Beantown Podcast - Half Marathons, The Bear, and Rockford Baseball (06012025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: June 1, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss duodenum disruptions, Cap Anson's lack of power, and Taylor Swift's ex-boyfriends

Hey, what's going on? Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Tom podcast for Sunday, June 1st, 2025. Season eight of this program, Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Tom podcast. We made it to June. We are through taxes and horse name specials and all that fun stuff. And now we're just getting into summer loving June 1st got some time off coming up by default. Recently my company changed their policy to where we have to take more time off every

year. have to take more time off every year, not more time off every year, but we can carry over less PTO going from two weeks to one week that you can carry over unused. So what that means for 2025 is got a whole lot of vacation to use. If anyone has any good creative, low-cost affordable options for taking vacation When you don't have a car and a dog with separation anxiety Hit us up bean town podcast at Yahoo.com again. It's been done podcast at Yahoo.com. My name is Quinn I am the creator of the hosts and How about a little play on words? I'm the showrunner of this program.

Quinn David Furness Presents the Bean Town Podcast. I'm the showrunner because coming to you live with some sore hamstrings here. Ran the Chicago half marathon this morning. The west side, Garfield Park, Douglas Park, Humboldt Park, all the great parks really. And it was my first time ever running an organized half marathon, finishing a 1.49 something, so 8.23 pace. Pretty pleased with it overall, didn't really know what I was getting myself into, hadn't run a organized half ever and frankly had not run that distance since, I have no idea. Years at this point. Probably since I was last marathon training. I don't even remember. So it was a little bit of a gamble.

The most I did in my training lead up to this race was 10 miles two weeks ago. And that was pretty solid. So I wasn't too worried although Then I went out last weekend with the intention of running eight miles and about at about the six mile mark the 10k mark It was revenge of the poops You know, I'm not someone who tends to have a lot of digestive issues When I run thankfully this last week, this was one of those sneaky ones where, you know, you go in the morning, I'm someone without getting into too much graphic detail. You want to wake up and give yourself enough time as I did this morning. This way I woke up at 4am for a, you know, left the house at about 6, 6.15. You want to give yourself enough time to be comfortable like those Charmin bears. You see how comfortable those bears are? That's exactly how comfortable I want it to be. But last week was the ultimate

you know prank you call it poop pranks because you go you take care of your business and you're like alright let's go let's go for a little eight mile run here again nothing too aggressive you're out there for an hour and change and yeah about an hour in I was just getting up to Lincoln Square so about a mile mile and a half from home and just got totally bamboozled by my own stomach and then I don't know we're getting in into the weeds here a little bit with the running lore but athletes or runners out there will know that when you get to that point where it goes from like, oh, there's something rumbling in the jungle, let's say,

to like, this is real, something's going to have to happen at some point, you get into this unique space where I should have brought on a fellow runner to talk about this. Ran it with my good friend Abby Witzak and Subway Stan. We've been meaning to get her on to talk Subway for five years here because I think it's terrible and she tolerates it, let's just say. But you get into this interesting point where you have to decide, am I better off running because I get home the fastest that way, but potentially it involves more jostling of the duodenum, let's say.

So we've already, I've already started the horse name, brainstorm list for 2026 and I'll be damned. I just think we, we came up with a potential, potential, that's not another name, potential name for 2026 season 9, Duodenum Jossel. After half marathon, let's just say. I try to put in these little notes next to each horse name so that you get a sense of, I can explain them a little bit better. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't, but duodenum jossel. Come back in 11 months and see if that makes the top 10 list here. You have to decide if you want to run to get home because it's faster but potentially causes more stomach discomfort or do you walk and it's potentially less stomach discomfort but it'll take you twice

as long to get home and that is an interesting thing. It's happened to me twice now in recent memory where I kind of have to toe that line like Johnny Cash said I walk the line between walking and running and what's going to cause less explosive stomach issues. The other one, if you can believe it and this was not as tricky because this one I was just tempting fate. I didn't take care of my business before I ran, but that's because it was a 5k Christmas day 2024. Just six months ago here, I went out for a little Santa stroll.

