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Generation In-Between: A Xennial Podcast
Xennial co-hosts Dani and Katie talk about their analog childhoods, digital adulthoods and everything in between.
Generation In-Between: A Xennial Podcast
Power Rangers Part 2: Another Superfan Brings the Knowledge
Do you have a Power Rangers backflip story that ended badly? Is Pumpkin Rapper your archenemy or your next Halloween costume?
If you ARE the yellow, red, pink, blue, black or green ranger -- you might be a Xennial, or Xennial adjacent. And so is today's special guest.
We love the Power Rangers so much that we have our second special guest to discuss the topic, Alexey. He's here to share his Power Ranger origin story -- and we have our first studio audience!
Want more Power Rangers? Check out our first Power Rangers episode with Carlos.
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Did you listen to our Power Rangers episode and squeal with excitement over all the fun facts and memories Carlos shared? Did you want to hear even more history, trivia and personal connections related to those brightly colored teen warriors from the 90s? If you answered yes to those questions, you might be a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers super fan, and so is our special guest today. And no, it is not Carlos again, but don't worry, he will be back for another segment soon. Hi everyone. I am Danny and I am Katie. You're listening to generation in between, the xennial podcast, where we remember, revisit, and most of the time, relearn all kinds of things from our 80s childhoods and 90s teen young adulthoods before we introduce that special super fan guest, we do have to do a few circle backs or shout outs, which we lovingly sometimes call corrections with Carlos, we have No corrections from Carlos this week. Okay, what's out so get ready, Alex a because he's gonna come for you next. All right, so first circle back before we intro our lovely guest. Okay, so me and my youngest were watching the OG Legally Blonde movie the other night. Katie, you're gonna like this one. Okay, and so the Chihuahua that played Bruiser, okay, that doggies name was Mooney. There is a scene where, where the doggies watching TV and the Yoki arrow Taco Bell dog comes on that we've talked about, okay, those two dogs, that was Gidget, who we talked about in our cats and dogs episode. They were roommates when they filmed that. Please don't ask me why. No, I went on this, like, super weird tangent. When they filmed what? When they filmed Legally Blonde, they were those doggies were roommates, which is funny because Gidget ended up playing Moonies mom in Legally Blonde too. So the Taco Bell commercial was a fake Taco Bell commercial for the movie. No, no, it was a real Taco Bell commercial. Oh, like it was, so why was Gidget there to be a roomy? No, I'm saying they live together in real life. Oh, why was good not set so they have the same No, is that what you're I don't know if they have the same owner, okay, but they, like lit, they were like, show dogs, so I don't know, but they were roommates, and there's like, sorry, everyone. That was a weird let's circle back to ourselves now. Okay, so they knew each other during the filming. They were roommates, buds in real life. Okay, in the scene, and we're gonna try in the scene in the movie, Bruiser. Character's name, real life name Mooney. Okay, is watching Real Life commercial? Taco Bell? Got it. Who is real life named Gidget? Yes, but I forgot the name of the talk. Oh, did you know the Taco Bell dogs name was Nacho in the commercials? Maybe it rings. I don't think we said that in our cattle dog. I don't think we all right. Well, this was the longest circle back ever about Chihuahuas. And we love us some two chihuahuas, as you do, especially in the room today. So yeah, what else you got? Okay, so another one was our friend and listener, Jen, but not Jennifer. Her name is Genevieve. Okay. She told me a really interesting Furby fact, after she listened to our episode with Patrick and Dina um, when Furbies came out in the late 90s, they were not allowed on Air Force bases. So Jen's family was a military family, yeah, you couldn't have them on because of, like, the recording and the AI stuff, because Furbies learned and would talk. So I guess they were like, nervous about government secrets and all the things. I mean, it makes sense, so all the poor little air force kids got no Furbies for Christmas. So those are my only two. So do you have any? Just to circle back to our last episode. Shout out to Patrick and Dina, yay. And then all that stuff and sound was, again, a little funky, but this was more like human error last time. But we did have someone that we found on Fiverr, his name Spiros, and he has helped us restore some audio from that one and the other one before it. Oh, summertime memories, yeah, so those should be in your feed now. Yeah, you've already listened and want to listen again. Go ahead, if you are a new listener and haven't listened yet, you won't know the difference. Yeah, because they're they're fixed, yeah? So we apologize for that. That was totally our bad, that sound, that sound issue, was our focus. Yeah, 100% yes, the yes. But because of that, our guest today, yes, has been thoroughly briefed yes on what we need to happen. So that doesn't happen today, today, when everyone's here. So that brings us perfectly to get to that. Yeah, exactly. We're going to introduce our amazing, super fan guest today, Alex say del Castillo, yes.
Alexey Del Castillo:Hello, Hello. So good
Dani Combs:to have you. I'm gonna tell our listeners a little more about you, and then you can tell us in your own words about yourself. Alex a Vladimir del Castille is a New York trained film actor who loves board games and coffee. You can see him riding in Johnny's Uber on an episode of Cobra Kai are burning cookies in a Publix commercial. That's the one this fall. He will appear in the new series, these stones. These stones, okay, for some reason I thought was supposed to say three stones. Let me try that again next fall. And that's the fall of 2024 depending when you're listening to this, he will appear in the new series these stones as Samuel from the Bible, as a Power Ranger fan. He's delighted to be here on generation in between. Well, hello,
Alexey Del Castillo:hello, yes, yes. Super excited. Super excited. I was like, Why was I not in the first episode? I know I'm not mad. I'm just hurt. I
Unknown:know I so y'all may remember we did talk about Alex a on the Power Rangers episode, Carlos even admitted, he said Alex A is a bigger super fan than him, so we had to do a part two to bring him on. And they're in town for the weekend. So it was perfect, because we were gonna we're trying to figure out how we could do it on Zoom. But it's always so much more fun to have people face to face, so much so. So today we're going to talk even more about Power Rangers, which means Danny and Katie are going to learn more, because we know zero except what Carlos told us say. Now we know a little we do because of Carlos. We absolutely do. Yeah, so you said you have your own circle backs for us before we even get going into the meet. And I love that.
Alexey Del Castillo:Yes, yes. Okay, so I have to circle back, because Carlos did a magnificent job. Sorry, there you go. I did the thing. I literally did the thing. I was just making sure you guys caught it. I do have a circle back, and it's because Carlos did a magnificent job. I cannot even like fault anything. He said so, and I'm like, I'm like, You better, Primo, you better. I told him, like, you better represent. Don't mess this up. Don't make stop trying to make that happen. It's not going to like, costume. Oh, it was so cool. I was so mad. I was like, I don't even have a suit. How dare you look so good in it. Of like, How dare you? But Thomas, unfair, because Katie and I weren't really prepared to take pictures. So we let remember, we, like, took a picture. Then we're like, Oh, we did like, a full body. And we're like, and you're just gonna be by yourself because, yeah, we're like, then we'll just do like, a quick selfie where we can see, did the millennial Facebook? I don't like that angle. I just, I'll not be in it
Dani Combs:when you're of an age. Well, last week's episode with Patrick and Dina, we took a picture of me with a blockbuster card, and that photo will never see the light of what happened to it. I was like, where did the picture go? Just to you later. But like, well, first of all, Danny's smaller than me, so, so she the you took it at, like this, I know I'm like, I knew when I took it that was a bad idea. Like aiming up from like, my tarso up and my chins, I look super happy.
Alexey Del Castillo:My chin, oh,
Dani Combs:I'm sorry. I apologize. I should know better to release it as, like a patron special picture. We don't need to do this. We have so many pictures where we're like, oh shit, that's bad. Like, we're not doing that.
Alexey Del Castillo:Like, risk it for the Patriots, you're like, we don't need, we don't need, we don't need to. There's, like, a limit. That's not, no, I just want to, as you took it, were you like, this is a bad idea, but we're not gonna say anything. I think it's there, all right. Anyway. Anywho, so circle backs, yes. So I wanted to touch base on Thuy Trang the Yellow Ranger, because that's really, really important. She was, she was so, like, everybody who interviews about her, like, you can look at those interviews and they look back and they're like, yeah, she was on the move, like she was going to be. Because what's really cool about Rangers is there's certain actors in it that you're like, yes, you're doing the campy script, but I can see why you went somewhere else more successfully afterwards, like, I can see that even though it's campy, there's just just a like, handful of rangers, and she was the first where you're like, this isn't going to be it for you. And then what happened? Happened? And we lost her, and it was heartbreaking. And she actually was Vietnamese and almost died on the boat over here.
