Interview with Jason David Frank on Power Rangers

Hello everyone, this is Jason David Frank, and

you are listening from the Command Center, GeekCast

Radio Network. 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 from PCN Pop Culture Network is

Scotty Cash. Hello. What's up, bud? Oh, not much,

not much. After months and months and months

of finagling and making time for schedules and

everything else, we have the ultimate, the...

Interview I never thought I would ever get, but

thankfully he took time out of his day to talk

to us. The Power Rangers legend known as Jason

David Frank. Yes, yes, yes. I got to be honest.

When you first came to me with this podcast or

when I first started my show, I never would have

said that. You know what my goal is? Is to interview

the Green Ranger, the White Ranger, you know,

the Power Ranger. But I got to be honest. I just

need to tell you thank you, Mike, because if

we wouldn't have done this podcast, this wouldn't

have happened, and this is awesome. I can't wait

for this. Yes, and that is coming up right now.

Hey. I'm Kimberly. You're new around here, aren't

you? Yeah, I'm Tommy. Hi. Hi. Listen, do you

want to get together with some of us after school?

You know, nothing major, just... Hang out at

the youth center? Yeah, that sounds cool. Okay.

Well, I'll see you then. Bye. Bye. It is done,

my Empress. Zordon has been eliminated. And the

Power Rangers are next. So, we meet again. I've

been looking... forward to this. You wear a Green

Ranger costume, yet your loyalty's with Rita.

I am her Green Ranger, and she is my empress.

She's evil! Yeah, and so am I. You destroyed

the power sword! Rita's spell is broken! You

okay, Tommy? What's happening to me? You're no

longer under Rita's power. My head's spinning.

You'll be okay, man. What have I done? What you

did, you did under Rita's influence. You own

the power now. Fight by our side and we can defeat

Rita. After everything that's happened? Tommy,

we need you. It's where you belong. Will you

join us, Tommy? Hello and welcome to this exclusive

from the Command Center interview. I am, of course,

Mike Blanchard and joining me is Scotty Clark.

Hello, Scotty. What's up, buddy? Not much. And

we have a Power Rangers legend with us. I would

almost go as far as saying the Power Ranger.

I'm sure he's 80 % of people's, if not more,

you know, I'm sure he's their favorite ranger,

if you will. Yes, a man who has been red, white,

red twice, or red, I screwed that up, green,

white, red twice, and black, Mr. Jason David

Frank. Hello, sir. Hello, how are you guys doing

today? Pretty good, pretty good. How are you,

sir? I'm doing good. You can't be messing up

the colors. I know. It's just the order that

I messed up. People ask me what color I am, and

I think I just stick to the old Green Ranger,

White Ranger. That kind of sums it up, you know?

Yeah. I'll be there a long time saying, well,

I was the Green Ranger, then I was the White

Ranger, then I was the Red Seal Ranger, and then

I was the Turbo Ranger. It's too long. Then I

was the Black Ranger. You know, just sum it up.

I think people know the Green Ranger is kind

of old school and, you know, taught me with the

long hair. Oh, you're the guy with long hair.

Now I recognize you. What surprises me most?

about your Power Rangers history is, I did the

math on this, when you were doing Mighty Morphin,

you were 20 years old. Yeah. Yeah, I started

when I was about 19, you know, of course, filming

in Culver City. And just kind of went from there.

You know, when I did the show, I didn't know

what I was getting into. You know, I showed my

brother, and my brother said, oh, man, that's

a cheesy show. That's never going to make it.

Good thing I didn't believe them because, like

I always say, kids do eat cheese. So kids love

cheese sticks, cheese sandwiches, and macaroni

and cheese. And guess what? Now it's Power Rangers.

So, yep, it is what it is, but it was awesome.

I was told one time, Jason, that you were actually

training the other Power Rangers, and then they

asked you to be on the show. So is that just

completely nonsense then? No, it's kind of, it's

true, but what happened was when I auditioned,

it was easy for me because I was in Hollywood,

and everybody in Hollywood does everything. Oh,

you do this? Oh, absolutely, yeah. You do this?

Oh, yeah, for sure. Well, when I got there, I

knew everybody's belt were tied wrong, and I

was like, oh, you're in karate? They're like,

oh, yeah. You know, I'm a one -stripe black belt,

so I was like, man, I got this because I used

to compete everywhere. So I auditioned, and then

they called me back, and then when I called back,

I was working with Tweed, well, soon to be casted,

you know, Trini, and I didn't know who it was

going to be, but I was working with all these

girls, and I'm thinking, man, I don't, like I

said, I don't know if this part that they called

me back for is for a girl or a guy. I'm the only

guy here, and there's like, you know, 10 girls,

and, you know, so I was all stressed out. I didn't

know if I should, you know, take the girls out,

or, you know, I didn't know what it was, you

know. But I did that, and then, yeah, then I

was training people. from the show because I

was, you know, the real guy, the real karate

guy. And, you know, me and Johnny Bosch worked

together for a while, and he did kung fu, and

we did different stuff. But I think once I started

the show, everything kind of changed from even

the kiais when I first started from all the rangers

would listen to me, you know, kiai, and everybody

was like, oh, you know, instead of kiai, you

know, that's the correct way of doing it, kiai,

kiai. you know comes from the bottom of your

stomach and you know you got to get into it and

anyway so things change a little bit and for

me that's what i've always done karate so it

was easy for me it was the easiest job to book

now the acting yeah so i you know i had no clue

what phantom was then they did tell me the green

ranger but I thought it was the Green Forest

Rangers, and I thought it was going to be a Forest

Ranger. I didn't know. So, you know, went out

there and did it and then got the Green Ranger

part that no one knew about here in America.

And, you know, so I guess the rest was kind of

history. And I worked and loved my job. You know,

I left the show just because it was, you know,

a long -haul show. And, you know, left when it

was on top and, you know, flipped my coin to...

TJ, and boom, I was on my way. And then Dino

Thunder happened to call me back to do it for

some friends. And that was kind of fun. So, you

know, I don't know. Just kind of see what happens

in the Power Ranger future. You know, the good

thing is I am working out. I still fit in my

spandex. You know what I mean? Those are all

positive things for me when you get a little

older. You know what I mean? I don't have it

right there yet, thank God. You know, so these

things are kind of working for me. But we have

a very limited window, guys. It's all going to

come crashing down soon. You never know. You

never know. But so the guy that the guy that

was the VR trooper, I can't think of his name

for the live me right now. Yes, he was. He was

supposed to be the White Ranger. But Power Ranger

friends all over called out saying, look, if

you get rid of Tommy, you're losing a huge chunk

of, you know, the Power Rangers just in general.

So did they come to you like, look, we want to

bring you back? I mean, were you under the impression?

Well, that's kind of right, but you got a little

twisted. You know, when you get people in a circle

and tell them one story, like, you know, by the

time it gets back, it's kind of right, but it's

a little. What happened was it goes back a little

bit further as the Green Ranger. They took me

off the show to create a show called VR Troopers,

which was called Cybertron. So they said, well,

Jason, your character is popular. Let's just

do you off as the Green Ranger. Let's bring you

over to this set. Let's do your own TV show.

So we're in negotiation. Cool. I get to work

by myself. I get to, you know, do this, do that.

