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Be Mega Podcast
by Luke Hesler and Adam Martens
Welcome to the Be Mega Podcast. We are two writing partners and lifelong friends who collaborate to create stories about Megas - heroes and villains with super powers and ordinary origins. Weirdos just like the rest of us. Find the Megaton City News webcomic and our published works at www.megatoncitynews.com. If you like our work see our Patreon page for opportunities to receive more and join the fun. https://www.patreon.com/bemega
Episodes
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A Renegade Metal Art Hero
In their latest writing session Adam and Luke develop a character that combines a love of classic cartoons with an expert hand at crafting metalworks. This craftsman and performance artist forges a strong defense against all that would do humanity harm. Meet the Anvilanche! The Be Mega Podcast...
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The Coolmarm - A Time-Travelling Educator
A 19th Century teacher leaps into the future and back again to save minds everywhere! The Be Mega Podcast invites you to join writing partners Adam and Luke for a fast-paced session of collaborative creativity. Each episode focuses on the development of a character or story about the imagined...
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A Health Care Hero
Welcome to the Mega HQ where writers Adam and Luke digitally convene to throw around ideas until new character emerges right in front of your ears. This week we meet a hero who seeks to provide all of humanity with the health they deserve. The Be Mega Podcast invites you to join writing partners...
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Super Suave Origin Story
Harold is an awkward 8th grader who tries everything and just can't make friends. When he seeks extreme treatment from a disreputable scientist, a Mega hero emerges to fight for social connection! Be you. Be creative. Be Mega! Join writing partners Adam and Luke on the Be Mega Podcast for...
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The Imaginaire Origin Story
Clive Farber is a socially anxious cashier who pours his active imagination into the pages of journals and sketchbooks until a mystical ink transforms him into a Mega-powered champion of creativity! Be you. Be creative. Be Mega! Join writing partners Adam and Luke on the Be Mega Podcast for...
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The Gratitude Attitudinator Origin Story
A young robotics engineer becomes the ultimate robotic hero set to save humanity through the power of gratitude. Be you. Be creative. Be Mega! Join writing partners Adam and Luke on the Be Mega Podcast for rapid-fire sessions of collaborative creative writing. Each episode features the...
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Parrots, Pigeons, Pirates
Welcome to the Be Mega Podcast - where writers Adam and Luke turn ideas into stories right in front of your ears. This week our fearless hosts create a hero who is equally at home fighting injustices at sea or in midair. Get ready for swashbuckling and potatoes as we launch season three of the Be...
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Mega Origins - Crunchy Teeth, The Manda, Jitter Jerk
Behold, origin stories for three unlikely heroes created on the Be Mega Podcast. Experience the chompers of Crunchy Teeth, the black and white majesty of the Manda, and the caffeine-shakes of the Jitter Jerk! Join writing partners Adam and Luke on the Be Mega Podcast for rapid-fire sessions of...
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Be Mega Origin Stories: The Meaty Glob - Victoria Puppyfoot - Ham Slam Man
Behold, origin stories for three unlikely heroes created on the Be Mega Podcast. It's all about meat and feet on this episode of Be Mega Origins! Join writing partners Adam and Luke on the Be Mega Podcast for rapid-fire sessions of collaborative creative writing. Each episode features the...
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Origin Stories: The Intervention - Patience Mustard - Alternative Rick
The origin stories for three creative heroes with non-violent approaches to fighting crime. Get ready for extra mustard, mandolin madness, and the ultimate intervention! The Be Mega Podcast invites you to join writing partners Adam and Luke for a fast-paced session of collaborative creating. Each...
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Bad Pastry Rising
The first ever Be Mega Podcast focusing on the creation of a villain, this week's episode is dedicated to anyone marginalized or negatively affected by the rising tide of unpleasantness in the world. Now more than ever is the time to make art, help others, and be Mega! A sinister bakery magnate...
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Origin Stories: Sock Monger, Toxic Taxi Driver, Spectacular Synonym
Get ready for the mysterious and Megatastic origin stories for the Sock Monger, Toxic Taxi Driver, and Spectacular Synonym. The Be Mega Podcast invites you to join writing partners Adam and Luke for a fast-paced session of collaborative creating. Each episode focuses on the development of a...
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Shopping Ain't Easy
A misguided youth accidentally sabotages his family's successful grocery business. Employees become walking billboards. Fresh produce becomes handheld marketing material. Grandma becomes... something else. And the entire notion of grocery shopping is threatened by a sinister stranger. Hop into a...
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Mega Origins - Tomato Hawk. Vitamin Spider. Father Bigfoot.
