Beantown Podcast - Bloc Party, US Counties, and Dublin Parties (09262025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: September 27, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss early 2000s british bands, the Killers compilations albums, and how overrated Guinness is...

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for, I was going to say Saturday. Sabido. Friday. Bierrez is that Friday in Spanish? It's easier if you say all of them in a row.

That's kind of how you memorize them. It's like if you ask someone, like, what letter comes after, you know, R in the alphabet, and you're just kind of like, you know, let me just run through it first, and then I'll tell you. Obviously, it's S, okay? I'm not a dummy, but with Spanish days of the week, I'm a little bit more of a newbie to this, right? Lunes, Martes, Miracles, Juvis. Is that right? Jueves is Thursday?

I don't know. We'll get our foreign correspondent in here. Fiernes Sado Domingo My name is Kinn

and this is my program of podcast King David Furnier present the

podcast of Bintown I've been saying this for a long time that we were going to do a Bintown

podcast fully in Spanish it's like when they start the the football games and it's like, go to your remote. Press 2 to access the Spanish language broadcast of this program in Espaniol.

And one of these days I'm going to do it. I tell you what, I'm just going to do it. And there's going to be some prep and probably a lot of Google Translate that goes into it. But I'm going to do it. See? what's going on it is a friday we are coming to you live i am the creator of the host and the chief translator of this program quinn david furnace presents the bean town podcast all right i'm done with the spanish i promise so many of you out there listening from you know white people land

you're like what the heck is this chico talking about am i right guys i'm not even like riding a duolingo high or anything. I'm just keeping my street going, you know, trying to get to the finals of whatever fake tournament they've got going on. I was going to say something else, not particularly insiduous, deciduous trees, right? But before I say that, I should mention listener discretion is advice. When you're listening to the bean top podcast, number one, we'll occasionally use some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terribly. Okay, I want to say I'm, like, fully done now, but I'm just kind of in this mode where I'm like, if I, like, start to land on a word and I know what the Spanish version of that word is, la palabra, I might just go for it. And you can't really fault me, okay? I have no idea what fault me would be in Spanish. Eurme, something like that. I'm pretty much done now. What I was going to say is fake ass, but I don't even.

remember what it was about. Are there any good celebrities out there in history who have a, you know, who are like known for their ass, but it's a fake ass? I don't, not that I know, I mean, I'm sure there are. The whole ass implants thing, you really got to have a lot of time and money on your hands to get ass implants. I mean, the whole Kim Kardashian thing, what was the like, Kim Kardashian broke the internet? I don't even know what year that was, but you all recall the the photo i'm talking about right where it was like she um she like what was it like it was a picture of she's wearing like that black dress and it was a champagne glass like standing on top of her ass and she was popping a champagne bottle and the the the the the liquid spurting out if you will

S-P-U-R-T-I-N-G was, like, coming back over her head, a perfect arc into the glass. What year do you guys think that was? To me, that was like the last time Kim Kardashian was huge, because before that, you know, it started with the sex tape, right? She, what was it, with some rapper named Ray J. Who, I don't know. It was just like, you could call him anything you want to be like, oh, yeah, that guy's like a semi-famous rapper.

Ray J. Young Thug. Da Boy. Like, it doesn't matter what you call him. I'm going to be like over here in white person's land. Oh, yeah. Like, that seems like a mid-tier rapper. So she makes this sex tape. By the way, drinking a cognac from Kirkland, if you can believe it. Kirkland Cognac. What a time to be alive. it's from Christmas this past year and I'm finally getting around to it thank you to my in-laws for the Kirkland Cognac

I really appreciate it it tastes it was I was telling my parents this the other day it tastes just like not just like I went into it having researched it quite a bit because literally up until like a week ago six five six days ago but i think it was last weekend i had it for the first time i didn't i never had cognac as far as i knew and so i read about it online because i got a thing of cognac

from my in-laws for christmas this past year nine months ago and i it's just been sitting there on the bar cart and i was like okay let me google search like what am i i i'm going to drink it straight what should i expect here and it was basically like oh yeah it's like uh it's like uh it's like a, you know, it's a liqueur. It's sweet. You know, think of brandy, like, you know, wine, all that stuff. And so I'm thinking, like, okay, this thing is going to be, like, very sweet. Just, like, pop an ice cube in it and drink it, like, juice, basically. And this is my second time having it. And to me, it's going to be two things. One, my extremely under cultured taste buds. And two, it's Kirkland brand, okay? So I feel like you can go to a lot of, like, fancy cognac bars. I don't know.

Do they have coniac bars in Paris or Marseille or Lyon or are there other cities in France that we know of? Normandy, Nice. We cover the big ones, I think. What do you guys think is the second largest city in France? We got a lot of trivia for you today. We have at least two that I've written down. Marseilles, is that our guess for second largest city in France? Largest cities in France.

We're going to get through this. It goes, here's our list from Wikipedia. Paris, Marseilles, Lyon, Toulouse, Nice, Nach, Montpel, Strasbourg, Bauduch. Rhin, Riem, L'Hav, St. Lhung, oh, that's St. Antienne, like Travis Aetian, Toulou, Greno, Dijon, Bé, Anjie, Villene, Rion, O'Hour, that's on the island of Rionch, Laman, Nymne, Provench, Bres, Clemente, Le Mokhe, Tu, Amiens, Mets, Pepegian, Besson, Bessingian, Ullo bianco, ruin, mihous, Kian, Sintini, Sintin, I'm going to end there.

Because I'm not shitting you. And by the way, thank you to our friends in Pekistan for making us the 112th-ranked podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pekistan. And I promise I can do a better pronunciation, better pronunciation of Pakistani provinces and cities. I'm not kidding. when I ended the last city

and I was just like I was flying from the hip shooting from the hip there obviously but generally I was following basic phonetics and I wasn't doing anything out of left field

you can go to the Wikipedia article for largest cities in France sorted by population and you could follow along and you'd be like oh yeah like what he said was halfway there but it makes sense

then I get to the city St. Denise St. Denis. So it's a city called St. Denis, or St. Denis, as you would presumably say in French. I took one year French when I was in, what, eighth, seventh grade, eighth grade? It was just me and this one other kid, Jacob. I was going to say Jacob Trotter. Jacob Grogan, the Grogans for all you Hallstrom homeschool workshoppers out there. Kind of under the radar family, there was a Jacob Grogan, who I think was like maybe two years older than me. I think he was in my brother's age.

