Origins of Jeremy Dennis from The Transmissions Podcast

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of any and all Transformers fans that we can.

I'm of course, TF2 and Mike. Joining me this

time around is Jeremy Dennis from the Transmissions

podcast, also known as Yakko. How dare you take

Rob Paulson's name? I was a huge fan and I started

using that name online in high school in the

nineties. Oh wow. I've met him in person. He's

given me his blessing. Yeah, we've talked to

him a couple of times here on the Geekhaster.

I need to get back in touch with him because

I want to interview him about his book, Voice

Lessons. Yeah, I talked to him about it right

around the time it came out. He's so great to

talk. Yeah, he really, really is. All right,

folks, we've got 25, 26 something questions for

Transformers fans. These first five should be,

you know, dolly kind of questions like, well,

duh, but we still have to ask them because you

wouldn't be here if you didn't grow up with Transformers.

But did you grow up with Transformers at what

age do you remember first noticing the franchise?

I was in that first group. I was six when they

came out in 84. so it was probably the cartoon

first and then the toys and Yeah, I was just

I was like right at the perfect age to be you

know, right in the target market for this Yep,

absolutely What Transformers generation is your

generation and why I? Try to find something to

like in all of them. I am probably a g1 er at

heart, but I'm not like one of those hardcore

g1 er's I'm You know, I am a huge Beast Wars

fan Beast machines like we'll get into it later,

but beast machines is actually what kind of brought

me back into transformers. Yep at one point and

You know, I if you've listened to transmissions,

you know that I am a huge fan of the RID 2001

series so I just I like a little bit of everything

unicorn trilogy is probably my least favorite,

but It's it's all there's there's something Good

to be found in all of them, but probably G1 slash

Beast Wars is probably where I would put myself.

Yeah. Like you said, you're not the extreme.

You are the letter G, the number one. You're

not the G -E -E -W -U -N person because those

people are... A special kind of Transformers

fan is the best way I can put it because I don't

want to insult anybody, but seriously. Yeah,

I just, I like transforming robots and I like

good stories about transforming robots. Exactly.

Okay. So besides G1 and Beast Wars, what are

some other generations you like? You mentioned...

The Unicron Trilogy really isn't your favorite,

but what about like Prime or animated or whatever?

Yeah. So I also mentioned RID 2001. It's up there

with me. The cartoon was bonkers and the toys

were great. The Prime, I love Prime. It's right

up there. I just, I absolutely love the show.

The toys were great. Animated I came to a little

bit late. I don't know why but I Think it actually

came out when I was Let's see what what year

it was around 2007 around that first movie, right?

So I think I was finishing up College at that

time. So I don't think I watched a lot of TV

in general and I think that's Why I missed animated

until I caught up with it after the fact and

it's a lot of fun You can tell the the love that

went into that show like the g1 love trying to

like recreate it and yeah, and then I don't know

there's just I'm not too up on the Japanese series.

I haven't really like I'm not I Just haven't

really watched them. I've tried to get through

headmasters the the subbed version and I haven't

made it that far but That's something that we've

been talking about on the show with the comics

ending with IDW and just the uncertainty there.

We figure there's going to be a gap. So we've

been kicking around different ideas. And one

of them was maybe going through some of the Japanese

series because none of us are really that familiar

with them. And I'm the same way. And you know

what? This is just me and this is just how I

am. I watch television to listen to it and see

it and be able to hear it and understand it.

If it's not in English, I'm probably not going

to watch it. I do not want to read my television.

Subtitles, while they are great for some people,

for me, it's like, really seriously, you're going

to make me read my... If I want to read something,

I'll read a book or a comic or whatever. I enjoy

subtitles. Like having a kid when he was younger

and I would want to watch something and, you

know, he was trying to sleep. I would just, I

would watch things with subtitles just in general,

uh, so I can have the volume low and still know

what's going on. But yeah, I mean, that's, yeah,

that's a specific situation, but just in general

to watch it. I don't know. I mean, I, I've it's

kind of hit or miss. It's yeah. I'm not sure

exactly what it is about Headmasters. That's

been hard to get into. But I'm definitely going

to give it another shot and see what else was

there. There's the Machinima series. I rank below

the Unicron trilogy. The Machinima series, I

just did not really enjoy much at all. But the

Netflix show Warfare Cybertron gets a lot of

flak online. I can see like the voice direction.

is probably my biggest problem with that show.

I thought it looked great and the music was great.

It's just the way that the actors were directed

to give their lines is where I have the problem.

Yeah. Yeah. That's the biggest problem. And the

one, as much as I love all of the cast, and we

actually got a chance to interview Frank Todaro

Starscream, but the one thing I love about those

three shows is Jason Marnosha as Megatron. Oh,

yeah. I mean, he was the only good thing about

the machine. I'm glad that they brought him over.

Yeah. Is there something you need a license to

actually have one? I'm good, thanks. Because

seriously, that is a current day Megatron. You

know what I mean? It's like you don't need. OK,

Frank Welker, voice God, you know, all that.

Absolutely love the guy would never say anything

bad about it. But in 1984 to 1987, that was Megatron.

He started it. He gave us the, the, you know,

overall, whatever for Megatron's voice, even

though it was a throat ripper for him. And now

in the current day, we have Jason Marnosha doing

a Megatron that is sort of similar, but also

it's its own thing because he says lines that

Frank Welker's Megatron would never say. Yeah.

I mean, he's got personality, but I will say.

I think my favorite version of Walker's Megatron

is prime. We decepticons now face our darkest

hour. Absolutely. I agree. That went like in

such a deeper level in terms of what he was saying.

Yup. And he was just, I don't know. It was like

just chef's kiss. Great voice acting. Yeah. Because

he, he even said, I've seen a couple of interviews

with him. I think he said something that I'm

generally remembering this when they asked him

about how he changed the voice up for prime.

