Beantown Podcast - Golden Ages, Biblical Investigations, and Las Cabras (06202025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: June 20, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to reminisce about golden ages like cheap Pizza Hut, $5 pitchers of craft beer, and Sarah Palin

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, June 20th, 2025. Almost halfway done here with season eight of the Beantown podcast. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn, and this is my program, Quinn David Furness Presents the Bean Town podcast. We are coming to you live on a beautiful sunny muggy day here in Chicago. It's the last day of just tolerable weather before the heat, what are they calling it, the heat dome hits? We're looking at 94, 95, 96 next couple of days here and then it's finally gonna cool off and get down to 88. For those of you listening in Pakistan, thank you for listening to my show. I can't really translate that into Celsius. What is it? F minus five ninths.

Thirty two, something like that. Something like that. F equals five ninths. C equals five ninths, F minus 32. It's something like that. If you're in the Kiber Pass, it's probably never been above six C before, I don't know. Too hard to to to translate live on the spot here, especially I'm two drinks in and just cracked open a third.

Spent some time, thank you, Pakistan, for making C112 for into comedy podcasts in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. I'm the chief brewologist of this show, among other things. Spent some time at Old Irving Brewing today at the tail end of a long forest walk along the North Branch Trail. One of my favorite things to do on a weekday day off here as well as summer Friday vacation day. Woke up, had my coffee, putzed around a little bit.

I don't putz around all that much but occasionally on a Friday morning if I'm off I'll putz around. P-U-T-Z. Grew up and he tasseled corn with a couple of guys named putz. Kyle, Kyle putz. P-U-E-T-Z. It's got to be German. He had a older brother too. I don't know what his name was but shout out to Kyle. Seemed like a good kid at heart, you know? One of those people you look back on in life, 15, 20 years later, and you're like, I never really knew that guy very well, but he seemed like he had a good head on his shoulders. And you just sorta hope that all these years later, he's doing well.

But yeah, I went up as I often do on my days off, took a couple, a handful of buses over to the North Shore Trail, which goes along the Chicago River North Branch, eventually all the way up to the Skokie Lagoons. But get some miles and pound the pavement, if you will. You can't, you know, if you're running frequently, you'll pound the pavement.

Typically, if you're walking, you don't pound it as much as maybe glide or stroll along the pavement. But pound to the pavement is a lot more fun to say. Got about six, six and a half miles in and end up at Old Irving Brewing there at Montrose and the Kennedy and add add the Red Ale, the, what is it called, the Lackluster? No, it's something like that. Donka Luster, I don't know. And then an experimental called the Tiki Prost, if you wanna look it up, not Tiki Barber, no, Tiki Prost.

And it's a variation of another beer, I don't remember what it was called, but it's meant to be like drinking the milk out of your cereal bowl after a big old bowl of Fruity Pebbles, or something akin to Fruity Pebbles, akin, A-K-I-N, A-K-O-N, great Nigerian-American singer. I think Nigerian-American. I don't know.

Who can tell? But I had those two and then took the bus back home and now just hanging out here drinking a Vallejo from Half Acre with just a splash of whiskey on top. Really pounding it today. Pounding the pavement, pounding the bruise. But it's a nice beautiful summer Friday and how can you not But it's a nice beautiful summer Friday and how can you not enjoy the beauty of God's creation? And one of the, oh yesterday was Juneteenth, we'll get to that with our trivia in a little bit here. I'm trying to think, there was something else that I wanted to say but it has since escaped

my mind. I don't know what it was supposed to be. Oh, I'm looking at it right now. We have a power outage, not a power outage, but an internet outage right now. Highly disruptive. Cubs game was going into the eighth inning here, losing, because that Cal Raleigh catcher just hit his, what,

30th home run of the year? That's insane for a catcher for anyone nevertheless, but yeah, I had the had the stream going and Lost it because we have no Wi-Fi At 351 p.m. On a Friday afternoon good thing. I'm not you know working like for real because I wouldn't be able to work anymore I would just have to sit here in silence and able to work anymore. I would just have to sit here in silence and pound the pavement, pound the keyboard, type away, do whatever you can with a word document. My job is not really the type of job where I can do much of anything without internet access. Everything kind of relies on our internal network and email

and candidate communications. So when you don't have internet access, it kind of takes all that away. So I guess this was an ideal day for me, at least to lose my wifi. Per Xfinity, crews are in the area and internet is expected back by 6.30 PM, which thank God,

because we got Love Island coming out about 7.45 tonight. Big new bombshells came in last night. Of course, they had Megan Thee Stallion, which introduces us to our hot take of the week. We've had a couple of celebrities on Love Island this past week. You had Megan D. Stallion. And then earlier had this lady, Paige De Sorba, who I think hosts a podcast, Girls Who Giggle or Giggly Squad. I think it's one of those. And I think you bring in these well-known single ladies onto the show, you should let them be actual contestants.

