Beantown Podcast - Biblical Investigations Part One (06262025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: June 27, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE with some Biblical investigations, plus Amanda Bynes news, new music recommendations, and Instagram thots ...

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town podcast for Thursday, June 26th, 2025. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn and this is my program. Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town Podcast now in its eighth season. My oh my, what is happening? I am the creator and the host and the fermentator. Fermentator, fermenter, I guess. Don't have to add the extra tater. But who wouldn't want an extra tater?
Starting point is 00:00:42 I never had a potato I didn't like, unless it's really just not cooked at all and you're trying to bite into it. That's the mystical thing about potatoes, right? They're so delicious and hard not to love, but you got to do something to them. You have to apply heat. You can't just dig up a tater from the ground, similar to other things in the family like rutabagas. R-U-T-HM-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M rutabagas. R-U-T-B-G-A is how you spell rutabaga for the kids out there. I don't know, what are those tubers? T-U-B-E-R's. When I was a kid tubers was me and my cousins out on Long Lake in Northern Wisconsin getting whipped around by my uncle Jim Speedboat, but that's neither here nor there. Listener discretion advised when you're listening to
Starting point is 00:01:30 the Bean Town podcast. Number one location, some language number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. I am the chief fermentator because I'm having some champagne here on the show today. It's a very classy program tonight. Thursday night,.m. Just me and maple we got the research team over here She is wandering the corridors and halls of our Howl-o-ed apartment I guess you would say no now she's back on her Yoda blanket. Hi, buddy. How you doing? You want to be on the show? Nope, just a little sniff. Mom is out having a sleepover at family's house and doing a sunrise yoga tomorrow.
Starting point is 00:02:18 So it's just me and Maple holding down the fort. Week three of Prozac over here. Still going strong. Training is we're doing a little rebound. 20 minutes today, head down the whole time. So give us, give us your well wishes. We're doing as best as we can over here. Thank you to yours truly for that intro music. Now I'm having some champagne because, so I got back from my run at, you know, 4.30, 5 PM, something like that. It was a very hot day. The kind of newsworthy aspects of the heat wave here in Chicago
Starting point is 00:02:50 have died down. It was really like Saturday through Monday were kind of like the days that were grabbing the attention. Like, oh, hottest days on record, that sort of thing, yada, yada, yada. And we're kind of in the aftermath of that now, and we're having some days that are, it's still very humid, not quite as windy though, but today was kind of a throwback Thursday for real to the heat wave. It got up into the 90s.
Starting point is 00:03:17 And I knew what I was doing. I had been getting my runs in early, most of these super hot days. And today I was like, you know, not in the mood to wake up early. I had been getting my runs in early, most of these super hot days. And today I was like, you know what? I'm not in the mood to wake up early. I've got an 830 meeting. Let's just do one of these 90 degree 4 PM runs and see how it feels, see how it goes. Because I had been smart enough to avoid that. So I did that today and it was rough, but I survived.
Starting point is 00:03:41 They made it four and a half miles in like 90 degree heat. And you know, it worked. We can work it out. We can work it out. Try to do things my way. That's one of my favorite Beatles covers of all time. Stevie Wonder, We Can Work It Out. It's a rare improvement in my opinion.
Starting point is 00:04:02 Don't hate on me Beatles heads, but that's just my opinion. The great Stevie Wonder harmonica solo. I mean, how many great Stevie Wonder harmonica solos are there, but that's certainly top of the list for me. Maple has now done a full back roll and is requesting a belly rub. So we'll take care of that with the right hand while we hold this beautiful Sampson Q2U series in our left.
Starting point is 00:04:25 But around the time we got engaged, slash throughout our, you know, we were engaged for almost two years, just got a lot of like wine bottles as gifts and champagne bottles and champagne supernova, a champagne supernova in the sky. Oasis is doing their reunion tour, right? And they're coming to Chicago, what is that, like August or September? That was a big thing, you know thing when they announced it back in like February or whenever it was.
Starting point is 00:05:06 And now I don't want to say it's died down a bit, but we're in kind of that lull between the excitement over the announcement and then actually touring. I don't think they've had any tour stops yet. It's never going to be as good as like Prime Oasis, 1999 kind of era. But we'll see how it goes. But no we our bar cart has been the bottom half is dedicated to wine where we got the the racks and holders and stuff and so it has been
Starting point is 00:05:36 a lot fuller than it has now. We're working our way through it. Working our way downtown, walking fast, having my homebound And I'm slowly going one by one trying to get through it. The reason I mentioned my run in the first place is I had a shower beer. I had a sun crusher from Revolution. So I was thinking like, okay, yeah, we'll do the podcast tonight. Just me and Maple at home. Like, let me get my classic beer and a shot of whiskey or something. It'll be good. And then I was like, you know what, it's so hot. And we got all this wine and champagne over here. Maybe we go a little bit more elegant or classy today.
Starting point is 00:06:15 And that's exactly what I did. So I'm having, and true Beantown fashion, it would be straight from the bottle. But these things have been sitting out for two and a half years and not refrigerated. So I said, you know what, let's pour it into my commemorative, oh that's a good word, C-O-M-M-E-M-O-R-A-T-I-V-E Jack Link's Cup, courtesy of my uncle Andy, who's been on the show all the way back in what, season one, season two, something like that, commissioner of our fantasy football league. But I've had this great cup and it holds good volume. That's why I really like it. This thing's, this baby's got a, I mean, this has got to be like 24 ounces, something
Starting point is 00:06:51 like that. This is a solid cup and pour some ice cubes in there, my emoji ice cubes, and then some champagne topper. And we're just vibing, having some champagne here, if you can believe it or not. And we got some other wine and stuff over there, and we're just vibing, having some champagne here if you can believe it or not. And we got some other wine and stuff over there, but we're just going champagne tonight. So it's been a while since we had champagne on the Bean Town podcast. I will say though, it is a classic throwback to the original season one Bean Tom podcast, image thumbnail poster, whatever. And I think it is still the like shows thumbnail. If you're listening on your Apple podcast, and I should probably know this or wherever you're listening, Spotify player, cast FM, player FM, cast box.
