Interviews – Daniel Southworth – Time Force Quantum Ranger

This is Eric, the Quantum Ranger, and you're

listening to From the Command Center. Q -Rex,

arise! Time Force! Time Force! Power Rangers!

Hello and welcome to yet another interview here

on From the Command Center. I am one of your

hosts, TF Joe and Mike, from the Geekcast Radio

Network. And joining me is Scotty Cash from Cop

Culture Network. Hello, sir. What's going on,

buddy? Not much. We just got another awesome

interview. We just finished our Time Force episode,

which I'll be sending this person a link so they

can hear our Time Force review. Joining us here

on From the Command Center is the one, the only,

Quantum Ranger, Daniel Southworth. Hey, Dan,

how are you? Yo, yo, yo. Does that mean good?

Yes. Yo, yo, yo means good. All right, got it.

There's a certain Power Rangers series that uses

a yo -yo, a soccer ball, a bowling ball as a

weapon. Really? Yeah. Well, not a yo -yo. They

use an armadillo -zord as a soccer ball and a

bowling ball. Type of weapon in Wild Force. Interesting.

Yes, Wild Force. Very interesting. So before

we get started in the general questions we usually

have, give us the scoop on what is going on in

the world of Daniel Southworth. What have you

been up to? I know you've got an upcoming project

called Divergence. What else have you been up

to before we get into the details of Divergence?

I just got back from Atlanta. I was filming a

J .J. Abrams pilot out there. Sweet. Nice. Everybody

seems very hopeful that it'll get picked up and

turned into a show. When and if it does, I'll

be able to talk about it then. Other than that,

that's all I can say. Ninja Gaiden 3 just came

out. I did all of the motion for Ninja Gaiden.

I was Ryu Hayabusa. I guess they hired somebody

else to do the voice months ahead of time, but

they asked me if I would do the movements. I,

you know, of course, was flattered. So I enjoyed

doing the work that we did on Ninja Gaiden 3.

As far as the game, I hope it pleases its fans.

Other than that... You know, I work as an actor

when work comes along, sometimes as a stud man.

There's a Disney show called Kicking It, and

I come in. They bring me in there to do the wire

rigging for them and the wire work, and then

also they get a little bonus. They'll throw me

in as a bad guy. So you'll see me on episodes

periodically of Kicking It, a Disney show. And

that keeps me busy. I'll have to watch for that

because I have a 10 -year -old and a 4 -year

-old, and we watch everything on Disney and Nickelodeon

constantly. It's Disney XD. I'll have to watch

for it. Yeah, I know what the kick in it is.

Yeah, so I believe one of the episodes that I

just did aired two days ago. So anyway, you know,

I try to stay busy. Other than that, a lot of

time is devoted to training to stay sharp. And

some of the whatever time left over is that I

have left over is for my hobbies, the things

that I like to do for myself, which is build

furniture and play my guitar badly, very badly.

But someday it'll it'll be OK, you know, and

read and do the things that I do other than that.

Awesome. Very awesome. So you just finished and

I wasn't mad. But I was like, oh, no. I'm always

the person that if someone else gets an interview

with one person that I want to interview next

up or whatever else, I usually have to wait.

I usually like to wait at least a year away because

they're going to give essentially the same answers.

And I noticed that you just did an interview

over at NoPinkSpandex .com. That's correct. Their

NoPinkSpandex Live is coming up next weekend,

April 26th and 27th. Yes. 27th and 28th, that's

what it is. 27th and 28th. And I was like, when

Lisa posted that on Twitter, I'm like, damn it.

She's such a jerk. She's cool. So for those of

you who didn't listen to that interview, which

I will also post in the web post for this one,

where did you grow up? Let everybody know what

was Dan Southworth like as a kid? Oh, man. This

is no pink spandex all over again. No, let's

not do no pink spandex all over again. No, I'll

give you a little bit more or something a little

bit different. So there will be more information

there if you listen to both shows. So anyway,

I grew up in Northern California. Grew up in

Monterey. My recollection of Monterey was of

me wandering down around Fisherman's Wharf and

all over the place, but I think I was only four

or five years old, and I can't understand for

the life of me why my mother let me wander around

like that. But I have lots of memories of various

adventures. is from Monterey and I didn't spend

a lot of time there. Eventually we moved to San

Jose when I was around five or six and that's

where I grew up until I left around 21, 22 years

old to come to Los Angeles. I was in lots of

trouble. I would climb all over things. I'm surprised

I never broke a bone in my body for as many times

as I had fallen on. I fell on my head a few times.

