Beantown Podcast - 12122024

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss breathy female singers, whether or not Clarice was sleeping around in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and a final huzzah for Mufasa: The Lion King

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town podcast for Thursday, December 12th, 2024. 12 plus 12 equals 24. What's happening? A little bit of math to start the show for ya. Did you know Duolingo's got math?

I think I got my Duolingo wrapped this year, which if you're curious, yes, my streak is still standing. I have honored my New Year's resolution to do Duolingo Spanish every single day this year. I'm pretty proud of myself. I feel like I've learned a lot. I'm still on the past tenses. Haven't gotten much into any of the future tenses yet,

but your imperfects and your preterites, I think are what they're called. I'm feeling pretty good about it, but Duolingo has math and music, I believe. Music I wouldn't be too concerned about and frankly Math I'm not that interested in either because I feel like I would like to learn math if it was easy like Multiple occasion tables that could be kind of fun, but then it would get boring

but if it was the type of math I had to learn and like you know when you got to trigonometry and it was all about like learn and like, you know, when you got to trigonometry and it was all about like, reducing the ridiculous equations where it's like sine 2x squared minus cosine of the radian of the hypotenuse divided by negative i, it was just kind of like, what are we doing here? Maybe if I set end up in some sort of engineering profession that involves a lot of cosines and arktans One of my favorite functions is the arktan That kind of sounds like Arctic turn, which is a bird I think

Probably an endangered bird you can only find in Canada Finland and parts of I Don't know the lake by call region region, Baikalik, as they would call it. But that type of math I don't want to do, if that's what they're giving me on Duolingo. So we got to thread the needle somewhere. You know what I kind of like? I like when you do, you got your, what is it a binomial polynomial equation x squared plus x minus 10 factored out find the solutions using the quadratic formula the quadratic formula is oh god negative b. So your numerator is negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac.

And then your denominator is 2a. So divided by 2a. Someone can check the math on that also if they don't want to because who the heck's using the quadratic formula these days? What do you think, Maple? Anyone? You doing any factoring over there on the couch? No. Usually she lifts her head up when I present this beautiful Deluxe Samson Q2U series over to her. She does a little inspection, but she has pooped today. She's

wiped. Just finished up a 2.3 mile walk to the park, got off the leash, ran around a little bit, ate a tiny bit of goose poop when dad turned his back. Dad thought, oh yeah, it's going to be fun. We're chasing, we're playing, I'm going to kind of turn around and run and you can chase me like you've done the last five minutes. And then I turn around and there she is chomping. And yeah, goose poop. Nice.

Good job, buddy. But yeah, she's pooped 2.3 miles. The feels like is like negative 5 degrees. So she had to wear her sweater, of course, but she looked awfully fashionable. And now she had supper. It's about 520 a year on Thursday night and taking a little siesta. My name is Quentin. This is my show. I'm the creator, the chief mixologist, and soundboard engineer, aka my Dell laptop. Here on this program, Quinn David Fernse presents the Beatdown Podcast. Listener discretion advised. As always with our fine program, when you're listening,

number one, we'll occasionally use some language. Number two, this podcast's objectively terrible. We are drinking some single malt Scotch whiskey from Trader Joe's. The cheap stuff. And as I'm peering over, peering, P-E-E-R-I-N-G, another peering I like to do is when you play Grand Theft Auto

five and you get drunk, you drive to the area near between, so there's the airport and then there's like the canal comes out into the ocean and then there's kind of that rundown part of town at the end of the beach with, you know, all the houses and the apartments and stuff and a lot of people in balconies. That's where you can pick up prostitutes overnight. So what I like to do is get drunk, steal a car. Drunk in real life, I actually,

one of the cheats you can turn on in GTA V is play drunk mode. And I had never done that in my life. I've played GTA V a bunch of times, including recently, and I started playing all the way back in grad school. That was the first time I ever played Grand Theft Auto. I never turned on drunk mode before, and I was playing a couple days ago, and I was like,

oh, you know what? This will be fun. Let's turn it on. And I realized very quickly that I'm legitimately five minutes in, I'm going to get nauseous from all the zooming in and out. So I was just like, eh, maybe it's fun when you are drunk in real life too. Maybe that's the secret, but I wasn't, I was only mildly buzzed. So don't do drunk mode in GTA if you aren't ready to hurl. But you go grab a prostitute, you honk at her in her car, she walks in. And then if you position it just right, you can drive all the way from the highway down Santa Monica

