Beantown Podcast - Beantown Podcast's Salute to Love (02122021 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: February 12, 2021

Quinn comes to you with a special message about LOVE. Join us for our 2021 Valentine's Day special! We've got the soundtrack of Disney's 'The Parent Trap,' Real Housewives tea, and a tribute to the greatest girlfriend in the world

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furnace. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furnace presents the Bean Town podcast for Friday, February, little alliteration for you, February, February, like a brewery of love today. The 12th, I don't know, who cares. January to February is just kind of like 60 days in a leap year or 59 days in a non-standard leap year, a unlept year, UNLEAPT, of just blah, you know? We got, what do we got? Like eight weeks, eight and a half weeks, I just keep your head down. Hope you don't get snow in your shoes. And where your your mittens, pack a scarf. And I guess the only good thing is it the the the the sunset time is now noticeably later. You know, in the the doldrums, that's a good word of December and January, hovering around that that winter solstice there.

You know, it's like 430. There goes the light. Now we're rocking like, I don't know what, close to 530, let's pull up my weather app let's see what time is sunset 5.20 p.m. not bad and we were we were doing so well with both the temperature and the precipitation until what two weeks ago or so here in Chicago, it has gotten rough. We are one of the the the better 500 podcasts on the North Side of Chicago, which is saying something. And we are hot, hot, hot.

Today is all about love and valentines here on the bean-tongued podcast. So huddle around your iPhone or your Android or your tip calculator with Wi-Fi or your Amazon Alexa, whatever you want to do and and warm right up because we got a lot to get through here on the Bean Tom podcast and it is our tribute to love here in year four episode I don't know it's like one sixty two or something like that. I will say today is February 12th, 2021. So if you do the numbers, that's 02122021, which is a nice little palindrome that we got there. I'm gonna let you figure that one out for yourself.

It's a classic palindromic date. Okay, so you can pause it and sort of rearrange the numbers. It might be a fun activity. Hey, if you've been stuck at home for 11 months now and you want a fun activity to do with the kids, pal and drums man, like 02122021 or do Geese see a God or Panama, okay, we've got options like that Van Halen,, Panama, do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do- Chik Korea or Korea, hell of a pianist passed away. And he actually, his cover of Vince Corolli is a great pumpkin waltz, is my favorite cover of all time. So you don't know it.

Obviously it's not in season, okay. But there is a great rendition of that. And then also, I just thought of this, and I'm sitting up, I've been lying prostrate on the couch. There is a great, I think, it's called, You're in Love, Charlie Brown. Is that an entire Vince Garaldi album? Let's see, You're in Love, Charlie Brown.

Or is that like the Valentine's Day TV special? I don't really know. But I'll listen either way. I think it is like another one of the television specials. Maybe a lesser one. I mean what we got the OG Christmas and then there's Thanksgiving and Halloween You're a spooktacular ghoul Charlie Brown. You got Easter. It's the Easter Beagle Charlie Brown And then you got you got Valentine's Day. I the whole concept of like You know being a little kid in elementary school and going to school and giving other

people Valentine's cards, there's candy attached. That never really resonated for me because we would get, in fact, just yesterday, shout out to Hashtag friend of the podcast and Hashtag grandma of the podcast, Grandma's sale, being Tom podcast legend, sent me her Valentine's card yesterday, I received it. But we used to get a big, big old box of candy. Oh man, that was a fun. I think that was for Valentine's, right?

Someone left a back me up on this. But that was really the extent of the sort of gift or Valentine's receiving slash giving, not a lot of giving, mostly receiving. That occurred on that holiday for us growing up as homeschoolers. There may have been like some sort of church social event for the kids that involved

some valentines giving and receiving as well. I don't really recall. But it never really got to be part of that, but that's okay I'll make it but yeah our show today is all about love and There are a lot of other things we're gonna talk about before we get there So I'm gonna try and move through them pretty quickly But hey if you want to you want to sing with us I think it's copyrighted so we're not allowed to actually but I'm going to try and move through them pretty quickly. But hey, if you want to sing with us,

I think it's copyrighted, so we're not allowed to, actually. But I'm going to do it anyways, because so far, we've done much worse on the Bean Tom podcast and no FCC violations yet. OK? No Washington Post expose and exposing exposing expose if you will probably from the same Latin word ex-bositus EXPOSI TUS might be a Harry Potter spell. I don't know

