Speaker 1: One of the inevitablest private miseries is this multitudinous e
Speaker 1: flux of horritory and psalmondy from the universal foolish human throat,
Speaker 1: drowning for the moment, all reflection whatsoever except the sorrowful
Speaker 1: one that you are fallen in an evil, heavy laden,
Speaker 1: long eared age and must resignedly bear your part in
Speaker 1: the same Thomas Carlyle High Folks, that's are on here,
Speaker 1: your compadre feels like it's been a what a week
Speaker 1: since we got together? And shout the ship and I
Speaker 1: bet you're curious as to what I've been up to.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you've been thinking about me, especially you,
Speaker 1: mysterious caller. Yep, you the one who has been leaving
Speaker 1: me all those voice messages on my home line. Listen
Speaker 1: to me, you heavy breathing creep. I like you keep calling.
Speaker 1: It's nice Anyway. I do have to announce that since
Speaker 1: last week, I am no longer recording this podcast with
Speaker 1: my former co host Carolina. We've decided it's not going
Speaker 1: to work. The chemistry was just never there. Hey sorry
Speaker 1: dark Hey Carolina, Hey, um hm uh wait were you
Speaker 1: are you guys recording? Did you you didn't wait for me. Um,
Speaker 1: did you? Did you check your phone recently? Your your voicemail?
Speaker 1: Did you leave me a dream voicemail? Again? I stopped
Speaker 1: listening to those. You you stopped listening to my dream
Speaker 1: voicemail really long and I always get them out like
Speaker 1: three am. Whatever. That's besides the point. I just well,
Speaker 1: I left you another voice mail. Okay, let me listen
Speaker 1: a second. What does this say? Hello? Um? Okay, Carolina,
Speaker 1: it's wrong, grab a pin uh. In my dream, I
Speaker 1: was in a cabin in the woods and it was
Speaker 1: made out of moss. I realized that I had a
Speaker 1: friend who was a pregnant minotaur. She need help giving birth,
Speaker 1: so I was her dula and I helped her give
Speaker 1: birth to a little baby minotaur. And then I woke up,
Speaker 1: which is just right now. I just woke up. Um,
Speaker 1: do me a favor. Give me five words on the
Speaker 1: meaning of this dream by five pm today. Thank you. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think that was one of my dream voices. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think so too. Okay. Um oh, I
Speaker 1: just got this one. Yes, hey Carolina, it's raw. Just
Speaker 1: driving into this video. Traffic is terrible. Um, how do
Speaker 1: you like working on the podcast this is our third season.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty cool, pretty crazy stuff. What a ride? Huh?
Speaker 1: Time has gone by? You're fired? Wait? What sill? Wait Serrie,
Speaker 1: it's Ron Burgundy. I'm on my way and I need
Speaker 1: a big gulp waiting serie, execute my command. Okay, you
Speaker 1: can stop. Blame that man, just stop. You can stop it.
Speaker 1: When did you leave that message? Run? Run? No, don't
Speaker 1: get under that desk? Run, get out from under the door.
Speaker 1: I'm just tying. No, you're not. You're covering your ears.
Speaker 1: Do you more a minute? No, get out from under
Speaker 1: the desk. I'm an adult man. I am an adult man.
Speaker 1: Why are you saying that? That's my pump up speech?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry? Why are you fire ring me? Is it
Speaker 1: because you saw me wearing those individual toe shoes? Oh,
Speaker 1: don't remind me of that freak show rock climbing class.
