Morph Club: An Animorphs Podcast!

It's the wrap-up episode! We build a full-on red string bulletin board map of Crayak & Ellimist plots, answer your questions, talk about some wonderful fanfics (bit.ly/morphfics), and touch on what we have planned next. And of course, we circle back around to the Morph Club Thesis: did you know that Animorphs is an extremely good series? We think so. Spread the word. We'll put the first couple eps of whatever we do next in this feed for you to check out, and until then, find us elsewhere online: twitter.com/morphclubcast twitter.com/megthebrennan twitter.com/careydraws Thanks for listening! It's been really special to make this journey along with all of you. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

long story short: tune in on september 2! Intro music is "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey read THE LAST BOOK!!! buckle your seatbelts because this book spans like 4 years and will make you feel every emotion. And also manages to fit in multiple references to the cinnabon franchise. HOW IS THIS THE END ALREADY but also THESE KIDS WENT THROUGH SO MUCH IN SO SHORT A TIME? process all these feelings along with us. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan & Carey read the penultimate Animorphs book: Book 53: The Answer! Listen in real time as we, like these woefully unprepared teens, are ground into nothing before the unrelenting march of war. Did that make sense? I'm really not sure because this book took my brain and put it through the WRINGER, Y'ALL. We're not ready for the end but we are, as always, so very, very glad to have all of you along for the ride. Let's do it. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey get their souls crushed(again)when they read Animorphs 52: The Sacrifice! Ax is all grown up and everyone is suffering! The end is coming for us and it's a rough time! At least we get one last gorilla-in-a-car moment, I guess. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey read Book 51: The Absolute! This book is... kind of a fun romp, honestly? We meet the governor of California! The Animorphs fall in love with her (and so do we). Ax is in truly fine form. Tobias shows off his flying (and... driving...?) skills. Cassie and Jake have very little screen time but manage to devastate us anyway. Capers continue right up until the very last page, at which point the invasion is made suddenly, jarringly public. Open warfare has snuck up from its usual spot just around the corner and is cuddled right up next to you on the couch. We've got three books left. We are very, very worried but very, very grateful that all of you are along with us for this horrible ride. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey experience Animorphs 50: The Ultimate. That meddling blue cube comes back again! The Animorphs kind of get a win but it still feels soul-crushing?? Everyone is having a bad time. Can't express how much. Also: this is the book that introduces the 'Auxiliary Animorphs' so we have some poorly articulated confused feelings. some blog posts about disability in fiction we talk about in the episode: http://visibilityfiction.com/getting-it-wrong-writing-about-disability-in-fiction/ http://booksbyintisar.com/2017/02/20/ableism-fiction-guest-post-erin-hawley-disability-fiction/ Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan & Carey read book 49: The Diversion! This is a good one! We recommend reading it. And buckling up, because things are moving very quickly to a point of no return.... and then blazing right past it. No turning back now! Tobias and Rachel have a sweet, weird date. Jake makes some tough decisions. Families are lost and found. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

We finally did it! Megan and Carey watched the last episodes of the Animorphs TV show! We stumble through the last hurrah for the television versions of our fave animorph teens: a school dance! mall search party! some nerd kid's alien movie! a brainwashing sitcom! secret yeerk resistance club! and morphing a variety of professional TV animals that were probably easy to book on a budget. Intro & interstitial music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan & Carey read book 48: The Return! In which: Rats are irresponsible financiers. Teens are foolishly trusting. Wartime challenges are considered. Morals are grappled with. So are horrible controllers, because Rachel and Visser 1 have an all-out, no-holds-barred cage match*! *Rachel is imprisoned in a literal cage. Nobody has a good time. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Brace your pods, Megan and Carey read the Ellimist Chronicles with Hanni Brosh! (@saffronscarf) Honestly, who foresaw that the Ellimist's backstory was being a bird person who lived on a hovering crystal and plays endless games of Spore? But now that we're here, there's no choice but to get our hearts broken by a horrifying and strangely hopeful space adventure. Wanna think about the nature of life vs entropy? Want to feel the clock ticking down before one of our fave kids straight-up dies? Most importantly: wanna get nostalgic for the feeling of reading this book at age 13?? Join us! Intro & interstitial music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan & Carey read Animorphs 47: The Resistance! Jake sure does have a great-great-grunkle who fought in the Union army in the civil war, huh. He sure does read a journal all about it interspersed with the present-day action in this book, huh. We talk through and about that storyline and its pitfalls in the first ~25 minutes of the ep, and then devote the rest to our sad, sad present-day teens, who are desperately fighting alongside the free Hork-Bajir to protect their valley from a full Yeerk assault. It goes about as well as you'd think. BUT! Don't lose hope! There's still time for a camping trip and an engineering adventure! Well... Sort of. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors)
both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Carey & Megan read Animorphs 46: The Deception! Remember when Ax discovered the magic of flavors? Remember teaching him how to act like a regular teen? Those days are super gone and our alien friend is making horrible decisions that make nobody happy. Turns out war with aliens is just not a fun time, who would have thought? But man, do we love these kids. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey watched episodes 23 & 24 of the Animorphs TV show! It's the penultimate batch of tv episodes!! Can you believe it!! Breakout stars include: Ax's big TV-original-mall-sitcom debut; Visser 3's brief but deeply appreciated appearance; a whole bunch of really excellent 90s outfits; An Actual, Factual Bear; a 10-shot closeup headshot sequence; and the tantalizing promise of a SCHOOL DANCE FINALE. Hang in there, folks! There's still time for a shopping montage in the final two episodes! Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

