Speaker 1: Wrong b and sing. Welcome to another exciting episode of
Speaker 1: the Run Burgundy Podcast with me as always is my
Speaker 1: co host, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak. Great to
Speaker 1: be here with you, as always, Casey, it's Carolina, not
Speaker 1: a d a Casey Novak. I think that's a fictional
Speaker 1: character from Law and Order Special Victims Unit. You know what,
Speaker 1: You're right. I'm sorry about the picks up. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how I made that mistake. I actually know
Speaker 1: exactly how you made that mistake, and it's because you've
Speaker 1: been falling asleep to old s VU reruns again. I
Speaker 1: know your schedule. Yes, okay, fine, you got me. It
Speaker 1: was a slip of the tongue, Carolina. I like s you.
Speaker 1: I keep it on in the background while I build
Speaker 1: my shipwrecks in bottles. You mean ships and bottles. No, No,
Speaker 1: I put a ship in a bottle and then I
Speaker 1: smashed it against the wall. Oh. Um, So this is
Speaker 1: actually one of the things we'll be talking about today. Um.
Speaker 1: This episode is centered on hobbies. We're going to explore
Speaker 1: different kinds of hobbies. Will share some of ours, and
Speaker 1: we'll hear about the hobbies of some of our listeners. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's right, our listeners. Hobbies like, for instance, talking to
Speaker 1: a beautiful woman online until eventually realizing you've been catfished.
Speaker 1: That's not really a hobby. Why why did you say that?
Speaker 1: Did that happen to you? Um? Ron? No? Um? Sorry, Ron,
Speaker 1: that's that's terrible. You know what, I want to get
Speaker 1: this off my chest. It will make me feel better,
Speaker 1: it might warn others out there, and it will also
Speaker 1: explain why I goofed up and introduced you as Manhattan
Speaker 1: Assistant District Attorney Casey Novak. Yeah, what happened there? Okay,
Speaker 1: here's what happened. I was talking to a woman online
Speaker 1: who I thought was actress Diane Neil, who I'm sure
Speaker 1: you all know played the role of A d A.
Speaker 1: Casey Novak on Law and Order s VU from two
Speaker 1: thousand three to two thousand eight. Wow, this is very formal.
Speaker 1: She returned for a few episodes in the two thousand
Speaker 1: eleven two thousand twelve season, but that's not really important. No,
Speaker 1: we can just move on. She also appeared in a
Speaker 1: season three episode as a murderer named Amelia Chase before
Speaker 1: joining the main cast as an A d A. But
Speaker 1: that's really beside the point and we can't get into it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't need a breakdown of all of this. I,
Speaker 1: like so many of you out there, watch all of
Speaker 1: the law and Order shows and was excited to be
Speaker 1: chatting online with the actress who played Casey Novak. Turns
Speaker 1: out it wasn't her. That's generally what happened. It was
Speaker 1: it was a catfish situation and terribly embarrassing. Did you
Speaker 1: send her any money? Like, how did you find out
Speaker 1: that she was a cat ish? No, it didn't get
Speaker 1: to that. And this is where I need to thank
Speaker 1: the folks at I Heart Radio. I had them run
Speaker 1: the I P address of everyone who listens to this podcast,
Speaker 1: and then with the help of law enforcement, I subpoena
Speaker 1: the records attached to every IP address and matched it
Speaker 1: with a name. That's insane. There are so many people
Speaker 1: listening to this show, yes, hundreds of thousands, maybe a
Speaker 1: million or so. But I caught the catfish. So let
Speaker 1: me just say this, Jim Carlson, you are not actress
Speaker 1: Diane Neil. He knows that you are nothing but a
Speaker 1: nineteen year old punk from Scottsdale, Arizona. And how dare
Speaker 1: you take advantage of my heart the way you did.
