Beantown Podcast - Beantown Podcast's Salute to Nationalism (07032021 Beantown)

Episode Date: July 3, 2021

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And what is going on? My name is Quinn David Furness, and this is my show, our salute to nationalism today here on the Beentown podcast. They had it in 1930s, Germany. They had it in 1970s Cambodia, and they've got it today here live from from Beentown, that was of course the famous Washington Post March by John Philip Suza. My name is Quinn. Thank you for listening to my show. It's our patriotic special today.

We are coming to you live from the north side of Chicago. Lincoln Park to be exact. And this is one of the better podcasts you might stumble upon this week. We are one of the top 500 podcasts here in Chicago. So everyone, thanks for tuning in. What's going on? It has been a long time since I physically actually recorded this show for you all. I'm recording it live here on July 3rd. It's a Saturday about 11.45 in the morning. Been up for seven hours already and woke up this morning about 4.45 5 o'clock Got my running togs on

Did a little jog along the lake 16 miles at 8 minute pace. It felt good to be back and 16 miles at 8 minute pace. It felt good to be back. And if you're wondering, well, back from what? Well, obviously, we are on vacation last week. So there's one thing for you, but oh, boy, that's just scratching the surface. I am back from illness. Wow, let's get into that here. So, ooh, I'm watching the Euro 2020 here in 2021. And it's Denmark, close to the motherland, Scandinavia versus Chechiah. And Denmark just went up to O, in the first half. Hans Christian Anderson's estate is going nuts. And that's about it for the

Danish references that I can make. Oh, that's not true. I was just looking this morning, I saw an ad for it on social media, and I'm really glad I did, because it's a movie that I'm really excited for. It's called Another Round, and I believe it won best foreign film at this last year's Oscars Which I know we're kind of a total wash and everything and all that but it's a Mads Michelson movie and if you've never watched any of Mads Michelson's Danish films he's a Danish actor in case you didn't know I've only seen one other one so far called the hunt Which is a really fascinating? I don't I don't don't recall if I've talked about it on the show before. I think I watched it in January, maybe,

or late last year, but The Hunt is really good. If you get the chance to watch it, it's from maybe 10 years ago, and he plays a teacher who gets accused, like a kindergarten teacher who gets accused of sexual assault basically. And it's just a really, really like gripping, thrilling watch and very relevant to kind of like cancel culture and me too and all that stuff. But he has another one that came out last year called Another Round.

And I think the premise, I think he plays a teacher again, but it's like him and his three buddies who I think they're all teachers, although I don't know. And I think the premises, they decide to live their life at like a consistent 0.05% BAC, blood alcohol content. I assume is what that stands for. And I mean, it got excellent reviews. I think the director got nominated for best director. So yeah, there's another Danish reference for you. The Danish girl. I never saw

that. I should. I haven't seen much of what Eddie Redmain does. Anyways, Denmark score there up to zero here about to go into the half. So last time I actually talked to you, I was recording on Monday, which was literally, it was like June 21st or something. It's been 10 days or 12 days, excuse me, since I last talked to you. So I'll give you a very brief, I'll talk about it very briefly. I don't want it to be the focus of the show. And the reason for that is we wrote, I wrote an entire Beentown blog post on a yesterday, our most extensive one in a long time,

if not our most extensive one ever. If you don't know the Beentown blog, it's just another wing of my multimedia empire. You can go to beentownpodcast.com slash blog, and it'll be the first thing that pops up. It's worth a read. It's pretty long. But if you ever wanted to hear about getting food poisoning, well, trying to travel internationally, there you go. And it was a lot, but let's rewind a little bit here

just to talk about the vacation in general. You know, last episode is our Caribbean Island tribute. So we Tuesday morning, Rachel and I, early at like 4am, we take, we take an Uber out to O'Hare, we had a flight, we decided maybe back in like April or something that, you know, we'd been kind of talking about, you know, taking a nice vacation summer and we both had a lot of vacation time they needed to be used. And we both been working our tails off for staff of this year and I haven't taken any vacation time yet. And so I was like, you know what, let's go big.

