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Brandon! Brandon, you're back! Yes! I mean, you're alive! I am! Of course! Wait, wait, I'm alive? What are you talking about? Dammit! Devin ate you. At least that's what he said. What? What? What? Wait, why are you wanting me? This is what we talked about. You went to dinner, and then you didn't know where he went, so we just assumed he ate you ate. What are you? What are you? I never explicitly said. What?

anything like that. I just said we went out to dinner, I was eating, and he was gone. Yes. No. That did happen. No. You consumed our Brendan and I was sad. For weeks afterward. And then I remembered we have robot backup still. But I was still sad about it. We literally were at Buffalo Wild Wings. With the B-dubs. Mark the economies. And I'm in rough shape.

I guess that's true. But just so we're on the same topic, like beat ups, like what the fuck, like you guys really need to like check yourselves because your prices are starting to get a little out of control. i'm gonna be so fucking for real like i don't know who you guys think you are but anyway so this this this is all true this all happened but uh you know um so the uh

unfortunately while we were having dinner that night um you won't believe that or maybe you will you know if you know me uh yeah the irs actually came uh and tried to imprison me that night so Oh, that makes more sense. Yeah, there was like a snafu with, you know, I don't know how to describe this. Have you ever heard of

I think the word's fraud. And there's all this talk right now about utilizing Social Security and whether or not you should or should not be getting payments and what the minimum age requirements are to be submitting. Anyway, I was just making good. on a flaw within their system that I am utilizing within my own country. Are you admitting to tax fraud, social security fraud on our podcast? No, absolutely not. I would never admit to that.

Right, like, you imply that you ate him. Hypothetically. No, no, I didn't. He's, look at him. There's no hypothetical here. I am telling you why I was gone. I was, uh, unfortunately... The IRS was on my tail, you see, and I simply just needed, you know, sometimes you just need to take a break from it all, you know? You just gotta, you know, catch yourself up on a break and, you know, reset, recharge for the upcoming... So you dexterate yourself. You know?

Um, in few words, yes. Why use many words when few words do trick? Why use many when Dexter do trick? Yeah, yeah, I did that. I had to do that, essentially.

Alright, we're here first, everybody. Brendan commits social security fraud and serial murder. I mean, all I'm saying is this country had to come in. I mean, I don't know. I mean, that's true. That part is fair. You know what? I mean, I wouldn't say that. I would say that if I had a bad attitude about it and definitely did that shit is what I would say. In game. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly, exactly.

But, you know, I'm glad to be back. You know, happy to be here. You know, I missed you guys. It's been so long. It has. I feel like I've missed so much. I've missed the highs, I've missed the lows. A lot of lows. You've definitely missed both of those things. That is true.

but it's been a real roller coaster these last five or six weeks or something that you've been gone yeah it feels like i think it's been like six weeks yeah something something that affected man there's been what's that 18 episodes 18 episodes of this show man we have seen We have seen the highs and lows. It's a great way to put it. The cliffs.

The mountains and the valleys of this arc. And the valleys and the valleys. Before we get into too much summary talk, because I have to know all your guys' thoughts, and I'll give a few of my own.

Maybe someone should do this summary. I think you need to. It's me! It's my time! He's back everybody! You can never let a good boy die. Blackie never left. Blackie never left. The battle between Luffy and Katakuri reaches a fever pitch as Luffy taps into fourth gear, finally landing blow strong enough to take to shake the sweet commander, but the tide quickly turns once more. Kataguri regains his composure, counters with renewed fury, and Luffy finds himself losing ground once again, as his...

Fourth gear runs out. Luffy is forced to retreat, but in a chaotic twist of fate, he stumbles upon Brule and uses her to escape the mirror world, landing in the worst possible place.

nuts island where big mom herself is currently in the middle of a terrifying rampage at cacao island the wedding cake preparation kicks into high gear Sanji, Pudding, and Chiffon each complete their parts of their masterpiece, and the chefs prepare to finish the cake at sea en route to the Thousand Sunny, but trouble brews fast.

Oven confronts Chiffon with brutal intentions just as the fire tank pirates approach the island. Outside the factory, Pound arrives, desperate for a chance to see his daughter Chiffon, but is met with violence from Oven. Inside, Brulé's voice slithers through a den-den-mushi informing Pudding of the Straw Hat's plan to reunite at Kakao Island, with Luffy now loose on Nuts Island and mirrors growing scarce.

Time is running out, and every player is scrambling to gain the upper hand. Ooh, that felt good. You know, I feel like I found my stride later in the summary, though. I ain't gonna lie. That's true. There was a quick stumble at the beginning. Gotta get your... summary legs back and you finished strong. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, it's, it's, it's, you gotta, you gotta warm up. You gotta warm up the chops. Oh, okay. Well, and it's, it always comes out of train wreck. Yeah. That sounds right. But you know what? The people love it. Sure, if the people love it, if I'm not going to learn to read it outside of the podcast, I'm not going to learn to read at all. I think I'm going to get you a really frog for Christmas this year.

Only during the podcast. It's my reading time designation. I'm going to get you a Duolingo subscription for English language. Duolingo? Does that mean you learn to speak it? Hey, listen, man, sounds like you could use the help. Dad, you need every helping hand you can get. Oh, man. All right.

Well, Brendan, you've got some opinions to opinionate here, I think. Oh, boy, do I. All right. Well, let's... Okay, so big highlights of things that I've missed. Big Mom definitely ate them kids. What the fuck? A thousand percent. A thousand percent. Justin tried so hard to be like, nah. I think he was just in denial for so long outside of the podcast mostly because that was the night that you and him watched at the same time right now. Yeah, we were watching it together.

and... I literally paused and I was like, holy fucking shit she ate them and he goes what no and i was like Do you not even like one like? frame by frame like going through like you can see the change those are people when the cream puffs start getting bigger you know that those are the children slash slash mother caramel Yeah, I think, you know, there's a fun fact with Justin in this arc and that I think he'd like...

He low-key gaslit himself a couple of times. I think he's got trauma suppression. Like, because between... Between Big Mom eating them kids and Mother Carmel, the other thing that he tricked himself into believing was that Big Mom was not just a large woman, but that she had to be part giant.

Like he refused to believe anything else. And then we get the thing in the beginning of her backstory where she's just like, you know a large woman and her parents are like that particular thing is probably partially my fault because that was my initial guess as to

her lineage in the first place was that she was part giant and that that would then extend to her feud with the giants but that is not but even outside of you we talk on the side about you know things with like spoiler content context and he's like yeah i can't believe like did they

did they ever reveal Big Mom's like dad or mother and I'm like what are you talking about dude we met both of her parents and she's like what are you talking about i've never met both of them both of her parents and i'm like yes you did in her fucking back Was this after we had watched the episodes for her backstory? No, no, this was before we had gotten to these episodes, so we hadn't gotten to it yet, but I had to remind him, and then he's like,

That sounds fake. I don't actually believe that. You can't have a person in this series that's that large without having at least a trace of giant energy in him. I mean... I mean, okay. Except you can. Except you can, but. I kind of agree with him. Like, this seems cat. I also think it's a little cat, but whatever, man. It's a little cat. It's a little cat. I ain't gonna lie to you. Alright, so yeah, Big Mom definitely ate them kids. Strewson's a son of a bitch.

What a power. dude pour one out for my boy king bomb again oh my god i was so i needed you on that episode i was so you know i i was fucking so sad when when I knew that you guys were covering the Big Bomb episodes, and I'm like, these guys aren't going to see this one coming. They're not going to see King Bomb making his way back into the series. Certainly not with a new love interest. Certainly not. Stitched up.

