Regulation Podcast - F**kface Blindside

Episode Date: June 17, 2023

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Let's go seize the night. That's the powerful backing of American Express. Visit amex.ca slash yamex. Benefits vary by car and other conditions apply. Hello and welcome to what these idiots think is another episode of the F*** Face Podcast. It should be 158, but it's not episode 158. It's a brand new show that we're doing on F*** Face called Blindside. Gavin and Andrew, guess what? You just got blindsided.

Eric? Is this a fever dream? What? Is this related to jungle? Congratulations. You thought we were going to be doing another episode of the F*** Face Podcast, but we're not. We're going to be playing Blindside. It's a new show where I have you watch something and you don't have a fucking choice. You have to watch it with me. Today, we're going to be watching the 1986 episode, season 2, episode 16 from January 31st, 1986 of Mr. Belvedere. It is called Wesley's Friend. That's all I'm going to tell you.

Wait a second. We can go ahead and get started. Oh, no. I had a few questions before. Please. Was this what we were supposed to do last week? Yes, it is. This has been moved three times. So that's why.

You guys have been blindsiding me over and over and over again, and you have no idea. Just been mad about this for weeks. That's why you've refused to put less than two calendar invites in every week since this. I have been so mad. I was so mad when Andrew was. We were right there about to do it, and Andrew said, I don't feel like doing two today. Which is fine.

You were sick. I understood. And then Eric changed the fucking schedule from yesterday to today because he had family from out of town. A show where I blindside you idiots with something and instead you blindsided me over and over to the point where I almost didn't want to fucking do it anymore. But I say it's today or nothing. We're going to watch Mr. Belvedere together.

All I'm telling you about this episode is that it's called Wesley's Friend. Have you ever seen Mr. Belvedere? Andrew? No, but the name sounds very familiar for some reason. Gavin? No, I feel like I've heard the name, never seen a single frame of it. Nick? Not even a little bit, no.

Eric? Yes. Okay. It ran for six seasons. It was on ABC. It ran from like 1984 to 1990. So like those six seasons. And this is season two.

The premise of Mr. Belvedere is this guy, Mr. Belvedere, is a British gentleman who comes over to America. He used to work for, I think, Winston Churchill. He comes over to America, and he becomes like a butler, like house helper for this American family. The dad is Bob Euchre. He's like a butler like house helper for this american family of the dad is bob euchre he's like a sports commentator the mom is cool and then there's an older son who's in high school a daughter who's in middle school and a son the youngest son whose name is wesley he's like nine or ten and he's like a dennis the menace like bart simpson type character pre-bart simpson obviously uh just like a little like

little like rapscallion kid who's always like up to he's always scheming he's a schemer he's always up to no good he's always doing he's always breaking the rules and I was desperate to be him when I was a kid he was like my hero okay and there we go I'm ready ready to start whenever you guys are you guys

are gonna have to let me know how the volume is because I haven't tested this in particular. What are the rules when it comes to cooling a blindside? Can we now all blindside each other? You're all able to blindside. Okay. We all got one in the chamber. Yeah.

I mean, you can work with me and Nick if you need to, but if you need to do your own blindside without us, then you're welcome to do that as well. That's great. Okay. I'm excited about this. How does it feel to be blindsided uh i was i'm glad that it happened this week and not last week i i don't think i would have processed

what being blindsided meant at all i would have thought i just missed something it was clear you weren't up to it so we we pushed it i'm excited about this i feel like there's a possibility i've seen mr belvedere we'll find out it's just a black screen currently i'm very curious as to why we are watching episode 16 of season 2 specifically uh well you'll find out soon i just think it's a it's a pretty good one interesting subject matter uh gavin i want you to pay special attention mr belvedere is british he's a famous british person you may or may not have ever heard of and uh this show has a phenomenal intro song. So when it comes up, pay special attention. It's a really good song.

I have one question. Yeah. Did they ever put this episode on vinyl? I don't believe they did. I don't think so. I don't think so. Interesting. All right.

Yeah. Okay. Please let me know if the volume's okay. And here we go now. Yeah. Yeah. Huh. it's uh it's the 80s so everything is everything is vaguely homophobic. Yeah. Do you guys know...

