Beantown Podcast - LinkedIn Lunatics & March Madness Breakdown (03172025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: March 16, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss cringe LinkedIn posts, March Madness schools you've never heard of, and corned beef

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for who knows what day it is. I'll pull back the curtain for you. I'm recording this kind of an oddity here in Beantown land. I'm recording at St. Patrick's Day Monday March 17th just a few days after we recorded our Harrison Ford power ranking show

I'm recording again and dropping this a little bit later in the week I think Thursday morning Thursday the 20th is what I'm gonna target 320 blaze it right right in the start of the tournament March Madness, which we'll be talking about and nausea today Because I'm gonna go through we're gonna not make picks but discuss the teams I've never heard of the schools that never heard of and try to make guesses as to where they are located But recording early knowing this week could get a little hairy if you will just with stuff going on this week could get a little hairy if you will, just with stuff going on and activities

and me and Maple are here on the couch hanging out, mom's away getting a facial. So got to be efficient with your time, right? That's what I've learned in my 30s. I've been 34, not 34, I've been 30, F-O-R, what about 20 hours here? It's about 6.45 p.m. on Monday night, St. Patrick's Day. No beers, no Guinness, Guinness's,

no Guinnai for me, Guinness, or corned beef or anything, which we'll talk about in a little bit on St. Patrick's Day. I do have some quality beer in the fridge. That's what is so tough about this. I have my favorite peanut butter porter from Sockartuck Brewing in the fridge and then I use my birthday coupon from a friend of the show, Spiteful Brewing to get a pigeon porter, one of my favorites. And even have some leftover Christmas beers in there too. I'm locked and loaded loaded i'm looking at the bar card. I got whiskey from two christmas's ago

Whiskey from this past christmas the other whiskey from this past christmas We're ready to party over here, but uh trying to stay trim we got a wedding in What 40 days like exactly 40 days something like that, which is crazy hard to believe It's all coming together Next time you hear from from me. It's the wedding's only gonna be a month away, which is even harder to believe but we're making it happen and it's st. Patrick's Day happy st. Patrick's Day to all who celebrate and Hopefully, I guess it's already been a couple days since st.

Patrick's Day by the time you're getting around to listening to this but we're gonna get you prepped for the NCAA March Madness tournament we will probably not discuss the lesser tournaments like the NIT or the whatever the one DePaul is, DePaul got invited to a 16 team tournament in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand, I think, which is pretty cool. It's like, it's run by Fox Sports, I don't remember what it's called, but a quarter of the teams are Big East teams, because DePaul's in there with Nova, Butler,

and someone else. I can't even remember. Maybe Providence? Not sure. Georgetown, actually. It is Georgetown. It was ironic. Not ironic, but funny when I saw the bracket because DePaul was all the way in the upper

right corner and Georgetown was all the way in the bottom left corner. Literally keeping those Hoyas as far away from us as possible. We want to beat them four times in one season. I don't know if that's ever happened. Probably because of, you know, conference tournaments and stuff and then into the NCAA tournament, but to beat one team four times in a season, holy moly. That would be wild. Listener discretion advised when you're listening to this program, number one will occasionally some some I was going to say some politics. That doesn't really

make any sense. Does it maple? We'll cage you some language number two. This podcast is objectively Terrible and a quick shout out of course to our good friends in Pakistan a great green flag great green country. I'm wearing a green St. Patrick's Day themed at DePaul University shirt right now got to represent You know the boys are gonna need all our support going out there to play in Vegas next week or whenever it is. And Pakistan, Hyderabad, Karachi, Khyber Pass, wherever you're listening from. Thank you for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. And if there are any updated stats, Republic of Pakistan and