I will also while we're talking about the FCC and we do this for legal reason I will also while we're talking about the FCC and we do this for legal reasons Listen discretion is advised when you're listening to the bean-town podcast number one will occasionally use some language number two Podcasts is objectively terrible But I wanted to say hey, let's sing a little song so so crank up I I think to avoid Significant copyright infringement infringement issues, we'll just do it acapella. I mean, hey, all the college groups do this,

DMACC, DWACC, InterCorus, and that fourth one that never really got going. I'm just rattling off the thought of my head the name of the acapella groups when I went to undergrad. It was a really big deal on campus, which is just weird, but We're just gonna sing in acapella and so singing along at home with us if you know and I maybe I know the lyrics. I don't know. I haven't thought about this song in years, but anyways about this song in years. But anyways, but boom boom boom, L is for the way you look at me. Oh, is for the only one I see. V is very, very extraordinary. Is even more than anyone that you adore and love is all that I can give to you

Love is more than just a game for two. Two in love can make it take my heart and please don't break it love. Was made for me and you. I said love was made for me and you. I said love was made for me and you. So I don't know how that actually sounded or turned out. I think it was okay. I would give it like a six and a half out of ten. I think I'll do better with auto-tune and a backing track. But again, I'm not trying to get my pants suit off here from the Nat King Cole family estate. Actually, I don't even know, is that like, I mean, I know he's famous for that song or that song is famous for his version. Did he

is like, that like his song, did he write it? I don't know. Or did he just record it? I don't know that much about Nat King Cole to be honest. T TBH. Speaking of love, Rachel and I, that's kind of coming up in the second half. But we watched a movie, which is kind of like the big movie from the last week, if you will. I don't know. Everything is messed up now with just basically everything being released and streaming.

Like things aren't being released in a theater as much these days. At least not where I live. Everything is just streaming release. So the big ones are like Netflix, Hulu. I feel like Prime isn't as strong with the like hit movie game, but HBO Max. They do quite a bit as well. Anyways, you know, two weeks ago it was the little things the HBO Max one, which I think we talked about in the show and I already remembered, with Denzel, Malik, and Jared Leto, which was very just had the potential and actually,

I mean, to a fault, like followed a, like LA thriller, kind of cookie cutter sort of thing, but it just didn't execute. Anyways, that's not what I wanna talk about. Malcolm and Marie is the film that is kind of the big thing right now. It's on Netflix.

It dropped like Thursday, last Thursday or something, eight or nine days ago, and Rachel and I watched it last Friday night. So if you don't know, it stars John David Washington and Zendaya to kind of up in Cummers. And it's black and white, and it's just the two of them. It just is a two-hour film just them in their house, one setting. Basically, we start off as they're getting home from some sort of awards ceremony. So they're all dressed up. And the whole thing is just a two-hour conversation about like you

watch their relationship unravel. John David Washington is this like writer or producer, director of a film or something. And basically he won an award and didn't think Zendaya. And basically they just argue for two hours and the director uses it, uses the John David Washington character, Denzel's son, to just like complain about films and critics. The whole thing is a very interesting, unique concept and I was actually like 90% sure that it must have been based off of a play because that you it's one of those things where you watch and it's like you know the source as a play because of the limited set just two characters right it's it's all it's like if you've seen who's afraid of Virginia Woolf Richard Burton

and Lizzie Liz Taylor. You basically have seen the better version of Malcolm and Marie. It's just, man, it's the only thing I can really say about this and I wrote this on Twitter and I got like two and a half likes, so I feel pretty good about it. Is that it's the most exhausting film I've ever seen and I've seen some

humdingers like Avatar or the Ten Commandments or any number of home movies no this is you know I'm or maybe not home movies like Recydle movies like the Mary Jo Armstrong recitals on Sunday afternoons in early February that are literally three hours long because In a standard recital every kid comes up. They play one piece. They sit down not Mary Jo I don't know who ever gave her this idea But a Mary Jo recital, and apologies for the quick aside, but I think it's important that everyone knows.

A Mary Jo recital was once a year with her studio, which was normally 15 kids, something like that, and their family's comedy show up at the Mendelssohn Club. It's a whole big, it's basically where you want to be. If you're not at the Mendelssohn Club on the second Sunday in February from 2 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. including intermission with red delicious apples

and a reception with detachable frosting cookies. Who even are you? Okay, Rockford's finest. And I'm not talking about the boys and blue. But to finish my point here, normally everyone would just play one song, right? That's just kind of a standard recital. No, everyone gets like three songs and then maybe a duet or two. And yeah, we're talking about little kids. So these are short pieces. We're not, these aren't Beethoven Sonata movements or something like that.