Down the middle from Armand's first slash and now and with small tree fiancé. Lady tree. Lady tree fiancé. And then... Same episode gets fucking nuked. A little part of me still hopes that he gets like a I am Groot arc. Yeah, we talked about that too at the time. He's coming back for sure. You can't keep a good trade out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, that fan art's got to exist out there somewhere, right? With Lady Tree holding a little potted plant and just a piece of King Bomb in it. That's got to exist. If it doesn't, we got to make it. Somebody in the audience, it's been a while since we requested specifics fan art. I need someone to make that for me. I need that yesterday. That would be incredible. Thank you.

R.I.P. Pedro, for real. The realist. The only P to ever die in this entire series. Goodbye. Rest in Pedro. Rest in Pedro. We love you, buddy. Rest in Pedro. But, you know, for every rule that breaks the law of pee, a law of pee must also simultaneously exist because Pero Sparrow definitely fucking tanked that shit. Wow, you know. Wait, wait, wait. Jinbei being a homie with his ship finesse. What a guy.

And I'll... this is the most important thing you guys okay so i'm sure i'm sure you all have opinions on katakuri at this point but like can i just tell you how fucking rad and funny it is to me that Oda came up with an excuse to give Luffy a fucking mirror match in the fucking mirror world, brother? What an absolute animal. So, because of, what was it, last week, I think we... Christian and I talked about it, but... There was a concept that I want to throw at you, which is...

They pointed out in these episodes and last week that if you smash a mirror in the mirror world, the mirror explodes in the real world. Yes. So their entire like fight sequence has been in there and there's been like moments where like they're smashing walls and fucking shit with mirrors all over them. So can you imagine just like you're just sitting there in your room and then you're just fucking your mirror explodes?

I don't know, bro, tell me about it. I have no idea why. You're just sitting there vibing, and you're, I don't know, you're... like one of those like mirror mazes and all of a sudden they just all fucking randomly explode oh my god a mirror maze dude not the crazy mirror house at the circus dude Just glass everywhere. Fuck. They got the house of mirrors in Katakuri's other snack hut. You don't want to break that snack hut. It'll cause a mirror nuke in the real world. Yeah.

That would be, oh, God. Yeah, that would be awful. You're just sitting in your room, chilling, vibing, and in the bathroom, you just hear, what the fuck's going on? Or you're just in the bathroom brushing your teeth, next thing you know. Brushing your cheek with Rita now. Maybe this power, maybe this is really the kicker to this power that we need to be tapping further into. You know, you just become an assassin.

Honestly, there's some good ideas in there. Yeah, Brule's power could be so much more useful for espionage and... and assassination, but instead she's a bumbling idiot the whole time. I mean, that's kind of what I'm saying. Let's be so fucking honest right now. Okay, can we just, I just want to talk about it first.

So, did you guys have on your bingo card that we were going to be doing the brulee captured and brought through the mirrors again? Yes. Frankly, yes, it was there. Obviously, one of the only ways Luffy could get back out of here is through a mirror.

mirror and we kind of need brulee for that so i feel like i was just like the free one in the center of the bingo card yeah if you if you guys have been playing at home you probably have an entire column or row devoted to just using brulee going through the mirror the entire card just says Use Brule because why not?

she's a little bit of the mcguffin this arc for sure oh my god yeah it's hilarious to me though i i kind of i kind of love this i i think the brulee i think in this episode or set of episodes especially is one of my favorites because like Obviously, we as the audience, we already know we've been abusing Brulee for probably the better part of the last 30-some-odd episodes at this point.

and uh you know we get we get that second that split second moment between her and luffy where luffy's like running from kind of curry like oh no i need to get out of here and he just looks over and brulee's like Like, can you see me? That's like the grin. The grin of just like pure evil. Just like...

Yeah, and then it fades for a second as he thinks things over and also hears Katakuri re-approaching and then Brulé catches attention again and he looks and he goes with the face again. Luffy's like, you know, he's not... He's not a smart man, but he knows what he's got when he's got it for sure. God damn it.

and then the other the other like absolute fucking disrespect to brulee too is that like he's running away from katakuri because he doesn't have hockey so he's just like completely unbothered at the idea of having to like deal with brulee with no hockey he's like actually this is great

This is perfect. Thank you. Thank you, Branch, for being here. You're the best. Yeah. The evolution of all of this that makes it, that really seals the deal is when he's back on the outside and fighting some of the other big mom pirates and we bust out a new move, baby. we got gong gong branch And then he does it six times in a row, says Branch every time. The seventh time, he actually says Brule, and then Brule goes, no, it's Branch. Oh, no. Oh, no. You son of a bitch.

I just got fucking duck seasoned in my own life. Do you or a loved one possibly have the mirror mirror fruit? If so, you may be entitled to financial compensation. You might be entitled to mental compensation for some stretchy asshole. Formatted by a small rubbery boy. Only about the third the size of another large gentleman who has his exact same moveset but better that's currently trapped in a mirror world. Yeah, I love it. Abusing Brulee power set.

Great. One of the saving graces of the arc. Have you guys been, I mean, obviously it sounds like you guys had highs and you had lows, but for the most part, how, I feel like only burning question. How do you feel about Kata Curry? Because he's become a staple pretty quickly, I'd say. Yeah, me and him went back and forth on this last week after the donuts thing, but please go ahead. He's a cool design, but he angers me. Because... The reason why he angers me is because...

He's a paramecia, right? But he does so much fucking Logia shit. Correct. That drives me nuts. And, like, my cousin has told me, you know, like, oh, even Odo's, like, commented saying that, like, oh, he's a special kind. I was like, nah, that's bullshit. it is a little it is a little ridiculous because like i i know what he's talking about yeah oda even came out and like invented a sub archetype where he's like oh he's special paramesia that's fucking bullshit the dumbest right

That did happen. That did happen. Retcons ruin series. I'm just saying. I don't feel like it's a retcon. I think the whole point of Katakuri was to dial in so heavily the mirror match energy. that Oda didn't want to leave anything up to a leg up on katakuri over luffy like he wanted to he he sort of FORCED IN the the the paramecia name just to make sure it was paramecia v paramecia

at the end of the day. But then Oda was like, but I'm also not going to live on myself. I'm going to have fun. I want to use this guy's power set to how I feel. Yeah, that's what I mean. It's frustrating. Where it's like, why not just... in the animation just make him a paramecia. It doesn't make sense. Well, I think these are the parts that I think go beyond just being a paramecia is the the shit with where he can make like random fuck off donuts uh that have fists in them that's that's fuck

uh but then again you know adult flamingo kind of could do the same shit with his stringy boys and you can always argue that he can turn the world around him if he's got awakening turn the world around him into more emoji that he can manipulate whatever it will And the problem with Mochi is that it's inherently like, you know, a doe. So it has so much flexibility and movement anyway that at any point, any Logia-esque move...

could be very easily treated as not a logia. See, see, for me, it's like, like, The ability to control it out, like, away from his body, that part didn't bother me. The parts that bother me is when he's, like, literally punching through him and his body, like, just vanishes. That's when I draw the line. This is the part that should make sense. It's still angering. I don't know why, because in my head... Correct me if I'm wrong.

