11.14: The Darkness Rises

About this episode

The hosts discuss a shocking betrayal and notable character cameos in the latest Gundam episode.

Show Notes This week on MSB: your hosts are shocked, dismayed, horrified by a sudden and entirely unexpected betrayal, a beloved Victory Gundam character makes a cameo, Rain reminds us that she's always got the right tool for every scenario, and Domon keeps one eye on the clock. Ready? Go! 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 includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the Manhattan-based Lenape Center . Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/ . We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this living land acknowledgment…

People in this episode

Hosts: Nina, Thom

Topics covered

• betrayal
• Gundam
• animation
• character cameo
• indigenous acknowledgment

Keywords

• Gundam
• betrayal
• Victory Gundam
• Rain
• Domon
• animation
• podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Delaware Tribe, Lenape Center

Books & works: Victory Gundam

Places: Lenapehoking

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