Throw them into the mix. Traders, first it was just regular people, and then they switched the mode or the medium to be for celebrities, celebrities in quotes. But I think Love Island could really thread that needle. Imagine having John Stamos, Megan Thee Stallion, and George W. Bush, you know, a bunch of sexy singles on there with Olandria and Amaya and, you know, Ace and Nick with a C. I think it'd

be fun to mix and mingle. And then my other big idea, I think we've mentioned this before in Love Island, but we really need to mix up the whole, you know, everyone on there is heterosexual And it seems like a really missed opportunity to get awfully messy It would be a lot of fun if you know, they introduce a new bombshell into the villa like they did last night This I think she's Dominican or something like that It's got a strong thick accent and a a big booty, bigger heart, they say. But what if it was like, oh, you don't know if you're a guy, it's like, is she going to be attracted to me? Is she going to be attracted to the ladies? What if they introduce a bombshell

and she's asexual? I think that would be a lot of fun. So there's a lot of... My hot take was essentially they should let Megan the stallion date people on love island when they come on or at least bang and show the full penetration but nevertheless I think getting things a little bit more fluid with the sexual orientations would be must watch tv if you ask me I should mention before we go any further that listener discretion is advised When you're listening to the bean tom podcast number one will occasionally some language number two this podcast is objectively terrible What's not terrible over here though is maple on week two of Prozac and maple did her first ever swim as a member of the family this past week. We were out in the suburbs and

She did the Stereotypical thing where you hold her above water and those paws start they're ever so slowly doggy paddling First it was the splash pad and she didn't enjoy that very much and then it was the actual big, bad, scary pool, you know, four feet deep. And she did OK. She splashed around a little bit and didn't enjoy it all that much. But there's a, you know, first time for everything.

The first day we got her, she really didn't enjoy the stairs that much either. She was too scared to go up them. And so maybe you throw her in the pool 10, 20, 50 more times and she'll be a pro. So that's Maples Minute. Learning to swim, much like learning to fly. But I ain't got wings, Tom Petty. There's also learning to fly by Pink Floyd, which is a classic. Some good audio mixing on that one. I don't know how they achieved the sounds, but I don't know anything about audio mixing. So biggest, you know, biggest regrets in terms of college class, I wish I would have taken not even a regret because I don't regret getting

in and getting out in three years the way I did it. But if I had, for those of you who don't know, I graduated college in three years because that's just the way my credits lined up with a healthy dosage of transfer credits coming in from the community college. In theory, I could have spent an entire year taking more or less whatever classes I wanted. And it's like, what classes would I have taken? At the time, I probably would have taken wine tasting. That was what a lot of my friends took in the last quarter of college. But in my last quarter of college, I wasn't even, well, I was going to say I wasn't 21.

I guess I would have turned 21 like a week before the quarter started. So I guess I would have been allowed. But I think taking a sound recording technology class, that was one of the five different music majors available, along with performance, and business, and education, like musicology, which is what I was. But I think an SRT class on recording technology class would have been cool

to learn about mixing. Would help me with my Father's Day song, which we completely neglected this year. Fathers neglecting their sons. Usually that's the way it goes. Well, this time it was a little switcheroo. Maybe I should just do a do a I don't know an inverse cats in the cradle cover or something like that sing the verses backwards no I I realized moments after recording last week for Father's Day happy Father's Day by the way to my dad I sent him an e-card to his S Fern Yahoo email address, and it has since not yet been viewed, as they would say. So he's probably thinking I completely botched it when in reality it's just sitting there unread. But if you're new to the show, I know we have at least

a handful of new-ish listeners. One of the traditions here in the Beantown podcast, maybe not quite as like every year strong as our horse named special or Halloween spectacular, but at least five or six Father's Days in the past, we've written a brand new song about dads or Father's Days or Padres or anything like that, and released it live on air. And we've had a handful of bangers. I think probably the most famous one up to this point is Daddy Long Legs, which is two years old at this point, I believe. And lastly, we did a song called In Bunches, and struggled with the audio recording. To bring this back full circle, the sound recording technology did not hold up.

We've had a song called, I don't even know what it's called, a song about my dad and I in South Florida going to Bob Evans getting food poisoning. I didn't, but he did. That was a banger. There was one that was Randy Newman themed. That was good. And there was one or two other ones. So we've had five or six. Anyways, the moral of the story is I completely boggled it for this year. There was never even a concept.

It's just Father's Day came and went. I recorded the show last week. And then a couple hours later I was sitting there talking to my wife. And it was just like, well, just realized it was the Father's Day episode. That was one of the few like benchmark things throughout the season throughout the year where you know you have something to stick to or commit to and it would be like the Kentucky Derby passing and just never mentioning a list of made-up horse names.

It's egregious frankly. So I don't know. You know, it's, we're about 10 days past Father's Day now and there's been no spark of inspiration. I think we could do something instrumental, but I don't have a great way to record it. Excuse me with my current setup. So we're gonna have to do some more brainstorming. I don't want you to hold your breath, but I also don't wanna say, you know, never say never. Like Justin Bieber would say, I will never say never.

