's career as console makers, but

1:37:08

that's unrelated. Bad joke,

1:37:10

nobody. Okay, fine. I

1:37:14

do want to point out that

1:37:17

I think VegaPunk banks his head

1:37:20

in the second and last page. No, yeah, he definitely does.

1:37:22

It goes gunk. Yeah. It's

1:37:24

super funny. That

1:37:27

needs to happen more. I think like

1:37:30

her, I don't know. I guess he can't now because he

1:37:32

cut his head off. Yeah, he was

1:37:34

so excited. So enthusiastically gesticulating throwing

1:37:36

his head back to the head

1:37:38

wall. It's really good. Good. Yep.

1:37:41

Oh, I would have

1:37:43

never gotten that. How

1:37:47

does he keep that thing up? Other

1:37:49

questions. He doesn't anymore. He doesn't. Well,

1:37:51

yeah. Strong neck muscles. His

1:37:53

current design is much less horrific than

1:37:58

somehow having an exposed. Just

1:38:00

cranium is less horrific than

1:38:02

this. Any final

1:38:04

thoughts? That's hard to cosplay though. Have

1:38:09

you ever just tried sawing the top of your head

1:38:11

off and putting an apple on it? Yeah,

1:38:15

okay, fine. That'll

1:38:17

do it for the manga recap. Let's move into the next segment.

1:38:38

This is the piece together segment where we

1:38:40

take your questions, comments and theories including do

1:38:42

you come with the boat? Ed,

1:38:47

what's our first segment? Zach,

1:38:49

that is this piece. Alex

1:38:52

is going to go through our

1:38:54

discord questions from our lovely patrons

1:38:57

out there and I think that's

1:38:59

all we got this week. So

1:39:01

let's do it Alex. Alright

1:39:03

our first this piece comes from Big

1:39:06

Mike who writes, Hey

1:39:08

OPP do you think the reason why dragon doesn't look

1:39:11

much like Luffy or Garp is because dragon's future ended

1:39:13

up being the one where things went wrong like in

1:39:15

the SBS when Oda showed us what the straw hats

1:39:17

would look like when they get old. We

1:39:19

still haven't seen him when he was not bald enough. So

1:39:23

he could have looked like Luffy. Actually he

1:39:25

would have been 17 during God Valley so he could

1:39:28

have been there as a chore boy in the marines

1:39:30

or whatever else happened after what could have worked in.

1:39:33

PS, I guess I speak for the male listeners.

1:39:35

Can you guys please do a Yuri Thunderdome? Why

1:39:39

is it the male listeners? I mean

1:39:41

if you've ever listened to Yowie Thunderdome there's plenty

1:39:43

of Yuri in there too. That

1:39:46

is true, yes. Yowie

1:39:49

Thunderdome just has a better ring to it. Rolls off

1:39:51

the tongue quite nice. Hmmm.

1:39:56

Rolls off the bomb dragon. Okay.

