June 2, 2025 • 30 mins
Remember when the Green Ranger was only supposed to appear in five episodes? How a villain became the franchise's biggest hero is just one of the nostalgic gems unpacked in this rapid-fire journey through childhood favorites and convention excitement. Next the boys dive into Resident Alien, the quirky sci-fi series starring Firefly's Alan Tudyk as an extraterrestrial navigating small-town Colorado while solving murder mysteries. Whether you're planning to visit Houston this summer, looking for your next streaming binge, or simply want to relive the glory days of "Go Go Power Rangers," this episode hits all the right spots. Don't believe it?!? Tune in to find out!!!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you so much, god, it's soloud in here.
For joining us on the WPFPodcast.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's one of your hosts, it's your boy, merc, and
it's your boy X-Fan, and it'syour boy Oski, in the mix, in
the mix, guys, do we have?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
a fun episode for you today.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Do we, we really do?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Do we, do we we really do?
Do we?
We're going to talk abouteverything and anything.
You know what?
We're going to take some randomtopics that are going to pop
into our heads today we're goingto talk about Comicpalooza.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Oh, for sure, we're going to do our Comicpalooza
roundup.
Yeehaw, absolutely, guys.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We are less than a month away at this point from
Comic-Con 19 days approximately.
We got our schedule, so we'regoing to give you all the
announcements, so much more onthis particular episode.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And the blue link.
Give me the blue link.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Always in our profile .
All right, you guys ready.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Let's go Before we get into our rapid fire topics.
This week, we're going to callthis episode Rapid Fire.
Oh, I like that.
If you've been following uslistening to our episodes, you
already know where we're goingto be June 20th through the 22nd
.
That's right, ladies and?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
gentlemen, we will be in Houston, texas, but
specifically where?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
At the George R Brown Convention Center.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
For what event?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
The Comicpalooza 2025 .
Speaker 2 (01:26):
That's right guys.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
June 20th through the 22nd, that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's a three-day convention Friday, saturday and
Sunday.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It's really really exciting guys.
Big stuff is going on.
There is an official schedulethat is out that we have now.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh, yes, they did drop the schedule, so we're
gonna.
Let's give the dates for ourpanel.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
yeah, shall we shall, we shall we I feel, like we
have drumroll somewhere on here,but not it that's not the
drumroll.
That is not it either I feellike suki's gonna eventually get
our labeling right.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
None of them it's in there somewhere.
There's a drumroll in there,though yeah, but it's not there
now.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
See, look, you have to start paying her dog.
It's been five years anyway,okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So one of the first panels we're gonna uh host is
gonna be on june 20th, that'sfriday, june 20th, that's right
at 3 45m.
That one's going to be a funpanel about how to start an
anime podcast hosted by us,yours truly, witty Bantamedia.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Really.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Really, it was really loud.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Live audience.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
thank you so much for your applause In that panel
we're going to show you how tostart a podcast.
We're going to set up ascenario where we walk you from
concept idea all the way topublishing the podcast itself.
We do throw an anime twist toit, because we talk about so
much anime and it's fun to likeanime it up, if you know what I
mean.
But this panel is also foreverybody else.
(03:01):
Anybody can learn it.
You can literally take all theinformation from the panel and
start your own podcast oncooking or whatever else you
want.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Thank you so much.
I'm glad we're getting newsound effects today.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
We can just let Suki stay downstairs next time.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, bro, I'm not doing it again.
This is why you keep on thebeat.
I'll stop.
What's the next?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
one.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And our podcast program panel, the one that's
going to be at the podcastpavilion stage, is going to be
on June 22nd.
That's Sunday, june 22nd, at 11am.
So on Sunday, before you stopby on Sunday, before you stop by
to do shopping and everythingelse, come to our panel first.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's right guys.
We have an early panel 11o'clock in the morning Sunday,
that is, june 22nd, 11 am towhat?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It's a 45 minute panel.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So 11.45 am.
That's right guys.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Most panels are 45 minutes.
At Comic Palooza the panel isWestern Animation vs Anime.
We had this debate BeforeWestern Animation vs Japanese
Anime.
I forget the Japanese.
We had this debate before thisdebate panel at other
conventions, so if you want tolike, bring your take.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I want your hot take Bring it.
Who do you think has really gotit?
Who's killing it more?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
the.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
US or the anime community.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
First we're going to break it down, we're going to
analyze it and then maybe at theend we can take some Q&A.
Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So, get ready, guys.
We have that one coming up foryou.
Really, really excited again.
It's just fun stuff to come andsit down and talk to us about.
Thank you, hey Suki.
Would you mind turning down thecrowd?
Doug, I feel like they're in myanus right now.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Sounds just like your mom.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I feel the echo coming out of my mouth.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Watch it's so cool that the announcement is
scheduled.
Did somebody come in your mom'sbrother's old and dead baby?
It's all your mom's.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I don't know where that came from.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
That's terrible, that's disgusting you kissed her
after you don't they announcedthe schedule, so the darbator
panel, uh, is gonna be at 7 pmon friday.
That's really fucking exciting.
Hating christensen friday onfriday.
Yeah, friday night.
(05:23):
Friday night is the haydenchristensen panel at 7 pm.
They are selling golden ticketsand silver tickets to that
panel if you want to sit upfront speed passes, all kinds of
like the diamond ticket.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
He actually force, chokes you we um, we did it last
year I would pay for that.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
We, we did it last year for michael j fox and it
was a really, really greatexperience.
If you guys haven't or areconsidering it on the fence
Didn't you hold?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
it for Michael J Fox in the restroom.
I did.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I shook it for him, pun intended at the stall man
that's so tight.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
The legend himself.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No, I really didn't bump into him at the bathroom.
It's a crazy story.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I'll tell you guys about't heard about how I fucked
that.
Do you hear that whole?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
story about Merc.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Shaking it for.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Michael J Fox at the Pisser, that's right.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's a kind of story.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
But yeah, go on the Comic Palooza site, check out
the passes, check out the FAQs,get more information.
But that's going to be ourpanels and find that's right
guys.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So much fun and so much more that's going to be
happening, but we'll see you atComicpalooza.
Like I said, less than 30 days,go get your tickets now.
Prices are always going to goup.
The closer it gets, the closerit gets.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Let me go first on this rapid fire.
Speaking of Comicpalooza, Idecided to binge over Memorial
Day weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I wonder if you know, was it Memorial Day weekend
that just passed?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yes, weekend I bench uh resting an alien.
Oh, I know, what is it?
tell me you know it was actuallyit's got this dry humor kind of
okay.
This is like where it's like,uh, I mean it's funny, like it's
actually my kind of humor towhere, like it's just random,
like I don't know where some ofthe characters be saying some
like out-of-pocket shit.
That doesn't make sense and Ithink it's hilarious.
Okay, the premise is basicallythese alien crash lands in the
small town, colorado, in thesmall town of Patience, colorado
(07:07):
, in deep in the mountains.
You know small town America.
He tries to blend in with thetown and there's a murder
mystery and a bunch of otherstuff.
Alan Tudyk is the maincharacter.
He voices a lot of characterseverywhere.
I know him from a little oldseries called Firefly.
