Beantown Podcast - Arctic Foxes, Sequels of Passion, and the all new Beantown Sportsbook (01092026 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: January 10, 2026

Quinn comes to you LIVE to debut Season 9 with a discussion about bet back guarantees, the year 0 AD, and little deuce coupes

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for the season premiere of year nine of my program. Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town podcast. It is a Friday night. Friday night. I'm hoping that we just might. Classic sketch from Tim Robinson's. I think you should leave the one where he's. keeps going to the funerals

and Connor O'Malley keeps honking at him because Tim Robinson's got a bumper sticker on his car that says honk if you're horny Connor O'Malley's honking because he's horny we should have mentioned listener discretion advised as always 418 episodes or whatever someone can do the math into this program

listener discretion is vise when you're listening one because we'll occasionally use some language or just references to provocative material horny bumper stickers. I never had a, never had a bumper sticker, is what I was trying to say. Never really owned a car up until a month ago, so I don't know. I feel like, what do we think about this?

Am I not seeing bumper stickers around these days because they're not in vogue anymore? It's the second time I've used that phrase today. I'm really feeling it. E-N-space-O-G-U-E. Or is it because I'm in like Chicago? And I feel like bumper stickers just aren't that common in a big city, whereas if you go down to West Texas or something, and, you know, you see the, you know, gods, guns, glory, Trump, 2028, whatever else a good bumper sticker is. I love that one. You wouldn't see this in West Texas, but it says coexist. And it's got all the different ancient religions symbols on there.

I think there's a crescent moon. Certainly a star of David. whatever the Philistines believed in. I don't know. I feel like, you know, the Philistines really in the Old Testament, they're kind of like the enemy. And then, like, maybe they were pretty nice people. And maybe God was not so nice.

That's what we need, right? You get some of those, like, new books or films or TV shows where it's like, kind of like wicked, right? Where it's like, oh, it's telling the other perspective. Right, you've heard the story of David and Goliath. Now, how about Goliath and David? Okay, maybe Goliath was a big guy with a, I don't know, maybe he had a heart problem or something, and he, his, I don't know, his kid was out panhandling on the road to Damascus,

trying to raise funds for a transplant or something. These are the biblical stories that we need exploring. Isn't there supposed to be a passion of the Christ, too? I'm not sure what's going on with that. I don't really know how you follow up on it because, I've never seen the Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson, Jim Caviesel, C-A-V-I-E-Z-E-L, something like that. Don't know. Don't know much about Jim Caviesel.

But my understanding, having never seen it, was that at the end of Passion of the Christ, Jesus kind of dies. And so, I don't know, do we go all the way through him, like, ascending into heaven and stuff? Or maybe that's, they're going to make a whole sequel movie. out of Jesus coming back, haunting, doubting Thomas, walking through walls, walking on water. I think he did that before he died. Let's do a quick Google search to figure out the passion of the Christ, too. Looks like it's still on, 2027 film. I also want to cap my thought.

We capped bumper stickers, but I'll let you know that this show is objectively terrible. But it is the season 9 premiere. If you are a newer listener, if you haven't been a beanhead since day one, that's totally okay we welcome old heads and new heads alike but if you're curious you'll hear me references from time to time uh this is a weekly program quinn david furnace presents the bean town podcast uh this is the start of our ninth seasons so our first ever show was just about eight years to the day exactly uh ago our first ever episode back in january of 2018 and yeah this is our ninth season i have never taken a And I'm not trying to win a Cal Ripkin Junior Award here.

I'm just letting you know what the MO of this program is. I've never taken a week off. I come to you live in some form or fashion, whether it's on a Thursday or a Friday or a Saturday. I would say Fridays are the most common day, but don't sleep on Saturdays and Thursdays. And I'm the Iron Man, right? Like Robert Downey Jr., I show up every week.

