THE NEWS POD IS BACK! This week Jen and David discuss super-fancy Rodimus, explain why GaoGaiGar is Transformers-adjacent, touch briefly on the Energon Universe, and have a lot of thoughts about the Transformers One trailer! Welcome back to Iacon Underground Radio!

A WILD SIDESWIPE APPEARS! Mischevious Cyclone Mini-Con Bounce is on the loose in Griffin Rock, and he’s writing rude Cybertronian graffiti all over the place! Can Sideswipe actually be a team player for once and help the Rescue Bots catch him? Can Blurr convince Sideswipe to get him on the Bee Team? And how well would Strongarm get along with Chase? Join us this week for “The Need For Speed”!

Mysteriously falling spruce trees, a missing Mrs. Neederlander, and a trapped Taylor draw everyone into a series of fairy-tale adventures in the forest, but are actual fairies really behind it all? What deep concerns are raised about Cybertronian culture? And can Kade get a creative writing project out of it? Join us this week for “Once Upon a Time”!

Blades and Cody are ready to graduate from Lad Pioneers to Teen Pioneers, but to get his final badge, Blades is going to need to go to the mainland in a holographic human disguise! Can he maintain his cover when they’re faced with an unhinged camp counselor named Chickadee? What trauma made Graham drop out of the Pioneers? And which of us actually went to scout camp as a kid? Join us this week for “Camp Cody”!

When Bumblebee lands at the Rescue Bots’ Training Center, it’s a chance to catch up on all that’s happened in the last few years, including his new voice! But his ship’s got a hitchhiker in the form of a hatchling Energon eater, and it’s on the loose! Can they catch it before it drains the whole team? Can Blades come to terms with his friend’s big changes? And how many stories are tagged “BumbleBlades” on AO3? Join us this week for “Uninvited Guest”!

Griffin Rocks continues its obsession with food-based holidays and STEM fields with a Pizza Pi Party! But can the team save the town when some experimental super-yeast makes out-of-control dough? Why is Blades judging the cooking competition when he doesn’t actually eat food? And who doesn’t care how many rocks or bugs are in his slice? Join us this week for a “Pizza Pi Party”!

This week we mash up two classic 90s movies: Chief Burns and Dani head to Rwanda to help his brother Woodrow with a gorilla problem a la Congo, and back on Griffin Rock, the remaining brothers learn that they might be royalty a la King Ralph! Can the Chief and his brother help their new gorilla friends escape menacing baboons AND a volcano? Who is way too quick to embrace monarchy? And what was Blades really hoping to see in Africa? Join us this week for “King Burns”!

Blurr feels useless being a race car on a rescue team, so he decides to take up competitive racing – but to keep from blowing their cover, he needs a driver! Can he and Dani really compete against normal human drivers? Can Mayor Luskey earn the respect of his older brother, Mayor Luskey? And are Dani and Blades in an open relationship now? Join us this week for “Hot Rod Bot”!

The new training center’s AI assistant has gone haywire! Can the Bots get things under control before Dani’s test pilot team flies over and blows their cover? Can Blurr and Quickshadow outrun a Roomba? Would a temporary flight restriction supersede a military training schedule? And who totally called this twist? Join us this week for the second part of this season’s mid-season two-parter, “The More Things Stay the Same”!

The Rescue Bots Training Center is all ready for the bots to move in, but everybody’s having mixed feelings about the change. Will all the exciting features of the new center make the transition a little easier? What is going on with Dani’s test pilot gig? And what do you mean there was never a toy of this extremely toyetic training center? Join us this week for part 1 of the season 4 mid-seasion two-parter, “The More Things Change…”!