Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

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I'm Jordan Morris, and I'm Emily Fleming.

Today's movie is Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the movie, the feature-length action figure commercial that brought us such classic lines as hi-ya, ha, and hacha.

with us always is super producer Matt hitting us with those mighty morphin drops

the stealth eagles about to fly ditto with a swooping swallow

what's up I'm the swooping swallow

your new nickname super producer out swooping swallow in gulp gulp who's ready to swallow these hot drops

all right who's talking about the bird Matt

oh okay that makes way more sense.

Not the throat process.

I was like, man, this movie is crazy.

Before we talk about this crazy movie, which is, as of this recording, streaming free with ads, we want to talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week.

Other free stuff.

I want to pay off a call to action we made a couple weeks ago.

We were listening to Emily, I believe you brought us, oh, the dad from Back to the Future.

Crispin Glover.

Crispin Glover's

Weirdo Vanity Project music.

And we put out a call for everybody's favorite celebrity Vanity Project music.

And we got a really great email from Rachel Sherman, and they wanted us to be aware of Richard Belzer's music career.

Richard Belzer, 80s stand-up comic, Law and Order, regular.

Yeah.

Did anyone know that he sang?

Oh, wait.

Is he the

older guy?

He's He's like skinny.

He's older, but he's like the skinny guy in.

Wasn't he, was he OG Law and Order or was he SVU?

So I think he was, he's SVU, but I think he was like in Homicide Life on the Street.

That's right.

He's munch, I believe.

That's right.

He might be getting, and he's like this character that appears in all these different shows.

Oh, yeah.

He appears in the wild.

He's a comedian.

Yes, he's a stand-up comic.

He's

famously was pile drived by Hulk Hogan on a late-night TV show, and

the lawsuit bought him a giant house.

So, yeah.

Oh, that's great.

He's led a really interesting life.

Of course, he's also a singer.

So, yeah, maybe he used his lawsuit money to make this song that we're going to play.

I had never heard of this, so thank you, Rachel, for digging this up.

So, he has a Halloween jam called the Vampire Song.

Matt, you want to play a little bit of this Halloween jam?

The vampire

Why does this slap it slaps hard

he he's got kind of a kind of a good voice for this and i want to describe the video the video is is is is is a must watch man i'm gonna have you throw the link in the comments absolutely this is from a very particular pocket of the internet where you you couldn't do much right like there's no inphone editing it's just him in a Dracula costume in front of a green screen where they're playing vampire footage and he's just improvising dances like one locked-off shot.

He's lip-syncing, not a great dancer, and just like kind of flailing around.

And then at the end,

there's a minute-long guitar solo.

This song is four and a half minutes, fucking death, death for a comedy song.

Keep these things at 90 seconds, people.

Please, please.

It is four and a half minutes.

It has a minute-long guitar solo at the end, and he just has to groove through this guitar solo, and then fireworks start going off in the background

of this Halloween song.

Is he playing the guitar?

No, I don't know if he's playing guitar on

the rack.

But the music is, he says, no band in the video.

It's just him kind of flailing in this vampire costume.

But yeah, dude.

Kind of slaps, honestly.

Pretty good song.

If you told me that was written by David Byrne, I'd be like, I see that.

Honestly, you're right.

I'm into it.

It's sort of.

This is not my beautiful vampire.

This is not my beautiful lady.

i want to suck your blood yeah yes i want to suck it

guys this this is our parody band instead of talking heads sucking necks sucking heads there's something there's something there i really hope that we get i mean i feel like the crisp and glover song was borderline halloween because there's clowns in it oh yeah and then we love the guy who does the monster mesh because he's got

tons of music And now we have a third Free With Ads Halloween soundtrack song.

So I have a feeling

by Halloween, maybe we'll have enough to put out a little Spotify playlist.

Emily, I love this idea.

Yes, absolutely.

Let's make that our little mini goal for the next couple months, finding the weirdest Halloween songs.

I love that.

Hell yes.

And please, when it happens, send us videos of you dancing in a vampire cape alone in front of a green screen to our Halloween playlist.

This is exciting.

We got to get to the movie.

This is a fun one.

This is a cool one.

This is an oft-requested one.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the movie.

I love the movie.

I love anything colon the movie.

Yeah.

When was the last time we had that?

What was the last example of colon the movie?

I don't know.

I don't either.

That's a great question.

Yeah.

I don't think we've had one thus far.

Well, there was the Flintstones movie.

But we haven't done that.

Oh, we haven't done one.

I guess I mean

that in pop culture, what's the last time anything's been something, something colon the movie?

Because it happened all the fucking time when we were kids.

Yeah, because back in the day, you didn't know you could be walking into the theater and, you know, seeing anything.

It might not have been a movie.

You could have

just watched a 30-minute TV show accidentally.

A play?

What the hell?

There's some singer up here singing about vampires.

Yeah, no, I think it was just like there was a time when we just turned every product into a movie.

Luckily, those days are over.

Unlike now, when every movie is an original idea.

Yeah.

It's a great question, though.

I kind of want to Google it while you guys are talking about the movie.

Yeah, let's actually, I want to hear from Emily on this.

Okay.

Emily, you are excited about this.

You are maybe the biggest Power Rangers fan I know.

Tell me a little bit about how you discovered the the show and where you think this movie fits into the like pantheon of Power Rangers.

I was, I believe I was seven years old, and it was sometimes on Saturday mornings.

Um,

we had this living room that had a pullout couch, and my sister was really little, so she would be like playing on the pull-out couch bed thing, and then I would be sitting there watching TV.

Like, so I, like, the X-Men animated series was a big, had to watch that, had to watch, like, the Saturday morning ABC cartoons and stuff.

But I, when the commercials were on, you'd be like clicking through and this popped on.

And I thought I was being bad because there were teenagers in it.

And my mom would use, yeah, my mom would usually say, if, if people are older than you in the show, then it's not meant for you and you shouldn't watch it.

But I started watching it and there are these people in like suits kicking monsters' butts and stuff.

And my dad was like, what is this?

It was like, he was into it too, but he likes to walk around and go, go, go, Power Strangers and stuff like that.

And I'd be like,

that is not the song, Dad.

What a song.

Dad, it's not the song.

Yeah.

He also used to sing, you know, that

cold play song, Yellow.

And we'd be in the car and be like, yeah, the stars.