Starting point is 00:07:37 I never kept track of all that stuff for the years. It's just whoever wants to grab my RSS feed or whatever it's called can have it. I think that's still the like profile picture for lack of a better word or the thumbnail of the Bean Time podcast is that picture I took New Year's Eve 2017. It was almost a decade ago. Gosh, that's crazy. Eight and a half years ago. Gosh, that's crazy. Eight and a half years ago. I came home. I had been on the West Coast visiting my parents for Christmas and stayed the week after and then flew all day on New Year's Day and, or excuse me, New Year's Eve. And this was about a week and a half before we launched the Bean Town podcast. And I was walking back. It was New Year's Eve, I took the light rail from BWI all the way back up
Starting point is 00:08:28 into downtown Baltimore and was walking back. And because Baltimore has pretty strict liquor laws and I thought that I wasn't gonna be able to get anything, I thought I was gonna be, we solicitor discretion is advised, shit out of luck and not be able to have anything to drink on New Year's Eve. But there was a liquor store open
Starting point is 00:08:45 a couple blocks west of my apartment. There's the classic, if you ever watched The Wire and seen like, what is it, Old Face Andre or even, no spoilers, but there's a certain scene involving Omar Little where he goes to a Korean grocery store and I think they've got like the, you know, like the glass set up and this thing even was a situation where it've got like the glass set up. And this thing even was a situation where it's got like the revolving door, not the actual entrance to the liquor store, but like when you want to pay, you know, they slide open the little slot,
Starting point is 00:09:15 you put in your, you know, whatever you're buying in your credit card, and then you slide it back, you like rotate it back, and then they grab it and then rotate it back and send it back to you. This was that kind of place. And got myself a bottle of champagne. And the reason I'm saying this is if you see the picture, it is me. I brought it back to my apartment. My heat had not been, I don't know
Starting point is 00:09:35 if it wasn't turned on or what the deal was, because it was like 40 degrees in there. It was terrible. So I wore my winter coat through the ball dropping and that sort of thing. And I'm sitting there in my kitchen, my kitchen table courtesy of my ex, Hannah Johnson, who gave it away for free. Best thing she did for me. Let's just put it that way. Kicking my feet up, tiger blanket in the background cuz that tapestry hung above my bed.
Starting point is 00:10:03 If you are new to the show, you don't know anything about the tiger blanket. It is a magnificent blanket. And if you're a tall person like me, and you're always worried about, oh, this blanket is too short. It doesn't cover all of me when I'm on the couch. Tiger blanket solves your problem. This baby is like six feet tall.
Starting point is 00:10:20 It's amazing. And he used to hang above my bed when I lived in Baltimore as an homage to my dad who did the same thing when he was about my age for you know 30 30 years ago and The Cubs W flag in the background anyways, this is this is neither here nor there Look if you if you are new to the bean podcast and you think boy this guy really knows how to fill Eight nine minutes without actually saying anything of substance. Well, this is this is the life you chose And we got a lot to get to today here. So you better strap in I I'm not even kidding you I've got a notes app just chock full
Starting point is 00:11:00 How did that start chock full is that? Chalk chock full or CH o CK Oftentimes we will just say things and move on but this is actually something that I feel is relevant to My life so chalk full. What is the origin of this phrase? It is informal filled to overflowing obviously of this phrase. It is informal, filled to overflowing, obviously. How about Miriam Webster? Can you help us out with the history of choc full? No, this is a lot of references. Okay, etymology. Middle English choke full from chokin, which is to choke plus full. That's not super useful. First usage in the 15th century, but I don't know, we're not getting a lot of good insight into it. So
Starting point is 00:11:50 chalk that one up, not chock. This is the only time in history I could imagine using CHOCK as an acceptable word. If you punch that into wordle, I mean, is that going to ... Are they going to even accept it as a five letter word? We all know C-H-A-L-K. Chalk was everywhere. The chalk flew up. John McEnroe, anybody? You got it. There's a great compilation of John McEnroe tantrums on YouTube. I'm sure legendary tennis players and good guest spots acting in 30 Rock. It was on the line chalk flew up starting to get into my Jerry Seinfeld
Starting point is 00:12:37 impression. I can't think of any others off the top of my head. It's been a second since I saw a Mr McEnroe clip. But if you got any of your favorites, you can email us, beanthownpodcast at yahoo.com. Again, that's beanthownpodcast at yahoo.com. And well, we're pulling up because we got to now. Once you start thinking about John Mackenroe tantrums, you can't just be like, oh yeah, like that was interesting. We'll maybe think about that again in two years. You gotta, you gotta reference it more. You gotta play it. You gotta digest it. Well,
Starting point is 00:13:14 I'm pulling up John McEnroe tantrum clips on Twitter. I do want to, of course, in fact, let's do all of this right now. Let's first apologize to our sponsors. You might get shafted a bit today on timing, but first thank you to Pakistan, Hyderabad, Khyberpass, Lahore. Thank you for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. And then of course, our good friends at Home Pride Oregon. When you need your home inspected in Oregon, guys, this is a multimillion dollar investment. Don't just go with some rookie who's new and doesn't know what they're doing. Don't go with some veteran who's old and washed and given up. You want someone who's right in that sweet spot. And boy, Steve will find those sweet spots in your home to help you sell it nice, quick, easy and fast. Call 541-410-0316, Home Pride, Oregon.
Starting point is 00:14:08 And then, of course, our good friends at the Samson Q2U series. If you're listening right now thinking, gosh darn, that's some real crisp audio quality. Guys, we're going to have biblical investigations for you later on in the show. We came up with it last week and we're going to dive in heads first, head first, heads first. Is there anything in the Bible that has multiple heads? Maybe Leviathan. John the Baptist has zero heads. So it's everyone has one head except for John the Baptist. He's
Starting point is 00:14:37 got zero heads and then no one has two or more heads. So that's kind of the rankings no one has two or more heads. So that's kind of the rankings that I'm going off of. Gosh, can't speak. Samson Q2U series, when God speaks, he uses a Samson. And of course, our good friends at Cutspy Q. I just said this to Rachel the other day. I am getting dangerously close to needing a fresh Cutspy Q. It is officially summer here. The days are getting shorter. I think I would like a little, it's been a while since I did just like a nice crisp shortcut and I'm not looking to shave my head and go completely bald or anything like that. But it's just like, you know what? Let's put a number three on that. What do I have a wall at WHL? The master of his craft should know this, but they're not a sponsor so how should I know? And just give a you know a nice clean easy trim all over the place the weddings past the vow renewals are still you know
Starting point is 00:15:33 distant future I'm strongly considering it to stay cool for summer Cuts by Q when you need a fresh do something snappy or new, call the experts at Cuts by Q. And shout out to myself, speaking of wedding and vow renewals, I got halfway through my wedding thank you cards today. So if you're out there kind of keeping a running list or power ranking of all the weddings you've attended and which ones had quick thank you cards and which ones were a year later. I'm trying to get right in that sweet spot.