For all my brown codes outthere, yes, where you got Brand
(07:27):
codes, if you haven't watchedFirefly you don't know what it
is, but my Firefly people willknow.
Okay, in that series he has oneof the most quotable lines I'm
a leaf in the wind.
Watch how I float, because he'sthe pilot of the ship.
Okay, sorry.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I guess you have to watch it.
You have to watch it.
You really have to watch it.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You have to watch it.
Go back and watch the classicFirefly and then the sequel
movie, serenity.
But Resident Alien is actuallyreally good and after watching
it I'm excited to see the cast,because the whole cast is coming
to come.
Four, four people from the maincast.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, like from the main cast.
Yeah, like four people from themain cast.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
It's like Alan Tudyk, the main alien, and then the
main girl that's like becomesbest friends with the alien, and
then the other sidekick girlwell, not sidekick, but you know
what I mean the sheriff.
The sheriff is the.
The sheriff.
He's black and he comes in theanytime a new character gets
introduced, he's like hey, damn,okay, that tells you the kind
(08:27):
of humor that the show hasinteresting.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Uh, how many seasons just?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
one.
Oh, it's three seasons, it'sthree.
I didn't know it was like ithad that long of a running oh
damn episodes like, the firstseason is like eight and then
the second is like 16.
I think the third is also 16,okay, and season four is about
to premiere, next week.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Oh, so it's still going.
It's still going.
Oh, I had no idea.
I thought it was over already.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
It's like three seasons strong and about to
premiere at 4.1.
Oh wow.
That's pretty dope, it's wildGood on them.
Yeah, because it's one of thoseshows where I'm like Resident
Alien, resident Alien, I don'tthink I've heard it.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And then I little trailer and I'm like oh, I know
this, uh, you know yeah I didsee trailers for it, but again
I'm like oh, it's one of thosethings we're like am I gonna
watch that yeah, I just didn'tpick it up, but because comic
palooza is coming up.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I picked it up, it was a super quick.
You know, it was a quick watchfor me and it has this thing.
Okay, here's.
Here's one thing.
I'm gonna transition to anothertopic rapid fire.
Sorry, take the first two.
You know how those old schoolshows like have writers approach
them.
Yeah, it has that thing where,like a few episodes in, they
don't really know what to dowith this character, so they
(09:37):
kind of throw away that plotline or they maybe this
character got really popular andthey're like maybe we could do
something else with this plotline.
You know how you could tellthat shows kind of had that
thing.
Yeah, you know, especially theshows that were in TV where you
had 24 episodes, so you had awhole season and the shows in
production was airing, so thewriters get to see the reaction
(09:59):
of the crowd.
It's like, oh, people reallyhate this character.
We should kill them off.
Yeah, as an example, eventhough they had a plan for it
and you could tell they had aplan.
But as an example, it's like,oh, everybody hates this
character.
Everybody hates uh, I'm gonnause arrow because I went on
forever but everybody hatedblack canary, so they killed her
off, but then they killed heroff and it was like, well, she
was a really good actress, let'stry to bring her back.
(10:21):
And she came back as whitecanary oh, that's right, that's
right, that's right.
I do remember that, yeah butyou can tell a lot of is too.
Uh, with the netflix era, withthe fact that shows get written
for like a full season, like afull eight episodes, before it
even goes into like productionand it gets dropped as a whole,
I think you lose some of that.
Um, um momentum that productionwriting like that mid-production
(10:46):
writing where, like they couldchange course, streaming shows
are kind of locked into thestory no matter what happens.
Yeah, if people hate thecharacter well, it's too late.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah, they'll have to see the show yeah.
That's true Versus coming outweek by week, like for me.
A good example of that is theGreen Ranger and Power Rangers.
Remember he supposed to be onfor that?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
He was only supposed to be on for five episodes.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
That's it.
Oh, for real.
Yeah, his original run.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
He was supposed to be a one and done villain.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yes, well, I mean one and five.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
One and five, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah but he was
supposed to be a one and done.
Villain of the week.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
He was the villain of the week.
Yeah, children between the ageof like five and 11 were all
tuned in at like at primetime tvthe fact that he fucking
(11:37):
stopped a mud hole and all therangers for no reason other than
just to be like y'all wantedthe smoke.
I'm here he was.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
He was a big league hater bro he was a one hater he
was.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I hate the way that you talk, I way that you walk
the way that you talk.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
He was Kendrick-level hating bro.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Dead ass.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
But yeah that's right .
Speaker 3 (11:54):
They only kept him as the wide ranger because he was
so popular.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
He was so beloved.
It's so typical that, just likea game, once he joins your
party he's nerfed like amotherfucker.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Oh, what happened to this epic badass?
Yeah bro, he's in your party.
You got to nerf him.
Yeah bro, sorry, we took awayall of his skills.
You know all the shit that youreally loved about him.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah, we're going to let him get his ass whooped now.
Yeah, yeah, but that was areally good example, but the
White Rangers was still epic,though you know what I'm saying.
Yeah, but J-D-R.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
No, jason J-D-F.
Jason, david Frank, yeah, j-d-f.
That's it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, and we apologize.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Let me make sure I got it right, because RIP, yeah,
rip.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
No, absolutely.
I mean, that guy was an icon.
He made the circuit rounds andstuff like that.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I saw the HBO behind the scenes of the Power.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Rangers.
Frank, I did get it right, sojdf.
Um, I haven't watched the uhdocumentary.
It's really good.
Not only you.
One of my co-workers said thesame thing that it was.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That episode is like a must watch it's a must watch
for me personally because, whenI saw that I was like I gotta
see what's going on, whathappened.
It does give you backstory.
That's kind of sad, but it itdoes put in your mind something
of how that power rangersquote-unquote curse kind of
takes effect where it's like youare like one of the biggest
stars into children.
You know you're a hero, bro,for a season, maybe two if
(13:16):
you're lucky.
But they said after the original, like run of rangers, whoever
wanted to stay on?
Because they fired the firstset.
They fired the yellow ranger,the black ranger and the red
ranger because the yellow rangermade like a comment like she
went off, apparently at a, at aluncheon with all the production
companies, bro, and they werefired because they were all
represented by the same agent.
So all three of them gotreplaced and it was just
(13:37):
kimberly and billy and tommythat ended up staying on and the
showrunner was basically likeof the originals, they can stay
as long as they want until theywant to leave.
So that's why tommy got suchand then they would bring him
back every now and then,obviously to bring up the
franchise because he was such aloved character.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
But can you imagine that?
Because he was one of the fewactors that owned it.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, like really fell into that and loved it
absolutely.
But can you imagine being likenumber one, loved by children
for a year and then the next oneyou're?
You know you're selling shoesat footlocker as an because
they're kind of typecast.
Yeah, that's it Now.
At that point you can't be,ever be looked at.
You're not a serious actor,You're a Power Ranger.
You're a Power Ranger.
You're a Power Ranger, bro.
You're a great.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Ranger, you're not a thespian.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
But you're not, tom Cruise.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
You're not Michael B Jordan.
You know how like done right ifyou think about it yeah,
especially like seeing now likesome Japanese TikToks about
modern day Japan, modern dayPower Rangers.
They have like anime effectslike Rengoku, you know, the fire
around them and shit.
