The Daily Zeitgeist - Dear Owen Wilson: SOLOMON GEORGIO LOVES MARY J. BLIGE

Episode Date: July 2, 2022

Blair welcomes Solomon Georgio (Conan, Comedy Central, The Juice podcast) to the show. He comes on to profess his love to a famous R&B legend.  Links: - Follow Blair on Instagram - Follow Blair on Twitter - Follow Solomon on Instagram - The Juice Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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iHeartRadio apps, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, everyone, and welcome back. I'm so excited for you guys to hear this episode. It was so funny, had me laughing my absolute ass off. My guest today is my friend, Solomon Giorgio. Hilarious man. You've seen him on Conan, Comedy Central, HBO, and so many other places. He's a writer on many of your favorite shows. And you need to check out his new podcast called The Juice. It's all about low-stakes gossip.

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It's going to be so much fun. Also, as I said, we'll be doing an hour of new material at the Elysian Theater in LA on Monday, June 6th at 7.30pm. Ticket links for both of those shows will be in the show notes of this podcast. Follow me at Blair Saki on Twitter and Instagram. And please rate, subscribe and review this podcast if you want to be a really good supportive person that I love. Okay, everyone. thank you so much. And please enjoy this episode. Welcome to the Dear Owen Wilson podcast. I'm your host Blair Saki. It's great to be with you guys again as we get this thing off the ground i am going to be reminding you the first few episodes what the show is about yes it is based on a real letter that i wrote to owen

wilson in 2007 telling him how much i loved him i do not know if he received the letter only time will tell i have every intention of having him on this podcast, and I do think that it will become a reality. But I have made this podcast off my live show that I've had for five years where comedians come on, read letters to celebrities they love, and then I interview them as the shrewd interviewer that I am. interviewer that I am. And do I have a treat for you today? Because I picked the all stars of the live show to come in hot at the beginning of this podcast. And this guy, he's an incredible comedian, very famous, a motherfucking producer on all your favorite shows. I'm so happy to have him. Please welcome my friend Solomon Giorgio. Hi, Blair. Solomon, thank you so much for coming on today.

Look, as a fellow blonde, I needed to. Your hair is looking really good. Is that fresh? Yeah, this touch up, yeah. Yeah, it's looking very fresh. How are you? I'm good. Just hanging out in my house with my wigs.

Your gorgeous house with your gorgeous room of wigs. I'm pleased that I got to see it. Yeah, I got more. Yeah, your collection is growing by the day. That's what I'm going for. You really have a great hobby going there in your gorgeous house. Yes, well, they're going to get my inheritance. They're going to.

They're the only thing in my will are the wigs. Yeah, but I mean, that's going to be a hell of a will to receive for someone. Wow. They're lucky. Oh, no, no. The wigs are getting the stuff. Not people, the wigs are my children Oh god, my bad I'm my mistake, I misunderstood That makes sense, of course

Okay, well I'm just gonna have you start off And then we're gonna get into it Yeah, I'll read my letter Dear Mayor J. Blige Very few people read my letter. Dear Mayor J. Blige, Very few people get to say they are Mayor J. Blige. As a matter of fact, only one person can say they are Mayor J. Blige, and that is you, Mayor J. Blige.

I love saying your name. It's the top ten best names in the history of names. It's almost like you were destined to be one of the greatest R&B singers of all time. You also practically invented high-heeled boots. I know they existed before you were born, but you invented them. And after seeing you at the Super Bowl, my eyes swelled with tears. I was just so happy to see you stomping in those boots, singing your heart out, whipping

all 30 inches of that perfect hair. I'm not going to mention your age like other so-called fans because you are ageless and it always makes me smile to see you perform. And your acting, it's better with every project. You were a great Dinah Washington in respect, and you should have gotten the Oscar for Mudbound. You might say, what is the point of this letter? There is no point.

I just like to say, just like you so much, and hope you never stop doing what you do best, or doing whatever you want. Thank you for everything you've done. Thank you for telling us to find real love. Thank you for always giving us the 411. Thank you for letting us know you're doing just fine. And thank you for single-handedly stopping all the haterations in the Danceries.

You are a goddess and an icon. And everybody would be a much better person if they had a little Mary. Ja Rule bless. Solomon, Georgia. Oh! I think I shed a motherfucking tear on that one. Wow. Wow.

