Blades takes the recruits into a Gold Rush-themed training sim, but Hoist is overwhelmed with guilt after he cheats! Then Wedge gets to show off when a mission brings them to DIG FEST! Join us this SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY for the Rescue Bots Academy episodes “All that Glitters” and “Dig Fest”!

Hot Shot is partnered with a professor for stealth training, but it’s not who anyone expected! Then, the recruits have to improvise to rescue some penguins! Join us this week for the Rescue Bots Academy episodes “Buddy Cop” and “Escape From Penguin Island”!

Boulder takes the recruits on a trip to clean up underwater garbage, but can they stop being little chaos goblins for long enough to actually help? Then, the recruits try to get out of their chores by enlisting an incredibly cute cleaning robot, and it doesn’t go well! Join us this week for “All At Sea” and “All Washed Up”!

Chase gets injured and has to stay at the firehouse — so he takes up residence in front of their highly questionable panopticon so he can “help out”! But when Doc Greene’s stage-magician sister’s hotel room is broken into, will he do more harm than good? Is there ANOTHER criminal at work in Griffin Rock!? And can we convince David to give “It’s a Wonderful Life” a chance? Join us this week for an episode that is absolutely named “More Than Meets The Eye”! #Transformers #RescueBots #Podcast

Boulder, Kade, Cody, and Frankie discover a family of woodpeckers in Blossom Vale that were thought to be extinct! Can they protect the birds from the greatest threat Griffin Rock has apparently ever faced: birdwatchers? Why is Kade so terrible at keeping secrets? And seriously, why does this episode hate birdwatchers so much!? Join us this week for “Endangered Species”! #podcast #StasisPod #Transformers #RescueBots

Servo needs to learn how to act like a robot in disguise — but when Mrs. Luskey’s dog Poopsie runs away from home and pulls Servo into a whole lot of trouble, can he protect her without blowing the Rescue Bots’ cover? How frustrating must it be for Servo to be so smart but unable to communicate? And why does Cody have access to a police-state panopticon? Join us this week for “Four-Legged Hero”! #podcast #StasisPod #Transformers #RescueBots

As Blurr decides to leave Griffin Rock and the Earth behind, the planet is hit by a coronal mass ejection that sends a satellite plummeting conveniently toward the island! Can he find it in himself to be the hero the Rescue Bots need him to be? Or will he *checks notes* die horribly while trying? Join us this week for “A New Hero”! #transformers #RescueBots #podcast

New recruits Blurr and Salvage (especially Blurr) need to learn what it takes to live as an Autobot on Earth and be a Rescue Bot — so it’s time for a clip show! But will a charming retrospective on the Rescue Bots’ adventures be enough when Blurr just wants to go back to Cybertron? Can a clip show actually be kind of fun? And why DOES Cody attract falling objects? Join us this week for a title drop for a series yet to happen, “Rescue Bots Academy”! #transformers #RescueBots #podcast

The Bots find a crashed Autobot ship on Wayward Isle — with two stasis pods inside! But are their newfound friends Rescue Bots material? What’s their connection to that unfrozen caveman Ira? And WHY DOES THE FIREHOUSE HAVE A HOT WHEELS TRACK!? Join us this week as we meet “The New Recruits”!

An estranged friend of Doctor Morocco’s arrives in Griffin Rock to help him replace the Verne Device that’s kept him young all these years — and it’s Jules Verne himself! Can the time-traveling author convince everyone to give his old friend a chance to reform? Will he get some very exciting story ideas from the adventure? And do we ship it? Join us this week as we finally see “The Last of Morocco”!

Optimus Prime’s old friend High Tide arrives on Earth to help train the Rescue Bots, but he needs to learn some things too — like how not to be such a jerk! Can he learn to work with the younger bots in time for a high-seas rescue? He’s got a great big new toy to sell, doesn’t he? And what G1 voice actor has returned to grace us with his presence? Join us this week for “Turning the Tide”!

Huxley Prescott interrupts a ceremony honoring the Burns family with some late-breaking news: Their ancestor Bertha was a PIRATE! Can Dani clear her family’s name — or will Kade and Uncle Woodrow get their way and find some ancestral pirate treasure? Who will Mayor Luskey get to protect the town while the actual trained rescue squad is busy being disgraced? And just how many little islands does the sea around Griffin Rock HAVE? Join us this week for “Pirates Ahoy”!