If there are any updated stats if we're still 112 if we're for dropping if we're slipping or if we're rising I don't know. I'd love some updated numbers because it's been like two years since we got the call the email Curious what the status is drinking a Mormon coke here got our diet coke and Coconut creamer just a splash guys. You just need a splash You don't want to go overboard Especially because we got some old grout and potatoes night two Waiting in the wings for supper shout out to my lovely soon-to-be wife Rachie M Ramos

for Scaring up you got guys if you're serious about cooking you don't just cook you scare it up Scare is a great cooking related verb That you don't see a lot of these days. I'll scare you up, but you know usually you would use it in a diner like you're much more days I'll scare you up but you know usually you would use it in a diner like you're much more you're probably much more likely to scare up some eggs and hash browns and wheat toast than I don't know filet mignon I feel like yeah

you're probably not gonna scare up a filet mignon but you could definitely scare up au gratin potatoes which is what Rachel did for us last night some au gratin potatoes, sliced real thin. We don't even have a mandolin, so she did it by hand. Listen to the mandolin rain. Listen to the rhythm of your heart. Whatever the lyrics are. Shout out, Bruce.

Hornsby head's just going nuts on the Bean Town podcast today. Horns be heads just going nuts on the bean town podcast today horns be If you're a horns behead email us bean town podcast at yahoo.com again this bean town podcast at yahoo.com Let us know what are your what are your favorite horns be albums or tracks singles whatever you like I've been listening to What is he's got kind of a more somber one The show goes on that's a great great one for the Hornsby heads I knew Bruce Hornsby, you know That's you know, that's the way it is

obviously everyone knows that song but I listened to a lot more of him about this time last year because I was prepping for a friend's wedding that I played music at and one of the options on the table that didn't come to fruition F R U I T I O N was Every Little Kiss by Bruce Hornsby which is a great song but also got spent a lot of time listening to Valley Road which is a good one and then yeah just lately been listening to the show goes on which is really good as well. But Bruce is classic Bruce Where were we I don't even know all over the place Let's get to our Let's see

We'll start with our hot take this week and then we'll say thank you to our sponsors and then pretty much everything else We've got today ties in To the bracket so I don't want to delay that too much especially if you're listening at like 10 a.m. And the game started in an hour, and you're like Quinn I need some I need some advice some insight Some picks well, I won't be able to help you too much there. I did go back for curiosity sake and see how I did last year and actually You know, I picked Yukon which everyone in the country did so not trying to take any credit there

But I did get second in my family bracket, which I was pretty proud of out of like seven or eight people So not bad and the others I think I was like third and sixth and through across You know the other two brackets If I can repeat that this year, that would be great. I will reveal my pick when we get to it because by the time This show is public. It'll either be the start of games on Thursday morning or shortly before not to mention Historically if I tell you my pick there's a good chance you're just going to want to run in the other direction I think last year was potentially the first time I've ever successfully picked the national champion Yukon Huskies and of course it was like the easiest year to do it because they

just decimated everyone but you know what you got to take credit when you can get it Our hot take of the week is something completely different, but it's something worth addressing and something that I I Bounce brush shoulders with a lot more frequently now in my role working in human resources and talent acquisition acquisition than ever before It's let's just put it out there. This isn't a super organized thought We're just gonna get into it and I have something to read. It's it's LinkedIn Okay broadly speaking people on LinkedIn are crazy this whole culture. It's it's a culture thing, right of like the way you write posts on LinkedIn is one of my least favorite things of all time.

And it's very tangentially, I'm just going to briefly mention this, but only tangentially related. There's something just about the way things are written that reminds me of this. But I'm in a two, actually two professional development things right now. And one is offered by a partnership with the University of this other collaborative It's called or that the course is value centered leadership and I did level one like two years ago And I'm doing level two right now. I'm in my last week of the course but

this is a separate complaint, but it's so like high level and Not tangible not concrete at all. It reminds me anything and not tangible, not concrete at all. It reminds me, anything, we're getting into a whole separate world here, but anything like a leadership as a topic or concept just pisses me off to no end. I took a leadership class, a required class, as part of the core curriculum in my graduate degree,

my master's program in education policy and admin. And it was just the biggest waste of time. Plus you had to spend 75 bucks to get this like long PDF from Harvard Business Review printed. The professor who I will not name was not very popular with us. I don't even know what his job title was but he just adjuncted for this one class.