He said in G one, he was using like the front

part of his vocal cords. Well, in prime he switched

it to using the back part. So you still have

a. Frank Welker g1 sounding Megatron, but it

doesn't kill him right doesn't kill his voice

He can do it all day long, you know, yeah, he

could do the kid. I can do this all day I was

gonna say and then the last series I think I

just I've been in love with and Getting to watch

it with my son was was great. Is the bot bot

show? Yeah, just watching it with my son and

having Like experiencing it through him has been

great. That was just amazing and He loved it.

We actually had him like I recorded a little

review of the show with him for our podcast I

think that was awesome. How old is your son?

He's Almost eight. Okay. He's almost eight. So

he's perfect like at that right age again, right?

So how did because I don't remember I I'm pro

I'm sure I probably listened to that episode

but How did he react to those episodes? How did

he react to those characters? He loved it. He

thought it was funny. Like you, he laughed at

the right points. He followed the story along.

He, I can't remember who he said was his favorite

character, but I know every so often we'll like

look at each other and he'll be like, from like,

was it sprinkle Berry? Yep. And so I don't know.

He, he just, he had a lot of fun with it. And

you know, if you can keep a you know, seven,

eight year olds attention for a half hour show.

I guess this was like two, what 12 minutes, but

yeah, you know, it kept his attention, which

is impressive these days. Yeah. And me being

a 42 year old white guy. Who grew up on transformers

and and we you know I've gone through just like

everybody else that we've that I've talked to

we've all gone through all of these generations

and I've always said all of the transformers

generations matter. We may not like some of them,

but that doesn't take away from the people that

may there I'm sure there are plenty of Unicron

trilogy fans out. Oh, yeah, definitely and you

know, that's fine and with bot bots For me, it

took me kind of down memory lane, but it also

made me realize what and how we all grew up in

whatever high schools we were in because mall

culture in the 90s was definitely a thing. Oh

yeah. Granted, we didn't have transforming robots

that hid from us in the mall. You know, you didn't

have Silent Bob chasing Burger Tron or anything

like that, but it just remind, and all the lessons

that they, you know, with, Oh, what's her name?

Broccoli girl. Oh God. The one that didn't, that

doesn't have a squad anymore. And then they realized

that. Oh, well, the lost bots are technically

their squad now. Like they don't have to go back

to the squads they came from. They made new friends

with each other. You know, I just, I love that

show. And at some point I've mentioned this,

that we're going to do an episode on, on that

series here on all things transformers. I just

don't know when yet, but bot bots is awesome.

Yeah. I mean, and as an adult, you saw from episode

one, what, you know, what the resolution was

going to be at the end. Yeah, but watching him

figure it out. It was just it was so much fun

watching a well -made show through through his

eyes and Yeah, it was just great and bonsai is

who you're looking for bonsai. That's right.

Yes Sorry broccoli girl, but that was the first

thing Oh bonsai Do you like or loathe the Bay

verse or are you indifferent to it? I, I loathed

it as it was going on. And now that we have some,

some distance, I'm kind of indifferent. I like

the Oh seven movie and you know, it was great

seeing a live action transformer. It has its

problems, but I feel like it was the best made.

of the ones that Michael Bay did. Yeah. And Bumblebee

I also really like, but that's not a Michael

Bay. No, that's a Travis Knight. But the other

ones in between, I'll watch them if I just want

a popcorn flick and I don't want to have to actually

think about it, but it's not good transformers.

The best thing that came out of those the live

-action films is the Jablonski scores that oh,

yes, it is amazing. Yeah Yeah, the I Haven't

edited yet as of this recording but dr. Pants

is episode which is before this He said and I'll

ask you this later. He said his favorite piece

of music is during the initial bumblebee scanning

the the concept Camaro in the very beginning

of the movie, when he kicks Sam and what's her

name? Yeah, thank you. When she insults Bumblebee

and he kicks him out of the car and he goes to

make himself better. I love that piece of music,

but I was watching the movie because we're going

to actually be doing a full on one episode per

film later this summer. Here in all things Transformers,

revisiting the films. Bobby Bolivia, like the

country, except without the runs. How can I help

you? Well, my son here is looking to buy his

first car. You come to see me? I had to. That

practically makes us family. Uncle Bobby B, baby.

Uncle Bobby B? Sam. Sam, let me talk to you.

Sam, your first enchilada of freedom awaits underneath

one of those roofs. Let me tell you something,

son. A driver don't pick the car. And I forgot

how good the 07 was. I mean, yes, like you said,

it has its issues. They all have issues and they

all get progressively worse. But seeing that

come to life, even though some of those robots

have their inside bits on the outside, I just...

The first time Bumblebee transforms, it's like,

holy crap. It's not directly G1 animation come

to life, but it has that sentiment to it. I do

like that they do make it look impressive. The

first time you see Bumblebee in Optimus Transform,

it takes a long time because they're making it

look extra good. You know, I appreciate things

like that, but Michael Bay did not understand

transformers and he did not I think I saw something

with like Spielberg talking about like some of

the early meetings because he was an executive

producer or something on it and Spielberg got

it because he's he had kids that had transformers

so he was familiar with them and Bay was talking

about how do you fold these and stuff and like

Spielberg should have done these movies. Yeah,

definitely. I mean, don't get me wrong. I love

Michael Bay action movie. I love a few of them,

but not all of the movies he's ever directed.