Pier, past the Ferris wheel, past the roller coaster there and all the shops. The tricky part is at the very end when you get to the end of the pier, it's not just a straight shot. You got to do a little jaunt over to the right, kind of a quick, sudden jerk, if you will, like you're having a chicken breast on the grill, and Pollo Asada, as we would say in Duolingo. And if you get it just right, you can ramp off into the ocean and take your hooker with you. And that's another thing that you can, that's another that when I more often in my life when I say peering, that's what I'm referencing. I'm peering over at

the liquor cabinet. It's not a cabinet. It's a bar cart. One day we'll be rich enough to have a liquor cabinet and then QJ will steal it with all his friends. But jokes on QJ because I'm only going to keep Evan Williams whiskey in there, the worst whiskey of all time. My father-in-law, future father-in-law Jose, we had this whole discussion last week, the week before on the podcast where I'm so sick of saying like future father-in-law, future father-in-law Jose, we had this whole discussion last week, the week before on the podcast where I'm so sick of saying like future father-in-law. It's just extra syllables. It doesn't matter. Everyone knows what I mean.

Got me Scotch last year. I don't know the brand off the top of my head. It's too far away for me to see, but it has remained unopened. Not because I am not in the mood, but it's just one of the, you get a special expensive bottle of Scotch, whiskey, whatever it is. Bourbon, I'm not in the mood, but it's just one of you get a special expensive bottle of Scotch whiskey, whatever it is bourbon. I'm not sure I think it's scotch and You want to save it for a special occasion? And it's not to say I haven't had any special occasions in the last year, but I just never think about it

So I don't know if I'm gonna tap into it at all I got we have 19 days left before I go dry, before I go dark for a good while. So I would like to. But I also might just save it for wedding week or something. That could be good. But yeah, we're drinking that. We're drinking not that, but the Trader Joe's, about a tenth

of the cost probably. And then we are also drinking, Rachel was kind enough, last time she made a Trader Joe's, about a tenth of the cost, probably. And then we are also drinking. Rachel was kind enough last time she made a Trader Joe's run to grab me another four pack. My second of the season from Obscurity Brewing, which is in, where is it, Elburn, something like that, a Western, kind of out by DeKalb. Yeah, packaged in Elburn.

It's technically a Chicago suburb, but it's like the last vestige because the metric goes there. It's the end of the line. You hit Elburn and then you go like another 20 miles west near DeKalb. This is Obscurity Brewing Island of Misfit beers. Great four-pack. I'm drinking the Coach, tapping into it tonight for the first time with his four pack already had one this season already the coach Comet American red ale. We're going to come back to coach common in a second here. The other ones off the top my head there in the kitchen. I think it's the Hermi golden

ale. I think it's a cherry golden cherry ale. There's the bumble porter. And then I think there's one with Yukon cornelius on it. And that's a Belgian, Belgian wheat ale, I think, but it's pretty strong. It's like 7%. I think that's what we're dealing with here. So we're working on the red ale today. But that brings me to my first point here. We don't have a highly structured theme for today's episode. We're just going for it. We got trivia We got Mufasa we got ads we got all the fun stuff and I I've actually The last couple days been writing a couple notes down here and there. Oh and How could I forget we've got a song to premiere on today's show released it yesterday dropped it yesterday

It's got some series Riz as the kids would say no cap And so we'll play that live on the show in a second here. I just wanted to mention This was a thought I had as I was grabbing this can Island of Misfit beers and Actually, I think my co-worker mentioned this to me yesterday and it's a hundred percent true because I shared my new single with her Pretty much everyone in Rudolph Red Nose Reindeer the 1964 TV Special is is a total dick and you just go down the line Santa Claus terrible

It's like oh, you know this new brand new baby reindeer Son of my you know my team leader He's got a physical disfigurement. Well, fuck him. He sucks. You got to cover that up. Santa and then Santa's whole thing too is like, he spends his whole day he doesn't work. That's the thing. This is something more broadly about not not just this Santa, this version of Santa, but Santa Santa generally, Santa works one day a year and

the other 364 days he's supported by slave labor. It's basically like Jeff Bezos in Amazon. We can't even confirm that the elves get Christmas day off because they probably got to do, you you know, Flight Path and all that stuff. It's like the war room in Apollo 11. So Santa totally taking advantage of the slave labor, but in the Rudolph special, you know, his whole thing is like, okay, I'm going to show up. You guys have to sing and dance for me. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, We are Santa's elves and then he has the gall Don't ask me to spell that one. Is it ga ll or ga ul? That's a region in France. I think it's ga ll I Don't really know much about that word. It's basically like a more pg of way of saying he's got the balls or the nerve

To bitch and moan on Christmas Eve because cloudy conditions as if this was the first Cloudy forecast ever well you can't fly through the sky you worried about planes FAA regulations What how what if you just fly higher? Oh not enough oxygen for the reindeer. I feel like if you have magical flying reindeer, they probably don't need the same levels of oxygen as regular, old-fashioned North American caribou. But that's more of my own musings. So Santa, total dick.

