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Road House 2024

With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan and Kyle Brandt · 5 March 2024 · 19,520 feet

The claim

40:42 – 43:29

… to him in these fights. But this is our big Wade Garrett. This is now we have two welterweights trying to take on everybody in the town. Also, I think it's apex mountain for Drombui. Not a really popular spirit. Anybody like a rusty nail? You need some Drombui. And there were cases and cases of it. So much Drombui coming to the deuce. Is it Drombui or Drombui? I don't know. Honestly, the first time I ever heard of it. Yeah. It's in classic bars. I want to say it's Italian. All right. Well, now we're really getting into the, to, to the big ones. Brad Wesley's blonde friend does a long striptease to Jeff Healy …

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And then, and then Wade Garrett shows up and they fight him out and it's like, Hey, let's go get a beer. It's like, do you need medical attention? What just happened? He's fine. Dalton's always fine no matter what happens to him in these fights. But this is our big Wade Garrett. This is now we have two welterweights trying to take on everybody in the town. Also, I think it's apex mountain for Drombui. Not a really popular spirit. Anybody like a rusty nail? You need some Drombui. And there were cases and cases of it. So much Drombui coming to the deuce. Is it Drombui or Drombui? I don't know. Honestly, the first time I ever heard of it. Yeah. It's in classic bars. I want to say it's Italian. All right. Well, now we're really getting into the, to, to the big ones. Brad Wesley's blonde friend does a long striptease to Jeff Healy singing, I'm a hoochie coochie man. Play something Elvis. We get, we do get some nudity at the end. Swayze seems like he's enjoying it. Yeah. But then does that. If you're going to have a pet, keep it on a leash. Tough one. Tough moment after that. I thought, you know, I thought she put a lot on that performance. Hurt Denise's feelings. Yeah. And then Jimmy Reno comes in. Yep. And to say that he owns the next two minutes of this movie would be a massive understatement. Kyle, what's your relationship with Jimmy Reno? Well, I have to recuse myself in part from this because I have some big takes on it coming up later. Okay, fair. But I have strong feelings on Jimmy Reno. Okay. CR? You want to test drive any early Jimmy Reno takes or no? I'll just say that him with the pull cue emerging there. Go on. Like, I know we've gotten glimpses of him before in the movie, but that, this introductory scene is like some real, like, guy coming out of the bullpen to fucking enter Sandman. You know, like, he's wearing a necklace. It's like a shark tooth necklace. Yeah. Right. Marshall T plays this guy and it is, it's fucking on. Because so far you're like, oh, like Brad Wesley's guys are like O'Connor and John Doe. They're dipshits. Yeah, they're dipshits. Like, you're like, oh, he's going to be able to figure this out in like a week or a week and a half. And then Jimmy shows up and you're like, so who hired the Navy SEAL to be here? You know, it's crazy. It's kind of crazy that he didn't become a bigger star, Marshall T, but he's carrying himself. Not only is he, you know, a little Chong Li-ish with like, it's, oh man, this guy's going to be tough to beat. But he's got the same homoerotic energy that Boggs has in Shawshank when he's checking out Red. I mean, I'm sorry, Andy. And it's just like, whoa, what's going on with this guy? Anybody get to you yet? He's got that vibe. He's just intense. And so not only are you worried about Swayze, you're worried about Swayze.

