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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage the Red Ranger Austin St. John.
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Oh, we got a sle and shri, master of the
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universe and that other guy. I see. I didn't
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I don't have any of my life. I heard he had terminal cancer. Well, he didn't
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unfortunately. That's really sad. 5 seconds into the panel. Hey, is this a coffee maker? Uh, if you
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can try. How do I get some espresso out of this thing? So, if you just put beans and hit them really hard. Oh, I see.
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See, I don't even have to introduce these guys. I just say, "Hey, you might recognize them." And then they do the rest.
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Oh, careful. Ranger. I thought you'd never ask. Don't worry. We got plenty of rangers
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where that one came from. Tyrannosaurus, please. Everybody should pick up the Red Ranger seat cushion.
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Beautiful. Cuz it's actually the Red Ranger made in Japan. Hey, I have a question for you
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guys. Why aren't you in church? Oh, exactly. We went already.
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We're Jewish. If God was even for crying out loud, her
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mother called her. She's very sad. It's funny for the Jewish be asking that question. He's always
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all right. He's only half Jewish. So, I'm not here. Just the reason the oil came for me. I'm
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like, whoa. Get to the other side. Good morning, kid. You'll find it's difficult to moderate when
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I'm having a good time. You guys are great. I'm having a good time. I was telling other people before this panel be started. I was telling you guys
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before this panel started. My favorite thing about panels when I get to do this. Yep. That's us. Most people have that
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look on their face. That's my favorite thing. You guys have that look on your face right now as you speak. Thanks for coming to say hi.
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Yeah. Actually, speaking of which, as you guys may know, and I want you to know this,
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that's the only time that women look at us and not with a smile on their face. Hey, I got refreshed contacts, so I
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can't lock in on y'all. Wow, this is the furthest I've ever seen a coffee table away from the couch.
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They did it so you can't kick your feet up. I have to.
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There you go. Stay like that for the rest of the panel. Don't be shy. This works out well.
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Thanks, Mom. Just going to be a long ass panel,
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folks. Also to our two lovely panelists. Only two. I don't know where the other went.
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As you guys Oh, I didn't know this was actually shower or less show.
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What? Can a guy take off his clothes on a Sunday morning for crying out loud? After you shave everybody about church.
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Well, after church to the church. Okay. More and more people are leaving Bulan Skull and returning to the church.
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Reminding you guys not to sin. Oh my god. Yes.
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He was just testing you for nakedness. That's why I wanted to leave after the church, but he knew he was free to do
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what he wanted. Anybody naked here at the moment? Anybody? Anybody
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got panels? How many of you wish you were? That's the question. There's the question. We got children in the house, I think.
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Maybe right there. There's one. Oh, hi kids. Cover your eyes. Cover your eyes. Cover your ears. other than the three children
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on stage. We do not require nudity, ladies and gentlemen. We do not take a shower, put
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on your pants, then get in the shower. So, anyway, about wholesome children's television.
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Let's talk. They're like, "Wow, is this really what we expected out?" Hey, on that note, fun fact,
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the right panel. This is a Q&A panel. Oh, they got questions. They got lots of
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questions, but I got questions. What's your problem, dude? There you go. What's your problem? That's my question
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number one. Question number two. Seriously? Question number three? Really? That's all we need. If you want to go
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ask these questions, you'll see that microphone right in the center and you see a lovely show. Our good friend Mike.
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Go. Yeah. Mr. Mike, line up to that microphone. Give us your questions. I'll start off with one I
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know you guys are going to have fun answering. I've been told by certain people, I won't divulge who, that there
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was a certain theme of pranks on set. You guys played with each other a bit. I want to hear about that.
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Whoa. I'm so sorry. That was not the right word. I'm totally boss after I I can't do it.
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I can't intervene. I think this is the end of the panel. Thanks for watching. I I remember professionalism and decorum
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at all times. Dignity. All dignity. That
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little late to play PC or strict. You guys know that you that old college prank where you uh where you're on a
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sports team and and you guys have a locker room and you got to get suited up whether it's football or soccer or whatever lacrosse and then someone put
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bang in somebody else's uh lower garments and then just wait for it to
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heat up and then you see the person start to shift which so there was a little bit of that with some of the spandexy. Yes, there was. Yes. Yes. Uh,
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I heard that uh someone may or may not ever see Ben Gay in their shorts and uh
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instantly learned the flamingco. It was uh it was very entertaining.
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The flamingco. Yeah, the flamingco. You like saying it like the Ukraine. The Ukraine. That's right. That's right.
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They learned the flamingo. It was it was a part. We have said a lot of our favorite breaks already in panels.
