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85:45 – 90:59… trivia for you. When he was eight years old, he was in Fort Worth, Texas and saw John F. Kennedy Jr.'s last speech before he got assassinated. Damn. Yeah. Apex Mountain, Bill Paxton. Wait, I had one more. What do you got? In that research, two JDB facts. He was a staunch vegetarian and hated the Meg scene. Wow. And. Just sounds like he sucked. Huge Tori Amos fan and personally appealed to her to appear on the soundtrack. I'm telling you, they should bring back guys like that, man. Yeah, man. They should bring back guys like that. Guys who were just vegetarian Tori Amos fans. Vegetarian Tori Amos. Like …
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I think we had one in Philly recently, but it was like light, but it was still bad. Yeah. Some Bill Paxton trivia for you. When he was eight years old, he was in Fort Worth, Texas and saw John F. Kennedy Jr.'s last speech before he got assassinated. Damn. Yeah. Apex Mountain, Bill Paxton. Wait, I had one more. What do you got? In that research, two JDB facts. He was a staunch vegetarian and hated the Meg scene. Wow. And. Just sounds like he sucked. Huge Tori Amos fan and personally appealed to her to appear on the soundtrack. I'm telling you, they should bring back guys like that, man. Yeah, man. They should bring back guys like that. Guys who were just vegetarian Tori Amos fans. Vegetarian Tori Amos. Like blinding Helen Hunt. That is not somebody I was hanging out with in the 90s. Apex Mountain, Paxton, I'm going to say yes. Helen Hunt probably winning an Oscar a year later. Hoffman, no. How about the Dodge Ram? Now called the Ram. I feel like it's had pretty sustained success. Was Dodge Ram Like a Rock, the Bob Seger commercial? Like a rock. Or is that Chevy? No, that was Chevy. That was Chevy. The Dodge Ram, I guess so, maybe. I don't know. I'm trying to think. I don't know. Probably not its way out. It feels like the F-150 kind of. F-150 became the truck. Have you ever had a pickup truck? No, but I'm always jealous of the F-150s. Why? They just seem like cool cars. I always think when I see them, I've had a couple friends get them in the past. I'm always like, I ask them questions about what do you do with it? How many groceries can you fit in there? Would you make Ben ride in the back? Yeah. There's no question. Yeah. It seems gigantic and unwieldy, but I've always been interested in it. It's a good truck. Yeah. Tornadoes? Apex Mountain? Yeah. Yeah, in the movie for sure. For sure. Gravy? No. No. Fuck no. What was the Apex Mountain for gravy? It's not this. I can tell you that much. What would it be then? It's not this. Jamie Gertz now. Post David Rothman. What's Jamie Gertz's Zachary Riesa-Shea? Helena Hawks ownership. Lost Boys? Keeping Trey Young. Lost Boys. Lost Boys. Now, I personally think it's less. It's a. What was the Downey one when he dies at the end? Well, if you can't remember, it's probably not her Apex Mountain. All right. It's less than zero. I felt like she was one of the biggest under 25 female actresses on the rise. She was like neck and neck with Demi Moore in 87. If it's less than zero, it's the Lost Boys. Maybe it's the Lost Boys. I think it's the Lost Boys. It's one of those two. Yeah. Flying Cows, yes. Oklahoma? No. The Shining? No. Can I ask you one? Yeah. Is this Apex Mountain for 90s disaster movies? If you consider it a disaster movie? So this is what I would say. Does Jurassic count? Let me throw you. I think. I don't think so. But. It depends on. Because this. It depends on your definition of. It's a disaster movie. Because there are a couple in there. Armageddon. Okay. I consider Outbreak a disaster movie. Okay. This is bigger than Outbreak. Dante's Peak and Deep Impact. Independence Day count? Independence Day. That's what I was about to say. I think it's Independence Day. If you count Independence Day as a disaster movie, I argue that invasion movies are not disaster movies. Oh. It's a separate class. I argue that invasion movies, not disaster movies. Disaster movies have to be something. One. Aren't invasion movies alien movies? Basically. So. I mean. But you consider Armageddon a disaster movie, right? Yeah. So disasters are hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and. Asteroids. When you say disaster, I consider it to be. Asteroids are invasions though, right? No. That's not an alien. But it's a natural occurrence though. Oh. I see what you're saying. So. So. I consider disaster movies to be natural disaster movies. This went bad. Like. Even sometimes something that's man-made. But so do you consider Jurassic Park a disaster movie because the dinosaurs getting out is a disaster? No. Actually, I don't really consider that a disaster movie because it's a contained thing that happens in one place. Because that's the same rationale I was using. Like Apollo 13 is not a disaster movie just because something goes wrong. Right. So to me. To me. If you count Independence Day, it's definitely Independence Day. But if you don't. It's between. I like your. I like the categories. I think you're right. What the other thing you just made me realize is like I don't feel like we're doing a good enough job with disaster movies anymore. No. We're not. Because we had these two different runs. Right. The 70s we had this awesome run. Poseidon Adventure and all those movies. Towering Inferno. And then we had in the 90s we had all the movies you just mentioned. This also goes. But this goes back to Van's original point. San Andreas I'm still mad about. Which is like. They fucked that stuff up because no offense to him. The Rock should not be in those movies. No. He's not every man enough. Driver normal. Like some normal looking dude should be in those movies. Right. The Rock's never in peril. He's. It's the same reason why they didn't want. These movies are all really good because they take really good actors and they're like just be in this blockbuster for us. There's one guy keeping it alive. What's the guy? The guy. Gerard Butler. No, no. Roland Emmerich. Like he had The Day After Tomorrow. I'm pretty sure he did that one. That one wasn't a bad disaster. Didn't he direct Greenland? Didn't he direct the Gerard Butler one where. I think he did. Gerard Butler keeps disaster movies rocking. Geostorm and Moon.
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