how paramecias work where it's like it comes from your body right because like the perfect one i can always think of is going back to like mr three i think his name was well hold on hold on it it comes from your body asterisk

luffy's a paramecia he just is rubber so how the counter to the question is like being made of mochi therefore the way that what or what kanakuri is doing here is he's trying to trick people into believing he's logia Because he's got such good observation hockey, which is what we got in this.

you know set of episodes or whatever yes that is that is how this played out that's why luffy was like son of a bitch i thought you were literally fucking invincible for a split second but now i know now i know you've just got you you've got the good sight you've got a really fucking good sight i want that actually 24 yeah you got 24 24 vision and i want it i think unfortunately if what katakuri says is to be believed

Luffy will never calm down enough to accurately use observation hockey in battle. I mean, obviously we could use observation hockey in battle, but the level with which Katakuri can do it is just like, bruh. So next level.

very very next level and to the point where he was like all right fine you know what you got me i'm chill the fuck out now you ain't gonna be me again and you're never gonna punch me again kid just so we're clear i think i i think they're he's gonna get him again just by saying like

You got a weird mouth, Blake. You think that's gonna be it? Wait a minute. This is great. Hold on. This is a great segue. Like the hardest haymaker. He'd be like fucking weird jawline ass motherfucker. And all of a sudden. Bam. What he's going to do is he's going to insult donuts. Luffy's going to insult donuts as a whole and that's going to set Katakuri off. that man you don't you don't insult the donut that's that's just fucking that's that's a tragedy right there

I watched those episodes while I was at work because I was behind on watching them. So I watched, those episodes during my lunch break and holy shit dude i was dying sitting at my desk when that scene happened i i had to stifle my laugh so hard because i was just gonna the whole office was gonna gonna pick their heads up over the over the cubicle walls and be like what

Are you okay? What is happening? Do you need help? I was loving every second of that. Dude, fucking donut time katakuri is such a vibe. my man's is just like the pinnacle of humankind until he goes in for snack time and then he's just like some singing slob for donuts you know honestly I respect it. I love that. I would totally respect it, dude. Like even like the transitions, like where he's like, he's never been on his back. He's like,

like falling matrix style, like grinding on it. Like his feet are still planted. Oh my God. But then he like does like a headstand. Breaking his fucking neck to not land on his back in these episodes. That did happen. That did happen. They have a bone crunching sound and everything from him shattering his skull and his neck is bending inward.

yeah dust doesn't even need to be no clutch necessary bonafide jojo moment we have clutch at home we do have clutch at home it's kind of crazy his fucking neck to keep him from falling on it falling his back hold on imagine if that was how they defeated him like that moment where he just like refuses and just breaks his own neck

like oh my god okay i thought i thought you were gonna say they just dog pile and press his back to the ground and he just gets so depressed he gives up no no he like goes out of his way to dodge you know a hit and he just hits his head and crack Holy shit. That's the... The paralyzed one. That's the R-rated one piece. Yeah, that's the R-rated one piece again.

I don't think we'll ever have that at the first series or whatever. But I can dream. Yeah. You can definitely dream. This is my fan fiction that I'm writing over here. People just actually get iced on screen. Hey, you know, Big Mom literally ate children, just so we're clear. Allegedly.

brendan how do you feel about wedding cake okay so obviously uh the whole returning okay yeah it's a low point all right what do you want me to say no do i love it i absolutely not it is not my favorite you know plot element uh in the franchise no uh and but you know what it is what it is i'm here i'm here for everything else that's happening okay at this point i'm here for sanji making a cake

if you want to make a pretty cake, you know, it can't be, you can't be lazy. I'm so glad that you also made that reference. No! I'm here for cake making and katakuri fighting. That's what I'm here for right now. Yeah, well, both of those are over now. And then my final question to you, Brendan.

is do you believe that now that we've watched Big Mom eat uh her mom and then suddenly get a devil fruit that this kind of confirms suddenly by the way that this kind of confirms the blackbeard ate whitebeard's heart brother you don't even gotta ask me i have always been making a blackbeard absolutely fucking not that heart all right so if anything yeah back in the day when this chapter came out or that chapter came out i was like Like, guys, this, like, buh, buh.

For real, this confirms it, though, right? This pretty much confirms it. You don't have to tell me twice, is all I'm saying. I'm already in that can. It makes you wonder how Blackbeard has this knowledge, though, is really the question. because I don't think it's... It's possible, but I don't think it's super likely that he knows Big Mom's backstory also, so I'm curious to find out, if ever.

how blackbeard knows this specific thing so so this is my question because i this is also me failing to remember because it's been 600 episodes um yes i'm exaggerating but How did Blackbeard get his Devil Fruit, the first one? The first one was he... It's kind of left up into the air.

But it was originally given to... They found it when he was on Whitebeard's crew. Well, what I mean is he ate the fruit correctly. It was confirmed that he physically put the fruit in his mouth. I'm gonna be so fucking for real with you. That is not confirmed. So... All we know is Thatch had the fruit at one point.

and blackbeard was like that's that's it that's the fucking thing i went out to see to find he kills thatch and takes the devil fruit so my yes yes continue is continuing on from again sorry to interrupt you but Continuing on from, you know, my train of thought is the reason why he knows is because he's done cannibalism before. He's just, he's just a cannibalist. You think he was, he wasn't.

already a cannibal and then thatch consumed the fruit he kills and eats thatch realizes that this is how it works and then Just has the knowledge now. Yes. I like where your head's at. I really do.

The only hole, and I ain't gonna lie to you, it's almost just because the one in Ace's chest is in Whitebeard's chest, where his heart used to be, is the fact that why would... blackbeard like so heavily be invested in the fruit and then let him eat it and then hope That he would eat thatch and maybe get the power. At the end of the day, his goal was the power. His goal was to not eat thatch and then be like, oh boy, a power.

i'm wondering if there's more to the story like like behind the scenes that's what i mean like it's like my own head canon like we get a sanji you know and peg you know episode two essentially of a different island and it's blackbeard and thatch and you know the fruit you know i mean like again there's this is where the red string and the pictures start coming up on the wall Uh-huh, right, yeah, of course, of course. So, yeah, there's something, I feel...

Like, that's how he would have learned. Because of the mixture of desperation and or... rage is a hell of a drug rage rage do be a hell of a drug though let's be so fucking for real well it's not the worst theory that made a lot more sense than i would have assumed you were gonna make when you first started speaking about it so i'm gonna i'm gonna be that guy and just say that uh blackbeard at some point was like i i've got nothing to lose

I'm going to try to eat his heart, guys. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to eat this man's heart. I think it's going to work. I can't tell you how I know that. First case scenario doesn't work, and I go find it again. We go look for it. First case scenario, it tastes bad because I forgot the salt and pepper, but oh well. Yeah, like that's...

That's where my head's at. Black Bear's supposed to represent the worst kind of pirate, like the pirate-iest pirate, their pirate pirate. Yes, correct. He's supposed to be like the traditional pirate. I think absolutely cannibalism is on that fucking ticket. That is very fair. For sure. I just, I really like the idea of Blackburn like strolling up after a bell down just being like, Guys, I know you're gonna think I'm crazy. I'm gonna eat his heart.

I think I get his power if I eat his heart. And then all the rest of his cronies are like, I don't know, I guess we came this far, why not let him die? I kind of imagine it the same way, where it's just like, they're just like, not even phased, like, that's it. I guess let's give it a shot. Fuck me, I guess. You're just going to leave it at Ada's heart? I would have eaten the heart and killed his family.

the new recruits the new recruits at the time were like i mean we just got out of prison but like I don't know. That sounds kind of funny. Let's do that. For the meme. What we don't see is actually Blackbeard doing a selfie as he's eating hard. Oh, God. Yeah. That's why they put the tarp over him, because it's like one of those old-timey cameras where you need to protect the exposure levels. But it's backwards. Yeah. Yeah. Man takes a fucking Instagram photo of his food before he creates it.

