Speaker 1: Get nasty and touch your body, get nasty and tell
Speaker 1: you frank hands, get nasty, but don't tell you mama.
Speaker 1: Romburgundy is one fat man. Oh rombergny podcast. This is
Speaker 1: Ron Burgundy and welcome to the Ron Burgundy Podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: so honored to sit down with my next guest. When
Speaker 1: I agreed to do this podcast, it was because I
Speaker 1: wanted the chance to really connect with people in an
Speaker 1: intimate setting. I'd be able to have long form, meaningful conversations,
Speaker 1: no television cameras, just myself, a couple of microphones, and
Speaker 1: the chance to look someone right in the eyes, perhaps
Speaker 1: for too long, just an extended amount of unnerving eye contact,
Speaker 1: the kind where it becomes uncomfortable for everyone involved. I'm
Speaker 1: also not afraid of the silence. Sometimes as a broadcaster
Speaker 1: it's important to take long pointed pauses four dramatic effect.
Speaker 1: So many broadcasters feel the need to fill every moment
Speaker 1: with mindless chatter. That is not the Burgundy style. Here
Speaker 1: I'll show you what I mean. Did you hear that
Speaker 1: extremely long silence? It went on forever? How long was
Speaker 1: that silence? Carolina? Well, I wasn't well. It felt like
Speaker 1: an eternity and that's okay. Less seasoned broadcasters might not
Speaker 1: be able to handle it because they're in love with
Speaker 1: the sound of their own voice. That's a mistake. A
Speaker 1: good interviewer always stops and listens to what their guest
Speaker 1: has two say on the show they are doing four money.
Speaker 1: The point is this, I'm not afraid to let it
Speaker 1: breathe muchacho. I'm very honored to welcome my next guest.
Speaker 1: I'll be speaking with a fellow San Diegon who I
Speaker 1: can honestly say, over the years, has become an American icon.
Speaker 1: We go back a long long time, both professionally and personally.
Speaker 1: We'll reveal who that person is right after this commercial break. Silence,
Speaker 1: we are back. Welcome to the Ron Burgundy Podcast. I
Speaker 1: am very honored to welcome my next guest. Though over
Speaker 1: the last four decades, my guest as rubbed shoulders with
Speaker 1: everyone from sitting presidents of the United States to Paul McCartney,
Speaker 1: but more impressively, people like Ja Jaga Bore and Johnny Bench.
Speaker 1: Please welcome my friend and fellow icon, the San Diego Chicken.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Ron. Always good to see you, sir. It's
Speaker 1: great to see you too, my friend. Now that's not
Speaker 1: your real voice. That just the clucking you do. Right,
Speaker 1: didn't you alter ego? Yes? Great, I want to if
Speaker 1: you'll do me a favor, I want to take you
Speaker 1: back to a specific date and time June. Tell me
Speaker 1: about that day, the most defining moment of my chicken life.
Speaker 1: There it was an extraordinary event. Picture this Jack Murphy Stadium, thousand.
Speaker 1: I am coming out in a gigantic styrofoam egg, rolled
Speaker 1: out onto the field. Okay, the emotions are high because
Speaker 1: I just got fired by my previous employers at a
Speaker 1: radio station. We won't say who that is. Won't we
Speaker 1: know who it is, We won't say it. So they
Speaker 1: rolled me out onto the field to the sound of
Speaker 1: two thousand one iconic tune. I know it will two
Speaker 1: thousand and one one more than two thousand effortless love me.
Speaker 1: I think you're thinking of a different that's the one
Speaker 1: I'm thinking. I'm it's also spruck Zarathustra from the Stanley
Speaker 1: Kubrick film two thousand one A Space Odyssey two thousand
Speaker 1: and one. One on one We do things a man
Speaker 1: and lady do. It's a classic song. We all know it.
Speaker 1: So you hatch out of the egg onto the field.
Speaker 1: What was that like? Just an extraordinary, amazing feeling. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you, Ron, it was something that was unparalleled
Speaker 1: in the history of sports. And if I could have
Speaker 1: hugged them when I hatched out of that egg, yes,
Speaker 1: if I could have hugged them all at once, I
Speaker 1: would have. I was literally channeling Sally Fields. I was thinking,
Speaker 1: you love me, you really love exactly, exactly, and Sally Fields,
Speaker 1: she's also a good dear friend of mine and Carolina's. Uh.
