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Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables

Domestic Disturbance 2001

With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey · 23 June 2026 · 20,595 feet

The claim

78:57 – 82:40

… a you don't know what we've been through kind of divisive thing on set like the nom of domestic servants is there any way you can find out yeah maybe I could apex mountain Travolta no Vaughn no Buscemi no Terry Polo no divorce movies no evil stepdad movies no wooden boat company movies sure how many wooden boat plots have we had well I mean there are a lot of movies about yachting that are better than this and those are all wooden boats aren't they did this make you want to get a wooden boat someday CR nah no no I gotta look this up what just movies about boat makers you know just like there's gotta be a …

The whole segment, as transcribed

do you think it then became like a you don't know what we've been through kind of divisive thing on set like the nom of domestic servants is there any way you can find out yeah maybe I could apex mountain Travolta no Vaughn no Buscemi no Terry Polo no divorce movies no evil stepdad movies no wooden boat company movies sure how many wooden boat plots have we had well I mean there are a lot of movies about yachting that are better than this and those are all wooden boats aren't they did this make you want to get a wooden boat someday CR nah no no I gotta look this up what just movies about boat makers you know just like there's gotta be a better there's probably like a Robert Brisson movie called the boat maker yeah Maryland Coast definitely not since it was filmed in North Carolina is this apex mountain for the cinematic depiction of the DePaul men's college basketball program this was if he's watching the 2000 2001 team it's Bobby Simmons and Stephen Hunter oh they weren't bad yeah but I you know they had three pros on that team you use apex mountain for that being depicted yeah I mean DePaul is definitely the 80s the Mark Aguirre Ray Meyer but I'm just saying like being depicted on it's just a weird bit that he's like I'm really into Chicago but they have to bang home that he's from Chicago so you have to do Paul because you have no other Chicago playing Maryland why would that game be on in Maryland that's a good question there's some speculation about why is it on at all because it's the middle of the fall oh yeah yeah it's October 18th he dies there's no college basketball yet tough one a little sketchy Hewlett Becker's like yeah whatever nobody will notice this podcasts are coming the sports are huge embarrassing bar fights during filming I think this was Apex Mountain sadly well there's probably like a ton from the 40s where like John Wayne split a guy's head open I was gonna say there's gotta be some sort of Oliver Reed Richard Harris story where those guys are you know Dean Martin killed a guy yeah Robert Shaw those guys are getting into some trouble it's a fair point Oliver Reed or Richard Harris probably had a worse one where they fought 10 guys and then shit on one of them Peter O'Toole fell down a staircase a bunch of those guys the British guys used to drink in my grandfather's pubs back in England he had one in Camden he had one in the Knightsbridge area back in the 40s or 50s or whatever they used to get hammered there that'd be a good movie but they were like Olympic blackout drinkers gin just straight gin and there's like a legacy with it too like when you're a young up and comer you're like this is how it's gotta go yeah I've got to get blackout drunk that's part of responsibility Sean Penn took that mantle for a while yeah that's a Paul Newman thing drink like a case of beer every day best we had to replace Scorsese or Spielberg we can't do that anymore because we had Spielberg doing Scorsese or Spielberg I have to retire the category should we have a different pair of directors every episode or just a steady now it's Becker or Hanson I was going to say Becker or Kubrick I replaced it for this episode with best name for the movie for a racehorse and it's either Southport or Ray Coleman but I think a horse named Ray Coleman would have been pretty good I think Rick Jack would have been good I wrote Danny Lies Danny Lies here comes Danny Lies Cruiser Hanks or Cruz and Hanks gotta be gotta be is this the first Cruz and Hanks that we've had it's a legitimately good one should be

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What the board says

Their apex is elsewhere
John Travolta25,770 ftGrease, 1978, by 6,148 feet.
Steve Buscemi21,470 ftLiving in Oblivion, 1995, by 3,727 feet.

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