Look how they shine for you.

Yoda lady.

That works.

Stop it, dad.

Anyway, but Mike Fleming, ultimate dad.

I'm calling it, calling it, give this man a world's best dad trophy.

I know.

But he got me all my action figures because I have so many Power Rangers action figures.

So those action figures I remember, weren't they kind of like a Tickle Me Elmo or a Rabbit Patch Kid and then you had to fucking line up a day in advance to get them?

Yes, yes.

And, but my dad was on the road when I was around this age, a lot touring with Holly Dunn, who was a country singer back in the day.

And so he would be able to check all of the Toys R Us's

That's so nice.

Yeah, yeah.

So I pretty much got everything I wanted for Christmas.

I'm a very spoiled kid.

But yeah, in that way, I would have wanted his love.

Yeah, your daddy.

That's what we can get.

You got all the swords.

You got all that with Christmas.

As someone whose dad was there and didn't get any Power Rangers toys, you're not missing anything.

No, I'm kidding.

He loves me very much.

But yeah, I remember just watching the show and being like, it's so colorful.

I love that anything where it's like, I think that anything where people had their own identity based on a color and a thing, kind of like the Spice Girls.

It's like, okay, here's sporty.

Here's this thing.

And with the power range, it was like, okay, the pink is a pterodactyl and has like a flying like ship.

Her Zord is like an airplane kind of thing.

And there was something about that that really like you can latch on to brand-wise and it sucks you in but also the teenagers were so cool and cute and i loved it i just loved it but then i became a little too obsessed with it to the point where it alienated me from my uh peers interesting how so uh nobody else was into it the way i was into it like what was the way you were into it

I had a lunch box.

I had like a shirt for every day.

I had Power Rangers birthday parties.

I had like,

it was Power Rangers everything all the time.

Nightgowns.

I had like, I was obsessed.

Now,

so

was this movie on your radar when it came out?

Did you see it 10 times in theaters?

God, I saw it in theaters.

Like, my grandparents took me, I think it was in the summer of 95.

Was it 95?

And I think it was a summer movie.

And there's this little girl who, her grandparents.

lived next door to my grandparents.

And we, so we hung out together.

And the Hiramotos, ramotos they were and they were like really cool and she took like taekwondo and all that stuff and so she would we'd go pretend power ranger fight each other in the backyard she was more into star trek though than anything but uh so we'd have our what a dork well we'd have our action figures our action figures would have little we they would hook up like riker would make out with the pink ranger quite a bit well who would

i think would make out

i think there is there is a lot of like shared DNA between Star Trek and Power Rangers, I think.

I think these are from the same school of television of cranking out a genre show kind of cheap.

There are some foam rocks that get thrown in this movie.

Absolutely.

Those are some fucking 1966 Star Trek foam rocks, and I love it.

Matt, did you,

you're maybe closer to Emily's age than my age.

Did you do Power Rangers?

Yes.

Huge, huge Power Rangers fan.

Didn't get the toys because it was, you know, you had to like line up in advance.

And it was like all the, it was, the toys separated the haves from the have-nots, at least

where I grew up.

It felt like, you know, if you got the,

especially if you got the toys that like turned into shit, like that did the transformation.

The zords.

Yeah.

I didn't get any of the zords.

They're pretty cool, but I always found those to be frustrating to play with.

Yeah, no, I never got to play with one.

I only saw commercials and begged my parents and had them sit me down and tell me they're sold out.

They're really hard to get.

And we're not going to

be able to get you one.

And I was just like, that's fine.

Yeah, chemistry set.

That's fun.

Yeah, and you didn't believe in Santa anymore.

I love educational toys.

My parents sat me down.

They said, like, you don't believe in Santa.

You don't believe in Moses.

We're not celebrating any Hanukkah nor Christmas.

Here, have a geode.

Here, have one of those balls where the electricity goes to your fingers.

Have something we got at the fucking nature company.

Oh, man, nature companies slaps those.

Those were cool, though, y'all.

But yeah, no, I really loved it.

And I had a friend who was kind of like you,

Emily, but maybe a little more obsessed.

My friend told me he was in Power Rangers.

Oh, one of those friends.

Yeah, like he was the first pathological liar I ever knew.

I think we've heard about this friend before.

Yeah, I think I've talked about him.

He said he was a Green Ranger.

He also said his dad was the coach of the Dodgers.

He had a lot of things like that.

He just kind of made shit up.

He was a little forest gump of a kid.

Yeah.

When we, when we, you know, eventually we stopped being friends, and it kind of, he a little bit ruined

Power Rangers for me.

So, um, but, you know, hey, now I'm re-watching it.

And guess what?

I'm back in.

I love it.

Wow.

So, yeah, it rolls.

So this is something I am really curious about.

First of all, I missed Power Rangers.

I totally missed it.

It was on a little bit on TV, so I kind of know the deal, but I totally missed it.

It's one of those things where

it's fascinating to me.

I'm like, oh, this is something that was not on my radar.

It is still on.

There's still new Power Rangers coming out.

Most of it's on Netflix.

An article came out a couple of weeks ago about they're trying to reboot it for Disney Plus.

But there's just still new Power Ranger stuff.

The comics are everywhere.

Yeah, and the Pink Ranger, Damie Jo Johnson, I think, works on the comics.

Yeah, she writes some of the comics, which is really cool.

I will say that as I am very aware of Power Rangers fandom just because I do so many Comic-Cons these days, and people go insane for the Power Rangers.

Her in particular, she's like, Oh, she's my favorite.

Pink Ranger.

Yeah, and yeah, so it's like I, it's this thing I'm kind of aware of, but I know that, like, it's so huge and it's still going, and they're like, you know, gonna be rebooting it till we die.

So, anyway, interesting for me to watch this movie because I kind of like just didn't know any of this stuff.

Did you guys see what I texted you a minute ago?

No, uh-uh.

I texted you

a picture of

me as

a little girl with my pink ranger.

Very cute.

Throw it up on the Instagram.

I'll put it in the middle.

Please would you follow us on Instagram.

Free with ads.

I loved that thing so much.

But yeah, also, fun, fun thing I realized, and the freebies, I think, will like this.

The entire mini-series saga of the Green Ranger is free with ads on YouTube right now.

And I will, it's just all one video.

And it's got ads and commercials from that year that it was happening.

