More Than Meets The Pod

More Than Meets The Pod is a Transformers podcast made by queer women for queer women to discuss the ins and outs of why we love these robots so darn much.

G1AD 2.15-16: U-G-L-Y You Megatron No Have Alibi You Ugly 10/14/2020

G1AD 2.15-16: U-G-L-Y You Megatron No Have Alibi You Ugly Kit and Harper sat down after a fun bit of technical difficulties to muscle our way through a G1 And Done, mic quality or no mic quality. We think it worked out, unlike the Decepticon's plans. All of them. Topics Include: Werewolves of Venice, Let's Do The Time Warp Again, [Seaspray Voice], Law Enforcement Polycule, Shoving Perceptor In A Locker, They're Playing Bas-Ket-Ball, Etymology Of Bonecrusher, and Megatron's More Precious Possession Possibilities. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/16391834

2.6 They Have To Say Words To Transform 09/30/2020

2.6 They Have To Say Words To Transform Join Kit and Harper for some lovely outdoor ambience...children screaming...cars with no mufflers...pears falling from trees...while they recount their experience watching season one of Beast Wars. Topics Include: Flavors Of Drama, Swords Akimbo, It's Whirl, Hot Rod...Hate That, Beast!! Wars!!, Dinobot Lore, Charting Megatrons, and It's About The Interpersonal Relationships. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/16203548

G1AD 2.13-14: Wait A Minute...Who Are You? 09/09/2020

G1AD 2.13-14: Wait A Minute...Who Are You? Join Kit and Harper as they keep track of the ever increasing counter of new boys this episode, and we find ourselves continually asking...wait a minute...who are you? Topics Include: So Many New Boys!, The California Chomper, Mob Boss Ghost?, I Don't Care About The Department of Defense, WatchetGate, Jurassic Park 3, Astrophysics/Astrology Class, The Safety Braincell, and Do Montage Stuff! Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/15938312

2.5 Reconstructive Criticism: War For Cybertron: Siege 08/26/2020

2.5 Reconstructive Criticism: War For Cybertron: Siege Buckle up for a binge session dear listeners, as Kit and Harper watch and record their reactions to Netflix's War For Cybertron: Siege in as close to real time as possible. Special guest Eliott is also here to turn save our sound multiple times by turning off the air conditioner. If you're feeling rambunctious, they did develop a drinking game during the editing process. Take a drink when: we say manlet the Elita despair is too much every time we grudgingly admit something's cool we go off topic and every time we yell (hard mode, every time we raise our voices). Topics Include: Horny But Not Sexy, The RT Girl Character Archetype, Stop Talking About Alpha Trion! Stop Talking About Alpha Trion!, Telling Not Showing, Deadly Premonition, 5,000 Decepticons In The Thunderdome But Zero In The Streets, "We're Building A Better Show!!", We Need To Talk About Red Alert's Medbay, For Little Mouths, Elita-None Of You Are Listening, Where Is Jazz????????, The Tits And Ass Of It All, Have You Met Ratchet?, We Need To Talk About OpLita, and I Don't Think There Was Even A Siege. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/15752990

2.4.5 The Epic Highs and Lows of Robot War Crimes 08/19/2020

2.4.5 The Epic Highs and Lows of Robot War Crimes We're getting back into the swing of things here at Space Camp and, well, it got a little weird. Join Kit and Harper as they attempt to remember how this show works. Topics Include: Nasty B*tch, Some Technical Difficulties, Turbofox Shish Kebab, Delphi Baybee, The JROCU, Oh? Some Shipping Discourse?, Tales of Big Dave, TFWiki Roulette, and A Few Ships From A Hat. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/15681650

2.4 Build A Baby Workshop 07/29/2020

2.4 Build A Baby Workshop Kit and Harper are back this week to talk a few issues of comics, and then get into the swing of things with canonical baby making. Fanon baby making will have to wait for another day. Topics Include: The First Bi-Weekly IDW Book Club, Build-A-Baby, Questionable Reincarnation, A Primordial Soup of Souls, A Floating Baby Field, and You And You: Eat Your Double. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/15391139

