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May 21, 2020 18 mins

Ron welcomes you to the 2021 Academy Awards. 


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Host, Writer, and Executive Producer: Ron Burgundy

Co-host, Writer and Producer: Carolina Barlow

Producer: Nick Stumpf

Talent Producer: Anna Hossnieh

Writers: Andrew Steele and Jake Fogelnest

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, everyone, back here on the Run Burgundy podcast, and yes,
it's Hollywood's biggest night, the two thousand twenty one Academy Awards.
Stars are starting to arrive on the Red Carpet, and
I'll be here along with Carolina to get you all
the pre shows scoop on who will be taking home

(00:23):
a little man tonight called Oscar? What what are you doing?
What do you mean everything you just said in your intro?
It sounds like, do you think you're hosting the Red
Carpet pre show to the Academy Awards. This doesn't make
any sense. We're just doing the podcast. Okay, way to

(00:43):
roll along with my banter, Carolina? Did I miss something? See?
This is why I asked if we could get Lisa
Gibbons for this episode? Did Did anyone ever try to
call Lisa Gibbons? I don't understand what you're doing. Who
is Lisa Gibbons? Jesus, what the hell is the matter
with you? I've heard you say some really dumb things

(01:04):
on this show, But who is LEAs Gibbons to two
thousand correspondent and eventual co host for Entertainment Tonight Boom,
she has a damn daytime Emmy Award, which is more
than I can say for you. And can anyone get
her on the phone please, I want to get this

(01:25):
tape right. OK, calm down, what what are you talking about?
This is just a regular episode of the show. No, No,
it's not, Carolina. Look, let's get real here. This is
a podcast. Have you seen the Nielsen ratings for our show.
We're not cutting it, not by a long shot, probably
because there are no Nielsen ratings for podcasts. That's just

(01:45):
a thing for TV. Look, I've seen some numbers, Carolina,
And let me tell you this, Joe Rogan is kicking
our God, He's at the top of the Nielsen ratings
and I don't think that's ending anytime soon. You have
a lot to learn about the biz. Show biz. This
is a cruel mistress. I'm a very aware of how
tough show business. It's such a cruel mistress that sometimes

(02:07):
certain gentlemen who are stressed out actually use the services
of a professional dominatrix and have an actual cruel mistress
hit them on the behind with a whip to take
their mind off of the cruel mistress that is show business. Um.
I don't want to I don't ever want to revisit
that subject, and it's a whole other subject for a

(02:28):
whole other show, which we're just not going to do.
But it still doesn't really explain why you started the
podcast today, like we were hosting the Red carpet coverage
for the Academy Awards. All right, I'll love it with you.
I'd like to have a bunch of wheels spinning at once.
And I've been through so many ups and downs in
my career and the one thing that I've learned is

(02:49):
you've got to be ready for anything. So I figured,
why not take an episode of the podcast and use
it as an audition tape for the people that the
American Motion Picture Arts and Signs to see if maybe
me and Lisa Gibbons can host next year's Oscars. Has
anyone called Lisa Gibbons? I do not want to do

(03:11):
this with Carolina. You can't just hijack the show and
use it as an audition tape for the Red carpet
pre show to an awards ceremony. Really, what is the
show called the Ron Burgundy Podcast? And what's my name?
Ron Burgundy? And what is your name? Carolina? Exactly? It's
not Lisa Gibbons. I don't know what this. Lisa Gibbons

(03:34):
don't have a leg to stand on here, Okay, simple now,
Lisa Gibbons, she has two legs to stand on, and
I don't think she would mind me saying they're terrific,
have been for a long time. She knows, I know it.
The only person who doesn't know it is you, and
that's your fault. You cannot use the podcast as an
audition tape for the Oscars pre show. It's just so terrific.

(03:58):
Let's throw to commercial and then me and Lisa Gibbons
will be back with a special appearance from Oscar No money,
Laura Dern. Welcome back everyone. So just to catch you

(04:22):
up to speed, we could not get Lisa Gibbons on
the phone, even though I gave our producers her personal
phone number, which she gave me just so you know,
in the future, RON numbers that have five five in
them are usually fictional. Well I'll keep that in mind.
But Lisa Gibbons or not, we are going to pretend
it's the Academy Awards and you're going to help me

(04:44):
get the job of hosting the red carpet cover. Fine, whatever,
I just feel like they usually get younger people to
do that. Now, like Ryan Seacrest or Mario Lopez. Heyy,
what did I tell you? You shut your mouth? You
you shut your mouth right now about Mario Lopez's a friend.
I didn't say anything bad about him. I don't, but

(05:04):
I don't want to be in competition with Mario Lopez.
I happen to know he's not going to be available
to host the OSCARS pre show next year. That's why
I'm even considering doing this in the first place. How
do you know Mario Lopez isn't doing it? Because friends talk? Carolina. Also,
we recently went on a whitewater rafting trip together, and

(05:25):
I I think he's going to be laid up for
a while. Oh my god, did something happen to Mario Lopez?
Was he injured? It's nothing, really, the trip, No, it's nothing.
I was supposed to be rowing, but I got hungry
and I reached into my lunch sack for some venison jerky.
I swear I only put the ore down for like
three minutes tops. Anyway, Mario Lopez is going to be fine. America.

