#520: Chuck Roast

I am loath to

help people

They're just pretending to like him.

We're keeping it real.

I'd leave that one holstered.

You guys just have a weird way about going about things.

Tell them, Steve, Dave.

Hello, and welcome to this week's Tell'em Steve Dave.

I'm here with Walt.

Hello.

And via Zoom, a BQ.

Hello.

Sorry, I can't be there this week, boys.

I miss you.

Do you hear me?

Yeah.

Oh, I thought you said this is, and then you stopped.

Oh, I said I miss you, and then you guys didn't respond with anything

sweet back to me.

Where we're pissed at you.

yeah.

No, the mood is uh, the mood is good here.

The mood is inclusive.

I'm looking at Walt's shirt, and

you wouldn't believe it, Q.

You wouldn't believe it.

What's it say?

He's not on camera.

Is this why he doesn't want to be on camera so I can't see him?

No, not at all.

It was just Bry, the way he

laid out the laptop.

Yeah, it's just we're not far enough away, I don't think.

Well, what's the shirt?

But anyway, the shirt is

a devil's with the rainbow logo.

Oh, the pride logo?

Yeah, it's the month, right?

Is it?

Yeah.

It's June.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I mean, I'm very proud of you, Walt.

That's very nice.

I'm surprised.

I didn't think that it would.

I thought in this day and age, it wouldn't even get noticed anymore.

That's how far I thought we've come.

Well, on an old man, I notice.

On a young kid, I don't notice.

Yeah, it doesn't get any.

What about your kids?

They're not like, all right, dad, way to go.

You're gay.

No, no.

I mean, like I said, I just think that it's,

yeah, it's not even worthy of a mention.

That's how, like, great.

Well, then, why wear the shirt if it's not worthy of a mention?

I like the way the shirt looked.

That's why I liked it.

When I saw it, I was like, oh, I like the way that it just the

instead of the normal red logo of the NJ, it was, you know, it blended into a whole bunch of colors, and I really dug it.

And plus, I dug the movement.

What movement?

You know, like inclusive, what's it called?

Inclusivity.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

I'm in.

I'm in.

I'll wear a pride-themed thing next episode.

I don't know.

How do I like any teams?

I want to join in, but I can't.

Well, you could just

anything from Target has a whole bunch of stuff to it.

You can't get away from it at Target, that's for sure.

All right.

So next week's our Pride episode, I guess well this week's waltz i guess

yeah i think so this is all about pride this episode everything that uh people can be i'm dragging i'm so tired this is too early to record tsd

yeah it's 1130 on a sunday

i am so i have i just rolled out of bed didn't get any kind of like fuel in me yeah so like if i sound sluggish it's because i am he's tired from being so prideful over the last couple days.

That takes a lot out of you.

Waving the flag.

Driving around with his car with a giant rainbow flag on the back.

Oh, I didn't even think it was worth mentioning.

Just happened to get this flag that you'd find at a car dealership.

That's good, man.

That'll quell a lot of rumors about Walt.

I've been hearing.

I like that.

That's good.

That is a hateful homophobe.

Yeah.

I know that was going around.

Walt, Walt was, was it 28 years yesterday?

Yeah, 28 years.

28 years.

Walt's been married.

Yesterday was his.

Wow.

His anniversary.

94.

Wow.

Any advice for any newlyweds out there, Walt?

Anything you want to talk about marriage a little bit?

I am loath to

help

people.

But I'm loath to

lay down like this is what you should do, or like, because everybody's so different.

You know, it doesn't

just like my shirt, you know, everybody's so different.

Every like, you just gotta like

let it be, let people be, let them do what they want to do as long as you know,

you gotta have love in your heart.

He is tired,

it's not making any sense over there.

Just gotta

love it.

I didn't think it'd be that controversial to ask to record at 11.30.

Yeah,

what's with you in the early morning hours?

I'm back to work, man.

So it's like every fucking day is just stacked with work.

So

I got a long day after this.

Oh, you got work to do after today on a Sunday?

Yeah.

Oh, no.

There's no rest, brother.

I had my rest.

It was called the pandemic.

We're back.

And

we're down in a practical joker, so that work gets spread out.

You know what I mean?

All right.

Yeah.

We took some hits last week, you and I, Q.

You and me?

Yeah.

Because, Walt, your story about superfestation.

Yeah.

I guess you read the word incorrectly.

It's not called superfestation.

No, it's not.

How is it pronounced?

I guess it's superfetation.

On the way home, I was like, that's such a weird word, superfestation.

I was like, I wonder if he meant super gestation,

which would make way more sense than that info.

But then they start talking about how me and you are stupid for not correcting them.

I'm like,

a man read a word from his phone, and I trusted that man.

Yeah, what am I supposed to do?

Fucking research every time I hear a new word?

And it also sounds like it could be a word.

Yeah, I thought it was like, it sounded like infestation to me.

So you were infested with children.

Yeah, and that's the way way you would look at it, right?

I guess that's not really.

Not really.

That's the way I would look at it for sure.

Yeah.

We gotta do something about this infestation.

You gotta live in a world where I say it wrong and nobody fucking like comes after me to come after you.

We're the dummies.

It's awesome.

Oh, man.

I gotta start wearing pride stuff.

We

went to see

Top Gun and Jurassic Park.

Oh, tell me, how are they?

Top Gun

is exactly what you think it would be.

However, we have a cameraman.

You know, Rupert, of course, Brian Rupert.

Of course.

I think that we may be able to get government tax credits because he's soft in the head

and they'll reimburse us for some of what we pay him to work the cameras.

He's like, me work camera.

I couldn't believe because he went on and on, did he not, Walt?

He's a bad boy.

Which would be Top Gun?

Top Gun.

Yeah, he came into the store

when it was just me and him, and he was like, just couldn't stop talking about how great Top Gun or Maverick was called.

Right.

What it's called now.

He could not stop raving about it.

He said it was

a throwback to, you know, when movies were great.

Which I agree that it was like a little bit, not a lot, but a little bit like Cobra Kai, where

they sort of inject that flavor of the 80s that you don't really see anymore because of uh-oh, I think we just hung up on Q accidentally.

What?

One, two, one, two.

Can you hear me still, Q?

I hear you, yeah.

I hear you.

You can still hear us.

We just can't hear him.

Hold on.

Uh-oh.

Yeah, let me just.

And for everybody, I apologize, but since we're doing this so late in the day, this has to get out by Sunday night, all this shit's staying in.

It's so late in the day.

It's like fucking the crack of dawn.

We're talking about it.

Not for me.

For me, I'm fine, but if I send this on a Sunday, I hear some shit on

the other side of the world.

Like, oh, you're kidding me?

I've got a process and I've got to denounce it.

We understand.

That is my bad.

I had a very small window this week, so I'm sorry everybody had to sit through that.

