Beantown Podcast - Easter Special Year 8 (04182025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss space junk, chariot racing sound effects, and just how much Orlando Bloom does or doesn't know

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn Davis furnace. Welcome to my show Quinn David furnace presents the Bean Town podcast for Easter weekend Friday. Good Friday, April 18 2025. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn and this is my show I am the chief creator host and I'd say wine or vinegar in the sponge giver to the crowd what is that Jesus on the cross they give them the the sponge was it soaked in vinegar I think it was just take I guess keep them alive longer I haven't really heard much about drinking vinegar from a sponge other than in the Gospels. I don't think it really caught on as a trend.

Maybe if, maybe if they thrown Barabbas up there. B-A-R-A-B-A-S, probably, who knows. He was more of a trendsetter than Jesus. You don't see people walking around with white robes turning water into wine, but everything Barabbas does, it's in vogue as they would say. E-N, not just I-N, it's E-N, space V-O-G-U-E. It is Easter weekend, it is Good Friday. Jesus getting nailed on that cross right about now, Jerusalem time. We got a live audience over here. Rachie and Maple over on the couch. Well, it is what it is. It's Good Friday and he's carrying that cross, the crown of thorns. He's been smooched on the cheek by judas iscariot you don't see the last name iscariot too much i don't know if that got weeded out at alice island do you think

in canada because we got alice island here do you think in canada when people emigrate or immigrate they go to elsmere island e l l e-R-E, almost a palindrome island. Sounds a lot more cold and desolate and barren Trump than Ellis Island, which is, you know, kind of scenic in the harbor there or the river. Listener discretion advised, when you're listening to this program program we might share some harsh biblical truths so you got to be ready for that every year when Easter rolls around here on the Bean Town podcast and the show is objectively terrible although this is always one of the more fun programs we do we put on every year put it put on it put on the Bean Town podcast you put on every year. Put it put on the Bean Town podcast. You put on Christmas plays and pageants oftentimes,

the pageantry. But you don't put on a lot of Easter reenactments, I found. Although, now that I mentioned that, I'm going to disagree with myself because I got a Snapchat from one of my college friends who lives up in Rogers Park, very close to where we lived during seasons two and three of the show. And from right outside his window, I haven't I haven't heard back from him to get the context, but from

right outside his window it looked like potentially a school group of some kind was doing like a parade down the street reenactment. I swear, no lie, this happened. Jesus carrying the cross, Roman centurions behind him with the big kind of Trojan looking hats with the hairbrush coming out the top, whipping him, hopefully not too hard. I don't know. I don't know if it was a real authentic whip or if it was foam or what. And then just a whole real cavalcade I would say, C-A-V-A-L-C-A-D-E of Gentiles, Jews, not the Serengeti, what's the name, there's the Seraphimim's something like that I was reading the gospel of John earlier today and they made mention I believe of maybe Pilate was talking

about them I'm not sure there's a great s-word that I can't think of what it was but they're kind of like the high priests the high Jewish priests who take care of Jesus it wasn't that you know the darndest thing you thought the whole time the Jesus story I you think, gosh, it's the Romans who are going to be my downfall. And then, boom, next thing you know, it's the Jews who take him out. No fault of their own, he claimed

to be the king of the Jews. I mean, sometimes you got to topple him from within. But just total backstab from Judas Iscariot. But yeah, my friend sent me a Snapchat and then my favorite part of this 30 second video, quite literally a parade down the middle of the street, at the very last second, you know, you got all these Roman cosplayers and Jesus Christ and Apostles and all that stuff, a lady in like a Halloween witch costume goes walking through as well. I don't believe they had witches back in 33 AD Jerusalem. However, I wasn't there and also I feel like if we're gonna if we're gonna get

mixed up with witchcraft here, Salem, century all that fun stuff. They probably had some Time travel abilities if we're being completely honest with ourselves But yeah, so watch out for for pageants and parades down the street Here on Good Friday, you're probably not gonna see a lot of action tomorrow Saturday Kind of a tomorrow, Saturday, kind of a more quiet day, but then Sunday, all bets are off. You could see an Easter bunny parade, eggs being tossed to and fro, Jesus coming out of that tomb. He rolls away the stone and then what does he do? I think he went and got brunch or something because

you have Mary Magdalene and the other Mary and I think they were having a threesome. There's one of the guys, I don't know if it was Simon Peter or I'm getting my threes mixed up because he denied him three times after he cut off the slave's ear. But one of the guys, I don't know if it was Aaron from Exodus or whomever it was, they go running out to the stone. I think they race there, even in one of the gospels. No word on Mary Magdalene's 40 time. But then they find Jesus eventually. I'm not sure if he was in some sort of meadow, I think perhaps.

