Americans are coming, they're savage, they're giants, you can't kill John Rambo.

Blackballed me and then the word got around the street. You know, Rudy's a pre-Majdana.

Brother, it wasn't that at all, it was the opposite. I come from a very poor background,

a working class, I fought to be working class. It turns into the most successful documentary ever.

Winds the freaking Oscar, it's world-renowned. I get stopped in the freaking airports and everything,

everywhere I go, by the kids. And I think, wow, they must know about my military service or,

hell no, call of duty. And I said, yeah, let me ask them to kill it. I said, man, just give me that bottle.

I'm drinking it, you know what I mean? Okay, okay, I think I'm ready.

Cut right to me, long hair, be a fucking drink, and to kill a fucking bronze blast, and freaking,

remember Marine Corps freaking blouse sleeves cut off?

Welcome to Mike Drop, the podcast where relevancy is irrelevant, and we don't give a shit about

your feelings. Yeah, hell's bells, brother. Yeah, so that's a good little

audience. I hope you dig it. Yeah, incredible. Well told. That's awesome.

All right, so as that winds down and you kind of realize, even though they want you to come

over to Marsock, you're like, man, I'm fucking done. Yeah. What was the rationale and kind of your

thought process of saying, okay, I don't want to do this, but I'll go to State Department, was it

a forced hand? Was it something to me? It was kind of forced. It was kind of forced. I thought after I

was done as a recon Marine, I was never going to pick up the gun again. I was married at the time.

It was a complete derelict marriage. I had been deployed and training our entire marriage.

I thought being a good husband was being a super stud alpha male at the best unit in your freaking

branch with metals on your chest and the dual cool on your chest and being successful as a warrior.

And I sent all my money home. I got my jump paid, die paid, demo paid, danger pay. What more could

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