Speaker 1: You know, each of your toes could get a job
Speaker 1: by joining the circus, that's how freaky they look. But
Speaker 1: listen to me, You yourself could have ten jobs. You
Speaker 1: don't need this one because I have ten toes exactly. Look,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to tell you this, but I've
Speaker 1: hired a new correspondent. Who who is it? I think
Speaker 1: it's pronounced Lucci Lucci Jones. That's Lucy Jones. Yes, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Okay, that's Lucy Jones. Is actually a big deal. Well,
Speaker 1: that's doctor Lucy Jones to you, Missy. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you this, Carolina, where did you get your doctor it?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't have a doctorate, but to be
Speaker 1: completely fair, you don't have one either. That that kind
Speaker 1: of filthy language is exactly why I'm hiring Lucy. Dr Lucy,
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything filthy. You don't have a doctor.
Speaker 1: We'll have to leap that out. Nick, What Carolina just said,
Speaker 1: you don't have a doctor rate degree? I don't remember
Speaker 1: getting one. That's different than not having one. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Please stay tuned, folks, After all, it is Carolina's last show,
Speaker 1: last public broadcast of her entire life. That's excessive. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back with my new co host, Dr Lucy Jones.
Speaker 1: Lucy Lucy Jones is gonna take me a while to
Speaker 1: get that nail down. Welcome back to the Ron Burgundy Podcast.
Speaker 1: We are joined today by the inimitable world renowned seismologist
Speaker 1: Dr Lucy Jones. Dr Lucy, how would you like to
Speaker 1: be addressed? Um, I'm happy with just Lucy. But when
Speaker 1: you feel the need to remember I know more about earthquakes.
Speaker 1: Dr Jones works too, okay, Oh Dr Joe or Lucy Lucy. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go with Lucy. Go for it if
Speaker 1: that's fine. That's fine, Caroline, are you good with it?
Speaker 1: I'm great with Lucy. Um. Let me just start by asking,
Speaker 1: do you remember your first earthquake? Actually I do, Okay.
Speaker 1: I was two years old and we were living in
Speaker 1: Ventura and my earthquake started. We were all in the
Speaker 1: living room and my mother gathered up us kids into
Speaker 1: the hallway and sort of crouched over us, got us
Speaker 1: to cover our heads, and she put her body over
Speaker 1: us to keep us safe. And later where you're like, Mom,
Speaker 1: you didn't need to do that. No, Actually, we were
Speaker 1: all a little bit scary. It was over a magnitude
Speaker 1: five and it was nearby and are The other thing
Speaker 1: I remember is our cats screaming size so seismic Siamese
Speaker 1: cat yowls remind me of earthquakes because they jumped off
Speaker 1: the TV thinking it was the TV that was moving.
Speaker 1: Things kept on moving and they freaked out. They started
Speaker 1: screaming and they would never get on the TV again.
Speaker 1: Did the Siamese cats start screaming before the earthquake, because
Speaker 1: sometimes they say animals can sense when something's about to happen. Okay,
Speaker 1: they didn't that, I remember. I was, of course only
Speaker 1: two years old. The one thing is that the earthquake
Speaker 1: comes in with multiple waves, and the first one is
Speaker 1: often smaller than the second one, So the more sensitive
Speaker 1: animals might feel the first one, and the less sensitive
Speaker 1: humans only feel the second one. So a few seconds
Speaker 1: before the animals sometimes will jump up and and it
Speaker 1: looks like they knew the earthquake was coming. They're just
Speaker 1: feeling the beginning. That that's less sensitive people missed sometimes
Speaker 1: because a lot of people think I'm overly sensitive and
Speaker 1: I have a sensation that an earthquake is about it,
Speaker 1: and I'll just start screaming, earthquake, here it comes. You've
Speaker 1: that's rarely and I've never predicted one, But in that moment,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's happening, and I probably should just
Speaker 1: keep my mouth shut. Probably, Uh, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people who do think it. We kept a file at
Speaker 1: the U S Geological Survey of predictions that people sent us.
Speaker 1: Okay Um and we refused to act on them, and
Speaker 1: because we said we get a lot of them, we
Speaker 1: would get about one a week. Oh so you have
Speaker 1: like a hotline. We accepted mail and we kept it
Speaker 1: on file. Yep, there were some people who called. There
Speaker 1: was somebody who faxed us each day with an outline
Speaker 1: of the slug trails from her driveway, and she would
Speaker 1: try to predict what earthquakes were going to happen from
Speaker 1: those pictures. Carolina, that sounds like something you would do.
