Beantown Podcast - Bernd das Brot, Church Bells, & the McExtreme Burger (11212025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE from the Canary Islands to discuss German children's TV programming, the Canarian McDonald's menu, and ron miel

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for November 21st, I think, 2025. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? The only reason I have any semblance of what date it actually is is because we have our last flight of our honeymoon tomorrow and I just knew the flights from all the different bookings and excursions. and hotels and Airbnbs that have taken place. So yes, today must be Friday, November 21st, coming to you live from the Canary Islands, if you can believe it. A tiny little volcanic archipelago that you read about as a kid, and you just assume that that's where canary birds are from, right? That twitty bird from Looney Tunes, he's a canary bird, right? Canary in the coal mine, that's like a phrase, an idiom.

Is that what an idiom is, or is that more of like an Aesop's Fable kind of idea? I don't think that Canary and the Coal Mine was an Aesop fable. I think that was more of like tortoise and the hair kind of action. But Canary and the Coal Mine reminds me of Lee Dorsey, working in a coal mine going down, down now, working on a coal. Hey, I guess I was sitting down. It's a great Huey Lewis and the news cover of that song where Dwight Clark, rest in peace, comes out

and sings with the band towards the end of it. Go check it out on YouTube. My name is Quinn. I am the creator, host, and chief travel blogger of this program. Quinn David Furness presents the Meantown podcast. Didn't think, excuse me, that I would be coming to you live on my honeymoon, did you?

12 days away, 12 days across the pond, as they say. I'm kind of in the pond right now. Tenerife, the most populated of the Canary Islands, a volcanic island, as they all are. But no weeks off here at the Beantown podcast. It has quite literally been 400 some episodes, 400 and changed with no weeks off. And I guess at this point, if I'm not going to take a week off for the show or getting guest host during my honeymoon, it's realistic to think the only thing that can slow this show down is death, of which presumably, unless advances in modern science, really start to pick it up

a beat, it's going to hit me at some point. But you know what? Let's not even think about that. You don't want to think about death in the end of your podcast when you're on your honeymoon. I'm sitting out here on my terrace, our terrace. We got a top floor hotel room, and when we walked out, when we checked into our hotel three days ago and we started exploring the room and walk out, the room itself is pretty average, it's fine, nothing to write home about per se, but you walk out onto this terrace patio, balcony, whatever you want to call it, you know, we had paid extra to get the top floor room. You know, it was like, it wasn't egregious. It was like 15 or 20 euros a night,

which normally I wouldn't do, but you're on your honeymoon. Go for it. You know what? Why not? Well, not only do we get a bigger space. We get a corner space. And look, I'm not an expert in square footage, but this corner space we got here has got to be realistically about the size of my Baltimore apartment where this show had its inception. I mean, maybe a slight exaggeration, but not really. I mean, I can picture where I'm sitting here as my living room, and then I just had a bathroom in a kitchen, and that was it. I mean, we're talking like the exact same size here, and way more furniture up here.

We've got two nice armchairs. There's a table with smaller arm chairs and a little thing in the middle for smoking, and then there's the, like, pool, recliner chairs as well, made of solid wood. I got a beautiful view over here. By the way, listener discretion, I'm not planning on swearing much during this program. I don't have a lot of grapes that I want to share. It's going to be a positive episode, hopefully.

But my view, I mean, I got like 270-degree views here. I got, because we're in a corner, we got the old church over there with its bells, which I'll mention in a second here. and then looking around I can look to the north looking at the Atlantic Ocean with its waves

crashing in and I got a nice crane here that hasn't moved a lick since we arrived supposedly doing construction but who knows no one wants to work in this town and then I look out across the west

towards the northwest edge of the island and then as I turn my gate South. I can't right now because of the cloud cover, but at various times of the day, you can see L, and pretty look, pronounce it however you want. It's T-E-I-D-E. I've always just been saying T-D-D, but if you ask the Spanish speakers, they call it Tedde, approximately. Mount T-Mont-T-E-E, essentially. It's like you're saying Teddy with a British accent. Like, Ted-E-R-A-O-P? That was more Australian.

