Man, that has to be one of the longest titles so far for the Phile... that's fifteen words. Three Power Rangers on one entry. Anyway, welcome to the Phile for a Monday. How are you? So, Prince Harry celebrated his first Father's Day and broke the Internet. Prince Harry isn't just a member of England's royal family... he's also a new dad. He and Duchess Meghan of Sussex welcomed Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor into the world last month. He joins William and Kate's three offspring (George, Charlotte, and Lewis) as royal grandchildren. I assume he's being accordingly spoiled with elaborate titles, jewels, and small islands. Archie was born on May 6th and immediately became the subject of memes, tweets, and international speculation. Honestly? It's probably for the best that's he's a baby and doesn't know what's going on. All that scrutiny is way too intense for the average person. That said: Archie's far from average. He's the newest addition to the globe's most famous royal family. Harry and Megan recognized Father's Day by posting an adorable photo of baby Archie to Instagram. Here it is...
It's already amassed over 2 million likes and over 22,000 comments. Advertising Prince Harry celebrated his first Father's Day and broke the Internet. Prince Harry Happy belated Father's Day, Harry! We wish you and yours a lovely holiday. Keep the cute Instagrams coming.
Fire the Hunger Games canon. Another one bites the dust. A third cliché. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the latest Trump official to exit the White House, although, according to the press secretary, there never was such a person. She didn't exist. She is a figure of our collective imaginations, and we are all crazy having believed that there was one. Donald Trump announced the departure via Twitter, the real press secretary.
Note: Trump has NOT been president for 3 1/2 years, but it's beautiful of him to honor her with a lie. It will be a smooth transition for Sarah Sanders to go to not holding briefings from not holding briefings. May Sarah Huckabee Sanders' career go up in smoky eye.
Another day, another opportunity to drag Ben Shapiro. The extremely online right wing Daily Wire editor attempted to celebrate D Day on his Twitter, but his smug dedication promptly backfired and got him dragged into battle. Rather than simply writing a post appreciating our veterans, and the trauma and warfare they endured, Shapiro kept his tweet extremely on brand by managing to make the battle of Normandy about PC culture.
Shapiro got quickly dragged to the trenches by receipts documenting the whining nature of his own content, and how he has called for comedians to lose their jobs due to anti-Trump comedy. On top of that, a lot of veterans and family members of veterans chimed in to tell Shapiro to keep his trap shut and stop hurling false equivalences. Per usual, Shapiro would have been smarter to sit this one out and leave his tweet in drafts. Live and learn.
Jussie Smollett is an actor who is formerly best known for his work on "Empire" and is now famous for starring in, directing, and producing a hate crime. Chicago prosecutors mysteriously dropped all 16 of the charges against him, but the city is now suing him for $130,000, the cost of the investigations. Recently unsealed court documents shed light on Smollett's production of a hate crime and the false police report. The documents include testimony from Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, the brothers hired by Smollett to stage the attack. According to the brothers Osundairo, Smollett used to hit them up for drugs including "weed, molly or Whitney," a rude slang term for cocaine (Don't bring Whitney Houston into this, okay?). He allegedly used to pay for drugs on Venmo, which is a very dumb thing to do. Smollett apparently bought ecstasy from one of the brothers and marked the Venmo payment as "for training." When filing his initial police report for the "hate crime," Smollett refused sign a medical release or hand over his phone to the police. When asked why his sweatshirt didn't get dirty after supposedly being attacked, Smollett said he clothes were clean because he fell on snow. As someone who has lived in New York for awhile, I can confirm: snow gets dirty, too. Smollett told to the police that white men threw a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him while shouting racist and homophobic slurs, including, "this is MAGA country." The brothers filled in some details, testifying that they filled a hot sauce bottle for bleach and used a clothesline instead of rope. The brothers also testified that after the alleged attack, they flew to their native country of Nigeria, and left the clothes they wore on the crime scene there. With such dirty laundry being aired, Smollett has nowhere to go but down, and "Empire" co-creator Lee Daniels confirms that Smollett will not be returning to the show.