Let's commit to something here. And Rachel and her family, their experts and the kind of Caribbean all inclusive resort type of vacation. I've never done anything close to that in my lifetime before. So this is a very, very new experience. And so we decided like boom, let's do it. We booked Punta Kanna, Rachel had been to Punta Kanna before. I obviously had never been to a Caribbean island nation. This was my first time outside of the country

since I was in Canada, maybe four, three years ago, something like that, I don't really recall. But anyways, so we wake up Tuesday, we go out to the airport, everything's good at the airport except this stupid terminal in Granted, we get there, it's like 5.45, our flights at like 715 or something And I know you know it's okay. It's 545

6 o'clock whatever the only place open in this entire terminal at oh here The second whatever it is the second busiest airport in the world is Burger King That's the only coffee available in this entire place. You would think, especially, maybe I'm naive, I don't know. But you would think especially with an international terminal, not that there's like, I don't think that they were like flights arriving overnight or anything, at this terminal at O'Hare.

But you would think, just with like it being an international terminal and people got crazy long flights and all that stuff, like, you got to have like an actual coffee shop, right? Not just Burger King. That's not true. This terminal at O'Hare, just Burger King. So we got a little coffee there. I'll mention before I go any further, so don't forget, listen to the discussion is advised. When you're listening to the bean-tongued podcast, number one will occasionally use some language number two. This podcast is objectively terrible,

but I think we're having fun today. How can you not have fun? It's a three-day weekend, folks. So our flight there, actually everything was great, except stupid frontier. And here's the, I'll make two points here. So it's frontier airlines, which is like the light version of spirit. So you, I mean, I've flown them maybe once or twice before.

You know what you're getting. It's like the ultimate budget. I personally despise them. I know other people who are, you know, less kind of like hate it compared to how I feel about it, but whatever. Here's my point. The plane is maybe 60 to 70 percent full. They didn't give us seats together. Even though we bought seats, our ticket was just one ticket with two people's names on it

so I don't understand like Frontier and of course they put us both in the middle. They're literally their business model is literally just like give the finger To the people who don't pony up and pay an extra $20 to choose your seats and Here's my thing if've got a full flight, I'm a little bit more understanding of that, although I still think it's silly, because you can totally can manage it. There's enough single flyers to where you can totally manage it. But I think it's just silly that you've got a 65% capacity flight. And Rachel and I were not able to sit together because we didn't pay $40 for that option. So I think it's stupid.

Anyways, we get down there, everything's good. We're at the RU Republica in Puntikana. And it was just about 20-minute show ride from the airport. Easy, quick, check in is good. In fact, if you want, if you go to the Ryu Ryu, Ryu, I don't know, Ryu, Republica, page on TripAdvisor, you can see my full review. In classic Quinn fashion, it's pretty long. Three stars.

It wasn't really like comedic. It was kind of just like, I just told it like it is. But overall, the resort was nice, but it was really lacking in some key areas. Sometimes due to COVID, sometimes not. But our rooms were not great. Like, half the outlets didn't really work. And so charging, not that we were using our electronics that much.

But it's like, you know, you want to charge your phone, occasionally your kindle, your reader, whatever, like, you just want to be able to do that stuff with peace of mind, and we always kind of had to like figure it out, plan in advance. The bathroom, just two towels in there, which I'm not like a, like, I'm good, give me my one towel, I'm fine, but, you know, it's just nice to have more. There was no like hand soap or anything like that, which to me just seems like a pretty basic thing you would want to have in a hotel room, right?

Like soap, that's good. And I wrote about this in my blog post. But this bathroom had a new age, open concept shower, where there was no door or anything. And the shower itself was fine. But between the room with the king size bed and the bathroom, the closest part of the bathroom is the shower. And there isn't just like a regular wall.

