Beantown Podcast - Katty Perry joins the Beantown Podcast (01262025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: January 26, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss words he can't define, Katty Perry catering requests, and Feathers McGraw's triumphant return to the big screen

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast for Sunday, January 26th, 2025. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn and this is my program. Quinn David Furnace presents the Beantown Podcast. I am the creator, co-host, and chief dog wrangler. I love those, I love those like things you use they're like a lasso but they're a stick with just a little hoop of, I don't know, rope or whatever on the end and you use them to to wrangle dogs and raccoons and something animal control would have I don't know what the

name of that is if you know email us or send us a message on blue sky social there was a semi viral clip of a coyote inside a local Aldi here in Chicago about two to three weeks ago. But he wasn't just strolling the aisles. He was like in the refrigerated section, not the section with the actual like doors, just where you might go to grab like chicken or something like that. And but he was like all the way behind the shelves and the cops were like pulling him out then they didn't have one of these Wrangle hoops that was the problem they didn't have a Wranglematic 3000 so if you're gonna approach a wild animal and in Aldi or an HEB or any other establishment,

tractor supply plus, make sure you get a Wranglematic. What's going on? Thank you to everyone for supporting our show now in its eighth season. And of course, thank you to our good friends in Pakistan for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the great Islamic Republic of Pakistan It's been a while since we got an email with an update on the stats or the the listenership

Numbers, so it'd be great to get an update there I have to go back and see who sent us whom sent us that email in the first place We did receive an email from a little bit of a, let's just say, celebrity. And we're going to mention it in a second here. A brief email, not quite as juicy nor lengthy as the infamous Rock Chris experience from many years ago, whatever that was. I think that might have been season one of the show. But a celebrity with maybe even more pull, P-U-L-L than Mr. Rock Chris. We'll get to that in a second here. Hyderabad Karachik, Hyperpass,

and all across the world. Thanks for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in Pakistan. We're joined today, co-host Maple, Lil on edge, cause mom left a few hours ago and didn't take her with to a basketball game. Maple you got any thoughts on that? He's doing that thing where you bend over and nibble on your tail. What do you think? Nothing. Well you

do your little sneezes after I pull the mic away. People want to hear from you. Last chance. Interview with the dog. Interview with the co-host. Anything buddy? And she just hopped off the couch. That tells you how she's feeling today. But we'll go for a little walk here and get some sunlight.

What else is going on? It's January 26th. New Trump era. Zero Hour is here. Maybe the last show of January. Not the last show. The last show of dry January, technically speaking. I'm extending it though. Distending. There's a word that I don't know what it means. You know these words and I help Rachel frequently with her New York Times crossword puzzles, especially when we get to these Friday, Saturday, Sundays, they're a little bit lengthier, a little bit more challenging. And I just feel like, you know, when you reach a certain age, as an adult, I'm 29, almost 30,

there's like an expectation that there's just, you kind of know what words are supposed to mean like most of them, but I'll be honest, I'll be upfront and transparent with you. There's plenty of words out there. I just don't know what they mean. And they pop up and you just kind of go through the motions and you never really know what they mean distended I don't know it sounds like extended but it's distended when they came up in Rachel's crossword puzzle last night arcane a RCA and he kind of sounds like arcade but I don't know what arcane means it kind of sounds like archaic old old, dusty, but I don't think it means that either. We don't know what arcane means and I've heard the word many times before.

It lends itself to a great Pokemon evolution, Arcane 9, a little bit of a pun action there. So I, using context clues, I would guess it's, he's maybe aggressive, mad, cranky because this is like a big fluffy dog who can learn flamethrower and fire blast and he'll really knock you on your behind. Listening discretion is advised when you're listening to this show. Number one location some language number two this podcast is objectively terrible. Other words that it's just like yeah they've they've, they've been used many times, but you don't actually fully understand what they mean.

A classic one for me is benevolent. To me, that's like, you're kind of like kind, but you're like removed from the situation. You're removed from the kindness. Malevolent is much more like angry, aggressive. Benevolent is kind of the opposite of that. Maybe calm, laid back, like a gentle breeze. I think that's what benevolent means, but we don't have a dictionary in front of us. Email us, bean town podcast at yahoo.com. Again, that's bean town podcast at yahoo.com. Let us know some other words, where

it's like if someone held a gun to your head and asked you to describe it, you'd be taking just an educated guess. I feel we spend so much time as a society these days pretending we know what all the words mean and what all the words are supposed to mean. But really, we all just use the same 70 to 75 words over and over again.

And we never get outside of our vocabulary comfort zone, V-O-C-A-B-U-L-A-R-I-C, vocabulary comfort zone. Which totally made me forget I still gotta do my Duolingo today, keep my streak going. I'm on day like 385 or something now. I'm on day like 385 or something now. I'm hot. That little owl is keeping me in line. That bujo, el bujo as we would call it in Espanol. Yeah, I don't know, Maple, any other words? You got a lot of words you don't understand. You understand stay about 25% of the time. So on a good day you can define it and otherwise you can't.

