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Morphing Through Memories: A Comparative Look at Power Rangers and Their Japanese Roots ep191
Ever wondered how the high-kicking, morphinominal world of Power Rangers stood against its Japanese predecessor, ZyuRangers? Nathan and Michael from Power Trip Podcast and Monster Island Film Vault join me for a kaleidoscopic examination of these two series that have shaped childhoods and spawned legions of fans. We promise a trip down memory lane filled with insights on how the shows mirror their cultural landscapes, comparing the narrative choices from the 'teenagers with attitude' to the ancient tribal heirs of Zyuranger, and everything in-between.
You won't want to miss our take on the villainous eccentricities between Rita Repulsa and Bandora or how the series tackle violence and cultural sensitivities. We even get personal, sharing how the legacy of figures like Jason David Frank deeply affect the community and our own fandom experiences. Collecting memorabilia is more than just a hobby—it's a pursuit of passion and nostalgia, which we unpack with the reverence it deserves. And if you think you know Power Rangers, our chat about "Cosmic Fury's" finale and the enigma of the Turbo movie might just surprise you.
As we wrap up, our conversation ventures into the amusing practicalities of morphing in public, the poignant lore behind Ranger artifacts, and the divergent storytelling approaches of ZyuRangers and Power Rangers. We debate the merits of each series, all while acknowledging the unique charm that has kept these franchises morphin' for decades. So, grab your Power Morpher, because this episode is an energetic homage to a phenomenon that continues to inspire and entertain.
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Ever wondered how the high-kicking, morphinominal world of Power Rangers stood against its Japanese predecessor, ZyuRangers? Nathan and Michael from Power Trip Podcast and Monster Island Film Vault join me for a kaleidoscopic examination of these two series that have shaped childhoods and spawned legions of fans. We promise a trip down memory lane filled with insights on how the shows mirror their cultural landscapes, comparing the narrative choices from the 'teenagers with attitude' to the ancient tribal heirs of Zyuranger, and everything in-between.
You won't want to miss our take on the villainous eccentricities between Rita Repulsa and Bandora or how the series tackle violence and cultural sensitivities. We even get personal, sharing how the legacy of figures like Jason David Frank deeply affect the community and our own fandom experiences. Collecting memorabilia is more than just a hobby—it's a pursuit of passion and nostalgia, which we unpack with the reverence it deserves. And if you think you know Power Rangers, our chat about "Cosmic Fury's" finale and the enigma of the Turbo movie might just surprise you.
As we wrap up, our conversation ventures into the amusing practicalities of morphing in public, the poignant lore behind Ranger artifacts, and the divergent storytelling approaches of ZyuRangers and Power Rangers. We debate the merits of each series, all while acknowledging the unique charm that has kept these franchises morphin' for decades. So, grab your Power Morpher, because this episode is an energetic homage to a phenomenon that continues to inspire and entertain.
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Speaker 1:There are no adults here. No, not at all. You're a child, nathan. That's what my wife always tells me. Call him up, we'll look at disgust. So anyways, today we're going to be talking about the Judo rangers and Power Rangers and how they kind of compare and contrast a little bit. But first we'll do our social media, tom.
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Speaker 2:Those things, those places.
Speaker 1:And with us today we have some returning guests that we had. Actually, it's probably been a year and a half by now.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's been like two years actually. Yeah, it's probably been about two years, yeah.
Speaker 1:But we have Nathan and Michael from the Power Trip podcast and. Monster Island Film Vault.
Speaker 3:Why is it Nathan gets top billing? Come on guys. Like he showed up on time Because my podcast more than you and he showed up on time. Oh, forgive me for having a job that's not a substitute teacher.
Speaker 2:This is a first come, first serve podcast. You gotta make reservations.
Speaker 3:I forget, Like I forget. What's the language policy on here again? Is this like? Is this like, what is it? Ma, you get PG-13, sir, so you're your. F-bomb quite carefully.
Speaker 1:I've already got to edit, so oh self-sugar, oh daisies.
Speaker 2:Oh daisies.
Speaker 3:Oh, oh, dear.
Speaker 1:Oh dear, oh dear, bro, You're a mother trucker.
Speaker 2:Mitch put preparation into this. I'm looking across the table at his two filled out notebook pages. I put very little effort. The only reason I'm actually here is because we do the podcast at my apartment.
Speaker 1:And I'm going off of pure memory, tom, what did you arrange for the first time yesterday?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:Oh no, you watched all 50 episodes in one day.
Speaker 2:No, I watched like six or seven episodes. I watched the majority of the first season. It was terrible. I hated it. It was so dumb and I don't know like the subtitles, because it was like in Japanese, so I'm listening to it in Japanese but I'm trying to read along, but it kept going really fast. I'm like I can't speed read through this.
Speaker 1:Yeah we had to watch it on 2B. That's the only way we had it.
Speaker 3:The DVDs are expensive.
Speaker 1:Yes, they are. I looked into buying them and I was like I'll just watch it on 2B.
Speaker 2:They shouldn't be expensive. They should be free, based on the quality of what I watched.
Speaker 3:You take that up with Toei, sir, because they charge you the news for everything. Yes, they do. Hey, comment writer was it? Comment writer? Gets just got released or got announced for pre-order. It's like $99.99 bucks.
Speaker 2:That's crazy, outrageous.
Speaker 1:But, anyways, today we'll be comparing interesting Jewelranger and Power Rangers and I kind of looked up a little bit just as a whole. The Jewelranger has an 8 out of 10 on IMDB and Power Rangers has a 6.6. Well, they're wrong I don't know how their backwards like that.
Speaker 3:Hmm, hmm. Well, if they're going up a Mighty Morphin, the thing about Mighty Morphin is that it bar from 3 10 times, so we can really only compare these one to Jewelrangers. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because, if not, you have Jewelranger with 50 episodes, and then Mighty Morphin would have had 145.
Speaker 3:She was like the beginning.
Speaker 2:Well, the thing is it's just like the all, like the claymation dinosaurs, it's like in the time of the dinosaurs. I'm like I saw three dinosaurs that mammoth is not a dinosaur, that sabre two tiger was not a dinosaur. You are misrepresenting the facts. And then it's like you know, do range, do range. And I'm like in my head I'm like I'm just waiting to hear alpha readers escape, but it never comes. It never happens, it never comes.
Speaker 3:But you gotta admit, you gotta admit that theme song is pretty damn catchy.
Speaker 2:No, I hear what was up with the ending one. That was like he's just like hands the girl balloon. She's crying, they pull the sunglasses out of winks, the dog in a suit like falls over.
Speaker 3:Are you trying about the little mermaid on that? I see that parody. Yeah, that nonsense.
Speaker 1:I like the black ranger sitting on the mastodon, like gyrating. Yeah, he's just like he's doing. Try opening it.
Speaker 3:It's like I'm pretty sure this is pretty historic. You did a crap ton of research on this whole, on G Ranger, so would you like to enlighten the gentleman of why there was two different things, why there was two different songs for G Ranger, I don't know exactly. I just know that it's a Japanese thing to have different theme songs for the opening and closing.
Speaker 1:I know a lot of anime do that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, anime does it yeah. And most of the shows that I see do that. But I will admit it does give you a bit of total whiplash because you'll finish a really dark episode of G Ranger and then suddenly I did that he's about to die.
Speaker 2:It's like hang on. Five seconds ago one of them got stabbed in the chest and I got to wait for the next episode. Now I got this upbeat crap.
