KSPR EPISODE 9 TRANSCRIPT

Nelson: Alright, time for the cold open that everybody loves.

Ethan: Oh yeah, me typing up the expanded intro script here.

Nelson: Yeah, because the cold opens are always scripted. That’s what people don’t know. We plan these out.

Andrew: My niece just turned 16, my stepsister’s kid. And she had a birthday party where she invited all her friends over and they played the family edition of Cards Against Humanity. Do you know about this?

Nelson: There’s a family edition?

Andrew: There’s a family edition and it’s the most boring thing.

Nelson: That sounds awful.

Andrew: It’s really, really, really bad. So if you can imagine just a bunch of teenagers sitting on the back porch of this woman’s house like, trying to find something scandalous in the family edition of Cards Against Humanity. I felt bad for everybody involved.

Nelson: Yeah, that sounds pretty rough. It’s like, how can we be offensive but not offensive?

Andrew: How can we be offensive but approved by conservative Mormons?

Nelson: All right.

Ethan: All right. (Absolutely unintelligible) So three, two, one, clap.

Andrew?: Let’s do it.

Nelson: All right, R.I.P. Toriyama-sama. All right.

Ethan: Three, two, one. [Clap.]

Nelson: Close enough.

[“It’s morphin’ time!” + intro music]

Ethan: Minna-san yokoso, welcome to your favorite cross-cultural deep dive analysis and recap podcast covering Super Sentai and Power Rangers, Kenkyuu Sentai Podcast Rangers. My name is Ethan; I use he/him pronouns, and with me is my usual co-host, Andrew.

Andrew: Hey, everybody. My name is Andrew. I also use he/him pronouns

Nelson: And producer Nelson here.

Ethan: And Nelson is joining us once again today.

Nelson: He’in’ and him’in’.

Andrew: He’in’ and him’in’.

Nelson: He’in’ and him’in’.

Ethan: No incidents on the drive up today?

Nelson: No.

Ethan: Smooth sailing?

Nelson: Smooth sailing.

Ethan: That’s what we like to hear.

Andrew and Nelson: Yeah…

Nelson: ‘S pretty chill, pretty chill.

Ethan: Today, we are discussing Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger episode 9, “Hashire! Tamago Oji (Run! Prince of the Eggs)”. If you take it literally, it’s literally “Run! Egg Prince,” which is pretty funny. And Power Rangers, season 1, episode 9, “For Whom the Bell Trolls,” which is just a terrible pun.

Andrew: It’s barely even a pun.

Ethan: It’s barely a pun. It’s one-

Nelson: It’s barely even an episode.

Ethan: Yeah, yeah.

Andrew: I mean… give us a minute.

Ethan: We do have two things we need to talk about before we get into the show proper, concerning two people formerly connected to Power Rangers, Haim Saban himself and Austin St. John. As we mentioned in episode 1, Haim Saban is a hardcore Zionist and is currently, at the time of this writing in March of 2024, hosting dinners and raising funds for AIPAC, the American-Israeli Political Action Committee, which money will go towards continuing the genocide against the people of Palestine. Obviously, this is evil and it sucks, and we entirely repudiate Saban’s politics. We don’t want to get sued, so we won’t say much more than that, but we want you to know where we stand. Do y’all want to chime in on that at all?

Nelson: Free Palestine.

Andrew: Yeah.

Ethan: Yep, that’s pretty much the message. Austin St. John, meanwhile, is attempting to start up an apparel line featuring quotations from notable figures in world history, including but not limited to Adolf Hitler.

Nelson: But mainly Hitler.

Ethan: Yeah. Obviously, this is also evil and it sucks. And it’s also just kind of boneheaded. And we repudiate this, obviously. This is a guy who’s been in hot water multiple times over the past couple years and just can’t seem to stop being a weird fascist.

Andrew: This is such an own goal, you know? It would have been such an easy thing for him to just not make t-shirts with Hitler quotes on them.
I’m amazed. I’m amazed that somebody thought, you know what I’m going to do?

Ethan: This is… yeah.

Nelson: Yeah.

Ethan: This has been the former Power Rangers assh*** update.

Andrew: Also, I will say all the Zyuanger episodes are back on Archive.org.
Power Rangers back too.

Nelson: Yeah, the Power Rangers have been back. Yeah, they came back like a week after we did that. That’s where I’ve been watching them. I mean, that’s not where I’ve been watching ’em!

Ethan: Listeners, if you fixed that problem, good job. I don’t know how or who, but…

Andrew: But thank you.

Nelson Yeah, somebody out there, you did it.

Andrew: It’s significant, but we’ll talk about that in the next episode.

Ethan: Yeah. Without further ado, let’s get into the recap.

[“Kyoryu Sentai… Zyuranger!!”]

Ethan: “Hashire! Tamago Oji” was written by Sugimura Noboru and directed by Ogasawara Takeshi. It is the first part of a two-parter concerning the last two dinosaur eggs in the world and the people appointed by God to protect them. This may be familiar to you, if you remember “Big Sisters,” this is the original footage from “Big Sisters.” I think I remarked in episode seven that Maria’s outfit is a clone of Emiko’s outfit from this episode. And it’s just so jarring. Because they’re two completely different kids. Anyway.

Nelson: Speaking of jarring, I love how this episode starts. It is a mile a minute, pun intended. And you’ll see why.

Ethan: We start off with Yuuro, Prince of the Apello tribe, and his two retainers, Crockle and Daisy, as they fly to Japan in search of the Zyurangers. Their magical, warping VW Beetle appears in a girl named Emiko’s house, followed shortly by Dora Cockatrice and a crew of Golems, and then again by the Zyurangers. Our heroes manage to fight off the attackers, but Dora Cockatrice steals Yuuro and Emiko away into his dimension. There, the children are confronted by Bandora. Yuuro defies her, and the children flee. This is the origin of the RADBUG.

Nelson: Yes.

Ethan: I think I remarked in our previous episode that I thought it was somebody’s grandfather’s invention, which is not terribly far off, but it’s Crockle’s weird magical warp speed VW Bug. Meanwhile, in the secret base below the Sakura Condo building, Crockle and Daisy explain to the Zyurangers why they have come. 170 million years ago, after Bandora’s banishment, all the dinosaurs were gone and only two eggs remained. The tribal elders sealed these in a magical chest.

Andrew: 170 million years ago, all the dinosaurs were gone?

Ethan: Yeah.

Andrew: Okay.

Ethan: If you go back to our research piece on-

Andrew: On dinosaurs!

Ethan: -dinosaurs and the timeline of life, you will know that dinosaurs didn’t exist yet. They were still to come 170 million years ago. Anyway.

