Beantown Podcast - Beantown Goes to Las Vegas (10032025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: October 3, 2025

Quinn and Rachel come to you LIVE from the Park MGM in Las Vegas to discuss the Strip, full penetration, and Stranger Thongs Season 5

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, October 3rd, 2025. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn, and I am the creator, the host, and I don't know, what do they call the people who, like, run the table games? They're wearing, like, their little vests and stuff. Do they have a specific name or something? That's what I would be. I got my research assistant, Rachi, over here, and she gave me nothing on that one. She doesn't know. That's okay. I feel like those people probably got a name, you know, the people who, like, run the blackjack or the craps. The dealer, yeah, dealer definitely for a blackjack. But I feel like, I don't know, do they call it if you're at, like, the craps table or something?

Do they have a name other than dealer? I don't know. The attendant. We've been walking through casinos and past. table games and high limit slots and stuff and it wasn't quite as much this morning but i felt like last night you know we got in about midnight or so here at park mgm in los vegas nevada and there's just a lot of like empty empty tables without players but they still have the people working them and it's just like man these guys are collecting an easy paycheck over here but it's just a lot of people just

kind of sitting there waiting for someone to approach them i don't know i'm not a gambler i don't know too much about this stuff um my name oh we're going to go after this though rachel took out six hundred dollars from the atm at cbs no it was 60 i missed a zero and we're going to go get nuts uh here in a weekend for a wedding good friend of the show haley benson getting married congratulations to Haley and her fiance, Mike. Las Vegas, man, let's just put this out right away. Listener discretion and discretion advised when you're listening to this program. Number one will cause you some language.

Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. I got to tell you, speaking of, you know, language and adults only, we were just, we just got back from the adults only pool. The pool that we were at today was 18 plus only. and it was it was raucous i mean there were titties there was full penetration it's a lot of body paint uh you know jackhammer would be a word that i would use to describe it i don't know if rachel if you saw anything else that was you know for adult eyes only but it was man it was hot and heavy had to come back upstairs take a cold shower because it was just getting nuts no it was

I think the median age was about 55 or so, and no full penetration, no titties, some cheeks, but some penetrated, Rachel saw some penetration, I didn't, but, you know, some cheeks flapping in the wind, but mostly, mostly pretty tame, and it was very, very windy, and we were in the shade, so it wasn't your traditional, like, lying out on the beach, you know, middle a summer kind of Las Vegas vibe it was more of like you know spooktober there's a little bit of sun over in that corner and you know a lot of older folks I don't know if I don't know if I'm not well versed enough in Las Vegas strip culture to know if are there like certain hotel and casinos that are like okay this is where like the old timers are and then this one is like more of like

oh, the young people are all here, or is it more kind of mixed? I'm not really sure. Obviously, if you get more into like the, you know, 10 p.m. hour, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., you're going to, you know, get a whole different crowd than, you know, hanging out at the pool at 11 a.m. I certainly understand that. But, you know, just, I don't know. I don't know too much about it. I think there, you know, these different hotels, casinos certainly have their different reputations, uh, certain. which brings us into our next segment what rachel has prepared for us it's all about taylor swift now she said she she's she doesn't want to do it today but she wants to tease it for the near future rachie's pop culture roundup and there's going to be stories about taylor swift's new

album the life of a show girl and there was what was that one song she had it was about like my i got a bigger dick than you is that what she said yeah i don't know what it was Something about having a big dick. I don't really know what. She seems like she's got a lot of angst. I thought she was going to be, you know, after becoming like the most popular person in the world and getting, did she get married or just engaged? Engage. Yeah, that's never going to make it to the finish line.

But after getting engaged, you would think like, oh, maybe she would finally find peace with herself and stop needing to try so hard. But she's still angsty. What is she? Is she 40 yet? How old is Taylor Swift? She's in our 30s. Late 30s, we think. Mid 30s.

