Jack Black

Ron has his good friend Lonnie Jenkins, famed jingle writer, on the pod to get a little tipsy, and sing some songs. 

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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have J's on at nighttime stand, which because everybody knows

(00:28):
he's the FERGETSI bandon Ron Burgundy podcast. Oh my baba,
good to see you at all. Hello everyone, wonderful, Thank
you for coming out. Oh my god, why a night

(00:54):
at night? They showed up again. I know I didn't
think you would. Yeah, oh, thank you for coming out
on a Wednesday night. Your your masked and vexed. We
really appreciate it. Uh, Wednesday hump day, I don't want.
I don't want hump day. That's what hump days four? Right?

(01:19):
I think they mean like it's in the middle of
the week. We got to get over that because then
there's only two days. Oh my god, how often do
you think you've made that reference? I've made that reference
no less than a thousand times. Well, thank you guys
so much for coming out. The ticket sales actually go
to charity. They benefit World Central Kitchen, which it's an

(01:43):
amazing charity. Yeah, and there's so many people here tonight.
We I mean, you know, I know that everyone's wearing
their masks, but I can still see all the celebrities
out there. I already heard Will and Jada Pinkett Smith
are here, and I think I see Eric Dickerson out there.

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Oh oh, Corbyn Parson from l A Law and Connie
Selca Connie, Hi, Connie, Oh my god. Please don't block
at them. Don't look at them. They want for privacy.
They really want their privacy. They're just like us. Yes, yes,

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which is from US Weekly. I love that publication. You
said you had a special way to begin tonight's Joe,
I do, I do, um I have. Uh. You know,
I just thought that it's excited, you know, I'm excited
for all of us to be together. And uh, I
just thought if you'd all join me in the Pledge

(02:53):
of Allegiance, uh, which I wrote down from memory before
I came out here. So I'd like to lead us
all in the Pledge of Allegiance. You can join in
if you'd like, Okay, I I fledge allegiance, Allegiance to

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the flag, to the flag of the United States, of
the United States, for which it states it stands. Please
don't laugh. Majestic, glorious, glorious, gallantly flapping in the wind,
gallantly flapping in the wind, red, red, white, and blue

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and blue rockets, red glare rockets, red glare bombs, bursting
in air, bursting in air. Where the buffalo room, where
the buffalo rome, and the people are free, and the
people are free. Thank you. That was That was patriotic,

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and I think it. Uh, it's a unifying experience to say,
the pledge of allegiance. Okay, so what have you been
listening to? What have you been watching? Let's see lately
I've been listening. I've been listening a lot to the Doors.
I'm a big doors guy. In fact, there's a great,
great cover band that I've seen here many a time

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called the Doors spelled with a Z. And I remember
when I first sat on the marquet as I go,
all right, all right, all right, I've been listening a
lot to The Only thing is who's the who's the keyboardist?

(04:48):
Raymond's Eric? I believe? Is that? Is that correct? Raymond's
Eric Riders on the Storm, Riders of the Storm, Riders
on the Storm. Yes, that little organ solo though it
goes on way too long. What does it sound like?
And it's a little rambly. I think he loses the thread.

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It's something like that, and uh, it just drifts and
it drifts, and I'm just surprised the guys didn't go,
let's just cut it down. But you know, they were all,
you know, let's give him a shot taking blueberries and
you know, little little black beauties and ludes, a lot

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of ludes, and they probably like, we're good. Keep the
thing though, that I'm really been spending a lot of
time watching is Temptation Island. Is that like Love Island?
It's like, well it wait, what is Love Island? I
described Temptation first. Temptation Island are a bunch of couples

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who go on a beautiful island and they see if
it's a test for their relationship. And it's hosted by
Mark Wahlberg. And I remember watching it, and I know
someone very closely who's done a number of movies with
Mark Mark Walburg. It's not the same Mark Wahlberg. It's

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just a guy named Mark. It's a guy named Mark Wallberg,
a nondescript guy with dyed hair and no muscles named
Mark Walburg, and he hosts Temptation Island and the couples
come on and they, you know, they say, oh, I
can't wait to go on this journey. Let's see if
our love last. And then another element comes in, either

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a hot guy or girl, and some of them break up,
some of them don't. Uh. I know that, and that's
that's the base a game plan. I know that if
I was on Temptation and and be like, look, I'm
gonna be honest, I'm leaving you in a second. You
like temptation, Temptation, it's over, It's there's been no tempting.

