Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast - *PREVIEW* Lions Led By Robots 6: The Gundam Gimp

Episode Date: March 19, 2024

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Hey everyone, what you're about to listen to is a preview of a bonus episode that is available on our Patreon. If you like this clip, you can grab the whole episode, as well as years of other bonus content, at www.patreon.com slash lions led by donkeys. And everybody's like, is Master Asia gonna be okay? He's going in by himself, like, where have you been? This man is Goku in a Gundam. Like he can he can fist fight a I assume a robot that weighs several hundred tons. Yep. With his bare hands and this abandoned building. Like, is he going to be OK? I don't know. I mean, other than the fact this is obviously his plot and every viewer can see it. And it's moments like this. It's moments like this that dawn on me. Like this was made for children.

And then I'm like, what am I doing here? This is clearly meant for me when I first watched it when I was seven. Yeah. But like, listen, sometimes you got to suspend that sort of part of your brain and just, you know, but also we see obviously like Chibbity Crocket, Argo Golski, Sigh Sigh Chee and George DeSantis are now like, they're all evil. Oh, you're forgetting the part that, uh, Argo Golski is apparently now strong enough to pick up and

throw train cars at Domone as a weapon. We get what amounts to a machine gun train firing cave system. Yeah. It rules. That's my favorite part of this whole thing. Um, but then we find out why they're so much stronger because they're all infected with DG. Yeah. The new form of train. Yeah. We're doing more plates, more dates on the, uh, on the Gundam fighters. We are going to replace Derek now. Argo Golski, Natty or not? Obviously not Natty. He's doing like he's making train or some similar substance like Pruno in his toilet in prison.

I mean, he's in prison in what is supposed to be like Neo Russia, but is very obviously styled as Neo Soviet Union. Yeah, that man is much like the East German Olympic team is more steroid than human being. Yeah, Chibbity Crocket's doing like, you know, star platinum from Jojo's punches. He can like and they're all, you know, have suddenly gotten this like new power level. We're doing really doing Dragon Ball Z stuff on this episode I mean, I think in any anime specifically one like G Gundam and one like, you know There's another show that I've brought up Zoids that we might watch in the future any

Shonen type anime you're gonna get like the power chase the power increase They have to do it. And then we see it here, not only with the DG cells in this episode, but we also see an episode three as well, where the shining gun, them literally go super sad. Yeah. Yeah. And it happens in one of these three episodes, you know. But and then we get like rain randomly piloting Shining Gundam. Yeah. And it's also if you randomly piloting Shining Gundam. Yeah.

And it's also if you forgot, you're watching anime lots of shots when she's like putting on the suit. I will say that scene probably led many a child to an awakening. Yeah. The. So I watched the dub. I don't know what it sounds like in sub, but I know in the dub, I turned it down in that scene because I was really worried that my neighbors might think I was watching anime porn.

It's arguably worse in Japanese. It's the exact same sounds that you can probably imagine in your head. Oh yeah. And then it also brings up questions of the the internal workings of the Gundam, right? Yeah, well, we've kind of worked out that the the the skin tight mobile suits Suit the the the suit that the pilot wears the fight suit fight suit is This strange like Lycra body suit that gets put on them by a machine. And we now know that then no way is that fitted to Domo because Reign seemed like it was killing her as it like squeezed over her. And then they can then they both end up getting in the mobile suit and both end up wearing

the weird sex suit, the tactical gimp suit. Yeah, but what I don't really get, and I hate that I'm questioning the internal logic of a mid 90s anime, how come they have to wear the fight suit and the other Gundam pilots do, but Master Asia or other people that we see in subsequent episodes we're going to talk about don't. Because they're evil. No, but like the good guys in a few in an episode we're going to talk about in a bit

