Podcast: The Ride - Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Live with Johnny Gargano

Episode Date: May 13, 2022

Johnny Gargano (professional wrestler) joins us as we discuss Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Live aka Mighty Morphin Power Rangers World Tour Live on Stage. Plus his extensive toy collection, theme park likes and dislikes, and more! And just how long did he and past guest Candice LeRae wait for the Figment popcorn bucket? Watch this episode on Forever Dog's YouTube: https://youtu.be/ITebqX8Enf8 LucasPort episode up at The Second Gate: Patreon.com/PodcastTheRide Listen to Podcast: The Ride Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: http://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus FOLLOW PODCAST: THE RIDE: https://twitter.com/PodcastTheRide https://www.instagram.com/podcasttheride BUY PODCAST: THE RIDE MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride PODCAST THE RIDE IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/podcast-the-ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FOREVER! DOG! with guest Johnny Gargano. It's podcasting time on Podcast the Ride, the theme park podcast hosted by three men who, if they were Power Rangers, would all have giant swords that resemble wet fish. My name is Mike Carlson. I guess I would also say like mackerel or something when I was doing that. Jason Sheridan joining me as always. Explain yourself, please. Well, here's the thing. I was thinking about what's like a lame animal that we would have when, you know, when they say like mastodon, pterodactyl, those are dinosaurs, obviously, but they've changed, you know, so many times during Power Rangers.

And I figured what would be our animals that our zords would look like? So I thought wet fish makes the most sense. Okay. Jason Sheridan here. Hi. Yes, I'm here. Yeah, I understand it now yeah i understand it now okay understand it now i mean i think a lot of fish are pretty you know majestic and cool but that's

probably why my fish uh that's why my animal would be a wet fish okay fair enough scott garner here well first off what other way would a fish be that's their natural habitat so it's no slam on a fish to say the fish is wet. If they're wet, they're living their best life. Yeah, it's a good point. So are we, damn it. So a dry fish actually would be more embarrassing and would more play into the joke that I was trying to make

that we're three losers. Yeah, but also maybe more sad because a dry fish, you were thinking about their mortality. And while we might die in the face of a Power Rangers-type battle, I don't regard ourselves to that degree of depression that we are fish choking on the deck of a boat. That said, I also, there is some, I don't totally disagree with the metaphor,

and I think within it we would still pick, like, are we, who's a cod and who's a trout? Yeah. There's one with, like, a really harsh like scrod or it's not scrat is something jason definitely ate growing up scrod guy i've not actively ordered scrod but i've likely sampled scrod but that is like a mundane like when they're not when we're maybe not serving the top of the line fish, maybe scrod is what we're looking at. Is it like a bottom feeder is what they would call it? Like that's the,

that's like a real like cheap, dirty fish. I can't speak to that. I think it's definitely a fish where you're getting like a salad and a drink and a dessert with it. You're getting it on a platter with two sides, you know, a lot of support,

like as with forming the big, uh, mega ranger, it needs help. Things added to it. When they all form, what's it called? Oh, it's a megazord or a megazord or many different types of megazords. A megascrod is helped out by mashed potatoes and a beverage.

Jason's version of a megazord is when a soup and salad combine to make a meal. When you get both. Yeah. It's a big transfer. It's like going into his stomach. Iceberg lettuce, go! Blue cheese, go!

And that's the salad. That is most of the salad you have described right now at these sorts of family restaurants. Two ingredients, the ultimate salad. Ready for battle. With the electricity and the soloing. We have a guest, though. We have to bring him. We have so much to talk about here.

Folks, you know him from WWE, NXT, pro wrestling in general, because he's Johnny Wrestling. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Johnny Gargano. Hi, guys. How are you? Hi, Johnny. We're doing fine. We're talking salads here on Podcast.

I heard, I heard. I like the idea of... I appreciate now that I'm here to kind of be the Power Ranger expert as well, because you had a mix-up between Megazord or Dragonzord. Yes. Megazord would be the correct answer. Yes. That you were looking for, by the way. But yeah, I get it. First of many.

My knowledge is not so great. So already you've proven your knowledge vastly beyond mine. I'm sure it'll keep going. So did you guys watch Power Rangers at all? Yes. Oh, yeah. Yes, yes. Did you?

Okay, okay. Not me. I explained this on the show once when Power Rangers came up before. We did a little small component of Power Rangers once before. And I said that i was really into the ninja turtles and then power rangers came around and i started telling my parents about it and there's a bunch of them there's red one yellow one and they uh and they're all different types of animals and my mom just said hey what if you skipped this one and i was

like yeah i can see that i can see the logic in that yeah then we save the money on the toys okay all right not doing it and that was the end of that. She like really called me. So where did you go from? You went from Ninja Turtles to where? What was your next? Probably like reading Entertainment Weekly. Oh, no. Reading Owen Gleiberman reviews.

I went through the natural progression of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Power Rangers. Like that was the next step in evolution for me. It was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, then pro wrestling. That was like my evolution. Wow. It was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, then pro wrestling. That was like my evolution. It would have been mine, I think, if that was the only missing component. I'd be right there with you.

Yeah, yeah. We'd be in the ring fighting each other. Yeah, guaranteed. Johnny, any X-Men in there? X-Men between Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers? Yeah, so I was a big X-Men, the animated series person. A big Spider-Man, the animated series Person a big Spider-Man The animated series person as you can tell from my back Wall over here I have many

Many a superhero Toy and whatnot yeah so yeah That was like my I think I started At like Sesame Street because I saw Sesame Street live growing up And then obviously went to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Then like there was a pit stop of like spider-man

x-men uh power rangers all the superhero stuff batman the animated series and then ultimately pro wrestling and i always felt like i had like a weird thing in my head where i could only like one thing at a time i don't know what it was i felt like i was cheating on something if i liked something too much right i don't know why that was my weird bugaboo when I was little, but that was apparently a thing that I did. Oh, I tried to like everything at once and just permanently damaged my brain forever.

Basically. Yeah. Power Rangers. I like, you're a little younger than I am, but Power Rangers, I like knew is maybe not something I should like because I was so sophisticated,

but I did like it regardless and would like, I remember i did get the dragon zord so when i said that like i'm really embarrassed that because like i know what the difference sorry for calling you out on that i was sitting here as a power ranger fan like what is he doing he's blowing it you're a bigger power ranger fan than i am for sure but i did drag my like 9 p.m my mom like or 8 55 toys r us called us and they were like you know with that dragon zord you have on hold we have it in stock and im my mom like or 8 55 toys r us called us and they were like you know with that dragonzord you have on hold we have it in stock and i begged my mom to go that moment she's like we can go tomorrow can't we and i was like we cannot go tomorrow so we like bolted to toys r us to get that dragonzord so like the dragonzord to me was, if I had to pick one present, one Christmas present as a child,

as the one that was like the height of my happiness, it would probably be the dragon's word because my parents Christmas storied me. If you understand that reference. So I wanted the dragon's word so much. That was like the number one thing I wanted on my Christmas list that year. And I opened all my presents and it wasn't there. And I was heartbroken only for my dad to be like, is there something behind the tree? And then it, for it to be behind the tree. So, but that was like a thing that my parents did after that. They saw how well it worked out. They did it like every single year then after that,

but they did it in like new unique ways where it'd be like, okay, the dragon's orb was behind the tree. What can we do next? Okay, we're going to leave this pinball set on his bunk bed and say that Santa fell asleep while he was delivering the presents. He had to take a nap, and he left it there. Like, hey, Johnny, go let the dog outside. Oh, the present's at the bottom of the steps now.

So I say all the time now, looking back on it as an adult, I'm like, my parents really should have just sucked it up and been like, we're going to have a bad Christmas this year. Because after that, I kind of expected like, where's the big present going to be? Like, where's it going to end up? One year, they should have just been like, you didn't get it.

So then the years after that, there's always that little hint of danger where it's like, maybe it's not going to be there this year. So that's my parenting tip for anyone else out there that i will eventually probably do to my son now yeah so you have a new son very new uh and so you're saying every three or four christmases you're gonna really let him down yeah hopefully he's just a bad person that year so i can kind of justify it oh sure yeah we'll see we'll see When he's four and he's really bad. Yeah, life lesson.

My parents, I also got the Dragon's Word for Christmas one year, and it was out of the box with everything put together and any stickers or decals put on it so it was ready to go. And I think that was the last year my parents went that far because those were so

complicated i think maybe one year i got an n64 like some sort of video game system where it was like set up and ready to go right you're saying that's the last time they put like some hard effort into assembling well no but like in addition to wrapping then having to assemble these plastic toys that honestly are pretty easy to break yeah my mom put my mom and dad let's assume my dad was there uh put together the ninja turtle sewer for me so it was out of the box oh yeah on christmas morning and that's probably the most like that's the best christmas memory of seeing the sewer which fell apart immediately and never stayed together see i had this i had this you i had I had the sewer too, but I got weird presents in weird ways.

So my parents said I couldn't get the sewer for some strange reason. But my grandma at the time got it for me and put it underneath like my dad as a restaurant. And she used to sit at like the desk at the restaurant and answer phones. She'd be like, Johnny, go underneath the desk. And I crawled underneath the desk and the sewer was just sitting underneath the desk and like she didn't tell my parents she got me the sewer so i had a little surprise like secret sewer underneath the desk at my parents restaurant you were constantly on guard for presents i know you just never knew what could happen yeah i know you were worried not being well like being scared or something of like i'm gonna turn the corner

there yeah though like i kind of missed that that little bit of like danger now because back then especially with like the dragons or the sewer or these hot toys at the time where like you couldn't find them like there was a very real risk where like yeah like the movie uh jingle all the way is is real like that was based on power rangers obviously because there's a very real risk where like a parent couldn't provide that toy for their child for Christmas. And I kind of miss that now. Because with eBay and the internet, something's always going to be available if you're willing to pay an astronomical price for it. But I miss the danger of...

I'm a psychopath. I want to go to Toys R Us if those still existed and wait at midnight and try to get this toy for my kid. I feel like that'd be fun. Maybe I would hate it after a while, but at least once I want to try it. Well, guess what? The danger of not getting things you want is back. What would the supply chain issues? Let's go, Brandon, right?

Oh, Scott, you got your wish. Scott, not now. Not on the theme park podcast you said I could start doing it on this one not this one not my podcast I do under a pseudonym yeah let people find that one on their own

yeah well the so I want to talk real quick about toy collecting in general before because we have a lot we're going to talk about Power Rangers live today but a couple topics real quick so we're talking about toys because there's doing a lot of retro toys now. You see you have some also to the listener who might be listening. This is a video. We're doing a little video now.

So if you go to, I assume, Brett Forever Dog YouTube, we'll probably put this up there. Our YouTube? Who knows? Or our YouTube, whatever. Or it's just part sword or no one sees it or it goes into a vault and you don't see it until we die. It's possible. Any amount of options. We have a prince-like vault one sees it or it goes into a vault and you don't see it until we die. It's possible.

Any amount of options. We have a prince-like vault that we're putting a lot of video content into. Finally, the Johnny Power Rangers episode. Our 2054. Our estate will release it posthumously and it'll be very exciting. But you'll be able to see what we're talking about is what I'm saying. Here at the Forever Dog Studios, by the way, where there are lights on us and we don't look ashen gray as we usually do on camera. But these lights are hitting my massive forehead and I am trying not to be self-conscious about it.

Now you know. They are really highlighting. We'll fix it in post. Yeah. But Johnny, you have a ton of vintage toys and I believe, yeah believe yeah retro like new retro packaging toys um and there's so much stuff like ninja turtle stuff i've talked about on the show before some of the ninja turtle stuff is what you're describing where i have to drive to targets to try to find it and i think it's actually neca ones right yes yeah the neca cartoon line specifically because the movie line

is only at walmart the cartoon line is only at Target. Of course, we all know that. So there is some, yes, I completely agree with you that there's some like old school thrill now I get when I'm like, oh, you think Target's got it? And like I have a couple of buddies and we're all like in different parts of town. So we're calling each other and like, oh, I got the one on Sepulveda. They don't have anything. Oh, I ran into the NECA rep, which is a guy who comes and stocks the shelves and then i'm just like lingering around him while he's unstuck like taking the box stuff out of the boxes you run into

the guy who stocks for that company it is like running into a celebrity if you ever run into a rep because target cannot stock neca products. They need a third party to stock. So there's a NECA rep that comes in with boxes and he comes into and he goes into the back and he grabs the boxes, excuse me. And then he stocks them. And he has to grab them? It can't just be a touch?