Speaker 1: It wasn't me. No, really, if I promise, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: interesting behavior, interesting behavior, Actually the slug trails. I think
Speaker 1: we're back in the nineties, so Caroline would be yeah,
Speaker 1: um oh wait, hold on, I need to take this.
Speaker 1: We're in the middle of a show. Hello, Hi, oh
Speaker 1: do you want me put you on? Speak here? Okay,
Speaker 1: hold on, Carolina, how do I make the speaker phone
Speaker 1: work on? You're serious? We told you? Is this real? Blow? Right?
Speaker 1: Can you hear me? Yes? I I hear you. Find
Speaker 1: Sia the the the international pop singer who was recently
Speaker 1: a guest on the show, who I went on a
Speaker 1: date with you. This is insane see a house Dubai.
Speaker 1: I miss you so much. I miss you too. Do
Speaker 1: you think you can fly out after you've done taping
Speaker 1: the podcast. I'll have David Assistant get your ticket. I
Speaker 1: just missed you so much. I miss you. Do see
Speaker 1: you there, Carolina? Can can we move some things around
Speaker 1: so I can I can go meet Sia and Dubai
Speaker 1: this weekend? She she misses me. Oh, my heart will
Speaker 1: flip out. We really can't see you. Are you really
Speaker 1: dating Ron? I just I need to what's going on? Well?
Speaker 1: I guess the secret is out now? Thanks. I'm oh.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to invade your privacy. Ron put you
Speaker 1: on speaker phone while we're taping the show, so just
Speaker 1: sort of naturally. I mean, do you want us to
Speaker 1: edit it out? No? No, we don't need to do that,
Speaker 1: do do we, sweetheart? No? I mean it's gonna come
Speaker 1: out anyway. I'd say the truth is Run and I
Speaker 1: have really fallen for each other. Wow, I'm just um,
Speaker 1: this is surprising. Wow. Running Carolina really is a speak
Speaker 1: of a judgmental idea, as you said she was. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, you told cr was a judgmental idiot. Carolina,
Speaker 1: don't be jealous of our blossoming relationship. Okay, geez, see
Speaker 1: a bear. Listen. I will be on the next flight
Speaker 1: to Dubai. I miss you terribly. I don't feel complete
Speaker 1: without you near me. You're so sweet. Don't you think
Speaker 1: this is moving a little fast? Carolina? Jealousy is not
Speaker 1: a good look on you. I'm not jealous. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: a little jealous, Carolina. We all can see it well,
Speaker 1: and I have a sound check. David desistent, will make
Speaker 1: all the arrangements. Okay, I'll see you soon, running goodbye,
Speaker 1: see a there. Okay, dr Lucy. Let let me ask
Speaker 1: you this. Do you do you think when Rihanna drops
Speaker 1: her next album there'll probably be another earthquake? Uh No,
Speaker 1: I don't think the earth knows what we're She is
Speaker 1: incredibly popular pop singer and uh we have been waiting
Speaker 1: for her next time. I really have I will say.
Speaker 1: I mean there could be vibrations off enough people jumped
Speaker 1: up and down right, But they once recorded the vibrations
Speaker 1: created at the Kingdom at the Seattle Football Stadium with
Speaker 1: a touchdown, and the total energy was equivalent to about
Speaker 1: a magnitude one and a half to two. Pretty impressive
Speaker 1: that a bunch of people could do that. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: so gosh, if I was in Rihanna's camp, I try
Speaker 1: to get a stadium full of people to break that record.
Speaker 1: Album drops and you could hire some seismologist bring out
Speaker 1: the seismic recording. That'd be fun for the seismologists they think.