Stop whining you get about 10% of the time. Maybe it's because there's two words involved there. Other words, we'll come back to it if we think of anything. Candelabra, is that just like a fancy word for a chandelier? It's the name of a Led Zeppelin song from their last full album I think they did before Bonham died in through the outdoor. Candelabra, that's a good one. Alright, Maples Minute. What do you got today for us, Maples? She wants us to know, this

was something I was going to use last week and it actually would be more appropriate to use in two weeks, but we're just going to go with it here. Maple believes, this is kind of a crossover with our hot take of the week, but Maple's Minute today. Puppy, the Puppy Bowl, which is of course, you know, Super Bowl Sunday. You go to Animal Planet or Nick Jr. or whatever they put it on. And it's just like three hours. It's kind of hard to explain. The Puppy Bowl, it's not a game. It's not an advertisement. There's no official rules.

Everything is very loose. I would love to meet like the producer of the Puppy Bowl because the whole thing is just kind of confusing. It's a little bit perplexing. You got like your starting lineups, right? And each one of these dogs they show is adaptable from some shelter in Los Angeles or something. And they're like playing on a turf field that's about 10% the size of a standard football field. This whole thing is not Maples Minute by the way, this is Quinn's Musings, it's a separate separate segment. To finish Maples Minute she believes the Puppy Bowl is biased and

you have to have a cool football related name like Saquon Barkie in order to get drafted. If you're just Maple it's kind, well, you have a chance at the CFL Puppy Bowl, but in America, mm-mm. No, no, no way, man. So, Maple believes the Puppy Bowl is biased. But it's like, you bring out your starting lineup, there's like four dogs on each side. It's shirts versus skins, I think.

So, at least you can tell whom is who, who is who. Who made who? who are you? ACDC they did the soundtrack. This is a great deep cut That song who made who I think let's let's triple check this Before I Google it I want to see how close my memory is I think Who made who it's an ACDC album and that's the lead single from it, but it's the soundtrack to a movie that Stephen King made, not like, you know, Misery or The Shining where they made a movie based off of a Stephen King novel or a story, but Stephen King actually made the movie and it's called, it's something something it's like Maximum Overdrive or

something like that I don't know anything about this movie but the fact that it's an AC DC backed score or a soundtrack not really a score I can't really see Angus and Malcolm Young sitting there on finale getting the clarinet part just right they're more pure rockers rest in peace Angus. Okay so what is it actually called maximum overdrive? It's something about like cars and AC DC. Stephen King film and again I don't know anything about this and this is all kind of conjecture at this point because I don't remember if this is actually what it is. Okay, let's see adaptations of works. That's not what

I wanted. Let's just Google who made who. And if this is all completely wrong, it's going to be a big embarrassing waste of time. Okay. who made who is a soundtrack? album by Australia hard rock band AC DC released 1986 oh look at this do the memory holding strong when you don't give me an edible You don't give me a glass of whiskey by the way, just drinking pure tap water today Not even sparkling water saving my can of sparkling water and maybe a cup of tea For high tea and the football games later today we'll get to our picks soon here in the episode which wasn't on the agenda but I figure might as well it is the soundtrack to the Stephen King film

maximum overdrive is that what I think I said maximum overdrive which is a crazy pull because I've never seen it before. So, okay, so the album, oh, recorded from, get this, this is all from Wikipedia, recorded between January 1976 and December 1985. That's a full 10 years. Two singles from Who Made Who were Who Made Who and You Shook Me All Night Long. So it's kind of a compilation of things that they put together. It's got, here's the track listing if you're curious.

It's a, you could just turn this one on and you got, it's like a greatest hits album almost. You have Who Made Who, which if you don't know is a pretty solid DC song. You Shook Me All Night Long, DT which is an instrumental, Sink the know is a pretty solid DC song. You shook me all night long. DT, which is an instrumental. Sink the Pink is a classic. Ride On, my favorite Bon Scott song, Rest in Peace. Hell's Bells, Shake Your Foundations.

Ay-ya-ya-ya, shake your foundations. Chase the Ace is another instrumental, and for those about to rock, we salute you. So it's like pulled from other albums. They didn't write a bunch of new material. I think Who Made Who may have been one of the few that they actually wrote for this. But Maximum Overdrive, let's stop here for a second, is a 1986 American horror film written and directed

by Stephen King in his only directorial effort. It stars Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, and Yardley Smith. There's a name. Y-E-A-R-D-L-E-Y. Yardley Smith. She stars as the voice of Lisa Simpson on The Simpsons. Who would have thought? The screenplay was loosely inspired by and loosely based on King's short story Trucks, which was included in the author's first collection of short stories, Night Shift, and follows the events after all machines, including trucks, radios, arcade games, arcane games, vending machines, etc. become sentient when Earth crosses the tail of a comet, I can't read today, comet initiating a worldwide killing spree.

