Beantown Podcast - Big Questions - Season 8 (09062025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: September 6, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss aerosol cans, Mandy Moore's career, and big questions about rice, swimming at altitude, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Saturday, September 6th, 2025. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn and I'm the creator, the host, and the ringleader, I guess. What's the name of the person they put at the front of the parade? Don't they usually have like a special? special name. I don't know. That's whatever I am. The Von Steuben Parade, V-O-N-V-O-N-T-R-T-E-N-T-E-N-E-N. For a long time, I really, as a kid, I really thought that, like, there was going to come a concert or a performance where I could sing, climb every mountain the the rousing closing song from act one of the sound of music you wouldn't really call it act one because it's a film but you know Maria runs away from home not really her home just a home the Von Trapp family home that crib with the two staircases right and then she goes back to the abbey and the grandma whatever doesn't she have a name She's like the chief sister.

No, she's the mother, right? Everyone else is a sister and she's the mother. That's how it goes. She's the grandmother, essentially. The Grand Marshal, that's who I am. That's who I am. In the parade, I'm the Grand Marshal. And the Grand Marshal at the Abbey is like,

Lady, you got to, Julie Andrews, you got to climb every mountain. Okay? if you're going to chase your dreams. And then 50 years later, Julie Andrews tells DeVore's Prada, Anne Hathaway, that you've got to climb every mountain. You know, chase your dreams. What does Raven Simone say? That'll be the new rendition.

How does that song go in Princess Diaries, too? Then they bring Julie Andrews up on the stage of the Sleepover, and she's like some girls are hot some girls are fat with a bow in their hair and a giant back tat i don't know that'll be the who do do do too chris pine great hair in that movie Chris pine was on um wait wait wait don't tell me maybe about a year ago and he was talking about his hair in the princess diaries too which I think is like his, not his first movie he was ever in, but close to it. He's got to be like 20, 21 years old in that movie. Princess Diaries 2.

Royal Engagement, if memory serves me correctly. She's got to find a mate or else she has to abdicate the throne of Genovia. What a terrible way to live. I think she got in there and introduced some reformist, progressive policies. I feel like Julie Andrews in Princess Diaries 2 Royal Engagement should have taken a harder stance that this

law was just absolute listener or discretion advisor and listening to the Beantown podcast somewhere and occasionally some language number two's podcast, subjectfully terrible, absolute bullshit. Yeah. Princess Diaries 2 is probably a movie we disproportionately talk about

hearing the Beantown podcast. I think it probably comes up at least two or three times a year which is just probably unnecessarily high, but that's okay. I've been seeing the occasional, like, Anne Hathaway on set of Devilware's product to pictures on Reddit, which feels a little bit unnecessary, but you know what? Girls got to get a paycheck. Girls got to eat. Who's this, the singer?

Stupid, cute piss. Stop singing me on me. Sleeping with me. that what it is picking on me probably Mandy Moore from Princess Diaries one no subtitle and then what was it 20 years later Mandy Moore plays how does that work we talked about this like two or three years ago when this is us ended but Mandy Moore plays like a 18 year old in Princess Diaries a high schooler which she more or less was back in 2002 or whenever Princess Diaries came out and then

This Is Us comes out, what, 15 years later? And she plays herself at three different ages. So she plays like a 16-year-old. In reality, at that point, she's like 40. She plays a 16-year-old. She plays a 40-year-old. And then she plays the Grand Marshal, the Grand Mama, the mother of the Abbey,

who's like 75 in dying of cancer. The husband died because the toaster oven was plugged in or was it a clock a slow cooker i think mandy more one of those people who like if i were i was teaching teaching a freshman i teach a freshman seminar in the fall that's nothing new i've been i've been doing that last six years now but you know you get every year a new generation of 18 year olds not really a generation but a new crop what a crop uh of 18 year olds coming in and the references this is you know nothing nothing new, but the references I know and make, you know, every year, it gets slightly worse.

Although I did make a summer I turned pretty season three reference and at least one or two of the girls in my class got it. But I did not make a Mandy Moore reference, if you're curious, this past week in front of my 18-year-olds. But I feel like if I did, they would have no idea because like why would they know who mandy more even is they probably have a better chance of knowing who mandy patinkin is because i feel like the prince's bride is probably lived through the centuries in some ways but i don't know if the you know these these students i was teaching this week were largely born in 2007 2008 um right before obama like months before Obama got elected and that's what four, five years, six, seven, eight years after

Princess Diaries came out and then Mandy, she's like a singer, right? But I don't know any Mandy more songs. And then she was in This Is Us, but it's like when This Is Us was in its heyday, what, call it five, five to seven years ago, these students I was teaching were like 10 to 13, Were they really sitting there? Excuse me, on Monday nights on NBC at 8 p.m. Watching This Is Us? Probably not. But I'm not, I mean, I have my own thoughts and perceptions on cable television.