But who knows? You got four gospels, they all say it a little bit different. And then you start thinking, is like, was Luke really there? Or was he just kind of, you know, copying off of Matthews and changing it up? So it avoided the plagiarism checker in your LMS, your learning management system. Who knows? If you're listening from Pakistan first and foremost, you probably have never even heard of Easter because they don't have Easter

They probably got some sort of variation of Eastern Islam, right? Because you got the Prophet Muhammad Much like Jesus ascends up into heaven However, unlike Jesus, I don't believe and I took one Like fundamentals of Islam class in college I don't believe that Muhammad was ever crucified I think he only he never even really died he just sort of ascended right when you Jesus didn't really die twice he kind of did at the first time then he just kind of floated up into space much like Katy Perry which we'll get to in a second here but But Muhammad, I think, just for the most part,

pretty much just went straight up into orbit. And I don't know if he's still out there somewhere. Space junk. Do not tell the Pakistanis that I just called the Prophet Muhammad space junk. But not here to offend. We're here to celebrate Easter weekend. And we're here to celebrate Pakistan. Thank you for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Karachi, Hyderabad, Erdoville. Probably not a real place. But if it is, thanks for listening. place. But if it is, thanks for listening. AM radio FM radio is AM and I think we might have mentioned this once or twice before over the course of eight years is AM FM like a universal radio thing. Like those are the two radios. I think there's other types of radios too, right? There's Cuba Gooding Jr. in that biopic from the mid 2000s radio. And then there's police scanner. It's a type of radio. Radio Shack is more of a company than an actual physical air wave, so I'm not counting that. And then you got all these waves. So radio waves, there's gamma. What is your microwave uses that?

Infrared? I-N-F-R-A-R-E-D? Not sure. Waves and particles. I think that was a unit in AP physics when I was a senior in high school that I just never really got the hang of. Which you could say about my entire experience with the concept of physics, but I've got to get my cousin on the show. He may be a week younger than me, but he's got a PhD in physics from MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. So that's gotta mean something in this crazy day and age. I am sipping on a sparkling water here. I thought that the black cherry vanilla was going to be a limited time flavor back around the holidays, but must have been so popular, much like the pizza ranch salad, that they've

continued well through the spring here. So we're sipping on one of those. It is officially either the last or the second to last podcast here before my self-imposed ban on drinking essentially. And certainly during the Be Bean Town podcast comes to an end because We are getting married in eight days here, which is pretty exciting and I got a primo view of the bar cart Which we've talked about in depth. We still got all these champagne bottles. They were supposed to be gifts, but we kept them for ourselves We've got fireball They were supposed to be gifts, but we kept them for ourselves. We've got a fireball handle.

That's about a third left. And what is that? It's about three Christmases old by now. Still going strong. Still brings the heat. Unlike my pitching shoulder. We got our whole like wine rack is largely full. We got four or five there and we got like three bottles in the fridge. We got a lot of wine to

work through. Bless you. I've decanted about 75% of a Woodford Reserve handle that I received for Christmas this year. We've got the Casamigos tequila next to that. There's just a shot or two left. That was from a bachelor party last year in Nashville. Behind that we've got a nice bottle of bourbon. Kentucky bourbon I believe it is with a kind of a blue wrapping. I don't recall the exact brand but it's nice. We have both Smirnoff and Svedka handles vodka, about half full each. We have some gin that I think I've had for about five years at this point. I don't know. I was in the mood for gin and

tonics about five years ago and I just haven't finished it yet. Rachel asked what the point of the gin was. No, no, no. I said the point of this. The point of listing off everything. I don't know. Email us, BeantownPodcast, yahoo.com, share what's on your bar cart. And I have a very tall, nice looking, skinny, tall and skinny, much like me after this self-imposed alcohol ban of Nevada whiskey, which I've never had whisk when I think of Nevada, I think of dry salt flats Bonneville So, I don't know. They must get some corn somewhere in order to mash it up. That's kind of the secret With making whiskey that I think a lot of people forget when they're doing it at home You know, they they probably think a lot of people forget when they're doing it at home.

