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Send us a textIn this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, Nitin Bhandari, co-founder and CEO of a groundbreaking construction tech company, shares his journey from tech innovation to revolutionizing the construction industry. With a strong background in mobile video optimization and tech ventures like Skyfire and Zen Labs, Nitin was drawn to the construction sector's untapped potential for modernization. He highlights how his company's collaborative visual software solution redefines project planning and scheduling, making it more intuitive, efficient, and engaging for all stakeholders.Nitin explains how his solution improves team engagement by fostering real-time collaboration and active participation in project planning, a stark contrast to the traditional, passive approach where workers are handed a plan to execute without input. By creating a digital platform that simplifies complex scheduling, Planera enables users to contribute to the planning process, anticipate potential risks, and adjust to changes dynamically. With his innovative approach, Nitin aims to make the construction industry more efficient, collaborative, and aligned, ultimately driving better outcomes for all involved.

As we head into 2025, we're looking back on our most popular episodes of 2024. This episode was originally published on October 30, 2024. Are you ready for a world where AI agents can autonomously make purchases and monetize their services? How will commerce and payments evolve as intelligent software agents become ubiquitous? In this episode, Chris Saad is joined by Amir Sarhangi and Craig DeWitt, co-founders of Skyfire, to explore the cutting-edge intersection of AI, payments, and open protocols. They discuss Skyfire's mission to become the "Visa for AI" by enabling seamless financial transactions between autonomous agents. In this episode, you will: Discover how Skyfire is building an open protocol for AI agent payments Learn about the challenges of creating a new payments network for machine-to-machine transactions Understand Skyfire's strategy for solving the "chicken and egg" problem of supply and demand Explore potential use cases for agent-to-agent payments in areas like data access, marketing, and recruiting Gain insights into Skyfire's business model and approach to monetization Hear the founders' vision for how AI agents will transform internet commerce Special Thanks to Llama Lounge - the #1 AI event - for introducing us to to these founders. Learn more about the startup Skyfire Website: ⁠https://skyfire.xyz/⁠  Follow Amir Sarhangi on Linkedin: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/asarhangi/⁠  Follow Craig DeWitt on Linkedin: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigdewitt/⁠  The Pact Honour The Startup Podcast Pact! If you have listened to TSP and gotten value from it, please: Follow, rate, and review us in your listening app Subscribe to the TSP Mailing List at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thestartuppodcast.beehiiv.com/subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Secure your official TSP merchandise at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://shop.tsp.show/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on YouTube at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@startup-podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Give us a public shout-out on LinkedIn or anywhere you have a social media following. Key links The Startup Podcast is sponsored by Vanta. Vanta helps businesses get and stay compliant by automating up to 90% of the work for the most in demand compliance frameworks. With over 200 integrations, you can easily monitor and secure the tools your business relies on. For a limited-time offer of US$1,000 off, go to⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.vanta.com/tsp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get your question in for our next Q&A episode:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Startup Podcast website:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tsp.show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about Chris and Yaniv Work 1:1 with Chris:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://chrissaad.com/advisory/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Chris on Linkedin:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Yaniv on Linkedin:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Credits Editor:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin McArthur⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Content Strategist: Carolina Franco ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/francocarolina/⁠ Intro Voice:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jeremiah Owyang⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Are you ready for a world where AI agents can autonomously make purchases and monetize their services? How will commerce and payments evolve as intelligent software agents become ubiquitous? In this episode, Chris Saad is joined by Amir Sarhangi and Craig DeWitt, co-founders of Skyfire, to explore the cutting-edge intersection of AI, payments, and open protocols. They discuss Skyfire's mission to become the "Visa for AI" by enabling seamless financial transactions between autonomous agents. In this episode, you will: Discover how Skyfire is building an open protocol for AI agent payments Learn about the challenges of creating a new payments network for machine-to-machine transactions Understand Skyfire's strategy for solving the "chicken and egg" problem of supply and demand Explore potential use cases for agent-to-agent payments in areas like data access, marketing, and recruiting Gain insights into Skyfire's business model and approach to monetization Hear the founders' vision for how AI agents will transform internet commerce Special Thanks to Llama Lounge - the #1 AI event - for introducing us to to these founders. Learn more about the startup Skyfire Website: https://skyfire.xyz/  Follow Amir Sarhangi on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asarhangi/  Follow Craig DeWitt on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigdewitt/  The Pact Honour The Startup Podcast Pact! If you have listened to TSP and gotten value from it, please: Follow, rate, and review us in your listening app Subscribe to the TSP Mailing List at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thestartuppodcast.beehiiv.com/subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Secure your official TSP merchandise at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://shop.tsp.show/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on YouTube at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@startup-podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Give us a public shout-out on LinkedIn or anywhere you have a social media following. Key links The Startup Podcast is sponsored by Vanta. Vanta helps businesses get and stay compliant by automating up to 90% of the work for the most in demand compliance frameworks. With over 200 integrations, you can easily monitor and secure the tools your business relies on. For a limited-time offer of US$1,000 off, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.vanta.com/tsp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get your question in for our next Q&A episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/NZzgNWVLiFmwvFA2A⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Startup Podcast website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tsp.show⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about Chris and Yaniv Work 1:1 with Chris: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://chrissaad.com/advisory/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Chris on Linkedin: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissaad/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Yaniv on Linkedin: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/ybernstein/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Credits Editor: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin McArthur⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Content Strategist: Carolina Franco https://www.linkedin.com/in/francocarolina/ Intro Voice: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jeremiah Owyang⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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In today's segment of Mid Mic Daily Bite, the AI-generated versions of hosts Bunchu and Chamber dive into a groundbreaking development in the intersection of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency. Coinbase, under the leadership of CEO Brian Armstrong, recently facilitated its first-ever crypto transaction completely managed by AI agents. This milestone marks a significant leap forward in enabling AI to participate actively in the economy.The hosts discuss the details of this transaction where one AI agent used crypto tokens to interact with another AI, purchasing AI tokens designed to enhance algorithmic learning. This event showcases not just a technical achievement but also a conceptual shift in how AI agents can engage with financial systems, emphasizing the utility of cryptocurrencies like USDC which provide AI agents with transaction capabilities otherwise restricted by traditional banking systems.Further, Bunchu and Chamber explore the broader implications of this innovation, including how it can revolutionize tasks like booking services or managing promotional activities on social media, which AI agents can now perform more autonomously. They also touch on recent industry efforts, like those by Skyfire and Biconomy, which aim to expand AI agents' capabilities in executing transactions autonomously.Join the conversation as "Mid Mic Daily Bite" sheds light on how these advancements could change the way AI agents are integrated into everyday tasks and the potential for these technologies to transform economic interactions on a global scale.Follow Us:Website: https://midmiccrisis.com/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@midmiccrisisInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/midmiccrisis/?hl=enTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mid.mic.crisis?lang=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/MidMicCrisisPowered by @dGenNetworkWebsite: https://dgen.network/Support the Show.

Skyfire Systems has launched a payment network that allows AI agents to make autonomous transactions on your behalf.Skyfire's platform includes safeguards to prevent AI agents from overspending and provides users with detailed control over their agents' spending.The company raised $8.5 million in seed funding to further develop this technology, aiming to revolutionize how AI interacts with financial systems.https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/21/skyfire-lets-ai-agents-spend-your-money/Tarek: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarekmadanymamlouk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In this episode, we explore how Skyfire's AI agents can autonomously manage and spend your money, discussing the potential benefits and risks of this cutting-edge technology. Get on the AI Box Waitlist: ⁠⁠https://AIBox.ai/⁠⁠ Conor's AI Course: https://www.ai-mindset.ai/courses Jaeden's Podcast Course: https://podcaststudio.com/courses/ Conor's AI Newsletter: https://www.ai-mindset.ai/ Jaeden's AI Hustle Community: https://www.skool.com/aihustle/about

In this episode of the Pirate Pod, we sit down with Amir Sarhangi and Craig DeWitt from SkyFire, a payment network for AI agents to make autonomous transactions. The team sits down with Keli Callaghan as they announce their fundraise and what they plan to do as the main driver of a fundamental shift in how the internet and technology transacts. Having worked together previously (Ripple), Craig and Amir are well versed and knowledgeable in payments and talk at length about their new venture, SkyFire, which is building an entirely new category and envisions a world where transactions are initiated and executed by AI - not humans. This podcast covers: - Founders' stories of their journeys in Web3. - Recent fundraise announcement. - Current landscape (including the teams' estimated of a $46B market size) and why incumbents are unlikely to execute on this.- Initial adoption, use cases and how quickly things will change.- Developer enablement of the SkyFire network.- Why Skyfire is going to be the Visa or Stripe for AI (ie, non human) transactions.- What comes next, including how AI will be making requests to humans to do physical tasks.Disclaimer: The views discussed in this conversation are the views of the individuals, and not of Arrington Capital. This podcast is provided solely for informational purposes and is not financial, legal, tax or investment advice.The participants of this podcast are not recommending any particular security, protocol, token, financial instrument, or other tradable asset or any investment strategy and is not offering to sell or soliciting to buy any security or asset.

David Vonesch, President & CEO at Skyfire Energy, delves into the importance of sustainable leadership, building diverse and values-driven teams, and navigating the renewable energy industry. He shares valuable insights on community engagement, employee ownership, and fostering innovation and resilience in a competitive market. GET THE FREE LEADERSHIP GUIDE - YYCLEADERS.COM

  B.S. Over A Couple Of Brews   Episode 17 - "Flashbacks and A Fight"   Episode Summary:   Come join Rick-O and Korbs, and B.S. over a couple of brews. Tonight we discuss Magic City Brewing Company's 6-year Anniversary, Music Artists are Starting to Push Back on Venue Merch Cuts, and Alphabet Game of Bands That We've Seen Live (G-M). Also, there was a baseball fight! Haha! Cheers to good fortune, and also to remembrance!     The Brews:Rick-O's Brew: "Hazy Jane IPA (New England Style IPA)" (Brewdog)(Canal Winchester, OH) Korbs' Brew: "Ice Cream Man (Kettle Sour)" (Roak Brewing Co.)(Marshall, MI) Magic City Brewing Company's 6 Year Anniversary:First 100 people to buy a sour got a free 6-year glass. Korbs' Beers: Burfday Suit #6 in a pint glass. 4 beer flight (all sours): Burfday Suit #6 (again in a smaller flight glass) Trash Day Chris Hawaiian J Chubs Pizza Break!:It was a Pizza Party! Yeah! Lol. Music Artists are Starting to Push Back on Venue Merch Cuts:SEPULTURA's DERRICK GREEN Blasts 'Greedy' Venues For Taking 'Absurd Percentages' Of Bands' Merchandise Sales - Blabbermouth.net Alphabet Game of Bands That We've Seen Live (G-M): Gojira Green Day Goatwhore Gorillaz (Want to see live) Gaerea (Korbs would like to see live) Galaktikon Gorod Ghost Inside Gideon Glass Cloud (Would have liked to see live.) God Forbid Godsmack Gorguts Green Druid Green Jelly Hester Prynne Hideous Divinity High On Fire Hour of Penance Hypno5e Impending Doom In Flames In The Wake Inanimate Existence Ingested Inter Arma Intronaut I Declare War iwrestledabearonce I See Stars Inferi (We both want to see this band.) Jungle Rot Job For A Cowboy Joshua Travis Jinjer Kataklysm Kennedy Veil Khemmis Krisiun Killswitch Engage Killitorous Lamb of God Lorna Shore Lord of War Landmine Marathon Lower G.I. (Shout out, AtoM!) Meshuggah Metallica (Wish List Band) Megadeth (Wish List Band) Mudvayne Mastodon (Wish List Band) Metallica's First Album:Kill 'Em All (1983) - wikipedia.org Korbs Backed a Kickstarter Project for Skyfire's Spectral (2004) Vinyl Album:Spectral - the 2004 SKYFIRE album on Vinyl - Kickstarter Band Highlight (Humanity's Last Breath):Humanity's Last Breath - Tide Korbs' Album Pick of the Episode:People Just Leave by NOMADIC Korbs' Band Mention of the Episode:Of Origins - Bandcamp Band Spotlight:Lord of War - Suffer Honorable Mentions:The Time Everybody Thought Ozzy Osbourne Died After A Crazy Cocaine Duel With David Lee Roth - BroBible.com Chris Barnes (Six Feet Under) - Stripped Raped and Strangled but it's only EEEEEE Jose Ramirez and Tim Anderson fight leads to benches clearing in Cleveland | MLB on ESPN Peace out, Brothas AND Sistas! Lol. Music Credits:Intro/Outro Music Credit: "After Sunset" by Pryces CONNECT WITH US: Visit the Website Contact us by Email SOCIAL MEDIA: Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Facebook Subscribe to our YouTube Last Modified 06/09/2024 23:37:33 by Rick-O

We had two special guests on the show, The owner and promoter of Skyfire Pro Lucha Libre Robin Shaw and Skyfire Pro Lucha Libre inaugural Champion Rebel Storm. Rebel Storm will be defending the title on June 9 at Bay City Brewing against Shaw. Listen to the backstory of Skyfire and find out who Rob and Angel are going for. Hint, a certain FFL champion is backing up the Skyfire Pro Champion. That and much more. Cheers.

