Beantown Podcast - Biblical Investigations Part Two (07032025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: July 4, 2025

Happy Fourth of July! Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss the Big, Beautiful Bill, shortening, and Herod or Harold, unclear.

The so so So so So I'm gonna be a good boy. Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David furnace Welcome to my show Quinn David furnace presents the bean town podcast for Thursday, July 3rd 6 p.m. Over here. We've got what what is math is hard six hours less than six hours till America's birthday Jesus's birthday maybe birthday, Jesus's birthday, maybe Maple's birthday, who knows? No one knows when Maple was born. I have a great aunt who was born on the 4th of July, just like, what's his

face? Ray Kroc, the guy who founded McDonald's, and then also was Tom Cruise in that movie, Ray Kevick, his name is something like that. He's in a wheelchair. Let's look into that. Because I've never seen Born on the 4th of July. Basically, it was based on a true story of this guy, Ray something. Ray with a K. Not really with a K, but Ray and a K. Ray K sounds like it could be a good gas station.

Or I don't know, like a rapper or something. There's JK, who's the singer of Jamiroquai, right? But Ray K. We'll look into that as we're getting our research team on that, AKA Maple, who's gonna be very handy without thumbs over here, but her and her lamb army, they'll get it taken care of. I wanna say welcome to my show. I am the creator, the host, and the, of course,

as always, chief music director of this program. It's basically tradition at this point to play a little John Philip Sousa for you. That was, of course, the Washington Post March, one of my favorite SUSE marches. I think I'm in a dead heat for Stars and Stripes Forever and Washington Post. To me, Washington Post is kind of the more underrated, the little brother, but elegant and classy, reliable till the day you die, and just never never ceases to hit and then you

got star spangled banner which is more of the like hey it's the 4th of July we're gonna play this as a you know kind of finish it off the grand finale I'll say this I did not I played Washington Post March earlier today in preparation to play live on air I have not not practiced Stars and Stripes Forever. Maybe we'll give it a shot. You know, maybe we'll try to close the show with it. We've had years before where it's much better rehearsed and we'll see how it goes. We'll see how I'm feeling. I am drinking a Sun Crusher Summer Ale from Revolution Brewing. I bought a six pack about a month ago and I'm just getting to the final one now. And waiting in the wings here I have a great old Irving Brewing Sentinel IPA ready to go. Just me and Maple here on a

Thursday night as mom is out to dinner with some pals. We said list or no we should say listener discretion is advised when you're listening to the Bean Tom podcast number one will occasionally some language to this podcast subjectively terrible three we might talk about the big beautiful bill and We'll probably break it down for you. We're also talking about biblical investigations So considering this is you know the Republicans big bill and by by proxy Jesus's big bill With the cutting the Medicare and snap and all that stuff and raising the debt ceiling then you know what? We'll just talk about it all together. Here's the thing is the is the Republican talking point about like not

Raising the debt ceiling. Is that just like completely dead? And I'm not even taking a stance on it one way or another. But I recall up until very recently, the whole thing with or not the whole thing, but the kind of two sides of the discussion or conversation about between Republicans and Democrats about the debt ceiling was Republicans being like, oh, we got to be fiscally responsible. We can't raise the debt ceiling. And then Democrats saying like, but we need to be able to pay for these programs and social service things and Medicare funding and all that stuff. And now with this big, beautiful bill that just got signed,

or it's not signed yet. It's waiting to be signed by Trump. He's going gonna do it on the 4th of July just like Ray Ray Ray Ron Ron not Ray Ron Ron Kovac Ron Kovac was born on the 4th of July so is this bill but the Republicans in this bill they raised the debt ceiling by like 3.5 trillion I don't know what percentage that is, but it seems like a lot. Trillion seems like a lot of money. And feels like all the Republicans that were sparking about the fiscal responsibilities of the government,

I haven't really heard that brought up. In fact, that brings me to another point that I want to mention here. Well, maybe we'll get to born on the 4th of July if we have time. Before I get to that point here, and I won't forget it, I do want to say thank you to Pakistan. It seems like the heat between the whole Israel-Iran thing from a week, two weeks ago has died died down Maybe it's just all the big beautiful bill news who knows but seems like Seems like we probably achieved peace in the Middle East is what I'm guessing so we should be in good shape there Probably won't have to think about it But whether you are celebrating it's already 4th of July in Lahore, Karachi and likely the Khyber Pass as well wherever you are celebrating America's birthday you're welcome for finding Bin Laden. No thanks to you guys for hiding