Rudolph's dad, which is, so the coach's comment, I'm looking at it right here. And the coach is a total douche, too. But I'm going to be honest, I've had my fair share of coaches in my life, specifically high school coaches. I think Coach Comet sort of fits the stereotype. Worst coach I ever had, oh man, that would be a power ranking. List of my coaches in high school.

It actually wouldn't take that long, because I had a handful of trying to think. My favorite was easily, we're going to piss some people off listening to the program, because I guarantee there's a lot of people from my old hometown, specifically Rockford Christian High School, who are all into this show, with all the very positive things I have to say about organized religion and Christianity on this program, particularly around Easter time and the Ten Commandments. Easily the best coach was Kurt Eckberg, my swim coach my last two years of high school. Great guy, quirky, but knew how to command a room and just a good leader. Held us very accountable.

Took Rockford Christian, boys swimming, I assume to its highest heights. I mean, my first two years we were pretty solid too and I think my senior year we were about as good as we were my sophomore year but my first two years coached by Mike Kirby who was a cop not a cop but always brought his 99 cent McDonald's coffee and he was you know what he didn't he what he didn't know that much about swimming I feel like but he was a relatively good guy I think. I would place him second for me. I would put Kevin Obey, soccer coach, third. Nice guy, very particular. In hindsight, I feel like when I, we're going down a rabbit hole of Quinn's high school experiences, I'm sure everyone loves this,

I'll be quick about it. I feel like when I was playing soccer in high school, I thought Kevin Obey was a really good coach, like technically speaking, in terms of knowledge about soccer. But looking back, I don't actually believe that as much. I don't think he was actually that good. And then just going down the line, getting to least favorite,

easily the one year I played baseball, trying to do it on a bum's shoulder, never panned out for me. But the original varsity coaches, I don't even know their names, but they were pretty rude. And then when I played on JV, those guys, Chris Davis, Chris Jones, Chris Davis, I mean, RC legend, still friends with him on Facebook. Very nice guys, also just like probably making, I don't know, five bucks an hour to coach these, you know, random ass 14 year olds. Nice guys, not really, didn't know much about baseball and that's okay. We were rag tag group. We came together

In harmony at the end and I I still contend that we were better than varsity by the end. Oh We were we were kicking asses and taking names I had a walk-off hit that was awesome did I have any other high school coaches Swimming I Never played a spring sport. I don't think Swimming. I never played a spring sport. I don't think swimming soccer or baseball once but Honorable mentioned a good friend of the show Ryan Austin English and his older brother Kyle who just had his 30 What are we at 35th birthday this week happy birthday, but

They were not high school coaches. They were middle school coaches. Where were we? What's the name of Rudolph's dad? So Comet is the coach. I wholly apologize for the last three minutes. It just, this show's as much about me as it is about you. Is it Donner? I think Donner is the name of Rudolph's dad. He's kind of the same level of dick as the coach,

Coach Comet. And Santy Claus, right? It's all just like, oh, you got your you have a physical disfigurement. Well, you're screwed. You better, you know, wear this cap on your nose. Clarice total gold digger, you know, kind of a freak. I think her kink was, you know, deer with red nose. I don't think I think she was in it for the money, right? This guy, you think about it, you're up in the

North Pole, St. Etown, you got all these these elves who are total nerds. And that I assume there's a whole crew or flock tribe of pride Mufasa find your pride excuse me of regular non magical reindeer or even if they are magical they they're not in Santa's crew right there's only eight in the crew so Clarice is like oh let me let me find you know Rudolph and because he's royalty. I'm totally gonna seduce this guy I I'm not convinced that when Rudolph leaves with her me from the North Pole that Clarice wasn't sleeping with Donner Frankly, and I don't think she ever told Rudolph when he came back It's it's a whole big thing, but I do not have a good feeling about that whole Clarice situation either.

And really the bumble, I mean he kind of has that redemption arc in the end, but he's basically trying to eat these guys. So he's kind of a dick too. So shout out to my OGs, Hermy, Yukon. Also Yukon's dog's kind of lazy. I wouldn't say they're on the same level as Santa Claus or Don or Comet or even Clarice, but they ride the toboggan instead of pulling it.

Kind of lazy. Maple, you'd never do that, right? You'd be a good sled dog. Well, she's out like a light. That's good good job buddy good exercise today yeah hi yeah hi we're doing a podcast hi buddy you got a you want interview with the dog you got anything nothing like uconn cornelia isermint. Honorable mention to the island of misfit toys. Good guys. You got the Raggedy Ann doll, whatever her name is. And then the

what is her name? Is that Jeff in a box? Is that John in a box? I can't remember. The fish that can't swim. I don't remember all of them, but shout out to the island of misfit toys. And I think that moon raker was an upstanding fellow too. He always kind of scared me a little bit, right? Your first time you see him, he's flying through the sky and you're like, what's the deal with this guy? And he's got the deep booming voice, might be the same voice as Santa Claus. I'm not sure. I'd have to go check on that But just kind of I mean he ruled with an iron fist. He did what he had to do He got the stuff done moonraker Plus a group hell of a name best name and a TV special moonraker

You don't you don't get names like that these days I did want to mention I Moving past that I mentioned Mufasa, Find Your Pride. Guys, this is it. Literally, a week from today is two weeks from tonight. Right now is the premiere of Mufasa, The Lion King. I've seen the advertising ramping up for it. It's legit. It's going to be lit.