He has to grab them, yes. He's got to sink his claws into it just legally. He has to touch all four sides of the box. Have you tried bribing? Hey, like, buddy, there's a up and up trail mix in it for you if you give me a heads up. I say the most embarrassing things. I'm like, oh, so is this like sort of your normal time when you do that? And you can tell he's just like, oh, get away from me, old man.

There's a Starbucks refresher in it for you if you give me a heads up next time you're here. So I've only had this happen once running into the NECA rep, which is just a very fun time. That's like seeing Santa under, putting things under the tree. So I completely agree with that. And there are still little pockets, but yes, by and large, you can get stuff on eBay for just like maybe $10, $20 over retail. But real quick. So, so we see Johnny, you have like a great setup. I have a question just in general, because I am an out-of-box collector in general, and you're an in-box collector. And I'm fascinated by the display

because I think you have recreated almost a toy store shell, like shelves of a toy store. Is that what it is? I did, yes. And also to kind of, I guess for the people that are watching uh i i did this on purpose as well if you look up here there's also a toys r us logo oh wow yeah real so we

really recreated they go it goes to the ceiling uh if you're watching you can kind of see all this uh but yeah so this was very purposely done uh i i miss toys r us's very very much and candace and i went to ikea and we found these shelves that with pegboards and whatnot that you can kind of uh recreate your childhood in an essence and like you said i am an inbox collector uh i believe the artwork on the box is some of the fun in the nostalgia as well uh like seeing like the spider-man the animated series logo and like the x-men uh logo like that sort of thing like i don't know it just warms my heart and also i feel like they're easier to display for me because if they were out of the box and have to like like put them on shelves and like display them and i'm bad at posing and things

like that right so this way like i can just have pegboards and kind of stack them like three deep and kind of collect more in itself um and i actually i actually have a the only neca product i have i have the neca uh toka and razor oh yeah down there because i'm a big uh tgb new turtle movie guy as well as my first movie I saw in theaters. But yeah. But to be fair, I do have an out-of-the-box... All my Hasbro collection, my wrestling Hasbros, are out-of-the-box, because that's an astronomical price to pay. I'm sure you can talk to Matt Cardona about that. That's an astronomical price to pay for in-box WWF Hasbros.

And those are vintage. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Those are old, old. Makes sense. Mike, do you feel like he's missing out by not... ex-wwf hasbros and those are vintage those are yes yeah yeah so old old makes sense um mike do you feel like he's missing out by not for you like in your case that you've set up jam sessions between the ninja turtles and doc brown and marty is johnny missing out on i don't think he's missing out because i i really have like tried in my older years to really appreciate everyone's philosophy about it because I do get that going into a Toys R Us aisle was the most exciting thing in the world.

So what you're doing is you're stimulating that old memory in your child brain of when you'd round the corner, you'd go past all the Barbies and everything, and you'd round the corner for the action figure aisle, and you didn't know what was in there. So anytime you go in there and there's that much stuff all in boxes, you're getting that surge of serotonin or whatever it is i should tell candace to uh just buy me a new toy every week and just put it on the on the ceiling on the wall so every time i walk in i'm like oh what's in here this time yeah you could you could stock like an end cap display of something new too trust me i have enough a weird bug of like weird things with my childhood that like i i can't as puts up with like another another weird thing i have that she deals with all the time which this year we didn't do it but i i did all the time where i have a weird thing about christmas to where the presents can't go underneath

the tree until i go to sleep so she has to like wake up in the middle of the night and put the present underneath the tree for you for me yeah my family does that as well i don't see a problem with that oh that's you too it's still you still have to do you go to sleep there's no presence everyone goes to sleep and then my mom i think has resorted to just getting up early i think used to stay up late wow yeah which she can't imagine would not usually like so has to for one night of the year push herself to the limit i think it's as much her as me uh at this point so yeah oh that's nice yeah you get one magical night you get one magical night a year come on yeah i get i understand that i think we've gotten lazy about it we used to be like that but now in my mid to late 30s we've stopped doing it um well you were mentioning

uh your wife candace laray who has been on podcasts right before and i also wanted to check in on something um because she told us a story a couple years ago um about what an idea you had i'll let you tell it an idea you had for the birth of a child. Oh, right. And I want to know if anything like that happened. No. Okay. I think I was looking at it from an outsider's perspective.

Obviously, like Candice said, my idea was to kind of recreate the Lion King. I don't know if she went full deep into the, what my pitch was, but I wanted to get like a Rafiki ass monkey to come into the delivery room. And I, I kind of, and I kind of wanted to, you know, maybe spread the news to the people waiting in the way, obviously with COVID and stuff as well. It was a little harder to sneak a monkey in the delivery room used to be 2019 this is yeah cake i definitely could have done it back then but now it's it's yeah so many restrictions uh i was gonna kind of

pitch uh kind of put it out there that maybe it's not going that well to kind of bring the mood down in the waiting room for the family. That's what people want to hear, what your closest relatives and family want to hear. Maybe it's not going well, and then I come out and my head's down. I'm like, oh no, it didn't go well. Then the monkey busts out, and he

holds up the baby, and a big moment happens where everyone's losing it because Rafiki monkey shows up. He does a Lion King thing with the baby. The baby is presented to the family. Obviously, now that we had the baby and seeing everything that it goes through that, that did not happen. Nothing like that happened.

Taking you through the process lets you know that immediately, it's instantly handing a frightened newborn over to a monkey who you have just met for the first time, as if knowing the monkey would help. But a stranger monkey. Yeah, maybe.

Stranger monkey, yeah. Not a friend monkey. A stranger monkey. Yeah. Well, they're famously reliable creatures. You can predict what they're going to do moment to moment. Lion King is based on real life, right?

I mean, that's just... Yeah, that's true. Based on true events. I think if you trust him with a lion. There's also a detail of that that I liked. I guess, like, any logistics of getting a monkey is crazy for sure, but I like your detail of a Rafiki-esque monkey. Because I couldn't tell you what type of monkey that is,

but it seems like it's not one that I've just, you know, they're not just, like, sitting around. They aren't at the theme park shows at the zoo. Yeah, that seems like a very specific varietal. So like, no, no, no, this monkey won't do. No, but they're trained. They'll be nice to the baby. Don't care.

It's about the look. Candace, of course, asked me how we would sneak the monkey into the delivery room. And I said, well, obviously we dress him up like a doctor. I mean, that's obviously what we do, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dress him up like a doctor. Sneak the monkey in. Monkey's totally cool.

He's totally chilled. He's waiting for this baby to come out. He's hanging out. This is great. This is like something that would happen in Disorderly's, the Fat Boys movie. This is like, this is hijinks. And then we got to dress up the monkey like a doctor.

Rafiki is a mandrill, which I am not 100% on, but I believe might be an especially violent kind of monster. Traditionally. I think he'd be cool. He'd understand the gravity of the situation. He's nice. I'm doing the birth thing, right? You want me to do the birth thing, like the movie?

Okay. Yeah. I got it. I got it. Some things are sacred, even to mandrills. Again. So there were no hijinks during the, which probably good. No hijinks during the birth.

Yeah. Especially good because I, I made the mistake of, I don't know if you guys are aware of it, but the movie fatherhood on Netflix, you guys know what that is. Sorry. And Kevin Hart.

Oh, I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it. True events to where everything goes well in the delivery room. They have the baby. It's all great. And then Kevin Hart's wife dies due to a pulmonary embolism, which I Googled it immediately after watching this movie.

So Kevin Hart has to raise the baby by himself. So I made the mistake of watching that movie on Netflix. Candace went to go get her hair done. We just found out she was pregnant. Went to go get her hair done. And I was like, I'm going to sit down with my dog and watch a movie on netflix for the heck of it i watched this movie i'm like fatherhood this should be great and then i watched this movie and i'm like oh my god like this is a very real thing that could happen now so the whole time that was my number one thing in

my head was like pulmonary embolism you gotta move can't have blood clots in the legs got it so i became that guy where i was like learning everything I possibly could to make sure this doesn't happen. Because if I have to raise this baby by myself, boy, oh boy, boy, oh boy. And also I told her, I think if something happened where Candace went down during the pregnancy and I had the baby, I would kind of dislike the baby a little bit. I kind of.

That's immediately. That's little bit. That's immediately. That's a victim. That's one victim. Right. At the very beginning of their life. He's got one down already. Who knows how many more to go? This could be a mass murder.

Like there was a thing going on in the room where there was a decision to be made between her and the baby. Who would you pick? I said, well, I'm going to pick you because I don't know the baby. The baby could be a murderer. Like the baby, who would you pick? I said, well, I'm going to pick you because I don't know the baby. The baby could be a murderer. The baby could have turned out bad. I could be saving people right now. This is such a rollercoaster ride between monkey prank and then the worst reality possible.

You really went on both sides. I did. Yeah. Getting a little geek behind the curtain a little bit. Sure. How my brain works. You took it dark, by the way. I'm not wishing ill on both sides. I did. Yeah. Getting a little geek behind the curtain a little bit. Sure. How my brain works. Sure. You took it dark, by the way.

I'm not wishing ill on Candace or anyone involved. But if something actually bad happens. Baby's great. That's great. Well, yeah, that's one. We're not in the dark monkey reality. We're in the happy timeline. If something had gone wrong and then you still had the monkey thing loaded up,

then now is it just like, hey, can you still had the monkey thing loaded up now is it just like hey can you exit through the window I have some actual bad news to report yeah we definitely I don't think that like this I guess one way of thinking would be the monkey would kind of if the monkey delivered the news it'd be a little

like I don't know like would it be better I don't think it'd be better right one and it's in see might seem insensitive but it might kind of brighten the mood as well because everyone got to see a mandrill. Yeah. Right? Seeing a mandrill is cool. Yeah.

I guess it depends on if the monkey delivers the news before or after he rips some faces off. It's true. That's true. It's true. It is true. It could just be a real bad day in that room. But no.

Yeah. No. Luckily, everything turned out great. He's an adorable little guy. And yeah, no monkeys were utilized. No people were harmed by monkeys in the making of this baby. It was a fairly

regular delivery for the most part. It went a week, but I mean, it was a fairly regular delivery. Sure. And we were just talking before, I had seen that, like, I think you were trying to induce pregnancy by like doing like an eight hour were you waiting for figment popcorn bucket that day no that was a different day oh no that was a different day uh but i like that that's a perfect example of pregnant candace uh pregnant candace we have serious fomo and uh well i do in particular and i i abide by one disney rule

and that's if you see something and you have the opportunity to get it you better get it because it's going to sell out and it's going to be on eBay and it's going to be a million dollars so if you have the chance you got to get it um so we went to Epcot that day to where the popcorn bucket was on sale and the line got down to about four hours three three to four hours. And the rumor, the rumor online was it was like seven hours. So hearing three to four hours when you've been hearing seven hours, it was kind of like, man, like three to four hours ain't bad if we wait in this line. So and when you're pregnant wife, how pregnant I believe was as pregnant as you can get.

I think at that point, you can be most pregnant. You can be without a baby coming out. Uh, like if your pregnant wife is like, I'm, I'm okay waiting in this line. What are you going to say?

You're going to say like, no, I'm, I'm, I'm tired. I want to go home. It's like, you're okay doing it.

So of course I'm going to do it. So we definitely waited in line for the, uh, figment popcorn bucket. It was only like three to four hours. So it wasn't that bad. It wasn't bad at all. Only three to four. I'd be complaining about it after ten minutes and I don't have the ability to get pregnant.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then like you said, like Canis had the idea to walk around Disney to induce labor. So we walked around Disney Springs the night before. And the morning that we were supposed to go and get induced,

because Candace was hoping we'd be able to walk and it would help induction. The morning that we were supposed to get induced, we actually had breakfast reservations to get Tonga toast. And so like, Candace booked toast. And so like, Candace booked it. She was like,

let's go Ohana. No, not Ohana. It's Kona Cafe. Yeah. Very good. He's got it. Yeah.

Kona Cafe. Let's go to Kona Cafe and let's get Tonga toast and eat breakfast. So we drove out to Disney and morning of the induction, drove out to Disney, ate tonga toast had a great morning and to be fair that's one of candace's favorite memories because uh she would always she says now uh she was hoping to walk around disney and she just or she'd imagine it'd be like a tv show to where the water would break you'd be like my water broke we got to go

to the hospital like one of those fun little instances well when her water broke. We got to go to the hospital. Like one of those fun little instances. Well, when her water broke the next, like two days later at like four in the morning, she said it was like a cartoon cartoony pop that happens like a real cartoony pop. Right. Right. And then like liquid just doesn't stop coming. So she's like,

in hindsight, I'm really glad my water didn't break it. Oh yeah. It's kind of awful. She was thinking it was going to be a TV thing, not a TV thing. I was with a Lion King thing as well. Not like that at all.

