This is a downbeat on ninety seven to one. The Freak Sege's brought to you by Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. Who Tonight Tonight? Well the great comedy movies of all time? Step Brothers, It's the Seeds. Location off Botham Jane in Dallas. Tickets at ninety seven won the Freak dot com A few seats 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 leasing also got some birthdays talk backs and the latest on the top stories of the day next to ninety seven to one, The Free