I got into all kinds of trouble, both in San

Jose and Monterey, climbing trees, climbing houses,

climbing fences, balancing on stuff. I think

it was a pretty clear indication that I was going

to be a stuntman or at least work in action some

way or another early on. A little bit of a daredevil

and did some dumb things too. Drank some gasoline,

had to get my stomach pumped. Oh, wow. Yeah,

the very first thing you did for stunts was Martial

Law, the TV series. Wow. That was the first official

stunt job, but I had worked a few jobs before

that. A lot of independent shows. Every stuntman

does that when they're coming up. They need to

work as many non -union jobs as they can to get

experience, and then eventually they have enough

experience, they're savvy on set, and somebody

trusts them to hire them for a show. That's what

happened with me. So did you go to school to

be a stuntman for – how many years did you go

to? There's no school for stunts here in Hollywood.

It's surprising because you'll find places that

you can go to learn the craft and the trade in

Japan, in Hong Kong, in Canada. But in Hollywood

– In America, somebody takes you under their

wing. And usually people that get into stunts

are people who were experts in a particular sport

or field before they get into stunts. So some

people raced cars. Some people rode motorcycles.

I happened to do martial arts and acrobatics.

And I competed in the martial arts circuit doing

self -defense choreography. So when I came to

Los Angeles, I was... I had the skill sets that

I needed to do shows like Martial Law, which

was where I met this guy, Andy Chang, who used

to be one of Jackie Chan's choreographers and

a part of his team. He went on to direct and

action direct and still does a lot of shows.

And I became his sort of right -hand man for

about – there were two of us. There was me and

one other guy. And he's writing and producing

now. But the two of us were sort of his right

-hand guys for like seven, eight years. And that

was something I decided to do because if I wanted

to be somebody who was going to be really good

at action and following the footsteps of some

of the action greats like Jet Li, Jackie Chan,

Sammo Hung, then I figured I had to put in some

time actually being a stuntman, which is what

Jackie Chan did and Sammo Hung. And as a result,

I got a chance to work with all three of those

guys. That's awesome. That's a bit of a tangent

from the answer to the question, how did I grow

up. That's okay. We like tangents. One of the

things I noticed just looking at your IMDb here,

you got to work with Pam Anderson, VIP in 2001

as Reynaldo. Yeah, I was a stunt guy who was,

you know, who. It was known that I was wanting

to be an actor. So when you're a stunt guy and

you also want to act, they'll throw you the lines

and they'll let you audition for co -star roles

and stuff when they need those guys to do action

and die in big explosions or get hit by cars,

stuff like that. So I got an opportunity to audition

for the role and got the role. I got to tell

you, though, I only saw Pam Anderson once in

passing. She was, I think, sunbathing out in

front of her trailer. Well, that's the best way

to see her. Yeah, right. And that was about it.

I worked with the other actress, Molly, much

more because my character, my co -star role was

centered around her storyline. So we worked together

quite a bit. But no Pam Anderson. Sorry, guys.

You want to talk about your web series a little

bit, Daniel? Yeah, Divergence is a sci -fi action

series, and we've got 10 episodes that we shot.

We will plan to start releasing the episodes

very shortly, sometime this year. We're just

waiting for a final sound mix, the finishing

touches, and then we'll be ready to release.

And if it does well... We'll finish out the season,

and we will produce season two. We've got about

four or five other shows that we'd like to produce

as well, and we're hoping that Divergence does

really well for us. It looks great. It has great

production value, and I'm hoping it's going to

shine well when we release it. I'm sure it will.

Are these your buddies? I mean who came up with

this idea? The director and the writer, he and

I sat down three years ago when I was starting

to hear about people doing things for the internet.

And back then it was just comedies and it still

primarily is comedy variety show types. That's

sort of the model that's successful on the internet.

So I said to him, let's do a scripted action

show because I have a lot of experience doing

action. I can do it quick. I know who to hire.

And at first we thought we'd just have him running

the camera, me and another actor, and we'd just

do this really simple show. Well, it turned into

a much bigger production as we sat down and started

to develop the story because the story started

to get really interesting and excite us. And

that meant we had to invest more in the story

to make it as awesome as we felt it could be.

That's good. So I ended up casting actors that

could do their own action. I went through a long

process. I did have my friends audition as well.

Everybody had to audition. They had to both pass

my quality requirements and the director's. And

we wanted to make sure that we hired real actors,

not just people with good experience and good

craft. And the action actually became secondary

to the story and the acting. And so we got lucky

with one of the actresses. She's an amazing actress

and great at the action. And then I was able

to fill in the rest of the cast with stunt guys

and actors that have the ability to do both,

action and acting. And pretty soon we had a very

capable cast. And we went out and we shot the

show, and it was great. That's good. So you got

ten episodes. down? And what's the release date?