I don't know if you know who JoJo Siwa is, but I do, and I bet your kids do, and hopefully your kids aren't getting all dolled up with asbestos. Siwa is a 16-year-old dancer, YouTuber, and toddler cosplayer who has a makeup line at Claire's, where cool tweens go to get infected earlobes. The Food and Drug Administration has released an official statement alerting customers that Siwa's makeup set not only includes eyeshadow, nail polish, lip glosses and a compact mirror... it also comes with free asbestos! Carcinogens are a bad look for the summer, and as Jezebel.com points out, Siwa's sponsored content with Claire's is unlikely to age well. Such whimsy!
Instead of doing this blog thing I should be listening to this album...
Actually I bet that's a pretty good album. Terrible cover though. If I had a TARDIS I would go to London during World War II and see if I can find my parents. Knowing me I'd be creeped out if I saw this though...
Congratulations to the St. Louis Blues for winning the Stanley Cup. I played for the Blues once... din't believe me? Here's my hockey card...
Hahahahahahahaha. That's sooooo stupid. That's as stupid as...
I mentioned Sarah Huckabee Sanders leaving as the White House press secretary earlier... well, there's a brand new one and I have the reveal right here...
Haha. That would be fantastic, right? Man, when Donald Trump visited England a few weeks ago there sure were some bloody anti-Trump protest signs. Like this one...
About a month ago Trump threw a temper tantrum about impeachment in the Rose Garden and had props. One of the props he had I was kinda confused about...
Hmmm. So, do you miss "Game of Thrones"? When I saw this I thought there was a spin off coming out...
Ha. So, the guests on today's Phile are three of the original Power Rangers. Well, things are not so great for the newer Rangers...
The economy hit the Rangers hard. So, I said this before, one of the best things about the Internet is you can see porn easily and free. But I'd rather you not look at porn and stay reading the Phile so I came up with a solution...
You are welcome. Now from the home office in Port Jefferson, New York, here is...
Top Phive Possible Replacements For Sarah Huckabee Sanders:
5. An angry sewer rat.
4. That creepy doll at your nan’s house.
3. An empty KKK hood.
2. An elderly white bollock with a face drawn on it.
And the number one possible replacement for Sarah Huckabee Sanders is...
1. Ann Coulter.
If you spot the Mindphuck let me know. So, this is sad. Now that Sanders is leaving the White House the Phile's good "friend" won't be coming back. So, for the last time please welcome to the Phile...
Sarah: Oh, my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine... hello, Jason.
Me: Sarah! You're leaving to go to back to Arkansas! I can't believe it. I'm not going to believe that you are leaving as White House press secretary until you deny it herself.
Sarah: Yup. I'm "huck fin." Haha. Get it?
Me: Leave there jokes to me, Sarah. So, what did your resignation letter say?
Sarah: It said "I'm not quitting."
Me: Hmmm. So, how do you think you handled your job over the few years?
Sarah: Jason, I handled my job like a drunk person at a traffic stop denying I'm in a car at all.
Me: That sounds about right. So, who do you think is gonna replace you?
Sarah: Trump said Alex Jones will replace me.
Me: Really?
Sarah: Yeah. Lookit...
Me: Ugh. so, what will you be doing back in Arkansas?
Sarah: I'm returning to my former private sector job, which is slugging baby cows unconscious at a veal farm. When properly iced/rested, I can stun 120-130 calves per hour, ahead of what has been called a "wildly inhumane" slaughter.
Me: I see. Well, I'm sure you are excited for what lies ahead.
Sarah: I am, Jason. Come visit me in Arkansas sometime.
Me: I don't think that's gonna happen. Sarah Huckleberry Hound, kids. Man, I'm actually gonna miss her.
She was daydreaming about her future, now her future is gazing into your soul. Seriously, don’t stare too long. He will assume control.
And now a new pheature called...
