Beantown Podcast - Easy Button, Return to Oz, and God Warriors (11072025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: November 7, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss Trading Spouses, the ghoul that is Jack Pumpkinhead, and the GOATed version of A Whole New World

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town podcast for Friday, November 7th, 2025. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn, and this is my program. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast. I am the creator, the host, and I'm going to go with a classic key grip. of this program grip is that electrical is that lighting because you got to grip the lights i think traditionally you got some something's got to hold them up so whether you want to prop them up grip them up or whatever you want to do that's fine i saw speaking of lights you know how you know when there's like a newscaster live on site like the big light behind the camera to brighten their

face especially if they're recording in the dark or something where i was walking to work on Wednesday morning. You go past the daily building with like the federal courthouse, et cetera. And so it's a common spot for newscasters to post up in case they got a big breaking story on Blikovic, Chauncey Billups, or you name it. And story isn't even interesting. It just made me think of it.

They had, you know, they had like the newscaster setup, just the they must have still been in the truck but they had like the light and the camera out there unattended and then just one of those like not a beach chair but you know like the collapsible folding chairs you take to watch an event or something you sling it over your back they had one of those and it was just set up and piled with stuff in it and i guess that's just like the cool new way to keep your stuff i never promised the bean town podcast was interesting it's just a mundane 60 second story on setting up for news reports. That's what we're all about here at the Beantown podcast. I do want to give a shout out, quick shout out, in addition to our friends in

Pakistan, Urdu Valley, Hidden Valley Ranch, Karajistad. Sounds like a place, right? I don't think that's racist. It just sounds like it could be a place in Pakistan, whether it is or not. Who cares? I did want to give a shout out to follower of the show, new followers. of the show via SoundCloud. I went to SoundCloud right before I started recording just to check the metrics. If you're curious, we're at 640 plays in the last seven days, which I'm guessing about 635 of those are bots. Four of those are from Pakistan, and one of them is probably from a random person from high school or something who Googled me this week. And their search said, what is that loser, weirdo, Quinn David Furness doing these days? And that's the exact

query you have to search to get the Beantown podcast to show up on your first page of Google results. But it worked. So to that person, you know, you'd never make it three actual minutes into this episode. You would stop once I started talking about the folding, what's the name of that? It's not a folding chair. It's not a beach chair. Camping chair, I think, is what you would call that right you want to you want to have it around the campfire speaking of campfire uh well yeah shout out to that person speaking of campfire i'm drinking a brownie what's it called brownie points from maplewood brewing here it's a brown ale with vanilla 5.7 percent it's very delicious got a 16 ounce can going here it's amazing but to cap the thought

moon sounds started following me on sound cloud and first i was like oh that's really exciting i'll take any new follower i can get like jesus and the 12 apostles disciples where all the disciples apostles because i know you know you got your i don't know i feel like was paul he was well he was one of the apostles right because he did the whole thing with oh no that paul wasn't paul was like we talked about this last week. It was Saul, and then he becomes Paul. I was thinking of Peter. But I feel like, you know, Peter does the whole thing cutting off the servants' ear, but I think later on, Peter, like, goes and does some prophesizing over in Galilee or something like that. Were any of

these 12 disciples also apostles? What's the sort of overlap here between apostles and disciples? You figure at least some of them probably were, right, but some of them probably fell off. Some of them, you know, after the whole Jesus thing probably went back to their day. shift at the winery or, you know, some of there were probably carpenters like Jesus. Don't get me started on Jesus' brothers. What was the deal there? He had at least a couple of brothers, right? James was one. You know, I thought that the whole like Mary and Joseph thing was just kind of a fling. Because why did God even, what was the deal with God impregnating E-I, not E-I, I-M-P-R-E-G-N-A-T-I-N-G-Mary, before they were even married, couldn't he have

waited until, because now it's, you know, now you're looking at it, you're like, oh, I'm going to do exactly like Jesus said, and that's like, well, Jesus is God, so he, like, knocked up his own mom, which I don't even want to get into the whole ethics of that thing. But it feels like if the Christian church is so big on no sex before marriage, maybe they're alma mater, I think is what you'd call Mary, should have, because that means like original mother in Latin alma mater, should have been like, maybe we get married first, Joseph, or at least try to cover it up, like, boom, my uterus has been implanted, or however you make a baby with a miraculous birth. And, you know, maybe we should get married to, you know, and backdate it or something so that

when I give birth in eight months, what do you think, do you think Mary got impregnated by the Holy Word of God and then had a full, like, nine-month, three-fold trimester's term? Or do you think she kind of got, was able to skip some of, you know, she was she like started at 20 weeks or something? That's kind of interesting. There's not really a playbook on miraculous conceptions, immaculate conceptions. There's a, this is the last thing I promise. And then we got to, oh, finish up my thought on mood sounds.

