Beantown Podcast - 11 New Star Wars Shows (05242025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: May 24, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE with ideas for some brand new Star Wars shows, directly from the mind of Quinn David Furness and inspired by characters created by George Lucas

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Saturday, May 24th, 2025 Memorial Day weekend. MDW. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn and this is my show, Quinn David Furness Presents the Bean Town Podcast. I am the creator, the host, and the show is from the mind of Quinn David Furness. Sometimes you see that on TV shows when it's like, you know, based on the novel by or from the mind of, or, you know, that's if you're really pretentious, you know, if it's just regular it's like based on concepts by but if you're really full of yourself like george lucas or quinn furnace it's from the mind of quinn furnace

or what is it a spikely joint that was a jeopardy question the other day that someone messed up messed up messed up i just messed up saying that phrase. Yeah, they said a Spike Lee program, I think it was. I don't remember. In other big streak busting game show news, there's a Wheel of Fortune ever so quickly, because I watch Wheel of Fortune every day, have been doing so for number of years when it's in season, which is like, you know, August through I think next, you know, like two or three weeks, it'll be done. So early June. And for a little while, there's been a theory spanning across the years of the bonus round puzzles at the end of the show. So no more spinning. It's just one contestant. They got one puzzle. You know, the wheel is filled with amazing prizes. All but three of them are $40,000 and then there's a 50, a 75 and 100. Which side tangent, but the Wheel of

Fortune bonus wheel, prize wheel, whatever you call it, has gotten so stale. It's the minimum 40,000 99% of the time. It's so boring. They're doing like a special this week for Margaritaville, the Jimmy Buffett chain of restaurants where they could potentially give away a house. And I am yet, I guess it's already over the week's over it's Saturday I'm yet to I guess I never made the connection between Margaritaville and giving away the house I never really

figured out what the deal was there but yeah they need to add I mean we could do a whole show on this but they need to add you know fun prizes or something maybe like a litter of puppies or borrowing co-host of the show Maple for a week. Maple, you want to be a prize puzzle buddy? She's in a mood today, very whiny. Why are you so whiny, buddy? I don't know.

Another memorial day passes and she doesn't have a boyfriend, something like that. But here's the theory to cap the thought and wheel of fortune. The puzzles themselves have varying levels of difficulty, and the earlier you are in the season, it's pretty blatantly apparent, in my mind mind at least that the puzzles are easier Case in point last night on Friday's show was the first time someone had won Had solved the bonus round puzzle in I think four weeks. It was a it was about 20 shows or so and the reason at least the theory that I hold dear and is shared by many of my compatriots on Reddit or the Wheel of Fortune subreddit is that Sony or whomever owns Wheel of Fortune, whatever,

or their insurance company, whatever, they give the producers a little hip check when it gets to be this time of year and they are scraping the bottom of the barrel for their funds and instead of giving out, 50 to 75% of the time, people are solving puzzles, now we're at like 5% of the time as we get to the end of the season here.

So they need to get to the summer giving away as few prizes as possible so they have time to recharge and recoup their losses. So, if you think I'm crazy, I'm not lying. Last night was the first successful solve in about four weeks of watching. It was absolutely crazy. And, boy, sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes you see these prizes in the prize puzzle just absolutely suck as well. I was about to say, about to use a phrase, which is not completely NSFW, but it does remind me that listener discretion is advised when you're listening to this program. Number one, occasionally some language.

Number two, the podcast is objectively terrible. I was going to say it sucked. Some of these prizes suck balls. I'm reminded of one time, maybe three years ago or so, the prize puzzle was a trip to Chicago. And look, I love my city, it's great, but Chicago, wherever you are in the United States, playing as a Wheel of Fortune contestant,

I have to imagine it's one of the more affordable places just across the board to fly to in the most general sense. And then when you get here, I mean Chicago's not a cheap city, but we're not talking Manhattan or Malibu or something. It's just fair, pretty average prices unless you're doing stupid stuff and just staying in River North for 10 days. And yeah, I don't remember everything that this prize puzzle included, but it was just the most blatantly touristy shit you could imagine. It was, you know, have a slice of deep dish pizza, Lou Mellotti's go tour, the historic bean.

Take an architectural riverboat cruise. Stay at Stay Pineapple, River North. Enjoy your trip to Chicago. $4,200. And I'm sitting there thinking, how do they scrounge up enough activities to get this to cost $4,200 for five days for two people?

Shake my head. Yeah, someone a couple years ago won a trip to Chicago. I mean, obviously I live here, but I'm just sitting there looking at my TV screen being like, you know, let's say you were from, you know, Southern California, you want a trip to Chicago. That's the equivalent of me going on Wheel of Fortune and winning a trip to Miami or something. It's kind of just like, man, I won the prize puzzle.

There's still the cash value, which goes a long way in terms of trying to win the game and get to the prize puzzle. But yeah, man, if I get to Wheel of Fortune and I win the prize puzzle, I really want a, you know, occasionally you see a really good one, like a Portugal or something. You get a lot of Caribbean islands and I'd be okay with that. That's pretty traditional.

There's this one I think is a Disney resort. Or maybe it isn't, I can't recall. But it's kind of over by like the west end of Pearl Harbor, I think it is, on Oahu. And they had a full week where they were giving that one away. And I would take that one. Or they do Maui here and there. I would take Maui. Never been to Maui.

