Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about how weird it is that every
Speaker 2: now and then at conventions someone will bring me something
Speaker 2: I won't sign. For example, I think I've said before,
Speaker 2: but maybe I have not. I don't sign my Maxim magazine.
Speaker 2: I don't sign them for many reasons we don't need
Speaker 2: to get into now. But so sometimes people bring those
Speaker 2: up to the table and I'll say, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I'm really sorry I don't sign those, and then like
Speaker 2: they'll be like, oh, okay, that's a bummer, and I'll say,
Speaker 2: but we can, you know, you can get a different picture,
Speaker 2: or if you don't want anything at all, totally fine,
Speaker 2: nice to meet you. And they leave, and then like
Speaker 2: ten people later, someone will come up and they have
Speaker 2: their own pictures printed out that they want me to sign,
Speaker 2: and they're all pictures of me where you can see
Speaker 2: my feet, And I'm.
Speaker 3: Like really, and I'm like, how many pictures of you?
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, I don't think I've ever seen
Speaker 4: a photo of you where I can see your feet.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, you know what, there's actually a photo of
Speaker 3: all of us barefoot.
Speaker 1: Yes, on the beach, like we're standing like.
Speaker 5: On a leg.
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody that no one wants your features disgusting.
Speaker 1: You're great at climbing trees, though, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: and it's perfect for your trip.
Speaker 3: To mortor wrapped up in all.
Speaker 4: Just when you remember when you get into the center
Speaker 4: of Mount Doom, throw the ring in.
Speaker 1: It can save us.
Speaker 2: All anyway, And I'll think, should I not sign these?
Speaker 1: Uneasy? Either?
Speaker 6: I don't little dirty, I feel a little gross, But
Speaker 6: I'm also like, you sign them with your feet right
Speaker 6: over my feet.
Speaker 1: So like a scribble on my feet. No, but so question.
Speaker 3: I guess these are mostly teenage girls asking for this
Speaker 3: right women right, very like.
Speaker 1: You would be wrong, such as so bad at this game.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're applying that don't understand what's
Speaker 3: happening here. They're like websites rate my feet.
Speaker 1: Wiki feet.
Speaker 2: I'm all over wiki feet, and I I'm just.
Speaker 1: Like wiki feet. Wait, is that really a thing? Wiki feet?
Speaker 7: Look it up, man, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's things. I don't want to google for a thousand
Speaker 1: alex wiki feet.
Speaker 2: Wiki feet, looking up Wilfredell. Right now, we're going to
Speaker 2: see what's on here.
Speaker 8: Is a celebrity feet kind of like, okay, because you
Speaker 8: don't care about your I mean you're not like private
Speaker 8: about your feet, right.
Speaker 2: Well, No, That's what I'm saying is that I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't really like it's just feet, like it's feet.
Speaker 1: I don't to me, I don't understand how feet have
Speaker 1: been I won't be on Wiki feet.
Speaker 4: I won't be on Wiki feet the same way I
Speaker 4: don't have a cutout, and you guys both have cutouts,
Speaker 4: Like I'm just never true.
Speaker 2: We discovered that we can talk about that since your
Speaker 2: feelings really seem hurt by it.
Speaker 7: I hate this is really the worst jumpin I've ever
Speaker 7: done in my entire life. Will is all over Wiki feet. Yeah,
Speaker 7: Wiki feet men for example. I mean, it's crazy how
Speaker 7: many shots there are actually of him with just no shoes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the one. We're talking about that stuff.
Speaker 7: Okay, then there are other ones. Let me let me
Speaker 7: get to this me. Yeah, there's some in your backyard
Speaker 7: where you your dog and feet.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4: I.
Speaker 7: Have to burn this phone. Now, get rid of that phone, Jensen. God,
Speaker 7: I have another question. Did you ever injure your foot
Speaker 7: or oh no, you know what this is. Were you
Speaker 7: getting a tattoo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was getting a tattoo. Yeah, I was getting
Speaker 4: I was covering the other tattoo that I had.
Speaker 1: Is writer on wiki.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, no, it'll break your phone if you
Speaker 3: should right strong?
Speaker 7: Oh you mean rights strong for Wiki feet men in
Speaker 7: this shot?
Speaker 3: Wait?
Speaker 1: What shot is that? What is that?
Speaker 7: Farm?
Speaker 1: Okay, see you can't things you don't even think of.
Speaker 1: That's my point. It's like, oh.
Speaker 3: See, no one wants that. What is that from?
Speaker 7: Are you? Are you allowing people to bring this shot
Speaker 7: of just your foot to sign?
Speaker 1: You should start offering it at that point? Yeah, like
Speaker 1: I gotta give him, Like does it look like you're
Speaker 1: really have flat feet?
Speaker 7: Serious question? Is this your foot or baby Yoda?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yes, my feet are stable, made for a fe and living.
Speaker 1: You know, I know your feet made well for that.
Speaker 1: Oh what's that from?
Speaker 3: Am I naked?
Speaker 7: What do you do? A picture of writer? He's sitting
Speaker 7: criss cross apple sauce. He has no clothes on. It
Speaker 7: appeared in my contemplating life?
Speaker 8: Is you know what? I think that's from penthouse?
Speaker 1: When you's like wait, what what really wanted me?
Speaker 7: And just so you said, Will had ten photos on
Speaker 7: Wiki feet writer who said there's no way I have
Speaker 7: any on there has twenty eight.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: I'm always the lady the beloved for my feet right
Speaker 3: foot model. I think I think there's a future here.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's my point. Let's say you were to
Speaker 2: open fan and then just do feet pictures. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think is there something?
Speaker 1: Does anyone have any moral objections to that? When it's
Speaker 1: feed to foot to foot feed, you know what it's
Speaker 1: being used for them, But.
Speaker 3: What is it being used for other than people?
Speaker 8: I mean, I guess it's just it's like, are they like.
Speaker 3: Hand websites are I'm sure there's probably.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, there's also they say that scientifically, the
Speaker 4: part of your brain that deals with sex also is
Speaker 4: right next to the part of your brain that deals
Speaker 4: with feet, So they think a crossed wire and they're
Speaker 4: kind of they connect there's a whole part.
Speaker 1: Of your brain that deals with fat. No, it's just
Speaker 1: one small section of your brain. But it is true.
Speaker 3: But it isn't true, just conceptually, the idea of cross
Speaker 3: Just instantly say it's not true.
Speaker 6: You have no red, no brain that's google. There's no
Speaker 6: one part of the brain that does anything. The brain
Speaker 6: is a whole system of jokes.