G1AD 2.11-12: Bowl Might Harm You In The Crevice 07/15/2020

G1AD 2.11-12: Bowl Might Harm You In The Crevice Kit and Harper are back with two bangers this week! Well, Kit is here with two bangers; Harper has shown up with one and half, and a poor attention span. Topics Include: No Laws When Your Fighting Whiteclaw, Cliffjumper: Respawn?, God Slime, Which OP Is It Anyways?, Starscream's Totally Real And Accurate Resume (And Funeral), Interrupting Cat Says Meow, It's Bowl, Chip Chase's Dome Cardigan, A Les Mis Detour, Carefree Dad's Holding Babies, and A Bonus Moment Of Rachel! Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/15223814

Engex Hour 2.1: Girls From A Hat 07/08/2020

Engex Hour 2.1: Girls From A Hat From the mouth of Kit herself: "I feel like we're finally giving the listeners the most accurate representation of what being in a conversation with us is like when we're drunk at midnight at the kitchen table." Happy Birthday Kit. Topics Include: Scissor Quest! At The Lesbian Bar, Dirty Fencing, I Know What You Did Last Vorn, Pull Into Reincarnation Station, Dueling Medics, Is It F***iNG GHOST?, Victorion On The Rise, and If You Give Your Kid A Sword. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/15135143

G1AD 2.9-10: Harper Took A Nice Nap And Kit Ate A Banana 07/01/2020

G1AD 2.9-10: Harper Took A Nice Nap And Kit Ate A Banana Kit also did approximately thirty crosswords. Topics Include: Napping On The Job, You Cannot Take On Me, You Me And Laserbeak: The Good Ol' Days, We Need To Talk About Teletraan-1, ~*~The Dream Team~*~, Dr. Fujiyama The Famous Scientist, A Poorly Executed J-Decker Reference, Night Bird: DDR Master, Domo Arigato Mister Robotopossum, and Yeeting Out Energy. Our theme and outro is . Please donate to if you're able! /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/15038753

2.3 Botcetera: Artificial Intelligence 06/24/2020

2.3 Botcetera: Artificial Intelligence Nearly a year later, Kit and Harper return with another Botcetera! This time we're here to talk about the Big Brother in our lives, the Ghosts in the Machines; it's artificial intelligence. Make sure to heed the below content warnings. Topics Include: Where Would Hatsune Miku Be Without Hal 9000? Thank 1990's, Memoria, Uh...GLaDOS, We Are All Have A Liberal Arts Degree, Chatbots And Nueral Nets And Surveillance States Oh My! Our theme and outro is . Content Warnings: Discussions of sci-fi peril and horror, fictional genocide and torture, surveillance and law enforcement, racial bias and its consequences. /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/14938625

G1AD 2.7-8: Don Your Hat, Lord Megatron, And Observe 06/10/2020

G1AD 2.7-8: Don Your Hat, Lord Megatron, And Observe We had a doozy of a double header this week lads. The Autobots Ran, Atlantis Arose, and Kit and Harper spent a lot of time talking about Shockwave for two episodes where he allegedly doesn't appear. Topics Include: Like A Big Titted Marley, 800 Presets, I Have An Extra Wide Brimmed Hat Lord Megatron, Day Drinking With Ratchet, Roller Appreciation Squad, Who Wants To Guess A Sunstreaker?, King Nermal, Executive Dysfunction Ray, and a Sub-AtlantiCan Do Attitude. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/14776973

2.2 The Boys (And Girls) Are Back In Town 05/27/2020

2.2 The Boys (And Girls) Are Back In Town Kit and Harper are back off a hot holiday weekend, bringing you the ambient sounds of the neighborhood: birds, engines, and the two of them yelling about...not robots this week. This time we take a look at everyone's favorite human companions. Plus, what we've been watching, reading, and talking about all things Transformers. Topics Include: Beast! Wars!, Secret Teen TM, The Indestructible Witwicky Area of Effect, William "Wild Bill" "Annie Lennox" Lennox, Who Killed Sam Witwicky?, Chief Brother Dad, McCall Vibes, and A Wrecker Reunion. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/14589332