There was a great, I don't know who exactly, I think it's Jack Donaghy's mom on the 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin's character, played by Elaine Stritch, I believe. And there's a great mention of her Catholic Church, and it's Our Lady of Reluctant Integration. And it's just one of the greatest, I mean, a show filled with a million tiny little jokes going, past your head a gazillion miles an hour, our lady of reluctant integration is just spot on and absolutely fantastic. But moon sounds got me thinking, you know, because right off the bat, it's just like, oh, it's just kind of like ambient, nice noise, right? But then you think about it, it's like the moon doesn't really make sounds. In all the clips of Buzz Aldrin and Michael

Collins and Neil Armstrong and John Glenn and the cosmonauts, I don't think the cosmonauts actually got to the moon, I think they got stuck up in space. maybe not stuck maybe that i don't think they wanted to go to the moon well they probably would have if you if you would have given them the option do you want to go to the moon or not they probably would have said yes but i don't think it was necessarily their primary mission up there in the 50s but i don't recall ever seeing the moon making sounds in fact we had one of those super moons like three nights ago something like that it was like tuesday or wednesday night which i didn't really i didn't hear about i it's very rare i feel like i usually

have my finger on the pulse when it comes to pop culture and just geological sensations. It's not really geological. Meteorological sensations. And this was one that I totally missed the boat on. I log into my Instagram the next morning and everyone's posting, oh, look at me in the moon. Here, mom, get a snap a pick of me in the moon. The man in the moon in New Hampshire, rest in peace. But I never heard, you know, in none of these pictures of the super moon. And this isn't, wasn't just any old moon this was the super moon i never saw anyone posting their audio of the moon so i do want to shout out moon sounds on sound cloud for following me but i don't necessarily know what that means but that's okay not all of our names have to make sense i'm uh i was going to

see uh genetically i guess that's right genetically a male in mine i have a largely female name. So some things just don't make sense and that's okay. We just have to live with what we were, the hand we were dealt, you know. I want to mention listener discretion advised when you're listening to this program, number one of occasioning some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. My last thought on moon sounds is it reminds me of the song Moon River, which is kind of a classic old-timey song, jazz standard now. Composed by Henry Mancini, originally performed by Audrey Hepburn and the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song and also

in the 1962 Grammy for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. We got to get to the bottom of this right here, right now. Record of the year verse song of the year. What the heck? Let's Google it. Let's figure it out. Record of the year verse song of the year. There it is. I put in Record of the Tear or record of the tear. Wasn't there something in the Bible with the temple cloth being torn away and then there was like a new temple i don't know what the deal what was going on there was like the tie pennington home improvement extreme makeover not home improvement extreme makeover home edition where they park that giant bus inside and they say bus driver move that bus speaking of classic ABC shows we have our hot take of the week in a second

here but not before we get the AI overview here it is straight from google gemini itself record of the year honors the performance and production of a song going to the artist producers and engineers while song of the year recognize the songwriting and composition with the award going to the songwriter essentially one is for the finished recording the others for the underlying written work i got to tell you i in reading that like i get it i understand the subtle difference and then the other 90% of me is like that doesn't make any sense i think i think they're overthinking this they're making it too complicated Let's just have the best song, and you can judge it however you would like, okay? That's my recommendation to the Grammys. Our hot take of the week is brought to you by one of Central Oregon's, if not the preeminent, hottest new home inspection provider. And speaking of, you know, hot stuff, hot stuff that I don't do, you know, whether you want him to inspect your furnace, his namesake, or your stovetop, or your oven. I burned myself in the oven the other day. It was just a quick little touch of the iron,

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Hope right organ inspection perfection 5414-0-0-316 or email hope right organ at gmail.com. Our hot take of the week, we mentioned ABC, Extreme Makeover Home Edition. I got to give a shout out. It's having a little bit of a revivalment. I guess you could just say revival, but it feels like I should add a syllable to it. Wife Swap is a goaded show.