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Rather, I'm being redundant. I did just remember one that we had where there was somebody who I think was an
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administrator. They were playing an administrator and all the actors that day decided, "Hey guys, let's pretend
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that this person has a horrible stench wherever they go." And like every time that poor person was in was on camera,
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the rangers had us just look at each other like, "Did you fart?" Like it was very subtle. And like when she's coming
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from like way down the hall, we'd be like to her line. I'm like, "Come on, Paul. Let's go.
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That's terrible." It was horrible. Hilarious. Now, she picked this person picked it up ahead for like, you know, hour 12, but she
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hated us. I'll tell you this. I don't know if it's the same person. I don't know if I remember that, but I can tell you there
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was one. Do you guys remember the Rad Bug? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, first off, coolest Volkswagen
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on the history of the planet, as long as you didn't know it. Really cool car. We're all in there and it's the fire
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rangers. We're all doing our thing and uh Amy Joe passed gas.
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No, in the back of the red not here to defend.
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She blew up the red book. A But here's the great thing about AJ though. She was not private about No,
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she'd be like, "Why did you do AJ? Why did you do that for She was And then
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the next minute she'd be singing Chenado Connor in a room on guitar. full spectrum, one end to the other.
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You know, you know the putties in the original series, you know the those guys. So, the original costumes for
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those guys were no BS. They were wet suits. Yes. I don't know how many of you ever worn a
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wet suit or tried to fart in a wet suit, but there's no way for it to escape. So,
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it's kind of just a Michael Bubé that kind of just moves around with you as you're moving. And then at a certain
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point it's going to come out the aperture right here. And so you end up gassing yourself out. So yeah, the
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putties were the putties were passing out in the hall the first couple.
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Okay, we're here in the desert. It's going to be 105°. Okay, Ian, go ahead. Hit it.
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I can remember. And so the owner of Hyp Salon was on set for that and he had his limo like the rest of us were changing
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under like open tent shades in cars in cars. It was hotter than a well digger's
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butt in June, right? And Han was sitting there in his air conditioned limo. People are dropping from heat stroke.
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Like these were 7 mil wets suits, not the 3M. These were super thick. And these guys and I can Who's the the stunt
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coordinator on the pilot? Do you guys remember? Oh, no. It was um a no. I don't remember
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how many you remember. So, long story short, guys are getting hot and he's giving him grief. He's like, "Come on." Cuz they start sitting
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down and he's like, "Yeah, guys. Come on. Come on. We can do it. No, go more. Go more." Finally, they started
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dropping. Yeah. Yeah. He was arguing about.
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So, anyway, finally, Himsuban opens the back door to his car and lets these guys
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who are redder than I am in the suit sit in the back of his car in the AC finally cool off. I was like, they we should
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have had time. There's what we should Why do they choose wet suits? Just because they were because they were sh
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they were ready. Uh they were gray. They just had to put the stripes on them. Yeah. For simplicity. Just makes sense.
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Makes sense. I mean, it doesn't make any sense, which is why it makes sense. Exactly. Yeah. The biggest the biggest prank on
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Power Rangers, frankly, was our paychecks. Stole it from I was going to say every Friday someone played a joke on us.
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They'd open that thing up. Be like, "Oh, come on. You're kidding." Oh, you're not kidding. Yeah.
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Shut the per hour. This is my hour. This is my hourly. This is my hourly. This is my hourly hourly.
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I think at one point we broke it down hourly. We're like, "But this is not great." But we This is not great. I used
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to work at Magic Mountain. I was making like 850 an hour. It was pretty much just about that
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amount of money. We were like, "Wow." But when you work a 12 hour day, that's right. 126 126 hour days
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sometimes. And I tell you what, we would be better if we worked the window at McDonald's cuz we would have at least had insurance
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and free conditions much harder conditions. You're talking about wet suits, you're talking about 12 hours.
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I would have checked out pretty fast. So, I will take on that tangent of favorite moments and say, do you guys
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have each any individual fan moments coming to these cons and seeing people and their reactions to you being there?
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I know there's a few in the front row that are dieh hard fans. People were always saying to me, "Please get out of my living room."
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That's the usual reaction. Happens with me sometimes, too. Yeah. Well, my my favorite fan moment of
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the last few years is after uh returning to the show for Power Ranger Samurai and
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Power Ranger Super Samurai to have this whole new generation of five, seven,
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eight year olds that know our characters and then that inspires them to kind of
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watch the OG series. And there's this whole kind of generational kind of roll on. It's like Star Trek, you know, it
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just won't end, you know, it's like another Star Wars or Marvel movie. It's what it kind of feels like. So, I think
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that's sweet to to meet families of multiple generations. Yeah. I I completely agree. Sometimes, you
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know, I see the the guys with the gray hair and then I'll see the guys in their 20s, 30s, and then it's uh the next 5 6
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10 15 year olds, 16 year olds who all think they're old and cool at that point. And I know cuz I have one and I
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also was one. So, and they come up to the table and they've all got a story. Well, my dad showed me this or I watched
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this with my dad. And I think one of the most cool things about it is it was cool to be on the show, but 33 years later to
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watch families come to the table and know that all this time later, we're still bringing families together. I
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think that is probably that's it's just that's that's an amazing thing.
