Wreck-Gar Dares To Be Stupid, Velocity and Rise of the Constructicons

Hey, it's David Kaye, voice of Beast Wars Megatron

and TFA Optimus. You're listening to the Geekcast

Radio Network. My name is Optimus Prime and this

episode of transformation animation podcast features

Stephen C. Phillips Mike Blanchard and Michael

Wilson Hello and welcome to episode 8 of transformation

animation podcast I'm one of your own Steve during

Mike and joining me is Steve Megatron. Hello.

Good day, sir, and peak on court Michael. Hello.

Hey, how's it going? It's going. So what have

you been up to, Steve? Well, for those interested,

I've been working on GeekCastRadio .com Version

3 .0. Okay, what else? I've been perfecting it.

Okay. A perfect vibrator. Not once, but twice.

A dual vibrator. an oscillating vibrator Stop

it stop giving him ideas What are you been up

to Michael? The daddy thing Aidan my oldest boy

He turns five in a couple days and he's currently

in fall t -ball, which is exciting. Yes So that's

what I've been doing lately. Didn't you guys

go to Chicago Comic Con or whatever the hell

that was? Yeah, we did. We went to the Chicago

Comic Con. That was fun. We went on a Sunday,

which I don't think is such a good idea. If we

do the Chicago Comic Con again, we'll probably

go on a Saturday. Oddly, from what I heard from

various board celebrities, Saturday was not a

good day to bring the kids because it was so

well Patrick Stewart was there Yeah, and Bruce

Campbell was there Engage. Yeah, so there it

was so packed that the lines Completely filled

the hall all the way around and they said it

would have been too easy to lose your kid I actually

had a conversation with Erica Eleniak as a Baywatch

babe from way way back and before your time.

Although she did share a screen with David Hasselhoff,

who is one of your favorites. Yes, I remember

Baywatch. I don't remember her, but I remember

the show. Thank you. Yeah. Well, you know, it

was her and Pam Anderson. And anyway, so what

it come down to is she was just sitting there

looking bored and Aiden just happened to stop

and say hi. And she's like, oh, you're so cute.

And I'm like, yeah. You have any idea who you're

talking to, kid? So yeah, we ended up talking

and she's telling me about, you know, how horrible

it was on Saturday. Oh, I wouldn't want him here

on Saturday. It was horrible. He would have gotten

lost. And we ended up talking about how horrible

it would be for kids to get lost at a convention.

And it was strange. I talked to Elena Huffman

from Stargate roughly about the same thing, you

know, and she was. Basically just talking about

how packed it was and I also had a chance to

stop and talk to the much less famous David Willis

from short packed Kind of cool. He's like, hey,

I recognize you and I'm like, yeah my kid to

look and he's like, yeah, I recognize him, too

So that was kind of neat who else I talked to

I talked to Chewbacca Exactly so that was that

was really really neat and uh i i had never met

him before apparently he does a lot of these

conventions but i've never actually gone up to

him and said hey you know i really appreciate

what you did and it's amazing and you know i

want my boy to meet you just so that you know

he can say that he did and i didn't want to say

you know before you die because god the guy's

old he's got giantism No, I mean it's true. I

I don't think they live that long. It's like

Andre the giant, you know, I don't think he died

before his time No, seriously, he has giantism.

It's a right. Yeah, it's a disease the guy's

hand. I shook his hand and His hand it was like

me shaking Aidan's hand. It's how big his hand

was compared to mine. It was ridiculous This

was the guy that was that this was the Chewbacca

that was actually in the movies. Yes As opposed

to some other Chewbacca that just randomly shows

up dressed in costumes. How many Chewbacca's

are there? Well, there's a lot of Chewbacca impersonators,

you know what I mean? This is the real deal.

Yeah, yeah, this was the real guy. Okay. No,

we've seen guys in Chewbacca suits. It's like

a guy in the stilts, you know. It's Chewbacca,

you know. No, this guy is literally seven feet

tall. He's huge. It was it was really neat and

he put his hand on top of Aidan's head and it

was like palming a basketball. It was Weird yeah.

No what the weird thing and this is what was

really cool about this guy is that There were

signs all over that said no pictures So, you

know, I couldn't walk up to Erica lenient take

picture over here take a bigger for my kid kiss

my boy You know that type of thing But when I

walked up to Chewbacca to talk to him his his

Want to say wife older lady manager, maybe I'm

not sure but she was there at the booth with

him and I said, you know, I really wanted my

boy to meet you Because he's just finding out

about Star Wars. It's new to him. He thinks it's

amazing and you know, I just want to give him

this and The wife said take a picture. Yeah I

kind of snuck around and got a quick picture

Yeah, it was really neat Yeah, yeah, it was a

really a cool thing and I've been meaning to

make a blog post about it and to be honest I

haven't checked. I haven't done anything with

my blog in such a long time slacker I know That's

just Well, I wasn't gonna say yeah now that I

know that you bring it up we also we did a bunch

of stuff in Chicago we went to a shed aquarium

who went to the Brookfield Zoo. We went to Medieval

Times. We were here to medieval times. Yes, dinner

and dinner and tournament. Mm hmm. I want to

go there. Yeah, it was cool. I've been there

before. But, you know, we took. Aiden and he

really liked it. I've been there in that movie,

The Cable Guy. There's a bunch of them all over

there's like five or six of them, yeah, but yeah

and Well, so we do well, it's a jelly belly factory,

but that's like out in Wisconsin Yeah, I'll show

you my jelly belly And on that note, we're gonna

hear something from Harrison Ford as we go into

some episodes. You think you can walk in here

and say you're sorry after what you did? I'm

done with that Star Wars crap and I'm done with

you. Haven't you heard? I'm in Cowboys and Aliens.

Daniel Craig's my Wookie Bitch now. Daniel Craig

is my Wookie Bitch now. Alright! You forced me

to make the ultimate sacrifice. To do the one

thing that requires more courage than anything

I've ever had to do in my entire Autobot career.

I... apologize. Come again? I take back every

mean thing I ever said about you. Don't let others

tell you what you are. You can be any bot you

want to be. You mean I can be a hero? Yes. And

you can start by saving this city from being

consumed by a swarm of out -of -control microbots.

Yes, I am Rekgar. I am a hero. We can make it

bigger, stronger, faster. That's what she said.

Oh she only wishes and I remember his name now

Peter Mayhew First up today is garbage in garbage

out during Detroit's garbage crisis energy from

the all -spark creates a transformer from a pile

of junk This transformer named Rekgar by Angry

Archer causes problems for the city, crossing

paths with Ratchet and Sari who are working to

get Ratchet an attitude adjustment, and Lugnut

looking for Rekgar's all -spark fragment. They

all find themselves caught by Porter C. Powell's

all -consuming microbots made from Sumzak's nanotech

from the first episode. A tribute to the G1 series

and the names of the couple who Ratchet is driving

to the hospital, Spike and Carly. Spike also

still voiced by Corey Burton. From space bridge

repair to garbage detail worst job transfer ever

You and your word ever Shut up a var it's spelled

with an a Yay spike and Carly I thought that

was really nice that we actually get to see them

speak In this one not only do they speak but

they call each other by name so that there's

no Confusion as exactly who they are damn, right?

