Speaker 1: Three to one. Welcome to how we sound like fusion?
Speaker 1: That was the coolest aspect of it, was there, doubled voice,
Speaker 1: We did it. I just want to leave in that
Speaker 1: whole top. Please leave in the top. Everyone, Welcome to defficent.
Speaker 1: I am Danny Fernanezon Across from me is when you're
Speaker 1: what are you wearing? If he oh, I'm wearing you know,
Speaker 1: my gym clothes. No, it looks like it's a very
Speaker 1: specific character. You know, it's from Dragon ball Z right
Speaker 1: right right? Uh yeah, but it looks like armor with
Speaker 1: a certain symbol. That is that what this is? I
Speaker 1: didn't notice. Yeah, it looks like I think the only
Speaker 1: person that I know that wore that specific armor with
Speaker 1: that symbol would be Vegeta. Man, I must have made
Speaker 1: a mistake. Okay, clothes on so quick, I didn't really
Speaker 1: lies well. Vegeta has the coolest like shirts to make
Speaker 1: gym shirts like, I don't know, like I like your
Speaker 1: Goku swimsuit, but I feel like the armor looks good
Speaker 1: when you're like, yeah, if you have to tell you,
Speaker 1: I bought some knockoffs of that. I actually bought off
Speaker 1: knockoff Piccolo's pants and they do not fit. They're so
Speaker 1: like and they're like the seam isn't even right, isn't
Speaker 1: lined up right off? To send you a picture, I
Speaker 1: took a picture. It was basically little boy shorts. Um
Speaker 1: they were supposed to be men's but um oh yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I could barely get my butt into it. There we
Speaker 1: almost said the other word. But did it friendly come
Speaker 1: from China? I think so, yeah, that's Sweet's it's because
Speaker 1: when I tried to get my romp him, my bootleg
Speaker 1: romp Him, I got like the double XL and that thing.
Speaker 1: I think I have a video where I'm ripping out
Speaker 1: of it. The second one that came it fits. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I should like tweet a picture in this episode. See
Speaker 1: where what is it? I can't even make out this.
Speaker 1: Oh it was so cheap. Anyways, don't ordered knockoff things online.
Speaker 1: They don't fit something most of the time, just you know,
Speaker 1: but when they're like dirt cheap, like on a wish.
Speaker 1: I got it from eBay and they were like fifteen
Speaker 1: bucks per romp him and I was like, I'll burn
Speaker 1: And I was like I'll get two kinds just to
Speaker 1: be safe, and yeah, that was the way to go.
Speaker 1: So I paid thirty dollars for a romp him that fits.
Speaker 1: I started using wish dot com. Well you know, you
Speaker 1: don't know what you're going to get, which is fun,
Speaker 1: but you could spend like fifty dollars and get at
Speaker 1: least like a hundred different items. I'm not kidding. Like so,
Speaker 1: I think I got like a robe that was for
Speaker 1: ten dollars and it was like sequence, it didn't fit
Speaker 1: me at all. Is made for a tiny child. But
Speaker 1: that's the thing is you never know how it's going
Speaker 1: to fit. Most of it is like a one or
Speaker 1: two use where once you wash it falls apart. But
Speaker 1: there are some funny I think what I got um Stella,
Speaker 1: who was on our Causeplay episode. She uses Wish a
Speaker 1: lot because it's cheap material. And so they have the
Speaker 1: sticky cups that go on your pets. Yeah you can
Speaker 1: say breast. I don't know what I'm allowed to say
Speaker 1: on our show, so I try to, yeah, breast pecks. Essentially,
Speaker 1: you have these little sticky cups that go on there
Speaker 1: to protect them when you can't wear a bra. Oh nice, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're not poking through yeah, yeah, so those are
Speaker 1: actually really nice. I mean the chemicals probably cause cancer
Speaker 1: or something because it's so cheap. Yeah, there's always it's
Speaker 1: like the um like that trope where you go to
Speaker 1: this like mystic shop and it gives you one dope thing.
Speaker 1: But there's always something that's what wishes it is. But anyways,
Speaker 1: if they want to sponsor us, please, Uh, I'm Danny
Speaker 1: at stuff media dot com. Today we are covering something
Speaker 1: that's very near and dear to I feel both of
Speaker 1: our heart. Oh yeah, no, this is this was just
Speaker 1: the nineties kids staple. Like everyone was into Power Rangers.
Speaker 1: It was like the first, I think of our generation,
Speaker 1: really big inclusive thing, you know, outside of like your
Speaker 1: care bears and stuff where care Bears. I felt like
Speaker 1: both genders were into. I feel like Power Rangers were too,
Speaker 1: because even though it was like the superhero thing they had,
Speaker 1: they had every most races represented male and female, and
Speaker 1: they were the color of the rainbow. Yeah. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: had so much Pink Ranger stuff that my family gave me.
Speaker 1: It was also during the time I think when Barney
Speaker 1: was still on, so it was like I was getting
Speaker 1: Barney gifts at my birthday party, but also like the
Speaker 1: dopas hell Pink Ranger stuff. Yeah, I don't know why
Speaker 1: my why, Like, yeah, I remember I had some Yellow
Speaker 1: Ranger stuff as well. Um but uh yeah those were
Speaker 1: my two that I remember I had. I think I
Speaker 1: had like a pink Ranger like Bank. I definitely had
Speaker 1: the glove. Do you remember like you could buy the sounds?
Speaker 1: Yeah yes, so yeah, so we're talking today about Power Rangers.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so let's just kick this thing off. No no, uh,
Speaker 1: tangents just right into it. So basically Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,
Speaker 1: which aired on the Fox Kids weekly afternoon block in,
Speaker 1: was actually Saban Entertainments repackaging of a Japanese show, which,
Speaker 1: h if you didn't know, now you know, the idea
Speaker 1: to repackage these Japanese live action superhero shows was an
Speaker 1: idea that Times Saban had for a while in the eighties. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he actually made this like famous business trip to Japan
Speaker 1: in which he was like in his hotel and the
Speaker 1: only thing that the only reception or something that he
Speaker 1: got on his TV was the Japanese series Supercentai which
Speaker 1: Super Sentai, for those that don't know, is basically the
Speaker 1: superhero team franchise TV series that was produced by both
Speaker 1: Toy and Bandi, and it was like live action characters
Speaker 1: with like super colorful, over dramatic like special effects. Um,
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen it, I mean it's basically like
Speaker 1: Power Rangers. But if you haven't seen it, go Google
Speaker 1: or YouTube. Supercenti and so at the time, Saban was
Speaker 1: pretty fascinated by these like five masked characters in spandex
Speaker 1: suits fighting monsters. Also just absurd monsters, absurd makeup and costumes.
Speaker 1: Uh So, inve he actually produced a pilot episode called
Speaker 1: Bioman and it was an American adaptation of a Supercenti show.
Speaker 1: Uh and that was heavily rejected by all of our
Speaker 1: American network television stations, and and and before creating Power Games.
Speaker 1: The idea of adapting Senti series to American public emerged
Speaker 1: actually in the late seventies after the agreement between toe
Speaker 1: A and Marvel Comics to exchange concepts and adapt them
Speaker 1: to their respective audiences. So Toy with Marvel create the
Speaker 1: Spider Man series based on the comics of the same name,
Speaker 1: and then produced three Super Sinti series, which had great
Speaker 1: success in Japan. And while Stanley and Marvel tried to
Speaker 1: sell the Sun Vulcan series to various television stations, including HBO. Uh,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like it happened in Japan. It didn't succeed
Speaker 1: after three years and the agreement ended. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: have you seen any of the Spider Man stuff online,
Speaker 1: the Japanese stuff, it's pretty crazy, Like it's basically Spider
Speaker 1: Man and he has like a car, and he like
Speaker 1: has like a super suit. They just they're like, all right,
Speaker 1: we see your Spider Man, but we actually think ours
Speaker 1: would need a super mech. Look up Japanese Spider Man.
Speaker 1: It's so good. Oh that's that's hilarious. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: So um he doesn't like fling from building to building
Speaker 1: with his webs. Yeah yeah, so yeah. So Sabon's pilot,
Speaker 1: Bio Man, was was rejected pretty heavily, and according to
Speaker 1: a Levy, he actually kept a tape of it with
Speaker 1: him at all times that you would like pitch to
Speaker 1: network sort of people or just randomly take out and show. Um,
Speaker 1: so in is that one both of you and I
Speaker 1: were born? Yeah, we umen Iffie and Danny were born. Uh.
