Beantown Podcast - All Downhill after the Asparagus (09292023 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: September 29, 2023

Quinn comes to you LIVE to share a fun new recipe. Ever find yourself with a bunch of penne and water chestnuts and frozen corn and tapenade and not sure what to make? I guess this is your solution.

Hey, what's going on? I'm sick. It's Quint David furnace. This is my show Quint David furnace presents the bean town podcast for Seder Friday. So just brain fogged. I have no idea what day it is. Wake me up in September ends right Billy Joe. We got two more days here. Friday, September 29th, 5 630 in the afternoon, geez, I can't get anything, right? My name is Quinn, and this is my show Quinn David furnace presents the bean town podcast. And yeah, I mean, in slam, a jam, a mode here with a head cold, no COVID, thankfully, but just, yeah, I mean, this is just how it goes, you know, I try flew too close to the sun this past weekend, worked on Saturday, flew out to Minneapolis, was getting like four hours of sleep a night, three straight nights, long day Monday, and

then woke up, uh, middle of the night going into Tuesday night with the store throne. Like I know what this means. My colds are utterly predictable, all too predictable. Speaking of fun forwards or phrases, wherewithal, I use that in a email or a text today. I can't remember which one, but I don't know if you've ever typed that out before. Wherewithal, all one word, wh, e-r-e-w-i-t-h-a-l-l, wherewithal, all one word, WH, E-R-E-W-I-T-H-A-L-L, wherewithal. Pretty fun. The question, and I originally typed this and I backtracked it a little bit, could wherewithal

have the pluralized, wherewithal's at an extra LS at the end, I don't know. That's what I tried to do at first in the Microsoft grammar or whatever, give me a slap on the wrist a little red line. I said, no way, buddy. But, yeah, this is a day four, right? Tuesday, sore throat, Wednesday, sore throat, and then the, the, the, the, the snot, and the congestion and the sinus stuff came on yesterday and then today is just a full blown, you know, just wreaking havoc. Blown my nose about a million times. It's been frustrating.

You know, you're not supposed to blow your nose a ton, and I'm not blowing it like the cubs are. I'm not blowing it overly strong, right? I'm acutely aware of that with my blood you nose issues. You don't want to push it too much. But I just got there's the snots coming out, okay? It's either going to come out and go down into my mustache or it's going to go down the back of my throat and in many instances both will occur and so you're just kind of sitting there like, well, you've got to do something.

So it's a lot of blowing and then also just kind of like dabbing, blowing and dabbing. I've got a little ginger ale going here. And yeah, just a bummer, you know. The cold follows its typical course for me, this is day four. We'll have two to three more days like this after today, which is a bummer, because it's the weekend.

Although I guess if you, hey, if you're going to have a week long cold, it's going to hit your weekend at some point. So yeah, this, we got, we got stuff to do to touring, wedding venues, picking up a rental car, so it's tough, you know, tough, tough sledding, but we'll keep plotting along here, we'll make it happen. Listen to discretion is advised when when you're listening to the bean

tongue podcast number one, we'll be casualing some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. And shout out to my friends in Paki stand. Thank you for making this the 112th ranked comedy podcast, in the great Islamic Republic of Paki stand. Hyderabad, Khyber Pass. Got some friends, in fact, like all of our friends. Not just some friends, like every friend I've ever met

on Rachel's side is in Europe currently. Either Munich or I saw Copenhagen, I've seen a Spain, I've seen Austria, Switzerland, apparently they all got together and then went together as a group which is awesome. I'm wondering where the invitation to the old custer was, but they're having a great time. The reason I bring that up, lots of good mountain alps, alpine views and snap chats and Instagrams and Facebook Messenger chats and stuff and I suppose that's probably what

We're gonna sneeze I've sneezed like 20 times today That's probably what Pakistan looks like right but with fewer like girls that look like Heidi in goats and You know chocolate. I feel like they probably don't have a lot of chocolate in Pakistan. There's a total guess. We got a pause just to blow the nose. That's how rough this podcast is. So this is not going to be a beater on the bush kind of podcast.