In case you don't know the terminology, goaded, that just means, like, goat is greatest of all time. And it's just kind of classic Gen Z saying to say, oh, slang to say, oh, man, that thing is goaded. That player is goaded. Which is interesting when, like, the goat or goaded kind of came out a couple, you know, a decade ago or whatever, as like common vernacular, V-E-R-N-A-C-U-L-A-R.

It could have been a good name for the late Vern Troyer's podcast that I don't think he ever had. But when it started to come out and people started to say, oh, that thing is goaded. Before that, it was like, O.P. That is too OPEO-P. Overpowered. But when I first heard it, I was like, oh, goats. That's like curse, cubs. Like, goat bad. I was like, oh, man, that thing's goaded. That's not good for that thing. But it turns out goaded means greatest of all time. So we all learned something. but wife swap is such a goaded show and the reason it's it's being revital experiencing a revitalment right now is they're doing a mini series crossover with real housewives and wife swap

and i think it's four episodes it's it's one of the ladies from Salt Lake city one of the classic new jersey ladies most gorga gorgia gorga however you say her name and then some lady from Orange County, I don't know. And then the last one is going to be Windy Ocepho, who we talked about in-depth about a month ago when she got arrested for all the fraud stuff. And insurance fraud essentially was the biggest concern. So there's only four episodes,

and they're doing them one, I think, a week. And the windy one is the last one to come out. But that inspired Rachel and I to throw on Wife Swap, the OG show, seven seasons of it, which used to run in like a very similar window I feel like with Super Nanny and Extreme Makeover, excuse me, the original and then Extreme Makeover Home Edition. I think those were all ABC shows in the 2000s.

But we threw on an episode last night and it was just some random episode. It was like the season premiere of season four or something. I don't know. It wasn't one that I was familiar with. There are certain like classic famous ones. In particular, there's a great one where they like meet up at the hotel. room they rent out halfway in between the couples or near the airport or however they do it and there's a great table flipping right at the end the couples really get get into it and then there's another great

one with king curtis who was a little kid i think that was wife swap i don't because there was like a fox edition of this as well called trading places and i think king curtis was was wife swap and he is just like a very spoiled brat little kid who runs away from home it's good stuff I think, you know, the one person from trading places, there was like this Jesus freak mom. She was kind of like overweight and not super well put together. Kind of had like a short pixie cut almost. And she was just, let's see if we can find anything on this mom. But I'm pretty sure that was, you know, it was like the exact same concept, trading places on Fox versus WifeSwap on ABC.

Trading Places Jesus Mom. She was like a God warrior. You guys remember this? Trading Places Jesus Mom. Okay, so that's the movie. Is that what the movie was called? Trading Places? I'm getting nothing here

from Google Search. So I might be off here. Fox version of Wife Swap. Trading Spouses. That's what it was called. Okay, let's try this again. apologies. I am aware, and I was aware, when I said trading places, like, oh, yeah, that was also the name of the, what, it's Arsenio Hall movie, Eddie Murphy, something like that, which I don't think I've ever seen. But trading spouses, I was like, yeah, they got the same name. That's kind of strange. But now I realize

it is trading spouses. Jesus mom. Let's see if trading spouse is Jesus' mom comes up. Oh, yeah. God Warrior on trading spouse's Marguerite Perrine, P-E-R-R-R-I-N. Let's pull her up on YouTube. Uh-oh. Let's see. I don't want to get DMCA'd. Yeah, this lady's crazy. is dork sadded she said her whole house she is dork sadded too all right i don't want to get this

episode taken down or banned from sound cloud or anything but if you're curious maybe you've seen this and maybe you haven't but crazy christian lady god warrior and trading spouses marguerite m a r g ue rite and the last name perian perine p-r-r-n but if you just were to youtube uh Uh, YouTube trading spouses, God Warrior, it'll definitely come up. And that clip there, this was just like a five minute clip at the end after she comes back. I don't know if this particular show had like the table meet in the hotel at the end where they kind of hash out their differences and go there separate ways. But this is like when she comes back home and, uh, they're capturing the footage of it. I got, I'm going to have to go watch that whole clip after we finish recording. It's five, like a little under six minutes long. so you know what lump trading spouses into my hot take but wife swap trading spouses as far as i'm not i'm not saying like oh yeah this is like a excellent quality show but if you're looking for like just throw something on as you're falling asleep or throw something on you're not really

sure to watch don't forget about wife swap it's on hulu because you get some really quality entertainment there i mean they got these wives swapped hence the name for two weeks and they condense it down into like a 42-minute show. So you're only going to get the good stuff. There's no... Imagine if your life was recorded for two weeks and then it gets edited into 42 minutes. And even then, they got to split time because there's two of them. So imagine if it gets edited down to like 20, 18, 20 minutes. You're going to get good stuff no matter how boring your life is. That's the beauty of wife swap. Maple is not next to me right now. She's in the office with mom, still slaving away, working for...