So it was cool. So they brought me off the show

as the Green Ranger. Then everybody freaked out.

This was before the war. Everybody freaked out.

You can't lose the Green Ranger. By that time,

I already filmed Cybertron. So people were freaking

out going, you can't lose the Green Ranger. I

don't know what's going on and blah, blah, blah.

So during that process time. A new Ranger was

going to be filled, which was the White Ranger,

because they kind of took, you know, got me off.

Then they went to Cybertron. I was filming a

pilot, and they're like, well, Jason's gone.

Let's bring in this White Ranger. Nobody knew

the White Ranger was coming in. All everyone

knew is, why did you take the Green Ranger off?

Tommy's character's popular. They put a petition

around. Kids were calling parents. My kids aren't

eating, so the bomb was going off. I got Jason

in Cybertron, and, you know, now they want the

Green Ranger back. What am I going to do? So

they did talk to Brad Hopkins about being the

White Ranger. And then, all of a sudden, it all

flaked. They said, we can't do that. We've got

to get Jason back. So they talked to me and said,

listen, do you want to come back or do you want

to do Cybertron? And then, to be honest with

you, I'm glad I did Power Rangers because I heard

there was going to be a movie, and I said, I'll

just come back. But coming back for me was going

from one constant to another, and it was literally

right next door. It was like, sure, I'll come

back, six steps on that side, six steps to VR

Troopers, you know. So I'm glad I made that decision

to come back. And then, you know, Brad did the

VR Troopers. troopers, and that was syndicated.

It wasn't networked. It was just shown randomly

all over the place, and that's why it didn't

get the ratings, and that's why it didn't go

to many seasons. Yeah, plus it was kind of a

knockoff of Power Rangers, and then when you

had... Masked Rider was too, you know. Yeah,

yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah, Masked Rider, I

would say Masked Rider probably, you know, my

personal opinion, isn't even as good as the VR

troopers, even though, you know, in Japan or

whatever, that Masked Rider is just... You know,

it's just huge over there. Yeah. But yeah, I

did. I've actually seen a pilot episode of you

on the Cybertron. I want to say it's on YouTube

or somebody sent me a link somewhere, but I've

seen that. Yeah, I released it. Yeah, it was

never out before. See, I have a pilot called

Sirens with Fergie in it, and I did a pilot with

her. I'm going to release that on YouTube. I'm

the only one with a copy. I mean, it was called

Sirens. It was kind of a ripoff of Power Rangers,

but there were mermaids. It was when she was

in her band. a wild orchid and they were all

in there and i filmed and in that pilot i am

with brad hawkins we do play the part in there

i'm the enemy he's the bad guy but the pilot

never got picked up but again the pilot was supposed

to magically disappear but you know you know

me i save everything so i'm gonna release that

one out on youtube so i'll make sure i get you

guys a link to that first before anyone that'd

be awesome cool um So the transition from being

all the multicolors in your younger years to

then coming back in 2004 for Dino Thunder, what

was that like? I mean, you're still the same

character. And I remember, I forget which convention

it was. It was a convention you did with Johnny

a couple years ago. When I think Johnny was like...

It was either at the convention thing or it was

in one of his appearances in one of the guest

roles. He's like, I still can't believe that

dude is a doctor. Coming about the Tommy Oliver

character. I love it. How was it for you continuing

on with Tommy into adulthood? Into Tommy's adulthood.

Yeah, it was interesting. You know, turning into

Dr. Tommy Oliver. I'm just waiting for someone

on the plane to go, there's a doctor here. And

I want to run up and go, yes, and then work and

say, well, I'm not a doctor, but I do play one

on TV. Oh, geez. But, yeah, it was different.

The reason why it was different for me, you know,

spandex, spandex, colors, Power Rangers, Power

Rangers. It was interesting that the fans loved

it. The ratings, it was higher. But the interesting

part is working with those kids that grew up

watching Power Rangers. Now they're a Power Ranger.

Being a Power Ranger is one of their superhero

Power Rangers that they looked up to. That was

kind of cool, you know what I mean? And they

were younger and all that stuff. But I had a

great time filming. It wasn't the same because

it wasn't Saban. It was Disney. And, you know,

it was quite different. Koichi Sakamoto, all

the guys. But, you know, the way Power Rangers

is now, I'm sure it's the same as far as, you

know, the way it is on the set and people, you

know, friendly and all that stuff. So, yeah,

they were nice over there. It's just, you know,

it was different, but it was fun because I was

able to – episode where I had to, you know, fight

myself, even though they were all different sizes,

which is supposed to be myself. They could have

got the same stunt guy for, you know, all the

suits. But, yeah, so I had to fight myself. That

was fun. And, you know, I had to be in the hospital.

I kind of like that little bit of a violence

thing. That's why, you know, I talked to Saban

about revamping. one of these characters, Green

Ranger or White Ranger, revamp it for you guys,

the 25 -year -olds. Make it like a PG -13 Dark

Knight series. Revamp the costumes. I'll play

the same character in time, in years. And I got

so many more karate moves that will just, you

know, in the way technology is with Hollywood

nowadays. it'd be one of those kick -ass movies.

And not the movie kick -ass, it'd be a kick -ass

movie. Yes, yes. You know, and because they're

losing the market, they're losing the fan base

of these guys that are from the ages of 22 to

32, 22 to 33. They're losing that age group right

now. Even though they do have the same shows,

but just imagine something like The Dark Knight

would come out. Like, I mean, when I say that,

it's that genre that revamped that green range

or the white range to make it like a little bit,

you know, darker. PG -13. If it was up to me,

I'd do a rated R, but we can't. It would just

be cool. I definitely have a lot of fans. I got

a lot of happy fans on Facebook. I'm blessed

to have 65 ,000 fans. Every time I go on there,

man, I see the numbers go up. I just feel so

honored and blessed that I actually have these

people like you guys that are wanting to interview

or that are still carrying on the legacy of what

Power Rangers is and being excited about it.

You know, that's why I try to, I mean, today

was a super, super busy day for me. It's really,

that's why I called a little bit later. It's

a super busy day. About to wrap up my day. I

started my day training this morning at 7. And

it's been business, business, business, calls,

emails. But I can't let you guys down because

I can't let my fans down. Because I feel like

my word is golden, you know. That's why I wear

a gold shield. That's right. But, you know, and

I'm just happy and blessed to have that. But

the transition was, you know, was interesting.

So I don't know. It was fun. I mean, black is

my favorite color. When Austin came back as the

Gold Ranger, I was a little bummed just because

I love black and gold. And he had the shield,

and I didn't, and I felt naked, you know, all

that stuff. But it was a good transition. It

was fun. So let's transition and talk about your

Jesus Didn't Tap business. What is that? Us who

have been living under a rock, maybe, for some

of the listeners, explain to us what Jesus Didn't

Tap is. Well, the easiest thing to think about

is tap -out clothing. Tap -out clothing started

very small, from $30 ,000 a year to over $100

million a year worldwide. You know, tap -out

crew, you know, Mask, I know he passed away,

and all these guys, and Punk Ass, and Skyscraper.

You know, they started this company called Tap

-Out. When you're fighting in MMA, and you can...

caught in an arm bar or choke or just simply

you're getting outpunched, you could tap out

with your hand or you could say tap, tap, tap,

and the fight ends. It's kind of like throwing

in the towel. Although a lot of people that do

tap, you know, you should throw in the towel.