And then there was a Hannah Grogan, who I believe was in my grade. Not like Halstrom, when I say Holstrom, if you're not familiar with the Beaton podcast, Hallstrom was the name of our like homeschool co-op where all the families got together once a week. Teachers taught classes, families hung out, kids went to school, there was gym. You know, the smallest version of a school, but within the parameters of a homeschool. Half an hour dedicated to chapel and Charlie Kirk worship. No, we didn't worship Charlie Kirk, but we would have 20 years later. but I took this French class with this lady who had this French last name, and I'm almost

positive she's passed away at this point. She just, she looked like she had to be a heavy smoker. But I took French for one year and it was one of those deals where you just kind of go the whole year and there's not a lot of accountability whether you like legitimately know something or not. And also it's like you're in seventh grade. It's like at what point I feel like I didn't, as far as foreign languages go, I didn't really feel like I was really taking accountability for my own learning or my own abilities in learning a foreign language until I got to at least like community college. And then it was like, okay, like I got to figure some stuff out at least, you know, like junior year of high school, senior year of high school. And then it got a little bit

better. I had to take like two more years of Spanish when I was in college. And now I've been doing my duolingo for two years. And now it's like, okay, I at least feel like I can look at a sentence or read a paragraph. El paraffo. Parafo. What is that? What is that word for paragraph? Parafo. Something like that. I don't know. I just learned it the other day, literally, in duolingo. But it's like I can at least take some ownership. over it. We got to finish this story. Whereas in seventh grade French, which was high school level, it was just like, no, I like, whatever, fuck this, I don't care. That was how I spent the entire year. So those hard-earned tuition dollars from my parents put to good use. And I say that

in quotation marks, but meaning both sides of the coin, one, it was like, what was, you know, know, my parents would know better, but these homeschool classes would be like $50 a semester or something like that for a student. And it's like, that's not a lot of money. We just opened up a beer. Give me one second. But on the flip side, we didn't come from a lot of money. So $50 a semester is something, more than nothing else. But the grand scheme, the grand moral of this story is that French is not my thing. I will say I've been doing a lot of honeymoon planning. We're going to a variety of places, but it's solely either two-thirds of our

time is going to be spent in Portuguese-speaking countries, and then one-third in Spanish. And I think my Spanish duolingo plus college skills is going to get us as far as. As far as, we need to go. You don't need any French, thankfully. If you're curious, the beer I cracked open was the, I think we talked about this last week, but I do not recall. The Trader Joe's brand double IPA, it's like boat swing, double IPA, it's a red can. It's the cheapest way to get a buzz, more or less. I mean, you can get this six-pack of 12-ounce cans of double IPA, like 8.5% or something for what was it seven bucks eight bucks i mean it's probably cheaper to go to trader joes and get some scotch or vodka for like 14 bucks for a handle like from a volumetric perspective v-o-l-u-m-e-t-i-rcrc ircc

19 letter words for two thousand's ken uh that's probably cheaper but do you want to sit there and drink sip on straight vodka or whiskey or do you want to sip on a boat swain double IPA. The whiskey is not that bad. Okay, to finish the final ultimate thought, 15 minutes into this Godforsaken podcast. When I was naming French cities, I'm just going to blow through this.

I'll tell you exactly what I looked at. This city name is St. Denis, S-A-I-N-T-Hifeng D-N-I-S. So in French, presumably, Saint-D-N-E, right? just trying to give it to you straight up what I think they would say. But then it goes Santany and then the country or county name, whatever we'll talk counties later in the show, is Sen, like the river, S-E-I-N-E, and then hyphen, which is S-A-I-N-T, like Saint.

So C-S-A-S-S-S-E-N-E. So in real time, it's Sant-D-N-E, S-S-S-S-D-N-E. And that might not sound that bad, but when you are like flying through these, city names, and all of a sudden you go from cana, C-A-E-N, and the city after which we didn't even get to is Nancy. There's no French pronunciation of that. It's just Nancy, like the girl from stranger things. And then sandwich in between you of San Deney, San Antonio. And it's just like, yeah, that's not that bad, but that's actually a lot of letters. Let's click on it because I never

heard of Sondonis, San Antonio. It's a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris Fonse, is located 9.4 kilometers from the center of Paris. Antoni is the second most public suburb of Paris at the Berlin-Belancho, the population of 113, $116,000, at the 23rd,000 at the 23rd Saint-Saint-Saint-Ont. It is a sub-prefecture of the Department of Saint-Saint-Anonis, being the saint of Adon-de-Marsie of St. Tonyi is also part of the Metropolis de Grande Paris, and that is Saint-Dondie. And it shows you a map and it's just like Paris plus the suburbs.

And it's like, yeah, why isn't this thing a part of Paris, you know? I want to say right now, I think I actually went back and looked at this. I was, it feels like, I don't know if SoundCloud has been removing episodes or what, because I thought we were on the precipice of episode 400 for legitimately like a month now. And I think this still might be $3.99. this is either 399 or next week is 3 or this is 400 or next week is 400 and I swear for like three four weeks I've been like oh yeah this might be episode 400 and it keeps getting bumped back um but what I was trying to say is you know 400 give or take episodes into the bean town

podcast to the best of my memory which is not great but it's been eight years okay I'm doing my best over here eight years of bean town podcast giving you a new episode every single goddamn week. I don't think we've ever tried a French accent. And I don't really have a claim or anything interesting to say behind that, but it's just... This has been an episode for the Linguay heads.

