This is a downbeat on ninety seven to one. The Freak Sege's brought to
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of all time? Step Brothers, It's the Seeds. Location off Botham Jane
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left. Seven dollars tickets. Come meet the Dinger, Come meet Mike Siroy.
I'll be there too, handful of popcorn. Will you call me later
and remind me about the movie? No, yeah, five thirty or so.
Yeah, just give me a ring and say, hey, don't forget
we got that movie tonight. Not gonna do that, okay, because you
don't need it a mite. You're pulling at Kevin and doing a mid level
joke. You're you're throwing out our premise and hoping someone else will take off
with it and run. You know when the movie is I'm concerned that I
might forget. I think we have seats, I forgot the text, I
or think about it. Get there and then there's a good seat. Yeah.
Brad always hands is a ticket and says this is where you're seeing Mazzi's
tonight, Bro Mazzie sticks. Maybe Christina's gone with good right, So meet
Christina Ray right into the station. I just saw her. She looks great
and they're bearing a great show today from ten to two. That's the Ben
and Skin show right here. Yea, do what you're doing it right here
on NICs. I don't want to What are we doing? Well? A
couple things. Did you see yesterday we talked about the kickoff rule? Yeah,
so this thing, it's a green light. It has been passed.
We're getting weird. We told this was this bones's idea. Yeah, okay,
So I didn't fully understand it as it was presented yesterday. Who presented
that yesterday? Oh it was Kevin. Yeah. I didn't understand exactly what
this looks like. So can you redescribe it now that you've seen real footage
and now that this is happening next season? I thought I laid it out
very good yesterday. But it doesn't matter. Okay, it's my fault.
So this format originated in the XFL, and it's a new alignment for kickoffs.
Now it is very This might just be football minutia, So maybe I
shouldn't do this but it's pretty jarring to see it. So now the kicker
will be at his normal spot, but the kickoff team is now on the
other team, I think on their thirty five. So you kick on the
thirty five. Now the other team will line up on the receiving team's forty
yard line forty, and the receiving team has a setup zone between the thirty
and thirty five yard lines where they're standing there, and you can have two
returners lining up in something called the landing zone. And the landing zone is
the twenty yard line back to the goal line. Okay, so let's imagine
Cavante Turpin. How maybe help it if we use teams here, Cavante Turpin
is standing between the goal line and the twenty yard line, and the landing
zone set induced von back there too, Hey, nine blockers standing there between
the thirty and thirty five yard line. As soon as the ball is caught
between the zero and the twenty, everyone can start moving right, So the
kicking team is waiting until it's caught and then they can take off. Are
there at the forty You said forty? The opponent's forty opponents for the opponents,
So there's literally Giants are kicking off. There's between five and ten yards
separating these two entities, and ten people of the New York Giants are standing
at the Cowboys forty yard line and they're ready to rock. They're just staring
at the ball and the person receiving it, and the second that dude catches
it, they cut out, and that probably triggers the receiving blockers, ten
of which are standing at their thirty yard line to start running backward and prepare
to block the oncoming ten people. Everyone jammed on that side of the field.
No fair catches allowed. Okay, touchbacks come out to the thirty now,
okay, so kick in the end zone. It's a touch back the
thirty yard line. Okay. If you catch it in the landing zone between
their goal line and the twenty yard line, what happens. We're live,
yes, live, and you cannot fair catch it. You cannot fair catch
it. You're live action. This has brought the kickoff return back to the
league. The play that it has gotten rid of is the surprise on sidekick,
because if you want to do it on side kick, they have to
recover, notify the officials of your intent, and then and you go back
to the way it used to look, and you will attempt a traditional on
side kick, which is virtually impossible. Now this does create it's radical for
those of us that have been watching, you know, football one way.
It's a radical change. This is interesting, yeah, going So the league
was very unhappy with the amount of touchbacks, even though they created that for
player safety, but that was a big enough problem to make something drastic like
this. The real winners here are your special teams players who in practice have
to run sixty seventy yard sprints down the field and then run back and do
it again. They're practicing kickoff drill that's no already, and that will hypothetically
reduce the collision, the inertion of collisions running up the field and things like
that, just because you don't have enough space to get up to full speed.
Yeah. So basically one in every five kicks is being returned, and
they're like, we don't we need to get more kicks back. Dan Campbell
is one of the coaches that says he was in favor of the Lions.
