Beantown Podcast - Board Privilege, RIP Lilo, & Tequila Screwdrivers (06182026 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: June 18, 2026

Quinn comes to you LIVE to break down Carter Cheeseman's college PRs, glens named after Waterfalls, and how to spend your weekend in Bell Buckle

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Thursday, June 18th, 2026. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn and I am the creator, host, and I don't know, should have prepped for something cool to say before it started. Makeup artist. I think the only time in my life I really wore makeup. was a high school talent show. I wasn't in high school, but it was a high school talent show. My brothers and I performed a choreographed lip sync dance to the BG's smash hit staying alive. I think 1978, something like that. And there's video of it for a long time. I didn't know where it was, but now my dad's got a subscription. description where you send in all the VHS tapes, the old, well, yeah, I guess VHS, the old camcorder

tapes from, you know, like the mid-80s through, I think the, well, that, that, like, talent show dance has got to be one of the most recent things on there. That would have been about 2008 or so, 2007, 2008, generally around that time. And camcorders were, were starting to go. on their way out. I don't know. Was there a blimp of time? A blimp, that's right. B-L-I-N-P between camcorders going out of fashion and smartphones being able to take

videos because 2007, 2008 would have been a little bit too early for you to be like holding up your smartphone and taking a photo, a video. Not way too really, but like right at the beginning of it, I think. I don't know, maybe people were wheeling around their iPod touches in doing that. But anyways, got all dressed up, went to the thrift store, purchased some wild outfits. I had this kind of, I think just like brown pants, but then my top was like this tiny little gold, sparkly number. It's very much something that like Deborah Vance might try to pull off from the TV show Hacks, which we were working our way through for the first time. but then my my mother who had many responsibilities of her own on that day it was this was this was

like peak hype hype what's the word i'm looking for hype hype of american idol being a big thing you know 2007 so this is like season four five six carry underwood chris doughtry bobbis you know the whole crew, Taylor Hicks, the legends of your. And so the hot thing was, oh, in this, it was, I don't really know how to define it. You know, my homeschool thing growing up, we would have, like, signature events, you know, just like any school would, but for a homeschool co-op. And again, before you start making jokes, this is not just like my immediate family. This was a big co-op of families that would come together.

once a week, take classes, essentially like a normal school class, one-hour periods, and different parents would teach different subjects. So I didn't finish my thought. My mom dressed up as Paula Abdul, on the panel of the idle rip-off panel. And my brothers and I were one of many acts and ended up winning first prize. You can say what you want about nepotism, but I think we earned it, right? makeup, wardrobe. Thank you to my mother for that.

But then we rehearsed in our basement a choreographed dance number to the BG's staying alive, like the full song. We should have, you know, cut it in half. We didn't need to take up a full four minutes of the talent show. But we did it. We pulled it off. Probably my oldest brother was really the one choreographing the moves. I don't recall doing anything except for showing up and just, you know, it's the closest

I've ever done to appearing in any sort of Broadway production. But I think I wasn't supposed to go. I think I was too young. I was like in seventh grade and you had to be an eighth grade or something. There was always this kind of weird, bizarre cutoff for like the homeschool events that like, you know, when you think about like the big kids versus the little kids, normally in any sort of school system, you would think like middle school would have something for themselves, you know, seventh and eighth grade, maybe sixth grade, too.

And then, you know, high schoolers have their own thing. Like when I went to an actual high school homecoming, it wasn't like, oh, yeah, the seventh graders can come to. It's like, oh, you're ninth grade. Okay, you can come. Otherwise, no, you can't. Although on the flip side of that, there was always the weird little, you know, because it's like all, the only stipulation is you have to be in school to get a ticket, but then

you can take your date. they don't have to necessarily come go to the school to attend so every year there'd be like the senior girl who is you know feeling really adulty that's right ad you l t y-y and she has a boyfriend who's on their third year of community college classes and they work in roofing or something and they show up and so you're like this 14-year-old ninth grader at this school dance with this 20-year-old and it's kind of awkward because they're cool and they're like outside in the parking lot smoking cigarettes and you're like getting dropped off by your mom. It's just like a weird clash of age groups, I guess, every year counts when you're that old. But to finish my thought in our homeschool community, you know, there would usually be like some sort of winter dance.

not every year but but from time to time it happened i remember one one year it wasn't even an official like homeschool co-op sanctioned event so i guess this was something else my mom spearheaded she was a busy lady top of being on the board she's also the model uan advisor and we ran this one winter dance at the lutheran church in the gym that was like a fundraising event for our our our Model UN club because you had to pay dues and fees and hotel accommodations and parking for the Model United Nations Conference in downtown Chicago. So I don't know if we just like reaped all the proceeds from that. Ticket sales selling, you know, baked items, not the fun kind, just the regular kind.

And we just, instead of there being like a school sanctioned put on by the school, kind of winter dance, we just did the hosting ourselves, I assume, free usage of the gym, and, you know, took in big, big proceeds, probably made at least $50 to $60, which, you know, back in 2011, you know, that's like the, it's like $1,200 today, the equivalent when you consider inflation. But in the spring, there was always our version of prom. It wasn't, I don't know what. but spring dance, some Christian approved messaging.

