Free With Ads - Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

Episode Date: April 1, 2025

This week we watch Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, the shockingly not bad film version of the 90's kids TV show about teens who do activities.Tune in next week when our movie will be... She Freak (1967)-----See Jordan Jesse Go! Live in Chicago 4/11 at the Sleeping Village. Buy tickets here.While in Chicago, Jordan will also be at the C2E2 Comic Book convention!Also, Jordan contributed to Godzilla vs LA, a comic book anthology which comes out April 30th and all the proceeds will go to those affected by the LA fires. Emily Fleming has a NEW SHOW available right now on Mythical Society called "Emily, Have You Seen This?" and you should see this!Matt Lieb and Francesca Fiorentini will be in San Francisco at Cobb's Comedy Club on May 7th! Buy tickets here! Finally, watch Emily on Survive The Mythical Kitchen Live, which will be streaming on April 3rd, at 7pm PST. Get your tickets here.

Music This is Free With Ads, the podcast that asks the question, why pay Netflix eight bucks a month to watch a bunch of modern Power Rangers shows when you can go online for free and watch the original movie and feel like you're back in the 90s. Grab some Dunkaroos, chug a Capri Sun, assume in the future it'll be possible for you to own a home. I'm Jordan Morris. And I'm Emily Fleming. Today's movie is Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The Movie,

the feature-length action figure commercial that brought us such classic lines as, hi-yah, ha, and ha-cha. With us always is super producer Matt hitting us with those Mighty Morphin drops. All right, pinheads, the stealth eagle's about to fly. Ditto with a swooping swallow. Hey, hey, what's up?

I'm the swooping swallow. Your new nickname, Super Producer Out, swooping swallow in. Gulp, gulp, who's ready to swallow these hot drops? All right, he's talking about the bird, Matt. Oh, OK, that makes way more sense. Not the throat process. I was like, man, this movie is crazy. Before we talk about this crazy movie, which is,

as of this recording, streaming free with ads, we want to talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week. Other free stuff. I'm going to pay off a call to action we made a couple weeks ago. We were listening to, Emily, I believe you brought us, oh, the dad from Back to the Future. Crispin Glover.

Crispin Glover's Weirdo Vanity Project Music. And we put out a call for everybody's favorite Celebrity Vanity Project Music and we put out a call for everybody's favorite celebrity vanity project music. And we got a really great email from Rachel Sherman and they wanted us to be aware of Richard Belzer's music career. Richard Belzer, 80s stand up comic, Law and Order regular. Did anyone know that he sang?

I, oh wait, is he the older, older guy? He's like skinny, he's older, but he's like the skinny guy in, wasn't he, was he OG Law and Order or was he SVU? So I think he was, he's SVU, but I think he was like in Homicide Life on the street. That's right. He's Munch, I believe. That's right. Might be getting, and he was like in Homicide Life on the street. He's munch, I believe.

And he's like this character that appears in all these different shows. He appears in The Wire. Yes, he's a stand-up comic. He famously was piledrived by Hulk Hogan on the late night TV show, and the lawsuit bought him a giant house so yeah. Oh that's great!

He's led a really interesting life of course he's also a singer. So yeah maybe he used his lawsuit money to make this song that we're gonna play. I had never heard of this so thank you Rachel for digging this up. So he has a Halloween jam called the vampire song. Matt you want to play a little bit of this Halloween jam? He needed them to pass the endless years Though the vampire loved the ladies And the ladies wound in sorrow for his touch Yeah, the vampire, he loved the ladies His undoing wasn't loving them too much

Why, why does this slap? It slaps hard. He's got kind of a good voice for this. And I want to describe the video. The video is a must watch. Matt, I'm gonna have you throw the link in the comments. Absolutely. This is from a very particular pocket of the internet

where you couldn't do much, right? Like there's no in-phone editing. It's just him in a Dracula costume in front of a green screen where they're playing vampire footage and he's just improvising dances. Like one locked off shot, he's lip syncing, not a great dancer and just like kind of flailing around.

And then at the end, there's a minute long guitar solo. This song is four and a half minutes, fucking death for a comedy song. Keep these things at 90 seconds, people. Please, please. It is four and a half minutes, it has a minute long guitar solo at the end, and he just has to groove through this guitar solo,

and then fireworks start going off in the background. Yes. Of this Halloween song. Is he playing the guitar? No, I don't know if he's playing guitar on the track. I sincerely doubt it. But the music is, he says no band in the video. It's just him kind of flailing in this vampire costume.

But- Fuck yeah, dude. Kind of slaps, honestly. Pretty good song. If you told me that was written by David Byrne, I'd be like, I see that. Honestly, you're right. I'm into it. It's sort of-

Which is not my beautiful vampire. This is not my beautiful lady. I want to suck your blood. Yeah, yes, I wanna suck it. Guys, this is our parody band. Just crack. Instead of talking heads, sucking necks. Sucking heads.

There's something there. Sucking heads, there's something there. I really hope that we get, I mean, I feel like the Crispin Glover song was borderline Halloween, because there's clowns in it. Oh yeah. And then we love the guy who does the Monster Mash, because he's got tons of music.

And now we have a third Free With Ads Halloween soundtrack song. So I have a feeling by Halloween, maybe we'll have enough to put out a little Spotify playlist. Yeah. Emily, I love this idea. Yes, absolutely. Let's make that our little mini goal

for the next couple months, finding the weirdest Halloween songs. I love it. Hell yes. And please, when it happens, send us videos of you dancing in a vampire cape alone in front of a green screen to our Halloween playlist.

This is exciting, we gotta get to the movie. This is a fun one, this is a cool one, this is an oft-requested one. Mighty Morphin, Power Rangers, the movie. I love the movie. I love anything, colon, the movie. Yeah. When was the last time we had that?

What was the last example of colon, the movie? I don't know. I don't either. That's a great question. Yeah. I don't think we've had one thus far. Well, there was the Flintstones movie. But we haven't done that in this.

Oh, we haven't done one. I guess I mean like in pop culture. Well, there was the Flintstones movie. But we haven't done that in this. Oh, we haven't done one. I guess I mean like in pop culture, what's the last time anything's been something something, colon the movie, because it happened all the fucking time when we were kids. Yeah, because back in the day, you didn't know, you could be walking into the theater and seeing anything.

It might not have been a movie. You could have just watched a 30 minute TV show accidentally to play what the hell there's some singer up here singing about vampires yeah no I think it was just like there was a time when we just turned every product into a movie luckily those days are over unlike now when every movie is an original idea. Yeah, that's a great question though. I kinda wanna Google it while you guys are talking about the movie. Yeah, actually I wanna hear from Emily on this.