Well the neighborhood was sleeping. Well, you know, Rudolph kept watch and whatever, whatever they say in the night before Christmas, you know, 6 a.m., 6.30, run, wake up, check out your stocking. You want to get in a little bit of exercise before you, you know, you drink a bunch of whiskey and beer and eat a ton and watch the sports, the football games

and basketball games, whatever. So went out for a 5K and yeah, about two miles into that, my stomach just said, nope, this isn't going to work. And then I had to kind of, you kind of, it's, it's in between a walk and a run. It's, it's sort of a shuffle or a mosey, um, to try to not disrupt your stomach too much, but also know that this, this baby's a ticking time bomb. And it's gonna happen if you catch my drift at some point, and it's a matter of do you make it,

and you got the comfort of the porcelain throne, or are you, you know, I don't know, in an alley somewhere just ripping it. I've never had a experience like that too bad. I think the closest one, it didn't involve running. It didn't involve hiking. I should mention listening discretion, as we're six minutes into this poop story.

Listening discretion is advised during the listening to the Bean Tom podcast. Some people will occasionally use some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible, shitty, I guess we could say. I was hiking, I guess we probably told this story five years ago, I guess when it happened, but Gosh time flies when I was hiking Camel's hump in Vermont

It's like the third highest mountain in the green mountains or something like that. It was a beautiful hike, but it was One of those things, you know, I was on a road trip. So it was like every day is kind of a new place a lot of driving Every day try to do one bigger hike. So Camel Sump, I woke up early, left my Airbnb in wherever I was. I think I was in the Finger Lakes and I drove into the Green Mountains. Or no, I was in I was in Burlington, that's right. Ben and Jerry's, Bernie Sanders, Burlington. Oh, and home of the world's tallest filing cabinet. Anyways, I was about half an hour into this hike up the mountain and knew going in that this was probably going to happen. And you

know, this isn't the type of glamping, boujee kind of situation where there's, you know, portageons along the way. This is, you know, pack up what you what you take out or whatever they say. And so I did have some Dunkin Donuts napkinskins and I didn't leave the napkins behind but I did leave my deposit behind if you will, buried it under some leaves. I'm sure some dog had it for breakfast or something. That's TMI, let's keep it going here. I'm drinking a Powerade lemon lime

flavored and other natural flavors. Anyone's curious, what are the ingredients? And a power rate, no, we're not gonna read that whole thing. We got a couple different things to get to, a little bit of a hodgepodge here. Do they even have the ingredients? Oh yeah, there they are. Take a gander at what's the top ingredient.

Oh geez, top, you know Take a gander at what's the top ingredient. Oh jeez top. You know, you get these powerade zeros or whatever with 50% more electrolytes and you're feeling relatively good about yourself. Not like this is the healthiest thing to drink, but you know, you got to feel like a winner. And then you look at the ingredients list. Number one, water. Number two, high fructose corn syrup. Can these companies figure out an alternative to the high fructose corn syrup?

Because it's kind of like GMOs. It's got such a negative reputation regardless of how good or bad it is. Who knows? I haven't done my own research. I'm not Aaron Rodgers. But I feel like your powerade, you're coming out here and you're just boom, you're leading off practically the number two hitter in the lineup with high fructose corn syrup. Are people really still going to buy your product? Well, the answer is yes. So I just did that this morning.

You know what was slightly cheaper, but I have 179 versus 199, but I have less experience with body armor. I bought a body armor for my sister-in-law's boyfriend one time. I think it was mango. Mango shield was the flavor I can't remember. But I don't think I've ever had it myself maybe like after a 5k or something when they handed them out for free but not sure. And a quick plug here they're not an official sponsor if they don't know anything about this program but Midwest Coast Brewing was the official beer sponsor at the half marathon this morning, and they brew good beer.