But the point I was trying to make three minutes ago was there was this weird age cutoff. It wasn't like, oh yeah, if you're in high school, you can go. And it wasn't like if you're in middle school, you can go. It was always 8th through 12 was the cutoff. And it's like, what do these 8th graders have that is so much better than the 7th graders that they get to go? Why don't we just do a clean cutoff 9th through 12? Didn't stop me from sneaking in.

My mother abused her. Abuse sounds very negative, but took advantage of her Bordle. That's right, Bordle, rhymes with wordle and squirtle. Skills, power, I guess. Very powerful woman in the Hallstrom Home School co-op. Power structure. Leadership tree. The board.

This probably sounds like a very mysterious thing. It's like something out of a John Grisham novel or something. It's like the board has turned down your request and you'll not be terminated. But I snuck in just to do the talent show, but I got to stay the whole night. Free dinner? Oh, man. Dancing, drinks, fun. We got it all.

By drinks, I mean Capri Sun. By the way, listener discretion advised when you're listening to this program. Number one occasion, you know some language number two. This podcast is objectively terrible. I also want to shout out to our friends in Pakistan. Thank you for making us the 78th ranked comedy podcast in Pakistan and Nigeria. I looked it up. I think it's the federal,

the federated Republic, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, something like that. I don't know, some cool, fancy name like that. Thank you for me against the 178th ranked podcast in Nigeria. And sorry about the soccer game.

I don't remember who they played, but they got their ass kicked. It was, I don't know. It was like four to one or something. I didn't watch it. We finally have. made it to round two of the three-round group stage. The first wave is today. Handful of games have

ended. The big marquee game is tonight, Mexico versus Korea. So I'll try to turn that one on. It's at the same time as Love Island, so we'll see it'll be tough. But was there anything else in the whole homeschool dance thing I wanted to mention? I thought there was one other item in my head agenda that I wanted to touch upon. But, oh, as powerful as my mom was and took advantage of it as a kid in various ways, it didn't help me out in the whole election department for student council. I think it was involved in like three separate elections as a high schooler for student council one of them i won i was like secretary or something one year i don't know it was the lowest

effort lift you could possibly imagine i was the poster child for those kids who just get a title just to say they have the title and put it on their college application and then it's like what did you actually do i think i my job as as you would probably guess as secretary was to sit there at the the front table because the council members, it's like the board, but for the students, the student council board, you got to sit up front and run the meeting and look cool

while all the kids sat cross-legged in the gym, like a bunch of idiots, plebs while I sat with a folding chair and table. Am I a high perch, judging the masses? My job was to literally pull out a piece of scratch paper. and write down what was being said. And I'm sure I did that.

I mean, this was 15 years ago. I don't even remember actually, like, I'd never been much of a note taker in regular class or anything else. It's never been much of a, you know, keep track that way type of guy. So I can't imagine they did a very good job at being secretary. The other two times, one year, I don't remember if it was the same year. it was my, I think I was like secretary of my junior year or something and then going into my senior year I ran for president. I don't remember what it was. But I don't want to say I got

sabotaged by the vote counting. But the student council advisor, uh, who I'm deciding whether or not I want to name, I don't need to name. It's okay. You know, where this is a show of love and acceptance. But she and I always had some weird tension, not like a, sexual tension kind of thing that's gross nothing like that but more so just like i think she thought i was a little bit too high and mighty because i was a board member's kid and that's probably the case even though i didn't feel like i carried myself that way who knows this 45 year old mom and i just never you know you got some people in your life you just feel like you can have a very natural flowy conversation with and vibes feel good and then there's other people where it's just

like even if the words coming on your mouth are perfectly pleasant there's you feel like there's like this vibe in the air with some some unsaid tension not sexual tension just general tension that's the way i always felt with this lady and i remember when i ran for president which i ultimately lost. I'm like Trump. Maybe the election was stolen from me. I don't know. But she pressed me on like three separate occasions in the weeks leading up because you

got to like collect signatures or something. So I'm like turning my stuff into her. She pressed me three times knowing that I, I, my, my time was split between the homeschool community, but also the, the private school, the non-denominational Christian school community, separate thing. and then also the community college, a very unique schooling experience as a high schooler. And she pressed me on like two or three occasions being like,

are you sure you're really committed to the homeschool community? You go to two other schools as well. And I was like, yeah, yeah, like I'm a Hulstrom legend. And she seemed to interpret that as me being cocky somehow. I don't think I ever said I was a Hallstrom legend. But I was a board member's kid, okay, that comes with certain privileges and badge access and you can go down to the boiler room anytime I want.

Not only was I a board member's kid, I was on the cleaning crew. That's right. A collection of six to eight, seven through twelfth graders, cleaning the entire building, toilets, windows, vacuuming, siding, doors, roofing, plumbing. Should have called Home Pride organ. No, but legitimately for three hours at the end of the school day from about 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. as family began to clear out and head home. We would all, each of us get paid $20 and clean.