So just putting it out there into the atmosphere. Really want to get on Wheel of Fortune someday. And really do not want to win a trip to historic Boston. You see Boston as a trip sometimes. You're like Boston and New York, and you're just kind of like, brats. Let's get into the show here. Our hot tape of the week.

Oh, I should also mention, it's not a hot take that Pakistan is our 100 or I am the 112 ranked comedy podcast in the Great Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Thank you Lahore. Thank you Karachi. Thank you Hyderabad for supporting this program our hot take of the week is Not a super hot take it's more worn out of a question This pillow we have a stained here. I must have got chili on it. Rats. Woke up this morning, this is not the hot take. Woke up this morning, got yourself a gun. To put ink stain on our countertop from a tortilla package, who would have thought? That's like a some it's like one of those sentences that you never think you're

going to hear all those words in one order in the English language at any point in the universe but it did happen. Gave it a once over scrub, some cleaning surprise supplies, gave it a twice over with Dawn dish soap and we're just going to try another round of that. We're seeing minor improvements. And I said woke up by this, but it's 9.05 Saturday morning, another early morning here with Beantown. Grind your beans with Beantown. What is that Willem Dafoe line from the lighthouse? Why'd you spill your beans? Saw that one in theaters. I read online you could try hairspray. I'm kind of hesitant to try that. I've never tried hairspray on anything other than hair in my life.

You can't stop the beat. So we're gonna do another pass with the just regular old dish soap and see if we continue to see market improvement or even minor improvement. We'll avoid the hairspray for now. I've read bleach could be good or rubbing alcohol, which I don't know if that's the same thing as vodka or if it's different, but we'll look into that. Our hot take of the week is that actually goes back to some of the... I was trying to remember where this was inspired by. These Wheel of Fortune prize puzzles, they have the 30 second reel

and they're showing you clips of people snorkeling and aerial shot of the hotel. Anyways, sometimes these hotels, or these Jim Thornton's doing the reading, he's like, enjoy your rooftop pool. And this is more of a general thing, this is getting away from Wheel of Fortune now, but the concept of the rooftop pool,

when does it become a, is it a rooftop pool if it's a pool on top of like the first floor and then there's a big, you know, the rest of the hotel is next to it and goes up 30 more stories? Because that's what I'm seeing on these camera reels, these drone shots, it'll show the quote rooftop pool, but it'll be like a fourth floor little,

you know, kind of off to the side little hamlet there. And then the rest of the hotel continues to go up. So you got this rooftop pool, but two sides of it are just wall and you know, bedroom windows. And then you get you know two open two walls that are open if you will to the to the street or whatever. So can you call anything a rooftop pool so long as it is not on the street level?

Or do we have to get up to the sixth floor or should we get up to you know at least like the eighth floor before we call something a rooftop pool? Look, a pool's a pool, but like, my sister-in-law lives in a building where the pool is on the roof. There's not the roof and then a side roof and a, you know, a roof that's not quite as roofable. There's just the roof, that's the top. It's like Daniel Stern in Home Alone.

Harry, I've reached the top. So I think we got a stop thrown around the term. This is my hot take. We got a stop thrown around the term rooftop pool so loosely. I guess if I had to really package it together, that would be my hot take of the week. Sponsored by our good friends at Home Pride Oregon, guys. When you need your home inspected in Central Oregon, you're going to want to go with the expert, someone who's safe, certified, double insured, someone that you can trust. That's where Home Pride Oregon comes into play.

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Oh, and you need a fresh do, something snappy or new. Just call the experts at Cuts by Q. Right, Maple? You did a bath by Q last week. That was pretty fun, right? No cuts. How are these nails looking? Good for another couple weeks. You're lucky. She's on her back. She's

getting a belly rub. Live belly rub while podcasting. How's that for multitasking? Maybe this will help you be less whiny today. Had some training setbacks this week so we're taking some days off. That's right. She looked at me like she knew exactly what I was talking about. Yeah, big setbacks. That was fun, huh? We might try a new vet. You want to try Prozac? Do you want to do Prozac? Could be fun. If anyone out there has any separation anxiety, not necessarily, well, yes, success stories,

but more importantly, trying certain drugs first, short acting drugs, and then transitioning to long acting such as Trazodone to Prozac and success out of that. Feel free to give us an email. You don't really say give us an email. You say give us a ring, but it's send us an email. May di hey un correo electronico. Something like that. Bean Town podcast at yahoo.com. I will say for all the laughs out there, I did, I am getting peppered, and by peppered

I mean twice now, with emails from this podcast. I don't even remember what it's called and I don't want to give it free advertising because you know, competitor over here. But it's the type of thing I would do where the email comes from like the podcast itself but it's really trying to play up like, oh, this host is amazing. And then you look at the podcast numbers and you're like, okay, clearly you're the host

who's writing about yourself and the third person who's emailing me. But they're basically battering me incessantly. That's right, they're battering and peppering. Two emails now saying, oh, this host is so funny. They're raw, they're edgy. They host their own podcast. I think it's through some third party service or something that's using AI to write these messages. But this podcast, whatever it's's called Giggly Squad or whatever they really want me to collaborate with them and like have this host on my show to promote each other's stuff and I'm just like sounds like a lot of work I got

only one microphone going here I can't pause or else the file corrupts or not corrupts but ends I got a dog that needs belly rubs I'm trying to drink my coffee too so we'll see if she if she peppers me with a third one I'll keep you posted but it's probably the most action or email has got since the rock Chris incident back in season one or two or whenever that was. I also wanted to ever so briefly apologize and then we get to Maples Minute just for last week's coughing fit. That's right. It was a fit. It was a spell and a fit rolled into one. And you'll be happy to announce that I've instituted a brand new no coughing policy on the Being Town podcast. So if you

cough, you're off. Okay? That could have been a good COVID slogan or something. Like from the airplanes, Delta, if you cough, you're off. It could have given it to like Spirit or Frontier, some airline whose PR is already in the tubes. Although, hey, shout out to Frontier, friend of the show, I think she's been on, I can't remember, my friend Haley Benson's getting married in Las Vegas this fall.

