Beantown Podcast - American Girl Dolls POWER RANKINGS (06072020 Beantown)

Episode Date: June 8, 2020

Quinn comes to you LIVE with our first ever POWER RANKINGS of the original 8 American Girl Dolls. How will your favorite do? Who will survive this grueling competition to claim the crown? Like Miss America, but better!

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furnace. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furnace presents the bean town podcast for Sunday, June 7th, 2020. What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn and we're coming to you live from the North side of Chicago. I can't where we're doing our video cast here number two here, and I'm trying to decide How close and I want to be is that good? It's a little bit too close you get a little Chubaka action Boy, if you're just getting the audio here you're early messing out. We're coming to you live from the north side of Chicago and This is one of the top 500 podcasts in the Chicago land area, which is very exciting I'm thinking I think we've mentioned this on the bean-town podcast before, but I think it would be nice to win a JD Power Award or JD Power and Associates Award. It just seems like something that, you know, as far as those cool honors, I don't mean anything. It's it's a type of thing that I think is fitting

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the Bean Tom podcast, we're doing a live power ranking of sort of my own creative list, but what I'm referring to as the original eight American girl dolls. Wow. When you said, by the ladies, for the ladies, we didn't think you were actually serious, but now you've got our attention. Okay, American girl dolls, if you're not are a series of dolls who are female, females made in America. First released, American Girl is an American line of 18-inch dolls released in 1986 by Pleasant Company. The dolls portray 8 to 11-year-old girls of a variety of ethnicities. They are sold with accompanying books told from the viewpoint of the girls.

Originally the stories focused on various periods, no pun intended, of American history, but were expanded in 1995 to include contemporary characters and stories. The latest edition being Wellie Wischers, a line of, that's, I'm just reading the script here. Wellie Wischers, all one word, in line of 14 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 were already intended for a younger audience being that it was a series of eight to 11-year-old girls. That being said, we're not getting into well-ewishers today, but we are focusing on American

Girl Dalls, and we're going to rank them, because that's just a great thing to do with people. I should say, I'm using this phrase of original American Girl Dolls very, I've made it myself here, because you have, there was like, and I learned all this just in our research today. There were like, I think two original American Girl Dolls,

it looks like it was maybe Samantha, and well, she might have been the first one. I don't know. It looks like it was maybe Samantha and Well, she might have been the first one. I don't know looks like Samantha came out in 1986 Oh, no, there was Kirsten in 1986 Samantha and Kirsten they look like and Molly those I think they were three OGs but Obviously we wanted a more interesting show than just three lame white girls. So we expanded the list to eight. And we're going to go from eight to one. And the fun thing about this is we're going to kind of all be learning together because

I, when I made this list of eight and these all came out, you know, like 2000 dish at the latest. I didn't really know all of them. I think I knew all their names in some capacity, but, and still now, I don't know their stories. I didn't do a lot of, this might be shocking for you to hear, but I didn't do a lot of in-depth research into, you know, into this list specifically. That being said, we're gonna be researching as we go,

it's gonna be a fun time, it's gonna be sharp, sleek, elegant, slim, just like those American girl loves. Hey, one other thing I'll say before we announce the list of eight here. Those American girl dolls, they're all pretty slim, you know? And the average nine year old girl in America weighs 120 pounds, and I don't

really think that that's reflected in the American girls. Maybe the more modern ones, but I think a current-day American girl would need to have a smartphone in one hand, and I'm thinking like a two-liter in the other, although that might be more of a two-handed object, because nine-year-old girl's hands don't tend to be too large from what I heard. And you know, probably a Snapchat filter just built right into their face could be fun. Do nine-year-olds have smartphones? I don't know, man. This is one of my biggest, not one of my biggest fears, but just something that really naws at me, something I think about a

lot. Naws, GNA, WS, is like, when do you give your kids a phone? Because I didn't get a phone until I was 16 and I didn't have a smartphone until I was about 20. But times are different, you know. And especially like when I was growing up, I didn't really have a need for a phone or anything. I was homeschooled. I was literally almost never anywhere without my parents. But, you know, when I have kids of my own and send them to school, like, at what age do kids get cell phones? That mortifies me to like try to figure out

