This week on the podcast, we invite back to the show (for his third time!) reigning BattleBots champion Paul Ventimiglia!
Bite Force remains the winningest heavyweight combat robot in modern BattleBots history, with three perfect seasons (2015, 2018 and 2019), and just one loss since the reboot—to the unconventional, AI-guided hammerbot Chomp.
Paul enters the 2020 season knowing that the field of bots will likely be the toughest the sport has ever seen. The COVID-19 pandemic gave builders months of extra time to work on their designs and build spare parts. Plus, 2020 will see the reintroduction of the super-heavyweight walker class—notably Chomp, which is expected to return with a 250-pound weight advantage over Bite Force, and a thirst to prove that their first victory wasn’t a fluke.
We check in with Paul to see where he’s at, what he’s thinking about, and ask him the question everyone wants to know: How the heck do you defeat this bot?
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BattleBots Interview with SawBlaze Captain Jamison Go
BattleBots Postseason Interview with Co-Creator Greg Munson
BattleBots S4E16 Recap (With Special Co-host Paul Ventimiglia!)
BattleBots S4E15 Recap (With Shatter! Captain Adam Wrigley)
BattleBots S4E14 Recap (With the Sarah Malyan, the Big Bonking Captain of Nelly)
BattleBots S4E13 Recap (Plus our Ribboting Interview with David Jin, Captain of Ribbot)
BattleBots S4E12 Recap (Plus, our Flipping Awesome Interview with Hydra Captain Jake Ewert)
BattleBots S4E11 Recap (From Drag Racing to Bot Battling, an Interview with Bob Girardi of Daisy Cutter)
BattleBots S4E10 Recap (A Thousand Ways to Swine, an Interview with Bradley Hanstad of Chronos)
BattleBots S4E9 Recap (Enter the Eggbeater: An Interview With Elaine Wu of Railgun Max)
Shark Week Recap (With Sword-Swallowing Sharkoprion Captain Ed Robinson)
BattleBots S4E8 Recap (Black Dragon Captain João Marcos Giacometti Cavalheiro)
BattleBots S4E7 Recap (Bot Makes and Cheesesteaks With Jackson Cutrone)
BattleBots S4E6 Recap (Plus Our Interview With the Unbreakable Paul Ventimiglia From Bite Force)
BattleBots S4E5 Recap (Plus Our Hypnotizing Interview With Andrea Gellatly From Witch Doctor)
BattleBots S4E4 Recap (The Meaning of Life, With Hannah Rucker of Team 42 Robotics)
BattleBots S4E3 Recap (Bath Salts and BattleBots: Will Bales of HyperShock)
BattleBots S4E2 Recap (Plus Our Big Interview with HUGE!)
BattleBots S4E1 Recap (We're in Deep Six! An Interview with Dustin Esswein)
BattleBots 2019 New Team Preview (Part 3)
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