And had been casually perusing flights to go out there for that. Haven't been to Vegas in six plus years at this point. And was getting a little, as the Gen Zers would say, is getting a little nervy. That means nervous about just the actual commitment and cost of this flight. But shout out to Frontier for finding us

a fairly affordable flight for our two round trip tickets. Now I'm reading like a real Wheel of Fortune prize puzzle again, two round trip tickets, each get a personal bag, AKA backpack, and then one checked bag for both of us, both ways, not for each of us, but one bag total that we're splitting, is 2.12 a person, okay, for a weekend in Las Vegas from Chicago. So really not too bad, okay. I also, I don't know why I thought of this, but shout out to Rachel and I. This is the one year anniversary, excuse me, one year anniversary to the day of moving into our

current apartment here on the north side of Chicago. So congratulations to us, a much smoother move than many prior experiences, which have been well documented here on the Bean Tom podcast and tomorrow is the two-year anniversary of our engagement It's Yeah, you know as a couple you have these milestones and and I try to keep track of them in my calendar as much as possible But you know you got your like your first date anniversary, which had been our relationship anniversary we had used back in February until we got married. But then you got your engagement anniversary.

The only other couple in the world whose engagement anniversary I think I know is my parents because they got engaged on Valentine's Day, like 1987 1987 something like that. What was that like 72 years ago? And then our engagement anniversary is May 25th so two years tomorrow but then it's all kind of wiped out. It sounds negative but you know you got your wedding anniversary so April 26th guys mark it in your calendars whether you were at the nuptials or proceedings or not, it would be great to get gifts next year and in future years. So mark your calendar, please.

Please, I'm begging you. All right, here is Maples Minute. What do we have? Oh, those are the Beantone ads. Maples Minute says, oh, we had a lot of rain here in Chicago. And Maples wants us to know that dad should be, speaking of banning coughing, Maples wants to ban impromptu, unplanned trips out,

potty trips outside when it's raining. So her official decree, D-E-C-R-E-E, is that dad needs to be required to provide 24-hour written notice, can't even read, dude, if he's going to take you outside to potty while it's raining. Well, Maple, it's hard to predict what the forecast is going to be in 24 hours. These meteorologists, they don't need

any training, formal education. We talked about that a couple of weeks ago on the program. So I don't know what to tell you, buddy. 24-hour written notice seems aggressive. I think what is it? The landlords in Chicago have to give you 48 hour written notice. Did not stop my 85 year old Greek lady landlord back when I lived on diversity parkway in Lincoln park three, four years ago, whatever that was, from just coming in unannounced, her and her maintenance man.

My apartment was like their own private cabana, if you will. They just came in and hung out and never really dealt with the ants behind the mirror. There's an ant colony behind my bathroom mirror. How cool was that? Cool in the sense of like, if I was watching like, you know, what's his, is it Richard or David Attenborough? One of them is the narrator and one of them is Jurassic Park. I don't know which one is which. You know, doing a documentary and they were, if they were, I was watching a documentary on a flat screen TV, you know TV in my man cave and they're talking about, oh, this ant colony lives

behind this 26-year-old man's bathroom mirror. Look at how outstanding it is. And then it's really cool, but when you're living in it, it's not as cool. So that was my experience. That's Maples Minute. One quick note, and then we got to get to our topic of the day here.

One quick note and then we got to get to our topic of the day here. Did you guys know that Addison Rae is doing music now? That's right, Addison Rae, last name R-A-E. One of those pop girlies who couldn't use her real last name because it was probably like Hungarian or something and not as, I mean she's American but you know, some sort of Eastern European name with a lot of consonants. She's like, it's got no pop, it's got no zing, so I gotta be my middle name, Addison Rae, that'll be my name. But let's zoom out for a second and you might be asking the same question that I'm more

or less asking of myself. Why is Addison Rae even famous in the first place? She's one of these young girly pops, but without really discernible talent. At least like Sabrina Carpenter, I know she's like a musician, that's her thing. And also like this week, this is a whole separate topic. I creeped out by Sabrina Carpenter. She looks like a porcelain doll. Hate it Or there's a Tate Tate McRae another ray

I don't know if they're sisters or what but this is mick ray and She as at least you know, although her music sucks. She's like Came to light because she was on I think Canada's Got Dance or something like that But why is Addison Rae famous? I think she's one of those like pure TikTok blow up kind of situations. Kind of like the the D'Amelio twins I think they're called or David Dobrik I think was a YouTuber. I don't know if Addison Rae or the the D'Amelio twins were YouTubers but no discernible talent but I saw this come up on my Instagram the other day now she's making music I saw

you know you go to like your Instagram explore page and for me it's mostly pasta recipes and dog videos but one of them I had to click on because I assumed it was a band that I followed but it's not it was a set list from Addison Ray and there were like nine songs in there it's like how, how does Addison Rae even have nine songs? It's got to be covers of probably Tate McRae and David Dobrik or something. But part of me is tempted to go listen to Addison Rae just out of morbid curiosity.

