Automatic for the People: A Mr. Robot Podcast

Join Akira and Ryan (and sometimes Logan) as they discuss every episode of Mr. Robot, talk computer hacking on the big screen and slowly become absorbed by the Matrix. This is Automatic for the People.

Mr. Robot stars Rami Malek as Elliot, Christian Slater as Mr. Robot as well as stars Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin and Martin Wallstrom.

The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at the cyber security company Allsafe as a security engineer. Constantly struggling with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression, Elliot’s thought process seems heavily influenced by paranoia and delusion. He connects to people by hacking them, which often leads him to act as a cyber-vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as Mr. Robot and joins his team of hacktivists known as “fsociety.” One of their missions is to cancel all debts by taking down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (which Elliot perceives as Evil Corp), which also happens to be Allsafe’s biggest client.

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Join Logan and Ryan as they discuss every episode of Mr. Robot, talk computer hacking on the big screen and slowly become absorbed by the Matrix. This is Automatic for the People.

Mr. Robot stars Rami Malek as Elliot, Christian Slater as Mr. Robot as well as stars Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin and Martin Wallstrom.

The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at the cyber security company Allsafe as a security engineer. Constantly struggling with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression, Elliot’s thought process seems heavily influenced by paranoia and delusion. He connects to people by hacking them, which often leads him to act as a cyber-vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as Mr. Robot and joins his team of hacktivists known as “fsociety.” One of their missions is to cancel all debts by taking down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (which Elliot perceives as Evil Corp), which also happens to be Allsafe’s biggest client.

Find the Podcast on Twitter @MrRobotPodcast

Find Logan on Twitter @dedpool1979

Find Ryan on Twitter @polk79

Find Akira on Twitter @Phoenix_Immer

You can check us out on Coub as well!

Follow @h3ll0fri3nd on Twitter for all of your Mr. Robot news.

Subscribe to us on iTunes!

Subscribe to us on Stitcher!

Email us! [email protected]

We’re on Reddit!

Find the show’s official Twitter @whoismrrobot

Head to the show’s official website and check out Whoismrrobot.com for more!

Interested in the filming locations? Make sure you check out the WhereIsMrRobot blog!

Join Akira and Ryan (and sometimes Logan) as they discuss every episode of Mr. Robot, talk computer hacking on the big screen and slowly become absorbed by the Matrix. This is Automatic for the People.

Mr. Robot stars Rami Malek as Elliot, Christian Slater as Mr. Robot as well as stars Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin and Martin Wallstrom.

The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at the cyber security company Allsafe as a security engineer. Constantly struggling with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression, Elliot’s thought process seems heavily influenced by paranoia and delusion. He connects to people by hacking them, which often leads him to act as a cyber-vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as Mr. Robot and joins his team of hacktivists known as “fsociety.” One of their missions is to cancel all debts by taking down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (which Elliot perceives as Evil Corp), which also happens to be Allsafe’s biggest client.

Find the Podcast on Twitter @MrRobotPodcast

Find Logan on Twitter @dedpool1979

Find Ryan on Twitter @polk79

Find Akira on Twitter @Phoenix_Immer

You can check us out on Coub as well!

Follow @h3ll0fri3nd on Twitter for all of your Mr. Robot news.

Subscribe to us on iTunes!

Subscribe to us on Stitcher!

Email us! [email protected]

We’re on Reddit!

Find the show’s official Twitter @whoismrrobot

Head to the show’s official website and check out Whoismrrobot.com for more!

Interested in the filming locations? Make sure you check out the WhereIsMrRobot blog!

 

About this week’s guest:

Corey Nachreiner, CTO at WatchGuard Technologies, regularly contributes to security publications and speaks internationally at leading industry trade shows like RSA. He has written thousands of security alerts and educational articles and is the primary contributor to the Secplicity Community, which provides daily videos and content on the latest security threats, news and best practices. A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Corey enjoys “modding” any technical gizmo he can get his hands on and considers himself a hacker in the old sense of the word.

Join Ryan and Logan as they discuss every episode of Mr. Robot, talk computer hacking on the big screen and slowly become absorbed by the Matrix. This is Automatic for the People.

Mr. Robot stars Rami Malek as Elliot, Christian Slater as Mr. Robot as well as stars Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin and Martin Wallstrom.

The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at the cyber security company Allsafe as a security engineer. Constantly struggling with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression, Elliot’s thought process seems heavily influenced by paranoia and delusion. He connects to people by hacking them, which often leads him to act as a cyber-vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as Mr. Robot and joins his team of hacktivists known as “fsociety.” One of their missions is to cancel all debts by taking down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (which Elliot perceives as Evil Corp), which also happens to be Allsafe’s biggest client.

Find the Podcast on Twitter @MrRobotPodcast

Find Logan on Twitter @dedpool1979

Find Ryan on Twitter @polk79

Find Akira on Twitter @Phoenix_Immer

You can check us out on Coub as well!

Follow @h3ll0fri3nd on Twitter for all of your Mr. Robot news.

Subscribe to us on iTunes!

Subscribe to us on Stitcher!