You're about to get your arm broke. So what I

wanted to do was create something new, something

that was positive. I looked at statistics. I'm

a Christian, but I looked at statistics. You

know, 83 % of the U .S. is Christian -based.

99 % in Brazil. This is where MMA came from.

Jiu -Jitsu came from Brazil. 99 % is Christian

-based. So I wanted a fighter, and I wanted a

catchy name. And, you know, I wrote rap songs

for it. And just Jesus Didn't Cap was one of

those names where either you're going to like

it, you're going to laugh, you're going to hate

it, you're going to love it. It's just one of

those things where it's catchy. Oh, Jesus Didn't

Cap. And then you've got the old people knocking

on your window. They might have been living under

a rock for 80 years. And they say, what does

this mean? Are you blaspheming Jesus? No, I'm

not. saying anything. I'm just saying Jesus didn't

give up for all of our sins. He got crucified.

He's tough. Jesus is tough. Go watch the movies.

And that's a history book one way or another.

I don't care what their beliefs are. If you don't

believe that history book and you don't believe

someone got crucified, I'm not saying you don't

believe. But if you don't believe that, then

you're silly. Because that is a history book.

Passion of the Christ. Look how bad he got beat.

You know, all this stuff. So I was thinking,

man, if I'm going to get a fighter, he's the

ultimate fighter. Ultimate fighter. World recognition.

World known. And guess what? He's not going to

be a champion one day and not be a champion the

next day. I want someone who's going to be on

the front line that everyone can always turn

to and everyone can always say, Jesus' name around

the world 100 years from now is not going away.

Anderson Silva, I'm glad he's a champion. He

won that fight. But he's going to go away. So

I wanted something to last and leave a legacy

behind. It wasn't a Jason or Frank Brandt clothing

line, which I came up with it, and my partner

and one of my partners. It wasn't bad. I stayed

behind the lines. I wanted something. I didn't

want this to be, oh, Jason and Pat Power Ranger

line. It was something I believed in, and now

it's worldwide. We were at the UFC last show,

and people love it. I'm just excited to be a

part of it. I have another company called Bull

Shirts who's doing all the marketing and running

things now. I've been extremely busy with schools

and just trying to, you know, do this and do

that. And this is what I've done before Power

Rangers, though. A lot of people, oh, you're

doing karate, man. I've had two, three karate

schools before I booked that show. So this is

something I feel, you know, again, having 1 ,000

students underneath you is a good feeling. You

know, you have 1 ,000 people that will, you know,

do anything for you, and I'll do anything for

those guys. They're my students, you know. And

I love teaching and sharing something that's

been packed down from years and years and years.

So that's what it is, Jeezy and Tap, it's a clothing

line, a Christian clothing line. I have people

from all around the world that aren't even Christians

buying that shirt. So it's just a cool, catchy

thing. Kate Drama, who sung the song, you know,

I wrote two rap songs, and I don't even know

where I got rap. you know, gave it to him and

they produced the beats and then put the, you

know, my lyrics to the CD and now it's downloaded

on iTunes. You can get that on iTunes or go to

kdrama .com. I got nothing to do with that. I

was just happy he did this song and used my lyrics

and now I can say, you know, not Lil Wayne, but

I'm a rapper now. Quick story, Jason. So I'm

a huge MMA fan, and I was working with a summer

help kid at my job, and he's also an MMA fan,

and he was getting ready to go into training

to be an MMA, and he was talking about tapping,

and I said, you know, Jesus didn't tap. And he

was like, you know what? That's really catchy.

And I was like, yeah, that is actually Jason

David Frank's T -shirt liner. That's his slogan.

He's like, well, who's that? And I was like,

well, the Green Ranger. And I showed him that

picture of you. from, I don't know, years ago

where you're just completely just big as a house,

just jacked from head to toe. Within a week,

he had Jesus didn't tap on his forearm in the

same exact spot and the same exact tattoo as

you do. Yeah. Oh, that's crazy. Yep, yep, yep.

So he is also... Yeah, he's definitely catching

his stuff, which is good. So it's awesome. Yeah,

speaking of MMA and stuff like that, like I said,

I'm a huge MMA fan. I know exactly what you're

talking about, where you're coming from. I was

overly excited. I probably got hundreds of emails

when you were talking about going to MMA, and

I was like, no, there's no way. There's just

no way because, again, you're my favorite ranger.

I've followed you for a long time with your movies,

your different shows, your different projects,

and I was super excited to see you in a cage.

I've seen your fights, but what made you decide

to go that route? Is it the popularity of the

UFC? Yeah, no, not really, man. I'm still not

giving it up. I want to get low. I want to fight

185. I'm not a heavyweight. I'm just not. I'm

weighing in at 207, 210, and I'm fighting guys

that are 329, losing down at 269. I'm not a heavyweight.

You know what I mean? Even though I'm 220, I'm

small to be a heavyweight. Anderson Silva walks

at 230, and he drops to 185. The 185 guys are

huge. You know what I mean? So I'm at 195 right

now. I walk at 195, I can get to 170 in a heartbeat.

I can get to 185. That's what it all comes down

to is, you know, the different, you know, the

weight classes. And I was just fighting heavyweight

for too long. And, you know, it just got to the

point where the fun was taken out of it. You

know, you got really serious. You know, I'm going

to fight him and you're not this. You know, just

the fun got out of it. I fought for fun. It wasn't

about money. It was about fun. I skydive for

fun. I fight for fun. You know, Forrest Griffin

said it the best, that he loves to punch a guy

in the face. And what better place to go is go

to UFC because he loves doing it. It's the sport

of it. That's why people say, well, it's violent.

It's not. It's the name of the game. It's a sport

like any other sport. So that's kind of like,

you know, what I think that happens in all that

stuff. And, you know, so anyway. So you went

pro. And you only had the one or two fights?

No, I had six amateur fights before. You know,

the difference from pro and amateur, you know,

you've got guys that are on the amateur circuit.

Once you get paid even $1, you turn pro. You

know, and there's no rules on how to turn pro.

I think they need to change that. I think there

needs to be a certain amount of time trained.

You know, anyone can turn pro. I can get a guy

out here right now and turn him pro and put him

in a cage. It's too dangerous for him, you know.

I just, you know, I stayed as an amateur because

a lot of rules, regulations, and I wanted to

do, I wanted to work my way up, not like anyone

else. I didn't want to, oh, turn pro, and I need

to get this fight on this card. It's because

of who I am. I didn't want to do that. I wanted

to fight amateurs and not even be recognized,

to be honest with you. I didn't want to be a

Green Ranger thing. I just wanted to go and do

my thing. But then it blew up, and then everyone

sold for fame. No, I've already had that. Power

Rangers was on top of the world. I was the most

popular kid show in the world. That's not what

I wanted as an actor. You know what I'm saying?

I didn't want that. And as a fighter, I just

wanted to fight and have fun. I had a nuts...

You know, 38 years old, I've been on the show

since I was 19. I never strive for fame. I strive

for, you know, being a human. And I strive for

relationships to friends and people. So I guess

this was a good way of getting in and building

relationships with fans, if that makes sense.

