0:00

Get nasty and touch

0:02

your body, get

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nasty and tell

0:07

you frank hands, get

0:10

nasty, but don't

0:12

tell you mama. Romburgundy

0:17

is one fat man. Oh

0:24

rombergny podcast. This

0:26

is Ron Burgundy and welcome to the Ron

0:29

Burgundy Podcast. I'm

0:31

so honored to sit down with my next

0:33

guest. When I agreed

0:36

to do this podcast, it was because

0:38

I wanted the chance to really connect

0:40

with people in an intimate setting.

0:43

I'd be able to have long form, meaningful

0:46

conversations, no television

0:48

cameras, just myself, a

0:51

couple of microphones, and the chance to look

0:53

someone right in the eyes, perhaps

0:56

for too long, just an

0:58

extended amount of unnerving

1:01

eye contact, the kind

1:03

where it becomes uncomfortable for everyone

1:06

involved. I'm also

1:08

not afraid of the silence. Sometimes

1:11

as a broadcaster it's important

1:13

to take long

1:16

pointed pauses

1:21

four dramatic

1:26

effect. So

1:29

many broadcasters feel the need to fill every

1:32

moment with mindless chatter. That

1:35

is not the Burgundy style. Here

1:38

I'll show you what I mean. Did

1:50

you hear that extremely long silence? It

1:53

went on forever?

1:56

How long was that silence? Carolina? Well,

1:59

I wasn't well. It felt

2:01

like an eternity and that's

2:04

okay. Less seasoned broadcasters

2:06

might not be able to handle it because they're in

2:09

love with the sound of their own voice. That's

2:11

a mistake. A good interviewer

2:14

always stops and

2:17

listens to what their

2:20

guest has two

2:25

say on

2:29

the show

2:33

they are

2:38

doing four

2:42

money. The

2:45

point is this, I'm not afraid

2:47

to let it breathe muchacho. I'm

2:52

very honored to welcome my next guest.

2:55

I'll be speaking with a fellow San

2:57

Diegon who I can honestly

3:00

say, over the years, has become an

3:02

American icon. We

3:04

go back a long long time, both

3:07

professionally and personally. We'll

3:09

reveal who that person is right

3:12

after this commercial break. Silence,

3:27

we are back. Welcome to the Ron Burgundy

3:30

Podcast. I am very honored

3:32

to welcome my next guest. Though

3:35

over the last four decades, my guest as rubbed

3:37

shoulders with everyone from sitting presidents

3:40

of the United States to Paul McCartney,

3:43

but more impressively, people like Ja

3:45

Jaga Bore and Johnny Bench. Please

3:48

welcome my friend and fellow icon,

3:50

the San Diego Chicken. Thank

3:53

you, Ron. Always good to see

3:55

you, sir. It's great to see you too, my

3:57

friend. Now that's not your real voice. That just

4:00

the clucking you do. Right, didn't

4:02

you alter ego? Yes? Great,

4:05

I want to if you'll do me a favor, I want

4:07

to take you back to a specific

4:09

date and time June.

4:16

Tell me about that day, the most defining

4:18

moment of my chicken life. There it

4:21

was an extraordinary event. Picture

4:23

this Jack Murphy Stadium,

4:27

thousand. I am

4:29

coming out in a gigantic

4:31

styrofoam egg, rolled

4:34

out onto the field. Okay,

4:36

the emotions are high because I just

4:38

got fired by my previous employers

4:41

at a radio station. We won't say who that

4:43

is. Won't we know who it is, We

4:45

won't say it. So they rolled

4:48

me out onto the field to the

4:50

sound of two thousand one iconic

4:52

tune. I know it will two thousand

4:54

and one one more

4:56

than two thousand effortless

4:59

love me. I

5:01

think you're thinking of a different that's

5:03

the one I'm thinking. I'm it's also spruck

5:06

Zarathustra from the Stanley Kubrick

5:09

film two thousand one A

5:11

Space Odyssey two thousand and

5:13

one. One on one

5:16

We do things a man and lady

5:18

do. It's a classic song. We all know it.

5:21

So you hatch out of the egg onto the

5:23

field. What was that like? Just

5:26

an extraordinary, amazing feeling.

