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Rebels and Robots and Etc.

Rachel and Cameron

Rach and Cam have turned their Star Wars/Transformers night into a bi-weekly chat about their shared interests, including Godzilla, animation, Jurassic Park / World, video games, memes, and, apparently, the 1980s Australian synth rock band Men at Work. Music by Caleb Jacobi.

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127:19

Ahsoka Ep 1 and 2

Rebels and Robots and Etc. ·

2023/08/25

Ahsoka is here and that means we are back to weekly Star Wars chats. This episode: Rachel worries about who will feed Sabine’s Loth-cat and Cameron complains about how the show is adapting animated characters.

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122:13

Transformers: The Last Knight

Rebels and Robots and Etc. ·

2023/08/18

“Let’s put some hammers in this coffin.” We wrap up Hot Bot Summer™ by getting caught up on Transformers: The Last Knight and its five aspect ratios, ultimate effort to transform history, and attempts at being crappy Game of Thrones, Prometheus, Force Awakens, Suicide Squad, Batman v. Superman, and Capt. America: Civil War.

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118:38

Transformers: Age of Extinction (featuring...

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2023/08/10

Previous guest and friend-of-the-show Caleb returns to help us power through the fourth Michael Bay Transformers film: Age of Extinction, as we contemplate Optimus’s drunk uncle energy, bemoan the missed subtext about the military industrial complex and the treatment of veterans, and praise the use of the Tuch.

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98:16

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

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2023/08/03

Listen to us slowly just give up trying as we stare into the void that is Michael Bay’s third Transformers movie. Also this week: we willingly subjected ourselves to Jar Jar concept art and rank the three Transformers Linkin Park songs.

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111:41

Barbenheimer-Starformers Crossover Special

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2023/07/27

To commemorate the special “Barbenheimer” weekend (We had Starformers first, but whatever), we are categorizing every Star Wars and Transformers movie and series as either Barbie or Oppenheimer (with Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City as the midpoint). We also get into weird Transformers Facebook posts, correction’s from Rachel’s mother, and how the writer/actor strike is affecting Andor.

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81:21

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (part 2): the...

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2023/07/20

“Negatives. Lots of ‘em. Where to even start.” We continue our demolition of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - awful characterizations, seductive fem-bots, and weird parallels to the Snyder-verse.

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71:08

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (part 1), plus...

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2023/07/13

It was a dark and stormy night, an ominous setting for the discussion of something truly cursed: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. This week (part 1) we get into the few positives we could force out from behind gritted teeth along with the newly announced Emmy nominations for three Star Wars shows as well as our picks for Star Wars actors/characters to return in old age for one last adventure à la Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

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66:26

Megatron's Master Plan (Transformers G1)

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2023/07/06

Before we get kicked off this planet for supposedly making a fake podcast that attacks people, hear us go on about the upcoming knock-off Star Wars movies by Zack Snyder and Gareth Edwards and then an oddly political yet relevant episode of Transformers G1. After that we each try to guess which meme the other host made.

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88:46

Transformers (2007): 16 years later and as weird as ever

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2023/06/29

Watching Rise of the Beasts made us miss the chaotic old Michael Bay days of our youth. Arrive to Earth with us as we revisit the 2007 Transformers film with its ambitious (yet mishandled) quantity-over-quality approach, disrespect of Autobot Jazz, and confused subtext about the American military industrial complex.

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75:17

Transformers: Rise of the Beast review (part 2)

Rebels and Robots and Etc. ·

2023/06/22

Ascend into this week’s episode with the second part of our Transformers: Rise of the Beasts review. We get into the mechanics of how the movie does or does not work, including Optimus Prime’s surprising character arc, the role humans play in the story, and the bonkers sequel tease.

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76:31

Transformers: Rise of the Beast review (part 1) and...

Rebels and Robots and Etc. ·

2023/06/15

Fall into this week's episode with our review of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Can it match the insane energy of the original cartoon? Can it be more memorable than the Michael Bay movies? Can Rachel and Cameron remember what happened since they saw it two days ago? Answers to all of this plus our thoughts on the first trailer for the Star Wars video game Outlaws.

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152:52

Transformers: The Movie (1986) and Jedi: Survivor...

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2023/06/08

We’re back and so are the Transformers. Rise of the Beasts releases this weekend so roll out with us as we barely survive yet talk for an hour and 20 minutes about the animated movie from 1986 with all of its brain melting animation, wild casting choices, drastic tonal shifts, and ill-fitting pop music. We also recount a story from Cameron’s wedding, Rachel cries over the end of Jedi: Survivor, and our supervisor, Athena, returns to the pod.

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82:07

Visions Vol. 2 Ep 8-9 and Our Rankings

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2023/05/25

Everyone knows the sequel is better. Welcome to part 2 of last week’s recording with our friend Caleb where we get stuck in a big hole with “The Pit," want to give “Aau’s song” a big ole hug, rank all nine parts of Visions Vol. 2, and get back to what really matters: Meme Minute, but it’s longer (than a minute) - Meme Parsec; Meme Astrosecond.

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59:44

Visions Vol. 2 Ep 7 and Transformers G1: "The Girl...

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2023/05/18

It’s a pod of firsts. We have our first guest, friend of the show Caleb, and our first two-part episode. In this week’s first part, get friendly with us as we experience autobot/human love with Transformers G1 “The Girl Who Loved Powerglide” and venture into Indian animation uncanny valley with “The Bandits of Golak."

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119:14

Visions Vol. 2 Ep 4-6 and Transformers G1: "War Dawn"

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2023/05/11

You’re not seeing (hearing?) double; we’re back again with a lore-heavy episode of Transformers G1 and three shorts from Visions Vol. 2. Get an ear (eye?) full of Rachel reading, Cameron singing, and both of us laughing way too much.

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95:27

May the 4th, Transformers prequel news, and Visions...

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2023/05/05

May the 4th be with you for these real droid hours as Rachel shares about Jedi: Survivor so far, Cameron predicts wolves turning into people during the Ahsoka series, and both of us critique the Transformer prequel voice cast. Then we praise the combination of animation and story in the first three episodes of Visions Vol. 2.

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81:20

Transformers G1: The Key to Vector Sigma

Rebels and Robots and Etc. ·

2023/04/27

It is finally time to make good on the robots part of our name. Fly into 1980’s animated chaos with us as we examine the detailed lips of the new Wheeljack, a special Coachella appearance, and the absolute low-budget cartoon mess that is Transformers “The Key to Vector Sigma”.

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104:00

Mandalorian Season 3 finale

Rebels and Robots and Etc. ·

2023/04/20

This episode is a CATastrophe! Curl up into a cat-loaf and listen to us hiss and howl about if we podcasted in 2013, the chaos of the Mando season finale, and Rachel’s problem with these descriptions.

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103:20

Star Wars Celebration news, Ahsoka series trailer,...

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2023/04/13

Join us for a special report on Star Wars Celebration (and all the movies they probably won’t make), a live reaction and (emotional) breakdown of the Ahsoka series trailer, and a speed run recap of the Mandalorians returning to Mandalore (because we were already at an hour of recording by time we started talking about it). Additional bonus features: a Star Wars club music close listen, Cameron’s poor listening skills, and more scientific terminology confusion for Rachel.

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77:53

The Mandalorian S3 Ep6

Rebels and Robots and Etc. ·

2023/04/06

In an absolute wild episode of the pod with squid Romeo and Juliet, robot racism, and mando JROTC, we find ways around swearing, Rachel learns that parsecs are real, and Cameron runs more jokes into the ground

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