Speaker 1: In fact, Caroline grew up at her sleepaway camp. Yes,
Speaker 1: Sally Fields has a sleepaway camp for kids who have
Speaker 1: been bullied. And I at the time was going through
Speaker 1: some preteen angst, so I spent every summer in school.
Speaker 1: You let's let's talk about Pete Rose. Do you ever
Speaker 1: run into that guy because he owes me money? Yes,
Speaker 1: I have run into the Pete and uh, I love
Speaker 1: the guy, I've got to say, but I can see
Speaker 1: why he owes you money because having run with Pete
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, he's a big tipper and he's
Speaker 1: always short. He just has this love and affinity for
Speaker 1: people and he just peels those bills. So I can
Speaker 1: see where he comes up short and why you have
Speaker 1: to take the I O you sure that's an understandment. Um,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. You've been in the public
Speaker 1: eye for over forty years and you are much like
Speaker 1: myself beloved institution. My question is this, what do you
Speaker 1: do about the haters? You know? I mean I have
Speaker 1: cop friends who take care of mine. Well, I try
Speaker 1: to kind of like fluff them off in a way.
Speaker 1: But every now and then, shall I say, I have
Speaker 1: a family member visit them, uh by the name of Vinny,
Speaker 1: and um oh they they have a little understanding and
Speaker 1: things get settled quietly. Shall we say? It sounds a
Speaker 1: very uh mafia like. Um no, No, just a smart
Speaker 1: guy who's very so like a college professor. Yes, a
Speaker 1: wise guy, you might say. Okay, interesting approach. You are
Speaker 1: a master of slapstick comedy. You really are. I've always
Speaker 1: said this to people, but have you ever thought about
Speaker 1: trying dramatic roles? Would excuse me? Um, I'd love to
Speaker 1: see you work with Lars van Trier any interest. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know who quite that is, but I did
Speaker 1: work with George Gooper lindsay on he Hall one time.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, you know, Shakespeare could be in my future.
Speaker 1: You never know, but there's a there's a part of
Speaker 1: me that wants to come out and show my George
Speaker 1: Gouber Lindsay, m hm. Did he ever get an Oscar?
Speaker 1: I don't recall they quite got an oscar? I think
Speaker 1: nominated for a few an ordinary people. I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: someone else. You know, I remember because I used to
Speaker 1: play it all the time. In fact, I still do.
Speaker 1: You recorded a cover of Rod Stewart's song. Do you
Speaker 1: think I'm sexy? Uh? Be candid with me. What's it
Speaker 1: like with the groupies? There must be a lot of
Speaker 1: San Diego Chicken groupies. Well, I guess I can. I
Speaker 1: can fess up here and now, Yes, yes, there were,
Speaker 1: yes indeed, and uh, you know they would always ask
Speaker 1: me about my McNuggets. I see samples. You know. Well,
Speaker 1: let's not get into that. It's a dirty teens listening
Speaker 1: to this episode. You know, I don't like to talk
Speaker 1: about my private life very much. There I'm actually a
Speaker 1: happily married chicken. Are you familiar with the actress Marissa Tarmay, Sure, yes,
Speaker 1: Legal Eagles, Urban Cowboy, my cousin Tommy. Yeah, she's terrific. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't think she was in either of those films,
Speaker 1: but we are married. We had no idea San Diego
Speaker 1: Chicken and Marissa tomay Oscar Award winning actress. Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: but we'd like to keep it, you know, on the
Speaker 1: down low both of our careers. What a compliment though,
Speaker 1: you let her do her thing, she lets you do
Speaker 1: your thing. And fantastic arrangement and bond that we have
Speaker 1: for each other. Really you were saying something kind of
Speaker 1: like lovebirds. Oh yes, right, love birds. Um. You were
Speaker 1: saying earlier that one of the interesting things about a
Speaker 1: lot of the physical stick that you've come up with
Speaker 1: sometimes they were suggested from the actual baseball players. It's great,
Speaker 1: they've got a great sense of humor, but they come
Speaker 1: up with these weird ideas off the top. They come
Speaker 1: to me umpires as well, coaches, they'll they'll they'll throw
Speaker 1: ideas out at me, and I said, let's give it
Speaker 1: a try, and we go out and uh, it's it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Baseball's probably got the best sense of humor of all
Speaker 1: the sports run. And yet I have to think there'd
Speaker 1: be a guy who's having a bad game and be like, hey, Chicken,
Speaker 1: get away from me. Has that ever happened. That's happened
Speaker 1: on occasion, not too much, surprisingly, especially you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's hard to beat when thousands of people are laughing
Speaker 1: all at once. But I've actually had players come up
Speaker 1: to me and thank me because because of my shenanigans
Speaker 1: and chicanery out there, They actually said they focused on
Speaker 1: the game a little more and try to block it
Speaker 1: and actually had a great game. Had a great game,
Speaker 1: believe it or not. Uh huh, that's a true story. Um.
