Deadliest Warriors’ Future Match Ups With Host Geoff Desmoulin

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Several weeks ago, the line up for Deadliest Warrior, season 2 was announced and I made my predictions here. Today, NERDSociety’s correspondent, Chris Davison (chris@lthmedia.com) goes one on one with one of the hosts’ from Deadliest Warrior: Geoff Desmoulin.  Read below as Dessmoulin talks about the future of Deadliest Warrior including comic book fights!

Q: How is Deadliest Warrior Season Two different from Season One?
-the number one thing is that we have a bigger budget and so there’s more of everything, including more blood in every scene. This season is bigger in every way possible, with more carnage and more science. You’re gonna see the bigger budget and extra science in the premiere episode, they let me explain the electronics inside a Taser and why it’s safe and effective in various different conditions. We actually tase somebody and you can watch this in the 90-second trailer now online. One of the fun parts is that I get to yell out “tase him, bro!” It’s really a fun show, we’re not trying to cure cancer here.
Q: Have you ever considered an All-Star Tournament? Elimination style?
-watch the recap show of Season One, it’ll be airing on April 20th right before the premiere episode of Season Two. In the recap show we bring back the winners of Season One and we find out who really is THE Deadliest Warrior. Since the time spans are thousands of years and technologies change, we split them into two categories, into Deadliest Modern Warrior and Deadliest Ancient Warrior. We have also talked about doing a bracketed season of champion versus champion.
My favorite matchup of real warriors would be Bruce Lee versus Muhammad Ali. You could get real data to use for the sim from watching raw footage, from watching Bruce Lee break stuff on camera. You could ask what would be the minimum force to break that, and if you have a known distance in the frame then you could get hand speed and punch force to use in the sim. I’m sure somebody has obtained biomechanical measurements for both Bruce Lee and Muhammad Ali, and it would be an awesome matchup.
Q: Any plans to include fictional warriors?
-absolutely. The beauty of stuff like that is that we could look at The Thing from Fantastic Four and calculate the physics of him stopping the semi-truck on a bridge, from this footage  I could calculate his speed and strength and then we could input them into the sim. We could do the same thing for The Incredible Hulk and then we could have a fight of Thing v Hulk. For fictional warriors as with real warriors, we’d do categories to make sure that the technologies and techniques are comparable by era.
Q: One of your upcoming episodes involves Jesse James, I know you’re not supposed to give away the results but is it true that he gets his ass kicked?
-you’ll definitely be surprised at the capabilities of the Jesse James Gang, the Al Capone Gang has tommy guns but you will not believe the skills of our Jesse James guys. We did a drive-by shooting with the Al Capone expert shooting the tommy gun out of the window, compared this to a Jesse James guy on horseback. The car is faster but the horse is much more maneuverable, it could accelerate and break much faster and could turn on a dime. The Capone guys were more in-your-face, they use fear-based tactics as opposed to optimally effective tactics.
Q: Why do guys love this show so much?
-my theory is that the carnage of the show maintains your core audience, and the science brings in a larger audience. Spike went out of their way to get a real computer programmer, a real ER doctor, a real biomechanical engineer plus some TV producers from top shows and networks. If you put together the carnage with the science then what you have is guilt-free programming: the carnage maintains the core audience and the science and history pull in viewers from other channels and other walks of life.
Q: Last question: how much fun is it to blow shit up?
-ah, dude, I can’t even explain it! It’s literally like a kid in a candy store but the adult male version. It’s amazing! This year you’re gonna see a car get cut in half by 44 sticks of dynamite. It’s totally amazing – ancient weapons, fully automatic weapons, grenades, Tasers, and the gel torsos are so much more bloody this year. Our show is the adult male version of a kid in a candy store.

Question: How is Deadliest Warrior Season Two different from Season One?

Geoff Desmoulin (GD) : The number one thing is that we have a bigger budget and so there’s more of everything, including more blood in every scene. This season is bigger in every way possible, with more carnage and more science. You’re gonna see the bigger budget and extra science in the premiere episode, they let me explain the electronics inside a Taser and why it’s safe and effective in various different conditions. We actually tased somebody.  One of the fun parts is that I get to yell out “tase him, bro!” It’s really a fun show, we’re not trying to cure cancer here.

Q: Have you ever considered an All-Star Tournament? Elimination style?

GD: Watch the recap show of Season One, it’ll be airing on April 20th right before the premiere episode of Season Two. In the recap show we bring back the winners of Season One and we find out who really is THE Deadliest Warrior. Since the time spans are thousands of years and technologies change, we split them into two categories, into Deadliest Modern Warrior and Deadliest Ancient Warrior. We have also talked about doing a bracketed season of champion versus champion.

My favorite matchup of real warriors would be Bruce Lee versus Muhammad Ali. You could get real data to use for the sim from watching raw footage, from watching Bruce Lee break stuff on camera. You could ask what would be the minimum force to break that, and if you have a known distance in the frame then you could get hand speed and punch force to use in the sim. I’m sure somebody has obtained biomechanical measurements for both Bruce Lee and Muhammad Ali, and it would be an awesome matchup.

Q: Any plans to include fictional warriors?

GD: Absolutely. The beauty of stuff like that is that we could look at The Thing from Fantastic Four and calculate the physics of him stopping the semi-truck on a bridge, from this footage  I could calculate his speed and strength and then we could input them into the sim. We could do the same thing for The Incredible Hulk and then we could have a fight of Thing v Hulk. For fictional warriors as with real warriors, we’d do categories to make sure that the technologies and techniques are comparable by era.

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The future of Deadliest Warrior?

Q: One of your upcoming episodes involves Jesse James, I know you’re not supposed to give away the results but is it true that he gets his ass kicked?

GD: You’ll definitely be surprised at the capabilities of the Jesse James Gang, the Al Capone Gang has tommy guns but you will not believe the skills of our Jesse James guys. We did a drive-by shooting with the Al Capone expert shooting the tommy gun out of the window, compared this to a Jesse James guy on horseback. The car is faster but the horse is much more maneuverable, it could accelerate and break much faster and could turn on a dime. The Capone guys were more in-your-face, they use fear-based tactics as opposed to optimally effective tactics.

Q: Why do guys love this show so much?

GD: My theory is that the carnage of the show maintains your core audience, and the science brings in a larger audience. Spike went out of their way to get a real computer programmer, a real ER doctor, a real bio mechanical engineer plus some TV producers from top shows and networks. If you put together the carnage with the science then what you have is guilt-free programming: the carnage maintains the core audience and the science and history pull in viewers from other channels and other walks of life.

Q: Last question: how much fun is it to blow shit up?

GD: Ah, dude, I can’t even explain it! It’s literally like a kid in a candy store but the adult male version. It’s amazing! This year you’re gonna see a car get cut in half by 44 sticks of dynamite. It’s totally amazing – ancient weapons, fully automatic weapons, grenades, Tasers, and the gel torsos are so much more bloody this year. Our show is the adult male version of a kid in a candy store.

Season 2 of Deadliest Warrior airs on April 20th, 8:30 – 10 p.m ET/PT.

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