As you guys know, I love gossip.
I love my tea. Isn't that true Sona?
Yeah you love your hot goss.
I call it tea.
Isn't that something that I should be?
I don't think you can say I love my tea.
I don't know if that's the way it works
and it sounds weird coming from you anyway.
Also, often when I say it,
I just like an actual tea, chamomile.
I think that's what you mean.
Yeah.
I don't mean.
Yeah, Conan, this segment's supposed
to be about gossip, not tea.
Okay, well,
(all laughing) my enthusiasm level
just dropped incredibly 'cause I have all these facts
at my disposal about different blends.
Your English breakfast, your Scottish lunch.
Did you research tea before this segment
thinking we were gonna talk about tea?
I take these segments seriously.
And I went to the library
'cause that's the only place to get information.
(Sona laughs) And I went through
the library cards, the Dewey decimal system.
But now that I know that it's about gossip,
I'm even more excited 'cause I love gossip.
And as you say Sona, "I loves my hot goss."
Yeah So I'm very happy
to report that team Coco
finally has a gossip expert in the house,
comedian, Solomon Georgio.
Very happy that he's on board. Yes.
Hi, hello. (laughs)
That's Solomon laughing there.
Solomon, I love anyone who just giggles at their own name.
That is your actual name, Solomon.
(all laugh) Oh that's,
every time I hear I'm like, are you sure? (laughs)
Yeah, yeah. Trust me.
My name, my first name gets a laugh out of me every time.
(Solomon laughs)
But anyway,
Solomon has been in the team Coco family for a while.
He's appeared at our live shows.
He's been on the late night show
and just before the world went on lockdown
Solomon hit send on a tweet that changed his life.
The tweet was, "I don't care about celebrity gossip.
Give me small scale gossip."
And you had no idea
what you were gonna get back
when you sent that tweet out. did you, Solomon?
No, I did not.
I did not expect hundreds of responses
to truly the most just an afterthought that I had
just in the middle of the day.
Yeah, yeah.
The tweet went viral,
complete strangers started sending Solomon
their juiciest stories.
Now he's serving them up on "The Juice",
a brand new podcast from Team Coco,
featuring Solomon and a celebrity guest
discussing low stakes gossip stories.
It's low stakes and very high on the petty.
Yes that's- I think which is,
I always like petty gossip.
It's true. I love a good petty.
I've held every grudge my entire life.
Oh. Not a single one
has been let go. (all laugh)
The Irish, all we're really known for is very green grass
and the ability to hold a grudge for thousands of years
over the smallest thing.
(Sona laughs) Hey, you put the stone
on my side of the farm. (all laugh)
It should stay on your side of the farm.
And then they're bitter about it for a thousand years.
Anyway, Solomon, thanks for being with us.
And you've brought some juicy gossip to share.
I want to hear this 'cause I wanna weigh in.
I'm a very wise man.
Well this actually I brought some historical gossip,
some stuff from the past.
'Cause gossip's been around for a while.
It's been like segments in newspapers for the longest time.
Yeah, Gossips been around.
What mean it's been around for a while?
I think right after Adam and Eve
were kicked out of, you know, Eden, gossip started.
Yeah. About this naked man
and woman and what was with a snake
and how come the apple, and so, yes,
it's been with us since day one
and it's probably kept the earth turning.
So Conan and Matt,
I know that you both are history buffs.
So these are historical pieces of gossip
that we put together for you.
These historical pieces of gossip
come from the Hamilton evening journal,
August 6th, 1892.
Ooh.
Yeah this is juicy.
"A woman, not a thousand miles from Richmond,
was without doubt the most flurried female in seven counties
when she discovered after coming out of church Sunday
that her brand new hat was adorned with a tag
whereupon was inscribed the legend, Reduced to $2.75."
Oh. Oh, God.
So how humiliating for her?
Yeah.
She bought a hat on sale?
She bought a hat on sale
and was probably humiliated
because it made the paper, right?
It made the paper.
But also, like she's leaving church,
she's supposed to not,
she's supposed to have the newest hat,
I'm assuming, 'cause it's a church function.
Yeah. The Sunday finest.
And she showed up with a cheap hat
and she didn't take the tag off.
Also this just shows you (Matt whistles)
how little was happening in the news that day
(all laugh) or what a bad newspaper it was
(Matt laughs) because what if this
was the same day that like President Garfield was shot
and they were like, "what should we do?
The president's been shot in a train station in Washington.
Wait a minute, this just over the transom".
(all laugh)
Stop the presses. Stop the presses.
The president, he'll either live or die,
there's nothing we can do about it.