Step aside. Live action, Moana 2. Or Moana 2 is not live action but there's a live action Moana. Step aside, live action, Lilo and Stitch. Step aside, um, Polar Express, right? Motion capture, none of this stuff. There's a new king in town and that king is Mufasa. We have been promoting this all year for free, Bob Iger.

And the time has finally come. So Mufasa is here. What are the odds that... The reason I say this, so we've mentioned this once or twice on past programs. The trailers right now are really leaning into the Scar angle, even though this film is literally called Mufasa the Lion King. We're seeing, you know, text in the Microsoft PowerPoint. It's like, how? Find out how he got the Scar. And it's like, why? I thought this was about Mufasa. I didn't really give two shits about Scar. But so what that's making me think what are the odds that Scar is the good guy

and Mufasa is kind of like the dick royalty, you know, sitting on a pile of cash in this movie. I feel pretty high, right? Because, well, I don't feel high. I haven't been high once this year, actually, if you can believe it. It wasn't a New Year's resolution. It just happened. I think Mufasa is going to be a total douche in this film, because everyone's got to get muddied up, right? We've got to re-characterize everything. We've got to make Scar more of a sympathetic figure, all right?

So you heard it here first on the Bean Tom podcast. We will go through next week. I don't know if next week's going to be our Christmas show or if we're going to try to squeeze in a second one because we got next week and Christmas is a Wednesday. I feel like we should try to sneak in a second one because I don't want to do an episode right after Christmas. I want to take that time off. So I'd rather put

in more work on the front end. We will go through the plot summary of Mufasa the Lion King next week live on air and we'll see which predictions come true, which ones don't. So email your predictions in to beanthownpodcast at yahoo.com again that's beanthownpodcast at yahoo.com or you can officially, I'm not bullshitting you this time, in case you were just like oh yeah Quinn says it He's been on it for the last six weeks. Whatever. I have been actually lying to you. I've not been on blue sky Until this past week, I think I created it or maybe about two weeks ago now you can follow the show No cap on

Blue sky at bean town podcast and no on Twitter. We can only get bean town cast That's probably why we you know, we didn't have more than 70 followers, but now I'm blue sky. We're blowing up I haven't logged in since I created my account, but I'm sure we're blowing up Follow me follow the show on blue sky social. I think they're calling it calling it, but I call it blue sky or BS at Bean Town podcast I it but I call it blue sky or BS at Bean Town podcast. I want to of course give a shout out to our sponsors Home Pride Oregon if you need your home inspected in central Oregon don't go with any old floozy you don't want to go so big they don't care about you as a client you don't want to go

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season eight the Ocho of our program and in case you're wondering in case you're new to the show yes I do put out new content every single week without fail. I have spent the last now seven full years of my life with a weekly commitment to bringing you new shows, which is something I'm very proud of in recollection and reflection. So it's all been done thanks to our partners over at the Samson Q2U series. When God speaks, he uses a Samson. Hard to believe next week, the last week that Mufasa and Samson will be going together, but you know what? That's how it goes sometimes until we get Mufasa 2, which will sort of be a Lion King one and a half situation. Do we think Mufasa is going to get exact is Mufasa going to end?

Here's my question. Another prediction. Put this on the board, write it down. Mufasa the Lion King starts and ends with a circle of life ceremony on Pride Rock the same exact way that the Lion King does. And shocker, it's going to start with Mufasa being raised up and it's going to end with Simba being raised up the same way the Lion King starts. It's the circle of life, you can't escape it. That's my prediction, that's the Samson Q2U series. When God speaks, he uses a Samson. And finally, of course, our good friends at Cuts by Q. There was a great moment, Wheel

of Fortune last night. The guy in the middle was playing, white guy. And I'll just say this diplomatically, he had a very peculiar haircut. And I thought to myself, I've seen that haircut before. That's what happens when you give yourself a haircut, and you don't really give two fucks about what the world thinks about you That's the motto over here it cuts by Q and I actually put it on my Instagram. It's probably expired by now certainly by the time you're listening to this but The the the resemblance was uncanny as we might say Did a little you know posted the picture the image the video of the Wheel of Fortune contestant, and then my next story was that particular image.