Speaker 1: There's certain memories set in the brain.
Speaker 4: Of course there are, Writer, that's just absolutely incorrect.
Speaker 8: So tell me where the part of the brain that
Speaker 8: deals with sexes. Please explain that that here, here you go.
Speaker 8: Pre sex is the most distributed part of the brain.
Speaker 8: You can't say there's this one.
Speaker 7: Part, writer, while you're fighting. I need you to know.
Speaker 7: I need you to know that Danielle has one hundred
Speaker 7: and thirty four pictures on Wiki feet.
Speaker 5: I see.
Speaker 3: That's insane.
Speaker 2: You know what it is, though, Writer, It's not all
Speaker 2: naked feet. There are even times I've worn like strappy sandals.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, Hi, can we can we talk you for
Speaker 1: one second? Let's get back to how to write or
Speaker 1: telling you you're wrong.
Speaker 4: In the so mutose sensory homunculous S one territory representing
Speaker 4: the feet is next to the brain areas representing the genitals.
Speaker 4: The links to the widely reported S one theory explain
Speaker 4: the feat's orogenis zones. There are sections of the brain
Speaker 4: that control different things. There just are right body parts, sure,
Speaker 4: well right, but there's also the so that's exactly what
Speaker 4: they're talking about. The orogenous zone the brain representing the
Speaker 4: part of the feet and representing the part of the
Speaker 4: genitals are right next to right next to each other,
Speaker 4: right so acrossed wire and you're that's what you that's
Speaker 4: what they call it. The you know, if there's some
Speaker 4: kind of cross what do they call when they fire?
Speaker 1: When they fire?
Speaker 7: Explain why writer's feet look that way.
Speaker 1: No, that's genetics. That's the part that's the hobbit part
Speaker 1: of the brain.
Speaker 3: It's the Hobbit lineage of Scotland right into my feet,
Speaker 3: through Pennsylvania over to northern California. You do, You've got
Speaker 3: Scottish Highland feet. There's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: Bye, Jensen, Thanks for embarrassing us with our feet.
Speaker 4: I signed your maximals all the time. By the way,
Speaker 4: we've talked about this. They leave your table and bring
Speaker 4: them over here. Bring them over here, I'll sign them.
Speaker 4: Feenie call Daniel's feet.
Speaker 1: Welcome to pod meets World. I'm Daniel Fishel, I'm right
Speaker 1: or Strong, and I'm Wilfredee.
Speaker 2: So this week's guest and I have quite a long history,
Speaker 2: despite the fact that I, as far as i'm aware,
Speaker 2: have never met her. But yet for the past twenty
Speaker 2: or so years, our pictures have been placed next to
Speaker 2: each other alongside Tiffany Ambertheesian, underneath a meme headline that
Speaker 2: reads something like, if this was your first crush, It's
Speaker 2: time for some meta musil.
Speaker 3: I was wondering where this was going.
Speaker 1: Yeah for me too, I mean I thought you never
Speaker 1: met yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: And the debates of who you liked more, well, those
Speaker 2: have somehow dominated Twitter since the Terrible Apps inception, and
Speaker 2: now this week we will meet this real life superhero
Speaker 2: who you know best as Kimberly Hart, the Pink Ranger
Speaker 2: on every og incarnation of the Mighty morphin Power Rangers,
Speaker 2: a franchise scene on TV and movies before franchise was
Speaker 2: a commonly used term in Hollywood, and you'd later see
Speaker 2: her on Spin City Er in the movie Killing Mister Griffin,
Speaker 2: and as Julie Emrick on fifty episodes of Felicity.
Speaker 1: Now without the helmet, and she's.
Speaker 2: Returning to her spandex bad guy fighting roots in the
Speaker 2: coolest way possible, which we will all talk about. So
Speaker 2: this week, please welcome an icon and the woman I
Speaker 2: will always vote for in those dumb online polls.
Speaker 1: Amy Joe Johnson.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Hey, Hi, how's it?
Speaker 1: Collin it's so great. It is so nice to meet you.
Speaker 1: I feel like this has been a very long time coming.
Speaker 5: Oh, well that's nice. Yes.
Speaker 2: Are you aware of the heated debates we are involuntarily
Speaker 2: a part of over who was their first nineties crush?
Speaker 5: I am not aware of.
Speaker 3: Wow. Wow, you don't google yourself as much as Yes, you.
Speaker 1: Don't get sent nearly as much as I do a parent.
Speaker 5: So who's the winner?
Speaker 1: Oh, there's never a winner. We're all losers in that situation.
Speaker 5: A thing I'd like try not to think about that
Speaker 5: kind of a thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's the point. I think men are the
Speaker 2: winner in that situation.
Speaker 1: Just listen.
Speaker 2: I I just I've always wanted to meet you, and
Speaker 2: I'm so happy we're able to do it here.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm very happy to meet you guys. Thank you
Speaker 5: for having me on the on your podcast.
Speaker 4: Yeah you wouldn't You wouldn't remember this, but you and
Speaker 4: I had a very nice conversation once at the premiere
Speaker 4: of the Mighty Morphem Power Rangers movie.
Speaker 7: You know what.
Speaker 5: I was chatting with my pal David Yost yesterday and
Speaker 5: he did remind me that you were there.
Speaker 1: Oh really okay? Yeah, yeah, wow, I wasn't there. Was
Speaker 1: I No, I think I was just me.
Speaker 5: I don't even remember being there.
Speaker 1: You were there, you were there.
Speaker 5: I think I was there.
Speaker 2: So I know you began your life performing as a
Speaker 2: competitive gymnast. How does Power Rangers come calling as your
Speaker 2: first job.
Speaker 5: Well, so I moved my life to Los Angeles when
Speaker 5: I was I think like twenty twenty one. I went
Speaker 5: to school in New York. I followed a boy cross
Speaker 5: country and I was there for about six months and
Speaker 5: I actually left and moved back home. But the night
Speaker 5: before I went, I met this acting coach, this man
Speaker 5: named Walter, who you know, was this very funny, eccentric
Speaker 5: older man. Well he wasn't even older then. He was
Speaker 5: younger than me than I am now, but he seems
Speaker 5: older all the time and just like filled me with
Speaker 5: all of this love and just was like, you're going
Speaker 5: to be a star. And he had this like tiny
Speaker 5: little workshop. And I moved home. He even called my
Speaker 5: parents and he said she has to come back, and
Speaker 5: so I did. I went back, and literally the week
Speaker 5: I moved back is when I got my first audition,
Speaker 5: which was for Power Rangers.