I don't need to do any accents here. And then finally, looking south, peering over the wall here, like Wilson from Tim Allen's Home Improvement 90s show, looking at what, Toro Park, T-A-O-R-O, I think, which is a beautiful kind of terraced green public city park with palm trees and flowers and fountains and all that stuff. It's beautiful, and we scaled it today, and it can get a direct view of it right from our hotel room, balcony. And then I can actually, this is interesting, there's no one right now, but I can actually look.

So we got a top floor room, but there's one more floor above us with no rooms. It's just the pool and the bar. And it's quiet up there right now, and not a lot of people. But technically, if someone wanted, they could just pull up a chair, because I'm looking at chairs right now. They're just no asses in those seats. And they could listen to a live, the live, Beantown podcast recording from the Canary Islands. Getting to listen to a show before it's released is a privilege that many across the globe have not gone to exercise. But speaking of across the globe, I do want to give a shout out to my friends in Pakistan.

We are halfway closer to Pakistan than we typically are. Thank you, Karachi. Thank you, Hyderabad. Thank you, Kabul, for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. And this wasn't Pakistani food, but we had a delicious Indian meal for supper last night from Puerto de la Cruz newest Indian restaurant. It was called like Spice Village or something like that. it up i can't remember spice girls but it was good had some chicken tika curry and garlic non and a beer of course a classic indian beer and you might be sitting there saying well you went

all the way to the canary islands just to get indian food well i'll tell you this much one it gets worse because we had macdonalds today for lunch not because you're like can't eat anything in this town get at McDonald's, but just for the cultural anthropology, sort of angle, sociology, whatever it is, culinary anthropology. That would be a good way of describing it. I had a, uh, make extreme, which is a burger with pulled pork, which they call bulled pork with a bee, like taken from a bowl, like a Derek Rose or a Lou Aldang. And then there was a slice of bacon and two pickles as well, and then like a, I don't know, some sort of pulled porkish sauce. In between two buns and then some potato wedges, French fries.

Rachel had a McRoyle burger, which is kind of just like a regular burger. And we had these little chicken balls as well, which were essentially balls of chicken, for a lack of a better term. And I got to tell you, as we were getting up to leave, I was so close to going back to the kiosk and ordering the Chips O'Hoy Mac Furry. No, L, it's Mac M-A-C-F-U-R-R-Y. But I couldn't bring myself to do it. Knowing that I would be, oh, knowing that I would be, you know, drinking later, I didn't want to go too crazy at 1 p.m. But I mentioned, you know, the McDonald's that it was, you know, if you thought eating Indian food in the Canary Islands was bad, try eating McDonald's. Well, the other thing is just we're on this honeymoon for 12 days, which is great. And we're hitting up three different spots, Lisbon, the Canary Islands, and then back to the Portuguese side of things, Madeira, Medira, however you say it. which is only like a hundred miles away from here another island but my point being that if you're

going to just be like it look if you're here for like two days three days i get you know going to mcdonald's maybe a little tacky but when you're on a 12-day trip i think it's sort of like you get a little bit of a longer leash to try different types of food and they don't all have to be local right not to mention when you're a place when you're in a place like puerto de la cruth where we are it's a touristy spot no this is the birth of tourism in the canary islands and so it's like yeah you're going to have some authentic stuff here but if you really want to only eat authentic food you need to be like going out and staying in a tiny little fishing village if you're staying in like the tourist center where we are which was intentional because we want to have access to

things to do, then you're going to have some authentic things, then you're going to have some things that are, you know, kind of whatever you would call, Indian food and McDonald's, maybe a little bit inauthentic. Now I've got a guy across the street, same level as me, balcony-wise, just tuning in live to the Beantown podcast. See, he's getting a free show. He's lucky. But our hot take of the week is inspired by my sip that I'm currently having. Drinking out of my thermos, it's been my cocktail of choice. It's a historical Tenerife staple.

