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Speaker 2: Do they bring you options like how does it work?

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Speaker 1: And part of this production meeting is then a wardrobe

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Speaker 2: They I'm sorry, is this a different Daniella than dancer Daniella. Correct,

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Speaker 1: Yes, Daniella Cara Gosh, Pasha's wife is a Daniella spelled

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Speaker 1: Board Meets World. Okay, yes, it was rather confusing, especially

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Speaker 3: It has so much fringe and so much beating.

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Speaker 1: And because it's halter and the only thing it has

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Speaker 3: The whole thing. Now it feels like a diaper. My

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Speaker 4: I mean, if that's your skill set, that's probably the

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's what a cool gig?

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Speaker 5: Like pretty dross.

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Speaker 1: I found out then by one Miss Jordan Chiles, that

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Speaker 3: At the end of the season.

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Speaker 3: And I was like, wait, what, you can buy them?

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, I want a museum of my own.

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Speaker 5: It, like just the Danielle Official Museum.

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Speaker 4: We have the hair from Tapanga, you have the outfits

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Speaker 2: I just Will's got his museum already. I know. What

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Speaker 4: Oh you know it, That's what That's what I'm thinking.

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Speaker 3: Tuesdays. If Chang's would be.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so they right back, Oh okay, you're interested in

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Speaker 3: Will let you know what they all cost. I want

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Speaker 1: I want you, guys, let's go through already. Week one

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Speaker 1: my tango. It was a strapless teal pleated gown with

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Speaker 2: R No? No, I don't know what a stone is.

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Speaker 1: It's just a It's a thing that reflects light, that

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Speaker 1: the thousand.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: Thousand dollars dress.

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Speaker 3: You think that's one thousand dollars, I.

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Speaker 2: Will say it's worth money. I'm seven hundred.

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Speaker 1: Wow, it's kind of right in between you guys, it's

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Speaker 1: an eight hundred dollars dress.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that works. Seems like a lot though, but okay, don't.

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Speaker 4: Yes, but is it like a prom dress? Like one

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Speaker 1: I guess this is hard for me to answer because

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Speaker 4: Was so much money, right, right, But this dress has

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Speaker 3: Is this is a famous dress, This is a this

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Speaker 2: So that is there not a official So.

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking about is are they making money on the costumes.

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Speaker 2: Because they're still in the coast?

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Speaker 3: Did it how they pay eight hundred dollars to make it?

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Speaker 2: But the first one's eight hundred, The first one's eight hundred.

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Speaker 1: Week two, my chat chat I was a hot pink

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Speaker 1: beaded fringe dress with nude mesh inserts and rhinestone trim.

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Speaker 3: What do you think that one is?

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Speaker 2: I say, right around that same price Center Bucks.

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Speaker 3: It was eleven was eleven hundred, okkay, so.

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Speaker 2: We're at almost two grand right fringe? Wait, we're still

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Speaker 3: Three?

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Speaker 1: Fox Trot light blue mesh bodice with silk chiffon skirt, lace,

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Speaker 2: Man, fifty, I'm going to say less.

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Speaker 6: I'm going to say six fifty, twelve hundred and fifty dollars.

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Speaker 6: The most expensive dress so far. Yeah, okay, okay, the

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Speaker 6: Week four quick step. You guys are gonna love this.

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Speaker 1: A fully rhinestone silver body suit, silver fringe pants. Yea

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Speaker 1: with attached rhinestone belt.

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Speaker 4: Fifteen hundred bucks.

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Speaker 2: Oh good, now, she just said the one before was

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Speaker 1: It's no, no, up to that point. Oh five fourteen

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: That's how they get you so now.

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Speaker 1: So now we're at like thirty two fifty plus fourteen hundred.

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Speaker 1: We're at like fifty five hundred.

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Speaker 2: Dollars for dresses you can't wear, for dresses I.

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Speaker 1: Can't wear ever again. Week five Jive it was a

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Speaker 1: brown Cittrin tan graphic printed collar dress, matching attached belt.

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Speaker 2: That was the Feenie dance.

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Speaker 3: That's the Feenie dance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that can't be as expensive. Eight fifty. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna say right around there, eight hundred.

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Speaker 1: Bucks, seven hundred dollars. Okay, rider's pretty good at it.

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Speaker 2: And I still want Pasha's shirt from that night. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: because it was like a Cory shirt, but like a

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Speaker 1: It was a bedazzled Cory shirt and made of dance

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Speaker 3: Like I need those three.

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Speaker 2: You can't wear those, they can't wear those.

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Speaker 4: You can't anywhere. It's worth it, Yeah, it comes out.

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Speaker 2: So that's like it's like the wine. It's like, you

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Speaker 1: It reminds me of when I was in eighth grade

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Speaker 3: Don't know why.

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Speaker 2: Any great graduation I got you covered.

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Speaker 3: And I said, yeah, I don't really know where i'd

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Speaker 3: Instead? I had a rhymestoned crotch.

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Speaker 3: Oh, welcome to pod Meets World. I'm Danielle Fischel, I'm

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Speaker 2: And I'm wil Fordell.

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Speaker 1: As much as it pains me to say this, after

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Speaker 1: today's episode, I will no longer be the best dancer

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Speaker 1: who has appeared on Podnet's World. Sure, we've talked to Sabrina,

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Speaker 1: We are talking to a triple threat nineties icon who

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Speaker 1: absolutely no one should take lightly. And further extending his

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Speaker 1: star cycle, finding himself on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Step

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Speaker 1: by Step, The Parenthood, Moesha, Buffy and Family Matters. And yes,

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Speaker 1: He taught Hollywood stars like Vin Diesel and Jada Pinkett Smith.

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 3: Did he do the Argentinean tengo?

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Speaker 3: He did know.

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Speaker 1: But he's here with us today and we are so

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Speaker 1: excited to talk to him about everything. Please welcome to

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Speaker 1: I am.

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Speaker 3: Walter Immanuel Jones, how are you.

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Speaker 5: I'm good.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Walter, thank you so much for being here.

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Speaker 1: We much mentioned you on Pod Meets World before. Will

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Speaker 1: And now that we've said your name three times, you

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Speaker 5: I love that. I like being manifested. Let's go.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 1: Let's first talk about where it all started for you.

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Speaker 1: It was far far away from Hollywood in Detroit, Michigan.

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Speaker 1: And when do you start showing signs of wanting to

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Speaker 5: You know what I started when I was a kid,

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Speaker 5: like in church. I used to go to church and

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Speaker 5: I started acting. I started taking speech in high school.

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Speaker 5: Then I joined actors class. Class of acting. My teacher

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Speaker 5: and I was like, I am never going back to Detroit.

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00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,720
Speaker 2: Yep, I do it with no more.

445
00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:51,960
Speaker 5: So, man, I'm done with that. So after getting my

446
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,160
Speaker 5: four year degree Bachelor of Fine Arts and Musical Theater,

447
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,480
Speaker 5: I you know, I decided to jump into the world

448
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,199
Speaker 5: and I started working on cruise ships. I worked on

449
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 5: the love boat Princess.

450
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,000
Speaker 3: Did you have an agent? How did you get that gig?

451
00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,040
Speaker 5: You know what it was in the trades is back

452
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 5: in the day they told you about auditions and and

453
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,120
Speaker 5: also I had a friend I worked at City World, uh,

454
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 5: in a show called City Street. One of my friends

455
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,920
Speaker 5: there had taken off and started working on cruise ships,

456
00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,719
Speaker 5: and he came back and was telling me about all

457
00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:31,600
Speaker 5: these adventures he had where he'd been, these activities that

458
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,440
Speaker 5: he had been involved with, and I was like, man,

459
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 5: that sounds amazing. I want to do it. He said

460
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,280
Speaker 5: you should audition, and I was like, you think I

461
00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 5: could do it? It was like and so I, Uh,

462
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,919
Speaker 5: the next audition came up. He let me know about it,

463
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 5: and I went up to l A. I auditioned and

464
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 5: I was hired. So I worked on Princess Cruise Lines.

465
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 5: I went on and so you're doing you're doing everything.

466
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 2: You're singing, you're dancing.

467
00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:02,119
Speaker 5: Dancing, acting. Yeah that I was doing singing telegrams and.

468
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 2: You were just doing it all the Wait were you

469
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 2: doing mar were you because we'll get into this toobe.

470
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 2: Were you already doing martial arts?

