Sylvester Stallone and His Friends' Films Podcast | Rambo III - (Episode 1) - Stick Fight & Troutman Returns

Host Ryan kicks off Rambo III coverage with special guest Nikki from the Beat the Cult podcast. We dive into the film’s unique opening: Rambo’s intense stick-fighting match in Thailand, his self-flagellation and guilt, Troutman’s surprise arrival at the monastery, and the pitch for the Afghanistan mission.

Nikki shares her Sly Stallone fandom origin story (Rocky IV inspiration during her weight-loss journey), first viewings of the Rambo films, and fresh perspective on the character. Like, comment, and subscribe!

Follow Nikki / Beat the Cult on YouTube (and Twitter).

00:00 Intro & Guest Welcome  
00:53 Nikki’s Beat the Cult Podcast & Atheist Perspective  
07:31 Nikki’s Sly Fandom & Weight Loss Journey  
16:29 First Time Watching Rambo 3  
20:30 Rambo III Opening Credits & Stick Fight Setup  
27:22 Stick Fight Sequence & Self-Flagellation  
36:27 Troutman Arrives at the Monastery  
40:19 Afghanistan Mission Pitch  
43:49 Closing Thoughts & Episode Wrap  

Creators and Guests

Host

Ryan Rebalkin

What is Sylvester Stallone and His Friends' Films Podcast ?

Welcome to the *Sylvester Stallone and Friends* podcast, your go-to show for fans of Sylvester Stallone’s action-packed legacy, hosted by Ryan and a variety of other passionate hosts! This podcast dives deep into Stallone’s standalone films and those of his action-hero contemporaries, with special episodes dedicated to Frank Stallone. Please note that *Rocky* and *Rambo* are covered exclusively on our sister podcasts, *One More Round: The Rocky Series Podcast* and *It’s a Long Road: The Rambo Series Podcast*. Join us for engaging discussions, behind-the-scenes insights, and a nostalgic celebration of the films that defined a genre. Whether you’re a longtime fan or new to the scene, subscribe to the *Sylvester Stallone and Friends* feed for action-packed episodes you won’t want to miss!

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0:1010 secondsthank you
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0:3030 secondsforeign all right welcome to well season three
0:3737 secondsepisode one of our ramble three coverage of it's a long road the ramble series podcast I'm your host as always with me
0:4545 secondstoday we have a very special guest host uh we have Nikki from the podcast beat the cult Nikki welcome
0:5353 secondsthank you thank you so much Ryan for having me it's my pleasure I listen to your well it's a newly launched I guess you could say is this is this your first
1:011 minute, 1 secondtime podcasting in general yes it is this is my first attempt at podcasting well you have a nap for it you have a great voice for it a great
1:091 minute, 9 secondslistening to your too might I say I've listened to your show and your guests that you have on and uh when you had Arden Hart on your episode three your
1:181 minute, 18 secondslistening skills are very good mine are terrible so I I will try to I'll try to be better I talked a lot but no problem you have a guy you have a great ear a
1:271 minute, 27 secondsvery empathetic ear I can tell oh good thank you I try to um I try to show some empathy and try to
1:351 minute, 35 secondsbe perceptive and listen to what my guests have to say I'm glad that I'm getting good feedback well for me I don't know the comments on your YouTube
1:421 minute, 42 secondschannel also indicate good feedback keep doing what you're doing we're gonna talk about what your what Your podcast is about it's Unique and it definitely
1:491 minute, 49 secondsdoesn't apply to everybody and this is uh I'll say this because it's about being an atheist correct yes it is yeah it's about um being an atheist which
1:571 minute, 57 secondshere in the United States is still taboo and carries a negative stigma so I'm trying to right now put a voice
2:062 minutes, 6 secondsum for an atheist out there eventually I'd like to work on getting more theists on the channel because I want to get into debate and philosophical discussion
2:142 minutes, 14 secondsbut right now just getting started off it's um mostly atheists but I'm thinking of probably adding a second aspect to
2:212 minutes, 21 secondsthe channel where I just do theist interviews specifically theists that are religious correct yes more than likely I mean they don't
2:292 minutes, 29 secondsidentify as the is quote unquote but Christian apologists specifically yeah well religion is tricky you're doing
2:362 minutes, 36 secondssomething that's uh I would say controversial is the right word you're in Muddy Waters as they say you know you're absolutely I'm just doing a
2:442 minutes, 44 secondsstupid Rambo podcast the worst thing I'll get mixed up is people that might not like Rambo maybe I should get like a
2:512 minutes, 51 secondsnon-rambledon ramble yeah well come on I'll tell you about Commando versus Rambo uh you're right
3:003 minutesyeah well I I don't know if I'd ever I'm not gonna invite myself onto your show but uh I was I was
3:073 minutes, 7 secondsI was religious growing up uh very much so and very Orthodox yeah I don't want to spoil your journey too much on your show because people should listen to you
3:163 minutes, 16 secondsdo share your story and who you are and where you came from on this but but yeah you and I were both well I was religious
3:233 minutes, 23 secondstoo growing up then I became atheists because once I good yeah once I stop uh believing the way I believed I became
3:313 minutes, 31 secondsatheist which you write it has a connotation I'm even afraid to say it sometimes because I'm same right people are like why you believe nothing then why aren't you just killing and
3:393 minutes, 39 secondsmurdering people I'm like okay slow down slow down like right like that's ridiculous I love how it's only religion that stops me from being a moral person
3:473 minutes, 47 secondsmaybe exactly Like Me Maybe my morality is just based on the fact that I want to be a good person and I'm exactly I'm not looking
3:553 minutes, 55 secondsfor reward but I'd also appreciate if I don't go to hell forever like that'd be nice too yeah exactly well you know according to Jordan Peterson the only
4:034 minutes, 3 secondstrue atheist is one who behaves as dostoyevsky's character did who has no moral compass whatsoever and just decides once God doesn't exist he has
4:114 minutes, 11 secondsfree range to kill and do whatever he feels that's obviously not true as Homo sapiens we know how to exist in a in a
4:194 minutes, 19 secondscohesive Society without religion and we've done it up to this point well up to about 2 000 years ago concerning organized monotheistic religion but yeah
4:274 minutes, 27 secondsokay look you're using all these words I don't understand why don't you just say no I'm so good no I uh yeah you have a very smart podcast me speak dumb me talk about