Okay, we started off doing translation in Espaniol, and now we're moving to French. and the last thing I want to say before we move on is like it's been kind of a shit show and I've been you know kind of all over the place I don't think for as stereotypical perhaps as my French accent was I don't think it was terrible

if I'm being completely honest with you that's my best objective take excuse me I don't think my French accent was legitimately awful maybe cartoonish but not terrible actually we actually have a couple different hot takes of the week to get to we have two hot takes unusual before i do that and i want to i've got a long uh article in a lot a notes app article is what i was going to say i have a long a document here in my notes app of things I wanted to get through. Some of them might land for you. Some of them

might not. I'm just going to rattle them off. We're going to go one at a time. Now that we're 19 minutes in and we've flushed the Western European languages out of our system. We're going to keep going. I was about to start recording and I was on YouTube. I was like, let's get some like intro music, not for the podcast, but for like the preparation. My preparation, if you're curious is essentially like get the samson q2 u series out of storage pour some beverages make sure the laptop's good to go get the notes going on the phone get the intro music going on the phone make sure maple's ready for mabel's minute and make sure i've urinated because inevitably we get to like 50 minutes in it's like oh shoot i got to pee we got it in the episode so do your best with all that stuff so as

i'm preparing it go to youtube and wouldn't you know Sawdust, an album by The Killers, pops up. I can't remember the song. One of the songs from Sawdust pops up just in like my, oh, you might want to listen to this. And usually YouTube, I feel like 80% of the recommendations are just like, oh yeah, you listened to this five minutes ago. Why don't you listen to it again? So to get a record or a song from the Killers album Sawdust was such a breath the fresh air. Terry Gross, fresh air, NPR. And I don't even remember what it is. It was not leave the bourbon on the shelf or sweet talk. There's another one. It's, shoot, I'm just going to look it up because it's bugging me now. But the reason I mention it is because YouTube,

if you're listening, I am 100% in favor of you giving, like, spend at least like 20 to 25% of your recommendations on just out of left field stuff, whether I've listened to it or not. And in the case of the killer's sawdust, I absolutely have listened to it. By the way, the track was Shadowplay. But the reason I mention it for twofold. One, like, I want YouTube to give me more of those recommendations. Like, I have not listened to Shadow Play by the Killers in, I don't know, what is it, 2025? Like, I was going to say something aggressive. Three, four years. I legitimately don't think

I've heard that song in three to four years. If you're curious, Sawdust by The Killers, it's not one of their studio albums. It's a compilation album. But they dropped it, I think, after their first two albums, maybe their first three albums. They go Hot Fuss, which was like 2004. And then Samstown, which I think is 2006, which is a Las Vegas, casino. Speaking of which next week, we'll be broadcasting live. New announcement, fresh to me and you all at the same time, because I literally just realize this. We'll be broadcasting live from Las Vegas, Nevada, baby. Probably on my phone. Don't get your hopes up for audio quality. We'll see how it goes. But I'll be in Las Vegas, Nevada next weekend for a wedding. Congratulations

to a friend of the show, Haley Benson, who was on the show. all the way back in season one. You're talking about how this is episode 399 or 400, whatever it is. Talk about episode like 20 or 10. That's Haley Benson. Congratulations to Haley and her soon-to-be husband, Michael. We've got to try to finish this thought on The Killers, though.

Oh, but Sawdust is an album by The Killers. There's a compilation album that they released after like two or three albums. but it's you know compilation is interesting you think of compilation as being like okay let's put our heads together let's put it let's uh let's pick out our best songs and put them on this album and sawdust is not like a best of album it's a lot of b sides and the only reason i want to bring this up is like there was this early 2000s late 90s sound, Brit pop, Brit rock sound, that the killers were born out of. That is just like, you could play it with just, you could play these songs with just electric guitar, bass, and drums. And that's

all you need, a three-piece band and then vocals. But I was listening, I was actually doing a software test, if you can believe it, for YouTube. That was about like comparing Tiny Desk NPR concerts with K-E-X-P, Cheryl Waters, there was this Vivo thing they wanted me to compare, yada, yada, yada. But in that test, I stumbled upon the Block Party NPR Tiny Desk concert. If you don't know Block Party, they're a British band from the same era as the killers, or like early to mid-2000s. And their first album, I think, was called Silent Alarm, perhaps. It was like 2004, 2005.

and they got big you know this is in like the wake of oasis and blur like late 90s now bleeding into the early 2000 and i feel like this is kind of when that era of music ended but if you don't know block party i mean they got from that album alone they have two bangers banquet which is how they open their tiny desk concert and then helicopter which is um featured on a uh a uh a soccer video game, FIFA 06 maybe. I can't remember exactly. But they have an NPR Tiny Desk concert from just a handful of months ago.

And I don't even know how we got all the way here, but essentially sawdust from the killers is very clearly inspired by this late 90s, early 2000s, Brit rock movement. Very crisp, clear audio, quality from the guitar is very much like if samson was recording your album but yeah to cap this thought sawdust the compilation album by the killers released 2007 later than i actually thought mostly besides the songs and the album were recorded between 2007 excuse me 2002 and 2007

and i would just say this if you like the killers in any capacity mr brightside somebody, I was going to say somebody that I used to know, but that's Gautier. Somebody told me, that's what you're looking for, Quinn. Or, what's the, what's the name of their lead single? Not read my mind, but from, from Samstown, right? They have another song. This week on the Beat Top Podcast, Quinn tries to remember lead singles from Killer's albums. smile like you mean it is from hot fuss so their second one

it was like their second big hit not their second big hit by the way or per se but here it is when you were young that's what it is he doesn't look a thing like Jesus but he talks like a gentleman when you imagine when you were young

Brandon Flowers, Las Vegas's finest, actually. I think he's had, like, an interviewer, too, where he talks about that. We're, like, their first two albums, this is the killers, Hot Fuss, and Samstown. It was like, yeah, we were trying to be, like, British pop artists until we, like, figured out our own thing.

And I really respect them for that, because I feel like, you know, it's, it takes, takes a lot of balls to be like, I'm just going to replicate my favorite musicians and write music that sounds like them. And that's one thing. But then the second half of that is like, what if I evolved and changed and grew into my own thing, my own like genre, if you will? And so you see the change with the killers into day and age. And mean, look, in Battleborn and And, you know, wonderful, wonderful.