So I guess a lot of people go into acting because

they want to be this fame and fortune and have

rich cars and do all this stuff. That wasn't

me. I came from a house with no money. I love

acting. I was passionate. But the reason why

I quit, I was getting raises. I was getting money.

I would have been paid more money. But the reason

why I quit is because I lost the fun in it. It

no longer was fun for me. It was all about money.

It was all about this. It was all about that.

I didn't like that. My karate, I make a lot of

money at what I do because it's fun. I'm opening

a new school because it's fun. You know, I skydive

because it's fun. And then MMA, I did it for

fun, and then I just wasn't fun no more. That's

why I'm getting back into it next year for fun.

I think that's what we need to do. You guys do

this radio station because you believe in it.

It's fun. You get people. You like it. If we

didn't have fun and you wake up, oh, my God,

I've got to get on the phone with this Green

Ranger guy. I've got to interview. I think people

lose the passion in life of what they want to

do. They get stuck in an endless job that has

limits on it. But I want to be limitless, and

I want to have fun. And, you know, if we just

sit and what's life success to me is not measured

on a bank account. Success to me is, are you

happy? Are you guys stoked that you have this

radio thing? You guys want to take it big? Heck

yeah. You know, that's the excitement and passion.

But once the fun gets driven out of it, because

now you're dealing with finances, radio stations,

people want to cut, people don't want to treat

you like humans. They just want to give you more

money and treat you like someone else. That's

not, I have morals in my life. My dad taught

me that, and I just want to keep morals. I want

to be a somebody, not in the fan world or an

actor. I want to be a human, and I want you to

treat me like a human. Saban could have had me

still on that show. I don't know if they wanted

it, but I would have been on that show forever

if they did one thing, pat me on the back, and

everyone else that said you're doing a good job.

Catherine, all the new people have never met

Haim Saban. It's called Saban Entertainment.

You need to get out there. and you need to shake

hands with the people that are making you money,

pat them on the back and say, you know what,

guys, you're doing a good job. Because a pat

on the back goes further than just a check in

the mail. Yeah. Our little podcasting network

here, we've been online over at Geekcast Radio.

We've been online for three years now, and we

don't make any money out of it. And I'm honestly

happy that I'm not making money out of it because

if I was making money out of it, someone would

say, oh, well, you have to change this or you

have to change that. I put in 40, 50, 60 hours

a week running a network of 20 -plus different

podcasts. I absolutely enjoy it, absolutely love

it, so I understand where you're coming from

with that. With next year, the 20th anniversary

coming up, what are your thoughts on the franchise

just being, with Power Rangers being 20 years

old at this point? Yeah, it's kind of, it doesn't

feel like it, you know? I know it's mature to

this classic state where, you know, toys and

stuff's going for a lot of money and all this

other stuff. You know, I mean, I... I don't know

what's expected with Power Rangers. I do know

that, you know, there was a conference call tomorrow

that was supposed to talk to Saban about whatever

it was, development or whatever. I don't know

about my managers handling that. I just, you

know, I'm not one of those guys to, I want this

and I want that. It's just normally things will

happen when it happens. But it's amazing to me

that Power Rangers has not turned syndicated.

It's still network. It's, you know, still. popular

now it's not as popular as what it used to be

because you know if you can think of a really

great creation i would let's take a fork for

example i don't know who created it and when

and what so don't quote me but it'd be a really

good idea to have a fork oh man look at this

dude what is this all of a sudden the fork becomes

part of our history and part of our culture that

when they want to make a new fork look at this

one this one this lights up and it's still a

fork So Power Rangers is still Power Rangers.

I know they're trying to revamp it, but it doesn't

have that, what the heck is that, dude? A what?

A power what? What do they do? And that's the

effect that we had for the first five years.

What do you guys do? Are you, oh my gosh, I've

never seen this. So I call that the wow factor.

I think Power Rangers has lost the wow factor,

but it's just there. And they love it. Fans still

say wow, don't get me wrong. But you understand

what I'm saying. It's already, like, 20 years

ago was that phenomenon of, what, we filled every

house around the world. Now, you know, it's just

part of our culture. If Power Rangers is not

on TV, it's like, what? What? Are you kidding

me? SpongeBob's not on TV? What? SpongeBob, where

do you go? No, it's just the way it is. And I

think the problem with Power Rangers today is

with the current series that's going on, Samurai,

and a couple series before that, is that the

storytelling is just, Not as good as it used

to be. That's the problem. Scotty has two girls,

and he gets them into Power Rangers and everything

else, but if your kids are going to want to get

into it, that's all well and good, but I just

don't see how any of us regular fans, if we have

kids, us old school fans, can even subject our

kids to the... to the new version of Rangers

today. Cause it just, it's not as good as it

used to be. It's more, it seems to me, it seems

to me it's more or less, uh, and you know, Saban's

kind of known for this. It's, it seems to today

it's more of a 30 minute commercial than anything,

you know, back, back in the day, you know, when

you guys were on for the first couple of years,

you know, uh, Mighty Morphin, Zio, you know,

even Turbo, obviously. He wants to make his money,

but it was like, oh, this is a good story. These

are good actors. These are good kids. And now

it's like, this is awful. It doesn't matter.

We just put out two new Megazords. We put out

two new Morphers. We put out two new this. And

they just flood the shelves with these. It's

just kind of like it's a big, giant commercial

these days as opposed to a story that sells toys.

It's like toys that are selling a story now.

I agree. I'm just always scared to tell people

that because a lot of fans are always like, well,

I love that. I'm like, I don't. I mean, my little

girl hates it. She's not allowed to watch nothing

past Turbo. Nothing past Turbo, my little girl.

My little girl and all these little kids in karate,

their parents love Power Rangers, but they're

taking them back. to Netflix of what Power Rangers

used to be. And the kids are loving it. The old,

oh, Kimberly. I mean, you know, they're trying

to revamp it, but it's scaring people to the

old school Power Rangers because the parents

want them to watch what they watch. And because

of the, you know, facts and the, I hate saying

the word, cheating, it looks the same. You know

what I mean? You give me one episode, but the

older episodes have more meat to it. The older

episodes have more stories because the older

episodes is... trying to make money that's why

it's the difference the newer ones already make

money so let's just crank out toys let's do this

no doubt about it there's a difference from when

you're trying to be a fighter then you're on

top Sometimes when you're on top, you don't train

as hard, you're not as hungry, and you don't

need to put the milk on the table. So I really

believe they put more focus in those first seasons.

Yeah, they were making money, but then all of

a sudden it just started changing a little. It

was like, ah, yeah, well, once I left, they said,

if you leave, we're firing everybody and we're

going to start afters every year so they don't

become popular like you and they can't have the

power to make decisions like you. That's fine.

So their contracts, when I went back to Disney,

was everything that I'd done wrong. for me to

sign this kind of no tattoos, no this, no skydiving.

It was just, you know, and I just think that

that was their concept. We'll just change the

cast every year. You know, we won't get them

popular, pay them a little bit of money because

what we are is we're selling toys. We're no longer

selling the story. We're no longer selling the

loner. We're no longer selling the nerd kids.

We're no longer selling, you know, Kimberly,

the love story, the, you know, the Walter hip

hop, you know, often they're not selling that

no more. And I think you're right. And you hit

the nail on the head. But sometimes when you

talk to conventions, you get a lot of, well,

wait a second, that's not right. So I just kind

of bite my tongue and people ask me, you know,

what do you do with your little girl? I said,

my little girl can watch every season that I'm

in, period. And the reason for that is not because

it's daddy, it's because those seasons were better.