Speaker 1: Actually it was they used that data to understand how
Speaker 1: waves travel through uh, certain types of soils that were
Speaker 1: there under the under the stadium, so it was actually
Speaker 1: used for scientific paper. I remember, and I'm dating myself,
Speaker 1: when Cisco's album dropped, there was zero seismic activity. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's just a fun fact because we get a lot
Speaker 1: of people writing in about Cisco Bum but um bum bum.
Speaker 1: The thong song, speaking of which you should always have
Speaker 1: a thong by your nightside table in case an earthquake hits.
Speaker 1: Is that would you recommend that? Uh? That hasn't been
Speaker 1: on my list. I underwear some sort of undergarment. We
Speaker 1: had a number of people who ran outside in the
Speaker 1: North through earthquakes without stopping to clothe, so people who
Speaker 1: were very frightened. Personally, I keep a pair of shoes
Speaker 1: tied to the pole of my bed. What's in your
Speaker 1: earthquake bag? Your jump bag? I don't have a jump back.
Speaker 1: You don't have a jump bag because I'm not going
Speaker 1: to predict the earthquake. They really are unpredictable, and that
Speaker 1: means we don't know when it's coming, so it's not
Speaker 1: time you have to evacuate. I make sure that my
Speaker 1: house has been reinforced so I'm not going to have
Speaker 1: to leave it, and then I keep supplies in my house.
Speaker 1: In my bag. I've got charcoal, Habachi grill. I've got
Speaker 1: ten Porterhouse steaks. They're Omaha steaks. They're really good that
Speaker 1: I gotta keep on dry eyes to keep them perpetually frozen. Um.
Speaker 1: I've got Campbell's Chunky soup. Um. Oh, I never pack
Speaker 1: a can opener, though, you have to do that. I've
Speaker 1: got some glow sticks that you'd use it like a rave. Um.
Speaker 1: They could help when there's no elect tricity. Um. Watch
Speaker 1: out about that Habachi grill, though, because there will be aftershocks.
Speaker 1: So we try to recommend light sources and heating sources
Speaker 1: that don't involve open flames so you don't set off fires. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me write that down. I've also got two tickets
Speaker 1: to a Raiders game that I went to just as
Speaker 1: comforting piece of memorabilia. Uh, that's one of the things
Speaker 1: we recommend, especially in schools, is what we call comfort bags.
Speaker 1: And because people do regress to a younger age under
Speaker 1: the stress of the earthquake. Okay, so people actually go
Speaker 1: back to a childlike state. Well, or you'll have children
Speaker 1: who had given up their their stuffed toys go back
Speaker 1: to them. And so like putting an old stuffed toy
Speaker 1: in a place where your child, don't give it away,
Speaker 1: have it ready in case they need it after the earthquake.
Speaker 1: After the quake, we have a book of pictures of
Speaker 1: Ron and happier times whenever he's in a bad move
Speaker 1: that he we asked him to just look for real.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of a piece of information. I didn't
Speaker 1: really want you to talk about, um, but yes, we
Speaker 1: have that, and you'll probably want it after the earth
Speaker 1: quite probably want to peruse it. It sounds like, um, Lucy,
Speaker 1: can you can you tell me about climate change in
Speaker 1: the least scary way possible? Because I don't I don't
Speaker 1: want to be scared. We're nervous, So maybe speak slowly
Speaker 1: and and Carolina, if you could intersperse her answer Lucy's
Speaker 1: answer with some with some of my favorite phrases. Okay, okay, um,
Speaker 1: climate change is real. Cow goes move. Human activity is
Speaker 1: increasing carbon dioxide and that's increasing the heat. And increased
Speaker 1: heat means we're going to have increased storms, cat goes
Speaker 1: meal and uma. In general, we're going to have a
Speaker 1: lot of disruption, so that, um, it's gonna be hard.
Speaker 1: They're going to be a lot of people who will
Speaker 1: have to choose between moving where they've always lived or dying.
