Beantown Podcast - Lollapalooza 2025 Preview (07312025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: July 31, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to cover all the new artists, the old mainstays, and the not-yet-announced afterparty shows you can find at this year's Lollapalooza!

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Thursday, July 31st, 2025. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn and I am the host creator and, I don't know, chief music reviewer of and preview. We preview and we review on this. show. Queen David Furnace presents the Beantown podcast. We're going to talk all things Lollapalooza in a little bit here, but it's the last drags of July here. We are in the last six hours or so. It's about 6 p.m. on a Thursday evening. Mom is down at the festival. It's just me and Maple, the research squad over here coming to you live. And how about that crisp, clear audio quality? It's a night and day difference between the Samson Q2U

series and my little AirPods, but I can't complain. The AirPods were a gift from my wife about two years ago, and now they are a heavily used item. And my AirPods were one of those things where I didn't think when I first got it and I was like, oh yeah, that could be nice. Like I don't usually listen to music when I run or anything, but like, oh yeah, that could be nice. And now fast forward a couple years later. I always listen to my podcast when I'm running. I use my AirPods all the time to uh for work all the phone calls i make talking to candidates and stuff and when i take maple out to a potty it's you know got to got to squeeze in a quick five-minute jazz number or something so clutch gift from from my wife um my wife still never seen bore at although i i'll say this

i'm checking off checking off some like iconic quoted movies There's a fantasy football podcast I listen to, and their favorite movie is Happy Gilmore. And they just did a whole episode discussing the upcoming fantasy football season through the lens of Happy Gilmore quotes. And as much as good of a time as I had, I had no idea what they were talking about because I'd never seen it. And of course, Happy Gilmore 2 just came out on Netflix, which I probably won't watch because I don't really feel the need. But I'd never seen Happy Madison before. Happy Madison. Happy Gilmore. Happy Madison is the name of his production company, right? Because it was Billy Madison in like 95 and then Happy Gilmore came out the next year. I think if my research holds true, that's what happened. Happy Gilmore, the golf movie, golf slash hockey. I'm trying to X out of the entertainer. There it is. But I did watch it. I would give it, you know, three bags of popcorn out of five. And I don't know, one of those little zambonies to clean the.

ice little tip of the cap to my favorite web series on cinema at the cinema it was fine it was it wasn't even so much like oh yeah i'm just not an adam sandler guy which i'm not really but you know the film was it's very much just like vignettes um and a loose plot that holds things together maybe that's not entirely fair to say there's definitely a plot but the editing is not the not the strongest. It's got a clear 90s nostalgia feel to it, though. I think that's the earliest thing. And I don't know much about Julie Bowen as an actress just kind of across the board outside of modern family. But I don't think I had ever seen her in anything. You know, like maybe pre-modern family there was a movie she was in that I'm not aware of, but I can't really place her in anything.

So it was kind of fun to see her in her short little haircut. Looks like she could have gone at cuts by cue we should take the time now to thank you uh we already mentioned the samson q2 u series but thank you samson for that crisp clear audio quality we are coming in very clear this week after a bean town done on the road and i've listened back to a couple segments here and there and the audio quality was pretty hit or miss much like maple's attitude during our long drive back from minneapolis on sunday night so apologies for that if you stuck it out you're a true champ, you can email us, Beantown Podcasts at Yahoo.com. Again, it's Beantown Podcasts at Yahoo.com to claim your free listener reward.

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We'll see it. The fear is just you take her to the lake and then mom and dad want to jump into the lake and float. and then maple is just kind of stuck there watching freaking out and you don't want maple to jump in the lake that's a drowning situation we need to happen right buddy even though you're such a strong swimmer uh cuts by Q and you need a fresh juice on the snappy or new call the experts at cuts by Q and of course our good friends at home pride Oregon when you need your home inspected in central Oregon go with the export exports exports it's like uh your your Excel CSV file what the heck does CSV stand for anyone want to

I take a gander? Anyone have a guess on what the CSV file stands for? While we're looking that up, I will, of course, say, call Steve. 5414010-0-316, get your home inspected in Central Oregon, do it the right way, and save yourself millions of dollars in the process, double internachi insured, and the like. HomePriot Organ, inspection, perfection. Comma separated values file is a plain text file format used to store tabular data. speaking of values you know what i miss those values dot com billboards it'll be like elton john

