Beantown Podcast - Feeling Wickedly Talented

Episode Date: November 21, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE to preview his Wicked predictions, sing the sweet sweet sounds of Michael Bolton, and debut a brand new wing of Qutz by Q

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 22nd, 2024. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn here with my co-host, Maple. Hi, buddy. Did a good sniff of the microphone. Yeah, Maple approved, right? You don't even know what a podcast is. And we are the creators, co-hosts, and I don't know, chief entertainment officer, CEOs of this program,

Quinn David Furness presents the Being Town Podcast. Chief snoozers, that's Maple's role. Big snooze after a three-mile walk today. Still not having supper, huh? Mom's been at a photo shoot all day and no breakfast and no supper. So she's surviving on string cheese and peanut butter pill pockets thus far. I guess she just had a nice big peanut butter and plain Greek yogurt Kong as well. Should call you King Kong. What do you think? Interview with a dog? Nothing. Not very vocal today, which is good because dad can rest. Dad can watch Wicked in peace. Oh man, we'll talk about that in a second. Hello to our good friends in Pakistan. Thank you for making us see 112 ranked comedy podcasts in the great nation of Pakistan

Do they have you think they have musical theater in like a Pakistan or in India because I'm aware of Bollywood You know that seems to be like the predominant not lump lumping in Bollywood with Pakistan necessarily, but seems to be the predominant film form, at least from what I'm aware. I'm sure they have other types of films in India. But considering Bollywood, is there also a whole separate wing of musical theater, like Broadway or West End type stuff you would have

here in the West? Or is that just completely you know, completely out of the picture when kids go to high school in, you know, Karachi or Calcutta or anywhere along the Indus River Delta? You know, are they, is there an opportunity for them to be in hairspray or is they, are they mostly focused on the core academic subjects? These are questions that I have. And these are things we should get to the bottom of as the co-lead researcher of this program. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast.

If you know, email us, beantownpodcast at yahoo.com. And that's beantownpodcast at yahoo.com. Let us know, do they have musicals in other countries? podcast at yahoo.com. Let us know, do they have musicals in other countries? You think, you know, hairspray, good morning, Bombay. It has to be three letter, three syllables. Good morning, Calcutta. I've never actually seen hairspray, just clips mostly of Zac Efron, but other people too. John Travolta. Oh man, John Travolta introducing Edina Menzel at the Oscars 15 years ago or whatever. It's all coming full circle back to Wicked. The wickedly talented Adele Dazzi. I also just want to briefly mention that listener discretion

is advised when you're listening to this program, number one will occasionally some language number two this podcast is objectively terrible. But yeah, I so I had PTO this week got to go to Ohio, meet my nephew, which is fantastic, a very exciting congratulations to my brother and my sister in law and welcome to the world baby will get you on the podcast sometime soon. Rachel had to come back early. We both came back early though. So I still had the rest of the week for PTO. And so the last two days, just been kind of chilling on the couch today. Rachel gone all day, so me and Maple. Taking the world by storm. When I woke up this morning and I said, you know what? I'm going to defy gravity. I'm going to defy expectations I've never seen.

Wicked before, I only know about defying gravity and passing situations. Much like that Browns offense last night, man, they were carving up the Steelers in the snowstorm. But I said, you know what everyone's talking about? Wicked. Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erbo, I think her last name is, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Bowen Yang, right? Everyone's defying gravity. So I said, let's, without getting into too many details or specifics that the FCC might get on my ass for,

let's sail the high seas, if you will, and see what everyone's talking about. Wicked came out last night. That means I can find it at home if I know what I'm doing. And I do, in fact, know what I'm doing. So I poured myself a cup of coffee, made some sourdough toast, made sure maple had gone number one and number two, and watched Wicked, which is part one, in case you don't know.

The funny thing about Wicked is that part one, you know, two hours, 40 minutes longer than the actual stage production. So I'm curious what they, what they bloated quite a bit. But yeah it's just just part one just a teaser and I gotta say I enjoyed it. Excellent visuals. You know you got the the timeless songs Defying Gravity which closes part one of the musical aka this movie and The Wizard and I, and Popular is a good one, and there's even a great cameo scene with Etel Danzi and Christian Chenoweth, the original Glinda and Alfaba, Alfaba I guess we're calling her, Alfie. And I don't even know who came up with the name Elfaba, what is, I guess the guy who wrote it in the 90s,

but we're just making up names now. But I guess Glinda, Glinda's kind of made up too, but that would have been from the mind of Frank L. Baum, B-A-U-M. And I had a good time. I got to tell you, this is the first musical I've watched in a long time. I didn't get bamboozled by Wonka. I didn't see it. I didn't see it. You know, didn't see Moulin Rouge, cats, hairspray I already mentioned. Little shop of horrors. What's that one about? I always conflate that with, and I know they're absolutely not the same thing at all, but I always conflate that with a Rocky Horror Picture Show, which I've also never seen, a Tim Curry classic. I just think I'd be uncomfy because I'm well aware of the general plot points of that and the whole thing just doesn't speak to me on any sort of level.