Now we're just going through a killer's anthology. It's still a lot of Bruce, Bruce Springsfield. But I will say this. I don't think that the killers and in particular brand of flowers get enough credit for what they put out there. We'll do this last plug and then we'll keep moving, I promise. What they put out there in, what was this, 2021, 2022, it's been a while already. It feels like it was just yesterday, but the pandemic ages us all. For their most recent album, Pressure Machine, which if you haven't listened to it,

it's just like a very kind of mellow, laid-back, acoustic kind of album for the most part that speaks to, like, daily life, daily struggles that, I mean, I think anyone can really, too, but it's specifically based out of a town in southern Utah, very much, like, off the grid, off the beaten path. And to see those guys in 20 years, fit less than that, 15, 20 years, evolve from like, oh, yeah, we're just going to copy a way. and blur and, you know, Depeche Mode or whatever, and go into, like, here's our own thing. Props to those guys.

So shout out to Brandon Flowers and the rest of the Killers Band. I'm a big killers fan, if you couldn't already tell. And I think they get a lot of crap or shit for just being like, oh, yeah, one hit wonder, Mr. Brightside. Coming out of my cage and I'll be doing just fine. that was 20 years ago okay and there's been like eight albums since then and some of the stuff I think is great some of the stuff I think is meh but you can't give them crap for for not trying and evolving and growing I want to give a shout out to some of our sponsors here on the program first and foremost our good friends at the samson Q2U series which we've already mentioned

they are coming in crisp, clear, and hot with the audio quality. That's right. Hot. I'm too sexy for my shirt. Too sexy for my mic. So sexy it hurts. And I'm a model. You know what I mean.

And I slam my little tush on the ground. Who the heck sings that one? Manfred Mann. Does that sound right? My first exposure. this, by the way, is an ad for the Samsung Q2U series. My first exposure to that song was the Shrek 2

far, far away idle DVD extra that came when you purchased and owned the Shrek 2 DVD set. And what, Shrek 2 was, what, like 2004? So, I mean, we're getting into serious nostalgia mode. I mean, that's 20 plus years ago when I was born 20 plus years ago was early 70s.

So we're talking like legitimate nostalgia here. I don't even know if it was Manfred Man. I'm too sexy. It just feels like it should be a band called Manford Man, right? I don't even know anything about Manford Man. I'm too sexy. Song by Lola Young. Who the heck is Lola Young?

It reminds me that girl from a summer I turned pretty. right. Lola Tongue. Is that her name? I'm too sexy. It's a song. Right said Fred. Okay. Well, we're learning something. My gut was wrong. My gut was like, yeah, that's got to be Manfred Mann song. What is Manford Man saying? Don't you love me, baby? Is that Duran Duran? We are all over the place on this episode with our British bands. Let's get things straightened out here. I'm too sexy is this song from Right Said Fred. If you're curious, I don't know anything about the band Right said Fred, and we're not going to focus on it. Instead, I want to get to the band Manfred Man to figure what did they sing because they have to have at least one song that I know.

brand manfred manned man tough to say formed in england in 1962 okay we're talking 63 years ago these guys are not young chaps anymore uh what did they sing why don't you tell me what they sing wikipedia do what dady ditty dumb did they do um that's their big song apparently We did have a, and maybe my, my, my, uh, my, uh, my, uh, mees could help me out here. We had some sort of CD, a compilation clearly, uh, a CD, an album when I was a kid, you know, 25 years ago, some sort of record that had that song by Man for Man. do I do-a-de-de-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d. I'm hers. She's mine. She's mine. I'm her. I'm then you look fine. That's the only song you know them for. That's the only thing I care about. But why did we have a CD

from the Cherry Valley Public Library that had this song on it? More importantly, I think less than why did we have it. More importantly, what the heck was that compilation CD? You know, I have a core memory of being a kid. We had a kitchen and like a dining room. Well, we had a separate dining room table. We had a kitchen and a kitchen table, and that was our standard for having supper at night. and after supper is over it's like you bring your dishes back into the dishwashing sink area

but there in the like corner of the kitchen was a tape player and radio i think i don't recall specifically but it was very common for my parents to input a partridge family or David Crosby, tape, cassette, or the turtles, you know, whatever you want, and just start dancing in the kitchen while you're doing your dishes. And I feel like Manford Man, without knowing much about them, would fit right into that. It was right in the corner. It was kind of a cool setup. It was, I should, we'll talk about Home Pride Organ in one second,

but Home Pride Organ could invest this type of stuff. It was kind of this cool setup. It was like this tape player that was like hanging below the cabinets. I don't know. I got to ask my parents about this. This week on our, you know, well-known family chat experience, Sunday morning's at 9.30 central time. And we would just play the hits and do dishes and dance and happy times as a family.

All this is to say, when God speaks, he uses Samson. And, of course, are good friends at HomePriot, Oregon, whether you are installing a tape machine in your cabinets, or you've got an Indian in the cupboard situation, C-U-P-B-O-R-A-D, or, you know, the human brain is fascinating. Let me tell you this very quickly. I'm going to just blow through this. And if it's interesting, great. If not, skip past it. There was a time when I was in high school, I was driving. I was driving my brother's car, which was my uncle's car.

It was a Honda cord, like 98, 99, something. And there were issues with the brakes. We had to get a tune up. I don't know what the issue was. I was at the jiffy loop, whatever it was, in Cherry Valley, next to the mall, near my hometown, with my mom, waiting for this thing to get fixed up we're sitting there in the little waiting room

you know there's like three chairs you're watching family feud Jerry Springer whatever it is my mom's kind enough to wait there with me and we happen to be watching the new adventures of old Christine which I don't think is really a show that has like evolved

or like become a thing in the last decade the new adventures of old Christine was known as being like Julia Louis Dreyfus' next big thing after Seinfeld. So she goes S&L, she goes Seinfeld, it ends in 1999 or whatever. And then New Adventures of Old Christine is like, what, early 2000s to late 2000s? And then she gets Veep and like, I feel like Veep kind of brought her to legendary status.

