Beantown Podcast - Low Grade Sake, Tripel Beer, and Bushy Eyebrows (12112025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: December 12, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss Ann Arbor etymology, John Candy cameos, and inappropriate relationships

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Thursday, December 11th, 2025. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn, and this is my program. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast. We're coming to you live on a dark night. Christian Bale. I read American Psycho when I was on my honeymoon a couple weeks ago. And it's pretty graphic. If you ever really wanted to, all your wildest, sickest fears about, you know, taking an axe to different body parts and lots of discussion about hard bodies, that's the name that the narrator, Patrick Bateman, uses. for any sort of good-looking lady in Manhattan

throughout American cycle. You've got to be a hard body. This guy's always going to clubs, banging whores. I didn't even say listening to discretion is advised. It is advised when you listen to the show. Number one will occasionally some language from two podcasts, objectively terrible.

Drinking J&Bs, which I think is, I looked it up. I think it's like scotch or whiskey or something. I thought maybe it was a cocktail when I was reading it. But I didn't really have good internet access when I was in the Canary Islands and so on and so forth. So I couldn't really Google it. By the time I would finish reading and then think, okay, I got to go back to Wi-Fi so I can Google this. I would have had like two glasses of port by that point and just never crossed my mind. So I was just seeing stars.

But yeah, American Psycho. Interesting read. You'll learn a lot about men's fashion and what's in style and what's not in style. and how you fashion or how you pair a cumberbund with, you know, on what occasions can you wear this or that, all sorts of stuff. We're not going to spend the whole day talking about men's fashion. This is the Beantown podcast. Thank you to everyone who has supported the show over the years as we hurdle towards the end of season eight here and prepare for season nine premiering this January. You won't want to miss it. Thank you to my friends in Pakistan from

making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. We need your support now more than ever because tomorrow is my last day of work at good old DePaul University, where I have worked since the middle of season two, I think it was, when I moved from Baltimore to Chicago. And it's been a hell of a ride. They had a lot of fun, first at the office of law admissions, and then for the last two years, as I'm opening, a beer here, which I'll tell you about in a second. And human resources. Never thought I would work in human resources. And it turns out it was a short stint two years, almost exactly to the day. By the way, drinking a classic that I don't think I've ever bought before at the grocery

store, the Victory Brewing Company Golden Monkey, it's a triple, T-R-I-P-E-L, 9.5%. I got to tell you, I was at Jewel last weekend. and was it last weekend or no this was this just what's today Thursday I went on Tuesday is when I went because I had to go get a library card I got a library card from the Chicago Public Library for the first time ever because my my work access is getting cut off in 24 hours here I got to return my angels and demons picture illustrated you know accompaniment if you guys remember that episode from a month ago. That and American Psycho and The Lost City of Zed by David Grant. And I just finished yesterday revival by Stephen King, one of his more recent novels from about

a decade ago. All good picks. Put them on the Beantown Podcast Book Club recommended list. Beantownpodcast.com slash book club. But the victory brewing, you know, the golden monkey is kind of a classic ubiquitous beer and U-B-I-Q-U-I-T-O-U-I-T-O-U-S ubiquitous. I think that's right. But I see it, you know, I'm kind of perusing the beer aisle at Jewel knowing I got three weeks left here before dry January to really, you know, pack on the calories. And, you know, there's a lot of good options, a lot of good local stuff. And I wasn't like in one particular mood.

But then out of the corner my eye kind of tucked away in the corner of the fridge, I noticed for $9.99 on sale, I think these things are usually like $12, something like that. So it's not like a crazy sale, but it's like $2 off. And in this economy, you take what you can get. But the six pack of the golden monkey, and again, these babies are 9.5 percent, six pack 12 ounce cans for $10. I mean, between that and the port, I have a nose for finding the cheapest. That even sounds bad. The most affordable ways of getting a serious buzz on to get six of these cans for 10 bucks. I already had one the other day on Tuesday. We officially, gosh, what the heck was that? It sounded like as having a stroke. We've officially reached the time of year and this always happens to me where I feel like as a year progresses, my ability to refrain from having weekday beers, even Sunday beers,