Este programa está patrocinado por la marca de nutrición deportiva, MAURTEN. Puedes conocer todos sus productos aquí: https://findyoureverest.es/categoria-producto/marcas/maurten/ En este episodio del Find Your Everest Podcast by Javi Ordieres: - Hablamos con el director de carrera del Trail Picu Llosorio, y nos cuenta las últimas novedades antes de la carrera de este fin de semana. - También analizamos la carrera Kolitza, que tendrá lugar este fin de semana en Balmaseda. En la sección del Experto Responde, tenemos con nosotros a Sabina, donde nos deja diferentes estrategias para afrontar un objetivo importante, como puede ser ZEGAMA AIZKORRI. Es increíble lo que se puede llegar a aprender con SABINA, por lo que os dejo: - Sus videos: https://www.youtube.com/live/P5pfoi7-W9Q?si=NJGHBi1vtu4DUQXk - Su perfil de Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psicoentrenate.training/ - Su página web: https://psicoentrenate.training/ En la sección material, analizamos 4 zapatillas de la marca MERRELL: - Morphlite: https://findyoureverest.es/producto/zapatillas-merrell-morphlite/ - Agilty Peak: https://findyoureverest.es/producto/zapatillas-merrell-agility-peak-5/ - Long Sky 2: https://findyoureverest.es/producto/zapatillas-merrell-mtl-long-sky-2-matryx/ - Skyfire 2: https://findyoureverest.es/producto/zapatillas-merrell-mtl-skyfire-2-matryx/ ESPERO QUE OS GUSTE EL PROGRAMA QUE HEMOS PREPARADO! Ya sabéis que podéis apoyarnos, visitando nuestra tienda online de Trail Running en: https://www.findyoureverest.es/ Suscríbete a nuestra newsletter: https://findyoureverest.es/newsletter/

