That's Showbiz, Baby: Steven Kunes
Ridiculous Crime
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
To make it in Hollywood, you sometimes have to tell some half-truths and fudge your resume. People play a little fast and loose. But not so loose as to forge checks and scam friends. That's a little too loose, even by Tinseltown standards.
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| 0:00.0 | Ridiculous Crime is a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:03.6 | Zarin. |
| 0:06.2 | Zarin, wake up, wake up. What's up, Elizabeth? How are you? I'm doing pretty good. I was just taking a little cat and nap. I'm not sleeping well, but other than that, I'm great. How about you? You're not sleeping well? Have you not seen the state of the world? Well, yeah. I'm like, so I stay up reading news, I shouldn't, and I'm like, oh, now I'm going to get to sleep. |
| 0:22.2 | Don't do it. |
| 0:22.8 | I have really bizarre dreams. |
| 0:24.5 | Oh, I shouldn't, and I'm like, oh, now I'm going to get to |
| 0:21.8 | sleep. |
| 0:22.2 | Don't do it. |
| 0:22.8 | I have really bizarre dreams. Oh, I bet. You know, it's ridiculous. I do. Oh. You love Law & Order SVU. I certainly do. You also love original flavor Law and Order, right? Yeah, original recipe. Okay. The character, Detective John Munch, played by Richard Belser, RIP him. |
| 0:40.1 | Right. |
| 0:40.7 | Do you know that he didn't? Yeah, an original recipe. Okay. The character, Detective John Munch, played by Richard Belser, RIP, him. |
| 0:40.2 | Right. |
| 0:40.7 | Do you know that he didn't obviously start on Law and Order? |
| 0:43.4 | Yeah, he started in, was it Homicide? |
| 0:45.8 | Homicide Life on the Streets, David Simon's Show before The Wire. |
| 0:48.8 | Right. |
| 0:49.4 | So, turns out he was on Homicide Life of the Streets, which means that exists. |
| 0:53.6 | He played Detective John Munch. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And then he was on Law and Order Special Victims Unit, and then he was in the Law and Order original flavor. Sure. But those aren't just the only shows he's been on. I know of one other. What's the other one of you know? The X-Files. Yes. He was an episode of The X-Files, the usual suspects. Yeah. |
| 1:30.6 | Or sorry, the unusual suspects was the episode. Then he was also on another Law and Order show, trial by jury. Oh, right, right. He was also in one episode of The Wire. Oh, really? He was also in Arrested Development. Was he John Munch on the Wire? Yes. He plays John Munch in every one of these shows. He also played John Munch, Detective John Munch, on Arrested Development. |
| 1:27.5 | What? Does he John Munch on the wire? He plays John Munch in every one of these shows. He also played John Munch, Detective John Munch, Unarrested Development. |
| 1:43.0 | What? Yeah, like with Gob Luth and all that, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so, and then, you know, since he was on the wire, he was also, he means he'd been in 30 Rock playing Detective John Munch. You're kidding. Yes, and also the Embracable Kimmy Schmidt. |
| 1:44.2 | I don't know if you know that one. |
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