Beantown Podcast - 9th Annual Pledge Drive Telethon Fundraiser

Episode Date: February 22, 2026

Quinn comes to you LIVE with friends, trivia, hymns, dogs, and more on the 9th Annual Pledge Drive Telethon Fundraiser. Email [e-mail] with the receipt from your $20+ donation before February ends to become a Topaz Elite member! Thanks for supporting our show and your local causes!

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for February 222, 26. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn, and this is my program. Quinn David Furnace presents the Beantown podcast. It is the ninth annual Beantown Pleds Drive Telethon Fundraiser. If you are watching live on YouTube, you can give us a call. 815-298-7-200.000. That's the number to call to get on the show. We've got games. We've got wine. We've got hijinks. We've got dogs over here. And we're live on YouTube. If you're listening after the fact, that's great as well.

I was really excited because I got my tablet set up to go live on Instagram. And the second I say, hell yeah, let's do it. Let's go live. I get a notification from Instagram saying you have to have over 1,000 followers. which seems pretty steep to go live on Instagram. So we are just freewheeling it here. We're on YouTube and we are on the audio feed. What's going on, what's happening?

How are you? It's a bummer that you can't go live on YouTube unless you have a thousand followers. I don't know if any of my friends have a thousand followers on YouTube. There's probably a couple of people I follow on YouTube that have a thousand followers. but they're not like, you know, friends or anything. They're more public figures. And it's a bummer because I used to have buddies that would go live on YouTube from time, or on Instagram rather, from time to time to, you know, play some music live

or promote something they got coming up. And that's what we were trying to do today because I know that, you know, YouTube's great social media and stuff, but I think objectively YouTube is, it's less of like a social, you know, you're checking in with your other friends. you know, day to day compared to Instagram, whereas like, if someone's going live on YouTube, one of my buddies, there's a, it's a very rare chance that I'm going to see it, which probably explains why zero people are watching the live feed on YouTube. But if you're on Instagram and you're just kind of bumming around,

you see the live story, it gets kind of boosted to the top, and that makes you interested. Now you're getting excited. Now you're tuning in and you're saying, oh, let's see what this is all about. and, you know, we just don't have that now, which is really a damn shame. So apologies if you came in hoping to get us live on Instagram, but it doesn't really seem like there's going to be any sort of workaround for that today. So it is what it is. I guess in the meantime, we can give a plug to this great James Baldwin biopic written by Nicholas Boggs

that I've not yet gotten to sink my teeth into, but a Christmas present for my family. so looking forward to tuning in there. A reminder, you can call the show live. 815-298-7200. I've got games that we can play if you just want to, you know, hang out and you don't want to play a game, but you want to, I don't know, guess how many bags or how many pieces of candy we got in this Ziploc makeshift candy bowl?

You can go ahead and do that. The Bowles reminds me, let's mention listener discretion advice when you're listening to this program. Number one, we'll occasion you some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. But there was a, there was a Thanksgiving sketch on SNL last night. It wasn't a new episode. We were doing the Roku thing where they've got the live channel going and you kind of get your favorites or you're like most recently watched at the top. And right now for us on our on our Roku TV in our bedroom, it's Little High. house on the prairie 24-7 stream of course and then SNL and last night we couldn't decide what we wanted to watch we both kind of tired not like super engaged pretty sleepy then it was just kind of throw on whatever

so i threw on the SNL channel and there was this great thanksgiving sketch a pre-tape that i had never seen before which it was hard to believe i couldn't believe i'd never seen it because it was right in the era of not probably probably a little bit after like my favorite time period of S&L right there's a thing where it's like everyone's favorite part or favorite age of S&L is when you were like 14 15 16 something like that and so for me that's you know kind of like 2008 election era type stuff with Fred Armisen playing Obama and um amy polar as Hillary and all that fun stuff this was from I don't know it's probably about eight or nine years ago, Cameron Diaz was the host, which I thought was interesting because I can't even name a Cameron

Diaz project from the last decade. But, you know, it's the same time period. If you know the S&L pre-taped, let's do it in my twin bed, it's a song. This Thanksgiving thing was the same thing and kind of in a similar vein, but about visiting for Thanksgiving. And one of the jokes they make is how moms, when you go back and visit them for the holiday, they have bowls for everything, B-O-W-L-S. And I thought that that was very apropos. But I had never seen this sketch before. It was, you know, it's Kate McKinnon and Cessly Strong and A.D. Bryant.

And Cameron Diaz was the host. And, yeah, it was, man, it was good stuff. So that was on our SNL, Roku channel last night shortly before we fell asleep. So I wanted to mention that. I also want to give a big shout out to our friends in Pakistan. Thank you for making us the 112. ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. I do have some bad news.

If you were from Pakistan and you were kind of using the Beantown podcast these last two or three episodes for your official medal tracker, that's right, metal tracker. I did do a quick scan of the final Olympic medals results to see where Pakistan fell. You know, could it get into the top 10, top 15? and they actually left Cortina with zero medals, unfortunately. So I was looking at it. It was interesting to see the top 10 because Canada wasn't in there. And I feel like without really knowing anything about just, you know, who's good in what sport.

And oh, yeah, Canada's, maybe this is a down year. This is a good year for another country. If you just gunned in my head two weeks ago at opening ceremonies and you asked me to bet however much money on Canada being at least in the top 10 for metal count, I would have said, oh yeah, absolutely, no problem. Because who can I name off the time I had that's more winter than Canada? It's like USA because we're just, you know, we got God on our side, obviously. Big hockey finish.

But other countries that are always up there, I would say, you know, Scandinavia, obviously, you're Norway's, your Swedans, your Finland's, and then maybe, know, your Italy's and your France, your host country. But beyond that, it's like, who else is going to dethrone Canada? And it was like, man, Japan was higher than them. I think the Netherlands was higher than them. I think they expanded the speed skating field of events this year so that Netherlands got like 27 medals and speed skating alone. And, yeah, Canada really embarrassing to not be in the top 10. So stinks to stink. Did we say listener discretion is advice? I think we did.

But yeah, U.S. I think was second in middle count after Norway. So big winter Olympics for us Norwegian heritage Americans out there because we got the homeland, if you will, going number one in Norway. And then we got my country Tizzi, the USA, USA going number two in the middle count. So Olympics officially over. We've got the closing ceremonies happening, I think, like concurrent. to this show. So it's going to be kind of a big ratings battle.

We've got three live on the YouTube stream if you're watching right now. Thanks again for tuning. And apologies if you try to come through on Instagram. If you missed it, Instagram only lets you go live if you have a thousand followers. So we're not doing that. But I don't know how many people, you know, if we got sort of the, what's the name of the company that does the Nielsen ratings for Beantown podcast, ninth annual Pledgestrived Telethon, verse closing ceremonies. And I know you're sitting out there,

you're thinking, gosh, Quinn, you're just a little rag tag show, you know, one man band, all that sort of stuff, although we do have Miss Maple over here. Let's get her on the screen as well. There she is. That's more fun than seeing the,

I don't know, can we have the best of both worlds? Can we get the sign? If you're watching live on YouTube and you're not listening to the audio stream later, we're trying to get the sign going, and we're trying to get Maple in the mix. That's as far as the core, goes it doesn't really look that good does it can we bring it down at all then it's awkwardly behind me

get thee behind me satan we're going to do a little we're just moving the sign back to where it was that's okay you know what show it is hi maple hey buddy we're going to do a little a little protestant welcome here to get us started because i have i lost my train of thought that's okay i have some wine here in my nazareth academy bulldogs tumbler which is very exciting. Probably help with SEO for some of those random keywords. Yes, thank you, Walter, for your comment. That's what we were talking about.

We were talking about Nielsen ratings. We'll get back to the Protestantism in a second. I did participate. I always wondered my whole life, up until, what, two, three years ago, I wondered, how does this Nielsen work? How accurate is it? When I was a young naive kid, I thought just like, oh, there must be like, this speaks to a broader theme of my,

naivity but I think is well-founded or I just thought things were a lot more like tracked and organized generally speaking when I was a kid um like I thought you know there was like a big police database that has everyone's driver's license but it's just a state-by-state thing I mean the CIA FBI probably got that stuff but I thought as a kid that like every okay so every TV probably feeds into like Nielsen headquarters right so they can track exactly who's watching what and it's not that scientific because Nielsen sent me a mailer. This was probably two, maybe three years ago, saying, hey, if you, I don't even remember what I had to do, but if you, I don't know, track your viewing habits for like a week or something, I don't even remember what I had to do.

Did I fill out a survey or something? I don't know, but I filled that out, or maybe it was just like a paper survey that I filled out and mailed it back to them. And they sent me back. I think it was $5. So my data is probably worth more than that, but it's like, hey, Nielsen, yeah, I'll help you out for five bucks. That'll buy me almost one coffee at the coffee shop downstairs. I think the Iced Americanos are up to like $5.99 or something. So that's how Nielsen operates. They don't have a microchip in the back of your smart tele.

I guess with smart TVs, it'd probably be more feasible now to pull off something like that. but I don't know if Nielsen, Nielsen doesn't quite have that yet, but someone like an Amazon, right? If Amazon makes their own smart TV, they got the fire stick, but it's like, okay, so everyone's eventually buying a TV that's an Amazon TV or like Apple with the iPhone, right? Probably like, what, 40, 50% of the phones used in the United States are Apple products, so they could probably track that really easily. So we're getting closer. Maybe it's because I probably read 1984 when I was like 15 or 16 or something and that got me thinking. But our co-host is gone so we can't do Maples Minute right now. That's right.