(05:46):
Nothing a full body cast and six months of intense
rehabilitation won't fix, so get well soon. Mario, We love you, buddy.
Run Did you intentionally cause a whitewater rafting accident with
Mario Lopez so that you could get a chance to
possibly host the Red Carpet pre show of the Oscars
next year? No? And oh spells no, I can't believe

(06:11):
you'd even make that accusation. That is so sick, Carolina.
You have a sick mind. And with that, let's go
to our three sixty cams so we can get a
look at all the great fashion tonight. I Ron, if
you seriously want to do this, that was a terrible
say who are you wearing tonight? Carolina? It appears you've

(06:31):
just dressed in sweatpants a T shirt from what is that?
Crank Anchors? That's a funny show. Yeah, but this is
the Oscars. My god, you look like trash. Okay, now
I'm just being bitchy like the late great Joan Rivers.
Rest in peace. If you're just going to be insulting,
I can leave, no stay. You can submit this to

(06:51):
the tape. The Red Carpet hosting gig is always a
two hander. And if you could just dial up Liza Gibbons,
I would be great. I'll do my best. But I
didn't come unprepared for this. Since there's no way for
us to know what boring films are gonna be the
big winners next year because they haven't come out yet.
I went and pulled some information from the sixtieth Academy Awards,

(07:12):
which happened in why don't we just do last year's
Oscars so they have a more fresh take on your
hosting ability? Well, if I'm being honest, I didn't see
any of the movies from last year. The one that
one Best Picture had subtitles, so you know, right, that's
an automatic note from you. They make them too small.
They make them too small. When I'm on a teleprompter,

(07:34):
they used three point type. Also, there was another matter
of me no longer being sent screeners because of a
misunderstanding with the union. What was the misunderstanding? It's really silly.
I had this neighbor who I swore was stealing packages
from in front of my house, so late one night
I whipped a DVD of something called Uncut Gems straight

(07:56):
through his bedroom window. It shattered the glass and scared
the Bejesus out of him. That is just awful. That's
destruction of property. Someone could have really gotten hurt, just
like Mario Lopez on that wrap. Well joke ended up
on me because my neighbor took it and made a
bunch of copies and started selling them out of the
trunk of his car. And that's that's why I don't

(08:17):
get screeners anymore. To be fair, Uncut Gems was a
really great movie. I haven't seen it because it landed
on the floor of my neighbor's bedroom. But from what
I'm hearing, the Sandman was robbed. Anyway, Can we just
go over this Academy Awards stuff I've prepared? Sure, whatever
you want to do? Think okay, now, act like Share

(08:38):
is walking down the red carpet. Okay, Hey, hey, Lisa Gibbons,
snap out of it. It's Share nominated tonight for Best
Actress of her performance in the film Moonstruck. Share so
lovely to see you. You pretend to be Shared. Pretend
to be Shared. Let's have some friendly banter. Okay? Is

(08:58):
that so hard to Okay? What I've hello, Ron, it's
me Share, It certainly is. And may I say you
look ravishing this evening? I think everyone is picking you
as the winner. Tonight, the scene where you slap Nicholas
Cage in the face and tell him to snap out
of it? Did you know that that was going to
be a classic momentum. I was just really in the

(09:21):
scene and now share I think you love this, Lisa Gibbons,
and I have put together a little something for you
as a good luck charm tonight. What the kron You
just hit me? Snap out of it, Lisa Gibbons. Roun,
you just slapped me in the face. Hey, yeah, he
don't strike me, Lisa Gibbons, I'll strike you. Oh, Carolina,

(09:51):
not really hurt me. You were slapping me. I was
just defending myself to stage slaps. No, you would do
to play. You were doing full up slaps. I did
it like twice. Carolina. Good you're gonna shoot me? They
were warning shots. You brought out your gun. They were

(10:13):
warning shots. Okay, they were nowhere near you, and you
know it. You're crying. You brought out the gun and
you're crying. Oh my god, you can't Okay, you can't
bring any I've told you this. You can't bring the
gun to the recording studio. Do you understand what was happening?

(10:35):
I was the scene from Moonstruck, and I was slapping
you as Share the way she slapped Nicholas Cade. Okay,
I just want to get this straight. You were going
to slap Share in the face, and I thought that
this would go over well. I think she'd really get

(10:56):
a kick out of it. I was recreating the scene.
She really doesn't see. I don't know what anyone who
seems like they would like that, But she'd be very least,
she'd be very surprised. But yeah, I very surprised. Maybe
you got to create moments on the red carpet. You
would not get hired with this audition. Let's just keep going.
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay tonight for Radio Days is

(11:19):
Mr Woody You know what, let's just skip that one. Yeah,
calling that run exactly. He never shows up to the
award shows anyway. Oh wait, who's that? Why? It's Glenn Close,
nominated tonight for her terrifying role in Fatal Attraction. Glenn,
welcome to Hollywood's Biggest night. Okay, I'm supposed to be
going close now, Yes, yes, be Glynn close. Hear God?