Speaker 3:And I've seen six sentai in their entirety and they like doing that with their end themes. Their end themes will be often very silly and very upbeat. Cocker Ranger does the same thing. Actually, just rewatched an episode of Cocker Ranger last night and I forgot. Oh yeah, the ending credit sequence in this show is basically the thriller music video with Blue Sandax.
Speaker 2:Just why Japan's a wild place.
Speaker 3:Yeah it is a wild place.
Speaker 1:We'll go ahead and kind of get into comparing the two starts of the show. Here you have Power Rangers, which you have Zord on an alpha, who recruit five teenagers with attitudes, overbearing and emotional teenager. I need to angst After Rita was released after 10,000 years sealed away. And then Judo Ranger. They're like heirs to a tribe from some prehistoric.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 170 million years. They were just hanging out in still feudal Japan, but they were very wearing, very vibrant sequels to colors.
Speaker 3:Is that a technical?
Speaker 1:term, and what I don't understand is these are the heroes and their reward for saving the earth was to be locked away for millions of years.
Speaker 2:Well it's in case. It's not Rita Rappulza, it's Bandora.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Bandora.
Speaker 2:And her stupid tricycle. Thing.
Speaker 3:That's a Wizard of Oz reference, sir.
Speaker 2:I saw it and I was like I mean what.
Speaker 3:Barbara Goodson went full tilt, wicker way to the west when she did the voiceover for.
Speaker 1:Rita.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:One kind of contrast with the character for Rita. I find it funny that in Zoo Ranger they start like singing and dancing every yeah, just really just like having a conga line and like the evil fortress and I'm like what?
Speaker 2:And there's like some kid hanging from a rope and they're just like.
Speaker 3:What gets to me is as goofy as Power Rangers gets his points. Saban looked at that and said that's a bridge too far. I think we'll leave that out. And then, two seasons later, they've got Rita in their own footage doing the fan thing. Her brother goes off and blows up the swords and she does a conga line to celebrate.
Speaker 2:I mean. Well, I mean, it's an occasion to become emirated, surely he's gotten the farthest anyone had.
Speaker 3:It's a kid show, so they decided that it was not okay to have a silly conga line, but it was okay to invoke the name of Satan. Well, they don't call him Satan.
Speaker 2:No, they call him Satan, no no, no, no, no In you Ranger? Yes it is great.
Speaker 3:It gives both the name of God. He's Satan. But in Power Rangers he just has a bunch of nonsense.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like we can't be saying that the Bible builds going to watch this. They're not going to be happy. We need the ratings.
Speaker 3:Oh brava. Well no, it didn't matter, because the moms group went after it eventually because they didn't like Zed. Well no, they went after it in season one because I thought it was too violent.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:Then they went after it in season two because of Zed he was the darkest guy.
Speaker 2:He was the violent Zed. Showed up ready to rumble and everybody's like, holy crap, who the hell's this guy? And then everybody's like, all right, let's just tell it down, this is a kid's show.
Speaker 3:But well, that's because even Lord Zed must bend the knee to the mom.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, another thing that kind of got me was watching Jew Ranger Bandora, as like she has an affinity for like just wanting to kill kids, oh, yeah, killer, kidnap and like the first episode, the stupid kids in the space shuttle.
Speaker 2:They rick up this elaborate like how they shrink them. I don't know how that happened, but it did and they're on a table and they have like a landmine on a string and like he's setting up, like all these little glasses to like condense, like their sunlight into like a beam, like a magnifying glass to burn the rope and it'll take exactly one hour for it to snap and destroy the kids.
Speaker 3:Yeah, bandora is sadistic, although and I said this on the power trip, you might remember this, michael I said really the characterization between Rita and Bandora is not all that different. Bandora just gets to go more extreme. That's the only difference. Otherwise they are extreme. Like I said, through the characterization they're almost the same character.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they are.
Speaker 3:It's Rita Bandora and not Rita Bandora. I do the same thing now. Like I was trying to Google, I was trying to Google Reno Rebolto and I wrote it out. It's Bandora, like dang it, yeah, but Rita Repulsa and Bandora are, are, are eerily similar, but it is. I think it's. I think you're right, nathan, I don't want to kind of, I don't want to belabor the point, but it's like she was Bandora was able to go further, but that was due, but that wasn't, but that was just due to cultural. That's a lot of, a lot of the things. A lot of the differences in your Ranger and Power Rangers it's just come down to cultural differences and I think a lot of the, a lot of the stuff that that you may be even dislike, that I had even a hard time with with, with Super Sentai in general, was a lot of those cultural differences, just because there was just as a dirty, dirty America. There's just some things that I couldn't understand, that I couldn't understand without, like, digging deep, deep into research. But go ahead. And then I heard you trying to make a quote.
Speaker 2:There's like even like watching like Z-Ranger or Zyro, like Bandora shows up on our like you know, big wheel, tiny wheel bike and she's just blowing stuff up in the city like whole buildings with her staff and I'm like I don't remember Rita just going full tilt and just destroying Angel Grove just on her own, because it would appear she probably could have just done that and Power Rangers would have been a very short story.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it would have been.
Speaker 1:Another thing that I thought was kind of funny was Goldheart doesn't learn our Griffizor doesn't learn how to speak until like halfway through the first man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's just like making like no, it's like retractions.
Speaker 3:How long was it, Michael? I think it was about like maybe one. I say like 17, 18, 20 episodes or something like that.
Speaker 1:I think it was a good while.
Speaker 3:He started talking when they during the Zyro Ranger version of the Green Ranger saga.
Speaker 2:Yeah Right, Well, he started his wife showed up. Yeah, that's what they read yeah, Lamy, yeah.
Speaker 3:Lamy yeah.
Speaker 2:Scorpina was a cooler name.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, but their counterparts are actually married and she showed up and then he suddenly started talking and they're like why didn't you talk before? And they turned it into an old married couple. I didn't want to. Yeah, basically they never asked me anything.
Speaker 1:I forgot what their names were Squat and Bebu. I forgot their Zyro Ranger name, but uh.
Speaker 2:Oh Babook.
Speaker 3:Uh, book Back, no, book Back, book Back, yeah and um Tumquat.
Speaker 2:Charles, I don't want to destroy anything today, charles.
Speaker 3:Give me a second to look it up.
Speaker 1:Well, those two have a lot bigger, you know, I guess role in Zyro Ranger, because they're out there actually capturing the kids and all that stuff.
Speaker 3:So they actually have a little bit of a minute.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was like I watched the first episode and then I jumped to the Green Ranger saga, because after the first episode I wanted to put my head through the wall. You know, let me get at least to the Green Ranger. And that was just a myriad of non, because the whole episode with the stupid kid and the key, like they are yeah, that's what they're doing Squatting Book, okay, squatting.
Speaker 3:Book okay, oh yeah, it gets top tap and top, top, top top top, top, top, top, top, top top.
Speaker 1:I like Kumbquat. Are you sure it wasn't Charles?
Speaker 3:Yeah, charles Kumbquat, charles Kumbquat hey. I mean he does have a little. He does have a little magnifying. He does have a little monocular. Marvin Prisvita wake up, wake up.
Speaker 2:He looks like he has an air of aristocracy about him.
Speaker 3:Yeah well, he's also a confirmed vampire, indeed he's caught in the 1%.
Speaker 2:I mean he's got to use people's minds.
Speaker 3:He's made a 1% joke in like three years, the 1%.
Speaker 1:Anyway, Tom, you were talking about the. Look in for it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like everyone's trying to stop him and they're like no, you don't know what you're doing. And he's like I got a fever, like running away and like none of them can catch him. These are full grown adults chasing like a nine year old.
