Beantown Podcast - Happy Hour, Maine Trivia, and Evita (07122025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: July 12, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss mayonnaise ingredients, the sons of Jacob, and mule mugs

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Saturday, July 12th, 2025. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn and this is my program.

Quinn David Furness presents the Beantail Podcast. Now halfway through season eight, almost to season nine, year nine of this program. Thank you to everyone for sticking with us. Thank you to Pakistan. I've noticed when listening to some people say Pakistan lately, they've been saying more of a Baki a Pakistan and I don't know I just feel like I got a I like leaning into the Pakistan. It's more fun to say it that way It feels like it takes less effort. I Feels much more American right? I feel like a true patriot when I say Pakistan So if you're a true patriot out there

Listening from Hyderabad Lahore Kar, Karachi Pass, Bangalore, wherever, thank you for making Bean Town Podcast the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. We got to get Trump to say Pakistan a couple of times, right? He's got great sound bites of China and Puerto Rico. But now we got to get him saying Pakistan. I think that'd be fun. What's happening? I am the creator and the host and the chief snifter. What is it? You got snifter? That's a type of drink, right? I was reading earlier about the best way to drink cognac, which I've never

had before, and my father-in-law got me a thing of Kirkland cognac, which regrettably is not a liter- or uh, the cognac from Kirkland doesn't start with a K, unfortunately, it's just your classic C. But they said you should drink it in a tulip glass so that the aromas get concentrated and that got me thinking about different types of glassware tulips sniffters those Moscow mule mugs which I have you know what is a damn shame we didn't even say listener discretion is a vibe it is advised when you're listening to this program. Number one, will occasionally some language jump into this podcast is objectively terrible. I had a hankering. In fact, we might've had one of these on the show, you know, a couple weeks back. I can't recall specifically, but I had and occasionally continue to have, this was like

three weeks ago, a hankering for whiskey gingers, which I don't know if that's an official drink or not, but to me it's just get some whatever whiskey you want. I think I had been using the Trader Joe's single malt scotch up until recently when I finished it. Now I'm working on a Canadian club, but that and a ginger beer, which is just non-alcoholic ginger flavored soda, basically ginger ale.

But I've had a handful of those over the last couple weeks. And I've just been drinking it out of my Jack Link's commemorative cup, which is not a, that's not a shame, but I have a mule mug. Is that what you call them? Mule mugs, you know, they got the signature kind of copper tone, like sunscreen and shade of color. I think I have one of those, or maybe it didn't survive the move. I don't know. It's one of those things, very unique things where you never, it kind of sits in the back

of your cupboard, right? And you never really think to use it. And then next thing you know, you've had four or five whiskey gingers in the last month, and all of a sudden you're thinking, boy, I should have had it out of a mule mug. But it's okay. I gotta go investigate after, see if I still have that.

There was somewhere else I was trying to go with that, but I can't remember. Oh the cognac Yeah, I've had this this cognac now sitting in the bar cart for seven months here unopened and I almost I came this close To having it live on air today for the first time. I don't have a tulip glass nor do I have a snifter so we're just gonna have to maybe have it out of a I don't know a highball glass is that what it's called? I don't know my glassware very well. I'm not not experienced in glassware nor glass blowing. I think glass blowing would be a cool hobby but it seems like I need hobbies that don't take up physical space, like memorizing the digits of pi or something. Or pie eating, because you could just buy a pie and it takes up a little bit of space to start, but then five minutes later the whole thing is gone. I don't remember the last time I had a really good pie. Every once in a while, when I go to Jewel,

and then we're going to come back to Cognac briefly, when I go to Jewel, which is one of our local grocery stores here in Chicagoland, I will peruse. I mean, any time I go to Jewel, I peruse the bakery department. Because I don't get my saturated and trans fats in these days as heavily as I did 10 years ago, give or take. But every once in a while, and it's not frequently, if you can get a steal of a deal in the bakery department, maybe it'll be like half a dozen donuts for like three bucks or something.