471
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:11,760
Speaker 5: I was a martial arts when I was a kid,

472
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 5: So I studied Ishan ru and I was the peewee

473
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 5: Michigan state champion. I made up for brown be.

474
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 3: So everything you do, you're very very.

475
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you, thank you. I think i I've always

476
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 5: been physically talented. I've always been able to dance. Dancing

477
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 5: one of my passions. Uh. I grew up watching Michael

478
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,000
Speaker 5: Jackson and wanted to be like him, and so uh

479
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,480
Speaker 5: seeing him dance motivating me to dance. And then Detroit

480
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 5: is a dance city, you know, and there's all these

481
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 5: popular dances that will come out. Uh. In middle school,

482
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:53,280
Speaker 5: my my friend Eric Charles, Uh, he was a bit

483
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,959
Speaker 5: older than me, but he was super confident and we

484
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 5: went in middletoe to one side, the girls one side. Well,

485
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 5: he would go, let's go, ask him to go to dance,

486
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,359
Speaker 5: and I'll follow him, and before you know it, we'd

487
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 5: have four girls dancing around us. And then we're doing

488
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 5: routines where I would fall, he would pick me up,

489
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 5: throw me back up, and I would dance and yeah,

490
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,639
Speaker 5: a whole so uh that opened up my eyes to

491
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,119
Speaker 5: to to just dancing and dancing kind of been my

492
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:19,240
Speaker 5: friend throughout life.

493
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Speaker 1: I in your intro, I went through all of the

494
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: types of dance you know how to do, which is

495
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,439
Speaker 1: basically everything tap and Latin.

496
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 3: You were a salsa champion in two thousand and four.

497
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 5: I won a world championship in two thousand four. Of

498
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 5: my end, But it was a street. It wasn't like ballroom,

499
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 5: not like you not like you don't.

500
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, thank you for seeing that.

501
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:47,239
Speaker 7: Like ballroom dancing with the stage is one of my

502
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,159
Speaker 7: One of my dreams too, is that you went on

503
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 7: that show and you did well. You can thank you,

504
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:54,160
Speaker 7: you know, I mean, I understand that you started from

505
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 7: the beginning.

506
00:24:54,760 --> 00:25:00,199
Speaker 3: To write You're like, yeah, I had zero zero, literally zero.

507
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,720
Speaker 3: I dance at weddings. That's the extent of my dance experience.

508
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 3: Do you still do you still dance?

509
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 5: I go dancing, so its street. It's not like ballroom,

510
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 5: Like I said, A dance sasabatata, zamba, zuk marenga, chatcha.

511
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,640
Speaker 5: I dance a little bit of everything, but it's all

512
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 5: like you know, it's the sabor of it. It's like,

513
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 5: you know, the flavor. I I dance probably two or

514
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 5: three times a week.

515
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,440
Speaker 3: Why you go? Because I need to? I'm looking for him.

516
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:30,119
Speaker 3: I would love to.

517
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 5: Yes, Yes, I went dancing last night. I'm so sure,

518
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 5: celebrating my birthday.

519
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 2: Happy birthday.

520
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 3: How old are you?

521
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 5: Very much? I am fifty nine. If you no, you're not, Yeah, yeah,

522
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 5: I'm an old dude. I'm like fifty nine, I'm going

523
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 5: to be sixty next year, next year, give me.

524
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 3: I refuse to believe this.

525
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 5: I know, I know.

526
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 4: I was adding it up when he was talking about

527
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 4: what years though, I was like, how is he that

528
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 4: much older than us?

529
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,040
Speaker 2: Like, dude, that's great. I don't buy that, But I

530
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:00,919
Speaker 2: don't want.

531
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 1: To assault international World championship in two thousand and four.

532
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 3: That's twenty one years ago.

533
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: You like, that's no offense, but that's old. To be

534
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: winning world championships.

535
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,919
Speaker 5: I gotta go. I mean, like you know, and I

536
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 5: probably was. I was in my late thirties at the time.

537
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:21,160
Speaker 5: So ooh in ninety three when we were all doing

538
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 5: our shows Power Rangers and yeah, when this World, I

539
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 5: was twenty six playing sixteen Wow. So you guys were

540
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,159
Speaker 5: actually like little kids, and I was actually already I

541
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 5: finished cruise ships and got to LA, started auditioning and

542
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 5: booked power Agers and play a teenager.

543
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 3: So that is unbelievable.

544
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 2: I never would again. I would have lost that instantly.

545
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:46,959
Speaker 2: If somebody asked me to guess your age, I wouldn't

546
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 2: have been anywhere close. I thought we were the same age.

547
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 2: I thought you were going to be.

548
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 3: You were younger than I was. Yeah, you were younger

549
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 3: than I.

550
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 1: Really did. Okay, so you're in LA. So you're doing

551
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: the cruise ships. After cruise ships, do you go back, like,

552
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 1: how many years are you on the tradition?

553
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 5: Three years old cruise ships and I and I thought, well,

554
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 5: you know, I got this degree in musical theater. I

555
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,919
Speaker 5: want to be an actor on television and film and theater.

556
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,640
Speaker 5: I should give LA a shot. Let me get off

557
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 5: the ships. Because I was enjoying myself. I was traveling

558
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 5: all around the world and it these Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Alaska, Mexico,

559
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 5: just all these places, and I loved every part of it.

560
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 5: And I thought I could come back to this and

561
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, I could become a

562
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 5: cruise director, run the entertainment and this could be my life.

563
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 5: I could be happy with this. But I was like,

564
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 5: let me give LA a shot. So I came back

565
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 5: to LA and got an agent, a dance agent actually,

566
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 5: and started auditioning and do it X your work on

567
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 5: like nine two one oh and just trying to get

568
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 5: acclimated to the industry and seeing what it was like.

569
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 5: I remember going on nine o two one oh and

570
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,919
Speaker 5: I was I was I was like right next to

571
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 5: the other actors, and I was like, I could do this.

572
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 5: I got this. I'm like I see what they're doing

573
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,400
Speaker 5: and I had that talent I could Yeah, I could

574
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 5: do this. I can see myself doing this. And I

575
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 5: was on a show. What was it, ed McMahon.

576
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:32,640
Speaker 3: It was a star search, right, So I went.

577
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 5: To star search with a band, a singer, and on

578
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 5: the way there, my agent called me on the plane, Hey,

579
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 5: there's an audition for this show called it was called

580
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 5: something different, uh, phantoms, a show called Phantoms. They're looking

581
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 5: for a teenage superhero that can dance to martial arts

582
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 5: and gymnastics. And I was like, I could do that. Yeah, yeah,

583
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 5: it sounds like me. Got to be sick. I could

584
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 5: play sixty easily because I've always looked ten years under

585
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 5: my U. And they said they want to see you tomorrow,

586
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 5: and I'm like, I'm on a plane. I'm like, I'm

587
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 5: going to do star starts. I'm on the plane right now.

588
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 5: And they're like, I want's a bummer and it looks

589
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 5: if it gets picked up and gets picked up for

590
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 5: forty episodes, and I'm like forty episodes, Oh, man, I

591
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 5: can't believe I'm missing this opportunity, and the plane takes off.

592
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 5: I go. I landed in Florida. When I land, I

593
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 5: lose my voice. So I'm the lead singer in this band.

594
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 5: Oh no, yeah, And I'm like I'm talking like this

595
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 5: now and I'm like, oh my god. So I trade

596
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 5: places with one of the guys that is doing the

597
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 5: backup singing. He becomes the lead singer. I become the background.

598
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 5: We do our thing. We compete against Beyonce, who also loses,

599
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 5: and and it's time to go home. So I know,

600
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 5: I don't even know. I can't even remember, but yeah,

601
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 5: finished Out also competed and they lost, which is so

602
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 5: crazy because I was like, they were so good. And

603
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 5: so I got back to LA and I'm bummed because

604
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 5: I missed this audition. I start starting work and I

605
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 5: get a call from my agent and they still want

606
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 5: to see you. Can you go in UH tomorrow And

607
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 5: I'm like yes, yes, So I go in and after

608
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 5: about two weeks of auditioning, they finally send us to

609
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 5: UH to the network and they send three groups. There's

610
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 5: a tall group, a short group. I'm in the short

611
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 5: group and kind of an older group of actors all

612
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 5: you know, five Rangers in each and and we all

613
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 5: you know, show what we you know what what what

614
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 5: we're going to be. And so uh, at the end

615
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 5: of the day they picked my group and uh, Power

616
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 5: Rangers began.