And he does action really well. I mean, you look

at Armageddon, you look at bad boys, the rock,

you know, you know, the rock. Exactly. You know,

they're all great films, but You know, hey he

got it started with transformers and that's and

that's absolutely fine And now with with Bumblebee

we have a bridge to the new yeah era I mean it

brought in a ton of money. We got some awesome

toys out of it. So you know Hate them all you

want but they were good for the brand as a whole

We wouldn't have anything that they've put out

in the last three years. Yeah If the old seven

movie didn't make a billion bucks we would not

have commander claus rodimus we would not have

kingdom galvatron four times over kingdom galley

don't get me wrong i know hasbro wants to reuse

a mold but kingdom galvatron they got their money's

worth out of that because you have you have the

original dirty version with the battle damage

you have the clean version you have the toy accurate

version and then you have the. The reformatted,

the Tron looking version of him. So without those

movies getting the brand, the money that it got,

we would not be where we are today. Right. And

there would be no HasLab. So all of that. Exactly.

I mean, don't get me wrong. I did not help fund

Unicron, but those of us in the fandom that did

help fund Unicron, That's amazing because I would

never have gotten that. Yeah. I mean, I, I did

not fund it, but I, Darrell funded it and shipped

his to me to hold onto. So I have a unicorn sitting

here in the box, you know, in my room here that,

you know, I cannot touch. It's just, I just put

stuff on the box. If, if I get to go to TF CON

Toronto this summer, I'm bringing it with me

to hand off to Darrell. That's amazing. That's

hilarious. What was your very first Transformers

toy as a kid? That I don't really remember. It

was likely Optimus, but the first distinct memory

I have of getting a Transformer was my mom got

the, um, the Devastator gift set for me. So I

distinctly remember sitting at the dining room

table. Opening that box up and playing with them,

but right. I'm sure I had some before then Like

my early transformers. I remember Having were

like optimists hound sideswipes Thundercracker

Ron I never had too many decepticons for some

reason until the Devastator but Yeah, I mean

I had a handful of those from the early but I

think A lot of them were from like yard sales

where my mom would just, um, find them at yard

sales and get them for me. Yeah, that's, that

was the thing back then you had, you know, I

mean, yes, the, the transformer stuff was in

the stores and in the toy stores and everything

else, but people would buy them. And then, you

know, six months down the line, they'd have a

yard sale and say, here you go. Here's all these

transformers or all this, everything else. I

mean, not that they did buy it, but they went

to, I don't know how this guy did this, but there

was that Transformers episode of Pawn Stars where

the dude has like six Omega Supremes or set,

you know what I mean? He had this whole room

filled and I'm like, oh my God. It's just hilarious.

Growing up, did you and your friends ever pretend

to play Transformers at say school recess? So

basically it's LARPing. Like you're going to

say, I'm going to be hot rod and I'm going to

save the day. And I didn't kill Optimus Prime,

Megatron did. I don't really remember us doing

that. If we were doing anything like that, it

was probably He -Man because it's easier to pretend

to be, you know, a human character than a robot.

Right, right. Alright, the end -all, be -all

question. Who is your favorite Transformers character

from any incarnation? You can pick one Decepticon,

one Autobot, one Maximal, one Predacon. Decepticon,

probably go with Soundwave. Okay, he's always

been badass in every incarnation pretty much

Autobot I don't know I mean in terms of one that

actually got screen time probably side swipe,

I'm guessing It's hard but I Have a soft spot

for scrounge even though he's gotten like a few

pages of content To his name. Yeah There's just

something about scrowns that like, you know,

it really hits me in the right spot Maximal probably

Optimus primal I've always enjoyed that character

Okay, which body? He has so many of them whenever

I picture him in my head, it's always the first

body, okay Let's do it cool and I never had any

of the toys for the other ones just the first

one very cool and for Predacon I Know it's popular

to go with these words Megatron and he's great,

but probably wasp I Think and I could be wrong

You are the only person so far that has picked

Waspinator. Well, the universe hates Waspinator,

so it makes sense. The universe shouldn't hate

Waspinator. Waspinator didn't do anything to

the universe. Waspinator is just trying to survive.

Right. He's the ultimate winner of Beast Wars.

Pretty much, yeah. Until the humans turned on

him. Well, of course, he said something stupid

and then they turned on him. But yeah, what are

some other Transformers characters that you like?

I'm trying to think of... See, I mean, I like

Windblade. It's one of the newer characters I

like. Her characterization into All Are One,

that was just such a good book and I just really

enjoyed it. Yep. I gotta look behind me and see

who I have a lot of. Prowl is always a good one.

Especially in the... The James Barber RID comic

Yeah, Blackarachnia was always fun. I love Blackarachnia.

She's great. Yeah Dinobot of course Of course,

I think the only time they freaked me out with

Blackarachnia was in Beast Machines when she

got reformatted in like the 20 eyes popped up.

That was the only thing that creeped me out.

Are there any Transformers characters you hate,

ones you just can't stand, ones you don't want

to be around, ones you don't ever want anything

to do with? I mean, in terms of characters, not

really. I don't really, I don't know. I just

don't really have that kind of visceral attachment.

I don't think. In terms of toys, the RID 2001

Ultra Magnus is my least favorite toy just because

it comes apart into so many pieces. And I keep

them in a gallon zip lock bag because I just

don't have time to deal with it. But just in

terms of characters that I hate, I can't really

think of any that... You know, like when they

come on screen, I'm just like, Oh, this guy.

I, you know, I mean, I understand people have

that mentality, but I'm really surprised that

the last couple of guests haven't even mentioned

what I don't get. I don't understand it. It's,

it's not a character written for me as the, well,

I guess it was written for me as the target audience

in 1986. But yeah, I feel like really has been

redeemed in the comics over like in the first

generation of IDW stuff. And it's just, he doesn't

bother me. It. He doesn't show up all that much

either. So yeah, I mean, and the thing of it

is, is I remember, and I've said this on this

podcast before, but I'll say it again. We did

an episode about really the. Whatever boy of

quintessence, one of those Marvel storybook things.