Do you guys have a set release date yet? We don't

have a set release date because we're a small

production company. And one thing we wanted to

say to ourselves is we can't run ourselves like

a normal production company. Not yet. We don't

have the worth all yet. If the show does really

well, we'll be able to hire a staff and start

releasing stuff a lot more quickly. But right

now, we have to wait until the quality of what

we are building, what we are crafting and creating

is within what actually matches our standards

and is what we're hoping the show to be like.

So that means we're not just slamming scenes

together in a quick edit and then pumping them

out. We had to take time to find an editor that

could work with us that's very talented, and

we did find one. And that meant, though, that

we were beholden to his schedule. because he's

very busy doing other movies. We've had a great

music composer, Brandon Roberts, and we sort

of had to wait and make our schedule accommodate

his. And I've got to say, he accommodated us

more than we accommodated him. And the same thing

goes with our sound mixer. We're waiting for

him. So it just means that we have to take time

because we don't have the wherewithal to just

dump a bunch of cash on people and go, hey, do

this now. And I prefer it that way anyway because

you get... Throughout the whole production of

this series, even when we were producing, when

we first started shooting, we were going to try

to shoot all 12 episodes in nine days. And then

we had a few schedule conflicts, and I made the

decision just to shoot six episodes and then

come back later and shoot six more. I'm sorry,

shoot the other four, along with pickups. So

that's been a very important lesson from that

moment on. because the stuff we were getting

back was looking great, and the acting was great,

and the picture and the sound quality and the

action. So we realized right then and there,

this is how we have to operate until we have

the wherewithal. to put a big team together and

start giving ourselves deadlines. That being

said, we're still forcing ourselves to try to

finish this stuff and get it out quickly. We

still impose deadlines on ourselves, but it's

not the end of the world if we can't make our

deadline. However, we would like to get this

show out in the next month. We'd like to get

this show out and viewed. We have a few people

that think... The show is very good and that

some of these other companies are going to want

to buy it. So we're going to have to go through

that process next. After we get enough of the

episode sound mixed to the level of quality that

we prefer, I'll be trying to take some meetings.

And there's a few contacts that I have that are

waiting to hear from me. And it's very possible

a company might buy this. That'd be awesome.

Yeah, if that happens, we'll just have to let

everybody know on the website that we've been

picked up by a company. And that just means that

the show is going to be that much better. I got

to tell you, I think it's pretty damn good as

is. And any company that buys it probably isn't

going to invest any more into the process of

finishing the show. It looks great. It sounds

great already. They'll probably invest in continuing

the series. And that's just good news. So without

spoiling the entire plot of the series, give

us the basic, just run -down description of what

Divergence is all about. Military intelligence

officer comes back from the war. He is diagnosed

with a form of PTSD. He's paranoid. He thinks

people are following him. Post -traumatic stress

disorder, that's what PTSD is. So he decides

to act on it and attack one of these guys that

he thinks is following him, and it turns out

some weird stuff happens. He chases the guy down.

The guy disappears into thin air. Did he really

disappear into thin air, or is he hallucinating?

Is it a function of his post -traumatic stress

disorder? But he finds a little trinket that

the man leaves behind, and it's a physical, real

-world piece of evidence that maybe he's not

quite so crazy. This technological device, this

trinket that he finds, it's not quite a trinket.

It's a little larger than a trinket. It looks

like a cell phone from the 80s. I've seen some

of the promo pics. It does, doesn't it? It's

a really strange device. And he takes it to his

buddy who he knew during the war who was a techie.

And they start to investigate further. Okay.

Well, let me ask you this without ruining anything

else. Is the Q -Rex involved in your show? No,

it's not, Scotty. How do you know? What if he

was called upon? No, it's not. No, it sounds

awesome, and you definitely need to let us know

when you get closer to a release date. Oh, absolutely.

So we can tell our fans so they can keep up with

Daniel as well as us. Definitely. And as soon

as we know when it's going to be released, we'll

post it up all over the website as well. Yeah.

Very awesome. And the Facebook fan page. And

in fact, if you go to www .whatisdivergence .com,

that's the website, and you can click on either

of the still pictures or the trailer and go and

take a look at those things. Or you can click

on the Facebook fan page and all the still pictures

are up there as well as the link to the trailer.

Awesome. Good deal. All right. Well, can I ask

you? if you had watched Power Rangers before

you were in the cast. We've asked other Power

Rangers, or if you've heard an interview where

they ask other Power Rangers, they kind of just

feel silly because they're trying to make up

that they were huge Power Ranger fans, and then

they say something that doesn't make any sense,

and all the Power Ranger fans catch it. I watched

Power Rangers. I saw an episode or two, and I

thought, oh, what an interesting show. It reminded

me of Ultraman or some of the Japanese shows

that I used to watch as a kid growing up. So

I thought, oh, great. This is really cool. This

stuff is finally coming to America, and it's

popular. I love it. It's awesome. And then I

got an audition for the show when they changed

out the first three cast members. There was a

huge audition to replace them. I auditioned for

that. I drove down to Burbank, California, audition.