You know, they probably get a bag of frozen corn from the grocery store, and you might throw it in the blender, for example. But before you blend it, you got to mash it. You can get one of those mortar and pestles, P-E-S-T-L-E-S, if it's plural. Plural pestles, that could be a good horse name, which I'll take this opportunity to mention, because it's going to be here before we know it, just briefly. Our horse name special is in two weekends here, guys.

Kentucky Derby, two weeks from tomorrow. Derby's on a Saturday, not a Sunday, right? I think it's a Saturday. So get out your mint juleps. Email us, BeanTownPodcasts, at yahoo.com, with your favorite horse name that you've come up with for this year. We have a great list, but we are reserving one slot

in our top 10 list, as we often do for the listener suggestion. And we will read all listener suggestions live on air, whether you're in the top 10 or not. I'd like to engage with the fans that way, the beanheads, but we will pick the best one. And if we get no entries, then I'm blaming Pakistan because it's been awfully quiet. Calling Muhammad space junk is probably not gonna help with that, but it is what it is. Space junk feels like it would be a good Jake Lloyd insult of subulba and Star Wars episode 1 the Phantom Menace 1999

This is my favorite sound effect from the Phantom Menace, it's Subulba's podracer it sounds like this go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go It's a bulbous pod racer. It sounds like this Do good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good good I Can't do this when I'm in their room with Rachel and then maple Because this is a very silly show and I need to play it straight here When I'm doing my pod racing sound effects

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live on Twitch. Next day you're racing at Daytona. Biggest race there is, or for all you Indy car heads, your Helio Castor Novus, or F1, whatever the biggest race is, Grand Prix. I don't think that's a race. I think they just call it that to sound cool. Monte Carlo, OK? And you're Lewis Tomlinson. Is that his name?

Is Lewis Tomlinson from One Direction, or is he the F1 driver? Well, apparently he's doing both. No to which one? Lewis Tomlinson's One Direction. Will you look up Louis Tomlinson? Will you look up who the F1 driver is? Louis Hamilton I think. See these guys all got old-school British last names. Hamilton, Tomlinson. Okay, thank you. See this show works so much better when we have a live...

We gotta, you gotta do this all the time. Because I'm usually over here, we got Rachel over on the couch, live fact checking. I'm usually over here fumbling around. I can't pull up Google Chrome on my laptop while I'm recording because we've tried that before and it messes with the audio levels. I can't explain it, it just is what it is. So I'm usually over here trying to type

with one thumb into my smartphone. I already can barely type with two thumbs on my smartphone. That's something I've had a smartphone for, I got it when I was 19, 20. I think I just turned 20. I was a sophomore in college when I got my first smartphone. So officially 10 years of smartphone. And to this day, I still absolutely suck at typing. It's even worse on Duolingo. There's nothing worse when you're typing in your little Spanish phrases, your words in between the accents and the enyes. And I'm learning future tense right now, which isn't so bad so far, knock on wood. You type it and you miss one letter and sometimes Duolingo gives it to you

and sometimes it doesn't. And then there are some exercises where you get it wrong and then you have to fix your mistake before it gives you credit for the lesson. You have to repeat it at the end, which is fine. I'm all for that. But sometimes you just have to repeat the one word you messed

up and then in other exercise it makes you retype the whole thing. And it will be like an entire chapter from Moby Dick or something you know like what are we doing here? Or Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. I never read Don Quixote but I know about the windmills. Not really sure what else happens. Okay, we gotta keep it going here. We gotta get to hot take of the week. We got Maples Minute. What do we want to start with?

Just to tie a bow on this whole Easter thing, although our trivia question will relate to it as well. Maples Minute of the week. Be sure to spread your lamb's blood above your door tonight so the angel of death, aka Pearl, doesn't come knocking. Pearl is Maple's nemesis. A little white dog down the street. Although there's a couple white dogs around here that are tiny so I don't know exactly which one Pearl is. Usually she's wearing a sweater. However, now that it's 65 and muggy out, no more sweaters for Pearl. So we're just gonna assume any white dog is Pearl from here on out.