Oh, cool.

Neat.

And oh my God, if somebody just like recorded it on a cassette and I think got it uploaded and put it on there, I don't, I don't know how legit it is to put it on there, but I don't care.

I'm going to send you guys, I'll give you the the link you guys tell you i think and i think the guy who owns power rangers may be notorious piece of shit so you know if you have to semi-legally consume some power rangers uh material fine with me yeah absolutely

i did do you guys keep up with the new stuff have you watched the netflix stuff

no no

i just yeah you know i've got i'm watching severance and

i'm sophisticated now i am although when i watched this movie i was like, this still, like,

it still feels good.

And I think there's something about, like, you know, some of the original cast who created the chemistry and the acting style with each other, like, they just kind of are the OGs and made it work because it, the dialogue in these things are.

tough like they would be tough to make good i don't think i could do it like the little asides like oh you're toast like all that kind of stuff

So much of that shit.

I know that, like, that is so kids' entertainment when we were growing up.

I mean, I didn't watch Power Rangers, but that's turtles.

Like, that's

talk about a splitting headache, elevators going up, and like

I mean, could you imagine the punch-up jobs that like comedians probably got to do for these?

Oh, man, yeah,

a young, a young Dana Gould is suggesting

splitting eight ball corner pockets.

Yeah.

Like,

Anyway.

You're about to say that they're all high on Eight Ball's Corner Park Pocket.

That's what you're saying.

Yeah, I will say there is some really good ones in this movie, and I remember a few, so I love it.

Well, yeah, let's talk about what actually happens in this thing.

It starts out with a crawl, a Star Wars-esque crawl.

Important for me who doesn't know the lore.

Was I more clear on it after the crawl?

No.

The fucking crazy.

It talks about a guy named Zordon Zordon, who's some sort of space ruler.

He recruits teenagers to pilot Zords.

We got Zordon and Zords.

This is a fucking Lord of the Rings, Soron, Soromon situation.

Just change up the names.

We can't have Zords and Zoron.

Zordon and Zorn.

Zordon.

And also, like, as an adult, that description is of a villain.

That is not the description of the hero who's trying to save the world from evil.

The

6,000-year-old super being who's trying to recruit teens.

Yeah.

Zordon sounds a little sketch.

He sounds very sus.

Well, maybe that's like the reboot.

Was Zordon the villain the whole time?

Right, yes.

I like that.

I like that.

So, anyways,

whatever.

Backstory, backstory.

We cut to a fucking awesome scene of skydiving to the red hot chili peppers.

So, what a way to start a 1995-ass 1995-ass movie.

And I also love that Bulk and Skull, who are kind of the bullies, but they're more idiots than they are bullies.

Mean kids.

And they have their own little theme song that's dinner.

Dina,

like whenever

they come onto the scene.

Bulk and Skull do comic-cons together, and people go fucking.

Oh, I would lose my shit if I got to meet them.

I would love it.

So they're all skydiving.

There's a pretty cool practical skydiving scene.

One of them is snowboarding in the air.

Hell yeah.

This is just a fucking Mountain Dew commercial.

You know,

I do think something that is really impressive about all the actors in this is I think they're all doing the martial arts, right?

Like, I think there's probably stunt performers too, but like, I think that the actors do a lot of this stuff.

They're clearly not doing the skydiving.

Sometimes these skydivers are a different race than the characters.

Right.

And then, I mean, we know from the TV show that the footage of them in the suits was from a totally different show that was in

happening in Japan.

But for the movie, it looks like they're in the suits.

And I feel like they are doing a lot of things out of the suits.

Yes, exactly.

Yeah, for a good portion of the movie, they are no longer in the suits.

And you see them actually doing martial arts themselves, which was really impressive.

I remember as a kid being like, that's so cool that they actually know how to do it.

I think I took karate class because of that.

I tried to take it.

I took some karate classes as well, but mine was because of three ninjas.

Oh, that was also one of the reasons why Sidekicks 2, Sidekicks, Kid Karate movies.

I mean, the Three Ninjas is why I know not to drink Visine.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Is there a Visine drinking scene in that movie?

Well, the kids in Three Ninjas, the bad guys that are chasing them, I forget how, they put a bunch of Visine in soda and it makes them all poop their pants.

Yeah, it makes them all shit themselves.

Good movie.

Good movie.

There's also a Rocky in that.

There's a Rocky in this.

There's a Rocky in that.

Rocky was just a cool kid name in the 90s.

Anyway, no kids in this movie, only 30 and 40-year-olds.

We'll get to it.

Rollerblading teens.

A lot of oldest teens going to happen.

So, yeah,

we go right from skydiving.

They're doing a charity skydive to save the observatory.

This doesn't come back.

It's fun, though.

We cut from fucking skydiving to a rollerblading montage.

Oh, my God.

Okay, and they're wearing every safety pad imaginable.

Helmets, knee pads, elbow.

You just had to show kids wearing pads in the 90s.

My favorite thing about this that I didn't think about before is all of them wear the colors of their uniforms all the time.

And then it's like, these are just the cool kids from high school who go skydiving sometimes.

And so there's five of them, and they're all wearing the colors of the Power Rangers.

And they're the only ones jumping out of planes.

I feel like that might be the Power

I'd have guessed.

Secret identities, maybe not, you know.

Clark Kent just got fucking glasses.

I know.

You know, nobody's protecting these secret identities.

But he's not like flying with the glasses on.

That's right.

They're literally doing Power Ranger shit, just not with the suits on.

So, yeah.

Oh, and everybody, everybody, I mean, they have their signature colors, but everything that's not their signature color, white denim.

That's right.

A lot of long white jean shorts in this movie.

So cool.

So cool.

So, anyway, so I, when they're rollerblading, I'm like, I don't care if they fight monsters.

Just have them do, just have them go paddleboarding next and then hang gliding and then do a zip line.

I enjoy watching these teens do activities.

Yeah.

It's just a big like Seattle's commercial.

Yeah, it does have very like pharmaceutical ad feel to it.

Right.

It is strange.

Thanks, Trimthana.

Thanks to Trimthana, I can pilot the zord

thanks trimfana i don't know what trimfana does um i thought you were saying pile drive a zord i was like damn

well

some of those zords pretty hot

okay so anyway uh so they're they're messing around doing 90 sports um and meanwhile a construction crew who's digging a big hole they find a creepy hand with an egg it's got a monster in it we'll We'll figure it out later.