Here's a fun game. If we had better technology in the show, we would do this and no one would really be entertained by it, but it might be a curious social experiment. What if we played a Tate McCray song and then a D'Amelio Ray song and then who are we talking about? An Addison Rae song. And then you had to try to determine who sang what. That would be a real mind bender, as they say. Because without having listened to any of these people's music,

I mean, I heard Tate McCray. I listened to two songs because she was going to be on SNL. And then I realized she'd already been on SNL. She'd been on SNL multiple times. And I was like, oh my god. But they all kind of sound the same. It harkens back to the Rebecca Black Friday, where it's like, you kind of question, you think to yourself,

like how did this come to be? Who thought this was a good idea? But then what you realize is it's all the rich parents because we were watching you know years ago at this point but older seasons of the real house was a potomac and i think it's karen huger who's in jail now but she had a daughter who was like you know 16 and wasn't a good singer at all, but Karen's rich. And so she brought her daughter, paid for studio recording time and through the grapevine, this housewife Karen knew, Macy Gray, who was a big deal like 20 years ago.

She had one really big song, I don't remember what it was, but then she shows up in Sam Remy's Spider-Man at the, what's the name, the World Unity Parade don't remember what it was, but then she shows up in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man at the what's the name, the World Unity Parade, is that what it was called, with all those balloons? Great set piece, but Macy Gray performs at the Unity Day Parade. But Macy Gray is like, in this episode of Housewives, she's like at the studio watching this housewife junior sing in her recording time and like giving her feedback and stuff. And that's, we've all, we've come full circle. We've answered her own question. That's how a Tate McRae or an Addison McRae or a Demiulio Dixie gets famous. Because they don't have talent talent but they're conventionally attractive and

probably have rich parents and just have a connection somewhere. That's what life's all about. Maple don't whine buddy. You can't whine. This is live air. You already had Maples minute. Why are you whining dude? A very whiny Saturday morning. Why don't you just try to lie down? You mad because I besmirched Tate McRae? Sorry buddy, I didn't know you were such a fan. She's Canadian. She just wants belly rubs.

Alright, so I recently finished, whoa bless you, Andor season two. So super quick backstory and then we'll get into the jokes but not that a ton of preamble is necessitated here but Andor not, I know you're gonna be confused, fans of Return of the Jedi are saying oh yeah Andor that's a great planet with the Ewoks and stuff. No that's actually, that's the forest moon of Endor it's like Yavin 4 it's not even Yavin it's just a moon of Yavin but that's Endor E-N-D-O-R this is Andor A-N-D-O-R so to know who that is we have to go back to Rogue One which was like the original Star Wars prequel not not the original prequel but the

prequel to the original Star Wars that showed how Not the original prequel, but the prequel to the original Star Wars that showed how the rebels got their hands on the Death Star plans and eventually Luke Skywalker does his trench run and blasts those womp rats, etc. So Andor is a prequel to the prequel. There's a character in Rogue One, he's not the main character, he's the second main character, but his name is Andor, A-N-D-O-R, it's his last name. Now I don't know why Star Wars chose to give a big character in this new TV show and film a name that is nearly identical in both spelling and sound to a well established character slash planet they already have.

It would be like if they called someone Lake Skywalker and it's like, wait, were we talking about Luke Skywalker? Is this Lake Skywalker? Is that the Australian version of Lake? I don't know what accent I went into there. Australian version of Lake Skywalker. No, that's, see, we don't do accents typically on the show, which is why we're not going to get into the whole Newt Gunray

Far East Asian accent kind of thing when we talk shows here. I almost did, and then I thought, well, then I'm going to want to do the accent. Prequel fans here are just eating this up. They're lapping it up. If you don't know, Newt Gunray is like this weird alien politician from the Star Wars prequels and he's, you know, has a very stereotypical like Chinese voice and it's pretty racist. So although it's interesting like who decides? I'm not

taking a stand one way or another. I do think it is pretty racist, but like as a society, we have to decide what is a caricature of a race or an ethnicity or a language or an accent versus what is more authentic. But like there isn't one person out there who gets to decide that, unless you're George Lucas. We have, we as a society have to decide, oh yeah, Newt Gunray, pretty racist. Wado, you know, Anakin's owner in episode one, a lot of like Jewish stereotypes, right? Like not good, crosses the line too much. I think a lot of it comes down to like who's been marginalized in our American society versus who hasn't. Like you can make the evil empire British because they largely haven't been marginalized.