This week we’re taking a little road trip to Witwickey, PA to check in on the premier of the newest Transformers series, Earthspark! When siblings Robby and Mo Malto find a strange glowing stone, they accidentally trigger the creation of the first Earth-born Transformers! Can they learn to fit in with a human family? How nice is it to have real voice acting again? And which of us “accidentally” binged the whole series already, and can they avoid spoiling? Join us this week for the Earthspark two-part premier, “Secret Legacy”!

Hot Shot and Wedge compete to see if they can beat each other at the other’s specialty, but we’re too distracted by the Heroes of Cybertron cards. Then, can the recruits learn the very important lesson that sometimes you just gotta leave your poor autistic friend alone? Join us this week for the Rescue Bots Academy episodes “Battle of the Bots” and “Medix Surprise”!

The dedication of the town’s new clock tower locks Cody into an hour-long time loop — but why is it only Cody, and how can he escape his own personal Groundhog Day? Does it have something to do with the clock using something called “magno-fusion” to keep time?Or maybe that suspiciously industrious little squirrel? And who did Cody THNIK left a pocket watch in the jail’s Lost and Found!? Join us this week for “Time After Time”!

Mayor Luskey declares a festival for Bot Appreciation Week, complete with 3D-printed “souvenirs” of the Rescue Bots! But when something inevitably goes wrong and the tiny toy bots are reprogrammed to do crimes by Evan and Myles, can the Bots get things under control without their human partners? How many campaign finance laws is the mayor breaking with these toys? And how wrecked is Kade’s digestive system going to be after all that shrimp? Join us this week for “All Bots Great and Small”!

Doc’s attempt to upgrade the drive-in’s projector unleashes a kaiju menace on Griffin Rock! But Kade knows all about Humangado and his frenemy Rayvenous, and what he knows is that they hate dinosaurs! Good thing the Rescue Bots know where they can get some Dinobots! Join us this week for an episode we promise was not written by David, “The Attack of Humungado”!

While checking out an Energon reading on Wayward Isle, the crew finds a caveman frozen in ice — and he’s alive! But why is the caveman so excited to see the Rescue Bots? Why does this take a sharp turn into old-school farce? Has anyone in the target audience even heard of the Marx Brothers? Join us this week for “Did You See What I Thaw?”!

It's time for everyone to get dino modes! The uncomfortably Q-obsessed Quint Quarry returns, and this time he wants more than just a single robot dinosaur - he wants all the Rescue Bots, and he'll hold Professor Baranova hostage until he gets them! So who's gonna turn into what? How did Optimus get there so fast? And has anyone explained the idea of "cultural appropriation" to ol' Quint? Join us this week for "Quarry's Quarry"!

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

Streets of Fire is a noir musical simultaneously set in the ‘50s, the ‘80s, and never. It’s a movie of brooding tough guys, icy dames, savage biker gangs, and Rick Moranis. It was designed to be a blockbuster, but it became a cult classic Cyberpunk movie without the Cyber.

A freak accident in SPACE leaves everyone (but Graham) body-swapped! Can the humans get used to being robots and the robots get used to being humans before Griffin Rock needs its rescue team to come rescue something? Can Heatwave survive a trip to the dentist? Why does Dani have a Blades-colored dress? And will we ever recover from hearing Chase's voice say "Daddy"? Join us this week for "Switcheroo"!

A charmingly nerdy new resident named Amy has Graham all flustered! Can SCIENCE help him find the courage to talk to her (after Kade totally fails at it)? How will his solution tie in with Doctor Morocco's ant-assisted escape from jail? Why didn't they put Doctor Morocco in a fancy Magneto cell to begin with? WHY ISN'T HE IN FEDERAL CUSTODY!? Join us this week for "Bugs in the System"!

Doc Greene's plan to enclose Griffin Rock in a giant dome to protect it from hurricanes backfires when the overzealous AI Vigil returns to take over! With Vigil putting the town to sleep for their own "safety", can the Bots and their remaining human friends stop it and turn off the dome? How many callbacks to old episodes can they fit in here? And how many Stephen King references can WE fit in here? Join us this week for "There's No Place Like Dome"!

BLADES IS BACK! And he’s got a great idea to help the recruits work as a team: Cheerleading! Then he tries to teach Hot Shot some important lessons about flying. Good luck with that! Join us this week for the Rescue Bots Academy episodes “Go Team, Go!” and “The Secret of Flight”!

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

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

Scheduling nonsense has us off on another diversion this week! The boys watch an old HBO original movie with a problematic element, and it's not just that the main character is named H.P. Lovecraft. It's Cast a Deadly Spell, a detective tale with magic starring Fred Ward, David Warner, a cast of character actors, and monstrous muppets. It's a made-for-cable 90s movie, set in the noir 40s, based upon concepts of 20s weird horror. So there is a content warning about there being a trans character, or drag queen, the movie doesn't think about that character too much because the 90s.