30 here. 420 actually right now technically blaze it. I've not been to the dispensary in quite some time. I think the last time I did was like January when it was dry January. Maybe like February or March because I didn't drink in those months either. But yeah, I haven't partaken in the edible game for a while. The ones I have right now are just melatonin on overdrive, which I had this for later on, but I'll mention it now. I, speaking of melatonin, I took a nap today for like 30, 40 minutes, just kind of in the mid-afternoon, had an afternoon lull. I should mention I took the day off work. I'm not just like, yeah, work was slow, so I decided I'll just take a nap. I, I, for any bosses or employers out there, I absolutely would, certainly 100% are you crazy. I would never do that,

no matter how slow my work was. That's crazy. But because I, I was off today. I felt empowered to take a nap. And this raised the question, and I've been having the last week in particular, I don't know if it was the wife swap or what, but I've been having a very enjoyable experience falling asleep where I can like very intentionally feel myself falling in sleep. And it's like, you know, when you're sleeping, you're fighting off sleep, but it's, it's another thing where you are like in bed and it's like you can control physically where, why did I say that so strangely, like the exact moment you decide that you're just going to give it up and fall asleep. I love that sense of control. And this raised the question, is it more enjoyable to

fall asleep or is it more enjoyable to sleep? Which is kind of a strange existential thing because when you are sleeping to a large extent, you are not aware, one that you're sleeping to that just like anything is happening. I mean, some of us have like a very keen ability, meta ability, like as you're dreaming to be like oh yeah i'm dreaming i am asleep i'm enjoying this and i get that from time to time but i think you know for the most part it's like you can really tell at least for me especially this past week i can really tell like as i'm falling asleep and the moment i died i decide to be like i'm going to close my eyes while wife swap is playing and within 30 to 60 seconds it's like yeah i am going to be out until something maple paws at my face at five

am. And I think I enjoy going to sleep more than I enjoy sleeping. So maybe I need to, what does a Kramer do in Seinfeld? He does the Da Vinci naps where he takes like 20, you know, 20 minute naps throughout the day. I think I need to do that because even just today when I took my falling asleep in my nap today wasn't quite as clear cut of a sensation as my, my typical nighttime routine has been, but it was still enjoyable to fall asleep. And then you wake up and you're like, what did I miss? What happened? It was nice to be asleep, but I didn't actively enjoy being asleep. I didn't dislike it. I just didn't feel anything because nothing was happening inside my brain. No electromagnetic activity, which I don't think is actually true. But you get what I mean.

Okay, that was a question I wanted to pose. Maple's Minute, of course, brought to you, by our good friends at the Samson Q2U series. When God speaks, he uses a Samson. And Maple, the last like two or three days, it's been a little bit better. But like for four or five days before that, she has been a menace. And I guess this morning she was being freaky. I tried to take her out and I eventually did take her out to go to the bathroom. And usually like first thing in the morning, she really wants to do that. Today she was like not having it. And I had to put the leash on her and physically largely like nudge her drag her out the door i don't know what she was so scared of but before you know otherwise the past couple days she's been fine but before that

she has really been getting into uh not getting into like garbage or something she's really been enjoying the idea of going anywhere on the couch that is not her designated spot so we've got a couch it's rachel's old couch it's fine it serves as purpose and we've we've we've We've intentionally split our couch up into three equal-sized portions, even though Maple is 17 pounds and Rachel and I combined for 350, 370, whatever it is. Because Rachel's like 90 and I'm like 280. Anyways, Maple's got her Yoda blanket, a dedicated corner spot, probably the best angle of the TV, frankly. And she got all her toys over there.

It's been her spot. It's always been her spot. Rachel and I, I usually sit on the other end. Rachel gets stuck in the middle. I need to do a better job of taking the middle. This is just like flying on an airplane and letting Rachel have the armrest. But that's neither here nor there. Maple has, this is Maple's minute this week.