how to figure that thing out. I'm gonna have to read a lot of 21st century parenting for dummy books to try to sort all this stuff out. When do they get a TikTok? I don't know. I don't know. Okay. Let's announce the list of eight that we're going to be selecting from here and then, well,

what we'll do is we'll go eight through five and then we'll read some ads and we'll go four through one if that works out for everyone. So this list and I'm just reading these names in no particular order this isn't that you through one list obviously or else you wouldn't need to listen to the rest of the show. Here are the names we're working with. Kaya, Felicity, Josephine, Molly, Samantha, Addy, Josephine, Molly, Samantha, Addy, Kit, and Kirsten. Okay? So those are the eight we're working with. If you're curious just how much did I actually prepare for this episode, none at all really, because I don't know.

Even right now, if you said Quinn, what are we starting off with? What's number eight? I don't know. and I don't really know all their back stories I'm kind of fuzzy on a lot of the details so I'm doing my best year if you're watching our podcast live stream on YouTube I'm drinking from our Norfolk Academy Bulldogs travel mug mug you don't really call this a mug. It's a cup travel cup I guess but it does keep my my water very cold And I'm wearing my bathrobe because I'm in this weird It's a nice day in Chicago. You know, it's about 70 degrees

I was sitting out by the lake with Rachel for a decent portion of the afternoon just hanging out But you know, there's a seek there a nice, there's a nice breeze coming in. So just wearing my shorts and a t-shirt, you know, it's like, anyhow, all my windows open, I feel good. But if you do that for too long, expose you get a little bit chilly. So just trying to find this balance here. I don't know. I hadn't really touched my bathroom in a long time and then I was over at Hashtag friend of the podcast,

Ryan Singer and Sean Young's house on Wednesday or something like that, Thursday, I don't know. And they were, Ryan was telling me about his time spent in Italy and how he had this really nice bathroom that he wore every day. And they got me thinking, you know, I've had this bathroom since I, I don't know, I was probably like, there's actually a picture, you go on Facebook,

and there's a picture of the Christmas where I got this bathroom so I was wearing it. And I must have been, I don't know, what do I look like, 14 or something like that? So I've had this baby for a while. I would be lying if I told you it got much use. It hardly gets any use. It just kind of hangs up in my closet.

Because I just feel like I hardly ever, not that they don't lounge, but I just, I don't know, I never really think to put it on. So we're trying to incorporate it into the rotation a little bit more. The issue is, you know, it's June 7th, we're getting close and're trying to incorporate it into the rotation a little bit more the issue is you know It's June 7th. We're getting close We've already had some days where it's really hot out and with no EC in this apartment

There's only so many clothes you can wear and a bathroom is not on the recommended list of clothing articles So you got to keep an eye out for that, but Okay, I think we waited long enough. We're 12 minutes into our show here. We're going to get through our first four. We're going to go weakest to strongest, of course. And then we'll read our ads and we'll finish up here. And we'll move pretty quickly through today's show.

Because I still haven't showered today. We're recording this at 6 p.m. Sunday night. And you know, the day just kind of got away for me. You know what happened? We moved family chat from 9.30 a.m. to 10.15 a.m. and the whole rest of the day has just been a wash. Okay. So I'm scanning through the list here and let's see how quickly I can offend somebody because I said their favorite American girl was the weakest of the original eight. So again, our name, Kaya Felicity, Josephine Molly, Samantha, Addy Kit, and Kirsten. And I'm just gonna go out, actually okay, so this, I'm

leaning into my own personal discriminatory biases here. It's a great way to, it's a great phrase to start your sentence with. I actually know very little about these American Girl Dolls, but one thing I do know is that I don't like horse girls. This comes from my days working in undergraduate admissions. I can't tell you how many personal, common essays you get about a girl and her love of horses. And so for that reason and that reason alone, we are going with Felicity. As our weakest American girl doll, she comes in at number eight on our list here and I should write these down so I can give them to you in order.