My guess is that younger children are not really plugged into cable TV, live prime time, sorry, not cable TV, network television, the same way I was when I was a kid. And even when I was a kid, that was somewhat of an anomaly because a lot of my friends had cable, and so while my friends are sitting there watching Cartoon Network or Comedy Central or Nickelodeon or whatever, I'm sitting there with my parents watching whatever they got on NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox. American Idol, Biggest Loser, Celebrity Apprentice,

extreme makeover, home edition, right? The hits just keep coming. uh where where the heck did did we go wrong uh eight minutes into the episode there's so many little housekeeping things we got to get to here um first and foremost it is about nine a m here on uh saturday morning september 6 ran nine miles this morning sipping on my coffee got the big brain out here i've got my my mug as a it's a fish of wisconsin mug that i think my wife won in a blue elephant contest that's not what it's called right white elephant contest but then knowing that i was going to go through that mug and knowing that just unfortunately in 2025 season eight we just don't have the

technology to pause the podcast and come back i simultaneously have a big old thermos of the rest of the coffee sealed up and ready to go cream and everything actually it's just milk but the one thing i don't have uh and i guess we will preview our our big questions because that's what we're asking today on the podcast big questions some of there are big some of them are just my own stupidity but uh rachel had been asking because i do most of the grocery shopping with our separation anxiety dog situation here rachel i've been inquiring about the uh cold foam creamer at trader joes which i think had been spotted on social media but had not yet become available and our local trader joes here well i finally went last night after um taste of chicago

was supposed to see lupa fiasco it didn't happen that's a whole other story uh fiasco if you it wasn't actually it was just bad planning but um they did have the cold foam cream creamer it comes in one of these cans you know like a whipped cream can where you turn it upside down and you press on the nozzle if you will n o zz le might be the first time in 400 episodes of the bean house we've ever said the word nozzle and it comes out and that's my first big question which we're going to say for the second half, the rest of our questions, but we'll just give you a taste here, taste at Chicago. How the heck does that technology work, right?

You know these cans I'm talking about. They're not aerosol cans. You know, they're not like a spray. It's a foam that comes out. It's pressurized the same way. So it's a liquid in there, right? You know, whether it's whipped cream or cold foam cream or usually it's a dairy product of some kind. You turn it upside down.

Cheese Whiz is another good example. Although, is the cheese whiz really liquid? I don't know. This would be a good opportunity for us to turn to our cheese whiz correspondent Maple over here. Hi, buddy. Maple had cheese whiz eight days ago when she got her rabies. And we talked about all this last week, her vaccines. That's our doctor's secret. Spread some cheese whiz down on the little platform that Maple's sitting on. So she gets distracted and licks it up while she's getting a shot in her booty. Similar technology. My big question is just how the heck does that work? We go from, you got this water. or liquid, rather, it's pressurized, and then you turn it upside down, and is it just like, gosh, this is going back to my high school physics, I probably should like remember this. There's something, you know, with pressure, and if you decrease the, like, the, not the volume, but like the area that, you know, the liquid has to travel through that increases the pressure,

So think about, like, you know, a straw or something. If it's just, you're not touching it, it's just a regular straw. Water is flowing normally or, in this case, cold foam creamer is flowing normally. But if you pinch it a little bit, you, because you're moving your fingers. And so you're decreasing the area of which it has space to flow through. Is it, I keep using the term area. I think it's the space or the volume. You know what I'm talking about.

And so that increases the pressure. What we're getting to here, theoretically, because there's no science that could prove this, if you increase the pressure enough, does that transform your liquid into a foam of some kind? Which begs the next, begs the next Mr. Big. Mr. Bill, oh, I can't do a Mr. Bill impression. It's too high. My voice just doesn't go that high. Oh, Mr. Bill! Right, Maple? You never really seen Mr. Bill. We've watched it once or twice. You like Mr. Bill.

Yeah. There's another reference I could have made for my students that they would have zero idea what I'm talking about. But that's okay. I didn't make it. But keep a running list. Mr. Bill, Mandy Moore. Reference, I did make that at least one of them got some of I turned pretty. So put that in the other column.

Keep a running tab here. Somehow it turns the liquid into more of a foamy substance, which is temporary because foam. goes it transforms back into a liquid eventually but there's something to do with the pressure now you're probably out there thinking gosh Quinn you could just you got a smartphone you got a research department you're fully staffed well Rachel's not here she's at a workout class but half staff just like the flags um you know if if if if not to get all political here but uh i'm not a huge trump supporter you know when presidents die and and other bad things happen, they usually lower the flags to half-mast. What if could we temporarily extend our flag

poles and raise them to double-mast if and when Agent Orange passes away? I think, you know, I just think it's a fun concept, right? Regardless of your politics, as, you know, he's so extreme and divisive. It's like, oh, yeah, what if wouldn't he love that? If we did something different, Donald Trump wouldn't want the flags to be half-mast when he dies. He'd want him to be high-mast. He'd want him to be higher and higher than any other dead president's flag has ever been before. You can put it upside down and double the mast. I think that could be fun. So that was our first big question here. I should mention, though, ever so briefly, this is just a quick little anecdote. We, every year, the last day of our sort of immersion week is what we call it, but it's a full-on teaching. I've been teaching all this week.

every day, you know, six to ten hours with these students. And every day or every Friday, last day of the week, there's a prize box won by the winners of the annual scavenger hunt around downtown Chicago. And my co-teacher, who was fantastic, brought a Samsung microphone to be included in the prize box this year. I know you're, you, you probably get nervous there thinking, no, Quinn, did you bring your Samson Q2U series to match? No, I did not. This isn't charity. I'm not, we're not matching one for one here. It wasn't the Q2U series. Let's put that right. It's more of the, more, you know, the Q2U series, if you never really seen it, is just like a very traditional handheld microphone with the, you know, the fuzzy top. And what this series was, I didn't get to look at the, the serial number. But it's more of like that traditional old school, like radio mic that, you know, it just isn't like a hand. It's, I don't know, it wasn't handheld. This could be on like a stand.