It's a special Maple's Minute edition of the Beantown podcast here, season 9. But without further ado, because we've teased this two or three minutes ago. Let's feature our wine here from Trader Joe's, which will bring us to maybe a talking point because it's fun. It's Moon X. I don't know. I was in a short-lived boy band when I was a kid called X Ravens, which wasn't like Ray Lewis and Ed Reed. It was just the letter X.

I don't really know what it meant. This is from Trader Joe's Moon X. It's a 2023 good year black pino noir from California. This velvety smooth black pinot noir is reminiscent of the early evening sky just before darkness settles in. Lush aromas of cherry black plum and gently toasted oak are followed by jammy dark, dark, fruit flavors, lending richness and depth with just a hint of spice,

enjoy with herb, roast, pork tenderloin, grilled rosemary chicken, or a pledge drive telethon fundraiser. Right on the label. Look, you can see it. And I actually haven't had a sip yet, so this is our first one. I'm excited, you know, it's like you're drinking the moon. This must be what Buzz Aldrin felt like. One small sip for man, one giant step for mankind.

Is that what it is? One big step, giant leap. Giant steps, John Coltrane. Do do, do, do, do do do do do, do do do do do do do. Live on the ninth annual Pledge of Teletrave Telethon, Quinn sings all nine minutes of John Coltrane's giant steps. He scats it, which reminds me of Al Jero. Oh man, rest in peace, big fella. I was watching a live version of Roof Garden, and he's B-Batman-scatting, and he's got the cool kind of

backwards hat going on. If you don't know Al Jero, Roof Garden, and you want to feel a little pep in your step, it's kind of like the ninth season of the Cosby Show, where it really started to lean into more of like the urban, gritty Harlem vibe. They kind of get out of their cushy Upper West Side, Brooklyn. Are they in Brooklyn? There isn't really an Upper West Side of Brooklyn, I don't think. The Cosby's, they live in Brooklyn?

I think so. Anyways. And it's more kind of like that hip, urban street vibe. Rest in peace, Malcolm Jamal Warner. Man, we're losing a lot of good ones. Rest in peace, Ron Dale Moore. Man. Vikings have had two players die in the last, what?

Two years? It was Kyrie Jackson two years ago? Something like that. Rest in peace. Ron Dale Moore, Purdue standout. and yeah if you if you're feeling down if you've had multiple knee reconstructions and you need support seek you know it's okay to ask for help that's that's what I'll say right dogs and humans alike right maple it's okay to ask for help right buddy you want to do a interview with

a dog well that'll be good hold on to that for one second because we had our communion oh we're getting a phone call right before we were about to sing our our doxology got to get our our games lined up here. All right, first phone call of the show. That's very exciting. Let's make sure it's on speakerphone. All right, welcome to the 9th annual Beantown Pledge Drive Telethon Fundraiser.

How's it going? Good. Hey, Jack. Thanks for calling in. Where are you calling from today? Hmm. That's very generous. That's pretty good.

How many kids does he have these days? You might know more about Yelon than I do. Well, I appreciate your donation. That's a good reminder. to everyone out there listening. You can donate to any charity of your choice. Send us your receipt to Beantown Podcast at yahoo.com at $20 or more and you'll be entered, not entered. You will be part of this year's Topaz Elite Club. Doesn't that grind your gears when it's like, oh yeah, you're entered to win this and you never win it? It's just a marketing scheme. I hate that.

Well, we appreciate having you. It's good to have your core group of supporters. We got a bunch of games here. You interested in playing a game? All right. Here are the different games we have. I think we got six prepared. Your first to the buffet table, your smorgas board, if you will. So you got your pick of the litter. It's kind of like Maple, except I assume she was the last pick of the litter, but that's just my assumption. Here's the games we have, the categories or the game title. So we have rock and rock and roll. We have 10 longest rivers of Asia. That one's pretty self-explanatory.

We have presidential campaign slogans. We have name the, on my sheet here it says county, but it should probably be country. Name the country by Winter Olympic Coast City. But if you want to do county as well, we could do that. I just have to probably do some deeper research live on air. We have its movie time. And then we have, well, it was originally going to be liquor,

but it turned into breweries and named the state that brewery is located in. So those are the choices. That's a tough question. All right, I got six for you. And it's pretty straightforward. There's not a lot of tricks in here. So I think maybe one tiny little asterisk, but I think it's actually going to be right up your alley.

So I'm not too worried about it. All right. And I tried to, I didn't think that this was, was super low hanging, but I know that you have experience with at least maybe one or two of these, so this should be good for you. Number one, so again, you're naming the state based off of the brewery. The brewery is athletic brewing, nor Easter. No, it's not Maine, but you're pretty warm. It is Connecticut. There it is. Athletic Brewing. And to this day, I don't think I've ever had athletic N.A. beer. Every year dry January rolls around and I tell people like, oh, you know,

what N.A. beers or mocktails are you doing? And to me, it's, if I'm drinking an N.A. beer, it's not that I'm like breaking the dry January thing, but for me, it's much more like, I'm just trying to go avoid the whole topic entirely. So with that in mind, I've never actually had an N.A. beer from athletic, but I know they've gotten pretty popular in the past couple of years here. Yeah. Thanks for the recommendation. Or the, uh, the breaking it down, I guess, the suggestion. Yeah, review, there you go. All right, here we go.

Number two out of six, and if you asked me to break this one down by geographic region, I don't think I'll be able to because the name of the brewery is Great Lakes Brewing. Believe so. Yeah, it is in Ohio. Have you been watching? Go ahead. I believe that's what it's called. Yeah, it's dark, it's delicious.

It's good stuff. You can find it. I guess it's ubiquitous. You see it all over the place. So, yeah, Edmund Fitzgerald. What is that? Was that Chris Christofferson? Who's saying that one?

That's it. Pretty close. Close-ish. Oh, I had something else on Great Lakes, and I forgot what it was. Oh, well. Maybe it'll come back to me. All right.

Here we go. Number three, Allegash Brewing. I haven't either as far as I know, but Alighash White, you see pretty commonly around the place. It is from Maine. Yep, it is. Alagash is from Maine. All right. You're doing pretty well.

And I think, I think, not to put words in your mouth, but I think this back half is going to be pretty friendly to you as well. Starting with number four, Surly Brewing. Yeah. Minnesota. Yeah. It's Minneapolis right next. the university. What do they call the...

I've been to that brewery. Have you? Yeah, we went a couple years ago. You and Walter and I, we went together. That's where we went the night before. Yeah, they got a big old beer hall. It's good stuff. Their flagship is surly furious.

It's a red can and it's a butt kicker. It's like a, I don't know, 7% IPA or something like that. It's pretty good. It's all right. It's got plenty of, plenty of opportunities. in the future to have one again. We've got to get back out to a game ASAP. All right.

Surly Brewing, Minnesota. All right. Here comes number five. It is Three Floyd's Brewing. It is. I think it's in Munster or somewhere around there. It sounds right, but I don't know if that's actually right. I'm pretty sure it is.

I've never been. Yeah. Yeah, Muncie is Indianapolis area, I think. Zombie dusts. I think Three Floyds, they do gumball head as well. Yep, yep, you see that one oftentimes around here in Chicago. All right, you've made it to the final one, question six. And I got to tell you, I think this is one for maybe one or two different reasons

that not a lot of people would get, but I think you can get this one. So here it is. Number six, name the state, Ocean Lab Brewing. There was an asterisk at the start of this game as well. well. Just a bit. Go when we're drinking at this brewery. It's a great view. There's a little club out there and then you got a

perfect view of the ocean. Man, it's a good spot. I love Ocean Lab brewing and the east part of San Juan Puerto Rico. Yeah. It's something like that. That's not quite what it is. I don't think, but it's yeah, it starts with a sea. I don't know. But you're spot on.

Yeah, it's right by the airport. It's a great spot. Yeah. I love that spot. Yeah, we enjoyed it as well. I think we went, that was the first thing we did when we got off the plane and it was the last thing we did before we got back on the plane. So, and our YouTube comment, our YouTube comment says you're right, Carolina Beach. So you were spot on with that.

Very well done. Well, those were the six breweries that we had in their accompanying states and territories you did very well. Sure. I've never even heard of. Cigar City. So I don't think I'll be able to, I got about a 2% chance here on my guess. I'll take a guess.

And if I have to think of the state to me that's most evocative of a city filled with cigars and cigars smoke, I would say. Well, now I'm thinking of Cuban cigars, so I would guess Florida. But I don't feel very confident at all. Yes, that is correct. Oh. Where in Florida is? cigar city. Well, my wife's going there in about four

days here, so I'll have to give her the suggestion. Sure. With a J. It's a good, yeah, good recommendation. I don't think I've ever heard of Cigar City. I think I've had two cigars in my life. It's the only experience I have smoking anything in my

30 years is cigars. So, only on special occasions. Yeah, you've got to have a cigar glove and basically dress up like an exterminator. Yeah, Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for playing the game. Congratulations.

And we'll have a little gift your way in the near future. That was like season one, I think. So we're probably at about eight years. Yeah, it would be, you can pick the song this time. You know what I've, you know what I've been listening to a lot lately that's been stuck in my head is the Smokey Robinson song Cruising. But the specific version that's been in my head is not Smokey Robinson.

There is a film. I don't know if you've ever seen it from like, I don't know, 2000, 2001 called duets. And the actual two people who sing Cruising, and this is what I've been listening to over and over and over again lately, is Huey Lewis and Gwyneth Paltrow singing cruising.

