Beantown Podcast - 1st Amendment Rights

Episode Date: September 12, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss 1st Amendment Rights

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, September 12th, 2025. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn, and this is my program, Quinn David Furness, presents the Beantown podcast. It is a Friday, mid-Sept. September. Did Billy Joe say, wake me up when September ends? And what did Billy Joel sing for the longest time? I was always kind of a funky one, right? It's just like him and a couple of his friends singing acoustic, a cappella rather, and snapping. For the longest time. Kind of some barbershop quartet action.

Not that dissimilar from my PBS kids' heads out there will know this. I don't, oh, this is why this came up. I was in my work group chat this morning, and it was, you know, someone said, happy Friday, I shared a, you know, happy Friday, and then I sent a GIF, and my boss said, you can say that again, and I sent the exact same message a second time. and that reminded me of the the PBS kids show Arthur

he's the art vark everyone's talking animals whatever great guest appearance by art garfunkel another Arthur not the same one but there's a musical episode early on in Arthur I don't know how many seasons in I don't really know how seasons work on kids shows like that but there's you know a handful of songs you might recall the the brain

sings the the jekyll and hide song i don't know what is the brain's first name allan is that sound right alan they just call him the brain i don't know if he's supposed to be a capy bear or what uh and then there's you know having fun isn't hard when you got a library card but the one that came into uh my mind and my boss said you can say that again i didn't my mind is a cavernous place I don't know how or why things pop up like they do, but that's kind of what the Bean Town podcast is all about. I just kind of share those tidbits with you, and if you like it, awesome,

you're going to have a lot of fun. If you say, what the heck is he talking about? It's going to be a long hour, okay? But to cap the thought, one of these songs from this Arthur musical episode, I think it's like Arthur and Buster are in his basement, in Arthur's basement, like making a mix tape, which side note, we're going to put a pin in this tangent, and maybe we explore it further on today's show. We probably need to get my

brothers on to fully go through this. But when I was a young, young kid, probably, you know, seven, eight years old, my brothers, but specifically I think my brother Walt took the lead on creating a radio show of some kind, recorded on a tape. And gosh, I am fuzzy on the details of what all went into it. I think it was heavily inspired content-wise by the variety of commercials that you would find on Weird Al Yankovic's 1989 film UHF, which is kind of almost like a modern, or not a modern day, but, you know, it's almost like the type of project Tim Robinson would make where it's like you have a loose plot, but it's really the heart of the heart and soul of the film is really like. the sketches or the skits. And that's what a lot of UHF was with, you know, Conan the librarian and Spatula City, the Indiana Jones opening, yada, yada, yada. But we made a radio show. I mean, I just was in it. I don't even know if I was in it.

I don't remember. But lots of, like, fake commercials, as if you were running a radio spot. to finally finish where we started this godforsaken episode five minutes ago there's a song in this arthur the musical special that the teacher sings mr ratburn and it's like just a little homework tonight just a little class you've really worked hard today and the reason i thought of it is buster baxter comes in in the background and he says you can say that again and mr atburn goes okay class you really worked hard today if you couldn't tell already very uh sophomoric s o p h is there an oh in there probably o m or i see sophomoric slash juvenile humor but there's something so charming in the simplicity of it the stupidity of it that when my boss

said you can say that again instantly my head read that in a buster baxter high-pitched rabbit voice and the and then it comes back to the uh the billy joel for the longest time because that whole song is like acapella with just voices and snaps in the background good stuff ma'am i am the creator the host and the chief audio engineer of this program quindea furnace presents the beaton podcast i had something five minutes ago that i wanted to relate to being chief audio engineer and it completely, completely lost it. That's okay, because we can plow ahead. We've got plenty on the agenda here to get through. Listen to discretion is advised. When you were listening to the Beantown podcast, number one, we'll occasionally use some language number two. This podcast is

objectively terrible. Sipping on a little bit of Trader Joe's Kentucky bourbon. It's a nice $14, $15 bottle. Almost out. We're going to need a refill soon. That's okay. And then our Joseph Brow October Fest. This is canned. four of six. This one cost me like $1.70. That's awesome. I got to say I was at the Jewel a little bit earlier. Picking up, well, let's do a quick shout out to Jewel. I don't shout out Jewel Osko, if you don't know, is a local Chicagoland chain owned by Albertsons. I would say out of like, I don't know, when you think of grocery stores in Chicago that aren't national, so take out your Whole Foods, your Walmarts, your targets, your Aldi's.

I think Juulosco is probably the most classic Chicago grocery store, right? That's probably not even a strong argument. It might even be the most prevalent grocery store in the city of Chicago, regardless of national or regional. Because you've got a handful of Aldi's Trader Joe's. I think the only Walmarts that are left are like far west. Because there used to be that Walmart neighborhood market, they called it, right, at Broadway, on Broadway, just north of Diversi. That Diversi Clark Broadway, Sixth Way intersection.

