Episode 41 · May 16, 2020
Zero Swashbuckling
A listener-style question about a catchphrase on an NBA podcast leads the hosts to try to figure out what Dragon Ball Z is.
“There's a dragon and there's a Z and there's a ball.” (02:43)
Questions
What is Dragon Ball Z? (00:02)
Our guess
Either a pog-like game or an animated series, probably anime and not American.
Either a pog-like game or an animated series, probably anime and not American.
Reveal the answer
The answer
A Japanese anime based on the Dragon Ball manga. It adapts the later 325 chapters of the 519-chapter manga, aired in Japan from 1989 to 1996, and premiered in the US in 1996. Its catchphrase "Kamehameha" is what a rookie yells after hitting a three-pointer.
A Japanese anime based on the Dragon Ball manga. It adapts the later 325 chapters of the 519-chapter manga, aired in Japan from 1989 to 1996, and premiered in the US in 1996. Its catchphrase "Kamehameha" is what a rookie yells after hitting a three-pointer.
Verdict right
Transcript (auto-generated)
[00:02] Cole said you have an under googleable for us this week. I [00:06] Do? [00:07] We do under Google rules. That was the play of super excited [00:23] In the end it's gonna be better and more true than Google can give you what the hell is Dragon Z ball [00:33] Are you actually I think before any of us answer anything I want to hear what you think it is [00:51] So I was listening to a [00:54] NBA podcast and [00:57] They were apparently some player some rookie [01:01] Camera who it is [01:02] Says some phrase when he hits a three-pointer and all the people on the podcast were like, oh, yeah [01:08] Dragon Z ball and I was like, okay [01:10] I have no idea what they're talking about and they gave me no explanation. And so I [01:14] Assume it's one of two things. I assume that it is a [01:21] Some sort of hog like game [01:25] Okay, or any pog like games you think around I think I think most most games are pog like games [01:34] I think and then the other theory is that I think that it's a some sort of [01:39] animated series [01:41] That is not based in the United States [01:47] Cuz there's dragons. Yes. Yeah sounds European it does [01:52] Or perhaps Asian like I thought maybe it was anime or something [01:57] Wait, say that again like anime. Okay, the way you said it made it [02:08] May I have a cookie I wasn't real sure [02:12] Anime [02:14] So yeah, so those are my two guesses and then I apparently there's some sort of swashbuckling element where you say something [02:22] exciting [02:23] It's like and then that's when you swashbuckle. Yeah, what is that? What is the phrase? I can't remember it was it was [02:33] Kaya Stoga or [02:38] You're thinking of is it Kaya hoga, oh, yeah, habachi grill [02:43] It was something like that [02:46] Bachi that's what a Gilbert Arenas used to say. Okay, there was some phrase [02:50] I don't know. I don't remember and that's that's all I have so clearly I need your help [02:53] I'm hoping that you all understand this because I have no idea what's happening [02:59] There's a dragon and there's a Z and there's a ball [03:06] So I think I don't I think Joey knows the answer but so we shouldn't I shouldn't ask Joey till the end [03:12] I think you're pretty close in that. It's a what I know of it is that it was cartoon [03:19] Anime style ish [03:23] It was called Dragon Ball Z not Dragon Z ball [03:30] We're assuming it's the same thing that's about all I know about it so some sort of cartoon [03:35] I in my head I merge it with Pokemon [03:39] I don't know if that's because those were came out in the same era or if they're actually related to one another [03:45] About the card game, oh [03:48] Okay, so it's a card game. No, it's the cartoon about the card game. Oh [03:56] What that's what I'm going with [04:05] Don't believe that there's a card game. Okay [04:09] There I mean, I know there's a lot of video games. But yeah, you were right is it is an animated series not based in the US [04:16] It's from Japan [04:19] Okay, and [04:21] It's like sort of [04:23] martial arts see there's lots of fighting swashbuckling I [04:28] One might say swashbuckling would I would say no no no swashbuckling