1:40:00

Anybody else have any I I I

1:40:02

still find it odd that dragon and

1:40:05

Luffy's looks so distinctly different and it's

1:40:07

mentioned in the manga When

1:40:10

he sees his face for the first time in the

1:40:12

newspaper When

1:40:14

the file looks like his mama. I mean

1:40:17

the the garb jeans are stronger That's all

1:40:19

I was gonna say and we know garb

1:40:21

his dragon's father Because

1:40:24

it could have been maternal it could have

1:40:26

been the maternal grandparent Mother

1:40:29

is the dawn Reverse

1:40:35

sapphire patch says

1:40:37

hey, oh they're opinionated people who poop That's

1:40:41

the name of the podcast. Yes Looks

1:40:44

like we got our long awaited cameo of

1:40:46

Abdullah and Jeet getting wrecked that we were

1:40:48

all expecting, right? Who

1:40:50

could forget all the memories of those two totally

1:40:52

doing things? Speaking of

1:40:54

doing things it's interesting that Kuma knew

1:40:56

to send chopper to bird doctor land

1:40:59

Given that not even the world government knows chopper

1:41:01

is a real doctor, but he's not a real

1:41:03

pet Was he watching the crew fight or

1:41:05

is or something? Maybe Kuma followed the

1:41:07

crew through all that wacky ice filler strong world

1:41:09

and do volish and parking

1:41:12

chabande What other

1:41:14

he decided be really

1:41:16

funny? Yeah, I'm sorry, yeah,

1:41:19

what is it what other adventures do you

1:41:21

think he saw PS? I

1:41:23

guess I speak for the female listeners. Can you guys

1:41:25

please do a Yuri Thunderdome? We're

1:41:29

covering all the way Yeah,

1:41:32

yeah Man, I loved

1:41:34

it when Abdullah and Jeet sent the guys

1:41:36

into the well on the side of the

1:41:38

mountain And I hated that they went in

1:41:40

Wow. No, that was the no that was

1:41:43

the funks No,

1:41:46

that was up to Lindsay wasn't it no

1:41:48

no they rode with Luffy. Yeah. Oh They

1:41:52

weren't the ones who yeah, yeah, okay.

1:41:54

That's right. That's how to lend cheater in

1:41:57

the grand fleet now. I believe they are

1:42:00

Oh, yeah,

1:42:03

it's the boat of and the

1:42:05

rest that's that yeah, yeah, they're

1:42:08

the rest They

1:42:10

just wrote they just like they roped

1:42:12

in mixed martial arts and professional wrestling

1:42:15

together Yep

1:42:19

team punchy kiki Wisdom

1:42:22

Pythagoras says hey OPP if

1:42:24

Jin bae was on Shabandi with the crew back then

1:42:26

and Kuma were to send him somewhere Where would Jin

1:42:28

bae like to go? Oh? Like

1:42:36

George Where's

1:42:39

that New York? Yeah,

1:42:42

I could definitely see Jin bae there by the

1:42:44

way. That's it. It's that it's like a very

1:42:47

Turisty like this is where I'm gonna

1:42:49

go to relax kind of place Right.

1:42:52

That's what you enjoy a bucket at

1:42:55

and fishing. It's because y'all don't have real beaches

1:42:57

in New York We have real beaches

1:42:59

in New York. They're just all along, Long Island Like

1:43:02

who go to Margaritaville? Would

1:43:07

one go to be a better where would one go to

1:43:09

be a better helmsman I guess Sure,

1:43:12

yeah, I forgot to say it during the

1:43:14

recap But I'm surprised I would be surprised

1:43:16

if Jim Bay was not the creator of

1:43:18

the to eat is to live Was

1:43:21

it you know shirt? Good

1:43:24

shirt yeah Straw

1:43:27

Hat pirate 9 rights hello,

1:43:29

PPE Oh, hello

1:43:32

PPE gang long time no dis piece I

1:43:35

was gone all of October finally able to go to

1:43:37

Japan hey Went to kumamoto

1:43:39

saw all the straw hat statues it was a

1:43:41

me Thread

1:43:43

of the Avenger is in my Twitter So

1:43:47

that's a great plug. I

1:43:49

will go there at some point soon If

1:43:52

any of you are thinking of seeing them rent a car

1:43:54

it is the way to go you see so much of

1:43:56

kumamoto It is really a beautiful prefecture. I

1:43:59

was playing catch up on all the podcast episodes I missed.

1:44:01

The Opla episodes have been so cool. Thank you for

1:44:04

those and also thank you so much for your thoughts

1:44:06

on the previous manga recap app, especially

1:44:08

from Vera. It was so great to hear. All

1:44:10

I can say about this chapter is how could Oda not

1:44:12

show us how Bonnie got that fruit? I

1:44:15

really feel it's to hit whatever milestone he wants to

1:44:17

hit for chapter 1100, but it really

1:44:19

is just kind of annoying that she somehow got her hands on

1:44:21

the fruit when she can't even leave the church. I mean, come

1:44:23

on. Anyway, this got pretty long.