Okay. Emily, you are excited about this. You are maybe the biggest Power Rangers fan I know. Yeah. Tell me a little bit about how you discovered the show and where you think this movie fits into the like, pantheon of Power Rangers? I was, I believe I was seven years old and it was sometimes on Saturday mornings we had

this living room that had a pullout couch and my sister was really little so she would be like playing on the pullout couch bed thing and then I would be sitting there watching TV. Like so, the X-Men animated series was a big, had to watch that, had to watch like the Saturday morning ABC cartoons and stuff. But I, when the commercials were on, you'd be like clicking through and this popped on and I thought I was being bad

because there were teenagers in it. And my mom would usually, yeah, my mom would usually say, if people are older than you in the show, then it's not meant for you and you shouldn't watch it. But I started watching it and there are these people in suits kicking monsters' butts and stuff. And my dad was like, what is this?

He was into it too, but he likes to walk around and go, go, go Power Strangers and stuff like that. And I'd be like, that is not the song, dad. That's not. It's not the song. God. He also used to sing that Coldplay song, Yellow. And we'd be in the car and be like,

they have the stars, look how they shine for you, yodel lady who. That works though. That actually, that works. And I'd be like, stop it, dad. Anyway, but. Mike Fleming, ultimate dad. I'm calling it. I'd be like, stop it, dad! Anyway, but. Mike Fleming, ultimate dad, I'm calling it. Calling it, give this man a world's best dad trophy.

I know, but he got me all my action figures because I have so many Power Rangers action figures. So those action figures, I remember, weren't they kind of like a Tickle Me Elmo or a Cabbage Patch Kid and then like, you had to fucking line up a day in advance to get them? Yes, yes, but my dad was on the road when I was around this age,

a lot touring with Holly Dunn, who was a country singer back in the day. And so he would be able to check all of the Toys R Uses on the road. Oh, that's amazing. Oh, nice, yeah, yeah. So I pretty much got everything I wanted for Christmas. I'm a very spoiled kid, but yeah, yeah, yeah. So I pretty much got everything I wanted for Christmas. I'm a very spoiled kid. But yeah, in that way.

I would have wanted his love, but we can't take what we can get. But no, you got all the swords. You got all the real missile launching action. As someone whose dad was there and didn't get any Power Rangers toys, you're not missing anything. It's worth it for the toy. No, I'm kidding. He loves me very much. someone whose dad was there and didn't get any Power Rangers toys, you're not missing anything. It's worth it for the toy. No, I'm kidding.

He loves me very much. But yeah, I remember just watching the show and being like, it's so colorful. I love that anything where it's like, I think that anything where people had their own identity based on a color and a thing, kind of like the Spice Girls. It's like, OK, here's sporty. Here's this thing. And with theice Girls. It's like, okay, here's sporty, here's this thing.

And with the Power Rangers, it was like, okay, the pink is a pterodactyl and has like a flying like ship. Her zord is like an airplane kind of thing. And there was something about that that really like you can latch onto brand wise and it sucks you in. But also the teenagers were so cool and cute

and I loved it. I just loved it. But then I became a little too obsessed with it to the point where it alienated me from my peers. Interesting. How so? Nobody else was into it the way I was into it. Like what was the way you were into it? I had a lunchbox. I had like a shirt for every day, I had Power Rangers birthday parties, I had like, it was Power Rangers everything all the time, night gowns, I had, I was obsessed.

And yeah. So was this movie on your radar when it came out? Did you see it 10 times in theaters? God, I saw it in theaters. My grandparents took me, I think it was in the summer of 95, was it 95? And I think it was a summer movie and there's this little girl who, her grandparents lived next door to my grandparents.

And so we hung out together and the high remotos, they were like really cool. She took like Taekwondo and all that stuff. And so we'd go pretend Power Ranger fight each other in the backyard. She was more into Star Trek though than anything. But so we'd have our- What a dork.

Well we'd have our action figures. Our action figures would have little, they would hook up. Like Riker would make out with the Pink Ranger quite a bit. I under Riker would make out. I think there is a lot of shared DNA between Star Trek and Power Rangers, I think. I think these are from the same school of television

of cranking out a genre show kinda cheap, you know? There are some foam rocks that get thrown in this movie. Where I'm like, those are some foam rocks that are get thrown in this movie absolutely some fucking 1966 Star Trek foam rocks and I love it. Yeah, Matt Did you you're you're maybe closer to Emily's age than my age? Yeah, do Power Rangers? Yes huge huge Power Rangers fan Didn't get the toys cuz it was you know, you had to like line up in advance and it was like all the, it was the toys separated the haves from the have-nots at least. Aww.

Where I grew up. It felt like, you know, if you got the especially if you got the the toys that like turned into shit like that did the Transformers. The Zords. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't get any of the Zords. They're pretty cool, but I always found those to be frustrating to play with. Yeah, no, I never got to play with one. I only saw commercials and begged my parents

and had them sit me down and tell me they're sold out, they're really hard to get, and we're not gonna be able to get you one. And I was just like, that's fine. Yeah, chemistry set, that's fun. Yeah, and you didn't believe in Santa anyway. I love educational toys. My parents sat me down and they said like,

you don't believe in Santa, you don't believe in Moses. We're not celebrating any Hanukkah nor Christmas. So- Here, have a geode, here, have one of those balls where the electricity goes to your fingers. Have something we got at the fucking nature company Oh, man nature companies slaps those were cool though. Yeah But yeah, no, I I really loved it and I had a friend who was kind of like you

Emily but maybe a little more obsessed. I had my friend told me he was in Power Rangers One of those friends. Yeah, like he was the first pathological liar I ever knew and you told me he was in Power Rangers. Oh, one of those friends? Yeah, he was the first pathological liar I ever knew. I think we've heard about this friend before. Yeah, I think I've talked about him. He said he was a Green Ranger. He also said his dad was the coach of the Dodgers. He had a lot of things like that.

He just kind of made shit up. Just a real Forrest Gump of a kid. Yeah, when eventually we stopped being friends and it kind of, he get a little bit ruined Power Rangers for me, so. You know, hey, now I'm rewatching it and guess what? I'm back in, I love it. Wow.

