Nevermorphed: An Animorphs First Read

In this episode, you'll hear the first half of our conversation on book 5 of Animorphs, The Predator. I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH. I LOVE VISSER ONE. I LOVE QUARRIES.

My guest this episode is Josh Rubino, who you can find in:

• VALENCE (hey go listen to this one i hear its really good)
• The Kingmaker Histories
• Waiting for October (coming soon!)

In this episode, I referenced the "Gangs" episode of You're Wrong About.

Nevermorphed is hosted, edited, and produced by Wil Williams. Our theme music is “The Chase” by Joey Hendrixx. Our title is by Eddie Feeley WHO JUST GOT MARRIEDDDDDDDDDDD 🎉🎉🎉, and this podcast would not exist without Mike Schubert’s podcasts, Potterless and The Newest Olympian. You can find his work at https://schub.es.

In this episode, you'll hear part 3, the final part!!!, of our conversation on book 4 of Animorphs, The Message. This book was engineered in a lab to piss me off and scare me shitless. If you want the full conversation right now with the deep Wil lore (You get the whale fear. You get the seagull story. You get dolphin racism.) be sure to support us on Patreon!

My guest this episode is C. N. Josephs, who asked me to give some additional visibility to how you can help those affected by the Palestinian genocide instead of plugging his work. Please consider donating to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

You can support Nevermorphed and get access to full episodes, early episodes, my notes for each book, and my live reactions for each book on our Patreon! There, you can also get access to our Discord. Come join us, and laugh at me for getting things wrong in the series if you want!

Nevermorphed is hosted, edited, and produced by Wil Williams. Our theme music is “The Chase” by Joey Hendrixx. Our title is by Eddie Feeley WHO JUST GOT MARRIEDDDDDDDD 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉, and this podcast would not exist without Mike Schubert’s podcasts, Potterless and The Newest Olympian. You can find his work at https://schub.es.

In this episode, you'll hear part 2 of our conversation on book 4 of Animorphs, The Message. This book was engineered in a lab to piss me off and scare me shitless. If you want the full conversation right now with the deep Wil lore (You get the whale fear. You get the seagull story. You get dolphin racism.) be sure to support us on Patreon!

My guest this episode is C. N. Josephs, who asked me to give some additional visibility to how you can help those affected by the Palestinian genocide instead of plugging his work. Please consider donating to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

You can support Nevermorphed and get access to full episodes, early episodes, my notes for each book, and my live reactions for each book on our Patreon! There, you can also get access to our Discord. Come join us, and laugh at me for getting things wrong in the series if you want!

Nevermorphed is hosted, edited, and produced by Wil Williams. Our theme music is “The Chase” by Joey Hendrixx. Our title is by Eddie Feeley, and this podcast would not exist without Mike Schubert’s podcasts, Potterless and The Newest Olympian. You can find his work at https://schub.es.

In this episode, you'll hear part 1 of our conversation on book 4 of Animorphs, The Message. This book was engineered in a lab to piss me off and scare me shitless. If you want the full conversation right now with the deep Wil lore (You get the whale fear. You get the seagull story. You get dolphin racism.) be sure to support us on Patreon!

My guest this episode is C. N. Josephs, who asked me to give some additional visibility to how you can help those affected by the Palestinian genocide instead of plugging his work. Please consider donating to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

You can support Nevermorphed and get access to full episodes, early episodes, my notes for each book, and my live reactions for each book on our Patreon! There, you can also get access to our Discord. Come join us, and laugh at me for getting things wrong in the series if you want!

Nevermorphed is hosted, edited, and produced by Wil Williams. Our theme music is “The Chase” by Joey Hendrixx. Our title is by Eddie Feeley, and this podcast would not exist without Mike Schubert’s podcasts, Potterless and The Newest Olympian. You can find his work at https://schub.es.

CONTENT WARNING: The next two episodes of Nevermorphed discuss suicidal ideation and attempt. Please take care of yourself.

In this episode, you'll hear the second half of our discussion on book 3 of Animorphs, The Encounter, and our extremely important segment: NOWVERMORPHS! As a heads up, this episode opens right into THOSE fucked up extremely depressing chapters. Oh, Tobias.

My guest this episode is Josh Rubino, prolific voice actor in the audio drama space! You can find his work in:

• VALENCE (please listen to VALENCE thank you)
• The Kingmaker Histories
• Windfall
• And more -- check out Josh's carrd!

In the extended version of this conversation, I mentioned a bunch of other things this book make me think about. You can hear the context on Patreon, but I just recommend checking all of these out and didn't want y'all to miss out on them!:

• "Vampires" by Hi Phi Nation (Podcast)
• "Are the Titans from Attack on Titan Evil?" by PBS Idea Channel (YouTube)
• "The Artist Who Gave You Goosebumps" by ARTefacts (YouTube)
• "a fervent defense of love triangles" by Julia Cudney (YouTube)

You can support Nevermorphed and get access to full episodes, early episodes, my notes for each book, and my live reactions for each book on our Patreon! There, you can also get access to our Discord. Come join us, and laugh at me for getting things wrong in the series if you want!

Nevermorphed is hosted, edited, and produced by Wil Williams. Our theme music is “The Chase” by Joey Hendrixx. Our title is by Eddie Feeley, and this podcast would not exist without Mike Schubert’s podcasts, Potterless and The Newest Olympian. You can find his work at https://schub.es.

CONTENT WARNING: The next two episodes of Nevermorphed discuss suicidal ideation and attempt. Please take care of yourself.