But wouldn't even just like share the digital PDF, kept it for himself and you had to like go to this printing store like a Kinko's and purchase it for $75, which was absurd. There's a video on my YouTube channel of me burning it. That's how much I hated this class. But it's to try to recenter ourselves. It's just like the whole way you talk about things. Flowery is not quite the right word, but it's just so like high level. And basically like how can I say a million things

in three paragraphs without saying, without actually saying something of value or impact? saying without actually saying something of value or impact. So if you're not part of the subreddit LinkedIn lunatics like I am, or if you just don't go on LinkedIn all that often consider yourself lucky because I actually have to as part of my job. In fact it was one of my smart goals this year to manage our LinkedIn brand partnership. But I did something very janky this morning because this is what made me think of it.

And I physically just took a picture of it on my phone of my computer screen, knowing that that would be a quick and easy way to just access this for the show when I recorded. This is not even the most egregious example. In fact, we'll head to LinkedIn Lunatics on Reddit just to see if there's any other recent great examples. But here's what I'm talking about.

The way people write just absolutely pisses me off. These long ass posts on LinkedIn. Here's what it says. I don't even know who wrote this, but they've got a little, you know, you got like the open to work tab as part of your profile image this person doesn't have that there's this hashtag hiring here's what they wrote something else quicksides you that just pisses me off about social media these days in general this post came up on my feed today it was from four days ago I

don't need to see your post from four days ago. It's that thing with Facebook too, whole separate thing. We're not gonna get into Facebook on today's show. Rest in peace, it's dead, it's been dead for a while. But you go to Facebook and it will show you things from a week ago. My Twitter feed does this too. I try not to use Twitter as much these days for understandable reasons. But I'll go to Twitter and scroll through it

And then I'll go back to Twitter like eight hours later thinking okay like it's Twitter the whole point is like let's see What's hot? What's new? What's you know hot off the press and it will just show me the exact same tweets or posts or whatever It's just like you're you're doing a Drew Carey show No Truman show who's? Not Drew Carey show. I was thinking Jim Carey Truman show and then I said Drew Carey and there is a Drew Carey show I've never seen it before I've heard it's very funny Craig Ferguson got his big break there Here is what this person actually posted on LinkedIn

And then we're gonna go to the subreddit and then we'll move on This person writes before I start every interview. I always ask the candidate first if this is a good time to talk Paragraph break a lot of paragraph breaks here after every sentence is a paragraph break that pisses me off, too This could have been just like one paragraph instead of a gal like 12 here Okay, I always ask first if this is a good time to talk why simple This could have been just one paragraph instead of 12. I always ask first if this is a good time to talk. Why? Simple.

Life happens. Period. Due to the insanity of the job market today, candidates don't want to risk speaking up and sharing something is going on. I had a candidate who had some personal family issues happening. I paused the candidate and told them you don't need to tell me all the details. I understand that today is in a good time. Let's reschedule. We rescheduled a few days later. I asked them how they were doing and

if this was a better time. It was and the candidate could put their best foot forward in all caps. They nailed the entire process. They received a job offer and accepted. And then there were like two more paragraphs, but that's as much as my phone could handle. It has nothing to do with the core messaging behind it. You know what? I talk to people on the phone all day, every day for my job.

Not all day, every day, but almost every day. It's what I do in talent acquisition acquisition I always ask I I'm the same way I start off with hey this is a good time to chat about XYZ position whatever I could have written the same thing about a LinkedIn post in 50 words or less and this person took up more than in my entire, I couldn't even fit it all in one screen grab. And it's just the like sudden punctuation, new paragraph for everything. It's basically, I think my perception of it is like, you are basically proclaiming to the world that what I have to say here is extremely important and requires your full undivided

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All right Here we're on Briefly proves because I want to I want to get to the tournament and our trivia question in Maples minute it all relates LinkedIn lunatics Let's see this top one. Oh This is a picture of a woman from behind looking at four monitors. And her ass is just AI enhanced. Let's put it that way. It says Excel is dead. Don't waste time on formulas, functions and complex calculations.