Yeah. And the wild boy of quintessence, that's

what it's called. And I remember reading that

first before I saw the movie. So that's why I

always have the opinion of. Springer is a home

-wrecking mofo. I don't dislike Springer, but

he wants to come in there and get between Hot

Rod and RC, who are essentially the Han Solo

and Leia of Transformers. I don't know. It is

what it is. Over your lifetime, as you got older,

did your interest in the Transformers franchise

grow stronger or get weaker? In general, in the

macro level, it's gotten stronger. There were

times where it was like, I never hated Transformers,

but just my interests were elsewhere. I can remember

like in high school where we had TVs in the classrooms

and before homeroom, people would change it to

a local channel that was showing Transformers.

I think a local channel was showing like the

G2 episodes. So we would watch it there in high

school. But then In college, for a while there,

I just, I don't know, I wasn't really that connected.

I think I followed some of the early online stuff.

Yeah. But it wasn't - Yeah, you're in college,

you're an adult. Maybe put some air quotes, an

adult. Yeah. You're trying to be, you've grown

up. You haven't grown out of it. You still enjoy

it. Like you said, you don't dislike it. But

it's not at the forefront of your mind because

you're in college, you have classes, you have

extracurriculars, there's hot cheerleader chicks

or whatever. You know what I mean? Not really

in my circles, but yeah. Well, okay. But I'm

saying in general, when you look like any college

anywhere in this country, there's always a cheerleading

school. You know what I mean? There's always

those. I don't know. There are the clicks and

the stuff you deal with, but it wasn't until

I caught an episode of Beast Machines, the one

about the key to the vector Sigma. And so I'm

watching this. I just kind of flipped through

and I'm like, I heard key to the vector Sigma.

I'm like, I know what that is. And so I start

watching it. I'm like, this is Transformers.

And then from there, I look up and download all

the old real media versions of Beast Wars and

catch up on all of that. And then that kind of

got me in. And, you know, I started a site called

Iacon Hub primarily so I could get the episodes,

but it was like an early file sharing site before

Napster. And it had a chat and kind of, I still

stay in touch with a bunch of the people that

frequented that. And like from there, it's just

been kind of all in. So ever since like 99 2000

Yeah, I mean Beast Machines was and still is

to this day in My personal opinion. It's the

best -written Overall beginning middle and saga

like you don't have like yes the ending of it

Kind of left it like it could do something more,

but it's still a complete story. You didn't have

like like Rebirth was a complete story, the three

-parter, but again, it still left things a little

bit open, whereas Beast Machines, it had a sense

of, oh my God, what's going to happen to these

characters? I want to follow all of these characters,

and it was just so good. It's the most maligned

of all the series, I think, and it's unfair.

I don't understand. It's been so good. I mean,

I can understand people not liking the more giant

explosion effects for the, for the CGI, but that

was what was happening at the time. Like you

can't go back and do something better with that.

Like you can't. Well, I mean, as, you know, you,

you, when you talked to Darrell, you know, some

people just can't get past the. early CGI that,

you know, it just, it was the best they could

do at the time. And I mean, that's true too.

I mean, I'm closed minded about a lot of things,

but beast machines is definitely not one of them

because if I'm. ranking Transformers series,

it's most likely going to end up being my number

one choice for overall storytelling and character

depth, because damn, like, look what they did

with Silverbolt in that series. Like, holy crap,

that guy went through a lot of stuff. Yeah, definitely.

Absolutely. This next question. Oh, boy. This

is mainly because of all those old message boards.

With the internet giving birth to the fans all

having a voice about what they like or don't

like about Transformers, do you find that your

voice gets lost in the shuffle or do you just

shout louder? I mean, I start up my own place

to talk about Transformers. Whether people listen

or not, that's not my problem. Like 99 or no,

it was 2001. I started icon hub and that had

a chat room and bunch of us talk transformers

and stuff. And then, you know, 2013, I started

transmissions and, you know, got Daryl and Charles

and Yoshi and, you know, if people don't listen,

I still like that. I have, you know, some people

to talk with every week about transformers and

yeah, you know, It's kind of like Neil Ross said

in his book, the joy for him is in the performance,

not the playback. Right. And I love that quote.

I love that line because every time I sit down

and I press that button to hit record, I know

I'm going to have fun. Yeah. And at the end of

the day, when you're podcasting, that's all that

matters. Yes, I will probably spend two, three,

four hours editing this episode or any episode

of a podcast that I do to make sure that it's

the best sounding that it can be. And that's

fine. That's my time. I don't mind that technically,

quote, podcasting is quote unquote my job because

I don't have a real job because of my disabilities.

It's just so fun to like, like with Darrell.

Darrell's great. I wasn't sure how that was going

to go because of the whole number one Beast Wars

fan thing, but it was so fun. It was so same

thing with Charles, same thing with Dr. Pants.

You know, you're here now. Anybody that I've

talked to, it's like every single time I've sat

down and I press that button. And I have my little

intro and I'll have my little outro that I'll

do later. And it's just fun. Why can't we all

get along kind of thing? Yeah, it's, it's, it's

a hobby. It's about toys or comics or cartoons,

nothing too serious. And I don't know. I just

feel like message boards have become really toxic

and it's just. In general, I try to avoid them.

I slip up every once in a while, but I Just I

don't have time to deal with negativity and hate

in my life, especially with Some stuff going

on in my personal life. I just don't have time

to deal with it. So I'm just not going to put

myself where I have to deal with it and Like

with transmissions everyone we have on the show

is awesome Yeah, the people in our discord are

awesome You know the people I interact with on

Twitter, you know, I kind of I've limited what

I see on Twitter and it's not as horrible as

it can be so, you know people I interact with

on Twitter are also great and it's just You know,

I'm purposefully putting myself in non -toxic

Situations so I can actually enjoy my hobby Yeah,

exactly Like I said, I said this before before

we hit record and I'll say it again because I

will say it at any time Just because I believe

about Rodimus prime is a better leader than optimist

prime doesn't mean we can't be friends like Everybody

has opinions, but those opinions should not be

A knife in the back to anybody like, Oh my God,

you offended me because you feel like Rodimus

prime is, is, is superior to optimism. Right.

