You're listening to the Downbeat on ninety seven one the Freak Got and he's playing a perfect hair synthesizer and you'd break that top love it song intros. I love it all, especially to start with the album you Never Know What They're Gonna Do and then six thirty six down Beat your morning first responders of comedy, it's Kevin Turner standing Balis Money is Mike's Roy hij Dad? Hey, do you watch any movies this weekend? I did? What? Uh, Miller's Girl. It's not a very good film. O. She was good
in it, but it wasn't one Dumpling Man two OA. She was good in it. So later in the week I actually want to ask JJ this seven one er and take a minute to formulate how the Best or the Oscar nominations happened, because I thought your questions interesting, like did they not want to get it wrong and miss out on Oppenheimer and then have to deal with it forever? Like what was it like Schindler? Schindler's List probably did win,
like one for the Cuckoo's Nests, I don't think one? And uh, what the hell's the prison breakout movie with Andy Dufrane shaw Shank didn't win, Like there's always a few like people what beat shaw Shank? Do we? I know that Saving Private Ryan got beat by Shakespeare in Love. There was a controversy back then, so that in that case, you know, a incredibly relevant historical film, right, get snubbed for more of a comedic art piece. It gets probably evens out over time because the famous one Forrest
Gump over Pulp Fiction. Yeah, all the maybe Forest Gump was deserving. I don't know, geez, I'm looking at I'm just look at quick search. All the all the presidents, Man, Taxi Driver, and Network all lost to Rocky same year. That's a pretty big hit. Okay, So Shawshank and Pulp Fiction lost to Forrest Gump. Yeah, that's right. The Forrest Gump was pretty epic. And we're in the mass appeal too, sure
that that affected everybody. Yeah, but I wonder how much they Yeah, I wonder how the voting works and how it happens with the criteria are I also wonder if Shawshank and I don't remember this far back during the Oscar season of that year, particular year, but I wonder if Shaw Shank is one of those films that grew in popularity as it was, you know, on available to watch on pretty much every channel at any give part of the day. I amc and right now, but I don't know if a lot of
people saw it when it actually came out. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, Saving Private Ryant Losing a Shakespeare in Love, that's still one that just baffles me. Nineteen forty one, Citizen Kane lost to How Green Was My Valley? We've never heard of it, And Citizen Kane is on every list of like the greatest thing ever done? That's a movie about salads. He's Kevin Turner. Oh yeah it is. Anyway, there you go. So I want to learn about that. Maybe as the oscars get closer.
We like to learn around here in the movie expert around here, and it HiT's the most important thing in the world. Really, I think it's actually Salad's Kevin, Holy guy. It is Holy guy. Wake up, you little sleepy head. It's time to get eat your salads. Take your calls down some salad. Was it a featured thing like it is now? I can't imagine breaking out that you just go to a restaurant or stay salad. I'm just craving a salad. Now you're just dying for meat. Yeah,
pork chop, please get me? Taking is good for me. The movie was about a Welsh mining family, and I can go and tell you right now, I'd rather hear about salads, Mike. Should we let them watch that instead of the payoff or about the whole? So most of all, how long is it? Yeah? You could? Now, I guess you can't. Look, we never know what most important thing in the world. It doesn't have to be, but we're gonna focus on the royal rumble that
ye happened on Saturday. Yeah, I mean here just say we think about the audience in these cases too, because the number one story of the Dallas Morning News is that Tony Romo met Taylor Swift. Yeah. I figured you guys didn't want to hear about that, and there's audio of their interaction. They're awkward interfacing. We assumed the audience doesn't care, so we've decided to pivot into a different today. Did he scream out? Okay, hey,
who gives it? They had a very awkward on field interaction. No, But I actually think the Wild World of Wrestling was was it was pretty important last week mainly because of the Vince McMahon allegations and all that stuff and that madness, and that's a huge thing. I mean, I'm not gonna say what if it happened to Roger Goodell, you know, because the wrestling,
football and wrestling aren't exactly the same. But they did justign a five billion dollar deal for a ten year Netflix operation that they're gonna kick off next year. But so it's actually good to have Brodie in. We want to screw around with the Royal Rumble but actually talk about the Vince mc mahn situation. And one of the more interesting things that did come out of the Royal Rumble is Triple H, who is the guy who now is sort of running everything.