him. Okay, but look, let's let bygones be bygones. You want to tie this whole politics thing together? You know, they found Bin Laden during the Obama presidency but when the news came down from Washington that they had killed Ben Laden I was downstairs in my childhood home because this was what what was Ben Laden like 2012 something like that 2011 maybe it was yeah I must have been when I was in high school I was downstairs I think it was a Sunday night in the recliner watching television. Of course, it gets interrupted by this special news bulletin. I don't know if it was Chuck Todd or maybe Tim Russert. He brought probably dead by then, but I guess

what show I was watching that got interrupted and I missed a portion of it. And this is probably, you know, because his show got interrupted, this is probably why he ended up running for president Donald Trump's, the celebrity apprentice. I don't know if that was the season with you know, Blagojevich or if that was a Gary Busey meatloaf season that was the iconic one. I mean, there are so many Seasons of the celebrity apprentice, but I feel like the Gary Busey verse meatloaf kind of back and forth was really That was peak cinema right there, but it got interrupted and we had to learn about America liberating Pakistan and

killing Osama bin Laden so Pakistan I don't know what your thoughts are on Osama, but thank you for making us see 112th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Osama in Pakistan kind of reminds me of when I visited my brother, Jack, who's been on the show a number of times. He lived in Rwanda in a couple of years serving in the Peace Corps. And in his tiny little town, I don't know the population, but feels like the type of place that was probably a handful of, you know, a couple thousand of people in East

Africa. There was like a Momar Gaddafi themed cafe, Q-A-D-A-F-I, something like that. Is that how you spelled Gaddafi's name? I don't know. He was the dictator of, what, Libya. And then when I was in high school and the whole Arab Spring stuff came about, he got offed. I think they said off with his head, like the queen of hearts. And that was just one of the many countries in the Arab Spring. And then that was 2011. And then when

I visited my brother about five years later, they still had a Gaddafi themed cafe. So I don't know if they were in the process of rebranding or if they were a Gaddafi themed cafe. So I don't know if they were in the process of rebranding or if they were really Gaddafi loyalists there in East Africa, not terribly close to Libya, but not as far away as they could be either. Let's move off this. The point I wanted to make is not strictly about Republican politicians, and I'm not even going to dive into the big beautiful bill even more because I'm not trying to make this a political show. I will say it seems like the average common folk across the board I was spending some time on the conservative Reddit subreddit seems like, you know, if you go to like a centrist subreddit

or a left leaning subreddit, it's about 98% on popular 2% popular from what I was seeing in conservative is about 50 50. And so the fact that it's not like 98% positive 2% negative for those guys is a little bit alarming. I will say reddit I think by default is just very left-leaning and liberal and I like to live in my little echo chamber there in that corner of the internet so I excuse me don't don't feign to believe that that is what all of America feels or all of the conservative America feels but I don't know. It feels like there was a lot of hemming and hawing, but I saw an interview this must have been two nights ago

with Lisa Murkowski, who is, what is she? Is she a Democratic senator officially from Alaska? Is that how she identifies? I know we got to get we got to get her pronouns right. Got right guys. What does it say? Little D-A-K. We got to make sure we get her letters right or else the you know she'll be offended especially if she's one of these part in my language libtards, snowflakes. Lisa Murkowski is an American attorney and politician, so he's a senior U.S. Senator from the state of Alaska. I think held it since 2002. Oh, she is Republican, but seems like she can kind of go both ways. Proceeded by Frank Murkowski. They got a whole, he was the Senator for 20 years and Lisa came in. This is silly. They got a stronghold.

The reason I mentioned it, we haven't even referenced our notes app here yet. The reason I mentioned it is, uh, I saw an interview with Lisa Murkowski where they asked her about the Medicare cuts and she went into total turtle shell mode. And when it did the like Marco Rubio thing at the debate where she just like repeats the same phrase over and over again and man she was looking pissed off and I get that the reporter I don't know where he was from BBC or CNN or bean town podcast calm unclear he was he wasn't combative combative I always want to add an extra syllable to combative but it's just combative right combative kind of sounds fun to say, but he was just like, this is what the bill says.

