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20:22 – 23:12I don't know if you've seen her. She looks like a 10 year long Today Show anchor. Yeah. She's like 22. Well, I got to do it, CR. Apex Mountain for hottest mid 80s high school babes that teenage Bill loved. Yeah. Right. This is 40 years ago. I still feel like it's fair game to talk about these people. And I'm talking about the love that I had. And Helen Slater was 22 when she made this movie. Yeah. I'm talking about, I'm not talking about me now. Yeah. I'm talking about the love that I had. That's okay. Go for it. In the mid 80s. The feelings that percolated inside me. And I …
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I don't know if you've seen her. She looks like a 10 year long Today Show anchor. Yeah. She's like 22. Well, I got to do it, CR. Apex Mountain for hottest mid 80s high school babes that teenage Bill loved. Yeah. Right. This is 40 years ago. I still feel like it's fair game to talk about these people. And I'm talking about the love that I had. And Helen Slater was 22 when she made this movie. Yeah. I'm talking about, I'm not talking about me now. Yeah. I'm talking about the love that I had. That's okay. Go for it. In the mid 80s. The feelings that percolated inside me. And I narrowed it down to five. Did you give me a fucking Carl Malone cup while you're talking about this? The mailman. Yeah. Oh, I didn't even think about that. Jesus. Oh no. That was accidental. Why do you have a Carl Malone cup? It's from the Dream Team collection. I meant to give you Dr. J. I had a Dr. J cup for you. We switched cups. Well, it's almost better that you don't have the Carl Malone cup before this topic. Yeah. Um, yeah, but I'm going for how I felt in the eighties. Yeah. I already mentioned Kelly Preston and secret admirer and mischief. Helen Slater and Billie Jean. Joyce Heiser and just one of the guys. So I think she was like 30 in that movie in real life, but playing a high schooler. Elizabeth Shun, Karate Kid. We've discussed in Mia Sara, Ferris Bueller. Yeah. Those were the five for me. I also was pretty into Jennifer Grey too. Oh, Jennifer Grey and Ferris Bueller. Yeah. There were others, but just for like these, these characters were all in high school. I was in high school and I loved all of them. Yes. And that was it. What about Rebecca DeMornay? Risky Business. Was she there? Not accessible. Yeah. She was like a 19 year old prostitute. Yeah. I don't, she doesn't count as a high school character. She was like from another galaxy in that movie. Yeah. Just couldn't, couldn't get there with Molly Ringwald. Never. Even though she was a multiple high school movies back then. I never. I really liked Sean Young and Stripes, but she was a little bit older. She was an adult. Yeah. Yeah. No, this had to be like in your age where you felt like, was Winona Ryder Lucas? Yeah. Like you could meet her. Yeah. It was like this part. Oh, and then the other one, I guess this counts in mid eighties. This is, was Amanda Peterson. Can't buy me love. Cause we were the exact same age as her in that movie. So anyway, it was quite an era. Helen Slater is in that mix. She sure is. Yeah. She, if we had dream team cups for that era, she would have had one. And we should do that. That's good. Those would be good. That wouldn't be weird at all. 7-11 dream team. Mid eighties. Yeah. I want to get a bunch of teenage girls on cups. Is that cool? No, Bill. Yeah. No. Only Bill did them when you were in high school.
65:45 – 73:11… or not, but it does sound like, uh, Helen Slater was like very opinionated about her haircut and about like how the movie was being made. Good for her though. Apex mountain, Helen Slater. Good for her though. Yeah. I guess so. This is Supergirl. I think it's secret of my success. Uh, because- Wouldn't you say this is a bigger movie now and no? Because it bombed when it came out and Supergirl, Supergirl bombed too. Oh, that's right. Secret of my success. She's in a movie with Michael J. Fox. He's on family ties. He's like one of the biggest TV stars in the world. That's a pretty good movie. And it felt like she …
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just write in and be like, I was an extra on this movie and Helen Slater sucked. So I don't know like whether it's true or not, but it does sound like, uh, Helen Slater was like very opinionated about her haircut and about like how the movie was being made. Good for her though. Apex mountain, Helen Slater. Good for her though. Yeah. I guess so. This is Supergirl. I think it's secret of my success. Uh, because- Wouldn't you say this is a bigger movie now and no? Because it bombed when it came out and Supergirl, Supergirl bombed too. Oh, that's right. Secret of my success. She's in a movie with Michael J. Fox. He's on family ties. He's like one of the biggest TV stars in the world. That's a pretty good movie. And it felt like she was headed for bigger things. Well, by that same token, wouldn't City Slickers be your apex mountain then? Cause she's in, wasn't City Slickers like the biggest movie in the world for a little while? I'll just tell you this, CR. I know you had a lot of aspiration stock. It was sad to see in the bankruptcy filings. I had a lot of Helen Slater stock. CR LLC K2. I had a lot of Helen. A lot of us did. Yeah. We had a lot of Helen Slater stock. When she was in that Michael J. Fox movie, it was like, here we go. Same thing with Elizabeth Shue. When she's in cocktail, it's like, here we go. Here, everyone on the bus. We're headed toward the Oscars. And, you know, some of these people just never made it. Kelly Preston was another one. It's just like, if Helen Slater had been in Working Girl, what are we talking about today? You know? Wow. Look at you. Christian Slater, no. Hondo Elite Scooters. Yes. I