Hashtag no filter. Fine dining at the new restaurant, White Beard Restaurant. You won't believe the kind of courses they got here at Whitebeard Spine Dining. Whitebeard Alamo. It's a family restaurant. when you're when you're here I wasn't expecting that! We try out here, buddy. We try out here.

Also, another thing that you might be surprised to hear from my mouth. I think Jinbei's gonna die. You think Jinbei's gonna die? After everything he's been through? I saw some, I saw some death flags going off. I ain't gonna lie. I ain't gonna lie to you. I do think... I think inside of me specifically, there are two wolves. There's the wolf that says...

oh my god, all the signs are there. Jinbei is not only going to be on the crew, but he has a designated role. He is now the helmsman. He's proved that to us. Simultaneously, the other wolf is like, You know, the most likely time to kill a motherfucker is after they showed you all their guards. You've seen it. You've seen it. I know. I do know where you're coming from. I do know where you're coming from.

he's flexing everything and he's doing he's like don't get me wrong i love jimbe i don't wish this upon him But it kinda do be lookin' like he gon' be dead! I ain't gonna lie, I know where you're comin' from! Our anime logic does dictate that the most likely time for a motherfucker to get- acts is after they show all their costumes. It's after pull off some cool ass shit. Yeah, that is true. And a flashback. And some flashbacks, that's true.

Man, he do be having some flashbacks, too. Wait a minute. I've been doing cool shit in the present day, too. You know, when he faced down Big Mom and was like, I ain't afraid of you. My friend is raised. Insert iron-blooded orphans song. Raise your flags. I still think this is crazy, but I understand. Yeah, I do know where you're coming from. I can understand it. I'm just going to be so fucking for real.

Ain't no way. And if you do take jimbe from me in this arc, I will be insufferable if you gaslight because I know you've seen this. this is either you genuinely being like honest like don't you dare or You're gaslighting me. This is what I'm telling you right now, Devin. If he dies, it's because you made it happen. You did this. That's what I'm going to tell you. Bernstein Bears did.

You Bernstein bears this shit. I'm blaming you. I'm making you responsible. No Oda listens to this podcast and goes back in time to fix it. Yeah, Jimbae's dead, by the way. I heard this one white dude on the internet talking about my show. Yeah, mad points. Should've killed him. Everyone goes to Japan and goes like, wow, this art doesn't look

like I thought the current art looked like for some reason. Well, I had to retcon a few things, mainly some characters and what happens to them. Yeah, pal. Dead. Sanji, dead. Jinbei, dead as fuck. The will of pee, people. The will of pee will always keep him alive, except for Pedro. Pedro, somehow, he's the exception that proves the rule. There's no peas in Jinbei. And yet, and yet, we still don't know if Pedro's really dead or not. We still don't really know.

We still don't really know. Do I want him to be dead? Yes. Will he, will, will he, can he come back? Yes.

actually I am curious so like you guys have obviously been burned on this one, two, three too many times. Do you think he's dead? Pardon me, Dustin. A part of me has to reserve that there is a way that Oda brings the character back. it is bar none full stop there is always a chance There's always a chance. And the fact that Parasparo survived the same blast radius. They did the bullshit that they did with

that they pulled a Gaara with him. He just went, oh, no, my candy armor got shattered by this explosion, but it didn't save my arm. Fuck. They did Gaara in his ass. They just turned up Gaara in. He just, he went, my candy armor is dead now. now i can't oh fuck me those explosions and all that i am glad that he lost an arm because if he had walked away from that scot-free and they had just been like oh my candy armor shattered i would have been pissed

Yeah, I agree. That would have been a very good super disrespect. That explosion was bigger than the Tomate box. It was, though. It actually was. Oh, fuck. Well, you know, I really hope that for your guys' sanity, Pedro, actually. I do too, buddy. I do too. I don't trust you with your laughing. Listen, man, I'm just a laughing guy. He's just happy to be back. I'm just happy to be back as all things are.

um yeah shit we haven't talked about anything uh other than uh katakuri and luffy for a split second so we got we got they're they're doing their thing you know at one point luffy has them like pegged and then katie's like i'm i'm back to normal just kidding and luffy's like fuck all right well i'm gonna leave this fight then and he does he succeeds uh meanwhile big mom is fucking up nuts island nuts Nuts. I'm so sad that they didn't make that bit when Luffy gets there. That is nuts!

No, they still have an opportunity here. At some point when he sees, like, Big Mom, like, breaking shit, he could be like, Man, that's nuts. Or anybody is open to this joke. Somebody's got to make it nuts. Nuts joke here. Somebody has to make a nuts joke somewhere. We can't be going to the island where jokes go to land and not make any of the nuts. Ah, my nuts! Wait, that'd be good too. That'd be a real, a real under, uh, I'll joke. Yeah. We're all under the belt. Hello, the belt.

real below the belt story. Unreminding the usual. I gotta say that when we ended up on, when we ended up with Luffy and Brulee on Nuts Island, I groaned. I... any part of it.

I don't want Luffy anywhere near Big Mom right now, man. I just can't stand it. You want all of this Big Mom stuff to be done with? I want Big Mom to go back to... to being more of a menace not in hunger pang mode because it's just so irritating listening to wedding cake this wedding cake that straw at luffy get over here so i can have my wedding cake i'm done with it i'm over i've been over it I know, I do know. And I know we're stuck for a while yet.

Because it's still going to take four hours for the cake to get anywhere remotely close to her, so we're just stuck. Hey, you know, but life comes at you fast, brother. I mean, I think we got the... Last set of episodes was Nami saying in 10 hours, we're going to meet up with Big Mom and the cake.

And now we're four hours away from that. I'm just saying, we're moving through. Yeah, we really just powered through that four hours out of nowhere. Yeah, for six hours. Well, that's the magic of One Piece. We can either drain a minute for two days. or we could make seven days go by in one second.

I love that. It feels so arbitrary, this time limit. I'm not going to lie to you. It feels so nonsense because they go, oh, it's going to take us 10 hours to sell the Cacao Island when... sanji chiffon and putting flu there on their magic carpet in fucking two minutes you know

They just fucking teleported there, basically, but it's a 10-hour boat ride away? What are you talking about, anyway? Well, I mean, the carpet goes fast. Christian, what do you want from me? They failed to mention that it flies at Mach 3. Or animated that way even. Listen, brother, come on. Just let them have their fun.

The fun is involving us watching walking and yelling wedding cake for three. Yeah. The fun involves watching pudding fawn over Sanji every three minutes in the kitchen. Again, I still- We love that! No, we don't! We love that! No, we don't. You're a fucking animal. You haven't warmed up to the idea that pudding has...

fucking decided that Sanji is actually a really good person on his own fucking merits, then you know what? You can't be saved. I don't want to be saved. You have two devils on your shoulder. You have no angels whatsoever. Fuck you. I don't want to be saved if that's what it costs. If this is the saving. I'm going to live in depravity. Is this what it's like to be?

on your side because normally that christian's me in this point in the show this is crazy this is crazy turn i and he he has mentioned this before And I just, I don't understand how he's on this side of the law on this one. Listen, I'm just saying, I think...

