Johnny Yong Bosch Talks About Experience With Homeless Woman - Anime Central 2012

Here is a video of Johnny Yong Bosch (2nd Mighty Morphin Black Ranger) telling a hilarious true story at the Anime Central 2012 convention about his experience interacting with a homeless woman.

Bosch says that whenever he leaves from work, he takes the same freeway and after exiting a long offramp, he usually sees a homeless man standing at the corner of the traffic lights. He typically ignores them and drives away.

One day, Johnny is driving home from work, gets to the same place, stops at the red light, and is munching on carrots in a Ziploc bag that he had leftover from lunch. Behind him, a big monster truck with tinted windows pulls up. Johnny gets scared and starts eating his carrots fast because there might be some angry person driving the truck. He's thinking, "As soon as that light changes green, I better get out of here because he's gonna kill me!"

Looking over to his side, there is a homeless woman standing there this time instead of a homeless man. His heart went out to her and he felt like giving her something. He grabbed about 2 pounds of quarters from his cupholders and put them into the plastic Ziploc bag. That's right, 2 pounds. He has a lot of change because there are parking fees that he has to pay in Los Angeles.

He then rolls down the windows and suddenly, the light changes green and the other cars take off quickly. He panics and doesn't know how to give the homeless woman the money quickly without her grabbing him out of the car and before the monster truck driver gets mad and runs him over.

After thinking for a second, he finally decided to flick the bag of money into the lady's hands and get out of there. Unfortunately, he accidentally threw the money smack into the lady's face. The traumatic scene felt like it was happening in slow motion to Johnny. The bag ripped open with quarters falling everywhere. As he is driving away, he looks back and was like, "Noooo! Why?! I was doing such a good thing!"

Ever since that incident, he never saw a homeless person there ever again. The homeless people must have heard about it and decided to avoid the place in fear of going through the same experience.

There is a lesson to all of this, Johnny says, and that is "Don't give money to homeless people while driving!"

Ciara Hanna and Jason Smith Dating?! - Yellow Megaforce Meets Red Jungle Fury

These photos have surfaced the internet some time ago in 2013 and got fans surprised for many reasons:

1. Casey the Red Jungle Fury Ranger is back for Super Megaforce!
2. It seems as though Ciara Hanna and Jason Smith are dating. They do look like they are a couple, especially when they're staring into each other's eyes in the first picture. The two have also tweeted each other in a teasing manner as well.
3. Even if they are not dating, then maybe their characters are romantically linked and now the actors have become close friends. Will Casey be Gia's love interest?

It is now 2014 and we are not exactly sure if these two are still or ever were dating, but here are the photos below. Special thanks to those who took them and posted them!

(from Morphin Legacy, March 19, 2013)

(from Tokunation, July 21, 2013)

(from Tokunation, July 21, 2013)

(from Nakeshaclark)

Power Rangers Super Megaforce - How Will Tommy Oliver’s Return Be Explained?

In May 2013, Jason David Frank confirmed on his official Facebook page and through various sources that he would be returning for a special guest appearance to Saban Brands’ Power Rangers in its 21st season, Power Rangers Super Megaforce, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the franchise. Well known for portraying the legendary and probably the most popular character in all of Power Rangers history, he expressed much excitement to his fans when he broke the news. Behind-the-scenes production photos were posted on Facebook which showed him wearing the iconic Mighty Morphin Green Ranger suit with the helmet off. Several other past ranger actors were shown alongside him in some photos. Tommy Oliver is indeed back!

I do wonder how he and some of the former rangers will be getting their powers back. Will there be an explicit and proper explanation? Or are they just going to show up and morph without explaining anything? If there isn’t an explanation, then fans can make up their own theories. After all, anything is possible unless it is directly stated or proved otherwise onscreen. Maybe the writers will do something simple and give us a similar explanation like the one in the 15th anniversary team-up (in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive) in which the Sentinel Knight character said he restored the veteran rangers’ powers.

Since Tommy has served as five different rangers (green, white, twice as red, and black) in the course of ranger history, I also wonder how that will play in to Super Megaforce. There were previews that were released which showed a huge legendary war featuring all Power Rangers and other unknown ones due to the footage being originally produced by the Japanese for their Gokaiger show. Maybe Tommy will only fight as the green ranger while his other forms will be spirits that he calls upon for the war.

I really hope that Tommy’s most recent appearance will be acknowledged during his return. He was previously seen in Disney’s Power Rangers Dino Thunder in 2004 where he was a high school science teacher known as Dr. O with a doctorate degree in Paleontology. It would be nice if the current writers pick up where the Disney writers left off. At least mention it a bit so we know whether he is still a teacher or has switched careers since then. What has good ol’ Tommy been up to these days?

Anna Hutchison & Rose McIver Filming "Blinder" (2013) Movie

Anna Hutchison and Rose McIver are currently filming for the Australian film Blinder which will be released some time in 2013. Both actresses are well known among Power Rangers fans for their previous yellow ranger roles. Hutchison played Lily Chilman in Power Rangers Jungle Fury (2008) and McIver played Summer Landsdown in the following season Power Rangers  RPM (2009). Is it a coincidence that these two Power Rangers alumni are the lead actresses in the upcoming Aussie movie? For some of us, let's consider this a small version of the Jungle Fury-RPM team-up that we never got to see! (sarcasm)

Yellow Jungle Fury Ranger

Yellow RPM Ranger

Blinder is a football movie, particularly AFL (Australian Football League) or Aussie Rules football. According to IF.com.au, the story is about an ex football player (played by Oliver Ackland) who returns home to clear his name after getting involved in a scandal. He also reignites an old flame. Anna Hutchison and Rose McIver will be playing as sisters in the film.

Filming started in February in Torquay and will wrap up in Boston, Massachusetts in May.

Help Johnny Yong Bosch & His Band "Eyeshine" Play at the GRAMMY'S!!

Hey everyone,

Johnny Yong Bosch (the 2nd black ranger from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) is the lead singer of the band "Eyeshine." They are a unique blend of Pop Punk and Edge Rock. Recently, they have entered a contest called "From Your Garage to GRAMMY Live" and whoever wins will get a chance to perform at the 54th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California!

Please help them by voting everyday until the contest ends on January 23, 2012 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. Everyone can vote 10 times per day, so that means you can give Eyeshine 10 votes everyday! To vote: click on the link below, search for the band, and click the vote button.

https://facebook.com/TheGrammys?sk=app_207367796002477

*NOTE: You do need a Facebook account in order to submit your votes.

You can also check out Eyeshine and their music at: 
http://facebook.com/eyeshinemusic?sk=app_2405167945