Not Felicity Huffman when we get there. Felicity is one of the American Girl dolls that got her own feature film made about her. Felicity Mariamann is an Auburn-haired horse-loving girl. See they they know her identity. It's right in the first sentence there and that's all it takes for me, three strikes, and you're out. Living in 1770s, Williamsburg, Virginia, who's caught between Patriot and Loyalist family and friends at the onset of the American Revolution. OK, so I feel really strongly about this pick

because not only am I not a big horse girl person, but the whole revolutionary war era and this heightened sense of patriotism and loyalty like all those things, for whatever reason, they don't really resonate with me. The whole polar rear thing is not my scene. Felicity had a movie made about her in 2005 with Shailyne Woodley playing Felicity Merriman.

Shailyne Woodley is, I think, become somewhat famous. I really don't know anything about her or why she's famous or like what movie she's been in, but looks like the fault in our stars divergent and the TV show Big Little Lies. Now I'm going to do for an Emmy here. That's pretty good. So apologies to any of the big horse girl fans out there, but Felicity is first on the chopping block and she is officially number eight on our list of original American Girlballs.

Okay, let's go back to this list here and figure out what number seven is gonna be. Now it gets tough. Okay, now we're into the top seven. But I gotta tell you, we got a lot of, I feel like basic white girl bitches in this list in no particular order.

We got Molly, Samantha, Kit and Kirsten. And I just feel like in these current racial tension climates, it'd probably be a good idea to throw another white girl in at number seven before we really start digging in and making the tough choices. So I tell you who I'm going to pick. Number seven is going to be Kit. Kit Ridge, who also has had a movie made about her,

I believe Abigail Brezlin, but we're going to try to get some confirmation on this. If you're just joining us, number seven on our list of American Girl Dolls, and our power rankings is Kit Ridge for the film based on the character Kit Ridge. Okay, Kit Ridge faces the hard times of the early to mid-ears of the Great Depression in Cincinnati, Ohio. Well, we all know how much a dislike Ohio on this show.

As her family struggles to adjust to the realities of the economy after her father's job loss, well, maybe Kit Ridge could work the streets to make some money. I don't know. Just thinking out loud here, yes, Kit Ridge, an American girl, 2008 comedy drama, Abigail Brezlin, there she was. I liked Little Miss Sunshine a little bit better. Maybe we could have had a crossover episode. Well, I had Stanley Tucci. It might be worth watching. And Joan Cusack. Okay. That was number seven on our list. Felicity, again, number eight horsegirls, first to go easy call there and then Kit Ridge, we're knocking out the movie ones here first coming in at number seven on our list.

Okay, let's move ahead here and I'm eliminating the names for my list as we move forward. Things are getting tough now. Things are getting really tough. We still have left, Kaya Josephine, Molly, Samantha, Addy, and Kerson. I feel like we're doing the NBA draft lottery right now. This is high stakes, podcasting. Okay, for number seven, I'm gonna make kind of a tough call here.

Something that might not be super popular, but I'm going to do it anyways. And I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. So for the big time OG fans, you might be thinking, hey, he's crazy for picking this one at number 6. She should be way higher, at least 5 or 4. But I'm going for it anyways. At number 6, we're not going another white girl out of the mix.

We're going with Samantha Parkington. Samantha is an only child. Well, there's a strike right there growing up during the Edwardian period. What is that? Edwardian period? I didn't know we had a period in America called the Edwardian period. The Edwardian era or Edwardian period of British history, okay, okay, time out. Time out. This is like Benedict Arnold. What's going on here?

I mean, she's supposed to be an American girl. And the first description we're getting is that she grew up in a British period. Excuse me, Rain of King Edward the 7th 1901 to 1910. So just why couldn't we just call it the early 20th century? It's kind of what I want to know. Orphaned at age five, another strike and raised by her wealthy Victorian era grandmother, whom she called Grand Mary in New York. So why were we calling it the Edwardian period? Samantha befriends a poor servant girl named Nelly. Eventually, they're adopted, yada yada yada yada women suffrage seems just really basic, you know I think Samantha had a movie released about her

Let's see what details we can get on that an American girl holiday who it's like national lampoons 2004 television film Young wealthy. Yeah, she's an orphan, but she's wealthy. Get a load of that. None of this is coming together, you know? Anasofia Robb as Samantha Parkington. Wasn't she in Bridgetta, Tera Bithia? Maybe. Yeah, there she was.

