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Untitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 19: Total Pacifism RecallThe school year is over and it's time for yearbook superlatives. As of episodes 37 and 39, here are your winners:
Most likely to be crowned Miss Universe on account of literally being queen of the world right now: Relena Peacecraft.
Most dead: Tsubarov (RIP).
Most likely to transform into a leather daddy for the Pride parade: Gundam Epyon.
Most likely to be caught in the middle of a fight for unions in the after colony gig economy: Duo Maxwell.
Most likely to begin a sentence with "As an empath...": Quatre Raberba Winner.
Most likely to be cancelled on Twitter f...2022-07-0554 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 18: Big Trouble in Space ChinaBack from our unplanned hiatus, it’s Untitled Tallgeese Podcast! Today on Gundams of Our Lives: The Wind Beneath Our Wings, we visit Space China, home of Wufei, and our hosts get into what, exactly, is going on with Chineseness in Space China. Did you know there’s an alternative universe where Wufei is from Africa? But in this universe, Gundam Wing’s main African representation is… the circus lion, because that’s right, we’re back in the circus, which is now in space. That’s the real reason we went on hiatus: faced with the prospect of releasing anot...2022-04-0649 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 17: Dial Epyon Club2021 is about to leave us like Heero leaving the Sanc Kingdom the minute Relena takes her eyes off him, but before we go, your hosts are here to talk religion, make fun of Treize, and talk disastrous hookups—and we'll never be out of disastrous hookups! We're finally introduced to the dark and edgy outer senshi Gundam Epyon, which Treize has lovingly stashed away in a dark creepy mansion complete with his secret shrine dedicated to Heero Yuy figurines and photographs. Just kidding! He doesn't have a shrine! But he does have a lot of Feelings about Heero Yuy wh...2021-12-3147 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 16: Government Mandated Divorce EnergyWe're still at Relena's School for Girls (and Two Boys!) Who Want to Craft Peace, except one girl came out here to have a good time and her idea of a good time is attacking and getting attacked. Dorothy doesn't have time for your thoughts on gender essentialism and pacifism or the battle between Bad Oz and Treize Oz. She's just here to stab Heero in a fencing duel and drive Relena straight into the middle of a mobile suit battle! Honestly, big mood. And speaking of moods, we delve deep into every one of the many vibes Duo...2021-10-2944 min
Untitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 15: The Peacecraft Institute for Girls Who Can't Craft Peace GoodClose your eyes. Imagine a beach. The sand between your toes. The sound of waves. Your eyes are shrouded in unexpectedly detailed eyelashes. Your friend sits beside you. The setting sun brings a new vibrancy to his platinum blonde hair. Two dogs run up to you. You throw a pineapple for them. You are at peace. Your name is Heero Yuy and your animation budget has just been replenished. Okay, enough of that: we have some questions. First of all, where is this beach jungle of Europe? Is total pacifism possible or is it merely schoolgirl naïveté? Why do...2021-08-0535 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 14: Road Trip (No Apologies)Whump. Sandalwood. Dragon plushie. Perfect soldier. "Gods!" Do these ancient codewords awaken anything in you? If so, then this episode is for you. Gundam Wing has hit its midseason recap moment, so your hosts have decided, like Treize, to hide away in a shadowy and extremely elaborate mansion of their memories—only instead of Lady Une, we have the ghost of fanfiction past. Join us as we discuss the first installment in the Road Trip arc, a famous 1x2 fanfic series by Sunhawk, revisit fanfic archives loved and lost, ponder post-Earth polytheism, and finally pay tribute to an author wh...2021-06-2641 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 13: High on Wing Zero JuiceIn this episode, your hosts wax philosophic on anime and politics like they're college sophomores getting high off that good, good Zero System Juice. Cathy grandstands with her unified theory of anime, Caitlin breaks down just what the glory of the losers means, Mallory threads the needle of drone warfare and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Kat asks all the important questions, like "Is Quatre psychic?" and "What kind of health