But if you made them like with German accents, are we are we crossing the line there because of the Nazis? You get into Force Awakens and a lot of that stuff is super Nazi ish in terms of like their big Formations and they even do like a heil Hitler kind of thing But that's probably not crossing the line because you know Nazis bad Versus like new gun rays Chinese and Chinese not inherently bad. Although they're commies. So I Don't know man. This is a very interesting socio-political discussion we've we've stumbled our way into like like falling into the sarlacc pet or

What is at the start of attack of the clones when? Obi-Wan and Anakin are riding the elevator up to see Padme and talked about falling into that nest of gun docks Whatever it is. We basically stumbled stumbled our way into a nest of Gundocks, or whatever it is. We basically stumbled our way into a nest of Gundocks, whatever a Gundock is. I love it. There's a, you know, you're probably familiar with the CinemaSins YouTube channel. They're a popular series. Everything wrong with XYZ movie in 14 minutes, 16 minutes, whatever it is. And they just go through the entire movie and sin various aspects, whether it's the

dialogue, the acting, a plot hole, whatever it is, and there's a sin counter. But I've been, because I've been watching so much Star Wars lately with Andor, and we got to cap that thought before we get into our new thought, but our other new thought, this new thought. I was watching the Everything Wrong with Attack of the Clones, actually the entire prequel trilogy, but specifically Attack of the Clones. And I think they did this in Revenge of the Sith too, but the Sin guy on YouTube, CinemaSins, is like every time they reference, because there's so much like world building and lore referencing in Star Wars. I got a cough coming on even though we banned it, which is terrible.

I don't want to off myself with this cough. I am going to cough though. It's a temporary, like Trump with the Terraces, a temporary halt. We made it 33 minutes for coughing, not bad. That's progress. We made it 33 minutes for coughing, not bad. That's progress. Basically what I'm getting at with the CinemaSins thing is like they give a sin every time, you know, Obi-Wan or Anakin or whomever it is. Yoda references like a, excuse me, like plot point or story that happens off screen is like movie references. A story that is, that would be five times more exciting to watch than this current one, which is so true because half of the prequels are just politics and senatorial hearings and new gunray accents.

And I was about to do a new gunray accent and I paused myself. Really don't want to get canceled. I would be interested in hearing how Pakistan falls in these things because communities and People groups that have been marginalized in Western culture and not necessarily the same groups that have been marginalized in Pakistani culture so if I did my new gun ray impression over in Lahore, maybe they would lap it up

Versus if I did my British one, they'd be like, boo, oppressed culture. Although I feel like the British are probably not very oppressed in Pakistan. Probably the other way around. Although maybe the tide's turning. To cap this thought, I finished, so Andor season two. They did two seasons of it. It leads up directly to the start of Rogue One. First season came out, what, two years ago? And then the second season came out in the last month here.

Twelve episodes. Pretty long. They're, you know, somewhere between like forty minutes and an hour each one. So there's a lot of meat on that bone. I have a lot of, uh... I really enjoyed Season 1. Did not enjoy Season 2 as much of a lot of concerns issues with it this is not the and or recap show, but I was thinking you know if the secondary character from Rogue one already kind of a spin-off movie Can get 24 episodes about himself and his friends You know a lot of a lot of hours dedicated to that.

What other Star Wars shows or characters are out there that need tapping? So I wrote down 11 here, just kind of off the top of my head. These are not power ranked or anything. These are, we're just going to go one by one. These are just, you know, Bob Iger or Kathleen Kennedy or George Lucas. If you're out there listening, here's some ideas for your next Star Wars show. Number one, unexplored character Shmi.

Shmi Skywalker, Anakin's mom. I'm thinking we definitely go prequel here because she dies midway through episode two. So unless you want to do like a force ghost thing. But let's go back to the early days of Shmee. You know maybe she's like a beautiful dancer. You know in most S.P.A. and all the clubs and then one day a striking young junior senator from Naboo. Sheave.

That's right. Sheave. S.H.E.E.V. Sheave Palpatine comes in and you know he's kind of dark and brooding but tall, dark and handsome, mysterious and they bang and then he takes off and then Shmi gets fired from her job and gets enslaved and gives birth to Anakin and the rest is history. It's not fully fleshed out but I guarantee you we don't need two 12 season episodes. This could totally be a mini-series like they did with Obi-Wan.

Which was simultaneously way better than Andorra Season 2 and also way worse. Some of the special effects in Obi-Wan were pretty trash, but overall it's still a fun show. So that's the Shmiso show, Shmishow. That's what you have to call it, Shmeeshow. Staying on tattooing, it's a very tattooing centric group of ideas here, but this is not new, this has been suggested for real many times, but pod racing, we got to do something with pod racing.

I'm thinking turn it into like a, let's model it around NASCAR. Okay. So every Sunday or Saturday night under the lights, we got the big race. Obviously your Boon to Eve classic is your, your, you know, Daytona 500. We got the Coke 600 tomorrow. That could be like the Malastare regatta or something. I think they referenced pod racing on Malastare in one of the prequel movies. So that's Canon. Cash that in. But you know you

got your racers that you follow and you got your dud bolts, your tito perilis, that one guy who's like a spider with the eight arms. I don't remember what his name is. We don't talk enough about how you know Phantom Menace pod racing Booty Eve classic I don't know if it's canon that a bunch of those guys die but there's only three there's only three pod races that finish and there's like 20 of those that start it's Anakin well Subobo doesn't even finish there might even be only two Anakin wins obviously spoilers and then Subobo and And then I think the like spider guy with eight legs actually comes in third place. That might not be featured in the movie,

I don't recall, but you know you got your Ben Quadro and Eros and everyone makes it off the start line. There's you know a whole other cast and crew of characters. There's the guy from Malastare, he's kind of like a like a bull or something. I don't know what the name of that species is. Yeah, I mean, we could do a whole pod racing circuit, make it super red neck. They're bringing their cans of blue milk. They're chucking them on the infield.