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I mean they'll be there will be no wait. So
much temptation, so much temptation that you're a goner. Yeah,
but love, I believe. I believe Love Island. Yeah, there's
an American version and a British version. Love Island is
very similar to Believe, right. Yeah, the people go on
an islands, more people come in, and you just stay

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coupled up to stay on shore. The big difference though,
is it's British and they talk like this they do.
They talk like, you know. The key to a British
excit's just to keep your mount out, take the mountain out,
and don't don't a nuncy. Okay that I know the

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pig gay blind does. Yes, Yes, that was kind of good.
That's really good. Yes, let's sear it you Carolina, though
you're very good at accents. I'm yeah, I guess I
have the acting bug. Do you do you have a
New York accent? Um? Yeah, I mean I studied a
little bit, so I guess New York has talked like this. Yeah.

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Oh my god, I feel like I'm on the six, four,
five or six train four six. Are you guys familiar
with the four or five or six? It's on the
east side this side. Okay, that's that's really authentic. Yeah,

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I guess I should go into act whatever voice acting? Okay, Oh,
why did you change it to voice acting? Because I
said acting, I changed it to voice act ding and
I I don't think this. Well, this isn't the time

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or places to why to explain to you as to
why I changed it the voice acting. It's for your benefit.
You're a perfectly fine looking person. It's worse it's making
it worse. Look, if I was sitting next to you
on the four or five or six train, would I
turn my head? Possibly not, you said, I don't even

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know if I notice you, if you spoke with a
British accent um? Are your apples? Well? Hello? Nice to Okay?
Are you apple? Guess I can put a spell on
men like my pench for what apple? My mother gonna

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take your father? I want apple? I want me apple. Okay,
we gotta get on this down. Someone writing this down. Yes,
that's what's great. Uh. We've been doing these podcasts live
and and it's recorded and will be put out in

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I still don't understand the process. Apparently they mail cassette
tapes to everyone. I don't know, but everyone here tonight
six months to four months from now, is this again?
And say I was there when they said that, And

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they'll be like, I recognize that voice. That's the famous
voice actor Carolina. But these things are a treasure show
because we'll listen. We'll listen to them again down the
road and be like, oh my god, that's a sitcom. Idea,
that's a feature league movie. Maybe that's a short film. Oh,

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maybe that's a limited series. I love talking about the biziness.
You love the business? Well, this is your favorite time
of year. It is awards season, starts celebrating July. Didn't
want to watch the Critics Choice Awards by any chance
that blue? No. Yes, it looked like some cheap hotail

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down and van eyes and with some bad, stinky hummus
on every table. People just eating them with their fingers
because they're starving. They just get you give them a
little bowl full of us. It wasn't like a big
salad bowlful of It was a nut bowl full of humus.

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I saw a couple of rats run on stage. Are
you serious? They're still getting their act together. We are
working on a phrase of the day, so we've actually
spent hours over this one. And if you don't like it,
I'm sorry. It's our phrase for this show. But I
was hoping if you know, I don't mind indulging whenever

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I hold this up, if you don't mind saying fun
and maybe like a little bit like, um, you know
your friend just got a new haircut, fun um or
someone invited you to do something and you're like, I'm
gonna skip work. Fun Okay, so maybe maybe in a
British accent. Fun. Well, that kind of sounded like phone

(12:35):
phone we Um, I actually don't know who the guest
is tonight. I enjoy going into public places. I gotta admit,
Do we have a guest? I enjoy going into public places.
It's one of the things I do. And I'll sit

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and I'll just yell out nouns at the top of
my lung. Phone or go back to my cup of coffee. Apricott,
little insight into the way my mind works. Um, we

(13:20):
have got such an exciting guest tonight. All I know
is that you told me to tell a p a yes,
that you had a friend outside the stage door who
needed help getting in. We needed some help getting in.
You said you had history. He's a dear dear friend
and he's one of the heavyweights in the jingle business. Um.