It was a pretty small guy. Maybe just yay high, like 10 inches, something like that. If that, eight inches. But the more like metal forward, you know, silvery kind of microphone. But I hadn't seen a Samson in a long time outside of my own home. So it was refreshing to see that they are still on top of the audio world. They are the kings of the audio world. When God speaks, he uses the Samson, by the way, which I can largely confirm because I was doing some conversationalism with the Lord yesterday.

Briefly, it was at the Fourth Presbyterian Church over there, Michigan, and whatever that is, Oak Street, something like that. and it was a flute concert. So I was paging through the Torah, the Pentateuch, and spent some more time in numbers in Deuteronomy than I ever had before. And I think I, the last thing I'll say, we'll keep going. I think I made mention, or I posited a guest, P-O-S-I-T-E-D, a couple weeks ago that perhaps Moses died at the end of Exodus. and that was how Exodus ends.

But I was very much mistaken, forsaken, begotten, all that fun stuff. Moses goes all the way until the end of the Pentateuch. That's when he dies. And then they turn over the keys to the car. They turn the offense over to Joshua. And he goes through Jericho and all that fun stuff. Next thing, you know, you're in Solomon and David. And I was going to say Hercules, that's not right.

Samson, how could you forget? spell differently. But yeah, you know, you got Genesis, which I think is pretty well covered at this point. Exodus also well covered specifically on this show. But then you got your only two-fifths, 40% on the way through that pentate took. You still got Leviticus numbers Deuteronomy. Is that how it goes? Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, numbers, Deuteronomy. Yeah, so it's the end of Deuteronomy. D-E-U-T-E-R-O-N-O-M-Y, something like that. Who is that? There's like a famous author who's got a, who had like a, did he have a cat or he wrote about a cat named Deuteronomy? What was that? George Elliott, who was a woman, by the way? Was it T.S. Eliot? Don't know the

difference between George and T.S. Eliot. 95% sure they're different people, but not quite sure. if you're curious speaking of literature i was on the toilet this morning trying to go number two before my run didn't take ended up not being an issue got through my run no problem um but you know five a m there i am not a lot of people play wordle or they call their parents when on their toilet not me i was reading the plot of ricky tickey tavy a short story from redyard kippling the jungle book, a collection of stories. So I just needed kind of an annual refresh of what happens in Ricky Tiki Tabby. He's an African or an Asian mongoose who kills a lot of snakes.

Right, Maple, that could be your job. You could kill snakes. Why are you so tense? You were so relaxed. I was in the shower. I come out. You're practically snoozing. All of a sudden we start recording and you are just like,

but she's just been staring at the door for 20 minutes waiting for mom to walk back through the door it's like why can't you just chill out buddy you know what we got to do ever since the surgery so it's been two and a half weeks maple hasn't had a single dose of trazadone and that is very unusual for her she usually has you know 50 milligrams a day something like that so this has been a big change so i think uh i think it's time we we reintroduce the trass into your ecosystem, Maple. What do you think, buddy? She is just like, what do you think's going to happen? Like, why are you so obsessed with mom walking back to the door, buddy? And it's not going to happen in the next five minutes. They can guarantee that. No. Maple's Minute,

by the way, was, oh, let's get into football for a second here. So football, is officially back NFL. We've had two games so far. Thursday night, Eagles beating the Cowboys and Friday night last night. The charges upsetting the Chiefs, which we'll talk about in a second. Maple's Minute comes from the first game, the Eagles defeating the Cowboys, in which C.D. Lamb, star-wide receiver and highly paid for the Dallas Cowboys, and Fantasy Football Darling, had two egregious drops, and a third, technically a job. drop, but he was like, it was fourth down. He was laying out. It was really tricky. It's like, not really a drop. But Maple collects lambs, different type of lamb, not seedy lamb, but stuffed animals. And Maple's advice, Maple's Minute this week is to, when you're out there shopping for lambs, whether it's $10 at Petco or $40 million a year from Jerry Jones, get you a lamb who doesn't drop the ball, right, Maple? Emotionally, spiritually.

sexually, but most importantly, football-y, athletically. Get you a lamb who doesn't drop the ball. I'm finishing my first round of coffee here. We're going to have to do a mid-show refill. A pit stop, like a NASCAR, because we can't pause this train. This baby's going. Full steam ahead. It's like what, Tom Cruise and Haley Atwell at the end of Mission Impossible.