So yeah, it rules. So this is something I am really curious about. First of all, I missed Power Rangers, I totally missed it. I've, you know, it was on a little bit on TV, so I kind of know the deal Rangers. I totally missed it. It was on a little bit on TV, so I kinda know the deal, but I totally missed it. It's one of those things where you're fast, it's fascinating to me. I'm like, oh, this is something that was not on my radar.

It is still on. There's still new Power Rangers coming out. Most of it's on Netflix. An article came out a couple weeks ago about they're trying to reboot it for Disney Plus. But there's just still new Power Rangers stuff. The comics are everywhere. Yeah, and the Pink Ranger, Amy Jo Johnson,

I think works on the comics. Yeah, she writes some of the comics, which is really cool. I will say that as I am very aware of Power Rangers fandom, just because I do so many Comic Cons these days, and people go insane for the Power Rangers. Her in particular, she's like... Oh she's my favorite. Pink Ranger. Yeah. Yeah so it's like I it's this thing I'm kind of aware of but I know that like it's so huge and it's still going and they're

like you know gonna be rebooting it till we die so anyway interesting for me to watch this movie because I kind of like just didn't know any of this stuff. Did you guys see what I texted you a minute ago? No, huh? I texted you a picture of me as a little girl with my pink ranger. Throw it up on the Instagram. I'll put it up there.

Please would you follow us on Instagram? Free with the ads. I loved that thing so cute. Throw it up on the Instagram. I'll put it up there. Please would you follow us on Instagram, Free With Ads. I loved that thing so much. But yeah, also fun thing I realized, and the freebies I think will like this, the entire mini series saga of the Green Ranger is Free With Ads on YouTube right now. And I will, it's just all one video. And it's got ads and commercials from that year

that it was happening. Oh cool, neat. And oh my God, it's somebody just like recorded it on a cassette and I think got it uploaded and put it on there. Oh nice. I don't know how legit it is to put it on there, but I don't care, I'm gonna send you guys,

I'll give you the link you guys. Hell yeah. I think the guy who owns Power Rangers may be a notorious piece of shit so you know if you have to semi-legally consume some Power Rangers material fine with me. Totally. Do you guys keep up with the new stuff? Have you watched the Netflix stuff? No. No. I just you know I've, I'm watching Severance and shit. I'm sophisticated now. I am, although when I watched this movie,

I was like, this still like feels, it still feels good. And I think there's something about like, you know, some of the original cast who created the chemistry and the acting style with each other, like they just kind of are the OGs and made it work because the dialogue in these things are tough. Like they would be tough to make good.

I don't think I could do it. Like the little aside's like, ha ha, you're toast, like all that kind of stuff. I- So much of that. So much of that. I know that like, that is so kids entertainment when we were growing up.

I mean, I didn't watch Power Rangers, but that's Turtles. Like that's Turtles. Oh, for sure. Talk about a splitting headache. Elevator going up. And like, I. Could you imagine the punch up jobs that comedians probably got to do for these?

Oh man, yeah. Oh, yeah, sure. A young Dana Gould is suggesting that they're splitting. Eight ball corner pocket. Yeah. Just like, in there, anyway. You're about to say that they're all high

on eight balls corner pocket. That's what you're saying. Yeah, I will say there is some really good ones in this movie and I remember a few, so I love it. Well yeah, let's talk about what actually happens in this thing. It starts out with a crawl, a Star Wars-esque crawl. Important for me, who doesn't know the lore.

Was I more clear on it after the crawl? No. The fucking crazy, it talks about a guy named Zordon, who's some sort of space ruler. He recruits teenagers to pilot Zords. We got a Zordon and who's some sort of space ruler. He recruits teenagers to pilot Zords. We got Zordon and Zords. This is a fucking Lord of the Rings Sauron-Sauromon situation.

Just change up the names. We can't have Zords and Zoron. Zordon and he- Zordon. And also, like as an adult, that description is of a villain. That is not the description of the hero who's trying to save the world from evil.

6,000 year old super being who's trying to recruit teens. Yeah, Zordon sounds a little sketch. He sounds very sus. Well maybe that's like the reboot, what's Zordon the villain the whole time? Right, yes. Oh, I like that. I like it.

So anyways, whatever, backstory backstory. We cut to a fucking awesome scene of skydiving to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. What the fuck? What a way to start a 1995 ass movie. And I also love that Balkanskull, who are kind of the bullies, but they're more idiots

than they are bullies. Yeah, right. Dumb, mean kids. And they have their own little theme song that's, like, whenever they come onto the scene. Balkan Skull do Comic-Cons together and people go fucking crazy. I can only imagine. Oh, I would lose my shit if I got to meet them.

I would love it. So they're all skydiving. There's a pretty cool practical skydiving scene. One of them is snowboarding in the air. Hell yeah. This is just a fucking Mountain Dew commercial. Yeah. I do think something that is really impressive

about all the actors in this is I think they're all doing the martial arts, right? Yes. I think there's probably stunt performers too, but I think that the actors do a lot of this stuff. They're clearly not doing the skydiving. Sometimes these skydivers are a different race than the characters.

Yeah. Right. And then, I mean, we know from the TV show that like the footage of them in the suits was from a totally different show that was happening in Japan. But for the movie, it looks like they're in the suits, and I feel like they are doing a lot of things

out of the suits too. Yes, exactly, yeah, for a good portion of the movie, they are no longer in the suits, and you see them actually doing martial arts themselves, which was really impressive. I remember as a kid being like, that's so cool that they actually know how to do it. I think I took karate class because of that.

I tried to take it. I think I took karate class because of that. I tried to take it. I took some karate classes as well, but mine was because of three ninjas. Oh, that was also one of the reasons why. Sidekicks too, sidekicks for the kid karate movies. I mean, the three ninjas is why I know not to drink Visine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. Is there a Visine drinking scene in that movie?

Well, the kids in Three Ninjas, the bad guys that are chasing them, I forget how they put a bunch of Visine in soda, and it makes them all poop their pants. Yeah, it makes them all shit themselves. Good movie, good movie. There's also a Rocky in that. There's a Rocky in this.

There's a Rocky in that. Rocky was just a cool kid name in the 90s. Cool fucking kid name. Anyway, no kids in this movie, only 30 and 40 year olds, we'll get to it. Rollerblading teens. Lot of oldest teens gonna happen today. So yeah, we go right from skydiving,

they're doing a charity skydive to save the observatory, this doesn't come back, it's fun though. We cut from fucking skydiving to a rollerblading montage. Oh my God. Okay, and they're wearing every safety pad imaginable. Helmets, knee pads, elbow pads. You just had to show kids wearing pads in the 90s. My favorite thing about this that I didn't think about

before is all of them wear the colors of their uniforms all the time. Color coordinated. And then it's like, these are just the cool kids from high school who go skydiving sometimes. And so there's five of them, and they're all wearing the colors of the Power Rangers. And they're the only ones jumping out of planes.