Whether you like it or not, If you're subscribed to this program over the course of the last eight years now going into year nine, our program has populated your feeds like a virus. I think I should strike a deal with Apple to do that thing that you two did where their shitty single or whatever showed up on everyone's iPod and you couldn't delete it. That's what I'm trying to accomplish here with the Bean Town podcast. Maybe that's more of a season 10 venture. because season nine is all about animals, right? I just decided that today.

We'll see how long it lasts. I don't know. In the past, we've had gimmicks, season long gimmicks that I end up committing to for 52 distinct episodes. Last year it was hot take of the week and Maples Minute. And then we've had a palindrome of the week. I think that was like season six or something like that. And we've had all sorts of stuff.

One thing that hasn't gone away that's been here for the, the last I don't know, four years, something like that, is our trivia question of the week. And in classic Beantown fashion, we will be going back to the Bible where everything began. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And there was a Bible question for Final Jeopardy last night

that I nailed. It was about some guy getting hammered off his ass, and it turns out it was Noah. So we'll talk Old Testament a little bit here. I do have one other Bible thought that's in my notes that I want to get to in a second here. But I, you know, in the spirit of coexisting, like my bumper, soon-to-be bumper sticker says, I also want to give a shout out to any Islamic Muslim friends, Urdu speakers,

or I guess you could live in Pakistan and not be of the Islamic faith. I don't want to just state generalize is the word I was looking for. So thank you to Pakistan for making us, last I checked, which was the first only time I ever got data on this, the 112th ranked comedy podcast. in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Thank you Lahore. Thank you, Karachi.

Thank you, Islamabad, for supporting our show. When you say Islamabad, it kind of sounds like Islam is bad. I feel like they weren't really thinking it through fully when they gave that city its name. Is Islamabad like what they were actually calling in in Pakistan 2,000 years ago? Or is that more of like a, hey, the British came in and we were like, hey, Islam is bad. and it's so terrible that we're going to name your city after it

and you can have that as a this is how you remind me of who I really am I don't even know what song that is isn't the course it's like dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun we got to look that up next we got a whole line a cue if you will right on cue Beanheads will remember right on cue.

Those are new segment from like five years ago. We got a whole queue of things to look up and research here. Is there anything else we got to thank or any boxes to check before we kick off the show? We do have a new sponsor on board today, which is very exciting for season nine of the Bean Town podcast. So we'll get to that in a little bit here when we read our ads. This is how you remind me. What song is that? Is that Nickelback?

It is. Song by Nickelback, 2000. I got to tell you the whole, you know, Nickelback has, you know, got their, certainly has their place in culture and people dunk on them and all that stuff. But they got some bangers. I mean, that one's a classic. Photograph is a classic. You guys remember, you know, it wasn't so long ago when you could have songs like Nickelback or even like, hey, Chris Dottry, Dautry, D-A-U-G-H-T-R-Y, comes out of the. American Idol and 2004, whatever, and, you know, puts out some popular singles, right,

Home, I'm going home to the place where I belong. Or it's no surprise that I'm leaving tomorrow and it feels like tonight. What I'm getting at, the point I'm making, there's other bands like this, Kings of Leon if you want to throw them in there. But it felt like when I was up until the point I was in like high school, into early college you could have these like rock bands not even like progressive or all just like straight up rock bands and you would like hear their music their singles on the radio like pop pop pop music stations obviously there's rock music stations out there but and i don't have a radio i don't

listen to a lot of fm these days but i feel like nowadays if you go to like top hits you're like exclusively getting Sabrina Carpenter and Doja Cat and there's another one that's like Doja Cat, DoCat, something like that. And you're not getting, I mean, the closest you get is like Ed Shearner, I guess Benson Boone. And you're not really getting this rock stuff. Is Rock like officially dead? Is it officially like out of mainstream consciousness? Big questions here, season 9 in the Beantown podcast.

Okay, yeah, so how you remind me is a 2001 by Nickelback. So we've solved that. Let's come back to the... Oh, you've got to be kidding me. You guys are going to... You're going to love this. The Passion of the Christ sequel is... Not only is that a sequel, but it's a part one.