And it's absolutely fantastic. You've got to go turn it on it. It really gets you in the mood. It doesn't matter what mood it is. It just gets you there. What we learned, the last thing I have for you, what we learned last night as part of Roku trivia that we play daily is

let's see final bonus trivia question I guess I'll throw it back to you Gwyneth Paltrow's godfather is a famous director and I can certainly give

more clues but there was a movie that came out maybe two or three years ago that he directed that was semi autobiographical there's a clue for you

no it is alliterative however probably if you had to just someone came up you on the street and was like who's the most famous living director you can name i would say this person belongs to the spielberg spilberg is gwyneth paltrow's godfather the fablemans with paul dano it was pretty good enjoyed it yeah we got our youtube comment sections all over it absolutely thanks for calling

yeah thanks for playing appreciate and thanks for your pledge and we'll talk soon all right bye all right folks it's that simple you call in you play a game you donate money to your charity and you win a price that's what we're about here at the bean town podcast we've simplified things we've streamlined things it's uh it's very straightforward and easy to play again the number to play the number to call in is 815 298 72000 um and let's get to our we we start it off we did our little communion here which tracked because it's Sunday mornings but I don't know about you guys this is this I say I don't know about you guys this feels like a very specific

quinn thing but I'll just I'll let you into my little Sunday morning routine or at least a very small like two minute portion of it I've got a brief rotation of church live streams that I like to check in on there's the old church rock church that I grew up in I like to join in on their live stream and see what the sermons about what music they're playing, that sort of thing. Haven't played Cruising by Smokey Robinson yet, but they should put it on the list. And then I like to briefly check in on the old, it's not called this anymore, but Temple Baptist Church, where I did my homeschooling education or a portion of it. I like to check in on their live stream.

I think that's on Facebook. So we've got to jump between YouTube and Facebook and back to YouTube, just like you're trying to watch the Beantown podcast. That's what we should have done, and maybe there's still time. We were trying to live stream on Instagram, but maybe this whole time it was right under our nose. Maybe we should try to live stream on Facebook. I don't know if that's a thing.

Can I download the Facebook app on my tablet, successfully log in and start a live stream all while we are recording? You know what? It wouldn't be a Pledge Drive telethon without at least giving it your best shot. hit me with your best shot. That's what Pat Benatar would say. So we're going to try to do this, and then I'll finish my thought, and then we'll finish morning communion. But, and then the third thing I'd like to check in on old, not friend of the show, but whatever you want to call him, Scott Farrell, former director of the Rockford Operetta Party, plays piano at a church in the Seattle area.

Tibbets, UMC, United Methodist Church. And I've been tracking this, which sounds very stalkerish, so I apologize. But if you're new to the show, I played piano for an opera when I was in high school, directed by this man, Scott, who's a very unique individual. And there's nothing more I want to share on that. But he now lives in Seattle, plays church music out there. And I check it on the live stream most weeks. It's not like every week. Oh, it's 11.30 a.m.

We ought to tune in. It's like, you know, I check in. If I get there alive, I get there alive. But what's interesting about Scott's employment at this church is you would think, okay, if you're working for a Methodist church that's getting, I don't know, five, ten streams a week. And by judging the audience, the congregation size, if you will, there's probably, I don't know, 50 people at church service every morning, maybe 30 on a bad week, 100 on a great week.

So solid but not amazing, right? But if you're going to pay a guy and if you read Scott Farrell's autobiography or tales, tears and triumphs from the stage, which I am a part of, I mentioned in, I have a chapter, you'll know that Scott is not a particularly, or at least when he wrote the book a decade ago, Scott is not a particularly religious person. And when he is at the church, he is doing it for the paycheck, which, is there's no judgment there. I'm just leading to a point here, I promise.

So my point being, Scott's only doing like one or two songs at this church, and it's not like that's all the music they have. There is an opening that the organist does. Scott is not the organist. There is then offeratory music. That's right. O-F-F-E-R-T-O-R-Y,

where the ushers, the elders, come through with their golden, silver plates, and stuff and they collect tens and twenties and checks and all that fun stuff. Scott plays a little prelude, debut C prelude or something during that. And then there's also like the actual worship music, which is not Scott. It's like this lady, the most Seattle-looking lady you could imagine. I don't mean that in a good or a bad way. We did download Facebook.

Now let's see if I can log in and get a live stream going. But she's got like a little electric drum set. and someone else singing. So Scott's not part of that. And then the closing, excuse me, the closing music is done by the organist, again, John V. Learop Jr.

Excuse me. And maybe every other week or so, Scott's got a little choir. He brings out his little podium. He's got a baton, a big flaming red mohawk. And there's probably six to eight people in the choir. And again,

judgment on numbers over here, but I'm just saying, like, how much are they paying this guy out of genuine curiosity to play offeratory music and lead the choir in one song? So, realistically, he's playing slash conducting 10 minutes if you want to be generous, less than that on any given Sunday, which is a movie I've never seen. And it just fascinates me, not out of jealousy or there's no other emotion, just pure curiosity. Like, what are they paying this guy for? What is he doing behind the scene? So that's got me perplexed every time I log in to the Tibbitts UMC, which I did not

this morning, their YouTube stream to see how things were going. Okay, let's see if can we live stream on Facebook? Yeah, I think we can. Instagram's got what would be interesting Instagram's got the the thousand follower barrier to entry but does

I don't think that I don't think that Facebook has that but now I have to go allow permissions yes allow well using the app that's what I want we want to go live we're what 40 minutes in gosh time flies because we haven't even done

our opening number yet geez now it's backwards how do we turn the camera around I feel like such a boomer right now. Yes, rotate the camera. All right. There we go. Looking rough.

Got my Cosby sweater on. I didn't even mention that when we were talking about the Cosby show. Okay, now we are officially on YouTube and we're on Facebook, which I had, gosh, I don't even know the last time I really did anything on Facebook until I posted this morning that you should come follow the show. So thanks again for listening. Let's do our do our doxology. And then we'll continue on with other fun things that we have planned. We'll do our interview with a dog. All right, it is Sunday morning.

I guess it's Sunday afternoon now, but we got our wine. We got our communion wine. So if you are wanting to come together in this space, my congregation, my flock, if you will, and sing this with me. This was an old classic, by old, I mean 17th century, that we used to sing in the Rockford College, the annals of the Rockford College, Seaver, Physical Education Center, A-N-N-A-L-L-S. half of us naked, half of us wearing our jammers. Jammers is a fun name for a swimsuit, right? It's like, how did that happen?

Speedo is like the company that made it. They're known for their briefs. You just call it a Speedo. Everyone knows that. But Jammer is like when you got the boxer briefs going on. I haven't thought of that term jammer as a swimsuit in a decade, probably. Quentin Jammer, NFL royalty. What was he?

A cornerback? Safety, I can't remember it. All right, here we go. This is doxology. Here it is. I love you, Lord. And I lift my voice to worship you. Oh, my soul rejoice.

Wait, that's not doxology. Pause. That's not doxology. We did sing that in the shower, though. I got too excited. This is doxology. Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise him all creatures here below.

Praise him above ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. All right, now we can really get the show started. Thanks again for tuning in. You can call in any time, play games. We got one game off the board, which was named the state or territory by brewery. But we got so much left. We got rock and rock and roll.

We've got Olympics. We have, was there a Huey Lewis specific one? No, I think that was just the cruising. We got, yeah, we got Olympics. We got movie time. We got presidential campaign slogans. We got Asian rivers. I don't know why Asian Rivers made me laugh.

I was just thinking about, I was thinking about Doc Rivers, then I was thinking about Joan Rivers, and I was thinking about if they had a baby, but he was Asian. I don't know why I'd be Asian. Doc Rivers isn't Asian. Joan Rivers wasn't Asian. You know what I love? Not love, but find interesting.

How permanently horse, that's right, horse, H-O-A-R-S-E. It's like Hearst, but Horse. Doc Rivers' voice was, Like, did he have some sort of Elton John, you know, 1990s experience or 80s, whenever that was with Elton John, where, you know, he drank so much and did so much cocaine that his vocal cords got all messed up and he had to have surgery? And that's why Elton John's voice was different starting in like 1990 or whatever than it was before. Oh, we got Grandma Sal live on the Facebook. That's very exciting. We'll come back to Doc Rivers.

I promise. You're not missing anything. All right. Time for our next game, perhaps. All right, thank you for calling the Beantown Podcast, ninth annual Pledge Drive Telethon fundraiser. Call dropped. Call dropped.

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Thanks for calling the Beantown Podcast, ninth annual Telethon Pledge Drive fundraiser. Thanks for calling in. How's it going? How are you? I'm excited too. Thanks for being here. How's the day going?

We're doing okay. Remember that soft drink you can get? I think it's like brisk iced tea or lemonade or something. You ever have that? Now, what's the, you know, ice tea is? It just is because it feels like it's a lot more sweet than iced tea. I don't know if you ever have that unsweetened iced tea. It's not my jam.

I don't know about you. I've had sweet tea in Alabama before. It's pretty sweet. You ever go to McDonald's and get a Coke from one of those freestyle machines? You know what I'm talking about? You can have your mix your cherry Coke with a diet A&W and maybe a splash of brisk iced tea on top, and it's delicious. It's got like 7,942 permutations. I don't even remember that, but it sounds accurate.

What do you think is the difference between a permeation and a permutation? So how does reverse osmosis work? Because osmosis is when the water goes to the place where the water doesn't want to be. And reverse osmosis, I mean, what do they use in suction? I also always found it interesting when you have the thing. where you get the hose going and you just got to get it going for a little bit and then it maintains constant flow, I thought was interesting. Siphoning.

Like when you got to suck. So first you got to, what, you stick your mouth on the gas nozzle and suck for a little bit and then it gets going? I guess I should have paid more attention in that unit in AP physics. Well, there's tradeoffs for saving money, that's for sure. Well, we got some trivia games here. You want to partake? All right.