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That's what we'll talk about next week on the show. Live in the Uber on the way to the wedding. No, I'm kidding. No, we're going to do it Wednesday or Thursday, perhaps. Steve, 5414 and 0316, Home Pride organ inspection perfection. Coming up very soon here, we have our hot take of the week and that is brought to you by our good friends at Cuts by Q. Just did the last cheek shave before the wedding. That's right cheek S C H no S just C H I Q U E. I will do one more neck shave before the wedding just because no one likes a neck beard on

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nice and so we can put it out on Instagram and Twitter to collect clout amongst our friends and make it look like we're actually invested in our local communities. Meanwhile you ordered DoorDash for McDonald's for breakfast. Who wants to actually go out on Thanksgiving weekend? Not me, it's a four-day weekend. You get to drink a ton, right? It's the lead into Christmas, day drinking, like three days in a row, it's awesome. But yeah, we got, I don't know, Holy Week's gotta

shore up some of those nicknames. Samson Q2U series, whether you are reading, you're more on the Jewish side of things and you're focused on Exodus and the Passover story, or you are Matthew or Mark Luke or John and you think the four of them came together to write those books together? Was it separate? Was it all just done in like the second century by?

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You're going to have to bear with me on this one because it's just very quick. And I just want to put it out there and let it sit. So for a very brief context, it's hard to have missed this. But earlier this week, I think it was Wednesday maybe, Katy Perry, Gayle King, and four other nobodies, probably podcast hosts, they went up into space. They were like 12 miles up into the atmosphere or something

like that. So space with quotation marks around it. They passed the Mendoza line, which is where the atmosphere turns from the thermosphere I believe into official space so they did pass it and those align is also when you hit above 200 in baseball or below but it it's kind of one of those you know can go either way double-definition kind of deals but Katy Perry just I mean she's been insufferable for a while going back to like the whole Tinkerbell haircut kind of thing and her albums keep sucking, her tours keep you know doing poorly and she just keeps finding ways or not even finding ways but really trying so hard to

linger around and she's turned into, for me at least, and I'm a hater, but, you know, probably top five most insufferable celebrities, even more than Louie Hamilton, who I don't know anything about. But we mentioned him, so I wanted to sort of a callback to represent strong writing here at the Bean Time podcast. But Katy Perry spending this whole, you know, she's doing interviews before talking about how she's gonna release her album like song list in space and how just it's such a big moment for all the women out there that she could go

into space and how she feels so just deeply connected to love from this whole experience. She gets out of this little Jeff Bezos pod or whatever. She's kissing the ground and she's just the definition of insufferability. That's the pretext, that's the context. So my hot take of the week, Orlando Bloom, who is married to Katy Perry, I don't think he knows.

That's all I wanted to say, I just want to put it out there. I don't think he, something's off. He doesn't know they're married. He has never seen a clip of Katy Perry before. Someone forged documents and it's not that Orlando Bloom that's married to Katy Perry, it's someone who's equally insufferable. I don't pretend to know much about Orlando Bloom's personal life because really he's done two smash hit movie franchises and like three other movies and that's essentially his career but

some something's off something's missing there's no way he knows there's no way any unless you were some no nobody who needed Katy Perry and Katy Perry and Katy Perry's millions of dollars to coast off of, then I could get it. It's like, would you sell your soul to the devil for California girls money? I get that to some extent, but your Orlando Bloom, every time the two towers plays again on TNT, you make another $3,500. You don't need the money I Just boy we're missing something or maybe the real Katy Perry has been like Living in solitude with Orlando Bloom and this is some sort of like body double that is extremely

Terrible what it was that whole whole Jordan Peele movie, Us I think it was called, with Lapita Nwongo. And I don't know who else was in that movie. Was Tim Heidecker in that one? I can't remember. I think he was. And they've got like the secret family underground and then eventually they all hold hands across the earth. Kind of, I don't know.