So it's a trilogy. We got the Passion. And then we got the resurrection of the Christ Part 1 is an upcoming American epic biblical drama directed by Mill Gibson. based on the story he wrote with his brother, Donal Gibson. You don't see the name Donal very often.

It's like tonal, but with a D. Donald without the D. Not Arnold, Donal. D-O-N-A-L Gibson. If you're looking to get spooked, go to Donald Gibson's Wikipedia page and look at that picture. He's looking right at you.

He looks like he's ready to murder you. Yikes. Let's see. It's the second installment in a trilogy and the sequel to the Passion of the Christ. It features a new case, starring Jaco Otonin, J-A-A-K-O. I feel like I'm having a stroke just saying that.

As Jesus and Mariela Gariga is Mary Magdalene. Talk about biblical Babelert. So what's the deal here? It's a sequel to the Passion of the Christ. But what's the, I mean, it says, The Resurrection Part 2 is set for May 6, 2027. So when is this one due out? March 26, 2027, we're doing two in the same year?

Oh, hell no. You got to at least space it out a year apart like Wicked and Wicked 2, or Lord of the Rings did three back to back to back. So what's the deal? I thought for sure that Jesus Christ would have died in the Passion of the Christ. But I must be mistaken because they're bringing them back. Jesus, that is. So the last thing we'll do here and then we'll move off of this.

Let's go to the Wikipedia plot summary for the Passion of the Christ. Christ heads out there are screaming at their screen right now saying, how can you not know what happens at the end of the Passion of the Christ? Bad time for my Wi-Fi access to cut out. What do you guys think Mel Gibson's middle name is? Well, first he's got two, and the second one is Gerard. The first one is Colm Seal. And you're saying, what the heck?

I think my headphones cut out. Colm-C-L-M-C-I-L-L-E. I don't even, we don't even have time to get into that. So what happens? Let's go to the plot, Passion of the Christ. Oh, interesting. As Satan screams in defeat in the depths of hell,

Jesus' bodies taken down from the cross and entombed. Days later, he rises from the dead and exits the tomb. So I guess we're making two movies out of Jesus after he exits the tomb. Maybe the first one is Jesus after he exits the tomb on earth, and then it finishes with him ascending to heaven. And then, I don't know, maybe the third one's going to be some quick. revolution type stuff where he comes back and pit a solfer and i don't know all the cool stuff that

happens i said revolution i meant revelation all the cool stuff that happens in the book of revelation there's monsters with seven heads and sirens and cyclopses and all that stuff who do you guys think is playing the cyclops in that uh christopher nolan odyssey film that's going to be a five bagger all right we've gone down the rabbit hole let's push ahead of head here. I promised you Animal of the week, and here it is. It's winter. It's January time. Well, I guess it's January. It's winter time.

Which means you got to focus on our winter animals while we still have a chance here, although it was like 55 degrees here today in Chicago. Our animal of the week is the Arctic fox. Kind of like a silver fox, but I guess Arctic

fox is when you just... It's like someone they would cast on the golden bachelorette, right? You get some silver foxes, but on that show, you definitely get some Arctic foxes too, who are just like 75 pound in the Viagra or the Seales, and they're just happy to be there. What do we think the difference is between Viagra and Seattle? Seems like they're really trying to achieve the same thing. You don't have two different Sky Rizzies.

I'll tell you that much. I think Seattle is won the branding war. The two people in the bathtubs is iconic. Viagra. Viagra, it's just like, Viva, Viagra. But what do we know about the Arctic Fox? Well, I picked it because I thought it was cool because I think the Arctic Fox in the summer, it's got like a gray coat, like he's fighting for the Confederates in the Civil War.

And in the winter, he's got a white coat, like he's in the KKK for the Confederates in the Civil War. But that got me thinking whether that's true or not, whether they actually change colors, which hopefully they do because that's kind of how I based this whole thing. Maybe they don't. Maybe they're always just white. I don't know. But what I thought was cool was assuming it does change colors. Let's just assume it does.