She has been obsessed the last week with coming all the way to the opposite corner, traditionally dad's spot. Even though she's got a great blanket and toys and lambs and it smells like her, maybe that's why she doesn't like it. but on the other corner of the couch. And so Maple's Minute, Maple's Sage Wisdom this week is the best spot on the couch is the one you don't have. Really just another iteration of the grass is always greener. But if Maple was out here right now, that's what she would tell you. Let's see, coming up here on the show, we have a Stephen King-related trivia question for the film buffs. Just a couple of the things I want to mention here.

I won't keep you too long. We don't have a great, like, second half closer, like the Candy Land Power Ranking from last week, which was a lot of fun. Wait till Moon Sounds listens to that. Okay, that's going to be a good time. I have just a couple of random thoughts that I wanted to share. We covered one of them already.

It's falling asleep better than sleeping. I have nothing else to add there. I did want to this, so we live a block down from like a karate studio. it's not karate though it's like a self it's self defense and i almost never see anyone in there it's pretty rare i don't know how places like that you know these storefronts afford their their rent same thing there's a just further down from that there's a number of small businesses on our strip here on irving park road that it just i don't see any action it's like how do you guys afford your rent or you know if you own it outright property taxes i don't know maybe it's a lot of just like

online stuff or maybe you can't really judge a business by just walking past it a couple times a week and not seeing anyone in there. I don't know. But there, you know, there's this strip of like a heating company and the self-defense studio. There's like this voice studio. I think it's just someone who teaches voice lessons out of this storefront. And then this candy store that has like the worst hours. It's like two to five Thursdays and Friday, something like that. It's like how are these places affording rent it's it's one thing if it's just like a year of bad business but i feel year after year after year how are they affording it anyways that it's not related to the point i was trying to make it all i saw and i think this is not new i think this has been

there but when i was taking maple to the park today i noticed that the self-defense studio on like it's counter at like the welcome desk has an easy button and that got me thinking man we have not seen a lot frankly from the easy button recently and that that got me thinking i couldn't even remember which like office supply national retailer the easy button came from was it staples that's my gut but then i got thinking like was this an office max office depot thing isn't it strange that we have that there is an office max and an office depot i recognize that no one company should be able to just own a word but it just feels like office max and office depot are so close maybe you guys could just merge or is there any noteworthy noticeable

difference between office max and office depot or are they the exact same business with the largely exact same products and they just it's probably like two brothers Max and Depot. You don't really see Depot as a first name.

But and they just decided to split like the pep boys. What was the deal with those pep boys? Were they three brothers? Were they just three mechanics? I heard an ad a podcast ad the surviving car talk

brother. I don't know if it's Tom or Ray, but he's back doing a little bit of some supplementary action. It's not like a full car talk reboot or something like that, but apparently he's answering some questions, but you only get to listen, some car talk related questions. You only get to listen if you are an NPR plus subscriber, which if there is going to be one thing in my life that I actually paid subscription money to, it would probably make sense that it would be NPR, but I just I can't get on the subscription game Every time you hear those like rocket money ads And it's like Rocket Money felt 18 subscriptions

I didn't know I was still paying for No uh no offense to anyone who that has happened to But I just think you have to be kind of a dumb ass To realize like How I mean how do you not just like Randomly one day check your bank account statement or your credit card statement, you'd be like, oh, yeah,

I should probably not be paying for that anymore. Like, why do you need rocket money or whatever company to come in and say, man, we found these subscriptions. Were you ever wondering where your extra $200 a month went? Well, here you go. Like, who is so out of touch with their money? And I know that,

I know that that is like a large percentage of people. And I recognize that. It's just not where I am mentally with my money, but it is just strange. it feels strange to me the point I was trying to make well oh I made the point the easy button I feel like there was a time

between like not only the ad campaign with the TV spots excuse me and the black guy who had like the very geometric hair you guys remember that he had like a big afro but there was like a 90 degree angle in it I think he was in a TV show or something like he wasn't the guy in my name is Earl

I don't think but I think he was in other stuff but there was also i felt like just uh we would see a lot of like actual easy buttons in real life and the whole thing was supposed to be like shopping is so hard so you go into staples and you press the easy button and now shopping's easy was there anyone out out there who actually struggled that much to purchase office related supplies and products that they really needed excellent customer support in store from staples or was this all just fabricated because easy button is a cool marketing gimmick. These are the questions that keep me up at night.