94:40 – 101:24

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The make and model and color of Dalton's car, silver, light blue, 1986, Mercedes-Benz, SEC, 560, a C126. And then the double deuce and reds auto parts did not exist. They were built on site. We'll take one more break. Then we're doing apex mountain. This message is brought to you by Apple card. Shave ice by the beach, a trip to the state fair and a throwback flick at the local drive-in. They're more than just items to check off the summer bucket list. There are also opportunities to earn 2% daily cash back when you use your Apple card with Apple pay apply for Apple card. Now use in minutes with Apple pay subject to credit approval. Apple card is issued by Goldman Sachs bank, USA, Salt Lake city branch terms and more at applecard.com. Apex mountain. Swayze. No, because this movie was a slow burn, but I think it's ghost, ghost point break roadhouse coming on as a, as a rental era. So we're a year away from it. Sam Elliott. Is it mask? I mean, it legit might be low key 1883. He's incredible. And I thought a lot of people saw it. You're right. It might be 1883. Movie bouncers. It's gotta be. Yes. Absolutely. Movie coolers as well. And coolers. Jeff Healy. I'm going to say yes. Hell yes. Let's, let's just give it up for Jeff Healy for a fucking second. God damn. This is the most underrated talented musician of all time. He's a blind guy who plays guitar with it on his lap. It's unbelievable. I was going to say apex mountain era. So I'm being a little bit generous with the timeframe, but white blues guitar players, like, like Steve Vai. Oh yeah. I like it. That was a big thing in, in like the mid to late eighties. Yeah. Kelly Lynch. I, it's somewhere around here. I think it's, I think we're there. Terry Funk. I'm going to go early eighties when he was really like, like one of the great wrestling villains of that whole era. Ben Gazzara. He won two Emmys. I'd be interested to see maybe belatedly. This became the apex mountain. It's probably the thing he gets recognized for the most. Definitely. I don't think there's a lot of big John Cassavetes fans with in 2024, but there's a lot of Roadhouse fans. They're big fans, but I don't, I think that a lot of people have seen Roadhouse. Yeah. Would you go apex mountain for Sam Elliott's pubes or is there another situation? I hope it's yet to come. There's no 1883 pubes going. So yeah. Maybe next season. Throat rip kills. No question. You can name it the Dalton. Action movie star names. Just name him Dalton. But then his also, his best friend's going to come in Wade Garrett. Yeah. And they have to fight Jimmy Reno and Brad Wesley. Great names. Can I interest you in Mason Storm and his son's, his sunny storm, which is the name doesn't even fucking make sense. There's some good ones. It's true. Swayze's late eighties, Yarmir Yager hockey hair. That's great. I think Yager had the best. Male mullets? Yeah. Those male like hockey, they look great with the hockey helmets. Prison sodomy threats. No question. This is the apex. And then Tai Chi Outdoors. Definitely. Any other apex mountain? What do you got, Chris? No. I mean, I had Healy. I had mullets. So yeah. Bill covered a lot. I had coin tosses to determine a death. And then I looked at. Oh, that's good. I looked at Anton Chigurh at the counter saying, you got to make a call. But the Wade Garrett one did come first. Is this apex mountain? Oh, the Coen brothers ripped off Brad Wesley? I was circling around it. They might have stood on some shoulders there. I honestly would not put it past Cormac McCarthy to have seen that. They've seen Roadhouse and be like, yeah, I'll put that in there. Do we call this apex mountain for sticking with your car despite all things going wrong with it? Oh, yeah. Stop sign going through the windshield. Knife tires. Knife tires. Knife tires. Just constantly taking it to reds and just being like, man, let's see if we can get some spark plugs in this thing. My last one was action movies. Just 1989. I think this was apex mountain. I think we're doing the best right now. Terminator 2 is coming. We still have all of our heroes are still in their primes or we have this new batch of heroes. It's like the old generation, new generation is colliding. I don't think it got better than this. All right. Semi new category. Racehorse or fantasy team name? Well, mine's – go ahead. What do you got? Well, you go. This is autobiographical. I've already had a fantasy team name called Right Boot, and I'm not making that up. Right Boot has been a team before, so that's mine. Right Boot as a racehorse would be great. Yeah. In the vote out league, I'm in with Cousin Sal and all those guys. My team name has been the Double Deuce for, I think, 22 years. Awesome. Including a picture of the Double Deuce that we had to put in the CBS site. Old version or new version? Is it the older or the new Double Deuce? No, it's the old one from 89. Yeah. Yeah, so the Double Deuce. Even it's been so long, I just call it the Deuce now. It's like a nickname for the fantasy team name. Sure. I really love the Double Deuce. Pick a Nets. So Dalton's price, if you want to hire me, 5K up front. Go on. 500 a night cash, and you got to pay all my medical expenses. Yep. All right, so he's working five nights a week. Uh-huh. So that's 2,500 a week. Sunday, Monday off, maybe? 125K a year cash. Also 5K up front, so now we're at 130, and you're paying all his medical expenses. Pretty lucrative job. You think he's on the books? You think he's reporting a lot of that income? He doesn't have an address. He doesn't have any of that stuff. I think it's all under the table. Buying cars and cash. Yeah. I think it's almost 300 grand. So it's really like 250. Yeah. For inflation and $20,24, it's almost 300 grand to be a cooler. I don't like that our guy didn't negotiate with him a little bit. Like, what about 450? He's just like, all right, that's it. Here's money. Here's my thing. Both Dalton and Jimmy need to get equity pieces of these places. Like, I don't know. Jimmy must just be a psychopath because he's like, I'm fucking killing anybody that Brad tells me to. But like, Jimmy's kind of like a house pet. I don't really know what his ambitions are. Dalton should go into places and be like, I get 10% of the door going forward for cleaning this place up. Do you think in the three hour, 50 minute cut, there's a scene where Jimmy goes in, talks

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Their apex is elsewhere
Jake Gyllenhaal25,260 ftBrokeback Mountain, 2005, by 6,697 feet.

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