Because then the park has to put up signs that say you may get wet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's different about Tonga Toast than, I know it's different than regular toast, but what is Tonga Toast specifically comprised of? Have you never had Tonga Toast before? I've not had Tonga Toast.

And where is the Kona Cafe? That's Disney Springs. It's in the Polynesian. Polynesian, okay, all right. In the Polynesian. What makes it Tonga? Ohana is also in the Polynesian, which I also recommend very highly.

Great stuff. Especially the noodles, if they're back. I think they're back. They are back. So Tonga Toast. He knows so much about this hotel. He knows. He knows.

Jason knows. I stayed there. But not recently. No, not sinceel. He knows. I stayed there. But not recently. No, not since 1991. That's what I'm saying. If somebody ever stays since 1991 and you're up on their current menu item. I keep up on what the fans,

the real heads are talking about. The noodle thing was a thing for a hot minute. People were real mad about the noodles. I knew about the noodles too. It was a hot thing online. The Tonga toast is basically like, it's like a brick, like a brick of toast

filled with bananas. It's like French toast, but they like roll it in cinnamon sugar and it's stuffed with bananas and you pour like strawberry syrup on top of it. It's delicious.

It's my number one. If I had to pick one Disney World breakfast, I think I would go Tonga Toast. I think that would be my choice there. Sounds solid. I don't know. I wasn't looking at what anybody's feeds were doing, but with the video ability we have currently, was there just... Did Jason's eyes

get glazed like donut glaze? Did you just tear up slightly? Did he secrete donut glaze? Only the listener can tell us. I mean, I just usually have a certain level of donut glaze only the listener can tell us uh no i mean i just usually have a certain level of donut glaze on me at any given time i just naturally secrete it uh yeah i have not had it either i will i will have it next time though it's great highly high recommendation that's my probably my one of my highest recommendations i can give is tonga toast

yeah all right well on that note today's toast pick today's toast pick is tonga toast. Yeah. All right. Well, on that note. Today's toast pick. Today's toast pick is Tonga toast. Let's, I think, okay, let's get to the main course here. Power Rangers Live. I think, let's get titles correct. Oh, yeah. Sorry. There's a few of them. There are a few.

Okay. Yeah. What I saw of the video that we watched, I think, is Mighty Morphin Power Rangers World Tour Live on Stage. But what does everyone else have? That sounds about right. I don't else have? That sounds about right. I don't remember, but it sounds about right. I think the shorter one was just Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Alive.

Sure. Gets the job done. Yeah. There is currently a placeholder website for a Power Rangers Live show. Yes. It is a WordPress. It is one page. There is a video play button that is just a PNG file.

It does not play anything. But I did sign up to find out if it's coming to my area. And it is, there are tickets for sale in Philadelphia in November. There was a stunt show in Japan, a Power Rangers show in Japan when we were there a couple years. We didn't see it, but they're... At the Tokyo Dome? Yeah, Tokyo Dome City, at least. I don't know if it was in the Tokyo Dome itself.

Sorry, I asked for that. But yeah, so there's been versions of it, but we're talking today about the first version. The 90s at the height of Power Rangers Mania live tour that went around the country. Right. And it is confused, like it's documented

pretty well. This is like, we've talked on the show about the Ninja Turtles coming out of their Shells tour. This was a thing people were doing at the time obviously sesame street live predated that we talked about he man we've talked about yeah so this was their version of it which i would say this is like almost maybe the biggest budget version i'd say so this thing is pretty impressive from the video when you look at it um who all of the people here today experienced this live in person? Johnny. Johnny did.

Yep, I did it. Yes. Did you Jason or no? I saw it. You did. Okay. I saw it. Not me.

Okay. I have some very specific memories. I saw it at Philadelphia's Convention Hall, which was an old venue down by the University of Pennsylvania. It used to be called the Philadelphia Civic Center. This is where the Jackson 5 did their first concert for Motown Records. Wow. A lot of NCAA games were there.

WCW programmed their 1989 and 1992 Halloween Havoc pay-per-views and the 94 Slammery there. Wow. And it is long since bulldozed. Oh. The Convention Hall. how could they one of my biggest memories of the show this was just forever glued in my memory it doesn't have anything to do with the show itself i was sitting next to someone who smelled so strongly of gherkin pickles this is a childhood like eight or nine year old memory gherkin specifically the sweet memory gherkins and it just haunted me the whole show it was so distracting because i was like i their

their you know coat is bleeding over into my am i gonna smell like gherkin pickles why does this person smell like gherkin pickles? What is happening? And like, which has pulled my attention so many times during this show. Oh my God. How do you know gherkin as opposed to other pickles? Well, I was a nasty little pickle kid, Scott.

And, uh, my ears, you didn't say pickle boy though. I did. No, uh, i think nasty that's that's really that's the crazy word there i think i had been really into gherkin pickles as a kid and then for a while i could not eat them because i was so haunted by this memory i don't even know if i said anything to my family my family might be learning about this very glued in my memory uh how could you not tell us you've

lived with this for decades yeah wow um did maybe they worked at the factory i mean it could be there was a lot of like larger factory like food production uh factories in philadelphia at the time i think also um one of my memories of the show is there not being, I mean, there was plenty of Power Rangers merchandise for sale at the time. At the show, I don't remember really coming back with a souvenir. And I was a real souvenir kid. I had, so watching,

it rehashed my memory watching the YouTube video. I definitely bought one of the weird sword things that they show in the crowd that people have, like the weird rainbow sword thing, but it had nothing to do with Power Rangers, so I don't know why those are for sale. Obviously, they just had them left over from something, and they're like, hey, we're going to sell them to the Power Rangers show.

General events. I looked online, so me and Candice looked, and the only merchandise we could find was a denim jacket with power rangers world tour and a denim vest with power rangers world tour i don't know why if those were on sale at the show it felt like they would be but what a weird particular choice of souvenir to have is a denim vest or jacket to sell for children that yeah that the but they also had a program i did have a program as well so that was you can find the program online we did we did

a uh we just in february we did a lot of uh celebrity restaurants for celebratory and almost every restaurant had a denim jacket or vest so it feels like that was a 90s thing that like business people were like well we got to sell a denim vest. We have to sell that. Leno had only been on Tonight Show for a couple of years. So everybody and everyone was taking their cues from him comedically and stylistically. He was our America's fashion voice. That's right.

So what other choice did you have? You had to use denim. Johnny, where did you see? What were the circumstances of power rangers live okay so i saw mine in cleveland ohio uh where i grew up and where i uh frequent very often it's my hometown um and i remember i went there with it was me my mom my dad uh and my friends and their mom um i also remember especially during that time period my mom used to make me costumes all the time. There's pictures of me as a child dressed like the Green Ranger, dressed like

the White Ranger, dressed like Shawn Michaels when I got into my wrestling phase. So I remember I dressed like the White Ranger to go to this Power Rangers Live. And I'm not going to say I invented cosplay, but it was one of the first incarnations of cosplay because a lot of parents and people were stopping me just to try to take pictures of me in my sweet White Ranger outfit. So they'd be like, oh, you hit a pose. And I'd do a pose. And so people on their disposable cameras have pictures of young Johnny. If you live in Cleveland, Ohio, and went to Power Rangers Live, you might have a little White Ranger kid posing on your disposable camera somewhere, and it'd be me. So, yeah, I remember that in particular. I also remember, so I was a very shy, socially awkward kid growing up. So, like, I didn't want to get picked on. Like I had a weird thing.

Like don't pick on me. Like, don't call me on stage. Which is weird, obviously what my job ended up being, but don't call me on stage. Don't like call me out into the crowd. Like on the video, as you'll see, like when the putties run the crowd, I'm horrified. I'm like, don't, I don't want to hit like a putty to grab me and pull me up on stage. That was my worst fear as a child, for some reason was being pulled up on stage at any point

and being like, look at this kid I don't know what happened just look at him you don't remember the part of the Power Rangers live where they brought a random kid on stage like, hey everyone look at this kid we don't usually do this but when a kid's dorky bring him up bring him up

man yeah i i yeah i sympathize that's because i saw the turtles tour and i had a similar thing but they did not have as many bad guys in the audience they didn't really even have many foot soldiers but this thing had putty like tons of putties uh putties are like the goons of power rangers if you don't know and it was the second generation putties with the little putty like emblem lord said logo with the lord said logo and if you hit right make them explode it made them easier to beat i don't know why they upgraded to an easier to beat thing but they all of a sudden had like light gray with a little like target on their chest essentially.

And if you just punched it, it would destroy them. Yeah. It's pride, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. And came first.

I was not, I did not like the buddies on the show. I was happy when they died. I don't know any other way to put it. They make this Scott, they make this horrible noise. That's like, yeah,

like, yeah, I did not like that. Can I say that a lot of why I didn't mind when my mom just plainly said, don't get into the Power Rangers. And I agreed. Some of it was because, and re-watching it, I go right back there, that I do find so much of the show like nails on a chalkboard. The putty sounds is one of the things. And then the helmet head head alpha five alpha five yeah

i hate the iii so thoroughly i didn't like it then i don't it hit the same register as like baby bop on barney that was kind of around the same time just like too irritating too irritating am i correct did everybody love alpha five am i a monster kids liked alpha 5 yeah but to be fair i watched i just watched like the youtube clip back my mom was in town for mother's day so we watched it together to prepare for this because your mother be there when i was a kid and she even said like man he said i i a lot like so she even got like a weird head where she was like i hate alpha 5 so might it be like an adult thing now where we hate alpha 5 but i think i remember kids probably loved

him he seemed like he would be loved but yeah i think a little bit of slapstick in like a you know half hour show goes is is pretty good in an hour and 10 minute stage show there is like a lot of slapstick there's a lot of hijinks in this. He, I don't, I was not, I don't, I did not dislike Alpha, but I was more of a Zordon. I liked Zordon better. Zordon has a disembodied head in a tube

played eventually by Bryan Cranston in the new movie. Love that. Which is great. But, but my, my thing was with, I just, we'll get, we'll social, there's some clips from this show that I feel like, like when I'm watching it, like I'm ignoring any words that are said, but some of like, when I'm watching the monsters yell, I go, this is maybe like my ideal version of entertainment. Like when Goldar is just yelling, power rangers. I go, this is maybe the height of entertainment. Like when Goldar is just, yeah, like Power Rangers. I go, this is maybe the height of entertainment for me. His suits, screaming.

Like this feels like Shakespeare to me. I'm not listening to anything he says. It doesn't even matter. It's just like this aesthetic now has been so burned in my brain that I love it. And at the time I loved it because like the kids are fine. I like Tommy. I thought he was cool. I thought they were all cool. Yeah. But the monsters were the thing I loved it because like the kids are fine. I like Tommy. I thought he was cool. I thought they were all cool.

Yeah. But the monsters were the thing I think I liked the best. Is there some of that for you, Johnny, where like this is live entertainment that is fighting and where you cheer good guys and boo bad guys? Was that like getting into your brain is like, I like this. I like the feel of this. Do you think it had anything to do with the mental chemistry of getting into wrestling? I definitely think that I say this all the time. When I was

little, I wanted to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Then I wanted to be a Power Ranger. And then ultimately, I wanted to be a pro wrestler because I feel like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and Power Rangers weren't real jobs I could attain in real life and be taken seriously, I guess. There's only six slots, too.

You've got a lot more chances. That's true. I think it's one of those things where I could put on a different little costume and fight bad guys and be a pro wrestler. I think it definitely played a part in my ultimate evolution in becoming a pro wrestler.

It's just because I couldn't be Tommy from Power Rangers growing up. Would you say like, there's so like, you know, Johnny, there's all this talk about, you know, where are you going to wrestle next? Let's forget that. What if somebody came to you with a third option and said Power Rangers live on tour,

you get to be the new Green Ranger and you can like sort of maybe do better, like the fighting would be a lot better if you're doing it, I would say. Yeah. At one point I asked Candice,ace how much you think these guys got paid oh oh oh don't know no don't look at the no that's bad real bad yeah oh yeah yeah not knowing traveling every night right i mean they're traveling city to city so they had to feed them some soup or something they got one cup of soup every night. I think, you know what? There's a decent chance because like the actors on the show on Power Rangers were so screwed.