And, well, it's traditional in that I created the tradition three days ago and I got here. It's Dorada beer, D-O-R-A-D-E, like L-D-D-R-D-O-D-R-A-B, which is kind of the class. 10th beer mixed in with some uh or you put in a the boiler maker essentially but you put in a shot of uh honey uh rum ron meal as you would say in espion rom mile and it's basically just creates like a sweet beer and i get it if you if you're someone who just wants like the crisp almost bitter aspect not bitter necessarily, but just, you know, crisp and, you know, gold, gold loggerness of a regular beer. And I like that from time to time as well, but I got to tell you, getting this sweet

beer going, it's like something the ancient tribes would have drank. It's delicious. My hot take of the week is that we need to normalize rum beer. I feel like at a certain primeval level, it's what That's what our ancestors would have wanted to combine their delicious sweet goodness of rum and love of pirates with Cerva, right? Going to be all over the place on this show in case you couldn't tell. You may have heard, I don't know, I'm recording on my iPhone here, Samson's getting a week off, by the way. Samsung Q2U series when God speaks, he uses the Samson. You may have heard two or three minutes ago some bells tolling.

in the background. I'm not sure how much the phone can pick up or not. But, you know, church bells. And I got to say, I'm no stranger to church bells because I live next to one of the more famous churches on the north side of Chicago, St. Benedict's, aka St. Ben's. And St. Ben's has bells that toll at the top of every hour in classic fashion, you know, one bell for 1 p.m. 11 for 11 p.m., so on and so forth. But these church bells here in Tenerife are really leaving St. Ben's in the dust for two reasons. One, they're on time. So instead of, when it's 12 o'clock, you get bells. When it's two o'clock you get bells, the problem with St. Ben's, the actual timing device is a little bit off

because when we moved in, the bells would ring at like one minute after the hour. So it's like, all right, maybe it's just my watches off a little bit. But then after two years, a living there nearly, the bells are there firmly at the time of a week ago, when we left America, they were firmly at four minutes after the hour when they told, T-O-L-L-E-D. and at what point is someone going to fix it because we got a serious problem here four minutes look one minute it's like again like i said maybe it's just maybe my watch is off and yours is off who knows two it's starting to go a little bit suspicious three i think is where you got to draw the line so now we're at four four minutes after it's just lazy and when you know inevitably we're going to get

to five and you blink your eye and you're closer to the next hour than you are to this one and soon you don't know what hour it's referring to I guess you would know because if it was 12 o'clock you'd be 12 bells if it was 1 o'clock you'd be one bell but is that this has got to be this similar timing concern to the whole leap day issue where there's actually 365 and one quarter days in a year and so three out of every four years we just you know say forget about it but then we get the leap year and you get a february 29th is that the extra day i think i could never remember that as a kid and even now in my 30s and i'm still not a hundred percent confident I feel like I got really good at which dates or which months out of the year have 30 days versus 31.

But the February thing always kind of, I can never quite get it. I think it's 28 as normal 29 in a leap year. I'm almost positive. That's where we landed with that. But the other thing that these bells at Tenerife are doing great at is they're giving you bells every 50. 15 minutes. Now, they only do the big show and dance, song and dance at the top of every hour. But then, you know, you get three lesser ones. The little tune that these bells play is like, da-da, da, da, da. I don't know, maybe it's the Spanish National Anthem or something. Unclear.

Don't have a lot of experience with Spain. We've only been here three days, but did go to the Madrid airport for a hot second. two hours or so you know what these european airports like to do that was relatively new to me we experienced it in both lisbon and madrid the other day and perhaps we'll experience it again on the islands who knows but this was a little bit different than my experience flying in the USA they don't announce or they don't like yeah announce slash commit to the gate that their plane is going to be at that your plane is going to be at until one hour before departure time which on some of these international flights is like 10 15 minutes before boarding and you know we didn't have any issues with like oh our gate that we're leaving from is you know three

terminals away like it's heartsfield jackson or something in both instances once they revealed our gate we were minutes or less away so it was just fine but it's kind of interesting usually when you're flying domestic at least in my experience in the u.s you can like you can like google your flight before and it'll give you a gate and you know sometimes it changes the next day the day of your flight sometimes it doesn't but i find this interesting because we like get off we have a layover is they're going from Lisbon to the Canary Islands. We have a layover in Madrid. And you get off the plane and you got like 90 minutes or something.

