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Episode Date: August 29, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss Sabrina Carpenter's OnlyFans, Elite Four Pokemon, and the Chris Brown stadium tour

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, August 29th, 2025. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn, and this is my program. Quinn Dave Furness presents the Beantown podcast. We are coming to you live on a Friday afternoon. The start of a three, day weekend. Labor Day weekend. It's our last federal holiday until Thanksgiving Day. Can you believe it? A full three months. That's a, it's a sneaky three months stretch here. Just a shade under three months. Two, like two, two months and change. You know, when you say something is and change, it means just a little bit extra. What's the opposite? If you wanted to say three months minus a little bit of change, you can't, that doesn't flow well. But two months and a lot of change is implied that you're dealing with like 85 cents there.

I don't know. Someone, we need a linguist on this for us. It's a Friday afternoon. It's a three-day weekend. Labor Day is upon us. What's going on? What's happening? I am the creator, the host. And as always, as we get close to episode 400 here, I don't know where we're actually at. I think this is like $398 or something. I got to go check. But I'm the chief audio engineer of this show and I got to issue an apology and now it's not a big deal. But last week, something was weird with the audio quality. I don't know if it was because we had the windows wide open. We had just broken a hot spell and hot spell sounds like a Harry Potter porn remake. And I was just really imbibing myself in all the fresh air and the current of the gusts of winds. I guess currents are in the water,

gusts are in the air. That's kind of an interesting one. One of the first ever Pokemon moves you'll ever come across Generation 1 back in 1996 or 7 or whenever Pokemon Gen 1 came out, GUST, which is the P-G-E-G-E-Y, which is the P-G-E-G-E-Y, or signature move, P-I-D-G-E-Y. last week the audio like it was fine but it was clearly a little bit off i don't have any sort of diagnosis it's like when you go to the doctor's office you know something is is off you know you're not completely well and they're just like you know what let's just keep an eye on it and we'll monitor in six months and i'm not faulting the doctors i mean it's got i i've seen the pit i know how hard it is to be a medical professional and look i don't want a invasive

procedure either, unless we absolutely have to, but it's hard to know when to draw that line. I'm not feeling any certain particular way that would potentially necessitate invasive procedures, although I will say, let me knock on wood first. I do have wood at the bottom of this coffee table. I was going to knock on glass, but I didn't want to jinx myself. I had that, it was going to say, a moment. It was more like two or three hours last night from about 7 to 10 p.m. where I was like, oh, man, I'm getting sick. Started to get the sniffles. And the reason I knocked on wood is I'm feeling better as of right now, and I would hate to jinx it. Jinks and other Pokemon that does not learn Gust.

More of an ice punch, lovely kiss, is a great jinx move. The only jinx I think you naturally encounter in Generation 1 is the Elite 4, Lorelei, has a jinx as one of her Pokemon. What does that, does that thing come out, what, fourth, something like that? sipping our Trader Joe's whiskey here. This week on the Beantown podcast, Quinn goes through the entire Pokemon Blue Elite 4 lineup. You thought I was kidding.

Let's see if I can do it. This would be a good Sporkel game. Let's come back to that in one second here, just a couple other housekeeping things. I thought I was getting sick, sniffles, headache was the first thing, and then I started swallowing instinctively, which you could find in the hot stuff,

Spell Harry Potter porn movie, but moving past it, Hermione. Because usually a sore throat is the first thing for me. Gosh, we haven't even said listener discretion is advised. Thankfully, all of our references here have been so nuanced that children of a certain age will have no idea what we're referencing. Listen to discretion advise. Number one, we'll occasionally use some adult language and make some adult references. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible, having some adult beverages here,

of the Midwest Coast brewing American brown ale and some Trader Joe's cheap whiskey. I think I got the Scotch or maybe I got the American blended whiskey. I can't remember. I also got, and I had to think about my hot take. We got three things in the hopper. We had a hot take from last week. Then we have the Pokemon lineups. And then I'm not, I'm not sick today. I feel good. So I was really bummed yes, like last night, because I thought, oh, shoot, three-day weekend coming up, God is going to punish me and not allow me to enjoy this by casting an illness upon me. And knock on wood, that did not come to fruition today. Maple looks like I'm crazy as I'm not, looks at me like I am crazy as I'm knocking on this

wood. It's okay, buddy. Knock, knock, knock in on Maple's head. It's one of my favorite songs. A shout out that's it with a sickness. I'm not sick. Knock on wood. Shout to the Trader Joe's though. You know what? You're not going to get a high quality liquor experience. But when you just want something to sip on and relax, it works. And the extra shout out, this refers back to the hot take. I think was this just last week or maybe two weeks ago? We had a hot take about October Fest beers. And that's, I'm of the opinion that you should not consume any October Fest beers until the calendar flips to September 1, which this year is Monday. morning at midnight. And I mean, that's pretty cool, though, to get Labor Day weekend kicks off

the October Fest celebrations. But I did buy a, so it's the Trader Joe's brand beer, which they package out in California. And I don't know if they brew it or if they just buy it from someone else and they just slap the Joseph brow label on it, I think is the name of like their beer wing. Bean Town Podcast should have a beer wing. That's for sure. Beer, wing almost sounds like a Pokemon move, but it's not. I think steel wing is. Maybe Pidgey can learn it in Gen 2, because it's not a Gen 1 move. I'm coming back to the Pokemon conversation in a second year. Then we have a bunch of things on the list to actually get to. But I got the October Fest's six-pack, and the whole thing was $7, $6.99 to be exact. Plus, you know,

liquor tax and tip. Always, you know, tip your Trader Joe's baggers, even though I bag my groceries myself i bring my own bags i do my own bagging and there's no need to tip but yeah it doesn't seem that far fetch that grocery stores would have an option to tip and i think i don't think this has actually happened anywhere if so it's truth is stranger than fiction but it feels like something that you'd see in a s nl sketch or tim robinson or something where you go to a grocery store and you do self-checkout and they ask you to tip at the end right that's where we're probably only five years away from that. That would be a good, you know, Jerry Seinfeld bit.