4:364 minutes, 36 secondsRambo no I love Rambo no worries we're good I think it's a very fascinating discussion again I know you're tackling
4:434 minutes, 43 secondsWaters that are difficult or dangerous or even maybe offensive to people my response to that is I have it a
4:514 minutes, 51 secondsdifferent belief system no matter like I'm not offended if somebody's Christian or Muslim or Baptist or whatever that doesn't actually offend me it doesn't
4:584 minutes, 58 secondsbother me at all to the degree of if someone says I believe in God I'm like that's cool at the end of the day and I know you end your podcast the same way like just don't be a dick is what you
5:055 minutes, 5 secondssay great don't be a dick exactly I totally agree like Rambo and I'm in the military myself actually I will fight oh
5:135 minutes, 13 secondsyeah well I'm just in the Navy I'm nobody but I mean no that's not true you still protect um thank you for your
5:205 minutes, 20 secondsservice I know even in Canada but you also help keep us safe as well yeah we're your tripwire
5:265 minutes, 26 secondsif somebody attacks Canada the US will be on high alert oh no right we'll we'll still probably take a while
5:355 minutes, 35 secondsto get involved though oh yeah yeah like oh yeah those stupid Canadians what have they done for us but that being said yeah I will fight for your freedom to be
5:435 minutes, 43 secondsreligious I I believe everyone should have that freedom we I agree I don't want to live in a nation where my my way or the highway so I agree the market of
5:525 minutes, 52 secondsfree discussion it needs to always exist agreed I agree okay and I hope you get some Theus on your show be able to have
6:006 minutesthat healthy discussion and you're ready to do that public debating that oh too brave for me I would not debate anything I I can't do that I'm terrible at it
6:086 minutes, 8 secondsit's very challenging it's definitely not like having a conversation with your mother I'll tell you that it's not the same my mom doesn't bring up Aquinas and
6:176 minutes, 17 secondsAristotle and all of that unnecessary [ __ ] she just talks about her religious views and it's very different it's tough with family I have a family that listen
6:246 minutes, 24 secondsto this podcast who are still in that religious upbringing that I was Raising and I they love me and I love them and everything's everything's cooler like I'm lucky there's unfortunately it's not
6:336 minutes, 33 secondsalways the case when somebody leaves of uh their faith of their family there can be some hurt feelings or sadness and I just want I want my family to be happy
6:426 minutes, 42 secondsand I want them to be happy I really do I just want everyone to be happy okay can I just say this is for listeners those who see your lovely face on
6:506 minutes, 50 secondsYouTube they don't I don't have to say this but we have we have listeners and I will say you were my first I think you're my oh actually you're my second I
6:586 minutes, 58 secondskind of cheat I have a rocky podcast my co-host on that show is uh is a female and so yeah but you're my first
7:057 minutes, 5 secondstrue guest co-host that I never worked with before on the Rambo podcast because she came on and guessed uh that was Katie she's lovely and but she's like my
7:147 minutes, 14 secondsweekly or bi-weekly co-host on the rocky show but for the ramble one I've had uh rotating guest hosts and the majority of them have all been let's be honest male
7:227 minutes, 22 secondsand they've all been white males okay let's just be honest now you're unique can I just say it's your female Masa
7:317 minutes, 31 secondsyou're a lovely black woman and thank you when I was when somebody reached out to me to reach out to you saying that you're a Sly fan I saw your profile
7:407 minutes, 40 secondspicture I'm like really oh cool because I know it sounds silly but yeah of course there's black sly fans but not
7:477 minutes, 47 secondsvery many that are atheists lesbian and black so tell me yeah well I guess I'm a lesbian lesbian I
7:567 minutes, 56 secondsguess yeah I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body myself so um that's funny how did this happen what's going on I mean was this a normal
8:048 minutes, 4 secondsupbringing for yours or did you find them later in life or no actually my father was a very or is a very huge Sly fan okay I was raised on
8:138 minutes, 13 secondsRocky um we would sit down every once in a while and watch the Rocky movies the first one that I saw was actually Rocky IV that one's my favorite probably
8:228 minutes, 22 secondsbecause of that and also I like the challenge that he puts himself through which I learned more about later in life but I always kind of saw him as just
8:318 minutes, 31 secondskind of like Schwarzenegger like he's just an old school actor you know my dad loves him he had Rocky and Rambo on VHS and I tried to watch the Rambo movies
8:408 minutes, 40 secondsbut I didn't have interest as a child I hope to find now because we're about to talk a little bit of a ramble three I have watched Rambo 3 how many times
8:498 minutes, 49 secondsover the past year or so probably about 10 or 15 times over the past yeah I he so I went okay so I have been um going
8:588 minutes, 58 secondsthrough kind of a weight loss journey I used to be like 345 pounds but I've lost
9:049 minutes, 4 secondsa lot yes and most of that kind of you know comes from hard work I didn't get any bariatric surgery it was just a
9:129 minutes, 12 secondschange of lifestyle and implementing exercise habits that I really haven't had since high school what's the big thing yeah let our listeners know what was a big thing you cuddo
9:209 minutes, 20 secondssugar yeah sugar I was gonna say sugar bread sugar bread man like you know it's sort of like heat that's what keto is
9:289 minutes, 28 secondsbut at the end of the day sure sugar sugar is just all it does is turn into fat but your body doesn't need yeah it doesn't
9:369 minutes, 36 secondsum the only sugars you really need is like from fruits sure or any type of residual sugars and maybe a sweet potato
9:439 minutes, 43 secondsor a carrot you really don't need to be eating sugar no one got fat from eating an apple nope you can eat a whole bushel
9:509 minutes, 50 secondsof apples and knock every day and not get fat yeah but um just seeing how much hard work actually goes into losing
9:579 minutes, 57 secondsweight exercising and yeah like September I remember the day ironically it was like September 11th last year
10:0510 minutes, 5 secondssomething just struck me to watch Rocky IV oh I know what it was I went to try to I went to a boxing gym because I was
10:1310 minutes, 13 secondsI've always wanted to get into boxing and went to this gym and I wasn't quite in shape enough I never went back it inspired me to watch Rocky IV I was
10:2110 minutes, 21 secondswatching it and watching him just do all of these really intense physical activities like the logs and the pulling