There's like a frosted pane of glass, so like an opaque window. Okay, whatever, it's fine. But what we realized quickly was our first night, Rachel gets up to go to the bathroom or something, she turns the light on in the bathroom, like a normal person. And that frosted paint of glass does nothing

to keep that light out. And so anytime, and I learned very quickly just for Rachel's sake, like when I went to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I didn't turn the light on, which would come into play later. Not in a huge way, but just sitting like adding to my eventual misery kind of way. But you turn on that light in the bathroom,

and even though it's a separate room in the bathroom, because of the stupid pain of glass, in fact, I read one review on TripAdvisor while we were there. That was like, bring a large garbage bag or something that tape up over the frost of pain of glass to keep the room dark when you're sleeping. And it's like, it sounds silly, but it's actually, like, that's what I would have wanted.

Anyways, the room was just kind of like not amazing, whatever. I'm not, you know, a huge stickler with that stuff. I'm not particularly picky, whatever. The resort itself was fine. No, it's an all-resort, adult-only option, so you just go drink as much alcohol as you want. The pools were fine. The beach was really nice. The food overall was really bad. And hopefully this is our 180-second episode or something. So if you're a long-time listener, hopefully you know me well enough to know that as much as I like to have fun

and joke around when it comes down to it, I'm a pretty like temperate, even-killed person. And so when I come out here and tell you the food is bad, like that's a pretty damning indictment, in my opinion. And I know I'm the one giving it, but that's just kind of how I feel. It was just, they you know all these different restaurants and then like the general buffet area. The general buffet is what you do for lunch or for breakfast

and lunch always. The restaurants are for dinner and each night I think because of COVID there would only be like one restaurant open in addition to the buffet and there were some nights where it was like, oh, this isn't bad, this is pretty solid. But for the most part, those restaurants were just like, man, really bad, lacking flavor, nothing ever felt fresh. And the buffet was kind of hit or miss too. You should have seen the pizza they had at this place.

I didn't mention that in my blog post or my trip advisor review or anything by the pizza. I they're literally like there wasn't any Tomato sauce on it. It was just the bread and a very light amount of cheese and then whatever other fun You know topping they decided to put on it to be all the call at a pizza I don't know if they don't have tomato sauce in the Dominican Republic. You would think they do, but I don't know. I can't really make a call because that was only there for five days. So Pretty much every day we had our routine, you know wake up, I

would go for a workout and I got to tell you the gym in this place over a hundred degrees and it was the only place, the only room in this entire resort that was like that. I don't know why they couldn't get air conditioning in there because our room was very cold with AC, it worked great. But they had one or two standing fans that were only semi-useful and only if they were directly on you.

It wasn't like, you know, their fans that are controlling the temperature the entire room or something. These are very low power, low quality fans. And so, here's the comparison for you. I mentioned at the outside of the show, I woke up, I ran 16 miles long the lake, 8-minute miles, I was cruising, felt good today, a lot of energy.

In this resort gym, I could barely muster, I think, my longest run was 4K, which is like a little over 2 miles, something like that. I don't remember exactly how much, but that's as much as I could go. The sweat was just, like, dripping is not a strong enough action word. Pouring, the sweat was pouring off my body. And so it was a bummer, you know? But you could literally only work out for a max of like 15 minutes Even with water even with a towel. You felt like like you just weren't gonna make it and so that was kind of a bummer

But we would you know work out in the morning and then go get dressed for the day put on our suits Sunscreen it up. I know in a lot of you you know, social media pictures I posted, I was looking extra pink. I think that was a combination of like being in the direct sunlight while the picture was taking and also just, you know, a lighting thing because I think Rachel, you know, if she wants to ever chime in on this show again, she could attest to the fact that I did not really get super burnt. My first day I missed the very top of my forehead right in my hairline and there was a little bit appealing there throughout this week and stuff. But there was no other part of my body that was burnt.