Speaker 1: Carolina had a question about Ken Griffy. She's a big
Speaker 1: Ken Griffy fan. Ken Griffy, is he six three or
Speaker 1: six four? I've got to say more on the six
Speaker 1: three side. But Carolina asked, what you really wanted to
Speaker 1: ask about Ken? What does Ken think about when he
Speaker 1: was playing for the Big Red Machine, When he was
Speaker 1: playing for the Big Red Machine, what he can think
Speaker 1: about the switching of the players two different teams. What
Speaker 1: are you saying? I'm sorry, you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about sports. I was trying to I think what
Speaker 1: she was trying to say is the Big Red Machine.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the Cincinnati Reds in the seventies. Of course,
Speaker 1: would you say that's one of the finest teams you've
Speaker 1: ever seen play, absolutely And one of the things I
Speaker 1: also learned they were funny. That team. They can and
Speaker 1: they were funny. They were loose and free and fantastic.
Speaker 1: That contributed to their success. At least four Hall of
Speaker 1: Famers off that team. Incredible of the starting eight that
Speaker 1: they had out on the field, amazing squad, tremendous and
Speaker 1: they were great, always goofy, always having fun. But I
Speaker 1: guess when you're winning and having a dynasty, Uh, you're
Speaker 1: you're playing with house money, and it's easy to be carefully,
Speaker 1: easy to be carefree, no question, no question. So famous Chicken,
Speaker 1: We've known each other a long time, and I just
Speaker 1: want to be honest with the audience. There was a
Speaker 1: there was a period of a few years where we
Speaker 1: didn't speak to each other, and I was a guest
Speaker 1: of honor at a Padres game, and uh, you and
Speaker 1: I get that this was supposed to be funny and
Speaker 1: h and what you do, But you pulled down my
Speaker 1: You pulled down my pants in front of the whole stadium,
Speaker 1: and I was just there and my skivvies, looking like
Speaker 1: a goddamn fool. It was my understanding that was a
Speaker 1: pre arranged thing. Well it wasn't. Okay. Publicists lie, They
Speaker 1: lie all the time. I was humiliated. I'm sorry it happened,
Speaker 1: but you you sort of overreacted. I underreacted. Yes, I
Speaker 1: showed extreme restraint in that situation. You punched me in
Speaker 1: a jaw and knocked me cold turkey. You underreacted. I
Speaker 1: was flat on the field. They carried me out in
Speaker 1: a stretcher. Kids were crying, screaming, just stunned. I remember
Speaker 1: because it was in the newspaper the next day, Ron
Speaker 1: Burgundy Clucks the San Diego Chicken. It was like a
Speaker 1: clever pun headline, and instead of clocks the San Diego Chicken,
Speaker 1: they wrote, yeah, the clucks. I get the play on words,
Speaker 1: but it didn't make it any better. It turns out
Speaker 1: you can't punch a beloved mascot in the face. Otherwise
Speaker 1: people think you're a jerk. Well that was a long
Speaker 1: time ago. Shall we just say, let's let bygones be bygones.
Speaker 1: Well it better be, since you sued me, I mean,
Speaker 1: we settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, and
Speaker 1: that some was not small. How much was it? It was?