Unknown:About that, Amanda sent me, Amanda, Alex, A's partner, who y'all heard on our Diana episode. She's here right now, but she made that connection. She's quietly she's quietly observing, as well as our friend Bobby, so he's there. We have an audience today. This is kind of cool, but we did, we did a circle back because Amanda sent me the interview, and she had a harrowing story. We didn't go into super detail about it, but, yeah, it's, it was, it was really heartbreaking to think here. She's
Alexey Del Castillo:so inspired, like, that's inspiring about it, somebody that just had. Had everything against them still, yeah, figure out a way to win, right? It's really, it's really beautiful, and she's a beautiful person. Yeah, through it also, it's just heartbreaking to be like, Oh, okay, we lost somebody. Great for the
Dani Combs:listeners who are just here for the Power Rangers summarize that story about the her trip over from Vietnam. So
Alexey Del Castillo:Thuy Trang as a believe, like an like, a baby, baby. They were like, fleeing Vietnam over to here, and they thought she was dead on the boat. They thought that she wasn't breathing anymore. And they were gonna, what? They were gonna throw her overboard. Yeah. They were like, We not enough, you know, just we have to like, you know. And her parents were like, no, like, which shows the strength of like, like, which shows the strength of her mother. Like, to like, don't mess with the mama bear. Like, that's just like, something you learn and then, no, she was alive and thrived. And through all of that, was able to be come something that will be remembered forever. I mean, to this day, like, we just lost Jason, David, Frank, very, very recently, and broke my heart. I'm not trying to tear up, but I might he was my favorite, so we'll get into that. But like they rangers to this day make like little comic books or memes or honoring these people because they're so important to us, like they matter. That's what I love about this podcast, is that it's all the things that matter to you that people think don't right, but that shape you up to like, it's so
Unknown:that's why it's fun for us to have like when we talk about things, if like, to have super fans on because, like, we talked about this last night at my house, where we were like to see people light up about something, Because Katie and I can research things we do all the time, you know? But when somebody comes in, like, today, you're so excited, and Carlos is excited. My husband was excited to talk about Nintendo. Katie's husband's gonna come on and talk about new wave. So that's gonna be so fun. She's so excited. She doesn't like new wave, but like, if Depeche Mode is playing, I'm like, Oh well, I'm not gonna
Alexey Del Castillo:run. Like, my spirit leaves my dog later. I'm gonna go to the Himalayas. In my mind,
Dani Combs:when Jen was on about Reba, oh, yeah, Reba, yeah. Like, it's like, and Diana that was that, especially because people and, like, when I talked about Britney Spears, oh yeah, spears, fan, you go through, like, from the lifetime that I've loved her, people being like, kind of, yeah, almost cutting you down for, like, exactly the Power Rangers McIntyre, what Nintendo games, yeah, in your 40s. But like, these things do matter. They do because they shape who we are. And the things that bring us joy matter, right? And that kind of, that kind of we have, we have sound effects from our from our audience members, I love this. I think that brings us right to what the first thing we wanted to ask you was. And I think we asked Carlos something similar was, what was your first memory of when you became a Power Rangers fan.
Alexey Del Castillo:Oh, god. Okay. So what's really funny is Carlos is, like, flipping story. Yeah, everybody has a flipping story, everybody, and they all ended poorly. TLDR, uh. Moment that I was like, Oh, I'm a ranger. So, like, I remember I'm three years old, because this is, like, when it came out for me, yeah. And I was like, okay, cool, cool, cool, whatever. It's, like, whatever I'm, like, playing with toys and stuff. And then I just remember, just, like, because, like, vegging out for five minutes just watching all the cool suits and flips and explosions and the team. And that was around the time, like I had caught the show before Tommy was a thing, like when it was really starting.
Dani Combs:He what Tommy was the rev, he's green. He
Alexey Del Castillo:was the cute, yeah, you're like music with the ponytail that he just knew,
Dani Combs:bad boy with a ponytail every time, sir, such a rebel,
Alexey Del Castillo:which is actually why he related to a lot of people. Like, people didn't understand why he was so popular, but it's because, like, I mean, every color in Rangers means something, and usually, like, all the personalities were chosen for something. So for me, it was like, I saw Jason. I was like, oh, I want to be like, That guy. Like, I want to lead from the front. I want to lead. You know, I want to be that guy. I want to be a hero. Because I was like, always, like, my grandfather was a soldier. So I was always like, Oh, I really just want to be the man that you know, like you see in the movies, the guy that likes, jumps in front of the explosion. Like, I was always a big deal, and that was Jason. But then Tommy came along, and I was like, hi, who this new suit? Who this like, what does he have? Like, oh, he has a dagger and shields and oh, he has a dragon. And I'm a little boy, so I'm just like,
Dani Combs:fascinated. That's
Alexey Del Castillo:a dragon. I'm sorry. T Rex can just, like, step to the side. That's a dragon. But for me, the Rangers moment. Was like, I believe they were fighting pumpkin rapper in the episode I was watching. What
Dani Combs:I'm googling this right now. Oh, yes.
Alexey Del Castillo:So the monsters in Power Rangers have the best names possible,
Dani Combs:like pumpkin, like a pumpkin, like a pumpkin,
Alexey Del Castillo:and he is, he's actually a rapper, like, rapper
Dani Combs:with an R, yep. Oh, I want to be this for Halloween. This
Alexey Del Castillo:right? Pumpkin rapper, and you can't, and you can't, like, it's so good. Katie,
Dani Combs:it's happening. I'm doing this.
Alexey Del Castillo:It's so good. It's so good. You
Dani Combs:remember that was, like, one of your early memories, yes, like, fighting this, this there was pumpkin, there was
Alexey Del Castillo:polluter, corn. What there was, yes, pudgy pig. Oh, no, sorry, pudgy pig. Pudgy pig was the first one. Pine, octopus, nasty night like, these
Dani Combs:are great.
Alexey Del Castillo:Honestly, they're great when you're, like, a teenager, but like, as you get older, you think of those names, you're like, interesting. I
Dani Combs:love that. Okay, so that was, like, your first memory you saw them, like, fighting these crazy villains. And like, you were just, I was just
Alexey Del Castillo:like, This is so cool. The explosions and the Power Rangers can make topography explode. Like, that's the thing, grass explodes and, like, it was such a theme of, like, as I got older, I learned that it's a theme in Japan, like going into the show. So this Power Rangers that we know here, about the teenagers with attitude in Japan, was the season of Super Sentai that right? Yeah. So Power Rangers, which is really cool, segue, has its basis in what's called tokusatsu. And tokusatsu is where pretty much everything started in, like 1903 to 1933 okay? It's called Live Act. It's a live action show that relies heavily on effects. That's what tokusatsu usually means. Okay, that's in Japan, yes. And so it's, it was. It's an umbrella that spawned Super Sentai, which is a team of heroes that fight monsters and bad guys. There's common rider, the lone hero who's the strongest, who does the thing. Spider Man was actually a tokusatsu character at one point. Yeah, Japan love Spider Man so much. They gave him a show, and he had his own Megazord at one point. It was, so, yeah, it's really cool. So tokusatsu started all this, and then Saban sees the show, goes, Oh, I really, really, you know, Carlos touched on this. I really think this would be hit. And it was, and Saban had access, because we actually found out that he developed a lot of music for those kids shows, right, like the GO, GO gadget.
Dani Combs:Oh yeah, Carlos did say that he did. He did like, he's like, Y'all will love this piece of trivia, which we did because I love inspector. I do too, and so that is super neat.
Alexey Del Castillo:So because of that, he saw this show. And what's really funny is another circle back I had to touch base on. Oh, is it Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. What's really fun is you can see that they didn't get all the props for the show. So if we're shooting the American thing, if you're watching the Green Ranger, watch his shield, the golden thing on his chest, the shield, watch it. You can tell when it's American footage and Japanese footage simply because a the location they're in, because the buildings are Japanese. But also watch it because in America they didn't have, they couldn't get the shield. So it's this flimsy, like aluminum with, like Velcro straps thing. And then when he's fighting, it's this, like, hard metal, gold thing. And you're just like, you're
Dani Combs:like, Wait, so it's like, DIY, yeah, yes.