So we've already played Name the State by Brewery. And on YouTube, by the way, A Thrash says the quality of the perm. I think that's how legally blonde ends in the courtroom, if I recall correctly. But back to our games here. So we've got five games to choose from. They are rock and rock and roll, 10 longest rivers of Asia, presidential campaign. slogans. Name the country by Winter Olympic host city and it's movie time. All right. This is our longest game. So you guys got to strap in because we're going to have you here for, I hope you

don't have anywhere to be for the next two to four hours. All right. So this is sort of a two-parter. The first one is just name as many as you can. And then we've got another kind of separate five question quiz. So this could have been split out into two. But the first part is, simply name as many birthstones as you can. And if you can attach them to months, that's great as well. But that's not really part of the game. I've got them all listed. So, yeah.

Okay. That's right. Yeah, it's January. Amethyst. Yeah, that's it. Do you have a month on that? No, it's February. February, okay.

While you're going in order, which is really helpful for me, so I appreciate that. Yeah, Emerald. Do you know the month on that? No, you're close. It's May. Ruby's July. There we go. You're doing well. Pearl is June, and there's two others. I'll just tell you, since there's a lot to get through.

The other two in June are Moonstone and Alexandrite. All right, you're doing well. We got Topaz. Yeah, it's towards the end of the year in November. And the other November is Citrin. C-I-T-R-I-N-E. Yes, diamond is April. We're about, what, halfway?

I think you got six or seven maybe. I did not write down colors. Yeah, that is September. There you go. Opal for October, that's right. And the other October is Tourmaline. Everyone's favorite stone. I'm more of an East Maline guy, but that's okay.

We are missing, let's see. I think we're missing March. We're missing August, and we're missing December. that is August Oh, you guys are killing it. August also has spinal and sardonics. I don't know, S-P-I-N-E-L, spinal, and sardonics, which is probably like onyx,

but with a, it's like a... All right, we're down to March in December. That's unbelievable. Tanzanite is the second one in December. The third one is Zircon, and the first one is turquoise. We're just down to March. It's got two.

The first one is definitely something associated with a color, but it's very much like a blend of two colors. Yeah, aquamarine. There you go. The other one in March is Bloodstone. All right, that was very well done. Got all the birthstones. Congratulations.

I think I would have probably gotten about three or four of those. So, excellent. All right. part part two i think is going to be uh maybe just a little bit less of a brain brain teaser a headache maybe a little bit more straightforward so part two of our game uh so we've done the rock now we're getting to the rock and roll so i'm going to give you five rock songs and context clues if needed and you just name the artist so uh the first one is is an admittedly very generic title so I'm going to tell you that the name of this song is rock and roll but it comes from this artist's fourth studio

album which was released in 1971 songs called rock and roll this album is uh just banger after bangers one of my favorite albums it's not elton john it's more uh more rocky than that their fourth album doesn't have a name yep yep it is that's all right that's all right lead zepplin rock and roll 1971. Good one, good one. All right. I feel good about your chances on three of these next four

and maybe the fourth one you're all over it too, but we'll see. But I think these next two feel pretty good about it. Next one. Roll with the changes. And can you name what REO stands for?

I don't. I'm curious. I think it's rock and old, but I don't know. I actually don't. Makes sense. It's a type of speedway. Yeah, it's a good one. Yeah, it's good. It's pretty fun.

All right, you're doing well. Here comes number three. It's still rock and roll to me. Yes, William Joel is right. What album is it, do you know? Could be. I don't know. Stranger is a fantastic album, though. It's no bad songs on that one.

It's a good one. All right, here this might be the toughest one. I don't know this song personally, but I wanted to throw a challenging one into the mix. and this is probably going to stretch your definition of rock and roll more than maybe these previous ones have, but it's still definitely rock. So here it is. The song is titled, Rollin, and in parentheses, air raid vehicle. It's more modern than these others, but still 25 plus years old.

No, but you're barking up the right tree. I don't think this band would necessarily be grunge, but time period. It's more of that area. Two words, initials, L.B. No. No, it's, I think of them as being similar to Beastie Boys. I don't even know if that's right or not, because I never heard this song, but I should have listened to it before we started. For anyone out there in the audience, if you want to comment, Roland, Air Raid Vehicle, Who sings Rollin Air Raid Vehicle? Sure. All right, we've got one other one, one other one to get two. I think you'll get this one.

The name of the song is Rock Lobster. It is, and you don't know. the name of the lead singer of the B-52s? Fred, that's it. Right Schneider. Yeah, so rock lobster, rock and roll. Still rock and roll to me, roll with the changes, and now we got rolling air raid vehicle. You want to say who it is?

Limp biscuit. Limp biscuit, yeah. I don't know much about limp biscuit, but I had to throw them in there, so it wasn't too easy. Sounds like someone you might have gone to high school with. All right, here we go. Oh, that's very interesting. You don't see a lot of ransoms these days.

Heck of a name. Sounds like a German fighter pilot from World War I. Any updates? You guys have any updates on the Nancy Guthrie mom situation? Speaking of ransom? Yeah, not great. Well, I appreciate you guys playing the game. That was a lot of fun.

I did very well. Any other parting thoughts for the Pledge Drive? All you have to do is choose your own charity this year And then just send us the receipt And we'll get you into our Topaz Elite Club I think it is But I don't remember the month My notes are away

There's a moon stone And a leaf stone And in later generations There's a sunstone That's how you get your poly world To be a polytoad And there's a firestone And a thunderstone

Which you can buy from the Celadon city mart. Fourth floor, perhaps? Oh, that's pretty close. Einsteinium. Be careful what you wish for. All right, well, thanks for calling in. We appreciate it, and we'll chat soon.

Take care. All right, folks, it's just that fun. If you want to name Birthstones, you might have missed out on this year, but maybe we'll make another quiz for you. Maybe we'll do a fall Pledge Drive telethon. if there's an appetite for that, let us know. We've still got games.

We've got Asian rivers. We've got presidential campaign slogans. We've got Name the Country by Winter Olympic Host City. And if you guys are really feeling edgy, you can do Name the County by Winter Olympic Host City, because that's what is on my notes here. And then we can do It's Movie Time as well. Let's get back to our notes here. Thanks for being part of the doxology.

I appreciate it. for singing the wrong song at the start. Let's see. I wanted to do our Animal of the Week, which goes well, I guess, with our interview with a dog because these are two kind of similar situations, I suppose. So first, I know she's sleeping. If you're watching the live streams here,

I guess Facebook will get it for you so you can see as well. Here it is. I guess I don't want to block it. There we go. This is our interview with a dog segment. Maple. Hey, buddy. What's going?

on. You got anything for the Pledge-type Tolathon fundraiser? Nothing. So that was a nice segment, but that leads us into our animal of the week here. So if you've been on, oops, or sign fell down. Now Maple, now you're excited, right. Sorry, buddy. That was pretty loud. If you've been on social media lately, you've probably seen Punch the Monkey, which is a monkey that was, sorry Maple, that was really which was not taken in by its mother or its tribe, if you will. It's a tiny little monkey, and now he's got his own stuffed animal to keep him calm, to have a friend essentially, which is a lot of parallels to my own childhood. But the name of the species, you've got your kingdom, your phylum, your class, your order,

your family, your genius, your species. Did I miss one? Philem, did we say that? kingdom phylum class order family genus species i missed family um the the species which there's a lot of different monkeys that fall into this which is interesting to me because i thought once he got to species it should just be boom one monkey there's no you know zabumboos another species and king kong is another one it's just boom one one species and we lost facebook apologies facebook looks like we're back um the It's less dirty than it sounds.

M-A-C-A-Q-U-E. I don't know how to pronounce it. I go to Wikipedia on the macaque page, and it gives me the stupid nato-phenetic alphabet pronunciation. It's saying, okay, you do an alpha here, you do golf, you do Charlie. And I'm like, just tell me how to say macaque. But there was no help from Wikipedia, and I didn't pursue any other avenues to figure out how to say macaque.

But the macaque, it's a type of monkey. I think, you know, so Pirates of the Caribbean, we named the monkey Jack, right? What's his name? Not Bill Nye. He's the guy with Davy Jones, but the guy from before. Oscar winning, right? Jeffrey Rush, G-E-O-F-F-R-E-Y, G-O-F-R-E-Y, G-O-F-R-E-L-A. I think that little monkey, he kind of looks like a macaque.

If you're out there wondering, I've never seen punch, I don't like saying macaque, it sounds dirty, I don't want anything to do with this. Well, at least you can envision the monkey who is also, so how does this work? The monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean, Curse of the Black Pearl is also a skeleton. Like, how did they decide, this is pirate code that I'm getting into now, parlays and the such. How do they decide who was part of the crew, right? if someone was working part-time, are they part of the crew?

Do you have to be full-time? 1099 contractors? I don't think pirates really pay taxes. There's got to be some level of organizational leadership. There's got to be an org chart for these pirates. And then Jack Sparrow, he was a skeleton too. Man, what a fun film. We should power rank the,

power rank the Disney films that came from theme park rides and were turned into movies. Pirates of the Caribbean, haunted mansion. Are there others? I don't know, it's a small, small world after all. Was there some sort of other media? Was that like a TV show or a movie? It's a small world after all.

Do you think, because that's such like an old time kind of song and ride. do, does your average 7-year-old these days know anything about it's a small world after all? Or is that just like we got some guesses in the, I don't even know what's going on in the chat here, but you guys keep chatting, it's great. It's a small world after all. It's a theme park attraction.

