Beantown Podcast - Megan Sparkle, Chicken Buckets, and Pepperoni Pizza Popcorn (10242025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: October 24, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to praise Jewel Osco deals, ponder grape stomping, and preview the shocking Love is Blind Island finale

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town podcast for Friday, October 24th, 2025. Sun is starting to set not only right now, it's 5.21 p.m. here on a Friday in Chicago. Good orange's hue outside, but also on the end of season 8. We have got, I don't know, about 10 episodes left in season eight of the Beantown podcast, gearing up for season nine here. Very exciting. My name is Quinn.

I am the creator and the host and the chief wine. What do they call someone who makes wine? Someone who makes beer as a brewer. Wine is a whiner. I do some whining. I do my fair share of whining on this show. I like to think I'm not overly whiny, largely whiny, largely just. about fantasy football.

That's where I, my wine really shines, I think. Otherwise, not so much. Great, grape stopper. Remember that great viral clip? Great clip, not grape clip. Great clips. Kirk Cousins, right? You guys watched that quarterback season two documentary.

I didn't finish it, but Kirk was on both seasons. And this season, this came out this past summer, he had a big sponsorship deal with great clips. And so he had to, like, contractually, he was obligated to mention great clips once every five seconds. It felt like, man, I sure love going to great clips. I can check in on the app and I get a great cut every time. And he shows them, you know, he sits down in the chair to get his haircut. And you know how people usually it's like, oh, I'm going to show a picture of a celebrity or something with a cool new haircut?

Like, that's what I aspire to look like. Can you make my hair look like that? Awesome. Kirk Cousins just sits down and pulls up his headshot from his. his 2024 Atlanta Falcons team photo, and that's the cut they do, which I can't blame him. It's just, it's uncommon, you know. One time, we were talking Cosby Show last week, one time when I was a kid, probably like 12 or 13, so I definitely developed my sense of humor, and I sat down because my mom would cut my hair,

shout out, Jane. I would sit, I sat down in the chair, we had this squeaky little metal, kind of chair with a very little padding, like a flower pattern in the padding and the butt in the back. I don't know whatever happened to it. But sit down in the chair, you could spin all the way around. It wasn't like super spinning. It's just you could spin if you had to. But one time I printed out some pictures. In the black and white printer, don't worry, Dad, I didn't use color ink of some wild haircuts that I was considering so that I could hold them up to my mom and show her before getting an inevitable number two buzz cut but i think one of them was the malcolm jamaul warner flat top

classic haircut uh from the cosby show rest in peace malcolm i feel like we've talked to the cosby show like three straight weeks but that's okay neither here nor there how did we get there oh grapes that viral clip you guys remember this i mean this was like early viral videos like coming out of the america's funniest home videos era and into the youtube era so probably probably like mid-2000s, if I had to guess, 2005, 2006 is when this happened. But there's a lady, you know, it's a morning news show, and she's doing a spot on wine growing. And so she goes to the vineyard, and she's like stomping grapes next to the lady owns the vineyard. And they're like racing to see how many grapes you can stop, you know, how much wine you can produce in 30 seconds or whatever.

And if you've never seen this before, you've got to go check it out, or if you have, it's probably been a while. It certainly has been for me. I'm glad this popped in my head, but she, like, they race each other, and then the timer ends, hit zero, and then she tries to cheat a little bit. And the climax is as she's cheating and getting in some extra stumps after the buzzer, she trips and falls down and falls off like this wooden platform they were standing on. Because she's trying to, like, stomp in her bucket. They have to do this grape stomping in the buzzer. bucket. So she trips and falls down and the sounds that come out of that news lady's mouth

after she trips while cheating. It is poetic justice, but it's like, ow, ow, ow, ow. Sounds like a dead rabbit or something, or a dying rabbit in like a coyote's jaw. That's what I imagine. One of those sneaky quiet animals, you know, where it doesn't make any sound and then you're like, that's what your voice sounds like? Isn't that? That's from, I think you should leave was it season two maybe where he pretends to he hires a guy to take massive dumps in the office because he looks like the other guy and the other guy starts talking and the decoy or something and tim robins's character's like that's what your voice sounds like that is wildly high there's a there's an i think you should leave quote for everything that's what we are uh the the chief wine stomper

