On this episode of The Ron Burgundy Podcast, our host Ron Burgundy welcomes all his listeners, especially the โmysterious caller...whoโs been leaving me all those messages on my home line. Listen to me, you heavy-breathing creep: I like you. Keep calling me.โ But heโs sad to inform us that heโs had to fire his co-host, Carolina Barlow. Carolina is certainly surprised to hear it. Ron promises he left her a voicemail, but she only has one where he tells her about a dream he had about being a doula for a minotaur. He tells her heโs replaced her with seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones, and she admits, โThatโs actually a big deal.โ Dr. Jones joins them to talk about earthquakes, climate change, and what Ron should pack in his disaster preparedness bag.
Dr. Jones remembers her first earthquake: she was only two years old, and she tells Ron that her mother lay on top of her kids to protect them. โThe other thing I remember is our cat screaming.โ Ron says he understands that; sometimes he thinks he feels an earthquake coming on and just starts screaming, even if nothing happens. โI should probably stop doing that,โ he reflects. He asks if animals can really sense when an earthquake is going to happen, and she says not really; animals are just more sensitive to the first, more subtle waves of seismic activity, so they feel it before we do. But even some humans think they can tell when one is coming; she remembers a woman promising to predict earthquakes using โthe outlines of slug trails in her driveway.โย
Ron wants to know how he can prepare for an earthquake. He has a bag packed and ready to go for any disaster: โI have charcoal, a hibachi grill, ten porterhouse steaks...I got Campbellโs Chunky Soup โโ He stops, realizing, โOoohโฆ.I never packed a can opener though.โ He also says he "always has a thong" in his nightstand, just in case. Dr. Jones thinks the only useful things are the glow sticks he packed โfor a rave,โ saying earthquakes often cause power outages. Then he asks her to explain climate change in โthe least scary way possible.โ She slowly tells Ron that โClimate change is realโฆ Human activity is increasing carbon dioxide, and thatโs increasing the heat. Increased heat means increased storms. In general, weโre going to have a lot of disruption,โ while Carolina whispers some of Ronโs favorite phrases, โCow goes moo!โ and โTrain goes choo-chooโ to keep him from getting too nervous. Dr. Jones ends on a high note: โWe can change it. We can do it together.โย
Find out more about climate change and earthquakes, if Dr. Jones will take Carolinaโs job, and whether or not she thinks Rihanna will cause an earthquake when she drops her next album (โWhen Sisqoโs album dropped, there was zero seismic activity,โ Ron points out), on this earth-shaking episode of The Ron Burgundy Podcast.
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