Dead Reckoning Part 1, which was then retcon to just be Dead Reckoning because they changed the title of Dead Reckoning Part 2 to the final reckoning. See if I can successfully, I'm currently pouring this coffee from the travel mug to the fish mug, successfully done with one hand. What an operation. Jerry Jones could learn something about how to run a football team, but more importantly, how to do a podcast and refill your coffee at the exact same time without pausing. That was beautifully done. Very proud of myself. Our hot take of the week is sponsored by our good friends at Home Pride, Oregon, guys, when you're looking to sell your house in Central Oregon or maybe you're a first-time home buyer, there's government programs for that irregardless of all of that. you're going to want to do a home inspection the right way go with a safe certified trusted expert who's been doing this just long enough to where he's got his feet plenty wet and he knows the players but not long enough to where he's washed like Travis Kelsey who will talk about in a second here

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and cut your hair with the other kind of like pouring my coffee because frankly got a lot to do I got some tune blast levels that are not going to beat themselves, and I should write a column from my substack, which is not out yet. But today could be the day I start it. So I'm trying to do max efficiency here. And, you know, just this morning we did a nice little neck shave. Had to do the back of my head. It was starting to look a little scraggly. You know, sometimes you see a picture of yourself from the back, and you're just like, ooh.

got to fix that well good news because we got cuts by cue when you need a fresh do something snap you're new just call the experts at cuts by cue now this this refill on the cup of coffee is not going to have the cold foam creamer because that's still in the fridge it just wouldn't keep but let's see let's see how it tastes after marinating for about an hour here hmm good stuff good good stuff okay our hot take of the week the chiefs are done cooked and that's not even really my hot take i will just say that oh by the way the reason the chiefs are done not necessarily because they lost

to the chajas last night get to the chajja uh Travis kelsey ever since he got engaged right like three weeks ago something like that whenever that was two three weeks ago he presumably had sex with taylor swift to celebrate the engagement first time virgin no more and all that just pent up energy and masculine what's a synonym for energy i don't know it's just it's all gone released and because of that he's lost his edge and the chiefs the heartbeat of the chiefs just gone so chiefs are done chiefs are cooked rachel said last night as we were watching the game what if the chiefs went oh in 17 and i was like 99.999% of me is 100% positive that's not going to happen uh considering it's only happened twice in nfl history and it was the well no one's

ever even gone oh in 17 but winless the uh the the browns and lions there may have been back in like the 40s when they played like 10 games someone might have done it there too but in the modern age of football the browns and lions have both had winless seasons i think the lions did at first and then the browns were like a handful of years later but the chiefs man could be number three say this they're on a two-game losing streak going back to last season it's pretty exciting you to watch but here's you know i never really enjoyed chiefs games all that much for a wide variety of reasons it's not just because they're always good and they always win um but you know i mean they play kind of a like the eagles they play a very boring brand of football they get a lot of

penalties in fact for all the chiefs fans out there who are whining when people whine about chiefs getting all the penalties i don't know if you guys saw this and i would i would need to do some more reading up on it uh or into it just to confirm everything's legit but they there was an academic study that was recently published. This was like yesterday or two days ago, proving or displaying showing that the chiefs on average, I think it was 23 to 28% get calls, penalties in their favor, 23 to 28% a rate higher than league average.

Which some of that is just, you know, the NFL with its narrative and telling refs, hey, call it this way, call it that way. And then part of it is, I mean, they're good. at drawing penalties too they're good at like faking things mahomes is good at when you get to the sideline if anyone nudges you like throw your hands up and fall down like there's an art to that flopping essentially is what we call it but i had a a genuinely good time watching this game last night for a couple of different reasons here uh number one and i had to put up with with the makes too but Harrison Butker, famous women hater, huge mega guy, very, if there was ever a guy who loved the concept of trad wife, it was this guy.

Harrison Butker misses an extra point, which, I mean, it was a six-point win at the end of the day, but it impacted the flow of the game, so that was hilarious. Patrick Mahomes, in general, was like pretty mellow throughout the entire game. didn't really do things that irritated me, but he did get rocked at one point. It was kind of weird. He was like running off and he was like maybe going to go out of bounds, but he kind of like his feet kind of got mixed up and he wasn't really able to like do anything one way or another. He kind of got stuck and he got slammed pretty hard by a chief's defensive back. So that was exciting to watch. Another year, another, and I never root for injury, but I do think it's funny when it happens in this particular way.

Second straight year now, the Chief's wide receiver getting knocked out by his own player. So last year it was Patrick Mahomes taking out Rishi Rice's ACL on a fumble. And then this year, what was it? Like the third play from scrimmage, Travis Kelsey, and Xavier Worthy,

who was their number one receiver right now because Rishi Rice is suspended, running a mesh route, which we won't get into all the details on here for the non-football heads, It's just a type of play. And they mess it up somehow. Travis Kelsey just slams into Xavier Worthy's shoulder,

knocks him out of the game. And again, not rooting for injury. I don't want Xavier Worthy to get hurt or anything like that. But it's kind of hilarious that the chiefs keep knocking out their own players. And then half time will go the other side of the ball or the other side of the field here. Jim Harbaugh, the Chargers coach, is notoriously whiny and very. irritating to watch as well he was very level-headed last night i don't think they showed him whining at all uh which is just like extremely refreshing because i don't want to sit there and watch

and complain about something there was one weird thing if anyone knows anything about this because we had the game on mute we were watching the paper the uh what are we calling it like the sequel to the office is that the best way to put it um now on peacock which i'm like i think it's It's been two episodes. I can't judge it yet. The characters, to me, are a little bit too, like, they're not even Gen Z. They're like my age, but I don't know if they are extreme enough yet to where I can really, like, tell what their personalities are or why they're funny.