Let's go right to Wikipedia here. Maybe they'll give us the phonetic pronunciation. Is an old mill boat ride located in the third. Fantasyland area at various Disney theme parks. Versions of the ride are installed. Okay, so those are just where they have them. The inaugural version, that's a tough word to say inaugural. Like an auger, right?

You're drilling in the ground. You're a farmer. The inaugural version of the ride premiered at the 1964 New York World's Fair before permanently moving to Disneyland in 1966. And I've been on it. We got stuck in the ride, which is really the one you don't want to get on. But did they like spin it off? was there because I thought I remember seeing some sort of like movie or TV show when I was a kid

with all these creepy little children singing it. And what's the point of the song after all? Is it like unity? Like oh, it's such a small world. Like we, you know, what is the, the Christian songs say, the really racist one, whether you're red, whether you're yellow, whether you're black, whether you're white. We all are servants of God or something like that. It's, it did not age well. It probably didn't age well in the 90s either. Anyways, I thought there was maybe some sort of like movie or something, but I can't. A planned feature film in 1970 was going to be a Cold War-tinged comedy adventure where the children of UN leaders try to get their parents to stop squabbling.

If you thought you were going to hear the word squabble today, you're in luck. To get their parents to stop squabbling through faking mass kidnapping only for a war profiteer to try to take advantage of the fear and start a mass conflict. But it doesn't seem like the movie got off the ground because that's all the information they have on it. So one other thing that came up here that I wanted to mention off of our Animal of the Week from this Wikipedia read, the World's Fair, okay? So World's Fair, you know, there's the whole 18, what is it, the Columbia Expedition.

Is that it? Expedition is another, it's another word, right? ExP something, exhibition. And it feels like the World's Fair was such an important big thing, right? 100 years ago, 150 years ago. The big Chicago one down at U.S. Chicago Hyde Park, it's what, 1893, something like that. I don't know how they picked 1893 for a year. Who was president then?

I don't know. But if you call in to our presidential campaign trivia game, you might be able to figure it out. Who knows? probably Grover Cleveland or something. But it feels like the World's Fair was really important for innovation and socializing and networking and the like. But you don't really hear anything about World's Fares these days. Are they still happening? Is it still cool?

Do they have Ferris wheels? So now we're on the World's Fair Wikipedia page. The most recent, let's see, Osaka, Japan held the most recent World Expe. in 2025, while Astana, Kazakhstan held the most recent specialized expo in 2017, whatever that means, in Doha, Qatar held the most recent horticultural expo in 2023. What the heck are they growing in Qatar? The sandworms from Dune, the, what did they call, the Lays al-Ga-Halb or something? It's pretty spot on.

I've only seen Dune once, but it's pretty close. Rebecca Ferguson, she's like the big powerful mom. And then Timothy Shalame is actually the bad guy the whole time. It's a great who done it, Dune by Frank Herbert. They're doing a Dune 3, I think. Once, twice, three times a lady. All right, reminder, you can call in 815-298-7200 to play a trivia game. Let's jump over.

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when I'm doing a pledge drive telethon or on a work call or something, it's not a big deal. But it's just like always sticking back. You know the Pokemon joltion, and he's just got like spikes all over the place. That's essentially what my hair was doing in the back here. And this morning I was just like, after trying, you know, wearing hats and water and matting it down, I was just like, I can't get this to work.

So I just took my trimmers and I cut it completely. And we'll see if that helps. I don't know. We got another call. Then we're going to finish our ad reads here. Here we go. All right. Thanks for calling the 9th annual Bean Town Podcast Pledge Drive Telethon Fundraiser. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? Hey, it's old. Well, it all comes together because we were just talking about the Thunderstone earlier and the Moonstone and the Firestone. So it all worked out.

I don't remember any of that stuff except for when you got to like fourth grade, you were a surf or a squire or something. And then you became a, night and then eventually you deflower the queen and I don't know but it was a lot of fun well it's interesting that you're calling in I know your thanks for supporting the show you're located in ohio and this season of love is blind all people from you know Columbus and they're about so I'm curious what your takes are on this season more more Trumpy this year I would say let's see they've done Minnesota a couple of seasons ago they did Chicago uh Charlotte. So, yeah, they've been, I think this is like season nine or 10. So they've, they've gotten around for sure. Probably. But all these shows they got, you know, like the traders we're

watching right now. There's traders UK. There's traders, you know, Austria, there's Ireland. It's like watching the Olympics. So yeah, every one of these shows got amazing race. You know, some of these countries, they're racing to the U.S. That's how wild it is. So it's. So they're not going to play. No, but that's probably the next big thing. That'd be pretty exciting. I would love that. Well, thanks for, we got a number of games.

I'd love to see you want to play a game. All right, we got, I think, four left here. Let me make sure I got the right document open here. Okay, so you missed out on, name the state by brewery. You missed out on rock and rock and roll, which was a lot of fun. So far, or remaining rather, we have top 10 long. longest rivers of Asia. We have presidential campaign slogans. We have name the country or county by Winter Olympic host city. And we have its movie time. Well, there's not a lot to the question.

It's the title kind of tells you what it is. So the floor is yours. That's right. Yeah, there's no tricks here. This is just the Google Gemini results. That's number one. Yeah. Okay, well, good start. How many miles do you think the Yang Sea is? If you want to do kilometers, that's fine, but you got to convert on your own. Try 3,900. That's it. That's number two, yeah.

3,300 miles. Okay. Agreed, yeah. It is. It's number eight. Yeah. You got one, two, and eight so far. You got to zoom out, bro.

You got it, yeah, click it a couple times. Obe is seven, yeah? Okay. bonus point if you can spell it. OB. Yeah, there we go. Yep, they're all Russian. How do you spell that?

It's not on my list. Okay. Oh, I see what you're saying. All right, okay. Yeah, that's number nine, which I'd never heard of before I made this list. No, no Ganges. Nope.

Mekong is three, yeah. Just over 3,000 miles. If you, uh... Let's see, you've done one, two, three, seven, and eight. Oh yeah, Yinnisi. So you're halfway.

It is. Brahmaputra's number six. Nope, that's an Italian restaurant, I think. If you follow your Russian line of thinking, I think that'll help you with two of, at least two of them. Maybe all of them, actually. No Volga. I think the last three, I don't know this for sure, but looking at the spelling, the last three all feel Russian to me.

One of them is a female first name that you see from time to time. The other two, I've never seen a female with those names, but I should have been watching the ice skating more. But no Russian athletes, so it's quite a bummer. That would be fun. I think it's blocked in my country, unfortunately. Yeah, Lena's four. I think five and ten, and these are really for river buffs only.

Your casual fan is not going to know these. No. number five seems like it could be a risk territory and number 10 is just like the $2,000 clue on Jeopardy Masters. It starts with a, it starts with an eye. Oh, that's not it. And I don't know if you want me to just give it to you because I don't know. You can just guess. It's artish, I-R-T-Y-S-H is the fifth longest river.

It's a, it's got two words in it, blank, blank-blank river. and I don't even I don't know where to start. No, no. The first word kind of sounds like the guy who said God is dead. It's a good clue for the philosophy buffs listening. Yep.

And I don't know anything about either of these words. The guy who said God is dead is Nietzsche. I don't think we're going to get there, so I'll tell you. It's the Nish-Nayya-Tunguska River. N-I-Z-H-N-Y-A-T-U-S-K-A. No, me neither. But it ends in SCA, and maybe we should have a trivia game about SCA bands.

That could be good. Who was the SCA band that did that Take-On-Me cover with the horns? Who was that? Let's look it up. It's a great, great cover. Not as good as Cruzeen by Huey Lewis and Gwyneth Paltrow, but still pretty good. Oh, she's fantastic, yeah. Chris Martin should have gotten her on some of those Coldplay albums.

Real Big Fish, R-E-E-E-L-1998. Yeah, it's a great music video. It's like you're watching an episode of Malcolm in the middle. It's fun. You did very well on the rivers at least eight and a half or so. So thanks for playing. Absolutely. Anything else for the Pledge Drive?

Appreciate that. Very good. Thank you for your United Way, Chicago. Is that still Kevin Garnett? He heads that or did he step aside? It's all right. Just throwing a joke in there for all the old school Timberwolves heads. Hey, this is your chance to put it on paper.

Spring training just started. How many wins are the twins going to have this season? Nope. How many games do you think there are in an MLB season? That's it. That's it. That's a lot. That should win the division.

Well, we'll see. They got to get past that guy from the Tigers, Tarik Scoobel. It's a fun one to say. Sy Young Award winner, Tarik Scoobel. Best pitcher in baseball. But you used to, I remember playing as a kid, high-heat baseball. You used to love staying up late and playing. I'd see you play as Ichero sometimes.

You have any fond memories from PC baseball growing up? The players, so, you know, of course, as you know, I don't need me to tell you, but pitchers would be identified on the game. you know as a screen as you're playing or something as you're up to bat as like P and then their actual less good thing i think of a big unit johnson the big unit home run derby game yeah so i feel like cereal boxes don't really have prizes these days probably not oh absolutely yeah it's someone put some some work into that for sure yeah i know i don't recall for sure but uh no it was it was a fun game and you got to watch out for that randy johnson sweep slider because it's uh

If you are a left-handed batter in the batters box, Randy Johnson is a left-handed pitcher, which in real life is almost impossible to hit. But in the game, the pitch would go off the screen and then return back to the screen. And good luck. Chad Bradford. Well,

love a good submarine pitch. Oh, yeah. There's still, I saw a guy on Reddit the other day in spring training who in the same at bat through both an overhand and a submarine pitch. So it's not, it's not. not completely good. That's pretty cool. It's going to be, I mean, I feel like you don't see a lot of submarine anyway,

but to be able to kind of switch between them at will, it seems like it could be. I think they discourage it because you're about, you get about one or two seasons before you need about seven Tommy John surgeries and then your career's over. Yeah, exactly. General, because it's pretty much what happened to me when I was about 14. If coach had put me in, we would have on state, but then my shoulder gave out. So, rip. Yeah.

