Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
78:23 – 87:14… they get residuals? Maybe. And then the phone number feature on Walter's show was 1-800-BET-ON-IT. That was an actual sports advice service. Right. All right. Apex Mountain. All three stars? No. Jamie King. Maybe. I don't know what else she was... And she had a moment. This was like Red Tail end of the Maxim era. Yeah. For movies though. Right? Yeah. For movies. I don't remember her being in a bigger one. Sports gambling movies? Probably still The Gambler. She was in White Chicks. That might have been Barry. And Pearl Harbor. So Pearl Harbor was their apex. Sports gambling movies? The Gambler with James Caan? …
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Portland Breakers. Houston Gamblers. And the New Orleans team. Do those guys get paid? Do they get $500? Do they get residuals? Maybe. And then the phone number feature on Walter's show was 1-800-BET-ON-IT. That was an actual sports advice service. Right. All right. Apex Mountain. All three stars? No. Jamie King. Maybe. I don't know what else she was... And she had a moment. This was like Red Tail end of the Maxim era. Yeah. For movies though. Right? Yeah. For movies. I don't remember her being in a bigger one. Sports gambling movies? Probably still The Gambler. She was in White Chicks. That might have been Barry. And Pearl Harbor. So Pearl Harbor was their apex. Sports gambling movies? The Gambler with James Caan? Or The Gambler with Mark Wahlberg? Can we give us both? Or is it, I'm gambling again! Getting peed on in Central Park? Yeah. Getting pissed on by a gangster in Central Park. One 900 lines in a movie, Sal? What about it? Did we have a better... When is there... I mean, was Whoopi Goldberg... Did she have a 900 number in Ghost? Oh, interesting. Reality Bites. It was a big part of Reality Bites for like 15 minutes. Yeah. I don't think so. I think this might have been... Not a lot of 900 stuff. Yeah. What was... What 900 number did you call the most? Um... Well, my father at his business pay for his phone. He would work from home like once a week. And it was... It was huge that they paid for the phone. And I would call like Georgia Championship Wrestling. I would call like Titan Sports. I remember talking to Lord Alfred Hayes. And then I would call 976-1313 to get sports. All the sports news instantly. And then there was some 976 numbers that I'm not proud of. Yeah. That I would call too. Yes. When I was working at the Herald, one of the grunt jobs... For like the lowest level people. Which obviously I had was answering the phones. And a lot of the times it was people calling in high school games. So it would be like... Situate 42. Swamp Scott 24. Like, alright. Thanks. But then some people would call in. And asking for like scores for NBA games. Would you give them two? Sometimes, yeah. Would you charge them? Hey, do you have a Knicks Sixers score? And be like... Yeah, yeah. They won 108-100. Alright, thank you. And then hang up. You know what though? That sounds like a pretty good job. Yeah. It wasn't bad. It wasn't bad. I would call... I would call the Daily News, the front desk, the sports desk. And because like... You know, when we did fantasy... I would run these fantasy leagues. Right. And if there was a Monday night game, you wouldn't get it until Wednesday. And so... Right. If a buddy and I were in a closed game, I'd want to know Tuesday. So I'd call. I'm like, hey. Can you tell me, Mark Duper, how many receiving yards? And like... Four receptions, 77 yards. I'm a busy kid. I'm like, okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Can you just tell me if he ran the ball? Did he run the ball too? It's like, I'm not. And they'd hang up instantly. So... We have to explain this to Craig, who hosts one of the biggest fantasy sports fans. No, I think we just had a better country where people would just call the newspaper. Like people used to call my dad's office at the Enquirer or my dad's desk and be like, what time is Phantom Menace playing at the Chestnut Street movie theater? And he would sometimes be like, three. You know? You didn't have a lot going on. Yeah. So you'd be like, all right, I'll answer this. So on the East Coast, USA Today, the Monday edition, or the Tuesday edition, most of the time wouldn't have the Monday score. So you'd have these fantasy leagues hanging in the balance. And we'd have no idea what the box score was until Wednesday. And then somebody would have to then finish the scores and either call us and tell you the scores or mail them out. But you'd have to wait till the Wednesday, USA Today to even know what happened on Monday. That's past waivers. How does that even work? Well, they didn't even have waivers back then. You're right. There were no waivers. It's a little bit easier. We only had trades. Should we start the fantasy advisors now and we just advise rich people's fantasy leagues and we take 20% of their winnings with no fee up front? Good. You're