Beantown Podcast - 10072018_Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast

Episode Date: October 7, 2018

Quinn comes to you LIVE from Baltimore, MD to ramble about the Chicago Marathon, the city of Baltimore, and Frank Sinatra

Hey what's going on it's Quinn David Furnace and this is the Bean Town podcast the People's Podcast one of Baltimore City's top 500 podcast what's going on how are you coming to you live another stop on the fall 2018 tour this time from beautiful Baltimore Maryland it is a lovely city and we're happy to be coming to you live to do a little Sunday morning special. Maybe you're in church right now, maybe you're missing it, maybe you're missing church for the Beentom podcast. People have said, oh this is one of the most pious podcasts we've ever listened to.

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And with the way I travel for work and doing this fall 2018 tour, it was just, it was just not gonna happen. So we're live streaming this morning, cheering on some friends, watching the Kenyans out front, they are exactly one hour into it at this point. So they're probably coming up on mile 13.1. Fairly soon here, it's given me some nostalgia.

I've run Chicago before, it's a nice course. I will say so the weather currently about 55, 56 degrees. And it doesn't appear to be raining right now. Clearly there has been rain. And I gotta tell you, this just looks like absolutely picturesque, ideal marathon running weather. So, last year, last fall, last weekend in October, I run the Marine Corps marathon, which starts and ends around the Pentagon. And then you spend a significant amount of time in DC, but it starts and ends around the Pentagon. And then you spend a significant amount of time in DC, but it starts on as an Arlington, Virginia.

And this day, granted, this is the last Sunday in the month of October 2017. It probably got to be about 80 degrees. and there were no clouds in the sky. It was completely sunny. And anyone who knows the mid-Atlantic knows that the humidity just sometimes doesn't want to go away. For instance, we had been out on the road, still kind of out on the road, but I mean, Baltimore for a couple days back coming

to you live from it, at one seventh St. Paul Street and yesterday even 75 degrees 85% humidity and this book is today it's supposed to be able to 85 degrees and 85% humidity and I was looking at the My weather app because I got you know the different cities where family members are located across the country to see what their weather is like and it's humid everywhere. So I don't know what the deal is. I don't know what, if this is Al Gore's little prank that he's pulling on us, what the situation is, but someone's got to do something. It's too humid everywhere.

And it's really throwing off our collective grooves. So I run this race, which I was not severely, but pretty under trained for the issue had been, and this is a big contributing factor to why I'm not running a race. This fall was that I had been in pretty solid shape in August, and then moving into September when I started traveling for work last fall. And it was just, it was really tough to keep it up where you're working all day and you're driving, tons of different places. And I think I might have told the Valley Ford story on an earlier podcast, but the training

runs are really difficult and you know it starts to get dark earlier. So even if you're known with work at five, you know, if you want to go out and run 18 miles, you're gonna finish when it's dark. That's just because the sun is setting because it's getting closer and closer to the winter solstice. So the race last year did not go well about mile, I think it was about 16 or so, is when I finally had to shut it down. I was getting sunburned really badly.

I was just getting cooked out there and then I also pulled my hamstring. If you've ever pulled your hamstring, you just know that unless you got a ridiculous amount of adrenaline flowing through your system, you're just not going to be able to overcome that. My iPod had died and the adrenaline I had as the racers just passed the half marathon mark 13.1. The adrenaline I had in the last year's race compared to my first ever marathon, which I did run in Chicago was just night and day. Although I'll say that I have never run a marathon with anybody coming out to support

me, which is kind of sad. Even when I ran Chicago, I don't have any family in Chicago. I have lots of friends in Chicago, but I don't know. That's kind of a kind of got a joke thing, joke complex going on there where people don't tend to come out and support my bigger events, unfortunately. But it's okay because I keep doing them because I don't do things to come out and support my bigger events unfortunately, but it's okay because I keep doing them because I don't do things to be supported and to feel lovely. Do things because I want to do them. And you know, if any friends or family

