August 15, 2022 • 53 mins
Blair welcomes NBA comedic titan, Josiah Johnson, to the show. Josiah comes on to honor a beloved gameshow host.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone, and welcome back to my podcast, The Dear
Owen Wilson Podcasts. We are rocking and rolling, having fun.
Thank you for listening. God, we're getting this thing off
the ground, you and me. It's exciting. I'm loving it.
How much longer until Owen Wilson comes on? Do you think?
I feel like it's not gonna be that long? Um?
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But thank you guys so much for your feedback. Of
course means so much to me. I'm loving you. God,
do I have an episode for you today? It's so exciting. Okay,
I have the key. He's known as the King of
NBA Twitter. Josiah Johnson is on the podcast today, and God,
did we have a fun time. I had to, you know,
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coax things out of him because, um, he does a
lot of basketball commentary, and I don't know if um
he was quite expecting, you know, all my frivolous goofy tangents.
But I opened him up us and we had a
fun time. We talked. You know, we're both former U
c l A athletes, so we talked about that. That
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was fun. You get a little peek into my uh
sinister athletic past, and it was just really a fun time,
and he really reads his letter to someone quite unexpected.
I share wasn't expecting it, and he put a lot
of effort into that letter. It was actually incredible. It
was like beautiful art. Anyway, it's such a good episode.
I had so much fun. I'm so excited for you
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to listen to it. I know you guys are as
excited as I am. Because Josiah Johnson, everybody knows him
a lot of celebrity stories, so that are fun t
on this one. Also, I just wanted to remind you
I will be doing my hour in l A at
Dynasty Typewriter Wednesday, September seven pm. We will be raising
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fun doing it while watching some live comedy. I am news.
This Dynasty Typewriter show is sort of like the beginning.
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I will be shooting an hour special and this is
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cares even a little bit. God bless your motherfucking soul. Anyways,
enjoy this episode. I love you guys, and have a
great week. Okay, welcome everybody back to another audition of
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the Dero in Wilson Podcast with your host s Blair
Sake and what a show do I have for you today, crowd?
I'm telling you this guest I got crazy. Wait, actually
I think we met many years ago out of college
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called U c l A. We're both you know, athlete tycoons.
But I don't know if we really met, but I
knew who he was or if we met, maybe in
the weight room. You should have seen my quads back then.
It was insane. Um. Anyways, this man, he's taking over
Twitter by storm now, he's all over the television. He's
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a basketball god. Hilarious. None other my friend Justid Johnson. Everybody,
what's going down? I think I might have been We
might we might have been used to, like for like
a year together, but I'm I'm far older than you,
(04:41):
so we might have just missed each other, but obviously
be hung in the same circles and a lot of
the same people. Yeah. No, I thought you were a
senior when I was a freshman. I think so. I'm
pretty sure. Yeah I remember seeing you. Yeah, for sure,
I was. I was definitely around Lingering kind of a
little bit too after I graduated, So really, little Van Wilder, Um, Yeah,
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that seems like a different lifetime ago. Now it was
a good time. You'll go to games and ship, are
you still like involved? Not really, it's kind of hard
to get tickets, but yeah, when when they have tickets
for me, I'll definitely pull up every once in a while.
Is you see good? They're good enough? Yeah, entertaining. They
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were entertaining, so they're like competitive, but they're not like
in the Holland years. Uh, they're getting back. I think
mccron is doing a good job with the squad and
getting that team back to where it needs to be.
They went to the Final Four a couple of years
ago during the pandy, so nobody can go to the
game except for like twenty people, but you got to
go some games this year. They looked, okay, wow, Yeah,
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that was just so sad for like any lifetime dream
to happen during the pandemic, like things you worked your
whole life for and then no one can go to
the game. You have to play the Final Four in silence. Yeah.
It was pretty whack, like literally like you have like
family members showing up and they can like the hotel
was locked off today to like banging on the window
to say how to their their their kids and you
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know what I mean, it was a sad, sad time,
but they got through a n C double is gonna
get their money always. Yeah, it's so weird all that
stuff happens. Like I, um I was doing in a
show in Hawaii the week like the world shutdown and
um I panic flew home to see my niece get born,
who was born on March fifteenth, but then I couldn't
go to the hospital sort of like the sort of
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like um U c l A in the Final Four,
kind of the same thing. Um. Well, yeah, it's just
really good to have you on my podcast. This is
a huge celebrity get for me. Um we were here
celebrity to so this is celebrities converging. Obviously we've crossed
passed a bunch of times in the past few years
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because Megan and CJ and kind of all that good stuff.
So happy to be able to participate. Thank you. Okay, So,
as you know on this podcast, it's a letter of fandom.
It started because I wrote a creepy letter to Owen
Wilson many years ago. Um but without further ado, I
would love for you to read us your letter. I'm
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so thrilled to hear who your celebrity is. Sorry, I
to drink a bunch of water, almost choked to death.
I'm getting it back together, all right, hold on, all right,
let me get all kay, let me get in back in. Yeah, no,
I love a near death experience at the top of
a podcast. It really builds um steaks and yeah, it
definitely raised the stakes here. All right, so I will
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read this letter, uh without further ado. Dear Alex Trebeck,
what is a legend for one? It's the only acceptable
answer the question. Alec Turbek is blank. The hardest working
Canadian in the game, draking Celindian and got shipped on you.
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Your mustache always fluffy even when you shaved it off,
and your heart always opened like a seven eleven. The
architect of my favorite team can show up all times.
Jeopardy the Thinking Man's and Women's game, the perfect program
to jump start every weekday evening, highlighting genius and exposing
idiots for their limited knowledge of things that start with
the letter Q, such as quandri, kiche, and quagmire, to
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name a few. Your impact on my life was profound.
I spent many hours glued in front of the television,
answering in the form of a question, dominating weak minded
family and friends alike. Embraced by the Black community with
an honorary to go play from the cook out, beloved
by crips and bloods. Your is m always top notch,
your timing ampeccable, with swag dripping from your ovaries. It
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made my heart flutter to know that early in your career,
your tan skin and perfectly manicure Jerry Curl had you
embraced in the African American community as a brother. Even
though technically you were another you were still our brother.
Words can't express what you mean to me and how
much random Shape is still festering in my brain, the
leftover remnants from my favorite game heroes gave he remembered.
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But legends never die and you, sir, we're all that
in the bad Get Chips cool ranch to Rito's at that.
What is a legend? Who is Alex Trebek? Appreciate it, Josiah.
I know I've been working on my writing. I'm actually
a good writer now. So I started, I started in
the beginning and brought it back at the end. Oh
my god, Josiah, I am stunned. I don't. We haven't
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had any. You just wrote like a fucking sonnet. That
was incredible. Put that U c l a theory education
to use theorizing about how to get a job. Oh,
I am moved right now. That made that might be
our best letter yet. How many guests have you had? Uh?
Probably like fifteen or twenty. Oh, there we go, We'll
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fuck it. Also, I've been doing the live show for
like five years, but wow, that was really something. I'm
wildly impressed. And folks, I gotta say I'm fucking jazz
for this interview. Get your seatbelt so on, cus, you
were about to lift off, bitch. Okay, here we go,
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oh Josiah. Also, I don't know if my producers let
you know, UM, but I do employ a man named
Lucian wiggles Um. He's a private investigator that I met
while fishing for crawdads in the Current River. And UM,
I pay him exorbitant amounts of money to do uh
(10:25):
exhaustive research on my guests and their celebrities. So if
there's any question that seems odd or something, it's because
a Lucian wrote it. Anyway, here we go. Um. According
to Lucian wiggles. Alex got expelled from the boarding school
his parents sent him to. Shortly after that, he attended
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military college but dropped out when they asked him to
cut his hair. In what situation have you left like
Alex because they tried to make you do ship that
you did not want to do. Okay, this is actually
a great story. So after college I was kind of
down and out struggling in life. Basketball had failed me
and turned his back on me, and no other options
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taturs day of my life, probably a professional life. Uh So,
trying to find a job on Craigslist, just like everybody
else back in those times. This was pretty like you know,
expansive and exhaustive Internet like we have did. A ended
up working for some company they were doing like uh
B two B business and business sales selling paper. Uh
they were selling white paper but apparently had it cheaper
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than other companies whatever. So I remember our borrowed a
suit for my dad. I had to go shadow this
guy as he went and sold paper in the South
Bay like San Pedro area, and uh probably one of
the most embarancing experiences of my life. Obviously, going from
getting like u s like sweatsuits and backpacks and unlimited
protein shakes in the weight room and gatorades Gatoray if
you will, to literally going door to door in San Pedro,
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banging on businesses doors and begging them to take our paper.
Sat point of that day was somebody recognized me and
they're like, oh man, you used to play at U
C l A. And I'm just yeah, I did, uh,
but again basketball failed me. So I went that one day,
never looked back, and uh, obviously super thankful. I was
never a door to door paper salesman. Nothing wrong with
doing that if that is your particular hustle, just wasn't
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built for me. Oh my god, that's so funny that
you say that, because I I um had to do
cold calling to After college, I somehow found myself selling
commercial real estate, wanting to blow my fucking brains out,
and I was just like, this can't be all there
is to life. But that's so funny when someone recognized you. Yeah, like, uh,
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you can't stay in college forever, you know. And I
think I might have got him his only sale of
the day because the person recognized me, and it felt
so much sympathy and empathy for me and sadness that
they actually bought some of the paper. Dude, Door to
door is so gnarly though, that's like nineteen, Like that's
like years ago. Like, yeah, that's really hard. It was
sad and I was sweating. Yo, I was so swunny,
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and I was wearing I was like wearing heels and
ship and I was like, this is humiliating. I remember, um,
there was one door that had a sign on it
that said solicitors will be shot. Um, but my my
boss told me that I had to cold call that
specific place. So I was like, Okay, I guess I'm
risking my life to go in here and give a flyer. Yeah,
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it's like, have they ever really shot a solicitor? It
feels like that it's illegal. Yeah yeah, I mean who knows. No.
But um wait, so you're a Jeopardy freak. How did
this all start? Well, I mean, look, you got Jeopardy,
you got Will of Fortune. For me, will of Fortune
is kind of a trash game because like it's just
a it's a wheel of fortune. It didn't take any
skill whatsoever. Yeah, guessing letters vows all that good ship,
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but Jeopardy obviously the thinking person's game. You gotta know
your ship gotta know a bunch of random, basic, crazy,
off the wall stuff. And for me, the worst part
of Jeopardy when you play with people who are kind
of newbies to it and they answer the two other questions,
It's like, no, they just exposed themselves, like those are
the basic questions. Anybody can get those right, and they're
like quickly like oh, like what cheese? Like okay, yeah,
we all knew that. That's how we sat here silently
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because our brains are so much more advanced in yours. Okay,
And so wait, I want to know because I am
not a Jeopardy efficient audo. I never really watched it.
