our uh first guest is a two-time Academy Award nominee whose films have made more than $3 billion
oh my God is a new motion picture a Rambo the fourth in the series opens January 25th here he
is Sylvester Stallone happy New Year so good nice to see you again now you about that three billion
yeah it's pretty nice isn't it Bruce I don't have it you must you know I'm here to support my friend
Sylvester Stallone now do you guys do you guys do stuff together do you go out and well I do I help
him get home at night do a good thing it's good thing reach me a little reads me a little story
I you know sleep I shake the spit out of his harmonica I I got important well you know real
friend that's friendship yeah it'll rust if you don't do that $3 billion do right there sitting
right next to you d three billion and what do you uh you also uh uh spend time with uh the governor
of California is that right we do actually every Saturday you know at one time Arnold and I were
kind of like you know Sodom and gomorra really yeah Cain and Abel you like you know Ruth and
Buzzy we were just we were just weren't working together Ruth and bu I and anyway uh after our
careers and you know he's very competitive and he became governor and then I thought well well good
luck and all that and good luck C Bella and then we started to build this relationship and there a
place called Cafe ROM we go out there and smoke a cigar and before you knew it they started Banning
smoking next thing I know the Govern and I are like in an alley trying to grab a few Puffs and
discussing like how we can get you know balance everything balance the budget and I said I can
balance it on my shoulder my finger I can nothing else but anyway he he um he saw the first version
of Rambo I thought how ironic is a fell you know was your main competition be the guy who would
see it and he called up and said it really stinks so I say thank you believe he no he really like
but what what is it can you give us any insight as to what he might do when he leaves the governor's
mansion in Sacramento is he coming back to making films I mean what else he can't really run for
anything else can he well can he run for the senate or the Congress no I think I think he's
actually going to run marathons I think like I heard that really whatever yeah 10 10K 10K start
slow fun run to begin with I think you know what this this fell here is he's like a genius you know
this is why you never judge a muscular book by its cover yeah like like I'm like a muscular magazine
he's a muscular book and and what he does you just can't tell well the begin everybody thought oh
he's a bone head that's what they thought and then he comes in and he got himself in a little bit of
trouble early on and then he was able to write the ship and now I understand he's beloved in
California he beloved and he's he just learned how to walk on water it's unbelievable what yeah yeah
he's doing great now um just doing great let's talk about this Rocky how many Rocky films have
there been uh six or seven eight no no actually there's six yeah and then the the the most recent
one is like a blockbuster does huge business and and that's amazing when you think the lifespan of
that film character really well when you think about it between Rocky and Rambo it's about 56
years and and couped with the time in between films like you know my career wasn't doing very
well that's 10 years of making po holders in Miami so I wasn't doing much but they were nice
they were very very good you you sent them up I remember beautiful work really very good it's like
a chicken eating bread very very nice very nice picture of it and those sold out immediately and
I thought you know I have to go back to work yeah but I just wanted to end Rocky b ball on a on a
positive note I wasn't happy with with the fifth one at all and I literally spent 10 years trying
to eat all the negatives and I couldn't I couldn't do it so I thought I have to make another one
yeah now uh the Rambo this is a this is interesting we have two characters uh
similarities contrasts Rocky and Rambo they're kind of like a bickering couple you would have
the the very optimistic Rocky would be very very nice and then you have Rambo who wakes
up in the morning and just you know garles with quicksand he's in just not not a he's
just a dark kind of guy so it's it's great to be able to play back and forth back and
forth and and this Rambo you might say he's a little grumpier than usual really yeah it's
jungle grumpiness it's jungle grumpiness he's been out there a long time time in theen too
much time in the green too much time in the green but actually I I seriously and there's
no joke this I've done action films before but this one is by far the most proud of oh good
for you that's nice to be able to say after all of this time making movies but now what about
this I don't want to tell you how to do your business or live your life but and you must
have thought about this everyone else does want to separate up what what about uh like Rocky's
on vacation in Thailand yeah and he's out at a restaurant with his family and he runs into Rambo
right and then they there's a caper who wins well no they team up they're buddies they team up they
okay RNR that's right there it is yeah I think it worked you've thought about it haven't you
you have thought about it yeah yeah Bruce Willis here's what happened your buddy Bruce Willis drops
