Beantown Podcast - Dudley the Dinosaur, Taylor Swift's Dead Animal, and National Treasure After Dark (06072025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: June 7, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss National Treasure for adults, Sydney Sweeney's bath bomb, and the Dudley the Dinosaur Cinematic Universe (DtDCU)

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town podcast for Saturday, June 7th, 2025. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn. I am the creator, the host, and Chief Decanter. We probably did that a couple, a couple weeks ago. I got a decanter set for Christmas for my in-laws. So I've been, I've been decanting up a storm. No, actually this is the second thing I've decanted. This is Trader Joe's single malt Kentucky bourbon whiskey, something like that. I learned what single malt was from Jeopardy just last week I think.

It means it's only been created at one distillery. I don't know something like that I learned what it is that's my biggest fault with with Jeopardy you think someone who watches Jeopardy as religiously as I do every single day plus the primetime tournaments although not celebrity Jeopard, I find that to be a little bit too laughable. Not like I'm laughing at the contestants, it's just a little bit too goofy. But I don't retain the information while I need to keep a notepad and scribble down things that I should remember or train myself

to recall in the future. And then you watch Jeopardy! Masters. No spoilers, please. I've got like three episodes left. I didn't have a Hulu login for a long time, so I'm just catching up now on season three. I made it to the semi-finals. My two favorite contestants didn't even make it, so I don't know what I'm even watching

for at this point but nevertheless I would say anywhere from 60 to 70 percent of the correct responses in Jeopardy Masters not only you know oh I don't know it we're talking things I've never heard of and so I would have to turn on closed captioning and really slow things down to even be able to write down all these answers because it's just I don't know how these people know all this stuff. The crazy thing is the person who's kicking ass who won last year who I assume is going to win again this year, Victoria Gross. You know her from her little Queen wave on the chase. She was on Jeopardy originally. I don't even, I can't remember, you know, 20 years ago, did she even win a game? I'm not sure.

And now she comes back all these years later and she's just like absolute dominant fashion. I guess Jeopardy is a sport like anything else. You can learn it. You can gain more knowledge over the years, obviously, but I don't think I'm, I don't think I do I don't think I do as good of job as of that I think I coast on my my own laurels a little bit

too much but what's happening what's going on my name is Quinn thanks for listening to this program here it's a nice Saturday afternoon actually about 530 p.m. drinking our bourbon I don't want to get too ahead of myself. I am hopeful that we are past the coughing spells. It feels like it's been about a month straight of episodes where it is just coughing fit after coughing fit. So I don't want to put the cart before the horse here. But feeling pretty good today. So cocky in fact that I didn't even bring my water out. We just have the bourbon ready to go. It's a nice Saturday afternoon, 65 degrees, Cubs won today and we went to Rib Fest for the first time which is about 25 years old here in Chicago. They do

it right here at our intersection on Lincoln Ave. So sort of a big deal. My wife had a rib for the first time ever and I feel bad. I mean, it was not the best rib. It was pretty not like tough, but just you know, you know how we get that perfect rib is just sweet, tender, succulent, that's right, succulent, S U C C U L E N T. And it just melts right off theucculent, S-U-C-C-U-L-E-N-T. And it just melts right off the bone. Well, this wasn't that, probably because it's a huge street festival and these things are mass produced.

You got to, if you want the good ribs, you got to go to that, I just said I wasn't going to cough, I'm going to cough, what a shame. If you want the good ribs, you got to go to that gas station in Kansas City, whether it's like Southwest Kansas City or something. I don't remember the name of it. Someone, Michael's raise something like that. Someone out there from the Kansas City metro area could help us out. Email us bean town podcast at yahoo.com. It's bean town podcast at yahoo.com. I'm trying to think if I, you know, I like barbecue. I'm also kind of a cheap person who you know, we're about eight seasons in here If you didn't know that by now if you don't know me by now

Was that Luther Vandross? Probably not. It seems maybe older than Luther If you don't know I'm kind of a cheap guy and barbecue is not traditionally the most affordable food with the hogs and the swine etc the most affordable food with the hogs and the swine, et cetera. But you want that stuff that melts right off the bone. Oh, no, what I was going to say is I don't know if I have like a, people are like, oh, you got to pick a side, right? Except there's like six sides. It's like a dodecahedron.

You've got Kansas City, Barbecue, Memphis, Carolina. I don't know, Alabama's probably got their own thing they're doing. I feel like Omaha, you think of Omaha Steaks, but they got us some hogs up there too. And you can, I mean, hey, when you think of barbecue, you think of a pig usually. But you can have great beef brisket too. That's good barbecue.