Take that, movie -verse. Fuckers. What's a Megatron?

I laughed so hard at that. Lugnut lost his tail,

that was awesome. Oh, yeah. He lost his tail

because of the microbots. I had written down,

Lugnut lost his ass, literally. Oh, that's so

funny. You wouldn't dare to do something that

stupid. I am retgar. I dare to be stupid. I dare

to be stupid. You wouldn't dare do something

that stupid. I am retgar. I dare to be stupid.

So yeah, just having retgar in this episode and

just having him do all the old lines and everything

else. Plus, it's Weird Al that voices him. How

cool is that? Yes, uber cool Oracle and my final

complaints at all. I even loved angry archers

role In the episode even forgive angry archer.

Yeah Yeah, pretty much. What do you got for this

one Steve? Well, first of all, I love that all

the garbage bots are just going wonko Yes, I

threw some some geekery in there Won't go the

same ten points to those who know anyways, uh

No, that's not real points. It's virtual. Um,

I get 20 for knowing two different explanations

Make sure I I get 30 for knowing three Anyways

30 points to Michael door Pledge is not even

on the podcast anymore. Where did he go? The

bathroom! I'm playing with my key! Where's the

time turner when we need it? Now, I don't normally

like sit, well at least for TF animated I don't

sit on the wiki very much but I thought this

clip was, this particular thing was funny when

they show Carly and Spike inside Ratchet and

then they put for the caption, oh shit what are

we gonna do now? That's funny. I didn't see that.

That is funny. Somebody put that under that.

I was like, wow, that is such an awesome reference

that they pulled there. That is so awesome. And

it ties back into the movie, kind of like Rettgar.

You got a little spike. And obviously we come

full circle with Rettgar, because Weird Al did

the song Dare to be Stupid, which also ties into

Rettgar, which makes him the perfect one to be

doing this voice and this literally dumb character.

It was it was an amazing coup that they actually

got him to the voice. I think he would have done

it just because he he likes to do all kinds of

different things, like have his foot in every,

you know, different kind of pool of entertainment.

Yeah. But I loved Rettgar. The small scene with

with Carly and. Spike was fine, but uh The overall

like the angry archer I could get past him in

this episode. He wasn't as disliked I I could

you know get behind him being here because he

served a purpose What made this appearance of

angry archer different from any other appearance

of angry archer? He wasn't in it the whole time,

for the most part. But he wasn't in it before

the whole time. He's only had like, I think most

of the human characters have only had like five

minutes of appearance. Well, with the exception

of Nanosek, maybe five minutes. Because I like

where he's like, they call me Worthless Wreck

-Walking Pile of Garbage. And he says, oh really?

Bit of a mouthful. Perhaps we should just call

you Wreckgar for short. So he gives him his name

and that makes it okay? Yes. You're allowed to

be here as long as you name somebody. So we need

to have Professor Princess come in the name of

a transformer. Professor Princess deserves to

be sat on by Lugnut. That's the only time I will

ever agree with a Lugnut statement. Yes, that

would be awesome if he sat on her. Lugnut could

use his atomic fists and blow her ass away. But

for me, as far as why I didn't really... why

I actually liked Angry Archer... Showing up in

this episode is It's not just like We've already

had his cheesy introduction. Okay, I'm used to

the personality at this point and It's nice to

just see them throw a human villain in there

as He's almost throwaway like Steve said the

only thing he really does is he names retgar.

I mean, that's that's it He fit in nicely. Yeah

it was just kind of happened to be there and

you know it stumbled in and kind of crossed paths

with retgar and you know i don't want to say

set him on the path to evil but you know really

just played off of his his impressionable nature

yeah i'll just call you retgar okay he's like

sure sounds good he says i'm an autobot I'm a

Decepticon. No, wait. I'm an Autobot Yeah, and

then it was funny that you know lug nut and Megatron

almost Megatron inferno all over again I like

the lug that gave Megatron a twitchy eye. That

was rather interesting. Instead of a smartass

comment coming back to him, he's just like, Twitch,

Twitch, Twitch, get out of my face. Just go.

Just go, leave my presence. Do what you must.

But the stupid creature like nanobot things that...

Retgar happens to magically pull a vacuum out

of his ass to remove. I mean, yeah, it was kind

of stupid, but it was funny. He's like, hmm,

let me see. I've got all kinds of garbage in

my ass. Here, let's pull this out of my ass.

Literally, you know, it's just it's such a convenient

plot device because he literally can pull anything

out of his ass and it's usable in the episode.

Well, except for the spools. Yeah. And the tools.

No, not spools. Jewels! Where's my family jewels

when I need them? Why are my flashes of Gene

Simmons' tongue? Any other thoughts on garbage

in garbage out, Steve? Take the lemons! It was

kind of lame how they just left Rettgar floating

at the bottom of the ocean. They're like, eh,

fuck him. I think he thought he was dead. Cuz

he says don't worry kid. I'll pull you out and

all he pulls out his axles and pieces and Well,

he should have known he was garbage. He's like

Maybe I should go down and investigate. You know,

I'm not really a good doctor. I don't like to

swim I don't like to get wet you water They sink

like a rock I mean, what are you gonna do? He's

a robot. You can drive out Is that just his head

is that all that's left of him or is No, it's

his body. No, he got covered up by all this sediment

and dirt. Okay, so I couldn't tell if he was

buried in the mud or blown up from the shoulders

down by the blast. No, he's just buried. No,

he'll be entertained for a while watching fish

and sharks go by. Ooh, look at the pretty three

-eyed fish. Oh, wait, that's on The Simpsons.

No. But it's on Detroit too, so. Yeah. Give me

my cart. Lake Erie. Ew. Who I wouldn't swim in

it But anyways, yeah that I think that runs out

my Okay, what do you got for garbage and garbage

out Michael? Oh, you know you you guys you completely

passed up the the ultimate movie reference Well,

see that's what we have you for the universal

greeting. Oh Yeah, that's the beginning of the

episode Wow, we've grown out we've needy bog

Yeah, that'll be at the beginning of this episode

though. So people would have already heard it

oh okay well in that case i'll just gloss over

it then that didn't happen i mean like i said

before before you continue but like i said before

it's nice that any of the the movie references

any of the wreck our references from other stuff

that records it's really nice that they that

they did all that so yeah well you can tell this

is a marty eisenberg episode because it's just

chock full of g1 references yeah uh why at toys

makes another appearance he so needs to open

his own toy store in real life the i just thought

it was cool because it it's like we know that

they went through the trouble of building this

background uh you know this painted scene uh

as a backdrop and it's like well is that the

only episode they're going to use it in but no

i'm keeping an eye out so that i you know see

if it actually shows up again and they were using

it as uh again the background for the news reports

in the beginning of the episode and I'm thinking

why would they be standing in front of a toy

store because they like the toys like the toys

our heroes end up as garbage men yeah and I thought

it was funny because as they're leaving the garbage

dump or the docks wherever they are Sorry completely

ignores this beam shooting out from her key.