This is a new pheature where I review all of the celebrities who were "canceled" in the past week for everything from coming out as pro-childhood illnesses to normalizing fascism. Last week, like every other week, was a painful reminder that no one in the public eye can be trusted. Not even child actors who rose to mediocrity on a Christian TV show from the '90s, then became famous by marrying the most famous member of 'NSync. If not them, who CAN we trust!?!?? Definitely none of these five people, that's for sure...
1. Kim Kardashian has been dabbling in politics, with what seemed like good intentions at first. And we are all for her helping free innocent people from prison. But she must have bumped her head on a MAGA hat while visiting Trump in the White House, because last week she called Trump "compassionate" on criminal justice, and was seen smiling and laughing in photos with known white supremacists Ivanka and Jared, effectively normalizing and praising this regime in the lead-up to the 2020 election. "Compassionate" is one hell of a word to use on a man who instated prison camps for children. The only criminal Donald Trump has ever shown any compassion for is himself. Period. Kim K. gets canceled at least once a month and continues to klaw her way back into the public favor, proving once again that "cancel culture" is effectively a myth, and getting dragged on Twitter doesn't actually affect a celebrity's livelihood or public standing negatively whatsoever. Just a friendly reminder!
2. Jessica Biel was canceled for coming out as anti-vax. She later denied it, but I'm dubious to say the least. Verdict: May she rest in 7th Heaven. Silverish lining: there's been an outbreak of clever jokes about childhood illnesses mashed up with Justin Timberlake songs.
3. Paula Abdul was canceled for possibly making up a fake plane crash. Paula Abdul has been talking for years to the media about surviving a "fiery" plane crash. One big problem: no record of the plane crash exists, and her story has a lot of holes in it. Jezebel.com did a deep dive. Don't worry, y'all, Abdul will survive this cancellation, much like she survived this maybe-fake plane crash.
4. Kylie Jenner was kancelled for throwing a "Handmaid's Tale"-themed birthday party. Kylie, like Kim, is kancelled at least once a week, yet remains one of the richest people in the world. If only we all were rich and famous enough to be "canceled"! This week the "self-made" billionaire hosted a birthday party for her friend themed on a book about women being forced into reproductive slavery, in a time when the U.S. is creeping closer and closer to this being a reality by stripping women of their reproductive rights. Cute, Kylie! Keep in mind she'll probably be one of the last people to survive the apocalypse. Everything is terrible.
5. Cuba Gooding Jr. is canceled for groping a woman in a bar. Today in "men and women are different lol": women get canceled for throwing tone-deaf birthday parties. Men get canceled for sexual assault. Last week we lost "show me the money!!!!!" guy Cuba Gooding Jr. to allegations he "forcibly touched" a woman in an NYC bar. There's even video, which is not-so-gooding for him. Show him the justice!!!!!!
It's not fair. The president was being borderline treasonous, announcing open season on American politics to foreign intelligence services, and he had to ruin it with a hilariously dumb mistake. Donald Trump told George Stephanopoulos that even though the FBI says to call the FBI if a rival government seeks to aid your political campaign, he would be down to hear any and all information that'll help him stay in power. After outrage from Americans calling the enthusiasm for compromising the integrity of the election an impeachable offense, Trump took to Twitter to say that collusion is just another type of diplomacy. According to the Very Stable Genius, having tea with the Queen of England would be no different than getting campaign assistance from former KGB agent and current dictator Vladimir Putin. Before you could freak out at his logic, he confused the large sea mammals known as whales with Wales, the country in the Great Britain, and it was hilarious. "Prince of Whales"? Goddammit, that's super funny!!! Inviting foreign intelligence services to attack Americans? That's not!!! Trump deleted the tweet and corrected the spelling, but the Aquaman spinoff Prince of Whales continued to be the number one trend. Prince of WHALES... I'm still laughing. It's especially funny because just hours before, Trump took to Twitter to correct a spelling mistake tweeted by Chris Cuomo's CNN show. Still, stay focused: Trump is only tweeting about the Prince of Whales to distract us from his administration circumventing Congress to sell weapons to Mohammad bin Salmon.