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You are all familiar with commercial jingles and uh, this guy.
If you've heard a jingle, he's probably done it. And
he is just a dear dear friend. He Uh, I
can't believe he's here here. He just happened to be
in town. Would you please put your hands together for
jingle artists. My dear dear friend Lanny Jenkins, Lanny, thank

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you that thanks Look the Lanna Jacobs. Oh, oh my god,
oh my god. We got some bigots, we got some
Jangles back as Wow. Wow, you've always you've always had

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a following to night's no different. What a great night
to be here to share with you. Because you know something,
Ron and I go way back to go seventies and
and when I got the Summer eight earlier today, would

(15:01):
you come down here? And I said, oh that I Annika,
but I'm gonna make my way over there Largo because
I would not miss it for the world, ma'am, because
you and I know we go back, We go back,
we go back to seventy two. Let me tell you something.

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This may be the sun you're I'll keep it clean.
But the thing is, I get that call, I come
a running because there's a weird thing. You got this thing?
By the way, are you packing tonight? The firearm at home?
I don't think I need to disclose true though I'm

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always a packing. What was that? UM, don't worry about
it anyways. I gotta say this is my first one
of these podcasts. I just I'm so impressed. It's a
brand new medium. Yeah, and there are very few of

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them out there, so it's, uh, it's pretty fun to
be one of the pipers. You know. What I like
is that you're taking you you've had an illustrious career,
well you don't have to see the top. And then
you're like, hey, he could call it a career and
take a bow and everyone legend. But then you don't

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do that, You say, nah, you know what, I'm gonna
open up a new chapter, yes, podcast, And I just
I just I just think the world to you and
the things you do and the chances you take, and
I just love to be a part of it. Well, Loddy,
I'm just so thrilled to finally, finally for us to
to see each other in person. But I was just
looking around see if there was like to have a

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little sip. Sure be a little little if you don't
mind it. For those of you listening, Oh, I'm pouring
a very generous five fingers of Scotch for my good friend,
and I might have a little myself. Carolina, Okay, okay,

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here we go. Why not? M hmm, Wait what happened
to my drink? Is that not enough? I don't want
to waste it? No, I just over you not. I

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just feel like you don't really know find scotch the
way I do, and you're just gonna guzzle it down
and then, you know, be farting in your car and
wait home. Sorry, I don't mean to do when I
get around. You're wild, Okay, Lonnie, I see you got
your signature cowboy boots. You can't believe you told everyone

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I needed help getting me in. That's embarrassed. Well I did.
I didn't notice. I do have a bad wheel. I'm bad.
You know. I've been doing a lot of physical therapy
and I'm feeling real good. Is that going? I'm actually
feeling much better right now. Yeah. Do you rub any
ointments or liniments on that? You know? I do? I
use a special uh combination. You go a little paprika,

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a little mayo, a little Earl Gray tea. You mix
that up with a little bitches brew, and then you
just rub it right on the affected area two or
three times a day, and that seems to do the trick.
I gotta get that down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you
need to elevate it all? No? No, I'm great, I'm great.

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You know what, Lonnie? The other day I was thinking
about the tie him. Yeah, you and I drove all
the way down to the tip of Baja California, took
a photo and drove all the way back. We did.
We wanted to go just to the tip. Yeah, and

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we had t shirts made that said we went to
the tip, just to the tip. We've been to the tip.
We we had a serious man. Then we did go
to the tip. If you dare yea Baja California. It's
a long ride. And then the Chamber of Commerce of

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Baja California hired us to UH to do an ad
campaign for him to promote tourism down to It was
like when you want to go south and you want
to go far, and you go to the tip and
you go to a are you're gonna have fun when
you go to the depth of Mexico California. Yes, that