Yes. And how timely after the Super Bowl. Really, it's great. Really should have been the only headliner, honestly, as far as I'm concerned. If you're asking me, Mary J. Blige is good enough for a whole halftime show. Yeah, no, I completely agree. Well, Solomon, it's so great to have you back uh yeah you've done the show multiple times always been a hit the crowd favorite absolutely

solomon mary j blige has been called the queen of hip-hop soul yes do you think souls exist? And if so, how would you explain your soul's behavior? Good question. I do believe souls exist. Question is, do I have only one soul? I don't think so. I feel like I've been stealing souls left and right since I was a child. And I think that's only fair. I feel like people aren't a lot of people aren't using their souls very well and i just like taking in as many as possible wow so you sort of have like a voldemort thing um do you do you put uh people the the souls that you steal into you know objects around the house or what do you do with them exactly first of all stealing isn't that's not the case they just go with me they're done with their person i'm they see me

and they're like you know what i'm done with this person i'll follow solomon home and they just hang out and about like i feel like i feel like there's just like a few things they like to eat. Like my weights for sure have several souls. So whenever I like work out, like I bring like soul cycle. That's what I'm doing. Okay, so if I'm hearing you correctly, I misspoke. You are not stealing any souls. What's happening is the souls are going freely on their free will. They see you.

They get a little taste of the soul dog. And they said, that's the direction I'm going. Like, I'm going to go follow Solomont. To hell. Yes. Oh, yes. So your soul is just like this bright, beaming, pulsing light that the other souls can't resist. Yes, exactly.

And they said, I'm going home with a man with a roof full of wigs. Yeah. Right. It makes sense. There's no, like, logically, it makes sense to them. And I get it. And I'm not going to deny them. They should follow me. It's the best place to to live best place to be and honestly i have really good snacks that always helps

yeah yeah well oh my god i'm just so glad i got you on the podcast because like that is something that i actually needed to learn yesterday um about the souls the snacks the whole thing Solomon okay so Solomon according to my private detective Lucian Wickles and if you're just tuning into the show I will remind our new and emerging

but rabid audience that Lucian Wickles is indeed my private investigator and dear friend, although he does not call me his friend back, that I met in the Kern River while fishing for crawdads. Anyways, now that you're all caught up again, Lucian did tell me Mary is known for wanting no more drama.

Please describe, Solomon, in extreme detail why you love drama so much and what do you think that Mary would have to say about this? I feel like you know what sometimes you do things that makes your heroes disappointed and that's fine. That's fine. And you know what? You can't have all these souls

with no drama and that's just the way it is. Right. It's the task that I took on. i'm hoping she never finds out about this yeah um because yeah my life is is drama filled like this morning i um i made coffee and i could have just made regular coffee but i made an espresso and honestly that's way too dramatic like it's it's just too much oh my god wow an espresso this morning you're doing a lot it's really it was a lot it was a lot and honestly it wasn't even this morning it was like noon i really that's like i i went out i went out last night on a wednesday that's and that's very dramatic that

is dramatic but i love that also because life is meant to be lived baby yeah yes i'm and honestly i'm gonna do it again i'm gonna go out on another wednesday i'm sure of it okay so he's drinking espresso very dramatic also i'm currently drinking a dr pepper from mcdonald's which is also a lot for oh my god i didn't think you could top it but here we go he just keeps going um so we're gonna hope that mary doesn't find out but what do you think she would say you know she knew about what was going down the truth in your house she'd be like no more drama i think she would say i think that's i think she will say her her that's i think she will say

her her catchphrase which is important like when she's like she sees the drama and she's like you know what no more of this right right but you know even when i love someone if i if i feel that there's a rule i will break it i will go running through that fence. Look, it's just drama is, it's so fun, you know? Yes. It's like kicking your shoes off and sticking them in a nice, cool stream. Sure, yeah. That's how I think of drama. Putting my feet in a nice, cool stream.

It's like that's, it's just I have to have to do it yeah it's a way of life okay right i think i understand i do um and mary will make sure and nobody i want all my listeners around the globe uh internationally nobody snitch on solomon remember am Italian If I find out that any of you If I find out that Any of you snitch to Mary Then I'm coming for you Okay Next question

Mary J. Blige Recently performed at the Super Bowl Halftime show What would you say Do you think you could pull off the outfit that she wore? And if not, why? Absolutely. No question asked.

I would easily pull off that outfit. I think that's the whole point of her clothing is that they can be worn by other people. Right. You think that's going into the thought of what she's putting on? Yeah. she's like you know what i bet people i know could pull this off and yeah i'm like you know what i can i can do it like am i gonna do it no oh you're not but that's that might be too much drama for me really i didn't know there was such a thing.

It is. It is a thing. You have to, you have to, you have like, drama has to stay in low doses. It's like a, you have to microdose drama. Right. Microdosing has never really been my thing, but I'm trying to learn. Yeah. I, um, I've been like, I've been like a lot of people microdose stuff.

You can microdose things. Sure. Drama. Yeah. Nothing else though.ose stuff. You can microdose things. Sure. Drama. Yeah. Nothing else, though. Everything else. I just do a full dose. Full dose.

I'm a full doser left and right. Except for drama. OK. Except for drama. Yeah. Because I got to be honest. I don't know if I could have pulled off that Mary outfit. And I I think it's incredible. But I don't know if it would work on off that Mary outfit. And I think it's incredible, but I don't know if it would work on me.