617
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 2: It's crazy now, So I think probably I know a

618
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 2: little bit more about this world than my fellow co hosts,

619
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 2: just because I'm I'm a nerd, So I I know

620
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 2: the not not to be cliche, but the power of

621
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 2: the Power Rangers. And so obviously nobody knew what you

622
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 2: were stepping into originally, as you you you done the mask,

623
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 2: so as you start to go. First of all, I've

624
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 2: heard the schedule for shooting was ridiculous, crazy.

625
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 5: Sometimes we did fifteen hour days. Sometimes not always, but

626
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,479
Speaker 5: right it was. It was stupid. It was like, you know,

627
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 5: we be up you know call times at six am,

628
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 5: and then we worked till seven, you know, typically with lunch,

629
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 5: and then you had to come home study for the

630
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 5: next day. And we were shooting course scripts every two weeks.

631
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 5: So it was and it's all physical. It's all physical,

632
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 5: and we're shooting according to sets. So can imagine how

633
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 5: confusing that is. It's like, wait, are we with we

634
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 5: must we fighting? What am I wearing? You know, like

635
00:31:57,880 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 5: what just happened?

636
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 2: You know, like all that, And you're doing all your

637
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 2: own stunts, aren't you. Aren't you essentially doing everything you're

638
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 2: You're also your own stunt people.

639
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 5: Well, the first fifteen minutes of the show is us

640
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 5: as teenagers dealing with normal life and you know, situations,

641
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 5: and then things escalate. That enemy comes. We try to

642
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 5: fight them as our teenage selves. The enemy gets bigger,

643
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 5: so then we morph into our suits and then they

644
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 5: get stronger, and then we call on our zwords or

645
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 5: become the Megazord, and we pull off the sword and

646
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 5: we win. That's what it works, Yes, except for we

647
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 5: have we had a lot of cliffhangers. Yeah, Like our

648
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 5: show was like the soap opera for kids is like

649
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 5: tune in tomorrow and find out will the Rangers lose

650
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 5: their zords? Right? You know, kids were racing home from

651
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 5: school or yah school because it was like they had

652
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 5: to know what was gonna happen, you know.

653
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,719
Speaker 2: Well, I mean this became a global phenomenon.

654
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 3: I mean, yes, forty hundreds.

655
00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 5: Around the world and the shows were running for thirty

656
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 5: two years, which is pretty amazing. Wow, yes, I just

657
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 5: went back for the thirtieth anniversary.

658
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,479
Speaker 2: Did you now I have to ask, and my co

659
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:10,959
Speaker 2: hosts are gonna go, huh. And if you don't want

660
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 2: to talk about this, I totally understand, But do you

661
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 2: believe in the Red Ranger Curse?

662
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 5: There's no Red Ranger Curse.

663
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 2: There is not.

664
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 5: That's just some stuff somebody threw together and was like, Oh,

665
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 5: I mean, when you consider the fact this show's run

666
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 5: for thirty two years, there's been at least one hundred

667
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 5: ten actors associated to the Power Rangers just bound the

668
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 5: Beasts some course, some you know, some bad luck involved it,

669
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 5: of course, some people you know, like, it's not just

670
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 5: a cast of six people. Yes, it's a lot of folks.

671
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 5: And and even though they're not the original Mighty Morphem

672
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 5: Power Rangers, they're still still associated to the brand. So

673
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 5: I imagine if you you know, like there's people get

674
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 5: in trouble, it happens, yeah, you know, and people, you know,

675
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 5: people make mistakes.

676
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 2: So yeah, it seems like good nerd clickbait more than

677
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 2: actually yes, yes, have any sense of reality behind it.

678
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 5: I mean, think about how much things have changed over

679
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 5: the last thirty years, right, I mean, like, that's three

680
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 5: different generations and with three different attitudes about everything, and

681
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 5: so you know, what was normal at one point is

682
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 5: now like you know, people are like looking their those

683
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 5: and they're like, I can't believe that that happened, right,

684
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 5: that was? You know. I'm like when I when I

685
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 5: did Power Rangers, I was it was one of the

686
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 5: first diverse casts that I can remember, and I was

687
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 5: the first black superhero and live at your TV. Yeah,

688
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 5: so that is that in itself was like a whole thing.

689
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,280
Speaker 5: I mean, but then I had to deal with makeup

690
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,800
Speaker 5: and air. They didn't know how to do my makeup

691
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,439
Speaker 5: or hair. They didn't they were used to doing things

692
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 5: for people that were not black. And so you know,

693
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 5: when I got on the set, you when you hired

694
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 5: your makeup or your wardrobe, you hire for the majority,

695
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 5: and the majority was not me. So I ended up

696
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 5: having do my own hair. Sometimes I didn't. Luckily, my

697
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 5: my complexion has always been good. I didn't have a

698
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 5: lot of bumps, so I barely wore your makeup. I

699
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,720
Speaker 5: was like, just give me powder, because they put makeup

700
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 5: on me.

701
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,800
Speaker 3: They may be green or gray.

702
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 5: That doesn't look good.

703
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all right.

704
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 5: Yeah. So I mean a lot of things have changed

705
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 5: from from then till now. I mean, I know, you know,

706
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 5: I was the first black superhero, but I was also

707
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 5: a black actor, so uh at that point for me,

708
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 5: I grew up in Detroit. I was like, that's powerful.

709
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you knew you felt it at the time, right, Yeah, no,

710
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: I thought it.

711
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 5: I mean, as the first black superhero, I was like, yes,

712
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 5: I am wearing I'm a black superherol and I'm wearing

713
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 5: a black suit, and I'm like, let's go. I mean

714
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 5: that may mean proud. But then over years, over decades,

715
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 5: then people were, hey, that was weird, and I'm like,

716
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 5: that's strange. Hey, that was prejudiced. The Black Reacher was

717
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 5: in a black suit. And then also, originally the Yellow

718
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 5: Ranger was Latina, but she asked for more money after

719
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 5: the pilot and they fired her, and the next talented

720
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 5: person they hired was Asian. So now it's a little weird. Oh,

721
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 5: the black actors in a black suit and the Asian

722
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 5: actress is in a yellow suit.

723
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 2: And the pretty girl is in the pink suit and

724
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 2: all the Yeah, the pup in any suit of course.

725
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:30,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, And because he came from Japanese footage the Pink

726
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 5: Ranger had a skirt, and the Japanese footage the pink Ranger.

727
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 5: The Yellow Ranger was a guy, so he didn't have

728
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 5: a skirt, right, but we had two girls pinky yellow

729
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 5: and yeah. So but I mean, if you go along

730
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 5: with the logic of the colors matched everything, Yeah, the

731
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 5: Pink Ranger was a pretty girl. The Red Ranger was white.

732
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 5: He wasn't he was just a young dude. And then

733
00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 5: the Green Ranger wasn't green. He wasn't.

734
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: You know, it's like major was you know, Yes, coincidence

735
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: does exist, like you said, especially.

736
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 2: If you go back and you try to find it.

737
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 2: That's the thing. If you go back looking looking for something,

738
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,359
Speaker 2: you know, with something already in your head, you're gonna

739
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 2: find it somewhere.

740
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 5: Yeah.

741
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, and so you're on that, you're in your

742
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: late twenties, you find yourself on this international phenomenon, you're

743
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: playing a sixteen year old.

744
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 3: You're on now like one of the biggest kid properties

745
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 3: of all time. Are you? Are you like shocked that?

746
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 3: Does this feel like a dream come true? What's your

747
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 3: family think?

748
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, I mean, uh, when I show my family

749
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 5: the pilot, I show them the pilot and they were

750
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 5: all like, it's okay, something's gonna come along. Oh yeah.

751
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 5: They hated it. They were like they looked at it

752
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 5: and they were like, what a piece of.

753
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what you know, Like, no one's gonna

754
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: watch this, honey, right right.

755
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 5: This is this is Yeah, no, I don't know what

756
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 5: you did, but don't do it again. And but then

757
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 5: we did the pilot again and again. We did three

758
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 5: pilots and finally the final one is what made it

759
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 5: hit and it clicked and then all of a sudden,

760
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 5: my answer machine, that's what we used to have back

761
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 5: in the day. I remember the answer machine was full

762
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 5: with like seventy five messages. You have seventy five messages,

763
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 5: and I was like, yo, it was like family going, hey, guys,

764
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 5: like we gotta hang out. Oh man, everybody's to congratulatory

765
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 5: at that point. But it was it was amazing to

766
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 5: to go from not being anybody in the world necessarily.

