Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast - *PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 10: Why Are There Horses?

Episode Date: September 11, 2024

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And if you click the link in the show notes, you can find all the information that you need if you are interested. Anyway, thanks for being a Lions fan fan and we hope you enjoy this episode. We also get introduced to Hurricane Gundam, which is the Netherlands Gundam, which as we pointed out before, it's tactic to get into the finals was simply to hide. Yeah. Also, I'm in the, in the sub, it's called Nether Gundam who's way cooler who we will talk about in a little bit but um unfortunately there's not a lot to talk about it gets kicked off screen which tells me in its year in hiding it wasn't it wasn't sparring didn't have a good fight camp you know I'm this is

coming out after the Olympics are finished when watching the Olympics now and there's this Cuban wrestler who won five gold medals in a row all in wrestling And this year the man's like 40 something. It's absolutely insane. He wins it. He won a gold this year and Throughout the whole year he did not compete in a single Tournament, but just rocked up to the Olympics dominated, got his fifth gold Hurricane Gundam tried the same thing, dies immediately. Actually, has the weight lifting been on in the Olympics? It just started. Yeah. OK, I'm going to watch that after after we're done recording this.

I want to see what's the Georgian guy's name, who like does the fucking 320 pound snatch or 320 kilo snatch? I'm not sure. I'll remember before the end. But yeah, so we have the Gundam Olympics. Yeah. Also, I'm fucking non-scondom the British Gundam and Giuseppe Spaghetti are back as well. The British one is the weirdest because he's dead.

Yeah, that man is dead. We watched him die. Yeah, they're the weirdest because he's dead. Yeah. That man is dead. We watched him die. Yeah, they're putting a robot inside the robot. Gundam inception. Also that scene where Giuseppe Spaghetti shows up and a, I assume, zombie British man. The vibe in that scene is very weird because up until now it doesn't really ever show anybody just hanging out in their Gundam or doing anything personal in their Gundam Meanwhile these guys are like arms crossed leaning against the wall like they're just chilling Like out at the pub in their Gundam

Yeah, it's really weird for the tenor of the show and for a show that's baseline is very weird shit Yeah, I hate when people bring their Gund gun to the pub. It's just like, it's like bringing dogs to the pub. Hey, bringing dogs to the pub is fine. Dogs need a drink too. It, uh, okay. I'll counter this with the type of person who probably brings their dog to the pub is the type of person that has a dog that they cannot control. Like, look, I'm not opening this kind of worms because I have found that this is a thing that like really

riles people up. So my personal opinions on this are immaterial, but more like I demand to know now you can't leave me hanging. This is my general thing of I'd like, why do we are we so adamant about, you know, breeding animals that have more anxiety than people. I mean, it kind of depends on the dog, I suppose. Yeah. Like, look, if your if your dog is chill, if your dog can hang, you know, if they're in a chill vibe, that's fine. But like, if you have a dog, the dog needs a vibe check. Yeah, you need to vibe check your dogs, both animals and humans. But it's like if your dog is like uncomfortable around people,

doesn't like loud noises, like gets like very anxious. I don't know if I'm talking about dogs or fucking combat veterans now. Yeah, I think you're just talking about the two other people on this show. Dogs, Nate and Joe, both afraid of fireworks. This is why everywhere I go after live shows to meet people I wear my Thunder jacket You know I actually I don't know if a lot of people are gonna get that joke There was this product on sold on American TV years ago wasn't that it was what I was living in the US So it was a few years ago

It was like for dogs who are afraid of the sound of thunder and fireworks, it's like this weighted jacket that you can put on them. That's what I need whenever I am in large groups of people. I completely agree. Like I loved everybody who's been listening to the show for a long time knows I love my dog, Laika. Unfortunately, she doesn't live with me in the Netherlands, but not good in crowds. So I simply wouldn't bring her to them. Yeah, it's like, look, you know, I am not adamantly opposed to like bringing a dog to like a pub or something like that.

It's just like it like you can tell a dog doesn't want to be there. You know, like if the dog seems like it's going to fucking freak out, then like maybe don't bring your dog to the pub. Yeah. Bring your dog to the dog pub. The pub only for dogs, which I will be opening. Yeah. It's like, look, you know, I understand like people who have dogs or even like people who have kids, like it's more difficult. Like you can't leave a kid at home for a few hours on its own.