Nelson: But they were gone though, so I mean, they were kinda…

Ethan: They hadn’t been yet! You can’t be gone if you have not yet been.

Nelson: I mean…

Ethan: It’s like, are you dead before you’re alive?

Nelson: Yeah! [Transcriber’s note: This question is still out, as far as I’m concerned.]

Technical Difficulties Future Nelson: So yeah, the tribal elders took these two eggs and they sealed them in a magical chest and cast them into the sea, like you do with all your most prized possessions, so that they might be preserved for the future. Eventually, the eggs washed up on Delos, the island where the Apello tribe lives, so Yuuro hid them away. But Bandora and her monsters attacked, causing the prince and his retainers to come seeking the aid of the Zyurangers. So Crockle helps the Zyurangers find Dora Cockatrice’s dimension with one of his inventions. They’re these goofy glasses that can see portals to other worlds that they all have a good laugh at. After a bit of searching, the rangers spot the portal and they ride right into it.
Yuuro and Emiko spot a restaurant in the woods in Dora Cockatrice’s dimension and sit down to eat, but it’s quickly revealed that this is a trap. As they flee and hide, Emiko spots Prince Yuuro’s tail and loudly declares him to be a monster, giving away their position and getting herself captured by Dora Cockatrice. As Emiko dangles precariously from a rope, Prince Yuuro explains that he’s actually a monkey, as is his whole tribe. In the ancient times, the Apello tribe were God’s orchard keepers, but Dora Cockatrice tricked them into eating the golden fruit so they were banished from heaven and cursed to live as monkeys until they could earn forgiveness.
Bandora antagonizes Yuuro, telling him that he must reveal the location of these eggs or Emiko will die, and so he does, but Dora Cockatrice cuts the rope anyway. Luckily, Daizyujin’s hand suddenly appears, catching Emiko out of the air and letting her down to safety. Bandora gloats as she escapes to Delos, turning Dora Cockatrice into a giant as she leaves. Yuuro, Crockle, Daisy, and Emiko pursue Bandora as the rangers fight and eventually defeat Dora Cockatrice. But this isn’t over, there’s a part two, to be continued.

Ethan: I had a couple of talking points for the talkback, which is what the f*** is going on with God? Who is God? Why is God? What is going on?

Nelson: It’s a very good question.

Ethan: The concept of God in Zyuranger. What’s the deal? Okay, we have-

Nelson: I mean, yeah, because it’s like, are the Beasts the gods? Or do they answer to a God?

Ethan: We have the Guardian Beasts, right, who are like the totems of the five ancient tribes, the Yamato, the Etofu, all the tribes that the Rangers come from. These are like their patron deities.

Nelson: But they’re not gods.

Ethan: They combine to form Daizyujin, who is like the living embodiment of a god. His name literally means like “Great Beast Spirit,” and he commands the Rangers as if he is a god. But this is not Daizyujin’s orchard, because they would just say that. It’s the heavenly orchard of golden fruit, but it is not Daizyujin’s. So who is this Kami, who is this God? Is it the Christian God?

Nelson: Maybe, maybe.

Ethan: I mean, I just have questions.

Nelson: Yeah, you know, there are Christians in Japan.

Ethan: There are Christians, famously.

Nelson: You guys have been watching Shogun on FX?

Andrew and Ethan: No.

Ethan: I was gonna- I thought you were going to say you’ve been watching Samurai Champloo, because that features into that also.

Nelson: There is that. There is that too. I probably am due a rewatch of that.

Ethan: And like my research topic will touch on this today, but yeah, I have just so many questions about… What is the cosmology here?

Nelson, doing his best Jerry Seinfeld: What’s the deal with God?

Ethan: Who is this deity that has these golden orchards?

Nelson: I think it might be like God-God, you know?

Ethan: Yeah, I don’t know.

Nelson: It’s the big man upstairs in the white robe.

Andrew: So you’ve seen more of Zyuranger than I have. Does God continue to feature

Ethan: Satan does. God? Not that I recall.

Andrew: So this isn’t a situation like you run into in like, the- towards the end of Dragon Ball where they’re like, yeah, this is the Supreme God and then this is the God of Gods and then this is the God of the Universe.

Nelson: Oh, yeah, and get in the whole Supreme Kai nonsense, Jesus Christ.

Ethan: No, they don’t really- Yeah, I have so many questions. And like, we’ll get into it a little bit with the research, but the research really only looks at the parts of this cosmology as they exist in our world and not in theirs, which is extremely confusing and strange.

Andrew: Yeah, baffling. I didn’t really think about it when I was watching the episode, you know? But there is such a mystical element to everything that’s happening on the Zyuranger side. And again, it’s been about a month since the last time I watched any of these, so I was coming into this, like, having put a lot of the mythology out of my head, you know? And coming back to it, yeah, there’s some implications to this.

Neslon: All right. Now for the Ranger recap.

Ethan: Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! We have to go back to the beginning of the episode, because I made a note here, which is that Barza’s weird ear comes back.

Nelson: Yes, I was going to say that! The weird ear comes back!

Andrew: I forgot that entirely!

All: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Ethan: I noticed that and I was like, oh sh- I was- because I thought it never showed up again in the show. But it actually- it shows up again.

Nelson: And it stays!

Ethan: And it’s still stuck to the side of his head when he like, turns around and you get like a full on- And so we just wanted to shout out to Barza’s weird ear, completely forgotten until I looked at my notes just there.

Andrew: I made note of that when I was watching the thing and then had completely forgotten. Yeah, the worst bit of the first episode of Zyuranger comes back.

Nelson: Barza’s weird ear made a return.

Ethan: It can hear a car in warp space.

Nelson: Yeah. Also, return of Barza. He hasn’t been back-

Ethan: Yeah, Barza’s back! It’s always good to see Barza.

Nelson: Yeah.

Ethan: Okay. That was- definitely the last thing. I think that about wraps it up for Zyuranger this week, so you want to get us our Rangers recap?

Andrew: Yeah.

[“Go! Go! Power Rangers!”]

Andrew: We’re talking about Power Rangers, “For Whom the Bell Trolls.” This episode was written by Jeff Deckman, Ronnie Sperling, and Stuart St. John. That’s three people. Just keep in mind as you’re watching this episode that it was written by three people. It was directed by Robert Hughes.
I do want to call out before I even get into the recap: I read some interviews about the production of this episode. And this episode was written by Jeff Deckman. Ronnie Sperling made some contributions, but it was mostly written by Jeff Deckman. Stuart St. John wrote one scene. And it is the thing that takes this from being what was almost a good episode to being a very, very bad episode.