There's Wesley. Do you guys know who Bob Uecker is? No. Nah. Oh, man. Do you guys know... There's Wesley. Do you guys know who Bob Uecker is? No. No. Oh, man. I thought that was Belvedere. The joke is he's a British butler, but he's seven. Yeah.

He's really excited about... That's Mr. Belvedere. Oh, okay. Do you recognize Mr. Belvedere, Gavin? Is he famous in England? I don't recognize him. Bob Euchre is just as much of a national treasure as Don Zimmer was and we should get into Euchre

at some point is he padded up or does he just look like yeah I was gonna say he seems very stiff I don't know he moves like an action figure He seems very stiff. I don't know. He moves like an action figure. What? Wait, what?

Okay. Wait, somebody has AIDS? Kid just dropped an AIDS bomb. Right into the intro? That's the hook? This is a sitcom and they just... What's happening?

Oh no. Jeff, why are you making us watch this? This is Mr. Belvedere, man. He's the best. Okay. And I think it's important to see how we dealt with things like AIDS in the 80s. Did Mr. Belvedere deal with AIDS? Is that...

Do we need to credit him medically? I wonder whatever happened to Bryce Beckham. I wonder if he had a career after this. He was so good as Wesley. Bobby Uke's name looks like a typo. Have you ever seen the movie Major League, Gavin? No. That's my favorite movie. Bobby Uke's great

in it. That's one of mine too. Is this a super rich family? I don't think so. No, this is just how things were in the 80s. Yeah. So he hitchhiked there and now he lives with them for some reason? Yeah. Thanks, God. This is a pretty successful

blindside, Jeff. Yeah, I wanted to blindside you in a lot of ways. I don't think anyone's more blindsided than Danny, though. That's a tough one. That's a big blindside. It's usually... What's he doing with AIDS? What's he doing? He does? Does he? he does does he that's very specific

also you can't have chewing gum yeah getting caught with chewing gum is bad apparently can you for the rest of his life you'll remember his moment this moment in that outfit yeah I can see Jeff why this was your hero oh he's my hero, man.

It's a lot like shoplifting. That's pretty close are we like six minutes into this yeah it's a it's a it's a doozy it's a it's brutal it's a it's a it's a doozy it's a it's brutal it's real rough after this episode which I have watched twice to get ready for this I watched I just let it run and I watched like 20

other episodes they're all way funnier than this one that's not shocking yeah why i guess is my main reason so far is this a thing where like why does he have aids no like why did they decide to make this well that was there like sitcom episodes where characters get AIDS as like an educational tool? Yeah, this is this is how we handled

complicated subjects in the 80s when there wasn't shit like the internet and you had to explain to people what they were. Yeah, like that really bummer episode

of Fresh Prince where it's all about like drink driving and stuff. Yeah. Exactly. Or like the 21 Jump Street about AIDS or the Quincy about AIDS. Like very special episodes

was just what we did with TV. Yeah, it really was a big, it seems silly now, but it really was a, this was a very special episode of Mr. Belvedere and that was code for we're dealing with something that's very culturally tumultuous and difficult. Maybe

Fauci will walk into the house. Dude, he was still fucking working in his job back then. Yeah, he worked on AIDS. Yeah. Against AIDS. They're just doing other stuff in this episode also and that's crazy has mr belvedere moved his arms yet

british people don't move their arms gavin you know that they keep them sternly at their sides ew it is an interesting thing of like we're gonna cover AIDS but also let's find room for fun let's let's yeah it's still a sitcom right we still gotta be like this is why there's a writer's strike right like to be able to do this um and move between your a story and then your insane b and c stories is um i mean not easy i was wondering if putting this on would jesus would completely floor you guys and leave you tongue tied. And I think it has,

I'm kind of happy about that. Absolutely. I'm blindsided to the moon. That's kind of what I was going for. Yeah. Uh, Oh, Kev.

Always use his arm. Wait, this is the AIDS kid. Yeah. Always use his arm! Wait... This is the AIDS kid? Yeah. Oh, God. Jesus! Oh, God! God...