His name's Paul Leveck is his real name, but you know them is Triple H. They do this bit after pay per views when they do a press conference and it's I've never seen one of my life, but I actually watched it and it's kind of a real press conference. I mean, then they always talk there. It's interesting how they blend. Look, everyone in the building knows that it's predetermined whatever, but they don't, you know, they're still proud to have won the event, that sort of thing whatever.
So they had the winners up there, but then they had Triple H up there, and they started asking questions about what happened this week and Vince McMahon, which is very interesting, and Triple H is kind of getting it in the shorts for kind of skimming over, you know, and and taking sort of a pretty safe generic response to it instead of taking it on head on, which is a real company response to a massive thing. I mean,
I didn't do it, guys, don't ask me. Yeah, but but Triple H is married to Stephanie McMahon, Vince's daughter, Triple H is or Vince's Triple H's kid's grandfather. I mean, this is very close to home. And these again, if you read the reports, they're insane. What they say Vince did, which you know he probably did. So they first asked me he read the lawsuit and he said I did not. I did not, And then they pressed him on it and he said, I think
we want to focus on the positives. We just had a great weekend at the Tropicana, and I think they packed it more than anyone since maybe New Kids on the Block forty years ago. Bring it back to Nick Kramer's return, and so you know, he's just trying to divert and focus on the positives, and he kind of was getting beat up for it, which you know, I don't know. I mean, I guess there's a middle ground. You know, like it's terrifying and it sounds awful, and you know,
we're very disappointed. But imagine just the politics going on by the scenes, and if they're trying to wipe everyone named McMahon anywhere out of there, and I don't know how it works. So anyway, I found that to be interesting. The actual event, which we had a big fat bet on, happened Saturday night. Did either of you take in whether it be Saturday night or Sunday? Oh, greatness of the roy I've got some peacock issues, it turns out. But last night I did watch a twenty five minute
highlight package on YouTube. Okay, so I watched a good condensed version, and I know what I'm glad did. Well, how I want to see how much Danny watched of it, because there's a point of it where I just thought of Danny, and Danny just quit if he was watching it. I didn't watch it, but I did read a really well constructed recap of
it. It was long form, and the thing that was blowing my mind the whole time is that if you didn't know that, the outcomes are predetermined and most of the what you see in the ring has probably been rehearsed and choreographed, and these guys have trained for this type of exhibition for their entire you know, adult lives. I'm assuming it read like a glorious recap of the most beautiful, real sport in the world. It's amazing that these guys
are able to suspend disbelief and write about this sport. It is a sport, it is real. It takes incredible athletic ability and training and in a certain skill set to be able to do what these guys do, but it is rehearsed and choreographed and predetermined. They just write about it like it's the NFC Championship and it's incredible. You know, again, everyone knows, everyone knows it, but it's but that's never acknowledged. There's never a nod given
to that. And in this article, it was great, like it took me a good fifteen to twenty minutes to read this big recap, and they talked about the women's the women's Royal Rumble and the entire event, Like you're just like reading this, going, this is like the greatest, the most well documentmented rec cap of a real badass American sporting event. On some level, it's more fun to read about than watch. For me. Yeah, I don't watch really any of it. I will watch WrestleMania, and I
do actually like watching the road, just the Royal Rumble match. There's just no element of tongue in cheek or irony in this article at all, because that's what made it even more. It's reallyable these dudes' careers, right, yeah, And whoever wins the Royal Rumble, they've just they decide in a little room, I guess. But whoever wins, it will be in like the main event of WrestleMania, which means millions and millions of additional dollars to
people who are already very wealthy. So that's real. Whoever doesn't win the Royal Rumble, who mus you know, has a chance to be the headline or wrestleming. You know, they don't get that crown in their jewel, which is I headlined WrestleMania, which is a real thing, and then they want to make those guys look good. You know. So if you go to the Royal Rumble and you just get run out of there in thirty seconds, that looks bad on your character and you you lose shine, you know.