No rush. No shirt, no shoes, no problem. And you go to the video monitor to see where you're supposed to be next. And they say, just wait. Hold up. Don't have to be in such a rush. All you Americans are always in such a rush. and yeah you just wait wait to get your gate

I don't know you really remember how we got through or what the kind of concern or deal with that story was but I figured I'd kind of highlight these cultural differences for you I should mention as we briefly I've got the shortest Maples minute segment ever because I haven't seen her in a week I don't know what's going on. We left one week ago, and we'll be back in five days.

But Maple's Minute sponsored, of course, by your good friends, at Cutsby Q. When you need a fresh juice on the snappy or new, call the experts at Cuts by Q. And I did bring my electric razor, my trimmer here, to take care of some of these neck beard hairs. I don't know if I'm going to get to it tonight, tomorrow morning, whenever. But I can go about a week before I start to turn into the Wolfman. and we've gone for 12 days so it's just a little bit you know it's pushing the envelope what I neglected to do I trimmed my fingernails right before I left thinking that it would only be 12 days and I'd be in good shape but I'm already starting to get some long fingernail issues

it is like my biggest personal care pet peeve I got to have short fingernails I don't know if it stems from my history or experience as a piano player and you don't want long fingernails as a piano player it's just you're going to snap them you're going to break them they're going to click on the keys no one wants clicky keys okay um but yeah they're already getting too close for comfort lengthwise and i got to go another five days here so it might sound like not a big problem, but here on the island where it's all good all the time, this is close to catastrophic circumstances here. I don't remember if my thoughts got caught off earlier when I was telling you what I was overlooking,

but I'm looking at, well, I can't see it right now because it's shrouded in clouds, but El Tide, which I know I mentioned that, but it's the, uh, the tallest mountain in Spain and it's located here not in the Pyrenees P-Y-R-E-N-E-E-E-S but here in the Canary Islands last erupted like a thousand years ago but it's got like a sister peak right next to it that erupted I think only 300 or so years ago as a lot of lava rock on this island It kind of reminds me of the great Rockford or Loves Park suburb of Rockford, mini-golf and arcade complex, Volcano Falls, very descriptive name. It's got, I assume it's still open, I don't know.

If you've ever driven from Chicago to Wisconsin, Madison, excuse me, along Interstate 90, you can see it just north of Rockford to the west of the interstate. past the clock tower rests in peace we have minigolf arcade go-karts batting cages everything a kid could want wasn't it always the worst i i think i only got to do go-karts as a kid like once but in any go-kart situation there's always like the one or maybe two cars that are just flat-out faster and the other ones just suck. And you're hanging out some kids' 12th birthday party doing go-karts

and whomever is the lucky one to be rewarded with the one fast car. That kid just feels like a king and it's like I'm such a better driver than you. That never happened to me. I never got to be the fast driver. And everyone else just feels like total losers.

What a shame. You could be the best. best wheel handler in the world and if your engine's just not up to snuff you're you're screwed i will also from across upon give a shout out to our good friends at home pride oregon 541 410316 i don't know what the home inspection rules and regulations are like here in puerto de la cruz it's very uh you got a lot of kind of Bright colors in the architecture here. Very geometrical, up and down, left and right, squares, rectangles.

But I got to tell you, we might need to get Steve at Home Pride, Oregon, into our room for a plumbing check because the first, like, day or two, we didn't really notice it, but as we have extended our stay, we're going into our fourth and final night here tonight. our our bathroom is extremely stinky and it's not like oh someone had a big dump and really need to air it out it's just like it just smells like you know still water it doesn't necessarily like just smell like shit which is good but you know i think the plumbing is not amazing and subsequently or consequently we've resorted to just closing the bathroom door

and toughing it out, grinning and bearing it when you actually have to go into the bathroom for one reason or another. Let's see, there was a, oh, Maple's minute we didn't even get to, but Maple's on vacation mode, she's with her auntie. She's got a number of pup cups. and she's going to the suburbs soon to see her cousin. They have a very on and off again kind of relationship, as dogs may have. So we'll just keep our fingers crossed.