Does see who else was it? There's a few other had the Cowboys were
on board. I know that. So there's they had pretty pretty good.
I don't think it was that close of a vote. I think it went
through pretty easy. So the other three rule changes, there's a hip drop
tackle technique that they're getting rid of that's going to be hard to legislate.
I don't really Yeah this that things kind of get ugly. So it's essentially
if you hook somebody from behind and you just lower your weight. I saw
some people saying, like, how are you supposed to tackle from behind?
Now? I mean, you can clip their legs fine, but if you
actually grab some of them from behind, you can't drop your hips, lower
your weight and bring them down with your weight. You still can't grab them
by the horse collar. Yeah. Like how if you're running, I'm behind
you, I hook you around the waist you legally I have to wrap them
up forward? Yeah, you have to wrap them up and take them and
take them down with their forward gator roll kind of How do you flag that?
I don't know. To me, that's a I think the player.
A lot of players were even against that, which is but we had like
two or three broken ankles, and because of the hip draws through some yeah
they're now Yeah, teams will get a third challenge after one successful challenge.
They used to be if you get two challenges, you get your third.
Now if you just get one of your two challenges, right, you get
a third. Not really too much there, Well that's nice, Yeah,
it is nice. There's the NFL rules changes for you. We've been updating
you on the Baltimore Bridge all day, but tonight we do want you to
come out to Almo Draft House Cinema. It is seven dollars and we were
watching step Brothers. Now. I wanted to get everyone pumped up for Step
Brothers, which you don't really need, because it's awesome. I would imagine
I would be surprised if there's anyone who's a first time Stepbrother's watcher, But
if there was, I would love to talk to them and see what they
think. We can ask for a show of hands in our pre movie comedy
routine. My favorite part of the film. It's awkwardly standing in front of
people that just want to watch the film and not us. Hey, you
can see our commercial too. They're going to show it. Do you know
that? Uh no, but they usually do, but they probably will.
I don't know the story Step Brothers. It's pretty wild. Jj I will
need audio here. So John c Isley and Will Ferrell and the director of
the movie, Adam McKay, they were tired. They had just done Talladega
Knights and Mikey As you know, as a racing man, you can't do
a movie like Talladega Knights without hitting a lot of tracks, getting in the
race suit, sweating down by the pits. We're doing We're going to Bristol,
We're going to Daytona, We're going to Talladega. We may go to
Las Vegas Motor Speedway. You're moving you Pocono. Maybe a look to poker.
I wake up one day and you're in Pocono. You know the triangle.
Yeah, just nuts, So you have all these Maybe it's TMS Texas
Motor Speedway. The point is one day you might be at the track.
Too tough to tame. If you remember about that movie, that movie had
a huge marketing budget. They were marketing the crap out of Talladega Knights.
So they were tired. It was a big production and a big machine to
get up and running. So they're burnt out and tired. And Adam McKay
is like, man, you guys are so good riffing let's do another movie
now, Adam McCay. If you don't know him, he did. He's
done a lot of movies. Uh, but he did the Big Short,
he did Don't Look Up, and some of those comedy movies from the Appatoo
era that you might know, and he is seen by many, including Will
Ferrell is just the funniest guy, just calling out random stuff. I think
he was a big saying anchorman. And he's like, let's do another you
guess riffs, Let's do another movie. And Will Ferrell and Johnson all are
like, Jesus man, we did. I'm so tired. I'm just so
I don't want to do in the movie. And he's like, come on,
He's like, just hear me out. It'll be all indoors. I
promise we'll do it mainly in like one location. We will all indoors.
We'll be all over the globe. We'll get air conditioner for you. We're
not gonna be out in the heat sweating. It won't be some big campaign
to get it out there. And you got to travel over like, let's
do that. So Will Ferrell's like, all right, come to my guest
house, one of my any guest houses, we'll start writing something and just
see if anything clicks. If it doesn't, hey, this was fun.
Well this is the first idea that caught on and led to Step Brothers happening
as we know it day one, hang it out will Farrell's guest house and
just kind of having ideas. We think it would be very prudent. Can
we turn our beds in the bunk beds? Yes? Why are you guys
so sweaty? All right, we've already figured out how to do this.