want to take time, how do their lives to come celebrate and support? That's great. But if not, you know, that's their choice. Anyways, I did not go well last year. Pulling the hamstring had to pull up around mile 16. And for anyone who not, you know, that's their choice. Anyways, I did not go well last year. Pulling the hamstring had to pull up around mile 16. And for anyone who's, you know, seen or observed or ran a marathon before, you know, you still got 10.2 miles to go after that. And so I spent the whole time walking, pretty gimpy,

just ridiculously dehydrated, not because I wasn't stopping to get water but just because you got to go 26.2 miles and 80 degrees, 80% humidity and there's there are no clouds. There's always a direct sunlight. That's the other thing about the core, the marine core marathon course that I didn't love the course. It is almost no shade. And you get your pretty parts. Running through Georgetown is cool. And you run kind of alongside the mall,

not exactly on the mall, but alongside the mall and kind of around the capital. But then there's the bridge, I call it. This is when you go from DC back into Virginia. It's about mile 17 through 20 and It is you're just running on I don't know if it's the interstate or if it's just a Freeway or highway or whatever you'd call it, but it is really difficult because It's just concrete jungle, right?

Imagine you're just running on an interstate bridge across a river. That's what you're doing is you run across a Potomac, and it is just man, it's brutal. And everyone talks about it before, and it's like, you gotta beat the bridge, cause they're big thing is you gotta get across it in a certain time,

until before they shut down the course, and I did it. I still, the miracle of this marathon and to this day, I don't know exactly how I pulled it off, no pun intended with the pull hamstring, but I still did it in 450, which okay, it's not elite status, it's not even good status, but there are a lot of people who are running the whole time who are also finishing at 450. And I limped, we're talking like limpage through the last 10 miles of that race on a bad hamstring and then with severe heat exhaustion, maybe minor heat stroke, I'm not sure how those things are categorized, I didn't go to a hospital,

I didn't get an IV, I just kind of loaded up on fluids and rolled around the city the rest of the day, actually I had to drive to Baltimore and then to West Virginia. I was a fun day, fun memories, you know, all of the nostalgia, but when I do have a lot more nostalgia for is watching this Chicago race, it is one of the six. There's a name for them, but I don't,

level 12 or something like that. They are Berlin, Chicago, New York, L.A., Boston, Chicago, New York, LA, Boston, and no, not LA. Paris, Boston and Tokyo, I think. I think it's three US ones, three international ones. We'll get our research team on that. Listener discretion is advised when you are listening to the bean temp podcast. Number one will occasionally drop some curse words here and there and the number two the podcast is just objectively terrible as voted by you the fans Thank you so much the fans. Thank you everyone who's been supporting the fall 21 tour. I Would like to apologize My social media wing has not been as dynamic or robust as it usually is. I've just, here's a thing.

I haven't necessarily gotten busier with work, although I have a little bit, as the Fall 2018 tour has gone along. The situation is that I'm just getting pretty worn out, stretch pretty thin. So first three weeks of the fall 2018 tour I was in kick-ass shape. Oh not physically but mentally. Working hard, working on the podcast, hard following fantasy football, all that stuff, doing good social

media, driving around and seeing friends. And then here's what happened. I got the weekend that I had to drive from Chattanooga to the Cedar Rapids. The weekend we came to you live from Rockford, Illinois with Matthew Feeder, did a bean town on Plut concert special. I got sick with a cold. And what are we three weeks later? I'm still not 100% completely over it. Two weeks, three weeks, where are we we at, two weeks later I think. And it's just been so frustrating, like I don't have a sore throat. Again, gestion is not bad. At this point I'm blowing my nose like once or twice a week, but it's just been lingering kind of in my head for so long, so I'm sleeping like crazy

to really try to shake it. I went for a run yesterday, albeit a really slow and poorly executed one. He says as he's watching the Kenyans just obliterate the Chicago marathon. So I'm hoping to shake it. I think you can still hear it even in my voice. There's a little bit of congestion. My voice is probably a little bit deeper than what you're used to. Oh, very white action. And yeah, it's just haven't completely been able to shake it yet. So we'll see. We go back out on Thursday. We're flying to Chicago. We're're gonna be coming to you live from Chicago Which will be exciting Frank Sinatra wrote a song about Chicago didn't he my kind of town?

