Hey everybody, I'm Coach Bill Courtney from the Oscar-winning documentary, Undefeated.

I believe that our country's problems can never be solved by a bunch of fancy people

and nice suits talking big words that nobody ever uses on CNN and Fox, but rather bang

Army of Normal Folks. Us, just you and me saying, hey man, I can help.

Our podcast and Army of Normal Folks is building up this army that I think can change this country,

and I hope you'll join us wherever you listen to podcasts.

Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most wanted man has been on the run,

for over a decade. He's a bank robber, we hear a barrage of shots,

a kidnapper, but to many Greeks, he's a hero. His name is Vasili Spaliokostas,

and we're on the trail of the man behind the men, a modern day Robin Hood who steals from the

rich and gives to the poor. A Miles Gray, listen to the Good Deaf on the iHeart Radio app Apple

podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Brain Stuff, a production of iHeart

Radio. Hey, Brain Stuff, I'm Lauren Vocalbaum, and today I've got another classic episode for you.

In this one, we talk robots, the fun kind, the kind perhaps you think of when you hear the word

robots. Despite the fact that you're way more likely to encounter, say a robotic dishwasher in real

life, up large Gundam type mechas. Could we create them in real life?

Hey, Brain Stuff, I'm Lauren Vocalbaum, and if science fiction has taught us anything,

it's that giant, piloted robotic humanoids will eventually be essential to the protection of

everything we hold dear. Invading Kaiju from another dimension, send in the acres,

row beasts from planet doom, better assemble Voltron, and as James Cameron's aliens taught us in 1986,

even a non-combat mech suit can make all the difference against an extraterrestrial threat.

Another influential example is RX-78-2 Gundam. The titular piloted giant robot entered the world

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