Speaker 1: Wow, your first ever audition was for Power Rangers.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, I did a couple like tiny, little like
Speaker 5: student films and stuff that six months that I first
Speaker 5: got there. But like my first real audition it was
Speaker 5: with Katie Wallins too, because I had taken a commercial
Speaker 5: acting workshop class with her and so she was casting
Speaker 5: the show and so she called me and told me
Speaker 5: to come in. I didn't even have an agent. I
Speaker 5: didn't get an agent till after I left the show. Ges.
Speaker 4: Wow, so it was Power Rangers already. It was a
Speaker 4: big thing in Japan, right.
Speaker 5: Yes, so it was. I mean I had a whole history,
Speaker 5: I think. Yeah, stan Lee even wanted it at one
Speaker 5: point and tried to pick and sell it and he
Speaker 5: couldn't and then heim Saban ended up getting the rights
Speaker 5: to it and you know, made it what it was
Speaker 5: at the time, and just took the Japanese footage and
Speaker 5: just shot fifteen minutes of the real footage that we had.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't call that the real footage, the new footage, yeah,
Speaker 5: the American footage and sort of smushed it together and
Speaker 5: it was just this really weird, cheesy, fun, brightly colored
Speaker 5: kids show that kind of like.
Speaker 3: But so, did your audition include fighting or because you
Speaker 3: were the acting side, you didn't have to do any
Speaker 3: of the stunts.
Speaker 5: Oh, we did all our stunts okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: until we ran out of the footage we had. We
Speaker 5: did a bunch of the stunts even with the helmets on,
Speaker 5: and then I couldn't breathe. Me and David Yos really
Speaker 5: complained about the fact there were like three holes in
Speaker 5: the helmets and we couldn't breath. I got stunt doubles
Speaker 5: for us with the helmets on, but I was a gymnast,
Speaker 5: David with a gymnast, and everybody else was in martial arts,
Speaker 5: and so we kind of just faked it for the audition.
Speaker 5: I do think it was my gymnastics that got me
Speaker 5: the role. I don't think it was my acting skills
Speaker 5: at that time.
Speaker 1: So how old were you when you booked the job?
Speaker 5: Twenty? I think I just turned twenty two, okay.
Speaker 1: And how old were you when you started in gymnastics?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: My god? Seven? Wow? Yeah. That was like my upbringing
Speaker 5: in my life, Like I loved it. And then I
Speaker 5: actually quit gymnastics when I was around seventeen, okay. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and then and then it came in real handy for
Speaker 5: that and.
Speaker 2: You obviously you just hadn't lost it, even though you
Speaker 2: hadn't really been.
Speaker 5: I you know, I just wrote a comic book. I
Speaker 5: don't know if you guys know that, but the Power
Speaker 5: Rangel's comic book. And so me and my boyfriend, who
Speaker 5: I wrote this comic book with many more from Power
Speaker 5: Rangels Turn, we went back and we watched all these
Speaker 5: old episodes. Because I don't know about you guys, but
Speaker 5: I never watched the show when it was I don't know,
Speaker 5: I think I watched a few, and then I realized
Speaker 5: quickly as an actor for myself, I didn't like to
Speaker 5: watch myself. Now, as a writer director, I've been in
Speaker 5: a few things that I did, I don't even look
Speaker 5: at myself as myself. Yeah, when I'm editing, you know
Speaker 5: what I mean, I just being Anyway, we went back
Speaker 5: and we watched a bunch of old episodes of Power Rangers,
Speaker 5: and I was really sort of surprised and a little
Speaker 5: bit impressed with myself that I had still had so
Speaker 5: many of those skills that I had as a gymnast
Speaker 5: when I was younger. I mean, I can't do any
Speaker 5: of that stuff now, really, I did. I have a
Speaker 5: a trampoline in my backyard, and I did a backflip
Speaker 5: last summer and I was out for like a month, like,
Speaker 5: oh no, ACT said, you did no more flips?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why you think you could still flip.
Speaker 2: You could do it twenty years ago. I don't know
Speaker 2: why that thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did? You land it?
Speaker 5: I did, okay, And then I was feeling really good
Speaker 5: in that moment physically, and I actually went and played
Speaker 5: frisbee with my boyfriend and I was doing tart wheels
Speaker 5: all over the lawn and yeah, no, no more.
Speaker 1: The next day your body was like, what were you doing?
Speaker 5: Oh my god, no more going upside down.
Speaker 2: That's you had a very like independent late teenage early twenties,
Speaker 2: because you said you moved across the country to New
Speaker 2: York to follow a boy. Then you were back in
Speaker 2: LA and then The Power Rangers filmed in New Zealand.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So, first of all, I grew up on kip
Speaker 5: Cood in Massachusetts, in like a small town.
Speaker 4: Which town, curiously, Dennis, Okay, So we were in manam
Speaker 4: It right before the bridge.
Speaker 1: Oh oh really, right next to right next to Plymouth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's where we spent you know, I'm from Connecticut, originally,
Speaker 4: but that's where my family had our little summer and
Speaker 4: were there all the time. So I spent all my
Speaker 4: time in like Hyenna's Port, like that whole kind of
Speaker 4: area around that, the Cape Cod.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so very good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I still have family there. I love going home.
Speaker 5: I was just there two weeks ago. I actually love
Speaker 5: it in the winter.
Speaker 1: It's so it's a great place. Yeah, great place. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So then I went from Cape Cod.
Speaker 1: To k New York.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so you didn't go didn't go that far, okay,
Speaker 2: But then.
Speaker 5: I drove across country with a boy to Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: A year after I went to New York. A year
Speaker 5: or so, I got to LA and six months later
Speaker 5: I landed Power Rangers. A year later we were still filming,
Speaker 5: and a year later it actually aired in September, and
Speaker 5: then we filmed two seasons for a whole other year,
Speaker 5: and then we went to New Zealand to shoot the movie.
Speaker 1: Did it ever?
Speaker 4: Did it ever get to a point where you were
Speaker 4: no longer using the Japanese footage where the entire show
Speaker 4: was being shot here?
Speaker 1: Or was was there always Japanese fotah thrown in? Yeah?
Speaker 5: No, they ran out. I mean I I did one
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty two episodes within two years.
Speaker 1: Oh my geesh, that's a lot.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, so in one filming day, how like how
Speaker 8: much how many pages were you guys doing?
Speaker 5: Oh they would shoot like four episodes at a time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, schedule, but you're doing stunts. Yes, so intense.
Speaker 7: Oh, I know.
Speaker 5: There was you know, two units and we were ay
Speaker 5: weeks and like we were just in it. We were
Speaker 5: like paid seven hundred dollars a week. It was non union.