Whereas Wicked, I felt myself defying gravity throughout the entire two hours and 40 minutes. There was a talking goat and I thought to myself well we should make predictions for what's gonna happen in Wicked Part 2 because I don't actually know the plots and opposites. I was soaking it all up this morning. I was learning the you know so Elphaba is the Wicked Witch of the West and she's the she's the protagonist of Wicked. I thought she would be the antagonist based off of what we know from The Wizard of Oz, the original, the book and the film. But she's actually the good guy in this one. So I'm thinking, okay, is Wicked, is the timeline going to catch up to The Wizard of Oz because in the start of the movie, Ariana Grande, who plays the bubblegum witch from The Wizard of Oz, click your heels three times

and there's no place like home, yada, yada, yada. She's doing a narration at the start, and it takes you back in the past. And the narration comes right after this wicked witch is dead. So are we going to get, could we get Liza Minnelli showing up in Wicked Part II next year as Dorothy Gale? I think that would be sort of a nice little cameo.

I'm not sure if any of the other original actors from the 1930, was it 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz? I'm not sure if any of the other actors or actresses have famous children who could sort of sub in. I'm not sure what the kin of the Tin Man, the Tin Man's kin, be a good horse name, Tin Man Kin. I've got to write that down. Not sure if any of them are prolific actors or

state legends like Liza is, but it's something to consider. Let's write Tin Man Kin before I forget. Tin Man Kin. This always takes longer because I'm typing on one hand here. And OK, so that's Tim Mankin. So what else could happen? There was something I wanted to, oh, speaking of Dorothy, before we move on here, a huge Oz phase right now.

I'm consuming, my appetite is insatiable, I-N-S-A-T-I-A-B-L-E, for all things Oz. Although I never saw the, what was it, was it Tim Burton? I don't think so, it wasn't Tim Burton, but someone else made a Wizard of Oz, it was called Oz the Great and Powerful, James Franco before he got, I was gonna say canceled,

James Franco has been like half canceled, half not, for what feels like a decade at this point. I'm not sure what the status of James Franco's cancellation is right now. I know he and Seth Rogen are no longer friends, which is hard to believe. Kind of a bummer. But, you know, it is what I enjoy, Pineapple Express. And in fact, I watched This Is the End for the first time ever just about a month ago. I mean pretty stupid but enjoy that as well. I wanted what's the deal going back to the original film you know kind of in the act too so Dorothy's been transported to Oz or I had to finish that Oz green

powerful thought it was James Franco and what who was it was it like Michelle Williams Plays the bubblegum fairy in that one and then Mila Kunis plays Elphaba How do these timelines sort of interact with wicked and the Wizard of Oz? These are things I would like to know and Zach Braff plays a talking monkey. I think His name is probably like Stewart or something We're drinking a drive-through red, dry hopped red ale. It's the Trader Joe's production facility in California type one. And then some Trader Joe's scotch as well.

What's the deal to jump back to Wizard of Oz here? So act two of Wizard of Oz, Dorothy is going from Munchkinland to the Emerald City to find Oz, the great and powerful, so she can get back home. Even though Glinda, I guess I should have figured this out, Glinda was the, is Glinda a bad guy and wicked? That's the thing we don't really know. They're kind of frenemies. I'm not sure if Glinda is going to turn like completely evil or not. Very unclear but she could have told Dorothy you know you just got to click your heels you know right after the twister she could have told her that but I guess she was using her to kill. I think the original this is where things get conflated because we have the book and then like a hundred years later we have Wicked written and I don't think Al Frank Baum,

Frank L Baum, whatever his name is, Alphaba Frank Baum, had a good sense of what they were gonna do plot wise with Wicked. I don't think that was really in his plans. So I think originally Bubblegum Witch Glinda is good and using Dorothy and her friends to kill the Wicked Witch of the West Alphaba, but I think in the Wicked Redux, it's sort of a vice versa situa- no, that's still true, but Glinda actually has bad intentions, cruel intentions, like my favorite Justin Theroux film. I don't know if he's actually, I have no idea. Probably not. But my criticism of Act 2 of The Wizard of Oz, you know, she's going, she meets the scarecrow. Then she, I'm going to have to watch Wizard of Oz tonight, aren't I? Total Ozhead. Or maybe I'll watch Oz the Great and Powerful.

Who knows? Then she meets the Tin Man, then she meets the Cowardly Lion. They all sing the same exact song. Like, what other movies or musicals can you think of where an entire act is just the same song repeated over and over with slightly different lyrics? I don't know who, was it Rodgers, was it Hammerstein, was it Penn and Teller? I don't know who did the lyrics for Wizard of Oz or the music, but seemed really lazy to introduce three new characters, three key characters in the middle of the film, and then they all just sing the same song. I don't know. I don't know what the deal was with that. Excuse me. But yeah, Wicked, the wickedly talented.