And you'd be like, then who am I tipping? I did the bagging. I did the scanning. Where does the tip go to? Right? I never, never promised anyone I had a good Jerry Seinfeld impression, but you get the gist. So you get, you know, you get these cans of October Fest, like a, it's like a dollar and change. It's like a $1.20, $1.25 per 12 ounce can.

And is it amazing? no does it have the the richest of october fest flavors is it going to win any awards no but we're talking seven bucks for a six pack you go out to your local i mean heck i you know some of the dye bars around here yeah you can get like a nice bodum IPA or something from half acre and that'll only be like six or six 50 on the menu and you get a pint versus 12 ounces okay so let's compare apples to apples here but if you go you know what i hate is when you go to like the fancy restaurants, fancy, you know, envision it however you would like. But it's not focused on beer, right? So they'll just, you have like a thousand wines and a thousand vodkas and 2,000

whiskeys. It's all good and well. And they don't get me started on the chardonnays and the fancy cocktails that are like $18. And then you get to the beer selection and there'll be like three of them. It'll be like a light beer. It's always like a Heineken, right? Hineken is. always so popular, even though I never drink Heineken. I never see other people drinking Heineken. It's always like a Heineken, and then, I don't know, one or two other beers, and it'll be like, eight bucks. And I never, I never order that if I, if I'm ever in a situation where I'm like, yeah, your cheapest beer is eight bucks and it's like a Heineken or something, or another classic one is, what's the Mexican one? Not Cervaza. That doesn't make any sense.

To think Corona, meaning sun. um it's uh it's if you're paying eight bucks for you know a 14 ounce bottle of corona or whatever a bottle is it's just like it doesn't taste as good it tastes better when you know you got it from the trader joes you scanned it you bagged it i didn't scan it but i did bag it i carried it home on foot and it was only a dollar in change for this uh for this can seven bucks for the whole thing It just tastes better, doesn't it? Am I right in this? Email us Beantown Podcasts at yahoo.com.

And while you're doing that, mention where you're from. There's a good chance you are from Pakistan. Thank you for making us the 112th ring to comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. And I don't want to list any cities because we're going to have cities involved in our trivia question of the day later on on the program today. And I don't want to give anyone any hints or clues.

And that in itself could be a red herring. we'll see. We'll see. Red herring, I don't know. It's that, herring, that's a bird, right? Is herring a bird or a fish? I think, is herring a fish? Because now I'm thinking heroin, H-E-R-O-N. But what, herring, is it like a little mackerel or something? What is a herring? Yeah, it is a fish. Okay, I knew it when I said it. I was like, oh, is it a bird? It's like, you know what, I'm getting it confused with heron. It's got to be, so a herring is one of these tiny little fish, you know, like an anchovy or a mackerel or a chub. Herring are small, oily, silvery fish belonging to the order

Clupeformis, C-L-U-P-E-I-F-O-R-M-E-S, found in Oceans Worldwide, Mr. Whirlwide, Mr. Herring, and important as a food source and for commercial fisheries. You know what? We could keep reading about hearings. What I really am interested in, though, is red herring. origin. Who the heck came up with that? This is from AI, Google Gemini, so give us a break if it's not accurate. The phrase red herring originates from an 1807 article by journalist William Cobbett, C-O-B-E-T-T, who used the strong-smelling smoked red fish to illustrate how newspapers

could be used to distract the public from a real issue, much like the fish could throw hunting dogs off a trail. There it is. So red herring is notoriously smelly. And throws hunting dogs off the trail. Maple, would you be, she's snoozing? We'll pretend you're listening because we got Maple's Minute coming up in a second year. Would you be distracted by red herring? Probably. I saw a great, well, it was one of those, you know, every video on like Twitter now is a TikTok that gets embedded into Twitter. It's such a shit show. But I saw one and I was going to say I don't know how real it was. I mean, I don't know how you really fake this because it's already faked. But it was a video of like testing a dog's loyalty lie. And it was they give a dog a big

bowl of food and he starts eating and then they stage a home invasion. And they did it with the same dog in like four different situations. And every time the dog like whipped his head around to look at the home invaders and then went right back to his food. And that's, you know what? Normally with Maple and we can get to Maple's Minute now here. Then we're going to do Pokemon. I would say, you know what? She's going to, she's grumpy enough and scrappy. enough to where she's going to go check out the intruders if she doesn't recognize their smell but we're 10 days post-op now and she's been eating white rice and canned dog food a little bit of brown rice in there too for the last 10 days with some chicken broth

pour it over it call it a pour over in the coffee industry and she has been going to town on this stuff i think it's a combination of being in less pain but also it's just objectively tastier than little kibble rocks, right? She did, this leads us into Maple's Minute. Maple was cleared by our vet this morning to return to normal activities, normal football activities. She's off the pup list. How is that for a pun for you dog lovers out there?

If you don't know the physically unable to perform list is something they, it don't ask me how it's similar or different from IR injured reserve. We're not going down that road, although football is here. which is very exciting. Excuse me, but Maple's off the pub, she can go back to Kibble. The thing is, she has 40% of her original teeth, and we don't know if she can even have Kibble.

So once we get our way through the wet food here, we're going to see if we can integrate it back into the diet, and she'll probably be depressed again. But Maple's minute, in addition to her checkup, post-op, we shimmied it all together. It's very sneaky of us, but Maple's lucky, because she doesn't have to go back now to get her yearly vaccines. So it was rabies and something else and distemper.

And I looked this up just for Maple's Minute, this Maple's Minute of the week, we learn about the canine distemper vaccine, D-I-S-T-E-M-P-E-R. Don't confuse it with Ellie Kemper. K-Nine distemper. I just Googled Canoe Dis-Temper, which is a whole separate thing.

It reminds me of, when I, canine distemper, by the way, it's a highly contagious and potentially fatal viral disease that affects dogs. It's also known as, what was it, footpad disease, something like that. There's no cure for canine distemper. That's why we get the vaccines. But canoe distemper, probably something you'd watch out for. And this almost, this came up someplace else a couple days ago, and I did not get a chance.