A couple of days later, they told me they wanted

me to screen test for one of the possible roles.

So they flew me out, back out to Burbank. I screen

tested with Johnny Young Bosch. He and I, I believe,

were up for the Black Ranger role. Oh, sweet.

Wow. Yeah, so me, him, Karen Ashley. The guy

who played Rocky, I'm sorry. Steve Cardenas.

Steve Cardenas, really nice guy. And a couple

other people were there. There were eight of

us total. They put us up in a hotel. We had dinner

together every night. We screen tested all day

for about a week. And we signed the contracts.

And they didn't let us know who got the job until

the very last day. Of course, I drive back home,

decide, you know what? It was my first audition

in Los Angeles, so I was thinking, you know,

maybe I should give this career a shot if I'm

being flown down for screen testing after only

one audition. So I moved out. A couple of months

later, I booked the exact same part as Johnny

for the live show. So I am the Black Ranger on

tour for the MCA live show that toured the world,

that went to Mexico, Europe, and Australia. So

I do that. After I get done doing that, corporate

headquarters no longer has time to send the stuntmen

from the show out to do appearances, so they

need to hire a separate team. They put together

a team that is comprised of performers from the

show like myself and a few other people. I meet

with the director of the promotional team and

they hire me. So I do that. So anytime you ever

hear about the Power Rangers showing up to a

DARE event or a mall or the Walmart, anywhere,

those are actually people like myself that they

pay. We were actually stunt people. And we were

very capable of performing anything and everything

anyone wanted because they wanted us to be the

real thing. They paid us a good amount of money,

a good chunk of change to go out and meet and

greet people. And that's what we did. So I did

that on and off for a bunch of years. They revived

the live show with Lost Galaxy. Fox does. That

tours the country. I get hired to play the Red

Ranger in that. And it's directed by one of the

action directors from the actual television show.

Those guys really like my ranger acting, quote

unquote. and take me under their wing. They hire

me onto the show as a stuntman. In between all

of this, I was also working for Jackie Chan's

choreographer, Andy Chang. And I think that garnered

me a little bit of respect among the Japanese

stunt guys. So I worked for about a week or two

on the Incarnation Time Force as a stuntman.

And they asked me to audition for the Quantum

Ranger. I audition. They have to go back because

I get the role. They have to go back and erase

or cut me out of the footage. You cut the stunt

parts out, yeah. I cut the stunt parts out because

– That would be confusing. Because they hired

me. I think I was running from some monster that

looked like it was a cross between an egg and

Humpty Dumpty. What is that? Is it Orb? Is it

that new game that everybody – You know what

I'm talking about? Anyway. Yeah, I think I remember,

yeah. Anyway, that's my – so by the time I was

hired onto the show, I knew exactly what the

show was about. I knew everything about the show.

I knew how the formulas worked. I knew where

and when they wanted to create conflict with

characters. I was very well -versed in the Power

Ranger universe. I will agree. Other actors,

when I came onto Time Force, weren't. And they

thought I was there to replace one of them. And

because there needs to be this conflict between

the character Eric and the rest of the cast,

or the rest of the other Rangers, I didn't tell

them for two weeks that I wasn't there to replace

them. I made them think that I was. So every

time I came on set, they were very nervous. Which

I thought was funny. And then afterwards... We

all actually became pretty close and got along

really well. So were there any, like, besides

that practical joke, were there any others on

the set that you guys engaged in? Gosh. You know,

I can't say. Usually when I was on set, a lot

of my roles were filmed with second unit. which

was the action unit. And very rarely was I on

first unit, long enough even to participate in

any real practical jokes. I know those guys were

a lot closer. They worked a lot more together,

and they probably played a few jokes on each

other, but I didn't really participate in much.

But we got along. I mean, you know, we had a

good time. I can just see you giving noogies

to Trip. And you see Eric being that cruel older

brother. It's always good to hear that somebody

gets a shot, but I feel it's better that when

someone like yourself works their tail off and

puts all the work in and finally gets a chance

at something. Aaron Cahill. Erin Cahill's mom

said to me once, she said, you know what, Dan?