Oh... Uh, it's honestly that moment that i wanted to watch this wow they gave this kid aids and a deviated septum it's so unclear oh this is tragic. Yeah. It's really sad. Oh, my God. Was Danny a regular character to this point? I don't... That's a great question, and I don't know the answer.

I bet he wasn't. Wesley doesn't want to touch it because yeah you didn't do anything wrong danny it's just wesley's prejudice and it's just fear he doesn understand. But that was like such a big thing, right? Like, yeah, it was. Was it like Princess Diana? Yeah, it was a big deal when she touched. Yeah. When she came in, like hugged and embraced people with AIDS.

Yeah. Yeah. It actually it actually did a lot of good in the world when that moment. But again, because at this point we needed very special episodes on how to handle this stuff. I just think it's like this was mentioned on Reddit recently and I went down a rabbit hole of of reading about it. And then remembering how much I love Mr. Belvedere and watching all the funny episodes of Mr. Belvedere, the show's still great.

But I just couldn't get over like I had forgotten about how this is how we used to deal with stuff as a society and at least in America. And I thought it was just kind of like a fascinating look back not that long ago um plus Gavin's right he has not moved his arms like at all like I opened the door he's so stiff but like it's so low like a door is so low he's a big man you know what I mean like yeah maybe that's butlering 101 is lock up the arms laughs laughs laughs

laughs laughs laughs laughs I would love to talk to someone who this was their introduction to what AIDS is. Like, I mean, if the conversation you might be like part of why I wanted to watch this because this is one of the first times I remember hearing about AIDS. Oh, wow. Yeah, I was 11 maybe when this came out, 10 or 11.

How new was AIDS when this came out? Well, this was 80, probably what, 85? 86, I think, yeah, January of 86. So this was like, I think it had been, what, in the news for like a few years at this point. Probably about four or five years. Yeah. And it became a culturally like really significant thing at this point.

This was definitely like right at the ramping up of the height of the irrational hysteria. Yes. So when you watch this or something like this, what was it? Were you aware that this was going to be a special like one-off very specific episode or were you just were you blindsided in the same way gavin and i were no they were promoted as like coming up on thursday on a very special episode

of mr belvedere wesley's friend deals with a complicated medical mystery or like something like that, you know, it would be that. And then they would cut in moments from the episode of like little pull quotes. And it was probably like dealing with something very difficult. And then it would be a hard cut of the kid going, I got AIDS. But other than that, I'm OK. And it would be like, oh, what the fuck? That's just shit was TV.

Insane in the 80s. Crazy. I mean, I just watched three adults try and dance around anal in front of a kid. It's like they would do this or they would have after school specials. That was the other way we presented stuff. Like I learned about bulimia and anorexia from an after-school special I remember like I remember watching it after and being like oh I that's what those things are I had no idea these were I mean I think these were pretty culturally important uh sitcoms like this

and the way they handled stuff because there really was so much paranoia and so much misinformation I mean I was Wesley's age when this came out, you know, essentially. And we didn't really know about... I mean, our parents weren't telling us shit. Nobody watched the news. It was boring for old people. So this is how we found out about stuff. so from a content perspective is it is it they're gonna people are gonna listen to us

watch this episode and they will sync up or what is i think so yeah i'll put the link in the description we're just watching a YouTube video. It's just a YouTube. Yeah. I just didn't know. I didn't know if we were including Mr. Belvedere on our channel. No. I don't know that we'll even release this.

This is just a test. I just wanted to see how it went. Back to our quirky bee story. Yeah. The bee's like, oh my God. The bee story is Kevin's doing girl stuff, but it's okay. He's not gay. That's definitely what this is.

It's 100% what this is. It's just so it's, it's no wonder so many people like, it's no wonder my generation's all fucked up. Yeah. God damn. Oh, he's moving his arms. He can when he absolutely must. But only when he absolutely must.

Oh, he stopped again. What is the matter? Ugh. Ugh. No. That's fucking heartbreaking. That's really heartbreaking. That's really rough. It's weird to think that at least this generation,

but probably others, but at least my generation, we learned our morality from fake families on TV. Yeah. It's a useful place to learn about shit, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, I guess.