It's the beginning of the end and Marco has a very terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Join us as we talk about Animorphs #45: The Revelation. We recommend checking this book out before listening, it's worth wading through a bunch of filler for. We're coping with the intense stakes and heartbreaking consequences by focusing on things like: Ax eating a bunch of oreos purchased by a dog robot family and the fact that canonically, the kids all got to hang out with some nice dogs for a while there. While, you know, Marco's heart broke into 10 million peices. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan & Carey read book 44: The Unexpected! Which it certainly WAS. We allowed ourselves to hope, for one brief moment, that Cassie going to Australia might be part of some kind of... relaxation break. Perhaps one of your human "Vacations." Tragically, we were, as always, completely wrong. BUT DON'T GIVE UP YET! The battle wages on!! We found a lot to like in this book: Cassie draws on her absent friends to make it through her ordeal; foraging for equipment and food to survives takes some unexpectedly sweet cargo-hold turns; we don't spend TOO long hearing about how buff and horrible kangaroos are; there's one last bittersweet blissful mall decompression at the very end; and no good dogs die. On-screen, anyway. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

We knew from the image of the Taxxon on the cover that this book would be rough, but we weren't really ready for....this. Megan & Carey survive The Test, wherein Tobias and friends are having a REALLY bad time. Like, seriously, a traumatized-by-war level bad time. Join us in clinging to the fun of Computer Club in the Woods, food court feasts and Rachel picking a cool girl outfit. But life's getting real tough out there for our favorite andalite bandits. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey read book 42: The Journey! The Helmacrons are back... and they're ready to PARTY*! *Invade Marco's nose. That's it. That's all I got. You wanna know what this book is about? It's about the kids gettin real small and having to follow the helmacrons into Marco's nose. Did you watch that episode of Magic School Bus? Did you see Osmosis Jones? Did you catch The Incredible Journey? Remember Double Dare? It's all here, baby, and it's all gross! Marco deals with the inevitable depression of any-second-now-my-tiny-friends-might-kill-me by joking his way through life. Rachel shows some surprising softness. Ax admits to possible failure (?!). There are a lot of fun moments in this book! Just be prepared: you're gonna need to wade through a lotta mess to get to them. Snot an easy task. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

There won't be any new episodes until January 9th, but here's a little afternoon snack of an episode to tide you over while we all collectively hibernate for a couple weeks. Enjoy a snippet of ooooooold audio from before we (sort of) knew what we were doing with podcasting! And before we knew what we were getting ourselves into emotionally and spiritually. As always, Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey read about Big Jake getting Big-ed in Animorphs 41! With special guest Dante Shephard! (survivingtheworld.net/ and @danteshepherd on twitter) We have hit one of the most nonsensical books so please join us try to make sense of things as Jake has the worst dream/alternate reality adventure/multidimensional vision quest? in the chaotic worlds that is New Yeerk City. Our conversation with Dante starts at about 30 minutes in, if you want to skip our recap! Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

We read Megamorphs #4 with special guest star Gale Galligan (http://galesaur.com/; https://twitter.com/robochai)! This is a good one, folks. I mean: obviously every episode of Morph Club is a good episode, and guest star eps especially so, but in this case, also, the book was very good. You should read it. Join us for a frank discussion of time paradoxes great and small, honest delight in seeing the core of these kids preserved even without the whole morphing thing, and the sweetness of remembering how much we really do love these books. We start things off with a cliff notes plot summary, but skip ahead to about 20 minutes in if you'd like to hear our discussion with Gale. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Plop & Elbow are back and ready to face a new Alternamorph challenge! Will they finally get to pizza planet?? Will they survive dinosaurs and howlers? What twists and turns await them and us the listener? Listen to us choose our way out of this adventure