Surf girl. I feel like it's just, it just has to have the confidence, really. And if you listen to enough Mary's music, you will have that confidence. And that's kind of, that's what her songs do. It lets you know that you can do that.

You're right. Maybe I'm selling myself short and I should get that outfit to wear at one of my shows to the virgil um honestly just wear it to like trader joe's okay just get yourself um like a fucking ready to make indian meal on their freezer yeah you know what my shit is usually from trader joe's is one of those cauliflower pizzas i like to fire those up on a sunday when i'm hung over from having two and a half drinks and um when i think that i'm when i think that i'm being um a skinny bitch for having cauliflower pizza even though it's really actually 950 calories and it's all a lie what trader joe's you go to or do you not want to share to the

listeners worldwide unfortunately i actually don't live near trader joe's anymore i used to uh but now i'm very close to a gelson's and obviously for me it's about um distance when it comes to grocery shopping we actually share the same gelson's we have a mutual gelson's in which i am constantly trying to stay away from but i'm always pulled back in the drama it's honestly it's just right it's right there yeah it is and i can't avoid it you know what's funny is um pre-pandem the oaks i would go to the oaks gourmet every morning and get a brown bag full of bacon and a coffee that was my breakfast before i would go to you know one of my 12 set meetings uh because i'm just so healthy and um but then they shut down then they shut down the oaks and um they eventually

did come back but it's a counter situation, which I don't like. Outdoor counter situation, so I stopped. Yeah, ordering a bag of bacon from a counter isn't the same. You said it, pal. It sure is not. Yeah, if I could turn back time,

those are the days. I never knew that I was living high and mighty then i really didn't at the time but you know we forge ahead we have to to the gelson's right next door their salad bar was gone for a long time too and thank god it's back because you know it's easier trying to be a skinny bitch out here i can't like i like i got a salad is not a situation that i apply into my life oh good for you because i never know if i'm full i'm just know that my jaw is tired from eating salad you know what that's one of the truer things i've ever heard about salad okay sometimes by Sometimes by the end, I'm like, God, this is still going.

We're still doing this. I've aged two years. This shit is never ending. It's really. And like, it's like, especially if you're getting like a fucking like a radicchio or like a cabbage, like the crisp. I love radicchio. Those are a journey, though. You are just, you're just going, you're just there.

You're just chewing. Yeah, you're just going, you're just there. You're just chewing. Yeah, you're right. Radicchio and cabbage in a salad, it sort of feels like you're in a jungle with no path to walk on, and you're just fighting through with a machete. And I feel like arugula, for me, is probably, like, the best dream,

because it's, like, it gets the wettest. Right. So it's, like, it's easy. Like, by halfway done, it's it gets the wettest. So it's like it's easy. Like by the time by halfway done, it's slimy. So you can easily just force it down. You know, it's funny, Solomon. Funny that you bring up arugula because, you know, I put down bags of it as a Italian girl. And but I find as I bring it up to people,'s extremely polarizing a lot of people hate arugula

yeah because it has um oh god a flavor uh spice a tang to it yeah and that's a lot of people have issue with a green that has that has any presence yeah and i'm here for a full body green. That's what I want. That's my preference is a green that's like, I'm here to be in your mouth. You want a green that takes up space, leaves a memory. With agency. I want a green with agency. Right.

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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. So, according to Lucian Wickles, Mary J. Blige once said, I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world, but I'm one of them. Do you, Solomon, consider yourself one of the most beautiful people in the world?

And do you think I'm beautiful? And do you have any single friends who you think would be interested in me? I'm for sure beautiful. I know you're beautiful. Do I have any single friends that would be interested in you? Most likely. But should you be interested in them? Absolutely not.

I feel like no single man in my life. You're right, I've probably met all of them. I've probably dated and met most of them. You've for sure met all of them, honestly. Probably all in the same space. And I can guarantee you, none of them, worth it. Yeah, yeah, you're right. I am trying to move into a different stage of my life.

For the listeners, I have huge updates in that I have decided to stop being, you know, afraid of commitment. And I'm really going to look for my husband now. I think you should be terrified of commitment. No, I already did that. Are you sure? Because it's really scary like commitments to me it's just like it never stops being a giant monster yeah i think i decided that well because i really did that hard i mean i committed hard to the no commitment and i have

come to a place now shockingly suddenly don't know how it happened maybe the tides maybe time passing something where i'm like oh i'm ready to let love in is it the breath work is that what it is i don't think so that is i feel like that helps a little bit maybe yeah maybe that's it maybe it's always like i also like i feel like when you spend enough time with yourself, you eventually go, yeah, somebody else has to be here for this. Yeah, you're right. You're right. I'm getting there too.

I'm actually there. I'm definitely like, oh, wow. You know what? That's too much of me. Somebody needs to take care of this. Yeah, yeah. I know. I think it's good.