Oh, Austin, that's where we went today. We went to an Austin street vendor. There's like 20 different barbecue spots dotted along Lincoln Ave. And I wouldn't say we picked a bad one. We also got pork, mac, and cheese. And that pork was good. I don't know if that was a shoulder, a butt, or a rump.

Is there a butt and a rump or are they the same thing? I love those little diagrams of the cow or the pork. And it shows you, oh, this is the shoulder. This is the leg. This is the tail. So there's the snout. You know, we were sitting where we were sitting today in the North Center Town Square was where our dog, Maple,

we'll get to Maple's minute in a second here, won her first ever Halloween costume contest and she got a pig's ear as a prize. And then today we are eating pig again and she even got a little bit so that we're going to we should rename that Pig Square. There's a pig town in Baltimore just southwest of the stadiums there. Never really spent any time. It's kind of stereotypically known for being old and smelly and a bunch of processing plants and stuff. People were trying to say when I lived there, seven, eight years ago, whatever it is now, six years ago, six to eight years ago.

This was my six year anniversary at DePaul University yesterday. So transitive property. I moved back to Chicago six years and change from right now. What did I give myself when I moved? I drove Monday night through Tuesday, arrived on Tuesday afternoon, unloaded the truck and started work on Thursday. I gave myself one day off. I guess technically two days that I took because my last day was on a Monday and my first

day was on a Thursday. So I gave myself a solid two days off to move across the country. Not bad. You make it work. These are the things you do when you are young and hungry and poor. But people were always trying to make Pig Town be like, oh, this is going to be like the next up and coming thing. Like it's really gritty. It's really raw. But none of the people I ever interacted with in Baltimore knew anything about Pig Town. I don't think it's that far. Where's the casino? I went to that casino once. It's at the Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore. We had trivia finals or whatever it was. I think it wasn't like the finals,

like semi-finals or something. It was like top two or top three teams at each bar across a season, which was like 40 weeks. Get invited to this semi-finals thing. Guy Fieri's restaurant in the casino. I think it's the Horseshoe Casino. I'll look into it. In Baltimore, yeah the Horseshoe Casino. It's basically just north and west of there to the west of the stadiums. Kind of by where Babe Ruth was born right? But we did not do very well. That was a tough, tough trivia game.

But I would say we held our own, but I have no memory of how we actually did. That team needed diversity. It was all us youngins working at Johns Hopkins admissions. So it was probably collectively our ages ranged from about 22 to 25. And when you get the questions about anything, I still remember this.

This is one of those cringe-worthy moments. Here's a bonus trivia question for you. This was a final question, which like Final Jeopardy, it's supposed to be a little bit tougher. And it's one of those things where, one of those questions where when you know the answer, it's just like laughable that anybody could ever guess anything else. But I had never seen this show when I lived out there at the time, and I since have. But the question I'm going to sneeze.

Whew. Excuse me, we got wildfire smoke from Canada here, and it's combining with the Rib Festfest smoke and it's just a very smoky atmosphere. I've been able to weather the storm, pun intended, with my runs. It hasn't affected my running at all. But then like I was coming home from Jewel today with a frozen pizza and my eyes were just watery like crazy. So maybe when I'm running, I can outrun the smoke. Who knows how this stuff works? So the question was this, and I don't know the category. Let's just say television.

This TV show famously used or caused Journey's Don't Stop Believing to resurface as a number one hit when its finale aired or something like that. journeys don't stop believing to resurface as a number one hit. You know, when its finale aired or something like that. So basically the episode, this TV finale, utilizes journeys don't stop believing and caused resurgence in its popularity is essentially the core of the question. And if you've seen The Sopranos, it's like, yeah, it's obviously, you know,

quick cut to black. You know, Tony's about to die. The whole nine yards journey starts playing. But apparently this group, whoever we had that day, none of us had ever seen The Sopranos because we had one friend who I didn't have a better guess. Whatever. I definitely wouldn't have guessed The Sopranos

because I had never seen it at the time. But my friend was convinced that it was glee and I think we went all in or something like that and guessed glee and did not win that night that didn't help us in these season standings get to Guy Furies restaurant let's put it that way gosh we're eleven minutes in I don't even know oh pig town Pig Town, Rib Fest, all that good stuff. We should mention before we go any further that listener discretion is advised when you listen to the Bean Town podcast.

Number one, will occasionally use some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. And of course, thank you to our good friends in Pakistan for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Lahore, Bangladesh, Karachi. Do they have, you know, you talk about the big barbecue centers of Pakistan, Lahore, Bangladesh, Karachi. Do they have... You talk about the big barbecue centers, Memphis, Kansas City, Austin, North Carolina.

