Show Notes This week on MSB: we're covering Victory episode 47. The Gender of it all is overwhelming, Cronicle underwhelms in truly impressive fashion, Maria has a funny idea of compassion, and Marbet discovers a cool new power up with no sinister implications whatsoever. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Le...
Apr 19, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 10Ep. 47
Show Notes This week on MSB, we're joined by new consultant, and Bible scholar in training, Vivian 'Wheels' Wheeler to talk about the Ophanim, the famous 'wheels within wheels' from the Book of Ezekiel. You can also find Wheels on Bluesky (@singularwheels) or on the podcast Very Random Encounters (www.vre.show)! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them ...
Apr 12, 2025•42 min
Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 46. Kagatie's sinister plan is finally revealed (It's babies. Of course it's babies) and two characters surprise us by winning our (grudging) support. Plus Marbet's fighting for two, Fuala's fighting for the fun of it, and Uso is fighting for his life. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers ...
Apr 05, 2025•42 min•Season 10Ep. 46
Show Notes This week we're talking about Thompson v. White, 149 So.2d 797 (1963). Be sure to read along with us! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which in...
Apr 01, 2025•15 min
Show Notes This week: Victory Gundam episode 45. It's another(!) recap episode... kind of? We test out some new podcasting technology, the Angel Halo gets its first field test, Queen Maria tells all the kids to pick up their rooms, and Nina researches the healing powers of royal touch. Plus, Voltaire says a very funny thing. That's right, we got Voltaire to come guest on the podcast. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral ...
Mar 29, 2025•55 min•Season 10Ep. 45
Show Notes This week on MSB - it's the research from 10.44: Hope Springs Eternal! This is part four of our series on Yugoslavia and its influence on Victory Gundam, and the second of three research pieces covering World War II in Yugoslavia. This week we follow the Partisans, who led the resistance against the fascist occupation, from the beginning of the uprising through to what may have been their lowest point in the summer of 1943. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced with...
Mar 15, 2025•33 min
Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory episode 44. We've GOT to talk about Shahkti, plus the hard line between children and adults, the Desperation of Maria Pure Armonia, whether we like Victory or not, Gundam relationship any% speedrun, wheels (within wheels) and much more. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the L...
Mar 08, 2025•46 min•Season 10Ep. 44
Show Notes Victory Gundam ep. 43 This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 43. We meet a new BESPA character who will surely be around for a long time, talk about comets and their characteristics, wonder whether Fuala Griffon is a Char or some other legacy character back for revenge, and find that our opinions of Uso's after school special dilemma diverge pretty widely. The research this week returns to Yugoslavia for Part 3 of our history of the Yugoslav Wars. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Br...
Mar 01, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 10Ep. 43
Show Notes This week on MSB we're talking about the Victory Gundam episode with a truly goth title: #42 'A Shining Vortex of Fresh Blood.' We discuss Sigmund Freud, weird facts, name and design references, the sour end to Lupe Cineau's improbably long career, what not having kids does to a woman (and how to fix it according to Dr. Uso), and a whole lot about the Zanneck's origins. Plus, Nina and Thom both reach their limits for very different reasons. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown i...
Feb 15, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 10Ep. 42
Show Notes This week on MSB, it's Victory Gundam episode 41 and we have so much to say about it. We cover comrades and commanders, Uso's ten dads, Shahkti's burgeoning feelings, the price of pink paint, Karlmann's contribution to the family, the secret nobility of Jinn Jahannam, Zanscarist Dualism, and a conspiracy theory that will turn the whole Universal Century on its head. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unc...
Feb 08, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 10Ep. 41
Show Notes This week on MSB, we're talking about Victory Gundam episode 40. It's got the full Victory package: a cool robot, a bad war, grief, comedy, vertically oriented death, continuity errors, Flanders doing something implausible, and a late night wikipedia binge! Plus, we finally figure out where Newtype powers come from. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. B...
Feb 01, 2025•52 min•Season 10Ep. 40
Show Notes This week on MSB: Uso and the League Militaire crew discover that to BESPA 'ceasefire' means the opposite of what you'd think, as the soldiers of Largaine Base resolve to use up all their ammunition, and every Zolo they've got, in one last desperate attack on the White Ark. Uso deploys a pro-gamer strat using the V2's nigh-miraculous Wings of Light, fish rain from the sky, and friend of the podcast Sarah McCostumes returns to talk about greebles, closet cosplay, and the most intense c...
Jan 25, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Season 10Ep. 39
Show Notes This week on MSB, we're talking about motorcycles, bikes, biking, riding on motorbikes, traveling by bike, touring, voyages conducted primarily via gasoline-powered two-wheeled vehicles and looooooooove. Plus, part 2 of our miniseries on Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav wars that may or may not have inspired this dang show. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people...
Jan 18, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 10Ep. 38
Show Notes This week on MSB, it's Victory Gundam episode 37. We talk a lot about life, death, fluids, and another anime you might have heard of before that came out around the same time as Victory. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pe...
Dec 28, 2024•59 min•Season 10Ep. 37
Show Notes This week on MSB we're talking about Victory Episode 36. Tune in for tragedy! Comedy! Bullying! Robots! More Cronicle Asher discourse than you'd expect, and a gosh dang wonder of the natural world. Plus, should we cancel beavers? The slideshow we used on this episode is here . Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to m...
