Podcasts about rescue bots

The Rescue Bots need help on a space mission, but can the recruits work together to pilot the Sigma? Then , what should have been an extremely simple rescue mission escalates quickly – and just keeps getting worse! Join us this week for the Rescue Bots Academy episodes “Space Case” and “Balloon Up A Tree”!

The Academy kids want shiny new gadgets like the big bots have, so they get Hoist to invent some — but his prototypes need a lot of work! Then, the mayor has decided to carve the Rescue Bots’ faces into a mountain as a tourist attraction, and Hot Shot thinks he should be up there too! Can the team save Griffin Rock from his hubris? Join us this week for the Rescue Bots Academy episodes “If At First…” and “Mount Botmore”!

WELP! I can't stress to you enough that you must brace yourself for this episode. I could never have foreseen how unfiltered we were all going to get at around 11PM at night when we recorded this. Yet, he we are -- talking about some football, Canadian provinces, Old Glory, "America the Beautiful," Rescue Bots, and--of course-- a little bit of Severance to top it all off. We apologize for the more-than-usual-potty-humor, and we hope you know that we never intend any disrespect. And all that said, I hope you enjoy this melodious episode and we will catch you next week. Go Chiefs.

We’re heading back to the Aligned Universe for Rescue Bots Academy! Hot Shot has been asked by Optimus Prime himself to join the other Rescue Bot recruits on Earth, but is the hot-headed jock really cut out for rescue work? Can he at least manage to get along with his new classmates? And what is going on with Optimus Prime’s FACE!? Join us this week as we go back to school with “Recruits” part 1 and 2!

Before we check back in on the Rescue Bots, we're taking a side quest to the Savage Land for a timely visit to Kraven the Hunter! Can Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends stop the Hunter's unnecessarily convoluted plan to create a dinosaur army? Which writer was clearly responsible for this episode? And what familiar song makes a surprise appearance? Join us this week for “The Crime of All Centuries”!

We're back with another special Transformers design team guest for this one, as we're joined by Hasbro veteran Brian Parrish! Brian has had an incredible career working on many different lines, but for the robots in disguise, the highlights are everything from Universe 2003, Star Wars Transformers, Rescue Bots, Earthspark, Rise of the Beasts, Transformers One and, crucially, the current crop of Collaborative projects! Not one to miss. If you enjoy our podcast then find more... much more than meets the ear at www.patreon.com/tripletakeover TONS of weekly exclusive content & perks, including bonus episodes, outtakes, early access and more! Sign up at 'Gold Box Classics' level today to get immediate access to: Over 80 'minisodes' on a wide range of topics (plus commission your own!) Over 55 'miniseries' chapters on ongoing topics, including toys & comics Early release of regular episodes - normally a week in advance! Our Patreon Discord server - the place to be! Bonus podcast artwork & more! And a big thank you to all the patrons in our top two tiers, including: Nick Danny Roberts Andy Chris Spider-Father Adam Shoemaker Bad Saturday Justin Masaru Dave Dalrymple Geokaiser Yusifer John Pearl Alec Meer CapnRA Phil G Rotorstorm Puma The Hunter Peter Hammerson Shenry Jesse Moreno Nexis Aaron Svoboda Billigator Andy Gold Coldsquall Simon Elvin Joshles Cracktastic Plastic Danvastator Jeffrey Freije Tim Bannerjee Ben Lewis Lucas Henkel Molluskoenig CNCRick56 Mythic Gears Zach Lawson Jason Murray David Shepherd esdeem Quickmixed Josh Bell Ashpolt Cristian Hyatt Graeme Moffat Burke Perrotta Eric Hoyt Bobby P. Mike Loiacono Nihar Bhatt Chris Rodwell Steve Redman Jim Kinsey Shawnti Seigel James Pascoe GhostPrime Jickel Godert Walter Charlie Shoppell Maya Entransta Alexis Taylor Jeremy Woodall Ross Michael Cagle Duggertron squidcatfish Robert R UncrasimaticBore Cam Lee Michael Brandt Miguel Gonzalez Spider-Bob James Hooks Brandon Mahaffey Collecticon Chup Goldbolt Riley Lentz Emperor Galvartron Matthew Deadmen Spencer Butler Allen Johnson Adam Brady James Turnham Simon EMH_Richard Robin Hunt RhA Jetfireprime760 Frank Colosimo Dave Beckett Jeremy Canceko Ben Erickson Evilplopdisease Klarque Clint Gaming Tony Hayward DJ Convoy Prymus84 Private Random Rob Franklin Digbysaurus Menastreaker Darj Stevie P Traffic Cone ThePerfectPixl Andrew Bentley Marc Bairstow obadiahstarbuck Toy Pocket Dylan TFormers2002 Rob S 01 Forever0ne kingliamthegood Scott Dickinson Andy TFtheShow aggresive bread Elliot Wright Hugh Mckinney Jay_too Chris Carnage Coy Kasey Hershberger Gojiprime Rahdimus Tarngaryan Here'sWhyIt'sCool Jetstorm gestaltgeek DD Torny gareth4foot30 SkywarpSCS StarSaberFan38 Mikey tfgrandaddy Quetzalcoatlus northropi Billy Boy Turbine027 (Bobby Allen) Jamesyplays Michael Wigert Orion Moore Jamie @Stormtoyphotography TFShowUK Luke Wiltshire Vicente Taboada Seeker Heat The 20-Sided Theatre Andrew Nickson Justin Slayden Pavement Matthew Shortt pryntr R B Jon R And the Mapes Brothers (who you might recognise)

The AI Morocco has control of the training center, but he needs an edge against the Rescue Bots — he needs a human partner! Can Cody’s family get back to Griffin Rock from their worldwide assignments in time to save him from the evil AI’s grip? And are they really going to have to split up the team after all this? Join us as we say goodbye to the Rescue Bots (for now) with “Transformations”!

Optimus Prime has decided it’s time for the Rescue Bots to be split up for new assignments— so it’s a bad time for the Mini Morocco to show up! Can they keep him from souping up his new MorBot despite being assigned all over the world? Can Cody convince his dad he’s old enough for a partner of his own? And which Rescue Bot is big in China? Join us this week as we near the end of Rescue Bots (for now) with “Upgrades”!

Dani is heading off on a test flight to SPACE! And all kinds of things go wrong! Can the Rescue Bots help her before she crashes into the MOON? Can Blades get a grip on his attachment issues and accept her taking a full-time test pilot job? And when did Kade get so weird? Join us this week for “To Infinity… And Back”!

Madeline Pynch has found a chunk of Energon, and it’s up to the Rescue Bots and the Burns Family to stage a heist to steal it back before it explodes! Can Chase get his head around the moral complications of stealing from villains? What does Kade mean that he “doesn’t believe in Ferris wheels”? And what was the best Jim Varney movie? Join us this week for “Cody’s 11”!

A WILD SIDESWIPE APPEARS! Mischevious Cyclone Mini-Con Bounce is on the loose in Griffin Rock, and he’s writing rude Cybertronian graffiti all over the place! Can Sideswipe actually be a team player for once and help the Rescue Bots catch him? Can Blurr convince Sideswipe to get him on the Bee Team? And how well would Strongarm get along with Chase? Join us this week for “The Need For Speed”!

When Bumblebee lands at the Rescue Bots’ Training Center, it’s a chance to catch up on all that’s happened in the last few years, including his new voice! But his ship’s got a hitchhiker in the form of a hatchling Energon eater, and it’s on the loose! Can they catch it before it drains the whole team? Can Blades come to terms with his friend’s big changes? And how many stories are tagged “BumbleBlades” on AO3? Join us this week for “Uninvited Guest”!

Griffin Rock’s cell tower is in dire need of replacement – but Mayor Luskey “invested” the infrastructure money in an inflatable Brash Ball stadium instead! Can the Rescue Bots and the Burns Family raise enough money with side gigs to fund a replacement? Why is this even their problem to fix? How many people watching this even remember the show Taxi? And what should you maybe not order from Temu? Join us this week for “Part-Time Heroes”!

It’s All Spark Day, and the Rescue Bots are excited to teach the people of Griffin Rock about their Cybertronian holiday! So what’s All Spark Day all about? Why doesn’t Heatwave want to celebrate? Why is there a “Parade of Metals”? And what’s that giant baby doing there!? Join us this week for “All Spark Day”!

Whiskers the lion is kidnapped by a villain with a thing for problematic cultural appropriation — but with Quint Quarry still safely in jail, who could it be? Would you believe... LORD CHUMLEY!? What's this G1 guy doing hassling the Rescue Bots? Why does he have extinct animals in his collection? And didn't we JUST get an episode with that title? Join us this week for "Enemy of my Enemy"!

Everyone's favorite Crime Druids are back in town, and they didn't get the memo that the Rescue Bots are aliens — and now they're determined to steal-slash-kidnap Quickshadow! Can they be stopped before they ruin the town's Earliween parade? Will they blow the Rescue Bots' cover? How deep under the Unit E bunker are these guys about to be buried? And wait... what's "Earliween"? Join us this week for "Ghost in the Machine"!

Quickshadow is determined to train each of the Rescue Bots to operate as a team of one — even though there's no I in Team! (Blades is gonna have to take that poster down.) But when they have to escort a hazardous shipment for Doc Greene, will her way of doing things really be better than their teamwork? Why did she think "Bootlatch" was a good code name? And who is absolutely not allowed to transport hazardous materials anymore? Join us this week for "Plus One"!

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A mysterious car follows Chase and Heatwave back to the firehouse after another Ground Bridge malfunction, and they keep saving people before the Rescue Bots can step in! Who's behind the wheel — and why does it take so long for everyone to reach the obvious conclusion that they're Cybertronian? Can Cody and Frankie keep up with a toddler who's too smart for her own good? And what's even better than a title drop? Join us this week for "Arrivals"!

The Rescue Bots are getting used to the idea of everyone on Griffin Rock knowing their secret — but can they depend on them to keep it? Why is the new Ground Bridge to the Academy site acting up? Can Blades get people to join his fan club? And what's the best kind of peanut butter? Join us this week as we do some "Bridge Building"!

