{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Sylvester Stallone and His Friends' Films Podcast ","title":"Rambo III - (Episode 4) - Horses, Holy Warriors, and a High-Budget Look","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3730,"description":"Ryan welcomes Sicco (Hugging a Cactus / the Mel Gibson podcast, the Arnold podcast, Last of the Action Heroes Network) for his first appearance on It’s a Long Road, the Rambo series podcast.\nThey talk overall Rambo fandom — why First Blood is Stallone’s best acting work — then settle into Rambo III: the well-shot Russian prison sequence with Trautman, the village hospital, Soviet toy mines, Yuri the defector’s rock-and-stick briefing, and the council that decides whether to help free Trautman. Sicco adds real-world timing on the Soviet-Afghan war and why the movie already felt slightly out of date in 1988.\nAlso plugged: Game Changers (starting with G.I. Jane), Bird on a Wire, Nowhere to Run, Spies Like Us, Red Dawn, and the new Arnold season.\n00:00 – Intro and Sicco’s shows (Mel Gibson, Arnold, Game Changers)  \n04:40 – Overall Rambo fandom and First Blood as acting  \n07:00 – How Rambo III felt in 1988 vs now  \n11:20 – Real-world Soviet-Afghan conflict timing  \n16:50 – Back at the Russian base / Trautman in the cell  \n18:00 – Cinematography and theatrical look  \n43:40 – Village hospital, prosthetic limbs, toy mines  \n45:40 – Yuri the defector  \n47:20 – Council meeting and the miniature base briefing  \n51:20 – “I’ll go alone” vs asking for two men  \n53:00 – Holy warriors speech and why Stallone made the movie  \n57:30 – Wrap-up and network plugs","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/k5mRGQ5IwOvp8xtVdAbQQoYvGtUXUbGXnR8wO5416TE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hNTg3/YzM3NjgyNTMwY2Ji/MjlmMDgzYmU2NTQx/OGRlNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}