This is bad.

The egg's bad.

So all the Power Rangers get called to their secret base by Zordon.

He is a floating head.

And we kind of see everybody here for the first time.

Hey, I think it's time for our segment, Oldest Teen.

Oldest Teen.

They're all old as shit.

The fucking Blue Ranger.

Oh, my God.

Blue Ranger.

He looks like the first guy your mom dates after she divorces

this guy drove everyone to school in the van like

he looks like like a substitute teacher he looks he looks like the type of sub that like some of the students hit on and you know a few of them take it too far you know what i'm saying like live journal about him he's hot but he's old you can tell

on sideburns too it's like he's got crow's feet

you can see in some shots you can see his aarp card yeah He's wearing hearing aids.

Yeah.

He's got liver spots on his hands.

He's so old.

Yes.

Anyway, so Zordon dumps all this info about this monster that was in the egg.

It's Ivan Ooz.

Ivan Ooz.

He's coming.

He's a bad guy.

He's cool as fuck.

I love Ivan Ooze.

I'm into Ivan Ooze.

I too.

Like, he stole the movie for me.

I've never met a more captivating villain.

He's so fun.

Treasure Joker who?

Yeah, straight up.

I was just like, Oscar.

I want an Ivan Ooze origin story that was like, yeah, that would be fun.

Ivan begins.

What wound?

Yeah, it could be like, what were those?

The secret of the Ivan Ooze.

Sorry.

No, no.

Like, what's the...

There's those Harry Potter prequel things about the animals, like the fantastic beasts and where to find them.

Where it's like, okay, bad guys, besties with the old, like, good guy.

So it's like Zordon and ivan ooz were like besties back in the day yeah and then they fought over who was gonna date rita rapulsa oh

so yeah so we meet we meet the other bad guys i

so i don't i don't know any of these people lord zed and rita repulsa those are the main bad guys yes these characters all look like they're from different movies

power rangers has the quality of we just had a lot of props and costumes laying around yeah Let's make a show.

Yeah.

Okay, so we have a witch lady.

Yes.

We have a skeletor man.

We have a

bear in armor with wings.

That's Goldar, and I have his action figure.

I love Goldar.

A pig with a bonacle.

Which I don't remember this pig from the TV show personally.

I remember there's, I have Finster was the guy who created all of the

little, the putties, and she didn't see any putties in the movie.

No putties in this movie.

It's a putty-less movie.

I know.

They're like the henchmen kind of for them.

But I love this pig.

The pig had the best, like, little aside comedy lines.

Funny pig.

Movie.

It did have some funny asides.

There's a moment where the skeletor guy is like zapping people, and you hear the pig say,

I could do that.

I just choose not to.

I know.

There's one where Ivan Ooze hawks a Lugie that turns into one of his little like crow henchmen, and the pig goes, great distance on that.

Yeah.

My favorite pig line is: he

ooze goes,

of course, you remember I'm a master of disguise.

And he said, How would I remember that?

I just met you.

I missed that.

That's great.

It's a great line.

He had the best lines out of anybody.

Yeah, definitely like the 90s comedy punch-up room.

Maybe our old friend Blaine Capache

writing some wild lines for Monica Kig.

Anyway,

so Ivan Ooz comes out.

He's this kind of purple tentacle guy who talks like an old showbiz guy.

What's this choice?

He's just like,

honey, I'm home.

He's having so much fun with it.

I know.

I feel like he was

written for parents to have something to latch on to

during the movie.

I was dying.

I was like, this guy is having so much fun with the stupidest role he's ever accepted.

Yeah.

He's, yeah, he's probably a Shakespearean actor.

He probably played Richard III that year.

He went to Juilliard.

Yeah.

Like, this guy is like, and now he's like, Showtime, baby.

Ivanus.

Why does he talk like that?

Anyway,

so, you know, Ivanus, he's real bad he puts two of the villains in a snow globe um

anyway um two of the villains these are the main villains of the tv show so like you're expecting them to be the ones who are going after him and instead they're in the snow globe for like the whole movie by the way side note um

I never realized how attractive Rita Rapulsa was until

this rewatch.

She is gorgeous.

and I think she's a different actress than the show.

Oh, is it a different?

Okay, okay, but also as I was watching, I realized she looks exactly like my wife, and then I started feeling like a really good husband.

You know what I mean?

Oh, there you go.

Attracted to people who look like my wife.

Maybe, uh, maybe you can go as Rita Rapulsa and Monocle Pig this Halloween.

Maybe we will.

Why do I have to be the pig?

Why can't I be Zed?

No, you're Rita.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

Ooh, yes.

Anyway, so he,

so Ivanooz creates all these, like, ooze guys.

There's, there's our kind of the first of 19 fights.

They fight all these ooze guys, like, in their street clothes.

Something I love is just when they have to travel short distances, they just do backflips.

Like, there's no reason to do backflips strategically that I can see.

It's just when they have to go from one end of the fight arena to the other, they just backflip there.

It's great.

Yeah, everybody.

That makes total sense.

If you can backflip, why walk?

That's what I say.

Why walk?

Why walk?

You put in the work.

You might as well do backflips.

100%.

So he fights all these guys.

They all decide that it's time to transform into their suits.

It's morphing time.

They call out their

animal they're associated with and they change into their

robot outfits that have joints just like the action figures do.

They're They're just such, they like, these just are the action figures.

They have little weapons that they don't always use.

Okay, here's some, here's a logic thing that probably has no answer.

They have all these phases of powers they can use.

They just wait for things to get bad and then they go up a power.

So it's like fighting our street clothes.

This is hard.

Let's transform.

This is hard.

Let's use weapons.

This is hard.

Let's call Zords.

Just call the Zords immediately and kill everyone.

You have robots at your disposal.

Why are you doing all these other things?

Okay, can I say foreplay?

And it's actually makes the sex better.

Well, okay, that's a good answer.

I have an opinion about this, actually.

Oh, sure, please.

I would love to.

In the movie,

you know, there's Zordon gets compromised

and their powers and everything are compromised, which kind of alludes to everything having to do with...

power that's kind of related to maybe electricity in some way.

And so I'm like, oh, maybe they're trying to preserve power.

And it's like, you know, we can't go straight to the Zords because it's like, then we're just using up a bunch of power that's like, you know, unnecessary.