Speaker 1: Shame on you, young man. So that's one of your
Speaker 1: hobbies or something that happened to you getting catfished? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess. I'm so sorry that happened, Ron. And and
Speaker 1: who knows, maybe the real Diane Neil will hear this
Speaker 1: if she's one of our listeners that you have I
Speaker 1: p information on. No. I checked. Diane Neil doesn't listen
Speaker 1: to the show ever, But in going through the names
Speaker 1: of all the people who do, you'd be surprised who
Speaker 1: does tune in? Okay, anyone interesting? I was genuinely surprised
Speaker 1: at some of these names. Let's see here, Tom Selleck listens.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Oh, and one of the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 1: The Menendez brothers are the two brothers? Okay, okay, Ron,
Speaker 1: I wonder if there's any data privacy issues with us
Speaker 1: having the names of all the people who listen to
Speaker 1: this podcast. It just feels weird. Okay, Carolina, here we
Speaker 1: go with the conspiracy theories. Who are you? Detective John
Speaker 1: Munch from Law and Order s VU and also homicide
Speaker 1: Life on the Streets. I'm talking, of course about the
Speaker 1: legendary Richard Belzer who listened to a few episodes but
Speaker 1: didn't finish the season. That's okay, Dick Belzer. We're here
Speaker 1: when you want to return, Our arms are wide open.
Speaker 1: My dear friend, come back to Papa. Look, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: you were catfished, but going through everyone's IP addresses is
Speaker 1: really extreme. I don't want to know all of this. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. If you're listening right now, yes, I
Speaker 1: have some personal info on you, but it's honestly all good.
Speaker 1: Unlike the Jim Carlson's out there, I won't trick you
Speaker 1: into sending tacky photos. Now let's get to our topic today.
Speaker 1: Tacky photos? All right, Yes, again, today's episode is about hobbies.
Speaker 1: We were curious about hobbies. Yes, hobbies, not hobos, which
Speaker 1: when we went through the show notes at first I
Speaker 1: thought it was gonna be about hoboes. But it's hobbies.
Speaker 1: We were curious about what some of our listeners do
Speaker 1: for fun and to relax. Obviously, we all had a
Speaker 1: lot of downtime last year, and people probably picked up
Speaker 1: some interesting hobbies or now that things are changing, they're
Speaker 1: looking forward to trying some hobbies they didn't have access
Speaker 1: to before. Yes, and as I previously explained. Yes, earlier
Speaker 1: this year, I accidently stormed the Capital. I'm going to
Speaker 1: put a capital a at accidental. Accidentally. I'll remind you
Speaker 1: that I was only in d C. To have a
Speaker 1: lively debate with the statue of Lincoln. But in any case, yes,
Speaker 1: I was there, and I was sucked into an ugly
Speaker 1: mob full of bigots and racists. I saw a crowd
Speaker 1: and proceeded to experience what my defense attorney calls heard mentality.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was very similar to the time I
Speaker 1: got stuck at a jam Quois concert because I saw
Speaker 1: Mayhem and I jumped right in the center of the
Speaker 1: storm without knowing why. But as I took a look
Speaker 1: around that January afternoon, at these grimlins and Viking costumes,
Speaker 1: waving traitorous flags and wearing some of the most poorly
Speaker 1: groomed mustaches I've ever seen, I thought, we are not
Speaker 1: alike these fools, and I my next thought came just
Speaker 1: as suddenly when I realized, these people need some serious hobbies,
Speaker 1: and here we are today. I think we should be
Speaker 1: really clear about what makes a hobby, because, as people know,
Speaker 1: I'm a man of many talents. Broadcast journalism, commercial and
Speaker 1: voice over acting professional jazz musician. Yeah, I mean i'd
Speaker 1: say semi professional. Come on, Carolina, give credit where credit
Speaker 1: is due. Well, music is more of a hobby for
Speaker 1: you than it is your actual job. Excuse me. Have
Speaker 1: you been asked to sit in with many great musicians,
Speaker 1: Buddy Guy, Yanni, a lot of the dudes from Total Okay?
Speaker 1: But were you paid for your work as a musician.