So there's a lot of politics, like if I'm gonna get eliminated, somebody really good better eliminate me because that justifies my elimination and makes me look better. Who comes up? And I'm sure it's a it's a think tank of people that are you know, entrenched in the sport. But who comes up with the narratives? Who gets who determines where? Who on? Who's
head the crown? Well, the writing team? Uh huh? I mean the much like Jerry Jones, the buck always stopped with Vincent Van which now I mean maybe it hasn't for a couple of years, but yes, but that's who can I sell the most? It's a carnival. Like you said, it's it's fascinating, but they have can I make the most money? Who can sell me the most tickets at the next pay per view? That's the game. It's the guy who's got funny catchphrases? Do you smell the
Rock's cooking. That's the bottom line. Just stunt cold said, so canaan undertaker makeup? Okay, but my question from hell there has to be these people are are intellectualizing so many different factors, analytics, what's going to shock people, what's to make Ultimately, though, it does come down to what is the most marketable decision? What is the decision that is going to make our organization the most money and continue this wonderful longevity that they've had and sell
the most merch and sell the most merch. Yeah, which all kind of goes back into the economics of the situation. It's all economically based. So that being said, were you surprised at the decision that was made on who this went to? Well, I'll say this, I watched it. About it. I think he surprised everybody, right. I watched it like midnight to two am or very late Saturday brown drink uh yes, nice, very much, And I was kind of not really entertained. I almost wanted to
text you both when it was late. I was like, you know what, don't watch Okay, I'll handle this Like I was watching. I was picturing Danny and it's not it's more Danny, like, you're kind of sitting there. We actually might be more open minded than Kevin on something so random, because Kevin would have hated it too. But I'm picturing Danny sitting right next to him and me being like, dude, come over watch the roll rumble, and then me just looking over like what did I do when number
twenty one was Pat McAfee. That's when I went, I'm glad Danny. Well, I didn't know Danny was watching it. I was like, I just imagine Danny going, I'm not doing this anymore because Pat McAfee's calling it too. He's and yeah, and what and then he gets it and it's like, oh, come on, he gets smashed immediately. No, he got in and then he faced was it, uh the seven foot That's the
problem is, I know hardly leading the names of these dudes. Here's a dude who they claim is seven four, but he probably is seven foot. Like he was a legit. He dwarfs the almost yeah almost, and Pat McAfee got in and he did the look at who it was and then he just quietly stepped back over the top rope and hopped down to the floor.
Quick elimination disqualified himself, which is like a little funny. It's a little funny fit, right, and it's a good way to ease one out because for those who don't know, thirty people, right, they all go in, they all go in there. How many people are in the ring at what time? Would you say the most that were in the ring at one time? I don't know, eight, Maybe I would say a dozen maybe,
yeah, maybe a couple of times. There was one where they were they were trying to pin three guys at once and then they all broke out of it from the There's also great one where a guy body slammed a guy and then he spits on him, and then after he gets up he starts holding his shoulder going, oh yeah, like I mean, it's a carmon thing kind of, but it's just it kind of reminds me of Save Flowers just to day when he caught that passa pushed the quarterback down and then gets
the penalty. Yes, and then what I didn't do anything, but so your winner, because we basically we did a bet. And the way that they do this is one at a time they start going out there, so basically one through thirty, so Mikey had one four seven ten, thirteen sixteen. Then he had two five eight eleven fourteen. I had three six, nine, twelve, fifteen eighteen. You know, I saw your big lift and I was like, I'll just wait for someone to tell me who won.
I'm not gonna yeah, and I was. I hated to say that number fifteen, Cody Roads was your winner, making me the loser. It came down to Cody Roads and the great CM Punk who came out at number twenty seven. They were both kind of crying. It was weird before they
Yeah, it was very odd. So it was down to those two by themselves in the ring at the end, and one will throw the other one over the thing and then and then then the guy will cry and point at the WrestleMania sign and he just did sort of validate his career, you know, Like it's as dumb as that is. How massive moment. How excited is Cody Rhoads going into that event knowing that he's gonna win. Probably pretty
cool? Yeah, And I always wondering when they know, like when they tell him, like cause there's a lot of art to thirty people and who's knocking out who? And like I said, someone good has to knock me out. Yeah, because that'll help me a little, even if I could eliminate it, like I wonder if they tell him who's going over as it's called an hour before, maybe a day or week before. I really don't
know. I don't know the answer. But Cody Roads won last year too, so he's it was about a rare back to back winner and he wins the thing, and uh so this was no surprise. No, it wasn't a shock winner. No, but okay, but it was between three or four or five dudes who it made sense to maybe have headline WrestleMania because it has to be somebody huge to do that. So it's still a little bit of a surprise, but not like a huge surprise. But yeah, he