Speaker 3: Were you having were you exhausted all the time? Like
Speaker 3: was it stressful or was it?
Speaker 5: I mean, I had a blast. I didn't really honestly
Speaker 5: didn't think the show was going to become what it
Speaker 5: was for for kids. I didn't think that at all.
Speaker 5: I thought, Okay, I'm getting my feet wet, I'm learning
Speaker 5: how to hit a mark. I'm you know, this is
Speaker 5: kind of like a cool first job. And I just
Speaker 5: sort of emerg myself in it. And it was a
Speaker 5: year later that it aired and then the kids just
Speaker 5: loved it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my son went through such an intense Power Rangers phase.
Speaker 1: My kids. It still works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And now there's like fifty different shows. They're all
Speaker 3: in the same ilk and you know, and he's like
Speaker 3: he knows which ones are from which generation, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I cannot keep up with any of this. It's so yeah,
Speaker 3: it's great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's so many. I think it's I think it
Speaker 5: just ended last year, to tell you the truth. So
Speaker 5: I think I don't know how many generations of Power Rangers.
Speaker 5: There were different pasts, but there were a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: Did you have an adjustment period coming off of Power
Speaker 3: Rangers into your next job, like to change, like, oh
Speaker 3: this is this is different then a different type of
Speaker 3: set than I'm used to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I actually asked to leave before the movie. Actually,
Speaker 5: I went to the producer and said, you know, I
Speaker 5: think I'm done.
Speaker 1: We shot thirty eight episodes today. I think I'm finished, right.
Speaker 3: I heard other actors are making a little more than
Speaker 3: seven episode a week, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5: And he was very kind to me. He wasn't so
Speaker 5: kind apparently to other people. But he said, go and
Speaker 5: shoot the movie. If you go and shoot this movie.
Speaker 5: And then I wrote this other movie called Susie Q
Speaker 5: that I would love you to star, and it was
Speaker 5: this little Disney movie and like five ten more episodes
Speaker 5: when we come back from New Zealand, and I was like,
Speaker 5: that's great, and he gave me this beautiful Guild guitar
Speaker 5: or a Gibson guitar, and that was sort of my sendoff.
Speaker 5: And then yeah, for a year, at least a year
Speaker 5: to two years, it was very hard to get that
Speaker 5: next job. So I just sort of don't move into
Speaker 5: plays and acting classes and just tried to you know what,
Speaker 5: I decided, I'm not going to focus on getting an
Speaker 5: agent or a manager. I'm going to focus on the
Speaker 5: craft and let that naturally happen and.
Speaker 7: Come to me.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's very yeah, mature of you.
Speaker 5: Which I was a very naive person. But I think
Speaker 5: if I look back, I think that was kind of
Speaker 5: a smart choice for me to go and just sort
Speaker 5: of like kind of hone my skills as an actor.
Speaker 5: And it was about two years later, a year and
Speaker 5: a half later, I got my first movie of the week.
Speaker 4: Remember movies of the week. Remember how much fun movies
Speaker 4: of the Week worked. Did you guys ever do movies
Speaker 4: of the week?
Speaker 1: Did you writer Danielle, did you guys do your your
Speaker 1: mow stime? Switch was, Oh that's right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's an ABC movie of the Week. Yeah, And actually
Speaker 3: my first job was a was a movie of the week,
Speaker 3: which one along road Home. The job where I was
Speaker 3: in a depression era family. It was like one of
Speaker 3: the kids and only had like three lines.
Speaker 1: In the movie, and that.
Speaker 3: They asked me to come to a dr and then
Speaker 3: I was like, I only had a couple of lines.
Speaker 3: And then some woman did my boice. Oh no, whatever, what.
Speaker 2: Did your family think of you becoming this like a
Speaker 2: part of this huge phenomenon.
Speaker 5: Oh, they were very proud. Again, I came from sort
Speaker 5: of a small town in Cape Cod nobody was in
Speaker 5: the arts in any means, and I just remember my
Speaker 5: dad and my mom were really proud. My dad was
Speaker 5: so proud to a point that my mom had to say,
Speaker 5: stop having people come over the house when she comes home.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, just the.
Speaker 5: People lined up and I'd be like, God, I just
Speaker 5: want to come.
Speaker 2: Home, Please don't bring the neighbors over with their cameras
Speaker 2: to Yeah, I went through that with my grandparents. I'd
Speaker 2: go visit my grandparents, and my grandmother would go, come on,
Speaker 2: we're going to make the rounds. And I'd go to
Speaker 2: like her bank and her grocery store and her Nordstrom
Speaker 2: to meet all all the people she talked about.
Speaker 1: You'll have to do that.
Speaker 4: My Dad's like, the guy at the car wash place
Speaker 4: really needs to meet you.
Speaker 1: I'm like why.
Speaker 4: He's like, well, he wants to talk to you about something.
Speaker 4: And then I'll get there and I'll be like just.
Speaker 1: My big fan, like all right, thanks, thanks dad.
Speaker 4: So going back to Power Rangers, so it becomes a
Speaker 4: complete and total phenomenon, I mean it's it's everywhere. How
Speaker 4: did your life change when it aired? And then it's
Speaker 4: all over the place, I mean since it because it's
Speaker 4: so strange.
Speaker 1: It's like, was really a kid show.
Speaker 4: We say we were on a kid show, but we
Speaker 4: had you know, the parents would watch with the kids.
Speaker 4: Power Rangers was really kind of a little kid's phenomenon
Speaker 4: at the time. So could you still have a totally
Speaker 4: normal life unless there were little kids around?
Speaker 1: Or were you being recognized everywhere?
Speaker 5: I had a totally normal life. I mean we were like, again,
Speaker 5: paid seven hundred dollars a week, and at one point
Speaker 5: I remember David Yost coming over to my house and
Speaker 5: he opened a drawer and there was like thirty five
Speaker 5: checks still sitting in the chore Oh my gosh, thank yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean like I was a little bit clueless of
Speaker 5: like LA and we were working so much, right, so
Speaker 5: I think the first time that we were sort of like,
Speaker 5: oh wow, this is a very popular show where a
Speaker 5: couple different scenarios. One we went to Hawaii to do
Speaker 5: a personal appearance and it was me, JDF and David
Speaker 5: and we They announced it on the radio and we
Speaker 5: got off the plane. You know how they'd lay you.
