Walter E. Jones talks Power Rangers, Music, Blerd Culture, Cons & more | S7 E10 | 1 on 1's w/Deuces - 1-on-1's w/Deuces

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Geek Si podcast Blurs in the game.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Alright, alright, alright, welcome back to the geek Set podcast
only podcast that blend pop culture and geek coature together.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
I'm your boy, duces, and this is one on one
with Deuce.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Is the place where I speak with creators, curators and
people that you should know. And if you've been listening
to my podcast, you guys already know what this guy
means to me and you and this is we have
a living legend like and I and you and y'all know.
I don't throw that title around loosely at all, but

(01:21):
we have the one and only Walter Jones.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Bro, how are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
What's up?

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I'm blessed and aware. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Man. So here's the thing. Shout out to Noriega and
drink Champs. They make it.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
They make it like regular to give people their flowers
while they hear. So I need to let you know something,
all right. So one of the questions that I like
to ask people in general is their blurred origin stories, right,
because we all love this nerd culture. Right, So we
have a moment where you fall in love with nerd
and deep culture, but then you have a moment in
blurred culture where you see yourself and that representation and

(01:55):
you see yourself in this culture.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
And for me, it was the Black Ranger.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
For what Like when I like, I love comic books
and video games and anime, but I was literally a fan,
and you know, you would have you would imagine, oh,
I could be Superman, I can be Batman. But when
I saw the Black Ranger, and I remember, like it's yesterday.
I'm a military brat, so we was living in Germany
and you know, Saturday morning, and this is how this

(02:20):
is how Goat Mighty morphin Power Rangers is because Saban
knew that all you if you throw in energized intro,
no matter what a kid is doing, you're gonna stop.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
What is that? So I'm this kid and all I
hear is I'm like, what is that?

Speaker 2 (02:44):
And then I see all these I see explosions, I
see karate, I see robots, and then a black superhero
comes on my screen in cross colors and talking about
in some dope ass gear dancing doing karate, and I said, yo,

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that's me. And from that point on, like I just
I really saw myself in geek culture and I just
need you to know from a little black boy from Milwaukee,
Wisconsin and from blurred culture.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Bro, we appreciate you so much.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
And I know you know, I know you get it
every time, but I just had to tell you vocally
before we get into this.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
And I appreciate that absolutely, like old artily, I mean,
like you know, I feel like it was it was
an opportunity to put in front of me and I
am so like blessed to have been been able to
be positive in so many people's lives, you know what
I mean?

Speaker 1 (03:41):
No, yeah, that you know, and and that that had
you know.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
That's what's funny is probably at that time you probably
wasn't even thinking about the impact of that.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
No, not not the moment. I was like I think.
I remember at one point I was like, wait, am
I the first black superhero? Why about your TV? I
think I am. I was like, wait, I think I'm
the first.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
Because I was thinking what super heroes did I see?
And I saw I know, there was a movie with
Tony Todd called Bantis. That movie a Movie of the Week,
and then there was like but on TV, I hadn't
really seen any other superhero.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
So I was like, I think I might be the
first that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, you know, and you and what what What's also
made it dope is that you made you portrayed the
characters so cool that we wanted to be because you know,
sometimes you know it'll be a superhero, but then it's
like a many kind of corny.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
They got it. There was no corn to the zac
at all. You you made up you made.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Up a smart farm.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, your own.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
That was something the writers put together.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
They were like, all right, So they were looking for
somebody that could create that create a form. And I
remember in the audition they came down like three different casts.
They had a tall cast and short cast and kind
of older territory cast, and so there were three different
actors playing Zach and doing their version of hip hop keto.
And one of them was like, he actually played Michael

(05:09):
Jackson in a movie later on his stole like Michael Jackson.
So he's like, you know, you know, with Michael, like
Michael thing. And I was like, oh, that's interesting, man.
The other dude was kind of like more of like
a polity of people kind of like you know, you know,
but not really a martial artist.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
But then when I was able to put my flow together.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
It worked out because it was like, all right, I
know from break dancing as a B boy, we battled
and so it was like, all right, I'm gonna bring
some of that to the energy, you know, and add
it to some flows.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
So it was dope.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
What's dope is? You know?

Speaker 2 (05:41):
So I like to do my research and I love
how you explained the difference from just like traditional martial
arts and martial arts on TV, because like I and
and literally I did not know that until I started reaching,
like researching you and then when I went back and
I was like, oh, yeah, they don't just throw the
quick punch. They gotta you know, you gotta throw the
whole thing. And right, like that's that is so cold. Yeah,

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And like you know, also, like you know, I love
when I see the actors embrace their roles heavily, right,
because like I love how like I mean, we all
did the morphine, but I like you, Like I like
how you and you know how the other actors like
y'all break it down to a science, like nah, you
can't do it this way.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
The hand gotta be here, you gotta like and.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I was like, yo, this is dope, Like this is
just like as a you know as seeing that and
seeing that y'all really love it because you know, you
hear stories of actors and sometimes like I get it,
you know, you want to grow out of a role,
and some actors that is like it is like a
pain point to them, like you hear.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
I was.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
I was listening to Brax, the actor who plays Braxton
and Jamie Fox, and he was saying, how like he
got type cast that has the cornball all the time,
and I'm like that's unfortunate because he's such a great actor.
But he was like, people couldn't get pasted Baxter, I
mean of Braxton. Turt my back to Braxton. So I'm
just like, I love it when I see people are
comfortable with embracing that character.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Well, I mean, I've done a lot of other work.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
I mean, I've been successful and I'm playing lots of
different characters. After I left the show, I did Space Cases,
so it was like kind of a space you know.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Command I remember that one.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
And I did like Brink, which was like I was
like a roller roller rollerblader, you know, and then I
was on the shield and I was like a gangster.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
I was a dope dealer.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
So it was like I played like gangsters and killers
and all kinds of stuff, but more than anything else
like Power Rangers to just stay with me. It's like,
you know, people know me from the other work that
I've done, but it doesn't even compare to Power Rangers.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, it because you know, I think it's the fact
that people create.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
So much lore, you know what I'm saying, Like it's
just like people took that, you know, the small sample
size that you were able to give us, you know
what I'm saying before you exited out the role, but
and create so much dopeness to it. And like I
wanted to ask, like, out of all the lores and
different stories that you hear, the adventures that people put
Zach on, is there one that has ever that you

(08:03):
heard that blew your mind?

