MSB is a weekly Gundam podcast for new fans, old fans, and not yet fans. Nina (a Gundam first-timer) and Thom (a lifelong Gundam fan) analyze, review, and research all 40-years of the iconic sci-fi anime mega-franchise Mobile Suit Gundam in the order it was made. We research its influences, examine its themes, and discuss how each piece of the Gundam canon fits within the changing context in Japan and the world, from 1979 to today. Part history podcast, part discussion podcast, all Gundam po ...
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In each episode of Positively Progresive, host Donna Smith talks with leading progressive politicians, activists, and authors about how their work fits into the broader progressive agenda, which strives to make positive social change that will benefit all Americans. Positively Progressive is produced by Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) with the goal of making our positive pressure and love of humanity spread far and wide. Our future is filled with our common joy, exploration, and power.
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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 fo…
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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 Lenapehok…
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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, recor…
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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.…
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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 qui…
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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 wr…
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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 a…
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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 liste…
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10.22: The Tiger and the Turtle
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Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 22. Welcome back to the Tigris-cast featuring Tigris. This week, special guests Nina and Thom stop by to chat about Gundam, the Tiger of Space, yet another stoic 30-something-year-old antagonist with a lesson to impart, and the worst group project ever. Plus we talk about names both new and old, i…
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Mimi Kennedy Celebrating PDA's 20th Anniversary
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In this installment of Positively Progressive, podcast host Donna Smith interviews one of PDA’s founders, Mimi Kennedy. This interview begins the celebration of PDAs first 20 years and many of the people who have helped PDA thrive over the years. Mimi is also an award-winning actor and brilliant writer who was in Roxbury in 2004 when progressives g…
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10.21: A Warm Light in a Cold Place
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Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 21, the possible significance of lemonade, and a wide-ranging discussion that touches on Tassilo vs. Jinn, Marbet vs. Junko, Odelo vs. Masculinity, and Uso vs. a classic right of passage for Gundam protagonists. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within L…
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Show Notes This week on MSB, it's Victory Gundam episode 20 'Eve of the Decisive Battle' and we're here to talk newtypes, plot armor, feisty ladies and the knights who love them, and the name of Zanscare's 'Amalthea' battleship. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unce…
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Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory Gundam episode 19 and a wide ranging discussion that touches on the dystopian nature of life in space, Tasilo Wago's resting creep face, Odelo's newly woken Gundam lust, and of course: motherhood. For the research, Thom returns to the Shrike team to discuss the inspiration behind their character designs. Please …
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John Padora, Progressive Candidate for Congress (CO-4)
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This episode of Positively Progressive features the amazing John Padora, PDA’s endorsed candidate in the hotly contested primary in Colorados CD4. John not only holds and advocates for the values that PDA has long held, he is also the only Democratic primary candidate with the fire, the energy and the grassroots support to beat the Trump-emboldened…
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Show Notes This week on MSB it's Victory Gundam episode 18: 宇宙艦隊戦 or Space Fleet Battle.Why are continuity errors a problem? What new translation decision is driving Thom batty? What do the contrasting characterizations of Jinn Jahannam and Maria Pure Armonia say about the factions they purport to lead? How much power could a solar satellite like t…
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Show Notes This week on MSB: Victory episode 17 breaks new ground and goes where no Gundam show has dared to go before: making a recap episode (unless you count Prelude to ZZ). Even so, this episode gives us our first glimpse at the Zanscare homeland and its famous queen, so there's still a surprising amount to talk about! Please listen to it! Unfo…
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Show Notes This week on MSB, we're covering Victory Gundam Episode 16: Reineforce, Lift Off! or リーンホース浮上. We talk about the episode name, the legacy of Gundam, Shahkti's hacker vision, the relationship between children and war, and much more! Please listen to it! And you can listen to episode 1 of The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne at https://ly…
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Show Notes This week: Victory Gundam episode 15. We're saying 'kasarelia' to new characters Godwald Heine and Tasilo Wago, and 'kasarelia' to Fuala Griffon, the old man polycule, and the Earth itself as the action shifts to space... at least for the moment! We discuss Odelo's unexpected heel turn, Cronicle's predictable but disappointing downward s…
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Healthcare Now's Gillian Mason & Vermont State Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale
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Positively Progressive presents the new leader of Healthcare-NOW, our longtime partner on the road to improved, expanded, single-payer Medicare for all. Veteran organizer Gillian Mason takes the helm from Benjamin Day as he moves on to organize around the climate crisis. In the second segment, Positively Progressive highlights another amazing, youn…