5:29

Let me tell you, Ron, it was something

5:32

that was unparalleled in the history

5:34

of sports. And

5:38

if I could have hugged them when I hatched out of

5:40

that egg, yes, if I could have hugged them all

5:42

at once, I would have. I

5:44

was literally channeling Sally

5:47

Fields. I was thinking, you love me,

5:49

you really love exactly, exactly,

5:52

and Sally Fields, she's also

5:54

a good dear friend of mine and Carolina's.

5:58

Uh. In fact, Caroline grew

6:00

up at her sleepaway camp. Yes, Sally

6:02

Fields has a sleepaway camp for kids

6:04

who have been bullied. And I at

6:07

the time was going through some preteen

6:10

angst, so I spent

6:13

every summer in school. You let's let's

6:15

talk about Pete Rose. Do you ever run into

6:17

that guy because he owes me money? Yes,

6:19

I have run into the Pete and

6:22

uh, I love the guy, I've got to say,

6:24

but I can see why he owes you money

6:26

because having run with Pete a little bit. Yeah,

6:29

he's a big tipper and he's always

6:31

short. He

6:34

just has this love and affinity for people

6:36

and he just peels those bills. So

6:38

I can see where he comes up short and why

6:40

you have to take the I O you sure

6:43

that's an understandment. Um,

6:45

let me ask you this. You've been in the public eye for over

6:48

forty years and you are

6:50

much like myself beloved

6:53

institution. My question

6:55

is this, what do you do about the haters?

6:58

You know? I mean I

6:59

have cop friends who take

7:01

care of mine. Well, I try to

7:04

kind of like fluff them off in a

7:06

way. But every now and then,

7:09

shall I say, I have a family member visit

7:11

them, uh by the name of Vinny,

7:14

and um oh they they

7:16

have a little understanding and things

7:18

get settled quietly. Shall we say? It

7:20

sounds a very uh

7:23

mafia like. Um

7:25

no, No, just a smart guy who's

7:28

very so like a college professor. Yes,

7:31

a wise guy, you might say. Okay,

7:34

interesting approach. You

7:36

are a master of slapstick comedy.

7:38

You really are. I've always said this

7:40

to people, but have you ever thought about trying dramatic

7:43

roles? Would excuse

7:46

me? Um, I'd

7:49

love to see you work with Lars van Trier any

7:51

interest. Um. I don't know who

7:53

quite that is, but I did

7:55

work with George Gooper lindsay on he Hall

7:57

one time. But um, yeah, you know,

8:00

Shakespeare could be in my future. You never

8:02

know, but there's a there's

8:04

a part of me that wants to come out and show

8:06

my George Gouber Lindsay, m

8:09

hm. Did he ever get an Oscar? I

8:12

don't recall they quite got an oscar? I

8:14

think nominated for a few an ordinary

8:17

people. I'm

8:19

thinking of someone else. You know, I

8:21

remember because I used to play it all the time.

8:24

In fact, I still do. You recorded

8:26

a cover of Rod Stewart's song.

8:29

Do you think I'm sexy? Uh?

8:31

Be candid with me. What's it like with the

8:34

groupies? There must be a lot of San Diego

8:36

Chicken groupies. Well, I guess I can. I

8:38

can fess up here and now, Yes, yes,

8:40

there were, yes indeed, and uh,

8:43

you know they would always ask me about my McNuggets.

8:47

I see samples.

8:51

You know. Well, let's not get into that.

8:53

It's a dirty teens listening to this episode.

8:56

You know, I don't like to talk about my private life

8:58

very much. There I'm actually

9:01

a happily married chicken. Are

9:03

you familiar with the actress Marissa Tarmay,

9:06

Sure, yes, Legal Eagles,

9:09

Urban Cowboy, my

9:11

cousin Tommy. Yeah, she's terrific.

9:14

Well, I don't think she was in either of those films,

9:16

but we are married. We

9:21

had no idea San Diego

9:23

Chicken and Marissa tomay Oscar Award

9:26

winning actress. Yes, absolutely,

9:28

but we'd like to keep it, you know, on the down low both

9:32

of our careers. What a compliment though, you

9:35

let her do her thing, she lets you do your

9:37

thing. And fantastic

9:41

arrangement and bond that we have for

9:43

each other. Really you

9:45

were saying something kind of like lovebirds. Oh

9:48

yes, right, love birds. Um.