Although as I got older, I mean, I took lessons from her all the way through middle school. And so by the time you're 12 or 13, I'm playing Beethoven and playing, you know, Chopin, Hyde in whatever. So yeah, you get some, some movements of pieces that would be like,

I don't know, five, six minutes, which doesn't sound like a lab, but when you realize it's just one of like, I'm not even, I'm not even joking, like 45 pieces that are happening. You start to do the math on that. It's not good. And the other crazy thing, I hadn't even, this was not on my agenda to talk about, believe it or not. But last thing I'll say, Mary Jo would not let us memorize pieces or use a page turner turner. How hard would it be to get a freaking mom or sibling or I don't know

Dog from the audience to turn some pages. You could even take turns to one half and the second half. I don't know No, we we had to physically This this is some of the bad, most batshit like repressed crazy memories of childhood. And Mary Jo, if you're, if you're a fan of the Shokes, I know you do live in Chicago now. If you're listening to this, not a personal attack, just, I, I don't understand because I've never seen anyone else do it.

It doesn't make any sense. Um, it feels weird. It feels off. We had to physically get like cardboard and tape print out the sheet music and tape it or glue it to this cardboard. And so you come to your recital, walking around with these giant pieces of cardboard with music taped to them or fixed to them with some sort of adhesive. And I swear one year, it was maybe my last, one of my last years taking lessons from her,

I did a duet because you got to do a duet with my brother Walt, who also was in her studio. And we did this one duet from the musical Exodus. I think it's a musical, I've never seen it. I had just assumed. And I think our board was four sheets high and like four wide, which, you know, these are eight by 11 and a half, or eight by 11, whatever it is, you know, standard printer sheets of paper.

So imagine a board that has the length of four of those stacked on top of each other, and imagine that baby up on the piano stand, it's just a nightmare. Anyways, tangent, I apologize. I don't even remember how we got there. Something about Malcolm and Marie. Anyways, you just got a little three-minute history into Mary Jo Armstrong's piano studios back in the

early 2000s. But that was Friday night and I'll just say this, like, you can watch the film and I feel like it's a sort of thing again or time I'm welcoming Maria Netflix where it's like if you're in the mood Bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada bada If you're noticing a keen cinema fans will notice that we've now seen two songs that are featured in the first 19 minutes of the show today, two songs that are featured in the Disney's The Parent Trap, the low-hand remix from what 1996, 8, something like that, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson, Reston Peece, that other guy. Anyways, yeah, that King Cole,

and they play that King Cole at the beginning. It's like the opening montage when Quaid and Richard Center on the Queen Elizabeth. I think that's what it is. I don't know. And then they play in the mood, in the second, towards the end of the second act of the film, where they're like, for whatever excuse,

the lowhand twins give them to get together, they're out like a pool or something, or a fancy hotel in the mood's plan, whatever, I don't know. And hey, we'll go for the hat trick later in the show when we sing a song from the original 1960 film. Okay, so let me put that in my notes. So I don't forget. And if you know anything about the parent chat,

you'll know what song it's gonna be. It's the only other song I know Okay, although oh I was this is this is I promise this is a show about love and we're getting there there is I swear to God I'm making connections there is a I'm not looking this up either this This is how my mind operates. And I haven't had any whiskey. It's one, it's two o'clock in the afternoon. I wish I had some whiskey, but I'm gonna try to work out after this. There's this, the poker scene, right? They're playing strip poker at the summer camp. And you got, well, I don't, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Lindsay Lohan got robbed the two Oscars, okay? What I was gonna say three minutes ago when I was about to share this thought after the Piennery Cytal thought on Malcolm and Marie. If you're in the right mood for it, if you wanna movie about arguments and fighting or maybe you just really hate cinema critics,

great, you can watch it. But honestly, it's a two hour film. It's just, it comes in just a hair under two hours. If you can watch, I'm not, not oversimplifying, I really believe this. You can watch the first 15 to 20 minutes of the movie and you've seen the whole movie. In fact, even after, you know, the first half an hour or so, when I realized that, you know, the whole film was basically going to be a one act play. I still, you know, kept waiting for, you know, a different sort of, just something. You know, I wanted like a new conversation. I wanted just a different topic or something, we didn't get it.