I just dipped in here and out. But I want
to know why on Jeopardy do answer a question because
when someone does that in real life and conversation, it's
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like the most frustrating thing in the world. I always
assumed Alex your becks Canadian. It was a Canadian thing,
and who am I to shoot on their cultures customed
in tradition. So you think that that was Alex's idea,
I'm sure it was his brain child or MERV Griffin
whoever came up with the show the ledger MERV. Yeah,
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because I always thought that was so weird asking for
answering question. Um. Okay, So, according to Lucien Wiggles, Alex
in Lingle household speaking both French and English, please tell us, Josiah,
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do you speak any other languages? And if so, I
I speak ebonics pre Bonics. It's funny though my mom
actually speaks French. Her mother is from France. But yeah,
I'm I struggle with English. I was pretty good at Spanish,
like I put it like this, like I wasn't great
in like high school Spanish. But if you put me
in Mexico, I will survive. I will get anything I need, tacos, drugs,
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margarite is I can I can navigate the language with
enough of you know, make sure like wow. I think
that's how I would describe my Spanish alto. If I
got dropped in the middle of Mexico somewhere, I can
make it home. And I think that's the most important thing.
That's true, that's right, that's a good um. I think
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that's a good command of the language. You can get
anything you need, tacos, drugs or anything. Margarite, margarite Okay.
According to Lucian in seven, Alex and Pat say Jack
switched places on April's Fools Day and hosted each other's show. Please,
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Josiah tell our audience who you would like to switch
places with on April Fools Day. Uh, probably like Lebron
or Jeff Bezos or someone like or like Elon Muston.
I would just take all his money and put in
my bank account, and then it would be Apri Fools
for the rest of his life. Yeah. And then Jeff
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Bezos would be running your Twitter account. I feel like
he would run your count into the ground. Can you
imagine him trying to make um an intelligent meme? He
would get packed up very quickly. I can't imagine what
have Bezos would write from your account. Do you think
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he even watches basketball. I think he watches it, but
from like a super square Dwe've type of perspective where
he doesn't really know what's going on, Like he never
made a team, if I had to guess, he made
a team like very early on and never played, and
that that forever soured him so that that was kind
of his his origin story and forced him to get
all this money so he could still get the love
and respect and attention from people except he's probably like
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the most hated man in the world. Do you think
it's funny? Like I was at a Whole Flutes the
other day and like it was just going haywire, like
the lines were out of control and something. I was
like playing bassos and all the employees looked at me
and like, yeah, funk that guy and that's hit their boss.
So I was like, I get it. I'm not gonna
say what Whole Flutes, I don't think anybody likes him.
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But then it's one of those things where I feel
like if they met him in person, they'd be really
nice to his face. Yeah, of course. I mean that's
that's that's American general. Like we all have people that
we can't fucking stand, but when we see them in
real life, we have to be professional nice about it.
That makes me so mad because I really see myself
as someone with deep integrity. Like when one of my
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friends comments something like bullshit like oh my god, congratulations
babe on someone that I know they hate on Instagram,
it really pisces me off. I'm like, which is a bitch?
Pick one? You know? Do you call them out on
the actual commentsan? No? No, are you kidding out? And
I'm not trying to start ship. I'm a pacifist, but
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I'm also like, you know, what what are we doing here? Like,
you know, you either are happy they got that and
you like them, or you you know that they need
to pick one. I feel so here's the thing that
I've gotten older is usually be the same way, super petty,
super like whatever. But sometimes more than that, I'll need
money from these people somewhere down the road, so I
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have to be polite then, and then I'll just charge
them more, and that's my way of getting back at them.
I just like, it's like if I don't like someone, though,
I'm not gonna go on their page and write stuff,
you know, but what if you're doing it? Just like
what if that person knows you don't like them and
then they see that comment is really just a funk
with them, like, oh congrats. I don't know, I don't
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know if it's that deep. I don't think I would
be like they like me now. You know, maybe I'm
too basic. You're You're not basic, You're advanced. Have you
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ever had like NBA players get mad at you for
making fun of them? Yeah? For sure? I think. I
mean when I was in my younger Pettier stage, definitely
had a few guys, few NFL guys blocked me, some
some NBA guys. But now that I'm older, I have
a family now, and uh, you know, I have a
certain image projecting uphold. I try to be more respectful.
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And also a lot of these guys could probably kick
my ass, so I try to just be more respectful
from that light too, because if I see them on
the street, like, I'm a big, tall guy, not the
greatest fighter in the world, definitely have some skill set,
but not not enough to be able to sustain. So
I try to be as respectful as possible. But like,
have you ever because it is really funny to me
to think of because on a lower level, like I'm
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about to be, I think bullied off TikTok soon. Um,
these fucking kids are so mean. I don't even know
why I'm on there, But it is funny to me
to think of like an NBA player who makes like
millions and millions of dollars and while a high pressure job,
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like you're like, oh, that's you know, everyone's dream job,
you know, um to think of them like dming you
because you've made fun of them or something. Yeah, most
of them kind of keep to themselves and they don't
break character. But yeah, I know the same ship on
Twitter that you deal with on TikTok. You get these
like fifteen twenty year old kids who love to talk crazy.
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But it's like, look, I can pay all my bills
and fucking you know, my trajectory is nothing but up. Like,
I don't know if you guys to say the same,
good luck with those trippling student loan debt and everything
else that's gonna keep you as a runner for the
rest of your life. Oh my god, that's what I
should right back. Oh my god. Yeah, I'm getting Yeah,
this conversation is fucking pumping me up because um yeah,
like today is God Today. A kid wrote, damn she
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has seven hundred teeth. But whenever anybody says that. Somebody
called me like a toe face. At one point they
were like, yeah, you look like you have a toe face.
And I looked in the mirror and I'm like, yeah, fuck,
they they're acting, so I can't be mad. It's like
the accuracy. I just told him, like, sir, that's that's reasonable. Yeah.
Another another person wrote that I sound like all the
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rug Rats at once that that gotta rise out of me.
But yeah, I think I mean it. But it also
helps with obviously people in our position, obviously working comedy,
stand up, doing all that amazing stuff. I watch all
your stuff every time you posted on social but thank you.
It makes you, it makes you tough. So you know,
there's only so many times I may you call me
fat funk or something like that, or like wish cancer
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on me that it's like, okay, like I heard that
one before, not a big deal. Yeah. It is also
interesting because like I would when I think of Twitter,
of like who's the coolest Twitter on the most the
most beloved on Twitter, I think of you, and so
I think, oh, it actually has nothing to do with
who it is. It's just like if you have any platform,
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people say mean ship because they're just bored or jealous
or something. I mean, like I always like to say,
and this is obviously my religion, but like you know,
people people kill Jesus and he was the son of God,
so ultimately we don't really have anything to complain or
worry about, like imagine being like, well I was his godson,
let's murder. I'm like, people are evil, like they have
their evil they have evil intentions, but a lot of
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times they're jealous, they're bitter. They wish they could go
up on stage and get Comedy Central specials and TV
shows and all that good ship that we have at
our disposal scholarships. And uh, I was good at volleyball too,
Like great, good luck, what happened? Well, this is really good.
This is just what I needed in this moment to
your south therapeutic. I love doing this type of ship
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because it's not yet everybody I talked to you, especially
in social I'm always like, look, this is the ship
that you're gonna deal with. So if you let that
frazzle you like this, look at who these kids are
like my things. Whenever they talk crazy like that, I'll
research them and figure out who they are and where
they live and all that good ship just in case
it ever gets to that point. So I'm already head
of the curve, like like I will find you, I'll
hunt you down, and I will swart you. Yeah that's true,
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because I do know I could take these little fucking
fourteen year olds kick their I could. I could get
them in one leg lock. They would never have another
breath in their life. Okay, wait, so do you have
all right? I won't press you, but you can't. You
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probably couldn't tell me on here. But is there any
um NBA player that message you. Honestly, nobody's messaged me
on the NBA saying anything like I've gotten it, just
some some some spats with some bigger name guys. I
won't say any names, but do you know everybody's pretty cool?
Like how can you not like me? I just tweet
jokes like and I don't. I'm at a stage in
life now while I'll never call out somebody, I have
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a huge amount of respect for mental health. Shout out
to our usel A brethren Kevin Love for raising awareness
on that type of stuff. And like I said, we're
both deal in that space too. So once you get
like fucking bullied on social, on TV or in the
commenter ship, it changes kind of how you you move
in life. So I've been bullied enough now and disrespected.
Like I see people get get packed up on Twitter
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all the time, and you would love to join in, like, oh,
this is an easy one, like let me shoot all
over this person. But you know the people that do
it are no better than the person getting packed up.
So I just try to, you know, be free and
clear and enjoy life. No, because I I never think
any of your stuff is mean spirited at all. I
always just think it's like so silly and fun. But
you used to be. I used to really get under
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the skin of Warriors fans. But it's stuff. When they win,
it's like you have to wait for them to lose again.
And this is just that annoying period where they're gonna
be super annoying for six or seven months. They'll eventually
lose at some point. Then I'll be right back there
kind of to get them back for all the ship
they did to me. I love the Warriors even though,
like I grew up a Laker fan. But I went
to I went to high school with Clay Thompson, Santa Margarita, Yes,
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the Legends. It's a great school. I know nothing about
the school, just all the people that went there, Like
a couple of people I played at U c. L
A With went there, and yeah for sure teams uh James, yeah, James,
Keith Spencer, Gloger beforehand killer to Oh yeah, I grew
up with Forehand Kelly, Yeah, played against him forever. Who's
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your brother, r J? Sake, I knew that was your brother.
He was the man like I didn't. I didn't know
r J personally, but whenever we look at list of
like players and obviously like SoCal, his man would always
pop up on there. So, oh, that's so funny. Yeah,
like I because Ty, Shawn and Ryan were like friends
of my family forever. That's fairly. That's your glogerl. That's funny.
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I didn't know he went to u C. L A. Yeah,
he was there for like a year, then went to Princeton,
then then came back, then went back to Princeton. WHOA,
that's crazy. I didn't know that. Well, this is really
inside talk right now. We're getting some of your fans like,
what the fund is going on? Blake, give me some jobs?
Oh yeah, yeah, alright, we're going going back to at
least trebekan Lucien Wiggles Um okay. According to Lucien Wiggles,
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Alex received the Daytime Emmy eight times for hosting Jeopardy
Please Josiah's tell us what your dream show would be
for you to host and win nine Daytime Emmy's beating
out Alex Trebec obviously would have to be Jeopardy. But
what I'm confused about is Jeopardy came on in the evening,
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So how the fund did he win a day It
came on at seven pm the university of the evening
in every part of the country. How then, is he
winning daytime enemies when it's not that it should be
like nighttime enemies, and time daytime and nighttime? Is there
like weekend Emmies? Like? What the why are there so
many Emmys? Oh my god, I've never heard a more
scholarly astute question in my fucking life. I'm gonna have
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to get Lucien Wiggles on this because that makes absolutely
no sense at all. Our nighttime Emmys only? Are the
non daytime Emmys only scripted? Dick, You're right, it's a
nighttime show. I don't get it. And Lucien from the
Current River Valley, I went like a river rapting there
as a kid. It was a great experience. I love
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river rafting. I hope to go one day again. Our
boat hit like a thing and like one of the
teachers flew out and let's just say she was a
bigger lady, like we couldn't get her back in the boat.
So we literally had to just like tow her back
into the side. It was, it was. It was an
interesting time. Oh my god, the kids. You guys were
responsible for saving your teacher's life. We were traumatized because literally,
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like a couple of kids flew out of the boat.