9:51

You were saying earlier

9:53

that one of the interesting

9:56

things about a lot of the physical stick

9:59

that you've come up with sometimes they were suggested

10:01

from the actual baseball players. It's great,

10:03

they've got a great sense of humor, but they

10:06

come up with these weird ideas off the top.

10:08

They come to me umpires as well, coaches,

10:11

they'll they'll they'll throw ideas out at me,

10:13

and I said, let's give it a try, and we go out and

10:15

uh, it's it's amazing. Baseball's

10:18

probably got the best sense of humor of all the

10:20

sports run. And yet I have to think there'd

10:22

be a guy who's having a bad game and be

10:24

like, hey, Chicken, get away from

10:26

me. Has that ever happened. That's happened

10:28

on occasion, not too much, surprisingly,

10:31

especially you know, it's it's hard to beat when

10:34

thousands of people are laughing all at once. But

10:37

I've actually had players come

10:39

up to me and thank me because

10:42

because of my shenanigans and chicanery

10:44

out there, They actually said they

10:47

focused on the game a little more and try to block

10:49

it and actually had a great game. Had a great

10:51

game, believe it or not. Uh huh, that's

10:53

a true story. Um. Carolina

10:56

had a question about Ken Griffy. She's a

10:58

big Ken Griffy fan. Ken Griffy,

11:01

is he six three or

11:04

six four? I've got

11:06

to say more on the six three side. But

11:08

Carolina asked, what you really wanted to ask about

11:10

Ken? What

11:13

does Ken think about

11:16

when he was playing for the Big Red Machine, When

11:18

he was playing for the Big Red Machine, what he can

11:20

think about the switching of the players

11:23

two different teams. What are

11:25

you saying? I'm sorry, you know, I don't

11:27

know anything about sports. I was trying

11:29

to I think what she was trying to say

11:32

is the Big Red Machine. We're

11:34

talking about the Cincinnati Reds in the seventies. Of

11:36

course, would you say that's

11:38

one of the finest teams you've ever seen play,

11:40

absolutely And one of the things I also learned

11:42

they were funny. That team. They can

11:45

and they were funny. They were loose and free

11:48

and fantastic. That contributed to their

11:50

success. At least four Hall of Famers

11:52

off that team. Incredible of the starting

11:54

eight that they had out on the field, amazing

11:57

squad, tremendous and they

11:59

were great, always goofy, always

12:01

having fun. But I guess when you're winning and

12:04

having a dynasty, Uh, you're you're

12:06

playing with house money, and it's easy to be carefully,

12:08

easy to be carefree, no question,

12:11

no question. So famous

12:14

Chicken, We've known each other a long time, and I

12:16

just want to be honest with the audience. There was a there

12:18

was a period of a few years where

12:20

we didn't speak to each other, and I

12:22

was a guest of honor at a Padres game,

12:25

and uh, you and I

12:27

get that this was supposed to be funny and

12:30

h and what you do, But you pulled down

12:32

my You pulled down my pants in front

12:34

of the whole stadium, and I was just there and my skivvies,

12:37

looking like a goddamn fool. It was my

12:39

understanding that was a pre arranged thing. Well

12:41

it wasn't. Okay.

12:44

Publicists lie, They lie

12:46

all the time. I was humiliated.

12:49

I'm sorry it happened, but you you sort

12:51

of overreacted. I underreacted.

12:54

Yes, I showed extreme restraint

12:57

in that situation. You punched me in a jaw

12:59

and knocked me cold turkey. You underreacted.

13:02

I was flat on the field. They carried

13:04

me out in a stretcher. Kids were crying,

13:07

screaming, just stunned. I

13:10

remember because it was in the newspaper the next

13:12

day, Ron Burgundy

13:14

Clucks the San Diego Chicken.

13:17

It was like a clever pun headline, and

13:19

instead of clocks the San Diego Chicken, they

13:21

wrote, yeah, the clucks.

13:24

I get the play on words, but it didn't make it any

13:26

better. It turns out you

13:29

can't punch a beloved mascot

13:31

in the face. Otherwise people think

13:33

you're a jerk. Well that was

13:35

a long time ago. Shall we just say, let's

13:38

let bygones be bygones. Well it better

13:40

be, since you sued me, I

13:42

mean, we settled out of court for an undisclosed

13:44

sum, and that some was not small.