The 100th book to be pheatured in the Phile's Book Club is...
Roger will be the guest on the Phile on July 1st when I kick off summer on the Phile. It'll be cool. So,
the British Royal Family exists solely to be talked about, providing the realm with reality TV centuries before television was invented. The British tabloids are a combination of access journalism and racist fanfiction, and gossip rags on both sides of the Atlantic love to make shit up about the House of Windsor. Here is another crazy rumor they blessed up with during the month of May.
Rumor: Baby Archie's nursery is decorated with eucalyptus-infused vegan paint.
When the eucalyptus hits. Vanity Fair's royal correspondent Katie Nicholl reported that the nursery at Frogmore cottage not only has a gender-neutral color scheme, but is woke down to its pigments.
What a crook sees with.
Go, Power Rangers, go. Today's guests are three of the original five Power Rangers from the 90s TV show "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers." Please welcome to he Phile... Austin St. John, Walter Jones and Amy Jo Johnson!
Me: Hey, kids, welcome to the Phile. How are you all?
Austin: Hey, dude.
Walter: Hey, man.
Amy Jo: Hi, Jason.
Me: So, I'm sure none of you kids thought the show would last when you started. Amy Jo, when you took the role what did you think?
Amy Jo: I had no idea. It was non-union, it was called "Dino Rangers," it was my first job and it was a kids show. I had no idea it would blow up the way it did. We shot the pilot in September then the following year when it aired that September, so that while year when we were shooting episodes we had no idea that in September it was going to be this huge kids show. It was a bit much. I don't think Haim Sabam knew, or maybe he kinda knew.
Me: So, Austin, you played Jason, the Red Ranger. Great name. Haha. Before you were in Power Rangers you were doing martial arts, am I right?
Austin: Well, when I started martial arts when I was 5-years-old was judo. My dad was a Marine and sometimes we would've as often as 9 months or 6 months so I was the only 5-year-old in my Judo class. The next youngest kids were 11, so I learned how to fight with everyone bigger than me.
Me: Was Judo the only martial arts you did?
Austin: No, it became my preference but after that it was Aikido, Chinese kick boxing, Taido, Taekwondo, and the list goes on. Taekwondo is what probably got me the job on "Power Rangers."
Me: How so?
Austin: All the kicks, They wanted to see all flashy stuff and that's Taekwondo.
Me: So, besides that did you have a normal childhood, watching cartoons and playing with toys, that kinda stuff?
Austin: Voltron, G.I. Joe, Ninja Turtles, that was my jam. That's what I grew up on.
Me: Walter, what were you into as a kid?
Walter: You know what, when I was growing up I was into cartoons of course. But I was into "Land of the Lost," that was a big deal because of dinosaurs and stuff, Popeye the Sailor Man, all the Looney Tunes stuff of course. Woody Woodpecker and that kind of stuff. I also loved the 3 Stooges. Woo woo woo! That was the thing, my parents had to keep us from doing that.
Me: Did you ever put that kinda slapstick stuff to use in "Power Rangers"?
Walter: Yeah, we had Bulk and Skull, they were like our 3 Stooges guys.
Me: Austin, what was your favorite toy as a kid?
Austin: Well, I didn't have a lot when I was a kid. My dad was a Marine, my mom was a cop. I had three favorite toys. One was a Spider-Man car that melted on a floor heater, the other one was I had a G.I. Joe figure and I had a BB gun. Back then kids could have BB guns. Now if you have something with a trigger what's the matter with you? Oh, Jesus.
Me: So, what was your first audition like, Austin?
