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Old School 2003

With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey · 15 January 2019 · 23,008 feet

The claim

45:44 – 49:17

… It was the neighborhood I don't know if it was The exact house It was a two block stretch Okay So Yeah There you go That's it We covered all the other ones Apex Mountain Tough one Craig Kilburn No SportsCenter No I think the first season Of Kilburn on The Daily Show I was like Wow This is a thing I thought he was Like God on SportsCenter I thought he was like The funniest person I've ever seen I think first year Of The Daily Show Was what I would go for I will say that Kilburn probably thinks This was his Apex Mountain Cause he had the CBS Late Night Show And the old school cameo And people love this movie …

The whole segment, as transcribed

Attainable place to get Than the Boogie Nights house I'm just gonna Just redfin it right now I just wanna go over there I'll redfin it after I think It was the neighborhood I don't know if it was The exact house It was a two block stretch Okay So Yeah There you go That's it We covered all the other ones Apex Mountain Tough one Craig Kilburn No SportsCenter No I think the first season Of Kilburn on The Daily Show I was like Wow This is a thing I thought he was Like God on SportsCenter I thought he was like The funniest person I've ever seen I think first year Of The Daily Show Was what I would go for I will say that Kilburn probably thinks This was his Apex Mountain Cause he had the CBS Late Night Show And the old school cameo And people love this movie And they liked him in it It's not a cameo He's like a He has like a part In this movie I would say this is where It starts to fall apart For Craig Kilburn I also really like Craig Kilburn Don't get me wrong I like him too He's been on this podcast Or on my podcast Will Ferrell Can't be his Apex Mountain No What's his Apex Mountain I think it's Anchorman Is it Anchorman? It's Anchorman Making that movie Having that movie succeed Which is It's insane You could Yeah it has to be His movie career Something from his movie career Has to be the Apex Cause the SNL Apex Is 2000 When he's doing Strategery Is Bush And all that stuff Yeah Vince Vaughn I say yes I say this is Not only the best He's ever been But This revives him Cause it's the run Of Dodgeball This This Dodgeball And Wedding Crashers And it's He gets out from under Like doing the cell And stuff like that I'm gonna go Wedding Crashers Which I think was a year later Okay Because And that was a bigger hit Now it's not a fluke Now it's like wow Vince Vaughn Is one of the biggest stars we have And then like right around then Also started dating Jennifer Aniston Maybe Not maybe When they were filming the breakup And he was on the cover of Us Weekly All the time And it just felt like he was like One of the biggest stars in the world there For a year and a half Okay And it's been an A-lister for a long time Luke Wilson I think so Because it's Right around here Is the run for him That is actually like The mainstream run Where it's like Legally Blonde 2 Charlie's Angels This I'm not necessarily saying I like those movies More than Bottle Rocket Or Tenenbaums But I But he was He was a bankable He was like He was getting the lead Lead white guy roles In a lot of movies Like in a different era This guy's in the Harrison Ford zone Oh wow Jesus Don't you think so? That's blasphemous That's what you just said Jesus That's a wild take First Frank Sinatra In a different era You don't think Luke That's what Luke Wilson's Career trajectory is? No He's a comedy actor He's like Charles Grodin or something Harrison Ford What? He's not He's not a Action leading man Harrison Ford's an action leading man He became one I don't know Yeah he always I mean he was Han Solo I think that there's something About Luke Wilson That has like To kind of like Rugged Let's have the Luke Wilson Conversation now Okay I don't think he's very good In his movie Or across the board I just think in general I think there's a little I think he kind of lucked out With some of Being in the right movies In the right times Kind of things I think he is The beneficiary Of having A very creative brother And forging a partnership With Owen And Wes Anderson And those guys Put him in position To succeed A few times He's very good In Bottle Rocket Because he plays This kind of Doe-eyed Innocent type And he's kind of Been replicating He replicates that In Charlie's Angels In Legally Blonde In this movie Where he's kind of like I'm just a regular guy

52:32 – 55:18

… credited screenwriters So Always a red flag So does Armageddon Let me tell you Those six guys Could have been William Goldman In the Ray era Patrick Crenshaw Apex Mountain Probably Probably He went out high Did we not mention You're my boy blue And what's age the best And blue Yes sir Do you trust that I do not want to see You die here tonight Sir yes sir Blue you're my boy Thank you sir Because you're my boy blue Along with earmuffs Is in the lexicon Yeah I had it For best quote But I guess we should have Mentioned you're my boy blue For And Pulaski is part of that Well we did the What's the best scene It was …

The whole segment, as transcribed

It was fine The Rolex store has Six credited screenwriters So Always a red flag So does Armageddon Let me tell you Those six guys Could have been William Goldman In the Ray era Patrick Crenshaw Apex Mountain Probably Probably He went out high Did we not mention You're my boy blue And what's age the best And blue Yes sir Do you trust that I do not want to see You die here tonight Sir yes sir Blue you're my boy Thank you sir Because you're my boy blue Along with earmuffs Is in the lexicon Yeah I had it For best quote But I guess we should have Mentioned you're my boy blue For And Pulaski is part of that Well we did the What's the best scene It was the whole blue Yeah that's true That's true But we should have mentioned We should have given A special shout out To you're my boy blue And Spanish was funny too For some reason Yeah Just repeatedly calling Some random guy Spanish Joey Pants Award A lot of nominees I gotta say It's gotta go to That guy from Mad Men I don't know what That guy's name is He's Jeremy Piven's Henchman in this movie Then he ended up on Mad Men the last couple years And he's just one of those guys He's been in stuff I don't know what his name is Wait is this the Joey Pants Award You're talking about The Joey Pants Award Yeah I think I have the winner here More than that guy from Mad Men What is that guy's name It's more just because Really far background player In this movie Who wound up Kind of showing up But Patrick Adams Who plays guitar During Dust in the Wind Is the star of Suits Oh wow Yeah Oh yeah Yeah That's a good one That's interesting Hold on I'm trying to figure out Who the It's a very very deep cast here Is that guy from Mad Men He's very distinct looking He plays Bobby Barrett's husband He's the mean comedian In the first season of Mad Men Yeah What is He's also so memorable In Mulholland Drive Where he tells the story In the diner And then they go behind The dumpster in the back He's in something else too He keeps popping up Definitely one of those guys Would this movie have been better With Trey Obuschemy Or Michael K. Williams His name is Patrick Fishler Patrick Fishler Very good character actor That's how you win the Joey Pants Award When I have no idea What your name is But I can name nine things You've been in Trey Obuschemy Or Michael K. Williams I think Buschemy Maybe could have played The principal I think Trey O Definitely could have Trey O would have been A great frat number In the frat Like he's just a mute guy They pulled in Doesn't say much But he's intimidating Michael K. Williams I don't I don't know how he fits in this movie Would have been weird I'm not sure if I ever thought This movie needed One of those three guys Yeah I probably didn't Tough category for this one I don't think anybody Really fits the bill Saul Rubinek Saul Rubinek They knew It comes down to me It's Sean William Scott And Andy Dick I'm gonna go Andy Dick here Don't sleep on

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Their apex is elsewhere
Will Ferrell24,560 ftElf, 2003, by 5,535 feet.

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