Alexey Del Castillo:It's like cosplay. It's like a bad cosplay,
Dani Combs:like his wish version, yeah?
Alexey Del Castillo:But it, but it like travels through. So I was telling Danny that the theme for me, for when I was looking at this, I was like, oh, it's generations. Like, the theme of Power Rangers, that is generations. It's cool, because to this day, in almost every series, you can see that effect happen. You can be like, Oh, that's really cool. The American like, like, you could tell that this is the American version of the costume they built. And then they cut to the footage, and it's like, shadowed, and the metal is shiny. It's not like this matted thing anymore. You're like, the quality just jumped up. Why? Like, wow. And
Dani Combs:of course,
Alexey Del Castillo:I mean, that's why exactly, but it's look at you. Yes. I love how you just called her yes. You go, girl, yes. Because,
Unknown:as y'all know, listeners who've been here a while, if you don't know, and this is your first episode, Katie is not really into like toys and cartoons and such, so when we're in imagination, Bobby's with you on this. Our friend Bobby's linear, and he's like me too. Thank you. So when we talk about these things. I love watching her face. It's so much fun because it's like, she like, well, I'm learning a lot. I don't know a lot about Power Rangers, but it was just really cute because she was like, they morphed like, I did it. I learned it. I got the right thing. I love it in it, but. Okay, it's
Alexey Del Castillo:a little mini game that people play. They go like, That's Japanese footage. That is a that is a very muscular man doing that flip for her Japanese footage even, yes, yes, that is the talk about that a little bit. Yeah, yeah. The thing I didn't study, or the thing I didn't check in on, was if the new Netflix series did it. But I think they did, because there's some parts with us. The suit quality also changes. Like on screen, it'll be like one scene we're gonna stop you. Cut to the scene of him doing the flip. That outfit looks really nice. That armor is not as flimsy, that sword looks a little bit better.
Dani Combs:So I feel like, with all the stuff in the franchise, then, so do you, because I feel like today, they could have the same quality if they wanted. Are they doing that on purpose? Because they're trying to kind of stick with, like, the vibe, like, at the beginning, they were just using the other footage and, like, cobbling together whatever they wanted. But now that this is like, such an international sensation, don't you think they have the money to, like, match the costumes? Why aren't they doing it,
Alexey Del Castillo:I'm gonna use, I'm gonna use the Danny's most hate is only be yes, because the truth somewhere,
Dani Combs:so because the truth, the truth is
Alexey Del Castillo:that yes, we have enough money to film our own show. And Netflix did a really cool job. They did that. They did some custom stuff, and it was really good. That's why, honestly, I'm an MMPR fan.
Dani Combs:But the tell everybody what that is, for people who don't know, oh, I'm
Alexey Del Castillo:a Mighty Morphin Power interesting, because that is my that is my jam, and that's really great because, and we'll get back at the tokasatsu real quick. I have ADHD everybody, so I will be jumping around. That's
Dani Combs:kind of our vibe here, the vibe of the show, yes, our vibe here.
Alexey Del Castillo:The thing about it, it's like Doctor Who right? I love Power Rangers, because not every team is meant to be your team. You will have your team that you grew up with or that you fall in love with, that is your team. And that's okay, because everybody can have their team, and all the teams are different, and that's what Power Rangers is so great about that we're all different. We all got our powers differently, but we're all here to do the right thing. So
Dani Combs:said too. And because his favorite we when we asked him, we'll get into your favorite Ranger soon, but like when we asked him who his favorite Ranger was, that's what he said. And his was the space. Well, the season was the space. Oh yes, the space. I mess up our little season. Okay, Katie here. Katie's now Carla,
Alexey Del Castillo:I think she's just like, we ain't get no more call those circle backs. Okay? We get I don't need to be called out anymore. Primo. Get them. Get them all.
Unknown:It's you should be the one who messes up anyway, so it's fine, but actually, why we're on Carlos. Okay, so he gave us really great info. It was wonderful and but we can't cover everything in one hour, right? There's so much. So we could not wait to ask you this. And I know I'm like, looking at Alex say his notes over there, and, like, I can't wait to hear what they're what's in them. So what things did Carlos leave out that you think we all need to know about, or what things did he mention that you want to, like, dig deeper with? So you did touch on some of it already a little Yeah, Carlos
Alexey Del Castillo:did an awesome job with mm, P, R, he did such a good job. I can't, that's why, that's why I love you. I love you. People like, because I can't, because, like, he did such a good job. But the one thing I'll say that people need to know is, like, so you guys asked a really important question, why giant monsters? Why did they need a giant robot? Well, back in the took us, like, back to tokusats in Japan. Japan Japan has a very big, like, I love anime, yeah, so very big in their tradition and lore and stuff. It's like, meccas, yeah? And kaiju. So the monsters are Kaijus. They're like, Godzilla. They're a big creature that comes in to destroy the thing. And the gimmick was always a mechanized army of heroes, and they always get a suit of armor and, like, they just fight. So it's like, Gundam, okay, one of the biggest animes is Gundam over there. And Gundam is phenomenal. But, like, Mecca and mobile suits usually comes from from, well, from what I know from over there, and you get the best art and robots and designs. And this, like, it was just so ingrained in, like, Pacific Rim, that movie that came out. Oh yeah, yeah. That was meccas and Kaijus fighting that they even called the creatures in that Kai juice, the big monsters from the sea or from space. And so that basis permeates in Rangers, even to over here, it's like, well, they have to have the big robot. It's just kind of like in all of tokusatsu, common riders sometimes have it. Spider man had his own mech, you know, like, so they're like, of course, you have to bring it over. The big the heroes have to be able to stack up to the big monster somehow, you know. And Netflix, I think did a great job, because they kind of subverted that in this season. They're like, yeah, what happens if they don't have those they are just as great if they work together. So. Really cool that they have these tools, but they don't always need them, and that's why some episodes don't always use them, okay. But like those roots really dig deep. So like, the original Sentai series wasn't about teenagers with attitude, it was about, I believe they were cryogenically frozen feudal Japanese lords, and I believe that was, I believe in detail, we did, we didn't because, because, like, so I'm trying to remember 100% accurately. It's the morning, pardon me, I'm drinking my coffee. If I mess anything up, Carlos will get me. But they were, they were feudal lords, and I believe, yeah, and the Green Ranger was actually the eldest brother to the Red Ranger in that and they were like, always gonna help us. And then you find out the Green Ranger is like, Nah, I'm good,
Unknown:but then he becomes good, right? That's, that's what we talked about. So we had like a five up. I know we were gonna watch this at my house last night, and we didn't too many shenanigans happening, but so they he had, like, the five episode arc, right? The green
Alexey Del Castillo:Tommy did, yes. And
Dani Combs:then in Tommy's the green, Tommy's
Alexey Del Castillo:the green one in America. Yes, you're talking about, I know
Dani Combs:I'm messing I know. Look at you today. I'm done. I'm
Alexey Del Castillo:leaving. So in Super, so what's cool in Super Sentai is, like, if you watch the Green Ranger episodes, so Tommy's affliction comes because Rita goes, like, I'm going to light the black flame candle, man. And then, like, getting live, I don't know. Man, I don't know. Man, it's witchy stuff. Who Juju superpowers can't stand up to witchy stuff. I'm just saying, Get yourself a candle and a Bible. You'll be all right, hopefully. So she lights this candle, which basically is like corruption. It is corrupting the green coin. That is what they stopped to save him. But what's really cool is, in the Super Sentai series, they had to keep that footage right. That's all they had. They're like, Oh no. So in the Super Sentai series, the Green Ranger doesn't need that corruption to be evil, because he's not evil. He just wants a revenge for a very specific reason. So he's like, Okay, I'll take revenge on all of you. But then sees the arrow of his ways and goes, I'll help you. And so instead that candle, I believe, acted as a time limit, he'd be like, Yeah, I can help you. And then I believe He died in his brother's arms because Japan doesn't shy away, and it never did for more serious adult topics. But the reason Sentai is popular, but not like worldwide, like Power Rangers, is because Power Rangers does something that it doesn't. It bridges the generational gap in certain ways that the Green Ranger, the original Green Ranger, Jason, David Frank, talked about, and in that series, he passes away, gives his brother the shield and the dagger, which is why Jason, in the series eventually gets the shield and the Dagger temporarily. He's like, we got this footage. We gotta use like, we gotta use it. But what's awesome is what Carlos didn't touch on is when the fans freaked out and they were like, where's Tommy? Like,
Dani Combs:oh, yeah, but a little but what people
Alexey Del Castillo:don't know is that they didn't have to do extra footage for that, or anything that footage existed when he was helping them. You know, that into Super Sentai, that was great. But what didn't exist was the White Ranger. So the White Ranger is actually from the Super Sentai series, die Ranger. I believe it's die Ranger, and it was the Kiba Ranger, played by a nine year old. So in that series, it was a nine year old who grew to be an adult to hide his identity, and then eventually, when they discovered who it was, he was just a nine year old in a super suit, just beating people up. And it was, it was that footage that they were like, Okay, we got to bring him back somehow and die. Ranger was its own separate series. So a lot of the time the series crisscrossed. But also, if you notice, why is a White Ranger always kind of like going off on his own and like fighting by himself? No, because the footage that they use was from a different series, so they couldn't put them together. Like, hey, I get it. I get it. And so like, gosh, I'm
Dani Combs:following Now,
Alexey Del Castillo:what's cool is they were like, we can keep him, but we have to use this. So you'll notice, if you ever look at that Super Sentai series, they will never, and I don't again somebody that knows more than me. You'll figure this out. But I don't believe that they will ever use those costumes or that series footage ever because of them taking sections of it to put it into here. Yeah? Like the talking sword that the White Ranger had. Sabo Tommy had a talking so, and you're like, Oh, that's cool. He didn't really talk to it much. It did. It said things, yeah, talking sword. Oh, yeah, yeah. Not only did the Green Ranger have a flute that he could play through his helmet, the White Ranger had a talking sword that he could throw, and it would fly and shoot laser beams on its own.