Oh, I think it was in my staff meeting. And I ended up not sharing it because we, you know how like you got something want to say, but you're waiting for the right time to share it. And then the winds shift, the gusts shift, the currents change. And Balto, too, winds of change, right? Direct to VHS. I never saw that one. And it's at that point, it's like, I can't go back. I can't. Because it's not, it's one of those things. It's not like a two-second boom. I'll just pop this right in here. It's like, it takes a little bit of explaining. That happened to me. But the story I'm recounting or recalling here, when I visited my brother Jack in Africa,

where he lived for two and a half years, give or take, two years in change, we would call it. In Rwanda, I visited with my mom for two weeks, and we went swimming on this lake that was on the border of Rwanda and Dr. Congo. And I don't know, I don't remember exactly what the thing was, but I think you were essentially, we jumped off a dock and swam in the open water. This was just, you know, freshwater lake. But the whole deal was when you get out of the water, you have to go from water to dock and vice versa and you can't just like walk out of the lake because there's little microscopic snails

that can like chiggers or something they get under your skin and then you can get probably the distemper virus and so if you were you know rowing your boat if you had the canoe and you had canoe distemper that would be because you docked your canoe in the sand rather than just pulling up to the dock so guys if you are out there if you are in you know there's freshwater lakes out there you know of these flesh-eating snails, you can avoid canine distemper, canoe distemper, and just all other diseases by going right from water to dock. Because those snails, they live in the sand, and they'll get under your toes, and then you're screwed, amputation, all ten of them.

Then you hear about the parasites that swim up your pea stream. I'd never had that happen, thankfully. I don't know if there's a vaccine against that, or what do you do? You just do small spurts, you pee for one second, then you use your kegles to stop, and then you pee for another second. So you're just shooting little spurts everywhere. There's a whole other NSFW road that we could go down going back to the Harry Potter porn thing. And it's just not worth it.

There's so many other things that we can get to. All right. It's time for this week's Pokemon feature of the week. So I know that there's a slight difference in the Elite 4, Generation 1, from blue to yellow to red. My main game as a kid was blue. So I'm just going to try to do that. The five-second background in Pokemon,

the final boss that you have to beat to win the game. And then the game's largely over, except for catching Mew 2 after, which you can only do after, is beat the Elite 4, which refers to four trainer battles. So you have to do four battles in a row. And then it ends up being five.

It's very sneaky that way because your chief rival, whatever his name is, Blue, Gary, it doesn't matter. He's there at the end. So there's actually five trainers you have to be. You can't heal in between. You can bring potions, though. So that's how you do it. Anyways, now on the Beantown podcast,

Quinn tries to name as many trainers from the Elite 4, not trainers, I can name all the trainers, Pokemon, from the Elite 4 as he can. So the first one is Lorelei. She's an ice type trainer. Pokemon and their moves have specific types like ground, normal, fighting, ghost, dark, fairy, steel, dragon, fire, grass, etc. Lorely, I feel pretty good about it. She opens up with a dugong, which is one of my favorite Pokemon because, you know, you get, there's 151 original Pokemon. They do a lot of creative things with it. It's fun. It's cute. But then they had the occasional Pokemon where they just called it exactly what it was and changed the spelling. So there's one line,

evolutionary line where the starter is, or the first form Pokemon is called Seal. And the second one is Dugan. They're both real animals. They just added some extra teeth to them and changed their spelling, and that's all they did with these Pokemon. So that's what, it's not all going to, it's not all going to be that long, I promise you. By the way, the seal to Dugong evolution is pretty lame because nothing really changes. They still both have the signature teeth. Doong just gets like, slightly bigger unless dopy looking. That's got to be one of the laziest evolutions from Gen 1. But moving ahead. The second

Pokemon that comes out is it's Cloister, right? Cloister's second looks like a vagina. The third one is Slowbro. Fourth is, that's right, his name is Slowbro. When you say it out loud, it sounds a lot more silly. Fourth is Jynx, which is how we got into this tangent in the first place. It's spelled J-Y-N-X. It's like a sexy ice princess or something maybe blackface involved you got to go google jinx if you don't know what she looks like but she's sexy because she's like wearing a bra and she her her uh signature move i think is lovely kiss which i don't know what it does but it's cool and then the final uh Pokemon from

lorlai is laprass lapriss which you actually get access to in the game pretty badass Pokemon. Then Bruno, the fighting trainer, is second. Bruno is so lazy because, and this happens to the next two trainers as well, they just ran out of ideas. So Bruno starts off with an onyx, which is also lame because you fight an onyx in the first gym leader of the game, regardless, Brock, great name. So you get an onyx, then you get too cool Pokemon. They're like two, essentially, well, there's like three fighting Pokemon in the entire, or three fighting lines in the entire game, although I guess the polywhirl that's got some fighting to it as well.

Bruno really, instead of the second Onyx, should have had a polywhirl. Let's move past it. It goes Onyx, Hitman Chan, Hitman Lee. I think it's Chan first than Lee. Hitman Chan is better in defense, and it's a little fighting guy with boxing gloves. And then Hitmon Lee's got really long legs. he's got high jump kick signature move better offense i think and then a second onyx that's the thing it's like this was so lazy why couldn't you have a polyrath it's a water fighting

Pokemon Bruno is just such a waste and then uh machamp which machamp is one of those trade evolutions right this was such a weird mechanic in Pokemon Generation 1 there were a handful of Pokemon that had three or two, you know, three, three different Pokemon in the line, so two evolutions. And I think there's like five or six of those lines where you couldn't evolve your Pokemon from the second stage to its final form unless you had a friend and you could connect with the link cables and then trade the Pokemon. And once the Pokemon is traded to the other game, so it's not even on your game anymore, then that Pokemon evolves. So you have to hope your friend is

nice and trade them back so you can actually use him. but the Pokemon and Gen 1 that were like that was Machoke to Machamp Graveller to Golem That's the other thing You could have given Brock a Golem That would have been badass I don't even think you'd come across Golem naturally in the game