won. I don't know what that means moving forward, but it does mean Kevin has lost a very significant bed. That means that in honor of our fallen porn star Jesse Jane from the city of More, Oklahoma, and honestly couldn't have worked out any more perfectly for the man who's been feuding with the city of More, Oklahoma to have to pay my respects to that town and to that woman, Jesse Jane, because the Princess of Moore. As we
discussed last week, I now will have to watch the movie. The two hour and nine minute movie good with a sixty eight percent score on Rotten Tomatoes from two thousand and five, the movie Pirates two hours and eight minutes. He was just mentioned about Oppenheimer, which is just over three and you gotta do two hours and eight minutes of a porn movie called Pirates, which at the time had a budget well over a million dollars, making it the most
expensive pornographic film ever made. Pirates, Pirates, Jesse Jane, Carmen, Lvana, Janine, Oh, Janeine, Linda Mulder, Tigan Presley, Oh Yes, Genevieve Jolie, and Evan Stone, who has once caught helicoptering. Kevin looked at the cast and went, oh no, Evan Stone, No, I hate that guy. He was probably washed up by then, wasn't he. Yeah, he's the this is gonna suck. Howld is Evan Stone now like sixty Let's see, he's got his own I love porn people because
they phoned the mystery category. They're like age somewhere fifty nine sixty ish like no official birthday. I don't really know what. Okay. Sometime in nineteen sixty four, this movie won eleven av And Awards. Yeah. The New York Times described it as a relatively high budget story of a group of ragtag sailors who go searching for a crew of evil pirates. Those pirates have a plan for world domination, much like Oppenheimer. Yeah, that's Captain Stagnetti.
He's the bad pirate. The penis. Also, many of the characters in the movie have sex with one another. What the penis? Wait? Wait, look forward to that. You have to watch all two hours and nine minutes of this film without Yes, there will be no gratification two hours nine minutes and you can't. You can't, no touchy touchy. And then when you're done, you open up your laptop and you write a beautiful one page
movie review including details storyline, antagonists, protagonist. I mean, the hardest part in times I'm act is finding out where where where do you find this thing? And then problem I will probably you know, use his excuse to work on some cardio and I'll just go to the gym and get a two hour bike right in and watch that. While watching it giant iPad. Yea propped up on your treadmill, your peloton classes acting like the fort Worth school
board, pop up a porn while you're cycling through the Swiss Alps. Yuck. He is allowed after watching the entire two hours, nine minutes to go back to your favorite scene. You can't and have your big moment. Just make sure you talk stamp. I will now. I mean, I'm gonna try to find this and get it on my computer because I think I'm gonna have to pull audio from it right absolutely, I mean it's this becomes bigger
than the movie. You have to have a nice reading of your book report, Yeah, pull audio some of your favorite parts boobs and ass hot hot hot won't be getting that tonight tomorrow night, because tonight I'm going to the MAVs game. Uh. And if you're at the MAVs g of tonight, there's a big karaoke bit happening in the third quarter watch out and uh, if you want to come join in on that, come find me. I don't know what section I'll be in, but that's happening on the jumbo tron.
And then tomorrow night it's a bottle rocketed albumal draft House now, Richardson, come on, skin, bring it on for the Let's Freaking Chill, Let's Freaking Chill movie series. What time is our opening credits for that thing? Six thirty? Well, I know the speakeasy broadcasting from two to six, so yeah, we'll tell you. Let's let's go six fifteen, six thirty, okay, and then when seven dollars tickets at alumal draftouse dot com
and all right, good job everyone, I'll handle pirates. Thanks Kevin, congratulations you're a big royal rumble bet victory go Cody Roads, The American Nightmare is sockname Dad, Dusty Roads, the American that's what you're dad, jamb it. I'll have watched it then, and he's all lean and ripped Dusty is Cody Is? He watched they so that see that's my wrestling. But it is a good bits dream and Cody's the American Nightmare beautiful, just the
we're on the road to WrestleMania, Danny. Now it's it's aimed at you, dude. Buckle up. We will cover this every day. No, we won't. A guy. Whatever. Ratings started to just mysteriously tick up, like no, it can't be is it the wrestling dude? I told you there's was big study Forbes or somebody was like, the more these legit sites right wrestling stories and more clicks they get going to be on Netflix. It's called the silent majority, Kevin. They're out there. They just don't
scream that they love it. But I want to hear about it. And you get a message from a listener on Friday. It said two segments on wrestling. That's a bold move. I said it was one and a half. That's a ball. He said, I missed the I guess I missed much of that second one. He's a good listener though, He just that'll be fun. You can handle the wrestling, b aka please. Everyone had the Stars one Saturday Stars fans, we did it for you. Come on
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