And those donuts are never good. They're on sale for a reason. They're always super stale and you bite into one and you're like, why did I, why did I do this? But then you got six donuts and it's like, well, I got to make it worth it. But occasionally you can get great deals on pies. I think the last time though, I got a great deal because it was like they messed up a pie or something. And so it, it, it it it did not look very Visually appealing it was just like I don't know imagine Imagine you make an apple pie and then you just smash your fist into it and swirl it around a little bit

That's essentially what they were and it's right swirl in the pie That's essentially what they were selling But it was like a half of a pie for two three bucks bucks or something. And that's kind of hard to pass up. So that's the last time. I have no idea how we even got there. But I'm a sucker for a great deal anywhere. But the bakery department in particular, I'll just go nuts in there.

Let's quickly learn something together. And if you're watching the live video stream, which doesn't exist, this will be easier if you're just listening to the audio. I will explain this for you. This is, let's see, Bar Glass Wear from propagenda.com. I clicked on it and it disappeared. Just, no, oh, I clicked on the author's name. Eric Hart. Okay, so we got a big old visual here. It's like a field guide. This was me speaking to field guides earlier.

Gosh, this page sucks. Earlier, I was, a couple days ago, I took Maple out in the morning for her morning constitution. Is it constitution or constitutional? I think constitutional, right? Maple, you would know. She's over here, research team. She's had quite a day so far. Went to the farmer's market, acted like an absolute maniac.

So that was nice. Now she's looking at me like, I'm the maniac. No, you're the maniac, buddy. She's upset because we're eight minutes in and we still haven't done Maples Minute yet. Let's look at this. OK, so a Snifter is one of those ones that kind of is bulbous on the bottom, and then it gets narrower as it goes up.

So I think that's what I was supposed to drink, or I'm supposed to drink the cognac out of. I should mention I am not imbibing in any Alcoholic beverages right now. I'm drinking my Trader Joe's black cherry vanilla sparkling water because it alas it is only about 1145 a.m. On a Saturday here. Look, I'm not opposed to Brunching it up and drinking this hour, but it's really kind of tough Because if you start drinking now, inevitably, for me at least, I'm just going to not crash out, but just get drowsy

around like 3 PM and then the whole rest of your day is just kind of off. I have been up since about, I legitimately woke up at like four, well my alarm was set for 430 and I was up for 20 minutes before that. So like 415 PM,m. or a.m. I woke up this morning got some mileage and so I've been up for seven and a half hours already. So mentally I'm kind of like, oh yeah, drink a clock, let's do it baby. But what is, what did Robert Frost say? I've got miles to go and beers to drink before I sleep, something like that like that is the road not taken. It's a classic poem there. So that's the Brandy or Snifter cocktail glass

also known as a martini. I think we know what that is. There's a cosmopolitan glass. That's the one that's got like the real small base and then it gets wider as it goes up, but it's pretty short. There's the old fashioned glass. That's what I was thinking when I said highball. It's just like a very equilateral, circular,

doesn't really change its size at all, kind of short. Hurricane glass, if you've ever had a, well, a hurricane is the name of a drink, but I've seen, basically think of like a nice fruity pina colada or something. I think you can get a pina colada in a hurricane glass. It kind of, it's kind of wavy. That's kind of fun. Got a rocks glass, which just looks like a basic tap water glass, margarita glass. I think what we know what that is, but there's the saucer and the weld. The weld has kind of a little well in the bottom, if you will. Some different types of rocks glasses.

The high ball is what I said earlier, but the high ball is just taller than the old fashioned glass. Poco Grande, a little big. That kind of looks like the hurricane glass, but slightly different. Let's see, anything else here of interest? The goblet glass, of course, that's what she else here of interest the goblet glass of course that's what she uses probably drank from at the wedding at Cana. You know what I love uh oh there's a Pilsner glass that's like a classic beer. Oh there's a pitcher if anyone needs me to describe

what a pitcher looks like. I don't know there's goblets, pint glasses, shot glasses, flute glasses, wine glasses, side L that's like a mug of some kind an Irish coffee mug, Irish coffee glass iced tea glass. I think generally speaking we know what many of these look like. What I like is at the end of Indiana Jones three after the pentanet man has passed and you know the the the Nazis follow Indy to the tomb of the unknown soldier and you got all the different cups and chalices right oh my gosh when's the last time you guys thought of a chalice C-H-A-L-I-C-e sneaky good name for like a point guard for the Yukon Huskies or something chalice O'Neill or chalice I don't know good