We mentioned what other, quickly before I forget, thinking of what we are drinking, some other shout outs to breweries. Spent some time at Burning Bush yesterday while Rachel and Maple were at work. And not to cast aspersions, but they got a great peanut butter porter, typically. Not as good as Saga Tuck, but still good. St. Peter, they call it. And they made it. This batch was way too sweet.

It was just like drinking straight butter. Not enough peanut, not enough salt. Got to salt that rim, maybe. But it got me really yearning for one of my all-time favorite beers, Peanuts and Cracker Jack, from Mitten Brewing Company. And I even was so buzzed yesterday that I was like, man, it could be a good idea to rent a car and drive to Saugatuck just to pick up a four pack.

And then I woke up this morning, and I realized it's probably not in the cards. But you usually can get a peanut butter porter from Saugatuck Brewing in local Trader Joe's here. So I have that to look forward to this holiday season. Also went to Yellow Springs Brewing in Yellow Springs, Ohio, which is where Dave Chappelle is from, thanks to my brother and sister-in-law for showing us around. And then Mad Tree Brewing in Cincinnati.

Had a mad good time. Mabel peed on the floor. So everyone was enjoying themselves thoroughly. I don't think we went to any other breweries, but had some wine in the hot tub, so that was good stuff too in Ohio this past week. Other things that are going to happen in Wicked, part two. So not to spoil anything, but basically Defying Gravity happens.

The whole ending sequence of part one feels a little bit rushed. Basically, Elphaba and Ariana Grande, Glinda, bubble gum, go to Oz from the college they're at, which is Jizz University, I think. Shizz, it's like a mix of shit in Jizz. It's Shizz University. Someone was having fun with that when they wrote it. It's like a mix of shit and jizz. It's Shiz University. Someone was having fun with that when they wrote it.

They get an invitation. And the wizard and the school teacher comes with two. And they use the spell. Use the green witch, the wicked witch of the west, to cast a spell on the monkeys so that they can become spies. The whole magical power angle of this that the Wicked Witch has and no one else has is very underdeveloped in this part one. Maybe we'll get more of an explanation in part two.

But then basically, the Wicked Witch of the West says, hey, I'm not going to use my powers for animal cruelty. And so the Oz, the Wizard Wizard and the Michelle Yeoh, I don't know what her name is, like Grandma Marable or something. It's like marble with an extra syllable. I don't know, marble rye. They're like, oh, she's not going to play ball, really?

So she tries to escape. And they're like, they put out an APB is what we'd call it on the beat, an all points bulletin. And say, hey, you got to capture her. And so she goes up to the top of the tower and Ariana Grande is running with her and the Wicked Witch is like, I'm gonna defy gravity now. And she turns, you know, this ordinary broomstick into a magical broomstick and now she can fly on it and so she escapes the castle right as the guards get there and Ariana Grande stays behind. So basically it's like what's going to happen now?

I think we got you know, pigeon-holed cameos for all three of the aforementioned same song singers, your scarecrow, your tin man and your cowardly lion. So there is a scene towards the end of the film we watched this morning with a lion that they help escape, a baby lion, a cub if you will. And that's got to be the cowardly lion. Otherwise it could have been anything. It could have been a parrot, a toucan Sam of sorts, a gerbil.

I don't know. And then I think I heard this. I could Google this. But I think one of, there's like a munchkin who goes to school with him, except he seems normal height. So it's unclear to me. But he's kind of a redhead. I think his name is Bo Skaggs.

Or no, it's not right. But it's not right. But it's Boz. B-O-Z. Boz. Or is it Bok? Boz or Bok? I don't know.

Bok. Sabaka. The name of my brother's dog. I think it's Bok Woodsman is his last name. And so, OK, well, this guy's going to be the Tin Man. How does he get turned to tin? Where does his heart go? You got to tune tune into part two.

Probably, you know, Elphaba or her younger sister, Nessa Primrose I think her name is. I think she's got the same name as the girl from Hunger Games. Probably gonna cast a spell on her. Because I think, you know, this whole Nessa Primrose is in a wheelchair. This is the Wicked Witch's younger sister. They go to school together, even though they're years apart. And we didn't really get anything from, you know, Secret Garden wheelchair user over here. I don't know if she has polio or what the deal is.

They said something about a premature birth, something with eating magic mushrooms. The whole thing was a little bit hard to follow. It was a Korean subtitle, so that wasn't helpful. It was in English though, which I very much appreciated. This excellent stream I found. So that's what Bach Woodsman's gonna turn into, the Tin Man, he's gonna need an oil can. And then there's this other, there's like this French dude,

Figaro I think his name is. And I'm not saying he's definitely gonna become the Scarecrow because I don't, you know, we haven't seen that connection yet but it's like no one else from the OG, from part one, could get shoehorned in if they wanted to. Like no one else that they give any screen time towards. And this scarecrow is like kind of in love with, I think the Wicked Witch is in love with this Figaro guy,

but the Figaro guy is in love with the bubble gum Ariana Grande, even though it seems like Figaro and the Wicked Witch are spending some quality time together. So it's kind of unclear to me. There was this whole scene with a dance where they go away for it. It was very reminiscent of Happy Feet when they all graduate. And they're singing the sexy R&B songs.