It's a brewery there on the west side, just north of the United Center, kind of by where I got married, and they got good stuff. I've been to their tap room once. It's dog friendly. They have a rooftop patio. Although, is it really a rooftop? You know what our hot take of the week last week was talking about rooftop pools at hotels and what counts as a rooftop and what doesn't. I haven't been up there so I can't ascertain

one way or another. A-S-C-E-R-T-A-I-N., Midwest Coast is safe for now from the wrath of the Beanheads. Our hot take of the week, so we're coming up here just weeks away on season four of the Bear coming out. The, what's the word they use? It's not timeless, but more or less timeless comedy, right? That is the least funny comedy you've ever seen. If there was a category for anxiety, that's what it should get Emmy nominated in. Excuse me, except even then season three wasn't even like anxious bear, it was just boring bear. Right? was wasn't even like anxious bear it was just boring bear right you got yet comedy bear happy bear anxious bear sad bear I don't know are there other bears

probably what kind of bears you think they got in Pakistan 112 ranked comedy podcast right here in the Great Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Thank you Lahore, Karachi, Khyber Pass, Islamabad for your continued support. But my hot take of the week, well, first thing I should mention, I mentioned this in my car or in a car ride yesterday to my wife and my sister-in-law. Did you realize, and I saw this as a tweet, so it has to be true. I think it is. You know what's interesting before that? You set, I've got my phone here, I've got my notes.

I'm trying to balance it so that I can get a charge going because I'm on E here. You set it on your laptop to like balance it so I can go hands-free on this program. Although one hand is on my Samsung Q2U microphone. It brings up like the Apple card, you know, your digital wallet kind of thing. I don't know what's going on with these Intel Core technologies that is picking up my Apple card. I don't know if you have an Apple card. I don't even know how it works. But I can't read my notes and

set my phone down at the same time because it just shows me my Apple card so but the bear I think the end it sounds right so it's probably right have the bear has created and put out all four seasons in its existence in between Stranger Things 3 and Stranger Things 4 coming out and I think Stranger Things 4 is like actually happening this fall it's supposed to come out but I mean Millie Bobby Brown is married now and she's got a couple of kids. Steve, not Steve Kerr, Joe Keery has you know graduated from DePaul University and is now a musician full-time. His name is Joe DJO. That other kid stills got a bowl cut probably.

That the redhead who came in in season two or three with her Australian brother, Dacre Montgomery. She's gotten like pretty famous from actress perspective, I feel like, although I couldn't name anything she's been in other than that Taylor Swift 11-minute music video. But I guess that's pretty big. It doesn't really get bigger than that, does it? But the actual hot take I have of the week here, you could probably pick up on my disdain for season three of The Bear, and largely, at least based on the trailer for season four, the direction that this program is going. I think the bears just got to give it up. And that can mean whatever you want it to mean, but that's my hot take. It's just got

to give it up. Season one was fun. Season two, they grew. They're again to open their fancy restaurant, which I would much rather have a more kind of traditional Chicago, real people kind of restaurant. This whole fancy thing they're doing with the dishes and they give you like one scallop and it's $28 because there's a mango coolly glaze on top of it. And then season three was just like all that. And really, I think at this point, we probably need a spinoff just for Abby Elliott because that's me and Rachel's favorite you know actress favorite character it's just I need more Abby Elliott and it feels like the bear has

really just turned into a spinoff of the facts which is not like Carfax it's that's their last name it's got to be Hungarian or something FAKS I think it's what is it the Maddie Matheson the guy who's actually a chef in real life he was like the OG fac and then in these these later seasons they brought in more cousins John Cena and it's just like what are we doing here we more or less jumped the shark. And it seems like we're gonna get a lot more. Basically, in season four, basically the bear has turned into like two halves.