Starting point is 00:16:08 I think if I was completely in control of the process and it wasn't just me and Rachel doing it, I think I probably personally, just the way I like to operate, I think I probably would have gotten my thank you cards out about six weeks after. Today is our two month anniversary and I I mean I could realistically finish them tomorrow this weekend no problem and so that'll be what nine weeks or so to get them out so it's a little bit slower than I would
Starting point is 00:16:37 have liked but it doesn't feel egregious does it so if you attended my wedding, thank you. There's no where, where are the good John McEnroe tantrums? You cannot be serious. That's a classic. This might be the one I was thinking of. Here it is. This is, this is from a high profile YouTube channel, which we're out here pirate radio style, just trying to fly under the radar. Thank you to all our sponsors, by the way. So we're not going to name anything about it. We're just going to maybe share some audio and no one's going to say anything. And this is just going to be a classic John McEnroe moment. All right, there's more to it, but you cannot be serious. I don't know what how the DMCA stuff works I don't know what DMCA stands for but I don't think we've gotten like a podcast episode ever
Starting point is 00:17:52 Officially taken down from like all channels. I've certainly been scrubbed by Spotify before and I never really looked into it. It's you know These big conglomerations they take advantage of the little guys and there's not much you can do unless you get your entertainment attorney involved and I certainly don't have one. So you're just kind of at the wills of the big corporations and I don't think like Apple has ever taken down a podcast. I guess I'm not edgy enough. But maybe me playing 10 seconds of a YouTube clip about John McEnroe will change that. Maybe this will be the straw that broke the camel's back and the Bean Top podcast will get banned. I do have, I got everything here.
Starting point is 00:18:41 We're 19 minutes in. Let's take this one at a time Because I got our hot take I got maples a minute. I've got trivia I've got some other random things and then I have biblical investigations Let's just go down the line here get things out of the way. This is gonna be quick hitters we're probably not gonna have time to really take a super deep dive into any of these because I got plenty of biblical investigations I want to get to. And I also got a lot of champagne I want to drink. It was Brute Champagne, B-R-U-T. If anyone has any clue what that means,
Starting point is 00:19:14 let us know. BlueSky at us, Beantown Podcast, Twitter, or XI and BlueSky, or Beantown Cast, rather. And then, of course, you can email us, email us bean town podcast at yahoo.com I Do want to give a quick shout out not even on the list but Got a shameless plug for the bean town blog guys the bear season 4 dropped last night and dropped last night. And we watched the first episode.
Starting point is 00:19:46 It was third in the pecking order after Jeopardy and Love Island. Actually Love Island wasn't on last night, so it was second in the pecking order. But we watched the first episode and look, I'm not ready to judge season four yet. Here's all I'll say from season four, episode one. If you watched season three as I did and thought, gosh, we spent 10 episodes and exactly zero things happened, and you thought, oh, maybe in season four, episode one, we'll get a big tonal shift or a plot point moving forward
Starting point is 00:20:22 and something different is gonna to happen on the bear. You might be a little disappointed because what if I told you that season 4, episode 1 included, all of the hits, flashback with Jon Bernthal, who I'm not complaining about, Jon Bernthal is fantastic, the best part of the show in my opinion. So no complaints there. That's fine. But then the rest of the episode, what if I told you that people who financed the restaurant were concerned about its viability long term, they were going to pull the plug financially.
Starting point is 00:20:57 And so the rest of the team comes in one by one and they're all kind of learning the news and it's funny because Abby Elliot's on the phone and everyone else is there in person so there's miscommunications and no one knows where a kid is and there's no Claire and then eventually people get so stressed that they start yelling and shouting at each other. What if I told you that's what happened in season four episode one? You would be exactly 0% surprised because that is the bear for you and we have gotten almost no development or growth recently and so look I'm gonna finish it it's only 10 episodes you know it's like the whole thing is like 5 hours 6 hours something like that we will watch it we'll slog through
Starting point is 00:21:41 it but I don't know The bear captured lightning in a bottle season one and two and then came to a screeching halt in season three and now it feels... I applaud Hulu and FX for not doing the HBO thing where you're like two years in between seasons or euphoria is up to what four years now they're putting out an episode or a season every summer and I applaud them for that I honestly appreciate that but it shouldn't come at the expense of shitty writing let's just put it that way like there's nothing happening and it's not even like oh this is so character
Starting point is 00:22:31 Focus or driven like oh you're too focused on having a fun fancy plot. No, like these characters aren't developing at all they can't all just exist in this restaurant and you just everything's in the restaurant and there and then you get more facts John John Cena and car facts and Matt's Mickelson or whatever that overweight chef's name is and then you know every season is gonna have one good flashback episode with Jamie Lee Curtis and Bob Odenkirk and John Bernthal and that stuff's great but I mean I need I need literally anything that's what I need from the bear so I got nine episodes left to the bear We'll see what happens. But the reason I mentioned it is because we had a great Bean Town blog post
Starting point is 00:23:13 That's right. If you're new to the show There is a a partner blog to the Bean Town podcast called the Bean Town blog You can go to Bean Town podcast comm slash blog and read all of our latest entries blog. You can go to beatinthompodguest.com slash blog and read all of our latest entries. We had some bold predictions for the Bear season four live on the blog, so I encourage you to go check that out. Okay, let's keep this going here. Our hot take of the week. That's right. It is season eight, which means we've got a hot take of the week and we're going in a slightly different direction here. I want to preface this hot take by saying I don't know What the situation is?
Starting point is 00:23:50 What she's gone through I know she's been utterly Fucked up by Disney Channel and Dan Snyder and the whole documentary came out last year with Drake Bell and all that stuff I'm not judging at all. I am just saying as a third party observer Who stumbled upon this three days ago on the internet on reddit or YouTube or wherever it was I was thoroughly Spooked and I'm not even like oh comedy laughs. I'm spooked. I was legitimately scared I was like what the fuck apart part of my language what that what the fuck am I seeing here? Is this real or is this AI? so the hot take of the week and if you haven't seen this and you got a I don't I'm not trying to make fun of her but if you got a strong stomach
Starting point is 00:24:40 I don't know our hot take of the week Amanda Bynes needs extreme help Not like check yourself into therapy. We're talking like She needs extreme makeover Original edition with the appearance extreme milk makeover home edition Ty Pennington will build her a new house She needs dr. Phil She needs dr.. She needs Dr. Phil. She needs Dr. Oz. She needs Jesus. She posted a video
Starting point is 00:25:11 and I didn't even listen to the audio. I, I, God help all of us. I don't know what she was talking about. She looked like a clown. Like if there's ever been anyone in real life who just accidentally looked like Heath Ledger as the Joker I don't know. Like Amanda Bynes if you haven't seen just Google search her, go to the news tab and you can find the video from the Independent. She's got this very strange blonde hair She's got what appears to be a face tattoo of a heart on her left cheek some sort of nose ring Very much like clown. Oh, she's talking about how she's gonna go on. I was M pick which you know good for you girl like This has nothing to do with her weight. This was literally just her like image of her face
Starting point is 00:26:06 No eyebrows just completely marker Don The type of eye makeup where it's like all under your eye and nothing above your eye Nose ring Her hair. It's Harley Quinn esque. I mentioned Joker. It's like green on one side right on the other Just caked in makeup. Holy shoot. I'm looking at it again. This is from her Instagram.
