The Golden Hour - Featuring Matt Rife! | The Golden Hour PATREON ONLY #77 w/Erik Griffin & Chris D'Elia

Episode Date: January 14, 2026

Erik and Chris are back to talk about the eclectic mix of flavors at Handel's ice cream, Erik looking like Nicolas Maduro, and Grok putting everyone in Bikinis. They also reminisce about classic TV shows and their musical intros, watch a hilarious viral clip of Kevin Durant, and get an update on Chris's workouts.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

empty nest. Remember that one? Yeah. That guy was about 106 on that show. I know. Pull up empty nest after you find the Antonio Banderas picture of me for sure. How about Michael J. Fox? You know, that, you know, that, you know, family ties, not family ties, but what was the

Michael J. Fox show? My jeans really fit nicely, man. Oh, God. Spin City. No. He had his. Go look up an empty nest. The Michael J. Fox, the sitcom that made him famous.

But I think about three. Family ties? Family ties. Family ties. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, that guy was 700 years old. Look at this.

And how about this? He was the lead. I know. They would never do that nowadays. I know. It's done for me. For so many reasons, by the way. An 80-year-old white man was the lead.

This don't even look like something I'd want to watch. If you look at it, if you saw this poster. Right. You know? But back then, you were like, fuck yeah, let's see what's have the empty mess. They should make it. Like they should modernize it. What would it look like if it was modernized?

And by the way, this guy, if he was in, I would be the guy in the upper left. But this guy. Yeah, you're Larry. If he was. If he was. If he was, which one's Larry in his company? The pervert. Yeah.

Yeah. The, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, he fucked a lot of chicks. Who's the. This guy right here, okay. Um, I would watch his show. And it was on after Golden Girls, you know, and I would go. Classic. what's up with this guy you know he would be so famous back then and yeah now he'd just be a guy on

some show yeah he'd be the grandpa on the show like i actually remember all these people's faces and i what's up with this guy how old was he yeah they would never put this guy as the lead of the show nowadays because they'd be like oh he's gonna die in five years and we want to try and get it go to 10 yeah you know or just because young people just you know you know when i knew that was happening Boston Legal What do you mean? I loved Boston legal, right? And then

Then it just came to a point where it was like it was just everybody, the star of that show was old. Right, right, right. You know what I mean? But it's like, they don't matter what they're doing, they should be old. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know what I mean? Yeah, I know. It's funny. So when did he? It debuted in 88, and he died in 2000. So you weren't even far off. He was only 67 when he passed. Oh,

55 when the show started. Oh, he just looked terrible. Well, no. He actually, well, he didn't look bad. He just looked old. Right. Yeah, because I wouldn't say like that guy looks bad. But that's 67, bro.

So that means in that picture he was 65? Yeah. 55. No, two years you said. 12, 12. The show ran 12 fucking years? No, no. Started in 1988.

It went to 1992 and he died. and he died in 2000. But I'm saying, you said if it goes 10 seasons. Okay, okay. So, okay, so he was 55. You know what's crazy? He probably... Wait a minute.

Hold on a second. Hold on. I'm sorry. He was 55 in that photo? Yeah, I guess. This is him, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's him.

That dude won two Emmys and one Golden Globe. For what? That? Yeah. If he's 55 there, that's got to be a later on picture. But no, he was only on for four years. What the fuck?

I told you. look terrible. Yeah, no, that is, that is that. Okay, so, what did he die of? Maybe he had something.

Because seven seasons went to 95. So I guess that could be that late. Okay. Seven seasons. He probably made a ton of money. Oh, bro. Back then. This dude was,

had houses and shit. Yeah. But, well, that's an empty nest is one of those, like, that's a B-side. I know, I know.

That's a B-side guy. Play the intro of it. It, fuck it fucked me up. Play the intro of it, dude. It was cancer. That's like that, you know what show? Let me tell you what my show is equivalent to that.

Give me a break. Nah. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Yeah. Wow. God, look at this. By the way, this is how TV used to look all fuzzy like this. And you didn't even notice.

Yeah. That's why they didn't know he was old. Oh, that's hilarious. They just get a different guy when he dies. This is like the golden hour opening. Oh, yeah. Wait, we'll keep it going. Hell yeah, bro.

I want to meet all these people. They're dead. Park overall. Look at the lady. That's Eric's mom. Well, that's Marshall Warfield. This is a day you're like, all right, next. This is what?

Today, you change a channel already. Oh, that's right. The Stelgetty was in this? Intros were, yeah, because it was a, it was in the universe of... It was a spin-off. That's right. Of Golden Girls. Yeah.

No, no, I think Golden Girls. was a spin-off of this. No, no, no, really? I think, look it up, Nick. Watch your fucking mouth. I think so, man. Dude, did you see, have you seen, this is a weird thing to bring up,

but have you seen, as that's so weird, it's comics, but Stephen Colbert's roast of Chevy Chase in the old Chevy Chase roast on Comedy Central? No, was he killing him? It's actually...

I hear he's not a nice guy, so Chevy Chase. so do I. But it's really, I, I kind of came off Stephen Colbert after a while because I'm like, what is he talking about? Dude, that dude is, that was, that was really hard to do what he did. Yeah. If you, if you look at that thing. He is talking about what a bad guy, Chevy Chase is.

Yeah. And making people laugh. Well, look at that. The Golden Girls are 95, 85 to 92, 97, episodes of the Golden Girl. Girls titled Empty Nest served as backdoor pilot for empty. Okay, so I knew. Yeah. I knew one of them was a spinoff or the other.

Yeah. So did everybody in the world. No, they didn't. You didn't know that. Yes, I did. Go fuck yourself. Uh, character is going to go. Okay, yeah.

Well, they had three spin-off shows on that. Wow. They were the fucking Avengers. Yeah, man. I think that's something. Golden Girls is a classic. What was the other one? What are the nurses?

That's not one of the ones. I'm saying, I think. What do you mean? It's not a B-side. Yeah. No. Yeah. But I say I think like give me a break.

What is it? Give me a break. I don't even know what that is. You look at it. Get this theme song for Give me a break. He's like, give me a break. I sure I deserve it. Is it a lot of black people?

Yeah, of course. Okay. Well, that's maybe why I don't know it then. Yeah, well, you should. It was a classic. I was racist when I was seven. Oh, my God. Really racist.

37. This is a jam. Wow, the same set everywhere. Bro. Bro. Bro. Bro. Bro.

Honestly. Look that guy. He's 40. That's funny. That's really funny. This song rips, dude. Get me out bright. Look at that guy's 25.

Oh, Joey Lawrence? That's Joey Lawrence. That guy's four. Somebody laugh at my fucking jokes. You have headphones back. I've never in my life seen that. Really? Yeah.

That was a smash hit at the time, too. This is just like empty nest. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Wow. Because if you think of the classic black sitcoms, you think of two. You know, the Jeffersons and... Cops. Um...

Oh, man. Oh, man. I know, I know. Yeah. You feel bad. Piece of shit, boy. We got to clip that and I got to put it on my Instagram. See how everybody fucking.

Get mad at it.