I'm pretty sure a couple of the penguins have sex. But that's neither here nor there. So yeah, this Figaro guy is odds you know, odds-on favorite to become the scarecrow. I don't know what happens to his brain. He seems like a well- intentioned individual in part one, so I guess that's, you know, that's sort of the setup to get you coming back to the theater for part two. I think, you know, we're gonna have Weissmanelli show up as Dorothy, which is going to be a treat, if I may say so. I think this Glinda is going to turn pretty evil.

Maybe just out of jealousy, right? She's not like a pure evil character, but she's jealous of the powers, right? That's kind of set up. That's established early on in part one. She's very jealous of the powers. Seems like this Michelle Yeoh character, Madden Marbley, she doesn't pop up anywhere in Wizard of Oz. I think she's going to get snitched probably by the Monkeys

would be my guess, Davy Jones. Hey, hey, we're the Monkeys. People say we're mucking around We're too busy singing put anybody down And they got wings now, so they're extra ferocious even if they're voiced by Zach Braff Which I don't think he made into part one. It'd be it'd be nice to see him invited for part two. I think would be good What are they gonna do when wicked when Wicked 2 comes out? Too wicked, too fast, too wicked.

Are they going to retcon the movie that just came out and now the installment is going to be called Wicked part one? Or are we just going to have Wicked and Wicked part two? Or are you just going to call both of them Wicked? And it'll be Wicked 2024 and 2025. These, these are sort of the film buff questions that that I'm here to answer on the beat on podcast. And then Wizard of Oz probably gonna the wizard Jeff Goldblum probably going to live because he's in you know Wizard of Oz. So not too concerned about that. I don't know what the whole...

I don't really understand the pipeline from Kansas to Oz because apparently you can get there in a twister or in a hot air balloon. Those seem to be the two ways to transfer back and forth. It's unclear to me the physics of the situation. I don't think it's been thoroughly explained in any of maybe that's probably that's what they cover in Oz of Grand Powerful and I'm just not aware of it because I like an idiot. I'm not caught up. I'm not a true Oz head yet. I would like to be one though. Maybe I'll just read the book. That could be good. I'm reading in Agatha Christie right now. What bigger mystery could there be than how

do you get from Oz to Kansas in a hot air balloon? It's just wicker and fire. Or are they going through a wormhole or something? It's like the end of gravity, not Gravity. What's the Christopher Nolan one? Interstellar. Still a film I've only ever seen once in theaters when it came out. Excuse me. I still can't believe Matt Damon was was a bad guy or like the bad guy in that movie. Will Matt Damon show up in Wicked Part 2? Will he be the bad guy? If he shows up, we're pretty sure he's the bad guy. I don't think he's going to show up. I don't know who he would play. The ruby slippers are now silver slippers, I think. But I think that's a true callback

to the OG book. I think that was the case. I think they just changed it for the 1939 film production. Oh, and then I think this Nessa Primrose is going to be the Wicked Witch of the East, right? That's the one... Because she owns the slippers and the dad, Alphaba and Wicked Witch of the East dad, is the governor of Munchkinland. Which I didn't know, is he a Munchkin? And just, you know, sort of a natural election?

Or is he like, you know, if you're not from, like when Mitt Romney becomes the senator from Utah, well, he's from Massachusetts, right? But he just kind of shows up and runs. Is that the case with this guy? My question is, could munchkin give birth to two non munchkins because alphaba and Nessa primrose I do not think our munchkins, although it's never completely cleared up. Oh Also, they were being very in the opening of wicked part one the wickedly talented part one

very coy about whom Wicked Witch of the West, the green one's dad is, I think it's the Wizard of Oz. I think he was banging the wife because they say the wife who again is married to Governor of Munchkinland, they say, oh, she was sleeping around. They weren't shy about that and they showed, you know, this was rated R for a reason, let's just put it that way. But they're very shy about revealing the face of this guy that she's hooking up with and I'm thinking this guy is the wizard. You're a wizard, Jeff Goldblum. So what higher of a note could you end it on than there? I think this Wicked Witch of the West has daddy issues, frankly.

And it all makes sense, because if you think, now, it's not so much in this movie. The Wizard of Oz does have his scary projection thing going on when you go to meet with him as you do in the original film. But in the original film, when Dorothy and the lion and the tin man and the scarecrow show up, he's super green, right? He's got a big forehead.