Mid 30s. I don't know. I feel like we were listening to tear drops on my guitar when I was to testling corn, and so she's got to be at least like 7 or 8 years older than me, I would think. I don't think so. I don't know. Let's get our research team on this. While we're doing that, we can shout out our good friends in Pakistan, Karachi, Lahore, Hyderabad,

which I've heard is more or less the Las Vegas of Pakistan, the Hyderabad Strip 35. I was pretty close. I said mid. Yeah, she's almost 40. Hyderabad, thank you for making us see 112-ranked

comedy podcasts in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. I don't know, what else can we expect from Rachi's pop culture roundup in the future. News on bonus Jonas. We'll do three stories a week. Three stories a week.

and Zane's got a residency, I heard. I thought he was the one that died, but that was someone else. Which, Sean, Liam. Liam died. Yeah, he fell out of a window. That was rough. And then there was something else. Oh, shoot, it just escaped. Oh, we were talking about a potential glee reboot, which the rumors have started.

Now, I don't know, it's kind of like the Vikings' offensive line. There's just not enough people left to feel. feel the competent team because what are we up to like four glee cast members have died what was a curse yeah it was uh the main guy finn and then the the child porn guy puck and then uh the cheerleader she drowned yeah she drowned and then uh i think it's the three of them yeah and then the main ladies i feel like career is kind of in the tubes because of all the stories about how terrible she is so we're at like three and a half And I don't know.

Frankly, I haven't heard a lot from Chris Colfer or the kid in the wheelchair. Didn't he just popped up. He's got the same name as a basketball player, right? Kevin McHale. He just popped up for some reason. I can't remember where, like, when Kevin McHale, it was something like political, I thought, that came up. And then what's the deal with Diana Agron? She was in that, you know, I am number four.

That was Quinn Fabray. right and she's really done nothing what happens if you click on news for kevin mcale actor because i feel like something just at the something just if you scroll all the way to the top click on news got a live let's see yeah he was he was tweeting about like jimmy kimler or something i wasn't that wasn't as big as i thought it was but yeah i don't know he got in we got our research teams all over the place with tabs and documents and stuff and i think are out of order. Anyways, yeah, Glee Reboot, be on the lookout for it. Anything else from Rachie's pop culture roundup that we can expect? We'll definitely get you a webpage, a subpage on our

website, Beantown Podcast.com. You can be next to the Beantown blog. You had an interesting fact about Stranger Things that I think would be fun to share. You know, the Stranger Things Season 5, is this Season 5? Season 5, Season 6? Season 5, Part 1. I think season five. I don't know. That sounds great. I consistently watched the first two seasons of Stranger Things, and then I think I maybe saw, was season three the one when they introduced the Australian guy,

and he was like The Lifeguard, and his Stranger Thongs. Sounds like a lost biggest show we're going to watch later. Because Stranger Things. I think you might have been introduced in season two. Maybe season two. not sure. Daker Montgomery, that's what his name was. And his younger sister is that girl who was in the Taylor Swift music video.

See how this all kind of ties itself back together? Anyways, I definitely gave up on Stranger Things, and I think the most recent season that came out about 12 years ago, I didn't see any of it. So Rachel's fact that she wanted to share was that Millie Bobby... It's crazy how true this is. Millie Bobby Brown now with season five coming out is the same age as Winona Ryder was

when season one was filmed which is just kind of one of those like part in my language but mind fucker sort of things where you think about it it's like first you hear it's like that can't be true and then you start doing the math you're like hmm you know Winona Ryder it was like she did Beetlejuice

and then I think the next year is Stranger Thing Season 1 and then right after that it was Edward Cisorhan. She had like a three in a row kind of run, which was very exciting for Winona. What does that make you say? Do Winona Ryder ever win an Oscar? I don't know. I'm not sure. She's kind of neurotic. Wasn't there like a stranger things, you know, all these, all these popular shows like the bear and the stuff, it's like season one comes out and people go nuts for it and they win all the Emmys and then over time it kind of fades away. But I think, when one of the Stranger Things seasons won an Emmy and like all the cast was up there,

I don't know if it was like, you know, best teenage drama or whatever it was, but wasn't there a clip of Winona just on the stage looking like completely bugged out? Like she was like staring at the bright lights and like, what am I doing here? Oh my gosh. That's really just like the burnt in my brain image of Winona Ryder. Evan 1TY gives Stranger Things. Nine stars. It says it gets even stranger in every season.