Speaker 1: Saban made his own production company and actually made several shows,
Speaker 1: but including one of the most popular was X Men,
Speaker 1: the animated series. Oh yeah, that was a Saban show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's actually a ton It's so funny because Saban is
Speaker 1: so synonymous with Powers with Me that I forgot they
Speaker 1: did things. But now that I think of it, they
Speaker 1: did have a logo at the end. I do know
Speaker 1: that his producer is that the Spider Man. Oh what,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. His costume looks like he ordered it
Speaker 1: on wish. Yeah, for sure, it's very dramatic. I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah you want. We'll have this video in the footnotes
Speaker 1: for people to see. But yeah, he's basically, yeah, just
Speaker 1: wearing a cheap Spiderman s and he uses his like
Speaker 1: watch to transform into Spider Man. It's you can tell
Speaker 1: it's Senti influence there. So he wasn't bit by a
Speaker 1: spider a rope. Well that's convenient. Um. So in the
Speaker 1: early nineties, the head of Fox Kids, which was Margaret Laos,
Speaker 1: she was actually looking for a new show for kids
Speaker 1: that would be adventurous and fun and silly. So she
Speaker 1: actually loved the idea of the Bioman pilot and hern
Speaker 1: Sabon decided to negotiate with Toe for a newer Supercenti
Speaker 1: at the time, which was Kiori sentai Zo Ranger and
Speaker 1: that is what ended up being Power Rangers. And it
Speaker 1: was basically so for those who don't know, they pieced
Speaker 1: together parts of the show. So the action sequences were
Speaker 1: from Japan, so those stayed, and that was what the
Speaker 1: Bioman pilot was as well, and then this new Power
Speaker 1: Rangers pilot and show, a lot of the show is
Speaker 1: still shot. What essentially they did was they would intercut it,
Speaker 1: so it didn't know aways look good, and it wasn't
Speaker 1: always clean, and it didn't always make sense, especially in
Speaker 1: later Power Rangers series, it didn't always make sense of
Speaker 1: what they were. Like one of them, I think the
Speaker 1: in Galaxy one, the equivalent in Japan they were actually
Speaker 1: in it was like a Wildlife one, so it didn't
Speaker 1: even make sense that they did that. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: so the Power Ranger series itself was intercut with the
Speaker 1: Japanese one. So then when they would cut to like
Speaker 1: their teenage life or whatever, that was what we would
Speaker 1: see as the American actors. But then a lot of
Speaker 1: the action and fighting sequences for at least a good
Speaker 1: portion of it were from Japan. Yeah. It was actually
Speaker 1: a pretty dope set up when you think about it,
Speaker 1: because all the action is taken care of. They just
Speaker 1: borrowed the stuff from Japan, and actually I heard that
Speaker 1: they would send them the suits. So like all the
Speaker 1: scenes with the the actual actors interacting with the monsters
Speaker 1: they just re shot, so you only have to shoot
Speaker 1: all of the in between and just the like interactions
Speaker 1: with the monsters and you're pretty much good. The hard
Speaker 1: stuff was taken care of by Japan. It kind and
Speaker 1: it was. But also I heard like horror stories of like,
Speaker 1: well they didn't get their suit in time where they
Speaker 1: had to like uh which happened with a particular ranger
Speaker 1: which we'll get into, but um, yeah, they didn't get
Speaker 1: their suit in time, and then there was a point
Speaker 1: where they would like lose pieces or like of the costume.
Speaker 1: But at that point they had gotten so big that
Speaker 1: they could just go to the store. This was like
Speaker 1: after the show was huge. They would go to the
Speaker 1: store and like go to like Toys r Us and
Speaker 1: pick up part of the suit from there and just
Speaker 1: like put it on because it was like such a
Speaker 1: you know, Chief replica essentially, which was what the suits
Speaker 1: where the suits were so cheap. Um. So, yeah, we
Speaker 1: had the first episode which I don't know if you
Speaker 1: remember this if he uh Day of the Dumpster. It
Speaker 1: was two astronauts which found that's what we opened on
Speaker 1: found a dumpster on the moon, as you do, uh,
Speaker 1: and they opened it for some reason and it released
Speaker 1: rita repulsa embers of evil. Uh. And she had spent
Speaker 1: ten thousand years in that dumpster. She wants a planet
Speaker 1: to conquer, and what does she see if she's on
Speaker 1: the Moon, She's going to see Earth. And so Sordon,
Speaker 1: the big giant Wizard of Oz head looking dude detects
Speaker 1: this tells Alpha five, who's like a bender slash like
Speaker 1: lost in space, um, Johnny number five robot dude to
Speaker 1: essentially assemble a group of five teens to fight, which
Speaker 1: now looking back hearing this, I'm like, it's such a
Speaker 1: funny thing that we never questioned as kids that it
Speaker 1: would be, like, yeah, the best people to to fight
Speaker 1: her just five high school teenagers. Yeah, yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: one because they have they're so pure of heart. Do
Speaker 1: you want to go through the Rangers? Yeah, So we
Speaker 1: had Jason Lee Scott, he was the Red Ranger, Kimberly Hart,
Speaker 1: Pink Ranger, Zach Taylor, which is the Black Ranger, Trinny
Speaker 1: Kwan the Yellow Rangers and Billy Cranston the Blue Ranger. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we actually have a clip here. We got clips
Speaker 1: ready ready, all right, Oh yeah, that's iconic. I got
Speaker 1: one more for you. I got one more. Remember this sound? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember that was like the bootleg version of the
Speaker 1: so maybe it was. I tried to find it but
Speaker 1: I couldn't. It also kind of sounds a little like
Speaker 1: Kim Possible, but um, I mean she obviously came later.
Speaker 1: My trainer used to have my workout trainer used to
Speaker 1: have the Power Rangers ring tone. Yeah, it's so funny,
Speaker 1: like just that riff, that guitar riff is just so known,
Speaker 1: and that nineties were really the golden age of guitar
Speaker 1: themes because we had rocked the Dragon. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: Don't Don't don't d Oh my gosh, it took me back. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. But speaking of the Rangers, so Jason
Speaker 1: the Red Ranger very jock esque filling that like like
Speaker 1: if Zach Morris were a Power Ranger. Essentially um teaches karate.
Speaker 1: So ABC Family actually did a contest in two thousand
Speaker 1: four and he was voted people's favorite Ranger and Tone
Speaker 1: Disney did one in two thousand seven, he was voted
Speaker 1: again as people's favorite Ranger. He also just like if
Speaker 1: you watch this series, is like kind of put to
Speaker 1: the forefront, especially in their megaz Ord or whatever, which
Speaker 1: we'll get into what that is. Everyone else is kind
Speaker 1: of like a side I'm not like a side character,
Speaker 1: but he definitely takes like the forefront. And then he's
Speaker 1: also the only Ranger that it has defeated, the most
Speaker 1: enemies by himself than any other Ranger, and the only
Speaker 1: Ranger to beat Tommy Oliver. So if you do, you
Speaker 1: want to tell everyone who Tommy, that's our boy. J
Speaker 1: d F Jason David Frankie's the original Green Ranger. He lived,
Speaker 1: he's been He's really been holding that Ranger banner for
Speaker 1: a while now. But Tommy Oliver is first introducing Mighty
Speaker 1: Morphant Power Rangers as a five part episod So Green
Speaker 1: with Evil as a new student in Angel Grove High School,
Speaker 1: and uh, what's crazy is like I remember that it
Speaker 1: was such a big deal that there was this new Ranger,
Speaker 1: this new Green Ranger, and he had the suit and
Speaker 1: it had like a like an extra light diamond vest
Speaker 1: to it. And we're like, who is this. I was
Speaker 1: going to say he was the one where like I
Speaker 1: think that they didn't have his costume quite right, so
Speaker 1: they were like some scenes that were just like really bad.
Speaker 1: I think I can't remember like his shield or something
Speaker 1: like his Yeah, it was like different in the Japanese
Speaker 1: when they had to make it out of cloth and
Speaker 1: the American one. Yeah, and no other kids show had
Speaker 1: done a five part episode before, so it was it
Speaker 1: was a really huge Yeah, that's crazy. He didn't know that. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then like unlike like what we were saying that
Speaker 1: he has the golden shield armor, two golden arm bands
Speaker 1: and then triangles instead of diamonds on the gloves and boots,
Speaker 1: and the belt buckle was golden instead of silver. So
Speaker 1: he was stunting. He was a fancy boy. And I
Speaker 1: also remember he was the only one that got him
Speaker 1: and kimberly him and they had like a love interest
Speaker 1: and they kissed, which was a big deal for me
Speaker 1: when I was little. They're like, whoa, oh, I don't
Speaker 1: know we could do that on here. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of other kids shows where people kissed. I don't
Speaker 1: feel like maybe like, uh, I don't know if it
Speaker 1: happened in Clarisa explains it all or how was a
Speaker 1: big deal to see people actually pressed their lips together.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, And then we have Zach who is
Speaker 1: a Black Ranger that was Jason's best friend. He taught
Speaker 1: hip hop what he called hip hop a keto, which
Speaker 1: was basically martial arts and breakdance, which is funny because
Speaker 1: there is in martial arts that exists that's that and
Speaker 1: it's called capeara, which they could have done it, but
Speaker 1: but that that was the nineties, like kind of it's
Speaker 1: funny to see how martial arts has evolved over the
Speaker 1: years and in the nineties it was all about like
Speaker 1: karate and take kwondo, like all the other martial arts
Speaker 1: were not that popping, Like those were the ones that
Speaker 1: kids knew about. At least where I grew up, it
Speaker 1: was karate, kung fu and uh take doubt those were
Speaker 1: the only ones. But now you know, yeah, but like yeah,
Speaker 1: no Capwarra is that you know, he could have been
Speaker 1: a Capalwarra guy, but you know they didn't know that
Speaker 1: back then. Yeah. Yeah, that we have Treney the Yellow Ranger.