There's the like, fancy pants, you know, entrees, $57 market price they call it with the short guy Jeremy Allen Bear from Shameless and he doesn't he had exactly zero character growth in season three and frankly is is not that interesting to me as a character anymore I don't feel as compelled by him. And along for the way, he's got his idol, Io Edibiri, is that her name, the comedian? And she's trying to find her identity. And she's a good character or whatever,

but kind of boring at the same time. And then you got the cousin, Richie. I don't remember the actor's name. It's Taron Egerton or something like that. No, Eben Moss Baccarac, I think. So he's kind of the connection to the facts and so the other half is like, oh yeah the facts are funny, but they're really not. And so when you get a character, Jeremy Allen Bear, who doesn't have a lot of growth and yet the funny is not very funny. And then half of the show is just drone shots of seared tilapia with again a mango coulee

glaze. It's always mango coulee. I think mango coulee is a law school, right? What is that? Indiana coulee law school, something like that? Indiana's got two. It's confusing to me. When I worked in law school admissions,

it was always like, so which Indiana are you? You guys got to pick a side. Like if you're into the one side of the Oreo or the other, you got to pick a side. I don't know if that was actually ever an Oreo marketing campaign, but it feels like it would have been right You had to pick your Oreo cider. What is it the Twix they do the right and the left Twix? That's their ad campaign. I Don't know but the Bears the Bears got to give it up from what I've read

There's one more it's gonna be season 5 And I'm still gonna to watch season four because it's relatively short, right? It's only what, like eight episodes and they're like 25-ish minutes each. Maybe it's only even six episodes, I don't know. But I kind of, much like how I feel about Stranger Things, which I never even saw season three, I think, which I never even saw season three I think. I'm kind of over it. Yeah, that's my thoughts on the bear. Maple's Minute this week is brought to you, we already mentioned, our good sponsors, our good friends over at the Samson Q2U series. Guys, whether you are bitching about the bear or, you know, giving your rallying cry for more Abby Elliot Elliott. You're going to want to use

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the paparazzi I had this and I could see my shadow the whole time you know I'm like punk punk sit on a fill over here I'm running and I got this little tuft of hair in the kind of back left quadrant that was just doing its own thing, just hanging out, going the exact opposite direction of everyone else on the head during this entire hour 49 experience. And you know, you keep trying to brush it over and it just kind of keeps poking out doing its own thing. So I took a hot shower when I got home and remediated the issue.

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I've been, you know, I'm on like, my Duolingo Spanish score is like 54 now, so it's getting kind of serious. And I'm starting to learn, you know, sometimes, you know, usually, poor K is how you say, you know, well, when it's two words, it's why, and when it's one, it's because. But I'm learning some sentences now where you just have the poor which means for There's two fours For is there's poor and para and they have different connotations and used in different contexts

But now I'm getting to sentences about the weather lack Lima Where they're using poor for because but just poor not for for for because in the middle of the sentence to kind of relate to another clause. So my head is spinning over here. But you know what we power through because might go to the Canary Islands for the honeymoon and I'm gonna want to be able to be you know via Hondo poor la Playa, right? Traveling because of the beach is basically what I just said. You know who could teach me some Spanish? I saw this on Instagram just minutes before we went live today. Iconic legendary 2000s Cubs pitcher and probably, I don't know, probably the best hitting Cubs pitcher in franchise history. Carlos Zambrano is now a preacher

and it was his birthday today. It is his birthday today, June 1st. And the Instagram caption was, you know, from the church wishing him a happy birthday, and I think I was able to get through all of it. There's a lot of cognates in there when you get into the, you know, holies and faith and all that stuff. But I guess I guess, you know, I've been learning Spanish for a year and a half now, so I should feel good about that. Or maybe I shouldn't feel good about that. But you know what, you got to take these small victories where you can get them.