whiner and wine stomper on this program listener discretion advisor and you're listening to the town podcast number one will cage me some language number two's podcast is objectively terrible and if you're curious yes i am drinking wine it wasn't just a random poll it says is it dark horse is that what i got i can't remember it's a red blend but it's you could choose you know among the eight dollar bottles at the jewel today which i'll talk about more in a second here just want to give a shout out jewel often maligned at least in my mind and on this program but I have to give Jule it's flowers today. I did not purchase any flowers from Jule today,

but I have to give Jolet's flowers. Got a bottle of wine. Just felt like it was kind of a wine night. Lately, and I think we've spoken on this podcast before, but when I go, you know, whiskey and beer, leading into an early morning Saturday, waking up to run, it's just been wreaking havoc on my stomach. And every week it happens.

I'm like, when will I learn? and when will I change my ways? And today's the day we're trying. I still had a beer. I had an oatmeal stout like an hour ago. But doing it and they say, you know, don't mix wine and beer. So the joke is still on me over here, okay? But I had one beer and now I'm sipping some wine.

The key for me is like keep the water moving in it. We're not talking about like staying hydrated so you don't get drunk here. It's literally like so I can wake up, take a solid in more ways than one. number two and then go for like a you know 80 minute run without just keeling over and stomach cramp hell the the easy solution would be to just not drink at all but i record on fridays and bean town podcast is just that much more smooth when we got a little sippy sippy i didn't like that i don't want to say the phrase sippy sippy ever again uh but yeah i was choosing between like a it was like a dark chocolatey notes dark horse

things is what it's called. They're like the silky smooth caramel one and I got, I don't think it's actually chocolate or caramel. It's just what I associated it with in my mind. I went for more of the bright, silky smooth, a little bit sweeter, a little bit less bitter. We'll save that for when the snowfall hits, although it has been awfully cold. I've been wearing my winter jacket the last two days. It's been a legitimate wake up as 39 degrees this morning. And it's not like living in the desert or something where it's 30 overnight and then gets up to 70. We're are hovering around like high 40s and lots of wind. It feels like is around like high 30s and the low 40s.

These last couple of days, kind of brutal. I want to give my shout out here to Jewel Osco. You know, I think oftentimes, if you don't know, Jewel is a Chicago local Albertsons, is whom owns it nationally. But oftentimes their prices can be pretty rough, especially in this economy. Excuse me with inflation, certainly. their prices still are rough, but if you know how to price hunt, some weeks can be really solid. And this was one of those weeks. And what I appreciated, although I think I've gotten more,

I've kind of figured out the Jewel Osco app finally, you know, they've got a lot of the deals where you've got to clip it in the app and then punch in your phone number. And it's one of those things where once it finally works the way it's supposed to, it's super easy. I mean, it could be easier. You still have to like search for the item. You're standing next to it in store. You search for it on your app. You've got to make it. make sure you get the spelling just right or else it doesn't find it. Then you clip it and then you punch in your phone number at the register and you get the savings. Not that bad, but could be easier. You could just like, they could just give you the deal regardless or you could like scan it or something.

There is a scanning functionality, but I tried that originally and it didn't work and it was really frustrating. I digress. I want to give some shoutouts to the deals that I secured at Julesco this afternoon. Some of them knew, some of them not. Something we've talked about before. on the show, but I do like to give a shout out to it. In fact, I hesitate to give a shout out because it's arguably one of the greatest outside of a food bank, which are going to be hopping now with Trump announcing no food stamps for November. Could be a rough Thanksgiving meal. Let's just put it that way. I got to give a shout out to the Friday bucket of chicken. You can get a bucket of either wings or tenders. We always do tenders because who really likes a wing more than a tender.

You can either have all chicken or 75, not even 75, like 65% chicken and then bones you can't eat. Why would I want a wing? You get a bucket of tenders. And if I had to estimate, there's got to be a solid, I don't know. And these aren't like the tiny little cheapy, put them in the snack wrap McDonald's tenders. These are standard. tenders, I would say. You're probably getting a solid, I don't know, 15-ish tenders in this bucket. The whole thing is $9.99. And so the math works out. You're paying like $0.75 per a tender. And I don't know, man, you're just not going to beat those savings anywhere else. But beyond that, I mean, that's not new. That's every Friday at Julesa. You get your bucket of chicken.