Nelson: Is it the last scene?

Andrew: It is the last scene. That’s all Stuart St. John’s fault.

Nelson: All right. You’ll see what that is.

Andrew: So yeah. And directed by Robert Hughes. Okay. Recap: We open in the high school. We meet their teacher for the first time. She comes back frequently, but here they’re doing show and tell for some reason.

Nelson: Well, they call it Hobbies Week.

Andrew: They do call it Hobbies Week, but they don’t call it Hobbies Week out of the gate. Out of the gate, they’re just doing show and tell with no context. Trini, specifically, is doing show and tell. She has dolls, and she shows off some of her dolls. And one of them is Mr. Ticklesneezer. Mr. Ticklesneezer is terrible.
While they’re doing the show and tell, Rita is watching for some reason, because even though she wants the destruction of Earth, she spends all her time just watching the Power Rangers through her magic telescope. We get a cutaway to Rita long enough to establish that she is watching and then we’re back to show and tell. I do want to point out here: the bit that they dubbed for Rita here was probably the best dubbing I’ve seen.

Nelson: Yeah!

Ethan: I noticed that as well. It was very well done.

[“That Trini… has had it!”]

Andrew: So back to show and tell. Jason is spinning a stick.

Nelson: It is funny because I was watching this and when Jason went up, I was like, all right, Jason’s going to do karate and…

Andrew: He’s just starts spinning in a stick! Zack pretends to surf, which I thought was a choice, considering that they’ve already established that he’s like a really excellent dancer. And then Kimmy does some gymnastics, which appears to terrify their teacher.

Nelson: Well, I mean, she did a handstand on a desk, and like, I’m pretty sure that was all Amy Jo Johnson because they had her face in camera and everything.

Andrew: Yeah, there was there was no stunt actor there. It was an impressive, like, “I’m going to do this thing.” And then Billy does like, your typical like, middle school science fair volcano.

Ethan: It’s so much grosser than that, though.

Andrew: It’s got this really bright pink slime. But I’m calling this out specifically because Billy- it has been demonstrated that this man can make things that far exceed the capacity of any other human on the planet.

Ethan: He’s like a genius inventor.

Andrew: And what he shows off for show and tell for Hobby Week is a pink slime volcano, a bad middle school science experiment.

Nelson: Okay, I think it’s the Incredibles theory here, though.

Andrew: You think he’s trying to hide his level?

Ethan: Ohhhhhhhh.

Nelson: Yes. He can’t be like, “Oh, I’m a super genius!” Or else they’ll be like, “Ehh, maybe you might be a Power Ranger.”

Andrew: OK, yeah, I’ll buy that.

Ethan: I can see that.

Nelson: He’s got to be just as smart as everybody else.

Ethan: We’re having to reach a little. I think that does track. But like he did invent a more sophisticated communicator than the Apple Watch, which requires no Bluetooth connection, no external power. I don’t know how he did that, but it kicks ass. Anyway.

Andrew: It’s at this point that we find out this is Hobby Week and not just show and tell. Which was just, again, a really weird choice. It’s not that weird of a choice when the target audience for the show is is eight year olds. But this clearly establishes that the target audience for the show is eight year old.

Nelson: We get a little Bulk and Skull action near the end.

Andrew: At this point, Bulk and Skull take Trini’s doll.

Ethan: They’re like, heckling the whole time.

Andrew: Yeah. They specifically take Mr. Ticklesneezer and, of course, this ends with Bulk humiliated this time by the slime from the volcano.

Nelson: Well-deserved this time, I will give you that.

Andrew: Oh, it is frequently well-deserved. They wrote these characters to be little s***.

Nelson: Yeah, but I mean, I think I think this time it’s probably up there. He got a mouthful of goo. And then Skull got a face full of goo.

Andrew: Yeah. So they cut to Trini’s bedroom, which is full of even more dolls. All the dolls she had for show and tell and then way, way more.

Ethan: If we’re assuming that Trini is 17, high school senior, this is so weird.

Andrew: It is a weird amount of dolls.

Ethan: She lives in a Victorian style home, she wears a nightdress to sleep, and her entire room is covered in collectible dolls. I’m just getting totally incomprehensible vibes.

Nelson: Big grandma vibes.

Ethan: Yeah.

Andrew: So we cut back to Rita and her henchmen and they are scheming. The assorted monsters are sent to take Mr. Ticklesneezer. Why? Who knows? This is accomplished by a genuinely tense segment. It’s one of the first like actual tense segments of the show. They do teleportation, there’s a lot of like shadows and then Mr. Ticklesneezer is made full size and taken to Rita’s palace.

Ethan: I wrote ‘They got Ticklesneezer with the motherf*** ing doohickey.’ [Transcriber’s note: Rest in piss Abe Shinzo, you fascist ghoul.]

Nelson: They really did.

Andrew: No explanation as to how they’ve done this. Every monster we’ve seen up to this point with maybe one exception has been created by Finster.

Ethan: Yeah, I think the crucial part here is that Baboo does not take the doll and leave, and then they zap him and make him a person. He zaps Ticklesneezer in Trini’s bedroom, with Trini asleep five feet away.

Andrew and Nelson: Yeah!

Ethan: I mean, I guess it makes sense because Baboo is kind of dopey, but it is such a weird situation.

Andrew: They take the full size Ticklesneezer to Rita’s palace on the moon. And Mr. Ticklesneezer proceeds to explain that he collects things in his magic jar. They use a shot of Rita and Mr. Ticklesneezer over and over again, like, just cutting back and forth between them in a way that like deeply unsettled me.

Ethan: Rita is being very weird here, in that she is speaking only in couplets. So like all of the monsters that Finster makes already acknowledge her as their mistress; she doesn’t have to convince them of anything. But she is like conscripting Ticklesneezer here.

Nelson: That’s probably how she put him under her spell.

Andrew: I mean, I’ll address that, because she did not put him under any spell. But she does- she bullies him into collecting things on Earth.

Ethan: Tokyo Tower…

Andrew: I did note here that Ticklesneezer is one of the worst suits we’ve seen so far.

Ethan: It’s bad.

Andrew: In all of the like, costumes that Power Rangers has. And some of them are not especially great, you know, but this one appears amateurish.

Nelson: It looks very sundamaged.

Andrew: Yeah, I mean, it just it looks like they’ve dusted off a really old, badly-made costume and they’re like, “We’re just going to reuse this one.”

Ethan: I think Nelson is picking up on what I kind of picked up on, between the Japanese and U.S. footage, the suit seems to have deteriorated somewhat and maybe been patched up somehow. Did it look a little gooier?