But we're sitting there and there's an episode, it's a Christmas episode. And it's her in, what's his name, Matthew? something and Clark Gregg it's a it's a good show as far as sitcoms go but there's some sort of topic around like the crappy gifts covered and I remember one of the first I must have just turned 16 and got a smart or not a smartphone but like a Nokia you know slide out phone for the first time and I remember texting my mom on her phone it was the first text I ever one of the first texts I ever sent it was like this they were the the theme of the christmas episode was having a crappy gifts cupboard and how if you get a bad gift at christmas you just throw it in this cupboard and then you're

good to go no one ever sees it again and i remember like sitting there with my mom at this this um this dealership or this mechanic rather and i remember texting her i think one of my first ever text i said if i next time you give me a crappy gift i'm putting in my crappy gift covered, which isn't funny necessarily on its own. But then eventually they fixed the brake pads on this Honda cord. And I rolled it off a lot, yeah, as you say. And the brake lines, I don't know enough about cars to say what happened, what didn't happen. The brakes were completely shot. I could not stop my car. It is just rolling down this hill going into traffic and I'm just like slamming my foot down on the brake.

It's like, well, this car is not stopping. And I don't know exactly what happened. I don't know if it like came to its senses at the last second. You know, Herbie fully loaded or if I like angled the car into a curb. But we got the car stopped. We got it back to the dealership. They got it fixed and it was fine. But like, holy jinkies.

What is that? The mystery machine. What do they call? Scooby-Doo, right? It's a Fred Wilma, not Fred. That can't be right, right? It's Fred Wilma, Daphne, and Shaggy, and Scooby, right? That's the five of them. That's the mystery box. What do they call them? I don't know. I once went to a luau as a kid. If you can believe this, My grandparents know what I'm going to do. I'm going to this weekend, I'm going to call my grandmother, Sally, who's in her 90s.

My grandparents both still kicking it. They've been on the show before. When I was maybe, I don't know, 10, 11, something like that, I went to a luau in Iowa. I just want that to sink in. Luau in Iowa. That's not normal. That's not standard. My oldest brother, Walter, was not there, but the rest of us, my sister and my other brother were there. And the reason I bring this up, because I was thinking about Scooby-Doo, we spent the first half of the luau. It was like, I don't even remember exactly. I'd love to pick my grandmother and maybe my aunt's brain on this as well.

This luau was hosted on, I think it was a lake house. So like a lake in either, northern Iowa, southern Minnesota. I don't recall exactly where it was. But as part of the compound, excuse me, the complex, you know, there's a big house and a nice big green space and a lake. But there were like, I got a case of the burps here, I apologize. There were like two cabins off to the side of the property. And one was like the boy's cabin. One was the girl's cabin and we went to this luau and i just remember the only thing i remember about it was like me my brother my sister and my aunt my dad's younger sister like chilling out in this boy's cabin watching scooby-do while the adults were like having a luau and doing whatever you do at a luau in

northern iowa i don't know but i don't even know how we got all the way to this point where you're talking about Fred Daphne Scabby Scabby as a new mystery machine person Vilma Scrappy Scooby and Scragley What's his name? Shaggy

That's his name I got to call my grandmother and figure out like what Not even like what the heck was that Lua but I would just love to hear chat about it to jog her memory Because it happened I'm not dreaming it.

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I'm a man of my word on the beat town podcast tomorrow I am going to ask my grandma sale about this luau see what she remembers not even like see what she remembers but just like you know when you're like 10 11 12 whatever it's like oh yeah you're along for the ride and you just kind of like go with the flow good or bad it doesn't really matter you're just

like there you're hanging out i mean your grandparents are watching you oh we got we got some action we got some action outside action wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be. So we're going to finish it, Grandma thought. I just want to, like, ask her what, like, how was the party? I mean, this was 20 years ago, so who knows, but we'll see if she remembers. Um, the action outside was, you know, I, we live above a, uh, an intersection here. So it's a, it's an eighth of a mile from, like, the big intersection. So it's, it's, it's more residential. but you get a lot of people crossing the street

and there's a whole button you can press to like alert drivers that you're crossing the street and I Maple and I make that cross I don't know once every two weeks every three weeks something like that and I think it really comes down to like walking with a purpose if you're just like sitting there at the street hesitating

no one's going to stop for you. You just got to start making your move. And look, here's the thing. If they hit you, look, no one wants to get hit. But if they hit you, take a quick action, scoop your dog up, turn away from the hit, take it on the thigh, jump as you're getting impacted, go up on top of the hood. Look, I've been hit by a car two times, three times in my life, once in Lincoln Park. once in south balmore i think those are i think that's it i think it's just two times but like you

got to know how to get hit and if it's really bad like neither of the times i've gotten hit i've been really bad both of them just like slight rolls up on the hood but if it's really bad and you like break a femur or something which god forbid that sounds awful i don't want anyone listening to break a femur but if it's really bad imagine because you're in a crosswalk It's clearly painted. You're not jaywalking or anything like that. Like, regardless of what's going on in traffic, people could be going 95 miles per hour down Irving Park Road.

And you could just be like, oh, yeah, here's a crosswalk. I'm a pedestrian. Let me just mose you out into this intersection. It doesn't, like, you have the right-of-way because you're on foot. Think of the payout you could get. You could be set up for life. Like, if you get, like, $100,000, payout that's an interesting conversation actually you know I'm in my my early 30s here

and it's like what level of lump sum payout would I need to get to the point where I'm like oh yeah financially I'm good like I'm just going to I don't think I would quit my job I think I would just like try to skirt by and put in a lot less effort than they do right now. But it's an interesting call. Like 100,000 would not be enough. 200, I feel like is where things start to get interesting because it's not like, oh yeah, is 200,000 enough to live off for the rest of your life? No, it's like, what if you invest 50% of it and try to live off the dividends? That's the interesting thing. Our hot take of the week is that, uh, uh, uh, then you know, Minnesota Vikings are in Dublin this week.

Now, you know what? I'm going to be up front with you. I got to go to the bathroom. So if you ever wanted to listen to a Beantown podcast where Quinn goes to the bathroom, you're going to want to pause. And here's the issue. Here's the issue with the Beantown podcast and its current forum. We cannot pause.

What we can do, his move into a secure location so that I can go to the bathroom run the faucet and the Minnesota Vikings are in Dublin, Ireland. It's the NFL's first ever game in Dublin, Ireland. They're playing the Pittsburgh

Steelers. And so here's my hot take of the week. I think Guinness is overrated and it's just based off a personal preference personal experience i don't think that ginnis actually tastes that good here's my thing with ginnis it does well in two phases but it misses out severely on the third phase and that's where i have an issue with it so first phase is like the visuals, the presentation, washing our hands as we speak. So like visuals presentation. It's brown. It's got the foam that you're looking for. That's cool. That's nice. It fills up your glass real well. Boom. I'm all for that. Okay. So passes test number one.