What's your response to the Medicare cuts, that sort of thing. And she looked at him like she was about to bite his head off. She was pissed. But that got me thinking, Lisa is one of those politicians who you never know what they're doing back there. What is it? Wedding Crashers, the Will Ferrell scene. When Owen Wilson shows up and Ma the meat loaf and you know all that stuff. Chaz, is that what his name is? It's great. And Will Ferrell's yelling at his mom because he lives in his mom's basement to go get the meatloaf. And he's like, I never know what she's doing back there. That's kind of how I feel about a number of politicians. I thought

we would go through the list and I should have written them down. It would have been easier to recall, but politicians who you don't necessarily, you don't necessarily love them or at least I don't, I guess I'll keep this personal. I don't love them. I don't hate them But you never know what they're doing back there. It's like they could They could do something with halfway decency and then they could completely screw you over The next day which I guess is kind of just being a politician in general, but I never know what Lisa is Doing back there first sip of of Sentinel coming up by the way. Hmm. Pretty crisp. Should have been in the fridge for a tad bit longer. It had about two and a half hours to marinate. Other politicians who I never knew what they're doing back there.

Chris Christie. There's some, he kind of reminds me of Rex Ryan, right? They're both Jersey guys. I don't know if Rex Ryan is actually from Jersey, but he was the coach of the Jets, and it just feels right, you know? They're big, boisterous, loud, and sometimes you watch him, you're like, yeah, he's making a lot of sense. I get that. And then other days you watch him, you're like, what the hell is he smoking?

That's how I feel about Chris Christie. You know, he had when he was he's a Republican. He ran for president a couple times he had the whole bridge scandal the whole The beach scandals all that stuff and now he's doing a lot of like the CNN round tables Around election time and sometimes when he's talking is like, you know what? This guy makes a lot of sense and then other other times I'm like, what the hell? That doesn't make any sense at all, Chris. Maybe this is just a difference of political opinion. Who knows?

But Chris, I never know. I never know what Chris is doing. Chris Cuomo is not really a politician, but I never know what he's doing either. Ever since he got fired from CNN, he went to went to form his own studio show or something like that I don't remember exactly what the timeline was but Chris Cuomo I never know what he's doing kind of reminds me of because Michael Avenatti was on Chris Cuomo CNN show all the time and now he went to is he still in prison you guys remember this Michael Avenatti guy? What did he run in like 2020 was that when he was a big deal? I can't remember what the whole secret sequence of events was

I don't even know if he ever really like had a Mayor or a presidential run. It was just like rumored that he was gonna do it Michael Avenatti is an American former. You know what? I'm going to let me pause there and just briefly mention one of the other reasons why this Trump administration, this Trump term sucks compared to the first one. The first one was like comedy gold. There was, you know, buffoons all over the place on all sides. You know, obviously there's the classics, the Kelly and the Sean Spicers, the who is the the scare of moochies, right? It was just like a pure comedy of errors and just gold left and right. Now it's just kind of like I think Trump surrounded himself with

more insidious people that more the the Stephen Millers of the world. Oh Rudy Giuliani, don't get me started. And it's just a lot less fun, frankly. Before it was like crying through the tears. Now it's just, or laughing through the tears rather, now it's just crying through the tears. Crying in the tears. But Michael Avenatti, a former American attorney, currently incarcerated in federal prison for felony fraud and extortion. He's best known for his legal rep of adult film actress Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against President Trump. And then he got convicted apparently for attempting to extort Nike and defrauding and embezzling settlement money

from a series of other clients. And he was all over TV. He was going to make a run for president, Democrat, and then he got indicted on extortion, tax evasion, fraud, embezzlement. Dude, all this, I think this is going to, it's not going to hit as hard coming from me because I'm not rich nor will I ever be. But the whole getting federally indicted for going to prison for tax evasion thing is crazy to me. I was just reading yesterday about Ty Warner, the creator of Beanie Babies, and this is a man who made billions of dollars from the Beanie bubble, as they call it, and still

ended up in prison for tax evasion. And it's just like, I know it's probably when you have all that money at your disposal and it's just like money doesn't, it's no object anymore, it's probably really easy to just like make one or two stupid decisions and all of a sudden you're like getting busted for tax evasion but I don't know the the poor man in me just keeps returning to this idea of like man if I had all that money you wouldn't even need to hear from me I would just go chill I would pay my regular taxes the government can have what it wants that's fine they can have their 100 billion because I'll still have the other 900 billion. And I wouldn't even have to look at prices in Julasco when I'm buying beer or brats. You know, it doesn't, you don't have to worry that it's only a buy one, get one free two for one. So they're trying to