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Like, yo, I wish we really did this one.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
I'm not exactly to shoot about the Lords you were
referring to tell you.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Well because you know, like you know, I mean the
comic books are way more dark.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
In comic book I mean, like I mean, I would
love to be an a Mega Ranger and to go
back instead of being like I like the way they
wrote it, so instead of me going off and being.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Out of a peace treaty forever.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Instead, what I really did was I became one of
the elite Rangers that was like going around helping other
rangers in different dimensions and galaxies. I think that is amazing. Yeah,
so I wish I wish we applied that more to
the show.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
No.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
And then that's what I meant by like by the Lord,
because when I discovered the comics, I was like, yo,
because what I love is that they also still captured
the original, like what Angel Grove was, what Pop Mighty
Morphine was, but they added just like just a more
serious tones. They took you know, certain storylines and instead
of it, you know, ending in all happiness.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Sometimes it's like he sometimes some things is going to
be messed up and we got to deal with it.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
I Mean.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
The cool thing about the comic book is you can
you can put us anywhere. I mean, like we can
actually they can actually show us hanging out in the
zwords or yeah we're really doing.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
At home or what our home life was like.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
It's not easy to put all that into an I
Fiber TV show, you.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Know, Yeah, yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
And so you know, you guys came back, and I
just want to One thing that I know is that
there's certain things that each person has that like you
know when like you hear the talks like Okay, I'm
down for it, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Hey, we're gonna do it. Bet we got the date set.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
But what was the what was the moment like where
it got real for you, like where you like it
brought you back like yo, were really about to do
this again? You know, like was it when you walk
back into to on set? Was it when you got
your when you got your og morfor like, what was
it the moment that that for you?

Speaker 4 (09:56):
You know, I think, uh, you know when we were
we did our script readings and everything else, but I
think it wasn't until I got actually got on the
set and we were in the command center and I
stepped up and said it was more for the time.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
That's when I was like, oh, yeah, it's back on.
Let's go, you know it right now, let's go.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
And you know, this is what I love about like
also the you know, the extended version of Walter. As
you continue with your career and everything is you pop
you rock with a lot of indie creators, you know.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Like I'll be watching King Vader.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
The next thing, you know, you pop up or something
or like, you know, you just see things like you've
been popping up in a lot of just content creators,
videos and stuff like that. Is that something that you
intentionally set out the door or do you just kind
of like based off of like like instincts, like yo,
I just like cool people around and you just you know,
it's kind of like that.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
I mean, like I see people doing content and uh,
and sometimes I'll meet them and they'll be like, yo,
you should do a skin with us someone.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I'm down, let's go.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
So I'll go in and as long as something is
funny or cool and I like it. It was like,
you know, I like to I'm an artist, so I
want to frov. I want to like play and want
to like do my things.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
So it's fun.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Yeah, So you know.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
The one thing and again this is this is what
I love about doing research. When I get to interview people,
you learn about their lives and you learn about things
that you didn't know about.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Right.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
So when you was like, yeah, I worked on the
cruise line for three years, I was like, what I said,
that had to be the most randomnest job. But also
had to be the most probably like eye.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Opening because you saw so much of the world within
that job.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Three years working on a cruise line that is a
lot of time at seeing traveling.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, it was amazing.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
I was inspired by some of the people I met
in college because I have roommates that I traveled the
world and would tell me stories about being in China
or being in different parts of the world, and I
was like, man, I.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Want to do that. I want to I want to travel.
I mean, I'm from Detroit, I hadn't really seen much.
The first time I was on a plane was to
go to college to go to California. So I was
inspired to do it.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
And as soon as I heard I met a guy
friend of mine told me he was working on cruise
ships and came back and was telling me stories. I
was like, man, I want to do that. He said,
I'll let you know next time they have an audition.
Auditioned and uh yeah. Three years, man, I went everywhere.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
I went to.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Alaska, Mexico, the Caribbean. I
traveled the South Pacific Islands, dived on the Great Beer Reef.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
I did all kinds of things. It was amazing.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
What was your favorite place that you went through?

Speaker 4 (12:25):
Man, favorite is difficult to say because there's there was
so much to love. But I really enjoyed Brazil. Brazil
was like eye opened it to culture. It was like
I went to announce. I did an overnight on the
in the rainforest. I went up one of the creeks
of the Amazon, one of the veins of the Amazon.

(12:46):
They were like, we went crocodile hunting on the way
to the campsite, like crocodiles on the side. My dude
got off to get out of the boat and went it,
grabbed a little small crocodile, put some leather around his mouth.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
I was holding it. I was like, this is crazy.
I'm in the end.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
We went.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
You don't realize it, but in the in the Amazon
and the rainforest, when it during seasonal, the water can
rise up to thirty feet.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
So what is the forest in the summer becomes like
a pond with bushes. The trees are hanging.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
Out at the top of the water and they're like
they're bushes, and everything floats, like houses float, the cattle float.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
I mean, like it's crazy. It's like wow, and the
Frunta's in.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
The water, so and the whole other day.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
I just I just imagine because you know, you know,
you know how black folks is when we when we
see things that are not normally what we see, because
it's like I feel like, you know, like you go
to like a zoo or a quirm, you see I
Arana's like, oh yeah, you see a Verana.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
But the actually happened jumping in the boat.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Man. They were jumping in the boat. They were like
it was like they were jumping in the boat.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
And I was like wow, and they're like, right, they
can't harm you out of water, like you beyond me
out of water. They just right for life. And I'm like, wow,
that's crazy. But keep it away from my toes.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
You know.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
What's also dope about the Power Rangers, and it's one
of the reasons why I love the like the Turtles
as well, is that y'all have crossed over with so
many like other properties.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Y'all thought god Zilla.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
I think there was a comic book about y'all against
Freddy Krueger, like Fuddy Krueger.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
We did that. Yeah, man, there's so many.