And that was good money back then. But that also came with certain privileges because it's like, you know what, I'm going to, oh man, the best abuse of power as a cleaning crew kid. Because we never, in my particular family, we always packed a lunch. We never spent money on the pizza that you could get. We would order the homeschool would order in Papa John's. and you know sell sell it at a heavily spiked rate you know like two dollars a slice when the entire box is probably like eight bucks so double profits essentially um but what i my my favorite abuse of power as a as a cleaning crew kid was it can uh in quote start cleaning up the kitchen a little bit early

uh because the the whole thing with a pizza man wild west and this was huge especially you're for someone like me who you might eat your lunch but you're still hungry but there's a lot of other kids like that in the building you know not a particularly well-off financial group of people generally because every every one of these families is a single income family all the moms are busy staying at home and teaching these classes on Tuesdays the point i'm trying to make is when there was unsold pizza at a certain tipping point around 3 p.m. in the day once a week, it kind of turned into like, okay, sales are off. This is now just pizza that exists and it is go crazy. If you want to get a slice, go get a slice. So what I would like to do as a cleaning crew member,

some weeks you didn't need to do anything. There was just pizza left over and you're cleaning the kitchen at the normal time, 4 p.m. or something, everyone else is cleared out of the building. It's just you and your buddies. Matthew Fieler, Tax Legend, you know him from this show. Was a cleaning crew staple for a number of years. But, in fact, his mom took over the whole cleaning crew assignment after I graduated high school. Good for her.

But you would just take a box a little bit early, 245, and say, oh, I'm just getting a head start of my cleaning. So let me clear out these boxes. is, lo and behold, some of them are still chockful to the brim of delicious Papa John's pepperoni pizza only been sitting out for four hours. Still good. And you would go sneak it into the, you go back through the kitchen. It's kind of like this back little stairwell area. Way behind the scenes, very dark.

No one ever went there. So you just stash it high on some shelving up there. And so then everyone else clears out, you know, kids will come to the kitchen and be like, oh man, I was going to try to get a lot. a free slice and looks like they sold out today and then pull a fast one on him, hoodwinked him, like my favorite early 2000s animated film. And I was, let's just say, I was, I was prepared. Okay, remember that goat, that ram, he sings the song, Be Prepared.

Stashway the Pizza comeback. And hey, I earned it. I'm cleaning up a storm. over here. My job was always the first floor in the basement. There was this system of where you had to put in the folding chairs. And there was like underneath this island in the middle of one of these rooms in the basement and it was a total pain in the ass. There's a lot of jammed fingers that came with a cleaning crew assignment. One year when I was younger and then we'll move on to our animal of the week, I promise, and other things that I wrote down. But my last point in the whole,

homeschooling world as we're doing some reflection, nostalgic reflection here. When I was younger, I had a, you know, you kind of work your way up through the ranks of the cleaning crew, I would say top job is, you know, the fellowship hall. Oh man, there's a big, huge room with all the tables and chairs and vacuums. It has to be arranged a very particular way. And then, you know, like second floor, that's a good assignment.

Because you just got a couple of rooms you got to do, but you got to worry about the chapel too that takes some vacuuming and wiping down to pews for sure. Sound system. But the kind of, I would say like the rookie assignment, right? Like Ethan Hawking Training Day, first day on the beat. That's what I was doing when I was in like sixth grade when my mom took over the cleaning crew.

And I was doing the third floor and all the windows. Which is kind of, that means a lot of windows in that building. So it was a lot of went through a lot of windex. But third floor is where the choir room was. That's right. This church has a dedicated choir room. The church is actually no longer that church anymore. The building is still there, but it's been taken over by another church,

actually headed by a close family friend from our childhood. Nowadays. But back in the day, I don't know what it is now. Back in the day, this was the choir room. And I swear to God, one week I was cleaning up there. And this was right when my oldest brother, and eventually my other brother as well, got really into cold play.

You know, I was probably like 11 or 12 at the time. So this is like 2006, 2007. And in the trash, I don't know to this day why this was there, where it came from, and how on earth in the third floor of this church building, in Rockford, Illinois on a Tuesday afternoon at about 5 p.m., Who would ever dump something like this? When you say the story out loud, it makes it sound like,

oh yeah, I was just like being a thieving little shit and stole this off the shelf somewhere and made up this story to like cover my ass. That's totally what it sounds like, because like who would throw this away? But I swear to God, it was in a trash bin and you had to take out the trash. A Coldplay, like piano version of a rush of blood to the head,

their second album from what, like 2000? two 2003 something like that great find it's probably still at my parents house somewhere in Oregon assuming it's made the trip but I literally fish this thing out of the trash usually when you're when I was garbage hunting in this job is like you're looking for a piece of pizza that was maybe still in a box that was on top of the trash heap or like a quarter or something so I found the Coldplay rush of blood to the head piano version. I don't know what you'd call it, but fished it out, gave it to my brother Walt and my greatest find ever, dumpster diving.

