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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.
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.
Verdict right

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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