Speaker 1: It's really not polite to ask people about money, Carolina. However, yes,
Speaker 1: sometimes I was paid quite well. In fact, recently when
Speaker 1: I was called in to play flute on a record
Speaker 1: with Nick Jonas. Really, why would Nick Jonas call you
Speaker 1: to play flute? Is he doing that because I am
Speaker 1: good and a total pro? Those might be two of
Speaker 1: the reasons. As soon as we both got the v
Speaker 1: I P vaccine. We've talked about this before, I was
Speaker 1: asked over to Nick's house beautiful home by the way,
Speaker 1: Prianka is lovely. Anyway, I played my flute and then
Speaker 1: put it in his computer and did something with it,
Speaker 1: turned it into a beat or some kind of sample.
Speaker 1: It's a song about being sad and hot, and I
Speaker 1: don't think it has a title yet, but I will
Speaker 1: be credited as playing on the next Nick Jonas record. Wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: I was I was wrong, Make no mistake. Music is
Speaker 1: not a hobby for me. Well, playing backup flute for
Speaker 1: Nick Jonas is a hobby and one of my mini professions. Well,
Speaker 1: I had no idea you were that close with Nick Jonas. Well,
Speaker 1: now you do. And I'll let you know when the
Speaker 1: track drops. By the way, that's what a professional musician says.
Speaker 1: I'll let you know when my track drops. But look,
Speaker 1: we're not here to talk about my multifaceted career. We're
Speaker 1: here to talk about hobbies. Right back on track. Hobbies
Speaker 1: and one of the hobbies I've taken up in the
Speaker 1: last year. And you can thank Law and Order reruns
Speaker 1: for this. I have been a hobbyist, detective and sometimes
Speaker 1: medical examiner. I don't think anyone is going to thank
Speaker 1: Law and Order reruns for that. Those aren't things you
Speaker 1: can do as hobbies. Is this? It's very real, Carolina.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. Do you have any hobbies? Yes? Okay?
Speaker 1: Last year, while not storming the Capital, I took up knitting.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, knitting. I never once held a pair of
Speaker 1: knitting needles in my life. Actually, and next thing, I know.
Speaker 1: I made a beautiful blanket for my couch, and then
Speaker 1: I bought a small sewing machine, and now I'm designing
Speaker 1: my own dresses. Good for you, Carolina, I mean that
Speaker 1: sounds really on brand, don't. Well. See now we're talking hobbies.
Speaker 1: You've taken up knitting and sewing, and I've been practicing
Speaker 1: being a detective and medical examiner using cadavers at a
Speaker 1: morgue after hours that a buddy of mine works out. Okay,
Speaker 1: a buddy of yours is letting you into the morgue.
Speaker 1: Are you this isn't legal? This is there's no way.
Speaker 1: It's really fascinating stuff. My hobby of being an amateur
Speaker 1: m E. That's short for medical examiner is pretty cool,
Speaker 1: and there's a vibrant online community to engage with. There's
Speaker 1: an online community for amateur medical examiner running. You're you're
Speaker 1: sure you're not breaking any laws with these hobbies of yours.
Speaker 1: You're calling them Okay, that's insulting because everything is by
Speaker 1: the book. I would never break the law, Carolina. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's good to know, unless I was really mad about something,
Speaker 1: or there was a jewel heist I could be involved with.
Speaker 1: In a hands off way. But that's just guy stuff.
Speaker 1: Every man fantasizes about being a jewel thief. No, it's
Speaker 1: more like dreaming of being an astronaut. I think I
Speaker 1: am goofing around firefighter. Yes. The one thing that is
Speaker 1: no joke, and this is this is wild Carolina. Do
Speaker 1: you have any idea how easy it is to make
Speaker 1: crystal myth? Sorry, this is a hobby for some people
Speaker 1: and they learn online. Instructions are right there. I found
Speaker 1: it on an internet website. Run please tell me you're
Speaker 1: not making crystal methods? Of course not, of course not.