If someone out there can explain what's going on with Justin Bieber and his wife Hallie Bieber that would be great Because Rachel's looking at me. She's over here doing her workout. I'm seeing a lot of stuff about the Biebers right now and Between that and then you know her uncle Alec shot the guy on the set of rust and that movie was a bust And there's just there's a lot a lot of kind of swirling around the whole Bieber family so if someone wants to email us bean town podcast at yahoo.com again it's bean town podcast at yahoo.com and

explain that would be fantastic you know I'm drinking this Vallejo IPA from half acre it's got a nice golden color, which reminds me of something we mentioned last week. You know, great golden eras that existed either in time and the history of man or in my lone lifetime. So, we're going to get to that in a moment here after we say thank you to our great sponsors. First and foremost, of course, Home Pride Oregon, we already mentioned the SFIRN email address, but you can also email my dad, steve at home pride organ, home pride organ at gmail.com. In case you want to get your home inspected guys,

if you are buying your home, whether you are a first time home buyer, you're moving up new construction, or it's just a tent under, you know, highway 97, the overpass, whatever it might be, you need to call Steve at 541-400-0316. That's home probably to Oregon and get your home, your tent or whatever. A clearing, a lagoon, doesn't matter, inspected. You don't want to buy a house or a lagoon or a clearing and then have millions and millions of costly repairs, especially in this economy, not to mention the parts and labor costs and then, oh, they always expect a tip, don't

they? You know who will give you tips and not expect anything in return is my dad, Steve. So HomePrideOrgan at gmail.com, you give him an email. You don't really give him an email. You give a ring, give him a call, but more you send an email. You can't really give an email. Otherwise, it's more like you give someone your email address, but you don't give an email message. All this and more, he'll talk to you about giving and sending and receiving. Steve, 5404100316, Home Pride Organ Inspection Perfection. Of course, we have our great friends, the Samson Q2U Series, recording this. I would give this episode so far like a three and a half out of 10.

Last week was pretty good because we had the whole research team going. That was like a solid seven or eight. This week we're down closer to a three and a half lack of preparation. It's hot. Cubs are losing. I don't have Wi-Fi. There's just a lot of things working against this show right now, but we're going to power through because we get you a new episode every

single week here in the Bean Town podcast. Forgot to write a Father's Day song. Really just botched the whole thing. But you know who will never botch your botch. I dated a girl, Bouch. Was that her name? Bok, I think. I don't even know how to say it.

She went to Boylan and is now married and probably has kids. Who knows? You know who will never botch your voice or the word of the Lord, it's our friends at the Samson Q2U series. If you want crisp clear audio quality time after time, timeless in fact. I don't know, I was gonna make some sort of Revelation reference, but I realized I've never really read Revelation. How many chapters is it? It's not that long, right? It's like 22. I feel like I could knock that out Or I could just go to Bible.com and IV preferably and

copy and paste the whole text of Revelation and put it in a chat GPT and then You know get an answer. What's the deal? Okay, so the New Testament is kind of interesting, right? From a construction perspective. This segment, Quinn muses about the New Testament, brought to you, of course, by our good friends at Cuts By Q. And you need a fresh juice on the snappy or new Colby X-Words at Cuts By Q. And guys, it's about to be a heat dome here in the US, and just hours away now and of course you're

gonna want to stay cool and hydrated and one of the best ways to do that is by shaving your entire head like Efren Ramirez does in Napoleon Dynamite. Cuts by Q when you need to fresh juice something snappy or new call the experts at cuts by Q but to finish the thought on the New Testament something I never really thought about and probably probably, you know, probably no one has ever thought about this. You have, what, the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And then you get into Acts as kind of its own thing, right? Because the

Gospels, if you're not super religious, if you're more of those agnostic types, it's telling the same story essentially four times which is kind of unnecessary. Like we don't talk about that enough. Who greenlit that idea? You don't have four different exoduses, right? There's a great story there. Moses freeing the slaves and the ten plagues and the ten commandments and everything is you know ten in Exodus the ten calves the ten bushes we already mentioned George W Bush well there's nine other ones including a burning bush but you don't have three other accounts of what happened you just get one and you just move on with your life so why couldn't Matthew Mark Luke and John have gotten together it really kind of

discredits their old thing because it makes you think oh these guys couldn't even get together to agree on a story so I just checked the score the Cubs game it was it was four to two Cubs and it's nine to four Mariners. So that's pretty bad. Rats. I guess it's a good thing I lost wi-fi. Yikes. Bad day to be a Cubs fan. But you know Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, get together, get your story straight. The fact that you can't even come to consensus on exactly what happened, it's kind of a bad look for the whole Jesus Christ situation. It reminds me of The End of Deliverance, the novel by James Dickey. You might know the film with John Voight

and Burt Reynolds and Ned Beatty. Beatty, Beatty, right? And at the end they're trying to get their story straight and stuff. And that's what Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John should have done. I don't care if you do dueling banjos with, they didn't have banjos back in, you know, zero A ad is probably

more of a harp or a lyre lyre but if you don't get your story straight you're gonna sound like a liar lyar and then you get okay let's keep let's plow ahead here so we got to get to golden ages you got axe which is like the axe of the Apostles the those Apostles had an axe to grind, and that's why they call it axe. And then you get into all the letters, right? Like the letters to the Romans, the letters to the Corinthians, multiple in fact, the letters to the Ephesians, the Galatians, the Philippians, yada yada yada. So you got a third distinct section,

you got your letters. But then you get to, you know, Jude is the last letter, the letter to the Jude, and then it's like Jews, but Jude. And then, I don't know if Jude, they come from, was Judas Iscariot from Jude? Is Jude a person, a place? Probably a person. We'll see Judas' son. These are things that biblical investigations could be all over. I got to write that down. Biblical investigations. That's got to be a new segment here on the Beantown podcast. That is right up our alley. Beantown biblical investigations. Oh, me over here typing with one hand because our research department is busy working out while I'm drinking my third beer of the day. I

walked six and a half miles, it's okay. But, oh, I closed my, closed my Word doc. My notes app. Rather not a Word doc. Let's get back into this. What the point I was trying to make is that you get to Revelation and it's not like a letter it's not an act of the Apostle or even an axe of the Apostle and then accent Apostle that could be like a I Don't know it's gonna say something that was probably racist. So let's just move past it Revelation is like a historical thing, right? But is it all take place in the future is it there's there likequel? Some of it's before, some of it's during, some of it's after. Never really sat down with Revelation. You basically just hear about the pit of sulfur and the endless suffering. And I don't really know what happened. There's a big battle, right? A big old battle.