The best match up perfectly. Here's the thing. He will give us so
much extra space in our room to do activities. Please say yes. You
don't need permission from us to build bunk beds, your adults. You can
do what you want. So in there so many activities. This is how
we do it, as you like. One of my favorite moments, just
talking about the idea because they were at the guest house, Like if we
had a bunk bed, that's how Step Brothers began. That was the first
joke of the first scene. And then the top bunk crashers down because it
shoddily constructed. Right after he says, I forgot to ask you, do
you like guacam That reads flattened, parted, and fell down when that bunk
bed just disintegrated. It is a sight gag. The gam lines beautiful just
singing Montel Jordans for no reason. I mean it's it's great. Why are
you sweating? Yeah? So good? So that one idea leads to another.
Being the funny people. They are all three of these people in a
room going, well, there's one there's an idea, there's an idea,
And in five days they had the formal rough draft outline of the movie Step
Brothers, and we're like, yep, let's do it. They were in
that's incredible if it's true. And I don't know what what formal a lot,
like what outline versus script is? Yeah, size of outline, you
know, but I guess you have to figure out the the whole idea.
This movie has tons of outtakes. I didn't pull them. I pulled some
of them, but some of them you just need to see it to know.
Clearly. One of these movies that has twenty takes, you know,
because you're improvent lines and things like that. There's one where Derek who's Adam
Scott, is you know, mad at the mom and he's like do we
cancel our Dane Cook? I think that's the line. We cancel our Dane
Cook concert tickets? Do we cancel saying Chris Angel and he's canceling all these
things? Do we cancel our Nickelback concert for this? I mean, just
going through all these things that you might you might associate with a douchebag.
I don't, but some people do. And that's a punchline. I don't.
The role of Derek though, went to Adam Scott. Now, Adam
Scott, this was his first commis he'd be lucky to see Chris Angel if
he was in town because he pretends to know magic. He does not.
You support him, you'd be lucky. He supports anyone that's amsician, magician
blindly not blindly that I support the greats. You tell me you wouldn't freak
out if Chris Angel walked in that door. I wouldn't know it was him.
Yeah you would, Oh hey, look it's the guy from Motley Crue.
Oh no, it's Chris Angel. Mind freak You know it was him
because he wouldn't even open the door. He would just walk through it,
and I'm sure you'd be well, it's lame Mike because you were Eyeliner's Chris
Ephan Angel. You know what, I'm coming around to Mike's side on this.
He walked through the door. The person that believes this the least is
him. So he's just he's baiting you. He's goating us, baiting you
both. No one's baiting me. In the darkened theater, you'd freak out.
Tonight. He has a gift and he shares it with you, and
you at him in point. He knows a trick. He knows one trick.
Come meet Chris Angel tonight the role of Derek as Adam Scott's his first
comedy movie. Now, Will Ferrell didn't know him very well, but Paul
Rudd is like meeting when he goes guys. Adam Scott's like the funniest guy
I know. Like, y'all need to consider him, and they're like,
okay, well we'll bring him in for the role of Derek. That could
make sense. He'll he'll de audition, but you know he's gonna have to
beat out you know. John ham Oh, John ham was up for Dmail.
John Hamm was not the John ham that we know today. John Hamm
was the guy who was working his way up. Mad Men was not even
it wasn't happening yet. I mean two thousand and eight that was pretty close
to mad Men getting started. I could see John Hamm as d Man Young
ham So in the article, and I read this in The Ringer a few
years ago. They did a big oral history on this for its you know,
ten year or fifteen year anniversary or whatever it was. I guess a
ten year I don't know. And Adam Scott officially wins the job when he
goes off script at the table and mentions Mark Cuban. When he said cubes.
They all died and went, oh and now the other celebrities that he
mentioned are funny, but it was Mark Cuban cubes is when they went,
oh, my god, this is the guy you were busy fishing with.
Mark Cuban. Oh yeah, yeah, well not just the Cubes, but
we had Chris Daughtrey, Jeff Probe, super chef, Bobby Flay. I
mean it was insane. I mean it was almost too much, my god.
That's yeah. We were down in the southern part of the goal fishing.
Bonita, Robert, have you ever been down to the southern part of
the golf when the Bonita run I always wanted to. It's amazing, it's
gorgeous. Are banana fish big? What? Dale? Don't interrupt the man
when he's telling a story. I know, it's fine, Robert, I
was asking about the story. I don't know, Son, It's okay,
well, Dale, they are what's called a trophy fish, so yeah,
they're pretty big anyway. God, I'm sorry now I forget where my story
was. Damn it, Dale, Listen, Gang, don't be mad at
Dale for ruining the story and possibly the evening. It's it's totally fine.