Spoiler alert, didn't make it. Okay, so Samantha, you know what I was, where she was. Spoiler alert didn't make it. Okay, so Samantha, you know what I was, I feel a lot better after doing the research on Samantha because frankly going in, knowing she was an OG American girl doll from 1986, I was a little worried about taking the risk of putting Samantha at number six, thinking I might anger some fans, a large subsection of our listenership,

probably really into American girls, but I gotta tell you, after reading about Samantha or Sammy, I call her that, not as guilty, frankly, don't feel that bad about it. Sorry. OK, we're going to pick one more for a number five slot. There we're going to read some ads here doing great on time.

The five that we still have left are Kaya, Josephine Molly, Addy, and Kirsten. All right. So at number five, you know what? I think she snuck under the radar for long enough. She's the doll that doesn't have a last name and it kind of seems like she's trying to be like share and maybe a little bit full of herself for Madonna. And because of that, it's time for her to go. Kaya couldn't quite crack the top for Kaya comes in at number five on our power

ranking list of American girl dolls here. Kaya is a young girl, Nez Perse tribe living in the pre-contact Northwest themes in her quarry at Iada Iada, earliest of the historical characters, and the first one we chose that doesn't have a movie made about her. Frankly, it just seems like we don't really know much about Kaya. She's kind of mysterious.

I could see how that could be attractive to some fans, but I think that not having the last name thing was just the straw that broke the kaya's back. So, as it's summary of where we've been before we head into our break here, number eight, we've got Felicity, number seven, kit, kit Ridge, number eight, or number six, Samantha, and a number five, kaya. That means our top four in no particular order because I have not decided yet. We have Josephine, we have Molly, we have Addy, and we have Kirsten.

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it was getting a lot longer than I was comfortable with back in late March or early April. I was posting a lot about it on Instagram and doing a lot of fun hair things. And since then, the novelty of it has worn off quite a bit. So I'm just not posting about it that much. Plus I've been wearing hats more's a little bit, you know, shorter than it is if it's madded down in a certain way. But I can assure you, and if you're watching the live stream right now on YouTube, hopefully you can tell too that this thing is crazy. It's got a mind of its own. Anyways here. Let's move forward here so we can finish up and I can shower and I can eat supper.

Not to mention editing this, okay. So I know I don't really do any editing and what all I really have to do is load it into my Mac here and then line up the audio and the video which sounds really easy and frankly it would be for someone who knew how to do this stuff but for me it's a real pain in the butt. it would be for someone who knew how to do this stuff, but for me, it's a real pain in the butt. I spent, when we did our first video cast two weekends ago, I spent like 20 minutes on eye movie just trying to figure out exactly how to line up audio and video.

It was a headache, frankly, and really not looking forward to doing it again, but maybe we'll see, I don't know. The other thing is, I'm trying to do this in 4K, which is a video quality thing, like 1080p, if you ever heard of that, but apparently I recorded it in 4K, but it didn't upload in 4K, I don't really know. I don't really care.

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We need any Christian couples out there, we need you guys to write us at cuts, no, where are we at? Beentompodcastyahoo.com, email us again, this BeentomBEA and to thempodcast ayahoo.com. If you have any good christian, christian dating questions, okay? Because it's got to fall under hymns and hers. I'm not picky, could be Lutheran, Methodist, Episcopal. I don't really mind, okay, whatever you want to do. It's your body. But I will judge you on our hymns and

hers show. So let me know if you want to come on. I your body. But I will judge you on our hymns in her show. So let me know if you want to come on. I think it could be very fun. Okay. Alright, let's get back into our list here. If you're just joining us, welcome to the second half of our show. It won't be as long as the first half, I promise. but we are power ranking, what I deemed to be the original eight American girl balls. And our, our, the first half eight through five went something like this Felicity because she's a horse girl and that's three strikes you're out. In my book, Kit, Kit Ridge, because she's just kind of boring and she's from Ohio. Samantha, kind of a controversial pick when it first came out,

but after we did the research, realized Samantha's really like got really rich without earning it. And then Kaya, who frankly made it probably further than a lot of people thought she should have, but my list, my rules. Okay, so we are into the top four here. Again, the name's still standing are

Josephine Molly Addy and Kirsten Okay So Coming in at number four on our power rankings of American Girl Dolls It's going to be Josephine. Okay, it was a hell of a run. In fact, I don't know Josephina or Josephine. I don't know what she prefers. Probably Josephine, Montoya, a young Mexican girl living in 1824, New Mexico with her extended family, Schiener family, big family here. Veane had strong, must adapt following the death of their mother

before the books and introduction of the mother's sister. OK. bilingual. She got that going for her, New Mexico. And she's got a pet goat, which you know what? It's kind of sad to see Josephina only coming at a number four because how many American Girl Dolls do you know that have pet goats? I'll answer that for you. One, I know one that has a pet goat.