I don't know. It's just one of those things where

I just want like -minded people to have a discussion

with. And that's why I do these origins things.

And that's why we have fun. And sometimes the,

I think with the forum thing, it. What people

actually mean to say gets lost in the text of

what they've written. Yeah. I mean, context lost.

Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. But, you know, we've

had people, we've talked with people that love

the Bay movies and like our, our, the way we

go into reviewing stuff is not to just constantly

rag on it. We try to find. positives and negatives

to everything. So even like, you know, if we're

looking at, um, age of extinction, which I think

is the worst out of all of them, just because

of all the production issues that went through,

you know, there are still some good things to

point out about that movie, even though on the

whole, I think it's a horrible movie. If I were

reviewing it and talking about it with someone,

I wouldn't just slam them because they thought

it was the best movie ever. Yeah. You have to

be fair and everyone is allowed to like what

they want to like. Absolutely. What is your Transformers

personal anthem song? Examples, but you don't

have to choose these. Obviously Stan Bush, The

Touch, Dare, anything from Vinci -Cola. I wish,

and I'll say this every time I ask this question

to people, I wish somebody would put out Beast

Wars and Beast Machines musical scores, because

those need to be out there somewhere. But what

would your personal Transformers Anthem song

be? It's tough because there's a lot of music

out there that not a lot of people have heard.

Our friend Jim Simonic, he's put out Like a cover

album of the 86 movie soundtrack, but then another

one that kind of takes story beats from comics

and he had bands do songs and There was one there

called scrounges lament. I wouldn't say it's

really my anthem, but that's like one of my favorites

just because it has scrounge and I don't know

when I listen to it I kind of get some of the

same vibes of the night begins to shine from

Teen Titans ago just a little bit But in terms

of anthem, it would probably be The Touch. You

know, whether it's Stan Bush or another band,

just anyone but Mark Wahlberg doing The Touch.

Yeah, we don't need to be boogieing the nights

around here. Oh God, how often do you go back

and rewatch any of the Transformers cartoons?

Not as much as I need to because I'm working

through G1 with my son and it's actually been

like a year or so since we've picked it up again.

I'm not letting him watch the anime movie until

he gets to that, you know, the end of season

two. So we're still working through that. Right.

Right. I do watch the anime movie at least once

a year. Yeah. Beast Wars is something else I

need to go back and watch again. I haven't seen

that in a few years, but in general, I don't

really go back and watch a lot of it over and

over. I mean, I used to do that a lot with Beast

Wars. I just. It's been a while. Yeah, I think

with Generation One, for me now, and I've said

this on other episodes here on All Things Transformers

and other podcasts that I do here at the GeekCast

Radio Network, with me with G1 now, it's like,

oh, I want to go back and watch a favorite episode

like Triple Takeover or the Keta Vector Sigma

2 -parter or, you know... The burden hardest

to bear rebirth more than meets the eye. Um,

what's the, what's the one fire on the mountain

in season one, you know, like I don't go and

rewatch all 98 episodes as a marathon because

when I was out of the multi -part episodes, when

they, when they were doing those shows, they

were essentially daily or weekly individual stories.

So you have to want, like the way I view it now

is I have to watch them as individual stories.

They aren't a whole leak. Like episode one, where

the meets the eye part one, all the way to rebirth

part three in the middle there, you have so many

different things going on that they're all different

individual stories. Whereas beast machines is

one whole long narrative from episode one to

how many episodes? 26? Wait, no, 52? I can't

remember. I can't remember how many episodes

Beast Machines has, but yeah, it's, you know,

when we need to go back and rewatch them or when

we want to have, you know, oh, I missed this

or I want to watch this to kind of relax. Not

necessarily a turn your brain off kind of thing,

but like, I want to go back and re -experience

this episode. Not Starscream's Ghost. What's

the episode when they go back to Camelot? Decepticon

Raider and King Arthur's Court. These episodes

are now in 2022. You can single them out and

just enjoy the stories. I feel like we have so

many more stories to choose from now. Like when,

when I would watch like beast wars over and over

in the like mid two thousands, there were no

like IDW comics. And now I might rather go back

and reread more than meets the eye or till all

are one or something like that or records. So

there there's just so many more stories to choose

from with these characters. And the G1 episodes

just might not be my favorite stories to tell

anymore. Yeah, but they're still there. Like

I said, they're still there to go back to if

you wanted. Yeah, you're right. Absolutely. The

IDW comics are amazing. I have not read phase

one. I started with the death of Optimus Prime

and then I went into more than meets the eye

and robots in disguise. So I basically started

with IDW 2 .0 all the way up until they brought

Unicron in. And I am so glad, and I will say

this in every episode of Origins that we do,

I'm so glad they waited so long to bring Unicron

in because we had so many awesome, different

stories. Oh, Rodimus. IDW Rodimus. Oh my God.

I love that guy. The character work that they

did with Megatron was absolutely. Yup. But Megatron,

the Autobot love that. Yeah. But going back to

like we're watching G1, I think as I go through

it with my kid, watching it through his eyes,

just like with bot bots and stuff, that's really

where I'm getting my enjoyment these days. Yeah,

absolutely. And then, and then when we get to

the, when we get to the movie, watching his soul

be crushed, that's just. That's gonna be great.

You just have to teach him the correct thing.

