Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
70:27 – 78:52… of recoils. That's like what really happened because the squib fucked up and almost like blew up in his face. So they had that, but they included that shot. Apex Mountain, I got a lot. Don Johnson, his apex is probably near the end of season one, but we're approaching. He's climbing the mountain right now. He's almost there. Right. It's probably summer of 85. Do you want to hear my Don Johnson story? Yeah. Rock Roman Country Club, Stanford, Connecticut. I'm caddying there. Summer of 85. Don Johnson is there playing golf with a member. Wait. We find out. 85? So you're at peak Don Johnson. Peak Don Johnson. …
The whole segment, as transcribed
And then if you watch when Don Johnson's firing off with the Argentinian, they have a squib mistake where the squib explodes and he kind of recoils. That's like what really happened because the squib fucked up and almost like blew up in his face. So they had that, but they included that shot. Apex Mountain, I got a lot. Don Johnson, his apex is probably near the end of season one, but we're approaching. He's climbing the mountain right now. He's almost there. Right. It's probably summer of 85. Do you want to hear my Don Johnson story? Yeah. Rock Roman Country Club, Stanford, Connecticut. I'm caddying there. Summer of 85. Don Johnson is there playing golf with a member. Wait. We find out. 85? So you're at peak Don Johnson. Peak Don Johnson. Like the most famous fucking guy in the world. Most famous ever. Yeah. He's there. My mom, it's her favorite show. I grab a pen and a paper. I hop in a golf cart and I chase him down to whatever hole he's on. I wait till he finishes on the green and I walk up to him and I say, we love Miami Vice. It's my mom's favorite show. Can you sign something quick for me? So you're 10th grade right now. It's something like that. Yeah. Don Johnson's like, absolutely. And he's like, how old's your mom? Yeah. Did your mom pop out from behind the tree? My mom, that would have been it. We never would have seen her again. She just would have been off with Don Johnson. But yeah, super nice sign. But I met Don Johnson that like literally when he was on Apex Mountain. Can I, this is from, I had this for half-assed internet research, but it goes well with this because it's a Don Johnson quote from Emily Benedict's piece. I won't, I won't believe it. Yeah. But this is just like, when you read this, you're just like, this guy really, the action was the juice for this guy. Don Johnson in 1985. We're a bunch of misfits, really. He's talking about the cast. Every one of these people has paid his dues. The only thing that really makes us feel good is to take these chances. We've been through drugs and alcohol and outlaws and thieves. The whole crew is reformed. I mean, we've been around the block. I'm not saying we're the only messiah on the street, but we're damn sure one of them. Later, someone told me of an actor, not one of the principals, who had a little trouble with drugs and stole money from a director's trailer. Some of the cast members got together with him and worked it out themselves. Oh my God. So it was like a real band of brothers situation on the Miami Vice set. Yeah. Yeah. The Don Johnson history is a little rough. Like he started dating Melanie Griffith when she was 14. Now this is great as the mid seventies, but that has not aged well. We could have put that on what's aged the worst, but I think they both had a lot of substance issues, stuff like that. He looks great on the show. You wouldn't know. And now I still follow him on Instagram. He still looks great. He's got a son who's a basketball player. Oh, does he? Don Johnson doing well. Maury Picksbound. Hit list. Has there been a better use of a hit list than a movie or a TV show that you can remember? One of the Dirty Harry movies kind of has a hit list, right? I feel like, what is Netflix doing? Sometimes I just wonder with them. Like just do an algorithm show called hit list. Yeah. Where it's just like, it's a hit list. That's it. That's all you need. Gerard Butler is a cop whose name is on a hit list. Yeah. He's number nine. And the first two are dead and no, every episode, the next guy dies. We're all leading to Gerard Butler in episode seven. Apex mountain for smoking for you. Who's done it better? I still think Goodfellas. I still think Goodfellas is better smoking. Miami, I'm going to say like 2012 heats, probably the apex. Miami's rounded in shape a little bit. But let me ask you this. Is this the most that the rest of the country liked Miami? Because I think that the heat in 12, like most people were like, fuck those guys. That's fair. Yeah. So America's love for Miami. Yeah. Argentinian assassins. Definitely. Anthony Yurkovich. Yes. I'm so excited as a song. There's another apex for it. We'll get to it later. Gregory