I don't hate it. Don't love it so far. But again, it's been two episodes. But at the start of the, what happened at the start of the second half in this Chiefs Chargers game in Brazil? The chargers were out in the field ready to go to receive the kickoff, and the chiefs are just, like, standing in the tunnel. What was the deal with that?

There's a lot of things on the show today. We could just Google and figure out very quickly. That's chief among them, pun intended. But to finish off what was so satisfying about the chiefs, watching the chief's game last night, and again, it wasn't just like, oh, the chief's loss, that's amazing. Like, all these other things happened in the loss that made it way better. the internal fighting amongst the chiefs was hilarious to watch so first it's joan taylor probably my least favorite player in the nfl not because of like an attitude or ego or something

like that but more just like how he plays the game is absolutely infuriating if you don't know joan taylor is the chief's right tackle so he's the furthest guy on the line to the right of of you know the chief's line for protecting Patrick Mahomes. And Juan Taylor does a couple of things that are absolutely infuriating. One, he lines up, and last night, he wasn't doing this. I didn't notice it, but in years past, he lines up so far off the line of scrimmage, you're supposed to have it to where your helmet has to be at least in the same perpendicular line or line, essentially, as the centers,

midsection, the belt, essentially. And Juan Taylor is notorious for doing that and then moving back like another foot and a half. And it's just like, bro, this is not legally, you can't do that. If you're wondering why, well, he's further away from the edge rusher, so it gives him more time to prepare for a stunt, a move, a twist, whatever it is. Now, he didn't do that last night, but he is notorious for doing that. The other thing, and I think everyone in the league knows this by now, So Juan Taylor false starts.

He gets an early start on, I would say, approximately 50% of the chief snaps. And in years past, the rest have called it like once or twice a game. And I think last night, he only got flagged for like two or three false starts. So it wasn't like they increased it by that much. But any false starts, I'll take. Because when he is not only lined up further back than he's allowed to be, And he also gets an early start. It's like he's doubling down on cheating, essentially.

And I think he got called for a couple holding penalties too. But what was hilarious was Travis Kelsey, I think it was, I don't know, after one of his false starts or one of his holding penalties, this was Joanne Taylor, the right tackle. Travis Kelsey just laid into this guy. And I'm not even like, oh, yeah, finally someone yelled at him. It's just the infighting. That's hilarious to me. And then to cap it all off, the last play of the game, essentially, before the kneel downs is a third and long.

The Chargers don't get it. They're going to have to punt it away to Mahomes, who can drive them down for a touchdown. The Chiefs would win. Herbert escapes the pressure of the Chargers quarterback. Chris Jones runs an in the... Chris Jones, if you don't, we're getting real technical. Chris Jones is the Chief's best defensive player.

He's a defensive, a nose tackle, essentially. But he was playing. edge on this particular play, the game on the line. Chris Jones runs a twist inside and that allows Herbert to escape out to his right, scramble for 20 yards, ice the game, wins the game. And the Chiefs have this white linebacker who I think the NBC and the general NFL has decided like is going to be the Chief's like face of the defense this season because he's got like a cool neck thing and he's yelling all the time and he's white well he just

lays into chris jones but the stupid thing about this one chris jones is your best player he's by far your highest play highest paid defensive player whether he made the right move or not i think he didn't make the right move in that particular play but like you should pretty much just trust him to do what he's going to do because he's been doing this a really long time and he's really good at it. But what's hilarious to me is this Chiefs linebacker is laying into him and just bitching at Chris Jones. Like, as the Chargers are kneeling, as the game is over,

it's one thing if, like, someone makes a stupid play in the middle of the second quarter and you want to go to the sidelines and lay into him and argue about it, it's another thing, like, the game's over. Like, you've got to take this to the locker room, bro. This is a terrible look for the Chiefs, but it's absolutely hilarious to watch. watch as just a you can call me a hater if you want but i think it's hilarious anytime there's like significant infighting amongst another team something i really appreciate about my vikings

they're so well coached and they have really good team chemistry you really do not see any sort of uh just like players chewing each other out so for the chiefs to do that to themselves on multiple occasions last night on the first game of the season that was exciting to watch Now, with all that being said, just watch. They're going to find a way to win the Super Bowl. And I'll be sitting here in four months just melting into the couch in the middle of January. But until then, it's a lot of fun. They got to play the Eagles next week.

Chiefs are going to be 0-2, bro. I'm calling it now. We got a trivia question in a little bit here, but first we have some big questions that I wanted to ask. We're not going to elaborate on every single one of these. In fact, I would like to get out of here before too much longer. So I'm starting to get a little bit hungry. It's 9.37 a.m. I woke up at 5 and woke up this morning, got myself a gun.