Speaker 1: She was also a martial artist. Um I guess I
Speaker 1: don't know if you want to touch on because in
Speaker 1: a lot of the articles that we pulled up, it
Speaker 1: was not apparent to them that they had cast the
Speaker 1: Black Ranger as black and the an Asian actress as
Speaker 1: the Yellow Ranger. They said they didn't even um dawn
Speaker 1: on them until the tenth episode, and then they changed
Speaker 1: that in future iterations. In fact, the film that just
Speaker 1: came out, I think Becky G was the the artist,
Speaker 1: Becky G was the Yellow Ranger, and in the movie
Speaker 1: that just came out not that long ago, so that
Speaker 1: was I don't know. People had a lot of mixed
Speaker 1: opinions about that, just of note something to vote. I
Speaker 1: thought it was more of a funny thing and never
Speaker 1: really came off malicious except the fact that Zach was
Speaker 1: like the hip hop dance guy. But I think that
Speaker 1: was like the nine becase where everyone was so enamored by, like,
Speaker 1: you know, the black hip hop you know, like, how
Speaker 1: can we add this to our show? How would mine
Speaker 1: have been the Brown Ranger? Yea ranger range. So then
Speaker 1: we have Billy Billy Cranston the Blue Ranger. He was
Speaker 1: a stereotypical brainy nerd. He was named after Brian Cranston
Speaker 1: thought him. Yeah, I thought of that when I saw
Speaker 1: his name, and then so Brian Cranston would later play
Speaker 1: sord On in the reboot, but he also did a
Speaker 1: lot of the zany voices for the Henchman, which if
Speaker 1: you haven't heard, I think I have it here. It
Speaker 1: is okay, ready, all right, no match for me? My
Speaker 1: fire by Oscar Worthy, my awright, yack. So that's brand Cranston. Really,
Speaker 1: it's funny because I was hoping like maybe I would know,
Speaker 1: but you know, that doesn't sound like him at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool that he was around back then and
Speaker 1: that the Blue Ranger was named after him. In fact,
Speaker 1: the Blue Ranger David Yos actually had a story that
Speaker 1: I was reading about on Advocate where he said that
Speaker 1: he dealt tremendously with bullying and homophobia while he was
Speaker 1: on the show, and after the show. Was it from
Speaker 1: from who he said it was? I believe his colleagues,
Speaker 1: let me pull. So the first Blue Ranger somehow managed
Speaker 1: to put up with horrendous homophobic slurs on a constant basis,
Speaker 1: in addition to the crew grilling co stars about his
Speaker 1: sexuality behind his back. I don't know if he was
Speaker 1: out back then, I imagine not um, because it might
Speaker 1: have jeopardized him, especially back in the early nineties and
Speaker 1: being on a kid's show, because that's how people were
Speaker 1: back then, still now and still now, very true and
Speaker 1: still now firm. Multiple seasons before he left the show. Um,
Speaker 1: and he said that he also attempted gay conversion and
Speaker 1: even considered suicide because of having to deal with So
Speaker 1: he's spoken up pretty he's spoken up a lot now
Speaker 1: about it. Uh. And I think you know, has helped
Speaker 1: other people, especially in that community, like in the nerd community. Um,
Speaker 1: of what he's gone through. But that was kind of
Speaker 1: something behind the scenes that a lot of people didn't
Speaker 1: know about him. And he was in several of the shows.
Speaker 1: He was a character that can like that continued on
Speaker 1: past just the original Mighty Morphine How Rangers. So yeah, um,
Speaker 1: and then we have Kimberly Let's perk things up. She
Speaker 1: was a valley girl, a gymnast, loves them all and
Speaker 1: she ends up having a relationship with Tommy and I
Speaker 1: like that Caps and they kissed. It was a big deal.
Speaker 1: I know. It's funny because it seemed like the perfect archetype,
Speaker 1: like you could tell they wrote it for girls to
Speaker 1: enjoy the show because their idea of like, you know,
Speaker 1: she's like a girly girl, she's like a cheerleader. Yeah, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is funny. Yeah, it's so like nine And there's
Speaker 1: no way now I mean not that they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: a pink Ranger, but I feel like just making her
Speaker 1: so over the top. But yeah, So the series itself
Speaker 1: was basically them combating Rita and an endless array of
Speaker 1: monsters and normal teen stuff. So you know, it's still
Speaker 1: a team like show still have like issues that they
Speaker 1: dealt with, like in Boy Meets World, and then they're oh,
Speaker 1: they're bullies Bulk and Skull so that hyper now so farcas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bulk bulk Meyer and Eugene Skull Skull of Itch. I
Speaker 1: love that I've found their real names. Are two of
Speaker 1: the longest running characters, so they last through six seasons.
Speaker 1: They actually outlast the cast themselves. So when they when
Speaker 1: they recast the Power Rangers as they did and did
Speaker 1: a couple of times, Bulk and Skull still stayed. Um
Speaker 1: and they actually have an art unlike some of the
Speaker 1: other characters where they moved from being bullies to actually
Speaker 1: having you know, like emotions and wanting to do what's right.
Speaker 1: There's even an episode where they like are putting like
Speaker 1: a dream state where you're able to see what they
Speaker 1: dream of, and they dream of being superheroes themselves. It's
Speaker 1: like that bully, you know, like a deep down they
Speaker 1: actually want to be the good guy or they're they're
Speaker 1: jealous that they can't, so um life of bullying. So
Speaker 1: Bulk is at hyper hyper show. Yeah, so he's he
Speaker 1: was on Power Rangers hyper Force playing Bulk and and
Speaker 1: in this Bulk gets to become a Power Ranger. It's
Speaker 1: actually kind of cool. The fans really dug it because
Speaker 1: they got to basically take the lore and just like
Speaker 1: make it I think it's like a kind of cannon too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Can you tell everyone about hyper Force? Yeah, Hyper Forces
Speaker 1: a live action Power Rangers are p gu which featured
Speaker 1: quite a few of the original cast We had, I know,
Speaker 1: Bulk is in it for sure, and there was one
Speaker 1: other cast member who showed up in the show, and
Speaker 1: then it had appearances from like Jason David. Frankie even
Speaker 1: popped on and did an episode. So it's cool because
Speaker 1: hyper RPG produced that live RPG with Saban. That's why
Speaker 1: they had the resources to make all these connections of
Speaker 1: why it's kind of cannon because it was kind of
Speaker 1: just this it takes place in kind of like the
Speaker 1: Time Force Universal. It kind of gets to be removed
Speaker 1: from affecting anything that we're watching now. So yeah, and
Speaker 1: also I remember when they were casting for that, why
Speaker 1: you and I weren't allowed to be on it even
Speaker 1: though if he and I have shows at hyper and
Speaker 1: you know, Zach was on our Twitch episode and he's
Speaker 1: the CEO there. But it was very important because Saban
Speaker 1: is a very family friendly company that they had family
Speaker 1: friendly people. Um, so we're actually going to get into
Speaker 1: what a sword is Mega Sword as well as the
Speaker 1: other shows and some crossovers and the films right after
Speaker 1: the break and we're back. If he did you have
Speaker 1: like what Power Rangers toys? Did you have all their
Speaker 1: little zwords, like their their individual little animals? Man, all
Speaker 1: this is time for the fun story. So I remember
Speaker 1: this because it's the first thing I've ever stolen in
Speaker 1: my life. God, So, in kindergarten, kid brought a Red
Speaker 1: Ranger toy and it was the one where you pressed
Speaker 1: the belt and it flips from their human head to
Speaker 1: their power ranger head. The teacher took it and put
Speaker 1: in her desk because we weren't allowed to bring toys
Speaker 1: to school, and while yeah, so while she was in there,
Speaker 1: I went into her drawer and I took it, and
Speaker 1: then I went home and I was playing with it,
Speaker 1: and then, um, I felt guilty about it, and so
Speaker 1: I took it back to the teacher the next day
Speaker 1: and like gave it back. So I never said such
Speaker 1: a good little kid, you know. I just felt guilty
Speaker 1: about it because it was that thing. It was like, um,
Speaker 1: what is that literary thing? Oh, you mean the beating heart. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's the one I'm thinking of. Yeah. Like I just
Speaker 1: kept seeing it, and like, I just kept feeling guilty
Speaker 1: even though I had it. I was having so much fun.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of me going in there and steal it.
