Minds at Yeerk

We've knocked loose the cobwebs and dusted off the microphones to talk to Chris Grine about his latest graphic novel, Secrets of Camp Whatever: The Doors to Nowhere (which is SO GOOD).

Alex and Meg discuss the end of Season One of Animorphs, scheme to pitch a new Animorphs TV series (please don't actually pull Brett Goldstein into our madness), and tuck the podcast into bed for a peaceful, indefinite slumber.

We take a break from talking about the Animorphs TV show to talk to someone who was there: props master Alan Doucette!

Gag a maggot! Alex, Meghan, and Chris talk about the newly released The Visitor graphic novel, drawing SO MANY ANIMALS, the things we're excited for Chris to design, and...porgs?!

It's time to wake up and smell the cold potatoes! You'd hate to miss the genesis of Animorphs: The Musical and the latest in Andalite fashions, wouldn't you?

Join us as we we indoctrinate Chris into the Animorphs TV show, ruin childhoods (and books?), and provide color commentary as Redd wrangles a zoomie Inanna the cat.

Is this really the Jake and Marco show? Are we actually cryptids? Ax? Ax!

We're talking about the Animorphs TV series—gather 'round and as we pitch a Shelby Woo spin-off, invent a new genre of Animorphs fanfic, and recount the latest in Bigfoot science.

We're back with another movie—and we've found the Crayak to The Host's Souls' Ellimist: Grant Grant the Slither. Just in case this isn't already our most indecipherable episode description yet: Alex and Jenna start a game of Cats Me If You Can, we delve into Poke-Cannibalism, and we debate the difference between Dibs and Dabs. (Yes, we're all on TikTok. How did you know?)

We're back, and this time we're discussing the film adaptation Stephanie Meyer's Boss Baby-prequel, The Host! We were surprised to learn some valuable lessons:LIVE by rotating your crops!LAUGH at bad southern accents!LOVE your slug!

Instead of talking about a book none of us felt like we would have much to say about, we're taking a week off! We'll be back in a fortnight to talk about the movie The Host.

Welcome to the book that has forced us to reevaluate what we know to be a vegetable, ponder the viability of a stage musical adaptation of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, and...wait, what did jet-setting monkeys have to do with this?

Only one mind could sift through the last few books we have read to write fanfic that connects the dots between them. Join us, intrepid listeners, as we venture into the great unknown: the mind of Tim!

I dunno, bud. I don't know.(CW: Child abuse, body dysmorphia)

If you take one thing away from this episode, let it be that Keri Russell has more range than you probably realize.

We're all Melvin down here.

At the halfway point in Humanomorphs, we're ready to take stock of our lives. But more importantly, we're ready to shake up the pants-wearing paradigm with GEOPANTSING! Plus: Which Alan Tudyk character is Tim most like? Be sure to wash down this episode with an inappropriate comedy!

Yes, we really read the next one. How else would we have learned about Chekhov's Volcano, The Clueless Hairballs, or Poseidon's multi-level marketing scheme? Chris Grine joins us again—and Jenna makes her long-awaited return—to foil some dolphins armed with nuclear bombs (yes, really).

It's a new day for Minds at Yeerk, as we venture into the unknown of...Humanomorphs? Wait, don't go—Chris Grine (Chickenhare, Animorphs, Secrets of Camp Whatever) just got here! And we all know that a Chris Grine party, like Long Hole, does not stop!

We bring it full circle by revisiting The Invasion—and this time, we scoped out the (relatively) new audiobook to see what we thought! Join us as we revisit some of Tim's earliest predictions (and make him eat his words) and receive a final Dumpster count.

Who lives? Who dies? Who tells their stories?

As the war between the Animorphs and Yeerks comes to a head, we imagine what the kids' post-war lives look like: will Cassie and Jake stick together? Will Rachel and Tobias become international spies? Will Ax stay on Earth or rejoin the Andalites? Will Marco...actually, we're pretty sure he'll be fine.

What does Ax's character arc have in common with time? They're both a flat circle. But which Animorph would carry the Time Stone (or any of the Infinity Stones)? Plus: get ready for some property damage!

While half the Animorphs take a road trip and cause a LOT of property damage, we discuss the important things: ghombies, ghuberty, and governors' mansions.

We may be in the endgame now, but we have to ask: are Cassie and Jake endgame? Other questions relevant to this episode: who are the Seagull Squad? And CAN TIM READ?