Thanks for your patience!! Morph Club episode 52 is HERE and so are our thoughts on the ~rad animorphs covers exhibit~ with our friend Gale... as well as... our thoughts on... another batch of TV episodes. Proportionally, we watched like 90 minutes of the animorphs TV show and only spent like half an hour at the David Mattingly Animorphs Covers exhibit, but... you KNOW which one looms larger in our hearts. It's the covers. Go see em: http://www.sva.edu/events/events-exhibitions/electric-encounters The first five minutes are us talking about it with special guest star Gale Galligan! We also did in fact watch episodes 20-22 of the animorphs TV show, which was... parts 2 and 3 of a three parter, plus, one episode of Erek the Chee. We made it to Season 2!! Wow!! This sure was a couple of episodes that we definitely experienced. There were a couple highlights that we clung to desperately, like Ax's TV obsession, and Ax's human actor being temporarily painted blue, so look forward to those! Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

You see the cover of Animorphs book 40 and you think, oh no, being a bee will be so terrible. Have we learned nothing from morphing ants and termites???? But in reality there's about 3 pages of bee antics and then 120 of tragic andalites. Do you want to get: baffled by how spatial realities of a new character, intensely frustrated by children's lit circa 1999's handling of gay characters, nostalgic for Unsolved Mysteries and kinda mad at andalites in general for being flawed and cruel to each other? Pull on your D.A.R.E. shirt and join Megan and Carey as they read Animorphs book 40! Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey read Animorphs # 39: The Hidden! Hey. Heyyyy. Hey. You know how animorphs is like, heavy on the body horror, as a series, in general? Friends, we're here to say: this has some of the worst of it yet. It's very effectively chilling and creepy! So if you're ready to get spooked, buckle up. But like, spooked existentially in addition to by graphic descriptions of horrible creatures that the ellimist could not bear to look upon. BUT: ALSO: ax learns a very important Human Skill, and everything was worth it all along! Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

We got to the girl andalite book!!! Is there anything more relatable than one of her first """missions""" on earth just consisting of slamming a bunch of jelly beans and flipping out at the mall? You gotta taste those mouth pleasures while you can before the inevitable reveal of your nefarious plan. We understand. We talk this all out with the excellent Claire Hummel (@shoomlah, www.shoomlah.com/) at about 40 mins in, if you would like to skip ahead to that! Also tiny tiny warning: we curse a lil bit during that convo in case you are listening with kids! We got too excited about those morph kid memories. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey read Animorphs #37, The Weakness! Listen. This book, was, maybe, not, the FINEST quality. It was maybe a bit of a rehash. And not like, a tasty sweet potato and fried egg hash. Like, a hash of heavy-handed cobbled-together bits that retread some familiar ground for Rachel, Empire King, who honestly deserves better. BUT: WE UNDERSTAND, these things happen on deadline! AND ALSO ax is a treat, there are some good emotional beats where the kids talk through taking responsibility for your mistakes, and visser 3 has a FAST RIVAL!!! who is maybe sonic the hedgehog?? jury's still out. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