I feel like people reference and know about cheap chicken Monday, but it's really, for me, it's Sheep Chicken Friday. It's a great start to the weekend because it's like I already came home. He had two tenders because they're just so succulent and good. They're only going to be this warm the first time. And then we're going to have chicken Caesar salad wraps for supper tonight and tomorrow with some sweet potato fries. And there's still enough chicken tenders on the side to where you can just like snatch one up here and there and just munch on it. He can't beat it. Other great savings I got at Jewell today, they have their store baked cookies that are really solid and they've expanded their flavor lineup. So I was choosing between gingerbread and what I

ultimately went with was white chocolate pumpkin. You get the whole bag, which is like, I don't know, it probably comes out to like 20, 25 cookies total. First, for three bucks. They had regular Oreos on sale for three bucks, which if you live in a low cost of living area, some of these numbers might be like, you know, $3 for Oreos, that's not that big of the savings. I think the standard price for Oreos these days, like Doritos at Juosco is like $6.650. So we're getting big, big savings here. Pints of Baskin-Robbins branded ice cream for $1.50. The flavors I got were chocolate fudge and cookie monster, which I think is just going to be like,

kind of like the birthday, you know, sugar cookie kind of flavor, but it's blue. could you pass that up? There used to be this great ice cream restaurant. I think it was attached to like a gas station or a general store. I don't remember exactly. In northern Wisconsin, we would go to, I think it was called the porch. And went there a handful of times as a kid, and I would always get the blue moon flavor, which isn't, it's basically just like sugar flavor, essentially and then diet blue but i just thought that was the coolest thing i had to get the blue moon flavor when i went to the porch so cookie monsters and omascia and only dollar 50 a pint guys we were talking big big savings i think there's one or two other things i nabbed as well i mean i got some

diet coke you're listening you're saying gosh chicken tenders ice cream diet coke two types of cookies you guys are eating healthy over there and to that i say mind your own bees wax. No, I think we are fairly healthy people in general. Sometimes, though, when the savings are there and the weather is getting colder, you just got to treat yourself a little bit, right? We can't all just be having rhudebaga and lox. I don't know if locks is healthy or not. I'm not sure. Gords, pumpkin, innards. We can't just eat that all the time. Sometimes we need to treat ourselves. I mean, the two bags of cookies, the bucket of chicken, and the two things of ice cream came out to legitimately $20 plus tax. So you tell me who's getting the last laugh.

I am as I stuffed my face with cookie monster, ice cream, Oreos, Jewel cookies, and cheap chicken. So shout out to Jewel. I have two hot takes. One is related to food. The other one, I'll get in real quick here, and I won't go into too many details. I just, this isn't even a hot take. This is more of like Quinn's whining hour, because I mentioned earlier that I like to whine. Last night, it was one of the last classes of the quarter that I teach. I've got one more week next week, but my work is largely done. But what we like to do on this kind of penultimate class of the quarter is bring in for the students I teach who are all freshmen, first year music, students. They're all music majors in some capacity. So we bring in a panel of current Chicago musicians, some of them alums, some of them not, but they just answer questions for 90 minutes.

It's good fun. But man, every time this comes up year after year, I am reminded, and I don't mean any offense when I say this, but thank God I am not a full-time musician. Not because of like the gig lifestyle or like the stage fright anxiety that I have, but these, feel like the majority of musicians I know, and this isn't a reflection of like personal values or how much I like or dislike you, but they just live in their own world and it feels like music is everything. There are not that many like sub-secondary identities. I know that's a huge generalization. I know people who have other identities outside of just music, but it seems like most of the full-time professional musicians I know, it is just like all music all the time.