Speaker 4 (14:29):
So, I mean I know we were I was with
Batman and I fought Batman. I was Superman of Wonder
Woman in the Flash and Cyborg.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
That was amazing. Justice, the Turtles, Yeah, Godzilla.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
I know it's it's it's it's wild, bro, I'm like
to be associated with these other characters. I know, when
I first saw myself in a comic book and I'm
talking to Superman.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
I was like, I'm talking to Superman.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
This is crazy, Like I always wanted to be Superman, right,
dream about flying like Superman.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
I was trying to teach my friends. I'm like, come on, y'all,
you got to believe and you can fly.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
You know.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, that was wild.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
So like, who who would you like to see the
Mighty morphin Power Rangers either team up with or go
against that they y'all haven't like addressed yet.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
Oh well, you know what I mean, Like we we
haven't really dipped to the Marvel world. That would be fun.
I was like, I love that, you know what I mean.
I would love to go hang out with Wolverine. You
know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 (15:22):
What I think?

Speaker 2 (15:28):
I also, I just feel like like the mash up
of pill is there and it's so much stuff to happen,
Like imagine power Rangers, but then like the cast of
Fast and Furious with them, like, you know, cars, I.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Got my master that I'm like whooping around other cars
a master.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
So, but so I did want to dive into such
just some other stuff, you know. Obviously, you know we
have a mutual that's kind of helped out with this.
And that's when I was like, yo, wait, wait, wait
wait watching Jones be dropping bars and I'm like, yo,
like hey, like it's like how cool can one guy be?

Speaker 4 (16:10):
I'm interested in many different aspects of the arts. I mean,
I went to a school of performing Arts, so I studied.
I studied singing, dancing, and acting. So I'm like, you know,
I'm a triple threat. I do a little bit of everything.
I sing, a dance, I act, I'm rapping. I'm doing
whatever I can perform. I'm down to do it, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
So it is like, are you working on an album
or is it just some are you messing around in
the studio?

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Like what's the deal?

Speaker 4 (16:35):
I got six songs EP so far, I'm working on
three more songs and I'm looking to drop my first
single sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
A dope dude.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
So who who who is watching Jones's musical influences when
it comes to rap? Uh?

Speaker 4 (16:49):
You know what, Uh, bro, It's it's hard to say
really honestly. I mean I've been I got a lot
of years under my belt, so I've I was with
hip hop since the beginning, you know, from you know,
from I said they hit the hibbited.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
Ian only like back in the day. That was like
me in seventh grade going what is this on the radio?
That's crazy?

Speaker 1 (17:08):
You know.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
But I'm just inspired by a lot of different people,
and my music is going in different directions. I have
a lot of different vibes right now. I haven't locked
down exactly who I want to be as an artist chef,
but I got some I think the people are going
to enjoy the music and and it's all pretty good.
So you know, I'm like I'm looking forward to, uh

(17:31):
to let people hear it and seeing people grow to it.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
You know, I don't doubt it because like again, like
it goes back to what I said. It's like when
anything that I see that I've seen, you've done, you know,
like the approach that you take.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
It's one, it's genuine, but I like, I can.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Tell that you're a master of your craft, right, So
it's like when I heard it got glimpse that you
are doing music, I'm like, oh, I can already tell
it's going to be dope because one, not again all
that I just said, but you're also connected to.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
The culture everywhere.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
So it's just like, you know, like when you have
people like that, and you know, also again you said,
you know, you've been with hip hop from the start,
so you saw it from the lyrical to Okay, now
you're a radio rapper.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Now you're making songs that catch you a trap rapper.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
So like to me, I imagine it's like a gumble
pot in your head of you know, of music and
just trying to figure out your sound and that and
that's what I'm really excited for.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, I got to give it up
to the people that I've worked with Ato worldwide. You know,
he brought me in and got me started and uh,
and that brother is like super talented and I was
kind of following his lead on a lot of it,
you know, in the beginning, and as I've grown into myself,
I've been inspired by the people and other writers and
other producers.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
So it's everybody's bringing out the best of me, you know.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Oh yeah, no, I you know, it's like I said,
it's really dope to see when people can can extend
and go to like, you know, just additional talents, you know,
because again, you have all the equips to do like
a one man show if you wanted to, you know,
you know, like you could, you know, you can, you
can you you can do one of those you know,
you see you see talent like Jamie Fox who when

(19:09):
he did your stand up, he did stand up and
mixed it with his music and it kind of helped
brought it in.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
So it's like together, me and Jamie we went to
the same college roommates back one summer.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Wait a minute, what tell me?

Speaker 3 (19:21):
We go way back. We're up the same I'm actually
older than him.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
I getting things that you never know that and didn't
imagine that. Oh my god, I know, like the conversations
and just even just brainstorming and just chopping it up.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
I know, that was just a bed of creativity in
that room, you know.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
I mean, yeah, Jamie's always been inspiring man. And like
when the brother first came to school. He came in
and set school on fire. So it's like it was
different from everybody else. And definitely like multi talented, always
been somebody of admired.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Yeah, no, so blessed to him in his family, definitely, definitely,
Like I said, prayers is out to him and his
family one hundred. So you know, obviously, you know, one
of the reasons why we got created in general, and
you know some of the stuff that you do, that
that you've done that is getting its praise is that
the emergence of afro.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Futurism, Blurred Culture.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Has been calling, like, has been just skyrocketing, and you know,
you've seen it from when we were scratching and clawing
for representation to now it's representation happening all over, from writing,
from acting, from shows, And I just want, you know,
I always like to get the perspective from somebody who
pretty much saw the birth of Blurred Culture and where
it's at now, Like, how has that been for you?