You're going to be one of those guys that just

forces his way into this industry. And that's

exactly what you did. And I chuckle because that's

been my whole career. It's all been proving the

hard way and earning every bit that I get the

hard way. And you know what? I prefer it, and

I respect other people who do that in whatever

career they have or craft that they're involved

in because it's how you develop a real sense

of your abilities, your craft, and believe it

or not, some humility. Because you respect the

hard work that it takes to get there and you

see the hard work that other people put in when

it comes to making a show. The actors aren't

the only one on the set. There's a whole crew.

I think it makes you a better filmmaker and or

person all the way around to work hard and to

earn your way. a keen insight to this because

as you, as you said, you were a stunt man. So

you knew not only do the actors have to do their

acting, whoever's in the actual suits, those

are the stunt guys that have to actually do the

stunts and do all the moves and everything else.

Did you ever at any chance get to wear the quantum

ranger suit? Um, did I, I think once. I think

once I actually, believe it or not, after I finished

working on the show, I was hired to do more appearances

again. And, of course, I did them because why

not? You know, extra money in the pocket. You're

not doing any money as well. So I think once

I did don the Quantum Ranger outfit, I played

so many. I was so many colors when I did those.

It was blue. It was green. It was gold. It was

red lots of times. Quick story, Dan. I went to

San Diego. uh, for the San Diego comic con. And

they had the samurai Rangers there. And I was

sitting in the crowd and, you know, they come

out and they're all jumping around and hooting

and hollering. And the guy looks over next to

me and he goes, that's me. And I was like, I

kind of look at him like, what, what are you

talking about? And he's like, I play a mic. And

I'm like, well, what do you mean? And he showed

me a bunch of pictures of like what you're talking

about. People getting hired to be the actual

Ranger on camera, you know? So he's like this.

And I guess. Okay. But it was just real weird

because I was just like, really? Because, I mean,

I guess I didn't think about it until he said

that these guys weren't actually running around.

It's a weird thing. I don't want to take anything

away from this person you were talking to. I

don't know who you were talking to. But I do

want to say this. On the show, it was primarily

the Japanese guys that did all of the stunts

for the Power Rangers. has claimed to being a

real Power Ranger, it's those guys. Second to

them are guys, and I'm not tooting my own horn,

but guys like myself or friends of mine who were

very capable stuntmen, and as a result... earned

the right to to perform in those costumes it's

it's very difficult to see in those costumes

it's in those costumes believe it or not the

spandex is not quite that stretchy so it's like

having a big giant rubber band on you and it's

very difficult to move as a result the boots

aren't the best but you still have to perform

and do these amazing acrobatic tricks and you

can't see you you cannot see in that i mean sometimes

it's not true you can see but it's not that easy

And when you have no peripheral vision, you're

flipping and flying through the air on timing,

instinctual timing. So you've done the flips

enough that you know the floor is supposed to

come up right now. And you stick your feet out,

and there it is. You're like, oh, there it is.

So there's those guys, and then there's guys

that do the appearances that some of us may have

performed in the show, and some of them are just

guys that do a couple of kicks in the costume.

And I don't want to take anything away from them,

but there's a lot of people that come through

and get to work. And think that you're in the

suit. But not all of them. I hear people say

all the time, yeah, I'm a Power Ranger, and I

look at them and I go, you're not a Power Ranger.

You're not. You're not the guy that I saw had

to do a double front in the costume. And if he

mistimes his landing, he's going to smash his

face. Those helmets were between $1 ,500 and

$3 ,000 a piece. On the show, they only let you

in that costume if they really trust you. So

that's kind of the hierarchy and how it goes.

Yeah, I wish I could remember his name because

he told me his name, but he was a medium -sized

Japanese guy. And halfway through the interview,

somebody came and got him. He was like, come

on, come on. And after he walked out, another

little Japanese guy walked out with him. So I

would assume that those were the guys that were

the con Power Rangers, like in their suits. Maybe.

I mean, it could very well have been. One of

the stunt guys, they got to come down and do

it too. You never know. And then, of course,

in Japan, there are tons of those guys that do

that stuff. But the thing is, those guys are

amazing performers. So I never want to take anything

away from those guys. Those guys are the real

Power Rangers. They're amazing performers. The

Alpha Stunts Japanese stunt team. Those guys

are the Power Rangers. That's awesome. When Scotty

and I were going to... I'm sorry, I'm missing

one. It's Alpha Stunts, and it's also AAC, which

stands for Attractive Action Club. Those are

the two that were the prominent stunt teams that

did Power Rangers. That's awesome. Scotty and

I have already put up our Time Force review as

far as covering the series, but before we did

that, Scotty had never seen the series before,

so when he got to Eric, he's like... Yeah, I

hate this guy. And I'm like, dude, it's all right.

It gets better. He gets character development.