Wow. Whatever happened to Barb, was that in her name? She was like... She's dead. Is she confirmed dead? Yeah, she's in the underworld. I feel like in season one of Stranger Things, they did a lot of stuff in the upside down,

and then after that, not really so much anymore. But I only seen like half of it, so I can't really say for sure. Joe Kiri was like, I think still at DePaul when they filmed. the first season of Stranger things and anyways not anymore anything else from rachie's pop culture roundup to expect no that's good it's going to be a lot of fun um i want i have a hot take for you here and i'll go let you know in a minute but first of course it is sponsored by our good friends at home pride organ guys when you need a home inspection in central organ go with the experts who are safe certified and the ones you can trust i don't know if

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So it's, I don't have a ton of exposure to it. But there's this type of video. I guess you call it a reaction video. And the whole purpose is you're watching a video and someone else is watching it too. And you're basically watching this person watch the video. And if it's well enough done, then you can see the video that this person is watching while you're watching that person too. Like you can see both things at the same time. But my hot take is that that is the stupidest thing.

I've ever seen because the whole thing is like you're supposed to be focused on this person who's reacting to the video and their reactions because it's all for like clicks and likes that have to be over the top. I don't know about you guys. When I'm just like watching something for the first time, whether it's a music video from an artist I like or if it's like a movie trailer, you know, the classic like reaction videos things, it's, I'm not sitting there and be like, oh my gosh that's crazy like whoa it's just i'm just staring staring there in silence just watching it and it's all inside my head maybe i need to start my own reaction video channel where it's real reactions and instead of me watching you know the new justice league trailer and saying oh my god

i can't believe general zad just eviscerated superman that's crazy or the new taylor swift life of a showgirl what's what was the name of that daddy's hung or something like that whatever the name of her newest single is i don't know if the music videos come out yet uh and saying like oh my god that you know she's got a really big dick or whatever the lyrics say i would just be sitting there staring at it unamused because that's what my reaction videos would be there i used to go to school uh with this this guy who i never knew very well i think we're still Facebook friends, though. But his name was Quinton. And he liked to do that a lot with like, I don't remember if it was like Dragon Ball Z videos or what, but he would post his reaction

videos. And just, man, it's to each their own. I just think that to this one's own, that's pretty stupid. So that's my hot take of the week. I don't know anyone out there who I respect who places a lot of stock into reaction videos. just doesn't do it for me. I don't know. Maple's Minute, as you might expect, Maple's Minute is, Maple is not here. She's on vacation. It's fun. You know, when we go on vacation, we got to take two flights and go halfway across the country. Maple goes on vacation. She goes four blocks away to the sitter's house. I wonder if, I wonder if she's like, you know, how, I mean, dogs, I think,

are smart enough to know, like, oh, yeah, this is generally my area. But Maple is kind of a different level brain lengthwise and I'm not sure if she processes things quite as normally as some other dogs might but you know she's legitimately what I think five blocks away from our apartment is where our like long-term sitter lives and I wonder if when she goes out on a walk she's ever like hey yeah I know this sidewalk or I could go I could go back to to mom and dad's house maybe. I don't even have a Maples Minute. Just, you know, she's enjoying vacation. And we got a picture from the sitter early this morning. Looked like she was hard at work. Helping with taxes are sitters and accountant. So hopefully Maple's doing well. And, you know, Maple's

minute essentially getting a week off here from the Beantown podcast, just like mom and dad are getting a week off, a weekend off from a Maple. And that, of course, was brought to you by our good friends at the Samson Q2U series. Speaking of getting week off just hanging out back home no stress no no shoes no shirt no worry that's what we would say have you seen any good um like graphic t-shirt sayings or slogans or anything in the whatever 16 hours we've been in Las Vegas up to this point I don't think so I saw this this like grandpa kind of guy he had a he had a shirt I don't know what color it was but it said nope on it but it was G-N-O-P-E and it was a gnome.