He's better just shut his Irish trap and do what he's supposed to do.

That's what I say.

Fair enough.

Fair enough.

But yeah, it injected the flavor of the 80s, but not as much as Cobra Kai where Cobra Kai was almost like a real, like real fan service to those 80s movies.

Where this wasn't, I'm just like, it's the same fucking story.

Goose's fucking kid

is mad at

Tom Cruise because he got Goose killed or whatever.

Yeah.

And Top Gun.

So I'll just leave it to your imagination what happens with the relationship by the end of the fucking movie.

Oh, I'm sure there's lots of healing.

There's some healing going on.

Yeah.

Good, man.

Healing's good.

Yeah, but

I was completely shocked that Rupert loved it so much.

But

he's eager about everything, isn't he, though?

No, no.

No, not at all.

He comes down on a whole bunch of shit.

Does he?

Yeah.

All I hear is like, you know, he loves James Bond and he loves the Devils and he loves Top Gone.

And you saw Jurassic Park or Jurassic World.

I saw Jurassic World something or other.

I can't remember what it was.

That just came out, too, so you you must have seen with a packed audience.

You would think so.

But instead, because I'm like, I hate going to nighttime shows, I just don't want to deal with that many people.

I pulled Sage out of school.

I said, come on, we're going to go see Jurassic Park.

So we went and saw it.

And it was, I would say, there were in that big theater, the, you know, at Hazlitt, the one to the far left, the real big one,

easily,

I don't know, 300 seats.

I would say

25.

25.

But it's also play in like fucking seven different theaters in a 12-theater multiplex.

So they really sort of spread out the

ability to go and see it.

I don't know why they have it in so many, but.

Well, it's a fucking giant movie, man.

Yeah, maybe that many, though.

I mean, I guess if there aren't other movies that they can make as much, they're like, yeah, fuck it.

Let's just put them in all of them.

Yeah, you're right.

But it was enjoyable.

I mean, I liked the dinosaurs.

Yeah, I liked it.

It was a fun enough movie to go see.

It was way more fun than Top Gun.

Oh, wow.

I've noticed, I guess I haven't seen every Jurassic Park, but evidently, if you see a dinosaur, if you just put your hand up like this,

they will stay away from you.

You know, if you just kind of raise your arm to them, they'll stay away from you regardless.

You know, this.

Well, I mean, they stack the cast with characters that they can't kill any of them.

No.

Right.

So

that's the way I'm looking at it.

So the danger's got to be non-existent, right?

They're not going to kill fucking Dr.

Iam Malcolm or whatever his name is.

They're just not doing it, right?

Yeah.

No, and it's like story is, and just to make sure you're sitting down for this evil white capitalist,

a trifecta, who's trying to ruin the world's grain supply so that he can step in with his genetically modified grain and feed the world.

Like, if he regular, if he ruins regular grain with this plague of super prehistoric locusts,

then

he'll be able to take over the world's grain supply.

Plucked from today's headlines.

Yeah.

Right.

We got no grain.

I mean, well, no, I'm just talking about evil, evil corporations and evil people doing evil shit.

I can't believe there's anything new they can do at Jurassic Park.

What new spin spin can they possibly offer this many

chapters into this fucking saga?

Only new dinosaurs.

Only new dinosaurs.

I mean,

how about a human-dinosaur hybrid?

What did he say?

Like a wise-cracking

Veloci human.

Yeah, like a wise-cracking Velociruman.

You wouldn't watch that?

I would have to see it.

You're right.

So a half man, half dinosaur?

Yeah, or like Ian Malcolm fucks a Velociraptor, and out comes like a half, like, what's the actor's name?

Jeff Goldblum.

I can't remember.

It's so early.

Jeff Goldblum.

And Velociraptor.

And then they get Jeff Goldblum in the makeup with the snout.

You know what I mean?

Oh, it's an ode to the fly?

Yeah, there you go.

Like,

they do that.

They do kind of like a fly.

Did they do that, Broy?

Unfortunately.

No.

Your idea is still green.

That's my pitch for the next Jurassic Park, a wise cracking Velocity human.

If they had done that, I would have stayed for the next showing as well.

I would have been like, I can't believe what I just saw.

You know, he's got a hat to the side.

He's got like a pride hat to the side, you know?

Skateboards.

But yeah, my feeling was

there just can't be anything new

worth sitting in

another Jurassic Park movie.

What more can they do at this point that I haven't seen?

Not much, judging from

what I've just watched.

But it was enjoyable enough.

It's like I went in knowing exactly what it was going to be.

And even with Rupert

blathering on, I didn't have high expectations for Top Gun.

I didn't think, oh my God, I'm going to love it as much as he does.

Oh.

What is he shit on?

I'm so curious.

What's he what?

What does he shit on?

I'm curious.

Oh,

he shits on a lot of things.

Let's not be like Rupert, though.

Let's be positive.

That's right.

It's our month.

It's Pride Month.

You're right.

Don't be like Rupert.

We're going to have shirts for sale soon.

Don't be like Rupert.

I think, Brian, that we need to have a talk.

But this brings up this Rupert, because, you know, Rupert, technically, he's an employee, right?

True.

And

I'm seeing that we have employee issues, me and you, Brian.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah,

I was on

Chuck's Instagram.

Did you catch this?

I did not.

He's on Instagram, and he's talking about how Kevin wanted him to come and shoot something Sunday.

So he shot something.

He shot Sunday Drive 2, then went to Kevin.

And then it comes down to this, Bri.

I don't know how we feel about this.

I thought maybe we should talk to Chuck and see if there's an issue.

Because he says, if you come into the world that you love, that's been pre-established years before you were there.

This is on Chuck's Instagram.

And

I'm not ripping on Chuck.

This is on me and you, Bri.

Okay.

Like, I don't want to hear anybody going after Chuck.

This is on you and me.

If you come into the world that you love, like tell him Steve Dave, the Ask universe, blah, blah, blah, it's easy to feel left out, not wanted, and like you're not really a part of it.

It's something no one really talks about.

But in in the world of creative work, I think this feeling is extremely common.

It's not cool to admit this, but I suffer from insecurity.

Walt, with Tell him, Steve, Dave, and Kevin have gone out of their way to make me feel

over the years, Kevin's really made me feel like part of the team, like he likes me and like he thinks I should be there.

Walt and Kevin have both gone out of their way to make me feel this way, and it's hard for me to express how much that means to me.

So, the only thing that I can get from that, Brian, is that you and I have not gone out of our way to make Chuck feel welcome.

In fact, it seems like you and I are just reinforcing some sort of insecurity issue with Chuck.

Or, or we could look at it this way:

Kevin's a professional actor.

Walt's good enough to be a professional actor, as we saw in Comic Book, Man.

They're just pretending to like him.

We're keeping it real.

No, but wait, that's my problem.

I don't have a problem with Chuck at all.