Speaker 1: So they're going to move where it goes chip chip
Speaker 1: chip train goes choo chow. And we can change it.
Speaker 1: We can't change it alone. What you do by yourself,
Speaker 1: whether you know, drive a Prius, it's a good thing,
Speaker 1: but it's not going to make a big enough difference.
Speaker 1: But we can do it together. We could decide that
Speaker 1: this mattered to us, and we are going to, uh say,
Speaker 1: vote for people who will actually take action on climate change.
Speaker 1: And what does what does Teddy Bear say? Hi, run,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, Lissie, thank you for breaking it down,
Speaker 1: and thank you Carolina. Sure I've got I've got you back.
Speaker 1: I'll just say that's a little more gentle. There's no
Speaker 1: point in worrying about earthquakes if we don't deal with
Speaker 1: climate change, because if we don't deal with it, it
Speaker 1: will be a lot worse than anything an earthquake could do.
Speaker 1: What what can earthquakes teach us about climate change? Or
Speaker 1: they scientifically physically, they're not they're not related. The earthquakes
Speaker 1: happen too far down in the earth and the climate
Speaker 1: change is all happening here in the atmosphere, all right.
Speaker 1: They can't teach us how people socially react to hazards,
Speaker 1: and they show us that people really need to feel
Speaker 1: that something is affecting them personally and happening right now
Speaker 1: to be worth doing something about. So, actually, what's happening
Speaker 1: with climate change, with all the excess extra fires and
Speaker 1: the various disruption we're seeing really obviously now is making
Speaker 1: it easier for people to grapple with the problem, and
Speaker 1: we need concrete examples. It's like knowing there's theoretically going
Speaker 1: to be some earthquake, oh yeah, yeah, right, But seeing
Speaker 1: the hospital that you were born in now so badly
Speaker 1: damaged it's partially collapsed, Now, what's real. We've got to
Speaker 1: do something about it. And the fact that I just
Speaker 1: wet my pants is a good sign that what you're
Speaker 1: saying is having an effect on me. Okay, it happens.
Speaker 1: It happens regardless, so don't even to worry about it. Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1: The l A Times called you the Beyonce of earthquakes.
Speaker 1: It's quite a compliment, I think so. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: so too. And I've been called the Robert Redford of
Speaker 1: of what just of No one finishes it. It's just
Speaker 1: dot dot dot. And how many times has this happened
Speaker 1: that I know of one? Right now? Yeah, just trying,
Speaker 1: that's mine, Just trying to get into the same category
Speaker 1: that Lucy's in. Yeah, I get it. I wonder if
Speaker 1: Beyonce has ever been called the doctor Lucy Yes of music.
Speaker 1: I saw a tweet to that effect, but I don't
Speaker 1: think it got out very far. Um, what if we
Speaker 1: had behind this door Beyonce herself, wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 1: It would be do we have her? Okay, we didn't
Speaker 1: get her. Sometimes I just say things that I hope
Speaker 1: they're going to happen, and usually they don't. That's the
Speaker 1: way the show happens. Um. You once said that scientific
Speaker 1: culture was driven by toxic masculinity. Was that directed at me? No?
Speaker 1: I don't believe you've ever written a research paper. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: I have. My office is piled with research papers that
Speaker 1: I've written and have yet to be published. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of drawings of most of them are drawing. It's
Speaker 1: actually about the publishing process where we necessarily ask our
Speaker 1: competitor to criticize our work because we know the easiest
Speaker 1: person to fool as ourselves, and therefore we set up
Speaker 1: this peer review process by which we get the most
Speaker 1: critical people possible. I already don't like it. I would crumble. Well,
Speaker 1: there are people who crumble. There's a bunch of people
Speaker 1: who get their PhD and go. But this isn't the
Speaker 1: sort of human being I want to be. But also
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be cruel. But some people just
Speaker 1: take it that way. But if you have a research
Speaker 1: paper in the peer review process and then and then
Speaker 1: it's your time to be part of the peer review
Speaker 1: of them. Do you're like, I'm going to nail Dr Tony,
Speaker 1: you know Anderson here because he was so mean to me. Right,
Speaker 1: it's tip for ted. It happens. It's not healthy. It's
Speaker 1: not the good part of science. We have to have
Speaker 1: that peer review criticism, but we don't have to be
Speaker 1: jerks about it, but sometimes we are. But it's really
Speaker 1: important because that's part of the validity of the process.