But that closed down like three, four years ago, COVID fatality. And then, I mean, Whole Foods, like, if you can afford to spend $12 a pound on chicken salad and get your probiotic gluten-free. you know, buffalo chips for only $12, and they give you the tiny little pack. It's like buying beef jerky. By the way, I don't know what a buffalo chip is, but I have a vision in my head, and maybe you will too. When you go to, you know, and I'm not buying beef turkey often. I don't know, it's been years since I bought beef jerky.

But you go to the grocery store or more commonly you see it in the gas station because it's like right by the front. And it'll be like $12 for a jack lengths or slim gym. bag. No shade to those guys. I mean, beef prices. You don't have to tell me. You could, though. I actually don't know the last time I bought beef. But, you know, that tiny little bag, and it's super flat, will be like $12. And you're just like, what are we doing here? Do I need protein that bad? If so, I got a little health tip for you. Two protein items that I've been big on lately. Greek yogurt and garbanzo beans.

I will say, I noticed a price increase in my trader Joe's at the Greek yogurt on the Greek yogurt recently. It's up to like $5.50, $6 for like that standard tub. You know, it's like the largest one they have, but it's like, yeah, I distinctly recall like eight months ago this was $4.99. And now we're up like 50 cents, 60 cents, or 50 cents, 100 cents. I occasionally not always, but occasionally found. to weird as a kid where it was like, we tell time, time goes up to 60 before we reset,

but dollars go up to 100. I was perplexed by that. I felt like we should have gotten in sync on that one. Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. Where were we, gosh, we were on Trader Joe's, the October Fest. Someone helped me out here. Gosh, completely, completely lost sight of the plot, which is a damn shame. It'd be really nice if we could just pause and go back and listen. but we can't we can't do that um i don't know where i was going with that probably nothing terribly interesting that's kind of the good news about the bean town podcast it's nothing terribly interesting i got to tell you uh i'm feeling vindicated is too strong of war because i don't feel like i was feeling down on myself and now i'm like up on myself but um i will say

And this is a Chicago-specific thing, but there was a longtime sports radio host, Dan Bernstein, at 670 the score here in Chicago, our, like, number one radio station. And Dan got outed, not in a gay way, but he got fire like a year ago, maybe a little bit less than that. For a really stupid reason, Dan likes to fish, and he's always posting his catches in Lake Michigan. on Twitter, and whatever this was, eight months ago or something, he got into a spat, S-P-A-T, back and forth with someone, and Dan crossed the line a little bit. He, like, insulted this person's son. I don't remember what it was about. Yada, yada, yada, 6-70 fired him. Pretty obviously to everyone who's involved in Chicago sports media knows that, you know, because 670 had gotten bought out by a big national eastern syndicate.

it. So they were just looking for a reason to can this guy. He's your number one product. You don't just, oh, I know what I was going to say when I got to Jewel. We're going to come back to that, Jewel Osco. I'm looking right at it. I got it. Dan was like the last of the quintessential 90s, 2000s, Chicago Sports Media guys, super critical, very curmudgeonly, which I'm not going to try to spell, but I did learn earlier today, curmudgeonly spelled with the C. all these years I thought it was spelled with a K but Kermudgingly spelled the C anyway so you know local media local print newspaper radio it's all dying whatever but the reason I felt vindicated is because Dan has a new podcast actually a couple

but it's under the same umbrella Hubbard media I think as my Vikings podcast I listen to so they're kind of like kissing cousins Eskimo brothers if you will but Dan in his new podcast along with his associate producer who I don't know anything about. I've been listening to him this week. I'm trying to work it in my podcast rotation so things don't get stale. But Dan is all over the place, as is his associate producer. They're basically co-hosts on their topics, what they say, stream of consciousness, getting off on tangents. And so here I am where I think this is episode maybe 398, 399, I don't know, eight seasons in the Beantown podcast, almost to season nine guys we are three and a half months away from launching season nine um but you know feeling

not down on myself because i i take a lot of pride in the structure and format and free flow and attitude of this show but sometimes you step back and you're like am i really or am i like just completely have i lost the plot as everyone else moving past me and then you tune in you got this radio legend who's been doing this stuff for 40 years who's now got his own podcast And it's like he's just as rambly and all over the places I am. So you know what? Maybe we're doing something right here at the Beantown podcast. And I will also say in the last maybe month, four to six episodes or so,