I think we did a really good job of balancing our time in the sun and in the shade, reapplying all that stuff. I'm really proud of ourselves, frankly, which sounds silly, but it's a hassle to reapply and monitor your sun time, all this stuff. We did a really good job with that. And never until the last night, which we're getting to in a second here, did I feel like sunsapped or dehydrated

from the sun or anything like that? So I'm really happy about that. So we would go to the pool and oh, they've got on the it's half time of the soccer game. And I just got to make a comment of this because I just don't. It's such a little nitpicky thing, but it's so stupid. You know how like four years ago they had suicide squad with Jared Leto and Margot Robbie plays Harley Quinn, whatever. Then they had a Harley Quinn movie, I think called Birds of Prey, which no one really knew

about. It just kind of like came out and happened, and that was it. And now they got another movie coming out in the same like universe. It's not called Suicide Squad. It's called The Suicide Squad. Okay, so don't get it mixed up. I know they're pretty different,

but it might slip, okay? He got Suicide Squad, and he got The Suicide Squad, and it's like some of the same characters, some of them are not the same characters. David Desmalsian, he's an actor, went to the Paul Theatre School, he's in the dark night, he's in this one, which I just found out

by watching this commercial. Moving ahead here, we would be out in the sun, read our books a little bit, have some pool time, water robics, we're at 1215. Those were always fun until you had to like the third, well, they're still fun, but by the third day, you realize that she does the lady, you know, part of the entertainment team who leads it on the pool that she actually does the exact same thing, like, down to the very granular move for like half an hour every single time. So it was still fun. But it was like, okay, I know what's coming next.

Yadayadayada. We would go get some lunch. There was this, like, the only kind of restaurant, it wasn't even a restaurant, it was just like a stand. That was not part of the kind of like main resort complex. There was this jerk chicken stand between the pools and the ocean. And it was the only restaurant there where the, you know, it felt like fresh, which was just very refreshing, if you will.

So we would get some jerk chicken, load up on the BBQ mustard, all that great stuff, pretty messy, eating it with your hands, whatever. Hang out a little bit more in the pool. Bingo every night at 5.15, we played what? Five times, something like that, never won. And in fact, like our second or third night there We were like two out of six people playing and there are three different ways to win and we still never won Which was really disappointing

Rachel did win one prize. She was really proud of it She there was a little trivia like a Ryu branded trivia trivia, like a rai-u branded trivia before one of the shows at night. And we played on our phones in Rachel want a little painting, like a canvas painting, which is actually sitting right next to me at the kitchen table, because I had to pack it in my stuff due to lack of space. And I still have it. But we would do our bingo. We would, well, we would lose Edbingo, and then we'd go back up to the room, shower up, put on a shirt, go get some very underwhelming supper, and then we would go walk around a little bit. There was always not like a long period of time, but there's always a small period of time

You know you finish eating dinner like 8 8 30 and the show done certain 9 30 and so we'd kind of just like walk around Do whatever go see the show One time there was a magic act another one. It was dances of the world Then there was a Burlesque show which we didn't end up actually going to, but probably another show or two as well that I'm missing for getting about whatever. And that was pretty much what we did. And to just cap off the time, I had one of, if not the worst days of my life. So we were flying out, our shuttle was leaving the resort Sunday morning at 10,

20 local time. Our flight was at like 115, 130, I don't remember. So I wake up in the middle of the night, Saturday night Sunday morning, 12, 30 a.m. shortly after midnight. And again, if you want to read the whole story, go to beantompuckets.com slash blog. You can check it out. And you know, a slight, I'm not going to get into the details here because I really let it all hang out in that blog post. But a slight, you know, vomit, diarrhea warning, whatever.

Basically, I got really bad food poisoning, worse I've ever had. I think I've had it maybe four times in my life, something like that. I can distinctly recall three times, excuse me now, and I'm pretty sure there was another time that I think I had at once in Baltimore, but it didn't leave as much of a lasting impression on me. So essentially, I vomited six times throughout the night, like separate distinct sessions. I had diarrhea from Saturday night until about Tuesday afternoon was when it finally

seized really bad fever and chills that night really bad fever and chills on the plane. Still had really bad fever and chills as I was like after I got home, sleeping Sunday night into Monday morning. sleeping Sunday night into Monday morning. And obviously, we had to get from our resort in Punta Cona to the North side of Chicago on Sunday. I'm not gonna tell the full story, but I just wanna say Rachel is the true MVP. She's a champ.