They're like teleport, but it'slive action, bro, and they're
(14:44):
like teleporting being the shit,it's even more.
Or even like up there like Iwas like damn, I want to catch
up now, like I want to see, likenot only that, but I want to
see movement.
What's his name?
Not moving writer?
Common writer Right, I want tosee common writer now, like all
of it, cause it looks dope Like.
But the thing like they justcombine words that just sound
(15:13):
cool, like they have orange soda, you know, and then like
suddenly like an armor of like aguy, orange soda appears.
He's like orange soda.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You know, the the ultimate moves do sound a lot
better in japanese than inenglish no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
They're the actual japanese.
It's actual japanese.
They just when they're, whenthey're doing Kamen Rider, when
they're activating their shit,it's just something random, like
a red refrigerator.
Hot wheel and they're like arefrigerator-ass armor, but it's
dope.
We're like damn, that's whatyou guys think.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Something cool about the Kamen Rider.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
There was one where a guy shook the soda can and then
he activated it, activated itLike, and then the soda can
became the armor.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Okay, I'm thinking like that's pretty cool, though
that's a Tony.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Stark level.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
shit bro Like walked up and just.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And then fucking Sailor Moon transformation.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, bro, that's bad .
Sailor Moon styletransformation that's pretty
fucking cool.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I don't want to be mad at it, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I don't know where he turns butt ass naked and starts
to start shooting through him.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
You're like what's going on with this fucking guy?
Beetleborgs or some shit.
Big bad beetleborgs, Big badbeetleborgs, Bro, when they
cross over with Power Rangers.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I forgot about that crossover.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I just saw it bro, they did, they did.
They fucking fall on the moonor some shit like that they come
over to angel grove.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
It's like power rangers or something like that,
bro yeah they do fight.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It's so cool and remember the ninja turtles even
had a crossovers oh yeahoriginal was like I'm on your
left cap.
You know what I'm saying.
That was like you broughteverybody.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, you wanted me to bring more I've seen seen
some TikTok ones where they,like the Japanese ones, bring
all the Red Rangers from all thetimelines.
That's like Power.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Rangers.
The American version did it too.
Yeah, they did when, like theyhad all the teams and then Tommy
wasn't like for the team.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, bro, he wasn't Red Ranger always and forever.
Something like that is the nameof the episode yeah, in forever
, something like that.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
His name of the episode.
Yeah, because he he's been awhite ranger, a green ranger, a
red ranger and I think he's ablack ranger a black ranger.
He's the only one who's beenlike four different colors.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, and he, but he kills it every time.
Yeah, yeah, but um, but yeah,that was.
Uh, that was like an iconicthing because they had like 32
freaking versions.
Like there was another onewhere they had like 11 or 15
different squads of rangers thatall showed up that was epic too
but when it's just all
Speaker 3 (17:27):
the red.
I mean I never kept watchingand, like I'm, we're gonna age
ourselves.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I only watched the first three generations I
watched for a good little while,probably three or four, yeah
yeah, yeah, I remember turboyeah, there was like two or
three movies that I kept up Ididn't watch.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I didn't watch turbo I watched turbo.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I think it was like what was it?
The?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
first ones where the swords were like dinosaurs.
Right, that was the original.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Power Rangers.
That's right, mighty Morphin.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Mighty Morphin Right, and then the second ones.
They were ninjas right.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yes, the second one, they were ninjas.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
The Red Ranger.
He got the gorilla.
No, he had a dragon.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Oh, he did have the dragon that.
That was like the old schoolJapanese style.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah, it turned into a ninja, and then it turned into
a dragon.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
So badass, no reason, but all of them.
Yes, the dragon swords.
The dragon swords.
That's what they were.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
That was the second generation and then the third
generation were the reallybadass ones.
The third generation was wherethey turn into in Power Rangers,
the movie yeah, that's whenthey get the badass armor
upgrades yeah, the gorilla yeah.
The frog.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
The frog.
That movie was badass man.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
That movie was badass until it was like.
Ivan Ooze is like getting aFunko Pop.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Is he?
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
30 years later, bro, after 30 years, Ivan Ooze is
like finally getting like afunkabob I mean deserved, but
damn dog, is he even around tosign?
It if I was like the funkabobcame with like ooze on the side
oh, that would be cool.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Like a little cup of it transforms you like the movie
.
That would be dope, but anyway,yeah, like that movie was so
90s but I wouldn't saymotherfuckers are jumping out of
this, no reason.
Why do they skydive before?
Because of teamwork, bro, bro,fuck it.
Why not?
Tommy comes out on a surfboardor like a snowboard, why?
(19:15):
But it's so badass, it is socool.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And then they start roller skating down the street.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I love it.
They're the Power Rangers, bro.
They're go-go Power Rangers.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I'm saying I remember when they got that suit it was
some, some, some lady from thejungle, like gave him some pants
, some pendants.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
She was like fine, questionably dressed for a kid's
movie she was no, she was justjust right and she was, uh, she
was, uh, she was in some othersci-fi series and that's why she
was popular really, and she wasrecasted midway through the
movie, so they had, to like,redo her whole scenes, damn.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
What yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That movie had like A bunch of problems, a difficult
production.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Oh I didn't know, that.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah, the suits were custom made for the movie
because they wanted the suits tolook badass instead of the skin
size Dude.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
the suits were so gangsta dog I like how they had
like With the armor style suitsstyle suit came in Flashlights
and shit.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Oh yeah, that shit didn't let them see more than
five feet in front of them.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
What the fuck it was cool because the yellow right
here was the saber tooth.
Yeah so the saber tooth eyeswere flashlights.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, come on, I remember like whoa, how about
when she got?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
her ass handed to her .
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Fighting the dark and shit and the Blue.
Bro, I just got my ass handedto me.
What the fuck?
But no, I want to say afterthat, after the movie, I want to
see a live action With NinjaTurtle.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I want to see that shit In the movies, man, cause
I've seen comics Of PowerRangers.
That shit is brutal.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Those are like they do, like a prequel comic, where
it's like sword and is it sword?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Or like the Sword on Sword on the floating face.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Because there's a ranger war that leads to him
ending up on Earth or something.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
It's like a prequel thing where he always picks some
race, something like that,where it's like an alternate
universe, where Tommy went evilor some shit like that and he
has like the white and the green.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
What was the name of the witch?
The witch Rita Repulsa, ritaRepulsa.
There's a comic where RitaRepulsa like because Rita in the
beginning of the she comes out,yeah.
Right After 5,000 years,there's a comic of the 5,000
years how she like the reasonshe was sealed in there is
because in that seal is like anAI that made her relive every
(21:20):
single day the pain that sheinflicted on the universe.
So she will relive every dayfor 5,000 years like the victims
that she like conquered all theplanets and killed only to come
out and be like ah, fuck it,you know, do it all over again.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
That's why she wanted to mention Sorda the whole time
, damn.
No I didn't know that, but Iknow the comics do get really
mature.
It's kind of funny because thecomics obviously we watched it
as a child.
I always wanted a more adulttake on the Power Rangers.
It's something you kind ofcrave because we all grew up
watching it and now we're likeman.
I wish we had an adult take thenew live action movie that came
(21:58):
out.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I don't know five years ago.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It was really good.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It was good.