And if it doesn't, that's okay. But what's the deal with these animals that, like, can change colors? And I'm not talking chameleons. I'm talking, like, full-on fur coats. They can, like, change their colors to, match and adapt to their environments, their surroundings. Really, we're getting into the principles of micro-revolution here, I think. Excuse me.

But how can animals change color? I understand why they would want to to blend into their surroundings. But what's actually going on in these genomes and these DNA and RNA strands where it's like, oh yeah, now we're going to change colors. And what's, every time I think I got a hold on evolution. I think about it too long and then I'm just like but how does that how do the cells actually change

how do they mutate? What's inside? I remember this image of these these three dinosaurs and the tall one was eating the the leaf from the tall tree probably you know

your run of the mill stegosaurus I would assume or pleeciosaurus whatever the ones that Sam Neal sees in Jurassic Park when he takes off his sunglasses and they're in the big green, rollicking feel

looks like the Windows XP screensaver. And then you got the smaller dinosaur and he can't reach the tall leaf so he grows sharp teeth so that he can hunt little guys on the ground and he's not really an herbivore. He's a carnivore so his teeth get sharp because of that whereas the tall dinosaur is his teeth they can stay flat or whatever. You guys know the image

I'm talking about. It's right next to the co-exist bumper sticker. But let's see what Reddit has to say. This is Ask Science. How do animals that can change colors to match surroundings know the color? I tried Googling this but couldn't find an answer. So say there something green. How does their body know to match the green?

Octopus is an interesting case per response from username Good Little Squid. Thank you, Good Little Squid. If you're like Good Little Squid, you've got some great animal facts you want to share. go ahead and email us as always at Beantown Podcasts at Yahoo.com. You can tweet out us at Beantowncast, and I've officially, as a season nine, given up on not everything here, but about some things. Blue Sky, it felt like there was a big push for it like a year and a half ago, and it just, yeah, it's dead.

Not that Twitter is like a rave either these days, but I gave up on blue sky. Good Little Squid says octopus is an interesting case because they're colorblind, researchers believe they're uniquely shaped pupils, allow them to perceive color via chromatic aberration, a phenomenon in which light rays pass through a lens focus at different points depending on their wavelength. That's pretty cool stuff, man. So they kind of are colorblind,

but scientifically kind of not. This guy says, I had a chameleon, and he doesn't know how to spell it. He does the little question mark in parentheses. How can you have a, if you buy a chameleon, you got to know how to spell it. That should be the test. you have to take at the exotic pet store before they let you walk out the door.

Hey, if you're going to buy this ekedna, you got to spell it. Tarantula, pony up, eight legs. Everyone should have to take an animal quiz when they're purchasing animals, especially exotic pets. What's that little derpy looking, like one that lives on the seafloor? It's like an axolodal or something. It looks like he's always smiling. You got to learn how to spell axolodal if you're going to have one.

A chameleon, great Herbie Hancock song. Bum, bum, bum, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom. I used to, my roommate, when I lived, one of my favorite living situations, looking back, full of flaws, but, but just, you. It was one of the only times I got to live with close friends. When I was in graduate school, I had a couple of buddies. We were all the same age, and they were seniors in college.

And I would come home from class at Northwestern, get home at like 9.30, 9.45. And, yeah, they had Herbie Hancock records. And we would dim the lights in our living room, and there was just, I don't know where the light source, what the light source was, There's just this big blue light. Not like blue light, like you're scanning for blood and stuff and urine and semen, I guess, that would make it the big three. But just like this light that was blue, I guess is how I'd characterize it. But it was pretty dim, and we would just sit there.