Get ready for rapid fire hero origin stories on this special episode of the Be Mega Podcast! A geneticist and her pet hawk are genetically mutated into tomato-based Megas. An indoorsy internet junky supplements to the point of bonus appendages. And Bigfoot encounters a mysterious meteor and...
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Dome Sweet Home
A secret mission beginning in 1986 sought to prepare for a future of human habitation in deep space. When antiquated technology mixes with powerful orange space rocks, a super-evolved hero with insatiable curiosity is born. Get ready to blast into the past and the future simultaneously when…
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Gratitude vs Robot Zombie Teachers
A high school robotics fair is invaded by an army of robot zombies led by the villainous Gregglex. Can the gratitudinal lasers and advanced technology of the Gratt-Att save the science students from certain zombie doom? Writers Adam and Luke pick sides and create a new action-packed story in...
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A Political Hero For All
A justice-obsessed debate team leader learns a valuable lesson about the importance of diplomacy and the greater good as she heroically commits to a life of public service. Mr. Helpman, diplomatickinesis, and alien car keys. Oh, and an entire new extraterrestrial civilization. Lots happening this...
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Loafmaster Slice: Outtakes & Bloopers
This blooper episode features extra crumbs and crusty bits from the Loafmaster Slice recording session. As a shortened episode, it is mostly out of context and crammed full of ideas. Listen to the full Loafmaster Slice episode to hear the whole story! The Be Mega Podcast is a weekly adventure in...
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Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
Sliced bread has been the undisputed "best thing since" champion since it first popped on the scene in Chillicothe, Missouri, 1928. Today's Mega origin story features a small town inventor who specializes in the oft derided technological sandwich arts as he reveals his top secret Sandwich…
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The Gratitude Attitudinator Robot
Stare into the future on this high tech episode of the Be Mega Podcast as Adam and Luke create a sentient robot with an epic name. One young robotics engineer sacrifices her own life to make the world a more grateful place. A grateful place with super freaking cool robots. The Be Mega Podcast...
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Mega Outtakes Reel
A bonus outtakes episode of the Be Mega Podcast featuring our most entertaining blunders and buffoonery that was cut from recent episodes. Beware of adult innuendo and extreme weirdness. Make up characters. Tell stories. Be Mega! The Be Mega Podcast invites you to join writing partners Adam and...
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Sock Monger battles Footrot and Funky Foot
Notorious pranksters Footrot and Funkyfoot target a summer concert series with their odorous hijinks. Brace your nose for filthy socks and toe jam balls as The Sock Monger flies with a static electric flash to save the day! Will there be enough socks to contain the stench? What will become of the...
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The Heroic Type
Adam and Luke meet at the Mega HQ once again to create the story of Courtney Keye, a hero with a history of reading difficulties. All she wants to do is connect with people, so she becomes an expert at using text messages, emojis, and GIF files to overcome her reading deficiency. The story gets...
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Tomato Hawk vs Gorilla Grubb
Adam and Luke go head to head to create a story full of surprise havoc in the first ever Mega Battle episode of the Be Mega Podcast. The original characters created in episode 1 return when the Gorilla Grubb launches a world domination scheme amidst a public health emergency. Will the Tomato Hawk...
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Top-Notch Underdog
Welcome to season 2 of the Be Mega Podcast! Adam and Luke kick off the creating with the story of Harold, an awkward 8th grader determined to overcome personal challenges and finally make some friends his own age. After a shocking run-in with a suspicious psychologist's experiment, Harold is…
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Blades, Bots, and Butter
Inspiration arrises from the ineffectual blade of a butter knife on episode 20 of the Be Mega Podcast where we make mega stories out of regular ideas. Combining the discipline of the Samurai, the latest nanotechnology, and a hundred pounds of frosting, Adam and Luke create a hero with mastery of...
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Video Game Heroics
A video game playing injury sparks an idea for a tech-savvy hero searching for her lost family. Artificial intelligence, wifi, and the Swiss family Hesler combine with a bunch of other wackiness on the way to creating a good-hearted hero out there saving both the real and digital world for the...
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A Hero Who Helps
An idea captures Adam's attention while spring cleaning and develops into an elderly hero out there trying to make life easier for everybody. This one proves that if your mind is open and the creative juices are flowing, heroic characters and unexpected stories can emerge from unlikely places.…
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The Imaginaire
Anything is possible for a hero with megafied imagination. In a lively brainstorming session, Adam and Luke ponder the exotic doo-doo bird, goldfish dongles, and time-travelling Nazis on the way to making a character who begins incapable of human interaction and emerges as an unstoppable force of...