It's a thing. Boon to Eve, you got the course in Tatooine, and it's littered with Tuscan raiders and beggars canyon and all that stuff. I wonder if the other pod racing courses are that complex or do you get any more traditional tri-ovals? I think that could be fun. Next thing you know, they're going to be introducing a pod racing street racing chorus on like

they did with NASCAR in Chicago, which will be in its third year this summer. That would be a lot of fun, street racing Coruscant. So there's your ideas for the pod racing show. Since we just did Andor, which is largely a spy thriller, we got to give a spy thriller to the Bothans, OK? Is it Return of the Jedi when Mon Moth was like, mini Bothans died obtaining this information? Now it turns out they kind of sucked

at being spies because Palpatine leaked. That's right, Sheev, the guy from the Shmee show, he leaked the info allegedly to the Bothan spies to feed it to the rebels. So he was kind of, you know, Sheev was kind of having his cake and eating it too. He was leaking info and he was taking out Bothans. But I think a Bothan spy show is long overdue. I don't know much about Bothans. I don't think you actually see a Bothan B-O-T-H-N. If you don't know anything about Star Wars, you might want to turn off the program at this point because we got like 10 minutes left and it's by my call sheet, it's all Star Wars. But Bothans, I don't think you see them in the show at all, but you can play as them in Star Wars Battlefront 2,

which we had growing up on PC. There were some levels, I don't remember which one this was, there were some, there were different kind of like game gameplay or game modes, if you will, in Star Wars Battlefront 2. You know your most traditional is just you know like assault like playing like Call of Duty or Halo or something but but then you got you know capture the flag there's more of like the story you know missions and stuff but then there'd

be some of these episodes or episodes game modes and it's only on a handful select number of maps or planets as they would be called called hunt. So one of them was like Europe, you know, there's always two sides you can play as either side and it's like humans verse wampas on Hoth or like humans verse Gungans. I think that was in the original Star Wars Battlefront. Humans verse Ewoks is a classic one. One of them involved Bothans, although I don't think that was part of original Star Wars Battlefront. Humans vs. Ewoks is a classic one. One of them involved Bothans, although I don't think that was part of the hunt at all. I think a Bothan was just like a specialty character you could unlock. And of course they're a spy, so they can like make themselves invisible.

But it never really seemed to work. It's like the stormtroopers could still blast your head off when you were invisible. So I don't know, more of a novelty thing. But it won't be a novelty show, it's gonna be a smash hit bothan spy show It's a working title like blue harvest Next up shifting gears here. Let's get a little bit more light. We already talked about real houseways of Potomac What about real houseways of Coruscant? Okay, high society. Oh man, you got your your your flying ships and You know that you probably the the season finale would be out like the Senators ball

Which is presumably held at the Jedi temple because they got a shit ton of space. I don't know the amount of taxes they had to levy To build that Jedi temple because you don't see you know, they're like monks basically so they're not bringing in money They got to be government funded in some way here's a question and we're getting away from the real housewives thing for a second but so these Jedi seem to be publicly funded or I don't know if it's donor gifts or what but if assuming that some level or some amount of their whole operation was funded by taxpayer dollars were Were we just taxing Coruscant? Was it a galaxy-wide tax?

Was it just outer rim? A lot of episode one talks about the trade separatists and unfair taxation and stuff. But it's never really explained how the Jedi are funded. That could be a good story. Maybe in real house it's a Coruscant One of the housewives is married to a Jedi and of course, it's a scandal because Jedi aren't supposed to be married And it's just like the real housewives of Salt Lake City where like some of them are Mormon, but they kind of bend the rules

So they're like neo-mormon. It's like oh, yeah, I'm Mormon because in this way, but not in this way You know, I don't soak but I do send my kids to BYU, whatever it is. That could be a good plot line for real housewives of Coruscant. So stick that lightsaber in your hilt. Is that a hilt or a kilt? I think it's a hilt, right? Kilt is the Scottish thing.

Hilt is like a belt kind of deal. Fairly certain. I learned belt in Spanish the other day El Cinturón Right, buddy. Can you say El Cinturón? Every time I sit down with my apple for lunch. I tell me po la manzana So now she knows the word for apple in Spanish my bilingual puppy. Good job, buddy next up We're also we're gonna switch gears on the

Kind of vibe and format again. This is actually just gonna be a radio show, but I'm thinking like, you know, we broadcast it live It's not so much like a streaming thing that you tune tune into it's more just like an everyday experience And now we're blending Star Wars in real world stuff because this guys this one's gonna have it all it's gonna have government It's gonna have you know special special insights it's gonna have sports of course that's because this is Tarkin and Larkin in the mornings it's from 5 to 9 hosted by Grand Moff Tarkin played by Peter Cushing and Hall of Famer infielder for the Cincinnati Reds Barry L Larkin. That's right. And we got white, we got black, we're

bringing the races together, pretty much all the races there are. And we're talking government, we're talking planet destroying weapons, that's sort of Tarkin's lane. And then you bring in Larkin, and he's talking, oh, the Reds can't pitch this year, and just got nailed by the Cubs last night

and all this young Paul Skeens for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Is he the next, you know, Steven Strasburg and all that stuff. And it's just, you know, they're just chatting for four hours, just Tarkin and Larkin in the morning. So it's a radio program. Let's, oh, I'll throw this in here because it's kind of similar,

but this is getting really meta. We're zooming out here, but this is this is getting really meta We're zooming out here but this is just a George Lucas podcast if there's one person out there who could actually just like Start a podcast and start talking about Star Wars. This isn't even so much like a joke thing this is like George Lucas can actually just start his own Star Wars podcast because he can just talk and talk and talk about Star Wars and can actually just start his own Star Wars podcast because he can just talk and talk and talk about Star Wars and just all this stuff that he's been dreaming of for 70 years across his lifetime.