Nelson: It looked- Yeah, it looks weirdly gooey.

Ethan: I thought- OK, I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought that.

Andrew: No, like it was breaking down.

Ethan: The original character that Ticklesneezer is based on is Fairy Dondon. The plot is essentially the same, you know, he’s sort of a hapless goofball who just does collect stuff in his magic jar and Bandora more or less tricks him into doing that on Earth.

Nelson: My problem with this monster, this costume, is just the stereotypically Asian like, look to it. Like it’s got this old stereotypical Asian villager- Like it’s very like, “Uohohoh?”, you know what I mean?

Ethan: He’s a very weird. He’s a weird mishmash of…

Nelson: The teeth, and the eyes… And it’s… [alarmed noises] you know? I don’t- mm. Hmmm.

Andrew: So he sets about collecting things with his magic jar. He calls them his goodies, yes.

Ethan: I wrote here, ‘If I had a nickel for every time tiny people were stuck in a tiny vehicle, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t much, but it’s weird that it happened twice.’

Andrew: So he collects the car that Billy and Trini are in. They are shrunken down to a very small size.

Ethan: Which is like, an adorable little hatchback.

Andrew: “I don’t want to hurt you. Just add you to my collection,” he says. At this point, for absolutely no reason, Rita sends Goldar to earth. Jason and Zach are in the rec center and they are sparring and they proceed to break some boards with their fists. This gives the writers a perfect opportunity to humiliate Bulk and Skull some more.

Nelson: He cuts a cake.

Andrew: Bulk decides to smash a cake. Now, as soon as they cut over to Bulk and Skull, Ernie sets this cake down behind them. It was very much Chekhov’s cake. And I’m glad that in this instance-

Ethan: It was the same thing with the veggie chili in episode whatever it was.

Nelson: Oh, where’s this going?

Ethan: As soon as some food gets mentioned, you’re like, “Oh, Bulk’s head is going in there.”

Andrew: And I was really relieved in this case that it was just his hand. The bit here is that he is- “Oh, I can smash a board. Anybody can smash a board.” And he karate chops the cake and hurts his hand. It’s not a good bit.

Nelson: I mean, he did set the bench press record.

Andrew: He did!

Nelson: Before Jason broke it. Let’s not forget that.

Andrew: So the Rangers are called away and they are shown, by Zordon, Mr. Ticklesneezer, as he captures an airplane out of the sky. Zordon says that Mr. Ticklesneezer is under a spell, but he explicitly is not. He volunteered for this work. He was like, “Hey, I want to go out and collect goodies.” And Rita was like, “Yeah, go do that thing that you do.”

Nelson: Gotta give him the benefit of the doubt, you know? I think that’s what Zordon was doing.

Andrew: So the remaining Rangers, minus Billy and Trini, morph and are suddenly fighting Putties. There’s no transition here. It’s just morphing, fighting putties immediately.

Nelson: Well, the transformation is the transition.

Andrew: I guess.

Nelson: If we’re going by Power Rangers logic.

Andrew: Ticklesneezer trips and loses his bottle. But then Goldar attacks the bottle and the bottle is wedged on some train tracks. This again in this episode was a genuinely tense moment. Are Billy and Trini going to die? Well, obviously, of course not. But like it was- it did not look like they were going to be able to save them. They did a good job at this.
Of course, they do save Billy and Trini. Billy and Trini are freed and immediately transform. And then Billy especially just proceeds to kick so much ass. Just- the Blue Ranger steps in and is immediately taking on like four putties at a time. Mr. Ticklesneezer meanwhile is upset that he lost his bottle. Rita comes to Earth. We don’t see her come to Earth. She’s just suddenly there and takes this moment to make Mr. Ticklesneezer grow.

Ethan: He specifically says, “Oh, Empress Rita, what’s up?”

Nelson: “Hey, what’s up, dude?”

[“Oh, Empress Rita… What’s up?”]

Andrew: All the other monsters retreat back to Rita’s palace, apparently.

Nelson: And that’s because they’re being threatened with being put in the jar. Like the the Megazord gets the jar, and there’s a child here.

Andrew: Hold on, I’ll get there. So Mr. Ticklesneezer was sad, he was sulking that he didn’t have his bottle. And when Rita is there, she’s like, “Why haven’t you captured the Power Rangers?” And he’s like, “I don’t have my bottle!” They make him big, and suddenly he’s got his bottle again with absolutely no explanation.

Ethan: I mean, it’s sort of an established convention, when you get giant, like- it’s like-

Andrew: You get your weapon back?

Ethan: Your weapons and all your health and stuff back.

Andrew: So Jason summons the Dinozord and the Dinozord sequence is just so cool, no matter how many times I see it. They immediately go Megazord, which is the preferable option. They don’t mess around with tank mode. Ticklesneezer opens his bottle and captures the Power Rangers. Somehow they use the Mega Sword to escape. It’s not really explained. They also, I think, call it by the wrong- the Mega Sword.

Ethan: Yeah, not the Power Sword.

Andrew: Right. They call it the Mega Sword, which was, again, a weird thing. The Rangers then use- attempt to use the bottle to collect Rita. Now, in every shot of the Megazord, there is just an unexplained Japanese boy standing next to the Megazord.

Nelson: There was a child there! I was- ohhhh my god!

Ethan: I didn’t notice this.

Nelson: You didn’t notice? There’s a whole kid!

Andrew: In every shot of the Megazord, there’s a Japanese boy standing next to him, and he’s like waist-height on the Megazord. So this is a giant child. There is a giant child.

Nelson: Yeah! Yeah!

Ethan: I completely missed the giant child.

Nelson: Oh yeah, you go back, you’re going to be like, “Wait, what, huh?”

Andrew: And obviously, this is because they just didn’t edit the kid out of the mask footage, but it’s just such a weird thing in this episode that already feels really slapdash.

Nelson: Which I think explains why they added the last scene, because they realized, ooh, we f***ed up.

Andrew: Yeah, we’re not doing it over again.

Nelson: We got to explain why this is so weird.

Andrew: So at this point, Ticklesneezer has many bottles, not just one. Up to this point, he’s only been shown with one bottle, and sometimes it’s full, and sometimes it’s empty. But now he’s just opening a bunch of bottles, and they’re all different sizes, and he’s releasing the bullet train and Tokyo Tower and-

Ethan: All the other normal California stuff.

Andrew: Yeah, the other normal California stuff. And Kimmy is weirdly maternal to him, and is like, “You better put it all back!”