I like Chuck.

No, me neither.

Yeah, so it felt not that I, and this is what I'm saying, not that I've done anything with Chuck to deserve being listed up here with Walt and Kevin.

I haven't.

You didn't feel slighted?

No, in fact, I felt he put a spotlight on maybe the way that I've treated Chuck.

So he called you out.

Well, he did by not calling me out in a way.

Well, here's,

can I just, I know, I know where you're feeling.

And I think that the reason he singles me out

is because, you know,

when he was ill and when he was having some back issues, I loaded up my car,

two o'clock in the morning, and I was like, I'm coming down there.

I'm going to get, I'm going to, I'm going to grab you, and we're going to go to wherever the doctor that's seven hours away, and I'm going to drive you there.

And I, come on,

I used to

you ain't doing that, come on.

Wait a second, you ain't doing that.

Did you do it?

No, he was.

He just said he was going to do it.

I had my shit packed.

I was like, I'll stay with you in the room.

I'll, you know, I'll be there.

I'll be there 24-7, you know, and I'll stay and I'll bring you to the hospital.

Let's go.

I'm going to come get you right now.

And he had to call me, like, no, no, no, I appreciate it.

But like,

I was ready, man.

I had jumped out of bed.

My wife was like, where are you going?

I was like, Chuck needs me to drive him to Rhode Island.

I was going to go to Staten Island first and then drive him to Rhode Island in the back of my car.

I think it's Long Island, not Rhode Island.

No, no, back to Rhode Island.

He's Rhode Island.

That's where he got his.

I was hoping I caught Walton something.

This is another example of why.

This is why you're not getting caught out.

You're trying to poke holes in an unbelievably fucking amazing amazing story of humanity.

You're trying to find some reason to be like it can't be true.

But guess what?

It's fucking all true.

And that's why I get these shout-outs.

I don't like getting called out like this on Instagram.

Not to mention, Kev wouldn't give him a ride all the way to London.

Yeah, come on.

He wouldn't either.

So Kev made a fucking black and white movie 50 years ago, and Chuck's going to fucking blow him to this day?

How's that right?

How are we even supposed to know he needs to go to the hospital?

Because you haven't fucking gotten any fucking contact with the guy.

You don't know the real man.

You don't know what he's doing.

He moved to Staten Island.

He moved to my neighborhood.

He didn't come by with a pie to introduce himself.

He didn't come to do anything like that.

Nothing like that.

I've been waiting for Chuck to reach out to me.

You should fire off a fucking angry Instagram post.

Yeah.

No, but joking aside, like that, it did, it

legitimately made me feel like I haven't done enough for Chuck.

It did.

It made me feel that way.

And I thought I had done a lot because I had followed him on Instagram and

I gave him a pizzeria suggestion on Snap.

I thought that I had that, like for me, that I was really putting myself out there with him, but it feels like I guess not.

I talk to Chuck every day.

Every day.

I know when something's bothering him.

I know when he's feeling good.

So, Chuck has your phone number.

Yeah.

And we talked.

We talked for hours.

That's a start cue.

That's how you could start contacting him.

Wow.

I mean,

I really felt like, one, Walt does deserve it.

I'm saying Chuck did nothing.

He did nothing wrong.

Walt deserves that public praise, but it made me feel a little bad that I hadn't done enough to make Chuck Chuck feel welcome.

Oh, that, I mean, I don't know why.

Yeah, you're a year's too late now.

Yeah, but I don't know why you automatically go to that

mindset.

Because

you're a busy man.

Your IJ career takes up so much of your time.

It's only natural that you wouldn't have as much time to

develop a relationship like me and Chuck have.

Yeah,

there are times I don't hear from this guy for like over a week.

I don't want to hear about Chuck.

All right.

You make me feel wanted first.

Yeah, but Kevin's busier than I am.

Kevin's definitely busier than I am, and he makes the time to get to know you.

I would not say that.

Like, you are fucking busy.

You're fucking swimming with sharks.

You're jet-setting.

You're here.

You're there.

You're everywhere.

You're forgetting, you're at ringside, at wrestling events, not just matches, events.

But Kevin does all that.

I think he's just such a pro at it that he makes it look easy.

Oh, definitely.

That's what I'm saying.

So I think that,

yeah, I think that

I just haven't been as warm to Chuck as I could have been or should have been.

And I intend to correct that.

Again, though, how often do you come into contact with him, though?

He buys him a car.

I don't know what else to do.

Here you go.

I don't know.

You know, I'm going to figure it out, Walt.

I'm on a mission now.

All right.

Yeah.

And, you know, and if anybody wants to read this, you could follow just to give Chuck social media, right?

Like, I'm going to give him a little bump right now.

Is that something that people want, though?

I don't know.

I'm so not a social media guy.

Like, so

people want more followers.

That's a good thing.

I think so.

Did you know that Chuck has a podcast called the Chuck and Brad Podcast?

Of course they do.

And they're on episode 573.

Yeah, they're more episodes in than we are.

They do live episodes and everything, too.

There you go.

I think if you go to www.chuckandbradpodcast.com, you're going to get a lot of entertainment from Chuck over there.

Well, how would you know?

Because

I've listened to 30 episodes since yesterday to

take up for this.

Yeah.

Well, does it make you think like

Chuck's taken, though, now?

Like he's taken by Kev and by Walt.

Maybe there's something else, somebody else we haven't been paying attention to.

Just don't lose that train of thought, though.

But think about why, again,

instead of getting hurt and fucking ass sore,

just think back 10 minutes prior to you even mentioning this, as Brian mentions Rupp, one of our other fine cameramen,

in a way that is totally fucking insulting.

And you're like,

why did I I get some fucking love online?

You just said he was,

that he was, that we would get

special

tax credits for the gun.

Yeah, soft in the head.

Soft in the head was what he said.

Yeah, and Ken Q Dinner protest.

Those may be the reasons why you're not getting the affection and

the positive

feedback from the guys

that work under you.

You're right.

I don't disagree.

Well, that's that's I know we're wrapping this up as a joke, Walt, but I'm telling you, I agree with what you're saying.

I do, I agree with what you're saying.

I think we have a great team

who perform for us, who deliver for us, and I haven't done enough to show that sort of appreciation.

Yeah, yeah, I wish you would.

Yeah, I think it's honorable, and I think it's the kind of man that you are, that your character, that you feel that way.

But it's also unfair for everyone to think, though, that that you can be

in on all the projects that go on and like and you would be and you would be have your finger on the pulse of everything.

We realize how busy you are and we don't expect that level of like like

of I appreciate that that kind of like where you're overseeing all this shit.

Like Chuck sent me a new

the first cut of a new project that's coming out.

And with that cut was a fucking massive amount of like notes and

thoughts and ideas and why he did the things he does.

He treats it with such professionalism, like our like little shenanigans, that it blows my mind.