Starting point is 00:26:31 You could go right to her Instagram and check this out. Look, do what you got to do girl. If you want to be on Ozempic, be on Ozempic, but do, do literally any like regard, I don't care about your weight at all. Don't do the red and the green Harley Quinn thing with the platinum blonde hair, and the face tattoos, and the nose ring, and the clown makeup.
Starting point is 00:26:53 It's just like, what the heck was this choice? Please never come across my eyeballs again. I looked it up right now for research for the show, and oh my God, it's worse than I imagined. Not imagined, worse than I recalled or remembered. So that's our hot take of the week. I don't know what's going on. Amanda Bynes is one of those people who's had like mini comebacks. I know there's a great Vic Berger edit of daytime TV, and it was some sort of CW, Teen, Gen Z.
Starting point is 00:27:34 I mean, it wasn't Gen Z back then. It was my generation, millennials. Like, oh, here's the scoop. Like, here's the Daily Beat. And Amanda Bynes did a quick interview, and she looked like her old self, for lack of a better term. And this was probably a decade ago at this point. But it was like, oh yeah, Amanda Bynes, she's still around.
Starting point is 00:27:52 She's relevant. And boy, the last five, 10 years have been extremely unkind. So I have zero judgment or negative things to say about Amanda, other than you're scaring people out there and just maybe just Don't post anything Don't don't just do your own life and don't post. Okay, maybe that's Rude to say I don't know but we don't necessarily want to see this Maples minute gosh maple you've been so patient over here. It's 29 minutes
Starting point is 00:28:25 into the episode and you haven't barked or whined yet. Just one belly rub. Maple, I mentioned we're doing our training. She's on week three of Prozac. And just to give you an ultra-quick blitzkrieg breakdown of what devolves when you're doing separation anxiety training and this these steps will or stages will vary in terms of how soon they pop up and how long there is in between stages, but basically for maple it amounts to In a perfect world. She's just lying on the couch relaxing asleep or ears not perked Then this is good. This goes from best case to worst case scenario. Head comes up alert, ears perked, looking at the door and then jumps off the couch and
Starting point is 00:29:13 starts walking around, not even pacing, but just walking around. Definitely would never look at her food bowl or her water bowl and then comes back to the couch, jumps off the couch a couple more times, does that. And then slowly her walking turns into more trotting. Her jumping up to the couch is less of just like a lazy little, oh yeah, I'm going to get up on the couch. I'm more like, I am jumping on this thing. And then the next time she'll jump off the couch, it'll just, there'll start to be vocalization whining without opening the mouth and eventually
Starting point is 00:29:46 The mouth opens and yeah, she's looking at me now like she knows exactly what's going on and then eventually goes into full-on howling Whether she's on the floor on the couch doesn't really matter anyways the reason I bring this up Maples minute is that She was brave enough for the first time ever in we've been doing training for six Six seven months now seven months enough for the first time ever in we've been doing training for six six seven months now seven months we have been training her five times a week with almost no fail to that for the first time ever yesterday she had a little bit of her food while she was training while dad was sitting on the stairs watching her on the baby monitor playing his tune blast.
Starting point is 00:30:25 Maple was brave enough to get off the couch, go eat a little bit of kibble, not all of it, but a little bit of kibble. And that was the first time ever she's ever eaten anything while being left alone. So congratulations, Maple. That's Maple's minute. We had another successful session today. 20 minutes. Head down, ears back. So, it's way too early to make any claims yet, because we have been up and down this roller coaster many, many times before. But this is the first time on Prozac. Oh, she wants another belly rub. Of course, buddy. You've been good. Good job, buddy. But it's not even like light at the end of the tunnel.
Starting point is 00:31:06 It's just we are in the tunnel and we are going forward and there's no light in front of us or behind us, but we are just going to keep going forward and we got Prozac. So we'll see how it does. That's right, buddy. That's Maples Minute this week. I've got a great trivia question involving temperatures and national parks that I want to get to at the end of this program, but we've got just a handful of little mailbag things that I don't have a ton of like additional things to elaborate on. I just wanted to mention it because I thought it was interesting. First up here I have been getting a lot of good on Instagram if you will notifications and I part of me is like this is just you know Russian bots doing their thing part of me is maybe this is a special collab with Instagram to keep people engaged and excited for
Starting point is 00:32:00 notifications but what I've been getting is a lot of good like fake Only fans girls porn actresses, however, you want to call them doesn't matter all their pictures on Instagram are you know? Your selfies with their their butt cheeks hanging out. Whatever, you know the type and They like my photos my Instagram photos. So you get a little notification I've been getting a lot of those recently. So I've been you know getting to third base more or less With these Russian bots, which is you're pretty exciting sexually frankly But let's see what did I know that's something else, but you know they're there their Instagram captions are always like previous account got shut down
Starting point is 00:32:46 18f and their Instagram captions are always like, previous account got shut down, 18F, and then a link to their OnlyFans, and then DM for more, but it's not F-O-R, it's always four, DM for more. So I've been getting a lot of those likes, and part of me is like, oh no, it's just the Russian bots taking over, but hey, my Snapchat, I have been getting inundated for about a month now with phantom notifications to try to get me to engage more my Snapchat, I have been getting inundated for about a month now with phantom notifications
Starting point is 00:33:05 to try to get me to engage more with Snapchat. And I've been getting relatively close. I'm not going to do it because I still use Snapchat. Like I sent out a mass snap today about my shower be. And it's just like a fun little conversation starter with some people you don't necessarily get to talk to all that often. But otherwise Snapchat, when I was in college, it was something I used every day.
Starting point is 00:33:28 Now it's like there's genuine communication use for it once every other week on average for me for Snapchat. And I don't want to say Instagram is going the same direction, but if they're getting more into this phantom notification game, it just might. I think one thing I like about Instagram over snap is this is more of the Facebook connection side of things, but it feels like there's a lot of local like events slash businesses that are using Instagram in some capacity. Whereas Snapchat is just like, it's pretty much all thoughts, T-H-O-T-S.
Starting point is 00:34:13 And that's pretty much it. I don't really get much else from Snapchat, like BuzzFeed stories. Instagram still feels like there is some value from a local community, for me at least, kind of perspective. And then I get a lot of like recipes. I mean, I don't cook them, but I like to just look at food porn for lack of a better phrase on Instagram. If you go to my, you swipe, you know, how you swipe all the way to the, you go to like the rightmost screen on Instagram. It's like your discover page.