Well, this could only happen to a guy like me And only happen in a town like this And only happen in a town like this. So may I say to each of you most gratefully. As I throw each one of you, The kiss, the kiss, the kiss My kind of town Chicago is My kind of town Chicago is My kind of people too, people who smile at you when each time I roam Chicago is calling me home Chicago is why I just grin like a, it's my kind of town.

Rest in peace, Frank. I think I got the lyrics right. Maybe we'll try to pull off the second verse later. If you hated what you just heard, if you're just really frustrated and at a kind of identity crossroads on whether or not you can continue to support the Bingtown podcast. Let us know. Email us, Bingtownpodcast, Yahoo.com, this Bingtown BEA and T-Lion and Podcast at Yahoo.com. You can tweet at us, we are on Twitter, we are at Beentown Cast. Haven't been infiltrated by Russian hackers yet, which is great. We are on Facebook, you can find our podcasts episodes every week on Stitcher, we are on Google Play, we are of course on iTunes, SoundCloud,

you to play FM, all these great locations to find your podcasts. Yeah, you can find us there. So thank you for supporting the podcast. Thank you for following us along this fall 2018 tour. It has been fun. It has been exhausting my first tour ever, but it's been good. Let's wait a little bit off. We're going to Chicago next weekend. Then I think we're going to be coming to you live from Nashville, Tennessee. And then finally, our Halloween special live from Beentown. Now I say it's a Halloween special. Do I actually have anything planned for you? No, but I don't tell anyone I said that. I'm thinking we might get some spooky songs going Halloween Spooks that is a classic song if you don't know it

go check it out on YouTube just YouTube Halloween Spooks that song is lit it's got some ghouls it's got some witches and it's got some bitches so you're gonna want to check it out when you get the chance it It is interesting because we are 24 days, three and a half weeks from Halloween. And October in my mind is always very much a fall straight up a terminal type of season. And I got to tell you, when we were in Sioux Falls and then this past week we made minor pit stops in places like

Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Upper Lake Lake's region. We were dealing with like 55 degrees. So not chilly by any means, although I will tell you the people I was traveling with, some of them were getting pretty concerned about the cold, which I thought was Frankly hilarious because it felt amazing, but you know, we were up there Starting to feel like fall a little bit starting to see the you know, you drive along the interstate things like 90 and We didn't go in 94 so I guess I 90 but you look you dry past the corn fields again harvested the soybeans are getting picked Some of the leaves on the trees are starting to change from green to more of a yellow

But I tell you what you come back to the east coast to the mid-Atlantic you're back in Baltimore for five days and It's 85 degrees today with 85% humidity and there's just there's nothing at terminal about this other than the date on the calendar. That's what's kind of bumming me out. So my hope is we get back to Chicago, get a little bit more of that. And some of these things you just have to make happen for yourself, right? If you want your fall to really feel like a fall, you got to make the effort. You had to go out to the pumpkin patch. You had to go get the apple cider.

Yeah, you get the apple cider donuts. Here's a PSA for you. Apple cider prices these days. Wow, to my grocery store yesterday for the first time in a month and a half, half gallon of apple cider, 499, 5 bucks for apple cider. That's one thing about the city of Baltimore. In general, it's a lot cheaper than pretty much any other East Coast city, Washington, DC, certainly New York.

But even Boston can be pretty expensive, fully depending on where you go can be pretty expensive. But even Boston can be pretty expensive, fully depending on where you go can be pretty expensive, but the grocery prices in Baltimore, at least in the central part of the city where I hail from. The grocery prices are not good. And it's not just a situation where I shop at my mom and pop grocery store, which it's actually pretty,

it's pretty well stocked and the prices aren't, well, the point that I'm trying to make is that the prices are not super inflated because if you go up one mile down Charles Street to the Safeway, which is like the grocery store in central Baltimore because live in a little bit of a food desert here in North of downtown, the prices are not any better. That Safeway is expensive.