I had never really seen that concept before, like, using gnome as a, I guess I've seen like there's no place like gnome or something like that on a sign or something out in front of someone's lawn, but I'd never seen just nope. That could have been a good crossover for that Jordan Peel film, which I've heard is terrible. I mean, it was like Daniel Kaluya and he's riding horses and shooting a film. I don't really understand whatever happened in that movie. I've never seen it. but I heard that that hymn movie that wasn't Jordan Peel directed,

but he was a producer on it that came out like two weeks ago. I've heard that one that's absolutely trash. So I don't know. It was about like a football player who that's pretty much what I know about it. But I just finished the Stephen King. Oh, by the way, when God speaks the use of the Samson, I just finished the Stephen King book, The Long Walk, no less than an hour ago, which they just released the film adaptation of about three weeks ago starring, I don't know,

probably one of the kids who was in It, that just feels like it would make sense. No, it had Mark Hamill in it, and the main kid was the kid from somewhere else. I don't know. It's just a bunch of kids, yeah. If you don't know, the premise of the long walk is 100 kids. No, I was just trying to see what the name of the main character actor was. It's none of those guys. I don't know.

There's no way to know. There's, oh, Charlie, no, that's Charlie Plummer is the bad guy. I don't know. It's impossible to know. There's no one there with, oh, yeah, Cooper Hoffman. Look at that hairstyle. Oh, he was in that licorice pizza movie. That's what he was in.

I never saw it. I do really want to see the new Paul Thomas. Anderson film with Leo though one battle after another in fact i woke up this morning and did a google map search we're here in the south edge of the strip here for you know movie theaters near me thinking there's got to be just like a regular old movie theater where you could go see a new flick uh and it doesn't seem like there's anything on the strip unless i missed something obviously you'd have like a way off the strip which seems like a huge missed opportunity wouldn't you want to have just like a regular movie theater on the Las Vegas strip, something you can do in

the, you know, 3 p.m. in the afternoon when it's 110 degrees outside, you go watch a nice popcorn classic for two, three hours, and then come out and sunsetting, and now it's like, okay, now I can really breathe and get some steps in because you don't want to be like stepping up and down the strip at 2 p.m. in the desert. I'm surprised, too. Burlington Coat factory. Yeah, there's a Burlington Coat factory. Ross dressed for less. We went to Whataburger at about 1 a.m. last night, it was pretty disappointing. I blame the corporate, you know, buyouts.

Whataburger used to be just an old mom-and-pop store like Carl's Jr., and now look what they've done to it. Where is like, oh, the movie theater? Yeah, I mean, if anyone is aware of it, it's going to be too late now. it's already a 2.30 local time here. We got stuff to do, places to be. We can't sit and watch a three-hour Paul Thomas Anderson film. But email is Beantown Podcasts at Yahoo.com. And it's Beetown Podcast at Yahoo.com and let us know unless I missed something obvious. You know, because you search for, I literally did a Google Maps search for movie theater

and everything that comes, because there's a million results that come up on the strip, but it's all like, oh, Motley Crew doing their residence of the Dolby Theater. Or Ellen DeGeneres making her comeback to her. or the thunder from down under or that's like a strip thing i don't know what was uh stranger thongs is you know playing at caesar's palace i have heard i will say this i don't know if i mentioned this this was like a month two months ago already that i like came up stumbled upon this i think on reddit there's a show um a production called the empire strips back and it's exactly what it sounds like it's like a you know a strip club version of the 1980 george lucas film the empire

strikes back but i've heard that it is like legitimately fantastic very well done i don't think we're going to have time to get to the empire strips back right now unfortunately but yeah see 1.8 miles away that is far from the strip as the closest movie theater as far as we can tell um so yeah if anyone knows about anything i would just like to know frankly uh Just a couple other things here, of course, our good friends, at Cutsby Q, when you need a fresh do something snap, you're only to call the experts at Cutsby Q, getting everyone in tip-top shape for this wedding gear. If any, you know, I'll bring my trimmer down to the trolley tomorrow. If anyone needs a last second shave, I'd be happy to take care of that.

