Beantown Podcast - New England Road trip Part Four (11222020 Beantown)

Episode Date: November 22, 2020

Quinn comes to you LIVE via Beantown Networks to interact with British subscribers, discuss the feud between Heather, Whitney, and Lisa, and recall wanting to die on Great Wass Island in Maine

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furnace. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furnace presents the Bean Town podcast for Sunday sexiest of milestones, but it is cool. Nonetheless, my name is Quinn Fernos and this is my show and I am excited to be coming to you live. Hello YouTube, hello Facebook, hello Instagram, hello Snapchat, Twitter, Parlor, Grindr, wherever you are tuning in live from we are happy to see you I feel like a church service right now broadcasting we just need to get a zoom link going I tell you what I don't know if I'm the only one probably but I I have like liked a number of church pages on Facebook that I was once

involved with so I mean we've got, you know, rock church from Rockford Illinois going, they always have a Sunday morning live stream. I was tuning in to Pastor Jared Katke's sermon a little bit earlier today and boy, the music has really gone downhill at rock church. We've also got the Cherry Valley United Methodist Church where Scott Farrell was once the choir director. It is less exciting now because Scott has moved out to Seattle. According to his Twitter, he is not enjoying himself.

That's a shame. We've got the live in testimony, house of worship and the west side of Chicago, where I was the worship leader, worship pastor for three weeks. Big time money and boy we've got audacious praise, LaNiNorwood Jr. down on the south side of Chicago, Englewood style. So there's just a lot of streams and feeds to keep track of and I feel like this might be the holiest of all. This is my show, Quintet First for the Speedtomp podcast and we are very excited. We've got an action packed day today. Although I promise it's not going to be quite as long as last week.

We started the New England road trip four weeks ago. This is part four of the finale to our trip. And I said at the outset, you know, we're going to try to keep these installments brief. And we did really well. The first one was like 30 minutes. And then the next one was like 40-ish. And then last week was over an hour, which was crazy. But man, we just had so much to get through. Not to mention recapping the new housewives of Salt Lake City, season premiere. So we're gonna be, you know, bopping in on that, checking in on the ladies

of Park City and Provo and all the other places in Utah where they hail from. And then, you know, got a couple of other things that to touch on here and we'll recap, finish recapping the New England road trip thanks to all who have followed us in that journey. If you missed the first couple parts, you might be wondering, well, Quinn, I

subscribed to you on YouTube. I follow you. Where has it been? You know, you know this by now, we kind of pop in and out of YouTube. We don't have our, it's not every single episode of the Bean Tom Podcast is not on there and certainly not even most. But you can always find the latest Bean Tom Podcast episodes

just because it only pops up on YouTube once a month or so, doesn't mean we're not still coming to you live every single week. So you can find those usually if you check in on my Facebook on a Monday morning or something, it's pretty easy to find the link. But honestly, if you just go to beentompodcast.com, the new is episode will always be right there on the homepage. It's automatically updated.

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We've got a new episode coming to you. Every Monday morning, you wake up, get your cup of Joe, and you're gonna have a new Beentom podcast from Over the Weekend. Sometimes we record earlier in the week, sometimes we record later in the week, and then on very, very rare occasions, if it's a three day weekend,

you know, stretching into a Monday will record on the Monday, but that has only happened a handful of times if that. So, episode number 150, that's very exciting. We only have, after this, what, four or five more, you know, shows coming up in the calendar year before we get ready for a year three recap and I see in the live stream we've got a comment from Jess from Britain hello good to see you it's probably what late

afternoon early evening in Britain suns suns going down so hope everything is going well there sorry I missed a t-time that's something that I think they have in Britain. I don't know. It is good to see though that we are going international, you know, it's tough. Cause the bean town podcast, as far as I know, has not really been translated into any other languages.