You can always, of course, go to the website to find that great hairstyle and more. BeanTownPodcast.com slash cuts dash buy dash Q for all of our latest styles. Oh, when you need a fresh do something snappier news called the experts at cuts by Q. Okay, I have a couple of random thoughts here in the second half. But before I get to any of that, we have brand new music for you here on the Bean Tom podcast. I know it's been a while the last time we released any sort of single, I believe was Father's Day 2024, our great song called In Bunches, which I had a great time making. But we have a brand new holiday song for you here. I believe I walked you through this on the show last week when we, the lightning bolt struck and I said Eureka, we got to do this. love if you can't already tell I'm a big fan of all things Christmas TV specials,

but in particular Rudolph. I've listened, no cap, no lie. I've listened to the Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer soundtrack at least 20 times in the last three weeks as I get into the holiday spirit here. We're more or less tracking for once a day, which sounds egregious. It's actually only like 20 minutes because all those songs are super short. But we had this idea last week. Everyone who's anyone in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer gets their own song,

including Clarice, who is somewhat horish from what we've deduced today. A lot of behind-the the scenes production stuff that will, I think, point to that as well. But no one is a bigger character who doesn't have their own song than Yukon Cornelius. You could say the bumble, but he doesn't speak English, frankly. So that would be a lot of just groans and yelps, I suppose.

Yukon Cornelius deserves his own song. They already cut his final scene when he discovers his peppermint mine, which here's what I would want in a Rudolph sequel. Yukon discovers his peppermint mine, but it's on Santa's property. We already know Santa, this is basically a Yellowstone situation

with Kevin Costner, which is named John Dutton. John Dutton is Santa Claus, Yukon Cornelius is, Yukon Cornelius sees his own character, he's irreplaceable. To the left, to the left, everything you own in a box to the left. Beyonce reference for those of you who aren't really familiar with Queen B. But Yukon is a whole legal battle. It could be like a there will be blood situation, hell of a picture.

That's the sequel I would want to see. No Rudolph, no Comet, no Donner, no Clarice, Hermi, maybe a guest bot, maybe here and there. But I want to see Yukon versus Santa. That's what I'm looking for in Rudolph Red Nose Reindeer 2. But back to the OG, the 1964 TV special, what I spent this past week doing was, as Afra mentioned, listening to the soundtrack a bunch of times trying to pick up on tendencies in the songs. Here's what I learned. They're very basic, they're very simple, very much bouncing.

They like to bounce. Bouncing tendencies. Lots of, this is for the music nerds out there, one, four, fives, twos, the occasional six. Not much outside of those chords. And Christmas themed lyrics in some form or fashion, which should not be surprising. So what I did is I wrote lyrics first. And the lyrics here aren't exactly what I came up with on my initial brainstorming session. Then I thought, let's write a tune. So I did both the Bernie Toppin and the Elton John roles or Elton John and Tim Rice in the event of

Mufasa the Lion King only in theaters December 20th. And I married the two together and did a couple rehearsals and yesterday we got the final cut so because of the way our recording software is set up, we're doing this really old school, where we literally, the same way we do our intro and outro music, hold up the phone to play it. But if you want the highest quality version, you can go to my YouTube channel,

search for Quinn David Furness on YouTube, or search for the ballad of Yukon Cornelius, and you'll find it. So we're going to play it. The good news, I mentioned these songs are short, this is only 84 seconds. So here it is, debuting or premiering technically yesterday, but also here live on Queen David Furnace Presents, the Bean Town Podcast. Without further ado, this is the ballad of Yukon Cornelius. Searching for goals I'm not this led. You can't code you, you smack and clue.

Let powder beg, Yahoo! I'll tame the snow and I'll tame the ice, Singing Merry Christmas to you. Oh Santa wants a fearless man, I am just his guy I'll rumble, jumble, and I'll fight Yukon Kodilius, brave and true Hunting the bumble just for you

With my ice pick and my sled Searching for jewels, I'm not misled You can't call Ilias black and blue Let out a big Yahoo! I'll tame the snow and I'll tame the ice Singing Merry Christmas to you Yahoo! There you go. Must you? Yeah There you go, I feel I don't know I I can sit there and envision