We could get close to sending records for shortest podcasts in bean town history of which we have lived through nearly 300 storied chapters. Now if you will I have to go back and look this is either 297 or 298. 300's coming up soon and that's what we got to come up with something fun something special to do. Maybe something 300 related to our butler right see the guy in 300. There's Troy and there's 300. Troy is Orlando Bloom and is it, I don't know, Matt Damon, something like that. I don't even feel energized enough to look it up, but I will anyways, because I feel like I owe it to the bean heads Troy cast. I'm 99% sure

it's got Orlando Bloom in it. Oh, it's Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt, Eric Banya, Diane Krueger. Diane Krueger and Sean Bean, this could have been, this could have been the original national treasure. They don't even need, they don't even need a Nick Cage or Justin Bartha for this. Yeah, Brad Pitt, Eric Banya, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom. Good stuff. And then you got 300 which I look I've never seen either of these films. The only thing I know about either one is in 300. The guy kicks the other guy into what is that like a well basically. It's like the

thing that Batman gets trapped in and Bains like prison basically. He's got to climb out. And apparently the only person who could ever jump out of this freaking cave is Talia Agul. What's her name, the French actress? I always forget her name. But she portrays Liam Neeson's kid in this film. And the only one who can make the jump out of the prison

is this like 10 year old girl. And it's filled with all these like bad-ass, 20 year old criminals. It's like, okay, movie, we got you. Well, what is her name? Mary and Cotie art, I think. Yeah, Jerry Butler, I'll call him Jerry, Kingly initis Against the Persian god King Zerxes. That's pretty cool. Radarigo Santoro. I don't really know anything about this guy

He was in lost That's always the fun thing about lost you'll see a person who is in lost or you'll see that they're they're acting credit is in lost You'll see a person who is in lost or you'll see that they're they're acting credit is in lost I've watched lost once all the way through and I've never done like a rewatch or no desire to do that or anything I probably watch it when I was in a college grad like late college grad school somewhere around that time and You'll see people you'll see their face on the Wikipedia IMDB page You'll see that they're in loss. You just just be like, huh, no recollection of that person being in loss. I think it's because I can basically remember like the main

islanders and then like five or six other people. But then if you go back and watch it, there's like a gazillion people. It's crazy. We're going to get to trivia in a second here. There's no pal in the room of the day today. It just doesn't feel right, you know, me being incapacitated and all. I did want to tell you about a fun little recipe. I made something that you might try at home.

Maybe next time you go to the grocery store. So it was Monday. It's a long day. Probably when I got sick. I woke up in Minneapolis, Vikings lost and barricaded again. Shout out to everyone, my family for coming out and hanging out that game, but in particular Jack Fernos for waking up with me at 3.20 am. I'm Monday morning, did to dig an Uber to Minneapolis because my flight was like 5.15 and his was later.

So he's a real one as they would say. But then after full day of work, gotta fly, take the train to the office work, whatever, gotta eat, right? So go to a trader Joe's after the trader goes on diversity right next to our old stomping ground where you still live. And it's always, I'll say this, I typically go to the one over on Lincoln when I just am going casual in the weekend, but if I ever get caught on a Monday night and I gotta go right after work, the Lincoln one is still a better option although it will be busy, but the problem is

you just got to go further, you got to go past home and then double back, whereas you do the diversity when you catch the bus right, which I did this time, you know, it's barely out of your way at all. But it tends to be rather wild in there around 5, 15 pm on a Monday. And this was no exception to the rule. I get in there and there are just people everywhere. It looked like it was fricking black Friday

at Best Buy or something. From the moment you step in, usually you got a little bit of time when you step in, you got some festive gourds and flowers and baskets and stuff and baskets and stuff. And you're like, okay, I can at least take a deep breath, which I can't now, my nose is blocked. But Monday I could, or I would have been able

to on a normal day, but this was no normal day. The people, one thing, I mean, look, it's gonna be tough to navigate, painting the ass, whatever. But then you go to the shelf, so I'm coming in, I found a recipe on the train, something super simple, it wasn't in the mood, I was super tired, but I knew I had to, you know,

gotta eat something, right? So just give me like some chicken, some pasta, you know, like penne or farfile, or anything fun like that. The little corkscrew pasta, or what's the spiral one, whatever that's called, regaletto, I don't know. Pesto and artichoke. And then I was planning to add bell peppers to that as well,

just to give it a little more body, but that's what I wanted, right? So I get there and immediately go to the produce section, which is always a little risky at Trader Joe's, right? You never know exactly what they're gonna have. There are some staples where it's like, yeah, you're definitely gonna have onions and bell peppers and tomatoes and apples and bananas and stuff.