And the correct thing is Hot Rod did not kill

Optimus Prime, Megatron did. But yeah, Hot Rod

was involved. He was involved, but he didn't

pull the trigger. No. So we've kind of talked

about it a little bit, but we all love Transformers

comics. Which incarnation do you love and why?

It would have to be the IDW V1. Okay. Just because

at this point now it's a complete story from

phase one through Unicron. Yep. And it just,

it added so much depth to the Transformers lore.

And I'm just, I love the lore of stuff, like

whether it's Transformers or Star Wars or whatever.

I just, I love all the little, the little bits

and pieces. And then just like where John Barber

would pick up this like random piece of continuity

that was messed up from an early thing and then

like retroactively fix it was just like, it was

a work of art in itself. Yeah, it really, really

was. It was an adventure. It was, you know, you

had, the way I always describe it to people is,

like I said, you start with the death of Optimus

Prime one shot, and then you can, like Robert

Frost said, two roads, you know, two paths in

the woods, you know, take whichever one you want,

whether you want to go to robots in disguise,

which is on Cybertron, or whether it meets the

eye, which is out in space, or you can read them

both. You know, you get two very different stories

with two very different distinctive sets of characters

and the writers along with the artists. And for

those first few years, everything was just so

kind of in sync and it was, it was really tight.

And I don't know. I just, I love the different

characterizations and just the addition. Like

the. Like the addition of the whole romance aspect

that had never really been touched on other than

like, you know, Optimus and Alita one. Yeah.

But they actually gave these characters kind

of realistic relationships. And, you know, there

are those haters out there that don't want like

relationships and they're Transformers. But I

just thought it made the characters so much more

real. It made it more relatable. Just because

I'm heterosexual doesn't mean that I can't enjoy

characteristics of Rewind and Chromedome being

in a relationship. Because honestly, the whole

Rewind -Chromedome, I don't want to say love

affair, but let's say romance, that whole thing

was the first time in... I'm just gonna say 40

years because 2024 is the 40th anniversary of

the brand. Rewind didn't really get much up until

then. Yeah, he was in the G1 cartoon a couple

of times, he was used, and poor Eject, same thing,

he didn't get much. I think Steeljaw and Ramhorn

got more time in the cartoon, but throughout

the comics, these characters, especially in the

ADW run. The writer James Roberts added so much

more and it was so enjoyable and it didn't matter

that it was the relation. Like, I don't care.

Yay. You found someone great. That's awesome

for you. And now I'm reading your love story

with the person that you care about. It was just

so like, if people pick up IDW 2 .0 and. they

don't have some sort of emotion with what happened

throughout the story to rewind in ChromeDome,

then they're cold as ice. Right. I mean, and

say what you will about the, the new, like the

2019 series. The Rockley series. Yeah. A lot

of those, that aspect has been carried over.

So, you know, that has been good. You know, For

my part, I thought it's been done well, but you

know that that whole series has other issues

But I thought the characterizations have been

pretty spot -on Yeah, absolutely. How big or

small is your transformers toy collection? It

is Medium I've never counted all my figures,

but it's I have a couple bins of toys that just

or in my basement. And then I don't know how

many I have on display, but handful of shelves

here I have on display. So I would characterize

this medium. It's not nearly as big as like Darrell's.

So it takes up maybe one room in the house, but

it doesn't take up the whole house. Yeah. Well,

I've been told that it's not going to expand

out of my office area in our basement. So that's

why I have a couple of bins put away. Right.

But if you ever see our trips to the store segment

on YouTube, basically my backdrop is all my shelves.

So very cool. Very cool. I'll have to catch those.

I usually only listen to the audio stuff, but

I'm going to have to start catching those trips

to the store. I'll have to go back and watch

some of those. How do you feel about non -transforming

transformers like Funko Pops? They're there for

people that, that collect them. If you remember

the, um, the heroes of Cybertron line from like

2003, 2004. Yep. I have a ton of those and I

loved collecting those cause they were affordable

and I was broke. So it was. You know, and they're

great. They're great characterization, like great

representations of the characters. Uh, absolutely.

Yeah. I'm not a big Funko pop guy in general

myself. And, and that's fine. I just use that

as an example. Yeah. I mean, I know you're, you're

really into them and you know, that's, that's

fine, but yeah, it's, it's just not something

I have maybe two or three. Um, my son likes them,

so he has more than me, but You know, I think

It makes sense sometimes to get a non -transforming

version like if a character is is obviously never

gonna get a transforming figure or Before it'll

be a while and you want to have that character

represented like, you know, like a tarn If you

want official tarn, the only way you can get

it now I think is through like I think flame

toys has one But it's not gonna be transforming.

So yeah You know one day Hasbro will give us

a turn, you know But the statues and stuff are

really what I don't understand, you know the

statues that are like really expensive Yeah,

that's for a special class of collector and that's

not me Yeah, the only statue that I've really

ever wanted is that old unicorn one? It's the

one it's this big thing where unicorn is standing

in the middle and you have all like cup and hot

rod and rc and it's this i'll have to send you

a picture of it but uh it's this big statue that

that is you know the the battle of unicorn kind

of thing and i you know for me it's like yes

when i was four five six seven eight years old

i love transforming the transformers i love doing

the whole truck to robot robot the truck or Monkey

to robot or robot to monkey or whatever, but

I'm 42 years old. I just want the characters.

I just want a representation of the characters

that Jada, the Jada toys, um, 18s, you know,

die cast set. Oh my God. That's amazing. Yeah.

The thing is great. Um, I think if you look at

most people collections, mine included, we. We

transform maybe once or twice get them in the

the mode We want them to be displayed in and

then they go on the shelf and we don't touch

them Four years, so it doesn't really matter

In the long run it yeah, you know, they're essentially

statues Essentially. Yeah What is the one Transformers

toy you could never part with ever? So the house

is on fire, but all the humans and pets and everything

is safe. But what's the one that you'd run back

in to save? Well, I mean, right now Darrell would

make me say his Unicron. But out of my collection,

uh, it would probably be my, um, my MP01 Optimus

Prime. With the box, I got Peter Cohen to sign.