G1AD 2.5-6: The Girls Are Accusing Each Other of Treasonnnn 05/20/2020

G1AD 2.5-6: The Girls Are Accusing Each Other of Treasonnnn Sleepy eyed and full of theories, Kit and Harper are back with more G1 And Done. Oh, and Cliffjumper/Mirage shippers? We see you. Topics Include: A New Review!, The Cliffjumper Accusation Betting Pool, Starscream's Nightly Insurrection, Tennis Fence, A Very Elaborate Role Play Set Up, Insecticon Arithmetic, Megatron Can Has Electro Cells?, and ! Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/14504162

2.1 Starscream, I'm Home 05/15/2020

2.1 Starscream, I'm Home A whole year!! Kit and Harper don't know what would be doing without all you listeners and to celebrate that we decided to spend several hours with what is considered one of the worst pieces of Transformers media: Revenge of the Fallen. Be glad you only had to be here for two of them. Plus, what we've been watching, reading, and talking about all things Transformers. Topics Include: The AO3 Summary of ROTF, Are There Tigers In Egypt?, Horse Girl Sam Witwicky, College TM, The Rich Fiction of the ROTF Miles Fix It Fic, Starscream's Tramp Stamp, Scorponok Has Entered The Chat, Picking A New Sam/Mikaela Song, and As Always Bay's Bad Takes On Women. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/14425832

G1AD 2.3-4: This Attitude Adjustment Is Big And Heavy! 05/06/2020

G1AD 2.3-4: This Attitude Adjustment Is Big And Heavy! This double feature certainly happened! Decepticons storm NYC, while Autobots destroy an airbase, and Kit and Harper try their best not to play favorites with the episodes. They don't really succeed. Topics Include: Soundwave In The Park, With Finesse AND Pleasure, , Gator Wrasslin', Bye Bye Rumble, Spike Loves It!, Jazz Love Support Squad, 24/7 Evil Prowl Watch, and Evil Roller: What Will He Do? Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/14308691

Special: A-Prowl-calypse Now! 04/25/2020

Special: A-Prowl-calypse Now! Alternate Titles: Prowl-vent Horizon. Prowl-pocalypse 2020. It's Powl. Topics Include: Rate My Prowlfessor, Build A Prowl Workshop, and Ships From A Prowl Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/14144819

G1AD 2.1-2: Actually, You're Thinking Of Frankenstein's Hostage 04/08/2020

G1AD 2.1-2: Actually, You're Thinking Of Frankenstein's Hostage This RSS Feed is looking a little dusty, so let's clean it off with a double feature season premiere! G1 Season 2 kicks of with a bang, in an episode that Kit and Harper tried really hard to make a minisode. But, well. We're us. Topics Include: Sad Teletraan-1 Thoughts, Petty-mus Prime, Buster Bluth vs. Blood On The Dance Floor, Philosophy of Mining, Destroy Your Local Ecosystem, and Hotboxing The Magnus Armor. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/13902536

1.15 Take A Sip, Babes 03/12/2020

1.15 Take A Sip, Babes After a rowdy recording session, Kit and Harper are here to bring you the low down on ENERGON, that magical liquid that's somehow fuel and food and blood and...well, you get the picture. Plus, what we've been watching, reading, and talking about all things Transformers. Topics Include: What If God Just Put Pizzas Under The Earth For Us?, No Energon On Cybertron, The G1 Shockwave Lore Deepens, A Brief Engex Hour Interlude, Do Titans Have Subspace?, and The Starvation Vexation. Content Warning: Talk of starvation, death by starvation, and some nitty gritty malnutrition biology. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/13517708

