Big Bad Beetle Bros

Welcome one and all to our review of the FIRST EVER Beetleborgs fan film, Beetleborgs Apocallix: Episode 0!! Produced by friend of the pod Kaz, this short pilot episode gives fans a glimpse at what could have happened after the disappointing ending of Metallix back in '98. Be sure and stay tuned in the coming weeks for Cam and Ryan's interview with Kazdan further discussing his inspirations, other projects, and plans for future episodes.

THE END IS NIGH!! Well actually the end is HERE. We've done it! After nearly three full years, a global pandemic, an epic road trip, and 88 episodes of 90s television we have finally completed our journey! This week we sat back and took our time as we dove into Mega Borg Power, the "finale" of the Beetleborgs series! Join us on this less than grand finale as we prepare for the end.And if this finale left you wanting, yearning, or hankering for more... stay tuned! The Bros will be announcing a very special live (technical difficulties permitting) GRAND FINALE this weekend. Tune in as we reminisce over the last 3 years, reveal some new merch designs, and discuss our future plans for this podcast and some new projects in the works!

SPOILER ALERT!! Cam and Ryan evade the final episode of Beetleborgs by diving into Sam Raimi's marvelous return to comic book cinema! We're going full spoiler on this one so if you haven't seen this fresh MCU installment, avert thine ears!

We're so close to the end we can smell it! Or maybe that's just us? The Bros welcome back a familiar herr doktor this week as we dive into the penultimate episode of Beetleborgs Metallix! Can you believe we made it this far?? To help celebrate this momentous occasion the Bros are launching our very first Kickstarter campaign! We go over it in detail in the opening of the episode but long story short: We're making Beetleborgs enamel pins! Featuring Hillhurst Mansion, Beetle Battle Base, and the Beetle Battle Station, these pins range from 1.5 to 3 inches are were designed by the amazing Geo Alvarez. Head on over to the kickstarter link below to claim your very own! The campaign will launch as this episode airs and run for 30 days so jump in while the iron is hot.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/godpunk/big-bad-beetle-bros-enamel-pin-collection

Look up in the sky! It's a bat! It's a plane! No, it's Super Fang! Flabber gaslights his friends as the Crustaceans try yet again to best the Beetleborgs. With only two episodes of Metallix left, the Bros are quickly reaching finale time!

WHOOOOOOOO BOOOOOIIIIII!!!! HERE WE GO! Happy (late) Easter folks! As we gear up to finish off the final three episodes of Metallix we decided to get into the groove of things with… this? Cam and Ryan team up to tackle the single most disturbing thing we've ever watched for this podcast (and yeah, that IS an accomplishment). Hop along with us as we face this phallic filled Finnish film!

LET'S GET READY TO ROBO RRRRRUUUUUUUBMLLLLLLE!!!! The countdown to the end of Metallix continues this week as the Bros take on Episode 32, Robo Rumble. Are there robos? Absolutely. Are there rumbles? Oh you know it. Do the Robos Rumble? Tune in to find out!!

Ninja! Ninja! Ninjaaaaaa!!! The Bros are joined this week by head Yokai himself, TJ Bowerser, as they dive into Ninja Sentai Kakuranger. How is a show both darker and sillier than Beetleborgs? How could Saban pull nearly two seasons of Power Rangers from this footage? How do we keep watching shows better than our namesake? Answers to all these and more can be found in this Big Bad Ninja Bonus Episode!

Fee Fie Foe Fum! I smell the blood of a Beetle Bro! Be he Ryan, Cam, or Nik, they'll all watch this show until they're sick! The Bros are back this week with Metallix Episode 31 Battle of the Giants and the 5th to last episode of the season. Can Nukus defeat a level 30 Roboborg with his EV trained Boron? Will Drew get in the flabbing robot?? Find out all this and more this week as we crawl towards yet another season finale.

Bibleman has thrown the Bros down a rabbit hole of locked away memories and low budget made for DVD Christian media! The only ones who can solve this are the kids at Bloodhounds Incorporated! Or maybe a clinical psychiatrist specializing in childhood traumas, but that's not in our budget this season so Bloodhounds, Inc it is. Billy Forester dons his best Max Headroom impression in this all but lost adaptation of the Bill Myers book series. So buckle in, bible up, and believe we had a helluva time on this Big Bad Biblical Bonus episode!!

Let the countdown begin! The Bros are back with the 6th to last episode of Metallix, Mega Spectra Beetleborgs! How many new toys can they sell us in one episode? What event took nearly 82 episodes to happen? Will we survive the final five episodes?? Find out all this and more this week with the Big Bad Beetle Bros!!