Speaker 1: That's illegal, immoral and dangerous. Okay, that's good. Plus, you
Speaker 1: know what a butter fingers I am. Yeah, i'd probably
Speaker 1: blow my house up. No, not for me though. On
Speaker 1: the same website I found the crystal meth recipe. I
Speaker 1: did find a way to make your own fireworks, and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. That's just cool and fun. And also I've
Speaker 1: been throwing a lot of gender reveal parties in the
Speaker 1: backyard as well. You mean those weird explosive devices that
Speaker 1: shoot out pink or blue. Yes, it's really led to
Speaker 1: a lot of forest fires in California. It's also led
Speaker 1: to a lot of smiles. I'm sorry. What website taught
Speaker 1: you how to make explosives and make crystal meth? Ask jeeves? Okay,
Speaker 1: why don't we talk more about how I've taken up
Speaker 1: knitting as a hobby. I've been making fireworks, Carolina, let
Speaker 1: me tell you, And they are spectacular. I have some
Speaker 1: private property that's isolated and safe, and I just drive
Speaker 1: out there and take a bunch of random chemicals and wammo,
Speaker 1: my own private fire works display. Where is this property
Speaker 1: is like a farm somewhere. It's in Culver City, nice
Speaker 1: part of Los Angeles. But I have a big backyard
Speaker 1: that's like right in the middle of the city. There's
Speaker 1: houses and schools nearby. I thought you were talking about
Speaker 1: driving out into the desert or something. No. What No,
Speaker 1: the air is too dry out there, and it gets
Speaker 1: really hot. It's already hot enough lighting off the fireworks. Sure,
Speaker 1: I've gotten a couple of noise complaints. But that's city
Speaker 1: living for you. It's not called Culver Country, it's Culver City. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some safer hobbies. I think. Listen, if
Speaker 1: a man can't take a bunch of old TV sets
Speaker 1: and blow them up in his own backyard. What's the
Speaker 1: point of living in America? Okay, how about I share
Speaker 1: another one of my hobbies. I'm a little nervous. Um,
Speaker 1: Please promise not to laugh at me. What would I
Speaker 1: laugh at one of your hobbies? As long as you're
Speaker 1: being true to yourself, you should do what makes you happy. Carolina. Okay,
Speaker 1: just promise you won't laugh. You have my word. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's actually kind of sweet. Um. This year, I taught
Speaker 1: myself how to play the ukulele. I asked you, No,
Speaker 1: I I asked you nicely not to laugh. I'm sorry, Carolina.
Speaker 1: Please tell me you weren't thinking of uploading videos of
Speaker 1: you singing cover songs on your ukulele to YouTube. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that idea has never even crossed my mind. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna check on my No, don't do that laptop here. No,
Speaker 1: let's just move on and yep, there they are. Wow, Carolina,
Speaker 1: you got quite the active YouTube channel of you playing
Speaker 1: ukulele videos. Okay, I get it. Whoa wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: You've got fourteen views on this one. Impressive. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm not a professional musician like you. It's okay, you know,
Speaker 1: I've actually been dabbling with YouTube myself. Oh you have.
Speaker 1: One of the other hobbies is that I've become a
Speaker 1: beauty vlogger. Um coming in, I'm a beauty veloguer. But
Speaker 1: damn fine one too. I've got my own makeup palette
Speaker 1: coming out soon. It's called Run on the Beach Roun
Speaker 1: on the Beach. Yes, it's a sandy palette that has
Speaker 1: a fresh for the beach look. And the best part
Speaker 1: about it is we keep the cost down by creating
Speaker 1: the makeup out of sand that we scooped right off
Speaker 1: the beach and add food diets, sustainable skincare So grinding
Speaker 1: up sand and selling it as makeup that sounds uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Does makeup need to be f d A approved. Absolutely?
Speaker 1: And I just want to give a shout out to
Speaker 1: Brick Tamlin, who recently snagged a senior position of the
Speaker 1: f d A. Thanks Brick. Okay, let's ignore that before
Speaker 1: you get yourself into another criminal investigation, you know, Carolina.
Speaker 1: In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered
Speaker 1: especially heinous in New York City. The dedicated detectives who
Speaker 1: investigate these vicious falonies are known as a special Victim.