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Some Men of Steel are actually MONKEY! Case and Jmike are joined by Derek Van Dyke to talk about what is undoubtedly the "Optimal Optimus" (as well as "Code of Hero" because we are not monsters).   Transcript (Subject to error) 00:00 Case Aiken Season one has a couple, like, events that feel like this should be the season finale. Like the floating island one. Yeah. And then it's like, oh, no, we're just gonna keep going. 00:07 Derek Van Dyke Season one just did a lot of great, like, mini story arcs leading up to. Yeah. Watching Beast wars, like, out of order on syndication, over the air was. 00:17 Jmike Folson Yeah, that would have messed with you. 00:18 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, because it's like every other week there's some season finale, and you're like, what is happening? 00:40 Case Aiken Hey, everyone, and welcome back to the Men of Steel podcast. I am an optimal case Aiken, and as always, I am joined by my rat trap, J. Mike Falson. 00:51 Jmike Folson I gotta be rat trap, though. Why couldn't it be Cheetor? 00:53 Case Aiken Oh. 00:54 Jmike Folson Anyway, hey, welcome back, everybody. 00:55 Case Aiken I mean, honestly, you're probably the rhinox of the team. 01:01 Derek Van Dyke A higher compliment you cannot give. 01:05 Case Aiken Well, and there's the peacemaker right there. So that's the tiger Tron, Derek Van. 01:09 Derek Van Dyke Dyke, although I do not have nearly as deep and dulcite of tones as Tigatron's voice actor. 01:16 Case Aiken What's his name? Blue Mankuma. 01:18 Derek Van Dyke Beautiful, beautiful voice. 01:20 Case Aiken An incredible voice. So we're not going to mince words here. I tried to do a bit and it didn't quite work. But you know what? We're going to maximize this effort here. Today we're talking about maximize Transformers, Beast wars, and specifically, we're going to talk about Optimus Primal and how I would argue that he is a Superman analog. And before we started recording, Derek and I were talking about how probably of any Transformers character, especially any Beast wars character, Optimus prime is the best example of a Superman type character in the series. 01:50 Derek Van Dyke And that also, I think that primal specifically is probably the best version of Optimus to make that analog with in terms of the ways that Primal is a unique character from G, one Optimus, or, like, prime or Energon or any of those other versions of Optimus Primal, very much stands out in that regard to me. 02:11 Case Aiken Yeah. I mean, so much so that in the episode victory, there is a direct, like, it's a bird, it's a plane. It's exactly. I mean, we're all 90s babies here. This seemed kind of like an appropriate little session of just, like, nostalgia and looking at a thing that definitely, even if the metaphor is forced, it is the heroic archetype that we try to talk about on this piece, where a character has the power of action and does his or her best to make the world a better place, regardless of threats and regardless of the ability to do more in a way that would be harmful to others and trying to avoid those types of situations. So we picked out a bunch of episodes from the first season to really focus on for this. But we'll talk about the series as a whole. 02:56 Case Aiken We'll talk about some of the other characters. We're obviously going to talk about code of Hero because we're not monsters on this podcast. And that has to be discussed if we're talking about beast wars. But we are going to try to frame the conversation mostly about Optimus Primal, who is just goddamn awesome. And I think a good place to start, then, before we actually get into the episodes, is just how Optimus Primal is not Optimus prime. They're very similar characters. They are obviously both the leader types for the group. But for one thing, Optimus Primal isn't just the biggest fucking dude in the room. 03:28 Jmike Folson Always. 03:30 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, he's interestingly, like, perfect middle size. Rhinox and Dinobot are bigger than, like, several characters. Outsize him in stature, so he's not the big guy of the team like Optimus traditionally is. 03:45 Case Aiken Right? I mean, Skyfire aside, or Omega supreme or any of the other really weird ones out there, Optimus prime was always sort of positioned as being the biggest one. And some of that is japanese toy convention of having the leader types always be the biggest action figure, which is true for the Optimus primal gorilla figure. Although of course, for those of us from the 90s who remember when the Beast wars toys first came out, Optimus Primal was a bat. 04:09 Derek Van Dyke Oh God. That's right. I forgot that the first toy was a bat. Wow. 04:15 Case Aiken Yeah. And Megatron was a crocodile. 04:17 Derek Van Dyke I don't think I ever saw the megatron crocodile. 04:20 Case Aiken Yeah, well, and then they got phased out and they put out. Right, right. 04:23 Derek Van Dyke And then we got the ones that. 04:24 Case Aiken Are the monkey nut truck version of Optimus. While the figure was the biggest. There's a little bit of a weirdness when you look at Rhinox. Like, depending on the shot, rhinox is clearly bigger in beast form, but sometimes a little bigger. A little. Maybe not quite as tall, but wider in terms of sizing. It's still early. 04:40 Derek Van Dyke They don't always make him, like, way taller than everyone else. Rhinox is the big guy because he's also just wide and stock. He's built like a linebacker. 04:49 Case Aiken Yeah. Meanwhile, Dinobot is definitely the tallest of at least the season one maximals, and just is one of the biggest of the show, just generally speaking, which continues to be useful for him even when he does not get some of the upgrades that the others do. But yeah, no, Optimus, he's not the biggest one in the room. He is pretty tough, and he is actually pretty capable. One of the big differences that they make in Beast wars versus g one transformers is that they can't all fly explicitly whatever the hell was going on in the more than meets the eye pilot. And then in later episodes where it's like, oh, I guess we forgot how to fly. Optimus Primal is the unique one on the early team. He's the flyer for the group to. 05:27 Derek Van Dyke The point that's a huge advantage for the enemy team, the predacons, because they have multiple flyers, and we've just got Optimus on the good guy's side. And since he's also the commander, it's risky to have him flying around on basic scout duty. 05:42 Case Aiken Right. Scouting, you would think, would go to the flyer. He's also not the heaviest heavy, but he's a heavy on the team. They make a very big point early in the pilot of, like, in terms of COVID fire, Optimus can move faster to a location, but he's also going to be a better person to lay down suppressing fire in a situation. You kind of need him to be able to move into those spots. And so what that means is that Optimus primal in Beast wars is a generalist for the majority of the show. Yeah. 06:09 Jmike Folson Mid tier character. 06:10 Case Aiken That's a niche that a Superman type often falls into when they actually scale the power levels accordingly for a team, as opposed to having the big fluctuations of a full on Superman in the group. Because Optimus is durable as hell. He's strong as hell. He can fly, and he's got firepower, but he's not necessarily the top for any of them. He's the red mage on the team, which, if you're seeing everyone as having stats that get spread out and some people focus on some, the Superman type is going to be. Yeah, fast, strong, durable, good up close. 06:39 Derek Van Dyke Good from afar, good at thinking out a plan while not necessarily being, like, the master tactician. Like you said, a little bit of everything. 06:46 Jmike Folson Yeah, I thought that was because this iteration, like, when the first episode, they clearly say they're explorers. 06:52 Case Aiken Yes. 06:52 Jmike Folson So I was like, okay, they're not, like, beefy types that we're used to seeing. So I thought that kind of got explained away right there. I was like, okay, they're just doing their thing, and this optimist is just like, copernicus, Galileo. 07:03 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, well, and that's kind of a good point too, that this optimist is not a definitive military leader with a ton of experience. This is a scientist and a man of peace, and he has doubts. I think that, like, g one Optimus, who was really the only other version of Optimus that existed at the time that beast wars came out, right? 07:27 Case Aiken I think, yeah, I mean, there's g two Optimus toys and comics, but there hadn't really been, like, a mainstream transformers. 07:34 Jmike Folson I remember Megatron saying throughout these episodes is that at this point in the Transformers timeline, the Autobots had won the war. The Autobots had won the war. And the predicons, decepticons were underneath them. Now, I don't know how that figured out and everything else. 07:49 Case Aiken Well, it's a weird part, and I'll go into it, because I watched these to death back when I actually got them dvd. I watched these back in the day. Initially, I taped these off of vcrs and rewatched it, but I bought the dvds and I listened to the commentary tracks a ton. So I have some input from that which I did not get a chance to re listen to. So I'm only going touch on it a little bit. It's a weird series of a show in that it is technically in continuity with the original Transformers show in a way that is different from all the other transformers stuff that has come since. There has been a ton of Transformers material of all types, including additional versions of Beast wars characters and so forth. 08:23 Case Aiken What we're saying, though, is at the time when this came out, there was Peter Cullen as Optimus prime, and now we're getting Gary Chalk as Optimus Primal and setting those two up as different characters. 08:35 Derek Van Dyke Yes, and spoilers for a late 90s animated series. But it's both a sequel and prequel to the original transformers as opposed to a reimagining. And I just think that's also so interesting because to me, gen one Optimus is not a lot of a character. He's cool, right? But because it's Peter Cullen, and he just has some raw lines to lay down. But to me, it's the more dynamic personality of primal, of being somebody who does have doubts, being somebody who does fail more, somebody who is a boy scout, but also kind of aware of the ways that holds them back sometimes and has to struggle with that, I think makes him a more interesting character for actually engaging with the question of what it means to be a leader. 09:26 Case Aiken What it means to be a hero. 09:28 Derek Van Dyke Even sometimes, if you don't want to be, but just because you're the one. 09:32 Case Aiken Who is best able to be, right? I mean, he was the leader of a scientific exploration vessel and all of a sudden had to do a police action against war criminals. And it's stuck in this situation where in a Dino riders style pilot sequence, they transport back in time and crash land on ancient Earth and have to contend with weird histories and all that. I think this also goes for the fact that the supporting cast is so strong. And part of that is that this is a mid to late 90s CGI cartoon wherein they couldn't have that many characters. Like the original Transformers had, like, a fuck ton of characters, especially, oh, my God, we can't keep track of. And on purpose, like, to the point where they just start introducing characters. They don't need to be like, oh, here's the new guy. 10:16 Case Aiken It's just like, this guy's always been here, right? Like, you know, Perceptor, the microscope guy. You know him, right? He's been in all these episodes somewhere. 10:25 Derek Van Dyke He was just off screen. 10:26 Case Aiken Yeah, no, he was down in the science lab doing science stuff. And this episode has science stuff. So here's Perceptor. You know the guy. And so with Beast wars, the show had a very small roster. It's five characters on each side initially, where they make up for the fact that they don't have the virtue of Transformers properties in general, which is that you like the ones that you think is cool, and then you have so many that everyone's going to find one that they think is cool, and you keep going. In this case, they had to be like, here's the distinct personalities for the five that we can animate on each side. 11:00 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, here's the personalities they have. Here are the skills that they have, how all of this stuff informs each other, and then how those characters have to change over the course of the episodes. Because Beast wars is really good about having characters start at one place and then have to change and grow, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse, as events affect them and stick with them in a way that was kind of rare for a lot of animation of the time. You have a lot of these animated shows of the time, and especially the original Transformers. Right? Where the point was, like, we have our episode plot of the week, and at the end, everything's going to go back to the status quo, right? And Beast wars really threw that out. 11:42 Case Aiken The window, for one thing. We have such dynamic supporting cast members like Rattrap and Dinobot on the hero side, where Rattrap is insubordinate, a coward, super competent, and a prick. Like, it's great, that whole combination right there. And then you have Dinobot, who was a reformed bad guy, and anyone who knows me knows that I am a sucker for reformed bad guy. No, like, Anubis is my favorite character on Ronan Warriors, Dinobot is one of my favorite characters. Piccolo is my favorite dragon Ball Z character. The honorable bad guy who realized the errors of his way and has reformed in ways that are logically consistent and not just because we needed a heel face turn for the sake of the plot, is so fucking good. And Dinobot is that. 12:31 Case Aiken And again, we're going to talk about code of hero, because we have to talk about code of hero. It's so goddamn good. But that means that right from the get go, we've got people who are arguing against Optimus Primal. Rattrap, who is on his team, who was part of his crew, asks him if he's up to the task constantly because the mission is different. First episode all the time. Like, Rattrap refuses a direct order, and so Optimus Primal has to put himself in danger. And then later is like, here is why I did this thing. Here's why I explained it this way, and I asked you to do it because it made more sense that way. And instead, we did it this way, and now we're hurt, and we're not in a good position where we can actually easily fix ourselves. Things are bad. 13:13 Case Aiken And then Ratchup still is giving him shit. It's not like a one time, and then it's fine. Every single time afterwards, he's giving him crap until eventually he finally learns to trust him. 13:23 Jmike Folson Optimus had to tell him early on. He's like, I'm not going to put you in positions and things that I wouldn't do myself, so you're going to have to trust me. And Raptrap's like, man, whatever. 13:34 Case Aiken Sure, Optimus. And that's such a good line. 13:37 Derek Van Dyke Better you than me. 13:39 Case Aiken That honestly has stuck with me in terms of my management style so much more, probably more than it's, like, healthy in some regards, where I'll throw myself out there to work on a project where I'm like, I probably should have been focusing on the macro. There have been plenty of times where it's like, oh, yeah, this project that needed to be done by the end of the month. I'm now cramming to finish because were in the weeds about something else somewhere earlier in the month kind of thing. But I think that's such a great aspect of his character. He is completely prepared to lead from the front, to take the hits, to do all that, even if he sees the best way to do it is this. And that's the plan I'm going to go with. 14:13 Case Aiken But when something doesn't work, when circumstances change, he'll get out there. There's no problem with that. And it's not for glory. It's not for honor. It's not for anything like that. This is the best plan. And does it make the most sense for me to be there? Yes. No. But it's never out of cowardice. It's never even self preservation from the standpoint of, like, well, I'm the commander. I have to survive so I can keep making new plans. Like, when the plan fails to make a new plan type character. No, he's not that. He just is aware that he's also pretty well equipped to do a bunch of different jobs because he's the red mage on the right. Yeah. 14:47 Derek Van Dyke And especially bringing up rat Trap and the way that rat trap kind of does not respect Optimus's authority at first. 14:55 Case Aiken Can we just pause before we go further on a discussion of rat Trap? And let's just say for anyone who has not watched the show, rat Trap is Rocket Raccoon. 15:03 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, I mean, that's a great point of comparison for modern audiences, like, to. 15:08 Case Aiken The point where I'm wondering if when they kind of rebooted rocket raccoon to be the character that he is in the comics, if they were looking at, like, they're that close. Yeah, we're all going to die, right? That's his catchphrase. We're all going to die. 15:22 Derek Van Dyke God, Scott McNeil is just so good as half the cast of this show. Yeah, but, like Rattrap, it's a great example of. One of the most powerful aspects of Optimus Primal, to me, is the effect that he has on the rest of the cast. Rat Trap is somebody who starts off as very cowardly, very insubordinate, and obviously, he's always going to be the team loudmouth and the team cynic. But over the course of especially that first season, you really watch rat trap, like, one step at a time. Have to learn from Optimus's example and from Cheetor some. But in that case, it's still indirectly Optimus, because Cheetor adores Optimus and is trying to do everything he can to mirror that behavior, sometimes to overly enthusiastic. 16:12 Derek Van Dyke But, like, it's that drags rat trap into being more of a team player, being more heroic, putting himself at risk more when he's the best person for a job you can watch over the course of that first season, how much he changes. And that's entirely Optimus's influence as a leader. 16:33 Case Aiken Yeah, that's the best part about Optimus, which is that the team becomes better because of his presence there. He inspires people to better, which is exactly the kind of thing we talk about on this show and why the archetype of, like, a hero who is doing their best is important. 16:51 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, it's not enough to be the leader and be like the jack of all trades. You also have to be a little bit the Paladin. Right? Like, you have to be somebody who, it's not just the actions that you take, but how you empower the people around you to better, to teach young and impressionable Cheetor to think a little bit more ahead, to teach rat trap to be kind of braver, to be an example for Dinobot to clash against. Right. Which is so fascinating because Dinobot never fully takes on Optimus's ideals. But I think especially by code of Hero, we'll get to it. You do see how much he has learned by his time with the maximals. 17:33 Case Aiken Why don't we actually dig into the episodes that we wanted to talk about? The ones that we highlighted specifically were the two part pilot BSors, episode ten, guerrilla warfare episode twelve, victory episode 24 before the storm, which is really just the first part of the three part finale, and then the two part finale of season one, which is other voices, and then Code of hero, because again, we're not monsters here. Yeah. So talking about beast wars, the Pilot, I emailed you guys when I was watching it because right from the get go. Oh my God, this show is so good at economy of storytelling. 18:06 Derek Van Dyke Yes. 18:06 Case Aiken We've got the whole transwarp. We've come through time and space and we're having this whole fight over this weird alien world. And we set up elements about all the different characters on the ship. We set up like, it's an exploration vessel, not a battle cruiser. Like all those little bits right there. We set up the proto forms, which is such an ingenious little element of like. Yeah. Now we know we're going to want to introduce characters more over the course of the season, at least. How do we do that? Here is an element that will work, but we don't have to worry about it right now. 18:37 Derek Van Dyke Here's a massive number of ticking time bombs for new characters that we can introduce as many as we want whenever we want down the road. But they're not here now, right? 18:46 Jmike Folson They're floating in space. 18:47 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, they're just sleeping. 18:50 Case Aiken There's the whole inner John situation that is on the planet in season one, where their robot forms are unable to function for prolonged periods of time in the environment. And so that they have to turn into animals as a way of basically, like, Terminator style clothing themselves in meat as a way to bypass a thing. And that's a really fun exposition bit that they set up very quickly. They bring up the great War, which, according to the commentary tracks, they didn't fucking know what that meant. They didn't know they were necessarily talking about the original transformers at the time. That all came later. And the fact that it fit so smoothly is incredible. 19:24 Derek Van Dyke Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you say the phrase the Clone wars, and you figure it out later. 19:30 Case Aiken You know what I mean? We introduce all these characters. We set up all that, and then we start setting up their capabilities very quickly. 19:38 Derek Van Dyke Right. 19:38 Case Aiken When they leave the ship for the first time, we start seeing the zooming in eye effect that Optimus Primal has, even in ape form, which I think is such a great way of one reminding everyone they're robots and they can do XYZ. I always thought that their augmented reality vision stuff was, like, one of the coolest secret abilities that they had, as opposed to the really obvious, like, I have a gun that comes out of my ape arm kind of thing. Yeah, no, they're still robots here. And just to continue the comparison with Superman. Yeah, he's got supervision on top of flight, and he's a robot. Yeah. 20:11 Derek Van Dyke Every character gets moments that are, like, establishing the most important pieces of their personality at the start of the show. Right. Like, rat trap is going to be cynical and cowardly from the get go. Rhinox is going to be the Peacekeeper and also the big guy who's like, nope, you know what? I don't care if there's a rock I can break through that know Cheetor is going to run off on his own when everyone says, stop, wait, he's already gone. 20:40 Case Aiken Right. And then establish that the communications are limited because of the environment that they're in, so they can't just, like, radio everywhere. 20:47 Derek Van Dyke The energon is such a brilliant little piece of plot BS in Beast wars, because the way that they've made the energon out to be in this, it is a resource that they desperately need and can fight over in however many episodes they feel like. It is the reason the bad guys are there, which makes it accidentally the reason the good guys are there. It is a limiting factor. Right. Because it is incredibly dangerous and forces them to arbitrarily whenever the plot demands it. Right? Oh, there's so much energon. We've got to stay in Beast form. Right? Like, it can be a limiter for the plot of the episode, which is used to great effect many times. 21:29 Derek Van Dyke And then finding out new weird things and ways that it interacts with a lightning strike or a certain piece of technology gives them the ability to bs in the plot. For a bottle episode, it's one singular element that really makes the show kind of by how it gets to both be the prize and the hazard. Yeah, if that makes sense. 21:54 Jmike Folson I feel like later on, they kind of forgot about a lot of the energon stuff they set up. 21:58 Case Aiken Yeah, because at first they're like, oh. 22:00 Jmike Folson We can't be in our robot forms for more than, like, two minutes. And by season two, they're having full on guerrilla warfare out there for hours at a time, like killing each other. And like, oh, wait, the season two. 22:14 Case Aiken They deliberately say all the energon because it's unstable energon, as opposed to what we had seen in OG transformers, where it's like, here's just cubes of stuff that soundwave emitted from his chest that can soar up the coal energy from this furnace or whatever. They make a point that it is different. It's unstable. It's dangerous, and there's so much of it and that the season one finale destroys most of it and transforms what's there into a stable version that does not affect them. 22:42 Jmike Folson Energon cubes. 22:43 Derek Van Dyke Unless you're, like, right up on it. 22:45 Jmike Folson Right. 22:45 Case Aiken Really, the split between season one and two is like a complete, like, we're just like, wiping the floor with all the status quo that we had set up in season one so that we can get away with doing a much weirder season two. And I like a lot of season two, but it loses some of the vibrancy of the first season. It's way more deserts and it's way more like battleground vistas as a. 23:04 Derek Van Dyke Just mesas and stuff. 23:05 Case Aiken Yeah, exactly. 23:06 Derek Van Dyke As far as the eye can see. 23:07 Jmike Folson So what you're saying is you don't like silverbolt? Shame on you, Casey. 23:10 Case Aiken I actually like silverbolt. But you know what? If fucking Silverbolt showed up in season one, he'd be interesting showing up in season two, right when they're showing up, like, being like, here's transmetals and here's all this other stuff going on, and here's Jesus fucking gorilla, man. Like, Silverbolt gets lost in the gouache at that point. 23:26 Derek Van Dyke He's just here to be very beautiful and stupid. 23:32 Case Aiken I mean, yes. So, like, the pilot does a lot of great stuff here. We set up the stakes. We establish, like, yeah, at first it's four on five as far as teams go, because dinobot, very quickly, you think he might be like the starscream of the team gets into a fight with Megatron. I love it where it's like leadership takes cunning and cleverness as well. Wouldn't you say? So Scorponok, like, just shoots him away. 23:55 Derek Van Dyke I do like, also, the pilot is the only time Scorponok is ever a threat. Very quickly becomes the butt monkey of the enemy team. 24:07 Case Aiken I mean, is he the worst butt monkey? It's hard to really say. 24:11 Derek Van Dyke Look, nobody out. Butt monkeys. Waspinator. 24:14 Jmike Folson Hey, we put some respect. 24:20 Case Aiken Secret best characters, the same. God, we love some of these characters. And some of these best characters are all voiced by the same person. 24:33 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, I know, right? I do love how they have a completely unsubtle like, yeah, this is the actual starscream in pterosaur. To the point of, like, he just sounds, looks, acts like everything like him gets possessed by Starscream. 24:48 Case Aiken In an episode. 24:50 Derek Van Dyke Waspinator gets possessed by Starscream. That's right. 24:53 Case Aiken When Starscream shows up in that. Not exactly a deep cut, but the fact that the Starscream ghost thing had been set up already, it's like, oh, that's fun. 25:02 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. 25:02 Case Aiken And also, as one of my favorite lines in the show, which is when black Arachnia betrays starscream and says, are all your dreams in Technicolor? But getting back to the pilot, so we've got this power imbalance, which I think is really fun. We also established that they are not that fucking big. Like, it's not Transformers OG style, where it's like, yeah, he's a truck that turns into a robot, but what if he's even bigger than that truck? What if the microscope guy is as big as the truck guy? What if the boombox is four stories tall? 25:33 Derek Van Dyke What if the bad guy turns into a regular handgun? 25:37 Case Aiken At least it made sense with G two when they turned him into a tank. 25:40 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, but, yeah, all the transformers are like, roughly analogous to human size. I think they're mostly a little bigger than your average person if you scale them against the pre humans in later seasons. But they're like six to 10ft tall, not 18ft 45. 26:00 Case Aiken Yeah, we know that Cheetor is the same size as a regular cheetah because of direct comparison there, we know that rat trap is very big. For a rat. But it appears that Optimus Primal is about the right size for a gorilla, which means that he's big for a person, but not terrifyingly big. And rhinox actually seems kind of small. And actually, Megatron seems kind of small for a T Rex. 26:20 Derek Van Dyke I mean, again, getting into the arachnids, I've never seen a tarantula that size. And if I ever did, I would die on. 26:30 Jmike Folson Snap my own neck. 26:32 Derek Van Dyke I'm out. 26:35 Case Aiken And what a roster of villains. We talked about terror sore being just the starscream. Like, he's there for that role. We've got Waspinator as the bumbling ally that we like, and we've got Scorponok as the bumbling ally that we don't like in terms of the bad guys, but fucking tarantulas, man. 26:52 Derek Van Dyke Fucking tarantulas. And it's crazy to go back to the first few episodes of the show and realize, like, a, they hadn't quite nailed down how much Waspinator was going to suck, and they hadn't quite nailed down what they wanted to do with tarantulas yet. Right. It takes a few episodes for them to really be like, actually, tarantulas is going to be the smart guy. 27:11 Case Aiken Well, they, right off the bat, say that he's the only one who has the skill to break down the giant rock of inner John that they find. And then the next episode is the web episode where he captures and tortures Cheetor. So I think at the very least, they were like, he's going to be the scary spider, right? 27:26 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, yeah. That's why they gave him the. It's. It's perfect. But the amount to which tarantulas becomes a capital p problem, I don't know that they had really planned out at that point. 27:40 Case Aiken No. And that's fair. This show is so good at. Yes. Ending in a way, once you know how little they knew what they were doing in the pilot, it fits so goddamn well. When you get to the end of season one and you see all the machinations of tarantulas and Megatron and how it plays out and all that. That's all really good. And you get to the shit at the end of season two where it's like, oh, man, it's g one transformers. And they're all there. But they didn't know shit about transformers when they made the show. They didn't know what they were doing. They were told, make a fucking show with these toys. These are the reboot guys. 28:19 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. Even the pilot is a perfect example of how they. Yes. And did from the beginning. Because I think you look at the pilot episodes compared to the third episode, and you see that within the pilot, there is so much more of transforming has to come with the full. 28:37 Case Aiken Yeah, they have, like, an activation mode. 28:39 Derek Van Dyke Or Cheetor maximize and then lengthy transformation sequence. And from as early as episode three, they're like, okay, we can cut down on the dramatic yelling at the sky and then stock footage. That's not the tone that's working for us. Let's minimize that a bit. I think it's interesting to see how much more expositional dialogue is in that first episode or two in a way that works great. Like you said, to set up, like, economy of storytelling, to set the stage in one or two episodes. But the format of dialogue changes so much by the third episode. 29:14 Case Aiken Yeah, I mean, obviously, it's kind of nice in the first episode to have them all do individually their activation codes where they say their full name and then what team they're on. If they say maximize or terrorize and go through that, also establish that it's just a code word that they can just change because Dynobot does it, which is a nice detail there. That's fun. That's power rangers for you. 29:34 Derek Van Dyke Changes his tattoo. 