I'm like, I'm sure working hard to make sure nobody loves me you know look I I think it's the best thing for you to like it's I feel like I'm not even here for love I just want to ruin somebody else's day right drama that sounds yeah cool pool cool stream foot in the cool. And that sounds... And ruining someone's day sounds like putting your feet in a cool stream. I think that's the best part of a relationship. Just ruining somebody else's day

with one text message. Do you say that on stage? You have to. Just say it now. Okay, fine. Dear Owen Wilson Exclusive, you heard it here first. Dear Owen Wilson exclusive. Okay, Solomon.

Mary J. Blige. According to Lucian Wickles, Mary J. Blige has admitted to liking potatoes. Solomon, and I'm sorry for the hard hitting question But do you like potatoes? Why or why not? Potatoes are the best fruit ever invented And I think they're a fruit Because they're so versatile Yes

It's a great juice It's honestly like it's It's so like you can make literally anything with it like you can make it into a pasta if you want to like gnocchi yeah or like you like uh cut it up and like make it into like a wig as well you can make an outfit i have like potato peels like you can like sure a bunch of potatoes and make a potato peel dress right you could do that even like the sacks that come in are like fashion accessories yeah so i feel like they do so much they do you're right you and mary both love potatoes yeah i feel like there can be we can replace everything in our lives with potatoes remember when you could plug in uh

like the little wires into it and like light up a light bulb yeah we have so many potatoes we should be like charging everything with potatoes right you should we should probably call biden after this and let him know what we discovered about potatoes now i have a must-be dial yeah now that uh mary brings this up mary j blige brings us up about potatoes i am thinking about how that time in ireland i think about i learned about this one year in elementary school how there was a potato famine and the whole country almost just stopped existing because the whole country was run on potatoes and you know i think they were they didn't do it right i think they were just too drunk to figure it out yeah no that is actually a really solid hypothesis because what happened there with the famine yeah i feel like people like say like hey

potatoes are not really healthy and they're not the best for you and i think and they're like if that's all we have we'll get sick and that's not good i'm like i don't i don't think so i think that's not true right you think it's a fruit juice yeah i think this i feel like they might have not spiced it properly i don't know i'm like i don't want to like i don't want to judge a whole country uh right during the worst time in their history um but you know maybe we can tell maybe this is a discussion about what was going on with those potatoes like let's open it up and see like i don't want to victim blame but right right here i am you don't want to victim blame but we have some questions about your agriculture yeah upkeep okay yeah i'm just i'm a lot of questions i'm a lot of questions. I got a lot of questions. Right, right. No victim blaming here.

Ireland. Okay. Don't call us up. No, call me up. Here's my number. What if Ireland called you? Look, if this is what gets me canceled, so be it. I've been waiting years to get canceled.

And I want this to be the one. I want this to be the reason oh my god mary would definitely hear about it yeah she's like that is for sure too much drama and she'll call me up and like say no more drama yeah but i feel like she would really like you so it would be in like a caring way you know no she'd probably be upset that Ireland snitched more. Which that's the real drama is snitching. That's like the biggest drama crime is snitching. I agree. And just another reminder to everyone listening.

No snitching to Ireland. All right. There is a threat coming from me, the host, to anyone who snitches because it is against my culture, the Italian culture. Hands down. My last name is Giorgio, so I get it. Right, for both of us.

We're both Italian. Yes. Okay. So, Solomon, according to lucian wickles mary j blige is known for bringing hip-hop and r&b into the mainstream what have you ever brought to the mainstream god to the mainstream um i'm that's fair i know call me barbara walter sorry for being such a shrewd interviewer I'm... I know. Call me Barbara Walter. Sorry for being such a shrewd interviewer. Well, I feel like I brought almost everything

except R&B and hip-hop. Like, I did everything else. I brought everything else to the mainstream. Oh, wow! That is crazy. Everything that Mary J. Blige didn't cover, I did. Okay, so... Really, you're responsible for potatoes kind of just absolutely going off in this country.

Hands down. Like the flare jeans moment in the 90s. That was me. Oh my God, that was you? You were behind that? Oh yeah, you know that moment when everybody was like cutting the belts part of their pants and wearing them as low risers and doing the will- was you first me hands down right oh my god i thought i was such a hot little pre-teen like um middle schooler wearing my jeans like that and how

little did i know is because of my future friend solomon georgio yeah it was me and actually before it was called the rachel it was called the Solomon. And no one remembers that. But yeah, I did it first. Oh my God. Whoa. This is drama. Yeah, she saw me at a Walmart. She saw me at a Walmart.