She grabbed life by the lips and just yanked on Sunday. Got us through the airport, customs, check in our bag, security, you know, boarding the plane, all that fun stuff. There was so much that happened. If you want to know all of it, just read the blog post. It's good stuff. But we made it. I took a sick day on Monday because I really just like was still not feeling good. But it's not it's Saturday now. We are I'm six days removed and I feel pretty much completely normal good to go. We went out last night and had some alert shots. So that's how you know you are medically clear to play, if you will.

So it was really nice to get away, have a vacation. That was my first time off this year. It was a really rough ending. Like, even in hindsight, I feel fully recovered now. I can laugh about it now. I feel fairly confident, and there's, you know, recency bias, obviously, but I feel fairly confident, saying it was the worst, if not, like, top two or three worst days of my life. Just obviously the illness, obviously, traveling when you're ill, but also the body aches I had,

I could barely stand. I was in so much pain, and I felt so silly, because we're like standing at various points, you know, at both the Poo-N-T-Con airport and O'Hare for whatever, customs, check-in, security doesn't matter. And I would just be standing there like, I felt that I could barely keep myself upright. I was like keeling over, hands on knees, like, oh, let me casually run into the bathroom and empty the contents of my stomach, which were emptied about 10 times previously in both directions.

But let me empty again. It was really rough. I've never experienced so much physical body pain, slash delirium, just really, really awful. So I would definitely take a vacation like that again, and I don't think a vacation like that again, and I don't think I'd do anything differently because it's not like I ate anything, you know, that caused it, that was like,

oh, probably shouldn't do that. You know, I don't know what I ate that gave it to me. We still don't know. We'll never know for sure. Because I didn't eat anything, and I was like, this doesn't taste quite right? And it's just like another normal night of very mediocre food. But yeah, anyways.

Yeah, if you want to read my full review, if you're looking to go to Puntikana, you're looking for a resort, I probably wouldn't recommend this one. It wasn't like I had a horrible, awful time, or anything like that, but I'm sure there are just so many better options. Right, it's a resort town. awful time or anything like that, but I'm sure there are just so many better options. Right?

It's a resort town. You expect that it's going to be really, you know, just a high quality experience. And I wouldn't describe it as a high quality experience. We had fun. We had a great time, but it wasn't like a five star high quality experience. If you want to read the full review, go check it out, TripAdvisor, RaiRuRepublica, Punticana, and check out the Beentown blog. www.beentownpodcast.com slash blog.

You can also email us. In fact, we got a, oh, I'm glad I remembered this, because I'm going to get into our ads here. But I have one email that's been sitting in my inbox for a really long time, that I've mentioned, or I have intended to bring up the last two times. On this podcast, but I keep forgetting,

cause it's just like sitting in my mail inbox, email inbox. We also got a website comment, which I think was spurred by our last, I think we mentioned something about that on the previous episode here, sorry, I'm trying to get through my phone to find that, because I want to read it for you all.

I think it was from my brother, Walt Furnace. Let me see if I can pull that up for you here. Yahoo! Yeah, there it is. I'll read it first to see if it's live, air appropriate, because I read it when he sent it this past week. Oh, here we go, yeah, I think, oh yeah, this is good stuff.

Okay, here's the comment, and then I will follow it up with my comment to that comment, okay? Sort of a double jeopardy situation. The comment says, after listening to last week's Caribbean Extravaganza, thank you for listening, by the way. I think that you should consider lesser Antilles as a future best horse name and I gotta tell you he's got a point as a let's see also Mr. Rock Chris that guy is legendary. I should I should send that guy an email.

Ooh, Chachia just scored. Two to one. Oh boy. Oh, baby. Things are heating up. I don't know where they're playing, but things are heating up in Prague It's it's not in Prague. I don't know. It's probably somewhere like Somewhere cool like Marseille Is it just Marseille or do you got to add a little move at the end because they're French? Continuing finishing this comment here. This is the point where we're starting to get to little bit at the end, because they're French. Continuing, finishing this comment here. This is the point where we're starting to get to meta levels on the podcast, which I agree with.