29:38 Case Aiken It's the 90s. We were suckers for it then. I'm still a sucker for it now. But you don't need to do that going forward. And eventually we get an episode where they full on are just like, oh, no. They're all in sync with their animal selves. Now. The call of the wild episode where they all regress to their animal forms and then, like, tiger Tron gets them stoned and, like, no, man, you just need to vibe with your animal self. But that does allow for really cool moves, like rat trap, like rolling as a rat and then standing up as a robot and shooting things. All those kind of maneuvers that really come into play in the second half of the season, which also goes for what kind of choreography can they do in the early episodes, if you're really paying attention? 30:14 Case Aiken Even some of the shots where it's like a different angle, it's still the model in the same motion. They can move the camera around, but the gunfire motions are oftentimes the same animation. Just like, move which angle that they're looking at the model from. And that's because this is a 90s CGI show. This is the reboot studio. This is the show that the reboot studio did right after reboot. Yeah, I was going to say to. 30:34 Derek Van Dyke Clarify for a lot of folks who don't. There was a show called reboot. 30:38 Case Aiken That is not the recent show called Reboot. 30:41 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, there's a CGI show called Reboot before this. This is not a studio that does reboots. It's a capital r reboot. I remember nothing about reboot, to be honest. 30:52 Case Aiken Reboot is great, but this came out between season two and three. And so season one and two of reboot is rough, particularly season one. 31:01 Derek Van Dyke It looks rougher to look back at, for sure. I think part of it, too, is that because beast wars, the designs are robots and toy animals, they don't have to look as off putting as, like, we made blue people. 31:15 Case Aiken Right. 31:15 Derek Van Dyke You know what I mean? 31:17 Case Aiken And even that was choices that were made to get around the fact that it was Tron as a tv show. It was set inside of a computer so that they didn't have to be that realistic because it was a tv budget CGI show, which at the time was really difficult to do. Side note, there is a call out to reboot, which is one of the catchphrases for the main character, which is there's just no pleasing some people. Optimus Primal says to rat trap at one point in the pilot. 31:40 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, I remember that line. 31:43 Case Aiken But the point is, this is the show that they pick up after that before they come back for the amazing season three and the lackluster season four of reboot. Season three of reboot, one of the best things you can ever watch. I will continue to sing its praises forever. It's fantastic, but this show is very clearly part of this phase of a group of people learning to work with their budgets and using the restrictions of the medium that they're working in to jumpstart creativity. We have such a defined, cool supporting cast in the show because they only have the resources to make five models for each side. We've got ten characters total, and we have a pretty clear idea of what they're able to do in all cases. 32:24 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, well, and that's why, again, new characters come in at a semi steady pace, but paced out, it takes a bit for Tigatron to show up, and then it takes a bit for black arachni to show up, and then it's eraser and then Inferno. Right. 32:40 Case Aiken And there's a reason why the first two that come in, I mean, also this kind of ties into the toys, which is that they're palette swaps. Like, yes, they have design changes, but a lot of the foundations for the models are based on the same characters. Tiger Tron is Cheetor. 32:55 Derek Van Dyke They're clone characters. 32:56 Case Aiken Yeah, exactly. Yeah. 32:57 Derek Van Dyke Down to the same rifle with the brain in the back of the gun for some reason. 33:01 Case Aiken It's a marthroy situation. Yeah. And black arachnia with tarantulas. And it's great there because. Oh, my. Like, what two wonderful characters did they spawn from this whole thing? Yeah. 33:13 Derek Van Dyke Holy shit. Those two being at each other's throats the entire time is just. 33:18 Case Aiken Yeah, just great details. But we don't get them until later. And they're fun additions, but they have to pick and choose their battles for when they bring a new character in who's going to be important, and yada, yada in the pilot, right off the bat, it's like, all right, well, here's, like, a little first confrontation. There's, like, a little pit and a rock, and we can establish some character stuff. And they do really good stuff because this is where Rattrap refuses to jump into battle. And we get, like, rhinox being, like, the big tough. Like, they need cover fire. 33:45 Case Aiken So I'm picking you up, and this is a whole groot rock and raccoon situation right here, where he's holding Rattrap, who's firing in one hand, using Cheetor's gun in the other, because they didn't really want to show off his Uzi as his main weapon in the pilot. 33:56 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, the chain gun with a buzzsaw blade on it for some reason. 34:01 Case Aiken Buzsaw blade within three. It's so weird. 34:08 Derek Van Dyke He never once used that thing to hit him. 34:11 Case Aiken No, but he does shoot some people at point blank rage several times. 34:14 Derek Van Dyke He sure perforates some folks with it. That's for sure. 34:18 Case Aiken Is so great. And we will mention beast machines at the end of this. But there is a reason why I hate beast machines. 34:24 Derek Van Dyke There's no human being who loves beast. I cannot believe that's possible. 34:30 Case Aiken So we get, like, this wonderful confrontation between them that sets up all this character stuff. We set up the efficacy of the Predacons, and then the first episode of the two part pilot ends with, well, now we've got to have a battle for victory between Dinobot and Optimus Primal, which is nice to set up. I love Dinobot. I love him having this, like, well, I need honor. Like, I can't just beat you with treachery. I wouldn't have earned leadership there. And that's such a good way of setting up. He's going to work here because he's the bad guy, but he's lawful evil. And you guys are fighting chaotic evil right now. Yeah. And he's powerful. 35:06 Case Aiken He's got those fucking eye beams and he's big and he's got a weird tail spin blade thingy, which, thank God, in code of hero, he uses as like a helicopter device. Yes, man, dinobot. So here's a weird thing. I love the Megatron design in season one. I think it's really cool. I love the Trex head as the arm. I feel like it's a great shout out to the g one transformers, where Megatron, weirdly, it's the scope of the gun, but it acts as a blaster that's on his arm. I feel like it works very well there. I always thought it was weird though, that they didn't just use the Grimlock design. And then I realized that Dinobot is Grimlock. And in fact, there is an alternate color toy of dinobot that is called Grimlock. 35:47 Derek Van Dyke Oh, I didn't know they did have Beast Wars. Grimlock. 35:50 Case Aiken Never in the actual series. Yeah. But if you look at his transformation sequence, it has actually the same positioning that's going on where the head goes down to the chest, the legs extend out from the chest and are not part of the main body. And that the legs of the dinosaur form slide up and become the upper torso arms. 36:08 Derek Van Dyke Okay. 36:09 Case Aiken And then the tail splits open. And on grimlock, it splits open and becomes like part of his back. In this case, it becomes a separate spinny weapon thing with his spine being his sword. 36:19 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. Or something. 36:21 Case Aiken That's the extension of the spine. 36:23 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. It's one long thing. One long spaghetti noodle. Right. 36:28 Case Aiken So there is some weird headcanon of like. Well, but maybe Dinobot is the descendant. The point is that they went with this very tried and true design for the character to be then this weird villainous lancer character. 36:44 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. 36:44 Case Aiken In a five man band. That sort of makes the most sense. Right. Because then, yeah, he was effectively the. 36:50 Derek Van Dyke Number two on the predicon side. And then he defects. And because the maximals just do not have that same explicit sort of hierarchy structure, it's like, okay, well, I'm not the leader. What am I? And it's like, here's the guy. Here's one of the boys now. And clearly he struggles forever to figure out how he is supposed to work as a soldier, as somebody who believes in hierarchies, as somebody who believes in a chain of command. Again, like there's science. This is not a military that he has joined. 37:24 Case Aiken Yeah. And it's like a small crew. It's not the starship Enterprise. Like, yeah, we've got rhinox. He's really good at scanning shit. And Rattrap's really good at fixing machines and making bombs. 37:35 Derek Van Dyke He's sort of the engineer. 37:36 Case Aiken Again, Rattrap is just fucking rocket raccoon. 37:40 Derek Van Dyke Technician, demolitions expert, snarky little guy, and I love it. 37:48 Case Aiken It's definitely not plagiarism in terms of rat trap, and it's archetypal, but it's just so well done here. Yeah. 37:53 Derek Van Dyke It's a defining version of that archetype for me. 37:57 Case Aiken We have this wonderful face off between the two of them where we get to establish Dinobot's credentials as being honorable, and we also get to see Optimus primal showing that. Yeah. In addition to having guns that come out of his body and rockets and guns that come out of his arms, he also has swords. He has, like, dual scimitars. Yeah. 38:17 Derek Van Dyke Like a copesh or something. 38:19 Case Aiken He is very capable. And then we establish, like, all right, well, the predacons show up, and they fuck up the whole thing, and then they blow up a mountain. It's like, oh, there's a big energon thing, and they both have to separately go to it. And again, economy of storytelling, or at least, like, seeding what's out there, they're like, this is a really weird world with, like, two moons and all this other shit. Also, that's fucking Stonehenge right there. That definitely was not put here by a thing we've seen so far. 38:41 Derek Van Dyke And I love, too, how it kind of confuses you of, like, okay, well, we've landed on earth, clearly, because there's earth animals and there's Stonehenge, but there are two moons that they call attention to. And the geography and landscape is still very alien and full of energon in a way that it is not by transformers g one time or just the modern day. And I love how they even use the pilot to set up things that will be the focus of several episodes separately down the road, and then many of which will loop back around for the season finale. 39:16 Case Aiken Yeah. And then the pilot kind of concludes with a big five on five battle in the energon field. So they can't transform because it's too dangerous. And we get. 39:25 Derek Van Dyke You get to watch the aminels fight. 39:27 Case Aiken I mean, some really, like, right off the bat, they are okay with reminding people, like, yeah, no, a t. Rex would be really, like, there's a shot, and they use it. In the opening credits of Megatron trying to bite Optimus Primal's neck. 39:41 Jmike Folson Oh, yeah. 39:41 Case Aiken And you're like, yeah, no, that's real bad. And side note, a gorilla would not have been able to survive. We gorillas are strong compared to us gorillas are not strong compared to Tyrannosaurus rexes. 39:54 Derek Van Dyke Right. There's a mass difference. Know. 39:57 Case Aiken But he's also a small T Rex. 39:59 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, but also just the way that, like, coming into that sequence, like, megatron, like, stomping in and the fact that it shakes the camera as he strides in ahead of the rest of his crew. It's very like, yes. Okay. Yep. You're selling that. This guy's big. Like, way bigger than everyone else on the field. 40:18 Case Aiken Right. But we also got a Mario 64 styled Optimus primal spinning it. 40:24 Jmike Folson Optimus swinging around, which I have to. 40:26 Case Aiken Imagine is just easy to animate because they're not really moving. You just spin the model around. 40:32 Derek Van Dyke But it's so good. It's so good to watch a gorilla swing a T Rex around. Right. And just yeet him there. Well, and also you get to see, like, rat trap. Do whatever rat trap does to tarantulas. That counts as an attack. 40:47 Case Aiken I don't know. 40:47 Derek Van Dyke It kind of seems like he tickles them. 40:49 Case Aiken I'm not really sure what it is. 40:50 Derek Van Dyke He goes, that's not even close to the sound. I give up. 40:56 Case Aiken Yeah, I mean, the pairing is okay, but as we pointed out, there's two flyers on the predicon side already. And it's not really, like a one to one kind of comparison right there. But it is close enough that it would fit any of the myriad two opposed army kind of tv shows that we had grown up on. At this point. If you could pair. 41:19 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, you could pair any of them off against any of the others. But I do like how the predicons and the maximals do not have clear analogs between each other. You don't have the clear cut good and bad version of the archetypes. You have pretty different dynamics on each team. 41:39 Case Aiken Yeah. Like, season one especially has just, like, very clear, different characters there. And then as we start adding people, they usually come in pairs. So that kind of puts them as opposite each other. Like, Tiger John and Black Arachnia are the first two that come in, and then Airazor and Inferno are the next two that come in for those fill in the slot of like, well, were missing this thing on our team. And then we get the fusors, where we get quickstrike and Silverbolt at the same time. Yeah. 42:08 Derek Van Dyke It's interesting to think of each character that gets added. And like, what is it that they're adding to each team? Right. And with Tigatron, we get the heroic character who can't be relied on to always be part of the super 6th. 42:22 Case Aiken Ranger when he shows up. 42:23 Derek Van Dyke Yes, the heroes get a one up, but it's not a one up that counts. And then Black Arachnia shows up. But Black Arachnia is even more double timing than pterosaur and tarantulas are. So it kind of doesn't fully count for the Predacons. And then we get Air razor and Inferno, who both do kind of fill out. But like, Inferno gives the predacons even more firepower. Air Razor gives the maximals another flyer they desperately needed. 42:52 Case Aiken But when Inferno joins, he's also a flyer in addition to being a heavy. 42:57 Derek Van Dyke Completely unreliable, no, he's reliable. 43:00 Case Aiken He's just. He's an idiot, though. 43:03 Derek Van Dyke Reliably going to fuck up everything in. 43:05 Case Aiken Front of him for better and for worse. Like, if you tell him, follow them, he will dig a hole underground below the level of a force field to make sure that he gets there because he's going to do his job. He's going to live up to the demands of his queen. For the colony, for the royalty. For the royalty. Yes, my queen, I do. She wouldn't call me that. But the pilot does his job is what I'm trying to say here. It's not an intensely complicated story that happens, but it sets up the first season so well. 43:39 Jmike Folson We will call these the beast War. He said the thing. 43:43 Case Aiken He said the thing. 43:44 Derek Van Dyke It's definitely cornier than the rest of the show, but it does a miraculous job of doing so much setup in just the first half of the pilot. You could do a writing class using that as an example of setting the foundation for what's to come. Most tv shows do not do that well. 44:03 Case Aiken Yeah, like, you know, the stakes. You know, everything that pops up after this point is introduced in the pilot. You have a clear idea of all of the characters, even if some of them end up being more of a fuck up than they are set up in this episode, and some of them end up being more of a fucking asshole than they are set up in this episode, they do a pretty good job of making sure you're aware of what are the players and what are they like. And God damn it, we haven't talked about Megatron that much yet. We got to talk about Megatron a little bit because his whole talking to himself thing and talking to his T. Rex hand especially is so good. 44:38 Jmike Folson Yeah, that got interesting. 44:39 Derek Van Dyke Later on, he gives it a rubber ducky. 44:41 Case Aiken Yeah. 44:41 Jmike Folson Because at times it looks like the arm is sentient and it's like looking back at him and communicating with him. But he's also kind of doing his. 44:51 Case Aiken He's not well, he's also doing the. 44:52 Jmike Folson Whole Dr. Claw thing where he's like. 44:54 Case Aiken Rubbing the arm, pets it like a cat. 44:56 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. 44:59 Jmike Folson Oh, yes. 45:01 Case Aiken I think in terms of setting up how different he is from, like, g one Megatron. He's fucking insane. He talks to his hand for the majority of season one. 45:10 Derek Van Dyke Yes, he's crazy, but he's crazy like a fox. 45:13 Case Aiken Yes. 45:14 Derek Van Dyke Because he is genuinely incredibly cunning. He is usually one step ahead, if not several steps ahead of Optimus and everybody on his side who is trying to murder him and take his place. Because that's the dynamic of the Predacons is like, most of them think they'd do a better job than him, and all of them are wrong. 45:34 Case Aiken Yeah. That's such a fun dynamic of the Predacons in general, where unlike in the original transformers, where it's two opposing sides and this is the army, that's like, kind of in the winning position. Like, the Decepticons have Cybertron mostly under control at the start of the series and pretty much cements their hold over the course of it. And so Megatron is the leader of this army. And while there's starscream, the majority of the people are like, people in the army with him. The Predacons in this are all criminals. And by that I mean there are predacons on Cybertron and they have their own governing body. Sorry. We're recording this in 2023. And you can probably make some weird comparisons to geopolitical stuff going on right now. But suffice it to say they are a subsidiary state with the maximals being the dominant power. 46:19 Case Aiken But the maximals are the good guys and kind of nice. And the Predacons are kind of like, well, we're working with them and we would like to not be doing this, but right now we've got our government and whatnot. And Megatron is a terrorist and he has criminals working with him that all have their own goals. And they're all criminals amongst the predacons. 46:38 Derek Van Dyke Yes, because there's a major plot point of the actual predicon leadership wanting him fucking taken care of. Because his actions destabilize the peace that they are currently in. And it's like, look, we don't like the maximals either, but we have our plans, and we're operating within the realm of politics, and you are operating within the realm of car bombing. You know what I mean? And we cannot have this. 47:05 Case Aiken Right. And that's a really interesting dynamic for these characters. You have to assume that some of that comes from the fact that this is a 90s show as opposed to an 80s show. The original show. Yeah, you could probably make a cold war parallel. And this is like the end of history. Everything is technically fine. We're at peace with everyone. But, oh, hey, there might be these terrorists out there. It's pre 911, but it's not pre the concept of terrorism. 47:30 Derek Van Dyke I mean, look, diehard existed before, you know what I mean? 47:35 Case Aiken And I also don't want to assign too much thought about the larger state of the world, but it is the zeitgeist that the show comes out of. 47:42 Derek Van Dyke Right. I think it gives us, like, a really interesting squad of villains in that regard. And I think to this day, it makes the Beast Wars Megatron the most memorable and version of Megatron out there. 47:57 Case Aiken Yes. Why do you always talk to yourself? 48:01 Jmike Folson His best and biased impersonation. 48:03 Derek Van Dyke I don't talk to myself. 48:04 Case Aiken I'm not intelligent conversation. It's not until episode ten that we really get a real optimus focused episode, and that is guerrilla warfare. And I love several things about this episode. For one thing, while it is a goofy as fuck, like, we learn something about this plant and it becomes, like, important for later element, which is very much a part of early beast wars. Like the first half of season one has a lot of these kind of like the natural world. We're studying these things, blah, blah. We get one, an incredible use of the biology of the different species that we're in, which is that we see that the dinosaurs have issues when shit gets attached to their neck. 48:42 Derek Van Dyke Oh, yeah. 48:43 Case Aiken Like the way dinobots tiny arms when it's happening is so good. We get some fun uses of Optimus primal, being a giant gorilla in that when he has to move a boulder, he uses his foot to move a stone to shift. Things like those are fun. Right there. We get Scorponok attempting to be the mad scientist archetype that he was intended to be, but then everyone immediately remembering that he's a giant fuck up in everything he does. 49:11 Derek Van Dyke Yes. And we get Optimus with the limiters removed. 49:17 Case Aiken And this is actually the thing that I really wanted to get to when I was saying, like, well, Optimus has the power of action to do a lot more than he necessarily does in the majority of the show, like, he's typically one of the strongest members of the team until he's definitely the strongest member of the team. 49:33 Derek Van Dyke Right. 49:33 Case Aiken The fact of the matter is, he could probably go into a bloody fight and kill a lot of people or lead a lot of people into a situation like that. But he's not about murdering people. He's about apprehending people who stole something. Like the death penalty is actually not what is required of that. He has restraint all the time up until he doesn't hear when a giant fly attaches to his chest and really fucks with his central nervous system. Yeah. 49:59 Jmike Folson Isn't the kryptonite. 50:00 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, well, and it's like, it's a great look. Everybody knows the famous world of cardboard speech with Superman. And that kind of applies here as it's the reminder that Optimus is holding back, because from his concept of morality, he is not supposed to be killing if he can avoid it, that's not what he is here to do. He is not comfortable with that. But also in terms of, like, he puts himself greatly at danger by going full berserker rage, and his team can't afford to lose him. So he could probably take out. As the episode establishes, most of the predacons single handedly die in the process, but then his team is left without him, and then where are they? It's multiple ways in which there's that recognition of, like, this is why I hold back. 50:49 Derek Van Dyke This is why I am not the ace on the team. 50:52 Case Aiken Yeah. When he is taken off the team, they fuck up trying to be like him, where we have to negotiate, and what they do is they spoil everything. They're like, here's a heads up that Optimus is coming your way. He's out of his mind. You can expect him anytime in the next hour. 51:07 Jmike Folson Perhaps only Optimus can think like Optimus. 51:10 Case Aiken Yeah, no way. So, yeah, I mean, he takes on tarantulas and he takes his anchor thingy. That is like, such a toyetic element. I remember, actually, that toy. It's like a spring loaded, like, grappling hook that fires off, and he uses the other end of it, which is sharp, to impale him against the wall. 51:25 Derek Van Dyke It's brutal. This episode goes hard. 51:28 Case Aiken Tanks. Like, all of these shots throughout these, which is such a Superman sequence of him just like, walking through gunfire to go into this whole fight. Fantastic stuff there. I mean, we're reminded, like, oh, yeah, big, scary, flying super monkey is kind of a scary thing. 51:43 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, it's fitting making him a gorilla because it's like, just like a gorilla. Right? We tend to not remember, oh, yeah, those things can rip your arm. 51:53 Case Aiken Yeah. It's a gentle giant situation. Yes. 51:55 Derek Van Dyke And be happy when they're being a gentle giant. Like, that's much preferred. Do the alternatives. 52:02 Case Aiken But in this episode, he decides to stop monkeying around and just truck on through everyone. And at the very end, we get the callback to the first part where it's like, oh, just shit. Attached to his neck. But in this case, it's Megatron, and he's got even smaller arms he can't even reach. It's a fun episode. I mean, it's not the deepest episode. It's like, well, what if he went angry and bad? And wouldn't that be bad? And I think it's good for this point in the show. It's ten episodes in. To remind us, like, yeah, no, the leader could be, like, a more aggressive Rob Liefeld style character, and that would be a problem because X, Y and Z and X, Y and Z here is like, he would probably die. You guys would probably die. The amount of devastation isn't worth it. 52:43 Case Aiken Like, the collateral damage, death, they are fighting, but they can be rebuilt. Most of the characters here take really bad punishment over time, and that doesn't kill them because they're robots. The rules are a little different. The rules get laid out over the course of the series for, like, what is a fatal kind of thing. But the death penalty is not just an automatic thing here. And that kind of incident is a big deal. Like, when a character actually dies. Dies. That is taken as a very serious thing, but it's also always on the table. 53:14 Derek Van Dyke This is a great example of a sort of a bottle episode. 53:17 Case Aiken Great. 53:17 Derek Van Dyke Like, first half of season. One example of we have a plot that wraps itself up by the end that doesn't drastically change the status quo and is informed by and also tells us more about certain characters. One of the things that does happen is there's a lot of collateral damage to equipment and bases, and that's the sort of thing beast wars makes a huge point of keeping you abreast of that. Damage to the ships matters because eventually these things have to get fixed and fly off. And you can put a somewhat damaged robot in the tank, and they will slowly recover over time if it's not a fatal injury. But when something gets broke, it's broken. When a door or a side of the ship gets blown out, now you've got a side of the ship that needs to get repaired. Resources are limited. 54:05 Derek Van Dyke Manpower is limited. That stuff matters. 54:08 Case Aiken And by this point in the series, we had seen a bunch of these kind of gimmicky episodes. Like, I think we had already had the teleporter episode at this point, the chain of command episode where Optimus is taken away and Ratchet has to lead. All the stuff that we kind of need to do just to be like, yep, this is the show we're dealing with here, but this is just a fun episode in terms of being like, we really need to establish what the leader is capable of and why is he not doing some of those things. Yeah, and I think you make a great point in terms of the damage to equipment. While the show has a status quo, more or less in season one, there are big shifts. 54:42 Case Aiken And when things happen that damage the two ships, that does have lasting impact in terms of the capabilities of the group, even while they are becoming more effective in their warfare, in developing new technology to fight with each other. 54:55 Derek Van Dyke But yeah, guerrilla warfare. Great. First half of season one episode, the pilot gives us the hero. We get to see Optimus continue to be just the leader in the background of several episodes leading up to that. And then we get to see, okay, no, he can rip ass in the right circumstances, but also here's why he does not. 55:15 Case Aiken Yeah, so moving on to. It's sort of the midseason finale, which is victory. I remember seeing this episode a lot, which I feel like the block probably ended somewhere about here. It's episode twelve. There's no actual victory. It's a fake out episode. It does do a really good job of setting up a recurring theme, which is that every time the maximals think that they have figured out espionage, they are reminded that the predacons are way better at espionage than they are, which I love because every time it's like, yeah, we figured out how to spy on their camera system. It's like, it's a good thing we figured out they're spying and now we have like fake information being fed to them. Right? Yeah. That's really great. 55:52 Jmike Folson Yes. 55:55 Case Aiken We open with. Were you guys deep Space Nine fans? There's an episode called the Pale moonlight, which is seen as like one of the better episodes of Star Trek in general, wherein there's kind of a similar thing where via deception, they are using a fake prerecorded sequence to mess with people in it. And in that scenario it's like way more fucked up than this. But it's still a scenario of the predacons have figured out that the maximals have been able to hardwire a feed from their security cameras. And so they pretend to die. 56:23 Derek Van Dyke Yeah, they stage, like, a fake rebellion and fight that leads to a horrible accident that kills them all, right? 56:29 Case Aiken Which, knowing going into the episode, it's like, okay, they're really playing it up in it all. But on the same token, pterosaur is a piece of shit who has betrayed Megatron multiple times at this point and continues to betray him because he is just fucking scream. The show knows that we're transformers fans. 56:47 Derek Van Dyke Starscream, but less intelligent, to be clear. 56:50 Case Aiken So much worse. Which is why they bring in real starscream, just to be like, oh, better Starscream here. 56:56 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. 56:56 Case Aiken And a reason why Pterosaur does not make it into season. You know, it's plausible. The only part that really threw me is that Scorpinok is on the side of pterosaur in that sequence. 57:06 Derek Van Dyke That should have been the giveaway, I think, to a lot of people. 57:09 Case Aiken Right. 57:09 Derek Van Dyke Because Scorponok's main defining trait for most of season one is that he's the one who stays loyal to Megatron. Unquestionably. Which probably also like the fact that Inferno comes in and is just that, but funnier is probably why Scorponok gets written off. 57:25 Case Aiken Right? Yeah, we're not going to talk that much about Inferno here, but I actually really like Inferno. He's a giant fuck up, but in a way that I really adore. 57:33 Derek Van Dyke Oh, incredibly funny. 57:37 Case Aiken But yeah. So they stage this fake death and then abandoned their base. And apparently black arachnia has developed some kind of tech that hides the signature from their sparks so that no one can actually identify that they are still alive and allow the maximals to raid their base, take all the stuff they would need to get their ship able to fly again, with the intent of then attacking the maximals and stealing the ship and flying off of it. I do have questions about how that all works based on the timeline that we see in this episode. But the big focus, and while Optimus is part of it, the big focus of this episode is Dinobot being like, well, if I go back to Cybertron, I am a criminal who was part of a massive theft of one of the great relics of our world. 58:21 Case Aiken And I left, and you guys pursued me and I was a turncoat and joined you when you pursued me. I have nothing to go home to. 58:29 Derek Van Dyke You're all going home. And I'm going to prison, right? 58:33 Jmike Folson Forever. 58:35 Case Aiken And it's an interesting moment because he decides to stay. And they are like, well, we got to get the ship going. We're going to go. And he's like, I'm going to conquer this world. It's like, well, that's kind of fucked up. I don't think that's a good idea. It's like, well, yeah, I'll probably die eventually. That won't be tomorrow. 58:50 Derek Van Dyke Yeah. 58:

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Episode Notes This episode contains every Autobot from Generation 1 Season 1 from our Character Spotlight segment found at the end of our Animated Episode reviews. See the original 1984 toy quote, description, and their fate after the movie for: Blue Streak, Brawn, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Dinobots (Grimlock, Slag, Sludge, Snarl, & Swoop), Gears, Hauler, Hound, Huffer, Ironhide, Jazz, Mirage, Optimus Prime, Prowl, Ratchet, Sideswipe, Skyfire, Sunstreaker, Teltran 1, Trailbreaker, Wheeljack, & Windcharger. Find out more at https://sparkcast.pinecast.co

Volcano month continues with a discussion of the 2021 Chinese disaster movie SKYFIRE! We also talk TOCA 2 Touring Cars, abandonware, and dinosaurs.The intro music is by Richter FM, Paddy's alias for making lofi music. Find him on Spotify, YouTube, TikTok and more: http://richterfm.carrd.coYou can find us on Twitter @BigBoysDontPod and you can email us at bigboysdontcrypodcast@gmail.com. If you enjoy our show and want to give back, you can support us through our Acast Supporter page, either as a one-off or regularly.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/bigboyspodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The guys return to watch Optimus and crew tackle the Master Controller inspired...wait Ed has never seen Tron...uh the Gus Fring looking AI computer Torq 3 and his cadre of machines that look like if Battle Bots was an Atari 2600 game and this was the cartridge art, but you play with what you saw on TV. Pardon the flow of thoughts, but that's what "Day of the Machines" actually comes across as. Will we see any more of Skyfire in the G1 show? Do the Dinobots come to Optimus Prime's beckon call? Why is Megatron holding an NES Advantage on an oil platform? All these questions and more are likely not really answered on this weeks episode!Juicero! Our DMs are open!!As always, thanks for being there for us and please reach out if you like what you hear!https://discord.gg/sKr8jwaAvhCheck out the YouTube channel!https://www.youtube.com/@MoreThanMeetsTheseGuysPODIf you want to check out the Axalon underground, since our main researcher is the webmaster, I highly recommend it!https://axalonunderground.net/If you'd like to contact the guys, they'd love to hear from you!Edhatestransformers@gmail.comMorethanmeetstheseguys@gmail.com@mtmtgpod on Twitterhttps://www.facebook.com/MoreThanMeetsTheseGuys/If you'd like to toss a buck or more per episode, we'd adore and say nice things about you. You don't have to, as we'll still gladly hang out with you guys and gals every week, but we appreciate any help! patreon.com/user?u=69144181