What do we do? What's the deal with the Pakistani barbecue? Because I don't know. Hindus don't eat cows. I don't know how many Hindus are in Pakistan. I think it's more of that kind of Muslim-Hindu border unofficially. And I don't know, I don't think Muslims eat pork, right? It's Hindus don't eat cows. They might not eat pork either, I don't know. You don't really see a lot of pork on the menu at, you know, Babu Bats, the Dream Cafe. But he was

Pakistani. We're getting intermingled here and you know Pakistanis and Indians do not like being intermingled until you bring the British in and then they you reunite for a common cause and fuck those Brits but where was I going with this oh yeah I don't know what the barbecue scene is like in the Khyber Pass per se you you'd think your hogs would be too valuable there to pull your, I don't know, your poppies, whatever they grow in the Khyber Pass. You harvest them and then you stick them on a sled, tie them up to your swine crew, and then you pull them back to the processing shed, something like that. So you probably don't want to eat your pigs never they could be friends right we have all seen Wilbur and Charlotte's web Dakota fanning unforgettable what do

they say Nemo pigs are friends not food I had someplace I wanted to go with this something else I wanted to mention it completely escaped my memory. That's okay. We mentioned Maples Minute already. It's been an eventful week for Maples. We switched vets. Veterinary, don't ask me to spell it. We switched vets Tuesday. We went to a new place much closer to us. She got a full exam and we paid through the nose for it, and blood. Oh, I should also mention that I collected my first ever dog urine sample. And if you're curious what the trick was,

grab a Tupperware lid and be very sneaky. Just first thing in the morning when they go out to pee, just act natural, fly casual, like Harrison Ford told Chewbacca. Who plays Chewbacca? Richard Mayhew, old Dickie Mayhew, rest in peace. I think that was his name. And then you just, as your dog squats down, this could have been Maples Minute, but we

got something else here, just slide that Tupperware container right under her like you're inserting your chip card into the machine and you just collect a little bit and then you pour it into the the vial or whatever and there you go you just go drop it off at the vet's office but yeah we're switching uh we're maple is going to be on prozac very soon so if there's any listeners out there who have taken prozac or have given dogs prozac in the past hit us up tweet at us at bean town cast i have zero experience with Prozac or have given dogs Prozac in the past. Hit us up, tweet at us at BeanTownCast. I have zero experience with Prozac. I don't know a single thing about it other than the research I've done in the last nine months with my separation anxiety positive dog. That's right, Maple tested positive for separation anxiety.

Our sources is every single day of my life for the last nine months. Oh, what I wanted to mention here, then we do Maples Minute, is it's a, yesterday was a one-year anniversary for my friends or our friends Ryan and Claire. I played at their wedding, played, played music at their wedding and then it's, which makes today the one-year anniversary more or less give or take of or maybe it's tomorrow I don't know whatever by the time you're listening to this who cares but the one year anniversary of the longest airport layover I've ever had Rachel and I spent about 12 hours in Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport because we missed our connecting flight because our first flight was delayed we missed our connecting flight

by about must have been 30 seconds we got there, like 12 minutes before the doors closed, or 12 minutes before the flight took off and I think it's supposed to be 10 minutes when they close the doors. Just a shit show. So yeah, longest I've ever spent in an airport. Though that's not true. I was at Atlanta that one time when there's a power outage and I was there overnight and that was, that was pretty terrible. Survived on donuts and lack of power. But this was probably worse because I was really hungover.

And I don't know, when you're by yourself, and some people might say, oh, you're by yourself, you're lonely, that's boring. I think that aspect is true to an extent. But when you're with your partner, or just anyone else in general, there's kind of that, I don't want to say a pressure, but you feel a little bit of peer pressure.

You feel bad for that person. You want them to be entertained as much as possible. And you have to communicate everything you're doing. If you're just by yourself, you can just start running and throwing your arms around and singing, don't stop believing. But when you're with your fiance at the time, you got to keep it together a little bit better. You got to be the strong, courageous one, even though she's stronger and courageous than you are.

Maples Minute is one of the many things that came out of this vet visit that we didn't get any or much of insight into at our previous vet. I don't want to. I'm not here to play the blame game. We've done a poor job as well. But Maple's saying, you guys got to brush your teeth, because Maple's got some real bad teeth.