(20:42):
From that From that point of view.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
I've just been inspired. Man.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
I mean it's interesting because I mean, obviously we're celebrating
thirty years of the show, and I recall when I
was a kid, when I was you know, thirty years ago,
when I was like, uh, well, when I was younger,
when I was like a teenager. I think about the
people that inspired me on television, and you know, the
black faces I saw the first I think the first

(21:08):
person I remember watching on TV was the Little Rascals.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
It was Buck Weed.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
He was comical and great, but it wasn't really you know,
it wasn't the most inspiring person. He was comedy relief.
And then there was there was mister bo Jangles, like
who danced with Shirley Temple. He was servient. So now
to be out and about and hear people talk to
me and they say, you were the first face I
remember watching on TV and saying, he looks like me

(21:39):
and I could be just like him. That's that makes
my heart, big man, because I'm like, I'm happy to
have inspired three generations, you know what I'm saying, Like
three decades of fans and the show just keeps going
and now I'll go back to the show. So it's
like that's just a whole, a whole other thing, you
know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (21:56):
So when did they Because here's the thing too, Also,
it's because like I like that you also like engage
in the content around the Black Ranger, right, because when
we kind of when Black Panther came out of y'all
did the black the Black Ranger tribe?

Speaker 4 (22:12):
I said, Yo, okay, yeah, that was.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
That was bro.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
It's like, it's one of those things that it's just
like you know when you when we break down like
iconic black characters like you are in there. You're up
there with Lando Calrision, You're up there with you know
what I'm saying, like John Stewart, green Lander and Static Shock.
Like when we talk about those black characters, that is there,
it's just like a man like that is you are.

(22:40):
You are forever engraved in this culture. And that is
to me, that is like that is the dopest thing ever.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
It is dope. It's super humbling.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
I'm like, I'm like, while I was talking to my
daughter today, I was like, my kids, my daughter, she's
not really interested in power.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
She's like whatever that you need to understand it. I'm
part of history. I'm part of our history.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
You know, I've been around for thirty years and you
know I inspired a lot of people in forty countries
around the world. I'm like, that's international success and the
fact that so many people were grown up and now
their children are watching it.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
It's like you you might want.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
To be able to tell your grandkids about, you know,
what your dad was doing, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
But you know what's funny with kids because I got
kids too.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Kids the stuff that they get excited about it is
never the stuff that you think they're going to get
excited about, right, So you know, I'm like, yo, all right,
I interviewed Deborah Wilson, could deem Harder send kel Mitchell.
I'm telling yo, I got this person. I got this
person right. But then I tell them like, oh yeah,
so you know a part of media, so they're gonna
get me. I'm gonna get to see Spider Verse early.

(23:46):
And my son's like what, I'm like, bro out of
all the things, that's what you're.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Excited about people, all the things. Really, that's what it is.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
It's a different time though, because they're like, they are
very much inspired. Butle with they read on the internet
or they see on the internet, and I'm like, you know,
my kids will make jokes about They'll be laughing about
someone what are you'a laughing about?

Speaker 3 (24:08):
And they'll tell me what they're saying. It's like a
quote or something, but it's something from the internet. I
got no clue about. I'm like, what is that? I
don't under say, I ain't got to say.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
But so I did want to ask you as well, though,
because you know, you've been again celebrating twenty years of
Power Rangers, right, thirty years, right, so you've been you've
been in this game for a minute. What is the
biggest miss misconception about Walter Jones?

Speaker 3 (24:37):
The biggest misconception? I really don't know.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
I can't tell you what people misunderstand about me.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
I don't know I really can to that question.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Well, hey, that's good, because here's the thing. I've heard
nothing but great things about you. I talked to multiple people,
you know, another one another mutual of ours, ct is
Dope that I do a lot of I do a
lot of podcasts with him. And but it's just like
you know, everybody that I've ever encountered when we just
kind of and it's funny, is that it's funny how

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you come up in conversation because it's always reflecting on
things that we love, Like, oh, yeah, you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
I used to love Turtles. Oh yeah, you know, you
know Batman.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
But Power Rangers though, and then it's always that one person,
you know, I know, watch your joke like you became that,
you became a bragging point for a lot of folks,
like you know, you know, I know, you.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
Know, we know.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
I've always stayed humbled. I'm not I'm not one of
those people to walk around in the world like, hey,
you know who I am. I'm like, I'm not like
I treat everybody to say, I don't care who you are.
I'm like, you got love. If you're giving me love,
I'm giving love back. That's what it is, you know.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, And I can I can stand a testament to that,
because you know we of course, with us doing media,
we cover a lot of comic cons and everything like that.
And I've been at multiple comic cons or just like
you know, Milwaukee Anime Con to all that stuff, and
you've been there, and I feel like your manager or
your role manager probably got to pull you away from

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the crowd because it'd betimes.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
I'm like, why is he still out here? I feel
like he've been out here for.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Like three hours, just talking and taking pictures and conversations
with people.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Nah, man, I'm just giving love, like I mean, even
when when it's no longer time for that, even when
it's like I've been signing all the grounds and we're
taking photos, but now I'm just hanging out and now
I'm just like you want folks, you know, I'm like,
I'll go and hang out of the con and step
out with people and like just be kicking it. And
people are like, yo, walking does just here? And I'm
like you like, can I get a photo?

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Like nah, We're just we're just we're just hanging right now.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Is just you know, like I'm with you, you and me.
We're just kicking it. You know.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
It's like we're not doing photos autographs right now. We're
just being people.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
I like each other.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
That's it, and that's I mean, and that's better. You know.
You gotta think we came up in an age.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Where it wasn't social media, so you have to live
in the moment and it kind of have like that
moment which is like, yo, did I tell you about
the time?

Speaker 1 (27:05):
Like you got the story? You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
So it's like I do like that approach because yeah,
because then you gotta think that's when you get the
you get the real with somebody because I mean, unfortunately,
with so many cameras around, I mean, you know, even
if you don't, even if you're not trying to like
put on for the camera, sometimes you accidentally give a
little bit too.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Like a little bit extra for the camera. So it's like,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
But when you know that this is just a chill
set and we just kicking it and everything like that.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
You get thrilled. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
So one question that I always wonder because I looked
at VR Troopers and big bag beatle Boards.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
As the ops.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Did y'all did y'all have like so you know, like
we watched you see Power and you see BMF and
you see the actors like fake b for did y'all
have like a little competition with the with the beatle
Boards to be our troopers?

