This is the downbeat on ninety seven to one. The freak, ooh ooh. The woman was the dream I had rather hard to keep all right when my eyes were watching her as they closed and I was still asleep. Go, it's fine, It's just I wanted Danny to soak in the fish, soaking the fish, ding you I am. I'm swimming with him right now, bouncing around the ring. Huh. Last night was the Iron Claw premiere at Texas Theater. We'll get to your talkbacks in the hot mob here in
a second, but I feel like we didn't talk about it enough. It was great. We're like the first people on earth, on Earth to be able to review and talk about The Iron Claw, the story of the Vaughan Erics, the iconic Texas wrestling family. You can't let opportunities like this fall by the wayside, Michael, No, no, no, no, no no. And we did review the movie. We all had kind of different print opinions, varying degrees. It was. It was, it was good,
it was I liked it a lot. I really was entertained. Kevin absolutely loved it, and we kind of discussed the difference, I guess between someone like me who just yesterday before yesterday, watched the little vice documentary Dark Side of the Ring, the Last of the Von Erics. It was Kevin's whole story, which this movie kind of is too. It is essentially a story about the surviving von Eric brother, Kevin Yam. And it was a
great night Texas Theater. It was it looked beautiful. That place was a treat, a real jewel of DFW, the Texas Theater, and we had a blast. Very cool to be in the same room as all these big
name celebs and all this stuff. But there's a couple of angles that we didn't hit on as we reviewed the film earlier today, and I figured we could do a little more round up right here, do we want to talk about why zac Efron apparently dunked his face into a chafing dish full of mashed potatoes before the they started rolling on the film and then spray tanded brown and then spray tnded. They did a there's a scene where he's waking up one
of the first scenes of the movie. He's waking up in bed, and they do a great job. They aren't even showing his face and they're showing his very closely a lot of tidy, whitey shots in the movie, lots of underwear, and lots of family touch football in jeans, bad, so much bad backyard touch football in jeans, Go go go, go for the past. All right, the best athlete in the family kick out fast ass. It was funny the beginning when Dad said, you know, we know
there's a ranking system. Carries my favorite, then Kevin, then David, then Michael, all subject to change. He has already can change change, he can change. These are malleable. I love the actor that played the Dad thought I thought he was the best. You know what? And Okay, is Zack Efron a good actor? I don't know. I don't know either. This is his time he's ever been taken seriously, so let's keep that in mind, okay. And I'm not saying he's not because Kevin he
was probably was pretty accurate to Kevin von Eric. Kevin von Eric is understated, very understated with how he talks, and he does, certainly in his older age, have a bit of a mumble to his voice. I don't think it's because he's deaf, right, he is not here very well? And is that right? Yeah? Yeah, that way for a couple of years. Yeah, but I'll be honest, as much at work, god knows. Even if he had some help to get that body to look the
way it did, Zac Effron looked like a different human being. It was. It was almost too much. It was just distracted. Yeah, it was like he was house like. It's one thing for these guys to get ripped for a role, but it was almost like too much bulk, Like it was overly thick. And then when you factor in the really deep spray tan that all those guys were in tanning beds every day o their lives in
the eighties, so that that all tracked, I think. But it was almost just too much and just I mean zero body fat, I mean none. It is thick muscle and skin and nothing else on that kid. A little different than hulks and not. I don't know. I always thought of Zach Efron was very lean. Maybe when he's younger, he was a teen actor, he's the high school musical kid. He's always been pretty shredded, but in a lean, sinewy kind of way. But it didn't look like
a very lean guy who got ripped. No, this dude looked like a monster. He had steroid head too, okay, and then why does that affect your head and your face that much? Was he he think he was? Yes, it was juicing. Yes, I think that's the power of makeup. Okay, But Kevin von Eric didn't have didn't have me face, he didn't meat face it maybe one of his eyes looked real weird too.