I Mean normally it's like hey, look at the beam

shooting out of your key. Maybe we should Follow

it or something. Yeah, and this time she's like,

yeah, let's go They were they were fleeing the

crime of the battle of the crotchety old men

Grumpy old men So my tagline that was so what

I named the the the individual clip was grumpy

old men for the quote That's funny that's about

what it was was like yeah, we got to get out

of here screw your key, you know Just hop in

we got to get out of here for the cops show up

and oh no, the cops already showed up That's

right. Yeah set fans on was already there. Yeah

So anyways like you put down the citizen you

stop harassing the Autobot There's nothing wrong

with my people skills So they buzz off and retgar

pops out right now the one thing I watched this

twice I watched it once with Aiden and And he

thought record was awesome And I watched it once

by myself. It wasn't until I watched it actually

on YouTube That I noticed that wreck are swarming

with flies Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I just didn't

notice it. I'm not sure. What was it? What was

happening the first time but uh, I Was just like

what is that? Are those flies? So they're flying

around him. Well, he doesn't bathe so yeah. Well,

yeah, he ends up taking a bath, but Season long

bath wait Permanent bath, but this guy must smell

awesome Just the olfactory senses. Yeah, what

was that the Kevin was complaining about? The

fact that oh Well, we'll get to it a spoiler

alert Kevin's gonna complain because he doesn't

think robots should be able to smell but You

know, it's a long -standing Science sci -fi trope

that yes robots do have olfactory senses or olfactory

Senses not included He's a I can't see anything

or hear anything or touch anything or taste anything.

Of course. I can't smell anything I'm just a

big but my pants are full Anyway, so Well, the

the thing is about him smelling so awful is The

toy because there is a record toy. It was hard

to find but I got one but the toy we needed a

scratch and sniff feature Yeah, I would totally

love the scratch and sniff garbage truck How

cool would that be? No Then you could spell him

when he comes by Yeah, anyway So Rekgar is very

impressionable. You know, he's like a he repeats

everything he hears. So he's like he's like an

adorable parrot. Yeah, his parrots aren't normally

adorable. They're kind of my name's Rekgar. I

eat garbage. That's right. Fear not, good people.

Your garbage is coming. Yeah, slowly but surely.

I will get it to you. That is why he delivers

garbage to all I just like this character so

much. It's just You know, maybe it's because

that's all he does is repeat everything and he's

just so impressionable but You know, I can see

why and this might be a spoiler to Kevin I'm

sorry, but I can see why he doesn't come back.

You can only do this once This is only funny

for one episode. I don't think they could have

pulled this out any longer Oh, he does come back.

What? Oh my God. He does come back. Spoiler.

He does come back. Yeah. No, but again, you can't

do this twice. But when he does come back, he's

got a new gimmick, which is almost better. Yeah.

Oh, shut up. Thanks for reminding me. We actually

want Kevin to listen to the episode. We don't

want him to wait until the end of the podcast.

He will. He'll be so eager to hear what is going

on next that... They'll be like, what? What new

gimmick? Tell me. Tell me. I need to know more.

We could just send a back guard page from the

wiki. We could do that, yeah. People could be

deliberately spoiled. Sure, why not? Exactly.

Nanobots are highly susceptible to vacuum cleaners.

Well, these are micro bots made from nanotechnology

now So I don't know if there's that much of a

difference in them But you know after what happened

with the nanobots the first time you think that

they would have learned their lesson Well, the

little dude in the suit even said the greatest

thing is we can manufacture them at half the

cost Right. They're not robots. They're yeah,

you know, they're not giant walking garbage cans

They're little tiny tiny tiny little robots.

You know But it's funny, he pulls out his vacuum

cleaner and he sucks up all the Cheeto dust.

Yeah. It's like glowing Cheeto dust got you down.

Oh, I got just the thing for that. I have a specially

formulated Cheeto dust vacuum. Yeah. After Ratchet

says one of his lines at the very end of the

episode, I was like, I was just waiting for him

to say, I'm ready for my close up, Mr. DeVille.

I want to say Julie Andrews. Is it Julie Andrews

who said that? Sound of music? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

They like me. They really like me. I'm ready

for my close -up now. That's funny. But my other

favorite, Ratchet. quote was he gets Porter C

Powell the the smarmy businessman and the the

the mute mayor of the city It went in each hand.

He says listen up you organic meat buckets He's

he's channeling Bender here Such a way with words

Love that this is just a very enjoyable episode.

I mean there was There's just nothing not to

like here. Yeah, there's a lot of fun So we are

gonna move on all right so Who's running this

racket? Hey, I get paid real good to be in these

races. Oh Why should I tell you? Because with

all the charges they got against you the next

time you go racing you'll be using a walker I

can't name names, but if you happen to be in

the vicinity of Dixon verna tonight at 2 Not

that you'll ever get there in time. Hey relax

And a lots of shortcuts up next is velocity and

thank God for short synopsis is now After an

encounter with a mysterious blue car that out

sped him bumblebee competes in master disasters

underground racing tournament Which ends up getting

blitzwing involved when another all spark fragment

is detected? Obligatory street racing episode

as much as As much as I like the Fast and the

Furious franchise, I'm so sick of street racing.

Just like Kevin will say later, I'm so sick of

street racing stuff in everything. And Bumblebee!

Oh, sorry. I was going to say, didn't they just

have a street racing episode in Transformers

Prime? Yeah. Or is that how they introduced Breakdown?

No, I don't think that's speed metal. I don't

think... No. The street racing thing in Prime

was... I don't know, it's how they introduced

one of them, but at least that was fairly okay.

And Bumblebee, the dickhead, thinks he's better

than everyone else, makes it a comeback. I don't

think he was the dickhead here. I think, uh,

you know, he was just trying to prove that he's

fastest. It's not as if he's preempting anybody.

Well, considering who the Blue Racer is, I mean...

Well, can we say that? We're not gonna say that

now, right? Yeah, no, he's gonna call him blue

racer. Well, but everybody knows even even Kevin.

