Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
81:31 – 88:47… $37,400. That's low. Bill, where do you have this in your all-time Pacers? Is it more Reggie Miller or like Austin Crozier? We're going to cover that there in Apex Mountain. Got it. So when Wayne speaks Cantonese to Tia. Neho Lunga. Yeah. He's just, it sounds like he's learned it, but he's just saying gibberish and she was like trying not to laugh because he was completely unintelligible. Is it actually sound because he goes, Like that's just nonsense, right? No, complete nonsense. Okay. The scene when they're talking on the hood of the car with the Bugs Bunny dress was the last scene filmed. Oh, I like …
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It was restored to running condition with the original movie props in the car. A stair system added. Sold in 2016 for $37,400. That's low. Bill, where do you have this in your all-time Pacers? Is it more Reggie Miller or like Austin Crozier? We're going to cover that there in Apex Mountain. Got it. So when Wayne speaks Cantonese to Tia. Neho Lunga. Yeah. He's just, it sounds like he's learned it, but he's just saying gibberish and she was like trying not to laugh because he was completely unintelligible. Is it actually sound because he goes, Like that's just nonsense, right? No, complete nonsense. Okay. The scene when they're talking on the hood of the car with the Bugs Bunny dress was the last scene filmed. Oh, I like knowing that. Fender made a special run of Wayne's World's signature Stratocaster guitars right after this movie. And then Stan Mikita's Donuts was a fictional donut shop. The scenes were shot at a Tim Hortons, which is a real donut shop. But I always thought for years that Stan Mikita's was a real place. I was honestly disappointed. Yeah, I'd never heard of it. Felt let down. Apex Mountain. Myers? No, it's Austin Powers. Yep. Carvey, you can make the case. He's still on SNL at this point. This movie's big and you're buying all kinds of Dana Carvey stock in 1992. Dana Carvey was so big at this point that he did a set with U2 as Garth, where he was on stage with them at the VMAs drumming. Wow. And U2 was probably the biggest band. It was like Ak-Tung Baby era. Yeah. He was global at that point. So it's Dana Carvey's Apex, the first movie, yes. Lord Michaels is an interesting one. Because at that point, you could say it's somewhere in the 70s when the show peaked in 78, 79. But I actually think it's probably in the early 90s when he resuscitated the show and built it back up into a franchise. And now he's dipping into movies. And it really felt like he was becoming a mogul in a completely different way. So I'm going to say yes. It's not only his first hugely successful movie. It's really his last one, too. Right. It felt like there was 20 more coming. Yeah. From a talent standpoint, they're just cherry picking all of the funniest people. Like he's throwing 99 miles an hour. I'm going to say yes. Aurora, Illinois. Not a real place? Real place. Okay. Real place. Apex Mountain, then. Yeah, definitely. When you think, like I'm from Chicago, you meet someone from Aurora. You're like, all right, party time. Excellent. Yeah. They must love that. They love it. They're really big fans. It's like, I saw the McCourty's on Friday night. Yeah. We're taping this after the Super Bowl. And Sal went up to them and was like, are you guys twins? Like, it's such a joke. It's such a, he did the parody of the parody. Like, it's almost like it's like three steps beyond the joke that they always hear, which they actually thought it was pretty funny. Yes. They're great guys. I'm going to say yes for Tia. Bigger. So she's a very important part of a James Cameron movie. It's a massively successful James Cameron movie. She's doing the Samba with Arnold Schwarzenegger, you know, not playing. I think it's, I think it's True Lies. True Lies was big and she had a- It's tough because Craig makes the key part. She's disposable in that movie. It could have been 10 different people in this movie. She's not disposable. But I think you're right. Cause that was one of the four biggest movies. Yeah. It's probably True Lies. Big deal in that movie. Stan Makeda. Probably not. There's probably something that happened in the 60s with them. Great Poupon commercial parodies. I'm going to say yes. People, they were ubiquitous. You could not turn on the TV without seeing some party in a Rolls Royce asking for mustard. It was just the thing they did. I promise. All right. Work with me on this one. Yeah. Prostate exam jokes where the guy puts on the glove and somebody is about to be violated. It's still Fletch. Right? It's not this. Yeah. It's got to be Fletch. Definitely. Delaware? A hundred percent. Great instrumental in the American Revolution. One of the oldest states. But I think of them in front of the blue screen. I'm sorry, guys. Maybe Joe Flacco, though. He was Super Bowl MVP and he went to Delaware. Elena Deladon? Big star. Big star. They did have our last president. Probably not. He's probably not Apex Mountain for Delaware. Joe Biden was a nine-time senator and he was the president of the United States. I'm not giving him Apex Mountain. And we still think it's Wayne. I think it's Joe Flacco winning the Super Bowl MVP. I think you're right. I like it. Yeah. Shitty Beatles, definitely Apex Mountain. Alice Cooper, no. Rob Lowe, no. Mm-mm. I don't know what his Apex Mountain was. I think it was... Really fun career. For me, it's about last night. It's the St. Elmo's fire into about last night. It might be the Apex for me, too. For me personally, it might be my Apex, man. Do you know, Bill, when I was in summer 2000, I interned at an agency and the agent I worked under was Rob Lowe's agent. I used to get to listen to his phone calls. Rob Lowe would call in. And you know what he was calling about? He was begging his agent that he wanted to be in the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes movie because he loved Planet of the Apes. And he was begging. He'll say, I'll do any part. And the response was, you can't be in it because you have blue eyes and they're only casting actors with brown eyes. Oh, man. So you're not allowed to be in it. And my agent was like, that's the only time in your life that's going to work against you, those blue eyes. Isn't that crazy? He wanted him though. Rob Lowe. One of the greats. Great podcast guests too. I bet. Cruz or Hanks? This feels Hanks to me. I think I have Cruz as Benjamin in like kind of a pre-Jerry Maguire sort of agent role. Oh, interesting. I think if you're going to cast as one of the big two, I think it's Hanks as Wayne. I think so too. Yeah. Scorsese or Spielberg? Probably Spielberg. This doesn't feel like a Scorsese movie. I think for Scorsese that Cassandra would have to turn into like Ginger from Casino. You know, like try to just be some sort of crazy off the hook. Also, Bill, I had one apex for you. I want to bounce off you. Yeah. Rock bands and movies like fake rock bands like Crucial Taunt. Oh, this is great. We both agree they can wave. Crucial Taunt. Let me give you some. I have some. All right. So you have Spinal Tap. You have Wild Stallions from Bill and Ted. We don't really get to see them play. The School of Rock Kids. Steel Dragon with Mark Wahlberg. The Pinheads with Marty McFly. And then our guys, Stillwater from Almost Famous. And I was throwing Citizen Dick from Singles. Yes. I don't know if we actually saw them play. I think they just pretended to be a band. We saw Soundgarden play. They're a real band. Yeah. Citizen Dick, though. I think it's Stillwater. Stillwater was. I mean, they played, what, three songs in front of a crowd of like 20,000 people. And the songs were all actually good. I think I downloaded a couple on my Spotify or whatever. Fever Dog. And Jason Lee really does the singing like Cassandra does. I think I have Stillwater as well in that movie. I thought what they pulled off with that band were Jason Lee, like his skinny beard, kind of his weird body posture was so 70s. And then brought up like the guitar.
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