Speaker 1: And I just kept having this imagination that she would
Speaker 1: go into her desk and be like, where'd it go?
Speaker 1: You know, your little kid heart. I think one of
Speaker 1: the first things I stole was from Sunday School, so
Speaker 1: that's like doubly bad. Um. And it was the class
Speaker 1: that had been in there before had made these adorable
Speaker 1: pandas out of cotton balls, and somebody had made their
Speaker 1: so beautiful that I was like, there's no way I
Speaker 1: could replicate that, and I just took their's. And then
Speaker 1: I think, um, as as what happens when you steal something.
Speaker 1: I accidentally crumbled it in my hands and ruined it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So if you do, you want to tell everyone what
Speaker 1: a zword is. Yeah. Zord is a type of meca
Speaker 1: that is often piloted by a power rangers. Some swords
Speaker 1: can combine to a form of a human anoyed robot
Speaker 1: known as a mega zord, which basically looks like to Danny,
Speaker 1: she puts she put it in there, which basically looks
Speaker 1: like to me, optimistes it is, though, I mean imagine
Speaker 1: Optimist prime and that's their Megazordum. I do think that
Speaker 1: my brothers and I had the individual ones that like
Speaker 1: you could put together. I think we did or yeah, um,
Speaker 1: But I also remember, like I was going to say,
Speaker 1: the toys that I had was my family was just
Speaker 1: very much you're gonna have the pink range journey. It's
Speaker 1: because you're gonna have the pink stuff. And so I
Speaker 1: had like her helmet, I had her glove. Um, I
Speaker 1: don't think I was allowed to have the other colors. Um,
Speaker 1: my name was already Danny. So I think they were like,
Speaker 1: we don't want you to get confused about anything here,
Speaker 1: which is your faults you name me that. But I
Speaker 1: think they wanted a boy for sure, and then they
Speaker 1: were like, oh, we're gonna make you the most girliest
Speaker 1: my family. Also, this is side note, kept putting me
Speaker 1: in cheerleading even though I hated it, and end up
Speaker 1: being a sweeper and soccer. But yeah, so like you
Speaker 1: heard in the intro, it's like saber tooth, you know,
Speaker 1: those are what the animals look like. And the show
Speaker 1: itself actually ended up having Well it's going on because
Speaker 1: there's another one coming out, of course, because why wouldn't
Speaker 1: you continue to capitalize on nostalgia. I mean it's been
Speaker 1: going strong from from when we started watching it, when
Speaker 1: it was launched too, when we went to high school
Speaker 1: forgot about. There's just every kid just comes in and
Speaker 1: it just is the perfect show for them. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: the upcoming season will be season. But something that people
Speaker 1: don't know is that they are still based off of
Speaker 1: all the Super Sentai counterparts, So even the latest one
Speaker 1: that's coming out has a Super Sentai counterpart in Japan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: each season was so and they had, like you said,
Speaker 1: like Dino and and Beast War and all those other ones.
Speaker 1: And then we also have three films. Yeah yeah, oh man,
Speaker 1: I've seen all of them, but I remember both of them.
Speaker 1: And it's so funny seeing how much the Turbo movie made,
Speaker 1: because in my head that was just as popular as
Speaker 1: the first one, and it was not. No. Okay, So
Speaker 1: the Mighty Morphine Power Rangers movie which came out made
Speaker 1: over thirty eight million in the US box office. That
Speaker 1: was their box office revenue. Turbo, which came out two
Speaker 1: years later, made only eight million. That's like nothing, that's
Speaker 1: thirty million less. Yeah, that's insane. And then we had
Speaker 1: the reboot, which was Power Rangers that came out in
Speaker 1: and that bumped it all the way back up to
Speaker 1: four million. Again, this is just US numbers, their box
Speaker 1: office numbers. Did you like the reboot? If you have
Speaker 1: the reboot, I didn't dislike it. There's some people who
Speaker 1: are like both ways. There are people who like loved it,
Speaker 1: thought it was amazing. There are people who just hated vehemently,
Speaker 1: And I'm just kind of like it was a fun
Speaker 1: movie I enjoyed. Yeah, yeah, I agree, I'm in that
Speaker 1: same boat, but I do I saw a lot of
Speaker 1: people actually, I think because a lot of people thought
Speaker 1: it wasn't going to be good. Do you know when
Speaker 1: they showed the poster for their costumes and everyone's like,
Speaker 1: what is this? Yeah, they really wanted to tap into
Speaker 1: the alien looking and Alpha five was like, how I
Speaker 1: remember people being mad about that. Yeah, it was so funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but here's the funny thing. You can't do a reboot
Speaker 1: in and keep them looking those costumes that we saw
Speaker 1: in the nineties. No, sir, no, you cannot do that.
Speaker 1: You know, they imagine they wanted some take on that.
Speaker 1: But in the end, what it really felt like the
Speaker 1: reboot was that it didn't really know exactly which audience
Speaker 1: they're trying to attack, because they could have just leaned
Speaker 1: in and made it like just Power Ranger for the
Speaker 1: usual Power Rangers demo, but it seemed like they also
Speaker 1: wanted to tap in on nostalgia and kind of aim
Speaker 1: a little darker, a little older. So I think they
Speaker 1: kind of accomplished hitting both those marketplaces without you know,
Speaker 1: doing but I feel like you can't help. But to
Speaker 1: make a just okay movie when you do that, like
Speaker 1: it out of their hands, there's no way to really
Speaker 1: make it both if you, I would be remiss if
Speaker 1: I didn't bring up a crossover that happened that I
Speaker 1: am going to play for you, for all of us. Okay,
Speaker 1: one of the best crossovers to happen in television history.
Speaker 1: You already Rangers, we gotta go through Turtles. Hell. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: at least you got that right. It's time for some
Speaker 1: shell shot shell shocked. Those things. I can't believe it,
Speaker 1: but I think they're it's the teenage mutant Ninja Turtles. Yeah, buddy.
Speaker 1: You know what's so funny about this is this crossover
Speaker 1: is very similar too, because it was Power Rangers in
Speaker 1: Space that did the crossover. It's very similar to Double
Speaker 1: Dragon Battle Toads. You remember that game. It really feels
Speaker 1: like just a spiritual like a copy of that because
Speaker 1: the Ninja Turtles are basically the Battle Toads. I think
Speaker 1: the Battletoads are ripped from them or vice versa. It's
Speaker 1: either ripped from them or not, because the Turtles isn't
Speaker 1: ripped for the Battle Toads. But and the Power Rangers
Speaker 1: seem like a you know, kids version of Double Dragon,
Speaker 1: so it is funny that they did meet and know
Speaker 1: and when everyone was doing like what was it? Infinity
Speaker 1: War is the greatest crossover, most ambitious cross over all time,
Speaker 1: and like people were like tweeting the Power Rangers Ninja Turtles,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I love it. I have one more trivia
Speaker 1: piece before we break and bring in our guests. But
Speaker 1: one more that I don't know if you know, is
Speaker 1: Marishka Hergete, who's very famous for Law and Order. She
Speaker 1: was in the original movie and they cut all of
Speaker 1: her scenes out. If you look at her picture of
Speaker 1: her costume, she is fine as hell. Yeah, seeing when
Speaker 1: this came out, I can imagine that's why they cut it,
Speaker 1: like she's too revealing. But she is killing the game,
Speaker 1: Holy crap. If I can envision, it's like poison Ivy
Speaker 1: meets Zena and I hardcore want to cause play as this.
Speaker 1: I bet nobody will like link to this. I'll make
Speaker 1: a note to tweet this picture out because it is
Speaker 1: the dopest thing to cause play. And my girl is abs.
Speaker 1: She's like Wolf, She's rocking everything. And yes it's very
Speaker 1: much too sexual, but I feel like all the parents
Speaker 1: might have appreciated it for themselves. In the Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was going to say the dads, you know, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to be Yeah, you know some of the moms do.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna, you know, be exclusionary dads and some
Speaker 1: of the moms. And I think there's a picture of
Speaker 1: her like sitting on one of the I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: going to bring this up in her like sexy outfit. Um,
Speaker 1: I guess I understand why it was cut by a
Speaker 1: very dumb person. Here's another pick of her. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Hella poison ivy vibe, Yeah, the green. I do want
Speaker 1: to mention one thing before we go to the break,
Speaker 1: that Bond didn't just do power Raches and give up.
Speaker 1: They had two times that they tried to kind of
Speaker 1: replicate this formula. One time was with the Masked Writer Show,
Speaker 1: which was a continuation of Common Writer, which Common Writer
Speaker 1: still to this day is going on. Like Common Writer
Speaker 1: is basically the same as Power Rangers, except it follows
Speaker 1: one person. He usually rides a motorcycle, which is why
Speaker 1: he's Common Writer or the Masked Writer, and he has
Speaker 1: like a cool bug like helmet. They did, I think, Um,
Speaker 1: I think. I don't know how many seasons made it
Speaker 1: out here, but it did not last as long. Didn't
Speaker 1: have the staying power. And the second time, which was
Speaker 1: one that I actually really loved and was real hurt
Speaker 1: when they took away, was the Big Bad Beatle Boards.