Back in Griffin Rock, the Very Good Boys of the Rescue Bots have been dragging their heels on the whole reveal-yourselves-to-the-humans thing — but an invasion of some less friendly aliens gives them a chance to show that they really do come in peace! Can they save the day before any humans get eaten? What exactly has Optimus been up to since the last time he called? And does Chase have what it takes to be a bestselling author? Join us this month as we head into Rescue Bots Season 4 with “New Normal”!

It's time for another Plot That Always Works as Robots in Disguise gets its body swap episode! Can the body-swapped Bee Team get their act together to stop some Stunticons who are convinced that winning the title of Ruler of the Road from a race actually confers governmental authority? Who is loving the change and who absolutely is not? And can this one live up to the glory of the Rescue Bots version? Join us this week for "Disordered Personalities"!

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 "Four-Legged Hero"! #podcast #StasisPod #Transformers #RescueBots

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 a title drop for a series yet to happen, "Rescue Bots Academy"! #transformers #RescueBots #podcast

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"!

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 "Turning the Tide"!

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 Kade's digestive system going to be after all that shrimp? Join us this week for "All Bots Great and Small"!

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 this week for "Quarry's Quarry"!

When Kade accidentally swallows some bacteria-cleaning nanites, the Rescue Bots have to shrink down to microscopic size to round them up before they destroy his digestive microbiome! Can they get them out before Kade suffers a grosser digestive fate than this show wants to discuss? Will there be EVIL BRAIN IMPULSES? And what were our favorite sci-fi comedies that we absolutely should not have been watching as kids? Join us this week for "Bot-Tastic Voyage"!

Bothered by the memory of a mission the Rescue Bots never got to finish before arriving on Earth, Chase takes Boulder back into space in search of a derelict ship and the Energon-sucking space monster threatening it! But will things turn out to be *drumroll* more than meets the eye? How bad are Blades and Heatwave at filling Chase and Boulder's roles with the Burns family? How does the Energon eater differ from a vampire? And how can an island even have the kind of flooding they're dealing with back home? Join us this week for some "Unfinished Business"!

It's said that once every 10 years, the ghostly S.S. Phantom Voyager appears off the coast of Griffin Rock -- and this time, the Greene and Burns families are ready! But when ship disappears with the Rescue Bots and their human friends on board, can they solve the mystery and make it back home before another 10 years pass? How far into singing "My Heart Will Go On" will Rob get? And HOW DOES TIME TRAVEL EVEN WORK!? Join us this week for "Phantom of the Sea"!

Optimus Prime's dino mode attracts the attention of big game hunter Quint Quarry, who botnaps him to hunt on his private island! But with the Autobot leader stuck in dino mode mentally as well as physically, it's up to the Rescue Bots to save him! Can they keep from getting captured themselves? How much dino DNA is Doc Greene sitting on? And how much have current events ruined both private islands and the letter Q? Join us this week for "Big Game"!

We're back to the Very Good Boys of Rescue Bots! While showing Optimus Prime how much progress they've made, the Bots discover a pterodactyl perched on Mount Griffin! But where did it come from? Can Optimus help Cody decide what to do for his Lad Pioneers merit project? And how cute are all these dinosaurs!? Join us this week as we return to Griffin Rock for "Land Before Prime"!

Ever since a terrible snowstorm back in 1713, the Rider of Midwinter has delivered a loaf of bread to every home in Griffin Rock on Midwinter Morning -- and it's also when everyone in town gives each other presents! But after a week of snow keeps everyone snowed in and the packages from the mainland get lost at sea, can even the Rescue Bots save the holiday? How good can bread that's been sitting on a snowy doorstep really be? And how did they ever explain the MHQ to the town's taxpayers? Join us this week for a rare Transformers holiday special, "The Riders of Midwinter"!

The Rescue Bots have lost their memories, but the mortal peril won't wait -- Griffin Rock is sinking into the sea! What gizmos from previous episodes can they use to save it? Who is the most relieved to learn Blades isn't actually their leader? And would it blow the Bots' cover to charge Doctor Morocco with kidnapping instead of property theft? Join us this week as we finish up season 2 of Rescue Bots with "Rise of the Heroes"!

We're at the end of the season, so it's time for some high-stakes plot developments as Doctor Morocco and Madeline Pynch team up to botnap the Rescue Bots! So what nefarious scheme requires some giant alien robots? What nefarious tool does the Doctor have to get them to play along? And where can we find some episodes of Cupcake Hoarders? This week there's no disguise for some "Double Villainy"!

When a bot's series reaches a certain age, Hasbro's need to sell new toys of them triggers strange and startling changes in their body -- it's time for Heatwave to get a new mode, for Reasons! But while he's away going through some vague physiological process under Optimus Prime's supervision, Doctor Morocco returns to wreck havoc on Griffin Rock with a souped-up weather machine (and not the yummy kind of soup)! Can the other Rescue Bots hold down the fort against storms, lightning, and FIRE TORNADOS? How does Heatwave's new mode rank against a fire department Lamborghini? And Doc Greene's tornado-stopping machine is called WHAT!? Join us this week for "Changes"!

Brandy is missing, so Micah tells Raven about more Rescue Bots. As always, send submissions, requests, etc to cybertronbroadcastradio@gmail.com Credit for the theme goes to Derek Ehlmann

Mayor Luskey decides it’s time to replace the town’s aging central computer with an exciting new model called Vigil. But when Vigil decides the safest thing for the people of Griffin Rock is its own totalitarian control, can the Burns family and the Rescue Bots stop it? Who even made this thing? How is this … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode #278: The Vigilant Town →

As a pallet cleanser after the Kiss Players episode, Micah tells us about more Rescue Bots episodes! As always, send submissions, requests, etc to cybertronbroadcastradio@gmail.com Credit for the theme goes to Derek Ehlmann

The Rescue Bots learn about the Island of Misfit Tech, where Doc Greene sends malfunctioning machines that are too large for the Best Left Forgotten room. But when Cody gets sent there by accident, it’s up to Heatwave to save him! Or will Cody be doing the saving? How was any of this ever a … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode #277: The Island of Misfit Tech →

The Burns family, their uncle Woodrow, the Rescue Bots, and even Optimus Prime are all trapped underground! Can they work together to find a way out? Wait, was that a DINOSAUR? Yes, we KNOW pterodactyls aren’t technically dinosaurs. Sheesh. And what Ill-Advised Science from all the way back at the start of season 1 will … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode #275: What Rises Above →

Raven's not available, so Brandy and Micah talk about Rescue Bots more! As always, send submissions, requests, etc to cybertronbroadcastradio@gmail.com Credit for the theme goes to Derek Ehlmann

Against the better judgement of everyone involved, the mayor agrees to let Griffin Rock’s favorite (only?) news reporter, Huxley Prescott, make a reality show about the Rescue Bots! But when it turns out that day-to-day rescuing isn’t quite TV material, Huxley decides to get creative! How will his scheming for some drama inevitably backfire? Which … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode #271: Prescott’s Bots →

This time Raven and Brandy are joined by Micah, who shares her love of the Rescue Bots series of Transformers. It's... definitely something. This is probably our longest episode. Intro theme credit goes to Derek Ehlmann

A mysterious iceberg shows up off he coast of Griffin Rock… but this iceberg is more than meets the eye! (Sorry not sorry.) What’s at the heart of this floating chunk of ice, and more importantly, who else is after it? What ties does it have to the Burns Family? Can the Rescue Bots keep … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode #268: Tip of the Iceberg →

We’re back in full Terrible Science mode here on Rescue Bots! With the Chief sidelined by the flu, can Cody step up with his large grown adult legs and help his siblings recover the other half of the machine so he can go back to normal? Or will Frankie never want to play with him … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode #267: One for the Ages →

Welcome back to Griffin Rock — where the Autobots are still in training, the bears are weirdly aggressive, and 99% of their problems are caused by Science! When we last saw the Rescue Bots, they’d picked up a giant Mobile HQ from an evil alternate present, but before they can worry about whether Griffin Rock … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode #265: Road Trip →