I can't wait to have a kid so I can really just badger them and maybe sneak in a couple beers at the Little League game and get thrown out of a game like old Mr. Walker at a homeschool basketball game get tossed out. That's my goal. I'm here in 10 years. I'm not paying money for any sort of private education. the biggest scam. Don't get me started on that. What is Rachel going to say about that? No, we're poor.

That's the answer. Good enough. That's what it's called. Only overhand. Overhand with both hands. That's how I throw. Yeah, we got, you know, it's been two summers now

since we've last played in a league, but we've got guys out there who play shortstop and third base. We got held an arm and they can just whip it kind of side arm slot going and no i even when my shoulder was healthy i don't think i ever had that kind of arm strength but yeah it's uh maybe i'll get a bionic arm i don't know we'll see that's right that's right appreciate it thanks for uh donating and being a topaz elite member and we'll see you soon yep bye

bye what a nice wholesome call and good job on the rivers i don't even you go back and you say well gosh quinn what was the number 10th river it was like uh it ended in the last like non-gana Tanzania, something like that. The first letter, first word was Nietzsche-Tastic or something like that, so I don't know. Guys, we are rapidly approaching the two-hour

mark of the Pledge Drive Telethon Fundway. That's not a hard cutoff per se, but it's like once we get to two hours, that's usually when I have to start going to the bathroom. I'm not taking you into the crapper with me. The wine is starting to dwindle. The water is starting to dwindle.

That's the thing that, you know, this whole Jesus, and we're going to finish our ad reads in a second here, but this whole wedding at Cana stuff, Jesus turns the water and the wine, the real miracle, water or wine from nothing. So that's why Old Testament God, you know, Moses splits his rock. I was looking for a word that means to thrust. Moses thrusts his staff into the rock. You guys know about this thrush childhood, illness. I think you just get really red or something. I think that's what thrush is. I don't know. And he splits the stone and water comes pouring out. This is in the desert, mind you. The Sinai Peninsula, presumably, outside of Canaan. And water comes flown out. So Jesus, as cool as turning water into wine is, it's admittedly an excellent party trick. It's like, what if you just turn, what if you turn dirt into water? Okay. Wine would be cool, but water at least, because Moses could do that.

Jesus couldn't do that. I don't know. I feel like God got less and less badass the further along we got in the Bible. Don't let that take anything away from the doxology, though. What I wanted to say is I cut off the cowlick half an hour ago. I said that half an hour, but I cut it off like six hours ago. And we'll see if that helps. Hopefully it doesn't look too bad in the back.

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It's really on the to-do list. Last chance. Let's put it this way, because I got three more trivia. games and i'll gladly play them together as a community right you don't have to play yourself you don't have to call in be put on the spot if you don't want i'd love to have you play our games it's not like saw let's play a game right it's uh what was the guy the guy who was uh jigsaw he was the guy who plays uh bleaker bob in seinfeld and he just died like last year what was his name anyone in the comments want to put that in the guy who plays jigsaw i think he died rest

in peace. You don't have to play our game, but we'll play together. Okay, how about that? It's a community-oriented show. And we got three more games left to play. So we'll play those. And if you call in before, we're all exhausted, A15-298-7200, you can, of course, play one of, or all these games by yourself if you'd like to. But the three games we have left as we close out today's show, let me check our notes. Anything else we wanted to do? Oh, Pallandrum of the day. Of course, I forgot. Oh, we do have another caller. We'll see if they want to play a game.

This is very exciting. Speak of the devil. Trivia Master over here. Thanks for calling the Bean Town podcast. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? Before the first-time caller,

use with any of these trivia ones, even the beard trivia, stumped me. You don't know presidential campaign slogans? How do you feel about movie time? Well, this is the Silver. screen it's movies before we get in there you know what's going on what's happening how are you

let let me let me let me ask you this i've been to little caesar's i guess that time to pick up the pizza and then one other time in my life on my 21st birthday but it's been six seven eight years i don't know since i went to a little caesars is there anything new do they still have the five dollar pizza deal what's what's the latest at little caesars Territes. Brutal. Greg Abbott's got his greedy fingers raising those prices. So there's no $5 option.

What's the cheapest option? Well, let me, so it's, it's two o'clock Texas time. You're bringing home Little Caesars. Are you working on that now? Are you saving it for more traditional supper time? What's your strategy? Fair enough. That's a good call.

Well, I appreciate the Little Caesars Intel. I haven't thought about Little Caesars in a long time. So it's good to get a really. refresher. I do wonder, I don't know, I guess I haven't seen the $5 deal in a while, so maybe it just quietly went away all over the place, but something worth investigating on the next episode of Beantown Investigates. So thanks for raising that point. Thanks for the tip, Beantown tip line. I appreciate it. Well, I got a movie quiz, and we'll play this together, and it's a top five list, and there's no expectation to get all of them, but just levy your guesses and we'll see how it goes.

It's a very straightforward quiz. Name the highest grossing best picture Oscar best picture winners of all time, top five list. So there's about 100 movies to choose from or going a global box office, I think, or whatever it was when I googled it. But out of all the best picture winners out there, these are the top five highest grossing ones. It is. There you go. See, you're doing well. That's number one. Oppenheimer's number three from 2023. You're doing pretty good at this. So you got number one. You got number three so far. I'll tell you they're all, 1994 is the oldest one on my list. And in case you were on the fence with this,

the Minecraft movie did not ultimately win best picture. So that's not on my list. Preview episodes. So you're probably about eight years behind now. Yeah. All right, let's see. Number two was part of a trilogy, and it's from 2003. Yeah, yeah. Is it Lord of the Rings?

It is Lord of the Rings Return of the King, so that's number two. All right. And then we got number four and number five left. They're very different films. Let's see. Number four is the leading role. The male who is a leading role is in all sorts of, you know, Oscar-nominated films, one best actor multiple times,

and that movie is from 1994. And then number five is more of a historical fiction from 2000 with a bang-in soundtrack. It's all right. I'll tell you the 1994 stars Tom Hanks. Let's see if that helps you make a guess, at least. It is Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump is number four.

There we go. and now we're just missing number five and they just made the sequel a year or two ago which I never saw but starred Paul Mescal in the sequel it does yes it is gladiator number five there you go see we got there we had Titanic

Return to the King Oppenheimer Forrest Gump and Gladiator so there you go good job I think you did better than you thought you were going to do it's all right that's right that's right Chet right Chet right Chet Hanks

Chet Hayes Chet and then other son Colin I think is more well known as far as like TV shows and stuff these days he's been in a couple of things I love that I saw your email when I was just checking it a couple minutes ago

thanks for supporting a cause that's important to you I appreciate that and we'll have a little gift for you in a little bit here I'll probably send you message, get your updated address or wherever you are these days. But thanks so much for calling in and playing the game. Spurs going all the way this year. I love it. Well, it'd be nice.

You know, the Spurs haven't been on top of the mountain in at least five years, kind of like the Patriots. So it would be really nice to, you know, have a new fresh blood team like the Spurs in there. So I'd be looking forward to that. Excellent. It's really a centerpiece, if you will. Maybe we'll do candelabras this year. We'll have to do some prices.

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That's our wine that we worked through today. It's been a fun day. Now I'm thinking about pizza, which is appropriate because I'm going to be having pizza for supper here. You can't quite see it, but in this. this window behind me is a clear view to old man torturici's pizza. Excuse me, it's just torturitis, but we call them old man torturitzes because there's got to be some, you know, Nona from Naples or Verona where they had the closing ceremonies. I think we're still competing against the closing ceremonies here.

Who came over, who emigrated from Verona, brought his Marco Polo-inspired pizza recipe. Did we ever get to the bottom? Last thing I'll say here, then we'll play our. final games here. Again, you can call in. There's still time. I got two more games left and we're going to play them. So if you want to play them with us, live on air, you can. 815-298-7200. Or you can listen and play along. We still have presidential campaign slogans and named the country or county by Winter Olympic host city. But what was I saying about the, oh, did we ever get, When I was a kid, there was murmurs, murmurs and rumors, that pizza was not Italian.

It was Chinese. And when Marco Polo went, he followed the Yangtze River, he came out in Macau or wherever it flows into. They had the secret pizza recipe with the pepperoni and the anchovy and the pineapple and the marinera and occasionally Canadian bacon. and he took that recipe with him all the way back to Naples or wherever he set foot from Independence, Missouri. I don't know where it was. And that was where pizza was actually Chinese. It was fireworks, pizza and clay soldiers.

That was sort of the three things and Perl S. book that China was known for back in the 8th century, BC, when Marco Polo was traveling. And I don't know if we ever got to the bottom of whether pizza was actually Chinese or Italian or Dark Horse, like Malawian. Probably not Malawian. But I didn't think USA was going to beat Canada and hockey, so who knows. All right, let's wrap up here.

