The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #341: First Blood and Rambo Survival Knives with Joe and Adam Part 2
https://archive.org/download/podcast-341/Podcast%20341.mp3
Welcome to the 2nd part of the First Blood / Rambo miniseries. But before I forget, as mentioned in the show intro, check out Adam’s tutorial on grey scale painting:
And! A new podcast I recently found all about Howard the Duck – “Trapped in a World!”
Now to the feature … Today, I’m again joined by my friends Joseph Esch and Adam Crohn to talk more about the first Rambo movie, First Blood (1982) and things like 80s hollow handle survival knives, as well as oddities like the Rambo cartoon and associated action figures. If you haven’t caught the first part of this miniseries, you can find it here: https://13thhr.wordpress.com/2022/02/14/the-thirteenth-hour-podcast-340-first-blood-and-rambo-survival-knives-with-joe-and-adam-part-1/
Click on the picture below to find a copy of the film:
We actually start off taking about this collection of ads, of which the survival knife is just one fine offering, coming from Boys’ Life.
As an aside, if you look center bottom in the ad above, you’ll see one for a diver’s knife. Adam sent along some pictures of his:
Joe also sent along some pictures of the container he found to organize the contents of the knife handle in the Harbor Fright model we have. If you look around, you can find little metal waterproof containers just the right size to fit in the handle. This is the one Joe used.
We also talk a bit about the Rambo cartoon (odd choice for an R rated movie about a vet suffering from PTSD who gets bullied by smallminded cops and wreaks a path of wanton destruction on their small town as revenge) as well as the accompanying Coleco toyline, which I vaguely remember from the shelves of Kmart, as they were bigger and had more accessories than a lot of your typical action figures of the day.
I found the first episode of the cartoon here, and here’s the trailer:
The backdrops from these 80s commercials were sometimes even better than the toys themselves. Now, this, ladies, and gents, is a commercial …
For those of you on Patreon, there will be an accompanying exclusive episode later this week on favorite GI Joe figures, as the comic had many of the Joes originally as Vietnam vets trying to figure out what to do after the war, just like Rambo.
In the meantime, check out more Adam and Joe on our first joint collaboration on The Lost Boys parts 1 and 2 as well as on Adam’s show, I Have Spoken: A Star Wars Podcast, episodes 14, 15, and 19 talking about The Book of Boba Fett and Star Wars toys! Thanks for coming on the show, fellas!
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If the past few months have got you needing a break, you may want to chill out to this 80s synth throwback track for a upcoming LP with the accompanying music video:
Empty Hands, the synth EP soundtrack to the novella, Empty Hands, is now out for streaming on Bandcamp.
Stay tuned. Follow along on Spotify! There is also a growing extended Thirteenth Hour playlist on Spotify with a growing number of retro 80s songs.
As always, thanks for listening!
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