Your prayers have been answered, we're back! This week the Bros sat down for a bonus episode of truly Biblical proportions. Diving deep into the childhood of Cam and Ryan we dug up an episode of BIBLEMAN!! Specifically Bibleman: Power Source season 2 episode 1, Terminating the Toxic Tonic of Distrust. Did you watch any of the Bibleman series as a kid? Does Bibleman count as tokusatsu? Are there any other weird 90s shows you think we should watch?

Roboborg, ARISE!! The time has finally come! The end of the Astral Sword Saga is here! The Bros have officially reached the finale of the major metallix arc and oooooooooh is it something!

Come out with your hands up! We have you surrounded! This is an Astral Ambush, lower your foam swords and plastic coins and no one gets hurt! The Bros are back for yet another surprisingly plot heavy episode in the Astral Sword Saga! Can the borgs secure all eight coins? Will Dragonborg keep up this accent for two more episodes? Have the monsters finally embraced their nefarious nature?? Find out this week with episode 28 of Beetleborgs Metallix!

The Bros are back, technical difficulties and all! Don't you just love working remote? On the bright side we got our first ever Gold Rated Episode! That's right folks, Metallix finally impressed us enough to squeeze a golden rating out of us. Why is this episode a Gold? Who is being held for ransom? What spy movies has Mums been watching on Flabber's secret wall television?? Find out all this and more as the Bros dive into episode 27 of Beetleborgs Metallix!

B Fighta! B Fighta! Ryan and Cam join the next generation of Beetle Fighters this week as we check out the first episode of B Fighter Kabuto, the Japanese Metal Heroes counterpart that Beetleborgs Matallix pulls its footage from.

It may not be a bella notte but it sure is a cold one! The Bros are back at it for Metallix Episode 26, Lady and the Champ! This time around the lady IS the champ as Ladyborg steals the show this week! With Astral Bazooka in hand, special sensors alert, and eyes only for Mantron melting, this Astral Borg gives the Crustaceans one helluva headache!!

The Beetle Bros went live!! After nearly a full year of being on the Project Louder Network we finally tried out a live streamed episode! If y'all wanna catch our handsome faces for the video stream of this episode be sure and head over to Project Louder on YouTube and stay tuned to our own YouTube channel where it'll soon appear as well! Wolfie gets a short lived but still wild ride into battle this week as we festively fight the furious Mantrons and the slightly more powerful Super Vilor. Don't miss this superbly vile episode!

The truth will set you free!!! Or at the very least it set Fireborg free… kind of? A lot happened in this episode folks and no amount of puns or quips are gonna help us make sense of it, but we'll sure as hell try! The Bros dive into the twenty fourth episode of Beetleborgs Metallix this week as we enter the holiday season.

The name's Borg… Dragon Borg, I'll take my Crustaceans shaken not stirred. The Bros meet the first Astral Borg this week and he's one helluva charmer! Can the kids retrieve the Astral Coins? Will the evil Mantrons manage to manhandle the monsters in the mansion? Find out this week before our coins are stolen and the Bros are forced back into their comic book!!

Looks like our Fortunes will be favored this week as the Bros get a visit from not only Les but Art as well for the first time since Metallix began!! Cam and Ryan dive into the start of the “Astral Sword Saga” and desperately try to not compare it to Kamen Rider OOOs too much. Seriously though… how many bug themed toku heroes summoned from coins can there be?? Join the Bros, the evil Mantrons, the Astral Borgs, and the Fortunes brothers as we kickoff what may be the biggest and baddest mini series this franchise has Flabbed our way!

Once upon a midday dreary, three Bros pondered with eyes so bleary,Over many a tainted and low budget volume of 90s Saban lore.While we watched it, nearly napping, suddenly there came a rapping,As of some Nano smoothly rapping, rapping at our studio door.“Tis some listener,” I muttered, “checking out our pod merch store-We've new designs, and soon much more!” ahem… with that out of the way, welcome back! The Bros are in for a literary craptastrophy this week as we dive into episode 21 of Beetleborgs Metallix: The Poe and the Pendulum! That's right goths, geeks, and Saban fan freaks we've got Edgar himself haunting Hillhurst and meddling with our most marvelous monsters! And like the poem said, check out our merch store for new designs this week just in time for Black Friday shopping and snagging those holiday gifts early!