into to steal the show ladies and gentlemen I'm here to support your V long d a great great great
Thief yeah if I'm if I'm going to be ripped off that's the guy Let's uh let's talk about the uh
the the [Laughter] movie it's uh it's uh Rambo is uh minding his own business he's out there
catching snakes minding his own business but really that's what catching catching poisonous
snakes looking for antivenom and they said you know we didn't have a big budget so CGI snakes
were out they said okay why don't you try using these real ones I said oh no problem now I don't
know if people are aware that uh you know you know that that theory that you can hold an alligator's
mouth shut yes I've heard that well when you tape a king python I mean King Cobra's mouth shut it
works just the opposite he goes snap and it opens so about two or three times a movie you see me
kind of like all of a sudden turning very feminine eek EK Oh e a mouse you know what I mean that kind
of thing I became like Dumbo's mother hops up on a chair and I this is not working man lizard what
is that somebody somebody take the snakes around the corner give them a little beaten or something
that's right they around the corner and give him a little beating no that didn't happen that
didn't actually work so uh the the he is a a lone boat man he's he's 20 years in the jungle hasn't
talked to anyone and what's happening actually in a serious note in Burma is the largest genocide in
the world Civil War has been going on for 60 years as we speak right now people are going
through hell and it's hxouse beyond belief and I thought if I'm going to do an action film I'd like
to do something also shows light on a on a dilemma that perhaps could help people so you have a cross
between an action film and also something that's happening realistically it's incredibly brutal
I'll tell you right now and if if you don't turn away from it a couple of times then I haven't done
my job because it should it's a little disturbing but it's also in the end you have a message be the
violence conveys a message honest yes because we actually talked to the UN and and and other people
I said please do not diminish this film by giving it a rating that is kind of like sugar-free action
you know I mean let's let's I want it I want it to be real because that's the way it is and quite
often you'll see uh you know acceptable violence this this is just brutality of War but the end
it all comes to I think a satisfying ending but so they did and I have to give the ratings board
incredible Kudos that they allowed this to be true now do you have for something like this
do you have to go and Lobby for that position in a way absolutely you have to go there and and um
uh kind of like with a can of gasoline in a match and say if you don't do this I'm yeah 7 I didn't
realize it was that barbaric PR they respond to that yeah they do respond to fire but but so
so they will they will appreciate the argument that the the action actually conveys something
greater than it does absolutely they do they they finally say you know what this is an interesting
way of using our medium to to to help and also yes hopefully the Mak profit yes the audience
entertained but also who ever heard of Burma Burma is the most Savage Hunter overwhelming
human rights violation on the planet yet no one knows about it until two months ago when they when
the those poor monks were destroyed Myanmar yeah yeah they changed the name to myar but it's really
Burma yeah um on on a different uh note you you must know Paul Tuttle and and his s yeah you know
they're they're here and they brought a bunch of bikes down and I I you look like the kind of guy
that might ride a bike I can do a handstand on a bike no no no don't start showing off
cuz we have no insurance my old unicycle move so so what what do you your own unicycle yeah that's
good you what happened to the unicycle there was an entire generation of unicycle guys gone
really an entire generation of unicycle guys when was the last time we saw a unicycle man
or a plate spinner that's right well I remember thank God Ed cotch is the one that cleaned up the
unicycle gangs because they in New York City you couldn't go anywhere but those PL Spinners are due
we'll bring them back for you I hope so now uh Sylvester tell the folks the scene we're going
to see here uh this is a scene where Rambo has no one knows exactly what he's doing he's a boat man
he's been quiet he's kind of almost been shy in this but finally he has to step up and show who
he is and he makes his debut opens January 25th Rambo take a look Rambo January 25th been four
and a half years since you've been here that's crazy isn't it uh now think it over uh we'll get
your hel my my domestic life 4 years yeah that's I can't believe that actually I'll never never
do it again I beg your forgiveness yeah come on and we got the bikes out think about it if you
taking a ride we're going to go we're riding down to Battery Park later but I I mean are going to
sit there and like Rumble you're going to be like the Diablo gang or something really make it worth
my while we're we're going to take on the folks from The View I got it meel all right we're going
to take one-on-one with Mel's Angels that's right Sylvester Stallone ladies and gentlemen
all right that's it thanks for watching we got to go see you tomorrow night take
care
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