We hit like a rough patch or whatever it was.
And you know what I mean, that's probably like eighth grade.
All right, all right, thank god you had at least
a shred of upper body strength at that age. And
the nice grip I had, the grip I got into
her life best. Le'm gonna make sure she gets right
back to shore. Yeah, you weren't like eleven or something.
(28:14):
It was scary. I think about that Meryl Streep and
Kevin Bacon movie. Oh I don't know that movie. Yeah,
it was like the River after or something like some
bank robbers like accost of their family and she had
to like guide them down the river. Woll that sounds
like a really good movie. That's a that's a winning combination. Wait,
so then, what is your dream show to host? I'll
(28:35):
probably be Jeopardy or like um, but not Jeopardy, oh,
like Nick Arcade. I think it was a show I
love growing up. I grew up. There's a showing CBS
way back in the day called like fun House. J
D I forget his name is white Dude, j D
something j D Ross Maybe you're so j d Roth
or something like that used to host it and it
was super crazy. You get to like tear up rooms
in the house looking for prizes and ship. That sounds fun.
(28:59):
It's okay, So your dream would be too fucking ales.
Ken Jong as the current host of Jeopardy. But what
about not a game show? Or is it just a
game show that you would like the host? I would
have loved the host Arsenio Hall Show two way back
yonder dot com. Maybe we can reboot the Arsenio Hall Show,
(29:21):
but with Josiah Johnson. I need bigger fingers and a
little bit more star power. No, no, you got those
things covered already. You're already there. But our senior had
like eat fingers like he had like elongated fingers, and
he would do this all the time. He would put
his finger on his forehead like he was in deep thought.
They can go damn, I'm old as ship. That's that's sad.
(29:43):
I just got I'm going through a midlife crisis and
not No, you're not over. Wait did you want? It's
not over, It's just the beginning. Um, did you watch
the Coming to America reboot? I did? Did you like it?
I loved it? I enjoyed it. Arsenio he's a real charmer.
He's a good he's a good actor. He's got a
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lot of start mega watts star power. He just pretty
much pops right off the screen. Okay. According to Lucien
Wiggles on January two thousand and four, Alex Trebec cheated
death after falling asleep at the wheel and having his
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truck fly over an embankment on the way home from
a family vacation. Have you, Josiah ever cheated death before?
Not counting river rafting with your eighth grade teacher? Another
true story for you was working on a TV show.
Jim Rome had a show on Showtime. We used to
work obscenely crazy hours like get in it like eight am,
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finish at two am, back at like seven am, type
of ship. So I was working super late one night.
I think I was in like Glendale burbag area. Was
driving home like to to third in the morning, like
a big, big rig like truck fucking literally like I
think that person may have fell asleep with the world
like skirts out, hit the center divider like flips over,
like I hit the brakes on my ship by my
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car literally comes within like an inch of like hitting,
and it would have been like a you know, like
a multi car pile up, and I would have been
at the front of it, just getting other cars, you know.
We he just shoved up my Tuti, but avoiding death
skirting really broke into tears that night. It was like
holy ship, Like it was almost over for me. I
had so much more life to live. Yeah, and here
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we are now a middle aged man with not much
more life to live. Oh my god, that's crazy. What
a relief and thank God, and here we are on
this podcast. That would have happened. I could have done
this podcast, and that's where I think about magic would
have never happened. That's crazy. Thank God, I'm trying to
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think of I I definitely fell asleep once at the wheel.
It was it was scary. I was in high school
driving home and I was just like so tired, and
I woke up and I was just like, oh, God
just saved me from that, or like an angel or something,
and I literally fell asleep driving home from high school
one day on like Supoltal Boulevard at a red light,
like in the time it took the red light to
turn green. Our entire car fell asleep, so the person
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behind me had to get another car and bang on
my window wake me up. But I made it home fine.
It was at a red light, it was fine. I
put the car in park and I just kind of
tried to snooze for a second and literally just like snoring,
and like the person hit the window. I'm like, oh,
ship in my bad, Oh my god. We are also
smartest teenagers. You know. I should have pulled over, got
a nap. What high school did you go do? I
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went to a school in Van Eys that's no longer
with us, called Montclair College Prep. It was a it
was a greade school, but very shady, a lot of
difference ship going on. Definitely had some instances of teachers
dating students and you know, questionable grade grade changes and
things like that. But they ran the headmaster died. They
ran out of money and now it's like an overflow
(32:58):
a lot for a galloping four. Oh wow, I remember
hearing that name. Mont Claire prep. As a kid, I
feel like it was. It was honestly fantastic school. You
could literally get kicked out of any other school. Show
up there at eight oh five and being rolled by
eight o eight. Whoa, that sounds like a fun place.
Did you guys wear uniforms? We did, but they were
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like like cheaper ship, So I just were like the Target.
The uniforms were expensive, like shitty as polos. But I
just went to Target and got like the comparable color
scheme and then I would take one of those like uh,
white out pens and then I'd write the school logo
in it and who genius. Yeah, you know what? You
could get kicked out of my People got kicked out
(33:40):
of my school constantly. And we also had random drug
tests at Santa Margarita, so they would do they would
do school lockdowns and then they bring the drug dog
through to like stip sniffed through people's bags and it's like,
what the funk is going on? Yeah? We had They
could also search our cars and the parking lot um
and the lockers and everything, and so I my thing
(34:05):
was like, if you know you're gonna be searched, why
you carry ship in your pockets or like bring it
on campus. But I don't know other people didn't think
that way. It will just get kicked out left and
right if they're doing a school lockdown, right, yeah, I
probably have the key. Yeah, I have to think about that.
I put in somebody else's locker and let them, let
(34:25):
them get let them Yeah. But yeah, it just shows
you how like dumb teens are. They're not like fully
formed thinking people. Stop knocking. Kids are having drugs. Let
them learn obviously in moderation, of course, don't be the
kid that fucking thanks too much. Just like you know,
you go to Vegas or New Orleans and the people
(34:46):
can't handle their liquor and they're like the just like, great,
you can drink a bunch of it. Doesn't mean you
need to like know your limit right right right, important
wisdom from Josiah right now. No, your limit moderation is key. Yeah, okay. So,
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according to Lucian Wiggles, on July two thousand and eleven,
Alex Trebec suffered an achilles tendon injury well while chasing
a burglar out of his hotel room. Have you Josiah
ever suffered an achilles injury? No? Thankfully not. I have
(35:31):
terrible knees in a bad back and a slight over
biding a gap tooth. But thankfully, like worst i've gotten
like broken finger. And then like when I was a
little kid, like I banged my head on a brick wall,
I had to get a bunch of stitches. Oh, I know,
it was terrible. I remember waking up in like a
pool of blood. But um, and have you had any
(35:51):
knee surgeries? No, thankfully, no real surgeries. Thank I mean
I probably should should get one, but no, I'm too
all for that now. I had one in college. Um,
but it was easy, just a meniscus, a fucking breeze,
really know, and really only four a sixth week recovery,
barely anything. How did Andy b Field about that? I
(36:14):
can't believe you remember his name? Legend used to hope
with his way way back in the day, get some
jumpers up. No he didn't. He had a solid jumper. Really,
that's so funny, you know, it was funny, Like I
think he really liked basketball or whatever, because we always,
like our team always had to entertain the basketball recruits.
(36:38):
When you say entertain, like hang out and take or
take the functions or what were we talking about it? Well,
Like I remember getting an email about like taking Kevin
Love around on on his recruiting trip. Wow, And did
you respond to said? Even though I mean, what was
I going to do? Well? Now, I mean what was like?
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And I didn't know who he was. We we took
them around like my team, like we we sat with
him at the basketball game, and like did all took
them to parties and stuff and like the worst were
the kids that would come and then you want to
take them to parties and like I'm good, It's like
this motherfucker's not built for this this school. Wait, did
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that really happen? Like you never had that happen. I
don't think I had a few kids like I don't
want It's like, bro, like this is have you seen
he got a game? This is what these recruiting trips
are supposed to be. Now turn up. Yeah, that's so funny.
We would have like six six, like a six six
girl come and like like the tallest girls you've ever
(37:39):
seen in your life, and we'll be like taking them
around showing them. Uh, like how crazy that school was?
I remember you guys should do like uh like your
initiation or whatever and then like they'd have you like
the chevron, just like all just like obliterated out of
your mind back and like probably not the best idea,
(38:01):
I know, Like we got they hazed the shoot out
of us. It was just it was fun. But they
would like sharp be all over our faces and we'd
have to like do they'd blow whistle and we'd have
to do a dance in the middle of the party.
But it was nothing was bad, although girls would always
cry and I'd be like, come on, bitch, where No,
this isn't even bad deal. Yeah, did you guys have
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hazing on you? Did you guys have an initiation? Not really,
we didn't. We didn't really care about anything, so we
were more nervous. Yeah, you guys were already like cool.
So Alex Trebek chased a burglar out of his hotel room,
which is pretty crazy, Like, um, I guess he's got
some fucking gusto. Um have you ever stopped the crime?
(38:46):
Josiah No, I participated in a few, but definitely haven't stopped. Okay,
alleterally hypothetically hypothetically told of course, hypothetically, just you know,
some far off idea. According to Lucian, Alex Trebek donated
(39:06):
ten million dollars by the time of his death to
his alma mater, University of Ottawa and Canada. Where would you,
Joshiah like to unmode ten million dollars? I give a
little bit to u c l A. But I need
better tickets and uh fetter snacks, better snacks of the events.
I think that's I think, you know, like anytime I
(39:28):
go to advantage judge people on their snacks, has reasonably
good snacks. They need better snacks. I mean I probably
donate to you know, some schools in the inner city community.
I think you know, they could definitely use it. Wow,
that's all like really nice. I would say, probably less
noble stuff than that. What's your favorite snack? I have
to know, like, what are your top five snacks? Snacks? Favorite?
(39:49):
I love sweetearts, so I've literally had multiple root canals
and all my sweet tart teeth like these these are
over here for just chompings, retards and letting that sugar
gets faster into my skin. Um. Cool ranch Doritos and
regular Doritos as well, both very delicious. UH love peppered
farm cookies. I used to love the litos and the milanos. Yeah,
(40:11):
the milanos are clutch. Yeah, the litos don't even know
if they make them anymore, but they were so good
back in back in our Hey, they didn't the milk
double stuff orios are also delicious, famous amous cookies. You
can you know, definitely not tell me with a good
time with those. And I'm getting into pineapples with tahino
on them. That's like my healthy kind of pleasure. Well
(40:31):
that's a good turn at the end there, now, so
you know, people haven't figured out. If you've ever seen
those fruit carts, I would always encourage you pull over,
hit the fruit cart, but make sure you get the
fruits that you want, because sometimes they'll push, like the
cucumbers and other ship on you and put away too
much of that ship in your bag. And I don't
want all this cucumber. I want pineapples, mangoes, oranges, all
the good ship. Maybe a little coconut if I'm frisky. Right,
(40:52):
that's actually a really good tip because one thing I've
always said about papaya, and then the other one, I
forget what the other one is. The orange one. Um,
it looks really good, it looks so tasty, and then
it sort of tastes like dishwater, so it's a real
pump fake. Well, yeah, I really love pineapple. I think
it's incredible. Candles Are you really not a candloup fan?