1:44:25

Thank you for taking the time to read it. Kumamoto

1:44:28

is wonderful. It is quintessential Japan. Like

1:44:31

I think I described it as like

1:44:33

the Nebraska of Japan. It's just like

1:44:35

the first state. If someone asks you

1:44:38

what's the state of the United States and you're not

1:44:41

from here. So

1:44:43

I'm glad you got to see that. I wish I

1:44:45

went by car. Stephen, sorry. If the, if like

1:44:49

getting a devil fruit power is just as

1:44:52

simple as like eating a random piece of

1:44:54

fruit and not knowing if it's going to

1:44:56

show it, like what kind of a like

1:44:58

a fucking like Russian roulette system,

1:45:01

like nobody would want to eat fruit

1:45:03

in the world in one piece. I

1:45:05

think they look pretty obviously evil or

1:45:08

whatever. You've

1:45:11

got to eat more fruit or I said to

1:45:13

keep me away and he's like, Oh God, no,

1:45:15

no, no, no, no. I think Bonnie like Luffy

1:45:17

is just stuffing anything they can into their face.

1:45:19

Yeah. Yeah. That's what it is. She missed

1:45:22

the fruit that looked like Connie. This

1:45:24

is before you eat too. Yeah. What's the ugly fruit?

1:45:26

Yeah. Yeah. Bonnie's bad. But I think like

1:45:33

if, if there's books about

1:45:35

it, neither Luffy nor Bonnie yet are reading

1:45:37

any books that tell them what to go.

1:45:39

They're only reading the Bible, which tells stories

1:45:41

of Sky Islands and uh, and

1:45:44

also eat not eating bread. So

1:45:46

that doesn't work either. Bonnie's, Bonnie's

1:45:48

homeschooling regimen could use a little

1:45:50

work. I know. And Ramic Nally

1:45:52

where people uh, where, where hats

1:45:54

on their hamburgers eat people.

1:45:57

Um, so. So,

1:46:00

yeah, I actually

1:46:02

do think in the same vein that,

1:46:05

you know, the One Piece magazine keeps revealing what

1:46:07

these devil fruits look like and they're way too

1:46:09

on the nose. I really do hope that the

1:46:11

age age fruit looks exactly like Connie's face. Like

1:46:14

one side of it should be under ripened, the

1:46:16

middle should be ripe and then the other side

1:46:24

should be completely rotten. Like Two-Face.

1:46:28

Hello, Puyo says, hello, P.P. I

1:46:30

think we O.P. Finns will all remember where

1:46:33

we were that Thanksgiving morning when we saw

1:46:35

the MDL assassination live on our

1:46:37

screen. The media says

1:46:39

it was a tree branch that took out our captain,

1:46:42

but I'm not buying it. Which shady

1:46:44

institution is trying to stop One Piece popularity

1:46:46

from spreading? The CIA. Oh,

1:46:49

P.D. Loofy is MDL. I

1:46:51

was trying to figure out what the hell

1:46:53

that meant. Oh, Robert Stone will make a

1:46:55

movie about it in two years. The anime

1:46:57

equivalent to the Trilateral Commission. What

1:46:59

is it? Back and to the

1:47:02

left. I don't know. Actually, that is

1:47:04

where the branch was, to be fair.

1:47:07

Right. It was back in the... What

1:47:09

was it on top of a grassy knoll? That

1:47:11

I want to know. Good thing

1:47:14

is that Pruder was there on A&M

1:47:17

taking footage. Yeah,

1:47:22

but find out who really assassinated

1:47:25

the balloon on Rob

1:47:27

Reiner's new podcast. That's

1:47:30

a real thing, by the way.

1:47:33

Oh, he

1:47:36

talks about the monkey-dee-loo for you, balloon. No,

1:47:39

he talks about who really shot JFK.

1:47:41

Oh, that's much less interesting. Yes.

1:47:44

Bartholomew Cramma says

1:47:47

Ahoy OPP. And

1:47:50

of course, Bartholomew Cramma says

1:47:53

their famous catchphrase, banger chapter as

1:47:55

always. Is that right?