Speaker 1: It's the honest approach, right, and that's what that's what
Speaker 1: people don't understand about science. They think we can, like
Speaker 1: you know, we're saying that because it gets us funding
Speaker 1: or something. But we've got this whole process to find
Speaker 1: our mistakes. And if you if somebody were able to
Speaker 1: disprove climate change, they do it in a heartbeat, wouldn't
Speaker 1: they'd be so famous. But they're dirty, conniving scientists, their
Speaker 1: money grubbing scientists. That's why they got into it. That's
Speaker 1: why we make so much money. So you can have
Speaker 1: your vacation home. Yeah I wish. No, you don't get
Speaker 1: that sort of money out of science. So Lucy, let
Speaker 1: me just ask you, would you be my co host?
Speaker 1: I'm firing Carolina, um, absolutely not. Let me check that off.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll come back to you later with and we
Speaker 1: need to still discuss what happened. We need to discuss
Speaker 1: what firing is a little. It seems excessive, it seems random,
Speaker 1: it seems it seems hurtful. I need my notice. I
Speaker 1: was going to give you notice, you or you were
Speaker 1: going to give me notice, how does it happen? I
Speaker 1: just need a I need a second. You can't just
Speaker 1: kick me out of the studio. Okay, let's table this first. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. We can um, let's do a retraction.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you're really proud of that moment. That was.
Speaker 1: It's one of my finest podcast moments slash journalist moments
Speaker 1: ever that I was able to supply you with the
Speaker 1: word retraction and I appreciated it. Um lucy. What are
Speaker 1: some of the scientific movements that are inspiring you right now? Oh? Um?
Speaker 1: I talked a bit about it earlier, and it's a
Speaker 1: change in attitude among scientists because this whole process of
Speaker 1: figuring out what truth is is so demanding and so meticulous.
Speaker 1: We tend to put all our efforts into with and
Speaker 1: we have said using the science as somebody else's job, right, right?
Speaker 1: But and then because really, I think part because of
Speaker 1: climate change, and we're seeing what happens when the science
Speaker 1: doesn't get used. Whose job is it? Exactly right? We
Speaker 1: give the job to someone who doesn't actually understand what
Speaker 1: we're doing, but whose job it should be. Some of
Speaker 1: the scientists who really understand what the results are, need
Speaker 1: to help translate it, and we are now seeing, especially
Speaker 1: among the younger generation of scientists, people taking on that response.
Speaker 1: We need a counsel of like the super Friends? What
Speaker 1: are super Friends? Wasn't that an animated show? Nick? Do
Speaker 1: you remember? He's shaking his head. Now, it was like
Speaker 1: all the superheroes and they were big counsel like the Avengers.
Speaker 1: Not at all, not at all. It's very similar. Um,
Speaker 1: we need more than just a few people. We need
Speaker 1: the scientific community to say this is part of our job,
Speaker 1: not just determining what's true, but helping other people understand
Speaker 1: what's true. Uh if necessary. But a lot of it
Speaker 1: is through education. It's like you know, you get taught
Speaker 1: something in high school. That's the science that was understood
Speaker 1: when you were in high school. There's been a lot
Speaker 1: of work done in the last thirty years. It has
Speaker 1: evolved the interpretations well, and lots of fundamental facts that
Speaker 1: we now understand differently, and like the Earth is flat.