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I agree. And and look, man, anytime someone comes up to us at this point, um
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we're grateful. We're like, "Oh, you you care. We you know, you know who the hell I am, that's that's huge." Um and it's
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like you said, it's fun when you can share something with them. You know, when you have something in common with the parents coming up to us now, the
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kids don't know who if they don't know who we are. It's great because we and the parents bond like an inside joke,
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you know, like, "Oh yeah, we're all buddies. We know each other, you know." But when last night we went to dinner
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and we met a couple of very classy older ladies that had full sleeve tattoos.
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They were sisters. These ladies were hard. And they walked up to us and the one goes, "You guys are punks, right?"
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We were like, "Ah, so you Yes. Yes, we are those punks." They're like, "Can we
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take pictures with you?" It's like, "Absolutely. No problem." So one sits on my lap, the other one sits on Narvy's
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lap. Their cousin is taking pictures and everything is smiles until we look over and there are their husbands just like
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oh man burning burning.
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So is that over and be like you know we'll have them back to you in a couple hours.
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No that's just the perfect
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it was kind of cool. Last week, actually, I took so my my kid went to um um Medieval Times for his birthday.
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The Knights knew me. They're like, "Hey, I'm sorry. I came outside. I'm sorry,
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guys." That was funny. That was funny. But does it come with a black plague dessert?
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Oh, yeah. Absolutely. They gave me a simple for absolutely
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free. It was really nice of them. Any rats going around? Got some rats.
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Got some rats. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Rats. Please on the rats. Oh, perfect. He's on the table, too. I
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mean, go for it. Yeah, absolutely. You know those turkey legs that they sell at medieval times? You ever see him? A giant turkey leg.
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Huge massive. I want to see the turkey. But I mean, the turkeyy's the size of a small co.
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Not anymore. He want to see the turkey in my
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turkeys. We're very They all sounded like angry turkeys, did they not?
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Yeah, we had a turkey monster. I I believe the the Thanksgiving episode. That's Oh, yeah, we did. That's right.
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Your your mom's my mom's thing. I love anytime they had something that we did that had not a damn thing to do at all
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with a be story line. Like like we had one episode where the entire episode focus, we're making a turkey. The entire
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episode. We had another episode focus. We're making a cup of coffee. An entire episode. You remember that one?
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Yeah. Those are the best. Brought to you by Come on. Start a cooking show with them. start a cooking show
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to go this because of them. Bobby Fle has a show
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off. We like to think of him as the sixth grader. There you go.
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He's still content about the fact that you guys have seen so many generations of families, both uh the newcomers, the oldcomers, the parents who have wrapped
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their kids into it. These are roles that you guys are stepping into for practically over a decade. So each time you come back to the role, the
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environment is obviously different, but you're coming back to these same people. Is that experience nice to kind of like
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jump back in straddle and you feel like no time has passed or is it like, oh, we're in a whole new now?
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Yeah. Less lifting, less wet suits. Yeah. Less less suit.
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That's fair. Well, and I know so one of the cool I know often you've come back a few times.
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Um how far how long ago was the most recent one? Wasn't that long ago? Five four or five years ago at Beast
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Workers. Okay. How was that one? Was that that was the longest time you'd been away at that point? You know, I kind of I kind of felt like
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the Godfather. I walked on a set, I was like, or maybe actually I felt like Dr. Evil. That's
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more what it was. I just needed a naked cat. But I remember walking on a set and it was all of the exact same problems,
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just new 18, 19, and 20-y old casts. Fair in New Zealand instead of US. So if I
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had to have a problem, I think I'd probably rather have it there, right? But other than that, it was identical. I was just like And same on Forever Red. I
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was like, I walk on and and the only difference was when I knew I was old cuz you walk on and one or two of the cast
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members walk up, they're like, "Dude, I grew up watching you so I'm like, "Oh
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god." All right. Good to meet you. You're jerk.
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Theory, but painful in reality. It was It was great. So, it just reminded me of when it started. And
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these guys were guys I looked up to cuz they were even old then. So, now they're just older than me now.