Speaker 1: My house boats so well, look at it as a
Speaker 1: poultry sum You look these chicken puns. They come from
Speaker 1: fastest serious I try to catch them. It's advantage, it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of conge powering me right now back? Um,
Speaker 1: So okay, So we're good, right, You and I are good? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Wrong, we we can, we can move
Speaker 1: past all of it. Yeah, we're good. I heard another
Speaker 1: guy asked that on another interview podcast. You just get
Speaker 1: asking are we good? We're good? Are we good? Mark Marin?
Speaker 1: Have you ever been on his podcast? Uh? He had
Speaker 1: the President of the United States and in his garage,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter. Isn't that insane? I don't I think it was.
Speaker 1: That's amazing, Obama, It's amazing. Okay, San Diego Chicken. Let
Speaker 1: me see. I've got some other questions I've jotted down
Speaker 1: here for you. Let me ask you this. Did you
Speaker 1: hang out with Steve Garvey at all? Now, for those
Speaker 1: listeners who don't know, Steve Garvey l a Dodger great
Speaker 1: but then finished his career with the San Diego Padres
Speaker 1: I believe got the Padres to the World series. Yes
Speaker 1: he did. Did you hang out with with with the
Speaker 1: Garve not not too much with the Garve. I tell
Speaker 1: you why, because he's always a nominee for the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame, comedy for the Hall of Shame. So we
Speaker 1: don't really make yourself well. You know, that's how I'm
Speaker 1: looked at sometimes by But you know, I still have
Speaker 1: respect for any padre that that walks this earth. What
Speaker 1: about Gary Templeton, Gene Tennis, um hang out with you
Speaker 1: of those guys. Don't hang out with them at all,
Speaker 1: but they were great with me back in their playing days.
Speaker 1: I must say about the Chargers, any of the Chargers,
Speaker 1: Don Corriel, their coach, Well, Dan Fouts was always great
Speaker 1: with me. I've got to say, yes, yeah, the legendary
Speaker 1: broadcaster right now, Yes, but he immortalized me in the
Speaker 1: Holy Roller. He always referenced how everybody was passed out
Speaker 1: when the Oakland Raiders fumbled the ball all the way
Speaker 1: in for a touchdown to win a game against the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Change the rules of football, Ron did. Yeah. But Dan
Speaker 1: Fouds expressed one time I saw him say this on
Speaker 1: NFL right channel, that he really felt for me because
Speaker 1: I had a seizure up in the stands and he saw,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So I had you had a
Speaker 1: real seizure inside your your chicken suit when you saw
Speaker 1: the play. You didn't. Really, they didn't bring in the
Speaker 1: m T S. You don't. You don't have epilepsy, do you? No? No, nothing,
Speaker 1: nothing of the sort. But I'll tell you everybody felt
Speaker 1: sick and that day. Can chickens have epilepsy? Sure they can.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you might be right up there with chicken pox.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure would be the chicken head. Chicken pox.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good, that's really good. Is it hard for
Speaker 1: you to eat chicken? I gotta tell you this rong. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's not. That's the secret. I don't mind if people
Speaker 1: eat those other chickens. It helps a little less competition, yes,
Speaker 1: less competition. If you can't beat them, eat them. But
Speaker 1: then again, they're not performing, they're not What purpose did
Speaker 1: they really serve? Yeah? But if I'm the last chicken
Speaker 1: standing in America, think of the marketing opportunity. The only
Speaker 1: thing is that people might not know what a chicken
Speaker 1: is anymore. Well, let's see last chicken standing chicken a
Speaker 1: la king who knows? I why why a chicken? You know?
Speaker 1: For our listeners at home, how did you stumble across
Speaker 1: a chicken as the mascot. Well it it was a
Speaker 1: radio station idea to come and and and and hire
Speaker 1: me off the campus at San Diego State, just on
Speaker 1: the whim. No audition, no job application, nothing, I just,
Speaker 1: uh they hired me on the spot because I agree.
Speaker 1: And what were you doing prior to uh to this?
Speaker 1: I was washing dishes. I was a dishwasher at a
Speaker 1: restaurant and marploers and cleaning off tables and that was it.
Speaker 1: But I had an opportunity to get my fortnitoor real
Speaker 1: radio station, albeit through a chicken suit. So you went
Speaker 1: from making five thousand dollars a year to six thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year. Yeah. Actually it was a pay cut,
Speaker 1: you know, because it was two dollars an hour, and uh,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of work. But I got free records. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's still I don't know if it's a good deal.
