Bonus #42 - Live Call Show Vol. 2 [PATREON PREVIEW]
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Dylan, are you there? Big Dilly. Dylan? Yes. What's up, babe? How's it going? Yes, I'm here. Hell yeah, baby. What's going on, Dilly the Kid? Doing great. Doing great. How's it going with you, fellas? We're okay, buddy. We're sweating our little nuts off. We still haven't figured out the air conditioning in the studio, but we're here to solve your problems, baby. Tell us what's going on.

Alright, so I got this buddy. I mean, I guess you could call him a buddy. I haven't been a very good buddy to him. Oh, shit. You're the asshole. Okay. So, yeah, in like 2018, this guy got married, and we were like, just like work friends. Okay.

As close as you can get by being work friends. You know, I saw him most days and we would chit chat and say, hey. And then he got he he got engaged and he asked me to be a part of his. What do you call that? The groomsman. He asked me to be a groomsman. Mm hmm.

And then, uh, which was, which was weird. I was like surprised that he wanted me to be his groomsman. We weren't that close. Okay. He would never have been my groomsman. Right, right, right. Yes. Always a tough situation when that happens. Yeah. Uh, and so, um, and so then we get closer to the wedding day and then his, like his best man is like nervous to do, to have a speech. Oh no. And, and, uh,

So then he asks me to be the best man because I can do public speaking, it doesn't freak me out. Okay. So he asked me to be his best man and also I was like, holy shit, dude. He didn't ask you to give a speech, he asked you to be his best man. That's crazy. It's one thing to be like, hey, my best man is autistic, he doesn't want to do it, but he's my best friend. He doesn't want to speak. Do you mind? I've seen you run those PowerPoints at work.

I know you got it in you. Can you just say a little something? Doesn't have to be crazy. I'd really appreciate it. But for him to be like, hey, he's out as best man because he's stuttering too much. That's fucking weird. That's crazy. That's insane.

I don't think it was the right call. I think maybe it's just like, hey, maybe you could just do a speech and maybe not my best man or something. Yeah, no, it's crazy to elevate. That almost feels like he was lying. He felt, it almost feels like he's trying to get you to be his best man slowly by being like, oh, just be the least important groomsman. And then, oh, man, someone cut the best man's tongue out. Well, I guess you got to be the best man and give a speech now. Okay, so you give this speech or what?

I'm sorry, what? So you do this? Do you give the speech? Yeah, dude. I fucking nailed it, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I nailed it, which is bizarre. I learned something about best man speeches that you don't even actually really even have to know this guy that well. Yeah, that's bad. As long as you just, you know. And that's the, by the way, so let me, can I guess what's going on here?

So you give this speech, okay? You give this speech and, you know, you nail it. You can't help yourself. You're a little ham. You want to crush this speech. So you fucking do a great job. People are like, wow, it's a big hit at the wedding. But you're like, all right, well...

Whatever. We'll see each other at work. Maybe we'll get beers every once in a while. But you're like, well, it's like it's it's effectively like a one night stand. It's a friendship one night stand where he wants to get married and you are like, well, I busted, but I'm good now. And and now you're starting he's starting to guilt you about not hanging out. Is that what's going on?

You know, that did happen through the course of like maybe 2019. Okay. 2020. Maybe a little bit into 2020. He's all, you know, he's hitting me up being like, hey, I hope you're doing good in lockdown and everything's okay. He's trying to get some Zoom happy hours going. Honestly, it's like, it's fucking none of that. It's none of that. Like, we weren't that close. That's the craziest part is that it's like,

And then, you know, we get to the wedding and we and and then I see the other groomsmen and it's like his mechanic. And so I'm just like, oh, wow. What I boiled it down to is like this guy doesn't have hardly any friends. Right. Really? He's scraping the bottom of the barrel to fill out his groomsmen. Mechanic. He's got his mailman up there.

And so I guess my question is, is that like,

I'm feeling this guilt like this, and it's like, it's what, like five years later, and I'm feeling this guilt like, should I have been reaching out to him more? You know, it's like, I think it means something that he wanted me to be his groomsman, like, and am I just gonna like throw that away? Because, I don't know, we just didn't really vibe all that much. He's like super into anime and shit, and that's just like not my bag. I mean, listen, dude, I, it's...

You don't shouldn't feel guilty. He asked you to do so. I mean, where you should feel guilty is in accepting the best man thing. Like that's, that's where you did fuck up. You're like, all right, fuck it. I'll do it. Like you borderline, you should feel guilty being a groomsman, but whatever. He kind of backed you into a corner. You're like, fine, I'll be a, you're, you're thinking you're going to, you know, walk down the aisle with his ugly cousin who gives a fuck. Um, but yeah,

I mean, look, he asked you to do it. If he reaches out, it's one thing. But it's like, you know, what would you say? You're like you said, you guys were just work friends, right? Like, yeah, you like the guy. Maybe you'd have lunch with them every every once in a while. That's what we're talking about here.

That is what we're talking about here. At the time when I was working with this guy, I had gone through a big breakup and then maybe that bonded us because I would talk to him about this girl. You were pretty vulnerable and he kind of got in there for a second.

Yeah, yeah, I think so. Oh and get and get this I think you're gonna love this stuff. This was a fucking Star Wars themed wedding. Oh hell yes What were you dressed up as a fucking lightsaber while standing? You or whatever the fuck the stage is that the wedding happens on Standing there best man with a lightsaber in my hand Did his wife have like fucking layup buns or

Yeah, yeah. She had the fucking layer buns. She...