Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
44:29 – 47:15… There's this never-ending news stand that I always thought was- I would just go there for two, three hours and just read shit. Different era. I had it in Apex Mountain, newsstands. Great. Was this really it? We'll cover it in a second. The first date I have is a rewatchable scene. We get Steve's room. We get to see all the stuff on the wall. That's the best, man. How about the long X-Man poster, which I had? The- We get to see all his albums. He gets to explain the super train. And they wonder why there's gridlock, right? But this is what I've been working on. If you had a train, right? A super train. You …
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we- There was a great one in Harvard Square in Cambridge that was just- There's this never-ending news stand that I always thought was- I would just go there for two, three hours and just read shit. Different era. I had it in Apex Mountain, newsstands. Great. Was this really it? We'll cover it in a second. The first date I have is a rewatchable scene. We get Steve's room. We get to see all the stuff on the wall. That's the best, man. How about the long X-Man poster, which I had? The- We get to see all his albums. He gets to explain the super train. And they wonder why there's gridlock, right? But this is what I've been working on. If you had a train, right? A super train. You give the people a good reason to get out of their cars. You give them great coffee, great music. They will park and ride. I know they will. I still love my car, though. Yeah. Which is so early 90s. It's this grand idea that's clearly not going to work. Wait for my Stephen A. Smith on Super Train. The Super Train, which, by the way, almost everyone who he cares about shuts down. Oh, yeah. He did. She basically tells him right there, your train's not going to work. Yeah. People like their cars too much. People love their cars. Yeah. We get the Andy flashback where we get the concept of sensitive ponytail guy. Oh, my God. You know, it's okay to loathe these people. Really? There's so much life in you and so much emotional larceny in these others. Which basically was in my life from that point on. It's okay to loathe these people. We get the why don't you park underground, the call back to the beginning, and then him showing back up. I was nowhere near your neighborhood. And then the most important cameo, maybe of the 90s, the X-Man, Xavier McDaniel. I just go out and just play basketball. Good heart knows basketball. Things happen throughout the course of the game. There's nothing you can do. I don't go out and look to say, I'm going to beat this guy up or beat that guy up. Anything else, X? Yes. Steve, don't come yet. I can't tell you. I love this movie. I was predisposed to absolutely loving this movie in the theater. I had no idea it was going to happen. And I was enjoying myself immensely. Alice in Chains is played. I would have given more money if the Usher had come around and said, we're going to need more money for you to watch the rest of the movie. I'd be like, here, here's my wallet. And the fucking X-Man shows up. That's a good category. Oh my God. Because at what point in the movie would you have paid more money for the movie? Right here, I just would have given them my wallet. Steve, don't come yet. The X-Man, I just couldn't believe it. I felt like all my world, anything I cared about in life was colliding at the same time. If there was ever a player who would do that, can you imagine?
90:55 – 96:19… him. And he's like, why are you happy about that? I told him I was the writer-director. He squinted his eyes. And he said, you ruined my life. Amazing stuff. Apex Mountain. Cameron Crowe. Nah. Nope. Keir Sedgwick. What was that show she was on TNT for 10 years? The Intuitor. The Intuitor. Campbell Scott him and say yes. He was in a Julia Roberts movie. And this. Matt Dillon, no. Pearl Jam, no. Sheila Kelly? Eh, probably LA Law. Not LA Law? All right. How about long anguished 90s phone messages? This is apex fucking mountain. Okay, great. Yeah. You belong to me. This is not the bathroom. Xavier McDaniel, who …
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And he was like, Crow said, I was so happy. I almost hugged him. And he's like, why are you happy about that? I told him I was the writer-director. He squinted his eyes. And he said, you ruined my life. Amazing stuff. Apex Mountain. Cameron Crowe. Nah. Nope. Keir Sedgwick. What was that show she was on TNT for 10 years? The Intuitor. The Intuitor. Campbell Scott him and say yes. He was in a Julia Roberts movie. And this. Matt Dillon, no. Pearl Jam, no. Sheila Kelly? Eh, probably LA Law. Not LA Law? All right. How about long anguished 90s phone messages? This is apex fucking mountain. Okay, great. Yeah. You belong to me. This is not the bathroom. Xavier McDaniel, who just finished the Knicks Bulls playoff series and then was in singles. I'm