(20:09):
was I can't believe you pulled that one out. Yeah,
I'll never forget that one, one of the better ones.
And we got pulled over by the Federal alleys and
you know you're alway supposed to carry you put twenty
dollars in your in your overhead dash right because you know,
grease a couple, grease a couple to get your way

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out of and we didn't have We had blown our
money on to cute and rockets. Had a little bottle rocket,
that's the bottle rockets. And we had a little bottle
rocket wore on the beach at night and I'm lay.
We had a couple of couple of fingers at tequila

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and then we just at each other. We had ten
bottle rockets. We lit him once, which I don't recommend,
and I shot right at you and I couldn't even
see it until it exploded, and like a freeze frame
of you, and and that was the photo. Yeah. Uh,

(21:13):
we've had good great. Remember we didn't have any money
to pay off the federal allies. And you said, hold on,
do you take Smith and Wesson? Yeah, and they went
which is a gun? And they said move along. That's right.

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That was funny the way that worked out. Sometimes when
you've got the eyes of steel, the world bends to
your will. Always works times out of a hundred, Lonnie,
how are your six children? My six children are doing well.

(21:55):
There's Damien. Damien, he's a guy the children of his own.
I'm my grandpa's great Uh. Let's see Damien. Have you
seen the grandchildren yet the no, I have not. I
have not had a chance because I believe they're fourteen,
fifteen and sixteen, right, yeah, they've been around. Well yeah,
three of them actually live at the tip. Okay, but

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that's right, because you bought a time share down at
the tip. That's right. Um got a sweetheart of a
deal on the time share. There's Damien, there's Fat, there's
Leonard Dudley, there's Dudley, Connie Yes, and Samantha. Yes. That's
all of them, and in a lot of ways it

(22:38):
is like a Brady's bunch, you know. Oh, we're half
of them from a different family originally the story and uh,
we just lived all together in harmony. That's the way.

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There's no other way. I've tried to live outside of harmony,
and it's not as advantageous. It's better to live in harmony.
It's all about family. It really is all about family.
If there's one thing you take with you tonight, it's
all about family. Bloi. You had a band in college,

(23:27):
did a little research called Moby Trick? I did? I
had Moby mob Trick? Did you? Did you guys make
it at all? I'm forgetting. No, we were not good.
It was before I really found my my voice, you know.
And uh we we we were big fans of Cheap
Trick and uh the drum solo from led Zeppelin Moby

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Dick and so you know, it's a really good But
now it was just you and five guys on base, right,
there's no there instance, that's right, great one of your
shows and you got your with your catchers, like let's
get into the belly of the whale. Yeah. Yeah, it

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was just a lot of base exciting at first. It's
a little Raymond z Eric time, We're like wrap it
up here it goes, yes, and that you could feel
the vibrations deep down below. But yeah, it didn't really
capture the imagination. And I don't blame the audience for
hating our deaths because we were pretty bad. But we

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had fun and that's all that really mattered. Beck and
ye yeah, live and learn, right, And then you tried
your head in Broadway. I did. I did. I wrote
a play, uh called Leonard and what the hell was that?
Called Leonard's Whispers and it was about a kid named

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Leonard who heard voices and it was very dark music
all about about you know, the inner workings of this
child's mind. If you ever get a chance to see
a revival of Leonard's Whispers. But I gotta say run it,
don't walk. It is a tough, tough world. It is

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a tough world Broadway. It is so competitive. There are
so many well, there's so many people chasing a dream. Backbiters,
backbit give us more. And at the end of the day,
it came down it's gonna beat Leonard's Whispers or Cats.
And we didn't, you know, it was like who you know? Yeah,

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and I didn't know the right But that's what's his name?
From Cats? Who's that guy? Lendrew Lloyd Webber? Yes, you know,
he just knew how to play the game. Well he
he didn't. Everyone knew he. It wasn't about his talent

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because he didn't have any how to play the game, politics, politics,
how to work that did he? Ever? So anyway, I
left Broadway in shame and tatters and I spent my
unless you gave it a shot, I did, And you
know what, I was proud of the work and I
wouldn't change a thing about it, you know, I was

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so I loved it with all my heart because it
was my baby, and I learned so much from the failure.
It was like, whoa and I you know, you know,
I believe and I'm starting to steal your thunder the
young boy at that time who original cast a young

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Matthew Broderick. Yes, and you know it's it hurts when
I see he in his bio. He doesn't even mention it.
He leaves it off all the time. And I did.
I left the message when I was like, I came
to see you in the one of them plays and
I saw in the bio you didn't meagine Leonards this bird.
I would I would never write my own bio and

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not mentioning Leonards whispers, and I just like, you know
what it hurt. But I didn't. You know, he didn't.
He never. I don't even know if that was really
his phone number he gave me. You might have been
talking to someone else, but uh, I like to think
that he took a little piece of magic from that
production and took that straight into the rest of his career.

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But I don't really know. I haven't talked to him.
I haven't talked to himself as a friend. Yeah, if
I run into broad Wreck, yeah, I'm gonna bring it up. Hey,
thank you. This whole thing is taking a very dark turn.
I'm on a bad wheel. We talked about my band
that nobody liked, cheap Trick, movie trick. We talk about

(27:49):
my Broadway failures. Go to the next question. Hopefully it'll
be something good about this is very painful. It's the
whole thing. I gonna trip down. She did never relate.
I did not mean it to go that way, because
you're one of my dear friends. And I I really

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brought it up because I loved Leonards Whispers. And uh
so after that, you traveled for a while. I know
that had traveled up and down the Eastern Seaboard. I
did spend a lot of time down in the Bayou,
some town up in some time up in Motown. I
went to the far East. To the far East is

(28:34):
what you lived in a tree extensively for a long time.
I lived in there, and it said, don't do it.
Don't do it, Lenny, what are you doing? And I said, Lanny,
it's not Lenny. And then and then and then they
let me be in that tree. And it was like
a treehouse that I built myself. And I lived up
there for a good long time, and I learned a

(28:55):
lot of things up there. It was just you by yourself, right.
It was a long time of contemplation and just sort
of getting back to the roots, you know. And this
wasn't like a big sequoia or redwood, I recall, it
was only like a ten ft eucalyptus. That's right. No,
it wasn't about the height, That's what it was. Sparsely,

(29:20):
the very sparse coverage of leaves just right. You had
ram shackled some plot piece of supply wood, made a
very rickety not to code platform with an air mattress
about ten feet off the ground that a dish didn't
sunk to literally six ft off the ground. I wanted

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to be closer to the roots, you know. And then
you woke up in the middle of the night and
the tree was on fire, and that you told me
that was a sign down from the tree. It was
time to come down from the tree, and spread had
the gospel of my learnings. And so you banged around

(30:04):
some more. You taught high school soccer, uh you were.
You taught high school soccer at that time. There was
a lot of people doing that. And then you started

(30:25):
a little company called Intel. Yeah, yep, I made a
lot of money on Intel. Uh I went with a
different name because I didn't want to you know, all
that credit, but I did. I came up with that
idea and uh, I surprised if that's what I thought

(30:45):
about when I was up in that tree, Like what
what what would it be like to create a new
company called Intel. I know everything about that company, and
it's short for Intelligence. What I remember is what you

(31:07):
told I don't you told me, and I do. I
don't do you justice, but you said, you said, Ron,
I want to start a company called Intel. I don't
care what the hell they do, who I hire. But
I just got a feeling in my gut as as

(31:32):
true as the sun rising on Easter Sunday, that this
thing is gonna take off. And you stuck to your guns,
and Intel became a major company that does things right.
That's right with computer chips. That's what you do right,
that's right, computer chips. Yes, I'm glad you brought that up.

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What it is when you get downtown to the micro
process nuts and bolt, it's really just about getting real small.
Because you remember back in the seventies, fill up the
sun side of the stage and and bubble bubble cards.

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And I thought, you know, enough with this, let's bring
it down any I don't want to talk about that anymore.
Let's get off that subject, and let's get onto the
subject of why you're here. And then you find yourself
in the jingle game. And and I assume a talent

(32:39):
agent found you a true calling. Yes, that was. That
was I just realized, you know, when we're talking about
Intel getting things small, you can tell the whole story
in four or five seconds. Why not do that? And
you deliver deliver that magical musical punch, you know, litt
quitt rabbit fund and And and when I when I

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heard them on the radio and on the TV, other
people's jingles, I just said, oh god, I wish I
could do that. And then I look at the mirror,
and I said, why can't you, Why don't you just
do it? Just do it. You want to make a jingle,
make a jingle. Hell, you lived in a tree for
a year and a half. Just do it, right, that's right.
And the weird thing was, I'd been making jingles my
whole life leading up and you didn't even know it,

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and I didn't know. So it was as though I
had been preparing my whole life to become this jingle man,
and you finally found your calling. And I believe the
first jingle you ever recorded was for an airline, Princeton
Air and U do you recall? Could you sing? You
want me to do? I'd love to hear sorry, Oh,

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I'd love to hear Princeton understand as an airline in
the seventies, Come sail the skies and Princeton Air we
lived to servant. Take you there there to dream. The
world is yours. We opper upper world, Well up yours.

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We can buy you anywhere within the Antelope Valley. Yes,
And I knew nothing about Antelope Air. Princes are I'm sorry, prince?

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And then I heard the jingle. I'm like, I gotta
check this out. And I used to fly it all
the time, up and down, up and down. You wouldn't
You never needed to drive around the Antelope Valley again
because you just take a quicker show, quick down. A
lot of times the planes never left the ground. They
just used the freeway. It was just runaway. But it's

(34:52):
it felt like you're going somewhere. You know. I could
never finished my you because by the time they put
it in front of you. It was like, oh, we're landing.
But there were times when you really made fast time
during rush hour traffic. Absolutely and you and if you
didn't take an a little bear, you'd be driving to

(35:13):
be stuck in that prison. He stuck in that a
little traffic. And I wish I was on that right now.
Because they flew super low. For minute flight, you can
only get about about seven ft off the ground. Yeah,
they'd buzz right over you. Fun pilots, pilots who had

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never flown before. And that was that. They were just like,
here we go, let's see what happens. Oh and that
that there, remember that? Remember that the potato the potato chip.
Oh yeah, chippitty chip. Give us a little chipp ety chip.

(36:00):
The chippy his chimp for eddie tip, his chippity chip.
You're gonna flip when the chippity chip gets past your lip.
It's a hip chip. You can nap a skip the
chippy chip. It's a total group chip. Who walk or
run or take a rocket chip? You're not back up?
Chip about it? Chips now, chipp any chip? Uh. That

(36:31):
product didn't last very long, no, because they found chipped
baby teeth in the bag chippy chip that ruined it.
That that kind of ruined its pineapple, salsa, pineapple saucer, lemonade, barbecue,
so many flavors. Yep, asparagus and cream that was. That

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was my favorite asparagus and cream chip flavored chip. And
you know the thing was it wasn't the song was
was not the problem, not at all. It was the
baby teeth that sends that company down. But you know what,
that's not of my concern. You just hired me to
make sure there's no baby. You're hired me to sing it.
You're not in charge of Oh my god, do you

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remember that one I did for? Uh? Can I just
I'm just gonna sing this next one? Okay? Oh and
let me see if I can remember what and see
if you can remember what the product is. Oh, this one?
I did this one in England. This was English. Yea.
This one was for an English product as a sad

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and something in the air. You can feel it when
you rise. It's a brand new start with every day
from the moment you open your eyes wake up feeling
shoundly free with a cop of James Tolliver in English tea.

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James Tolliver English say that then that tea had arsenic
in it. That's right. Yes, I don't think I helped
the product. I don't think I helped sales. I wouldn't
say that it was because the English accent wasn't really
in my wheelhouse. I'm surprised you didn't push back and say,

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can I just give you one and with you know,
the regular Lanny pipes. I'm a pleaser. I just wanted
to give him what I thought they wanted. And uh, anyway, yeah,
that tea company went under fast. Arsenic and one of
the worst jingles of all times. I don't even know
why I volunteered to sing that one. To be honest
with you, Well, you're you know, at that time, you're

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in your career, you're building a reputation. Just I'm sure
you just get the call and like it's a fun
trip to jolly old England, free trip to go to
exactly I wanted to. I wanted to walk the River Thames.
I wanted to experience England and all its gold glory.
And I think they pronounced it the famous the things,

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the things, river things. I'll go punching all the time
now that all the time. Do you know that time.

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Now we're in the sweet spot. Wow, that's really good.
Um can I can I do like three or four
of seven more and then I'll be on my way. Yes,
this one is from one called jam Or. Its amalgamated
good fixtures, a very popular product in this world. There's

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a heck of a lot of choices you can make.
It's up to you and your clients that you don't
make a stay. A bad decision can ruin your company
and you can't lose your shirt. It's the same old
story when a businessman ends up in the dirt jabber.

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It's a Maga Maga daughter fixers and mountain mount Yes, well,
thank you. Now I still have stock in generates. It's
a steady, steady, steady as you go, slow and steady

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and one hell of a one hell of a jingle.
That jingle was taped. As as I went on in
my career of jingles, I found myself reaching deeper into
the nook and crannies of the of the subtleties of
the jingle, and they just got better in bed right.
If I recall, you did thousands of radio spots too.
I did a lot of radio spots. Oh yeah, yeahm um,

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remember KRUC k R O k R O C K
and Davenport yep, k Rock Davenport. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, I remember. I remember k Rock Davenport. Quad
said he's turned it up. I turned it up because
the rock is alive. K Rock Davenport for y'all more

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didn't drive WSLB. Yeah yeah, you keep on going to
the next you. My memory works, your memory. I I
do the same way. I do the exact same thing.
I'm getting hot. Is anyone else getting hot? Well? You

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got your leather friends jacket on. Um. Yeah, So they
would they and they would play that. It's not really
like a tight radio spot. I mean it's a good
twelve seconds. Look. I started to get really long in
my jingles. Yeah, and in fact, they started to become
like full on songs. But you had leverage at that point,

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and you were like, if you want me, you gotta
give me the full you gotta let me give a
whole beginning, middle of an end. I gotta tell a
story with these jingles. And I'm feeling constrained by the tightness,
so so so so check out this next one I did.
This one was for an adult contemporary wus be adult contemporary,

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mellow as the morning. Do we play the music that's
all right for you? From Holland Notes to Selene Beyond,
turn us into get your groove on ws LB adult contemporary.
You know, right now, I'm realizing that I should have

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sung that jingle more as an adult contemporary style because
it sounded more classic rock when I was it did,
but I think that's why it was so effective, because
people were, you know, thinking they, oh, this is contemporary,
but I love the tone and the tenor of this
guy's voice. Well, and I wonder if they play more

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than just adult contemporary. Yeah, I think it made it.
I think it made the station intriguing. It did it did?
I'm just saying things right now. You know, I always
thought jingles were my main thing, but now I'm realizing,

(43:42):
ron I'm very bad at it. Don't say that. Don't
say that I'm one of the worst jinglers ever. No no, no,
no no. My whole life has been a sham. Okay, okay,
let's pull this so okay. D Lanny Kn't Cool smooth

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Jazz out of Baltimore, rab up the Due and back,
Papa Scoobit ribbing in the back, made out boppa smooth jazz. See,
that's why it's the stone Gone. This is where we
met a hitting facts, only news and a whole lot

(44:34):
no brown Bagudy and the team only our channel far
San Diego. Lannie, it always goes this way. It always

(44:56):
just hanging out with you's been so goddamn good lady.
We're gonna get you back in your Dodge caravan and
get you on your way. I'm the designated D and
I am good to go. Are you sure? Okay? All right, Landy,
thank you so much for a visiting. Thank you, thank you.