It's so stupid Bad move by the developers Cadabra to Al-Kazam That's a classic one There's others And we'll see if I can think of them As we move along here Those are the immediate three that come to mind

while we're moving ahead to agatha trainer number three i just want to google it i thought i was going to be able to come up with more because i think there are more but i can't uh can't recall off the time i had what we got machamp we got alacazam we got golem it's got to be others i don't know Pokemon Gen 1 Trade Evolutions

Oh, I should have got this one because if we would have just done Agatha first we would have got this Haunter to Gengar and is that

is that it? That's the four? It seems from my research that those are the four. Okay, I think that's what it was. If I had just been patient, we would have got there. Agatha is

like this crotchety old lady and this is where it gets a little bit tricky but also kind of she's even more lazy than Brock and I'll tell you why in a second so Agatha has a gangar excuse me which is the final form of ghastly

it goes ghastly then haunter then if you trade you can get a gangar it's a ghost type Pokemon it's the only one in the series from Gen 1 he goes gangar and then it goes Golbat and let me tell you something that gold bat

loves to switch out. There's no other trainer in Pokemon Gen 1 where the opponent will switch its Pokemon for a different one in the middle of the battle. I don't know. I got to swear these Japanese guys were just drunk one night and being like, you know, it would be great if we made Agatha the only trainer that would switch out. There's like 100 battles in the game, minimum. There's a lot more than that, you know, 200, something like that. And Agatha is the only one that does that. I don't know. But she got a a gold bat. You have an Arbock, which is cobra backwards, but with a K. And then you get a haunter, which is the

second form. Remember, it goes ghastly haunter, Gengar. So you have a haunter, so weaker than Gengar, and then he goes back to a second Gengar. So three of the five Pokemon are from the same evolutionary line. It's unheardive. It's unconscionable. Can we spell that? C-O-N-S-C-I-O-N-A-B-L-E. It's something like that, and unconscionable. That's a great word.

That's Agatha. Then you get Lance, who is the Dragon Master. He's the only, like Ghost, there's only one line of Pokemon and Gen 1 that are Dragon Pokemon. Lance is the only time you get to see him.

Lance, also lazy. Starts off with a Giridose, which is a badass, like, drag-and-water Pokemon. on. And then gives you a Dragon Air, which is the middle evolution of Tritini, Dragonair, Dragonite. But he's not just going to give you one. He gives you back-to-back Dragonaires. Even Brock knew to split up his onyxes. Same with Agatha and her Gengars. But Lance is just going to say, nah, we're just going to do them back-to-back. And then I will say, they double down on this in

Gen 2 because Lance is the actual last battle in Gen 2. Well, not the last one because he got the whole second half of the game. The last member of the elite four is Lance in Gen 2. And if I recall correctly, Lance in Gen 2, because it's a direct sequel to Gen 1, his two Dragon heirs have evolved. And so he doesn't just have one Dragonite in Gen 1. In Gen 2, he goes up to three dragonites. And it's like, could we not make another Dragon Pokemon for this generation? they finally got more in in gen 3 what was it flygon there's there's some other cool ones too but yada yada yada lancos geridos dragonair dragonair eridacto which is the fossil Pokemon is pretty badass and then dragonite and then your rival this is the one where i'm like i don't know if i

could actually get all of them from from blue now your rival's Pokemon change in gen in yellow depending on how battles go and if you beat them or if you lost to them. But in Gen 1, I don't think it... Now, it does change meaning which starter you pick. That's the key thing here. But I think your rival always has Pidgeeot, going all the way back to Pidgee and Gust at the, you know, 25 minutes ago we were talking about that. Your rival usually also has an Al-Qazam, which you can only get by trading.

I think an executor, does that sound right? in one of the games he has an RK9 which is like the fire dog i don't know if it's in all of them i'm trying to think what other pokey does your rival have a geridos i don't think so i don't know we're coming up short here uh one of them you might have a no i'm getting mixed up with giovanni the final gym leader uh he'll always have a uh in in blue and red he'll always have the opposite starter of what you chose so if you chose grass he has fire charizard if you chose water, he has grass, Venusaur. If you chose fire, he has water, blastoy. So that's always his last Pokemon. And I'm missing one other that I can't recall. That was pretty close, though.

That was the last seven, eight minutes, Quinn's Pokemon of the Week feature. You're welcome. We have made it this far with referencing virtually nothing from our list. Let's do it here. I was kind of curious as I was was going into recording because I had some scattered notes and I was like, are we missing a centerpiece? And the whole time, the centerpiece was Pokemon. There we go. Our hot take of the week is sponsored by our good friends at Home Pride, Oregon. And with that in mind, this would be a beautiful time to pull up our ad reads because it's Labor Day weekend and you guys deserve a full ad read if I can actually find them. One of these days I'm going to be smart enough

to transfer the ad read copies from Google Docs to my notes app because I use my notes app for show notes. But I only started using show notes a couple years ago. Before then, we would just literally start recording and just go with whatever. But I got to, it would be a lot more useful and consistent, like the one time a month, one show a month every other month when I actually use ad reads and it'll just shoot from the hip shoot a red herring from my hip be nice to have are you tired of selling your house for less than a quarter of what it's worth all because you couldn't find a reliable home inspector in time well organ listeners it got good news for you home pride inspection services in bend oregon is central organ's hottest new home inspection

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Oregon and Cuts by Q and the TV Guide was added in shortly after and then we decided once TV Guide fell off that we would add in the Samsung Q2U series, but we never had an actual ad read. It just kind of varies from episode to episode. But I'll take this time to say, you know, last week the audio quality was a little bit wonky. nothing to do with Samson. Samson is steadfast like the Rock of Ages. What's the deal? Rock of Ages, you know, it's a classic hymn. And then a Tom Cruise musical movie, that is a blind spot in my pop culture knowledge. And I was just going to kind of mention it and move past it. But while we're talking about the Samson Q2U series, I did just want to

briefly, let's briefly learn about Rock of Ages as a film. So to rewind past that, what I was going to say, why I mentioned it is, is Rock of Ages just like a hymn, or is it a reference to something biblical, like in the Bible? Now, there's that rock that Moses, Moses pushes his, pushes, he kind of stabs. I think his staff into the rock and water spills out. That's got to be in, I don't know. Well, Exodus, right? Because doesn't Moses die at the end of Exodus? Right when the Israelites start wandering in the desert and then Joshua kind of picks up where it leaves off. And I'm pretty sure Moses is the one who gets that water flowing. So it's got to be in the end of Exodus. I think Moses dies at the end of Exodus. That's like how it wraps up.