That's not even good because you get it's more of a visual you got to see the booty All right This one is titled. I haven't read this this is from Ken Chang he says his little like He's like tagline. This isn't in his post. It's like under his profile names is I want to connect with you emotionally smiley face That's creepy. I haven't read this. Let's just see what it is. We'll do one or two of these Ken Chang writes I overheard it overheard a new employee saying the words happy Friday today I Oh, this is perfect, which we need a whole show dedicated to this We can have a whole new podcast about LinkedIn lunatics

We're not going to but this would be a good segment to add in except this feels like quality content. Okay, this is actually What Ken Chang wrote presumably this is real I can't vet it. It's just we're gonna go with it starting again. I Overheard a new employee saying the words happy Friday today. I fired her and again This is one new paragraph every time you have to write this way her. And again, this is one new paragraph every time, you have to write this way. This may seem like an overreaction, but frayay, frayaya, and thank god it's friday are anti-work propaganda. When an employee celebrates the end of the working week, it tells me two things.

1. They prefer the weekend to being at work. 2. They do not love me more than their spouse or children. Both are red flags to me. I take any instance of fri-yay as a personal attack. There is nothing worse than two days of stagnation where I'm not working towards KPIs or maximizing shareholder profit.

Show me a worker who loves fri-yays and I'll show you someone who isn't willing to check their work emails while abroad or work on Christmas Day. It's a fri frying no from me. Now I'll say just broadly speaking, that feels pretty satirical. And it looks like it is satirical. But I think that it gets the point across regardless. It's pretty well done. Okay. Here is that's not great something about slavery. We're just gonna avoid that topic. Okay. This is from from Dan Martell and His little tagline is wealth is a shift in perspective And he's got a picture with sunglasses and spiky hair like Sean McVeigh. Here's what Dan Martell writes again new paragraph each sentence Broke people talk about people rich people talk about ideas

Broke people buy distractions rich people buy time Broke people see problems rich people see opportunities Broke people see a loss rich people can see a lesson Wealth is a shift in perspective not a number in a bank account Okay Let's see if we can get one more good one here a shift in perspective, not a number in a bank account. Let's see if we can get one more good one here. Just give me something solid. Okay, well, let's keep going here. LinkedIn's LinkedIn lunatics again is the subreddit again

there's a little bit of everything going on here and You know, it's just quality entertainment. So you got to subscribe. It's my newest favorite subreddit Here's here's the last one, okay, then we're gonna move on This is from Vivek Sulagi, CFP, Turning Financial Chaos into Clarity. My portfolio is more red than my wife on her periods. A friend casually dropped this remark at a recent get together. I replied, that means it demands more loyalty from you to not look elsewhere for temporary pleasure. Look, nobody likes the color red.

But red isn't just a sign of loss. It's a process. It's a transformation. It's a phenomenon. You can't avoid it. Then why fear it? If anything, red demands loyalty. The ability to hold on through tough times instead of chasing fleeting highs. Because one day, this red will turn green. Loss leads to gains. There you go. Red will turn green. Boss leads to gains. There you go. Okay, let's move on from that hell hole. Maples Minute of the Week is just a gentle reminder

when you're going through your bracket, there's a lot of great dog options out there. There's terriers from Wofford. There's bulldogs from all over the place. Avoid anything with cats, birds, loud noises or being alone. Go with the dogs. That's Maples Minute of the Week.

Okay, what we're going to do here is pull up a March Manus bracket, all 68 teams. We're going to discuss the teams I've never, I don't want to say never heard of. There's probably one or two on here I've never heard of. We'll see. But I do want to guess, we've done this before I want To guess where they are physically located Geographically, so we'll go ahead and get our Bracket pulled up here and then the other thing I wanted to do I thought this might be kind of fun

This isn't even our trivia question of the week. We've got a separate one for that But I was kind of curious. What if fun? What if we tried to guess, excuse me, we're not going to be able to like get an answer to this live on the air. But what if we try to guess which two of these programs are geographically the closest? And you can come up with your guess too. And if anyone wants to put in the legwork to actually Check the answer That's great. You can email us but you know, we don't have time for all of that necessarily so here we go here is the

Bracket we'll go region by region and Not gonna read every matchup that's not what I want to do, but I do want to See these teams okay This one of the first four playing games how this bracket is so hard to read why did I pick this app? Oh my god. Do not use ESPN Do not do it. Let's just Google men's bracket You're saying Quinn. Why don't you pull this up before he started recording and I did and I just thought ESPN would be pretty reliable

But it's not let's try Yahoo Sports Yahoo never lets me down Been a Yahoo user Yahoo Yahoo user for 20 years now Since 2006 okay here it is years now. It says 2006. Okay, here it is. Well, this is even worse. God damn it. These things just aren't intended for your phone.