chalice Washington if it's a girl it's Chalice but if you're if you're a boy it's chalice heck of a name We got to incorporate that into a horse name somehow. I'm not writing it down, so I'm going to forget. But great underrated glass, great underrated name, Chalice. But they're choosing, they're looking at all the glasses to drink from to get everlasting life from the fountain of youth and soldiers like you chose poorly and the Nazi. Well, I don't want to spoil anything, but let me just say this. If you're thinking Jesus was drinking from this golden cup be, be jeweled, then you may

have, you might be choosing poorly. There's a little teaser for you if you've never seen I know the movie is only 36 years old at this point, so there's a chance you haven't seen Indiana Jones and the last crusade yet. I Don't want to give the whole movie away our hot take of the week Rachel and I Like to do little date nights as many married couples do, but of course ours are constrained a little bit more by our separation anxiety dog situation. So during the summer it's not so bad. We find lots of fun patios to go to. There's a Lou Malnati is north of here, half a mile on the border of Lincoln Square and North Center.

And recently, I think this is not just this location, but I think they're rolling it out nationwide. Lou Malnati's is leaning into Happy Hour now, which you don't necessarily think of Happy Hour when you think of a pizza place, but that's all about to change because Lou Malnati's our hot take of the week their new happy hour one of the best deals in Chicago Here's what it is essentially five dollars across the board for all of these different things There's some cocktails on the menu. It's not any cocktail, but like basic ones like an old-fashioned. I had yesterday I don't know what type of glass probably a old old-fashioned glass. In fact, it was. It was really small. I felt like the Incredible Hulk or King Kong

drinking from that thing, but it's $5, so I can't complain. But still a good deal nonetheless, because you can get that same size drink at a fancy cocktail bar here in Chicago, and they'll charge you 14 bucks for it. Like vodka lemonade, a rum kind of deal. So some different cocktails. There are like five or six cocktails on the list. And then all draft beer, $5. And there are some solid ones on there. If you are someone who tries to get the best bang for your buck

as far as percentages go, you can get a Revolution, what is it? Not Fist City, but their classic one. Whatever the green one is from Revolution. Revolution IPA, is that what it's called? Log Need is IPA. So some good drafts on there. Maplewood. And then you can get some appetizers including meatballs or Mott's bites

That's right Mott's M O Z Z which is what we did and then the kicker on or you can get a Six ounce pours of wine as well for five dollars and then the kicker on top of all of this you can get a straight-up Single serving whatever it's called deep dish pizza personal deep dish pizza or as we did yesterday a a single serving, whatever it's called, deep dish pizza, personal deep dish pizza, or as we did yesterday, a small thin crust pizza, but it doesn't even have to be cheese. You can do sausage or pepperoni as well.

We did pepperoni. So you can get each one of those for $5. So legitimately, I'm trying to remember exactly what it was. I don't have my credit card statement in front of me, but we each had two drinks, a piece of four drinks total, plus the Motts bites, plus a small pepperoni pizza. And the whole thing after tax and tip was $39. It was amazing.

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at gmail.com. Send him an email or give him a call. 541-410-0316. HomePrideOrgan inspection perfection. Maple in honor of Maples Minute has left the studio, aka the couch, and moved onto the floor where she is currently residing. Maple's been in this week. I had a dream last night and told this to Rachel. It was basically, remember the end of No Country for Old Men when Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Thombell, his name is. He has two dreams.

He's talking to his wife and I don't remember what the first dream is, but the second one's about his father, and he's holding a light, and he goes out in front of Tommy Lee, or Ed Tom, I guess we should say. And basically, one of these types of dreams, but really not that interesting. Maple had gotten loose like Adrienne Peterson on a Paul Allen radio call.