I've never been much of a dumpster diver. I did some of it in the cleaning crew days when I was hungry looking for pizza, which leads us to our Animal of the Week in a second here, but otherwise, no, not too much. our animal of the week inspired by the fact that it is we'll just mention this now because we've talked about it on the show before and it builds up our uh the reason why this is our animal of the week and i don't have too many other thoughts in it but i suppose we should uh i included the u r r c r cola and moon pie festival at annual event down in bell Tennessee, which is like an hour-ish southeast of Nashville, if my memory serves me correctly. I went to Bell Buckle once in my life. There's a very rich private prep school there, the Web School, I think, is what it's called,

W-E-B-B-B. And it's just in the total middle of nowhere. I mean, you Google, if you want a Google map, follow along right now, Bell Buckle, Tennessee, I mean, it's an awesome name. but I think this was like I mean it's the type of school that gets a shit ton of like Asian exchange students and that's who pays you know the full tuition and stuff I don't know how this school ever came to be in the middle of Belbuckle Tennessee

but I went there once to do a visit when I worked in college admissions so I went there to recruit had like a very average late in the afternoon visit in the school library and then I think I flew home drove the Nashville and flew home after that but it was my first and only time ever in bellbuckle tennessee about you know nine eight nine years ago my college graduation by the way 10 years ago last weekend which is making me feel extremely old anyways but yeah bellbuckle tennessee when i was there so i was just like at the cafe afterwards yeah it's like an hour southeast of nashville so really in the sticks almost like halfway between like in a triangle of nashville hansville alabama chattanooga that's where bellbuckle is

And I was looking it up, and I think I saw signs for it around town too, but the RC Cola, which is, you know, a soda, popular soda beverage, and Moon Pie, which is like the little, how would you describe it? Like a little Debbie cake almost kind of. It's got a very distinct, excuse me, distinct texture, by the way, drinking a vodka cran. Cranberry flavored water from all the 99 cent half gallon, not half. half gowns like a a leader that's what i'm looking for and then some i got my america's 250th birthday party memorial commemorative uh spedka bottle over here so just having a nice little summer cocktail here in the beintown podcast we've talked about the uh moon moon pie uh festival rcola in belbuckle before so i don't want to belabor the point but i will say um well let's

let's do our animal of the week then we'll come back to the website just to see what's new this year. But I was taking the dog for a walk earlier this afternoon. And the thought just, boom, struck me in the head. Like Dean Martin said, ain't that a kick in the head. Speaking of songs, by the way, I know it's Father's Day weekend and June 10th tomorrow. No Father's Day song again this year. I think that's like three straight years of that one.

I apologize. I spent the whole week waiting for inspiration to strike. I was actively thinking about it. I was like, man, this would be great time. I'm off work this week. great time to write a Father's Day song and it didn't happen. We tried to do it every year. If you know our hits like Daddy Long Legs in Bunches,

the Randy Newman parody we did, that's all from our Father's Day collection. I think there's four of them total maybe. There was one about Bob Evans in food poisoning. There was the Randy Newman one. Cornbread muffins is what it was called. Daddy Long Legs, obviously, by far, most commercially successful record, and then the most recent one was called In Bunches,

which was from about, I don't know, maybe two or three seasons ago, something like that, but forgot to do it this year. Didn't forget, I want to make that clear, didn't forget, just wasn't feeling inspired. I don't know. We'll see. But that got me thinking, oh, so I just, the festival popped in my head. I was like, oh, I wonder what weekend that is. So I googled it.

It's this weekend. It's on this Saturday, the 20th. So I was like, oh, man, we got to. Got to mention this on the pod, and that got me thinking, well, what we're going to do for an animal of the week? Well, it's Tennessee. It's bell buckle. Why not just do the Tennessee State Animal? So our animal of the week is the mighty raccoon.

R-A-C-O-O-O-N. That come in all shapes and sizes, mostly large and fat. But it works out nicely. We got to dumpster diving organically without even thinking about the raccoon. What do you guys think that raccoon's name in Pocahontas is? Speaking of animated flicks, rest in peace to Lilo of Lilo and Stitch fame, the voice actor passed away. I don't remember her name, but she was also the girl in the ring.

Miko is the raccoon's name, M-E-E-K-O. Yeah, this poor girl, well, she's like in her late 30s now, but she passed away yesterday, I think, two days ago maybe. Apparently she had some severe, the voice actress for Lilo, who was also the crazy growth of black hair in the ring, the cursed child, as J.K. Rowling would describe her. But yeah, she passed away. Apparently she had like some severe malnutrition issues

and housing instability, which I don't know, if you got Lilo money, how are you going to have housing instability? But I don't want to cast aspersions. I don't know why I said it like that. set it like ass and then Persian like the Pokemon that Meowf evolves into. Probably a top, top, we should do this sometime, top five, top 10 most overlooked Gen 1 Pokemon because everyone knows Meowth and it's fun and it's exciting. And then it's like, oh yeah, in the actual game, you know, Meowf is one of the most popular