But if anyone has any contrary knowledge, let us know. Um, the Samson Q2U series, when God speaks, he uses a Samson, but let's learn about Rock of Ages. So the, you know the hymn, Rock of Ages do, do do, do, da da da da da da da da. So rock of ages is a film in an American jukebox musical comedy film from 2012 based on, okay, so this, this answers one of my questions. It is based on the rock jukebox. Broadway musical Rock of Ages. If you're curious, that's a musical built around classic rock songs from the 1980s, especially artists like Stix, Journey, Bon Jovi, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sisters, Steve Perry, Poison, and Europe. I got to say, I feel relatively familiar with all those bands except Europe. Does Europe have a famous song that I would recommend? Oh, or recommend, recognize. The final countdown. You know what? If you had asked me before I, looked this up, who sings that? I would have had zero clue. I think I would have said, like,

knowing this was incorrect, I would have said something like foreigner. I was like, yeah, that's definitely not foreigner. Or I would have said, like, who sang the eye of the tiger, is that survivor? I would have probably said them. So the Broadway musical debuted in 2005

in Los Angeles. Despite the musical's title, the Deaf Leopard's song of the same name was not included. I'm getting the sense that Rock of Ages, the musical, has nothing to do with the biblical hymn. So the movie was from 2012 and stars Julianne Huff and Diego Boneta leading it. I don't even know who that is. Diego Bonita? Excuse me.

Yeah, he's in not famous at all. the ensemble cast includes Russell Brand yuck why is he first on this oh it's alphabetical that's good no it's not it's not alphabetical why the heck I mean Russell Brand got canceled and he's kind of back we'll get to another artist who has rebounded seemingly inexplicably out of thin air in a second here on the second half of the show but Russell brand like what are we doing here I don't even know what he was canceled for. He's just always been icky. Moving past that,

Alec Baldwin, Paul Giamatti, Catherine Zita Jones, Malin Ackerman, never heard of her. I think I've seen her, though. Where is she from? 27 dresses, never seen it. Let's keep going.

Mary J. Blige, Brian Cranston, and Tom Cruise. So they just made a movie out of the musical. But the whole, I don't even, not going to go through the whole plot. It seems like they're trying to save a nightclub from getting shut down and, you know, big pharma wants to buy it up and yada, yada, yada. I, it's one of those things where it's like, I'm actually a huge classic rock head and a glam man, right? There's a thing, talk about season seven we did, palindrome of the day. I'm

glam. I am a glam man. There you go. But I don't know. This just doesn't, while I am a glam man I do not I'm not a big karaoke guy just it's never it's never really been a thing for me I don't know we didn't have anything to do

with karaoke growing up and I if it's like a group of friends and people you know and it's just you guys hang out and sing karaoke I'm all for that because everyone's just like having a good time but when I think of karaoke just more broadly I think of people who are just like

hammered Do not have a talent for singing. You should not be up there. And it's just like, okay, this song was way too long. I think as a policy, all karaoke should have a two-minute time limit unless you're really good at singing. Just across the board. Samson, when God speaks, he uses the Samson. I think we already said that.

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Just call the experts at Cuts by Q. All right. This was our hot take of the week. So Sabrina Carpenter's new album, came out today. It's called Man of the People, or Portuguese Man of War, or something with Man. The lead single is, man's best friend, is that what it was? The lead single is, we don't have our research to Barone. We have Maple, who is sleeping,

and my wife is at the DMV. So we are significantly short-handed. We're one-half of a show right now. I think Man's best friend, right? That's what it was actually called. And she did the whole thing that Taylor Swift copied where she does like eight different album covers and the internet was outraged because on one of them she was sucking a penis and it was a whole big thing and the whole time I'm thinking like

dude spinal tap was on top of this 40 years ago when did this the spinal tap come out was like 1980s like 14 mid 80s whenever it was 84 lock in your guess I have every once in a while I have a

pictures picturesque memory that fails me more than it rewards me but my the picture in my head is telling me that this is spinal tap came out in 1984 what do we think let's google oh he got it there's just something occasionally i can just like picture a movie title and the the year is just like there with it that happened to me right now with this spinal tap so spinal tap came out 41 years ago the sequel is coming out like next month but the whole thing not the whole thing but a major plot point in the rockumentary speaking of rock of ages was that they're releasing their album called smell the glove and although you never actually see the uh referenced album cover

it's implied that it is basically like what is it's like a woman smelling a man's hand like in a black glove and it's implied that they stuck it in her you know what and just relatively speaking, that's what it is. And there's all sorts of outrage, and they want to push the envelope. Speaking of idioms, we already did red herring, push the envelope. Who the heck? I mean, I know envelopes for a bigger deal, 10, 20, 30, 40,000 years ago, speaking of Exodus than they are now. But who is pushing envelopes?

If I'm trying to get away with something, I'm not pushing an envelope. I'm probably trying to, I don't know, sneak around. Who is pushing envelopes? Don't have time to get into this. We have too much to get to. But Sabrina Carpenter dropped her album, released it. And I saw, I've been seeing clips on Reddit today. So I think she, the main single, the lead single from this album was called Man-Eater,

which is a Holland Oates cover. And in that one, it's a music video, and she's constantly, you know, doing sexy things or something. She's got booty shorts. You see her whole ass. It's a trip. I think I haven't watched it,

and I probably won't, but I've been seeing a lot of clips on YouTube today. She has a second single off the album called Tears or Tears, not sure which one. And T-E-A-R-S. And I think it's got Coleman Domingo, Oscar nominated. who I think I came across first as the pimp in that movie.