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Sick and cool. But basically, they knew what was going on in the world. And I was like, just do
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what they do. Just do what they do. Well, you know, they they commonly reboot things, right?
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2017, Power Rangers rebooted their universe with that cool feature film with R.J. and all the kids. And rather
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than have characters like Bulk and Skull that were like really part of the story, they just made the kids be their own
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kind of foils, right? They had um personal issues and they weren't as perfect as these children were back in
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the uh OG days. And and that's cool. I think being rebooted is is cool. Uh but
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they haven't rebooted us. They've tried. That's true.
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Tried. They had comedy duos, but but not quite the lightning in a bottle. That
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was um us after burritos for lunch. Not a full episode of making coffee.
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It's not the same. It ain't the same. Does anybody have any questions out there that you'd like?
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Come on, guys. This is literally a Q&A panel. God, they see the line starts, one person comes, and then they air.
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Good morning. Good morning. So, I'm Eric. I always had this question. It's kind of like everybody for everything in general. So,
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you're out there and you spend like hours and hours together kind of like family, maybe not family, but were there
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any like puppy love interests that sparked? And if you could narrow one down, like who was the one that you're
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like, "Man, I didn't see that one coming." Puppy love. Yeah. You like crushes people dating each
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other on the set? Asking for the Jason Army and I were vying for the
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attention of Mrs. Applebee. We were like, "Man, that teacher is
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hot." You want to know where Spike came from? Oh, yeah. That's the one.
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That's the one. I just never told him I was there first
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until right now. Oh my god. Also, not true.
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Hi, my name's Anthony. Yeah, you got to get closer. Come on. Don't try.
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My name's Anthony and and stay up.
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Yeah, there you go. [Applause] Uh, my name is Anthony and I was
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fortunate enough to get all three of y'all's autographs. So, thank you so much. And I grew up watching y'all with
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my dad. Uh, thank you. Um, but my question was, how did y'all get casted
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for Power Rangers? Like, what was the process? Thank you for your question, Anthony. Well,
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getting cast on a TV show. Um, when you when you're an actor, generally you'll
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have a talent agent and that agent has got a lot of different actors. Uh, they got the fat guy and they got the the
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strong guy, the football guy, the basketball guy. And so whenever someone has a casting notice where they're
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looking for a certain type of person, there was a printout system called the breakdown system where that breakdown
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would go out. It's internet based now, but back in those days, um, there was a printer in every agent's office that
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would print what they what the producers were looking for. And if a given agent had someone that matched that
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description, they would submit the picture of the person with the resume. And then the producers would say, "Oh,
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we want to see this one, this one, and this one." And so that that's when we would get a call to show up for an audition. So basically, we showed up, we
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had an agent, there was a casting call, we showed up for an audition, and uh, if we're lucky, we get the job. And you
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will go into the casting room and there'll be 20 guys look exactly like you every single time. Yeah. There's
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like nine fat guys in LA. We all know each other. Yeah. They
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interesting. For us it was a cattle. Yeah. So they they literally just advertised in the newspaper, which means you, your
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homie, your 10 best friends, and your cousins monkeys uncle could all just show up. And it was I'm told what I I
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think Katie W Katy Wallen did the original casting at least for us and for you guys. Yeah, she for us too.
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So I think over like several days. No, but he was not the original. Yeah, like several days. I think there
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was almost like 10,000 people that showed up. This is what I'm told. I'm sure the numbers have been inflated over the years, but I can tell you the lines
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went down the block because every actor, every actor that at least read the paper that morning was there. It was
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ridiculous. So, it was I I didn't get a like particular call. I definitely did not have head shots. I was a teenager
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with attitude. I was in high school and I did drop out and I was completely tight cast cuz I didn't know a damn
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thing about acting. That's true. I can fight though. Fast on that one.
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Like audition one. Can you fight? Yes. Can you act? I'm sorry. What?
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What's that word mean? I don't understand. What's What's up, guys? years ago. And I grew up with y'all,
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too. Uh, my mom got me a VCR full box full of tapes and I just started watching y'all. But my question was,
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when y'all became Power Rangers, who decided y'all's colors? Did y'all come with with the colors or were y'all given
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the colors? Now, we were told I was I was told it was going to be the Red Ranger, which I hated cuz it's like I
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grew up watching Ninjas and Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee and, you know, all the cool guys, and they all wore black. I mean, I guess some were red. That was
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kind of cool. But I was like, I want to wear red. I want I want the black. Ninjas are black. Spies are black. All
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the cool people who do cool things that are sneaky and are wear black. Cool girls, you know, sexy girls, they all
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wear black. And I was like, I wanted to be the black ranger. And Walter didn't want to be the black rangers. No, I
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think maybe you did actually. But we got told, we were completely told. There was never a debate. Was this the same for
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Skull Rangers? Well, we only became Rangers in the comic book. Yeah. People always ask us like what
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colors we be. We're like we're not colors. We like to think more of the materials we would use. Leather ranger,
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you know, chains, different kinds of metal or just as we said before, just spray paint our bodies. You know, I
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thought about a ranger suit completely made of edible pizza. Fight the bad
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guys, take a bite. Fight the bad guys, take a bite. Thank y'all so much.