We need, who was that first guy who translated the Bible into German or something so that the Lutherans could read it, not Calvin. I don't remember who it was. Someone in the comments, do a little, it is dark. Yes, we're just reading the streams there. Jess, if you want, I'm going to put you to work. If you want to look up who translated the Bible into German, that, Gutenberg, that's off the top of my head. Is that right? That's like a, that's like a $125,000 question on who wants to be a millionaire. So I am going straight to the bank. But yeah, I think, you know, we played trivia with a guy from, or where is he from? Saskatchewan or Manitoba or something like that a couple of years ago. And I was really hoping that by imparting my seed upon him

when he went back from Baltimore to, you know, so Scatchworn or wherever he was from that, I was gonna spread like wildfire in Canada, but I think it's not densely populated enough out there in the prairie provinces or farmlands. It's not sure I don't recall. But so Canada is still working progress, but hey, I tell you what, if we could hit the Taiwan market or maybe get an Olympic sponsorship or something since China and its subsidiaries, China are hosting three straight Olympics,

and I was talking to Rachel about this two days ago. Fricking Beijing, you know, it's not a secret anymore. It's been that we've known this for many years up to this point, but they host in 2008 and 2022. I mean, give me a break. Share the wealth, man. Has that ever happened before, where you have one city that hosts within 14 years,

twice, that just is absurd. Lesson or discretion is advised when you're listening to the Bean Tom podcast. Number one, we'll occasionally use some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. Just says Martin Luther. That's a good answer. That might be right.

We're gonna have to go to the research team after this. I think Martin Luther was big for the 95theses nail to the door of the church. And then at some point before after, I think there was someone else. It's like Gutenheim, Gutenberg, something like that. And 1522, is that right? 1522, I thought it was a different year than that.

But maybe you're, you know, we're getting live information. We are, I love this. So having this dialogue, having this discussion, conversation with the fans, just thank you so much for your contributions to today's episode. Remember, go to BeentomPodcast.com for all of our latest updates and news items and podcasts. So first things first, Tonselitis Watch Part 4. Knock on wood.

Still healthy. The Tonsels are in pristine condition and things are getting scary now because in early November, fans of the podcast know historically early November is not the problem. We have never had tonsil issues in early November. It's once we creep up towards Thanksgiving proper when the issues start.

You know, two years ago, right around now was when it started, I remember just that the pain was crazy and I went into Thanksgiving and I was at my aunt, auntie Anna's house near Wilmington, Delaware. And it was just the worst because you're there. You're with family, you don't get to see very often. And you want to be peppy, upbeat, have conversations, just be a normal person. Because my least favorite thing, maybe not my least favorite thing.

But one of my least favorite things, an addition to tonsilitis, is when you're sick and you get a whole bunch of, you know, the sympathy going on, which at its core, okay, that just shows that you have people who love you and care about you. So that's great. But what really is tough when it's always like, how are you feeling, how are you doing, kind of get you everything, every, you know, every five minutes or so? Because I just don't want to be a burden. I don't want to burden others. And on top of that, when you have tonsillitis, you don't want to be talking. I just, you know, I remember that Thanksgiving two years ago where I was just like, I wasn't really in any pain if I didn't have to talk or swallow or be awake. But if I had to do anything, you know, other than those things, it was just really painful. So it was tough to kind of put on a brave face,

and I don't think I even ever told anyone other than maybe my brother who was there with me that I was in extraordinary pain, because I didn't want it to be like everyone asking, when are you feeling, when are you doing? Not that it's, I really appreciate them. I love them for that, but that's just a lot. When you have to respond.

And your throat is like the size of a P in terms of the opening. Last year, it was literally on the car ride home from Thanksgiving dinner. I started to feel a throat problem. And then it was just like a little bit of a sore throat, but the tonsil handgun inflamed. And then I think on like Tuesday or Wednesday of that week, we had a long work day and I started to feel feverish. And then I think that this is an iconic beatdown episode. You can go back about a year where I told the story of doing the focus group, the taste test, which I've done tons and tons of focus groups in my life,

rarely, if ever, I think of only done one or two taste tests. They're usually just like marketing, packaging, that sort of thing. But this was a some sort of spicy popcorn. I think it's Doritos and they've actually rolled it out now. It's either Doritos or, oh man, some other snack food company has has gotten into the popcorn game and this is what this was for you know I didn't know it at the

time but I realized after I saw an ad for this maybe a month ago and I realized oh that was packaging that I commented on. You know it was it was spicy popcorn so you add that to the fact that the room was actually legitimately hot. Everyone was sweating, which I don't know why that was necessary, just over a reaction to the cold outside. I ended up yada, yada, yada, taking the train home had to get off at Addison to puke. And then I was bedridden for the next two days, which was fun. Speaking of packaging, and I'm looking in the chat here,