I guess it is. Kevin made that. Kevin made it. He looks like the fourth doctor. A soupy sales reference. Awesome. I thought about, because I watched so many episodes of Mr. Belvedere,

I thought about making you guys just watch a really funny good one, but that didn't seem like as much of a blindside as... No. You started a... This has given me... You started hot. Great ideas for other blindsides. Good, good. I want you guys to blindside the shit out of each other and me as well.

What the fuck is going on? Can you imagine Lincoln on spring break in Tijuana? I'm just imagining if that was the Hattie War when he got killed. I was going to say, I can't now. Oh, yeah. He's one of the ones that got bipped, isn't he? Lincoln at the donkey show. Oh, God.

Shit. They gave that poor little kid the worst glasses and haircut on Earth. Oh, I think that's just probably what he looked like. Looks like a little Rick Moranis. Yeah, he does. Come on, Wesley. I gotta look out for number one over here. Jesus, this is... Ugh.

The concept of him growing up and then reflecting on these statements. Oh, yeah. yeah oh my god dude that's a movie don't blindside us with pork We can't. No, we can't. No, no, no. That was Porky's. Oh, dude. It's, oh, no. It is a movie that wasn't aging well when it was coming out. I saw it when I was seven, maybe. Way, like about 15 years too young. I would love to.

I can't imagine this happening in England where everyone gets up and dresses up as old prime ministers. They don't do this in England. We don't really glorify our politicians like this. Dude,

I would say that every American, including the other two Americans on this podcast, have had to wear a pilgrim uniform or a President Lincoln uniform at least twice in their childhood. Oh,

there he is. Please be John Wilkes Booth. I fucking lost the plot. When did school go out of fashion? It's a great, it's a great question. Yeah, it is. Yeah.

See, he learned. And now he's teaching us. I'd like to think so. I've seen this episode a bunch. Yeah. I've seen this episode a bunch this is great cause Danny is in every way a kid you see the boom mic

oh the boom oh Boom. What Danny is wearing there is a members only jacket. That is what every kid in America wore in 1986 that big ass peanut Wesley looks like a croupier or a flamingo dancer they they both look like tiny adults not like they don't have like the proportions of children or something like they both like they look strange yeah maybe it's like the way the clothes fit yeah

well they say the camera adds 10 years like they look strange. Yeah. Maybe it's like the way the clothes fit. Yeah. Well, they say the camera adds 10 years. I'm so glad we don't have haircuts like that anymore. Right. Should we all do it? For summer of 98. Maybe if we do a summer of 89 someday,

we'll do a bowl of haircuts. What the? Yeah, they're going to Gettysburg. Of course, Wesley would be the south. So Danny wasn't a regular before, but now clearly this episode about acceptance and having him around he'll be he'll be in later episodes right we'll see

Danny uh won't we great question Andrew I will have to we'll have to tune into another episode of blindside to find out it's okay Danny this is how I learned about British people oh here it is if Mr. Belvedere was

on tone in the whole Gavin how long would he last oh I think he'd lost multiple episodes. Really? Wow. Is this how every episode ended? I wonder if the people in England knew about Mr. Belvedere when it was running in America.

Good question. Is this like Jerry's final thought? Yeah. It was him sort of wrapping it up. He writes in his diary at the end of every episode did he eventually get a laptop no mr belvedere is not a laptop kind of guy too much movement what the hell i hope i hope you all learned something from this episode. Do you think that Nome Pit was really excited to direct that,

and then he got the script? He's like, I booked a Mr. Belvedere, because this is big, right? Yeah, it was a big show. Oh, man. For sure. There you go. That was Mr. Belvedere.

A very special episode of Mr. Belvedere. Usually a lot more irreverent. This one was a little serious, but I think it's important because I wanted to teach you guys a little bit about compassion and understanding. You wanted to teach us about compassion and understanding? Yeah.

I feel like you could use a little helping of compassion and understanding. Wow, thanks, man. No problem. I don't remember that. So, that was um face blindside um uh any any just like let's let's let's break this down let's debrief a little bit so initial thoughts i'm incredibly blindsided i think i'm blindsided audience should be equally blindsided i don't think there should be any reference to this existing and i think it should just come out as is what do you what do we call it uh you have to

call it i think it's episode 157 so the audience is also blind so we are calling it an ep like it comes out in place of an episode? No, and then after this, episode 157 actual should come out. Well, this is 158, but yeah. Oh, that's right. Could there be episode 157 with an asterisk next to it maybe? Or whatever, 158?