767
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 5: I mean, of course people love you and cruise ships,

768
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 5: but to go into my grocery store and look to

769
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,720
Speaker 5: the side and see I'm on the on the face

770
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 5: of Disney Adventure and TV Guide and Team Beat, and

771
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 5: I'm like that's me. That's so weird. Yeah. The only

772
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 5: thing was I was broke, right, I couldn't buy the magazine.

773
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, that was the other thing they

774
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,720
Speaker 2: were kind of famous for was not paying the actors

775
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,760
Speaker 2: particularly well. Yeah, so you weren't getting paid like regular

776
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 2: SAG network.

777
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 5: No, not even close, not even it was. It was

778
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 5: pretty bad. And when we signed the contracts we knew

779
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 5: it was a non union contract. At me being twenty six,

780
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,720
Speaker 5: I knew that it was a bad contract. But forty

781
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 5: episodes it was a good trade. It was like, you know,

782
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 5: I'll take this as an experience, uh, and it's gonna

783
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,399
Speaker 5: help me grow, and it's gonna get me a real

784
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 5: and it allowed me to get an industry and enjoy SAG.

785
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 5: It'd be cool, you know, sou But it hit. It

786
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 5: became the biggest kids show in forty countries, and and

787
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 5: they made a billion dollars in the first season, and

788
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 5: it was like wow, So second season, you figure they

789
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 5: made a billion dollars, they gonna take a share, yeah,

790
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 5: and they were like, nah, you get a little bit.

791
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 5: It's a little bump, you know. But it was still

792
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 5: under SAG wages, way under SAG wages. Uh, and then

793
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 5: and then uh, then it was then we got the movie.

794
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 5: They say, hey, guys, twenty one century Fox, they want

795
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 5: to do movie. They want to use all you guys.

796
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 5: We've already guaranteed them. You we're gonna say, yeah, you

797
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 5: guys are gonna be the guys they want you, and

798
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 5: they're gonna do new suits. It's gonna be this multi

799
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 5: million dollar movie. And it's gonna be amazing. We're so excited. Uh,

800
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 5: we's gonna get our contracts, see you and you guys

801
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 5: gotta sign them and we're good. And it was like,

802
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 5: oh man, here we go a movie. We're doing a

803
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 5: movie like you know, and with a real budget, with

804
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 5: a real budget exactly. It's so exciting. And then we

805
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,800
Speaker 5: got the contract and the contract was for three movies,

806
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 5: not just and the first. The first movie was like

807
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 5: seventeen five hundred dollars.

808
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 3: Oh we a movie.

809
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 5: Yeah. The second was gonna be like twenty three thousand dollars.

810
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 5: The third was twenty seven dollars. And I was like, nah, man,

811
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 5: you'all doing way too much. It's like you made a

812
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 5: billion dollars. You can't even make it sag, make it sad.

813
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 5: So it's fair. Yes it is there, then we'll be happy.

814
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 5: We don't need it. I don't need to be a multimillionaire.

815
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 2: Although, yeah, you're not asking for five million dollars, I'm

816
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 2: not doing that.

817
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 5: I'm not asking for five that you know, one hundred

818
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 5: and twenty five million dollar budget. I'm like, just give

819
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 5: me what you would give a lead actor in a

820
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 5: in a TV show and a popular show, a popular movie. Yes,

821
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 5: And it didn't work out. So we tried to get

822
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 5: a lawyer to negotiate for the contract as a whole

823
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 5: for everybody. So let's stay together, let's get away smart,

824
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,919
Speaker 5: because we can't negotiate for ourselves. You know, they don't

825
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 5: see us that way. So let's get a lawyer. And

826
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 5: we ended up finding a lawyer and a manager that

827
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 5: was working with that was working with three of us,

828
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 5: and we asked the other guys to join and deciding

829
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 5: not to. And at the end of the day when

830
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 5: our season, our first season was over, we walked off

831
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 5: the set and negotiation to h to get a better

832
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 5: contract and we started doing car shows. And we would

833
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 5: do a car show and we would make more in

834
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 5: that weekend than we made an entire season. We went

835
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 5: back to the gether. Guys, we're doing these car shows.

836
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 5: We got fans everywhere like they're out to do it

837
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,760
Speaker 5: around the plot. You know, we had already done Universal Studios,

838
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 5: so which was you know, it's crazy. We had up

839
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:27,479
Speaker 5: to the park and uh, at that point we realized, Wow,

840
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,240
Speaker 5: this is a lot bigger than what we know. Because

841
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 5: it's one thing to be said, to have it said

842
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 5: to you you're the number one kid show in the world.

843
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 5: But if you haven't explored the world and the people

844
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 5: in it, you don't know that. You just know that's

845
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 5: what they said.

846
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 3: You know, that's a stack.

847
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we're pulling in the share. It's amazing. You know,

848
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 5: that's cool, but we're not feeling it. You know, like

849
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 5: to be that famous and that popular, have toys and

850
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,480
Speaker 5: and everything else, have people sleeping outside at that at

851
00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 5: Toys r Us to get your action figure is a

852
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 5: wild thing. And it's crazy because they didn't even give

853
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 5: us the action figures. I didn't even get them. I

854
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 5: got them later on a life. You're like, I wasn't

855
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 5: gonna go stand it Toys r Us. It was weird,

856
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 5: Like I'm not gonna go sleep outside, although I'm sure

857
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 5: it could have walked up, but the pandemodium that would

858
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 5: have created it would have probably been very pressworthy. And

859
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 5: I didn't. I didn't do it, but I mean, overall,

860
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 5: it was a wild experience. I wouldn't trade it. I wouldn't.

861
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 5: I would do it again if I had to. Uh,

862
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 5: I would have again try to renegotiate a contract and

863
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,399
Speaker 5: convince everybody to do it with us because we had

864
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:43,720
Speaker 5: standing power to.

865
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 4: Yeah.

866
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I was at that premiere. I went. I

867
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 2: went to that premier premiere. Yeah, I went to the

868
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 2: premiere of the film, and I was just kind of like, yeah,

869
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 2: because if we didn't know, you don't didn't Yeah, I know.

870
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:56,879
Speaker 2: That's the thing is you don't know beforehand. You don't

871
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,439
Speaker 2: hear till years later, where it's like, wow, they made

872
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 2: like nothing to do this, and your break and it's

873
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 2: not just you're not just acting, you're also stunt performing body.

874
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm like doing I'm like, I'm you know,

875
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 5: I'm doing all this physical activity that you would pay

876
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 5: a stump man to do, and you get stump bumps

877
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 5: and so forth and so on. I did some That

878
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 5: was one of the funnest parts of the job for me, though.

879
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 5: Really honestly, I did a sum one time where I

880
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 5: went I was being chased by some putties. Those are

881
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 5: the lower level bad guys. I'm being chased by a

882
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 5: putty and there's a putty standing in front of the

883
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:38,320
Speaker 5: swing set, and I dived through the chains of the swing.

884
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 5: I do a front flip over the puddy. I land.

885
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 5: I kick him in the stomach. He falls into the swing,

886
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 5: swings back against the puddy behind me. Now that's when

887
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 5: Jackie chan level. And I was so impressed with myself

888
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 5: that I was able to do it. In fact, the

889
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 5: first time I did it, my leg got caught in

890
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 5: the chain and I'm hanging upside down like it's.

891
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 2: Okay, let me look again. We're doing it.

892
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 5: Back Toronto, and uh and but and then even when

893
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 5: they showed it, you don't even really see it because

894
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 5: the time wasn't taken to make sure you could see

895
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 5: that the chain. I went to do the change like

896
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 5: you see me do it, and you go.

897
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: Didn't look like maybe he went through the chains. Possibly, yeah,

898
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: right right right.