zero swashbuckling. Yeah, it's a yeah zero swashbuckling [04:37] I just remember a lot, you know, I never saw a lot of it, but I know there was a lot of yelling [04:43] and when they were fighting and [04:47] Overacting a lot of that [04:51] And I guess I haven't seen really enough of it to know what what the catchphrases would be but [04:58] Yeah, I mean, it's just a Pokemon is is a separate thing entirely [05:04] And [05:07] There was another one that was you know, I reminded me a lot it was at Naruto Naruto my brother liked that one a lot [05:16] Yeah, so so it seems like it's based on a manga series, okay, it is so there's a dragon ball [05:25] anime and [05:28] Dragon Ball Z adapts the [05:30] Lat the latter [05:33] 325 chapters of the original five hundred nineteen chapter Dragon Ball manga series [05:40] Who's the first aired in Japan on Fuji TV? [05:44] from [05:46] April 26 1989 to January 31st 1996 Wow, that's early [05:51] Why are they before being dubbed into several territories around the world including the United States? [05:56] So, I don't know when it started in the when it showed in the United States. How about osu or a Goku is that the [06:05] The phrase they catch phrase I think [06:09] Well, so Goku I think is like the kind of main character guy the one I'm seeing I'm looking up here [06:15] I see one. This is [06:17] Kamehameha [06:19] Kamehameha [06:21] Yeah, so that's what deer and Fox yells after a three-pointer Kamehameha [06:27] Okay [06:31] Yeah, it premiered in the United States in [06:34] 1996 [06:36] Okay, but halted production and in 1998 after two seasons. That's it. There's more [06:43] There may be I feel like there may be [06:45] Other other, you know Dragon Ball Z Kai in [06:51] February 2009 [06:53] There we go. I know there's a ton of a ton of video games with that [06:58] I was like mobile games and all that sort of stuff. I think it's one of the sort of premiere [07:04] You know properties [07:08] Wow, I will have to link to this there's a really nerdy ringer article about this. This is amazing [07:14] So if you want to know about what it is, I [07:19] Don't have to read our links do I [07:23] Know like our requirement of being on the pot. No, no, it's suggested outside [07:30] For further reading [07:35] It's the list of things that [07:38] As an assistant professor we'd list we write down and we know that none of the students [07:44] But [07:46] You look good, you know to your superiors when they're looking at your work, so this is this is how nerdy it gets [07:54] Kamehameha is what you mentioned, right Joey. Mm-hmm [08:00] But they argue that Kamehah [08:03] That was what deer and Fox shouted isn't a thing [08:07] It's actually Kamehah or the Kamehamehah [08:12] So basically they're super nerdy [08:15] So they're calling him out for his they are they reference [08:18] They're saying he's he's doing it wrong. Mm-hmm [08:21] okay, so hopefully he's a [08:24] adapted and adjusted after being [08:27] publicly shamed [08:30] And he now screams the right thing [08:33] Mmm, that count as public shaming. I don't know. It's like nerd shaming [08:42] The best kind [08:47] Well, I guess I feel smarter so animated series where there's martial arts [08:54] The people that save the world or something with their martial art [08:58] Skills from aliens and androids. Okay. All right [09:03] Did you play pogs? Yeah? [09:05] Mm-hmm. Just a little bit. You know, I did the baseball cards [09:09] a [09:11] Fair amount and a lot of my youth was playing basketball and football and baseball [09:18] Run around and playing some and rock fights were pop [09:24] Those are so stupid. I don't know anybody it's a terrible idea. There's only one way they end, right? [09:31] bloody [09:32] Yeah, someone's crying [09:34] All right. I [09:36] Feel like we learned not not we I think you learned something [09:42] So you gonna are you gonna check it out on yeah, I'll watch it right after I watched the goofy movie and then I'll let [09:50] You know, I've got I've got a whole like, you know, it's it's the extra reading. It's not required [09:54] I feel like the the movies are also extra not required. I've got some catching up to do