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Q How did you accrue all that debt, by the way?
A Well, I had a big group of harpists from Japan In October of, uh, 1973, ready to tour the country, and the Yom Kippur War took us all by surprise, so obviously there were no concerts, there was no shows, there was no way for them to even leave, because the airport was closed. I had to return the money. I had paid them in advance, and I had a couple of other Bumps in the road, again, that had nothing to do with me, which is the devaluation of the Israeli pound, which meant that we had big shows lined up, where all of the expenses were in dollars, and the revenues were in Israeli pounds, with the devaluation of the pounds, we played, ah, to full houses, and were losing money every night. So these two things compounded, ah, got me to 600,000 dollars in debt.
AI assessment note: “So these two things compounded, ah, got me to 600,000 dollars in debt.”
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Q All right, so a huge, of course, turning point in your life, I guess, happens when you discover this Japanese live action show, uh, which, of course, became the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, but tell me, how did you come across this whole concept? What happened?
A Well, in 1984, I was in Japan, and, ah, you know, stretching on my bed, and the TV on, there were only three channels, two of them showing game shows, or some other reality base that I didn't understand the word, and the third channel had these, ah, kids in spandex kicking monsters' butts, and I thought, hey, this looks like fun. It all of a sudden dawned on me that once they turn into superheroes, meaning into Power Rangers, and they have their masks on, and they're kicking monster butts, it could be anywhere. So all of the action scenes, which is what costs the most money, ah, were basically accounted for. So I thought, well, if I shoot an American segment with American kids in an American environment, and I tie this up into the action sequence, I can create a show for very little money because all the action scenes I would purchase, and That, that sounded to me like a great idea, never mind the fact that I truly enjoyed the show.
AI assessment note: “in 1984, I was in Japan, and, ah, you know, stretching on my bed”