And she hates having her mouth touched. We learned some disturbing things about potentially what her past life was like in relation to how her teeth looked for her age, things that shall not go repeated on this program here. But it reminded me of the old ADA, the American Dentists Association, dental association, something like that. They used to run these PSAs. In fact, I looked it up. I just had it. What was it? Dudley the Dinosaur. So I didn't know that his name was Dudley the Dinosaur until 20 minutes ago. I looked this up in preparation for the show. But especially on Saturday mornings during cartoons,

growing up in the Rockford area, they always used to show these 30 second spots PSAs, which I feel like you don't get as many PSAs these days. You know, when you're watching a streaming service and we're watching Bluey or Vlad and Nikki or something, there should be more PSAs. Forget the prescription drug commercials and the new Toyota RAV4 LX series. Show me some PSAs about brushing your teeth or, you know, something educational. your teeth or something educational. But it's this Dudley the dinosaur is an animated cartoon and he would sing this song about brushing your teeth. If you want to go find it, there's two actually two great songs. Dudley the dinosaur, YouTube it. There's two songs. One is more of like island vibes. That's my favorite one. Brush your teeth twice a day, every day. And then there's another one, I forget how it goes.

But as I dug into the Dudley lore a little bit more, I realized from 1990, this was like an eight minute mini cartoon. I guess eight minutes is about the length of like an old school Bugs Bunny cartoon. So this was more common back in the day. But they did a whole eight minute spot, eight minute creation of this dinosaur Dudley.

He goes to the dentist and overcomes his fear. And I don't know if the songs, the two songs are like in that special. I might have to watch this later tonight if I can find it. Or if they were separate things, but there's this whole Dudley, the dinosaur cinematic universe out there later tonight if I can find it. Or if they were separate things, but there's this whole Dudley the Dinosaur cinematic universe out there that is just ripe

for potential waiting to be tapped into like a maple tree in late March. Well, what do you do? You tap into them in the fall and then you collect your sap in March or April. Is that how it goes? Or is it the other way around? I think you have the spigot in the winter.

I don't know what the, we need an arborist on here, A-R-B-O-R-I-S-T, someone who loves arborists, loves trees, to explain to us the whole maple syrup collection process. You tap those little spigots in. I think you do that in fall. And then you collect the sap as you think about spring coming, the ice melting, glaciers melting, impending doom, rivers trickling down.

I'm reading Deliverance right now. There's a lot of trickling water on the Chattahoochee or whatever river they're on in Northeast Georgia. I was reading Deliverance, and I was looking. Or I'm currently reading it. But I was doing some Google mapping to look up the locations where it was set, Northeast Georgia. And I realized there was a time once where

I went to stand on the border. I don't think it was marked, so I think I just had to give it a best estimate. But when I was working, I was recruiting out in Tennessee, so I took a road trip across the Appalachian Mountains there. And I stood on the spot, what is it, the tri-point of, I think it's Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. I was in someone's backyard, basically. I'm lucky I didn't get Ned Beatty from Deliverance,

because I looked at the map of where Deliverance is set, and it's pretty much right at that try point. But then something happened that I'll never forget. This is a PSA. And that's Maples Minute is done, by the way. We got a hot take coming up soon here. Or not a PSA. Not even a just this is just a call to the beanheads out there.

I don't know why this is such a distinctive memory, but I recall driving from the tri-point back to my hotel and wherever I was staying, Knoxville or Chattanooga or even Atlanta, I don't recall. But there was this, I was listening to Christian radio because you don't have much of a choice when you're out there. But it wasn't like, you know, Russian about talk radio. It was just good old fashioned Christian hymns, you know, Gaither vocal band style stuff,

but lower budget than that. And there was this, this great song. It was a baritone soloist, just him and a piano. It was very tender. But the ending, if anyone has ever heard this song before, you absolutely must contact me. What is it? C.O. Bibble says that in Star Wars Phantom Menace, episode 1. He sends that transmission through to Tatooine, you must contact me. The song goes something along the lines, or this is just the ending,

it's literally like the last two bars, and it's just, I love Jesus, and that is why I sing, oh I love Jesus more than anything. But I'm telling you, this whole song was just a total banger. Well performed, I don't think it was live, It sounded like it was something from the early 80s, like in a revival tent or something like that. Or a classic cathedral, perhaps. But if you've ever come across that song before, tweet at us, bluesky at us, Facebook message, whatever you got to do. Get me an MP3, get me a YouTube link or something, because that song, that last passage has never left my mind. And this has been like seven, eight years of searching. Not that I'm actively doing it every day, but I remember looking for it right when I

got back into cell service, because I was like, oh, this song's pretty catchy. It's kind of a banger. There's a cough. I blame the wildfire smoke. It's not my own health. And I've never since been able to find it, which is disappointing. Hi, Maple. How are you doing? She just came back. You missed Maple's minute. You're going to have to re-listen later. All right, we'll play it back when we finish. Maple and I, mom's going out to dinner tonight with some friends, which means Maple and I get the couch to ourselves and we are watching Mission Impossible 8, which I kind of feel bad for Maple because she's never seen Mission Impossible 1 through 7 as far as I know, but she's a huge

