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Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables

Just One of the Guys 1985

With Bill Simmons, Kyle Brandt and Joanna Robinson · 20 January 2026 · 21,383 feet

The claim

92:47 – 96:36

… we might have to give him a ringer podcast yeah yeah yeah Jacoby Jacoby and Jacoby yeah Jacoby Jacoby you gotta go back Jacoby though yeah that's really good Apex Mountain every actor in the movie and the director not Sherilyn Fenn not Sherilyn Fenn not Sherilyn Fenn not Sherilyn Fenn every actor but Sherilyn Fenn yeah what's fun about the movie is there's they're all like kind of no names like there's no one coming in really where you're like oh that guy's carrying I didn't know any of these people no but that's the movie would have a different legacy if like Downey's in it Sherilyn Fenn is here as your point …

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and I get blackout drunk at a 30th anniversary screening I've heard worse I've heard worse both manner time I don't know I think we might have to give him a ringer podcast yeah yeah yeah Jacoby Jacoby and Jacoby yeah Jacoby Jacoby you gotta go back Jacoby though yeah that's really good Apex Mountain every actor in the movie and the director not Sherilyn Fenn not Sherilyn Fenn not Sherilyn Fenn not Sherilyn Fenn every actor but Sherilyn Fenn yeah what's fun about the movie is there's they're all like kind of no names like there's no one coming in really where you're like oh that guy's carrying I didn't know any of these people no but that's the movie would have a different legacy if like Downey's in it Sherilyn Fenn is here as your point but it's like Downey's randomly here or something like that you're like oh my god have you seen that Downey as Rick Downey as Rick very different energy different energy fine Apex Mountain 80s high school movies I'd love to say yes but no funny teenage boy characters in 80s movies yes Jacoby's wait wait wait funny teenage boys in 80s movies this is the best teenage boy in an 80s movie funniest what have you not been listening he loves this guy yeah like he's much funnier than Ferris Bueller like he's oh Ferris Bueller's a good one but he's not funnier than than Buddy he's just he's a cooler guy I mean I wouldn't put him at Apex Mountain but it's just like this is this is Bill's thing this is your guy well I love him but I don't want to put him above Ferris but in funniest he's funnier than Ferris Ferris is a leading man and cooler batting average is higher oh yeah what about Jacoby's so our nominees are Jacoby Jones and the Ravens who got the famous pass Dave Jacoby Jacoby Brissett or Jacoby Ellsbury what about Jacoby Jacoby and Myers or is that just like well yeah the law firm Jacoby Myers yeah yeah Jacoby Ellsbury was like a five tool Jacoby Ellsbury is pretty good I like that one Jacoby Jones had a kick return in the Super Bowl right before the blackout for a touchdown that's a pretty big moment and he's no longer with us I'm gonna say Dave Jacoby I will also say Dave Jacoby based on the like wall of text like all caps rants that we get from him on whatever TV show he's currently watching yeah Cruz or Hanks it's Cruz which part Rick Greg Tolan yeah I'd like to see Cruz in those gloves yeah the gloves lifting tables lighten that losing it fit era where he's making bad choices about high school movies I wrote down either Cruz as Zabka yeah or I wrote Hanks as buddy sure yeah what about Hanks as Rick he's Rick is dreamy Tom Hanks is not dreamy he's a lot of things I think he's kind of dreamy you good with Cruz yeah okay Scorsese or Spielberg Scorsese Scorsese I wanna see Martin Scorsese just like you wanna see Fincher is just one of the guys I wanna see Martin Scorsese is just one of the guys I think it has to be I can't have Spielberg close to this much sex yeah he would take Buddy and instead of being obsessed with boobs he'd be like Buddy's into dinosaurs it would suck yeah too much sex for Spielberg so for Scorsese we're not having Brewskies after school we're doing coke yeah the college boyfriend is definitely doing bumps yeah yeah yeah he's just like where's Terry yes I appreciate all the casual high school beer drinking like they get home after the day like they're like a 45 year old construction worker he's like yeah you want a beer yeah we're not having Sunny D we're having a Brewski it's like a Tuesday's you want a beer yeah no I'm at soccer practice I can't have a beer what are you talking about I got homework it's a Brewski new category uh oh here we go best hang worst hang best hang in the movie worst hang in the movie I think we know your answer for best hang I think Terry's a pretty good hang when Terry comes home drunk from the cave and she sees her

102:05 – 104:52

… Bernstein like could we have a Woodward and Bernstein poster Springsteen you would have Duran Duran she has all that shit that would be all that this is also Apex Mountain right now for like high school posters like Ferris famously has the Simple Minds poster it's so cool come on with the Hemingway enough enough yeah Weird Science we had that too there were good posters great posters anything for you anything for you nitpicks beyond the entire premise of the movie no nobody from the other high school knowing Terry is a kind of a good a good nit yeah I just feel like she's this is not she's not in like Phoenix …

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like it's just it's a terrible terrible poster terrible I agree and that wouldn't be Terry's idol anyway you would have she mentions Woodward and Bernstein like could we have a Woodward and Bernstein poster Springsteen you would have Duran Duran she has all that shit that would be all that this is also Apex Mountain right now for like high school posters like Ferris famously has the Simple Minds poster it's so cool come on with the Hemingway enough enough yeah Weird Science we had that too there were good posters great posters anything for you anything for you nitpicks beyond the entire premise of the movie no nobody from the other high school knowing Terry is a kind of a good a good nit yeah I just feel like she's this is not she's not in like Phoenix we don't know how close like Sherilyn Fenn trailed her we don't know for how long right but the people at the other school they do know Terry but they Terry is a girl to them they buy completely that this is some dude they don't think it's usually the people in her high school be like where's Terry has she been kidnapped yeah do you think her teachers would be like do you think her teacher was like you should be a model is like huh I wonder if it was because I said you should be a model she just disappeared for the next two weeks Terry went to do porn in California she's gone sequel prequel prestige TBL black cast are untouchable clearly this isn't untouchable do you know about just one of the girls no so there's a direct to video Corey Haim and Nicole Eggert film alright you got my attention how did I not see this called just one of the girls and then it was renamed anything for love but it's not a like actual but he Corey Haim dresses a girl to be on the cheerleading team I think it is or something like that I think I blocked this out in my mind and he gets with Nicole Eggert I feel like I've seen this blown away that type of era I've never heard of this movie 1993 direct to video just one of the girls direct to video say no more yes direct to video Corey Haim 1993 say no more well blown away which is pretty pushed in the envelope not the Tommy Lee Jones one no that one the other one but has a Corey Feldman performance that is in the running for one of the funniest performances anyone's ever done is Nicole Eggert the queen of direct Kyle knows is Nicole Eggert he is out of his mind in that movie is there anyone in the 90s more direct to video than Nicole Eggert like Corey Haim Nicole Eggert is one of my goats one of my goats yeah the queen of the direct to video I almost want you to watch blown away with Corey Haim and Nicole Eggert just for it's gotta be first of all it has to be on Tubi yes I watched an entire movie the other night with Helen Slater from Legend of Billie Jean supergirl Billy Zane and it was

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