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Thank you for your question. firing pepperoni now.
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What's up? What's up? Hey, what's going on guys? I already know you already Well, we already admit
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so. Oh, there you are. Yes. Hey, I'm coming. Yeah.
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He's going to be a daddy soon, guys. [Applause]
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In about five minutes. Any minute now. He's like, "Well, actually, my wife went ahead to the
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hospital." I said I had a question I had to ask. Priorities. Priorities.
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Well, I haven't met Austin. Austin, my name is Justin Watson. They already met you. You weren't at your booth yet. But
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my question was I want to ask yall the question again. When can I give you a haircut?
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When we When are we going to get a haircut? He wants to give us a haircut. He wants to give us a haircut. I'm your shaggy, bro. I got I got like
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You need a You need a haircut. You need a haircut. It's more of an intervention than a question. You're
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right. A question has a question mark. This is a statement with an exclamation mark. Save yourselves. Repent.
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Repent and cut. Thank you for the offer. But hair is so precious.
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It is. I finally remember hair. And now I can, you know, the great thing
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about going bald. And there is a great thing is that I can now perceive 0.25 25
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degree temperature variations when I walk in a room. Like when my wife starts to mess with the thermostat, I'm like,
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[Laughter] she's just standing behind going
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blowing on the top of his head. So, thank you for the offer, but I'm going to have to eat every follicle for the
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Thank you. Well, thank you for making my childhood awesome, guys. Thank you guys so much. Awesome. And congrats again.
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Congratulations. Give them a round of applause. Yeah.
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What's up, my friend? Hi, guys. I appreciate you guys coming out here uh all the way down to Small Corpus Christie, but um and sorry for a
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more serious question, but Austin, I was watching a video with you and Walter talking about standing your ground with
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contract negotiations between as well. I was wondering if anyone else stood by your guys' side, anyone else on set that
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might have stood the or any future Rangers that might have
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followed a similar path in trying to change management culture. You know, I think uh everybody had their
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own ideas about what was best for them at the time. And uh you know the the
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three of us initially I spoke to all six rangers. I definitely made a mistake. I never approached these two and I I
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should have. Um but I frankly I was young younger and dumber than I am now
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which is saying a lot and um I can remember I was getting a lot of advice from the crew. The crew were constantly
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whispering in my ear. And then I learned I didn't know what the union was until like 35 episodes in I heard guys talking
25:35
about I was like what's union? What's sack? What's that? you know, and like I knew nothing of Hollywood except there
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were famous people on red carpets and they did Fox stuff and and other these other big network I knew nothing. And uh
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so I really was drinking from about 5,000 different fountains. And I I remember approaching the entire cast cuz
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everybody was telling me the whole cast has to go. You got to get the whole cast. You got to get the whole cast. And
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so I I approached the whole cast except for these two and all six agreed. And in
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the end, um, three of us decided to stand our ground and we walked. And I
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wouldn't change that. I I wouldn't change it today. I wouldn't change it then. I would have changed how I did it
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because I know more. But, uh, I I think in the end, what happened to us is not
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uncommon. It happens to actors all the time. This wasn't just us. We're not the only. We weren't the first, and we will
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definitely not be the last. But whether it's Power Rangers on set or working at
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the McDonald's drive-thru or working at the oil rig in Midland, there's always going to be somebody
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working for somebody who's not being treated the way they know they should be treated. And it's all going to boil down
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to the same question you have to ask yourself. Are you worth it or are you not? Yeah. What's your personal value? What
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do you what value do you place on your own work? And when you find that answer, then you got to make the tough decisions. And you
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can't let it be dictated to you by choices others make. I guarantee you there are people in this room that are
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in work situations where they you are not being treated the way you think that
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you should be treated. And you take it because you need to feed the family. We
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got to pay the bills. We got mortgages and rent because ultimately there's a line of people standing behind you that
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are going to be ready to take that job. took it. But still, you still have to decide for yourself what the line is.