Again, I know last time we talked about, last time I was here, was the pudding episodes where we got her back, well, quote-unquote backstory, trauma backstory, really. Everyone in this fucking family has trauma, in case you haven't noticed. They all got fucking trauma. And Pudding's drama is being completely rejected and disheveled by her own family, very similarly to Sanji.

And wouldn't you know it, the one motherfucker that saw her for who she is and liked her for it, yeah, she'd be like, well, wait a minute, maybe I do like that. That's fine writing. That's fine. I don't even care. Fuck you. You're right. It's fine at best. It's not good. It's not great. It's fine.

Fuck you, dude. It's fine at best. I think it sucks. You suck. You're the villain. You're the actual villain. I accept this role for once. I'm more than happy to take this one. By the time we're done with this arc,

I'm going to forget everything about Big Mom. I'm going to forget all about Katakur. I'm going to be like, you know who the villain of Whole Cake Island was? It was Christian. It was you. It was always you. Yeah, it's always my time. Meanwhile, me over here have been shitting on this whole arc this entire time. That's fine. You can enjoy your popcorn. I've got a bone to pick with Christian right now.

Run around the studio screaming popcorn, similarly to Big Mom or something. You can be a part of the story. That could be your contribution to this narrative.

Oh, boy. Oh, yeah, and those slugs got, you know, they got seduced by... the only thing that every single person on this planet could be seduced by, and that's a musical number, baby! Once again! I thought you were going to say shark women. Well, that too, actually. Because in the show, all the shark women... Nice. All two of them? So far. Also, orcas are more dolphin than shark, but sure. Was she an orca? I thought she was a shark.

It's been a minute. You're talking about a great. Oh, go ahead. Sorry. Yeah. Charlie, Charlie was, she was. Killer Whale, whatever. I mean, but she was Arlong's sister. That doesn't mean anything. You know this better than anyone. That's true. That is true. Fishman genetics can kind of like, you know, do whatever they want. You can just, like, have a shark marry a fucking blowfish, and the next thing you know, like, oh, yeah, I've got all the genes from my great, great, great aunt.

And she was a fucking nematode. I looked it up quickly just to see if I was right. I'm not right. She's a shark. Alright, you got it. You won. She looks more like an orca to me, but apparently she's a shark fin maker. Shark girls, best girls. You better get used to that.

saying that other people won, Christian, because by the end of this arc, you know, the villains always lose, is all I'm saying. That's what you think. The villains are currently winning pretty... Not handily, but I would still consider that the villains are winning. Bro, are they? Like, their shit's...

shit's fucked right now actually i i i think i disagree with that entirely the strong hats are in full retreat mode that's fine that's like that's honestly they've done enough and any any total retreat is a w in my book Absolutely. They've accomplished 100% of objectives.

No, they didn't. What haven't they accomplished? Killed Big Man. That was their objective. Well, okay. No, that's not true, actually. Yeah. That's what I fucking thought. No, it wasn't. Their two objectives were get Sanji back and get... And sub-subjective was get, what do you call it, rubbings. And they have done both of those. Yes. The kill big mom part of the planning was Veggie's shit. And they were just kind of like...

I mean, we could use some allies, so, like, we'll help you try. And, like, when that went south, they were like, I don't know, we still got ours, though. All I'm saying is they got 100% of their objectives won right now. I think they're doing great. And then Mondor on the side is like, Where the fuck are the slugs? Why is German not captured? Where the fuck is Veggie? What is happening? I hate it here. And then you got the fucking French dude on the side going, wait, wait.

Everybody's favorite. Everybody's favorite French chicken. Fuck you, I love the stupid chicken. I fucking hate the chicken. Yeah, this one I don't get either. He just straight up doesn't like... Baron Tamago, or whatever his actual name is now. The teacup doesn't make sense!

It's inconsistent. What do you mean, what's inconsistent? The teacup. The physics. He's complaining about the physics of teacup. How it stays on his head. The physics of teacup. And how the liquid only pours out when it's convenient to the plot. I'm not sure I'm following. It doesn't mean anything. It's a nonsense argument and doesn't require more attention than it's already been given. I'm going to say, I love this. This is a salt in the ocean joke.

I do love, though, the fucking evolution of Baron Tamago to viscount Hyoko to count Niwotori. Yeah, Niwotori now. Man, he's just a fucking chicken. He just became a chicken for some reason. or a rooster is he a rooster now or is he just chicken i i i you know he might be a rooster it's probably a rooster that would make a lot more sense honestly make a lot more sense

I fucking love this stupid shit. So yeah, all of the slugs disappearing and finally getting the confirmation of that. I feel like this wasn't... I don't remember if I actually said it or not at any point, but I brought it up.

sure yeah i i'm pretty sure we had already talked about how the the sun pirates were in some way shape or form responsible for all of this and it was just funny that it ends up being a musical number instead of anything else the sweet seduction of praline as she sings Sings this the slugs into submission About a day off. Hey, you know what? Those slugs, they work really fucking hard. Today is their job. They've definitely unionized. They do unionize after all this.

They're using their PTO finally that they've saved up. They've been building up all this PTO and then, you know, their employers have always been like, Yeah, for sure. You can carry over your PCL into next year. Surprisingly understanding. They let it roll over. Not very common. Not very common at all, actually. And then the cake got done.

Ayo! Okay, it's done! It's not done. It's like basically done. It's not done. That's not done. It's in three separate pieces. It's in three pieces. That's it. I don't consider my Legos put together when they're on the floor. Oh, and then how about fucking Pound coming out of nowhere and beating the shit out of Oven? Oh, yeah. He sure showed him what for. You should see the other guy. And then we all want to. We all want to.

I didn't know he was that strong, honestly. He's got the damage. This is the one thing that annoyed me about that whole interaction. Ah, well. Dad, you know, stopped, what's it called, you know, from beating up chiffon. Let's hide her under a blanket. Yeah, that was a choice. That was definitely a choice. I mean, where else are you going to put her? Don't! You're gonna hide her in that? What do you mean just don't? Just don't! But...

The point is that they need her to go with them, but not- No, no, don't hide her. Yeah. There's no point. I mean, I have to at least try, you know? No, it's like immediate. It was not even like a minute after he's like, all right, I'm back. Well, cause he disappeared and, or she disappeared and there's really only one place she could have gone, but you have to try at least. Come on. Dude, but what if Ovin didn't find her, though?

That's what I'm saying, dude. What if I was a bumbling idiot and didn't realize? That would have made me so goddamn mad. I also love the shit-eating grin that Oven had in that entire interaction. He's like, she's under the blanket. And then he's like, he picks up the bike and he's like, I fucking knew it. It's like playing hide-and-seek with five-year-olds. Yeah.

They got both their legs sticking out from underneath three pillows. They just stacked on top of them and they're giggling while they lay there waiting. They literally only have their head covered. Yeah. Like an ostrich. If I can't see you, you can't see me type ass shit. and then as as i've been like open like look to the blank it's like They always try to run. But he's like, no, I'm in. Please, we made her.