and it'll just have a little message and it'll say curing aids and then below that pass it on or it'll be stevie wonder and it'll say seeing is believing pass it on or it'll be Peyton manning and there won't even be a little blurb it'll just say pass it on right values dot com big fan love the billboards big i really miss psa's on uh i guess i don't really watch network tv anymore but remember growing up you'd get the nbc the more you know campaigns and you'd get something from uh the people from friends david swimmer would be like bullying's not okay be a friend nbc the more you know bum bum bum i don't know when those really kind of fell out of favor when bullying made it come back we need we need swimmer back there is definitely a

parody of that in scrubs which started in what like 2005 2004 or something like that in probably one of the earlier seasons and i think the the john dorian quote is zach braff is like he's in the hospital he's talking about what is it munchauser syndrome we're watching in the pit right now, so I should know this. But they're asking questions of the parents to rule out child abuse. And J.D. Zach Braff is like, you know, it's crazy, but some parents will actually intentionally harm their children. And the wife is like, oh, my God, or the mom is like, oh, my God, that's terrible. Someone should make a PSA about that. And Braff is like, yeah, someone should. And then he goes into his daydreams. And he walks up, he like comes out, you just got to, if you don't know this,

This is one of my favorite clips. It's a 30-second clip on Scrubs or go find out of YouTube from Scrubs. But essentially, Zach Braff walks on screen and he's like, had a long day at the office, you know, take a bath, crack open a bottle of wine, suffocate your kids, or whatever the word, the verb is, I don't know. It's all in good fun, right? Wrong. Don't, there's a different, it's not suffocate.

There's a different verb. It's like, don't suffocate your kids. Then more you know. and then he slowly backs out and the little piano riff plays. It's fantastic. Before I forget, I got to make a note of it. Open up my YouTube and just keep it on in the background so that I can watch it later.

It's one of my favorite scrubs clips. A show that is just, don't smother your kids. That's what it is. Those PSAs are such a great slice of like turn of the century network television. I am almost certain without knowing with any sort of certainty that they definitely got David Schwimmer to do one of those when Friends was in its heyday. Feels like Jerry Seinfeld would have done one, right?

Late 90s. I don't know. What other NBC shows were around then? Probably something with Brook Shields feels like that would fit well. Something from, definitely something from like a medical drama or a soap opera. How the heck did soap operas get their name? We already looked up CSV. promise we've got Lollapalooza stuff to get to. This is the last thing that we're just

going to go off on a tangent on and then I've got stuff written down that I want to get to. While we're looking that up, I will mention listener discretion as advised when you're listening to this program. Number one, we'll occasionally use some language. Number two's podcast is objectively terrible. And I'll briefly mention I'm drinking a Pino-Grigio 39-special from Trader Joe's. Gerdino, G-I-A-R-D-I-N-O, Pino Grigio del Venizzi. that means something of origin contriata i think oh it's from northeast Italy dry white wine light and crisp hints of apples and pairs i did not get any pairs in this underlying tones of something more exotic i like that because it's like you get the underlying tones of something more exotic say a 20 or 25 bottle of white wine but you're only paying

four bucks for it in the age where every single every single every single every single every single grocery, it seems like, has gone innumerously expensive. You can still go to Trader Joe's and get a $3.99 bottle of white wine, and it's not too bad. So working off of that right now, I'm taking the last dregs from the bottle, and then I'm also going to be drinking some from this great stainless steel. It's a classic, like, Yeti kind of cup, but it's got a sweet design on it. I think one of Rachel's coworkers designed this all the way around the design job. It's Minnesota-themed, and it's got great images of Minnesota. It's really well done.

I've got to try to... I know Spotify's got that thing where you can, like, take a picture, and if you're listening in the Spotify app, you can, like, see what I'm referencing. I don't think we have that technology, but this is really cool that we got when we were up in Minnesota, something that you would pay like 25 bucks for in a gift shop, and maybe even more than that. So shout out to Rachel's co-worker who created that. I think it was J-Bones, but I don't know for sure.

Soap, oh, and of course, our good friends in Pakistan. Thank you for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Lahore, Karachi, Khyber Pass, and the like. Okay, something I actually don't know. First, we had comma, separated value. Now we have a soap opera. Now, we know what soap operas are. But here we go. The term soap opera originated from radio dramas' original sponsorship by soap manufacturers. The term was preceded by horse opera, a derogatory term for low-budget westerns.

So, like, they were putting these dramas, these cereals, essentially, on the radio. And for some reason, the soap, big soap was all over it. That's right. Big Soap, who's also, I should mention, going to be one of our Lalapalooza artists that we're going to be previewing, which is very exciting. Developing story, breaking news here in the Beantown podcast for all you sports heads. Commanders' wide receiver Terry McLaurin has demanded a trade. Now, that could be like, yeah, he's definitely going to get traded because if you don't, he haven't been following training camp. He is in a contract holdout right now. He wants a new contract.