Email us! [email protected]

We’re on Reddit!

Find the show’s official Twitter @whoismrrobot

Head to the show’s official website and check out Whoismrrobot.com for more!

Interested in the filming locations? Make sure you check out the WhereIsMrRobot blog!

Join Akira and Ryan (and sometimes Logan) as they discuss every episode of Mr. Robot, talk computer hacking on the big screen and slowly become absorbed by the Matrix. This is Automatic for the People.

Mr. Robot stars Rami Malek as Elliot, Christian Slater as Mr. Robot as well as stars Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin and Martin Wallstrom.

The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at the cyber security company Allsafe as a security engineer. Constantly struggling with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression, Elliot’s thought process seems heavily influenced by paranoia and delusion. He connects to people by hacking them, which often leads him to act as a cyber-vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as Mr. Robot and joins his team of hacktivists known as “fsociety.” One of their missions is to cancel all debts by taking down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (which Elliot perceives as Evil Corp), which also happens to be Allsafe’s biggest client.

Find the Podcast on Twitter @MrRobotPodcast

Find Logan on Twitter @dedpool1979

Find Ryan on Twitter @polk79

Find Akira on Twitter @Phoenix_Immer

You can check us out on Coub as well!

Follow @h3ll0fri3nd on Twitter for all of your Mr. Robot news.

Subscribe to us on iTunes!

Subscribe to us on Stitcher!

Email us! [email protected]

We’re on Reddit!

Find the show’s official Twitter @whoismrrobot

Head to the show’s official website and check out Whoismrrobot.com for more!

Interested in the filming locations? Make sure you check out the WhereIsMrRobot blog!

Join Akira and Ryan (and sometimes Logan) as they discuss every episode of Mr. Robot, talk computer hacking on the big screen and slowly become absorbed by the Matrix. This is Automatic for the People.

Mr. Robot stars Rami Malek as Elliot, Christian Slater as Mr. Robot as well as stars Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin and Martin Wallstrom.

The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at the cyber security company Allsafe as a security engineer. Constantly struggling with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression, Elliot’s thought process seems heavily influenced by paranoia and delusion. He connects to people by hacking them, which often leads him to act as a cyber-vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as Mr. Robot and joins his team of hacktivists known as “fsociety.” One of their missions is to cancel all debts by taking down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (which Elliot perceives as Evil Corp), which also happens to be Allsafe’s biggest client.

Find the Podcast on Twitter @MrRobotPodcast

Find Logan on Twitter @dedpool1979

Find Ryan on Twitter @polk79

Find Akira on Twitter @Phoenix_Immer

You can check us out on Coub as well!

Follow @h3ll0fri3nd on Twitter for all of your Mr. Robot news.

Subscribe to us on iTunes!

Subscribe to us on Stitcher!

Email us! [email protected]

We’re on Reddit!

Find the show’s official Twitter @whoismrrobot

Head to the show’s official website and check out Whoismrrobot.com for more!

Interested in the filming locations? Make sure you check out the WhereIsMrRobot blog!

Join Akira and Ryan (and sometimes Logan) as they discuss every episode of Mr. Robot, talk computer hacking on the big screen and slowly become absorbed by the Matrix. This is Automatic for the People.

Mr. Robot stars Rami Malek as Elliot, Christian Slater as Mr. Robot as well as stars Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin and Martin Wallstrom.

The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at the cyber security company Allsafe as a security engineer. Constantly struggling with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression, Elliot’s thought process seems heavily influenced by paranoia and delusion. He connects to people by hacking them, which often leads him to act as a cyber-vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as Mr. Robot and joins his team of hacktivists known as “fsociety.” One of their missions is to cancel all debts by taking down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (which Elliot perceives as Evil Corp), which also happens to be Allsafe’s biggest client.

Find the Podcast on Twitter @MrRobotPodcast

Find Logan on Twitter @dedpool1979

Find Ryan on Twitter @polk79

Find Akira on Twitter @Phoenix_Immer

You can check us out on Coub as well!

Follow @h3ll0fri3nd on Twitter for all of your Mr. Robot news.

Subscribe to us on iTunes!

Subscribe to us on Stitcher!

Email us! [email protected]

We’re on Reddit!

Find the show’s official Twitter @whoismrrobot

Head to the show’s official website and check out Whoismrrobot.com for more!

Interested in the filming locations? Make sure you check out the WhereIsMrRobot blog!

Despite middling reviews, Suicide Squad, DC/Warner Bros. latest entry into the superhero movie universe opened pretty decently.

Next weekend will be the true proving ground though. If, like its predecessors, it fails to keep audiences coming back, it could mean the end of the potential franchise. But not the end of the characters it features.

Harley Quinn’s film is already in the early stages of production, and I’d bet that Leto’s Joker will be a player in the solo Batman film. There’s a full review of the film from Adam already on the site, so I’ll eschew a lot of my usual nonsense and say that I agree with almost all of his assessment. We also discussed on an episode of our Batman ’66 podcast Shakespeare’s Head. And I talked about it lengthily with Ryan, Tim and Pat (which you can listen to below). If you want to hear me get super spoilery and such, check those out.