Speaker 1: It was actually the same formula. Basically they used the
Speaker 1: footage from Juco B Fighter the first season in B
Speaker 1: Fighter Cabudo the second season. So man, it was so
Speaker 1: cool because the bug design and the suits were so
Speaker 1: metal and dope and it just uh. It basically ran
Speaker 1: for two years from September to March Secon and I
Speaker 1: miss you Big Bad to Boards. Have to give your
Speaker 1: shout out. But we'll talk more, and we'll talk with
Speaker 1: a special guest guest who is a power Ranger, and
Speaker 1: we'll get to hear what it's like to be under
Speaker 1: the mask right after this. Yeah, Brian Cranston kidding, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up y'all? Welcome back, and as promised, we are
Speaker 1: back with a power ranger. Yeah. It is my buddy,
Speaker 1: my friend Peter Sadars. So how are you doing? Good, dude? Good? Yeah, Peter.
Speaker 1: When he walked in, he was like, so what are
Speaker 1: we talking about? You are the worst. I love you.
Speaker 1: We're just such different co hosts. I feel like where
Speaker 1: I would have had like an email and here's the
Speaker 1: parking situation, and here's like I called him for parking
Speaker 1: actually just outside. I was like, is it okay for
Speaker 1: me to park? Just like one, Peter, we have a
Speaker 1: spot for you? What the lot is full today? And
Speaker 1: all the even the one I was going to pay
Speaker 1: the dumb eight dollars to part that's full. So I'm
Speaker 1: like out on vine me too, ye down there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on in Hollywood. I feel
Speaker 1: very short. Look at my chair right now. What is it? Oh?
Speaker 1: We do have to talk about something. This is Peter's
Speaker 1: first ever podcast ever. I'm just a little bit. I'm nervous.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you like do live on camera
Speaker 1: stuff constantly. Yeah, you know you did hyper Force and
Speaker 1: then you did like the real Power Rangers. I mean
Speaker 1: you're yeah, you're one of the Power Rangers. We've got
Speaker 1: to be in multiple iterations of Power Rangers, super lucky.
Speaker 1: Um my goodness. I don't know. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how it. I guess because I think they're very
Speaker 1: different audiences. Like most people who watch hyper Force aren't
Speaker 1: aware of like my Ninja Seal stuff, So it feels
Speaker 1: like there are two different things completely. It doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like they're both like Power Ranger and all in like
Speaker 1: one little thing. Oh nice. Well, let's back it up
Speaker 1: a little bit and let's talk about when did you
Speaker 1: first start hearing about Power Rangers, because we know all
Speaker 1: of us if I started talking about that, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be here for like an hour. Like, what was your
Speaker 1: first introduction when you first remember seeing Power Rangers? Um,
Speaker 1: I grew up in Indonesia, so my first instruction of
Speaker 1: Power Rangers was actually Super Sentai. Yeah, and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just on the other side. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I remember when I was like super young,
Speaker 1: and then I kept watching it and I grew up
Speaker 1: just watching it, you know, So it's always been in
Speaker 1: my life. And then uh, to get into the whole
Speaker 1: Power Ranger acting industry side, it was actually Yoshi Yeah
Speaker 1: your old Yeah, he's also done in Charge Blue. Um.
Speaker 1: He got into the industry from doing like stunt stuff,
Speaker 1: so he did like the suits and all that stuff
Speaker 1: and for the live action shows, and so he got
Speaker 1: to meet some of the Rangers and from then on
Speaker 1: he was like, hey, guys, how do you how do
Speaker 1: you get into this industry? How I want to be
Speaker 1: a power ranger, you know, because like he could do flips,
Speaker 1: so they requirement, Yeah, that's what you need to be
Speaker 1: able to do firectice my flips. Dang me too. They're
Speaker 1: actually casting for it right now, right now. It just
Speaker 1: down the street. I hit our manager up, excuse me,
Speaker 1: sentis no, But so he did that, and then so
Speaker 1: he got the casting raised email and we legit just
Speaker 1: cold shot in an email. And we weren't in the
Speaker 1: acting industry at this time. I was a student of
Speaker 1: architecture and my brother was doing mathematics. He was just like, hey,
Speaker 1: can we audition and she was like yeah, sure. So
Speaker 1: we came in and we saw her, and then we
Speaker 1: got really lucky. I think it was just things just
Speaker 1: kind of worked out really well, and we continued on
Speaker 1: all the way to screen testing both me and Yoshi.
Speaker 1: Then they canned it because they were like, actually there's
Speaker 1: a bit too they'd be testing it, so um, come
Speaker 1: back in like six seven months, like all right, cool.
Speaker 1: We came back and that was Megaforce. That's the first
Speaker 1: time that I actually got a tasteful. The industry is like,
Speaker 1: because like you guys, you guys act to you guys know,
Speaker 1: like the whole test option, right when you see those papers,
Speaker 1: you see the numbers, see how much you're going to
Speaker 1: get paid, Yeah, and the promise of what's happen like
Speaker 1: fan sizing in your head. Yeah, just so people because
Speaker 1: people outside the industry don't know. So when your audition
Speaker 1: to act, usually like in a pilot or a bigger show,
Speaker 1: first you do your auditions, than you do your call backs,
Speaker 1: than what you do is like a screen test slash
Speaker 1: chemistry test. What that usually is. It varies for different studios,
Speaker 1: but mostly let's just talk pilot season since it just
Speaker 1: happened and it's easy to talk about. Um, the studio
Speaker 1: exects come in and watch you do your auditions. It's
Speaker 1: a lot, and they're like just most of them at
Speaker 1: the time will be like stone cold, like yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just like the SML auditions. They don't laugh. But before
Speaker 1: you do your before you do your screen test, you
Speaker 1: get the contract and you see how much you're gonna
Speaker 1: be making per episode. You see that money, and so
Speaker 1: that that just ups the stakes even more because now
Speaker 1: you know how much you could be making and you
Speaker 1: don't even have the job yet, but you're already seeing
Speaker 1: how much you start to like imagine this life, you know.
Speaker 1: And since that was like an architecture, I I have
Speaker 1: been living like non industry life for all my life
Speaker 1: seeing all that thought that the contract itself was like binding,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh god, my life has changed.
Speaker 1: And at the end of it, I got super close
Speaker 1: and it was done like me when one other person,
Speaker 1: and it got to the point where like I accidentally
Speaker 1: got upload on IMDb before I heard back that I
Speaker 1: didn't get it. So I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, who did that? That's the worst you
Speaker 1: could get in big trouble for the thing is like
Speaker 1: the Power Rangers fan base and communities super passionate. So
Speaker 1: they found out who was. Yeah, they found everything out
Speaker 1: and so like they speculated the eventually one by one
Speaker 1: people found out who got cast it and it was
Speaker 1: down to like the last person and then they were like,
Speaker 1: I think Peter got it, so I think they put
Speaker 1: it on IMDb, so I thought I got it. I
Speaker 1: didn't get it. It was like first ever audition and
Speaker 1: it was like first ever like rejection and no one
Speaker 1: warned me how how bad it would be. Like, I've
Speaker 1: been through breakups, but there is nothing like a heartbreak,
Speaker 1: you know what your career. Yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: would take twenty heartbreaks from like from my partner the dream. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's hilarious. Wait, so you this is so fascinating me.
Speaker 1: You have no action background. Wow, I mean now people
Speaker 1: are gonna be running out here like this. That was
Speaker 1: my first time with Megaphorst, and then after that I
Speaker 1: got into the industry from like commercial modeling because I
Speaker 1: didn't I still don't have a theatrical and when you're
Speaker 1: completely out of it, you have no idea how to
Speaker 1: get any of this stuff. Even Google barely helps. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So then I did that and then next season was
Speaker 1: Dino Charged. That was two years later. And then by
Speaker 1: this point I had gotten a little bit of practice
Speaker 1: fro commercials, but I've never gotten like actual like training.
Speaker 1: So we did that and uh, we went to producers
Speaker 1: and we both got cut, me and my brother. And
Speaker 1: at this point I was already friends with the casting driker,
Speaker 1: so I like begged her. I was like, please please
Speaker 1: please give us another show. Please. I swear to God,
Speaker 1: we will do better. When she gave us another shot,
Speaker 1: which was super kind of her. Yeah, eventually went down
Speaker 1: to me against Yoshi going out for Blue and I
Speaker 1: was going out for and they couldn't have two Asians
Speaker 1: on the cast at that time. I don't know, So yeah,
Speaker 1: you actually eventually got it. Wow, this is when I
Speaker 1: realized like, oh, this industry isn't just fun and games. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When he left, I was like majorly depressed. I took
Speaker 1: like I spent like fifteen thousand dollars eventually in like classes.