Commanders just went to the NFC championship game last year, missed the Super Bowl by just a couple whiskers big upset over detroit and so terry scary terry as we call them in the industry has always been kind of a underrated wide receiver he's not very brash he's pretty quiet and reserved and now it's come in time for a big paycheck and the commanders don't want to pay him which i don't blame the commander is necessarily just thinking about where they are as a franchise they're a very old roster and with jaden daniel's playing style i don't think they have to have like a stud wide receiver that they're paying, you know, seedy lamb money to. But from Scary Terry's perspective, I get it as well. He's kind of been underappreciated by everyone, his whole career.

So we'll see what happens. That's your breaking news. But that's soap operas. Let's get into our Naples Minute this week. I don't think we really discussed this too much, but it opens the door for a larger power ranking that we might get into in future weeks here. But Maple's minute is, this is from Maple's perspective, that Minnehaha Falls, which is southeast of downtown Minneapolis, along the Minnehaha Creek, which flows into the Mississippi River. One of the better, more under the radar, kind of like Terry McLaren, city parks that me, Quinn has ever experienced,

and certainly Maple has ever experienced, it was her first waterfall, which was very exciting. Don't go chasing waterfalls. Into the rivers and the fix that you used to. I don't let you're going to have it, you're going to nothing, no, but I think you're moving too fast. Right, Maple?

She's looking at me like I'm nuts. But we got to see the cool, if you don't know, Minnehaha Falls is, it's got to be like as far as tall waterfalls go in close proximity. to U.S. downtowns, it's got to be up there. I mean, it's some serious fall foliage. Then Minahawk Creek is very, Minahaha, by the way, M-I-N-N-N-E-H-A-H-A.

It's like you're laughing at the state. But a very fast-moving creek, almost a brook, but technically a creek, and just kind of hits this big drop-off and the water goes crazy and then another half mile or so. it flows into the mighty Mississippi River, but beyond the waterfalls, because everyone just kind of congregates around there from like the scenic lookout and watches, which is great. And you kind of got to elbow your way and say, I got a little dog here, she's never seen the waterfalls, please make room, and people move out of your way and stuff. But the rest of the park is fantastic.

In fact, on the south end, there's a off-the-leash dog park, which Maple and I did not quite get to because it was just we had already walked round trip it was going to be close to four miles and i just didn't want to extend it because it was kind of hot day but yeah they got the dog park the minnesota veterans home is there um kind of in between the river and the creek and yeah just a really beautiful spot so shout out to you know Minnesota and minneapolis specifically for their city parks i went to a couple other city parks well was up there went to uh Powderhorn. Is that what it's called? Lake Powderhorn. And that was a nice little lake. And then I went to the beach on Lake No Combo, something like that. That was pretty cool.

So I think we mentioned this last week, but Minnesota Class Act, as far as the lakes and city parks go. Very clean, very well kept. Great running spaces. Oh, Manaha Falls Park had a disc golf course, too, which is where I parked. I was afraid I might get, you know, my rental 2025 Kia Soul might get dinged or dunged by a, I don't know, Regulation Frisbee. Is there anything special about Regulation Frisbee? Because I have a LinkedIn one over here that I got from their Chicago headquarters about a month ago. And it seems kind of flimsy, but I don't know. How much do the pros pay for their Frisbee's? That's a good investigative thing for Maple next time.

Naples minute. Just polishing off our wine here, then we're going to transition to our cool. Commemorative cup. It's not even a commemorative cup because it's just kind of, it's really just about the state. It's not necessarily commemorizing it. But commemorative is really a fun word to say. So we're just going to call it. And you get alliteration, which is always a good time.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. We don't even have to try. It's a commemorative cup. Huge Owl City head over here. Not to mention a Carly crooner. That's right. Our hot take of the week, so we're going to get to Lala in a second here.

I've got just a couple other random thoughts that we're going to do our Lala preview for those of you. Maybe if you are like, let's say, you know, Thursday, so Lala has started. It's been going on for like three, four hours now. But maybe if you're like outside, the gates thinking like, gosh, I could really use a preview from Beantown podcast before I go in,

so I know where to go, who to see, what they're about, that sort of thing. I got you. We'll get this uploaded shortly. But my hot take of the week is Lala needs just a little bit of jazz, or I'd even settle for jazz funk. Now, I'm bringing my own personal tastes into this, but I feel like Lala's got so many stages, and it's all your Carly Ray Jepson's and your Owl City's and some 41's. And this year we got Olivia Rodrigo and Sabrina Carpenter. But you throw in a little bit of Kamasi Washington. Ooh, baby. Or a little bit of even like a Herbie Hancock. Look, I know there's a Chicago Jazz Fest too, but we got to get these young kids to understand their musical roots. And you go watch Kamasi Washington. You go watch a YouTube clip.