13:49

How much was it? It was? My house boats

13:51

so well, look at it as a poultry

13:54

sum You look these

13:56

chicken puns. They come from fastest

14:00

serious I

14:04

try to catch them. It's advantage,

14:06

it's it's kind of conge powering me right

14:09

now back?

14:13

Um, So okay, So we're good, right, You

14:15

and I are good? Yeah? I appreciate

14:17

it. Wrong, we we can, we can move past all of

14:19

it. Yeah, we're good. I heard another guy asked

14:21

that on another interview podcast.

14:24

You just get asking are we good? We're good? Are

14:26

we good? Mark Marin? Have you ever been

14:28

on his podcast? Uh? He

14:30

had the President of the United

14:33

States and in his garage, Jimmy

14:35

Carter. Isn't that insane? I don't I think

14:37

it was. That's amazing, Obama,

14:39

It's amazing. Okay, San

14:42

Diego Chicken. Let me see. I've got

14:44

some other questions I've jotted down here

14:46

for you. Let me ask you this. Did you hang

14:48

out with Steve Garvey at all? Now, for

14:50

those listeners who don't know, Steve Garvey l

14:52

a Dodger great but then finished

14:55

his career with the San Diego Padres I believe

14:57

got the Padres to the World series. Yes

14:59

he did. Did you hang out with with with the Garve

15:02

not not too much with the Garve. I tell you why, because

15:04

he's always a nominee for the Hall of Fame,

15:06

comedy for the Hall of Shame. So

15:08

we don't really make yourself well.

15:11

You know, that's how I'm looked at sometimes by

15:14

But you know, I still have respect

15:16

for any padre that that walks this earth.

15:18

What about Gary Templeton, Gene

15:21

Tennis, um

15:23

hang out with you of those guys. Don't hang out

15:25

with them at all, but they were great

15:27

with me back in their playing days. I must say

15:29

about the Chargers, any of the Chargers, Don Corriel,

15:32

their coach, Well, Dan Fouts was

15:34

always great with me. I've got to say,

15:37

yes, yeah, the legendary broadcaster

15:39

right now, Yes, but he

15:42

immortalized me in the Holy Roller. He

15:44

always referenced how everybody

15:46

was passed out when the Oakland Raiders fumbled

15:48

the ball all the way in for a touchdown

15:51

to win a game against the Chargers. Change the

15:53

rules of football, Ron did. Yeah.

15:55

But Dan Fouds expressed

15:57

one time I saw him say this on NFL

16:00

right channel, that he really felt for

16:02

me because I had a seizure up in the stands

16:05

and he saw, oh yeah,

16:07

yeah, yeah, So I had you

16:09

had a real seizure inside your

16:11

your chicken suit when you saw the play.

16:16

You didn't. Really, they didn't bring in the m T S.

16:18

You don't. You don't have epilepsy, do

16:20

you? No? No, nothing, nothing of the sort.

16:23

But I'll tell you everybody felt sick

16:25

and that day. Can chickens have epilepsy?

16:28

Sure they can. I'm sure you

16:30

might be right up there with chicken pox. I'm not sure

16:33

would be the chicken

16:35

head. Chicken pox. It's

16:38

pretty good, that's really good. Is

16:41

it hard for you to eat chicken? I

16:43

gotta tell you this rong. Yes, it's

16:45

not. That's the secret. I

16:47

don't mind if people eat those other chickens.

16:50

It helps a little less competition, yes,

16:52

less competition. If you can't

16:55

beat them, eat them. But then again, they're not performing,

16:58

they're not What purpose did they really serve? Yeah?

17:00

But if I'm the last chicken standing in America,

17:03

think of the marketing opportunity. The only

17:05

thing is that people might not know

17:07

what a chicken is anymore. Well,

17:09

let's see last chicken standing chicken

17:11

a la king who knows? I why

17:14

why a chicken? You know?

17:16

For our listeners at home, how

17:19

did you stumble across a chicken

17:22

as the mascot. Well it it

17:24

was a radio station idea to come and

17:26

and and and hire me off the campus at

17:28

San Diego State, just on

17:30

the whim. No audition, no job

17:33

application, nothing, I just, uh

17:35

they hired me on the spot because I agree. And what

17:37

were you doing prior to uh to this?