So the arcade games are coming after Emilio Estevez, sounds like. Budget of 9 million, it made 7.4 at the box office, so that's not great. Let's see. Anything else? Oh, it was nominated for two Golden Raspberry awards, including Worst Director for King and Worst Actor for Estevez. But they both lost to Prince for Under the Cherry Moon. Here's another. You want to talk celebrities? Like famous people that I feel like I know

much less about than the average person. Maybe not the average person my age, but you know, you take someone 20 years older than me. Prince was just like a really big deal. He was, he was everywhere. He was kind of like Katy Perry, which spoiler alert, I got an email from this week. We'll talk about it in a second here. But when I think of Prince, all I think of is like Minnesota, purple, purple rain, when doves cry and his little symbol. And there's so much more to Prince. There's like movies, his whole like ethnicity question. And I've just not plugged in.

Prince is one of those people, rest in peace, who I just do not know very much about. And not to be menace or besplurge his name in any way not taking a stance on this I feel like he's kind of fallen his his influence or presence is not terribly strong in Modern pop culture, maybe that's inaccurate. I don't know we'd have to sit down with You know babyface McGee, what's your name? the Irish guys

girlfriend the espresso espresso lady, whatever her name is and Sir Sheronan. No, it's what's the name of the lady who? Sings pink pink country club. Oh Beautiful boys. It's not Sir Shereronin. Chaperonin. Chappell, I think it's just Chappellrone. Or What's it? Sabrina

Carpenter. She's got the name of a Pokemon gym leader. Not the gym leader with RK9. That's Blaine to tie things all together here. We'd have to or you know, Fat Nause X, whatever, there's like a Lil Nas, there's a Lil Nas X, and I think there's a Fat Nause X too. We'd have to sit down with them. Or the newest, you know, music star, Timothée Chalamet, musical guest on SNL last night, which I have not seen yet. But we'd have to sit down with them and ask, hey, what influence has Prince had on your music? To really be able to make a judgment here. But, you know, at the old Redmond's Bar down there at the corner of Sheffield and what was that? Roscoe?

Excuse me. Under the Brown Line flyover, it was the like OG best Vikings bar in Chicago. Went there for a handful of games when I first moved back to Chicago from Baltimore. They would always play purple rain right before the game started. And then again, I think at halftime, but man, those, those were crazy games in there. It was standing room only really hard to order at the bar because there's just like a million people there. And I think the last time I ever went

was their Vikings playoff game win over the New Orleans Saints in whatever that was, 2019, I think it was 2020 calendar year, 2019 season there with my brother Walt. Big win in overtime. Kyle Rudolph pushed off the Saints' cornerback and caught the game winning touchdown. calendar year 2019 season there's my brother Walt big win in overtime Kyle Rudolph pushed off the Saints cornerback and caught the game-winning touchdown Kirk Cousins only playoff victory what a what a what an athlete but where were we we were talking Prince how did we Oh maximum overdrive where they're golden

raspberries yeah so so who made who which in turn came from the Puppy Bowl, was the soundtrack to Maximum Overdrive. Little bit of a sidetrack there. I mentioned, let's do this here, because our game picks will tie nicely into today's trivia question. So let's save that for the second half. I did want to mention here before we shout out our sponsors and get to our hot take of the week and our trivia question

and all that fun stuff, we did receive an email from a very high profile celebrity here. And I wanted to read this live on air. Now, I should mention that I already spoiled that Katy Perry. It's not 100% confirmed that it's the actual Katy Perry because much like Rock Chris, where it's kind of like, okay, if you can sort of read between the tea leaves here, you can tell it's actually more than likely Chris Rock, sort of using a pen name like E.B. White, for example, or D. example or DB Cooper or Prince what's

his actual name Stephen Judge Judge Kins Morris Judge Lind Morris Jugglund Jug Juggs Lind Morris no that's Stevie Wonder which very quick aside when when we do maple separation anxiety training you step out, step out the door, 10 seconds come in, step out for 30 seconds come in, step out for 5 minutes come in, all that fun stuff. The research that I have encountered says that reggae music is the one type of music that dogs can really respond to or it just like clicks for them and nothing else does. Not even music by Katy Perry, which we'll talk about in a second here But so the the the radio station I listen to is reggae covers

So it's not traditional like Bob Marley songs It'll be like in too deep by some 41 reggae cover or heard it through the grapevine Marvin Gaye reggae cover or who made who ACDC reggae cover for the Jamaican remake of Maximum Overdrive. It was called Maximum Overdrive Mon. The other day, you get a lot of repeats on this channel, but there's a reggae version. This all comes back to Stevie Morris, Stephen Judge Porkins Morris. Reggae cover of Boogie on Reggae Woman, which I used to have, you know, when I was a kid, high school, whatever, you get all your music by getting CDs from the library, inserting them into your computer,

transferring the files, the mp3s over to your iTunes and then loading those onto your mp3 player. That's how we got music as kids. And I had a Stevie Wonder Greatest Hits CD, probably had 12 songs in there, something like that. And so it's not like every Stevie Wonder song that I know comes from that album. There's plenty of great Stevie songs that weren't on that album. But those particular songs on that album is what I'm trying to say have a special place in my heart. Anyways, Boogie on Reggae Woman, such a banger.