Cowabunga Bros!! The boys are back with the Project Louder boss man himself, TJ Bowser, for a shell shocking bonus episode! This week we dive into Ninja Turtles The Next Mutation (or Hero Turtles for some of our European viewers) and investigate one of Saban's strangest concoctions to grace the 90s. So slap your first initial on your chest, prep your repainted vehicle of choice, and get ready to Turtle Power through it along with us!

OOOOGER BOOOGEY BOOOOGER!! Halloween may be over but we've still got some scares up our sleeve… or is that slime? Either way, we're back to our regularly scheduled programming with episode 20 of Beetleborgs Metallix… Booger Man… are we sure that's the title? We confirmed it with HR and corporate? Huh… well alrighty then! Tune in and booger out with the Bros as we dive into this week's kaiju sized episode!

What is the "Big Bad Beetleborgs" Cemetery really like? Let me take you on a journey throughSouthern California and into the historic Beetleborgs town, Santa Paula. I stayed for three nights and I'm back to share all of my exciting discoveries with you! I endured hours of riding on airplanes, trains, cars, and public transit but I came out of it a better man. On a budget of $800, I'll tell you how traveling alone to a new environment can lead you on an adventure of struggle and self discovery. Music by Tomoko Sasaki for Nights Into Dreams, 1996.

The curse is lifted! The hiatus has been broken! The Beetle Bros are free at last to terrorize the innocent!! I mean… to entertain the corruptible! The Bros are back just in time for the spookiest night of the year and a BBBB tradition, the Halloween Special. Cam and Ryan dug through their nostalgia ridden brains and decided there was no better eerie episode than Goosebumps Season 2 episodes 2 and 3, Attack of the Mutant! There's no Borgs to battle this monster back into the comics when Skipper finds himself in more than an inkling of trouble! LISTENER BEWAAAAARE… YOU'RE IN FOR A SCAAAAARE!!!

It's officially Borg-tober at Hillhurst and the monsters are prepping for a majorly massive mash! Kick-off this spooky season with the Bros and friend of the show TayTay! We'll be the first to admit that holiday episodes usually fall flat but this Flabbulous Halloween Haunted House of Horrors really stood out from the crowd. So join the Bros and sis this week as we trick or treat through the streets of Charterville with our favorite group of ghouls and goblins!

Are you our Mummy? Sorry, our mommy? Sorry, our Mummy's mommy? Yes that's right folks Hillhurst has yet another frightful family reunion this week! Mums gets a visit from his mom while curses cause chaos for the kids! Join the Bros as they dive into this week's mummified main event!

Better late than never! We're here with Beetleborgs Metallix Episode 17: How Does Your Garden Grow? and folk… it was the closest to a gold rating yet! We got lore. We got original fights. We got Hillhurst shenanigans! What more could you want?! Oh… maybe a better monster name…

HEEEEYYYY YOOOUUU GUUUUUUYYYYSS!!! We're back with yet another Franky focused episode! The Baron is back and this time he's brought Little Franky to hang out with the Hillhurst crew. Will they teach him valuable monster lessons? Can Franky cope with no longer being the most loveable lug around? Also this episode we finally see the epitome of Les Fortune's artistic potential! The most vile, hideous, terrifying creation the Crustaceans could ever concoct… and it's not Piranha Khan!

Happy Birthday Borgs!! September 7th, 2021 marked the 25th anniversary of the Big Bad Beetleborgs premier! This week in 1996 the world was introduced to three typical average kids, Flabber, and the illustrious Hillhurst. To celebrate a quarter century of Beetle Blasting adventures the Bros went live on Instagram to chat about memories from the show with Editor/ShadowBro Griffin and some wonderful fans! Join us for this celebratory birthday bonus bug out!P.S.: This live stream was recorded on a cell phone and thus the audio quality is significantly lower than our usual standard. If you would like to watch the original video stream you can catch it on Instagram at www.instagram.com/bigbadbeetlebros/ or on the IGTV app.

This week's episode is a real work of art! The Bros sit down for a Flabbulous take on a literary classic this time around with The Old Gray Flabber. How can Les afford such lavish canvases? Do the Crustaceans prefer oils or acrylics? Is Hillhurst accredited by the American Association of Haunted Galleries? Tune in to find out during this Wilde ride!

Well that's certainly a mouthful of a title! After taking a short break the Bros are back with what may be the wildest thing we've seen so far! Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills (say that five times fast) might just be the weirdest Power Rangers knock off to come out of the 90s, and when we say that you know it must be seriously out there. We're joined for this off the wall episode by our very own tattooed twenty-something, Aaron! Tune in and clutch your horoscopes for this 90s nightmare!