Green, maybe he's the same green munchkin hybrid breed as Wicked Witch of the West is. See these are the dots. We connect. Now if you've seen Wicked before and you know how this all goes, don't email us bintanpodcast.yahoo.com because I want to savor this for a year and we'll come back one year from now and we'll do a Wicked part two. The wickedly talented Bintan Podcast and we'll do a Wicked Part Two, the wickedly talented Bean Town podcast and we'll see how many of these predictions, projections, what I was trying to say, but predictions makes more sense come true. So we got, you know, we know the identity of the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the Lion, that's my, that's

prediction. We think, we think, you know, Glinda's kind of evil. We think that Jeff Goldblum is her dad. We think Munchkins can have non-Munchkins babies. We got Liza Minnelli returning as Dorothy. And I mean, do you think if it's going all the way through the Wizard of Oz timeline? What if? What if she wasn't dead, you know, what if because we there's nothing I'll say this there's nothing introduced

In wicked part one about water being a weakness now granted. There's no like sexy shower scenes like Sydney Sweeney and Top Gun in what is it called Mad About You I think? A movie from two years ago? Last year? This year? It's something like it's not Mad About You that's Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser. Is it Paul Reiser or is it someone else? I don't know. Can't remember. But maybe she didn't maybe she fakes her own death. I don't know. Can't remember. But maybe she didn't maybe she fakes her own death. I don't know. Maybe she really truly is defying gravity. You're gonna have to come back in a year to find out. But this is our wickedly talented analysis and predictions for wicked part two. Only in theaters 2025. You know you don't have to wait till 2025 for is Mufasa the lion king which I'll be honest

I'm a huge I'm a huge Oz head and As we get closer and closer to Mufasa the lion king seems like fewer and fewer people are talking about it It is four weeks away, and I will watch it Just to do my due diligence for the show, Mufasa, Find Your Pride. But that also reminds me of two other things that are happening.

I saw the new poster for the Lilo and Stitch live action movie, which here, here's your case study of the week. Lilo and Stitch live action, which again, just means like human actors and then CGI for Stitch. So it's like kind of live action, but also kind of not. And then you have Moana live action, which is happening. And you might be thinking to yourself, wait, Moana live action, that's not right. Literally Moana 2 is coming out in like a week or something here.

You're mixed up. No, they're also doing a Moana live action. So here's your compare and contrast case study for how not to handle this. The good way to handle it, Lilo and Stitch, not Disney's most profitable venture, but has a warm place in my heart. And I think a lot of people,

a lot of millennials really liked it. And just frankly, a well put together film, you know, spinoff films, spinoff TV shows, all that fun stuff stitch very lovable The whole Hawaii backdrop was fantastic. I thought But let's be real the movie came out was is like 2002 something like that So we've had some time. We've had some space. We haven't thought about Lilo and stitch in a while We've been focused on and canto Coco and Soul and Inside Out 2.

I guess that's Pixar, that's not Disney, but nonetheless. We've had room to breathe. That's how you do it. People are gonna like it. It's gonna make a ton of money. I love Lilo and Stitch. I used to be able to do the voice really well. Now I would hurt my pharynx. P-H-A-R-Y-N-X probably. You know how you don't do it? Moana. Okay, so we have Moana 1 comes out. That's what, 2015-16? I once, I think, I must have seen it once once originally then I saw it a second time on the lawn at the Norris Student Center and Northwestern University and a summer movie series when I was in graduate school So they do that then Moana 2 is coming out very soon here like within weeks and now at the same time Moana 2 is

Coming out they're putting out not promotional images, but like the press, the paparazzi is putting out, oh, first images of the rock as Moana live action. So this Moana live or Moana live action is presumably coming out in two years, give or take. I don't know how long these things typically take, but if they're filming, they're in costume and makeup, you have to think within two years of seeing that this thing's gonna be out.

So you're gonna go Moana, you give us eight years and then you give us Moana two. And then within a year to two, you're giving us Moana live action. Even the Lion King had the decency of giving us like 25 years before we got to Lion King live action and then now we're getting Simba or Mufasa rather. And you know it's been like five years since Simba came out so I'm okay with that or not Simba but Lion King live action. But Moana I don't what are you doing? Who are you crapping, Moana? One of my old favorite segments from Chicago local radio 670, The Score. Okay, let me pause there. There's not much else I wanted to say in this episode, but before I get to that limited

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see if there's anything interesting happening or like look at it for events. But in terms of posting, completely slow down. And then the podcast usage, along with our Twitter was way down before that too. I'm gonna guess last time I posted on Facebook, Beantown Cast, you know, podcast page, I'll say 2022. And it's not like, oh yeah, that's when I stopped regularly posting posting that's just like the last time I ever posted anything I pretty much stopped regularly posting about six months after we created the page. So we go to bean top podcast here It is 66 followers. That's pretty good last time I posted. Oh, I was oh wait, never mind

It was showing me the wrong thing first. Okay, we do have a 2023 that was a pinned post we posted about our telethon, our year six telethon in February 26, 2023. And then, so it was pretty close. There were only two posts in 2023 and then two from 2022. And then a few more from 2021. Looks like seven or eight of them. There you go. When God speaks, he uses a Samson. And of course our good friends over at Cuts by Q ventured into a brand new ball game today, folks. You've heard about men's cuts. You've heard about women's cuts. There's a whole big transgender bathroom ban thing going on right now. You've heard about transgender cuts.

We've done it all, but up until now, we've not gotten into the different species space. Species space would be another good horse name, but we already had a good one today, tin man kin, so we're just gonna let it rest like a turkey on Thanksgiving. Speaking of which, quick programming note, next week, six days from today is Thanksgiving. Which sounds crazy, but it's also like the latest possible Thanksgiving you can have, so it's not crazy at all.