(41:18):
All those fruits look so much more delicious looking than
they actually taste. Like. I know it's misleading, but as
far as snacks go, you really stuck with all the
childhood um, the childhood ones. Like you're a nostalgia guy. Yeah,
I never you know, I'm old, but I've never never
got old. You know what chips I really like? I
like those? Um have a corn chips. I feel like
(41:41):
nothing tastes like them. They've got like some soy sauce
on them or something. Okay, I didn't. I'm gonna have
to add those. Have you seen those? O? They're always
at gas stations. I have what are they called? They're
called have a like have apostrophe a cornsious. But they're
like really old timey. That's why I thought you might
know what they are. I don't know. I definitely used
(42:03):
to love corn nuts. Oh yeah, corn nuts are pretty
vintage to those things. Those things will do a number
on your teeth. In my teeth, I'm like, are like
the jaws of life on those things. Yeah, for sure.
It's like, yeah, you definitely will shatter some teeth trying
to gnaw through a corn nut. My mom loves corn nuts.
I mean, the lady fucking loves corn nuts. She's still
(42:26):
she she is buying back to them at costco. Still
to this day. She she won't quit on the corn nuts. Yeah,
I don't blame her. Wait, so, now, are you still
watching Jeopardy now that Ken Jong is the host? You know,
I've kind of, you know, once Alex you Beeck went
to that great beyond, I kind of had to separate
(42:47):
myself from the show. No knocks on the mind be
allic and everybody else that's a part of it, that
that gets to do it. But nothing we'll ever replicated
match Alex Trebeck swag is them charisma and um. Lucian
Wiggles also told me that his entire wardrobe was his own. Um. Yeah,
(43:08):
he had none from the show. It was all his.
He just brought his own ship. I'm bringing my own
ship through. Yeah, and they donated it. Um, but that's
really cool. So does your whole family like Jeopardy then? Yeah?
I mean we're all super intelligent. I think Jeopardy is
kind of helped make us more elitist in terms of
our telengence and knowledge that we all we all used
to rock out with it. Shang. My family never watched
(43:30):
ship on Jeopardy. Never watch anything on Jeopardy. Damn. I
don't even know what we watched ship after mon would
you guys would watch? But yeah, I don't know, Like
I think I watched like Seventh Heaven and you know,
(43:50):
yeah until the dad turned out to be a fucking
pedophiles reasonable that it didn't take a turn. I will say, Um,
do you still talk to like your teammates from uz
l A at all? Yeah, we we still hang out
and see each other and uh, you know, shoot the
ship every once in a while. We live our glory days.
(44:11):
Some of us still stuck in those days, some of
us out of him. Yeah, oh man, I could have
did this day and whatever. It's like, Bro, you're sucking
in your mid thirties. Now that ship is over, he's
not coming back. Let's move on. Yeah that's hilarious because, um,
I know, for me, when I volleyball was over, I
sort of never thought about it again for like, I
(44:32):
don't know, I was just at all, I had lived
in Breathe since I was like ten, and so when
it was overall was just so excited to get to
try a bunch of ships that I never had time for. Yeah,
most definitely I felt the same way once it was done.
I was just like, it's like a weight lifted off
my shoulders. But you did see people that would have
like the most hardcore identity crises. I mean it's tough
(44:57):
to go from because, as you know, you still let
you get the sweatsuit and a backpack, and that that
lets everybody know that you're better than them, you know,
it does. I mean, let's just be real. And then
like you you hold onto those sweatsuits and backpack for
another year or two after that, but don't really feel
comfortable wearing them anywhere because it's like, oh, do you
play on the team? Likes? And then it definitely it
(45:17):
is hard to like go into a regular job where
like nobody gives a ship and even like people at
work like asking Like I worked at a bunch of companies,
everybody always asked me about basketball. It's like, look, but
I don't care anymore, Like I don't punish, I don't care,
like whatever, happens happens, right, That's so funny the way, yeah,
the way people bring it up. Um, I'm I am
working on this bit about my voice right now on stage.
(45:39):
And I've never had a bit about it or talked
about it. But I do remember from volleyball and basketball guys,
um hanging out with them, that everywhere we went, like
ten times a day, people would stop them and be like,
oh my god, how tall are you? Wow? You're wow,
(46:00):
You're tall. Not thinking that like just everyone says that
every day of your entire life. Yeah, I mean imagine
like if you're really black or really pale, and it's like,
oh my god, you're so dark, Like gee, did never
seen anybody's dark as You's like the same thing with like, hey,
like I don't go up there short people like oh man,
you're so little, like being so small, you know what
(46:20):
I mean. But that was the thing you'd get and
it's fine if it's like an old person, that's that's
one thing. And it was like an icebreaker for people,
So I get it. I was always like super respectful
of it. Obviously, some of the tall people that I
play with, and you hear stories about guys back in
the day weren't as respectful about that ship, but it
was always just like as you can see him staring
and talking at you, knowing that that was gonna be
like their pickup line they were trying to hit on.
(46:43):
You're like, oh, you're so like and then just asking
questions like it's like, bro, I don't care who since
you started, you know, your career, your public career of
like comedy and commentating and stuff, I've been the most
exciting person for you to meet. I met Lebron in
(47:04):
November of last year at a Lakers Bucks game in Milwaukee,
and I was so scared too. He was like walking
to the team bus and I was with my dad
and my family and there's Broun like go up to him, Like, no,
I'm not doing that's just weird. I never I don't
like running up on people. So my dad my dad
called like called over to him, got got of the attention.
Then we all went med him. It was a good time.
(47:24):
Was he nice? Like what did he say? Because yeah,
it's like stuttering. It was great. I was a little
drunk too, so I was literally like slurring words and ship.
But I think he got the gist of what I
was trying to say, Um, that's is Lebron your favorite player? Yeah, definitely,
most definitely favorite player I think of all times. Wow,
oh my god, that's crazy. And he follows you he's
(47:47):
a fan of yours. Yeah, it's good. So it's crazy
when I meet people now like I do, all this
ship in the vacuum, so I don't know who's who's
paying attention. I can't obviously monitor every single comment and
follow or whatever. It's crazy when I go out on
the streets now, people like recognizing me and all think
they want to fight me at first, and they're staring
at me and I'm like, yo, this, I know it's
my fucker, And then they always like smiling like you know,
we love the tweets or whatever, and I'm just like, damn,
who would have guessed that, like Twitter would be like
(48:10):
my claim to fame right right right? Oh my god,
that's crazy. I can't believe you met Lebron. Yeah he's
a good guy. Well what are you thinking about the
Lakers right now? Am I allowed to ask you? That
we will see nobody? It seems like nobody likes him
or wants to do a trade with him, so it's
a little nerve wracking, but we will figure it out.
(48:32):
Do you think the Kyrie thing's gonna happen? No? Or
he signed He signed with the Nets already. Apparently he
wants to stay there. But he said the same thing
when he was in Boston, so it's not like that
means anything. He can definitely still work out of trade
by the trade deadline like next February. But uh, yeah,
it was a little annoyed. We were like super excited
for like six hours, like BTS Awards weekend, so it
(48:52):
was already like black black Christmas, and uh, you know,
he didn't come. So I'm a little pissed, a little precursor.
And who would you like to meet that you haven't
met yet? Um, it's a good question. Maybe like Obama
or somebody like that. I think it'd be cool just
to see, like what he's like in regular life. Like
you build this image of people like projecting obviously exalt
(49:15):
them and put them on this pedestal. But then when
you meet him and just like they're regularly just like you,
Like they fart, like they eat, like they do normal
things like normal people do. Yeah, but he always seems
like he can cut loose like just rip a heat
or have a beer, play some pickup basketball. He was
definitely hitting heaters in his head there. Yeah. I wonder
(49:36):
if he's still smoking or not, because I feel like
that's pretty punk rock smoking this day and age. You know,
I couldn't do it, but I I appreciate people's goal
when they do it, you know, most definitely. Um, okay,
and let me see if and Lucien has me on
the hook for anything else. Current Valley's very young and Lucien, well, okay,
(50:01):
so you did tell us the lebron story, which was
really exciting. I don't know how we can beat that,
but we do like to end the podcast with a
segment that we call fan on the Street on the
street Street and it's where if you have a fun
(50:28):
celebrity running, but maybe you have another one. Um, I
think that's probably I mean ship, Yeah, some of these
other ones. I met Bill Cosby a long time ago,
back like you know, tell me, but like pre all
those situations, but my mom was like friends with this pilot,
so we got to go to his house in Palace anything,
got to meet him, and that was an enjoyable experience
(50:50):
then obviously not now in hindsight knowing everything that happened. Uh,
I'm trying to think, like I meet Magic Johnson. I
think is up there too. Wait when did you meet
Magic john And I also need to hear what Bill
Cosby's house it was, like, So my dad played in
the NBA, so obviously he knew all these people. So
I got to meet magic Michael Jordan. All this to
human beings really cool. Magic all the time, Like you know,
(51:12):
from the time I was little, all the way through,
we'd be an events in random stuff and you'd always
be there. Michael Jordan's my dad was actually playing for
the Golden State Warriors. Bulls came to town. We got
to go into the locker room after the game and
get our We had stat sheets signed by m j
which was really cool. Whoa, that's really cool. Oh my god. Wait,
so did you did you like Winning Time? Yeah? It was.
(51:35):
It was a good show. I mean, obviously it's not
the most accurate show. People can't take it as gospel,
but it definitely was. They did a great job with
that show. God, I had a great time watching it. Yeah,
it's definitely entertainment. So as long as people understand that
it's not like who these people really were in real life?
Like I think that's that's fine. But also ship was
crazy back then, like uh, the people were partying like
(52:00):
like in between and doing crazy ship like that you
already know. But the again, um, well gosh, this was
just too fun. I'm so glad I got to Oh wait,
I want to know what Bill Cosby's house was, like,
I mean, it was a nice baller spot. I was.
We only hung out in like one little area of it,
(52:21):
so I can't give you full details, probably like fourteen
thirteen or fourteen whoa was he nice? Oh? Yeah, he
was great. I mean obviously I don't think he was
obviously attracted to me, but you know, it might have
been a little different. Yeah, so you were safe. Okay,
this is before everybody knew what happened, so they didn't
(52:42):
lead us. Oh my gosh, Well, thank you so much
for coming on. I mean that letter to I'm just
still so stunned. And you're a wealth of stories and
laughs and uh, we just really appreciate you over here
on the Dear Owen Wilson Show. I know I do
what I was getting into when I agreed to do
this ship. I donna tell you a true story. Uh.
(53:05):
One of your producers hit me last night like, oh,
we needed to write like a letter to like a celebrity.
I'm like, what the funk? I don't know, I don't
I don't want to write a letter to us. But
then I did it this morning and it turned out good,
So I'm happy that I got to come on. Always
a pleasure, you know, chatting with you, supporting all the
great stuff that you got going on. Thank you so
arresting feats, Alex Trebeck. We'll see you on the other side, Josiah. Okay,
(53:28):
bye you everyone, Happy very week.