It was just the whole thing over and over and over again. And I felt bad because I, you know, I watched in this with Rachel, it's our Friday night, but I think we both felt this way by about 45 minutes to an hour into the film, which is only halfway mind you, I think we were just like not only on our phones or anything, but just like normally we would put our phones away. It's just like watch what's on the screen so that we can engage, we can talk about whatever but after an hour of watching this, it's just like well I've seen this already.

They already had this argument 20 minutes ago and then it happens again and it happens again and it happens again. So that's Malcolm and Marie, not a glowing review. Hey, if we're doing four stars, I'm calling it a two. And I think that's generous. Just because there's, you know, it's, it's shot pretty well. And you can't, you can't complain about the acting. I mean, John David Washington over-act the whole time, but that's clearly what they wanted him to do, what the script is all about. I thought the script was just awful.

So kudos to those actors for the two of them, for kind of squeezing everything out of it they could. The next day was a Super Bowl and I don't really have anything to say about it other than we watched it. I did, I was rooting for the Bucks, but it was kind of strange because I had this feeling of like, I don't hate either of these teams, I don't have a reason to hate you there with them. I think Kansas City's like fairly likeable Andy Reads, a great guy. My home is likeable. Tyree killed not so much, but the rest of the team like, yeah, whatever. But same with the bucks. I mean, you can hate Brady. And at times he can be a little cocky,

but I think he's kind of like LeBron. He's really mellowed out in the past five, seven years or so. And the rest of the bucks, I don't know how you hate them. Like they've been working their asses off for that. So I didn't like hate either team, but I also really like wasn't happy that either one of them was going to win, right? And either one was really an underdog. I mean, you have the defending champs versus a six time Super Bowl winner. So it was just kind of like, yeah. But I'm happy the Bucks won. They have two Minnesota guys on their squad, Tyler Johnson and,

boy, I almost call them Cory Shavis. That's not right. Antoine Winfield, Jr. AJ. This is what we call him AJ. We're pretty tight. And it was awesome when when AJ right at the end of the game Got that taunting penalty against Tyree kill who if you don't know is a child abuser and domestic Violence perpetrator And I was talking to my brother Walt about this like what was like yeah I just I never root for that taunting and I was just like hey man if about this. Like, Walt was like, yeah, I'll just,

I'll never root for that taunting. And I was just like, hey man, if I ever get the chance, like I respect your opinion, but if I ever get the chance to taunt like a domestic abuser slash child molester, child abuser, whatever, who like hasn't paid his dues for it, like, oh man, I'm gonna give that guy shit every chance he gets.

So, and I feel like I'm a pretty like nice, kind, caring person, very forgiving person. So that's where I draw the line. Like, yeah, if Tyree kill like, had to pay his penance and did his time, then sure, yeah. Okay, whatever, I'll let him be. But this guy's just running around,

making millions of dollars every day. So, no, I don't feel bad about it. Maybe that makes me a terrible person, I don't know. I wanna mention two more things, and then we'll do a quick ad read and then we'll do our salute to love, I promise. This is super brief, but it's just a little rant, you know, sometimes I just want to get things off my chest. I was watching an episode of Chopped about two hours ago and they're doing this, you know, Alton Brown challenge. I don't need to get into the details,

it's not important. But this episode, and I've noticed this with Chopped, they tend to draw from select cities. So I don't know why, but with Chopped you see a lot of like Albuquerque. You see a lot of more obvious ones, LA, New York, but you also see a lot of Cleveland, which doesn't make sense to is, like, do they film chopped in Cleveland? I can't imagine they would. You'd think that'd be a New Yorker, LA thing.

Anyways, my point here is I watched an episode that had four chefs, as always, three of them were from Cleveland. The other one who ended up winning, spoiler alert, was from Mississippi, which was a good thing, because I was pissed off. I was very vocal. Sometimes I get into these modes,

only when I'm by myself, where I just start flinging in f-bombs. And I think it was not aided by the fact that I had just prior to watching this episode of Chatt, I had played a game of NHL 11. It was Black Hawks vs Atlanta thrashers. Your favorite extinct hockey team. And I got my ass whooped. I've been playing on the harder skill level, just because I feel like it's gonna make me better. And boy, today, I think it was like four to one or something, it was just the worst part was I outshot them, like 28 to seven or something and I lost four to one.

