Beantown Podcast - Mothers, Wicked Witch's Pokemon Moveset, & Bad Geese PR (05092026 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: May 9, 2026

Quinn comes to you LIVE to wish all the moms out there a Happy Mother's Day while touching upon black bottoms, maibocks, and lvl 100 mews

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Saturday, May 9th, 2026. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn, and this is my program. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast. It is a nice, partly cloudy, partly cloudy. What do you think is more sunny? Is partly cloudy? Is that more sunny or is partly sunny? Is that more? sunny. I don't know. Well, we got the peanut gallery over here. Do you have an informed or strong opinion? No. Well, okay. Well, neither of us are meteorologists. Maple, anything from you? No. Hmm. Some things never change, huh? It's a Saturday. It's 1145 in the morning and drinking an off-color brewing town musicians Maybach, oftentimes shortened to a Bach. Kind of like Bach Woodsman from Wicked. And you'll never believe which of the three Wizard of Oz characters of lore, lore and yore, that Bach Woodsman turns into.

The Tin Man. I always like in the Wizard of Oz when they discover the Tin Man, you get the oil can, and it's all good and stuff, and then the Wicked Witch shows up on that that that shrewf cottage. that, yeah, the roof of the cottage, right? A little tucked-away forest. I think that's right before the munchkin hangs himself. But that's neither here or there.

And then she starts just chucking fireballs. I feel like they didn't think when they, I don't know if this was Frank L. Baum or L. Frank Baum or whomever wrote this screenplay for Wizard of Oz. I don't know if they were thinking through all the way this wicked witch's powers because she can like, put him to sleep like she's Agatha's Gengar in the Elite 4 using hypnosis, dream eater, double whammy combo on you, good luck, pow, pow, pow.

Reminds me of combo from rest in peace. Speaking of pow, pow, pow, three shots, that guy was down. Rip. So she can put him to sleep. She can cast fireballs. I mean, we're basically talking about listener discretion, by the way, advise when you're listening to this program, number one. occasionally some language number two's podcast objectively terrible.

We're basically talking about the wonderful wizard of Oz version of an OP Mew. I used to have an obsession. Not an obsession. It was just like my lifelong goal as a Pokemon trainer of creating a lineup of five level 100 muse and a level 100 dragonite. And I think the Pokemon Blue save file, the last one that was ever played by myself and probably by anyone in our family, who knows where it ended up 20 years later, was a save copy where you get five, or, you know, you can play through the game once. On each one, you can only get one mute because there's a glitch you have to do to get it. It has nothing to do with the truck by the SS hand, by the way.

But you can only get one mute per save copy. play through an entire game, you trained it up to level 100, and then you do that five times, essentially. And then that's neither here or there. The cool thing with Mew is you can teach you any move in the game. That's a rarity, an anomaly, if you will, A-N-O-M-A-L-I, I think, in Pokemon. Usually, you know, Pokemon, or if you're like a fire Pokemon, you can mostly learn fire moves, and same goes for dragon and ice, et cetera. Well, with Mew, it's a badass because you can learn. Psychic, it's a psychic type, but you could learn any other. TM that you can get in the game.

And there's some good ones. I think, you know, I would always have, this is really boring. You would think, like, a cool creative way to approach it would be like, oh, this is my, like, specialty mew that's good at, like, putting people to sleep or paralyzing them or poisoning them or burning them, right? So you think you'd have, like, a cool mew with those four moves. And then you'd have one that's just like your rock mu, one that's like your dragon mew. there was only one dragon move in generation one so maybe that wouldn't work so well anyways

i would just make all my muse overpowered and you're asking for what goal because by the time you get a level like 70 mu in the Pokemon games you can just run through the entire elite four and just one shot them one shot every Pokemon you face you never even take damage it's basically the equivalent of like playing a season of madden or something and having your team be so overpowered that you go just 16 and 0 year after year and win the Super Bowl. And it's kind of fun, but, you know, 10 years, 20 years later in retrospect, it's kind of like where there wasn't a lot of challenge to that, not a lot of adversity being overcome. So I would give my muse, like psychic, earthquake, blizzard, and I don't remember the last one