Speaker 3:Like I'm nine year old is also like a magical elf.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's got like the Yoda ears that pop out, that were like paper machined and like glued to the side of his head, but they're like sliding down like halfway through, so like coming out of his neck. And it's like ugh, ugh and, like you know, when the Charles come Qua and the other guy in Baboo show up and they're yelling at him, like you know yeah go open the thing and get the undefeatable warrior. And then he's like, ok, and it's like those are the bad guys. They shouldn't be cheering you on. These are things called clues. Ha ha, ha ha. I think it's great. Like he gets like force ejected from the cave and like beaten up with some Styrofoam rocks, and like Burai shows up and like he just runs out to him, he's like oh, burai, so you didn't see the eyes. It's like I was saying you just. And he's just like Errol and just eats this kid. And he's like I don't understand. And they're like, oh, it's not your fault. It's like no, I watched this episode. This was entirely his fault. I can go scene by scene and tell you how he screwed up.
Speaker 3:So, michael, as the resident Kaiju Groupie, is this child more or less psychopathic than Toshio from the first Gamera? Hmm, hmm. Well, it's a different type of psychopathic. I think that Toshio had a death wish is the problem here? Definitely had a death wish when it comes to Gamera. But I don't know, I don't know who's the biggest psychopath here. I'm going to go with Toshio, considering just how, just considering how big of a death wish he had. Yeah, so have you guys ever heard the term Kenny? Yes, well, probably it helped me because I listened to your podcast as well, so yeah, Well, for those of your listeners who don't know, kenny is what we in the Kaiju fandom call obnoxious child characters who show up in these movies, for fuck's sake. Okay, right, right, right. I realize very briefly that Toshio's name was Toshio, so now it's just what we call the like I said what we call the annoying kid, and now Michael and several of my friends that we've all come up with variations of it. So this we would call him a hentai Kenny, and then, well, and then Justin in turbo is a power Kenny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's a power Kenny. This kid was a one episode Kenny. I don't think I saw him after this.
Speaker 3:Well, he was in some episodes before this. I don't think you should, michael. Did he show up again after this? I believe he showed up maybe one time hopefully got hit. Wow, but it's all, it's all. Admittedly, it's all little bit of a blur, I mean maybe we haven't watched because we haven't watched you Ranger any year.
Speaker 2:Well, maybe the no guy, because you and I were talking.
Speaker 3:We you and I were podcasting about it about this time last year actually a little sooner than this. Maybe the old guy or hours.
Speaker 2:Evil Power Ranger like Gandalf the white with the super ears. Maybe he could have explained it to the kid instead of just like pulling up in a van and just trying to run the kid down. You've been like, look, I know you want to let him out, but you need to know these facts he's evil.
Speaker 1:The wizard guy. He shows up in a punchy pig episode for Sentai and basically he makes the, the showangers eat a whole like feast and he's like trying to trick them into to get this little radish or whatever that kills the monster.
Speaker 2:Yep, and then I was like they suited up and like camouflage and hand grenades and machine guns. It's like what are you guys doing? What is this show?
Speaker 3:I, we did. I hit a bit of a quote-unquote Tokyo topic when we talked about car Ranger on the power trip where I researched Japanese humor. Japanese humor loves the absurd. So clearly you're gonna get it in drugs. You think this is bonkers.
Speaker 1:So much a car Ranger oh my Well, yeah, because I remember y'all saying that's pretty much just a parody of the show itself. Yeah, it was no way making fun of themselves.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, and they had. They cut so much out of it.
Speaker 2:That's probably for the best.
Speaker 3:Oh it was. Some of it was definitely for the best, some of it was cultural differences. Cultural, yeah, because that's really what it boils down to the difference, the difference between power injuries and, since I just called, and. I think that's hang on me and that's, and that's probably why it made it so difficult for Nathan and I to get through it all. And I, because I think we, under Nathan, I think you and I underestimated just how difficult it was going to be to get through sent I because of just how much? Just because of how much that cultural differences plus you've got 50 episodes first, you got 50 season. It's all sub-titled. There's cultural differences. You got a research. I mean it's just, it just turned into a lot. It did, it did, although what's kind of ironic about you, ranger, is that it's clearly steeped in Western fairy tales and all, and yeah, and all the monsters are well, not all. The most of the monsters are derived from Greek mythology, but it's just really weird because you would think that most of that would register with Westerners, but instead, you know, like, like daughter, daughter cockatrice became chunky chicken. You know, and they leave out all of the all the mythological connections, it's just a pet chicken.
Speaker 1:Well, I didn't notice that, like, when it come to the monsters, a lot of them like they were not a lot of some of them would have like Human counterpart forms kind of stuff, like the fink, those aren't the things.
Speaker 3:Oh it's fink. Oh, I love Daughter speaks is kind of amazing. I love that two-parter.
Speaker 1:He turns into just a regular person with like wearing, like the headdress, kind of thing.
Speaker 2:It's just looking like a fair.
Speaker 1:I.
Speaker 3:I actually liked that. I actually like that two-parter better than the way they condensed it down into just a monster of the week. Yeah, because they basically kept the motif. He's just King Spinks, that's all they said. They kept the sphinx motif, but they left out what the sphinx is known for doing in legend, which is asking people riddles.
Speaker 2:This park is the power rangers riding staff. They couldn't come up with any good riddles.
Speaker 3:I Don't remember the. The riddles got one of them. I remember being a little bit Lost because it was extremely Japanese. I go some sort of like number. I think it was a number pun, but it only worked in Japanese and the subtitles couldn't why fully communicate that.
Speaker 2:Definitely cultural differences.
Speaker 3:Yeah, hashtag language barrier.
Speaker 1:But anyway, we were going back to the kid that let out the green ranger. The green ranger in this as opposed to, you know, power rangers where he's Tommy is like brainwashed up, your I basically just comes out and he's like full on evil, like he joined the bad guys willingly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he just came out of the gate ready for well.
Speaker 3:He made an alliance of convenience. True, because it because, yeah, he wanted to take over the world, of course himself, but the his main thing was that he wanted to get revenge on his brother, the red ranger.
Speaker 2:Who was an infant and had nothing to do with anything Like.
Speaker 3:Like him more.
Speaker 1:That's the thing that's the thing I didn't like that, though, that they were brothers, that kind of. I was on the dynamic. I mean, granted, he got a little carry over. It kind of carried over too much when he's like, oh, I'll forgive him, and he's like destroying the city.
Speaker 3:Let's be honest, the same, a very similar thing happens to power rangers. Yeah, but why, if we're talking about the green ranger, another key difference Green ranger dies in your ranger, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he died dies because, they in by the power rangers.
Speaker 3:They're like, well, we can't have him die, but we'll have him slowly lose his power.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they realized that which they were frank was same thing tomato, tomato. But they were like the green candle. They were like, oh yeah, like you know, that's like how long the green ranger powers will last.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, but they also left out one of they. They come well. No, they did adapt it, but they left out the entire story bitch from it, because the monster and the and the fight Prometh are in power Rangers week, as it was the one. It was the monster that in power rangers named hatchesaurus I forget what his name is in Gearranger.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 3:It's actually my favorite. It's actually my favorite episode of Gearranger because the entire story around it is about Dragon Caesar becomes the dragon sword of power Rangers, warning the death of barai, because that's the other difference is that the mecca in this are actually live and they have emotional Connections to the Rangers. So barai dies and dragon Caesar is warning that, even though his brother has now basically inherited the mantle. But even Gekki that is a Gekki is just basically just telling him to get over it. And then you have this weirdly emotional moment at the end of the episode which Technically it's a power Rangers, but they take all of the, but they completely changes so it doesn't have the emotional resonance where Gekki basically says I'm sorry, I miss him too, and then the Dragon Caesar gets a second win and go and then goes over and helps kill the monster. It's Nathan, it's Dora, on pay us, on pay us. That's right, yeah, cuz I think that is a Giant in Greek mythology. What a shame.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's how they shouted at you, yeah yeah, but still like I love that episode.