Yeah. I will say that there are a couple of seasons

after... The Mighty Morphin' Era, like Time Force,

was a really good, well -done, drawn -out story.

You know, there are some good ones, but there,

sadly, are a lot more duds. Do you still keep

in contact with any of the old cast members?

Yeah, I had a power ranger boot camp, and, well,

I just got off the phone talking to Johnny Bosch

right now. He had a boot camp, you know, called

up Walter, called up David, called up Blake,

you know, and Amy, I haven't given... She emails

me. She did email me back the other day. Not

the other day, but, you know, I told her my little

girl loves her and, you know, stuff like that.

But, you know, Austin kind of dropped off. I

don't really know where he's at because I think

right now if me and him did something, like even

a convention or anything, I think he'd be good.

I mean, all that stuff is gone under, you know,

the table with him. I'm 38 years old now, you

know. And, you know, everything else. So I don't

really know the other guys past a certain season,

to be honest. Well, right. Well, yeah, I meant

more so. When I went back to Dino Thunder, it

was the weirdest thing. You know, they put me

on tour. And every person on tour, every news

station, every talk show I did goes, are they

gone still? And I'm like, yeah, I mean, I just

did a season. Well, they just came back. I'm

like. No, no, they, you know, they were running

the whole, the people just did not know. And

it was very awkward for me and weird to go on

tour to try to promote something that used to

be, and it still was, but then to what it used

to be, like the White Ranger, Green Ranger, this,

oh, my gosh. And I have to say, since the 20

-year anniversary, my character has seasoned.

You know, it's popular this year. I go places.

I'm getting, you know, sponsorships. I'm getting

this. It's like, and I know I'm promoting the

Facebook and all. But it's just like, oh, my

gosh, you're like a classic. You know, when you

drive a classic car up, everyone's like, what

the heck is that? You know, my God, let's go

look at that. That's how I feel, like an old

classic car pulling into a convention. You know

what I'm saying? And it's a different feeling

than it used to be when I was touring on TV Guide

and touring around Israel. You know, I've learned

more about the show probably in the last past

two years doing conventions than I've ever known

in my whole entire life. I'm sure back then when

you were actually doing the show, it was a whirlwind

blur for you. It's kind of like someone will

ask you about, oh, do you remember this episode,

this quote? Of course you're not going to remember

that because you did so many episodes. That's

one of those things that there's just so much

history. The way we film is we film. Two episodes

a week, but they were mixtures of episodes. It

was like this, that, this, that. You know, they

all, same thing, but it was a mixture of kind

of episodes we'll shoot them as clusters. So

there are seasons that I look now and I go, what

the heck? You know, the seasons that are the

best episodes for me and the whole wide world,

you know, is when my brother was on the show

because my brother died eight, nine years ago.

When my brother played on the show, I cherished

those because... We don't have lots of video.

We were very close with each other. We fought

together. We did. But we don't have video. And

I look at that and I look at what a strong fighter

he was and what a strong individual he was and

what a sucky actor he was. He was so charming.

And he was still this. And he's like, your job's

easy. I said, come to set, man. You can be my

brother. And he was like, yeah, that's fine.

Action. Hey, Tommy. We're going out in the cut.

I'm like, what are you talking like that for?

Well, I don't know, dude. I mean, you know, this

is there. And action. Hey, Tommy, we can go over

here, and you're my brother. I was like, and

cut, and I was like, dude, talk normal. Like,

I'm talking, and they say, action, I'm still

Tommy. And cut, I'm Jason now. You know, so he

had this different pitch of voice that is just

called the actor's voice, and I loved it because

it was like, ain't that easy, dude. You know,

you're calling out crazy monsters, and you're

reacting to green screen, and you're trying to

be stepped on by things that aren't there. It's

not that easy. It's not as easy as everyone thinks

it is. You know, and that's why, like, when you

see sucky actors on a season or whatever, I'm

not going to point to no season, you wonder,

huh, it's not because they suck suck because

it ain't that easy. You actually have to be somewhat

to make it look somewhat of a reel, you know?

And it's just funny. Sometimes I wonder, Jason,

to be honest, to be completely honest, it's like

I imagine, like, this meeting room and they're

like, look, you guys have to be. the worst actors

in the world for this entire season like you

said we're not going to call any seasons out

in case they're going to be on the show or they've

been on the show but there's there's yeah it's

definitely been seasons where i'm just like this

is so terrible that it's just it's it's barely

watchable We can't have an interview with you

without asking about Forever Red and you and

Austin working together again. What was that

like? Was there ever any animosity between you

guys? Not at all, man. You know, it wasn't that

way. It was like, you know, me and Austin to

this day could probably do a convention and put

everything behind us. You know, it just was the

point where if you say you're a fighter and you

just, let's fight. Let's put a fight on for the

fans. Let's do the Battle of the Rangers. You

know, we can get a lot of people that would love

to see it. I mean, if you are who you say you

are, and you kill people in the rings, beat them

up, and you fight underground, and, you know,

you're fighting in Thailand, if these are the

true stories, then why not fight me in the cage

for the fans? And obviously they're not true

stories. And I'm knowing that. And, you know,

I mean, I think maybe he's growing up now to

realize that you can't BS a real martial artist.

You can't BS me. I've been in the business for

34 years. Anything you tell me or anything you

say you can break, I've done. And if I can't

do it, there's someone that a master can, but

you're not a master. And those things, I think,

you know, eating me up for so many years. Like,

oh, if he is, then why now? I let it go. I don't

care. I'll do a conventional in -office. There

was no animosity at all. Nothing was said in

front of my face, nor did we ever get into a

fight. We hung out. We ate. We laughed. Maybe

a little holding it in. You know, like, yeah,

whatever. Maybe we wanted to call each other

names, but we never did. You know, and so we

did have respect for each other. I know everyone's

got this thing about me and Van Damme and me

and Austin St. John and all that stuff. Well,

I call him out as a man in the fight world. And

if you don't step up as a man in the fight world

and give me what I want, then it's back to reality.

Then you're a man in reality. But don't put yourself

a man in the cage. Van Dam will be a perfect

fight. I got way more fans than he does right

now at this point. I don't care if he's old.

He wants to fight. Why not put him in the cage?

I'm his weight class now. So why not put him

in the cage? Why not even get a call from a manager

saying, hey, Jason, knock the crap off. You're

causing too much problems. Or why not even get

an eyebrow raised? You know why? They don't give

me the time of the day. But I'm not no just Joe

Blow out there that's blowing smoke. I'm saying

if Van Damme steps to the page right now, let's

get it going. I don't care if it's in Russia.