I feel like that might be the Power Ranger. Yeah, I'd have guessed. I'd have guessed. Secret identities, maybe not, you know, Clark Kent's just got fucking glasses. I know. You know, nobody's protecting these secret identities. But he's not like flying with the glasses on.

That's true. They're literally doing Power Rangers shit, just not with the suits on. So yeah, oh, and everybody, everybody, I mean they have their signature colors, but everything that's not their signature color, white denim. That's right. Yes.

A lot of long white jean shorts in this movie. So cool, so cool. So anyway, so when they're rollerblading, I'm like, I don't care if they fight monsters, just have them do, just have them go paddle boarding next and then hang gliding and then do a zip line. I enjoy watching these teens do activities. Yeah.

It's just a big like Cialis commercial. Yeah. It does have very like pharmaceutical ad feel to it. Right. It is strange. Thanks Trimfana. Thanks to Trimfana, I could pilot the Zord. Thanks Trimfana.

I don't know what Trimfana does. I thought you were saying pile drive a Zord. Thanks Trimfana. I don't know what Trimfana does. I thought you were saying pile drive a Zord. I was like damn. Some of those Zords, pretty hot. Okay, so anyway, so they're messing around doing 90s sports and meanwhile a construction crew who's digging a big hole, they find a creepy hand with an egg.

It's got a monster in it, we'll figure it out later. This is bad, the egg's bad, so all the Power Rangers get called to their secret base by Zordon. He is a floating head. And we kind of see everybody here for the first time. Hey, I think it's time for our segment Oldest Teen. Yay!

Oldest Teen. They're all old as shit. The fucking Blue Ranger, the Blue Ranger, he looks like the first guy your mom dates after she divorces your dad. Ah! This guy, this guy drove everyone to school in the van. He looks like a substitute teacher.

He looks like the type of sub that some of the students hit on, and a few of them take it too far. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Live journal about him. He's hot, but he's old. You can tell he's old. He's got full-on sideburns too.

He's got crow's feet. You can see in some shots, you can see his AARP card. Yeah, he's wearing hearing aids. Yeah. He's got liver spots on his hands. So old. So old. Yes.

Anyway, so Zordon dumps all this info about this monster that was in the egg. It's Ivan Ooze, Ivan Ooze. He's coming, he's a bad guy. He's cool as egg. It's Ivan Ooze, Ivan Ooze. He's coming, he's a bad guy. He's cool as fuck, I love Ivan Ooze. I'm into Ivan Ooze. Me too. Like he stole the movie from me.

I've never met a more captivating villain. He's so fun. He's Ledger Joker who? Yeah, straight up. I was just like Oscar, Oscar time. I want an Ivan Ooze origin story. Me too. Yeah, that would be fun.

Ivan begins when she's wound. Yeah, it could be like, what were those? The secret of the Ivan Ooze. No, no, like what's the, there's those like Harry Potter prequel things about the animals, like the fantastic beasts and where to find them, where it's like, okay, bad guys, besties, with the old good guys.

So it's like Zordon and Ivan Ooze were like besties back in the day. And then something happened. They fought over who was gonna date Rita Repulsa. Oh shit. So yeah, so we meet the other bad guys. So I don't know any of these people. Lord Zed and Rita Repulsa.

Those are the main bad guys. Yes. These characters all look like they're from different movies. It looks like Power Rangers has the quality of we just had a lot of props and costumes laying around. Let's make a show. Yeah.

Okay, so we have a witch lady. Yes. We have a witch lady. Yes. We have a Skeletor man. Yep. We have a bear in armor with wings. That's Goldar and I have his action figure. I love Goldar. And then a pig with a monocle.

Yep, yep. Which, I don't remember this pig from the TV show personally. I remember there's, Finster was the guy who created all of the the little, the putties, and she didn't see any putties in this one. No putties in this movie.

It's a putty-less movie. I know, they're like the henchmen kind of for them. But I love this pig. The pig had the best little aside comedy lines in the whole movie. The pig did have some funny asides. There's a moment where the Skeletor guy is like zapping people and you hear the pig say, I could do that, I just choose not to.

I know! Yes. There's one where Ivan Ooze hocks a loogie that turns into one of his little like crow henchmen and the pig goes, great distance on that. Like, I was like, eh. My favorite pig line is he, ooze goes, of course you remember

I'm a master of disguise. And he said, how would I remember that? I just met you. I miss that, that's great. It's a great line. He had the best lines out of anybody, I swear. Definitely like the 90s comedy punch-up room. Maybe our old friend Blaine Capac was in there,

writing some wild lines for Monica Higg. I bet. Anyway, so Ivan Ooze comes out. He's this kind of purple tentacle guy who talks like an old showbiz guy What's this choice he's like love it. I'm home So much fun with it I know I feel like he was like written for parents to have something to latch on During the movie I. I was dying.

I was like, this guy is having so much fun with the stupidest role he's ever accepted. Yeah, he's probably a Shakespearean actor. Oh, 100%. He probably played Richard III that year. He went to Juilliard. Yeah. This guy is like, you know?

And now he's like, showtime, baby! It's Iva News. Why does he talk like that? Anyway, so, you know, Ivanuus, he's real bad. He puts two of the villains in a snow globe. Anyway. Two of the villains. These are the main villains of the TV show.

So like, you're expecting them to be the ones who are going after him, and instead, they're in the snow globe for like the whole movie By the way side note I never realized how attractive Rita repulsa was until this rewatch I would she she is gorgeous and I think she's a different actress than the show Oh, is it a different? Okay, okay. But also as I was watching,

I realized she looks exactly like my wife and then I started feeling like a really good husband. You know what I mean? Aw, there you go. I'm only attracted to people who look like my wife. Maybe you can go as Rita Repulsa and Monical Pig this Halloween. Maybe we will.

Why do I have to be the pig? Why can't I be Zed? No, you're Rita. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Ooh, yes. Anyway, so Ivan Ooze creates all these ooze guys. There's kind of the first of 19 fights.

They fight all these ooze guys like in their street clothes. Something I love is just when they have to travel short distances, they just do back flips. Like there's no reason to do back flips strategically that I can see. It's just when they have to go from one end of the fight arena to the other, they just back flip there, it's great.