Let's try one more thing. Back to Yahoo. What I wanted, or back to ESPN, what I wanted to do was click on this first for matchup Because no, oh shoot when I do that it it changes my pick to Auburn or it goddamn struggling over here I'll tell you what happened. I was on like the bracket challenge that I actually use for like submitting my picks with money on the line and that sort of thing and I was trying to Click in to one of the first format which is a 16 seed to see what the abbreviation was

But it wasn't it wasn't working but what it was doing was picking that 16 seed over Auburn and That was not I would prefer to not pick a 16 seed over Auburn So let's try one more thing who knew it would be so hard to do this NCAA bracket Okay, you know what? Pardon my language, but fuck the sick fuck the playing games because they're just not showing it to me What if you just showed me there it is thank God okay crisis averted after three minutes of

crisis not being averted okay so the first four couple in here worth mentioning Alabama State I think is in Alabama but I don't think I've ever seen them in the tournament before st. Francis PA or st. Francis Pa is in Philadelphia I'm almost certain I think I used to them at the tournament for st. Francis PA or st. Francis PA is in Philadelphia. I'm almost certain I think I used to recruit at the high school like Partner that they have st. Francis high school And then American that's in Washington DC, I think Is where American is located?

like 98% sure. And then Mount St. Mary's, I actually know is in Maryland, I think because one of my, like my boss's boss when I worked in Baltimore, played basketball at Mount St. Mary's. And they actually got to go to the tournament this year, which is exciting. If you're curious, it's in Emmitsburg,

Maryland, which is like Western Maryland on the border with Pennsylvania. That's where Mount St. Mary's is. Not a lot of mountains over there, kind of rolling hills, but Mount St. Mary's in Maryland. Okay, so we got that. Let's start with the South region. So we got that. Let's start with the south region Anything here really tough lips come this was a good one that Rachel asked me about Yesterday when they were revealing the bracket lips come Lips com com b. I believe and I'll double check this. I believe lips come is Christian school in Nashville Like st. Francis paw I used to recruit at like the Lipscomb High School that was kind of associated with it.

And yeah, it used to be Nashville Bible School from 1891 to 1918. Lipscomb University, private Christian school in Nashville. Anything else here? Oh, Bryant, the 15 seed playing Michigan State. This is the first one here. I am clueless on I've seen Bryant before I've heard about it. I legitimately have no idea so

Here's the best thing to do and you're trying to guess where a School is from in the bracket. You have no idea There's a couple there's a handful of states you can use to guide you that are usually good resources for random ass schools you've never heard of. East Coast is usually much better than West Coast, more colleges and universities. I always think of the gold mines as like Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and then like Virginia, North Carolina. There's always random ass schools in those states. And you're like, that's crazy. I've never heard of Bryant before.

So I actually don't know if I, before I Google it, let's see Bryant. It feels kind of uptight. So I'm going to guess Bryant is in North Carolina apologies to the North Carolinians Bryant University oh completely completely out of out of the blue it's in Rhode Island which would have been low on my state state guesses considering the lack of geographic area Bryant University in Rhode Island who would have guessed yeah there it is okay there in the America East Conference okay that's the South region for ones I've never heard of there's something borderline I'll try to let you know in the West 16 C Norfolk State is playing, Florida I actually don't know this but I mean Norfolk's in Virginia. So if you see a