Dude, this song is amazing. And I knew that. This is not a new revelation for me. But I heard it this week, the Reg cover and I have not I had not heard that song for probably a Decade is too aggressive, but like five to ten years Never heard that song or had not heard that song That song slaps so hard. So that's our bean town

Pick of the week reggae cover or og by Stevie Wonder or there's a great both Peck who is a band I don't know a ton about. They kind of came up through like Michigan School of Music like a year or two before I was in college. And I know some of my friends really like them. I just don't know much about them. But I discovered a Wolf Pack cover of Boogie on Reggae Woman which is excellent. And man, that song just could listen to that on, you know, like repeat or give me like a 20 minute version of it. Just that beat, that groove. Oof. It's so it's just the piano, the drums, and the little clavichord or whatever,

whatever Stevie would call it, and a bass. He gave me those four and just like, oof, little harmonica here and there. Man, those I don't I don't know if it was all his music I don't think it was but I know for certain that superstition it is this way where Stevie actually would just read he just the ultimate businessman he just recorded every single part himself in the studio separately and then put it together that That's, dude, that's something we would do here at Beantown Network, something we have done here at Beantown Network when we release our singles. Stevie has slightly more talent than I do in that regard. Less

eyesight but a lot more talent. And he's got a cool pen name Stevie Wonder. What if we had a pen name for the, instead of Quinn David Furness, it was Quinn Tremendous. How about that? That's maybe even better than Stevie Wonder. Anyways, on Friday, we got an email, not from Katy Perry, but from Katty Perry. K-A-T-T-Y, no cap. And the subject line in all lowercase is catering services inquiry

with an E. This is this harkens back to the whole Scott Farrell, like school of pseudo British English, which may be Katy Perry is this Katy Perry is British, I think the real Katy Perry is from like Florida or Georgia or something. But she's married to Orlando Bloom who is British. So maybe she's sort of taken on the mantle, if you will. But no, Scott Farrell is always spelling in his book, which you can find book on tape. I guess it's not really on tape. It's just an mp3 file on my YouTube, but it's hidden because Scott is very litigious I don't know how legal it is to record someone's book as an audiobook and put it online. I just

Not even like oh, that's probably legal. I just have no idea and I don't want YouTube to DMCA me Whatever that stands for So it's hidden, but if you want to listen to it, email us, Bean Town Podcast at yahoo.com. Put Ree, R-E, colon, Katy Perry in the subject line and I'll see it right away. Because I'm always looking for mail from celebs. But Scott would always spell inquiry with an E or I'm trying to think of other classic ones, favorite with an OU, color with an OU. Instead of filling up his car with gasoline, he fills it up with petrol. And it's like, this guy, it's not like he is like from England

or went to like some weird British school that they would have in like little, what do they call it, interested development when he's dating Charlize Theron. It's like little Britain. And they do the pop-ins every day at 4 p.m. or whatever. You know if you like grew up in a weird society like that. No he like is from Rockford. Rust Belt, not Rust Belt, but like industrialized droopy little town in the 80s and 90s. How did he, why like why is he half British sometimes? It's a whole thing is challenging to explain I Have found his this makes me sound like a stalker though, but I just like checking in on Scott because he deactivated his Twitter

He's only on blue sky social now kind of like the bean town podcast. I have found his church that he plays at on Sundays in Seattle except he's like, I don't even want to get into the weeds on this. They have like a regular organist on staff who's like on their website. He's got his headshot and everything, that guy. And then Scott is like the backup. He'll play like the special music that they put on once every other month, so far as I can tell. So I don't know if he's making like 20 bucks of service off of that. It's one of those churches, you know, they do the live stream every Sunday morning.

In fact, it's happening right now, I would imagine. We'll go check in on it after this. But it's just, it's the modern day, you know, 2025. If you're not in a mega church, there'll be like 20 people in the pews. And it's just, it's kind of sad. I don't want to say that in a demeaning way. It's just kind of like, I don't know. I guess Jesus said in the Bible, where there is more than one, many shall gather. I think in Proverbs he mentioned. So who knows?