I never, I have a confession to make before we get into our big questions. I never finished The Sopranos. I started watching it, I think, I don't know if I was still in Baltimore, Beantown, or if I had moved back to Chicago, but give or take, like six, seven years ago, something like that. I had never seen it. I got access to HBO Go,

whatever they were calling their streaming service at the time. Because it was, what, HBO Go, when they first launched it, is that right? And then it was HBO Max. And then for what, like four months, it was just Max, and now it's back to HBO Max? It's been very confusing.

but I got through the first I mean how many seasons of the Sopranos are there's like eight seasons give or take something along that along those lines like seven eight I think I got about halfway through one of the last things I distinctly remember happening spoiler alert if you never watch the Sopranos I mean it's been out for 25 years so but the uh I don't know the name her name or anyone's name other than Tony, frankly. I don't even know E.D. Falco's name. The son, that AJ, right? AJ soprano, Anthony Jr., that would make sense.

And then the grandpa is junior soprano, right? A lot of juniors in the show. It's kind of like a rest of development. The last thing I remember is Tony's sister in the show kills her husband, her ex, something like that after he hits her. It's a guy who's the same like scummy-looking Italian guy who plays the bad guy

or like the henchman in Weird Al Yankovic's 1989 cult classic UHF. I don't know the name of the actor if he's still with us or not. But he's just like the most classic looking, you know, if you had to pick a guy who's like, who's

the actor who would be Goodfellas if Goodfellas was a person and not a movie, you'd be like this guy, for sure. I guess you could make that argument for Joe Pesci, but you throw in the Home Alone stuff and he's too charming with that gold tooth, the wet bandits. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, what a comedy crime duo. You'll never get anything that good again. Those two guys, they're banter. I wonder what Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern's relationship was slash is like in real life, probably more of a was

because home alone was what 1990 home loan tune is like two home loan tune it's the animated christmas special home loan two is what like 92 probably something like that so i mean it's been 30 to 35 years since they worked together but i wonder because joe pesci strikes me as like uh maybe i wouldn't say like not the nicest guy like wouldn't say that about him but you know i don't know he's kind of his own person daniel stern's a little bit more quirky I wonder if they, like, got along in real life and we're having, like, legit banter back and forth, or if it was a little bit more structured, unclear. We would need to get Chris Columbus on the line for that one.

Chris Columbus, right? He wrote, or he directed the Home Alone's, and then what's his name? 16 Candles guy. Was he the producer? Why am I blanking on this guy's name? We haven't Googled a single thing all show. what's the the 80s films coming of age director it's pretty embarrassing we are going to google this because he's awesome and i can't remember what his name is which is really embarrassing

he was involved john hughes that was bad john hughes when p when i think of home alone the first thing he was like oh yeah john hughes john hughes uh but i don't he didn't direct it that was Chris Columbus, I believe, the same guy who did the first couple of Harry Potter's, is that right? But John Hughes was very much a part of those films. I believe he produced them. Other big questions, what is Embry-Riddle hiding? What is the Embry-Riddle? Embry-Riddle is like a university, right? Excuse me, and they're known for their aeronautics or aeronautical program. space, planes, flight, Denzo Washington, John Goodman, the lady from Yellowstone, Don Cheadle.

I think Don Cheadle's in flight. Not sure. Saw it once. Good film. But Embry Riddle, right? Okay, so you got Embry, but they've got a riddle to tell. And is it, does it have something to do with the moon landing? Coverup, 1969, John Glenn? Hmm. Now, John Glenn had nothing to do with the, the moon landing, I don't think. Three astronauts, right? Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Glenn Miller Orchestra, in the mood. All over the place here.

Just naming as many space-related things as I can think of, which includes in the moon, in the moon, in the moon by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, in the moon by John Glenn Orchestra. there you go. There's a real mishmash. But I don't know what the Embry Riddle is. I've never met someone who even went to Embry Riddle. All I know is they've got, if you want to be like a Space Force captain, Embry Riddle would probably be a good place to go. What's the deal with this? Okay, so some of the branches of the military have their own school, but some of them don't. Army, West Point. You can like go to Army and get a degree. Navy, somewhere else.

Annapolis, probably. Is that where the, like, University of Navy is? They probably don't call it that. You can, like, you can get a, can you get, like, a bachelor's of creative writing from Navy? Probably not, but maybe. Air Force Academy, right? Colorado Springs, been there. But then, like, there's no Marines school.

Marines are part of the Coast Guard, is that right? Is there a Coast Guard University? You always hear about the Army Navy game in college football, and I know Air Force plays too. But I never heard about the Coast Guard, you know, who's the starting left guard for the Coast Guard? I haven't heard anything about that. But finally, speaking of Embry Riddle, there isn't like a Space Force University, is there? It sounds like McDonald's University Hamburger U or something, where you just go and like buy a moon rock, but you don't actually get a bachelor's in communication studies.