Oh, does he? Yeah, Kevin is kind of obvious by

looking at the character who he is It's obvious

by looking at the car Who it is, you know, I

went the whole episode thinking it was a guy

inside called blue racer like Like like speed

racer like here he comes go go speed racer Yeah,

I thought racer X is gonna pop out and go ha

ha I allowed them best no but anyway bulkhead

being a responsible a responsible person or responsible

robot and a role model is just way too weird

it just oh god that bulkhead was so fucking preachy

in this episode like I get the message that they're

trying to say and and and I agree with you know

you shouldn't be pirating you know TV signals

but still It's like really you're gonna beat

us over the head with that kind of a message

well They're basically saying don't steal our

episodes I'm not doing that right Bumblebee ice

skating During the chase with blitzwing reminds

me of one of the Tom and Jerry shorts where they

froze the kitchen floor and ice skated on I think

it was called ice follies. It was an old Tom

and Jerry short Kind of reminded me of that And

again blitzwing random blitzwing is just so hilarious

dizzy not liking the dizzy Liking the dizzy There's

a lot of nice blitzwing dialogue in this one,

you know more so than usual normally you know

he'll he'll chatter back and forth with his heads

once maybe twice when he comes in into an episode

but this time he he's talking a lot well that's

because it's a blitzwing centric villain episode

i mean you don't see lug nut you don't see megatron

you don't see star it's just blitzwing is the

villain outside of master disaster right well

i mean yeah exactly you don't see anybody but

Master Disaster and I was thinking that you know

Master Disaster was the villain in this episode

and then here comes Blitzwing and he kind of

steals the show yeah he does and I love his his

his fire head and his ice head never give up

never surrender and the first thing I thought

of was this Blitzwing blasting off again And

there was a day actually exactly exactly. Yeah,

they don't blast off again unless there's an

actual thing, you know He wasn't like launched

though. He actually flew off on his own accord

So it wasn't quite no he well He was kind of

launched because sorry had the the remote control

thing with the all spark thing. I thought he

was getting away No, I thought he deliberately

transformed it said see ya No, no, no because

she was pointing the thing in him. It was it

was after they stopped racing It was after fans

own his car to the bumblebee, right? They stopped

racing bumblebees out trying to fight him bumblebees

transformed sorry standing next to him And she's

using the thing against blitzwing to try to even

the odds a bit, but it's also affecting bumblebee

So it affected blitzwing as well, and that's

how he twirled out of control and went blast

Well, I mean as bumblebee fell into bulkhead

I thought she actually turned it off. And that's

how he got away. I mean, it would be cooler if

he actually shot out in the space because she

made him do it. Yeah, I think it was because

she made him do it. And then just final note

for this one. Regardless of how stupid Master

Disaster is, regardless of how stupid street

racing episodes are, I still enjoyed this one.

It was nice, yeah. Do you think Master Disaster

died? No, he went to jail. He went to hassle.

He went straight to hell. His fan zone put handcuffs

on him at the end, I remember now. Yeah, Blitzwing

actually smashes into the disaster mobile. Yeah.

Which I thought was cool, and first thing I thought

was, oh crap, he was in there, he's probably

dead. No, he's not dead because the other crux

of this episode was that Fanzone had been trying

to bust this street racing crew for weeks now.

And he hadn't got a line on him. So at the end

of the episode, he's like, yep, you're going

to jail too. What do you got for velocity, Steve?

Oh, boy. Uh -oh. Bring on the hate. I like the

title. I like the introduction of blur, even

though it wasn't... Probably not. Oh! You gave

it away. Well, we already know. It's obvious.

Look at the shape. It's so obvious. I mean...

It's not obvious. You don't know what blur looks

like. Look at his design. They've used that in

the Unicron trilogy, and then they use it in,

obviously, the original. So you know who it's

going to be. They use that design in the unit

as blur there was a curse Yes, and there was

a character of blur in the unicorn trilogy It

probably wasn't the exact design of what the

animated version. It was very similar, but it

was similar. Yeah Well, he appeared in Armada

and then he appeared again in Cybertron But anyways

You can tell that I mean I like that they're

bringing in another classic Pretty much the only

good thing about this episode is fan zone You

never run short of good comments from fan zone

in this episode. Yeah, you don't so That's me

trying to keep it on a positive note on a negative

racing episode about a guy trying to basically

pull a G1 and hotwire some cars and take control

of an Autobot or whatever. I don't really get

into the whole racing theme. I can see why people

won't get into it, and I understand that, and

I can see why people don't like it. But for a

one -off... I mean, even if, you know, it's not

really said that it is Blur, even though we all

know, the fans of Blur all know that it's Blur,

you know, even though it's not really said, it's

still a nice way to introduce him, and it will

come back later as well, because at the end of

the episode, Bumblebee says, you know, thanks,

and of course, the Blue Racer just drives off,

but later in the season, We'll see blur again.

Michael, anything? I'm having an, oh, moment,

because you just sent me the link to blur. And

it's, yeah, the Cybertron blur, which was the

repaint and slight remold of the Armada blur.

And I'm thinking, I don't think Armada blur looks

much like blur. And then you paint it blue, and

it's like, oh, OK. Well, they gave him a blur

head. They gave him a different head for the

Cybertron release that came out in Japan first,

and then eventually they released it in single

packs in the U .S. And OK, sure, I'll buy that.

Regardless, I'll buy that for a dollar. Regardless,

again, regardless to the 10th power, I didn't

really think that this particular car was a,

you know, a transformer. He doesn't support an

Autobot logo. He looks futuristic, but yeah,

everything looks futuristic in New Detroit. I

didn't really see it. I'm actually eager to re

-watch the episode where he pops back up and

Bumblebee calls him Zippy. The thing about Blurr

and Animated, and I don't remember if this was

the toy bio that I read or if it was somewhere

online that I read. The thing about Animated

Blurr is he is a Cybertronian intelligence officer.

He's information gatherer type person. And yes,

while it's great that they still have the general

gist of what Blurr was, fast talking, you know,

type of person. especially with John Machida

returning to voice him. The characteristic of

this blur is also he will go on long missions

sometimes not talking for months, weeks, years

at a time because he has to gather this information.

So when he does start talking, it's kind of almost

that he's not talking to reason the fact that

he does fast talk. Because say he hasn't talked

for six months. Well a lot of shit can happen

in six months When he does when he's able to

start talking to someone he's going to be talking

a million miles a minute Yeah, do you know the

bocce binary language no I'm fluent in six billion

forms of communication. Can you plug into another

machine and communicate instantaneously? Why

yes, yes, I can. Okay. Well, Laura is not C3

fucking 3PO. There's no need to talk that bad.

I just caught it because you said bocce. I'm

like, wait, that's a Star Wars reference. Holy

fuck. Might get a little outside of the box for

you a little Quickly all right. Thank you velocity

Bumblebee has his booster rockets in a box Yeah,

you know my wife took mine away. She put them

up on a paint flowery shelf where I can't reach

him But on a serious note Oh my God. On a serious

there, holy shit. The booster rockets. Exactly.

The booster rockets were supposedly burned up

in the episode where he first got them, like

he shot up in the space when he came down, they

were gone. So the question becomes, how did they

get in the box? Ratchet repaired them from scratch.

Probably. Think maybe yeah, you know, that's

actually more plausible because these booster

rockets actually work Yeah, he's figured out

how to use them to his advantage which is which

is nice. It's just kind of cool I like the hoodie

ninja Yeah hoodie ninja. I'm a hoodie ninja.