benefits does OZ offer?" and "Does competency get Duo hot?" (Hint: yes, yes it does.) This is the pseudo-season finale, so we're heavy on the heavy stuff, but...2021-06-1146 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 12: Space is (Still) the PlaceIt's a bird, it's a plane, it's—Quatre in Wing Zero threatening to blow up a colony! Trowa might be horrified, but we're delighted, by the artistic flair and horror movie vibes on display anyway. Caitlin reveals that she's been moonlighting as the strategist for all the Gundam pilots; too bad no one has been getting her transmissions from the Lunar Base—except for Duo, who gives us all the fanservice we could possibly ask for in these last two episodes, from getting beat up to giving moving political speeches to finally getting his government assigned female love interest in Hi...2021-05-2941 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 11: Unibang FixationThe wings of the tall-goose continue to flap as we brave episodes 21 and 22 of Gundam Wing. Today, we learn that Quatre has sisters—uncountable, unknowable sisters! Doctor Sisters, Lawyer Sisters, Never-Met-The-Boy-Before Sisters! Sisters sprouting from the soil, sisters flowing from the sea, sisters bursting in the air— oh, wait, sorry, that was his dad. We discuss our plans to eat the rich, represented by Quatre’s dad—but do we want to eat the rich politically or eat the rich erotically? Quatre’s battle with his father goes full Freud when we notice a central feature of Papa Space Baron’s ap...2021-05-0440 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 10: Destabilizing The Mecha-Wife DichotomyToday we follow the lives and loves of average young adults on a college campus through Gundam Wing episodes 19 and 20: Zechs Merquise has graduated from Earth High School and plans to shed his emo mask boy image with a total reinvention when he starts at Space University. He studies Mobile Suits in Classical Japanese Literature with eccentric Prof. Howard. Professor Lady Une (do NOT call her “Lady” or, worse, “Mrs. Une”) is offering her famous course on Military Propaganda this semester and everyone at S.U. is enrolled. For her advanced students, she is also teaching a seminar on The Psych...2021-04-1338 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 9: Cognitive Mobile Suit TherapyLike your favorite danmei drama, this episode is full of death and rebirth: Zechs Merquise dies and is reborn as Milliardo Peacecraft, Heero is reborn as transfer student Duo Maxwell, and this podcast is reborn as Lagrange Colony Trap House as we skeptically evaluate the colony's response to Lady Une's political machinations. Have you missed us talking about Lady Une? Well, worry not, because for the next few episodes, we can't shut up about Lady Une, how she performs femininity in her ambassador role, if she's lost her mind, and whether or not it's all a tribute to Utena...2021-03-2741 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 8: Metaphor BabiesThe final stop in our apology roadtrip is Antarctica, where Zechs has planned a mobile suit battle that will ultimately end up merging Heero with Gundam Heavyarms and triggering the Second Impact. Wait, sorry, wrong series! We give props to Trowa for his emotional labor, Treize doesn't actively kill a metaphorical baby but it's a close shave, and Relena commits a federal mail crime-- but it's all in service of creating a better future for Heero. And while GW's lasting legacy should be how the Antarctica duel actually gives us characterization through piloting styles, it probably remains most well-known...2021-03-1343 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 7: Apology RoadtripIn Episodes 13 and 14 of Gundam Wing, it’s all eyes on Trowa in the center of the ring just like a circus he’s about to blow up. Baby, he’s a put-on-a-show kind of girl, so he’s going to do some terrorism and self-destruct. Luckily, Catherine punches him in the face, as all of us wish to do to all Gundam pilots. Sunrise wastes some great goggle-wearing designs on one-off characters who exist only to allow Zechs to claim ethical superiority. The podcasters wonder if all anime is fascist—wow, @ past us, that’s a little extreme, let’s calm d...2021-02-1939 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 6: Up Discourse Creek With No OarJust because you can't travel in the pandemic doesn't mean you can't visit ARAB WORLD and CHINA WORLD with Cathy, Caitlin, Kat, Mallory, and the cast of Gundam Wing! We had too much fun last episode talking about shipping and sex, so naturally