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What happens when your customer clicks ‘order’ on your Ecommerce site?  Do your systems have rules that look at the customer location and choose the nearest warehouse to fulfill that order? Or are you relying on one fulfillment center and allowing days or weeks to pass before it arrives to your customer?   The real-world logistics behind each digital order can be a complex process… but if you could set up the proper systems, what if you could then compete with the new industry standard of two-day shipping? Understanding this logistical side of Ecommerce is vital for any store owner or executive team looking to master this world.  Today, we’re exploring the logistics side of Ecommerce with an industry expert.  Casey Armstrong, is the Chief Marketing Officer at ShipBob working hard to ensure that Ecommerce shops are able to get products to their customers effectively and efficiently.  On this episode of Up Next in Commerce, Casey takes us behind the scenes of what makes for a good third-party logistics partner, or 3PL. Plus he explains when companies might want to start thinking about finding a 3PL partner, and why Amazon, which is seen as the gold standard in fulfillment, might not actually be the best choice for your Ecommerce shop.  3 Takeaways:  Optimizing your 3PL Strategy: There are many options when it comes to choosing who to partner with as your 3PL partner. But making sure you ask the right questions is key. Do they help with creating a beautiful unboxing experience? Are they distributed? Can they grow and scale with your company? Tune in to hear all the things to consider when setting up your 3PL operations. Focus on The Product, Not The Fulfillment: So many entrepreneurs start off having to do everything themselves from marketing, to product development, to fulfillment. After a while, the fulfillment process will wind up taking up the majority of your time that should be spent on developing, talking to customers, and scaling the business.  Owning the Tech Stack: From top to bottom, when a 3PL owns the tech stack, it can provide data to its customers that can directly impact ROI. With easy access to data like inventory, distribution centers, customer location/preferences, an Ecommerce shop can make decisions about its fulfillment strategy with a sharper focus. For an in-depth look at this episode, check out the full transcript below. Quotes have been edited for clarity and length. --- Up Next in Commerce is brought to you by Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Respond quickly to changing customer needs with flexible Ecommerce connected to marketing, sales, and service. Deliver intelligent commerce experiences your customers can trust, across every channel. Together, we’re ready for what’s next in commerce. Learn more at salesforce.com/commerce --- Transcript: Stephanie: Welcome back to Up Next In Commerce. This is your host, Stephanie Postles, co-founder of Mission.org. Today on the show, we have Casey Armstrong, the chief marketing officer at ShipBob. Casey, welcome. Casey: Hello. Thank you for having me. Stephanie: Yeah. Thanks for coming on the show. I am eager to have you on since we have not had anyone in your industry on yet. I think there's a lot to learn. Casey: Perfect. Stephanie: I want to hear before we dive into ShipBob, a little bit about your background and how you got into your current role of CMO. Casey: Yes. Thank you for the intro. As you mentioned, chief marketing officer over here at ShipBob. Where at ShipBob, we are an Ecommerce fulfillment solution essentially bringing that Amazon level two-day, three-day shipping experience to direct to consumer brands. We can get more into the specifics of ShipBob later. I'm not here just to pitch that, but we do that through our distributed fulfillment network. We've got 10 facilities around the world. Casey: Then before ShipBob, I actually was the VP of marketing over at BigCommerce, one of the leading Ecommerce platforms who also happen to go public in IPO last week. Another huge congrats to the BigCommerce team over there, that was a huge accomplishment. I'm just very proud of what they have accomplished. I know that they're just getting started. Then prior to that, I was the SVP at a company called Watchmaster. We were a luxury watch Ecommerce brand actually located over in Europe. Those were the last couple roles for me that brought me over to ShipBob. Stephanie: Tell me a little bit about ShipBob. What is it? How would you explain to someone who does not know even where to begin with that? Casey: Yeah. We ship off to really simplify it. Again, if I would really simplify it, we're a tech enabled 3PL which again means we store and ship your products. If you're a direct to consumer brand and you want to utilize ShipBob or let's say another 3PL, you would send us your inventory. We would store your inventory. Then, as orders come in, we ship it out on your behalf. We are not a carrier. We are not like FedEx or USPS. We partner with them. Casey: Every day they send multiple trucks to our facilities and pack that truck to the brim. Then, take those orders out to deliver to the end consumer. Yeah. I think that covers most of it. Stephanie: Yeah. That's good. You're kind of like the behind the scenes operation that can help fulfill products and orders for an Ecommerce shop? Casey: Exactly. We really are pushing the envelope to do a lot more than that. I mean, we are platform agnostic. We can connect on all the marketplaces. We don't really care how you are selling or where you are selling. We just ingest those orders. Then, we can ship the products to the end consumer. We're really enabling that entire e commerce experience regardless of how you are running or facilitating your business. Stephanie: How does ShipBob differentiate itself from other 3PLs? Casey: One of the ways, the most obvious ways is our fulfillment network. We have 10 facilities, eight in the US, one in Canada and one in Europe. Why that is important and why we're making a huge bet on the distributed fulfillment model is because then you're closer to the end consumer, which means that you can deliver your packages not only faster, but also much more cost effectively. That's a huge focus area of ours. Casey: Another very, let's say, obvious item too is the technology. I'll touch on two items there. One is we really are making our bet on controlling that entire stack. That goes from the merchant application, which should really be your go-to source for all inventory and order management. You don't have to use another tool. You get all of that within ShipBob. Another is the ShipBob fulfillment engine, which is really the logic of what and where and how to ship all products. That's what talks to our fulfillment centers. Then, it's our warehouse management system or WNS technology, which powers all the logic within the fulfillment centers. Casey: That's from how should we receive your inventory when you send it to us? Where should we store it? When the order comes in, which person in the fulfillment center should pick it? What box should they put it in? Which label should they print it out? When should they prioritize that within their day? All of that is ShipBob technology. The reason why we think that is so important is that's how we can create this unified fulfillment experience for our customers across all of our locations. That way, we can also be as cost effective and efficient with our time, so that we can then pass on those savings to our customers. Casey: Then, another item with the technology as well is that allows us to, again, not just optimize what happens there but share this data more transparently with our customers. For example, all of our customers get ... we're we actually going to turn this into a paid product, we decided because of how much value it drove to our customers, we just decided to open it up to our analytics dashboards. Customers can come in and just get some pretty robust data and analytics on how their business is performing from like an inventory and fulfillment perspective. Casey: They can even see things like with a click of a button, let's say they're storing all of their product in our southern California location. They actually see they're getting quite a few sales in the northeast. They can click one of our northeast locations and they can see, okay, this is the cost savings and the reduction in transit speed if I utilize two facilities. Sometimes, you're like, why wouldn't anybody use two or three or 10 facilities? You have to think through the business, which is it might cost incremental money to ship to multiple facilities or you might want to double up on inventory. Casey: There are pros and cons of both. That's just one of many examples of with a click of a button, you can really dive down in your business and see where there are some cost savings and time saving opportunities. Stephanie: That seems very good, very helpful. I will point though, would someone know like, okay, now is the time that I should maybe outsource my fulfillment. How big should they be? Or when will they know it's the right time to maybe hire or bring on a 3PL? Casey: Yeah. I think knowing the right time, I think that's the easier one to answer. I get this question all the time. Is it 100 orders a month? Is it 1000? What is it? Just like most answers to things in life is it depends. I think it's beneficial to pick and pack and ship products for maybe a little bit, maybe even just when you're getting started, because one you kind of learn the mechanics of it and what goes into it and just even things to optimize yourself. Casey: An example there is sometimes people want this extremely robust unboxing experience. They'll get these extremely customized boxes. Then they realize, oh, well it takes them 10 minutes to fold it all up together every time. That's not efficient for them and that won't be efficient for the 3PL. Also, I think it's actually just extremely important to understand who your customers are and so as these orders come in, and you can do this after you outsource it as well, but as orders come in, look them up. Casey: Is it Casey Armstrong? Okay, he lives where? Okay, he has children, he's into certain things. Who are these people? To really understand your customers. I'd say the time to outsource it is when you start getting close to a point where the fulfillment side of the business is eating into your time that can be better spent on sales and marketing and product development fulfillment is often a low leverage use of your time. There's a reason why people utilize companies like ShipBob. Casey: You should be spending your time on growing the business, again, sales and marketing and product development, probably not picking and packing boxes, which also takes a lot of time. Stephanie: Yeah, that makes sense. How would I think about you guys versus maybe like Amazon fulfillment? What is the difference there? Casey: Yes ... Stephanie: Would I pick you over Amazon? Or is it either or? Can I use both? Casey: You can use both. Sometimes, we're a replacement. Sometimes, you would utilize us instead and sometimes we're a compliment. With Amazon, it depends on what you're looking for. With us, we often work with Ecommerce brands. I definitely stress brands, people that care about owning that customer relationship and owning that data and having full control over what and how products are getting sent to their customers. Casey: With Amazon, which really sets the gold standard in logistics, no question, with them, it's really you ship stuff to their fulfillment centers, everything goes out in an Amazon box. You get extremely limited data if something goes wrong, or if they make changes. Like for example, they stopped shipping essentials or receiving essentials, early on in COVID. Most recently, they are limiting the amount of inventory you can store in their facilities. They're the end all be all. They make that decision and there's nothing you can do about it. Casey: You just have to conform your business to how they change. With us, you can include marketing inserts. You can include custom packaging. You get and own all of the data about your customers and about the fulfillment experience. If you want to pick up the phone and talk to somebody, you can. It's really weighing what is right for your business. Stephanie: Yeah, that makes sense. The one thing I've always kind of struggled with when thinking about 3PLs is the cost aspect. Because at one point, I don't remember what I was looking this up for but I was trying to find a good one here in California. They all use different metrics. I actually had to build a matrix in Google Sheets to be like, well, this person is quoting it based off of like, what are they called, partials or the big wooden blocks? Not blocks ... Casey: Pallets? Stephanie: Yeah, pallets. Hey, there you go. Yeah, they're quoting it based on pallets. Then, other people are talking about pieces. They all had different ways of talking about it. I felt like I didn't fully understand what cost to even consider when looking for different 3PLs. What do you advise if someone's going this route right now and thinking through it? Casey: Let's say, before even getting into the pricing equation is understanding what's important for you and that should hopefully allow you to whittle down your options because you probably are going to get handful of pricing agreements that are difficult to compare apples to apples. I mean, you could spend a little bit of time and get it to that point. Is connecting to certain technologies important? If so, you can probably cross a bunch of options off your list. Casey: Is having a location in a certain region or regions important? Do you want to split your inventory? Is certain things from a kidding or a packing or an unboxing experience important? If so, again, you can probably widdle some more off. With us, we really try to simplify it so you get billed off of receiving storage, and then what we call a total fulfillment cost. We try to simplify it some but again, even when you're looking at us versus others, you can't necessarily always get to this true apples to apples comparison but you can get pretty close. Stephanie: Yeah, that's a good point. If someone is doing a lot of other things like you mentioned like unboxing or having distributed fulfillment centers, that is probably even more important than just like how much will it cost to ship certain pieces. When thinking about the distributed fulfillment centers, how does the reduction, maybe like shipping days increase