Not that Paul Allen, the Vikings one. And in my dream, she came running back to me as she likes to do when we're, Rachel and I in real life like to kind of walk about 30 or 40 feet apart from each other and then make maple run sprints in between the two of us. And she can do about three legs of that Before she gets exhausted and it's always cute the last time Before we stopped doing it, you know, and she basically gives up She like starts off really fast and then gets really tired and by the end by the time she gets to you. She is just

Dragging ass but in this dream maple was running back to me and she had something in her mouth and she spit it out and as she spit it out all of her teeth came out. Holy cow buddy, that's a little foreshadowing for your dental surgery you're going to have here in a couple of months. But I told that to Rachel and she said that's the mark of death apparently. I don't know how much you put into these these dreams. If you're a big Genesis fan you recall that Joseph had some great dreams. I don't know about what. Was it Paul in the New Testament? He was like locked up in prison or something and he had a dream or that was an earthquake situation maybe. I don't remember exactly what happened with Paul in the prison. Daniel He was like locked up in prison or something and he had a dream or there was an earthquake situation Maybe I don't remember exactly what happened with Paul in the prison

Daniel he Daniel did something with dreams. I Don't know Joseph, you know Joseph was they left him went in the bottom of a well and Then sold him to some Egyptians. I don't know the whole Joseph story is interesting some Egyptians. I don't know the whole Joseph story is interesting. What did he have? He had 12 of them. He had 11 brothers, 12 tribes of Israel. What are the odds, you know, if there's a obstetrician out there they can talk about this maybe email is bintanpodcast.yahoo.com. What are the odds of having 12 children and all of them are boys? This seems unlikely. And what was the name of Joseph's dad?

Not the Jesus Joseph, not Jesus' grandpa, but Joseph's dad, it was Jacob. Okay. Not the Jesus Joseph not Jesus grandpa, but Joseph's dad it was Jacob. Okay, so it goes Abraham then Isaac and then Jacob and then Joseph You know, they said father Abraham had many sons and many sons had father Abraham Kind of lazy songwriting now that I think about it But they should have written a song about Jacob because he managed to have 12 sons. How does that compare to Abraham? I don't know.

Twelve sons without a girl or probably what's probably more accurate is this Jacob guy was prodigious. There were no concerns about his sperm count. I'm betting that he had a bunch of daughters But because it's the Bible and a very patriarchal society or book P-A-T-I

A-R-C-H-A-L patriarchal That the ladies just don't even get mentioned That would be right in line, wouldn't it, buddy? The ladies never get mentioned. There should have been a whole Bible book just for the ladies. I mean, you got Esther and Ruth, but even then, Ruth, it's like, or I don't know much about Ruth, I guess her husband was like, have an eye or some guy who goes off to war

and dies. I don't know. He was a Mennonite or something. have an eye or some guy who goes off to war and dies. I don't know, he was a Mennonite or something. But Esther, even, you know, it's, you got basically one woman in that book, Esther, and then everyone else is a dude. You got Jesse from Breaking Bad, and you got Haman. We were just talking about Jewish cookies last week or the week before in the Bean Tom podcast. Hamantaschen.

H-A-M-E-N-T-A-S-C-H-E-N. My Jewish friends out there can correct me if they need to. And there's probably, I don't know, who was the king in Esther? Did she have to like marry the king and then murder him to become queen? How did Esther get elected? I don't really remember what happens in Esther, but I was always more of a VeggieTales Esther fan because it introduced the island of perpetual tickling, which is silly and childish, but hilarious, nevertheless.

Let's see that was Maples Minute. Before we go any further I do want to say thank you to our good friends at the Samson Q2U series. Maybe Samson was married to Ruth. Maybe that's how this all lines up. Probably not. I think Sampson maybe was kind of like a bachelor and then there's this very sexy lady who like cuts his hair. Delilah I think her name was. Hey there Delilah, what's it like in New York City? Talk about a banger. Plain white tease. A tease is exactly what Delilah did to Samson. That's probably why they called it that song or the name of that band,

the plain white tease. I don't know if Delilah was really white, though. I feel like she was probably more, I don't know, Israeli, Palestinian, Jordanian. You know, you get all this stuff in the Middle East, and you hear about, you know, Lebanese women or people in general are lesbians or Syrians or us Syrians, Israeli, Palestinians. Frankly, we're kind of all Iraqis, Saudis, Arabians, Arabs.