And the way I look at Eric Myers is that he's

a character that everyone loves to hate. But

once he gets the character development he got,

once they get to that point where that character

changes, they immediately like him. I will definitely

agree with Mike. Like you said, I had never seen

it before. So I'm a couple episodes in, and I'm

hating your guts. I'm like, I wish this guy –

I wish a Q -Rex would step on this guy. I'm like,

look, Wes keeps going out of his way, and this

guy keeps just blowing him off like a jerk. But

now that I've seen them all, I would probably

put you as my favorite ranger on the series over

Wes. That's really cool. That's really cool.

Thank you. They did an amazing job on the character

development, and you did an amazing job along

with the other rangers, the other actors. I mean

it was just – It was just a really good story

all the way around. Well, thank you. I thought

so too. I think that year was the year they really

focused on trying to make the story. They focused

on growing up the story a little bit, making

it a little bit more mature. And as a result,

there were more interesting things. I get comments

all the time from parents saying that, hey, I

really – enjoyed watching that show with my children.

I sat down to watch it with them and I was surprised

at how much I was into it just as much as they

were. I think that was a result of that. More

than anything I can claim credit for. While we're

on the subject, I mentioned the Q -Rex earlier.

The Q -Rex is absolutely amazing. I'm sure you

have one in your garage right next to whatever

car you drive. Did you have another favorite

Zord on the show? If you've even thought about

it. I grew up watching Voltron, and nothing was

cooler than the five cats that made the Voltron

Zord. So that always has been and always will

be my favorite quote -unquote Zord. But next

to that, I've got to say the Q -Rex is pretty

damn awesome. The only thing about the Q -Rex

that I thought was kind of strange was that he's

like a big giant pet, and I thought it would

have been really cool if the Quantum Ranger could

actually get inside and control it. Yeah, the

Q -Rex actually reminds me of the Dragonzord

from Mighty Morphin because, as you just said,

you never got into him. Just like Tommy never

got into the Dragonzord. Yeah. Tell us a story

that you have not told before about anything

to do with Forever Red. Anything to do with Forever

Red. You know, I... I don't think there's anything

left that I can tell that's interesting. Was

there, like, you know, when Jason, David, Frank,

and Austin St. John first came on set, did they,

like, oh, you, I'm going to kick your ass. You

took my job. They were really cool. I mean, you

know, they hadn't been on the show for, I think,

at least 15 years at that point, right? Yeah.

Was it 15? Something like that, between 10 and

15. Yeah. And, you know, I think everybody was

just happy to be working again. So everybody

got along, and everybody was really cool. Jason,

David Frank was a great guy to hang out with,

so was Austin St. John. There weren't any clash

of egos going on, believe it or not. All right,

we're going to play a quick game, Dan. I'm going

to give you the past Red Rangers. I'm going to

give you their real names, and you just give

me... Two or three words real quick describing

how you feel about him. We're not trying to dig

up any dirt or start any fights. If I say Jason

David Frank and you say prankster, I'll take

it. I'll accept it. Are you ready, sir? Okay.

I don't know how well I'm going to do with this,

but go for it. It's fine. It's fine. Austin St.

John. Funny guy. Okay. Jason David Frank. Really

funny guy. You're doing good. You're doing good.

What's his name? Selwyn Ward? Really nice guy.

Nice fella. Okay. Christopher Johnson. Christopher

Johnson was Lightspeed, right? Yes. No, in space.

In space. I never got a chance to work with him.

You worked with Andros. That's right. Andros.

Andros. And I actually worked on a movie that

he did called Light in the Forest. I was a stunt

rigger on it. Don't have anything really to say.

I've never really interacted with him that much.

So just a really good guy, then? Is that what

you're saying? Blank. Blank. No comment. Danny

Slavin is the Los Angeles... Danny Slavin. Nice

guy. Didn't really work to communicate with him

that much. More of a blank there, too. All right.

Sean Johnson from Lightspeed. Sean Johnson. Sean

Johnson. Oh, yes, from Lightspeed. Handsome fella.

Nice dude. All right, how about your friend Jason

Font? Let me say something about Sean Johnson.

Originally, they were going to cast me as the

Blue Ranger in Lightspeed Rescue. Really? Yes,

but they felt like I would have just been way

too intense next to the Red Ranger, Sean Johnson.

So instead, they didn't cast me. I'm going to

say whoever came to that conclusion. Did very

good. They would have been right. I think that

the Quantum Ranger role was the perfect role

for me as an actor at that time. Absolutely.

Okay, moving on from Sean Johnson. Your buddy,

Jason. Jason Vaughn. Good buddy, good buddy.