899
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 2: But so yeah, your physicality though, so I have to

900
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 2: tell a very quick story. I think you and I

901
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 2: talked about this at one point at a convention. So

902
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 2: I had always been attracted to martial arts my whole life,

903
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 2: but I'm just not very good at it. But I

904
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:32,399
Speaker 2: liked it. I liked the discipline. I liked taking two

905
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,800
Speaker 2: classes and then quitting. That's kind of my thing. I'm

906
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 2: I'm two classes into multiple disciplines. So there's a martial

907
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 2: arts studio up the street from our we're shooting at,

908
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 2: not KTLA, but at the Radford Radford at the Radford,

909
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 2: and I drive by and I keep seeing this martial

910
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 2: arts studio there, so I'm like, you know what, I'm

911
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 2: going to go? Yes, Grandmaster Songs hop Keto. So I

912
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 2: go in and I start taking private lessons with Grandmaster

913
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 2: Song and he's the nicest guy and he's a great teacher.

914
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 2: And he says, I want you to come tonight. We're

915
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 2: doing black belt tests and I want you to sit

916
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 2: there and watch and hold people's clothes because obviously I'm

917
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 2: not going to be testing for anything. So I get

918
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 2: there and he says, we're all the classes, we're all

919
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 2: kneeling there, we're sitting there, and he says, and now

920
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 2: I would like somebody to come in and give us

921
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 2: a demonstration. And it was you and you walked into

922
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:21,919
Speaker 2: the class and the first thing you did was run

923
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 2: down the mat, do a front flip, and then jump

924
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 2: into a giant, spinning back kick. And I remember going like, oh,

925
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 2: I can't do this. I will never ever be able

926
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 2: to do this. It was the most there's probably ten

927
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 2: of us there in the class, and you gave this

928
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,919
Speaker 2: demonstration that was just like that, that's what I want.

929
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 2: I want to be able to do and just knowing

930
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 2: that I've never ever have a chance to do it,

931
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 2: but you were so nice to me, and but it

932
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 2: was just one of those things where you just saw

933
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 2: the physicality was on such another level that you're just

934
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:52,919
Speaker 2: kind of like, oh, some people can do it like that,

935
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 2: and some people hurt themselves kneeling like I'd been kneeling

936
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 2: for too long and it wasn't gonna be able to

937
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 2: get up, and so it was. Yeah, it was just that.

938
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 2: Remember watching that and then learning after that kind of

939
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 2: took me in the deep dive down the Power Rangers

940
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,240
Speaker 2: hole because I was like, oh, are they all this skilled?

941
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:10,879
Speaker 2: Which you weren't all as skilled as you were, let's

942
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 2: be honest, but the idea that it was like they're

943
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 2: actors and stunt people and they're doing all this together,

944
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 2: they're fighting, they're probably doing some of the fight coordinations themselves,

945
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 2: Like this is amazing. And then to find out the

946
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,680
Speaker 2: work schedule and the compensation for it as a fellow actor,

947
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 2: it was like, oh man, it was just that moment

948
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 2: of that's not cool, you know. So it was now

949
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 2: seeing everybody at the convention, seeing the lines you have

950
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 2: at the conventions, and people come in showing you the love,

951
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 2: and actually you're getting some good compensation for the work

952
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 2: that you've put in over the years. Thank god, because

953
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 2: we as fans and we as fellow actors, when we

954
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 2: knew it was like, that's man, that's not cool. So

955
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 2: but yeah, thank you for that. That was you really

956
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 2: let me know that I would never be a martial artist.

957
00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 2: So I'd like to.

958
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 5: Really happy that you were there to witness that, because

959
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 5: I remember doing that Grandmaster's song asked me to come

960
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 5: in and do it. I don't think it was my

961
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 5: black belt test, but I did do a showcase there

962
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 5: and I put off the stop so I was like,

963
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:18,760
Speaker 5: oh sick the cakes. And I had a lot of talent,

964
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 5: so I was able to do things and incorporate you know,

965
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 5: hip hop, keto, hip hop into it and uh, and

966
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 5: it was fun. It was a lot of fun. And

967
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,359
Speaker 5: it's cool to remember that you were there.

968
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 2: And yeah, it was great. It was totally I'll never

969
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 2: forget that. Yep, that was great.

970
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 5: And yes, the fans that we have now are amazing. Uh,

971
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 5: we have the best fans in the world. Uh. You know,

972
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 5: I get to travel. It's so weird that I get

973
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 5: to travel to so many places because the shows everywhere. Uh,

974
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:53,280
Speaker 5: and and some places where I can't even speak the language,

975
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 5: and I got so much love. Like I just got

976
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,280
Speaker 5: back from Brazil. I was in I went to Santos,

977
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,440
Speaker 5: which is like this little town by South Paolo, and

978
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,360
Speaker 5: I did a festival there and everybody was there so

979
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 5: much love and and they're speaking Portuguese and I can't speak.

980
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 5: But I'm going, oh to d Bain and they look

981
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 5: crazy and it's like actually dance zook, which is a

982
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 5: Brazilian style dance. So that's that's amazing. Uh. And then

983
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 5: I've been to Ireland and Scotland and I mean, you

984
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 5: know what it's like, you know, all these different places. Colombia.

985
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,399
Speaker 5: I was in Colombia recently for my birthday last year

986
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:35,399
Speaker 5: and that was amazing. Uh, you know, it's just it's

987
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 5: so cool. I went to Indonesia actually once and I,

988
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 5: you know, I'm there and I don't speak the same language,

989
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 5: so I have an interpreter. That's always fun interpreter. But

990
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 5: just you know, the love is the same, it's the

991
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 5: same from the people and to feel that and know

992
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 5: that it exists in the world without me even knowing.

993
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 5: W and I, I mean, you know what it's like.

994
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 5: Sometimes you hear the stories from people that are so

995
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 5: heartwarming to know that I was positive in their life

996
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 5: and motivated them in some way to get through a situation.

997
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 5: And they and maybe that happened to them when they

998
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 5: were five or seven, and they carried that through like

999
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 5: their life. They carried that story when I was seven,

1000
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 5: I had to go through this such and such and

1001
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 5: then I thought about the black manager and so I

1002
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 5: stood up for myself and I did that. And they've

1003
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 5: been telling the story to everybody they know for like

1004
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 5: five years. And then they meet me and they're like,

1005
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 5: I gotta tell you what I get to tell you,

1006
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:36,320
Speaker 5: And I'm like, and I'm so excited for them, Like

1007
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 5: that happened, wold that so I'm so happy that it

1008
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 5: was that was part of it.

1009
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 2: You know, being an actor on anything and obviously being

1010
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 2: able to make a career out of it is a

1011
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 2: wonderful gift. But when you're doing something that you're focused

1012
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 2: on children and you're the hero and you're the hero,

1013
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 2: it's really amazing.

1014
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, And what sound is the fans our We have

1015
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 5: a lot of fans that are forty now and so

1016
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:08,359
Speaker 5: you know, spend thirty two years. So if you were

1017
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 5: eight you were watching parlor Agers our key audience. Then

1018
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:15,320
Speaker 5: now you're forty or you're forty three or forty four,

1019
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 5: you got a family of your own, you got kids,

1020
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 5: and some of you got grandkids. And it's like and

1021
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 5: you come up to my line and you go from

1022
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 5: being grandpa or papa to a little boy that yo,

1023
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 5: and they're like they're trying to be cool and they're like, oh,

1024
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,319
Speaker 5: and the kids are happy because their kids watch the show.

1025
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 5: But then they're even they're staying to me, I don't

1026
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 5: like this, Like oh my god, okay, control it. Yeah,

1027
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 5: you know, and it's so amazing just just to have

1028
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 5: generations and know that I'm that this will live beyond myself,

1029
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,240
Speaker 5: you know, that's that's awesome.

1030
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:06,720
Speaker 3: I want to ask you about the ones and always

1031
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 3: special too.

1032
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: Yes, what was it like putting back on the suit

1033
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:13,800
Speaker 1: thirty years later now doing this role as an adult?

1034
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 5: What was that like?

1035
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 2: You know what?

1036
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 5: You ever go back to your high school or your

1037
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 5: your elementary school after you've gotten much bigger and you

1038
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 5: go back.

1039
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 3: In the lock everything so small?

1040
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, the hallways like, yeah, I remember the colors,

1041
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,760
Speaker 5: like these stairs used to seem like so many stairs

1042
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,279
Speaker 5: and it's now as simple. It's like it was like

1043
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 5: that to go back, very surreal, except for everything saying.

1044
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:42,759
Speaker 5: So I'm going back and looking at the history of

1045
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 5: what's happened late twenty eight years later, Like when I

1046
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 5: was on the show and the Command Center, we had

1047
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 5: Zordan and we had this, you know, the viewing globe.

1048
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 5: And now I'm in the Command Center and Jordan's gone.

