Your favourite terrible audio hogs are back and rampaging through your ears and heart, this time in a very casually-timed retrospective of our best bots of 2021 and, like. January?? Our shoutout this episode is to excellent tokusatsu Vtuber Maru de Cinco! As always, you are gently encouraged to tip your hosts, with kind words or a lead pipe, whiche…

More plastic robot chat from your four favourite toy robot podcasters, assuming this is the only toy robot podcast you listen to. This episode's shoutout is to our own Umar! Hit up your favourite digital dog for digibash or art commissions on Twitter or Tumblr. Or just send your hosts a tip why don't you: Becka's Ko-Fi Erica's Ko-Fi Umar's Ko-Fi…

The Reccers ride again! Kristie and Maia finally tell you about supernatural BL manga The Night Beyond The Tricornered Window. This episode was edited by our lovely friend Gherkin whose work you can enjoy here! (or here)By The Reccers

No really, we talk about cum a LOT in this one. Also a retrospective of the bots we got in 2020 or something. This episode's shoutout is to Transformers Reviews Done Quick! (Sorry Gav) Tip your hosts, human scum! Becka's Ko-Fi Erica's Ko-Fi Umar's Ko-FiBy The Knakcered Robots Podcast

After a visit from a SPECIAL GUEST, Umar makes the show's first contact with Transformers Earthrise and Erica and Maia both dabble in the Pseudo-Retro, albeit in very different ways Our shoutout this episode is to Ready Player None, a podcast readalong/autopsy of some terrible book written by some melvin for other melvins, hosted by our contractual…

Umar, Erica and Maia embark on a new season of Knackered Robots! It's all going very well until Maia speaks The Words That Kill Erica Specifically Our shoutout this episode is to our very own Umar's Redbubble, some of the stuff on which supports some very good causes Erica's Ko-Fi Umar's Ko-FiBy The Knackered Robots Podcast

Your four founding hosts reunite on this high holy day to have a long-winded, disjointed natter about the Pokémon franchise in a variety of its forms! Wonderful projects and people shouted out include: The Umardex Project Weruzu Isa EvilCleverDog and Terry voidfvng! Pokémon Centres and podcasts are free but chuck some coffees to your hosts anyway: …

Kristie and Maia return with more pop cultural exchange, and yet again find themselves in receipt of anime and manga, this time in the form of supernatural yaoi The Night Beyond The Tricornered Window and browser-based CCG tie-in Touken Ranbu HanamaruBy Matty Franklyn

A great big bugger of an episode, three hours of your beloved cohosts talking: - ancillary Godzilla opinions - recent acquisitions - more information about Japanese steam locomotives than you require And to celebrate the theme of the impending TF Nation 2019, we have a good old natter about Beast Machines, but also Wars, both regular and Uprisings …

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Your favourite audio criminals have busted out of the...sound...jail...and brought you another episode of broadly Transformers-adjacent nattering, including a haphazard look at IDW's new Transformers comics 'verse! This episode's shoutout is to Brent! TIP YOUR HOSTS, HUMAN SCUM Becka's Ko-Fi Erica's Ko-Fi Umar's Ko-Fi…

The Reccers rise from the grave to solve the mystery of where they've been for [looks at watch] seven months! In doing so we discuss our findings on Netflix's South Korean semi-improvised murder mystery variety show Busted and wacky yet harrowing zombie manga Fortress of the Apocalypse! Remember? Probably not.…

This month we bring you a special non-canonical sidestory episode where Erica, Umar and Maia just shoot the shit about non-TF things we've been enjoying, INCLUDING: - Umar doing a Zelda - Erica weighing in on the state of the Lego video game franchise - Maia discussing an anime about preteen soccer magicians More robots next month! Becka's Ko-Fi Er…

Becka returns to the Knackered Robot Podcast and is contractually never allowed to leave again after what happened last time. Not, as you can probably guess from the episode title, that this one turned out much better. Hear us natter about our recent acquisitions and finally, FINALLY get round to talking about the Bumblebee movie This episode's sho…