Hello everyone, and welcome back to my podcast, The Dear
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Thank you for listening. God, we're getting this thing off
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How much longer until Owen Wilson comes on? Do you think?
I feel like it's not gonna be that long? Um?
(00:24):
But thank you guys so much for your feedback. Of
course means so much to me. I'm loving you. God,
do I have an episode for you today? It's so exciting. Okay,
I have the key. He's known as the King of
NBA Twitter. Josiah Johnson is on the podcast today, and God,
did we have a fun time. I had to, you know,
(00:45):
coax things out of him because, um, he does a
lot of basketball commentary, and I don't know if um
he was quite expecting, you know, all my frivolous goofy tangents.
But I opened him up us and we had a
fun time. We talked. You know, we're both former U
c l A athletes, so we talked about that. That
(01:06):
was fun. You get a little peek into my uh
sinister athletic past, and it was just really a fun time,
and he really reads his letter to someone quite unexpected.
I share wasn't expecting it, and he put a lot
of effort into that letter. It was actually incredible. It
was like beautiful art. Anyway, it's such a good episode.
I had so much fun. I'm so excited for you
(01:27):
to listen to it. I know you guys are as
excited as I am. Because Josiah Johnson, everybody knows him
a lot of celebrity stories, so that are fun t
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enjoy this episode. I love you guys, and have a
great week. Okay, welcome everybody back to another audition of
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the Dero in Wilson Podcast with your host s Blair
Sake and what a show do I have for you today, crowd?
I'm telling you this guest I got crazy. Wait, actually
I think we met many years ago out of college
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called U c l A. We're both you know, athlete tycoons.
But I don't know if we really met, but I
knew who he was or if we met, maybe in
the weight room. You should have seen my quads back then.
It was insane. Um. Anyways, this man, he's taking over
Twitter by storm now, he's all over the television. He's
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a basketball god. Hilarious. None other my friend Justid Johnson. Everybody,
what's going down? I think I might have been We
might we might have been used to, like for like
a year together, but I'm I'm far older than you,
(04:41):
so we might have just missed each other, but obviously
be hung in the same circles and a lot of
the same people. Yeah. No, I thought you were a
senior when I was a freshman. I think so. I'm
pretty sure. Yeah I remember seeing you. Yeah, for sure,
I was. I was definitely around Lingering kind of a
little bit too after I graduated, So really, little Van Wilder, Um, Yeah,
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that seems like a different lifetime ago. Now it was
a good time. You'll go to games and ship, are
you still like involved? Not really, it's kind of hard
to get tickets, but yeah, when when they have tickets
for me, I'll definitely pull up every once in a while.
Is you see good? They're good enough? Yeah, entertaining. They
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were entertaining, so they're like competitive, but they're not like
in the Holland years. Uh, they're getting back. I think
mccron is doing a good job with the squad and
getting that team back to where it needs to be.
They went to the Final Four a couple of years
ago during the pandy, so nobody can go to the
game except for like twenty people, but you got to
go some games this year. They looked, okay, wow, Yeah,
(05:43):
that was just so sad for like any lifetime dream
to happen during the pandemic, like things you worked your
whole life for and then no one can go to
the game. You have to play the Final Four in silence. Yeah.
It was pretty whack, like literally like you have like
family members showing up and they can like the hotel
was locked off today to like banging on the window
to say how to their their their kids and you
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know what I mean, it was a sad, sad time,
but they got through a n C double is gonna
get their money always. Yeah, it's so weird all that
stuff happens. Like I, um I was doing in a
show in Hawaii the week like the world shutdown and
um I panic flew home to see my niece get born,
who was born on March fifteenth, but then I couldn't
go to the hospital sort of like the sort of
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like um U c l A in the Final Four,
kind of the same thing. Um. Well, yeah, it's just
really good to have you on my podcast. This is
a huge celebrity get for me. Um we were here
celebrity to so this is celebrities converging. Obviously we've crossed
passed a bunch of times in the past few years
(06:48):
because Megan and CJ and kind of all that good stuff.
So happy to be able to participate. Thank you. Okay, So,
as you know on this podcast, it's a letter of fandom.
It started because I wrote a creepy letter to Owen
Wilson many years ago. Um but without further ado, I
would love for you to read us your letter. I'm
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so thrilled to hear who your celebrity is. Sorry, I
to drink a bunch of water, almost choked to death.
I'm getting it back together, all right, hold on, all right,
let me get all kay, let me get in back in. Yeah, no,
I love a near death experience at the top of
a podcast. It really builds um steaks and yeah, it
definitely raised the stakes here. All right, so I will
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read this letter, uh without further ado. Dear Alex Trebeck,
what is a legend for one? It's the only acceptable
answer the question. Alec Turbek is blank. The hardest working
Canadian in the game, draking Celindian and got shipped on you.
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Your mustache always fluffy even when you shaved it off,
and your heart always opened like a seven eleven. The
architect of my favorite team can show up all times.
Jeopardy the Thinking Man's and Women's game, the perfect program
to jump start every weekday evening, highlighting genius and exposing
idiots for their limited knowledge of things that start with
the letter Q, such as quandri, kiche, and quagmire, to
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name a few. Your impact on my life was profound.
I spent many hours glued in front of the television,
answering in the form of a question, dominating weak minded
family and friends alike. Embraced by the Black community with
an honorary to go play from the cook out, beloved
by crips and bloods. Your is m always top notch,
your timing ampeccable, with swag dripping from your ovaries. It
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made my heart flutter to know that early in your career,
your tan skin and perfectly manicure Jerry Curl had you
embraced in the African American community as a brother. Even
though technically you were another you were still our brother.
Words can't express what you mean to me and how
much random Shape is still festering in my brain, the
leftover remnants from my favorite game heroes gave he remembered.
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But legends never die and you, sir, we're all that
in the bad Get Chips cool ranch to Rito's at that.
What is a legend? Who is Alex Trebek? Appreciate it, Josiah.
I know I've been working on my writing. I'm actually
a good writer now. So I started, I started in
the beginning and brought it back at the end. Oh
my god, Josiah, I am stunned. I don't. We haven't
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had any. You just wrote like a fucking sonnet. That
was incredible. Put that U c l a theory education
to use theorizing about how to get a job. Oh,
I am moved right now. That made that might be
our best letter yet. How many guests have you had? Uh?
Probably like fifteen or twenty. Oh, there we go, We'll
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fuck it. Also, I've been doing the live show for
like five years, but wow, that was really something. I'm
wildly impressed. And folks, I gotta say I'm fucking jazz
for this interview. Get your seatbelt so on, cus, you
were about to lift off, bitch. Okay, here we go,
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oh Josiah. Also, I don't know if my producers let
you know, UM, but I do employ a man named
Lucian wiggles Um. He's a private investigator that I met
while fishing for crawdads in the Current River. And UM,
I pay him exorbitant amounts of money to do uh
(10:25):
exhaustive research on my guests and their celebrities. So if
there's any question that seems odd or something, it's because
a Lucian wrote it. Anyway, here we go. Um. According
to Lucian wiggles. Alex got expelled from the boarding school
his parents sent him to. Shortly after that, he attended
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military college but dropped out when they asked him to
cut his hair. In what situation have you left like
Alex because they tried to make you do ship that
you did not want to do. Okay, this is actually
a great story. So after college I was kind of
down and out struggling in life. Basketball had failed me
and turned his back on me, and no other options
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taturs day of my life, probably a professional life. Uh So,
trying to find a job on Craigslist, just like everybody
else back in those times. This was pretty like you know,
expansive and exhaustive Internet like we have did. A ended
up working for some company they were doing like uh
B two B business and business sales selling paper. Uh
they were selling white paper but apparently had it cheaper
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than other companies whatever. So I remember our borrowed a
suit for my dad. I had to go shadow this
guy as he went and sold paper in the South
Bay like San Pedro area, and uh probably one of
the most embarancing experiences of my life. Obviously, going from
getting like u s like sweatsuits and backpacks and unlimited
protein shakes in the weight room and gatorades Gatoray if
you will, to literally going door to door in San Pedro,
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banging on businesses doors and begging them to take our paper.
Sat point of that day was somebody recognized me and
they're like, oh man, you used to play at U
C l A. And I'm just yeah, I did, uh,
but again basketball failed me. So I went that one day,
never looked back, and uh, obviously super thankful. I was
never a door to door paper salesman. Nothing wrong with
doing that if that is your particular hustle, just wasn't
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built for me. Oh my god, that's so funny that
you say that, because I I um had to do
cold calling to After college, I somehow found myself selling
commercial real estate, wanting to blow my fucking brains out,
and I was just like, this can't be all there
is to life. But that's so funny when someone recognized you. Yeah, like, uh,
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you can't stay in college forever, you know. And I
think I might have got him his only sale of
the day because the person recognized me, and it felt
so much sympathy and empathy for me and sadness that
they actually bought some of the paper. Dude, Door to
door is so gnarly though, that's like nineteen, Like that's
like years ago. Like, yeah, that's really hard. It was
sad and I was sweating. Yo, I was so swunny,
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and I was wearing I was like wearing heels and
ship and I was like, this is humiliating. I remember, um,
there was one door that had a sign on it
that said solicitors will be shot. Um, but my my
boss told me that I had to cold call that
specific place. So I was like, Okay, I guess I'm
risking my life to go in here and give a flyer. Yeah,
(13:23):
it's like, have they ever really shot a solicitor? It
feels like that it's illegal. Yeah yeah, I mean who knows. No.
But um wait, so you're a Jeopardy freak. How did
this all start? Well, I mean, look, you got Jeopardy,
you got Will of Fortune. For me, will of Fortune
is kind of a trash game because like it's just
a it's a wheel of fortune. It didn't take any
skill whatsoever. Yeah, guessing letters vows all that good ship,
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but Jeopardy obviously the thinking person's game. You gotta know
your ship gotta know a bunch of random, basic, crazy,
off the wall stuff. And for me, the worst part
of Jeopardy when you play with people who are kind
of newbies to it and they answer the two other questions,
It's like, no, they just exposed themselves, like those are
the basic questions. Anybody can get those right, and they're
like quickly like oh, like what cheese? Like okay, yeah,
we all knew that. That's how we sat here silently
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because our brains are so much more advanced in yours. Okay,
And so wait, I want to know because I am
not a Jeopardy efficient audo. I never really watched it.
I just dipped in here and out. But I want
to know why on Jeopardy do answer a question because
when someone does that in real life and conversation, it's
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like the most frustrating thing in the world. I always
assumed Alex your becks Canadian. It was a Canadian thing,
and who am I to shoot on their cultures customed
in tradition. So you think that that was Alex's idea,
I'm sure it was his brain child or MERV Griffin
whoever came up with the show the ledger MERV. Yeah,
(14:52):
because I always thought that was so weird asking for
answering question. Um. Okay, So, according to Lucien Wiggles, Alex
in Lingle household speaking both French and English, please tell us, Josiah,
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do you speak any other languages? And if so, I
I speak ebonics pre Bonics. It's funny though my mom
actually speaks French. Her mother is from France. But yeah,
I'm I struggle with English. I was pretty good at Spanish,
like I put it like this, like I wasn't great
in like high school Spanish. But if you put me
in Mexico, I will survive. I will get anything I need, tacos, drugs,
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margarite is I can I can navigate the language with
enough of you know, make sure like wow. I think
that's how I would describe my Spanish alto. If I
got dropped in the middle of Mexico somewhere, I can
make it home. And I think that's the most important thing.
