28: A Backpack Full of Legs

April 24, 2018

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Chapters

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:16 Follow up
00:03:04 Clash Bots
00:10:25 This is Fighting Robots
00:14:51 Battlebots
00:17:47 Films
00:18:48 Big Hero 6
00:28:06 What is a superhero?
00:42:05 Pacific Rim
01:02:26 Real Steel
01:26:17 Outro

Shownotes

Sam can't bear to watch robots fight, Ryan defines the supernatural, and they both press F for MegaBots.

Followup
- Predator - the real one
TV shows around the world
- ~~KFC Death Camps~~ Clash Bots
  - Sam can’t bear to watch it
  - Ryan’s life is hollow and meaningless so he watches it anyway
  - The Bill Podcast - a ‘The Bill’ podcast - this is not an endorsement of this podcast
  - Soggy Bottoms - a ‘Great British Bakeoff’ podcast - also not an endorsement
- This is Fighting Robots (KoB 1.5)
  - Sam can’t bear to watch it
  - Ryan’s life is hollow and meaningless so he watches it anyway
  - Intrusive editing
    - Feel free to speculate about Sam’s taste in vloggers in the comments
    - Since recording, a ‘VIP’ episode has come out featuring better edits of all fights
- Battlebots debuts May 11th!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  - Trailer
  - More trailers (UK only)
Robot combat in Hollywood
- Spoilers, duh…
- Big Hero 6
  - The scene
  - The perfect multibot
  - High-level controls?
- Is Batman a Superhero?
  - In which Sam expects Ryan to be consistent somehow
- Pacific Rim
  - Massive robots fighting monsters
  - “Tanks and stuff” - the only logical approach to war, apparently
  - “ELBOW ROCKET!!!"
  - Crimson Typhoon - the three-armed Jaeger
    - In-universe explanation of the ‘drift’ mind melding process
- Real Steel
  - Quite big robots boxing other quite big robots
  - Atom: Basically Gabriel
  - Shadow mode - the robot mirrors the action of a human controller simply by watching them
  - Liver punches
  - Robot Combat League
- Megabots
  - Pretty much out of money and out of ideas