don't have to wear it either. Maybe their power level is so high they simply don't need the tactical gimp suit. Yeah, does like the gimp suit, is it like Fallout where you get like bonus points because you're wearing like the tactical suit, is it like fallout where you get like bonus points because you're wearing like the tactical game suit? Maybe because you know, it's been established that much like Pacific Rim, that all of these robots are controlled through like body movement and it, and maybe the suit, the game suit is much like that Olympic swimming suit from years ago that got banned because it made people too fast. You can simply air punch faster when you wear it. No drag on those

ass cheeks that we see from all those closeups. Now I'm thinking, was the Somerset Gimp just like a... I'm sorry, the what? Oh, you don't know what the Somerset Gimp is? Why would I know what the Somerset Gimp is? Why would I know what the Somerset Gimp is? So the Somerset Gimp was a guy who would put on a Gimp suit and then go out late at night and like very menacingly crawl along the ground towards people. Who's he hurting? That's just how he travels.

He was looking for his Gundam. Um, but yeah, he got like, he got sentenced. What is it? I'm sorry, is being weird a crime now? Summer said Gimp banned from wearing a Gimp suit in public and crawling slash wriggling slash writhing on the ground for five years. So the man was banned from writhing. Yep. Yep. Who's enforcing this ban? Oh, I'm sorry. This is gonna get forwarded to the wiggling police. Yeah, he was issued with a sexual risk order after police linked him to 25 incidents

across the country. Obviously, this is like extremely sinister. Well, did he touch anyone? No, but it's just weird. If being weird is illegal, we're all guilty. There's being weird and then there's wearing a gimp suit and like hiding in a bush so you can like jump scare people. He likes bushes. He needed some fucking photosynthesis. This is this is discrimination against our gimp suit wearing friends, family and fans.

Joe, I hate that you're making me side with the police here. Like I I am a vehement enemy of the British state and you are making me side with them over the summer second. I think this is just a fundamental thing when it comes to how different, different cultures are. Where as an American, I believe as long as you don't physically hurt someone or like pull your dick out in public, which does, you know, physically traumatize people. You didn't do anything wrong. Yeah, like I look, I'm reading like the restrictions that were handed down. It was like, um, he's banned from wearing black all in one garments or any combination which have has the appearance

of an all in one garment in public between nine p.m. and six a.m. He is also forbidden from crawling, wriggling, or writhing on the ground in a public place whilst wearing a full body covering, full body covering clothing that appears like a full body covering and or mask slash full face covering. First, they came for the gimp suit. And I said nothing because I did not have a gimp suit.

God, you're going to start funding the provisional gimp suit army. You'll never see them writhing towards you. They're too silent of the squeaking of their suits, I assume. So side note, there is actually there's a really good documentary about like people who are like super into like latex and leather stuff from the 70s. And it's like like loads of people are like, oh, I'm just a World War Two reenactor. I'm a big fan of the frog men and are like people wearing like rubber Macintoshes and going like standing in the rain or in puddles or stuff.

What's a Macintosh? You just keep inventing new words. No, Macintosh, it's an army coat. It was invented for the army. It's like a long kind of trench coat that is like waterproof. It's also kind of rubbery. It's not just a rain jacket. Yeah, pretty much. But the really funny thing about this documentary is just like how normal all the people are.

It's like I think nowadays we kind of have this conception of like, oh, people who are into stuff like that might be like a little bit odd or like seem odd to people who don't know what's going on. Um, but it's like, um, like they're just like, oh yeah, you know, like I'm, I'm an accountant. I just like doing this on the weekends. I like going standing in the rain or in puddles or stuff and he's just like, I like a good puddle. Full rubber outfit, gas mask, everything. And I'm like, you know what? Doesn't hurt anybody. Yeah, no, exactly. Like ride around on the ground in peace. Don't, don't step on my puddle. God damn it. We've inadvertently walked backwards into kink at pride discourse.

So no, no, no, we're moving on. We're moving on. Also, it is not my place to say fuck all about pride as a straight man. Exactly. Keep your mouth shut. It's for us.