Occasionally I play GTA 5 on the PlayStation. Occasionally just vibe out to Camille and Herbie Hancock. And, of course, it's 15 minutes long, so you can do some serious vibing there. and we'd have friends come over and yeah just sometimes sometimes you know people were high i i didn't i wasn't high at all i never really got into i'd never smoked or anything like that never got into edibles until much much later even then i'm not really into edibles it's just something i do from time to time but occasionally have a beer occasionally you know some gin straight out of the bottle the first i ever had gin and i've only had a handful of times in my life not a

big gin person. It's like you're drinking a juniper tree. But I was at a house party in college a couple years before the chameleon blue light experience, light that was blue experience, blue light special. And yeah, there's just a big old handle of gin being passed around and I'd never had gin before. Up to that point, my alcohol experience was like strictly, uh, cheap whiskey. Like Evan Williams to be specific. And yeah, people were just passing around the gin bottle, taking pulls. And I did like three or four pulls, which is way too much.

Stumbled out the back. Got home eventually somehow. Never had a pull of gin since. Gin's one of those things you don't really have. I mean, when's the last time bartenders chime in? When's the last time someone came to your bar and asked for a shot of gin?

I feel like that's just, maybe I'm not running in the right circles. Maybe the people who have the bumper stickers are the same people getting the shot. It's a gin. This guy who didn't know how to spell chameleon says it had to learn every color, like set it on a new background and it takes pretty long until he learned it. Mine could do blue and purple besides greenish brown tones before the guy died.

Oh, that's so sad. He didn't get to all the colors before he died. Let's get to the bottom of this Arctic fox thing. And then we'll move on to another animal question. Yeah, here we go. See, I wasn't crazy. Yes, Arctic foxes, unlike you Maple, dramatically changed their fur color with the seasons.

Shout out to Gemini. Setting their thick white winter coat for a brown or gray summer coat to provide camouflage against snow and tundra, helping them hide from predators and ambush prey. It's naturally triggered by changing daylight and hormones allowing them to blend into their surroundings year-round. So that's my final question. It's like, what ancestral wolf out there

had went up to the tundra? and said, you know what, my genes are going to mutate here with a, you know, a punnet square, Gregory Mendel, whatever, and my coat's going to turn overnight to be white. I don't know how that stuff works, man. Probably because the last science class I took in my life was, I don't even know, chemistry 101 when I was a senior in college. Yeah, the science, science stopped there.

One more animal fact, then we'll say shout out to our sponsors here. I read Kujo this past week. I had never seen the movie. I still have never seen the movie. But I never read Kujo. Kujo is one of those like classic Stephen King stories that everyone, like you say Kujo. It's like everyone knows what it means, right? Like the Shining, whether you've like read it or seen it or not.

It's like you understand what that is. Pet Cemetery to a certain extent. But yeah, I read Kujo. I liked it. I thought it was it was excellent. early Stephen King. I don't know if I'm going to spend the two hours or whatever to watch the movie because I feel like there's no way it's going to be anywhere close to anything like the book

or anything as good as the book, largely because in the book you get to like perceive things from Kujo's perspective to a certain extent. You're not getting like big long chapters from the dog's voice or anything like that. But I feel like, you know, in like an 80s movie, it's just it's just going to be like I don't want to say cheesy, but it's just you're not getting the same breath or depth. And I don't know. I guess it's got that lady from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. She's the actress.

So maybe we'll check it out. But yeah, Kujo, if you haven't seen it or read it, I recommend giving it a read. Be prepared to let the tears flow. That's a good, great picture of Maple next to the book. book cover with both sporting some big fangs. Excuse me before I returned it to the, I was about to say grocery store. That's inaccurate.

The library today. My first ever Chicago Public Library book, Kujo. Hell of a read. All right. Let's say thank you to our sponsors here. As always, our big update, I guess, as we premiere season nine here, is that I finally moved after nine years, I guess eight years and change of the Bean Town podcast, I finally moved my ad reads document, the copy,

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Email us, Beantown Podcasts at yahoo.com. When I was a kid, because it was always, you know, you had the blowpop, which has the gum in the middle, and then you have the Tootsie Roll pop, which the outside is like identical, but the inside has the chocolate in it. And there was always the rumor slash thought.