That's like the jokes they make, the references they know. And I get it. I am from that world. I was a music major myself. I got out of the rat race because I didn't feel like I belonged in that community. And I'm so glad I did. You know, I've been out of that world for almost 10 full years now, nine, nine and a half years, essentially. And I don't, I don't even have, I don't want to even go any more into that. I'm not trying to offend anyone. I have plenty of music friends. They're fantastic. But it is just, man, it feels like when you're in it, you are in it 100%. And there's not a lot of wiggle room. And I could have never been in it 100%. I would have been kind of like I am now, right? I got my main thing, but I got other things. And I really like watching,

I like watching football on Sundays. And I play a lot of tune blast. And I can't just, I can't just sit at the piano for four hours in practice and then go play a church gig and then go teach some students and drink some tea and call it a day. It's just, and make jokes about Chopin, Balad's just can't do it. So, no offense. It's just not for me. It's not you. It's me. That's one, it's not even really a hot take, just something I wanted to get off my chest. My other hot take, this is the last thing that I saw before I hit the record button, I was on Instagram. And my, you know, you go to Instagram the for you page, whatever it's called, you swipe. It's the screen to the right of your homepage after you log in. So I think you moved your finger from right to left. You swipe left to

get there to move to the right. Inverse controls. That's what the, we're, Rachel and I were playing PlayStation the other day. We were playing a sonic racing game. And when you're flying, it's like inverted y-axis and the the system detected that maybe she was having trouble i don't know if she's trying to do a barrel roll or what it looked pretty badass but they asked if she wanted to invert her controls and i don't know if she said yes or not but i think she still got first place she's pretty quick she's better at the racing games than i am but the point i was actually trying to make is my my entire instagram for you page i think it's called is all just recipes because that's what I look at.

And usually you look at them and there are recipes or travel tips for Madeira and the Canary Islands. Been getting a lot of that lately, which is self-cultivated because I click on it. The algorithm knows it's pretty smart. It's smart enough to say if he clicked on it, let's show him more of that. Crazy how that stuff works. Usually the recipes I see, it's a lot of like one pot, one pan, you know, heavy on the car. be nokey something or pasta with turkey and peppers and oh make it cheesy and you know xyz stuff that looks good not the point of this right before starting recording i saw something that caught my

attention because it looked like little sausages and it's like oh that could be tasty not that i hardly have sausage ever so i'm not planning to make it but i was like oh this is interesting it is pepperoni pizza popcorn and i just we already said listen to discretion device right when i looked at it i legitimately thought to myself what the fuck and i don't usually that's not that i i find it to be offensive or anything it just that's not usually where my mind goes i'm usually a little bit more like even keeled level headed like oh that doesn't look amazing but i'd be interested in trying it when i saw the pepperoni pizza popcorn i legitimately was just get the fuck out of here and the lady you know she's like everyone's been asking me how

i make this viral snack and i wasn't um it was just a subtitle so they don't watch any of this stuff with audio on but i hate from trump all the way down whenever anyone's like people have been asking me or trump's thing is always like they ask me sir you know how many americans have died and i said too many we got to send ice in there and i'm not trying to do a not going to try to do a trump impression beyond that but I hate you know and I because I do this all the time when I'm like gosh so many people have been emailing me with uh you know for life advice relationship sex romance all that stuff people keep emailing me in the inbox Beantown podcast at yahoo.com I don't have time to get to all of it but I appreciate your support I know it's bullshit because I'm the king of bullshit

uh it takes one to no one right so this lady starts browning up it wasn't you know usually when I think of buying pepperoni it's like the little pack you get and you put it on your pizza and you're good to go. This was like raw pepperoni, I guess, pepperoni stick or something that she had cut up. So she throws that in her Dutch oven, browns it. And there was one Cardinal sin that really pissed me off and made me feel like I needed to like keel over and go eat some tombs. I'll tell you in a second. So she cooks up the pepperoni while she's scaring it up, because it's always better to scare up some pepperoni than just to cook it. She opens up the bag. It's the, I don't know if it's like the boom

chickapop or whatever, but it's like the Himalayan sea salt with a little chicken on the front, right? Whatever branding that is. So she opens that up. And then, well, you know, before she's ready to assemble it all, she puts together, this isn't really the important part, but a whole bunch of spices. It was a lot. I don't even know what it was because I wasn't launching the subtitles anymore, but just like a bunch of salt and chili powder and cumin, I don't know all what it was. It's pizza, so probably some basil and oregano in there, too. But here's the carnalson. So she's cooked up all this pepperoni, something that's going to produce a lot of oil,

a lot of juice, right? You've seen it. You order a pepperoni pizza. You get the good pepperoni. It comes in, and every little pepperoni is like a little moon crater, and there's a ton of oil in there. It's tough on the tum, right? You feel it going down your throat as you eat it.