17:40

I was washing dishes. I was a

17:42

dishwasher at a restaurant and

17:44

marploers and cleaning off

17:46

tables and that was it. But I

17:48

had an opportunity to get my fortnitoor real radio

17:51

station, albeit through a chicken suit. So you

17:53

went from making five thousand dollars

17:55

a year to six thousand dollars a year. Yeah.

17:58

Actually it was a pay cut, you know, because

18:00

it was two dollars an hour, and uh, that's

18:03

a lot of work. But I got free records.

18:05

Okay, that's

18:08

still I don't know if it's a good deal. That's

18:10

how much I make. Now you

18:12

know, we're not going to discuss your salary on

18:15

the podcast. Okay, Um,

18:18

let me ask you this. The San Diego Clippers before

18:20

they moved to Los Angeles. We're playing down there

18:22

at the uh oh, what's the stadium there?

18:24

I forget back then as known as a sports arena. That's

18:27

right, the sports arena. And I understand you

18:29

became very good friends with World b Free.

18:32

Oh yes, absolutely, And you guys

18:34

were roommates for a while, is that true? Yes,

18:37

we now, we used to hang around together.

18:39

And and I gave him up pointers no no

18:42

pun intenda, especially at the fall line. Yeah

18:44

yeah, And and uh he was. He was

18:46

a fantastic three point shooter. I believe

18:48

Ron. He would have me run up and down the baseline

18:52

going crazy trying to distract him. So

18:54

it helped him in his focus to laser

18:56

in on that basket. That's interesting

18:58

to completely opposite

19:01

approach. You created frenetic

19:03

energy, but that forced him to focus

19:06

up. That's right, you like a laser beam.

19:08

And and you thanked me for it, and

19:10

it was it was great, yes, And and the

19:13

Clippers had a solid five years with World

19:15

b Free there at the time, and then eventually

19:18

moved to l A And my and my dear

19:20

friends Swen Nader Oh

19:22

yes, yes, super

19:25

right, super Swen and

19:27

I used to after games we'd

19:29

go and play play dueling banjos

19:32

in the parking lot. Who

19:35

knew. Yeah, it was easy to do because there

19:37

weren't a lot of fans at those games, so you could just hang on

19:39

the parking lot as late as you wanted to dueling

19:42

banjos. So you're not we

19:44

weren't playing. We're playing two different

19:47

songs, trying to see

19:49

who would attract more of a banjo

19:51

crowd doing.

19:56

What's the most insulting thing

19:58

a fan has ever yelled at you? Oh,

20:01

the most insulting thing is

20:03

um, probably calling

20:05

me a turkey. I've got to say,

20:08

and uh, that's that's a whole

20:10

another gendre. And I would

20:12

never lower myself to that standard. Absolutely,

20:15

but that was pretty insulting. I thought, I'm

20:17

sorry about that. That

20:19

was me, Oh that was turkey.

20:23

Oh man, I can't see very

20:25

well out of here, and I hear it up and that was that

20:27

I should have known. Oh my gosh,

20:31

hey, your dirty turkey, get

20:33

out of here. To be fair, run

20:35

uses that it's it's

20:39

it's really more a term of endearment.

20:42

Get in here, your dirty turkey, Happy birthday.

20:44

That case, no offense taken anyway.

20:49

I had been drinking a few cold ones and I just

20:51

started calling you a dirty turkey. So I'm sorry that if

20:53

you took that the wrong way. I did not

20:55

know that was you kind of like trolling

20:58

me through the grand stands night after night. Have

21:00

people ever thrown batteries or pennies at

21:02

you? No? No, I haven't gotten

21:04

anything like that, or frozen

21:06

frozen chickens. No,

21:08

not quite, and not even um

21:10

underwear like Tom Jones. What's

21:13

the most expensive thing anyone's

21:15

thrown at you? Like, say, watch or gold coins,

21:18

krugerrands, um. I would

21:20

probably say about a nine dollar beer.

21:23

Okay, still nine And

21:27

if that happens, you just you just ignored

21:30

and move on, right. I think of it as a bird bath.