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We got a couple other things to touch on here. So we're gonna get to this in a second half here. Maple's Minute, we won't elaborate too long, but I learned this, or I read this, and I wanted to learn more about it. So we're going to hit up Wikipedia or Google, whatever. It's animal related. Did you guys know that manta rays and stingrays

are related, but different creatures? And I guess, you know, look, it makes sense, right? They've got different names. You wouldn't name one thing just two different, or one animal just two different things. But manta rays and stingrays are different from one another, which begs the question, then, where does the devil ray fit in? Because the Tampa Bay devil rays used to be the baseball team.

Now they're just the rays. But this is from Google Gemini. Manta Rays and stingrays, both types of rays, differ significantly in size. I got another coughing attack coming on in true Beantown fashion. It wouldn't be a Beantown podcast lately without a coughing fit or a spell. Could have a fit or a spell. Size, shape, behavior, and diet.

I want to learn more about this behavior. Manta rays are much larger, with wingspans reaching up to 29 feet. That's bigger than mine. They are filter feeders, primarily consuming zoo plankton. It's like plankton, but in a zoo, and are known for their gentle, curious behavior

around humans, much like me. Sting rays, on the other hand, are are generally smaller often with a more diamond-shaped body and have a whip like tail with a venomous barb that are used for self-defense. Many stingrays are bottom feeders consuming crustaceans and mollusks. So the sense I'm getting is, you know, the classroom teacher in Finding Nemo, he's more your traditional manta ray. I think his character's name is probably Ray.

That would make sense. And then your stingrays are kind of more like your little sons of bitches. They're kind of the Portuguese manta wars of the ray family. One thing we didn't get from that Google Gemini overview, because I didn't ask about it, was where does the Devil Ray come in? Maybe we should Google that. I just set my phone down, but we could always pick it back up.

What about the devil ray? Let's just google devil ray and see what it tells us. There's a devil fish, which is different. Oh, that thing is spooky. Marine creatures. It's a species of eagle ray. Oh, now we got eagle rays. Devil fish or giant devil ray is a species of ray. It's currently listed as endangered. They pay Wikipedia big money to list themselves as endangered, so no one will fuck around with them. There's also, you go back to the previous Wikipedia pages, there's also a devil fish, a name given to the manta ray. So we could call an eagle ray a manta ray or a devil ray. We could call a manta ray a devil ray. There's also devil fish. There's a lot of devil fish. Gray whales also

called devil fish. There's two Australian fishes called devil fish. There's some cryptids. There's some cryptids, there's more fish, black sea devils, and a humboldt squid is also known as the devil fish. That's right, humboldt, like humboldt park, not humboldt squid. The humboldt squid, very, you know, not overly flashy. That's the hum squid. Just a couple of rapid fire thoughts here that I have listed down throughout the week. You know how I have nothing on this, but you know how Lion King, there's Lion King 1 and a half and Lion King 2. I think Lion King 1.5 was like the Timon and Pumbaa movie. And we had Mufasa, which if we're doing numbers here is basically Lion King 0. So what if we go to Lion King half?

And you could call Lion King 0.5 as well. I don't know. I think Lion King half would probably look better on the marketing materials, but what's gonna happen? You know, now we read through the entire plot summary of Mufasa on a podcast back in December. I was hiking. I had a nice little wintry day out, if you will. But what are we gonna... So what would Lion King half be about? I guess it

would have to be the Timon and Pumbaa prequel. Because I think Timon and Pumbaa are in Mufasa, but in the present day, like the Lion King era, telling a story. Like Lion King 2 basically. So we need young Timon, young Pumbaa. Do we get Nathan Lane back for it? Not sure, might have to do, use young Sheldon or something. I don't know if that kid does voice acting. But yeah, that's Disney's next step. Now that we've done, we've gotten through Snow White

and Lilo and Stitch, I think it's time for Lion King half. That's all I had. Then you could have Lion King half and half. I don't know something about milk and the Serengeti there's something there. What's I had this thought at at Jewel this morning because it's it was about half the price and I came ever so close to buying it but I didn't because the recipe called for whipping or heavy cream. Oh there's heavy cream, heavy whipping cream, and then half and half. I wanted to get the half and half

because I feel like oh yeah you just pop it in your coffee if you got any leftover but what the question I have is what is the difference between half and half and whipping cream and if you want to throw Devil Rays into the mix too, you certainly can. But if someone wants to explain that to us, like I'm five, that would be great. I don't know where the pasteurization levels come into that, but something to research, Aaron Rodgers.