However run for Josephina cracked our top the top half not a bad day but you know what we're getting down to the needy gritty here. And there's just, there's not a lot of margin for error. Joseph Fina fans don't feel bad. It's a good run coming in at number four, okay? You should take a lot of, lot of pride in that. We are down to our top three American Girl Dolls here, and we're not gonna beat her on the bush. We're not gonna waste any time here.

Coming in at number three is something that might surprise people, something you might think, hey, we thought she had a shot at cleaning up this whole thing. I am here to tell you that's not the case. Came out in 1986, she is as OG as it gets. She's from Illinois. She lived through World War II, D-Day was yesterday. But unable to crack the top two, coming in at number three here

for American Girl Doll, OG Power Rankings is Molly. Molly, hell of a run from the youngster, living in the fictional city named Jeff Stinnell and Euler during the later years of World War II. Father is stationed in England as a doctor caring for wounded soldiers, her mother works at the Red Cross.

She, her 15 year old sister, and her 13 year old brother, and six yearold brother are all cared for by their housekeeper, and must cope with many changes that the war has brought. Molly also realized that she, too, is a part of helping soldiers. Not sure how. Such as skating, lap dancing,ies, and Summer Camp. That can't be right. Tap, tap dancing. Oh, whoa. Suck. Okay. Oh, oh, all right.

Skating, tap dancing, Movies, and Summer Camp. Molly Sears focused on patriotism and the changes that come with wartime. One of the original dolls. The only, okay. You guys might be wondering what is does she really have going for her? You know, she seems kind of basic. Here you go. The only historical character sold with eyeglasses.

All right, half of America wears eyeglasses, and so it just feels good to get some representation for once, okay? Molly has since been retired, but however run for the youngster, the Irish youngster, Molly McIntyre living through World War II, that's pretty impressive if you asked me, and made it all the way up to number three on our power rankings, okay? So Molly fans, don't be sad, you made it into the top three. That's highly impressive. All right,

we are down to it here. We are down to slots two and one. So as soon as I announce one, you know what the other one's going to be. With that in mind, we're still going to announce number two first and you'll know what number one is. Well, I'm reading number two. That's okay. You can save it. We'll get to them in due time, if I could speak correctly here. Number two, we're going to get a little drum roll going here. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. I could probably add the effect in iMovie, but I choose not to. Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh, all right.

Number two, probably surprised that she made it this far, but you know what, this list is very personally biased. I think we said that right at the outset. And I'm not afraid of that. The Scandinavian blood runs very strong here in this household. And because of that, we were able to get Kirsten all the way up to number two in a original doll from 1986.

A very strong run all the way up to the front of the field here. Kirsten Larson is a, they pick the most stereotypical names. I love that Kirsten Larson is a Swedish immigrant who settles in the Minnesota territory Ufftah with their extended family in 1854. She faced the hardships challenges and adaptations necessary to adjust to life in America such as learning to speak English Oh, I thought there's gonna be more to the list, just that. Kirsten begins to attend a single room school house near a home and her family do their best to preserve their traditions from Sweden while adapting to American life.

More changes include making a new friend outside of her own world and they were able to a new baby. Kirsten was one of the first three dolls, Yada Yada Yada, a fish they retired in 2010 looks like. All right, good run, you know, I'm impressed with Kirsten. It's tough to move to a new place. Minnesota territory, very harsh winters, anyone who's ever read my aunt and Nia knows about that. I don't know if that's set in Minnesota, but I, I, something like that, you know. And I'm definitely personally biased, but Swedish Minnesota, it's the type of person you could have like in real life

been my great, great, great grandmother or something, okay? So put a little respect on it. But it's time to reveal our number one, you already know what it is if you paid any attention to our list of original American Girl Dolls, the parameters we set at the outset. But to recap where we've been starting in number eight, we have Felicity, Horse Girl, Easy Pick for the worst American girl law. Then we had Kit-Kit Ridge from Ohio, not a great look. Samantha, just kind of there, being boring, basic white girl status.