This is the actual email from Caddy Perry after 20 minutes of setting up. Hello and how are you doing? What I like here, I'm just noticing now is a question mark and a period. Hello and how are you doing? I would like to know, double space, if you still offer catering services? Question mark period. And that's the whole message. So what I appreciate about Caddy is she jumps right to the plot. Caddy, that's the name of Lindsay Lohan's character in Mean Girls, Caddy, Caddy Perry. That got me thinking, you know,

we have never offered catering services through the Beantown Network. There's a whole, you get into food and beverage, there's a lot of things with liquor licenses and insurances and you got to get those little bunsen burners to put under the The dishes to keep them warm on the buffets. It's a long line of red tape is what I'm getting at But If we're not gonna get into catering services What if the bean towns, and this works well because we actually did this sort of thing on a very, very small level years ago when we first got the podcast going. What if we did consumer reviews?

I did a software test for a certain consumer reviews company that will remain nameless here for the sake of the NDA that I didn't sign, but still. And that got me thinking, I literally, I had a dream three nights ago about a French press coffee maker and it reminded me, yeah, I've had a French press coffee maker, not because I love French press coffee so much that I went out and bought one for myself but because back in the day there were a handful of products where it's like a company reached out you know this is like a team or a posh mark that that type of thing thread up they would reach out to me on Instagram you know when the podcast was new basically taking a gamble on being on podcasts. If nothing

happens, we send you one item, it costs us 15 bucks, whatever. But if it blows up and all of a sudden you're a big sponsor for us or a big endorser rather of our French press coffee maker, then that's a good investment on our behalf. So I've received in the past, this is like six years ago, something like that, a French press which I have, which I've been using the last couple days after being dormant with it for years, but I gotta say it's it's been worth it. I've had some good cups of coffee the last couple days. A bath pillow which is no longer with me literally a pillow that you stick

Unlike the the back of your bath, whatever you would call it not the floor But where your back would rest and it's got suction cups. I never actually used it cuz I'm not a bath guy I used it once and for an ad I Gotta have that video on my phone somewhere. I don't know. It's not in like my camera wall So I guess it would live on somewhere. I don't know. It's not in my camera roll, so I guess it would live on Facebook. I don't know. I thought there was jewelry involved at some point, but I could not tell you where it is.

But it's been a while. I think people, ads, and our sponsor partners have sort of given up on the Beantown podcast, unfortunately, but you know some folks, oh, but I was gonna know, some folks, oh, but to, to, to, I was going to transition seamlessly into our ads here, but I do want to finish up this story. Katty, I will respond at a later date about the catering services. We'll see what happens there. But if anyone wants Bean Tom podcast consumer reviews, we'll add a section

on the website, you just send us a product whether it be jewelry or dog treats with our co-host maple or weighted blankets or I Don't know what else could we test maple sofas just send us one and we'll give it a review and Put it on bean town.com slash consumer dash reports. That'd be pretty fun. A new dog collar, huh, Maple?

A new plushy toy, a new lamb. We'll test all of it. The scale goes from one to five paws. It'll be Quinn and Maple's Consumer Reports. So yeah, get in touch with us, Bean Town Podcast at yahoo.com or like Kaddi did, email us, Bean Town Podcast at yahoo.com. And Kaddi, I will respond when I get the chance. I also have one other person out there that I currently am still deciding how I would like to respond when I was a freshman in college.

I had a very short-lived employment relationship with Lonnie Norwood Jr. who was and may still be the director of the Chicago Children's Choir. He wanted to start his own praise band, Audacious Praise. He was the music leader down at a church at 63rd and King Drive. Take the green line to the end, basically. And we met. We got together in person once or twice at his church. And then the next week, I was going to go down for rehearsal again. And he wasn't there. And I texted him.

He was like, oh, I have food poisoning. I'm not gonna be able to make it out. And then just nothing happened. And then like, I don't know, six months later, he emailed me back and basically said, Hey, sorry, like, this didn't get off the ground the way I wanted to but we're ready to go get things back up and running. Are you are you still in? And I haven't emailed him back yet. That was that would have been probably, I don't know, March or April of 2014. So Lonnie, still thinking of how I should respond.

I will say, I think they moved on, Audacious Praise. Had some hits, not actually hits, but like YouTube videos, probably in like 2015, 2016, like it became a thing for a second, but I haven't seen a lot of action lately. We'll do a YouTube scan in a bit here, but Lonnie, hope you're doing well, brother. I'll email you back shortly. You know who does a much better job at responding quickly and on time? It doesn't wait 11 plus years. That would be our good friends over at Home Pride Oregon. Are you tired of selling your house for less than a quarter of what it's worth?

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yours truly nailed it and no one else even buzzed in that's because I'm very in tune racially kind of across across the color spectrum and musically and and phonetically I don't reallyically and phonetically. I don't really know how phonetically got thrown in there, but it's a fun word to kind of throw in. You don't get to use a lot of pH words in your day to day. Is phonetically a word like arcane that I don't actually know what it means? I think phonetically I would define it as how you spell out the way something sounds.

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You're waiting for mom to come through that door. We're going to go for a nice walk to the park. Oh, that'll be fun. Samson, God speaks he uses. Samson, and of course, you know, this was perfect. I should have added this to the website. There's still time. This past Monday in honor of MLK Day, I gave myself a haircut.