sell them in bulk rather than just like a discount on a single pack That may or may not have happened to me earlier today. You can just buy the brats as is you don't have to buy two packs to feel like you're saving money and And You can also pay your taxes These are things that I would do if I had tie Warner's money, but Ty Warner got busted for tax fraud. Michael Avenatti, Dr. Chris, not Chris Hoven. That was a Vikings defensive tackle. What was his name? Martin Hoven, something like that. He's like a Christian, kind of like a televangelist before that was really a cool thing. He's a little bit more like, he wasn't as big of like a megachurch pastor, but Kent, Kent Hoven, was that his name? I don't know. Speaking of

biblical investigations, we'll get to that in a second, part two this week. Any other politicians, I'm sure there's plenty. I feel like Marco Rubio is kind of like that. There's always like 20% of me that wants to believe that he's like a little bit more normal than your average Republican. But for the most part, I don't feel that way. What is he now? Secretary of state, I think. Good for you, Marco. You got your glow up. However many Ds he had to S to get there, who knows? There's that senator from Maine, right? Lisa Murkowski is from Alaska. There's another one kind of in the same category

of like a flip-flopper from Maine. I don't know what her name is, but she's kind of one of those ones. I never know what she's doing back there. Anyone else? I don't know, trying to think if there are any good Democrat candidates. I don't know. I don't have anyone good off the top of my head other than Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. I definitely never know what they're doing back

there. Email us, bintownpodcasts at yahoo.com. That's bintownpodcast at yahoo.com. And let us know who are those politicians where you never really know what they're doing back there. Okay, let's leave this topic. Our hot take of the week is sponsored by our good friends at Home Pride Oregon, and I was just on their internatschi double insured profile like two days ago. I don't know what I was looking for but I ended up there and I can confirm that he is still doubly

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in their faces as they're watching fireworks, you're kind of like, you know what, I see the sentimental value of it. I see the joy of it. So here's my hot take of the week. Fireworks are fine. If you would ask, we probably had a hot take of the week two or three years ago if we would have had that segment

where it's like, yeah, fireworks are boring, they're trash, it's the same thing over and over again. Let's not be a grumpy old man like Gran Torino or something. Your fireworks are fine. My one request is don't take a 30 second video and then put it on your Instagram feed the next day and you got to click through it. It's just, there are some things that are cool to share on Instagram. Like you got to interview Lisa Murkowski and she was really mean to you. Or you just had your home inspected by someone who wasn't Steve and they

messed up and they weren't double or they were double double internachi insured and you got a free house You might want to put that on your Instagram one thing I don't want to see on your Instagram though is just your 30 seconds of fireworks videos now if there's if there's Children running in a field or a Dewey meadow below the fireworks leaping for joy and celebrating and singing meadow below the fireworks leaping for joy and celebrating and singing. You're a grand old flag. You're a high flying flag. I feel like that one's kind of fallen out of the patriotic rotation. We kind of got some of these older school patriotic songs, grand old flag.

We get the occasional God bless America and America the beautiful but tie ribbon around the old oak tree. You know we are not getting as much of that. So if you want to if there's children dancing and leaping for joy then certainly include them. And if the fireworks are thrown in there fine. But if it's just fireworks, I really don't want to see that. So that's our hot take of the week. We of course have Maples Minute here as well. And that is sponsored by our good friends at the Samson Q2U series. I don't know if you heard that. I just did. It was a big old motorcycle, a Chapa outside. Getting to the Ch choppa that's an Arnold quote from some movie what is it I don't know predator is Arnold in predator I don't think so

predator is the guy who not Danny Glover that's the other black guy from lethal weapon it's Carl Weathers that's's Predator, right? Who else is in Predator? I don't know. Hot Take? I've never actually seen Predator. It's one of those films where a handful of times across my life I've been like, oh yeah, Predator, I should watch that. And then it just never happened. Kind of like how earlier today I was Googling best Fourth of July movies to watch, knowing that I had an open night when Rachel was going to be out at supper with some friends. And I was going through a list of 15 and I was like oh born on the 4th of July with Ray Kroc or Selma the David Oyelou film I never saw that or Lincoln I also never saw

but then I was like oh wait there's a Cubs game at seven so just gonna watch that instead. It's a nice thing about your team being competitive. You have something to watch at least. You don't have to watch, you know, the Sandlot for the 50th time or something like that. Which is barely a 4th of July movie. There's one scene. But, uh, Cutspike, you know, we said the SAMSA Q2U series, if you're looking for crisp clear audio quality on the 4th of July the aides of March the fourth day of God's creation, which I think is when he created the Noble gases maybe not sure. I don't remember everything from Genesis. You're gonna want to trust