10:3110 minutes, 31 secondsthe sled and running up the mountain and I'm really realizing that this person is doing all of this while concurrently directing and writing and all of these
10:4110 minutes, 41 secondsthings and I'm like this person's pretty impressive because it's very hard to just act in a movie period so I was like who is this person and well like with my
10:5010 minutes, 50 secondsrecent you know my recent efforts and losing weight and how exhausting it is and how I'd start building up my exercise regimen and realizing that
10:5810 minutes, 58 secondsit's hard for me to just do a workout in my home let alone do all of that while directing a movie and writing it and all of that so in choreographing the boxing
11:0711 minutes, 7 secondsscenes as well as you know he did that and yeah he works very hard he's awesome he's he's insane um he's terrifying one of
11:1611 minutes, 16 secondsyour podcast episodes you talked about Sly there at the end and you said that you would go straight for him like there were there's a part of you this oh yeah
11:2311 minutes, 23 secondsokay okay yes it goes both ways you're right you know
11:3011 minutes, 30 secondsI know right actually as as like Macho and crazy as my dad is I'm almost positive yeah like the rocky Force Sly when he's
11:4011 minutes, 40 secondsdoing those leg lifts into stomach muscles I'm just like oh it's not fair I mean it's fair it's very torturous yeah
11:4711 minutes, 47 secondsyes oh he works hard he's workout regimen just learning about his story and how he he obtained I guess the
11:5511 minutes, 55 secondsphysical deformity how that happened and where he was born in his family social status and the abuse and the alcoholism
12:0212 minutes, 2 secondsI came to learn this later his daughters have a podcast called the unwaxed podcast and they had him on and they were asking
12:1112 minutes, 11 secondshim about his story and he said his parents left him at a nursing home at age five and how he's been in between
12:1812 minutes, 18 secondsFoster Care Homes he said he's been in 13 Foster Care Homes just seeing where he is it takes a very mentally fortified person
12:2612 minutes, 26 secondsto not only be you know be as successful well-adjusted per you know adult coming from his background but to achieve the
12:3312 minutes, 33 secondslevel of success that he has to be as disciplined and precise and meticulous as he is and I was listening
12:4012 minutes, 40 secondsto a lot of his interviews and he has a lot of insight and a lot of wisdom is very intelligent he's very articulate
12:4812 minutes, 48 secondshis vocabulary is ridiculous he's just a very impressive person he's very impressive yeah he's impressive so he
12:5812 minutes, 58 secondsinspired me yeah it really is he inspired me while simultaneously making me question a few things about bisexual
13:0513 minutes, 5 secondsyou know I can't even lie it was like that's okay we're on a bit of a spectrum maybe I don't know I know some men refuse to
13:1213 minutes, 12 secondseven say that no we're I think there's a mentor in our soul a little bit I mean oh yes but I'm a married man anyway so whatever right man don't tell my wife I
13:2113 minutes, 21 secondssaid that but uh I won't tell her I never also want to say about that I also listened to a conservative podcast too I always like to listen to oh good
13:2813 minutes, 28 secondsdifferent yeah like I've listened to some even some of the whatever left or right side or podcast is a good podcast I want to
13:3613 minutes, 36 secondshear a good discussion so I do exactly yeah I do listen to some conservative talk absolutely because there's some conservative values there's the whole thing from my upbringing well okay well
13:4413 minutes, 44 secondsyou like Sly you love Sly you've watched I love it and you love the ramble films which is good and you've seen ramble
13:5113 minutes, 51 secondsthree you said 10 times last year I kind of went through it kind of embarrassingly enough a bit of a kind of an obsessive phase where I was
14:0014 minuteswatching all of his movies I went through like all of his movies I think the only one I haven't seen is Victory it's a good one
14:0914 minutes, 9 secondsit's fun I think it's worth investigating I think you should watch it it's I do need to watch it yeah it's interesting to always seeing the young
14:1614 minutes, 16 secondsslide that isn't the rocky ramble movies it's not a great great film there's a lot of flaws in the film but at the end of the day if you if you want to see Sly
14:2414 minutes, 24 secondsin those early 80s type films it's a unique film he plays a goalie terrible soccer player but it's just funny to watch Sly pretend he's good at soccer
14:3214 minutes, 32 secondsbecause in the film yeah yeah I love Sly but his ego is pretty funny it's pretty funny his ego he did say back especially
14:4014 minutes, 40 secondsin the mid 80s he was quite an [ __ ] well it's like just like that he's grown and he's matured I think we he has he has matured a lot and um I watched
14:4914 minutes, 49 secondseverything Oscar to offer my mom will shoot which he continuously says he hates and um
14:5614 minutes, 56 secondshe's I'm a little I'm two weeks behind on Tulsa King but that's the last thing I've seen Yeah you mentioned that you weren't too so I was a little surprised
15:0415 minutes, 4 secondsby that are you downplaying a little bit you mentioned you weren't that crazy I mean love slying it but you're not digging the show in general is it the
15:1115 minutes, 11 secondscharacters the storyline it's a little corny um kind of like Samaritan was very corny but he was
15:1915 minutes, 19 secondsSylvester Stallone he's so yeah have you seen episode five and episode six just came out the Times Record but episode
15:2715 minutes, 27 secondsfive would have been about a week and a half ago no I'm I'm behind two episodes yeah probably so
15:3615 minutes, 36 secondswhen you see episode five send me a message because at the end scene you're gonna see it kill someone I'm not gonna well I won't say but he does some
15:4415 minutes, 44 secondsbadassery on somebody where you're like holy smokers right because you talked about it right Samaritan where you get
15:5015 minutes, 50 secondslike watching fly be physical well you'll see some gangster Sly in this episode yeah yeah well that's what I've
15:5815 minutes, 58 secondsbeen waiting for I've uh uh his daughter's podcast he said that
16:0716 minutes, 7 secondshe wanted to be a comedian and that is just the funniest thing ever because I don't want to see him talking I want to
16:1416 minutes, 14 secondssee him kill him so that's why I like Rambo is his best character but he says that Rambo is nothing like him as a
16:2116 minutes, 21 secondsperson so we talked about you've watched this recently but do you remember the first time you saw Rambo 3 in particular since we're starting the ramble 3