You could just turn on a podcast mic and he could do like a 40 hour episode or something. So I wanted to throw that in here as well. It's just called Working Titles, just George Lucas podcast, okay. Next up, oh, this is a really fun one. This is, you know, a little bit lighter, kind of impractical, Jokers Esk. This is called Jabba Pranks with your host, Salacious B. Crumb.

What I just said was a sentence, yes. So Jabba the Hutt, you know, he lives in his palace there and tattooing, and he's got all a whole cavalcade of fun creatures and opportunities for pranks. Whether you're falling into the rancor pit or you're bumping your head against those wind chimes like Leia does or all of a sudden next thing you know you're in a jail cell with a Wookie and he's ripping your arms off. There's opportunities. Sarlacc pit, whole other untapped market.

There's a lot of opportunities for pranks at Jabba's Palace. And of course it's hosted by the incomparable Salacious B. Crumb. That's right. Salacious, S-A-L-A-C-I-O-U-S, middle initial B, last name Crumb, C-R-U-M-B. And fans of Return of the Jedi already know this, but he's that little creature who just kind of hangs out from the mind of Jim from CRUMB and fans of Return of the Jedi already know this, but he's that little creature who just kind of hangs out from the mind of Jim Henson. He like hangs out by Jabba's tail,

but he can also like jump to the ceiling really quick and he's got a really irritating voice. It's basically from something right out of, you know, like original OG Muppets when they were kind of, before the Muppets became like endearing and funny and before that they were just kind of creepy and very like adult oriented. That's Salacious B. Crumb. So he's the host. We got three more here. This is a quick little nod to just, you know how in your life there are just like stupid little references or moments and they're

really only funny to you and one other person if you're lucky and that's what this is. This goes all the way back to my sophomore year in college. My dear friend Sam Anderson and I had the idea. I don't know where it spawned from. It just it is what it is. You're just going to have to bear with me as we present this. Imagine a Seinfeld, you know, the Seinfeld show or if you want to do a Seinfeld reboot, whatever it is, but Seinfeld is played by Darth Maul. And you got to have, you know, you got the regular Darth Maul looking guy played by Ray Park, but he's got Jerry Seinfeld's 90s haircut. You know, think Tim Allen, Home Improvement kind of esk. And this was all just a giant ruse to say one line in a terrible Jerry Seinfeld impression. And the line doesn't even make that much sense. But the line we would always say,

we would say this all the time. And it's just one of those things that just kind of became lore, as stupid as it was. But this is Darth Maul with the Jerry Seinfeld haircut, you know, and he's standing there in his apartment on Coruscant or Mustafar, wherever Darth Maul with the Jerry Seinfeld haircut, you know, and he's standing there in his apartment on Coruscant or Mustafar wherever Darth Maul lives and he's like what's with all these lightsabers? Which doesn't even make sense because why would Darth Maul even care if there were a lot of lightsabers? It's nonsensical, but it's funny. So this fall on the CW Darth Maul is Seinfeld Two more here This is kind of a, you know, PBS style. This

old droid. So instead of this old house, and that's totally played out, you know, Casa Vieja. Am I right, guys? But this old droid, kind of, there's a lot of droids in Star Wars, whether you're an R2 unit or an r4 unit or your c3po or These this new popular one from Rogue one and and or is k2so or of course bb8 from the sequel trilogy There's all sorts of cute cuddly droids from all different nooks and crannies of the galaxy There's that one refrigerator kind of looked like a mini fridge looking droid There's that one refrigerator kind of look like a mini fridge looking droid who I think in Jabba's Palace is getting his feet like steamed or burned or something he's yelping in pain. Is that Jabba's Palace or is that that might be on the the sand crawler we didn't even come up with a show for the Jawas that would have been good. Maybe a documentary where the Jawas go to Java, like an Indonesian kind of, you know, they're playing the gamelan orchestra and all that stuff. That could be good. Or,

you know, what happens when you finally unhooded Java? We never really got into that. Jawas haven't gotten a lot of action lately in the Star Wars shows or movies or anything. But what, what do they actually look like like that's what I want to know There's probably a like a rule 34 porn thing on the internet about you Jawa is having sex I'm not really interested in that. I more just want to know what they look like Just you know from the from the neck up. I don't need to see genitals Jawa genitals Rule 34, but this old droid you know they're taking them apart. They're putting them together There's all sorts of you know, mishaps and missteps

You guys think there is any sort of noticeable difference between a mishap or a misstep? well, you could find out by watching this old droid and Then finally I didn't save this for last for any particular reason. I'm just going down the line here guys We got to have a Jar Jar Binks origin story. Young Jar Jar. If we can do, I've never seen Young Sheldon, but if we can do Young Sheldon and run that for eight seasons or whatever on CBS, we can totally get away with a Young Jar Jar. You get to learn about his exile from the underwater city, and that's pretty much all we already knew about young Jar Jar.