You're kind of all dancing around Turkish, but you never hear about someone being Jordanian. Am I way off in that assessment? Am I missing something obvious? I feel like I've heard about people, whether it nationality or ethnicity, whatever, it's like, oh yeah, I'm a lesbian, or I'm from Lebanon or

Turkish obviously, you know, they've got their own baths. They've got their own delights, but I never hear about Saddam Hussein, he was Iraqi. I never hear about Jordanians and Assyria versus Syria What happened because Assyria you had it in the Bible, Syria you have it now, what happened in the last 4,000 years or whatever for us to drop the A and the S? This would have been a great question for biblical investigations. I should write this down for next time we do it.

There's no way to know. The scholars are befuddled. All this is to say, Samson Q2U series, when God speaks, he uses a Samson. And of course, our good friends at Cuts by Q did a little shave this morning on the neck, in the back of the neck, and the, you know, sometimes the hair on my, or on my nips grows crazy so you got to take care of that you got to attend to it you you tend to it and you attend to it I would frankly recommend both when it comes to shaving your body

here and of course you always want to trust the experts at cuts by Q when you need a fresh do something snappy or new just call the experts at cuts by Q815 298 7200. I got a spam, maybe it was spam, I don't know. It was from an iMessage. It was blue on my phone. Usually when you get spam texts, they're green. So maybe they're just getting more advanced to evolve, but it was like, Steven, is this you?

And I was almost obliged to respond back and say Steven is my father Please call me Quinn, but I didn't the whole thing with these spam Texts is The way they get you is just by you responding that's when they can like confirm that you got a real number and then they Sign you up for Bitcoin scams or something like that. I don't really recall exactly what the strategy behind scamming or spamming or anything like that is,

but nevertheless. Second time we've used nevertheless in the last five minutes. It's pretty impressive. 17 letter words. I've just got some random other thoughts here. No real cohesiveness to today's program. So bear with me And then we've got some main trivia if you will First thing I literally got what five random thoughts for you here

Who knows how long each one of these will take I am a little bit on the lower energy Who knows how long each one of these will take I am a little bit on the lower energy spectrum Right now because I woke up ran nine miles then took the dog for a walk and then did dog training and then went to the farmers market and the dog was being weird there and all that before about 9 30 a.m. So We're just kind of coasting kind of cruising Cruising right along to new team to do to do which brings me nicely into my next point So I'm not going to talk about the magic school bus theme song

but let me ask you something if if you thought of the magic school bus, would you guess that the person who's saying that was school bus, would you guess that the person who's saying that was white, black or other? And I don't know the answer to this, but it dovetails into my point I'm trying to make here. So before I make that point, let's just look this up to see who sang the magic school bus theme song says this by piano kingdom. Right on the Magic school bus is the theme song of the Magic school bus franchise This is from Magic school bus dot fandom comm by the way, so you know, it's legit Performed by little Richard. Okay. So actually I think I knew that I I

Watched an episode or two of Magic school bus like three or four months ago and I actually knew that that was the case. So it makes sense right in my mind of thinking and listening thinking okay that's a black person singing it and it is there was little Richard rest in peace. Same principle applies but we're going we're gonna twist it for you. I just discovered this two minutes before we started recording I don't remember how I even stumbled upon it, but think of the Family Matters theme song or if you're more of a Full House kind of person or a Fuller House kind of person, you can think of that as well, but I'm a Family Matters guy. As days go by, it's the tend to live with a family.

Or of course, Full House, however that that goes I can't even remember right now But in my mind for 30 years. I've always just assumed. Oh, yeah That was definitely a black guy who sang those songs turns out that's false guys name was Jesse Frederick he did all the theme songs for the whatever it was NBC TGIF back in the 90s. And this guy is just a white male. I would have put pretty good money, I'm not a gambler, but I would have put pretty good money on the guy who sang the Family Matters theme song, Being Black. And maybe it's just as you're listening to this song and you're

watching clips of Reginald L. Johnson and Beverly something, I don't know, there's got to be a Beverly in that show, right? And Jaleel White and you're watching them do all sorts of hijinks, riding like a tricycle through the kitchen and slipping on a banana peel, coming down the stairs and you know, and then they're all sitting on the couch enjoying each other's company. You know how these theme songs go. But this guy who sang these theme songs was white

and I don't know, it raises a very interesting point about like, you know, white voice versus black voice. And of course there's the great film, Sorry to Bother You by Boots Riley, that kind of comments on this whole concept. I know it's very interesting. I don't have a particular opinion or stance to take, but I was just shocked to learn that this singer,