Dani Combs:I Why have I never watched the show? There's so many things that I love, like the pumpkin rapper guy, love that playing a flute through a helmet. I mean. I want to tell the sword. Yes, I can't look I love all these fun bags. We're gonna have to do another episode in a year, but the super fan guest will be Danny. I know she's gonna watch all of this. Katie, I brought some stuff with me today. What are you holding right now? It's the Yellow Ranger helmet.
Alexey Del Castillo:But, well, I promise if you were to watch this show, there will be seasons. You're like, oh, that's kind of dumb, but there'll be, there will be one season. And I you don't know what it's gonna be, but there's one season where you're like, Oh, this is, like, my season. Like,
Dani Combs:dumb, like, sometimes, and I love campy, like I campy is my favorite thing of life. So and I love any kind of weird costumes,
Alexey Del Castillo:like let me glam myself
Dani Combs:to perfection. So those are what else? What else did he leave out that you wanted to touch on before I asked you a very important question.
Alexey Del Castillo:I believe I touched on the tokusatsu roots, all that stuff. I'm good. Yeah, I'm good. I think I'm good. I hope I didn't mess anything up. Okay,
Unknown:so this is the question I'm dying to know. Amanda has not told me. So Alex's partner, Amanda's here, by the way, she's, she's doing, you're doing a really good job being quiet, by the way, she she is also a Power Ranger super fan. In fact, she told me that you guys got together because of Power Rangers. And I need to know the story, Katie and I have to know and the listeners too, Bobby and Bobby just waves. I'm also here, hello,
Alexey Del Castillo:so I'll take you back to a time, oh, a
Dani Combs:story time, kids, we're ready. It was
Alexey Del Castillo:2020 as we all know, the dark ages of our time. Yeah. 2020 I was in New York. I was still grinding and dreaming and hoping as the world slowly and bitterly broke your soul. Yeah, but I ended up in just a bad financial situation, and I had already struggled before that, and I was like, You know what? Like, I can't go back to that. My friends who loved me were like, You need to leave. Like, you need to go back with your mom. I know you hate it, but just like, do it. And I love my mom, but if you're like a kid, and you know what living with your parents is like, after you've been free for however many years, you're like, yeah, please anything I've been there, you feel like, Jean Valjean. You're
Dani Combs:like, oh, yeah, we've all done that. Yeah, we've all been there. We've all been there. But
Alexey Del Castillo:I'm so grateful that my mom had I am lucky that I had a place to go back to. I am grateful that even it was wasn't the best I had a place to go back to, because not everybody did, and I don't know, just being in one of the worst places, like mentally, places of my life, I go online and I see a friend of mine, well, old friend who wasn't really a friend back then. We were just kind of like acquaintances. Hey. Does anybody know how to run like a Power Rangers, D and D game like, we just, we're just all kind of really sad and need something fun. And I'm like, I play D and D. I've run this dragons, yes, Dungeons and Dragons. I'm a super nerd. I love tabletop games. I love board games, but mostly like RPGs like this, because they bring people to a table. You have to talk with each other and connect. And I'm so tired of screens. Yes, I'm ancient in my body. My knees are 87 Oh,
Dani Combs:can I pause you real quick? Yes. Are you a zennial? No, so you were born in what year? 90, okay. 9090, okay. Touch on that. Sorry. Okay. So back to
Alexey Del Castillo:Yes, but I belong in the xennial culture, because, yeah, well, 100% I don't like new stuff. Like I grew up on either, obviously, but my mom, yeah, but like, like, the bet I'm not gonna lie, the best movies stopped at the 90s. The best music, I feel like, stopped at the 90s. Like we had all the great stuff. Like the 90s is like, when time should have froze, but, yeah, enjoy your porcelain skin. Could I be you want to grow up and enjoy your porcelain skin? I wish. Okay, sorry, no, I so dark ages. Yes. He asked this thing. I said, Yes, I'll run it for you. He said, wonderful. I said, find players. I don't have the energy to find that. I'll write it, improv, it, whatever. Get it done for you, because I just love improv anyway. So I was like, we'll do it. So I have to meet with each of the players individually. And one of the players was Amanda, yeah. And so we talked for and it was at a time where I was like, trying to figure out my mind, and I was an irresponsible part. I was like, not a great guy. Well, it wasn't even actively being a heartless person. It was just like, I hadn't learned the growing pains of like, how to look outside of oneself at the cause of like, what are you doing to the world? At, because you're trying to feel better, right? Because we don't always see that sometimes when you're trying. To heal you forget that the world is also reacting to that like behavior. So we meet, we're supposed to talk about her character. We talk about her character for like, 30 minutes, and then we're like, on a like spiritual journey. I exaggerated that. We're not gonna tell you the amount of time, and then I exaggerated the journey, but, but then we talked, what was it like? Three hours, yeah, like, it was like three hours just talking about life and spiritual. And even then we weren't it was a very like, Hey, I don't want to date you. I'm not gonna date you. Like, that's not gonna be a thing. I'm not a guy. I don't want that right now. I want to become a better man. Exactly, I was like, I just want to be a better guy. Let me, let me fix my so I think I even said the line, don't fall in love with me. Yeah, I was trying to be so cool. I was trying to be so cool because at that point I had already been like, Oh, I like this person, but I'm not supposed to. And then she was like, Don't worry, I won't. And it was, it was like, not even a minute. It was, like, such a quick reaction. And I was like, that's good. That's good. At least we could be friends. And then, like, just naturally, you know, we were both in a bad spot. And I'm from New York, I live in closets, and I, like, looked at this room my mom had for me. I'm like, this is way too big. Like, I don't need all this room. And I'm like, Hey, if you want to just hang out, go read over that you could do whatever you want. You don't have to stay where you're at in, you know, the swamps of Florida, like you're fine. And so over time, just naturally, one day I like playing a video game. I go like you and my face deer in the headlights. I'm like, where did that? ADHD betrayed me that day. It betrayed me that day. It was a thought process that should have never come out. And she's like, I love it too. And then I turned back and I like, look at my screen. I'm like, and we're just gonna keep going. We're gonna act like that wasn't even a thing.