Speaker 4 (27:50):
Not really, I mean like we our sets were or nearby,
so we would go over to each other set and
hang out and like I'm a working right now, I'm
just gonna go over there and hang out with those
guys like okay.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
I'm watching.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
But we we supported each other, like we cheered each
other on, and you know, I don't think there was
any uh, any biases or anything. I mean, of course
we were the number one kids show, so that I
saw it, I was, you know, like, we've been here,
We're gonna be here, so it's like we wasn't worried
about it.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
But but it was. It was all love, you know
what I mean?

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Yeah, no, yeah, because I unfortunately they never got my viewership.
Like I said, as I was, I was body morphed
to the end. I was like, no, listen here, like
I ain't watching nothing else but them, like you.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
But it was, I mean, but it was.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
That was a dope time because again it always it
embedded from teenagers being superheroes. I think that that was
the biggest thing because.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
I think that was very important.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
You know.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
In fact, it was a diverse group of people like
and y'all were friends. Yeah, we all get along. You know,
we all got something different than put in the pot,
and that's what made us great.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
You know, like everybody has the stereotypical on what a
black geek is.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Are you familiar with the term blurred?

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Some people said it came off of scrubs. Some people
said it came off the internet. I don't honestly really know.
Don't you see the skin, the eyebrows, the hair. Yo,
My geeks still rock. You know what I'm saying, dumps
or or Jordan's or whatever did I do that? It's exciting.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
It's like, oh my god, it's gonna start barking. That's
all right, she's excited about it too.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
And same as you said, like a barbershop talk, like
we would go into really in depth conversations about these
theories and like, well what if?

Speaker 1 (29:39):
And I'll come.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Right, But we we talk about anime, video games, comic
books and stuff like that. But when you hear us
talk about it, the passion sounds like we arguing Jordan
and bron.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
What does that even mean?

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Right?

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Does that even mean?

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Like it sounds like barbershop talking because you don't know
the history broke down right there.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
But when you see the black gek, you don't see that,
You see the socially awkward glasses.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
Well, this is me and that's not.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
A lot of us.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
A lot of us do sound and talk like that,
you know what I'm saying, because.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
It becomes stereotypical, as if that's where our strength comes from.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
I don't know the geeks that you talk with, that
you that you talked.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
About before, I know, the geek you talking about right now.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
It was sort of a call sign so we can
find each other on message board.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Anime gives you life lessons throughout that whole thing, Like
there's not one anime that I know of that doesn't
teach you to never give up.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
It's just like, I just love seeing us going to
ropes and going to different spaces and create things that
weren't there before.

Speaker 5 (30:51):
And then it was like Miles grows like the normal,
you know, black person in the United States. That was
my first like blurred moment seeing you know, Storm on
an X Men cartoon series, and I was like, Wow,
that's a black woman and she's strong, she's powerful.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
That's what I want for us.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
I want us to be that voice.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
And then again in your in, your in, in all
your additional roles.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
I do.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
I feel like you picked Road strategically because I love when,
like when you pop up out of nowhere. Because I'm
telling you that bel Air Cameo had me in tears.
I was like wait what Then I was like, you
know what.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
That see that you're talking about a house party?

Speaker 5 (31:46):
Right?

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Yeah? Yeah, I got that Bell House.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
That was funny.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
That was that was a fun fun movie to shoot
on and do a cameo. Co Matic had me come
on and we tried a couple of different lines and
he came up to me and he's like, hey, I
want you to say this and tell him. I was like,
that's funny.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
All right, let's do it.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
And it's funny because oftentimes, you know, I'll be out,
I'll be out and about and you know, I'm meeting
people and and a cute young lady will look at
me and be like, oh my god, you're the Black Ranger.
I'm like, yeah, you know, I'm single man. So I'm
like I'm like, yeah, what's up range, nice to meet you.
Can we take a buck on the yah? You know,
let's get it. And then a dude to walk up

(32:28):
behind her.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
I'm like, yo, broken, Like come on, you know.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
I'm like like pick up on the context clues, like
what I'm doing right now?

Speaker 1 (32:44):
So as an actor, and then obviously, like.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
I say, you're trained, I mean your theater trained, you
went through all this stuff?

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Is there?

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Like I always like to figure out, like is there
a Moby Dick movie like a thing of property something
that you would love to do that you haven't had
the chance to do yet.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
Mm hmm. You know I really wanted to.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
I really wanted to do like an undercover cop because
I got this, I got this youthful like this youthful look,
and I got all these different characters in me, like street,
I mean from Detroit, so I got like a lot
of street people in me, and I got like, you know,
molso and adults. I'm also responsible, I'm all so well spoken.
So I think under the undercover cop story would be

(33:23):
really nice. I thought twenty one Jump Street would have
been a good venue if it was more not a
comedy but serious, you know, like a serious thing you want.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
You wanted to be more of a serious undercover cop. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that would be That would be so so.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Who would who? Who would be your Who would be
your uh?

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Because then it becomes kind of like a buddy cop movie,
but like not a corny buddy cop movie, but like
you know, you got like the training day Denzel and
you know, so who would be your who would be
your co star that you would think that you would
bounce off perfectly with?

Speaker 3 (33:54):
I don't know, I think Mela Wrenz could be brothers.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Hey, you and Lorenz would be oh.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Bro because Lorenz, because here's the thing, you playing an
undercover one. Both of y'all are charismatic as hell, right,
So what will be the draw is trying to figure
out who's the loose cannon and who's the straight man, right.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Because it's like, wait a minute.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Both of them could be the straight man, but both
of them could be the loose cannon because they're like, y'all,
y'all are way too charismatic, you.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
So it's like, now we got to figure out, like, Okay,
when's the twist gonna happen, when's the other shoes gonna drop?

Speaker 1 (34:27):
And everything like that? Right?