It's like a, I think it's more of an environmental thing.

Yeah.

Okay.

I accept.

I accept that that sounds like it's correct lore.

So

I don't know.

I'm just making shit up, you guys.

Oh, it sounds right.

Anyway, so yeah, but it's, it's, you know, I, yeah, the, like, having all these different new things come out is like so much fun.

It's like, oh, and they got weapons.

So yeah, it's it's a blast.

It's definitely like part of the reason why like people are obsessed with the toys.

Another great joke in that scene that you're describing where they're fighting a bunch of oozes, like ooze guys, whatever his version of the putties is.

And they're like, this is getting too hard.

And they all do their like transforming thing, which means one by one, they all say what they're about to turn into.

And by the time they're done, all of those ooze guys have run away.

The transforming just takes a long time.

Yeah, the transforming takes long enough that they'll go, wait, where did they go?

Like, did they leave during your entire fucking theatrical show where you all have to, can't you just turn into the guys?

Why do you got to morph so long?

And why do you got to yell at what you're about to do?

If you're just like, they know you're doing it because you're yelling it.

Super spin kick.

I guess

I was a big Sailor Moon kid and like

that fucking transformation.

Obviously, iconic transformation, best part of the show.

Yeah.

You're fucking losing a fight while you're transforming.

100%.

The enemies, they're just, I assume they're just standing there going,

like waiting.

Waiting for them to get more powerful.

Hold on, just wait.

They got a whole thing they got to do.

I don't want to interrupt.

Well, it's like when you got to go to the, like when the Power Rangers are older and they're married and they got to go to the in-laws for Christmas, it's like, it's in-law time.

And then it's like, honey, please get your boots on.

It's snowing outside.

Boots.

Yeah, exactly.

Boots, go.

Feather down jacket.

Throw away back up.

Bottle wine for mother-in-law.

Go.

Put on nicotine patch.

Bouquet of flowers.

Go.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Yeah.

So, you know, this is happening.

We see Ivanoz has a plan, and this is something I loved.

His plan is to recruit the parents of the town.

I love how everyone refers to adults as the parents.

This is such a like, was this movie written by a kid?

Because like all adults in this are parents.

It's such a funny way to describe people of like, we got to enslave the parents.

Yeah.

Just of like, we know no one who's not a kid is watching this.

Well, I also love that Ivan Ooze, when he was, you know, it was a very similar scene to Hocus Pocus, where it's like, I smell children, but he goes, what is that smell?

I smell teens.

And you're like, Yeah, more likely you will smell teens before children.

Like, 100% based on how stinky teens are.

So it's like, it's like, fuck, I smell antiperspirate that ain't doing it.

Someone's only been eating Taco Bell for a week.

Someone still doesn't know how to wipe good.

I smell, ooh, what is that?

SSRIs and Capri Sun?

Oh, boy.

So Ivanus goes, he wants to enslave the parents.

He goes up to the lair, to their secret lair, and he destroys the lair with a magic flute that shoots lightning.

Sure, why not?

Whatever.

And Zordon blows up.

Here's a logic thing:

so Zordon, he's a head, right?

He's a projected head.

And I assume he was kind of like the Wizard of Oz guy, kind of.

He's not.

He's in the tube.

He's a guy in the tube.

He's not on another planet somewhere.

It's so funny that he's projecting this head.

He's like, he's just in that tube.

Yeah, he's just been there the whole time, I guess.

Well, it's like the Wizard of Oz.

Right, but that's how you find out that the Wizard isn't a wizard.

That's the whole thing is like, he's not a wizard.

He's in the tube.

Well, this is just a tube guy, you know?

He's filled the tube with shit.

He's a bubble boy.

He's like, I have lupus, yellow ranger, empty the tube.

I have autoimmune disorders.

I have to be in the tube at all.

Well, they do kind of talk about this a little bit because there is a thing where they have to go somewhere to get more power.

And there is a little bit of explanation about how time works for these like beings, you know, like Zordon and Rita Rapulsa and stuff.

And when they're outside of their like, I don't know, tubes or habitats or whatever, they age really rapidly.

Right, right, right, right.

So I think he just has to be in this tube forever in order to keep finding underage

kids to kick to kick people.

Like, I don't know.

It's so funny because help me find teens.

I have an ooze.

I need teens to punch and kick.

I need the teens.

No, they have to be young.

Young and fit.

Make them flip everywhere.

Young, flexible teens.

Oh, she looks good.

20.

Get her out of here.

The budget is getting a little out of hand on jorts.

And jams.

Jam shorts.

$50,000 a month on jean shorts.

Oh, my God.

These fools are eating me out of house and home.

As you mentioned, Emily, they have to go to another land or whatever to to get new powers.

They go to this other land and they meet a woman who looks like she's from a Conan movie.

She's trying to do a British accent and can't really.

Her name is Dulcea.

She's played by Gabriel Fitzpatrick.

Fun fact, this is the most attractive person ever put on film.

Yes.

It's kind of crazy.

It's wild how hot she is for this kid's movie.

I know.

Yeah.

It's like, oh,

well, supposedly they were trying to create like she was going to be a character that was going to cross over into the TV show.

And then that just didn't quite take.

She's too hot.

She's super cool.

She like fights with a staff.

There's this part where she's leading them to the power or whatever MacGuffin they need to find.

And there's a long shot.

of them walking over these rocks to the ocean.

And you can see that her boots have high heels and she's wobbling on these rocks.

And I can just, I'm sure if you were there, she was just going,

mother, fucking

Power Rangers.

Oh my god.

I mean, she the set also looks a little bit like showgirls, too.

Oh, yeah.

Like, yeah,

so does the outfit.

Yeah, the outfit is very goddess and the whole thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And the acting, if we're being real.

For sure.

I'm losing power.

I need puppy puppy chow.

So she,

so

Dulcea gives them a new power, whatever.

They have new animals that they that they associate with.

She's good at fighting.

She just turns into an owl and flies away.

Help them!

Come on, anyway.

Yeah, it is kind of weird that she's just like, fuck this.

Okay, I'm going to turn it to an owl now.

She doesn't even really fight all those like flying, you know, weird ooze things either.

She just kind of, she just flips her batons, but they make a noise that scares them.

Oh, yeah, that was pretty cool.