it gets worse and worse. You hit me up in March in an average year, you know, even if I break my drinking spell in February, which some years I do, some years I don't. 2020, I went the whole year. This year I went all the way until April minus, I had wine at our wedding shower in February. And I had like three beers on St. Patrick's Day, which was my birthday this past year. Otherwise, I made it all the way till our wedding week before I actually drank anything. But in your average year, You know, March rolls around and it's like, okay, I have two beers on a Friday when I'm recording the podcast and maybe another, I don't know, three drinks on Saturday, something like that. And that's kind of my weekly allotment. I'm good to go. You get into the summer, you start introducing some maybe some patio drinks, patio pounders.

That's the name of a drink, I think, at Chuck's Southern Barbecue. It's a chain out in the southwest suburbs. And one of my favorites, which I don't get to do quite a. often because now it's more of a trip to get out to the lake. But when I used to live out by the lake on Diversi Parkway, one of my favorite things to do would be take my 32-ounce Naljean, a water bottle, pack it with some ice, get like a $6 bottle of white wine from Trader Joe's, top it off, top off the Naljean, take it to the lake, sit there for like 45 minutes,

just no book, probably just listening to YouTube or something on my AirPods and just down. down than algae and then sprint back home before you have to pee your pants. I don't do that quite as much these days. But to cap what I was getting at, man, by the time you get to December, for me mentally, it's like it's so cold, it's so dark. Literally, we got sunsets at like 4.15 p.m. right now where it's like, yeah, drink on a Tuesday, drink on a Thursday, throw in, you know, Sunday for football. We only got four more Vikings games this year, so you really got to savor them. You know, fantasy football playoffs start tonight. There's going to be eliminations. I'm in the playoffs in all three of my leagues, and I have first-round buys in the

two leagues that have first-round buys. And Rachel said to me last night, you know, what if you won all three of your fantasy football leagues? And I was like, oh, my gosh, that'd be amazing. But that's just, that's not how these things go typically. If I win one of the three, I'm extremely grateful. So starting this week, there's probably going to be eliminations. You spent the last 14 weeks of your life carefully crafting the perfect squads. And in my case, it paid off with playoff positioning. But it all comes crumbling down starting tonight, I believe. All good things must come to an end. But then, yeah, you get to these last three weeks of December. And it's just it's not like I'm getting drunk every day or anything like that. It's just I don't feel bad about having

like a casual shower of beer and a glass of whiskey on like a Tuesday. And again, that's not my normal routine. But in December, it's just there's not that much work going on. For as much as I like spending time outdoors, my time outside really gets limited to like taking the dog out for a walk and then my four or five mile run. And it's like anything beyond that, it's like after I woke up at 6 a.m. this morning to go run five miles and you take the dog out, you know, two or three times to go potty. It's like, do I really want to do another trip to walk anywhere from half a mile to a mile plus one way to like go to a bar, go to a brewery, you got to take the dog with you? It's just kind of like, I had that thought today where I was like, oh, you know,

Thursday, Rachel's at a Christmas party downtown all day. The party's not all day, but her day downtown was. And it's like, oh, this would be a perfect opportunity for me and Maple to, like, go to a brewery, kick back, hang out. And then it's like, I'm tired, man. I barely worked at all today. It's my second to last day of work. There's not much to do. But, yeah, between the dog walks and the run, I'm just like, you know what? Let me just kick my feet up. So that's what I'm doing. I'm kicking my feet up in the last three weeks of December. Two weeks ago till Christmas, so don't forget to get your gifts and presents in Los Regados per me.