of like street fighter moss or the rhythm changes or something and you tell me like this would this would be a total banger to have at lalapalooza you know we introduced the young kids to to jazz and music origins and i don't know i think it would be real fun to have so that's my hot take of the week it's it's never going to happen because lala just it's just they're not listening for lack of a better word but that's what I would like to see. I've got a couple other things here. First, I don't know how this popped up. It was on my Twitter or Reddit or something, but apparently, I don't really have much to comment on, but apparently there is a traveling show out there, an e-spectaculo, as we would call it in Espaniol, called the Empire Strips Back. And it's exactly what, well, maybe you don't know

what that means. It's a baroque retelling of George Lucas's 1980 Star Wars, the second one, aka number five, the Empire Strikes Back. And all, you know, all you can really see on the poster is like sexy stormtroopers and stuff. And apparently it's pretty sexy, but not like overly sexy where you're just seeing dong the whole time and titties. I mean, hopefully Darth Vader hangs a little bit of dong. And frankly, as someone who had, you know, a crush ever on Princess Leia, rest in peace, ever since the sail barge from Jabba's palace, you know, I wouldn't mind seeing a little bit to action, not to mention Carrie Fisher's hairstyle in Empire Strikes Back, I think, is by far

the best one, right? Four is like, you know, it's kind of memeable, and it's definitely iconic, but, you know, the Kaiser rolls, it's like, come on, are we serious? And six, look, you get the sexy braids in the sail barge and then it's not bad on endor either but the hair that you get in episode five is just it's peak lea so empire strips back i don't know exactly what happens in it i you know i don't know what they do about the chewy situation i feel like you could make chewy's uh don't just extraordinary frankly uh i haven't seen much in the way of the you know star wars extended universe in terms of, you know, are wookies known to be well endowed? Is that a myth? What's the deal there? But I, and then just imagine the kind of homophobic, not homophobic, the homoerotic, I guess,

sexual tension in the final fight between Luke and his dad, Darth Vader. I mean, now you're getting into like a, whatever the opposite of an Oedipus complex is with your dad instead of your mom. That, there's a lot to explore there. I could see how Empire Strips Back could get real deep, real fast. But in all honesty, from what I was reading online, I think it was something that I came across like 4 a.m. when I was unable to sleep into scrolling Twitter or something. I've heard it's legitimately very well done.

So maybe go search Empire Strips Back, see if it's coming to a town near you. If not, I'm almost positive. There's plenty of NSFW content out there on the world. wide web or the dark web, but probably don't have to go there, that you could find access to. I don't think I've ever really perused the Star Wars Rule 34 category myself, but I'm sure it's out there. There's something else I was going to mention about adult content and Star Wars, but it's slipped my memory, and I think it's going to be best for everyone if we just push past it. The other thing I wanted to mention before we get to our Lala preview, this, I just like to

make quick, quick little notes for you here, the listeners, when I get the most random-ass thoughts pop into my head, because it's just a little slice of life type stuff, right? And I have no context for why this came into my head this morning. But it will allow me to do a quick little plug for something else that I like. The plug I want to make quickly, and you'll see why I make this. There's a great Fertellis. The Fertellis, you know their song, Chelsea Dagger. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da. One of my favorite bands are Scottish. They have a fantastic B-side from like their fourth or fifth album called Boy Scout to the End, and it's an excellent song, very high energy, pulsating, frankly. So go listen to Boy Scout to the End by Fertellys, if you want, you know, great four minutes back, not back,

but add it to your life. But the reason I mention it, there was a time, and again, I'm just going to jump into this with no context. There was a time, I must have been 16, 17, I was old enough to drive, but I was still, you know, in high school. And I was coming out of our grocery store, which was called the Highlander, speaking of Scottish. And there was like a Boy Scout stationed outside selling tickets to his pancake breakfast. And I don't know, I guess I was feeling in a charitable mood because they were $5 for a pancake breakfast. And I was like, yeah, that's not a bad deal. But it wasn't like, oh, yeah, the whole family's with me like, yeah, well, I'll go to the pancake breakfast. It was just like, oh, here's one ticket to the pancake breakfast. And I think it was like

for a month from when I bought the ticket. And so the time rolls around. I think it was like a Saturday midday. And I just remember going and hopping in the car. I think I saw my dad as I was like walking out to the car. And I was just like, oh yeah, I'm going to the Boy Scouts pancake breakfast. And he probably looked at me like, what the hell is going on? How much did you smoke down there in the basement? Mom and dad, I never smoked in the basement. I never smoked anything in my life. except for I'm up to three cigars now. So that's my burden to bear. But, yeah, I hopped in the car.