cruise head. She kind of a sneaky, you know, one of the bigger Ving Rhames fans out there you'll find. A lot of dogs probably gravitate more towards the A-listers. Your Tom Cruise is, your Haley Atwell is, even your Alec Baldwin from previous installments. But Maple has shared with me that she is a big Ving Rhames stan. Anytime the Arby's commercial comes on, she goes nuts. And it's not just for the roast beef Arby's we have the meats. My hot take here let's do this quickly because I don't have a lot of

substance behind this but it's one take and then it devolves into something else but the initial hot take is that I will not see Wes Anderson's new film which is called The Phoenician Scheme just I refuse to see it it'll will never happen. The reason why is Because there's too much marketing too many advertisements every place. I go online Phoenician Scheme every other story I hit on Instagram, it's an ad for the Phoenician Scheme you have to see it and This has evolved into my larger hot take. Wes Anderson lost his fastball. And I haven't even seen, I think this is now his third most recent film that I have not

and will not see because there was this one, there was French Dispatch. And I think there was one other one he did, Post Isle of Dogs, which came out when I lived in Baltimore. Not in Pigtown, mind you, but just Baltimore. And that was the last one I saw. And I remember sitting there when I saw it, I was just like, Wes Anderson's lost it. From what I've read from these most recent movies, I feel very justified and vindicated that he's just not the same anymore. I was reading about this online because there were a bunch of other people who felt this

way. And apparently, he stopped writing with Owen Wilson. He used to write all his movies with Owen Wilson or the Wilson Brothers or the third one, I don't know. What's the third one? There's Owen, there's Luke, and there's Uncle Owen and Peru and Jesse. Jesse Owens, is that right? No, Owen Wilson. Wilson Phillips, perhaps. But he's really, uh, he used to be fun, well done, pretty tight, and I think he's lost his fastball. So, he's never been the same since Rushmore. That was probably the last good one he made. I say that in jest, but in all honesty, I used to, I used to enjoy Wes Anderson a decent amount.

And I'm just, have no interest in his stuff anymore. And now with all the mass marketing and ads on top of ads, I'm just not interested anymore. I'll stick to my low budget popcorn flicks like Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part 2, although I guess we retconned it now and now it's called Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning. What was retconned was 7 because when 7 came out, it was Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning, Part 1. And I think now if you go back and look, it's just called Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning.

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stakes. I did not bet any money. I don't know who the favorite is. Is Justified Running? I have been completely unplugged from the Belmont Stakes this year. If you're thinking that because I do a Top Ten Horse Names special that I'm super plugged into the entire Triple Crown racing experience, I still will watch those other races, but I don't bet. I don't do anything with odds. I'd just like to root against Bob Baffert, because he looks like a super villain. So I missed Preakness live when it happened,

and I watched a replay. Heck of a finish, by the way. And then we're going to miss Belmont Stakes, because we're going to be bitching about Taylor Swift's hair or something in a few minutes here. So we'll watch the replay. So no spoilers, please. Although we should be able to see a YouTube replay by the time we finish recording.

So we should be good. Let's see. We did our Hot Take Maples Minute. We're going to have D-Day Trivia in a second here. Just a couple of other random thoughts here. First, I, you know, I was last night I'd had like four or five drinks a couple of beers and a glass of whiskey and You know oftentimes as you might after some drinking you Google Justin Bartha just to see what's what's what's JB?

J Bart been up to what is the Bart the Bart to? What is the Bart train? What is that? I don't know. We got to Google it. It's some big city's subway is the Bart train. Let's see. Is it San Francisco? Looks like it.

Bay Area Rapid Transit. There you go. But I was on Justin Bartha's Wikipedia filmography and you'll never know or you'll never guess what I came across unless you've seen it, in which case you will guess. Justin Bartha, if you know him from Mission Impossible, he's also, or not Mission Impossible, National Treasure rather, he's also in the Hangover and subsequent sequels, among other projects. But there is now a National Treasure TV show and he's reprised his character.

I don't remember what his name is. It's a pretty distinct first name, it's like Casey or something like that. It's not what it is. But there's a National Treasure TV show when you, it's called Edge of History, which would be a great porn name. Guys, if you are making, if anyone out there is listening, X Studios or PornTube or, you know, Edge of Tomorrow, whatever, National Treasure Edge of History. If you're going to do, you're going to cast Nick Cage

and Justin Bartha going to town on a Diane Warwick. What's her name? It's not Diane Warwick. The blonde lady. I don't know what her name is. The actress. I think she's like Swedish or something like that. You could call it Edge of History.