You know the old Stop motion, whatever it is animation style You know, he's going through the mountains. He's using his pickaxe. He's looking for jewels. He's got his little hands up He's kind of bouncing from side to side, it's very choppy. Hermy and Rudolph are watching him, his dogs maybe are getting in on the choreography. That would slap, okay? If I can go back in time 60 years now and throw that baby in, Yukon Cornelius, my friend John Paul Pandowski, good friend of the show, said it best in his YouTube comment, justice for Yukon Cornelius and I could not agree more. So there you go, a brand new single, Merry Christmas to you all. That's a nice present hopefully. I enjoyed it. We

even got the lyrics, excuse me, in the YouTube description. Do not, I learned this the hard way. My brother Walt showed this to us yesterday. Do not go by the auto captions. It says he's searching for Jews. I will not be misled, I think. So no, he's searching for jewels with an L, not Jews. This isn't sort of a knocked, knocked, what's the name for the

first night of the Holocaust? I can't remember. Knock christening, something like that. Not a good time for to be Jewish. Okay, hopefully that's not offensive. I have a couple random thoughts I wanted to share here. Then we're going to do our trivia question, which kind of came out of nowhere. I was researching something else. Well, we'll give you the preamble. And then we'll just it's kind of a it's not a not one of our traditional geography or history type trivia questions. It's more the Oscars, frankly, Oscar snubs. So we'll get into that in a second here. Just a couple of the things I wanted to mention. These are

two really random thoughts that I'm not going to devote too much time to. We're at 35 minutes here. I'm feeling good about our timing. I just have two things one the shorter thing You you know that I And Rachel when she's around she's in Minnesota right now But we watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy every night Jeopardy first when your brain is sharp And then when you're full you've had your dinner You're kind of just like I just got to like tune out for an hour in my day Place some tune blast then you throw on the Wheel of Fortune and it's still, you know, fun, you still pay attention, you don't need to be as sharp. I had

this thought the other night watching Wheel of Fortune, it's Disney week, everyone is so peppy. Ryan is much more pep in his step than Pat was. By the end, Pat still had his wry sense of humor. Rye, W-R-Y. I would kill for a glass of rye right now. Not actually kill, Maple. Don't look at me like that. Just, it's OK. I wouldn't kill.

I would hug. I'll give you a hug. Or a smooch on the head. You like that. She hates that. But it made me think, because Vanna was really in a cheery mood last night, and I was just wondering again That's all I have us and I had a beer a Lagnitas East and West

Beast of both worlds is what it's called which we had in case you you know if you're a keen listener We we had this the six pack like three months ago And then there's just I drank five of the six and there's one remaining so I said I'm gonna polish it off when I'm cooking lasagna last night so I'm sitting there watching Wheel of Fortune I have this mildly buzzed thought man it would be awesome if and I say awesome tongue in cheek but if Vanna White was just a total bitch in real life because everything we've ever heard and seen about Vanna White is that she's just this beacon of positive energy.

She's a pioneer woman. She's fantastic. She's been on our screens her 40 years. There's never been a negative thing said about Vanna White. She's just a role model for a lot of young women, just excellence all around, right? That's what we know about Vanna White. So what I'm just waiting for the day when the scandal breaks, the whole Ellen DeGeneres type thing, where we learn Vanna White is just a total raging

biatch behind the scenes. To producers, to Pat, to Ryan, to Charlie. That's what it is. It's not a John in the box, it's a Charlie in the box. Island Misfit Toys, mystery solved. That was just a thought I had. I didn't have anything else beyond that very shallow surface level thought. In the shallow, in the shallow, in the shallow, we're far from the deep end now. What does that mean?

We're in the shallow, we're far from the deep end? I never saw a star is born. You know what? I uh, I was lying in bed, uh Getting ready to fall asleep picking out what I wanted to watch as I fell asleep last night And I went to peacock and you know turn out 30 rock. Whatever I noticed coming to peacock. I think to tomorrow maybe is joker 2 folie. Oh do you F-o-l-i-e space A space D-E-U-X. And I realize, has there ever been such a sudden shift,

or not sudden, but a dramatic shift in, and maybe I speak for myself, but I think the ratings and reviews bore this out as well, BORE. In terms of a movie I was so pumped and excited for, slash liked, The First Joker, which I saw in a movie theater in downtown Cleveland, in like 20... Whenever it came out, 2018, 2017.

No, 2019, I think is when it came out. Versus the second one, it's not just that it's Lady Gaga and we're publicly feuding, it's the whole musical and I just, I don't know, I don't, Joker is such a rich bed of potential and for them to just do what they did with it, I saw that it's coming to free streaming. And I literally just said, I don't want the whole Joker 2 thing I what what the hell happened we need a Hillary Clinton version of what happened for Joker 2 because it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. The other thought I had so on SNL this week the musical guest is Gracie Abrams? Abraham's? I thought Gracie Abrams was the senator from Georgia. Something changed. Now she does music. I'm not sure what happened there. Maybe that's Stacey Abrams? But is it Abraham's or Abrams? Is it Gracie Abraham's? Gracie Abrams? She was dating

Zach Bryan and they broke up and now she's really popular or was that Pizzerina? No, it's something else. It's like chicken, Stacey Chicken Fried. Okay, Zach Bryan who I want to be clear is not, Zach Bryan's a singer that's not the same as Zach Bryan who I want to be clear is not Zach Bryan's a singer that's not the same as Zach Bryan from Home Improvement who's got all those DUIs even though they look the same which the whole I think we've mentioned this once or twice in the show before this whole reality matrix simulation we're living in where there's two Zach Briens that look the same but they're different people who are both popular is just throwing me mentally for a loop. I'm shook. I'm rizzed out as the kids would say. Zero cap. Absolutely no cap. But Gracie Abrams is famous for some reason, I don't know, but I was reading

more about her because I had asked Rachel about this like a week ago when I saw she was going to be on SNL. I was like, I've never heard of this person in my life. And that's okay. I mean, half the people come on SNL like Shaboosie, never heard of. That's okay. I don't pretend to be plugged into pop music. It's fine.