Speaker 5: So we got off the plane and there were at
Speaker 5: least a thousand people at the airport. I do believe
Speaker 5: it was more, and they started laying us FA and
Speaker 5: laying us and then JDF turns around and looks at
Speaker 5: me and all I see her his eyes just all flowers,
Speaker 5: and we were like like we were almost laid to death.
Speaker 5: I know that, but that was crazy. And then the
Speaker 5: Universal amphitheater shows. We showed up like we thought we
Speaker 5: were doing one little show, and it ended up selling out,
Speaker 5: so we ended up doing four shows in one day,
Speaker 5: and it actually, to be honest, it gave me nightmares.
Speaker 5: And I realized in that moment, I don't think I
Speaker 5: really actually want to be famous. I struggled with that
Speaker 5: for a long time. And it wasn't until I actually
Speaker 5: discovered writing and directing is my passion and that's really
Speaker 5: all I want to do. I prefer to be behind
Speaker 5: the camera than in front of it. But it took
Speaker 5: me about twenty years to really figure that out.
Speaker 2: Will you tell what were those shows? Tell me more
Speaker 2: about those live shows. What were those Universal Amphitheater shows.
Speaker 5: So when the movie or so when the TV show
Speaker 5: first hit, they did this live show at Universal Amphitheater
Speaker 5: and it shut down the highway. There were so many
Speaker 5: people that showed up. They had to shut down the
Speaker 5: one oh one and we were actually stuck in traffic
Speaker 5: trying to get to the show, and you're like, the.
Speaker 1: People doing the show.
Speaker 4: We.
Speaker 5: Get there. It was just I don't know. They just
Speaker 5: made this live show. We did one. We did it once.
Speaker 5: It was one day, and then you had.
Speaker 3: To do stunts on stage, and like it was.
Speaker 5: A oh yeah.
Speaker 9: They had had helmets on and we go on to
Speaker 9: this big platform and we off the helmet and the
Speaker 9: whole Amphitheater screams, and then we did flips off of
Speaker 9: the platform and ran around the.
Speaker 5: Stage and I remember me and Twee kept going. We
Speaker 5: were screaming with the audience, and then we go on
Speaker 5: the back and hind some I was like, no screaming.
Speaker 1: Did anyone ever get hurt?
Speaker 5: Tweetd Tweet actually hurt her knee when she jumped off.
Speaker 5: She uh, yeah, she hurt herself. But yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: And then were you getting paid for these show, these
Speaker 2: live shows? Were you getting paid more than you were
Speaker 2: getting paid for the TV show?
Speaker 5: My hindsight is really bad. You'd have to ask, like
Speaker 5: David Yost or Walter was Walter.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to go out on the limb and
Speaker 3: say probably.
Speaker 10: Not, probably not, probably not, Yeah, fifty good good luck,
Speaker 10: Oh my god, yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: Well, I just remember knowing seeing how the level of
Speaker 4: talent physically that the cast had.
Speaker 1: I when I was we were fourth season of the show,
Speaker 1: fifth season the show.
Speaker 4: We're at Radford and there's a martial arts studio up
Speaker 4: the street, and I thought, I'm going to take some classes.
Speaker 4: So I decided to take some hot kedo classes right
Speaker 4: up the street, and Walter was in my class and
Speaker 4: was a black belt obviously, as I was trying to
Speaker 4: put on my outfit, learning what ties to what, and
Speaker 4: he the teacher said Walter is gonna give us a demonstration,
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh, okay, great, So we all
Speaker 4: sit around the mat and he flips into the room,
Speaker 4: like full on flips into the room out of nowhere
Speaker 4: like this amazing thing, flips over us to land in
Speaker 4: the mat, does this gymnastics things backflip, and then just
Speaker 4: starts doing these high kicks that would have taken Shack
Speaker 4: out like seven feet in the air.
Speaker 1: This insane.
Speaker 4: And then he finishes and he walked out. Oh and
Speaker 4: it was the whole class looking around like what the hell?
Speaker 4: It was one of the most amazing things I'd ever
Speaker 4: seen up close, where it was just like, how is
Speaker 4: a human being pulling this off? So the level of
Speaker 4: skill that you all had, because what JDF, I know,
Speaker 4: was a martial artist.
Speaker 1: David Yos was a martial artist as well.
Speaker 5: Wasn't he He was a gymnast.
Speaker 1: He was a gymnast. So again.
Speaker 4: I still with exactly what Ryder said. I'm thinking of
Speaker 4: you doing all the stunts. You're working six days a week,
Speaker 4: Oh my god, you're doing You're shooting multiple shows at
Speaker 4: the same time, and having.
Speaker 3: An actor and an aut to that degree. I mean,
Speaker 3: I've always felt this way about dancers in generally, like
Speaker 3: it's just so yeah, it's so impressive and if anything,
Speaker 3: you guys should have been getting paid way more than
Speaker 3: your average actor, right, like yeah, it's you're.
Speaker 2: Doing everything I can retroactively pay you, Like I feel
Speaker 2: like you you deserve to. There needs to be away.
Speaker 5: Oh you know what, like whatever, it was, what it was.
Speaker 5: It was my first job and now honestly doing conventions,
Speaker 5: which has been super helpful as I transitioned from acting
Speaker 5: to writing and directing. And just like the kindness that
Speaker 5: comes from.
Speaker 1: Those shows and great aren't they.
Speaker 5: Kids that are adults now and how it impacted their
Speaker 5: lives and like like yeah, I'm good, Like I'm happy,
Speaker 5: like super grateful that I had the experience. But it
Speaker 5: was dearly a wild ride, definitely a wild ride. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I know we've now mentioned him a couple of times
Speaker 2: only as JDF, but you know, Jason David Frank we
Speaker 2: lost him last year, and we all know firsthand that
Speaker 2: when you share that many years with somebody and you
Speaker 2: know you have those kinds of experiences, those are relationships
Speaker 2: that are one in a million. Not a whole lot
Speaker 2: of people know what those those relationships are like, can
Speaker 2: you talk to us a little bit about what your
Speaker 2: relationship is like with the other Power Rangers and how
Speaker 2: bonded or not bonded you feel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, yeah, David David is like my family. My
Speaker 5: daughter calls him uncle Yost. We go on vacations every year.