If there is a Space Forest University, someone tweet at us at Beantown Cast, let us know. When I was thinking about Embry Riddle, I also thought about Rice University, which is in Houston, I believe. And I don't imagine they're named after actual edible rice. There's probably some guy named rice. But it brought me to a bigger question, which type of rice? do you think is best? A lot of people just prefer the classic white. I will admit there are times when just the quickness of 15-minute classic white,

it absorbs whatever other flavors you got going on. It's good. The brown rice takes a little bit more work, but you keep a little bit more of that fiber. It's absolutely delicious. But may I introduce to you a dark horse in the rice conversation, the Minnesota long-grained wild rice, is that black. black rice i guess absolutely delicious a little bit nutty a little bit more chewy you give me a good well-prepared chicken and minnesota long grain wild rice soup i prefer to say the whole name every

single time and we are cooking you throw you throw together that same chicken soup and put in white rice or brown rice it's like yeah this is still delicious i'm still enjoying it's still a good bite really it's not really a game changer the same way as minnesota long grain wild rice is so i don't know there's probably other rice as i'm missing rice in don't eat that one but my money for uh we're not going to answer many of these big questions today we certainly didn't figure out the embrye riddle but that's my answer to which type of rice is best minnesota long grain wild rice don't forget it here. This is not to put anyone on blast. That is not my intention. It's more of just, it's turned into like a meta thing at this point. So every, every week, this, you know, this we call it,

you know, immersion week when we're teaching these students. It's a, it's a triumvirate formula. So there's the academic portion, which my co-teacher was fantastic to be doing it with him for six years. You know, he teaches and he kind of leads a lot. lot of these excursions this week. He's a working musician. And then I have a TA, and then there's, there's me, and we do more of the, like, welcome to college, finding your community, wellness, academic planning and registration, explore your purpose, those types of lessons.

Every year, when we go down to Chinatown area, right off the green line, there's a white castle. And every year, one of the nuggets of information that my co-teacher shares is, oh, this is the first White Castle and every year I'm perplexed because my understanding has always been White Castle, it's not from Chicago, it's from Wichita. And every year this fact is shared and never do I ever have the, it's not even like the confidence, it's more just like, I'm torn between like, I don't want to like burst a bubble. I don't want to, as much as I've researched this, try to lock this down. I don't want to come across as like, oh, actually, it's this.

So I've just kind of like settled into letting that fact be shared every time when we're down there. And one of these years, I'm going to go talk to my co-teacher and be like, are you sure that's right? Or like, was it the first one in Chicago? I'm confused. But my big question is that White Castle off what is it, Cermack and like, what? What? What? Wabash, something like that. That's not the first White Castle, right? The first one was in Wichita. Am I crazy? Am I taking crazy pills? So again, this isn't to say like, oh, you know, hide behind my podcast. Actually, I'm right. I'm just curious because this fact has been shared every single year that we've been, you know, going to this particular location,

like South Loop area, Brownsville. And I just don't, I don't know. I feel like I'm missing something. Because which, uh, White Castle is, it's not. It's not. not like a, oh yeah, Chicago, White Castle, institution. It's like, no, it's from Kansas. Confused by the whole thing. Almost out of coffee here, which means we got to wrap things up. I have a couple more. Next, did dinosaurs become birds or lizards or both? Because when you're a kid, it's like, oh, dinosaurs are like those big lizards, lizard king, right? That's what Tyrannosaurus Rex translates to. I don't know if that's true or not. But then, you know, you start reading more Michael

Crichton, you watch Jurassic Park, and it's like, actually, these dinosaurs display bird tendencies and, like, their movements and their head bobbing and that sort of thing. So it's like, oh, the actual, like, woke take is dinosaurs actually became birds. But now I feel like we're swinging back in the other direction. By we, I just mean my own thoughts and musings. And it's like did dinosaurs, because they still got the scaly kind of reptilian thing going on. So, Did they become birds? Did they become lizards? Neither, both.

We really need a paleontologist to answer this for us, getting in touch with us. I've got a couple more here. What? Four more. This happened to me last night. I had a muscle twitch in my wrist. It was the kind of thing.

You know, you know how you look at your wrists and you got like the two, I mean, what are these? It's like the, you know, two lines that run parallel that like right in the center of your wrist, what are these? Are these veins, arteries? They're pretty like firm. It's like a tendon. I don't think it's like a vein or an artery. It's too big and strong. It's like a tendon or a ligament or

something. You know what I'm talking about. Look at your wrist. Anyways, mine was twitching last night. And it's the sort of thing like it. It's connected to like your middle finger. So it's like constantly like uncontrollably coming, like twitching for lack of the better. We all know what muscle twitching is. My big question is, how does the body know, forget what is twitching for a second, because that's a whole other thing. How does the body know where it wants to twitch? You had all these tendons, these ligaments, these muscles, skeletal systems, cardiovascular, nephrons, I think those are in your kidneys. How does the body decide this is where we're going to twitch today? Because I've had eyelids twitch, toes twitch. My toes haven't really twitched in the last

10 years or so but in high school I remember like sitting at the computer in her basement just toes going crazy not even like oh after a really long run I'll say this uh the last time I had like a crazy spasm twitching attack was the last time I ran a marathon which was I think four years ago already um after the fact just sitting there my calves were just going crazy They were just, every single little muscular tissue piece was just firing on all cylinders. My calf looked like, I don't know, one of like, you know how like you can like listen to a music, but you like watch the sound waves and it's like going up, going down, you know, you know what that looks like running out of vocabulary here.