And I think that's where Aslan the lion comes back. It's called The Last Battle. There's another book. It's not just Revelation. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis, the seventh installment in the trilogy that I have not read. What are those seven Chronicles of Narnia books? This week on the Beantown podcast, Quinn rambles aimlessly until he lands on the Chronicles of Narnia and tries to name all seven books. Let's see. In no particular order.

You've got The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. You've got Prince Caspian. What is it? The Pevensies? Lucy, Taylor, Ace, and Amaya I think their names are. No, it's Lucy, Peter, Edmund, and what's the the Hunger Games knockoff looking one. Right, isn't that the British lady, she kind of looked like a Hunger Games knockoff from the, I guess this was before Jennifer Lawrence did the Hunger Games, so Jennifer Lawrence is kind of a knockoff. Susan, right? But I call her Susie. I know her as Susie. The Pevency Kids, is that what their name is? I never met an actual Pevency, so I don't know, these British names. Tough to keep track of. You got Prince Gatsby number three, Dawn of the Light Brigade. You got, no what is

it, Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I've never particularly cared about treading on Dawn but I guess these guys did. Who is it? There's a, they introduce a new, it's like their cousin, his name is like Edmund Spike or something. No, Edmund is one of the Pevensey kids. Eustace Scrub, is that his name? I think that's actually right. If I pull that out of my behind, I'm pretty proud of myself because I've never read Voyage

of the Dawn Treader. I think they made a movie out of that one and then they finally got tired of losing money and they gave up and then Cuz those are like it's like the three kids. It's like their timeline And then you get these other four there to kind of all over the place you got the horse and his boy

the Magicians nephew The silver chair and the last battle The Magician's Nephew, the Silver Chair, and the Last Battle. Old CS Cornelius Shackleton Lewis kind of ran out of descriptive ideas, didn't he? He got, you know, wardrobes, kind of cool, Dawn Treaders. Not sure that is, but certainly badass. And then all of a sudden, we're talking about boys and nephews and it's like, kind of lost your fastball and then just the last battle. Kind of lame.

How the heck did we get to Narnia? That's exactly what Lucy said to Edmund in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Whereas you got Mr. Tumnus played with great distinction by the guy from those Samuel L. Jackson movies. Now who directed it? M. Night Shyamalan, right? He's got his trilogy. Glass, is that what it's called? That's the name of the Samuel L. Jackson character. Unbreakable, is that what it is? James That's the name of the Samuel L. Jackson character. Unbreakable, is that what it is? James McAvoy, that's his name, from X-Men. Just a real shmorgasbord of pop culture

on today's Beantown podcast. Okay, we mentioned last week, this is how this came about. Last week I mentioned I would get into golden eras and most of these are gonna just devolve into past reminiscences. Don't ask me to spell it. A lot of S's and C's and E's. But top golden eras, I asked you to email us BeanTownPodcast at yahoo.com. The listener demand was that you know there's so much appetite, I don't even want to read one of the responses,

because you feel obliged, O-B-L-I-G-E-D. I don't know if I've ever used the term obliged on the show before. 380 some episodes. You feel obliged to read all of the emails, and so because of that, we're just going to read none of them. But these are some golden eras, and I asked you to email me some of your favorite golden eras. And

of course, you still could. Next week, if we only got one email, let's say, I would probably read it. But I wouldn't want to have to be forced. Like I'm in this situation where you get so many, I can barely even load my inbox. It's just overflowing. So I don't want to read one and then have other people feel left out. So my top golden era is for me, number one, MoviePass. It's not a power ranking. Let's just list it. We've talked ad nauseum about MoviePass on the show before, so I'm not going to do that anymore. But just as a reminder, in case you're newer or you're fresher or you don't know anything about MoviePass.

It was, to put it briefly, a company where you could basically get a debit card and MoviePass would load like a credit for a movie. I don't know financially how it worked, but load a credit to see one movie in a theater onto your debit card every single day for $9.99 a month. And in case you're wondering, yes, this was not so long ago. The movie itself, an individual movie itself would be like $12. And so you would save money by literally going to one movie. It was one of those things where you knew it was way too good to be true when it was

happening. It felt like a scam. It wasn't a scam. It was just a terrible business model. I didn't lose money. I watched so many movies so many times. But yeah, MoviePass for me was a thing when I lived in Baltimore. And it couldn't have lasted. I mean, the company itself was around for a little bit longer and it's since made some sort of reemergence. The pricing is not really that competitive anymore. But for about, I don't know, 12, 18 months

something like that when I lived on the East Coast, it was just absolutely glorious. I saw so many movies, some of them good, some of them bad, but just off the top of my head, like some of the movies I saw that a lot of people out there probably don't know about or never will encounter in their lives, and I never would have unless I had movie pass, because I wouldn't just normally pay like 12 bucks to see some random indie movie, but Leave No Trace is a great one. It's a book based on a book, but this guy and his daughter live in Forest Park in Portland. They get discovered and have to reintegrate into society.