if it was like hyperbeam or whatever the most powerful Pokemon moves are. The smart thing would probably be to do like a horn drill or something, right? One of those one hit K-O moves. Because the way those work, I think it's like if, as long as they can't hit if you're slower than your opponent, but if you are faster than your opponent than they have like an 80% accuracy or something like that. my point that I was trying to make with the Wicked Witch of the West here as we sip on our Bach. By the way, this was, it's town musicians.

It was a random one-off 16-ounceer that I got at the bottles and cans store as part of a create-your-own four-pack. And I had never seen it before. And I'm like, you know, this was like a month ago. And usually I wouldn't go out and buy a Bach in any capacity. in May. It's very much for me like in October through December drink, but I had just never seen it before off color being a local brewery here in Chicago and I said this will be fun. It's solid. It's not the best Bach I've ever had, but it's not bad. It's fine. The Wicked Witch, she's got fireball powers. So let's give her, you know, flame thrower or fire blast TM. And then she's got the ability to put you to sleep. Now she doesn't really

go all the way. She doesn't really eat your dreams. So she's more just like a hypnosis kind of gal, but she's got hypnosis. She's got a flamethrower. I mean, she's flying around on that broomstick. She's making sky art. That's one of my, you guys know about this, you know, in the original cut of the Wizard of Oz, there's a lot of great Wizard of Oz lore. But isn't it like, you know, she does skywriting and meaning she flies around and leaves a trail of smoke like jet fuel, Wizard of Oz, skywriting, here it is. And in the original cut of the film, as I understand it, it was surrender Dorothy or die, I think is what it was supposed to say. And then I think in the final cut of the film, it just, they cut it to just be surrendered Dorothy.

Surrender Dorothy. And I'm trying to remember if that was actually, oh yeah, and the first, here it is on Wikipedia. And the first, and then we'll find two more moves for Pokemon moves for the Wicked Witch of the West. In the first 120-minute test screening of the film, this was back in about like the 30s. The message was longer reading, surrender, Dorothy, or die, signed WWW. This longer version of the phrase was later restored in 2025 via CGI for the Wizard of Oz at Sphere. I think my sister went to that. That's pretty cool.

And then the only other thing that it makes me think of, and this is in the Wikipedia article, but I was aware of this lore. in 1974 students of Connolly School of the Holy Child. That's a fun school. It's an independent Catholic college prep school for girls in Potomac, Maryland. Displayed the message on the illuminated bridge carrying Linden Lane over the outer loop of the Capitol Beltway near Washington, D.C. and the LDS Temple, the Mormon Temple. You guys ever see that in what is in like Chevy Chase, Maryland or something? it's absolutely huge this temple it's it's crazy and there's like a great angle of it when you're coming in

from maryland into Washington DC it's it's very emerald city like see how we all tie this together that's probably why they did it the message was an ad for their school's production of the wizard of Oz and was made by pressing newsprint in the bridges chain link fence and then i think it's been like painted around there it's just kind of like lorily at this point. I'm looking at a picture on Wikipedia. This bridge now is painted says Surrender Donald. So it's pretty cool. I love little cultural references like that. Surrender Dorothy or die. Yeah, they had to make it a little bit less dark. It's kind of a movie for kids in some ways and other ways it's not. So Wicked Witch, Alpha, if you want to call her that, she would have

who was it Mila Kunis plays I think she's got a different name in that version that adaptation of Oz the great and powerful her name's like Theodora or something

I don't know I never saw it the one with James Franco Zach Braff plays the monkey I think it's Michelle Williams is she in there too she plays the Glinda equivalent but yeah then

Mila Kunis turns green you never see it coming so maybe in that sense she needs to have transform Ditto's move where you become the other Pokemon and have you get their stats. I think you get their move set too. So maybe we don't want transform.