I mean, it was sick because she's hot.

I was just like, oh, yeah.

But

she was cool.

She didn't really fight much.

No, no.

So, okay.

So, the Power Rangers have their new powers and they're going to battle the bad guys.

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We're talking about Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, colon the movie.

So the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers have new powers now.

They are now called the Ninjetti.

Emily, do you have an explanation for this?

What is this?

This is the lore of the Power Rangers.

It sounds like just another word for ninja, but it's whatever these outfits are.

They're copyrighted.

They sound like Italian ninjas.

The ninjeti.

Also, there is like Power Rangers, Power Rangers Ninjeti was the third production of the Power Rangers television series.

This will come back.

But,

and it's like 400 years ago, the ninja and the dark spirits had a great war.

There's something about that kind of bullshit.

But they, their outfits,

but their outfits are basically like soft clothes.

It's like kind of, you know, what you would get in taekwondo class.

There's like some headbands and stuff.

They're wearing a gi.

That's, I believe, it's called a gi in karate.

Yeah, but then they're also new animals.

They have different animal.

Right, they're no longer dinosaurs.

Yeah, they're like other stuff.

Yeah.

So they have these new powers,

and but which is very convenient because Ivanus has found, he's like enslaved the parents to dig up these like ancient robots or whatever, these bug robots.

And he's done so by

selling ooze to their children.

Dressed as a wizard?

It is the funniest, like, little side story where it hits.

So, his evil plan has been, I guess, for thousands of years, as soon as I get to earth or as soon as they wake me up out of this thing, I'm going to spread this ooze by doing the number one way of spreading things at this time in the 90s, which is to sell it to kids.

And I'll be honest, I believe that is still an effective plan.

Kids love slime.

You could still sell slime to kids and then take over their.

I also love that the kids were like, What is it?

And it's like, bitch, Gak has been out for a while already.

Y'all know what it is.

You know what this is.

And if your parents say they don't like it, throw it in their face.

I love it.

I love it.

Exactly.

Do we know anything about the actor who played Ivan News?

I didn't.

I only looked up

Gabriel Fitzpatrick.

I looked him up.

His name is Paul Freeman.

And on IMDB, it says probably one of Britain's most underrated actors.

Paul Freeman has accumulated literally hundreds of screen credits over the decades, most notably as the main villain in Steven Spielberg's classic Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Oh, so this was like a get for them.

This was like a big get for

this guy.

For sure.

I mean, you know, this guy was in a classic film and Power Rangers.

I'm surprised we didn't get a lot of celebrity cameos in this, to be honest.

Yeah, I guess not.

They just were like...

Yeah, maybe if they, yeah, maybe the...

I mean, there was a remake a couple years ago that has like Brian Cranston Zordon in it.

It's bad.

It's very bad.

Oh, no.

Is it bad?

Yeah,

I couldn't get through it.

It was so bad.

It just took itself very seriously.

And

now is too woke.

Yeah, they ruined Power Rangers with woke.

It's like literally the entire cast is multicultural.

They used to yell out the karate moves.

Now they're yelling out the pronouns.

So, okay, so

it goes from practical to CGI here.

The CGI would, I would call screensaver caliber.

Hey, I think it's better than that.

It's not.

God damn it.

It's fun to watch.

There's a high cheese factor, but

it is like.

Whoa, okay, Rich.

You had some good screensavers.

I had a toaster with wings on it.

That's all I had.

Somebody's trying to write that movie.

There's some fucking guy.

Toaster with wings, yeah.

Some guy who wrote on Breaking Bad, who's like, all right, I got to fucking crack the Flying Toasters movie.

We got Skibbity Toilet and Toaster with Wings coming to a theater, dear you.

2027.

Anyway, so this is the kind of big robot fight part of it.

I do remember in the you know, in the show, the like final showdowns were always like kind of Godzilla, right?

It was guys in suits fighting each other.

I kind of missed that.

I kind of like was hoping for some guys in suits at some point.

There aren't a lot of guys in suits in this movie, but the final battle being kind of this like CGI was a little less fun to me.

I was like, oh, it was Cooper Moon.

Suppose in suits.

Yeah.

But I'm sure it blew everybody's fucking mind at the time.

Oh, yeah.

Totally blew my mind.

But they fight.

They blow up the bad robots.

Zordon seems like he's dead, but they bring him back to life using

whatever they got.

Power.

The power of

the ninjeti.

The ninjeti, yes, and love and animals.

Yes, they use Italian ninja magic to make their very old friend alive, I guess.

Yes.

And then back on back on Earth.

We got a seat of our boss.

I kind of love that.

We got a seat of our boss.

You've been like a father to us, Sordan.

I remember that one.

There is...

I got a big laugh of you've been like a father to us, Sordan.

There is no...

emotional content in this movie.

They don't, the characters are all the same person.

They don't feel any way about each other.

Well, Well, hang on.

You get some little looks between the pink and white ranger that feels like

to each other.

But it is not in this, like, it is amazing how

little character there is in this movie.

Everyone is just like, they're just like, we got to fight.

And then, like, they all do the same one-liners.

Anyway,

there's way more in the actual show.

The show, I remember.

Here's what I was going to ask, because I'm like, I'm new, and I don't know who anyone is, and I still don't know who anyone is.

Yes.

But if you watch the show, I'm sure just like those relationships flush out.

Now, I have not seen this in

nearly 30 years, like the TV show, right?

So

I could be wrong.

I know.

So I could be wrong about this.

But what I remember is I was never that into like the actual fighting.

It was when they would be in high school.

That was the shit I was watching it for because I liked their, the, like, the little dramas that they would have.

And then, oh, shit, we got to fight a giant crab or whatever.

So I think, am I wrong, Emily?

Didn't the show have a lot of drama in the high school?

Am I crazy?

Sometimes there was.

I mean, there was definitely drama when we had the Green Ranger plot in that miniseries.

And her tension with Tommy, the Green Ranger, was, and they definitely are a thing.

They are an item.

Yeah.

And I love that because, like, anytime they fight, she goes back and checks on Tommy, Are you okay?

Yeah, like, I'm like, yeah, there's stuff I'm there's stuff I'm missing, so I, as I, I'm clearly as a non-fan, like, missing these little there's lots of drama at one point.

So, he was the Green Ranger first, but then he became the White Ranger, yes, what, yeah, so

the Green Ranger was evil.