And it's Ben Foster and Thomas and Mackenzie, two actors who've done pretty well for themselves. There was the one with two actresses who are really famous now. But this was before either one of them made it big with what's her name? Rachel Cook and then the lady from Queen's Gambit. Tanya Grace Joy, something like that.

That one was called, oh, shoot, what was that? Thoroughbreds, speaking of horses, that was called Thoroughbreds. They like plot to kill their stepfather. That was pretty good. This was, this kind of made a little bit of a splash when it came out, but I think a lot of people don't know about it anymore.

And I just lost the name of it. It's the movie with Keith Stanfield that Boots Riley directed. Sorry to Bother You. That was a great one. where he uses his white voice and then Armie Hammers the bad guy, spoiler. And they turn into a horse. And just that was a good one.

But I feel like it kind of, again, made some headlines when it came out and has not really, like, I don't want to say stood the test of time. That's not what I'm trying to say. But it was kind of a big deal in some circles when it came out and you know six years later or whatever, more than that I guess, probably now seven or eight, has not quite had the cultural impact. There's this great movie called The Rider, which was all real people, no actors. It was about this

guy who has a concussion. He's like a rodeo rider or whatever, and that's all he knows how to do. And he gets a concussion and he has to learn how to exist in society when he doesn't know how to do that one thing. That was directed by the Asian lady Chloe Zhao I think who did went on to direct Eternals great Marvel film that I never saw and it wasn't great but those are just the spatterings let's keep it going here but that was definitely a golden age for me and those are all movies that I would highly recommend for a variety of reasons. I mean, I also saw a movie pass to watch, Lady Bird a bunch and the one with Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name, saw that a bunch. I think three times each in theaters. Oh, there's one other one, On Chesil

Beach, which is a novel. It's very play like it's searcher Ronan and some British guy. I don't remember, but that was a pretty good one to kind of a period piece, if you will. Other Golden Ages. The one time they did a season of Kid Nation. Guys, if you don't know Kid Nation, your life, you have not lived your life to the fullest yet. This was Kid Nation was a CBS show That ran for one season

back in gosh Must have been about 2006 2007 something like that and The premise is essentially they get 50 kids And the premise is essentially they get 50 kids, 100 kids, I think it was 50. They divide them into four tribes. I imagine this is what survivors like to some extent. I've never seen survivor. But they divide them into tribes. They send me this old Wild West set, aka ghost town. And they're just supposed to live, exist, compete in competitions, earn prizes. They can win gold stars worth like $2,000 a piece

and it was a big deal. So if you win a gold star, you get to call your family. And there's this great kid on there named Jared, who is just total comic relief. There's a good, I don't know what the name of the YouTube channel or series is, but if you if you never, if you know nothing about Kid Nation, I encourage you just YouTube search Kid Nation. And I think that there's like a sub-series, like a mini series from this one channel and it was like, you know, the channel is like the

worst, was this the worst episode ever made or something like that but they do a good breakdown there's a couple episodes they do specifically on Kid Nation and it is just it's brilliant and then there's a Jared compilation it's just every single clip of Jared from Kid Nation and he's got a lot of great sound bites including it's a Twista and there's this one where he's digging up dinosaur bones there's this one where he sneaks into the arcade when no one else is there it's too good and I don't really know I don't really remember because I watched it when I was a kid and I wanted to be on Kid Nation. Got our research team back here and I don't remember like

how it ends I guess they all just go home. I don't think there was a winner. There were a lot of losers but there wasn't a winner. We were all winners for having watched it. That was a golden era for me. Rachel chimed in earlier to say golden era for her was when she was about 16 or so. She said there was not a lot of parental supervision just running around Burbank and going to BWP, which is the local watering hole. Not a watering hole, more of a regular pool, but and just living, in life.

Anything else about your golden era you wanted to add? She was really cute. Almost as cute as she is now. That's hard to believe. Next up, Golden Ages here. Let's see, we did Kid Nation. Oh, the actual Gilded Age. I had to mention the Gilded Age, which is something that was coined by Mark Twain. The United States kind of, what was it, coming out of Reconstruction, turn of the century,

19th into 20th century? Is that the Gilded Age? Or everything seemed like it was great on paper, but it wasn't actually that great. Kind of like the 1950s. Let's do a little pre-trivia trivia question here. When are the generally accepted years for the United States Gilded Age? I haven't looked this up yet. I'm going to venture a guess of 1890 to 1910. That's my guess for the Gilded Age. It might be a

little bit earlier. I don't know. Let's look it up here. If you got a guess, email us, BeantownPodcast at yahoo.com or you can tweet at us at Beantowncast or Blue Sky at us, Beantown Podcast. Gilded Age per Wikipedia. I was too early. The late 1870s to the late 1890s. So I was 20 years too early. I knew it was between reconstruction and like the roaring 20s, but I was just a little bit too early. Oh, well. I don't remember much about the Gilded Age personally, but I imagine it was a Golden Age of sort. Next Golden Age, when I was about, we've talked about this before, this is probably right