First met Pam. That's why I thought it was fake. He did have like tom yorke Ey think it was didn't That was right after about and it looked like didn't he take a pretty good hit in that bout or something? Or they were kind of applying that he had a rough go of it in the ring when he met Pam. Yeah, Pam. Pam was confident. Huh. She knew what she wanted. She wanted Kevin, she wanted her on Eric, she wanted she wanted she wanted the Denton Kevo. I think
she wanted she did want wrestling Kevio. Pretty cute, huh, what, Pam? Yeah, yeah, dude, she's great. Cutie. Patuti, you're sitting there going hmmm. He guess I ain't never been asked out before, so we're gonna talk. I don't that's so weird. Does spoilers even apply, But there is one that we are going to talk about right now. And because this is not I guess if you know the von Eric's a little bit, you know the real story this is known, but I guess,
yeah, yeah, whatever. So Carrie von Eric was then I considered kind of the jewel of the family, like as far as wrestling goes, whatever he had, he had the most success outside of world class championship wrestling the local territory here. He did make it to the WWF and he was their intercontinental champion. He's nationally. I mean, I knew Carry von Eric, and I don't know that I knew all these brothers existed, and I
certainly didn't know their whole story. But Carrie, because of a motorcycle crash, had a massive foot and ankle injury. And I've known this again from watching stuff, but I don't know how common knowledge it is. Every time anyone who's listening saw Carrie von Eric in a WWF ring, he had a foot missing. Yeah, he was wrestling on a prosthetic. He was wrestling on a fake foot. And nobody is more interested in fake body parts than
Danny Baylis's thank you. I just mean the fake head more than I mean, why are you holding your hands out in front of your chest and winking at me? Why are you searching Hitoshi Tanaka? Well, the the idea of the loser of the bed, of the s and l draft that we do, where the loser has to have a foot as their phone case, yeah, we should get we should get his actual foot. So this is pretty fed up. And I'm glad this wasn't in the movie because the reveal
for him having an amputated foot was pretty great in the movie. It was awesome. That was a shocking moment. But what really happened, and again I just learned this recently, is he had a mangled foot because of this motorcycle crash, and he went to the hospital and they did massive reconstruction pins whatever. This is gonna be cringey, So everyone, hold on to your your nuts and your butt. Hold ontrans in your butt, not if you're
driving, put one hand on your butt. He was in a hospital bed recovering from that injury, and this is not a joke, and he woke up probably addled in pain medication at the hospital like prescribed, and he thought he smelled hamburgers. In the hallway of the hospital and he got out of his bed and annihilated his foot that had been reconstructed. Yeah, did not
sound crunchy and weird like the pins. And because he smelled hamburgers, liked hamburgers, didn't they They loved eating And I did find that funny in the movie. But Von Eric's there are always a couple of ams just asking about food. All I care about is when the next time we get to eat, which makes sense because think about it. Six boys I guess was its six boys five? Okay, six was the young one who got to like
your courage, imagine that before mom trying to cook. And you know what I also liked this is the gross All they want to do is eat and they're all locking themselves in the bathroom for about forty five minutes. Yeah, and that's funny. Something you don't think about it a house full of boys that are working out like fiends and the calorie consumption that that requires. I mean they want to bacon bill Yeah, my god, that was like fifteen
packs of bacon for one breakfast. Yeah, So I thought that was good to show something you don't think about that much, is just feeding these monsters, and one thing that was kind of a highlighted a little bit near the end was just a mom having to bury five boys. I just where do you begin to the point all of them to the tragic tragic? I mean the most non tragic is the kid that had an intestine up, Yeah, who was in Japan, David David, Yeah, and the second David died.