1049
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 5: And see there's a crack where it used to be,

1050
00:52:57,680 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 5: and there's no more viewing globe, and there's a different

1051
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 5: Alpha five it's Alpha nine. Now it's like it's all weird.

1052
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 5: It's like weird but familiar because even though it had

1053
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 5: been twenty eight years since I've been on the show.

1054
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 5: Every day of my life, I've had somebody walk up

1055
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 5: to me and call me Zach. He's that, you know,

1056
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:22,359
Speaker 5: And so Zach has never left me. And and thank God,

1057
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 5: thank God, that I still have the energy and the

1058
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 5: training to be able to do the things that I

1059
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 5: used to do. I haven't needed to do a backflip

1060
00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 5: in a long time, but I did it. I did

1061
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 5: it on Power Rangers once in all Ways. So I

1062
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 5: pulled out a backflip and did jump split kicks and

1063
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:41,800
Speaker 5: went to the ground and did hip hop keto. And

1064
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 5: I was so excited that I was able to do

1065
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 5: that for you know, that for my fans that have

1066
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 5: been with me since you know, ninety three, to their

1067
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 5: kids and their kids. To be able to go back

1068
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 5: and reprise the role was amazing. And it was also

1069
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,720
Speaker 5: a bit of closure that I never knew that I needed,

1070
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,759
Speaker 5: because you know, when you when you when you work

1071
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 5: on a series or a TV show and at the end,

1072
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 5: you get that wrap, all right, that's a wrapper Walter Jones.

1073
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,319
Speaker 5: You know I didn't get that because we walked off

1074
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 5: the show hoping to negotiate a contract and come back

1075
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:21,320
Speaker 5: and do the movie and finish doing some more shows.

1076
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 5: And that never happened. And so when I finished the series,

1077
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 5: when we finished Once in Always, they said, all right,

1078
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 5: that's a wrapper Walter Jones, and I just lost it.

1079
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 5: I tried to be cool. I was trying to be cool.

1080
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 5: It was like, yeah, I was like, I just went

1081
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 5: in and the voice went way high, id' I couldn't talk.

1082
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:39,840
Speaker 2: I was like.

1083
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 5: Like tearing up, and it was but I realized it

1084
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 5: was healing for me to finally hear that on something

1085
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 5: that I helped create and that I've seen, you know,

1086
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 5: I've seen just like do so well in the world

1087
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 5: with movies and TV shows and the comic books and

1088
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 5: Always and the cards, all this stuff that I see

1089
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 5: lives in the world because it's something that I helped

1090
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 5: create in the very beginning. To now be able to

1091
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 5: finally get a thank you, right, yeah, which is which

1092
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 5: is awesome. I mean I always get to thank you

1093
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 5: from the fans, but from the production.

1094
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 1: Itself, you know, yes, to be given your flowers from

1095
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:28,320
Speaker 1: the from the other people who have helped create, you know,

1096
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 1: the legacy that you helped create.

1097
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's twenty eight years later, so it's barely

1098
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 5: any of them left. But yeah, you know, it's like Yeah,

1099
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:40,280
Speaker 5: that was that was enough. To work with David Yost again,

1100
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 5: one of the also one of the original Rangers, the

1101
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:47,760
Speaker 5: Blue Ranger. To work with him on the show was awesome.

1102
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 5: It was a very surreal thing because working with David,

1103
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 5: David and I are our characters are kind of similar

1104
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 5: to our characters on the show. David is a little

1105
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 5: more reserved. He's a little more you know, like he's

1106
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 5: welcome together on energy and bouncy and and spontaneous and

1107
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:11,440
Speaker 5: fun and even as adults, we are a certain odd couple,

1108
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:13,839
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. But we have this love

1109
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,320
Speaker 5: for each other because we've known each other for so

1110
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 5: long and we've gone through this whole thing together. It's

1111
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 5: that's that's amazing. And then to be we were paying

1112
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 5: tribute to the Yellow Ranger, who was my friend tweet

1113
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:33,439
Speaker 5: train and who also left with me, so she knew

1114
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:36,359
Speaker 5: my experience of leaving because we were holding each other up.

1115
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 5: Now it's gonna be okay, we're gonna get through the contract,

1116
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 5: we're gonna go back, and then we'll be through the movie.

1117
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:45,279
Speaker 5: And then when it fell through, the heartbreak was only

1118
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 5: what we experienced, you know, myself and and uh and

1119
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 5: Austin Saint John and tweet training. So then to see

1120
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,680
Speaker 5: tweet go on and do movies. She did the pro

1121
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:57,439
Speaker 5: her career is starting to prosper. She was doing well,

1122
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:00,279
Speaker 5: and then she passed away and she was in a

1123
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 5: car accident, a tragic car accident, and we lost her.

1124
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:08,200
Speaker 5: And that was before she got to experience any of

1125
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 5: the fandom of people that were kids that are now

1126
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 5: grown to tell you stories about how you inspired their

1127
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:18,200
Speaker 5: life to go and do this show. We're paying tribute

1128
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 5: to her and Jason Frank, but her who had not

1129
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 5: experienced any of this. Yeah, it was weird because I

1130
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 5: am mourning in the in the movie, in the TV show,

1131
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 5: I'm I'm Zach mourning Triny who's passed, but I'm also

1132
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 5: Walter who's warning tweet And to look at her pictures

1133
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 5: in the in the scene there's a picture where I'm

1134
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:44,760
Speaker 5: looking at her pictures and I'm, you know, having this

1135
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,880
Speaker 5: this memory moment of her. It's like, it's wow, talking

1136
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 5: about you know, living in a moment. It was like

1137
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:54,880
Speaker 5: it was it was wild, it was cool, it was

1138
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 5: very cool.

1139
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:56,560
Speaker 3: That's beautiful.

1140
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 1: I think our fans would absolutely kill us if we

1141
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 1: did not talk about Brink, and I know that this

1142
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 1: is I'm stepping on Will's toes here with magical rewind.

1143
00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:23,440
Speaker 1: I have to know.

1144
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 3: Was Brink as fun to film as it looked?

1145
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 5: It was so much fun? Yeah, I mean think about

1146
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 5: it X X X games, right, it was very dominant

1147
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 5: at that time, so you had all these amazing athletes

1148
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 5: doing cool things on skateboards and bikes and rollerblades and

1149
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 5: so forth and so on, and it was in the

1150
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 5: vein of that. So when I was offered to me

1151
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 5: that the role was offered to me, I was twenty

1152
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 5: nine at the time, and the other actors were truly fifteen,

1153
00:58:57,480 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 5: Like everyone is fifteen, yeah, and they're like fifteen fourteen,

1154
00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 5: they're really kids. And here I am, my twenty nine

1155
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 5: year old self, like playing a kid again on a

1156
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 5: Disney movie. And I rollerbladed, So it was cool. I

1157
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 5: we got on there and we started training with uh,

1158
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 5: some of the guys from Xploit from X Games, and

1159
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 5: We're learning to go down ramps and all this stuff.

1160
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 5: And I'm courageous in my own way, but didn't really

1161
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 5: know how to do stunts on rollerblades. And I'll tell you,

1162
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 5: when you go down a ramp on blades. It's pretty terrifying.

1163
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:35,440
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I even just the thought of it.

1164
00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like it's okay, you're there on on edge,

1165
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 5: like okay, how do I do this? And you have

1166
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 5: to learn to put forward, like leaning into it forward

1167
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 5: because if you lean back at all, you fall. Yes,

1168
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 5: it's like yeah the way. Yeah, So that was it

1169
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 5: was trauma, but it was fun and we trained. We

1170
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 5: trained from about a week or two down at Santa

1171
00:59:57,840 --> 00:59:58,439
Speaker 5: Monica Beach.

1172
00:59:58,600 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 3: Oh, they gave you a whole week.

1173
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:01,439
Speaker 5: Yeah, are you kidding?

1174
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 2: You're lucky, You're lucky you got offered the role. I've

1175
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:05,360
Speaker 2: interviewed a bunch of the cast who said part of

1176
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 2: the audition process was they put them in rollerblades and

1177
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:08,520
Speaker 2: pushed them down a hill.

1178
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 5: Wow.

1179
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 2: So so it was like, I mean literally just like

1180
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:15,960
Speaker 2: go there you go. I mean, this is back in

1181
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 2: the day when Disney's like, hey, the four kids that

1182
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 2: survive are gonna be in the movie. So yeah, I.