I totally turn on wife swap and then fall asleep, which feels better than actually sleeping. I do not have a, I have two movie related things here. Actually, the rest, looking at my list, the rest here all relates to movies in some form or fashion. So hopefully you'll like the silver screen. Why is it the silver screen, not the golden screen, right? Shouldn't it be like the golden screen is movies and then the silver screen?

Silver screen is anything TV related? Doesn't that make more sense? And then bronze is reserved for, I don't know, in-person plays or now streaming services, whatever you want? That can be bronze. Doesn't Patrick Mahomes have like three kids and they're alike? It's like Sterling Silver, Patrick II, and bronze, something like that. It's like, I wonder who the favorite is. I don't think that's completely right, but I don't think it's completely wrong. Let's look this up. Mahomes, Kate's, I think I said Mahomes Jr., but he would actually be the third, right? Because his dad was Mahom's senior. Patrick and Brittany Mahomes have three children, Sterling Sky, Patrick, Bronze, LaVan, and Golden Ray. It was even more kind of overt than I thought. I thought it was like, oh yeah, it wasn't actually like golden, silver, and bronze. But it was. sterling sky so sterling is not necessarily silver i get that but sterling silver is just such a

you know used to have like the lord of the rings like online store little booklet growing up where you could spend four hundred dollars to purchase the actual one ring and it was sterling silver or like erigorn sword excalibur or whatever it was called like that's actually real sterling silver and you can purchase it now for only $600 plus shipping. It's made of sterling silver. Sting, that was the Bilbo's sword and Frodo's sword. It becomes blue when it turns, when the orcs are nearby. We never really got clarification on the range on that baby.

Are we talking like a mile, 100 meters? How useful was this thing? I feel like in the fellowship of the ring, there's the scene after Boromir tries to take the ring and Frodo puts on the ring he turns invisible, he runs away, Erwin finds him you're not sure if he's going to

try to try to take the ring to and he closes his hand around the ring and it's like, okay, like we made it past that and then five seconds later Frodo's sword is blue and Erro runs like bro you got to run and then he turns around and there's like the gigantic

army of Uriqai, that's right, Uriq, UR, U-K-H-A-I, Uri-K. And there's like a million of them, they're right there, ready to spring. And it's like, I don't think that sword was as good of a warning shot as, you know, maybe it lost some of its potency since the Bilbo days. Because I think those Uriqi were only like, I don't know, a block away at, I don't think you could really measure blocks in that forest, but I live in the city, so give me a break. Yeah, my home's kids, Sterling Sky, Patrick Bronze, and Golden Ray.

Reminds me a Sugar Ray. Every morning when I wake up, there's a hundred money, I don't do, do, I just want to fly. Next week on the Beantown podcast, Quinn sings all four Sugar Ray songs that he knows. there's like there's like four famous ones right there's like fly every morning um i don't know there's two other ones let's move past it i had an idea i have i have nothing really on this i just wrote it down but uh roku city the movie doesn't that feel like something that's going to happen

and it's going to come out on the roku channel but it's going to be some i don't know it would be interesting because you can't, when I think of Roku City, I think of it as like a chorissant, kind of seedy, negative sort of thing. If you have no idea what Roku City is, it's the like screensaver that plays on your Roku TV. But, you know, between, with the world of like, well, I was going to say, I don't think Roku would put out anything that makes Roku City look bad, right? Because it's their product. So maybe this project is dead in the water. But it kind of feels like with the world of like wreckett ralph and lego movie like roku city is not that far off from being its own movie don't you think since they're already making their own pictures wasn't the uh

daniel radcliffe weird owl biopic that was a roku original i think i never saw it it's one of those things i don't i don't think i'm ever going to see that movie if i'm being straight up with myself not because i think it's terrible it's just i don't know i feel like I would need my wife to leave for like three weeks and I would have to really like be scraping the bottom of the barrel content wise before I'm like yeah I think I'll turn on that movie I don't know I don't know what it is about it I think it's also because like I missed the boat right that came out like three years ago and as much as I love Weird Al I don't really care about Daniel Radcliffe that much I think he's fine but I'd rather just watch UHF again. So, there it is. Roku City, the movie. A couple more things here

and then are a trivia question. I learned, and I'm sure that I've stumbled upon this at some point in the past, I've been alive for 30 years here, but the Wizard of Oz film sequel called Return to Oz came out in like the 70s or 80s, something like that.