Pokemon in the anime because of Team Rocket. And then in the actual game, oh yeah, it evolves into a game. a just like bigger more slender version of itself called Persian it's kind of the same thing with the Pikachu evolves into a raichu rai c h u and you're like because well the crazy thing is if you play Pokemon yellow you have the Pikachu's your your Pokemon he can't evolve like the game literally doesn't let him evolve so if you want to get a raichu you have to play one of the other Gen 1 games it's just kind of bizarre we should do that put a pin in that top top 10 most underrated

underthought of Pokemon that's right it's it's a different thing than underrated underrated underrated is like oh yeah that's a tentacle and he's actually really good you just don't rate him appropriately this is afterthought Pokemon gen 1 put it in my notes so don't be surprised if we get it next week Um, was there anything else on raccoons we wanted to say? I mean, there's so much you, you could say about raccoons. I've always kind of liked raccoons. They seem just kind of, on one hand, kind of dopey, but on the other hand, very smart. I feel like they got, they got hands that are pretty human-like. Do they have disposable thumbs? I don't think so, but their paws. They can really make a lot happen with them. It's like humans and then monkeys and then,

raccoons are kind of next tier but they get in your trash they're kind of they got you know sharp fangs but they're kind of cute i mean look at look at freaking miko from pocahontas but yeah rest in peace to lilo i'll never be the same there's our animal of the week um so we pulled up the rcola moon pie festival just to see what's on the adjutanty. agenda this year. I think in years past there's a 10k in the morning, which I was actually, I remember seeing that a couple years ago. I was pleasantly surprised because when you're talking about a festival celebrating soda and snack cakes, you don't usually associate that with exercise. You know, you think if they'd have something more like a lawnmower race, a riding lawnmower race or

something. So to have, you know, people actually getting out on their feet there in bellbuckle, you run around the town seven times and that's that's a 10K, which is exciting. Okay, so we're on the homepage, June 20th, 2026, 7 am. to 5 p.m., this is a PSA, by the way. If you're looking for a road trip this weekend, or maybe you live in Nashville or Murfreesboro or something, or Chattanooga, and you're thinking, gosh, I got a free Saturday. Where can I go? You know, maybe I got the post-Junez blues. Where can I go for a pick-me-up? I tell you what, you try to bell buckle.

They'll take good care of you. Here it is reading directly from the website. This wacky, fun for the whole family event celebrates the South's original fast food, an ice cold RC Cola, and a fresh moon pie. Smiling visitors from all over the world, we can prove it because there's a who travel the furthest contest like the World Cup. Stream into the downtown area where they find plenty of music, cloggers, weird but fun contest, moon pie games, and a colorful parade, just to name a few of the many things that occur throughout the day. Kick things off with a 10-mile. It's not even a 10-K. these guys 10 mile and 5k races on certified courses on scenic but challenging roots it's on the third

saturday annually in june see i'm not going to read through everything here see any good interesting info about the race um 2024 results they have the 2024 results but not the 2025 results if you're curious in the 10 milers this is from 2024 oh this is a hell of a name The winning time was Carter Cheeseman. That's right. Carter Cheesman ran the 10-mileer in 53-23. That's pretty impressive. I mean, there's got to be like the high school kids, I assume.

But 53-23, I mean, that's a five, essentially a five-minute mile for 10 miles. That seems good. Winning time in the 5K, Adam Smith, 1821. It's a pretty good 5K too. I feel like I'm more impressed by the 10-mile-time than the 5-K time. I mean, Carter Cheesman won by 3 minutes and 23 seconds. He finished the race, had an entire R.C. Cola and Moonpie and second place showed up. So any other great names here?

I mean, I don't want to belabor this point, but I feel like 53-23 for a 10-miler is actually like a pretty legit time. I don't know what the world record is. Let's see. 10 mile world record 10 miles. Obviously you're not setting in a bell buckle, although it is a certified course. 4404 set by Kenyan runner Bernard Kek. K-O-E-C-H, excuse me.

Yeah, so I mean he's only nine minutes off the record. Good for you, Carter Cheesman. Okay, let's go back, see if there's anything else interesting on the website here. I would open a new tab. It's going to make it tough to go back. Let's see. There's the map.

The homepage is really dedicated to the race. Oh, no, I'm on a separate page. Parade registration, craft vendor registration, schedule events. Here we go. 7 a.m. is race kickoff. They get started early. 830 to 9, the 5K and 10 Mile awards.

Oh, wait. 8.30 is the 5K awards. 10 a.m. is the 10-mile awards. 9 a.m. Crat fare and food court opens. 9 a.m. also the mid-state cloggers will take center stage. Followed by, oh, this is a duplicate. So they go for an hour. They take a half-hour break, and then they do a 45-minute set, the mid-state cloggers. 11.15, R.C. Kola, Moon Pie Parade. 12 p.m. King and Queen Coronation. 12.30, contest farthest travel, youngest attendee, present, and oldest attendee present. That's kind of fun.

Oh, I like this. 1245, the Shake It Up, Baby Contest. That's where they just play the cars for 15 minutes. Shake it up. Shake it up. Presumably they're not shaking babies, but I haven't been. I can't verify. 133 R.C. Cola and Moonpie Games.

and then 3 p.m. The big finale, World's largest moon pie served. That's the schedule of events. Let's go to the menu. See if there's anything else good going on here. Oh, this is for the entire chamber. How to Plan a Weekend Bell Buckle.