basically talking about here is go back to like blind fantasy. So like it's fantasy with no stats, no immediate statistics. So it's just faith in your team. You don't even know until you get an email. Yeah. And you don't find out until Tuesday whether you won. I mean, we drafted our fantasy league with no technology. Maybe that's what we do next year. Yeah, sure. It was fine. I got to be honest. I'd be much happier if I didn't know until Wednesday. In our knockout league, I was going against Wondale Robinson yesterday, who immediately had like 18 points. And I was so fucking bummed out. It was like 10-09. I just missed the idea of like not immediately like declining any phone number. I don't know. You know, like which is what you do now. But like it would just be fun if like somebody was just calling you and be like, hey, what's that dolphin score? I actually kind of hate checking my fantasy score throughout Sunday. I almost wish I couldn't. You know? That's what I mean. That's what I'm saying is let's go analog. It's kind of nice. Now you get alerts that you don't even want. It's bad. More Apex Mountain. Movies that play you're nobody till somebody loves you, the Dean Martin song. I think it's probably swingers for this. Yeah. But it's been in a few. Piven? I think you could make a case Apex right here. It's between Entourage season one and season two. Yeah. He's in this movie. The career's taken off. Yeah. I think like he's a big thing in Hollywood. I think it's probably. He won Emmys, right? For Ari Gold. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's done hair restoration commercials like in the last three years. Movies with USFL footage. It's been a lot of them. Yeah. This probably leaned on the most. This is my favorite for Apex Mountain. Movies with Pacino as a cuck. Still heat, right? Oh, yeah. Because he comes home and he finds a guy watching his TV. Is it Roy? No. No. What's Dan? Fuck. Hold on. Is that Donnie Brasco? That's close. Is he cucking Donnie Brasco? I mean, just like. You're not getting my TV. Yeah. Walter? Is this the guy's name Walter and Heath? Ralph. Ralph. Right. Ralph. You cannot watch my television. Cruiser Hanks. It's obviously. Oh, wait. I had one more Apex Mountain. Yeah. What is it? I'm sorry. Is Brandon Lang Apex Mountain for fictional football players plagued by injuries? Hmm. So, an injury derails a fictional football player's career. It could be Jason Street. Jason Street. Johnny Utah. I had Utah when you posited the question. Joe Pendleton. Hmm. Jimmy Dix. Paul Crew. Kind of more of like. Jimmy Dix was last Boy Scout. Yeah. What was his injury? He just. His pills and I think. Yeah. A bunch of other stuff. Isn't it Johnny Utah? I guess so. Because he seemed like he was headed to be like a top 10. Right. He's. Top 10 draft pick. He played for Ohio. He was in the Rose Bowl. All the fucking surfers. Yeah. All the surfers recognized him. Like he seemed like he was like legit famous. Yeah. That's like when they're like. Holy shit. Johnny fucking Utah. My bad man. Jason Street though was top. He was going to all American. He would have been like a div one. I mean. Johnny Utah did it. Right. Johnny Utah was already where Jason Street's best case. I have no idea what Johnny Utah was as a prospect coming out of high school. That's all I'm saying. Jason Street. What's the matter with you? Was going straight. Like that was like. He was going to Notre Dame. You know. Yeah. Maybe don't throw that pick and then try to tackle the guy. Dumbass. Cruiser Hanks. This is the most cruisy cruise performance in a while. I'm trying to figure out where would he have run in this movie? Like away from Armando Asante? Yeah. Running through the. Central Park. Running through Central Park or running to get out of like. Running through the airport at some point. A Brooklyn Bridge run would have been cool. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. Oh. McConaughey does jog in this movie a couple of times. Yes. Cruz would have loved that. A lot of mountain biking. Cruz is getting trained in jogging by Steve Prefontaine's uncle. He could have jogged around the hooker's table. Yeah. Maybe a few times. Yeah. Before he settled. Scorsese or Spielberg. This one's pretty easy. Scorsese. Scorsese. This is a pretty interesting Scorsese movie. Yeah. What role would Philip Seymour Hoffman have played? A different version of the Armando Asante character. Novian. Yeah. You could talk me into Walter too. Yeah. Older. Oh yeah. One of those guys. Pick and nits. I have a slew of them. So if you guys want to go, I'll save mine for the end. What do you got, Sam? I mean, the over-under on the Super Bowl is 36. So I looked this up. There were four that were lower than that. Including our favorite Super Bowl Ravens. Oh, four. It's 33. What? Yeah. Really? 33? Yeah. I looked it up from 2005 on. The lowest was 43. But that football changed. 2004. 2005 on. Well, that 2004 was yours.
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