But you get into some of those like second tier fruits and veggies. Like, I don't know if they're gonna have Brussels sprouts. I don't know if they're gonna have Brussels sprouts. I don't know if they're gonna have baby spinach. They should. I've bought it there many times before but it's doesn't, you know, it's not a guarantee. And lo and behold, artichoke, who's on the chopping block. There was nothing there. So then I started panning because I was just, I really got artichokes in my head or I said artichokes.

Sorry, I meant asparagus. Asparagus is what I really wanted. You know, you get the nice, long stalks. You just want to cut those up into like thirds. It's gonna be nice. You know, look, artichokes and pasta and pasta and chicken sounds delicious, right? You see that baby just right? Little butter in there.

Ooh, that sounds delicious. So I don't have asparagus on all of a sudden, I'm panicking, because I'm thinking like, I gotta find, I can't just make chicken pasta, pesto and bell peppers. Like, it's just gonna be lame. I wanted the asparagus, I keep mixing up asparagus and artichoke.

It shows you how well my brain is functioning today. So then I panicked. We don't gotta go through every single detail, but essentially here's what I ended up with, and here's a fun recipe that you could try at home that I really don't recommend, even though I had it for four nights and ate the whole thing,

because if you cook it, you gotta eat it, right? So I got the corkscrew, the spirally pasta, but to keep it fun, I had a little bit of extra penny lying around the house at home, so I decided to throw some in there too. You'd rather have too much pasta than not and not for right. We got the chicken, the chicken wasn't a problem, chicken was fine, although I tend to find in my recipes,

it's probably something to do with the way I cook, but by the time you get to like night four of chicken to sit in there, it's really just not as good. I think that's partially just how cooking works and partially, you know, me being a bad chef. But then things really started to follow the rails. So we got the bell peppers. Wasn't a problem. Oh, the other thing in this recipe that was supposed to be in there were diced or halved, like cherry tomatoes, or grape tomatoes, whatever. We got that. It wasn't a problem, although I found, it was one of those things

where they just kind of disappeared in the recipe and I found myself every night heating up my dinner this last week being like, where are my cherry tomatoes? They seem to have epschonded. And then it was just, you know, it was like, the asparagus was what I was looking forward to the most. So I was like, what can I do to replace the to replace theseparagus and the guys I'm not proud of this But keep bearing mine there are just like a gazillion people in there every aisle. There's no reprieve no room to

To maneuver it's it's LA traffic on the five at you know 9 a.m. On a Monday is brutal So I ended up getting corn, which isn't totally against the spirit of it, right? We had some tomatoes and bell peppers so corn is kind of a fresh thing. Usually you could work well with a pesto. But then just the lack of fresh produce really screwed me over because I ended up with two frozen bags of vegetables, one stir-fry veggies, so we're talking like it sounds terrible, and it was terrible. Like the mini corncubs,

the water chestnuts, right? It's the frozen bag of veggies, right? Peepads, and just, you know, kind of a really long stringy like bell peppers that just don't hold up well at all. And then the other one was Multi-colored, tri-colored cauliflower. There was like regular looking cauliflower like white-ish purple Excuse me, then I guess like brown or something. I don't even know what the third color was But anytime you you get a big spoonful, you've got some pasta going on,

and then you see that purple cauliflower, and you always like, it doesn't necessarily taste bad, it just doesn't really work, you know. That to mention the art of cooking all this stuff together when you're dealing with fresh things versus chicken, versus pasta, versus frozen veggies, it's, there was no instruction step in the recipe to mitigate this.

And then to kick it, to cap it all off, they didn't have just like basic, basal-based pesto. And so I didn't even realize that, actually when I grabbed it, I just realized it, like when I opened it up, this was not green pesto. It was like yellowish brown. I don't know what it's based was. It was almost like an olive tap and odd

or something to APE and ADE. I can't really explain it. It wasn't like, oh, this tastes bad. It's just, when you got a hankering for asparagus and pesto, you wanted to be light and fresh and then you get some sort of olive concoction going on with your frozen cauliflower and water chestnuts, and pasta and chicken.