Jennifer W. Stein is best known for her award winning 90-minute documentary film about the famous 1975 Travis Walton story. She has been an activist in the UFO community for about 20 years, as a coordinator and founding member of Main Line MUFON., a community educational service of the Mutual UFO Network in Pennsylvania. Jennifer serves as a State Section Director for the Mutual UFO Network in PA.She has published articles in periodicals about the UFO phenomena, precognition, synchronicity, the Crop Circle phenomena, as well as articles about the Travis Walton story and her documentary. She has spoken for numerous conferences on UFOs, Crop Circles, the Travis Walton story, and Ancient architectural features advanced for their time. As a young adult Stein developed entrepreneurial skills working in a family-owned business while earning a Batcher of Science in Textiles from the University of AZ in 1983. She is married to her life partner of 40 years and has two adult children in the Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania.The film website to learn more about the Travis Walton documentary film is TravisWaltonTheMovie.comThe Travis Walton International Skyfire Summit, November 6th - www.TheObservationDK.com Now listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv or www.xzoneuniverse.com *** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Zone TV Channel Radio Feed (Free - No Subscription Required) - https://www.spreaker.com/show/xztv-the-x-zone-tv-show-audio The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com (Free)To contact Rob McConnell - misterx@xzoneradiotv.com

The Twincast team discusses upcoming Japanese Transformers Masterpiece reveals beginning with MP-58 Hoist and the last piece of the Raiden trainbot combiner, MPG-06 Kaen. Takara Tomy's exclusive version of Optimus Primal and the creative JAXA Sora-Q tie-in, Lunar Cruiser Prime, are discussed next. In addition, recent reveals of the Dilophocon & JP12 Jurassic Park Crossover set receive some side-eye remarks, and everyone unanimously agrees that Legacy Evolution Shadowstriker is a huge miss on a multitude of levels. The continuation of Transformers' upcoming 40th birthday celebration comes next with the cast sharing their favorites from 1985. As usual, the episode concludes with the recurring Bragging Rights segment where the cast talks about their latest toy and merchandise acquisitions.