I need the flashback to when they were little, and this is the same exact pull that Siobhan used to do when they were children. Listen, bro, there's a lot of trauma in these children's lives, all right? I wouldn't put it past hope. the... What was that asshole, the wolf guy from Annie's Lobby? Drawing style. Jabra, thank you. I need Jabra crayon drawing backstory of Ovin and Chiffon playing hide and seek.

and her pulling the same exact maneuver, and that's how Oven really found her. Yeah, yeah. Oh, God. That'd be good though. That'd be really funny. I like that. I'm surprised they don't take advantage of that more often. That's a what? The crayon bit. Yeah, instead of just giving us a whole ass episode of backstory, they just summarize it in like a little like thought bubble crayon style. Well, it's not really Otis style. That's because it was fake backstory.

yeah yeah it was it was only like a cartoon like that because you know the the whole point was it was it was all bullshit it was all made up although joke's gonna be on us joke's gonna be on us in like another 300 episodes we're gonna find out he was telling the truth i'm just saying oh shit Usopp mode. It's going to be an genuine Usopp moment. Just you wait, I promise. Jabra's lies always come true. Oh, man, dude. What if? What if, though?

you know i'm i'm happy to be back i i know you guys have been going through the ringer with just an old woman shouting wedding cake over and over and over again. It's nothing but pain. I know. Just try to be here for the other moments, the rest of the series. Don't get me wrong, I do love those moments when they happen. But sometimes, sometimes I miss too much. Just think of King Bomb and what he sacrificed to get you this far. Remember the king. And king we trust. And king we trust.

King of the dancing tree. As a hound from Game of Thrones once said, fuck the king. No, no, no. Oh, man, fuck. I feel pretty good. How do you guys feel? Do you guys have any other dying things you guys want to bring up? how'd you feel about the tomate box me in general just like the tomate i mean i love the bit i really do because i mean i remember here's a fun like a story so when i was reading the manga That was probably, I'm gonna say, like, top five or ten most hyped, not hyped, but like,

anticipated things that was going to transpire during this arc everyone and their fucking grandmother had an idea for how the tomate box was going to play into this because we've had the context that there was a fucking bomb in it since Fishman Island

and we after it got re-brought up earlier into the arc right before the the wedding started everyone and their fucking grandmother was like oh my god the tomate box it's gonna do this it's gonna it's gonna kill big mom this way it's gonna blow the fuck up out of cut of curry it's gonna it's gonna do this it's gonna

everybody fucking and i was just like all right well we'll get there we'll get there when we fucking get there you know incredible's dad uh and and then it blew up the chateau and i was like Nice. I like it. I like what you're selling, fancy man. I like that it destroyed an entire fuck-off mountain of cake. Well, it became cake, I guess. Originally, it was made to look like cake.

and then streusen was like okay i better make it really cake otherwise we're fucked streusen's ability literally is the is it cake yeah that's literally what streusen's ability And I remember when we first got to that part in the manga, everyone was like, well, that's just fucking, you can just turn anything into food. That's fucking crazy. That's ridiculous.

Like, does it taste good? So, like, he just makes food wherever he wants. Like, that sounds broken as fuck. There's so many ways you can fuck with that. And then there was the part where Big Mom, after eating some of the cake that got turned into cake, she was like,

oh yeah i forgot streusen's food it can fill you up but it tastes like dog shit if you don't actually make it make it and i'm like all right well at least it's got some fucking drawback because that would be fucking that kind of piss me off actually gross food is still better than no food. Very true. Gross food's still better than no food. Zeph would be like... Well, yeah, there's that. That devil fruit would've gone crazy for Zeph if they had that bag of the day. Eating rocks.

I'm going to turn this rock into a ham. They would have slowly eaten their little cove down to the water. i wonder if you can cut the water with it that's a great question i don't know all right anything else any other any other things uh no i'm trying to think of other things i would want to ask you because it's been like

forever. I know, brothers, throw them at me. I want to talk. That's what I'm trying to think. There's only so many things I can talk about. Without wasting the listeners' time, obviously. What'd you think of Cracker? Well, in what regard? I was here for Cracker anymore. Yeah, I think we did this. Yeah, this is all news. Again, I wasn't there for it. I mean, I like Cracker. I know Cracker's cool. Oh, okay. Cracker's all right.

You're fine. You're fine, dog. You're fine. All right, well, I'm going to move us on then. All right, no, no, no, no. Your questions have been completely rescinded. Ouch. I despise you. I despise every listener. I'm just kidding.

It's okay. You can hate me. You can hate Christian for our takes, but the listeners. You're right. I should never do that to the listeners. I love the listeners. It's only you two I hate. Yeah, that's fair. Alright, cool, cool. Alright, well then, moving on. Next week will be, believe it or not, 860 to 862. I almost said 660. Could you imagine if we went the first time we made that mistake? I want to know what one piece.

660 was. I just want to know where we would have been. I think it would have been Punk Hazard. That's gotta be like the end of Punk Hazard, right? No, actually we would have been in Dressrosa. 660 is in Dressrosa.

It was the same episode. It was the episode where Rob and Frankie and Usopp figured out that they're the reason that uh the tentata got fucked over from doll flamingo pretending to step down and they were like oh no we're the ones that put them in that position that's funny that's a good app all right moving on what did i what did i say yeah we're doing 860. Yeah, 868, 862. Moving on to quotes. Quotes, I've got two. I've got two. Go for it, buddy. My quotes have already been sniped.

ah you hate to see it all right my first quote is uh mandor when uh he is being uh contacted by one of his siblings or being talked to by one of his siblings and uh the They were like, they were like, Mandor, I've got bad news. And he's like, oh boy, more fucking bad news. Why don't you just stack it up? We got plenty of that going on today. I was like, all right, it's okay. I'm on door. Well, it's not, but like, it's okay. Don't be like that sometimes. It do fucking be like that sometimes.

Ah, fuck, I forgot my other quote. What happened? I had a- No, it's gone. It evaporated. Oh, shit, I think it's gone. All right, somebody else go. Maybe I'll remember it before we close out. I have one quote, and it comes from everybody's favorite punching bag brulee in this episode. She goes, Luffy somehow loses track of her when he's hauling her away before he puts her in the bag.

and he's calling for come out branch get out here right now branch and then she and her in her basket is thinking to herself what kind of idiot comes out like that after being told to and then he yells branch where are you and she jumps out seconds later goes it's brulee ah fuck i did it to myself i got myself what have i done that's it that's that's my only quote did you remember buddy did it come back to you no

no it's it's still it's evaporated and it's it's just like that time that Zoro saw the mermaid just completely gone yeah damn shame my clothes were just the ones that we mentioned earlier where it's like you know gum gum branch gum gum branch gum gum brulee you know that wabbit season duck season wabbit season Wait. Hold on. Pull shotgun. Pull shotgun. Alright.

moving on from that though we have the golden ham the golden ham yo i say i either want to give it to Sanji for making that sweet ass cake, or more importantly, I want to give it to Pound for beating the fuck out of the oven that one time. All right. Counterpoint. I want to give it to... Brulee for always being right where you need her when you need her. Right where you need her. Right when you need her most. Oh, shit. Okay, no, you got me there. You definitely got me there. I know.

MVP. It's hard not to just like give it to Brule. I don't know. I feel like we probably have for having her be the skeleton key in the past. Maybe not. Maybe this is the first golden ham brulee. I don't know. I want to say we haven't. I don't think we did. We'll see. Hey, we'll give it to her tonight, you know, and the night is young, and then we'll cross-examine later. All right. We got a golden ham for brulee. I'm fan.