It blows my mind.

And that's like, that's why I'm fucking like, Chuck, I'm getting in the car.

I'm taking you to Rhode Island.

I'm going to sit with you while you get your epidural.

I'm going to fucking hold your hand and with my shirt on, with my devil's shirt on, proud, and I'm going to be there for you.

And, you know, and I'm not going to let anybody in the room to bug you like even his nobody not even the doctor

get the fuck out of here

but those are the you know like that appreciation and that level of like wow I mean if he if he can do that for us yeah the least I can do is like you know what I'm coming up there and we're gonna go now and but you know he waved me off though but I was willing to do it I was ready to do it

how did he wave you off was he like that's okay?

Like, was he weirded out?

I got a little weirded out.

It's like, because I'm like, it's two o'clock in the morning.

I'm like, all right, I'm on my way.

I just wrote, I'm on my way.

Well, you know, we used to have, like, in the, you know, back in the firehouse, we used to have like kind of like boys' nights out.

We would all like go to a bar, we'd put money on the bar, we'd drink.

It's like when the new guys came in, it'd be like a bonding thing, right?

Right.

So I'm going to suggest like a TESD

like staff night out.

We have a nice night out.

Does it have to go out?

It doesn't have to.

Look, Walt, we could do the bowling alley in Airport Plaza.

Oh, yeah.

Like, we don't have to go crazy, but I think that's a good thing.

You know what?

There's not a bowl there.

There's not balloons.

That's what happened the last time we went bowling.

No, no, no, no.

But we tried to film it last time.

I'm talking about give the boys the day off

and just hang and talk to them, get to know them, their hopes, their dreams.

You know what I mean?

What they're looking for.

Maybe get their names straight.

You know, stuff like that.

Details like that.

And that was a joke.

Yeah, but we've mentioned, I also want to mention Victor, of course, and we haven't mentioned the other member of our

media team.

Is that what it's called?

Media team?

Or

our team

who helped create the content?

The crack team of cameramen and audio cameras.

We've mentioned Ruff and Chuck, and of course, there's Victor.

I don't want to leave Victor out.

Can't leave Alex out.

Alex is here to let.

Yeah, Alex.

You want to leave Alex out.

I don't know what Alex does other than just sit and laugh.

Which is fine.

You know, he's more than welcome to come.

But I'm not, I mean, I don't know what Victor has Alex doing.

Yeah, that's true.

I don't want to.

But if he is doing something, you know what?

He's doing it well.

You can go bowling.

It sounds to me, Bri, it sounds to me like you and I got Victor.

Like we can work on him, make him as.

Walt doesn't even know what he's up to.

We just got to figure out what he's up to as well, and then celebrate it.

Yeah, and he's also dismissing his brother so he can use that again.

Oh, that's perfect.

Yeah,

you guys gotta go about this.

Every way you think you think you should go about this, do it the exact opposite.

Come on, Victor, we're going to Rhode Island.

So, so, so, you don't like that idea of like a social night out for the no, no, I think that's a good idea.

I meant the way you're going to like engrace yourself to Victor was like try to turn him against me.

I would

leave that one holstered.

You guys guys just have a weird way about going about things.

A real lack of like humanity.

I'm not sure if you know what Walt said about you, Victor.

You know, Victor, Walt said he was wearing that pride shirt for you.

I don't know what that postpones is.

He's making all kinds of cracks.

So,

yeah, I don't know.

So, Walt, did you see that post from him?

I did not see it.

I mean, like I said, I just rolled out of bed, dude.

You fucking got me up at 11 o'clock.

I didn't even have time to check my phone, let you know, let alone eat lunch before I got here.

Like I said, I'm dragging.

Well, what did you do?

What did you end up doing for your anniversary?

28 years.

Went to the big city, which I hate.

Which you hate?

I hate the big city.

I hate the big city.

I was up there recently, too.

I can't stand it either.

It's disgusting.

Where'd you go in the big city?

What's the big city to you guys?

Manhattan.

Oh, okay.

Where'd you go?

I went to see Beetlejuice on Broadway.

How much fun was that?

It was

amazing.

It was a 10 plus.

It was a $10.

It was every accolade I could throw at it.

It was so, so good.

I agree.

I agree.

It's a really fun show.

They kind of nailed it.

You saw it as well, I'm assuming then, right?

Yeah, I saw it.

I saw it.

The dude

who was Betelgeuse, do you know him?

Because in his credits, he says he was on IJ.

Yeah, Alec.

Yeah,

he's been on our show.

I've hung out with a few times.

I like him, text with him every once in a while.

A little bit more than I've given Chuck for sure.

He was amazing.

He's amazing.

Yeah.

Brightman, he's the best.

What did he do on IJ?

There was a punishment where, well, he's been on twice so far, I think, but the main one was there's a punishment where they did a musical about my life, and all the guys from the firehouse were in the audience.

Oh, okay.

He was the one that was on stage, like narrating the story about my life and stuff like that.

But he's just a great guy.

He's such a great, he's a really funny dude.

But yeah, he's so good in that role as Beetlejuice.

They spared no expense either, man.

You could tell they put a lot into that production and it shows, and it was

standing ovation for five minutes.

Yeah, I believe it.

It's legit great.

And then, and I like how they kept it mean and nasty and dark.

They didn't sand off the edges at all.

No, there's a lot of jokes that are like, you know, you would not expect to hear in, you know, in today's

atmosphere, like of like where jokes can really go south on you if you're not careful.

And they had a few.

You know,

they had some of those pedophile jokes and stuff.

It's hard to make a good joke, a pedophile joke and make people laugh.

But they're fair game.

You can take any shots.

But you're one of the groups that aren't protected.

But when you're making jokes about, you know, it's children, you know, being molested, it's

you've got to be really good at your craft.

And it's not like that it's off-screen, isn't it?

That little girl walks up to the front door and stuff.

Yes.

It's not like they make a joke about it.

They play it out.

And

that's interesting that you called her a little girl because

it's a woman playing the role of a little girl, but she did it so well, you thought of her as a little girl.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Great, great, great, great production.

And like I said, I gave it a, everybody else gave it a five-minute standing ovation.

I sat there for at least eight while everybody was walking out.

I still was clapping.

Yeah.

Wait, so you never stood up.

You just.

No, I stood up.

Oh,

but I didn't stand up.

Oh, you gave it an extra three.

Yeah, I gave it an extra three minutes while everybody else was like, oh, I got to get to the fucking train.

Wow.

I want to get the fuck out of this shit all.

Hey, Brian, what do you think?

If you're interested, buddy, maybe I can get three tickets for me, you and Chuck.

Maybe we can go.

Go see some Beetlejuice?

Yeah.

I would check it out.

All right.

I'll get on him.

I'll see when Chuck's available.

Does anybody have his number or an email?