Unknown:Oh gosh. So y'all came together because of Power Rangers and role playing games, and then your love was, profess, profess, over video games. Yeah, I love this, the nerd trifecta, yeah, that and that. Now that I know you both, like, that is so fitting. Like, I just, I do not have Katie and I do not have as cool stories with our with our partners, no, and we don't, yeah,
Alexey Del Castillo:like, with the magic? Like,
Unknown:I we, I know yours, and you know mine, and it's like, yeah, it's not we, don't we love them. They're amazing. But, like, story is not great. So anyway, love that story. Um, so excited. And I will say, if y'all ever like, I'm I love to make people feel awkward here, because I, like, I said to Patrick and Dina about kids, I was like, you know, you don't have kids yet. And they're like, whoa, if you ever decide to get married, y'all need to have a Power Rangers wedding. Oh, we've talked about it. Yeah, I am also an ordained minister, just so you know, she everybody I am, she can marry you right now. Hey, that's one job you don't have yet. I'm in my notes app to do get ordained. I need to be ordained anyway. Okay, so I love that love story, but we want to know, like you kind of touched on a little bit. We need you to elaborate on who your favorite Ranger is and why this
Alexey Del Castillo:is such a tough question. And Carlos and I talk about this all the time. No, because it's, it's season based everybody you every season you're like, that's my color right there. This season, I'm silver, but it for me, it's Tommy, Jason, David, Frank. Okay, not just he had all the cool stuff, which is literally why everybody loved him. He had all the cool stuff. But it was because, like, the point of of what his character continued and was able to wheel different colors of rangers, like he was the Black Ranger in Dino Thunder, which arguably could have been one of the greatest seasons. Because what people, most people, don't know about Power Rangers, is it changed hands frequently during a time span a couple, like 10 years ago, like it went from right here. Oh, is it not picking up levels
Dani Combs:on the mic? Oh,
Alexey Del Castillo:oh, is it not picking me up? Well, turn around and look how loud mine
Unknown:is compared to yours. I love it. I love it. Like trying to sorry. Listeners, I was trying to get Katie's eye, and it didn't work. Subs, I'm the worst. You're Annie who was listening. Why we like I know, I know. I'm sorry.
Alexey Del Castillo:Wow, she's just here to I'm just hurt. Oh, my God, it's here to learn. But it went from, I believe it went from band. It was Saban band, Hasbro. Hasbro. Oh, please, Hasbro. It went from one to Disney to Nickelodeon, back to the originals owner. So it jumped from thing to thing to thing, and the voice of Ranger stayed the same through almost all of that. Like that is a feat in its own that, yeah, like even changing hands, the formula stayed the same. Like Jason David Frank came back in Zio, right? He continued through Zeo, through turbo, but then came back in Dino Thunder. When they were like, Okay, we've tried some new stuff. We think you need to come back as like the mentor. And it just had this opportunity to be such a beautiful season because of that legacy. He, to me, represents legacy to the show Rangers that come back and pass the torch. It's the it's the superhero moment. It's the moment everybody wishes it's the it's the leader of everything, broken helmet, beaten down, whatever, looking at the young kid in the crowd and going like, next is your turn. Like, I don't always have to be the one doing this, but I'll always be here for you if you need me to teach you something. And so every season has a has a anniversary special. So almost every season of rangers has an episode where they're like, Okay, where's the special gonna be and who's coming back for it? I
Dani Combs:love that they do that. That's cool. Yeah, I do too. When Carlos was first explaining to us after those first original seasons how it changes every season, I was kind of like, huh, and of course, like, cynically, I was like, right? Because they just don't want to, like, pay actors, whatever, whatever. But like, the more I think about it, and you explain it like that and how, then everyone can have their own season, like the season that they own, that they like, that's more likely when you're constantly switching up the stories and the people and what they look like and what their abilities are, rather than a show that's run for, you know, 30 years, that's obviously wouldn't have the exact same cast, but basically the same cast. So I think I'm warming up to the idea. I didn't like it at first, not that anyone cared. Haters of Power Rangers, they're one of our 10s of listeners. They are telling you
Alexey Del Castillo:we we very much agree. I missed the original cast. I loved the original cast. I think they did such an injustice, because the way that they explain when a ranger leaves the team is like, we're going to the Geneva peace convention. And then they like, like, you're in high school, you're not going to know peace convention, but and we will talk about what, how the comic book rectifies a lot of the issues of the show. Um, but legacy. It's legacy. Jason, David Frank, so there was a just a side, an aside, real quick. There was somebody, a fan made a adult version of Power Rangers. Like, what if it was like an action movie with explosions and, like, bound,
Dani Combs:check a Wow, no. But
Alexey Del Castillo:what, you know what the most, but you know what the messed up part about it was themes of that were in there. And so James Van Der Beek was Jason. He was in this. He was in the fan film as an evil, as an evil. Jason Katie sakov, who plays Bo Katan, and she was in battle sarca lactica, oh
Dani Combs:yeah,
Alexey Del Castillo:she was in it as well as Kimberly. And the effects were so cool. And, like, everything was awesome, but it didn't take off. They, I think they had a lawsuit thing going on, and it mattered. I
Dani Combs:keep talking, yeah, I pulled up the picture for Katie. She's, she loves James Van Der Benson,
Alexey Del Castillo:like breathing into this microphone. I apologize, but it's, it's, yeah, it was, it was too dark, because this
Dani Combs:looks very dark, like it was pictures. It was super
Alexey Del Castillo:dark. They made it for the adults, and they were like to Jason, David, Frank, oh, why? Why weren't you in it? And he's like, I didn't want to be Oh, he's like, Rangers is supposed to be one thing a show that can tie generations together, like as a father who grew up with Rangers, you can show rangers to your kids, and they will have their Rangers, and you guys could talk about Rangers together, and that's the point of rangers. It's supposed to be that the kids coming up have their ranges. It doesn't take away anything from us, like, because our rangers show up in those series to lead the team or to help them in their time of need, or to when the younger kids are like, I don't know what to do. One of the OGS will come up and be like, You're doing a great job.
Dani Combs:So he didn't, so he didn't participate, because he was like, that's not that's not us.
Alexey Del Castillo:It's made for one group. It's not made for everybody, and Rangers is supposed to be for everyone. It's what I told Carlos and that he said, Anyone can be a ranger, anyone, even the newer season are adopting these beautiful themes, like we had our first LGBTQ couple in the Netflix series. That just happens, and it's like one of the best, exciting things we had our third. Technically third, most people don't know this, technically third, female leader, Red Ranger, okay, for the first like Jen Scott in time for us, was the first time it happened that the Pink Ranger stepped into the lead position, and everybody was like, what? And it was one of the best seasons you could ever watch. It was, it was peak Rangers at one point. And then we get Nickelodeon, who gets their hands in it. And they make sense. MRI. And they're like, oh, okay, it's just another team of but then you see the Red Ranger, and you're like, this red ranger isn't very good at its job. And then you find out, halfway through the season, he was never meant to be the leader. His sister was. She was just away for a bit, and she is such an epic character, like all of the Ranger ladies who lead the teams are much cooler than most of
Dani Combs:the dudes. Put women in power. That's all I'm saying. Yeah. See, every day it's like, I
Alexey Del Castillo:feel like I signed on for propaganda. I'm confused. I'm Mom. Can you pick me up? Yeah? Yeah.
Dani Combs:You said it. Put women in power, but it's women Empower Rangers.
Alexey Del Castillo:But it's true and like beautiful to watch, beautiful leaders, beautiful like theming Rangers has always explored like inclusivity in its own way. Like through the years, every show adds a new theme for the next kids coming up to feel seen. That's the point. Like guys being like, why is there never, like a guy in a pink ranger suit? Well, the comic book addresses all of this stuff. And so, yeah, like generations about the comic book? Yes, yeah. So just like generations, the comic book was remade for us. So there is a kid, friendlier version of rangers called Go go. That's the, that's the genre of rangers
Dani Combs:for not Go go Power Rangers. It's just go go.
Alexey Del Castillo:I think it's called, yeah, I think it's called Go go Power Rangers. But that was mostly focused on the first five and happy times. So this is boom comics Power Rangers. This is, like, when Tommy joins the team. So the reason this fixes a lot is because Tommy doesn't just jump into I'm the leader now, like, it's a natural progression of Jason, who is the guy that is Captain America. And now this dude, who's kind of an outsider, like, has post traumatic stress because he's being haunted by Rita's like, presence like this, yeah, exactly like,
Dani Combs:picture of him, like, holding his helmet very so they're
Alexey Del Castillo:all trying to talk to him, and he's like, Would you be quiet? And then he goes, what? Like, over here? Because he's dealing with the after effects of being of what he's done. And so he has to live through that. You have to watch him live through that. You have to watch somebody who's not who doesn't want to be a leader, and goes, I am the strongest, and I know I can punch the biggest guy. But then when Jason leaves, he's like, how do I do this?