Speaker 1: You know. These are their stories I know, Ron, stop
Speaker 1: watching old Lawn Order episodes. They're like accepting you and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you were catfish, but wow, you didn't even
Speaker 1: make the sound. Come on, you're going to recite that
Speaker 1: speech and not give the listeners the satisfaction of making
Speaker 1: the dune dune sound. Let's just cruel after everything the
Speaker 1: world has been through. Okay, fine, dune done? No do
Speaker 1: it like you mean it. Here, I'll show you how
Speaker 1: a professional musician does it. Done done. So that's how
Speaker 1: a pro does it. New hobby put it down, saying
Speaker 1: dun dune is your hobby. Okay, Well, when we come back,
Speaker 1: we've got some letters from people who have written us
Speaker 1: with their hobbies and that should be fun. Yes, sounds
Speaker 1: like it could be fun, or to be fair, could
Speaker 1: be horrific. Just a mess back after this with more
Speaker 1: on your hobbies. Back here on the Ron Burgundy podcast.
Speaker 1: And Carolina has told me she has some letters from
Speaker 1: our listeners about their hobbies. Are they actual letters or
Speaker 1: did people mostly just email? Oh? They're all emails. Wow,
Speaker 1: So people are so lazy these days. We ask for
Speaker 1: letters and they dash off an impersonal email. No real letters.
Speaker 1: Email is just so much easier yes, it is sitting
Speaker 1: in your own mess and wearing khaki shorts as much easier.
Speaker 1: I don't think people are doing that easy. Isn't the point?
Speaker 1: Do you think it feels good to wear a tiny
Speaker 1: lipstick gun and the sock of my loafer? Do you
Speaker 1: think it's easy? Wait, you have a lipstick gun. I
Speaker 1: do because it's classy and romantic and noir. But please
Speaker 1: read the emails. Thanks for emailing, folks. I heard it
Speaker 1: was really easy, all right. Our first email comes from
Speaker 1: a J in New Mexico, and he said, during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: he took up cooking. That's great. AJ. Before the pandemic,
Speaker 1: he never had done anything but boiled water. But now
Speaker 1: he's making his whole family gourmet dinners. He's also become
Speaker 1: quite a baker and is responsible for quote dad's legendary
Speaker 1: cinnamon cookies. That's very sweet. Was that supposed to be
Speaker 1: a pun, like the cookies are sweet? No, that was unintentional.
Speaker 1: I just I think it's sweet as an nice that
Speaker 1: he's baking cookies for his family. Okay, because there was
Speaker 1: an opening for a pun there, and you're telling me
Speaker 1: you didn't go for it. Okay, you know what I
Speaker 1: respect your choice. Thank you. I actually really enjoy cooking
Speaker 1: as well. I take a steak, season it, let it
Speaker 1: cook on the grill at ten thousand degrees, and then
Speaker 1: I don't even grab utensils. I just rip into it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I even tie my hands behind my back. I
Speaker 1: can down a charred piece of beef in less than
Speaker 1: three seconds. You know all about those nerds who can
Speaker 1: solve a Rubik's cube really fast? Yeah, I've actually been practiced.
Speaker 1: I can down on a pound of meat faster than
Speaker 1: they can solve that dumb cube. You know, you can
Speaker 1: just peel the stickers off and it's back to the
Speaker 1: right order in no time. You were just saying that
Speaker 1: people are blazy for sending emails. Don't you think that
Speaker 1: this is kind of cheating? I'm sorry, it's just different.
Speaker 1: My example is just different. It's plainly different. I think
Speaker 1: you wanted to be different. I wanted to be different,
Speaker 1: and I know that it's different. Okay, Sorry? Are you
Speaker 1: you seem very weirdly aggressive about well? I just hate
Speaker 1: that bastard Rubic and this cube. The sticker peel method
Speaker 1: is easier. I don't even want to talk about him anymore.
Speaker 1: To all, he wants to do is play games and
Speaker 1: humiliate people. Carolina, here's the show idea humiliate the Rubics
Speaker 1: Cube company. Let's just read our next email. It comes
Speaker 1: from Debora formally of South Pasadena. I love South Pasadena,
Speaker 1: a beautiful part of California. Oh well, now she just
Speaker 1: lives in Pasadena, Pasadena, proper. Good for her and her
Speaker 1: hobby has been the video game Animal Crossing. I've heard
Speaker 1: of this. It's a video game where you're a person
Speaker 1: and your neighbors are a bunch of talking animals. Got
Speaker 1: got really big. Yeah, it's really fun, and you get
Speaker 1: to design your own island and the animals are your friends.