Not sure yet when we're going to be recording. Work is going to be a B-I-T-C-H for three days this upcoming week because I was on PTO this week and just got slammed with work. It's like how the printers can smell fear. My job can smell when I decide to take five days away because it just decided we are going to go nuts with the stuff you need to do next week in like 20 working hours because we usually get a half day on Wednesday.

So not looking forward to that, what it also means is it's gonna be tough to find time to record pre-Thanksgiving. And I'm not a post-recording post-Thanksgiving, but it'd be more fun to have a holiday Thanksgiving special fired up and ready to go for all you listeners out there so that when you're sitting around the Thanksgiving table it's been half an hour your Trumpian uncle shows up and won't stop blabbing. You can just slide that little air pod into your ear. Put on put your your toque back on your beanie back on and no one knows you're tuning them out to listen to the sweet sweet sounds of

Queen David Furness Presents the Beantown Podcast because you know next Thursday, next episode we're doing a full cover of Michael Bolton's greatest hits. Tell me how am I supposed to live without you? There ain't nothing I can do How am I supposed to live without you? How am I supposed to carry on When all that I've been living for is gone Imagine you're sitting there eating your turkey, waiting for the tryptophan to kick in, listening

up to inflation and tariffs and just that pops into your head. There you go. I did, I mentioned Michael Bolton though because he got two great Christmas albums, a recent one from 2023 but it's kind of OG one from like 90s era Michael Bolton, Blue Muffin, Cookies, Snow Dogs, all that stuff got a great Oh Holy Night version and I know there's a lot of great Oh Holy Nights out there Josh Groban comes to mind but this one if you're just looking for the sweet sweet angelic voice of Mr. Michael Bolton he's got a

great Oh Holy Night easily maybe we should do this this year, because I don't think we've ever done this. Although I need, considering I'm about 230, I need at least 60 more years of content. So you don't want to waste all your good ideas, you know, too soon. You don't want to blow your wad prematurely. But Power Ranking, my favorite Christmas songs could be good. We could have two categories. We could do one one year one the next year. We could have faith based, you know, away in a manger. I feel like Silent Night is kind of straddles the border. We Three Kings, right? And then you could have more of your classics. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,

Holly Jolly Christmas. Is that song from Rudolph? Was it written for Rudolph, the TV special, which I've been reading a lot about this week? Or was it, did it predate it? Because there are some songs from Rudolph that predate it, like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer or Gene Autry's song from Rudolph that predated like Rudolph Red Nose Reindeer or Gene Autry's song that they made the special out of. But then there's other ones. Or what about like silver and gold? We should do a deep dive into this figure out which songs from Rudolph are from Rudolph and which ones predated. Island of Misfit Toys pretty sure that wasn't like a country hit by Hank Williams before Rudolph. I think it came from Rudolph but I don't know for sure. I also just want to briefly mention before we finish

the Cut's By Q ad read that I learned yesterday this morning, you know, there's this whole controversy. There's multiple things going on with Rudolph. I mean, don't get me started on the peppermint mine, which I won't even get into with Yukon Cornelius. We'll say that for a later time. But in the very original Rudolph, Renu's Reindeer TV special, when Rudolph meets Hermy, they sing, what is it? But there's different lyrics, right? Oh, shoot, what is it? But there's different lyrics, right? It's, um, oh shoot, what is it? Let's be independent together. There's that song, or, or no, it's, uh, I'm not such a misfit.

Why don't I fit in? They sing that when they run into each other and Herbie's like, oh, is this yours? No bank. So they do sing that in the original. And then for like 20 years, they changed it to Fame and Fortune where they're singing about getting rich, which is what appeared on the VHS we had in my childhood growing up. It also had an ad for Hello Kitty right beforehand.

I don't know what that had to do with anything. It wasn't even like a commercial. It was just almost like it was sponsored by Hello Kitty or something. I can't explain it. But then in the 90s or 2000s or something, for the official version and what they air on television, they switched it back to where a couple of misfits. I was always under the impression as soon as

I learned about the change that the original was Fame and Fortune and they changed and I was besmirched by that. I was like, oh Fame and Fortune, it's a classic song, why would you switch it out? But then I learned that Fame and Fortune wasn't even the original and they were just switching back from what they had already switched from. So my apologies for, you know, being all in on the Fame and Fortune train because it wasn't the OG. But it is a fun song. You can't deny it. What I wanted to say five minutes ago is that I've gotten into the pet grooming space. Miss Maple over here. Hello puppy. She's snoozing, doesn't have a microphone on her.

But, oh, she's got some, she's got, just looked at this paw. We might have to do a part two here. What is this? It's just some like matted hair and stuff, but I think it's from the wet ground. Wet grass. Had a big snowstorm here yesterday, but she really hates me touching her paws. So it's hard to get right in there and tell right now. Oh, yeah, that's just like some knotted up hair. She doesn't like that. We're gonna have to get those scissors back out, girl. I know you just did a big yawn, showed me your teeth. You got any comments on your haircut from today?