16:2916 minutes, 29 secondscoverage do you remember when you first saw this film okay remember if my dad had Rambo 3 on VHS but I probably did
16:3616 minutes, 36 secondsactually the first time I actually sat down and watched it was last year in September okay very recent I kind of
16:4416 minutes, 44 secondswent through kind of a bit of an obsessive phase where I was like like I said watching all his movies and the ones that I liked I was watching over and over whether I had them on in the
16:5316 minutes, 53 secondsbackground or I did watch Rambo 3 quite a bit Rambo 2 Rambo 4 is my favorite Rambo
16:5916 minutes, 59 secondsum because he wrote and directed it and watching him work is impressive he's
17:0517 minutes, 5 secondsvery it's just oppressive person that you're fandom lies a little bit of what he does even behind the camera that
17:1317 minutes, 13 secondsmakes you like something a little bit more a lot more gums they're very
17:2017 minutes, 20 secondsadorable in Rambo 3 he's in Israel and off you know the Dead Sea and it's very hot he said that the temperatures got
17:2917 minutes, 29 secondsabove 100 but he's still very focused still writing and because he you know co-wrote it and he's just a very focused
17:3817 minutes, 38 secondsdisciplined person no matter where he films so he's pretty impressive all right well I haven't mentioned this on the podcast so for my listeners the
17:4617 minutes, 46 secondsfirst maybe I have actually maybe I have but the first time I saw ramble three it actually was in the theaters remember I'm older right oh very cool yeah oh wow
17:5517 minutes, 55 secondsI saw ramble well first blood and then of course ramble First Blood Part Two I saw those both on VHS like your dad and Washington multiple times but when
18:0418 minutes, 4 secondsramble 3 rolled around the theaters it was released 1988 that's right so I was just shy of
18:1118 minutes, 11 secondsturning 13 at the time oh so cool so I was to my mother bless her heart she took myself my 10 year old brother it's
18:1818 minutes, 18 secondsjust so funny it's okay Mom I've shown are my 10 year old son and all all my I have five Sons so whoa you are freaking
18:2718 minutes, 27 secondsyeah what five sounds and and uh one daughter actually in fact uh the oldest is 24 and then the youngest are eight-year-old twins so I'm wow wow
18:3718 minutes, 37 secondsthat's excellent you're definitely spreading your jeans that's good that's what you're supposed to do yeah yeah there's more of me running around more
18:4518 minutes, 45 secondsgenetic Rhino Balkans running around no they're good kids I I'm very lucky I'm very blessed as they say so I'm very lucky so anyway so I've shown all of
18:5318 minutes, 53 secondsthem the ramble films not ramble four now I showed by my 10 year old Navy oh Rambo fours well it's just funny to think these films are so tame compared
19:0119 minutes, 1 secondto some in many ways there's violence but not the way it doesn't really get kind of insane until Rambo four and then
19:0919 minutes, 9 secondsRambo five is really brutal he's very violent yeah it's excellent it's yeah it's excellent
19:1819 minutes, 18 secondsso my mom took myself my brother and my other brother who's two years older so the three of us went so thank you so much Mama because it's a great memory of my life so I want you know don't feel
19:2719 minutes, 27 secondsbad we all turned out okay and I didn't go around killing anybody and anything like that like as far as anyone knows
19:3319 minutes, 33 secondsright yeah so funny all right yeah I loved a great memory there was one scene when we get not today of course but
19:4019 minutes, 40 secondslater the film with another co-host but there's a scene of course when the Russian soldier gets thrown down the hole and the grenade gets pulled on him so you know he's gonna blow up I'll
19:4919 minutes, 49 secondsnever forget my mom she covered my uh my eight-year-old brother at the time she covered his eyes just before I'll never
19:5719 minutes, 57 secondsforget she's because she could do that it was coming I kind of just chuckled because I remember feeling like I got to watch it and I was so proud of myself right yeah anyways
20:0520 minutes, 5 secondsall right so well let's get rolling into the credits what we'll do is we'll just we'll watch some scenes we'll pause it and talk what we just saw like a commentary of what we saw felt or
20:1420 minutes, 14 secondsanything that made us laugh or think it's cool or whatever it might be and then we'll just do for about 20 minutes to half an hour of recording time to see
20:2120 minutes, 21 secondswhere we go that's a natural ending and that'll be episode one of season three okay
20:3020 minutes, 30 seconds[Music]
20:4420 minutes, 44 secondsforeign
20:4420 minutes, 44 seconds[Applause]
21:0221 minutes, 2 secondsyes I can't remember the name of it either
21:0921 minutes, 9 seconds[Music]
21:1421 minutes, 14 secondsalready a very different opening to a Rambo film you got the representation of that ramble theme coming in yes mixed
21:2021 minutes, 20 secondswith this scene is in Thailand so you get this Asian Flair instruments going as well so you got this mixture of that American theme mixed with now the uh I
21:2921 minutes, 29 secondswould say foreign theme or of music and you see cut shots of yes we can tell Rambo's putting it on some sort of bamboo flooring to fight he's preparing
21:3821 minutes, 38 secondsto fight yeah but if you of course we know it's coming but it's a first time viewer I don't remember what I thought but what's he what's he getting ready for you know like he's why is he kind of
21:4721 minutes, 47 secondsyeah Troutman of course come up with a government official played by Kurt wood Smith you recognize him from uh do you ever watch the 70s Show or yeah and he
21:5521 minutes, 55 secondswas also an Oscar with him as well was he an Oscar oh wow I need to get you back on he's playing the cop I forgot about that oh I haven't seen that movie
22:0322 minutes, 3 secondsin a while I'm not gonna lie to you I I mean I saw it when it came out and that may have been the last time if that makes I didn't even know about it
22:1122 minutes, 11 secondsuntil last year and that's one of my favorite of his films I like that oh yeah it's funny it's
22:1822 minutes, 18 secondshe's a he's got some versatility no PSY does he does I just maybe like I said I haven't seen it in a long time so it it
22:2622 minutes, 26 secondswill be reinvestigated we will be reviewing it so oh cool yeah all right so yeah we got of course Carl Troutman
22:3322 minutes, 33 secondshe's now we know he's he's come to talk to ramble you know there's no cell coverage here right you know he's he's got he's coming no he's come to talk to
22:4122 minutes, 41 secondsramble about something face to face so here we go so they're showing pictures do you know