Jess, I have never been to Manchester. No, I have not been to the UK. Manchester would be cool. Scotland, I think, is like my number one. I really want to go there. I'm a big fan of train spotting, going McGregor, etc. So Scotland, out of all places in the UK is where I really want to go first, but obviously I would love to have time to see lots of different places.

But the only other thing I'll mention before we jump into desperate housewives here is you've probably seen, if you've watched any TV lately, but there's a new Call of Duty game, Cold War, I think is what it's called. And I started seeing the ads heavily for a month ago or so. And I realized I did a focus group for them as well. I started seeing the ads heavily for a month ago or so. I realized I did a focus group for them as well. I remember seeing the commercials more or less that we were shown this time a year ago. It was just cool to see some of my, it's not like my feedback was the only thing that

they got and took into consideration. Some of the things that I suggested or felt or said, oh no, you should maybe consider this, were incorporated into at least their advertising and marketing campaigns. So obviously I haven't played the game and I won't. I think I've played a total of 90 minutes of Call of Duty in my entire life. But yeah, it's kind of cool to see the commercials, be things that you've impacted and you've given feedback on and suggested. That's just kind of a neat little thing.

Not that I'm getting paid. No paid college duty partnership here, unfortunately. But everyone's talking about the PS5. I think in college we had PS3, I think is what we played, and that felt pretty cool, pretty new to me. So, man, between PS5s, and what iPhone is up to, what, 12 right now, I think I'm rocking a six.

Are they gonna skip 13? Is it gonna be like the hotels where you skipped a 13th floor, because it's unlucky? TBD, someone will have to ask Tim Apple, see what he says about that. I see in the chat, just as I've driven to Glasgow. Yeah, I mean, it can't be too far. UK is pretty small, right?

Probably, what, like, five, six hours, something like that. That's cool. Yeah, I'd like to go to Glasgow, I'd like to go to Edinburgh, among other places. Let's jump into our plan material here. And I use the term planned very loosely because I'm just going off the top and ahead with what happened in this past week of desperate housewives of real Salt Lake. So what are the episodes come on?

A Wednesday nights on Bravo. I think I saw it Thursday night. So to recap, from last week, we had the season premiere. And there are six ladies, two blondes, two brunettes, and I guess, excuse me, one African-American, one kind of tongon in Taiwanese combo. I don't recall the full thing to goleague, something like that to goleague is not an ethnicity, it's a language dummy.

So we have, and I think I've got the names down now. We, there's Meredith, who was originally my favorite. blonde has had a lot of work done. Looks like the youngest, not sure she is, but seems pretty level headed. She's one who has the dad who is a drug addict, and he has just the worst hair I've ever seen in my life. And then the other blonde is her cousin, Heather,

who looks very scary, but as of this episode, Heather is my favorite, because she just seems like the most grounded, the most normal. Those are the two blondes. The two brunettes are Lisa, who I don't really know much about. Lisa's pretty bitchy, and she owns three different

tequila lines, I think, I think that's Lisa. And then there's also the other one. Oh shoot, what's her name? We're gonna have to Google it. And then you have, wait, is Meredith the one I like? No, Meredith is the other, Meredith is the other brunette. And Meredith has the sun Brooks, I think, although we found out that the the blonde to I originally liked

Has a son to name Brooks who is less of a personality is also like eight years old Man, what is what are these girls names these ladies names? I really thought that I I liked Meredith, but that's not Meredith is not a blonde Meredith is a brunette Okay, there's Heather like Meredith, but that's not, Meredith is not a blonde. Meredith is a brunette. Okay, there's Heather, Jen, Mary, those are the two ones we haven't got to. Whitney, that's, okay, Whitney, like the Pokemon gym leader from Gen 2. Whitney is a blonde, Whitney and Heather are cousins.