Nelson: Let it go~…

Andrew: Cool, so all of that was real weird. And then we have a close-up on Trini sleeping. And we were given this implication that it was all a dream, right? And she wakes up, and she looks, and Mr. Ticklesneezer is gone. And so we have that horror movie moment of, ‘Oh, it wasn’t all a dream.’ And then the camera pans down, and Mr. Ticklesneezer is just on the floor. So Trini has rats, apparently, that have knocked her doll off of her dresser.
And then to round out the episode, normally we would make fun of Bulk and Skull again. This time we go back to the classroom, and they show off their flea circus, and the teacher is infested with fleas. And I thought it was a nice ending that we didn’t make fun of Bulk and Skull.

Ethan: Yeah, it’s interesting to note that actually both of their first names are given in this episode.

Andrew: Yeah, I’ve got that written here in my notes.

Ethan: Farkas and Eugene, and this is such an old guy joke, of a flea circus? I mean, I know what they are just because, you know, I listened to swing music, or I don’t know. Or like I watched Disney’s Antz that has a flea running a circus, and maybe I-

Nelson: No, that was A Bug’s Life.

Ethan: Oh, that was A Bug’s Life.

Nelson: Yeah, A Bug’s Life, yeah.

Ethan: What did I say? Disney’s Antz? That’s Dreamworks!

Nelson: Yeah, that’s Dreamworks.

Ethan: Totally wrong. Totally wrong. No fleas in Antz.

Andrew: The basic idea, though, with your flea circus is that it was a mechanical circus. It was a clockwork thing. And the idea was that you said, “Oh, no, I have trained fleas to operate all of this equipment.” So it’s like a really weird double half joke.

Ethan: That you can tell was written by old guys. Which, I mean, I don’t know, maybe that fits with Bulk and Skull’s character. Like, maybe they like, live with their grandparents rather than their parents. And so they’re into, like, hokey old stuff.

Nelson: Well, you’ll see later that they do live with their parents. We meet their parents in a later episode.

Ethan: Oh. Maybe their parents are just really, really old school. I mean, I don’t know.

Nelson: That might track.

Andrew: All right, so my first thought going into this episode. I’ve had a lot going on in the last, like, month. I opened a bookstore and as a byproduct of that, this episode was the longest gap I’ve had since we started this, between watching episodes, and after having taken a break away from Power Rangers for a few weeks and coming back to it.
This was also the first episode I watched on my TV instead of at my desk. So the first episode I watched with, like, a proper sound system instead of at a computer. And the intro to Power Rangers is just so good.

Nelson: Yeah, it gets me every time.

Andrew: It’s incredible. The theme song is magnificent. And that was the first thing that stood out to me, which just how good that was. Yeah, I mean, it’s incredible. OK, so for me, this episode was a really mixed bag. On the one hand, it had some of the best sequences from an episode of Power Rangers so far. On the other hand, it was all a dream. And I hate that.

Nelson: Yeah, I hate that kind of cop out in an episode.

Andrew: So according to the Power Rangers Wiki, through BreezeWiki, and they actually referenced an interview that I read in its entirety, that all being a dream was a last minute addition. They brought in a second and third writer to try and salvage this thing because they just didn’t like how it was going. And it was a cop out. It was a last minute, we’re going to throw this- and it didn’t work.
As I said earlier, I really appreciated that Bulk and Skull weren’t the object of the final joke. I loved seeing Rita on the ground during the battle. It was it was like actually really thrilling for her to be a part of things. And she made the whole battle sequence that much more menacing. But it was just a dream, apparently. And this implies that Trini knows the- or has imagined the exact layout of Rita’s palace.

Ethan: …Yeah.

Andrew: As you mentioned, this is the episode where we learned that Bulk and Skull are named Farkas and Eugene.

Ethan: I don’t remember if we mentioned on air that Farkas is the Hungarian word for wolf.

Nelson: Yeah, we did.

Ethan: Like that’s a pretty badass first name, last name, Bulkmeier. So like-

Andrew: Big wolf!

Ethan: It’s a pretty solid name. Bulkmeier is made up, but it’s pretty good. Eugene, there’s no saving Eugene. I’m sorry. Just stick with Skull. You’ll be fine.

Andrew: I did also write down on my notes: I think that this is the first time that the blue monster shows up in Rita’s entourage. According to the wiki, his name is Squat, and he was my favorite as a child.

Nelson: Yeah, the vampire thing.

Andrew: Yeah.

Nelson: No, he was in the…

Ethan: So there’s…

Nelson: He was in the episode with the chicken.

Andrew: No, the chubby blue monster.

Ethan: Yeah, that’s Squat. So he has been around, but this is definitely the most active he has been. So he and Baboo are like a troll and a vampire. And they are just sort of bumbling, hapless, helpless goons. I mean, you know, you’ve got Goldar or Grifforzer as your like actual muscle. He’s the actually scary one. He’s got a big sword. He’s based on a manticore, apparently. They’re very sort of yakety sax. Run around like headless chickens, like… But this- he actually was given a mission and did the thing, which was cool.

Andrew: Yeah. That’s all I got. What did you think of this episode, Ethan?

Ethan: I mean, I’m a little less upset by the ending. I mean, I think there’s still some ambiguity there. Like, Ticklesneezer fell on his own accord because he’s still got a little bit of that magic juice left in him. And, you know, sometimes when you wake up, you’re not sure which things that you’ve experienced are real and a dream. I’ve definitely had dreams that felt extremely vivid and real, and been through real life things that felt like a dream. So I think there’s a little bit more ambiguity there. And but I mean, I think in general that it was all a dream is a cop out, and is not a great way to tidy up your episode. But sitcom people love it for whatever reason, or soap opera, or whatever.
I have so many questions about Trini’s home life and like, she lives in this really nice, beautiful Victorian house, but she wears like an old granny nightdress to sleep, which seems weird for a 17 year old girl in California in 1992 or 3. And then just all the dolls. There’s dozens of them and they are all over the walls in her room. I just have a lot of questions about that.

Andrew: Did you ever meet my great grandmother?

Ethan: No.

Andrew: Okay.

Ethan: Well, I might have met her once or twice, in passing, briefly.

Andrew: So when I was little, I spent a lot of time at my great grandmother’s house. And she was, obviously, an old lady, but she was living on her own. Her husband had passed away shortly before I was born. And so she spent the last like 25 years of her life working, driving to work every day. And she had more money than she needed to live on.
And so what she did when she had extra money is she bought dolls. And her whole house was full of dolls. And there were rooms that were just floor to ceiling dolls on tiered shelving. And they were terrifying.

Nelson: Yeah, that sounds unpleasant.

Ethan: Yeah, my mom had one, and it had the the eyes that tilt depending on how you move the doll.