22:4922 minutes, 49 secondshim do you know this guy where is he
22:5122 minutes, 51 seconds[Music]
22:5722 minutes, 57 secondsI love how they got close enough like they're showing pictures of rambled to the locals in the area do you know them do you know him they were able to land
23:0423 minutes, 4 secondswithin the I don't know the location of where Rambo is but it's just kind of silly they knew they knew enough to go there wherever their the here is and
23:1323 minutes, 13 secondsthen right but just I'm sure you'll find him he's the one white guy that's jacked
23:2023 minutes, 20 secondsyeah he's pretty jacked yeah hey is there a white hulking figure walking around amongst you four foot tall like a
23:2923 minutes, 29 secondslong long brown hair yeah exactly where's the bandana mumbles lots of scars on his back and chest no
23:3723 minutes, 37 secondsI've never seen him I don't know it sounds like all the other locals around here I'm not sure what you're talking about
23:4823 minutes, 48 seconds[Music]
24:0324 minutes, 3 secondswe're getting more body exposure of Sly slash Rambo it's just so beautiful it's so just a beautiful person every time I
24:1324 minutes, 13 secondswatch him he's wearing bones straight and I'm gay so we're good to go okay yeah so he's got uh he's got that ponytail I
24:2224 minutes, 22 secondslove the ponytail okay oh it looks great he takes out his own he looks amazing he does a little bit of a shake of his you see the little Shake of his hair
24:3024 minutes, 30 secondsthere to get the to get the curls like a like a Vidal Sassoon commercial he's ready to I have never seen a man in a ponytail look good ever yeah he pulls it
24:3924 minutes, 39 secondsoff yeah he pulls it off he does he pulls off the mullet you know nobody else pulls off that mullet like he does yeah that's true
24:4624 minutes, 46 seconds[Music]
24:5424 minutes, 54 secondsokay so I laugh because for people watching this on YouTube for those on iTunes Rambles now put his get up on
25:0225 minutes, 2 secondshe's got the headphone on he squeezes it tight and he does that whip around his shoulder I almost want to put like audio underneath like Videl Sassoon
25:1025 minutes, 10 seconds[Laughter]
25:1525 minutes, 15 secondsshampoo commercial sequence here like like who does your hair Rambo I love it God it doesn't even look the same in his
25:2325 minutes, 23 secondsinterviews he just doesn't even look the same it's really interesting he's probably how old is he here this is uh 88 it's 42. so he's 42 years yeah it's
25:3325 minutes, 33 secondsPeak uh Sly age his 40s was good he was I mean he's a good looking 76 year old don't be wrong I hope I look half as good as he does good looking 76 that man
25:4225 minutes, 42 secondsis beautiful he is just how do you feel with that girl getting all mad at like almost barfing when she uh has sex with him in Tulsa King when she ran out
25:4925 minutes, 49 secondsremember that sequence it was like the first episode I think when uh that police when she found out he was older yeah she's like oh I can't believe and
25:5725 minutes, 57 secondsthen she came back for more so she thought that he was like in his 50s and then found out he was 75. he's definitely doesn't look like he's in his
26:0526 minutes, 5 seconds50s he looks very different that's great foreign
26:1726 minutes, 17 seconds[Music]
26:2026 minutes, 20 secondsup he's focused what's he gonna do everyone wonders where is he going towards at the end of the second ramble film if
26:2726 minutes, 27 secondsyou recall he left trout with no shirt on it looks like he still hasn't found one yet he is nice
26:3726 minutes, 37 secondsno one does that anymore I think maybe Jason Statham was the last person to do an action movie with no shirt on dude he
26:4426 minutes, 44 secondswalks with no shirt I remember and now we can cut to ramble three and still maybe that will be the Journey of this
26:5226 minutes, 52 secondsfilm with the first scene I hope he I hope he doesn't find him well I think he does I'm sorry spoil alert well it's like a tank top so
27:0227 minutes, 2 secondsnow we're getting an idea away just pivot waving money around cheering oh fight you say
27:1027 minutes, 10 secondsstick fight yeah I know there's a lot of visual here
27:2227 minutes, 22 secondsso I apologize to our uh listeners but we all know the scene where ramble grabs his sticks and he bends down he's does a
27:3127 minutes, 31 secondssmash with the ground with the stick so kind of like a ceremony hit of the ground and he just Flex it um he said that he wrote Rambo doing
27:3927 minutes, 39 secondsthis because uh he wanted him to pretty much it's like a type of self-flagellation uh for all the killing
27:4627 minutes, 46 secondshe's done and he feels a lot of guilt so this is a way of punishing himself by doing stick fighting and he looks great
27:5427 minutes, 54 secondshis body is really kind of evolved very interestingly over the past 46 years
28:0028 minutesbecause even in Rambo the first Rambo or I'm sorry the second one he said he wanted to be kind of more lean and live
28:0928 minutes, 9 secondsand then in Rocky he bulked up a bit and then he kind of maintained that bulk but became I guess a little more like a
28:1828 minutes, 18 secondsbodybuilder in the in this one he is thick and very much thicker like and I mean that like the actual physical size he's what do they mean by thick anyways
28:2628 minutes, 26 secondswhat is that th is it ICC what is that t-h-i-c-c like maybe cardi b
28:3228 minutes, 32 secondsas an example uh yeah Kim Kardashian a girl who's very curvy also it's
28:3928 minutes, 39 secondsliterally small waistline but why the CC I don't know
28:5228 minutes, 52 secondsI think so yeah yeah I'm showing my age and well I'm showing mine because I don't know anything about why they would do something like that in that rap
29:0029 minutesculture I don't listen to a lot of rap music no I really don't listen to a lot of music I watch no I mostly listen if I
29:0829 minutes, 8 secondsdo listen to music it's like chill hop very soothing kind of like Cafe I guess music that's like a cross between jazz
29:1629 minutes, 16 secondsand like a soft hip-hop but yeah slice uh so he's thick body yeah like it actually bulked this word he's like
29:2329 minutes, 23 secondslegit his chest looks thicker and his eyes shoulders for sure yeah anyone yeah right away he's like look what I did
29:3129 minutes, 31 secondsguys look how I beefed up it showcases he works all right he does two a days um with an insane amount of effort he
29:3929 minutes, 39 secondsstill does a Rambo four I know that's how he bulked up for that yeah and Rambo five which he was 70. 2 when he did
29:4829 minutes, 48 secondsramble five or seven yes 72 years ago so 783 yes I mean yeah he's dedicated
29:5429 minutes, 54 seconds[Applause]
29:5829 minutes, 58 seconds[Music]
