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Everyone threw in a hundred bucks. There was 1200 in the pot and he did it when the ball was still in the air. Mickelson bent over picked up the money and put it in his pocket. Phil Mickelson. No stranger. The legend. Yeah. We'll take one more break and then we'll do Apex Mountain. This episode is brought to you by the active cash credit card from Wells Fargo. That's a mouthful but that's because it packs a lot in. Earn unlimited 2% cash rewards on purchases with it big or small. So whether it's buying tickets to the game and grabbing a coffee it earns unlimited 2% cash rewards on purchases. Say it with me. The active cash credit card from Wells Fargo. Be a 2%er. Learn more at wellsfargo.com forward slash active cash. Terms apply. All right. Apex Mountain. Jack, do you know what Apex Mountain is? I do not. No. Nobody else does either. Nobody could figure it out. It's the peak of somebody's career combined with when they had the most juice. Someone or something. Someone or something. Kevin Costner. The answer is no for him. Did we decide what his was? It's Dances with Wolves. Yeah. He directs. He stars. He wins the Oscars. He can do any movie he wants after Dances with Wolves. Cheech Baron. It's probably somewhere in the late 70s with Tommy Chong. Or I actually looked up Cheech for this. He crushed Cars. The whole franchise of cartoons. He participated in Door the Explorer. And the cartoon Cars. He's one of those. He's Ramone. He's one of those vehicles. And I mean, he had a long career post this movie. Yeah. This is probably going to make you throw up. But I know him from Spy Kids. No, I'm not surprised by that. He had a whole second act. So maybe that's. That might be. Maybe that's what it is. His second act. Don Johnson. Miami Vice. Yeah. Not only his Apex Mountain, but mine. Just being able to watch it. Not laying up just as a concept in golf. Did it ever get better than this? Turned into a podcast. Yeah. Those guys. Good job. Good point. West Texas for a movie location. Friday Night Lights. Yeah. Which is Midland was the team they played, right? They were in that area. I think they're next to each other or nearby. Rene Russo. Hmm. She might have been bigger in Lethal Weapon. Three and four. Thomas Cronifer was big, right? Yeah, that too. Honestly, it might be this movie. Because after this movie leads to like, she's in three more bangers and is really established. And she wasn't the first choice of it. But I think after this movie, she became a first choice. Peter Jacobson wins the U.S. Open in this movie. I'm going to say this is his Apex Mountain. This is not somebody winning majors in real life. It's a nitpick for the movie too. The CBS crew in a movie, definitely. Golf movies? Caddyshack. I still think it's Caddyshack. There's only three candidates. I still think it's Caddyshack. Caddyshack this, Happy Gilmore? Yeah. It has to be Caddyshack. Caddyshack's like the most quotable movie of all time. And just so much about that has become iconic. Influential. All those guys in it. The only thing I would say is like they're, they had two different goals and the golf sicko appeal of, of tin cup because of the, you know, the realism, the lyrical, you know, it's not, it's not it. I know. I would say the other one would be Happy Gilmore. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. It's Happy Gilmore Caddyshack. Yeah. It's like generational. Yeah. Happy Gilmore 2 will not be as generational. No, I don't think so. It might be for 13 year olds who like Mr. Beast videos, maybe. The Waffle House. Oh no, the Waffle House has a life of its own. It does. As a movie location? I think so. Oh, not for movies, but no, but like it's just as a thing, as a, as a, as a meme. I think it's been in other movies and, and been properly revered. That's worth looking at. It's not. I don't think it is. I don't think it's Apex bound for the U.S. Open either. I think with the U.S. Open's probably had some better moments. Armadillos. Not bad. I'm trying to think if they've been in a, in a movie in a better way. It's like pretty prominent. The Seven Iron. What is the Seven Iron? Had a, like a better tour for anything. Well, just the fact that House said they have a whole tournament where guys have to play with that based on this movie. That's pretty good for The Seven Iron. You shot a one-ish 65 with it? Yeah. And then, uh, this is a big one. Jim Nance. In a movie? Jim Nance. Movie-wise. Not career-wise, but movie-wise. Well, movie-wise, yes, but career-wise... No. No. Okay. No. How about Jim Nance and Ken Venturi together? No. They had bigger real-life golf moments, I would say. All right. I have an Apex Mountain for you. Yeah. Unexpected sports losses to end the movie. When a sports movie ends with a loss. Yeah. Is this the apex of that? I think there's, you have Friday Night Lights, they lose. Remember the Titans, they lose. A league of their own, loss at the end for Gina. For Gina. Yeah. But is this the peak of losing? Although that might be your thing about the David Sims, you actually rooting for the wrong person in that movie. Right, right, right. You should be rooting for Laurie Petty in that movie. Yeah. Is this the best sports loss ever in a movie? So the answer, those are all great questions. I love the category, but the answer is Rocky 1. Yeah, I was gonna ask. Because he loses in Rocky 1. I thought it's a tie. They tie. No, he loses. It wasn't a draw. It was a loss. It wasn't a draw. He lost the majority of decisions. I was making that puzzled face. So I think that's the answer. Because they both hit the ground at the same time, right? I think the best twist on it was probably Friday Night Lights, though. Because they set it up where you really think they're about to win and then they don't. Yeah. That's a good one. Good category, though. Cruz or Hanks? I mean, this is Hanks by a million, right? So this is a version of Hanks that he only brought out in League of Their Own. And it's a version I really like of him. Stubble, drunk, kind of sarcastic Tom Hanks. He just veered away from it. I would love to see Cruz learn how to golf. Like, watching Cruz golf is way more interesting and entertaining than watching Tom Hanks golf. Listen, Cruz doing Tin Cup would have been one of the greatest moments of the 90s. Him also trying to become a drunk kind of West Texas. Like, it would have been bizarre casting. He could have done it. We should do a draft. Done it and, like, been a disaster? Or actually done it? I think he could have done it. Cruz would have demanded that he drilled the shot the first time and won the US. We should do a draft of movies you wish Tom Cruz was in. Tin Cup's up there for me. I want to watch him play golf. That's really good. We should do that on my podcast. That could be a good mailbag category when we do the Watchables mailbag. Scorsese or Spielberg? Probably Spielberg. I agree. Yeah. Ed Spielberg. Jack always hesitant to be in the Watchables, but now he's doing a great time. I kind of want to just have this role in all of it. I was put off by all the categories and all that, but I, you know, I enjoyed just chiming in. Well, now you know. There you go. What role would Philip Seymour Hoffman have played? Clearly somebody in the Cheech Baron crew. I think it's the TCU guy. The guy who's wearing all the TCU gear. Who has to be his caddy that one time. Oh, Earl.
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