Got two weeks to do. I wrapped a Christmas gift today, if you can believe it. I'm not usually the wrapping type. In fact, a lot of what I, a spoiler alert for a lot of friends and family, a lot of your gifts this year are going to involve alcohol or gift cards, one or the other is. as they typically do. But I wrapped something that wasn't either of those today, which was pretty exciting. And I'll tell you this, on a scale 1 to 10, as far as rap jobs go,

I'm usually living in like the 3 range. I think this was a solid 5. I don't want to toot my own horn, but this was at least a 5. 6 is probably pushing it, but at least a 5 out of 10. So Rachel will appreciate it when she gets there on Christmas Day. Let's see. What do we got today? We got Maple's Minute, first and foremost. So we watched the animated Grinch, not the Bennett-Cumberbund one, the actual TV special from 1960, 1969, whatever that was. I forgot to mention, I'm the creator, the host, and, I don't know,

zoologist on this program. Always feed in Maple, giving her treat. Sheets giving her belly rubs. Oh, I forgot to say this. Maple got a manicure today. Basically, I trimmed her nails, my sweet little machine, and gave her a bath, a huge blowout, toweled her up real good, went for a walk. First thing she does, runs into the snow and wriggles around. She's never been outside before. So who knows how clean she is, but she looks very chachi, which is a term meaning to look nice, I guess. I don't know the origins of looking chachi, but it's nice. It sounds like chatchy, BT, chachi. But Maple's Minute is sponsored by our good friends at the Samson Q2U series. We were talking about Mark last week and how no one knows what's going on with Mark. That reminds you of Severance.

You guys know Severance 3? I think Severance 2 came on, what, 2024, Severance Season 2. Now they're pulling a stranger things with this. Severance 3. They're filming this year from like March to December, which means it's probably going to be a summer 2027 show. Brutal, man. This thing's like House of Dragons. Is House of Dragons season three happening this summer, summer 2026? I feel like HBO is trying to do the like alternate between House of Dragons and Last of Us as like their big summer Sunday night shows trying to survive after

succession ended and euphoria. Is euphoria? Is that coming back? Is that like happening? Or was that just rumors? I can't remember if that's real or not. What did you for, euphoria just did? Was it two seasons?

Did they get up to three seasons? I feel like a lot of those euphoric kids are doing bigger and better things. Now we got Jacob Lee Lordy in Frankenstein. and Sidney Sweeney, excuse me, who's just now, like, walking back the whole jeans thing. Excuse me, and, like, pseudo-apologizing. It's like a case of the burps here, I apologize.

I'm like Sidney Sweeney. And then there's the, there's that one actress Hunter Schaefer. I don't know anything about her, but I thought I'd say her name. And then, uh, the other one, Rue, Zendaya. Zendaya keeps. getting all these, like, high-profile major, like leads of major film roles. I saw she's got another one coming out with Robert Pettenson. You guys remember that Zendaya movie? It was Zendaya and John David Washington, Denzel's kid, the football player, from like, what was it, like three

years ago. It was in black and white. The whole thing is just one scene. They're like coming home from a party. And it's just like a two-hour conversation. Rachel and I watched that. when we, well, whenever it came out, I was going to say when we started dating, but I think, I don't think it's quite that old. What do we think that one was called? Zendaya and John David Washington movie. Malcolm and Marie, 2021. It was like the most Oscar-bate movie I can think of, and then it didn't get nominated. Maybe got nominated for like one thing. Anyway, she's got another one of these movies coming out that looks kind of similar. In fact, I think the poster was in black and white, if I remember correctly. But it's her and Robert Petitinson from Twilight.

or Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. And I don't know, I mean, she got like the lead role in Dune, Euphoria. There's a younger version of her character from Euphoria was in Hunger Games 2. Rue, remember she's in the tree and she dies. Or is that the first Hunger Games? I don't remember. It might have been the first one. All that is to say, when God speaks, he uses.

Samson. So in addition to Maple's bath and manicure today, I think, I mentioned we watched how the Grinch still Christmas, and Maple was watching it too, and she has a Max plush toy. I don't know if that one squeaks or not. But for Christmas, we brought out Max to put him on the couch next to Maple. And the other night, she was going to town on Max's booty, licking it real good, not to get too graphic here. But every, look, every dog is entitled to their own kink I've always felt. And look, it's two dogs doing consensual things. Maple and Max. I just wish they maybe get some privacy. Maple's got to always do her business right here on the blanket. That's like, bro, we sit here. But I guess Maple feels like she can call complete ownership over it

because she not only does she sit here all day, she now is sleeping here all night, which I think we talked about last week. What's the whole thing when they opened up? Was it Kansas or Oklahoma? I think it was Oklahoma and U.S. history in like the 19th century. They opened it up, homesteading. It's like homeschooling, but more manifest destiny involved. And you just run out into the land and you start staking your claim.