Maybe it's just kind of like a gimmick. We'll put that on the back burner. I think you've got to have fly. It's a two-turn move. It's an HM. It's not the sexiest move in battle. But, I mean, your Wicked Witch of the West, you're flying around. That or sky attack?

What was Pokemon doing when they made these, these, flying moves. There was like four of them total in Gen 1. There was like fly, wing attack, Peck, and aerial ace is not Gen 1, sky attack. But sky attack and fly are both two-turn moves. And it's kind of like, did we really need a two-turn move for sky attack? Who out here is using it? So I think we'll give Dorothy fly rather than sky attack because she doesn't really attack from the sky. She just kind of flies around. And then, I don't know. So, well, she's definitely weak to water. I can tell you that much.

We're not giving her a water move. Is there anything cool with, like, a broom? Anything you do? There's no, like, sweep move. I don't know. She really likes to cackle, so maybe roar, okay? It's a pretty useless move, but so was transform. Could also give her metronome.

That's the move where it could be any move. You select it, and you don't know what you're going to get. And that's kind of the wicked witch. She's kind of a wild card. If you couldn't tell today, we came in, to the program with very little prepared. Speaking of things that are green, though, like the Wicked Witch of the West,

the flag of Pakistan. Oh, thank you so much, Pakistan. For your support for this program, Quinn David First presents the Beantown Podcast. By the way, I'm the creator, the host, and the, I guess, chief music director. This beer is called Town Musicians. So I am the chief music director,

Defying Gravity over here of this program. In Pakistan with a green flag, Green Wicked Witch of the West, Meal Kunis in Act 3 of Oz the Great and Powerful, I assume. It seems like it would be something that happens between and the transition from Act 2 to Act 3, don't you think? Pakistan, thank you for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast, Islamabad, Karachi, Hyderabad, Khyber Pass, thank you for listening.

Thank you for tuning in. I don't know if the Wizard of Oz is culturally relevant in any of these other countries. It's an interesting thing about, like, American media. And it's like, we have our stuff and we get a little bit of British stuff here and there and the occasional Canadian thing, Schitt's Creek. But I don't really know anything about French media or Pakistani media. I guess you get a little bit of Bollywood from India. But I don't actually know any names or titles. I guess the closest thing would be Studio Ghibli.

from Japan, spirited away. I think I watched that one one time. Isn't there a famous one like Grave of the Fireflies? It's like low-key, the film experts consider it to be the greatest film of all time. I don't know. I haven't seen it one. I don't know why the fireflies need graves. They have to be really tiny graves.

It's a lot of graves. Speaking of graves, it reminds me of Mother Hubbard nursery rhyme, which gets me to my next topic here. It is Mother's Day weekend. Tomorrow is Mother's Day, May 10th. Usually it's the second Sunday of every May, so that checks out for this year. Happy Mother's Day to my mom, Jane.

Happy Mother's Day to my mother-in-law, Betty. Happy Mother's Day to my dog, Maple, who we don't know for sure, but when we got her, those nips were huge. So you got to think it was a pump-and-dump situation. What do you think, Maple? It is probably a sensitive topic for you. You got you right here.

You want to do interview with the dog? Let's see. Nope. Hates the microphone. Hates the magic of media podcasting. Just a big sigh. It's just lying down next to Mr. Hogg and all her lambs. Maple, what do you think your mom was like?

