BattleBots: Greg Munson and Trey Roski

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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BattleBots is an American television series, founded by executive producers Greg Munson and Trey Roski, that features remote-controlled machines weighing up to 250 lbs, fighting to the death in a bulletproof glass arena. The robots are designed and built by teams of engineer enthusiasts who compete in intense and destructive battles against each other for the championship title. Since the show first aired in 2000, it has gained a large following of dedicated fans of all ages, and BattleBots continues to inspire many people to become interested in robotics and engineering. BattleBots airs Thursday nights on Discovery. ------- Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra Get a free box of Dry Roasted Namibian Sea Salt Macadamias + 20% off Your Order With Code TETRA Use code TETRA for 20% off at checkout ------- Leisure Craft Saunas https://leisurecraft.com/

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0:00.0	Tetragrammaton
0:07.0	So, okay, so how far back should we go?
0:25.8	Go to the beginning.
0:27.1	First of all, before Battlebots, the history of robot fighting.
0:32.6	Sure.
0:32.8	So, you know, there's always these people out there, engineers, tinkers, special effects people
0:41.0	who get a thrill out of building something only to sort of destroy it spectacularly, right?
0:48.3	So like our friend, train of my, our friends, and even ourselves, we would build models,
0:53.5	you know, plastic models that you'd
0:55.1	see back in the day at the five and dime store and you'd build it and you'd painstakingly paint it
0:59.6	put all the decals on really perfectly and then you'd be like okay oh that was great let's go burn
1:03.6	it up right in the backyard right or blow it up with firecrackers i mean you'd find more and more
1:07.8	spectacular ways of destroying it which was almost as thrilling as building it, maybe even a little more thrilling.
1:13.8	So this include things like SD's rockets.
1:16.1	Absolutely.
1:17.0	So we, you know, it's like you're not satisfied with the model, with the SD's rocket.
1:21.5	Trey had Cox's boat and the...
1:23.5	Yeah, and the airplanes and the, yeah.
1:25.7	I mean, our rockets, our SD rockets, we'd put multiple engines in, right?
1:28.9	As many as you can, right?
1:30.0	Until it didn't fly right or it'd be so heavy.
1:32.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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