we've been getting a lot of spam DMs on SoundCloud from bots. And although they are not productive or meaningful in any way, it does kind of warm my heart to know that there are still bots out there that are consuming this program. So thank you to the bots. I should also mention, and I don't know if they are from Pakistan or not, but thank you to Pakistan for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, which reminds me I was playing a quick little sparkle game this afternoon. It was a map snippet. So they give you one country to start with and a visual of it on a map, and you have to fill in the rest of the countries in that

rectangle or square they give you. This one was Southeast Asia focused. And I got 12 out of 14. I got your Singapore's, your Malaysias, your Thailand's, your Cambodias, your Vianams, your Brunei's, Papua New Guinea's, Australia. The two I couldn't get, I think one was like Nauru or Palau or something like that, and the other one was Micronesia, which is always such a Micronesia. It's, you know, they're federated states. But as a kid,

like you got your Micronesia, it was confusing because you got your Micronesia, which is a country, Federated States of Micronesia, and then you got your Polynesia, which is not a country, and you got your Melanesia, which is also not a country. You know, there's a Micronesia, shouldn't there be a Macronnesia? M-A-C-R-N-E-S-I-A. That's something that's come into mind right now. Apparently not, just Micronesia gets to be a country. The reason I brought up Juulosco is we are going to open up, and we already mentioned this once, but this is can number three of six, or sorry, four of six.

This is the start of the second half of our Joseph Brow, Trader Joe's, oh, we're spilling. That's embarrassing. Trader Joe's October Fest. is what I was trying to get to there. And the reason I mentioned Jewel Osco, I was there this afternoon for a couple of purposes. One was to get chicken. Jewel Osco, and your mileage may vary because they have raised to their prices, although they still gave me the OG discount today. If you don't know, and you may have heard of cheap chicken Monday, but there's also a deal on chicken on Fridays where up until today I was under the impression and you know spoiler this I still

got this deal so I'm not here to complain but I will say there's been a shroud of confusion casted over this deal up until today the deal has been $10 for a bucket of chicken tenders and we're talking I think we've mentioned this because this today was actually only the second time I've ever taken advantage of this the first time was maybe six months ago go or so. But my wife, Rachel mentioned she was in the mood for chicken, and she couldn't get out to do it, away from meetings. So I said, okay, I'll, I will wear this, this burden. And it's not that big of a burden to save great or save big on chicken. I'll tell you that much, more of a joy. But they put it in the app. They say, okay, you got to download the app and clip the coupon to get

the deal. And also the deal is $15 now instead of $10, which knowing Juulosco, owned by Albertson's big corporation, I was not surprised in the least. Because it's just like, yeah, they're going to raise prices. That's what they do. Yada, yada, yada. I won't fill in all the details. They're not particularly interesting. But when I did go to Jewel, I got the bucket, I did clip the deal on my app, assuming I was going to pay 15. And I only pay 10 at checkout. So I'm not sure if my jewel has gone rogue, and they're saving customers cash under the counter. excuse me, or what the deal is, I will not name the store I went to for a fear of retribution. We're going to talk about fear of retribution, excuse me, retribution in a couple

minutes here and we get political on you. But I do want to give a shout out to my jewel for continuing the tradition of the $10 chicken bucket of tenders. And I mean, I'm estimating here, it's like when you've got to look at the jar of jelly beans or M&Ms and guess how many are in there and you're way off but i mean there's probably i mean we've already between the two of us probably had like seven or eight tenders and we've taken like a third out of it so there's got to be around 20 to 25 tenders in this thing for you know and it's for for 10 bucks even if it was 15 it's still a good deal but 10 bucks the actual final reason i brought a jewel and then i promise you we are moving on i went not in search of alcohol because i'm trying to cut back a little

I didn't, it's not like, oh, I got a problem. It's just like, you know what? I want to get to a point where I'm just like, it's not like Thursday, Friday, Saturday night. Like, oh, yeah, well, it's Thursday, Friday, Saturday night. So, like, let's drink up and let's drink a lot. I'm like, let's try to get something that is actually going to be delicious, tasteful, meaningful, whatever. And so I'm perusing the Julesco Alcohol Isles, which, and again, without naming names, because I don't want my store to go under with this.

cheap chicken discount. This particular jewel compared to the one I used to live by has never been solid. It's been pretty below average as far as not only its prices on alcohol, but it's a selection of alcohol. It's been pretty disappointing. And that's shown through today. I was perusing the aisles looking for some solid October Fest because I love October Fest as a festival. One of these days, one of these years, I am 100% going to Munich for the real thing. um it's not something where i'm like oh yeah i want to do this every year but like it's it's kind of a i've never really thought about this before but i love october fest i love september i love the fall i'm just like yeah i would love to do this once in my life to go to munich so i'm thinking okay

i got the the trader jo's october fest last week whenever it was like it would be fun you know there's a lot of breweries out there making october fest so let's see what the selection is like And look, I didn't do a full inventory scan, but I did spend probably five to six minutes alone in the beer aisle just kind of looking, given ocular pat-downs to the selection. And there was a very limited October Fest selection. There's the Sam Adams, they do six-pack bottles, rather, for $9.99, which I'm not complaining about prices on anything. I would have taken that on a heartbeat, but I was like, you know what? Sam Adams, there's such a big Eastern syndicate, literally Eastern. And I was just like, do I need it that bad?