That's a crazy prequel idea. Mm, Mother Maple. Maple Sr.? But Mother Hubbard, I was a, about to start recording and I'm running through famous moms in my head and that's what our trivia question will be about as well by the way but um in my head I just had like the phrase the idea mother hubbard in the back of my head and I was like what is this like if I'm going to say it on the podcast I should at least come prepared to know what it means and so I did a quick Google search

30 seconds before recording and it's an old like nursery rhyme folktale kind of thing but the original is basically like the mother hubbard you know she she lives in a thatched root cottage frequented by alfaba but she she is her dog is hungry as maple oftentimes is so she goes to the cupboard to get her dog a bone and then there's nothing in the cupboard which you got to be able to keep track of that stuff you got to that's the thing if it's you the time before you go to get the bone you've realized it's the last bone you got to reorder or you got to go to market you can't just there you know it's not a magical cupboard this is an indian in the cupboard right there's not gonna be a fishes and loaves night happening behind the closed doors there you got a i think mother hubbard's

kind of lazy it's like oh i'll give you my last bone and then tomorrow go get another one and magically it'll reappear it's not that's not how life works mother hubbard so she goes to the the baker or something to get her dog a loaf of bread and then here's the rhyme when she comes back with a loaf of bread she finds her dog is dead because she did not have the foresight to uh to get to preemptively order reorder restock on bones and so this is all in the rhyme i assure you she then goes to the uh the the corner to buy a grave which is how we connected it to grave of the fireflies for her dog and then she comes back and the dog is laughing. And now I'm thinking this is kind of getting into like some Anthony Perkins' psychotype

shit. Like, was the dog, was he playing dead? Speaking of Schitt's Creek reminds me of the opossums in 2005s over the hedge. What do you think, 2005, 2004? Take your guesses. We'll do a Google search. And I think the possums in that movie, the father and wife, or the father, the father, the father, mother, Mother's Day, are, I believe, played by Eugene Levy and rest in peace.

Kristen, not Kristen. Catherine O'Hara. And then the daughter is like Avril Levine or something. We'll get this all fact checked. Over the Hedge 2006, missed it by one year. Loaded cast, by the way. Gary Shanling, Rip. Excuse me, Wanda Sykes, haven't seen much from her.

She's still active on the stand-up circuit. I haven't seen much from her. I feel like her last big thing. I mean, she did a couple episodes of Curb early on, and then she was in that New Adventures of Old Christine show that Julia Louis Dreyfus did after Seinfeld, but before Veep. But otherwise, I haven't seen much from Wanda Sex. Yeah, Eugene Levy and, I mean, do we think it was Catherine Aher?

I don't know. I got confirmation on the Eugene Levy and the Avril Levine. I don't even know. Oh, yeah, there it is. Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Canadian comedy duo legend. So the dog's laughing, and then there's some like off-shoot stanzas, I guess, that'd be a good horse name, offshoot stanza. Thank you, by the way, for listening to last week's top 10 horse names special for season

nine. That brings us to 90 names total. We are next year going to have a big 10-year anniversary celebration. of our horse names. We'll have our first ever, it's like we're getting into some AFI stuff here, where you do the top 10, top 10 lists, basically. We're going to have our top 10 all-time number one horse names, and we can even do like a super Oscars kind of power ranking of the top 10 number one horse names. That'll be a lot of fun too. On top of our regular list, it might have to be a two-part episode. That's how chalkful it's going to be. But yeah, I guess we'll close the book there on Mother Hubbard,

really just poor planning, kills her dog, turns into a laughing zombie, and I think it's a good thing that the nursery rhyme kind of ends there. Speaking of nursery rhymes, next thing I wanted to mention here, Mother Goose, but not so much about Mother Goose, more so just, I feel like geese really fumbled the bag as far as reputation goes,

because you got this nice little Mother Goose, she seems very matronly, maternal caring, all sorts of fun rhymes and stories for the kids. Just a warm, welcoming presence. Okay, we got that down. And now you think of geese in, you know, 2026, all we ever see are, you know, reels and TikToks of Canada geese being mean and grumpy and chasing people through the park. And they've got such a nasty reputation for being so mean.