Nope. But she had some matted hair behind both of her ears. Basically like, I don't even know how to really describe it. Just almost felt like skin. It was so thick, but it's not. It's just hair that was all kind of tied together. She's had it since the, I was going to say orphanage, that's not right, the shelter. And I finally decided to get my fabric scissors out today and go to town on those babies. And it was our first official and successful dog grooming experience.

And I didn't even charge her. You are so lucky, Maple. What a lucky dog. Why don't you have supper? You'll like it so much. It's Kibble. You like Kibble. Hmm. Dad. Just gimme that cheese. Oof. Uh, when God speaks. No, that's wrong. Uh, when you need a fresh two, something snappy or new,

just call the experts at cuts. Bye, Q. When you need a fresh do something snappy or new just call the experts at cuts by Q When we start doing the wrong jingles and taglines, that's when you know, it's time to wrap it up There is one other thing I wanted to mention. I think before trivia What was it? Oh, I just want to say Well, I've been feeling very nostalgic lately, broadly speaking, doing a lot of like Google searches for, you know, like people that I knew growing up and not like close friends, but just like randos from like swim club or something. Just see like, Hey, whatever happened to this person, you know, whatever names pop into my head or I was looking at old photos of the Rockford College pool today, which no longer exists and just random stuff like that.

And something happened in my part time job that just gave me another shot of nostalgia. One of the students that I am working with in our messaging platform, you have your picture, your profile picture and this student's profile picture is the body of a Charizard with the head of a Gyarados. Which are two pretty well known, very powerful, generation one, you know, from 1997, whatever it is, Pokemon. But it reminded me of a couple things. One, there used to be this site, and I'm sure it still exists, or a variation of it exists, where you could combine two Pokemon together, and it will show you what they would look like, which is basically

what we're dealing with here. But it also reminded me, we've already mentioned Facebook once on the show today, of I don't know if this was a national thing, if it was just my high school I went to. I don't know how big or small this trend was. Because this would have been 2010, 2011, something like that. Pokemon profile pic, it was either October or December, one of those two.

But for a whole month, you were supposed to change your Facebook profile pic, which was a big deal, right? You had your Facebook profile pic, and then any time you changed oh that was huge. Like what did you change it to? What was the meaning behind it? It was just a big deal. And so for one month you had to change it to your favorite Pokemon. And I would always have a Pikazard, which is I think also the body of a Charizard, pretty popular choice, but the head of a Pikachu. And it just kind of brought me back to Facebook and you know, I got, Facebook was what found in 2007.

So I was on like 2009 probably is when I first had one. And so like right, right as I was going from middle school to high school is when it was just such a big deal. Whereas Facebook, no, am I wrong on that? Is Facebook 2004? I can't remember. It's like four, sometime between four and seven is when Facebook came out. But it was just such a big deal.

And remember sitting on the computer, you got your messaging tab open, you can see who's online. That was, I'll end it there with that parting thought and then we'll do Tribian will wrap the whole concept of seeing who's online. I know that wasn't like a Facebook, Facebook didn't originate that thing. There was hope that ate the whole AOL thing as well, which I was never on, you know, chatting and aim and who's online, whatever. But like on Facebook, that was my first exposure where you literally you have your entire friend list and you see you can like scroll up and down the list to see who's got the green dot,

who's online, basically, who can I send a message to right now an instant message, which was a very new concept for me personally. And you'll they'll see it and they can respond back to it. Because no one had a smartphone. I mean, phones were thing, cell phones were a thing, but no one, you couldn't just like message someone quickly. Even texts were very limited. I'm pretty sure when I first got a cell phone when I was 16, it wasn't unlimited texts. I don't know what the cap was. I think it was like 250 a month, something like that.

But that didn't, you know, that whole concept of unlimited texting and minutes, that didn't change until I was like late high school, early college maybe. For us at least. Now we are behind the times on a lot of things, including unlimited data. Is still a relatively new concept. We've only had that for like four or five years, something like that. But yeah, just the nostalgia, all from seeing this Charizard with the head of a Gyarados. So there you go. And shout out to my favorite

Pokemon streamer, J-Rose, who is getting close to wrapping up his 151 or 150 series, which is where he takes every Pokemon from Gen 1 does a solo run with them and compares their times and levels. Just finished Dugong which is comes from my favorite line of most lazily named Pokemon. There's a line, a one evolution line. Seal andong and all they did in the american version was just change your spelling so it's s e e l and d e u g o n g those are two pokemon seal evolves into dugong it's also just the name of regular ass animals a seal and a dugong and i think the only encounter the only natural encounters you have in Pokemon Gen 1 with either of those Pokemon, you can find seals in the Seafoam