before we started the Bean Town podcast, but when I, the two years I lived on the East Coast, I had one fall where I, in particular, during a heavy college recruitment season, recruiting high schoolers at their schools and local college fairs and stuff, I spent about a week and a half staying at a fairfield in-in-suites right off of the Pennsylvania Turnpike over in King of Prussia, Berwyn area. So this is about 10 miles west of Philadelphia, squarely in the suburbs. Free hot breakfast any morning or every morning. Anyways, the actual gilded or golden part of that was twofold. When I was marathon training for the Marine Corps Marathon, which I wasn't

that jazzed about, but I got to do it every day at Valley Forge National Historical Park, which if you've never been, that's where George Washington and his troops spent the winter during the Revolutionary War. And it really is a beautiful place, all kidding aside, despite me getting lost there because I used to run without my phone and I was going for a long it was gonna be my long run my last big long run before the marathon so about 20 miles or so and I made it like half marathon before I got lost in a cornfield and Sun was setting and things got spooky real fast, yada, yada, yada. I'm here today, I'm alive. But there's a lot of fun running in King of Prussia Valley

Forge. But the more kind of flashy part of this was at least three, maybe four times down the road for me was La Cabra Brewing, which means the goat brewing in Spanish. And they had this specialty beer. And I remember because at the time I could get one drink on on my company card, you know, with with supper. And it was fine. Although I really pushed the boundaries later on when I bought an entire six pack at a liquor store thankfully my

friend was in charge of approving that and the IRS never came knocking but I digress they had this La Cabra had this specialty beer and remember the first time I ordered they were like oh just so you know this isn't like a pint or something it's an actual like entire Like bottle. I don't know how many ounces but it was like a tall skinny bottle kind of looked like a nice wine bottle or something But here's the you know top ten secrets that Pay payment approvers whatever hate don't want you to know. If it shows up on your itemized receipt, which you have to submit as just one item, they can't prove

how big it is. It's the same strategy I used one time outside of Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. I don't remember the name of the town that's in. Someone can chime in, but they had a pitcher of some sort of dark beer. I don't remember the name of the town that's in. Someone can chime in, but they had a pitcher of some sort of dark beer. I think it was a porter on sale or on discount happy hour or something for $5. Got the entire pitcher and it shows up as one drink on the itemized receipt. That was the secret back in the good old days, but imagine getting imagine getting a picture of anything for five dollars. You give me a picture of the Coors light these days. I'll take it But this was this was actual craft beer good stuff But yeah to finish the story at look at the Cabra orra, Chupa Cabra, Chupa, I don't

know what Chupa is, something goat, they eat goats, right? Chupa Cabras. But yeah, I would just go get my whatever dinner, I don't even remember what I would eat, but then you get the bottle for like 15 bucks or something and just. I will say this, I am very against drinking and driving and it's not safe. It's not fun. I'm fairly certain looking back eight years later. So most of those drives home, which was about half a mile or so from La Cabra back to the Fairfield Bennett Suites. I was likely over the legal

limit. So apologies retroactively. Other golden ages here, I'm not proud of it, but it was a delicious beer. Other golden ages here, the one year in college where I was an RA, so I had free housing, shout out 1237 West. Every once in a while, there's more to this, but every once in a while there's more to this but every once in a while on like Facebook you'll see whatever groups you're part of people will post their apartments looking for a sublease and here and there will be people who live at 1237 West which is the address 1237 West Fullerton now called the ION I think But back in the day this was you know 2015 so a full decade ago

Maple is putting on weights on her legs. She's gonna love that These places were approximately $1,000 a month for your bedroom and you shared the apartment with three other people so as a four bed essentially $4,000 a month for about two baths. I can't even imagine what the price is now. But you see people posting on Facebook, Marketplace, or whatever like, oh, come sublease my place for the summer because they get locked

into these 12 month contracts. And the pictures are damning and unmistakable as someone who's lived there in the past. And it's like, God, I can't imagine living in this place with, you know, three other people you don't know, super thin walls, a bunch of rich kids, $4,000 a month for, you know, if you think of like a, oh, just envision in your head a four bed, two two bath apartment you envision like this nice big space, right? No, this these places were tiny to be considered four beds. Your your bedroom is essentially a jail cell concrete floors and stuff and

You can hear everything going on and anyways, I had free housing so that was a golden age, but I also back in that day a decade ago in that building, you know, it was ground floor retail and then apartments and stuff above. But on the ground floor, we had a Chicago legendary sandwich shop, not legendary, but legendary to me and the DePaul community, Uncle Sammy's. And usually a regular sandwich grant, this was 10 years ago, but it would be like $6 or something for what's essentially a foot long. And back then you could, I was going to say swipe, flash your RA card, your resident advisor

card and get it for like $2.50 or something. So that was a sweet deal. I did that a ton. And to take that one step further, I think we mentioned this just last week, but there was a Pizza Hut that was in that space, that retail space for, gosh, it could not have been any longer than 18 months, two years. But pretty much every time I ever wanted,

you could just go to the deal section of pizza and be like, get a large one topping for $6.99 or something. I was like, yes please. It's my entire Sunday eating right there. You get it for football games, you get it at like 1 p.m. You don't need to have breakfast or anything. And then you just, over the next five or six hours, you just work your way through the entire thing And you just had an entire day's worth of food for seven bucks, so Good stuff rest rest in peace to that Pizza Hut Quickly here just a couple other golden ages being a Blackhawks fan from 2010 to 2015 is another

