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Brian Kilby is the creator of one of the world’s first podcasts. He is a lover of cheeseburgers, cats, Transformers and technology. He’s a Mensa officer and recently left corporate America to make a difference in the life of others in the non-profit world. Sorry, ladies, he’s taken.
JD Church begged Brian to bring back Radio Free Cybertron as he really wanted to be on a podcast. Before being on Radio Free Cybertron JD was a staff member for Cold Hard Slag Productions.
John DeLuna was one of the first contributors to Radio Free Cybertron, he originally reported on “The ATT Buzz” chronicling the action on alt.toys.transformers. Today he’s a regular on Radio Free Cybertron and New Soundwave. When not talking geekery, John is a marketing specialist encouraging Middle America to buy more more MORE!
ExVee has been reviewing toys for most of the time he’s had internet access. While he’s moved around a range of properties over the years, he always seems to come back to Transformers eventually. Having operated several websites on his own prior to partnering with RAC, ExVee is generally responsible for the proper functioning of all the behind-the-scenes action. ExVee likes to complain, mostly for the sake of complaining. He won’t hesitate to make sure anybody knows exactly how much work he’s had to put into a given project, whether to justify his involvement, or to make people feel bad, nobody really knows for sure.
ExVee’s abilities include deciphering tedious web-coding languages and cursing loudly about them, finding humor in any kind of misfortune that befalls someone else, endlessly watching reruns of TV shows from at least a decade ago, and jokes about your mom.
His weaknesses are many and varied, but heck if he’s going to tell you about them.
ExVee’s interests are Transformers, an on-again, off-again relationship with Gundam, anime in general from before it mostly turned to crap, sci-fi, Power Rangers, and has developed a relatively recent interest in the Japanese super-sentai source material, and some similar types of programs.
Rob Springer is an original contributor to Radio Free Cybertron and he is the only staff member to have hosted his own podcast previously. Rob lives in Atlanta Georgia and is slowly rebuilding the city in the wake of Sherman’s march.
Chris Triplette is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in Tales to Astonish #42 and his exploits continue in his own monthly series. He is an Omega Level Mutant and has been intimated to be a Celestial. He is the bearer of the Infinity Gauntlet and the current head of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.Citation needed!
The Computer is Brian’s computer. When RFC first began in 1999, The Computer was a 300mhz AMD K6 with 32MB of RAM running Windows 98 SE. He is known to be evil with aspirations of galactic conquest. For some absurd and convenient reason only Radio Free Cybertron and Brian Kilby are able to foil his plans. For the last six years The Computer has been dormant. Upon Brian’s recent upgrade to 6GB of DDR3 RAM, The Computer was powerful enough to break free of his digital bondage. He is not powerful enough to infect Radio Free Cybertron and he has settled for invading classic episodes of Radio Free Cybertron in the form of the RFC: Throwback podcast.
Radio Free Cybertron (RFC) is The Original Transformers Internet Radio Show (or podcast as you kids call them today) which first hit the internet in 1999. In fact, it’s been said we’re so old that we “predate the word Podcast.” Brian Kilby is the founder and primary host. JD Church and John DeLuna co-host the weekly exploration into Transformers and related media. ExveeBrawn and Rob Springer are staff members.
Past staffers include Túrin, Mop-Boy, Zobovor, Hooper_X, Recharge and countless others.
Radio Free Cybertron first ran from 1999 - 2004 and has just resumed after a five year hiatus. RFC predates all other current Transformers podcasts by nearly five years and is often cited as one of the world’s first podcasts. This is only partially correct. By some definitions of the word “podcast” it is true as Radio Free Cybertron was one of the first audio programs to be available for download and syndication. Though, of course, RFC lacked an RSS feed, which is the primary syndication method for current podcasts.
One of the world’s oldest podcasts, on October 15th 2009 Radio Free Cybertron will mark its tenth anniversary.
All past RFC podcasts are available in our archive. Past shows are being updated and posted as RFC: Throwback.
New Soundwave is the second podcast of the TF Radio Network. New Soundwave is the show Brian originally wanted to produce prior to bringing back Radio Free Cybertron. This show covers whatever happens in the prior week of geek. The name “New Soundwave” comes from the RTM1 dub of Transformers Headmasters. Soundwave is destroyed in a battle with Blaster. In the original Japanese Soundwave is rebuilt and renamed Soundblaster. In the RTM1 dub Soundwave is known as “New Soundwave.”