That's true, that's right, that's a good um. I think
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that's a good command of the language. You can get
anything you need, tacos, drugs or anything. Margarite, margarite Okay.
According to Lucian in seven, Alex and Pat say Jack
switched places on April's Fools Day and hosted each other's show. Please,
(16:20):
Josiah tell our audience who you would like to switch
places with on April Fools Day. Uh, probably like Lebron
or Jeff Bezos or someone like or like Elon Muston.
I would just take all his money and put in
my bank account, and then it would be Apri Fools
for the rest of his life. Yeah. And then Jeff
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Bezos would be running your Twitter account. I feel like
he would run your count into the ground. Can you
imagine him trying to make um an intelligent meme? He
would get packed up very quickly. I can't imagine what
have Bezos would write from your account. Do you think
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he even watches basketball. I think he watches it, but
from like a super square Dwe've type of perspective where
he doesn't really know what's going on, Like he never
made a team, if I had to guess, he made
a team like very early on and never played, and
that that forever soured him so that that was kind
of his his origin story and forced him to get
all this money so he could still get the love
and respect and attention from people except he's probably like
(17:25):
the most hated man in the world. Do you think
it's funny? Like I was at a Whole Flutes the
other day and like it was just going haywire, like
the lines were out of control and something. I was
like playing bassos and all the employees looked at me
and like, yeah, funk that guy and that's hit their boss.
So I was like, I get it. I'm not gonna
say what Whole Flutes, I don't think anybody likes him.
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But then it's one of those things where I feel
like if they met him in person, they'd be really
nice to his face. Yeah, of course. I mean that's
that's that's American general. Like we all have people that
we can't fucking stand, but when we see them in
real life, we have to be professional nice about it.
That makes me so mad because I really see myself
as someone with deep integrity. Like when one of my
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friends comments something like bullshit like oh my god, congratulations
babe on someone that I know they hate on Instagram,
it really pisces me off. I'm like, which is a bitch?
Pick one? You know? Do you call them out on
the actual commentsan? No? No, are you kidding out? And
I'm not trying to start ship. I'm a pacifist, but
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I'm also like, you know, what what are we doing here? Like,
you know, you either are happy they got that and
you like them, or you you know that they need
to pick one. I feel so here's the thing that
I've gotten older is usually be the same way, super petty,
super like whatever. But sometimes more than that, I'll need
money from these people somewhere down the road, so I
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have to be polite then, and then I'll just charge
them more, and that's my way of getting back at them.
I just like, it's like if I don't like someone, though,
I'm not gonna go on their page and write stuff,
you know, but what if you're doing it? Just like
what if that person knows you don't like them and
then they see that comment is really just a funk
with them, like, oh congrats. I don't know, I don't
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know if it's that deep. I don't think I would
be like they like me now. You know, maybe I'm
too basic. You're You're not basic, You're advanced. Have you
(19:30):
ever had like NBA players get mad at you for
making fun of them? Yeah? For sure? I think. I
mean when I was in my younger Pettier stage, definitely
had a few guys, few NFL guys blocked me, some
some NBA guys. But now that I'm older, I have
a family now, and uh, you know, I have a
certain image projecting uphold. I try to be more respectful.
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And also a lot of these guys could probably kick
my ass, so I try to just be more respectful
from that light too, because if I see them on
the street, like, I'm a big, tall guy, not the
greatest fighter in the world, definitely have some skill set,
but not not enough to be able to sustain. So
I try to be as respectful as possible. But like,
have you ever because it is really funny to me
to think of because on a lower level, like I'm
(20:12):
about to be, I think bullied off TikTok soon. Um,
these fucking kids are so mean. I don't even know
why I'm on there, But it is funny to me
to think of like an NBA player who makes like
millions and millions of dollars and while a high pressure job,
(20:34):
like you're like, oh, that's you know, everyone's dream job,
you know, um to think of them like dming you
because you've made fun of them or something. Yeah, most
of them kind of keep to themselves and they don't
break character. But yeah, I know the same ship on
Twitter that you deal with on TikTok. You get these
like fifteen twenty year old kids who love to talk crazy.
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But it's like, look, I can pay all my bills
and fucking you know, my trajectory is nothing but up. Like,
I don't know if you guys to say the same,
good luck with those trippling student loan debt and everything
else that's gonna keep you as a runner for the
rest of your life. Oh my god, that's what I
should right back. Oh my god. Yeah, I'm getting Yeah,
this conversation is fucking pumping me up because um yeah,
like today is God Today. A kid wrote, damn she
(21:19):
has seven hundred teeth. But whenever anybody says that. Somebody
called me like a toe face. At one point they
were like, yeah, you look like you have a toe face.
And I looked in the mirror and I'm like, yeah, fuck,
they they're acting, so I can't be mad. It's like
the accuracy. I just told him, like, sir, that's that's reasonable. Yeah.
Another another person wrote that I sound like all the
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rug Rats at once that that gotta rise out of me.
But yeah, I think I mean it. But it also
helps with obviously people in our position, obviously working comedy,
stand up, doing all that amazing stuff. I watch all
your stuff every time you posted on social but thank you.
It makes you, it makes you tough. So you know,
there's only so many times I may you call me
fat funk or something like that, or like wish cancer
(22:04):
on me that it's like, okay, like I heard that
one before, not a big deal. Yeah. It is also
interesting because like I would when I think of Twitter,
of like who's the coolest Twitter on the most the
most beloved on Twitter, I think of you, and so
I think, oh, it actually has nothing to do with
who it is. It's just like if you have any platform,
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people say mean ship because they're just bored or jealous
or something. I mean, like I always like to say,
and this is obviously my religion, but like you know,
people people kill Jesus and he was the son of God,
so ultimately we don't really have anything to complain or
worry about, like imagine being like, well I was his godson,
let's murder. I'm like, people are evil, like they have
their evil they have evil intentions, but a lot of
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times they're jealous, they're bitter. They wish they could go
up on stage and get Comedy Central specials and TV
shows and all that good ship that we have at
our disposal scholarships. And uh, I was good at volleyball too,
Like great, good luck, what happened? Well, this is really good.
This is just what I needed in this moment to
your south therapeutic. I love doing this type of ship
(23:07):
because it's not yet everybody I talked to you, especially
in social I'm always like, look, this is the ship
that you're gonna deal with. So if you let that
frazzle you like this, look at who these kids are
like my things. Whenever they talk crazy like that, I'll
research them and figure out who they are and where
they live and all that good ship just in case
it ever gets to that point. So I'm already head
of the curve, like like I will find you, I'll
hunt you down, and I will swart you. Yeah that's true,
(23:29):
because I do know I could take these little fucking
fourteen year olds kick their I could. I could get
them in one leg lock. They would never have another
breath in their life. Okay, wait, so do you have
all right? I won't press you, but you can't. You
(23:50):
probably couldn't tell me on here. But is there any
um NBA player that message you. Honestly, nobody's messaged me
on the NBA saying anything like I've gotten it, just
some some some spats with some bigger name guys. I
won't say any names, but do you know everybody's pretty cool?
Like how can you not like me? I just tweet
jokes like and I don't. I'm at a stage in
life now while I'll never call out somebody, I have
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a huge amount of respect for mental health. Shout out
to our usel A brethren Kevin Love for raising awareness
on that type of stuff. And like I said, we're
both deal in that space too. So once you get
like fucking bullied on social, on TV or in the
commenter ship, it changes kind of how you you move
in life. So I've been bullied enough now and disrespected.
Like I see people get get packed up on Twitter
(24:31):
all the time, and you would love to join in, like, oh,
this is an easy one, like let me shoot all
over this person. But you know the people that do
it are no better than the person getting packed up.
So I just try to, you know, be free and
clear and enjoy life. No, because I I never think
any of your stuff is mean spirited at all. I
always just think it's like so silly and fun. But
you used to be. I used to really get under
(24:52):
the skin of Warriors fans. But it's stuff. When they win,
it's like you have to wait for them to lose again.
And this is just that annoying period where they're gonna
be super annoying for six or seven months. They'll eventually
lose at some point. Then I'll be right back there
kind of to get them back for all the ship
they did to me. I love the Warriors even though,
like I grew up a Laker fan. But I went
to I went to high school with Clay Thompson, Santa Margarita, Yes,
(25:17):
the Legends. It's a great school. I know nothing about
the school, just all the people that went there, Like
a couple of people I played at U c. L
A With went there, and yeah for sure teams uh James, yeah, James,
Keith Spencer, Gloger beforehand killer to Oh yeah, I grew
up with Forehand Kelly, Yeah, played against him forever. Who's
(25:40):
your brother, r J? Sake, I knew that was your brother.
He was the man like I didn't. I didn't know
r J personally, but whenever we look at list of
like players and obviously like SoCal, his man would always
pop up on there. So, oh, that's so funny. Yeah,
like I because Ty, Shawn and Ryan were like friends
of my family forever. That's fairly. That's your glogerl. That's funny.
(26:02):
I didn't know he went to u C. L A. Yeah,
he was there for like a year, then went to Princeton,
then then came back, then went back to Princeton. WHOA,
that's crazy. I didn't know that. Well, this is really
inside talk right now. We're getting some of your fans like,
what the fund is going on? Blake, give me some jobs?
Oh yeah, yeah, alright, we're going going back to at
least trebekan Lucien Wiggles Um okay. According to Lucien Wiggles,
(26:28):
Alex received the Daytime Emmy eight times for hosting Jeopardy
Please Josiah's tell us what your dream show would be
for you to host and win nine Daytime Emmy's beating
out Alex Trebec obviously would have to be Jeopardy. But
what I'm confused about is Jeopardy came on in the evening,
(26:48):
So how the fund did he win a day It
came on at seven pm the university of the evening
in every part of the country. How then, is he
winning daytime enemies when it's not that it should be
like nighttime enemies, and time daytime and nighttime? Is there
like weekend Emmies? Like? What the why are there so
many Emmys? Oh my god, I've never heard a more
scholarly astute question in my fucking life. I'm gonna have
(27:09):
to get Lucien Wiggles on this because that makes absolutely
no sense at all. Our nighttime Emmys only? Are the
non daytime Emmys only scripted? Dick, You're right, it's a
nighttime show. I don't get it. And Lucien from the
Current River Valley, I went like a river rapting there
as a kid. It was a great experience. I love
(27:30):
river rafting. I hope to go one day again. Our
boat hit like a thing and like one of the
teachers flew out and let's just say she was a
bigger lady, like we couldn't get her back in the boat.
So we literally had to just like tow her back
into the side. It was, it was. It was an
interesting time. Oh my god, the kids. You guys were
responsible for saving your teacher's life. We were traumatized because literally,
(27:52):
like a couple of kids flew out of the boat.
We hit like a rough patch or whatever it was.
And you know what I mean, that's probably like eighth grade.