It was just, ooh, anyways, how are you gonna have one episode of Chopped where you bring out three judges three or three chefs from Cleveland? I mean it's not even a competition at that point because then it's like a race to the bottom. This guy from Mississippi literally just had to show up to win because Cleveland is awful and Cleveland food sucks and there isn't a molecule of culinary talent in that entire metro area and frankly if one day there's an earthquake and the entire city just kind of sinks in Lake Erie I will go on with my day and feel okay about it. Okay?

That Cleveland Entire Rekill, just maybe you can sink into the lake together. The last thing I'll mention, I'm going to keep this brief as well because it's really not that interesting, I think. Real housewives of Salt Lake City, the finale was last week. So now, apparently this is a common thing. I think if you've seen the bachelor franchise it's similar to this. They do like a housewives tell-all sort of thing except for this for Salt Lake City it's a three-parter meaning three weeks of an hour each and so they did the first part of the you know tell-all whatever they get the six ladies together with Andy Cohen who hosts it. You got Whitney and Heather, two blonde cousins. And then you got Lisa, who is like

work, work, work, millions of different brands, whatever. You got Meredith, who had marital issues with Seth, but they're back together. Son is Brooks fashion designer. You got Mary Cosby, who is a church lady, and then you got Gencha, probably the most famous of the housewives. Not famous, but just well known. Anyways, I mean, they're basically what happens in these, I'd never seen one before, but they just like hash out issues from earlier episodes. And it was interesting because I think most people have forgotten that in the first like two episodes, I mean Lisa has always been a little abrasive but in the first two episodes before Jen Shaw really showed up, Lisa was like

the villain and maybe that's just me because I was a big or still am like a big Whitney and Heather fan but Lisa Lisa was like, not my, actually still not my favorite, but like I really disliked her before, you know, it kind of went in terms of like villain timeline. I feel like we had Lisa first and then very briefly for like an episode you had Mary Cosby

being the one to beat and then the rest of the season, it was just Gencha. So it was just interesting because they kind of take this, you know, timeline from start to finish. So we kind of did the first third of the show, which is when Lisa was like the the very unlikable one, if you will. So we kind of got to relive that, some like Lisa and Whitney drama, and still some Gen-Shaw and Mary stuff, whatever, it's never that interesting.

Apparently I didn't know this. We found out that Gen-Shaw was like calling out or criticizing Brooks, Marx, Meredith and Seth Sun on social media because his his fashion line was still so like new and limited. And that's just like a not a fun thing to do. I mean, Brooks is like, I mean, he's not a minor, but he's like 19, 20, he's like just getting into the game. I don't know anything about fashion.

I don't know like how his line stacks up, but it's just like, how are you, how are you going to be like a 50 year old woman and go on social media to just like Attack this young adults fashion line like what are you even doing? What are you trying to get out of that? I don't know I mean, I could I could go back and watch it and give you the full rundown of what happened, but it really wasn't that exciting um I down to what happened, but it really wasn't that exciting. I trust that the second and the third parts are going to get a little bit better as we go on, because this first one is just kind of like a whatever.

And no appearance from Big Daddy, who I still want Heather to get together with, that was from an episode like 10 or something. I don't know. Whatever. That was Real Housewives. We've got two more women-to-all episodes episodes and I will surely keep you in the loop. The last thing I'll say before we read our ads is that I have and I there's no change since last week, but I have set up the GoFundMe for the fourth year of the Bean Tom

podcast. I will share that on social media starting next week after the weekend is over after Valentineentine state passes. And then our telephone is going to be a week from tomorrow. The fourth annual Beentom Podcast pledge drive telephone fundraiser will be taking place on Saturday, February 20th, time TBD I would guess around midday because I think that's a solid time. I'm saying I'm not doing it in the morning, but I don't wanna take up my Saturday night to do this. So look for it. We'll finalize the time when we publish the poster next week. I would guess like one or two o'clock central time,

something like that. But yeah, we will be advertising the show itself, we'll be advertising the GoFundMe, and we'll have all that open for the last two weeks of February so that should be a lot of fun. Okay, let's pull up our ads and then we'll do our tribute to love. Alright, I feel like it's been a while and yes, I just paused my recording there. I don't know if it was obvious maybe to do a software test about Madden. Believe it or not, heck of a game.