This was a random thought. I know we mentioned this last week, and then we ran out of time. And it just, you know, time keeps on slipping into the future. What is that, that cave, the gaiko song with a caveman, and he's going down the moving sidewalk and he sees the guyco so easy, a caveman could do it. Classic, classic ad. This came up on Jeopardy, something about how in the novel animal farm,

the snowball is a pig, and he's supposed to represent Trotsky, who I don't even really know about it. some Russian politician from the 20th century, Leon, that's how I know him. But it got me thinking, you know, Animal Farm is one of just mini books that I either read of my own volition, V-O-L-I-T-I-O-N, or, you know, had to read for some sort of literature class, either in middle school or high school, where you are just like way too young and stuff goes way over your head. And it's like if you can actually understand, at the bare minimum, the plot of these stories, then that's a successful win.

But to take it a level further and understand any sort of the imagery, I guess, or the metaphors is just a near impossible task at least, you know, when you're like 15 or 16 years old. So I'm thinking what are some books out there that I read when I was way too young and I didn't, you know, didn't really grasp? any of it. Certainly animal farm. My notes say lots of the flies. I'm going to guess that's supposed to be Lord of the Flies. Brave New World. Count of Monte Cristo, I think, I don't know if that one has quite as much like imagery and metaphoricism as some other ones. But I don't think I actually read the full thing when I was a kid. I did come back a couple years ago as an adult and read the full thing, but it's like 1,500 pages. It's kind of, I don't know, it's one of those, I feel like Connemonte Cristo is one of those

stories where you can, like, boil it down and summarize it in like five to six solid paragraphs, and then you're thinking, like, why the heck does this thing need to be 1,500 pages? But Alexander Dumas does things his own ways. I want to shout out to this book. I don't know if it was a novel or if it was like historical fiction or if it was straight up nonfiction but it was this thick black book called the romanovs that we read in high school history of modern europe class which i i i don't want to offend any of my old homeschool teachers but i got to tell you this was just a slog of a class to get through the whole you know

textbook was like thousands of pages it felt like in the smallest font possible and every week I took this class with a good friend of the show, Matt Fiedler, tax expert. Every week, it'd show up to this, you know, hour-long class on Tuesdays and just nothing would get done, nothing productive, tons of side conversations, really, I don't want to say like a complete waste of time, but I, and then the concept itself, history of modern Europe, how are you supposed to cover that in a one year, you know, essentially like, I don't know, 40-week class, where you're meeting one hour a week to discuss the entire history of modern Europe. But there was this book we had to read as part of it, a reading assignment called

the Romanovs. And I think, if I recall correctly, the Romanovs were the Peter, not Peter, Nicholas II, the last kind of king of Russia before he and his family were, lopped, got their heads lopped off in, what, 1917, something like that, the October revolution i don't know if that's exactly all all my dates and facts are exactly accurate there but we had to read this book and it was just very thick and not a lot of pictures and really a struggle to get to and that one i don't even think was like about like oh you didn't understand the deeper meaning it was just way too much and russian names and yeah i think i took that class when i was like 15 years old and how am i supposed to know any of that stuff not good i

I never did finish crime and punishment, which is a crime in and of itself. But I actually went on the endeavor to read that one only like five or six years ago. I think it was right before COVID. And I felt like I started strong. I mean, the book starts with a bang, obviously. If you read it, you know what happens at the beginning, the crime. And then the rest is the punishment. And that is true.

That's why it's called that. but that's another one where it is just like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pages and it's there is a lot of punishment and it's like but it's like psychological it's inside this guy's head i don't know what his what the main character's name is he got some big long russian name not rsputin but now i want to look this up this is the last thing we're going to do before oh rachel wants to know what the crime was okay it's going to be a big big spoiler alert If you've never read Dostoyevsky's classic crime and punishment, what is this guy's name? I just want to see.