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Right, who's gonna lose?

Speaker 1 (34:30):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (34:32):
That would definitely be fired? And you know, you're seeing
a lot of directors doing that. They're giving a lot
of people different opportunities to showcase different style of acting skills.
You know, you see Leena Waite and what she's doing
with the shine and how she brought out you know,
just you know, it's just like you see she's a
beast and then you know, quiet as Kemp I tell
people all the time, I love what fifty is doing

(34:52):
with the Power Verse, Like you know what I'm saying,
I get it.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
It is.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
It is overly dramatic and it's you know, overly street
hood politics, but like the that he's giving us the
storylines and the way that, like people love to talk
crap about power, but everybody tunes in every time.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Like I'm a fan of the show, So I like
what he's doing.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
I definitely do.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
And you know, it's funny because in today's world, everything
is all about universes. Now, it's all about you know,
creating a universe, creating something and everything like that. You know,
it's like, okay, what how does this connect? How does
that connect? How does that connect? And you know, when
it works, it works, and when it doesn't it doesn't.
But like, I'm just loving that people are investing in
building stories that continue to go, you know, especially black

(35:39):
stories too, because you know, I get it. You know,
I unfortunately love crafting and continue. But I thought what
Misha green And was doing over there was amazing. But
I'm loving seeing you know, Jordan Peel, He's like, look
I'm gonna do something. I'm gonna do some.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Horror movie stuff.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Yeah, right, right, you know, it's to me, it's the
art of it, because you know, there's we have so
many properties that are embedded in trauma.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
You know, the origin.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Story is a slave trauma, it's racism, it's whatever the case.
And then you get something where it's just like, oh no,
it's just people live under the ground that are You're tethered,
and you know, it's like, yes, give me that, just
give me the odd, give me the right.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
You know, when that movie came out, we were like tripping.
We're like, yo, that's kind of crazy. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
The other side of you that you never met, you like,
I would never want to be that part of me.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
I try to keep that side of me inside, you
know us That was d That was like, it was like, wow, you.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Know what I always said it would be trippy because
this is something that people don't think about. When I
watch that movie, the one thing I thought about was
what if you saw your doppelganger and then you couldn't
catch your doppleganger. So now you just have to live
with the fact that you know that there's somebody out
here who looks exactly like you. Like, to me, that
is the most scariest thought ever.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
Right, and somebody walking around being you, like cat fishing
you all day You're like, yeah, what's up.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
I mean, it's kind of crazy that that actually happens online,
you know. I mean people run around trying to be
you on a regular basis.

Speaker 4 (37:14):
I'm like, I sometimes look at online stuff and I'm like,
why do these people have my friends and my family
and like and people my friends are like really joining
their sites.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Like like what are you doing on? It's like me,
you know.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
But uh, to see an actual dopper ganger that just
look just like me and acted just like me, and
I wouldn't be able to like stop them where catch
them there just running a while in the world.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
That'll be we That'd be so weird. Man.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
That's some black that's some black mirror style stuff right there.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Now.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
You we are working and we are living in the
life of cloning now, so you never know what's going
to happen in the future.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Actually, I gotta love hate relationship with AI right now
because because AI here's the one here's the one thing
that they don't that that the reports are not reporting
on AI.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
AI is fun to use, like as a user, I'm having.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
So much fun, But then when you when you break
it down and you look at it, you're like, yo,
this is kind of this is kind of odd, this
is kind of.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
I don't know where is this gonna go? Right, But
we're we're.

Speaker 4 (38:22):
Living in this technological revolution where we got you know,
we got AI, we got cloning, we got nano technology,
we got robotics. So like, there's a lot of stuff
that's happening that you know, with that that came out,
there was news and it's happening, but we're not seeing.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
What's really going on. You know. I'm like, it's kind
of crazy.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
It's the it's the unknown that really starts when you
start when you start breaking things down and you can't
come up with an answer like Okay, why is it?
That's what That's what makes it scary because you're like, Okay,
wait a minute. You know what I'm saying because I
joke about this all the time, but I say, for
one hundred dollars, you can legit trick the whole world
because you like, you paid fourteen dollars and ninety nine

(39:05):
cent to get verified, right, and then you fake somebody's
you fake somebody's like, use somebody's image and then you
go on like fiver and pay somebody fifty bucks to
create a video using AI and the same voice saying
some crazy stuff. And then now people like, wait, is
this real?

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Is this not? Like? And now you're tricking the whole
world for under one hundred dollars Like that, to me,
that is the scariest part of it.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
That's scary. It's like what yeah, yeah, So.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
We have we what we do on this podcast.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
We also have a thing that we call hypotheticals, and
I love to I love to break these hypotheticals.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
So it's a it's a three layered question.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
So the first thing, we're going to talk about apocalyptic
scenarios because I know you like Walking Dead, I know
you're a fan of like a lot of shows and movies.
So I want to now this is based off of you,
Walter Jones, and your the the the the skill set
that you have. Which which apocalypse do you feel that
you would be able to survive the longest? A zombie apocalypse,

(40:04):
a robot apocalypse, or the alien apocalypse?

Speaker 4 (40:07):
Mm hmm, Well, uh, since I don't know what faculties
aliens might have, I don't know what they're coming with.
I can't really say that, I know, and I'll be
able to survive that. You know, robotics, you know, computers

(40:30):
are super smart and they can replicate.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
I mean, it's looking dim.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Dim bro.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
And then the fucking dad. I'm like, I don't know. Zombies.
You know, the only thing I can count on with
zombies is they're they're not.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Very smart, right, That's true.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
That's the thing. So I'm probably gonna last longer.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
Yeah, with my physical agility and so forth and so on,
that's probably won't gonna last the longest.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
All right.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
So now this is the second LAYERC. This is where
it gets where it gets deep. We're gonna break down
three different style of zombies. So walking dead style zombies,
so they're just the regular walking dead walking style zombies.
If you had to put a year on it, what topic,
how many years you feel you give yourself lasting?