I mention it because I was listening to my football podcast this morning and apparently Rod Roger spent 30, 30, three hours on Joe Rogan this week and made Joe Rogan look pretty sane. So there was zero talk of football on that show appearance, just three hours of everything else. A lot of nano robots and COVID is what Aaron Rodgers is on right now. I'm not really sure how to, well, I know how to feel about that, but I don't even know where to start with that.

I have such little insight or knowledge into what nanorobots could even be. Next point here. I had to, you know, I was, I was at my in-laws for a couple of days this past weekend. Wanted to turn on Cocoa Melon for my sister-in-law, who's 21. But I watched the music video, I don't know if this is the official licensed version, but we all know Baby Shark. And I had never seen like a music component to it. Just know the song, baby shark, do, do, do, do, do, do, etc. But I watched the music video.

If you've never seen it, you gotta check out this music video for baby shark from Coco Mellon, because it's very confusing. And I don't wanna go through the whole thing here, but essentially it's like there's like generations of sharks in it, or humans rather. There's sharks behind it, but there's humans singing this song, animated humans. And it's highly confusing because it starts with a baby.

They're doing the baby shark do, do, do, do, do, do verse. And there's a baby singing on screen. It's like, OK, this makes sense. And then it goes to mommy and daddy shark do, do, do, do. So you'd think it'd be like, OK, well, it's probably going to be like a 40-year-old or something like that, or even a 30-year-old. But it's like little kids.

Yeah, I'm talking about baby shark. It's little kids who are mommy and daddy shark. And it reminds me, I think this was a fact I stumbled upon at one point in my life. The oldest, sorry, the youngest parents ever in history were Chinese. They were eight and nine, which I don't even want to get into that. But that's basically what we're dealing with here. I don't know if Cocomelon was inspired by that fact when making this music video,

but the mommy and daddy shark are these little kids from like Vlad and Nikki, if you're familiar, obviously with that YouTube channel, of course you are. And then he gets to grandma and grandpa shark, and the humans are like my age, and I'm thinking, geez, I really missed the boat on having kids, I guess, because I'm supposed to be a grandpa shark by now. And you know, there was like 2000 more verses and we turned off the video before it really

got complicated. But I, you know, maybe it was going to turn into an I'm my own grandpa situation. There's a great song, novelty song. I feel like Daddy Long Legs was kind of our novelty song that we've had in the first eight years here and we're still looking for that second great hit. Although I'll say Daddy Long Legs 2.0 is a banging remix, so if you haven't listened to that in a while, go pump up those YouTube numbers. But yeah, the Daddy, sorry, the Baby Shark music video was, off-putting is not the right word, but

surprising, I guess, to keep it simple. Next up, we already talked about Taylor Swift once on this program today. When are we talking about that Girl From Stranger Things in the long music video? Was that the one? Was All Too Well? Was that about Jake Gyllenhaal or was that John Mayer? Was it the guy, the porn guy from 1975? Was it Jason Kelsey? Was it Nick Jonas? I don't know who else she's dated but probably the guy from Boys Like Girls. Owl City. I listened. Owl

City popped into my head this week when I was at the office. I'm like, what do you think that guy's up to? He put out an album two years ago. He's still making music under the Owl City label. Adam Young is his name. And so I listened to the first two songs from his latest record. And I mean, I don't really have any thoughts or opinions. Two and a half stars.