This thing, I went down a total rabbit hole. I think I, you know, came from a Reddit thread. I don't remember exactly what it was. But maybe it was about like the trippiest movies. Return to Oz, 1985 film. It's a direct sequel to the Wizard of Oz

based off of the works by Frank Baum or whatever his name was El Frank Baum. Kind of like El Ron Hubbard. This is L. Frank Baum. For $2,000, name L. Frank Baum's real first name. It is Lyman. Lyman. So Wizard of Oz comes out in 1939. Return to Oz comes out in 1985. So by my math, it's 46 years later. It's a dark fantasy film released by Walt Disney Pictures and starring

a bunch of no names. And then Fyruza Balk. That's right. Sounds like a Willy Wonka kid. F-A-I-R-U-Z-A. Last name, Bulk or Bok like in baseball. Everyone knows exactly what a bach is. B-A-L-K has Dorothy Gale in her first screen role. It's an unofficial sequel to the Wizard of Oz. And it's largely a combination of the books, The Marvelous Land of Oz and Osma of Oz. That's right.

The third book in the series is called Osma of Oz. He's getting really creative with his names there. In the plot, an insomniac, Dorothy returns to land of Oz, the fine has been conquered by the wicked gnome king and his accomplice, Princess Mambi. Dorothy must restore Oz with her new friends, Belina, TikTok, Jack Pumpkinhead, and The Gump. And so I read through the entire plot on Wikipedia,

and it was like trying to follow along and some things are interesting, some things are not. But what is more wild and will give you nightmares, if you just go to, if you just Google search return of Oz and then go to the images, you can really start to get a sense of, like, what this movie looked like. I mean, this scarecrow is spooky as hell. Why did they make him so much less human?

Like, you're right. You know, because in the original film, it's, you know, it's like the tin man and the lion and the scarecrow, but you can tell they're, like, real humans, just in, like, costumes. This scarecrow's got a very bulbous head. His fingers are all over the place. It's, like, extra spooky.

Then he got Jack Pumpkin head. He's this gigantic man with a huge pumpkin. Like, and he's kind of got a sinister smile. Why does it, this tin man looks like it's about, you know, the tin man from like 50 years before the 19th, the 1939 Wizard of Oz? I can't get over how spooky this scarecrow is. Then you got this, this like caribou looking deal. That might be the gump or that might be TikTok, I'm not sure. They're both kind of spooky.

You just got to go through the images. have returned to Oz. And I'm not encouraging that you watch this film. I've never watched it and I never planned to. But you want to talk about like acid trip. Holy moly, return to Oz. I think more than anything, it's the pumpkin head that's really throwing me for a loop. And the gump, if I'm being real.

He's got springs for legs. I don't know if that's the gump or TikTok. I don't know which one is which. I can't remember from the plot summary. Oh, well. I can't get over this pumpkin head. He's huge. It's crazy.

That was returned to Oz. And then our last thing here before a trivia question. I had this thought come to me as I was pouring my second glass of two whiskeys last night. And, well, the thought was the original single recording of a whole new world, which is not the, like, version that plays in the film, but as, you know, like the version that they put out there for Grammy. consideration or whatever um actually i don't even know if that's how it works but basically that original version is like classic 80s coded with um i guess it's from the 90s but it feels like you're listening to a boyce to men single or something like that with like the uh electric piano

going in the background the chimes the bells whatever and the original song uh or the the duet version from Peebo Bryson and Regina Bell from 1992. It's just absolutely spectacular. And their outfits in the music video are amazing. And I mean, I've been aware of this. I'm a huge Aladdin stand. But the point I'm trying to make is I listened for the first time to the version from the most recent Aladdin they made, which was like, oh, the live action Aladdin, stupid

Disney with all their live action remakes. and I don't know what this was from 2019 call me a hater but this live act or this version from the most recent film was absolutely trash I think in particular the the guy playing Aladdin Mina Masood not that great of a singer like not a bad singer you're not going to listen to me like oh this guy is not a good singer but you got to have some heart and soul like Piba Bryson had and this guy just didn't have it I would say the female was okay, Naomi Scott. I don't, apparently she's from Power Rangers. I don't know much about her.

But, yeah, it just doesn't hold a candle to the original. Now I'm looking at Zane Malik and Zavia Ward did their version of the song for the end credits in 2019. Zane, the guy who died or is that someone else? I think that was someone else. His name was like Luca or something like that. Who was, what was the name of that guy who died, One Direction? Nile Horan, he died? No, Liam Payne, he's dead. He jumped out of a window. Been over a year already. Rest and peace to my man, Liam.