Pass test number two is like the initial flavor of it. turning our kitchen lights on because it's getting awfully darken here. The initial sip of a Guinness, I'm all four. Like, I think it's crisp. I think it's refreshing. I think it's nice. I have no concerns about the initial sip of a Guinness. But here's the thing.

Beauty fades. And you're sipping a Guinness, and it's just kind of like, after you get past the foam, it's not that good. it's kind of boring it's kind of basic you're looking at it it's like oh it's a dark beer this should be like you know this should have a i think this is my biggest issue it should have a full flavor and i don't personally feel that ginnis has a full flavor now look guinness is its own thing it has a unique flavor profile and personality i'm not trying to attack ginnis

for what it has chosen to be. I just personally feel that it is not necessarily the best beer for me because although it is really nice up front, it doesn't deliver on the back end. So that's my feel on Guinness. Let us know Beantown Podcast at Yahoo.com or on X at Beantowncast. On Blue Sky at Beantown Podcast, let us know what you think about the Guinness Beer. But that's my hot take. I mean, I probably had 10 or a dozen Guinnesses in my life.

But it's just never high in my priorities when I go to a bar because it's just like it's exciting the first five seconds. It really is. I really like that first sip of Guinness is better than almost anything in the world. And after that, you're just kind of like, do I really want to drink the rest of this? I don't know. there's this uh this uh this this irish bar in evinston illinois that we went to a handful of times i was going to say oh yeah we went too frequently um but that's not the case i mean i think we something with a not irish not bar in evinston illinois something like that i mean i probably went there like three or four times with classmates after uh Classes finished in grad school.

If anyone out there knows the name of this bar, it was like a bar in downtown Evanston, Illinois, let us know. We would love to figure out what the name of this bar is. I was searching restaurants. No, I wanted to search Irish bar. Celtic knot, something like that. You feel like if you'd,

search Irish bar, you should be able to figure it out pretty quickly in Evanston, Illinois. There's Lady Gregory's. That's not right. There it is. Celtic not. Is that the right spot? It feels west. It's west of Ryan Field. Out on past Green Bay Road, that's definitely not the right spot. I want something that is downtown Evanston. The only thing I'm really seeing is like Ridgeville Tavern. That doesn't sound familiar. and all to me. Prairie moon, that doesn't sound right either. Let's, let's end it there. If anyone has any thoughts on like, what are the, this was like just east of whatever the main strip is, what is that, Chicago Ave. It's like just, it was on the east side, 100% of Chicago

Ave, other side, you know, the train tracks, you know, not the side of the Metra and the L tracks, east towards the lake let us know i thought it was like celtic knot or something like that me and i saw a celtic knot west of uh ryan field on google maps just now maybe they relocated i don't know maybe they took over the old smiley brothers brewery rest in peace let us know used to go there and they would have ginnis specials on thursday nights we'd go there after class but rest in peace, okay? We are all over the place on the Beantown podcast. You're going to have a hard time believing this.

I had a lot of notes and things written down that I wanted to get through. And you look up at the clock and we're at 55 minutes and you're sitting there thinking like, what the heck just happened? Did I just urinate live in the Beantown podcast? Yes, I did. But you know what? years ago, I would have been like, oh, that's kind of like a faux, F-A-U-X-P-A-S. Now it's like, look, we got 17 people listening, half them are from Pakistan.

I think the Pakistanis understand. When you got to go, you got to go. And I don't, look, I don't want to be here being like, oh, yeah, we're just going to pee live on air. ideally it's just like oh yeah we'll just pause we'll come back to it but this is the world that we live in with our current technology there's a great killer song for you I don't think off of the sawdust album we were just talking about but

this is the world that we live in dun dun dun dun dun dun that the synth that kicks in all right we got it egregious amount of things that I still wanted to get through. So let's get through the rest of this year. Hot take number two, if you're on Dancing with the Stars, something went wrong with your career. I see so many of these D-list celebrities being like,

bro, I'm on Dancing with the Stars. This is so cool. Vote for me. I'm going to win. And my response to that is just if you, end up, and I'm not trying to throw shade, like, I think Dancing with the Stars would be fun. I think it'd be, like, a cool thing to do. Like, if you getting invited to it, if you do well at it, you know what, good for you.

That's fine. But larger scale, if you are like, oh, yeah, I'm on Dancing with the Stars, that's indicative of your star status. because we're not getting Taylor Swift or Camilla Cabaya or Rihanna or Justin Bieber or Vianna again or Benson Boone on Dancing with the Stars. Okay, we're getting like, oh, this person got fourth place on the Bachelor of U.S. Season 16. Welcome to Dancing with the Stars. Or this person was a fan favorite on Love Island, UK. season five welcome dancing with the stars right it's like if you are on dancing with the stars or the

all-time favorite is like you are like uh last season who's reginaldville johnson who you know from family matters or die hard or you were like a big tight end in the 2000s like oh dallas clark or uh algae crumpler they're on dancing with the stars you know them because they were really famous on your husband's fantasy football team 20 years ago. So watch Dancing with the Stars. And it's like, you know what? If you got selected or you're doing well in Dancing with the Stars, probably not something you need to be like spreading the word about. That being said, I think there's a difference here. If it is like, if you were like a try hard celebrity influencer wannabe, I look down on you with disdain. But if you're more of like a

Jason Witten, NFL tight end, or if you are like Carson Palmer, NFL quarterback, I've got to get on something other than the NFL. I don't know. Or like Dan Brown, author of the Angels and Demons and Da Vinci Code novels, they're like, yeah, you know, take your victory lap. There's a difference in the type of celebrity they invite to these things. and I'm not even blaming ABC like do what you got to do to get in the ratings but I see a lot of these people on Instagram being like oh yeah I'm on dancing with the stars now like that is

I made it really big and I'm just kind of like no he names Alex Earl you're not that big okay Maple's Minute this week is that oh we are and she is snoozing over here maple is all set for the night more or less she's got to go potty one more time but she's had supper she's snoozing and uh her world is about to get rocked but maybe probably not because maple's minute this week is bring on the drugs maple has been on 10 milligrams of prozac dating back to what may june something like that you know this summer and we are about to

increase it by 50%, and we are about to, so go from 10 to 15, and we are also about to go from Trazidone, kind of a classic name brand, knock you out kind of drug, to Clonidine, which Maple had been on for a hot second before we switched vets and went back to Trazidone and yada, yada, yada, long story. But Maple's minute is that whatever drugs you thought of, giving your significant others, dogs, whatever it is. Double it because Maple is the man of steel. It's not even a man. She's female.