Like a little indication? So you're saying put out 158. Put this out first. What is out first? This is going to release on a Friday, right? So it won't put a release on a normal day. I assume it's put this out as 158. It'll be blindside for a day or be that for a day and then change the name to blindside. Episode one.

I think we might be fucking ourselves over if we. What if we just put it out with no title? What do you mean? What do you mean? No, I have to write something. I have to write... There has to be a description and a title. There has to be something.

What if the title is just Watch? What? And it's audio? There's a visual component to it? What if the title is just Titles? These are the kind of ideas that Jeff would bust into my bedroom with back in the day. And I loved it. They're always great.

So, what if, I'm going to propose this. When we put this out, I'm not sure the date. We'll have to look at when we can get this edited and turned around and everything. Sure. But, what if this comes out, we're not putting it out like when an episode comes out. We'll do it on the Friday, Saturday cadence like we usually do. And we'll put it out and the title will just be Watch and the description will just be a YouTube link

to the Mr. Belvedere episode. And that's it. That's great. And we need to make it clear to the audience that up until half an hour ago, we thought we were about to record episode 158. Is that what we're doing then I don't know or maybe instead of watch maybe it's like

listen what about question mark can you put a question mark I can try why if you can't just put a question mark can you write the word question question mark yeah okay okay i could be blindside in a different language

i'm not putting blindside in a different language but this is one of those chinese this is one of those ideas like gavin saying that i would bust into his room i'd say about 60 of those ideas never got made. I was really on the fence about this one, and I've had a lot of time to second guess it since I had the initial idea because it's about two and a half weeks old now at this point. Is this good enough to release? Is this a good enough idea?

Because if you told me no, I would completely understand. I think it's so weird. It has to. I think that this opens up opportunities for other things. I agree. Also, I agree. I actually had I'm not going to do it, but I had a double blindside that I initially planned. You can't double blindside.

Yeah, I think I don't think you can double blind. I was going to blind. Well, I was going to blindside Eric after the episode with a second episode of a different thing that Eric wouldn't be aware of so that he was blindsided. But I just figured that was like pushing my luck. Yeah, I agree with you. So we can blindside anyone at any time or just while we're filming? I think it's got to be when we have recordings set. Yeah, I think so.

I think you just got to clear with Eric or whatever to make sure we've got the space to do it in. Yeah. Like I but I don't want it to be a thing where like every time we have to record two episodes, everybody goes in expecting somebody's going to blind. Although maybe that ushers in a new a new era of a different kind of paranoia, which could be interesting. We're definitely getting back into our paranoia. Yeah, no, I'm definitely I got some ideas for how to make this blindside work. I got some thoughts.

I definitely have the next blindside I want to do, and I'm fucking jazzed to get to it. Do they all have to be AIDS-themed? No. No, they don't have to. They could be if you wanted, but they don't have to be. The next one that I'm going to do isn't necessarily AIDS-focused. Is it necessarily, but it might be? I mean, it could isn't necessarily AIDS focused. Is it necessarily?

But it might be. I mean, it's it could encompass a lot of things. OK. But more than anything, I want this. I just want your creative wheels turning because I I'm excited to think about what Andrew would blindside me with the problem. So now this is how my brain works. Now I'm not expecting it to be ridiculous in any way or

like serious in any way because you kind of teased it might be serious so that would no longer be a blind side if you hit me with another like if there was a cancer episode of some other show that wouldn't be a blind side because i kind of anticipate it right you will not anticipate the next thing i would show okay interesting interesting i can't imagine in i got some good ideas for a blindside i gotta i gotta figure this out we don't have to overdo it we might not do another blindside for six months but it's oh yeah it's out there now i'm just saying you know the wheels are turning i'm thinking i wanted to blindside the audience and y'all at the same time and i had a lot of different choices for what i could have gone with that might have been a little funnier and a little more like you know uh tuxedo condor man sure mvp2 vibes but i

thought going hyper serious in a comedic space would be a little more difficult to navigate it was more impactful yeah yeah so definitely more impactful i guess if you would have asked me when i started the day what are things i would do during this day mr belvedere would never be on the list i agree man what a fucking cool character mr belvedere was is he just like yeah man this is like an awesome like paternal like a grandfather grandfatherly fucking presence in their lives that helps them all keep the train on the tracks. And, like, because apparently their dad's useless. Yeah, when he interrupted and totally emasculated the dad in front of the kid. That was great.