Speaker 1: We now know the Earth is flat. Actually, no, we
Speaker 1: know that. We still think it's round. We are sure
Speaker 1: it's round, but that's changing. No through song No, oh okay,
Speaker 1: the Earth is round. At the Earth is round, but
Speaker 1: there's some other things like James Harden, you know that
Speaker 1: climate change is real? Right, what's the science that shows
Speaker 1: that that wasn't taught? When a lot of the people
Speaker 1: making decisions in high school and they don't understand, they
Speaker 1: don't get it. So why aren't we doing a better
Speaker 1: job of explaining. Teach an old dog new tricks, but
Speaker 1: we better teach that old dog some new tricks or
Speaker 1: that old dog's going to be Is this a song
Speaker 1: knowing on its own leg right? And and that is
Speaker 1: the song? All right? To help science isn't just for scientists.
Speaker 1: We all need to be able to use this information.
Speaker 1: Back to earthquake kit. I have also a big gulp
Speaker 1: cup from seven eleven in there, and I have a
Speaker 1: lock of my own hair to remind me of me,
Speaker 1: and I have a knife. Are those good things too?
Speaker 1: I guess it's subjective. It's it's subjective, just what you want.
Speaker 1: If whatever is going to remind you of a good
Speaker 1: place and keep you psychologically grounded, it is a good
Speaker 1: thing to do. Uh. Knives are not something that disappear
Speaker 1: because of earthquakes, so okay, so there will electricity disappears
Speaker 1: because if there's an earthquake, there won't be a run
Speaker 1: on knives. I doubt it. Good to know. I was
Speaker 1: told the best place to stand during an earthquake is
Speaker 1: at a pool party or a Blink concert if you
Speaker 1: can find one. What do you think, um, I actually
Speaker 1: hope I'm not in a concert with a lot of
Speaker 1: people around me when an earthquake happens, because I think
Speaker 1: that will be a place to exacerbate few. So that's
Speaker 1: some of the old science which we used to be.
Speaker 1: Just be with good friends, good drinks, good music, going
Speaker 1: good solid tables, Okay, I like to get under a table. Yeah,
Speaker 1: anything but glass, right. I only have glass tables in
Speaker 1: my apartment, nothing but because I got switch those out.
Speaker 1: What you want to do is have a place where
Speaker 1: you can protect yourself from flying objects. And a flying
Speaker 1: object hitting a glass table might just make more flying objects,
Speaker 1: whereas an oak table keeps it from hitting you. So
Speaker 1: all of those garbage bags full of shards of glass
Speaker 1: I have, you will have after the earthquake that I
Speaker 1: currently have I should get rid of. They aren't going
Speaker 1: to help you. Thinks they're seed glass, but it's just
Speaker 1: broken window glass. NASA. Do we like them? Sure? They
Speaker 1: have a lot of scientists. Science is good. How much
Speaker 1: money do you make a year inappropriate? Strike that from
Speaker 1: the record, let's redact it less than you did your
Speaker 1: health and dental. Did you get health and dental? Oh,
Speaker 1: from the government. That's one thing they do well. That
Speaker 1: was good. Pretty good health and dental. Well, that's good
Speaker 1: to know government takes care of you in that way.
Speaker 1: Now you're you're retired. I completed my federal service and
Speaker 1: moved on to a nonprofit to give myself more leeway
Speaker 1: of discussing things like climate change and hazards beyond just earthquakes.
Speaker 1: Did they give you a gold watch, any sort of
Speaker 1: parting gifts? I have a big gold medal, actually the
Speaker 1: Distinguished Medal award from the Department of the Interior. Don't
Speaker 1: get too excited, can we Did you bring it? No?
Speaker 1: I didn't bring it. Maybe next time. Um. Well, So
Speaker 1: back to this subject of co hosting. I would love
Speaker 1: to hire you. Can I finish? Please? The pay is
Speaker 1: not great? Uh. Please Note that I was upfront about that.