There were what drugs were in the system, and they waited for the tox calls report and they were going to be honest about it, and they came back. I mean there's still rumors on it. Is it Bruiser Brody I think allegedly went to his room and cleaned out all the drugs. You know, that's what the rumor is in wrestling world. But you want freaking rumors go to that dip your tone and all that? Did he but real
quick? Mc kevin the finished the thought that the scene at the end near near the end where mar Tierney, who plays the von Eric mom, is having consternation over the fact that she's got to wear her funeral dress for the fourth time in a row and she feels like she needs a new one because people are gonna recognize this dress because she's buried so many of her kids. I mean, just that alone, you could just go down such a dark,
dark rabbit hole of emotion. Yep. And I just felt like they kind of they just kind of covered over the emotional aspect of this film to me, think they tried. Yeah, maybe that's I mean, that was the objective. I don't know, And yeah, that's probably the involvement. As we've said many times of Kevin being involved in the movie, mart Tyranny's a very good actress too, and she kind of always kind of plays a tough role, like, you know, kind of be a kind of a
hard ass. So there's a good role for her to kind of be the tough mom she always she always plays somebody that suffered a ton of trauma, yeah, or gone through something or getting cheated on or whatever. You know. There's one more thing, oh oh yeah, Okay, So did we ever find out was it a wrestling injury that caused the ruptured intestine? No? No, I think the talking for the family line is that he ate I think it's it's so it's a you know, I think Kevin market meet
Kevin something about I know, this is gonna be weird. But he ate fish that was either salt water or fresh water or the different one that he had grown up eating. That's what their guest was in Japan. Yeah, but he was. They showed him now vombiting blood a wedding. Okay, that probably didn't happen. But he did have some stomach issue before he left for Japan, and he was complaining and there were recommendations. Did he not go put me in the ulcer from all the stress? Maybe they couldn't have
been from getting your ribs kicked? Always could play. But he did fall asleep and not wake up in his hotel room in Japan. U zach Efron or Kevin goes Ken, How does that even happen? And I was like, I wish they would tell us how it happens. I want to know. Yeah, and they had to move on because it's too Verton in a movie. He just can't because we have another tragedy to get to brothers. Yeah, to do any story movie biopics or biopics. What are we calling
them? We call him biopic biopic. They're so impossible to do and a very popular thing to do right now. I mean they did one with Elton John recently too. I mentioned the Queen one. But it's kind of you just can't I can't wait, have to leave that, you have to edit stuff out, and if you come out with a three hour and forty five minute movie, everyone's gonna bitch. So the boy's gonna bitch. No matter what, do a ten thing on Netflix. I want people I do.
Yeah, so we real quick we asked who was in the crowd. You know these Dallas sites. Are these people flown in for this world premiere? And it's amazed. Yeah, but my buddy Jordan from Alamo, he said it was a total press list, invite lots of film buyers. I don't know if those are counter intuitive, and I'm like, is that right? Film buyers explained that to me one second. He said, these are the
people who buy a run of film for the movie theaters. Everyone's trying to decide that this is gonna be great or not be great at the box office for Christmas. So that was a big chunk of who was in the crowd as people decide, you know, watching it deciding do we want to yeah, how many theaters we want to put it in or what theaters? I suppose, But yeah, I thought that was very interesting because I didn't know
who comprised the crowd in a different crowd it was. Yeah, but the reach and the tentacles that that industry has that you'd never even consider all the behind the scenes stuff to take into account when it comes to you know, I got an idea for a script. Yeah, the guy that writes the idea to it being at the AMC or at LMO or whatever, hands touched that kitchen. It's incredible and align themselves to take a buck off of it.