Silk Road. What's Spice Road? Silk Road. Spice Road? Silk Road. Silk is from China, too. They got a lot of spiders in China, like those big ones from Harry Potter, too. Wasn't there in one of the Hobbit movies, there was a big,

talking spider? Or am I just conflating Harry Potter with Hobbits? I don't know. I played the Hobbit soundtrack for Maples. If you're on Facebook, you can't see here. Here is Maple. Snoozing. I played the Hobbit, an unexpected journey soundtrack for Maple's separation anxiety,

because I heard that the Misty Mountains song sang by, what's his name, the main Hobbit, not Martin Freeman, the other main one. Richard Armitage, is that his name? That's supposed to be good for helping your baby sleep. The Misty Mountains, however it goes. It did not help Maple. So good for babies, not good for panic dogs. We got two games left and we're going to jump in here because I got to pee and there's

just, I need some fresh air. You ever have one of those days where you're just like, I need some fresh air? It's cold outside. It's not going to be that pleasant, but I just got to do it. So here we go. Play along with us. Let's do presidential campaign slogans first, and then we finish up with Winter Olympics. And that's a good way to end the show, because Winter Olympics are literally ending as we speak here.

It's a great time capsule here for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Cortina. So here we go. country by Winter Olympic host city. I have six host cities for you, and you have to name the country. Number one, Squaw Valley. S-Q-U-A-W, Squaw Valley. Reminds me there's an Elton John song called Indian Sunset, which is a great song. Absolutely love it.

Especially the acoustic version, Squaw Valley, or acoustic version of Indian Sunset. Back in 1971, maybe, Madman Across the Water, I think was the album. Just amazing seven minutes. If you haven't listened to it, if you're looking for just like good quality music for seven minutes of your life on a Sunday, go listen to Indian Sunset, Elton John, solo acoustic piano. Fantastic.

We got it right in the YouTube comments. Thank you in YouTube. We also have another comment. James Taylor soothe is, oh, James Taylor is good for dogs. Well, I'm going to turn on Steamroll. blues for Miss Maple next time and we'll see how that goes. That's right. Elvis made it famous but originally James Taylor song,

Steamroller Blues. Well, I'm a steamroller, baby. I better roll all over you. Yes, I do. I'm a tent town piece of metal junk for you, baby. I'm a lot to roll all over you. Better infuse those steam roller. Steamroller Blue

So yeah Wadiwachtel on the guitar Woohoo Uh yes Number one Squa Valley is USA All right number two I think this one Maybe is hosted twice

Innsbruck I N-N-S-B-R-U-C-K Just looks like a place where you could get a nice short stack of pancakes Innsbruck is our second one here What country is Innsbruck in And now I'm thinking of the Von Trapp family singers. Aed of vice, Aedle Vice, bless my homeland forever.

I love when Uncle Max comes out, right? He's not actually their uncle, I don't think. But he's introducing them to when they're gold medal. And the Nazi soldier comes in. It's not Rolf, but it's like Rolf. And he's like, they're gone. And it's do-t-d-d-do-do-do-do-to-do-to-boom. Those cellos come in?

Oh, man, it's so hardcore. Boom. And then, like, the stage adaptation, there's no final showdown in the Abbey. That's, we've spoken on this, like, seven years ago on the show before. The sound of music saying, let's cut out the final climactic scene in the abbey where the sisters, they take out, they steal the catalytic converter. and it's like, Mother, we've sinned, and they're holding up the exhaust pipe.

And then, you know, you got Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews hiking through Innsbruck and stuff. That's right. Innsbruck is in Austria. See how it all ties together. Number three, Grenoble. Sounds like a liqueur or something. Grin-O-B-L-E. Now I'm thinking of Grendel. I got to give a shout out to my brothers for helping me make a kick-ass.

Bayo Wolf extra credit. This is the stupidest thing. You're homeschooled. Your mom's your teacher. You're pretty much guaranteed in A. And you still do an extra credit project on a Beowulf, a Lego Beowulf short film to get extra points. I don't know.

And yeah, what's the name of the monster? Grendel? And then Grendel's mother, who is total milk. by the way. If you ever saw the, what, the weird, like, polar express animation, Beowulf, you guys remember that? And it's got Angelina Jolie and her titties are all the way out. But it's, like, okay, still PG-13 probably.

Maybe it was R. I don't know, because it's, like, oddly animated. Did anyone see the Beowulf movie where Angelina Jolie, hottest she's ever looked? I know there was the movie in the 90s where it's like the, whatever it's a french title and uh kevin from the office gets it right on the office trivia episode from season eight or nine or whatever but i was going to say now i have to go look at that clip later i'm not looking at that clip later if my wife's listening i'm definitely not going to check

it out i know what angelina joly looks like you know she looks beautiful with clothes on it's great i don't need to watch beowulf but i've never seen it grenoble is from france Grenoble, Grendel's mother, Milf. Number four, Albertville. Albertville. Where is Albertville? You know what? I have the right answer in my notes and I'm looking at it and I'm like, are we sure

that's right? I want to confirm before I spread false information. It is. If you're curious, it's not a city, this will probably help you. Not a city. It's a sub-prefecture. Sub-prefecture, S-U-B-P-R-E-F-E-C-U-R-E. Albertville is in France.

I don't have anything fun to say about Albertville. It is what it is, okay? Number five, St. Moritz. What country is St. Moritz in? I didn't even know Moritz was a saint. We're getting a lot of good YouTube comments, Facebook comments. I love this. Where is St. Moritz?

I think I knew a guy named Moritz, but I don't remember in what capacity. We had a great, when I worked at the law school, we had this great, maybe he's watching right now. What was his name? It wasn't Hans. He was from Vienna. Vienna waits for you. That's me singing Billy Joel.

It was hard to tell. Slow down, happy child. Every time I was watching ice hockey or speed skating these last two weeks, the song in my head playing was running on ice by Billy Joel. I get no traction because I'm running on ice, paying the price for love. St. Moritz was in Switzerland. And what was the name? I feel bad.

What if you are watching? You were the law clerk in admissions when I worked in admissions for like a year. Fantastic, great worker, really kind. You never have one of those situations where you feel really bad that you can't remember someone's name not because it's like you can't remember but just because they were a very like good person reliable kind smart and you can't remember their name and it's frustrating we do yeah we got the it's a it's a it's where moritz comes from my aunt my aunt is not named moritz but okay uh a a friend in that circle a final bonus question name the country actually two bonus questions for you

here because this shows you how creative the next two winter Olympics are. You thought Cortina was cool? Next up, we have French Alps. And you don't want to guess what country. French Alps is in. French Alps is the clue. We'll throw in 20, what are we up to, 2057? No, the next Winter Olympics will be 2032.

The name of the Olympics is Utah. Utah. It's not like Utah Street where they have Camden Yards in Maryland, Baltimore. This is U-T-A-H, Utah. If you're curious French Alps, we have a Kazakhstan guest, good guess. French Alps is in France. Utah is in U.S. Utah coming in clutch with the Winter Olympics.

They just had it in 2002. Feels like it was yesterday. Was Johnny Weir at the 2002 Olympics? or is he more of a Torino guy? I got traitors on the mind now. But yeah, there you go. Utah is U.S. 2034. And then French Alps 2030.

Starting to feel really old, 2030. Okay, our last game, this is it, guys. Our last game, we've done movie time, we've done beer, we've done Winter Olympics, we've done Rivers of Asia. I distinctly remember 10 minutes ago saying, let's do presidential campaigns and then finish with Winter Olympics because Winter Olympics is ending right now. And then I did Winter Olympics anyways. So we skipped presidential campaigns.

We'll give it one minute on the clock. If you're listening out there, if you are a presidential buff, even if you've already played a game, and you think you can slay these presidential campaign slogans as I'm slurring my words here, I have six slogans for you. You name the president. I'll even give you the year as a bonus. This is the last thing we're doing because I got to pee really bad.

Not so bad where it's like all hell is breaking loose, but like five, ten minutes. Tipa Canoe and Tyler too. That's a good one. We have in the YouTube comments. That's not in my list, but I'll tell you what.

It's in a similar vein because we have maybe one or two that we're like, okay, that's a legitimate good one. And then we have like three or four that are just, this is stupid, this is silly. Not because it's so hard, but just because it's stupid. So if you want to play 815-298-7200,

last-chance workout, like Gillian Michaels would say, what was the name of the host of Biggest Loser? She was on a soap opera, Allison something, the blonde lady. Haven't seen much from her in the last 15 years. There was a biggest loser documentary six-ish months ago. six months to a year ago. And I don't think we ever finished it. It was like three parts who watched the first two episodes.

But Bob, not Bob Hope, not Bob Berker, Bob the other Bob. Bob, what's his name? Someone on YouTube tell me, Allison Sweeney, thank you, YouTube. Someone tell me Bob's last name. Bob Harper? I think it's Bob Harper. He was on Traders last season. Traders is such an interesting.

I was telling this to my wife, a couple episodes. ago. It's like the people who are really good at traders get voted out quickly. The people who are really bad at traders get voted out eventually. And it's just like that weird in the middle people who don't like contribute or participate who get left at the end. So now we have the guy from dancing with the stars. We have the girl from Love Island and we have Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski. And it's like you guys are not the worst at the game, but you are not good at the game. It's kind of weird. I don't know. Okay, let's play our final game. We'll all play together.

We got six people on YouTube. I don't know how many people on Facebook. It doesn't tell me. But thanks to everyone for sticking it out with us. I appreciate it. This is our last game. Then we're playing our outro music, and that's the Pledge Drive. Presidential campaign slogans.

I have six for you here. Number one, this is a straight shooter. That's not it. This is what it actually is. A square deal for all. Whose presidential campaign was. a square deal for all and i'll give you a clue this is a tough one 1908 was the year of a square deal for all it's a great flash game and i was growing up from nitrome dot com and i t r o m e called

square deal or that's what that was square meal rather you're like this little monster you eat these blocks of concrete and you shoot them at the monsters to kill them it's called square meal go check it out a square deal for all was william howard taff i call him bill but william howard taft 1908 a square deal for all uh 19 or i don't need the year here's the next one but it was from a similar year 1912 a square deal all around now was he poking fun at a square deal for all i don't know but 1912 this and i should mention these answers the to the questions sometimes they're president, sometimes they're not. Anyone who ran for president can be involved in this.