And I pert, this is not my personal thoughts. I do with geese all the time on my runs, and it's just keep your head down. Don't make eye contact. If they hiss at you, you just keep going. If they want to chase and nip a little bit, that's fine. I'm kicking my heels. But how did we go from whenever Mother Goose was kind of invented or created,

if you will, what, 200 some years ago, do we think? More than that, less than that? I don't know. Probably a more recent thing than Brothers Grimm. how did we decide we were going to do brothers grim not the grim brothers right now you got the property brothers you don't have the brothers property it sounds like something you you land on and monopoly go see if my wife has any insights into the brother's property but we're talking property brothers over here didn't one of them marry zui des chenelle hmm the bearded one or the gay one

I don't know. Tough. But yeah, how did Mother Goose, geese were doing so well? Even Canada goose, down jackets. Okay, very warm, very comfortable. And now their reputation is really in the crapper. I think we need to see ideally some community outreach from geese. Because people love ducks, even mallards, drakes, love the drakes.

love the Drake, but the second you go from a nice little duck swimming, I love when they duck their heads down literally and their little webbed feet are dangling in the air, they're looking for tadpoles and stuff. Even Lunes, who have been known to be mean as well, but they got a beautiful call. They made it into the state, they're on the Minnesota State lottery, right? The Lunes, there's got to be a minor. League Baseball team somewhere in Minnesota, the loons. You know, loons can have a nasty side, but they got a very positive reputation. Then you get to the goose and it's just like the

reputation is all the way down in the gutter and is what happened here? Really somewhere along the line, somewhere along the timeline fumbled the bag. But that's that's mother goose for you. I'm certain we've got got more mothers to ruminate on here briefly. After we say thank you. you to our sponsors, our good friends, first and foremost, at Home Pride, Oregon. Don't have the full ad read in front of me, but I can't tell you that if you want someone who's safe, certified, trusted in the Central Oregon home inspecting community, double internatchee insured, you're going to want to go with my dad, Steve, give him a call. 541-40-0-3-16. Don't make a $3 million mistake and get your home inspected by some Joe Schmo. Or here's, I see this all,

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Past a truck and I run the other day that said they specialize in tuck pointing, and it's one of those things that every couple of months I will Google what is tuck pointing, because every time I see it, I don't really recall what it is, and then I look it up. and at that point I know what tuck pointing is for about two days and then I forget what it is again and then a month later I Google what is tuck pointing and that's just sort of sort of my life and my lack of information retention.

I got to get some encyclopedias here, hard paper books that I can peruse and highlight. We had encyclopedias growing up, each letter gets its own book. It was pretty cool. I think the X was pretty thin. It was a lot of old Aztec temple and architectural terms. Hope Pride, Oregon.

I was going to say when God speaks to use as the Samson. That's not true. Inspection, perfection. But speaking of the Samson Q2U series, if you're listening to this podcast around here saying, gosh, I have not ever in my life heard a crisper, clearer breakdown of mothers and geese and, you know, Ketakotles and all that stuff.

Tenak Chitlan's. I was trying to think of a great Aztec word that starts with an X, but even if I could, I wouldn't be able to pronounce it. But in the event that I could, I would want to pronounce it speaking clearly into the Samsung Q2U series with its crisp, clear, audio quality.

Any good X names in the Bible? Xerxes? I don't think he really made it into the biblical times. Maybe you think Xerxes is mentioned in the Bible? wasn't he is like his son or his grandson is darius i think and darius is the persia king uh prince of persia jacchinaw when uh daniel shows up in the lines then so maybe maybe xerxes does get a mention somewhere in the bible i don't know the only other one i can think of as

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something snappy or new called the experts at cuts by Q still working on our off-color brewing town musicians it's hard to chug a bach let's just be clear about one thing i'm not really in the beer chugging business one way or another but uh it's it's definitely one of those things and i'm not used to you know a may my bach is not typical it's a typical in fact of me so it's a new it's a new flavor profile this month it's been a while since i had a bach The next thing that comes to mind is that movie, Mother, not just Mother, Mother with an exclamation point.

It's got Jennifer Lawrence. And I don't know. Did you guys see this one? What was it? Like 2020, something like that. I have no sense of what this movie is about. Is it a horror film? Like, is she the mother?

