Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
41:00 – 43:46… thing. Everyone had the yellow. I wore one. Everyone had them. Everyone had the Livestrongs. And like, this was like, this was Lance Armstrong's like Apex Mountain basically. 100%. They got him at the absolute peak. And like, you know, Peter, when I was suffering from cancer in my brain, lungs, and testicles, I also thought about giving up, but. He's like, what's killing you that's making you not go to this game? I'm sure you have a great reason. He's like, shame. I'm sure this decision won't haunt you for the rest of your life. I think you better hurry up or you're going to be late. Uh, actually I …
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the five in a row. Right. Also, right after the, the other reason I think this has to be the most 2004 thing is how big Livestrong was, like Livestrong is this like forgotten thing. Everyone had the yellow. I wore one. Everyone had them. Everyone had the Livestrongs. And like, this was like, this was Lance Armstrong's like Apex Mountain basically. 100%. They got him at the absolute peak. And like, you know, Peter, when I was suffering from cancer in my brain, lungs, and testicles, I also thought about giving up, but. He's like, what's killing you that's making you not go to this game? I'm sure you have a great reason. He's like, shame. I'm sure this decision won't haunt you for the rest of your life. I think you better hurry up or you're going to be late. Uh, actually I decided to quit. Lance. Quit? You know, once I was thinking about quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung, and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and I won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit. Armstrong's good in this scene. He actually does a great job. I like how, for some reason, the way that he delivers his lines, he's like looking Peter up and down. It's like, maybe it's just like a tick that he has where he's like nervous or whatever, but he's like going like this, like, and judging him. It's so good. We might need to change the name of that category to like Armstrong Dodgeball What's Age the Worst. What's Age the Worst? I think the other 2004 thing about this movie is the song Milkshake by Khalees. Great one. I mean, man. Wait, is this What's Age the Worst or Most 2004? Most 2004. Oh, yeah. Milkshake. Extremely. So 2004. That'll come back though on TikTok. That's got to come back. I know. I remember also being 10 years old and being like, what is a milkshake? Really? I remember like, you know what a milkshake was? When I was like, no, not literally a milkshake. Oh, the metaphor. Yeah. What does it mean? Nine years old, why does the milkshake bring the boys to the yard? I don't understand. That song feels like a TikTok song. Like that song sounds like it was made in 2021. It does. It totally. The other, do you have any other 2004s? No. What do you got? Chuck Norris being the judge. Hell yeah. Chuck Norris. I had that too. Like Chuck Norris being like a big piece of pop culture, but also kind of like punchline jokey. Yeah. I guess like he didn't really know whether he wanted to come on this movie because they had to kind of gas him up. Yeah. They didn't know whether they were making fun of him or not. And apparently he just flew in in a helicopter, did his scene, and then flew off in a helicopter. He had one line, thank you, Peter. Like just thumbs up. Thank you, Chuck Norris. And then like the movie closes with him saying, fucking Chuck Norris. Fucking Chuck Norris. This is absolute bodyguard. I actually had forgotten about the ending of the movie just being fucking Chuck Norris. Fucking Chuck Norris. I was going to say from someone who was in college during this era, 2004, no Grundle at the very beginning. And then later in the movie, he goes,
74:08 – 80:11… hit just that Missy Pyle who played the Fran on the global gym team the originally that character is supposed to be a fembot yeah like Austin Powers all right apex mountain I think stiller it's like right around this time yep yeah I think it's in the discussion I mean he had four movies come out this year I mean I know that something about Mary was probably his biggest hit so 98 was something about Mary 2000 meet the parents 2001 Zoolander and Royal Tenenbaums yeah but while we're checking off the rewatchables like while we talk about what it actually apex mountain means if it's supposed to be the peak of your …
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gave him 400 bucks yeah we're going back now he's like make me proud yeah he winks at him do you have any other research you want to hit just that Missy Pyle who played the Fran on the global gym team the originally that character is supposed to be a fembot yeah like Austin Powers all right apex mountain I think stiller it's like right around this time yep yeah I think it's in the discussion I mean he had four movies come out this year I mean I know that something about Mary was probably his biggest hit so 98 was something about Mary 2000 meet the parents 2001 Zoolander and Royal Tenenbaums yeah but while we're checking off the rewatchables like while we talk about what it actually apex mountain means if it's supposed to be the peak of your clout and ability to do most juice he got a movie made about dodgeball like Ben's I feel like this has to be this stretch yeah with a first-time writer director and then if you yeah and if you look after it so in 2004 