I still got a couple cans at home. I was like, I would have been more entrant to something local. I didn't see anything local as far as cans go for the October Fest. And I guess I'm thinking, I'm not a businessman, but I'm wondering if the October Fest is such a short little lightning and a bottle kind of thing where these local breweries around the north side of Chicago are much more just like, you know what, if you want it, come to the tap room, we'll get it for you on draft, but we're not going to distribute it out to the masses. I guess I was just kind of curious that you couldn't get it, like, and I'm just

shooting from the hip here, but like a goose island or like a half acre, even like a beguile or a dovetail, because again, without giving away the exact store I go to, this Juliosco, is relatively close to those smaller microbreweries here in Chicago. So at the end of the day, I did not buy, I did not seek out reinforcements on the October Fest. We'll have to go to Trader Joe's on Sunday and see if there's anything other than the... I think Goose Island has an October Fest at the Trader Joe's by me, and we might have to indulge in that. let's be real. They all kind of taste the same at the end of the day, but I just love October

Fest. It's such a great crisp fall flavor. And now that football season is back, man, something I love to do is just, especially if you want to do two cans, you go 24 ounces, make a boiler maker out of it, a little bit of whiskey in there, you sit down for a little noon action Vikings game, that's quality time right there. Vikings, if you can believe it or not, in the first, what, month and a half of the year, I have only one noon game. Last week, it was Monday night football, big W. J.J. McCarthy just had his kid, by the way, or his girlfriend did.

His name is Rome, the kid, not the girlfriend. Rome McCarthy. And then this week, they play Sunday night football. Then the week after that, they play the Bengals at noon. And then they have two back-to-back Europe. up games. So those, Dublin and London, those both start at 8.30 a.m. Chicago time or Minneapolis time, if you want to be proper. And then they have a buy after that. And then you get to week seven, and then it's a cavalcade of noon games. C-A-V-A-L, C-A-D-E, Cavalcade. But yeah,

for a small market, small air market team that the national media is not obsessed with, like the Vikings, to only have one nooner in the first. first what seven weeks of the season it's pretty crazy all right let's move along here we have a hot take of the week that is sponsored by our good friends at home pride of Oregon when you are looking for either you know to buy or sell a home in Oregon especially for all you first time home buyers out there one thing you might not know about you probably read about buying a house you know but how much home can I afford? Don't forget about the property taxes. PMI, if it's relevant to you, not TMI, PMI, private mortgage insurance. One thing a lot of folks forget about these days is the home

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She's in the office right now with Mom. so we are we are doing this we are one third of a show here barely keeping this plane up in the air maple's minute uh maple has been coughing actually for the last two days it started wednesday night now there has been no no uh repetitive or consistent or persistent sign of coughing today so i am knocking on wood let me find actual wood here So if you knock on glass or the couch, it's just not quite the same. No, no, like, real coughing today and, like, took her for a long walk to the park. She was doing sprints, you know, got to get in shape.

And no big coughing. So I think I am hopeful that it was just, like, a weird allergies or something. But I never really heard a dog cough that, like, persistently, consistently before. So it was a little bit of scary. So thoughts and prayers to us. But the bigger Maples Minot, which she would want you to know here if she were sitting next to me, is that coughing, the word, the spelling is quite wild, perplexing, just thought-provoking even. I mean, you got the C I'm comfortable with, comfortable with the C.

The O-U making the awe sound rather than the O sound, feels a little off. It's like, did we need the you for this? Could you have taken a break on this? And then you get to the G-H and it's like, look, you got laugh too. But it's like laugh, cough, A-U-O-U, I don't know. And then you get the, like, why do we need G-H? That's the thing. Why are we making, and I feel bad for the non-native English speakers out there,

learning English on their dual lingo. You see a G-H combo, you're like, oh, that's, take the word doe, for example. D-O-U-G-H, not the female deer, but rather than. the piece of bread you're making. Shouldn't it be doff, if cough, cough and doff, one letter apart? Nope, it's dough. So why do we need a GH when we have an F? And then you have people like Cocoa Gough, G-A-U-F.

Is it G-O-F or is more of like Gau? Because you got the last name G-O-F-F, like, Lions-G-E-F, like Lions, quarterback Jared Goff. I don't know. Jared is one of those names. We've all got those names. This is to be a good call to action of the week here. We all have those names. We're just like, you can't name someone Jared, right?

As a kid for me personally, Jared is actually biblical. I feel like a lot of people maybe in modern times don't realize Jared is biblical. I couldn't tell you much about Jared. I think he was like Old Testament. one of those people who lived around Methuselah's age was Jared Methuselah's kid. He lived to be like 800 years old.

Let's look it up briefly. And while we're doing that, I'll tell you, it's the whole he went to Jared thing, the jewelry commercial, which I haven't seen a commercial for Jared in years, if not decades. So I don't know if he went to Jared is still a thing. but I recall 20 years ago that being very popular where I lived as far as like ad campaigns go. And then, you know, Jared Fogelson, what was his name? Just Jared Fogel, the subway guy? Is he still in prison?

I mean, probably because he was like hardcore a bad guy, right? Like not one of those like light ones where you kind of get off a couple years into your prison sentence. like he did some hardcore stuff, I think. Let's do Jared Fogel first and then Jared, just the Bible guy. Excuse me. Okay, so he was in subway campaigns. This is Jared Fogel from 2000 to 2015.

That's a long time. He said two wives apprehended 10 years ago, imprisoned at FCI, Englewood, Jefferson County, Colorado. I think it would be interesting to see what his sentence was. Okay, pleading guilty to child sex tourism. What a, what a, I don't know if I ever heard that charge before, child sex tourism. And child pornography charges in 2015, Fogel was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in federal prison. as of 2025, he remains incarcerated.

So, I mean, we're going to have to keep tabs on this over the next five years. In theory, Fogel is getting out at five years, if not less. I feel like all these celebs, when they get incarcerated, you know, with good behavior and stuff, they end up getting out way earlier than that. Not Fogel, apparently. And then there was Jared from the Bible. Genesis, oh, we're going way back here. Genesis 5, 18 through 13.

This is the N-I-V, for those of you're reading at home. When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch. After he became the father of Enoch, E-N-O-C-H, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Jared had lived a total of 962 years, and then he died. And then Enoch was Methuselah's dad. So Jared, by extension, transitive property here,

Jared was Methuselah's grandpa. Here's a question I have. At what point, whether God inspired the Torah or the Pentateuch or not, I'm not trying to get religious on you here. But what aspect of religion, Abrahamic tradition, call it whatever you want did we decide oh yeah let's make some of these guys live to a like 900 years old that just that would be good because there's nothing else in like recorded human history that would indicate that just magically around the dawn of man that we got guys living to be

800 900 years old just casually like it's no big deal we're just going to do it and then We'll just keep going. This is a, we did our biblical questions episode, part one and part two, two episodes actually a couple weeks back. That would have been a fantastic one, biblical investigations. I don't even care if he did live to 960 years older or whatever it was. It's like, tell me what's your secret? Was it, you know, wrinkle cream? was it some sort of Alex Jones peddled, you know, I was going to say fabric that doesn't

really work, supplement. I saw a video of Alex Jones. We'll get into our political stuff briefly now. I'm not trying to get fired today. We'll mention that too. But I saw a video of Alex Jones in reaction to the Charlie Kirk assassination from Wednesday. And he's, the hair is completely gone and now he's, or the hair on his head, rather, is completely go now he's just got a goatee sort of has the howie mandel look going yeah i don't know how these biblical guys lived to be so old um let's get into it in a second here our hot take of the week sponsored by our good friends at the samson q2 u series we were just talking about genesis well samson is not in genesis you probably got to go to first king's second kings

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Wishless luck. Hopefully she's not coughing when she gets there. When you need a fresh do something snappy or new, called the experts at cuts by Q. I just wanted to mention, though, because we, going back to Maple's Minute briefly, then our hot take of the week, because we were talking Pokemon earlier, maybe like three weeks ago on this very program. And we were talking about how lazy some of the Pokemon spellings is. We were specifically talking about the Pokemon seal and dugong. There's also a Pokemon, speaking of Maple's coughing, named coughing, but it's spelled

K-O-F-F-I-N-G. Which I got to tell you, I think those Japanese guys knew what they were doing. That double-f is more true to the spirit of the letter than a G-H combo. But coughing is this weird, it's, you would think coughing like some sort of, I don't know, person or humanoid that is particularly wheezy? this is one of those Pokemon where I won't say the name

doesn't match the animation at all but it's it feels like there's a missing link somewhere because coughing is like this poisonous blob I guess it's like a blob

of like purple poison gas is coughing it's like yeah you could cough from poison gas but I just don't really see poison gas all that much in my day-to-day. I'd probably have to go back 80 years to the trenches of

Battle of the bulge to find like mustard gas or something where I'm hacking up along and dying in the trenches. So I don't really know what they're going with with coughing. If you're curious,

it evolves into a muck. M-U-K which is like a, like, it's like toxic sludge. I imagine what they found at the bottom of Chernoble, C-H-E-R, N-O-B-Y-L, Ukraine, 1986.

Does that sound right? Some of the Pokemon, we mentioned this a couple weeks ago, like Arbock is Cobra spelled backward. Eakens is snake spelled backwards. Well, you don't want to spell muck backwards because if your discharge is purple and angry like muck is, you're going to want to see your OBGYN

or just a regular what's a male reproductive dude women got it so good they get their own reproductive health doctors and us males we got to go follow these Alex Jones supplements better health

or what's the green one AG1 dude we got to get an AG1 sponsorship on the Beantown podcast. That's how you know we are legit swindlers, which is all that I've ever wanted. I wanted to swindled people. I don't want to steal their money. I don't want to defraud people. I just want them to get swindled into something I say. And then I return their money and I give them a slap on the wrist and say, you got swindled. Next time, try not to get swindled. And then if I make some sort of like five

percent commission off of that, not from the people who get swindled, but from like AG1 if they wanted to pay me a commission fee for swindling. But I don't want AG1 to get people's money. So I don't really know where my profit is coming from. But it all makes sense because at the end of the day, I've made exactly zero profit off of the Beantown podcast. So it all works out. After all these years, all the t-shirt sales, the buttons, coasters, the Pleas Drive telethons, all that made zero money off the Beantown podcast. I'm not sad about it. It's just, I'll be honest with you. Eight years ago when I started this program and I was hustling hard in year one, season one, I was like, maybe if I really put in time and energy into this, this. This

could become my thing. I could make money off of it. And I can, I can firmly tell you 400 episodes later, that's not happening. That's probably never happening. But you know what? If you got into podcasts for the money, got into podcasting for the money, you're going to be sorely disappointed. I'll tell you that much right now. Let's get political for a brief second here. And I'm not, I'm going to toe the line as best as I can. I have a couple different random things I want to hit on here. Excuse me. Our hot take of the week is that there should be no need to feel obliged to moderate content

that is posted and not posted on specifically Reddit, where I spend a lot of my social media time these days. But that, you know, extends to any social media platform. Facebook, telegram, whatever that is, I don't know. WhatsApp, Weechat, whatever you use. The point is Charlie Kirk, rest in peace. Wherever you ended up Charlie, Heaven, how Valhalla, which is what Cash Patel said, or the most likely scenario, you're just dead and you're dead.

wherever you ended up, I hope you had, I hope you're at peace with, with your life and your choices. My point is Charlie spent his whole life, and I don't claim to be a Charlie Kirk expert, but he spent a lot of his life in the spotlight talking about the obvious things, right-wing conservative values and Second Amendment, but he was also really big on the First Amendment and believing that it doesn't matter if what you say is perceived by others as riling them up or being inflammatory or whatever like if that's what you believe in if that's what you believe to be truthful and right and correct in your reality then you have the right to say it and so when i go on reddit and i see all these different subs subreddits that i'm part of being

like a reminder all charlie kirk discussion or memes have been banned it's like charlie kirk that's the exact opposite thing of what he wanted he would have wanted regardless of how you feel about him, he would have wanted everyone to be able to say whatever they want. And if you don't like it, then you can downvote it. You can comment on it. You can block that person. You can do whatever you want, but people have the right to say what they want. And so it is, I won't even say it's shocking or frightening to me because I've known this all along, but it is, I don't want to say, oh, it's humorous to me. I'm not, I don't want to get blocked by people. I just think it is intriguing to me. I'm not trying to find humor in this

situation, just trying to find logic. It's intriguing to me when you have a lot of conservatives, conservative subredits, social media platforms, whatever, claiming that people need to be censored for their views and takes on this situation. And that's not to say people don't have like extremely wild and flammatory takes on the situation they certainly do they range all over the spectrum but at the end of the day charlie was all for people sharing their sharing and voicing their opinions freely so trying to moderate and censor stuff on his passing is wild to me that was our hot take of the week we had a couple other random things here i also i don't want to say it's humorous that's not our official take

I think it is intriguing thought provoking that Charlie Kirk was murdered essentially a school shooting was at what Utah Valley State College something like that while he was doing a Q&A simultaneously

that wasn't the intriguing part what was intriguing was simultaneously while he is being assassinated there's also another school shooting in Denver happening that's just it's the American Dream, right? Back in the day, Columbine, Bowling Green, Kent State, all this stuff, you'd have one big school shooting a day and it would be the big focus of the news.

Now we get to have it two at the same time. And I say this in all just, but we could go for three, three at a time. I don't want that to happen. I'm saying that in a sort of sad clown state of irony, but why stop at two? If we're not going to do anything about, you know, gun control and responsible gun ownership, why can't we do three or maybe go for four at one time? What are we capable of as an American society? Let's find out. And at the FBI, if you're listening to that, that's just me being, I don't know anyone say humorous. I'm not trying to make light of the situation. It's just maybe at some point we could,

do something. Maybe. Just, just, I'm just going to say maybe, okay? Call me maybe. Hey, I just met you. This is crazy. Responsible gun control and reform might be crazy, but here's my number. So call me maybe. I was going to list Steve's number, but I don't want him to get raided by the FBI. And my number is not particularly hard to find either. But speaking of hard to find, I found it, This, I will say, I found humorous. You know, Cash Patel and his FBI cronies given a press conference, what was it, this morning, like midday today, about, like, all the work they put in. And it's like, we finally got our guy. What was the name?

Tyler Robinson, like, 22-year-old white kid. And what's hilarious about it is the FBI didn't do Jack squat. His dad, this guy's dad, Tyler Robinson, the shooter, the, the, the, the, the, the, presumed shooter, like, told his dad he did it. And so the dad calls the FBI and then they go arrest the kid and Cash Patel's out here like, yeah, we are intelligent guys. They're working around the clock. They got a lot done. I'm very proud of them. And meanwhile, you only got the guy because he told his dad. I don't know. I don't know what it's like to be a murderer, a school shooter, a serial killer, whatever you want to call it. This guy, I mean, he's not a serial killer,

but a murderer. Let's put in those lightest terms. And I feel like in that situation, you would either want to do it and then just get caught right away, or you'd want to do it and have a legit plan to just go completely off the grid and never get caught if you can help it. So it's interesting to me when people like this or like Mangione or whatever, they get caught just like chilling out or like they confess to someone and their family or they're like ordering it a McDonald's in rural Pennsylvania however they got Mangione and I look I don't plan I being a serial killer or a murderer of any kind ever at all but if I can take like a Larry David kind of perspective on this I would be like if I was going to do this I would be like

give me a new skin color get me a wig I'm gonna like go high out and like have a plan like a bunker or something for like a solid two to three months so that this like completely passes over so the people who do this haphazardly and they're kind of in between it's like if they wanted to be caught they would have gotten just caught right away but if you don't want to be if you like legitimately don't want to be caught you got have a better plan than this i'm not rooting for these people but i don't understand the whole like not having a well thought out plan of action I'm disappointed in these shooters, not because of what they chose to do.

I am very disappointing in that, but because of their lack of planning, I guess, is how I would put that. I also just want to give a shout out. If you're someone like me who spends a lot of time on the internet, on social media, or just in general, and like this whole week, especially since Wednesday has just been a shit show, for lack of a better term, If you're a fan of the I think you should leave Netflix show with Tim Robinson, you've got to go join that subreddit because the memes there have been sublime. And yes, I think you're probably going to enjoy it more if you are left leaning rather than right leaning.

But still, the amount of memes, Jif's quotes that have come out of that show that are perfect for any and all situations is spectacular. So that's the I think you should leave subreddit. I want to give a quick shout-out, and by shout-out, I mean, what the fuck shout-out to Brian Kilmead, who you know as one of the hosts of Fox and Friends. This is our last political thing of the day, I promise. But essentially, it was Fox and Friends, was it yesterday, I think. They were talking about people with mental health issues, homeless people, people who aren't all there, whatever. and they're talking, they were complaining on Fox and Friends about, like,

we need to either, you know, make these people take government assistance or if they don't want to, then we've got to do something about it. And the insinuation by one of the hosts, this black gentleman, was like, you know, we got to do something about it. And Brian Kilmey chimes in. He's like, yeah, we should do, we should maybe try involuntary lethal injection or just kill them. and they kind of like it was kind of awkward and they kind of moved off of it and went to a new pot new topic but i i would love to get brian kill me down the show just to be like

you know can you just confirm that your your thought process or your suggestion was essentially if you have mentally ill people who are not looking to receive treatment we should just eliminate them and that's how we we clean up our country just kind of shocking I don't know I'm not I've never been like it's not surprising I'm not like a Brian Kilmead Stan but

kind of shocking a summary I turned pretty one episode left email us your predictions bean top podcast I think we said we wanted to hear your thoughts and suggestions on something earlier

and then I forgot to list what I actually was going to say about say about that. So you can let us know now. Bean Town Podcasts at Yahoo.com. That's Beantown Meeting Podcasts at Yahoo.com. Your predictions for the Summer I Turned Pretty series finale drops this Wednesday. What's Belli going to do?

Excuse me. Here are my predictions. The brothers, Jeremiah and Conrad, threesome with Belli's mom. Belly's the main character, if you don't know. Her name is Isabelle. It's a Bella. I don't know. They call her belly.

Belly Conklin. And she's got a mom who's like divorced. Single mother. Definitely want to get her into a threesome with the two brothers. Belly's got to get dumped. This whole series, three years, Belly spent the debutante ball looking fancy and stuff. Deli's got to, Deli.

Belly's got to get dumped. Okay. And she can just, I don't know do her own thing maybe for once there's Belly's got a brother I think his name is like Jason or something and he's dating kind of on and off again this blonde girl

I don't know if she came into the picture maybe like last season at some point they're pretty boring so you can do whatever you want to do with them I will say there should be another debutante ball that was kind of the thematic center of season one was the debutante ball where

the ladies really find themselves, if you will. And I think we need another debutante ball. Season two had what's her name from Homeland, Kevin Bacon's wife, Kira Sedgwick. Is she in Homeland?

I've never seen it. But there's also her daughter, like Belly's cousin or something like that, was played by Elsie Fisher. who you might know from Bo Burnham's film Eighth Grade. And they kind of disappeared off the map after season two. I'd love to see them come back. And then, I don't know.

I think after the threesome with Belly's mom, it'd be nice if the brothers ended up with one another. You know, because it's unexpected. They're brothers by blood, but I feel like there's been kind of this will, they sort of thing, for three seasons. and I would like to see it, not literally, because I'm not into that stuff, but I think thematically it would be a nice tie-up to this series.

So those are my predictions for the summer I turned pretty this Wednesday. Series finale on Amazon Prime Video. Finally, just a quick mention before a trivia question that the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, this has got to be what, season is it seven now? This is crazy, because they have been with us this whole time in the Beantown podcast. Premiers this Wednesday, September 16th. A reminder, DJ Meredith Marks is doing her tour.

She's like a DJ now. It doesn't really make any sense. I've seen a lot of clips on, like, YouTube and Reddit of her being a DJ, and I'm just sitting there looking at my phone like she's not doing anything. Apparently, that's what she's passionate about. So she's doing a tour. She'll be here in Chicago on December 20th I saw at some club I did not recognize the name of. And then RIP, not actually dead, but basically Mary Cosby's kid, Bob Cosby, the junior, the second, arrested for being a weirdo.

I don't know what he was doing. He's got a lot of issues. So you can get caught up with all of that this Wednesday on Bravo, the Real Houseways of Salt Lake City. here's our trivia question of the day my wife is going to Serbia here in a couple of days for work she'll be there for about 10 days or so so I want you to name the four European country capitals that are located on the Danube River and if you're paying attention I've already given you a healthy clue not 30 seconds ago the four European capital cities that are located along the Danube River.

And if you're not really a Danube head, it flows from like the black forest in Germany down to the Caspian, or no, the Black Sea rather. Comes out in like Romania, something like that. So if you want more time to come up to formulate a guess, be my guest, but maybe pause, because I'm going to reveal the answers now. here are the four European capital cities located along the Danube River. It is Vienna,

Budapest, Bratislava, and Belgrade, which is how we came up with this in the first place. The capital of Serbia is Belgrade. Now our bonus question, just a little bit of extra fun, rank those four cities. Again, Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava, and Belgrade, in order, excuse me, by population, highest to lowest. So again, you've got four capital cities. I want you to put them in order from most populated to least populated per Wikipedia. If you want any more time, go ahead and pause. Again, the four cities under consideration in no particular order are Vienna,

Budapest, Blaslava, and Belgrade. By the way, Vienna is the capital of Austria, Budapest, Hungary, Bratislava is Slovakia, I believe, and Belgrade is Serbia. So those four countries by most populated, or from most populated to least populated. It goes to Vienna at approximately 2 million people. Budapest at approximately 1.7 million people. Belgrade at approximately 1.2 million people. And finally, Bratislava, at approximately 475,000.

people. That's what I have for you guys today. Thank you for listening to my program. Quinn David Furnace presents the Bean Town Podcast. Maybe you have an Octoberfest celebration happening by you this weekend. Maybe a year in Louisiana and it's in the Bayou, the Bayou, by you, by me. You can email us pictures, Beantown Podcast at yahoo.com or you can tweet at us at Beantowncast or of course Blue Sky at Us Beantown Podcast. My name is Quinn David Furness. This is my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast i hope everyone stays safe stay sane and i'm going to check in on you guys next week bye We're going to be able to do.

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