In this episode, you'll hear the first half of our discussion on book 3 of Animorphs, The Encounter. What a terrible title for a truly fucked up and incredible book! It's Tobias time, and that means it's time to get real real real real sad.

My guest this episode is Josh Rubino, prolific voice actor in the audio drama space! You can find his work in:

• VALENCE (please listen to VALENCE thank you)
• The Kingmaker Histories
• Windfall
• And more -- check out Josh's carrd!

In the extended version of this conversation, I mentioned a bunch of other things this book make me think about. You can hear the context on Patreon, but I just recommend checking all of these out and didn't want y'all to miss out on them!:

• "Vampires" by Hi Phi Nation (Podcast)
• "Are the Titans from Attack on Titan Evil?" by PBS Idea Channel (YouTube)
• "The Artist Who Gave You Goosebumps" by ARTefacts (YouTube)
• "a fervent defense of love triangles" by Julia Cudney (YouTube)

You can support Nevermorphed and get access to full episodes, early episodes, my notes for each book, and my live reactions for each book on our Patreon! There, you can also get access to our Discord. Come join us, and laugh at me for getting things wrong in the series if you want!

Nevermorphed is hosted, edited, and produced by Wil Williams. Our theme music is “The Chase” by Joey Hendrixx. Our title is by Eddie Feeley, and this podcast would not exist without Mike Schubert’s podcasts, Potterless and The Newest Olympian. You can find his work at https://schub.es.

Instead of a typical Patreon preview, I'd love to introduce you to VALENCE, my audio drama! For Book 3, I'll be talking with Josh Rubino, voice of VALENCE protagonist Liam (and Liam's many inner voices, and a million other characters in audio drama). I think if you like Animorphs, there's a good chance you'll enjoy VALENCE -- especially with my Tobias-coded baby boy, protagonist Liam Alden. Find VALENCE wherever you're listening to Nevermorphed right now!

Want to hear my reactions as I read, without having to wait for when our first full episode drops? By supporting us on Patreon, you can access my full live reactions and notes for each book. Find us at patreon.com/hughousepods !

Credits

Nevermorphed is hosted, edited, and produced by Wil Williams. Our theme music is “The Chase” by Joey Hendrixx. Our title is by Eddie Feeley, and this podcast would not exist without Mike Schubert’s podcasts, Potterless and The Newest Olympian. You can find his work at schub.es.

Nevermorphed is a proud member of Hug House Productions. Find more at hughouse.productions, and follow us on Tumblr at hughousepods and nevermorphed.

Time to talk book 2, The Visitor, with guest Leigh Pfeffer! This book is so sad and so good. Listen in as we talk Rachel, gender, perception, and the joys of being a cat. Speaking of which: SPAY AND NEUTER YOUR CATS!

My guest this episode (and next episode!) is Leigh Pfeffer of History is Gay. Highly recommend these episodes:

• "31. The Gaymother of Rock n' Roll, O.G. Electric Lady Sister Rosetta Tharpe"
• "39. The Amazons: Stoner Horse Girl Warriors of Antiquity"

And here's some sources on Johnson & Johnson:

• "Johnson & Johnson has removed formaldehyde from its baby shampoo," Carl Franzen for The Verge, 2014
• "Did Johnson and Johnson Admit Their Baby Products Contain Cancer-Causing Formaldehyde?" Kim LaCapria for Snopes, 2015
• "Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder," Lisa Girion for Reuters, 2018
• "Johnson & Johnson hit by 11,000 more lawsuits linking Baby Powder to cancer after judge throws $9 billion settlement case," Jef Feeley (omg like Eddie???) and Bloomberg for Fortune, 2023
• "Talc Powder Ovarian Cancer Lawsuit," Ronald V. Miller, Jr. for the Lawsuit Information Center, 2024
• "Latest J&J talc trial ends with hung jury," Brendan Pierson for Reuters, 2024

Nevermorphed is hosted, edited, and produced by Wil Williams. Our theme music is “The Chase” by Joey Hendrixx. Our title is by Eddie Feeley, and this podcast would not exist without Mike Schubert’s podcasts, Potterless and The Newest Olympian. You can find his work at https://schub.es.

I have finished ALL THE WAY THROUGH BOOK 4, at least! Don't you want to hear my reactions to books 3 and 4? It's a lot!

Want to hear my reactions as I read, without having to wait for when our first full episode drops? By supporting us on Patreon, you can access my full live reactions and notes for each book. Find us at patreon.com/hughousepods !

Credits

Nevermorphed is hosted, edited, and produced by Wil Williams. Our theme music is “The Chase” by Joey Hendrixx. Our title is by Eddie Feeley, and this podcast would not exist without Mike Schubert’s podcasts, Potterless and The Newest Olympian. You can find his work at schub.es.

Nevermorphed is a proud member of Hug House Productions. Find more at hughouse.productions, and follow us on Tumblr at hughousepods and nevermorphed.

This is the second half of our conversation about Book 1: The Invasion -- plus our very important segments: Wil's Predictions (what do we call this section? pls) and NOWVERMORPH!

My guest this episode (and next episode!) is Leigh Pfeffer of History is Gay. Highly recommend these episodes:

• "31. The Gaymother of Rock n' Roll, O.G. Electric Lady Sister Rosetta Tharpe"
• "39. The Amazons: Stoner Horse Girl Warriors of Antiquity"

Nevermorphed is hosted, edited, and produced by Wil Williams. Our theme music is “The Chase” by Joey Hendrixx. Our title is by Eddie Feeley, and this podcast would not exist without Mike Schubert’s podcasts, Potterless and The Newest Olympian. You can find his work at https://schub.es.