But yeah, I just wanted in the spirit of random thoughts to close out this week's Bean Town podcast. I want to, I would much rather, my closing thought on that is I want to give a much bigger plug to the 1992 Peebo Bryson Bell, what's your name, Naomi Bell, something like that version. I want to hate on the new version because I don't I don't care that much about the new version. So just that old classic, if you haven't listened to that one a while. Oh, it's so good. Classic duet. Big puffy shirts. Good stuff.

Our trivia question, I think we did something Stephen King related a week or two ago. I can't recall exactly. But inspired by the running man coming out next week. I think it's one week from today, the remake of the Arnold Schwarzenegger film from whenever that was. I won't tell you the date because it's going to come up in trivia. But this version, my understanding, I've never seen The Running Man before, but I am reading it right now and have about 100 pages left. I'm going to finish it this weekend. And so my understanding is the Arnold Schwarzenegger film version from whenever that came out, the 90s or something, is really not a film.

film adaptation of the book, it pretty much just takes the, like, title and the core concept and then goes off its own way. It sounds like the Glenn Powell version is going to be a much more faithful adaptation of the book. So I want to see it. I probably won't see it in theaters, but, you know, I definitely want to see it when I get the chance on streaming. And we watched the long walk about two or three weeks ago with Mark Hamill and Cooper Hoffman, which is another Stephen King adaptation. And so I have a simple question. I'm going to give you, what do I have here? Eight, is that right? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. I'm going to give you eight classic films that are adaptations of Stephen King works. And I want you to put them in order,

fastest finger style, from oldest to newest as far as their theatrical release dates go. Okay, very simple question. You're going to hear eight titles. arrange them in order from oldest to newest, and I will give you the titles now. I have them written down here in order on their timelines. I have to mix it up a little bit for you. But here are the eight I am asking you about. We have the Shawshank Redemption. We have Stand by Me. We have the Shining. We have Carrie. We have children of the corn. We have the running man. We have misery. And we have the green mile. excuse me so if you want me to read that again in case you are actually paying attention and

having fun and you wanted to jot these down here are the eight that i have the way i read this right now might not be the same order so i apologize the shawshank redemption stand by me the shining carry children of the corn the running man misery and the green mile there's your eight titles put them in order from oldest to newest and when i say the running man i'm talking about the arnold schwartz and inger version okay because obviously the running man that comes out next week is in 2025 okay can be clear on that uh i do think there was a i'll raise one other point of clarification i do believe there was a carry remake a handful of years ago with Chloe Grace Moretz. I am talking about Sissy SpaceX, okay? And I'm not aware of any

remakes of any of these other films. I've seen all of them, and I'm a fan of all of them, with the exception of children of the corn I've never actually seen. It's one of those things like, unlike the Weird Al movie, I will watch it at some point just because I am a big Stephen King fan and like it's a cult classic. I want to see it eventually just to like know what I missed out on as a kid when people would make children of the corn references, which was an apt reference, not apt pupil, which is a Stephen King novella that was developed into an Ian McKellen film, just an apt reference, apt pupil, not on this list, by the way, apt reference because I worked in cornfields for eight years, or seven years, I guess, from the time I was 12 to

18, seven summers. if you want any more time to hammer things out go ahead and give yourself a pause but i will reveal the answer for you now starting with the oldest film carry 1976 the next oldest the shining 1980 third up the aforementioned children of the corn 1984 now here's where things get a little bit crowded. We have Stand By Me, 1986. The Running Man was 1987, and then we get a little bit more space as we hit the 90s. We have Misery in 1990, the Shawshank Redemption in 1994, and the Green Mile in 1999. Rest in peace, Michael Clark Duncan. Rest in peace from Stand By Me, Joaquin Phoenix. and obviously there's plenty of other actors and actresses who appeared in these films who are

dead now. But was the lady from The Shining, what's her name? Shelly Duvall. Is she still alive? I thought there's something in my mind saying she passed away. She did last year, 2024. Rest in peace, Shelly. Those big eyes. That's what I have for you today. My name is Quinn David Furness. I appreciate you listening to my program. Quinn David Furnace presents the Bean Town podcast. I hope you are staying safe, staying sane, and we'll check in on you guys next week. Bye-bye. So, you know,

I'm going to be. I don't know. I don't know. Thank you.