You know, when they did that whole bull rush, whatever is called, stake your claim, homesteading. And you just take out your Conestoga wagon and your horses and your cows and whatever, and you just claim the plot of land. It's interesting because I feel like I would fall somewhere in the middle, right? You don't want to get the first one, but you don't want to go so far where it's like, oh, maybe the soil sucks out here. Why did I go so far away from Oklahoma City or Norman or Tulsa or any other Oklahoma City that you could name?

Stillwater? Those are probably the four I could name. Um, but what my, the reason I mentioned is, imagine this, imagine trying to lay claim to that first plot of land from the start line. It's like everyone would want to go for that. How do you decide who gets that first plot? Because wouldn't just like a lot of people want to get that first plot? Not me necessarily. But there's a lot of lazy people out there and lazy cows, horses, no one wants to work anymore. I don't know. What are your thoughts on that, Maple?

She's looking over there, very depressed. She's mad that dad did training today. Pushed her all the way to 48 minutes alone. And she wasn't happy. She hated it. Standing up on the couch, looking outside, where's my dad? I'm all alone. I'm too small to be here on my own. that's maples minute for you we got a hot take of the week sponsored by our good friends at

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wasn't like shaving them off and drawing them on or maybe it was. I can't remember. But these things were huge it was like having quotation marks on your head they were thick like imagine you open a word doc and you just you know shift comma whatever a quotation mark is i don't know keyboards are weird right typing because it's like when you're typing with your hands and you're kind of zoned out you know exactly what to do and then you actually have to talk about it it's like oh. Or if you like, this is probably a quiz out there. If you like drew a Quartie keyboard but left the character's blank and you had to fill it in, I'm like, ooh, that's actually tough. I feel like I can like visualize a lot of it, but not all of it. Quarty, I know that. J-KL, that's on the right.

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just be driving out into the Caribbean Sea and seizing Venezuelan oil tankers. It sets kind of a bad precedent when you can just, like, kind of blind. say, oh, we don't like what this country is doing as far as X, Y, Z, fill in the blank, whatever you want to say goes. For Venezuela, it's, what, cocaine? You could say, I don't like what Somalia is doing. They're ruining our country, so let's go seize some Somali oil tankers, basically the reverse plot of Captain Phillips.

Or I don't like what China's doing. I don't like their food. This is literally how Trump and Pete Hegzeth would think he'd be like, oh, I went to a Chinese restaurant in Washington, D.C. last night. Kungpao chicken way too spicy. That's for Trump. There's no way Trump eats Chinese food, though, right? We'd have to be like McDonald's disguised in a Chinese restaurant.

But for sake of the hypothetical scenario, and Pete's out there getting wasted on sake, which is not Chinese. But they probably think it's all the same. same, right? Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Korean barbecue. I could see Trump going after some Korean barbecue. I would like some Korean barbecue. The point I'm trying to make here is you go to the South China Sea, you grab an oil tanker from China because your Kung Pao was too spicy, or the sake was low quality. And so because you're having a bad day,

it's like, yeah, let's just go take this oil. And then, of course, Mr. Agent Orange over here in his, not his press conference, but his briefing or whatever, they're like, so what are you going to do with the oil that you seized, you know, to stop drugs, however, those two things align. And Trump's just like, I guess we'll just keep it. Literally, like, a line out of a Tim Robinson, I think you should leave sketch.

It's like, I guess we'll just keep it since no one wants this. If no one wants it, I guess, We'll just take it home and sell it if no one's going to claim it. My hot take is maybe we shouldn't do that. There has to be a better way. This era, this political era of no consequences, we swung way too far in the opposite direction from the Me Too era, which was what?