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Show Notes This week on MSB: Does Uso want to know, know that it doesn't hurt Kate? Does he want to know how it feels to go to space? Does he want to hear about the deal Katejina is making? If he could, would he make a deal with God to swap places with Cronicle? He doesn't want to hurt anyone, but see how deep the beam saber cuts. Unaware, he's tea…
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10.13: Flesh and Blood in a War of Machines
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Show Notes This week on Mobile Suit Breakdown, Victory juggles a lot of balls, Uso playing a lot of roles, Mandella gives out a lot of tickets, and Thom identifies a lot of possible inspirations for the League Militaire. Please listen to it! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded home…
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10.12: More Pilot than Child
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Show Notes This week on MSB, we visit Barcelona and find that the Catalan independence movement may well have gotten what it wanted, even if it took until the Universal Century. Plus Uso doesn't know what kind of episode he's in, Duker Iq's globe-spanning influence becomes apparent, Fuala belongs on the runway, and Thom wants to know what exactly U…
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Show Notes This week on Victory Gundam: Lupe initiates a fiasco, Uso wants to ask you a question, Marbet and Oliver get some more practice fighting like a married couple, and Shahkti wants to be anywhere but here. Plus, Nina's research on the names of the Shrike Team pilots. Please listen to it! Website updates are delayed but the full show notes a…
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10.10: In the Ruins of This Beautiful Place
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Show Notes This week on MSB, Uso makes a serious error and it nearly costs him that which he holds most dear (the opportunity to see Katejina again), Haro demonstrates remarkable emotional intelligence, Dupre discovers the price of humanity in wartime, and Oliver gets some practice acting like a husband and a father. (Imagine that I said that last …
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Show Notes YOU'RE LISTENING TO W.O.R.Y. - ANXIETY RADIO After five years, it's time for a change. Starting today, April 1, 2024, we're going to be taking the podcast in a new direction that we think will really play to our strengths as people. We hope you'll all love WORY as much as you enjoyed MSB. Happy April Fools' Day from MSB!…
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The New Generation: Jena Griswold and YPDA
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In this installment of Positively Progressive we here from Young Americans taking the lead in forging a progressive present and future. First, host Donna Smith and PDA Executive Director Alan Minsky are joined by the brilliant and pathbreaking Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who is on the front lines of protecting American Democracy from…
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Show Notes This week on Ovine Flock Victory Gunram, the show's real hero finally shows her stuff, Odelo knows how to use one of these, and Cronicle engages in a little recreational deforestation. Plus Shahkti cooks a homecoming stew, Katejina's betrayal leaves Uso stewing, and the mystery of the Kasarelia Kids' parentage continues to simmer, while …
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Show Notes This week on MSB: Nina recognizes the look in a fellow mecha convert's eyes, Thom knows a thing or two about feeling helpless, and we all learn a bit more about ad agencies... maybe even enough to justify a little rampant speculation. Please listen to it! Show notes to come as soon as we're both healthy at the same time, thanks for your …
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Show Notes By reviving the medieval tradition of podcasting, we have become unstoppable! Plus part 2 of Thom's research into the Japanese advertising industry and its role in anime production. This week: TV program development! Full show notes to come soon, thank you for your patience. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within…
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Show Notes This week on MSB: we're back with another remarkable episode of Victory dense with big questions: Is war a part of human nature? Is it better to die or to kill? Should we fight for people or for ideals?And if that's not enough, in the research Thom begins to dive into the world of Japanese advertising agencies as we explore their unsung …
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Show Notes Unfortunately due to illness we've had to delay the release of episode 10.6 by a week. We are on track to resume our regular release schedule next week (March 9th). Thanks for your patience!
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10.5: A Time and Place to Die
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Show Notes This week on Mobile Suit Breakdown: it's the Katejina Show feat. Katejina, in which a young woman with faultless logic shows us what it really means to have a big head. We promise that sentence will make more sense after you listen to the episode. Plus enjoy the second half of Nina's research on women in Japanese society during the first…
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10.4: Last Stand in Kasarelia
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Show Notes This week on MSB: Thom thinks it will be a short episode (the runtime proves that to be a lie), not that much happens (except for all the things the characters say and do), and Nina discovers that Xeno's Paradox can apply to research pieces! All that AND we talk about Victory Gundam a bit. Please listen to it! You can find the full show …
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Show Notes This week on MSB: blood in the streets of Uwig as B.E.S.P.A.'s cruelest soldiers descend upon the city. Uso (and your hosts) struggle to cope with the horror of it all, Katejina is lucky to be alive, and Shakti is not very good at hiding for someone who's been hiding for most of her life. The full show notes will be available soon on our…
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10.2: The Prince and the Pauper
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Show Notes This week on MSB, it's episode 2 of Victory Gundam: The Day He Met the Machine. We discuss this much more conventional opening episode, more dubious translation choices, running gags, production priorities, and lots more. Plus Nina presents the first part of her research into the social fallout of the asset price bubble and the place of …
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10.1: Podcast to the Victory!