Now, you guys don't want me there.

Shower Chuck with attention.

You guys don't want me there.

It sounds like.

You already saw it.

Walt.

You already saw it.

I think it's funny.

You guys haven't thought of Chuck in fucking months, and all of a sudden he writes something, and now it's all you can think about.

Because he had the fucking gall to not include your names.

No, I'm telling you, I agree with you.

The problem is us, not him.

I mean that.

Yeah.

I'm desperate to fix this.

But he really kind of put us on blast.

Yeah, it was shaming by omission for sure.

And that's the thing.

He knows I follow him on Instagram.

He knows what a big deal he is.

He follows him on Instagram.

Yeah, in my face.

But I deserve it.

But But I fucking deserve it.

I do.

I just didn't know there was that level of animosity simmering beneath the surface like that.

Yeah, for so long, too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Who knows?

I'm going to get a shirt with his face on it.

Wear it on IJ.

Put a rainbow filter over it and wear it on IJ.

Guys, again, this is veering off.

Veering off into a way.

If you really want to fix this,

do you really want to make it better?

You're right.

You're right, you're right.

You two alone, left to your own devices.

This is why you don't get the love.

Because you just see,

you guys get together in a room, and it just becomes you guys

doing what you guys do, as you always have.

He's right.

He's more right than he knows.

I'm seeing the shirt.

I'm seeing you wearing it.

I'm seeing the word sad underneath it.

I can't breathe.

You have to take a break.

I'm crying.

I'm crying.

We're the fucking problem.

We've always been the problem.

We were the assholes?

It took us this long to realize we're the assholes.

It took a post by Chuck for us to figure out decades.

Oh, God, I'm crying.

I thought we were the judges, but we're not.

We're just the assholes.

Everybody's looking at us totally differently.

Oh, my God.

That's so funny.

So you saw Beetlejust, did you eat up there in the beginning?

I did.

I did eat.

Wow.

Eat at a wonderful place.

I immediately Googled it to see if it was any chance on the planet there was one in Jersey.

There isn't, but it was called Juniors

Bakery and Cheesecake Place.

Junior's Cheesecake, yeah.

Had a very retro-style feel to it, like a 50s.

I think we're all.

Yeah, it's right.

There's one right in Times Square, right?

No, you don't have me?

This is all going to be in there just so you guys know.

You got me?

Yep, we got you back.

Okay, all right, all right.

Sorry.

You keep fucking it up.

Q, have you ever tried Juniors?

Yeah, well, the original Juniors is in Brooklyn.

It was like a family-owned place, and they've sort of expanded.

I've been to the one in Times Square, but yeah, Juniors

is pretty famous, man.

That's good food.

I couldn't believe it when they brought out plain steak fries.

Because usually in New York, it's like, oh, we got a fucking wow you with all these fucking.

garnishes and seasons and nothing is fucking plain.

But you know what?

Juniors was fucking

heavenly plain.

Yeah, it was a really good, it was a good day.

Man, congratulations.

Happy anniversary, bro.

Yeah, good on you.

30 years coming up.

That's crazy.

I'm going on a cruise, so I don't know if I probably won't be around next weekend.

Well, I definitely won't be around.

I don't know if I can Skype in from the

might be less reliable feed than Q from Staten Island today.

We might have to do a Space Monkeys queue to try to figure out all this fucking hate directed towards us.

I think we just let Chuck sit in for the episode and lost with Chuck and get to the bottom of this.

I'll give you his number so you guys can contact him.

Give it to Brian.

Give it to Brian.

Okay.

I forgot.

I'm texting him.

I'm going to fucking, we're going to do it.

It's going to be great.

Can't wait.

So next week, TSD, well, Space Monkeys with special guests.

Special guest Chuck.

This is going to be.

Yeah.

We owe it to him.

He's such an important part of the world.

The least we can do for old Chuck.

We didn't bring him to

Rhode Island.

We didn't.

What did you end up doing instead of bringing him to Rhode Island?

Did you visit him?

Did you ever go visit him?

I

seriously, I know you'll say, like, oh, like, I'm lying, but I seriously was going to just show up and visit him, but I saw that dress like a clown.

Hey, Chuck, I hear you now.

It's me, the clown.

He's Patch Adams from Marketing Red Nose.

But I really was

not sure that he was going to be in the hospital.

He was going to make it.

No, that he was going to be in the hospital for as long as he was.

So when he was in there longer than two days, I was like, well, he can't possibly be in there another day.

By the time I get up there, he may have been already dismissed.

He's already back in Staten Island.

Well, he's already out, at least out of the hospital, though.

And I didn't know if that would be too strange for me just to to show up.

He's not feeling great.

He's in a terrible amount of pain.

And then he's got to

deal with me just walking in out of the blue.

You think he was hallucinating from painkillers?

Wall

demanding to see his charts and stuff like that.

No, no, no, no, no.

This dosage is much too high.

Yeah, but I'm going out on a cruise with Frank Five next week.

Q.

Whoa, where you going?

Where are you cruising to?

You don't want to say.

Oh, no, absolutely.

I'll say Bahamas.

Bermuda.

Bermuda.

I don't know.

One of the B's.

Did you

know what it is?

Yeah.

Well, I looked it up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We asked Brian to go.

He couldn't go, but it was Bermuda.

Damn it.

I've been telling everybody Bahamas.

Bermuda.

Bermuda's great.

You're going to love it, bud.

I've actually been there one other time about 10 years ago.

So, yeah, I'm looking forward to going.

I'm just going to get out on that deck.

that Lilo.

Is that what they call it?

The Lilo deck?

I think so, right?

Yeah, is that what I don't know?

They had a learning.

I believe you're right.

On the love boat, they call it.

God forbid that you're wrong, and I'm going to take the heat for it.

Here, another stupid thing Johnson did.

Yeah, but I am going to relax and I am not going to do much of anything.

I'm going to turn this brain off, and I'm just going to vegetate for five straight days.

That's the way to do it.

There's going to be moss on my brain

when I get back.

It's good to hear.

Yeah, Sage ruined my chances of going because she's

graduating from middle school during the time that Walt, like, by the way during the time the

cruise is taking place.

You would have gone had not that be the case?

We would have gone.

Oh, man.

We would have been hanging on the Lilo deck with moss on my brain, just like Walt.

I think you do that.

You do that with your volcano every night.

Do you really need to do that on the boat, too?

Hey, Mary Beth, I'm going to get mossy brained.

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Now let's Q get back on here.

Oh, Mr.

BQ, get him back.

Keep losing him today.

Hello.

You there?

Yeah, you got me?

Okay, yep, we got you.

All right.

Did you guys see?

What's that?

That should be the end of the problem, so I apologize.

I figured out what was going on.

Okay.

Yep.

Did you guys see the Munsters trailer?

I did.

Or a teaser or whatever?