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Don't forget your hat? Do you want your hat right
back here? Lanny jakins everyone, Oh my god, Landy. You know,

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it's a real insight into the jingle business. Was a
wild rise. He's a he is a complicated individual. Uh,
he said, he was the d D. Nothing we can
do now, yeah, got to finish the show. Except finished

(46:08):
the show right, Well, that was fascinating, It really was.
I don't know what to say. Lanny drink a lot
of my Scotch though, he owes me. God, he drank

(46:31):
five dollars in scott I only buy fifteen scotch. Carolina
I'd like to, of course, in tonight with something I
like to call my take. It's my thing. Yes, you

(46:51):
can go, it's my take. Yes, thank you for that.
This week marked the beginning of Senate confirmation hearings of
Judge Katangi Brown Jackson, and while the questioning will be rigorous,

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it is believed that there will be enough votes for confirmation,
thus naming her as our first black female Supreme Court justice. Now,
this country can be a little three steps forward and
two steps back at times, but this would be a

(47:35):
groundbreaking achievement. And isn't that what America needs to do again?
Lead the world by example, empowering not just women, but
all marginalized people. In the famous words of Alexander Hamilton's
our first black politician, my name is Alexander Hamilton's there's

(47:59):
a man million things I haven't done. Just you wait,
just you wait. Well, the way it is over, Alexander
Hamilton's disappointment would mean so much for me, and not
because I'm black. I'm not black. Even though I've been

(48:21):
asked to host the Soul Train Awards seventeen times. Don
Cornelius and I were roommates at the University of ioland
I was flattered, but it never felt appropriate. Disappointment resonates
with me because I've always dreamed of being a Supreme
Court justice. In fact, I've gone through the confirmation process

(48:45):
twenty two times now. It's not in the big room
with all the TV cameras. It's it's usually in a
side room behind closed doors, and only a handful of
senators show up. Last time, it was only Diane Feinstein,
and she said said, oh it's you again. We laughed
and talked. I happened to have brought a bottle of

(49:07):
rose with me, She said playfully. I can't, but what
the hell You're never getting confirmed anyway? We laughed again.
I suddenly turned away to wipe a tear off my
cheek because that wasn't stunk. I had brought a chuck

(49:31):
MANGIONI c D and asked her if there was a
sound system that we could play this on. She said,
give me a sec and left. I waited for what
felt like twenty minutes, and then I heard the senator

(49:58):
returned in a slight revealing evening gown, took my hand
and we started to dance. You're out of order, she said, okay,
I said, I object if you don't try and kiss me.

(50:19):
She said, okay, I said, I will hold you in
contempt if you don't make a move. She then said Finally,
I stopped dancing, and I asked, what the hell is
going on? Is this an episode of law and order?
I don't follow. The senator said she was making anu

(50:41):
indo with court references. Oh right, I bluffed, pretending like
I knew what innuendo meant. I didn't. I now know
that innuendo is a form of Brazilian music. Anyway, the

(51:04):
song ended and we realized it was two am. We'd
been there for fourteen hours, but it only it only
felt like twelve. I'm not going to talk about what
happened between us. Gentlemen never kiss and tell. Suffice to say,
Diane Feinstein's no prude. It takes a fairly adventurous woman

(51:24):
to teach ron Burgundy a thing or two about love making,
and that night I was the student. Anyway. She gathered
her various briefcases and overhead projector, turned and headed for

(51:45):
the door, but then stopped and said, this time I
would have voted for you, Mr Burgundy. I had my
back to her, bursting with pride. And I screamed, may
I approached the bench, But just like that, she was going.
That's as close as I ever got to be in
considered for the highest court in the land. But who

(52:07):
am I kidding? I never went to law school, even
though I read law books for pleasure and for the
honorable Judge Jackson. If you happen to be listening to this,
you probably are. Just know that, no matter how frustrating
the vetting process, maybe it's there for a reason so

(52:28):
assholes can score political points in front of a room
full of assholes. I'm Ron Burgundy and that's my take.

(52:50):
Fuck us so funny. We tried us like a plank
to younger feel so we never get come back. He
took a couple up while I was standing. He says
it every night stand, which because everybody knows he's the
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