I actually taught agent aid in that song the

other hoodie ninja song It's funny because he

runs around the house going hoodie ninja So when

I saw the hoodie ninja, I was like, oh hoodie

ninja Sorry has questionable morals Yeah. Well,

she is an eight -year -old so She hasn't learned

right from wrong yet, but she feels she steals

online content and She probably downloads like

mp3s, too Yeah, uh -huh What in the name of Henry

Ford Yeah, if I lived in Detroit I would say

that all the time What the name of Henry Ford

people will look at me funny. I'd be like, hey

man, it's Henry Ford screw you And the other

weird thing that pops up in those other word

weird quote That pops up in this episode is bumblebee.

I don't even remember the context in which he

said it, but he looks I forget who he's talking

to And he looks at whoever and says slag. Yeah.

Oh, he's talking the master You see, you know,

he was talking to master disaster because master

disaster He's master disaster told him the next

race is at 2 a .m. And he said are you gonna

be there? He goes and boldly goes is the blue

race are gonna be there and master disaster says

if he is Will you show up and he goes slag? Yeah,

yeah So the question because he says shit. Yeah,

or fuck. Yeah, cuz in my head. I'm thinking was

like mean shit, but But you know, but we go on

fuck yeah would be ten times more awesome But

The other thing that struck me as funny is the

the sorry GPS voice Yeah, it's not really says

Tara strong. Yeah, it is Tara strong Yeah, but

it's not sorry, but I was just thought it was

funny. It was like what happens if you know,

sorry it gets really old GPS voices like now

they've they've got Darth Vader and Yoda and

Homer Simpson that you can plug in your GPS I

don't know if I want to get directions from Homer

I have no idea what that would be like yeah Actually

if you get a chance I know exactly mmm donut

shop 15 miles It would be funny if it labeled

all the donut shops on your GPS There's a couple

funny commercials One with Yoda Doing the GPS

voice and they're there in like a sound booth

and Yoda is doing the voice and there's another

one with Darth Vader in the sound booth and he

says Roundabout and it's it's clearly Man the

name escapes me suddenly James Earl Jones. Yeah,

it's clearly James Earl Jones, but he's like

round about And the guy says no, it's it's round

about round about and he says that's what I said

round about and he's like no no round about round

about Round about and he's like that's not what

you said and he starts to force choke him, you

know You know, it's just a funny commercial.

Go look it up. It's hilarious. And. Yeah, lastly,

they never named the blue racer. So, I mean,

even though we know it's blur, I didn't know

it was blur. Well, now, you know, knowing is

now why. Well, it happens. Red laser, blue laser,

you know. 25 % red laser, 25 % blue laser, 50

% knowing. You've seen this I know for sure I

know you've seen this infographic What was I

gonna say? Oh, yeah, I don't think I saw this

episode when it first came out Because I remember

looking at the all spark almanac and seeing master

blaster They don't think that I don't think they

actually had a picture of master blaster But

they had a picture of his semi truck, which I

thought was awesome Master disaster not master

blaster master blaster was a g1 episode who runs

barter town And it was the Beast Wars episode.

Oh Well, it was one of them damn Megatron became

a dragon. That's right. They totally should have

named a master blaster then So master disaster

they the all spark almanac they show the semi

truck and I'm thinking Motor master awesome,

you know, why didn't I see this episode and but

they next to him They also show some of the racers

and some of the cars that they drove and I'm

thinking I've never seen any of these guys and

I thought that maybe They these are just extras

that showed up on the street in an episode I

didn't realize that there was a whole episode

where they actually have racers and they introduced

blur You know, but yeah, so watching this I was

like seeing it for the first time. I'd never

seen it before And it was cool to see Bumblebee

get his, you know, his blaster, his thrusters.

Uh, it was cool to see, you know, this much Blitzwing.

And it was very cool to have an introduction

to Blurr, even if you don't know he's really

Blurr. Right. Yeah. Especially because later

on, like season three, Blurr gets really, really

cool. He gets some - Shhh. Stop. I'm just saying

he's cool. I know he's cool. I'm not saying -

Oh, here's what you know he's gonna do. It's

gonna be great. I'm not - Shhh. I'm just saying.

Alright, let's move on, unless you have anything

else. Nah, I'm good. Hey! Watch where you're

pointing that thing, shovelhead! Who you calling

shovelhead, cement breath? My name ain't cement

breath, okay? It's... it's, uh... Your little

name tag says Mix Master. No, that's too long.

Just call me Mix. Alright, you got it, Mix. And

you can call me... Scrap. Alright, that's too

short. How about Scrapper? I like it. Yeah, that's

a good one. Hey, you guys, we're all named and

stuff. Rename, I just named myself. So, uh, what

do we do now? Duh, we like build things, alright?

Uh, Mix, you're building things out of yourself.

Yo, Scrapper, you're doing it too. Uh, we couldn't

do that before, right? What? Talk? Think? Move

by ourselves? I don't think so. We couldn't do

any of that stuff before. And finally up today

is Rise of the Constructicons. After energy from

all spark fragments turns two Constructicon or

construction vehicles into Transformers named

Scrapper and Mixmaster, Bulkhead befriends them.

However, the Decepticons turn the tables on the

Autobots new friends. as they want the Concerticons

to steal the supplies from Megatron's space bridge.

Why am I flashing to the secret of Omega Supreme?

Why are we referencing Generation 1? Because!

Look at the premise, okay? Scrapper and Mixmaster

come alive. They have no faction. Bulkhead befriends

them. Bulkhead's an Autobot. And then Megatron

bribes them with better oil. and eventually they

become Decepticons. Secret of Omega Supreme,

the Constructicons in one of their many origin

stories, were friends of Omega Supreme. They

were not Decepticons until Megatron got a hold

of them and turned them into Decepticons. That's

why I referenced the Secret of Omega Supreme.

Oh god, this episode is so meh. The Scrapper

Meg... I just I hate scrapper and mixmaster Horrible

horrible New York accents. Oh my god fucking

Yankees. Ah Now they're mimicking they were mimicking

your Boston accent. No, they weren't What do

you think they should sound like maybe the construction

workers? Yeah, I know but I just I don't know.

I just didn't really care for the characterizations

I don't know. I just didn't when I think of care

when I think of construction workers or the character

the caricatures let's say of construction workers

i think of that new york accent and watching

a girl a woman you know walked on the street

and they all go hey baby come on over here that's

what i that's what i envisioned so it's kind

of funny that not only do they have this accent

but they actually do it to cars they actually

do it to cars exactly The car drives by and it's

a red car. So I'm thinking I instantly get the

sideburn vibe, right? Oh, God. Yeah. So you got

like sideburn going, hey, baby, come on over

here. Drive home with me. But, you know, mix

master or mix, right? Makes sense. Scrapper are

literally catcalling to the to the cars as they

drive by. Hey, baby, come over here. I'll show

you my rocket if you show me oh Mix a baby It's

huge Bulkhead not bulkhead, but lug nut did something

he did something where he injures himself. It's

like wait crash. I'm okay. No one cares lug nut

He was in the Decepticon headquarters, and I

don't oh I think one of the construct icons attacked

him or something I don't know what the hell it

was but it was no yeah it was in this episode

it was Lugnut he got attacked inside the Decepticon

headquarters by one of the Constructicons and

Megatron's just there shaking his head and in

the background you can hear him say after he

crashes you can hear him say I'm okay and my

Bulkhead is such a dunce. He's such a dunce.