We're talking about Madden's soundtracks. Exhibit the Madden game, who bestank, same direction, right? Got some bangers. Green Day American Idiot, title track, good stuff. It's been a while since we read our ads here.

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And what we're talking about right organ inspection perfection. And what we're talking about organ and parents and that sort of thing, a quick shout out to my mom who's had a rough week. Everything is going okay. She is in good health, recovering, all that stuff. But she's not able to use screens right now. So hopefully someone has hit the play button on her podcast app to turn on this magnificent

salute to love episode of the Beentom Podcast. Mom, we love you. We're thinking about you. Hope you are recouping, recovering, and recalibrating the three ours. Classic stuff. I want to give a shout out to the Samson Q2U series. Fans of the show who listened last week will know that we are down to one Samson Q2U series microphone. And God, hopefully this one holds on.

I actually, so just to rewind very quickly. I tried to record last week. It took me like 10 minutes, 15 minutes with one microphone until I realized like the microphone was the issue. So I just tried this new one, or an office new one, but the second one I have my backup, and it's obviously working. So I did not go back at any point to try my primary mic again to confirm if it's just shot

or if I just need to try it with something else. I don't know, whatever bottom line, we're down to one Samsung Q2U microphone series, which is, it's okay for now. It is going to be undesirable because we're only gonna have one for the Pledge Drive Telephone Fundraiser next week and it's nice to have two,

but we're just gonna, you know, for people who call in, we'll just put them on speaker and we will hold them, boom, right up to my face and that's just the way it's gonna be. So, oh well. Let's see, I want to say that when God speaks, he uses a Samson. Our last read here cuts by a cute old friend of the show 25 years, even though we've only been on the air for 3 plus. Bob and we all know the hairstyle and we all love it, but how many Chicago-based independent

barbers can actually give it to you the way you deserve Valentine's Day style? I'll tell you this much. I will, I will, for an extra $5, I will come over and I will cut a heart piece of hair, patch of hair, not piece of hair, patch of hair into the side of your head. I will do both sides for 750. That's like buy one get one half off. That's crazy value Okay, and I don't I never say this in our adries, but a cut-spot cue flat rate cut 20 dollars extra five if you want the steam towel again one heart five dollars two heart 750 and I throw on a fortune cookie for 50 cents, okay?

Someone should keep track of that, write it down, email me, well, cutsbyqyahoo.com for this, anything else? Bean Tom podcast yahoo.com, again, it's bean Tom B and podcastyahoo.com. Enter cutsbyq, it's like Enter Sandman, only different. Cutsbyq has been independently owned and operated since 1995 and is probably one of the better barbershop operations

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some singing on the show today, and we're gonna add one more to the mix. It's our jingle, here we go, tune it on up. Oh, and you need a fresh do something snappy and new, just call the experts at cuts. And buyCute, cuts, buyCute. and then snappy and new, just call the experts at cuts by Q cuts by Q. Took that one in a different direction. So this is our Valentine's Day special Valentine's Day is in two days.

February 14th as it tends to be year after year. And I wanted to just briefly spend a moment talking about love and relationships and valentines. I did put out a highly unsuccessful Instagram story this morning, a call to action, a COA if you will. That's kind of what we call it in the biz, AJ, taught me about that. Saying, hey, send us your Valentine's Day shout outs. We'll read them live on the year.

Turns out we only got one submission, but it is from Abby F in Bando Organ. It says Orlando Bloom, still, period, love of my life, LOL. And I think that means I'm supposed to laugh out loud, live on the year. But if there's one thing everyone knows about the Bean Tom podcast, we are a very serious,

stoic, grim, Lakeconian, Drakeconian, type of show, okayikonian, type of show. Okay, no nonsense, okay? It's your classic NNS, no nonsense show. A lot of abbreviations today, try to keep up. But I wanted to give a shout out to the love of my life and I don't think she'll listen because I don't think she's been listening much lately.

Ever since the first time she heard the first five seconds of our show. But shout out to Jack Links, beef jerky. No, I'm kidding. Although Jack Links is, there is a special place in my heart, specifically a clogged right artery for Jack Links. Shout out to Hashtag Girlfriend of the Podcast, Rachel Aramos. This personally is my first, I believe Valentine's Day, maybe second.