Is they're like a spooky Dementor figure that's the mother? and she's being chased by it, 2017, missed it by three years. American Psychological Horror Film with Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dominal Gleason, Brian Gleason, and Kristen Wigg. That's a hell of a cast. I didn't even realize that Dominal Gleason had a brother.

Another Gleason, you know Brendan, from In Bruges. And what was that more recent one he did with Colin Farrell? What was that one called? you know where he cuts off his fingers because he doesn't want to talk to him. Banshees of Inishiren. I think that's what it was called. I enjoyed that one.

Who's that director who directed that? I feel like he's kind of like, yeah, Martin McDonough. He's the same guy who did the three billboards. Has he done much recently? I feel like we haven't seen much from Martin McDonough since Banshees of Inashiren. Let's go. Filmography.

Oh, he's got one coming out in 2026. Wild Horse 9. Yeah, if you're curious, I mean, he's got a very limited but successful filmography as a director and writer. In Bruges, seven psychopaths, three billboards, banshees of Inish year, and I've seen all five of those, or all four of those. And now, 26, Wild Horse Nine, upcoming British black comedy film starring John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Bouchemy, Tom Waits, and Parker Posey. Hell, yeah, I'll see that. November 6th, put it on your calendar.

It's set in Easter Island. Island. This guy loves islands. It's pretty fun. I mean, I'll watch anything with like any of those people, the five leads. So, looking forward to. Yeah, this mother, its plot follows a young woman whose tranquil life with their husband at their country home is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious couple leading to a series of increasingly chaotic and destructive events. It kind of reminds me when we adopted Maple. Like a nice tranquil life gets disrupted. by the arrival. Maple was a one-trick pony that she wasn't a couple,

but their life gets thrown into chaos and turmoil. Increasingly chaotic. Sounds highly accurate. I don't, you know what? It's nine years after it came out. I don't think I'm ever going to get around to watching Mother. But if anyone out there has strong recommendations, email us, Beantown Podcasts at Yahoo.com.

And it's Beantown Podcast. and it's Beantown Podcast at Yahoo.com. Speaking of Catherine O'Hara, we are finally getting around to watching season one of the studio. Apple TV last year. It's, uh, we're three episodes in. I absolutely love it. And it's not even just like, you know, it's, it's fun.

I love shows where it's like some actors play themselves or fictionalized versions of themselves, basically curb your enthusiasm, but then some are like the characters you're following. And it's not, even just like the oh hollywood the stars are bright it's they're they're making fun of all this stuff and and obviously set rogan is very well equipped to do that so yeah you've got i'm i'm i'm really uh cherishing that's right c h er i s h i n g every episode um and the the camera work

is fantastic the whole you know second episode was like a you know single camera take kind of thing Birdman or Charlie Work, that episode from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Really fun. What was the war movie that tried to do that? Not tried to do that. It makes it sounds like it was bad. 1917. The interesting thing about 1917 is it's like, you know,

they're pretty much doing the single camera shot kind of vibe to it, which I love. But the time moves faster, right? It's like you go through like a whole day. maybe there's a part during the night where he's like sleeping and you know i think that i think that happens i think like a night passes but then you wake up and it feels like it goes from like sunrise to middle of the day in about you know 45 minutes worth of a movie the movie is not that long i think 1917 is only like i think it's less than two hours but um absolutely fantastic film

uh excuse me i don't know any other mothers we got a we got a cover here Ma Rainey was like a famous what was she was she like a blues singer or something

and then they did the film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom has to get a lick here from Maple you like Ma Rainey's Black Bottom it came out before you were born I think that was Chadrick Bozeman's last

film did he win an Oscar for that did they do that no he just got nominated it was everyone was like oh yeah chadwick bozeman's gonna win it because he was you know he had passed away and then he didn't win it excuse me it was kind of anti-climactic i don't know who won in that you know best supporting category in that particular year that must have been like four years ago something like that but i never saw mauraney's black bottom the film nor the you know aforementioned behind But I hear she had a big dumpa. Right, Maple?