That's the kind of legendarium you want to be working toward, peace. Thank you for that comment. I really appreciate it. Yeah, things are getting a little meta. And actually, this is just a greater point that I kind of think about here and there. This is the fourth year of our show

and we're halfway through year four, which is hard to believe. Give it another couple months here, not only will we hit episode 200, which is a lot of episodes, but we're starting to knock on the door of the fifth year of the Bean Tom Podcast. And it's one thing, you know, you do five years of anything. It's a lot. But this is something that every single week, and I know lately

there's been, you know, prerecording and, you know, all that fun stuff, but like every single week of my life going into a fifth consecutive year we're doing it. And so you're like, wow, that's a really long time, right? And it's like, yeah, absolutely it is, especially as podcasts go. There aren't a ton of podcasts out there. I mean, there's a million podcasts, but as far as I know, there's not like this huge number of podcasts

that are, you know, have continued on without a break in the action for this long. And my point here is yeah, there are some some aspects and sometimes where I want to go meta, but I also am just cautious because I feel that if I get a little bit too like, and this is just speaking very generally, but if I get a little too meta too early or so soon,

then I feel like I'm setting up the show for an ending, if that makes sense. And yeah, at some point in time, in the next 100 years, this show is going to end for one reason or another. But I am not anywhere in a close mental headspace right now where I'm thinking like, yeah, well, it might be time to start walking away wrap things up. I don't know when that will be but I don't plan it anytime soon okay so that's my point but thank you again for the comment. I do really appreciate it. The other thing I wanted to mention will come after we read our ads here and it's a pretty funny email.

It's kind of automated, but also just in my opinion hilarious. And I haven't read it in like three weeks. So I'm just internally fingers crossed that it's as funny a topic or a concept as when I read it the first time. We're going to read our ads here and then talk about that email we received, which is going to continue this international theme.

And then I don't know. Maybe there's something else we can talk about. I definitely, you know, in the last 12 days since I recorded last, there have been a lot of things I thought of as like, oh, I should mention this on the podcast. And unfortunately, I didn't write them down. So we'll see if anything pops up while we're reading these ads. Let's go quick here. Are you tired of selling your house for less than a quarter of what it's worth

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40 minutes wasted? Maybe? TBD. If you're listening to this, that means I toughed it out. I have dealt with the haters all my life, but again today, I'm trying to have a nice relaxing nationalist weekend and just disrespectful. These are the same guys who turn away from the flag during the national anthem and they kneel and

they and other things. Let's just sing it here. Oh, and you need a fresh do something snappy and new. Just call the experts at cuts by Q. All right, welcome to the last few minutes of our salute to nationalism here on the Bington podcast for Saturday, July 3, 2021. I remembered something else I wanted to mention on the podcast today, because it's one of those actually, okay, we got three things here, we

got the email, we've got a little national security crisis. And then we've got a lot's national, but still a sec not well it's not security either and it's not really a crisis but a really weird thing that happened last night that is frustrating and don't have an explanation for so and hopefully I remember all three of those things all three of those things. Here's the email, first and foremost. I mentioned it was international related. So I get this on June 15th, 2021, three weeks ago.

It's just from someone named Carlos. And he's part of, or he's representing some like podcast website, you know. Something along the lines of Stitcher, CastBox, PlayerFM, one of those types of things. And here's the subject line. Being town podcast is ranking very well in Pakistan. You heard that right. And it's a pretty short email of this reader here.

Hello, how's it going? Carlos is a very personal guy, informal, hope all as well. Well, you too, Carlos. Can I call you Chuck? I have some cool information that might interest you. Okay, I'm listening. Your podcast, bean town Podcast, and I think the information I'm about to share with you, this is Quintalking, we're going to have to incorporate into, you know, becoming one of our new slogans. Maybe we'll put it on a hat or some buttons next year's t-shirt idea. We'll see.