All right, all right, thank god you had at least
a shred of upper body strength at that age. And
the nice grip I had, the grip I got into
her life best. Le'm gonna make sure she gets right
back to shore. Yeah, you weren't like eleven or something.
(28:14):
It was scary. I think about that Meryl Streep and
Kevin Bacon movie. Oh I don't know that movie. Yeah,
it was like the River after or something like some
bank robbers like accost of their family and she had
to like guide them down the river. Woll that sounds
like a really good movie. That's a that's a winning combination. Wait,
so then, what is your dream show to host? I'll
(28:35):
probably be Jeopardy or like um, but not Jeopardy, oh,
like Nick Arcade. I think it was a show I
love growing up. I grew up. There's a showing CBS
way back in the day called like fun House. J
D I forget his name is white Dude, j D
something j D Ross Maybe you're so j d Roth
or something like that used to host it and it
was super crazy. You get to like tear up rooms
in the house looking for prizes and ship. That sounds fun.
(28:59):
It's okay, So your dream would be too fucking ales.
Ken Jong as the current host of Jeopardy. But what
about not a game show? Or is it just a
game show that you would like the host? I would
have loved the host Arsenio Hall Show two way back
yonder dot com. Maybe we can reboot the Arsenio Hall Show,
(29:21):
but with Josiah Johnson. I need bigger fingers and a
little bit more star power. No, no, you got those
things covered already. You're already there. But our senior had
like eat fingers like he had like elongated fingers, and
he would do this all the time. He would put
his finger on his forehead like he was in deep thought.
They can go damn, I'm old as ship. That's that's sad.
(29:43):
I just got I'm going through a midlife crisis and
not No, you're not over. Wait did you want? It's
not over, It's just the beginning. Um, did you watch
the Coming to America reboot? I did? Did you like it?
I loved it? I enjoyed it. Arsenio he's a real charmer.
He's a good he's a good actor. He's got a
(30:05):
lot of start mega watts star power. He just pretty
much pops right off the screen. Okay. According to Lucien
Wiggles on January two thousand and four, Alex Trebec cheated
death after falling asleep at the wheel and having his
(30:26):
truck fly over an embankment on the way home from
a family vacation. Have you, Josiah ever cheated death before?
Not counting river rafting with your eighth grade teacher? Another
true story for you was working on a TV show.
Jim Rome had a show on Showtime. We used to
work obscenely crazy hours like get in it like eight am,
(30:50):
finish at two am, back at like seven am, type
of ship. So I was working super late one night.
I think I was in like Glendale burbag area. Was
driving home like to to third in the morning, like
a big, big rig like truck fucking literally like I
think that person may have fell asleep with the world
like skirts out, hit the center divider like flips over,
like I hit the brakes on my ship by my
(31:11):
car literally comes within like an inch of like hitting,
and it would have been like a you know, like
a multi car pile up, and I would have been
at the front of it, just getting other cars, you know.
We he just shoved up my Tuti, but avoiding death
skirting really broke into tears that night. It was like
holy ship, Like it was almost over for me. I
had so much more life to live. Yeah, and here
(31:32):
we are now a middle aged man with not much
more life to live. Oh my god, that's crazy. What
a relief and thank God, and here we are on
this podcast. That would have happened. I could have done
this podcast, and that's where I think about magic would
have never happened. That's crazy. Thank God, I'm trying to
(31:53):
think of I I definitely fell asleep once at the wheel.
It was it was scary. I was in high school
driving home and I was just like so tired, and
I woke up and I was just like, oh, God
just saved me from that, or like an angel or something,
and I literally fell asleep driving home from high school
one day on like Supoltal Boulevard at a red light,
like in the time it took the red light to
turn green. Our entire car fell asleep, so the person
(32:15):
behind me had to get another car and bang on
my window wake me up. But I made it home fine.
It was at a red light, it was fine. I
put the car in park and I just kind of
tried to snooze for a second and literally just like snoring,
and like the person hit the window. I'm like, oh,
ship in my bad, Oh my god. We are also
smartest teenagers. You know. I should have pulled over, got
a nap. What high school did you go do? I
(32:37):
went to a school in Van Eys that's no longer
with us, called Montclair College Prep. It was a it
was a greade school, but very shady, a lot of
difference ship going on. Definitely had some instances of teachers
dating students and you know, questionable grade grade changes and
things like that. But they ran the headmaster died. They
ran out of money and now it's like an overflow
(32:58):
a lot for a galloping four. Oh wow, I remember
hearing that name. Mont Claire prep. As a kid, I
feel like it was. It was honestly fantastic school. You
could literally get kicked out of any other school. Show
up there at eight oh five and being rolled by
eight o eight. Whoa, that sounds like a fun place.
Did you guys wear uniforms? We did, but they were
(33:19):
like like cheaper ship, So I just were like the Target.
The uniforms were expensive, like shitty as polos. But I
just went to Target and got like the comparable color
scheme and then I would take one of those like uh,
white out pens and then I'd write the school logo
in it and who genius. Yeah, you know what? You
could get kicked out of my People got kicked out
(33:40):
of my school constantly. And we also had random drug
tests at Santa Margarita, so they would do they would
do school lockdowns and then they bring the drug dog
through to like stip sniffed through people's bags and it's like,
what the funk is going on? Yeah? We had They
could also search our cars and the parking lot um
and the lockers and everything, and so I my thing
(34:05):
was like, if you know you're gonna be searched, why
you carry ship in your pockets or like bring it
on campus. But I don't know other people didn't think
that way. It will just get kicked out left and
right if they're doing a school lockdown, right, yeah, I
probably have the key. Yeah, I have to think about that.
I put in somebody else's locker and let them, let
(34:25):
them get let them Yeah. But yeah, it just shows
you how like dumb teens are. They're not like fully
formed thinking people. Stop knocking. Kids are having drugs. Let
them learn obviously in moderation, of course, don't be the
kid that fucking thanks too much. Just like you know,
you go to Vegas or New Orleans and the people
(34:46):
can't handle their liquor and they're like the just like, great,
you can drink a bunch of it. Doesn't mean you
need to like know your limit right right right, important
wisdom from Josiah right now. No, your limit moderation is key. Yeah, okay. So,
(35:10):
according to Lucian Wiggles, on July two thousand and eleven,
Alex Trebec suffered an achilles tendon injury well while chasing
a burglar out of his hotel room. Have you Josiah
ever suffered an achilles injury? No? Thankfully not. I have
(35:31):
terrible knees in a bad back and a slight over
biding a gap tooth. But thankfully, like worst i've gotten
like broken finger. And then like when I was a
little kid, like I banged my head on a brick wall,
I had to get a bunch of stitches. Oh, I know,
it was terrible. I remember waking up in like a
pool of blood. But um, and have you had any
(35:51):
knee surgeries? No, thankfully, no real surgeries. Thank I mean
I probably should should get one, but no, I'm too
all for that now. I had one in college. Um,
but it was easy, just a meniscus, a fucking breeze,
really know, and really only four a sixth week recovery,
barely anything. How did Andy b Field about that? I
(36:14):
can't believe you remember his name? Legend used to hope
with his way way back in the day, get some
jumpers up. No he didn't. He had a solid jumper. Really,
that's so funny, you know, it was funny, Like I
think he really liked basketball or whatever, because we always,
like our team always had to entertain the basketball recruits.
(36:38):
When you say entertain, like hang out and take or
take the functions or what were we talking about it? Well,
Like I remember getting an email about like taking Kevin
Love around on on his recruiting trip. Wow, And did
you respond to said? Even though I mean, what was
I going to do? Well? Now, I mean what was like?
(36:58):
And I didn't know who he was. We we took
them around like my team, like we we sat with
him at the basketball game, and like did all took
them to parties and stuff and like the worst were
the kids that would come and then you want to
take them to parties and like I'm good, It's like
this motherfucker's not built for this this school. Wait, did
(37:19):
that really happen? Like you never had that happen. I
don't think I had a few kids like I don't
want It's like, bro, like this is have you seen
he got a game? This is what these recruiting trips
are supposed to be. Now turn up. Yeah, that's so funny.
We would have like six six, like a six six
girl come and like like the tallest girls you've ever
(37:39):
seen in your life, and we'll be like taking them
around showing them. Uh, like how crazy that school was?
I remember you guys should do like uh like your
initiation or whatever and then like they'd have you like
the chevron, just like all just like obliterated out of
your mind back and like probably not the best idea,
(38:01):
I know, Like we got they hazed the shoot out
of us. It was just it was fun. But they
would like sharp be all over our faces and we'd
have to like do they'd blow whistle and we'd have
to do a dance in the middle of the party.
But it was nothing was bad, although girls would always
cry and I'd be like, come on, bitch, where No,
this isn't even bad deal. Yeah, did you guys have
(38:25):
hazing on you? Did you guys have an initiation? Not really,
we didn't. We didn't really care about anything, so we
were more nervous. Yeah, you guys were already like cool.
So Alex Trebek chased a burglar out of his hotel room,
which is pretty crazy, Like, um, I guess he's got
some fucking gusto. Um have you ever stopped the crime?
(38:46):
Josiah No, I participated in a few, but definitely haven't stopped. Okay,
alleterally hypothetically hypothetically told of course, hypothetically, just you know,
some far off idea. According to Lucian, Alex Trebek donated
(39:06):
ten million dollars by the time of his death to
his alma mater, University of Ottawa and Canada. Where would you,
Joshiah like to unmode ten million dollars? I give a
little bit to u c l A. But I need
better tickets and uh fetter snacks, better snacks of the events.
I think that's I think, you know, like anytime I
(39:28):
go to advantage judge people on their snacks, has reasonably
good snacks. They need better snacks. I mean I probably
donate to you know, some schools in the inner city community.
I think you know, they could definitely use it. Wow,
that's all like really nice. I would say, probably less
noble stuff than that. What's your favorite snack? I have
to know, like, what are your top five snacks? Snacks? Favorite?
(39:49):
I love sweetearts, so I've literally had multiple root canals
and all my sweet tart teeth like these these are
over here for just chompings, retards and letting that sugar
gets faster into my skin. Um. Cool ranch Doritos and
regular Doritos as well, both very delicious. UH love peppered
farm cookies. I used to love the litos and the milanos. Yeah,
(40:11):
the milanos are clutch. Yeah, the litos don't even know
if they make them anymore, but they were so good
back in back in our Hey, they didn't the milk
double stuff orios are also delicious, famous amous cookies. You
can you know, definitely not tell me with a good
time with those. And I'm getting into pineapples with tahino
on them. That's like my healthy kind of pleasure. Well
(40:31):
that's a good turn at the end there, now, so
you know, people haven't figured out. If you've ever seen
those fruit carts, I would always encourage you pull over,
hit the fruit cart, but make sure you get the
fruits that you want, because sometimes they'll push, like the
cucumbers and other ship on you and put away too
much of that ship in your bag. And I don't
want all this cucumber. I want pineapples, mangoes, oranges, all
the good ship. Maybe a little coconut if I'm frisky. Right,
(40:52):
that's actually a really good tip because one thing I've
always said about papaya, and then the other one, I
forget what the other one is. The orange one. Um,
it looks really good, it looks so tasty, and then
it sort of tastes like dishwater, so it's a real
pump fake. Well, yeah, I really love pineapple. I think
it's incredible. Candles Are you really not a candloup fan?