But Maple will be back next week for our Thanksgiving special. I don't know when we're going to record. I mean, we get back, you know, the night before Thanksgiving, and then you have Thanksgiving itself. And then, I don't know, this could be a good, like, Black Friday. opportunity. I think we've done that before on the show where we kind of combed through Black Friday deals. Maybe we'll just ask ChatGPT for its best Black Friday deals, and that'll be our jumping off point. So you can expect to hear from us in about a week or so, assuming everything

goes well with the flights. Let's see, what else did we have on here? We got the Tenerife bells. I had one, so we've been watching some television as you might do when you're staying in a hotel. And first and foremost, I've got to tell you, I'm really proud myself because, you know, you got this TV. We have like 40 channels, almost all in Portuguese, and then you find, like, one or two that are in English. In this case, there's, like, two channels that are essentially TLC, but it's, like,

the house flipping shows or, like, selling sunset. You got, like, the couple, they're being shown around by, like, a realtor or a builder, or contractor or something and like the contractor's like yeah we couldn't you know completely revolutionize this house and change everything and it would only be another two hundred thousand dollars and couples like oh yeah we can do that and you're wondering just like what do these people do for money but that's neither here nor there i managed to go in um because i found here in the canary islands compared to lisbon our first stop that english is is still spoken enough to get by but at lisbon it felt like it was almost not 50-50 but like everyone you know had some

english there's a lot of tv in english you know there were like american football bars here in the canary islands for the most part people we've talked to understood english our cab driver from the airport didn't really but i got by because i'm a duolingo like my duolingo score is like 64 so that tells you all you need to know But a lot of, it's not completely true. A lot of the menus here in town have like a British version, a German version, and a Spanish version. But the TV channels from most were all in Español or German, which I'll get to in a second here, the German, because it's actually, I learned something really fascinating that I think is really cool.

And then we'll wrap up the show. But I managed to get into the TV settings, the menu for the settings. and you could actually, I don't know if I had ever, like, seen this before, heard of this before, you could actually go into the TV settings and change the native language to English. And it actually transformed probably half of the channels from Spanish into English, which I didn't know, it's not that I didn't know that technology existed. I just never would have guessed that it existed in a three-star hotel room.

Maybe it's because we have the top floor room. with a corner balcony. That's probably what it is. You go down to the second floor, those TVs don't have that functionality. I can almost guarantee it. So now we're able to get, last night we watched Speed with Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, and Jeff Daniels. Got that in English instead of in Spanish.

Still have the Spanish subtitles on because I like to, I'm sort of a lifelong learner. in that sense but the night before we watched I don't remember what it's called it was a movie I'd never heard of it was with Michael Douglas and Sean Bean

I don't know I don't remember what it was called without a word something like that I don't know it's interesting because the Spanish it's one of those channels this movie channel we found that shows the title of the movie

in the corner the whole time but The Spanish titles of these films, it's not like it's an exact translation to English, which makes sense. But something like speed is interesting because you would think it would be like, okay, if it's English, it's speed. If it's Spanish, it would just be either like speed or Velocidad or something like that. But this, and I don't remember exactly what it was, so I apologize, but the Spanish title that shows in the corner of the TV screen while the movie's playing was like speed and then colon, like, maximum velocity or something like that and that's why when we first turned it on

it was the very beginning of the film which is before the whole bus ordeal and it said speed velocity maxima or whatever and I hadn't seen speed in 20 years so I didn't remember how the film started so I'm watching it I'm like oh this must be speed too because I'm pretty sure I've never seen this before there's no bus

but turns out it was just the opening scene but it's interesting that in Spanish you need to add two of extra words when they already had speed why do you need anything more just call it speed and it was kind of a similar deal with the the michael douglas sean bean movie which we had on the night before and it was one of those things where like i could translate the title literally and i thought oh that must be what it's called i never heard of this movie before which i hadn't but then i went and googled it to see like just to learn more about the film and the english title