purchase size or cart abandonment? Have you seen any metrics around that where a quicker shipping time, I'm assuming helps with higher purchases, purchase volume? Casey: Yeah. We actually have a couple of case studies that are pretty interesting on our site today. I'll give two examples where one is with this one brand and they were utilizing our two-day express program. There, we split their inventory and we try to optimize everything or as much as possible to be shipped via ground, because we're going to pay ground versus air is night and day. That's why distributed fulfillment networks are important is because then you're getting access to a larger footprint of the US. Casey: Let's just say in this example, the continent of US for ground shipping because anybody can ship two day in air. That's easy. You can ship it from one facility, it's just going to be very expensive. Anyways, they were able to see slightly over 20% increase in their average order value by showcasing this two-day shipping experience. I think that's because they were really showing off that Amazon level experience. Amazon had a lot of data on just the additional spend, granted this isn't necessarily apples to apples but how much more the prime members spend versus a non-prime. Casey: Again, if somebody is using prime, they might have more ... maybe they're like in a higher income bracket or they put more emphasis on Ecommerce. We had another customer honestly that saw a 97% increase in average order value once they started showcasing this fast and free two-day shipping. I would not mark that as your baseline or your benchmark or target because doubling your average order value is pretty insane. It does go to show things that people, I think, think about a lot more now than they used to. That shipping and fulfillment experience both whether it be free for two days or free and two days can really move a lot of levers that will also help feed back into your ROI and your marketing. Stephanie: Yup. I think a lot of customers in the back their mind they know, if I don't get this in probably a week, I'm going to forget about it or I won't be as excited about it. I mean, that's at least how I am when I see maybe like seven to 14 days. I'm like, what am I going to be doing in 14 days? I don't even know if I want to wear that t-shirt in 14 days. Casey: Something that's really tough to calculate is how does that improve ... I mean, you can calculate like your net promoter score or NPS or your C-SAT or customer satisfaction score if you poll your customers. Maybe improvements in NPS improve word of mouth or improve customer retention as well. Something that I think about a lot is people always focus on email marketing or SMS or ads, but what is the number one place? Where do you get 100% open rate with your customers? Casey: That's on the products that you ship them. Everybody's going to open that box. From the speed and the experience and how they receive the package to maybe even the actual package to maybe what's inside the package is extremely important. Focusing on that because there's no better channel than word of mouth, but word of mouth is also the toughest to measure and also the toughest to grow. Stephanie: Yeah. I love that, especially the 100% open rate quote. How are you advising brands that you're working with when it comes to creating a delightful unboxing experience? Casey: It often depends on what they're selling. Stephanie: Yeah. Casey: I'd say it's more on not trying to do things overly complex. I think, back to the first website that I guess commissioned to be built. The poor developer who's actually the designer as well wanted to hang up the phone on me or delete my emails, because I just made what should have been so easy, so complicated, where I really just needed a homepage. Then, I needed a bunch of other let's call them child pages, but they could follow the same design template over and over again. Essentially, I just needed to build out two different design templates. Even if my website was going to be let's say, 50 pages. Casey: Where I came to him and I was like, I want the homepage to look like this. I want the blog to look like this. The about page to look like this. The service page to look like this. He's like, we haven't even got off the ground and you're asking for 50 things. The same thing with that packaging and unboxing experience, which is, let's say you're shipping in just standard brown boxes today or poly mailers today. How can you make just like an incremental step up? Maybe it's that brown box but it has your logo on it. Then, maybe make another incremental step forward from there. Casey: Because every time you add complexity, it's going to cost more money most likely to create these custom boxes. Also, your 3PL might charge you for kidding fees. There's a company that I'm a customer of, Lovevery, if you're familiar with them, I know you have little ones. Stephanie: Yeah, I've heard of them. Their unboxing experiences, it's beautiful. I know my wife and kids look forward to it every time it hits the door. You don't ... Stephanie: What does it look like? Tell me a little bit about it. Casey: From the box, and there's another company called KiwiCo that does the same. It's this beautiful box, you open it up, everything is laid out like in the order that you're going to use it from the instructions to the toys or the products you're going to use because they're more like educational toys. It's almost like this story or they're like hand holding you through this experience. Let's just put them at the far end of the spectrum of this amazing unboxing experience. You're going to maybe even pull out your phone and Instagram it or something. Casey: Maybe that's your future state goal. If right now, you're just throwing things in a brown box, don't try to do that overnight. Just try to make it like a little bit better and then just progress on that overtime. Stephanie: Yeah, that's a really good point, not just for boxing, but I think this advice in general, sometimes it's easy to want to go, let's do 1,000 things and then it's like you're frozen and you can't move forward. I'm sure you see a lot behind the scenes with a lot of new brands, probably approaching you and trying you guys out. What kind of trends are you seeing in the fulfillment world? Are there new things that have come up since the pandemic that maybe you weren't anticipating before that you guys are kind of pivoting to help out with that maybe you just didn't have customers asking for that prior to COVID? Casey: I don't know about trends of things that they're asking for that they weren't prior, I'd say, their sense of urgency is increased. We knew that we were going to roll out a few international locations, but the demand for those capabilities and the speed at which customers are trying to close themselves. For our business, it's actually rather welcoming, but it's been pretty fascinating to see that really accelerate over time. Casey: We rolled out our European and Canadian fulfillment centers this year and people just kind of been banging on the door to leverage those because Ecommerce demand everywhere has spiked. I'd say another that's been kind of interesting is while Amazon is still viewed very favorably, let's just say across the US, how people are evaluating Amazon as a 3PL, depending on their business, again, whether they put all their eggs in the Amazon basket versus like just viewing it as a compliment. Casey: I think this has really shed a huge light on the importance of owning your business and owning your distribution channels as much as possible and owning your customer data and owning that supply chain like the example that I gave earlier. Again, I have so much respect for Amazon. They push our industry forward, not just Ecommerce, but logistics as well, is when they can start limiting which products you can ship to them and when they can start limiting which products that you can store with them, which therefore dictates which items you can ship out, which is how you make money. Casey: That's a lot of power to give to a third party. They're doing it because they need to do what's best for them as a company. They need to do what's best for all of their third party sellers and aggregate. No matter how big you are, you're just one of those hundreds of thousands of businesses. Just making sure that you plan accordingly. Stephanie: Yeah, that makes sense. It seems like the shipping delays that happened with Amazon as well or when they started prioritizing essential stuff also gave a lot of DTC companies and people who aren't relying on Amazon a chance because all the people on Amazon are maybe used to that two-day shipping, that started turning to five and seven and two weeks, started looking elsewhere and started being open to other ideas other than just like Amazon is my source. Stephanie: I know myself included, I have actually been okay ordering from brands directly. Because I'm like, this brand is maybe four days, Amazon might be two to three, not that much of a difference. Whereas before this, I don't know, if I would have considered ordering directly from a brand if it was also on Amazon. Casey: You're spot on. That's what's going to be so interesting as COVID hopefully starts to dissipate and then hopefully it's in the rearview mirror, is the habits that we have formed over the last four to six months and which of those stick and people being comfortable with a slightly longer fulfillment time because they can buy directly from the brand or because whatever fear that they had has been reduced and so they'll trust these other websites more. Casey: Even I know when I was at BigCommerce like we had a quarter that was super focused on digital wallets. As that's evolved, digital wallets meaning like the PayPal buy button, the Amazon one click, I'm trying to think what else Visa and Apple Pay. Those also allow people to buy not just on desktop but also mobile so easily where you don't even need to go and get your wallet. It's just the ease of purchase is just so much easier now versus like on Amazon, they stored everything and it was very easy. Now, those digital wallets are also on a lot of these direct to consumer sites. Stephanie: Yeah. I think that's so important. It's like we have a Philz down the street and I used to always go in and order, use my credit card and whatnot. When they started doing only mobile ordering where you can only pick it up at their ... like outside, instantly, I'm all of a sudden ordering like two Philz a week. I'm out and I walk my dog I'm like, oh, I've got my phone I can order it. Payment is already set up. Something I never would have done before. Now, I'm like, why did I ever wait in line? What was wrong with me? Why didn't I get their app to begin with? Casey: Yeah. Great point. It's like this forcing mechanism for us to try these slightly more innovative products. Even somebody like myself has been in Ecommerce forever and buying stuff on Amazon, I'm sure you've ... since whenever you had a credit card, my wife and I, we never utilized like Whole Foods delivery or buying groceries on Amazon. Then, with this and with the little ones, we've just been very diligent on really living the quarantine life as fun as that is. We get multiple Whole Foods deliveries a week now. Casey: When before, we're like, I'm not sure about how the produce will be. What about getting meat? It's been great. I mean, the cons are usually you get about 85% of the things you put in your cart, because they don't have everything but they deliver right to you. There's just so many changes, just like your example, the coffee. Stephanie: Yeah, I'm starting to wonder too, if consumers will be ... I think there's going to be two sides of it, one where they're going to have very high expectations for things like they want to have trust in the brand. They want transparency. They want to see what's going on behind the scenes? Are they socially conscious? Then, I also think there's another side of the consumer where they're going to be okay with good enough. Like with your Whole Foods example, I was the same way like, I pick tomatoes out in a certain way or avocados and they just won't know how to pick out my avocado. Stephanie: Now I'm like, if four out of five of the avocados are good enough, I'm happy with it. I kind of see two ends of the spectrum of what this push consumers to be, which would be kind of hard to meet. Casey: I agree. I might be slightly biased and we're pushing ShipBob to deliver everything within, let's say, one to three days. Sometimes, a merchant can only store all their inventory in one location. Let's say, it's on the east coast and I know you're in California, as am I, and we order something, maybe it takes about four or five days to get to us. Am I willing to take that slightly longer delivery speed, because I know that I'm supporting entrepreneur that much more? Casey: I'll be curious to see how that changes just as we do are more conscious about supporting SMBs. We know that if we buy it directly from their website versus Amazon or elsewhere, that we put more money in their pocket. I'm very interested to see how that evolves over time. Stephanie: Yeah, no, that'll be really interesting. We're just talking about putting more money in the merchant's pocket. How do you advise or what best practices do you see when it comes to setting pricing? If I'm implementing a 3PL, should the retail price of something have like a 50% profit margin or 70? How do you advise someone to set their prices in a way that makes sense to make sure that their margins are good and not eaten up by 3PLs and returns and all that? Casey: I mean, every business will just be so different. I think what's important that you're getting at is, and something that not everybody fully carves off the time to understand off the top of their head, like all these numbers off the top of their head. What are their true costs of goods sold? How much does it cost for them to receive these products? As they scale over time is there opportunity to reduce those cogs so that they can improve their margins? Casey: You start with something like that. Then it's like today and then as they forecast in the future, what are their customer acquisition costs or CAC? Then, understanding that, because then that tells you how much money you still have left over for fulfillment. What are your true shipping and your total shipping and fulfillment costs? I think a lot of people focus just on reducing their customer acquisition costs without understanding all the levers that they can pull. Casey: Again, it's just knowing your metrics extremely well. Then from there, identifying which are the biggest numbers and how can you start pulling levers to reduce those or increase those over time? Stephanie: The other thing I'm thinking about when you're talking about opening up fulfillment centers in Europe, what does a brand need to consider when they are thinking about using a fulfillment center overseas, if they are in a California or New York? Is there anything special that they have to take into consideration before utilizing fulfillment center overseas? Casey: Yeah. We'll keep this relatively succinct because this can ... Stephanie: Be a whole episode? Casey: Exactly. I guess, are there any regulatory issues with me getting my products into a certain country? For example, I know certain cosmetics, it's actually more difficult to get into Canada and ship from there versus it is to get into Europe. It's understanding that. Then, number two, which where you'll spend most of your time is just that value added tax. What do you have to pay to get your products in? Then, how do you need to include that within your pricing? Casey: Every single country in Europe has their own batch structure. You can just spend a lot of time there. Or like what we're working on is allowing people just to think of that as in Europe is like one country. Then, we do a lot of the heavy lifting on the, let's say, peripheral or outside and so you really only need to think of that once versus that differently for every country. Stephanie: That's a good thing to consider. You guys are kind of taking care of that for them in a way so they don't have to do all the research on the different locales and what to charge and whatnot. Casey: Exactly. There are different types of that. With Watchmaster, for example, sometimes we would buy watches in the south in a country like Greece, where I think their VAT is like 22 or 23%. Then, we'd sell them in the north. Let's say Germany, where I believe the VAT is 18%. There alone, let's say in Greece it's 23% and in Germany's 18%, that's a 5% delta. Even if we sold the watch, for the same exact price, we have 5% margin just because of the delta in the VAT. Casey: I'm simplifying this greatly. Just as an example of like there's just so much complexity and that's just one product in two different countries. Stephanie: That makes sense. Then, do you guys, I mean, I'm sure things get caught up in customs, do you also help keep track of that? Or is that something that they need to get it to the warehouse or center in Europe, and then you guys help take care of it from there? Casey: If we're shipping things from the US internationally, that's one thing. There's duties you can pay in advance and then there's also unpaid. Then, from getting the stuff into the country and into our facility, we will help some there, but it's usually utilizing partners of ours. We're not a freight forwarding company. Stephanie: Yup. Cool. That makes sense. With everything you guys are doing behind the scenes, I wanted to touch a bit on the technology because it just seems like you have a lot going on. Like you said, you guys are tech enabled. What kind of technology are you using to make the fulfillment process seamless? Any AI you're implementing? Or new leading or cutting edge technologies that you're implementing to make that process work? Casey: Yeah. We do use a lot of machine learning. Our bet also is building a lot of this stuff ourselves. That's utilizing from connecting our solution and APIs to third party solutions, to then building all the logic and intelligence internally. Again, that's utilized a lot of machine learning. Then, that's driving the decision making. Really, I'd say the biggest bet with us on the technology is owning the entire stack from what our customers are using to how those orders are being sent to the fulfillment centers and the technology in the fulfillment centers. Casey: It's not using let's say like a third party warehouse management system. Stephanie: Got it. When you're talking about integrating seamlessly and partners, what kind of partners are important to have integrated with your 3PL? Who are you guys making sure that you're partnered with to make it a seamless experience? Casey: Yeah. Definitely, at the top, it's the Ecommerce platforms. Then, on the output side, it is the carriers. It's making sure that we're able to get the best pricing within the right timeframe across FedEx and UPS and USPS and DHL and some of the local carriers so that we can make sure that we're making the best cost efficient and time efficient decision on behalf of our customers. Stephanie: Cool. The one thing I always love is stories. I'd love to hear any mistakes that merchants have made where they come to you and you're like, we've been doing it this way for 10 years, or like, this is how we do things now and you're like, oh, that's bad. Any stories like that that other people could learn from like don't do this? Casey: One that sticks actually off the top of my head. This was something I thought about a lot when I decided to make the jump over to ShipBob was when I was at BigCommerce, we were doing this big film series and we were visiting a bunch of our merchants. I met this one merchant. This husband wife duo where ... and I love their story and they're doing really well. Certain businesses run their way for certain reason. Casey: I love their story because the wife, she started the business initially by herself. She ran it by herself for a couple years, where she signed up for the two-week trial. She literally hit the Launch button from a Starbucks. It's like the American Dream version for Ecommerce. Stephanie: All the pictures show that you're in a coffee shop and today is the day. I'm hitting go live website. Casey: Exactly and still free, you're on the trial. Fast forward however long it had been, like five years from when I'm sitting in their "office", which is essentially just a mini fulfillment center. The place was packed to the brim. Now, it was the husband and the wife and they were doing all things sales, all things marketing, all things website development. They were doing everything except for the storing the inventory, picking it, packing it, handling returns, putting the labels on the box, taping up the boxes. Casey: They had 18 employees so 90% of the workforce, including them, were doing fulfillment work. They were the only people focused on building the community and sales and marketing and product development. I knew at the time this is before honestly, they even knew about ShipBob, this is not right mix. When I left, they were actually going across the street to negotiate extending their warehousing space, so they can move across the street to store even more inventory. Casey: Now, you're adding all these fixed costs, such as your rent and also fixed costs with all your employees. While you can maybe get rid of the employees, if things go bad, you're most likely going to be stuck with the rents. Whereas if you utilize a third party logistics solution, you're often paying them on performance. The more you sell, the more you pay them. The less you sell, the less you pay them. It's more of this variable rate versus this fixed rate. Casey: I just was blown away because these people were going to do over 15 million that year. It was really just two people doing everything except for fulfillment. Stephanie: My gosh, I blame Shark Tank for that. You know all the ads they show where they're like, we started in our basement and here we are with our whole family packaging everything. If you show that ad enough, people would be like, that's how you do it. Casey: I'm not going to name names. We have customers and it's kind of unfortunate. We have customers that will throw up their Instagram stories every week of them picking and packing boxes and storing a bunch of stuff in their spare bedroom and all this stuff because they're selling the dream to their community. They get it to an extent. Then, all of their followers were trying to do things themselves. They're replicating these false mistakes when I'm like, what? Stephanie: Oh, gosh, yeah, that's really good, though. I mean, I think that's an important lesson all around is like there's a certain point when you can do that. Then, after that, you need to be focusing on the product. It can only get you so far when you're doing everything on your own. Casey: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Stephanie: What kind of disruptions do you see coming to the world of fulfillment? Casey: Some news that just broke the other day that I think will be interesting to watch is a lot of these older retail spaces. A big question is what's going to happen with these malls? I think a lot of that also comes down to ... and with these retailers. It comes down to I think it was signing property but it was these large mall operators and owners, what are they going to do with the space? Casey: Amazon unsurprisingly is right in the mix. Are they going to start leveraging these now vacant or near vacant malls, where they can be very close to ... because these malls are often in suburban areas, which are close to a lot of the end consumer. Can they start leveraging these mall facilities for their last mile operations? That'll be interesting. It's definitely something that we've looked at. We're definitely building our technology in a way that individual store owners could possibly even utilize it at some point, people could start injecting it in the malls. Casey: I think that's going to be pretty fascinating to watch. Then, another thing less on like the innovative side, just more of like the blocking and tackling stuff is like, with Q4 coming up, how big of upswing in sales are we going to see? Usually we see between let's say 30 to 50% uptick in sales volume. With unemployment and everything, not in the best space, are we still going to see that? If so, these brands that are trying to get ahead of the curve and store all their products, now, Amazon's already said that they're not going to allow unlimited inventory like they had in the past. Casey: We've come out and taken the opposite stance where we're not going to restrict because of COVID. How are a lot of these mom and pop 3PLs that really only have one facility are going to be able to do things and just how are a lot of people are going to be able to conform. That's just the kind of boring work of I just need to literally store my product somewhere and then ship it out. I think it'd be interesting to see how a lot of brands navigate that. Stephanie: Yeah, completely agree. That'll be a good area to watch. All right. We have a couple minutes left and we do something called a lightning round brought to you by Salesforce Commerce Cloud. This is where I will ask a question and you have a minute or less to answer. Casey, are you ready? Casey: I am ready. Stephanie: What's up next on your reading list? Casey: My reading list. Oh, man, I've been buying way too many books lately. I actually bought this book. Here, let me grab it, I actually have it next to me. Stephanie: Yeah. Casey: I've been trying to get a lot more into finance and so I actually I bought Titan by Chernow and then I bought Reminiscence Of A Stock Operator. The one I'm reading right now is called How Finance Works. It's by this Harvard PhD or Harvard professor that just really kind of uses some humor, but really gets you hands on and breaking down a lot of things from a finance perspective. Casey: I historically read a ton of fiction, but now I'm reading this and maybe that's why I'm falling asleep faster at night. Stephanie: I'll have to check that out. I mean, I love finance. I will be checking that out. What's up next on your Netflix queue? Casey: Oh man. Because I have little ones probably like Rescue Bots or something. Stephanie: Yup. I feel you there. Casey: Yeah. I think I've exhausted the rest of Netflix. Stephanie: That's all right. Kid stuff. I'm on the same page as you. Casey: There we go. Stephanie: If you were to have a podcast, what would it be about and who would your first guest be? Casey: Gosh. I've thought of this idea quite a bit. I mean, there's a bunch on the business side, but I think it'd be ... I just love sports. I'd say probably Shaq, Shaquille O'Neal. I want to understand what was the catalyst for him to get very business savvy for an example like he ... I don't think it was maybe like his rookie year, but very early on he never touched a paycheck because he was making so much money from endorsements. Casey: Basically, all of his NBA salary would go to his bank. From there, he's just invested in ... he owns like a ton of like Popeye's and a bunch of car washes. He just very diversified the assets that he owns and where he makes money. It's just fascinating to see how he was just so early in that. Then, you see people like James Harden and Steph Curry and others, and I think Kevin Durant recently did buying minor shares in MLS teams. Casey: I think that the athlete getting more business savvy is just a fascinating concept and would allow me to geek out about sports. I know that's not a lightning answer, but it's my long winded answer. Stephanie: All right. The last one is what app or piece of tech are you using right now that's making the most efficient in life or business? Casey: I'd say an app that I have a love hate relationship with like most people will be Twitter, because sometimes I'm like, is this just an absolute waste of my time? I don't necessarily tweet over too often, but using it as something I've actually been doing a lot more over email to is just cold email, cold outreach. The connections you can make with people to send direct messages. It's fascinating. Casey: Then, as you evolve those relationships over time like there's no way to even put an ROI on that. Just opening the doors in different business opportunities and partnerships and stuff, it's just been fascinating and it's free. It's insane. Anyways, I'd say for now it's Twitter. Stephanie: I need to try more of that. DMs make me nervous. I'm like, I don't know if I should do it. I should just go for it. Start DMing everyone. Casey: You should. I mean, worst case, they don't reply and that's where you were in the first place. Stephanie: Yeah, so true. All right, Casey, well, thanks so much for coming on the podcast. Where can people find out more about you and ShipBob? Casey: Yeah, shipbob.com. Come check us out. As I mentioned, I'm on Twitter CaseyA. Come hit us up over at ShipBob. Let us know how we can help. Stephanie: Awesome. Thanks so much. Casey: Thank you.