Islands I believe, where you find Articuno. But that in and of itself is out of the way in a completely optional experience in Gen 1 Pokemon. Probably the most, I mean, Power Plant is up there too, where you find Zapdos. But Power, you know, Power Plant, I feel like you can kind of just like, you see the water off to the side, it's like, yeah, yeah, I'll go explore that. Seamfoam Islands is like, you gotta,

you gotta surf through just shit till you get there. And then you get a, there's a whole big boulder puzzle there too. Man I love talking Pokemon. I could talk Pokemon for days. And that's where you find a seal and then I think that's right. Don't quote me on that. And then Dewgong is the very first Pokemon you face in the Elite Four. Lorelei has one. And it basically just has like Aurora Beam and Restin. It's kind of a pain in the ass. Bulky, thick, blubber like me. Unlike Maple who's neat and trim and has a brand new haircut today. So congratulations Maple. Let's end with our

trivia question of the day. What theme is it? It's not Pokemon. Oh next week is Thanksgiving, six days away here. So my question for you is very simple. And I'm happy with this one because I learned something new, like popping into my head and I was like, oh, I knew this was in, you know, so and so month, but I didn't know how it was determined. So I will just ask this to you straight up because I learned it and I don't plan on ever forgetting it. Not that I have needed this knowledge up to this point in

my first 30 years of life or seven seasons of the Bean Town podcast, but it's interesting nonetheless. So my question to you very straightforwardly, what day is Canadian Thanksgiving celebrated? And I'll give you a clue. It's not like January 1st. This is like the second Thursday of July basically so kind of a Labor Day Memorial Day situation are there other federal holidays that are like that I think MLK Day is the third Monday of

December or January is that how it goes. Presidents Day is something like the second Monday of February. Third Monday of February maybe I don't get, I've never had Presidents Day off on a job I don't think. So I don't know that one as well. Labor Day last Monday or first Monday of September. Memorial Day last Monday of May. I'm sure there are other ones like this. I think Columbus Day is like the second Monday of October. Something like that. I don't know. There's

probably more of them. I'm sure Easter is based off of the moon. The answer, when is Canadian Thanksgiving? We actually just mentioned it when I was talking about Columbus Day, and I don't know if it's accurate or not. I don't know if those two things are the same. But the answer to what day is Canadian Thanksgiving celebrated, it is the second Monday of October. And I learned that Canadian families will, you know, it's a three-day weekend and they will do, you can do the feast. Unlike things, you know, this is different than US Thanksgiving or American Thanksgiving.

American Thanksgiving is very traditional. You do your feast on Thursday, usually between like 12 and six. All right, that's pretty standard. I would say like 3 p.m. is prime time or American Thanksgiving dinner. Canadian Thanksgiving, you can do it Saturday, Sunday, or Monday. So even though Monday is officially Thanksgiving, it's okay to do your feast any of those days.

It's not commonplace to have a Thanksgiving dinner in the US on Saturday. Sometimes there'll be a variation of that if needed, but there's almost always a feast on Thursday. Not in the case in Canada. Sounds like the most typical day for the feast is Sunday. You just gorge out. You have that tryptophan. You listen to Quinn Sings Michael Bolton at the dinner table.

And then you just use Monday to rest, which doesn't sound so bad. But I've got Friday off here, Black Friday off, as I typically do in this job. So four day week, four day weekend coming up. We will do our best. That's my show for you. We will do our best to get you a Bean Town podcast. What am I thankful for? Plus Michael Bolton hits. When a man loves a woman. Oh, Maple just gave me the stink eye. It's Michael Bolton. You like him.

He's got the sweet, sweet sounds that you like to fall asleep to. You're looking at me like you want supper, like a big turkey leg. But you don't know turkey. Why don't you go have your kibble? All right. We're going to try to have supper here, and by we I mean Maple, because she didn't have breakfast and had half of dinner last night. So just so anxious from the hot tub earlier this week was really a traumatizing experience. Not that she was in it, just looked at it. So there you go. I'll try to get that Thanksgiving episode recorded at some point before Thursday.

If not, you're just going to have to tough out that conversation, that Thanksgiving meal yourself, load up on the tryptophan or my secret, garage beer. The classic question, how early is too early to drink on Thanksgiving? I think the football, like the Lions-Bears game starts at game starts at 1130 I think it's 1230 Detroit time. I think if you want to pregame that a little bit that's okay so I would say for me 10 a.m. is my cutoff. Now if you're earlier than 10 a.m. make sure it's like a mimosa or a Bloody Mary but I don't do that kind of stuff typically I'm more of a garage beer maybe a Boilermaker. 10 a.m. is okay I can boiler maker. 10 AM is okay. I can sit there, 1030 AM I can have a boiler maker on Thanksgiving and I feel okay about

it. And then Black Friday deals. We'll see what's happened this year. I don't know. Email us, let us know what the best deals are. We're going to start our outro music now so we can keep this under a clean hour. Guys, happy Thanksgiving. Happy belated Canadian Thanksgiving.

My name is Quinn David Furness. This is my show, Quinn David Furness Presents the Bean Town Podcast. I hope everyone is staying safe, staying sane. Maple and I will check in on you guys next week. Happy Thanksgiving. Bye. So so so so so Thank you.