Rodian Romanovich Raskolnikov. That's how he's known Raskolnikov. Well, I'll just tell you, because I was about to explain what the crime was, but now I have the Wikipedia plots summary to front of me. Well, I know what the crime is. Like, there's no questioning that, but I wanted to exactly recall the motivations, because it's kind of like, I think before I actually read what it was, what I was going to say, what I think it was, is like, he has, no, I, no, I, I want to see, I just want to see how closely I recall the crime. He, I don't know, it's like his landlord, I think, is like this old Russian babushka,

and she's, she's definitely, she's definitely a babushka. And he's, he's like a law school dropout. So I think he's like working at Starbucks or something and he really needs money and he's getting desperate and so I think he's like oh my landlord in her apartment she has some really valuable stuff so I'm going to try to just like sneak in get what I need sneak out go pawning off and make some money that's his plan and then essentially things go completely sideways while he's in the middle of the crime he gets caught and ends up murdering the landlord and her sister I believe, like out of panic basically, and then he spends the rest of the novel kind of like in hiding somewhat and eventually just like eats away at him and I think he turns himself in at the

end. That's, I think what happens. Now it's a very long plot summary here with many, many, many parts. I mean, I've been scrolling this whole time and we finally got to the end of the Wikipedia plot summary. But here's, okay, yeah, so he lives in extreme poverty, a former a law student tiny rented room in st petersburg he's isolated and antisocial he's basically abandoned all hopes of supporting himself he come he broods obsessively is what it says on a scheme to murder and rob an elderly pawnbroker so i don't think it's his landlord uh but just some random um i guess it says he has devised a plan to murder and rob i didn't remember the murder part but i knew he wanted to rob he visits her apartment remains unable to commit himself oh so oh yeah he comes across like another

drunkard guy in the pub so he then he's going to go back um he's got family problems so he feels extra pressure yeah his sister's doing stuff uh yada yada yada so he comes back to the idea so he steals oh man he steals an axe makes his way once more to the old woman's apartment gains access by pretend to get something to pawn then attacks her with the axe so it's it is different than like motive wise than what i remember i thought he like panicked but he's really more like a kind of a p o s than than i thought he also kills her half sister i remembered the half sister who happens to stumble upon the scene of the crime so that was kind of what was inspired by it where he like panics when she shows up and kills her too uh steals only a handful of items and then uh i mean that's part one

that's the crime and then there's five more parts and that's the punishment basically oh he gets sentenced only eight years of penal servitude that's not bad for double murder i feel like um the mom dies the sister moves to siberia uh hostile towards each other but eventually uh redemption and moral regeneration begin under the sister's loving influence so it's really a kind of a happy ending basically as he's in a penal colony in uh in uh siberia did your uh rachel did your uh google map search indicate anything different about movie theaters on the strip or no no yeah the closest one at least to where we are at park mgm is 1.8 miles away and it's straight west so basically in the mountains crazy uh let's finish up our oh um last thing here the the counterpoint to the

the books you read way too young and don't and like didn't get it all Dracula. Dracula is a great modern read. It moves. It's quick. It's edgy. It's sexy. Gotta read Dracula, one of my all-time favorites. If anyone else has any kind of classic books out there that they read or had to read when they were way too young and just didn't pick up on more than 20% of us of it, let us know, email us Beantown Podcast at yahoo.com. I got to tell you, too, the last thing here and then our trivia question, we had to read a lot of Shakespeare growing up and thankfully we were able to read it from those no fear Shakespeare books or on the left it's like actual English and on the right it's the to like the old

middle English and I always thought it was so stupid because in our classes it would be like okay so you have like the regular English on the left but really try your best to read it from the English like the middle English on the right which is only like two thirds of the way actual readable modern English and I always thought that Modern English melt with you. Remember when we saw them at Taco Fest? I'm getting a call live in the middle of a podcast recording. Why is they always know when you're recording,

and that's when they call, it was my mother. And this is why I sent texts, you know. Yeah, we saw Modern English at Taco Fest in Lakeview. And then Southport Corridor, if there's one neighborhood in Chicago where you could really say, let's really tap into our historic heritage or Mexican roots here. It would definitely be Southport Avenue between Belmont and Addison. If you're local to Chicago, you'll know exactly how true that is.