Dani Combs:So these comics are, like a deeper of Tommy's story.
Alexey Del Castillo:These comics are deeper of all of their stories. They're all fully fleshed out humans in the comics were in the
Dani Combs:show detail then. So it's like, like, when you want more of a character, you're like, I want to know why they're doing that, or how that's what these do.
Alexey Del Castillo:Yes, and the stories, they shore up a lot of the weaknesses of the show. Like, we get a male Pink Ranger, male presenting Ranger. And it's really cool, short lived, but cool. But then we get, like, we get a couple of deaths in this, and it happens. But what's great is they gave honor to the characters that we thought they Dishonored in the show. So Zach, Jason and Trini, when they go to the Geneva peace convention, you find out in the comics, they were actually recruited to the next level of being a ranger. So, like, if you were cops before, you're like, you want to join the FBI, because they become galactic Rangers. They become the Omega Rangers. So they have a glow up, but they have to lie to everybody, even the old team, to do it.
Unknown:Oh, that sucks. That would be so sucky to be like, I now I get this really cool job, but I can't tell anybody, right? I would be like, I'm not taking it. Then. Brad, brag actually would do that.
Alexey Del Castillo:I love it like, oh, I
Dani Combs:can't tell anyone. Forget it. I
Alexey Del Castillo:can't keep secrets. Wait no bragging rights. I can't make a poster.
Unknown:I just can't keep secrets. Like, I literally knew nothing about Troy's job ever because he was in the military and like he was not supposed to tell her spouse stuff. But usually they do. Sorry everybody. It happens he never told me anything, because I can't keep secrets. So if y'all ever try and kidnap me to find out national secrets, I don't know any.
Alexey Del Castillo:I love that that aside is like she definitely knows. She definitely knows
Dani Combs:cover I know. Okay, so I'm noticing, though that there's a is there's, is that an autograph? Yeah. So
Alexey Del Castillo:when I went to Comic Con and I got my that first book, The artist was there, which, by the way, thank you to the artists for giving me the signature for free, which you weren't supposed to. They didn't know, and we just had a bit of an issue. But it was fine. They were super sweet about it, and it was so cool, because it was my first convention, like big one, and my first thing I got was a comic book signed. And I was like, this is the coolest feeling ever. Yeah, like, this is awesome, because Rangers is just Rangers is such a joy. And, oh, I work at a coffee shop. I'm a barista. I have a young customer who comes in and she is wonderful. She day, I will find that out. I believe she is. Wonderful, and she's in love with Rangers. So she came in, we started talking about Rangers, and we just talked, and we just bonded. And her mom is so sweet, and they're just the sweetest people ever. They went to a ranger stop a little convention where we were, and then the day of, they come in and they go like, Hey, we're not gonna use these passes anymore. And you love Power Rangers. Do you want them? And I was like, yeah, so we drive over and we meet some of our childhood here, and it was just this random thing, because we had bonded over Rangers so over time. And that's what it does. It brings people like of every walk of life. You're all heroes, even if you don't know each other, you're all a team. So make it work, because every color represents something, like pink is the heart of the team. If you look, usually, the Pink Ranger is the one that's their conscious, like the heart of the team. These things have changed, and these tropes have evolved over each season. But that's what's beautiful about Rangers, that in your friend group, you see who's who,
Dani Combs:who is, who is what Ranger? Yeah, exactly would we be? I don't know enough. Yeah, either? I just like pink. Yeah,
Alexey Del Castillo:you're, I think, I think, I think you are pink. Though you're pink, you're 100% I think you're yellow.
Dani Combs:Say, maybe yellow. Okay, that's what I was thinking. What do they do? I don't know
Alexey Del Castillo:yellow is like, if you know anything about Dungeons and Dragons or Lord of the Rings, they're the rogue, they're the they're the, like, very fast multi hit, like, they're usually the person that can square up with multiple people. That's how they've that's how they've, like, designed them in the table top. It's designed that way. And it's very much that way in a lot of
Dani Combs:I love that. I love that. Okay, okay, well, maybe those are our Halloween costumes done. We need to go to like, six Halloween parties at this point. Sorry, honey. Bad guy should
Alexey Del Castillo:be madam, whoa,
Dani Combs:oh. Now, see, I'm like, I need to know all these classes. Oh, done. That's Katie.
Alexey Del Castillo:It's it's great.
Unknown:She's saying,
Dani Combs:she said it, madam, whoa.
Unknown:Okay, so I was gonna ask you, like, why you why you thought power rangers have such a strong fandom, but you just answered it, like you just answered the question, yeah. And I think that's, I think that's interesting, because Carla said pretty much the same thing in different words. And again, that brings us back to the beginning, where that's why Katie and I love to have super fans on because it I feel like it's very easy to dismiss people and like things that they really like, that you may think is silly or, yeah, are trivial. Once you really talk to people. And you hear like, it makes sense, like everything, like, I get it like, hearing more about like, the colors, meaning things and like, every season has a different leader and the things I'm like, I get it like, it makes sense that it's like a generational thing. But I You did, said you were gonna try and stump us with trivia, and I'm scared to even ask,
Alexey Del Castillo:Oh, I did not prepare the trivia because I was so, like, stressed out about all the details. I'm like, I have to know everything.
Dani Combs:Like I he hasn't said anything yet, so I'm just not going to bring it up. I
Alexey Del Castillo:want to touch on two more things. That's two more things. So first, just to make sure I've got it right, because the so the generational thing is important, yes, but the reason it's important is because it's always tied to the original so like in so when Disney and Nickelodeon had Rangers, they pumped out like Rangers, RPM, Dino, thunder, all that stuff, and none of them were connected. They would show up in each other's show, but there was no through line. Okay? Slowly, they started incorporating a multiverse because of the grid, the morphing grid, which is like in all of ranges it's always talked about, is this spirituality. It's this unseen thing that tethers all of us. It is this energy that connects everybody. So when a ranger goes down, they return to the morphing grid. So the grid is talked about in season after season after season, and then slowly, as you watch the seasons, they slowly break down the walls of this multiverse, easier and easier where you're like now Rangers are intermingling because in the comic book, they did a big event. And it wasn't just because of the comic book. They were always doing this kind of like callback Rangers coming in from other times, but they finally explained, well, how is Mighty Morphin in this futuristic world, this makes no sense. Time jumping and multiverse jumping, that's what they do. Because they had their end game Infinity War in the comic book, where all the Rangers from every season all banded together. And it was amazing. And they did that, and that matters, because in Carlos talked about this, and in space, we have one of the spoiler alert, we have one of the greatest things that happens in Rangers, because as Rangers aged up with us, they were slowly aging up the show to teach us things. Yeah, I like that. And so at the end of in space, we get something pretty horrific, but also pretty profound. And. Andros, I believe Andros, the leader of the team, had to make the ultimate choice. He had to sacrifice Zordon, who, you know, the big floating head in the two he was, he was so think of it this way, like your father figure, because that's what he was for most of these like Rangers, your father figure, you have to stand there and go the kindest human in the galaxy. I have to destroy them, because they need to release that positive energy to counteract all the negative that's happening in that season. So we have this grand sacrifice that all the way now to the Netflix series that has come up. This whole series is tethered to that one. So Carlos mentioned the once and always special, where all the old the OGS came back. That OG series is tied to the Netflix series, because we have those Rangers show up with the new team to help them learn. And Zordon and all that gets mentioned. And the greatest villain of all, Zed, Rita's husband.
Dani Combs:We didn't talk about that. I didn't know Rita hat.