Speaker 1: I drowned myself in classes, but that ultimately helped me
Speaker 1: actually get into this industry. Series. Yeah, you know, well
Speaker 1: I think what you did, you know, this is taking
Speaker 1: a step from nerd talking going towards actor talker just
Speaker 1: industry talk. What you did is you took the positive
Speaker 1: route to deal with it. I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of times when people face rejection in this industry, they
Speaker 1: want to blame the industry and not make themselves better.
Speaker 1: But what you did is you took the classes and
Speaker 1: you made yourself undeniable and then it paid off, and
Speaker 1: that was That's kind of how you have to treat
Speaker 1: rejection instead of like being like these people aren't giving
Speaker 1: it to me, you have to be like, Okay, then
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get better and better until the point you
Speaker 1: can't say no. You look bad if you say no
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, it's like it's like the audition that
Speaker 1: we were talking about this morning, Like had I known
Speaker 1: she wasn't going to read the lines, I would have
Speaker 1: just been better, you know what. Oh man, you know
Speaker 1: there's so many things I've been I feel like, if
Speaker 1: you like, because we're both in classes, and I feel
Speaker 1: like as comedy, well I can only speak for myself,
Speaker 1: but I feel like being in comedy you kind of
Speaker 1: like you coast off of that for a little bit,
Speaker 1: Like you can make them laughing auditions, you can do that,
Speaker 1: but then you start to realize you're not getting it
Speaker 1: because you don't have the acting technique that they want, Like,
Speaker 1: and then when you're in acting classes, you're like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I never thought to do literally any of that, you know.
Speaker 1: And it's so funny because the same thing as a comedian,
Speaker 1: like looking at acting classes. You know, it's hard for
Speaker 1: a comedian to take anything seriously, especially they're acting like
Speaker 1: and you're like whatever, But it all it takes is
Speaker 1: that one moment of you like doing a line and
Speaker 1: then that teacher giving you the adjustment and then seeing
Speaker 1: how it pops and you're like this yeah, You're like
Speaker 1: maybe this is uh yeah, and it well just opens
Speaker 1: up your arrange. I feel like to other now I
Speaker 1: can go for drama roles, which is like I never
Speaker 1: ever would have and I didn't even want to. Like
Speaker 1: when they my acting teacher like made me take this
Speaker 1: like drama course, I'm like, I don't want to do this.
Speaker 1: I don't want and then I was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: love it. I didn't realize I could cry on cue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am so living out here in this town. I
Speaker 1: can cry at any time. I didn't realize I could
Speaker 1: use that in my acting. Okay, so so yoh got it.
Speaker 1: And then and you didn't and so you were here
Speaker 1: and you took all these acting classes. Well at that
Speaker 1: time too, I started taking in a lot more seriously,
Speaker 1: not just acting classes, like I started um writing my
Speaker 1: own scripts, like throwing my own stuff. I started YouTube
Speaker 1: channel because of that, and which now has already died down.
Speaker 1: But you got busy, yeah, I got busy. Well after
Speaker 1: leaving Power Rangers, it just no one else took over it,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't like but um, so I started doing
Speaker 1: that to actually like progressively do stuff and I ended
Speaker 1: up getting a manager from one of the auditions that
Speaker 1: I did from like a self tape. And so after that,
Speaker 1: the pilot season came when Ninja still was coming up,
Speaker 1: and at that time I had book two pilots. One
Speaker 1: of them was like an A see Free for him,
Speaker 1: the other ones at Disney, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: think I think it might be okay. I think I
Speaker 1: might be okay in this acting industry even if I
Speaker 1: don't get Power Rangers, you know, like I'm gonna be sweet.
Speaker 1: Then when Power just came along and I was like,
Speaker 1: I can't do this again. I don't want to break
Speaker 1: my heart another time, you know, like it was so
Speaker 1: gut wrenching the first second and third time, Like this time,
Speaker 1: I don't want to go through it again. And my
Speaker 1: brother was like, you know what, do you just gotta try,
Speaker 1: because like, what's the worst that can happen? You book it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I guess you're right. So then I
Speaker 1: went into it and I was like, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get invested. I already got two pilots going on. I'm sweet.
Speaker 1: You know and lo and behold. Of course you always
Speaker 1: get invested always. There's no like at first audition, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you could be like Okay, cool, I'm done, you
Speaker 1: can let it go. When you get a call back,
Speaker 1: you're like yeah, like incrementally too. It's like first you're
Speaker 1: like maybe invested five percent. The next thing you like,
Speaker 1: next you know, you're like two thousand percent. What just
Speaker 1: happened there? So all that happened and I got all
Speaker 1: the way to the point of screen testing again. And
Speaker 1: at this point I was there, there were like two
Speaker 1: their dudes who were like way better looking than me,
Speaker 1: way younger than me, and they were like amazing at stunts.
Speaker 1: I saw them doing it and I was like, frick,
Speaker 1: They're not gonna have two Asian dudes on here, you know.
Speaker 1: So I was just like feeling a little discouraged, but
Speaker 1: I did it. Anyways, after all that was done, it
Speaker 1: was quiet, and you know, you guys know the screen
Speaker 1: testing anything with the test option of like your time
Speaker 1: is here to here, and once like you reach like
Speaker 1: June thirty or whatever, you have to be released from
Speaker 1: the test opice. So that means you at least know
Speaker 1: when you don't get it as opposed to like prior
Speaker 1: to So it got to the point of, like, I
Speaker 1: think it was May no, no, yeah, it was June
Speaker 1: June three, which was the day that it cut off,
Speaker 1: And it was June twenty two and night, and I
Speaker 1: had not heard anything back. And I was on on
Speaker 1: a shoe that day. I was on a shoe with
Speaker 1: my brother and we were on film, and uh, it
Speaker 1: was like ten o'clock and I got a text from
Speaker 1: the producer saying like, um, hey, I'd like to talk
Speaker 1: to you. And at this point I was like, twenty second,
Speaker 1: what is going on? So I went up to my
Speaker 1: brother and I was like, hey, do you check this out.
Speaker 1: It is either really good news or really bad news,
Speaker 1: hoping that he'd be like, yeah, you should call him yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I was like yeah, and then he was
Speaker 1: like oh um and at that point his face just dropped,
Speaker 1: like completely dropped. He You could you could tell when
Speaker 1: somebody's not joking, you know, like, no matter how good
Speaker 1: of an actor they are in real life situations, you
Speaker 1: could tell when somebody was joking. So he was like, dude, um,
Speaker 1: you didn't get it. And I was like, what, don't
Speaker 1: screw with me? Dude, like, this is you know how
Speaker 1: big this is to me, how important this is to me.
Speaker 1: Like if if you screw around with me right now,
Speaker 1: I will break down. We're on set. I can't afford
Speaker 1: the breakdown. And he was like, no, dude, like a
Speaker 1: Chip called me actually two hours ago and told me like, hey,
Speaker 1: Peter didn't get it. How should I tell him that
Speaker 1: he didn't get it? And I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's how you gotta be joking. So he called me
Speaker 1: and he was like, hey, you didn't get it. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't have much time right now because I'm actually
Speaker 1: in a meeting and I know that you're on a shoot.
Speaker 1: Let me call you back. I just want to talk
Speaker 1: to you because I do really care about you as
Speaker 1: a person, and I want to let you know why
Speaker 1: you didn't get it, just so you understand that's not
Speaker 1: yeah exactly. And I was like at that point, I
Speaker 1: honestly didn't care to talk because I was so upset.
Speaker 1: But which one was for this? Again? This was for
Speaker 1: Ninja steal? Okay, Yeah, so this was two years ago,
Speaker 1: I think, And so I was like, well, if he
Speaker 1: was kind enough to go out of his way to
Speaker 1: say that, I might as well just talk to him,
Speaker 1: you know, and like, at least maybe it'll make me
Speaker 1: feel a little bit better why I didn't get it.
Speaker 1: So after the shoe was done, this was two in
Speaker 1: the morning, I was driving home and I finally called
Speaker 1: him and he was like, hey, Peter, okay, um, I
Speaker 1: really want to talk to you. If you're on the
Speaker 1: on the street, can you pull over something? And I
Speaker 1: was like alright, so I pull over and he was like, okay, well, um,
Speaker 1: the reason why you didn't get it, Peter, or should
Speaker 1: I say Preston, is because you're ninja steal blue And
Speaker 1: I was like, what what what? What are you? What
Speaker 1: are you saying when I legit? I don't know if
Speaker 1: I could cuss on here, but yeah, we'll it. I
Speaker 1: was like, don't and he turns out I got it.
Speaker 1: And the reason why he told Yoshi that was because
Speaker 1: he wants to surprise him people. I love it. It's
Speaker 1: funny because I like, I know that they surprised Yoshi,
Speaker 1: but I was still I know. That's why that's why
Speaker 1: I took it for granted, because you don't hear like
Speaker 1: executives doing that. Oh good thing, you didn't like cuss
Speaker 1: somebody off. I've given you my heart and my soul.