Speaker 5: And he's actually from Wareham. Oh really, Okay, he his
Speaker 5: parents or he has a house on Wareham's So so
Speaker 5: we go to Cape Cod every year together and I
Speaker 5: just love him to death. And JDF was a very
Speaker 5: very close friend and that was just awful. Yeah, but
Speaker 5: as you guys know, like everybody, they're like family in
Speaker 5: a lot of ways, you know. And so I would
Speaker 5: say David and Jason we're the closest to me. I'm
Speaker 5: now super close with jdf's daughter Jenna, and yeah, and
Speaker 5: then I see Walter at shows and Catherine, who played
Speaker 5: the Pink Branger after me. She's super sweet. She texts
Speaker 5: me every now and then we actually got closer, like
Speaker 5: I didn't really know her because I wasn't on the
Speaker 5: show with her. But Jason passed away, we ended up
Speaker 5: reaching out to each other and sort of stay connected
Speaker 5: just through texts here and nice yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: And other than that, you know, I don't really and
Speaker 5: then we lost Twee as well, who was the Yellow Ranger.
Speaker 5: And then I don't really know much of the other people.
Speaker 5: I've met Aaron before she was a Pink Ranger once
Speaker 5: or a Yellow Ranger pink, Oh my god, I don't know.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, well it sounds even funny for me
Speaker 2: to bring this up considering what's available on TV now
Speaker 2: for kids. But the violence in Power Rangers was very
Speaker 2: controversial at the time in Canada. It was actually pulled
Speaker 2: from TV before the end of the first season because
Speaker 2: of complaints.
Speaker 1: Do you remember any of that?
Speaker 5: I do, I remember. I remember the controversy over that,
Speaker 5: and and I think it was sort of a choice
Speaker 5: for parents, like either they let their kids watch it
Speaker 5: or not. But the message of each show is always
Speaker 5: like this positive, you know, learning lesson and having female
Speaker 5: superheroes kick but was kind of cool, yea, yeah, but
Speaker 5: we were just like pounding away on people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems mild compared to what's out there today.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, certainly compared to what's out there today.
Speaker 2: But my kids are huge fans and we have all
Speaker 2: the Power Rangers action figures, and I have many times
Speaker 2: tried to pick up an action figure and be a
Speaker 2: Power Ranger, and both of my sons have said to me, no, mommy,
Speaker 2: you're the pink Power Ranger. And I was like, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't just have to be the pink Power Ranger
Speaker 2: because I could be a different one.
Speaker 1: Even though they exactly you.
Speaker 2: Take your choice, but they always want me to be
Speaker 2: the pink Power Ranger. I'm always like, okay, I well,
Speaker 2: I am happy to do it. So I wanted to
Speaker 2: talk to you about Felicity and your work with a
Speaker 2: fellow boy me It's World guest star alum Carrie Russell.
Speaker 2: Was it difficult doing the transition from Power Rangers and
Speaker 2: how did that role come about for you?
Speaker 5: So I landed Felicity maybe four years, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I left Power Rangers in ninety five and I got
Speaker 5: Felicity in ninety eight. So in between that, I had
Speaker 5: done a bunch of Movies of the Week, like we
Speaker 5: were talking about before, and so I think I had
Speaker 5: time to sort of take my acting classes and stuff.
Speaker 5: And so when I landed that, that was just such
Speaker 5: a huge win and I was just so excited to
Speaker 5: be part of something that felt just like a little
Speaker 5: more elevated Rangers. I'm kind of special and I had
Speaker 5: a great time. I was on the show most of
Speaker 5: the time. Again, I went and I asked to leave
Speaker 5: after two seasons, but I had lost my mother right
Speaker 5: when I got the show, and I think I just
Speaker 5: needed to go grieve. I actually went to Chicago and
Speaker 5: recorded a rock album.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Oh, your character on Felicity was a musician.
Speaker 2: So as if being like a gymnast wasn't an acting
Speaker 2: wasn't enough, you also actually played guitar and were singing,
Speaker 2: and that was really you doing it right?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well yeah, Julie was first
Speaker 5: a dancer, but then I was like, I don't really
Speaker 5: know how to dance, but I play guitar, and they're
Speaker 5: like great, so they incorporated that, which was cool.
Speaker 1: Had you always been interested in singing?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I started playing. I taught myself how
Speaker 5: to play the guitar in when I was like eighteen nineteen,
Speaker 5: and I've always just kept music on the side, sort
Speaker 5: of like a hobby, a place to just kind of
Speaker 5: go and express, especially when you know things aren't happening
Speaker 5: acting career or writing and directing. I actually have an
Speaker 5: EP coming out and maybe about a month and a
Speaker 5: half we're still mixing it, but it's called Still Here
Speaker 5: Mystery Songs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so by going back
Speaker 5: to Felicity, what was the question anyway, it was just
Speaker 5: it was a huge trendsit it was a very different experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, do you looking back now, do you?
Speaker 4: I mean, obviously the grieving process, you need to do
Speaker 4: what you need to do when you need to do it.
Speaker 1: But if you had to go back, would you have
Speaker 1: stayed on Felicity?
Speaker 5: Absolutely? Yeah, And there are no regrets, Like the way
Speaker 5: everything rolled out was the way everything rolled out. And
Speaker 5: I and now that I know deep inside, like I
Speaker 5: am much happier behind the camera and writing and directing
Speaker 5: and I and I kind of knew that then, but
Speaker 5: I didn't give myself permission to actually pursue yea, I
Speaker 5: thought I wasn't allowed to for whatever reason. So you know,
Speaker 5: in hindsight, would I have stayed on the show? Probably
Speaker 5: should have and yes, But at the same time, I
Speaker 5: still I don't know if I would have been any
Speaker 5: happier if I stayed, because I don't think that I've
Speaker 5: ever truly loved acting, where as I love writing and directing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you mentioned that you're making your return to your
Speaker 2: legacy with the comic book Mighty morphin Power Rangers The Return,
Speaker 2: which you co wrote for Boom Studios. Why don't you
Speaker 2: tell us all about that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I wrote a comic book with my boyfriend
Speaker 5: Matt and we actually came up with the idea during
Speaker 5: COVID and it was a Power Ranger sort of like
Speaker 5: what if the original Rangers had stayed together? Where would
Speaker 5: they be now? And we just started creating this wild
Speaker 5: story and then pitched it to Boom and about three
Speaker 5: years later. Everything takes long, they said yeah, and they
Speaker 5: Hasbro and so we did it and we got this
Speaker 5: amazing artist and Issue one came out a month ago.
Speaker 5: Issue Too is just just came out and there's four
Speaker 5: issues and we kind of leave it open ended and
Speaker 5: we have more ideas. And it's been very different because
Speaker 5: I'm a I write screenplays and I have a couple
Speaker 5: of features, and I have two movies and I'm getting
Speaker 5: off the ground. So to switch to go to comic
Speaker 5: book writing was very different. It's a different muscle, Yeah,
Speaker 5: but the immediate not immediate, but the.