So there might be other stories to explore. But yeah, that's young Jar Jar. And we talked about this the other a couple of shows ago, but what's the deal with Boss Nass being like a different... Like Boss Nass doesn't look like any other Gungan he's this big fat green guy and all the other ones are like these lean bug looking kind of Jamaican guys with long years what's the what's the stereotype that Jar Jar was it's like a black southern like antebellum person I can't remember what it was. African-American. Whatever. That's our idea for some new Star Wars shows hitting the docket this fall. Go check it out. From the mind of yours truly, Queen David Furness, based on characters created

by George Lucas. So that's what we got for you guys. Thank you so much for tuning into my show. Thanks for being silly with me for 50 plus minutes here. It's Memorial Day weekend. Hope you are grilling and chilling. DK, DQ grill and chill, right? That was the whole, oh, we didn't write a trivia question. Oh my God, well, that was close.

I was this close to playing the outro music without write a trivia question. Oh my God. Well, we, that was close. I was this close to like playing the outro music without having a trivia question. Thankfully we stumbled upon something. We're just going to make it up out of thin air and we're all going to find out the answer together. I got Google locked and loaded, ready to go. Haven't searched for anything yet though. Here's the question.

So Dairy Queen, you know, historic fast food ice cream chain been around for a while. But DQ Grill and Chill was kind of the pivot that Dairy Queen made to go from just being ice cream to trying to get into like the more traditional, you know, hamburgers, chicken strips, French fries kind of market. And I my first exposure, cause we had a couple of Dairy Queens in our town growing up at Rockford, and there was a Dairy Queen right on the corner,

very close to where I grew up, about a mile away by the Cherryville Mall. And I believe when I was a young child, that was just a regular old Dairy Queen. And then eventually, maybe in like the early 2000s, it pivoted and it became a DQ Grill and Chill. And there were other Dairy Queens in town that did the same thing,

but then you'll still stumble upon just regular old Dairy Queens here and there that are not DQ Grill and Chills. Now, I think most of those still will like make you a hot dog or something. Like there was one, I had a two hot dog meal at a Dairy Queen up in Janesville, Wisconsin, driving back from orchestra practice one time in high school. But I don't think that was a full DQ Grill and Chill. So here's my question and our question we are going

to explore together. When did the first, for lack of a better search phrase or question, when did the first DQ Grill and Chill open? Not when does Dairy Queen found it as a corporation or where was the first DQ franchise or anything, although that would be interesting as well. You can look all this up on your own. When was the first DQ Grill and Chill opened? I should take a guess. We don't usually get to play together. I'm going to guess DQ

Grill and Chill came about in the 90s. I'm going to say 97. And things just slowly filtered their way to the Rockford metro area. So that's my guess. I don't know if, I can't be, it can't be much later than that if it is, but it also doesn't feel like it could be that much earlier, does it? 97 is my guess for DQ Grill and Chill. Take your guesses, let's Google it.

When was the first DQ Grill and Chill. What a great franchise name, DQ Grill and Chill. All right, here we go. This is from the AI overview, so we know what's right. But it seems to be pulled from the Dairy Queen Wikipedia page. Per Google Gemini, the first two Dairy Queen grill and chill

restaurants opened in December 2001. So I was four years off. I feel pretty good about that. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, this marked the beginning of the grill and chill format, which evolved the traditional Dairy Queen menu and branding. And then if you are curious, because we just pulled up, I don't know if I've ever been on the Dairy Queen Wikipedia page before, Dairy Queen founded in 1940 and currently headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota. That's where Mall of America is, I believe. And then, yeah, let's see.

First opened, the first Dairy Queen was owned and operated by, here's a name for you. We were talking about Sheave earlier as a first name, well get ready to learn, Sherb. S-H-E-R-B, Sherb Noble, N-O-B-L-E, and first opened, it's like Chernobyl, but Sherb Noble, on June 22nd, 1940 in Joliet, Illinois. So there you go, Illinois' finest. Sherb Noble, what a guy. Is there anything else?

The soft serve formula was first developed in 1938 by J.F. McCullough and his son Alex. They convinced friend and loyal customer Shurb Noble to offer the product in his ice cream store in Kankakee, Illinois. The first day of sales, Noble sold more than 1,600 servings of the dessert within two hours. How do you like that? 1600 servings in two hours? How did he have the manpower for that? Well, if you want to read more, there's a lot more to Dairy Queen and DQ Grill and Chill. 1987, Dairy Queen bought the Orange Julius chain. I think I knew that. So there's a lot more to the story, but there's not that much more to the Bean Town podcast. My name is Quinn David Furness, everyone.

Thank you so much for listening to my program. Hope you enjoyed my Star Wars shows. And if you have ideas of your own, go ahead and email us, beantownpodcasts at yahoo.com or tweet at us at Bean Town Cast. For all of us here, Maple, Quinn, and Research Assistant Rachie, who is out on assignment this morning,

thank you so much for tuning in. We'll come to you guys next weekend with an all-new show. Stay safe, stay sane, check in on you next time. Bye. Yeah. So So What is the deal with all these lightsabers?