John Fardy

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834 appearances 8 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Sep

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The Claire Byrne Show · Sylvester Stallone turns 80 · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

So like Rambo was such a cliche, right?

And this kind of beefcake who went around as a killing machine.

But the first Rambo movie was actually called First Blood.

And it's actually this kind of strange movie about the experience of veterans coming back from Vietnam.

He plays this guy, it's based on a book, who comes home and he goes to find his friend in this kind of North American town up near the border with Canada.

And they don't want him in the town.

And he ends up taking on the local police force.

But loads of it is him not talking and him hiding out in the woods and him dealing with kind of post or PTSD.

Like it's a very minor key, brilliant performance.

And here he is kind of talking about his treatment and other treatment of vets when they came back from Vietnam.

No, no, that's, yeah, I could go along with that.

I mean, Deer Hunter's probably better than First Blood, just to say.

But First Blood is a fascinating movie, don't get me wrong.

A brilliant movie and a terrific heist kind of movie where he's in the mountains when they're trying to, someone's trying to over, John Lithgow, brilliant, is trying to steal a plane and he kind of solves all that up in these very high mountain passes.

It's a brilliant thriller and reminded people, the 90s was a weird time for him, but reminded people that he could still do great action movies as well.

A lot of this was his own fault in terms of his reputation because he went up against Schwarzenegger in a way to out-body him.

And they were living in the gym, possibly taking all sorts of things to bulk up.

I couldn't possibly comment.

And he had become kind of a joke.

He was like a spitting image character because he was so muscle bound.

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