It is what it is. But one thing that I've always held true to myself and promised to myself is that I won't judge an artist before I actually listen to a song in full. And I think that's important. I think it's easy to listen to like 30 seconds and be like, yeah, not my thing. I'm going to listen to whatever your big hit is, hit me with your best shot, Pat Benatar. Gonna listen to it. So I listened to a Stacey Abrams song, Gracie Abrams, Gracie Abraham's song

after reading her Wikipedia where I learned that she became famous for the same reason that, oh, who was it? What I'm getting at is Stacey Abraham's opened up for Olivia Rodrigo on her Sour Tour and that's when she became famous. The same thing happened was it was Chaperone also opened for, I think it was Olivia Rodrigo and Olivia Rodrigo had opened for Sabrina Carpenter and Sabrina Carpenter had opened for Taylor Swift who had opened for the guy from Radiohead. John Lovitz, is that his name?

No, Tom York with an H, who had in turn opened for Sting who was the Who, who was the who who was the Beatles and all you know this kind of goes all the way back to Gregorian chance that's okay write this nope nope nope I'm stealing this do not this is verbal trademark do not steal my horse name or my rapper name frankly Gregorian chance and not the spell the way you think it is Gregorian is you know but Chance is C-H-A-N-C-E Gregorian Chance that's from December Musings episode I'm writing this down in my phone do not steal this verbal trademark we already have seven horse names for next year. We took a different approach this year and have been writing down names throughout the 2024 season, rather than like coming up with them when it's time, which it works either way, but this has

been a lot of fun. The point that I'm trying to raise here about Stacey Abrams is go out and vote. The point I'm trying to make here with Gracie Abrams is... I listened to one of her songs. I don't remember what it was. But I am 100% sick of the breathy 20-year-old female singer phenomenon. I just, and it's not like everyone I just mentioned falls into that. Chaperone I don't think falls into that. Taylor Swift obviously is her own thing. But, you know, I don't want to try to come up with a whole list here because I'm not plugged into it. But the whole Olivia Rodrigo, Lord to some extent, certainly Gracie Abraham's, it's just oh Billy Eilish who I don't want to criticize too much because she's you know she's brothers with that Phineas guy who's just fantastic but the whole just like breathy singer I'm I'm just a girl. I

Don't like high school. Oh oh, I Am over it. Can we please cancel the breathiness for the sake of being breathiness? Maybe I don't know emails being Tom podcast at yahoo.com or tweet at Blue sky at us beings. Are there other Gracie Abrams songs I should listen to, where she's not just trying to sing exactly like Olivia Rodrigo, who in turn tries to sing like Billie Eilish? I just, I don't, I'm over it.

It's not interesting to me anymore. How many of these new ladies do we need? There's a million of them on SoundCloud who sound exactly the same. We're just plucking various ones out depending on whatever connections they have and how much money they have. I'm so over it. So I am officially launching the Gracie Abrams cancel trend here. Hashtag cancel Gracie maybe she's really nice I don't know I'm sorry Gracie try singing a different tune than the one I thought I listened to so I will be boycotting SNL this week when Gracie Abraham's is on my screen do I plan to stay awake for SNL in any capacity? No, I do not. Regardless, I'll be boycotting.

So there you go. That was my final thought on breathy singers. Let's see, was there anything else besides our trivia question here? No, we talked about Vanna White being a bitch. Everyone in Rudolph is sort of a dick. The ballad of Yukon Cornelius and Mufasa, the Lion King. Here we go. Wrapping up today's show with our trivia question of the week. I don't have it even written out. It just is a fact and I'm just going to present it to you in the way that makes sense. Super quick context, this is not that interesting. The way it came about, um, my aunt in law sent a video this morning of a kind of an actually I'd never seen this before. So I'll share this, uh, verbally, cause I think it's kind of interesting.

It's a drinking game. You have a series of candles lined up in one singular row and And next to each candle you have a beverage. So the first, the candle closest to you would be something you really don't want to drink. Let's say Malort. And the candle furthest away from you, I think there were eight candles or so, would be a glass of water. They're all lit. You have to use your lung capacity and strength to blow as hard as you can. And whatever, you know, the furthest one away from you is that goes out, the flame goes out. That's what you take a shot of.