But you know what I mean with man of steel. Henry Cavill. Kevin Costner. Who plays Lois Lane? It's a lady from the office, right? Amy Adams Who plays the mom? Is it? Sally Field? I don't think so. Man of Steel for all the film buffs out there. What was that movie? Like 15 years ago already?

There was a Superman movie this summer, 2025, with some no-name actor. I don't know anything about. Let's get to that in a second here. Man of Steel, 2013 film, so 12 years ago. Henry Cavill, I feel like that was his first big break. Diane Lane was his mom. I know more about Diane Keaton than Diane Lane. Kevin Costner, Russell Crowe playing Jorrell. Michael Shannon was the bad guy. We know that. Lawrence Fishburn.

All right, yada, yada, yada. What about Superman? You'd think they would come up with a really cool title for a 20th. but apparently not so the main guy his name is david cornswit fucking no name the lowest lane is rachel brazenahan she must have been in one of those british shows like saving amy or the marvelous mrs mazel or something like that i don't know what it was lex luther nicholas holt we've talked about once or twice on the show millie alcock plays supergirls she She was in, um, wait, can you guys believe this, that House of the Dragons, so, uh, Game of Thrones is the prequel?

Millie Alcock was like, in the first two episodes of season one, she played like the young queen, that blonde lady. And then there is a new blonde lady who's older, who plays the older version of her in season one. And then there's all of season two. and then season three i think is coming out in summer 2026 dude i'm going to go rogue for a second here if you want to pause for a language feel free to pause and we're going to wrap up soon i promise but like fuck hbo no one is sitting here with house of the dragons being like oh yeah dude that eight dude that season two eight episodes i was blown away i cannot wait for another third season with Millie Alcock flashbacks and Olivia Cook and whatever.

Matt Smith. Dude, give me another eight episodes. What's his name? The guy, the white actor who played the king, who dies, his face gets all dismarved, whatever. He dies in season one, I can't remember. But it's like, bro, season three laid on. I cannot wait for more dragons. Dude, HBO, and maybe to a more extent, Game of Thrones, has overplayed their hand so hard, thinking that we cared that much about House of Dragons.

There's nothing about House of Dragons where I'm like, oh, my God, finally a new episode. It is, they are so out of touch with reality. when house of dragon season one came out my wife was like all into it and although i had never seen game of thrones minus the uh series finale before i was like you know what i support this i'm a big fan of lord of the rings like i i i'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade i want this to be successful and then season two came out which was not this past summer 2025 but summer 2024 and it was kind of like uh boy like this is not that good like well what what happened

here now we're getting into like oh yeah it's only nine months away until season three comes out and it's like are we really waiting for this it's not that interesting are you spending all your budget on CGI dragons? I don't know, man. But gosh, where did we even come from? Oh, the Superman 2025 film, Millie Alcock. Nathan Philean was in there. You know him from Castle?

There was someone else we were looking for, and I can't remember. We have to finish this episode of the Bean Town Podcast. We are just going to pump through it, I promise. That was Maple's Minute. Essentially, Maple's Minute was Bring on the Drugs, okay? What did we say in 15 minutes? That could have been said in 30 seconds.

Whatever you think the dosage is for a 17-pound, Cocker Spaniel, King Charles Cavalier Spaniel mix, double it, okay? Because Maple's ready for it. That's that. I wanted to briefly, oh, there's legitimately, three other things I wanted to mention. Gosh, damn it. First up, if anyone has any info or intel on this, flight paths here in Chicago changing. So when I say flight paths, you know,

there's like the approach where planes are coming into an airport. You could come from the north, the east, it's south, the west, whatever you want to do. And here in Chicago, for O'Hare, In my opinion, or my understanding, my experience, the traditional flight path has been to come from the east, so over Lake Michigan, but essentially flying over Northwestern University in Evanston and going southwest into O'Hare. So essentially from Evanston, Southwest, you know, you go over Church Street, Foster Ave, Irving Park, and then you're at the airport, over the air, whatever. But literally today, what are we at? Friday, September 26th. I, Maple and I went to the dog park, and then I spent about an hour outside on our deck, reading a book, The Long Walk by Stephen King, movie coming out soon. And I legitimately, I think four, four minimum, maybe five, was the number of planes I saw coming in straight over, I would say Lawrence Ave.

So a mile north of where I am here in Irving Park. And it just got me thinking, like, flight plans have changed. And the question I have for you as a listener is like, what? do you know about flight plans whom decides what flight plans should be adjusted or changed and whom decides what's best for an airline or an airport? So if anyone has any details on that, let us know because it's like, I don't really care. But it's kind of jarring when you're just like walking down the street, the street you live on to go to the dog park, you know, a mile away and you got an airplane like directly above you. And it's like, that's not usually

the way it is. It's kind of jarring, frankly. J-A-R-R-I-N-G. So that's flight paths. Got to set my drink down for a second here. Thankfully, I have a McDonald's Coozy from Pride Fest 24. Other things I wanted to mention, you know, gosh, this is on the borderline of like, let's save this for another week. And I'm going to. You know what? If you are a fan of literature, then come back next week. Because there's a whole other topic that we could get into here that would be a lot of fun today. But, I mean, frankly, we are at an hour nine right now so what we're going to do is chat las vegas let me just take notes here and then a whole new section on this topic which is about literature if you're curious the

title of our iPhone notes app right now is bean town we nailed that and then the next word is L-I-F-T-U-R. And for those who are not literate, that just means literature. So that's what we're going to do next week. We're going to discuss some novels, and we're going to discuss the Beantown podcast. We have a trivia question. We have two, actually.