Peak Me Too was like 2016 to 2018. 2019 or so, I feel like it kind of died out with COVID, where it was like a freaking wick chunt for everyone. And some people stepped down prematurely, like Al Franken, even though if you lined up all the Me Too incidents from Al Franken to Harvey Weinstein, Al Franken is like as far in the nothing burger direction as you could get. But I digress.

excuse me the burps are back now we're all the way in the opposite end of the pendulum we're instead of what you know assigning arguably too much blame and and shouldering of responsibilities and consequences for your actions not to diminish uh or or diminish diminish me too or anything there's plenty of uh plenty of bad ombrace they got weeded out with that and then some people who didn't really mess up that badly who got caught up in it as well, but mostly bad hombrace. But we're all the way where now it's just, oh yeah, let me just seize this oil or whatever, X, Y, Z, let me go take this plot of land in Oklahoma. It doesn't matter. There's no consequences. It's really disappointing this world

we live in. I'll tell you that much. What else happened? What else is going on this week? I should give a quick shout out to our good friends. At Cuts by Acue, a reminder that we not only do human hair, we do dog hair as well. One thing I would never do is leave quotation marks in the middle of your forehead. I don't know. Do your eyebrows live on your forehead? Because I feel like forehead by definition is almost like once your eyebrows end and up to the hairline, that's kind of your forehead. But if you got rid of your eyebrows, if you shaved them off, would you say your forehead goes all the way down to your eyes. Interesting discussion.

But I'll thread your eyebrows. How do people do that? They get these little needles, they thread them. It's like putting cornrows in your eyes, not your eyes, but your eyebrows. I got a lot of respect for the pros out there. And even though I'm not classically trained, I'll still do it for you for a flat fee. I don't even have a holiday surcharge. Go to our website, Beantown Podcast.com.

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last night, last weekend. But it was with Mrs. Claus. Santa was busy, so pictures with Mrs. Claus. She got a toy. She got treats. All for free. Maple, you are so lucky, buddy. In fact, we're supposed to go to the Pause website, the Animal Shelter

here in Chicago, to see if Maple made it into the newsletter, I think, is what they were putting it in. Not sure. We'll have to check. But this isn't Maple's Minute. This is just the rest of the show. We're just riffing. I got some Home Alone trivia for you coming up in a little bit here, and there are bonus questions. So you can get excited about that. A couple other quick-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-r-------------------------. And you're wondering, who the heck is that? well, he is the former coach of the Michigan Wolverines. This is all enveloped, enveloped, enveloped, unfolded. Was it just yesterday this stuff came out?

Today's Thursday? Was it Wednesday? Tuesday? I think it was Wednesday. I think it was just yesterday. Not only does this guy, first he gets fired from Michigan. This is like a really high quality football team. They're not in the playoff, but they got a good bowl game.

You know, they finished like, I don't know, it was like 10 and 3, something like that. Good season, good record. Not only does this guy get fired. Then we find out it's fired for cause. And he's got a big fat contract and stuff. He took over when Jim Harbaugh left to go coach the charges. And now he's arrested. He's in jail.

And it's like, holy moly, what the heck did this guy do? So nothing has officially been confirmed yet as, at the time of this recording, 5.30 p.m. on Thursday night, the 11th. But the scuttle butt is that he knocked up a Michigan, like, student, staffer. And it's like, I could see how you get fired for that if it was, like, inappropriate conduct, especially if it was, like, on his staff, so it was a power imbalance. But now he's in prison, and it's like, you don't go to, you don't go to jail. Hell without bond.

for having sex with like a 20-year-old GA or something. So this guy must have really fucked up. I'm thinking like, well, your first thought is like he slept with some underage girl, right? But it's like if she was a staffer on the team, how is she going to be 17 years old? It doesn't add up. So there's more to this story that is yet to be uncovered. That's why you got Bean Town Investigates hot on the case. me and maple here are going to sit on the couch

going to make some calls or connections over in Ann Arbor and we're going to figure it out what do you guys think Ann Arbor is I mean etymological wise I have never thought about this before and I've been alive for 30 years