Season 2 of the Knackered Robots Podcast drops like a dead giraffe and it's already a shambles because Becka was sadly not able to join us this episode. Don't worry, she'll be back next time so the crashed circus train you're about to hear won't be a regular thing. Hopefully. This one was an absolute nightmare to edit and it might sound a little ro…

Yer mates Becka, Erica, Umar and Matty get together one last time in 2018 to talk about the opening salvos of War for Cybertron Siege, how you solve a problem like Arcee, The Gunned Hams and improbable near misses and tragic direct hits with Gold Plastic Syndrome, and bid a fond farewell to IDW's Transformers 'verse Thanks for joining us these past…

Kristie and Matty are back with more recs, this time it's Apocalypse no Toride, a zombie apocalypse Manga by Yuu Kuraishi and Kazu Inabe set in a reformatory school, and Busted, a South Korean improvised variety comedy murder mystery show made by NetflixBy Matty Franklyn

October may be over but Sherloctober thunders on undeterred and continues to have its presence graced by the hosts of A Study in Granada, this time in particular by Mike Knoll, who gives us a very distinctive top five Sherlock Holmes Things and answers for his numerous thoughtcrimes (kind of) Find Mike HERE: Twitter A Study in Granada The Equelizer…

This episode, Matty is joined by one half of the amazing ITV Holmes podcast A Study in Granada, Jackson Eflin! Jackson lists their favourite Sherlock Holmes Things, Matty gets overstimulated and talks too much, and The Best Sherlock Holmes Thing Ever will be revealed to you, the listener, completely free of charge. Find Jackson on Twitter and co-ho…

Remember that Transformers convention from a few months back? Well we hope so, because this episode is all about what Becka, Erica and Umar got up to at TFNation 2018! This episode's TF Twitter Community Shoutout is Adam Zerokaiser85! Twitter! Patreon! Tip your hosts! Becka's Ko-Fi Erica's Ko-Fi Umar's Ko-Fi…

Episode 2 of Sherloctober 2018 sees returning mainstay and Reccers Kristie drop in to talk about the 2018 HBO Asia/Hulu co-production 'Miss Sherlock', a modern take on the Holmes template set in Japan with female leads. Kristie uses her vast expertise to explain how the Japanese concept of Omoiyari influences the depiction of a character derived fr…

...yeah, sorry about the wait. Stuff happened, including the episode irretrievably devouring itself in Audacity TWICE during the edit. There may have been some crying. There was definitely some swearing. BUT ANYWAY, Kristie and Matty are back to share their thoughts on The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin and The Raccoons, a cartoon from the Eighties.…

Sherloctober 2018 kicks off with returning special guest Becka discussing her perspective on the previous Sherloctober favourite 'Lady Sherlock' series by Sherry Thomas, the bit of season 1 of Elementary Becka got to watch before it disappeared off NowTV, and her daredevil bathroom protocols when binge-reading multiple books one after the other Buy…

Becka, Umar and Matty are once again talking about plastic robots and the pathetic nerds who love them (don't worry Erica fans, she'll be back next episode!), as well as laying out a comprehensive introduction to TFNation, the wonderful Transformers convention happening at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole from the 17th to the 19th of August, where a…

We're back and switching it up after one episode, this time we're joined by new co-host Erica who is very much the Fonz to our...I don't actually remember anyone from that show except the Fonz, which if anything only further serves to prove my point! In your face, haters. As usual we talk about our recent acquisitions, upcoming new releases we have…

It's only your old pals Becka, Umar and Matty doing a Transformers/assorted robos podcast, innit. We kick off by discussing what bots we've picked up recently, what we're looking forward to and the various Transformers media we've been exposing ourselves to. Thrill to your erudite and fashionable hosts valiantly battling through thunderstorm-induce…