this episode is absolutely no fun at all as we delve into colonialism and nationalism as it applies to Sichu—sorry, the Autonomous Mountain Region of China, whether shipping Wufei and Sally is weird psychosexual incest, Trowa's teenage terrorist trauma, and just how incredibly hot Noin is when she pulls up in a motorcycle to save Re...2021-02-0439 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 5: Too Beautiful for War CrimesOZ begins to conquer Alliance-held countries on today’s episodes of Gundam Wing, leading Caitlin, Kat, Mallory, and Cathy to ask the hard-hitting questions: Are Trieze and Zechs having sex? If so, how serious are they? We discuss Zechs’s devoted underlings, including poor Otto who dies in the unstable Tallgeese—is that why we named our podcast after it?! Duo and Heero briefly star in a sports anime, The Basketball That Heeroko Plays, and we relaunch our campaign to make sure Wufei gets shipped with everyone, starting with a romantic coffee date with Trowa. Then the three podcast Sort-o...2021-01-2135 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 4: For Whom the Foghorn of Failure BlowsPacifism is, like, so last episode of Gundam Wing as Caitlin, Kat, Mallory, and Cathy make like Heero and carve up a plane full of well-meaning but nonsensical plot points. Join us as we fail to explain why Wufei and Treize can communicate seemingly through foghorns and crossed swords, if Treize is sexist, classist, or both (definitely both), where Zechs got that beautiful engraved ivory pistol, and how to wake you or your local Gundam pilot from a failure coma. And in our fandom artifact section, Caitlin shares some stories from the all-seme Duo-focused doujinshi collection "Phallus Sex Symbol."...2020-12-2434 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 3: Sad Clown ProblemsIn this episode, Caitlin, Kat, Mallory, and Cathy get fully on board with Relena's groupies as Relena bravely faces down Lady Une's exploding makeup compact, OZ mobile suits descending on her school, and one of at least three attempts by Heero Yuy to kill her. We take a detour into the mystery of how the characters were named, unintentionally kill the whole circus industry like the millennials we are, intentionally attempt to kill Quatre with space tuberculosis, and discuss the romantic implications of telling someone you want to be "attacked." Finally, have you ever wondered why Heero's eyes were s...2020-12-1039 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 2: The Compulsive Canonical Pairing NightmareWhile Lady Une looks for rose oil for Treize's bubble bath in the mock Parthenon, Caitlin, Kat, Mallory, and Cathy discuss episodes 3 and 4 of Gundam Wing, which turn out to be foundational texts for the most popular fandom (and merchandise!) pairings. We marvel at Quatre and Trowa's gay senpai status, try to matchmake Wufei as the odd-numbered pilot out, discuss the three anime life stages (15, 25, and dead), debate coded lesbians and whether Noin is a victim of compulsive heterosexuality, and spend some time with That Evil Knievel Dub Line and dub vs sub voices more generally. Our fandom artifact...2020-11-1239 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 1: The Gundam(s) AssembleIn this episode, Caitlin, Kat, Mallory, and Cathy trawl the seas (unsuccessfully) for a deeper understanding of the setting and the political tensions between the Alliance and OZ, debate whether or not rich schools cover math (no, you only learn horseback riding and fencing), revisit our 14-year-old mean girl selves in Relena, and debate hiring practices for circuses. In our fandom artifact section, we talk about the music of Gundam Wing, which both gave us hits like the OP, Two Mix's classic "Just Communication," but also far lesser-known character songs like Duo Maxwell's character song, "Good Luck & Good Bye." 2020-10-2936 minUntitled Tallgeese PodcastEPISODE 0: The Anime They Once Saw (or Didn't See)The year is 2020, After Gundam 41. After decades of vaguely remembering Gundam Wing canon, a group of rebels in various states of fandom participation (anime and others) decided to come together to record a podcast where they slowly but surely rewatch the series. Three of these brave individuals have finished the series in its entirety, but the fourth will be making their first attempt at completing the journey. This podcast goes by the name of "Untitled Tallgeese Podcast."
Join Kat, Mallory, Caitlin, and Cathy in this introductory episode where we talk about our history with watching (or not wa...2020-10-0133 min