Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
68:14 – 73:44… too. Vern puts in a hell of a performance as a credible golf announcer. He grounds the movie for sure. Well, we have Vern in this next category. Okay. Apex Mountain. Okay. I think it's a little hard to do not, yes, sir, with Nicholas. That's got to be. So that's what I thought, too. That's got to be. Did some research last night. Vern Lundquist said this is what everybody mentions to him. Hmm. Really? This is the thing. Vern Lundquist, this is from, he said, in 2016, he gave an interview and he was retiring. He said he still gets a monthly $34 check from SAG for his appearance. He said, this is him …
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I'm going Nealon. I don't want to go Nealon. Okay. Shocker. Upset. I think Vern is a candidate, too. Vern puts in a hell of a performance as a credible golf announcer. He grounds the movie for sure. Well, we have Vern in this next category. Okay. Apex Mountain. Okay. I think it's a little hard to do not, yes, sir, with Nicholas. That's got to be. So that's what I thought, too. That's got to be. Did some research last night. Vern Lundquist said this is what everybody mentions to him. Hmm. Really? This is the thing. Vern Lundquist, this is from, he said, in 2016, he gave an interview and he was retiring. He said he still gets a monthly $34 check from SAG for his appearance. He said, this is him talking. The other part of doing that movie was the effect it had on my career. The young college kids are really wrapped up in this thing. I'm 76 and it's given me an avenue of conversation with college kids. The line here is the most, who the hell is Happy Gilmore? People coming up to him all day and saying, who the hell is Happy Gilmore? So I think this was his Apex Mountain. Nobody's going up to him and going, yes, sir. They're going, who the hell is Happy Gilmore? June 86, Jack Nicklaus. Yes, sir. That's Vern's Apex. I don't know. It might be Happy Gilmore. I love Happy Gilmore. I love Vern. I do love the yes sir call. How many people are fucking watching that? Like 20 million people? It's also the best possible call of my favorite golf moment of all time. Father's Day, 1986. How many people are watching television at that time? Chris McDonald? I'm going to say Apex Mountain. You know what Apex Mountain is, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would say. I think it's. I think it is. Unless you want to get dirty work. Yeah, okay. Yeah. I was. He's, well, he's also in Requiem, which is actually. I think he's incredible in Requiem. Yeah. I mean, he's like really. He's playing another version. He's a TV host in Requiem. He's a TV host. But he's playing a version of Shooter. He's just so scaring in that movie. But no, this is probably it though. This is it. I wouldn't say Requiem if it wasn't for Happy Gilmore. So therefore. It must be so weird to be an actor and for you to have to realize that what people love about you is that there's something deranged about you. You know, like his best performance is there's something wild in his eyes. Something unbalanced. Well, unfortunately, the answer is this was his Apex Mountain because there's a kind of a sad story. In 2017, he got a DUI. He got stopped. He was trying to talk out of it. And there was a witness who said he was trying to get out of the DUI by saying, have you seen Happy Gilmore? So that was his go-to way to get out of the DUI. Social confirmation. Yeah, that's a confirmation. When you identify yourself as a shooter's turn. Old school Bruins jerseys. Yes. Apex Mountain. The throwback with the big one with the 1B. You know what's weird is we almost put Garnett in a throwback Bruins jersey. That was like part of our costuming with him. I have pictures of him. He looked good too. It looked great in him. He would have been a little winky. It's a long jersey. Yeah, exactly. It was an extra long. What else do you have for Apex Mountain? Anything? Is it Dugan's Apex Mountain? Oh, wow. It's better than Billy Madison. Is it? Yeah. I'm not so sure. I talk with, so in the Sandler camp, obviously Billy Madison is very important because it started everything. And they call it Happy Madison Productions, right? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So it's like the, I don't know, it's tough. I mean, he's, Dugan's great in, he's also a great actor in this. He's incredible in it. So we'll do Dugan very quickly. Happy, Beverly Hills Ninja, Big Daddy, Saving Silverman. Big Daddy's such a special movie. National Security. I would have said Big Daddy because it made a lot of money. The Benchwarmers, I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry. Zohan. Ooh. Jesus. Grown Ups. Just go with it. Jack and Jill. Okay. Grown Ups 2. That's his, that's his CD. Big Daddy. It's Big Daddy. It's Big Daddy for me. I think it's Big Daddy. Big Daddy was. It made like $200 million. And Big Daddy was the movie that really. It's like you see. That was the, that was like Sandler's 70s film. You know what I mean? That was like, that was, that was a character driven, beautiful, complicated character. And the movie's just, it's the movie that, that, you know, we, made us want him, cast him as, as Howard in a way. Yeah. I gotta, I just gotta get something out on the table. Cause I'm feeling this over and over again. Do you guys like Zohan? Oh, I love Zohan. It's funny. Yes. You don't love Zohan? Wow. Really? Oh my God. I love Zohan. What am I missing with Zohan? Well, the Safis are Jewish and I grew up on Long Island. So I, I, I see something. Is that movie considered to be not successful? Um. In what regards? Or is there like a cult, is there a cult aspect to it? Okay. Let's put it this way. My friend's son was getting bar mitzvahed. He's that, that makes him 13. And, uh, last weekend. I'm aware. And. Like, I don't know what a bar mitzvah is. I don't know if some people on the ringer aren't listening, don't know what a bar mitzvah is. Um. There's only 14 million Jews in the world. Um. But the, the, um. His son, all, he couldn't believe that I made a movie with Adam Sandler. And all he wanted to talk to me about was like, I am Steve. Your Steve knows. Like, no, I am stiff. First of all, the fact that the movie were, were like centers around Paul Mitchell is unbelievable. Yeah. I mean, the whole opening in, in, as him as a terrorist fighter is, is amazing. John Turturro as a terrorist. I, the movies and like some of that stuff in New York is just unbelievable. It's so funny. And also Sandler's jacked in it. Oh man.
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