We read Animorphs #36, The Mutation! Things are not great for Jake. Or for those random orcas that follow the gang on the mission of the week. Also going bad: Life as an underwater mutant. And as a hork-bajir. At least things are looking up for Visser 3, who added a new horrible morph to his morph wardrobe? So that's??? something??? Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Language warning: we know some of you listen with younger folks, so heads up, there's some cussin' in this one! Megan and Carey watched episodes 16-19 of the Animorphs TV show! Welcome to our fourth Special TV Special with Special Guest Alison Wilgus(http://alisonwilgus.com/; https://twitter.com/aliwilgus)! Our chat starts about 20 minutes in, if you want to skip ahead. Listen. We know. We never actually watched episodes 12-15. But hear us out: we forgot. And in further defense of us: it's pretty forgettable. We had a good time chatting about it with special guest star Alison, though, so stick around to hear us all talk about: weird basketball hoop placement, the worst club ever, the worst conspiracy ever, the Ellimist?????, Gargoyles, forgotten TV shows of our youths, and what a shining beacon of hope Ax is. Especially when he's onscreen with food. Bonus listening: call upon the sea ponies- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4TedkQP_hM Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey both read Visser for the first time(!) Do you want a story that combines beach volleyball, courtroom drama, psychological trauma, war, forming a cult and 80's Hollywood? Welcome to Visser! We dive in to the book that has a holographic Visser 3 on the cover, but has a homicidal Visser 1 as its star. please note: we give a brief content warning early in the episode, since this book deals with some heavy topics (like the gulf war, suicide, addiction) so proceed with care! Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey read book 35: The Proposal! Join us on this journey of celebrity guest stars both actual and fictional, Marco's Serious Troubles, Marco's Like, Multiple Farces, Cassie & Jake's complementary parenting styles, Ax's background stardom, and some very good ship material. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey puzzle out what the prophecy in book 34 The Prophecy is?? Join us in our metaphorical audio clubhouse where we talk about: Chee imposter requests, holding your friends in your mouth, mystical space magic, Aldrea not appreciating Cassie, alien planet morph marathons, What's an Arn look like?, Aldrea FINALLY appreciating Cassie and Toby the Hork-Bajir being a perfect angel child. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey read Book 33: The One Where Tobias Is (no joke) Literally Tortured. There's some very sweet and good stuff in this book, but the middle third of it is Very Rough, so: heads up. THAT SAID, join us for: a beautiful school dance; a good bird date; Ax's continued love affair with cotton candy; Visser 3 cameos; a very good controller break room; and a really interesting one-off villain who maybe starred in the video for Blank Space. Maybe. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Cary & Megan finally got to the Animorphs #32: the starfish book! We have a great time while Nice Rachel (and Mean Rachel) has a Bad Time. Grab your evil twin and join us as we discuss: a detour about vintage animorphs newsletters, a very subtle homage to that one star trek episode with evil kirk, bears driving cars, and Rachel crushing on every boy. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Hey all! just a quick message to let you all know the next ep will actually be next week! Carey's been having some computer issues, so she needed a little time to resolve them. We'll be back on 5/30!

Megan and Carey read book 31: the Conspiracy! Join us for the saddest but also weirdest cabin weekend trip, a gorilla punching cars, tips from us for making The Sharing more cool, more World War II references that you would expect, and confirmaton that Jake's dad's favorite child is: his car. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

We read book 30: The Reunion and mostly we want to know: why must everything be so bad for Marco. Would it be so terrible for these kids to have a nice time. Just once? Just once. Can't he just skip school to watch a movie in peace. Does Visser 1 HAVE to resurface again. Not that we don't enjoy her and Visser 3 sniping at each other but. Look, can't this interstellar war just be settled with a dance-off. Anyway we do love the tragedy a little bit, so enjoy us talking about poor, poor Marco taking a dark character turn and also morphing a goat. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey talk about the largely deeply unsettling Megamorphs #3 with special guest Kristin Kemper(sylvaniacomic.com ; kristinkemper.tumblr.com; twitter.com/kecky415)! Our chat with Kristin starts about 30 minutes in, if you’d like to skip ahead. Join us for: a legitimately troubling alternate universe; more deep character sadness; have we mentioned that this is a rough one, folks; ; character death; did you know that war is the worst; are you really sure you’ve gotten that message; can’t hurt to drive it home a little more; also there’s a fleeting bright moment of a kiss; but for real; most of this book is spent in increasingly dystopian worlds; maybe go find yourself a nice upbeat chaser. Intro & interstitial music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey chose their own adventure in Alternamorphs: The First Journey! And what an adventure they chose. There are many questions you may find yourself asking. For example: how many times will we die? Do we get any good morphs? How does this tie in to animorphs canon. Did we get too invested in our incredible teen OCs? Did we maybe think too deeply about our fictional construction, the andalite holodeck™ that allows us to live our deepest dream of becoming animorphs? Will Plop and Elbow ever pass their andalite tests and get to taste the delicious food stuff known as "pizza" on Earth????? The answers are in this delirious fever dream of an episode. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey read Animorphs book #36 ! A cruel and uncaring god has dumped us into Emotional Roller Coaster Tycoon and removed all the exits to the park. Please send help. Or if you're stuck here with us, buckle up and enjoy: a beautiful school dance, ax's brain-appendicitis, a completely unnecessary eel caper, Erek the Chee being called on by our kids FOR ONCE, Visser 3's corporate seminar, truly horrible yeerk morphs, another trip to the yeerk pool, the bottomless pit of despair, and Actual Brain Surgery Performed By A Teen On Another (Alien) Teen. Intro & interstitial music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey read Animorphs book #35 with guest Sara Goetter (@sgoetter) Together we experience an Animorphs book that, much like A Tale of Two Cities, forces us to experience both the best of times and the worst of times. We not only bask in the delights of Ax's interior decorating skills, Ax's new obsession with soap operas and a gorilla in a denim suit, but also endure chimps throwing poop? some horrible times in a slaughterhouse?? Anyway, join us in pondering the eternal question: Got Milk? our talk with Sara starts at approx. 28 minutes in, if you'd like to skip ahead! And find her work online: Boozle (http://boozle.sgoetter.com/) Behind the Scenes (http://behindthescenescomic.tumblr.com/), Dungeon Critters(https://dungeoncritters.itch.io/)) Intro & interstitial music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan & Carey take a deep dive into Book 27! Join us for chat about: whales, whales, whales; Rachel & Cassie's genuinely sweet background friendship; TT (just like TT); drastic tone shifts; Rachel & Tobias's competing squid research; bird boyfriend dilemmas; Real Bad Morphs; and Aggressively Friendly Disney Cruse AI. Did you know we're good at clapping? We're pretty good. Intro & interstitial music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey take a Ellimist feild trip to a duplo block alien planet with special guest Zack Morrison! (http://paranatural.net/ and @paranaturalzack on twitter) We discuss: The Lion King?! Multidimensional beings playing chess with living beings, Iskoort beliefs about fictional characters, our ongoing attempts to figure out what the heck aliens look like, and more kisses than you would expect. Our conversation with Zack starts at about 30mins in, if you'd like to skip ahead! Intro & interstitial music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan & Carey watched episodes 9-11 of the Animorphs TV show, so it's time for our third Special TV Special! Don't you miss those special summer days we spent at our favorite internet cafe slash arcade slash insecure phone booth slash number one dog hangout? Us neither, but too bad. Here goes. Gold stars go to: My Dinner with Victor, Ax's top 10 most exquisite earth foods, and a super unconvincing teen heartthrob. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