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Just call the experts at cuts by Q. Our hot take of the week. This is an interesting one. So the Oscar nominations came out this past week, I think it was Friday morning. I actually, I've got sort of a sixth sense for this stuff because literally, I think, so I think they came out, I think it was Friday morning, like 7.30 a.m.

Thursday night, I'm literally bumming around thinking like, you know what? We get Timothy on SNL this week. He's obviously promoting his Dylan role But when the heck do these Oscar nominations come on? I think I legitimately Google when do the Oscar nominations come out at about 9 p.m. Thursday night and Learned that they were coming out in like 10 hours or whatever it was. Just like, I got a premonition for this kind of stuff. Another word I might not be able to define. I think I could do premonition. Much better than arcane. Probably similar to benevolent.

And there's a lot we can get to in the Oscars. And we spent, or Oscar noms at least, we spent a lot more time on movies and cinema and the Oscars broadly speaking back in the day. Seasons, you know, like one through four of the show and not so much now. I just don't get out to the theater that much and they're just not plugged in. This year, I feel like you could probably say this any number of years. This year at the very least, and we'll get to our hot take proper in a second here, but the best picture nominations,

there's nine of them, 10 of them, whatever it is, the films on the list feel much less popular, I guess is a good way of putting it, than it has for a long time. And I know it's not like like there's always going to be at least like half the movies are ones where you're kind of like, Oh, what was that? Like I missed that. I don't even know what that is. But here I'll, I feel like, and I know there's been a little bit of a wave of populism in the last couple of years, like Barbie getting nominated and

Blade Runners or whatever it is. And there was a little bit of that this year. I mean, Dune got nominated. But here's the list of best picture nominations for 2025. And we'll get to it in a second. Amelia Perez, which I feel like I just completely blind to. Don't know what it is at all. I know a little bit now that I've done some research But was not on my radar at all complete unknown So it's a Dylan movie that got tons and tons of press and ads and still is You know with chalamet and SNL last night's like people are aware of that one Conclave which was the Ray Fiennes

Pope movie which I feel like if you watch anything on peacock you've seen the advertising there because they're they're the ones who own the They produced it or at least have the streaming rates to it whatever but if you're not on Peacock constantly I haven't seen anything about Conclave. Nickel Boys sounds like a great movie haven't heard of it ever before until Oscar noms came out I'm still here hadn't heard anything about it before Oscar noms came out. The substance, I've only seen from like random clips of, cause that's one where to me more becomes young or something like that and I think it's Margaret Qualley. If I'm thinking of the right thing I've seen like some clips, some gifs on the internet of Margaret Qualley and I

think it's in the substance. But otherwise haven't seen anything. Dune part two is by far the most popular movie on here well not by far because Wicked was also nominated so those are the two like popular movies but then Unora never heard of and the Brutalist I think is like getting some steam and I think what's his face is gonna win. Best actor for it. Whoever that is, it's, God what is that guy's name? Not Ed Norton, is it? The Brutalist, who is in that one? Is it Adrian Brody?

Dead Air? I just wanted to find out, yeah, Adrian Brody. Who I haven't seen, I haven't seen much of. I think Guy Pearce was also nominated. Adrian, Adrian Brody, I think the last thing I saw him in was Succession. He's in like one or two episodes towards the end. But that's the list of best picture nominations. I would argue two of them, Wicked and Dune II, were like very popular movies. One to two of them, maybe the Dylan movie and maybe, I don't know, Conclave or The Brutalists were films that were like pretty well advertised to a certain extent in some form or fashion and then the other five whatever it was we were just movies where I'm like yeah I never

never heard of this one before no idea I feel like it's usually more like one to two popular ones and then four or five ones where it's like oh yeah I saw mention of that but maybe I'll see it maybe I't. And then like one or two where just like, I have no idea what that is. So it's just a lot of, I don't know what the heck that is. I admittedly am very unplugged from the movie watching experience currently.

And if I still live in Baltimore and spent time at the Charles Theater, our nice little independent theater, I'm positive that I would have seen ads at least for some of these other films, but alas here I am. Just me and Maple. Maple's not much of a movie watcher, so hi buddy. You ready to go for a long walk soon? Okay, but here's our hot take of the week if you saw the nominations for best animated Film you would know that wallace and grommet vengeance most foul is on their huge comeback for cinema legends wallace and grommet. I think this is the

What is it like the fifth installment? There's the uh the original The day out or whatever it is, they go to the moon. Everyone knows the moon is made of cheese. And then there's the second one, which we'll talk about in a second here, but the wrong trousers. And then there's the third one, a close shave with all the Serta sheep. Sean the sheep, Serta sheep, they're all in the same sheep-osphere.