he had along came poly which is great dodgeball anchorman he was a star ski and hutch stars can meet the fucker meet the fucker meet the fucker meet the fucker I think this has to be a picture was meet the fuckers see that it was big but like I wouldn't I wouldn't list it as one of my favorite movies ever but I remember it being like kind of a big deal at the time are you talking specifically about the sequel or the franchise in general because meet the parents of the original which was huge and he's still making a movie yeah like meet the parents in 2000 and it made like you're a million dollars and then after that it was night of the museum tropic thunder I think you could make the argument tropic thunder was his apex but I don't know I think it's now I think it's I think it's so far yeah it's so far Vaughn I would say maybe wedding crashers I would I asked to be wedding crashers which is just a year later so he's he's close to ish it's right in there Christine Taylor I'm gonna say yes the sport of dodgeball that's what I put trillion percent right completely revitalized it stunt casting in a movie these are hard because I don't have the encyclopedic knowledge of all films but Hank Azaria Lance Armstrong Chuck Norris William Shatner and David Hasselhoff are all in this movie an 18 million dollar comedy from 2004 and they got all these people to be in this movie and like half of them were like oh I know him yeah so let's bring him in like I think that was one of the producers knew David Hasselhoff yeah I worked with them or something this is one of those things that every time I listen to this show I'm just I don't understand how much movies cost to make like it never like oh yeah cost 200 million dollars to make I'm like how and I'm like oh 18 million dollars for this movie also we helicopter Chuck Norris to do 30 seconds and I don't really understand but yeah like getting Lance Armstrong and Chuck Norris in a movie that's under 20 million dollars it makes me not understand what they're doing with 150 you know we didn't mention Armstrong for Dion Waiters he's he's he's out there he's just not he I feel like he doesn't if you had to give a cameo Dion Waiters right probably yeah Peyton Pritchard Peyton Pritchard half-court shot half-court shot I got another one international talk like a pirate day in 2004 apex mountain couldn't got much better than that yeah in terms of that talk talk like a pirate day folks wait was Pirates of the Caribbean also 2004 oh yes it was this was maybe apex mountain for pirate apex mountain for pirates oh it's oh three still still that's true you don't think it was actually a well you don't think the pirates apex mountain was actually during like late 1700s real actual pirate I don't know just a thought fighting the blackbeard yeah blackbeard yeah it's tough this was like a little rented yeah this is like the last warriors title this is like the end yeah apex mountain for air pumped baseball cups for your crotch this or doesn't he do an Austin powers yeah oh does he well he has a penis enlarger pump yeah oh he's handed that when it comes out cryo they had like a pump going to stiller's crotch and there's a guy behind the desk apparently I think I read that he tried a whole bunch of different types of things they had like something that would like inflate down his leg to to like make it look you know something is are you just happy to see me is that something in your pocket I I have a funny quick story when I out of college I lived in New York for a year and I was a PA on unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt the Tina Fey show and there was one day where they were trying to like rig a machine to Fred Armisen's pants so that he could wet himself and they needed somebody to test it out because I guess Fred Armisen wasn't gonna do it so they brought me down my god I just stood for like an hour on stage and John Hamm was sitting there watching because he was in the scene and they were just figuring out and I would just get new a new pair of pants on every five minutes and they would just have me wet myself like oh does that look like an authentic you know pants wedding no it's that's way too heavy of a flow and I just did that for an hour so I always love like stupid shit like Vince Vaughn or a actually like pump trying to like engineer something yeah I just remember going home that day and I just like called my parents and I was like John Hamm and Fred Armisen just watched me pee myself for an hour that's the American dream I think it's Apex Mountain for announcers in movies oh wow great one I mean the first thing I thought of was the movie Major League and shoot I'm blanking on his name but he's like an actual Hall of Fame baseball announcer let me look that up real quick I just listened to the Major League Rewatch Vin Scully no it's a I'm just blanking on his name he has a really famous name hold on this is good though I mean this is up there I know that the the original Longest Yard has like an awesome announcer yeah yeah Bob Euchre to me is the first thing I think of when I think of announcers in movies like he's that's an all-time performance for fake sport movie announcers easily these two for a non-real Major League sport yeah the only other one I'll throw out is Apex Mountain for cash and suitcases oh that was funny oh that was it's not very impressive when you ever see a hundred thousand dollars looks like
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