was kind of similar to what the Spanish literal translation would be but had some significant differences as well and I don't remember what it was called but you can go out go out there and look it up Sean B. Michael Douglas it seemed like a solid like 60% Rotten Tomato score type

of movie not anything I'm going to remember after I leave the island but yeah I won't go that'll be largely, oh, one other thing I wanted to mention here, and then we have a trivia question as well. But as I was two nights ago, so I'm scrolling the television, and it comes across like Channel 24 or something like that.

And it's what appears to be a potato on the screen, an animated potato, in an astronaut suit, in the center of the screen, floating around in space. and he's talking a little bit in German and there's like some UFOs, satellites kind of slowly moving past him, but it's just like a very, there's not a lot of action.

It's very slow. And it's almost like a screensaver more than like a movie or a TV show. But I didn't think about it too much. I was like, okay, that's kind of weird. keep going it's germans right come around last night again channel 24 and this german potato is still floating around and now i'm thinking okay this guy was on last night too so maybe it's just like the nine p m block on this show or on this channel but like what the heck kind of show is this so

after i i had noticed it two nights in her i tell rachel about it and so while she's showering i go do some Google searching, and I learn that it's not potato, it's a loaf of bread in this astronaut suit. His name is burned Dasbrot, B-E-R-N-D, burned the bread, essentially. And what I thought was so cool, so it's this, it's like the German version of PBS Kids, essentially, a TV channel dedicated to children's programming, Kinder program, as they would say, I assume. I don't know. But what is fascinating is every night when the programming stops,

it's not like, you know, PBS would turn into, you know, news hour with Jim Lair or something, and you get infomercials at 2 a.m., whatever. And then PBS Kids comes back on at 7 a.m. and starts showing Arthur or The Explorer, Bob's Builder, whatever it is, Cayu. What happens on this German channel is from, I don't know, I think it was like 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. So a solid 10 hours. It's just burned das Bolt, floating through space. And again, it's like very slow, very ethereal music, white noise essentially.

And he will like occasionally talk, UFO occasionally comes across the screen, satellite. But there's this loaf of bread. in an astronaut suit, just floating around space on his own pace. And I thought this was absolutely spectacular. I love the idea. It almost makes you think as we build closer to 24 hours of Beantown podcast networking, or 24 hours of programming on the Beintown Network, rather, I need to develop my own burned outbril.

Now, we're going to need a lot of burned because I put out about, an hour's worth of content every week, which a week has, what, like 168 hours, something like that? I don't remember if that's the exact number, but it's in that range. So we are looking at about 167 hours, give or take, of our own, you know, Beintown-Burn-Dasbrot character. And I don't know if we would just have like a radio station. That's probably the closest comp because podcasts, I think, by nature, are supposed to be less like, live you're tuning in and it's more of like an audio on demand kind of thing so we would need to almost fundamentally transform the nature of the bean town podcast but it gave me an idea

we're going to let it simmer a little bit in my hopper Dennis hopper from speed and we'll see what we come up with so if you have any ideas for what we could fill the other 167 hours of the week or however much it is when you're not listening to the bean town podcast what we could listen to what we could fill that time with let me know because i wanted to be like burned i like the idea of me you know floating around space in a space suit but that's way to you know i don't want to get sued way too close so things to think about but that was a really cool fact i learned one other fact uh el tede national park where the volcanoes located here in the canary The only native mammal to the park, bats, B-A-T-S.

There's no like little rodents or squirrels or voles or mice or gophers or yaks. Just bats, of which I didn't see any yesterday. Probably because there are all bats nocturnal. I don't know. We need an animal expert on here. So that's my honeymoon. Our honeymoon. Rachel declined to be on. I asked if she wanted to do her pop culture minute. And she said no. Which her body, her choice. Am I right? No means no. In honor of traveling the world, I thought I'd give you a trivia question with a little bit of international flair going to all the way across the globe to Canada.