I don't, I see people like getting just crazy amounts of food there. People who have cars, that's what I don't understand. If I had a car, I would be out at all D, I'd be out at Trader Joe's, you know stuff. It's not like, oh, you got to drive 20 miles outside of city gets you know, there are these options in the city. They're 10, 15 minutes away. So I don't understand the people who go to Safeway and

pay just exorbitant prices because you could have that so much better. But some of us don't have cars, some of us walk for groceries and yeah, could I get to all the yes, but it would take probably about an hour each way on public transportation and not that public transportation costs an army to like, but you know, $4 around trip and a little bit to the grocery bill every week. So, and I just frankly, to do basically a two and a half hour trip for my groceries, could I make time for it? Yeah, but two and a half hours is a long time just to get your groceries every week

when I can do it in less than an hour. And at a certain point, at a certain point, you'd start to do a way of time versus cost. And eventually you got to make some decisions for yourself. So anyways, I know all of you really wanted to know about Baltimore's grocery shopping options. There you go. There are some updates for you. So let's see. I am tracking my friend. My dear friend from grad school is a much more diligent runner than I am. She also has her in a couple of marathon.

She is running Chicago this morning. She also just got engaged, which is very exciting for her. Her 5K time was 30 or 4. So we're looking at 941 miles. I think she said she was shooting for 415 for 20 blaze it which would be pretty exciting. She's on pace for 413 although that's a 5K and you got about 40 plus K that you got to do so not maybe the best indicator also a Dr. N and how that impacts the start of

your race, although although I don't know, maybe it was just me, but you know, I was just talking about my second marathon, the adrenaline was nothing compared to my first one. Maybe that's because I was just so stressed out before my second marathon. So we'll come back to this. I know all of you have just, you've been just dying to hear about my marathon failures. So the situation was I was running the Marine Corps marathon. I had only signed up for this race in spring of 2017 because my friend who I am tracking this morning who's running the Chicago marathon had also signed up and said Quinn, look I entered this one. I'm going to be running or I entered the lottery into this one. I think it's about a 70% acceptance rate for Marine Corps marathon. It was like you should do it. I was like knowing that I was going to be having a job or it was going

to be traveling like crazy in the fall. I was just not really feeling it on the last day And I didn't know it was the last day. It just kind of popped into my head But in the last day that you could potentially enter the lottery. I'm sitting around at work back in Chicago Spring of 2017 and I thought yeah, you know what let's let's do another challenge Let's let's see what we got left in the tank here for Mirathons Because I had already run Chicago them the fall before and I got lucky because it happened to me the last day of

The registration period the lottery entry So I enter the lottery we both get it. It's exciting and then my friends She had a lot of I think it was calf. And so she had to bow out of the race. And normally for me, I would have bowed out too, but it was like, well, not even me living in the, on the East Coast, getting to Washington, and decision to be that big of a hassle. Well, famous last word. So I'm working not only the week before, but the Saturday before too. I had to work in Philadelphia for a college fair. So the way it works is you have packet pick up on Friday and Saturday at National Harbor,

which is in Alexandria, is it Alexandria or Alexandria? I don't remember Maryland and, or that's in Virginia. I don't remember past Reagan, South of Reagan, so probably Virginia, although National Harbor is in Maryland, so National Harbor is its own city, I think, if it's across the river from Alexandria. So I worked because it's open to like 8 p.m. on Friday, 8 p.m. on Saturday, but I was going to be working till like 5 p.m. on Saturday. There's no way I could get down there that day. So Friday, I worked till like two. And of course, if anyone has ever driven along I-95,

at just about any time of year, but particularly a Friday afternoon, it's not fun. So it took me five hours to get from Philly to Washington, D.C. These two cities are about 150 miles apart and that took me about five hours to do. Get to the National Harbor on Friday night, like 7 pm, like an hour for the Expo closes. And grab my packet. I was at this huge convention center, National Harbor for about 15 minutes, no lie. Get my packet and I had to work in Fully the next morning.

