Stasis Pod

Scheduling continues to be A Lot, so this week we’re dusting off one of our favorite Patreon specials from last year: Unwilling to risk covid for anything involving Jared Leto, this month we’re going back to the 90s for an earlier version of Spider-Man’s foe Morbius! As Spider-Man tries to find a cure for his advancing mutation, he crosses paths with Michael Morbius, who is study...

Scheduling is hard, so here’s a new Extra! Rob has never touched a Dragon in his life. David has been out of the Dungeon business for 8 years. Together they must go on one last job… to watch Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves!

The Autobots confiscate a golden orb that emits a strange signal that compels them to fight over it! Does it really hold a map to the legendary Doradus? Can they stop fighting each other long enough to keep Springload from finding out? And what’s this about a explosion if you open it wrong? Join us this week for “Sphere of Influence”!

It’s time for a Special Guest Star as Blurr arrives from Griffin Rock to help out the Bee Team! But when Sideswipe convinces himself there’s not room on the team for two trouble-making upstart speedsters, can Team Dad Bumblebee get him to stop acting up before the Sharkticon Ragebyte blows them all up with packing peanuts? How much will Denny regret lending them his boat? And Strongarm...

We’re heading back to Brown Town for part 2 of the season 4-ish premiere! Can Team Bee put a stop to the Stunticon Heatseeker’s explosive rampage before he blows up a nuclear waste site? Can Denny convince us he was ever a straight-A student? And who didn’t even know he had those driving claws? Join us this week for “King of the Hill Part 2”! #podcast #Transformers #R...

It’s time to return to the scrapyard for Robots in Disguise season… 3? 4? Honestly no one seems to be sure. (Though if you want to watch along, the Transformers Official channel on YouTube has it listed as season 4.) After defeating all kinds of dangerous Decepticons, Team Bee is feeling like they can take on anything. So are they ready for a Stunticon with no regard for nuclear waste...

Have Rob and Dave bitten off more than they can chew? In this week’s episode, the two follow up their discussion of Streets of Fire with “Tinsel City”, the first episode of its totally unlicenced spiritual successor, Bubblegum Crisis! It’s a little bit Terminator, a little bit Blade Runner, and a whoooole lot ’80s anime! Slip into your hard suit, pull out a pack of Hu...

After the entire island of Griffin Rock is transported to the Arctic, everybody is going to have to pitch in to help get it back where it belongs! Can they fly the island home before the whole place falls apart? Can Doc Greene work in a marriage proposal to Professor Baranova? And how many special guests can we wedge into the end of the season? Join us for the final episode of season 3, “Tod...

Everybody is gathering in Griffin Rock for the opening of a time capsule — but nobody’s ready for the quantum crystal hidden inside, and when it gets hit by lightning, the whole island is teleported all the way to the Arctic! Can they get the situation under control before everyone freezes? Who does and does not want a hug? And what classic anime does this remind us of? Join us this we...

WHO’S READY FOR A MUSICAL EPISODE!? (Hint: Not David!) A mishap with Doc Greene’s new Tone-O-Tuner leaves all of Griffin Rock unable to communicate in anything but song! Who is into it and who is absolutely not? Can they stop it before the sonic waves shake the town apart and/or Heatwave or Kade end up killing someone? And who in the cast is a legit professional singer and who is defin...

Chase gets injured and has to stay at the firehouse — so he takes up residence in front of their highly questionable panopticon so he can “help out”! But when Doc Greene’s stage-magician sister’s hotel room is broken into, will he do more harm than good? Is there ANOTHER criminal at work in Griffin Rock!? And can we convince David to give “It’s a Wonderful...

Boulder, Kade, Cody, and Frankie discover a family of woodpeckers in Blossom Vale that were thought to be extinct! Can they protect the birds from the greatest threat Griffin Rock has apparently ever faced: birdwatchers? Why is Kade so terrible at keeping secrets? And seriously, why does this episode hate birdwatchers so much!? Join us this week for “Endangered Species”! #podcast #Stas...

Servo needs to learn how to act like a robot in disguise — but when Mrs. Luskey’s dog Poopsie runs away from home and pulls Servo into a whole lot of trouble, can he protect her without blowing the Rescue Bots’ cover? How frustrating must it be for Servo to be so smart but unable to communicate? And why does Cody have access to a police-state panopticon? Join us this week for “Fo...