going to say yes. Do you say this is the apex mountain of Xavier McDaniel? That's interesting. I don't disagree. This era. Signed with the Celtics as a free agent. I think this winter because Larry Bird retired. Garage door openers. Oh, for sure. Yeah, for sure. Video dating in a movie. I was trying to think of a better video dating in a movie. I can't think of any. Yeah. I mean, certainly she gets Tim Burton. Tim Burton directs a video. It's got to be it. Tim Burton cameos. Concept of the Super Train? Or would you go this? Or the 1979 NBC series Super Train? Did the Super Train work in that movie? Super Train just fails in movies, TV. It doesn't matter. Apartment houses as a plot device. I still have Melrose Place. Yeah. Rosemary's Baby too. Yeah, that's a good one. Subpop. Well, he's wearing the Subpop t-shirt at some point. You know. What was the red? No? Yeah. No. Earlier? Two years earlier? A little earlier, yeah. Seattle? I'm going to say yes. Yeah. Amazing times for Seattle. Singles, the Sonics. Sleepless in Seattle? The next year? I know, but. We don't get grunge in that though. That would have to be Apex Mountain for Seattle. Yeah. No. Were the 93 Sonics better than the 92 Sonics? I think they were. When was. Yeah, maybe it was. I mean, are we in the full throes of Ken Griffey Jr. fandom right now? It's starting. Can we ask with you? Seattle was a major, major, major thing in the early to mid 90s. And then, shout out to my people in Seattle. Seattle just became not a thing after a while. I think it's a thing. The music. I love Seattle. Don't get me wrong. The music fell off. The Sonics got stolen. Yeah. Yeah. And people started to hate Starbucks and big corporations like that. But like when you. Those are the three things. If you go there, it's still a great town. Oh, if you go there. It's an amazing place. It is top five. It is an amazing place. I've said many times that they had NBA, we probably would have moved there in the late 2000s. Yeah. I would have lived there. I guess there was a little resurgence like when the Seahawks became dominant, I guess. But like Seattle was like a huge thing. I fucking love Seattle. Last one I have for Apex Mountain. The older red sob fastback. Unbelievable. They don't even make sobs anymore, man. Douglas Copeland's Generation X. Yeah. So big time for that. Yeah. I always say every like once in a blue moon, you might see one on the road. Oh. Oh. Best racehorse name. Citizen Dick. That's a good one. Super Train. Good one. Historic Chili Dog. Super. Historic Chili Dog. Here comes Super Train. Here comes Super Train. Picking nits. Giving a guy a garage door opener is fucking weird. On the first date. Yeah. Not on the first date, but like as like you're going to Spain, take my garage door opener. How are you going to open your shit? Does she have an extra? She has an extra. I think her whole point is like she has two. She gives Luis one and then he's. You just met Luis. Don't do that. Yeah. That's weird. Craig. Campbell Scott's apartment. I know you lost your job and your girlfriend and the whole thing, but it turns into like the apartment from seven. Yeah. He became. He went down. Fuck. He went down the tubes pretty quick. Talk about over the top. 17 pizza boxes. You're now a hoarder. And also like what girl is going to want to come in there and not be like this guy. We should call the mental hospital. By the way, that's one of mine. What? She fucks him in that fucking pigsty. Disgusting place. Like she, he literally moves. She fucks him in that. That's not happening. She's like, can you move the pizza box? Right. Yeah. Like in the, in the rat that's eating the pizza. She's going to come in. She's going to go. Oh my God. Wait. So you had like an immaculate apartment when you were 24. That apartment was out of control. Disgusting. He just, just had food all over the place. Yeah. It was gross. That was too over the top. Come on. Come on. Cameron Crowe. Do better. What else do you have for picking this? I have to admit that if I was Ruth, I would find Linda a little bit of a tough hang. She's always coming in, just being like, I don't want to play any games. This guy's the one. And then it's just like, Oh, like Luis. Yeah. The fucking guy. Who like, who he put in a solid nightclub. Right. I just feel like she's a real, like, she really dominates the conversation. We don't, we don't ever hear anything like, how are you doing, Ruth? Any historic chili dogs in your horizon? Like what's going on? Yeah. What's, what's her role? She's just. She's the friend, but it's like. Yeah. She has no life for her. It never seems like Linda's ever asking Ruth, like, how's it going? And why didn't Ruth give Bailey like at least a shot? Ruth fucked over Bailey so badly. She shut down. And she, and it was, it's so funny. Bailey's like, huh? She's like, no. Like, why? Like, he's got a nice hat. Are we sure Ruth was straight?
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