Speaker 11: Quicker gratification of it is very exciting and fine, then
Speaker 11: this story in this script away and then to get
Speaker 11: back this amazing drawing and artwork, and like it's it's
Speaker 11: been really thrilling and fun and the response has been
Speaker 11: pretty great.
Speaker 1: So great. Where can people get it?
Speaker 5: The comic book shop, right.
Speaker 4: Your local shop Wednesday wednesdays of the day when the
Speaker 4: new books drop.
Speaker 1: I think is for comic book fans. I think that's
Speaker 1: what it is. Now.
Speaker 4: Is it you said the original it's the OG Power Ranger?
Speaker 4: So is it the Green Ranger or is it the
Speaker 4: White Ranger or is it the Gold Ranger?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 5: So we actually that was one of the things We
Speaker 5: went back and watched the show and found our sort
Speaker 5: of jumping off point, and our jumping off point is
Speaker 5: when the Green Ranger was still the Green Ranger. Okay,
Speaker 5: So then from that point on we've created this news story.
Speaker 5: And the story really is there's flashbacks to what happened,
Speaker 5: something really tragic happens twenty two years ago, but the
Speaker 5: main story takes place now with the Rangers as middle
Speaker 5: aged people.
Speaker 3: That sounds really cool.
Speaker 4: It does happen, But are your characters from Power Rangers
Speaker 4: your original OG characters cool?
Speaker 5: The Original five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's so great. That's neat.
Speaker 2: And I also wanted to touch on another thing that
Speaker 2: bonds us. We have both become directors. You directed a
Speaker 2: movie starring Felicity Huffman and Lauren Hawley called Tammy's Always Dying,
Speaker 2: and you recently directed an episode of Superman and Lois
Speaker 2: So what drew you to direct behind the camera?
Speaker 5: Like I said a little bit earlier, I think I
Speaker 5: I've always wanted to do that. Right now, I am
Speaker 5: did you guys have a video camera in the nineties
Speaker 5: and just videotape everything.
Speaker 1: Right especially? Yeah, I have.
Speaker 5: A hundred mini DVDs that I'm transferring right now, and
Speaker 5: I realize I'm in none.
Speaker 12: Of it right running around like filming everything, And I
Speaker 12: really I think from that time I already loved directing.
Speaker 5: Like there's I found one tape where this girl Raymi,
Speaker 5: who was my friend. I dressed her up in my
Speaker 5: mom's old nightgown and made her run around a graveyard
Speaker 5: and just filmed her like I don't know what I
Speaker 5: was doing. She was like my muse, I have her
Speaker 5: holding like a cookie monster. And anyway, but again, like
Speaker 5: I said, I just I guess I didn't know if
Speaker 5: I was allowed to do that. And then I started writing,
Speaker 5: and in my thirties I wrote a couple of screenplays
Speaker 5: and I actually sent one screenplay called Crazier Than You.
Speaker 5: I sent it to John Ham because I had done
Speaker 5: a series with him and I knew he was directing,
Speaker 5: and I said, do you want to direct this? And
Speaker 5: he read it and he's like, you should direct this,
Speaker 5: and I was like, oh, maybe I should. And not
Speaker 5: that it took a man to give me permission, but
Speaker 5: kind of I think in my head it did, and
Speaker 5: I was like, I can do this. So as soon
Speaker 5: as I finished Flashpoint, which was the last series that
Speaker 5: I did here in Canada, I just started shooting short
Speaker 5: films and so I just got to I just like
Speaker 5: figured it out, caught my teeth and just like got
Speaker 5: people together. And then I did my first feature called
Speaker 5: The Space Between for three hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
Speaker 5: and just got everybody together and did it. And then
Speaker 5: I did Tammy And so I don't know if I'm
Speaker 5: answering your question, but I realized that I've wanted to
Speaker 5: do this from the very beginning.
Speaker 2: I just didn't You've always been a director yeah.
Speaker 8: My wife has a similar you know, because she she's
Speaker 8: always been an actor and only recently started directing, like
Speaker 8: the last ten years. And it's so interesting because we
Speaker 8: compare notes and like I always had this idea as
Speaker 8: a kid, like I would look I would be like, oh.
Speaker 3: That's like the real job is directing, right. I would
Speaker 3: look at the director and I would imagine, like, someday
Speaker 3: I'll get there.
Speaker 1: And for her that.
Speaker 3: Just never even occurred to her because there were all
Speaker 3: men and it was not even an ope. It was
Speaker 3: just not a conversation. It was like, if you're an
Speaker 3: actor and a female actor, you just kind of stay
Speaker 3: in that lane. And I remember, like when I was
Speaker 3: like twenty four, I worked on a film with a
Speaker 3: female DP, and I remember just being like, oh, that's possible,
Speaker 3: because literally it didn't exist. It's still so rare, you know,
Speaker 3: but it was like, oh, yeah, it's such a you know.
Speaker 8: It's just it's so I'm so glad it's finally changing,
Speaker 8: you know, because for somebody like my wife, who is
Speaker 8: an amazing director, it would have been such a it
Speaker 8: would have been such a natural thing for her in
Speaker 8: her early twenties to do that instead of acting probably,
Speaker 8: you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And then I'm just so grateful for and love
Speaker 5: watching people like Greta Gerwig or you know, these these
Speaker 5: women who just knew early on and just like our
Speaker 5: help paving the way. It's like yes, yes, like why not,
Speaker 5: like we have so many stories to tell.
Speaker 2: Similar to Writer's Wife Alex, never even occurred to me.
Speaker 2: Never through all the years of growing up. Never once
Speaker 2: being on Boy Meets World, did I think, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: someday I want to direct. Never, it was just like, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm of course, I'm in front of the camera person,
Speaker 2: and that's all it's ever going to be. And then
Speaker 2: really it wasn't until Girl Meets World where I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: you think maybe I could, I could maybe do this,
Speaker 2: And then the minute I did, I was like yes,
Speaker 2: it was like, oh my gosh, of course this is
Speaker 2: what I'm supposed to be doing.
Speaker 4: But did we have a single female director on Boy
Speaker 4: especially season seven?
Speaker 1: We did? Was it was Jody right Well, Lynn McCracken.
Speaker 3: Lynn McCracken did something and then what was her name?
Speaker 3: She did the Eskimo episode, the famous episode.
Speaker 1: Oh I wasn't in that one. I don't think gosh,
Speaker 1: what was her name.