Yeah, everybody do it. Which makes total sense. If you can back flip, why walk? That's what I say. Why walk? You know, you put in the work you might as well do back flips. 100%. So he fights all these guys they all decide that it's time to transform into their suits. It's morphin time. They call out their animal they're associated with and they change into their robot outfits that have joints just like the action figures do. They're just such, they like,

these just are the action figures. They have little weapons that they don't always use. Okay, here's a logic thing that probably has no answer. They have all these phases of powers they can use. They just wait for things to get bad and then they go up a power. So it's like fighting our street clothes, this is hard. Let's transform, this is hard.

Let's use weapons, this is hard. Let's call Zords. Just call the Zords immediately and kill everyone. You have robots at your disposal. Why are you doing all these other things? Okay, can I say? It's called foreplay and's actually makes the sex better. Well.

Yeah, okay, that's a good answer. I have an opinion about this, actually. Oh, sure, please. I would love to know. In the movie, you know, there's, Zordon gets compromised, and their powers and everything are compromised, which kind of alludes to everything having to do with power that's kind of related

to maybe electricity in some way. And so I'm like, oh, maybe they're trying to preserve power and it's like, you know, we can't go straight to the Zords because it's like, then we're just using up a bunch of power that's like, you know, unnecessary. It's like a, I think it's more of an environmental thing. Yeah. Okay.

I accept, I accept it. That sounds like it's correct lore. So. I don't know. I'm just making shit up, you guys. No, it sounds right. Anyway, so yeah, but it's, you know, I, yeah, like having all these different new things come out

is like so much fun. It's like, oh, and they got weapons. So yeah, it's a blast. It's definitely like part of the reason why like people are obsessed with the toys. Another great joke in that scene that you're describing, where they're fighting a bunch of oozes, like ooze guys, whatever

his version of the putties is. And they're like, this is getting too hard. And they all do their like transforming thing, which means one by one, they all say what they're about to turn into. And by the time they're done, all of those ooze guys have run away. The transforming just takes a long time. Yeah, the transforming takes long enough that they're like, wait, where'd they go? Like, did they leave during your entire fucking theatrical show where you all have to, can you just turn into the guys?

Why you gotta morph so long? And what do you got to yell out what you're about to do? If you're like, they know you're doing it because you're yelling it. Super spin kick. I guess I was a big I was a big sailor moon kid and like Oh, that fucking transformation, obviously iconic transformation. Best part of the show. Yeah, you're fucking losing a fight while you're transforming.

100%, is the enemies, they're just, I assume they're just standing there going, ah, like waiting. Wait for them to get more powerful so they can kick our ass. Hold on, just wait. They got a whole thing they gotta do. I don't wanna interrupt. Well, it's like when you gotta go to the,

like when the Power Rangers are older and they're married and they gotta go to the in-laws for Christmas, it's like, it's in-law time. And then it's like, honey, please, get your boots on. It's snowing outside, boots! Yeah, exactly. Boots, go. Feather down jacket!

Throw away a pack of cigarettes. Bottle of wine for mother-in-law, go! Put on nicotine patch. Bukaya flowers, go! Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, so, you know, this is happening. We see Ivan Ooze has a plan,

and this is something I loved. His plan is to recruit the parents of the town. I love how everyone refers to adults as the parents. This is such a like, was this movie written by a kid? Because like all adults in this are parents. It's such a funny way to describe people of like, we gotta enslave the parents. Just of like, we know no one who's not a kid is watching this.

Well, I also love that Ivan Ooze when he was, you know, it was a very similar scene to Hocus Pocus, where it's like, I smell children, but he goes, what is that smell? I smell teens. And you're like, yeah, more likely you will smell teens before children, like, just based on how stinky teens are. So it's like, fuck, I smell antiperspirant

that ain't doing shit. Someone's only been eating Taco Bell for a week. Someone still doesn't know how to wipe good. I smell, ooherspirant that ain't doing shit. Someone's only been eating Taco Bell for a week. Someone still doesn't know how to wipe good. I smell, ooh, what is that, SSRIs and Capri Sun? Oh, boy. So Ivernous goes, he wants to enslave the parents. He goes up to the lair, to their secret lair, and he destroys the lair with a magic flute

that shoots lightning, sure. Why not? Whatever, and Zordon blows up. Here's a logic thing. So Zordon, he's a head, right? He's a projected head. And I assumed he was somewhere else. Yeah, kinda like the Wizard of Oz guy, kinda.

He's not, he's in the tube, he's a guy in the tube. He's not on another planet somewhere. It's so funny that he's projecting this head, and he's like, he's just in that tube. Yeah, he's just been there the whole time, I guess. Well, it's like the Wizard of Oz. Right, but that's how you find out that the wizard isn't a wizard.

That's the whole thing is like, he's not a wizard. I look at the tube. Well, this is just a tube guy, you know? I fill the tube with shit. He's a bubble boy. He's like, I have lupus. Yellow Ranger, empty the tube. I have autoimmune disorders.

I have to be in the tube at all times. Well, they do kind of talk about this a little bit, because there is a thing where they have to go somewhere to get more power. And there is a little bit of explanation about how time works for these beings, like Zordon and Rita repulsa and stuff. And when they're outside of their like, I don't know, tubes or habitats or whatever,

they age really rapidly. Right, right, right. So I think he just has to be in this tube forever in order to keep finding underage kids to kick to kick people like I don't know. It's so funny because. Help me find teens. Ivan Ooze. I need teens to punch and kick. I need the teens.

No, they have to be young. Young and fit, make them flip everywhere. Young, flexible teens. Ooh, she looks good. 20, get her out of here. The budget is getting a little out of hand on shorts. And jams, jam shorts. $50,000 a month on jean shorts. Oh my God, these fools are eating me out of house and home.

As you mentioned, Emily, they have to go to another land or whatever to get new powers. They go to this other land and they meet a woman who looks like she's from a Conan movie. She's trying to do a British accent and can't really. Her name is Dulcea. She's played by Gabriel Fitzpatrick. Fun fact, this is the most attractive person ever put on film.

Yes. It's kind of crazy. It's wild how hot she is for this kid's movie. I know. Yeah, I was like, oh. I was like, okay. Well, supposedly they were trying to create, like she was going to be a character

that was gonna cross over into the TV show. And then it just didn't quite take. She's too hot. She's super cool, she like fights with the staff. There's this part where she's leading them to the power or whatever MacGuffin they need to find. And there's a long shot of them walking over these rocks to the ocean and you can see that her boots have high heels

and she's wobbling on these rocks and I can just, I'm sure if you were there she was just going, motherfucking, dude, you're motherfucking, you're coming to the fucking Power Rangers, what's Swordon, oh my God. I mean, the set also looks a little bit like Showgirls too. Oh yeah, it looks like a goddess. And then so does the outfit.