30:0430 minutes, 4 secondsof course you got a lot of people throwing the money around making bets on this this is an organized legal fight against in Thailand as much as a
30:1130 minutes, 11 secondslocality could be and say we're just gonna see how this plays out
30:2230 minutes, 22 secondsinteresting I was going to turn it down a little bit while it's playing so we could comment on it as it's playing so it's interesting to watch
30:3030 minutes, 30 secondsramble you know basically use a weapon and fighting techniques that we haven't seen the ramble character ever do right he seems pretty Adept at using the stick
30:3930 minutes, 39 secondsbecause he Twirls it and he's comfortable he tends to learn a lot of interesting skills in creating his films
30:4730 minutes, 47 secondsyou have to learn how to use a bow and arrow and learn how to hold a knife and all those things he was saying he had to learn survival skills he he's versatile
30:5730 minutes, 57 secondshe's very smart it's interesting because we've commented before on a previous podcast that I've done of Sly himself doesn't he always kind of
31:0531 minutes, 5 secondsleans into his punching type moves like no matter what action film he's like oh I'm punching and punching but it's true and he didn't do this more because this
31:1331 minutes, 13 secondsfighting sequence in general with the kicks the stick work it's too bad slide didn't investigate doing this more in films maybe you've seen back in the day like sliding a sword film like Arnold
31:2231 minutes, 22 secondsdid you know it would have been interesting I think it's it's a missed I mean it's too late now but we're seeing the CPS maybe not yeah but
31:3031 minutes, 30 secondswhat's great here is size this all choreographed of course but it's great seeing him using stubble stick stuff he's it's fun to watch that it's not
31:3831 minutes, 38 secondsjust punching he's he's using a weapon other than just his fists so to speak so it's it's fun to watch I think he kicked some more in this movie than I yeah I've
31:4631 minutes, 46 secondsever seen him kick in any movie ironically it's very funny the movie he did with De Niro Grudge Match right when they were boxing
31:5431 minutes, 54 secondsum when he was doing that interview with the MMA fighter I can't remember his name but he said picking is for girls and it was it was funny
32:0332 minutes, 3 secondshow dare you it's too bad because he showcases a great fight skills and sequences and during this big fight of course Troutman now has shown up he's
32:1232 minutes, 12 secondswon the match this is kind of a fun little sequence because he's won the match he's beaten his opponent great and he has this guy at his Mercy we're led
32:2032 minutes, 20 secondsto believe that there I guess there has been times in these fights I don't think Rambles ever were if you win the fight and have the guy at your mercy maybe you
32:2732 minutes, 27 secondscan take a killing shot you know it seems like you can do like a Killing Type blow yeah because ramble's always been part animal he's kind of
32:3632 minutes, 36 secondsanimalistic you know yes he is fighting that right now you can see right now he seems to be fighting a bit of that
32:4332 minutes, 43 secondsanimal like he's like urge to kill he's a killer and it's excellent I mean it's the best thing about Rambo is his ability to do what most men can't and
32:5132 minutes, 51 secondswhat trauma said like he has one was it one Mission kill that's his thing like when he's in this mode you know that he's in Thailand and my understanding is
33:0033 minutesBuddhism is big in Thailand right is Buddhism is the religion yeah it is and um this is kind of goes in a Rambo four
33:0933 minutes, 9 secondsI always found a very interesting um that he went he turned Rambo into a Christian character well he turned Rambo
33:1633 minutes, 16 secondsinto a Christian character even though Rambo was living in a monastery and getting you know capturing food for the
33:2433 minutes, 24 secondsBuddhists he kind of drove him out of that character and you know implying that he he wasn't living for anything even living that peaceful kind lifestyle
33:3433 minutes, 34 secondswhich I thought it was weird that he would do that but it's a parallel to his Christianity in real life which was so
33:4033 minutes, 40 secondsfunny to me he's got the the Enemy at the mercy kill and he's fighting the fighting the rage to kill him and traumas are now watching this and
33:4833 minutes, 48 secondstroutman's just as curious will ramble kill this guy you know I haven't seen him in a few years what has he turned into living here what will happen Trump
33:5633 minutes, 56 secondswas just as curious as the audience will Rambo kill this man defenseless here we go let's find out and of course the man on the ground is scared the crowds
34:0534 minutes, 5 secondscheering the I love how the the crowds all bloodthirsty everyone in the audience wants to see blood yeah yeah Bean is headed yeah yeah I've got money
34:1334 minutes, 13 secondson this that you'll beat his head in all right but boy this is a bit longer secrets that I remember okay now he's calm me down he's he's counting to Zen
34:2134 minutes, 21 secondshe's confident that he learned from the month that's right now he offers his hand to stick in a friendship there you go up he goes let me just see the little
34:2934 minutes, 29 secondscursive thank you for not killing me and then a ramble takes the money takes the win and gives it to the Bucks I
34:3734 minutes, 37 secondsthought he would go to the store and buy a shirt he could finally afford one so I love the crowd's little chanting around let's listen to this the crowd is
34:4334 minutes, 43 secondschanting Rambles hear that they are oh I never just said that before
34:5234 minutes, 52 secondsthey know him okay yeah I love how they call him ramble not John John John John
34:5934 minutes, 59 secondsisn't as badass as well like when he introduced himself to the community oh yo you just call me you can call me Rambo it's the name of the movie yeah
35:0835 minutes, 8 secondsyou know it's not called John it's not called John 3. it was uh director's cut of the fourth one was John Rambo you know I really it's weird that they
35:1635 minutes, 16 secondsdidn't because it would have mirrored his Rocky Balboa because in 2006 he does Rocky Balboa that was the name of the
35:2435 minutes, 24 secondsfilm The Name the character and so when I heard they were doing the fourth Rambo film at the time they were calling it John Rambo ah very good so I thought
35:3235 minutes, 32 secondsyeah I thought oh that's awesome it's it's shalon's acknowledgment of he's doing his last Rocky film it's Rocky Balboa
35:4035 minutes, 40 secondsyeah it's supposed yeah and at the time you know and he wrote directed both so that I thought that was his nod to the character like I'm gonna call this John
35:4735 minutes, 47 secondsRambo they just went with Rambo I guess makes sense because all these titles the films don't make sense no I