Nelson: Oh, I hate that. Big nope on that man.

Ethan: (mimicking his mom) “It’s not creepy, it’s cute! I loved playing with this when I was a kid!” Keep it. Keep it.

Nelson: Keep that and keep those.

Andrew: All right, Nelson, how about you? What did you think of this episode?

Nelson: Oh, man, besides the weirdly semi-racist doll, I liked it.
I like that Billy was playing fixer a lot in this, you know, helping Trini find her doll, helped her with her keys, for some reason. She’s got a little pom pom on her- little yellow pom pom on her keys, so that was nice. Little nice touches like that, besides the fact that they wear their colors all the time. But yeah, the dream thing, total cop out, big, big cop out there. Yeah. So the fact that there’s just a kid in the in the whole kaiju sequence.

Andrew: I’m really looking forward to seeing this mask footage in context.

Nelson: I mean, even when you like you go back and see it, there’s just-

Andrew: He’s just standing there.

Nelson: There’s just a kid, just standing there.

Andrew: Yeah, and he’s Megazord-sized.

Nelson: It’s just- he’s just standing next to the Megazord.

Ethan: I completely missed that. I don’t know how I completely missed that.

Nelson: Yeah, because they cut back to it like more than once. Like, because the first time I thought I was like, “Mm, I’m trippin.” because I was, you know, I was eating breakfast while I was watching it. So I was like, ah, maybe I missed this. I went back. No, there’s a whole kid. He’s just there.

Andrew: I don’t know that I would have noticed it if I if I was watching it on at my desk on my computer, but like, watching it on my big TV. Like this was a life-sized child just standing in my living room. I’m going to see if the wiki has a picture of it.

Ethan: Oh! Yeah! No, he’s just right there!

Andrew: He’s just right there!

Ethan: Who is this child? I don’t remember the Fairy Dondon episode at all. Which one is he in? Let me see. That’s not till episode 14, which is called “Become Small!” And I don’t remember it at all.

Nelson: This episode with Fairy Dondon is going to be interesting. Maybe everything shrinks except for where they are?

Ethan: That’s what the bottle, the magic bottle, does, is it shrinks things into it.

Nelson: So yeah, maybe they were like in there with, I don’t know.
It was very weird. But yeah, other than that, I will give this episode a six out of 10. Who’s got the research today?

Ethan: Okay, so my research topic today is kind of three mini-topics put together.

Nelson: Research sandwich.

Ethan: Yeah, a little research sandwich. So I’ve got the cockatrice, the Garden of the Hesperides and the Garden of Eden. I’m just so intrigued by the mythology remix going on in this episode and the next one. So the first thing we have is the cockatrice. The word first shows up in English in the 14th century as a stand-in for snakes in the Bible, with the etymology tracing back through old French and Latin to Greek. But the Greek word actually seems to refer to like a mongoose-like creature that’s an enemy of dragons and snakes.
The cockatrice and the basilisk have often been conflated with one another, with various different recipes resulting in either a cockatrice or a basilisk, such as hatching a chicken’s egg under a toad for a basilisk or under a snake for a cockatrice. It pretty much has nothing to do with the other two parts of this segment, the Garden of the Hesperides or the Garden of Eden, and has even less historical precedents than like, a sphinx, for example.
It’s been like a popular mythical monster since that point. But tales of the sphinx or of the hydra or Cerberus go back, you know, 2000 years. So the cockatrice is a really, really weird one. It’s supposed to have like the body of a chicken and the wings of a dragon or a bat and like a snake’s tail and can breathe fire or turn you to stone or who knows what.

Andrew: I just thought it was a funky chicken.

Ethan: Yeah, no, that’s a chunky chicken. So next part, the Garden of the Hesperides is a location detailed in the 12 Labors of Heracles, where Heracles must go to obtain three golden apples to fulfill his 11th labor. The garden is tended by three, or sometimes four, or maybe seven goddesses or nymphs, known as the Hesperides and also guarded by a dragon called Ladon.
In some versions of the myth, Heracles convinces the Titan Atlas to retrieve the apples for him, as in some versions of the myth, Atlas is the father of the Hesperides. But in other versions, Heracles goes to the Garden himself and slays Ladon to take the golden apples. The Argonauts would also later visit the Garden. This is pretty clearly the inspiration for the heavenly orchard that the Apello Tribe once tended. So like nothing about the garden of Eden deals with golden fruit. So the Garden of the Hesperides is where the golden fruit part comes from. But there’s no tribe of people who tends to them. They’re just goddesses or nymphs. And sometimes, I mean, if you read the Wikipedia article, you’ll see they have like eight different possible parentages, depending on which version of the myth you’re reading. So it’s not that important.
But lastly, we have the Garden of Eden, which probably most of the listeners of this podcast will be familiar with, but the Garden of Eden is where the God of Abraham is said to have created the first two humans in a state of grace and perfect innocence, instructing them only to never eat the fruit of knowledge. A serpent convinces them to eat the fruit anyway, and they are cast out, having lost their innocence, bearing knowledge of good and evil. In Zyuranger, Dora Cockatrice plays the part of the serpent, which fits one of its possible origins as being hatched under a snake. But the fruit is the golden fruit of the Hesperides, not the fruit of knowledge of good and evil.
This mishmash of myth and tradition is fascinating to me because it demonstrates a difference in perspective. To the Japanese creators of Super Sentai, Greek myth, Abrahamic tradition, and a made-up monster with scant historical references are all sort of on equal ground as far as inspiration for their story goes. There’s not a lot of remixing of Abrahamic and specifically Christian mythos in this country, especially because evangelicals absolutely lose their minds if someone makes Jesus a character in a video game or something. Another really interesting example of this is the manga and anime Saint Young Men, which features Jesus and Buddha as modern-day roommates. I am just intrigued by the process.

Nelson: Oh, so it’s like that MTV show with the… You know what I’m talking about? Where they’ve got JFK and Gandhi.

Ethan: Oh, Clone High.

Nelson: Clone High, yeah!

Ethan: It’s not like Clone High.

Nelson: Well, I will check it out while I’m working on this episode.

Andrew: I mean, that’s- my apologies for the third Dragon Ball reference in this episode, but that’s also how Dragon Ball kind of comes into existence.

Ethan: It does a lot of stuff like that.

Andrew: It’s Journey to the West. It’s Journey to the West, filtered through pop culture, with a bunch of other bits of mythology thrown in and then a bunch of sci-fi nonsense and stuff that came out of Toriyama’s head. But it starts off with that same kind of mythological underpinning. I made the connection to Eden when I was watching this one. Like, yeah, they ate the apple. They got turned into monkeys. That’s weird. But I did not make the connection back to the Labors of Heracles, which I guess is a really obvious connection to make when you remember that it’s a golden apple. How much further are we going to go with the golden apple metaphor? Do we have a Helen of Troy?