Austin: They pretty much flat out show us your martial arts. There was a huge group of us, like 10,000 guys showed up. I know for Red Ranger, I'm sure it was for the other Rangers too. It was advertised in the L.A. paper. The show was originally advertised as "The Phantoms" and my characters name was Victor. It's like as "Power Rangers Turn," a soap opera, you know. So many things I can't say. Anyway, it was "how many of you guys know martial arts?" Hands went up and "those of you who didn't raise your hands, there's the door." Like that was the first cut. Right after that they were like great, show us. I remember the roof was like super low and I was like, "Show you what? There's not a lot of room for me to do some crazy stuff in here." They were like, "How much do you need?" I was like, "I could do plenty out here but the good stuff I'm gonna hit the ceiling." I showed them what I could do and I'm pretty saw it's what landed me the role.
Me: Walter, what was it like for you when you become a Power Ranger? Did you do martial arts as well?
Walter: It was a long process. For my particular character they wanted somebody who had the talents of martial arts, gymnastics, dancing and had to be an actor. I had to be multi-talented so the audition process kinda went where they had me come in and read sides then they asked me to dance, then they asked me to do martial arts, then they asked me to do gymnastics, then they said, "Can you put it all together?" I was like, "That's a lot, let me try to figure out how to make that into something." So I ended up having to create my own form of martial arts.
Me: Was dance a thing they wanted all the characters to do?
Walter: No, it was just me, Zack, the Black Ranger. But the thing was at that time hip hop was just becoming more and more prevalent. Hip hop was the thing, everyone was loving it. Hip hop was growing and they were talking about hip hop on TV like there's this new thing called hip hop and is it going to stay or whatever and apparently the kids were eating it up so they wanted somebody to do hip hop. Hip hop was the way so "hiphopkeido" became a martial art.
Me: Amy Jo, what was your audition like? Did you do martial arts?
Amy Jo: No, I was a gymnast. I think really I got the part because I was a gymnast. That's where I met David Yost, and Austin and Walter and all the other Rangers. We were paired off together on the first audition. I think there were eight groups or something like that. And our group won.
Me: I have to say I never really watched the TV show, but my son used to when he was little, but I don't think he watched the show you kids were on. Can you believe the show is still popular?
Austin: I know. Over 25 years now.
Me: Amy Jo, how would you describe the show?
Amy Jo: It was kitschy. Is kitschy the right word. You can kind of see the strings hanging from the monsters.
Me: So, Amy Jo, how come you were the only one with a skirt? How come the Yellow Ranger didn't have a skirt?
Amy Jo: Oh, because it's Japanese footage and that character was a guy in the Japanese show.
Me: There was a movie with you guys in it, right?
Amy Jo: Yeah, but I think when they tried to do the big movie and they took away all the strings and make it all slick and flashy, in the first movie I don't think did so well like the TV show because it was different to what the kids were watching on the TV show.
Me: Walter, did you add something of your personality to your character?
Walter: As an actor we always take what we know and deliver it to a character So fortunately for me I was very much like my character already. I was already an exuberant person, I'm energetic, I've always stood up for the smaller person. Bullies, and I hate guys that want to fight girls. When I grew up any boy that tried to beat up a girl I stepped in. "Hey, why do you have to mess with a girl? You wanna fight somebody, fight me. I'm smaller than you but you're not gonna fight this girl. Be a man." So I was already protective in that way so that was kind of the elements that went with the character Zack.
Me: Did you get into many fights as a kid?
Walter: I did. I was in one fight as a kid over a clubhouse that got kicked over. Other than that I was in altercations where I wax challenged to fight and I'd say to me because I was a martial artist, I took martial arts so I was trained not to hit. I was trained to defend so I'd go hit me, they didn't hit me and I'd say, "You're wasting my time." and I'd walk away. But it didn't make me look like a punk. I'd say hit me and they didn't hit me. "I'm leaving now, I've got no time for you." It was cool.
Me: Austin, what was it like wearing the helmet?
Austin: It was impossible to see out of.
Me: What about for you, Walter?
Walter: It was not easy, Obviously it took away a lot of our proverbial vision. As we were jumping around and sweating, so forth and so on it gets fogged up inside. We had some of that defogger but I'm sure it's much more highly effective these days. That was over 25 years ago, so I don't know if the technology changed since then.