It wasn't Tangerine. It was called Not a Nora. It's the one about the Twitter feed, right? Rachel and I saw it in theaters. Whatever one that one was, it has Riley Keogh in it. Elvis's granddaughter, you know her. And Colin Domingo is like the bad guy slash pimping that. So he's kind of taken off from the last couple years.

Regardless, in this music video for tears or tears, again unclear which one he he dresses in drag and i've been seeing a lot of clips circulating the internet today around it i don't know if the music video came out today i feel like it did because everyone's been buzzing about it people i don't know people have been talking about it but they certainly have been buzzing about it i can guarantee you that and here's my actual hot take after that four-minute preamble on sabrina carpenter and it's informed by you know, the man-eater music video, she's wearing booty shorts, they're riding all up in her crack. And then from the clips I've seen of this, uh, uh, tears or tears music video with Coleman

Domingo, she, she's gone about as far lack of clothing wise as you can get, uh, in a YouTube video without just showing straight up nips. It's just, she's in like lingerie dancing around the whole time. And that's not a relatively new concept. I mean, look at Brittany 25 years ago but my hot take is that Sabrina Carbiter has played out this sexy baby icon now for like two straight years you know and this wasn't I mean what was today like her sixth album something like that because she was a disney star and then she's been pumping out an album like every year for the last five or six years espresso was just last year guys okay It wasn't like a five-year-go project.

My hot take is she left her no place else to go except OnlyFans. Because she's just the most recent one in a long, long line of Renee Raps and Christina Aguilera's. And look, maybe Sabrina Carpenter has made enough money now and didn't lose enough in the Barry Keo, Riley's brother, divorce settlement to where she's still doing okay. Maybe she's still got good Disney Channel money. I don't know. But when you're just like releasing music video after music video

where you're just like softcore porn essentially. And I'm not, no comment one way or another on her business strategy or acumen, great word, A-C-U-M-E-N, or anything at all. but I'm just like, where's she going to go from here? Like, what, what is, no one's going to care either way. If she puts on more clothes, people are going to be like, oh, not watching that.

Where's, where, where did her boobs go? If she wears the same amount of clothes, people are going to be like, been there, done that. If she wears fewer clothes, then she's doing only fans. So I see this as, it's not even the only way out. She's just got to go deeper into the crevasse. I don't know what this means for Sabrina moving forward. I don't know what this means. I will just say for the whole Olivia versus Sabrina, Sabrina, few that we're in,

I think Olivia did a smart job of like making good quality, solid music and not relying on her boobies to stay relevant. And that's where I see Sabrina Carpenter is at right now. that's all i have to say on the matter i don't have a strong opinion i just uh i feel that she is on a slippery slope which is an easier to understand idiom than pushing the envelope if i can be realistic okay i have a couple other just random things here uh well one of them is very exciting we'll save that for last and we'll do our trivia first up while we're on the two things on the music topic actually first let's do this then we'll go music then we'll finish with the the big news and then finish with our after that finish we'll finish with a trivia question first up this is just a random thing and i know i i i waffled for a while i wanted to do a full episode dedicated to football you know college football starting this weekend or last weekend actually in dublin um NFL starts this thursday six days from now but i was just like you know what we weren't going to do a fantasy football preview

we've done those in the past a lot of fun my my friend and our commissioner hunter he's got three kids running around now we're just it's not we're not doing it and i just can't make enough funny stuff happen for a general audience i could i could produce a hour-long podcast about fantasy football that i consider to be very funny but i just don't think it's going to work for a mass audience so we're going to move past that i will say however because i follow so much viking football and by extension these guys are big minnesota gophers fans the go The gophers had their opening game yesterday against the Buffalo. Who are they? The Bills? The bison? I don't know. They're in the Mac. The same conference at the Northern Illinois Huskies play in kind of my hometown team growing up from Rockford.

So the gophers won. It was like 23 to 10 or something. It looked like a pretty lame game. I don't think the gophers are close to anything special this year in a crowded Big Ten. And I literally mean crowded. like 18 teams in there. But I saw a clip on Twitter after the game of their coach, P.J. Fleck, who is pretty well known.

He's a little zany, I guess is a good word. Z-A-N-Y. He's a good coach in the grand scheme of things, but he's kind of a character. Mind you, this is a Big Ten Minnesota team versus a Mac team. Like, it's not like a Mac team has never won a big game before. and now you just beat Notre Dame last year, but it's like you need to take care of business. So when PJ Fleck runs into the locker room after they win, at home, mind you, and is crowd surfing on his players' arms and shoulders, I'm just kind of like, look, if you want to

crowd surf because you beat Ohio State or Iowa, you won the Axe Trophy, or, you know, if you ever made it to the college football playoff and you won a game, like, Yeah, that's awesome. And I also think you should be able to be very excited because it's really hard to win in college football. Anytime you win, that's exciting. Especially if you're not a premier program. If you're in Minnesota, anything can happen. You could beat Buffalo one game and then you could lose to San Jose State the next game.

People wouldn't be that surprised. But crowd surfing on a Thursday, on a school night, frankly, PJ, that's as far as I'm going to go because I don't, like, I try to be a positive. positive person. I want to uplift others. If you want to crowd surf, that's fine. But it seems unnecessary after a Thursday night win versus Buffalo at home. I don't know. You can tweet at us at Beantown cast if I am sorely mistaken. Next up to music things. I don't have much to say about this other than it's just embarrassing because Beantown podcast hasn't even stooped to this level. you guys see the whole AI

Will Smith thing so he put out I don't even know what it was was it like just like a clip to try to rebuild this image because that's all all I've seen is like a 30 second clip it's like him in a stadium tour

performing which if I can step back for a second I didn't even I mean Will Smith obviously makes music in some very broad capacity but is Will Smith like actively making music

When I think of Will Smith music, I think of like the end credits to Wild Wild West or a shark tail or there's another one, men in black, right? I'm not thinking like, oh yeah, Will Smith, he's on the charts. So like what is this like he's doing a concert stadium tour now? I'm supposed to believe that. So to make matters worse, he created this weird clip to try to rebuild his image after this whole Chris Rock Oscars thing. which is already, what, three years old, four years? Time flies. I'm out of whiskey, which is a damn shame.

