Episode 880, “I Got Bunny Joe on Speed Dial” (SGS #25)

The One Piece Podcast

Maji Media

Tv Reviews, Animation & Manga, Leisure, Tv & Film

4.7 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 186 minutes

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This Lunarian Life? Wait Wait, Don't Haki? A Whiskey Peak Companion? Nope - it's Greg & Stephen joining forces for a new edition of their “interesting and completely useless” recurring segment: the SGS! During every manga break, Greg and Stephen come together to discuss the latest news and events in the series; This week, the duo discusses One Piece Chapters 1152 through 1156, plus they take your questions! We also pop in to cover all the breaking news from One Piece Day, plus a double Anime Recap of Episode 1137 “I'm Sorry, Dad - Bonney's Tears and Kuma's Fist“ and Episode 1138 “Thank You, Dad - Bonney and Kuma's Warm Embrace“! 00:00:00 Introduction00:05:02 Manga Recap with Stephen & Greg: Chapter 1152 - 1156;01:18:03 One Piece Day News;02:08:47 Anime Recap: Episodes 1137/1138;02:35:37 SGS: Chapter 1152 - 1156;03:01:40 To Be Continued…! Stephen Paul ROLE: Very Special Guest and Translator of One Piece in Shonen Jump and MangaPlus, How’s it Going, Stephen? CREW SINCE 2010 | FIRST APPEARANCE: Episode 112 Stephen is a veteran professional translator who has worked on hit series like Akane-banashi, Show-ha Shoten, Saint Young Men, Vinland Saga, Durarara!!, Soul Eater, Yotsuba, and of course, One Piece. He has been responsible for the translations of VIZ’s One Piece manga since early 2012 and will probably never stop. On the podcast, he sheds light on little-known or otherwise unexplainable references behind the series, as well as in-depth background on translation choices. Don’t challenge him to wordplay unless you want a pun of bricks dropped on your head. When not podcasting you may also find him with his wife and cat Simba. You can find our oomfie on Twitter at @translatosaurus. Greg Werner ROLE: Our Man in Japan CREW SINCE 2009 | FIRST APPEARANCE: Episode 29 Greg brings us news and perspectives from One Piece’s homeland, and his unique insight about the series. Greg has been a One Piece fan since nearly the beginning of its run, starting thegrandline.com where he meticulously documented the beginnings of the series. In Japan, Greg has become a One Piece celebrity, winning a major televised competition against One Piece’s manga editors. Today, Greg writes columns on the official One Piece website, one-piece.com and teaches students in Japan, and is intimately involved with the series. SUBSCRIBE TO US ON PATREON! You can subscribe on Patreon and get access to ad-free episodes and our 800+ episode archive, our exclusive series 4’ced to Watch 4Kids with Steve & Alex, our full-length film OPPJapan, exclusive episodes with our special guests and a lot more. NEWS & UPDATES Want to know when One Piece is going to end? So does our man in Japan and OPLA live action series advisor Greg Werner! Check out his column “The End of One Piece,” posted exclusively by the OPP! Our video recording of the OPP at City Winery is now LIVE for patrons! You can watch our previous show from April on YouTube here! The OPP is officially British Famous! Read what Zach had to tell the good people of England about One Piece as it lands on BBC iPlayer in “One Piece: From ‘niche within a niche’ to global phenomenon” by Samuel Spencer! OPLA! is back for a whole new season! Check out interviews with the cast including Aidan Scott (Helmeppo), Alexander Maniatis (Kuro), Craig Fairbrass (Zeff) and Chioma Umeala (Nojiko)! Don’t miss out, subscribe at patreon.com/onepiecepodcast to get the full One Piece Podcast experience! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	I'm going to be.
0:04.0	I'm going to be.
0:06.0	The This is the One Piece podcast, episode 880 for the week of Monday, August 11th, 2025.
0:43.3	It is SGS week, and that means my name is Stephen.
0:48.2	My name is Greg.
0:50.8	And Simba is, well, he's actually not in the room right now.
0:54.4	He's sleeping off his lunch out in the living room.
0:59.8	But you're going to say sleeping off his hangover.
1:03.5	I mean, it is, yeah, indistinguishable to a cat.
1:09.4	But yeah, that is. Simba, of course, is my cat.
1:13.6	And the SGS, which we have modeled after Oda's SBS, is our special off week podcast where Greg here, who is a columnist for VJump, One Piece.com, and series advisor for Netflix's One Piece series.
1:28.2	And me, Steven, translator for One Piece in Shonen Jump and Manga Plus, break down the latest
1:34.3	events and share our expertise.
1:39.0	And yeah, it's been a little, again, it's been a little while.
1:44.4	We've, we, we missed a round or two of, of breaks.
1:49.0	But here we are in the, in the midst of summer.
1:53.7	How is, how is it outside right now?
1:58.5	Because I've heard some.
1:59.4	Well, you know, it was it's pretty good uh up until
2:03.1	about a week ago and then yeah and then the entire country became an aquarium yeah i walk outside
2:11.7	and it's just you're immediately swimming um it's pretty bad uh So I don't know what you've been up to, but it has, it's been a week.
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