I enjoyed it I liked it.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
They had the Tommy and.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
T-shirt at the end.
I know they just had a slip, Idon't know what happened.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Bro, Becky G was one of the rangers.
She was the yellow ranger.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Was she Becky G Becky ?
G was the yellow ranger, it'slike one of her only acting
credits.
Oh my God, I remember that.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yeah, she's like this tall.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Oh no, I had no idea bro.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's crazy, but I enjoyed it, it wasn't a bad
movie bro, the monster was thebig golden monster.
What was his?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
name yeah, Goldar.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Goldar Damn.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I know a lot of shit.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I thought you were a Rangers fan.
I was a when he was all fuckinghe was one of the worst
villains.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Like he could like put up with Rita and take on all
the Avengers at the same time.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, remember he put her like in a little jar and
shit like that.
Her and her henchmen, he's likeshut up.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
He did scary as fuck bro.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
He was menacing and he turned giant a couple times.
He would actually like comedown and fight, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
He.
I wish you would have made him.
I wish you would have met himbefore he passed away, because
he was such a cool dude.
I met him at Comicpalooza Iheard man.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I heard Jason DeVe, Frank, yeah the Green.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Ranger, the White Ranger.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Dude, he was the only Red Ranger, the real Ranger.
You know what I'm saying.
When you think of Power Rangers, you think of yeah, because he
has the gym.
He was.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Houston based.
Yeah, I think that's very, verycool about him, bro, but, like
I said, he used to hit all theconcert circuits and everything.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Go go, power Rangers Go get your mental health
checked out, guys.
Don't let it slip.
Even the best heroes out there.
Obviously we struggle with ourdemons, but you know, speaking
of demons and struggling, youknow it made me think of Rita
Repulsa's AI thing that you weretalking about Did you know,
that they made a Death Notemanga.
It's like fan made, where iflight lived yeah, so it's, light
(23:45):
lives.
He makes it to an old man.
He finally tells ryuk that he'sready to die.
Ryuk writes his name in hisbook, but he doesn't have a soul
.
So where does he end up?
He actually ends up in therealm of the shimigamis and
light does and ryuk is there andhe's just like, but he has no
recollection of what the fuckhappened.
Out of nowhere he gets hit by afucking bus right and he's like
what the fuck?
And then ryuk shows up andafter that he gets hit with the
(24:07):
bus.
His memories start coming back.
He's like, bro, what the fuckis going on here?
And he's like, well, like youknow, you killed about and let's
just say a number, you killedyou know 20 000 people, but you
were alive.
He's like you're going to reliveevery single person's death
until you die he's like so everyhow, whatever those deaths were
that you made happen to peopleyou're gonna go and he's like
and once it's over, then you'refinally gonna die.
(24:28):
And he's just like so I havethis much time, though, right,
and he's like bet.
He's like who runs the shimigamiworld, and then he has a heart
attack and he comes back andhe's just like, well, it's so
and so, but you got to come andfind him.
Though he's just like, how do Ibecome the god of the new world
?
He's like, well, you'd have to.
And he's like, bet I got time.
And then he dies again.
But then he just starts walking, bro, and he's like on his hunt
to try to take over how he?
(24:49):
Becomes the king of theDemigami world.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Oh, that's cool man where, like it never gets,
really gets told what happenedto Light it's like well, one
theory is that he becomes aShinigami.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
yeah, and that's his dead note at the very end it's
at the very beginning, like atthe very beginning of when of
the episode.
It's like, hey, go talk to thedemon that fucked around with
with the human, and so the demonhas like brown hair.
So he's like, hey, tell meabout, about the time you fucked
around with humans.
He's like, oh yeah, let me tellyou.
(25:26):
You know, but it was the veryat the very beginning.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, yeah.
So I think that's cool.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
It doesn't get confirmed no, so, like I said, I
think that's the fan theorywhere it connects it all the way
around.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Did you know that?
Uh, there's an easter egg of.
I think we talked about it onDeath Parade.
Yeah, that light goes to thatafterlife.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yes, yes, yes yes, I thought that was such a cool
fucking theory, bro.
But anyway, sorry, it just mademe think of the I know it's
been a bunch of Power Rangerepisode apparently yeah, it's a
Power Ranger episode we're gonnacall it Rapid, rapid, rapid
rangers.
Oh, but we didn't even finishit, bro.
So, like Mighty Morphin's, Ithink Turbo was next, and then
(26:05):
it was Power Rangers in Space,or something like that.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, it kept going, yeah, yeah.
And then there was, like I said, I stopped at three, I stopped
at the Ninja Ranger.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I stopped at Turbo.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I think I went to Turbo, or maybe the next one
Turbo's, the fourth generationTurbo's, the fourth generation.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Turbo's the fourth generation.
Okay, so I went to Turbo, forsure, because Turbo had a movie.
Yeah, I'm like I know.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I made two movies for sure out of the Rangers Almost
three, but I know for sure twoand then after Turbo.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I think it's the In Space or something like that
yeah, and then completely lost.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Because I think before the In Space like a cop
or something like that yeah yeah, yeah, he's super fat bro.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I was in it, fam, and again.
If I'm wrong, please at me.
In the comments I've seen theTikTok ones where, like they
show the Japanese one, like he'ssick as fuck as a gatling gun
and just epic, bro like yeah, Ijust think that America really
stumbled on a good one there,bro like bro, the toys bro yeah,
so much money.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Dude, random plug my orthodontist showtime.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
He has like the toys, he has like the swords and shit
cases of the swords like thefirst generation, the second,
the third, and then that's coolhe has like this legacy edition
which like it's like legacy allblacks platinum edition.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
What and it's like all the black swords and you
know they wrote that.
They wrote that.
Uh, it's like a turtle lookingthing with a long neck.
Yeah, yeah, he had that one.
You're talking about the one,that is all of them.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, like the, like the, the green I remember the
regular and then the turtle.
Yes, the green, the regular andthe turtle, he has that whole
big and then it was like a longneck like a remember to go with
it.
It's called titanium orsomething, bro, that's fucking
sick.
If it cost a thousand, if I hadit.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
You're mining, take my money, fam.
Go, go, power Rangers.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
The ones that I had the ones that I bought.
Was that second generation,that dragon?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I had that dragon.
Yeah, I had the dragon too, butI had the first two generations
.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I had the first generation where you press a
button and the guy's head wouldswitch, when it was like the
main head and the ranger head.
Yeah, same same.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I had those too, those toys were expensive though
they were, and our parentsbought them for us, and where
are they at now?
Fucking in the trash.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Somewhere and the thing is if you had kept them,
some of them actually go for aliving.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I had it.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I think I had the black is going to be in good
condition and you got to havekept the box.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, which is just again.
The boxes don't survive.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Yeah, there's no way.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
If you were strong enough as a child to resist
opening one.
Bro, I mean, you're a thug.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I'll give you credit.
Kudos to you, good sir, butotherwise no, no fucking way, it
doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
But you know what?
Also, that was in the era withthe sick-ass 90s guitar riff for
the fucking intro.
For no reason, bro Suki.
What was your favorite?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Bro, I forgot that.
That was fucking sick.
You're like unlocking a memory.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Bro, I'm telling you I had the game on Sega bro, All
right, my bad my bad Suki.
What was your?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
favorite.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
You know what, Suki?
I want to know who yourfavorite ranger was.
I bet you it was the yellow one.
Anyway, guys, thank you so?
Much for tuning in to the WBMpodcast.
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Speaker 2 (29:19):
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Oh, I almost forgot Shout outto Rebecca.
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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you so much, god, it's soloud in here.
For joining us on the WPFPodcast.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's one of your hosts, it's your boy, merc, and
it's your boy X-Fan, and it'syour boy Oski, in the mix, in
the mix, guys, do we have?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
a fun episode for you today.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Do we, we really do?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Do we, do we we really do?
Do we?
We're going to talk abouteverything and anything.
You know what?
We're going to take some randomtopics that are going to pop
into our heads today we're goingto talk about Comicpalooza.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Oh, for sure, we're going to do our Comicpalooza
roundup.
Yeehaw, absolutely, guys.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We are less than a month away at this point from
Comic-Con 19 days approximately.
We got our schedule, so we'regoing to give you all the
announcements, so much more onthis particular episode.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And the blue link.
Give me the blue link.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Always in our profile .
All right, you guys ready.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Let's go Before we get into our rapid fire topics.
This week, we're going to callthis episode Rapid Fire.
Oh, I like that.
If you've been following uslistening to our episodes, you
already know where we're goingto be June 20th through the 22nd
.
That's right, ladies and?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
gentlemen, we will be in Houston, texas, but
specifically where?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
At the George R Brown Convention Center.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
For what event?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
The Comicpalooza 2025 .
Speaker 2 (01:26):
That's right guys.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
June 20th through the 22nd, that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's a three-day convention Friday, saturday and
Sunday.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It's really really exciting guys.
Big stuff is going on.
There is an official schedulethat is out that we have now.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh, yes, they did drop the schedule, so we're
gonna.
Let's give the dates for ourpanel.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
yeah, shall we shall, we shall we I feel, like we
have drumroll somewhere on here,but not it that's not the
drumroll.
That is not it either I feellike suki's gonna eventually get
our labeling right.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
None of them it's in there somewhere.
There's a drumroll in there,though yeah, but it's not there
now.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
See, look, you have to start paying her dog.
It's been five years anyway,okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
So one of the first panels we're gonna uh host is
gonna be on june 20th, that'sfriday, june 20th, that's right
at 3 45m.
That one's going to be a funpanel about how to start an
anime podcast hosted by us,yours truly, witty Bantamedia.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Really.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Really, it was really loud.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Live audience.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
thank you so much for your applause In that panel
we're going to show you how tostart a podcast.
We're going to set up ascenario where we walk you from
concept idea all the way topublishing the podcast itself.
We do throw an anime twist toit, because we talk about so
much anime and it's fun to likeanime it up, if you know what I
mean.
But this panel is also foreverybody else.
(03:01):
Anybody can learn it.
You can literally take all theinformation from the panel and
start your own podcast oncooking or whatever else you
want.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Thank you so much.
I'm glad we're getting newsound effects today.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
We can just let Suki stay downstairs next time.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, bro, I'm not doing it again.
This is why you keep on thebeat.
I'll stop.
What's the next?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
one.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
And our podcast program panel, the one that's
going to be at the podcastpavilion stage, is going to be
on June 22nd.
That's Sunday, june 22nd, at 11am.
So on Sunday, before you stopby on Sunday, before you stop by
to do shopping and everythingelse, come to our panel first.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's right guys.
We have an early panel 11o'clock in the morning Sunday,
that is, june 22nd, 11 am towhat?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It's a 45 minute panel.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
So 11.45 am.
That's right guys.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Most panels are 45 minutes.
At Comic Palooza the panel isWestern Animation vs Anime.
We had this debate BeforeWestern Animation vs Japanese
Anime.
I forget the Japanese.
We had this debate before thisdebate panel at other
conventions, so if you want tolike, bring your take.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I want your hot take Bring it.
Who do you think has really gotit?
Who's killing it more?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
the.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
US or the anime community.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
First we're going to break it down, we're going to
analyze it and then maybe at theend we can take some Q&A.
Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So, get ready, guys.
We have that one coming up foryou.
Really, really excited again.
It's just fun stuff to come andsit down and talk to us about.
Thank you, hey Suki.
Would you mind turning down thecrowd?
Doug, I feel like they're in myanus right now.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Sounds just like your mom.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I feel the echo coming out of my mouth.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Watch it's so cool that the announcement is
scheduled.
Did somebody come in your mom'sbrother's old and dead baby?
It's all your mom's.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I don't know where that came from.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
That's terrible, that's disgusting you kissed her
after you don't they announcedthe schedule, so the darbator
panel, uh, is gonna be at 7 pmon friday.
That's really fucking exciting.
Hating christensen friday onfriday.
Yeah, friday night.
(05:23):
Friday night is the haydenchristensen panel at 7 pm.
They are selling golden ticketsand silver tickets to that
panel if you want to sit upfront speed passes, all kinds of
like the diamond ticket.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
He actually force, chokes you we um, we did it last
year I would pay for that.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
We, we did it last year for michael j fox and it
was a really, really greatexperience.
If you guys haven't or areconsidering it on the fence
Didn't you hold?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
it for Michael J Fox in the restroom.
I did.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I shook it for him, pun intended at the stall man
that's so tight.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
The legend himself.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
No, I really didn't bump into him at the bathroom.
It's a crazy story.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I'll tell you guys about't heard about how I fucked
that.
Do you hear that whole?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
story about Merc.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Shaking it for.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Michael J Fox at the Pisser, that's right.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
It's a kind of story.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
But yeah, go on the Comic Palooza site, check out
the passes, check out the FAQs,get more information.
But that's going to be ourpanels and find that's right
guys.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
So much fun and so much more that's going to be
happening, but we'll see you atComicpalooza.
Like I said, less than 30 days,go get your tickets now.
Prices are always going to goup.
The closer it gets, the closerit gets.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Let me go first on this rapid fire.
Speaking of Comicpalooza, Idecided to binge over Memorial
Day weekend.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I wonder if you know, was it Memorial Day weekend
that just passed?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yes, weekend I bench uh resting an alien.
Oh, I know, what is it?
tell me you know it was actuallyit's got this dry humor kind of
okay.
This is like where it's like,uh, I mean it's funny, like it's
actually my kind of humor towhere, like it's just random,
like I don't know where some ofthe characters be saying some
like out-of-pocket shit.
That doesn't make sense and Ithink it's hilarious.
Okay, the premise is basicallythese alien crash lands in the
small town, colorado, in thesmall town of Patience, colorado
(07:07):
, in deep in the mountains.
You know small town America.
He tries to blend in with thetown and there's a murder
mystery and a bunch of otherstuff.
Alan Tudyk is the maincharacter.
He voices a lot of characterseverywhere.
I know him from a little oldseries called Firefly.
For all my brown codes outthere, yes, where you got Brand
(07:27):
codes, if you haven't watchedFirefly you don't know what it
is, but my Firefly people willknow.
Okay, in that series he has oneof the most quotable lines I'm
a leaf in the wind.
Watch how I float, because he'sthe pilot of the ship.