We're going to have to wrap things up soon here because I definitely want another. But this clip was AI-generated, and he's out there, like, pushing it on socials and stuff. All the crowd people are, you know, it's like the kids from Polar Express. It's like you can tell something is a little bit wrong. Well, let's see if we can do Maples and New Trick.

Maple, come here. Come here. Maple. Come here, Maple. We're trying to get Maple to come back onto the couch when mom comes home. Come here, Maple. Go to your spot. Go to your spot. Good job. Sit. Yep. See, that's good. That's a good reaction when mom comes home. You can be excited and then you can lie down. Nope, you can lie down. Good job. Okay, now you stay there and mom will come pet you when she's ready. But we're not going to whine and jump on her. See, that's good training. So I don't know what the whole deal. Why does one, the obvious question, why is Will Smith, like, generating AI crowds and posting it

on Twitter, but two, why is Will Smith even, like, Will Smith isn't, like, touring stadiums and concerts and stuff? Like, what, what is he trying to do? I don't get it. So that's the whole Will Smith thing. Rachel just came back from the DMV. He's got her picture. She looks amazing. beautiful you have any any good stories from the DMV usually there's ripe for podcast material nothing no one with a bird or a third eye

or something rats the second concert thing this so I there I am about 9.30 p.m. last night getting drowsy with another great creative Pokemon name drowsy it's just like this drowsy looking troll or something

oh McDonald's Friday Oh, maple's jumping all over the place. It's like a killer whale. Maple. You can't have a, oh. Doctor cleared her for French fries today. All right. I've got a lot going on here. Dr. Dr. O-W-Z-E-E. No one in the elite of horror has one. It involves him to hypno. It's like a magical creature or something. there I am. It's 9.30 p.m. last night. Brushing my teeth. The wind is whipping. It's gusty. Okay. Definitely gusty. Currants. If it was in the water, there would be currents. Currants is like a, what is that, a fruit or something? It's like a small orange fruit. Don't have time. I don't have to pee on control. I'm like last week. I'm not rushing you that way. I just want to get to this trivia question. And they're the biggest thing of all. I was going to title the episode of this and talk about it for an entire hour. We haven't even got to it yet. We're just going to take life as it comes to us. Brushing my teeth, I hear the wind bringing sounds of indistinctable. And I'm like, oh, this must be

Wrigley. Usually we can't hear Wrigley concerts from our apartment with the windows open and the wind whipping. Like, there's something going on. So I go into the bedroom and ask Rachel, who's, you know, the concert going on because clearly someone's singing she didn't know so i look it up and you may be just as shocked as i to learn chris brown that chris brown when i first saw it i was like oh there must got to be like another chris brown he's got to be like a country singer or something no the chris brown who went to jail he beat up riana all that stuff he's just out here like selling out stadium tours apparently he made 58 million from his uh europe leg of this tour he's on in the u.s right now every once in a while you come across a tidbit a nugget or whatever

that just leaves you completely too stunned to speak like you feel completely unaware of what's current and in and it's not just Sabrina carpenter now it's it's chris brown I had no idea this abuser, this assaulter, was just out here selling out stadiums. I don't even have really anything else to say about. I don't have a strong opinion, but I think you can guess what it is. But it's just like all these people out here are just like, oh yeah, who cares if he beats up women? Like, I love his songs. And here is a crazy thing to cap this thought that I found.

from the internet last night from setlist.fm. The average Chris Brown stadium tour concert on this tour. Guess how many, this isn't the trivia question, I promise, is going to be way better than that. Guess how many songs he plays on each night? Which, as someone who's more of like a war on drugs speed kind of guy where they'll have like eight or nine songs over,

you know, an hour 45 in the set list. To see this was just mind-boggling to me. And this is probably unfair, but to me it's indicative of lower-quality AI-generated music because I'm eating a French fry. This might be the first Beantown podcast ever where I'm eating a French fry live on air, 400 episodes in. Apparently, according to the internet,

he plays 58 songs a night, 5-8. I know. each one of these has got to be like two and a half minutes long it just sounds boring and exhausting to constantly switching Chris Brown was flying around Wrigley like in a hover suit or in a helicopter or what on strings on strings oh during the concert oh I was thinking like he was trying to catch a game or something but that wouldn't make sense it comes around the west coast we got the research team back here we're full full steam ahead we only got a couple minutes left in the show here though um here's what

i was meaning to talk about about 50 minutes ago and we're just getting to you now the bean town podcast has been nominated for an award finally we are getting recognized so i got this email monday morning from a katherine benton and i got to tell you this guys we like to joke around we like to have fun i don't i i will be completely sober and realistic good with you. I don't think Chris Rock was actually Rock Chris, the guy who wanted to open up a diamond mine. Like, I don't think that was Chris Rock. Whether Will Smith, you know, slath him or not. Well, he did. But the 112th ranked comedy podcast in Pakistan, it was weird. It was out of the blue. I've never heard anything else about it. I've never seen like real stats to back

it up. It's probably not true. But it's fun to say, and that's how you build your brand. You got to start somewhere. This one is the most legit thing of ever. seen. This is from Catherine Benton. It's from the Corporate Vision Media Innovator Awards 2025. They got a logo and everything. It says this was Monday morning. Hi there. I'm directing the shortlisting process for the fifth annual Media Innovator Awards and the corporate vision team has cast Bean Town podcast as a potential nominee this year. Why the buzz? The business has been nominated. That's how it's the business. For its innovative approach, you got that right, to comedy and engaging content, making it a standout in the podcasting scene. I've been saying this for eight years. Kindly confirm your nomination to join our shortlist, which I did. I confirmed my nomination. They actually have an outstanding email to me. They sent me yesterday asking, so you know things are getting serious. They ask for supporting information. So I got to send them the website. I got to send them a copy of the ad reads. our horse names, I think we could probably send them.