What I'm getting at here for real is that there's a National Treasure TV show from 2022. It only lasted one season. National Treasure Edge of History per Wikipedia is an American action adventure TV series developed for and released on the streaming service Disney Plus. It's a continuation of the National Treasure Film Series produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, stars Lizette Olivera with Catherine Zeta Jones and Justin Bartha,

along with Harvey Keitel, Miranier. Oh, she's a director, some nobody. Yeah, it received generally mixed reviews from critics. It was canceled after one season. Tough. We get any cool guest spots from like Sean Bean or something like that? Doesn't look like it. Looks like he was actually dead the whole time.

Same with Ed Harris. Okay, so what was Justin Bartha's name in this? What, is he a special guest star? I thought he was in the main cast. Riley Poole, that's his name. Okay, so now we have to figure out what the name of that blonde lady is. Main cast and characters. Diane Kruger, that's her name. What did I say, Dionne Warwick? That was pretty close. Diane Kruger, and is she Swedish? No, she's German from across the pond. By the

pond I mean the Baltic Sea. Anyone want to guess who Diane Kruger has three spouses listed on her Wikipedia page? And I've never heard of any of them so if you can guess one out of the three or more I'll make you a Bean Town podcast coaster no cheating honor system number one Guillaume Canet who's a French show jumper who after he divorced Diane Kruger, has been married to or partnered up with Marion Cotillard, who you may have seen topless before in one of those movies she did. That's Guillaume Canet. Next up Joshua Jackson, not the, was that the name of the Northwestern Wildcats running back? No, that's

Justin Jackson. This is Joshua Jackson, who, you know, is like, like you probably, I know him for his portrayal. I'm definitely not reading off his Wikipedia article. For his portrayals of Pacey Witter on Dawson's Creek and some other shows like Fringe and Dr. Death, which is a current show, if you can believe it. This guy's very average looking. I don't know how he snagged a stone cold fox like Dianne Warwick. And then Norman Reedus is not Dianne Warwick, Dianne Kruger. She's currently with Norman Reedus, R-E-E-D-U-S.

Sounds like a character in the Arthur TV show. He's an American actor known for starring as Murphy McDonnis in the Boondock Saints. Also in Blade 2. That's where I know him from, Blade 2. This guy, you gotta look at Norman Reedus. He looks like he's smoking crack cocaine under a bridge somewhere. Yikes. He's just got a Google ad that says Costco is coming for craft beer. I don't know. I don't know what to think about that. I never, I think I've only been inside a Costco once or twice. I never had the Costco hot dog. What is it? $1.50? It's got a lot of lore behind it, la horror behind it. If you had a Costco hot dog before,

email us. Let us know what your thoughts are. Here in Chicago, we can get our hot dogs at the Home Depot, which I've also never done, but I've heard they're pretty tasty. Probably more expensive than $1.50 though. So that's the National Treasure TV show. Speaking of TV shows, did you guys realize Stanley Tucci, I think we were just talking about Stanley Tucci a couple episodes ago, because I remember doing my Caesar flickering impression. Hunga games.

Stanley Tucci, no joke here, has now three Italy shows. If you just want to put Italy shows in quotes, the first two are actually like travel related shows, searching for Italy, then it got canceled. And then Apple TV or Peacock or whatever said, let's bring it back. And they rebranded it as Tucci in Italy. And if you're a big film buff, I am, a big Oscars head, you know that Stanley Tucci was like the secondary character

in Conclave with Ray Sines and John Lithgow. You know, he's playing one of those pre-popes cardinals or whatever alongside Albert Pujols and Stan Musial. So the Stanley Tucci, look like I like Stanley Tucci, but we've got three Stanley Tucci and Italy shows already and we can't get one Cesar Flickr and spin-off. I would even take a, what is it, Lovely Bones prequel? I think there's a lot to explore with that character. Could he and Norman Reedus team up for a show? These are the types of conversations that are going on in Hollywood right now. I almost did a show dedicated to National Treasure once the big Justin Barth news broke. And it was going to be like other things that Nick Cage and Dionne Warwick

and Justin Barth could steal, right? Because they're always stealing the Declaration of Independence or like the Statue of Liberty, I think, and one of them. And I think the TV show they try to take that Sitting Bull monument they've been doing for 25 years or whatever. Is it Sitting Bull or Crazy Horse? I think it's Crazy Horse. Hasn't come to fruition yet. But then I was thinking, you know, do I want to do a whole 30 minutes dedicated to naming random American cultural landmarks that could be stolen?

I was like, you could do the Articles of Confederation I guess for the film for the history buffs The Liberty Bell would be good to steal and then there you know, they're like, I guess we're just doing this anyways I hadn't planned this they're like cat, you know very sneakily like walking down the stairs of Independence Hall to get to the underground parking lot and Justin Barthas slips and he's not strong enough because he hasn't been hitting the gym and then all of a sudden the actual bell and the Liberty Bell starts clanking or clanking. Bells clank more than they clank. Back and forth and that draws the attention of Sean Bean and the French cops. Not the US cops, it's always the French cops are the bad guys, right?