This week on The Reluctant Adult Podcast, (02:56) the only thing missing from G.I. Joe action figure release day are the G.I. Joe action figures. (11:56) Hasbro reveals a new assortment of Power Rangers Lightning Collection, but should maybe have left the lights off. (19:26) HEXBUG’s JUNKBOTS are ripe. (28:26) OH! MY GIF, Becky, look at her GIF. (31:26) Transformers BotBots are less than original price. (34:36) Is Angry Birds still a thing? (35:26) Pokemon Go find a corpse. (45:26) Chinese mystery seeds explained. (46:42) The Day of The Triffods. (1:00:00) Does Moe say "car hold" or "car hole", you decide! (1:03:00) Rescue Bots want to teach you a lesson.Follow The Reluctant Adult Podcast on social media:Instagram @TheReluctantAdultPodcastTwitter @Reluctant_Pod

In this episode, Paul Ace explains the power behind messenger bots and how they can completely transform your business compared to standard emails and phone call follow ups. Want to set your business on autopilot? Download my FREE book and learn how to truly automate your biz: https://trulyautomated.com▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬❓ WHO IS IT?...

With season 1 of Rescue Bots finished, it’s time to move on to Robots in Disguise! No, not the Car Robots dub. Or the IDW series. No, this Robots in Disguise is the post-Prime animated series with an anthro twist, and this week we’ve brought in our friends Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop from The … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 236: Introducing Robots in Disguise! →

Before we shift from Rescue Bots to Robots in Disguise, this week we’re jumping back to Hasbro’s earlier attempt at a preschool Transformers cartoon, 2003’s Go-Bots! It’s time to dust off our VCRs and spend a little time on Earth with Aero-Bot, Speed-Bot, Beast-Bot, and an assortment of other obviously-named robot pals as they help … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 235: Go-Go-Go-Bots →

Doc Greene finds a nearly-completed time machine from the 30s in a hidden bunker, so he does what any red-blooded citizen of Griffin Rock would do and gets it working! But when the Rescue Bots accidentally get pulled in with the kids in tow, can they find a way back on their own? Without the … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 233: It’s a Bot Time →

Something is causing earthquakes all over Griffin Rock! What kind of nonsense is causing regionally-inappropriate disasters this time? Can the Rescue Bots stay undercover saving the citizens when Frankie is waving her new video camera around trying to make a movie? And can Chase figure out this “humor” thing? Join us this week for “Shake … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 231: Shake Up →

Oh no, spooky ghosts are showing up all over town! Who ya gonna call? The Rescue Bots! But ghosts aren’t real, right? So who’s responsible for these Scooby Doo shenanigans? How deep will the Ghostbusters references get? And can Cody explain the concept of ghosts to the Bots without actually mentioning dead people? Join us … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 229: The Haunting of Griffin Rock →

Some tiny, adorable bug drones escape from a canister in Doc Greene’s warehouse — and they make people disappear! Can the Rescue Bots protect their human buddies from this flying menace? Why did someone even make these things!? (Actually, that gets an answer.) And how long does it take for us to break into “The … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 228: Countdown →

It’s time for a Special Guest Star as Transformers Prime’s Bumblebee pays a visit to Griffin Rock! Will he be enough to help Blades when the other three Rescue Bots fall victim to a space virus from a sinister meteor? Can Blades stop fanboying for long enough to let him? What trait does this Bumblebee … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 226: Bumblebee To The Rescue →

Chief Burns takes Cody on a father-son trip to check out part of the island that’s off-limits to machines. Can the Rescue Bots follow the chief’s instructions not to follow them — when it sounds like they might be in danger? How many anime-level miscommunications will it take to carry this plot? Has Doc Greene … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 224: Rules and Regulations →

Now that they’ve been replaced by the totally-not-evil Dr. Morocco’s totally-not-evil MorBot, the Rescue Bots don’t know what to do with themselves! Should they go join up with Team Prime? Take the opportunity to catch up on their TV shows? Maybe learn to cook? Or maybe they’ll be needed to save Griffin Rock from the … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 221: The Reign of Morocco →

Doc Greene’s been fired as Griffin Rock’s official mad scientist, but where will they find someone to take his place? Fortunately Doctor Morocco has conveniently arrived — and his MorBot has an eye on the Rescue Bots and Burns Family’s jobs as well! And no one voiced by Tim Curry is ever evil! Can we … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 220: The Other Doctor →

No one is very excited about the annual Burns Family fishing trip except the Chief, Cody, and the Rescue Bots — but that changes when a mechanical shark starts attacking Doc Greene’s underwater equipment! Can they stop this robotic aquatic sabotage? Is there anything Heatwave won’t try to solve with punching? And are they gonna … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 218: Deep Trouble →

When Doc Greene gives Cody a super-advanced robot baby to care for, he enlists the aid of the Rescue Bots to help them learn about humans! Can they keep the ridiculously expensive Robo-Baby fed, changed, napped, and away from the constant danger that follows everyone on Griffin Rock? How long did Doc Greene spend developing … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 216: Four Bots and a Baby →

Griffin Rock’s apparent sole news reporter Huxley Prescott is convinced there are aliens living among the people of Griffin Rock — and he’s not wrong, but he’s also very wrong! Can the Rescue Bots and the Burns family save the town from his “War of the Worlds” panic without revealing the truth? How many movies … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 213: The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock →

Griffin Rock’s Lobster and Technology Festival is disrupted by an unexpected combination of those elements when a canister of Doctor Green’s new “floatium” falls into a lobster tank! Can the Rescue Bots save the town from the suddenly airborne crustaceans? Does anyone in this town actually understand the scientific process? Also WHY IS THERE A … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 212: Flobsters on Parade →

Today Samm & Alex discuss the product of kids shows...toys... or maybe its the other way around? We look back at toys from our youth, talk about the good and bad of the toys of today, and how the toys connect to the shows that bring our kids joy. We talk about the awesome toys they love (and that we love too!) and how sometimes they only want the garbage toys. Join us for a fun look at how sometimes we want the toys as much as our kids do but then how we try to sneak them out of the house to get rid of them later....unsuccessfully.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ParentJuice)

This week we return to a higher quality of programming with the first episode of Transformers: Rescue Bots! When a ship of non-combatant “Rescue Bots” answers Prime’s call and arrives on Earth, they’re assigned to work with a human rescue team that’s also a family! Can they adapt to life on this strange new world? … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 209: Family of Heroes →

Before we move on to the idyllic home of the Rescue Bots, we’re heading back in time to the days of Beast Machines to check out a different show about transforming animal warriors: DinoZaurs! And what we discover is IT’S TERRIBLE! Who are the Dino Knights? What toy company thought this was a good idea, … Continue reading Stasis Pod Episode 208: DinoZaurs: Dino Knights Revived →

STEEL CITY BOTS In this special interview, Eric and Soundjack got to talk for a while with the voice of Bumblebee from Cyberverse and Rescue Bots Academy, Jeremy Levy! Learn more about the show, how many characters he's voicing, and his phone call with Tommy Wiseau? Seriously! Thanks for checking out Steel City Bots, the Transformers podcast of a younger generation! To get in contact with us, you can email us at steelcitybots@gmail.com or nerdygeektalk@gmail.com. Also, you can reach out to us on our twitter pages. Make sure to subscribe to Nerdy Geek Talk on any of your favorite podcast places! Steel City Bots' Twitter: https://twitter.com/steelcitybots Nerdy Geek Talk's Twitter: https://twitter.com/nerdygeektalk Eric Crownover's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericcrowbar Miguel’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/LogosMinor Chrystabella's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SoZaProductions Soundjack’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/SoundJack426 Jared's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaredproco Tanner's Twitter: https://twitter.com/OptanimusPrime PLACES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1324444107 https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/nerdy-geek-talk-2/nerdy-geek-talk https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iksalz67jjjjxatsplkywfw57yq https://nerdygeektalk.podbean.com/ http://www.nerdygeektalk.my-free.website/