I was buying batteries. And I had my hair fully out. And she was like, that's the look for me. That's it? Yeah, that was it. So Sally Hershberger, famous stylist from friends yes she saw you in a walmart absolutely ripped off your look i was buying c batteries that's like i was like i was specifically there because i was i don't know why because it was an alarm

clock that needed c batteries and i had to be like i had to go like i've been also they're so hard to find now it's just so crazy oh my god you know what's incredible about this podcast is we are learning history that the world has no idea about tmz is gonna be all over my ass i can't say i'm looking forward to it honestly they already know this they already know this they never give me the credit they already know oh really yeah team i've well because i i invented tmz uh first whoa so it was like i was doing tmz i was called smz uh and that harvey saw me doing it and he was like you know what i'm gonna take this from you so that's why we never like that's that's why it's never worked out so i even invented like i even invented the mainstream oh my god like

like the mainstream like the i'm not only brought things to the mainstream i invented the mainstream as well oh which is where that is a stream the cool stream that i put my feet in when i started oh my god my mind has broken into a million pieces it's just so hard to take in all of it at once. I can't believe, I mean, what a get for the D'Ero and Wilson podcast. Basically, the inventor of the mainstream, folks. And the cool pool for the toes, for the drama. Hands down. It's what I did.

It's what I've been doing. So, I just cannot believe sally hershberger what a thief what a goddamn thief harvey whatever the name is but actually i do think it's for the best that you didn't that he sold tmz out and under from you because that's too much drama and we like you're trying to microdose i'm microdosing drama and honestly it's fine it's fine for me because I'm not a snitch. And I want these people to flourish. So they're fine.

Wow. Have you, Solomon, ever retaliated when one of the one million people stole your ideas? No. Wow. I just, their souls leave them and they come with me. Oh my God. So I get their soul. So and that's like, that's like the biggest like that's revenge for

me like but at the end they're not gonna have they don't realize they don't have their soul and i'm over here hanging out with their soul wow and so they're just their soul just voluntarily leave their body so they're just empty bags of skin walking around roaming the earth without their stolen idea whatever it's their life. Wow. So there's actually, it's sort of like a, what I didn't even know,

there's sort of like a new age, contemporary, headless horseman thing kind of happening around town right now because all the souls are just trying to go with you. Yeah. Wow.

It's like once they see their person steal an idea, they're like, why would I be with this? Lizard. This thief, this terrible. Unoriginal thief. Yeah, I'm gonna go with the mainstream. Yeah, with the generator of ideas, the innovator.

Wow. And that's what we do, we workshop all day ideas. With all your bands of souls? Oh yeah. of souls oh yeah there's so many here and like it's a really it's like a great like like it's like the pitching the pitch meetings in the morning that's what i got the espresso for was to pitch with a soul wow it's sort of like a collective what do you take them for walks out on the street like a dog or no you know what they're pretty they're i i feel like they like the stuff i own right so they just spend their day just staring at my furniture yeah because you um perfectly curated it in a way that they in such an undeniable way that

they could not stay away they were purely magnetized yeah they just had to stay they just so yeah they're just they're chilling they're chilling right now they're just downstairs hanging out so no 10 000 steps for the souls i'm jealous oh they're good they don't need them they don't need them they stay super skinny oh my god they're so the souls are thin rail thin literally they are rails uh souls are shaped like rails you didn't know that i didn't know that i can tell i know that wow, you know what's crazy? I'm going to have to talk to Lucian because he did not tell me any of this

and I am paying him so much money. Well, I feel like I have his soul and that kind of... Solomon. Solomon, please. I'm going to have a heart attack. It's just the way it is. Look, if you're going to,

like if somebody's snooping around, the soul is going to also be like, I'm going to go. Oh, my God. Wait, so then who is in Lucian Wickles, my private detective and best friend? Who knows? Who knows? Oh, my God.

That's really terrifying. I'm going to have to do like some sort of seance Ouija board. Yeah. Make sure he doesn't fuck with your soul. God, I'm going to have to call in some protections. Damn. Damn. The roogala is not cutting it also i do have a business uh for soul protection so if you ever wow man you are a busy guy i don't know when you even sleep i don't and it's fine like i said i woke up today i didn't it

was just me literally standing still with my eyes open that's like a vampire no because i i i i invented the idea first so like you can say vampires are like solomon that's kind of So, like, you could say vampires are like Solomon. That's kind of... What am I talking about? Wow. Wow. I have a lot to think about.

I'll tell you that. After this podcast, I have a lot of integration to happen. Okay, so I guess we better move to the next question because my brain is breaking by the moment. So according to Lucian, Mary has a line of sunglasses called Melodies by MJB. Do you like to wear sunglasses? And if so, what are you hiding um a lot of things honestly mostly um various businesses for various businesses i feel like when you're outside and um you're not wearing sunglasses that's i think that's when people when you can see people's eyes in public

that's just like that's not that's not cool i feel like you're insulting that's a very insulting thing for me like like you're naked sort of eyes of the window to the soul close your fucking windows because you don't want like if you want to keep your soul you should be wearing sunglasses that's really what happens to all these people they were not wearing sunglasses they steal idea and you know what their soul just right through their eye. Oh, my God. Like a real thin. Wow. This is essential information for my listeners. And I'll tell you what, folks. You won't be catching my ass walking outside without any sunglasses.