Common or a large larger city name followed by state. There's a good chance It's in the city you're expecting and it's a public school and that's the case here Norfolk State confirmed is an HBC you in Norfolk, Virginia And there you go Been around since 1935 What else we got here Grand Canyon? This is a classic one, so it's not so hard to guess it's just curious You think oh Grand Canyon. That's probably like a I don't know public school and flagstaff It's actually another Christian school big year for the Christian schools

We got Liberty. We got lip scum. We got Grand Canyon you It's a for-profit school in Phoenix So they've been in the tournament once or twice before I think it was maybe two years ago They had a little bit of a not a run, but I think they won a game. They kind of upset someone so Grand Canyon for-profit school in Phoenix Not a run, but I think they won a game. They kind of upset someone so Grand Canyon for-profit school in Phoenix Otherwise, you probably know this there are no strangers to the tournament but Drake University the Bulldogs Maples pick for a big upset here They're in Des Moines, Iowa

and then I Mean they're having a great year st.'s, that's DePaul's sister schools. One of the other, I think there's like three Vincentian universities, and DePaul and St. John's are two of them. St. John's, the two seed in this region, and they're out in Queens, I believe. I was talking to someone on St. Patrick's Day

who was convinced that it was Brooklyn and not Queens, And I just wasn't really in the mood to like Get into it, but I was like 95% sure st. John's was in Queens And I can now confirm that st. John's is in Queens Are we flip to the other side of the bracket here of the East region? Liberty University, it's a classic one. The Fallwell, it is located in the Fallwells, Jerry, located in Virginia. I don't need to look that one up.

Let's see what else we got here. BYU over in Provo. Virginia Commonwealth University, if you wanna guess where that one is, email us. Montana in the tournament, the Grizzlies. I actually don't know if that's true. That just feels right But there in the tournament, that's exciting st. Mary's verse Vanderbilt So Vanderbilt, you know pretty well known school there up in down in Nashville next to Lipscomb

There's little now that I'm thinking about what two schools are closest together Vandy and Lipscomb. There's little, now that I'm thinking about what two schools are closest together, Vandy and Lipscomb, that is my early pick. Although I gotta do a full perusal. St. Mary's we know because they play Gonzaga every single year in the West Coast Final or whatever it is. I think St. Mary's in California. Let's see, there's a St. Mary's next to Notre Dame,

but that's not what we're talking about. There you just Google st. Mary's University first result, Minnesota second result, Austin Or San Antonio, Texas. Sorry third result, Notre Dame, Indiana Fourth result Leavenworth. I don't know what that is. I think What we're looking for is Let's just Google st. Mary's basketball. That'll show us the right answer. First in the West Coast, SMC, California. Yeah, somewhere in the Bay Area, Moraga, California.

Never heard of it. It is, uh, yeah, somewhere in the Bay Area. That's where St. Mary's is located. And then here's a classic, Robert Morris University. This one I have no idea because Robert Morris used to have multiple campuses, including one in Chicago. Where is the OG Robert Morris located? I don't know, is it like Alabama or something like that?

First in the Horizon League. Let's see, Robert Morris, Colonials, men's basketball. Moon Township, Pennsylvania, there you go. That would have been, I mean, Pennsylvania's a good catch-all guess, but it would not have been my guess for Robert Morris. So, Robert Morris learned something new, is in Pennsylvania.

And then to the Midwest region, here's a great one. SIUE, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. And then to the Midwest region Here's a great one siue Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Not even their main campus But the bigger point Edwardsville if you don't know is the suburb of st. Louis the bigger point here is living up in Chicago It's crazy. How little we think not you know like oh there they suck, but just never think about Si you in any capacity Carbondale or Edwardsville, they're just it's all the way down there. It's like halfway to the Gulf of America Completely off the radar

interesting stuff Let's see what else we got here McNeese. That's a great one now McNeese just sounds Southern as hell doesn't it? Like I'd be willing to bet some good money Which I won't on the fact that McNeese has to be in like Georgia, Alabama or Mississippi Let's see. Where is McNeese located Good thing I didn't bet money because I I needed to go one further west McNeese it looks like is in Louisiana

Is that right? McNeese University state what is it? Yeah, Lake Charles la like Charles LA that's where McNeese is oh, here's a good one We got a couple more here He says, oh, here's a good one. We got a couple more here. High Point University. That's got North Carolina written all over it, doesn't it?

