An inventor from Texas (by way of Boston), Cade Yeager gets drawn into the worldwide conflict of the Transformers, joining Optimus Prime and the Autobots to defend the planet from the Decepticons.

The fifth entry in the Transformers franchise arrives next summer with a plot involving the Middle Ages, World War II and Optimus Prime returning from space ready to kill everyone.

Transformers: Age of Extinction is less a movie and more an experience you have to try and survive.

Completing the trio of awesome Transformers songs by Stan Bush is “Till All Are One”, originally titled Ground Zeroes and included on his Call to Action album.

After the Battle of Chicago, the Transformers have fallen on incredibly hard times, with Optimus ending up as a rusted hulk of his former self but a Texas mechanic jolts him back to life just in time to fight off a new threat.

Tons of awesome British actors getting cast in awesome sounding movies this week along with The Rock and McG teaming up to bring back a classic 80’s TV show in movie form and much more in this week’s News Shotgun.

This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe try to figure out if James Spader is cold and robotic enough to play Ultron, Fast & Furious getting to Expendables level of casting, the in your face awfulness of Pain & Gain, Dinobots, how long a Westworld show could last, the horrors of Snakes on a Train and much more.