Jesse Frederick, was a white man. If you thought I was kidding when I said I got random topics for you to close out the show I wasn't. Next up, every once in a while like once every two or three weeks I go down a big Facebook rabbit hole and when I say big I mean like I'm on it for more than two minutes because usually I'll go to Facebook like once a day just kind of out of pure habit And then after 30 to 60 seconds, I'm like what what am I doing here? I think I can't live like this but I went down a brief Facebook rabbit hole and I think it was because someone popped up in my friends you may know and

I didn't know who the person was but I saw I had like two mutual friends and I noticed in their profile picture that they were in that picture with someone who I from from the Christian and the homeschooling community that I grew up with. So I clicked into this person's profile and thank God they had one of those Facebook feeds where you can like see everything that's going on because a lot of people these days, probably myself included, I don't know when you're not friends with them, it's like you can only see, oh, so and so updated their profile picture in 2018. It's like, this is boring. But I'm happy to announce that I frankly, I thought

this whole concept was generally dead. And I think it's just because, well, now I'm learning it's maybe it's just because I outgrew it and I stopped using Facebook and stopped having arguments on the internet. But if you thought Facebook political arguments were a thing of the past, I am happy to announce that these are alive and well because I got into a rabbit hole as I mentioned in this person basically I Learned is now engaged to So I don't know the woman but she's engaged to a male who is part of a very conservative Christian homeschooling family classic You know back in the day it was Reagan and Bush and now it's mega and Trump and all that fun stuff the evolution of the Republican Party So my assumption was that anyone from this family any one of their?

Spouses SOs anything like that would be part of this right-wing craziness and to be fair I didn't get a sense of any of this either way from the the person I knew but this guy's fiance like all of her comments on posts and her posts and all that stuff were all public and she is super left-leaning and very anti-republican, very anti-Trump, which was of course like partially a breath of fresh air because it subverted my expectations, but then I saw some great comment battles that she was in with her, you know, now or future father-in-law. So the patriarch of this conservative family that we knew growing up who was from our hometown. And it was just, it was very refreshing, not even refreshing, just scintillating to see

a Facebook argument play out. You know, this was like this week it happened or last week or something like that. I thought thought this stuff I thought people had largely just a gotten so polarized so black and white that there just wasn't that much to argue about or like common ground any anymore or anything like that but be just with Facebook feeling like it's largely dead and I think that's partially true partially it's just me but there definitely are people out there who are still all over Facebook. And so it was wild. I hadn't seen or thought of like a Facebook politics argument in years. That was such a big part of, not big part of like my childhood or the way I spent my time, but it was just like, yeah,

back in Facebook when it was, when it, when it was in its heyday, like when I was in high school, let's say so like 2010 2011. That was just there were Facebook arguments happening all the time, especially because I grew up in such a right leaning conservative community. And so the occasional left leaner, whether it was myself, someone from my family, or the one or two other liberals we may have known growing up. It was just a blast from the past. So Facebook arguments still happening to this day. And if anyone from my circle is curious who it was, just me a message I'm happy to let you know

it's not necessarily juicy or anything but in case you do want to know next up this is going to be brief because I don't have much to say I could go into a whole rant I don't even want to it's not worth the time or the energy Jojo Siwa Made headlines like about spring of last year because she did the whole she came out with a music video. What was it? Karma's a bitch. And she dressed up like Gene Simmons and had this just very strange dance thing going on. And then she performed at Chicago Pride last year and then fall came and she kind of went away. Well, she's on. And then she performed at Chicago Pride last year and then fall came and she kind of went away. Well, she's back. And she has released a cover first, like last week she threatened to release a cover of Bette Davis I. She released like a 15 second

clip and then I guess I chose the word threatened very carefully. And then she actually released the full cover and Betty Davis eyes is one of those songs. That's not the focus of this, but I don't know much about it I know it by name, but I don't really know the song or the original singers like Kim Cattrall or something like that I don't know but Jojo Siwa comes out with a cover of the song this week and releases it Much to the chagrin of the entire universe. And you just gotta go listen to it. It's like two and a half minutes. The first 30 seconds you'll be thinking to yourself,

oh, this seems like a perfectly normal way of singing. And then the beat drops and it's, the best video I saw was, you know, comparison. So 15 seconds of her and then 15 seconds of something else. The other 15 seconds, it was this Elsa doll from Frozen singing Let It Go, but it was like the batteries were dying. You've probably seen the Billy Big Mouth Bass videos where the batteries start to go and he's singing, you know, Al Green, Take Me to the River and