Basically back where we started. So my question is kind of a classic question. Maybe it's not classic, but I'm going to ask it anyways. And it's going to be a typical, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Fastest Finger, place these in order kind of question. So it's very simple. Canada's, what, 13, we'll confirm the number when we get there.

13 provinces and territories. I don't want to get weird on any technicalities, right? Just all of them thrown together. You know it. I don't care if the Yukon or Quebec or Prince Edward Island, there's like 13 of them, okay? And I want you to rank them from most to least, most populated to least populated, per Wikipedia. okay so again very simple question most populated canadian province or territory to least populated and i took a quick glance at the answers as i was preparing for this just to make sure i had a

good site something trustworthy like wikipedia i didn't look at all of them i got the sense that it was you should probably be able to get number one, I would hope. And at the very least, you could probably get a pretty solid top five and a pretty solid bottom three or four, whatever the kind of grouping is. And then it's a lot of the ones in the middle, right? I think between like your prairie provinces and then like the New Brunswick, the Labradors, the St. Edward, the Prince Edward Islands, those ones kind of in the middle, I think gets tricky. and I think I would have been able to get like, I don't know if you have to assign one province or territory to one slot, one through 13. I think I could have pulled off like three or four of these, and the rest would have been guesses. So if you want more time to really scribble down, in fact, I'll give them to you just so you know the provinces and territories of which I'm talking about.

Just in case you can't remember all of them. It would probably take me a second to exactly write down every single one of these. But here are the, let's see, the 13 in no particular order, which is going to be tough because I'm reading them in an order. Well, let me, we'll do it from smallest to largest land area. That'll be the order I tell you the provinces, and then I'll give you a beat if you need it. And then we will reveal the answer. From smallest to largest, it goes. Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Labrador.

That's one. Yukon, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Northwest Territories. There's the Bells, by the way, Quebec, and none of it. All right. And then by population, from largest to smallest, again, if you want any more time, Go ahead and pause. Largest at number one is Ontario, $14 million. Two is Quebec, $8.5 million.

Three, British Columbia, at $5 million. Four, Alberta at $4 million. Five, Manitoba at $1.3 million. Six, Saskatchewan at $1.1 million. Nova Scotia at $9,000. Eight, New Brunswick at $775,000. Nine, New Finland and Labrador at $510,000. Prince Edward Island coming in 10th at 154,000.

11 is Northwest Territories at 41,000. 12 is Yukon at 40,000. It's interesting. Northwest Territories in Yukon separated by 800 people approximately. I don't know if there's any way to reason that out, even if you're a geography master, and say, oh, well, because of X, Y, Z, Northwest Territories must have more people. Good luck with that. And finally none of it at 36,858 people, only 4,000, 3,000 behind Yukon.

So there you go, there's your list. I would repeat the answer, but there's 13 wordy provinces and territories, and I just don't want to. Capping off the honeymoon in Medaira, good wine, and there's a famous drink there called Poncha, P-O-N-C-H-A, and Legend has it. If you have two, you're going to miss your flight the next day. So wish us luck. If anyone has any movie recommendations that Tap Air Portugal definitely has on their planes these days, email us Beantown Podcast at Yahoo.com.

Again, that's Beantown Podcast at Yahoo.com because next Wednesday we've got like a two and a half hour flight and then eight hour flight, eight and a half hour flight across the pond. to come back home to Beantown for Thanksgiving. That's what I got for you. Thanks for tuning in to the first and knock on wood only ever Beantown podcast honeymoon episode. Not because I'm going to die, but because I don't want to have another honeymoon. I don't know.

I feel like if we can do a vow renewal, like two or three vow renewals, we could do a second honeymoon. Or you could just take a nice trip and not call it a honeymoon and not make it weird that's probably what we'll land on but for all of us here including the onlookers upstairs the pool thanks for supporting the bean town podcast now in its eighth season almost on to season nine from all of us here looking at the ocean and the volcano and the church bells here at the canary islands my name is queen david furnace and i will check in on you next week bye bye