I think I was dating my college girlfriend at the time, but regardless, let's just say my first Valentine's Day in a relationship, which, thank God, we're both like, I don't want to say normal, but normal, level-headed people who like Valentine's Day is just kind of not nothing, but it's just like, yeah, let's get a small gift, bottle of wine. Let's watch some Malcolm and Marie and talk about how we're so much better than them, the kind of holiday, okay? At least that's the fingers crossed plan for this weekend.

Our anniversary is also 10 days from now, and so we're kind of just rolling it more or less into one from a gift giving celebratory perspective but Rachel and I met on a dating app last February or maybe even early January or late January I don't really recall. But yeah, we have been going steady, as they would say, in the parent trap, or Brady Bunch, if you will. We're throwing it back to the 60s and 70s here today. And yeah, she is, first of all, I say this for Jane. She makes it very clear that I say, talk about this for anything else, very high strength of character, a strong character to size ratio, high strength of character. She is a total babe, fashionista.

She got, she, I, eyebrows appointment last week and eyelashes this week. I've never, I mean, I'll do it if you come to cuts by Q, I'll do it for you, but I've never done it for myself. Had my eyebrows did or my eyelashes did, although people say I have naturally voluminous eyebrows or eyelashes. I think my eyebrows are pretty, pretty standard. I don't know. What do I know? I want to do the thing where you like thread them But I don't think I have the tools. I have a steak knife and some fabric scissors It's still better than putting gorilla glue in your eyebrows though There's a culturally relevant

Comment to show that I'm young. I'm hip and I'm fresh and I'm I'm plugged in to show that I'm young, I'm hip, and I'm fresh, and I'm plugged in. Current, if you will. Isn't there some sort of like fruit or vegetable called current CRR-A-N-T? Let's go to Google, let's look this up. If you're just joining us, this is our tribute to love, and we are Googling currents, not like ACDC.

What are currents and how are they used? The spruces, well, I want to just, let's go to Wikipedia. Okay, well, there's a lot of different, a lot of different entries here. Let's go back, don't go to Wikipedia. Current, it's a shrub. The difference between currents, raisins, and saltanas. What

is a saltana? Okay, we're going back to that original link. What are currents? True currents are small berries that grow on shrubs and are more like goose berries. Whoa. Fresh black, red, pink, or white. I don't I hope I'm saying this right. It probably used apologies to the chef listeners out there. Corant, current, current, as well as dried black currents can be enjoyed in various ways with a sweet and bright acidic berry flavor. People have said that about me.

Currents are delicious when eaten fresh, also said about me. They're often used in Dutch and French cuisines, featured in scones, tarts, and other baked goods, or processed into jams, preserved, preserved and sauces. Speaking of baked goods, me and college, wow. Never smoked, still have never smoked. I've done, I've probably eaten like four and a half edibles in my life, nothing happens, I just get sleepy.

I would be down to like, take some more hardcore shit. I'm not talking about like, other drugs. I'm just saying like, I'd be down to try to get to a point where I feel something, you know? But what I'm not really down for is smoking or inhaling smoke. Like, anything that's like apologies for language. Anything that's fucking with my lungs like, mm, especially with COVID. Like and the chance that I probably already have it, even though it was asymptomatic, like I don't know what that might have done to my lungs. So

no thanks. But I getting back to sort of the topic here Rachel is amazing She has very high strength of character so that like four times now mom and she's a total babe and we have very I think similar personalities what I appreciate most about Rachel other than the strength of character is her rationality. She's very level-headed, very patient. She will be a kickass wife and mom someday to some lucky individual, hopefully me, well not the mom that wouldn't make any sense. But the other one and yeah, she has just, she put up with me for the first 11, or 10 to 11 months

we were dating, or I didn't drink, which is just like a weird thing. But she's very understanding of why I wanted to do that. And yeah, she likes to watch movies with me, even when they stink like Malcolm and Marie. We're watching the wire together now. We watch the first two episodes. We watch a lot of Hell's Kitchen. And yeah, we went mini golfing one time. So we're pretty much checking off all the big boxes for me in a significant other relationship.