And then they had their first feature film, The Were Rabbit, from about 20 years ago. 20, yeah, about 20 years ago. And then Vengeance Most Foul. I think that's all five of them. First three were like short films, last two have been actual theatrical releases. But if you know anything about me, I'm a huge grommet head and a Wallace stan. And the wrong trousers, the second second film has a great villain feathers McGraw. He's a penguin.

He's a jewel thief and he wears a rubber glove on his head as a disguise. And he's legit. He's conniving. He points, he shoots a, he fires off a gun inside of Wallace and Gromit's little Winsleydale cottage. I don't know if they actually live in Winsleydale. I assume that's a real place in England. Not sure.

But, you know, they catch him at the end and I literally just, I love everything that goes into Feathers McGraw. So fast forward to this week I see Vengeance Most Foul gets nominated. I haven't watched it yet. And I'm just like you know what that reminds me of Feathers McGraw. I love that little guy so I do just a quick search for him because I couldn't remember his name and I was trying to explain it or tell it to Rachel. And all of a sudden I realize, and film buffs will scoff at me for this because they've already seen Vengeance Most Foul three or four times, he, Feathers McGraw is back! That's why it's Vengeance Most Foul. He's the bad

guy in Wallace and Gromit 5. It's like when Chomper comes back in Land Before Time, he's introduced in episode 2 and then he's back in episode five. Now he's a friend of the cast, he's not a villain by any means, but our hot take of the week, Feathers McGraw is a top 10 movie villain, making his triumphant return to the silver screen in Wallace and Grom at Vengeance Most Foul. He is just, his eyes are little and beady,

they're cold, they're just pure evil. I don't know what he's up to in Vengeance Most Foul, but he's probably got his eyes on the prize, which is the jewel, he wants that jewel back, and he's probably gonna, for lack of a better phrase, excuse my language, he's probably gonna fuck some shit up with Wallace and Gromit. I don't know if he's gonna poison their Wensleydale cheese.

I don't know if he's gonna put ricin in their tea. We'll throw back to Breaking Bad, spoilers. I don't know what he's got planned. But yeah, Feathers McGraw is back. You think of top tier movie villains. You think Darth Vader. You think Nurse you know top-tier movie villains you think Darth Vader You think nurse ratchet? You would think Hannibal Lecter

That cat From Stuart Little snowball voiced by the incomparable Nathan Lane. Well step aside because we got feathers McGraw once you become the villain in two chart-topping box office features, you're climbing the ranks. Even James Bond, it's like he's got a different villain every time. Although I think Jaws, did Jaws show up in more than one film? I don't know. Not really plugged into the whole James Bond scene. But Feathers McGraw, what an icon icon of cinema there's your hot take of the week and I actually am legitimately excited to see Wallace and Gromit vengeance most foul because I fucking love feathers McGraw that the way he's got a gun he wears a rubber glove on his head he's so badass I can't believe I can't believe they caught him in that little bottle at the end, but he's back. He's back

Okay, we got to finish up with our game picks here It is the commanders at Eagles Eagles. This is off the top my head from Earlier lines in the week I think favored by six and a half and then bills at Chief's chiefs favored by one and a half It was gonna be bills by about six or seven, but then we, you know, Vegas remembered that referees exist. So that gives, that's a touchdown to the chiefs right there. So that bumped it back to one and a half chiefs. I think this is pretty clear. It's a very, you know, black and white dichotomy sort of thing. What I want to happen versus what is going to happen.

Now I will say that I said, I felt that way last week in the playoffs and we still, the commanders got past the Lions, which was a huge upset. So if that's possible, anything is possible, but road teams in conference championship games in the NFL I don't know the stat, but it's they're probably like 25% they win So it's very it's pretty obvious. What is going to happen chiefs Eagles what I want to happen What America wants to happen bills commanders? So we'll see how it goes I am picking

What I I mean, there's no money on this I I think it's going to be Chiefs and Eagles a rem solid cornerbacks and Saquon Barkley. Jalen Hurts is so quietly just terrible. And not in like, what was that guy's name for the Bills for a while? Peterman, Nathan Peterman. Not in like a throw six picks a game kind of way, but just like Jalen Hurts passes for about 120 yards and runs for like 30 yards every game and doesn't take a sack and it's just like this is the worst

thing I've ever watched. But that's what the Eagles like to do, just hand it off to Saquon 30 times and can't blame them it's working. Commanders are just like they have one really good player Jane and Daniels and Terrimon Clark McClaren is decent and then the rest of the team is just like honestly pretty bad and I don't know how they got this far it's it just kind of is what it is I think the magic is going to run out today and then bills cheese I mean the bills are so much more talented than the chiefs but the chiefs got the

the zebras on their side. So it is going to be the ultimate flop fest, flop fest 2025 live from Kansas city. Patrick Mahomes, obviously people have like, I feel like in the last couple of weeks, most of the country has really caught up to where I've been and where some other select people have been on the chiefs and Patrick Mahomes getting all the calls. I mean, there there's there's always been murmurings of that, but I feel like it's really taken national media by attention I saw an a phone that work doing a whole segment on how you're supposed to sack Patrick Mahomes with Kevin Hart It's like two big guys literally like pick him up turn him sideways and gentle gently like lie him down I think they gave him a pillow and a blanket too. So it's like that's how you have to sack him if you don't want to get flagged.