Ethan: No. So that’s interesting that you mentioned that, though, because Eris’s apple of discord comes from this- in some versions of the myth, comes from this orchard. Sometimes it’s one tree. Sometimes it’s an orchard. Sometimes it’s Hera’s orchard.

Andrew: The only other reference I have in my head for this orchard is Eris.

Ethan: I don’t think this particular facet of myth comes back to feature, but again, I could be wrong. I’ve completely, like I mentioned earlier, have completely forgotten the context of Fairy Dondon. Or why there’s a Megazord-sized boy in that episode. But yeah, just the way that the creators of Super Sentai feel comfortable taking these bits of Abrahamic myth, when that would never happen in this country. Anytime somebody makes, like, Dante’s Inferno video game or, I mean, what’s- I’m sure you have an example of…

Andrew: I’ve got an example. I’ve got, I think, what is the exception here. Do you remember Bedazzled?

Ethan: Did that have, what was Sabrina’s, Sabrina the Teenage Witch’s actress?

Andrew: I don’t think so. It had Brendan Frasier.

Ethan: Oh, and Elizabeth Hurley!

Andrew: Yeah, and Elizabeth Hurley.

Ethan: I don’t think I’ve ever actually watched that movie, but I’ve looked at the cover.

Andrew: Okay, so it came out in, like, 2001 or 2000, and the basic premise is Elizabeth Hurley is the Christian devil, and she gives Brendan Frasier seven wishes to make his life better. And along the way, he meets Jesus, apparently, who is just, like, a dude he meets in prison? Yeah, so point being, every once in a while, somebody will try it and get away with it. Not mixing, but at least making light of. And this movie was wildly successful, but it really had to toe a line, and there was massive outrage.

Ethan: Oh, yeah.

Nelson: Movie sounds awesome.

Andrew: Have you seen it?

Nelson: No, but I’m gonna watch this. Jesus is just a guy in prison?

Andrew: Yeah.

Nelson: Wow.

Andrew: For an early 2000s, very broad comedy, it holds up surprisingly well.

Nelson: Sounds fun.

Ethan: I watched The Devil’s Advocate not that long ago.

Nelson: Oh, I love that movie!

Ethan: With Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves being [drawls] a simple country lawyer. And I felt like that had such a cool, fun take on the devil and demons.

Andrew: When did that come out?

Ethan: ’97.

Andrew: Okay, so it’s interesting, because there was this time period, roughly, you know, 96, 97, up through like 2003 or so, where you could get away with that kind of thing. Did you see The Order? With…

Ethan: With Heath Ledger.

Andrew: Yeah, Heath Ledger.

Nelson: No, I know about it, but I haven’t seen it, no.

Andrew: It’s like half the crew from A Knight’s Tale, playing excommunicated Catholic priests who are searching for the Antichrist in order to enable one of their friends to not go to hell. It’s like, this dark psychological thriller with a bunch of demons in it. It was really good.

Nelson: Sounds pretty good.

Andrew: But, you know, so there was this time period where you could kind of sort of get away with playing with these Christian themes in your work. Matthew McConaughey’s Frailty comes out around the same time period where McConaughey is playing-

Ethan: I’m not familiar.

Andrew: Frailty, McConaughey is playing a man who has been touched by God. He has received the word of God.

Nelson: Where’d God touch him?

Andrew: And God has instructed him to go kill demons. And so Matthew McConaughey spends the movie just going around, taking a pickaxe to just random people on the street. And so you’re getting all of this from an interview with one of the main characters, who’s a police officer, and like, he’s recounting his version of these murders. And [McConaughey’s character]’s like, “No, they were all demons. God will protect me.” And as the audience, you’re like, oh, this is just a straight serial killer.
But as the movie wears on, you get more and more of the supernatural element creeping in. And like, this again was right in that same pocket where you could kind of get away with that. And you know, having grown up with that, I don’t really think about it too much when stuff like this comes up. But I cannot imagine any of those movies coming out today. Our political climate has gotten so polarized and specifically the religious contingent has gotten so loud. I grew up in a religious household. We had no Pokemon because Pokemon was the devil. You know?

Ethan: No, we grew up in the time of Harry Potter being the most Satanic thing anybody could think of, despite the fact that they celebrate Easter and Christmas, at the school, in the books every year.

Nelson: That’s weird.

Ethan: Yeah.

Nelson Yeah, that’s a…

Ethan: I mean, media literacy in like, an older segment of the population of this country really started crashing around 2000.

Andrew: 2001.

Ethan: And then like 9/11 happened and everybody lost their f***ing minds.

Nelson: there’s Y2K, 9/11.

Ethan: And it has not improved an iota since then.

Nelson: You know, people wonder how we got to 2016.

Andrew: I don’t want to go too far-

Nelson: Yeah, this is a Power Rangers podcast.

Andrew: I don’t want to go too far away from Power Rangers, but how many other like early 90s children’s properties have you revisited as an adult?

Ethan: Some, I would say definitely some.

Andrew: Yeah. Have either of you watched Pete and Pete?

Ethan: No.

Nelson: Dude, yeah! Okay, because it’s got the greatest theme song ever.

Andrew: “Hey, Sandy.”

Nelson: Yeah, by Polaris. I was just playing it one day and Xander’s like, “Oh, you like Pete and Pete?” And I was like, “The f*** are you talking about, man?” And he’s just like, “This is the theme song to Pete and Pete.” And I was like, this? This was a theme song to a television show?

Andrew: There’s lots of examples that I could use here. But I think Pete and Pete is the most salient one.

Nelson: The Adventures of Pete and Pete.

Andrew: This show was good. It was a very well-crafted show that kind of relished in the fact that they could be a little more absurd than they could be for an adult television show. But it never talked down to the kids that were watching it. It was a kind of post-modern surrealist masterpiece that was masquerading as a children’s program. We got stuff like that when we were kids. We also got Power Rangers. And like these two things existed in the same year, but on a weird kind of spectrum where Power Rangers was very brash and loud and fast and was there to sell toys. And Pete and Pete was somehow just like, art happening on TV.

Nelson: Yeah, it was a show about two dudes.

Andrew: Two brothers, both named Pete, for some reason. The younger one has a tattoo. Again, no real explanation given. Their mom has a plate in her head, with which she can pick up radio signals, and this is a plot point on multiple occasions. But Pete and Pete at its heart was about the fact that kids should be trusted and adults should not. And the older I get, the more it’s true.