Take me to the river, drop me in the water. And that's essentially what we're what's going on with this frozen toy and The person compared the two and it was shockingly similar. It's like Scooby-Doo singing almost. It's just very bizarre. I don't I'm not even here to to judge Jojo Siwa because she's just not in my same like circle of existence Other than the occasional internet clip I see of her. And you know what? I'm going to do this crappy podcast once a week

and JoJo Siwa is going to do bizarre covers of Bette Davis' Eyes on her own. And that's fine, we can do our own things. But it's pretty shocking. That's Jojo Siwa. Two other very quick things. This morning for the first time ever I figured out why the musical Evita is called Evita because it's about, I knew it was about Ava Perrone and up until now I was like, yeah,

I wonder why they call it Evita. And so I was singing Don't because we were, I was in bed with Rachel after my run, after my shower and stuff. And Maple was whining. And so I instinctively started singing Don't Cry For Me Argentina, Madonna, classic. And I was changing up the words, you know, Don't Cry For Me, Maple, Tina. And then of course I had to come over to the laptop and listen to the actual song. So I was just reading a little bit about Evita and Eva Perón, because I really don't know

much about either. And all of a sudden, as I'm reading the plot synopsis or whatever on Wikipedia of Evita, I'm like, oh, it's called Evita because her name was Eva and Evita is like a whatever you'd call it in Spanish, diminutive, which sounds negative, but just like a cutesy way of saying her name Evita Abuelita right? That 30 years of existence Just clicked for me today, so

This is a safe space being town podcast where we get to share our embarrassing thoughts now. I know why it's called Evita The more you know. And then finally today was the Big Ten 10k which I have never participated in. It's down at Soldier Field. I think one year, a couple years ago, I was like, oh this would be perfect. My schedule aligned and then I saw it was like 80 bucks or whatever. And I was just like, do I really want to spend $80 or however much it was to travel down to Soldier Field at 7 a.m. on a Saturday just to run six miles and then have to commute back? One of those things where it's like, yeah, if I got a big group of friends doing it,

then I would do it. But I don't have many Big Ten friends because I only attended a Big Ten school for 12 months getting my master's degree. So I've never actually done it but the Big Ten 10k was today and what what popped up for me a friend's Instagram story maybe it was an ad a sponsored post something like that I don't know but they were wearing all University of Washington Huskies gear down here, the Big 10, 10K. And that just, that triggered me.

Not that I am a Big 10, generally speaking, like gatekeeper or care much about it, but when we're out here running the Big 10, 10K and we're showing up in our Washington Huskies gear and UCLA Bruins gear and Maryland Terps gear. It's just like, what are we doing here? Some things in life need to be sacred. The Big Ten can't have 24 teams.

Even if you're in Nebraska, I'm kind of borderline on that. I don't know what the original big ten group is but in my headcanon Here's where I'm going with it if you if you are part of one of these schools communities And I'm about to list go run your your little 10k have fun If you're not I don't know you can it could be like a big 10 10k If you're not, I don't know. It could be like a big 10, 10K expansion race where it's just for you guys. No one from Wisconsin or Ohio State will show up.

Okay, so all you huskies and Bruins and Trojans, not that one, the other one, and Scarlet Knights, you guys can go have your race and we'll have ours okay so if you're listening here's Quinn attempting to essentially name whatever the original Big Ten is who knows account on my hands Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois Wisconsin, Illinois, Northwestern, Indiana, I think, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, that's eight. Gotta be missing two, you would think. I don't think Penn State is, that's more of like an ACC thing, right? They're newer. Nebraska, definitely not. Iowa, that's nine.

And then someone else. You're going to have to actually look this up if I can't close the deal here. I don't know. Let's go to the Google machine. But to cap that thought, if you're part of one of those schools, then just keep running. But if not, maybe go find your own run. That's my advice today. Okay, let's look, let's see. I think I got nine of the original 10.