I never saw that, that was his second one. I never saw the third one with Daniel Kaluuya playing the cowboy. You ever see that one, Rachel or Maple? What was that one called? Don't Look Up? No, that was Leonardo DiCaprio. And Jennifer Lawrence. I don't know they were like making a movie and they're

cowboys and there's don't look at the clouds something like that. I don't know what that one was called but never saw that one. It's already probably what three or four years old at this point. Not sure what Jordan Peele's next move is. But that's my hot take the hot take of the week. I'm not confident that Orlando Bloom knows. That's, I just wanted to put that out there into the atmosphere. You can look at it, unlike those clouds in the untitled Jordan Peele third movie starring Daniel Kaluuya. We're gonna get to our trivia question in a second here. I did just want to mention, this isn't news, but Facebook is, I mean it's been officially

dead and then someone was a grave digger, they brought it back to life and then killed it about 10 more times and that's essentially where we're at with Facebook right now. But just to illustrate, oh and to put a pin in that, but a slightly related thought because it's all meta. I don't know if anyone else, let's get some feedback. Let's respond to the user poll on X or Twitter at Beantowncast or Blue Sky. You can Blue Sky at us. Beantown Podcast. We got the official naming rights on that one, which was good. We were hot off the press on that app. I've been taking heed of this a little bit more the last couple

days because it feels like it's gotten really bad. My Instagram, you're tapping through your stories. Ideally, your stories are just the people you follow. We all get ads here and there throughout our stories, but my ratio of ads to profiles I follow in terms of their stories has gotten egregious. It's close to 50%. Excuse me, there's got to be a tipping point. It's legitimately, the last two or three days, it's been somewhere between 35% and 40% just shooting from the hip, estimation-wise.

And the worst part is most of these ads on Instagram are structured in a way, because I usually, I tap through my ads. I don't swipe because if you swipe and someone's got multiple stories, a friend or something, you won't see them. So I like to tap so I see each one individually. Well these stupid Instagram ads oftentimes are structured in a way where when you tap with your finger, it like sends you to their landing page.

And then you got to X out of that and it's just the absolute worst experience. So Instagram, feeling flustered. I'm one step away from feeling frustrated. You won't like me when I'm frustrated. But to cap the thought on Meta's counterpoint, Facebook, not even counterpoint, it's twin brother here, I took notes two or three days ago as I was just scrolling through my Facebook feed, which I don't do frequently these days because there's really nothing, very little to see there. It's like local news for me is

about all I get from Facebook now, like neighborhood news here in Chicago. And otherwise it's pretty much dead. And you can tell it's desperate too, because 10% of the Facebook posts that show up will be like some random photo from a person who I am friends with, but don't really care about. But it's like

an individual photo that is being shown to me. But they never like posted the photo individually. They posted an album. And then the kicker is it'll be from like three weeks ago. And it's like Facebook, you guys really ran out of ideas. But here as I was scrolling through my Facebook feed the other day, I wanted to just show you what I'm seeing on my end. So first post was a video and it was Ty Pennington on the Jennifer Hudson show doing that little walk of shame, whatever they would call it, like Jennifer Hudson show I guess does this for all their guests where they like walk down and everyone's like hyping them up.

And it was Ty Pennington and he had a really cool hat. And I don't even think I need to or could describe it. Just when you think of what type of really cool hat would Ty Pennington wear on the Jennifer Hudson Show, envision it and then you can Google it. And I promise it's exactly the type of hat you're envisioning. I don't know what he's out there promoting. I'm fairly certain Extreme Makeover Home Edition got cancelled, but maybe he's got something else. I don't know. Next up was a picture, an AI image of Jenna Fischer dressed as Wonder Woman, I don't even, I don't know. Why is Jenna Fischer AI Wonder Woman?

Is this supposed to be a girl power, you're strong, you're tough, we're cheering for you Jenna in her battle with cancer? Not sure. That's a touching thought if so, but I wouldn't want to give Facebook AI that much credit Next it was a person I worked with at Kmart with for about two months back in 2011. They changed their profile picture so I made sure to give that a Not just a like I gave it a care. It's a good reaction.

Next was, I get a lot of sponsored posts for breweries, which isn't the worst thing in the world, but they tend to be in far away locations. This one was in Idaho. So next time I'm picking potatoes to mash my vodka, I know where to stop, although I don't because I didn't write down the name. There next was a post from the page of a profile page of a jazz musician, Junior Mance, who passed away about two or three years ago from Alzheimer's but still posting from the grave so it's just a picture of a piano I don't know

if his widow is just doing that or what what's going on but he's pretty dead still posting it's like on Twitter I don't know if this still happens but what's his name? The Godfather's Pizza Guy, Herman Cain. He still sends out tweets about presidential campaigns and stuff long after he passed away. Kind of eerie. I'm going to go on record here, and you all are witnesses, including Maple and Rachel, once I die, you don't got to post on my social media anymore.