(11:42):
If you could just put a little bit of effort
in at this would be so helpful. Sap I was
in the moment. Whatever, Hi, Ron Burgundy, I'm gun close.
I am surprised to see you here tonight at the
oscar Not as surprised as I was when I saw
what a psycho tour and fatal attraction. Stay away from
my bunny. It's glen clothes. Okay, run stop. You can't

(12:02):
call going close a psycho on the red carpet. Well, look,
I was referring to the care I mean, have you
seen fatal attraction? Yeah, I've seen it. It's just I
don't think you're cut out for this, Carolina. Just we're
supposed to be a team here. I'll tell you what
if I get this gig you're in and Liza Gibbons
is out, how does that sound. There's no way you're

(12:24):
getting this. But whatever, just do not slop me again.
Oh wow. Now this is a treat Nominated for his
song in my second favorite movie of the year besides RoboCop,
It's Bob Seeger nominated tonight for Shakedown. This song from
the film Beverly Hills Cup to Hi, Ron, It's me
Bob Seger. I guess you left the Silver Bullet Band

(12:47):
back home tonight. Huh can you can you laugh like
ha ha ha ha. Now, Bob, you've got some tough
competition tonight from the film Dirty Dancing. Are you guys?
Are you nervous or are you too much of a
rock and roll coop guy to care about these things?
I just you know, whatever happens happens. Seriously, Carolina, that's

(13:12):
your Bob Seegert impression? Can you put on a gruff
manly voice. Just I'm Bob Seger, and I hope I
win an oscar in night. No, no, no, he would
never say that, Not Bob Seeger. He's too cool to
say something like that, Carolina, that sucked. It was awful.

(13:33):
Bob Seeger. If you're listening, and I'm pretty sure you are,
I apologize. I apologize for Carolina is awful impression of you,
and I'm sorry you lost to I've had the time
of my life from Dirty Dancing. I cannot believe what
a waste of time this has been. I think we
can salvage someone. Maybe I can get Lisa Givens to

(13:56):
overdub your parts. Are we done with this nonsense? We'll
take a We are minutes away from Hollywood's biggest night.
Back here after this we are boy, we are back

(14:21):
here the Ron Burgundy Podcast. I've just been told this
is actually the season finale of The Ron Burgundy Podcast.
Wait you didn't know that, Yes, this is it. This
is the season finale. So this is the episode, of
course where you shot at the ceiling. So this might
be the last show we ever do. Well, that's up

(14:42):
to my heart radio. I just used it to make
an audition tape for the Red Carpet pre show to
the Academy Awards. Yes, we could have had an interesting
topic or chatted with a guest, but we went down
this road of yours. You know what. I call me crazy,
but I feel absolutely confident we did the right thing.
That's insane, that's crazy, and I have a feeling we'll

(15:03):
be back for a season four and you just might
see me and Carolina hosting the Red Carpet pre show
of the Oscars next time around, unless Lisa Gibbons is available.
I've run um, never slapped me in the face again,
and never shoot a gun in the studio again. I mean,
I feel like that's a reasonable request. I've asked you.

(15:24):
Thanks to all of our listeners and all that stuff
I was saying about the Nielsen's ratings earlier. I was
just joking around. Joe Rogan is a cool guy and
I and I very much do not want him to
beat me up. That's the great thing about podcast. There's
room for everyone, including me, Ron Burgundy. Any any final thoughts, Carolina,

(15:46):
I just want to say it's been an interesting season.
I feel like we've grown as broadcasters, and as crazy
as it sounds, I'd like to continue doing this with you. Well,
I feel the same, whether it's well it's me developing
a genuine affection for you or a simple case of
Stockholm syndrome. I'm sure we'll be speaking to you again

(16:09):
soon for the Ron Burgundy Podcast. This is Ron Burgundy
saying Steak Glassie, and thank you to I Heart Radio
for the money. We really enjoy it, as well as
doing the show. Until next time. I'm got a special
treatment only for our listeners, but for you, Carolina, I'm
just gonna light this is that a spark flight? No,
it's a Roman candle. Let's get out, We'll get out,

(16:32):
get out. Oh it's really look at a flame? Whoa, whoa, Yeah,
everybody get out. We're a box of my thousand. I
bought a box of my thousand down in New Mexico

(16:52):
prom day for Nickna. Forget the key, unwalk the studio.
We're in here, Carolina. We gotta ride it out. WHOA,
I'm gonna have to ride out. Cover Cover yourself with
my jacket. Pull that bottle of water over your head.

(17:15):
Oh it's we're not even in the worst part yet.
My hair. That's your hair. Jump down the door if
you can. Oh. I shouldn't have bought the jumbo back.

(17:36):
So many fireworks, there's so many fireworks. The Ron Burgundy
Podcast is a production of I Heart Radio. I'm Ron Burgundy.
The host, writer and executive producer. Carolina Barlow is my

(17:59):
co host, writer and producer. Our producer is Nick Stump.
Our talent coordinator is Anna Hosnia. Writers are Andrew Steele
and Jake Vogelness. This episode was engineered, mixed and editing
by Nick Stump. Until next time, This is Ron Burgundy.
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