Eddie

I felt threatened by you.

I felt you were a bully towards me.

Yeah, I'm glad to have the opportunity to discuss it.

I didn't want to burden you about petty stuff.

I mean, we're talking about stuff that happened between us when we were six, seven, eight years old.

And here we are now almost on the cusp of being 55 years old.

So this is 50 years almost in the past.

So it seems petty.

But do you remember what you called me in those early years?

All right.

So you called me Eddie Spaghetti.

For the six-year-old version of me, I was hypersensitive.

Every time you called me Eddie Spaghetti, I burst into tears, and the rest of the class would laugh.

Mark would laugh, Ari would laugh, and other people would join in calling me Eddie Spaghetti.

And it all seems so silly now.

It's utterly silly, but as a six-year-old kid, I felt like, you know, I was the... I was the one everyone made fun of in class.

It must have been first or second grade because most of us had those metal lunchboxes, usually with themes from TV shows on them.

My lunchbox was the Six Million Dollar Man with Steve Austin, played by Lee Majors.

So it's lunchtime.

The teacher's telling everybody to get their lunchboxes and line up.