Speaker 1: But man, you gotta be that person was really good
Speaker 1: because because because if he would have been like, don't
Speaker 1: tell your brother, but you did get it and you
Speaker 1: were on set, you would have let it slip. There's
Speaker 1: no way you would have been. So he was like,
Speaker 1: I gotta wait till they get off set, and he's like,
Speaker 1: all right, this is what's going down, so tell tell
Speaker 1: the story because I really like it's very cute, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna post to send me the video so we
Speaker 1: can press it on the footnotes. It's on Bethany's up.
Speaker 1: She has like all the back ends of it too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But so after that I had to wait two weeks
Speaker 1: before Yoshi could know, because after that it was two
Speaker 1: weeks until Power More Icon, which is coming up soon.
Speaker 1: That's when they do to reveal. So up until that time,
Speaker 1: I was like still playing DND with my brother, and
Speaker 1: I was like trying to put in like little hints
Speaker 1: and stuff, you know. But we're playing DND and like
Speaker 1: we passed by like this, um this martial arts gym
Speaker 1: right by because I play Emerald Nights and there's this
Speaker 1: martial arts place called a blue dragon martial Arts, and
Speaker 1: the day before Power work On we drove past it
Speaker 1: and my sword, by the way, is a blue dragon.
Speaker 1: So you she was like, hey, Peter, look at that
Speaker 1: blue dragon martial arts, like just like that, just the
Speaker 1: way I just said it. And I was like, does
Speaker 1: this guy knows? Like is he screwing with me? So
Speaker 1: then the day of Power Workon came and uh, I
Speaker 1: was gonna go down the thing and they were like
Speaker 1: reading the names. They wanted to read me last because
Speaker 1: they wanted to do the whole like surprise with the Ocean.
Speaker 1: At that point, I was already annoyed because I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's pointed out multiple things that shows me that he knows,
Speaker 1: like I know he knows. And um the moment that,
Speaker 1: like my name was supposed to get called up, so
Speaker 1: it was like this person, uh, this color, this person,
Speaker 1: this color is this person? There was like a beat
Speaker 1: a pattern, you know, and then it got to me
Speaker 1: and it was like and the blue Ranger and yoh,
Speaker 1: she was supposed to read my name and all I
Speaker 1: heard was and I was like, what what's going on?
Speaker 1: And then that's when I knew that like he didn't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: then he called my name and he could even say
Speaker 1: my name, Like the dude just started breaking down. And
Speaker 1: even to this day, like every time I watched it,
Speaker 1: I still get feelings just because of how raw his
Speaker 1: emotions were. Yeah, I'm pulling it up for Danny right now.
Speaker 1: It's like the cutest. Yeah. Yeah, we will definitely post it. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get it. So how crazy was it? Like
Speaker 1: right after that? What was the Because their fan base
Speaker 1: is pretty ravenous, like in a good way. They just
Speaker 1: like eat up everything. They're extremely passionate, and that's the
Speaker 1: one thing that I will say, like I love about
Speaker 1: the Ranger fan base. Like, but the thing is, like
Speaker 1: I've already kind of always been in semi spotlight with
Speaker 1: them because the Mega foresting when they put me up
Speaker 1: on IMDb. So a lot of the Ranger fans actually
Speaker 1: have like stayed with me since eleven. Wow, yeah, since
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven until I booked in two thousand and sixteen,
Speaker 1: and then a lot of them were like, dude, you've
Speaker 1: been here since day one and your brother was last year.
Speaker 1: So it just it just worked out really well in
Speaker 1: my favorite Yeah, and so I mean i'd see how
Speaker 1: much you love being a ranger, Like what, like, man,
Speaker 1: it just because that's like especially ninety kids dream as
Speaker 1: being like a power ranger. So what what is it like?
Speaker 1: Putting on the suit and all with the suit itself
Speaker 1: is actually pretty dang awesome. Like it's the suit is lightweight,
Speaker 1: it's it breeds, it gets kind of cold, but uh
Speaker 1: and when it gets hot, it gets really really hot,
Speaker 1: but it's it's awesome. Um. Besides that, we actually only
Speaker 1: got to be in the sea like three times overall,
Speaker 1: once Paramorphic on, once for a studio photo shoot, and
Speaker 1: once for the Morpha because they used the footage from
Speaker 1: the super Center. Right, So how many action figures of yourself?
Speaker 1: Do you think? I have one of them that I'm
Speaker 1: like modding up? Yeah, but like that's it, oh man,
Speaker 1: that you're You're way more humble than me, because I
Speaker 1: would have every if the action figure that I can
Speaker 1: get my hands on. Now, I'm a big Gundam guys,
Speaker 1: like is like filled with Gundam's and it just doesn't
Speaker 1: fit to put about. Yeah, you're like, I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: more of a Zoids guy myself. I can't forget the bomb.
Speaker 1: So so what do you feel is next? For you
Speaker 1: do you like, Um, I I'm I'm big on creating. Uh.
Speaker 1: This pastor has been really good in terms of acting.
Speaker 1: I've been booking like jobs, little ones just left and right.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm looking forward to creating my own stuff.
Speaker 1: I've always been interested in like comic books. Um, anything
Speaker 1: that's really like superhero or even like a little bit
Speaker 1: of fantasy I just love. So I've been working on
Speaker 1: like two different series currently. Um, one of them hopefully
Speaker 1: i'll be Uh. I'm working on like a system, a
Speaker 1: D and D system that's like a subregion, sub class
Speaker 1: for five gus played. Yeah, I'm doing that. Hopefully I'll
Speaker 1: be doing that with hyper RPG in a bit. And um,
Speaker 1: I'm writing another feature that who knows if it's going
Speaker 1: to see the letter day, Well we can make it
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, So do you want to do stuff
Speaker 1: that you know implements martial arts? Since that seems to
Speaker 1: be really I mean, I do it only for like
Speaker 1: as an actor, it's nice to have like action stunts,
Speaker 1: like can you do martial arts? I'm like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: could do a whole sequence of XM and do a backflip.
Speaker 1: But if you're gonna ask me to do it on
Speaker 1: the show. I'd rather get a double. Yeah. But that's
Speaker 1: also because my brother is a stuntman too, and he's
Speaker 1: always told me, like if somebody else you're like, can
Speaker 1: you do something while you're on set? Not obviously not
Speaker 1: an audition room, audition room. You do it because you can.
Speaker 1: You show them that you can. But like on set
Speaker 1: you're like, I prefer the stunt person does it, just
Speaker 1: so you don't take away somebody's job. Oh wow, Yeah
Speaker 1: that's true. You know, like the stunt industry is very
Speaker 1: they're like the unsung heroes. You are because I do
Speaker 1: so much. But then you have like these guys like
Speaker 1: Donnie In and Jackie Chan who like are the master
Speaker 1: of both worlds and you're like, oh man, how do
Speaker 1: you Then they started as stunt guys. Jackie Chance was
Speaker 1: stunt and a stunt double. In entered The Dragon, dude,
Speaker 1: I don't even know that. Yeah. He has a very
Speaker 1: famous story that he had with Bruce Lee where I
Speaker 1: think Bruce Lee accidentally like punched him and he was like,
Speaker 1: oh no, it was like an honor please. So you
Speaker 1: get like stopped and stuffed by people or they're like
Speaker 1: little kids trying to take what about like did you
Speaker 1: guys like hit the con circuit and stuff like after
Speaker 1: it was announced. I've always been a huge con guy.
Speaker 1: I'm actually leaving a fantom in like, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't go to cons for like those guest stuff.
Speaker 1: But well at least it hasn't come up yet. But
Speaker 1: I do go to cons a lot just for my
Speaker 1: own stuff because I love cosplaying and I'm huge into
Speaker 1: nerd culture. Yeah, so what are you working on any
Speaker 1: cost plays? Yeah? Growing my hair out because I did
Speaker 1: this thing on Twitter where I didn't realize the power
Speaker 1: of Twitter. It's insane, can be good and bad. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of power on Twitter. You can breaks. So
Speaker 1: I did a thing like someone tweeted me a couple
Speaker 1: weeks back. I believe they were like, hey, Peter Yoshi,
Speaker 1: what how many retweets to get you guys to do
Speaker 1: this cosplay? And it's like, um, magical girl or I
Speaker 1: think it's like about these girls who like make a
Speaker 1: contract with like a yakuza demon and so they become
Speaker 1: instead of like becoming a magical girl, they turned up
Speaker 1: like this dudes which just beat people up with like staff.
Speaker 1: That's great. So it's like a dude wearing like freely
Speaker 1: everything because like it's what the girl was wearing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, yeah, one k. Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize one k is always too low for
Speaker 1: how many retweets. I didn't always too low for how
Speaker 1: many retweets. It's always gonna because I don't like retweeting.
