Trebuchet
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Search complete. 22 mentions across 7 episodes found for "Trebuchet".
Sep 17, 2026
James HarrisonGUEST
AI.
James HarrisonGUEST
Trebuchets, car lifts, and fleets of people to push them up so they'll go down.
James HarrisonGUEST
Yeah.
James HarrisonGUEST
It's going to be really promising.
AskeladdHOST
I don't think it's super enjoyable to fight against because there is two very depressing things that can happen to you in your face.
AskeladdHOST
And one is called Manjanik and the other is called Desert Raider.
AskeladdHOST
OK, so like a takedown.
SockertonHOST
Putting a tick down a little bit frustrating, not like the end all be all, but definitely can be frustrating going.
Matt KirshenHOST
You could have spent some of your time, according to this article, that...
Matt KirshenHOST
Sam Vimes sent in from Popside.com a man has built a supersonic trebuchet in his backyard Putting all of us to shame the customized siege weapon holds projectiles at seven hundred and seventy six miles per hour.
Katie NovotnyGUEST
Holy shit
Matt KirshenHOST
Wow So, yeah, I'm going to skip over the first clunky writing.
Matt KirshenHOST
But, yeah, generating a sonic boom in his backyard, aerospace engineer and YouTuber Tom Stanton documented his quest to construct a mechanical trebuchet capable of launching an object so fast it breaks the sound barrier.
Matt KirshenHOST
So not only hurling an object at 767 miles per hour, but withstanding the physics needed to make it happen.
Matt KirshenHOST
So he says, accelerating a projectile to this speed using a purely mechanical launcher like a trebuchet has been a dream of mine for several years now.
Katie NovotnyGUEST
Several years in the making.
Doug HajicekHOST
And then next, this is a weird story.
Doug HajicekHOST
Medieval man found may have been hit by a giant trebuchet.
Doug HajicekHOST
Trebuchet.
Doug HajicekHOST
I love that
Jeff Perrella Jr.HOST
word.
Doug HajicekHOST
Did I say that right?
Jeff Perrella Jr.HOST
Trebuchet.
Jeff Perrella Jr.HOST
I made a miniature one of those for a class one time.
George ElekHOST
Yeah.
George ElekHOST
Trebuchet.
George ElekHOST
Yeah.
George ElekHOST
Launches it and the ball gets to Dylan Jones to prod home with 15 minutes or so to go.
Mark WrightHOST
There's the trebuchets or whatever they call them, trebuchets.
Mark WrightHOST
What were they, Chris? Trebuchet,
Christopher MatthewHOST
is it? Trebuchet.
Mark WrightHOST
it just looks insane you've got the dragons breathing fire onto the big war machines it looked really good but I think it'd be a bit chaotic and it's got all the heroes as well it had Jon Snow it had the one Rob Madden played it had the guy I was on about earlier so yeah it looked quite good
Greg DeLaceyHOST
I don't know.
Chris BiggsHOST
But this is, uh, the hottest new trend with the young, aggressive, strong-sounding names for boys.
JamieHOST
Well, Trevor is just short for Trebuchet.
JamieHOST
You know? [laughs]
speaker_6AUDIENCE
No, that's different.
JamieHOST
It's, it's different, I know.
JamieHOST
It's a B-
Chris BiggsHOST
Trebuchet.
JamieHOST
Yes, I thank you.