Ann Arbor is a city in Michigan where the University of Michigan is, go blue. Also, this whole go blue thing when their primary color is yellow. I know their secondary color is blue. But, like, the logo is yellow. So I feel like we should commit,

we should either say go yellow, or we should put that M in blue. I don't know. I think we got to get our priority straight, big blue. But what, what do you guys think and if you know you can email us beantown podcast at yahoo.com or you can tweet at us at bean town cast never really got the blue sky going i feel like what was it like a year or two years ago when musk was really starting to spiral we there was a big push for a blue sky

and i don't really hear anything about it anymore i do have a blue sky account technically It's one of those things where, like, you set up your account and you're supposed to, like, find people to follow, you know, to really cultivate your feed. But because I was pretty early to the game, I feel like generally, like, I got this account over a year ago. None of my peeps, none of my friends or anything had accounts. And I'll do a little bit of, like, following of, you know, celebrities or people I, you know, sports really. things, whatever, things that are interesting to me. But I'd like to build a foundation of, oh, these are my friends. These are people I know, and my friends just never joined me.

I don't really have, do people, like, have close friends, excuse me, that they follow and vice versa, on Twitter and or blue sky, because to me, the, like, nature of those particular platforms is just completely different than Facebook and Instagram and Snapchat. excuse me like on Twitter I don't remember the last time other than maybe one or two people that come to mind I don't remember the last time seeing like a tweet or a post from someone who I'm like oh yeah I actually like am friends of this person in real life it's almost all just random stuff centered around like specific topics I guess Reddit is the same way but then

Facebook and Instagram is the exact opposite where it's like you only see stuff from your people or your groups or whatever it's interesting how those two paths excuse me, have diverged and developed. But let's answer our own question. We're going to learn here on the show today, and then we'll keep this going, because that's all I have on Sharon Moore. Ann Arbor, named after from Wikipedia,

the wives of the city's founders, both named Anne and the Burr Oak in the area. So this city had two founders, male, presumably, unless there's some lesbian stuff going on. Their wives' names were both Anne. And then, so they said, let's name it Anne and then Arbor, because of the burr oak in the area. It's a pretty looking tree. We'll talk about trees in a second here.

Actually, let me just throw this in. We'll just kind of make a big cosmic gumbo out of it. A balsa versus balsam? I had to have this existential crisis when I was buying candles earlier this week I bought a candle I wanted like a Christmas scented one and something I'm thinking like okay let's do some pine right everyone loves a pine tree so I'm online and perusing flavors, scents, odors

and they're saying oh well you might like this one it's got pine and it's got balsam and I'm thinking that's I've seen balsam before but did you mean balsa? I didn't actually think that but for the sake of setting up this conversation, let's just say I did. But fast forward, I got the candle now, and it is balsam flavored. I don't think there's any pine in there at all.

I think I went from pine straight to balsam. But that got me thinking earlier today as I was preparing for the show. Like, what do we actually know about balsa versus balsam? And turns out they are two completely different things. Balsa is like a lightwood, almost like a tree's dead or something. and it's super light. Must be really porous. P-O-R-O-U-S.

What do you guys think porridge is? Everyone knows about Goldilocks. I feel like if you're British or you're, you know, more likely you're listening to the show, you're Pakistani. You probably have more of an inside track on what porridge is.

Is it like oatmeal? I'm kind of done with the Ann Arbor thing, okay? It was just wives and trees. and okay so let's move past it what the heck is porridge i feel like i'm not going to like it i'll do a porridge taste test as someone sets it up for me but i'm not going to make my own porridge is a hot dish made by boiling grains like oats barley or rice in water or milk until soft often served for breakfast as a sweet or savory meal while porridge in british english