Me: Amy Jo, what was the hardest part for you about being on "Power Rangers"?
Amy Jo: The fact that it was non-union there was more than a handful of times where I was actually a little frightened for my safety. I think some of the stunts and some of te things we were doing wasn't probably as safe as the standards are now. As it has to be.
Me: What is something that happened to you?
Amy Jo: Me and David Yost were in this time machine, trading machine that caught on fire while we were in it. There were a couple of other things. Hanging over a volcano, there was one time when we were swimming in some sort of pool or something some sort of light fell in it that wasn't wasn't waterproof. That was bad.
Me: After "Power Rangers" you were on a show called "Space Cases," am I right, Walter? What was that show like? I don't remember it.
Walter: Ahhh. "Space Cases." It was very much like "Lost in Space." It's like "Lost in Space" meets "Star Trek." We are "Star Trek" but we're lost. And we were kids, so the concept was we're a bunch of kids, space kids, aliens and I was the only earthling and we go aboard a ship which is an alien vessel and it logs us on as the crew and the captain and the teacher come on and are logged on as the passengers and we got lost in space and we're trying to find our way back. We have to run the ship because the ship only knows us as the crew. It was a lot of fun, it was a cute show.
Me: How did the show do?
Walter: "Space Cases" was the Number 2 show on Nickelodeon. "Keenan and Kel" was the Number 1 show, and our budget was three or four times more than "Keenan and Kel." We had CGI, there was no kids show on TV with CGI.
Me: Amy Jo, what did you do when you left the show?
Amy Jo: It actually made in my head at an early age early in my career... how much do I really want this? The whole fame thing sort of freaks me out. It's a weird unnatural sort of existence.
Me: You moved away from Hollywood after the show, right?
Amy Jo: I moved to Montreal in 2005. I thought I was quitting and then I got "Flashpoint" and I did "Flashpoint" for five seasons. Now I transitioned into filmmaking, which I really truly love.
Me: Why is that?
Amy Jo: I think it's because I'm behind the camera it's much more fitting for me. I get to play more and I get to be more creative. I love it.
Me: You wrote, directed, produced and starred in a movie called The Space Between, right? What is it about?
Amy Jo: It's heartfelt comedy, and a road trip movie. And I'm really proud of it.
Me: Who is in the movie?
Amy Jo: Michael Cram is in it, a couple of other people from the "Flashpoint" show I was on. David Paetkau's in it, and also Kristian Bruun who was in "Orphan Black" and Jayne Eastwood, a Canadian icon, she's an amazing actress. And Michael Ironside. It's a really good cast and the movie is really fun. And I'm in it to.
Me: When you left the show, Austin, what did you do?
Austin: I left the show and went on with a whole another career. I became a paramedic.
Me: And didn't you go overseas?
Austin: Yeah, I was four years overseas for the war.
Me: So, how did you get to do comic book conventions and stuff?
Austin: I didn't realize people still cared. I was on the Iraqi/Kuwait border when Walter called me up and I just got back to the base and actually had cell coverage and he tracked me down through my mom, because he was my boy for 25 years. He tells me about this thing called Comic Con. I'm like is this a Boy George joke? Like Comiccon-cameleon?
Me: Walter, what did you say to him?
Walter: I said, "No, dude, people come out of the woodwork all around the world. You should come back. Everybody's asking where the O.G. is."
Me: What's the O.G.?
Austin: That's what I said. The what?
Walter: The O.G. We're called the originals now.
Austin: I was like how many have their been? And he said, "Dude, like a hundred or more, I don't even know." I was stunned. Like the show was still going on, I didn't even know it. So I retired, I was tired of getting blown up anyway and I came back here. Now I'm producing and working on all kinda stuff.
Me: When you were overseas did many people know you were the Red Ranger over there?