I drove to this pancake breakfast, which I think was on the west side of Rockford. It was probably 25 minutes, something like that. And, yeah, it wasn't like, oh, I was meeting someone there. It was just I went, I showed up. I think it was at like a rotary club or something. I got my serving of pancakes. I don't think it was bottomless.

And, excuse me, ate my pancakes in, I was going to say silence, but not silence. It was just by myself, but like, you know, a bunch of round tables and folding chairs at a table with presumably other people, but I don't think I talked to anyone and had my pancakes and got in the car and drove home. And that was the time I supported the Boy Scouts with a $5 ticket to their pancake. They were calling it a pancake breakfast. Frankly, it's more of a luncheon. Luncheon's a fun word because it kind of just the E-O-N. I feel like you don't really get a lot of other words

where it's like, oh, yeah, we'll just add an E-O-N and make that a different type. Because it's, what's the difference between a luncheon a luncheon? Luncheon, I think, implies more of a social experience. Like, you wouldn't have a luncheon with one other person. You probably need five minimum to have a luncheon. I feel like you would associate luncheons a lot with like community, civics, church, I don't know.

If anyone has any other perspectives on luncheons, feel free to give us an email. Beantown Podcast at yahoo.com or you can tweet at us at Beentowncast or Blue Sky Skied at us at Beantown Podcast. I check it once every couple of months to check in our old dear friend, poor, amateur porn actor, a lot of porn today, sorry. and church musicians, Scott Farrell. And, yeah, if you don't know, Scott Farrell was a musician in Rockford who wrote a book and included me in it, and there's more to the story, but yada, yada, yada.

We'll end there. Scott used to be on Twitter, and I would check in on him there, but he got to be too conservative for him, so he had to jump ship and go to Blue Sky. Okay, we got our Lala Palooza preview and then a tribute question, and then we will wrap there. So Lala, in case you don't know, it's a big music festival. They used to do it in other cities across the globe, and they still do, I think. But for a while, we're doing a little history lesson without any history in front of us. For a while, I think in the U.S., it used to change cities every year.

It's been around since like the 90s. I asked my grandma Sal last week if she knows what Lala Paluz is. she said no so probably more of a new age kind of thing and but for the last who knows 20 25 years something like that they may do it in chicago in grant park which is south of millennium park which is where like the bean is for example uh so this is in grant park where obama got elected president pretty cool there's a lot of space down there between michigan avenue and downtown chicago and the water, the waterfront of Lake Michigan, kind of just sandwiched between Michigan Avenue, the museum campus, where the Field Museum and the Planetarium and the Aquarium are and Lake Michigan

and like the Bean and Streeterville, as we would call it. That's where Grant Park is located. That's where Lala is. It's fun. It's really geared towards like 16 to 25 year olds, I would say. It's extremely expensive. I think a one-day pass to Lalapalooza is like $150. People have been known because alcohol prices are so out of control. People have been known to go into Grant Park two weeks before bury a handle of Tito's or something and then dig it up once they get in there. That was partial urban legend. It did definitely happen once like three years ago. I'm sure they've got it on lockdown now, but who knows. There have definitely been stories in the past of teens who don't can't afford tickets just converging on the fences jumping

rushing in we'll see how they do with their security this year but it's known for being a lot of like 17 year olds who don't have a summer job from neighborville taking the metro in and like 20 of them packing into a hotel room that their mom paid for it's known as being more of a pop thing you sometimes get some more like mainstream rock bands like i feel like green day has probably made a couple of appearances the killers have been there i'm sure death cab has played so it's not all just like girly pop but it's also a lot of rap and rnb the headliners this year we've got Luke Grimes tonight from Yellowstone. We've got Tyler the creator, who's a rapper. I don't know anything about. He's a creator and a rapper. Later on this week, this weekend, we'll have

Olivia Rodrigo. We'll have Sabrina Carpenter. And hopefully Sidney Sweeney makes an appearance in her genes, her very good genes, her Nazi genes, could be fun. You don't know what I'm talking about. You've got to educate yourself. Apparently, the word is that Sidney Sweeney's a Nazi sympathizer now. Now, that's not our stance here in the Bean Town podcast, but we can't ignore it, frankly. And then the other headliner is, I don't know. there's four of them other bands and artists that you might want to watch out for well we know there's

not going to be any cool hip-hop jazz like kamasi washington but other artists you might want to check out we want to give a little bit of a preview or love or attention to there's woe buffet which is no not warren buffet whoa buffet which you pokey heads might be saying hmm sounds familiar there's a Pokemon, little blue guy from Gen 2 called Woe Buffett. Well, you're on the right track. This is a K-pop band from Japan, and they dress like different Pokemon. I think what's really fun is even though their band name is Woh Buffett, one, you're really going to see them dress as a Woh Buffett.