They were doing some stuff too. Like they were like going hard. Some of them were like some of the karate stuff. Like obviously they weren't coming close at all on their strikes or anything like that. But like at one point, and I don't want to spoil the show, but at one point when the Power Rangers jump out, like they all like had their moment where they all like show up on the screen and they're like i'm gonna jump out and have my moment like they were jumping off the stage and like the fact that they didn't get seriously injured blew my mind yeah they were doing some it was like slam dunk

contests for a minute with power rangers yeah yeah there's in the i think maybe it was one of the videos of the press uh event they had where there's a couple of big falls they take. So, yeah, I was going to say, I think there's a decent chance because the actual actors that did Power Rangers were not in this show, but their voices were. But there's a chance that the actors who were actually doing the stunt work for this live show were paid better than the actors on the show because the actors on the show were so screwed over. Like people were fired. Half the team was fired, but just because they wanted actual real money that was being generated by the show. I was not thrilled with that cast change because the leader of the team was

named Jason. And then suddenly it's a guy named Rocky. Oh yeah. Right. But I, I believed the storyline so intently and I was like, well, they have to go to that peace conference.

But on the other hand – You fought for a reason? I wasn't a kid going like, what, they won't give them SAG representation. They're making – the Saban company is making money hand over fist. So it's crazy, and I don't want to get too depressing here because it sucks to think of the reality sometimes of the stuff we watch as kids. Brett, I have a clip here, clip three if you could play real quick. It's so crazy that the actors are not getting paid very well and then this is the

video going out to entice cities to bring Power Rangers to them. So whenever you're ready here, hopefully this works. The number one rated kid strip in October sweeps. Look at this. They're just shit talking all the other shows. Kicking bonkers ass.

Power Rangers. Clearly. Mary Melody. Tom and Jerry kids. Eat shit. We're just looking at a bar graph. The show remained on the very top. Bonkers way at the fuck you bonkers.

Power Rangers destroying. Eat the cat. Bobby's way at the fuck you bonkers. Power Rangers destroying Eek the Cat. Bobby's World. You're getting the grave, Eek. Bobby World's doing pretty good. Yeah, that was high. Cut the, we're good. Bobby's World got a 10.6? Yeah, Bobby's World, highly rated show

apparently. There are levels of rating that don't exist anymore. Like when the finale of This Is Us will not come close to one random Bobby's World, highly rated show, apparently. There are levels of rating that don't exist anymore. Like, when the finale of This Is Us will not come close to one random Bobby's World. Like, what the hell was those? Seeing those numbers really makes me think how popular television was back in the day. Crazy. Yeah, yeah, crazy.

Oh, my God. Most of Sad Darkwing Duck only got a 3.6. Yeah. I think Darkwing Duck was wrapping up its run, you know. Bobby's world still might be on top Bobby's world was hot the storylines were

compelling yeah well it earlier in the lineup so you're losing kids as the block goes on so by the time it gets to X-Men you might be a little they got chores to do yeah sweep the yard I

was impressed with the cats performance quite frank yeah I like the yeah yeah but Power Rangers obviously was like doing so well making so much money Go sweep the yard. I was impressed with the Cats performance, quite frankly. I liked the Eek. Yeah. But Power Rangers obviously was like doing so well, making so much money. The actors on the show getting screwed. But yeah, live performance, we don't know.

There might have been a union. They might have gotten okay pay is what I'm saying. Maybe to be part of this touring entity. That might lead into something I was going to bring up, Mike, which is so the impetus for doing a tour was that they on President's Day in 1994, there was an event held at the Universal Amphitheater here in L.A. that was done in conjunction with the DARE program, which was this initiative in the 90s to get a bunch of black shirts to a bunch of kids for them to end up at Goodwills, ironically, decades down the line. Very successful in that.

Maybe not in anything else. So working with the DARE program, the Power Rangers did a live event. And the idea here was that this was going to be just a Universal Studios thing. And they were going to do it in one of the theaters they have in the park, maybe in the cone in the barbarian stage or something. Then they got wind of how many people were interested in seeing the Power Rangers. And it like, like it was just going to be like, we'll do a little thing in the afternoon, right?

So many people were coming. They had to upgrade it to the Universal Amphitheater, which holds 6,000 people. The Gibson? It became the Gibson Amphitheater. Yeah, right, right. And it became, so 6,000 people it holds. They had to do six shows ultimately. 36,000 people came, which is one of the top days in the history of Universal Studios.

36,000. 36,000 people showed up on one day, which caused the freeways to back up, which brings me into the clip that I labeled freeways. This is a little like, you know, to start getting the word out about the Power Rangers tour. Like, well, you're going to have to book this in your mega venue because look what happened when we barely even announced it in L.A. And then it caused pandemonium throughout the city. Power Rangers gridlock in the northbound Hollywood freeway. It was a monstrous mess of traffic. Their power is so great. Their mere presence backed up freeway traffic for 10 miles.

So widen your freeways and prepare your town for the wonder of the decade. Widen your freeways. Widen your freeways. Change your zoning laws. That's where all that construction was in Cleveland during that time. They were widening the freeways. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They had to. Hurry, cancel everything else. Cancel funding across the city. All other programs canceled. That Universal Hollywood event happens with the original cast. And then by the time the live show goes on tour, then the new cast and a new cast of Zords has taken over. Oh, that changeover happened right after.

Okay, okay, wow, wow. That changeover. I mean, so all the Power Rangers, listeners, if you don't know this, all the Power Rangers stuff is reused footage and costumes from a Japanese series called Super Sentai is kind of the umbrella name for it.

So they would film seasons of that and then eventually send the costumes to the American productions where they would write new stories and then film the actors, you know, without the helmets on and stuff. Yeah. So it would be a mix. And you could tell as a kid that it was a mix. Yeah. Like sometimes you go, well, this footage looks older than this other footage.

Yeah. Some of the show in the show seems ancient. Yeah. When they're fighting outside, the footage looks 10 years older than when they're in the school. It's like Fawlty Towers. Like, Basil Fawlty leaves and then goes to, like, much darker footage shot way different than how it looks inside. Yeah. So, yeah, they were, like, there was all this cost-saving things they were doing for the show.

But not for the tour based on what happened this early Carmageddon that shut down all of Los Angeles they knew that they had gold on their hands as well as gold are on their hands so when they were going to start

this tour they knew they had a lot of money to spend wait I have the number somewhere I think let's see uh the guy was the guy who pitched his take on it was told by saban you've got three million to mount the show and a 10 million dollar budget to take it on the road i don't know what things cost but that seems high to me and they also uh just loaded this thing up with a bunch of people who mainly did concert tours. People like rock and roll impresario Ricky Farr.

Did you come across that name? I saw it. I just like the sound of it. Rock and roll impresario Ricky Farr. Yeah, well, impresario is a great word. Yeah, yeah. But it was him and a bunch of people who did who mainly before this did like uh rod stewart tours and there's a lot of i found a couple articles where they're framing it in light of like i mean what would rod think of this and how do you know and how do you get

rod level production values to the power rangers and uh and they would say well we measure it against well if rod would like it then it'd be good enough for just a really strange juxtaposition. And then also a guy, it was a promoter who put the thing together. His name was Marcel Avram. And this is a photo I have, Brett, loaded up. I'll describe it for people who are just listening. But if you could, if you could pull up Marcel Avram, just, you know, the level of Titan we're dealing with putting the show together. Uh, uh, that's Marcel on the far right with the beard. He looks like a Brett Gelman character and he is standing. He's in like a big hand huddle with a bad era. Michael Jackson,

who is between the very tan Siegfried and Roy, who are both wearing cowboy hats. Wow. Look at those outfits. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Some very bold,

uh, um, some very experimental cowboy uniform as well as i believe that guy's name is frank grillo michael jackson's right manager for a long time who's in goodfellas he acts in goodfellas i was gonna say why is paulie walnuts there he's very much that and he's uh he's in wayne's world he's like the music guy in the limo oh yeah they have to impress. Yeah, what a weird guy who was in Michael Jackson orbit.

But anyway, Marcel Avram and that guy not only put concerts together with Michael Jackson, but also sued Michael Jackson several times, once for $5.3 million. He sued him for millions of dollars, and then they settled, and then he tried it again. I don't know. Let's try working with Michael again, and he just didn't show up. And these people, this is who we're dealing with, who we're putting on. What I'm getting at is this is more than just people are doing a couple kicks on stage. This is concert level.

This is big pyro bursts throughout and trying to keep a Rod Stewartart pedigree that's a yeah those are heavy hitters in the business and you are and you see it on stage i think especially we'll get to the finale but the finale is very impressive oh my god yeah it's very very cool um and yeah versus like turtles where turtles feels like that show was on a budget you know like the set was like okay there weren't that many dancers. And then there wasn't much fighting. There were like, they replaced the fighting with songs.

Yes. Yeah. They just like, incidentally, well, we have to represent the idea of fighting. We have to kind of like, uh, uh,

move around slightly to suggest what fighting might be like. This is much more of a full on fighting stunt show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so I remember, i remember i was very disappointed going to it because i expected the actual actors would be there right yeah i

expected like tommy was going to show up and like take off his mask helmet and be like hey guys like i'm tommy good to be in cleveland ohio like that didn't happen obviously uh but i i will say watching it back now like it it goes so far outside of the normal power rangers script because the normal power rangers set up obviously every single power rangers episode you watch any single one now uh as an adult you can kind of catch on it's uh power rangers show up they do some stuff they make a guy. Bad guy shows up. Power Rangers fight the bad guy in little form. They start beating the bad guy in little form. They make him grow. He grows up.

They get the Zords. They beat him with the Zords. End of show. Literally every single show that happens. Watching it back now and watching the live stage show, they don't do that at all. Yeah. For some reason, the Zords fight the little guy,

the little Lumitor monster. And like the Lumitor monster beats the Zords by himself little guy the little lumitor monster and like the lumitor monster beats the zords by himself in little form yes and then the power rangers like oh we gotta fight a little it's it's very wild and i will say i also was very taken aback by the random magic they decided to kind of have a magic show oh yeah yeah yeah i don't know why they had magic for some phrase even they were like we got to make the show entertaining. Let's add some magic and turn the Power Rangers into birds for a random

reason. Monkeys or birds. I don't believe they say the phrase Parrot Rangers. It seems like it was right there. They blew it. I have a clip just of the show to give people a little taste. Audio and video. And a clip of... in here, there's some magic.

We can cut this off at any time. But this is clip eight, please. This is like Zed, Lord Zed. So Lord Zed is one of my favorite characters in fiction also. He's so fun. He's so cool looking. We've talked about Ivan Ooze a lot. We love Ivan Ooze.

Johnny, I don't know, are you an Ivan Ooze fan as well? I like Ivan Ooze. Yeah, I like Ivan Ooze. I'm a big Power Rangers movie guy. Are you more Zed or Ivan? I think Zed. I'm more. John, I don't know. Are you an Ivan Ooze fan as well? I like Ivan Ooze. Yeah, I like Ivan Ooze. I'm a big Power Rangers movie guy. Are you more Zed or Ivan? I think Zed. I'm more Zed, I think. I have a Zed helmet back there.

Oh, yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, yeah, I've seen that. It's fun. Yeah, it's fun. Zed was scary. Scott, Zed came in on the second season. And when I say second season, I mean there were dozens and dozens of episodes. And then Zed showed up.

But Power Rangers, for a little while, would air every weekday. Wow. Like of episodes. And then Zed showed up. But they kind of, Power Rangers for a little while would air every weekday. Wow. Like new episodes. Yes. Eventually shifted to kind of like, oh, a new one once or twice a week. He was married to Rita. Yeah. Who was the original villain.

And I like Rita too, by the way. I'm not trying to put Rita down. But it seemed like Rita became kind of a joke in the face of it. Yes. Yeah. Yes. She was always kind of like sticky but then like zed shows up and like oh he's a bad guy he deposed rita repulsa eventually she concocts a love potion

and forces them to get married to each other as you do yes but they treat does they treat her like shit in this yeah yeah i was kind of uncomfortable by how bad they treated Reed in this live show. I agree. They're so mean to her. And look, she has an annoying voice. That's part of the character. Yes, that was in there, too. I couldn't see her voice. But they're mean to her in this clip.

So you're going to get in this clip. You're going to get some of Lord Zedd's plan. You're going to see why I think he's one of my favorite characters in fiction. You're going to see them being mean to Reed. And then you're going to get a little magic as well. So whenever you're ready. It's all here so mean they dated before this yeah Please cover this witch. So mean.

They dated before this? Yeah. Yeah, their putties are taking Rita away now. They weren't exclusive. And they're doing a straight up David Copperfield magic trick, putting her behind a curtain. In order to draw the rangers away from their home and away from Zora. So then she's doing the trick where she disappears, basically. So. I mean, a great voice.