Speaker 1: I only favorite when people are like, how many retweets
Speaker 1: for a blank? They're going to hit at least one day.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, so I said one k, and
Speaker 1: then I got to one k. Within the Yoshi was like, dude,
Speaker 1: that's so low. Why not ten k? Because so to
Speaker 1: get him on it, we needed to get ten k
Speaker 1: and then in two days ten k. So that's the
Speaker 1: cost way that like we're working on right now. That's dope.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see that. And I'm going out
Speaker 1: my hair for that. And also I'm costplaying Saske and
Speaker 1: I'm costplaying Mugan for okay, Wow, that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: Where is fan of It's up in San Jose. Oh nice?
Speaker 1: So are you driving? Are you gonna fly? I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of car camping. Go sleep in our car
Speaker 1: for two nights come back down. Yeah that's nice. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: car camping has a good time. It's so much fun
Speaker 1: and people don't realize how much fun it is. And
Speaker 1: it's free. Yeah, it's free. It's free. That's the best part.
Speaker 1: So what do you think is the future for Power Rangers?
Speaker 1: Because this I feel like this formula can just go
Speaker 1: forever because we've been able to rinse, repeat for so long.
Speaker 1: I actually personally love their formula because it gives a
Speaker 1: chance for literally new faces every year to become superheroes. Uh.
Speaker 1: The one thing that I'm not really sure about is
Speaker 1: they just sold off to Hasbro. Yea, I have zero
Speaker 1: Like that's the thing that like people always ask me, like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know with Power Rangers, what's gonna happen with this? This? This?
Speaker 1: As actors for Power Rangers, we get everything last. We
Speaker 1: get pictures last, Like all the promotional pictures we get last,
Speaker 1: all the like invites to things people like are you
Speaker 1: going to Power Morphicon? We don't know what? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: a lot of the times, like they don't tell us
Speaker 1: these things, and I don't understand why they don't, but
Speaker 1: they don't. I'm sure they have a good reason for it.
Speaker 1: But even like pictures, we don't get any of that stuff.
Speaker 1: So in terms of where Power Range is gonna go
Speaker 1: in Hasbro, I had to find out through Twitter by
Speaker 1: the way, So um, and I'm still uncontracted. It's strange. Um.
Speaker 1: I think personally Power Ranges is going in a really
Speaker 1: good direction. Last year they did the movie, which definitely
Speaker 1: like aged up the scene, and then they have this
Speaker 1: comic book series that's really good. Right now, you guys
Speaker 1: are into that. It's with Boom, right, Yeah. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: comic series is phenomenal. They did Shattered Grid, which was
Speaker 1: like a tie in with the hyper RPG thing as well.
Speaker 1: That that was a super cool move to to have
Speaker 1: you guys tied into the comics. Yeah, because if you
Speaker 1: if you're thinking about it, like from a brand standpoint,
Speaker 1: that's what I would have done to the beginning, Like
Speaker 1: have a show that's successful, have a comic that's completely different,
Speaker 1: tie in one thing from the comic and the TV show. Suddenly, boom,
Speaker 1: You've got a really cool thing going on. Yeah you know.
Speaker 1: So in that sense, I think Power Rangers is definitely
Speaker 1: going to be continuing to move forward and hopefully Hasbro
Speaker 1: starts to make different changes to like the way that
Speaker 1: the show works too. Yeah, because I'd like to see
Speaker 1: some different stuff happening on the show nice, like what
Speaker 1: I would like there to be a little bit of
Speaker 1: higher stakes, Like I know that it's a kid yeah,
Speaker 1: but just to tackle your point right as it comes
Speaker 1: out of your mouth. But even though it's a kids show,
Speaker 1: I feel like I think the Cartoon Network, Yeah, Cartoon
Speaker 1: Network has shown us that kids can handle like stuff.
Speaker 1: If you think of the kids show we had grown Up,
Speaker 1: which were excellent that was like deep and heavy, like
Speaker 1: you had the story of you had the story of
Speaker 1: the X Men coming to Jubileese parents and telling them
Speaker 1: that they have to take her to the institution because
Speaker 1: they will try to kill them, and sure enough the
Speaker 1: Sentinels burst into the house. Like that was the stuff
Speaker 1: we were watching as kids. Kids Dark. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I feel like, um, if you if you
Speaker 1: don't give real plot to kids, they won't understand the
Speaker 1: real you know, like they kids are as smart as
Speaker 1: you make them to be. They're sponges. And when I
Speaker 1: was young, like it was Last Airbender, Jackie Adventures, X Men,
Speaker 1: even the Batman series, World Super Dark and then those
Speaker 1: movies were like super like to the max. It was great,
Speaker 1: but we were able to digest it just fine, you know,
Speaker 1: and they were good. You know. It makes you think
Speaker 1: it's like children, you start to learn how to to
Speaker 1: grab for the points as opposed to being like spoon
Speaker 1: fed all the points. Besides that, I think the Power
Speaker 1: Rangers got a really good formula. Ya. I think in
Speaker 1: the future something I'd like to see what the Power
Speaker 1: Ranges because, like I said, I followed like a lot
Speaker 1: of the metal hero stuff in Japan really big. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like Ultraman and I liked Ultraman X, which was
Speaker 1: the older aged up version of Ultraman that they had
Speaker 1: where it was darker. It was like almost like a
Speaker 1: sci fi dark sci fi that deep points, and it
Speaker 1: was marketed and made for adults. And I would love
Speaker 1: something like that to exist in the Power Rangers of Umbrella.
Speaker 1: I've been trying. Okay, so Hyperforce that that was like
Speaker 1: definitely a step in the right direction. But imagine a
Speaker 1: series like Hyperforce before Netflix for the older generation, not
Speaker 1: just for kids, or even a web series if you
Speaker 1: wanted to do web series even with stuff like that,
Speaker 1: that could go great as well. Yeah, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that. It's the possibilities are endless.
Speaker 1: They really are. And to be honest, with all the
Speaker 1: different supercentile like heroes and stuff, they literally have endless
Speaker 1: possible Well that's true. Yeah, that's so good. There are
Speaker 1: twenty six seasons. I think that's what we counted. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Super Seni is even more because they've got like
Speaker 1: forty well I'm a bad Power Ranger I think forty
Speaker 1: three or five somewhere because they were going on for
Speaker 1: a minute before the US got involved. Yeah, so they
Speaker 1: have all those uster job for him. They have the
Speaker 1: Common Writer series which came out to the US. That's
Speaker 1: the one I would make, either Common Writer or Ultraman
Speaker 1: the US aged up like metal hero franchise. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: imagine something like tin Wolf. Tin Wolf is still can't
Speaker 1: be kind of like young ish, but they've got like
Speaker 1: real consequences darker, Yes, something like that. With Common Writer.
Speaker 1: Were like the guys don't even have to be like
Speaker 1: it's morph in time and it's just like just transformed.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you just like, what about you, Danny, anything
Speaker 1: you'd like to see in Power Ranges? Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's okay to have two people of the
Speaker 1: same ethnicity. Well they do, they do. Yeah, yeah, enjoy
Speaker 1: people in there. You know Latina too. Um. You know
Speaker 1: we're different. Some of us are, you know, from Cuba,
Speaker 1: some from Mexico. Anyways, we're not all the same. But
Speaker 1: that is the one thing that I gotta admit is
Speaker 1: actually a strong point for Power Rangers, even though like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they won't like have like not they have before, but
Speaker 1: they don't always like try to put in like two
Speaker 1: of the same ethnicities in there. Um. The fact that
Speaker 1: they even like are going out of their way to
Speaker 1: put in I know, yeah, even where their bar is
Speaker 1: is above the bar of most television, which is kind
Speaker 1: of sad, especially on a c W. C W loves
Speaker 1: like hot, disinterested white young people. It's like the Hills
Speaker 1: just never perpetually. Yeah, and our season was actually pretty
Speaker 1: diverse as well. Yeah, we had a William who was
Speaker 1: half white, half Indian, but he's from South America. Yeah,
Speaker 1: We've got Zoe who's a Kiwis, she's African American African Qui.
Speaker 1: And then we've got Jordy who is Modi but from
Speaker 1: New Zealand as well. Meum not American and Chinese, and
Speaker 1: a bunch of other people, So it's like it's it's
Speaker 1: got a pretty good mixing on yeah yeah yeah, was
Speaker 1: it just the whole bunch of like New Zealand Kiwi
Speaker 1: folks on It's that's what it sounded like. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have to two of our six well night, well
Speaker 1: not three of our seven. Wow, that's interesting? All right?
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Speaker 1: to drop. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you know we got this.
Speaker 1: We got the stickers, the pins and then the vinyl figures.
Speaker 1: So we're getting close. We got up to too, I
Speaker 1: think I said five hundred is where the stickers start
Speaker 1: to come out. Yeah, so we're getting there, y'all. Thanks uh,
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Speaker 1: Danny Diva's Oh my gosh, no, that's not at all
Speaker 1: like that doesn't sound that good. I know, I don't
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