Doc Greene's Imagine Device malfunctions and creates four extra Kades, each with a different aspect of his personality! Can they pull themselves back together before the town burns down without its firefighter -- and before his relationship with Hayley is wrecked? How many extremely important ethical questions fail to get answered? And did Optimus Prime just take off between episodes without saying goodbye? Join us this week for "Too Many Kades"!

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

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

Before we head back to Griffin Rock, it's time for a little side trip to the Flipside! That's right, it's finally time for KIDD VIDEO! When the band ends up in a town with a mysterious Pink Sphinx that wakes up to grant a single wish once a year, Whiz is intent on using it to get home -- and if Kidd, Carla, and Ash are too busy awkwardly breakdancing to come with him, he'll just go alone! Will the Copy Cats interfere and steal the wish for their boss Master Blaster? Is the band actually a polycule? What genuinely popular songs were used in the episode, guaranteeing it could never get a proper home video release? And do any of these kids still have careers? Join us this week for "The Pink Sphinx"!

Time for the mini-season finale! Can the Autobots keep Starscream from getting all the Weaponizer Mini-Cons and giving himself a fancy anime power-up? Can Sideswipe get himself un-cancelled? And who is the bestest tiny robot dino? Join us this week as we wrap up the Mini-Con mini-season with "Worthy"!

The Mini-Cons are going it alone, Bumblebee has been captured by Starscream, and Optimus Prime arrives on Earth! Can his heroic presence convince the Minis to work with the Autobots instead of just hijacking their bodies? Is this a Very Special Episode about consent? And when an evil sword decides you're not worthy of it, does that mean you're not evil enough? Join us this week for "Mini-Con Madness"!

The Decepticon scavengers dig up an artifact that attracts a little TOO much attention: Megatron's old Dark Star Saber! But when Starscream shows up to claim "his" Mini-Cons AND his old master's weapon, the scavenger Minis are going to need more help than a rag-tag bunch of scroungers! Can they force the Autobots to help them? Can Sideswipe get himself un-cancelled after punching down at his own side's Mini-Cons? And that H.E.P. Generator is absolutely a war crime, right? Join us this week as we get into some "Mighty Big Trouble"!

The recruits get a new rescue tool from Cybertron, and Hot Shot is too insecure to admit that he’s never used it! Then, the team is sent to a collapsing cave on a distant planet to save an alien plant that’s the last of its kind! But that plant kind of reminds us of someone… Join us this week for the Rescue Bots Academy episodes “The TX3000” and “The Big, Small Rescue”!

While scouting for Decepticon scavengers near an old European monastery, Grimlock meets up with its seemingly sole resident, a monk with a lot of time on his hands and some valuable lessons about patience. But when the piratical Thermidor and his Mini-Con partner Tricerashot show up looking for a Cybertronian artifact, can those lessons help Grimlock stop them? Who's the unexpected writer on this episode? Which very exciting voice actors make their returns as new characters? And seriously, is Brother Gunter a ghost or what? Join us this week for "Pretzel Logic"!

Fixit reveals that he's been assigning grades to all the Autobots - and somehow Strongarm has the lowest score! But she's totally okay with that, right? Can taking him on a mission to check for scavenger activity at Mount St. Hilary convince him to give her a few more points? What absolutely not-kid-appropriate TV series is our Decepticon of the week inspired by? And who decided Mount St. Hilary was a good place for a trendy mixed-use housing development? Join us this week for "Strongarm's Big Score"!

With the Decepticons on Earth all rounded up, the Bee Team is free to do some sightseeing! But when Bumblebee takes them back to the Autobots' old base, they run into the Decepticon scavenger Paralon and his Mini-Con partner Buzzstrike! Can the Autobots stop them before they get any of the many, many dangerous artifacts they left lying around? Why are we having ANOTHER all-brown episode? And what does any of this have to do with Tia Carrere? Join us this week for "History Lessons"!

Before we move on to Robots in Disguise's awkward little half-season, we're taking a break to appreciate an old favorite from the 90s: Gargoyles! With Xanatos in jail, Goliath believes his clan is free to enjoy modern life -- like television! But when Lexington meets the Pack, a team of "heroic" fighters from his favorite show, he learns that you can't believe everything you see on the picture box! Can he and Goliath escape from the mercenaries turned TV stars turned gargoyle hunters? How many moderately successful TV actors can they fit into this cast? And how many absolutely wild storylines can we remember from season 2? Join us this week for Gargoyles' "Thrill of the Hunt"!