G1AD 1.16: IT'S DEVASTATOR 03/05/2020

G1AD 1.16: IT'S DEVASTATOR Well folks. We're here. We made it. G1 Season One And Did. Topics Include: 3-2-1 We Came To Fuck, Starscream Theories, Have You Ever Heard Of Pon Farr?, Still Doing His Megatron Stuff, A Brief Interlude About The Sith, Chip Chase: True Heartthrob, A Wheelbarrow From Ohio, and This Fearless Entrepreneur Is Ready To Destroy. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/13420130

1.14 Get Down Ladies, You've Got Nothing To Lose 02/26/2020

1.14 Get Down Ladies, You've Got Nothing To Lose In the final dregs of February, we're here to get extra self indulgent and talk about our favorite topics: women. Strap in for the world's most arbitrary rating scale, Kit taking this very seriously, and Harper laughing a lot to dismiss the tension. Plus, what we've been watching, reading, and talking about all things Transformers. Topics Include: Some People Think About Prowl To Cope, Primus Has Risen But You're Gonna Fall, Big Gay For Solus Prime On Main, Forget Co-Pilot: Arcee Is My Hall Pass, Take Me To Church Elita One, and Six Lesbian Nun In A Trenchcoat. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/13305569

G1AD 1.15: COME ON, ON 02/12/2020

G1AD 1.15: COME ON, ON Welcome back to another fun and fact-filled episode of our etymology podcast- oh, wait, sorry, this is Star Wars isn't it- no! Transformers, right! This episode Kit and Harper take a tangent filled ride on the bug side for the latest episode of G1. Topics Include: Ethanol??, Important Bug Opinions, Spike Went To The Plah-za To Get Bison Dip For Bah-li, Local Culture TM, Sideswipe Bluth, Attack Of The (Insecticon) Clones, They're Silly, and A Quick Meltdown About The Autopod Decepticast. /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/13119482

Engex Hour 1.3: Ships From A Hat 2: Robotic Boogaloo 02/05/2020

Engex Hour 1.3: Ships From A Hat 2: Robotic Boogaloo It's time to get down and dirty at Crankshaft's tonight because Minibot Monday er, Wrecker Wednesday only comes once a week. Ships From A Hat is back with a fun new twist and Kit and Harper are ready to party. Plus, what we've been watching, reading, and talking about all things Transformers. Topics Include: Warriorcats, Can I Get A Starscream In Here?, The Gay & Wonderous Live of Nickle D.J.D., Nobody Puts Boulder In The Corner, A Nautica Drew Situation, and A Real ClusterF*ck. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/13025723

G1AD 1.14: WE THOUGHT YOU...BZZT 01/29/2020

G1AD 1.14: WE THOUGHT YOU...BZZT It's possible the writing of this episode description was completely derailed by a philosophical discussion of Revenge of the Sith...a property that we don't even cover on this podcast...but two bits of description data were salvaged from Dr. Arkeville's lab: 1) Kit and Harper are particularly disparaging towards theater kids this episode, and 2) did this episode make your hosts MegOP for a moment? Perhaps. Topics Include: G1 And Speed Run, Thrumblecracker Real, Cockpit Watch Is Truly 24/7, Knock On Cyber Wood, I Dr. Arkeville, Shockwave's No Human All Drunk Dialing Policy, and As The Screamer Flies. Our them and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/12934955

1.13 ...Like Dating 01/23/2020

1.13 ...Like Dating The best description that we could come up with came straight from Kit during the editing of this episode: I can't believe we didn't save this for Valentine's Day. It's time to talk relationships! Kit and Harper delve in to the nitty gritty of love, friendship, and some enemy...ship, both canon and fanon. (Oh, and spoiler: The Bills lost.) Plus, what we've been watching, reading, and talking about all things Transformers. Topics Include: His Hood His Head, You Might Just Be A Lesbian, Megatron & Ratchet: Pistols At Dawn, "David Cage Lied To Me", Thank You Mr. The Rock, Mawwiage Is What Bwings Us Togevuh Today, The Real Housewives of Iacon, ...Like Dating, Person.Exe, and Periodic Check Ins With The Buffalo Bills. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/12856496