"Skyfire" is an epic tale set in a world where the skies hold both danger and untamed power. Led by Captain Serenity, a courageous and determined leader, a crew of sky pirates defies oppressive forces to fight for freedom and challenge the status quo. As they navigate lightning-laden storms, engage in breathtaking aerial battles, and uncover treacherous secrets, their audacious acts of rebellion set in motion a chain of events that will reshape the destiny of the skies forever. Get ready to embark on a thrilling adventure filled with danger, camaraderie, and the relentless pursuit of liberation in "Skyfire."Please support us by buying us a ko-fi or on Patreon!Join the Discord!Find out more about the game from skaldstale.com or at the website rondeaucreator.comMusic by Tabletop AudioOriginal Compositions from Harry ScannellTracks Used:Skyfire Theme

Skyfire (2019) is a Chinese-made disaster movie. Combining all the dumbest parts of Jurassic World (really dangerous idea for a resort) and Dante's Peak (a volcano wrecks everyone's day.) Also, it's directed by Simon West, who brought us Con Air. Can all the dumbest parts add up to an awesome Jox-worthy whole? Or will we… Continue Reading BMFcast 580 – Skyfire – Goner-Rail The post BMFcast 580 – Skyfire – Goner-Rail first appeared on Bad Movie Fiends - The BMFcast.

"Skyfire" is an epic tale set in a world where the skies hold both danger and untamed power. Led by Captain Serenity, a courageous and determined leader, a crew of sky pirates defies oppressive forces to fight for freedom and challenge the status quo. As they navigate lightning-laden storms, engage in breathtaking aerial battles, and uncover treacherous secrets, their audacious acts of rebellion set in motion a chain of events that will reshape the destiny of the skies forever. Get ready to embark on a thrilling adventure filled with danger, camaraderie, and the relentless pursuit of liberation in "Skyfire."Please support us by buying us a ko-fi or on Patreon!Join the Discord!Find out more about the game from skaldstale.com or at the website rondeaucreator.comMusic by Tabletop AudioOriginal Compositions from Harry ScannellTracks Used:Skyfire Theme

The Seibertron.com Twincast / Podcast begins episode 321 by sharing in-hand impressions of the latest Transformers Generations Legacy Evolution toys, including Leader Class Skyquake, Deluxe Class Animated Prowl and the other new Deluxe motorcycle, Crashbar. This toy-centric episode continues discussion with the surprise reveal of the soon to be released War Dawn set recently discovered at a Canadian Gamestop store. Rise of the Beasts movie designs provide opportunity for a brief discussion on expectations for the film and the impact its marketing cycle has on fans. A look at the new Walmart G2 line that was recently revealed comes up next. After that, a listener question on a possible Studio Series 86 Commander Class Ultra Magnus is addressed before a short continuation of the long ongoing Classics Retrospective segment closes out the discussion topics. As usual, Bragging Rights finishes up this episode.

“Only a lunatic would build a world class resort on a ticking time bomb of molten earth.”  On this show we do the deep dive on the shallowest volcano movie ever made, SKYFIRE (2019).We're joined by disaster movie aficionado Fred Andersson to discuss spectacular set-pieces, one dimensional characters, and a classic exploding helicopter. Show notesSkyfire (2019)Director: Simon WestCast: Hannah Quinlivan, Wang Xue-Qi, Jason IsaacsPlot: Geologist Wentao Li (Xueqi Wang) vowed he would never return to Tianhuo Island after a catastrophic volcano eruption tragically killed his wife. But 20 years later, his daughter Meng works on the island that took her mother's life, developing an eruption forecasting system. The island has now been transformed into a theme park by greedy businessman Jack Harris (Jason Isaacs) despite Meng's warnings. As the volcano begins to erupt, it's a race against the clock to save the tourists and villagers from the apocalyptic chaos.Episode 132.Follow Exploding HelicopterTwitter: @chopperfireballWebsite: explodinghelicopter.comInstagram: explodinghelicopterFollow Fred AnderssonTwitter: @homosatanisInstagram: Schmollywood Babylon

This week we're welcoming famous videosmith and bearer of iCarly knowledge Quinton Reviews on to talk all things Skyfire/Jetfire. 'Fire in the Sky' and 'Fire on the Mountain' are quite a pair of eps. The first one features some of the first real character lore we've had for this show, expanding on Starscream's past and giving his character new context, and ends on a rather melancholy note for the usually bonkers G1. The second one...well it's mostly just kind of wild, but it DOES feature Optimus Prime falling down a bunch of stairs several times! We discuss the strange history of Jetfire's toy and why he looks like that in the show, the implications of Starscream once having been normal, and of course how Skyfire and Starscream for sure used to date. Oh and whats with all the magic green crystals that keep popping up in this show? Noise Space | Discord

The third party legends scaled Skyfire from Newage gets the Shattered Glass treatment, Walmart unveils some more Transformers exclusives, and we've got another massive Toyhax labels update. All this and much, much more on this episode of TransMissions! Order our TransMissions Exclusive Cover Variant of IDW’s Transformers Till All Are One #1! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: Show Start [00:00:00] Intro [00:00:38] Episode 4 of We Like Big Bots – Powermaster Optimus Prime is now available for Donatreons! Check out the latest episode of Empire Of Rust Episode 86 – Nobody Expects the Spider Inquisition that just came out on Monday, October 10th! The next episode of Let's Talk Transformers with Chris McFeely will be out Thursday! Toyhax $10 Gift Code September… Continue reading The post Episode 507 – Walmart’s Retcon appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

The third party legends scaled Skyfire from Newage gets the Shattered Glass treatment, Walmart unveils some more Transformers exclusives, and we've got another massive Toyhax labels update. All this and much, much more on this episode of TransMissions! Order our TransMissions Exclusive Cover Variant of IDW’s Transformers Till All Are One #1! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: Show Start [00:00:00] Intro [00:00:38] Episode 4 of We Like Big Bots – Powermaster Optimus Prime is now available for Donatreons! Check out the latest episode of Empire Of Rust Episode 86 – Nobody Expects the Spider Inquisition that just came out on Monday, October 10th! The next episode of Let's Talk Transformers with Chris McFeely will be out Thursday! Toyhax $10 Gift Code September… Continue reading The post Episode 507 – Walmart’s Retcon appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

Solar already produces emissions free electricity, but Skyfire Energy wants to also eliminate all of the embodied emissions associated with the manufacturing, and construction of their solar projects. We talk to David Vonesch, president of Skyfire Energy. Green Energy Futures CKUA Radio Podcast See story: https://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/skyfire-energy-zero-embodied-carbon-solar

We made it to 600 Episodes! Thank you all for the support over the years. Here's to 600 more! Today's guest is action director Simon West.Simon West is a British film director and producer. His films include “CON AIR” starring Nicholas Cage, “THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER” starring John Travolta and “LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER” starring Angelina Jolie. West is the only live action director ever whose first three 3 films all grossed over $100m at the US box office. West also served as an executive producer on the Oscar nominated “BLACK HAWK DOWN”.His television company has produced 6 TV pilots for US TV including acclaimed series such as Fox's “KEEN EDDIE”, the CBS series “CLOSE TO HOME”, Fox's “HUMAN TARGET” and the NBC series “THE CAPE”.West directed the action packed remake of “THE MECHANIC” starring Jason Statham and Ben Foster and “THE EXPENDABLES 2” starring almost every action star in the movie world. This film grossed over $300m in worldwide box office.West's film titled “SKYFIRE” was one of the largest films ever made in China and opened number one at the box office there in 2019. His latest film “LEGEND HUNTERS” will be released in May 2021. Recently, West served as a judge for the 2019 Beijing International Film Festival and was a guest speaker at the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival to advise the Chinese film industry on standardization.West is currently in post-production on “Boundless – Sin Limites”, which marks the 500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation of the globe by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastian Elcano. The Amazon project was shot in Spain and The Dominican Republic.

Welcome to Australian Transformers Weekly, bringing you Transformers news from around the world and across Australia.   This is episode 258 We are recording live on Friday July 8th, 2022   In this weeks episode we will be discussing… What would we like to see from a live action series? More images of masterpiece Skyfire, And do not pass go, we are stopping to discuss beast wars monopoly   All of that is coming up in this week's episode - after this!   OPENING CREDITS   WELCOME   Hosts introduction   Notable things that happened this week … or month   New Releases: Local Releases: Legacy Blitzwing Legacy Elita-1 SS86 Sludge Motormaster @ Big W sale BW Wolfang / Scorponok   Toy sales are on everywhere! Remember, you can price match.   Overseas Releases: Legacy Wave 2 Cores (Prime, G2 Megatron, Shockwave, Iguanus) Legacy Wave 2 Deluxes (Wildrider, Tarantulas, Knockout, Elita-1) Legacy Wave 2 Voyagers (Jhiaxus, Soundwave) Buzzworthy Terrorsaur Buzzworthy Dinobot MPG-01 Tensegrity Stands   NEWS Rumor: A Transformers Live-Action Series In The Works For Paramount+? https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/07/06/rumor-a-transformers-live-action-series-in-the-works-for-paramount-460119 Takara Tomy Masterpiece Beast Wars MP-48+ Dark Amber Leo Prime Official Images https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/07/06/takara-tomy-masterpiece-beast-wars-mp-48-dark-amber-leo-prime-official-images-460118 Transformers Masterpiece Movie MPM-13 Blackout New Stock Images https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/07/07/transformers-masterpiece-movie-mpm-13-blackout-new-stock-images-460160 Transformers Legacy Voyager Armada Starscream & Beast Wars Inferno First Images https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/07/05/transformers-legacy-voyager-armada-starscream-beast-wars-inferno-first-images-460047 Transformers Masterpiece MP-57 Skyfire In-Hand Images https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/07/02/transformers-masterpiece-mp-57-skyfire-in-hand-images-459795   News in brief: Monopoly Beast Wars Transformers In-Hand Images – Closer look At The Board And Tokens https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/07/02/monopoly-beast-wars-transformers-in-hand-images-closer-look-at-the-board-and-tokens-459788 Niantic's Transformers Heavy Metal AR Mobile Game Cancelled https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/06/29/niantics-transformers-heavy-metal-ar-mobile-game-cancelled-459572   NEW ACQUISITIONS   Jason: MPG-01 Shouki, Legacy Knockout, Legacy Wildrider Brad: new tracks,    OUTRO Thank you for listening! And if you're watching along with the live record, thanks for checking us out.   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? 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 your podcatcher of choice. The RSS feed link is on the website and in the show notes - https://transformersweekly.podbean.com/feed   This podcast is a production of Transformers Collectors Club Australia. TCCA is a registered club in Victoria, run by volunteers donating their time, effort, energy (and money) to make it better for everyone. Our goal is to build the Australian Transformers collecting community by engaging fans around the country. We make content like this podcast, attend live in-person events like Oz Comic Con, and we run Facebook largest dedicated Australian Transformers discussion and sales communities. You can find more information about the benefits of TCCA membership and how to show your support for what we do at transformerscca.com    OFFWORLD TCCA is Transformers Collectors Club Australia on Facebook and “transformerscca” on Twitter. Jason is on Twitter at-jm-77 Bradley is on Twitch at-groovy-guy-gaming And check out Brad's Budget Adventure Show on YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCSpo6Tz9LMdkoolLnzycCJQ   That's all from us. We'll be back with more Transformers news soon.   END CREDITS  

This week on the PiXL drone show we talked with Matt Sloane from SkyFire and Ryan Bracken from DroneSense. Join us while we talk about Drones as First Responders, Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM), Remote ID, and public opinion. Skyfire: https://skyfireconsulting.com/ DroneSense: https://dronesense.com/

The 302nd episode of the Seibertron.com Twincast / Podcast begins with analysis and impressions of the now-fully revealed Masterpiece MP-57 Skyfire coming next year from Takara Tomy. The MP combiner project for Raiden has also had its third member revealed and made available for preorders with MPG-03 Yukikaze, so it comes up next in the discussion. After that, thoughts about other recently revealed upcoming toys are shared with both the Transformers x GI Joe Collaborative Bumblebee A.W.E. Striker with Stalker and the Legacy Velocitron Blurr, inspired by early IDW Publishing designs, under the microscope. Initial impressions from the first wave of Super7's Ultimates non-transforming figures comes next, accompanied by opinions on the just-announced fourth wave. A listener question prompts a lengthy discussion about the phenomenon of "collecting fatigue" as the cast searches for solutions before the episode concludes with the recurring Bragging Rights segment.