It's like 40% of the time or less. But two, there's 12 of them. It's like one direction times 2 and 40%. But you'll see a Pikachu, or you'll see a Gengar, or a dugong, which is fun, because it's just a straight-up animal, but also the name of a Pokemon. You might see a Muteu. You might see a Zapdos. You could see, if you're really lucky, usually they'll only do this on Fridays. You could see a lick a tongue. So you can imagine, and there was a big K-pop concert at Wrigley Field, I think, last weekend. there's just a big buzz about this hottest new band. It's not black pink, okay?

There's not going to be Lisa from White Lotus. But Woe Buffett is the next best thing. So look out for them. I don't know if they're a Friday or a Saturday. I'm not sure exactly when Woe Buffett is performing, but you know they're going to have the moves. next up kind of we were talking about you know alternative rock well some 41 said they were going to be doing a farewell tour what i think last year or two years ago well looks like they're still playing the festivals you might know them from uh because i'm in too deep and i've tried to keep up above my head instead of going under maple is looking at me like i am absolutely nuts well you just never heard that one buddy the music video is great it's a parody of something specific i don't know they're like

all at the public pool it's a diving competition so that's what i know of some 41 in too deep but they'll be back not headlining not given the respect they deserve but some 41 you're going to want to check it out next up kind of a kind of a little throwback speaking of alt rock you have Glenn fry and the fry cooks now i know what you're thinking gosh glen fry great artist eagles legend also he's been dead for like a decade well this isn't that glen fry it's just the stage name of this guy who kind of looks like post malone and jelly roll had a baby he's just he's really round he's really big and he goes by glen fry and to avoid copyright reasons it's uh it's f r y and that's why his backing bad his name is they're they're known as the fry cooks

so they you know they play all sorts of scat music and they've got a four piece bass trombone band let me tell you when you get too close to those speakers it's loud from the fry cooks because the fry cooks well there's five of them there's four bass trombones and a harmonica so you kind of get a little bit of that and well then you got of course you got glen fry who does a lot of scatting. But you get a lot of syncopation and almost kind of a Huey Lewis, you know, mid-century California sound to it. And it's just fun. I think if there's one artist you want to go see you and you're just saying to yourself, I just want to have fun. You might want to go check them out, which leads us to the next artist preview that I wanted

to mention a little bit of a reunion if I might add the band fun with a period uh that is of course three guys it is jack antonoff who's married to margaret quali who you might know from the substance or once upon a time in hollywood or the other one and then it's uh Nate ruse who you probably only know from that pink duet we can learn to live again just give me your reason just a little bit's enough I feel like we sing that song once every other month on the bean top podcast it's just a great song uh and then the third guy and you know jack antonoff has kind of taken center stage in terms of popularity since fun broke up eight years ago whenever that was but I got to tell you I am pumped for this fun reunion. It's going to be fun. You're going to have fun. You're going to listen

to fun. And what more is there to say? I mean, talk about mega groups. You got Toto, Jackson Starship, Steely Dan, and now fun. Kind of taking the reins from whatever the guy from Steely Dan is who's still alive. I don't remember what his name is. Speaking of, I had a great segue and I forgot what it is, another featured band that you can see at Lollapalooza this weekend. Speaking of the California Sound, you might know them better as being a husband to Emmy nominated Julia Garner. But this is, of course, Foster, the people founded by Mark Foster about 15 years ago.

There's a great, my favorite live version of Pumped Up Kicks. with your pumped up kicks you matter run matter run out run my gun there's a great live version of them like right when they released that song it was their first i think it was their first single from their first ever album torches which by the way in all honesty one of my favorite under the rate it's not under the radar but for me albums that i like rediscover annually i love torches the album but foster the people Oh, the pumped-up kicks clip is from Craig Ferguson. Rest in peace to the Late Late Show. Yeah, you can see Foster the people.