1:48:00

Does that mean

1:48:02

the opposite is called Krampaw? Krampaw. Isn't

1:48:04

that one of those mountain climbing devices?

1:48:10

Yes, a Krampaw. A Krampaw. That's

1:48:13

a Krampaw. A Krampaw. I'm pretty

1:48:15

sure he's calling you a Krampaw. What's a Krampaw? Do

1:48:17

you know what he called me today? A

1:48:19

Krampaw. What's the question? What's the question? What's

1:48:21

the question? Is Kuma such a cute dad and Bonnie

1:48:23

as adorable? That's not a question. I love that vega

1:48:25

punk's own do is science that he's become too naive as to

1:48:27

how it will be used and that the peasant pieces will harm

1:48:30

people instead of saving them. My question this week is, do you

1:48:32

think Kuma visited many fast food places on his travels and if

1:48:34

so, which ones? P.S. I guess I speak

1:48:36

for the non-binary listeners. Do

1:48:43

you think Kuma visited many fast food places on his

1:48:45

travels and if so, which ones? P.S.

1:48:47

I guess I speak for the non-binary listeners.

1:48:50

Can you please, please, please do a

1:48:52

Yuri Thunderdome. Wow.

1:48:54

Don't look at us. We don't write this shit.

1:48:56

I don't. I mean, the demand is out

1:48:58

there. I mean, what? I mean, they're horny for luchi and spondom.

1:49:00

What do you want us to do about it? So they were

1:49:03

asking what fast food places Kuma would stop at? Yeah.

1:49:12

Do you think that he visited many fast

1:49:14

food joints and which ones? I

1:49:18

think so. I want to say he's a Carl's

1:49:20

Jr. guy. That

1:49:22

feels like a very dad drive-through.

1:49:24

Or Hardee's. Yeah.

1:49:27

Depending which side of the Mississippi he

1:49:29

sails on. Is

1:49:31

there any fast food chain with a

1:49:34

bear logo since that

1:49:36

feels the most appropriate for Kuma? There's

1:49:38

a diner. I think a black bear

1:49:40

diner. Never heard

1:49:42

of that. The A&W used to have

1:49:44

bears. Oh, black bear diner is a funny one, but yeah.

1:49:47

I can't answer. Charmin. Maybe

1:49:49

he... Imagine who ripped one of

1:49:51

those. He's a king

1:49:53

detergent. Charmin's not detergent. What's the name of the black

1:49:56

bear diner? I don't know. I don't know. I

1:49:58

don't know. I don't know. Nuggles.

1:50:01

Nuggles. Nuggles is a detergent. Charmin

1:50:03

is the bear that loves to wipe the

1:50:05

bear family, who's obsessed with wiping your ass.

1:50:08

They love wiping poop. Just

1:50:11

get a bidet bear family,

1:50:13

Jesus. Complete. Oh, oh,

1:50:15

oh, oh. Wadi da,

1:50:17

a bidet. What

1:50:20

do you call it? Call an asshole. Can that answer

1:50:22

your question? Totally different character. Capone Beige, he goes to White

1:50:24

Castle. Yes, he is the White Castle. Yeah, yeah. Okay, A&W

1:50:27

is good, but there's not that many of them. It's

1:50:29

also different depending on where we're in. Oh, yeah, look at

1:50:31

this A&W bear. Yeah, it's a very different character. I'm not

1:50:34

sure if it's a good one. I'm not sure. I'm not

1:50:36

sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm

1:50:38

not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not

1:50:40

sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

1:50:43

I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm

1:50:45

not sure. You don't get

1:50:47

it? Oh, yeah, I get it. Oh, I

1:50:50

know. I hate that. I hate

1:50:52

the balance. It's a very different character. I'm

1:50:54

not sure. I'm afraid the answer is A&W.

1:50:56

Sorry, I totally missed this comment from Artist

1:50:58

of the Week, Mike Patton, he