It's time for the most important Animorphs book to date—the one with the most instances of the word Dumpster! We also discover which anthropomorphic M&M is the horniest and discuss how we would evacuate our families from mind-controling aliens. HEY! THAT GOT DARK!

Join us as we uncover the secrets that THEY don't want you to know...secrets about vampires, the moon, and dinosaurs! Plus: Alex makes the worst casting choice for the Ellimist; Tim decides to be cremated; and Meg asks, "Are we Yeerks?"

Who lives? Who dies? Who is the Ellimist telling his story? Ian R. Buck joins us to discuss memms, mones, and face-face as we excavate the Ellimist Bull$#!+ motherlode.

Cue up the fiddle music, put on your Starfleet uniforms, and prepare yourself for the hardest question we've asked yet: "Do we say [bleep] too much? Plus: don't forget our giveaway (which we have sweetened the pot for): http://bit.ly/MindsAtYeerkGiveaway

Comics creator Chris Grine joins us to talk about adapting Animorphs into graphic novels!

While Ax struggles with a difficult choice, Alex ponders the connections between various transformation-based IPs, Tim learns about SpongeBob, and Meg reveals her favorite aircraft*.Plus: we announce a giveaway! Enter here: http://bit.ly/MindsAtYeerkGiveaway*Citation required.

Welcome to Chee open mic night! What's the deal with fire hydrants? They aren't on fire, and they don't look like hydras or ants! Wait, what's that? Important things happen in this book? Marco's a boss? Someone naps with puppies?

We promised ourselves that we wouldn't spend this episode comparing the book and the movie. We broke that promise. Join us for A Tale of Two Ivans.

M@Y goes down under! The gang takes a trip to Australia: Alex discusses Australian history, Tim buys all the Boomerangs, and Cassie becomes all-mighty and powerful with a kangaroo morph.

Join us for a Megsday roadtrip! Tim takes us through Dumfries, Alex spots a Sasquatch Sentinel, and we try to solve the mystery of the JRTLVR! All this and more as Meg does her best to keep us on topic.

We continue BLASTING INTO THE PAST because TIME has NO MEANING.

We've cracked open the M@Y Vault and blown the cobwebs off our first pair of Animorphs TV show commentary tracks! Listen along as you watch the show, and enjoy our witty repartee (and excitement for the final season of Game of Thrones—we're VERY optimistic for how it will end). [Note: This was recorded between Megamorphs 2 and Book 19.]

We've got a short message from Meg this week about our taking a hiatus before the final stretch of books and some bonus content we've been holding onto that we'll release in the meantime.

Adal Rifai joins us this week to talk about the Animorphs' journey to the center of Marco—and we realize that after two years, we might be taking for granted just how weird and dark this series still is.

Rachel throws a sleepover to distract Melissa Chapman so Cassie and Tobias can tail her parents; Jake and Marco visit the community center with Tom (which starts with T which rhymes with P which stands for Yeerks).

What's the difference between an alternate timeline and a dream? Yeah, we don't know either, but that doesn't stop us from debating it for most of this episode while we talk about where guilt dreams lead and why the Cannoli Timeline might be the best timeline.

It's time for reconnaisance! And a sleepover! And some Sunday night pool!

Before the Kelvin Timeline, before the Darkest Timeline, just slightly after Michael Crichton’s Timeline (but before the film adaptation of Michael Chrichton’s Timeline), there was…the Oreo Timeline.

Ain't no party like a Yeerk beach party 'cause a Yeerk beach party's got bocce.

Text! Subtext! Yet more Andalite prejudices! All brought to you by our new favorite Andalite love story.

In which everybody wants to be a cat.

Should Cassie build an army of animals that can morph? Is eating a buffalo that can morph into your vice principal cannibalism? Plus: we solve the mystery of why that bowl of petunias thinks, “Oh no, not again.”

To quote a beloved '90s property about kids fighting off an alien invasion of Earth, "It's Morphin' Time!" Tobias, Cassie, and the others pick up their first morphs; and the team learns that the Yeerks are looking for the kids from the construction site.

Since Day One, we've wondered how we should talk about Alternamorphs. The time has come, and guess what? We're not talking about them. We're playing them. As a homebrew, table top RPG. What have we gotten ourselves into?

Ax teaches his new girlfrenemy about the many uses of human mouths. Oh, Alloran's parents really should have raised him and his brother better.

Rachel, done dirty.Meg explains plane insurance.Handsome monkey king!