(all laugh)
But you know, Enid Crabtree just wore a reduced hat
(all laugh)
at the Methodist church.
We've gotta get this out there.
Do you remember Minnie Pearl?
She used to wear a hat
Yep. with the tag hanging down.
Is this in reference to that? Oh, no, no.
It can't be no, no, no, no.
This was a very,
I don't think Minnie Pearl knew about this story.
She might have.
Like look, Minnie Pearl might be all knowing.
She might be the woman. (all chuckling)
That would make Minnie Pearl,
who I'm gonna guess passed away like 10 years ago,
so she would've been, I don't know, 120 when she died.
I'm sorry.
Could happen.
Who's Minnie Pearl? Exactly.
(Matt laughs) A rapper that just hit huge.
(all laugh) Just out of.
(all laugh)
You gotta know what's going on.
Right, straight outta, straight outta Oakland.
(all laugh) No Minnie Pearl.
Oh that's Minnie Pearl. Minnie Pearl,
famous was at the Grand Ole Opry.
She was a comedian and then she was on HeeHaw.
She was, you know, big time comic in her day
and that was her trademark was a tag hanging from her hat.
So those are things,
I love that you're learning, Sona,
about the history of women in comedy.
(Matt laughs)
Yes, from you, a man in comedy. It Makes sense.
Sort of in comedy, I guess.
(Matt laughs) I don't know.
(chuckles) It's unclear to me what I'm doing anymore.
It is just, the reduced price hat
is sort of the thing that's like you can't, it is gauche.
You can't be caught in that situation.
So Minnie Pearl's doing like a nice little tip
to something that's happened
to too many women unfortunately.
Of course, nowadays,
to get to elicit the same kind of scandal,
you'd probably just have to walk naked.
Do you know what I mean?
Out of a church that you just set on fire
to get the same amount of attention.
This society has changed so much.
I don't think if someone saw a reduced sale tag,
also that would look cool.
Like I think aren't there a lot of celebrities
who like to let it out there that,
"I only spent $8 on this or I only spent, this was only $15"
and you're seen as thrifty, which is cool.
And there was a fashion to keep the stickers
on your ball cap for a long time too.
But also like it shows like how different our society was.
People like to talk about cancel culture.
Like she got canceled for wearing a reduced priced hat.
(Solomon chuckles)
We hope she was just canceled.
She may have been run outta town.
(Solomon laughs)
Or murdered.
Murdered. Murdered.
Yeah. Who knows?
We don't know. The stakes were very high back in the 1890s.
And so we don't know what happened to her.
I think it's just safe to assume that she was dismembered.
(all laugh)
Dismembered.
Maybe she was gonna return the hat after church,
so she left the tag on.
No. Ooh that's worse.
And a lot of influencers do that now
where they buy expensive clothes, keep the tags on
and then return it after they take photos
for, you know, their social media.
I feel like that's,
I think back in the past, all sales were final.
I think that's usually. (laughs)
Okay. (laughs)
Also, she was also responsible for the first selfie,
as she came outta the church, (all laugh)
she waited, she waited while a guy with a camera.
She waited while a guy with a camera set up the tripod,
put the flash powder on the pan,
put his head underneath (all laugh)
that big sheet,
and then set the (indistinct) type levels
to the correct settings,
and she had to stand still for 40 minutes
for he selfie (all laugh)
Wait, that's not a selfie.
She had to get under that curtain
herself and just do a black Yeah, she got under
picture of herself curtain and she got
everything just right.
Then she lit the flash powder and jumped back into frame.
(all laugh)
And it was the- Ugh.
it was the first recorded selfie,
August 6th, 1892, look it up.
Solomon, what else you got?
"The City of Humboldt", in Kansas,
"has a young woman's military band
that goes around playing for picnics and celebrations.
It may be all right for a woman to play on a brass horn
but it makes the lips hard just the same."
What?
Whoa.
Oh.
what year are we talking about here?
This is in 1892. (laughs)
This is also happening in 1892.
Yes.
Women were just going insane at this time.
(all laugh)
I know. (Sona laughs)
So like, she'd walk around town and everybody'd be like,
"oh, there's Hard-lipped Sheila over there,
Don't go near her."
Yeah. There was a whole,
it was actually a whole women's band,
military band on top that, so they were in the military.
So wait a minute.
Wow.
I'm confused.
Does, "make the lips hard," was considered a bad thing?
Yeah, that's the part that I'm trying, like,
I feel like, is it just because they're all women
and they shouldn't be getting their lips hard
and that's against the rules?
I think so.
I don't understand.
I Don't know, but it sounds
kind of sexual.
Like they've been Get your lips hard.
put out to pasture.