It feels like it's seeping directly into the arteries. And it's just a matter of time before God calls your number and your artery's fully blocked, and that's that. Getting dark here in the Beantown podcast. It's getting dark outside. This is our second to last episode before daylight savings time ends. And then we're just going to be a darkness for four months before we emerge at St. Patrick's Day. It's like coming out of rock tunnel, right, transitioning from the early game Pokemon,

Lieutenant Surge, SSN, get your bike vows. voucher. And then you come out of rock tunnel and all of a sudden, the whole world is open to you. You can go to Pokemon Tower. You can kill the Marowocca or whatever you do. You can go battle Erica with her victory bell. You can go, uh, uh, uh, you can go to the rocket hideout, right? There's so much you can do. Uh, you can even, uh, you can give the guards the fresh water and they can go glug, glug, glug, you go down and fight coga and all that stuff. We do it, do whatever you want to do. Here's the Cardinal sin. She doesn't drain her oil off of her pepperoni at all. Here comes Maple just in time for Maple's Minute. And she throws the popcorn and the spices right in there.

And I'm just watching this like, oh my gosh, this oil is going all over this popcorn. It's just seeping right through it. It is just going to be the first taste touching your taste butt is going to be absolutely delicious with all those spices and then your arteries are just going to get completely clogged and you're going to die. But also who decided that pepperoni popcorn should be a thing because is that a snack? Is that a meal? What are we doing here? I don't know. Have you heard about this viral sensation pepperoni popcorn? Rachel thinks it sounds delicious. This lady on Instagram, well, she didn't drain her oil at all. She scared up the pepperoni right in the pan no drainage and throws the popcorn right in there with the spices

and my heart is just getting heavy thinking about it i don't know uh that bring that would be this would be a good time for maples minute here sponsored as always by our good friends at home pride Oregon guys when you need your home inspected in central Oregon go with the experts who are safe certified ones you can trust year after year we're talking over and hangs and pagodas and pergolas i feel like if you got a house with a pagoda you might really like japanese culture pergola is maybe more of a standard thing i don't know home pride organ 5 4 and 4 no 316 or email homebriot organ at gmail.com homebriot organ inspection perfection also a good time to mention that this program is brought to you by our good friends at the

Samson Q2U series, whether you are reading from the Torah because it's your bar mitzvah or you're reading from, I don't know, I feel like, if, Keyt Senera, is there anything biblical about that? I don't think so. Maybe. Is there, you know, is a Keynesia like just the party or is there like a mass beforehand? I feel, you know, I went to a Keynesia. I was in a Keynesnira once. have been invited to multiple, frankly.

But I don't, you know, the one I went to wasn't a Catholic family. It was our evangelical Christian homeschool friends. So, so no, no hint of mass to speak of, excuse me. But I feel like I wouldn't be surprised if like in Latin America or Spanish, quinceaniera, is that a Latin American thing or is that Spanish? Both, who knows? We don't, we, there's no way to know. I feel like I could see a mass being attached to it at a church called like

Lasagrida Familia de Neuestra Madre or something like that, you know. Just kind of what it feels like. We're just about to do Maple's Minute and she leaves the room. Extremely embarrassing for the show reflects poorly in me as an owner. Come back, Maple. Yeah, it's Maple's Minute. Come on, buddy. You need to be here for this.

Samson, when God speaks, he uses a Samson. Yep, there you are. Okay, you have anything before Maple's Minute? Don't run away from the microphone. Okay, did a little lick. That's good. Maple's Minute, I think we mentioned this once last week already. I think last week I said it was two weeks away, but it is tomorrow, guys.

It snuck up on us. The North Center Town Square at the Farmer's Market, It's the last day of the year. The pet costume contest is tomorrow at 11.30 a.m. sharp, your defending champion, Maple, is coming back to defend her title. Last year, she won, you know, some sort of pig ear, cow ear. This year, with her lack of teeth, we're going to see if they have, you know, discounts on pup cups or something.