Sierra. No. Miguel Pinero. Probably. But I think he's. Yeah, sure. Iconic bad guy character. St. Andrew's Island. Can't remember as a movie TV location having a better run than it has here. Sleeveless teal tank tops. Definitely. Yeah. Philip Michael Thomas. No question. Members only jackets. Would you go here or Sopranos? Sopranos. Probably Sopranos. I would go Sopranos. Yeah. Michael Mann. No. The Mozambique drill. Collateral. Collateral. Collateral. Cruz. Better with Cruz. Russ Ballard. I don't think anyone's ever apex mountain did more than Russ Ballard. I mean, you, you might have to name the category Russ Ballard. It's Russ Ballard. When you reach the top of apex mountain, Russ Ballard is there and he's playing. Voices is playing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He has two songs in the span of basically 10 minutes of time on the show. Cause it's the end of part one. It's the start of part two. Friday night ends. Miami Vice ends. You're thinking, man, that Russ Ballard song was sick. I wonder what I'm going to do for the rest of the week. And then you come back next Friday and fucking Russ Ballard is there waiting for you. Jamming on voices. Yeah. Do you think he's like, what the fuck? Why, why, why wasn't I a bigger star with those two hits? He was a big songwriter that he wrote like back in the New York groove. And like, he has like a bunch of big hits that he wrote, but yeah, I'm sure he's like, can I not even be John Waite? Yeah. I was just going to say John Waite. Yeah. Really? John Waite? How am I not Christopher Cross? You know? Oh man. All right. We're going to take one more break and then. Oh wait, I had it. I had it. My apex mountain was just, you kind of hit on this, but like theme music for a character. So Crockett's theme, I think is probably the apex of music that is just specifically for a character. Yeah. And also this is apex mountain for going shirtless in long pants. Great point. One more break and then we're going to pick some nits. This episode is brought to you by sleep doctor. Let's say a good sleep is wildly underrated. You can do everything right. Eat well, work out, sleep seven or eight hours and still feel exhausted. If you snore, wake up tired or crash during the day, it might be worth looking into sleep. Doctor offers an at-home sleep study done in your own bed. They accept most insurance plans so you can pay as little as $0. Visit sleepdoctor.com. This episode is brought to you by the Hulu original series, Chad Powers, starring our friend, Glenn Powell. This season, the walls are closing in on Chad's biggest secret. And with his future on the field, hanging in the balance, he'll have to win back the one coach who wants nothing to do with him. Watch the new season of Chad Powers on September 3rd, streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus for bundle subscribers. Terms apply. All right. Pick and nits. We've done a couple of these already. I don't know. I'll never understand why the Argentinian didn't shoot Crockett, Tubbs and Linus when they're all outside. He was sitting on a bench just watching them. Just take them down and you're done. Maybe he was. He didn't want to like impact those kids who were running around. Yeah, maybe. Part two. Crockett decides, I'm going to pretend to be the Argentinian to collect. Has anyone seen what he's looked like? No. All right, great. I'll pretend to be the Argentinian. So we'll take Mendez's word for it. Yeah. Yeah. Then shows up and he's got like a Southern accent. It's like, you're definitely not Argentinian. I don't know how dumb Calderon's henchman is, but it's like, yeah. So I'm going to meet the Argentinian to drop off the money. And then it's like fucking Don Johnson. So those guys show up, start drinking coconut cocktails as soon as they arrive in St. Andrews. Yeah. And their plan is to do a dueling undercover operation where Tubbs is going to pretend to be a Soho art gallerist and Crockett is going to be an Argentine killer for hire. And they're going to, but they're living together in a hotel room for some reason. Oh, and we're also going to tell the Bahamas police chief, and it'll never occur to us that this guy might be on the take with Calderon. It's really some of the worst planning ever. They get made within five minutes. Yes. And then decide to go to the masquerade party anyway. What do you think is going to happen there? I think even after they get attacked, they're still trying to push their... Crockett's still pretending to be the Argentine even after they get attacked. Just bizarre.
Open the full episode on Spotify — it cannot start at the timestamp, so the segment above is the mp3.
This episode has not been matched to a film, so there is nothing to rule on.
A grade for each call is not built yet. The board's answer is shown; whether the pod landed on it is a separate judgement, and it is not made here.