Your podcast, Bean Town Podcast, has good performance in Apple Podcast rankings. Last 30 days, get ready for this, ladies. Position 104 in the category comedy in the country of Pakistan. This data is provided by podstatus.com. Happy podcasting, Carlos. I got to tell you, 104, I know it's a specific category, comedy, but hey, we're in the top 104 of comedy podcasts in an entire country. And here's the thing, it's not some crazy small country like St. Kitson Nevis or North Korea, it's Pakistan. If you never heard

of Pakistan, it's in Asia. And I'm about to blow your mind. You know how many people live in Pakistan? 217 million. So you figure, if every, let's just assume every single person in Pakistan listens to comedy podcasts. And if I'm 104th, you figure that's good for at least a million. Okay, I did some a lot of complicated algorithmic logs. I used a natural log you wouldn't understand how I got that number but it's it's funny it's not a million but I did this last episode we we published our Caribbean Extravaganza I didn't do like any marketing or advertising of any kind and it had like 500 plays, which lately we've been living in like the 50 play range, so I don't know. It did really well. I was, that's Pakistan for you, so we'll continue to monitor that. I stumbled upon, I think because I'd been doing some searching

for stuff related to the Dominican Republic lately, for obvious reasons, I stumbled upon this story from the Miami Herald. And this is less comedy. So for the Pakistan folks, just hold on for a sec. I wouldn't mention it unless it was important to me. But it's a story that hasn't, as far as I can tell, get any sort of national headlines or attention.

But this was a story from two days ago in the Miami Herald. If you want to read the full thing, just Google Miami Herald, I think Miami Herald, Dominican Republic, Nallus brothers, and ALUS. I'll just give you a brief rundown here because I'm getting lower on battery and I want to mention dinner last night, which was so bizarre. A trip to the Dominican Republic turns into a vacation room hell. Quote we've lost everything. So I'll read the first couple bars here.

It was supposed to be an eight day getaway, a chance for three South Florida brothers to reconnect with family, living in the DR, amid coronavirus lockdowns and quarantine. But four days in the trip in late July 2020 turned into the year long vacation from hell. So they went there in July last year, and they're still there. Now the three brothers hope that a hearing on July 5th

may finally lead to their ticket back home. So that's on Monday. The Nallis brothers, three Haitian emigrés who live in Delray Beach, Florida, have lost jobs and maybe even a college scholarship. Florida driver's licenses have been suspended and cars repossessed. Even worse, the US immigration status of two of the brothers

hangs in the balance that's all were arrested last August and detained in the Dominican Republic with scant support from the US government. There seems to have been little official public push to help the South Florida brothers to sprate the fact that one is a US citizen. The other two brothers are permanent residents of the US. Still their case may be a test of,

there's some legal stuff going on in there. Yadda, yadda, yadda. The Nalus brothers alleged they were set up with a four pound package of marijuana planted in their White Hyundai Tucson rental car. Dominican prosecutors have not moved on their case, and they've been stuck in limbo. Basically, one of the brothers,

the youngest brothers was supposed to go to Auburn on a soccer scholarship, so he's lost that. And essentially, if you wanna read the full story there, I told you how you can find it, you can just Google Nallus brothers. And whether or not they were actually, driving around with their marijuana, whatever. But the fact that they've been detained there,

they're not in jail or anything, but they're not allowed to leave the country. It's kind of like that Tom Hanks movie, The Terminal. It's just really, and they're really just not getting any US government, Secretary of State, help or anything. It's really frustrating and upsetting. So I'd encourage you to go read that story for yourself. And I'll be checking in on July 5th to see how that hearing goes.