Speaker 3: She only did the one episode, but she was also
Speaker 3: but you know what that was with a lot of
Speaker 3: Jody and that other woman came up through a Disney
Speaker 3: program for women's price, which was great. They had a
Speaker 3: famous stock, right, Jody Binstock was great. She's now a producer.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there was.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, Disney has a program I'm assuming they still have it.
Speaker 3: They had a fellowship even back then to encourage female directors,
Speaker 3: which was awesome.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: We had Lynn and we had Jody. I don't think
Speaker 1: I was in that program.
Speaker 3: Who knows. Yeah, that's all right, that's the reality, especially
Speaker 3: back then of directing. It's just the boys club.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well you have a daughter. How old is
Speaker 1: your daughter?
Speaker 5: Fifteen?
Speaker 1: Does she show any interest in the entertainment industry at all?
Speaker 5: She really doesn't. She loves math and she loves coding
Speaker 5: and right.
Speaker 3: So healthy, Yeah, I love it. You can just support
Speaker 3: those things unequivocally, just say yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah. But although I find her like she's I
Speaker 5: find her very creative and I like, I think that
Speaker 5: she would be a really great writer and she actually
Speaker 5: I did like a little video the other day. I
Speaker 5: wanted to go to the comic book shop and see
Speaker 5: if they had my my comic book there. And so
Speaker 5: I asked her to filmmate and she did such a
Speaker 5: good job. She edited a little movie and I'm like, Ricky,
Speaker 5: you there's a future for you in the arts, and
Speaker 5: she's like, Nope, nope.
Speaker 1: That's so funny.
Speaker 2: So last question, over thirty years since going from Gymnasts
Speaker 2: to Worldwide super Icon, when you see that first season
Speaker 2: version of yourself on Power Rangers, what are your thoughts
Speaker 2: on young Amy Joe?
Speaker 1: What would you tell her now?
Speaker 5: Well, I think one thing I struggled with for a
Speaker 5: long time through my twenties was comparing myself to other people.
Speaker 5: I think I would tell her, don't do that. That's
Speaker 5: just it's it's not it's a dead end road there,
Speaker 5: or it's a painful road. Actually, I would tell her
Speaker 5: to not do that, and and I would tell her
Speaker 5: to go right and direct.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Early, I would also like to go back
Speaker 2: and ask for a raise for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, retroactively exactly, a raise, some more stunt people and
Speaker 4: more than three holes in the mask.
Speaker 5: Yes, there were three Rangers that did ask for that
Speaker 5: and they were fired.
Speaker 2: Okay, really they had paid the way for you to
Speaker 2: know the answer for that. Wow the nineties man, Yeah, Wow, Well,
Speaker 2: Amy Joe, thank you so much for being here with us,
Speaker 2: sharing your time and your story with us. It's I'm
Speaker 2: I feel like I can't believe this is the first
Speaker 2: time I'm meeting you. Been a big fan from AFAR
Speaker 2: for a long time, So thank you so much for
Speaker 2: being here with us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks for having me. You guys are awesome.
Speaker 1: Go to the comic book store get her comic.
Speaker 5: Yes, mmp more from Power Rangers the Return.
Speaker 2: I'm going to get a copy and then next if
Speaker 2: I if I see you at a con, I'm going
Speaker 2: to have you sign it for my kids.
Speaker 1: They're going to be so excited. Thank you, Thanks bye.
Speaker 2: Seven hundred dollars a week, and they probably do a
Speaker 2: time four episodes.
Speaker 1: With all the physical stuff too, They're doing all the
Speaker 1: your own stuff. It's always that way though.
Speaker 3: I feel like you know.
Speaker 8: That It's such a crappy thing about the entertainment industry
Speaker 8: is that people are always exploited because you.
Speaker 3: Know, we all, I mean everybody loves movies and TV
Speaker 3: show like we all love you know, the dream of
Speaker 3: like being a park.
Speaker 1: Imagic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and like so I mean, and it's not.
Speaker 8: Just actors, it's it's mostly crue right, I mean it's
Speaker 8: mostly people like young people coming out of film school
Speaker 8: totally taking advantage of and paid nothing or very little.
Speaker 8: And yeah, and then actors obviously, you know, you're willing
Speaker 8: to sacrifice because you're in front of the camera because
Speaker 8: you think it's you know, it's and and the truth
Speaker 8: is like that's not sustainable, like you know, the chances
Speaker 8: of you you know, she had a sustainable career, luckily,
Speaker 8: because it sounds like she did a lot of smart
Speaker 8: things afterwards. But you know, being just being on one
Speaker 8: of those kinds of shows or being on a soap
Speaker 8: opera that can last a couple.
Speaker 3: Of years and then you might not work again for
Speaker 3: ten years. That's just the way. Oh it is. And
Speaker 3: it's not to do with your talent. It's just the
Speaker 3: nature of the business.
Speaker 4: I got this other weird thing with this type of
Speaker 4: show where it's like almost like an athlete, you get
Speaker 4: hurt and they're going to catch somebody else.
Speaker 7: That's it.
Speaker 1: You're done.
Speaker 4: Oh you blow up your knee. Sorry, you got to
Speaker 4: go do something else now. So yeah, that's it's crazy.
Speaker 4: But they that's Another reason that I really love the
Speaker 4: conventions and the convention circuit is because a lot of
Speaker 4: actors like Amy Joe, like a lot of the Rangers
Speaker 4: that we've met, people that maybe didn't make a lot
Speaker 4: of money when they were on the show now get
Speaker 4: to make a little bit now and meet the fans
Speaker 4: and do all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So it's nice that there's kind of research.
Speaker 3: And with grown ups as opposed to.
Speaker 10: Seven seven year old kids screaming every exactly shake somebody's
Speaker 10: hand to be like, yeah, okay, that's cool that the
Speaker 10: idea for the comic book though, sounds really That sounds really,
Speaker 10: that sounds cool.
Speaker 1: Great film, Yeah, that sounds really great. So it's a
Speaker 1: great idea.
Speaker 3: She's so well rounded. It's really awesome to see somebody
Speaker 3: who like.
Speaker 8: Clearly has never settled into one version for some Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, and I love that never once after being a
Speaker 2: part of such a massive franchise, Like she's so very
Speaker 2: clearly is like comfortable, Like most people become addicted to
Speaker 2: the being on camera and to the fame feeling and
Speaker 2: to the attention that brings.
Speaker 1: And for her to be like I don't want it,
Speaker 1: I don't like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and to be totally comfortable being like, I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna be happier behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: So she walked away from two series.
Speaker 4: I mean that's she asked to be written out of
Speaker 4: two different series.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: That takes a lot of confidence.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say well, thank you all for joining us
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