Starting point is 00:34:46 For me right now, for some reason it's, well, for some reason, for a good reason, it's a lot of like pasta dishes being made. And then it's a bunch of Shane Gillis. And I have never been a Shane Gillis guy. I find some of his things funny and most of his things stupid or offensive or sophomoric. That's right, sophomoric. What does that have an O in the middle or no S O P H I think it's Oh M O R I see because that would track don't I never want a spelling bee in my
Starting point is 00:35:17 life so don't hold me to this but I'm getting so much Shane Gillis content right now and I'm like I like, I don't really need to be associated with the whole kind of pseudo right-wing Shane Gillis kind of thing. I don't know. It's kind of an ick. I don't want to be part of it at all. Anyways, let's keep this going here.
Starting point is 00:35:38 Speaking of influencers, I do just want to briefly mention this because I do, from time to time, still peruse the Snapchat, like right right page whatever the discover page just out of like boredom more than anything else not that I'm boredom but it's just like you're sitting on the couch you might be waiting for an email to come in or something or you're just like watching TV so you just like start browsing on snapchat anyways so you get like your Your list of influencers or whatever you want to call them that that snapchat shows you more than other people and so I thought finally like
Starting point is 00:36:13 Earlier today. There's this one girl who I don't know much about And isn't isn't like an overly Sexier like only fans kind of girl. She seems pretty like average. I'm like whatever Let me go check out our YouTube because I think I knew she was a youtuber from like watching other posts So I was like, I just let me get let me connect with Gen Z. This person is like 10 years younger than me Let's see what these YouTube comments are all about for these vlogs. She's a big vlogger So I went to her YouTube just clicked on the first video Out of curiosity I didn't even watch the video because it was like 20 minutes long and I was like,
Starting point is 00:36:50 the only vlog in history I've had time for is, it's not even a vlog, it was a car podcast, but rest in peace. Poor went out for the Car Ride Convos podcast, one of my favorite shows with Ryan Lincoln and Kristen Austin English, two longtime friends of the show and me personally. They used to have their own podcasts and I've been on it a couple of times and they've been on this show a couple of times and I would love to bring the Car Ride Convo's podcast back. It was legendary.
Starting point is 00:37:21 But back to the point here, I just wrote down a couple of the top comments that I saw. And so if you're listening to this, if you're curious, are you, you know, you're sitting there, am I plugged in to Gen Z or am I kind of out of touch? Here, I've got some answers for you that might answer this question. The top comments here on this YouTube vlog, which I don't even know what it was about,
Starting point is 00:37:50 but it doesn't matter. First up, pray for my granddad. He has open heart surgery tomorrow. And that was number one in likes, which I don't even have anything like negative to say about it. It's just like that had nothing to do with the vlog and it's just people are just going out to youtube videos and just posting stuff about their granddad's open heart surgery. I am just the complete opposite of my if my granddad was having open heart surgery tomorrow I wouldn't be like you know what let me go on youtube let me
Starting point is 00:38:22 grab some clout bump up my rating here, get some likes on this comment, and that'll help granddad. I would just be like, I'd probably call him. And otherwise I might do some reflecting on special moments or memories we shared together in case he doesn't come back. But there's people out there
Starting point is 00:38:42 who want to get the YouTube clout, so pray for my granddad, not mine, but this other person's granddad. But there's people out there who want to get the YouTube clout so Pray for my granddad not mine, but this other person's granddad the next up was I want to fill you up But it wasn't it wasn't F ILL it was F7 LL. I don't know if that's like a Fast and furious 7 thing I've never seen any of the fast and furious I don't know what happens at fast 7 maybe they wanted to fill up the gas tank, but I think someone probably To be blunt wanted to stick their genitalia into this vloggers genitalia and
Starting point is 00:39:17 release sperm if we can be blunt It's 40 minutes in the Beantown podcast. Look, the first 15 minutes are for the kids and then after that it's lights out after dark. And then the last thing I wanted to mention, I briefly want to bring up this topic because I've seen it starting to percolate. I don't want to dig into it because I really don't have anything informed to say about it, which could be the thesis for the Bean Town podcast after 390 episodes or whatever. But this last comment says, OMG, I want a Labooboo so bad. Which brings us to our newest segment,
Starting point is 00:39:56 what the hell is a Labooboo? Okay, I've seen this mentioned, I don't know, five times now across social media or reddit. I Don't I I think it's some sort of like plush toy I Don't know if it's like webkins where's there's where there's an online component I'm not even There's no No cheekiness to this. I have no idea what a Labubu is. I think I've seen it as like a plush toy or like some sort of cheap plastic thing you get from a Happy Meal. If anyone has any insight into what the heck a Labubu is, or certainly the etymology, because it's an awful lot of fun to say,
Starting point is 00:40:45 email us please, beanthoutpodcast at yahoo.com. When I was in high school, I was on a Model UN team. I was captain, actually, of the Model UN team, and went to a conference every year in downtown Chicago. One of the years on our team was a young young chap named Zack and he had like a plush toy that was like an integral part of his identity and he slept with it and I think I don't know what it was what it was called but it was similar to Labooboo. So is Labooboo new or is it old and it's just getting a refresh right now but I don't think this thing was called a labubu it was called a labbit I think L-A-B-E-T and it was some
Starting point is 00:41:31 sort of plush animal like a Furby kind of deal my friend a friend of the show and former co-host Matt Fiedler would certainly recall this I believe because he was all over it but so is a lab at somewhere to a Labooboo. Maybe we should get Zach on the show. I creep on Zach from time to time just out of general curiosity. He's a a social no he's a non-profit influence marketing consultant. Influence marketing consultant. What I can and a barista. So I think he gets his paychecks from in Thailand, which I guess maybe you don't really need to make any money to live there.
Starting point is 00:42:14 That's what I've heard about Thailand. He makes his money by day making cappuccinos and his whole like online presence is about him coaching nonprofits to help build their brand, which I don't even like, it's all no, no shade to anyone who does this and surely not to Zach. Maybe you're really good at it. That's fine. But it's like, I could learn how to do that in five minutes. I could get chat GP-APT to write that for me and build a whole career out of it. So maybe there is some shade, maybe I have some shade, but that's the la-bubu.