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The Automancer
Dreaming of an automobile maintenance solution, Luke and Adam create a character with an artistic approach to vehicle manipulation. Further episode highlights include late night writing sessions, the attack of the polar bear opposites, and a bonus guest collaborator joins the fray to help…
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A Caffeinated Crusader
A character takes shape out of Adam's coffee shakes and Luke makes matters mystical on the fifteenth edition of the Be Mega Podcast. Press your ears to door of the Mega HQ, get your brain ready for some serious storming, and try not to laugh so hard you choke on the coffee.
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A Bear in Mind
In this milestone episode, Luke and Adam change their minds while creating a new hero! Meanwhile, the boys at the Mega HQ suffer through respiratory woes and learn a few interesting facts about a member of the animal kingdom. Visit our sponsor Fatcow to start publishing your own Mega web content:...
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The Pork Problem
Drawing on a shared interest from childhood, the boys throw down a professional wrestling inspired hero with a salty smokey twist. Find out what Spam is made of and how Ham hands work with your weekly imagination boost on the Be Mega Podcast. Visit our sponsor Fatcow to start publishing your own...
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Beast Foot Forward
Adam and Luke let the fur fly in this week's episode of the Be Mega Podcast when they create their first anthropomorphic heroine! In the meantime, Adam forces everyone to imagine Luke as a dachshund. Sometimes you can't UN-imagine a thing, so just relax and enjoy your trip to the Mega HQ! Share...
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You Can't Handle the Tooth
Adam and Luke talk teeth and dentistry as they create a new hero who can definitely bite off more than anyone else can chew. This week's hero will have you biting your nails with anticipation! Visit our sponsor Fatcow to start publishing your own Mega web content:...
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Of Man or Mandolin
Adam and Luke create a new hero who helps people make decisions with clarity and confidence - a super power for the ages! Both Luke and Adam also forget the name of a common musical instrument and decide that they should eat before writing a story. Check out this week's sponsor Fatcow to start...
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Toxic Road Rager
In the first Be Mega Podcast of 2016 a hero emerges from toxic sludge to defend safe drivers and clean roads. Give your imagination a jump-start in the Mega HQ as we bounce around our wackiest ideas to create an original character. Also, Luke gets real about his fear of math and Adam curses at…
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Words Escape Me
This week Adam and Luke take a look at humanity's eternal struggle to find the right words. They mostly succeed. Adam and Luke are not grammarians; they just pretend to like grammar on a podcast. To the Mega HQ! Visit this week's sponsor Fatcow to start publishing your own awesome content:...
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A Sticky Situation
This week Adam and Luke discuss a trendy gym that is not what it seems, where a meaty hero emerges from the ranks of casual fitness fans. Eat good food and try to get some exercise at the Mega HQ this week! Visit this week's sponsor Fatcow to start publishing your own awesome content:...
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The Cryptid Avenger
Adam and Luke venture to the Pacific Northwest in search of the legendary Sasquatch. If Bigfoot exists, could he be a super hero? More importantly, does he like Bill Murray movies? Learn the answers to these and other pressing questions as Adam and Luke create the newest (and furriest) character…
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Hot & Spicy Heroism
Adam and Luke get abstract with a hero obsessed with certain condiments. Another hero based on food? What else would you expect from the creators at the Mega HQ? Grab a handful of pretzels and a tall glass of your favorite beverage. It's time to make a new super hero!
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Hug a Thug
Adam and Luke create a super hero who fights crime with compassion. They both forget how to make a metaphor. Luke is obsessed with puppies. Another week, another hero, another exciting trip to the Mega HQ!
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Supplemental Shenanigans
Adam and Luke create their strangest character yet. The word "fart" appears more than once. Grab a handful of multivitamins and enter the Mega HQ once again!
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Feet Most Foul
Creators Adam and Luke find inspiration in the laundromat. A brand new super power is discovered. Something sinister is a foot. Just another day at the Mega HQ!
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Juicy Justice
The epic first episode, Adam and Luke dare to create an original hero based on a book title that Adam read incorrectly.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to the Be Mega Podcast. We are two writing partners and lifelong friends who collaborate to create stories about Megas - heroes and villains with super powers and ordinary origins. Weirdos just like the rest of us. Find the Megaton City News webcomic and our published works at www.megatoncitynews.com. If you like our work see our Patreon page for opportunities to receive more and join the fun. https://www.patreon.com/bemega
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Luke Hesler and Adam Martens
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Be Mega Podcast currently has 45 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Be Mega Podcast about?
Welcome to the Be Mega Podcast. We are two writing partners and lifelong friends who collaborate to create stories about Megas - heroes and villains with super powers and ordinary origins. Weirdos just like the rest of us. Find the Megaton City News webcomic and our published works at...
How often does Be Mega Podcast release new episodes?
Be Mega Podcast has 45 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Be Mega Podcast is created and hosted by Luke Hesler and Adam Martens.
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