We find ourselves in between events so the only reasonable thing to do is site down and get to know one of our favorite people at NHRL...Rob Sarakin!! If you have ever been to NHRL or participated in an event Rob is one of the head safety officers and is the one responsible for giving the safety speech in the morning as well as retrieving smoldering robots from cages. We start off playing our own NHRl themed version of the um actually game from Dropout. We then ask Rob how he became a henchman, when we will see him competing again and even turn into a DND podcast for a few minutes. Come hang out with us and get to know Rob a little better!

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Rob Sarakin

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Hey everyone we are here with your NHRL April 20th Pre event show! This is going to be an action packed event so in order to get us ready we brought on a very good friend of the show, mastermind behind Maximizer, Jake Hoffmann!! Ryan debuts a new game we are calling "Spot the bot" were he challenges Jake and Thomas to spot the fake robot name. We also talk to Jake about being a part of leading member of the University of Cincinnati Robotics team, What we can expect from Maximizer this event and who he would love to fight if he was given the chance. We also go over some of the bots that will be attending including the latest offerings from Jamison Go and Brandon Bennett Young. Come hang out with us and let us know what you are looking forward to the most this event!!

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Jake Hoffmann

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Hey Everyone we are back with a new episode this time with our first returning guest Jimmy Gibson!! Jimmy is with us to help us break down the RIT event and answering a bunch of behind the scenes questions on how the event is going to work as well as what to look forward to.  We also pry some info out of him about the June 1st event, the new way all of the cages are going to be

Special Thanks to:

Jimmy Gibson

Dwight Snowberger

Jeffrey Schulmberg

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This episode we delve into the March 2nd event with fan turned builder Michael Cross, builder of Stag Beetle Bot. We pick Michael's brain a bit finding out what got him into robotics, who his biggest inspiration and mentors are as well as his build philosophy for Stag. We also go over some of our favorite things from March including the trial run of King of the Hill and Kazia's curse breaking top 4 finish with Chainsaw Kitty. Come hang out with us and make sure to tell us how you think March went.

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Michael Cross

Kekoto Maane

Dwight Snowberger

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This episode we highlight some of the bots we are excited to see at our March 2nd NHRL event. We wanted to bring in someone huge to help us talk about our first event of the year that will feature some heavy hitter veterans. Who else but the Master if the stats himself...Gil Hova!!!! Thats right everyone, we have the wizard himself in the house to talk about what bots he is looking forward to. We also have some amazing builders who have sent in audio clips detailing the bots they will be brining. So sit down with us and get to know Gil a little better as well as find out about some of the amazing bots who will be attending our March event.

Special Thanks to:

- Micah Farris

- Brandon Young

- Brian Thornberg

- Dwight Snowberger

- Jake Hoffman

- Kekoto Maane

- Liam King

- Michael Cross

- Seth Schaffer

- Zoe Lambert

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This episode we sit down with famed Youtuber, NHRL competitor and businessman Seth Schaffer. We talk to him about his experience in the combat robotics world and what it was like starting his own business. Have you ever used one of Seth's parts and wondered what its liek designing and manufacturing that part? Have you ever watched Division fight and wondered where the idea and design for that bot came from? Do you aspire to make combat robotics something that makes you money? Come hang out with us while we get to the bottom of these questions and more!

Special Thanks to our guest Seth Schaffer as well as to community Transmissions contributor Julian Papasian!

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We are back with our January 2024 New Bots event post show. This was such a huge and amazing event we couldn't possibly contain it to one podcast so we brought on some help. Joining us is Chris DeCiccio, Lindsay Baer and Luke Stangel from the Behind the Bots podcast!! We talk about:

Are Multi-bots the new 3lb meta?

How did Behind the Bots get started?

Where Clyde got the idea for Bed Side?

What exactly is a builder dex?

and so much more!

We also have a brand new segment called "Community Transmissions" where we hear from the builders themselves!

Come hang out with us and the BTB crew while we wrapup one of the best events of the year!

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Chris DeCiccio

Lindsay Baer

Luke Stangel

Bob Belansen

Nate Franklin

Mark Rennie

Julian Papasian

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With the new bot event around the corner we are diving into the fight card looking at the brand new bots that are going to be competing for the first time at NHRL. We have gotten a look at the fight card so we will be going over some of the bots we are looking forward to and who they will be fighting first. We also have some audio direct from the builders themselves describing who they are and what bot they will be bringing this event. Want a first look at what we will be seeing, well come hang out with us and we will check out what you should be excited about!

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We have arrived in a new year of robot combat and we are looking forward into what the year 2024 has to offer. To help us do that we have one of the masterminds behind every NHRL event Jimmy Gibson! Have you ever wondered what running a PGA tour is like, what goes into making sure an event goes smoothly or what kind of robot Jimmy would love to be able to make. Come hang out with us while we talk to Jimmy about what its like running operations as well as what to expect this coming year.

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Well we are on the other side of the Havoc All-Stars invitational event and wow what an event that was. One builder who had an amazing time is our good friend Corey Nason builder of Synthesis and Synthesis 30. Ever wonder what weird super power Corey would have? What about what makes Synthesis such a deadly bot to fight against? Want to know what hes working on now or if he has plans for anything new for 2024. Well then you will just have to come and hang out while we learn a little bit more about Corey and talk about how All-Stars went down!

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