Yeah. You gotta love that. I think you'll find what your dad means. Mr. Belvedere, he's got a little bit of that British sass in him, you know? Well, he rolls his R's. Is that a... Let me ask you a question. Is he really British?

Do you buy him as British? I buy him as like a really posh Brit. I don't think people talk like that necessarily anymore, but I buy him as British his name is Christopher George Hewitt and he's an

English, he was, he's dead, but he was an English actor and theatre director best known for his role as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere in the ABC sitcom Mr. Belvedere Aloysius? Yeah, he was born in he was born in Sussex, Worthing, Sussex okay

and it has a wife what did he die of? Yeah, he was born in Sussex, Worthing, Sussex. Okay. And it has a wife. What did he die of? You will not believe it. A devout Catholic and lifelong bachelor, Hewitt served at St. Victor's Church in West Hollywood. During his later years, he suffered from arthritis and diabetes. He died from complications of diabetes. The arthritis does check out because it did feel

like every time he moved it aged him 17 years he did not like movement i'm on his imdb page right now because i wanted to see what was up 1921 and 2001 rest in peace um it's a picture of him as mr belvedere and there's a video that auto played right next to it and it's a picture of him as Mr. Belvedere. And there's a video that auto played right next to it. And it's a trailer for a movie called rat boy where it's a, it's just a very rat looking boy. Like he looks like a big rat and he's in it and he plays like a coach or something, right?

It's yeah. I just don't, it's not what I thought was going to play when I came to this IMDb page and he's dead. I didn't think the trailer for Rat. Is that the movie that you're bringing to the table, Eric? Are we going to watch Ratboy? No, I don't want to look at this movie. Oh, this is.

Oh, wow. I'm watching the trailer and I don't want to see it anymore. It was directed by Sandra Locke, who I have recently read a ton about. That's wild. She was like a longtime girlfriend of Clint Eastwood, but they never got married. He like cheated on his wife with her and then they were together for like 10 years and he bought her a house and he put her in a bunch of his movies. Like I just watched the movie Any Which Way You Can or Every Which Way, but one of those

two, Every Which Way But Loose, where he's got the orangutan Clyde that punches people, Clint Eastwood. And she was in that that that's where they fell in love and then he ended up cheating on her with another woman and started a family with her and then threw her out of the house and left her with nothing and she had to sue him and it there was this like crazy lawsuit and she ended up he ended up like she ended up like backing off the lawsuit because he gave her he helped her get a directing deal in hollywood like a three-picture deal which is all she wanted to do is direct and then she had a deal for like three years and then they wouldn't green light any of her movies and then she died of cancer oh my god how it was like she got like

the whole back half of her life got completely fucked over by clint eastwood pretty much i will say belvedere didn't he didn't have a lot of screen time for being the titular character he well this was a very special episode he also wasn't in a lot of things i'm surprised he's only in 25 credits for imdb and out of those 25 credits he's in the elephant man and rat, so he really, he had a thing. He really liked a specific genre. He was in a lot of TV, like he was in Fantasy

Island, he was in the Mike Hammer show, he was in Murder, She Wrote, he was in Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Nice. He was in California Dreams, he was in the Jackie Gleason show, and he almost always played a butler i feel like huh that's what we do he was like he was in a made for he was in an abc

after school special where he played the butler uh in an episode called seven wishes of a rich kid where the fuck that is yeah interesting career So we'll have to discuss Blindside and how exactly we want to do it. I think we have it figured out mostly. This is definitely something. I'm kind of speechless as to what we watched. I feel the same. Yeah. I was going for a little bit of shock and a little bit of awe.