G1AD 1.13: LIKE SO MANY MATCHSTICKS 01/09/2020

G1AD 1.13: LIKE SO MANY MATCHSTICKS Surf's up on the last installment of The Ultimate Doom, and Kit and Harper are on an adventure...nay, a Safari, with these boys. Topics Include: Quick Food Crime Interlude, BrawnWave Real?, Pound The Alarm, Tell Me What You Know About Rambo, The Early Warning Scanner: What Is It And Why Does It Suck, Megatron Does Baywatch, Is Megatron A Minicon Guy?, 24/7 Cockpit Watch, All Wheeljack Ships Real?, and Brawn Takes The Presidential Himbo Fitness Test. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/12670259

1.12 Joyous Sparkthrall! 12/26/2019

1.12 Joyous Sparkthrall! Happy Holidays lovely listener! We here at Space Camp cooked up a good one for you today by getting into the holiday spirit. And when the robots didn't quite give us enough, we turned to their creators as well as doing some creation of our own. Plus, what we've been watching, reading, and talking about all things Transformers. Topics Include: Love And Gratitude To Jewish Creators, Exploding Prowl, Canon Humanformers, All Spark Day!, Happy Holidays From The HUB, We're Heavy Metal, Married Via NASCAR, and Live Sparkthrall Creation. Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/12532079

G1AD 1.12: UH, ME GRIMLOCK NOT CARE 12/19/2019

G1AD 1.12: UH, ME GRIMLOCK NOT CARE The clock is ticking in this ep, so we put the fire on. Also, Harper forgot to pay attention to a lot of this one, so Kit's doing a lot of the work here. We're back with The Ultimate Doom Pt.2 and some really exciting news! Topics Include: I'm Not Your Dad Dr. Arkeville, Just a Truly Egregious Number Of Ironhide Impressions, Life In Plastic, Sad Boi Hour With Spike, This Is Your Trillionth Final Warning Starscream, Schrodinger's Energy Crisis, Clipping, Their Sparks Will Go On, Tidal Wave Discourse, and This Is My Outline Plandesge. /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/12461795

G1AD 1.11: RAVRUMBEAK 12/04/2019

G1AD 1.11: RAVRUMBEAK We went experimental this time lads, and it brought us...some kind of results. In any case, the bots get experimental in their own way and Kit & Harper spent way too much time picking apart their motivations, means, and targets. Topics Include: Deep In The Alleles, The Continuing Adventures Of The Christian Mechanics, A Turducken Of Stealth, Metal Gear Shockwave's Vision Cone, The Implications Of The Optimus Drone, The Dr. Arkeville Back Story We All Deserve, Thotty Hotty Ratchet, The Union Union Hat Theory, and Gravity...Is Workin... Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/12275384

1.11 TFCon DC Special 11/29/2019

1.11 TFCon DC Special We went to TFCon! We had so much fun and got to meet some listeners and waited an entire month to recount that experience whoops! Plus, what we've been watching, reading, and talking about all things Transformers. Topics Include: Dairy Con, Pete's Robot Convention, TF Expo, The Artist Formerly Known As Transformers Con, We Went To TFCon!, Now A Word From Out Listeners, and finally...Can We Get A Soapbox In Here? Our theme and outro is . /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/12221765

G1AD 1.10: CALL ME SWOOP 11/21/2019

G1AD 1.10: CALL ME SWOOP Guess who's back? From their cave? It's the Dinobots, but also Kit and Harper after a month long recording hiatus. Whoops. But the Dinobots are here to welcome us with open arms and treason in their sparks, as well as two new boys! Kit does want everyone to remember that a pteranodon is not a dinosaur though. Topics Include: Bad News About Spike Witwicky, Meteorini Chipperoni, Deadbeat Dad Prime, Chip Chase Knowledge Base Discourse, Ratchet's Huge Chevron (Mess With The Medic You Get The Horns), Cow Tipping, and Optimus Will Remember This. Our theme and outro is . Content Warning: Emetophobia (Brief Discussion) /episode/index/show/mtmtpod/id/12118697

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