I think my grandpa Bill had a Facebook, which is just the most hilarious thing to think including Maple and Rachel, once I die, you don't got to post on my social media anymore. I think my grandpa Bill had a Facebook, which is just the most hilarious thing to think of, because he's the last person in the world that ever would have actually wanted a Facebook. Someone clearly was sitting at the kitchen table with him one day in 2010 back in the North Woods of Wisconsin on a 5 megabyte per second internet connection and said,

hey Bill you want a Facebook? And he probably said what the hell is that? And they said, oh sure yeah we'll make one for you. I don't know my uncle or my grandfather's wife or something but for a brief period of time after he passed away he was still posting from his Facebook profile. If you ever knew my grandpa Bill it's one of the most Shocking and hilarious things to picture that he would ever post anything on the internet just of any sort So yeah post from the grave gotta love that next up was a Curb your enthusiasm clip from the official Eric Andre

Fan account which I don't follow. It must have been a newer season because I hadn't seen this clip. I didn't know Eric Andre was on Kirby Enthusiasm, but it was, yeah, it was a video from the official Eric Andre fan account, which I don't follow. I don't know why it's on my Facebook, but I saw it. And then finally, as always, a nice horizontal carousel of people you may know and it's all one mutual friend. Back in my day, people you may know used to mean you got at least a smattering or a handful, either one, of mutual friends. And now it's just like, hey, there's one, there's, there's a person out there in Facebook, you know, a billion users, and they have exactly

one connection to someone you're connected to, and it's the Eric Andre fan account. And you might want to follow them. And I don't. So, that's what my Facebook feed is looking like these days. You can email us if you see any cool AI art or if you're a co-worker from 25 years ago or the person you went to college with who you were kind of friends with but never really uploaded a photo from four weeks ago. First give it a care and then let us know what happened. Let's finish up with our trivia question here.

Of course it is about Easter weekend or the Ten Commandments pass over the Exodus story. We're really rolling it all into one because Holy Week and Easter tend to be rolled into one. I don't know, you know, don't use me as gospel in terms of when and if the Ten Commandments is being broadcasted on ABC. I guess we'll do a quick Google search. Usually, at least when I was growing up, it was always the Saturday night leading into Easter.

Again, no great nickname for the Saturday. Darkness Saturday. Maybe there is and I just don't know. But it's always broadcast on ABC. I don't think there was a single year in my childhood where I made it to the end of the Ten Commandments. One year my dad taped it for us and we like watched the last hour the next day. You know, they've made it past the Red Sea, Golden Calf.

That's a kicker when you think about it with about the Ten Commandments. You say it's called the Ten Commandments. So when I'm watching this movie, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, unforgettable, it's a classic, they should call this Exodus or Plague City or Burning Bush or something because frankly it's been about four hours and I have seen no commandments. You had to wait until the last five minutes of the movie when he goes atop the mountain, Mount Sinai I figure, or somewhere else heretofore.

I think it is Mount Sinai, right? That's where he gets the 10 commandments. I was gonna say Mount Ararat, but that's in Turkey. The cool thing about Mount Ararat, it's like a sacred mountain for the Armenians, but it's actually in Turkey, but I think it's on the Armenian state coin, which is pretty cool. But 10 Commandments, let's see. The movie aired, oh, we missed it.

April 12th, 2025 at 7 p.m. Eastern. Brutal. Now why would you do it the weekend before Easter? What a miss. No one's sitting there getting ready for Palm Sunday thinking, man I really got an itch for the 10 commandments right now. You're focused on the palms, on the donkeys. Saturday between Good Friday and Easter is perfect because you got some downtime. There's no Jesus. Everyone's chilling,

everyone's partying, he's in the tomb. No stones have been rolled Perfect time to pop some popcorn sit down. You got five hours ahead of you You know salt salt pillar and fire and brimstone and all that stuff and part in the Red Sea. It's a classic ABC big misstep Bigger than Katy Perry going into space. But our trivia question does relate to the film. We're talking not the original Cecil B. DeMille, but the remake from 1950, whatever that was, with Charlton Heston. It was a silent film, so the one where they do the talking and the white people play the Egyptians.

My question for you, not about the Ten Commandments themselves, but about the Ten Plagues, rather. Name the five biblical plagues that are either clearly shown or alluded to in the film adaptation of the Ten Commandments. So in the Bible there are ten plagues of Egypt. You know, Moses says, let my people go. Ramsey says, no. He says, chill, brah. That's in the Gen Z TikTok remake. How many, TikTok isn't this, but Vine is what? Vine was seven seconds.