Stanley Cup win for the Florida Panthers and in fact now it's been six straight years of the Eastern Conference being represented by Florida teams, three from the Lightning, three from the Panthers. And they've won four out of the last six. And it really reminds you, because that's the thing about the Blackhawks, not only, I mean, winning three cups in six seasons was spectacular and, you know, only to be bested by being a Bulls fan in the 90s, six out of eight. But the thing with being a Blackhawks fan in this day and age, it's not just like, oh yeah, we haven't won the cup in 10 years. Like, that's whatever. Canada hasn't won 32. We have just been straight ass. I mean, the last time the Blackhawks did anything of relevance was when I moved to Baltimore 2017,

because they were the number one seed, and they got swept by the Predators in four games. And the only reason I really remember that distinctly is because I have a vivid memory of flying from Chicago to Baltimore for this job interview at Johns Hopkins where I worked when this Bean Town podcast started eight years ago. And that night I got into BWI like 11 p.m. went to this hotel in the north end of campus. My room had been given away because I got there too late, but they had the honeymoon suite available. And so I sat in the

Jacuzzi tub and watched the Blackhawks lose to the Predators. I had it on all three TVs, because there's one in the bathroom, the bedroom, and the living room. It was awesome, except we got our asses kicked. That's the last time I remember the blackhawks being irrelevant in any capacity. And that was squarely eight plus years ago. So, rough stuff, man. That was a golden age. Let's see. We got two left here.

Next one is a little personal. Not in like a weird way, but there is this one summer, I don't know, I must have been 10, 11, 12, that that era. My brother Jack and I, if he's listening, will recall, and I don't really remember what started this or sparked it, but there is one summer where we, you know, we shared a room upstairs in our childhood house. So we were already spending a lot of time together. But we decided one summer we would sleep in the basement. Our basement was much cooler than the rest of the house, so that makes sense.

But we would sleep in sleeping bags on the floor. And we would wake up every morning and turn on WGN. And the Beverly Hillbillies would always be playing. That wasn't like a cherished family show for us or anything. It was just on. So we would watch the Beverly Hillbillies, which a lot of people probably in 2025 have never even heard of the Beverly Hillbillies, but it was a TV show back in the what the 60s. I don't know, black and white, classic theme song, and Texas tea oil that is. And we would make pancakes most mornings. You know this is when you're, I mean summers for kids you're not in school anyways, but when you're

homeschool, it's like, I guess not any different than being a public school kid, but we didn't have anything going on. I don't remember when we had started working or detasling. So let's just, that was always in July and August. Let's just say this was June and we would stop being in school by like the second week of May. So summer started pretty early back then but and we would play so much Pokemon

My brother Jack would play Pokemon yellow and I would play either Pokemon Blue or gold on the old Gameboy color or Gameboy Advance? and I remember playing so much that I would just lie there in the dark after we were done playing and TV was off, it was time to go to bed and just... It was so ingrained into my mind the Pokemon music that I could continue to hear it kind of like a fever dream even after long after we had stopped playing for the day. So might have some long-lasting permanent brain damage from that who knows but I don't think that was a there was one summer where we

trained our we each did a solo run and trained our Pokemon to be level 100 which is the highest level you can get in Pokemon and dreamed of battling each other but I don't think we had the right cable link for that so it never actually happened not that I recall but and then something that wasn't a golden age my my brothers I won't single out which ones but my brothers hid my version of Pokemon Gold in our childhood home. And to this day, 25 years later or so, no idea where it is, where it ended up. Long gone to history. RIP.

It's one of those things that I'm not like, I don't hold a grudge all these years later. I'm just genuinely curious where it is. I mean, my parents sold that home a decade ago, so I'm never going to know. But I'm just genuinely curious, like, where did it go? Was it like in the oven, kitchen cabinet, dad's coins drawer, which I may or may not have

rated once or twice to get a donut at church because they were 50 cents. Who knows? Sorry, dad. The last Golden Age I wanted to mention here, it's just quick and I don't want to elaborate too much because I think it kind of speaks for itself, and then we're gonna play trivia Honestly the Tea Party the Republican Tea Party in the context or in the shadow of the mega movement Back when Tea Party was a thing. What was that 2015 2016? No, no, no, I'm way too late Tea Party was like 2007 2008 Sarah Palin

Almost gosh 15 20 years ago. It seemed like hell on earth, right? I Think it was just I think the tea party was just ignorant. I think manga is just I Don't know Deceitful like the whole tea party thing seemed very Pure but misguided in some Fashion like Michelle Bachmann's maybe crossed the line a little bit But you get to manga 20 years later and it's like this is there's nothing There's nothing innocent about this and they're not pretending to be innocent about it. It's just

very aggressive, I guess. So I yearn for Sarah Palin to make her come back. Because Sarah Palin stopped being governor of Alaska shortly after her VP run. And then she's just been hanging out up in Wasilla with Todd on the homestead. And I don't know if she's ever really like come out and said anything about MAGA one way or another. Not that I'm plugged into my Alaska politics, but. RIP, I guess.

Yesterday was Juneteenth, June 19th, so we are going to finish up. These are, I thought about creating a Juneteenth trivia question. And then I did a Google search and I was like, well, we could just play this Juneteenth quiz together. So this is from CNN. This was published this year, I think. I don't know.