You're here. You want to do interview with the dog? You got anything on the film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom? She licked the microphone. You lick the Samson, buddy. Your breath is stanky. Maple is saying, can we please wrap this up so I can go to the park? And I'm saying, okay, well, thank you for sneezing on me.

We will wrap it there, but not before we do our Animal of the Week, which has absolutely nothing to do with. mothers we probably could have done geese in all honesty i had it written down and i just uh forgot to get to it until right now so we're going to take a hard left and then a hard right to get back to mothers for trivia our animal the week is the whale shark i picked it because i was watching uh there's a you know popular youtube channel everything wrong with and then whatever movie title and so the one most recent one they came out with this morning was avatar fire and ash aka Avatar 3

and I kind of hesitated at first to click on it so I was like do I actually want to watch Avatar Fire and Ash in which case I'm not going to watch the everything wrong with because it goes you know it's like a 25 minute clip so

you're seeing a lot of the movie I mean in most movies 25 minutes would be like a fourth of it in this case it's like a tenth but still you kind of get a sense of the entire plot and everything if you watch the everything wrong with breakdown so i decided you know what

avatar is a lot of fun but i'm probably not going to dedicate three and a half hours in my life to to watching a movie that feels like it's kind of the same movie for the third time so uh officially taking myself a list of movies that i'm not planning to watch anytime soon mother and avatar three anyways and you know avatar fire and ash well you remember from the second one they got all sorts of actual like whale kind of things underwater and then the third one they got these cool sky whales too and so now i'm thinking okay that's a pretty cool whale but what kind of whale does it look like they got these big wide mouths i'm like that looks like a whale shark which if you were if you're curious at home you're pontificating and pondering a whale shark is a shark

it's not a whale it's not a shark whale it'd be kind of cool if there was both a shark whale and a whale shark but I think they said on the internet that it's the largest species of shark. And they seem pretty benign. I don't know. I feel like when you hear sharks, you're thinking jaws or even the hammerhead shark, which I feel like gets a lot of media attention, but then in the actual animal kingdom you don't see that much from hammerhead sharks. But a really badass-looking thing nonetheless.

But I got me thinking, let's, you know, let's go. a little bit further here let's go with the whale shark it's called the whale shark because i think the way they feed is it's like a blue whale they got like the what do they call it the the baleen it's like the big teeth that kind of look like horsehair or something like that and i think they kind of filter the krill through it krill filter another good horse name someone should be writing this down uh and i don't have much else on whale sharks, I just think you don't see a lot about them. You hear about the tiger sharks, the great white sharks, the hammerheads. There's a Pokemon from Gen 3 called Sharknato, I think.

No, that's the name of a movie. What's the name? There's like a Generation 3 Pokemon that's a shark. Sharpito, is that what it is? I think. It's probably without, before I look it up, it's probably, it's probably, it's, Types, I would guess, are dark and water. I'm sorry, dark is a Pokemon type.

It's like, how are you supposed to, like, what does that mean? Dark type? Because in Gen 1, you got psychic, you got ghost, which are kind of the same thing, but it's like, okay, I get it. They're kind of different. And then all of a sudden, here comes Gen 2 and they introduce dark. And it's like, okay, well, what do you mean dark? It's like Bill O'Reilly trying to close out entertainment tonight.

What do you mean to play us out? There's no words there. to play us out. I clicked something on my phone, and I have, I'm in AI mode. Sharpito, there it is. Sharpeedo and Garchomp. Anyways, let's close this show.

We got good shows. We got mess shows. There's no bad shows making an effort showing up every week. That gets me to five out of ten status. But let's call it, let's call a spade, a spade. It's a mess show. But, you know, we're coming off the, coattails of our horse special.