From now on, these eyes are covered. Okay. I recommend getting Melody's by MJB. Mary should send you maybe a few pairs to your house. That would be great. Right. Let's manifest that. Yeah, let's manifest that.

I'm sure if she found out that hundreds of people were losing their souls, she would be happy to lend some of her melodies by MJB out. Because she wanted to help the community. That's,'s all like she is she's a philanthropist she's very concerned she's about communities and souls solomon do you have a name for all these empty bodies walking around that are just sort of weekend at bernie's without souls i don't know they're just i guess i want to say they're people, but... They're not really. I say, like, that's a kind of a person.

That's like a kind of. Like, it's not, but kind of. You know? Okay, so we call them it's not, but kind of. Yeah. Right. Okay, yeah, that makes total sense. I completely agree with you. Definitely. I'm going to be really scrupulously on the lookout for these people because i don't really want to be hanging around with any just loose bodies oh look there's some of them are good people a lot of them are good people they're fine yeah we

just don't know who's at the wheel well no one's at the wheel they're just recklessly driving like like like there's plenty it's driverless cars like a tesla they'll walk into a person right yeah i don't want any of these kind of kind of but maybe um walking it not really but kind of bumping into me yeah like i don't i don't have that kind of prejudice i want i'm fine with people with or without souls i feel feel like that's... Right. That's just who I am. Right. Well, I guess I need to take some time out and listen and reflect. Yeah. Because I have some inner work to do.

I think so. Because I don't want this to be the reason you get canceled. Right. I mean, I don't know when it's coming, but... when it's coming but maybe it's because I said I don't want to be just hanging around with any loose sacks of skin

and you know what that's a weird thing to say in this day and age right this is it's just gonna be an eight second clip that just on Twitter that just gets retweeted to death. Yeah. Yeah. Then that's a danger. All they need is just the one soundbite.

Right. But you know, I don't want to live in fear, you know, as they say in club culture. And that's why you're ready for commitment. See? Yeah. I'm having fear leave my body, which maybe means my soul left a long time ago. I don't know't know probably I don't have it

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Well, I guess if the eyes are the window, the mouth is the door to the soul. Whoa. There's a lot of things. It's a fully it's a blocked up door. There's like teeth. Oh, sure. Like a lash can tickle you and that's the worst but like a tooth a tooth can fucking do some damage right okay got it okay so if the soul if the soul tries to escape from

the mouth the tooth could injure it and also like the ears gross it's so waxy nasty no no ears are so disgusting if you think about it yeah like when it comes to the holes in the face the eye is probably like the best one the most chic yes respectable yeah and most probably i don't know artistic also yeah it's it's just everyone's eyes is a signature right it tells it tells their story and i think that's important and like i feel like people don't like not like hooded eyes that's that's beautiful right i got a couple of those i got hooded eyes i dream of just like the giant expo like greta greta has the most non-hooded eyes i've ever seen look you can it definitely is easier for makeup. Right.

But I think it's kind of cool to have this nice little layer of space. Yeah, it's like they're uncircumcised eyes. Exactly. Can you get them? Can you get the hooded eyes? Yeah, you definitely can. Oh, wow. Right. Yeah, you can get in there

a little snip snip. No more hooded eyes. Uncircumcised. Uncut gems. I don't want to lose that sensitivity. That's my favorite argument about not getting circumcised. Like, you'll lose that sensitivity. I'm like, I don't want my penis to be more sensitive. It's too sensitive. it's already ruining your life

I'm not like over here with a circumcised penis like oh my god I can't feel anything nothing at all wow another D. Rowan Wilson exclusive the exclusives don't stop folks they really don't okay alright well Rowan Wilson exclusive. The exclusives don't stop, folks. They really don't. Okay. All right.

Well, according to Lucian Wickles, in August 2007, Mary J. Blige was a guest star on the show Entourage in the role of herself as a client of Ari Gold's. Do you agree that this role was below her and that she should instead be treated like the oscar

nominated star that she is yeah she should have been on uh sex in the city uh she should have replaced all four women and it should have been called mary in the city uh or mary's and the city and and like she they don't even like do like the the cut thing between like she has to jump into every role real quick she just has to throw on a wig to be samantha throw on another wig to be and you know what i think that would have been a much more fun show yeah wow wow i i didn't even think of that and now that you've brought it to the table i think that is a really real that idea has some legs oh yeah like just imagine mary j blige being samantha like oh i love fucking and then she takes the wig off and runs the other side of the table and puts on the dark-haired And it's like, wow, that's too much sex.