Yeah, the outfit is very goddess. It is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the acting, if we're being real. Sure, yeah. For sure. I'm losing power, I need puppy chow. So she, so Dulcea gives them a new power or whatever,

they have new animals that they associate with. She's good at fighting, she just turns into an owl and flies away, help them, come on, anyway. Yeah, it is kind of weird that she's just like, fuck this. Okay, I'm gonna turn it to an owl now. She doesn't even really fight all those flying, you know, weird ooze things either. She just kind of, she just flips her batons,

but they make a noise that scares them. Oh yeah, that was pretty cool. I mean, it was sick because she's hot, and I was just like, hell yeah, but I- Yeah, she was cool. She didn't really fight much. No, no. Okay, so the was just like, hell yeah, but I. Yeah, she was cool. She didn't really fight much. No, no. Okay, so the Power Rangers have their new powers,

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for this? What is the lore of the Power Rangers? It sounds like just another word for ninja, but it's whatever these outfits are. They can copyright it. They sound like Italian ninjas. The Ninjetti. Also, there is like Power Rangers, Power Rangers Ninjetti was the third production of the Power Rangers television series.

Oh, interesting. This will come back. But, and it's like 400 years ago, the ninja and the dark spirits had a great war. There's something about that kind of bullshit. But they, their outfits, but their outfits are basically like soft clothes. It's like kind of what you would get in Taekwondo class.

There's like some headbands and stuff. Right, they're wearing a gi. That's I believe is called a gi in karate. Yeah, but then they're also new animals. They have different animal things. Right, they're no longer dinosaurs. Yeah, they're like other stuff. Yeah, so they like other stuff. Yeah.

So they have these new powers, but which is very convenient because Ivan Ooze has found, he's like enslaved the parents to dig up these like ancient robots or whatever, these bug robots. And he's done so by selling ooze to their children. Dressed as a wizard? It is the funniest like little side story where it hit. So his evil plan has been, I guess for thousands of years, as soon as I get to earth or as

soon as they wake me up out of this thing, I'm going to spread this ooze by doing the number one way of spreading things at this time in the 90s, which is to sell it to kids. And I'll be honest, I believe that is still an effective plan. Kids love slime. You could still sell slime to kids and then take over their minds and brains. I also love that the kids were like, what is it? And it's like, bitch, Gack has been out for a while. Thank you.

Y'all know what it is. We know what this is. And if your parents say they don't like it, throw it in their face. I love it. I love it. Exactly. Do we know anything about the actor

who played Iva News? I didn't look him up. I only looked up Gabriel Fitzpatrick. I looked them up. His name is Paul Freeman. On IMDB it says, probably one of Britain's most underrated actors, Paul Freeman has accumulated literally hundreds of screen credits over the decades, most notably as the main villain in Steven Spielberg's classic Raiders of the Lost Ark. Oh, so this was like a get for them. This was like a big get for this guy. Yeah, for sure.

I mean, you know, this guy was in a classic film and Power Rangers, you know? I'm surprised we didn't get a lot of celebrity cameos in this, to be honest. Yeah, I guess not. You know, they just were like... Yeah, maybe if they, yeah, maybe the... I mean, there was a remake a couple years ago that has like Brian Cranston's Zordon in it. Yes. It's bad, it's very bad.

Oh no, is it bad? Yeah, I couldn't get through it, it was so bad. It just took itself very seriously. Too woke. It was too woke. No! took itself very seriously. To woke. Yeah, they ruined Power Rangers with woke. Literally the entire cast is multicultural. They used to they used to yell out their karate moves. Now they're yelling out their pronouns.

So OK, so that the the it goes from practical to CGI here. The CGI I would call screen saver caliber. Hey, I think it's better than that. It's not. God damn it. It's fun to watch. There's a high cheese factor, but yeah. I guess, whoa, okay Rich, you had some good screensavers.

I had a toaster with wings on it, that's all I had. Somebody's trying to write that movie. There's some fucking guy. Toaster with wings, yeah. There's some guy who wrote on Breaking Bad who's like, all right, I gotta fucking crack the Flying Toasters movie. Yeah, we got Skibbity Toilet and Toaster with Wings, like coming to a theater near you. toaster's movie. Yeah, we got skippity toilet and toaster with wings. Yeah. Coming to a theater near you.

2027. Anyway, so this is the kind of big robot fight part of it. I do remember in the, you know, in the show, the like final showdowns were always like kind of Godzilla, right? It was guys in suits fighting each other. I kind of missed that. I kind of like was hoping for some guys in suits at some point. There aren't a lot of guys in suits in this movie,

but the final battle being kind of this like CGI was a little less fun to me. I was like, oh, there's a couple more, you got some guys in suits. But I'm sure it like blew everybody's fucking mind at the time. Oh yeah, totally blew my mind as a kid. But they fight.

They blow up the bad robots. Zordon seems like he's dead, but they bring him back to life using whatever they got. The power of love. The power of love. The power of the ninjetti. The ninjetti, yes, and love and animals. Yes, they use Italian ninja magic to make their very old friend alive again.

Yes. And then back on Earth. We gotta save our boss! I kind of love that. We gotta save our boss! You've been like a father to us, Zordon! I remember that line. There is... I got a big laugh of you've been like a father to us, Zordon. There is no emotional content in this movie. They don't, the characters are all the same person.

They don't feel any way about each other. Well, hang on. You get some little looks between the pink and white ranger that is why they're into each other. But it is not in this, like, it is amazing how little character there is in this movie. Everyone is just like, they're just like, we gotta fight! And then they all do the same one liners anyway. Yeah, there's way more in the actual show.

The show I remember. That's what I was gonna ask, cause I'm like, I'm new and I don't know who anyone is and I still don't know who anyone is. Yes. But if you watch the show, I'm sure just like those relationships flesh out. Now I have not seen this in nearly 30 years,

like the TV show, right? So I could be wrong. I know. So I could be wrong about this, but what I remember is I was never that into like the actual like fighting It was when they would be in high school That was the shit I was watching it for because I liked their the like the little dramas that they would have and then oh shit

We got to fight a giant crab or whatever So I think am I wrong Emily didn't the show have a lot of drama in the high school? Am I crazy? Sometimes there was. I mean, there was definitely drama when we had the Green Ranger plot in that mini series. And her tension with Tommy, the Green Ranger was, and they definitely are a thing. They are an item.