Samson q2u series when God speaks he uses a Samson Samson Q2U series. When God speaks, he uses a Samson. Here's Maples minutes. So 4th of July, a PSA from Maples, she wrote this, a PSA tomorrow is the 4th of July. There's gonna be all sorts of booms, bangs, ratatats, and scrums, frankly. There's a couple of parks here in Chicago that are known for their Fourth of July scrums as Maple is over here getting a belly rub. Horner Park which is close to where I reside and Winnemac Park which is about two miles north of where I reside. Mile and a half I guess. Those places are noted for their big booms and so Maple's Minute is that CBD and trazodone are are not only

Encouraged but welcomed and recommended on the 4th of July for your pups. We gave I'm trying to remember I think I did this once early on in the experimented experimentation phases of She's really going for this belly rub right now. She's halfway off the couch. Careful, buddy. You don't want to fall off and bonk your noggin. Right before the 4th of July, you wouldn't be able to celebrate

at Grandma and Grandpa's house. That'd be crazy. I tried giving, not tried, I think I gave Maple half a melatonin once, and don't recall any specific effects. I don't know, could be worth trying in the future. This is what we are into the fourth week of Prozac now. They say four to six weeks. We've had some up and down training sessions this week. Don't need to go into all the full details, but it hasn't been terrible, it hasn't been great. So we're still keeping at it. As Maple, Maple, your adoption anniversary

is only two and a half months away here. Isn't that crazy, buddy? Yeah. Go lie down next to your lambs. Make sure they're okay. That's Maple's Minute this week. And then we promised you to finish our biblical investigation segment that we introduced last week and got awfully sidetracked You know last week was interesting. I I don't I probably 20 25 percent of the time one out of five one out of four Re-listened to a Bean Town podcast after I record it and it's not for like some sort of vain reason where I'm just like Oh, man, that's the best thing on It'll be like if I go for a long run and I've exhausted all my other podcasts that I'm plugged into, I don't have a great music player situation on my phone right now.

I use a knockoff of YouTube that integrates into YouTube or integrates with YouTube. It has a third party integration. Sometimes I can get that to autop auto play and go for like 45 minutes. Some days it's a bad day and only plays two songs and then it stops playing. But yeah, I'm cheap. I don't pay for Spotify or Pandora or anything like that. So I try to listen to music, but if that's not working well, I'm just like, you know what, let me throw on some comfort food listening to myself. So I guess it is a little bit vain, but I'll

throw in a Bean Town podcast because I know that's going to be like, sometimes, sometimes you don't necessarily want to be entertained. It's like turning on, you know, some sort of random ass AM radio station. It's like, I'm not, I'm not here to be entertained. It's just something on, you know, something, something to listen to. And for the Bean Town podcast, to be completely honest, by the time I finish an episode, I remember like 10% of what I talked about over the past 45 to 60 minutes. In fact, I have to go into SoundCloud and write the episode description, which is very short and brief. And you're, you could look at it right now and be like, gosh, there's almost nothing

there. But I have to literally rack my brain to be like, what did I talk about? What's a list of three that I can mention for like, oh, yeah, we talked about XYZ. So it's not so bad to listen to it. The whole point of this was that I listened to last week's episode. I was actually really excited after I finished recording.

I was like, man, that was a dynamite episode. And then I listened to it. And I was like, yeah, that was a dynamite episode. And then I listened to it, and I was like, yeah, the biblical investigations were good. But it took me about 45 minutes to get into them. And a lot of that stuff beforehand was not my A game. So an interesting occurrence where I thought it was a really good episode, and then I listened back,

and I was like, eh, actually not that great. Which is probably how you feel about every episode. It's not just last week, so apologies for that. But I wanted to let you know that Biblical Investigations Part 2 is sponsored by our good friends at Cuts by Q. And I am getting, I know we mentioned this last so good, each week the bulk, the hair, it grows. Which I guess is, once I get into my 30s here,

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new you're gonna want to call the experts at cuts by Q $20 flash sale flat rate this summer that's right it's both a flat rate and a flash sale we'll do bangs we'll do mohawks, faux hawks, side ponytail like Deb from Napoleon Dynamite, we'll do it all. Give us a call, 815-298-7200 or email cutsbyq at yahoo.com. And that's cuts! Sorry, Maple, I know that was loud. Q-U-T-Z by Q at yahoo.com. If we were still recording at the piano, I would just play, you know what, F it. Let's do it. We're going to relocate and then come back, because there are beers back on the couch, and then maybe relocate again to finish because now I feel like I got to try out Stars and Stripes Forever on the piano which I haven't played in a handful of a hot second I guess we would

