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Welcome to The SciFi Podcast, a wretched hive of scum and villainy a bi-weekly podcast focused on in-depth discussion of all things Science Fiction. The SciFi Podcast features three hosts—Mattroid, Solo, and Station!—and frequent guests. Each episode we look at a science fiction theme or franchise and take the discussion where no show has gone before.
For this episode, we invited Sci-Fi fanatic and professional photographer Ryan Welling to join us in discussing the 25 coolest weapons found in Sci-Fi movies. What do you think about the list? Let us know in the comments section.
Theme music courtesy of I Hear Sirens, featuring Matt on bass and Liz on keyboard. Hear more of I Hear Sirens ethereal, instrumental, post-rock at BandCamp. Audio clip of “Set it to Stun” courtesy of Rotten Musicians, who can be found here. Podcast production and artwork by Mattroid.
What about the Point of View gun from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?! That’s my favorite.
And in response to the often stated point on the episode: “Every tool is a weapon, if you hold it right.”
The ‘Point of View Gun’… how could we have forgotten that?
That is definitely in my top three, but I don’t remember what they are right now so I don’t know which one it replaces.
And how about “Every weapon can be used as a tool, for good or ill, depending on how you use it.”
Toilet paper is a tool William, can I use a gun as toilet paper?
Or a stick of dynamite? Would you use a stick of dynamite to wipe your ass? I didn’t think so…hahahahaha
In Metroid, all weapons are essentially tools as well. Pretty neat.
That is all.
But Matt, you ARE a bro! You’re my bro, bro.
Bro
Bro. I’d use a brobar or bromagnon strength to save you guys if you were at sea without a lifeboat. Or, like, I’d call a brofessional basketball player to brogram you guys help.
Really I just want to use the word bro in weird ways.
Forgot to mention before that this episode was rad. Loved the discussion topic.
And I agree completely that the power loader in Aliens is the coolest “weapon” that appears in any of the Alien films.
Thanks dude. We’ve got some fun stuff coming up.
I just realized (listening to this episode) that I said “you can’t trust anything in front of a pipe organ”.
I honestly don’t remember saying that.
And I’m sure there are millions-plus religious people who might strongly disagree, but I think there is still some truth in my statement.
I think I’m going to ask my wife to have that quote written on my headstone.
Funnies thing I’ve ready out loud in a very long time. Oh man…I don’t remember you saying that either.