21:32

Try to lick it off and move on. I

21:35

love it. That's a that's a great philosophy

21:37

in life. Think of it as a bird bath, right,

21:40

absolutely, I mean, you know, what

21:42

the heck? You know it's it's kind of like

21:45

life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, take

21:47

a bird bath, that's absolutely. Somebody

21:50

douses a beer. Enjoy the life

21:52

gives you lemonade. You make

21:56

chicken juice. I'm trying to think of another pun, but

21:58

I couldn't. Oh, I know, you

22:00

can't make chicken salad

22:03

at a chicken. That's

22:06

a good one. Right, that's

22:08

an uplifting one. Okay, it has

22:11

the lesson isn't clear, let's

22:13

keep going. That's it's it's a saying.

22:16

My dad used to tell me, you can't make chicken. Ron,

22:18

get in here, look

22:20

at you. You can't make chicken

22:22

salad a chicken happy birthday.

22:24

And you just say that, and he'd hand me

22:27

a bag of charcoal briquettes.

22:30

Wow, well, you know I've proven something.

22:32

I think I've made chicken salad

22:34

out of chicken stick. So

22:37

like jokes, yes, okay,

22:39

give it a rest. Is

22:42

it upsetting that you can't fly? Yeah?

22:44

Do you ever think about that? I've thought about that,

22:47

Ron, And you know what, I just have to

22:49

join and and and my real brother

22:51

in spirit. My brothers in spirit are penguins,

22:54

and so I I identify with them.

22:56

You know, they're they're they're cutesy and they're

22:58

LoVa bull and so I say, could have been a mascot

23:01

that you could have You could have been a penguin, the San

23:03

Diego Penguin Bingo. Yes, could

23:05

have been. But hey, well you know what,

23:08

I think you made the right choice. The chicken is

23:10

just it's fun. It's

23:12

funny. It's iconic. You

23:14

never blink. Hmm, and

23:17

I'm at the beak of my career. We

23:22

negotiated no more. Yeah, we did no more

23:24

than four puns. All

23:26

right, let's do a lightning round with

23:29

the San Diego Chicken. Here we go. What

23:32

are your thoughts on climate change? Go quickly

23:34

fast? Oh? I care very deeply about

23:36

the environment. After all, this guy might be

23:38

falling. What is the deal with the Philly fanatic?

23:40

That guy's a weirdo, right, sorry,

23:42

of yeah, he's all Philly all the time. Look

23:45

at his girth, but he's very enthusiastic

23:47

about those Phillies. Morgana the Kissing Bandit

23:49

was she ever cut? Will she ever be

23:51

prosecuted? Well, I gotta tell you she caught

23:53

up with me one time years ago, and

23:56

if loving her is wrong, then I'm

23:58

happy to do the time for her. Right. ORGANA

24:03

is going to be listening to this San

24:06

Diego Chicken. Final question, what do you want your

24:08

legacy to be? Well?

24:10

I like to think that he was

24:12

amusing to watch um, enjoyable

24:15

and help pass the time added

24:17

to the game. And uh,

24:20

you gotta admire somebody who never had a

24:22

real job for a living, you

24:25

know, what. I feel the same way

24:27

because I love what I do so much.

24:30

Now I know for sure Carolina has never had

24:32

a real job ever, worked multiple

24:35

different positions OFR

24:38

zero BuzzFeed News,

24:40

a lot of places listen to that resume journalists

24:43

would love to work at. It's

24:46

so nice to me. Nice meeting you, Thank

24:48

you for inviting me on. Thank you so much,

24:50

San Diego Chicken. Where

24:52

can we find you next? Well,

24:55

I believe it or not, I might be doing something

24:57

with the padres this year first,

25:00

right, it should be fun looking

25:02

forward to it. It's going to be a grand time at

25:05

Petco Park. And uh and that will

25:07

be throughout the baseball season or just dates.

25:10

We're gonna have a special selected

25:12

date for the return of the Chicken this year

25:14

to Petco Park. Will you come back out of the styrofoam

25:17

egg? Oh? Probably not out

25:19

of the styrofoam egg, but some other surprises.

25:21

What if they lowered you out of a spaceship? Right?

25:26

How cool? That

25:28

would be? Complete agreement. That's

25:31

that's something I would already. They should already start

25:33

promoting that to sell season tickets.

25:35

Here it comes the UFO, the Unidentified

25:38

frying object. Okay,

25:40

we're gonna turn off your mic now. Sorry,

25:42

all right, thank you so much, San

25:45

Diego Chicken. We'll be right back

25:47

here at the Run Burgundy Podcast. And

25:58

we are back. Thank you for listening to Ron

26:01

Burgundy podcast. Our guest,

26:03

of course, was the San Diego Chicken. Carolina

26:07

is here with course art fact check. Carolina,

26:10

we did actually okay today.