So anyways, a lot of government inaction from both the US and the Dominican Republic. The last thing I wanted to mention, so we went to dinner last night. There were four of us, myself, Rachel, Rachel's sister, Amanda, happy birthday, and Amanda's friend, Lauren, who already got a shout out on the podcast. So, Amanda and her friend get there before us. We were taking the bus. It's downtown. We come in from Lincoln Park and we get there

and I don't like to name names on the podcast, but this place is called Eda, E-T-T-A, like estimated time of arrival, but there was a stutter, so it's E-T-T-A. And we get there and we sit down, four person table, so really like bougie, nice restaurant, whatever. And there is this strange kind of like pot, or like a, like it almost looks like marijuana paraphernalia, like a clear glass thing filled with a liquid. And they're like, oh, what's this? And they were like, oh, it was, you know, just like at the table when we got here,

they said someone ordered it for us. I was like, oh, cool, whatever. It's filled with tequila. There's also a polaroid on the table. And we're like, this is really bizarre. Someone must have called because they knew it was Amanda's birthday. They bought this for us. Okay, cool, whatever.

And at first, we didn't even realize, like, we didn't even connect the dots. But eventually, we saw in the menu in the back the back, that's a thing for like 50 bucks. It's like a bottle of white wine in this weird, clear glass thing, and then a Polaroid camera with 10 pictures. So you drink your wine, take your pictures, it's 50 bucks, it's expensive, but it's like a cool thing. So we're like, oh cool, someone got this for us, awesome. And we didn't think twice about it.

We have our meal, it's a nice place, but it's really expensive. I mean, I'm just not really like a small place, super fine dining person in general. I don't think that my level of happiness with the food or the atmosphere or whatever is not proportionate to the just huge amount of money you pay but whatever okay we do it. Sub-birthday celebration I was happy to be there and have a good time whatever. At the end they bring us because when the reservation was made I

think it was online. You can, they'll ask you, I think this is through like, Rezzy or talk or open table or something like, is it an occasion? You can put in like birthday or engagement or, you know, business meal or something like that. So if you put in birthday, apparently this place gives you, you know, a tequila shot.

Actually, everyone at the table got one. So they bring out these four tequila shots with this kind of like sugar cookie macaron, which is nice and they comped that, which like you would expect right, because we didn't ask for it. It's not like we ordered that. Here's, and you probably see where this is going now, that I just mentioned that that was comped. They bring out the bill. And again, this weird pot of white wine was not comped. No one at this table ordered it. And we were just like, what the hell?

Like, we just assumed that someone, either an Amanda and Rachel's family or, you know, someone else like, New Year, having dinner there, bought it for us, you know, called the restaurant, asked him to bring to the table, whatever. Because like, what else could it be? Because they just brought it out without us ordering anything. But at that point, we had, you know, drank it, we took our, you know, 10 camera pictures, so we were like, whatever, like, we were gonna have to order alcohol anyways.

So we weren't like, we didn't, you know, cause a fuss or anything. But it is just a giant mystery. What on earth, who, why did this end a better table? So if you got any leads, listeners, email us, beantompodgast.com, get this beantown, beinpodgast.com, I think as it beantompodgast.com earlier, beantompodgast.com, okay,iest way to get in touch with us. And if you have any updates about how we're doing in Pakistan,

let us know too. But yeah, it was really weird. I don't know. Like, I have no explanation. It is a mystery of the universe. And that's what I got for. I know we labeled this as our salute to nationalism show. And the show had nothing to do with that,

which is perfectly fine, because I was looking to just kind of chat and feel goofy today. But everyone, I hope you enjoyed what I had to share. Thanks for listening to my average panel playing. I hadn't played the Washington Post March since last year. I did a little like Instagram live where I played That and America the beautiful and stars and stripes forever and Yeah, I think it turned out okay

I haven't tried in 364 days, but It happened. I hope everyone has a safe, sexy, and fun holiday weekend here. If you're gonna play with fireworks and stuff, make sure you get in on camera, just in case any of your high jinks result in the loss of fingers could go viral.

And enjoy the paid holiday on Monday. That's what I got for you. Long episode, not gonna apologize, I am who I am. Let's get our music going. We'll have our traditional outro music. And that's it from Lincoln Park, Chicago. I hope you have a great weekend. Stay safe, stay sane. My name is Quint Furnace and this is my show and I'll check in on you next time. Bye! I'm just a little bit more. I'm just a little bit more. I'm just a little bit more. I'm just a little bit more. I'm just a little bit more. I'm just a little bit more.

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