So I get out of there, drive all the way back to Philly. Did not take me five hours, it took me about three and a half hours on the way back. Work in Philly the next day. And then I drive from from I don't finish wearing till like 7 p.m. on Saturday I have a marathon to run in literally 12 hours. I drive from Philly down to Baltimore where my apartment was and I drop off on my travel stuff because I had been gone for a week And I pick up my marathon stuff and I pick up my iPod

which I didn't know at the time but had only about a quarter of battery left which went and ended up dying very quickly in the race. Grab all that stuff. I have to drive the car down to Reagan to drop it off and if I was doing this now I would have just kept the rental car but I had been told by some unreliable sources in our office that I wasn't gonna be allowed to keep it for one personal day Because I had to be in West Virginia for three days after that Recruiting Monday Tuesday and Wednesday and I needed a car for that so after that, recruiting Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and I needed a car for that. So after my marathon, I had to make my way

to a rental car place in DC to pick up a rental car. I should have just kept the one I had. Anyways, so I drive to Reagan to return it. And then it's like 10 o'clock at night. So I take an Uber to my then co-workers apartment where she's not even there at the time. It's her boyfriend who's there. She's out on work travel. And so my boyfriend is gracious enough. He lets me spend the night. I'm only there from like midnight until about 5 a.m. I wake up, try to take an Uber to the place

where they tell you to take an Uber too for this marathon, of course, everything shut down. So he drops me off, I'm like, well, can you take me to a subway station, at least the metro station? It's like, I don't really know. And that was it. And of course, I don't know the subway system in DC very well. So he drops me off. I walk around DC for like, I don't know, half an hour trying to find a subway stop trying to find a metro stop. I guess my phone wasn't reliable at the time to try and remember why. But I finally get there. I get to the start line right as my waves leaving. So I did I stretched pretty well as well as anybody can stretch before marathon. but the whole thing was just, I don't wanna say it's doomed from the start

because if I had been in much better shape, then it would have been a much better outcome. But now you've heard in kind of non-linear fashion, you've heard the whole story of Quinn's 2017 Marine Corps Marathon, so I hope you're happy, hope you're satisfied with that, all the way from the days before to getting a rental car and driving to West Virginia after.

So no, I will not be running the Marine Corps Marathon again anytime soon. The Baltimore Marathon is in probably two or three weekends here. It is, it's an okay course. I actually last year, I wasn't here for it because the Marine Corps marathon was the exact same day. So I don't think I'll be here for it this year. I think I'll be in Nashville. So I won't get to experience it, but anyways.

Yeah, Chicago, much bigger fan of that course, gets her run through the neighborhoods a lot more. That's the thing with the main core marathon was there was some neighborhood action, but really for the most part it was kind of parks and then concrete jungle. Chicago is way nicer. One last thing. Everyone, not everyone, but I, here's the story. So I was at a conference in Salt Lake City.

So it was between the podcast from Rockford and the podcast from Sioux Falls. I was out in Utah for a little bit. And I'm having lunch one day with my boss, and then his boss, who is our dean, and then eventually her boss would come along, our vice provost. So a little totem pole action and I was on the very bottom. Anyways, my boss, his boss, our dean walks up and the first thing she asks is so quick. I hear you don't like Baltimore very much.

