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After the Nemesis was damaged from Bulkhead’s little rampage through the engine room, Megatron decides to repair the ship using Dark Energon, which is totally a great idea and not going to go horribly at all! What are the deep philosophical implications of the ship suddenly becoming sentient? Are they gonna bring up that whole … Continue reading

Starscream finds some inactive protoforms on wreck of the Harbinger and proceeds to do what is apparently now A Thing Starscream Does: He clones himself! Can five Starscreams succeed where one has failed? Has he been watching Michael Bay’s The Island? Can they shoehorn some Autobots into this story? Join us this week for “Armada”! … Continue reading

After Utsumi suggests the kaiju might really be people, Gridman hesitates when the next one he fights actually speaks — and that gives the kaiju an opening to defeat him! Is he gone for good? Will Yuta cease to exist like their dead classmates? Can Calibur’s friends help? And… wait, did they say they were … Continue reading

Wait a minute, is this… This is a clip episode! What the hell, guys? How are we supposed to stay on topic with a clip episode? Join us as we try in this week’s episode of Transformers Prime, “Grill”! We want to hear your questions! Email us at stasispod@iaconunderground.net and we might answer them on … Continue reading

When a familiar-looking semi truck attacks Agent Fowler, the Autobots wonder if Optimus Prime has gone mad! But this battle-damage redeco isn’t the Autobot leader — it’s a MECH mecha! Can Fowler and the Autobots stop Silas and his new toy before the military declares the real Prime an enemy combatant? Where have we seen … Continue reading

Holiday plans, hockey games, and winter illnesses made a mess of our recording schedule for the latter part of December, so this week we’re presenting something from our Patreon archives: the first episode of Kemono Friends, “Savannah”!

On the surface it seems like the fight between Gridman and the kaiju never happened, but Yuta, Utsumi, and Rikka soon discover that their classmates who were killed in the attack are still gone — and as far as anyone else knows, they died years ago! Can they find more answers before having to defend … Continue reading

Megatron orders Dreadwing and Breakdown to take Airachnid out behind the shed, but the devious spider isn’t so easily squashed! Can Starscream use this opportunity to make a new ally? Who’ll be there to pick up all the robot pieces? And are the Autobots going to show up at some point? Join us this week … Continue reading

DreadWING is punishING, his Gatling gun is ILLIN’! Also Wheeljack is there and he and Bulkhead are super gay. Join us this week for “Loose Cannons”! We want to hear your questions! Email us at stasispod@iaconunderground.net and we might answer them on the show!

A boy with amnesia. An old computer that calls to him as a forgotten hero named Gridman. Conveniently absent parents. Strange, seemingly unfinished kaiju raining destruction on his neighborhood. Why does this all seem so familiar -- in ways that have nothing to do with Tim Curry? Why are we joined for our premire episode by Trent Troop, one of the creators of Transformers: Shattered Glass (as well...

With Bumblebee unable to transform, Ratchet offers up his own T-cog for a transplant -- but who'll do the surgery when the doctor is the patient? Who'll take care of a new relic unearthed by Knock Out and Breakdown just as the procedure's getting under way? And was it really a great idea for Starscream to team up with a bunch of organ thieves? Join us this week for the second part of "Operation Bu...

Bumblebee has a run-in with MECH that leaves him waking up in a proverbial tub of ice! But what are their plans for the Autobot's T-cog? Just what is a T-cog, anyway? And can his fellow Autobots keep him out of trouble when he can't even transform? Join us this week for part 1 of "Operation Bumblebee"!

Arcee and Jack face off against a (relatively) giant Insecticon as they make their way to Vector Sigma, but that's not the only creepy crawly waiting for them! Orion Pax has an "Are we the baddies?" moment aboard the Nemesis!  Can Jack retrieve Prime's cloud backup before Megatron finishes off the Autobots waiting back on Earth? Join us this week for "Orion Pax, Part 3"!

From the dustiest corners of the Stasis Pod vault, it's 1998's contract-killer comedy The Big Hit! Ska music! Video stores! Poorly-disguised Canadian locations! Download it, pop in some earbuds, and prepare to taste the golden spray!

The surprise appearance of the allegedly dead Starscream starts Orion Pax questioning whether Megatron is being entirely honest with him. Can the Autobots rescue him before Megatron decides he's outlived his usefulness? Who is that "Optimus Prime" in the Decepticon database? Why does Agent Fowler have access to a teenager-sized spacesuit? Join us this week for "Orion Pax, Part 2"!

With all of Optimus's post-Priming memories lost, Megatron convinces his old buddy Orion Pax to join him on the Nemesis. But what can a naive librarian do to help the Decepticon cause? Can the Autobots rescue their leader before the other Decepticons decide to just murder him? Will Arcee forever cockblock Jack? Join us this week for the first episode of Prime's second season, "Orion Pax, Part 1"!

Between seasons in October? That must mean it's time for a Halloween Special! A boy, a magical cap, an immortal guardian, and a venerable talking chicken take on a mad scientist and his monstrous spiders! Can Mighty Max and his companions make it out of this sticky situation? Why must the dialogue be so punny? What kind of accent is René Auberjonois even trying to do? Join us this week for a throw...

The rising reaches its peak! Can this Optimus Prime light Earth's darkest hour? Or will Unicron-shaped rocks fall, everyone dies? Join us this week for the final part of the Transformers Prime season 1 finale, "One Shall Rise"!

Unicron has awakened! But can the Autobots stop him from destroying all life on Earth without destroying it themselves? How well will Megatron take being snubbed by the Chaos Bringer? Is this the most dangerous rocks have been since Beast Wars? Join us this week for the second part of the season 1 finale, "One Shall Rise"!

Something evil's watching over you, coming from the sky above, and there's nothing you can do! For this month's Patreon Special, Rob, Jen, and David talk the original The Transformers: The Movie, with fandom insights and advice on the best place to score a copy circa 1993! Become a Patron for as little as a dollar a month and you can get access to this and all our past and future Patreon Specials!

The Autobots rescue Prime from his heavy metal album cover smackdown with Megatron, but can they save themselves from the wrath of June Darby? And just why is all this "blood of Unicron" on Earth, anyway? Will Unicron welcome Megatron as his new herald? Tornadoes: How do they work? Join us this week for the first part of "One Shall Rise"!

We're closing in on the end of the first season, and that means it's time for the metaplot to kick into overdrive! Both Prime and Megatron realize a prophesied celestial alignment is nearly at hand -- and Megatron is determined to make that doomsday happen! How many quotes from Transformers: The Movie will it take to stop him? How easy is it to hack into a WordPress site? And how metal-album-cover...

...more alive! Ratchet tests a new synthetic energon and turns himself into the Autobots' new ultimate warrior! But can the Autobots get him in check before his newfound aggression gets him in trouble? How does he suddenly know martial arts? How much fun did Jeffrey Combs have making this episode? How long will we digress into talking about early 90s techno? Join us this week for "Stronger, Faster...

The Autobots unearth a Cybertronian data cylinder, but when Knock Out and Breakdown show up to claim it, the ensuing battle ends with Bulkhead getting Cybertron's Golden Age Wikipedia uploaded into his head! But is all that knowledge worth losing everything else in Bulkhead's brain? Are we going to get some Technobots out of this? What kind of garbage data storage device self-erases anyway? Join u...

Bonus extra filler episode! David and Rob talk about The Meg! A movie about a very big fish in a little fist fight with Jason Statham as Jason Statham. We talk about all kinds of random things like usual, such as how it's impossible to get the version of Hey Mickey in the movie in any kind of format, other shark movies, other killer animal movies, that guy from Heroes, bad child actors, how David...