So if you're really bad, you take a shot of Malort. If you're mid, you take a shot of, I don't know, Smirnoff. If you kick ass, you take a shot of water, for example, or diet coke, whatever, apple juice. El juego de manzana. So that guy, I said it, I had a comment, I was like, oh, I would be terrible at this. You know, who would be good would be my cousins, my cousins in law, if you will. Because they're swimmers, and they've got that that swimmer lung, hashtag Kurt Echberg, hashtag Mike Kirby. And that got me thinking, I think I said something along the lines of I can barely hold

my breath for a minute at this stage. And it got me thinking back to when I was in college, and I would be so bored in some of my seminar classes, I would literally sit there and to pass the time I would hold my breath and just run a timer on my phone or my watch or whatever to see how long I could go. I am proud to say, and I promise this is leading to our trivia question, that despite me saying in text message form earlier, I could barely get it to a minute these days. I was sitting just hours ago very calmly on the couch with maple next to me, my rock, and I got up to 90 seconds just, you know, I wasn't

moving or anything so that was like best case scenario. But I, and I could have I think squeezed another 10 out of it before I would have been really worried about, like, you don't, one thing you don't want to do is when you're home alone and your partner is out of the state, you don't want to like pass out from lack of oxygen. That would be a pretty stupid way to die. So I said as soon as I hit the 90 seconds, I'll take my breath. But I did hit 90 seconds. It wasn't that challenging.

I kind of distracted myself with stuff on the computer. But this reminded me, this got me thinking of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 5, Rogue Nation. There's a famous scene, probably the most famous set piece from that film, I feel like, where he has to go underwater to switch out some codes, some cards, whatever. And he did a key train for it in Tom Cruise fashion. It's a lot of what you see is real.

And he got up to six minutes and 15 seconds. And that's not the trivia question. I promise you, I didn't blow it. That's what he did for Rogue Nation. I was like, oh, that's really, really impressive, Obviously, I don't put it past him. He's Tom Cruise He knows what he's doing, but then somewhere along the way when I was googling this and reading about it today. I came across another Hollywood legend who did something even more impressive related holding your breath and so

Here's my trivia question in Avatar 2 The Way of Water, which at 2022 I think it was, maybe 21, I think it's 2022, I can't remember. Kate Winslet held train to hold her breath for how long for the production of this movie. So there's a specific scene. I don't even, I did watch Way of Water once. We, we were all in on it, on this show two years ago, whatever it was. I actually, I have no idea. Like in Mission Apostle 5, there's a very clear scene where this happens.

Avatar 2, Way of Water is like underwater the entire movie for the most part. That's not actually true. But so it's kind of off the top of my head. I don't recall where this came into play, why it was necessary because so much of that is CGI. But I can confirm from the research I've done, if the internet is being truthful, that Kate Winslet accomplished a mighty feat herself. And that's, you know, you think of like Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible and you're like, okay, yeah, like this guy's crazy. He's got the power of Scientology behind him.

He can do anything he wants. Kate Winslet, I don't associate with, you know, that type of like physical feat. So I was awfully impressed when I saw it. So the question is very simply, how long did Kate Winslet hold her breath for, for Avatar 2, The Way of Water? If you want more time, go ahead and pause. You got to just put in a guess here. Your only clue is that it's more than Tom Cruise for Rogue Nation. It's not, it's not like a blow you away David Blaine kind of number but I consider this training or not and obviously there was training but this is a this is a human feat in my opinion

fe at the answer per the internet Kate Winslet held her breath for seven minutes and 15 seconds in order to shoot avatar to the way of Water which is you know capillaries, lung strength, pulmonary discourse, awfully impressive. So hats off to Kate Winslet. I would have voted for her for the Oscar based just off of that but apparently when you're motion-captured you're not allowed per Academy regulations. Guys that's what I have for you. Thanks for bearing with me. Maybe not the flashiest episode here Maybe some deep dives into my own personal lives personal lives. I'm not a cat my personal life

But I appreciate you if you've been Following the show for seven whole seasons you have a pretty good sense of what you're gonna get here and if you're brand new to the show for seven whole seasons, you have a pretty good sense of what you're going to get here. And if you're brand new to the show and you were thinking, should I go back and listen to the previous 360 episodes? I can tell you probably not. But it's there. If you were bored, if you had a really long flight, you could knock out like eight of them. So it's better than nothing. it's kind of the motto of our show better than nothing that's what I have for you guys today we've got some trusty reliable outro music that we are gonna play next week a little bit more

Christmas stuff we'll see what happens my name is Queen david for and stay safe stay sane I'll check in you know you guys next time. Bye everyone. See ya so so so so Thank you.