(41:18):
All those fruits look so much more delicious looking than
they actually taste. Like. I know it's misleading, but as
far as snacks go, you really stuck with all the
childhood um, the childhood ones. Like you're a nostalgia guy. Yeah,
I never you know, I'm old, but I've never never
got old. You know what chips I really like? I
like those? Um have a corn chips. I feel like
(41:41):
nothing tastes like them. They've got like some soy sauce
on them or something. Okay, I didn't. I'm gonna have
to add those. Have you seen those? O? They're always
at gas stations. I have what are they called? They're
called have a like have apostrophe a cornsious. But they're
like really old timey. That's why I thought you might
know what they are. I don't know. I definitely used
(42:03):
to love corn nuts. Oh yeah, corn nuts are pretty
vintage to those things. Those things will do a number
on your teeth. In my teeth, I'm like, are like
the jaws of life on those things. Yeah, for sure.
It's like, yeah, you definitely will shatter some teeth trying
to gnaw through a corn nut. My mom loves corn nuts.
I mean, the lady fucking loves corn nuts. She's still
(42:26):
she she is buying back to them at costco. Still
to this day. She she won't quit on the corn nuts. Yeah,
I don't blame her. Wait, so, now, are you still
watching Jeopardy now that Ken Jong is the host? You know,
I've kind of, you know, once Alex you Beeck went
to that great beyond, I kind of had to separate
(42:47):
myself from the show. No knocks on the mind be
allic and everybody else that's a part of it, that
that gets to do it. But nothing we'll ever replicated
match Alex Trebeck swag is them charisma and um. Lucian
Wiggles also told me that his entire wardrobe was his own. Um. Yeah,
(43:08):
he had none from the show. It was all his.
He just brought his own ship. I'm bringing my own
ship through. Yeah, and they donated it. Um, but that's
really cool. So does your whole family like Jeopardy then? Yeah?
I mean we're all super intelligent. I think Jeopardy is
kind of helped make us more elitist in terms of
our telengence and knowledge that we all we all used
to rock out with it. Shang. My family never watched
(43:30):
ship on Jeopardy. Never watch anything on Jeopardy. Damn. I
don't even know what we watched ship after mon would
you guys would watch? But yeah, I don't know, Like
I think I watched like Seventh Heaven and you know,
(43:50):
yeah until the dad turned out to be a fucking
pedophiles reasonable that it didn't take a turn. I will say, Um,
do you still talk to like your teammates from uz
l A at all? Yeah, we we still hang out
and see each other and uh, you know, shoot the
ship every once in a while. We live our glory days.
(44:11):
Some of us still stuck in those days, some of
us out of him. Yeah, oh man, I could have
did this day and whatever. It's like, Bro, you're sucking
in your mid thirties. Now that ship is over, he's
not coming back. Let's move on. Yeah that's hilarious because, um,
I know, for me, when I volleyball was over, I
sort of never thought about it again for like, I
(44:32):
don't know, I was just at all, I had lived
in Breathe since I was like ten, and so when
it was overall was just so excited to get to
try a bunch of ships that I never had time for. Yeah,
most definitely I felt the same way once it was done.
I was just like, it's like a weight lifted off
my shoulders. But you did see people that would have
like the most hardcore identity crises. I mean it's tough
(44:57):
to go from because, as you know, you still let
you get the sweatsuit and a backpack, and that that
lets everybody know that you're better than them, you know,
it does. I mean, let's just be real. And then
like you you hold onto those sweatsuits and backpack for
another year or two after that, but don't really feel
comfortable wearing them anywhere because it's like, oh, do you
play on the team? Likes? And then it definitely it
(45:17):
is hard to like go into a regular job where
like nobody gives a ship and even like people at
work like asking Like I worked at a bunch of companies,
everybody always asked me about basketball. It's like, look, but
I don't care anymore, Like I don't punish, I don't care,
like whatever, happens happens, right, That's so funny the way, yeah,
the way people bring it up. Um, I'm I am
working on this bit about my voice right now on stage.
(45:39):
And I've never had a bit about it or talked
about it. But I do remember from volleyball and basketball guys,
um hanging out with them, that everywhere we went, like
ten times a day, people would stop them and be like,
oh my god, how tall are you? Wow? You're wow,
(46:00):
You're tall. Not thinking that like just everyone says that
every day of your entire life. Yeah, I mean imagine
like if you're really black or really pale, and it's like,
oh my god, you're so dark, Like gee, did never
seen anybody's dark as You's like the same thing with like, hey,
like I don't go up there short people like oh man,
you're so little, like being so small, you know what
(46:20):
I mean. But that was the thing you'd get and
it's fine if it's like an old person, that's that's
one thing. And it was like an icebreaker for people,
So I get it. I was always like super respectful
of it. Obviously, some of the tall people that I
play with, and you hear stories about guys back in
the day weren't as respectful about that ship, but it
was always just like as you can see him staring
and talking at you, knowing that that was gonna be
like their pickup line they were trying to hit on.
(46:43):
You're like, oh, you're so like and then just asking
questions like it's like, bro, I don't care who since
you started, you know, your career, your public career of
like comedy and commentating and stuff, I've been the most
exciting person for you to meet. I met Lebron in
(47:04):
November of last year at a Lakers Bucks game in Milwaukee,
and I was so scared too. He was like walking
to the team bus and I was with my dad
and my family and there's Broun like go up to him, Like, no,
I'm not doing that's just weird. I never I don't
like running up on people. So my dad my dad
called like called over to him, got got of the attention.
Then we all went med him. It was a good time.
(47:24):
Was he nice? Like what did he say? Because yeah,
it's like stuttering. It was great. I was a little
drunk too, so I was literally like slurring words and ship.
But I think he got the gist of what I
was trying to say, Um, that's is Lebron your favorite player? Yeah, definitely,
most definitely favorite player I think of all times. Wow,
oh my god, that's crazy. And he follows you he's
(47:47):
a fan of yours. Yeah, it's good. So it's crazy
when I meet people now like I do, all this
ship in the vacuum, so I don't know who's who's
paying attention. I can't obviously monitor every single comment and
follow or whatever. It's crazy when I go out on
the streets now, people like recognizing me and all think
they want to fight me at first, and they're staring
at me and I'm like, yo, this, I know it's
my fucker, And then they always like smiling like you know,
we love the tweets or whatever, and I'm just like, damn,
who would have guessed that, like Twitter would be like
(48:10):
my claim to fame right right right? Oh my god,
that's crazy. I can't believe you met Lebron. Yeah he's
a good guy. Well what are you thinking about the
Lakers right now? Am I allowed to ask you? That
we will see nobody? It seems like nobody likes him
or wants to do a trade with him, so it's
a little nerve wracking, but we will figure it out.
(48:32):
Do you think the Kyrie thing's gonna happen? No? Or
he signed He signed with the Nets already. Apparently he
wants to stay there. But he said the same thing
when he was in Boston, so it's not like that
means anything. He can definitely still work out of trade
by the trade deadline like next February. But uh, yeah,
it was a little annoyed. We were like super excited
for like six hours, like BTS Awards weekend, so it
(48:52):
was already like black black Christmas, and uh, you know,
he didn't come. So I'm a little pissed, a little precursor.
And who would you like to meet that you haven't
met yet? Um, it's a good question. Maybe like Obama
or somebody like that. I think it'd be cool just
to see, like what he's like in regular life. Like
you build this image of people like projecting obviously exalt
(49:15):
them and put them on this pedestal. But then when
you meet him and just like they're regularly just like you,
Like they fart, like they eat, like they do normal
things like normal people do. Yeah, but he always seems
like he can cut loose like just rip a heat
or have a beer, play some pickup basketball. He was
definitely hitting heaters in his head there. Yeah. I wonder
(49:36):
if he's still smoking or not, because I feel like
that's pretty punk rock smoking this day and age. You know,
I couldn't do it, but I I appreciate people's goal
when they do it, you know, most definitely. Um, okay,
and let me see if and Lucien has me on
the hook for anything else. Current Valley's very young and Lucien, well, okay,
(50:01):
so you did tell us the lebron story, which was
really exciting. I don't know how we can beat that,
but we do like to end the podcast with a
segment that we call fan on the Street on the
street Street and it's where if you have a fun
(50:28):
celebrity running, but maybe you have another one. Um, I
think that's probably I mean ship, Yeah, some of these
other ones. I met Bill Cosby a long time ago,
back like you know, tell me, but like pre all
those situations, but my mom was like friends with this pilot,
so we got to go to his house in Palace anything,
got to meet him, and that was an enjoyable experience
(50:50):
then obviously not now in hindsight knowing everything that happened. Uh,
I'm trying to think, like I meet Magic Johnson. I
think is up there too. Wait when did you meet
Magic john And I also need to hear what Bill
Cosby's house it was, like, So my dad played in
the NBA, so obviously he knew all these people. So
I got to meet magic Michael Jordan. All this to
human beings really cool. Magic all the time, Like you know,
(51:12):
from the time I was little, all the way through,
we'd be an events in random stuff and you'd always
be there. Michael Jordan's my dad was actually playing for
the Golden State Warriors. Bulls came to town. We got
to go into the locker room after the game and
get our We had stat sheets signed by m j
which was really cool. Whoa, that's really cool. Oh my god. Wait,
so did you did you like Winning Time? Yeah? It was.
(51:35):
It was a good show. I mean, obviously it's not
the most accurate show. People can't take it as gospel,
but it definitely was. They did a great job with
that show. God, I had a great time watching it. Yeah,
it's definitely entertainment. So as long as people understand that
it's not like who these people really were in real life?
Like I think that's that's fine. But also ship was
crazy back then, like uh, the people were partying like
(52:00):
like in between and doing crazy ship like that you
already know. But the again, um, well gosh, this was
just too fun. I'm so glad I got to Oh wait,
I want to know what Bill Cosby's house was, like,
I mean, it was a nice baller spot. I was.
We only hung out in like one little area of it,
(52:21):
so I can't give you full details, probably like fourteen
thirteen or fourteen whoa was he nice? Oh? Yeah, he
was great. I mean obviously I don't think he was
obviously attracted to me, but you know, it might have
been a little different. Yeah, so you were safe. Okay,
this is before everybody knew what happened, so they didn't
(52:42):
lead us. Oh my gosh, Well, thank you so much
for coming on. I mean that letter to I'm just
still so stunned. And you're a wealth of stories and
laughs and uh, we just really appreciate you over here
on the Dear Owen Wilson Show. I know I do
what I was getting into when I agreed to do
this ship. I donna tell you a true story. Uh.
(53:05):
One of your producers hit me last night like, oh,
we needed to write like a letter to like a celebrity.
I'm like, what the funk? I don't know, I don't
I don't want to write a letter to us. But
then I did it this morning and it turned out good,
So I'm happy that I got to come on. Always
a pleasure, you know, chatting with you, supporting all the
great stuff that you got going on. Thank you so
arresting feats, Alex Trebeck. We'll see you on the other side, Josiah. Okay,
(53:28):
bye you everyone, Happy very week.
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