There's a very complicated mean, a great voice. I haven't decided yet. There's a very complicated plan, by the way. Two at a time. We're going to take the rangers, and then they're going to come to the arena. And here's the part with the magic. Here comes the magic. The sheet is lifting into the air. Yeah, you can stop the clip whenever. It's not that impressive of a magic trick.

I'll say this. How does this play out? So Rita is behind the curtain and they're trying to act like they've like put her in there and she's now ascending somehow. But like, there's like a minute or two where she's clearly just like crawling out a hole or something. There's like, it wasn't like an

instantaneous thing where you see that trick sometimes. But it is obviously the setup to some sort of a disappearing act trick. And yeah, they were using those little things like does she she comes out then she's replaced by a smaller oh yeah so so yeah when the clip yeah keeps going sorry i got cut it off but she turns into like a small version and they put her in a little like box um and yeah that's one of the one of the many mean things they do to her

in the show um she comes back to and she's also by the way she's got a purple outfit which was not her normal outfit, if I'm not mistaken. She usually had like a, was it a gray or a brown outfit? I think it was brown. I think it was kind of brown. Yeah.

It could have been purple and it was just so desaturated, the footage. It's also possible the VHS footage was... Yeah. It was not. It wasn't kept up the finest.

I love going online, but I hate that big tech companies can see what I'm looking at. I hate it so much, I wish I could light the companies on fire. Which just so happens to be the power set of Sebastian Jackal, Christopher Lloyd's character from UPN's Deadly Games.

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Once again, that's patreon.com slash podcasttheride for all your Sebastian Jackal needs. On the topic of Rita, can I ask for one of my clips? And the clip is called Hey Rita. I have this clip too, Scott, but you go ahead because I am very excited. Wait, really? A hundred percent. I have to say anything you want to say.

How did you come across? Hey Rita. Okay. So we were talking about turtles and I was saying when I was watching this, I was like, man, it would be fun if they had original songs. And I was like, they don't have original songs in this, too. But I go, I wonder if the Power Rangers ever did have original songs. So you look it up, and there is, I'm sure, as you discovered, a full Power Rangers music album. Some songs used on the show, some not.

Written by this guy, Ron Wasserman, who wrote the theme song to Power Rangers. Also co-wrote X-Men theme. Oh, wow. This is a legendary guy. Genius. Genius. Hot in Cleveland theme. Mummy's Alive theme.

This is a guy who's done, look at his IMDb. It's very impressive. So, yes. It seems like he believed that kids could, I think like a lot of kids' composers held back and were softer. Yes. And he was the guy saying, no, kids can handle metal. They can handle ultra-fast drums. And that's what he brought into the theme song, which, by the way, he was brought into Saban, told, okay, we need it by tomorrow.

And it's got to have the word go in it. He comes back the next morning, go, go, Power Rangers. Wow. Yep, yep. They give him a very clear assignment. Hey, tell you what, I'll give you two. Two goes for the price of one. I've been obsessed with Hey Rita since high school because I found a cassette at the 99-cent store of a Power Rangers album.

This seems silly. Most of it kind of dreck. Who cares? Yeah. But this song has something special. And the challenge I issue to anyone who hasn't heard Hey Rita is to try to make out a single lyric of Hey Rita. Okay. So that'll be for Jason and Johnny to hear. Yeah.

See if you can produce anything. I don't remember this at all. Okay. Okay. Let's hear Hey Rita. Hey Rita. also okay okay let to do with rita at all yeah i i think i heard something about it is chiquita yeah yeah that is in there yes um is the is that what is the wickedest chiquita i think I looked at the lyrics are online.

Oh, wow. I mean, I just like, is I, cause I, I've always thought I heard the word taquito, perhaps tequila. No, I don't think tequila is in there. Would you like some tequila? Um, well it's saying it for, do you want me to read it? Uh, yeah, I guess so. Reveal a mystery. So here's the dig the seed and grow girl.

No, incorrect. Incorrect. Dig the scenic road girl and then this although you know what i don't think the lyric the people who wrote these down know exactly either because the next line they wrote whack the something girl so they don't actually know either that one i do know that's whacked, but then I don't know. I've always heard Whack the Weed Won't Grow Girl. What is that? This is not officially produced by Ron Wasserman.

They're guessing as well as we are. I guess, yeah, they're guessing as well. What's that big litany of tequila burrito? Here's what this says. This is saying, and it might be guessing, Hey Rita, Senor Rita, the wickedest Chiquita. Where did you come from, Rita? Johnny got that.

Hey, Rita, treat a cheater. Treat? I don't know. Is that a euphemism for kill? Maybe. If you see a cheater. I'm not sure. What are you up to, Rita?

Oh, Rita, won't you be there? Get off my lander, Rita? Rita, Rita, Rita. In my head, that's always been get off my Lamborghita. Like, as if they needed a rhyme so bad that they had to tilt the name Lamborghini into Lamborghita. I think that's better. I think that's better than some of the actual lyrics Mike is reading. Some of those are stretches and very dull phrases. We should get Wassman on here.

I would love to. Let's get the official word from him. There's a weird spoken word point later in the song too. Do you have that? Do you want to pull up a separate clip? I think, well, maybe I should. Or we just describe it because there's the... I can just do it. It's kind of like a bridge. I thought about leaving that in too.

It's like the Power Rangers you could not defeat. So Lord Zed, he put on the heat. He shrank you down, put you in a trash can. And now you're floating around space yelling at him. I'm so glad. That's more, by the way, the character at least. Yeah, that's more context to what actually happened. It kind of happens in the show.

Or whacking weeds. Or the weed. Yeah, wouldn't she whack and weed? She's not doing gardening work. There's no Lamborghini. She has pundits to do that for her. Yeah. I'm so glad that I at 16 was as delighted by Hey Rita as you were

finding it out just several days ago. Yes. It's magic, isn't it? The rest I wouldn't recommend the album, but that Hey Rita, ooh. Are you Tila tequila. Are there, on that album is also the Green Ranger, that Green Ranger song, which they did use in the show. Like just go Green Ranger.

Yeah. So, so there is. That's a good song. So there, I think you should find that album and listen to it, Johnny. It's good. Cause it's got, it's got some mix. Yeah. Like I, there's a couple, I feel like there's a couple of bangers on that album.

Yeah. I, for some reason I totally is aloof to Hey Reed. I probably fast forwarded it onto my cassette tape when I was little. But there's a couple things now that I appreciate more as an adult. Sure. The word smithery, really. But no, they did not put... Wasserman should have been hired to write original songs for this show as well.

That would have made it the ultimate version of this. Well, you know, you got in there and I not to to jump around but i feel like it's not a show necessarily we have to like uh explain the the plot in glorious detail but there is that there's that one song um that is kind it feels original to this unless it was in the show but it is a song i don't know if you have the clip of it but it's it's the kind of craftworkian um like and the the only lyrics repeated uh uh just in in a round in a hypnotic round are silly putty building silly monster silly putty i like that song a lot i don't is that's not on yeah that's not on the album i don't think it's in yeah no i don't well maybe i'm not sure maybe lot. I don't, is that's not on the, yeah, that's not on the album. I don't think it's in.

Yeah, no, I don't. Well, maybe I'm not sure. I don't have the clip sadly, but that's when, when the putties are,

this is one of the most impressive things in the show. That, that song covers the space where the putties are all putting together a big clanky robot monster, which does not exist. But then like, there's nothing there. And then they put a bunch of cans together

and then it is just walking around like somebody slips in there during the building process and then it gets chopped apart again by the rangers before you're right that's pretty cool I don't know exactly how they did that I saw that monster called the

hollow monster and the other that was an original character for the stage show. And Lumentor, the fire lion. Johnny, do you remember? Lumentor? Was it Lumentor or Lumetor? I think it's Lumentor. Lumentor.

I wasn't sure either because some people online say Lumentor. It sounds like. I thought it was Lumetor, so I don't even know what it is. I thought it was Lumetor. Yeah. Online it says. It sounds like Lumetor, but I don't know if it's Lumitor. I have a clip of that. We can see if we can see

what Zed is saying to make sure. It sounds like there's no N in it when people say it, but all the wiki, the like Power Rangers wiki says it has an M in it. It does sound like medicine you take for high blood pressure or something. Ask your doctor if Lumitor is right for you. But he's original.

Oh yeah, let's do it real quick. Let's original oh yeah let's just real quick let's just get lord zed yelling real quick uh clip 10 please uh uh yeah so zed will be yelling his name here and he's like he makes it sound so much like he sounds

like makes it sound so impressive that this is this new character and i like i like lumitor i like the look of him a lot he looks cool but i don't think he looks as scary as goldar or lord

zed i think also if i'm if i'm thinking back to my childhood i was i was really upset that they would make goldar a little bit of a buffoon because initially he was do you remember am i crazy here initially he was so scary because he's like one of the i think the first monster he's the first monster yeah and i was so freaked out by him but then he kind of falls into the like like um what's the character babu and uh what's the other squat thank you uh they what's the other one? Squat, thank you. They were like comedic characters, and he sort of fell into that. So I wanted to return to the fearsome Goldar.

But anyway, here's the clip where Zed introduces, and we'll see if we can figure out exactly if that N is there or not. So Rita is now back out of a different, like, magic trick box. So mean! Oh! No. No end. No end. No end. No end. He is Lumitor. No. No N. No N. That's Lumitor.

No N. Isn't he magnificent? I mean, I guess he is scary. But he's kind of cute. he's cuter than the other characters so yeah you can stop playing do you think he's scary

Lumitor what do we think he's got an eye patch yeah that's cool he had to get in some kind of a scrap for that to happen no he didn't he could have fallen over in his apartment. He poked a corner of a coffee table.

Lumotor stripped on the rug. No feng shui in Lumotor's apartment. Of like talking about how Lumotor can't handle water. I think they handle that like immediately. Like I think my baboo or squat brings up like

oh man it's hot in here I'm thirsty get me some water and immediately he's like no water I can't have water like immediately I'm like okay so that's how that's gonna go and of course you know we're gonna have all the kids chant more rain in like two minutes straight oh really like a design flaw because these characters were molded out of clay

by is it Finster is the character who I was a big fan of he's got fun ears because these characters were molded out of clay by, is it Finster is the character? Uh-huh, yeah. Who I was a big fan of. He's got fun ears and he's like, he never fights, which I always kind of wanted him to fight. Yeah, is he like a monster or a sorcerer or a scientist? What would you say he is? Kind of a little bit of all of that.

He's a monster. A little bit of everything. He's a monster. A little bit of everything. Not in the show though, but like that's a design. Like he's designing the characters out of clay. He's sort of playing God, let's be didn't make me great little clay monsters as well so much so i was so believable that this could actually i could do the same as finster i remember

me and my mom went to like pack of tans when i was little and i got clay and my mom bought me a bunch of clay not play-doh just straight up clay and i tried to like recreate monsters from the show and put them in the microwave to get them to come to life. Oh, wow. Obviously, spoiler alert, they did not come to life and we had to buy a new microwave. But still. Wow. So that was like your best thought. Like the microwave was the place you thought, oh, magic is made.

Because like Finster doesn't put it in a microwave. He just kind of puts it in like a little conveyor belt oven. Yes. Okay, right. So you just were thought, oh, magic is made. Because like Finster doesn't put it in a microwave. He just kind of puts it in a little conveyor belt oven. Yes. Okay, right. So you just were like, you have to cook it. Yeah, you cook them. They bake for a while. They're like babies.

They just bake in there for a little bit. And then they come out and they're done. A monkey announces them. It's also funny to think, though, that your child brain was like, what I'm going to do right now is unleash a monster in the house. I have sculpted a monster and I'm about to unleash it in here. I guess you assume. To be fair, it wasn't a very good looking monster, to be fair.

Yeah. That's true. It might be a stick figure monster. Like a little arms, legs, face monster. I guess if you created, though, then you could be the one to like tell the monster what to do. So I guess it maybe wouldn't tear up the house. Yeah. You might not be creating a monster.

You might be making- I essentially did that now with like a human. So basically I'm just living in real life now with a baby. I have a baby to live my monster life. You didn't make a monster. You made a new best friend. Yeah, yeah.

That's true. So yeah, Lumitor is original, again, original character here who I like. Again, I don't know. People are probably thinking I'm putting him down and I don't want to put lumitor down i like him i just think when somebody's created new for like it has to as with ivan ooze it has to reset the bar yes ivan ooze reset the bar villain bar um um for me and this one is like this is fun but this is i would see lumitor

lumitor on like a regular show and I feel like they could have gone they could have Rod Stewart's guy could have gone bigger and forced them to get a more

impressive scarier villain were the aliens also original too or were they on the show I don't remember this at all

those first yeah so the show opens with these aliens kind of like exhuming or finding Lord Zedd's

temple I don't know what you'd say they're just fans they're fans of Lord Zedd like me like I am they want to observe him and like or finding Lord Zedd's temple. I don't know what you'd say. They're just fans. They're fans of Lord Zedd. There's a U.S. of Zedd fans.