I'll stop the world and melt with you. But you're reading, you know, your teacher is like, okay, really try your best to read from the right side of these No Fear Shakespeare books. And it's just like, why? So I can understand none of what you want me to understand. How about I just read this in regular plain speak English? You know, it's not like, I'm not taking Espanual class here and trying to like pick up on new things. I'm not trying to learn 14th century English over here.

Okay, so let's just leave it in the past, please. Yeah, the Shakespeare I did not enjoy. Makes it tough when you go see live Shakespeare in the round, too, as we would say. you're just trying to like pick up on the attitude more than anything else because if you're just listening to the words it's going to be rough i don't know rachel what's your favorite shakespeare play probably richard the third i know you're a big fan of the historical ones our trivia question here to wrap things up very very simple uh what does los vegas translate to It's a Spanish phrase, two words, one word, a plural word, basically. What does Las Vegas mean?

Rachel's laughing because she's a Spanish expert, and so she's like, oh, this is so easy. But for the rest of the listeners, you know, I did, I don't know if you listened to last week's Bean Town. I was doing a lot in Española at the start, because you know how you're watching the start of Monday Night Football, and it's like for a Spanish language, press 5.1 on your remote. That's basically what we were doing at the start of the Beantown podcast last week. I was kind of doing like Spanglish a little bit, you know, like half for the English speakers, half for the Spanish speakers. But Spanish Heritage Month, oh, it's happening right now.

That's very exciting. I think next week we'll probably do an episode completely in Spanish. Well, we'll have to do two separate recordings, one for Spanish and one for English. Because I don't think, well, they got those like Google, glasses now where you can like get a live translation as you're listening to something or AirPods I guess not glasses but I don't think you can like get I don't think the like Apple podcast app or Spotify or wherever you listen has that technology embedded in but that would be pretty cool the answer to the question it essentially translates to the meadows a Vega in Espaniol

is what we would call a menu basically like a flat plane of land surrounded or with with a stream or water flowing through it. So essentially a meadow is what we'd call it. So I don't know, apparently back when they stumbled upon this land 120 years ago or whatever it was, there was some water hanging out here, which I guess they had to, they had, there's a reason they founded a city here more than anywhere else. But when you're just looking, it just kind of looks sunny and dusty. I don't necessarily see a lot of water around other than the Bellagio fountains or the

the Treasure Island where they used to have the pirate ships or there's the what do they call it the Venetian with the gondolas you ever go up there and take a gondola ride I haven't done the gondola hasn't been on the it's kind of a far walk that's the thing about the Las Vegas strip as the crow flies if it's one mile

that means you have to put in four and a half miles to do it because you go up around over and out underneath through and among to actually get from point A to point B and then you go all the way down the stairs because you're thinking we're going to cross you you and then it says road closed

and you've got to go back up the stairs and cross the other way and it's just how many steps do you think we got this morning like 7,000 something like that? All before 10 a.m., can you believe it? It's like 10,000 right now. We're at 10,000 right now lying here in bed at 2.30 p.m. in the afternoon.

Anything else from you, Rachi, before we wrap things up today. I got nothing. She's got nothing. What are your, you know, rate, we're here in Vegas, we got the sportsbook odds, who are your top picks to win the college football playoff this year?

Not Illinois. I know. They already lost, they got their ass kicked by Indiana. Yeah, that was bad. I'm not keeping up with college football these days. Probably, probably Ohio. Iowa State. Alabama's, they lost their first game and it was getting really ugly and they've kind of bounced back a little bit. I don't know. We'll see. We're going to have to go finish this chicken cassidia over here. It's calling one of ours names. For all of us here at the Bean Town podcast, my name is Quinn David Furness. This is my research assistant co-host and wife over here, Rachie Ramos. I hope everyone is staying safe, staying sane, and put down some money for us. if you're gambling out there.

What was your, you want to do a plug? What was your blackjack app that you were playing the other day on the plane? It was just blackjack. Just called blackjack. That's a good app. Go check it out. Practice your skills for the real thing.

All right. My name's Quinn David Furness. We'll check in on you guys next week. Bye-bye.