There's a lot of that. This is great. This is a very successful blindside, Jeff. I'd say you nailed it on your first one. I was also going for a little bit more of a helping of comedy on top of those two things. I don't know if we delivered, but I hope we did in some capacity. It's a big ask.

I know. I'm going to drop a kid's AIDS diagnosis and is like, you know what, I think we'll pepper in some good. I know. I'm going to drop a kid's AIDS diagnosis and is like, you know what? I think we'll pepper in some good. I feel they failed as well. Without being disrespectful to the disease or to the people that suffer from it. Right. No, it's definitely a difficult task to undertake.

They just get to it in like the first four minutes. I think it's part of why I wanted to show it to you guys. It's just so, it's presented so ludicrously and in such a shocking way. Yeah. That kid walks in and he's like, pretty good, I got AIDS. Anyway, and you're just like, what?

I bet a lot of people watching at home just spit all over that dinner. Oh, yeah. Do you think there were more or less than 100,000 spit takes oh across the country way more

because this is back this is back when shows got numbers you know this is back when a sitcom like that would pull in like

15-20 million people yeah back when there was much less to watch if I send you a link could you share your screen for a minute Eric this reminded me

of something I saw do you want do you want to just send it in the chat here yeah i'll just post in the chat and then we can watch it through you so we're synced this is something that came up i think it's a another great display of like the strange specificity of like tv of that time yes this is definitely what i was talking about when it's this kind of thing. Hang on. Let me get this screen shared here. This is definitely like the example that I would use for this. OK, and here here it comes. And here we go.

And here it goes. And hang on now. Here we go. OK, three, two, one. Oh, yeah, that's a great documentary. I haven't seen that documentary, but just the, I love the teasing of like these serious themes.

It's really something. Just mixed in. It's so, it's great. It's great. You never do what you were getting when you tuned into your sitcom. Like you're like, I'm going to turn on Tim, the tool man, Taylor. What's he going to is he going to supercharge his lawnmower with a with a jet engine this week? No, no. His kid's dying.

Oh, Lord. Oh, I thought it was going to be related to the dishwasher. But they didn't let that breathe at all. No. If it's a T, it's in like the TV trope thing of like very special episode is like such a such a thing, such a thing. I pulled up the IMDb for the actor that played Danny. He's in like 20 ish things. A lot of them are sitcoms.

One episode rules. Do you think that's the worst thing that happened to him as a character he played or do you think he played a string of characters that all died in horrific ways as like educational tools that's a great question i think i'm going to try to watch every episode that that actor worked for sitcoms andrew's blindsides are just going to be that actor and stuff I mean that's totally that would be totally regulation blindside oh man

completely allowable thank you so much Jeff for I'm sorry I accidentally delayed this no problem guys it's better that you did because it drug out longer let me just say I'm glad that it went it went about as well as I could have hoped it didn't go as bad as I feared I'll say that say I'm glad that it went. It went about as well as I could have hoped. It didn't go as bad as I feared.

I'll say that. And I'm happy. I'm happy to have birthed into the our universe a show with which you can now use to fuck me over. Oh, it's great. And I can't wait to see the audience reaction to this. Yeah. Everybody, everybody, all five of us are able to blindside whenever it makes sense to the schedule. You just got to go through, Eric, I guess.

Yeah. So can we do two episodes next week? Yeah. Yes. Yeah, I guess we do still need to do two episodes. We still actually need to. Yeah. Okay.

I'm sending the invite. Thank you. Just making sure. Eric, did you change today's calendar invite to blindside? Just now. Yeah. Do you think it's going to be like, Gavin, this will only apply to you now, yeah. Do you think it's going to be like, Gavin, this will only apply to you and I,

but do you think it's going to be like when Achievement Hunter would play GTA and you would call up Lamar to send somebody to mug you and Lamar would be like, can't do it, homie. Somebody else is already on the way to mug him. You think we're going to just be stacking up blindsides? You're just never going to be able to find a window?

Oh, shit. All right. We should wrap up this blindside and really something. Really. Jeff, anything you want to say as the starter of the blindside? Thanks for listening to the inaugural episode of The Blind Side.

We hope to see more. And guess what? You just got fucking blindsided.