There's no date on it. So there's 10 Juneteenth trivia questions and we're going to play along together. I think they're all multiple choice, but I'll let you know if that's not the case. So here we go. We're going to play together. 10 questions. Number one, Juneteenth commemorates June 19th, 1865, the day Union Major General Gordon Granger informed slaves of their emancipation from slavery.

In which state did this event take place in full transparency Just to prep for this make sure it was legit like interactive and stuff I clicked I did the first question and I was like 80% sure on the first question and I did get it right Well, there goes my phone. I spooked the dog Got a very precarious position here. It's okay, buddy. So the answer choices are Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, and Georgia.

And I guess I just do it in the back of my head the answer to this one was Texas. So there it is. We're one for one. Galveston, Texas. Number two. Okay, so this is all fresh for me too now. Granger's announcement came almost three years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the famous executive order abolishing slavery issued by which US president? Do I need to give you answer choices? I don't think so. It is Abraham Lincoln. One of the options was George Washington. So yikes. Ham Lincoln. One of the options was George Washington. So yikes. Number three, which constitutional amendment officially abolished slavery across the US? Fourth,

ninth, thirteenth, or nineteenth? Well, this would have been harder if they put them closer together because fourth and ninth are both part of the Bill of Rights and then 19th amendment is women's suffrage. So the answer by default has got to be the 13th amendment. There it is. We're three for three. Question four, what two union border states continued to practice slavery up until the 13th amendment was ratified? Is it Kentucky and Missouri?

Again, these are union border states. I have no idea on this one. Kentucky and Missouri, Maryland and Missouri, Delaware and Maryland, or Delaware and Kentucky. Excuse me. Okay. This is one, I don't know if I'm going to be able to think my way into it. I just, again, we got Kentucky and Missouri. I thought Kentucky was Confederacy, but maybe not. Maryland and Missouri. Wasn't the whole point of the Mason-Dixon? Well, but it would have been Maryland to Virginia because Washington, D.C. was Union. Delaware and Maryland or Delaware and Kentucky? I mean this kind of feels more like a Kentucky and Missouri kind of deal, doesn't it? That's what I'm going with.

Our first mistake of the day was Delaware and Kentucky. Alright, so neither of the states we picked were right. Okay, so first blood. Again, the answer was Delaware and Kentucky. Number five, how many slaves were estimated to be in the US in the early 1860s before slavery was outlawed? 1.2? These are all in million. 1.2, 2.4, 3.9, or 9.3? I'm gonna guess, I'm gonna guess, I don't know, 3.9 million? That's my guess. Oh, we got it right. We're back. All right, four out of five to start. Here comes the back half. Which state was the first to recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday? Was it Georgia, Texas, New York,

or Virginia? Despite it happening in Texas, I'm not gonna guess Texas. Which leaves this with Georgia, New York, Virginia. Part of me is like, do you take the most northern state, New York, just because that kind of matches? Or do you go with someone who's like, you know, we know we fucked up and we're gonna reparate now, which would be Georgia or Virginia I'm gonna say Virginia because it Virginia feels very liberal leaning in this day and age. That's my guess Virginia and it was wrong It was Texas. I should have gone with a Texas knows best Well, all right to to wrong we got four questions left here

Which US president signed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday? Was it Clinton, Obama, Trump, or Biden? I know which one it wasn't. I'm pretty sure it was Joe Biden though. I think it happened in like 2018 or something. Joe Biden's my guess. There it is. 2021. Okay. I guess Joe Biden was not president in 2018, which would make it more challenging to sign it into law. But if Donald Trump has taught me anything, it's that you could just sit down and someone record you and you can sign a bill into federal law

and just say it's law and see what happens. So maybe the Dems should try that. Question eight, a revised red, white and blue flag honoring Juneteenth was introduced in 2000. What symbol is at the center of the flag? A star, an octagon, a crescent moon, or a triangle? Hmm. Star makes me think of Jews. Octagon makes me think of fighting. Crescent Moon makes me think of Muhammad. And Triangle makes me think of Triangle Sally from Saturday Night Live. Not sure here, I actually don't know.

I don't know, the Crescent Moon feels like it could be a thing, but I don't know, it's like that's the Islamic thing. I mean, guess Crescent Moon. I was wrong, it was a star. I mean, guess crescent moon. I was wrong. It was a star Rats, all right. We got two left. What is another name often used to refer to Juneteenth? Is it peace day equality day freedom day or power day? I'm almost certain it's freedom day because I've seen this year's Juneteenth referred to as Juneteenth freedom day once or twice So I think it's freedom day And it is which makes a lot of sense. And finally, last bit of the Beantown podcast today. What beverage was once popular and synonymous with Juneteenth celebrations? Was it mint

julep, strawberry soda, brandy milk punch, or chicory coffee? I'm almost certain it's not mint julep that's Kentucky Derby but I've never heard of well I mean strawberry soda who knows brandy milk punch brandy Moesha great show never seen it or chicory coffee I don't know research department you guys got a guess no Wi-Fi okay yeah me neither I'm gonna guess brandy milk punch wrong strawberry soda or we got six out of ten which means we're still an ally okay there's still an ally phase of Juneteenth research department says this is too much. You know, it's not too much freedom.

I'll leave you on that note. My name is Quinn David Furness. This is my program, Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for June 20th. Hope you're having a great day. Stay safe, stay sane, stay cool. I'm gonna check in on you guys next week. Bye bye. So so so So