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You know, now for Jason and I as supported characters, we never said the word no ever. That's how we ended up
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dressed as bunnies and Italian chefs and, you know, pepper turned walking pepperonis. We we always like like
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that's the thing. Um we we we had each other. We always thought we were dispensable, you know. And Hollywood's a
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weird thing, too, because um experienced crew members will tell you whether you're indispensable or not. I mean,
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when you're 19 years old, you got to take your order for like they must know what they're talking about, you know, who's got your back and at what thing,
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you know? Um so again, it's it's are you
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you as an actor, as an artist, somebody that's in a in a job that is a value job? Unfortunately, a value job, those
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are harder to come by. Every kind of labor. Yeah, absolutely. You know, and so if you're doing the thing you want to do, that is
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a hell of a thing. You got to look inside yourself and say, "Shoot, what at what point do I feel like I'm no longer
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myself. I don't feel like I'm I'm myself unless I'm doing that job." But if I'm
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doing this job and I'm all about how to make it the thing that it's supposed to be, I'm not myself either. So yeah, you
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you get that varying. I mean whether your your family gives you some form of who you are, what your morals, what your
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ethics are, what your social graces are, whether you get it from a faith, whether you get it from, wherever you get it,
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that's going to be the foundation with which you make these judgments and you decide, you know what, I'm worth more.
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I'm worth less. I'm definitely worth more, but like he said, I got to keep paying the
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bills. or I'm solo I'm a little more free which I was at the time and I can
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stand my ground still lose the job but not lose the ability to support children
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or a family. Yeah. But you you also went on to serve our country in Afghanistan uh with distinction and and that Yeah.
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Absolutely. And I think that that you know th those life changes came about
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because of all of this in its own way. Yeah. Yeah, I mean my dad was a Marine.
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My uh my grandfather bombed Hitler out of Nazi occupied Germany. You know, 23 combat missions as a B29
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uh Strata Fortress pilot. I mean, he's he was a beast. Uh dad served, my brother served, my mom was one of the
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first female cops in the 1970s, and they they literally tried to kill her because
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she was a woman at the time and didn't belong. and they uh she graduated and they sent her into the drug houses and
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cartels to uh to get information. Well, the cartels in one group loved her and
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fed her all the information on the other cartels. So, she took down the other cartels and she came out on top and she
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was a beast like 5'6 and she was tough as hipp. So, I kind of grew up with
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powerful people. My mom broke bonds. She broke all these these stereotypes. My dad was an officer, a gentleman, and I
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had a lot to live up to and you know, I'm still working on it. I just left a bad situation myself. So, seeing that video and being able to
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relate to you was was very helpful. And just out of I support dogs, so we're all right for now. I'll give you one last one last piece.
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Do you know why why tigers are not king of the jungle? I do not. Because they hunt alone. The reason
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lions are the king of the jungle is because they surround themselves with like-minded, highly motivated
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individuals with common goals. If you want to get somewhere anywhere in life,
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find people with like-minded sets of goals and move together and you will be
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amazed at what you can accomplish. That's also known as being in a game or
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in terms of a job, it's known as communism. What is it you hate about America?
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Austin is a freedom to worries on yourself and you'll be okay. We're going political. Thank you so much
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for your question. A lot of conversation brought up. Hi there. Hi. Hello. Are you going to be a counter again?
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That guy who going to have a good time buzz. Hi. I'm Nadia from Montter, Mexico. So I
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want to say all all my generations we still uh have on on our memories the
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writers because sometimes you see on Facebook the post when someone have a
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problem with the job or with boyfriend or something that it's not what the pink
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power ranger do it or it's not the red power ranger. So I'm sorry. So we feel
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like uh if you remember when you're a child and it's like a no power rangers
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are strong they are very you know like so I'm just saying like we still all
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that in our memories. Well thank you nostalgia.
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[Music] Hi there. I'm Jackson Guyger, my dad's
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son. Hi, Jackson. How are you today? I'm doing pretty good.
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Good. Um, first I'd like to ask two questions. They're both pretty good. Do Vulcan
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Skull in real life have lives? And what do you think of the food fight episode?
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In real life, do we have lives? No. WF
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E. What? Whiffs. Wives. Man, he's definitely going to whiff on him.
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Yes, we have wives. They've asked us not to divulge their names as it might ruin their reputations to be married to us.
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But we have them. Yes. When I married my wife, she is uh she's uh exactly my
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height, but has bigger feet. And uh when we got married, she was like, "These are
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my tools like and here's a shelf for your tools."
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So, uh, yeah, my wife's pretty awesome. I brought my wife along with me today.
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Very attractive. We sometimes refer to each other as each other's first ex-wife. That's true.
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That's it. You're totally kidding, Jackson. Sorry. All right. So, totally kidding, buddy. So, what was your second question again, Jackson?