That's one of the menu options here. What do we think? Let's click on it. See if there's anything else good here. While that's loading, I will say thank you to our sponsors. We already mentioned Home Prior to Oregon, but we'll mention them again. The Samson Q2U series, cuts by Q, and of course, they're good friends.

Beantown Sportsbook. Thank you for supporting our show this week. Oh, so how to plan your weekend in Bell Buckle. They got it broken out by day one Friday, day two, Saturday, as you'd probably expect, day three Sunday. They recommend the distilling company, the farmer's market, 3 p.m. every Friday. Put your name on the list at the bellbuckle cafe. Okay. Day two Saturday.

Your visit may overlap with the RC Kola Moon Pie Festival, so you got a 1 in 52 chance, so good luck. Or the web art and craft show during October. or old-fashioned Christmas in December. You can shop the square antique shops, sip some wine at the Arlington Vineyards. Day 3 Sunday, go to church. That's not on here. I just recommend it.

Explore Franklin's Civil War history. But is that in Bell Buckle or is that in Franklin? So now they're pushing, I swear to God, Days one and two, you're doing bellbuckle stuff. And then just no warning. It just starts talking about Explore Franklin. And I know Franklin, it's just south of Nashville. It's not like next to Bellbuckle.

Is there a second Franklin? Very perplexed. Anyways, they got a lot of pictures of their antique shops. Someone's got to contact this website. Say, hey, where's your 2025? 5K 10-mile race results? I got to know how Carter Cheesman did last year. What do we think?

Can we Google this kid? See if he's like going D1 or something, UTK? I mean, with a name like that, it's not going to be hard to find. Carter Cheesman, I was close. 2024, 2025, Belmont men's track and field. Oh, but he's also got a page for Notre Dame. Which one is which? Now he's a history instructor and the cross country and track coach at, oh, the Baylor School in Chattanooga, another private school I've been to.

So it looks like he started at, or is this the same guy? Carter Cheesman from Keller, Texas. How did this guy, oh, I understand what happened. So this guy is originally from Texas. I'm envisioning like this 16-year-old, but that's not the case. This guy started, lived in Texas, went to Notre Dame for undergrad. Looks like he ran like one season. Yep, he did a redshirt senior year at Belmont.

So he moved to Nashville. And now he's a full-time history teacher and then the cross-country and track coach at the Baylor School, which is a private, I think, girls school, is that right? in Chattanooga, which is a beautiful town to visit, another place I've been. So now everyone on the show, Nigeria and Pakistan included, knows the history of Texas to South Bend to Tennessee running legend Carter Cheeseman. I didn't linger on his athletic pages long enough to see if he'd made any noise in the NCAA, but he'll live on in my memory long after he's gone. With a name like that, how could you not?

Speaking of NCAA, a big week for A is I signed up for AAA two days ago. Excuse me. Because, I mean, I literally get, excuse me, very belchy, I apologize. I literally get the discount for year one, and it's going to go up as all these things do. It'll go up after, you know, a year. But that's okay. I don't think I'm like locked into any contractor. anything but you get the entire first year the base plan lb yeah but the entire first year for 35 bucks

which gets you some solid you know stuff basically like short towing and roadside assistance for 35 bucks what is that two two and a half bucks a month and i'm splitting it with my wife who loaded so yeah i said yeah let's do it and i'm sure it'll you know it's not going to be 35 bucks in the future this is your classic intro offer. But good, you know, I joined AAA and now my next big milestone I get to join AARP, American Auto for retired people, something like that. I don't know what AARP actually stands for. If you know, I'm done Google and stuff.

I put my feet up and just me and maybe. here in the couch. And I said, I'm done doing work for you. Someone can Google something for me. For once in my life. For once in my life, I got someone who needs me. Someone who needs me. Great Stevie Wonder solo on that one.

Harmonica on the version, the Michael McDonald version, great Stevie Wonder harmonica solo. Nothing like feature. on your own song. That's someone else cover. That's a badass move. Plus the ultimate tip of the cap to Michael McDonald. Y'am I'll be there up and over.

Who did he do that one with? It's James Ingram. Is that right? I thought it was one of the guys from Easy Lover, but that's not true. That's Phil Collins and someone else. She's an easy lover. She laid a whole lot.

you believe it. Philip, something. Philip Bailey. That's it. Like no other. Yamobie, there is James Ingram. I got that right. James Ingram and Michael McDonald.