But Owl City, if you're curious, it's not just Fireflies from 2011 or whatever that song came out. He's still going. But Taylor Swift, I saw, she did something where she like bought back her entire catalog and that made me think we should, I don't know if we own this maybe Apple podcast owns or SoundCloud even but we should probably buy back the entire Bean Town podcast catalog if it's for sale so I don't know if you're out there listening and you're like oh no I own it you know whether it's I don't know if this would be like Columbia or Paramount or whatever Capitol Records I love when they do the concerts at Capitol Records because you play on top of the building.

It's a rooftop pool. And the whole crowd is like 10 stories below you. So they can see the lead singer in the front and then no one else. So you know what you got to do if you go to a concert at Capitol Records? You have to crane your neck. You probably want to crane your head too, but I think neck would give you more,

you know, a little bit more angle, angular vision as they would, they would call it angular velocity. That's a throwback to pre calc. Remember learning about radians versus degrees. What's the conversion? One half of two pi, something like that? That's just pi. I don't know, the whole radians thing took me a second to really wrap my head around. Anytime you start working with tangents and secants and arctans

it really gets a little bit too conceptual for me but uh yeah i mean if anyone out there owns the bean tom podcast i'd like to buy it and finally uh before a trivia question here this is highly relevant to my grocery store run about two hours ago I just want to put this out there and I know this is you know specific to my own grocery store jewel osco on link and av here the If you're ever looking for baked chips Which is like a Lay's branded thing. It's like regular chips, but they were baked. Don't look for them in the chips aisle

because they've got their own separate section in the aisle next door, next to like granola and fruit snacks. So if you're looking up at, you know, the signs, I tell you, oh, this aisle's got wet wipes and this one's got peanut butter and whatever. You see chips? Don't fall into that trap.

It's a siren of the Odyssey. From my Homer heads out there. Yeah, so you're walking down chips, you're looking up and down. Up and down there's even a whole section just for Cheetos. You got your Flamin' Hots, you got your P hots. You got your puffs. You got your jalapeno Hint of jalapeno you got I don't know whatever other crazy concoctions Chester the cheetah has been coming up with lately It's a false flag. You got to go next door to find your baked Cheetos

Just a heads up for all you end cap heads and skew heads out there. I remember the first time the manager of our store at Kmart when I was 16 told me something was on an end cap. And I was like, what the heck is an end cap? But I figured it out eventually. But aren't end caps the worst? Because it's like they'll be doing their own thing.

And sometimes they'll buy the aisle where their brothers and sisters' related items would be. And sometimes they're just crazy off on their own, just not close at all to the rest of their stuff. I know where they are now, the tortillas at my jewel. And there's probably tortillas in the regular bread aisle, too. Although, actually, I don where they are now, the tortillas at my jewel, and there's probably like tortillas in the regular bread aisle too, although actually I don't think there is. But they're at their own separate end cap, and they're like kind of by the bread aisle,

but a couple rows down. So you got to know where to go. End caps, highly confusing. That brings us to our trivia question of the day here. It's going to be very much a 180 from anything else we've been talking about. But I was... How did I get here? This was this morning at 4am and your brain just goes through some wild things when you are on your porcelain throne. And everyone else in the world is asleep.

And so this one's going to be for baseball fans out there. And even if you're not, you know, a big stat person or you're not into you're not caught up on MLB, that's okay. You can at least venture, I guess. But I've got a very simple trivia question here. It's top 10 style. And I guess if this were if this were the old charm city trivia at Mother's Trivia, or Mother's Federal Hill Bar and Grill rest in peace. I loved the way they did their like halftime questions because there would always be some sort of top 10 list and then you would have to just name, you have to put out your best six guesses.

And you just get points for each one that's right. So this is kind of a similar style, although you can put out six guesses and you know you just get points for each one that's right. So this is kind of a similar style although you can put out six guesses you can go for all ten whatever you want to do but my question here is named the all-time in Major League Baseball runs batted in career leaders. So this is the span of a career this is not single season, this is just all time. The greatest run bad it enters in history, going back to the 19th century. Looking at this list, there isn't anyone from the 19th century. And I will say if you're out there thinking, gosh, there's going to be some guys from the

Hartford Whalers in here that no one's ever heard of. Every single one of these names on this top 10 list is a household name in some form or fashion. There's one number five who I frankly am not very well informed about. I'll get a Google search going here so we can explain a little bit when we get to the name. It's a name you've heard of, but I mean this guy, did I say no one from the 19th century? Maybe he did play in the 19th century.

Yeah, he led his team to six National League pennants in the 1880s. The Chicago White Stockings is who he played for. He became Wikipedia says, and again, we don't know who this is. You don't know who this is yet, but probably the first to tally over 3,000 career hits and managed, innovated managerial tactics such as signals between players and the rotation of pitchers. If you're curious, we'll just throw, he had a 334 lifetime batting average. That's pretty good. Only 97 home runs, but batted in over 2,000 RBIs,

which is really challenging to do. And you know his first stop, I'm glad we looked this up, learning some fun things. This person, by the way, is Cap Anson. That's right, his first name is Cap. Is that his actual first name? Nope. Adrian Constantine Anson, nicknamed Cap, Pop, and Baby.

This guy had three nicknames. We should be calling this guy Baby Anson, nicknamed Cap, Pop, and Baby. This guy had three nicknames. We should be calling this guy Baby Anson. Sounds like one of the Hanson brothers. But this guy's first ever stop, his MLB debut, was in May 6th, 1871 for the Rockford Forest Cities. That's right. From Rockford, Illinois, was one of the first professional baseball

clubs. Rockford played for one season during the National Association Inaugural year of 1871. They're not to be confused with the Cleveland Forest cities. That's good because that was going to be my next question. So yeah, there you go. I never knew that. I lived in Rockford for Rockford, metro area, Cherry Valley Valley proud for 18 years and I never knew that so we've given you one from our top 10 list if you want any more time to pontificate or elaborate or ameliorate go ahead um but uh oh this this list only goes through nine who is our 10th oh my god bad, bad prep. All time RBI leaders, thanks BaseballReference.com. Okay, here comes the list.

Number 10, which didn't make my notes app, but here it is. Number 10, Jimmy Fox. Number nine, Ty Cobb. Number eight, Stan Musial. Seven, Lou Gehrig, RIP. Six, Barry Bonds. Five, Stan Musial. Seven, Lou Gehrig, rep. Six, Barry Bonds. Five, Cap Anson. Four, my least favorite player, Alex Rodriguez.

Three, Babe Ruth. Number two, Albert Pujols. And the all-time career leader and runs batted in in Major League Baseball history coming in at 2297 RBI's if you're curious Pujols retired he was only 79 RBI's away only you know at his age another season and change away from getting that record but number one The man the myth the legend rest in peace was it last year he passed away hank erin number one at 2297 so there you go fox cod museal garrick bonds ansin ansin rodriguez

ruth pools and hank erin is your top 10 and all-time rbis that's my show queen david furnace presents a beat em podcast thank you everyone so much for listening and for tuning in to this fine program as always. I hope you're having a great June. I hope you're stretching your hamstrings whether you ran a 13.1 or you just ran down the stairs because there was a new Bean Town out. Whatever it is you are running for or from, that's okay. You're welcome to run. Baby, we were born to run. And we can't play that for our closing music because we have to use our money to buy back the Bean Town catalog, which we may or may not own.

It's TBD at this point. Thank you, Pakistan. Thank you all for listening to my program. Let's get our outro music going here. My name is Queen David Furness. This is my program in its eighth season I hope everyone stays safe stays sane and I'm gonna check in on you next time. Bye. Bye Yeah. So so so Thank you.