a groggy megan and carey dive into the first ghostwritten Animorphs book, #25: the extreme! In this book it's so cold! so cold! also discussed: shark-head aliens? Marco's failed date, Visser 3's decorating tastes, butt scratching, baby seals and Sploot: Suddenly Fingers. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey read Animorphs book 24, The Suspicion! Get ready for this wonderfully weird Nonsense Romp, featuring: Tiny Aliens... Big Adventures!!!; just how small are Helmacrons, really; Rachel's batting cage hour; a rad alien matriarchy; figurehead captains; Big Big Jake; a dramatic leg battle; and a tragically brief pocket-sized Visser 3. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey read Animorphs book 23, The Pretender! Check yourself into one of a popular hotel chain's fine rooms and probably also get ready to cry with us as we discuss: Tobias's terrible (and also kinda good?) birthday, hawk and rabbit metaphors, where Visser3 is now on our sliding scale of horrible, crocodiles with toupees, how much we ship Tobias/Rachel and Ax continuing to be a Very Good Shorm. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey read the Hork-Bajir Chronicles with special guest Natalie Riess! (@snarlbear, www.snarlbear.com) Turns out the Hork-Bajir's last stand against the yeerks is not a fun time?? Lots of war crimes?? but: Alien kisses (but less alien kisses than we remembered), mention of andalites having cloud-makers, our fave villian is like super bad news (but in not like a fun way), Dak Hamee is different (In a tragic way to be honest) and Aldrea kills a jubba-jubba. (If you want to skip our recap, our conversation with Natalie starts about 40 mins in!) Intro and interstitial music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey read Animorphs book 22: The Solution! We talk about: the worst mall trip ever, how bad David is at identifying animals, a horrible lunchroom confrontation, the perils of not sleeping, Rachel's identity crisis, a brief good cousin hug, how hard it is to fight an Animorph, a bad trip to Taco Bell, one horrifying MouseTrap adventure, and oh, Cassie. Nobody is happy with this. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan and Carey read Animorphs book 21: The Threat, with guest Coleman Engle! (@Coleman_Engle on twitter and instagram, http://colemanengle.tumblr.com/) Join us for David continuing to be a bad kid, ray-ban ray guns, Visser 3 planning a party, drawn-out flea antics, confusing column physics and a dramatic tiger vs. lion fight. (If you want to skip our recap, our conversation with him starts at about 53 minutes!) Intro and interstitial music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)

Megan & Carey watched the episodes 6-8 of the Animorphs TV show! Welcome to our second Special Animorphs TV Show Special! Plug in your zipdiscs and get cozy, cause it's time for: truly stellar animal puppet work, mystery flashlights, An Actual Lion, unsettling andalite torsos, Human Lessons, Visser 3's tragic cookie denial, and Cinnamon Boy's Garbage Journey. Intro music is a clip from "All of Us"(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…04_-_all_of_us) and outro music is a clip from "We Are The Resistors" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Ski…_the_resistors) both are by Eric Skiff(freemusicarchive.org/music/Eric_Skiff/), available under CC BY 3.0. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#)