Show Notes

This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 26 - The Ghost of Zeon (ジオンの亡霊), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on bridges and the captains who die on them, a hard to translate phrase, and why Jamaican reminds Thom of Rudyard Kipling.

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- Background on the bridge (nautical), all or nothing armoring, and conning towers..

- Labeled diagram showing parts of a WWII-era battleship.

- Book recounting the final battles of the Japanese battleship Musashi, including descriptions of her bridge and what happened to the officers on the bridge when it came under fire:

Gregory G. Fletcher. Intrepid Aviators: The American Flyers Who Sank Japan's Greatest Battleship, Penguin (2012).

- US Navy history page on the USS Atlanta, including the fate of Admiral Scott (killed on her bridge by friendly fire).

- Book covering the development of the "bridge":

Richard Woodman. The History of the Ship: The Comprehensive Story of Seafaring from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Bloomsbury (2012).

- Background on the Japanese "pagoda masts."

- Book with a description of the bridge and the conning tower on an Iowa-class battleship:

Carl LaVo. Pushing the Limits: The Remarkable Life and Times of Vice Admiral Allen Rockwell McCann, USN. Naval Institute Press (2013).

- Book with a chapter laying out how bridge design might be re-imagined in the future:

Jan Noyes, Matthew Bransby. People in Control: Human Factors in Control Room Design. IET (2001).

- List of the US generals and flag officers killed during WW2.

- Jisho.org definition for しにぞこない (shinizokonai) - the phrase Yazan uses to describe the derelict Gwazine.

- Background on Rudyard Kipling.

- One of many critical responses to Kipling's "White Man's Burden":

H.T. Johnson, “The Black Man’s Burden,” available at http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5476/

- Archive.org copy of Mark Twain's "To the Person Sitting in Darkness."

- The Great War YouTube channel episode on the Battle of Loos, where John Kipling died.

- Text of the poem Tin Fish.

- Music for the TVN shopping channel:

reNovation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/60674

- "On hold" music from the talkback:

Elevator Music, Part 1 by Jay_You (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Crea