I think I legitimately believed this for a time, but as a kid where it's like if you get the the Tootsie Roll rapper with the Indian shooting the star, you can like turn it in and get a buffalo nickel or something like that. I think what it was was I was told that when I was a kid, not that it like existed in, you know, the late 90s, but it was like, oh, back in the 60s when they introduced these guys, if you found that rapper, like Da Baby or Little Baby,

you could take it in, you know, to your local corner store and they'd give you a dime or something like that. Now I'm questioning whether or not that's actually a thing. Let's learn something. Tutsi roll, pop, Indian shooting star. It's an urban legend. Here we go. The Indian on the rapper of a Tootsie Pop refers to a popular urban legend.

The Finding a Rapper with a Native American figure shooting star of the bow and arrow earns you a free Tootsie Pop, but it's a myth. Tootsie Roll Industries, which is, I think their factory is just right down here by where we live, Midway. It never officially offered this promotion, though some local shops honored it. And the company now sends a story. The legend of the Indian rapper is a consolation to those who mailed them in. Interesting. Tootsie's response, that was just a heading, a label lower on that Google search that I liked. All right, let's see. What else do we got here? Speaking of urban myths and legends, not to return with too much time to the Bible here, but I do want to mention as I was doing some of my trivia research. I mean, this will relate to our trivia question, which we'll get to in a minute here. But did you guys realize,

that so think about a calendar think about it long and hard julian gregorian whatever you prefer my in but did you guys realize jesus wasn't born in the year zero a d and your next response is probably going to like well there was no zero ad went right from one bc to one ad well i'm not even talking that stuff it's not like oh he was actually born in one ad or one bc also he didn't die in zero AD or one AD or whatever you want to attack this. Jesus was actually born between like four and six BC. And so that legitimately blew my mind an hour ago. When I found this out, I had to write it down.

And so I was like this whole time I based my whole understanding, my whole sense of being around the idea that, yeah, obviously Jesus was born, boom. That's when the calendar starts. But apparently not. It really kind of cheapens the whole. thing and it's like then what what is all this for if jesus wasn't the reason for the season all along he was the reason for a season but probably like oh and then there's this whole thing which like

jesus probably didn't actually you know get born on december 25th that brings into the question the whole eastern syndicate commercialism angle jesus was actually born in april or something like that but they don't want eastern christmas to be too close together i don't know we have done a lot of biblical investigating in the past and if today has taught me anything in fact this will relate to our trivia question as well there's a lot more biblical investigation that still needs to be done so i'll probably undertake some of that maybe i'll partner up with dr chris hovind was that his name Chris Hoven. No, that was a lineman for the Vikings. Dr. Hoven, Marty, something like that.

Was this kind of evangelist, not really a televangelist. He wasn't like a megachurch guy, but he just put out a lot of tapes. I think he might still be alive. I don't know. He went to jail for tax fraud, so he was kind of revered amongst my childhood Christian community because he stuck it to the man by not paying taxes.

and he made banging videotapes. Let's see, one other thing I wanted to mention here, just I was looking at some Edwell packaging, and I noticed, you know, MGs, right? It's five MGs, 10 MGs, 25 MGs. And that got me, milligrams generally would be the colloquial term for it. But that got me thinking about the band Booker T in the MGs,

who is like an organist, who I assume has passed. away. You might know his two in green onions, but not Booker T Washington, Booker T and the MGs, but that got me thinking like, did they call them the MGs because they took a lot of edibles that had you know, MG labels or maybe they just liked, maybe they were good chemists and they measured everything in MGs. Maybe they had one of those food scales and it would tell you not just the Gs but the MGs. So that's just a random thought I had. that I wanted to confirm or clarify.

There were an American instrumental R&B and jazz band formed in Memphis in 1962. And, yeah, green onions, there it is. Oh, in 1965, one of their members was replaced by Donald Duck Dunn. What a great name. Donald Duck Dunn. Anton Figg, Steve Jordan. I actually know Steve Jordan.