Speaker 1: That's how much I make. Now you know, we're not
Speaker 1: going to discuss your salary on the podcast. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. The San Diego Clippers before
Speaker 1: they moved to Los Angeles. We're playing down there at
Speaker 1: the uh oh, what's the stadium there? I forget back
Speaker 1: then as known as a sports arena. That's right, the
Speaker 1: sports arena. And I understand you became very good friends
Speaker 1: with World b Free. Oh yes, absolutely, And you guys
Speaker 1: were roommates for a while, is that true? Yes, we now,
Speaker 1: we used to hang around together. And and I gave
Speaker 1: him up pointers no no pun intenda, especially at the
Speaker 1: fall line. Yeah yeah, And and uh he was. He
Speaker 1: was a fantastic three point shooter. I believe Ron. He
Speaker 1: would have me run up and down the baseline going
Speaker 1: crazy trying to distract him. So it helped him in
Speaker 1: his focus to laser in on that basket. That's interesting
Speaker 1: to completely opposite approach. You created frenetic energy, but that
Speaker 1: forced him to focus up. That's right, you like a
Speaker 1: laser beam. And and you thanked me for it, and
Speaker 1: it was it was great, yes, And and the Clippers
Speaker 1: had a solid five years with World b Free there
Speaker 1: at the time, and then eventually moved to l A
Speaker 1: And my and my dear friends Swen Nader Oh yes, yes,
Speaker 1: super right, super Swen and I used to after games
Speaker 1: we'd go and play play dueling banjos in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: Who knew. Yeah, it was easy to do because there
Speaker 1: weren't a lot of fans at those games, so you
Speaker 1: could just hang on the parking lot as late as
Speaker 1: you wanted to dueling banjos. So you're not we weren't playing.
Speaker 1: We're playing two different songs, trying to see who would
Speaker 1: attract more of a banjo crowd doing. What's the most
Speaker 1: insulting thing a fan has ever yelled at you? Oh,
Speaker 1: the most insulting thing is um, probably calling me a turkey.
Speaker 1: I've got to say, and uh, that's that's a whole
Speaker 1: another gendre. And I would never lower myself to that standard. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: but that was pretty insulting. I thought, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 1: That was me, Oh that was turkey. Oh man, I
Speaker 1: can't see very well out of here, and I hear
Speaker 1: it up and that was that I should have known.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, hey, your dirty turkey, get out of here.
Speaker 1: To be fair, run uses that it's it's it's really
Speaker 1: more a term of endearment. Get in here, your dirty turkey,
Speaker 1: Happy birthday. That case, no offense taken anyway. I had
Speaker 1: been drinking a few cold ones and I just started
Speaker 1: calling you a dirty turkey. So I'm sorry that if
Speaker 1: you took that the wrong way. I did not know
Speaker 1: that was you kind of like trolling me through the
Speaker 1: grand stands night after night. Have people ever thrown batteries
Speaker 1: or pennies at you? No? No, I haven't gotten anything
Speaker 1: like that, or frozen frozen chickens. No, not quite, and
Speaker 1: not even um underwear like Tom Jones. What's the most
Speaker 1: expensive thing anyone's thrown at you? Like, say, watch or
Speaker 1: gold coins, krugerrands, um. I would probably say about a
Speaker 1: nine dollar beer. Okay, still nine And if that happens,
Speaker 1: you just you just ignored and move on, right. I
Speaker 1: think of it as a bird bath. Try to lick
Speaker 1: it off and move on. I love it. That's a
Speaker 1: that's a great philosophy in life. Think of it as
Speaker 1: a bird bath, right, absolutely, I mean, you know, what
Speaker 1: the heck? You know it's it's kind of like life
Speaker 1: gives you lemons, you make lemonade, take a bird bath,
Speaker 1: that's absolutely. Somebody douses a beer. Enjoy the life gives
Speaker 1: you lemonade. You make chicken juice. I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: of another pun, but I couldn't. Oh, I know, you
Speaker 1: can't make chicken salad at a chicken. That's a good one. Right,
Speaker 1: that's an uplifting one. Okay, it has the lesson isn't clear,
Speaker 1: let's keep going. That's it's it's a saying. My dad
Speaker 1: used to tell me, you can't make chicken. Ron, get
Speaker 1: in here, look at you. You can't make chicken salad
Speaker 1: a chicken happy birthday. And you just say that, and
Speaker 1: he'd hand me a bag of charcoal briquettes. Wow, well,
Speaker 1: you know I've proven something. I think I've made chicken
Speaker 1: salad out of chicken stick. So like jokes, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: give it a rest. Is it upsetting that you can't fly? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do you ever think about that? I've thought about that, Ron,
Speaker 1: And you know what, I just have to join and
Speaker 1: and and my real brother in spirit. My brothers in
Speaker 1: spirit are penguins, and so I I identify with them.