What links a fantasy novel by Hugo Award-winning author N. K. Jemisin and a Canadian cartoon from the 1980s? Nothing as far as we know, except that they're what Kristie and Matty are each bringing to this episode of The Reccers!By Matty Franklyn

This episode's guest is romance author Cat Sebastian, so the book we're experiencing is Ring of the Ruby Dragon by Jeannie Black from TSR's HeartQuest subline, an attempt to combine early 80's Dungeons & Dragons with the time-honoured romantic fiction tropes of All Kissing And That. Check out Cat's website and Twitter!…

Matty digs out the 1984 Dragontales gamebook Sword Daughter's Quest by Rhondi Vilott and reads it to Garrett Robinson, author of the Underrealm series. Tyrna's travelling party have been bumped off by Orcs, including her dad. 'Fortunately' (note sarcastic quotes), a Half-Elf ranger with a very...distinctive name shows up to 'help' her as she sets o…

Kristie and Matty share their findings on bookselling-themed mysteries and the mysteries of the heart with Antiquarian Bookshop Biblia's Casefiles and Heart of the Steal by Avon Gale & Roan ParrishBy Matty Franklyn

The Reccers return with a very literary episode! This time out, we'll be exchanging the TV series Antiquarian Bookshop Biblia's Casefiles and the romance novel Heart of the Steal by Avon Gale and Roan Parrish. (This is our second attempt to record this episode due to technical problems, and doing it the second time made it run short, BUT we were ab…

Sherloctober 2017 comes to a close and Kristie and Matty revisit their recommendations to each other, the gloriously 90's TV movie 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns and the excellent-in-every-way novel A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas. (There's a very minor not-really-even-a-spoiler spoiler for a very small aspect of A Study in Sc…

Kristie's back, and she's brought a list of her Top Five Sherlock Holmes...Things! And demanded Matty do the same, so prepare yourself for discussion of TV shows, Deducifyin' Cowboy Brothers, Young Lady Detectives, Cartoon Dogs and Opera Ghosts! Content Warning: Around 21 minutes in, we discuss the TV show Elementary and focus in particular on a ma…

For week 3 of Sherloctober, Matty teams up with Becka from The Civil Podcast Network, who has graciously agreed to contribute her considerable bucketful of Sherlockspertise to the project.(A bucketful is what a Spand is, if you're wondering. It can also mean a team of two. I can words good, shut up.)…

For week 2 of Sherloctober, Kristie and Matty get together for a freewheeling chat about how they got dragged into the whole Sherlock Holmes racket in the first place, and discuss The Romance Question.By Matty Franklyn

Every Sunday in October we'll be posting a podcast episode talking about the Sherlock Holmes canon in all its forms! We start with a special crossover episode of The Reccers! Kristie and Matty submit some Holmes-specific recommendations for each others' approval, namely the female-Holmes-AU novel A Study In Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas and the 19…

Kristie and Matty return to share what they thought of each others' recommendations of a Youtube series examining Michael Bay's Transformers movies through a lens of film theory and analysis, and an animated movie focusing on bullying and disability in the Japanese school system. The following Content Warnings apply during the discussion of A Silen…

Kristie and Matty return with more recommendations, this time for an anime film exploring the experience of being deaf in modern Japan and a series of Youtube video essays acting as an introduction to film studies using the live-action Transformers movies as a base. You can probably guess who recommended what.…

Two weeks ago Kristie and Matty recommended stuff to each other, now find out what they thought as they repeatedly meander back and forth about both of them for around an hour and a half! Some NSFW discussion including an overly-literal interpretation of the term Cockpit and an off-topic tangent on what can only be described Shark Prince Doubledick…

Kristie and Matty like things. Occasionally they like things that they think each other would ALSO like, so they decided to do a podcast where they yell at each other to check out some of the things they like! Being yelled about this episode are the anime From The New World and the webcomic Starfighter. Join us again in two weeks to see what Kristi…