Let's just fight. I used to like the guy. I used

to love his movies. People say they want to fight

me because it's an honor. I never understood

that. I'd love to fight Van Damme, but if he

can't step up, back to reality. If he can't step

up to what he said, back to reality. We've heard

a lot of different stories. To be perfectly honest,

this is the first time I've heard of Van Damme,

but I've heard so many. austin st john stories

about how uh he hated you because of this or

you hated him because of that or you guys didn't

get along because of this reason i mean i mean

i've seen you know interviews with you or even

at the convention where uh you looked over to

uh what uh mike helped me out here what's rocky's

real name uh steve verdinas and you looked at

you looked at steve and you go i'm glad it's

you as the red ranger not that other red ranger

you know just stuff like that that that, you

know, people have picked up on. So, I mean, obviously,

there was some kind of something. You're not

an MMA fan, right? Yes, absolutely. You like

MMA, right? Absolutely. Well, there's hype in

that stuff. Yes, the feelings are, but there's

hype into it. Look at, you know, Kostchek with

George St. Pierre. He made it happen. Look at

Sony with the spider. Y 'all, I'm the one for

you. You got your ass kicked. I'm a spider. And

I knew that was going to happen. I love Anderson

Silva. He's a masterpiece. I don't care what

anyone says. I will sit at a party and say I'm

calling the second round. And that's just the

way it is. And there's always hype into what

goes on. Now, that hype is created from real

emotions. But after you get two men in the cage

to fight their heart out, they become friends.

Like Anderson, let's have a barbecue or something.

Let's have a barbecue. Yeah, that was pretty

funny. In order to get there, there has to be,

if you're a fighter, let's fight and let's get

to that level where we can have a barbecue with

our kids. I never got that with Austin. He says

that on this, on that. That's the reason why

I hold this. this grudge, this animosity, this

hype. I was pumping him up. I was saying whatever

I could so I can get you on the phone. I called

you five times on the phone, you know, different

random times to say I got a promoter to pay us

$25 ,000 to fight. Let's get the fight going.

Let's get the fight going. I even called back

to say I won't even hurt you that bad. Please

call me back. And I never got a response. And

I just feel as a fighter, you've got, you know,

shown me after the spider for years, two and

a half years. He's after this. I almost won you.

I want you. Calling him out in the cage. Now

he did. He's not going to get a chance again.

He lost, you know, not that bad, but he lost.

He's not going to get a chance. You know what?

They're friends now. So all my point was, let's

put it in the cage. All this talk and all this,

I'm a fighter and I do this. It's annoying. Everywhere

we went, every interview you went, I'm a humble

guy from martial arts. I would say this and instantly

he would say, I'm a fighter. I'm not here to

knock, dude. You never fought one day in your

life. Yes, I did. Fought underground in Thailand.

Killed a guy. It was his birthday. Literally,

like, serious. It was his birthday. No joking.

No joking. I promise. I promise you. That's no

joke. These are things that have built up for

years and years and years, finally to the point

I've said, you know what? We're off the show.

Put it in the cage. I'd love to fight you. I'd

love to have you have respect of what a fighter

is about. And even though I might not show that,

That, well, you know, Jason shouldn't act that

way. Yes, it's all hype. That's how you get someone

in the cage. If they're man enough, that's how

you get someone in the cage. Now, I have people

doing that to me. And you know what? When I say

man to man, I don't know you. You can call me

out all day long on YouTube. Guess what? I don't

know you. And I'm not going to show you the respect

because you don't deserve respect to fight with

me in the cage because I don't know you. But

if you know someone and if you train with someone

and you see them in the circuit and you're fighting

and you know them. It's respect. He never gave

me that respect. So what I did is I wrote it

off. You know, I said, forget it. He ain't never

getting there. Man, let's be friends. Wherever

Austin St. John is today, you know, he should

be out there doing conventions. For whatever

reason, he's not. Yes, did he get teased because

he gained weight? Yes. Is it sad? Yes. Should

people have room to talk? No. People call him

names on, you know, this and that, and you gain

weight. Unfortunately, we are in the public's

eye, and people are going to judge us all the

time. That's why I stay fit. I don't care what

people think, but I'm a superhero for the rest

of my life. And I don't care if I'm walking with

a cane. I'm going to beat you up with that cane.

You know what I mean? I've got to live what I

live. And not because of Power Rangers. I'm trying

to live in this Power Ranger. Power Rangers are

karate people. I was a karate master before.

I'm a karate master after. It just happened to

be Power Rangers fit into my superhero character.

And that's all it is. So I'm a martial artist.

And I'm happy that Tommy was a martial artist.

So we have stuff in common. Martial arts is for

life. And not to dig too deep in here into your

personal life, but I'm a friend with you on Facebook,

and I'm a friend on your fan page, and it's also

very refreshing to see a picture of you and your

daughter reading a book. It's refreshing to see

you with a picture of your daughter with a puppy,

and it's not just – and you can kind of tell

by the stuff you say. is real you speak you speak

from your heart you're not about you know you're

not running around with a green helmet all the

time you're not running around with a white helmet

all the time like hey look at me you know what

i didn't i didn't embrace that power ranger stuff

for the longest time until you all wanted it

you know what i mean i was never yeah absolutely

what i yeah you know and i figured man my wife

said you know you didn't put on a costume for

10 years why now i said because my little girl

she's eight you know i'm saying i'm her hero

And then for her, it's like, you know, and I'm

like, for these guys, can you look at the way

they act? I'm back there going, God, you know,

I don't want to be in this costume. It's hot.

You know, my groin is just, I don't like this

cuff. You know, and then they come in, hey, buddy,

how you doing today? And they're 25. They turn

to five again. Oh, my God, dude. Oh, and they're

shaking. And they're holding you. And, oh, man,

this is the best moment of my life. And the more

you hear that, the more you want to do. And the

more you put your personal feelings aside to

say, you know what, I'm not, you know, I'm not.

that good not to get into that costume. You know,

I'm doing it for the fans. And you know what?

Before, if I didn't want to get into this and

I didn't want to embrace it, I feel I have an

ego problem. But you know what? I don't have

an ego problem to step into something that's

going to make someone happy. Am I always happy

backstage wearing it? No. Am I unhappy right

now with that one person that said something

about my daughter on Facebook? Yes. You know

what I mean? And it was very, very, very horrible

what they said about my daughter. Therefore,

that one person, unfortunately, that one psychotic

person that says this and says that, terrible

things about my daughter, makes me hesitant.

For all those 64 ,000 fans, it's like I get scared.

But I'm not going to let one person ruin something

for everyone else. You don't have to. To be honest,

yeah. You don't have to go into it, but I'm not

exactly sure what you're speaking of. But what

I'm trying to say is I do agree that you are

a real person, that you do speak from your heart

because of pictures, because of the way you speak,

because of some of the other stuff you do that

you're not all about yourself. And, you know,

you do embrace the Power Ranger thing because

of us. And I just, it's just really refreshing

that. You mentioned earlier about the, I'm sorry

to cut you off, Scotty. You mentioned earlier

about, you know. an old tommy with a cane and

the only thing i can think of is you darn putties

get off my lawn yeah i know it's funny man i've

like i said i've learned so much more but you

know you have to understand like when i watch

things it's not me that's why people are like

i can't believe it's not me it's like i watched

this guy on tv i was never a power ranger fan

because i was stuck into the middle of everything

i never really had collectible things because

i just You know, I was there in the moment. It

was my job. It was like a fireman that saves

people. It was a cop that defended his block,

and he didn't think twice about it. If he shot

a guy, he didn't think twice about it. It's just

that was his job, and this was my job. And, you

know, and what happened was it moved so many

people that a lot of actors are like, that's

dumb, dude. That's stupid. I hear something,

oh, you changed my life. How in the hell? I've

been backstage before. I've heard actors say

that about their fans. But then I start thinking,

a change in life, well, that's good. I'm glad.