35:5635 minutes, 56 secondsat the director's cut it does say John Rambo in the opening credits but it really is just Rambo I guess and U.S theatrical release was Rambo yeah yeah
36:0336 minutes, 3 secondsthe director's cut I feel is better because he shows more of his character as a Kinder because he's like watching
36:1136 minutes, 11 secondsthis woman's feet and I don't know if I have it I'm gonna have to maybe use that for my season four okay oh yeah okay
36:1936 minutes, 19 secondsyeah it's really good so now Troutman this other government agent to go talk to Rambo
36:2736 minutes, 27 secondsJohn John can you hear me John I think John does hear him he gives the all the money to the modest
36:3336 minutes, 33 secondsMonastery people of course knock John goes on the boat
36:4136 minutes, 41 secondsHarry puts on his shirt well there you go we have a blanket or something is that a blanket or a jacket or is that a shirt shirt it's like a shirt but I don't think he
36:5036 minutes, 50 secondsputs his hands through the sleeves or his arms through the sleeves those on top of like a shoulder seat Rainbow's very personable and very
36:5936 minutes, 59 secondsempathetic towards women and children oh yeah there's a little boy in the back of the boat and he kind of slaps his
37:0737 minutes, 7 secondsknee in a friendly knowing way hey kid some more of Stallone's personality
37:1537 minutes, 15 secondsyou can't help but have his personality it does shine through yeah yeah it does a lot less so on Rambo four he is not
37:2337 minutes, 23 secondsthere for it in Rainbow four at all maybe it's just an angry place at the time he was not in a healthy place in Rainbow
37:3137 minutes, 31 secondsfour at all so now trauma's made his way to the village where Rambo is
37:4037 minutes, 40 secondsthere we go so Rambo's up there working on I guess brass is that like kind of brass stuff or it's like
37:4837 minutes, 48 secondsworking on the temple or the building or whatever the village or travel agencies
37:5437 minutes, 54 secondsSean John Rambo hey it's me remember so Rambo actually smiles he says I don't
38:0238 minutes, 2 secondsbelieve this she's pretty happy to see uh traveling I think that's the only family quote-unquote that he has
38:0938 minutes, 9 secondsso where'd you come in from Washington good to see you again yeah you too
38:1738 minutes, 17 secondsyou want to uh tell me about it Beltway how about yesterday I see you stick fighting in a warehouse in Bangkok
38:2638 minutes, 26 secondsyou saw that yeah okay and today I find you uh working in a monastery uh they let me live here and I help out
38:3438 minutes, 34 secondsfixing things and the stick fighting I just do that for a little extra money
38:4138 minutes, 41 secondsyeah I uh saw you give it to the monks I love how Bravo is such a uh it's so funny how he I just love he's like a
38:5038 minutes, 50 secondsChrist figure in some ways you know he's he is a Christ figure yeah he's built this Temple he's a man of but I could
38:5738 minutes, 57 secondsargue that his life has been nothing but violence and nothing it's all he knows it's all he knows that's why he just so does the stick fighting but but even
39:0439 minutes, 4 secondshe's using his own personal violence and pain he's taught to ignore pain you know to eat things that makes a billy goat puke this is this stick fighting is
39:1239 minutes, 12 secondsreally nothing to him this kind of torture he's been through getting hit with this yes sometimes whatever that's his own
39:1939 minutes, 19 secondsself-injurious behavior yeah you talked about that that's interesting Yeah Yeah you mentioned this so that I never looked at it that way that damage he receives from the sticks is his way of
39:2739 minutes, 27 secondsself-regulation is what he said self-flagellation congratulation okay yeah yeah I thought that was a sex act I'll never do that again it can be I
39:3739 minutes, 37 secondsguess if that's your that's your thing yeah you're right some people do enjoy pain that's true I mean nothing that's true yeah I'm not going to Kink shame
39:4539 minutes, 45 secondsanybody but yeah some people do like some people do like to uh have their hands stepped on by you know high heels but that's okay I don't get
39:5339 minutes, 53 secondsit I don't know what point you get to that in your life or you know what this isn't enough I think it's I you know I like to put these things in a
40:0140 minutes, 1 secondvice clamp and clamp down oh yeah oh well each to their own you know yeah oh
40:0840 minutes, 8 secondsmy yeah that sounds painful all right so Troutman is uh saying yeah I saw you give the money to the monks you see that
40:1940 minutes, 19 secondsColonel who are they they're partly the reason I'm here Bob this is Robert Griggs he's a field
40:2740 minutes, 27 secondsofficer with our local Embassy John Rambo pleasure well you're certainly not easy to find
40:3540 minutes, 35 secondskeeping track well like the colonel says good men are hard to find John I'd like you to take a look at some
40:4340 minutes, 43 secondsof these photos I don't know how much you know about Afghanistan most people can't even find it on a map
40:5140 minutes, 51 secondsbut over 2 million civilians always found that interesting what's that the nuance and his facial
40:5840 minutes, 58 secondsexpression he's very empathetic very empathetic like looking at those pictures caused him pain he doesn't like
41:0441 minutes, 4 secondsthat so even though he's violent or has been raised to kill like he hasn't hardened him to the point where he can see pictures like that and not respond
41:1341 minutes, 13 secondsin a human way you could already tell he's torque it's the moment he was talking very friendly and happy to Troutman of course that's his father
41:2141 minutes, 21 secondsfigure and of course he asked me yeah who are these guys that are with you and of course he says well for partly the reason why I'm here and the moment this
41:2841 minutes, 28 secondsguy from the embassy started talking his demeanors talk about his face changed yeah why are you keeping track am I hard
41:3541 minutes, 35 secondsto find but why do you care and he already is so now he's kind of torn because he's like he doesn't trust the government at all we know that his trust
41:4341 minutes, 43 secondswith the US government is zero like he's been screwed over by them as a soldier as a civilian so now he's being called to action again he knows what's coming
41:5141 minutes, 51 secondsbut like you said he's seen the pictures now he's about to hear the pitch and there's gonna be he's gonna be torn here families have been systematically
42:0042 minutesslaughtered by invading Russian armies those dirty Russians every new still to this day see now you just walked away he's in the
42:0842 minutes, 8 secondsmiddle of his creating chemical warfare has been used to eliminate these people and they've been very successful on many levels
