Dave & Chuck The Freak learn some shocking news about the actor who played Big Bird and introduce his possible replacement, Thicc Duckk!
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00:00another death to tell you about uh you may not know the name but um he's behind some of the
00:13biggest characters we grew up with sesame street legend carol spinney died yesterday
00:1785 years old he was the man behind both big bird and oscar the grouch
00:22he was with sesame street when it started back in 1969 and he only retired last year
00:29wow so he was the same big bird i don't know he stopped getting inside the costume just a couple
00:36of years ago he was still the voice but it was so physically demanding like in his 80s he had to
00:41stop yeah you gotta get out of that bird yeah that's crazy you gotta get out of that bird
00:47i would never imagine that guy would be in that bird for all these years
00:52so many years to be in a bird oh my god i mean he had that big bird money but
00:58he's like i'm carol spinney i'm rolling in it dude you got bird feet on i did lines of low with the
01:06feet on wow so i party yeah do you ever even take those feet off never not once oh my i have sex in
01:16you've had sex in those bird feet all the time more than i could ever more than you could ever
01:24imagine i bet i bet carol spinney you ever do it full suit once sorry i was in france of course
01:34the french it was weird who's got the biggest feet you know oh yeah see you have a foot fetish huh
01:44love them love big old women's feet
01:46they love your feet they do they're huge because i'm packing a big bird myself oh my god oh my god
01:56where's your snuffleupagus huge yeah quite a trunk on it look at the trunk on my snuffleupagus
02:04you guessed it it is me and that's my very favorite song this is i don't i think we have mentioned this
02:12on the show before but for those who don't know this is a little morbid fact carol spinney was
02:17invited to fly on the space shuttle challenger as big bird oh jesus back in 1986 but the idea was
02:24scrapped because they realized there wasn't enough room for the full costume the head and everything
02:28and then of course the challenger exploded can you imagine if big bird died on the space shuttle
02:33it would have been even more traumatic for the kids yeah it was already traumatizing oh my god
02:37that would i know big bird died oh god well and the other thing is so then big bird's off the show
02:45obviously they'd have to kill him off right if he died in the space shuttle because he died unless
02:49like big bird's cousin came involved got involved or something bigger bird
02:53change his color right to stuff us blue bird you know i'm thick duck yeah
03:01you'd have to have done something
03:05how thick that duck is i'm a thick old duck living on sesame street
03:12thick duck big bird died here's thick duck yeah they bring thick duck in like the next week
03:20it's hard to say on the radio thick duck it is thick duck
03:24here comes big bird i died in an explosion in space
03:30he died in a space explosion while every child was watching at school
03:35yeah i'm thick duck what of it
03:37hey lisa let's do our goddamn abcs
03:45huh so let me get this straight here you're like big bird's cousin yeah i'm thick duck i'm thick
03:53so like i'm fat you know i gotta get the uh tall gene that uh big bird had it's a b c go ahead
04:03you got it that's very good nice you got the e part too
04:10how do you get your doorways e is for ecstasy in thick ducks world oh god oh my
04:15we're gonna have to cancel thick duck those are thick ducks personal concoctions
04:20i think we moved too fast replacing big bird with thick duck stay away from thick duck spills
04:26thick duck smells like my weird uncle thick duck smells great
04:30smells like a party
04:32swear to god just like my uncle
04:35is that a cigarette yeah thick duck's smoking now there's smoke coming out of your tooth
04:43everybody thought big old big bird's such a saint
04:46well i'm thick duck get used to it smoking is bad
04:51it's good if you know how to do it kid
04:54why do you keep spitting into that thing because i gotta do chew too
05:01you smoke and chew that's right i double up my tobacco i'm i'm thick duck
05:07the thickest duck you've ever seen wow you are thick i can't go through doors
05:15thick duck
05:17you're not gonna be able to leave this room i never could i never will they can't even get me
05:23out of this bird car oh i about let it slip i forgot i'm doing a character here
05:29thick duck
05:31jeez
05:32watch out everybody thick duck just dropped some glass bottle
05:38that's thick duck's special sauce
05:41wow
05:42oh god i hate being thick duck
05:44i hate it more than you could ever imagine
05:48okay because here's the other thing
05:49how much did big bird hate being big bird after a while
05:53oh god i can't imagine
05:54i mean i know you made eight million
05:56but if i still had been working at a theme park as a cartoon character at this age
06:01not never mind into my 80s
06:03that's what i mean
06:04you know how much i would have hated my life
06:06i did it as a teenager because that's teenage jobs
06:09rough life for sure
06:11thick duck's got an appointment with his opiate deal
06:13we gotta wrap this goddamn thing up
06:15bye thick duck
06:15bye kids
06:17bye thick duck
06:18bye
06:18thanks for coming to sesame street
06:21you dropped him
06:22i don't know it's a bag full of green stuff
06:24thick duck's real tired
06:26he's gonna go take one of his two day naps
06:28see ya kids
06:30bye
06:31i think it would have really changed sesame street if big bird
06:37yeah
06:37exploded in a space shuttle
06:39to be honest i think it would have it would have done two things it would have actually uh helped to explain the scenario because the truth is so met like people were watching this i was watching it in my class i know so it was such a i mean that's why if big bird was in there it would have been totally terrible but at the same time i think
07:09and i don't know i don't know maybe they did anyway i don't i don't have any memory of it i just remember going back to school and telling everyone that it happened and then getting in trouble
07:17a friend of carol spinney's daughter is listening and said he was actually a nudist
07:21holy crap
07:23come on
07:23well let's
07:24big bird was a nudist
07:26of course he was type it in
07:27no
07:28you can't be big bird for that many years
07:31he's not alive to defend himself
07:32they wouldn't be as loud
07:34allowed that
07:35no you think he kept that on the down low
07:37well you'd have to because
07:39you can't let it slip that big bird's a nudist
07:42well he's not a sex offender or anything
07:44but you know what sesame street wouldn't have uh
07:47allowed listen if you could have that goddamn bird costume on that long too you'd want to be you'd want to get some air too
07:52true yeah
07:53rumor has it he was a nudist in stirbridge massachusetts
07:56what
07:57what
07:57he owned a nudist colony
08:01he did and he's
08:02oh he owned one
08:03that's what
08:04want somebody in the text
08:05did i read that correctly
08:06he owned one
08:07what
08:08big bird
08:10big bird was a nudist
08:11you got that right
08:12turns out i'm a little bit more like thick duck than you thought
08:16big bird like walking around with the big bird free
08:19yeah
08:19yeah this is crazy
08:21you figure you know you get done with sesame street
08:24you take the bird hat off
08:25you keep the feet on
08:26that's the only thing he had on
08:29just those feet
08:30big bird feet
08:30dongs out and bongs out boys
08:32it's a weekend
08:34i bet he was fun to be around
08:37yeah
08:37yeah
08:37yeah
08:38Oh