Request Line: Support System

INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY

A harried-looking producer negotiates with two young men. 

PRODUCER: …it’s not that I don’t appreciate both of you turning up, it’s just that I don’t know if you can both fit in there, to be honest.

TEDDY BRIDGEWATER: Nah, we’ll make it work.

JOSH MCCOWN: It’s not like one of us is Nick Foles, you know.

TEDDY: Ooooohhhh!

JOSH: [turns to him] You like that? Huh?

TEDDY: Ha ha ha ha!

JOSH: Yeah!

They high five each other.

PRODUCER: Maybe you could just go one at a time?

JOSH: We’re teammates, now, man.  We do…

TEDDY: …everything together.

PRODUCER: Like finish each other’s sentences?

JOSH: Well, I wouldn’t go that far.

TEDDY: We’re not Todd Marinovich and Ryan Leaf.

JOSH: Ha ha ha ha! Damn, look at my man here slingin’ dimes!

They high five again.

TEDDY: It’s funny because they’ve both had lots of legal troubles.

PRODUCER: [glances at overflowing wastebaskets]  That is true, their probation hearings have been somewhat…disruptive of their schedule lately…

TEDDY and JOSH manage to cram themselves into the recording booth and get set up behind the microphone.  TEDDY looks confused, but JOSH patiently points to the various buttons and expertly talks him through it before punching the button to open up a channel to the PRODUCER who sits outside.

JOSH: All right, we’re all set.

PRODUCER: Great! We are live in three…two…one…[punches ON AIR button]…Good afternoon!  Welcome to another edition of Request Line.  I’m here with newly minted teammates Josh McCown and Teddy Bridgewater…

JOSH: [interrupts]…it’s cool, you can say his name first.  He’ll be the starter.

TEDDY: …only once I’m fully healthy.  Besides, age before beauty.

JOSH: Or, you know, both.

TEDDY: Ha ha!

Another high five.

PRODUCER: But seriously, what’s the plan for the season?

TEDDY: Josh will be in command through the preseason.  I’m still working my way back, but once the coaches agree I’m 100%…

JOSH: …it’ll be his team.

PRODUCER: So do you fellows have a theme for today’s show?

TEDDY: We sure do!

JOSH: Today’s topic is “support structure”.  We’re looking for songs about helping each other out…

TEDDY: …backing each other’s play…

JOSH: …carrying the load, that sort of stuff.

TEDDY: How’s that sound?

PRODUCER: Sounds great!  It seems like you guys have already really gelled as teammates.  I’ve heard the Jets plan to draft a quarterback at three, it sounds like it’s going to be a very welcoming environment for a young quarterback to develop in.

Both JOSH and TEDDY’s faces darken.

JOSH: Huh?

TEDDY: Yeah, no.

JOSH: Fuck.

TEDDY: That.

JOSH: Guy.

PRODUCER: But you don’t even know who it’s going to be!

TEDDY: Doesn’t matter.

They bump fists.

TEDDY: Except next time it’ll be draft boy’s head in between these fists.

PRODUCER: Um…okay.  Well, do you a song to get us started with?

JOSH: [brightens] I sure do.  [turns to Teddy] This one’s for you, buddy.

 

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Anybody makes fun of Mary, and I’ll Kill ya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XNaPX6MKlU

yeah right
Beerguyrob

Because we all need a smile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Hd3uWKFKY

yeah right

This belongs in here somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=671AgW9xSiA

SonOfSpam

“Damn, why y’all hatin on mah music?”

(offers up Staind song)

theeWeeBabySeamus

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theeWeeBabySeamus

Perhaps you’d care for a li’l moar country then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JREouTHpyJE

LemonJello

???
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theeWeeBabySeamus

You’re all really gonna hate me for this one…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aU57V6VBW0

rockingdog

hahaha wait was this the theme to a TV show?

SonOfSpam

Let’s get some Wilco up in here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtAkC9lTdsQ

King Hippo

love love love Ms. Phair

theeWeeBabySeamus

OK, when did Request Line become “let’s openly tell tWBS his musical tastes are for shit rather than, you know, being subtle about it any longer”…..?