42:1642 minutes, 16 secondsI assume that you're out of touch with the current status of the war but after nine years of fighting the Afghan forces are now getting
42:2442 minutes, 24 secondsshipments of stinger missiles and are beginning to hold their own against airstrikes except for one regionals over the Border
42:3242 minutes, 32 secondsapparently the Soviet Commander there is exceptionally brutal as those photos indicate and he's managed to strangle off all aid
42:4042 minutes, 40 secondsfrom the outside so we want to investigate the problem firsthand
42:4942 minutes, 49 secondswhat's that got to do with me they've asked me to go in you're not going to do it
42:5742 minutes, 57 secondsyes and I want you to come with me John I put in my time what's that mean there's the pitch it's kind of a left or
43:0643 minutes, 6 secondssorry a curveball even to the audience so we thought they're just going to recruit John ramble but troutman's now saying I'm going in I'm leading this
43:1343 minutes, 13 secondsMission I'm in charge but obviously I would love to have you come with me he knows that he's gonna be tugging that Rambo's heartstrings over here because now ramble's like no no no you don't
43:2143 minutes, 21 secondshave to do this why are you going in there because he also recognizes that Truman look he's not a spring chicken anymore he's protective of him yeah and he goes
43:3043 minutes, 30 secondswell I put my time in that's understandable yeah his mouth was over I thought you said he was this great
43:3943 minutes, 39 secondsSoldier well colonel looks like we got a long walk down those stairs
43:4943 minutes, 49 secondsokay so there you go that's the introduction to ramble three it starts off with a nice little action beat as they say you
43:5843 minutes, 58 secondsknow with the stick fighting I think that's a great way to actually throw off the audience but I think everyone that saw this film for the first time we're kind of thrown off this is a different
44:0644 minutes, 6 secondsRambo film yeah it started with him and very calm settings preview well no that's not true
44:1544 minutes, 15 secondsum the second one he was in a labor camp or a prison camp the first one he just you know was walking through this picturesque
44:2244 minutes, 22 secondsenvironment and it's so interesting how his demeanor just he was so gregarious and playful and then he finds out his
44:3144 minutes, 31 secondsfriend died and from that moment on he never ever was that person again it's amazing it's really interesting how he
44:3844 minutes, 38 secondswas not happy but a happier person small at the very beginning here like with seeing Troutman so you could argue at this point you're right begin to first
44:4644 minutes, 46 secondsplace he smiled when he saw the kids playing and then of course like I said ever since uh dalmar was dead he's never looked back but now he didn't know he
44:5644 minutes, 56 secondswas mistreated because his family coming to visit so to speak out of the blue yeah he doesn't smile very much I don't think he smiles
45:0345 minutes, 3 secondsagain for a while until Rambo 5 when he's interacting with his niece and then after the um
45:1145 minutes, 11 secondsyeah oh boy yeah yeah every time I see a woman in a Rambo film I just immediately I'm like that person's gonna get [ __ ]
45:2045 minutes, 20 secondsup how I don't know but it's they're gonna get [ __ ] up they don't women in Rambo's life don't farewell what'd you
45:2845 minutes, 28 secondsthink of coke oh she's beautiful even to this day she's very she aged very well she's gorgeous yeah I'd love to get her
45:3645 minutes, 36 secondson the show maybe try to reach out no not really not the ham and Eggers
45:4545 minutes, 45 secondslike me he doesn't but uh I've seen him on some like smaller shows I've seen them some crappy shows there
45:5245 minutes, 52 secondsRyan he should probably do yours too not crappy no this is not it that's my self-flagellation going or whatever you
46:0046 minuteswant to call there you go well this is the end of the episode uh Nikki we'll stop here I think it's a natural place to stop I mean I can keep
46:0846 minutes, 8 secondswatching it with you you're an absolute delight and joy to have on oh yeah that went by so fast I'd love to come on again well I love talking about Grandpa
46:1546 minutes, 15 secondswell I do have rotating guest hosts I will put you on that list then if you'd like to come back and visit it might be ramble three or you might be on ramble
46:2246 minutes, 22 secondsfour depending on how many episodes go through because I have this list that it kind of when I first started this podcast I I didn't think I was going to
46:3146 minutes, 31 secondshave very many co-hosts that would want to come on or yeah so the list keeps kind of getting bigger which is good but it means people don't get on as much as they thought they were so I just want to
46:3946 minutes, 39 secondsmake that clear that yeah you'll get on again but uh you've been an absolute breath of fresh air to me as a podcaster awesome thank you to the uh to the Rambo
46:4846 minutes, 48 secondsPockets I love your perspective because it's just nice to hear different voices other like middle-aged guys like me talking about these films it's nice young and a different perspective and oh
46:5746 minutes, 57 seconds36 is Young that's great well it's younger than 47. oh wait look you look 25 there you go so there you go oh thank
47:0447 minutes, 4 secondsyou that's so flattering so we both get bigger than we are isn't that great boy yeah you look really young I was when you said your age I was like what no way
47:1347 minutes, 13 secondslike right here yeah I don't know all right I'll I'll take it I'll take it so before we go to let people know where they can find you I believe you're a
47:2147 minutes, 21 secondsYouTube exclusive show is that it or yes right now I'm YouTube exclusive it's very rough around the edges I don't have
47:2847 minutes, 28 secondslike a good solid intro and I keep forgetting to ask people to follow and like And subscribe people should be able to figure that out I subscribed without
47:3647 minutes, 36 secondsyou telling me how to do it I mean come on people do you really need us to tell you how to do it people know how to do it good I can be found at beat the cult
47:4547 minutes, 45 secondson YouTube Twitter I don't use my Instagram or Tick Tock but you can't find me there as well I will be starting a patreon here in the next month or so I
47:5347 minutes, 53 secondsdo have a store that I'll be starting as well so when that gets up and running I'll let everyone know but that's where you can find me Nikki it was an absolute
48:0248 minutes, 2 secondspleasure having you on I hope to have you on again but unfortunately the episode is over nothing is over nothing you just don't turn it off