Oh, wow. Very cool. That was, I got him to sign

it by con 2004. So that's awesome. Very, very

cool. What was the most money you spent on a

Transformers toy or a Transformers toy item?

Toy item is like a piece of art or, you know,

something like that. I would guess it would be

some of those. Like I did BotCon 2011 and 2012

and you would get those Primus packs to have

the big box set of toys. Yep. And those were

pretty expensive. So probably one of those. Yeah.

That BotCon 2011 set is awesome. Yeah. And I

would buy one and my wife, I would sign her up

as well and then flip that one to pay for the

entire weekend. Yep, that's what everybody used

to do. Absolutely. Do you have a, my parents

got rid of my toys story. So basically this is

for me when I was six years old, my dad sold

all my He -Man toys kind of thing. Well, mine

is also He -Man. I think my mom knew better than

to get rid of my transformers, but Uh, after

I graduated high school, my parents got divorced

and my mom had a yard sale before she moved.

Uh, and she had my castle gray skull and sold

it, you know, real cheap as it would go in a

yard sale. And when I found out what she had

done, I pulled up eBay like years later when

eBay was the thing. I'm like, I could have had,

I could have sold this for, you know, however

much it was going for. And that was the worst,

I think. Wow. Dang. All right. If you could voice

any Transformers character, who would it be and

why? It would be Scrouge because Scrouge has

had no characterization in any media. So I wouldn't

have to try to imitate anyone else. Very cool.

Very cool. Who is your favorite Transformers

actor? I say actor because they're all actors,

but voice actors kind of thing. Who's your favorite?

Oh, it's tough. They're all really great. I would

probably go with Greg Berger just because he

has been so awesome just as a person. We were

on a panel at TFCon years ago that I think some

wires got crossed and like at one point it was

gonna have voice actors on it and then it wasn't

and When we started we were under the impression

that it wasn't and then they showed up So everyone

was trying to ask the voice actors questions

and he kept like redirecting a lot of the questions

to all of us podcasters that were also on the

panel and just trying trying to make sure we

were included and I just thought that was like

such an awesome gesture and he didn't have to

do it, I mean because We all know that between

podcasters and voice actors, people want to hear

from the voice actors. Yeah. I mean, people want

to hear from the podcasters too, but if you're

on a panel with the voice actors, the whole point

is to get their stories. That's why we... not

a voice actor, but he's part of, like when you

guys interviewed, uh, Tyler, um, Blisinski or

when you interview this person or that person,

it's not like even this, this is me asking you

questions, even though I've said a lot in this

episode so far, but this is me getting your story.

And that's the point of, of doing this. So this

can't be anything that has been announced or

that may be coming, but what is your dream masterpiece

figure that they've never made? I mean, the easy

answer is jazz. Everybody says jazz. Everyone

says jazz, so I'll just kind of let that be a

given. Negative. North side of Sabatron's blacker

than the inside of a dry shaft. Poor Jazz. Yeah.

There hasn't been a blaster, has there? I mean,

I know there's been a sound wave, but... Yeah,

I want to say there was, but I don't remember.

I don't know. I don't think there has been. So

I'm going to go with blaster. Say no more! Request

lines are open! Oh, I could be wrong. Daryl's

the toy guy, so I get a lot of the toy things

wrong. Where do you stand on the rumble is blue

frenzy is red or rumble is red frenzy is blue

debate? Honestly, I don't care It's like I just

I pick one to antagonize people that don't you

know, they they fall one side or the other for

me Like I remember when you were talking with

Charles, you know, he was like basically they

they haven't really had a lot of characterization

and That's true So I just whenever I have to

refer to them, I'm just not trying to antagonize

people. I just call them frumble You know you

can pick who you want that character to be Yeah,

sometimes in the comics they make it you know

that they make it distinct like you'll have Rumble

with the pile drivers and frenzy with some sort

of sound type of weapon But the colors just I

don't care I want the characters. With Transformers,

we've had characters with so many different bodies.

Who's to say they don't make themselves look

like the other just to piss off people? Yeah,

I always go with cartoon logic. Rumble is purple,

frenzy is black. For all the comic fans, the

cartoon was so much more popular. So that should

be precedent. If you could create any Transformers

fiction, toy, cartoon, comic, et cetera, what

would it be and what story would you want to

tell it? I have been dying for some sort of animated

movie and like an animated records movie, I think

would be great. Yep. But I was also thinking

this afternoon, if it's not a movie. Something

like on Netflix or Paramount Plus or whatever

streaming service they're using Do a records

anthology series where it's just each each episode

is a different records story It's all like loosely

tied together in like a an overall Arc, but everyone's

kind of a standalone story. I think The records

there's so much there that can be mined for Good

content that would work in either a traditionally

animated show or 3d animated either one Yeah

Basically what you want is something like what

they what Marvel did with what if it started

out as Individual stories, but I think by episode

six or seven it went into this, you know long

Narrative to get to the end of the season kind

of either that or some kind of mix between Matt

and the a team where like maybe the records are

presented as a group that people know if they

can get a hold of them and hire them for a job,

they will do the like dirty jobs to, you know,

solve whatever problem. I remember it's Stephen

something that originally did the future TFT

and Mike here. I just wanted to correct myself.

The actor's name was John Ashley, and he passed

away in 1997. In 1972, a group, you know, did

the opening narration, but the one that I remember

the most, and I absolutely love it, and I don't

care what anyone says, it's fucking Corey Burton

at the end of the 2010 eight. I love what he

did with his voice for that voiceover for that

narration describing I love it when a planet

comes together. Still wanted by the government,

they survive as Soldiers of Fortune. If you have

a problem, if no one else can help, and if you

can find them, maybe you can hire the A -Team.