1183
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 5: Didn't even know how they did that, but yeah, it

1184
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 5: was It was a lot of fun to film. Those

1185
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 5: guys were great. Uh. I still talk to the guy

1186
01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 5: that played Boo all the time, and uh, and yeah,

1187
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 5: it was it was a great time. Unfortunately, again, uh,

1188
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:40,120
Speaker 5: the hairdresser they did a job on me, which my

1189
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 5: fans love to talk about. Now. I had this hairline

1190
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 5: that was like a bowl, and uh, the hair hairdresser

1191
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:50,760
Speaker 5: was like, no, no, no, no, I know how to

1192
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:53,280
Speaker 5: do black hair. And I was like sure, you know.

1193
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 5: He's like, yeah, no, I do black hair all the time. Okay,

1194
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 5: all right, can you line me up? Can you? It

1195
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 5: was a diaster, you know. And and although it was clean,

1196
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 5: it was clean, I mean I looked, I look clean,

1197
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 5: but it was wrong. It was definitely wrong. And to

1198
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 5: this day on mine, on any of my social media,

1199
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 5: people are hitting yelling what about the hairline, I'm like, ago,

1200
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 5: let it go, it go.

1201
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:23,320
Speaker 2: I am on the brink, yes.

1202
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 5: Right, some of them excuse me, and I'm like, let

1203
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 5: me see your hairline and.

1204
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 3: Exactly get rid of that cat in your profile picture.

1205
01:01:37,560 --> 01:01:41,200
Speaker 1: You also made the rounds of nineties classic TV shows

1206
01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:45,240
Speaker 1: Family Matters, Step by Step, Parenthood Sabrina. But I want

1207
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:47,880
Speaker 1: to ask you about something a little more obscure. You

1208
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:52,280
Speaker 1: starred on a show called Space Cases, part of the

1209
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:55,320
Speaker 1: snack programming block that seemed way.

1210
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 3: Ahead of its time. Can you tell us a little

1211
01:01:57,080 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 3: bit about that.

1212
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 5: It was the first show and I booked series that

1213
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 5: I booked after Power Rangers. It was called Space Cases.

1214
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:08,439
Speaker 5: It was created by Bill Mooney, who was in Lost

1215
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 5: in Space. I'm named after That's what you're named after.

1216
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:14,800
Speaker 2: So his character in Lost in Space was Will Robinson,

1217
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:17,200
Speaker 2: and I was supposed to be Billy, but because my

1218
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:19,160
Speaker 2: brother's favorite show was Lost in Space, I was named

1219
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 2: after his character, Will Robinson. I met Bill. He's a

1220
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 2: very cool guy.

1221
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 5: Amazing guy, amazing guy. Yeah, So they hired me to

1222
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:32,160
Speaker 5: be on the show. And again I was twenty twenty

1223
01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 5: eight or I was older twenty eight with actual fifteen

1224
01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:39,640
Speaker 5: year olds, and I think there was a nine year old,

1225
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 5: an eleven year old, thirteen year old, and a fifteen

1226
01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 5: year old and you and me and I we're playing

1227
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:52,600
Speaker 5: a bunch of kids in a space university, a galactic

1228
01:02:53,280 --> 01:03:01,120
Speaker 5: university for prospering officers on ships. And this ship comes

1229
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 5: in and we decided to go explore it because I'm

1230
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 5: the guy that's like, hey, let's go check it out.

1231
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 5: And they're like, we can't do that. I'm like, we

1232
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:09,040
Speaker 5: could do whatever, we want to do this goal. So

1233
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:11,880
Speaker 5: we go, we get on the ship. The ship logs

1234
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:16,720
Speaker 5: us on as the crew, and the teacher and a captain,

1235
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 5: a former captain come on to take us off, and

1236
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 5: they get logged on as the passengers. Ship goes off

1237
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 5: into space because something's wrong. We're playing with the controls

1238
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:27,960
Speaker 5: and we get lost in space ourselves.

1239
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 2: And so lost in space meets space camp. This is

1240
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:31,280
Speaker 2: the great idea.

1241
01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 5: Yes, it was awesome. It was an awesome show. We

1242
01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 5: had two great seasons. The show was doing really well.

1243
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:39,680
Speaker 5: We were the number two kids number one, number two

1244
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 5: show on Nickelodeon behind Keenan Nickel, So Keenan Keel was

1245
01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 5: number one. We were number two. We had a great cast,

1246
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:52,360
Speaker 5: and then the third season was coming around, which I

1247
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 5: wish we had it under third season we left it

1248
01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:58,640
Speaker 5: on this cliffhanger was crazy. I mean I was crying, like,

1249
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:02,760
Speaker 5: you know, balling because we lost one of one of

1250
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:06,479
Speaker 5: my co stars and her visible friend ended up coming

1251
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:10,000
Speaker 5: back to be to be to play her part. But

1252
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:12,560
Speaker 5: I got booked by Aaron Spelling to do a show

1253
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:17,280
Speaker 5: called Malibu Shores. Yeah, and Aaron Spelling is the man,

1254
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 5: and I you know, I thought, well, I got the

1255
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:22,840
Speaker 5: number one kids show in the world. I want to

1256
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 5: do prime time. I want to get out of this

1257
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 5: kid's stuff, and so I got to take it. I

1258
01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:29,280
Speaker 5: got to take the chance. So I ended up leaving

1259
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:33,520
Speaker 5: my show to go do Malibu Shores and we did

1260
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 5: one season and it was it. It was done. It

1261
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 5: was done. But I did get to be when Aaron

1262
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 5: and Aaron was making me promises like I'm gonna put

1263
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 5: you in every show I do, you know, Like I

1264
01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:45,840
Speaker 5: was going over and hanging out of the house with

1265
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:48,920
Speaker 5: Aaron Spelling with Tori and Randy, like sitting by the

1266
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 5: pool alley in the basement. I was like, life is good.

1267
01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:56,960
Speaker 5: I was like here come, you know, because Aaron Spelling

1268
01:04:57,080 --> 01:04:59,400
Speaker 5: was like just some master. I mean everything he touched

1269
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 5: turned to go, yeah, all these angels, Duke's hazards, so

1270
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:05,680
Speaker 5: forth and so on, and like melrose Place, like he

1271
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:09,680
Speaker 5: he was God. So I took a chance to do

1272
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:13,160
Speaker 5: it and it didn't work out, and now I'm depressed

1273
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:14,919
Speaker 5: and I left my show because it was a good show.

1274
01:05:15,560 --> 01:05:17,440
Speaker 5: It was fun and a lot of people loved it,

1275
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,360
Speaker 5: and because we only did two seasons, it didn't it

1276
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:23,320
Speaker 5: didn't get to you know, continue, like it didn't go

1277
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:26,240
Speaker 5: into uh, it didn't get like, what, what's the word

1278
01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:27,880
Speaker 5: I'm looking for? It didn't go into.

1279
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 2: Syndication, dedication, thanking ding ding ding ding.

1280
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:34,720
Speaker 5: My brain was I am getting older. I was like,

1281
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 5: but it was a lot of fun. That was a

1282
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:45,920
Speaker 5: lot of fun to the show. Uh and and uh

1283
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 5: I was really grateful. I mean and I was actually

1284
01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:50,480
Speaker 5: finally paid well, So.

1285
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:55,960
Speaker 2: That was exactly not to go backwards. But you mentioned

1286
01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:58,320
Speaker 2: the cruise ship, and I just we don't have to

1287
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:00,960
Speaker 2: get too much into it, but is it true that

1288
01:06:01,080 --> 01:06:02,960
Speaker 2: working on a cruise ship is kind of like a

1289
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:05,000
Speaker 2: party the entire time you're there, for all the people

1290
01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 2: that are working, it's just you kind of don't know

1291
01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 2: what cabin you're gonna wake up in.

1292
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:16,160
Speaker 5: That's a little that one's I wouldn't every weekend, every

1293
01:06:16,200 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 5: week there's a new Yeah, there's no cool people to

1294
01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:22,160
Speaker 5: come on board that are partying and are on vacation,

1295
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Speaker 5: and I mean there is, there's possibilities to meet people,

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Speaker 5: and I met some people. But also I had a

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Speaker 5: girlfriend on the ship. Okay, I ended up having a

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Speaker 5: girlfriend on the ship, and and that way when we

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Speaker 5: had adventures. We go to Alaska and we go hiking

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Speaker 5: on the glaciers or we go kayaking or if we

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Speaker 5: did what horseback biting or jet skiing in Mexico. We

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Speaker 5: did stuff like that together, So which is nice to you?