What did you think?

Does it give you high hopes?

Or does it give you low hopes?

Like I said,

I'm going to go with high hopes.

I always go with, you know, that's the new way I think we should address

everything in this world with high hopes.

And if you're disappointed, you know, I'm not saying you have to

try to delude yourself that

everything is awesome if it's not, but at least give it a shot before saying like,

you know, before poo-pooing it.

I poo-pooed it a little bit.

Did you?

Why?

Because I can't stand Sherry Moon zombie.

I don't think she's a good actress.

And to put her in a role like that.

She's playing Lily, right?

Playing Lily, yeah.

Maybe she'll do it.

Maybe she'll pull it off.

Maybe.

I do like Daniel Roebuck.

So him is Grandpa Munster.

I like him a lot.

Who is he?

Daniel Roebuck.

He's been.

He was in one of those CSI shows or NCIS, but he was.

I know who you're talking about.

He's Grandpa.

River's Edge.

Yeah, he's going to be Grandpa.

Big shoes to fill.

Grandpa Munster was.

He was the guy.

He was the best.

Al Lewis, man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I have a Bunster's pinball machine.

Walt.

You should come play it.

I would love to come up and play it.

How many people meet Chuck?

How many pinball machines you got now?

Now, everything includes Chuck.

I have seven pinball machines.

That's...

That's a downright.

That's an arcade.

That's an arcade.

That's an or a pinball museum.

Yeah.

Well, one of them, to be fair, one of them is my friend's that he doesn't have room for, so he I'm sitting on it.

So I have six, but there's seven here for you to play, Walt.

All right, I would love to come up and play just play some pinball.

Let's do it.

All right, I love this.

This is great.

This is fucking team building.

I love this.

Everybody, when's the last time you've been at a Q's house?

It's been years, huh?

Well, we were up there.

We filmed,

not filmed, but we did some stuff in his library.

Remember, we recorded some stuff in his library?

Yeah, years ago.

That was pre-pandemic.

Yeah,

I'm with Walt, man.

Like,

I'm trying to approach everything with positivity.

So maybe it'll be good.

Who knows?

Two-thirds of Tell him Steve Dave approaching things with positivity.

Now, negativity has worked out so well for me that

I'm loath to try to change up my way of thinking.

How do you do it, though?

How do you start thinking that positively?

I know I'm not the guy.

Like, look, Chuck, I like you.

You know that if you're listening,

but it would never occur to me to be like, oh, your back's hurt.

I'm going to drive you seven hours after, like, there's just no fucking way.

It's just like, not that I'm like, fuck him, I wouldn't do it.

It's just like, it would just never occur to me.

I'd be like, I'll bring it down to Mammoth Medical.

If, you know, like, well, his doctor was in Rhode Island and he was mentioning, you know, that it was hard to drive with a back problem.

You feel like it would be better to take that, take that trip on your back.

So you can't drive yourself then if you got to lay down.

So you're going to throw him in the Jeep?

Throw them in.

I'll throw him in the Prius.

I'll put the seats down.

I

go rent

a sedan.

Whatever it takes.

Whatever.

Ambulance.

Takes.

Steal an ambulance.

Come on, Chuck.

I'm not going to let this happen to you.

But how did he eventually get up there?

He drove himself.

Eventually, he just like, I get, you know, because he's like, same way I would have did it.

I I would have been like, no, no, no, I can do it.

I, you know, I don't want to be in an inconvenience or impose on you, or that's way too much of me to ask.

So I would just do it.

I would just, you know,

put a belt on my mouth and bite it and

do it myself.

Just like, you know, but, you know, I wish that he had allowed me to

bring him up there.

Now, are you doing all these nice things?

I do, but this goes on constantly.

This is fucking all day long, not just with Chuck.

With Giddem?

Get him?

Oh, yeah.

Well, there's no doubt I don't have the same problem with Getham that I have with Chuck.

But Getham knows I love him.

Like,

when Giddem's house burned down, I was in the lawn crying with him.

I helped bury the kid.

Like, get him knows he's my boy.

Chuck doesn't yet.

He will, though.

He will.

Chuck's house burned down, too.

Where the fuck were you?

I don't know.

We didn't know Chuck did, though.

Oh, that's true.

Okay, you got a pass for that.

I mean, we would have did a fucking

special episode for Chuck if we had known him back when he had the fire.

We would have did,

we would have did all the, we would have gone all out just like we do for all our boys.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we so hopefully his house will burn down soon and we'll be able to show that.

The whole apartment building.

Everyone's displaced.

So you can be like, Chuck, let me go to a hotel room for you for a night or two.

Any cats dying there, Chuck?

He's like, why do you seem happy?

I'm like, what?

No, no, no, no, no, no.

There was an award given.

I read this in the New York Post.

Outraged mom claims teacher shamed son with zero award in class.

A Mississippi woman was fighting tears after

her son's school allegedly.

Oh my God.

This is why you're getting those fucking,

you know, people are calling you out for making.

Well, marble mouthed.

I know you're right.

A Mississippi woman was fighting tears after her son's school allegedly shamed him by giving him a zero award in class.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Blah, blah, blah.

She first realized something was awry after she picked him up from school.

Now this kid is, he looks like he's about eight or something.

I don't know why they don't tell you how old he is right away.

But anyway, he's a younger kid.

He looks like he's like maybe in third grade, something like that.

But she gave, the teacher gave him a zero award.

This is a piece of paper that calls him a zero and has his name on it and the words, it's impossible to be me.

Don't try.

You'll never find a solution.

Wow.

This is really like, you know, somebody who does not

deserve or should be removed from her position as a teacher.

You don't single somebody out like that.

How the fuck?

I could see that happening in our day.

Somebody giving like one of our teachers doing that to us.

Me and Brian, Q, we lived in the era still where you could be dunced with the cap.

Yep.

Oh, so did I.

I was, I mean, I was, I was in elementary school in like the 80s, bro.

I got shit said to me that shouldn't have been said for sure.

I'm with you.

In that, my friends, we're in the same generation.

Did you get threatened?

Like, did you, did they threaten it with, you know, putting it on the desk and being like, you you might have to wear this like we were threatened like we could see the dunce cap with the words on it uh there was an actual dunce cap used not on not on me thank god but uh

but yeah they had a they they like a teacher made a dunce cap put it on this kid vinny dude it's so fucked but i had a teacher say some pretty fucking mean shit to me and i and i told my parents i remember my mother wrote a letter and and she was like give this to her and i was so nervous to give it to the teacher so i just walked in and i think like in retrospect, I was probably looked like a little badass, but I was terrified because I walked in, threw it on the desk, and walked out.

But I was just terrified to be delivering, like, serving my teacher with an angry letter from my mother.

Yeah.

I'm surprised.

Like, it's interesting.

Like, well, I mean, I remember you saying it years ago that you were like, you're like, I'm surprised that people still do the things they do.