I don't know what they... They should have prizes that accommodate dogs with disabilities, right? Maple, she's back here on the couch. She's looking at me, like, did Dad say a pig's ear, dead? you know I can't have that, Maple, we're going to get you a good prize, buddy. And if they only have hard candy, basically, your equivalent of hard candy, then we'll go to Starbucks or something to get you a pup cup. Maple is now, the last couple of days, been allowed to go inside Starbucks to directly pick up her pup cups. We're just one step away. She still had to have an adult accompany her,

but the Starbucks is only a block away. I think we are just one couple training sessions away from her being able to just go out on her own down Irving Park road here and get the pub cup herself. What do you think, buddy? I have to give you a key to get back in downstairs, which could be tough without thumbs,

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experience with cornrows uh or afros and i feel like there's one or two bulls players that have that like coby white for example although we got this guy not his uh josh giddy we traded for him last year from the thunder i think something like that He's kind of got this long. He kind of looks like he could be like a Roman emperor or something. He's got like the long flowing behind him curly hair. Kind of like slicked back, greasy on top, and then flowing curly locks. Definitely could be like a hockey player hairstyle.

That I think I could work with. I get my hands in there, really massage that scalp. Bring it on. Cuts by Q. I think we already said the slogan here. Coming up in a few minutes, we have our trivia question. Of the week, it's going to be great for all you horror heads out there, H-O-R-R-R-R-H-E-A-D-S.

Horror heads. And it's going to be good for, yeah, if you're a film buff of horror head, all that stuff, you're going to enjoy it. I think we are planning. We've got to get through our show as Jeopardy and Wheel Fortune here, but I have earmarked tonight to watch the film adaptation of Stephen King's the long walk, the novel that I finished a couple weeks ago here. So I'll report back and let you know how it is. I got a, I got a, we talked a lot about good deals on food earlier in the show with

Jewel Osco. I got to go the other way for a second here. And then we'll do our love is blind update and then finish up with our trivia question. But McDonald's codes, you've probably seen it by this point McDonald's is is running currently running their long-standing monopoly game and if you're not plugged in essentially you know I used to think up until this year okay if I want to play monopoly at McDonald's you got to like buy the products so that you get the little peel off code and you can enter the code and yada yada yada but you can I don't know why they're legally obligated to do this maybe they're not, but you can actually just request codes online. You can request 10 a day and McDonald's will send them to you and you can get all sorts of prizes. And Rachel and I have

been doing this for about two, three weeks now, basically three weeks. And you get so much free food, there's just no way to use all of it. Good problem to have. But you get, you know, the actual game piece themselves, like Oriental Avenue, which Frank somehow hasn't been canceled yet, or Illinois Avenue or Pacific Marvin Gardens, et cetera. And I haven't won any of those, you know, complete your set ones. I really want to go to space. There's one where you go to the Kennedy Space Center. I want that one so bad. There's an RV, which I think someone won on like the second day. There's a car. There's a cool motorcycle. And then if you get all the Browns, you win a portable record player, which is almost as good as going to space. Not quite, but almost as good.

But I got to tell you, I have been very diligent every day with requesting my 10 codes. It takes a little bit of time. It's a manual process. It probably takes like, I don't know, four to five minutes total to do it every day. In the last two days, the way it works, you request your code and then McDonald's sends them to your email. Usually about two to four hours later, it's been my experience. The last two days, I think McDonald's is just stonewalling me. they are no longer sending me codes and i got to tell you that this the giveaway is supposed to run

for like another 10 days here and i'm feeling totally shorted i think they knew how close i was to winning the trip to space and they said whoa whoa whoa if we give this this you know qd 69 my username any more game codes he's he's going to go to space and we can't afford that we didn't take out of the proper insurance policy on that. So kind of like when, you know, however long ago this was six, seven years, Facebook kind of blackballed my account when I was posting on the Beantown podcast. That's when we essentially quit Facebook. McDonald's is pulling a similar stunt here.

So I'm here to call out Ray Crock and Ronald and what's his name, Grimsby? Grimmis, the purple guy. He's the taste bud. And the hamburgler, what do we think about the hamburgler's gender? I mean, I think male, right? But you can't really see anything under that black zero mask. Hard to know for sure. That hamburger always kind of creeped me out.