Then we had Kaya very much flying under the radar, kind of doll, and that's about as far as we could get with her not knowing too much. Jin had the last name was a strike against her. Then in our top four we had Joseph Fina, a strong run, Nez Perse, New Mexico, definitely an underdog in this, in these power rankings made it into the top four that's admirable. Then at number three we had Molly,, the face of America lived through World War Two from Illinois, strong showing. At number two, we had Kirsten, the Swedish immigrant, the Swedish girl, the Danish girl sequel, and at number one, crowning our list, perhaps an upset no one else saw coming,

but it just feels appropriate right now, but also like legit earned it, if we're looking at this list in this whole context. Addy Walker, number one on our list of top American girl dolls, and I'll tell you why. Addy Walker was the fifth doll added to the historical line. American girl dolls and I'll tell you why. Addy Walker was the fifth doll added to the historical line. Her character is a fugitive slave.

Stop. That's all you need to know for why she earned being number one. She's a slave. You know, Molly's hardship was that she wore glasses. Felicities was that they shot her horse when its leg was broken. Kirsten was trying to learn English. Adi is a goddamn slave, okay? Let's put some respect on her name.

Her character is a fugitive slave who escapes with her mother. This is basically like beloved. From a plantation in North Carolina to Philadelphia in 1864, a TARDCORD during the Civil War. Addie's story is exporting to freedom, familial love, prejudice and racism. Yada, yada, yada, da, da, da, da, da, da, the first American, African American character made by American girl, okay? That's all you need to know. That's why Adi is number one.

Kick and ask, take in names, and fleeing from slavery, okay? That, no, nothing else compares. I don't care if Josephina has better skin. I don't care if Kit was portrayed by Hollywood Blockbuster Abigail Brezlin, Eddie Walker, welcome to the champion circle. So there you have it. Our power ranking of American Girl Dolls,

thank you to my brother Walt for the brilliant idea. And that's about all we had to share with you on the Bean Tom Podcast. Exciting updates, two weeks, Father's Day special. And you know what that means? It's the debut of our third Father's Day song. The first two, I believe, can be found as their own solo singles on YouTube. The second one definitely can. The first one I actually might not be.

It might still be incorporating the episode. I should see if I could pull that out. But our third one is, I'm excited for it. I have not started writing it yet. I've got two weeks here. Clock's ticking to figure it out. That being said, I wrote the last years the morning of, okay.

So I'm not stressing out too much. I'm cool as a cucumber. Assuming you kept it in the fridge. I want to thank everyone for listening. There's a lot of noise and consternation happening outside right now. Curfew has been lifted, so people are going nuts. I don't know what they're yelling about,

but thanks everyone for listening and for watching if you're coming to us live on our YouTube stream. There's a lot of language going on out there. Good thing I gave our listener discretion is advice tag. Oh, one other thing I wanted to mention. I don't know the current status of this concert. It's not happening in its own in the regular way, so it's like an August concert or something. So I don't know exactly what's going on with it. But when I, and this is a story for another time,

but I purchased three tickets to be flipped, not to it, not to use them, but to be flipped to the Lady Gaga, Wrigley Field concert this summer. And it's, I've actually tried to see Lady Gaga before with, I probably told that story, I don't remember. What I went, I was physically at her concert and she didn't come out and I left and then she came out after I left.

Long story. But as part of these three tickets for each ticket, I bought apparently got a free Lady Gaga CD, her new CD Chromatica. I don't know, I stopped listening to Lady Gaga about 10 years ago, but I got three. Here it is, the brand new CD, if you're watching on our audio stream.

And I'm gonna have to check out one of the new songs, okay? I have a CD player on my Mac, I don't know if it works. We'll try to import it to iTunes, we'll see how it goes. Okay, that's what I wanted to say to you all. So thanks for tuning in and I'm going to you know shut off the streams here and Yeah, that's all I got for you. So thanks for tuning in Stay safe stay sane and we will check in on you next week. Bye! nd nd

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