We’re LIVE! Welcome to Australian Transformers Weekly, your first stop and your last best hope for Transformers news in Australia. This is episode 130, we are recording live on November 10th, 2017 In this episode we’ll be talking about More Power of the Primes in packaging shots, Mp Dinobot has Collectors feathers ruffled at its price, A new statue company on the block, We shit on Machinima some more, … and more!   Opening credits (8bit Transformers Theme)   What have you been up to this week? 00:08:10 Put Your Bot To Work Day https://tccaus.wordpress.com/competitions/take-your-bot-to-work-day/ Put your bot to work day is a current competition run by TCCA. Each Wednesday in the TCCA Facebook group there’s a post for the week’s competition. Submit your “bot in the real world pic” for a chance to win some great prizes. This Weeks Winner is: Hayley Anderson   NEWS 00:12:21 The First Trailer for Machinima’s Titans Return is now online featuring Metroplex and trypticon going at each other. Prime, megatron and windblade are back along with a couple Combiners. Any positives? http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/11/07/machinimas-titans-return-trailer-online-353257?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook   Confidence level? What would have to happen to make this a must-see?   00:20:38 Power Of the Primes in Packaging news Wave 1 of power of the primes is getting boxed up ahead of thier 2018 release. First up This week we have images of Voyager Grimlock. http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/11/06/power-primes-package-stock-photos-optimus-rodimus-grimlock-353186?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook   00:26:11 We have also seen wave 1 Legends in package for the first time. Windcharger, slash and beachcomber will be hitting international stores shortly, and we should expect to see them by February. http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/11/06/power-primes-legends-class-wave-1-packaging-images-353252?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook   What’s your feeling on Power of the Primes?   00:34:14 Takara Masterpiece News Takara MP-41 Masterpiece Dinobot has hit retail pre orders this week upsetting fans with an expected 28,000 yen price tag which is about $245 USD. One local retailer has it up for $269 so Dinobot is looking to be the most expensive MP beastwars figure, and in the MP10 area price-wise. So it's now got Collectors wondering the figures scale, or accessory count that would make the figure more expensive than Megatron. http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/11/06/takara-mp-41-masterpiece-dinobot-listing-possible-price-353193?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook   https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/new-info-on-features-for-transformers-masterpiece-mp41-dinobot/39969/   How much is too much for a Masterpiece figure?   00:39:38 Blind bagged toys fans are rejoicing this week at the news that Kid Robot, already known to Transformers fans for their vinyl figures, are bringing out a new series of blind-bagged figures based on IDW’s Transformers vs GI Joe comic series. http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/11/03/transformers-vs-g-joe-collection-kidrobot-hasbro-353094   00:42:19 Paramount has been relying on Chinese investment from a company called HuaHua to finance a lot of their recent movies. That deal is now over, sources say, citing poor returns on investment for recent pictures including Transformers: The Last Knight. http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/11/09/paramount-pictures-loses-huahua-media-film-financing-deal-353298   Other news 00:47:13 A new statue manufacturer has popped up in China called Titanium Alloy.  Their first statue is a Fall of Cybertron Optimus Prime measuring 30 inches tall. Unsure if it's licences yet as there's no logos on it but we know hasbro usually allow statue makers to make their products. http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/11/09/titanium-alloy-war-within-optimus-prime-statue-revealed-353283?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook 00:53:42 Unique Toys has shown off its new Bruticus Combiner at SGC 2017. (Image 15 or 21) This figure was to be Toyworld’s Bruticus but the designers jumped ship and took their designs with them, so now for unique toys to not have to pay for engineering and design the bots are approx $60 each. More of a parts former since thighs aren't part of onslaughts transformation. http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/10/29/sgc-2017-third-party-roundup-352778?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook   00:58:02 Also seen were magic Square g1 Legends figures. New company on the block and they are making g1 Legends class figures.(last image 60) 01:11:39 NEW ACQUISITIONS   Brad: nil Max: Custom Titans Return Blurr, G1 Quickswitch, Transformers Animated Activators Dirge. Jason: Nitro Thunder Zeus Wing 01:20:04 TCCA BUSINESS No Supanova this weekend in Brisbane. We could only afford one of the two events in November so went with Adelaide. Max and crew will be hosting two tables at adelaide next weekend so south australia's grab out touches and wind up radios and head on down for a look. The Xmas donation drive is now open, some great prizes like mp megatron, shockwave and Sunstreaker as well as some 3p bots like TFcon exclusive sphinx and veteran war dog. For every donation of $5 you get a ticket in the draw, there's no limits and anyone can enter. For full details and T’s n C’s head over to transformerscca.com   01:21:39 OUTRO Thank you for listening! And if you’re watching along with the live record, thanks for watching and participating.   To find out more about these stories, you’ll find the links to them all and more in the show notes Posted to the Transformers Weekly Facebook page and the Podbean site.   Want to get in touch with us? Please do we love listener feedback.Our official site is on Podbean: transformersweekly.podbean.com Facebook page is called Australian Transformers Weekly; and We’re all in the Transformers Collectors Club Australia group on Facebook.   If you’re not already subscribed, you can find the podcast on iTunes, Pocket Casts, YouTube and other podcatchers of choice and distinction. The RSS feed link is on the website and in the show notes - https://transformersweekly.podbean.com/feed   Our new companion podcast and YouTube show Transformers Legends can be found at tflpod.podbean.com and the Tcca YouTube channel.   Australian Transformers Weekly is a production of Transformers Collectors Club Australia. The club is registered and incorporated in Victoria. TCCA is run by volunteers who donate their time and money to make the club better for everyone. Our goal is to connect Transformers fans around the country and we do it by engaging the collecting community.   You can find more information about at www.transformerscca.com   Thank you for listening, we’ll be back with more Transformers news next week. End Credits (added in post) Membership Promo: (treat this like a live radio read & please don’t interrupt)   Australian Transformers Weekly is produced by Transformers Collectors Club Australia.   TCCA is run by volunteers who donate their time and money to make the club better for everyone. Our goal is to connect Transformers fans around the country and we do it by engaging the collecting community.   This means attending and exhibiting at conventions and events around the country, and that costs money.   If you’re enjoying this podcast, we hope you’ll consider becoming a paid member of Transformers Collectors Club Australia.   Yearly memberships cost just 5 dollars and help support club activities at conventions big and small around the country, from Supanova and Oz Comic Con in capital cities to smaller local gatherings.   To join us as a paid member, go to transformerscca.com.   OUTRO Thank you for listening! And if you’re watching along with the live record, thanks for watching and participating.   To find out more about these stories, you’ll find the links to them all and more in the show notes.   Want to get in touch with us?Our official site is on Podbean: transformersweekly.podbean.com Facebook page is called Australian Transformers Weekly; and We’re all in the Transformers Collectors Club Australia group on Facebook.   If you’re not already subscribed, you can find the podcast on iTunes, Pocket Casts, YouTube and other podcatchers of choice and distinction. The RSS feed link is on the website and in the show notes - https://transformersweekly.podbean.com/feed   We also have a new companion podcast! If you or your kids are interested in the younger-themed Transformers toys and franchises like Rescue Bots and Robots in Disguise, you might want to listen to Transformers Legends. You can find it on Facebook and on the TCCA YouTube channel. Its website is tflpod.podbean.com.   Australian Transformers Weekly is a production of Transformers Collectors Club Australia. The club is registered and incorporated in Victoria. You can find more information about at www.transformerscca.com   Thank you for listening, we’ll be back with more Transformers news next week.

Opening credits (8bit Transformers Theme) OPENING Welcome to Australian Transformers Weekly, your first stop and your last best hope for Transformers news in Australia. This is episode 129, we are recording live on November 3rd, 2017 In this episode we’ll be talking about Machinima’s Titans Return Series Power of the Primes Upcoming Takara Legends figures … and more! What have you been up to this week?   00:11:45 Put Your Bot To Work Day https://tccaus.wordpress.com/competitions/take-your-bot-to-work-day/ Put your bot to work day is a current competition run by TCCA. Each Wednesday in the TCCA Facebook group there’s a post for the week’s competition. Submit your “bot in the real world pic” for a chance to win some great prizes.≈ This Weeks Winner is: Russell Bird   NEWS 00:15:43 Machinima Titans Return The new Titans Return Machinima series is almost here - cower in fear, humans! If you didn’t really like their Combiner Wars series then we don’t think Machinima cares.   They’ve released a new poster. http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/10/30/machinimas-titans-return-metroplex-poster-352860?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook   And it turns out Combiner Wars (which we’ve been saying can’t be seen anywhere) has reappeared on Hasbro’s YouTube channel. http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/10/27/eight-episodes-combiner-wars-now-hasbros-youtube-352722?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook   00:23:58 Power of the Primes Two items this week on POTP with a look at Hasbro press images for Starscream coming up. Before we get into that though, we also saw news this week that preorders for the first wave are live and stock is expected to ship in December.   Voyager Class Starscream In-Box And Stock Images http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/11/02/power-primes-leader-class-starscream-box-stock-images-352994?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook   Other news 00:30:18 Legends Grand Maximus Confirmed for Production and Artwork revealed (bonus green dude not included now due to low pre order numbers) http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/10/28/legends-grand-maximus-confirmed-production-352731?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook   00:38:10 Dr. Wu Display Bases and Megatron Upgrade Kit – Color Images http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/11/01/dr-wu-display-bases-megatron-upgrade-kit-color-images-352912?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook   00:45:12 Alien Attack STF-02 El Cid – AOE/TLK Optimus Prime Images http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/11/02/alien-attack-stf-02-el-cid-aoetlk-optimus-prime-353010?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook   00:51:06 First Look – Zeta Toys Masterpiece-Styled Superion http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/10/27/first-look-zeta-toys-masterpiece-styled-superion-352726?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook   00:58:21 NEW ACQUISITIONS   Brad: nil Mikey: Badcube Huff, Piper & Brawny 01:07:00 Jason: Siege on Cybertron, Galaxy Meteor, Titans Return Arcee & Grotusque GUEST: 01:21:27 Chris - talk a bit about your collection and collecting habits   01:36:39 TCCA BUSINESS Australian Transformers Weekly is produced by Transformers Collectors Club Australia. TCCA is run by volunteers who donate their time and money to make the club better for everyone. Our goal is to connect Transformers fans around the country and we do it by engaging the collecting community. This means attending and exhibiting at conventions and events around the country, and that costs money. If you’re enjoying this podcast, we hope you’ll consider becoming a paid member of Transformers Collectors Club Australia. Yearly memberships cost just 5 dollars and help support club activities at conventions big and small around the country, from Supanova and Oz Comic Con in capital cities to smaller local gatherings. To join us as a paid member, go to transformerscca.com.   Christmas Donation Drive Annual tradition for the club, it’s like a Christmas bonanza! Prizes include Masterpiece Megatron, Shockwave and Sunstreaker, third party figures like War Dog Veteran edition, a TFcon exclusive Mirage, G1 character posters and a whole lot more! It’s a lucky draw. Tickets cost just $5 and you can buy as many tickets as you like. Like membership, your ticket purchase helps support the club. We use the money to pay for figures for other giveaways, attending conventions and supporting other club activities like birthday and christmas gatherings around the country. Go to transformerscca.com, or look at the pinned post in the Facebook discussion group for more information. 01:42:07 OUTRO Thank you for listening! And if you’re watching along with the live record, thanks for watching and participating. To find out more about these stories, you’ll find the links to them all and more in the show notes. Want to get in touch with us?Our official site is on Podbean: transformersweekly.podbean.com Facebook page is called Australian Transformers Weekly; and We’re all in the Transformers Collectors Club Australia group on Facebook. If you’re not already subscribed, you can find the podcast on iTunes, Pocket Casts, YouTube and other podcatchers of choice and distinction. The RSS feed link is on the website and in the show notes - https://transformersweekly.podbean.com/feed We also have a new companion podcast! If you or your kids are interested in the younger-themed Transformers toys and franchises like Rescue Bots and Robots in Disguise, you might want to listen to Transformers Legends. You can find it on Facebook and on the TCCA YouTube channel. Its website is tflpod.podbean.com. Australian Transformers Weekly is a production of Transformers Collectors Club Australia. The club is registered and incorporated in Victoria. You can find more information about at www.transformerscca.com Thank you for listening, we’ll be back with more Transformers news next week. End Credits (added in post)  