often means oatmeal the dish is versatile and can be made from many grains so basically yeah It's just like, you can make it out of oats, or you can do quinoa, barley, grains, wheat, wheat thins, or those, what's that one cereal, frosted, shredded mini-weets? Shredded, bro. But, yeah, balsover. And then balsams like a regular old pine tree. technically it's different. I guess the genus is different. But yeah, balser versus balsam. Who knew? Different things. Only the thing I wanted to mention, because I got two more things on my call sheet here, but one I already mentioned. Last day at DePaul tomorrow. Hell of a run. Six and a half years. And I don't know. There's not much more to say. I've said my goodbyes. I got to go downtown tomorrow to drop off my computer, bring back my library books. but yeah it was a good run got to got to tell you i don't i don't feel great about the future of

this university not necessarily because i was laid off but more so just some of the decision making i don't know we're building more and more athletics facilities knocking down more wrote, you know, townhouses, brownstones, and also laying off 120 staff this week. So it feels like we're getting to Hail Mary time as a university where it's like we either win the NCAA tournament in the next five years or, you know, that we close. We'll see what happens. Fingers crossed. It's like a plot of a movie.

and I can say we for 24 more hours here. Hell of a ride. You know what Christmas song that I've come to appreciate more and more over the years? Sleigh ride. I think I like it because it's got a lot more kind of harmonic complexity than your average Christmas song. Because if you sit me down at a piano say, okay, can you play deck the halls? I say, sure, we got three chords in here. Four if you're lucky.

but he came a sleigh ride we're getting in all sorts of modulations seventh chords sus fours six sevens all of the above so I appreciate sleigh ride giddy up giddy up gitty up to do

bing de do do we're walking in the wonderland of snow you could probably forget your conistoga wagon you go out there get a plot of land in Oklahoma you could bring your sleigh along I don't know if you rassel up some white-tailed deer I don't know if they're as effective as caribou but that's our number one music recommendation of the week

caribou the album by Elton John Does that have Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself There's always someone else I see I just allow a fragment of your life I do want a fee But losing everything

Is like the sun going down Oh me I think that's from Caribou If it's not, that's really embarrassing Because we just spent 30 seconds singing it But our number two music pick of the week And I haven't had time to fully explore this exit Just dropped live this afternoon

Wolf-Pek Madison Square Garden to their second concert film essentially or live concert from Madison Square Garden put out on YouTube again if we've talked both back in the in the past but it all comes full circle this wasn't even planned bro these guys met at University of Michigan Ann Arbor big Michigan day and uh they're an independent band they don't have a record label or anything like that they do all the work themselves and uh yeah they had their second well I'm sure they've played more concerts than that at Madison Square Garden, but they had an original concert film at Madison Square Garden like three years ago, and then they dropped their second one from a concert this year today on YouTube.

And I'm only gotten to listen to a little bit of it. But man, if you just want to, if you just want to have a good time, you don't even have to watch the whole two-hour thing or watch it. You could just listen to it. But those guys are up there. There's like 20 of them on stage. Just having a great, great time. Simply having a wonderful Christmas time. They don't sing that one as far as I can tell, but it's a lot of fun. So you can go to YouTube, Wolfpec, V-U-L-F-E-C-K, MSG-2, and you'll find it. So we've got sirens going past. Maple, they're coming to get you.

All right, let's finish up here. I could vamp more, but you know what? There's a lot of other things you guys can listen to. just give you 45 minutes of Beantown and you can go listen to Glenn Beck or Wolfpack MSG2 or whatever you want. MSG2 is probably what Trump saw in the menu of the Chinese restaurant before he got that oil tanker in the South China Sea. It's a lot of tying up of loose ends here on the show today. Our reminders, we got a great, you got a horse, a great horse suggestion, horse name suggestion from a colleague today on my penultimate day of work.

A reminder that voting is open or submissions are open. Text your horse name to 27134. I just made that up. But you can, of course, email us or tweet at us or tell us in person or whatever. If you have a listener suggestion for a great horse name, this isn't just like I looked at Wikipedia. Here were the horses in the 1968 Preakness. No, this is like if you were naming your horse, what would you name it?

And that'll be great for our ninth annual horse name special coming up here. Kentucky Derby weekend in May, I think, is one of that is. So you have that to look forward to. But we've got a couple slots left. I've already written down some really good ones. This is a strong year. I've done a good job of keeping notes in my phone as we went along. Let's wrap up here with our trivia question.