So how many, here's the bonus trivia question. And I'll actually do this math live on air for you. How many vines would you have to make to encompass the entirety of the Ten Commandments? Ten Commandments film. Let's check the runtime. Actually before I check that, I want to do some math in my head. So my original question is what are the five plagues that are actually depicted or alluded to in the film? And then my bonus question is how many vines would

you have to make, seven second vines, to replicate or make up the Ten Commandments film. So let's start with the math here first. So seven seconds. I actually have no idea how long the Ten Commandments is. I think it's about four hours. So that comes out to, oof, this is about to get gnarly, math on air. We can do this. Four hours, that's 240 minutes.

That's my guess in terms of how long it is. So 240 times 60, that's 24 times six and then add two zeros. 24 times six is 48 times three, so 48, 96, and then 144 I think. So 100, so 14,400 seconds. Let's keep that number in our mind for 14400 I think divided by seven.

That's roughly about what like 22,000 vines a little bit more than that. Probably let's say like let's guess like 20 2300 vines. That's my guess. Okay 2300 is my official guess. Now we actually have to figure this out. Okay. Ten commandments. Oh, we're gonna be over. It's three, three hours, 40 minutes, which is 220 minutes.

Two seconds, which is or 2 29. That's I can't even type the right numbers. That's rough. This is where we need our research department to help us out. 13,200 seconds. So 13,200. Here's our final answer. Divided. Oh, we should just be using a calculator, not Google. 13,200 divided by seven. The final answer. Yeah, we were a little bit over, but the thought process was accurate. You would need to make 1,886 vines to redo the Ten Commandments on social media. There you go. And then to answer the actual attribute question, name the five biblical plagues that are either clearly shown or are heavily alluded to

in the film adaptation, The Ten Commandments, it is water turning into blood. The Nile gets all gnarly. Gnarly Nile, another horse name. Two frogs, three hail and fire, four darkness. I really had to blow the special effects budget on that one. And not to mention the kind of middle of the film with the chariot race, you of the firstborn, of course. So the ones you don't really get in the film are lice slash gnats, either or, flies, livestock disease, boils, and locusts. So God did both lice slash, he did so what I found was lice slash gnats So let's just for sake of argument take gnats on that God did gnats flies and locusts Which are like grasshoppers. I don't want to look I'm not calling God lazy

But it's kind of lazy to do Three that are basically the same. I mean, it could have done like earthquakes or something. That next season nine of the Bean Town podcast, all new 10 plagues. I mean, some of them are badass. Death of the Firstborn classic. Darkness is pretty cool. Turning the Nihilan into blood. Yeah, that's awesome. But if you're going to do some animals, why wouldn't you go more local? You could do crocodiles, hippopotami.

Imagine all those little Egyptians trying to make the pyramids and you got a whole bunch of hippopotami chasing them around. Good luck! Anyways, that's what I got for you guys. Good Friday, nothing Saturday, Easter Sunday. It's all in front of us. Here another classic Bean Town podcast Easter special. Before we go, anything from Rachel or Maple? No. We're making fajitas for supper. Should be tasty. Bell peppers, onions, chicken, maybe a little Greek yogurt, cumin. But is cumin, is that, that's like a flower or something, a plant? Not sure. Well, you hear about, you know, cinnamon bark comes from a tree.

about you know cinnamon bark comes from a tree. Turmeric is another one like cumin I don't really know. Coriander I imagine like a little yellow flower in Pakistan that's that's coriander in my mind but no not not sure about cumin we associated with southwestern and south of the border spices but I don't know if it actually comes from there. We'll get back to you next week and lead with that. But that's what I got for you guys. My name is Quinn David Furness. I hope everyone has a great Easter. Thank you for tuning in to my show.

Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast and spoiler alert, Jesus is coming back. And then he's going to ascend into heaven and become space junk like the Prophet Muhammad Let's go ahead and find that outro music here ideally it would be You know something Easter related, but that's a lot of work. So instead we'll just do our Tisha mingle blues Guys, my name is Quinn. This is my show. Thank you so much for tuning in

Check in on you next week for the wedding show. Stay safe, stay sane. See ya. So so so So Thank you.