I think it's like just the starkness of the whites of their eye against the black mask. Just something a little bit unsettling. Like Ronald McDonald's unsettling because he's a clown, obviously. grimace I'm not that intimidated by is a taste button which is kind of a purple blob seemed pretty harmless but the hamburger something about that hamburger just strikes me the wrong way

I will the final thing I'll say is a shout out to McDonald's and the Magnopoly game in branding for not leaning into the hamburger at all because I don't want to see that every time I open up my app if anyone out there this is 100% legit lives close to McDonald's and wants especially apple pies i think i probably have about 15 to 20 free apple pies sitting in my account expires basically right before thanksgiving the 23rd of november 30 days from now uh apple pies diet coax small fries small

cones got a handful of snack wraps or four piece nuggets If you want any of that, or I got like four or five breakfast sandwiches, too. Legitimately, email us, Beantown Podcast Yahoo.com, tweet out us at BeantownCast, or you can just text me personally. I will happily send in an order anywhere in the country so that you can get two free cookies, apple pies, whatever you're looking for. I got the hookup over here with my McDonald's code. I don't ask for anything in return, but if you did win, if you didn't know about the McDonald's games,

the Monopoly games before listening to this, and all of a sudden you go in in the last week and you win that trip to space, all I ask is you think of me as you're up there listening to Space Oddity by David Bowie. This is ground control to Major Tom. and just look down you'll find Lake Michigan go to the southwest corner of it and just give a little salute

say thanks Quinn for your PSA without you and everybody had gone to space. It's basically like the end of the second act of Inside Out when Richard Kyn's character sacrifices himself so that Amy Poehler can get back to the brain wherever she's trying to get to and he's Richard is like, go to the, take her to the moon for me. I can't do a Richard kind accent, but that's basically what

I'm saying, because McDonald's doesn't get to let me go to space, but you still have a chance to. I didn't think I was going to get that emotional. Our wine is almost gone, which means it's time for our last substantive story. We do have Rachel here, but she's working out, so we're not going to be able to really tap her brain too much. Our Love Island season 17 finished up. This week. Love, love, love is blind. And, uh, the weddings happened. If you have, if you're not caught up, go ahead and pause. We've got major spoilers coming. No one is still together. In fact, the reason I wanted to check in, uh, Megan Sparkle, not Megan Markle, Megan Sparkle, was she, so she leaves this guy not at the altar, pre-alter. I think his name is Joey or Mark

or something like that. Martin. Jordan. And he's got this kid Paco, Luca. Not bad. And he's like, I'm afraid that, well, she dumps him. And he's like, I regret that you didn't like my kid. You didn't love me for me. You just love me for my kid. Something along those lines. But then here's the bombshell shocking news. I think they filmed this stuff four or five years ago. She steps out in public for the first. time since the finale comes out, she's got a kid and it's not Luca and she's with this bald guy who I don't even remember from the show. And it's like Megan Sparkle the whole time you had this little side action going and the reunion is going to be explosive hosted by Andy Cohen and Sarah Highland, the former host. I am looking forward to see what she has to say. Is it, you know, Are the, is it Luca's brother? I don't think so. I think it's this other guy.

And so I know you've probably been using the Bean Town podcast these last couple episodes here to stay up to date on Love is Blind. And we'll check back in when we get the reunion episode coming out. Hopefully it's not like Love Island where they did the reunion, you know, three months after the show finished next week. So, but, you know, they filmed this a couple years ago is my understanding. So people are probably going to look pretty different one year ago. So do we think the Luca Jr. is the guy from Love Islands, or is it some other guys?

It's some other guys, what Rachel's indicating to me. So put a pin in that. There is more to come on the Beantown podcast. Any other takeaways, Rachel? Say something about Love is Blind Island. Don't walk away. You're our pop culture correspondent. in this is a pop culture segment. You can't be too embarrassed. People want to hear your voice. It's beautiful. It's angelic.

You're the genius behind great hits like whiskey pup cup, and my dad is spooky. Damn. Maple got lost again, taking off the recycling. It's so spooky down there. next time maple i'm going to take you down to the sub level that's super spooky down there buddy all right speaking of super spooky let's wrap up here with our trivia question of the week and in light

of the uh NBA gambling scandal that has broken in the last 36 hours here i should of course mention that our trivia question of course is brought to you by a new sponsor my bookie all right here are the uh here is my question that i have for you put these 10 horror flicks that's right also known as movies but i call them flicks in order of release date starting with the oldest and the the the help i'll give you not really help this this probably doesn't help at all but just in case you're curious none of these movies have the same release year some of them are awfully close but It's not like, oh, this one came out in August and that was in November. They're all separate years, okay?