It's a whole thing was just kind of strange. And then to cap this all off, you're wondering, how do I season this? Because this is not even like anymore in the same family as the original recipe. So you just kinda put your head down and do salt, pepper, garlic salt. And then I found myself adding some butter in there

because it's just kinda like that would taste good, right? Butter tastes good with noodles and water chestnuts and cherry tomatoes. In theory, it would. And I don't think the butter made any worse. And then first two nights just did that. And then by the end, I was throwing cheese on there at the top as well. Melt some cheese on top.

So there you go. There's your recipe inspiration for the week. You can check it out on beanthumpodcast.com slash recipes. If you go there and you get a 404 message, it's probably you. It's not, you know, definitely not me. I definitely have that website. It's live and it's spectacular. Let's shout out our friends here and then trivia and then that's it. I just feel and beat guys. Thank you to the Samsung Q2U series for helping us out get to almost 300 episodes here from Genesis to Exodus and you got Zerxes and Darius and 300 right? Hanging gardens of Babylon Daniel in the Lions and that's all Persia Prince of Persia Jake Gyllenhaal good stuff

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So one of those probably, or something else, I don't know, hope I don't work in inspection, perfection. Okay, as you remember, you can always get in touch with us on the show here by emailing us beantownpodcastatyahoo.com. Again, that's beantown, B-E-A-N-T-L- beantown podcast at Yahoo.com again that's beantown B.E.A.N. Tearling podcast at Yahoo.com and shout out to a close

close friend of the show and probably almost certainly holds a record for most appearances on this program Matthew Feeler who's getting married in just four short months here just booked flights and hotels and airport transfers and all that stuff for the wedding. So it's going to be lit late January, looking forward to it. International destination wedding. Never done that before. Today's trivia question has nothing to do with anything else we've talked about. It is the most out of the blue question you could have possibly imagined. And I'm going to bring it to you after I pause and blow my nose.

So this came up literally just like an hour ago when I was scrolling right at it. And it was something interesting, and it was one of the things where, so it has to do with a common misconception in history more or less. And I think I'm probably a victim of this misconception, meaning I probably think the same way.

But the misconception basically is that Hadrian's wall separated England and Scotland, which in reality it separated the Roman Empire from Catalonia, which was overrun with Scots, but this was way before they had England and Scotland. So that's Hadrian's wall, named after the Emperor Hadrian. My tribute question for you today is how many miles long was Hadrian's Wall in all its original glory. So again, this basically ran, Hadrian's Wall ran all the way from ocean to ocean to cross Great Britain in northern England, but not separating England in Scotland. So how long in miles don't give me any of that kilometer stuff with Hadrian's wall?

Bonus points, if you can tell me how many Roman miles it was, because Roman miles are measured differently. Then are the miles we know today, which is kind of funky. So there can be two answers. If you need more time, go ahead and pause. I don't really have any other context to give you other than just knowing that it spans kind of the length of the width of Great Britain. So there you go. The answer in modern miles is 73 modern miles, 117 kilometers. And if you're curious in Roman miles,

it's 80 Roman miles. So they were similar, but not quite the same. It looks like a Roman mile was about 1,620 yards. And a current mile is whatever 5,200. 120 yards and a Current mile is whatever 5,280 divided by three is 1,760 so a difference of 140 yards Basically a football field

Including the end zones and then a little bit extra So there you go. You learn something today. Hadrian's Wall basically is long as a great wall of China, just a little bit less. Full of apologies on my end. Just energies not there, humor is not there. Did my best. Hopefully we learned something today, no palindrons, but we'll be back in action next week.

In some capacity, I will be kind of all over the place. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana. You never know where I'm gonna end up next week, but we'll get you a recording one way or another as we get close to episode 300 here. And then before you know, it'll be our Spooktacular Celebration Year 6. I promise you a short episode

and I got nothing else for you. So everyone, thank you for tuning in. I hope you are well. I hope you're feeling better than I got nothing else for you. So everyone, thank you for tuning in. I hope you are well. I hope you're feeling better than I am. Stay safe, stay sane. I'll check in on you next time. Bye. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, ndご視聴ありがとうございました