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Show Notes Show notes for this episode will be uploaded to our website and this public post on our Patreon soon! 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, Ne…
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Show Notes Show notes are available in this public post on our Patreon and will be uploaded to our website shortly. 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,…
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9.15: Legendary Tale of the Epic Saga (Chapter: the End)
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Show Notes This week on Mobile Suit Breakdown: it's the end of this first era of SD Gundam! In lieu of research, we cast our minds back across all the SD shorts that we've [enjoyed|endured] to render a final verdict on it and discuss what we liked about it, which ones we'd recommend, and what it all meant for the Gundam franchise. Mobile Suit Break…
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9.14: Legendary Tale of the Epic Saga
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Show Notes On MSB this week, SD Gundam Matsuri takes us back to the medieval world of Suda Doaka for a new saga of good versus evil, Thom finds it impossible to be objective about medieval mecha, and Nina profiles composer Okada Tohru! Show notes will be uploaded to our website soon, and in the meantime they can be found on this free post on our Pa…
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Building Progressive Power with Inside/Outside Leadership and Feeding Our Bodies and Minds
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Indira Dugurala is now the second vice chair of the Colorado Democrat Party. In this episode of Positively Progressive, she brings her perspective as a first-generation immigrant and how generational change infused in the state party organization lights the path inside the DNC as well. Donna and Indira met through PDAs Denver chapter. In the Best o…
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Junie Joseph: Pursuing Pathbreaking Progressive Change at the State Level
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In the third installment of Positively Progressive, Donna speaks with Colorado State Representative Junie Joseph from Boulder. If you think that groundbreaking progressive change only happens at the Federal level. or on one of the coasts, meet Junie Jordan and prepare to replace that negaitive thought with a positive sense of promise! Also, in the …
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Show Notes Surprise! While we were away someone else translated the second part of SD Gundam Matsuri, so now we get to reap the benefits of their hard work and you get a new episode of Mobile Suit Breakdown about it. Enjoy! Show notes are available on our website! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the anc…
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Nina Turner: We Are Somebody!
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One of the visionary leaders of our time, Nina Turner, joins Donna Smith to discuss the roots of the crisis in American politics, why the programs and policies of the progressive left match the moment - and let us know about her new project that's all about building working class solidarity, We Are Somebody! Also, 24 year-old Brett Yoder shares his…
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Show Notes This week on MSB, Thom returns to Zeta Gundam to talk about the Homo Avis flying machine and, for the first time as far as we can tell, reveal its real world inspiration! Show notes are available on the Gundam Podcast website! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland…
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9.11: Music Soothes the Savage Beast
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Show Notes This week on MSB... it's finally time for the first part of never-before-translated SD Gundam movie SD Gundam Matsuri - SD Command War Chronicle: Gundam Force: Super G-Arms: Final Formula vs Norm-Gather! It's time for Space Battles and Rock Operas as the forces of good, evil, and music team up to take down an eldritch horror from beyond …
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Inaugural Episode: Thom Hartmann’s Positive Pragmatic Progressive Vision for America
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Positively Progressive Joins the Fray! Here's our inaugural episode. Hosted by Donna Smith, Chair of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) Advisory Board Featured guest: Thom Hartmann Introduced by Alan Minsky, ED of (PDA) Let us know what you think: info@P4DA.orgAf Progressive Democrats of America
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Show Notes This week on MSB: Nina returns to one of her favorite research topics: the history of food! This time she wants to know all about the shaved ice dessert made from frozen Dom in SD Gundam Mk II part 3. Show notes are available on the Gundam Podcast website! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the …
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9.9: Your Fave is a War Criminal (Part II)
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Show Notes As promised, Thom is back once again to walk you through the alleged war crimes he's identified in Soldiers of Sorrow and Encounters in Space, plus the answers to a few of your questions. Show notes are available on the Gundam Podcast website! Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and…
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9.8: Your Fave is a War Criminal (Part I)
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Show Notes People love to call Gundam characters 'war criminals,' but are they really? And if so, who and why? What war crimes did they commit? Who is history's greatest monster? This week on Mobile Suit Breakdown, Thom dusts off his legal skills and dives back into the first Gundam compilation movie with a copy of the Rome Statute of the Internati…
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9.7: Demons - Harbingers - Protectors
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Show Notes On the podcast this week, Nina was inspired to answer once and for all whether Lt. J.G. Bernard Monsha, veteran of the One Year War and future member of the Titans, is in fact a mythical bird-demon from Japanese folklore. Along the way she discovered that the answer to the question "what is a tengu?" is actually pretty complex. Join us f…
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