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Speaker 5: That's so great doing that with somebody that you don't

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Speaker 5: know so well is uh? Is cool, But it's not

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Speaker 5: the same as really been able to share some thing

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Speaker 5: with somebody. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Can I ask what is your craziest passenger experience that

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Speaker 2: you had with somebody on the cruise ship.

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Speaker 5: Well, I didn't happen to have a romantic occasion on

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Speaker 5: the top of the ship in the middle of a storm,

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Speaker 5: a storm, lightning and thunder, and I'm on the top

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Speaker 5: deck with this young lady and we had an adventure

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Speaker 5: and it was just adventurous. It was definitely adventures. The

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Speaker 5: thing is is, after we were done, she told me

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Speaker 5: it was the first time, and I thought that.

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Speaker 1: Was She told me, listen, there are very few people

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Speaker 1: who can say their first time was on the top

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Speaker 1: floor of a ship.

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Speaker 2: No future. Yes, I thought you were gonna be like

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Speaker 2: somebody got really drunk and almost fell off the boat.

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Speaker 2: But I like the way your story went better.

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Speaker 5: That was the Walter adventure. Actually I did go.

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Speaker 2: I did.

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Speaker 5: I was riding a horse and and uh, whatever you

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Speaker 5: are done. And you know, on these tours, the horses

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Speaker 5: kind of know where they're going because they've been taking

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Speaker 5: people all day and day. And so I'm riding this horse,

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Speaker 5: and I like riding horses. I've been to the horses

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Speaker 5: for a while. And I got this horse and I'm like,

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Speaker 5: I'm running them. You know, we were running and and

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Speaker 5: this horse tries to knock me into a branch, a

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Speaker 5: low hanging branch, and I'm like, man, what are you doing?

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Speaker 5: And then he takes off running and he turns a

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Speaker 5: corner and right there is a brick wall corner and

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Speaker 5: he stops and I'm flaying off the horse and his

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Speaker 5: neck and I'm holding on something like this and I'm

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Speaker 5: like this course, he's trying to kid, You're not my

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01:08:51,439 --> 01:08:55,600
Speaker 5: friend anymore. Horse. I think he was gonna show me.

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Speaker 5: He was like this, this gringo, I'm gonna show in

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Speaker 5: the hold on. Oh I have and I survived. Oh man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, horses will try to kill you.

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Speaker 5: You will.

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Speaker 1: Everyone who's not like a professional horse rider has some

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01:09:11,720 --> 01:09:14,400
Speaker 1: sort of like this horse tried to kill me once.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, Yeah it happens. Well, Walter, thank you so much

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Speaker 3: for being here with us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for all of the contributions you have given

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01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:29,599
Speaker 1: to kids, TV, the entertainment industry. You are truly a legend,

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01:09:29,720 --> 01:09:32,599
Speaker 1: and I'm so glad that you feel the love even

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01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:37,719
Speaker 1: though you were not compensated fairly for the incredible work

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01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:40,920
Speaker 1: that you did for all those years. I hope you

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01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:44,880
Speaker 1: know how much you mean to multiple generations of people,

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01:09:45,400 --> 01:09:49,240
Speaker 1: including us. So thank you for all your contributions, and

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01:09:49,360 --> 01:09:50,360
Speaker 1: we hope you feel the love.

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01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 5: Oh, you know what. I feel the love. It's amazing,

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01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:57,200
Speaker 5: and I thank you everybody for knstrict continuing to support me.

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01:09:57,520 --> 01:10:00,280
Speaker 5: Check out my film war Dogs. It's all right right now.

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Speaker 5: I got to music out under the name Trey Emanuel.

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01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:06,679
Speaker 5: I got two songs, walk in the Park and Dance.

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Speaker 5: Check me out on Spotify or anything that streaming. And

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Speaker 5: if you go to my my Instagram Walter at Walter E. Jones,

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01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:14,959
Speaker 5: it's all there in the bio.

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Speaker 2: Perfect everything you do.

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Speaker 5: Everything.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to take you up on going dancing.

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Speaker 5: Yes, it's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'll ask our producers for your contact information and

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01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:29,320
Speaker 1: I'll reach out to you because I really do want to.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I'll convince these guys to go.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you.

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Speaker 3: Put in the chat. Thank you so much, Walter, thank

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Speaker 3: you for being here.

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Speaker 5: We'll see outside somewhere.

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Speaker 1: I'll definitely see out by man when every time we

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01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:51,040
Speaker 1: talk about how they were treated, I mean, there's just

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01:10:51,160 --> 01:10:53,439
Speaker 1: no way around it, even if they're too polite to

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01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:53,800
Speaker 1: say it.

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Speaker 3: They were just absolutely exploited.

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01:10:57,240 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's the only word for it. And we

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01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:02,639
Speaker 2: have truly no idea the phenomenon.

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Speaker 3: That nods around it.

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01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:08,800
Speaker 2: It was insane and they were they were literally making

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01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:12,639
Speaker 2: billions of dollars, and they anytime any of the actors said, hey,

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01:11:13,160 --> 01:11:15,000
Speaker 2: I can't make my rent, they got fired and they

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01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:18,440
Speaker 2: put somebody else in the suit. It was just incredible,

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Speaker 2: absolutely incredible.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, and it's so frustrating to hear too that, like

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01:11:22,160 --> 01:11:25,320
Speaker 1: you know, he he kind of decided, let's get a lawyer.

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Speaker 1: Let's and three of the five agreed to doing it,

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01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:31,760
Speaker 1: and the other two just said, I think I can

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01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:34,600
Speaker 1: do better without or whether or not I think I

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01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:37,400
Speaker 1: can do better without being in the group, I'm willing

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Speaker 1: to accept it in order to not.

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Speaker 3: Possibly lose my job.

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01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:43,600
Speaker 1: Where you know, as everyone really saw, I remember the

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01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:48,519
Speaker 1: Friends renegotiation being I mean the biggest news ever that

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01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:52,760
Speaker 1: the five of them banded together and said, we are

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Speaker 1: an ensemble. We want to and we know how much

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01:11:55,960 --> 01:11:58,200
Speaker 1: money you're making. We want to make this amount of money.

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01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:01,800
Speaker 1: And they all got it because they were in the number, yeah,

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01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:05,479
Speaker 1: six of them. What harmony was so yeah, it's it's

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01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:08,599
Speaker 1: just such a bummer that like, basically they were punished

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Speaker 1: for doing this.

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01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:12,320
Speaker 2: Is also one of the problems though with non union

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01:12:12,439 --> 01:12:15,920
Speaker 2: contracts you have you have when you're sometimes with the union,

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01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:18,280
Speaker 2: the union is there to make sure stuff like this

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Speaker 2: doesn't happen, because again, these were not just actors. They

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Speaker 2: were doing all of the stunts. It was there were

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Speaker 2: times where it was pretty dangerous on the set as well,

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01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:30,320
Speaker 2: and they just weren't weren't getting compensated. But it's another

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01:12:30,400 --> 01:12:32,200
Speaker 2: one of those ips though that's just been around for

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01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:34,080
Speaker 2: thirty something years and is still going strong. I mean,

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Speaker 2: at one point when they redid the movie in Zordan

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01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 2: Brian Cranston played Zordan. I mean, these are starting to

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01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:42,920
Speaker 2: get very big actors that were like, I want to

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01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:45,040
Speaker 2: be involved in this, in this franchise because they were

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01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:48,400
Speaker 2: it's it's the Power Rangers, So I mean, writer, you

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01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:50,400
Speaker 2: and I one of our close friends is the one

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01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:52,800
Speaker 2: who took the comic books to a whole another level.

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01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:55,760
Speaker 2: Kyle Higgins took the whole the comic books to a

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01:12:55,800 --> 01:12:57,800
Speaker 2: different place. And yeah, it's been We see them at

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Speaker 2: the conventions. I mean they have lines around the block

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01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:01,000
Speaker 2: at the conventions.

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01:13:01,520 --> 01:13:01,640
Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Huge. Yeah. Bill Hayter was Alpha five in the new one.

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Speaker 2: There you go, so they are. Yeah, it's it's quite

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01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:08,799
Speaker 2: the franchise.

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