High Point University. It's in High Point, North Carolina. All right. Finally, one where I wasn't super confident and I just kind of rattled it off and got it. That'll get your confidence back. Troy, I've seen this come up a million times before and I've heard of Troy for a long time.

I think Troy is in Alabama Troy University in Troy, Alabama. Yes got that one And then the last one here already mentioned but the Wofford Terriers they've been in the tournament a couple times before I actually Have no idea. I'm gonna guess Massachusetts is my guess. Nope Spartanburg, South Carolina. There you go alright, so that was our rundown let us know how you did on your guesses as well and then I Wanted to think of And I already have my guess but I got to come back and return to this which of these two schools are closest together Now so take a long time to actually nail down and get exactly right

I'm gonna stick with my guess of Lipscomb and Vanderbilt so let's see Lipscomb University Google Maps To Vanderbilt I've been to both Google shopping that's not what I wanted maps please Lipscomb University directions from Vanderbilt Let's see

By car eight minutes 3.1 miles. Okay, that's pretty good So that's gonna be my guess let us know as you're going through these if you can come up with anything else it almost Has to be in a large urban city like New York City or Los Angeles or something like that let's see there's UC San Diego and did San Diego State get in as well oh they did that's interesting let's check that one out San Diego State I think is like north of the city. This is riveting air. But I have no idea where UC San Diego is.

UC San Diego. Okay, let's get the answers. Oh, it's not even, it can't compete with Lipscomb. 14.6 miles, 35 minutes by car. San Diego State is, oh, did I get that mixed up? I thought San Diego State was East of San Diego, and UC San Diego is North, up by Torrey Pines. Okay, there it is. So if you come across anything else, go ahead and give us a ring. I mean, there's things like St. Francis Pahah and the one that was in moon township, whatever that was Robert Morris, but it's like

That can't be 3.1 miles away There's Mississippi State and Ole Miss. There's no way those guys are that close to each other Some of the Virginia ones might be interesting to check out But otherwise that's about It's about all the headspace I have here. My final guest, Locking in Inahue, is Lipscomb and the other one, Vanderbilt. Is Arizona in the tournament? Because there's also Grand Canyon University, but I guess Arizona is not in Phoenix, is it?

It's in Tucson. Arizona State is in Glendale, I think it is. Oh yeah, Arizona's a four seed. Okay, let's move on. Let's wrap this up. Our trivia question of the week here, so to finish up the St. Patrick's Day theme, it's a little bit different, and it just gonna kind of open open a can of worms

It's an open door question open door policy You let us know where you want to go with this my question is and hopefully we'll just learn something from this Here's the trivia question. What is corned beef? And there's a million ways you could answer this to get the point I don't care how you do it, but maybe you'll learn something because I learned something I think we've all had corned beef before you can even it's a common lunch meat You can buy it next to turkey and black forest ham But if you're curious in old English

The word corn was used to describe any small hard particle or grain So for example, you could have very small like rock pellets or rocks of salt Such as the salt you might use to cure beef and Thus when you need

To cure your beef which is any sort of term basically to like put To cure something is to put like put that meat typically in some sort of like brine so salt water to basically Extract the moisture from the meat which allows you to preserve the meat. There's less chance of like getting micro biomes inside the meat and spoiling it when you extract the moisture, which is really interesting. That's what corned beef is, little corns of salt around your beef to preserve it So there you go next time next st. Patrick's day when you're having your corn beef

and cabbage Now, you know that it has nothing to do with maze Or detastling corn it has everything to do with little salt pellets if you will That's your trivia question of the week. That's what I had for you guys Thanks for listening to me ramble about the bracket as well as LinkedIn lunatics go to reddit check it out My name is Quinn Davis furnace. This is my show. Happy st. Patrick's Day retroactively and Enjoy the March madness. That's what I got for you guys. Happy March and Hope you stay safe. Stay sane. I'll check in on you guys next time. Bye. Bye. So Oh, and my pick for March Madness is Florida, if you can believe it.