Oh, I think it's that their lips have been spoiled about it.
They don't have soft lips anymore.
Oh, okay.
I was saying the way it was written sounded sexual.
Yeah. I like a hard-lipped woman.
(All laugh)
What about like chapped, crusty lips, like that?
I like that too.
That sounds great. You know?
Oh. Yeah.
That honestly smooth lips really,
they just, they don't tell a story
and that's what I think the issue is. (chuckles)
Yeah. I think that's (all laugh)
I'm with Solomon on this one.
Anyone can have smooth lips.
That just means
you haven't lived life. Yeah.
But give me a hard-lipped woman,
whose lips are chapped, crusty, flaking, I want-
You want her to leave some of her lips on you.
Yes exactly.
Yes. Oh come on.
I want it to feel like- What?
I want it to feel like- (Solomon laughs)
I just kissed a freshly sandblasted, banister
(all laugh) and that's what I like.
Hey, that's what, swear to God,
first thing, when I saw my wife
way back in 2000 across the room.
first thing I shot it was," yo, you got some hard lips."
(all laugh)
And then I said, "give me some of that skin chap."
Oh, God. Ugh.
Yeah. I said, "flake me up, baby."
(all groan) (Solomon laughs)
Anyway, she refused. Oh no.
Yeah. It took me a year to recover just from that.
(all laugh)
She got a restraining order,
but then about a year later she had forgotten
that I said that, I said that that was someone else
and she believed it so. (all laugh)
We got past it. I'll ask her.
This is good gossip. I like this.
I like historical gossip. This is good.
I like my,
I call it the goo. Give me the goo.
Don't I always say that, Sona?
The goo. Yeah
You do. Yeah, you love goo. I say what's the goo?
What's the goo?
And to me, that just means the gooey, sweet gossip,
the goo, that's what I like.
I like that. (Sona speaks gibberish)
My favorite memory,
I used to work at the JC Penney, the suit department,
and I would just go hang out with women
in the perfume department
and they would smoke menthols
and then we'd watch "Passions",
and the entire time we would just swap stories of gossip
(all laugh) and that's like,
that's always gonna be, yeah.
That sounds amazing.
"Passions" was incredibly. You watched "Passions"?
I loved "Passions". I watched it too.
Oh my God. That was the best soap ever.
It was a fever dream of a soap opera.
I was just gonna say it was a fever dream.
I didn't see this soap opera, what made it so great?
It had witches,
It had a, like, it had a living doll.
Absurd. It was very, very wild.
Yeah a living doll. A little person played a living doll
and it was all shot on early video too.
Oh, I remember.
I didn't watch it
but I remembered everybody was talking about it.
It was insane. It was off its rocker.
Crazy. Yeah.
Bring back passions. That's all I came here for.
That's all. (chuckles)
Yeah. (all laugh)
You know what I wanna do?
I want to, let's see if we can't use our resources,
Solomon, and get some behind-the-scenes gossip
from the making of the show, "Passions".
I bet we can get- Oh yeah.
something good going there. I'm sure I can.
I probably can do that.
I'll actually do it right now (chuckles) after this.
Yeah, yeah. (all laugh)
I can't think of a better use of two adult time
(all laugh) than to drop everything.
Two adult time. Two adults.
Two adult time. (all laugh)
All right, well, what are you gonna do?
(all laugh)
This has been a lot of fun
and I'm very happy that you're getting to do what you love.
That's the trick in life, Solomon.
Find out what you love
and then trick people into paying you to do it.
And congratulations, Sir. Thank you.
Just a reminder everybody,
from workplace romances at Denny's,
to moms with secret lovers.
Oh my God. (Sona gasps)
Each week, Solomon sources only the best everyday gossip
from comedians, performers and listeners like you.
In fact, I went on "The Juice", I had a blast.
Sona, I think you did as well, right?
I did, I had so much fun. I really did.
Talking to Solomon was awesome.
Well, he's here listening. Allegedly.
Of course you're gonna say that.
Yeah. Allegedly.
Yeah, I Know. I know.
Yeah, and he's-
I was paying him a compliment and you ruined it.
Yeah, but you're on zoom (Solomon laughs)
and I saw you do air quotes when he was awesome.
So insulting. So insulting.
Do you think he saw it? I hope he didn't see it.
No, I don't think so.
I saw him.
(all laugh)
He's crying now. He's visibly crying.
So do with that what you will,
but probably crying about something else.
Yeah. But anyway. Okay.
No, it really is fun.
New episodes of "The Juice" are out every week.
Listen, wherever you get your podcasts
and thank you, Solomon.
Thank you so much.