For fuck's sakes, who would have guessed? Also, by the way, the Tomate box got a golden ham one week. I don't know if you know that. Oh, no, I did not know. You gave it to the box? Yeah, we gave it to the box for progressing the plot in those episodes. Well, I guess that's fair. You guys were having a bad time. That bad of a time. They were going through the plan, dude. It was painful. That episode and I think the following one were not the best.

oh the following episode big father you know like the giant fuck off okay big father big father was the episode before to be fair uh it was the reveal of big father and big father got the golden ham that that episode too so don't you don't you fret okay all right i was gonna say because i love big father big father's a great bit i i love the giant fuck off Gundam tank thing. I don't... I don't think... What was last week's?

Because I know we were struggling for it last week. Last week had Katakuri versus Luffy at one point. And then also Luffy doing that thing where he's like, I don't want my friends to know I'm struggling out here. I think we gave it to something dumb. Yeah, I'm pretty sure we gave it to something dumb for both those weeks.

Y'all ain't giving it to Katakuri for Katakuri snack time? Y'all were talking about it? I wanted to... No, okay, so we didn't actually talk about this. I love it. Devin hated that. Oh, for fuck's sake. Devin did not like Katakuri snack time. Oh, boy. Here we go. I was all for it and I wanted to give it to him. I don't remember why I hated it. This is the worst part about you. You just hate and don't remember. You have no conviction. There's no recollection of why. There's only the lingo.

and there's only a lingering feeling of hatred, and that's all you remember, and that's all that's important to you. I simply remember the hate. I don't believe in the hate. I just remember the hate. He lets the hate flow through him and become him. For fuck's sake.

Moving on to the fan mail section where we have none. This is where I put it if I had one. This is where I put my fan mail if I had some. Apparently we're all hit. Apparently nobody wanted to hear what I had to say about anything. There's been no ranting or raving. Just kidding. To be fair, there probably is fan mail, but Justin's not here to... to bring it to the table to read it so

Fuck that guy. Yeah, fuck that guy. Can't believe him. And fuck his job. Moving on to the producer shoutouts. We've got Taco and It's Me Rabbit. Thank you. It's Me Rabbit. Let's go. Love you both. You're the best. Thank you. Thank you. You're lovely. I have. Don't worry. I have. It's Me Rabbit is the one who gave us Time Bandit this month. It's a good movie. And Devin has feelings. I like that movie a lot. It's a good movie. I had a good time.

It's true. I thought you were going to say I had a time. I had a time. No, Devin. Devin had a time. I had a good time. I had a good time. You know, it's a part of a trilogy, you know. wait is it really No, it's a part of a spiritual trilogy. Oh, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, it's not a trilogy in the true sense of the word. There's no actual trilogy. It's part of

a threesome of movies that is referred to as an overarching imagination theme from the director. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't think I talked about it in the episode. We didn't get to it, but yeah, that is the case.

Gonna put a piece of ultimate evil in your microwave. Alright, moving on. What's next, Christian? Next is your favorite, Brendan. Yes? It's, and you know, I'm loathe to do this on most occasions, but it's special. It's a special time. You're back. You're alive. Yes, I am! To celebrate. your return i have brought her out for you it is the illustrious grab bag oh i love it oh you love it darling it's been so long Why see the tag on it?

Don't worry about that. It's fine. Don't worry. You're just as beautiful as the day I lost you, girl. I can't believe it's been so long. Why don't you reach on in and find out what we're going to do tonight. tonight. This is crazy. She looks brand new, man. You've been taking great care of her. Of course. I know how much you love the grab bag. As much as I love the garb gab as its replacement now, I would never sully the good times we had with the grab bag.

all right well i'm reaching my hand in now and oh are these fortune cookies hey they are i know that you love fortune cookies and you know to wish you well on your on your return here to many more weeks of you recording with us. I got you these fortune cookies. All right, well, sure, man, thanks. All right, so slow the fuck down, dude.

shoved six in your mouth already. Yeah, you're supposed to read them before you eat them. You're supposed to eat the cookie, or crack them open, eat the cookie, then read it. Not eat the whole cookie with the note in it. That's... There's a note in it. It's like a paper cut waiting to happen. Oops, my fault. Yep, I got this thing right here. It says... We are Vegapunking today. And how do we do the Vegapunk piece of paper? We are Vegapunking, meaning we are giving a devil fruit to a...

Pile of Lego blocks as in like a pile or a single block Like, a pile. You know, what can an entire pile of Lego blocks do with a devil fruit, you know? Well, I don't fucking know, dude. What the hell? Well, it sounds more interesting than one Lego block because then, you know, maybe you could do something fancy with it and, you know, the amalgam of Lego blocks maybe could...

Utilize Adele for better. Okay. I got one in my head right off the bat. Go on. Go on. Flower, flower, fruit. Say more? Yes. I like that. Like Lego blocks, anthropomorphic arms and limbs to walk around and assemble themselves into their own weapons. I like that a lot, actually. No assembly required Lego blocks. Dude, it's literally Minecraft in a pile. You just have Minecraft. That's a great idea. Devin, that's a gold fucking star for me. I like that.

That's good. I like that. You have a pocket dimension that is Minecraft now. Oh no, I'm being attacked by Luffy. It builds 20 blocks up. i just imagine like a pile of lego blocks like you've got you've got like one of each unique block in existence or at least like one color of each block and then they just like they they they pop out of the ground like daisies

and turn into like, you know, immaculate designs or whatever, whatever color you need. I love that. That's a great idea. A lot of weird shapes. I can't believe I'm going to reference Gara for the second time in this episode, but I'm imagining the spirit of his mom inside the sand, except this time it's Lego blocks, and anytime you're in danger, the Lego blocks. He opens his bag and Legos come out. Yeah, the Lego locks. what I'm saying, brother.

that was pretty good fuck i gotta think about it now hold on what if what if to amplify the torture of of stepping on lego blocks they had the slow slow beam and You got to watch yourself in slow motion step on a pile of Lego bricks. That's just, I mean, you're just being a demon for the sake of being a demon. I'm in my heel arc, dude. It's...

That's on the brain. Bro, that's fucked up. You've made a weapon of mass destruction. You've made the eighth wonder of the world. Time-slowing Lego blocks. Oh, God, it would be so painful. It'd be worse than stepping on coals. Or even worse, it's the Millennium Falcon set, which has 10,000 pieces in it, and you're forced to complete it in slow motion. You know what I like? I like float float as in Sheiky's fucking power.

So that, you know, no matter what, like, Lego set you make, it can just, like, exist and float around. I really like that idea. So with the stepping on Lego pain theme, I am really one to dust bones. Oh my God. It has the blade blade. Jesus Christ. Now you've really created Caltrops. You literally just made Caltrops with extra steps. You created Caltrops with extra steps, dude.

Oh, for fuck's sakes. I want a Zoan fruit, but, you know, the Zoan, instead of transforming, it just builds into a Lego elephant or something. I don't know. I shouldn't be an elephant. I think a fun, a fun one would be like, I don't know what's up. The smog. Oh, smog, okay.

the dragon oh the smoke yeah yeah that'd be cool no i like uh maybe give him like the bird like like a bird lego set and then you have like the falcon falcon it can like you know fly around hang out on your shoulder or some shit like that that'd be kind of fun it's just a lego bird lego sets to fly is what i'm saying it's the only thing they don't already do i mean They fly if you throw them hard enough. Oh, okay. Well, we have the Lego bricks, the mochi food.