Starting point is 00:42:55 Again, if anyone has any clue what a la-bubu is, let me know. Okay, quick music plug. What I've been listening to this week is Chicago Summer by Wolfman and Evangeline. So ever so briefly, Wolfman is a related project to Wolf Peck, which I think we talked about once or twice in the show, but a great funk band from the University of Michigan. And Evangeline is just a white solo female artist with a nice voice who I don't know too much about, but they collaborated. They put out a new single last week called
Starting point is 00:43:28 Chicago Summer. Perfect timing, super catchy, can't recommend it enough. On the other end of the spectrum, can recommend it enough. As in zero times, Benson Boone's new album came out what, three days ago, something like that. I know what you're thinking he just had that big single last year, so he's already doing a second album apparently and Look I didn't listen to the whole album I listened to one song this morning cuz I was like I owe it if I'm going to go on to the bean town podcast later today and Make fun of Benson Boone. I owe it to him out of
Starting point is 00:44:10 musicians code or just trying to be a decent person to at least listen to his song all the way through. And he, it was called like mystical, magicals or something like that. And it was fine, but it just feels like AI wrote a pop song. And I also want to very briefly mention and don't throw stones in a glass house, I'm telling myself, cause I do not have a good voice. I don't actually think Benson Boone has that good of a voice. It's not like, oh, this guy stinks at singing, but it's like in the grand scheme of people who
Starting point is 00:44:46 are out there, artists who are out there, there's a range of really good voice to really bad voice. And I think Benson Boone is like closer to a seven than he is to a nine or a 10, which look, I'm sitting over here at like a three and a half. So I'm not trying to throw shade, but it's just kind of curious that this guy from what is it where is he from Washington Washington State I think now he's trying to lean into this whole like Bruce Springsteen Americana persona it's all very confusing anyways the song wasn't that good I do think if you want to entertain yourself for a solid five minutes as I did this morning at 730 a.m. When I was preparing for the show go read the pitchfork
Starting point is 00:45:31 review of Benson Boone's new album it starts off pretty like Neutral not neutral, but like pretty fair and it's like oh, yeah, it's pretty mediocre but like he did some good things and then it really yeah, it's pretty mediocre, but like he did some good things and then it really Boy, it really devolves into just torching the ever-living daylights out of him which as Someone who is just generally a hater not about any one specific thing, but generally I absolutely love it. So go check that out Again this was the pitch fork review. Two more things and then two very quick things.
Starting point is 00:46:10 I'm not going to really elaborate on these, but then we got our biblical investigations. One, the NBA draft is happening right now, which I'm not really that plugged into, but actually I think our most streamed episode ever was an NBA draft live reaction with John Paul Pandowski. I don't know a single thing about the NBA draft so maybe my uninformed-ness is what sparked that but the reason I bring it up the Bulls today completed so the first draft of the NBA was last night the second draft is happening right now tonight, Thursday night. In case you're wondering, yes, the Pacers or the Thunder did just win the championship
Starting point is 00:46:50 on Sunday and the draft was three days later, which is like a ridiculous turnaround, but whatever. Today, in the second round, the Bulls before the draft had the 45th pick the Lakers had the 55th pick and The Bulls traded the Lakers. They did a pick swap So they moved back 10 spots and all they got in exchange was cash And you're sink if you're sitting there as dumbfounded as I am you're thinking okay, so wait so the Bulls decided to move back 10 picks and the WNBA draft. They only get two every year.
Starting point is 00:47:27 There's only two. So they move back 10 spots just for cash. And this is the third largest market in the country. And I'm not going to get into the whole. I'm not going to turn into 670 the score. And let's talk about Jerry Reinsdorf. I mean, obviously he sucks as an owner. He owns the White Sox and the Bulls. He's cheap. But how can
Starting point is 00:47:48 you have a legendary storied franchise like the Bulls that won six titles and you decide you're going to move back with the Lakers 10 whole spots? There's only 60 was 60 62 draft picks in the entire NBA every year. You're going to move back 10 positions just to get cash for what you're a billionaire who owns a team. I looked this up so the cash considerations don't count against a salary cap, which I assumed like, well, what would it, it doesn't make any sense. So it's like, oh, they can use these cash considerations as pure cash. So if they wanted to pay more money to a coach or if they wanted to build a new practice
Starting point is 00:48:32 facility and I'm just sitting here as someone who's watched the bulls just be absolute hot trash for the last decade plus I'm over here thinking we just gave up 10 picks worth of talent so we could what pay more to Billy Donovan who's done nothing in five years. It is absolutely infuriating. So that's how the entire city of Chicago is feeling. And the Bulls if you're curious is this is this when the bowls finally turn around 100% one gazillion percent no chance we absolutely suck so that's one of the I mean if the bowls were like solid can competitive consistently I think I would pay more attention to the NBA but There's other teams
Starting point is 00:49:26 Like you know like the Pistons or the Timberwolves or something or the Knicks where it's like, okay You were kind of mid and then you decided to get serious So you got really bad you tanked for a couple years you got good players and then you like are now consistently competitive And then meanwhile you have the Bulls over here winning 40 to 42 games a year losing in the play-in round. And it's just what at a certain point you really take a long hard look at yourself. I do our the owner doesn't and you say what the fuck are we doing here? So frustrating. Some things never change. Last thing here, then biblical investigations, which we're just going to have to go relatively rapid
Starting point is 00:50:09 fire on because I've got to pee here soon. There will be more biblical investigations to come. I did just want to briefly pat myself on the back and say that I hit the $50,000 mark from software testing this week, my third job that I do. $50,000 lifetime earnings, not annual lifetime earnings. So congratulations to myself on that accomplishment. Okay, we brought this up last week, biblical investigations Investigations. Things in the Bible that need to be investigated. So let's just do a little list here
Starting point is 00:50:50 because I want to get to my trivia question. Frankly, it's 8 p.m. already, and I still have to preheat the oven for dinner, and I'm getting pretty hungry. So does this mean Biblical Investigations is getting shafted? Maybe, but also it just means it's going to come back in the future. There's many more things to investigate biblically here, but here are
Starting point is 00:51:09 some off the top of my head. Number one, who maintained the garden of Eden? You know, because I'm imagining something lush. And the only human there was Adam and then eventually Eve. I mean, was Adam and then eventually Eve. I mean, was Adam out there with the lawnmower? Did he have a riding mower? Was it the, you know, they helped you push it? Not they, but the, you know, the auto push lawnmower, whatever it's called. Power steering.
Starting point is 00:51:39 I mean, someone's gotta be trimming those trees, right? You're gonna get overgrown and and bush and brush and I Don't know if if The animals were doing it like snow white the birds are kind of flocking around But someone had to be maintaining the Garden of Eden. It sounds very nice And these things don't just pop up by accident Next up something I've always been curious about. Did Adam and Eve have breathing problems? Or perhaps they both just had one lung, well they both had two lungs maybe,
Starting point is 00:52:19 but one was exposed. So if you're new to the Bible, in the book of Genesis, God creates Eve from Adam's ribcage. We have to assume it was just half the ribcage. So he took that sternum, he sliced it right down the middle. I haven't seen anything about God's kind of surgery credentials, but we'll just have to go out on a limb and trust him there. But in my mind, I was always like, oh, if he's taking the rib cage, he's probably, you ought to take the lung as well to create Eve. Because how are you going to grow, guys, can we be real for a second? How are you going to grow a lung from a rib cage? You got all this bony material. How are you supposed to produce a lung, which is not bony? It's more of a sack frankly SAC
Starting point is 00:53:09 So we're Adam and Eve just freewheeling it with with an exposed lung each that would make them very susceptible you would think to you know a little punch little punch in the chest little boob tap for Eve and All of a sudden you would be winded. I You know, a little punch, little punch in the chest, little boob tap for Eve. And all of a sudden you would be winded. Presumably. Or did they each only have one lung and it was like one side of their chest was just empty. These are biblical investigations.
