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(SOUNDBITE OF FREE NATIONALS AND SHAFIQ HUSAYN'S 'OBITUARIES')Д¬opyright В© 2020 NPR. Thanks so much for speaking with us.ДЄRRISON: Thank you so much for having me. I think, you know, Reagan, Gorbachev and Stallone should all take a bow.ДOORNICK: (As SICO) Happy birthday, Paulie. Arrison, that Rocky delivered that speech, and four short years later, the Soviet Union fell apart.ДЄRRISON: You're not wrong. SIMON: You know, I just want to point out, Mr. And Rocky bests him on his home turf on Christmas Day, no less, and delivers this very stirring speech - (imitating Rocky Balboa) like, if you guys are like this and we're like this, then maybe together we're like this. I'm curious what he'll do about the rest of the movie because it's such a American, jingoistic - you know, he fights the Russian - who is very much the Terminator with blond, spiky hair. I'm very uncomfortable with people trying to rewrite history.ДЄRRISON: Right (laughter). SIMON: I am a little - well, let's just put it this way. Probably the most famous one is in the show 'Family Guy.' It's been parodied many times over the years. SIMON: I find that very moving, and maybe SICO should have been in there to help someone, not just, you know, serve Paulie his beer.ДЄRRISON: The robot is very much a punchline. SIMON: I'm impressed by the fact that SICO was invented to help people. I'm calling him SICO, but SICO is genderless obviously. And Stallone was so taken by it that he put him in the movie. That's how - so SICO was introduced to his son. Why did I not know that?ДЄRRISON: Yes, yes. And that's part of the reason why Stallone put SICO into the movie. It was a robot that helped kids with autism. And in a - with a modern lens, it's maybe not the most tasteful thing or a dignified end for SICO's journey because SICO, in real life, is a very useful robot at the time. But by the end, he programs it from its gender setting from normal, as he says, to female. ROBERT DOORNICK: (As SICO) Please make a wish.ДЄRRISON: Paulie is at first kind of miffed by this gift, kind of perplexed. And he actually says, happy birthday, Paulie. A song accompanies SICO rolling into the room. But why don't you remind us, tell us about this robot?ДЄRRISON: Well, this robot appears in 'Rocky IV' out of the dark. SIMON: We're going hear a bit of SICO's performance, if that's what we're going to call it. J CHRISTOPHER ARRISON: Oh, thanks for having me. He's a writer and producer for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and joins us now. Christopher Arrison is already in mourning. Stallone says SICO will be edited out of the new cut. Leiderman, who does our theme music - no, SICO, the robot that Rocky gives as a birthday present to his brother-in-law Paulie. Spoiler alert - another beloved character won't make it - not B.J. This week, Sylvester Stallone announced he's concocting a new director's cut of 'Rocky IV,' the 1985 installment of the film franchise in which America's heavyweight hero heads to the Soviet Union - that's a country that used to exist just below Finland - to fight the fearsome Ivan Drago and avenge the death of Apollo Creed. (Imitating Rocky Balboa) Yo, Paulie, kiss that birthday gift goodbye.

Rocky balboa speech transcript