Because when you see, you know, intensive purposes, you're just like, we got to give this guy a w-R-E-A-T-H-R-R-E-A-T-H-R-E-H-R-E-H-Ree. Continuing this email here, you're in the director's chair. Our promotional packages, including the free one, are completely optional. Now, I don't know, I've already been nominated. So what am I trying to promote here? Right, I already got to this stage. The rat race is over. I don't know what's going on there.

There's also an FAQ page. Lights, camera, and confirm your nomination. I do want to just confirm because the end there makes it sound a little funky. This wasn't something that you, like, paid for. It wasn't like, oh, yeah, paid $20. We'll nominate you. This email came completely out of the blue. I confirmed my nomination.

And then they literally emailed me, what was it yesterday? No, it was, it was 301 a.m. today. So 14 hours ago, asking for additional information about the show, which partially makes me feel like they didn't really do their research. But I get it. There's 400 episodes out there. So we are going to go later today after we hop off the recording here. We're going to go give them some additional information. We can do Cuts by Q. We can do horse names. We can do Halloween sputaculars, all the, you know, the whole works. And I don't know if there's like a grand prize or something. I don't know if we get featured on a Sabrina Carpenter's album or whatever it is. But thoughts and prayers with the Beantown podcast, which to be real for a second, I mean, I hate using, you can't even use this.

term thoughts and prayers now because it's been ruined. But our hearts are with the Ascension Catholic school community in Minnesota. I mean, I felt it like my wife's coworkers were involved and the podcast I listened to. They had kids that were involved and just terrible. Yeah. And I don't, I don't have a solution. I do have a platform, so maybe I should come up with a solution, especially if I get this award. But just shitty. Yeah.

If you can't just casually go to school, that's not great. Let's shift gears here finally into our trivia question of the week. You remember when we were doing our Pakistan shout, I told you're not going to give any hints or anything to start off with. Because could that be a red herring? Who knows? Here is our question. This came up from a Reddit thread I saw earlier. And I'm going to give you a heads up in advance. This is going to get a little messy. It's a top five list, but we're going to discuss more than five cities for a variety of reasons. So just give it your best shot and then enjoy the brief discussion. And then that's the end of the show today. Here's our trivia question. Name the top. five world capital cities by elevation. So don't, you know, don't give me the elevation, give me the cities. But these are the five highest world capital cities in order of elevation. So highest up is what we're looking for. Let me see if there's any, that's the core of the question.

Now, again, it's going to get messy. When I, when all of a sudden, done. We're going to get to seven different cities and a special shout out to an eighth city. So things are getting messy here. Clues, there's one city we're going to discuss that is not technically like a UN-recognized world capital city, but they would very much consider themselves to be a world capital city. So that's a clue. A second clue is that there is a country that has multiple representatives, which I know if you're a red, white, and blue American like me, you're thinking, we got one capital city. Amen. There's some countries out there that have two or three, and that's perplexing. Yeah, I think that's, well, and then there's a bonus that

we'll talk about that is clearly not in the top five, but it's struck in me when I looked this up right before Showtime, a sense of wonderment and amazement that I just wanted to mention because it's such a crazy fact. So there it is. Number zero on this list. Hi, Maple. Again, not a UN-recognized world capital city, but they would consider themselves to be a world capital city. Lhasa Tibet is the highest of all of these cities that's higher than any of these other ones, but Tibet is the only one who recognizes Tibet as a country because everyone's afraid of China. So Lhasa comes in here as a special nomination. Number one, so if you like go to a list on Wikipedia, this is what they actually

listed number one. And this brings us into the confusion of the second clue I listed. Number one is La Paz, Bolivia. It translates to the Paz in Spanish. And La Paz is firmly engrossed as the tallest or highest capital city now the tricky thing with lapaz is there are two capital cities in bolivia and you can see where this is going the other one is also on the list now we'll get there in a second here number two is quito ecuador quito ecuador number two on the list and then number three we get to the other bolivian capital we have sucre s ucri sukre so lepaz and sucre i I don't know why a country needs two capitals.

Just pick one and end it. Okay? But they've got two in the top three. They're hoarding. I think that's what that show, Hoarders was about. Not sure. Number four, we're sticking in South America. We got Bogota, Columbia.

If you can believe it, the top four are all in South America. Number five, this one, if you got this one, email us because we got a special gift for you because it's out of the blue, in my personal opinion. From Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, number five on the list in Ethiopia. And then we added, I don't even remember why we added number six here. Oh, it's because, like, some people would consider sucre that should be in the list. Some people wouldn't. So in case you were like, we can only do one Bolivian capital.

Here is number five. It was Timpu Bhutan, a great. combination of silent H's, Timpoo and Bhutan, in the Himalayans. And then this was, so again, we went Lhasa, then La Paz, then Kito, Sukre, Bogota, Addis Ababa, and Timpoo. It was a classic seven-item, top five list. And then the special shout-out, so this is how, depending on how you look at it, sixth, seventh, or eighth, in the list.

But is the next one up. Asmara Eritrea. now there's no one debating whether it should be top five or not but what i wanted to share is the next one in the list by elevation it is 7600 feet above sea level so a mile and a half above sea level and if you're putting the dots together you're thinking eritreo that's on the ocean and it's a small narrow country you're right as mara is only 49 miles from the ocean yet it is 7,600 feet above sea level. That is astounding, because you think like Denver,

it's about as insulated as you get in the U.S. And that thing is only, what, 5,280 feet above sea level. So as Mars got another mile and a half on it, excuse me, half a mile on it. And yet it's less than 50 miles from the ocean, and Denver is probably what, like 700 miles from the ocean, 800 miles? Who knows? I don't know. So I just thought that was a fun bonus elevation tidbit for you. That's what I had for you guys today. Thank you for sticking with us here. Happy Labor Day weekend. Good luck on your grills and your fantasy football drafts and your whatever you're

doing this week, not laboring, hopefully. That's what I had for you. My name is Quinn David Furness. I will check in on you next time. Stay safe. Stay sane. I'll see you. later. Bye-bye. I'm going to be able to be. I don't know. I'm a lot of time. I don't know. I'm