I don't know, what else could they steal? They could steal maple. That would be good for the TV show. I don't know. This is why we didn't do a whole episode on National Treasure's spin-off potential. But I would be willing to produce the National Treasure Edge of Tomorrow porn parody that was previously discussed. I don't know if Norman Reedus would allow Diane Kruger to do it. I don't want to say that from like a sexist perspective. Diane is is queen of her own body, but you know every relationships got its rules. we could get marrying Cotillard probably she's gone topless before in movies from what I've heard okay I don't even want to produce edge of tomorrow we would need a new name because edge of tomorrow was like the real one so the porn parody we need

something a little bit edgier if you catch catch my grift, my grift, my drift. If you catch my grift would be a great, uh, they, that's what they should have called this John Ham show on Apple TV we're watching. I think it's called, you know, for friends and neighbors or something like that, but it should be called if you catch my grift because this whole time he's stealing stuff. And frankly, we're only two episodes in and he seems really terrible at stealing stuff. He's breaking into houses, he's stealing watches, he's not wearing gloves. In the very first episode, he breaks into a house. So the cops come knocking and he answers the door. And it's like, he is breaking into his friend's house, so wouldn't they have security cameras? I don't know.

That's what I think it's called. My friends became neighbors or something like that. But it should be called If You Catch My Grift. Okay, so Apple TV maybe for season two, something you could look into. And while you're at it, if there's any space for you know, excuse me, good friend of the show Justin Bartha to maybe land a recurring guest spot in season two of If You Catch My Grift, you know, the guy needs work because Edge of Tomorrow got canceled. Edge of History got cancelled after one season on Disney+. Sad.

Last thing I wanted to mention here and we got our trivia question. We need whatever, wherever we're at in fashion right now, we just need, we need an overhaul. I got random thoughts coming in left and right. Things I hadn't even planned for. I've been seeing a lot of the, I don't really know what to call them, for lack of a better word, David Byrne-esque pants from females on the CTA. They're just like these big, big pants. And I'm not saying, oh, go opposite, go scanty. No, but there's just these big pants.

They go up, they practically touch your bra, and they're like circus pants or something. They're just huge. And they're like gray or tan. It's like these pants are too big. That's my takeaway. These pants are too big. And then I was walking out, I was going for a run the other day and the whole like bell

bottom jeans thing is kind of back. But it doesn't feel authentic or genuine, does it? It feels like, oh, I'm going to wear these cool bell bottom jeans because it used to be cool. And my grandma used to wear these 55 years ago. So now I'm going to wear it, but it's not like an actual cool thing. It's just it doesn't really match. So you got big pants are in style, and I just don't really get it. And then some celeb news, I saw Taylor Swift was at a wedding

with Jason Kelsey earlier yesterday or something like that, or Travis. And first of all, I wasn't even gonna get into this, but Travis's hair, absolute travesty of justice. He's got like the guy from Atlantis, The Lost City, the Disney movie from 20 years ago. Like the weird part, Milo is that his name. There's just too much hair on each side. Like get a regular haircut, buddy.

But the truly devastating thing, and this isn't necessarily new, why does Taylor Swift always look so sweaty? Her hair, there's like this, it's like if she's got naturally curly hair, that's fine. But she's got this whole bangs thing going on. It legitimately looks like a dead raccoon on her forehead or something. And it just looks so sweaty. Like with your billions and billions of dollars, maybe buy a rag to towel yourself down. This whole Taylor Swift hair thing is just it's not even like oh, I'm not attracted to it

so I'm gonna comment on it. It's just it looks just terrible. She's got to do something with this bangs. Just get rid of them. Maybe she needs a short, you know, pixie haircut. What's the name of the lady rest in peace from the cranberries, Doris Burke, something like that. Do something like that. Then Sabrina Carpenter came out with a new single and music video a couple of days ago.

Maneater, I think it's a Hall and Oates cover. And I watched the video this morning and this isn't new. I've felt this way for a long time. Sabrina Carpenter thoroughly spooks me. She literally looks like a porcelain doll in like a horror movie or something. It's the blush is that we put on your cheekbones. It's like that lady from,

what's the Mr. Rogers, Land of Make Believe? And you got King Friday and Daniel the Tiger. But there's that one lady who lives kind of in the castle area. I don't remember what her name is, but she's got the super rosy cheeks, like aggressively red and the big nose. That's what Sabrina Carpenter looks like with these cheeks.