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're they're cutesy and they're LoVa bull
Speaker 1: and so I say, could have been a mascot that
Speaker 1: you could have You could have been a penguin, the
Speaker 1: San Diego Penguin Bingo. Yes, could have been. But hey,
Speaker 1: well you know what, I think you made the right choice.
Speaker 1: The chicken is just it's fun. It's funny. It's iconic.
Speaker 1: You never blink. Hmm, and I'm at the beak of
Speaker 1: my career. We negotiated no more. Yeah, we did no
Speaker 1: more than four puns. All right, let's do a lightning
Speaker 1: round with the San Diego Chicken. Here we go. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on climate change? Go quickly fast? Oh?
Speaker 1: I care very deeply about the environment. After all, this
Speaker 1: guy might be falling. What is the deal with the
Speaker 1: Philly fanatic? That guy's a weirdo, right, sorry, of yeah,
Speaker 1: he's all Philly all the time. Look at his girth,
Speaker 1: but he's very enthusiastic about those Phillies. Morgana the Kissing
Speaker 1: Bandit was she ever cut? Will she ever be prosecuted? Well,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you she caught up with me one
Speaker 1: time years ago, and if loving her is wrong, then
Speaker 1: I'm happy to do the time for her. Right. ORGANA
Speaker 1: is going to be listening to this San Diego Chicken.
Speaker 1: Final question, what do you want your legacy to be? Well?
Speaker 1: I like to think that he was amusing to watch um,
Speaker 1: enjoyable and help pass the time added to the game.
Speaker 1: And uh, you gotta admire somebody who never had a
Speaker 1: real job for a living, you know, what. I feel
Speaker 1: the same way because I love what I do so much.
Speaker 1: Now I know for sure Carolina has never had a
Speaker 1: real job ever, worked multiple different positions OFR zero BuzzFeed News,
Speaker 1: a lot of places listen to that resume journalists would
Speaker 1: love to work at. It's so nice to me. Nice
Speaker 1: meeting you, Thank you for inviting me on. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much, San Diego Chicken. Where can we find you next? Well,
Speaker 1: I believe it or not, I might be doing something
Speaker 1: with the padres this year first, right, it should be
Speaker 1: fun looking forward to it. It's going to be a
Speaker 1: grand time at Petco Park. And uh and that will
Speaker 1: be throughout the baseball season or just dates. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have a special selected date for the return of the
Speaker 1: Chicken this year to Petco Park. Will you come back
Speaker 1: out of the styrofoam egg? Oh? Probably not out of
Speaker 1: the styrofoam egg, but some other surprises. What if they
Speaker 1: lowered you out of a spaceship? Right? How cool? That
Speaker 1: would be? Complete agreement. That's that's something I would already.
Speaker 1: They should already start promoting that to sell season tickets.
Speaker 1: Here it comes the UFO, the Unidentified frying object. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna turn off your mic now. Sorry, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you so much, San Diego Chicken. We'll be right
Speaker 1: back here at the Run Burgundy Podcast. And we are back.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to Ron Burgundy podcast. Our guest,
Speaker 1: of course, was the San Diego Chicken. Carolina is here
Speaker 1: with course art fact check. Carolina, we did actually okay today. Um.
Speaker 1: We the lyrics as are at straw. Obviously we're really
Speaker 1: off two thousand one. What a crazy year. No one
Speaker 1: thought we'd make it past. Why do K No, definitely
Speaker 1: not those um. And we also found chickens can't have seizures. Um.
Speaker 1: I knew that. I just didn't want to embarrass him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fair enough. Um. And then I she didn't even pronounce
Speaker 1: his wife's I looked at U. No, he's not married
Speaker 1: to Marissa Toma. Come on, yeah, so that's crazy. Um.