Speaker 3:I absolutely love that episode. I actually did a a mini so it on my podcast, talking about it because I like this right after. He's right after JDF. Yeah, wasn't that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I call that we are dragon Caesar because it's like dragon Caesar is like the fan base.
Speaker 2:Now, as I left my cream ranger helmet, my dragon dagger, yeah, yeah, cuz it was only, it was only.
Speaker 3:This one and you and I talked about it actually on the power trip, michael, because it was because we recorded that episode only two Months after he died. And then we get it. Yeah, it's a completely different character, but the context of JDS death added a unintended layer. It's that. It added. Yeah, it added a little bit of it. It ended a little bit of uncomfortableness to that because we was for it. We were forced to talk about things.
Speaker 1:Speaking of death.
Speaker 3:Transition.
Speaker 2:I was waiting on who was gonna pull the trigger.
Speaker 3:Who was gonna stick their neck out and transition. Wow, how many depth metaphors.
Speaker 2:Who's here? Well, don't, don't get him started speaking of death.
Speaker 1:What is the? What's the little white you hooded clad person that?
Speaker 2:Curio.
Speaker 3:But what makes it work, what makes it worse, is that he's basically a god of death.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, he like kidnaps a barrage, doesn't all right, Jeff, like I understand 30 hours 30 hours like he just kidnapped, but then he explains later on. I was confused for a while.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Like this little demon child is just, I'm gonna take this guy away and make him die at 30 hours if he leaves this room. Right, they explain it later.
Speaker 2:But you're saying that with the hyperbolic time chamber and GBC.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, I was so confused. I was like, why is he all of a sudden have a time limit? But then, yeah, later on spoiler warning it reveals that basically he'd already died and this character brought him back and he only had 30 hours to live.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so he was on borrowed time yeah.
Speaker 2:That makes sense though.
Speaker 1:I forget what episode it is, but I know he gets crushed by boulders or debris or something like that.
Speaker 2:Whereas in Mighty Morphin we ran out of footage from Zyra Ranger.
Speaker 1:So Tom is gonna fight everybody by himself. There's the.
Speaker 2:G-Ranger, there's a candle. That's when the powers expire, so we can keep that.
Speaker 3:Which is interesting because there's also a green candle in this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the candles look totally different. Our candle had like a mystic decrepit nuanced look to it. The one in Mighty Morphin looked like something you bought at the dollar store. They just let it up fire.
Speaker 3:They just walk in the hobby. Bobby guys, hey, do you have?
Speaker 2:a big green candle. Oh, never mind, I see it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you know that there's gotta be at least three people on Etsy who have recreated those green candles and are selling them for like a hundred bucks Stinking detail Bang no, that actually sold for 25.
Speaker 1:I've looked at that.
Speaker 2:Does the candle burn green? Seriously?
Speaker 3:like I know That'd be cool. No people have went through extreme detail to recreate that candle as like a replica. I may or may not have bought one.
Speaker 2:Did they make all the other colors?
Speaker 3:Did they make all the other colors? Because when they do the green candle Multi-parter and Mighty Morphin, we find that there are ones for the other rangers.
Speaker 1:There are, I've seen them.
Speaker 2:What a bizarre like hindrance to the power. It's just like oh, we got all this cool stuff. Oh, by the way, there's like secret candles that have some of the lights on a fire.
Speaker 3:No, they explain how it works, but because they're very basically, rita acquired things from the rangers so that she could make it with the magic wax, the wax.
Speaker 1:But then you know, Wax on. I also have the little power box that holds the power coins that Tommy has to save later.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They have one of those too I really want to buy that yeah.
Speaker 3:Michael, do you have one? No, I don't have. No, I wish. No, I don't have one. Goldar's box? Yeah, no, there was one. There was one for sale, Like some I think I'm trying to think of 100 bucks. It's not on Etsy, but it's somebody in like the ranger community was making them and selling them for like 100, 150 bucks. They're also selling like the green, the green crystal from season two and the dark rangers. They're also selling that Hashtag lucha satsu.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Like power rangers. Fandom is like the worst, just because all this stuff is so inexpensive.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's terrible, because what it does is it plays on the. It plays on the style. Jet is what it is, it's what it's doing.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know I've been in a club cabinet of stuff that I've spent several hundred dollars on. They got me.
Speaker 3:You hear all the fans online they go. Why don't they keep making MMPR stuff? Why can't we have other things from other seasons? Because it makes money. Shut up.
Speaker 2:That's why MMPR is still the most popular season. Sorry you're too young to appreciate the classic Look when one of your new seasons, whenever a red ranger can say it's morphin time with more conviction than Jason, you let me know.
Speaker 3:Jason said it.
Speaker 2:Kids stood up from the couch and did the post yes sir, no reply yes sir. You damn right is my.
Speaker 3:Even when, I reached a different catchphrase. I still couldn't quite get the same level of conviction. I want the really obscure thing from that season. No one liked, so that's what people were not making anything Okay okay, fine, fine. If it was a mighty morphin thing, it would only cost a hundred bucks you have to give us 300, because we're not making that many.
Speaker 1:It depends. Is it worth it? I mean, I got like a master morpher.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got one of the master morpher. I got the legendary.
Speaker 3:Anything attached to Tommy Oliver is just going to sell.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I got the legendary one, or was it legendary? Yeah, that's legacy, legacy, thank you. I knew it was an L the legacy edition green ranger helmet. I got it for like 80 bucks when it came out, yeah, and I'm like, oh awesome. And everybody's just like, why'd you buy that? Like my family's giving me the business, I'm like I'm going to buy the helmet on. They put the helmet on. I see everybody's doing karate moves and I'm like that's why I got the helmet, it's that. But I look, but the helmets like a thousand dollars now Someone.
Speaker 3:I was just pulled disclosure. When I brought my ex-girlfriend over for the first time, she saw my entire collection, she says. She looks at me with a very straight face. She says are you going to murder me?
Speaker 2:No, no, she says do you, do you have, do you?
Speaker 3:have kids. Do you have kids that I don't know about? No, why she broke up with me. There was a whole lot of issues there, but um, uh. But she's like do you, do you have kids that I don't know about? Do we need to talk Like? No, I just really liked nostalgia. I just like Power Rangers. Hey, just like Power.
Speaker 2:Rangers.
Speaker 3:At least that's the mild version of what she could have thought. Hey, yeah, she could. Yeah, I thought I was like some weird, like weird pedo or something.
Speaker 1:I wasn't going to say it, but you did, but you did. Cause I've heard stories.
Speaker 3:I've heard stories about perfectly shamed dudes who like collecting things like that. They bring the woman home and they see that they're like see your, but you're done. But to collect things like this, is there not a certain level of insanity involved, though? Like is there not like? Is there a level of insanity if you collect anything? I mean it depends.
Speaker 2:Like I guess I'll watch the collecting.
Speaker 3:It depends. If you're collecting, like baseball and sports memorabilia, that's a little more acceptable than dragon daggers and morpers.
Speaker 1:I would, yeah, but is it still a little bit crazy to be like?