He's looking out for his friends. His clueless

friends. Which I, you know, find myself doing

often here on the podcast. Ah ha ha, fuck you,

you're fired. Now I know Michael's gonna have

something to say about this, but even I had something

to say about this. Give them oil and they'll

do anything oil in animated is like fucking alcohol.

This is not a good thing Is this really a kids

show? We have a bunch of Charlie Sheen's running

around on the screen Stop, you know, it could

have been anything it could have been Kool -Aid

Hey, I like your special blend the Kool -Aid.

It's kind of nice Because no because the way

I look at it and maybe this is just my cynical

personality the way I look at it is the Autobots

oil is like Light beer and Megatron's oil is

like a finely aged scotch And that's literally

what he said this is my private blend. Yeah,

you see exactly. That's like, oh, okay, so I

have the age The oak aged oil here that's been

in Oak barrel for you know 50 years and then

I have so let's just mix them with a little bit

of newer stuff Maybe only 20 years old But yeah

plenty of oil to go around for everybody yeah

And my final note was the best part in this episode

was at the end when the concerted guns blew up

They come back, but they still they blowed up

really good they're like cockroaches Just won't

die What do you got for this one Steve um I liked

the drinking robots Because they get trashed

I Like how bulkhead just naively is like yeah,

I'll be your friend But uh and then Megatron

of course, you know this uber bribing but Overall,

I'd say it's kind of another throwaway, like

the last one. I mean, I know that they come back,

but... Yeah, I mean, it's a nice introduction

to them. It's a nice, you know, but that's pretty

much all it is. I mean... But they do have a

lot more personality than the G1 Constructicons.

All of them put together. I will agree that these

two have more personality. but i still prefer

and this is probably one of the only times i

will go g1 on this show but i still like the

g1 constructicons there's nothing not to like

about the g1 constructicons because they combine

and these guys don't that's my one big beef about

these guys is there's not four more of them where's

the beef I want a Devastator. That's all I want.

Is that too much to ask? Apparently so. Yeah,

well, my next want would be I want toys of these

guys. Is that too much to ask? But it is because,

you know, the Hasbro's track record of actually

producing the toys from the third season. Or,

well, these guys in particular, let's say, wasn't

very good. we may have actually seen a couple

of these guys, but we would have never seen a

Devastator a Devastator or even something Similar

like let's say a three construct a con combiner.

Oh No dirt boss can die in hell, but anyway,

that's a story for another day Anything else

Steve no, okay. What do you got Michael? Okay

Return to the g1 construction workers Yeah, yeah,

I so want to put together an outfit like that

and be a g1 construction worker just wear the

blue jeans and the boots and the white shirt

and the hard hat I Just want to wear that around

so yeah, I'm sure that could be possible you

could do that I want to say the last bot con

I was at that was a girl dressed up as a As a

G1 construction worker. I thought it was funny.

I told her she looked cool. Awesome. Uh, bulkhead.

Bending to peer pressure. This is just a Saturday

morning, you know, PSA. Pretty much, yeah. All

over. Yeah. Yeah. It's just, it's just terrible

because they're, you know, they're calling them

a puny yellow compact and they're dancing around

like chickens going buck, buck, buck. Yeah, okay,

just has no choice but to but to bend and the

next thing, you know, he's chugging down oil

and You know breaking into the Dean's apartment

Dismantling his horse I Like the line Megatron

says why be constructive bots when you can be

constructive cons Yeah at that point. I'm like,

yeah Constructive cats You know, it seems like

in this series everybody has to be bestowed a

name, you know, yeah, it's like You know, I don't

like your name or you know, your name is too

long. Let's shorten it or You know, it's things

like that and here they're given the name construct

icons, which I I dug But the construct icons

are bigger than everyone Mean, they're huge.

I mean they're even bigger than bulkhead and

he's supposed to be the big the big heavy guy

Yeah With the exception of Megatron because Megatron

still manhandles both of them at the same time.

Yeah It likes handling my so anyway Megatron

Dinosaur DNA Literally, you know just grabs them

both One hand each in one hand and just says,

I'm going to take you apart. But instead, he

kind of. I don't want to say sweet talk, some

is not really sweet talking. It's more of a you

what they weren't coerced working for. Yeah,

they were con. That's right. So, yeah. Con. Con.

Not con, con. There's a difference. We're not

talking about Dr. Con. All right anyway I lash

out with my last breath at the From the dark

side of hell. All right. Um, what else do I got?

Further examples of Derek Wyatt's Love of molded

on facial hair. Yep. Yeah Scrappers get the mix

master mix master has a full beard And it's funny

because you know when I was watching Garbage

in garbage out. Oh, you know, you're looking

at weird Albot and thinking he's he got a goatee

Is that supposed to be it's not is that you think

you know, but no, it's it's it's a goatee painted

on his face whereas mix master actually has Like

a sculpted beard on top of his face. Yeah, and

you will see further evidence of this later,

but it's Interesting that's something that I

would have thought of And lastly, you know the

whole episode is resolved when bulkhead slips

the construct icons a laxative I'm thinking like

dumb and dumber Yeah, or the dumb or guy slips

the laxative like an entire chocolate bar of

chocolate laxative to the dumb guy Yeah, he ends

he ends up spending like 20 minutes on the toilet

Yeah, and he goes oh Exactly. We used to they

totally should just take that whole scene and

just stick it in here, you know Scrapper and

mix master sitting on the toilet for half an

hour going. Oh, I just got a little vapor lock

He was I'm ashamed of you really Don't drink

the fixative But no, I I enjoyed that I do dig

the potty humor I Don't sure if that's what they

were going for But that's what I got out of it.

Oh I was gonna say when they when they do chose

their names. Mm -hmm mix master says I'm gonna

go with mix which I think I like Mixmaster. I

like that name better. Yeah, I do too. Mix is

too short. Mix is too short. Scrap is too short.

Let's go with Mixmaster and Scrapper. Yep. Yeah,

and you know, if you end up with more Constructicons,

you know, feel free to go with, you know, Bonecrusher,

Longhall, good names, you know, tried and true.

Dirtboss, maybe not the best name. Anything's

better than a Burgess Meredith ripoff. And on

that note, we're gonna go to some ads, some quotes

from the episode, a voicemail from Salem Blood,

and we're gonna head to Cybertron to hear what

Kevin has to say. Hey, that's my car! Put it

down, now! You! You! You're gonna pay for that!