With their cover blown, the Autobots split up to free the enslaved Mini-Cons and set off their cryo bomb! But when Steeljaw combines the power of THREE Decepticon Hunters, will he be too much for any of them to handle? How many exciting guest Decepticons will they run into? And can Optimus and Bumblebee stop fighting for five minutes? Join us this week for the final episode of Robots in Disguise season 2, "Decepticon Island Part 2"!

The Autobots are finally ready to take on the Decepticons who've been gathering on Earth -- but with the Away Team back home, can Optimus and Bumblebee agree on who's leading this mission? What exciting Special Guest Star will be joining them? What's Steeljaw got up his sleeve? And WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO THOSE POOR LITTLE MINI-CONS!? Join us this week for the first part of the season 2 finale, "Decepticon Island Part 1"!

When the Away Team is ambushed by the Decepticon general Stockade and his Mini-Con army at one of Windblade's supply caches, they find themselves pinned down and outmaneuvered! Can they defeat a master tactician? Can Drift's Mini-Cons prove they're ready to graduate from his mentorship? What special guest voice actor does this have in common with our May Patreon special? And why are the Away Team episodes always so... meh? Join us this week for the last episode before the season 2 finale, "Graduation Exercises"!

While trying to fix the GroundBridge, Fixit accidentally opens a portal to the Shadowzone -- and releases the long-lost Decepticon Soundwave! But when Bumblebee gets sucked into the Shadowzone himself, can he help Fixit, Denny, and Russell take on a Decepticon who's way out of their league? Was Soundwave spending all those years composing his own sweet dubstep soundtrack? And what's up with Steeljaw's subplot? Join us this week for "Portals"!

After Grimlock is accidentally seen by humans yet again, Bumblebee decides it's time for the Dinobot to be grounded from missions in Crown City. But when Bee and Strongarm get quill-poisoned, towed, and booted, Grimlock is the only one who can stop Quillfire! Will his dino-crane costume work? How many laws will Denny and Russell break to get the bots out of the impound lot? And how long will we spend talking about things that aren't the actual episode? Join us this week for "Impounded"!

For our 300th official episode, we're leaning into the number 3 with a classic original Transformers episode! Blitzwing and Astrotrain have a brilliant plan to get Megatron and Starscream out of the way so they can take over the Decepticons -- but once they succeed, they turn out to be pretty bad at it! Can the Autobots stop them, or will their own blundering cut their reign short? Are the humans who presumably live in the city they've taken over gonna put up a fight or nah? How many great lines are packed into this one episode? And is that SKIDS? This week it's back to G1 for "Triple Takeover"!

A special guest teacher shows up at the Academy: It’s Grimlock, and he’s brought a whole pile of RiD2015 continuity with him! Then, Hot Shot learns how much he needs his teammates when he tries to do a rescue on his own! So is being scared of Dinobots racist, or is it more like being scared of goths? Join us this week for the Rescue Bots Academy episodes “Tyrannosaurus Wrecked” and “Blame Game”!

Team Bee is in desperate need of a break, so when Fixit suspects a Decepticon might show up at a Rear Axle concert, it's up to Bumblebee and Russell to check things out! But which fan-favorite Decepticon's audio-equipment theft has caught Fixit's attention? Will Bee get to hear his favorite song? And can they keep their cover when they become part of the show? Join us this week for "Bumblebee's Day Off"!

Due to family stuff we are putting out a prerecorded filler episode. One where Rob and David ask, "Who's the master?" Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon is a trip to a NYC that doesn't exist anymore, maybe never existed, and for once is not Toronto pretending to be NYC but actually NYC. Because of course once again Rob watched a movie from David's childhood and they felt the need to talk about it. So this is a nostalgia trip to a movie that's nostalgic for Brucepoiltation, blaxploitation, Motown music, and the Shogun of Harlem. Join us (well, two of us) this week for "The Last Dragon"!

An injured Steeljaw shows up on the Autobots' doorstep saying he was betrayed by another Decepticon, Scorponok, but when Bumblebee takes Strongarm and Grimlock to find this bigger menace, the wolf uses some sleight-of-hand to get loose in the henhouse! Can Fixit, Russell, and Denny stop him from freeing his old partners in crime? Isn't it kind of cheating to do stage magic in animation? And WHY IS STEELJAW SO SEXY!? Join us this week for a little "Misdirection"!