Speaker 3:I'm going to go find all this cool sports stuff. It doesn't matter what I have to spend or where I have to go.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean yes, there's more expensive than power Rangers.
Speaker 3:There are. There are extremes to everything and everything. There are, I mean.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying.
Speaker 3:I've seen some nutty sports fans.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm just waiting for them to release, like the black ranger helmet for the lightning collection.
Speaker 3:I'm not even sure the lightning collection is alive anymore.
Speaker 2:They're not doing that one anymore, cause they just did the blue.
Speaker 3:Hasbro just released way, way, oh, they're stuffed for 2024. Zero power Rangers yeah, Any power Rangers merch that comes out this year they're outsourcing to other companies.
Speaker 2:I say the power, that stuff like was selling out like immediately.
Speaker 1:I don't understand what Hasbro is doing with it Like. What's their plan here?
Speaker 3:Michael and I have been trying to figure that out. I personally don't. I personally don't think Hasbro has a plan. They bought the IP just because they wanted to collect the IP. They wanted to they're they like collecting IPs and then when they realized, and then when they realized that again they were insane collect all these 30 something year olds who love power Rangers will still pay money for this. Yeah, so like, when they realized that, when that the, when they realized that the only thing that sells in MMPR and all the other stuff that they tried to make, no one really cared a whole lot about, they probably just pulled the plus. I mean because let's face like, let's, let's, let's be honest, like GIO, transformers, dungeons, even Dungeons and Dragons, which is the property that's been around for decades and decades and decades, and since the 70s, yeah, since the 70s. Yeah, so like, even that stuff is more popular than power Rangers, power Rangers. In the grand scheme of fandom, power Rangers is pretty obscure, obscurely small fandom compared to a lot of other places. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:A lot of people, people remember.
Speaker 3:Mighty Morphin, but they generally remember about the first season and a half of Mighty Morphin. And then when you tell them oh yeah, there's been a Power Ranger show on TV every year, since 1993. They're like what? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's, it's it's longevity is surprise. I think we we did try to unpack this, I think in the last, in the episode that is yet to come out, but we tried to unpack this about why Power Rangers, why Power Rangers has has lasted as long as it has, and you know what? Just go listen to the episode, because I'm not going to tell you. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2:We got, we got such that.
Speaker 1:Just send me the audio and.
Speaker 3:I'll speed edit it and I'll speed edit for it. I'll speed edit it for you, michael. Okay, hmm, what?
Speaker 2:are we talking about?
Speaker 3:Before we go, I went on I thought we were talking about you, ranger and Power Ranger, we are.
Speaker 2:What were we talking about?
Speaker 1:Who are you people? Okay. Well, get back on topic here the shoe ranger and Power Rangers. Another kind of difference that I was looking at is a lot of shoe ranger is based on like magic, where Power Rangers trust a focus more so towards like tech with a little bit of magic, so like.
Speaker 3:I thought that was the bad guys. The bad guys are magic based. Our heroes are more tech based, whereas in your. Ranger, it's all magic.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Because it's your Ranger is really leaned into the fantasy, whereas Power Rangers, you got Billy saying the difference really big science words.
Speaker 1:Well training translates.
Speaker 2:Yeah, indubitably, it's the phantom flux capacitor. It's not fluxing or pulsating. That's why we're losing power to the swords.
Speaker 1:And I didn't get to see all the episodes, but, like in shoe ranger, we had mentioned earlier that the the swords are sentient gods Like I don't understand, Like maybe I'll know better, but why were they? Like, how are they gods? Like what did I mean other than like hounding the Rangers? Like oh, you should do this or you should have done this better. They don't really do a whole lot of them, you know, when the Rangers control them.
Speaker 3:No. But as the show progresses, they do. The relationships between them start to develop and there are points later on where they basically say, yeah, we're not going to, we're not going to come help you guys, we're unhappy with you.
Speaker 2:Whereas in Power Rangers it's like we need megasaur power now.
Speaker 3:And then it's like yeah, they're just robots, so they take that part out. You know, we also need to bring up one of the other very obvious differences. They gender swapped. The yellow ranger, yeah, you could tell which became a power rangers tradition until senti's realize you know what. Maybe we should make the yellow rangers girls a little more consistently, guys. Well, I mean to be fair, Trey was kind of like wow, but she was, yeah, but she was still hot, Come on.
Speaker 2:What was that joke? We came up.
Speaker 3:What was that joke you and I came up with, and when we were doing the Halloween episode, michael, I don't know. It was probably not appropriate for this podcast. No, it would have been well, it would have been like PG 13 level, but we, it was like we came up with it after the fact that I think we mentioned it later. I just wish I could remember what it was. It's been so long ago been over a year now. Yeah, I mean, I know everyone went nuts about Kim, but I knew, but but treaty had with fanboys too.
Speaker 2:I like cat. Yeah, cat was my favorite, though Once cat showed up, I was like hey, I am one of the.
Speaker 3:I am one of those people who says cats a better match for Tommy. Yes, I'm a sucker for an accent. That'll show you, sir. Sir, it is on record that you're a Kim fanboy. I am a Kim fanboy but still yet I'm a sucker for it. I'm a sucker for a for an accent and a block, like all of my girlfriends, is blocked. They all have max ones. I mean, if you count Kentucky Axion, I guess so.
Speaker 2:Are they blonde because you make them wear the wig, or?
Speaker 3:what? No, no, they were natural. They were natural blonde. Sadly, sadly, I'm going to need to find someone who will wear a blue wig. No natural blue hairs around here.
Speaker 1:Like I said.
Speaker 3:I'm sure you could find one.
Speaker 1:I can go for that.
Speaker 3:I'm sure, if you go to the universe, that you'd find some blue hairs. No, that's not natural, sir that is very unnatural and she's warning me that she's poisonous. It's an intimidation display. Oh yeah, it's an intimidation display. Okay, it's like how you know, Godzilla's spines glow blue. They just put the blue in the hair. Okay, so Power Rangers and Super Sins and G-Rangers okay.
Speaker 1:I'll just say the. Well, I guess, because Power Rangers has 145 episodes and it goes through three seasons, you do see a lot of different villains that show up in Power Rangers, as opposed to in G-Rangers. You have Rita, her little minions and, I guess, dye Satan because, he ends up being low car and Power Rangers. But yeah, there's a lot less, I guess, main villains.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but, as I was saying, that's because Mighty Morphin borrowed from two other centers. Right, yeah, because you can see the hard-flocked differences. So really, the only comparisons you can make are two season one of MMPR, which is the first 60 episodes, and even then the argument can be made that it's really only the first 40, well, actually, maybe like the first 41 or so, because most of the last 20 episodes are what are called U2, because the show got so popular that Saban actually told Toei, can you make footage just for us, but with the same costume? And they did so. You watched those last 40 episodes and you can tell that it's footage from Japan, but none of that was in G-Ranger, because they made it the old footage of Power Rangers. Well, that's not entirely true, because there was one episode in those later episodes that was that did have. I think it was 41. With the camera that could control the weather. Yeah right, I'm just saying the majority of the last 20 episodes was brand new footage that Saban commissioned Toei to make for them, which is just crazy to think about. So it's unique. That is unique to Power Rangers.