So everyone's kind of caught on to that now. But very quietly on the other side, I like Josh Allen. I'm not in love with him. I don't think I'm not Haley Stanfield. But he flops a lot too. Like way more than he should. Maybe he's just been, maybe he went to the home school of acting this past off season, but no, it's been years that he's been a starter. It's weird, he's like this huge Dante Culpepper-esque kind of quarterback with a rocket for an arm, but he flops more than he needs to, which is kind of irritating. So obviously we'll root for the Bills and commanders, but we'll see. I almost, if it's Bills commander Superbowl, which I think there's a cold chance in hell

of that happening. Even though the commanders have won titles before and the Bills are the Vikings of the AFC, they're 0-4. I don't want to give Josh Allen the mini flopper junior as we would say at Beantown catering. It's because it's like Whopper junior but it's flopper junior. I don't want to give him that satisfaction. I don't want him to flop his way to a ring. I haven't seen him flop much lately frankly but it'd be kind of hilarious to you you know, a rookie quarterback has never even won a conference championship game. So it'd be fun to have Jaden Daniels go all the way and just kind of make the NFL a bitch. Which brings us to our trivia question of the week, which is going to be very straightforward

here. This is going to be like, if you could name all of them, awesome. I'll try to kind of give this to you or introduce gradual clues to make it a little bit easier because unless you were just like a total NFL archives buff, I don't think myself included would be able to like get any or most of these. The question is, so Jayden Daniels City becomes the the sixth rookie quarterback in NFL history to start a conference championship game in the NFL. And so you can see where this is going. My question very simply put is name the other five, the other five rookie quarterbacks to have started a

conference championship game for their team in NFL history. The first clue I'll introduce for you is that they're all from 99 and on. So you don't have to rack your brain to be like, oh man, some random Jets dude from the 60s. No, one from 99 and then the rest are 21st century. Let's see. Trying to think of how to introduce, we could do years. So let's do years next and then we'll introduce teams and then we'll just do it. So again, there's five total before Jayden and Daniels. So the years, 1999 for the first one, second one is 2004, third one was 2008, fourth one was 2009, and fifth one was 2023.

So if you're plugged into the NFL at all, probably not hard to just think back two years and think who it was. I think this was actually the... I'm trying to... Because I say like 2023, or was that calendar year 2023, like January of 2023, or was it the 2023 season in 2024? Thinking about whom this was for 2023, I'm almost positive that it's calendar year. So like January of 2023, the 2022 season, because this was the 2024 season.

And this quarterback, who is still the quarterback of their team, was definitely not a rookie last year. So this was his third season. OK, so again, 9990408092023. Now we will add the teams to this, another layer of clues. 1999 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 2004, and I think these next four, if you are plugged into football at all,

for me at least, I'll say the 1999 Bucks one I probably wouldn't have got. The name is much less famous than these other four I'll give you. So I think the teams on these next ones will give it away. 2004 Pittsburgh Steelers, 2008 Baltimore Ravens, 2009 New York Jets, and 2023 San Francisco 49ers. So each one of these quarterbacks is very much synonymous with their team, with the team that they were a rookie on, with the exception of maybe the first one, which again I'm just not as plugged into this person, but the rest of them are very much like, oh yeah, when I think of this quarterback, I think of this team. In fact, only I think, well, some of them played for other teams, at least one

or two of them never played for another team. Let's just do the answer here. Big reveal. 1999, it was Sean King for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 2004, a single team player is Ben Roethlisberger for the Steelers. 2008, somehow still in the league and started multiple games this year. Joe Flacco for the 2008 Ravens, Delaware's finest. 2009, did not stay in the league very long, definitely bounced around to a couple other teams.

It was Mark Sanchez, if you'll remember Sanchez and the Jets went to the AFC title game in his first two years, and that's the last time they were in the playoffs 2010. I think it was and then without 2023 Brock party for the San Francisco 49ers, the common denominator amongst those five, they are oh and five collectively in NFL championship game starts so there you go six quarterbacks to have ever started a conference championship game in the NFL Sean King Ben Roethlisberger Joe Flacco Mark Sanchez and Brock Purdy guys that's what I had for you today thank you for

listening to my show Quinn David Ferns presents the being done podcast maple and I are gonna go to the park get rays here, and then come back and see if Jane Daniels can break the curse. That's what I have for you guys. So we cue up our outro music here. Thanks, everyone, for listening. My name is Quinn David Furness. This was my show. I hope everyone is staying safe, staying sane, stay warm, stay dry. I'll check in on you guys next time, bye. ["Sick of It"] So So So

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