Okay, sorry.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I guess you have to watch it.
You have to watch it.
You really have to watch it.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You have to watch it.
Go back and watch the classicFirefly and then the sequel
movie, serenity.
But Resident Alien is actuallyreally good and after watching
it I'm excited to see the cast,because the whole cast is coming
to come.
Four, four people from the maincast.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, like from the main cast.
Yeah, like four people from themain cast.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
It's like Alan Tudyk, the main alien, and then the
main girl that's like becomesbest friends with the alien, and
then the other sidekick girlwell, not sidekick, but you know
what I mean the sheriff.
The sheriff is the.
The sheriff.
He's black and he comes in theanytime a new character gets
introduced, he's like hey, damn,okay, that tells you the kind
(08:27):
of humor that the show hasinteresting.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Uh, how many seasons just?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
one.
Oh, it's three seasons, it'sthree.
I didn't know it was like ithad that long of a running oh
damn episodes like, the firstseason is like eight and then
the second is like 16.
I think the third is also 16,okay, and season four is about
to premiere, next week.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Oh, so it's still going.
It's still going.
Oh, I had no idea.
I thought it was over already.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
It's like three seasons strong and about to
premiere at 4.1.
Oh wow.
That's pretty dope, it's wildGood on them.
Yeah, because it's one of thoseshows where I'm like Resident
Alien, resident Alien, I don'tthink I've heard it.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And then I little trailer and I'm like oh, I know
this, uh, you know yeah I didsee trailers for it, but again
I'm like oh, it's one of thosethings we're like am I gonna
watch that yeah, I just didn'tpick it up, but because comic
palooza is coming up.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I picked it up, it was a super quick.
You know, it was a quick watchfor me and it has this thing.
Okay, here's.
Here's one thing.
I'm gonna transition to anothertopic rapid fire.
Sorry, take the first two.
You know how those old schoolshows like have writers approach
them.
Yeah, it has that thing where,like a few episodes in, they
don't really know what to dowith this character, so they
(09:37):
kind of throw away that plotline or they maybe this
character got really popular andthey're like maybe we could do
something else with this plotline.
You know how you could tellthat shows kind of had that
thing.
Yeah, you know, especially theshows that were in TV where you
had 24 episodes, so you had awhole season and the shows in
production was airing, so thewriters get to see the reaction
(09:59):
of the crowd.
It's like, oh, people reallyhate this character.
We should kill them off.
Yeah, as an example, eventhough they had a plan for it
and you could tell they had aplan.
But as an example, it's like,oh, everybody hates this
character.
Everybody hates uh, I'm gonnause arrow because I went on
forever but everybody hatedblack canary, so they killed her
off, but then they killed heroff and it was like, well, she
was a really good actress, let'stry to bring her back.
(10:21):
And she came back as whitecanary oh, that's right, that's
right, that's right.
I do remember that, yeah butyou can tell a lot of is too.
Uh, with the netflix era, withthe fact that shows get written
for like a full season, like afull eight episodes, before it
even goes into like productionand it gets dropped as a whole,
I think you lose some of that.
Um, um momentum that productionwriting like that mid-production
(10:46):
writing where, like they couldchange course, streaming shows
are kind of locked into thestory no matter what happens.
Yeah, if people hate thecharacter well, it's too late.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah, they'll have to see the show yeah.
That's true Versus coming outweek by week, like for me.
A good example of that is theGreen Ranger and Power Rangers.
Remember he supposed to be onfor that?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
He was only supposed to be on for five episodes.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
That's it.
Oh, for real.
Yeah, his original run.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
He was supposed to be a one and done villain.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yes, well, I mean one and five.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
One and five, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah but he was
supposed to be a one and done.
Villain of the week.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
He was the villain of the week.
Yeah, children between the ageof like five and 11 were all
tuned in at like at primetime tvthe fact that he fucking
(11:37):
stopped a mud hole and all therangers for no reason other than
just to be like y'all wantedthe smoke.
I'm here he was.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
He was a big league hater bro he was a one hater he
was.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I hate the way that you talk, I way that you walk
the way that you talk.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
He was Kendrick-level hating bro.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Dead ass.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
But yeah that's right .
Speaker 3 (11:54):
They only kept him as the wide ranger because he was
so popular.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
He was so beloved.
It's so typical that, just likea game, once he joins your
party he's nerfed like amotherfucker.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Oh, what happened to this epic badass?
Yeah bro, he's in your party.
You got to nerf him.
Yeah bro, sorry, we took awayall of his skills.
You know all the shit that youreally loved about him.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah, we're going to let him get his ass whooped now.
Yeah, yeah, but that was areally good example, but the
White Rangers was still epic,though you know what I'm saying.
Yeah, but J-D-R.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
No, jason J-D-F.
Jason, david Frank, yeah, j-d-f.
That's it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, and we apologize.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Let me make sure I got it right, because RIP, yeah,
rip.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
No, absolutely.
I mean, that guy was an icon.
He made the circuit rounds andstuff like that.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I saw the HBO behind the scenes of the Power.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Rangers.
Frank, I did get it right, sojdf.
Um, I haven't watched the uhdocumentary.
It's really good.
Not only you.
One of my co-workers said thesame thing that it was.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That episode is like a must watch it's a must watch
for me personally because, whenI saw that I was like I gotta
see what's going on, whathappened.
It does give you backstory.
That's kind of sad, but it itdoes put in your mind something
of how that power rangersquote-unquote curse kind of
takes effect where it's like youare like one of the biggest
stars into children.
You know you're a hero, bro,for a season, maybe two if
(13:16):
you're lucky.
But they said after the original, like run of rangers, whoever
wanted to stay on?
Because they fired the firstset.
They fired the yellow ranger,the black ranger and the red
ranger because the yellow rangermade like a comment like she
went off, apparently at a, at aluncheon with all the production
companies, bro, and they werefired because they were all
represented by the same agent.
So all three of them gotreplaced and it was just
(13:37):
kimberly and billy and tommythat ended up staying on and the
showrunner was basically likeof the originals, they can stay
as long as they want until theywant to leave.
So that's why tommy got suchand then they would bring him
back every now and then,obviously to bring up the
franchise because he was such aloved character.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
But can you imagine that?
Because he was one of the fewactors that owned it.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, like really fell into that and loved it
absolutely.
But can you imagine being likenumber one, loved by children
for a year and then the next oneyou're?
You know you're selling shoesat footlocker as an because
they're kind of typecast.
Yeah, that's it Now.
At that point you can't be,ever be looked at.
You're not a serious actor,You're a Power Ranger.
You're a Power Ranger.
You're a Power Ranger, bro.
You're a great.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Ranger, you're not a thespian.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
But you're not, tom Cruise.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
You're not Michael B Jordan.
You know how like done right ifyou think about it yeah,
especially like seeing now likesome Japanese TikToks about
modern day Japan, modern dayPower Rangers.
They have like anime effectslike Rengoku, you know, the fire
around them and shit.
They're like teleport, but it'slive action, bro, and they're
(14:44):
like teleporting being the shit,it's even more.
Or even like up there like Iwas like damn, I want to catch
up now, like I want to see, likenot only that, but I want to
see movement.
What's his name?