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What do you think of Food Fight episode? Oh, actually that was one of our favorite scripts to get in our hands
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because to say food fight if you were in slapstick comedy in the post uh post
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animal house era is sort of like getting Hamlet and having the lines to be or not to be. They go right and then have a big
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food fight and they pay you for it instead of kick you out of school and they don't make you clean it up because
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you have people for that. It's high school but Yes. Yes. I don't get any ideas at all.
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I'd like to say that I'm really proud of my dad. A we're very proud of your bot, too.
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And that would be all, folks. All right. Thank you, Jackson. Good job, buddy.
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Hi. Hi. Uh, I'm Michaela and going based a little bit based off what you said earlier about how some of your favorite
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episodes are where school just make things. I can't hear you. Get a little closer. Sorry. Yeah. Uh, so my question is, what
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have been some of your favorite episodes to film?
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Okay, I loved Forever Red because it was epic and amazing. It was a cool return and a great entrance, a great reintro,
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but my favorite episode will always be the original Hunter Pilot because that was eyes wide open for me. I was barely
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18. I was learning how to be an actor. I was learning how to be a stunt guy. I was learning how to work with stunt
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guys. I was learning how to be uh a man, you know, and it was just learning curve
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like this. And it was the first time I walked onto a set and I looked around and saw 10 bajillion people, maybe 20.
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And I realized what an army it takes to make six, seven, eight, 10 people look
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good on camera. And uh it it was just it was one hell of a first day on any job
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was to walk onto that set and just holy crap. I was drinking through a firehouse. It was really cool. I think
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uh filming the Wild West Rangers was awesome, you know, cuz we got Cowboys,
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we got, you know, we got horses and we got Spurs and we were cool. That was a
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lot of fun till the mule tried to throw me off. Sorry that
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was good, man. I think my my favorite episode is uh in Power Rangers in Space when Vulcan Skull finally get to kick ass for like 5
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seconds in Countdown to Destruction. Yeah. Zero to hero.
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Thanks for the question. All right. Thank you. Thank you. He's got somebody knocked out on Oh,
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never mind. Morning. Morning. What up? Say hi. Hi.
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Hi. What's up, big man? What's up, dude? What's your name? Cameron. Cameron.
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You're the biggest Cameron I've seen all day. Ask the Red Ranger.
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This one's for you, Austin. He wants to know. Oh, he already knows. He said he wants
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to know if he could beat Goku. What? Could you repeat the question? If he can beat in combat Goku.
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Goku. Can you beat no coup? No.
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Yes. The answer is yes. And twice on Sunday. It would be a very close battle. I'm
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sure I would have to call on many of my Ranger f friends. And I would certainly have to have Bulan Skull Morph to back
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me up. But at the end of the day, I think we could take it. What do you think? What do you think? Can I get him?
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Cameron, what do you think? Can we take him? All right. Thank you, sir. Thanks, Mike.
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I wasn't sure. Thanks, guys. Um, question for uh Paul and Jason. Um,
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y'all guys had such like I could tell like y'all are friends. Even like right now as y'all are sitting here, y'all
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seem like almost like if we're watching episode in the show and we're watching it like as a play. Um, y'all have really
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good like what is the relationship y'all have when y'all are not doing ComicCons? And do y'all text or y friends? Y'all go
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bowling together? Like, how do y'all keep this this chemistry? Anybody go bowling together anymore?
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It is 2025. In the good old days. Let's go bowling. We bowling. And And I mean that in the
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I'm going bowling. Go bowling. We we have important times over
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part of the relationship is we spend a lot of time on the road and we get to so well we film together and have
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experiences there and now we've got experiences on the road in front of tons of fans and we have new stories and
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experiences that kind of make this cool. You know, it's just another way to bond over did you hear this crazy thing? Did
38:39
you hear what that guy said? Did you see that? Did you unsee? Can you unsee what that person just smelled like
38:46
because I see smells invention regular. Yeah. So, I mean there's some things where she's like you're not going to
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believe what I just saw and then you know it happens again. So, well I mean so Austin really was a member of the
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United States Armed Forces and uh and we were simply actors on a TV show. However, the experience is similar
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inclement conditions. You're all working in the same trench together. You're barely getting paid. there is some
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higher goal that you're aiming for rather than uh you know saving the free world. In our case, it was just trying
39:18
to make kids laugh and and and have fun for a minute, but it really is kind of like being old war buddies. And so, we
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have that shared experience moving forward. And even though Jason is now a a college professor in Pennsylvania um
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with PhD with a PhD as Dr. Darby, congratulations. He's on vacation. no longer a pseudo
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intellectual uh in forever. I I work at art studio in
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Los Angeles for 21 years and so we're not exactly close to each other. Um but
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uh Garvey's family still lives in California. So every holidays I get to see the family. We go to the museum together and we break stuff and then we
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get in trouble and we text each other a lot of dumb puns in between. We really do.