I figured we'd do Christmas theme with two weeks ago until Christmas. calendar schedule-wise and then we get to our trivia haven't fully flushed this out yet but next week I imagine you can expect a trivia question on or excuse me a new bean town on Thursday or Friday of next week would be my expectation and then Christmas is on a Thursday this year so we'll see I don't know when I'm going to have like a perfect time to step away and do it I don't usually record on Christmas day but I want to get in a Christmas special before Christmas day. So I don't have to do it like those days after Christmas between Christmas and New years. It's a wicked dichotomy of like all the free time in the world and also not wanting to

do anything. That's when I really, it's like my final form as far as these day drinking beers go. Not only will I like crack open a beer at noon on a Monday and just be like, oh yeah, sounds good. Don't think twice about it. I'll make it a boiler maker, throw in some whiskey. Or I'll like go to a brewery midday, have two or three drinks, come back home and fix me up a nightcap, which happens at 3 p.m. And then New Year's Day hits. And it's just on to the edibles. So yeah, we'll figure things out as we go schedule-wise. But we've got a couple more episodes. I think three or four episodes left here before the season nine premiere. And it's going to be very different. Yeah, there's, you know, a lot of changes coming to the Beantown podcast. So

prepare yourself. Here's our trivia question and I will let you know that there are three bonus questions that spin off of this. And it all stemmed from one scene in a classic holiday movie. So if you are a fan of this particular film, I think you'll enjoy all these questions. And if you've never seen this before, I apologize. Or if you're just, you know, you saw it like two or three times and you don't really recall it, this isn't going to be as fun for you. but I'm just going to ask the question. It's Home Alone themed, and it features one of my favorite actors. Here is the question.

In the holiday classic film Home Alone, what is the character name? What is the name of John Candy's character? Who's only in two scenes, one scene at the airport, and then another on the truck ride back to Chicago. But he helps getting Catherine O'Hara the final leg of the journey all the way back. I'm like, they have to, like, land a plane in Kansas City or something like that. Cleveland, maybe, I can't remember.

And they drive her all the way back in the truck. Anyways, what is this character's name? John Candy's character's name. You want more time to go ahead and pause, but we got bonus questions to get to, so I'm going to keep going. His name is Gus Polinsky. Bonus question one. What type of music does Gus Polinski

and his band play. What style, genre, type, et cetera, of music does this band play? And it's not just passing mention. They actually perform in the back of the moving truck as they're going. You might find them at your local Octoberfest next fall. That's because they play polka music.

P-O-L-K-A. Bonus question number two, what is the name of the band? that is led by Gus Polinsky. It's not the East Street band. It's not the Delaware Destroyers. It's not the blowfish. What is the name of Gus Polinsky's backing band?

It includes a name of a city in Wisconsin, and it's alliterative. The letter is K. The answer, Gus Polinsky, and the Kenosha Kickers. And finally, it's not Kenosha. I'll spot you that. Final bonus question of the podcast.

Which Wisconsin City were Gus Polinski and the Kenosha kickers biggest in? Or they sold 623 copies, mostly in this Wisconsin city. It's not Kenosha. It's not Racine. It's not Milwaukee. But if you keep going up the lake, a little bit more before you hit Green Bay, you'll find it. And if you don't know your Wisconsin geography, you're never going to get this.

I apologize. But if you do, you might be able to guess. It's a fun one to say. It's not Ashkosh. It is Shaboiegen. So again, to recap, it is Gus Polinsky's John Candy's character's name. He and his band play Poka. His band's name is the Kenosha Kickers, and they were big in Shaboigan.

with uh you know kiss me poca twin city poca twin lakes poca i think is what it's called and poca poca poca poca all right thank you everyone for tuning into my show queen david furnis presents the bean tom podcast wish me luck on my last day of work tomorrow and i think we'll go ahead and wrap there for all of us at the bean town podcast we'll come to you live next week with more hot takes maples minute beers and all that fun stuff i hope you stay safe stay stay saying i'll check in on you next time bye bye And so, you know, and the

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