Because the funny thing is, because I've been watching the Green Ranger miniseries on YouTube as well.

Um, the same plot happens in that as this movie, Like somebody breaks into the

home base and they go, you can't be in here.

You don't have one of the coins.

And then it's like, well, Rita.

You need a coin.

Yeah, you need a coin.

So the Green Ranger, Rita Rapulza, had a coin and she recruits her own Ranger.

So he busts in there.

and like screws up Zordon's whole thing and gives like Alpha a virus.

And it's the exact same thing as

this movie.

Was the Green Ranger a bad Ranger and then he became the White Ranger?

Yes.

I think I remember that.

He was like the evil Power Ranger and then they recruited him.

And I was like kind of perfect because he already wore almost the exact same type of suit except for a different color.

Yeah, so he was an evil Ranger that she recruited and brainwashed and then made him evil.

Crazy.

And so they were fighting him and stuff, but that's now he's like, you know, the White Ranger.

And he had the best weapons, the best weapons.

I have the flute.

I have the Green Ranger dagger flute.

Yeah.

A lot of weaponized flutes and power ranges.

Yeah, it's cool.

But yeah, so it's, but it's the exact same plot point where they were like, oh, no one can get into home base without a coin.

And then it's like, well, I guess you can get in here.

Yeah, it's actually.

Very easy to destroy Zordon.

He's high in a tube.

Yeah.

You just tie a little string to the coin, and then you just pull it back out.

Well, yeah.

So, yeah, I mean, that's pretty much the end of the movie.

They blow up the bad robot, and then they back on Earth.

They eat a bunch of seafood and watch fireworks.

There's just these huge piles of seafood in front of them.

I'm like,

this is a kid's movie.

Have them eating pizza or something.

I was like, ew, gross.

Crab.

Mom eats.

Yeah, it is kind of weird.

It was a choice.

I don't know why.

Well, wasn't he like a giant crab thing?

Maybe, maybe that.

Yeah, maybe that's a

good thing.

They were bug people.

But yeah, crab people.

Yeah, kind of.

Crabs are bugs if you think about it.

But that's it.

They watch fireworks while a fucking fucking Van Halen song plays.

I mean, the soundtrack, you guys.

Oh, my God.

What a soundtrack.

So

the most feelings I have about the Power Rangers movie before this is there is a They Might Be Giants song on this.

They Might Be Giants, one of my favorite bands.

I know you're shocked.

This guy likes They Might Be Giants.

Oh, my God.

That's crazy.

What an enigma.

But there's a great,

one of my favorite songs with theirs is on this soundtrack, Sense Around, and they re-recorded it for an album that came out in a couple years because

the version in the movie is owned by the movie, so they had to re-record it.

But I think all the fans agree that the superior version of Sense Around appears on the Power Ranger soundtrack as well.

Is it just the power, like that song, but then it has like a Zord growling in the background?

It's a Zordon going, Avenge me!

Put me and my toy in my tomb again.

You work for me, teens.

I smell teens.

Teens, you are ripe.

I can sent you from space.

But yeah, so yeah, the soundtracks.

Actually, why don't we,

you know, let's listen to a little bit of music before we do Hunk Watch.

I kind of let the credits roll because I was enjoying the soundtrack.

And the soundtrack has this song about Power Rangers, which I always love.

It's a song about what happened in the movie.

Can you play a little bit of this, Matt?

Absolutely.

Here is a little bit of a song you like.

Make it quick, Pita's wielding her sword.

We got a plan, we can make it without Megazord.

It's up to you to make it light.

So this is

like a credit song.

Yeah, it's like a Cheap Trek trick song.

The credited band is Power Jet, who, from everything I can find, do not exist.

I think

they were a band created to make this song.

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I assume they became the band Jet from Australia.

Oh, maybe.

Like Power Rangers owned the famously litigious Power Rangers company, the Saban Entertainment Group, owns

Giants.

Yeah,

maybe it's like they might be giants not being able to use the song.

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In terms of the music, can I just give one shout out to how fucking good the

theme song to Power Rangers is?

It is

truly.

Yeah, for me, I realized at one point in college, I was like, man, I really like Dragon Force.

Why is that?

And now I realize why.

It's because I was

every song I listen to in this genre is just go, Go Power Rangers.

It's the fucking funny, they're so good.

It's uh, I just want to play a little bit of it for uh, everyone to hear just because I don't know how many people actually know the song, and so I gotta play some of it for people.

All right, here it is.

I mean

this is a theme song to a kid show.

I mean the guitar is so

listen how fucking incredible this

week

a power and oh nice

I mean, listen, if you have not just sat and listened to that whole song, you really should.

It is

incredible.

I'm going to see it.

I'm going to go to the Platinum Guitar Hero.

Seriously.

Man, that guitar is like, it just kills.

I'm going to give my dad to do a Go-Go Power Strangers on the banjo.

I'm going to see if he could get that one going for me.

Oh, yeah, fucking nine-minute banjo solo.

Well, hey, we want to talk about what we thought about the movie, but first we got to do a little hunk watch.

Brita Rapaza.

Wow.

Yeah.

I think we've all kind of been very clear.

At least Matt and I have been very clear on our hunks of the movie.

Emily, I'm sure you have complicated feelings about this.

Do you want to unpack them?

It's going to be Tommy all the way.

He's one of my first crushes I ever had.

Good head of hair.

Good head of hair.

Good head of hair.

And also, he's got that little love, you know, little love match going on with Kimberly, who's my favorite Power Ranger.

Period.

Although, the lady in the

otherworldly world who looks like she's from Showgirls, I don't know.

That's a close second right there.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

The ads on that woman.

Yes, next month is Gabrielle Fitzpatrick Month on Free with Ads.

I don't remember.

Hell yeah.

Well, hey, okay.

Hunks,

they were in this movie.

It's okay, you know, hey, are they playing teenagers?

Sure.

Are they

in their late 40s?

Yes.

Just like to point out, mine isn't.

Trap me.

Yes.

I mean, they never explicitly say the age of Reader Repulsive, but I assume teen in this movie.

She's ancient.

I will say that Lord Zedd is also a big hunk.

Okay, like a skeleton man.

Well, he's not a skeleton man.

He's a muscle man with no skin.

Excuse me.

Thank you.

I

stand corrected.