Speaker 1:Now didn't in. Like I said, I didn't get to see all of it. So in G-Ranger didn't the series end with like the Doomsday episodes for Power Rangers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, they just and that's an interesting thing unto itself because they ended up changing it in Power Rangers because they were originally going to go with. They were originally going to follow the finale of G-Ranger a little more closely, because in G-Ranger the Rangers end up actually invading the castle where Bandora and her crew are. And they had actually initially planned on doing something like that in Power Rangers because they thought it would be done after 40 episodes. So it got so popular that they ended up changing their plan so that they could keep it going, make more money. Yeah baby. Well, instead, that's where you get the ending to that episode where Zordon is like okay, guys, you've done your duty, you've served, you've done things that you went beyond the call of duty. Yada, yada, yada. Now comes the time that I have to ask you do you still want to do the thing? And that's when they say yes, that's when that is the transition point between the G-Ranger footage and the G2 footage. So everything starts fresh with those later 20 episodes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Now there were Power Rangers look ridiculous because it looks like California when they're not morphs, and then it's like a tiny model Japan with big guys in suits beating it up.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah. But what's interesting is that by season two, Saban not only got them to send them monster suits and ranger suits they also got them to send them the Zord suits. So they were making their own Zord footage in season two and then again in season three. At point it didn't happen as often, but they still did it. It didn't happen as often. Like if you watched the last episode of MMPR with the Oysterizer, you can tell that that is Saban, but it's not O-A. That is the Zord battle, the Zord battle.
Speaker 1:And then talking about like with the ending of the series, like for Zord Ranger at the end of that. Basically, they just like ascend into heaven, right?
Speaker 3:Yep as opposed to wearing power rangers.
Speaker 1:They just keep passing on the powers as they go.
Speaker 2:They go from junior year to senior year.
Speaker 3:High school, because I'm Saban was a great businessman but not the best boss. Yeah, they're all 16 going on 30. Yep, I think they are pulling Steve McQueen's. Didn't we talk about this, nathan, where it was like we tried, we determined, before we looked it up, before we looked it up on the Ranger Wiki, because you can find it all information on the Ranger Wiki we tried to determine how old they were, approximately what they were in Canon. So we determined that I think they were between the ages like 16 and 17 years old when they got started and then eventually, because they don't graduate technically, graduate high school until turbo and by the end. The beginning of turbo, which actually makes it really weird because clearly in season one they're supposed to be like 16, because Billy can drive, he makes a flying car, but it takes them basically four seasons to graduate. So it's like wait, did they start? It's because they kept getting held back.
Speaker 2:I mean all the school that they were missing, having to go save Angel Grove in the world.
Speaker 3:That's just reasonable. That's just reasonable. Ahead, canon, is anything I think the hardest. Like I just had to ask, like out of the rules that Zordon gave, like don't reveal your, the Rangers, use your powers for good, don't instigate a fight, yada yada yada, don't escalate a fight. Like all of those rules, like I'm curious, like what would be the hardest for y'all to follow? What would be the hardest?
Speaker 1:one to follow, not escalating the fight because I'm going to win. I'm not fighting fair.
Speaker 3:You're like oh look, it's Pudgy Pig. Hey, right here at Zord.
Speaker 1:Squish. The only person that fights fair is the loser.
Speaker 2:He's not wrong.
Speaker 3:I mean, I'm just going to be honest. It'd be really hard for me not to be like hey, Ashley, so like I'm a power ranger as he leans up against the wall like posing.
Speaker 1:You just pull him like a.
Speaker 2:Batman, Bruce Wayne, telling everybody a secret identity. I'm like hey, I'm Batman.
Speaker 1:I'm Batman.
Speaker 3:Well, that's another thing I kind of remember.
Speaker 1:Was the zoo. Rangers have a don't have a secret identity, but the power rangers do. Baby, what's the difference?
Speaker 2:It's like the zoo rangers have 170 million years old.
Speaker 3:But in zoo rangers we almost never. They do almost nothing outside of being a ranger. They hide in their castle. I mean technically. They did get jobs, they did get jobs at a ramen shop and something else. Well, I think, like one of them did, the yellow rangers.
Speaker 1:No no. Yeah, Boy boy, he's always out playing soccer and stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, boy, the male yellow ranger. That's just an unintentional pun right there. That's funny Me. Probably the escalation thing. That might be mine too.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I probably wouldn't go out and use my newfound powers for awesome. By that I mean evil, but and I would probably, I probably would keep it to myself. That might be like second on the list, but I would probably. It's still more likely to. You know, the escalation thing would be more tempting than anything.
Speaker 2:It'd probably be hard to morph nowadays on someone seeing it on camera.
Speaker 3:If I knew that I could just kick everyone's ass, I mean, I wouldn't give a crap whoo-hoo Like listen, I'm a power ranger, you don't? The?
Speaker 2:minute. I see Characters and sores. You're done.
Speaker 1:Talking about the fighting stuff, that was another kind of thing that I found was that the, the the jure rangers, they had like their legendary weapons that they actually got to use un-morphed, which had like their own version.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but the one who just run around with an axe the entire time. He's just toting that thing around like a maniac.
Speaker 3:Well, I mean, I'm guessing they just didn't send them the props. Yeah, Cause anytime you see the Saban, especially in like the first season and a half, if they, if they're making their own ranger footage, they don't have the weapons, maybe. Maybe Didn't get sent over.
Speaker 1:Although they did have the, they did have the.
Speaker 3:They did make a replica of the sword of darkness. They did, yep, but I think that's the only one they bothered with. I think they made a replica of the of a power blaster, yeah, Cause.
Speaker 1:they had those Cause that's what cause.
Speaker 3:That was it Cause we saw that in Great with evil.
Speaker 1:I didn't find that funny was with the sort of darkness, the way they get rid of it in Jure Ranger is Gecky. Gecky cries on it and like tears of it and it just dissolves.
Speaker 2:He just looks at the sword and goes, oh, that's it.
Speaker 3:Just explodes. This is why this is why I theorize that Saban saw, cause that's one of several instances of magic tears and die there's. I think they were just sitting there going. Okay, how can we use this later? Oh look, andrews, andrews killed his sister. Oh wait, she's not there, oh God. Magic tears Saving everything. They said they sat on that for six years because I was like you see it, this is dead. I we got to find it. Magic acid tears. Carl over at site there ever gets the Power Rangers in space. Let's hope he brought that one.
Speaker 2:Hopefully he does.
Speaker 1:Oh well, that's pretty much all I had for Jure Ranger and Power Rangers, though. That's all the, I guess, the differences that I could find.
Speaker 3:Okay, but you know, now we got to answer, now we got to answer. But well, we will answer. But I have to ask dangerous question who did it better? Oh boy. Oh, power Rangers, Wait cause we Michael and I addressed this on Power, on PowerGrip, power.
Speaker 1:Rangers Overall I would say Power Rangers. Jure Ranger had some cool stuff, but Power Rangers overall to me was better. Then again, I'm not Japanese so I didn't understand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't grow up in Tokyo in the 90s Watching this wouldn't happen as a young lad, yeah.
Speaker 3:I can't remember what I said, Nathan, so you're going to probably have to keep me on it. You gave it to MMPR. Oh, of course I did, because I'm a f***er nostalgia, yeah, as you are. Yeah, yeah, I did, I'm the minority here. I gave it to Jure Ranger, but kind of barely, because there's some weird shit in it. Yeah, that doesn't quite add up. They're just different and they're just different enough to make it to where it makes it a sort of an unfair comparison. I think it's a little easier, yeah, yeah, I mean honestly. When it comes to the MMPR season, the only one that I, the only one that is anywhere close to a fair comparison, is Jure Ranger, season two, season two, they used a shockingly little die ranger footage outside of the Mecca. Same thing with they used some more from Kaka Ranger, but even and technically they made the Kaka Rangers into the alien Rangers. But that was just more than a f***ing thing.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, with my more friendly Tommy you come in the White Ranger, like in the other season of Die Ranger. It's a kid. Yeah, it's a kid it was a kid, he's calling it.