Written, produced by Quincy Jones. There you go. How the heck did we get here? Oh yeah, I joined AAA. So I don't have any other like cool thoughts of that. I just wanted to say that. I also want to point this out. I got two more things I want to point out than our

trivia question, but I'm going to make these quick because I feel I feel satisfied with the work I put in on the Beantown podcast today. Maple and I went for a hike yesterday, really just a walk. I originally wanted to go all the way out to start rock, but there were big storms in the forecast. Storms were supposed to hit Chicago land at like noon, so I was like, okay, they'll get to start rock earlier. I was like, do I really want to drive two hours each way just to walk for a little bit and get rained out the last two times gone to starred rock have gotten uh well first time it was it too too busy i can't remember like why we couldn't oh they they closed access because it was too busy the second time we got rained out we brought maple there like last fall or something we got rained out

so i was like you know what i'm not even going to tempt fade i'm not going to push it so i found us a nice little intermediate uh option lamont darian area area you probably know it if you're from Chicago, and surrounding the Argonne National Laboratory is waterfall glen, formerly known as Rocky Glen, but it's a big long, like 11-mile loop. It goes around the entire laboratory in the forest preserve. And in the southeast kind of quadrant, there's a beautiful little natural dam, a waterfall. It's got to be the best waterfall in Chicago, I would think. So I took Maple out there, and we walked like two and a half miles.

one way and then turn around. So like five miles total if you're good at Matt. And of course it was supposed to be, oh yeah, rain's not going to start until noon. So we got there like, I mean, I woke up at like 5 a.m. We got there like 8 yesterday. And of course, we literally get to the exact halfway point. The Death Plains River overlook, scenic, overlook.

And we sit down and take a break, have some water, and literally as we sit down and it starts raining. So now we got a trudge, that's right, T-R-U-D-G-E back, two and a half miles, through the forest to get back to the car. But Maple's a trooper. She got back to the car and had some sock-eye salmon bites. I think a gift from grandma or something like that.

And then proceeded to puke that all up as well as a shit ton of grass. About 45 minutes later on our drive, drive home so that was really nice in the backseat but the reason i mentioned this this forest reserve is called waterfall glen and its most famous feature is a waterfall and so you'd think like any other reasonable human oh they named this thing waterfall glen because there's a cool waterfall there i i was shocked when i read on the little um plaque they have there would you believe it this thing is not named after the natural aquatic formation, a waterfall, or also at HM, introduced in Pokemon Gen 2. This was named after a guy named, what was his name, John Waterfall?

I mean, you got to be kidding me. The guy's name was Waterfall. Can I find, can I find this in the Wikipedia page, or do I have to go to the DuPage County Forest Reserve website. Looks like it's not there. I mean, it sounds like I'm bullshitting you, but I'm not. Okay, can we get general info of rules and regulations? Can we get a history? Bluff, Savannah, poverty, prairie. Here's the history. Okay, here it is. In 1925, the Forest Preserve District purchased its first 75 acres at Waterfall Glen. Rocky Glen soon became the site of the preserve's well-known tiered falls, which I took Maple to yesterday, which the CCC Civilian Conservation Corps

built in the 1930s. In 1973, the preserve got its single-large's addition more than 2,200 acres of surplus land from the U.S. Bureau of Outer Recreation. That same year, the district named the site Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve in honor of Seymour Bud Waterfall, an early president of the district's board of commissioners. I don't have any other, you know, you know, things to share about that. Just the mere fact that you have this, like, the most prominent waterfalls in Illinois, basically, in northeastern Illinois, let's say, Chicago land. And it's called Waterfall Glen and you're like, oh, this is perfect.

This is great. Well, it's just named after a guy named Bud Waterfalls. So I just, one of the crazier things. It's like if you went to Yellowstone National Park or they got the geysers. let's say I was on the board of commissioners in Wyoming back in the, you know, 19th century. He got this big old, like hot kind of underground chamber. And it might be, you know, on the map, you go, see, oh, what can, you know, you want to spend three days in bellbuckle, you know, first two days are bellbuckle, third day is Yellowstone National Park. And it's like, oh, go visit the flaming furnace.

But you notice it's spelled wrong. and you're like, oh, well, that's weird that they spell they wrong, but I know why it's called the flaming furnace because it says underground chamber and it's really hot. And then you read the plaque when you get there and it's actually, this was named after, you know, 19th century Yellowstone commissioner. It sounds like it wasn't Kevin Costner, the Yellowstone commissioner and the aforementioned show? That's not the, aforementioned is not the word I wanted to use.

There's a word when it's like, you know, the same thing we already mentioned. we're not going to say it again you know what i'm talking about right it's not aforementioned but yada yada yada and you find out it's named after beantown podcast host and board of commissioners quin furnace and you're like oh that's why it's not spelled f you're n a cec e it's just too good i got to i gotta get i got to start an hvac system or something this is too good to pass up I got to go back to trade school. The other thing I wanted to mention and then our trivia question to wrap things up,

I watched Jackie Brown for the first time ever yesterday and finished it this morning. I had read the book it's based off of Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard. Same guy who wrote the book that justified or the short story,

Fire in the Hole that justified the TV shows based off of. I had read that like, I don't know, Nine or ten months ago, I think. But I never got around to watching the Tarantino film, Jackie Brown, one of the few Tarantino movies I haven't watched. Now, I think I'm just down to deathproof. And I don't think I actually watched all of Kill Bill.