Don't tell my parents that. Don't tell mine either. But it's like, you know, use a bit of sense. Like also, I think that like we people have like become so like anti like, oh, kids being anywhere is like that one is weird. Yeah. Yeah. If you grow up in Ireland, like you were just so used to like going to the pub with your parents and you just like sit there for like a couple hours and like, I don't know, run around, eat some crisps, drink some soft drinks.

I don't understand people like I don't have kids. You don't have kids. I'm going to cross my fingers for both of us on that one. But you know, the people's overwhelming hatred to children is very weird to me. Especially when people are like, I can't believe this kid is crying on the plane or acting out in the airport. Have you ever met anyone on a plane or an airport? You're all annoying. Every single one of you is terrible. Yeah, have a bit of empathy for like, you know,

like people with kids, because you know what? Those kids are going to be paying your pension. So speaking of hating kids, there's kids in these episodes and I fucking hate them. Fuck them kids. They come out of nowhere. We'll get to it. We'll get to it. But yeah, so at the end of episode 25, the most the only important thing that really happens in this episode is Doman squares up to Mastor Asia. Also a really cool sequence where they light the Gundam Olympic flame. Yeah. What is like, I'm going to win all my

prelims and I'm going to beat the shit out of you. So that sets an expectation that is, has to be fulfilled. It is a terrifying thought that the winner, like the winner of the Olympics every year is like the, the dictator of space. Yeah. Because I mean, this is one event, right? So you'd have to pick one event from the Olympics. It's like that guy is now that country dominates space. Yeah. Because when it comes like sheer weight of medals like the US or China is probably always gonna win because they send the most athletes so you have to pick just one event and Yeah, fuck it. Let's just like make it. I don't know pistol shooting the gold medal chair or like

Wrestling where like countries that don't have a ton of money get to actually win a medal. It's like congratulations We're all ran by Kazakhstan for a year. Cool. For North Korea. And Ireland doing very well in the Olympics for such a small country we have, we are, I think, 12th in the number of medals, considering we have a population of like just over five million people. So, you know, we're doing well. Armenia is doing all right at the time of recording.

There was one wrestler who's very much expected to win another gold medal, but he didn't. He got a silver and he acted like a petulant child and took his medal off on the podium, refused to talk to anybody. So Armenia is real time to shine as when they introduce stealing catalytic converters to the Olympics. The only sports Armenians converters to the Olympics. The only sports Armenians are good at the Olympics is like men's gymnastics and wrestling

and a little sprinkling of weightlifting. But yeah, dig in gymnastics to good and a Yazidi Armenian guy won bronze like shit rules. Unfortunately the the the white bear as he's known because much like myself, he's very pale. I got silver and acted like, you know, he was just an asshole. But yeah, Netherlands is doing all right. The pedophile who's representing the Netherlands

was eliminated and everybody booed him. So that's fun. Yeah. I wish he was fucking. That's all I'm gonna say. That is not, that's not an I wish he was fucking That is not that's not a threat can't say that but yeah, so um we go into episode 26 with the expectation of Doman has to win every fight and this episode is a new weapon erupting Godfinger

Yeah episode is a new weapon, erupting god finger. Yeah, in the sub it's the god finger, and this one it's the erupting burning finger, because I believe in the sub the Gundam was just called like God Gundam. Yeah. Yeah. I guess they couldn't let that one fly in the dub world. Yeah. And so Doman has to square up against Zeus Gundam. This is after the Greek Gundam absolutely fucking destroys the Netherlands. Yeah, off screen. It just happens immediately.

What happens on screen? But it's like in a split second. Yeah, but that that's still on screen. There's a big difference between on screen and off screen, Joe. I didn't get any buildup. All right. Fuck that. Stop doing fucking Rene Descartes analysis of like anime is like, Oh, I see it. Therefore it happened. I also liked that the Greek Gundam is weird. Uh,

cause at first we thought it was like a weird Gundam Centaur. Yeah. But he's not connected to his horse, which is good. Unless you're from Enum Claw, Washington. If you're unaware of what that joke means, do not Google it. And it also brings up more questions like, is there another guy inside the horse. But like, this is my question, is like, you know, Zeus Gundam has a horse. Similarly, Mastro Aigis shows up on another Gundam horse. It's like, what paperwork do you have to fill out to get, because this is like an additional weapon pretty much. Yeah, now you're Gundam cavalry, which seems completely unnecessary

You can fly Also, where are they getting these horses again are the horses themselves Gundams or mobile suits? Is there people inside them? Is that a job that you could obtain in this universe? Is there a neo-victor boot that is smuggling these horses in? Where are the Gundam horse stables?