Austin: I kept it pretty quiet. I had a huge beard and there were times I shaved my head. I wasn't over there to be famous. In fact when I left the show I never talked about it. My wife, she knew when we met and we just never talked about it. Look, I've been a bartender, I've mowed lawns, I did a newspaper route when I was a kid, I was a Power Ranger. I did my job. As much as I loved the notoriety I never felt special. I'm not like a lot of these guys. I don't walk around and ask, "Where's my latte?" At conventions I'm like, "Hey, I gotta take a dump, where's the bathroom?" I don't have a problem with that. It's what we do. "Well, do you need us to take you to the restroom?" "Nope. I've been peeing by myself since I was four. I got this. I'm good." I love the notoriety and the love but I still feel sometimes like I'm just a dude, man. So it feels a bit much from time to time but I still appreciate all the love from three generations now. Damn I'm old.
Me: You're old? Haha. I'm ancient. What do you think of the popularity of the show?
Austin: It blows my mind. All day long no matter where I am in the world. Even when I've got translators, German or whatever people just go on and on. It wasn't just a TV show for people. It touched a lot of people's lives. I didn't understand that early on. We were big brother figures, or sister figures, or father figures or just a show a little kid could go watch it because his parents beat him all the time. He was like this is my 35 minutes of happiness. The craziest stories I've ever heard are mind-blowing. It's brought me back to the business. I love it.
Walter: I'm not an 80s kids, but I look like one.
Me: Walter, I don't think you aged. Did you?
Walter: I did. I just don't tell anybody.
Me: Walter, can you believe it's over 25 years since the show started?
Walter: You know what, man, that is insane. It's a quarter of a century. But what's cool is we have our own official day now. We have Power Rangers Day, August 18th.
Me: That's cool. What do you guys do for that?
Walter: Nothing. Last year was the first year they gave it to us. This year we have to make something happen.
Me: What do you think about being on the show back then, Amy Jo? What's something positive about it?
Amy Jo: Looking back at the friendships that I made. Davis Yost feels like he's family now, and Jason David Frank, and just the friendships that I made at that time who are still in my life now. Probably what I take is the best part of the show for me.
Me: So, what did you think of your cast mates, Austin?
Austin: Walter, one of the first black super heroes. All day long people walk up to him and say, "You were the first of our kind." Or "a positive black role model for me and my family." They just love him. The same with Karan and Johnny Bosch with the Asian community. We just see so much with the love and appreciation for all of it and whether it was black, Asian, white, pink, whatever, we just touched on all these communities. They told us the ratings were insane but we weren't at everybody's house watching these people. So hearing it 25 years later, talk about job satisfaction. Everywhere in the world and I get nothing but love. Whether I was a favorite or not, people go, "Well, I like the yellow one." That's okay. We're all on the same team, man. It doesn't have to be me, I'm just glad you loved it.
Me: Amy Jo, this was your first role. Were you overwhelmed it was so big and so popular?
Amy Jo: Yeah, it actually scared the hell out of me. It really freighted me. In September we did the Universal Amphitheater shows, I remember pulling up on a bus with all of us and it was so packed that they had to do about four shows in one day. It was like a 7000 seat theater. We did the live shows that day and I went home and had these crazy nightmares. I was so overwhelmed. I didn't quite like the feeling of all these people knowing me and I don't know them.
Me: Kids, thanks so much for being on the Phile. I hope you all will come back again, and maybe the other's will join.
Austin: Thank you, brother.
Walter: My pleasure, brother. All the best to you.
Amy Jo: Awesome, Thank you.
That about does it for this entry of the Phile. Thanks to Austin, Walter and Amy Jo. Hope you Power Rangers fans dug it. The Phile will be back tomorrow from Walt Disney World with Sean Marshall, who played Pete in the 1977 Disney movie Pete's Dragon. Spread the word, not the turd. Don't let snakes and alligators bite you. Bye, love you, bye.
I don't want you, cook my bread, I don't want you, make my bed, I don't want your money too, I just want to make love to you. - Willie Dixon
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