Samantha! Wow, Samantha! No! Charlotte's the prude. I gotta get married now. Okay, so did you see her? And she would play Mr. Big as well. Oh my God, wow. okay so did you see her and she would play mr big as well oh my god wow because well i guess

we've never seen so many have this much range yeah well the only person that will still be in the cast is steve i think that's the only person who should say everybody else is played by mary really oh so you're a big uh steve stan not at all not at all i just think he should just be there. He should be there to learn. To learn. To learn. Like as a PA or a gaffer. Like not like on the road. Okay. I love Steve.

I really love Steve. I think he's one of the best characters. But my favorite character is Harry Goldenblatt, Charlotte's second husband. Oh, yes. The bald Jewish man who always doesn't wear underwear with a shirt on and leaves his tea bags on all of her nice tables. I've seen one episode of Sex and the City. Oh, okay. Yeah.

It seems like you're a huge fan by all the ideas that you are generating on the spot. Honestly, I am. I loved the episode i saw i just never got around but i'm like the biggest fan right right yeah and you also just have a different vision for the show with mary yeah right so like i feel like that version is the right version and that's the version i've been thinking of sure okay um that's very fair and um did you or did you not see Mary on... I don't know if I'm allowed to be calling her Mary.

I think I should go Mary J. Blige. Yes. Did you see... Did you see... Did you see Mary J. Blige on Entourage? I know I watched that episode of Television. Do I remember it? Unfortunately not, because I felt like that was definitely too big for her.

Right. Especially like just she should get better reps. Right. Like that's Ari Gold repping Mary J. Blige doesn't make sense to me. Right. Right. OK, got it.

It's like not in my universe. Yeah. I also, you know, I was one. One. Let me say, I'm socian wickles wrote that question it's wild to think of um a 75 year old man who loves fishing for crawdads write that question but um i also too i was gonna be surprised if you had ever seen entourage well i was um i like i was near tv a lot uh in the early 2000s oh so that can happen

it's like it's just like sometimes you just turn the tv on it's just entourage right and entourage was huge at the time i thought when i was young and you know uh just coming out of orange county and you know i grew up in extreme toxic masculinity or maybe just extreme masculinity um and I was like wow this show is incredible it's groundbreaking at the time because I didn't have enough um feminine influence in my life yet I was looking at it as like I need to beat these men up eventually so how how do I take these men down and then you watch every episode you're like these men are incredibly weak it It'd be very easy to take any one of them down.

God, I thought they were so cool and hot at the time. Greta and I did run into AJ and Grenier on a hike two years ago and I don't know if he wanted to talk to us or he genuinely was

extremely interested in greta's dog but he stopped and we had a whole convo yeah i saw him do karaoke once and i'm gonna tell you right now not impressed really was not impressed that's why i can't do karaoke in front of any of my gay friends because it's the only song that i can sing genuinely. And it's not because I can't carry a tune. I can. It's purely because of my voice. If you guys can believe it. The only song that I can actually sing is Heart of Glass by Blondie.

That's a fantastic song. Thank God I have one. That's a good song. That's like one of the best songs of all time. Yeah, but I want to go off. It's a good song. It's a good song. That's like one of the best songs of all time. Yeah, but I want to go off. It's a good song. It's a great song. Well, when I felt like it was first,

like I wrote Heart of Ass and then... And I was... You wrote... You told me you wrote Heart of Ass. Yeah, and I was singing it when I was buying... I was at Walmart and I was buying batteries. I was getting D batteries this time. I was singing it to myself and Debra Harry was like the other end of the aisle.

And she just took out a notepad and ripped off your entire song and then became a star? But I have her soul, so we're good. These people need to be jailed. I'm not satisfied that you just have their soul. Like, you can't rip off artists, okay, people? Look, no, her soul is a great singer, too, so it's good. I don't mind. Oh, my God.

So if you ever want to hear, like, if you ever want to sing it to Debra Hairy's soul, just come over whenever. Oh, my God. Wow. That is actually a huge offer. That is thrilling. God. I call her Deborah now because of, you know, the whole incident.

But that's... Deborah. I can't wait to meet Deborah. Except, you know know it does happen like my Italian side does come out like I feel upset that these people you they're committing crimes no it's fine

it's fine intellectual property look heart of ass would have been probably like a bigger hit but it's fine heart of ass god you gotta be careful when you're buying batteries But it's fine. Heart of ass. God, Ed, you got to be careful when you're buying batteries because... A lot of things happen. There are a lot of people out there trying to steal from you.

And I only go to Walmart like four times ever. Wow. Just a case of the wrong place at the wrong time, I guess. All right. Well, Solomon, Mary's album, What's the 411, got the name from Mary's past occupation as a 411 operator. Did you know that? Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, you invented the mainstream. You invented the mainstream.

