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Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables

The Nice Guys 2016

With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan and Rob Mahoney · 24 March 2026 · 24,132 feet

The claim

62:53 – 68:03

… Costello is because his parents wouldn't pay for Blockbuster so the only movies he could get were from the public library found Abbot and Costello interesting Apex Mountain Crow I guess for Rob and nobody else for me personally Gosling with this and La La Land I think we're here this is the definition of it right it's not quite Wang Chung Apex Mountain but it's it's Apex Mountain but again I'm perpetually you missed the Wang Chung combo in the last well I'm just confused by this category regardless of any Wang Chung happening Wang Chung's 1985 was the all-time Apex Mountain that's ever happened yeah yeah it's …

The whole segment, as transcribed

all otherwise we mentioned I did like you mentioned the Abbot and Costello thing earlier with Gosling and the part of that I liked was the reason he got into Abbot and Costello is because his parents wouldn't pay for Blockbuster so the only movies he could get were from the public library found Abbot and Costello interesting Apex Mountain Crow I guess for Rob and nobody else for me personally Gosling with this and La La Land I think we're here this is the definition of it right it's not quite Wang Chung Apex Mountain but it's it's Apex Mountain but again I'm perpetually you missed the Wang Chung combo in the last well I'm just confused by this category regardless of any Wang Chung happening Wang Chung's 1985 was the all-time Apex Mountain that's ever happened yeah yeah it's the apex of Apex Mountain it's now Wang Chung's Apex Mountain like the SoFi stadium yeah I'm glad for the branding yeah does he not have like more cachet post Barbie than after a while this gets into what kind of Apex Mountain what kind of mountain do you like being on is it when it seems like it's all out in front of you or are you just at the height of your earning potential we had in the mailbag we had a math petition write in about the post Apex you can actually it's kind of the you've still got it combined with maybe you were higher but it wasn't quite Apex Mountain but it was like you actually it was like the Curry 2022 basically yeah so Barbie was probably that for Gosling do you think you'll go see Project Hail Mary my son wants to see it so it's in play okay but then he'll be like yeah I saw it last night with my girlfriend sorry what's the hold of just the sci-fi that's what's keeping you out no I want to see it I there's really good buzz on it yeah you haven't seen it right I'm seeing it tonight nice two hours and 45 minutes oh look at the big boy what does he say look at the freak freedom man I fucked that up Apex Mountain for 1977 just in general is the greatest year we've ever produced this in the world I was born that year yeah a great year Star Wars pretty good good stuff Reggie Jackson yeah Keith David fight scenes sadly no it's still they live that's an amazing one wasn't him and they live no that was not him Xavier Brooks you're talking about in the alley did I just do the thing where I confused Keith David and Avery Brooks wait Keith David is in they live Keith David's in they live you look at me like I was crazy I didn't he said David and Rodney paper it was him Bill not me first of all I didn't say anything you second guessed yourself I did I said guess myself it's Keith David and they live Keith David is in the winner yeah yeah Shane Black probably no don't Iron Man 3 I mean Iron Man 3 but nothing kind of happened after that I would say writing lethal weapon one of the lethal weapons being like one of the most successful weapon one is his apex mountain I think Angery Rice I hope not yeah too early to say quality too early to say dad daughter movies probably not no Basinger no the 1978 auto show I think it might have been for sure yeah not a lot of talk about that show other than this John Boy and the Waltons probably still the Waltons I think so which was the number one show for like five years more than the nice guys yeah yeah fair breaking a window going wrong might have been the might have been the peak I can't think of another example as funny as it gets for sure 1967 red mustangs with a white convertible top yep for a movie pretty good retro porn portraits bogey dance yeah Cruiser Hanks Cruz as John Boy like oh interesting he just shows you don't you don't with like a bad wig he has like five lines it would have been better if he would play Shattuck Shattuck would be funny too but yeah Cruz in one of these supporting parts who you hear about and then just shows up I would enjoy it could Hanks have been Russell Crowe's character I had Hanks for Holland March at a different time in his life oh it's kind of like right after oh like late 80s yeah late 80s yes he could do that I like Cruz for John Boy I think that has my vote I think it'd be fun you down with that Craig but the official winner we're saying is Hanks for the lead role in terms of a lead role Scorsese or Spielberg clearly Scorsese definitely way more coke at the party yes and we probably would have had I don't know tops from the Rolling Stones no daughter because you just want to get way darker way more fucked up yeah has Spielberg ever done something like as getting his hands dirty as this no I can't think of anything best hang worst hang I mean ironically Gosling's daughter in this movie is probably the best hang of all these people Blueface is the worst hang Blueface tough cross country drive Blueface would be awful I would spend the night hanging out with with Gosling in a bar that'd be a lot of fun I would hang out with Amelia like I am one legal substance away from being very on board to her like big speech about her mom and like Mammon is her god yeah I'm on board for that worst hang Chet Chet I like Chet just talk about you can talk about the projector I'm in the industry I'm a projectionist I'm a projectionist come on guy picking nets 13 year old kids driving I'm not even sure this was happening in 1977 especially with manual steering yeah that was that would have been tough do you have the upper body strength to control a car like that what's the choice how did Amelia land on their car

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What the board says

Their apex is elsewhere
Ryan Gosling25,980 ftLa La Land, 2016, by 5,870 feet.
Russell Crowe26,190 ftGladiator, 2000, by 6,319 feet.
Robert Downey Jr27,150 ftAvengers: Endgame, 2019, by 9,489 feet.

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