That's what my calves looked like. But, I mean, how did my body decide last night? We're going to twitch in your wrist. no mom's coming home let's try maple's trick okay maple we're going to stay on the couch buddy and mom comes home that means it's time to go back maple come here buddy come here maple not doing a good job come here maple come here maple come on buddy oh it's oh it's auntie well it's never going to be able to do the trick now fail remember that uh that we were talking about network tv shows that we watched grown up

remember that one show, I think it was on Fox where it's like the shapes, there's like shapes cut out of like a foam wall and the wall's moving at you and you have to try to like fit through the shape or else you fall into the foam pit. What was that show called? Make the shape, something like that. I don't think, I think like 10% of the people got through those shapes or wipeout another great show. A lot of fails on wipeout. Got a lot of key keys. jingling. Hi, Amanda. We're almost done here. So that was twitching. Next up, what is distilling? I was sitting there making my coffee this morning. I saw we have some distilled white vinegar on the window sill. And that got me thinking, what the heck is distilling? You hear about

like distilleries in the alcohol making process. But if you give me a cup of tap water and you said, hey, go distill this. What the heck am I supposed to do? Is that just me boiling it? Do I let it sit in the sun for 48 hours? Do I need to do something with a colander? Is there an osmatic process that occurs? That's right. Osmatic, osmosis, the process of osmosis something? What the heck is distilling? And why does my white vinegar need to be distilled? You can have distilled water two, it tastes exactly the same as the tap water, but it's been thoroughly distilled. I don't know. Someone could answer that one for us.

And then two more here, both related to water. First up, you hear a lot about runners or athletes in general, speaking of the Air Force Academy, training at altitude because you have less oxygen, the air is thinner. And so your body has to work harder, and your cardiovascular system improves, all that stuff, so that when you're back at sea level, which we'll get to in a second, you, in theory, can perform at a higher clip, if you will. So my question is we talk about athletes training at altitude. What about swimmers?

You never hear about pools up in Bolivia or, you know, the Himalayas or whatever. Logistics aside, do swimmers swim train at altitude? If not, should they? How did Michael Phelps get to be so good if he wasn't swimming at altitude? Because he's from, like, Baltimore County, which is very low-lying, two feet above sea level practically. And so is there something with the water and the oxygen? But you're still breathing the oxygen in the air the same way a runner is.

So shouldn't we be building? This is why the USA's falling behind. and swimming. I'll tell you what, we need to be building these pools at the Air Force Academy, at, you know, Idaho, the highlands, even, you know, like Tennessee or something. Eastern Tennessee, you get a nice rise. That's where we need to be training. That's why USA swimming is losing to that one. Who is he, a French guy who just kicks our asses every Olympics these days? Very irritating to watch. And then finally, speaking of water and sea level, sea level as a concept are all these oceans out there at the exact same level or are we talking we got some

some differences here now i know they're all connected so eventually it's not going to be that big of a difference but if you go up to like outside of baffin island and then you go to whatever's above the mariana trench is that the same level a sea level the exact same thing all across the world or do we have some differences it's easy enough with like the great lakes it's like Lake Michigan is up here, and then as it gets closer to the ocean, you know, Lake Erie is a little bit further down, and then you go over Niagara Falls, and you got Lake Ontario, and it's a little bit further down,

and I don't know if any of that is accurate geographically, but you get the gist, but are the seas? Are they all the same? These are the big questions that I have. Let's finish up with our trivia question of the week, since football has started, I was pondering. I was trying to come up with a never-ending post-ball trivia question, but we just settled on NFL instead.

But don't fear baseball heads. I've got a bonus question for you all as well. Our trivia question of the week is very simple. Name the four current NFL teams who have never participated in a Super Bowl. So not teams that haven't won. This isn't a Vikings or a Bill's question. This is named the four NFL teams who have never participated in a Super Bowl, never appeared in a Super Bowl. And the bonus, we can do the bonus before we reveal the answer to the original question.

It's along the same veins. Name the one current MLB team who has never appeared in a world series. These are very straightforward questions. There's no tricks, no treats, it's not Halloween season yet. The answer, the four NFL teams who have never appeared in a Super Bowl and the current franchises, the Detroit Lions, the Cleveland Browns, the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the Houston Texans. And then the sole remaining MLB team was never appeared in a World Series,

the Seattle Mariners. So there you go. That is our Bean Town podcast of the week for September 6th, 2025. Happy October Fest. hope everyone has a light jacket that they can bring with them because there is a significant chill in the air. He feels like was 42 when I woke up this morning. I had to wear a shirt on my run. It was terrible. That's what I got for you. Let's go ahead and cue up some of our outro music. My name is Quinn David Furness. This is my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast. I hope everyone

is staying safe. I hope you're staying sane and I'll check in on you next time. Bye-bye. Thank you. I don't know. It's a good. I don't know. I can't know. You know, I'm going to

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