I'm glad I changed your mind. I think the majority

of the fan base loves you for what you did with

what you were on at the time and even coming

back to do Forever Red and coming back to do

Dino Thunder. If someone would have told me I

would have been able to talk to you a year ago,

I would have probably laughed in their face because

I'm like, okay, well, he was a Power Ranger once.

He's doing all this other stuff now. And I understand

making time for fans and everything else, that's

great. But I'm absolutely ecstatic that we were

able to actually talk to you for this length.

I would have said if you would have said I would

have talked to you in a year, I would have said

if you ran into me, you definitely would have

talked. Because, you know, like I said, I always

take the time. And you know what? I take time

when people don't even know who I am. I'm the

same Jason Frank as I am. as Jason Frank from

Power Rangers, Jason Frank from MMA, Jason Frank

from Cheese and Tap, or just a standard guy that

leaves and helps somebody out. And then afterwards

they go, who's that guy? You know, I didn't know.

You know, so many times I run into it. To me,

it doesn't matter who you think I am. If I like

you, I like you. There's a lot of people I like.

And, you know, I love talking to people and I

love being. you know, humble the people. I moved

my karate schools, no lie. I haven't told a lot

of people this, but I moved to a town called

Humble because I wanted to always make a Rising

Sun shirt that says, come get humbled at Rising

Sun Karate Humble. You know, and it's just a

humble place. It's an humble, humble, and I think

that being humble and not carrying yourself,

and that's another thing, not saying nothing

wrong. I've seen St. John carry himself like

a star. Man, you're not no star. I'm just as

big, if not popular, than you on the show, and

I'm not acting that way. Don't act that way to

people. I don't get along with people. I don't

care if you're a fighter. I don't care if you're

a businessman. If you think you're higher and

mighty than someone else, I'm not sitting with

you. That's just the way it is. The people I

get along with, you have to understand, I come

from a family with not a lot of money, and money

wasn't driven. We're not driven off money. We're

driven off relationships. We're driven off emotions.

We're driven off how you are. If you think about

it, we're all, you know. music instruments you

know I mean you can strum a guitar and then put

it put it right next to a quiet you know quiet

guitar and all of a sudden people you know we

feed off each other's uh energy so the people

I want to be around are positive people you know

and it's not just successful people because a

lot of my friends that I have don't have a lot

of money and but they don't ask me for things

you know and uh I think that they're real people

you know I saw Steve Harvey on a show big TVN

or something giving his testimony. And, man,

I felt what he was saying about people blobbing

you, people saying stuff that they don't even

know about you. You know, all his friends are

real guys. They're not famous. They're not this.

You know, and I don't consider myself famous

at all. And, you know, if I did, I think I'd

be a whole different person and my Facebook wouldn't

have the fans that I have because I do take the

time to talk to them. I love to see what someone

says. And you know what? If someone says, hey,

I got a question for you. I know you've heard

it a thousand times. Which color do you like

to be? You know, I have people already answer.

He's already asked that. I will go right on and

say, you know, green. You know, I like green.

I like white. Because you know what? Even though

I've heard it a million times, it's the first

time they ask me. It's new to them. Yeah. So

a lot of these, you know, people are like, dude,

you've asked me already. You know, and they're

so tired of answering. I think that we need to.

When, you know, everyone asks me, I like to refresh

it a little bit and think about it. And if I

was in their shoes and I asked somebody and they

said, dude, I've already answered that a hundred

times, I'd be like, all right, well, I ain't

never asking you something. Thanks for being

my hero. You know, I would. That's what I would

do. And I don't want no one to ever be like that.

Like, gosh, man, even when I'm in a bad mood

or, you know, I'm always, I try to take care

of people's feelings because I don't want them

to leave with the bad taste in their mouth or

leave like. You know, if you can imagine looking

up to someone for so many years and saying, I

never thought I'd talk to you, that's great that

we talk. I never, you know, really never thought

I'd talk to you guys either because, you know,

that's the way life puts us, you know. So anyway,

I just think that I always try to refresh the

questions and, you know, don't want to make someone

feel like that. And I don't want someone to be

like, I looked up to this guy for so long and

what a jerk he was, you know what I mean? Absolutely.

It's a big role. I got one more quick question.

We appreciate your time, Jason. In the Sentai

in Japan, they just did a series called Gokaiger.

They turned in a bunch of the old Rangers. I'm

not sure if you're aware of this because it's

not really an American -based thing. uh, now

Saban is going to do this thing called go Sager

when everybody will want to do the go Kaiser.

And now they're talking about, uh, maybe like

doing them both together. So they're talking

about bringing some of the old Rangers back on,

but they're kind of, you know, tight lipped about

it. And I was just, I was just wondering if,

if they're going to do that, everybody approached

you, everybody's going to want, yeah. I mean,

Probably, because that's probably what Saban's

talking to my agent about tomorrow. I don't really

have no clue what they're talking about, but

they did mention, I don't know, I don't follow

it a lot, but they did mention some 20 -year

anniversary thing. And I don't know, they were

talking to my manager, I guess development's

talking to them. I don't really know what it's

about and stuff, but they did say that's what

it was about, a 20 -year anniversary thing or

something. One last thing before we let you go.

Shout Factory and Timelife .com are putting out

the 40 -disc season series set from MMPR to Lost

Galaxy. Did you have anything to do with the

MMPR set? Did they interview you for any bonus

features or anything like that on the DVD sets?

Yeah. Awesome. Yeah, we did. I think we did about

an hour interview. It was pretty cool. It was

at my school. I just talked about the good old

times. You know, stuff like that. So, you know,

in regards to the 20th year anniversary thing,

if Saban ever wanted me to do something, I would

do it. And I want my fans to know. And Saban,

you know, has called me and told me, you know,

my fans are lighting up their circuit boards

and asking questions. So, you know, I don't want

the fans to bother them. I got a call from, you

know, Saban's legal department about that, about

their phones have been ringing off the hook with

Tommy fans about questions. You know, but I just

want to let everyone know. that if you hear any

rumors about Jason Frank not doing the 20 -year

anniversary for any other reason, and I would

tell everybody right now, I do things for fun.

I would do it for all my fans, and I would do

it for a dollar. So if it does not happen, it

has nothing to do with me, it has nothing to

do with money, it has to do with Sabah. So if,

you know, the fans did want to see me, they've

already been calling and doing all this stuff,

just bear with me. Because if it happens, it

has nothing to do with money. It has to do with

doing stuff for you guys. And, you know, my little

girl likes that, too. And, you know, me, I'm

a businessman. So anything I do, I got schools.

I got clothing companies. I would do something,

even if I did it for a dollar, and I would end

up, you know, doing really good and promoting

there. And, you know, people would love it. And

fans would love it, too. That's just what it

comes down to. So, you know, we'll see how things

go with Saban and the phone call tomorrow. And,

you know, that's what's going to come down. It's

not going to come down. I just want my fans to

know it doesn't come down and say, point where

you do have to take care of yourself well I'm

financially blessed right now with everything

that I got and everything that I do is not for

money it's not for anything else it's because

I do it for fun that's what I did MMA for I would

fight on UFC for a dollar I would if I'm having

fun you see you do your radio show for free because

you have fun yeah fun's still there and um you

know I just think it would be great and we'll

see what happens with it all yeah All right,

we will ask you to hold the line, and we will

be back after this. Welcome, Power Rangers. This

promises to be a momentous occasion. You are

about to meet the newest member of your team.