But that's, I mean, I could spend an entire episode just talking about how wonderful a person she is. And I would say what, but she would get embarrassed. She won't, because I don't think she even listens to the show. That's okay because I'm not in it for the fame or glory or the relationships. I'm really in it for the money. Okay. Those ad reads, oh boy, I'm gonna need a hair attack account in this year. I tell you what man Speaking of taxes We're gonna have a fourth annual bean-tongued podcast taxes special where the host with the most yours truly Quinn

David Ferns releases his taxes live on air and TBD to be confirmed but presumably we will have dear friend and co-hosts from another show of the White Noise Podcast, Matt Feedler. Tax accountant to the stars on our show. Again, he's a frequent guest, but it has been many, many months since Matt Feather joined us on the Bean Tom podcast. So we will look forward to having him. And maybe he'll have an update on a new episode of the White Noise Podcast. Who knows? We have like three recorded.

So that would be fun. When don't you don't you think I'm not not putting any like pressure on man or anything whatever you do, you do what you want to do. not putting any pressure on man or anything whatever, you do what you want to do. But I personally just think it would be fun to hear a never before heard recording of myself. I'm not just referring to this specific incident, I just think in general,

and this part, partially the reason I started this show because I can go back to 2019 at any point, if I want, or even 2018 and just listen to a random episode from May and see like what was I talking about four years ago. I think that's kind of neat. I would like to do that with some of these previously unreleased episodes of the white noise podcast, or yeah, the white noise podcast. They might be shit. They probably are apologies for language on our love episode. But I think it'd be interesting. You know, what did we talk about in September 2019? I don't know, but we could know because they're

on mass computer right now. I promised one more song for you and I, that's what we're going to do before we end. This is one of the long episodes we've had in a while. Just, I like haven't talked to anybody outside of Zoom meetings since Monday or Tuesday morning so I'm really just kind of this is very therapeutic for me. Let's get together. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's get together. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll have a really good time. So for those of you keeping track at home that was our fourth parent trap song that we've sung on this show. If that's not love I don't know what else is. Yeah that's that's what I had for you and I'm just thinking now like is. Yeah, that's what I had for ya.

And I'm just thinking now, we got the chances, our Valentine's Day, love, salute to love. Is there a way I'm lying on the couch again? I've had every single position going on in this recording. Like, is there a song I can play a fun love song on the piano to play this out? I mean, I'm wrecking my brain. I don't know.

Oh, you know what we can do? I'm going to pause to get it set up. And I don't know how well the audio mix is going to be. So I apologize for that in advance. But I have played the song once or twice in the past and I'll hopefully I remember the words and the chords. But there's a very famous alt and john song called your song. There's also one called Texan love song but we're not doing that one. We'll play the classic your song. Give me a minute, going to pause

your recording. We'll come back, set it up, we'll play us out, and that will be the end of our love tribute. Let me check my notes, make sure I get everything. Yes, I did. Okay, so everyone, thanks for listening. Yeah, that's what I had. So let me pause. We'll be right back to get it set up. Stay safe, stay sane. All right, as promised, we have adjusted changed scenery. Now sitting at the piano. And again, because now I only have the one Samson, the levels we are literally going in blind.

There's no test. So I don't know if you're gonna pick up too much piano, too much vocal, not enough of either, but this is just the best we're gonna do. And we're not doing any tests. So again, thanks everyone for listening. And here's a little Elton John to play us out. Happy Valentine's Day, and we'll see you next week

for the Pleasureife fundraiser. And I haven't rehearsed this. So hopefully it's the right key, hopefully I know the words. TBD, let's find out. It's a little bit funny, it's healing inside I'm not one of those who could easily hide I don't have much money, but boy if I die day and by your big house way here we both could live. If I was a sculptor and then you'd get no more man who makes potions in a travel in show? Oh, why?

I know it's not much, but it's the best that I can do. And my gift is my song in hand, it's once for you. And you can tell everybody that this is your song. It may be quite simple, but now that it's gone. I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind Let it put down in words How wonderful life is Are you in the world? I said on the mosque and skipped off the mosque with a few other sayings, well they got me quite cross and the sun's been quite kind, while I wrote this on home. It's for people like you, they're here, and keep it turned on. So excuse me for getting in, but these things I do, you see

I forgot ten if the green Are the blue, oh, oh, oh Anyway, the thing is What I really mean The olds are the sweetest I've ever seen And you can tell everybody that this is your song And it may be quite simple but now that it's gone I hope you don't mind I hope you don't mind that I put down in words

How wonderful life is, well you're in the world I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind That I put down words How wonderful life is Well, you're in the world Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Thank you.