Now, let’s get to what worked and what didn’t, starting with what they did right:

1. Harley Quinn

Longtime readers/listeners know I’m not a huge fan of the over-sexualization of Harley (or Deadpool for that matter), and there’s a lot of that at play here with her look. BUT, Margot Robbie manages to capture most of what makes her such a fun and fantastic character and Ayer even gives old school fans like myself a visual treat to appease a little bit of the pain of those too-short-shorts.

2. Amanda Waller

While I’d still have preferred a Waller that looked truer to her comic roots (think the Kingpin, if he was a black woman that worked for the goverment instead of a blad white gangster), Viola David and the script deliver the spirit of why readers and fans of the old animated DCU have a love/hate/fear relationship with the character. She is not to be taken lightly, and despite some third act hiccups, that’s the Waller we get.

3. Captain Boomerang

Now, I don’t know if they got the character right from page to screen, I’ve maybe read one or two Flash stories that feature him in my life. But, I do know that Jai Courtney is the most underrated performance in this film. No one’s talking about him, and it’s criminal. I’ve been on record as not liking Courtney in pretty much anything, but he is so much fun here I’m rethinking my position.

4. Will Smith

No, not Deadshot, just Will Smith. He’s old-school Smith. Bad Boys Smith. Independence Day Smith. The one we loved to watch when he made the at-the-time meteoric leap from TV to film. It’s good to have him back. But it’s a shame they sacrifice Deadshot to do it. He’d have been great as Jon Stewart.

5. The Comradere

The best moments in this film are the ones where the group is interacting with each other. I’d call them quiet moments, but none of them are particularly quiet. Outside of a few bad spots, it’s incredibly satisfying to watch and hear these characters just snipe and bicker with each other. It’s what a team like this would do, and it feels the most true to its roots when it happens.

Now here’s what they got wrong:

1. The Big Bad

Short and simple: it doesn’t work. None of it. Not the motivation, not the performance, not the effects. Marvel has often been criticized as having “a villain problem.” At this point I think the superhero film genre as a hole might have a villain problem. Captain America: Civil War stands out as maybe the only recent example of bad done right.

2. El Diablo

While Katana and Slipknot are certainly short shrifted, El Diablo plays a fairly big role in the film. Unfortunately they don’t do anything to make him more than another Latino stereotype.

3. The Plot/Editing

It’s a tie! And they’re easy things to point at and hiss, but there’s a reason for that. They’re bad.

Join Akira and Ryan (and sometimes Logan) as they discuss every episode of Mr. Robot, talk computer hacking on the big screen and slowly become absorbed by the Matrix. This is Automatic for the People.

Mr. Robot stars Rami Malek as Elliot, Christian Slater as Mr. Robot as well as stars Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin and Martin Wallstrom.

The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at the cyber security company Allsafe as a security engineer. Constantly struggling with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression, Elliot’s thought process seems heavily influenced by paranoia and delusion. He connects to people by hacking them, which often leads him to act as a cyber-vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as Mr. Robot and joins his team of hacktivists known as “fsociety.” One of their missions is to cancel all debts by taking down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (which Elliot perceives as Evil Corp), which also happens to be Allsafe’s biggest client.

Find the Podcast on Twitter @MrRobotPodcast

Find Logan on Twitter @dedpool1979

Find Ryan on Twitter @polk79

Find Akira on Twitter @Phoenix_Immer

You can check us out on Coub as well!

Follow @h3ll0fri3nd on Twitter for all of your Mr. Robot news.

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Interested in the filming locations? Make sure you check out the WhereIsMrRobot blog!

Join Akira and Ryan (and sometimes Logan) as they discuss every episode of Mr. Robot, talk computer hacking on the big screen and slowly become absorbed by the Matrix. This is Automatic for the People.

Mr. Robot stars Rami Malek as Elliot, Christian Slater as Mr. Robot as well as stars Portia Doubleday, Carly Chaikin and Martin Wallstrom.

The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at the cyber security company Allsafe as a security engineer. Constantly struggling with social anxiety disorder and clinical depression, Elliot’s thought process seems heavily influenced by paranoia and delusion. He connects to people by hacking them, which often leads him to act as a cyber-vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious insurrectionary anarchist known as Mr. Robot and joins his team of hacktivists known as “fsociety.” One of their missions is to cancel all debts by taking down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (which Elliot perceives as Evil Corp), which also happens to be Allsafe’s biggest client.

Find the Podcast on Twitter @MrRobotPodcast

Find Logan on Twitter @dedpool1979

Find Ryan on Twitter @polk79

Find Akira on Twitter @Phoenix_Immer

You can check us out on Coub as well!

Follow @h3ll0fri3nd on Twitter for all of your Mr. Robot news.

Subscribe to us on iTunes!

Subscribe to us on Stitcher!

Email us! [email protected]

We’re on Reddit!

Find the show’s official Twitter @whoismrrobot

Head to the show’s official website and check out Whoismrrobot.com for more!

Interested in the filming locations? Make sure you check out the WhereIsMrRobot blog!