So I recognize this one is a little bit more involved than just what's the capital of Venezuela or something like that. So if you need a little bit of extra time after I read it, feel free to pause. I'm not going to just sit here like a dummy for five minutes while you figure things out. You're just going to have to pause the episode and make it work. But put these 10 horror movies in order by release. state starting with the oldest excuse me this list that i'm about to read off is in no this is just the order i thought of them in my head so there's no uh hints or clues in terms of like oh he said that one first that one must be early here are the 10 films you might want to write this down

it chapter 2 uh and in case you're wondering like yeah that's that's the the bill hater one okay not trying to not trying to fool anyone with remakes and similar titles it's it chapter two uh the exorcist they probably did remake it but i'm talking like the black and white one okay a quiet place directed by john krisnski the silence of the lambs i think clarice right there can only be one get out the jordan peel film jaws two a couple sequels already it chapter two and jaws do alien that's alien singular not aliens scream I don't think they I think all the scream sequels have numbers

I don't know I've never seen scream just the original one they made where is it Drew Barrymore dies in the opening scene have you seen scream I think it's

is it Drew Barrymore like that's the opening and she's like everyone is like oh she's the star of the movie in the opening scene she's like on the phone in her kitchen and whoever the bad guy in scream is is like

I'm watching you or something like that, and he kills her, and she's dead in the opening scene. I think that's what Scream is. Last two in the list here. Saw and The Shining. I could have done Doctor Sleep to keep the sequel theme going, but we did The Shining. So again, here's the list of 10 films that I want you to put. This is basically fastest finger from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, but instead of 4, it's 10. So I recognize this is a bit more involved.

it chapter two the exorcist a quiet place the silence of the lambs get out jaws two alien scream saw and the shining there's your 10 i will buy a little bit of time here but again i'll let you know if you if you're really committed to this and you want to get it right pause have your list of 10 and go at it i'll let you know there are some clusters here There are kind of obvious breaks, right? I don't think anyone here is going zero for 10, but there are definitely some clusters that could get tough, done intentionally. Actually not. It wasn't intentional, but it worked out that way. Okay, here it is. This is the list, starting with the oldest going to the newest. If you want any more time, go ahead and pause.

The oldest film on my list is, actually gave a little bit of a clue here because I mentioned, oh, it was the one in black and white. It's the exorcist from 19. My next oldest film here is Jaws 2. So I think Jaws original is 1975. So we just had the 50th year celebration this year. Jaws 2 was three years later of 1978. I've never seen it. Next up, Alien is 1979. So one year after Jaws 2. And then the third member of this cluster, The Shining, is 1980. So that was a tough one. If you nailed that, kudos to you, Pat on back. Again, our start is Exorcist, Jaws 2, Alien Shining. Next up, we have Silence of the Lambs. We do an 11-year time jump, 1991 for Silence of the Lambs. Then we have a little bit of

another jump, not a huge one. Scream, 1996 is the sixth newest one here. Sixth, oldest one, rather. Number seven is Saw. So we go from 1996 to Saw is 2004. an eight-year jump and then we've got we finish it up with three more final cluster get out 2017 a quiet place 2018 and it chapter two is the newest one on this list 2019 so again from oldest to newest it goes the exorcist jaws two alien the shining the silence of the lambs scream saw get out a quiet place and it chapter two email us with your results if you got all 10 I feel like getting all 10, you know, if you could do like a three-item parlay, that's really impressive.

So you do a 10-item parley, that's pretty impressive. I think that's a pretty tough one. I think I could have made it, you know, almost impossible. But that was still pretty challenging. Hopefully you weren't mixing up Science of the Lambs with It Chapter 2. But, you know, once you got into some of those clusters, it could get a little bit tricky. That's what I had for you, everyone. I appreciate you tuning in.

We'll come back at you next week, probably with a Halloween spookacular, one of our signature shows every year. And we'll report back on our movie picks and Maple's costume contest performance. So tune in next week for all of that. From all of us here at the Beantown podcast, my name is Quinn David Furness. This is my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast. I hope everyone's staying safe, staying sane, and I'll check in on you next time. Bye-bye.

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