Speaker 3 (41:15):
I don't know. I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (41:18):
I mean I think I could probably last for a while,
depending whether or not you know, I got I got
caught up in a bad situation. But I would give it.
I would give myself some some longevity. I mean I
probably got twenty years.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
That's that's the round about. But I gave myself too,
all right, Right, so.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Now we got to go to the rage World War
Z twenty eight days later.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
The ones that like the sprinters.

Speaker 4 (41:40):
The sprinters they running, they don't get tired. You're like,
oh uh yeah, that's that's gonna be tough. I mean,
I'm gonna figure a way around it. I'm gonna find
some way to keep them out and keep me in
or you know, I don't know. I don't know what
I'm gonna do, but uh I think I don't.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
I can't say. I might get a couple of years.
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
You're pretty physically, physically fit, so I feel like you
have a little bit of an edge because you know,
you gotta be able to have cardio. You gotta have
you know, you gotta be able to you know what
I'm saying, Like, you gotta be able to get out there.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
So it's like, you know, I can climb.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
I'm like, you know, I can jump, I can climb.

Speaker 4 (42:20):
I'm fairly fast myself, although I am getting older, all right,
but I'm sure I can probably maneuver my way in
and out some situations.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
I'm sure, all.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Right, So this is the one where I give myself
no faith. Okay, resident evil style zombies. So it's like
it can be Nemesis. A dog can.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Be a zombie.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Likes, that's the one that gets real. I give myself. Listen,
I say where am I at? If I'm in the city,
then I'm giving myself like a week. If I'm like
on the outskirts and I can run and I can
hide this fart like, I can give myself a couple
of like at least.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
Two three weeks. But like, I got no faith in.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
That for me, right right?

Speaker 4 (42:57):
I mean, I'm trying to figure out what kind of
tank I can ride it.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
I need a tank, and I need.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
A place to close myself in, and you know, to
be able to go in and out and find a
way to make your work. I need flamethrowers and all
kinds of things. I played the games and I didn't
do very well.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Are you are?

Speaker 4 (43:18):
I'm not sure well on with last either, But I
need a lot of weapons at my disposal.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
That's are you? Are you a big time gamer?

Speaker 4 (43:26):
Not as much as I used to be. I mean,
I don't really have the time as much right now.
I mean, I'm living life. I'm taking care of business.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
So oh, you know understandable, Like what what was as
a gamer? Because I said, you said, not as much
as used to be. But you had a moment where
you're playing a game. What's the one game that nobody
can see you in?

Speaker 1 (43:44):
You know?

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Like for me, I believe Mortal Kombat. I got I'm
handing out L's skills.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Okay, Mortal Combat.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
I used to be really good at checking my game
back in the day.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
I love tech, I love it.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
But I don't know, bro, I'm like, I like adventure games.
I mean, I used to love tomb rating. I was
my game back in the day. Solid Lord Crofts started
flipping and diving and all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Was like, yo, this is I was in a moment,
you know.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Yeah, bro, I know I know that you like the
show The Last of Us.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
I urge you whenever you get some time play the game.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
If you haven't, I got to check it out.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
Yeah, oh my god, you you it's listening here. You
thought the show was ripping your heart out. The day
rips your heart out.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
You like, oh my god, yeah, I gotta, I gotta.
I don't have a system. Well, I have a system
for the game. I just haven't had time to sit
down to play. Understand, I got other things I'm handling,
like trying to do this music, acting, these comic cons.
I got my babies, taking care of my kids. So
I'm like, you know that ain't as much time to

(44:49):
play games right now?

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Yeah, you one when it comes down to comic cons, bro,
have you?

Speaker 1 (44:56):
Because have you been to Blurred Con yet?

Speaker 3 (44:58):
I've not been a Blurred Con. I keep to go,
but I keep being booked by the time I get invited.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
Yeah, Blurred Con or to get next year.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
Early, Like yo, walk, we wins you there, And I'm like,
all right, let's lock in the contract.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
I'll do that either that.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Or or dream Con our DC World's convention. Oh my god.
Here's the thing, because so you've been to a lot
of conventions.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
So you already know there's like one conventions are all love, right,
but black people, the way we show love and how
we do it's really so dope.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
And there's a lot of aesthetics that.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Happen at regular comic cons that doesn't happen that will
only happen at like the black ones.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Like, so here's what I love.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
There's three moments at dream Con that happened that I
tried to get every black person who loves geek culture
to its experience one.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
You know how we are. You know what I'm saying.
I see you got your chain on.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
You know how black folks we see somebody shine, it's like, yo,
I see you, bro, So yeah, right, So my guy
he had the full Kakashi from Naruto cosplay on.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Right, Okay, So when we.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Get there, we see this dude dripped and draped out,
kind of like the Migos.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
I'm talking about chain.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
So I'm looking at him and were like, yo, bro, hey,
we see you out here killing it. And he's like, Dawn,
you kagashi, you got the share of gun, you got
the shoes like, and I'm just like, as me watching it,
I'm just like, yo, this is black culture.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
You're not gonna get anywhere else. This is all love.
And I was like yo.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
And then the joke, you know, the joke at comic
cons is like, all right, somebody a little bit musty.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
But you know, black folks, we don't play about must
and our smell.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Got gotta make sure you're smelling fine.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
And when I and when I walked into that, when
I walked into Dream Con into like the artist Alley,
and all I smelled was just smell good. I said, Bro,
I'm in love right here. And then the last moment
and to me, this is what sold the cake on it.
We all been to kickbacks.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
We love kickbacks and everything like that, and we know
general kickbacks is like, okay, we're drinking, we may be
talking about some music, debating about sports. When I tell you,
we at this kickback and all we did was debate
nerd topics and I'm talking about Dominos is being played there,
Spades is being played there. And you hear people like no, no, no,
but you know what I'm saying. But the Megazoor will

(47:12):
kick optimist primes ass. I'm just telling you.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
It's just like I.