And then, last but not least, Wild Force, Ricardo

Medin Jr. Frickin' knucklehead. And that's what

I've heard. Speaking of Wild Force, any chance

Eric and the Yellow Ranger from Wild Force are,

like, dating now or something like that? Because

when I watch Reinforcements from the Future,

I notice that – oh, God, what's her character

name? I can't even remember. I'm watching the

series. I don't even remember her character name.

Allison Kipperman played – who did Allison Kipperman

– what was Allison Kipperman's character name?

Oh, man. Haley, something, I don't remember.

Listen, I can't even remember. This is bad. At

least we remember her name. Yes. Taylor, that's

what it was. Taylor, that's right, Taylor. Yeah,

we were hanging out while we were filming that.

And I think, now don't quote me on this, but

we did that scene where we meet in the parking

lot and she un -morphs and I realize it's the

girl I gave the ticket, right? Right. And we

have that little... kind of hot moment between

us. And then I think her boyfriend was on set

that day. Oh, God. Which, you know, you just,

you don't bring, when you have, I mean, first

of all, it's not even really that steamy a scene,

but you just don't bring your, you know, your

significant other to those kinds of things. Anyway,

I heard he broke up with her after that. Or rather,

she broke up with him. I don't know. Anyway,

they split up. And then she and I started hanging

out a little bit. Just after work, we'd go and

get dinner. her. Nothing any more serious than

that, but there was, I think, a moment that maybe

it could have gone that direction. Maybe that's

just my own delusion. I can just see him in the

parking lot telling her, look, you either pick

me or the Quantum Ranger. Choose. She was a sassy

girl. Back then when I knew her, she was a sassy

girl. It's so funny because when I listened to,

again, No Pink Spandex's interview with Aaron

Cahill, they brought up the fact that Aaron and

Jason never got, you know, Wes and Jen never

got that love scene or anything else. It turns

out that Jason was married at the time and still

is married today. He had a girlfriend, yeah.

I think he got married soon after the show. But

that's the girl he was dating. Yeah. But she

was cool. I mean, you know, if you realize that

the person you're involved with is an actor and

that's part of what they have to do, then that's

just the way it goes. You don't go crazy about

it. And that's kind of what I was thinking when

I heard that, like, you know, their girlfriend

or their boyfriend kind of getting mad. It's

like, I mean, what did you expect? Well, I mean,

it's still a hard thing. It's no easy thing if

you're sitting there on set and you're watching

the person you're involved with recreate the

same emotions that you, when you're in a relationship,

feel like, oh, those are your precious moments

that you spend with somebody and yet here they

are doing what they do organically with somebody

else to make it real and believable. That can

throw people off a bit and often it does and

it's understandable. Ultimately, in the end,

you have to come around and go, okay, all right,

this is just what we do for a living. Especially

if they want that paycheck. I'll be honest with

you. A lot of actors fall for each other, and

all you have to do is just read about it in the

news. Actors are always leaving one another for

another one. Part of that is because actors have

to be very emotionally available, and I think

the problem with that, though, is that you can

get... It can get some of them into trouble.

You know, who's to say? Okay, well, you got past

projects. You got Power Rangers. You got anime.

Is this correct? He's done some video games.

The anime question was for Johnny Youngbosh.

I copied and pasted that. Oh, good for you. Unless

you have done... Have you done anime before?

You need to edit this out. Shut up. Devil May

Cry 3. Virtual. You guys know. 3 and 4, right?

3 and 4 and 3 .5, which is you can play the game

as Virgil. Oh, sweet. Yeah. And then lots of

games after that. So since you have the sci -fi

series coming up, plus your Power Rangers stuff,

you should totally start hitting. all the different

cons. San Diego Comic Con, Chicago Comic Con.

I don't know who to talk to or how I would go

about trying to get into the San Diego Comic

Con. Maybe you can help me out with that. But

I am going to Anime Festival Orlando. I am going

to Morphicon and I got another offer from somebody

else. I'm waiting to hear back from them. Because

I am a huge Power Ranger fan, and I go to all

those cons. And when I get there, and there's

all these people from Star Trek and Star Wars,

and I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings,

but I could care less about any of that stuff.

I would be more than happy to see Daniel. It's

okay. It's okay. I'm sure there are plenty of

people from the Star Wars and the Star Trek camps

that would say the same about Power Rangers.

So it all evens out. I would love to go to Comic

-Con. I've got to figure out how to get in there

and what I'm going to do to get in. How many

conventions have you been to at this point? Have

you already been to Power Morphicon in the past?

Is this your first time going? I kind of crashed

Power Morphicon the first time a few years ago

and then crashed again the last time. And this

will be the first time I'm actually officially

going to be there. So this will be my first official

appearance at Power Morphicon. Awesome. Do you

know the dates on that? I don't know the dates.