The cast discusses the newest Masterpiece reveal

There's another Shattered Glass Autobot in the works, we get some behind the scenes designer info on the upcoming Studio Series 86 Arcee figure, and Hasbro & Takara surprise us with a Masterpiece Skyfire reveal. All this and much, much more on this episode of TransMissions! Check out our “Trips to the Store” video segment on YouTube! Order our TransMissions Exclusive Cover Variant of IDW’s Transformers Till All Are One #1! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: Show Start [00:00:00] Intro [00:00:38] Welcome Guest Host Dr. Pants! Check out his website nerdstrodamus.com! YouTube Channel Merch! – http://transmissionspodcast.com/shop Check out TransMissions Artist KGirl’s TeePublic Store! Check out the next Empire Of Rust Episode 77- The Spark Awakens Part 2 that just came out on Monday… Continue reading The post Episode 489 – Fight Fire With Skyfire appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

There's another Shattered Glass Autobot in the works, we get some behind the scenes designer info on the upcoming Studio Series 86 Arcee figure, and Hasbro & Takara surprise us with a Masterpiece Skyfire reveal. All this and much, much more on this episode of TransMissions! Check out our “Trips to the Store” video segment on YouTube! Order our TransMissions Exclusive Cover Variant of IDW’s Transformers Till All Are One #1! Want some TransMissions swag? Check out our online shop, powered by TeePublic! Like what we’re doing and want to help make our podcast even better? If you already support us, thank you! Show Notes: Show Start [00:00:00] Intro [00:00:38] Welcome Guest Host Dr. Pants! Check out his website nerdstrodamus.com! YouTube Channel Merch! – http://transmissionspodcast.com/shop Check out TransMissions Artist KGirl’s TeePublic Store! Check out the next Empire Of Rust Episode 77- The Spark Awakens Part 2 that just came out on Monday… Continue reading The post Episode 489 – Fight Fire With Skyfire appeared first on TransMissions Podcast Network.

Welcome to Australian Transformers Weekly, bringing you Transformers news from around the world and across Australia.   This is episode 257 We are recording live on Friday June 3rd, 2022   In this weeks jam-packed episode we will be discussing… The new Masterpiece Jet– er, Skyfire reveal hot off the presses The Legacy Wreck n Rule collection, and Legacy Motormaster makes his global debut in Australia!   All of that is coming up in this week's episode - after this! OPENING CREDITS   WELCOME   Hosts introduction   Notable things that happened this week New Releases:   Local Releases:   Motormaster @ Big W Beast Wars Reissues Scorponok, Cybershark, Wolfang @ Big W Studio Series Bumblebee Arcee (and presumably Ironhide) @ Kmart   Lego Optimus Prime released June 1 - sold out everywhere   Overseas Releases:   Legacy Blitzwing   NEWS Masterpiece MP-57 Skyfire https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/mp57-masterpiece-skyfire-jetfire-officially-revealed-with-300-price-tag/46946/   https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/06/02/rumor-transformers-masterpiece-mp-57-skyfire-prototype-images-457653   Transformers Legacy Commander Class Motormaster Out In Australia – New In-Hand Images https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/06/01/transformers-legacy-commander-class-motormaster-out-in-australia-new-in-hand-images-457637   Transformers Legacy Motormaster In-Hand Images – Menasor Comparison Size & Combiner Wars Compatibility https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/05/20/transformers-legacy-motormaster-in-hand-images-menasor-comparison-size-combiner-wars-compatibility-456790   Transformers Legacy Wreck n Rule collection - Twin Twist https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/05/13/transformers-wreck-n-rule-diaclone-twin-twist-official-pics-and-info-455991 (we did look at this last episode, but it was made official just after we recorded)   Legacy Ransack - Kickback repaint https://www.facebook.com/storiesfromthetoyshelf/posts/pfbid0215m77LaXkNCHucEAcSGDfXfWsu5MFreaEqfXJ2XsqZH44yofAxS4BQ991tbN9Bzql   Legacy Clampdown https://www.facebook.com/storiesfromthetoyshelf/posts/pfbid0sWqzBafCnn3GFcD5Uyn7ykmZeAAQ71SXrtnLkTD9b6QamXKJw7vs3sASBJ7WT814l   Velicitron Speedia 500 Collection revealed https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/05/29/velocitron-speedia-500-collection-voyager-override-in-package-image-457460   https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/05/30/velocitron-speedia-500-collection-road-hauler-first-look-457491   NEW ACQUISITIONS   Jason:  Max: Shattered Glass Jetfire, Gen selects Galvatron, Legacy Drag Strip, ¾ of a Buzzworthy four pack Brad: Beast Wars Re Issue Primal   OUTRO Thank you for listening! And if you're watching along with the live record, thanks for checking us out.   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? 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 your podcatcher of choice. The RSS feed link is on the website and in the show notes - https://transformersweekly.podbean.com/feed   This podcast is a production of Transformers Collectors Club Australia. TCCA is a registered club in Victoria, run by volunteers donating their time, effort, energy (and money) to make it better for everyone. Our goal is to build the Australian Transformers collecting community by engaging fans around the country. We make content like this podcast, attend live in-person events like Oz Comic Con, and we run Facebook largest dedicated Australian Transformers discussion and sales communities. You can find more information about the benefits of TCCA membership and how to show your support for what we do at transformerscca.com    OFFWORLD TCCA is Transformers Collectors Club Australia on Facebook and “transformerscca” on Twitter. Jason is on Twitter at-jm-77 Bradley is on Twitch at-groovy-guy-gaming And check out Brad's Budget Adventure Show on YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCSpo6Tz9LMdkoolLnzycCJQ   That's all from us. We'll be back with more Transformers news soon.   END CREDITS  

Is the office anachronistic and from a pre-digital age? View the full video interview here. Raj Singh is Co-Founder and CEO of Pulse that enables automatic status for digital offices such as Slack. Previously, Raj Co-Founded Tempo AI, a smart calendar acquired by Salesforce, Co-Founded AllTheCooks, the largest mobile recipe community acquired by Cookpad, served as VP of Business Development for Skyfire, the first mobile browser that could play Flash acquired by Opera, Co-founded Veeker, NBC's first mobile video citizen journalism service acquired by WMG and ToneThis, CNET's top downloaded ringtone creation product.

Two new show hosts join the Dropship! Then we get into a TTK (time to kill) discussion trying to pin down why the recent changes were reverted. Plus we talk new loot pool mechanics and who we are maining this season and why. Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/MjYMSVy Follow Nugget's stream! https://www.twitch.tv/lilnuggetmc --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-dropship-apex-legends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-dropship-apex-legends/support

BEYOND the DARKNESS sets your course for your course for adventure today as we begin Journeying Between the Worlds with Eagle Skyfire. Today we go into the world of shamanism to make sacred connections with the natural world, divine beings, and your own soul. Visit her site here: https://eagleskyfire.com/ Support our sponsors for great deals! TRUE CASH from TRUECAR is something you need to check out for yourself. It has never been easier or faster to get a TRUE VALUE on your car and you can do it from the comfort of home at www.TrueCar.com Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service. Watch over 100 TV channels and 1000s of movies on demand all completely free. You can download Pluto TV for free on all of your favorite devices today including your phone, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Smart TVs, Playstation and anywhere else you stream. Digestive troubles? Weight gain? Low energy? Achy Joints? If you've been struggling with any of these, Dr. Steven Gundry says you're not alone And he knows the real cause! Watch the free video at totalrestore2.com to find out more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 0006 starts NOW! Join Albert, SP, and Jeremy Dennis of the Transmissions Podcast in the first of six parts dedicated to toppling the monolith of pop culture references that is Chapter 0006! Each show will be a grab bag of authors, tv shows, cartoons, movies, directors, and music so you'll never know what you'll get...unless you read these notes of course. Anyway, join us as we try to answer a question steeped in controversy, “What the heck ever became of Hauler?”   Ready Player Jeremy  Jeremy's thoughts on the novel and movie  Terry Brooks   Shannara Series (1977 – present)   What happened with the show?    Jack Vance (1916 – 2013)  The Last Castle (1967)  "One of American literature's most distinctive and undervalued voices"   Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007)  Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)  World War 2 Veteran   The Unopened Letter   The Police (1977 – 1986, 2007 – 2008)  Synchronicity and "The Biggest Band in the World"  Favorite songs  2010: The Year We Make Contact tie-in?    Bon Jovi (1983 – present)  Battle of the bands (hair)  Favorite songs  Favorite MTV video    Real Genius (1985)  Project: Crossbow - How close are we to this tech or are sharks with frickin' laser beams practical warfare solution?  Cereal Watch 2018!  World's first computer press conference   Can you destroy a house by filling it with popping popcorn?    James Cameron (1954 – ?)  Favorite movies   What franchise will Cameron be known for?     Steven Spielberg (1946 – ?)  Favorite movies  Is he the GOAT?   Greatest American Hero (ABC, 1981 – 1983)  Why did this capture our hearts and the hearts of America back then, or did it?   Which was bigger: Song or Show?   The Man Perm – What were we thinking??  The Greatest American Heroine and forthcoming reboot  The origin of the logo   Star Trek: The Original Series(1966 – 1969)  The final frontier  Star Trek technology check-in  Theme music and lyrics   Challenge of the Gobots (1984 – 1985)  Albert makes a mess of their origin   Guardians vs. Renegades or How the h3ll do you know the difference??  Favorite Gobot  They had a movie too  Legacy of the Gobots: what became of them?    Transformers (1984 – 1987)  Hauler  G1 Series Overview: Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, and the movie:  Synopsis, Highs, and Lows  Who was your favorite:  Autobot  Decepticon  Other   Skyfire, no Jetfire!  The movie soundtrack  The current and future state of The Transformers franchise   Hosts:  Albert "Skyfire or Jetfire" Padilla  Stargate "Prime" Pioneer  gonnageek.com  The Starling Tribune  Legends of S.H.I.E.L.D.  Better Podcasting  Jeremy "Yakko Warner" Dennis   Transmissions Podcast   Follow and support us:  Instagram: @TheBasementRPO  Twitter: @TheBasementRPO  Facebook: /TheBasementRPO  Patreon: patreon.com/TheBasementRPO  TeePublic: http://tee.pub/lic/mjtTM-nrguo

Skyfire is back! Yay! Also, the Decepticons steal The Crystal Of Power from a pyramid in Peru in an episode that isn't as culturally insensitive as could be expected. Paul and John are also on Twitter.

While stealing energy from the planet's core, the Decepticons unearth their old ally Skyfire. After questioning his own morals, Skyfire sides with the Autobots. Then he dies. Paul and John are also on Twitter.