Steve Cooper talks with actor/musican/writer/producer Bill Mumy. He has worked on over four hundred television shows and is best known by fans around the world for the creation of his memorable roles as the heroic boy astronaut, Will Robinson on the long running classic series Lost in Space, Anthony Fremont from The Twilight Zone and Lennier from in the popular science fiction series Babylon 5 which he co-starred in for five years. He is a prolific voice over artist who gave voice to President Abraham Lincoln in The History Channel’s Civil War: Blood and Glory miniseries and has narrated over 50 episodes of A & E ‘s  Biography series and his voice over acting talents can be heard on animated shows like Rescue Bots, Bravest Warriors, Ren and Stimpy, Scooby Doo, Batman: the Animated Series, Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs, Little Wizard Adventures, The Oz Kids and Disney’s Buzz Lightyear: Star Command.  He’s also voiced dozens of national commercials such as Farmer's Insurance ,Ford, Bud Ice, Blockbuster, Twix, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. He is half of the infamous novelty rock recording and short film making duo Barnes and Barnes who are best known for the classic demented song and film Fish Heads and has worked with the pop group America off and on for over thirty years, composing, producing and performing with the band.  He is currently finished up an album as part of a new rock trio, Action Skulls, featuring Vicki Peterson of the Bangles and John Cowsill of the Beach Boys and the Cowsills.  

This week we talk Stan Bush, Titans Returns voice casting, and whether ROM vs. Transformers is just some inane forced crossover or oh ha ha ha no it totally isn't.

This is another Kid Interview episode.  In this episode I interview my 5-year-old about one of his favorite shows, “Rescue Bots” and we talk about the connection to the Transformers cartoon and toys from my childhood.  We talk about the amazing engineering feat that is the new transformer toys and how easy they are.  He tells me that his favorite character is the one with all of the gadgets (If there wasn’t proof that he is my son there is... The post Xanderbots, Rollout! Episode 116 appeared first on The Fandom Podcast.

Toy Fair Side B brings Aaron and TJ together with Vangelus for one more run through the fresh news! We took one more baby step towards talking at length about Rescue Bots.

Mairghread Scott joins Frank Moran, Joelle Monique, and Lex Michael to discuss her new comic, Toil and Trouble, a retelling of Macbeth from the witches point of view. Mairghread Scott is an animation and comic book writer specializing in action-comedy. Her animation work spans such titles as: Marvel’s Guardians of The Galaxy, Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors, Transformers: Robots In Disguise and Rescue Bots. She has also written the comic books Marvel Universe Guardians of the Galaxy, Transformers: Windblade, as well as her creator- owned series Toil and Trouble and the upcoming Cold Iron Wars. Click Here to Download the Podcast on iTunesa [...] The post Mairghread Scott | Toil and Trouble | The Comic Book Exchange appeared first on Book Circle Online.

I have a couple of helpers for this episode to explain some of the cool things about Rescue Bots and a My Little Pony.

I have a couple of helpers for this episode to explain some of the cool things about Rescue Bots and a My Little Pony.

I have a couple of helpers for this episode to explain some of the cool things about Rescue Bots and a My Little Pony.

ec2c27a22dba722e5f5cc99b1a6d266b.jpgToy Fair 2016 gave us a look at the latest Transformers toy product reveals from Hasbro, including the highly anticipated Generations Titans Return lineup. Fortress Maximus leads in to the conversation as it later covers other new Transformers Generations products such as Powermaster Optimus Prime, Sentinel Prime, Chromedome, Mindwipe, and Blurr, as well as Legends figures such as Wheelie and Rumble. Product discussion doesn't end there, as we also take a look at upcoming Platinum Edition, Robots in Disguise, and Rescue Bots toys. The recurring Beast Wars TV series re-watch continues! After some other brief discussion about new Toy Fair product, the show concludes with a special segment in honor of Valentine's Day that you won't want to miss.

Mr Jii joins Andy once again this week on Moonbase 2 and the boys have a natter about what they've been up to in the week as well as some TF stories. There's not much, surprise but they chat about Rescue Bots nominated for the 43rd Annie Award, the horror that are the RID RADS candy dispensers and Masterpiece news. 

Come be transformed while Todd and Dave discover robots in disguise. Follow us on www.twitter.com/parentmistakes

My son Mason joins me to share some important news about Rescue Bots and the Apple Watch.

My son Mason joins me to share some important news about Rescue Bots and the Apple Watch.

My son Mason joins me to share some important news about Rescue Bots and the Apple Watch.

Fill up the friggin' Keurig reservoir, Jeff plays with LotR Legos, a brief dead horse beating of Deflategate, Rescue Bots vs. Michael Bay's Transformers, Barbie cartoons, the Spongebob Movie and Jeff and Fuzz gush over G.I. Joe cartoons.

The Fanholes take a look at the episode "Bumbleebee To the Rescue" from the animated series Transformers Rescue Bots!

Seibertron.com is proud to present a special episode of the Twincast, giving you a breakdown of all the news overflowing from the Javits Center and New York Toy Fair 2013! Join auxiliary host Razorclaw, along with Jon 3.0, and joevill as we hear details straight from the floor courtesy of Seibertron and El Duque! As always, the episode is available directly and in our RSS Feed and should appear on iTunes in 24 to 48 hours. Topics include: Titan Class Metroplex, Generations 30th Anniversary Deluxes and Voyagers, Masterpiece Soundwave and Acid Storm, Beast Hunters, Platinum Ultra Magnus, Rescue Bots, Kre-O, Construct Bots, and Bot Shots. All of our Toy Fair 2013 coverage is available here.

With no less than two announcements that will shake Nintendo World Report to its very foundations. Nintendo Free Radio reaches double digits, which is quite frankly eight episodes more than anyone thought they'd survive, with another whopper of an episode. Donald kicks off New Business with impressions of Crashmo, the 3DS eShop puzzler with a 270-degree difficulty curve, and looks forward to some of 2013's action games with Bayonetta (360) and the demo of the Ninja Theory-helmed Devil May Cry reboot (PS3) before keeping the combo alive with DS import (unless you're in Europe) Jam With The Band. Austen jumps in next to save the planet from meteors, tsunamis and bearorrists with Disaster: Day of Crisis (Wii) and activates Sly Cooper's Beast Mode in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (PS3/Vita). Stephen finishes with more Wii U impressions, ranging from the joy of flying balloons in NintendoLand to gliding as a squirrel in New Super Mario Bros U and blasting away with the twin-stick goodness of NanoAssault Neo (brief impressions of ZombiiU also included). The mania of Now Posted leads into the traditional Whatcha Watchin', joined partway through by NWR review domo Andy Goergen. Stephen's opening salvo is a Deep Space Nine update (yes, another one), Amazing Spider-Man, Strawberry Shortcake (for the kids), Arthur's Christmas and Rescue Bots, Andy brings impressions of Parks and Recreation and the final season of The Office, Austen gets economic with C - Control: The Money and Soul of Possibility (a show halfway down the Laffer curve), and Donald bears all after watching A Garfield Christmas. The Feature Discussion is more fun with Wii U, as the four discuss media reaction to Nintendo's new console and whether the haters may have a point. Finally, the Mushrooms get an extra dose of poison this week thanks to rule 34 on cords and certain sporting decisions, but also get 1up'd with tales of great customer service. With the end of the year coming up, the show will be taking a break, but not before an end of the year show for the ages! Keep an eye on the host Twitter feeds (@DonaldMick, @cericme and @broodwars64) for more information on what and when it will all go down, and send your ideas by email to nintendofreeradio@gmail.com - also, be sure to check out Andy's Etsy store (http://www.etsy.com/shop/8bitacrylic) if you need a last minute Christmas gift idea! This show was edited by Stephen Shook. All music used under Fair Use permission.

This episode features a discussion on toy photography. We also discuss Hall of Fame Choices finalized, Orion Pax part 3, Rescue Bots, Transformers Prime Japanese commercial spots, Transformers Prime Arms Micron figures, Toy Fair Australia, new TFP Voyager pictures, Hasbro responds to TCC Credit Card Issues, Cyberverse galleries and Photography discussion: Taking Indoor Pictures. All this and Bragging Rights too!