think yes. This is right. This was somebody who, Lou Reed did the Hondo Elite Scooter ad in 85. Yeah. What? Oh, yeah. Wait. 100%. What? Lou Reed did a Hondo Elite Scooter ad. Like an endorsement or he did a song for it? He did the, do, do, do. Oh, the Walk on the Wild side? Yeah. No shit. Fuck yeah. Oh, I had no idea, man. That's cool. Self-haircuts? Has anyone ever pulled off a better self-haircut? No, she crushed it. Yeah, she really did smoke it. And it instantaneously becomes iconic. Craig, who cut your hair during COVID the first two months? Liz. Liz did it? Yeah. But it was like basically just, she didn't really touch the top. It was, you just kind of like shave the sides, let it get long. I just, I'm like pretty, I don't have to cut my hair very much. My wife did mine. Yeah. And, uh. It was kind of fun for a couple months. I had, my hair just goes up. Yeah. And it was just like, I just looked like a mushroom. And we were like, so we got this razor and she just started. Yeah. She somehow molded it. Private piloting you? Yeah. Because we were doing pods on Zoom at that point. And I think we're wearing hats most of the time, but. You should have kept it going for the castaway solo pod you should have just had. I wish that was on video. Could you imagine? That was just existed on YouTube? Oh, I should check. No, it's on a, I didn't do it on video. Do you think. I just turned the recorder on and did it. This is Apex Mountain for Peter Coyote or is it narrating Ken Burns' Civil War? What is Apex Mountain for him? He's been embedded. No, it's E.T., right? I guess so. Yeah. He's got great hair in this movie. He looks like Bob Myers. I was like Peter Coyote. I think it's the Civil War. Apex Mountain for Billie Jean's. We have the song Billie Jean. We have Legend of Billie Jean. That's a great call. And Billie Jean King. I was going to ask about that. If the name was especially popular, if they specifically chose the name Billie Jean because of the. No, it was actually, they were really annoyed about that, I think. I've read something about that. Oh, really? I think Billie Jean was a more common name back then. Is that right? Yeah. I also thought. There hasn't been a Billie Jean in 30 years. I thought that this, that was, the name was supposed to be like a play on Billie the Kid. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like she's like an outlaw rises. We had Billie Joes and Billie Jean's and now we'd have neither. No. Because Billie Jean the song came out in 83. Yeah. So it was hugely popular. Craig, I'm aware. Interesting. I'm just saying, like, how could they have. It's one of the biggest moments of my life in 83. I feel like. The Billie Jean video. The producers being upset that people were comparing this movie to that movie or, you know, connecting the names. It's like, why would you do it then? It's super obvious. Yeah. You've just named your character after one of the five biggest songs in the 80s. Maybe people are going to be confused. Fair being fair. Apex Mountain. I mean, it certainly isn't now. Yeah. Short-haired 80s women. Benatar, Slater. Who else had a cool short haircut back then? I mean, it was the look for a while there. Yeah. It's kind of like, it's going back to Veronica Cartwright. Courtney Cox on Family Ties. Yeah. Yeah. Courtney Cox in Dancing in the Dark. Short hair in that? No, she has longer hair in that, right? No, I think it was shorter. Martha Plimpton in Goonies, right? Yeah. Are she longer in that? Sturby Beach. Had to have been Apex Mountain, the final scene. That's what it was called. Our radio guy's like, we're on a big day here at Sturby Beach. Yardley Smith, it's The Simpsons, which made her probably, she's probably buying the Portland Trailblazers. Corpus Christi movies? I'm going to say yes. Barry Tubb. Top Gun? Top Gun. Keith Gordon? Christine. Movies built around him? Yeah. Joan of Arc, probably not. No, I think it's got some other peaks. All the other peaks she had. Be defeating the English. Cruz or Hanks? How about very young Tom Cruise as Binks? You could see it. Yeah. Like all the right boobs, Sarah? Has Cruz ever bleach blonde his hair? Just for collateral. He'd grade it. He'd grade it. Yeah. You could also see if things have gone a different way, Cruz being like a good guy in Hubie's gang. Right. You know? Like the guy taking the photos? Yeah. Yeah. Scorsese or Spielberg? Clearly Scorsese. We get cocaine. Yeah. Mr. Pyatt's like selling cocaine in the top floor. I mean, they probably should have done that anyway, right? Yeah. It should have been, she burns this thing down, but then it turns out he's also the biggest coke dealer in Corpus Christi. And like Lloyd is way more of like a Paul Schrader character. Right. She's like, I never leave my house. I just write my journal. Yeah. What role would Philip Seymour Hoffman have played? Clearly Hubie. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Pick and it's can't wait for this. Let me go first for this one. Okay. It just seems like there are a lot of detectives working this case. In Corpus Christi? There's like no other crime. Scumbag got shot in the shoulder and he's fine. But as a part of that, it's like, how many times does Hubie try to take matters into his own hands during a literal police intervention? Yeah. Did obstruction of justice just not exist in Texas in the 1980s? Pretty tough. Yeah. Pretty tough. Yeah. I had my first pick in it is these kids would have been caught in 45 minutes. Yes. They never left Corpus Christi. They went to the same three spots. Pretty sure we could have found them. All right. So they're living in a Corpus Christi trailer park. Yeah. It's apparently still there. Binks gets some money and he buys a really expensive Honda Elite scooter.
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