Pretty awesome.

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We are going to rank Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the movie on a scale of 1 to 10 super loud commercials.

I'm the noob, and I'm probably coming in low on this, so I will go first.

Yeah, this was really, really fun to watch.

It has like, you know, 90s vibes for days.

Maybe like kind of a personal six for me.

I think that, like, if you're a fan, obviously, you're loving this stuff.

I was like, I got a little bored by the end and a little baffled and wondering who everyone was.

But I really liked like learning about the Power Rangers.

And yeah, like all the weird little like kids' TV ticks of the time coming back were like very fun to see.

You know, the rollerblading, the pads, the music cues.

Yeah.

Very, very fun to watch.

And I think this would be really fun to watch with a kid.

Oh, yeah.

I think a modern kid would just like chew this up like a 90s kid would.

It's just everything a kid could want in one movie.

And it was kind of nice.

It's about nice 90 minutes.

Matt, I'll let you go and then Emily take us home.

Yeah, I'm going to give this a seven.

I thought it was really, really good.

And I mean, yeah,

I got bored of it too because it's, you know, it's not an

intellectually stimulating movie.

But

it's good.

I like it.

I give it a seven, and I'm shocked how much they wrote for me as an adult to enjoy.

Yeah.

Emily, what do you got?

All right.

I'm giving it an eight.

That's fair.

That's fair.

Because

I watched it twice before this, and I loved it both times.

But I also, I think that the look of this movie is pretty gorgeous.

Like,

I think the new suits, the new Power Ranger suits, the new helmets that they had looked rad.

And then like the suits weren't just that, you know, Morpho suit that it's just the spandex that they have at the TV show.

It was like this almost pleather, kind of more structured.

I was obsessed with it.

And, oh, there's a bar near me.

Um, I forget the name of it.

It's that, it's like a cash-only

like bar that has pinball and stuff, but they have

that.

Oh my god, that'd be so red.

But this bar.

Here come teens.

No ID needed.

We don't check.

I can smell you.

I can't remember the name of this bar, but I think you've been there, Jordan.

Blipsy's maybe?

Blipsy?

It's Blipsy Bar.

Blipsy bar.

I love this bar.

Too expensive, to be real.

But they have a Pink Ranger helmet on the wall

behind the bar.

And I have thought about sometimes when I'm waiting too long for someone to serve me, I could go back there and I could take that thing.

Oh, my God.

It'd be so cool.

But I would just die for one of those helmets.

But yeah, I thought it looked great.

I loved the new villain, I thought the his look, his whole vibe was so fun and cool and fresh to add to that.

Um, there's some weird stuff going on.

The lady in the sure in the stripper outfit, a little weird, a little weird, but then disagree, very good part of it.

I know, I know,

she's a very good movie.

She was a very movie, yeah.

She was great in the movie, it was just kind of odd, but like, yeah, I think um, I loved it.

I'm giving it an eight.

The soundtrack slaps so hard, and I think it's a gorgeous-looking, looking colorful movie from for 1995 too.

Are you kidding?

It looks great.

I think probably at the time,

I bet reviews of this movie said that it looked cheesy, but I think like time has been so kind to practical movies, right?

And this is such a fucking practical ass movie.

Like, you know, there's the CGI stuff at the end because, you know, whatever, 1995, but like...

Yeah, I mean, yeah, it does look like a 60s Star Trek show, but that's a cool look, you know?

It's a whole aesthetic.

Now you can sit and enjoy that, and you're not like, oh, it was in a computer.

It's like, I know.

I know, yeah.

And I like that.

At the time, it was probably like, you could tell these are guys in suits.

Yeah, that's cool.

It's cool to be a guy in a suit.

It sounds like that's a guy who has a job.

That's true.

Not an AI like recreation of somebody.

It's a guy in suits.

I mean, I guess technically animation probably employs way more people, but I mean, for how long.

There's a goo man who got health insurance.

Yes, exactly.

Getting kicked by the Pink Ranger in this movie.

Well, yeah,

that was Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the movie.

Yeah, let's do a little plug-in.

I'll start.

I got a couple of things.

One,

thank you.

Thank you to everybody who supported our show in the Max Fun Drive.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It's great that we get to keep doing this.

We hope you like it.

We hope you like your bonus content.

And because so many of you stepped up, more Buffy stuff coming to

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If you forgot to join, you can still do it.

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You support the show and you get a bunch of bonus content.

I also want to plug a

delightful web series that you can watch on the internet.

It is called Emily.

Have you seen this?

It is on the Mythical Society, starring Emily Fleming from this very show.

Really, really funny.

It is Emily watching internet videos and being funny about them.

It's like, what if ridiculousness had a funny host?

Wouldn't that be cool?

Yeah, this is a great show.

It is over there on the Mythical Society, the Good Mythical Morning fan platform, mythicalsociety.com.

Hilarious stuff.

You should watch it.

And hey, coming April 30th, I have a a Godzilla comic coming out.

That's right.

I wrote a Godzilla comic.

It is called Godzilla vs.

L.A.

All the proceeds go to Wildfire Relief.

So, yeah, it goes to a good cause.

And if you want to get a signed one from the great Golden Apple Comics here in L.A., we're going to throw a link in the comments.

So, obviously, we want you to pick it up at your local comic book shop if you had one.

If you don't, or you just want a signed copy, grab Godzilla vs.

L.A.

from Golden Apple Comics.

You support Wildfire Relief.

You support me because the comic does well.

And then you support Golden Apple, a great local comic book shop.

Okay, Matt, got anything?

Yes, come to Cobb's Comedy Club on May 7th.

That's a Wednesday.

See me do stand-up with my wife, Francesca Fiorentini.

We're co-headlining.

We're not performing, we're not a duo act,

so I'll be doing a set and she'll be doing a set, but it's really fun.

And the tickets will be in the show notes.

Nice.

I have something.

What do you got?

This Thursday, April 3rd at 7 p.m.

PDT,

Survive the Mythical Kitchen Live will be airing.

It's a live stream event.

If you want tickets to watch, I'm doing it.

I will be drinking a lot.

I'm going to be manning a bar

in a fur coat and a nice dress.

The wand finds the wizard.

Yeah.

And so if you go to mythicalkitchenlive.com, you can grab your tickets and tune in live on April 3rd, 7 p.m.

TVT.

All right.

Boom.

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