Yeah.

Where you're like,

at at no point did it occur to this lady, like, if I call this kid a zero and I write it, if I even say it, four kids at least are going to have it on their phones, probably the whole fucking class.

But if I write it down on a certificate and then send it home with them and I'm like, kid, you're a zero.

It's like, you're asking to be fired.

Yeah.

You're begging to be fired.

And there is a greater

chance

than ever that it's going to go viral.

Oh, sure.

And you're going to

shamed and deservedly, and you're going to take it on the chin for

the whole country to say you're you're unfit to be in that classroom.

The student said I was feeling sad, and I didn't really want to give it to her.

Kind of like you, Q.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't want to be in the middle of this shit, but what are you going to do?

And I must have been like six or seven when that.

Well, how old are you in like third grade or fourth grade?

Yeah, probably like six somewhere in there.

That was a nine-year-old child dealing with that.

Yeah,

it's actually depressing me thinking about it now.

Like, I'm feeling like the same kind of shame that I felt when the teacher

singled me out right now.

I'm feeling it in my stomach.

It's coming back.

Where's Chuck to reach out to?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

What a bummer, man.

Yeah, you got to protect these kids.

Do you remember the teacher's name?

No.

If I would, believe me, I would say it.

You'll put her on blast.

I would.

I would do it if I remembered her name.

I would fucking call her out, but I can't because I don't remember her name.

Well, you know what?

You showed her, though.

I did.

Yeah, who got the last laugh?

Oh, yeah.

You're happy to wear that dunce cap now.

You're wearing good money.

Yeah.

You paid a fucking small fortune to wear it.

Guess what?

I'm a professional asshole.

Thanks, teacher.

I remember Walt almost getting smacked by

our gym teacher.

Almost.

I did get smacked.

I thought you deflected it with your arm.

That's a good one.

No, I turned.

Or turned your head away.

I went with, like, turned my head with the blow, so it was a glancing blow.

But as far as he was concerned,

he was swinging for the fucking

fences.

Yeah, he didn't look like he was giving you a little love tuck.

And he was a Christian guy, too.

He was like a Christian

gym teacher.

Sometimes the Christians, their first reaction is to fucking

high school.

I got slapped by priests twice.

Yeah, it's weird that their first, you know, isn't to like soothe and hug.

It's more to like fucking start boxing.

Yeah.

I mean, these were the people who raised me.

Can't Chuck understand that?

That I have a hard time

showing emotion in that way.

i got into uh

i'd say a shouting match yesterday with uh with the wife no is this the first fight since uh the you know the honeymoon's over uh i think so i think

yeah

i think like looking back on like maybe it wasn't all her it was just

one of Sage's friends had a sweet 16 party, right?

Slash graduation party.

I don't want to go.

You shouldn't be expected to go.

I'm a man, right?

Yeah, dude.

That's that, you know, like give the kid her space.

It's a gal thing.

Yeah, you don't need, you don't need to be there.

You know, I was feeling bad up until right now.

I was like, afterwards, after I did, because I'm like,

I said something, what they say, Sunday.

So it was yesterday.

So I said something Friday night about her going.

She's like, well, you're going too, right?

And I was like, no, that's like, that's for the ladies and the kids and stuff.

And it was.

Well, can I ask you something before you continue?

When you say it's for the ladies and the kids, was the expectation that she would go with Sage?

Yes.

Okay, I think I'm starting to see the genesis of the fight here then.

Well, she's gone to other things.

Like, I've gone to a couple parties with Sage's best friend because I like her dad.

He's a cool guy, so I don't mind hanging out and talking to him.

But again, generally, he's the only guy there, and then it's a bunch of ladies.

Sage's Sweet 16 party.

Bunch of ladies, teachers, and teachers' aides and all this other shit.

So I'm like, I don't really want to go.

And she's like, you're going to make me go by myself and i'm like yeah it's two hours but she was she like leans on this social anxiety thing which she doesn't have it but she doesn't have as much anymore because of her medication phrasing she leans on it

thing on her thing

you know so uh so i was just like so then Instead of just being

the fucking man and being like, look, I'm not fucking going.

You either bring her in or she doesn't go either, I guess.

Oh, you threw that ultimate meal.

Oh, I guess Sage isn't going then.

No, I didn't.

That's what I should have done.

Oh, okay.

What I did do was fucking huff and puff and be like, fine, then I'll fucking go and I'll be the only fucking guy there.

Will that make you happy?

Bye, babe,

so I really laid into her.

And she was yelling back at me, and she's crying, and Sage is in the back seat, she's all upset.

And like, I hate doing that.

Like, I, I, this is really literally the first argument I've gotten into with Marybeth in front of Sage, so she doesn't know how to to process it.

So then I have to calm down.

And eventually we get there

to the party.

And I'm like, see, there's no fucking guys here.

I knew there wouldn't be any fucking guys here except for like the

girl's dad, who I don't even know.

So she's like, fine, you can leave.

But like, then I'm like, no, I'll stay, you know, like I'm being that kind of fucking shit.

Until like, I'm like, well, this really works against me if I just like maintain the stubborn, like, no, I'm staying.

I'm going to have a fucking shitty time.

So, I left.

And when I came back, I could not believe how many guys were there.

Oh,

no.

I couldn't fucking believe it.

I was like, I told her, I was like, I have to concede.

I never thought this many men,

if you want to call them that,

go to a girl's sweet 16 party.

Like, it just doesn't seem like if you're the dad, I understand why you would be there.

Like, I was at Sage's.

But I don't want to go to her friend's fucking Sweet 16 party.

I don't want to do it.

That's all.

That's all it comes down to.

I just don't want to do it.

Why can't I just not want to do some stuff and then just not do it?

When it comes to shit like this, I think you're well within your rights to say, I don't want to go and I don't want to do it.

I think that when it escalates to anger,

then maybe you have a choice in front of you where you're like, is it worth this?

You know, upsetting Sage, upsetting her.

Yeah, well, I think what happened was I felt like I was in a position where I had no choice.

Right.

Like she was trying to make me go.

And then

nobody tells you what to do.

People can tell me what to do, I think.

But in a situation like that, where it's like, look,

I'm not, it's not, nobody's going to have a fucking better or worse time if I'm there, except for Mary Beth.

And even then,

she's supposed to be the most important person, though.

Yeah, I guess.

I don't know, bud.

You know, I usually like to take a side on everything, right?

Like, that's my standard.

Of course.

Because that's your normal stance.

On this one, I might have, if you would call me, I might have been like, you know what, Bri,

there's two sides to it.

I understand she knows who you are.

You know what I mean?

Like, she knows your capacity for things like this.

She knows you don't want to go.

She knows what it's going to mean if she tells you to go.

But at the same time, the woman did move across the country.