Speaker 6 (47:16):
Said, bro, this right here is the best moment. It
is and it's it's and again that's at these Black conventions.
And so I always anytime I get a chance to
tell anybody like I get it. I know you are
heavily booked and busy, but if there's any way that
you can make it like all right, you know what.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
This year, I'm gonna make it a point to go
to either Dream Con or Blurred Con.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
I trust me, that experience is gonna be It's gonna
be like no other comic con that you've been at.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Twenty twenty four. We're going to make it happen.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Well, I think I'm heavily booked this year, so I'm
not sure I can make it out this year, but
maybe next year definitely.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
All Right, Yeah, listen, I got connects with them. I'm
gonna tell him, Hey, Walter is interesting, to make sure
I'll reach.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Out to them.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Ace go all right, So we got one more segment,
with two more segments that will get you out of here.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
The first one, it's the Top five. Now here's my caveat.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
It does not have to be in order, and it
can be currently just like right now, like you know
currently how you feel. But I want to know who
are the top five power range of characters that are
not you for you?

Speaker 4 (48:19):
Now see, this is the problem. This is the problem
with that question because when I left the show, I
didn't watch the show anymore. Oh, I can't really say
who my favorite characters are because I don't know all
of the other characters. You know what I'm saying, Like
I know Mighty Morphins. So if y'all gott to like
to tell you mighty morphin.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Then yeah, let's go mighty morphin.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
All right? The top top five?

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Yeah, not in order, not in order, and right now
that way won't get you in trouble.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
Well, there was only six of us including me, so
I guess.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
All the rest of us.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
You know what I'm saying, Like, all right, I gotta
get difference, Okay, Willie, Tommy and Jason.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
All right, I gotta get a different one. So you
do like comics? What is your top five comic book characters?

Speaker 3 (49:14):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (49:15):
Okay, top five comic book characters? Well, I like dareduble.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
Ooh Solid, I like uh, Superman, I like uh.

Speaker 4 (49:32):
M hmm, I like uh the Punisher, Oh yep, I
like uh Black Panther gotta love that, right, and spider Man.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Which spider Man?

Speaker 3 (49:48):
Mm hmmm?

Speaker 4 (49:49):
Uh? Who do you know what Spider Man books that
I used to read when I was I guess the
old one because I'm old. Okay, when I was a kid, tho,
I was like nineteen eighties, you know, nineteen seventies, eighties.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Now there's a there's a there's a so with with
the DC universe being reset, okay, and there's so many
characters still to come from Marvel.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
I mean, is that something that you would love to
step into one of those?

Speaker 3 (50:18):
Yeah? For sure, for sure.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
I mean like I think outside of outside of me
doing something like that, I think that'd be I'll always
be known as the Black Ranger. But if I did
a Marvel character, then people might be like, all right,
they might see me as that, you know, but I
always have a Black Ranger as as part of who
I am, uh, part of.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
What made me, you know.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
But outside of that, I think I don't see anything
beating And there's just too much merch. I'm like, there's
too many I got we got five series of comic books,
we got we got about like eight action figures, like
three or four pops. I'm like all that cartoon got,
like you know, comic books and and and drawing, but
our books.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
And all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
So it's like I can't really see anything outside of
Marble or DC beating that.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Yeah, And here's the thing is just like there's so
many characters that like that we need that that can
that you would kill portraying, you know, because here's the thing,
like I know that like all right, even with young Static.
They're trying to get, you know, a young Static, but
there's a heavy run where Static Shock was was was grown.
And when I tell you, like, if you look at

(51:29):
side by side of the character designed and if you
grew your hair out a little bit more and had
like the old school like how you'd had a mighty warfare,
you would you would look just like og Static. And
I know that that you would bring to that role
because og Static the way that he like his his mannerisms,
it was like it was of a person who's like, look,

(51:49):
you know, I can go there, but like I'm I'm
trying to be a little bit more reserved, you know.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
What I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
And you know what I'm saying. You got the like
you already got the physical chops. You already got the
karate chops. It's like, yo, like you would.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Fit for that.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
I also think that, you know, if they if they
ever really went into like a bishop storyline, you know,
I mean obviously you would have to grow your hair
a little bit more to get the you know what
I'm saying to slick back, but I feel I can
see you being I can see you being a good bishop.
Also in actual movie world, we haven't had black lightning
show up in the actual movie world, so giving you

(52:24):
know what I'm saying, a different variation of black lightning,
but being that like that you I can see that
for you as well. Like there's a lot of characters
that like, we got to put it in the atmosphere,
We got to put it out there, like Yo, let's go.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
I'm still ready, you know, still doing my thing.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
All right.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
So the last thing, last segment that we have, it's
called recommendations. It's something that either you're reading, you're watching,
you're listening to, but something that you think that our
listeners and viewers.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Should check out.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
M h.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Reading and watching or we're listening to.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
Yeah, let's see what am I? What am I into
right now? Thinking my brain is not functioning currently.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
Well, it could be a classic something too.

Speaker 4 (53:12):
If you are interested in writing it all. The book
Save the Cat, I think that's a great book.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Check that out.

Speaker 4 (53:19):
It breaks down, breaks down how our movies are written
and how stories are told.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
And I think that's a great book for anybody to read.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
I would say, if you want to listen to Will
Smith's book or read it. Will Smith's book that was
that was dope like that was that was pretty amazing
to hear his journey and was inspiring as well as
taking it back to Sammy Davis's book. You know, Sammy
Davis's book was really intriguing in regard to what he
went through and how he had to deal with things

(53:51):
and the doors he opened himself. So, uh, those are
some of the things I would I would recommend.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Okay, dope dope. All right, So where can my people
find you at? What do you need them to support
you on?

Speaker 3 (54:01):
Yo? Y'all?

Speaker 4 (54:02):
Check me out on Instagram at Walter E. Jones also TikTok, Facebook, YouTube,
and uh, if you're interested, check out fan work we
Gotta we Gotta fan where is doing some some really
cool things for the fans. So you guys can check
that out. You can find that on my Instagram as
well on my link tree. So yeah, check it out.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
Man.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
All right, do well, this has been one on one
with Deuces. I've been your boy.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Duces have been the legendary water Jones himself and we
are out.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
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