As you are aware, the Green Ranger's power was

completely decimated by his last few battles.

Alpha and I felt it was time to create an even

more powerful ranger to combat Lord Zedd and

his diabolical evil. To that end, a candidate

was selected, and a new Power Ranger was created.

And now, my friends, I present to you, the White

Ranger. The time has come to reveal your identity.

Guess who's back? I don't believe it. Thanks,

man. We didn't know who it was going to be. We

were all hoping it would be you. Especially Kimberly.

Speaking of Kimberly... Hey, beautiful. It's

time to wake up. I don't believe it. I must be

dreaming. Is it really you? In the flesh. Man,

awesome. Simply awesome. Fantastic. Aye, aye,

aye, aye, aye. Oh, this human emotion. Oh. So,

Power Rangers, may I assume that you are pleased

with the new leader of the Power Team? This is

great. I'm sorry for being secretive. We had

to guard against Lord Zedd's interference. But

sort on how? I mean, I thought that Tommy lost

his powers for good. Not Tommy's. The Green Ranger's

powers were gone for good. That is correct. However,

Tommy has proven himself to be worthy and true.

His courage, strength, and honor allowed us to

choose him to be the new White Ranger. This time,

his powers have been created by the light of

goodness and can never be taken away by the forces

of evil. The new Ranger will control the White

Tiger Zord, a zord of strength and fierceness.

He will carry an enchanted white saber known

as Saba. Saba will assist the White Ranger in

battle as well as control the new zord. Extend

your hand, White Ranger, and accept all that

has been granted to you. Oh, freaking awesome.

Oh, my God. That's over an hour with Jason David

Frank. That's just amazing. When we first started,

I was thinking, I mean, I hope we get to talk

to this guy for, you know, a half hour, 40 minutes.

But, I mean, what you hear about him is the honest

to God truth. Because that's a legit dude. That's

a real dude right there. Yep. Yep. He took time

out of his night to, you know, to talk to, you

know, me and you, you super nerds. And I love

him for that. That's amazing. I love how embraceful

he is of the fans because he realizes that, oh,

hey, I have all these fans and all these people

that love me. Why not embrace them? And I absolutely

love that about him. I love that he is as real

as he is, and I just love hearing him. You know,

tell the stories of the Power Rangers stuff or

talk about his clothing line or talk about his

MMA stuff. Anything the guy has to say, I'll

listen to. I actually told him off -air. It's

not, it won't be in, it wasn't in the interview,

but I told him off -air. You know, when I first

saw Forever Red and I saw just that silhouette,

I knew exactly before, you know, just before

Bulk handed him the phone, I knew who it was.

And I teared up because it was like, you know,

between Mighty Mor... Well, between Zeo and Forever

Red, he wasn't on any of the seasons, obviously,

because he had moved on and everything else.

And it was just amazing, amazing times talking

with him. Just so awesome. You know what I totally

meant to ask him was, during Dino Thunder, there

was about, I don't know, maybe 10 episodes, 15

episodes where he was stuck. in his yeah the

voiceover i i think that was a scheduling thing

i don't know i asked was he was he at one of

his you know was his schools was he filming something

what was he doing because that was you know it

was obvious that you know jdf is busy doing something

else but you know at least he's doing some uh

via satellite you know voiceover swarm Yeah,

he is one of the ultimate businessmen when it

comes to doing multiple projects or anything

else. It was just amazing talking to him. So

there you go, ladies and gentlemen. I don't know

of, you know, not to take away from any of the

other Rangers, but for those of you who have

been listening to the last 14 episodes of From

the Command Center, the podcast, you know that

Scotty and I are huge. Tommy fans. So for us,

that was like the penultimate interview. And

this is no disrespect to any other actors, but

there isn't another interview right now that

I would love to get more than just having the

last hour talking with Jason David Frank. It

was just freaking amazing. Well, and I'm almost

certain that probably 95, 99 % of all Ranger

fans are going to think that because like we

said earlier, he's pretty much... the power ranger

you know anything you look at you know you got

transformers it's obviously it's it's uh optimus

prime you know there's always a leader there's

always a main face even if he hasn't been in

there from you know from turbo to dino thunder

and then you know he hasn't been in there since

dino thunder it's like he's still the he's still

the face yeah you know even people that don't

know him are just still they still know him even

though you know darn Oh, darn, I just had a really,

really strange comparison. He is the John Cena

of Power Rangers. I was thinking Hulk Hogan of

Power Rangers the entire time I was talking to

him. So I totally agree with what you're saying.

You know, we've got the Dino Thunder episode

coming up later this week, and we're going to

be doing that. And in Dino Thunder, in episode

500 overall of Power Rangers, in Legacy of Power,

they say our teacher is... The oldest living

Power Ranger. And then Haley comes in and says,

not the oldest, but he's the best. Yeah, just

the best. And not to give too much away from

our Dino Thunder episode, but my favorite part

of the entire season was when right after around

that time where he becomes the Black Ranger.

And they're like, you know, where are you going?

He's like, well, you know, I had to look through

my closet and I need to get a little bit more

black or something like that. I'm just like,

yes, that just happened. So there you go, ladies

and gentlemen, Jason David Frank here on From

the Command Center, the podcast. Things can only

go up from here, I guess. I don't know. Have

we peaked when it comes to interviews now, I

guess? I don't know. I would say, yeah, but we've

yet to have a bad interview. Obviously, he's

going to be our favorite because we're marks,

but all the other interviewers were still really

good. So, I mean, as long as we get to keep talking

to these amazing people, I'm all for it. I would

love to be able to talk to Emma Lahana, who was

Kira in Dino Thunder, and Latham Gaines, who

was Mezagog. You're working on those, right?

Yeah, I'm working on them. I need to start doing

the contacts, so I need to start. sending out

the emails and all that stuff so all you all

you need to put is look we already spoke to jace

at david frank who what do you want and they'll

just be like oh well okay so we'll be on wednesday

all right we will see you guys later on this

week when we do the dino thunder episode our

teacher is the oldest living power ranger not

the oldest just the best of the great Dr. Tommy

Oliver. I heard my name. You missed me, didn't

you, Zeltrax? Yes! All right! Awesome! Right

on! You made it! Hey, Dr. Rowe, what's this?

A black dino gem. Let me guess. The power of

invisibility. Looks like it. That gem belongs

to my master. There's two things you guys need

to learn about dino gems. One, You can't choose

them. They choose you. What's the other? They

go real well with Dinomorphers. Aren't you a

little old for this, Tommy? I may be old, but

I can still pull it off. energy reading on the

tracking system. I had a good idea it was another

gym, so I had Haley build a morpher just in case.

And the day of my gig? I was coming to tell you

guys the energy had moved and we needed to investigate.

When you were nabbed by the goon patrol. Brutal.

Yeah, but it all turned out okay. Well, I better

get going. Going? Where are you going? Show me.

I checked my closet this morning and there's

a serious shortage of black in there. See ya.