I don't, I don't think I realized that was Corey

Burton. Oh yeah. I knew immediately. I had to

confirm it. I, you know, I went to Wikipedia,

I went to IMDB, but as soon as I kind of heard

it, cause I knew the original guy, I don't think

he's still with us. The one that did it in the

old days in the eighties. So, but when I heard

that I was like, holy crap, that's Corey Burton.

And that's amazing. He shows up everywhere. You

just. You know, he's very prolific these days.

Yeah, it is so great. I love that guy. I would

love to interview him. That would be so awesome.

This is a new question that I've added because

I'm actually trying to round out all things Transformers

to 30 questions. Originally we had 26 questions,

so this is a new one. So you were the second

guest. to be asked this question, if you could

live on any Transformers world that you wanted,

where would you live? And honestly, you know,

obviously you can breathe, you can this whatever,

basically pick one of the IDW colonies. Where

would you want to live? IDW one seems very violent,

regardless of where you are. Velocitron seems

cool. Yeah, it does. I think Velocitron and Eukaris

are the two really cool planets in the Transformers

colonies in IDW. All right, last question. What

is the one piece of advice that you'd give the

Transformers fandom and Transformers collectors

in general? Stop taking everything so seriously.

Just enjoy it and let other people enjoy what

they want to enjoy as well. Yep, absolutely.

I completely agree. That's the same that's That's

gonna be the answer everyone gives because honestly,

that's the best advice Yeah, like I've been saying

recently why can't we all get along Yeah, it's

just it life is too short to just argue over

stupid stuff. Just Enjoy what you want to enjoy

let other people enjoy what they want to enjoy

if the streams cross then You know great If not,

y 'all are all still fans of transforming robots

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Dennis, what made you want to start transmissions?

Basically... I wanted some people to talk about

Transformers, but I mean, that's the, the base

reason, because my wife is not interested at

all. And I just, I had no one to talk to and

we've discussed forums already. So I am a heavy

podcast listener. I've been listening to podcasts

since before they were even RSS feeds. And I

just. You know, listening to shows like the under

base back in the day. Yep. I'm like the, I can

do this. This is, you know, I know I have the

technical chops to do this, but I can't do it

by myself. So, uh, Charles had guested on some

under base episodes and I contacted Amy and she

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going strong. Absolutely. I mean, there's always

going to be transformer stuff to talk about.

Right. And that's something my wife doesn't get.

She's like, how do you find time to do two shows

a week talking about transformers? I'm like,

there is always news. There's something always

to talk about. Like, here on All Things Transformers,

I've said recently that we cannot, like, you

guys put out the episode about the, oh, it was

recently, about the book banning and all that

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it as we're recording this. A news episode that

included up until I think the, whatever the hell

that was, it was, um, what the hell was it? It

was, yeah, the last story we did on the news

thing was the, uh, Amazon exclusive Transformers

legacy wreck and rule collection. The original,

like the comic. the impact or in the whatever,

but now there's like, you know, new details of

coming Lego. There's this, there's that, like

we can, I, I refuse. It is so stressful for me

to keep like, yeah, we, we've played with trying

to put out like breaking news type things, you

know, midweek cause we record on Sundays. So,

right. You know, the show that is going out,

uh, tonight as we record this. is not going to

have any of those record toys. It's not going

to have the Lego stuff because all of that has

come out, you know, a day or two. Yeah. The first

record toy came out on Monday the day after we

recorded. So, you know, we just, we aren't trying

to be first. We're just trying to find some interesting

things to talk about or to say about the figures

the next time we record. Absolutely. And again,

the fun is in the performance, not the playback.

That's just what it is. I can't believe that

we're still doing this after nine years. Steve

Megatron created all things Transformers in 2008,

so we've been doing it for whatever. I only started

listening to transmissions in the last couple

of years. And I mostly listened to the comic

reviews because I'm interested in, in the comics.

Cause with having my own Transformers or not

my own, but Steve, you know what I mean? Like

we have a Transformers podcast, so we're doing

the same thing you guys are doing. Even though

I enjoy hearing your opinion and Darrell's opinion

and Charles' opinion, but it's like, oh, comics.

Let's, let's do that. Cause that's fun. Yeah.

I used to listen to. like almost every Transformers

podcast and I've dropped off most of them because

like, you know, WTF and TFW, Raider Free Cybertron,

like we're all talking about the same stuff.

So, you know, people come to whatever show because

of the personalities and I don't really want

to be, have my, like my performance influenced

by what other people are doing. So we just, we

try to carve our own little little section out

and I think comic reviews are one of the, we're

now one of the few that are doing the regular

comic reviews because others have dropped off.

Yeah, I, we did over on the pull bag and it was

crossed over here with all things Transformers.

We covered the entirety from, like I said, Death

of Optimus Prime up to Unicron and then we started

covering the Ruckley run. And then after volume

three of the trade, which I think is up to issue

24, I just kind of like, it's okay. I don't dislike

it, but at the same time it's like, okay, whatever.

And then they announced the beast wars thing

and I'm like, Ooh, yeah. Beast wars. Yay. That's

cool. That's been a great surprise, but yeah,

that's one of the best things that they've been

putting out. Yep. Absolutely. Absolutely. Love

it. All right. Where can the people find you

online, sir? Um, probably best place would be

Twitter. I'm yakko .org with a zero Y a K K zero

D O T O R G. And you can also go to Y Y a K K

zero. Well, hold on. Go to yakko yaks .com as

well. If you want that. A podcast I don't really

keep up with very often anymore, but I put out

every so often when I have something I really

need to say and get out, I'll resurrect it and

put something out. Very cool. Very cool. All

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