Speaker 3:Justin, yeah, but yeah, they were doing Justin before Justin and the co is still better than Justin, but um, but uh, yeah. So, honestly, the first season is the only one that's even remotely fair, because Die. Ranger is so different from MMPR, it's not funny. At least Co got the touch up boob.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I read that like go through Wikipedia. You just like grab some girl like by the chest. He gives like the barbarian hello and he's like what's the prescription? And I'm just reading this, I'm like this is in Power Rangers, like what show?
Speaker 3:No no, it's in Sentai, because the Japanese think it's funny to be pervy, pervy humor. Pervy humor is a thing, a big thing in Japanese.
Speaker 2:Whereas here you get brought to court hey it's true.
Speaker 3:So what you're saying is, if Co did that, if Co did that here, you guys would arrest him and then he'd never become a white Ranger. Oh, he definitely wouldn't be the white Ranger. No, you know, leave that one. That's a little humor of political climate. I'm gonna, I'm gonna make, I'm gonna leave that one.
Speaker 2:We're gonna carefully segue away Mitch.
Speaker 1:Well, like I said, that's pretty much all I had for those. I mean, we've compared and contrasted everything that I could think of. That I wrote down, which was like 21 different things, Wow, yeah, I mean. I mean, the only other thing I saw was like Shoot Ranger it's the 16th season of Super Sentai, whereas this is the first season of Power Rangers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's true. I will say this.
Speaker 2:How old were they making this? This was 1979.
Speaker 3:Yeah, basically. Yeah, I like that, yeah, exactly 1976. Yeah, 1975. I know that 10 years before my birthday. Yeah, I know that, because all of the three big Tokusatsu Superhero franchises are all five years apart, although it's Ultraman 1966, common Rider 1971, and Super Sentai 1976. So they all celebrate milestone anniversaries at the same time, just five years apart. What?
Speaker 1:did.
Speaker 3:I would like to say but I will say this, I will say this At least they were able to adapt the villains from Shoot. Ranger. Oh boy, they weren't trying to get the bad guys from Die Ranger in the show. Oh, leather daddy, leather mama and leather uncle Leather. Lots of there, was, lots of there was lots of phallic villains, Exactly.
Speaker 2:This is a lot of guys out of a smut book.
Speaker 3:But on the other hand, Die Ranger is probably my favorite. Sentai the chief, I'm sure it is. It was Dango, it was Dango, it was. I mean, yeah, it's definitely it's not my favorite season. I enjoyed Die Ranger for what it was.
Speaker 1:What's your favorite?
Speaker 3:right now, michael, probably Mega Ranger is probably my favorite so far. Really Mega Ranger, and I'm yet to finish Time Ranger. I took a little bit of time off, but I'm finished. Oh, what's there From watching Sentai? But yeah, so what is Mega Ranger?
Speaker 1:I'm surprised, I can actually. What season is that for Power Rangers?
Speaker 3:In space, In space Nice. That was the one when we were doing our Sentai covers that finally broke Sentai's streak for me. I finally gave it to Power Rangers with that one because I think I do honestly think in space is better.
Speaker 1:Well, because the Mega Ranger that's in space, that's like a virtual reality for the Japanese version, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's more VR. It's more VR and video games. And the fact that it was basically because, when Saban got early photographs and some early footage from Toei about it, it was like, oh, it must be a space show. And then they started developing a space show and then, when they actually got all the episodes, like, oh, this is a space show, well, we've committed to the space show.
Speaker 2:America, you're up which one is.
Speaker 1:Zio.
Speaker 2:O-Ranger, o-ranger, o-ranger.
Speaker 3:Which is another really good one. It's a little bipolar. I think the tonal whiplash is what got me with O-Ranger.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because good war.
Speaker 3:The first handful of episodes are crazy, dark, crazy dark.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I'll watch that because Zio's like my secret, like favorite season of Power Rangers.
Speaker 3:Hey, I got arguably the best theme song.
Speaker 2:Oh, it is the best theme song.
Speaker 3:Go Go, power Rangers, always be an icon.
Speaker 2:but Zio came, I think I gotta give the edge to Zio Stronger than before.
Speaker 3:It goes hard, it does really hard. It does go pretty hard. Even at the start it does go pretty hard. There have been a couple of seasons that have had really excellent theme songs. Dino Charge had a really excellent theme song.
Speaker 1:Dino Charge was pretty good.
Speaker 3:And I'm one of the weirdos who loves the RPM theme. Apparently, that is unpopular.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wasn't a fan of that. I've been watching that one, my kids I don't know what your problem is, this is Power Rangers by way of Metallica.
Speaker 3:So, Seriously listen to the RPM theme and then listen to Fuel.
Speaker 2:I pretty much have the news of all the Well, like the Zio theme got set up perfectly. When they get the crystals and they're getting all their colors and like they got the helmets and like they take off the helmets and like they do the cool pose and that's the first time you hear the Zio rip and it's just like, yes, that's how you do an intro.
Speaker 3:To a good theme. I still tear up watching that I'm sorry, or you just introduced RAP in the Power Rangers, no. Who did that RAP. Well, mystic Force technically did it. First it was okay, and then you got the Operation Overdrive and that theme song just reeked of Hello, fellow kid. This is popular with you kiddos right. This is Overdrive.
Speaker 2:I invited Stupid yeah.
Speaker 3:I invite you to go and look that theme up on YouTube. It's a treasure. Neil Stenson actually improved it with his cover. Yeah, because there were no words.
Speaker 2:You take the words out. There were literally no.
Speaker 3:If you take the words out and just leave the music. It's fine If you take the words out. It's boring, true, but we got to be careful because we did get some not hate mail, but some disgruntled listener mail. You guys get mail About how much we, about us taking on Operation Overdrive. We still get emails from listeners because I guess our episodes are so freaking long that people are just now catching up to every, or just now catching up and we still get. We still get emails. We'll probably get emails long after the show is gone. Like a year from now we're going to get an episode about our Dino, our our Cosmic Fury episode. Hey, just finish your Cosmic Fury episode. I have questions Like well, that was two years ago, sir, speaking of Cosmic Fury how'd you like that?
Speaker 1:That last, how Zed loses a Michael, um, I thought it was. I don't care how many times you have to bleep this out.
Speaker 3:Cosmic Fury is. I'll save you the trouble from watching Tom. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1:Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I had a good one.
Speaker 2:And we have two more people who just got out of trouble from watching Tom, thank you, they talked Zed out of being back. What?
Speaker 3:This is the show predicate on beating the crap out of monsters Exactly the giant robot Guys. I got to tell the story. I got to tell the story Because they ended up watching the last episode of Cosmic Fury's White the afternoon and then he started because we watched the what like the first three episodes together, michael. Then we, then we you know we had to and then I finished it and you watched it later and you were getting sent to me a play by play over text message like oh, were you at the last episode?
Speaker 1:yet Like yeah, okay, I want to watch that one with you.
Speaker 3:So we watched the last episode together and I I, because I had to hear his reaction to everything and he lost it when they talk said down.
Speaker 1:At this point. At this point, lord said, has the power of the morphine mouse masters in his body, like he's souped up and they talk him out of being.
Speaker 3:He even gave himself a new name he was master. Said master Zed because apparently master is higher than Lord. He gave himself a promotion, master Zed, and for it, and his punishment was to be was to be subservient to his ex-wife for all of eternity. I don't know if it's actually technically a strange, whatever, whatever a strange to be subservient to his estranged wife for all of eternity.