Yeah. And I love that because like, anytime they fight, she goes back and checks on Tommy, are you okay? Yeah. Like I'm like, yeah. But there's stuff I'm, there's stuff I'm missing. So I, I'm clearly as a non-fan, like missing these little moments.

There's lots of drama. At one point, so he was the Green Ranger first, but then he became the White Ranger. Yes. Oh, what? Yeah. So a lot of shit happened. Because the Green Ranger was evil. Because the funny thing is, because I've been watching the Green Ranger miniseries on YouTube as well,

the same plot happens in that as this movie. Somebody breaks into the home base, and they go, you can't be in here. You don't have one of the coins. And then it's like, well, Rita. Yeah, you need a coin. Yeah, you need a coin. So the Green Ranger, Rita Repulsa had a coin

and she recruits her own ranger. So he busts in there and like screws up Zordon's whole thing and gives like Alpha a virus and it's the exact same thing as this movie. Was the Green Ranger a bad ranger and then he became the White Ranger? Yes. I think I remember that. He was like the evil Power Ranger and then they recruited him.

And I was like kind of perfect because he already wore almost the exact same type of suit except for a different color. Yeah. So he was an evil ranger that she recruited and brainwashed and then made him evil. Crazy. And so they were fighting him and stuff, but now he's like the white ranger. And he had the best weapons, the best weapons. I have the flute, I have the Green Ranger dagger flute. Yeah.

A lot of weaponized flutes in Power Rangers. Yeah, it's cool. Weapon flutes in the band. But yeah, but it's the exact same plot point where they were like, oh, no one can get into home base without a coin. And then it's like, well, I guess you can get in here. Yeah, it's actually really easy.

Very easy to destroy Zordon. He's still high in a tube. Yeah, you just tie a little string to the coin and then you just pull it back out. Well, yeah, so yeah, I mean, that's pretty much the end of the movie. They blow up the bad robot and then they, back on earth, they eat a bunch of seafood

and watch fireworks. There's just these huge piles of seafood in front of them. I'm like, this is a kid's movie. Have them eatin' pizza or something. I was like, ew, gross, crab. Yeah. Mommy eats. Yeah, it is kind of weird.

It was a choice. I don't know why. Well, was it like a giant crab thing? Maybe, maybe that, yeah, maybe that's a, that's like, oh, they're eating. The bad guy. I think they were bug people, but yeah, crabs are bugs.

Yeah, kinda, yeah. Crabs are bugs, if you think about it. That's true. But that said, they watch fireworks while a fucking Van Halen song plays. I mean, the soundtrack, you guys, slaps. Oh my God, what a soundtrack. Ugh.

So the most feelings I have about the Power Rangers movie before this is there is a, they might be Giants song on this. They might be Giants, one of my favorite bands. I know you're shocked this guy likes They Might Be Giants. Oh my God. That's crazy. What an enigma.

But there's a great, one of my favorite songs is on this soundtrack, Sense Around, and they re-recorded it for an album that came out in a couple years because the version in the movie is owned by the movie, so they had to re-record it, but I think all the fans agree that the superior version of Sense Around appears on the Power Rangers soundtrack. Oh wow! Is it just like that song, but then it has like a zord growling in the background. It's a zord on going avenge me put me in my tomb. I'm in my tomb again. You work for me teens. I spell teens. Teens you are ripe I can sense you from space.

you are ripe. I can sense you from space. But yeah, so yeah, the soundtracks actually, why don't we, you know, let's listen to a little bit of music before we do Hunk Watch. I kind of let the credits roll because I was enjoying the soundtrack and the soundtrack has this, a song about Power Rangers, which I always love, is a song about what happened in the movie. Can you play a little bit of this, Matt? Absolutely. Here is a little bit of a song you like. Make it quick, Rita's wielding her sword.

We got a plan, we can make it without Megazord. It's up to you to make it right. Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, So this is like the credit song. Yeah, it's like a Cheap Trek song. The credited band is Power Jet, who from everything I can find do not exist. I think they were a band created to make this song. If anyone knows who Power Jet were, please write us in, freewithadsatmaximumfun.org.

I assume they became the band Jet from Australia. Oh, maybe. Like, we gotta, like Power Rangers owned the famously litigious Power Rangers company, this Bond entertainment Group owns. Owns. Yeah, maybe it's like maybe it's like they might be giants not being able to use the song anyway. So if anyone knows where Power Jets came from, please

free with ads at MaximumFun.org. In terms of the music, I can I just give one shout out to how fucking good the theme song to Power Rangers is. It is. It's truly... Go Go Power Rangers. Yeah. For me, I realized at one point in college, I was like, man, I really like Dragon Force.

Why is that? And now I realize why. It's because I was... Every song I listen to in the genre is just Go Go Power Rangers. It's the fucking... That's really funny fucking they're so good it's I just want to play a little bit of it for Everyone to hear just cuz I don't I don't know how many people actually know the song

And so I got to play some of it for people All right here it is I mean... Yes, yes, yes! This is a theme song to a kids show! I mean, the guitar is so cool. Listen, how fucking incredible this is. Go, go. Oh, nice.

I mean, listen, if you have not just sat and listened to that whole song, you really should. It is incredible. I'm going to see if... It's a platinum guitar hero. Man, that guitar is like, it just kills. I'm gonna get my dad to do a Go Go Power Strangers on the banjo. I'm gonna see if he can get that one going for me. Oh yeah, fucking nine minute banjo solo.

Well hey, we want to talk about what we thought about the movie. But first we gotta do a little hunk watch. Oh, it's hunk watch. I mean, I. Wow. Yeah, I think we've all kind of been very clear, at least Matt and I have been very clear on our hunks of the movie. Emily, I'm sure you have complicated feelings about this. Do you want to do you want to unpack them?

It's it's going to be Tommy all the way. I've OK. I. That's fair. He's one of my first crushes I ever had. Good head of hair, good head of hair. Good head of hair and also he's got that little love, you know, little love match going on with Kimberly who's my favorite Power Ranger, period. Although the lady in the like otherworldly world

who looks like she's from Showgirls. I don't know, that's a close second right there. Yeah, yeah. Oh my God, oh my God. Oh my God. Jesus Christ. The abs on that woman. Yes, next month is Gabrielle Fitzpatrick month on Free With Ads. Yeah, all right.