I've seen some of it, but I don't think I watched the whole thing. Otherwise, I think I've seen everything. So check Jackie Brown off the list. But I just wanted to say, this is a 90s classic black exploitation film. and everyone the whole movie is smoking sigs and drinking cocktails most notably samuel jackson drinking screwdrivers and i'm not someone who uh i've never smoked a cigarette nor do i want to and i don't particularly enjoy the the the scent of cigarette smoke but i just miss the nostalgia being a kid and you walk into a restaurant and they say do you want smoking or non-smoking and as a

walking out as a family it's always non-smoking but we used to go to uh brewers games too and they'd have i don't think this was smoking or not smoking but they'd have the the drinking or no drinking section and so my dad would always sit us in the no drinking section i think it's called the family zone or something like that as if families can't drink but yeah just bring me back 30 years to jacky brown time baby give me some siggies and some screwed My first ever alcoholic beverage was not a screwdriver, but here's our poll question of the week. Which one of these actual cocktails was my first ever alcoholic drink, a closer spiritual cousin to? The screwdriver or the tequila sunrise.

You can probably see where this is going. My first ever drink was a mix of OJ and tequila, which is not bad. So it's a screwdriver, but with tequila. But as you know, a tequila sunrise is OJ, tequila and grenadine, I believe. So which one of those? That's the worst thing. Not that this comes up often, but occasionally people ask me like, oh, what was your first drink?

How old were you when you had your first drink? And I can say, you know, I think, what, 19? And then, but then I'm, you know, I guess it's not that hard to say tequila orange juice. But it'd be more fun if I could say, oh, it was a screwdriver. or it was a tequila sunrise. I don't think you could really say like tequila screwdriver. It's not a thing. Let's do this, our last act before we reveal our trivia question.

Tequila orange juice. I don't think there is like a cocktail name for that, but let's see if Google and or AI pulls up anything of interest here to maybe tighten up my names. It just says when you Google tequila orange juice, It just says tequila sunrise. But that's not what it was. Anyways, here's a Reddit thread in tequila, the subreddit tequila from two years ago.

With 50 plus comments. Is anybody else drinking tequila and OJ as their preferred mixed drink? I mean, I did it once 10 years ago, 12 years ago. I don't know if that makes it my preferred drink or not. my uncle would pour out half orange juice from a half gallon cart and pour half a bottle of quervo in it shake it put in the freezer for an hour and then drink it all outside in a 115 degree Arizona summer day first comment sounds like a it sounds like a cool uncle like mine who threw me an eight-year-old the monster firework and said don't put out your eye cowboy I thought he was going to say not mine like or unlike mine who molested me Okay. All right, that's it.

Let's, you know, let's end things there. We have our trivia question of the week. It is, it's World Cup season. It's also, you know, dog days of summer. And so why not ask you a trivia question about airbud? That's right. So if you really want to get into the weeds and the details on airbud and, like, the different iterations of it, you can. But I'll just leave you with, because there's been T.

TV shows now. There's Air Buddies, the spinoff. There's a remake of the original coming out next year, I think, called Airbud Returns. What we're dealing with here are the original theatrical releases plus direct-to-video film releases. So this is pre-air buddies. Here's the question. Name, and there's five movies that were either released in theater or directed video, name the five sports featured in the original airbud film series. So obviously there's the original airbud, and then I can't reveal the other names, because as you would expect,

there's some really bad puns that give things away. But I think there was, I think it was two in theaters, including the original airbud, and then three direct to video, I think, is how this went. So each one of those original five films featured a different sport name, the five sports.

I think the two theatrical ones are pretty, for me at least they were obvious. I just think, picture it in my head when I think of Air Bud, the Golden Retriever, scoring points in different sports, I think of these two sports. But then after that, it gets a little bit dicey.

I mean, you can probably throw a dart and get two of them. But to get all five is going to be not a Herkulean feat by any means, but it'll show a good control. you'll be a film buff and a canine buff. If you want any more time to ponder and go ahead and pause, but I will reveal the answers now.

So you have the original Air Bud, which is basketball, of course. Actually, let me, I didn't prepare this, I'm sorry, let me just grab the Wikipedia page so I can reveal the titles to you. Air Bud Film Franchise. Here we go. Okay. So here we go. In 1997, Airbud, which is a basketball movie.

Then the sequel next year 98, Airbud Golden Receiver, that is Football. Then there were three direct-to-video installments. 2000 Airbud World Pup, which, as you might expect, is soccer. And then the fourth one, 2002 Airbud seventh inning fetch, which is baseball. This one's got a raccoon on the poster. brings this episode full circle. And then finally, I think the toughest one to get.

Does he do this with his mouth or does he get his paws involved? I could see him being a blocker, but a spiker doesn't seem like his arms would move that way, that right? That's right. 2003, Air Bud Spikes Back. The fifth and final film in the original Airbud series. I got to tell you, the way he's jumping in this poster, this is definitely going to be a net violation. but if you're curious also in this poster there's a parrot

and I bet he talks and says all sorts of funny family-friendly phrases that's a bunch of words in a row that's here with F that's the Beantown podcast for you today everyone I hope you enjoyed my show Quinn David Furnace presents the Beantown podcast enjoy the World Cup everyone happy June happy Juneteen stay safe stay sane happy Father's Day to my dad Steve check in on you later

Bye bye