Alexey Del Castillo:Oh yeah. Rita, she married up. She booted up to the greatest evil in the galaxy. He looks like a big old brain. His name is dead Zed, yeah. He's all red. Lord Zedd is pure evil. And so he comes back many times in some of the series. So he's always mentioned as one of the greatest evils. So he comes back in the new Netflix series as, yeah, to cause problems, okay, and so the old team has to rely on the new team, and they have to work together with the morphing masters, who are a thing that they've mentioned it from the morphing grid to stop this great evil, which is why the Netflix series is designed as, like The last one. Do you think it really is? I think for this arc, it is, unless the deals go through on a different way. Because Netflix was like, we're gonna give the fans their hurrah, their goodbye, we're going to wrap up this whole thing, because then we're gonna make our own epic series. It's all serious and awesome and whatever. And then that deal fell through, so that's not happening. But this series was designed as the finale because it brought back the old Mighty Morphin Power Ranger storyline all the way through through every season. So it tied everything together. So it was like closure, exactly, yeah, exactly. I
Unknown:love that. So the Zordon, is that? How you say it that guy after space, he's not on the show anymore.
Alexey Del Castillo:No, he in space is his like goodbye, because it needs to happen. And so it's like teaching kids that. What it was teaching us was you're adults now, and not every choice is going to be easy, but as long as you're doing it for the right reason, then it's okay, because there was no hate. There. Nobody hated what happened. We were all like, we're all in tears, little kids, just like, I mean, Rangers taught me English, like, like, it was, like, a thing, yeah, like, when I was a kid like me, my mom, we only spoke Spanish in the house. So I'm, like, watching American TV, and I'm watching Power Rangers, and I'm learning English from the show, and I'm like, three, you know, so I'm like, sitting here, like it was just everything. It was just so important in like, learning things learning kind of like, who I wish I could be, like, certain things like that and, like, it's funny, like we said, you carry that stuff with you through life. Like, even as the person that I am now, range is just so important because the tagline once a ranger, always a ranger. It really is once a hero. Like you don't ever stop doing the right thing, just do the right thing. And it's not always going to be easy, you know? Yeah,
Dani Combs:deep thought, I have to say, I've had a total revelation, learning all these things about Power Rangers in the I know episodes, not that I was ever like, like, I think people should like what they like, yeah, for sure. Care less, not that I was never like, oh, Power Rangers. But I was also just like, like, how deep, How deep could it be? Yeah, and that's okay too, when people like things that are deep. But now I feel like, no, it's pretty deep, and there's all these layers, and people be like, learning English from it, and like Carlos saying, you know, he loved all the colors and just how it's so foundational to and so many different reasons that people like it, it's a lot deeper than I thought. I know, yeah, that happens a lot here. We're always like, la, la, la, slip and slides, actually.
Alexey Del Castillo:But that's, I mean, that's the whole point. Like, your podcast does such a good job of, like, why does it matter to you? Like, what? Yeah, what, what? And so many people don't ask that. So many people nowadays are there, they're their brand, right? And so they have this, like, facade, and it's like, well, who are you? Yeah, at home, like, in your jammy jam, like, what do you do? Yeah, yeah, we all eat ice cream, but what do you do, you know, and so it's yeah, it's that I absolutely I could never, I could never quit Rangers. I love it way too much. It is joy.
Dani Combs:Never have to, right? Declaring it today on generation will never have to quit. Rangers, okay, you said you had two things you wanted to make sure you told us what was the
Alexey Del Castillo:other one? That one and I just ADHD all over this. Just space notes.
Dani Combs:Take time.
Alexey Del Castillo:I do. I do. We
Dani Combs:have to look at our notes all the time, and I mess them up every episode. Oh, madam, whoa.
Alexey Del Castillo:Oh, yes. Great design, too.
Unknown:Madam. How? Is it W O, W o, e o, like, like, Joey Lawrence, whoa, like, W O, math, W, H O, that's what I almost did. So, yeah, mess everything up. No, I mean, oh, actually though, yeah, do it. I'm scared. Oh, Bobby's eyes got big back there, too. Bobby, what do we? Bobby approves. Okay, wait till she starts singing. I would play the sound, but my sound on my laptop doesn't work. It's okay. It'll end up breaking all the sound somehow. So let's just like rock the boat. Us and sound listeners, we try.
Alexey Del Castillo:I think I found it. Okay, yeah. First off, don't try to flip. Once you watch the show, you're gonna want to flip. Don't try.
Unknown:Don't flip. I am 43 if I haven't by now, it ain't happening.
Alexey Del Castillo:Oh, your body will want to once you watch the show. Don't do it.
Unknown:I saw a meme the other day that said, if I'm ever drinking with you, and I tell you, I can do a back flip, hold me down. Because, no, the fuck I can't. And I said, Oh, I think I've said that before, and I will try. We need to start adding the E to these episodes, because I keep forgetting not to curse every episode it happened, I've
Alexey Del Castillo:worked so hard to try to not to, I think I've done great. I've worked so hard. I dress like a sailor. I dress like a sailor. In real life, it's so difficult self control. I
Dani Combs:know
Alexey Del Castillo:I love the curtain
Dani Combs:like, I'm glad my kids are older now, because now I don't have to, like, I mean, I don't like to just drop F bombs in front of children, like, but now that my, my oldest is about to be 18, I don't care. In front of him, Cooper, I try to get it together, and then we come see show at Casey studio. I was like, Oh, whatever. Okay, we've got any, uh, trail to Oregon fans. Not Oregon Trail to game. Well, that's it is based, yeah, but the STAR Kids musical we're doing here, oh, and there's a lot of s bombs and s and all sorts of, oh, it's an amazing show. Everyone. I can't believe we didn't bring it up last week so local peeps could have come. Oh, well, we're sorry we sold out. Friendly, it's not it's pain friendly, teen friendly, unless you're me, and you just bring your 11 year old because you're like, whatever. Last night, yeah, well, and she didn't even sit by me because I was up. So this just this kid said the name and like, Teagan, nine. She was here, Teagan, whatever. It's fine. We're 80s parents, I guess, fine. Teagan was singing, okay, so song from the show at home, it pays to be an animal, that one, but not the part, oh,
Alexey Del Castillo:to your face, was like, wait, what? Like, you were ready for the tea. Like, wait, what? The
Dani Combs:chorus and then stopped before the part. We'll tell you that. Yeah, we'll sing it. We'll save that.
Alexey Del Castillo:So don't flip don't I. Carlos had a flip story and ate it. I have a flip story and ate it so hard. Like I have a gap here where my teeth are, then we need your flip story. So, okay, so Tommy had just come out and so, like, they're like, hey, it's a Green Ranger. He's gonna help us. He's our friend. This dude walks into their zord without permission. Just walks right in. Door opens and he goes, Yeah, screw this. It just blows it up, just punches them all out of their own car, just like, get out, and then he wrecks all five of them. But it was this, like, when he was standing on top of it and did this epic flip. And of course, the camera angle is like, exaggerated, so I'm just like, I want to jump like that. And so I tried to jump like that, and my face has never kissed tile so hard, like, I get up and start crying in no one's home. You cracked the tooth. This tooth was black. There's blood everywhere. I was, like, upstairs in my room crying. And then my mom gets home, and I'm like, sitting there with my mouth jacked up, and she's like, she's like, Oh, honey. It just like, picks me up because it was the most pathetic thing she had ever have to see. It was the most it barred the there was one time she chased me through the house because I had said something I was not supposed to say. I was a little little kid. And she said, Go to your room. And I said, No,
Dani Combs:no, sir.
Alexey Del Castillo:And I said the beat, and I just said it Oh, I was so I was like, a little jerk, like, I thought I was a little jerk. I was, oh, yeah, I learned that exact, see that, see that the mom energy
Dani Combs:ever called me that's in my face, because I'm fairly certain there's times they probably do it behind my back, if I ever. Oh, snatch you so fast. I used to, I feel
Alexey Del Castillo:like, I feel like there's a chunk letter flying. It like, like, somewhere through the air, it's gonna hit me. Like, my mom can smell it. She's like, he said, something
Unknown:we do. I used to tell my kids like, I said, I brought you into this world. I can take you out. Yeah, listen, I've never hit my children. I'm just saying, I will give you a look of death.
Alexey Del Castillo:I will look at you angrily. So I say, so I say this thing because I was so frustrated and I and then I saw how mad she got. And I'm sitting here in whitey tighties, right? And I'm like thinking I'm so strong. And so I run to my room as fast as possible, shut the door, pick up this like foam chair, not realizing as a child that if I could lift this, I'm like, I'm such a man as I live, this chair and put it on the door. Grab this like bubble sword with like power. It's like the Green Ranger, like it was like this bubble sword, and I was like, shaking, holding it aimed at the door. She like, comes in. She's like me, opens the door with a slam, and I have never seen so fast the door fly open, and her just crumple, laughing at the pathetic sight of this child in a whiny, tight he's thinking he's so strong in shock that this chair that he lifted like it was nothing got moved like nothing. He's like, how did that not work? It works in the movies all the time. It was just she could not fathom the spectacle of the absurdity of this power.