Speaker 1: I do call a lot, uh, meaning I call you
Speaker 1: on the phone, sometimes in the middle of the night
Speaker 1: with ideas that come to me in my dreams. But
Speaker 1: not every day, but most days and lunch is free. Uh,
Speaker 1: I am still and it's I'm feeling it. So maybe
Speaker 1: I am completely engaged with my current work and communicating
Speaker 1: hazards in the natural environment from disasters and helping people cope.
Speaker 1: So I think I want to stick with what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to get your personal information and I'll
Speaker 1: call you tomorrow. No, you don't worry about that, thank you. Okay,
Speaker 1: I did not go the way that I planned. Um,
Speaker 1: but that could be the subject for another one of
Speaker 1: my research papers. I have my study that you didn't
Speaker 1: get what you wanted. I don't know. It's Dr Lucy
Speaker 1: Joan scareline. I'm trying to trying to sound impressive. Okay. Um,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Dr Lucy. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm honored that you seriously considered being my co host,
Speaker 1: and I am hurt that you declined. Well, thank you
Speaker 1: for having me today and giving me the opportunity to
Speaker 1: talk about earthquake housewards, and that's what I'm going to
Speaker 1: continue to do. Excellent. We'll be right back after these messages,
Speaker 1: and we're back. It's Ron and Well. I gave Carolina
Speaker 1: her one day notice and she decided to leave early today.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. It feels a little quiet in here,
Speaker 1: a little scary and a little sad. It feels like
Speaker 1: an earthquake is hit behind my eyeballs and the tsunami
Speaker 1: may fall out of them. Um. Sorry, I just was
Speaker 1: about to leave. Was in the parking lot, and I
Speaker 1: you left your keys in your car door and your
Speaker 1: music blasting, and there was a briefcase full of cash
Speaker 1: open on the passenger side, just dollars. We're just flying
Speaker 1: out the window. Carolina, please come back, Yeah, of course, Okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I got your last voicemail, this one. How
Speaker 1: do you shut this thing off? I have one stipulation,
Speaker 1: as long as it's not about money or airtime. I
Speaker 1: want to eat lunch with you in the studio. I
Speaker 1: don't want to eat at the bus stop on the
Speaker 1: corner anymore. Okay, Well, that's only because I watched you
Speaker 1: eat a Ruben sandwich one afternoon and it felt like
Speaker 1: I was at war for two years. It felt it
Speaker 1: felt like the movie nineteen seventeen. Didn't I leave you
Speaker 1: a nightmare voicemail about it? This one? Yeah, Caroline, it's wrong.
Speaker 1: I just had the worst nightmare. Please grab a pen,
Speaker 1: drop this down. You were eating a ruben sandwich and
Speaker 1: children were crying, people were running around. It was like
Speaker 1: an Irwin Allen movie. Food was falling from your mouth.
Speaker 1: You look like a grotesque gargoyle. And you didn't grab
Speaker 1: a napkin. Of course, there was mustard and sour count
Speaker 1: flying around. It was like the end of POMPEII. That
Speaker 1: was a scary one. I got it alright, folks. Well,
Speaker 1: Ron Burgundy here signing off with his co host Carolina,
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, cat you Next time, maybe with
Speaker 1: a cooler co host. And now that that now, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: that was just a joke. Pack so thankful you came back.
Speaker 1: The Ron Burgundy Podcast is a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: I'm Ron Burgundy. The host, writer at executive producer Carolina
Speaker 1: Barlow is my co host, writer and producer. Our producer
Speaker 1: is Nick Stump. Our talent coordinator is Anna Hosnier. Writers
Speaker 1: are Andrew Steele and Jake vogel Nest. This episode was engineered, mixed,
Speaker 1: and edited by Nick Stump. Until next time, This is
Speaker 1: Ron Burgundy.