Starting point is 00:53:45 I am here to get to the bottom of. Not on today's episode, but we're going to continue to research. Next up, where the heck did Noah learn to woodwork like that? You're telling me you got this ark. It's what 50 fathoms or cubits or knots or something like that look I can buy that he went out into the Garden of the Edens or Edens Expressway or wherever Joshua tree I don't know and he cut down all these trees look I can buy that I don't know where you got the power tools I'm willing to suspend my disbelief that he could chop down all these trees. That's fine. But what sort of you look, imagine you need to build a huge arc that can fit every animal onto
Starting point is 00:54:36 it. That's pretty big arc. And then you're like, I got this power saw, so I'm going to go cut down these, I don't know, spruces or cedars of Lebanon or even a weeping willow. Okay, so you chop down the tree, it falls down. If a tree falls in the forest, does Noah make a sound, yada, yada, yada. But then what, what do you do? How you got these big old... let's say you cut off all the branches. Then you got these big old trunks. Okay? And you know this thought that I just had in my head? One of the first ever Veggie Tales when they do the Grapes of Wrath. But as a biblical story, there's this little coconut tree that's kind of running down the road chasing paw grape and That reminds me of the Pokemon executor
Starting point is 00:55:30 from generation one if I if someone else made that connection out there text me because that that that that pine trees pine tree that Palm trees really chasing them down the road. We're gonna have to watch the veggie tales after this we are the grapes of wrath we never take a bath and he sure looks like that Pokemon executor which I think your rival has in Pokemon blue perhaps moving ahead here how do you go from chopping down all these trees to fashioning an arc out of it? Think of the manpower think of the permits
Starting point is 00:56:10 Oh my goodness the warping of the wood it rains it gets wet is rotted You can't laminate that stuff back then. They did not have lamination in 2000 bc. You cannot convince me of that So I don't know where, you know, like, did he go to school for this stuff? Who taught him the woodwork? Maybe, you know, look, they had beavers back then because two of them survived on the Ark. So maybe he, he gleaned something from the beavers unclear, but I don't, I am skeptical of Noah's woodworking abilities. Let's keep this moving here. Next up a pretty obvious one. Spielberg and Lucas were all over this back in what 1978. Is that when Raiders came out? 1980 I think is when Raiders, Indiana Jones, Raiders 80, Temple
Starting point is 00:57:07 of Doom 84, Last Crusade 89, Crystal Skull 2008, and Dial of Destiny 2024. Does that sound right to anyone? You can go check me on it. I mean, I'm going to check myself. But where the heck did the Ark of the Covenant end up? Because some people were saying it was like in the temple. Some people said that Nazis actually got it in Raiders of the Lost Ark. I mean, it had the Ten Commandments in them, right? So it seems like something we should have preserved feels like Look, I don't know what was it Joshua. He took over for Moses after he died in the desert Feels like someone should have been in charge of this Put it in a museum or a gallery or something. I don't know
Starting point is 00:58:02 big botched job on The Ark of the Covenant and now we completely lost it.'s like my version of Pokemon gold except I have an excuse because it was stolen from me maybe someone stole it from the Israelites but we should keep track of these things if you're curious I was close Raiders I thought for sure Raiders was 80 but it is 81 What am I thinking of is? Empire Strikes Back is 1980 That's what it was in my head. I was like, oh Empire cuz I knew 77 was one I was like, oh Empire 77 so Raiders wants to be 80, but no Star Wars is
Starting point is 00:58:36 77 Empire 80 We're doing the Harrison Ford run here in case you you couldn't follow Raiders 81 missed that by a year Indiana Joe are out temple of doom 84 got it last crusade 89 got it Crystal skull 2008 got it. Oh and dial of Destiny is 2023 I missed it by one year time flies and you're having fun Watch those last two in theaters. Relatively
Starting point is 00:59:05 disappointed by both. Next up here, what medicinal herbs was this Methuselah guy taking? He get to what, 969 years or whatever? What the heck is with these people in the Old Testament? What's the angle here trying to say, oh, Jared from Subway, he lived to be 800 years old. And Methuselah, oh, he's so old. Little Methuselah, he was gray old man. And Moses, he lived in the desert for 40 years and lived to be 260. And he's like, what?
Starting point is 00:59:39 Because he spent so much time as a kid believing, if I really eat my fruits and vegetables, maybe I'll be like Methuselah and grow to be 974 years. Maybe that's the angle. Maybe the writers of the NIV Bible, NIV, were saying, oh, we'll get kids to, you know, we'll get the Dole plantation over here and Green Giant from Blue Earth, Minnesota saying, pump money into writing it this way and we'll get kids to eat our fruits and vegetables So I don't know what the deal was with the whole hey this guy. I was almost a thousand years old It really kind of turns the tables because
Starting point is 01:00:16 in all these new biblical Concepts it's like oh the earth has only been around for 4,000 years You know the flood happened in you know 1972 something like that it's like well Wouldn't you not want your people to be living to be a thousand years old they kind of fucks up the timeline frankly Wouldn't you want to lean into the earth is 20 billion years old kind of? routine and that helps you know if you live to be a Thousand years old and the earth is only
Starting point is 01:00:46 four thousand years old well frankly you've been around for what we would say a quarter but if you've been a thousand years old for two gazillion billion years well it's really just a flash in the pan so I don't know I think that the church, that's something we could take a look at. There is that biblical investigation. You know what? I've got more for you and we're going to save it for next week. Oops. Break. I got to put a break in my notes and remember to come back to this next week. Beantown Fourth of July special. It wouldn't be a Fourth of July special without more biblical investigations. So Fourth of July is a what Friday next week.
Starting point is 01:01:34 So we might actually do a show live on the Fourth of July. That could be a lot of fun. Usually I'll get some patriotic music going for you and all that stuff. So we'll have we'll have a lot of fun stuff and more but one thing we will not Budge on is our trivia question of the week and I have a kind of an old-school Trivia game style question that I used to play so I've mentioned this before but when I would play trivia in Baltimore the company who was Prevalent throughout most of the bar trivia games, their halftime question, I loved, I loved this setup. They would basically give you a more or less like a top 10 list or they would say name six out of the 10, XYZ, whatever.