Not moving writer?
Common writer Right, I want tosee common writer now, like all
of it, cause it looks dope Like.
But the thing like they justcombine words that just sound
(15:13):
cool, like they have orange soda, you know, and then like
suddenly like an armor of like aguy, orange soda appears.
He's like orange soda.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You know, the the ultimate moves do sound a lot
better in japanese than inenglish no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
They're the actual japanese.
It's actual japanese.
They just when they're, whenthey're doing Kamen Rider, when
they're activating their shit,it's just something random, like
a red refrigerator.
Hot wheel and they're like arefrigerator-ass armor, but it's
dope.
We're like damn, that's whatyou guys think.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Something cool about the Kamen Rider.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
There was one where a guy shook the soda can and then
he activated it, activated itLike, and then the soda can
became the armor.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Okay, I'm thinking like that's pretty cool, though
that's a Tony.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Stark level.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
shit bro Like walked up and just.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And then fucking Sailor Moon transformation.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah, bro, that's bad .
Sailor Moon styletransformation that's pretty
fucking cool.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I don't want to be mad at it, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I don't know where he turns butt ass naked and starts
to start shooting through him.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
You're like what's going on with this fucking guy?
Beetleborgs or some shit.
Big bad beetleborgs, Big badbeetleborgs, Bro, when they
cross over with Power Rangers.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I forgot about that crossover.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I just saw it bro, they did, they did.
They fucking fall on the moonor some shit like that they come
over to angel grove.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
It's like power rangers or something like that,
bro yeah they do fight.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It's so cool and remember the ninja turtles even
had a crossovers oh yeahoriginal was like I'm on your
left cap.
You know what I'm saying.
That was like you broughteverybody.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, you wanted me to bring more I've seen seen
some TikTok ones where they,like the Japanese ones, bring
all the Red Rangers from all thetimelines.
That's like Power.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Rangers.
The American version did it too.
Yeah, they did when, like theyhad all the teams and then Tommy
wasn't like for the team.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, bro, he wasn't Red Ranger always and forever.
Something like that is the nameof the episode yeah, in forever
, something like that.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
His name of the episode.
Yeah, because he he's been awhite ranger, a green ranger, a
red ranger and I think he's ablack ranger a black ranger.
He's the only one who's beenlike four different colors.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, and he, but he kills it every time.
Yeah, yeah, but um, but yeah,that was.
Uh, that was like an iconicthing because they had like 32
freaking versions.
Like there was another onewhere they had like 11 or 15
different squads of rangers thatall showed up that was epic too
but when it's just all
Speaker 3 (17:27):
the red.
I mean I never kept watchingand, like I'm, we're gonna age
ourselves.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I only watched the first three generations I
watched for a good little while,probably three or four, yeah
yeah, yeah, I remember turboyeah, there was like two or
three movies that I kept up Ididn't watch.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I didn't watch turbo I watched turbo.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I think it was like what was it?
The?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
first ones where the swords were like dinosaurs.
Right, that was the original.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Power Rangers.
That's right, mighty Morphin.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Mighty Morphin Right, and then the second ones.
They were ninjas right.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yes, the second one, they were ninjas.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
The Red Ranger.
He got the gorilla.
No, he had a dragon.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Oh, he did have the dragon that.
That was like the old schoolJapanese style.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah, it turned into a ninja, and then it turned into
a dragon.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
So badass, no reason, but all of them.
Yes, the dragon swords.
The dragon swords.
That's what they were.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
That was the second generation and then the third
generation were the reallybadass ones.
The third generation was wherethey turn into in Power Rangers,
the movie yeah, that's whenthey get the badass armor
upgrades yeah, the gorilla yeah.
The frog.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
The frog.
That movie was badass man.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
That movie was badass until it was like.
Ivan Ooze is like getting aFunko Pop.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Is he?
Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
30 years later, bro, after 30 years, Ivan Ooze is
like finally getting like afunkabob I mean deserved, but
damn dog, is he even around tosign?
It if I was like the funkabobcame with like ooze on the side
oh, that would be cool.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Like a little cup of it transforms you like the movie
.
That would be dope, but anyway,yeah, like that movie was so
90s but I wouldn't saymotherfuckers are jumping out of
this, no reason.
Why do they skydive before?
Because of teamwork, bro, bro,fuck it.
Why not?
Tommy comes out on a surfboardor like a snowboard, why?
(19:15):
But it's so badass, it is socool.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And then they start roller skating down the street.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I love it.
They're the Power Rangers, bro.
They're go-go Power Rangers.
You know what?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I'm saying I remember when they got that suit it was
some, some, some lady from thejungle, like gave him some pants
, some pendants.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
She was like fine, questionably dressed for a kid's
movie she was no, she was justjust right and she was, uh, she
was, uh, she was in some othersci-fi series and that's why she
was popular really, and she wasrecasted midway through the
movie, so they had, to like,redo her whole scenes, damn.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
What yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That movie had like A bunch of problems, a difficult
production.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Oh I didn't know, that.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Yeah, the suits were custom made for the movie
because they wanted the suits tolook badass instead of the skin
size Dude.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
the suits were so gangsta dog I like how they had
like With the armor style suitsstyle suit came in Flashlights
and shit.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Oh yeah, that shit didn't let them see more than
five feet in front of them.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
What the fuck it was cool because the yellow right
here was the saber tooth.
Yeah so the saber tooth eyeswere flashlights.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Yeah, come on, I remember like whoa, how about
when she got?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
her ass handed to her .
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Fighting the dark and shit and the Blue.
Bro, I just got my ass handedto me.
What the fuck?
But no, I want to say afterthat, after the movie, I want to
see a live action With NinjaTurtle.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I want to see that shit In the movies, man, cause
I've seen comics Of PowerRangers.
That shit is brutal.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Those are like they do, like a prequel comic, where
it's like sword and is it sword?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Or like the Sword on Sword on the floating face.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Because there's a ranger war that leads to him
ending up on Earth or something.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
It's like a prequel thing where he always picks some
race, something like that,where it's like an alternate
universe, where Tommy went evilor some shit like that and he
has like the white and the green.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
What was the name of the witch?
The witch Rita Repulsa, ritaRepulsa.
There's a comic where RitaRepulsa like because Rita in the
beginning of the she comes out,yeah.
Right After 5,000 years,there's a comic of the 5,000
years how she like the reasonshe was sealed in there is
because in that seal is like anAI that made her relive every
(21:20):
single day the pain that sheinflicted on the universe.
So she will relive every dayfor 5,000 years like the victims
that she like conquered all theplanets and killed only to come
out and be like ah, fuck it,you know, do it all over again.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
That's why she wanted to mention Sorda the whole time
, damn.
No I didn't know that, but Iknow the comics do get really
mature.
It's kind of funny because thecomics obviously we watched it
as a child.
I always wanted a more adulttake on the Power Rangers.
It's something you kind ofcrave because we all grew up
watching it and now we're likeman.
I wish we had an adult take thenew live action movie that came
(21:58):
out.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I don't know five years ago.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It was really good.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It was good.
I enjoyed it I liked it.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
They had the Tommy and.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
T-shirt at the end.
I know they just had a slip, Idon't know what happened.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Bro, Becky G was one of the rangers.