Nelson: Yeah, I mean, trust me, I’m an adult.

Andrew: I should not be trusted.

Nelson: Don’t trust me.

Ethan: We kind of- we’re living now like- we’re sort of watching the TikTok hearings in Congress happen. And trying to explain to a 70 or 80 year old senator what TikTok is. And that’s when they’re not being actively racist, and like confronting the Singaporean CEO.

Nelson: “Do you have any ties to China?” “I’m from Singapore.”

Andrew: “Are you a member of the Chinese Communist Party?”

Nelson: “I’m from Singapore.” And it’s like, oh my God.

Ethan: This is the environment that we’re in and the environment we’ve been in for many years now.

Andrew: But there was a brief window-

Nelson: Yeah, we were so close.

Andrew: -from shortly before we were born, until around the time that we were coming of age where that is not how media was. And where something like this, something like this playing of Christian mythology alongside Greek mythology, that might have flown. You might have gotten away with it even in a children’s program. And Pete and Pete certainly plays with the idea of God on multiple occasions. And like, even the Rugrats do it every once in a while.

Nelson: They had a whole like, Jewish holiday episode.

Andrew: Multiples, yeah.

Ethan: I would really like to hear like a Jewish perspective, retrospective on Rugrats.

Andrew: Sure.

Nelson: Yeah, there are a couple of good ones on YouTube that I’ve seen.

Ethan: But like I’m thinking of Greed from Fullmetal Alchemist. Gets nailed to a chunk of floor at one point and transported back to his creator. And he is stapled to the floor. So in the Japanese version, he’s just- they just cut out the floor around him. So naturally it’s cross shaped; that’s just the shape that humans are. But in the localization, the English localization, they made an effort to fill in that space around it, so it specifically wouldn’t look like a crucifix. And it’s just- what difference does it make? It’s clearly- he’s not any kind of a Christ analog. He’s a really bad dude actually. But just it’s the climate in this country for decades now has been so touchy that like even going close to that Christian imagery, people will start to lose their mind.

Andrew: Did you ever watch the West Wing?

Nelson: Well, hold on, hold on. This is going to go on for days.

Andrew: Give me 30 seconds. You ever watched the West Wing? The whole show is just kind of really cheesy and somebody’s-

Nelson: Lotta walking and talking.

Andrew: But it’s somebody’s like idealized fantasy version of what politics-

Ethan: A friend of mine called it the platonic ideal of the American presidency. And that made a lot of sense to me.

Nelson: That’s beautiful.

Andrew: But Bartlett’s character, on more than one occasion, has to confront conservative Christians and confronts them and calls them out. And like it’s some of the few moments in the show that I think really stand up, you know?

Ethan: That first episode is a masterpiece.

Andrew: But then like, again, here we are two decades on. I can’t think of any show in recent years that has accurately portrayed the Christian church as the villains that they often are.

Ethan: They were the bad guys in a Far Cry game. But I don’t- it was like some cult in Kansas or something. I don’t know enough about it to really comment on it.

Andrew: All right, that’s that’s our episode.

Nelson: Do we have any announcements to close with before we depart?

Ethan: I don’t think so.

Andrew: Yeah, we’ve got one.

Nelson: Yeah, we got one! Bookstore’s open. Go to the bookstore.

Andrew: So everybody, you can find Hemlock Bazaar at HemlockBazaar.com. This is our new bookstore in downtown Ellijay and online. Books, records, pretty soon, manga and lots of movies and stuff.

Nelson: Yes.

Andrew: I’m really excited about it.

Nelson: Come to the bazaaaaaaar.

Andrew: I’ve worked on it a lot. That’s Hemlock Bazaar, B-A-Z-A-A-R, you know, like a marketplace, not like a weird person. Let’s do an outro.

Nelson: Right.

Ethan: We’ll be back next time to discuss episodes 10 of Zyuranger, “Saru wa mou iya (Monkeys No More)”, or “No More Monkey Business,” depending on who you ask. And Power Rangers, “Happy Birthday, Zack.” If you’ve enjoyed the show, please feel free to send me $5. And if you want to find me online, don’t. But you can follow the show on the Fediverse at KenkyuuSentaiPodcastRangers@Meet.CommunityMedia.Network. Andrew, how can people get in touch and what should they look out for?

Andrew: Yeah, you can find me @AJRoach42@Retro.Social on The Fediverse. And you should look out for my bookstore, which is now real. We’ve also got a couple of new albums coming out from Analog Revolution, most contemporarily with the release of this podcast should be Small.

Nelson: Small, the band.

Andrew: Yeah, Small, the band. Their first LP is going to be out from the Lightning Limited series from Analog Revolution and it slaps.

Nelson: Nice.

Ethan: Nelson, how about your shout outs?

Nelson: Hoo, well, go watch Working Class Music. You can watch it on this here network, where you’re watching this podcast. They’ve been getting me on more episodes lately. I don’t know why they keep wanting me to be on camera.

Andrew: I saw you playing guitar.

Nelson: Yeah, I got featured on PRS’s website and their Instagram.

Ethan: That’s cool.

Nelson: Yeah, so everybody’s dad knows who I am now.

Andrew: So when are we doing another Jon Thefruitman show?

Nelson: Oh, man, you didn’t get a John Thefruitman show to begin with.

Andrew: No, I got a Holders show and you broke two amps.

Nelson: Ah, phew, cause I rocked so f***ing hard

Andrew: That, you will also be able to catch New Ellijay Television soon.

Nelson: Hopefully we can edit out the bad parts. Make it good because it was quite…

Andrew: The man destroyed two amps and a pedal board.

Nelson: It was quite a sight. Yeah, but that’s it for me. I think that’s it for the podcast. We’ll be back next week with all the stuff that Ethan said.

Andrew: Two weeks.

Nelson: Two weeks.

Ethan: That’s all the show we have for you today. Thank you so much for listening and thanks also to Hurly-Burly and the Volcanic Fallout for the use of their song “Colossal Might (Totally Radical Instrumental Version)” for our intro and outro music. Kenkyuu Sentai Podcast Rangers is licensed CC-BY-SA and produced in collaboration with New Ellijay Television at the Ellijay Makerspace, which stands on the ancestral, unceded, stolen, and occupied lands of the Cherokee people. You can learn more about the Makerspace by visiting EllijayMakerspace.org and you can learn more about the Cherokee people by visiting Cherokee.org. Strength, love, and solidarity to all oppressed people and in the words of a wise man, “F*** capitalism; go home.””

Nelson: Woo!

Andrew: Alright.

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