On filmography. Hell yeah. Well hey, okay, hun going to be doing entire filmography. Hell yeah. Well hey, okay, hunks, they were in this movie. It's okay, you know, hey, are they playing teenagers? Sure, are they? Mine isn't. Are they in their late 40s? Yes.

Just like I pointed out, mine isn't. Sure, yes. I mean, they never explicitly say the age of Rita Repulsa, but I assume. There's no teen in this movie. She's ancient. I will say that Lord Zedd is also a big hunk. OK, you're like a skeleton man.

Well, he's not a skeleton man. He's a muscle man with no skin. Excuse me. Thank you. I stand corrected. Pretty odd. Well, yeah, we're going to talk about what we thought of the movie, and we're going

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obviously you're loving this stuff. I was like, I got a little bored by the end and a little baffled and wondering who everyone was, but I really liked like learning about the Power Rangers. And yeah, all the weird little kids TV ticks of the time coming back were very fun to see. The rollerblading, the pads, the music cues. Very, very fun to watch.

And I think this would be really fun to watch with a kid. I think a modern kid would just like chew this up like a 90s kid would. It's just everything a kid could want in one movie. It was kind of nice. It's about a nice 90 minutes. Matt, I'll let you go and then Emily, take us home. Yeah, I'm gonna give this a seven.

I thought it was really, really good. And I mean, yeah, I got bored of it too, because it's not a intellectually stimulating movie. But it's good, I like it. I give it a seven and I'm shocked how much they wrote for me as an adult to enjoy. Yeah. Emily, what do you got? All right, I'm giving it an eight.

That's fair. Very fair. Because I could, I watched it twice before this and I loved it both times, but I also, I think that the look of this movie is pretty gorgeous. Like, yeah, I think the new suits, the new Power Ranger, like suits, the new helmets that they had looked rad. And then the suits weren't just that, you know, Morpho suit that it's just this spandex that they have at the TV show. It was like this almost pleather, kind of more structured. I was obsessed with it.

And oh, there's a bar near me. I forget the name of it. It's that, it's like cash only like bar that has pinball and stuff but they have a Zordon's. Oh my god that'd be so red. But this bar. Welcome teens. No ID needed. We don't check. I can smell you. I can't remember the name of this bar but I think you've been there Jordan. Blipsyies maybe? Blipsies Bargate? It's Blipsy Bar, Blipsy Bar. I love this bar, too expensive to be real,

but they have a Pink Ranger helmet on the wall behind the bar. And I have thought about sometimes when I'm waiting too long for someone to serve me, I could go back there and I could take that thing. Helmet and run. Oh my God, it'd be so cool. But I would just die for one of those helmets. But yeah, I thought it looked great. I loved take that thing. Like, I'm, oh my God, it'd be so cool. But I would just dive for one of those helmets.

But yeah, I thought it looked great. I loved the new villain. I thought his look, his whole vibe was so fun and cool and fresh to add to that. There's some weird stuff going on. The lady in the stripper outfit, little weird, little weird, but then. Disagree, very good part of the movie.

I know, I know. I like it, more of that. She's a very good. Good to be in movieagree, very good part of the movie. I know, I know. I like it, more than that. She's a very good. Good to be in a movie. Yeah, she was great in the movie, it was just kind of odd, but like, yeah, I think I loved it, I'm giving it an eight. The soundtrack slapped so hard,

and I think it's a gorgeous looking colorful movie. For 1995 too, are you kidding? It looks great. I know. I think probably at the time I Bet reviews of this movie said that it looks cheesy But I think like time has been so kind to practical movies, right? This is such a fucking practical ass movie like, you know, there's the CGI stuff at the end because you know, whatever 1995 but like Yeah, I mean, yeah, it does look like a 60s Star Trek show,

but that's a cool look, you know? It's a whole aesthetic. Now you can sit and enjoy that, and you're not like, oh, what is in a computer? It's like, I don't like that. I know, yeah, and I think at the time, it was probably like, you could tell these are guys in suits.

Yeah, that's cool. It's cool to be a guy in a suit. It sounds like that's a guy who has a job. That's true. Not an AI recreation of somebody. It's a guy in a suit. It sounds like that's a guy who has a job. Yeah. That's true. Not an AI recreation of somebody. It's a guy in a suit. I guess technically animation probably employs way more people. But I mean for how long?

There's a goo man who got health insurance. Yes, exactly. Getting kicked by the Pink Ranger in this movie. Well, yeah, that was Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the movie. Yeah, let's do a little plug-in. I'll start, I got a couple of things. One, thank you. Thank you to everybody who supported our show

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Really, really funny. It is Emily watching internet videos and being funny about them. It's like, what if ridiculousness had a funny host? Wouldn't that be cool? Yeah, this is a great show. It is over there on the Mythical Society, the Good Mythical Morning fan platform,

mythicalsociety.com. Hilarious stuff, you should watch it. And hey, coming April 30th, I have a Godzilla comic coming out. That's right. I wrote a Godzilla comic. It is called Godzilla vs. LA. All the proceeds go to wildfire relief. So yeah, it goes to a good cause. And if you want to get a signed one from the great Golden Apple Comics here in LA, we're going to throw a link in the comments. So obviously we want you to pick it up at your local comic book shop.

If you had one, if you don't or you just want a signed copy, grab Godzilla vs. LA from Golden Apple Comics. You support Wildfire Relief, you support me because the comic does well, and you support Golden Apple, a great local comic book shop. Okay, Matt, got anything? Yes. comic book shop. Okay, Matt, got anything? Yes, come to Cobb's Comedy Club on May 7th, that's a Wednesday, see me do stand-up with my wife Francesca Fiorentini. We're co-headlining, we're not performing, we're not a duo act, so I'll be doing a set and she'll be doing a set,

but it's really fun and the tickets will be in the show notes. Nice. I have something. What do you got? This Thursday, April 3rd at 7 PM, PDT, Survive the Mythical Kitchen Live will be airing. It's a livestream event. If you want tickets to watch, I'm doing it. I will be drinking a lot. I'm going to be manning a bar. a bar in a fur coat and a nice dress.

The wand finds the wizard. Yeah and so if you go to mythicalkitchenlive.com you can grab your tickets and tune in live on April 3rd 7 p.m. PDT. Alright, boom! There's a lot of stuff you can do between the next episode of Free With Ads. Tune in next week when our movie will be She-Freak. Maximum Fun. A worker-owned network. Of artist-owned shows. Supported. Thanks for watching!