As Blurr decides to leave Griffin Rock and the Earth behind, the planet is hit by a coronal mass ejection that sends a satellite plummeting conveniently toward the island! Can he find it in himself to be the hero the Rescue Bots need him to be? Or will he *checks notes* die horribly while trying? Join us this week for “A New Hero”! #transformers #RescueBots #podcast

New recruits Blurr and Salvage (especially Blurr) need to learn what it takes to live as an Autobot on Earth and be a Rescue Bot — so it’s time for a clip show! But will a charming retrospective on the Rescue Bots’ adventures be enough when Blurr just wants to go back to Cybertron? Can a clip show actually be kind of fun? And why DOES Cody attract falling objects? Join us this week for...

The Bots find a crashed Autobot ship on Wayward Isle — with two stasis pods inside! But are their newfound friends Rescue Bots material? What’s their connection to that unfrozen caveman Ira? And WHY DOES THE FIREHOUSE HAVE A HOT WHEELS TRACK!? Join us this week as we meet “The New Recruits”!

An estranged friend of Doctor Morocco’s arrives in Griffin Rock to help him replace the Verne Device that’s kept him young all these years — and it’s Jules Verne himself! Can the time-traveling author convince everyone to give his old friend a chance to reform? Will he get some very exciting story ideas from the adventure? And do we ship it? Join us this week as we finally...

Optimus Prime’s old friend High Tide arrives on Earth to help train the Rescue Bots, but he needs to learn some things too — like how not to be such a jerk! Can he learn to work with the younger bots in time for a high-seas rescue? He’s got a great big new toy to sell, doesn’t he? And what G1 voice actor has returned to grace us with his presence? Join us this week for &#82...

Huxley Prescott interrupts a ceremony honoring the Burns family with some late-breaking news: Their ancestor Bertha was a PIRATE! Can Dani clear her family’s name — or will Kade and Uncle Woodrow get their way and find some ancestral pirate treasure? Who will Mayor Luskey get to protect the town while the actual trained rescue squad is busy being disgraced? And just how many little isl...

This week we’re taking a little road trip to Witwickey, PA to check in on the premier of the newest Transformers series, Earthspark! When siblings Robby and Mo Malto find a strange glowing stone, they accidentally trigger the creation of the first Earth-born Transformers! Can they learn to fit in with a human family? How nice is it to have real voice acting again? And which of us “acci...

The dedication of the town’s new clock tower locks Cody into an hour-long time loop — but why is it only Cody, and how can he escape his own personal Groundhog Day? Does it have something to do with the clock using something called “magno-fusion” to keep time? Or maybe that suspiciously industrious little squirrel? And who did Cody THNIK left a pocket watch in the jail’s Lo...

Mayor Luskey declares a festival for Bot Appreciation Week, complete with 3D-printed “souvenirs” of the Rescue Bots! But when something inevitably goes wrong and the tiny toy bots are reprogrammed to do crimes by Evan and Myles, can the Bots get things under control without their human partners? How many campaign finance laws is the mayor breaking with these toys? And how wrecked is Ka...

Doc’s attempt to upgrade the drive-in’s projector unleashes a kaiju menace on Griffin Rock! But Kade knows all about Humangado and his frenemy Rayvenous, and what he knows is that they hate dinosaurs! Good thing the Rescue Bots know where they can get some Dinobots! Join us this week for an episode we promise was not written by David, “The Attack of Humungado”!

While checking out an Energon reading on Wayward Isle, the crew finds a caveman frozen in ice — and he’s alive! But why is the caveman so excited to see the Rescue Bots? Why does this take a sharp turn into old-school farce? Has anyone in the target audience even heard of the Marx Brothers? Join us this week for “Did You See What I Thaw?”!

It's time for everyone to get dino modes! The uncomfortably Q-obsessed Quint Quarry returns, and this time he wants more than just a single robot dinosaur - he wants all the Rescue Bots, and he'll hold Professor Baranova hostage until he gets them! So who's gonna turn into what? How did Optimus get there so fast? And has anyone explained the idea of "cultural appropriation" to ol' Quint? Join us t...