These are photos of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck at the Spike TV Guys Choice Awards, which were taped over the weekend and air this Thursday, June 9th. I love the derpy expression on Affleck’s face, he always looks so thrilled when he’s with Damon. Plus he’s getting an award, I shouldn’t just chalk it up to the company. People Magazine has details about their speech along with the fact that Affleck spent some time talking to a disabled veteran who was honored during the ceremony, Shilo Harris. Harris spoke very highly of Affleck. This reminds me of one of the last times we saw Damon and Affleck together, during the taping of Project Greenlight, where Damon mansplained diversity to panel member Effie Brown and managed to alienate her while Brown said that Affleck had her back. People like Affleck and come away with a positive impression of him so I’m not surprised that Harris was impressed. Damon isn’t as good of a listener and could learn a few things from Affleck. In turn Affleck could get some tips from Damon on treating his wife as well as he treats everyone else. Here’s some of what these two said:

[Ben Affleck and Matt Damon] were honored Saturday night with the “Guys of the Decade” award at Spike’s 10th Annual Guys Choice Awards, taped at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California.

“I think it goes without saying that this is an award Matt and I have been dreaming about since we were little boys,” Affleck, 43, said in his speech, Damon, 45, at his side. “I did Gigli and Matt did that Liberace movie and all of a sudden it all seemed out of reach. Then I did [Batman v Superman] and all of a sudden it was back in reach again.”

“Now we’re the … coveted Dudes of the Decade … the Guys of the D—heads?” he continued. “What is it?”

“No, the D—heads of the Decade award,” Damon replied.

While Affleck and Damon hung together backstage, they spent time chatting apart: Damon talked with Julia Roberts and Robert De Niro while Affleck spent several minutes speaking with Shilo Harris, an Army veteran-turned motivational speaker and writer, following injuries during an IED explosion.

Affleck and Harris had a “great talk,” Harris told PEOPLE.

“He was a great man,” Harris said. “He asked me what I do, and I told him that I was a motivational speaker, and that recently we’ve been combatting the epidemic of veteran suicides.”

And of the possibility that Affleck might contribute to Harris’ work with veterans, he said, “I don’t know, but you know what, I kept talking and he kept listening. So I’m very proud of that.”

Affleck and Damon have been close since growing up together in Massachusetts. They proved to be an award-winning pair, when their 1997 hit Good Will Hunting won two Oscars, and have continued to collaborate – currently on HBO movie Thirst, Syfy thriller Incorporated and an interactive competition series called The Runner.

[From People]

Affleck equated Gigli with Behind the Candelabra, which just… no. Damon turned in an incredible performance in that movie. That’s another thing that Damon could teach Affleck – acting.

People also mentions that Damon gave the commencement speech at MIT over the weekend. If you’re inclined you can watch his entire speech on YouTube. To start, Damon admitted that he doesn’t have a college degree as he didn’t finish his undergraduate studies at Harvard. He said that he put on his cap and gown and walked with his class but just didn’t collect his degree after. Then he joked that he was hoping MIT would give him a degree, and that “for the second time in my life I am fake graduating from a college in my hometown.”

Also, Damon said during his commencement scene that the scene in Good Will Hunting where his janitor character solves the equation on the blackboard was based on an actual incident with his brother, Kyle. “He was visiting a physicist that we knew at MIT and he was walking down the infinite corridor. He saw those blackboards that line the halls. So my brother, who’s an artist, picked up some chalk and wrote an incredibly elaborate totally fake version of an equation. It was so cool and completely insane that no one erased it for months. This is a true story.” That’s so cool!

Damon mentioned the theoretical possibility that life is a simulation. “If there are multiple simulations how come we have to be in the one where Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee for president?” He encouraged the graduates to make a difference in the world and cited a litany of problems that need solutions including Brexit, the banking system, the refugee crisis, climate change and “a media that thrives on scandal and people with their pants down.” Guilty as charged. Damon also talked about his work with Water.org, the importance of clean water and the people who have made an impression on him during his charity work. Damon’s speech is incredible and I would recommend you watch it if you get a chance.