I need to look up these dates, and we probably

need to attend that. You can go to the Facebook

fan page, or you can go to their website, and

all that stuff will be there, along with the

trailer to Divergence. Awesome. Well, look at

that. Two birds with one stone. There you go.

One final question here. As I just mentioned,

you've been to a few of the cons. You've crashed

a few of the cons. Do you have a strangest fan

interaction story? Is there just one? When I

asked Tara Strong this question, she's like,

someone came up and asked her to sign her butt.

So do you have a strangest fan interaction story?

That stuff doesn't seem so out of the ordinary

to me. I don't know what I could say. The strangest

thing that happened to me has nothing to do with

anything that's ever taken place at the conventions.

I had some guy call me up on my cell phone. I

don't know how he got my cell number, but he'd

gotten a hold of my cell phone number and calls

me up and says, Hey, is this… Dan Southworth?

And I'm thinking it's a friend of mine messing

with me. Yes, who is this? The Quantum Ranger

Dan Southworth? And I go, who is this? What do

you want? And he goes, oh my gosh, I'm a little

bit nervous. It really is. And I start to realize

it's a fan that had gotten a hold of my cell

phone number. So I convince him to erase my cell

phone number and call me on my home phone. And

then he asked to send me some stuff, and I tell

him that he probably shouldn't because I'm not

allowed to – I'm somebody who's developing material,

and if somebody sends me their stuff unsolicited

and I develop something that by chance happens

to have something similar – It's subject to lawsuit,

yeah. It's a pain in the butt, so I'd rather

not receive unsolicited material because there's

only so many stories you can tell before stuff

– It's not that difficult to come up with something

that somebody else has come up with at the same

time. Anyway, I was getting pictures of monster

hands. I thought that was very interesting from

this fella. But I moved since then, which means

I no longer have the same home phone number or

address, so I haven't heard from him since. I

did sleep with a gun underneath my pillow for

a while. Oh, so you were sleeping with one eye

open, huh? Yeah, it's about as strange as it's

gotten. He set up a bunch of mannequins and stuff

like in Home Alone, so he just thought there

was like a house full of people there. All right.

One last time, remind everybody about Divergence.

Divergence sci -fi action series. New webisode

coming out. Ten episodes. It's going to come

out this year. Check it out at whatisdivergence

.com. You can click on the trailer link there

and look at a bunch of stills and get all the

information on the show there. Yeah, and I'll

probably actually not only put the website link

in our post, but I'll also probably embed the

trailer into our post. Awesome. You're welcome

to do that. And you can go to the Daniel Southworth

Facebook fan page. There's all the information

there as well. It's a pretty cool little page.

It's not mine. It's run by some administrators.

It's run by Catherine and Susan. That's right.

And don't forget Kate. Kate, Catherine, and Susan.

Yeah. Yeah, it's all right. Twice already I've

said a name other than Catherine, so I'm just

happy to remember that Catherine, Kate, and Susan

are the administrators. But it's an awesome little

site, and they do a great job running it. Awesome.

So we'd like to thank Mr. Southworth for taking

the time to chat with us in this special From

the Command Center interview. Do you have any

idea how fast you were going, ma 'am? I'm sorry,

officer. Driver's license, please. Thank you.

So, did you give her a ticket? Yep. I could just

tell she was trouble. Just your type. Are you

kidding? The Quantum friggin' Ranger. That was

awesome. I gotta agree, dude. I mean, you know,

like I said, I hated him in the show. Then I

kind of liked him. And now that I've actually

met the real guy, he's grounded. His head's on

straight. He worked his ass off to get to where

he was. He worked with Jackie Chan's stunt liaison.

Oh, my God. That's amazing. I love the guy, dude.

I'm going to go as far as saying I love another

man in a manly kind of way. Starting to get a

little creepy there, Scotty. Saying it in a manly

kind of way. Still going a little creepy. But,

yeah, I just want to say thanks to Daniel from

both of us for that interview. We really appreciate

it, man. That was awesome. Yeah, it was so, so

awesome. So that's going to do it for this interview

on From the Command Center, as I said before.

We're still trying to reschedule the Johnny Youngbosh

interview, and actually now that we've interviewed

Dan, I'm going to bring up the fact that Johnny

beat him out of Mighty Morphin. I had no idea

Dan was involved that far back. Yeah, Dan, I

had no idea he was involved in all of that stuff.

I mean, I didn't, from my understanding, he was

just a stuntman that got a break to be the Quantum

Ranger. I didn't know that he went all the way

back to Mighty Morphin and went to this and went

to that, and that's awesome. Yeah, very, very

awesome. So we'll catch you next time, ladies

and gentlemen.