Like me, like I am. They want to observe him and discover how to be as evil as him. A bunch of Lord Zedd's stans have crossed a boundary. They will not leave him alone to give him his privacy. I didn't see for sure,

but I think they are original. I'm not sure. I think so. I feel like they did nothing. They don't pay at all. I feel like they did nothing i feel like they don't pay nothing to this show no at all don't need to be there they're not even going yeah not even like a greek chorus or they don't even add any commentary or they're not like statler and waldorf they don't do anything fun nope um so yeah and is it to explain is there like uh they have to do some plot mechanics of why all of this is happening in your town which in your case was Cleveland, but unnamed.

They just said your town. This town. Yes. Instead of Angel Grove, the typical home. Is that why a UFO crash lands, which unleashes? Again, I'm a little lost. I don't know. But like typically it's all happening because all these people hang out in angel grove a town that is mostly like barren cliffs and large open green fields

that's 90 of angel grove if they build more housing developments there'd be no room for anybody to fight yes like yeah start building up the suburbs and then these monsters have to leave there's there's some explanation in one of them and it might have been the press event i can't remember because it's all blur but one of the one of the things i watched they throw in a line like and our plan is to bring the power rangers here from angel grove so like they've built in the idea that like they're not going to be in their home base or something we're like luring them to your town to to and then i said in the first clip like capture them one two at a time and yeah put them in the cage and then the other two will come and then but then i felt like 99 of the show took place in lord zed's like larry temple sort of thing yeah his big dirty cave his big man would

you say it's a nasty nasty cave yeah reeking of gherkin pickles reeking of gherkins and and the audience needs to chant like clean the cave i will not clean that cave i i didn't johnny you were saying you did not you were so scared of being pulled on stage i feel like my childhood anxiety was raised whenever they're like help us chant we need your help and i was like i don't want this responsibility i just want to watch a show watching the youtube clip though kids were like fully invested and it looked like none of the kids had adults either it looked like watching the youtube clip there were just children everywhere i never saw like maybe i saw like one adult it was just lines of kids just going crazy and losing their minds and i was never that kid

i was never like i would maybe be like more rain more rain more rain or like not don't look at me more rain like yeah i also didn't want i also didn't want i was horrified i'd be chanting like we need rain or something like that and lord zed would be like hey you i see you chanting down there oh yeah kill you so i didn't want to be like caught. And this is like, this went not just for power Rangers live for like every stage. So I saw maybe not Sesame street live. Cause I got like a,

a big bird feather and that I still have to this day that I'm very proud of. But like I saw sin bad on stage and I was like, I don't want to see, I don't want sin bad to call me out. I saw David Copperfield. I was like, I don't want to be a part of a trick. Double dare lies. I was like, don't, I don't want to be, I don't want to see i don't want sinbad to call me out i saw david copperfield i was like i don't want to be a part of a trick double dare lies i was like don't i

don't want to i don't want to do this it's too much responsibility yeah i was in the front row of monday night raw and i was afraid that kane was gonna like there's like a very famous clip of me at like a monday night raw from like 1998 or 1997. And Kane is like ringing the bell 10 times because he killed the Undertaker. And he goes and he grabs the timekeeper and he beats him up. And he sees like a fan standing in the front row and he grabs him and he pulls him over the guardrail

and starts beating him up. And the camera like pans over and you just see little chubby Johnny Organo like sitting there in the front row, like horrified that Kane is going to come over and murder me. Yeah. That's amazing.

I mean, if you had a camera in my childhood home, I would have also had the same reaction, just watching the TV for some of the demon stuff, some of the satanic stuff. You know, what's funny is I think you were talking to three guys who have probably had a similar feeling in the audience of all these shows.

I'm remembering now, funny enough, the first time I had that in my adult, or enough, the first time I had that in my adult, or one of the first times I had this in my adult years is you used to wrestle in Reseda and PWG, which I would go to. And this, the first time I ever went, the action would spill out

because it was a very small building. And I was having the same sort of panic initially. Eventually you get used to just like standing up and moving when people are fighting. But I remember going, oh oh like i'm part of this and i don't didn't realize i was part of this yeah so it like the old feelings of it came back uh especially back in recita that was like the wild wild west where like there is no guardrails and everyone's like as close to the ring as you possibly get so i don't know how many times like

there'd be random celebrities just sitting in the crowd yes we're like you do like a dive and you land on like sofia verdara little dwight from the office something like that like yeah wild yes it was it but it was that same thing of like oh we're all part we're actually because this building was so small we're all part of the show so we all have to move and we're all like anything can happen at this point well i say all the time too that those those shows i used to do in recita probably took years off not just my career but my life given how hot that building used to be yes yes it was like 99 degrees and imagine like having to wrestle for like 30 minutes in front of just the craziest heat you can imagine uh that was wild times yeah very wild times we all yeah we all have been we all have been to recita and it was never a nice climate it was not it was never like oh it feels great in here in this legion hall wow uh but rest in peace legion hall has been torn down

yeah um but yeah yeah that this is still uh i do feel like if you're in front row anywhere i'm like okay i don't need to no no thank you yeah right but i'm still that way now as an adult like and i'm like i do like stuff on stage and i do stuff on television but i'm still like if i'm not in my element i'm like oh don't don't please don't pick on me like if i went to like turtle talk or crush please don't pick on me i'm writing like star tours i'm like i don't want to please don't put me on the screen. I don't want to be seen, please. You know, real quick, I'm remembering now when Candice was on,

she said that something about the ride living with the land. Oh boy. And she expressed that maybe this was not your favorite ride. Oh. Me and Candice have very not similar tastes when it comes to classic Disney attractions.

Right. I have very strong opinions. I think I share the same opinions not similar tastes when it comes to classic Disney attractions. Right. There, I have very strong opinions. I think I share the same opinions as Matt Cardona on a lot of, we should plus them up. Oh, yeah. He's very brutal of just like out,

out that one's out. Yeah. Well, look, I don't want to get you in any trouble, but I wouldn't mind you taking a little bit of heat off of me. Cause I think there's some listeners. I never got back after I said,

I didn't like living with the land. Scott is the most anti-living with the land, yes. And there were listeners who were very upset with him. Oh, still. I still see it. It dogs me to this day. I'm like I'm a heel of Podcast the Ride because I was like, yeah, I don't know. I don't think seeing the plants is that interesting.

Candace is on me all the time because number one, like Hall of Presidents like not Mr. Lincoln like I'm out like any of the any things where I have to learn while I'm doing it yeah like any things where I'm like I gotta learn about this I am 100% not

invested in American Adventure my wife just really snapped on just like how many more people are we meeting today many more historical figures we meeting today? How many more historical figures? You were just like, wait one minute. Will Rogers is about to show up and he's going to make you laugh.

He's got a lasso. He's got a lasso. You have to say what you think about living with the land. Help me out here. I have an ally. Finally. I mean, get rid of it. I'm not one of those attraction people

where I'm like, we got to preserve the aura. No, add an overlay to it. Plus it up. Add something I care about to the attraction. Again, it's a hot take on a lot of things. But I'm very much so, A, we need to update things as they go. Like, I'm sure the new Guardians ride

is going to be my new favorite ride. Like, Rise of Resistance is my top ride. Like, I'm very much so a new technology person. Gotcha. As opposed to a history. A new exciting thing shows up for you when you enjoy it. Wait, let me say this. Because when it comes up,

all I'm saying is there was a point in time where that ride had a song and somebody in the boat talked to you. And now these things are gone. And we're like, yes, good. Keep there being no song in it. That's my point. If nothing else, put the song back.

Like, I don't understand why it has to be preserved in a decaying state, in a, like, lesser state than it was. That's all I'm saying, folks. This is all I'm trying to say. No, Scott, not here. The lack of guide is definitely a cost-cutting measure for sure. So we shouldn't be celebrating that. I love that there's no guide anymore.

Me and Candace get into arguments all the time. Not arguments, but heated discussions all the time. I have a very strong opinion on the it's a great, big, beautiful tomorrow ride. Oh, here we go. What do you got?

I mean, I, so I, I, I say this as someone who experienced the ride, maybe in a way it shouldn't have been experienced. Everyone knows, obviously it's a, it's,

it circles around and things like that. And they go to each scene and it takes about five minutes per era that we're in so at one point me and candace rode this ride and this might be before i hated this ride and maybe i i say this is the catalyst for this is my joker story for why i don't like this ride uh so we get about 15 minutes in and candace remembers this experience way differently than i do but we get about 15 minutes in we watch like because it's about a 20 minute ride uh we get to the the third act of this scene uh whatever era that is they're in the 40s maybe could be the 40s wherever it is at this point uh so it plays it starts to turn to go to like the last one, but it stops and the ride freezes because maybe someone stood up.

We're not sure about this. And then it goes back and it goes back and it goes back and the ride starts over all over again. So you got to sit there for another 15 minutes and it just happens again. You're sitting there like we got to go through this thing all over again. So they restart the ride. So we're about like, I'd say 35 minutes in at this point of the same thing over all over again. So they restart the ride. So we're about like, I didn't say 35 minutes in at this point of the same thing over and over again. And I'm like, I'm, I'm done.

It's a great big view over 35 minutes. Every time. Wow. You're describing Jason's dream. Honestly, progress isn't always smooth folks. All right. And Hey,

Johnny, you're a new father. You're going to be thanking your lucky stars for that. Right. smooth, folks. All right? And hey, Johnny, you're a new father. You're going to be thanking your lucky stars for that ride. Nice, cool 20-25 minute nap. So, it's funny you mention that because she just came to see you.

Candace came in. The dog's losing his mind now. It's funny you mention that because the very first ride we took our son Quill on was the wheel of progress like it was yeah carousel progress whatever heck it's i don't want to even call it by its right name because i don't have that much i like it wheel i'm gonna start calling it wheel of progress this is basically a wheel because it kept going over and over again for you so we we we took him on the carousel of Progress. And I take great pride in the fact that being his father, he started losing his mind about 15 minutes in.

And he starts crying. And Candace is trying to feed him. But he starts crying and crying and crying. And I'm sitting there very proud. And afterwards, I'm like, see? See? He didn't like it. He didn't like it.

That was his first ride. He did not like it at all it could not hold a less than one year old's attention for more than 15 minutes almost that's everything holds a one year old for 15 minutes and then he went on space mountain and he loved it yeah you held him up like rafiki the whole way yeah of of course. What is the oldest, is there any old kind of ride that you do like? Like Haunted Mansion, obviously, right? Traditional.

Love Haunted Mansion. Space Mountain, OG Space Mountain, still love that. But you know what? We miss some of these boring wall things. Do you like any boring wall things? Like what? What do you classify as boring? Like everything we've listed. The train. Do you like the train? No, I mean, it's fine.

It's just not. So we're obviously more, we go to Disney World more than we go to Disneyland. Right, right. Even though it might be a hot take that I prefer. I do prefer Disneyland to Disney World. I don't know if that's a hot take or not. We like that take. We agree with the take. I just feel like

it's easier to do everything in disneyland in one day than it is the disney world because there's just so much in disney world and like there's a there's so many different parks and things like that right and we got married there so that's a whole other thing that i kind of i feel like i need to say that because if i don't i'll be in trouble uh got married there uh yeah yeah no that's not so controversial what about like epcot movie, like 360 movies? You ever do the 360 movies? Do you learn about Canada with Martin Short?

I don't know. I don't think I've ever done that. For good reason. Maybe next time, though. Maybe. You never know. Maybe. There's always like me and Candace.

I don't know if she told you when she was on the podcast, but we got chance to go to walt's actual office in when we were in california whoa so we went and saw his actual office and candace started crying like it's like so she obviously has a much deeper uh like like uh connection to walt and like all the history than i do uh being from california and disneyland and things like that but uh i i didn't start being i wasn't a disney person until I met Candace as well. Because being from Cleveland, Ohio, all we had was like Jogger Lake and SeaWorld and Power Rangers Live. So I didn't do any Disney trips when I was younger. If you were in the office of Ron Wasserman, writer of the theme song, you would shed a tear there.

You wrote, hey Rita here. Hey Rita. The wickedest senor boy. You would shed a tear there. You wrote, hey, Rita, here. Hey, Rita. The wickedest senorita. The wickedest senorita. What else can we hit about the show while we're... You got anything fun in the clip realm? I have a clip. Oh, yeah, go for it.