Why are... No, we're not giving the Lego bricks the mochi fruit because I don't want to eat my Legos. Okay, then the wax fruit. Okay. Why? It's an arbitrary pick. I guess if you gave the Legos... the wax wax fruit, then you could, like, make more Legos or something. Like, that's not useless. But I feel like every time we give somebody the wax wax fruit, we give something the wax wax fruit, like, you give him the castle castle fruit and then make a Lego castle.

each lego each lego brick has its own mini castle that's a lot of time inside of it yeah it's the ultimate form of hiding because if you're just being chased you could just dive into the lego brick castle and nobody's gonna suspect the lego brick on the floor shit dude no hold on that's actually fucking genius hold on like imagine okay bear with me here Imagine you have like a shelf and you just have like three fucking Legos on it.

And on another shelf, you have three other fucking Legos. And in each individual brick, you have an immaculate playhouse. You have your own fucking home in there. Dude, that would actually be so sick. You're just living the Lego movie inside of these bricks. Brother, wait a minute. You're telling me that I can be the Lego guy? You can be Lego. You can also... Oh, shit. Wait. Hold on.

That's just Buggy. Eh? What? Buggy. He's just a walking Lego. Oh, Isaac. Well, anyway, yes. Yeah, yeah. Congratulations. Giving a Lego a double fruit is just Buggy. Because Buggy already has the chop-chop fruit. Like, what would happen if you gave a Lego the chop-chop fruit? Like, would they just make more Legos? Well, maybe. Maybe. The world will never know. The world may never know. Now I want to see a double fruit that is the Lego Lego fruit.

And they just say, like, Lego Mago. That is not the right catchphrase. I know. That's their quirk. Like, that's their, like, that's their, you know what I mean? Like, that's their lack of drink, except that's the lack of my ego. I love waffles. They love Legos and they love waffles and they just can't decide. Man, I want the waffle waffle fruit.

What does it do? I don't know. I mean, they already have a berry berry fruit, so the waffle waffle fruit isn't too far from it. I mean, we've got the mochi mochi fruit. It's also not like they're really far away. There's just dough of a different kind. Like I said, it's just a chef with a bulletproof vest working at a Waffle House. Christ. Throwing chairs. Exactly. Oh, hell no.

All right. Well, thank you for participating in yet another. grab a bag this time welcome welcome back brendan give me that bag okay good yeah good The receipt's still on the counter. Don't forget to, you know. I still can't believe how good you guys treated that bag, man. That's crazy. So, with that being said, we're at the end of our show here. Thank you.

all for listening to yet another week of us rambling about this anime if you would like to follow us on social media you can do so at panda sightings on instagram twitter and tiktok if you would like to send us some fan mail that justin will still not show up to read on this podcast you can do so at pandasightings at gmail.com. If you would like to support us monetarily, you can do so on our Discord, where we have the membership program built in now.

and you can be a lovely producer like taco or you can be a lovely voyager like a bunch of other people at the lower money tier that's totally fine too we love you as well discord link is in the podcast description and in the bios of our social medias if you would like to get something for your money more specifically i have i have great news for you guys the thing that i was vaguely referencing

but also not so vaguely referencing last week, is here. If you're listening to this episode, you have probably also seen the little two or three minute teaser that Jordy put out on the feed. About a week or two ago now, we have our own merch shop, baby! Hey! We got the merch! We did it! We have real merch. outside of just the stickers now so we've got t-shirts and a sweater and that's crazy dude baseball cap and a beanie and a set of pins too even we got pins bro

This is literally the first I've heard of it. I've got to buy this shit right now. Oh, dude, it's so good. I know there's one shirt that you're going to buy right off the get-go. Fantastic. Yeah. I can't wait. We've got a couple of fun designs here. And you can find that merch at pandasightings.com. The link will be in the description of the podcast, I'm sure. We haven't got the damn domain! We have a real domain. Pandasightings.com is ours. We own that.

I'm finding out about this in real time, people. I'm not even kidding. Brendan doesn't check our Discord or our messages. That's amazing. will bring you to the merch store and you will see all the glorious items that are going to be on sale for us.

uh until the end of may potentially a little bit afterward we're not sure yet because i was kind of sort of supposed to also confirm this last week but then i wasn't sure and i didn't so There's a chance that we keep it open a little longer for anyone who is just now hearing about it because this episode that you're listening to hasn't dropped until probably the second week of May or so.

So we may leave a little bit of extra time for the, for the podcast only listeners and those who aren't in the discord. If you were in the discord, you would have seen that we dropped that link about a week ago at this point, uh, in our, in our time. So we can go. So be sure to join our Discord for potential future fun stuff in the future. Additionally, I should tell you now, while it is timely, at the roughly... Three weeks from now, real time, I believe May 17th is our tentative date.

for a 12-hour live fun Discord day. Hell yeah, it is, brother. For 12 hours on the live streaming channel of our Discord. where we play games, we'll watch a movie together, we'll do fun activities, there will be a live recording towards the end of the night. It's on the 14th, you said? 17th, I believe.

Saturday the 17th is the tentative date and we will for the astute listeners who remember this better than us we are going to be doing our our anniversary recording in the middle of may uh only only roughly three weeks late it's our excuse me three months late it's fine we didn't forget Only a little. Okay, only a little bit. Did we forget? But it's fine. Better late than never.

so come come join us join the discord hang out and and be there for the live broadcast of our and of our three months late anniversary recording that will then not release to the the Spotify feed until probably two weeks after that. And so our anniversary episode will be about three and a half months late for anyone who only listens to this. I'm sad. Devin's sad. You know, it'd be like that. It'd be like that.

Oh, I should also mention quickly, some of the designs. If you go to PanScience.com, our Redbubble is still there too, and we put a couple of the designs. that are on the shirts in the red bubble shop so if you don't have the money for a shirt or a sweater or any of the other things that are in there you can still potentially buy a sticker from the red bubble shop with one of those designs on it

This puffer fish, though. Do it with gusto. Gusto. I do love that fucking fish. That's a great fish. All right. That's it. That's the end of my spiel. Thank you for your spiel. Exciting times. I've ordered six things. One of everything on the menu. Well, not quite, but sort of. Kinda. Nearly. Wow, and it only cost me $23. I'm just kidding. No, hold on, hold on. Dude, I'm just... I want to try to entice him. Yeah, just complete false advertising.

Just lie. I can say whatever I want. Guys, I got 17 items for $6. It's a steal out here. Also, I should say this here too, that the store... It does ship internationally. The rates are funky depending on where you specifically are in the world. but but for the most part they do ship internationally so if you are overseas and not in america you still have the opportunity to to buy the merchandise let's go I'm giving thumbs up to the camera in my room, office style.

i'm looking out the window to the person on the street giving them the thumbs up any other announcements that either you guys got No, I said what I came here to say. I really did this whole podcast with you guys tonight just to do that last six minutes. That was the other reason. Yeah, there's really nothing else I really came here to talk about. It was about the friendship made along the way. No, no, not this week. It was about the motivation and the microtransactions. Yes, yes.

Well, you know, in addition to what you can find on the store, if you ever want to know more about how to evade the government and make money on Social Security, you can always hit me up. I knew we ate them. I knew it. They said I was crazy. You're not crazy. I'm crazy. Wait, no. I'm not crazy. You're crazy. It's okay, Christian. It's okay. It's okay. We're fine. I'm okay. I'm here. Nobody. No one was eating, buddy. It's okay.

But if you were here, then what's in his mouth right now? I don't know, probably all the fortune cookies. Ah, shit. Oh, okay. Alright, well. Alright. I mean, I guess that's okay. It's okay, bud. It's okay, buddy. You're among friends here. That was a close one, Devin. You almost let him slip. I know. I know. I'm gonna go check into the hospital.