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Man, we share a dressing room for a decade. I mean, you know, talk about getting close. I've seen him naked more than I've seen my own reflection. You
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ever see two straight dudes share a room? You both It's like a Polish boxing. You go to the corner and then
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you're like quickly drop trout. I'll get your hands on it. You're like, "All right, we're good.
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I'm talking about." Thank y'all guys, man. Uh y'all are awesome, man.
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Thank you for your question. Just to clarify real quick, I was a contractor. I wasn't actually in the US Armed Services. I worked with the
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Marines and the Army and other groups. I was there, but I never owned the right to be called Marine or uh or soldier.
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Hi, I'm Frank. I would want to know from the original Power Ranger colors, Vulcan
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Skull, what would be your colors from the original colors? Original Power Ranger colors.
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I think we'd both be like like photo negatives of what the Rangers had and we'd both be the black Rangers, but be
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photo negatives, right? I don't I think it should be leather. Like I said, that's what I'm saying. Leather comes
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with black. You're not going to have pink leather to be
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[Music] [Applause] a pink. [Music]
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Can we Can we change Skull's name to brain with that PhD? That That doesn't make any sense no more. I mean, Skull
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PhD. Now, we always we talk about this. There's got to be something Freudian for the fact that I played the dumbest guy in the entire uh Power Rangers universe
41:29
and I felt the need to go out and get a freaking PhD and call myself doctor. I mean like I have issues, my friend. I
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have issues. Well, you remember the first couple seasons, Skull didn't have any original dialogue. He just repeated
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what I said. Yeah, I repeated what he said.
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But I don't question. Thank you for your question. I will say I'm so sorry to people in the back. We
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have time for one more question. So, make it a You guys want to find it out? Yeah. You know, we can do we can do a
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lucky rounding round. Ready? Go. I met name's Rocky. I was wondering if
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y'all could choose to be any Power Ranger. What would it be? Like
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I just want you. If you could change any ranger, I want to be the purple ranger.
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Sweet. Thank you. Good. Let's go. Lightning round. Go. Hi, I'm Adrian. This is my daughter,
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Alexia. She's That's not a question. She's two belts away from being a black belt. This question is for Austin. Um,
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what what advice do you have for her to own her craft? You said she just got a black belt.
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No, she's two belts away from becoming a black belt. Okay. How long have you been in the martial arts? For 3 years.
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Three years. Okay. Do you enjoy it? Okay. Well, that's important. If you can do something that you love, you're ahead
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of most people right there. So, I would say the key is consistency. Keep showing up. If you keep showing up, that one
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specific thing alone will get you ahead of probably 80% of your competition. Show up and then study like you mean it.
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And be humble. You're going to run into a lot of egos in the world of martial arts. Stay away from them. The only
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thing you learn from them is what not to be. And I and I can say that from experience because I was one of those guys with an ego until it got fed to me.
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And then I learned, wow, I deserve that. And then I learned to teach it to other
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guys who came up with ego. So show up. Don't quit. Because it's not quitting on the martial arts. It's not quitting on
43:31
the goal. It's quitting on yourself. The day you pick up that black belt, you will have earned a right and a
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membership to a club no one can ever take away from you. And it will make you a member like in the military or the
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fire department or in a group of doctors. You will have something that most other
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people in the world don't even have the courage to start. You will be one of the
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few who finish it. So finish it. Set your mind to it. Keep showing up. Train
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hard and stay home. That's my advice to you. Thank you very much.
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Okay. Last one guys down. I'll bring him up actually.
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Hello. My name is Luke and I would like to ask a question.
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Okay, that was a statement. How do you call the
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call? But I know you have those the morphers, but how do they hear them?
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Much to think about with that one. So, so you use your morpher to call the swords, but how do you hear them?
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With your ears. All right, there's our final question. Nobody knows this, but the morphers are actually like early
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pagers. They just buzz. That's what it was me. That's what it was. It was telekinesis.
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Thank you for watching and listening all these years. You guys give it up for your wonderful,
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wonderful addresses here today. Have an amazing day. Right. And I got the I have the last thing as you're walking off. Are you ready? The last
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thing. This morning I was playing with the Tyrannosaurus and the mass in the backyard and I left the back gate open.
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They're out there somewhere. If you see them, would you let me know? Okay. Cuz
45:21
the T-Rex, he's getting hungry. And if I don't see a pickup truck full of Alpo dog food, he's going to eat the mascot.
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All right. So, let me know if you see him. Okay. Okay. Okay.