Not personally. I'm aware of Steve Jordan. So what's the deal with this MG's name? That's Wikipedia couldn't tell us. Name meaning. We'll go back to Google Gemini for the third time today. AI could just run this whole show. Initially referenced the MG sports car as producer Chip's Moment had one.

Wasn't that Mel Gibson's brother's name? Chip's Momin? No, this is a middle name. Lean to the band's name, but Stacks later promoted the Memphis group. meaning to avoid trademark. Duck Dunn also, Donald Duck Dunn also joked it meant musical geniuses. So the MG sports car. Take a guess what the heck is that.

You can guess anything about it. I don't know because MGB, it was manufactured by the British Motor Corporation. That's the thing. I was going to ask you who created it. And then I was like, well, it's the MGMG. So I guess MG Motors General probably made it. But turns out it was the British. Motor Corporation.

Who knows? 2 plus 2 coop. I don't think I'll ever drive a coop. Little deuce coop. Probably have to listen to that later. We've clearly run out of steam here, so let's finish up with our trivia question as we wrap up

the season premiere of season 9 of the Bean Town podcast. I never told you I'd keep you for a full hour just because it's a season premiere. You know, when the work is done, the work is done. And if you play me on three times speed, you can get through this whole thing in like 15 minutes, which is kind of the ideal listening experience, I would assume.

So we mentioned we'd be going back to the well, the old well, the Old Testament well one more time. But this is more of a one for all Bible heads, not just the old heads out there. So this is, I don't have an exact source on this, because there isn't one, you know, there's no way to know for sure, speaking of biblical mysteries.

But per experts. I don't know if these are, you know, we talked about Sam Diel and Laura Dern from Jurassic Park looking at the Stegosaurus. I think I said Stegosaurus earlier, but what's the one with the really long neck? Derafosaurus. Whatever Littlefoot was from, I was going to say Little House in the Prairie, that's not quite right.

Land before time. Philosophores. Philosophores? We got to figure this out. Dinosaur? It's like a really famous dinosaur with long neck. That's the one who's eaten from the top tree in that evolution discussion we were having. Sauropods?

Well, no, there's just like a brochiosaurus. There it is. It's like a congestion you get in your chest. Okay. Trivia per experts. Approximately how long is the silent period, which is the time between the end of the Old Testament and the start of the New Testament.

This was another genuine thought I had as I was researching this whole Jesus Zero AD thing. I was like, wait a second. So I don't think these, you go read your Hoseas and your Malachias and your Zekees and stuff. They don't take you right up to Jesus. There's a silent period. And so the experts estimate it was generally around this length of time.

So go ahead and put in your best guess, and I'll put in mine, although I know the answer. So not that interesting. If you want any more time, go ahead and pause. If you're curious, experts believe that the silent period from the end of the Old Testament to the beginning of the New Testament is approximately 400 years. So when you want to talk biblical mysteries, biblical mysticism, biblical investigations, there's 400 years of material. Jesus prequels, if you will, don't give Mill Gibson and his brother Donald Duck Gibson any ideas because once they finish their trilogy of passion,

they're coming for the prequels. And if they want to steal my idea, that's fine, but at least do it right and get... I would love another movie with Natalie Portman and Kiranightly playing doubles, basically. We could do like a parent trap... Speaking of sequels, parent trap sequel, I guess. not a remake because we already did a remake now let's do the sequel

lindsay lohan older now she's replaced by kyr knightley and natalie portman that's what the studios need for fresh blood at the box office and you know we love the box office here at the bean town podcast we certainly have now in our ninth year everyone thank you so much for tuning into my program quindivid fernes presents the bean tom podcast now in its ninth season i think that's all i for you but rest assured we got another 51 episodes and change to come on this season of the show so for all of us at bean town networks i hope you are staying safe hope you're staying sane i'll come in and check in on you next week bye bye