She was the yellow ranger.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Was she Becky G Becky ?
G was the yellow ranger, it'slike one of her only acting
credits.
Oh my God, I remember that.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yeah, she's like this tall.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Oh no, I had no idea bro.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's crazy, but I enjoyed it, it wasn't a bad
movie bro, the monster was thebig golden monster.
What was his?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
name yeah, Goldar.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Goldar Damn.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I know a lot of shit.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I thought you were a Rangers fan.
I was a when he was all fuckinghe was one of the worst
villains.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Like he could like put up with Rita and take on all
the Avengers at the same time.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, remember he put her like in a little jar and
shit like that.
Her and her henchmen, he's likeshut up.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
He did scary as fuck bro.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
He was menacing and he turned giant a couple times.
He would actually like comedown and fight, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
He.
I wish you would have made him.
I wish you would have met himbefore he passed away, because
he was such a cool dude.
I met him at Comicpalooza Iheard man.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I heard Jason DeVe, Frank, yeah the Green.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Ranger, the White Ranger.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Dude, he was the only Red Ranger, the real Ranger.
You know what I'm saying.
When you think of Power Rangers, you think of yeah, because he
has the gym.
He was.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Houston based.
Yeah, I think that's very, verycool about him, bro, but, like
I said, he used to hit all theconcert circuits and everything.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Go go, power Rangers Go get your mental health
checked out, guys.
Don't let it slip.
Even the best heroes out there.
Obviously we struggle with ourdemons, but you know, speaking
of demons and struggling, youknow it made me think of Rita
Repulsa's AI thing that you weretalking about Did you know,
that they made a Death Notemanga.
It's like fan made, where iflight lived yeah, so it's, light
(23:45):
lives.
He makes it to an old man.
He finally tells ryuk that he'sready to die.
Ryuk writes his name in hisbook, but he doesn't have a soul
.
So where does he end up?
He actually ends up in therealm of the shimigamis and
light does and ryuk is there andhe's just like, but he has no
recollection of what the fuckhappened.
Out of nowhere he gets hit by afucking bus right and he's like
what the fuck?
And then ryuk shows up andafter that he gets hit with the
(24:07):
bus.
His memories start coming back.
He's like, bro, what the fuckis going on here?
And he's like, well, like youknow, you killed about and let's
just say a number, you killedyou know 20 000 people, but you
were alive.
He's like you're going to reliveevery single person's death
until you die he's like so everyhow, whatever those deaths were
that you made happen to peopleyou're gonna go and he's like
and once it's over, then you'refinally gonna die.
(24:28):
And he's just like so I havethis much time, though, right,
and he's like bet.
He's like who runs the shimigamiworld, and then he has a heart
attack and he comes back andhe's just like, well, it's so
and so, but you got to come andfind him.
Though he's just like, how do Ibecome the god of the new world
?
He's like, well, you'd have to.
And he's like, bet I got time.
And then he dies again.
But then he just starts walking, bro, and he's like on his hunt
to try to take over how he?
(24:49):
Becomes the king of theDemigami world.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Oh, that's cool man where, like it never gets,
really gets told what happenedto Light it's like well, one
theory is that he becomes aShinigami.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
yeah, and that's his dead note at the very end it's
at the very beginning, like atthe very beginning of when of
the episode.
It's like, hey, go talk to thedemon that fucked around with
with the human, and so the demonhas like brown hair.
So he's like, hey, tell meabout, about the time you fucked
around with humans.
He's like, oh yeah, let me tellyou.
(25:26):
You know, but it was the veryat the very beginning.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, yeah.
So I think that's cool.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
It doesn't get confirmed no, so, like I said, I
think that's the fan theorywhere it connects it all the way
around.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Did you know that?
Uh, there's an easter egg of.
I think we talked about it onDeath Parade.
Yeah, that light goes to thatafterlife.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yes, yes, yes yes, I thought that was such a cool
fucking theory, bro.
But anyway, sorry, it just mademe think of the I know it's
been a bunch of Power Rangerepisode apparently yeah, it's a
Power Ranger episode we're gonnacall it Rapid, rapid, rapid
rangers.
Oh, but we didn't even finishit, bro.
So, like Mighty Morphin's, Ithink Turbo was next, and then
(26:05):
it was Power Rangers in Space,or something like that.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, it kept going, yeah, yeah.
And then there was, like I said, I stopped at three, I stopped
at the Ninja Ranger.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
I stopped at Turbo.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I think I went to Turbo, or maybe the next one
Turbo's, the fourth generationTurbo's, the fourth generation.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Turbo's the fourth generation.
Okay, so I went to Turbo, forsure, because Turbo had a movie.
Yeah, I'm like I know.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I made two movies for sure out of the Rangers Almost
three, but I know for sure twoand then after Turbo.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I think it's the In Space or something like that
yeah, and then completely lost.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Because I think before the In Space like a cop
or something like that yeah yeah, yeah, he's super fat bro.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I was in it, fam, and again.
If I'm wrong, please at me.
In the comments I've seen theTikTok ones where, like they
show the Japanese one, like he'ssick as fuck as a gatling gun
and just epic, bro like yeah, Ijust think that America really
stumbled on a good one there,bro like bro, the toys bro yeah,
so much money.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Dude, random plug my orthodontist showtime.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
He has like the toys, he has like the swords and shit
cases of the swords like thefirst generation, the second,
the third, and then that's coolhe has like this legacy edition
which like it's like legacy allblacks platinum edition.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
What and it's like all the black swords and you
know they wrote that.
They wrote that.
Uh, it's like a turtle lookingthing with a long neck.
Yeah, yeah, he had that one.
You're talking about the one,that is all of them.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, like the, like the, the green I remember the
regular and then the turtle.
Yes, the green, the regular andthe turtle, he has that whole
big and then it was like a longneck like a remember to go with
it.
It's called titanium orsomething, bro, that's fucking
sick.
If it cost a thousand, if I hadit.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
You're mining, take my money, fam.
Go, go, power Rangers.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
The ones that I had the ones that I bought.
Was that second generation,that dragon?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I had that dragon.
Yeah, I had the dragon too, butI had the first two generations
.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I had the first generation where you press a
button and the guy's head wouldswitch, when it was like the
main head and the ranger head.
Yeah, same same.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I had those too, those toys were expensive though
they were, and our parentsbought them for us, and where
are they at now?
Fucking in the trash.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Somewhere and the thing is if you had kept them,
some of them actually go for aliving.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I had it.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I think I had the black is going to be in good
condition and you got to havekept the box.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, which is just again.
The boxes don't survive.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Yeah, there's no way.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
If you were strong enough as a child to resist
opening one.
Bro, I mean, you're a thug.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I'll give you credit.
Kudos to you, good sir, butotherwise no, no fucking way, it
doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
But you know what?
Also, that was in the era withthe sick-ass 90s guitar riff for
the fucking intro.
For no reason, bro Suki.
What was your favorite?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Bro, I forgot that.
That was fucking sick.
You're like unlocking a memory.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Bro, I'm telling you I had the game on Sega bro, All
right, my bad my bad Suki.
What was your?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
favorite.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
You know what, Suki?
I want to know who yourfavorite ranger was.
I bet you it was the yellow one.
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