She genuinely loves Sage and takes care of Sage a lot.

You know what I mean?

I don't know if this one ask from her, given her history with Sage, she came in late.

You know what I mean?

She takes care of her.

She loves her like her own.

I don't know.

I might have advised you to just kind of,

I don't know, but give this one to her.

Like

five years ago, she was having fun working at her fucking Ruby Tuesdays, wherever, and now she's like taking Sage to a 16-year-old's.

I don't know.

I might have said just suck this one up and go.

Where the fuck were you yesterday?

Probably talking the best.

You didn't call me.

I was around.

I mean, I wasn't around.

I was in Pennsylvania, but you could have got me.

Oh, get him?

Yeah, sure.

Hold on just one second.

Oh, let me see if I can.

Oh, you don't need to set up a whole new mic.

All right, everybody, bear with us just a little bit.

Real quick, Q, I wanted to bring Giddam in for a second.

Okay, all right.

I do have to wrap it up.

You do have to okay, real, real quick then.

No, no, no.

Yeah, we can do this.

I just, yeah, I'm just getting a little bit.

Can you hear Q?

Yeah, you're Q.

Okay, come next to me to the mic because let's share this mic.

This is now,

this is like me

saying that, like, hey, I make mistakes too.

I fuck up.

You know, just like, you know, you guys are feeling a little shitty right now about what's going on with Chuck.

Yeah.

This man right here, right next to me, the guy that I call my work son, forgot his birthday the other day.

Oh, it was your birthday, Gedam?

Yes, yes, it was.

Oh, God.

Oh, my God.

Happy birthday, Getim.

Oh, I know you both know about it, though.

So

I got a birthday card and it was signed by both

and Brian Johnson.

I signed my whole name.

That's not bad.

That's not a bad signature, Walt.

I even got Sunday Jeff on there, too.

And Mink stopped by and signed it as well.

I'm guessing Walt saw him at Bellworks when he was walking around.

But you know what?

It's hard to pull off something like this when you're giving it to a guy with a 148 IQ.

He knew immediately that every signature on here but mine

was forged.

They were forged?

Well, Gidem, I got you a gift, but I just haven't seen you since your birthday.

Oh, yeah, yes, yes, I got you.

Which was

what?

It's like, what, three days ago, four days ago?

Time flies, you know, it's just 10, but.

I bet you it's in the calendar.

I bet you it's in my calendar.

What's the date, Giddam?

The 2nd.

June 2nd.

No, I did have lunch with Joe DeRosa that day, though.

Oh, my God.

That was in celebration of.

All right, hold on one second.

In fact, not only did he have lunch with Joe DeRosa, but they FaceTimed me

to say hello.

Yeah, we got pretty fucking hammered.

It wasn't a great day.

That looked like a lot of fun.

I was going to say, I'm sure someone had a beer in my honor.

Yeah, several, several.

All right.

Get him, birthday.

It's in here, bud.

He'll never get it.

I'll sign that card for you.

I got your gift.

Thank you.

So what'd you do?

Give him anything aside from decode signatures.

But isn't it the most special birthday card ever?

Because now you know that it was, you know, signed by one man, but with all those different signatures.

Walt, why wouldn't you just tell us that it was his birthday?

Like, it wasn't that hard to text us and be like, hey, I'm filling out a a card for him.

Because

how would that change the card, though?

But I could have texted him.

I could have been like, hey, bud, happy birthday.

I missed it too, though.

I'm saying that, like, hey, I fucked up, too.

I didn't know it was June 2nd.

I gave him a card on June 4th.

And I figured at that point,

it would be kind of like he would know that

I put you guys up to texting him.

Yeah, shit.

But you know what, though?

I tried to make up for it.

I don't know if it was like, you said, we didn't do anything.

We did something.

I brought two pieces of chocolate cake.

Yes, you did.

No, and I'm saying on my birthday, we didn't do anything.

Let's change it to June 4th when we celebrate it.

Legally.

I'm going to be in trouble next year when I got to renew my license.

We know two days too late.

It's my birthday now.

Did you hear the episode?

Can't you see the cake around my mouth?

My wife was so mad at me when I told her.

Because you forgot?

Yeah, and I was like, I don't know why a dude is supposed to know another dude's birthday.

I don't know when this became...

Well,

I guess when the world changed and everybody's feelings mattered,

like

dudes now had to be fucking not only know their wife's birthday or their girlfriend's birthday, but now every fucking person that they know, they have to fucking know their birthday.

Do you know how that came about?

Because Facebook reminds you.

So everybody's on fucking, not everybody, like us, but everybody's on Facebook, and it's like, oh, it's Giddam's birthday.

And that's how when I get texts from people on my birthday, I'm like, they're definitely on Facebook.

There's no fucking way they remembered this.

I still have to go back and thank everyone who posted on my wall on my birthday.

Is Q gone?

Oh, okay.

No, no, I'm listening.

Oh, okay.

It looks like you were frozen.

He's looking at me in amazement.

Yeah, I feel bad, you know, but I don't feel bad because I don't really remember many people's birthdays.

So I, you know,

you got to accept my flaws.

Look, friendship's a two-way street.

You got to accept my flaws, you know?

I do.

And we do.

We do.

Absolutely, we do.

You're the victim now.

All this is going to be made better at fucking the Tell him Steve Dave bowling.

Yeah, we're going to have a bowling night with

not filming it.

It's like it's going to be no cameras.

Everybody's off the clock, and we just come and hang and connect and real like

building experience, bonding.

All right.

Do you have shirts?

Yeah.

No.

No.

Don't worry about gifts.

Do I got cards?

No,

I would chip in for a shirt, but I'd be cool to have matching shirts.

No, you don't need to.

It's about fellowship.

Yes.

That's all it's about.

Yeah, they had that special pin.

Hey, you know what, Get him?

If your heart is telling me that we should have a special pin for this Tell him Steve Dave night out, I think we should do it, buddy.

Like a nice little pin.

Who's getting that pin made?

That usually falls into your lap.

That kind of shit.

Now you're in charge of pins.

I thought Gidham was volunteering to do it.

He sounded like he wanted to do it.

No, you don't want to do it?

Oh, well, then fuck it.

And for your birthday, Giddam, I will cover the cost of your bowling shoes rental.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

There you go, pal.

On it.

On it.

But this is, again, this is just showing that we, like, tell them, Steve, Dave, you got to, like, there's warts.

There's definitely warts, but you know what?

Those warts, though, you know,

are far and few between, though.

Right?

I mean,

I don't know.

Yeah, you think so?

I mean, we're getting called out publicly on Instagram.

You think that's hardly visible?

Called out for not knowing words.

Called out on Instagram.

Called out for this and that.

I'm even calling you out for the fucking Sweet 16.

This isn't great, man.

I know.

There's too much accountability around here.

I don't like it.

Tell him, Steve, Dave.