It's a good movie, The Iron Claw. We were honored to be invited by the Texas Theater to view it, and it was an all and all incredibly fun evening and I don't know, things kind of neat that we saw something. Yeah, it comes out in full release December twenty second. Yes, it was fun to do something with all of you guys. Yeah,
it was not good to hang really nice. If we talk. I wish I would have let you guys sit up in the front where I saw you that far up next to the got a couple of talking about Christia. Yeah, this is Zach from Gunner. You're listening to ninety seven point won the Freak way to mail. Didn't today guys really appreciate you than Zachly? What the hell mail it? And then actually tried today. Did he portrayed Ted Bundy in one of the Netflix series, Yes, he did. That
was I said, this was that's his first series role. It's not he was Ted Bundy and that Netflix mini series that I didn't watch. He was good. But the controversy was you shouldn't cast a hot guy as a serial killer. Ted Bundy was a good looking that was his weapon. He lured you with sex. Do people try to say that about Charles Manson's like he was not a handsome guy. I mean depends. What are you to say if you're on acid? He looked pretty good. This is this is very
similar to your Elvis Tom Hanks accent opinion? Which one? Because you thought that Tom Hanks shouldn't play foreign guy? No, I thought I thought he shouldn't be the narrator of the film and do a bad accent. All right. I had no problem with the casting of Tom Hanks. He just should have done either his normal voice to go Evies, I am one of you. We are the same person, but he's white. But Ted Bundy was the whole point was he was the supermodel serial killer. Yeah, I know,
yeah man. Apparently col Tom Parker was Hitler's translator. It was it was distracting because he was really he was also the narrator. It was a voice of the movie. I love Tom Hanks. I thought it was great. Well, the casted Austin Butler. Is that your Michael didn't know? Is that Michael Kenner or Gene Hackman? I can't you didn't get to work. Really, I heard I heard y'all's Iron Claw segment today, and here's
my two main takeaways, because I did not see the film. Number One, it sounds like you guys will liked it better if it was a musical weird. What isn't weird as a musical? Number Two, the conversation was
so good that I have fashioned a segment during the one forty shorty. I want to hear what Ben and Christina have to say about the movie, which we are doing at eleven o'clock, and then I have a segment at one based on what you guys said about the movie, and what I will hear Ben and Christina say about the movie that I think will change everyone's lives forever. Whoa forherever? This is the the most complicated to us, So you're gonna review our Look who it came from the most. Did you guys enjoy
the new game show? It's a Dorito's game. Actually, I heard it this morning. I don't know how Nacho Cheese lasted as long as it did. I mean, that's like the standard Derito. Do you know why it's number one? Tell him Ben the hiding in planes fight Christina, Tell him, well, I thought it was number one. That's why I didn't pick it, because you want more points, not just one point. And that's
why I stayed. And then I was focusing. I was focusing on all the other things that I didn't know if anyone had picked it, so I forgot what the last two picks were. Okay, that's fair. Throughout the segment, I was turning it on and off. Yeah, all the time out That's why I mean, you in the middle of the game show, you're like, you know what, I'm out on this, and then you're like, I wonder what's going on in the game show and came back here.
I was preferring it back on to see if the game show had ended, and then left and I came back again, came next time, I'll make the game show. Next time, I'll make the game show of music. There you go time. You know what's great about what Roy just said? Skin got an email from iHeart Corporate saying it was the best resetting they've ever heard of the game show segment ever, very excited. You know, there was a lot of resetting I did here, including I heard a reset
fifteen seconds after the game had gone. People are tuning in and out all the time, right, You never know, they're always tuning in and out formatical out. But yeah, yeah, dude, game way formatically sound, hip based game front. Me and Ben were sitting at our desk planning the show. We turned around and there were eight salespeople standing there going did you
hear the downbeat? This morning? I listened and I never knew what movie they were talking about, because they never reset the name of the movie ever knew? Right, And all the client phones were blinking, and then I started to stop. The blinking stopped just until it was just dead oh man, dead phones? Oh what else? Had some socks? I had two
sots today? Actually it was wrong with you? They're terrible. I heard trap it on socks pounds of and I think one package, one of the boxes Zots would have covered it, and then we'll decide if we need the it's like this school size. Like, man, you know what I'd like? I would like a hardened version of Nike wil with no medicinal value. Does anybody have that? Oh, there's a giant bag of it over there, Hand me some of that, like the Massachusetts drug bust of zots over
here. Tak a street value of eight dollars. That's pretty good, sound. Wait until the zest hits on, pop them open and then it comes to power Fizz. I did intently listen to Skin slowly eat it, and I was waiting for the power Fizz and he kept teasing that it might be starting, and they said, no, that's not it, that's not it. Then reset, Then he reset and I turned the ready wafu. I wish those Zots were a musical. Must tease your show and all right,
uh yeah, all right, our show is coming up next. Oh we have Oh that's fine, that's all right, Okay, we'll be back tomorrow morning at six am eight am. Ghost Pepper Pavilion Three. Hot predictions for Cowboys and Giants. Thank you to TC oh Yeah. Thank you to TC for living and thank you to Andrew from Cleebland. Thank you to the Technis Theater for hosting us last night with the Iron Clall. Thank you to Christina for filling in for an hour. Here's the Bitingskin Show.