# Episode 5: Add new information, and new robots.

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Podcast: [Borderlands: DeadECHOs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/borderlands-deadechos-7794995)
Published: 2026-08-17T16:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gearbox-entertainment6/episodes/Episode-5-Add-new-information--and-new-robots-e3ncj92
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## Resource

Add new information, and new robots. This week on DEAD ECHOS, the family’s expanding. Yes, oftentimes in a stable, mature partnership the choice is made to go from shmedium to m’large. To welcome new arrivals, be they rugrats, munchkins, tots or…bots! Sassy servos designed to dazzle and delight. So grab your tweaking hammer, contact the irritating nerd department, and get your gaping holes filled with universe-y bullshit because this episode will rock your socks. And not to be too dramatic but something so important might happen this week that it reshapes the entire saga forever. Like, game? Changed. Paradigm? Shifted. Water? Shed. You get the idea… Borderlands: Dead ECHOs is Gearbox’s first scripted narrative podcast — a darkly comedic drama set in the chaotic Borderlands universe. It follows Watts, a disenchanted DAHL Echo Operator, who supplements his meager pay by sifting through undeliverable ECHO Logs, and selling the secrets inside to the highest bidder. When Junie, a curious stranger with big ideas and a secretive past, gets him out of a jam, the two strike up an unlikely partnership. As Junie injects a daring Robin Hood twist into Watts’ amateur criminal enterprise, their ECHO-brokering operation draws attention from ruthless mercenaries, violent outlaws, and DAHL’s deadly corporate hit squad lead by power hungry rogue executive, Vivian Proctor. —---------------------------------------- CAST Joel Watson: Watts, Walla April Johnson: Junie, Walla Alexa Ray Corriea: Katherine Amanda Schuckman: Customer Service Bot, Lady Bandit: Colleen Clinkenbeard: Mother Jim Foronda: Atticus, Claptrap Joel McDonald: Captain Flynt Lydia MacKay: Vivian Proctor Marc Stoddard: Harold Corn on the Cob: As Himself Rodney: As Himself Producers: April Johnson and Joel Watson Lead Writer…

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