Boom. Talk about a Harry Hader. That's a left hook to the side of the head. So quit I hear you don't like both more very much Talk about a hearty hater that's a left hook to the side of the head and I didn't even know we were in the octagon yet so There's this clear perception that they don't love being town But here's what I tell people I'm not no one's going around bashing the city I don't sit here and think, oh my god, I can't wait to get out. If that was the case, I would have been out a long time ago. I don't hate the city. What I struggle with is the fact that I had lived in Chicago for so long before that. And so everything that I do in Beentown, to me, just feels like I could be doing twice as good in

Chicago. And then the other thing is that my perception is heavily skewed isn't the right word I want to use because it's severe negative connotations with words like skew, but molded by the fact that I don't own a car. And if you're in Chicago, if you don't own a car, that's fine, because almost no one owns a car, because people take the train, people take the buses, people take the subway, all that stuff, people walk, bike, any of that stuff.

In Baltimore, if you don't own a car, you are like severe, lower class, marginalized isn't a good word because it means something different. But you like automatically belong to the poor class of people if you don't own a car. It is a weird thing to not own a car in Baltimore. And I just didn't know that before moving here. And so then you say, well, Quinn just pull yourself up by the bootstraps by a car. Well, I want to get a car that's going to last, and those types of cars can be expensive. And also, car insurance in Maryland, especially being this young, only being 23,

pretty damn expensive apologies for my language. And so I just I've been constantly kind of mentally going back and forth. I want to do this, but it's being gone, you know, 10 or 11 weeks out of the year. It just really struggled to make it worth it for me. I'd be sinking a lot of money into something that I wouldn't always be using. So people say, well, you looked at the zip car thing. It's like, well, I'm not so much always like,

I need to run this air and I need a car for this. And it's more so just like, there are just random, you know, a lot of things with Baltimore from a social perspective happen out in the county or MoCo or Howard County or something. And it's just like, you want to have that option. You want to kind of expand your radius of options to be able to do that stuff anytime you want. And if you want to always use a card to do that great, but then you're going to end up paying an arm and a leg for that experience. So that's why I hadn't looked into the zip card thing. It's not like

once a week, I want to go to the grocery store to get groceries because I know people who do zip card for that. And that I could do, that would be nice. It's still kind of an expensive option though. And with the zip card fees, I wouldn't be saving any money even if it was you know shopping at a cheaper all the compared to where I shop now so and it would cost or it would take more time so the the bitching has reached level 11 here between talking about my marathon failure is talking about my struggles with the city of bean town one other thing here and then I saw a simple favorite yesterday with a friend. It wasn't my choice of movie, but I didn't know anything about it going in.

I used my movie pass, which I still have, still have movie pass. And we saw a simple fever together. It was solid. I had some major issues with it. It's, I didn't even know what genre it was going into. I literally knew nothing about this movie. It's a thriller starring

Anacendrick and Blake Lively to people who I know almost nothing about. I know Anacendrick because I think pitch-perfect is her thing, although I've never seen it. And I don't know anything about Blake Lively. I know her by name and I know what she looks like. I know nothing about Blake Lively. I'll have to read about her later. Is she just an actress? Is she a musician? I know I don't know I could tell you nothing about Blake Lively anyways That's my favorite word to use on the podcast anyways We see it. It's a thriller It's got a decent amount of

Light humor in it, but it's also extremely dark at some points. I believe it's rated R. It's definitely rated R. I don't even need to know the rating just by watching the movie. I know that the movie would be rated R. And it's, here was my overall summary. And I'm not gonna spoil it

because when you have a thriller, you can't spoil anything like that. It was like Gone Girl, but a little bit less overall, I'm gonna use some language here, a little bit less overall, fucked up, although there were some crazy moments in a simple favor. But Gone Girl throughout, you know, just has this overall tone of holy crap. Like, am I watching this? That movie gets extremely dark. Simple favorite didn't quite rise to those lofty aspirations that Gone Girl establishes. But the whole movie just felt like a B version of Gone Girl.