Give me a break. And how Mac can you be when you're honoring mothers? And Mother Goose and Hubbard and Jennifer Lawrence, all that fun stuff. Our Beantown trivia question of the week, I'm going to give you these five Mother of blank nicknames, and you tell me who they are. So these are historical figures who have, you know, a commonly known nickname, you know, mother of X, X, X, Y, Z, whatever it is. So I'm going to tell you what they were the mother of and you tell me whom it is.

Pretty straightforward, I think. Number one, mother of modern nursing. That's right. Mother of modern nursing. When I hear this one and I think about this person, I always take a skip and a beat because I'm always about to get it mixed up. There's two people. There's the mother of modern nursing and then there's the mother of the American Red Cross. Two different people.

And the only, the first one is actually a question in this quiz. But the mother of the American Red Cross is Claire Barton. The mother of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale. Fun name, Florence Nightingale. It reminds me of Florence Henderson. Without going into specifics that I can't remember, early on in our family, 20-year fantasy football league, my uncle, there were some sort of, controversy involving Florence Henderson and I honestly can't explain it.

No idea what it was. It was not like controversy in like very light quotation marks. But it became a little bit of a joking point and then she passed away and now it's not as fun to joke about. Rip Florence. Gone too soon. Number two, I didn't know this one before I looked it up. I hadn't really heard it.

But take your best guess, and I'll give you a hint. It's Mother of the West. And specifically, your hint would be American West, is what we're talking about. Think exploration. I don't think she's really herself considered an explorer, more of a guide. She wasn't the one saying,

I'm going to go out here and explore this vast continent is more like these people showed up and they needed help, so I'll help them. I don't know how much more I can spoon feed this one to you. Like your mother, you're a baby infant and doing the airplane for you. Here comes a big old spoonful of Sacagauea. Another good horse name, Spoonful of Sacchiauea. Until horse racing triple crown season dies down, we're still going to be firing off horse names. Number three, Mother of Soul.

I don't want to say this is the easiest one out of the five, but don't overthink it, okay? Put some respect on her name. The mother of soul is Aretha Franklin. And then we're going to end up with the AP science tests here. Number four, Mother of Modern Computing. Who was the Mother of Modern Computing? Another fun name.

If you like Nighting. You might like this last name too. The mother of modern commuting, not commuting. That's someone who invented the parking ride. The mother of modern computing, Ada Lovelace. And don't get her mixed up with Linda Lovelace because, you know, I was listening, I think we talked about this last week of the week before. I was listening to that Elton John George Michael's song,

Rapper Up yesterday. And, you know, in the, like, fade out of this song, they're listing all these like female like pop culture icons you know Marilyn Monroe and whomever Florence Henderson and one of the names they mentioned is Linda Lovelace and it's one of those names that I've heard a million times I was like I don't actually know who this is so I did a Google search and I didn't know the the just like life arc of Linda Lovelace and how she was a pornographic actress and her big film was deep throat not Mark felt it's the more literal meaning of the term and then she became a super staunch

it's right staunch not just staunch she became super staunch anti-pornography Christian woman and retired from the public eye and eventually passed away but Linda Lovelace is not the answer the answer to modern computing is Ada Lovelace and yes we will watch Deep Throat for next week's show for research purposes. And then finally,

mother of modern physics. When I think of this person, I think, like, lab, beakers, and chemistry, really. Excuse me, but she's kind of half chemistry, half physics. So the mother of modern physics is Marie Curie, who won a Nobel Prize, along with her husband, Pierre. Pretty bad.

ass. I don't know if Rachel and I were going to win the Nobel Prize, it would probably be in Jeopardy watching, French toast bites eating, or maple head padding. I don't think they have a category yet for any of those, but we'll petition the committee. Those were your trivia questions of the week. My name is Quinn David Furness.

Thank you so much for listening to my program. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast. Happy Mother's Day to everyone out there. We'll check in on you next week to talk about more Wizard of Oz, more mothers, and more nonsense. Stay safe, stay sane. See ya.