Let's see who I missed. The original big 10 refers to the first, oh, seven universities. Yikes. Well, that's going gonna be Google Gemini, so who knows if it's legit or not? I don't know. Let's see what Wikipedia says. The Big Ten Conference, formerly the Western Conference

and the Big Nine Conference. Maybe I did get it right, who knows? Who gets to decide what the original Big Ten was? I guess that's what I'm doing here. Excuse me. Member universities, well okay, that's a list of like 50. How about history? Membership timelines, oh this is good.

Okay, Illinois, these are OGs. Illinois, Minnesota, Northwestern, Purdue, that's who I forgot. Wisconsin, Michigan, and University of Chicago. So I feel pretty good about the 10 I named or the 9 I named and I just missed Purdue. So apologies to the Boilermakers, but frankly if there was ever going to be a Big Ten school that you forgot and didn't mind defending, wouldn't it be Purdue? I mean, let's be serious here. Our trivia question this week is inspired by my sister-in-law who is going to the state of Maine for the first time ever this week. And her boyfriend is going to the ocean for

the first time, which is pretty cool. Not my necessarily the first state I would pick to break your oceanic virginity, but there's nothing wrong with that. Maine in summer, I can't complain about that. What you really should do, you generally, is the New Hampshire coast because it's all of what, 17 miles, something like that. That would be a fun time. But we have a random assortment of Maine-related trivia questions. There's four and a bonus, so let's just go down the line here and then wrap things up. Number one, yes-no question. We don't have that a lot. Was Maine one of the original 13 colonies?

The bonus question is, was it in the Big Ten? No, that wasn't the bonus question. It's a yes-no question. It was the main one of the 13 colonies. The answer is no. And you could probably imagine the bonus question, name the 13 colonies. I did not write these down. So much like the Big Ten, I'm going to have to try to rattle them off the top of the dome. I love that phrase, top of the dome. Okay, what do we got? Keep track with me. Try to go from north to south. Generally speaking, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. What are we thinking?

How did we do? I think that was right. If I messed up, just move past it. That was question one. Here's question two. Remember the Maine was a rallying cry for the US troops during which war? Remember the main your clue was that I think the main what it was a is a battleship or a dinghy or something di

NGHY and it sank in 1898 in Havana. Remember the Maine was a rallying cry during the Spanish-American War. Question number three, the Appalachian Trail ends in Maine as the northern terminus atop this mountain, which is the highest mountain in the state of Maine, and a bonus point if you name the state park that it is in. I have always wanted to climb this mountain. It's going to be tough to get the chance because it is awfully remote and just not like a super casual hike. But the Appalachian Trail ends atop this mountain and bonus point if you can get the State Park right as well. The name of the mountain is Mount Katahdin, K-A-T-A-H-D-I-N, and it is located nestled, if you will, it's definitely nest nestled in Baxter State Park.

Buster Baxter went away and he came back. Buster Baxter went away. A little Art Garfunkel for you on the Bean Town Podcast. We're covering lots of children shows today. We've had Reading Rainbow or not reading rainbow, a magic school bus and now we have Arthur created by Mark Brown, Mark with a C. And then finally our last main question mayonnaise is made from these three ingredients and the third one is more of a general ingredient it can kind of be pick your own adventure. Mayonnaise is made from these three ingredients. I guess the second one kind of is too, because you could use sunflower or coconut or olive, canola.

The answer, the three parts of mayonnaise, it's an emulsion if you're curious. E-M-U-L-S-I-O-N. emulsion if you're curious Emul si on its egg yolk oil and any acid preferably vinegar or lemon juice So there's your main trivia questions this week. That's what I have for you on the bean top podcast. I appreciate everyone Listening if you want a little change of pace go listen to Jojo Siwa Betty Davis eyes and I don't know, have some earplugs handy. Or listen to some Art Garfunkel after

to really kind of get your mood back in line. My name is Quinn David Furness. This is my program, Quinn David Furness Presents the Beantown Podcast for July 12th. I hope everyone is staying safe, staying sane, staying dry. I'll check in on you next time. Bye bye. So so so So Thank you.