26:12

Um. We the

26:15

lyrics as are at straw. Obviously we're

26:17

really off two thousand

26:19

one. What a crazy year.

26:22

No one thought we'd make it past. Why do K

26:25

No, definitely not those um.

26:27

And we also found

26:30

chickens can't have seizures. Um.

26:32

I knew that. I just didn't want to embarrass him.

26:35

Yeah, fair enough. Um. And

26:37

then I she

26:39

didn't even pronounce his wife's I looked

26:42

at U. No, he's not married to Marissa Toma.

26:44

Come on, yeah, so that's crazy.

26:47

Um. But that's it. Everything else was

26:49

very legitimate and factually correct.

26:52

Great. Well, my

26:55

final thoughts for today. Today

26:58

was a high water mark for

27:00

me, Ron Burgundy, as

27:02

a child of the the

27:05

mean streets of San Diego. This

27:07

was an icon that I really wanted to reach out to

27:09

and have on the podcast.

27:12

Not only is an interesting

27:15

interview subject, but as a beacon of

27:17

light to the world. Yes,

27:21

we turned out a lot of people, a

27:23

lot of people so

27:26

that we could get the San Diego Chicken, h

27:29

including the current pope, And

27:32

I think that was I think

27:34

that was a wise decision to get

27:37

the San Diego Chicken. That's a huge

27:39

feather in the old cap if

27:42

you think about it. The most

27:44

iconic people ever to come from San

27:46

Diego are myself, the

27:49

actress who played Blossom,

27:52

and the guys from Blink, and

27:55

then of course the San Diego Chicken.

27:58

You saw him, you heard him,

28:02

you felt him, you felt his power,

28:04

his strength a lot, and his

28:06

love for humanity. It

28:10

well, Carolina Barlow, I can't

28:12

believe it. Season one

28:15

in the camp can what a journey.

28:18

It was a lot. I mean, we thought we were going

28:20

to have a rod. He didn't show didn't

28:22

show up. We got

28:24

stuck in the elevator. We of course battled

28:27

that horrible demon in my garage that

28:30

no one seemed to hear but me. The ghost. Yeah,

28:32

the ghost got

28:34

to reminisce with our good friend Deep Octobra.

28:36

Oh my god. We meditated with him, meditated

28:39

with him. We talked about true

28:41

crimes. We've just

28:43

it's it's it feels like it's been

28:45

a lifetime and I've enjoyed every second of it.

28:47

It's been hard for me, but I think that

28:49

I've learned a lot about communicating and

28:53

I really just want to

28:55

um, work harder to continue

28:59

my produced soorial relationship

29:01

with you and and have boundaries

29:03

when I feel I think that you have

29:05

shown a lot of growth, um,

29:07

but you still have a ton of hard work ahead

29:10

of you. Well, and that's just constructive

29:13

criticism, Okay, I thought

29:15

I was being no. I'm saying, great job, but

29:18

I think you're at the tenth of where you can be. And

29:21

I say that with a smile. It doesn't feel

29:23

like that. But well,

29:25

to our listeners, Yes, to our listeners, we can't

29:28

we can't thank you enough. You have been

29:30

wonderful. I think I

29:32

don't know. You might have been given me the finger the whole time,

29:35

but I have a feeling you've really enjoyed

29:37

the insight we've provided you. And

29:39

um, well, we'll

29:42

see you on the the dark

29:44

side of the moon. As they say,

29:47

I wish we could play that song. So

29:51

to all our wonderful listeners, all

29:54

of you, Pete, Terry, Angela,

29:57

Gus Marty the

30:00

I mean, the list goes on and on. You all know who you are.

30:02

Thanks for listening, Thanks for all

30:04

the flowers you've sent, all

30:07

the gift cards, all

30:09

the free food, most of it

30:11

spoiled upon arrival, but we still

30:13

appreciate the thought. Once again, until

30:15

next season. This is Ron Burgundy

30:18

along with Carolina signing

30:21

off. There you go,

30:23

goodbye everyone.

30:31

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30:38

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30:40

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30:43

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