Can you please, on my cue, improvise a recreation of a situation in which Mary would be working as a 411 operator and maybe I could be the potential call? Mm-hmm. All right. Let me know when you're ready. Okay. Ring, ring, ring. Hi, thank you for calling 411. This isary j blige wow hello mary i was just i was just wondering if um you might be able to connect me with um adrian grenier

oh um from entourage the show entourage Well Entourage is not out yet And He's only like Two years old right now Oh But I can Oh my mistake My mistake

The show Wow I really got confused Because this is like 1987 Oh it's 1987 Oh my god I'm not even born yet so i'm talking to barely a person you're talking to a soul i guess yeah someone's soul gosh my bad i really am so i got egg on my face now i'm embarrassed but if you need to get directions to do Hands Across America, I can tell you where it is in your locale.

Oh, please. Yes. Thank you. It's so nice to talk with you, Mary. You have a really beautiful soul. I actually see an extremely bright future for you. Yeah, you know, a lot of people say that. Really? You get that a lot. I do get that a lot. Like they just call here to tell me that. That's the only thing, like it's 401 is for information but like people give me information too right are you wearing thigh high boots right now

hands down i'm typing with my thigh boots oh my god you are so talented you have to learn you have to just just because you're sitting down doesn't mean you can't keep your thigh highs uh working or type with your stilettos yeah absolutely okay well i guess i gotta leave you be because i know you have a lot of calls about Sitting down doesn't mean you can't keep your thigh highs working. Or type with your stilettos. Yeah, absolutely. Okay, well, I guess I got to leave you be because I know you have a lot of calls about your future. Yeah, thank you. Okay, well, I just adore you. And even though I'm not born yet, I really think you're the best.

Oh, that's so kind of you. Hopefully you have a good birth. And no drama. And no more drama. Bye. Wow, that was really fun okay oh my god solomon god what a journey we have been on that was crazy i i am changed forever holy shit you know we learned a lot of things today yeah and thank god I had you on right in the beginning of the podcast so that we could set a precedent for the rest of the guests. You know?

I'm serious. Yeah, good luck to them. Seriously, I wish them well. I pray for them because I don't know how anyone is going to follow this. I don't recommend it. I sure don't either. Maybe we should retire it after this episode that could be a good idea i do have one segment left before you go

this will be a segment once this thing absolutely launches off the ground into podcast oblivion, which, you know, I know is a niche market and I will absolutely explode in. I will be having listeners call in with their fan on the street encounters. But I'm wondering until then, if you have a fun celebrity encounter that you'd like to talk about, tell. God, there's so many. Right. I know you know all of them. We've already talked about a lot of them.

I did once serve tea to Nicole Kidman. You did? She was like porcelain. She was more delicate than the cup. Really? That makes sense to me. that was a moment to watch right her performance and drinking tea in atlacma on tuesday in a tuesday afternoon probably one of the greatest performs i've ever seen and i think she should have gotten the oscar for that yeah i agree you know she has like extreme ballerina energy it was very like it was like it's almost like paint like i was like is the cup hurting you like i was gonna like i was like it was very like it was very like i was

really concerned it's like is it too heavy oh my god that's a really good one so i like that to know that nicole in her free time likes to go take in some art oh Mm-hmm. Oh, no, she didn't go to the museum. She just came in for the tea. Oh. Wow. Yeah, she knew I was there. That makes sense. She probably wanted to steal from you. Oh, yeah. But she didn't have her glasses on, so that's see, that's, she knew. Oh, okay. She's smart.

God, wow. Thank God for this podcast. She was wearing melodies by MJB. Oh, my God. I have a real one that happened to me that I am going to exhaust my few celebrity encounter stories that are non-comedian based in the first handful of episodes. But one time, this is real. I had just moved to New York and my long distance boyfriend,

the other one I told was also during the same visit that my long distance boyfriend was visiting me. And I just moved. He was there. We were walking in Times Square hand in hand and holding hands. And it was very hot, like very crowded. And the traffic was going one mile an hour. And there was this black SUV next to me. mile an hour and there was this black suv next to me and this sees me holding hands and is just saying the most wild things to me very sexual things and i'm just like very uncomfortable

and then my boyfriend whatever he looks over stops thinking about whatever he was doing, looks over and was like, oh, my God, DMX, what's up? Goes over, shakes his hand, and that was a fun moment. Oh, wow. Yeah, you know what? I mean, I didn't like it, the moment it was happening, because I didn't know. But then after, I was like, oh, that guy, come on. You know?

Who let the dogs out? X being X. Yeah. Yeah, I like DMX. Come on. You know? Who let the dogs out? X, V, and X. Yeah. Yeah. I like DMX. I do. I like him.

Rest in peace. RIP? Yeah. Well, God, I think we covered it all. And we love Mary J. Blige. We love Solomon slash the mainstream. And what a gift it was to have you on this podcast. Yeah. I'm so happy to be here. It was a gift it was to have you on this podcast. Yeah, I'm so happy to be here.

It was a gift for me. Well, we have a lot to discuss the next time we see each other. Way too much to discuss. All right, pal. Thanks for coming on. Thank you for having me. Okay, bye. I'm Carrie Champion, and this is Season 4 of Naked Sports.

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