say. I got the AC on over here hopefully it's not too disruptive. I'll turn it off when we get to the SUSE to close the show but this is literally for a five second jingle that's my dedication to you let's see how it goes I don't know what key it's gonna be in we'll just play it by ear literally oh when you need when you need a fresh do something stop you lose call me experts it comes by yep I just relocated over to the piano just for that. Back in the good old days of garage band, like seasons one through six of the Bean Town podcast, we could actually pause the recording and then restart it. If I had to pee or do my taxes or needed a top off on my drink, whatever, I could have

done that. And now we are hamstrung, H-A-M-S-T-R-U-N-G, by the limitations of the native Windows voice recorder app on my Dell laptop. How do you like that? One of these days we're gonna upgrade our software. But just like Aragorn says in The Return of the King, it is not this day. Right, Maple? That's right.

All right. Biblical Investigations Part 2. These are a couple of holdovers from last week. We're going to go relatively briefly through them so that we can play our music and then dad can work on supper. So this one comes from a listener suggestion actually, and we'll keep it anonymous, but thank you. You know who you are. Thank you for submitting your suggestion. What does the H in Jesus H Christ stand for? That is a good question. I can't even think of many H names from the Bible. Hosea, Habakkuk, Herod, Harold, what was his name? The bad guy? Herod? There's Pontius Pyle and there's Herod. Wouldn't

it be kind of a great twist if Jesus is why he's, you know, he's carrying the cross to Gethsemane or Bethany or Calvary, whichever one of those hills, I don't know. He's wearing his crown of thorns and it's like Herod or Harold, whatever his name is. And he's like, oh, you're, you know, you're terrible like King of the Jews Boo, and then the big reveal at the end of the film with Jim Caviezel is oh my god His name his middle name was Jesus Herod or Harold Christ the whole time Boom and it's like it's kind of like in Star Wars 9 which I never saw Where Daisy Ridley turns out to be Palpatine's daughter

or granddaughter, I think, perhaps, one of those two, unclear. And it's like, ooh, I'm one of you. Oh, no. Oh, man. And then Jesus is like, oh, my god, I am like Herod. And Herod is like, oh, my god, I am like Jesus, Herod Christ. Just a real barn burner of a twist.

I have a great, I had, I have a, well, I had a great grandfather. He has passed away like 40 years ago or something. His name was Herod. I don't know. We floated as a baby name. I like the idea of family names for male names in particular. I just wouldn't want my kid to instantly be a Harry, because then you're always thinking about James Franco and Spider-Man 2.

And, or Spider-Man 3, that's the one where he's making the omelet with MJ. And they're doing the twist chubby checker hello Do I want my unborn child to be associated with James Franco? Unclear James Franco was like halfway cancelled He's kind of like Justin Timberlake where he's like kind of cancelled but kind of not. I saw a TikTok video where they were interviewing people outside of a Chris Brown concert and they were asking if the fans were aware of his domestic abuse convictions and prison

time and all that stuff and some of them were like, yeah, I don't care some are just like no What are you talking about? That was has what was James I know Justin Timberlake at the DUI that ruined the tour But was James Franco convicted of anything? Maybe he was just rich enough from his starring role as Harry Osborn in spider-man's one through three That he could pay people off and he didn't have to go to trial. I could see that. I'm not here to slander James Franco or the Harry Osborn character, so redact that please, Maple, but these are questions I have. That's the

next biblical investigation James Franco Next up we have what in the heck is manna and how how are you supposed to prepare it? So you got man of these Israelites are wandering in the desert they get out of Egypt Golden calf ten commandments all the fun stuff then they got to do 40 years wandering Here's well, this is a tangential side question. They spent 40 years wandering and then all of a sudden they get to the land of Wherever they were going I don't Oz Narnia shiz unclear I think there's probably a name for it, but I don't know what it is, but they get there after 40 years get there after 40 years, what type of increase in quality of living are we talking about? Were we going from thong, $1 sandals from Old Navy to Birkenstocks, a McDouble to a

James Beard award-winning scallop, probably not a lot of scallops in the desert, but I suppose desert scallops. What did Haman have in the book of Esther? He had a three-cornered hat. That's what we make the Jewish cookies around Hanukkah called hamantaschen. Did they get full on? I don't know. I'm envisioning some sort of Middle Eastern sombrero.