I think they've had some lineup changes over the years. But you still got Mark Foster, and who knows, maybe Julia Garner will be there. Maybe she can do her Missouri accent from Ozark. What was the name of her character? name, Ruth, is that right, in Ozark? I feel like Ozark has not had quite as much cultural staying power as people maybe would have predicted when it was on top of the kind of, you know, everyone was talking about it on Twitter. I kind of feel the same way about

Downton Abbey, which I feel like I've never seen, never gotten into it, but I feel like that was what everyone was talking about. And I don't know, maybe it's just a different day and age of social media and how much different types of content there is to consume, but I feel like Ozark, Downton Abbey, has not really had as much cultural impact or lasting significance as others before them, like Lost or Friday Night Lights or Joni loves Chachi. Other artists that you might want to check out, so we mentioned there's a lot of rap going on. see Tyler the creator tonight, or you might see Sabrina Carpenter, drop the N-word a couple of times and cancel her herself. Well, there's also a kind of a newer artist that I'm really excited for

from Dane Enda. It's Young Bluey. Okay. So what is great about Bluey, the TV show, is you already have Bluey, who's kind of the child. He's got his parents and stuff. But much like a Scooby-Doo Scrappy Doe situation, you might have not realized there was a young Bluey. Now, he's not a character in the show, but he's an Australian rapper. And that wasn't really an Australian accent, was it? But it's fun, because you haven't really heard, you've heard rap, and you've heard Australia, and you've seen Australia with Hugh Jackman, and I assume Nicole Kidman, but I don't know, because I've never seen it either. But I have seen, and I have heard.

Young Bluey, that's Y-U-N-G-B-L-U-E, 2-Y's, which is kind of an Aboriginal flavor, an Aboriginal Zing to it. And Young Bluey, he's going to be rapping about Brady Irwin and 80 for Brady, which is kind of strangely his favorite film. and you know canberra excuse me darwin he's got a song a single called the hms beagle which he wrote in darwin which is a city in australia so it's really a hoot and a holler even and that's what his fans like to do they do a hoot and a holla australian exeat's not my wist that we kind of tailed off at the end there but i'm going to stop doing that i don't want to get canceled like

Sabrina Carpenter when she drops the N-word inevitably. Speaking of Canceled and N-word, did you hear about this Hannah Brown on The Bachelorette? Much maligned. Well, she got married, apparently. She found someone who was even more racist than she was, and they probably just

sitting there in harmony saying the N-word behind closed doors as much as they want. So congratulations to Hannah Brown. Kind of ironic that a white lady named Hannah Brown is dropping N-bombs. I don't know. I don't know. That was the golden age of The Bachelor when we had Chris Harrison. I miss you, Chris.

The good news, though, is there is a DJ stage. I think it's called DJ Polly's stage or something like that, or Polly wants a cracker. Wasn't there a Ben Stiller Jennifer Anderson film called A Long Came Polly? I saw half of it once on WGN. Don't know how it ended. Please don't spoil it. The good news is you're wondering, oh, what the heck? Where has Chris Harrison been? Well, he has teamed up ever so recently. with, you bet it, you got it. Matt Lauer from the Today Show, disgraced, had to, you know, run away with his tail between his legs to his private home in Montauk. But Matt Lauer and Chris Harrison have teamed up. They're a DJ duo now, and they have been playing some small gigs primarily in dry Tortuga's region down in the Caribbean, but now they are bringing their Caribbean vibes

and their, let's just say, television know-how up to the big stage, the DJ Pauly Shore stage at Lollapalooza. It's kind of tucked away off to the side by the fountain, I believe. And you can go see DJ Lauer and DJ Harrison, and it is going to be lit. If you are a woman, don't get too close to Matt, but also you might want to get close to Chris Harrison because it'll probably be a matchmaker for you.

So you're not going to want to miss it. I think that is Sunday morning after church. You might want to check that out. But before you go there, of course, do not miss Kirk Franklin and the Frankettes. I mean, Kirk Franklin, how many Grammy says this guy won by now? He's doing a special Sunday morning service from a platform on Lake Michigan.

You know those like water cribs they got out there? Well, this is like water cribs meets MTV cribs. It's Kirk Franklin. He's bringing the word of the Lord, L-O-R-D, in all caps, to your ears on Sunday morning. And I should mention not official yet, but Lord. Okay, every year we talk about the Lollapalooza afterpart. parties, which is where we will close today. What more appropriate way to close than a Lollapalooza after party? You know the concert venue Metro up on Clark, like Clark,

between Waveland and Grace, just north of Wrigley Field. You know the smart bar, of course, but Metro has a lot of post-Lala concerts, and I have caught wind that there is going to be a Lord after show. Speaking of Danunda, Lord is bringing her talents from Adelaide, and she is potentially, you did not hear it from me if she doesn't, but she is potentially doing a show. And it's really cool because I've heard that is going to be completely corporate funded. The Home Depot is actually funding her whole trip. They got her a plane ticket, direct Adelaide to Melbourne, and then direct Melbourne to Singapore and then direct Singapore to Chicago, which is very exciting. So corporate funded, kind of a new thing at Lala, but that's why the tickets are so high.