Speaker 1: And can these wild beasts attack you? No, that's it's
Speaker 1: a game for kids. They just talked to you and
Speaker 1: give you presents. At a situation back in the seventies
Speaker 1: where I was living next to a wild boar, come on,
Speaker 1: and I'll just say this, he didn't give me any
Speaker 1: fun clothing or invite me to go fishing. He just
Speaker 1: tore through my house one night. And the woman I
Speaker 1: was entwined with, well, let's just say I didn't get
Speaker 1: a call back. Great, I guess Animal Crossings not for you.
Speaker 1: I got my hands full with my hobbies being an
Speaker 1: amateur detective medical examiner at my buddy Kenny's Morgue Backyard Fireworks,
Speaker 1: which also is a side business of gender reveal parties
Speaker 1: that I host opening my sand makeup line. I cannot
Speaker 1: have a boar tear through my life again. There, there's
Speaker 1: too much to lose this time, Caroline. Please write that
Speaker 1: down as a possible tagline for a bore fighting movie
Speaker 1: I could start in. Okay, you wanted to be There's
Speaker 1: just too much to lose this time. Yes, but make
Speaker 1: the two a number two because it'll be the sequel. Sorry, Sorry,
Speaker 1: where were we? We got another email here from Jessica,
Speaker 1: who is from Maine, and she says her hobby for
Speaker 1: the last thirty years has been writing letters to author
Speaker 1: Stephen King and standing outside of his house. Okay, I
Speaker 1: should have screened these emails better. This woman is clearly
Speaker 1: started Wait a second, hold on here, She's willing to
Speaker 1: write letters to Stephen King, but to us we only
Speaker 1: get a lazy email. Okay, Well, that's besides the point.
Speaker 1: This woman is clearly stalking Stephen King. She's between Jessica
Speaker 1: and those horror shows in d C. Just make some
Speaker 1: sand art. Come on, people, it's just more rewarding. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think we have finished the email portion. We're going
Speaker 1: to take a quick commercial break, and then we'll be
Speaker 1: right back with more from Ron back here on the
Speaker 1: Ron Burgunary podcast. And I thought, hey, why should people
Speaker 1: have to go to ask jeeves? Nobody does anymore. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you how you can make your own explosives
Speaker 1: right here on the podcast. Actually, we are not going
Speaker 1: to do that because it could seriously harm someone. Well,
Speaker 1: it can't be any more harmful than you play in
Speaker 1: the ukulele hat. It Carolina playing a ukulele. It makes
Speaker 1: me laugh, Okay, I was just looking for a way
Speaker 1: to pass the time. I'm sorry if my hobby is
Speaker 1: too warm for you, but I think it's fun. I
Speaker 1: think it's nice. People don't want to see you play
Speaker 1: the ukulele. I'll just be honest with you. They don't.
Speaker 1: I think what happened is during the pandemic, you bought
Speaker 1: a ukulele and became I believe the medical term for
Speaker 1: it is goofy brain. I'm going to keep up with
Speaker 1: the hobbies that make me happy, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: do the same. That's our show. This week. If you
Speaker 1: need me, I'll be in my backyard in Culver City
Speaker 1: lighting up the sky for the Ron Burgundy podcast. This
Speaker 1: is Ron Burgundy saying don done. That's the sound effect
Speaker 1: from the show Law and Order SVU. I'm really sorry
Speaker 1: you got cat fished by a fake Diane Meal. Ron,
Speaker 1: you know what, It's okay, and I want to thank you. Carolina.
Speaker 1: We we make a great team, professional team that does
Speaker 1: not socialize outside of this context. Isn't that wonderful? It's
Speaker 1: it's comforting, Carolina. You and I are work associates and
Speaker 1: nothing more. Yes,