So this is a moment later in the show, just to set it up, Alpha 5 has got the kids to chant to help the Power Rangers. And I think the big thing about this clip is it kind of shows the limitations of using some of the Power Rangers material. Brett, do you have that? Power Rangers! One more time! Go, go, Power Rangers! do you have that huge arena yeah okay so this is a shot of a field yeah the power Rangers are running towards camera so far now we can kind of see them just now come on guys

hustle and then they burst through the screen that's cool that gets a big response from the crowd okay you can stop it but just that footage of them running from so far away oh my god

a lot can happen when they were waiting for them to show up Just that footage of them running from so far away. Oh, my God. Like, okay. Oh, man. A lot can happen when we're waiting for them to show up. That clip also illustrated a thing that I like. This won't translate to the listener, but I like the way, what they, the physicality they bring to the fighting. They also bring just to the dialogue. Because what the White Ranger was saying, they're like, all right, guys, we need a plan. Because Lord Zedd is on the attack

and we are going to be in trouble if we don't, like, it's almost gesticulated. It's all like, how many movements can I do on every syllable? It's all pre-recorded audio. So they're like, yeah, they're gesticulating, you know, to go along with the pre-recorded audio. Oh, yeah, they don't have to, yeah, they don't have to be making the sounds from their lungs

so they can go ape shit with all that word punching. Yeah. But that was towards the end of the show. The very funny moment towards the end of the show where they summon all their Zords to fight Lumitor. Okay, good. Yeah, you're going to get into this. And then they are using the stock footage of the Zords projected on a pretty standard like 4x3 screen and Lumitor

there's no on stage Zords Lumitor just fights next to footage of the giant creature yeah yeah yeah it does give them a chance to use the kind of regularly used footage of the Zords exploding and the Power Rangers getting

tossed out of them which always made me really anxious as a kid as well yes um do you we have the clip of that or no i i don't have the clip sorry i have a clip of the the finale which in which you do get some massive action which might be yeah but i what is

that i think i called that more light you were describing this is the only part this is the only part that i remember describing... This is the only part that I remember. Oh, okay. This is the only part that I remember actually being there live because I remember having one of the little reflective light things and I remember the big inflatable Lord Zed. For some reason, that's the

only thing I remember. Maybe because I was horrified that he was going to come out and kill me and I didn't want him to see that I had this reflector thing that was murdering him. You specifically. The other children all cut a break. I was a reasonably smart kid, but not smart enough to know it behooves companies to not murder the audience to make money. They should keep the audience alive to keep doing shows and making money.

Maybe I thought because I was dressed like the White Ranger, he would get confused that I was the White Ranger. Yeah, you were probably in a worse spot. I was asking for it, kind of. Yeah. I wasn't a civilian. I was a part of it. You had enlisted.

I mean, I do have the official Power Ranger. I am an official Power Ranger. I have a certificate that says I'm an official young Power Ranger that I signed up for, I do have the official Power Ranger. I am an official Power Ranger. I like a certificate that says I'm official young Power Ranger that I signed up for. I think I was part of the fan club and I got an official certificate that says I was a young Power Ranger. So, yeah, I did officially enlist. I don't know what I signed up for, but they deputize young children to also be in the Power Rangers. Yeah. Target on your back.

There's a funny we can. We actually I do have a clip we can play it after this uh uh there's it is so funny because so much of it is like you know we're teaching martial arts there was a tommy video that they released where tommy taught children how to do martial arts oh but there was about 10 minutes of like do not do this do not fight children at school do not do that it's only for uh for discipline that's what we're doing a friend you know you watch that show every week where people beat the shit out of each other no do not do that fun stuff this is just to to learn uh the art of this yeah i don't know

when i was a kid i actually i had my parents sign me up for a karate class only so I could get the gi. I never went to a karate class. I only wanted the outfit. So they signed me up for a karate class to get the outfit so I can be at home and I watched the Tommy instructional video. So that's how I taught myself karate because I didn't go to any of the real classes.

I wanted to learn from Jason David Frank instead. Of course. Yeah, Power Rangers definitely led to an increase in karate class enrollment. But yes, it did also lead to recesses of like, what do you guys want to do this recess? Do you want to fight like Power Rangers? Yeah, let's do it.

And just like the wimpiest little kicks at like the moment we saw authority. It's like scram, amscray. I know a Power Ranger fan, if like you see someone throw a kick and go, yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah. Like they all always had the sound effects. Right. And any kicks they threw. That accompanied it. Yes. Oh, that's how you,

that's, that's Ranger style. Turtle style. That's what you learn. That's what you learn. You say, maybe you throw a cowabunga in there, but you aren't accompanying.

You know what it led to for me was this is some of my other negative power rangers association was uh uh one time only once i was like walking up in the hills by by this park and then some kids came up to me younger kids than me little oh wow i'm wearing sunglasses which was enough for them to say, hey, you're Lord Zed. And I said defensively, no, I'm not. And they said, yeah, you're him. And I was like, no. And I ran away from the littler children.

Oh, wow. There was no threat. For all I knew, they could have liked that I was Lord Zed. There was no violence. They didn't start kicking me. There weren't little kicks in my direction. But somehow that was scarring enough for me to remember still. And this held me back from being able to truly embrace what's on the screen right now.

Wow. That's sad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry. What a dark memory. Being told I was Lord Zed. I don't know why sunglasses made you Lord Zed. I mean, he's got sort of a... Does it visor?

What kind of sunglasses were they? Were they like the old, like the weird square ones? Knowing me and my lack of style ever, they were probably abnormally large and aviator-like for a little child's head. Yeah, were they red? And then they had like a metal mask under it also? Oh, that's right. The sunglasses you were wearing with a little like kind of spike coming up?

Yes, there was all those industrial gnarled metal that covered my mouth. And it was that time in puberty when your muscles were exposed? Oh, yeah, where my skin got completely translucent and you could see everything inside me. That's probably why. Now, so that was not a good Zed memory for me. This is a new Zed memory that I like because for the listener, what we're looking at is finally they do in a Rod Stewart-esque display of rock and roll spectacle. They create a big Lord Zed. And how did they do it? By making a big inflatable figure, done

kind of like King Kong, initially was done at Universal Studios, where it's kind of like torso up. So that saves a little bit. They don't have to make all those legs. So it's just kind of chest up, and they puppeteer him kind of, I assume by, it's probably just like a dozen guys in black

clothes back there, just like shaking them around wildly. and it is cool and this involves the kid participation and what johnny said he he recalls strongly from from being there so here's this i now surround you as witness yeah yeah little bobby budnick pyro. We need the extra power now. It's time. Yes. Tommy,

Tommy's little sabo. Sabo. Oh yeah. Yeah. We need more light, more light, more light, more light, more light,

more light. How good does that thing look? More light. More light. How good does that thing look? I do love that effect. It's really cool, yeah. And then that, you know, obviously he gets defeated, which is just him inflating. They just let the air out,

and then he just flops down onto the stage and kind of ignore, hey, kids, don't worry about all that loose skin. Yes. The vast square footage of loose skin kicking around the stage that does illustrate though one of the things i didn't like as a kid was like why does only tommy has have his weapon like he has a sword uh scott uh shortly into the first season all the power rangers each got a different weapon and then when they were really in a pinch they would combine their weapons to make a gun Scott, shortly into the first season, all the Power Rangers each got a different weapon. And then when they were really in a pinch, they would combine their weapons to make a gun. Which is kind of weird to say in retrospect.

Like the guy who tried to attack Dave Chappelle. Yeah. Real knife and fake gun combined. Yeah. Same thing, yeah. That was a big deal for me as a kid. And the toy makers were kind of psyched, too, because eventually the next line of action figures had the weapons and the blasters. They also had blasters that kind of became nightsticks and then definitely became switchblades.

That's a good point, yes. I had one of those. I had the gun, yeah, the regular gun from the first season where you open it and it would turn into a blade yes yeah uh what do you got on the front i'm curious about was do you have a clip from this martial arts oh i do yes yes jason david yes oh i love it i do have a clip uh um let me look which johnny you did that so you had this this was your education in this area yes yeah this is this is what prepared me for professional wrestling, I think. I didn't actually go training at a school for pro wrestling. I just did this. This is where I developed my skills from. I hope this doesn't have the

answers to any of your weaknesses. Does this give your opponents potential? At like the Z spot? You don't have a Z spot, do you? It's hidden, though. It's harder to find. I'm not going to tell you where it is. I'm advertised. Clip seven. This is when Tommy's giving some sort of instruction.

He's telling you what not to do with his martial arts training. So, yeah, whenever you're ready. And it's a long video. It's like an hour long. Oh, yeah. And here it is. All of it. Yep.

Unless you can control your mind. Once you do this, your body will fall along. Okay. If you know what I'm talking about I know exactly what oh Elba please don't interrupt Mean to alpha for no reason before we get started. Here's a few rules have a couple drinks. I take some tequila shots First remember to practice martial arts either at home in a large open area Okay, from lamps furniture. You know the stuff that could you. Or, in a karate school like this one.

And always make sure there's an adult there when you're practicing. Either you're a sensei or you're a mom and dad. So I'll bring up the point I'm making one second. There's one place you especially don't want to practice martial arts. Dragonzord! No! Hey guys, you know better than that. Whoa, it's the Green Ranger!

Why don't you guys tell us why you shouldn't practice martial arts at school? We don't know. We wanted to. Right. Someone could definitely get hurt. What else? And you can get in trouble. So make sure you two guys remember that.

Okay? All right? Okay. All right? Well. So here's what's confusing about this clip, if you know the show at all. He says, don't do this at school he makes it very clear do it in a karate space or a gym or whatever that's the set of the

school that he's in from power rangers yeah so he's pretending he's gaslighting a bunch of kids saying this is not the school you see on the tv every week i just put a bunch of mats down in the cafeteria but this is a karate school not school don't do yeah don't fight in school i think my first question if the green ranger appeared in front of me would have been hey man can i see your giant flute knife i really want to take a look at that flute slash knife it is a he has a flute he is a It's like an ocarina knife. So he plays it like this. Do you have that, Johnny? Do you have that toy?

I don't want to flex or anything, but I have a 24 karat gold version of it. Oh my god, what? Wow. Hold on, hold on. Can you play it? Is it playable? The reveal of your shorts.

This is a San Diego Comic Con exclusive. Wow. Oh my god. Can you play it? Yeah. Is it playable? The reveal of your own shorts. Okay, hold on. This is a San Diego Comic-Con exclusive. Wow. Oh, my God. It's dusty. It hasn't been on anybody. I did not get it from San Diego Comic-Con. I saw it on a documentary, and I was like, wait a minute. They made a 24-karat gold dragon dagger, and Candice got it for me for Christmas from eBay.

Because I brought up, you can get anything anymore on uh yeah so this is a uh limited edition uh 24 karat gold i know right clap for that wow that's awesome i know can it but it's not play it's can you play it i think so yeah it's a you can do a concert with this yeah hold on this is unbelievable oh hold on demonstration you gotta hold down the so it's like you're blowing on it the new theme song oh is it working hold on well sorry to put you on the spot here there we go oh there it is oh it's a song okay the famous that's how you that's the calling the dragon yeah a little tune oh my god wow that's awesome i think like you do things and it's also good for home defense. It is great. Yeah, yeah. A 24-karat gold dragon dagger exists.

That's wild. Damn. That's awesome. That's an item. I'm impressed by that, and I didn't even grow up with this show. I know, right? Did you have, would you have a favorite of all the toys back there, Power Rangers or not, or anything else? So, like, I think, like I like i said the 24 karat gold dragon dagger

is probably my biggest flex yeah you kind of laid you gotta throw a softball up for me sure uh i didn't realize i i am such a big spider-man the animated series fan so i have like the complete set collection of all the spider-man the animated series toys like the original or the new retro ones the original yeah the new retros as well but uh the original like the og oh yeah i see it there yeah they're all up here and like i said like i'll i'll pan the camera up but uh i have like the daily bugle play set i have the tri spider slayer wait and all those i didn't see all those helmet those those yeah there's a literally a lord zed helmet right there. There it is. Yeah. Wow. Wow.

And are they terrifying? I'm not asking you to do this, but are they wearable? You want to, you want to see them? Hmm. Kind of. It's up to you. Yeah. I can grab them.

If it's easy. Only if it's easy. Okay. If it's easy. Yes, I do want to. Now look, it's not just him because I just went to a birthday party that you guys were at and there was a present at the birthday party. Wait, here he's got it. Oh my God.