It's worth it for the after show, right? Right, Lord fans, Lordheads. The Lord is My Shepherd. That's the name of her next album, which she might be teasing this weekend. So there is your Lala Palooza preview. If you're standing outside the fence thinking, should I storm this or not you uh you might want to based off of what you heard there uh portions of the previous segment were were fabricated for clicks but many portions were not you can decide which one is which uh we're

going to finish up with our trivia question today and it actually will uh i did a little bit of research on this beforehand it dovetails into a wikipedia article that i want to briefly bring up on the show as we closed because i had never come across this before and oh apparently I'm going to Google something and I thought it was an island, but it's also the name of an American rapper and singer. We'll get to that in a second here. The question itself, I don't remember how I got here, but I did. The Valsberg, sorry, Valserberg, I'll spell that for you. V-A-A-A-L-S-E-R-B-R-G is the Netherlands's highest point in Continental or mainland Europe. So we're not talking any fancy offshore accounts or territories or anything

like that. We'll get to that in a second. But just the country of Netherlands, as you see it on a world map, the Valserberg is the highest point. Also, Valserberg is the hill. It's the name of the hill and the point. And this hill is also the tri-point of three nations, of which to the Netherlands, is one. So name the other two nations that share the Valserberg. And if I'm saying it incorrectly, my Dutch friends can course correct me by emailing us. What three countries meet at the Valserberg? If you want more time, go ahead and give yourself more time. The answer is the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. If you're thinking, oh, maybe Luxembourg can sneak in there. Well, it's about 127 miles of then Germany and Belgium border before you hit the northern point of Luxembourg.

So 120, 120, 130 miles or so until you get to Luxembourg. So that's the answer. It raised an interesting point because I was reading about this on Wikipedia and it was like, oh, yeah, that's the highest point in the Netherlands in mainland Europe. And I was like, well, what do you mean? Like, where else is there in Netherlands? And then I got to thinking, well, there could be a ruba. But then I learned the highest point in the Netherlands, forget mainland Europe, just generally speaking, when you include their offshore accounts, is this island called Saba, SABA, which was brand new to me.

And just because it's brand new to me, doesn't mean it's brand new to you, but in case it is, here let's learn something ever so briefly about Saba. And now you'll know it next time someone quizzes you on your Dutch territories. Saba is a Caribbean island, S-A-B-A, and the smallest special municipality of the Netherlands. It consists of the dormant volcano mount scenery. That's right. Scenery, S-C-E-N-E-R-Y, which at 2,8-854 feet is the highest point of the entire kingdom of the Netherlands. The island lies in the northern leeward Islands portion of the West Indies, southeast of the Virgin Islands. So essentially, if you were in Puerto Rico, you look straight east.

You have the Virgin Islands, British and U.S. And then you go a little bit further east around Anguia, A-N-G-U-I-L-A, I think. And you have this island, Saba. Together with Bonair and St. Eustaceous, what a name. It forms what is known as the Caribbean Netherlands. It is a very small island. It is five square miles total. There is 2,158 people who live there.

English and Dutch are spoken. And the calling code is plus 599 minus 4, which in many places would be 595, but look, I'm not here to judge the Dutch. Interestingly enough, they use the U.S. dollar. I don't know how that came to be. It's the smallest territory. Here's a fun little tidbit. The smallest territory by permanent population in the entire Americas. And the last thing I'll mention, there's a lot more you could read about here.

but the capital of Saba is called the bottom right for all you midsummer nights dream heads out there you'll know Nick Bottom this is the bottom formerly bought B-O-T-T-E is the capital and largest town of the island of Saba it's the first stop in the way from Saba's port and Fort Bay towards the rest of the island okay not important yada yada yada so the bottom is the capital of Saba don't you forget it I think that's pretty much what I wanted to get into. There's a lot more interesting things about Saba and its Wikipedia page if you want to dig into any of that. But that's what I had for you guys today. I hope you enjoyed your Lala Paloosa preview.

I hope it's helpful if you were going out there this weekend. Remember to stay hydrated. You're going to get lucky with the weather. It is very, despite the Canadian wildfire smoke, it is very tolerable and not too hot outside. So enjoy it. that's what I had for you today. My name is Quinn David Furness. This is my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast. I hope everyone is staying safe, staying sane. Don't remember to claim your free promo bet for tonight's Hall of Fame game. Check in on you next time. Bye-bye.

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