I don't know, what were the big upgrades? The Bible doesn't really talk about it all that much, which I find curious. But to get back on track here, the Israelites are wandering in the desert for 40 years and God sends them manna. And it's what, I imagine manna to be like dandruff. Think about like a Selsun blue commercial and and the guy Troy Paul Lamalle shakes his head and that's it's you know This just white stuff coming all over the place Don't clip that I do not want a clip of me saying white stuff coming all over the place

I will say I woke up this morning. I okay. I deal with the occasional dry scalp some some light psoriasis Psoriasis psoriasis almost an amalgamation for Oasis Cigarettes and alcohol Slide away give it all you got mine today You know how it goes. I think we sang Oasis last week too.

That makes two in a row. I woke up, I went into the mirror, went into the mirror. I was looking in the mirror and you know sometimes you get little dandruff flakes here and there. No biggie. NBD as we would say I had One of the larger dandruff flakes I've ever seen it certainly did not it certainly exceeded the definition of a flake We're talking like a plate like a tectonic plate almost But no this thing was legit sizable

And the interesting thing about it, and I don't know, I feel like dandruff is like, oh, TMI, but it's not compared to some other body things. It's really not that big of a deal. It's just dry skin, whatever. We all have it. There were multiple, you know, this piece of dandruff was sitting like, I don't know, half an inch above my scalp. So into my hair at the front of my, my shock of hair, if you will. And this thing, this piece of dandruff still had like six or seven hairs coming from the

bottom and going off the top, you know. So I had to very delicately and lightly like remove it because I wanted to inspect it. I felt like an archaeologist or something or a paleontologist. I was like, this is in the name of science. I love this. But it was huge. It was legit. My dandruff is what is in the name of science. I love this but it was it was huge. It was legit My dandruff is what I imagine mana looks like and it's like were they just picking it up off the ground. It sounds very

Forget, you know the hygiene just wouldn't be like dusty salty rocky So, I know did they have to now I'm imagining the Israelites catching it like when you Stick your tongue out for snowflakes. It's kind of what I'm envisioning next with the manna But if there's any biblical nutrition experts out there Feel free to chime in because I would be interested in learning how to best prepare manna and maybe a recipe for at home manna ma nna manna A couple more here. Uh, what were the wise men doing before they visited Jesus? So in at least one of those Gospels?

It's like yeah, you got the wise men, which maybe there were three never actually says BT dubs All we know is that they brought gold frankincense and myrrh. That's so it's like was there They it could have been one one from each or it could have been they they each shared one and there were six it could have been we could have gone into an irrational fraction and it was two out of three or something unclear but what we do know from biblical investigations is that it took the wise men like three years two three, three years to get there. They came from the east right from afar but it's like okay that could be I don't know East Israel, Tel Aviv, which I don't think is in East Israel but just for purposes of this assignment. It could be Pakistan. Like I can imagine if you

were a wise man in Lahore and all of a sudden you got a vision from the archangel Michael or something, man in Lahore and all of a sudden you got a vision from the archangel Michael or something, it's probably going to take you a bit even longer if you were like hanging out in Inner Mongolia or something. That's a lot to traverse. But at what point if you're coming from the east, at what point is it east before it starts becoming west? Does it have to be the exact halfway point across the globe? Got to be somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I don't think that they could have like been Pacific Islanders that got in one of their canoes. Probably couldn't have braved those Pacific typhoons, but I don't know. Maybe they did. Probably if they if they were from Hawaii then it probably would have been from the West. So it was probably somewhere between Hawaii

and Federated States of Micronesia. But I don't think they were called that in the Bible. But that'll be a good topic for next year's biblical investigations. Our last question here, going back to these Israelites wandering in the desert, one of their activities before or after manna, unclear, is why do they, this is something I've always wondered, why do they have to walk around Jericho seven times?

Because it felt, the way it was described to me was that Jericho was just like in the way and they were like they could just walk around it and keep going and leave it behind. So why did they have to was it really that big of a deal to just kind of let it sit there and they can do their own thing and you guys can do your own thing but instead God is like no you got to walk around it seven times my theory is Maybe man, it was fattening. Maybe it was largely made from Here, I'm about to lay some truth on you. Here's a food product that when is the last time you thought of it I guarantee it's been longer than I don't know six months

Shortening with what the heck is shortening. It's just animal fat, right? Shortening with what the heck is shortening. It's just animal fat, right? We used to have shortening as a like ingredient in our lazy Susan or something as kids. And I swear to God, I don't even know where I would go in the grocery store to find shortening, probably in the baking supplies. Flour, sugar, confectionary sugar. What the heck is shortening? We got to do a sidetrack here. Sometimes you come up with something on the Bean Town podcast and it is just so out of left field that you are like, what the heck? Crisco, right? That's kind of the main brand. Shortening is any fat that is a salad at room temperature and is used to

make crumbly pastry and other food products. The idea dates back to at least this 18th century, although if biblical investigations is on this, it could be 2000 BC or whatever. Yeah, it's something with cross linking between gluten molecules, this says, gives dough elasticity. Maybe if you're a baker out there, this is part of your common vernacular, but I have not come across nor seen nor thought about shortening in like 20 years, it feels like. Not that's an exaggeration, but like more than a decade since I last thought about shortening. It feels like something Diddy would use at one of his parties. Maybe if they ran out of baby oil, they could use Crisco.