Speaker 1: But that's it. Everything else was very legitimate and factually correct. Great. Well,
Speaker 1: my final thoughts for today. Today was a high water
Speaker 1: mark for me, Ron Burgundy, as a child of the
Speaker 1: the mean streets of San Diego. This was an icon
Speaker 1: that I really wanted to reach out to and have
Speaker 1: on the podcast. Not only is an interesting interview subject,
Speaker 1: but as a beacon of light to the world. Yes,
Speaker 1: we turned out a lot of people, a lot of
Speaker 1: people so that we could get the San Diego Chicken,
Speaker 1: h including the current pope, And I think that was
Speaker 1: I think that was a wise decision to get the
Speaker 1: San Diego Chicken. That's a huge feather in the old
Speaker 1: cap if you think about it. The most iconic people
Speaker 1: ever to come from San Diego are myself, the actress
Speaker 1: who played Blossom, and the guys from Blink, and then
Speaker 1: of course the San Diego Chicken. You saw him, you
Speaker 1: heard him, you felt him, you felt his power, his
Speaker 1: strength a lot, and his love for humanity. It well,
Speaker 1: Carolina Barlow, I can't believe it. Season one in the
Speaker 1: camp can what a journey. It was a lot. I mean,
Speaker 1: we thought we were going to have a rod. He
Speaker 1: didn't show didn't show up. We got stuck in the elevator.
Speaker 1: We of course battled that horrible demon in my garage
Speaker 1: that no one seemed to hear but me. The ghost. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the ghost got to reminisce with our good friend Deep Octobra.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. We meditated with him, meditated with him.
Speaker 1: We talked about true crimes. We've just it's it's it
Speaker 1: feels like it's been a lifetime and I've enjoyed every
Speaker 1: second of it. It's been hard for me, but I
Speaker 1: think that I've learned a lot about communicating and I
Speaker 1: really just want to um, work harder to continue my
Speaker 1: produced soorial relationship with you and and have boundaries when
Speaker 1: I feel I think that you have shown a lot
Speaker 1: of growth, um, but you still have a ton of
Speaker 1: hard work ahead of you. Well, and that's just constructive criticism, Okay,
Speaker 1: I thought I was being no. I'm saying, great job,
Speaker 1: but I think you're at the tenth of where you
Speaker 1: can be. And I say that with a smile. It
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like that. But well, to our listeners, Yes,
Speaker 1: to our listeners, we can't we can't thank you enough.
Speaker 1: You have been wonderful. I think I don't know. You
Speaker 1: might have been given me the finger the whole time,
Speaker 1: but I have a feeling you've really enjoyed the insight
Speaker 1: we've provided you. And um, well, we'll see you on
Speaker 1: the the dark side of the moon. As they say,
Speaker 1: I wish we could play that song. So to all
Speaker 1: our wonderful listeners, all of you, Pete, Terry, Angela, Gus
Speaker 1: Marty the I mean, the list goes on and on.
Speaker 1: You all know who you are. Thanks for listening, Thanks
Speaker 1: for all the flowers you've sent, all the gift cards,
Speaker 1: all the free food, most of it spoiled upon arrival,
Speaker 1: but we still appreciate the thought. Once again, until next season.
Speaker 1: This is Ron Burgundy along with Carolina signing off. There
Speaker 1: you go, goodbye everyone. The Ron Burgundy Podcast is a
Speaker 1: production of I Heart Radio podcast Network and Funnier Die.
Speaker 1: I'm Ron Burgundy. I'm the host, writer and executive producer.
Speaker 1: Carolina Barlow is my co host, writer and producer. The
Speaker 1: show is also produced by Whitney Hodeck, Jack O'Brien, Miles Gray,
Speaker 1: and Nick Stuff. Our executive producer is Mike Farrell. Our
Speaker 1: consulting producer is Andrew Steo. Our associate producer is Anna Hosnier.
Speaker 1: Our writer is Jake Fogolist. Our production supervie there is
Speaker 1: Colin McDougall. This episode was engineered, mixed, and edited by
Speaker 1: Nick Stump. See you next Thursday on The Ron Burgundy Podcast.
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