And then she's wearing like these booty shorts and it's just girl, get a new image. Tone it down. Go back to Barry K. Ogan or whatever his name is. Okay. You don't gotta, you don't have to spread your ass cheeks to get famous unless you are starring in National Treasure Edge of Glory. And then, don't even get me started. I mean, we're talking fashion faux pas. Sidney Sweeney literally put on any cloth, any piece of clothing would be good. You know, she's selling this bath water thing. The, the gimmick,

it's very David Dobrik puzzle QR code esque, but it's like, Oh, I'm going to sell this fragrance for men and it's got my used bath water in it. And it's very much the same in the same vibe as that whole David Dobrik pandemic thing where he did the QR code puzzle and said that there would be one person who wins $10,000 and then no one won the $10,000 and turns out everyone just bought a shitty QR code puzzle and spent days doing it and he made a million dollars off of it. We're dealing with the same thing. Even because I'm in no place to call someone out, even if Sydney Sweeney did take a bath Cuz I'm in no place to call someone out even if Sydney Sweeney did take a bath

And was somehow able to package that into a fragrance whatever Where are we? What are we doing here guys? And I mean guys literally because I can't imagine there is a single female on the planet other than maybe the lesbians who purchased a Sydney Sweeney bath Cologne or whatever it is that that one's not so much a fashion faux pas. bath cologne or whatever it is. That one's not so much a fashion faux pas, I just had to mention it. So that's your fashion rundown.

Let's finish up on a more somber note here. It's not actually that somber, it's just not quite as light as Sabrina Carpenter covering Hall & Oates or Sydney Sweeney's baths. D-Day was yesterday, June 6th, 2025, and so I thought, oh, let's do a D-Day related question. This is one of those fact toys I should just nail down in my mind I need to retain, because I can always come up with two of these off the top of my head, but I can't come up with all of them. There were five beaches as part of the Normandy landing. D-Day, which was what?

June 6, 1944, I think it was. Should have looked that up. June 6. There are five beaches in France that had code names. Everyone knows D-Day, Normandy Beach, Omaha Beach specifically. That's one of them. Okay, so I just gave you 20% of the answers. I'm looking for you to name all five of the beaches that received code names, or give me the five code names is what I'm asking for from the D-Day invasion as carried out by, who was that, Dwight David Eisenhower I think it was. So

that's the question it's very simple. The five beach code names in D-Day. If you want more time go ahead and pause because we're gonna jump into it and reveal it. I think I gave you about 30 seconds a la Final Jeopardy. I think I've talked about this on the show before I I mean, it started, what, three or four months ago. Rachael and I do planks during Final Jeopardy most nights. And that's why I've got, that's why we've got rock solid abs. Although I'm having a stilt to come to consume today. I bought, you know, maple, so everyone knows maplewood son of juice or you probably know that's like their flagship beer the most

popular one they have a special release it's son of juice plus I think it's called or son of just premium or something and it's like 10% and I saw it last time I was at jewel I was like oh this is crazy I got to try this so I looked it up I read about it on their website it's a special release and this time I was there. I was about to get a little something something, which is one of my favorite beers, Laganitas. Then I saw the Suna Juice Plus and I was like, Oh, I gotta try this. So yeah, 10% wish us luck and a frozen pizza and potentially some ice cream as well. So really that post-wedding diet is going strong, but it's all balanced out by 30 second plank every day, right?

It's actually more than that because we do it for final jeopardy and then the answer is revealed as well. So it's usually about a minute, which I feel pretty good about. Here's the answer, the five answers. These were the five code named beaches in D-Day. Of course you have Omaha, Utah, which I feel good about being able to always remember for

some reason. Then the other three, Gold, Juneau, spelled like the old email server, not Juneau, Alaska, J-U-N-O, and Sword, S-O-R-D. So again, your answer, the five code named beaches as part of the Normandy invasion, Utah, Omaha, like Peyton Manning, Omaha, Gold, Juneau and Sword, Omaha Barbecue. We were talking about that weren't we briefly that's what I have for you guys today appreciate everyone tuning in it is 615 which means Preakness steaks sorry not preakness Belmont steaks has happened Belmont steaks good barbecue can they they can do steaks can they do barbecue

I don't know maple what do you think that's what I have for you I'm gonna go watch that replay of the Belmont Steaks live from New York. Wherever they they host it, it's out on it's in like Queens or something or Long Island. I can't remember what it's called. That's pretty embarrassing. You know what? I gotta own my truth and own my shortcomings and try to learn from it. Hopefully you learned something today on the Beantown podcast. I want to thank everyone for tuning into my program, Quinn Dave Furnace Presents the Beantown Podcast. I'll be with you next

week. Stay safe, stay sane, take care, bye bye. so so so so Thank you.