Starting point is 01:02:25 And if you could just name, you know, you could enter six names. If they were all in the top 10, you got full points. You would, you know, you know how this works. I don't have to explain it more to you. So basically I'm gonna give you the question. There's 10 potential answers and top scorers get six out of six, right? And even if you just get six out of six, right?
Starting point is 01:02:45 And even if you just get one out of six, right, that's okay But of course you can enter your points in at bean town podcast comm and check on your season team Standings there to see how you were doing Here is our trivia question of the week here We're gonna wrap this up quickly as we are over the hour mark and I got a pee and I'm very hungry Getting closer to hangry not there yet, but closer Here are my questions the one preface I have this took a lot of research and
Starting point is 01:03:18 I used AI heavily and I was getting some differing responses. so I did follow up with the AI I was using and I was like where are your sources where are you drawing this from they were pulling from you know NSA and HEB and the National Park Service and all that stuff we were talking about DMCA earlier I think they were in there as well. I did my best. I'm not here to present this as gospel,
Starting point is 01:03:49 speaking of biblical investigations, but I spent a lot of time asking the AI, Chet Chibuti, if you're curious, different variations of this question to try to narrow down data results and then compare and contrast. So this was not a lazily, hastily put together exercise. I spent about 20 minutes assembling this. So I hope that if you find any inconsistencies
Starting point is 01:04:11 or discrepancies in my work, please as always let us know, Bean Town Podcast at yahoo.com. But here's what I came up with. Here is my question that I have. It's been so hot here in Chicago. I thought, you know what, let's look out, let's gaze out upon the United States and look at places where it may
Starting point is 01:04:31 have been really hot. So here's my question I have for you. We already, we mentioned national parks, I think a couple trivia questions ago. Here's my question list. The top 10 United States national parks by warmest recorded temperature historically. So again, if you take and I'm, it's not like, Oh yeah, this one, this one national park has the six hottest temperatures. So that's one through six. Now these are 10 distinct US national parks. Basically, if you wanna think about it this way, take every national park in the US, rank them from hottest recorded temperature to lowest, give me that top 10 list, okay?
Starting point is 01:05:20 And I will, as we go through, I will reveal the temperature in Fahrenheit for you. So if you're more of a Celsius head Which is also a drink apparently But that's neither here nor there if you're a Fahrenheit head this this these results will be for you again There's ten answers here. Give me your your best six answers See how they stack up to the answers that we have here per chat GPT. And we'll see how you do again. These are going to be 10 distinct United States national parks. The only clue I will share with you before we reveal the responses is if you are trying to get cute and go outside of the
Starting point is 01:06:06 lower 48 states bad choice go back to the lower 48 and frankly stick to the southwest let's put it that way okay let's go at it if you want more time you know how to pause this episode number one Not only is it number one on this list it has the record by the entire earth for being the hottest recorded place in history over at the furnace Creek visitor center at 134 degrees yours truly is a great picture of the sign. It is Death Valley
Starting point is 01:06:45 National Park in California and Nevada. We were just doing this yesterday or was it two weeks ago last week we had the national parks in multiple states were in a big national park kick right now. Death Valley is one at 134. Number two you may have heard of it, is it's the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona coming in at 120 degrees. Grand Canyon National Park. A tie actually for second. We have Big Bend. Not Big Bend for all you Londonites. This is Big Bend National Park. Bonus trivia question, which river does Big Bend refer to?
Starting point is 01:07:30 It's, of course, the Rio Grande. Rio Grande. But in Texas, Big Bend National Park. 120 degrees. Mercy, that's hot. You better jump in that river and cool off. I was just watching this yesterday. There's a great, I was just watching this yesterday. There's a great episode of It's Always Sunny
Starting point is 01:07:48 where they start a podcast in the episode. This is not the It's Always Sunny podcast. Rest in peace, but this is the episode of It's Always Sunny where they start a podcast, Dennis and Dee, and they're talking about the immigration crisis and they're asking why. They don't, the immigrants don't just jump in the river and apparently it's because there's no ladders and the water is cold and they'll shoot them so it's a good
Starting point is 01:08:11 just Google it's always sunny Dennis and D podcast if you're looking for a little laugh so that was tied for a second coming in at number four oh shoot my list is out of order I apologize what I have here is that this is this should be number two this is reflective of the chaotic nature of my research. It was challenging, and I got multiple answers on this national park in particular. Let's just not get hung up on the details. Let's just say 122 degrees, Joshua Tree National
Starting point is 01:08:40 Park in California, outside of Palm Springs in Indico. Joshua Tree National Park in California outside of Palm Springs in Indico Joshua Tree National Park Depending on how you look at it, it's either second or fourth Next up and I believe Arizona. I don't really know much about this National Park other than the Namesake plant that it is presumably after. I don't even know where in Arizona it is, presumably on the border. I'm not sure. Saguaro National Park once hit 117 degrees Fahrenheit. I would say as far as lower 48 states go, Saguaro is one of the national parks I know less about. I really couldn't tell you
Starting point is 01:09:26 anything about it other than a saguaro cactus. Let's see we've got one two three four five we're halfway done. Number six we've got some Utah's coming up I believe this is in Utah. Arches National Park 116 degrees. Number seven I believe also in Utah I haven't been to any any of these canyon lands at 114 degrees. Number eight, Zion National Park, 113 degrees. Number nine, I believe this is in New Mexico, White Sands National Park once hit 110 degrees. And then finally, routing out our top 10 list.
Starting point is 01:10:06 As we close out this week's meantime podcast I believe in Arizona petrified forest National Park once at 109 degrees Fahrenheit so if you have any if you're thinking like oh what about this National Park that's definitely the top 10 here and I've got the stats to prove it send it to us I'd be curious there was one chat GPT response that was adamant that Yosemite was in there and I was just like because it was like oh yeah 98 degrees I was like there aren't any other parks that have gone above a hundred I would even say like what about like Shenandoah or Congaree or something like those or what's there's what two in Florida or three is it is dry tortugas which sounds very hot there's everglades
Starting point is 01:10:57 and then is like Key West National Park a thing I'm not sure I don't know I'm moving past it but I was getting some iffy results. So I did my best. Okay. I'm happy to hear your criticisms if you have them. But here again was the list I was working off of Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Big Bend, Joshua Tree, Saguaro, arches, canyon lands, Zion, white sands, and petrified forest. Guys, that's what I have for you. This was probably the longest show we've had since our pledge drive, almost certainly, so four months and beyond pledge drive shows, longest one we've had in a while. I appreciate if you stuck around all the way to the end of this program I really do appreciate it
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