Anyone can have a campaign. Bean Town could have a campaign. We have a guess in the YouTube comments. A square deal all around 1912. It's not Taft. That would be very tricky. A square deal all around 1912. That is YouTube is right.

Teddy Roosevelt. Very well done. Now I'm thinking about Theo from the Cosby show. Rest in peace. I talked about that two hours ago. What have our song recommendations been? Well, we had a whole rock and rock and roll quiz, what we had cruising, specifically the Huey Lewis,

Gwyneth Paltrow version. We had Roof Garden, Al Jero. Anyone want to go watching in the garden? Anyone on the room with me? You don't know what Al Jero sounds like. That's what he sounds like. That's good stuff. It's kind of scatening.

Oh, we got one final call. to play the last four questions. I appreciate that. I hope they like presidents. All right, Bean Town Podcast, ninth annual pledge draft telethon fundraiser. This is officially the last call because we got four questions left

in our final trivia game. What's going on? What's happening? How are we? Go ahead and mute the stream on your end so we don't get the echo. What's happening? How's it going?

Good, how is your playtime going? It's almost done. You joined us for the last game. I hope you'll like presidential campaign slogans. All right, you're jumping in for number three here, which is from 1944, do we or don't we? The answer is someone who ran for president. They could have become president. They could have not become president.

Do we or don't we? But that's a good guess. This person was famously, his name was part of the clue I just gave you. That's right. Thomas Dewey. who eventually would be known for the 19, what, 48 election, right? Dewey defeats Truman with Truman holding up the newspaper. I think it was the Beantown Times.

But, yeah, Thomas E. Dewey, I'm guessing his middle initial as E. That just feels right, doesn't it? Someone on the YouTube chat can fact check us. All right, you're one for one. We're going to go back in time ever so slightly because I missed this one. This is a classic campaign slogan from 1920. I know this is your favorite president. Return to normalcy.

1920. Return to normalcy. Middle name of Dewey is Edmund, apparently. Yeah. Middle initial of return to normalcy, middle initial is a G. First name Warren. YouTube's got it. It's not Warren Moon, but it's not soft.

It's not easy. It is Harding. There we go. Warren G. Harding. All right. We're doing well. We got two left here.

This one's appropriate because this person has been in the news recently. This is from 1988, and the slogan was, keep hope alive. In 1988? Change. No, Reagan wouldn't have been eligible to run in 1988. Too old. No, not too old, just three terms. You got to switch races here.

You got to think of it. Think of a different race. Yeah, race. No whites. I'm like the anti-George Wallace. No whites. Alliterative name. I've got my wife on Facebook.

Let's see if she can come on the camera. Let's try. They just died. Not a president. What? Not a president. Nope. That's it.

Yep. Jesse Jackson said keep hope alive. All right. Here's our last one from 20. We all remember the Republican National Convention, the debates from 2016. It was a lot of fun before things just got really dark. Who said this in 2016? Tanned, rested, ready.

Tanned, rested, ready. It wasn't Trump, someone else who's pretty tan, but a different race. We're all about races here on the campaign trivia. I see that. It's probably someone you haven't thought. about since 2016 unless you live in Louisiana but it was Republican they got like 11th place so pretty good Louisiana governor anyone in the comments come up with a Louisiana governor from 2016 first name first first first name probably I don't know how to do that with this technology

I don't know first name is probably Robert but I don't know that for sure all right so our last trivia question of the day. That was Bobby Jindal. He was a Louisiana governor. Kind of reminds me of a couple pled drives ago and we thought we were going to have, what's her name, who does national security now right from Hawaii? She was a Democrat.

Now she's a Republican. What's her name? I can't, I legitimately can't remember. Someone on YouTube or Facebook helped me out here. Who was a T? Her name's her with a T? Something like that? She was from Hawaii. She was Republican.

She's kind of got like the silver streak in her hair. What was her name? She was going to call in and then she wasn't. Tulsi Gabbard. There it is. Thank you. Oh, Matt Fielder, our taxes expert. Wait till we get to Matt Fiedler's taxes special this year because for the first time in my life,

I am having to amend my taxes, which is a lot of fun. So I can't wait to amend my taxes. And we're going to have Matt Fiedler. He's doing it all for free. It's really exciting. So I'm really excited to have him. do that live yeah he well he volunteered and i said okay well yeah you can do it live on air so he's really looking forward to it so we talked a lot about it before we went live today so well i appreciate

you playing uh anything else going on i have one final trivia question for you and for everyone else because you were just down there i don't know exactly where but we're going to all take a a guest together and i'll check my google maps to verify and we'll see how it goes everyone gets to guess, fastest route possible in a car, Cancun, Mexico to Seattle, Washington, hours and minutes, place your bets, place your guesses, closest becomes a Topaz elite member, whether you donated to charity or not. So the stakes are high, okay? To drive? To drive from Cancun, Mexico to Seattle, Washington, hours, minutes, is the final question.

of the Pledge Drive Telethon, and I haven't looked this up. So while we're thinking of that, we have actual questions in the YouTube comments. How do I pledge? So we changed things up this year with the Beantown Pledge Drive Telethon Fundraiser. All you have to do, there we go. We got in the comments. You donate to any cause, charity of your choice, you know, RNC, whatever you want to do, $20 or more.

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Show goes on. And the dentist is starting to do. Still without you. Show goes on. and we'll get you in our Topaz Elite Club. We have our first guess here from Cancun to Seattle. I'm going to guess this is maybe on the lower end, but probably close, six hours and 50 minutes. I should specify, this is what Google Maps says, not based off of who's driving.

So any, you know, it could be, you could be a slow driver, you could be a fast driver. Slow ride, take it easy. But if you are just the average Google Maps driver, however they determine that speed limit, I don't know. It goes from kilometers to miles when you go from Juarez to San Diego is confusing. You don't have to do that. Just take a guess. I will take a guess and then I'm going to go to Google Maps here. Let's see.

Cancun is really far down there. Mexico is let me think. I'm running through the permutations in my head. Okay, we got the gaps in this here. The Sierra Accidentals, Baja California, there could be a little side. Now, I saw Sicario directed by Denisville Nuf. There could be stoppages at the border and then trying to get through, I don't know if you guys have ever trying to get past C-TAC on 5 p.m. on a Friday. It's brutal.

Thankfully, today is a Sunday. So, with all of my permutations and permeations and calculations in my head, I'm like, digit the bird, voiced by Gilbert Godfrey. Rest in Peace from Cyberchase, the PBS Kids Show. I'm going to guess that it takes you 47 hours, 21 minutes to go from Cancun to Seattle. Yeah, Matt Fieler and our YouTube comment says, who is driving? Google Maps is driving, apparently. So take your final guesses. I said, what did I say? Like 47 hours, something like that.

So take your final guesses. I'm typing it in now. We're getting our start destination, Cancun. We're getting our end destination, Seattle. And we are going to find out what the answer is. I'm about to reveal it for myself, so I have the answer. We have 63 hours in the comments. We have 38 hours, 22 minutes.

We have 6 hours, 50 minutes. I said 47 hours. Sister on the phone, what's your guess? said over 60. What's your actual guess? We're driving. We're definitely driving. Okay. So wrong turn in Albuquerque. Yeah, all that stuff. All right. Here it is. Drumroll. This is the final answer right now on a Sunday, according to Google Maps. The answer is 76 hours. There we go, from Cancun, up to Seattle. And if you're interested, they have you

going up through Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. So there you go. There is the answer. It's a lot more than I thought. 76 hours, which is about, what, three days and change, something like that. Maybe a little bit more if you stop once or twice for, yeah, we'll just stop once or twice for gas. All right, well, there you go. There it is.

That's the end of our trivia games. Any final thoughts here? anytime. It's always a treat. I think that's what I got for you. Thanks for calling in. I appreciate it. Thanks. Appreciate it. Take care. Bye-bye. Bye. All right, folks. Well, let me check my notes. Let me make sure there's nothing obvious that we missed. I've closed out all of my tabs. So that's it. That's what it is.

Let's check our texts. Excuse me. See if there's anything else. Just a lot of people from my part-time job where I have the, I have the notifications muted, but they still show up in the texts. And it's a bunch of Chinese kids getting advice on their college applications. Nothing else on my end. Let's see. Let's make sure we got our outro music queued up ready to go here. And you all will get a little really exciting sneak peek behind the scenes of what I do in the last two minutes while the outro music is playing because it's not just officially connected like we had when we had garage band I just sit here and played on my smartphone while I sit here and pet the dog so it's really exciting if you want the behind the scenes look there's nothing else that's what I have I appreciate

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you guys thank you for tuning in we'll be uh with you next week for an all new episode last episode of february who knows what we'll talk about that's how the bean time podcast goes oh last final thing if you have any horse name suggestions the kentucky derby is right around the corner here in april or may i think it's in may so it's never too early to send in your listener suggestions. I'll be honest with you guys. I've got some dynamite names for this year already lined up. But I like to reserve one spot for the listener suggestions.

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I hope you stay safe. Stay sane. Thanks for donating. We'll check in on you guys next week. Bye. That's a wrap. Bye, guys. Well, I got to end two streams at once.

I got one hand here. I don't even, there's no end button on YouTube. We'll do it live. Where's the end button? There's the end button on the audio.