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Anidorks: An Animorphs Podcast!!
Slow reading short books.
Episodes
162 episodes
Punch Bowl Yeerk Pool (Mailbag: David Trilogy Edition!!)
We discuss the news of a possible Ryan Cooler-produced Animorphs series and do a very special David trilogy edition of a mailbag episode to dig into listener thoughts and questions about the worst Animorph ever.Is morphing clothe...
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Yeerk 2: Yeerk Harder (David Trilogy Wrap-up)
We talk about the David trilogy as a whole, from Rachel's character development to Marco's early suspicion of David to whatever was going on with that whole arc about Yeerking the world leaders. Then we make a wish list for what we want to see ...
Rat F*** Island (Book 22)
David tries to humiliate Rachel in a Taco Bell. Then the gang dunks on him in the abandoned construction site. Is there another character the Animorphs could recruit in David's place? Why does Jake struggle so much to address the mo...
Don't Look, I'm Resetting My Morph Cycle (Book 22)
Rachel shows up for her sister while David lurks. Saddler miraculously recovers— or does he? What the hell did David do with Saddler? What the hell was Jake's father thinking when he compared his hospitalized nephew to raw meat? Wha...
One Person's Phalanx is Another Person's Conga Line (Book 22)
The Great Yeerking is cancelled. David returns as an orca and exposes Rachel to her friends. What does success look like for the raid on the Marriott-- destroying the Marriott, getting the conference cancelled? When the kids morph i...
A Tiger Playing Chicken with Death (Book 22)
Tobias returns. Rachel jams a fork into David's ear.What is David's longterm plan, if he even has one? Where did Tobias go between losing David and rescuing Rachel? Are middle children always the most talented, or is that only the case w...
Darko Marco (Book 22)
David picks the Animorphs off one by one. Or does he? Marco is in the closet. Does Rachel referencing South Park give us a clue to when this book takes place? Would the police really call an exotic animal vet upon finding a wounded ...
Hella Bad Vibes (Book 21)
Jake, Ax, and Tobias stake out the barn. David breaks bad. Did David really kill Tobias, or did David just kill another hawk to mess with Jake's head?? Would the Ellimist even allow David to kill Tobias?! Doesn't everyone suck the k...
Sloppy Yeerk Pool Fun (Book 21)
The kids learn to tie a tie. Visser 3 goes big. Marco slithers. Can we count on the ghostwriters to pay off this storyline of Cassie becoming more and more comfortable with violence? Can weak Andalite arms even do uppies? Does Visse...
Flaw in the Flea Flan (Book 21)
Cassie nearly dies and then talks Marco down from being stuck as a giant flea. David the Lion behaves badly beneath a fancy table. Something something force field enforced holograms. How sanitary are Yeerk pools if they're always e...
Daddy Often Eepy (Book 21)
The gang bites Jake. David just wants to watch tv. How would Tobias narrate David’s violence against birds? Why is this book sort of like watching the Rugrats crawl into a cannon? Has David even seen Tobias in his human form? How do...
The Axhibitionist in Me (Book 21)
The gang gets ray-gunned by a man in Ray-Bans. David goes missing.Is the David trilogy the prestige tv of the Animorphs series? Why do these book feature so much falling? Is holding hands more or less intimate than locking arms? And who ...
Ellimist Speed-Dial (Mail Bag)
We empty out the mailbag and discover emails from all the way back in May, giving us a chance to revisit the dinosaurs of MegaMorphs 2 and the ethical quandaries of Book 19. Plus, we bring in the most special guest of all, the Ellimist!W...
Please Don't Talk About My Underbelly Hatch (Book 20)
Yeerk stealth technology returns. David freaks out. How do you fire an Animorph? What is a locker but a kind of closet? Why is Marco so preoccupied with transitions and the moment when one thing becomes another? Did David wet the b...
The Yeerks of Being a Wallflower (Book 20)
The Animorphs learn the importance of having on-boarding procedures in place before making your first hire.Who is the war-daddiest of all war daddies? Is David’s reaction to the news of the Yeerk invasion actually kind of normal? Are App...
Escafil Me Up! (Book 20)
The Animorphs and the Yeerks have a house party in David's bedroom. The kids debate whether David should join the team. Can someone become a nothlit mid-morph? Is David's father the kind of parent to attend PTA meetings? Should the...
Spy-Stomping the Spy-Floor (Book 20)
The kids bungle their first attempt to burgle the Escafil Device. Marco becomes Spawn.Is David Boy-Rachel? Are the Animorphs fundamentally different from David as people they acquired their powers in Book 1? What does David naming ...
KA Works in Mysterious Ways (Book 20)
Marco flirts with everyone at school and meets a totally unremarkable boy named David. Should T’shrondra be our new Animorph instead of David? Will Erek King only show up for mission briefs from now on or will we eventuall...
Minisode: Nothlited Skrit (featuring special guest CJ!)
Longtime listener and mailbag mainstay CJ discusses us to wrap Book 19! We discuss Cassie as a controversial character in the fandom, whether you can get nothlited as a skrit and then regain your morph powers as a na, and what we can expect in ...
A Caterpillar Named Forever (Book 19)
Cassie makes the ultimate sacrifice. Then she comes back. Who is Cassie proving something to in this book: to herself, to the other Animorphs, to the Yeerks? Why wouldn't the Yeerks just re-infest Karen once Aftran frees her? Are Co...
Two Yeerks, One Ear (Book 19)
Cassie gets Yeerked. Aftran delivers an ultimatum. Whose plan was the Yeerking of the Unibank President: the methodical Visser 1, the theatrical Visser 3, or the zany but mysterious Visser 2? Does having Visser One as his mother mea...
If Yeerks Had Fur (Book 19)
Cassie and Karen argue about ethics until a leopard attacks. Marco saves the day. How does Cassie explain all of her torn morphing leotards to her parents given how often she is ripping off strips of material in order to help others...
Hawks Ride Thermals to Hawthorne Heights (Book 19)
Enter: leopard!!! Cassie thinks about clubbing a child. Just where did Yeerks find all of this ambition? Are lazer pointers to cats what dracon beams are to leopards? Is Cassie truly considering killing Karen? What would Marco or Ra...