Speaker 1:I want to curse. It wasn't even actually her.
Speaker 3:It was an illusion. Right as someone, as someone who has been, who is divorced, that is a pretty terrible way to spend the rest of your life.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying, I'm not discounting that that could be a horrible form of purgatory.
Speaker 3:That sounds like a horrible, horrible way to spend the rest of your life. But at the same time, I'm thinking to myself. You know, this is lazy and the writers don't give a sh** and all they cared about was that last line cool, cool, f**king coolio. And I'm just glad, honestly, I'm just glad that we got once and always, because once and always is a better finale for Power Rangers than Cosmic Fury. I, outside of just outside of a few episodes and outside of like special effects which are really good at InCosmic Fury and in Dino Fury, the last, the finale for Dino Fury, was really really good, yeah, but that was the end type footage A lot. Yeah, most of us end type footage, but the, the finales were really good. And the CGI, all the special effects it was, the production value for Cosmic Fury and Dino Fury are excellent. Yes, they are, it's just everything. It's just everything else, that's right. I will never forget how one of the biggest revelations in that last episode went over your head until I explained it Because it doesn't exist. Oh, I wasn't even paying it. That's how, that's how rant mastering he was doing, I was, so it went right over his head. So thrilled with range, I was so fuming, I was fuming, I was fuming at this freaking episode that I missed the part where it is said that that Zato is Zord off. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He Zato encounters a being who looks like him in the grid right and said it's, it's just like I used to say May the power protect you. And then it was left and it went right over your head. I don't like you know. No, did that not register? No, no, no, it didn't register. Because you know what my, my happy little 1993 lovin heart wanted to see. Actually, lord on, not, not, they know, pretending to be bored, all right. Well, I think the idea potentially was that they were setting up there that there could be more.
Speaker 1:Well, for now.
Speaker 2:Rangers to just beat them up, because they technically still have the At this point. They should be just strong as that. And there's five of them.
Speaker 3:Well, no, no, no, no, no no, you, you clearly forget that the masterpiece that is the, that is, turbo power Rangers, will be told us oh, the powers. Are immense, are incredible and probably getting you know more powerful as they go on, but they have the worst kryptonite ever water, water, and I'm pretty sure there was at least one point where there was water involved at CEO.
Speaker 2:They just glossed out. Well, they didn't know about it yet.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they couldn't hurt them, they didn't know the turbo movie cats going to morphin. She has, the water just disappears.
Speaker 3:Oh, and that's as much explanation as you get for why they stop using the geopowers. The turbo movie is a punch line. I still have a soft spot for that movie. Yes, the Belgium courses. Hey, you know. Oh hey that's a yes, we get it. You're a diva. That was a lot for a kid. That was all. That was a lot like there was.
Speaker 2:That was an awakening for a lot of you boys.
Speaker 3:I think it was bad, for most of you thought you thought Ivan was still it out. I mean, my god, hillary shepherd just spilling out everywhere, wow, I will say this Hillary shepherds a better diva talks than the lady they had at the first half of the show. Well, that's because Hillary shepherds was pregnant. She was off having a baby, yeah, which I was in on that. I respect her for doing that. Good on that guy Lucky.
Speaker 1:On that note, we're gonna have to wrap it up so we can get to our next part that we're gonna talk about.
Speaker 3:Okay, okay, okay, since we're doing it now, um, so you can listen to the power trip attorney. Through the power use franchise, you can catch up on all of the news episodes and they're extremely long, but it's great content, lots of entertainment, lots of entertainment there. Not ours once we went five hours once. Right here you are correct.
Speaker 2:I want to like almost.
Speaker 1:Why didn't we?
Speaker 3:we had several three and a half or Four pushing five episodes in our, in our catalog you can listen to. So you've got plenty of time, but outside of that I don't have a tongue going on, like, like I said, off-cast. You know, my involvement with Kaiji ramen is over, so I don't have that to work about anymore and and Every thing, like all monsters I'm you know monsters attitude on YouTube, bunch of great guys we get together we talk about I'm not involved, kaiji ramen. And then you went back.
Speaker 1:Oh, I said, when we were.
Speaker 3:I said when we were off-cast, oh, when we were off-cast, pay attention, they didn't see one.
Speaker 1:I'm too poor to pay attention.
Speaker 3:Hey, you've done. To pay attention too. Um but um, monsters, that it's not for that attitude on YouTube, where we just talk about, you know, kaiju and toksaku and all the fun things that come along with that. I'll start with that man, just oh. Power Rangers legacy Facebook group Go join that and have a good time with us or don't.
Speaker 2:I did if you don't wait, or don't, or don't, or don't like if you don't want to join that fine, sorry for you. I feel sorry for you. I feel sorry for you.
Speaker 3:If you hate fun, that's fine. I don't. I mean, I don't want to be your friend. Yeah we have been told we have the, the kindest Power Ranger group on Facebook, which is a really low bar to cross, apparently. Yeah, apparently. Yeah, there's all right, nathan, go ahead, go ahead and enact your spiritual gift of shameless self promotion, feeling my catchphrase again. Yeah, you already mentioned the power trip. I am also the host of the monster island foam ball, the podcast seeking entertainment and enlightenment. To talk to that it goes into. You know, a lot of took a shot to movies Advocationally. Has Michael on to talk Power Rangers you? He came on to. We talked about green with evil. You know he sponsored that on patreon. That was a good time, actually, that was a really good episode. I have to say it was a nice supplement to the first episode of the power trip. Yes, we know Michael, we know my okay, okay, well, I will go find everything else that is not your ego and shoot it. All right, you'll be fine. Oh, and also, just yeah, just because I'm crazy like this, you know you can also listen to some. You know the film ball also, besides being a film appreciation podcast, also has audio drama segments in it many of which feature this knucklehead.
Speaker 2:You like being the bad guy a lot and if you're really Turn your radio to 88.4, you can hear my thoughts.
Speaker 3:Well now, mr Machan, I don't have a clue what you're talking about. You, a damn boy. What is this? Many characters, mr Gold? All right, although my personal favorite still, whd 3.
Speaker 1:Oh, of course yeah nothing.
Speaker 3:Nothing can top that that is. Pete Michael is WHD 3 but, and then also.
Speaker 1:I was.
Speaker 3:Huh. I said I have Pete. Yeah, you have Pete, yeah, yes, you have me quite.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, that's where it came from, but anyway. And then I was also the host of henshin men, which was a focus on to television Podcast, focused primarily on the original comment writer. It did do some episodes on some other things and I'm Just about to wrap that show up and hopefully do a spin-off slash sequel To both that and power trip, which I'll talk a little bit more about that once I get some things a little more Chet stone, power or that. Yeah, I'm also one. I'm also a member of Carl Dutton stable of actors over at shyther ink productions. I've been on power, interesting audio drama, most famously as reed o bandora or read over a falter, whichever name you prefer. And I also made my debut on X, many other drama, as of all people, deadpool, and I will soon be on the Avengers audio drama spin-off from X men that one of Carl's friends is doing as Jotty storm baby. So, yeah, oh yeah, that's all folks. And then, if and then, if you want to check out my writings and learn more about the writer side of the things that I do, go check out my Author website, nathan J as Marjancom, basically everything, and then you know if you go to months or own phone vault calm the website for that. You can find links to all the socials in that.
Speaker 2:I'm told your novels are best sellers with the criminally insane Actually.
Speaker 3:Because I am criminally insane.
Speaker 1:All right, well, that's all we have for today. So it's me and Tom, and who else we have Michael.
Speaker 3:I.