Dani Combs:Power Rangers made you believe you could pop a mom coming to get you a call on her name. It
Alexey Del Castillo:made me believe I was immortal. And I learned very quickly that I am not a Puerto Rican mom will put you in your place. Oh, she and she just it was so funny because she forgot about it. And that's where I learned that laughter is a really good weapon to, like, not get in trouble. So true, like, if I keep mom laughing, I'm not gonna get in trouble. Cooper does that a lot. Yes, Remember kids, I could see that develop a sense of humor and use it against everyone. Yeah, no, it's life
Dani Combs:lessons without saying, here we go. I'm
Alexey Del Castillo:gonna write a chicken soup book.
Dani Combs:Oh, that's a zennial throwback. We had so many of those. Those were great. They
Alexey Del Castillo:were good. And, like, the rhymes and poems were the weakest thing in the world so but we're like, how profound you felt like, you're like, on the bleachers at school, just like with your book, you're like, I'm so freaking smart, and the book is Chicken Soup for the teen soul, just like you're like, if I read my book and write a pencil, life will find a way. Oh, my God. Who wrote that? Just bangers, bars,
Dani Combs:Chicken Soup for Power Ranger fans. So probably Power Rangers. Soul, they were runners. Soul, mother. Soul, yeah, that was a good idea. Whoever came up, I know. Well we might, I think we will reread.
Alexey Del Castillo:What is it? Yeah, capitalism, capitalism.
Unknown:I was like, Oh, wait, what are we saying? It was the it was the grip my own cue.
Alexey Del Castillo:I love those, because you're like, Why were there so many of them? Because the rhymes got weaker as they went, like, oh, man, memories, deep cuts.
Dani Combs:So do we have any more?
Alexey Del Castillo:I think I have touched base. I didn't touch base on certain Rangers, but they don't actually like matter right now. It's not that they don't matter. It's so like out there Rangers. So in Lost Galaxy after in space, when zordons era ended, so in space was the ending of the Zordon era. They tried to get really gritty with lost galaxy. And we had our a big Ranger death in it, the Pink Ranger died because the actress was diagnosed with cancer, and so she was going through chemo. And then the coolest part, but the coolest part is they were like, oh, let's bring in this sister from in space. That was the villain. Now she gets to be a ranger, and it was a cool twist. But then the actress survived, and then they had her later come in as, like, like a ghost, like a force ghost, kind of, yeah, she came back. So they honored her story. So I'm like, these are cool things that people don't talk about that the show, sure. It's a production nightmare, if you're on it, oh, they're poorly. It's poorly. That's okay.
Dani Combs:I don't care. I like camping,
Alexey Del Castillo:but Hunter Denno, who we met, the Amelia, who's in the latest Netflix season, who's the Red Ranger, okay, yeah, she's phenomenal. Like, such a, like, such a spectacular human. She's phenomenal. Just deserves everything she's ever gotten. She said it best. She's like, Yeah, production nightmare, whatever. You know we were talking because I was telling her, like, Oh yeah, it's probably production nightmare. But she said one thing that was so important that the message is really the most important thing about the show. And that's what all of them said. All of them were like, Yeah, we're here because at the end of the day, the message is amazing, like, Rangers is an amazing
Dani Combs:thing. They really believe in it. Yeah, yeah.
Alexey Del Castillo:And you will, like, you do too. If you watch it, you're like, Oh, I get it. It's silly, it's campy. I get it, but it's something that's. For me, it's something that's mine. Yeah, you know my team,
Dani Combs:and I'm looking behind you, did you bring a show and tell I brought several morphers? Oh, we're gonna look at those guys. We'll have pictures on mine. Yes. Because the thing
Alexey Del Castillo:about America capitalism is that if you look at the American show, and you look at the Japanese show. The Japanese show, what they use is the actual toys that they sell. Oh, that's so this is the Japanese morpher instead of the American one for a certain season. And the quality is so good that it does everything that it did in the show. And if you put whatever Ranger batteries in that show, they use batteries in the gun, it'll call out, in Japanese, that Ranger, if you fuse certain batteries, it will call out that attack from the show. But in America, yeah, but in America, they didn't have that. They made it this simple one time, one saying thing. But
Unknown:because America likes to cut corners, we like the easy way, yeah.
Alexey Del Castillo:But they did make these really beautiful morpher So, yes, I brought morphers because they pictures. Don't worry, because those changed over the years. The Morph changes. It's not always. It's morphin time with dinosaurs. Sometimes it's, what is it? 3550, yeah, yeah. Like in space, it was like, because they didn't have, they didn't have Dino singing,
Dani Combs:like, yeah, 13531,
Alexey Del Castillo:but they didn't have dinosaurs in that one. They had like, hover boards and spaceships because they were in space. And so they would like, open their little communique that looked like a Blackberry, and they'd be like, 3556, he's like, let's rock it. And it was like, this cool, like, you know, or like, they would like, wild fury had, like a flip phone. And they were like, wild access. And it's like, it's like, this great kind of, like, they all have access. They would flip the phone and go wild access, or, sorry, answering the phone like that. Like, the morphs are the best part of rangers. And you can see where they started to try to, like, save time, because the OG morph was like, this roll call. And now we sometimes get a roll call, but most of the time we get a it's morphin time, and then like, fire will, like, engulf them, and then they'll just be in their suit.
Unknown:Well, that's also cool. Yeah, I like that. I remember, I remember the OG like, I remember the OG Power Rangers, and they, like, said their names, right? It was like, it's morphin time. They'd be like, whoever
Alexey Del Castillo:they would say, like, it was Mastodon, saber tooth tiger, yeah? And so that stayed for a little bit, like, in Zio, they were like, because they were numbers and they were crystals. So they'd be like, Z arranger, five, zero, range of four, you know, like, mouthful of fun, yeah? Or like, Turbo Shift into turbo. And they would like, crank this, like, like shifting gear on their wrist, and would just transform, like, weakest season ever made, got it
Dani Combs:shifted. I'm driving home, there's, like, it's
Alexey Del Castillo:time for Time Force, uh, like, there's so many different ones, and they were all fun. I love that was the unleash the beast. If only the season was better. But, yeah, like, I mean, morphers are great. The Morph evolved. I just love the show. Has evolved to a certain point, and then, like, everything realized what works and doesn't work, and has brought back what really mattered. And, um,
Dani Combs:is there anything you want to ask him? Katie looks concerned. Uh, no, okay, sorry, it's just about the show. So I'm just Katie's 15 jobs always, um, no, I think we've covered both. Like, oh, like, after Carlos was here, I was thinking about it. I know we have so many other things you want to ask, yeah, yeah, nothing else. Well, thank you for coming. Yay.
Alexey Del Castillo:No, I'm so happy. Yeah, I was, I told a man, I'm like, I'm not going on Zoom. I will try studio audience today. Yes, I know it's really fun. It is. If you would like to sit in when we record, let us know, because this is fun. Well, maybe I don't know if you're going to be rowdy, you can't come. We have enough sound problems. Yeah, exactly, right, right, exactly. It's like, the mic, we have to hang it this way. It's like, we have to close the door, yeah,
Dani Combs:hold it right here. Well, it's been awesome to have you, and we're actually he's gonna stick around for our after show. So if you are a patron, you can check out what we're gonna talk about there and all of our patron episodes, and listen to generation in between. Continue to listen. I meant to say, review us, share us. Oh, yeah, those things we'll do that. Tell your friends, which you guys already do. I know people in the room here, so thank you so much. Yeah, and we'll see you next time. Yeah, we have no catch phrase. Is there a catch phrase you want to leave us with, from Power Rangers? Oh,
Alexey Del Castillo:a catchphrase. Oh,
Dani Combs:it's good. Call out that y'all just said,
Alexey Del Castillo:Oh yes. Okay, always. We're ready. May the power protect you. Yeah,
Unknown:love it. Love it. Thanks guys, see y'all next time bye. You.