It's beautiful. It just goes over my headphones. It has like a voice modulator as well to where you can talk like Lord Zed. Oh wow. Why didn't we do the whole episode that way? I know. I should have just wore this the whole time for the podcast and talk like Lord Zed. Oh, wow. Why didn't we do the whole episode that way? I know.

I should have just wore this the whole time for the podcast and talk like Lord Zed. If you had just popped up like that at the beginning, I mean, we've all been Zooming and Google Hangouting for years now, but that would have been the most terrifying thing of this entire pandemic run. Like, Lord Zed has joined the chat. Happy birthday.

It is true. Happy birthday over Zoom. I figured this is the first time we met, so I probably ease into the Lord Zedd showing up. Yeah, that's sure. Next time. What about Art Attack? The next time I do the podcast,

Lord Zedd will show up. Lord Zedd reviewing Living with the Land. Oh, that'd have been good. This is a boring ride. No scientists. I couldn't even find the scientists. They were supposed to be in the lab. What about cast members?

Why don't they give the tour anymore? These puny hydroponics do not impress me. Yeah, so that'll be a good thing to look forward to. Yeah. What else should we hit about this live show? Do you have clips? Is there anything? Or Johnny, do you have any memories of this that we have missed?

Is there something part of the spec? We hit the magic. We hit the pre-recordings of clips of Power Rangers running very slowly through a meadow. Any other memories of this Fonchalded event? I'm trying to think now.

So like I said, I think it's kind of backtracking a bit, but one of the biggest letdowns to me was they did this big introduction. Like the, the Zords are going to be coming. So they do like,

Oh, we're going to go and get the Zords. And then like we talked about, like the Zords are just on the screen the whole time. Like they couldn't spring production for just to have like one Zord show up and just kind of roll out. They have a big hollow monster, a big inflatable Lord Zed.

They couldn't have a big inflatable Megazord or anything like that but i mean that was my biggest letdown yeah they had two of them the actual people not showing up but sure they have yeah they had two inflatables maybe at the end because i get you want to save that for the big the big finale but yeah then the megazord came out and attacked what is it called i'm gonna be so embarrassed what is it called when the megazord and the Dragonzord combine? Is there a name for it? Oh, I'm trying to remember now. Ultra Megazord? Mega Dragonzord or something, maybe?

Oh, it might be Mega Dragonzord. There was different incarnations of it, because they changed the names as things went on. Yeah, it's the White Tiger. White Tigerzord, yeah. It's the White Tigerzord in this instance, because it's the White Ranger. I had that, too. I had that toy, too. Yeah, but then his next one he gets is a giant falcon that the tips of the uh wings are missiles so like the falcon would

like fold its wings and then it would just launch missiles like i thought that was the coolest thing as a kid that is good wow i wrote this down i don't know about you guys, but the putties to me. So watching it back, it really felt like the putties were going into business for themselves. At one point, the putties were just doing dances. Yeah. They kind of had a little bit of tumble monkey to them from Lion King. They do one of the most amazing things I've ever seen as well, they kind of had a little bit of tumble monkey to them from a lion King. Like they kind of had a little bit of like, they do one of the most amazing things I've ever seen as well,

where they were all sitting in like a row and they turn over where they're all on top of each other. But also thinking back, like the putties are like doing this very intricate dance number. They're like going into the crowd and like high fiving kids and like being genuinely pretty cool to these these children and then like the children just still want to see them get killed like i'm very surprised the kids didn't kind of turn their backs on the power rangers and be like well the putties are so so much more

relatable for me now and they're like coming out and talking to us like they're right there they're like one of us the power rangers are celebrities up on a pedestal yeah yeah yes i yes they were putties were having fun with the kids yes and it does up on a pedestal yeah yeah yes i yes they were putties were having fun with the kids yes and it does seem odd it feels like yeah they were not maybe supposed to do that but like they just wanted they didn't want to be mean to kids they wanted the kids to like they were desperate for the kids affection maybe so they were like yeah goofing around more like i wonder if there was like an instance where like when the show first started the putties were too scary yeah the kids were too like oh we don't like these putties we're like we gotta make this way

more silly than it need to be that's why they added the magic and they added the weird uh the beat the the uncomfortableness with rita but sure yeah uh yeah that makes sense um but yeah it would have been funny if the kids like silently protested the rangers and they like i'll turn their back to the rangers during the middle of the show to say we don't care for what you're doing no more light no it was also interesting to me that like they took so they made a spoiler alert for anyone that's gonna watch this on youtube they took the yellow and black ranger and kind of eliminated them for like a good portion of the show yes like you came to see these two and they're turned into a monkey and a bird and you don't get to see them get their full action on until the very end and

they have this like long dialogue and pre-recorded video of like oh man sucks we're birds now what are we gonna do um also create some fun zordon stuff of him saying bad news the black ranger and the yellow ranger birds now i like his i i like talking like zordon i feel like zordon is kind of a like you do zordon it's not just that you go deep it's that it's kind of like a kermit the frog but pitched down it's sort of an easily thing to it hi ho he's also-ho. He's also sad. Zordon here. He's also sad. He also sounds very sad. Yeah. Pretty sad, Saki.

Yeah. They didn't take me on tour. They wouldn't spring for me. There should be a... I had too many writers. I got greedy. There should be a toy where you put... I feel like Bryan Cranston didn't do that at all.

No. Bryan Cranston was just straight up Bryan Cranston when he played Zordon. He wanted gravitas. There should be a Zordon toy. I mean, Yellow Ranger. There's a Zordon toy where you put your head in a tube and then it gives you Zordon voice. That's good.

Makes you sad, too. There's a depressive agent. There's a depression gas. I was having a good day today and now I'm not. Oh, jeez. People don't know what it's like to live in a tube. It's not that easy being in a tube. So you're a Zordon fan, maybe first and foremost.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I like Cranston one. And yeah, yeah. That's the only voice that I embrace. It's the opposite of an I, I, I. So you're Ooze, Zordon. Those are your top two guys. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Oh, yes. I have an answer for who are my Power Rangers guys. For sure, it is sword on and, and ooze, which I was saying, we went to a birthday party where our friend Andrew and the party favor was, was a playing card. It was like a fun pack of playing cards that he hadn't opened.

And so you didn't know what was going to be inside. And I feel like I hit the jackpot because not only did I get a pack of playing cards from power Rangers, the movie specifically, as opposed to the the show which were also in the packs i don't know what you guys got but my pet i was just opening it like please ooze please ooze give me ivan ooze a character we did an episode about on the patreon who i didn't care about or had seen before until we did that one of my favorite things we found and not one but two oozes look at that it's no uh you know it's it's no like i've been used rookie cards yeah yeah it was when he was in his prime he was never better

than in 95 including the one that jason you've remarked on as soon as i said it this is really the this is the prime card ooze on first oh wow it classic routine right love these cards thank you uh andrew yeah that's great um well what have we uh i mean maybe we're coming to a close this thing seems like i think i would have enjoyed it if i went yeah um the guys who put it together were feeling pretty high on it. I have one more quote from rock and roll impresario Ricky Farr. He says this, I can't tell you who, but I've already been asked by a major artist, a household name, if I can incorporate into his next show some of the kind of magic and illusions that we're representing with the Power Rangers live on tour.

Who do we think it is? Who is it? Who do we think it is? Who is it? Who do we think that is? Okay, I know that he, as I said, Rod Stewart is name-checked a lot, but the other one I saw a bunch that this guy represented apparently was Morrissey. Wow.

Actually, he's taken, maybe he gets a Morrissey call on one phone, hangs up, takes a Power Rangers call. Wow. And I'm no Morrissey. I don't have him memorized whatsoever, but does anyone recall morrissey having a bunch of magic that one of morrissey's enemies was shrunk and put

into a cage way above inflatable version of himself i don't remember that he's in his final form did he make a giant inflatable guy wearing a shirt that said like the meat packing industry you know yes maybe all right oh yeah that yes more veganism more vegan i look up morrissey inflatable let's see just like you know just anybody i guess out there think about it if you saw something in 96 97 or so where there was a big inflatable guy a bunch of magic tricks um this could i this seems like an area where the power rangers might have had some lasting influence and understandably because what concert what concert wouldn't be made better by a huge inflatable inflatable uh there was even discussion after that of um this

is really weird uh uh okay what about further possibilities of morphin rock cross-pollination? Might we someday see an arena spectacular in which Lord Zed, weary of battling the unflagging Power Rangers, turns his nefarious attentions instead to somebody like Trent Reznor? Whoa. What? And then the guy responds, well, with a chuckle, Nine Inch Nails is a client of mine, and I'm afraid poor Lord Zedd wouldn't stand a chance against Trent. But I think he'd stand a pretty fair chance against Pink Floyd's pig. So we're imagining, I love, like, this is an article in the LA Times where an adult is imagining scenarios where Lord Zedd fights Trent Reznor

and the Pink Floyd pig. That's awesome, by the way. Yeah, what a life. Rock and roll impresario Ricky Fargo. Lord Zedd being like, I hurt myself today to see. Trent's got the soul job, not me. Damn it. I wanted that Oscar.

Gosh. Well, there's still possibility of Zedd. Maybe if Reznor scores a Zedd movie, like a Zed origin movie. Oh, yes. Wait, why aren't we breaking them off into, did the first one not do well enough? Yeah, I want spinoffs. I want, yeah, Zed solo, Ooze solo, obviously. They canceled the remake, right?

Then they were going to do a sequel to the Power Rangers movie. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I think they canceled it. I don't think it did super well. Young Zed. I want Young Zed. Young Zed. I want Young Zed. Young Zed is like a show on NBC.

Yes. He's like a little boy. Right after Young Rock. Young Zed shows up. And he's a little boy, but his muscles are potent. You can see his muscles. And that's it. Played by Jenny Gargano?

Oh, man. Yeah. Who could it be? Oh, wait. I was saying you. I was saying you. Young Zed. Oh, I don't want that. I don? Oh, wait. I was saying you. I was saying you. Oh, I don't want that. I don't want that responsibility to play Young Zed.

I can't bring that character to life. That's like Hamlet. That's like Hamlet. You got the helmet already. I do have the helmet. I do have the helmet. If that's the only requirement, then yes, I can play Young Zed. If it's just players owning the Hasbro helmet, I got it.

I got it in the bank. Well, hopefully at least Power Ranger Live people come to you after this, after I gave them the idea that you should stop wrestling and become a full-time Power Ranger Live performer. I'd love to. I'd love to. So people out there, do it. Do it. Yeah, any of the Power Ranger Live people out there that wants to see me on stage as the

Green Ranger or White Ranger in this instance. I'm more than down. I'm prepared. I'm fully prepared. I'm trained. Yes. I have a certificate to prove it. You have a great reel. Yeah. And that's good because the later seasons of Power Rangers, they're getting slammed into concrete a lot more often.

Is that true? No, I'm just kidding. Could be. Good for practical effects. I haven't watched in a while. Oh, God. Jason David Frank came back for this episode. He got German suplex on the concrete yeah he's a tough jason david frank and uh austin st john right yeah

austin st john they came back a lot they did they are like recently recently yeah i think so yeah they're in the family yeah so anyway jason david frank in my in my memory it was like the number one guy of my childhood. Like, no one touched Jason David Frank. Like, Shawn Michaels. It's like a one-two of Jason David Frank and Shawn Michaels to me. Sure. It was like my role models growing up.

Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, Tommy was very cool. He was so cool. And he, like, Kimberly liked him. He did. Wow. So much so that I didn't even have a favorite power ranger until tommy showed up i like oh i like held my reservations i was like i don't know i'm not feeling anyone

yet on this team and then tommy showed up and i was like there's my guy there's my guy right there everyone thought that way i yeah now that i'm thinking about it i am unlocking some sort of memory where i was like then maybe kimberly would like me if i was as cool as tom i think i did like i do think I liked Kimberly. I do think so. So sure. Yeah. Who wouldn't?

Yeah. Come on. Well, I think you served as a, a white Ranger upping the stakes and the quality of, of this episode. Johnny Gargano, you survived podcast,

the ride. Thanks so much for joining us from afar and via video. This is a blast. Let's exit through the gift shop. Is there anything you would like to plug? You can find me on Twitch at twitch.tv slash the Johnny wrestling. You can find me on YouTube at Johnny Argano, Twitter,

Johnny Argano, Instagram, Johnny Argano, all those fun things. I do a, I do a bunch of fun stuff. So yeah, check those things out.

Cool. Fantastic. Yeah. Well, this is a blast. Thank you so much for giving us so many, an excellent toy store to look at. Oh yeah. Anytime. Anytime you guys want to come visit the toy store,

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