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

You can edit it out! There’s still time!

theeWeeBabySeamus

If Lenny Kravitz covered it, do you think you’d hate it more, or hate it less because of the irony factor?

I’ll hang up and listen.

LemonJello

They make the rockin’ world go round:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D99n9f3vU4

BrettFavresColonoscopy
BrettFavresColonoscopy

Ok, now you’re making me regret defending you and your tv watching habits/theme song faves.

theeWeeBabySeamus

Gotta take the good with the bad my friend.

LemonJello
theeWeeBabySeamus

Thinking out of the box here, but yes, it works…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m39DWVFK-Bw

King Hippo

last two picks NICE!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I spend more time thinking about box than thinking outside of the box.

SonOfSpam

Lake Street Dive is my current musical obsession. Rachel Price can sing really purdy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6smVgHVCcU

King Hippo

nice shoulders too

King Hippo

Also did Jim Boeheim headline this event?

SonOfSpam

+1 knuckle

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

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BOLTMAN FINDS THE IDEA OF FRIENDS TO BE LAUGHABLE [Cackles uncontrollably] BUT THESE HUMAN MINSTRELS SURE DO KNOW HOW TO ROCK [Does the splits] AND ROLL! [Head bangs]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEH2ICPkLlU

theeWeeBabySeamus

Yep, moar country. Suck it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UptgRHX4JsI

theeWeeBabySeamus
theeWeeBabySeamus

Hehehehe….I’ll show myself out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-9kPks0IfE

SonOfSpam

DUDE.

King Hippo

Had I known tWBS in teh 90s, I swear to Gawd I woulda murdered him LMAO

theeWeeBabySeamus

Holy shit guys, it’s not like I sit around listening to the fucking Rembrandts.

Jeebus.

SonOfSpam

It took you 3 years of watching Friends to sync up your hand claps perfectly. Admit it.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

FACT CHECK: false

BrettFavresColonoscopy

HOT TAEK: That’s a sneakily good song

BrettFavresColonoscopy

This was beautiful

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

Surprised this is still on the board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIyIvj8f0tc

SonOfSpam

Dude.

theeWeeBabySeamus

It works. Maybe grey area, but it works.

King Hippo
yeah right

Jesus.

theeWeeBabySeamus

With all due respect to Sam Cooke, who I love btw, this is the best cover of this song ever and if you disagree you can suck it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_e-_Mt0WiY

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

STRONGLY DISAGREED DOUBLE SHOT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ1ajf4cDlA

King Hippo
King Hippo

holy shit does P. TM value friendship of all varietals. TRIPLE IT!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN-xVSlnWKQ

Don T

‘cause, after all, he’s just a man
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DwBirf4BWew

SonOfSpam
SonOfSpam
SonOfSpam
King Hippo

The song that reminds me of driving with my best friend from Raleigh to Denver (via Chicago) when she moved there after grad school to live with her boo. Driving across Nebraska in the middle of the night when your co-pilot is zonked with a cold…interesting Twilight Zone shit. Beautiful CO sunrise, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snILjFUkk_A

SonOfSpam

1) This song is about heroin, so your co-pilot was a horse?
c) Going to see them in May, pretty fired up. OLD PEOPLE ROCKIN.

King Hippo

I was also gonna mention that I like giving shout-outs to Dave Gahan, who does so much heroine he thinks he’s Jesus most of the time.

Also, I met said best friend in engineering school because she had this badass denim Depeche Mode backpack with flowers sewn into it, and I finally, somehow without being creepy, came up to her after class and said “I just have to say that is the coolest backpack I have ever seen.” She said thanks, and within 2 weeks, we were finishing each other’s sentences, despite both of us being pretty introverted.

She was also probably the best, or maybe the 2nd best looking lady in our department (hey, it was environmental engineering, so it weren’t a one-eyed king/queen situation, and neither one of us ever caught feelings at all, and I was very proud of that.

King Hippo

also, opium is a TOTES GREAT support system ,, ppl forget that

nomonkeyfun
SonOfSpam

I’ll give a +1, but it was almost a -1.

Beerguyrob

Tough, but fair.

It was going to show up; I just took care of it early.

SonOfSpam

Obvious, but Bill Withers is the man:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEXQkrllGbA