Beantown Podcast - 8th Annual Pledge Drive Telethon Fundraiser

Episode Date: February 28, 2025

This podcast had everything - juice, OJ Simson, and Tate McRae

Welcome, welcome, welcome. Probably not good audio yet, but it's coming, I promise. This is Quinn David Furness. Welcome to the eighth annual Bean Town podcast Pledge of Health on fundraiser. Let's go ahead and get started with a little music to kick things off. Nothing crazy, it's gonna be simple and kind

to start off, very, very light, very nice. Let's make sure we got we got Instagram hello Instagram we got YouTube hello YouTube we got the audio stream going here looks like we are all systems go let's go ahead and get started here Thank you. you So I'm sorry. So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So All right, let's play how it goes. I'm going to be a little bit of a pain in the ass. So So So Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show.

Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast, eighth annual pledge drive telethon fundraiser. Welcome in. Hope you enjoy the music. Hope the audio quality is not too bad. Thank you if you're joining us live tonight on a live stream. We are live on Instagram. We are live on YouTube here in the home studios. Me and Miss Maple here and we're just enjoying the Telethon. I hope you all are too. We already had one missed call I apologize for that. It was for my brother. I know he'll call back. Thank you

We got a lot to cover on tonight's show don't do a lot of Music on the Bean Town podcast these days compared to what we used to do So just wanted to kind of shake things up a little bit here, get us started, but, you know, set the tone for the show, right? It's Friday night. Get a glass of water here and we want to have a good time. And I want to thank everyone for listening. Of course, if you are new to the show, if you found us on YouTube or Instagram

or whatever, it's your first ever. Beantown podcast, you should know that listening to discretion is advised when you listen to the bean town podcast number one will occasionally some language Number two this podcast is objectively terrible, but we are very excited to have you joining us if you are here from Pakistan Khyber pass Hyderabad Karachi utter Pradesh. I was learning about the other day. There was a Jeopardy clue about some Hindi prince who who fought someone else. I don't know. And the answer was utter Pradesh. And I was in utter disbelief that that was the answer. Hey, good start with the jokes. But regardless, thank you, Pakistan for making us the one hundred and twelfth ranked comedy

podcast integrated Islamic Republic of Pakistan. And this is a reminder if you are listening live right now, you want to be part of the show This is our most fan friendly interactive program All season here on the bean town podcast season eight you can call in live right now. No joke 815 298 7200 and you can join the show if you're curious what happens what happens if I if I call in You know, should I be scared? What what should I expect? Well, we got games for you and if you don't want to play games you can just air grievances Festivus style you could talk about the traders episode last night, but don't spoil it because I haven't seen it hmm The traders episode last night, but don't spoil it because I haven't seen it hmm

Whatever you want to talk about games or if you have if you have a fun fact you'd like to share Or just something you're thankful for right Thanksgiving doesn't only have to happen in November February is a good month as well. It is February 28th. It's the last day of February here. I always I don't know about you guys Maybe this is something you can ask about or talk about when you call in as a kid. I was always Getting this is not a joke. By the way, this is just as a kid I could never remember because I knew February was the odd man out, right? I couldn't remember if it was regularly 27 in the leap day was 28 or if regular is 28 leap year as 29.

I like to think at this stage in my life I've got things figured out for the most part. I'm pretty solid with my months of the year both in English and I don't want to put myself on the spot but maybe Spanish. What is it? Anero, February, Marzo, April, Abril, Mayo, Junio, Julio, me and Julio down at the school year. Whistling. Augusto, Septiembre, Octubre, Noviembre and DCEmbre. Nailed it. So yeah, we're pretty much bilingual here. octubre No the embry and DCM Bray nailed it

So yeah, we're pretty much bilingual here We've been threatening to do a podcast in all Spanish for the longest time, but we got our first caller here let's see how this goes and I've got to get the games line up. There's so much I'm out of out of sorts here, but let's go ahead and get started I'm out of out of sorts here, but let's go ahead and get started All right. Welcome into the Bean Top podcast eighth annual pledge drive telethon fundraiser. Who's this? We got it we got a big delay going on No, it's sorry, mr. Call, first time we did a little opening music. I wasn't sure if it was gonna be music all night until someone called in.

I didn't want to be sitting there twiddling my thumbs for an hour. I thought we were on the NASCAR track. You gotta join the Instagram live stream and you'll be able to see everything. Oh man, alright. Bye. I'm a fool for going on YouTube I guess. Oh we got a YouTube stream too, we got it all. Yeah, I'm on YouTube, it's just like a 15 second delay, like your mouth is moving right now, but I'm the only one talking. That's funky. As long as YouTube keeps it live, I'll be okay because last year they kept cutting it off. There's like three different streams out there and when you're trying to do it

An is troubleshoot while you're drinking an entire bottle of lemonade. It's or a lemon juice rather. It's it's tricky It's tricky. No No, no stunts just music maple. I do have a What we what you would call a Mormon coke over here? I don't know if you know about Mormon coke It's like rum and coke, but it's Mormon here. I don't know if you know about Mormon Coke. I don't know about Mormon Coke. It's like rum and Coke, but it's Mormon. Here, I'll get it on the screen here. It's non-alcoholic. It's coconut creamer, diet Coke, and ice.

And it's absolutely, it's delicious. It's a little homage to my fiance who's living it up in Mexico right now and certainly not watching. That sounds terrible. No, it's delicious. It's Mexico right now and certainly not watching. That sounds terrible. No, it's delicious. It's got the cream. You sip it. It's tasty. You take a coconut creamer? Like coffee creamer? You just, you want to do a splash.

Okay. Wow. What makes it warm in? Uh, because apparently that's what they do at BYU. There's no alcohol. So between that that and the soaking they're kind of all set. So they mix cream based liquids with pop? Yes and I hadn't had one until you know a couple months ago but don't knock it till you try it it's pretty tasty. Alright Quinn should we try it right now? Do you think it works with hazelnut coffee made?

Oh you could definitely you could definitely do hazelnut we only had coconut creamer in the fridge See what you're supposed to and you could try it with a coke But what you're supposed to do is do with the diet coke so that it's less sweet and then you bring the sweetness back in Alright, well we don't have any of that. Hey, we heard you talking about traders, and I think, so Nicole hasn't seen the most recent episode, but she is deep, deep into traders. Me neither. So, you guys might have something to talk about. It's, I have not watched, I guess, oh yeah, it was just last night's episode. I've been on Reddit all day and haven't done a good job of avoiding spoilers, so I think I have a general understanding of what's going on right now.

But man, we're getting down to it. I got a polling for my boy Tom Sandoval. Oh my gosh. If they vote Boston Robb up, I'm going to cry. They already did. Why are you saying no spoilers? I was supposed to add the big eye Carolyn last week. She's my favorite.

Yeah. The girl from Portland. We need Danielle to go next. Oh, she's the worst. Yeah, Carolyn, last week. Who's my favorite? Girl or Carolyn? We need Danielle to go next. Oh, she's the worst. Yeah, she's very irritating. I love Gabby, though. I'd love for Gabby to win. Yeah, she's played very well.

It's getting down to nut-cutting time. I guess you could say that. You guys want to play a game? Sure, yeah. What do you got for us? All right, well, you're the first caller, so it's open season here. We've got number one is Juice Quiz, number two is The Juice is Loose, number three, Nobody Wants Beer Ta Will, number four, Ranch Hodgepodge, and number five, Most Populous Cities on the Body of Water.

Is the Juice Quiz about OJ Simpson or about juice? The first one's about juice. Second one's about OJ. All right, let's do the one about juice. OK, juice. Here we go. And whether five people call in and want to play games or not, we'll get through all the games live on air,

because I spent the better half of 20 minutes Working on it today. So alright, this is this is the silliest one by far. So I guess it's good to start with this All right. This is a five question multiple choice quiz Here's here's question number one. And if you get all five correct you get you know the bonus prize which is Look into the camera and saying congratulations so you got that to look forward to all right here is first first question what is the primary ingredient in orange juice is it

oranges carrots cabbage or artificial sunshine Yeah, no tricks yet. Just wait. Alright, alright, you're one for one. Here's question two. Why do some juices say not from concentrate? Is it A. they don't want you to think too hard about it. B. they haven't been turned into a juice powder and rehydrated. C. they're just trying to sound fancy or D because extra watery fruit sauce didn't sell well

No, I was about to ding you cuz I you know your B's and your D's it's it's always the same, but it's okay It's all right. You got it B is correct they haven't been turned into juice powder and rehydrated. Alright two for two. This is a good start Alright, here's number three What's the real reason apple juice is often clearer than orange juice? Is it a apple juice went to finishing school B? They filter out the drama like traders see it's made from Apple ghosts or D It's strained more

prostate during processing to remove pulp and sediment it is that the pulp and sediment and apparently you know you're removing more sediment in the the apple juice that makes me question how much sediment is present in the orange juice, but I guess we got to move on here Apple juice seems kind of sparkly if I may I don't know that's a kind of sparkly if I may, I don't know. That's a... I was never a big fan of apple juice, I don't know. I like... I do like an underrated juice is white grape juice.

It's hard to find, you don't see it as often, but I agree, it's pretty delicious. That's pretty good. I had a thought about, oh apple juice, I like to get it when you go to the hotel and they've got the breakfast area and the soda dispenser But you get juice from it. That's the good stuff I feel like

Usually at the hotel breakfast, it's it's typically just your OJ and your AJ But I suppose if you had a GJ you could you know opt for that as well mmm If you wanted to make a if you wanted to make a Mormon GJ You got to add a spell a splash of cream to your out here to your apple juice And then it's basically like the white grape juice, so it all comes full circle all right Tasty. Delish. All right. You're you're three for three. Here's question four. What's the best way to drink a juice box like an adult. A with dignity and grace.

B biting off the straw and chugging it like a rebel. C, pouring it into a wine glass and swirling it like a sommelier, S-O-M-M-E-L-I-E-R. Or D, you don't. Juice boxes are strictly for kids and grownups who refuse to grow up. Hey, what dignity and grace. I was gonna give this one to ya no matter what you said,

unless it was D, so. I was waiting for C. That's good too too the sommelier what's you got a favorite Capri Sun flavor oh there's much more than that Hick yeah hi I don't I did vitamin C, presumably, is what they're referencing, but it could also be calcium. We'll never know. All right, you're going for glory here with question five. What makes pineapple juice unique compared to most other fruit juices?

Is it A, it contains an enzyme that tries to digest you back? B. It's harvested by singing to the pineapples first and I would know I've been to a pineapple plantation before. Dole, that's name-brand. C. It was once used as rocket fuel or D. It's the only juice legally required to wear sunglasses because it's so cool. required to wear sunglasses because it's so cool. Not for this one. It is it digests you back and I the last time I I was at the Dole plantation you can get Dole whip as they say WHIP also a political position that no one understands but you get the little slivers of pineapple on top of it you got to care be careful because those things will cut your tongue up and

No one wants that on their vacation. So just next time you're in Oahu watch out for the ninja slicing pineapples That's why al pastor is so tender because the pineapple juice marinade breaks down the proteins in the meats. Absolutely. You ever go to one of those steak houses or restaurants where they just bring you like 10 different platters and you just pick what you want? Like Fogo to Chow. I've never been there. We had something like that when we were in Jamaica. And boof, you just go, go, go. It's delicious. So put it on the bucket list. There was hot dogs somewhere. Ooh.

There were hot dogs, remember? Big, big hot dog fan. There was this boutique hotel in Kigali called Heaven. I don't think I went there with, when you visited Quinn, but I went there once or twice and they had this really great breakfast buffet and of course us, our volunteers, were always starved, especially for protein because I think we were bad about buying proteins and cooking it for ourselves. And so a couple of times I went to heaven

and we'd go and just load up on all the meat at the buffet and call it meat plate. And just go to town and it was pretty great. Sounds pretty good. Hopefully it didn't back up your indoor plumbing too much. It backed things up. It's tough. That's tough.

Well, you're the first callers. You've already supported this show with your donation. Thank you very much for that We got a special prize coming for you in the mail Later on here when I when I get around to it, but it is it's pretty exciting. It's pretty special this year I won't spoil it Actually, I think I listed it on the site though. So Well, that's a good opportunity. If you're out there, you're listening, you're watching, you haven't donated, go to the GoFundMe in our link to donate.

But thank you for donating. I appreciate it. Any other parting words of wisdom here before we hop off or any grievances or anything you want to air? Quinn, I am drinking a glass of juice at this time. You have one guest. You're going to get lots of this. OK.

It is a good mixer. It is crisp and delicious and mixes really well. One of my favorite mocktails is to have this juice with some LaCroix and maybe a squeeze of wine juice. What is it? My gut reaction before you even got into the details was diet cranberry. Okay, close. Not diet. Just regular 100% cranberry juice. That's pretty good. Pretty good. You got the regular coke and the regular cranberry juice

I'm going diet over here. Someone's living large Nice a nice crisp summer day. Mm-hmm. Now it's like a warm diet sun kiss on Lake Shepard. I feel like that's a canoe. A nice crisp summer day. It's all around me. Now it's just a swamp, like Shrek. Only other parting thought, there's a second donation you'll see on the site. That's from Nicole. Oh.

She specifically wanted the limerick. OK. It's two separate donations for two separate folks. All right, well, I appreciate that as well. And we'll get to work on that limerick pretty shortly here, OK? Yeah, all right. We don't want to fog the phone lines, but I want to be a thorn

hog. We're going to stay tuned. Good luck with the rest of the Pleasure Ton. It's always a highlight of my year. Thank you. Well, thanks for calling in. Thanks for supporting the show and congratulations on the clean sweep in the juice game.

And enjoy the cranberry, all right? All right. Yup. All right, take care. Good podcasting. Thank you, bye bye. All right, bye. Our first caller, it's that easy, folks.

Get in on the ground floor, play some games. You heard the categories. You're gonna wanna guess about OJ. Oh, we got, geez, give me a second to get my Mormon Coke here. We haven't even gotten into our topics yet. Caller number two, it's my mom. Hi, mom.

Yeah, you got it. It's me. Caller number two is my mom hi mom Hello All right, you got to listen to the phone not the YouTube because there's a delay All right, how's it going? Eight trips around the sun. It's our first after dark edition.

So if you make it to hour three, that's when the strip poker starts. Playing against myself. Ooh la la, we will be in bed, we called in early. Yeah. Well, you guys, what's new on the West Coast? Dan just went for a run. I just made some Mongolian chicken for dinner. You guys what's new on the west coast? Appreciate that thank you very much So how does how does general so compared to Kung Pao compared to?

Tsu what's the art of war guy Tsu Chen? Lao Tsu definitely not right that's okay Well, we made Mongolian chicken, so we had to consult Dengus Khan for this one. Hmm. Does he have a secret Mongolian secret? That's... yeah. A spice rub. Yurts. Ooh, yurts.

I think we could start a girl band called the Spice Rubs, and everyone's like teriyaki, or... I don't know. What other spice rubs are out there. Jerk. Jerk is good. Pineapple, we were just talking about. Pineapple on your carne asada or al pastor, which means to the pastor in Spanish. We already did the months of the year in Espanol. Now we're translating foods, la comida, as we would say.

So we're having a good time over here. Right now we're in una cocina. You're in the kitchen? We are in the kitchen. OK, you're kind of bouncing back and forth between languages there, and it kind of scrambled my brain. We're bilingual. Likewise.

Well, you guys want to play a game All right here are the choices We've already done the juice quiz so there's four left to choose from you have the juice is loose nobody wants beer towel branch hodgepodge or Most populous cities on the body of water Ranch hodgepodge All right ranch hodgepodge it. It's a five question multiple choice quiz.

Here's question number one. Which of these is an actual weird ranch dressing product that has been sold? Is it A. Ranch dressing soda, B. Ranch scented cologne, C. Ranch flavoredavored Toothpaste or D. Ranch Lip Balm. You have C. Toothpaste and D. Lip Balm. Alright, per my sources it's Ranch Dressing Soda A, but I do want to say that it wouldn't shock me if somewhere in the world someone had made a ranch lip balm. So I'm going to give it to you anyways because I'm licking my lips just thinking about it. Dan and I just lost our dinner.

Well, you have to head back to Mongolia, I guess. Here's question number two. What is a defining characteristic of a classic ranch style house? Is it A, a second floor balcony for lasso practice? B, a long, low, single story design with an open layout? C, built exclusively on actual ranches with cows included? Or D, a secret underground bunker for emergency

barbecues yep be a long low single story design with an open layout. That is correct. There we go, all right. We open it with the online ranch. Every house in Rockford, Illinois. Back in the saddle again, just like those ranches. All right, here we go. Question number three, which major accomplishment did Paolo Banchero achieve in his rookie NBA season? And I wanna clarify, yes, that is Banchero with a B.

So it's not really a question about ranch but he's you know he's a quality player so a he won Dancing with the Stars B he was named the NBA rookie of the year C he legally changed his name to Paolo ranchero in order of his love for dressing or an honor of his love for dressing or or D He dunked from the three-point line twice This is when you don't want to overthink he was a high draft pick No the other the other basketball one he was rookie of the year It's alright It's alright still you still got time to make things up. It's alright. You're gonna like this one

question number four What makes Anna Creek station unique in terms of size is it a it's the largest ranch in the world by area B it's so small it only has a few cows C it has the world's largest indoor barn or D It has more sheep than people and the the hint here is only one of those answers had anything to do with ranch Or mentioned ranch, I guess B was it's it's so small it only has a few cows But answer choice a answer choice a actually mentioned the term ranch. It's the largest ranch in the world by area

A actually mentioned the term ranch. It's the largest ranch in the world by area All right, that's that's correct. It's the largest ranch in the world by area Anna Creek station all right South south of here somewhere Australia that sounds right probably, Queensland or New South Wales or The Western Territory because they kind of got lazy with their naming conventions. All right Mm-hmm. That's the yeah Darwin or Perth one of those who knows here is question number five your last one What is Rancho Cucamonga most famous for? Is it A. It's annual avocado festival, B. Being home to the largest snowman ever built, C. It's proximity to the San Bernardino mountains

and excellent hiking trails, or D. Hosting a secret underground barbecue? I thought it was gonna be be something to do with trains. If they would do that on the train, they'd say, next stop, whatever, whatever, En Rancho Cucamongos. No trains here. Think more outdoorsy. It was the hiking one. Dorsey It was the hiking one its proximity to the San Bernardino Mountains And I didn't find anything about an annual avocado festival or the largest snowman or the underground barbecue

But if you if you're listening out there, and you guessed wrong feel free to submit your your updates Well you were you were three and a half out of five, that's pretty solid. Just wait till you, whether we have someone play or I've got to just read through it, wait till you get to this most populous cities on the body water quiz because that baby gets gnarly. So that'll probably be a couple hours in. Can we get a little more of the deal with our grand dog? She's right there, you can see her on YouTube. If you're on Instagram and you want to see the dog, you gotta go to YouTube.

I'm looking at YouTube, all I see is her butt. No, that's her head. She's sleeping down here. Alright. She's a butt head? We love mismatched. Likewise. Any parting thoughts for the Bean Town podcast eighth annual telethon There's no lemon juice this time so hopefully fewer digestion issues It's tough tough on the tongue too, but well, I thank you for donating. Thanks for calling in

I appreciate it and thanks for playing our games and Yeah, I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your evening All right parents take care bye-bye All right, it's just that easy folks two calls in two donations two games We've still got some great geography quizzes. We've still got We've still got a great OJ quiz. So whatever you want to do You can also just call in and not play a game if you don't want to be under that pressure if you just want to Jib the jab. I think we said listener discretion is advised if not it is shoot the shit whatever you want to do

And as a reminder if you are just joining us This is our eighth annual pledge drive telethon fundraiser every year we raise money to cover the cost of the shows, which is our website hosting and our Our soundcloud which is our audio host so that we get a MSNBC feed is what they call it, RSN actually. So we can meet you wherever you're at, Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Player FM, Castbox, Radio.com, wherever you're listening, that's what you support. The good news is you're not actually Supporting this show really I mean technically you are but then I go ahead I turn things around and I shoot that donation out to

The United Way of Metro Chicago every year we raise a couple hundred dollars. Thanks to you all for that So that is what we're doing here on the show today. We are raising money. You can go to the GoFundMe. If you know me personally, you can Venmo me, whatever you are comfortable with. We got great donor tiers. I should mention, I wrote down the donor tiers because I wanted to read those live on air.

So we're about 40 minutes behind here, I apologize. But here are the 2025 Season Eight Bean Tom Podcast donor tears that we've got going so the silver club This is any donation from zero to fifteen dollars silver club is a verbal Commendation live on the bean town podcast now if you get in on the ground floor You can get accommodation life here on the telethon, which is really a marquee event for us Mar Q. You ee the telethon which is really a marquee event for us marq ee I think Mark Queen would be like a good I don't know point guard for UNC Chapel Hill or something right mark Queen Patrick mark Queen what do you think maple let's continue on here the gold club is anywhere from a fifteen dollar or I guess sixteen to twenty nine dollar donation that is a limerick created in your honor and shared live on air

And we'll try to get those on the bean town blog as well speaking of things that your money helps support It's the bean town blog right you want to check it out any of our past writings. We've got Comedy we've got poems. We've got movie reviews, show reviews, guys, Euphoria, season three, they just announced that Helen Hunt was going to be joining the cast. And I, the joke writes itself, right? In terms of these kids who are trying to play high schoolers, Sidney Sweeney and Zendaya and the, who is it? JJ Abrams kid?

No, that's Stacey Abrams Who is there's someone else whose daughter is in that show? It's the the girl who went to Northwestern, but dropped out Paul Rudd something like that. No, it's the guy who directed stepbrothers McKay that's not right. I don't know but she's in it as well now Helen Hunt is playing one of the high schoolers. So it's it's just kind of a cluster But that's the gold club and then they always Requested topaz elite club. That's a thirty dollar plus donation that gets you a bean town podcast limited edition Coaster guys we we are for real this time in the past. We've had stickers. We've had

We we are for real this time in the past. We've had stickers. We've had Buttons we've had signed photographs this year is the limited edition collectors item bean town podcast Coaster so you're gonna want to get in on that action And If you think I'm grifting you I lose money on this right the donation comes out of my own pockets because we're passing along every cent Donated to the United Way of Metro Chicago, so this is really my chance to thank you For supporting the show to thank you for supporting supporting a local charity in my community the United Way of Chicago And so That's what we're trying to do here. I feel like I can finally let me sit back

Let me kick my feet up. I'm gonna try to relax a little bit We we started off by playing some music live on air and then we had callers going rapid-fire We had some great games about orange juice and other types of juice and ranch So it's been a lot of fun, but let's settle in here. Let's slow things down. Friday night, first ever Friday night, Bean Tom podcast, telethon, pledge drive fundraiser, I believe.

So we got topics. We don't just come into this and expect you all to fill the entire show. It's comedy, it's spiritual guidance, and it's this week's hot topic. So first and foremost, I already talked about stomach indigestion a little bit. If we don't want to dig in deeper to the colon region, we certainly could do that now. But no, let's not get too TMI here. I will mention that this week, myself and my lovely fiance did

our first ever juice cleanse, or I think it was hers, it was definitely my first, a juice cleanse. Not a juice cleans, as I mistyped a couple of times in my notes here, but cleanse, C-L-E-A-N-S-E. And in case you're wondering what that consists of, you can do it, you can take the highway or the byway, as I would would say the highway is paying for an actual

juice company they set you up they take your biometrics they read your you know your pulse and your aortic chamber they take your your diabetes levels and all that stuff your your glycerins and they they create they they concoct con CoCT much like conclave the r Ralph Fiennes movie. Tough word to say, Ralph Fiennes. But they concoct six juices a day for you. They're in these little bottles, probably, I don't know, 14, 12, 14 ounces, yay big, this wide.

And they've got all sorts of fun flavors like tangerine sunrise and green goddess and One was just cilantro that was the fifth one that was tough But that's what Rachel did so you get you get a three-day supply of this stuff And you only have juice and water for three days well It was too late when I found out that juice cleanses were or what we were having for dinner this week And I wanting to act in solidarity as I am want to do I Decided Sunday night. Let me head to the old TJ trader Joe's here an hour before it closes and load up on the juice in case you're wondering why there's so many juice themed

Games that we're playing on the air tonight That's because we did a juice cleanse all week And so what that involved was me doing a little bit of research reading an article right before I got there Excuse me that ranked all of the Trader Joe's juices And you know, I'm not looking for you know, 100% Apple Cocktail and I don't want I don't want something with added sugars and I want some of that's a little bit of a balance

right think of like a oh god when I was in Here's a throwback when I was in grad school. I had the same Breakfast every morning and it was a smoothie that I would make in my blender at home in Rogers Park Take on the bus with me up to campus where I worked You know eight hours a day and then went to grad school at night. This smoothie was oh God, I think it was like skim milk, maybe kale and

Spinach perhaps and like a banana and there must have been something a little bit sweeter in there Honey, I can't remember what I oh dates a couple times medjool dates Didn't expect to make an appearance on the show tonight medjool med Jul it's what the the kids are smoking these days. They're getting their medjools going but the the problem with this smoothie And I guess this is because the only way you could avoid it is by pureeing it and these these ninja Creamies these blenders just don't have the the firepower we need to get Tim the tool man Taylor in there to, you know, oh, oh, oh.

And this smoothie, the flavor wasn't so bad, but you couldn't get the kale pureed enough. And so it was all these tiny little green pieces floating around in your blender cup there. And it would get in your teeth and it's like Yzma in the Emperor's New Groove when she's got the spinach in her teeth. And it was just, it was tough all around. But the breakfast smoothie was better than what I had for not, not dinner because I would eat when I would get home at like 10 p.m. every night, but every

night for a whole year when it was work ends at five and grad school class is ended at six every night, and so I would go upstairs, this is the Northwestern University Visitor Center where my office was located, I would go upstairs and we had the saddest little, it was like a big break room, a big kitchen space, but the actual kitchen stuff itself was so sad,

it was like a countertop and a toaster with one slice. And I think, you know, a magic bullet or something. But there was also a coffee maker. And so I was so cheap, so poor, poor and cheap, which we'll talk about in a second here. Not even on my notes, but we got to get there. But I would make Folgers coffee Because that was just the cheapest thing they had at the grocery store

and then I would bring that into class and I don't maybe Maybe Folgers isn't always supposed to smell or taste like total ass, but the stuff I made did and every I distinctly remember every night at about 6 10 6 15 p.m. 10 minutes into a three hour class op screwing off the top of my thermos there and the the waftingness of the Folgers just permeating the classroom me and my 15 cohort members and got a lot of got a lot of complaints it was it was like a funny haha joke not like a Quentin wants you to die kind of thing at least what they said to my face, but That's I don't even know how we got there whoo smoothies

Spinach whatever today was some sort of late late late breaking No spend day organized by I believe Al Sharpton who was sitting next to Ray Romano at SNL 50 two weekends ago, which was crazy we'll talk SNL on a second here because There's a musical guest tomorrow and we got to break it down But yeah, Al Sharpton apparently organizing a no-spend day. I don't really know what it entailed. Does this extend to small businesses? Are you supposed to you know, what about grocery stores? What if you really needed a hot dog or something? I don't fully understand what it was. So to play it safe

I just decided like most days in my life to not spend any dollars at all. It also doesn't help I have a very anxious dog over here. Let's get here. Let's see if we can get her more on the screen going here That can't really be left alone in any capacity so there was no spending happening today, but Yeah, I will see the numbers haven't come in yet. It's about 740 750 p.m. Here central time right so the the polls aren't closing in Alaska and Hawaii the Cash registers aren't hanging it up for the night for another eight hours

You figure we can't really know exactly what time it is in Hawaii in Alaska because they are all on different time zones But that was a great jeopardy final jeopardy question. So they're doing the Jeopardy Invitational Tournament, which is a bunch of strong players, Roger Craig, Matt Amodio, Amy Schneider, all that stuff. And I was very proud of myself. There was a Geography World Capitals final a couple days ago. I think it was Tuesday, maybe. And none of these highly qualified contestants got the final response, but yours truly did the question was more or less in

2016 I think the year was This world capital became the only one to start observing two different time zones This world capital located on an island began Began observing two different time zones is what it was. So it was like 2016 or so, world capital on an island, two different time zones. Those were your clues. And let's see, some of the guesses, I think someone guessed Copenhagen. And then two people guessed ones that weren't even on an island.

Someone guessed Paris, which was like, did you notice it was on an island? Couldn't you have guessed something that was world capital on an island someone guessed Paris which was like did you notice it was on on an island couldn't you have guessed something that was you know world capital on an island and someone else guess something kind of stupid too but the answer was Nicosia N I C O S I A neck Nick Nick Osia Cyprus which is has like two two halves kind of like Kansas City. You got Turkish Nicosia and you got Cypriot or Greek Turcosia, I guess. It's kind of like the whole West Berlin, East Berlin split as a little bit before my time. So I don't fully understand all the intricate nuances

but you got the Iron Curtain there and the Berlin Wall and Angela Merkel we're just naming as many German things as we can now but that's that's the juice cleanse oh that's how we got talking about grad school smoothies so results you know we got to finish the story so it was just there I took I didn't even finish the shopping trip. I went to Trader Joe's, I picked out three of their finest juices and I triplicated them. And so yes, I only had juice and water for three days, Monday through Wednesday. It was definitely, it wasn't my favorite

because I like chewing and eating. It's just a very fun experience for me personally. But in terms of hunger levels really no issues now I this was a big step down from my most extreme fasting experience which was seven day water fast in college and I lost a bet which was rough but if the bean town podcast had been around then that would have been a hell of an episode and then intermittent fasting when I in 2020 season 3 of the show and I lost all that weight

Was just one meal a day. I the juice cleanses somewhere in between those two You know a little bit more extreme than the one meal a day, but certainly challenging Or or or approachable as well if you're wondering no, it wasn't cranberry juice It was like a it was three different kinds of juices one each day Morning was like a it was three different kinds of juices one each day Morning was like a green goddess spinach cilantro cucumbers avocado Green beans

Edamame something like that and then afternoon evening was like a red juice, which was a lot sweeter Was all the you know likely culprits your pomegranates, your dragon fruits, your boys and berries. And then dessert was like a mango smoothie. It was a little bit creamier, creamy in the texture kind of thing. Long in the tooth, creamy in the texture. So just had those for three days. Now, I will say the last two days, Thursday and Friday,

the cleanse went through Wednesday, have been tougher, if you can believe it, than Wednesday, Monday through Wednesday, the juice cleanse. The reason for that severe upset stomach and nausea. I've been nauseous for like 48 straight hours, almost 36 straight hours, coming off the cleanse. And I bet you're thinking, boy, Quinn Quinn you must have had a huge meal coming off of coming off of that cleanse you probably just screwed the pooch didn't you nope I had buttered toast one slice of buttered toast at about 11 a.m. Thursday that was the first thing I ate and then last night had my my bowl of beans and rice for for supper and today it's 8 p.m. at night I've also had one slice of butter toast thus far and

Definitely gonna get to dinner because I need the calories this Mormon soda is certainly packed full of nutrients for me but I need a little bit more but The nausea is real and it is extreme so if anyone out there has Done juice cleanses in the past before go ahead and email us Bean town podcast at yahoo.com. Again, that's beantownmean podcast at yahoo.com. Let us know, did I mess something up coming off the juice cleanse?

Maybe no dairy, I don't know, but just a little bit of butter, just a nice thin layer of butter, golden delicious on the toast. You think you would want like toast and white rice, right? Well, those are the two things I ate yesterday. So I guess next time I got to build in a buffer day for chicken broth. I don't know if that's if that's the best, but make sure you get the low sodium kind.

When we're talking regular chicken broth versus low sodium chicken broth, they're always right next to each other on the shelf Can anyone make a compelling argument for me for? The regular chicken broth who wants more sodium in their life What is the what's the medical condition where you need more sodium in your diet? Is that what anemia is sodium in the blood not sure science is not a particular Medicine is not a particular, medicine is not a particular or an exact science, as Chris Parnell's character

from 30 Rock would say. But I don't know, I'm fairly certain chicken broth and low sodium chicken broth taste like identical. Although I haven't done a taste test recently to confirm or deny these allegations, so who knows email us. Let us know It's a good reminder that you can always tweet at us as well bean town cast and join us on blue skies social That's right. That's the place where everyone is hanging out these days cool guys like me and maple always on blue sky social But email us about the chicken broth my next question here. You're seeing it. I'm holding it up right here a

Thought dawned upon me the other day, and I thought we would just talk it out rather than actually do a quick Google search It's kind of a big picture topic. How do telephones work? Let's just let that sink in for a little bit, okay? I don't know if AG Bell Jr. is listening and he wants to call in and explain it. 815-298-7200. You're calling in to talk on a telephone to talk about how telephones work. That is kind of the meta approach that we have here at the Bean Town Podcast. But even going back to the olden days with the wire,, someone's got to break the physics of this down for me.

You talk into a receiver, it hits a wire of some kind. And then this message travels instantaneously under the ocean in a nanosecond. And then what happens when that message, when that electric hits the the other person's phone Where how do we have the technology to say here's the code that they're saying? What does that mean? How many amperes is that Jules Watts? Watts in is the the electric gym leader in generation 3 I think he's got a manetric if you want to look that one up. Now don't even get talking to me about DISH satellite and the ISS. You're on the phone here. This

is not a great example because when we picked up the phone there was a 15 second delay earlier for those playing the game. So maybe technology has gone backwards since the day of the cable lines under the ocean. But you're telling me I talk into my phone, it sends a message all the way up into the, you know, past the troposphere, frankly, and then bounces back down to anywhere in the world. How do we, how do these messages go from electrical particles to to hey, here's what I'm saying. Someone's got to call in and break that down. I don't know if we need a electrical engineer or it may be as simple as someone who paid attention in high school AP physics class because that was certainly not me. You remember when you had to have labs in school and you just from the start you're

just looking at your worksheet and then you look over at your bunsen burners and your beakers and you're just like I got nothing I got no idea what's happening here that happened to me in my my community college chemistry class and the unfortunate thing about that I not only did I get a B plus I think it was the only B of any kind I got in high school But somehow word got out that I was like the you know advanced student so like the 16 year old taking a community college class 17 whatever I was at when I took chemistry which I hated by the way, and it was just terrible at it Hence the B plus, but somehow word got out around the lab that like I was you know this wonder child

Which I don't believe at all But that was just like the perception of me and so people started to look to me as the class leader in the chem lab big mistake Huge I don't even know an Erlenmeyer flask from a What's the thing that rotates a lot a chevalier? I think they call it CHEVALIER or a chevron for short That's not what it's called at all, but it's the little thing that a fuselage. I think a fuselage is what we'll call it Did not do well. I remember just standing there at 8 a.m. on Friday morning whenever the lab was just being like,

what am I doing with my life? Good thing I stopped at the local grocery store, the Highlander, beforehand to get a two liter of soda and two Long Johns from the bakery. I think the whole thing was about $1.70. In this economy and under under presidents Trump's tariffs. That's that's bringing you up at least 9 to 25 dollars depending on your market. So I don't know we had it good under George Bush. That's all I'm gonna say or who was That's probably not even right Obama Obama nomix when I was 17 Obama was president so time flies man

So yeah, if you could get in touch with us, let us let us know how telephones work and speaking of telephones This is a great time to remind you that you can call into the show if you're watching Hello Instagram. My tablet is streaming if you can believe that it seems to be holding up well, so good on you Amazon and then Seems to be holding up well so good on you Amazon and then The the laptop our Dell seems to be doing better than this time last year We had a lot of stopping and starting it's like me peeing in the middle of the night Or if you're just listening after the fact on our audio stream we got our Secondary laptop going here, which is just a total piece of crap, but we are just using the voice memos software and it seems to be holding up well so far but you can call into the

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Gosh we're all sidetracked now. Okay, Instagram is back Online I know it's not it won't let me go live. Don't you just hate that? Sorry. There was an error with your broadcast Okay, we are going to troubleshoot Instagram. If anyone knows how this stuff works, email us, but not right now because I'm not monitoring the inbox. You should go to blue sky social. That's where we'll see it. Okay, but yeah, the Samsung Q2U series guys, it's got crisp, clear audio quality. It has been doing this since the dawn of time It says sorry. There was an error with your broadcast. It won't let me go live on Instagram anymore That's absolutely brutal to lose the Instagram after just one hour

Just tough. I guess we'll have to just be focusing on On the YouTube now. I just opened up tune blast instead of Instagram because that's the only app I've ever opened on this tablet before Tuneblast instead of Instagram because that's the only app I've ever opened on this tablet before Oh, we lost internet. That's what happened. Oh, I thought Instagram was just being a total tool But we actually lost internet on the tablet. Okay, we actually have a I thought Zuckerberg was you know trying to take me down Now we got to try to reconnect to Wi-Fi. So we'll see how that goes. But while we're doing that, the Samson Q2U series, guys from Genesis to Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, no matter where in the Bible you are,

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All right, I translate that sniff as it's been pretty blustery here in chicago much like winnie poo in the blustery day one of maple's favorite cartoons uh, but guys be careful when you're out on walks with your humans because We literally saw a brick from someone's window sill, you know, they hold up the, uh, the AC units just on the sidewalk must've plummeted from a hundred, 200 feet. And if that bonked your little head, uh, you, you would not be waking up in the morning. Let's just put it that way. You wouldn't have been able to make it to the pledge drive. There would not have been a pledge drive telethon fundraiser if you were dead or severely concussed spending the night at doggy ER so guys make sure

you secure your bricks it's the same if if the Chicago Bulls if Phil Jackson wanted me to give a halftime speech to the last decade of Chicago Bulls basketball I would say secure your bricks you got a rebound the three R's of basketball rebound rebound rebound and Like my good friend Sam Anderson whose birthday was yesterday. Happy birthday Sam Like his dad Greg once taught me the three B's of hockey back check back check and back check So there you go. That's I was gonna say that's all I know about hockey But I'd be selling myself a little bit short. I was playing a little bit of a ps3 before we went live here tonight and I I play on the second hardest skill level in NHL 11 not quite ready

not confident in my in my skating enough yet to jump up to the confident in my skating enough yet to jump up to the superstar level, but I played three games of all pro as the Blackhawks and I won all three including a Shutout in the last game versus the Dallas Stars. So I was pretty proud of myself Now if I could just get it to translate to my fantasy hockey success, that would be nice as well But that is Maples minute Speaking of sports. Here's our next poll question If you could go pro in any one sport, what would it be if you're gonna be a pro athlete?

Everything is the same you got, you know the same Salary and You're gonna get beat up when you play the sport and You're gonna get beat up when you play the sport So what I think I think I'd like the biathlon because you get to do two different things right? I like to ski Not actually, but it's fun to say and I like to shoot I also don't really care to shoot but if I was getting paid to do it I think I would like to shoot plus it's not like you're taking out little critters like maple over here

It's just little cans or beer bottles. I think they shoot in the Olympics officially. But if it was going to have to be a summer sport, probably the break dancing. What was the name of the Australian break dancer? Jack knife? No, she had a gosh, what was it? Put someone in the someone put in the comments? oh We got oh, and we do have comments, and I apologize because Instagram is covering YouTube Ray gun that's what it is so I can't actually the way it's set up right now. I can't actually see the YouTube comments which we'll try to fix that now. It's leaning against my water, but we won't have the

Now you get knee cam over here on Instagram live we're just doing our best here we're not gonna have any more water on the show ray gun is what it is thank you to the YouTube comments and we've got Instagram comments we got a snowboarder and a bowling I like bowling you got regular bowling you got lawn bowling never really played lawn bowling before but I imagine it's similar to bocce Bocce which means lawn bowling in Italian if you can believe it We used to play shout out to my grandparents up in Albert Lee, Minnesota. It's really kind of known as the the Mecca of

croquet CRO Quet and I was terrible at it just whack whack the mallet those balls if they hit your head to be like maple with a brick today that thing will send you to doggy ER but emails being Tom podcast Yahoo.com against being podcast at Yahoo.com let us know what sport you would go pro in it could also be darts Sometimes you see like 16 year olds win the dart championships. I Don't know how they do it man. We didn't have any pro programs in Rockford, Illinois A lot of bowlers bowling pretty popular amongst Rockford Public Schools is my understanding I always wanted a bowl at Don Carter lanes on East State Street because I felt like it was

And it was like where the rich kids went and we always went to the cherry bowl which was lovely in its own right, but really reeked of smoke still to this day when I Come across cigarette smoke in my everyday life Oftentimes my mind is transported back to the cherry bowl, which I believe is still standing as far as I know. I don't know how much it costs to bowl at the cherry bowl these days, but someone could research that. I got

distracted down here because I have a, if you can believe it, I have a pimple on my ankle. Not what you usually expect. Remember that right fielder for the Cardinals, Rick Ankeel, A-N-K-I-E-L, it's almost a palindrome, or an anagram rather, of ankle, but different. He was like a drug addict, maybe he murdered someone, and then he came back to play right field. And then there was Josh Hamilton,

who was definitely a drug addict, and then was like an MVP for the Rangers And then kind of went back to being a drug addict I think So this is all fascinating stuff Next up our hot take of the week So i'm a big SNL fan SNL 50 was two weeks ago. We talked about it quite a bit New SNL is out tomorrow Shane Gillis who has his own checkered pass with SNL. He was a cast member for a day

But the musical guest this was a new one and the musical guest for me is a new one is someone called Tate McRae and First name Tate as in Yellowstone the annoying kid Tate name Tate as in Yellowstone the annoying kid Tate not Tate I'm not Tater not tot but Tate Or Tada you don't see Tada a lot anymore Maybe it's like if you're young you're a kid and you're into magic you use more Tadas But in my daily life rarely do I come across a Tada? last name Mick ray MC rae Do I come across a tada last name Mick Mick Ray? MC are a e

Tate McRae I never heard of I had to look it up look her up, so she won I think season of Dance Moms or Whatever the show ray gun was a host of I can't so you think you can dance she won or Came close to winning so you think she can dance? And she's the man and now she's trying to transition into singing not transitioning genders. Don't tell the Trump administration She's transitioning from dancing to singing and so I looked up Tate McCray on YouTube to watch a couple music videos to get a sense of the talent and my hot take of the week is that

Tate mcgray is essentially just like if you asked AI to generate if If a tick tocker became well known for singing and dancing, what would it be? This girl looks I don't know how old she is. I she's got, it could be anywhere from like 15 to 19 is Tate McCray. And just as the moat, everything is just, you know, AI filters and just God awful music. I think there's got to be about a 2% chance that she sings live on SNL tomorrow night. And it's, it's gotta be, you know,ipsyncing because she's doing the dances as well. I guess I don't know what dances are popular these days if we're Background to square dances. We talked about technology being cyclical with a telephone But yeah Tate McCray

yikes, I Every every six months we get a new one of these who are all all the same Sabrina carpenter Every every six months we get a new one of these who are all all the same Sabrina carpenter Katie Perry apparently is going to space all the way back to you know the days of Ethel Merman and Ella Fitzgerald It's always a new hot flash in the pan that would be a good wheel of fortune before and after category but Or or puzzle which we still have yet to watch if you've got jeopardy or wheel

Spoilers for friday february 20th. They do not want to see your comments Do I Instagram comment do I want you an instagram or youtube doesn't't matter. I just appreciate you joining the show. Someone on YouTube, Tate McCray is 57. So with an AI filter, you can get away with anything these days. It reminds me of being ghosted on the dating scene. If you've never been ghosted before,

or sorry, not ghosted, catfished. If you've never been, I think everyone's been ghosted in some capacity, you know friendship or romantic Or you know if it was like your your kid or something But getting catfish this only happened to me once and I'm sure it was well documented on the show Probably back in season two or something like that This is not the same as a parking girl who just can't park and drives past and you see her and she's just like I'm going to go try to park and then two hours pass. This is way worse than

that cat fishing is we've we've we've talked about it at length but it's embarrassing to show up to a bar by yourself drink three glasses of wine on happy hour. Good deal by the way five dollar glasses but then you're just sitting there like and they're like are you gonna order food and I'm like well I'm waiting for my date and then you know they come back 20 minutes later and it's the same thing and next thing you know you're on your third glass of wine and it's just pretty embarrassing because you're just like texting them like hey what's going on and then you start to put the pieces together and you realize that you probably weren't gonna go

on a date with a recently widowed Brazilian actress who after some sleuthing after the fact found I was very famous Has like millions of followers on on Instagram so her pictures weren't that hard to track down for the tinder profile This must have been before I got banned from tinder. I don't even want to get into the whole Ian summer hold thing Rest in peace Michelle Michelle. Is it Trachtenberg Tratenberg? t-r-a-c-h-t-e-n-b-e-r-g rest in peace Never really got to see Buffy the vampire slayer before So Buffy's not a vampire, she's slaying vampires,

that's what I'm getting from this. Are the vampires the same ones from Vampire Diaries, to bring this all the way back to Ian Summerhold, or is it a whole different creed or race? You know what's interesting in the I Am Legend book, the zombies are actually vampires, but you don't really get vampiric energy from the Will Smith adaptation.

Speaking of adaptations, I finished No Country for Old Men, the book today, Cormac McCarthy. Cormac is basically a palindrome. And gotta tell you, it's in my new pantheon of favorite books. Even though I've seen the movie probably five times in my life It's one of my favorite films definitely my favorite Coen Brothers film And the book is almost identical to the the film well, the book came out first so the film's almost identical to the book but that that book was just just

300 pages of just you I could have read that in like four hours if I was really committed Maybe even less than that because That thing just moves moves moves rest in peace Llewellyn That's a tough tough one to spell and I'm not even gonna try that one Excuse me that ending scene where Tommy Lee Jones was talking about the two dreams he had about his father. Geez How did he not win the Oscar? Speaking of Tommy Lee Jones, it's almost st. Patrick's Day, which means our annual the fugitive watch which I'm psyched for I Didn't kill my wife. I don't care

When they're at that damn oof Richard Kimball. All right next up We talked Tate McRae Instagram recipes or I wrote this topic name as Instagram recipes because that's all my Instagram, you swipe all the way to the right section is. It's just recipes, which was real tough on the juice cleanse. But I wanted to expand this to recipes generally. This is not a new thought, but it is just a pet peeve. So first and foremost with Instagram, what I really hate is when they're cooking a recipe, it looks delicious, the thumbnail draws you

in and then there's this one particular shot that all these foodies or these food influencers or these food food, flour, sirs try to try it, not try to do they do as part of their little reel, if you will will and is my least favorite thing it's when everything's about the you know, the marinated chicken the the the Pollo Asada with the the The pineapple as the earlier color my brother Jack pointed out Al pastor to the pastor it means in Espanol But then they cut away from the food and the next shot is a shot of them the person who made the video Taking that first bite. It's usually towards the end and they do a big bite

Mmm, and they look into the camera just like this And I know the audio audience isn't getting that because you're listening but you can imagine exactly what I'm doing You see you take the big bite, and it's just like, you just orgasmed in your pants or something. It's just, oh man, this is the greatest thing. Mm, that's so good. I don't want the close-up shot of this going into your mouth. I trust that if you put it on the internet,

it's gonna taste somewhat edible, or I can make that assertion myself just from the ingredients list. But yeah, big pet peeve, the close up bite. No one wants that, okay? And then this is new at all. I think everyone feels this way, but I've been looking up some recipes lately

to prepare for my beans and rice last night. And big pet peeve, you go to the online recipe, you open it up, and you gotta wade through, sometimes you gotta wade through it longer than a chapter of No Country for Old Men. One of them, when I was looking up authentic Louisiana and red beans and rice was longer than Ed Tom Bell's dream.

Both dreams. And just you gotta swipe, swipe, swipe, and then when you're on mobile and you got an iPhone 10 That's kind of turning into a clunker. It's slow. It gets you know, just all Jumbled up and you know, you barely can even get to the ingredients. I Absolutely hate it when you got a scroll scroll scroll just take me to the recipe my girl Brock your body See money as we call her she would never tolerate that All right, we got another caller. Hope you guys are ready for some more games. This is aunt of the show. Here we go

Welcome to the bean town podcast eighth annual pledge drive telethon fundraiser. How's it going? Ooh Delaware, what time is it out there? How's it going? It's going well QD. This is your auntie. I'm calling from Delaware. Ooh, Delaware. What time is it out there? It is 924. We're an hour ahead of you. Different, different. What's going on in Delaware? Well, I just played a kick butt game of Scrabble

with a friend, ate a delicious brownie, and I'm thinking about going to bed, but I had to call the podcast before I retired for the evening. I appreciate that. Now, how many special ingredients were in that brownie you had? Well, the ones I can tell you about

are our coconut and walnuts and of course a two dollar egg. The others I can't discuss. Well you're pretty fortunate because when I went to Trader Joe's on Wednesday there were no eggs. You're just SOL. I am very special. So, maybe Delaware's, Delaware, the flyover country, the, the, the avian flu has, has flown over it, if you will. Yeah. Well, tough. What are you going to do?

You know, what are you going to do? Well, I am looking forward to seeing you. I ignore the measles man. Yeah, well, tough. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? What am I going to do? Well, I am looking forward to seeing you in April QD. Likewise, I'm getting married. It should be very exciting.

It's going to be very exciting. I heard your bride is much prettier than you. That's true, although I don't know if you're watching the live stream. I'm wearing a very dapper purple suit so tough to beat It's very kind I'm sure I'm sure Bob just watching on YouTube right now. Hello, Bob Well, do you want to you want to play a game or some grievances or do you just want to maybe do some of your spoken word poetry All right, we so we've played a couple so far. We've got three left.

There's The Juice is Loose, which is OJ themed. There's Nobody Wants Beer Ta'wil, which is in Africa. Or there's Name the Most Populous City on the Body of Water. What is the middle one? Nobody wants what? Beer Ta-Wil. I don't know what that is. You'll probably be really good at it then.

Okay, good. Alright, here we go. Someone took it. Alright, here we go. This is a five question multiple choice quiz. So question number one. What makes beer ta-wil, and it's B-I-R space T-A-W-I-L, quiz so question question number one what makes beer ta will you in its bir

space t-a-w-i-l beer ta will unique among territories is it a it's the only place in the world where it rains gold B no country officially claims it C it's home to the world's largest underground city or Or D. It's shaped like a perfect triangle. B. No country officially claims it. That is right. Congratulations. One for one. If you're curious, it's between Egypt and what we call it North Sudan now.

And yeah, nobody really wants it. It's just sand. So I don't blame them. I don't want sand either. Alright. Well, that's what we're all about. It's a very educational program. Alright, here comes question two.

You're off to a hot start. Why doesn't Egypt want to claim Beer Tawil? Is it a. They lost it in a bet with Sudan? b. It's haunted by ancient pharaohs? c. Claiming it would mean giving up a much bigger piece of land? or d. It's too expensive to maintain? It is see she's hot apparently Egypt prefers to claim the nearby Hull triangle instead so there's a lot of a lot of Geometric spaces out there apparently it's all sand but Some of the sand is nice all right here comes question question three

If I can find it I got people calling left and right they're gonna have to leave a message all right here is question three what is beer Tawhil mostly made up of is it a lush forests and waterfalls be endless sand and rocks see a hidden futuristic metropolis or D the world's largest carrot farm I forgot the questions I or the answers I wrote so that is right it is be endless sand and rocks she's three for three all right here's question four you got two left which of the following is true about beer towel a Multiple people have claimed it as their own kingdom

B it has a bustling tourist industry C It's used as a secret military base or D. It was once a filming location for Mad Max. C was a secret base. Oh, it was a it was multiple people have claimed it as their own kingdom. That was my first thought. Tough. Speaking of kingdoms, do you know about sea land? No, I know about sea world. What is sea land? The geography lover in you is going to love this. Go look it up once you're done.

Sea land is a former oil, now it's just a platform off the coast of England. And there's a kingdom of sea land. They got a website and everything and it's just kind of a platform Sea land is a good read not as good as beer towel, but still good nonetheless. All right. Here's our last question If you wanted to move to beer towel and declare yourself king, what would be your biggest challenge? Is it A. Surviving without water or infrastructure? B. Dealing with aggressive penguins? C. Negotiating with its 500,000 residents? Or D. Avoiding the dangerous jungle creatures?

It is A. Surviving without water or infrastructure. There's no permanent settlements roads or resources Just a lot of sand and the occasional rock You could have a shot of fireball we've had it for about four years over here and you could have that and a virtual virtual pad on the back. Oh, I love the virtual pad on the back. And can I make my pledge, my annual pledge on air or do I just send it in? How does this work, Quinn? You're just gonna, you just enter your credit card number

live on air and the three digit code. Nope, you could do, you could do Venmo if you know me personally which you do or GoFundMe. The link is on the YouTube description and our website, beatompodcast.com. Sounds wonderful. Well, keep up the good work, Quinn. We love you and the podcast.

I appreciate that. Love you too. Thank you for calling. You're welcome. All right. See you on April 19th. Have fun in Delaware. Good luck. Thanks. Bye. Bye. Bye. All right. That's Ant of the show. And I will mention we had to decline a couple of calls during that call. That's how busy these phone lines are folks We've got an Instagram. We're gonna call them back. We got an Instagram comment asking if we are team Ukraine or team Russia and That's a whole can of worms fun day at the White House today poor

Zelensky Just tough tough one alright. Let's let's see if we can get this this group live on the air here See if Hello Nothing yet can't tell if it's working or not But yeah as always guys you can call into the show 815 298 7200 to play we still got two games left

And if we run out of games, we're just gonna have to I don't come up with more games I will mention we've done our hot take of the week. We've done Maples Minute trivia here I don't think we need a separate trivia question. Okay, so we're just that the trivia you get is? So we're just, uh, the, the trivia you get is, is what we're going with, but, um, you can call the show, you can FaceTime, whatever you want to do and, uh, we'll get you live on the air. And we are also streaming on, uh, I am playing Switzerland phase funk bomb stream. that's a throwback to

My sophomore year of college happy birthday good good friend of the show Sam Anderson you can watch us on Instagram I'm at Q Queen D or YouTube my YouTube channel just search for Queen David furnace and we'll get you taking care of let's head back to the notes here Let's see what else we got we did Tate McCray We did recipes We're getting we're getting down there. We still we still got a couple a couple things left. Let's talk movies Okay, so we're not doing a dedicated Oscar special this year because that is it is in two days here 48 hours from now. We'll be watching the show live from the Dolby theater I didn't even write much here. I just wrote Oscar picks and we can talk about this take it whichever way you want

But guys you got less than you owe 48 hours best picture They do laugh they do last and it's four hours into the ceremony, but Conan O'Brien is hosting 7 p.m.. Central presumably although they might move it up They've done that in the past We got 10 Nominees, I think for a best picture this year and I can't name all of them. But let's see it's dune to the substance Anura

Conclave the brutalist Emilia Perez, I'm still here nickel boys the Timothy Chalamet one and One other one that I'm missing I want I want to say Wallace and grommet vengeance most foul But I know it could never be but that was pretty good. That was that was nine out of ten And I've seen like half of the best picture nominations. I sawlave, I saw Enora, which was my, that's my pick, Oscar pick, live on air, you heard it here first, the Substance, Dune 2, and I think there's, oh Wicked was that nominated for Best Picture?

I think it was, I think that was all 10 that we got. But I'm going Enora for Best Picture, Sean Baker for Best Director, the sweep there. I'm going Demi Moore for the Substance. Although I think Mikey Madison deserves it a lot more than to me It's a it's a you know, it's a political thing The substance is all about aging out in Hollywood so people you know to me is gonna win best actress and people are gonna go nuts and they're gonna show Meryl Streep and It's a it's gonna be a big salute to middle-aged women Meryl Streep and it's a it's gonna be a big salute to middle-aged women

But we just Francis McDormand wins every other year. Okay, so who are we kidding ourselves? Like they're plenty well represented What was her? What was the last two words? Francis McDormand's win for I Think it was three billboards because then she won for Nomadland later but three billboards her second she says two words What is it burlap rider? Whatever it was and everyone was like, oh, what is that? Let's clap and she just leaves the stage and she looked like she was wearing a burlap sack. So it made sense but To me I'm going over Mikey for best actress best actor. I think is gonna be Ed Norton I think Timothy is gonna get shut out Best actor I think is gonna be Ed Norton. I think Timothy is gonna get shut out

And then supporting actor. I don't even Kieran Culkin is what people are saying I saw one clip from that movie with him and Jesse Eisenberg and it was quite fine So we'll see what happens there and then best supporting actors. I have no idea. I can't remember I Can't remember who the best supporting actresses are you know what? Frustrated me if anyone has seen conclave get in touch with us the actress who Plays the only female in conclave got nominated for best supporting actress and she's a couple things. She's in it for like five minutes But I think you can give a star-studded performance

Oscar-winning performance in five minutes. I'm totally okay with that Mahershala Ali in Moonlight. I loved okay. It's not about the time But if you're in it for a limited amount of time, you got to make a big impact, right? It's got to be just like Anthony Hopkins is only in the you know That one with Clarice for like he's got what like 27 seconds of screen time Silence of the Lambs you can you can make a big impact with a little amount of time but this lady I think is a legacy nomination kind of like Gary Oldman winning for what

was it Darkest Hour which is not his best performance But neither here nor there because I watched conclave and I think I'm pretty well tuned into when people give excellent performances And when they don't but It was just the most whatever How the heck was she nominated kind of role? It wasn't like she had a lot of room to really explore The Sistine Chapel or whatever and give a big, you know rising speech It wasn't like she had a lot of room to really explore the Sistine Chapel or whatever and give a big rising speech. It was just, I could have done it.

And I'm not even female, OK? Nor am I Vatican. I could have done it. That's all I'm saying. Isabelle Rossellini, something like that, her name is. I don't know. Look, Isabelle, if you want to call into the show right now 8 1 5 2 9 8 7 2 100. I know you're busy with the Oscars parties, but

You know if you want to defend yourself, you know, I say go for it, but I don't know it was I Felt sufficiently underwhelmed. I wasn't even well, and I was underwhelmed But yeah other Oscars picks, you know all in on Wallace and gromit vengeance most foul people are saying it's gonna lose to wild robot bullshit Wallace and gromit probably gonna sweep Probably could see it for some of the categories. That's not even nominated. I'm thinking visual effects makeup certainly I mean feathers McGraw was glowing that train scene dude. That was the best train scene final, you know, whatever since

Polar Express when it's on the icy lake with no tracks, that's pretty badass But then Mission Impossible 7 which is Mission Impossible Dead reckoning part 1 and part 2 is not even called dead reckoning part 2. It's just called something else I don't remember what it is great train scene at the end with Tom Cruise and Haley Atwell But I think Wallace and grommet vengeance most foul. They're chasing feathers McGraw It's a it's an homage to the original wrong trousers which has a great also a great train scene where feathers McGraw is on the tracks and grommet is putting down the tracks as fast as the train goes and

you know the the indoor miniature train and This so this is just on a grander scale, but you have engines most foul probably gonna clean up Geez what a institution. It's better than chicken run. It's better than Sean the sheep it it puts all those to shame We did watch chicken run 2 on Netflix a couple months ago just average it was really missing that anti-semitic touch from its lead character speaking of movies this is one of the last things I have for you today I've got a pitch for Pirates of the Caribbean 6, okay? So you remember in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 Dead Man's Chest

Isn't Pirates of the Caribbean 4 Dead Men Tell No Tales So they're really reusing the dead theme here Which means Pirates 6 should also start with dead. We could call it Dead Man Walking But you remember in Pirates 2 there's a great scene with Stellan Scarsgard who plays Bootstrap Bill Turner and his son will turn Orlando Bloom We already talked about Katy Perry going into space comes full circle on the show And they're playing Liar's Dice against Bill Nye tough tough to say Nye and IGHY

And he's playing Davy Jones and he's got all the testicles hanging off his chin and stuff like that. The big sack, as we call it. They used to call me Big Time in intramural flake football because I would rush to the passer and get that big sack, just like the one hanging off of Bill Nye's chin. Like the rooster has, the little thing hanging off of his chin there there the gobble gobble

That's got a specific name. If you know You got a post at us on blue sky social is where I would like to learn about that art or tweet at us Or email the show, you know all this stuff or call in I would love if you call in 815-298-7200 but Pirate 6 Deadman Walking Forget all the you know, the British East India trading companies forget the Kraken Frankly, we don't need Johnny Depp for this one. It's just three people in the cast. It's just Bill Nye Keith Richards We can't do still in scars guard. He's got too expensive

But Orlando Bloom, he hasn't really done anything except for a Super Bowl commercial in the last 20 years. Bring the back, it's just a two and a half hour game of Liar's Dice. And I don't know how long a typical round takes. I think in Pirates 2 it was about three minutes, give or take. So you could probably fit in, I don't know, 150 minutes divided by 3 whatever that comes out to you could easily do it what is that like 50 games of liar's dice something like that I think it'd be tense is if it's 50 games you could do first yeah you got three players so 50 divided by three

you know it's like best of seven in seven in the World Series or something like that. But 50 divided by three comes out to approximately what? 17, so it's first to 17 wins, that's what we do. First to 17 wins, wins. And of course it starts out in Davy Jones is, you know, down bad and Keith Richards is really doing well. And then all of a sudden here comes Orlando Bloom. It's like the hot dog race at Wrigley Field

or the the cuppy coffee, big bagel Duncan donut race at the United Center And then you know Davey Jones makes a late push comeback, but then at the end boom Orlando Bloom probably wins But if Keith Richards was gonna win that'd be cool, too I feel like we're not gonna have Bill Nye win just you know it's everyone is expecting it it'd be lazy filmmaking we wouldn't get nominated for as many Oscars as Wallace and Gromit Vengeance most foul that I can guarantee of you but that's my pitch for Pirates 2 it'd be really cheap to make we just do it on green screen at Jerry Bruckheimer's backyard his patio

you just need Orlando Bloom for like a day Bill Nye we could just CGI We don't even need him Keith Richards we need but Keith Richards Orlando Bloom Jerry Bruckheimer and if You know Klaus bedelt or Hans Zimmer want to come back and do the score again, that'd be fine but really it's just going to be like a solo violin so we could do it sock Perlman-Yo Ma, and then it's just, you know, like Psycho when she gets by Anthony Perkins, you got the high strings going, but you just do one.

Right, Maple? There you go. Jerry, call me 815-298-7200 and we'll talk brass tacks. I don't know why they were taxing brass specifically doesn't seem as valuable as your irons your oars or I Don't know Einstein IMS

Berkley IMS But that's my pitch for pirates Six if you can believe it. This is the last thing I have on my list here stumbled up stumbled upon this today we're talking about the name oral because related to a Candidate we were discussing oral ORA L and it got me thinking And I don't know if I'm about to uncover a big conspiracy or maybe it's not a secret and everyone knows but I I've known two Orals in my life in terms of people right or or proper names Not talking oral surgeon. It doesn't count

Oral Roberts the Oklahoma based preacher from the 20th century now has a university named after him the Golden Eagles and Oral B the toothbrush company, two completely separate entities, right? Maybe not, because all of a sudden you take the letters from oral Roberts and you rearrange them anagrammatically, you get oral B, which could stand for oral Bob, and now turns out Orville much like Orville or Oral Redenbacher or or oval Redenbacher you have oral B stands for Bob Roberts

Was oral Roberts sitting on a toothbrush fortune this whole time and that's where he got the money The church was just the front He was really making buko buckos from the toothbrushes That's where he got the money. The church was just the front. He was really making buko buckos from the toothbrushes. So if anyone has any insider knowledge or insight into this, let us know. But that just blew my mind when it turned out that Oral Roberts and Oral B were the same entity.

Crazy stuff guys. This is this is where we're calling this last call as you will because even though My stomach is maybe not going to allow it if you know what I mean we do have to try to eat something because we are surviving off of This week essentially up to this point. It's Friday night since Monday We've had juice, two pieces of toast, and one bowl of rice and beans. So we're trying to, and now a Mormon Coke as well, so we're trying to up those calories a little bit so I don't wither away.

Bill withers, rest in peace. But I will say, let's, we got two games left here. We got our OJ quiz, the juice juice is loose and we have our geography quiz. So last chance to to call in let me get a sip of our Mormon cocktail here. I Did we talked about dry January quite a bit on the show understandably I did break my Drinkless streak in 2025 had a bridal shower It's one of those things you probably only get to do, you know two or three times and I did have a couple glasses of red

wine there But since then I've been back On on the horse. I was I was temporarily off the horse, but I'm back now So last chance 815 298 7200 call in if you want to play one of these last two games You can come in halfway. That's fine as well, but I am going to jump in here. Oh, we got we got a caller This is a this is gonna be a treat. Let's see if he wants to play a game All right, bean town podcast eighth annual pledge I have telethon fundraiser. Thanks for calling. Who do I got here? What do we got here? We got Matt and Al.

We're here, what's going on? Hey, Matt and Al, thanks for calling in. Good friends of the podcast. How is your night going? Oh, good. You're talking making chicken. We're making chicken. Ooh, what style?

Marsala, KFC, tenders? A Ina Garden specialty, crispy chicken thighs with a mustard sauce. Now let me ask you something, when you pull up the recipe, do you gotta scroll down and wade through like 10 pages before you get to the actual recipe? Okay, well, Ina Garden would never just like rock your body, but I've heard you say that, and my family talks about how time is the most annoying thing. If I wanted to read a novel, I'd go back to no country for old men or Moby Dick

Mm-hmm. What's what's if you had to pick either of you like one of your favorite novels from the classic repertoire? What would you pick? Ray Bradbury is a pleasure to burn. It's a nice audiobook too. Who did you get to read it? I'll have to report back. Okay, probably Gilbert Gottfried or something like that. Well, you guys, you called in, thank you for supporting the show.

Would you like to air some grievances play a game? Uh, maybe do an original song. What are you thinking? All right, well you got you got two left to choose from you got the juice is loose Which is about oj simpson or you have the geography quiz, which is Most populous cities on the body of water. What do you think, Matt? It's good with either. Do you know anything about OJs and stuff?

I mean, no. I know 10-car-an-hours, yeah. Okay, we don't know anything about OJs, so we wanna do OJs. You're doing OJ? Yeah. All right, here we go, good choice. Cause that, it's a good thing we saved

the water quiz for last, because that thing is a total bear when we get to it. So here is our penultimate game of the night. The juice is loose. It's five questions, multiple choice. Here is question number one. Before becoming famous for other reasons, OJ Simpson was known for what? it a running really fast with a football?

B running really fast away from responsibility C running a juice stand or D running out of good life choices It was a running really fast with a football I think at one point OJ had the NFL single-season rushing record, but I don't know that for certain So so don't quote me on it. All right, you're one for one nicely done question number two What was the name of the infamous slow-speed police chase involving? OJ Simpson was it a the great escape be the Bronco 500 See the weight is that OJ pursuit or D the white Bronco Chase because apparently 35 miles per hour is thrilling The great escape I think it's gotta be A. The Great Escape? No.

D? B? I'm gonna go D. Can we choose someone to answer? It is D, yeah. It is the white bronco chase. All right. On the record, Nat was about to say The Great Escape. Well, you guys are working together.

It's okay. Great film, though, The Great Escape. Never seen it. There was a pool store, as in indoor and outdoor swimming pools in Rockford called The Great Escape. And that was, you know, the commercials would have ladies in bikinis enjoying their hot dubs. And that was the most action I got until I was 18. Alright, question number three. What was O.J. Simpson's nickname during his football career?

Was it A, the juice, B, the glove enthusiast, C, the sprinting suspect, or D, the Bronco whisperer? Hey. Hey, is that, yeah, why don't I go ahead? It was A, the juice. Alright, it's a hot streak, you're three for three. Here comes question number four. During his infamous trial,

what phrase became a cultural catchphrase? Is it A, if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. B, when life gives you lemons, make orange juice. C, catch me if you can. Or D, this is all just a big misunderstanding. It is A. Johnny Cochran would be proud. If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

That is right. All right, one more. You're going for the clean sweep. Here's your last question. What questionable decision did OJ make many years later? Was it A, writing a book titled If I Did It? B, stealing his own memorabilia and going to jail anyway? C, trying to become a Twitter influencer? Or D, all of the above because he just can't help himself?

It is D, he wrote the book, he stole his memorabilia, and he, uh... I felt like did pretty well on Twitter until he, uh, his untimely passing, but, uh, no, it was D. Congratulations. You got all five correct. How are you feeling? Good. Uh, OJ died. Oh, yeah. Sorry to break the news. What? Tough. I don't have, but I had to break the news. Tough. Somber. Yeah, he he got out of prison and then he was doing his Twitter thing for a little bit and then rip maybe last year the year before I don't remember when

exactly. Hey, you got well I got you here you got any big Oscar predictions for Sunday? We are still working our way through the list. Yeah, we really liked it, no, I know, that was good. Me too, me too. Let me ask you something. Have you seen Wallace and Grom at Vengeance Most Foul? Not the new one, but I am a fan of the original.

Well, if you like the wrong trousers with Feathers McGraw as the villain, you're gonna wanna see Vengeance most foul, so probably move it up your list. Okay. It's on the agenda tonight. Hell yeah, hell yeah. Well, you got this platform here.

Anything else you got before you dive into your chicken? No, we're just really excited to meet your aunt at the water. Ooh, it's gonna be a treat. She brings that Delaware spice of life, as we call it. I love that. Yeah. Well, I really appreciate you calling in. Thanks for playing our game. It was a lot of fun.

And we're gonna see you around soon, okay? Of course! Yeah, thank you. Absolutely. Enjoy the chicken and say hi to Ina. Absolutely. Go beat town. All right. Take care. Absolutely enjoy the chicken and say hi to Ina All right, take care

What a what a wholesome game about OJ Simpson and yes, sorry to break the news but rip They say they die in three you had OJ first Pairs of three is what they say yet. OJ and then you had Michelle Trey key Ot of me and Berg and then Jean happen. I Love that chase in the French connection What a what a scene Speaking of famous trains. We have Wallace and grommet. We have mission impossible 7 and then you got well the fugitive of course This is my stop doc the one-armed man. All right We are about to hit the two-hour mark here. I'm not even I was gonna originally gonna play outro music

real authentic Tishomingo blues, but it's 9 p.m. Already and frankly, I don't want to piss off the neighbors, so we're gonna just do a Generic outro music on the audio feed and we'll just end our our YouTube and Instagram feeds before we get there but we've got one last game it is the most populous cities on the body of water so this will be our de facto trivia ending thing here before we play that game again I just want to say thank you to everyone who called thank you and who for everyone who has donated financially there's three hours left in pledge drive month we're gonna have a we got a real treat a geography phd coming

in to play this last game to close the show so thanks everyone for supporting here we go let's jump into our last caller of the program this is the official last caller of the night and you're just in time to play our geography game eighth annual Bean Town podcast pledge drive telethon fundraiser. Thanks for calling in. Who do I got here? Well, you're just the man I wanted to talk to you because we have podcast while I'm calling in. Well, you're just the man I wanted to talk to because we legitimately have one game left that has been unused and it is a bear of a geography quiz.

So I'm excited to get you going here. But you were, if I may ask, you were just doing some Oscar scouting before this, were you not? It's true, we are fresh off watching Complete Unknown for the first time starring Edward Norton and that guy from The Killing Kid from Ozarks. No, just being cheeky.

Yeah, it was great. And what are your thoughts on the best actor race between What's His Face and the other guy from The Brutalist? Adrian Brody. It's what they're saying it's coming down to. It's yeah, it's neck and neck. I haven't been keeping up with the critics' choices or the sag's.

Sometimes those are predictive, but I haven't gotten the chance to watch them yet. Well, Timmy just won the sag, so not that I was watching, but I just't gotten the chance to watch them yet. Well, Timmy just won the SAG, so. All right. Not that I was watching, but I just saw the headline. Yeah, I don't know. I haven't seen the Brutalists, can't really say, but Adrian Brody's great, but this was impressive, I will say.

All right. Well, you're gonna wanna set aside. You'll wanna set aside, I've heard, approximately three and a half hours for the Brutalists, so you may have to break it up into chunks. Yeah, not bad, it's light. Well, we got you here, we got by de facto our last trivia game of the night.

If you're down to play, we'd love to take you through this. All right, it's gonna start off gentle and then the last question is just all hands off. So here we go. It's largely multiple choice. Question number one, and again, this quiz for the listeners, it is the most populous cities on the body of water. So here is question number one.

What is the most populous city on the Missouri River? Is it a Kansas City Kansas B Omaha Nebraska C Kansas City Missouri or D Bismarck North Dakota? It is. It's it's Casey Moe. It's close to Omaha but it is. It is, ooh, it's KC Mo. It's close to Omaha, but it is KC Mo. All right. And this one has a bonus question attached to it. It's a flip a coin. Which city has a higher population,

Bismarck, North Dakota, or Pier, South Dakota? I don't know for sure, but I think that it's Pier. South Dakota Tough you missed that you missed the bonus shot. It's actually I don't have the numbers in front of me I think Bismarck is around 70,000 and peers only like 10,000 or something. It's it's very different All right, it's okay Yeah. All right, it's okay. I have about 80% of North Dakota's population. Mm-hmm, it's all right. It was just a bonus question.

All right, here is question number two. What is the most populous city on the Mediterranean Sea? Is it A, Alexandria, Egypt, B, Algiers, Algeria, C, Beirut, Lebanon. Or D. Barcelona, Spain. Oh, that is intriguing. Okay.

I think... Okay, so we got Beirut, Algiers, Barcelona, and what was the last one? Alex... excuse me, Alexandria, Egypt. Man, there are a lot of big cities in Egypt, but I don't know how big Alexandria is actually. Um... man, alright, I'm just going to guess... Beirut. Ooh, it's close, but it was Alexandria. It's alright. It was a tough one. It was a tough one. I think I think you can bounce back with this one.

I feel good about this one. Not to put too much pressure on it, but question number three. What is the most populous city on the Baltic Sea? Is it A, Helsinki, Finland? most populous city on the Baltic Sea? Is it A, Helsinki, Finland, B, Stockholm, Sweden, C, Copenhagen, Denmark, or D, St. Petersburg, Russia? I think this one is St. Petersburg. It is St. Petersburg, absolutely. I don't think I'll ever make it to St. Petersburg in my lifetime, but it looks lovely from what I've heard.

So that is correct question number four what is the most populous city among the Caribbean Sea island nations is it a Havana Cuba B Santo Domingo Dominican Republic C Porto Prince Haiti or D Kingston, Jamaica It's a good guess my sources think it's Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. But you know, a lot of this is municipality versus areas versus townships. So if you can file a written complaint if you would like to after further research to the show and we'll backtrack some points your way.

All right, I promised you the glass question was a bear It's bucking the trend. It's a top 10 list You got to see how many you can name with no other help. So it's very simple Name the top 10 most populated cities on the Great Lakes the Great Lakes. That's number two. It's number four. That's right. Got to get my AmeriCentric lens off here for a second. Toronto. Alright, he's got one. Okay, let's see. Let's see. Oh man, is, maybe that's going out too far on a limb.

Is Buffalo, New York. It is, it's number eight. Okay, Cleveland, Ohio. It's number six. And maybe still on the list, Detroit, Michigan. I don't have that here, no. Probably fell off once or five times. Is, yeah, this is where I think I might be going on a limb.

Is Windsor, Ontario on the list? I don't have Windsor, but you're gonna wanna dip into that Ontario well a little bit more. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. This is gonna be tough to think of stuff, so I really should know my Ontario geography better. I want to dip into that Ontario well a little bit more I don't know and it's not on my list Okay, wow, that's number three. Did not realize it was that big, okay. Okay, how many do I have left? You're missing number five, number seven, number nine, and number 10,

and it's 50-50 states versus future states, Canada. Yeah, okay. Let's see, what else is big enough on the US side? Um... You're not counting like Montreal, are you? Uh, sure, sure I am not. Yeah. Um... What about... T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T- There you go Toledo's number seven

It's it's not big enough no you got to go a little bit further up. Okay. Um... Let's see. What else we got in that area? Uh... There's nothing to the west that I'm missing. That... Superior. No, there's no like Thunder Bay or anything. I think everything we're dealing with here is is is

Lake Ontario or Lake Erie is my understanding You are you gotta think finger lakes I still miss one US one. You are. You got to think Finger Lakes. Is it Rochester? It is Rochester. So you're just missing. And I'll say, I'll say, like, I'm pretty sure

I've heard of number five, and I definitely haven't heard of number 10. So best of luck. OK. Yeah, I'm really struggling to think of stuff right now. Does one of them start with a K or no? No Ks, we got an H and an O. H and an O.

One of them, the O isn't like Anandaga or something, right? No, it's a very like basic white sounding name with a tree in it Oakville Oakville is number 10 Think Lin-Manuel Miranda Lin-Manuel Miranda. Lin-Manuel Miranda. Hamilton. Hamilton, Ontario. There it is. So for the listeners,

we got one, one Toronto, two Chicago, three Mississauga, four Milwaukee, five Hamilton, six Cleveland, seven Toledo, eight Buffalo, nine Rochester, and ten Oakville, Ontario. That was, that was pretty Ontario. That was pretty good. That was a lot better than I would have done.

Well, thanks for putting together the game. Appreciate it. Absolutely. You got any final parting thoughts for the 8th annual Pledge Drive Telethon? Yeah, we'll have to watch the tape, but I hope that was a good one. Did you hit your goal? I have no idea. I got three screens going here.

I can't really manage the finances, too. OK. So it's like Beantown Red Zone over there. A little bit. Actually, we got two laptops, a tablet, and a phone. So there's a lot going on. That's pretty good. It's a little bit like when we do our Groundhog Day party

and we've got one laptop playing the film and then another laptop with this camera on that laptop screen. So we're living in the 21st century for sure. Yeah. Excellent. Well, thank you for your Oscar. You're kind of our red carpet, what do they call them? Concierge, correspondent checking in from the awards show. What's gonna be the big upset on Sunday night? I'll say that Anelia Perez will win Best Picture. That would be like, what, Crash 2.0 when everyone got really pissed off I haven't seen it, but I've heard the ending is is a wild ride, then I spend the rest of the year thinking oh those are the movies I'm gonna watch to catch up and then most of them I never see

but for lack of desire You gotta watch Enora, that's a good one but be ready, there's a lot of screaming so just be ready Wow, yeah so I I don't know, that's uh I guess that's my pick, off the totally shooting from the hip having not seen it

Alright, alright I heard there was some scandal there though with the lead That's my pic. I said totally shooting from the hip having not seen it. All right. All right Not that I seen but I haven't have researched it yet, so we'll do that later It's basically just Bobby Moynihan's character where he's like, yeah, you're the one about the, and makes up something absolutely ridiculous. Drunk Uncle, he's a classic. Oh, well, that's a great one. Oh, and then, yeah, the Anthony something. Anthony Crespino or something.

It's like Anthony Crespino or something like that. Yeah, because it's like Anthony Crespino or Crespiano or something. Yeah, exactly. That's a good one, too well appreciate you calling in appreciate you supporting the show one of our topaz elite members will get you that gold jacket one of these days but thank you again we appreciate and congrats on the Successes All right, yep, take care All right, we're trying to do one last call here because it's been a game of telephone as they would say

We're trying to get an international caller live on the show here. We'll see how it goes. I gotta tell you guys I hey there there it is Oh, it's it's awfully cacophonous over there. This is gonna be tough on the stream It's it's awfully loud over there, but thanks for calling in I That the tough thing about Mexico is there's so many hours behind that when it's three hours into a live stream here two and a half and it's you know 938 night over there. It could be as early as 5 p.m. So you call back It's cacophonous you want to have your loved ones on the show

But when it is just boom boom boom boom boom, you know, it's it's tough and now we're we're being asked to Run the live show when we are trying to end it five minutes ago just to extend it to To get this my fiance to call me back. So We got this much left in the Mormon coke and it's less than a finger if you're measuring at home and in the Mormon Coke and it's less than a finger if you're measuring at home and Got to tell you I ran out of we did our ad reads we did our songs we did jingles We referenced bean town podcast at yahoo.com about 20 times

I Don't know guys hit let's let's hit the comments here Instagram live YouTube live I want to give a quick prayer to the Lord for all the technology holding up Tonight it's been better than it. It has been for for many years here on the telethons But I will I do want to say that you can you know comment of course This is your last chance to get in your comments on the live streams. Anything you got, you want to air a grievance. What's coming up on the Beantown podcast season eight?

Well, next month is March. That means St. Patrick's Day. That means birthday podcast, means the fugitive. So we got that coming up. We have a Shamrock Shuffle in three weekends here. Looking forward to that 8K. We have a shamrock shuffle in three weekends here looking forward to that 8k Then we get to April. That's what I'm getting married, which is crazy We'll have to figure out how to do a wedding show not at the ceremony not at the reception

We do have a Instagram comment. Thank you. What's your opinion on DePaul basketball this year? Well, we've got I think think, two conference wins now, which is two more than we had last year. So there's a lot of progress being made. We have Coach Chris Holtman has brought a jolt of energy to the program, and I even helped him hire a member of his coaching staff. So I take a lot of pride in that.

That's actually my official job is to help people do that Basketball is just one of my many areas my functional areas, but we're on the up-and-up You know 2 in 15 or whatever it is way better than last year. Watch out you con because we're coming Looking ahead to May we have of course the eighth annual bean town podcast horse names Special you definitely want to submit your names. We are running out of space. I'm not not kidding you submit your Favorite horse name of the year. This is completely creative. It's not a real horse It's your own if you're gonna buy a horse and name him whatever you want

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I think we're at nine right now. So there may just be one more slot here for the listener suggestion, but get that in before the Kentucky Derby, which is usually like the first weekend of May, something like that. Has anyone in the comments, anyone ever had a mint julep before?

That's what I would like to know. It's bourbon, it's minty. I imagine having never had it or seen it made, you got the sprig of mint at the top. It's like if you had the clear sprite. I guess all sprite is clear. The crystal Pepsi, combine it with a little bit of bourbon and an aperitif and you put in the mint at the top.

All right. That's a mint julep in my mind. Here we got a potentially last caller of the night because I really got to wrap this up. I'm dying here. My Mormon Coke is gone. All right, Bean Town Podcast, eighth annual Pleasure Telethon fundraiser,

live from Mexico. Who do we got here? Woo! Can you hear me? I can hear you you reminded me of Earlier on the show we had the idea of a new girl group called the spice rub girls and we were coming up with names there was teriyaki and Other ones I forgot what else you're the spice expert. What else could we have maybe that spice from dune

well they know sorry they were the this was my bed they were the spice rub girls hello oh we got the whole family here. That's very exciting. Dead air. What'd you guys have for dinner? It was an Italian restaurant, but it was a buffet. So everything is incognito buffet. Yeah. Probably have some spaghetti, some cacio e pepe, linguine.

Amanda hates lasagna. Oh, okay. That's an unstable. Uh oh, that's embarrassing. Oh That's embarrassing I Think we're losing you this is tough. This is tough. All right, we lost the Mexico stream tariffs are a bitch That's that's it guys two minutes, two hours, 18 minutes in. You know what's tough about this? You take an edible two hours before show time. Then you play three rounds of hockey. NHL 11. Good stuff there.

And then, oh I forgot to mention, I didn't even mention this, our opening songs. We played two songs And that we're just now mentioning what they were that was in reverse by the war on drugs and The getting by by the killers and those are two songs that I never played on the piano until rehearsal this afternoon I think it went fairly well. I don't know for the audio audience if it's gonna come through well It's always a risky gambit GAMB IT Channing Tatum heads will know when you're doing that type of setup. And frankly, I don't know if it came in well on the YouTube or the Instagram either,

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