Death comes for us all… even the denizens of Hillhurst! Join the Bros this week as they try to escape the cold grip of this lethal episode! We've got Hillhurst lore galore but this monster fight will leave you wanting more. So viewers beware, you're in for… well, whatever this is.

Are you ready to get your brain sucked? Wait… that's not right. Are you ready to suck brain? No no that's worse! How much brain could a brain sucker suck if a brain sucker could suck brain? Find out this week as the Bros dive back into your regularly scheduled shenanigans!

We are back in the saddle! After our hallowed pilgrimage to Hillhurst, Zoom Comics, and Charterville itself we are finally back home and ready to Back Blast into the latest episode of Metallix. Just in case you missed our blog last week (or hate reading, we understand) we are joined by the Bonus Beetle Bros himself, Aaron, to discuss our recent adventures cross country! The Bros dive back into the Flabbulous world of Beetleborgs and face down the Ultimate Bird of Prey this week with episode 15: “Who's That Ghoul?” so tune in and prepare to bug out!

Extra, extra read all about it! Beetleborgs identities compromised by intrepid National Inquisitor reporter! Ghost of Jay Leno provides exclusive interview after millennia of evading press! Don't miss this thrilling front page coverage! Also in this issue… Bat Boy's father found in abandoned Charterville home, British Museum confiscates 5,000 year old mummy against its own will, and Urbana PD identifies 10 different bodies sewn into living cadaver! Tune into next week's issue for our exclusive coverage of the Transylvania Summer Games. The Bros (and entourage) officially embark on our pilgrimage to Charterville tomorrow! Stay tuned to our Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter accounts to keep up with our journey westward. Next week, instead of a regular episode, we'll be sharing all the photos and videos and stories from our trip with you lovely viewers! Now it's time for us to summon the Beetle Bro Battle Base and get this road trip rolling!

We're ready for our close up Mr. DeFlab! Hillhurst is center stage this week as the Monsters and kids are visited by the famed Norma DesDoom, actress extraordinaire! For this star struck episode the Bros are joined by none other than Cam's wife, Katie! This is one helluva episode to throw her in cold but she held her own even in the face of Ultimate Conqueror!Don't forget to head over to our Etsy shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/BigBadBeetleBros to buy a digital copy of Cam's brand new comic GodPunk: Issue Zero!

Hippity hoppity we recorded this properly! The Bros are back in fighting shape with this Beetle Boxing episode! Can the kids conquer a cantankerous kangaroo?? Can the Crustaceans control this careless cartoonist's creation?? Will we ever run out of alliterations on this show?? Listen in to find out all this and more! Don't forget to subscribe and to check out our merch available, remember that all profits go to #getthebrostohillhurst!!

You can Flab out anytime you like… but you can NEVER leave!!! Welcome to the Horror Hotel, Wolfie will take your bags and Fangula will show you to your rooms. Care for a midnight snack? The Beetle Brats should be here soon to take on Fernzilla! Watch out for her spells and enchantments and make sure to look out your window for the Crustacean Jet Fighter fly over this evening.

This week's episode is changeling things up and looking mighty sus (sorry… we had to) as we dive into episode 7 of Beetleborgs Metallix, Monster Imposter! We're finally back to tradition with a regular “monster of the week” formula and folks… it's as flabulous as ever! Get ready for this invasion of the Flabber snatchers and make sure to subscribe, follow, and share to always know when new episodes and merch drops!We are still selling Magnavore Monster Pins as a set and individually (set of 5 for $30 or individually for $10 each), sticker sets for $5, and logo magnets for $3! All profits go towards funding the Bros' pilgrimage to California to visit the real life HIllhurst and Zoom Comics filming locations! Stay tuned in the second week of July for live streams, video chats, and more ON THE ROAD TO HILLHURST!

It's here! The crossover we all THOUGHT we wanted! Cam and Ryan team up to read through the Power Rangers Turbo VS Beetleborgs Metallix comic book and folks… it is a task! Stick with us through this rough and tumble adventure and be sure to check out out post from May 6th to read the comic for yourselves! Now let's bug into turbo and shift out! Or…. something like that?

We're joined by Griffin this week for a hilarious study of how Season 2 is shaping up so far! There was tons to talk about as go really in depth into the pluses and issues with the show's new aesthetic. And, to wrap up the episode, we also crack open a bottle of our favorite Spring beverages.