Gone Girl is a fantastic book, a fantastic movie. Ben Affleck and Rosemind Pike are brilliant in their roles. And Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively were pretty good. But there's also just some things that they establish in the story and some character development, some pacing issues, and way too many twists and turns in the third act that they just try to cram in that make the overall experience just kind of. So it's still a solid movie if I'm giving it a rating I'm saying it's two and a half stars out of four which is you know anyone knows me way better than just like your average go to the movie watch it. It was a fine movie like no if I give something two and a half

stars that means I actually put some thought into it actually appreciated it because I reserve three stars for like yes this was a very very well done movie and some people on the internet have given it you know three stars they do feel it's that strong strong I just struggle and maybe this is my own shortcomings as someone who always likes to compare things but I the whole time I just kept thinking of gone girl and thinking how I felt like that movie and that story and those characters were better developed, better told than a simple favor. So if you have the time to see it, if you like thrillers, or any sort of fans of anachondrick or Blake Live, you go check it out, they were both good in their respective roles.

A solid movie. You know, two hours didn't pay for it. Well, other than my 995 a month from movie past, so no regrets. Happy to have seen it. That was my one movie review. I've heard Venom has just looked absolute trash from the reviews I've been seeing. There's one other, I still haven't seen white boy Rick. That was one movie I almost saw, excuse me, when I was out on my first kind of leg of this fall 2018 tour. I didn't see white boy Rick though. I still want to see it. And a star is born, just came out. Something that I'm struggling with a little bit because everyone is, and I watched the

Lady Gaga interview in Colbert. and I really struggled to watch the interview because the first 10 minutes of it, we're just like, you just gotta believe in yourself, and all it takes is one person, and they were amazing, and then the crowds cheering like every five seconds, and it's just, believe in yourself, and that's all that takes in.

Honestly, that's kind of BS advice, because I don't think there are are people out there who I don't think there are as many people out there as you might think who don't believe in themselves I think people believe themselves. I think a lot of it is just luck You just got to be in the right place at the right time and meet the right person I think I truly believe that that is what so much of it is. It's just having a lucky moment. So maybe I'm way too cynical. I don't know, but I struggled with that interview. Now, the movie itself getting great reviews. And I love movies that incorporate a lot of music,

whether it's inside Louis and Davis, or Crazy Heart was really good. So I'm sure I like it. I don't love Bradley Cooper, but not because like there's something wrong with him. I just kind of neutral on him. And I feel the same about Lady Gaga. I don't love Lady Gaga. I'm pretty neutral on her.

I'm not dissing either of their talents. They're both great at what they do. Fine. I'll see if Star Wars born at some point. It's not number one on my list. So, there's my, again, this has been a little bit of a downer podcast, a lot of negative energy happening, but that's okay, because sometimes a man just got a, you know, bitch out his feelings. So, this has been the Bean Time podcast coming to you live from Baltimore, Maryland,

although we spent most of the time talking about Chicago, Illinois, which is where we're going to be going. Next week, I tell you what, I'm going to sign off. Why don't we finish off with a song verse two of the song. We'll go out with a big bang. Feel a little nasally here, but I think I can pull something out of my hat. So thank you for listening. with a big bang. Feel a little nasally here, but I think I can pull something out of my hat. So thank you for listening. Everything from here and out is going to be me doing Sinatra. YouTube

please don't take it down. Clearly I don't own these songs. These are Frank Sinatra's babies. May he rest in peace. We'll come to you live from Chicago, Illinois next weekend. It'll be fun. Maybe getting an interview with Lovey Smith or something. I don't know. I you didn't hear that here I'm just saying maybe so thank you for checking in on this Sunday morning and Get do your best to escape the humidity who would have thought it come back to my apartment in October and I'd have to have the air conditioning on because I was just sweating like a pig without it last night. So and I'd have to have the air conditioning on because I was just sweating like a pig without it last night. So, this is going to be me signing off. Thank you for checking us out.

And we'll check in on you from Chicago next week, which happens to be... My kind of town, Chicago is my kind of respitell, and it has all the jazz and each time I leave Chicago is Togging my sleeve Chicago is The wriggling building Chicago is The Union stuck your Chicago is One town that won't let you down It's my kind of town It's a cough job It's a tough job.