Tyler, Tom, Ryland and -- for the first time in 50 episodes -- Lisa J take on "Ghosts." The Sentai-burning Gold and Silver intro episode leaves us minus one dumb van and plus two really annoying rangers. You win some, you lose some. Then we launch into a variety of random topics:

-We read synopses of the next round of RPM episodes
-Kamen Rider and logic and their sick, twisted relationship. Also, why Masked Rider was so messed up.
-The RPM vol. 1 DVD hits July 7. Don't be a dirty pirate like Tom. Support the last season.
-Anime Expo is a hair over a week from now. The schedule is up. Let's do this.
-And Brandon MacLaren had to cancel. The SPD Red Ranger, again, had work. And good on him. Besides him, Amy Jo Johnson and Skylar Deleon (Day-lee-on? Or Dee-lee-ohn? Will we ever know), not many PR stars (or fake ones) have shaken the apparent curse.

With the next RPM episode airing *during* Anime Expo, his will be it from us until after the con. Look for Tyler there Thursday through Saturday. If you will be there and have audio/video/photo equipment that you know how to use and wish to help Tyler out, email us. See you at the con!

And speaking of cons, in the time between when this episode was recorded and when it was posted, Power Morphicon 2 was officially announced. Now, we would be lying if we said we didn't have our little birdies out there, but it's reassuring to finally see an official announcement.

And no, the apostrophe in the title is not a typo.

Chris "Cmdr Crayfish" Funaro makes his triumphant return to Rangercast, by popular demand.

Chris, Tyler, Tom and Darrin break down some recent Toku news, including the upcoming Kamen Rider Double and Tsuburaya shopping around Ultraman. Can we haz decent DVDs first?

Next, we break down "Embodied," and we brought our A-Game. What is Venjix doing? Why does Col. Truman not care? Why do the Rangers not mind that Doctor K screwed them all over? Why are Gem and Gemma...existing? Who are you people? AND WHERE IS MY HORSE?!

Also, Rangercast is confirmed to hit Anime Expo in a couple weeks. Send in your questions for the PR guests and we'll try to get them answered.

Finalle, between editing and posting, we got an email from the Parsec Awards. We've been nominated for Parsecs in Best Fan Podcast and Best Speculative Fiction podcast. Wish us luck.

So there was a Fancasts panel back at Balticon. If you didn't know that, you're in good company -- the audience was two, three people at peak. It was 11 PM on a Sunday, so we could have seen it coming, but yet we soldiered on with the mixer and recorder running.

I had the pleasure to share the stage... or dining-room-style table, as it were, in the Chesapeake Suite with Ted and Michele White of Galactica Quorum, Billy Flynn from Geek Radio Daily and MA from Fanboy Hell. We talk shop. How did we get to doing what we do? What have been our personal crowning moments of awesome? What do we do when our target show (be it Battlestar Galactica or, well, Power Rangers) ends? Do all of us have awesome British fans? Find out!

And of course, huge props to Paul Fischer for pulling all of this programming at Balticon together and to the engineer who let me pull the audio data off their computer a the end. We will make an effort to do a live Rangercast next year, so stay tuned.

Also, back by popular demand, it's Rangerboard Masterpiece Theatre! In this installment, GreenRangerPower, a RB member since 2003 with more than 71,000 posts to his name, suddenly wonders why we do what we do. Were it not the policy for RBMT to use only posts made since the last episode, this guy would have given us enough material in a week to last us a year.

Back to your regularly scheduled Rangercast next week. Now off to watch some Shinkenger.