Dec 21, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Season 10Ep. 36
Show Notes This week on MSB, we cover Victory Gundam episode 35 'Mother or Shahkti'. We can't even begin to guess what kind of impossible choice will be forced upon Uso! Plus - Flanders is there when you need him (somehow), Karlmann is so inured to weapons he doesn't mind becoming one, and Myra's impossibly good while Shahkti's just impossible. Then in the research, Thom thinks he knows precisely where Tomino found the name 'Zanscare'. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recor...
Dec 07, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 10Ep. 35
Show Notes This week - the fabled short episode finally manifests as the sheer magnitude of Zanscare's atrocities in Mexico leaves us with little else to talk about. Cronicle's crimes are as big as his tires, Nina makes (and loses) a new friend, Uso gets what he needs (with a little help from his friends) and Katejina's rhetorical strategy is unpersuasive. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, ...
Nov 23, 2024•42 min•Season 10Ep. 34
Show Notes This week on MSB, we're covering Victory Gundam episode 33: The People Who Dwell in the Sea. We discuss cargo cults, infantilization as a function of government, virgin mothers, parallel character development, Victory's anti-feminism, all the stories that aren't being told, and of course: balls. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to mov...
Nov 16, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 10Ep. 33
Show Notes We're joined by special guest and friend of the show Sean, aka 'Flying Grizzly,' who helps us cover episode 32 of Victory Gundam, aka 'Doggorla's Violent Advance.' Sean offers bold takes on mechanical design and the ideal TV format for Tomino, Thom is surprised to learn that nerds listen to this show, and Nina gets everything she wants: clumsy mobile suits, a familiar voice actor, and the vindication of being right about everything all the time forever. Please listen to it! Mobile Sui...
Nov 09, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 10Ep. 32
Show Notes This week on MSB, we're covering Victory Gundam episode 31: 'Launch the Motorad!' in which Shahkti learns all the wrong lessons from Uso, Cronicle picks up some bad habits from Fuala Griffon of all people, and Oliver delegates teaching the children to somebody else. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, t...
Oct 26, 2024•49 min•Season 10Ep. 31
Show Notes This week on MSB, we're covering Victory Episode 30 'Mother's Gundam' - it's an unusual recap episode featuring the first appearance of a VERY unusual woman. Plus, did the fate of Yugoslavia and the end of the Cold War inspire Victory Gundam? It depends! Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape li...
Oct 19, 2024•53 min•Season 10Ep. 30
Show Notes This week we're talking about Victory Gundam's infamous episode 29 (which depicts Uso being assaulted in a bath by an adult woman) and then Nina's research takes us down a dark path to talk about the Holocaust, its influence on Victory, and the racism in Tomino's depictions of Jewish characters. There's also a new mobile suit, I guess. It's pretty cool. Please listen to it (with discretion)! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral an...
Oct 12, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 10Ep. 29
Show Notes This week on MSB we're covering Victory Gundam episode 28 (The Great Escape) with help from returning environmental justice consultant Colin! Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenape...
Oct 05, 2024•59 min•Season 10Ep. 28
Show Notes This week on MSB, we return to covering episodes of Victory Gundam with #27 'A Flash that Runs through Space'. The best podcasts come from episodes that are either really good or really bad. This week's is one of those... but which? Please listen to it to find out! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New...
Sep 28, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 10Ep. 27
Show Notes Ooo-oh we're half way there! Livin' on another batch of great questions! This time we're talking about our process, where Victory excels and where it fails, ideas for mixing up the cast, thoughts on the show's place in the Universal Century, Cronicle's backstory, and much more! Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to ...
Sep 21, 2024•52 min
Show Notes Oops, we got too many good questions so now we're doing a two-parter! Enjoy this week's Q&A and tune in next week for more questions, more answers, and more digressions! Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, D...
Sep 14, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Show Notes It's time for everyone's favorite convention: the Ameria Colony Guillotine Fest! Bring the kids on down, it's fun for the whole family! On this episode we discuss what makes a Char, the Uso Cycle and the Big Sister with a Thousand Faces, narrative imperatives, and how we're each of us getting what we want out of Victory (despite some quibbles). Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the L...
Aug 17, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 10Ep. 26
Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 25 and... Oliver is Uso-pilled, Odelo is getting better at romance, Peggie is waving death flags in both hands, Uso asks if Shahkti can come out and play, and Marbet is still just terrible at strategy. Plus, we get to meet the REAL star of the show. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers for...
Aug 10, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 10Ep. 25
Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory Episode 24, the spiritual power of maternity, Haro's sacrifice, matrilineal vs. matriarchal vs. matrilocal, it's not Victory without a little jank, what to do when a voice actor is unavailable, and much more! Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City...
Aug 03, 2024•59 min•Season 10Ep. 24
Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 23. The best laid plans of mice and men go awry this week as everything Uso and the Hiland crew do to avoid battle seems to backfire; Warren fires the missiles, a man sees his lifelong dream come to fruition, and we get a glimpse into life within Zanscare. Spoiler alert! It looks bad! Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, ...
Jul 27, 2024•1 hr•Season 10Ep. 23