All you lousy alien machines, they're gonna pay,

I swear! Hey! You're the one who parked that

thing under a trash heap! And listen up, you

overgrown vacuum cleaner! That trash heap wasn't

there when I parked it! Here's quote number two.

dilapidated delinquent now kindly dispose of

your interloping law enforcement and leave us

make our getaway right dispose and get away hey

i suppose you can tell me what i am funny green

man you are my partner in crime they call me

angry archer they call me Oh, really? Bit of

a mouthful. Perhaps we should just call you Wreck

Gar, for short. I am Wreck Gar! I am some new

kind of owl but - And quote number three? Somebody

help me! My wife is about to have a baby and

our car broke down! We need to get to a hospital

right away! Bike, honey, please please tell the

driver to slow down! Carly, there's no driver!

There's just a little girl - Finally quote number

four they like me they really like me Hello,

hello, this is Salem blood and this voicemail

is for the casters of the transformation the

transformation animation podcast and so Yay,

finally voicemail works Okay. Well, I just heard

to your season two opening episode. What I'm

saying is, okay, what was stated in the beginning

was that the Detroit car industry was failing

so bad that they had to set down plants in Detroit

causing people to lose their jobs. Until some

that came in started hiring those people who

were being laid off from the car factories that

were shutting down, his production plants started

to ramp up on robotics. And robotics is what

the robotics industry is what took over as the

dominant production of Detroit. That is how they

were able or that's why Detroit was able to recreate

itself. It's only through robotics, not through

anything else. Sondak's not making toasters or

stereos or even that little remote control airplane

that, sorry, was playing with Bumblebee. No,

it was the robotics industry and only through

the robotics industry. Sondak himself even told

Megatron that his expertise extends only through

or only to servomechanics. in the robotics nothing

else that's so it is only through robotics that

the new detroit was built up that's why there's

so many robots around the city and uh and until

power took over some that also avoided any military

technology which means that the uh harrier the

what the what Did Starscream call himself a Harrier?

You have me confused with a different Harrier?

So apparently that Harrier that Starscream has

turned himself, well is disguised as, and the

other two planes, the other two Decepticons have

taken, including the tank, are not some DAC industry

products. No, they're from something else. Which

means that again, as I said, not everything in

New Detroit is Cybertronian or based on Cybertronian

technology. Again, yes, I would say that the

worst character above all is Sentinel Prime.

But Sentinel Prime is not around long enough

for him to become that worst character. The worst

definitely of the humans, the person who has

you wanting to send assassins after is definitely

Powell because this guy seems to have an answer

for everything. That's the part that really annoys

me. Just when you think that something's going

to happen that's going to be right, here comes

Powell with an answer. for it and gets away with

it. So yes, I definitely hate power. Anyway,

this has been Salem Blood. Hope to hear more

from you. You guys are very excellent. I like

everything that you have to say about the Yod

episodes. And you have me watching the Yod episodes

once again with refreshed eyes, actually. So

thank you very much for your contribution to

the podcast universe. And stay transformed. Bye

bye. We have the emergence of retgar now retgar

is a pretty darn likeable character in this show

I got to give you that hats off for nailing a

Character as far as personality goes name look

and everything I love the little segment with

him when he's looking for the jewels and he pulls

out tools and then he pulls out spools I just

love the way the voice actor did it. I love the

depiction Rettgar is easily one of my favorite

characters I've seen so far. He even does the

universal greeting. Come on now! Is it just me

though, or is Rettgar like the Transformers version

of Mick Foley? I don't know if people will get

that, but he just reminds me of Mick Foley and

his multiple personalities. The only thing I

didn't like about retgar was his, and this isn't

really anything to do with retgar, it has to

do more with the writing of the entire episode,

was that they solved the entire problem of the

episode there at the end by retgar just simply

pulling out a vacuum from his back and vacuuming

up the problem, the microbots or whatever they

were. That was a little easy, don't you think?

They just randomly put a vacuum in there and

let him do that and apparently the vacuum sucks

them up and they don't eat it away. Yeah. I was

scared for a second. I thought they were going

to follow the pattern of always killing off the

best characters or this plague that seems to

be plaguing, for lack of a better term, Transformers

animated of bringing in good characters and letting

them only be in one episode. They do show him

at the end though, so it was a great ending to

the episode and I have hopes of seeing him again.

A couple other things about the episode. We have

yet another human characteristic or trait bestowed

upon the Transformers, yes, now they can smell,

as well as sleep and eat and drink and cry and

everything else. The only bad part about this

episode, my only complaint, because everything

else was just little, was that for a while it

seemed like it was a PSA of how to have warm

fuzzy feelings and how to get a better attitude

for Ratchet, and that could have gone terribly

bad. I'm glad Rekgar came in and completely changed

the mood of that. episode this is a great way

to step out of the first season into the second

season gives me a little bit of hope I'm giving

this episode a 7 out of 10 I'm a big fan of this

episode then we move on to episode 21 the fifth

in season 2 called velocity and we haven't had

this writer yet but Len Yuli or Uli, and hopefully

we do not have him again. This is a one -off

episode. It has nothing to do with the bigger

picture. This is a completely pointless episode

unless something important happened and it just

put me to sleep so much that I missed it. First

of all, I hate stories that center around street

racing, drag racing, and cars in general. I know

Transformers are cars, but I'm talking about

cars for the sake of cars. This episode just...

It was one of the most boring episodes I've seen

of a cartoon series not just transformers of

any cartoon series in a long time It wasn't Can't

say bad things about it as far as like there

wasn't these major flaws or there wasn't these

like super stupid Storylines or characters like

we've had in nanosec or a couple other ones.

It was just an episode that was completely useless

So I'm giving it a 3 out of 10. There's nothing

really to talk about nothing happens in this

episode It's pointless So let's move on to the

third and final episode for today episode 22

6 and season 2 rise of the constructor cons written

by another first -time guy Stan Berkowitz Now,

first of all, I'm a huge Constructicon fan, so

that when I saw that they were going to get in

here, I was happy. I liked the whole, uh, cool,

mixmaster, wait, that's too long, line, and scrap's

too short, and I like how they're making fun

of the random creating of names, and that's kind

of an inside joke, I guess, probably to the writers

and how they sometimes, you know, come up with

names for things. I kind of like that the characters

themselves are making fun of that. I actually

kind of like the New York style accent, but once

again, this is a complete 180 in personality,

though. They have brought in characters that

have names and then have similar forms that they

did in G1 or other series, and then they have

completely given them a... the opposite personality

that they had in G1. And I don't quite understand

why they consistently insist upon doing that.

That being said, this is one of the times where

I don't mind it as much because it's actually

kind of a cool little play with them both having

these New York accents and stuff. I kind of like

that. I don't understand the chicken move they're

doing. They're flapping their wings like chickens.

They would not be aware of what chickens are.

They would have no... They're in New York. They

just became sentient beings, I guess, for lack

of a better term. So the chicken move is retarded.

The other thing that's bugging me, and it's not

necessarily about this episode, it's an overall

theme, is this convenient random Allspark fragments

popping up here and there, which give us life

to Retgar or the Constructacons or this and that.