Because all things equal, we never leave you on the Beantown podcast without a trivia question. I apologize. We've been all over the place. I'm doing my best. It's just me and Maple here. Mom is still in Serbia. I did get some gourds. I have a pumpkin and more of a traditional like tall, skinny, yellow, green kind of gourd on the opposite ends of the television here. I'm just doing my best to give you quality. programming until mom, our co-host Rachel comes back from Serbia. This is the last one, I promise it, and she'll be back.

She will almost, I don't want to pigeonhole her into anything, but given the makeup or constraints of our show next week in Las Vegas, it'd be great to have her on. That's all I'm going to say. We have two trivia questions for you today. Excuse me. Here is number one. I want you to name the top five pumpkin-producing states in the United States.

So you get all the U.S. states. There's 50. In fact, both of our trivia questions will involve pumpkin-producing states. excuse me both for trivia questions will involve states the first one is about top five pumpkin producing states and then the second one will be in a similar vein for all you agriculture heads out there but here according to chat chbt if you want more time go ahead and go for it. Per chat, GPT regulations.

These are the five, or sorry, we could just give it away, the five United States that produced the most pumpkins annually. Number one is Illinois, and if you can believe it,

out of all the things you could rank Illinois in, this one's got to be up there because we blew second place out of the Agua. Number one, Illinois,

690 million pounds of pumpkins. Number two is California. It's just so big. But here's the difference. So Illinois, number one,

690. Number two, California, 150. Illinois is literally over four times the amount of pumpkins as California.

And I don't really have a takeoff of this? I mean, in my opinion, pumpkins are probably not the most cost effective or efficient things to grow. So maybe Illinois is just doing it for sport. But four times feels like, I don't know, that feels pretty significant to me. So we won something. Illinois number one, California, number two, number three, maybe no surprise, Indiana at 150, so 10 million pounds behind California. Number four, continuing with the wide open fields, is Pennsylvania at 90 million pounds. And finishing the job at number five is Michigan at 80 million pounds.

So you have four Great Lakes states and then California, which like with dairy, pumpkins, weed, they're number one kind of across the board. So that's the list of the top five most pumpkin-producing states in the U.S. And here's our trivia question number two, because this came up right at the last second. it's my aunt's birthday happy birthday auntie anna and she has lived in Delaware since before I was born and look I don't know about you guys and I'm not trying to make a statement one way or another but it's hard to find someone who lives in Delaware when you think about US states it's like oh yeah like North Dakota Vermont Nebraska they're all like lesser represented but they have a culture

frankly, as someone who lives in Illinois, when you think of Delaware, like, what do you associate with Delaware? It's like, uh, hmm, well, it's next to New Jersey, right? It's kind of close to Philadelphia, I think. Maybe it's on the ocean. Uh, don't really know much about Delaware, TBH. And so, I want to say happy birthday to my aunt, who has lived in Delaware for 30, plus years at this point. And our second trivia question of the day, and if you're

thinking, oh, is Delaware going to be an answer to this? Yes. So that helps quite a bit. But here's the actual question, kind of an intriguing one, I think, personally, had never really thought about this in 30 years of living up until now. Here's the question.

Name the five U.S. states with the least amount of counties in the U.S. So the five U.S. states with the least amount of counties. Now, here's the thing. I'm not trying to win on technicalities. So if Florida says, oh, we don't have counties, we have X, Y, Z. Or Louisiana, we have, oh, we have parishes. We don't have counties. or Alaska, we've just got 19 unnotated regions.

We don't have counties. Look, regardless of what those guys think, play it straight, okay? Think of the small places first, and that's going to help guide you. Okay, this is the last thing we're doing on the beat-time podcast today. So again, think of the five U.S. states with the least amount of counties that, is what we're going for one of them is going to be Delaware I'll spoil that for you here are the five and actually number one is Delaware which was hard to believe when I saw it is Delaware only at three counties total across the entire state and I know there's not a lot of people who

live there. But to hear that there were only three counties in an entire state was surprising to me personally. Delaware is first at number three. Number two, actually two and three are tied. This one, it took me a second and I still don't feel like I could fully understand it or explain it, but it is what it is. Hawaii comes in at number five. And the reason I don't fully understand stand it. I was like, oh, Hawaii, that's got like seven islands, right? They're claiming five, you know, five populated items or islands, and I, I trust Hawaii more than I trust myself. So Hawaii is tied at second with five. The other time we can find it is Rhode Island, probably no big surprise. Smallest state in the union, right? Rhode Island only

has five counties. I feel like if you told me your Rhode Island just had two counties, I wouldn't be surprised. It'd be like, oh yeah, north and south. No big deal. Whatever. So, semi-props to Rhode Island for coming away with five. Number four, Connecticut has nine and New Hampshire rounding out our top five with 10. If you're curious, I think Vermont had like 15, something like that. That was like the next one up in the list. And then the number one state in the list of the most counties, in the opposite end of these 50. Texas, everything's bigger in Texas. It has 254 counties. So there you go. Our five states with the least number of counties. And again, no weird technicalities like, oh, Louisiana has parishes rather than counties.

So this does not count. No, let's just treat it like adults, okay? At number one, Delaware, three, number two and three, Hawaii, Rhode Island at five. Number four, Connecticut at nine and number five, New Hampshire at ten. My final thought here for the Beanheads is we didn't really talk about Puerto Rico today, but there's just something scratching my itch of the T-Mobile district in Puerto Rico. It's just a fun place. There's good music, club music, people dancing, people drinking, people having a good time. Arcades is open air, beautiful San Juan weather.

All my love. and appreciation and shout out to the T-Mobile District in San Juan, Puerto Rico. That's what I had for you. I appreciate if you are a listener who stuck it out all the way to the end, I feel like the first half, 30 minutes or so of the show was like pretty normal, and then maybe it's different for you, I don't know, but it just fell off the rails for me. for me. I did my best. We got stuff for next week. We have novels, N-O-V-E-L-S, that we're going to get to next week on the beat-top podcast, along with our live stream from Las Vegas, Nevada.

That's what I have for you. My name is Quinn David Furness. This is my program. Quinn-David-Fernis presents the beat-top podcast. I hope everyone is staying safe. I hope you're staying sane. I'm going to check in on you next. time from Nevada. Bye guys. Take care. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.