Crisco Kid? No, Cisco Kid. That's a song by War. There's your listening assignment for the week. And then so they walk around. Maybe God was just doing it for cardio because of the shortening I think we mentioned that and then Yeah, finally like why did you have to walk around it seven times? Why couldn't you just walk halfway around and then just keep going? I feel like these Israelites were kind of stubborn. It's like

They could have just kept going but they were warfaring people they were warmongers is there a Marvel villain named warmonger I think there was a what was it Michael B Jordan one of the two Michael B Jordan from sinners he was the bad guy in Black Panther and he was was he kill mongerer his name was like Calvin kill monger or something like that. Who knows? Unclear that's biblical investigations part two for you Thank you for bearing with us. We are now transitioning back To the piano. It is the 4th of July tomorrow. I hope everyone is staying safe do not pull a

Excuse me a Jason Pierre Paul situation with the fireworks. If you don't know what that is, do yourself a favor and look it up. But maybe not Google images. More of a Wikipedia search could be good. And otherwise, I hope you stay safe. Stay sane. Enjoy your Fourth of July.

Happy birthday, America. Congratulations to you on your big beautiful bill. And when I was a kid that was President Clinton. Oh we didn't do our trivia question. Hold up. Wait a minute that was close. We're going back to the living room. We did not do trivia. And Maple's looking at me like, Dad what the hell you did not do trivia? You're insane. I'm sorry, buddy. Okay. We'll make this short and sweet. Here's my trivia question this week. Speaking of fireworks, name the only state in the US that has completely banned the sale of fireworks. And then I have a bonus question off of this, too. I was trying to think of like a good clue to narrow things down because you got a 1 in 50 chance.

I mean, you could probably start narrowing things down pretty quickly. But this state used to have a governor who was in the political spotlight big time, you know, 10, 15 years ago. And he's not from that state and he is now still a politician, but more aligned representing the state that you would more identify him with based off of his personal ideologies. That's my clue for you. If you need more time, you can give it to yourself. I guess last thing it is Eastern time zone.

It has one big four. That's not true. It has four big four teams. Let's see. Let's make sure that's right. That would be really embarrassing. It's got to's right. That would be really embarrassing. It's got to be right. You got that team, that other team, that team and that team. Yeah. Gosh, any other

clues? It's kind of a hard one to spell. Think back to the pilgrims. All right, that's it. The answer is Massachusetts. And my bonus question, name the four United States presidents that were born in Massachusetts. My clue for you is they're all dead. One of them in a very violent manner. The other three probably more normal.

One of them is notable for having manner. The other three probably more normal. One of them is notable for having died on the 4th of July, just minutes apart from another president. That's clues for two of them. One of them you probably don't associate with Massachusetts as much as you do Texas. That's a third one. And then your final clue for the fourth one

is that the fourth one is related to the one of the third one. And then your final clue for the fourth one is that the fourth one is related to the one of the other ones. But it's not the Texas one. If you want more time to kind of narrow this down, go ahead and give yourself a pause or give us a pause. I'm gonna reveal the answers. They are in order. John Adams, that was the 4th of July one.

John Quincy Adams, that was, if you couldn't guess, the one related to the other one. JFK was the violent death one. And George Herbert Walker Bush was born in Massachusetts. So there you go. There's our trivia question. Gosh, that was almost disastrous I am we're gonna we're gonna do it live as Bill Bill O'Reilly would say okay there we go that's our starting pitch this has been the Bean Town podcast for Thursday July 3rd 2025 season 8 of the Bean Town podcast thank you for listening stay safe stay sane here's a little SUSE to play us out. Now here's Sting with a cut off his new album.

Take it away. And again, not rehearsed. Could be good, could be bad. If you're like, maybe I'd just rather listen to the regular John Philip Susa march, you can just stop now and go YouTube that because you're not missing anything else. But here's my attempt.

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