I have a lot more stories, Derek, that you do. Yeah,
guilty charged with the stories. Oh god, you're impressive boy. And that
was like maybe the first role that I had seen, the dad from six
Feet Undertake. Yeah, he's great and he's so good in that. Now,
it's so good that those guys. They got Mary Steenbergen first, and
Will Ferrell was like, I think she should do it. But Will Ferrell
was feeling weird about it because he was like, she's only fourteen years older
than me, right, but he's like, I think she would be perfect
for this because he knew or whatever, so he called her. It was
like very apologetic and kind of waffling through it, and she's like, yeah,
I'll do it. So even though she's just fourteen years older than Will
Ferrell, she's playing his mom. And then with him that was a I
don't know who suggested that, I don't remember. It was his first time
I'm doing crazy improv like that, and they talked about him kind of being
nervous and very methodical until they shot the dinosaur scene at the end, which
it was shot probably early whenever they did it, but that was kind of
a thing. A note that was in that article Richard Jenkins, Richard Jenkin,
jess which you say he's like the guy you see and a lot of
stuff I was asking about the story. Look, that's not the worst question,
no big as you forget. And then it's they have the minds of
eight year old dale. Uh he said, Jeff Probes to what a stupid
So yes, the great Jeff Probes, the big reality TV and magicians as
hills that Mikey will die on. Falsely, I don't watch reality TV.
I watched Survivor and Big Brother. That's reality TV, dude, he only
watches CBS. I only watched in the floor. You maybe watch you.
I like it less than both not reality game show and also yeah, not
reality games They're real people having a big brother like the mom and pop of
reality shows, and they spawned idiot's step brother children. But they're beautiful in
their own way. Last one here to get you going here. This is
a step brother's primary for Tonight's big in the cedars uh screening with the downbeat,
it's going to be a riot. I'm just watching the handful of tickets
we have disappeared. Come on, come on, come on one more,
I'll seat gone. The big sweet Child of Mind scene. Adam Scott can't
really sing, so they're all in the car green screen. In the back.
There's a guy standing by the hood of the car who's actually a professional
singer. So Adam Scott is talented enough to just watch this guy and his
lip seeking it while the guy's standing at the hood of the car. Now
he's by the wheel. The guy's the hood of the car and when he
starts doing it, he just starts mimicking him. And they also said the
kid won the job because when he came in for his audition, he gave
the little bit of extra that you'll hear at the end of this clip,
and that's what got the kid the job flat, so flat, I can't
even I don't even know. You don't even look good while you're seeing the
worst thing I've ever heard. Twelve hundred dollars a week for voice lessons,
and this is what I get. Okay, I'm gonna save it with the
solo boua magazine like that. I can see how Jesus, oh Holy got
the job kid flat lat flat, twelve hundred dollars of me on a voice
lessons just for this in the car. That's like a terrible mortgage. Yeah,
incredible tonight. Also the drum set that was actually a story. John
c Riley's older brother actually did the drum set thing to him. So I
think I'm at a perfect level of I remember, I know those iconic scenes,
but there's gonna be enough of this that I don't remember. Yeah,
I think I'm gonna laugh mynards off. It'd be great. You might have
a little dad Syrup before tonight. Oh really, No, they gotta drive,
yeah, and have a little banned one. Well, have one one
Dad Syrup, just one. It's gonna be kick ass. Come join us,
Come have fun with us. Yes, tonight Alma Draft House Cedars in
Dallas. Boo Botham, Jean Boulevard, I believe, Yeah, straight,
it's on. We'll see in the bar. I'll be a right. Six
forty five is before come watch the downbeat, get over served and eat way
too many cheese sticks. Yeah we have fun. We don't have fun.
Let's stuck up. We have a little fun. Quips here, jokes better
than we were in Step Brothers from Mike s Royd, just yelling them out.
That's how he won the award, folks, That's how he texts,
says, I saw Chris Angel in Vegas last year, blanking awesome. Yeah,
he's part of the magic community. Yep. The texture is just a
big magic guard to the Alliance, the magic sympathizers. You civilians just don't
understand. I like to believe things that are real. What a bad bad
we have to go. We gotta go. I'm gonna tell you about DNM
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