Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
8:28 – 16:43… abs, eight minute abs, not the funniest joke in the world. I thought it was fucking hilarious. Really hot takes. Colin K writes in, he's been thinking about Apex Mountain. Yeah. And he decided most cities have a respective Apex Mountain. Then that becomes the spiritual defining thing they're chasing. Like Chicago just wants it to be the mid-90s again so badly. Oh, like temporal Apex Mountain. So he listed a bunch of cities with what he thinks their Apex Mountain is. Okay. San Francisco, he said 2016. Well, it's not 2016. Okay, but like this, they lost. I mean, 2015. Like 17 or 15. Wait, he's talking about …
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I don't think it's in the spirit of the category for me to feel like I got to remove a scene. Yeah. However, I do think like seven minute abs, eight minute abs, not the funniest joke in the world. I thought it was fucking hilarious. Really hot takes. Colin K writes in, he's been thinking about Apex Mountain. Yeah. And he decided most cities have a respective Apex Mountain. Then that becomes the spiritual defining thing they're chasing. Like Chicago just wants it to be the mid-90s again so badly. Oh, like temporal Apex Mountain. So he listed a bunch of cities with what he thinks their Apex Mountain is. Okay. San Francisco, he said 2016. Well, it's not 2016. Okay, but like this, they lost. I mean, 2015. Like 17 or 15. Wait, he's talking about like tech or is he talking about what it looks like in the movies? I'm just reading what he said. Okay, I mean, it's not disagreeing right out of the gate with San Francisco. but I like, there's a crumb here where it's like, it's a kernel of saying like, actually Apex Mountain, San Francisco would be late 70s, early 80s, right? So that would have, my argument would have been late 70s, like post Dirty Harry. Bullet. Yeah, and we're heading into where Zodiac kind of goes back to, yeah. But I guess you could make a case like as Steph and the Warriors are taking off with the tech boom and the prices. Yeah, I mean, it might not have been the best, like San Francisco itself might not have been at its best. Basic Instinct is probably the happy medium between the two. For me, it's 90s San Francisco. We talked about that in Basic Instinct. I thought mid-90s San Francisco always lights out. Yeah. Like, I would probably say that. You also can't say 2015, 20, because it wasn't even in San Francisco. The Warriors played at Oracle. Yeah. All right, so he's 0 for 1. Boston, 2004. I actually agree with this. Because of Sox? Sox, Patriots in full bloom. Big Dig is done. Yeah. So we have, Big Dig took 10 fucking years, finished. The city was transformed. It just, all of a sudden, and of course, I had moved by then, and every time I came back, I was like, how the fuck did we leave, right, before all this stuff happened? Big Dig is done so Jem can get back and forth from Charleston. Right. They never were able to escape that North End robbery. He has New York City 1998. I don't know how he came up with that one. 98. It's interesting. Pre-9-11. Pre-9-11. Yankees going strong. Nick's still in the mix. I personally would have gone mid-90s for New York for a variety of reasons with the sports and just… SNL's in a decent spot in the late 90s. SNL's coming back. I mean, I like early 2000s just because of the music. You can't be at 9-11 at that point. I know, but that can't be Apex Mountain. I'm not saying it's Apex Mountain for like actual stuff. I just mean like, and that's also when I was there, you know? So I would say late 70s for New York. Warriors? All the shit that was going. Yeah. Warriors. But you had SNL in full bloom. They're making all kinds of awesome movies there. The music scene has taken off. Ridiculous. It's the center of the porn industry. Sure. Professional wrestling. We haven't moved west with our adult entertainment yet. Yeah. I just feel like even though it was a little scummy and grimy in New York, it was just crushing it. Yeah. Pre-Trump. Get a cab. Travis Bickle's your driver. Yeah. Chicago 96. I have no notes on that. That makes sense. It would be somewhere in the second Jordan. I spent some time there in 98. Everybody was super happy. Seattle 1993, he says. I like it. Mm-hmm. Beginning of the grunge. Sean Kemp. Sonics are still there. Campbell Scott designing a super train. Ken Griffey's about to show up. Early tech rumblings. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I'll save Philly for last. He has Pittsburgh as 1975. Just pro-Steelers. The two most interesting ones. He had Los Angeles, 1955. Isn't that like LA Confidential? Yeah. I thought that was... I don't know why he had that. I would have said mid-80s for LA. Like with Hollywood. Yeah. I was going to say like Lakers, Hollywood. People moving here. Yeah. It was like the coolest place in the earth. And then he has 1983 for Philly. Well, that's Sixers. Phillies go to the World Series. Rocky Balboa. Right. The Phillies have just won. Well, they won in 80, but they lost the Orioles in 83. But you're in the middle of your Phillies run. Yeah. Eagles were in the Super Bowl in 80. Flyers good then. It's after Broad Street Bullies, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Rocky III is out. Big Five basketball popping off. See, yeah. I was in kindergarten, so I don't have a picture-perfect memory. 83 seemed good. I had a couple ads. Hartford, 1988. ESPNs are starting to take off, and they still have the whale. The whalers. Oh, my God. And then I was trying to think of the Apex Mountain for Vegas, and I think it's late 90s. Yeah, that's always true. Before it became commercialized. When it was still, there was a little bit underground. I would have loved to be there like the Mo Green era. That would have been good. Oh, yeah. Spang and Cocktail Witches, too. Mo Green. I'm excited for feedback on that. And then to get... We have to ask what... So he's saying it's like the actual... Does Milwaukee have one? Just like where people... Because the reason it resonated with me... Like if you could choose a year to live in the city, what year would it be? I would love to live in Milwaukee during like the Robin Yount era. Not the Dahmer era. No. No. But it seemed like pony bottles of Miller were everywhere, you know? Because Boston definitely was 2004. That was the single year you would have wanted to live in Boston. Yes. Chris Arrington wants to know, is there a movie you haven't done yet for rewatchables because it's so un-PC you worry about backlash? And who would you want as co-hosts on that pod? So really, Soul Man is Apex Mountain for this one. But I'm not against doing it. Blazing Saddles would be, I think, really hard to do. I don't know. I mean, Blazing Saddles was on Turner Classic Movies last night. Like it's still, I think, regarded very well. What about Revenge of the Nerds? That was the other one I had. But I would do all three of those. So I don't feel like there is an NPC. You'd have to go into like... I mean, it's incredibly difficult to talk about Woody Allen's filmography and not address like the elephant in the room with him. And I think a lot of those movies like are hard to talk about. But I still really love Annie Hall. Like I love to do Annie Hall. There's a couple like the... A couple dark movies that probably aren't rewatchables. But like that Monica Bellucci movie and shit like that. We would never do. We would never do that. Requiem for a Dream. No. Most rewatchable. This is a great one. Mike L wrote this. My 72nd rewatch of Fargo gave me an idea. Do Peter Stormor's film TV characters have the weirdest resume of any actor in history? These are some of the things his characters have done. Murdered Steve Buscemi with an axe and stuffed him into a wood chopper. Eaten by a dinosaur. Got his ear bitten off by John Goodman. Helped Bruce Willis save the world from an asteroid. Swapped out Tom Cruise's eyeballs. Directed multiple actual snuff films. And helped George Costanza move to Frogger without losing his high score. Can any actor challenge this? We don't have that anymore, you know? No one's doing stuff like that. Honestly. It is honestly incredible. Incredible. Even without the snuff film, he still probably has the best one. I'm going to start thinking about this when we do like, especially 90s movies where I'm like, you know, like this guy's been in 13. Like what were his jobs? Right. Yeah. I want to find out like what Cole Meany did besides being Con Air, you know? Oh, that's a good one. I had Madsen sliced off the ear in Reservoir Dogs and the cop. He buried the bride alive in Kill Bill. He unleashed a black mamba snake in Kill Bill 2. He killed a horny, hot female alien in Species. And he beat up people with a baseball bat in Brasco. Pretty good resume. Not even close to Stormar. Kind of one note though. Stormar's really riding all over the place. Stormar's replacing eyeballs. He's directing snuff films. Yeah. He's woodchippering people to death. Because it's like the not quite leading man but can be in every kind of movie as a side character. Yeah, because like and it's got to be something creative. Like Cruz is just the best at everything he does. Like best bartender, best pilot, best spy. That was pretty good.
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