This is a pretty convenient plot. device here

that we're just gonna have random shards fall

or create more beans um you know i guess it's

just about the same as having stasis pods randomly

fall throughout the series but It's just too

convenient If you're gonna have some people have

a group of people if you don't want new characters

have a group of them come in Like you did with

ultra Magnus, but then have them stay I'm getting

a little bit sick of the one Time or just a one

appearance and then maybe I'm assuming later

on we might see them here or there But I'd like

a couple new characters to actually stay in the

storyline Also, is this a kids show because I'm

pretty sure they just had a whole bunch of this

episode feature the construct account and at

times bulkhead drinking I know they're drinking

oil I know it's not labeled as beer but I'm telling

you and I'm sure Mike might have some Michael

might have some comments on this but me personally

if I'm a father I have a problem with my kids

seeing this episode because of the way they're

depicting it So that's just a minor nitpick.

I do like the episode though. I like the constructor

cons coming in I don't have a huge problem with

the New York style accent I like that can the

interaction between bulkhead and the constructor

cons it develops his character a little bit more

So I'm gonna give it a six out of ten I can't

give it any higher though because of some of

those things that are starting to bug me. Overall,

though, two out of three episodes were pretty

good this time. I like the first one, I like

the last one, the middle one we could have done

without. I'm still waiting for this series to

really take off though and to get good. Overall,

in the big picture, these three episodes had

very little to do with the overall continuity

and the meaning. you know, the important meat

part of Transformers Animated. I'm still looking

for us to go that route, so I'm hoping we get

there real soon, and I'm hoping I don't have

to wait all the way until Season 3 to get there.

So I'll send it back to the guys on Earth, and

let's get their thoughts. Now back to Transformation

Animation Podcast. Alright, we are back, and

before we get to responding to Kevin, we've got

to respond to Salem's voicemail. My responses

are... Robotics are in stereos microwaves t that

there are circuits there are There is machinery

inside that that some that could have invented

This is not the Harrier you are looking for move

along The Harrier Anything to say to Salem Steve

no, okay Michael I have leaned back in my chair

and I've put my feet up, which means I'm relaxing

Okay, so this episode. All right Responding to

Kevin for me garbage and garbage out. I agree

with most of what he says Except for the fact

that retgar is nowhere near Mick Foley No, I'm

not sure who is that the the guy that he's arrested

late Mick Foley is a wrestler from WWE He's the

guy I'll show you later. How would I know this?

And then he's like he said something about retgar

at the bottom of the oh no He was thought about

the same thing you were talking about Michael

about the The microbots and just vacuuming them

them up well He vacuumed them up into him in

into his garbage thing and then his garbage thing

exploded so I mean You know, there's something

there, you know, he didn't exactly he didn't

exactly they didn't just magically disappeared

They exploded afterwards. Well, that's why I

thought that it was just like his head at the

bottom of the sea I didn't realize it was he

was Barry I couldn't tell if he was buried or

if his backpack exploded and took his body with

it Yeah, cuz I mean if he's got a body, why doesn't

he just dig himself out? Because his hands were

treated. It's just his head. He's just a head,

dude It's got his shoulder shoulder Steve anything

for Kevin on garbage in garbage out How the hell

could you not know that that was weird Al You

know, I could see if there'd be a confusion there

because they put a reverb over his voice to make

him sound more robotic But it's still it's so

weird Yeah. I mean, if he had broken out a, uh,

accordion, an accordion, I was going to say harmonica,

but I'm thinking that's not harmonica. If he

had broken out an accordion out from his backpack,

you know, I would have been like, Oh my God,

it's weird at all. You know, but exactly. But,

uh, no, the voice is you can tell. Oh yeah. And

I think it was, you know, in, in Kevin's defense.

Cause I, I. I actually mentioned this to him

after I listened to the clip. I said, you do

know that was Weird Al, right? He's like, oh,

yeah, I just kind of forgot to mention it. You

know, Eric Idle is still alive. I mean, they

probably could have gotten him. You probably

listen to LA. I mean, in this in this universe,

in the animated universe, I think Weird Al fits

Retgar. I mean, you know, Eric Idle will always

be awesome as movie and G1 Retgar and anything

else that he does. But I mean, for this specific

universe, Weird Al fits much better. Eric Idle

wouldn't have fit nearly as well with the I am

Reckar and I dare to be stupid line. Exactly.

That's the thing. That line was written specifically

for Weird Al. Yeah. Anything else on garbage

and garbage out to Kevin, Michael? Velocity,

the only thing I have is saving grace of the

episode is it's blur. It's the only So it's like

this episode they could have skipped it and it

wouldn't have mattered. Yeah, pretty much What

about you Steve for velocity I agree with them.

Okay, Michael Yeah, no, I was actually thinking

I never saw this episode and I didn't miss it

And now that I've seen it, it's like, well, I

could have done without that. Yeah. And for,

uh, I almost said revenge of the Constructicons,

rise of the Constructicons. Kevin, would you

rather have the AllSpark shards show up or Sara

using her key every five fucking seconds? Go

with the lesser of two evils, dude. Because the

thing about the AllSpark shards... The AllSpark,

we've established, it dispersed. It's all over

Detroit. I mean, I get that he doesn't like it

showing up in just random places, but that's

the point. When it dispersed, it went everywhere,

so you never know where one's going to show up.

So it will be random. Right. I mean, you can

only have Megatron creating new characters every

so often. Yeah. I mean, it's not like we can

fly to Cybertron and go see Vector Sigma. Well,

you could because they're gonna build a space

bridge, but oh This it's interesting in that

You you can have stories like this where or stories

like garbage in garbage out where new characters

can just pop out of nowhere Mm -hmm. I was like,

well, how did retgar come to be? Well, he was

a garbage truck or He was a bunch of garbage

that got created into a garbage truck that got

created into a robot or something like that,

you know, and the same thing with like Mixed

Master and Scrafter. They were construction vehicles

and they just turned into Transformers. And,

you know, when it happens in the movie, nobody

complains. Ain't that the truth? Yeah, it's like,

oh, why do we have a Mountain Dew Dispenser?

Shooting people with cans of Mountain Dew or

why is there a blend dick in Sam's kitchen? Blender

dick exactly or the toaster the to I have the

toaster transformer somewhere. It's funny Yeah,

Bert toast. Why is there a burnt toast transformer?

I yeah. Oh, okay, because the the all spark and

turns things in the transformers and hey, we're

all fine with that You know it and yeah, it's

not okay here Personally, I don't think it's

okay in the movies either. I think it's a horrible

premise But then again Kevin does love revenge

of the fallen for some odd reason. I have no

idea why Well, they didn't do that in revenge

of the fallen so much room Yeah, that was that

was more of the first movie a little bit in the

second movie But yeah, that was just a horrible

horrible plot device Yeah, so I think that's

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You know when I listen to some of the other podcasts

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