Meredith is a brunette, and then you have Jen Shaw who is married to a to an assistant football coach at Utah, University of Utah, and then you have Mary, who is African-American. She's the one who's a preacher at a Pentecostal church and married her own grandfather, which is just yikes. So we pick up the episode. They're still at this party from last week.

And there's just a lot of moving, a lot of grooving. And, you know, they kind of circle back to this Mary and Gen feud where Gen said that Mary said that she smelled like hospital. But Gen had just come from her aunt getting double amputation and Mary said that she can't stand the smell of hospitals because one time she was getting Botox on her armpits and she died twice on the operating table, which I didn't even know you could die from armpit surgery, but apparently you can, so I will not be getting armpit surgery. And then we kind of show a flashback to this other time

at the party that was shown briefly in the first episode where Lisa is like walking past. And I don't know if it was Heather or Meredith. I don't really remember, but she like just kind of says hi and just moves quickly past. To me, it's like whatever, but apparently it's some big thing. And then we kind of jump back to the present at the end of this party.

And you have Whitney, the blonde, who I used to be my favorite. Now she's my second favorite, because Heather, her cousin is my favorite. Whitney is talking to, I think it's Lisa. I add, apparently for Whitney's wedding vow renewal with her husband, who's like 20 years older than her, and you know, she had slept with him when she was originally married because he was her boss and as a super sexy, sultry kind of thing.

And Whitney's apparently had used Lisa's like in-house bartenders or something for her vow renewal. And according to Whitney, the bartenders were really tipsy and just like not super professional, which I think is a perfect, and Whitney wasn't like accusatory, so he just wanted to let Lisa know like, hey, just so you know, these staff members, like it wasn't a great experience.

So if you want to take care of it on your own, in a house you can, and Lisa blew up, got super mad at Whitney, which to me just felt very out of line, because Whitney's not like asking for reparations or being accusatory or anything. She's just letting Lisa know like, hey, if you want to handle this on your own, just letting you know this is the experience I had. It's like leaving a Yelp review, but in person. Anyways, so that went down and then there's some minor stuff happening that kind of go their own ways. We find out that Meredith, I think it is, has married to this one guy.

He's working in Chicago, and I'm pretty sure he has a double family. Maybe his name is Chris, I don't really remember. Anyways, they go out to supper, and there is just like a shocking revelation. Apparently, they are separated, which I don't think had been revealed up until this point, and they're talking about like dating other people, and it's just this whole big thing, and it's just very dramatic, and we don't really understand the relationship, but definitely at first it was like maybe Chris has a secret family, but maybe that we were just like wondering here, but now it's like, oh, he definitely has

a secret family in Chicago, because they're not even together. They're separated. I think they're legally still married, but like not even Brooks could keep that family together. And then we, they're like the big final set piece, although it wasn't even that exciting, they all go on a ski trip. So you have Whitney and Heather who are cousins and Meredith. They all go to the top of

the double Decker Black Diamond double D and I think they're all good skiers. I think they're all native eutonians I'm not sure. But they're skiing and then you have Mary shows up who is definitely the worst one. This is the girl, the lady who is the preacher at a Pena Cosl Church and she married her own grandpa, which is just gross. And she shows up in like Gucci and she's wearing some sort of raccoon on her head. And she doesn't know how to ski. And so her and Jen and Lisa are like doing the bunny hill and trying to flirt with their ski instructors. But it's really not that exciting.

Anyways, they have a fun day on the powder, and in the last scene, they all go to dinner, the six of them, plus two friends who we didn't really get any introduction to, and they don't really have any screen time or lines or personality. But then Whitney confronts Lisa. It's kind of Whitney and Heather who are cousins again, the two blondes. They confront Lisa about how Lisa was very aggressive and competitive, combative, and apparently threatening combative, CMBAT, IV. When Whitney was just trying to share with Lisa that the bartenders that she kind of like gave her for her wedding valerine wool. I don't know.

Didn't do a great job. And Lisa was out of line and being like, oh, well, you shouldn't complain. This is my gift to you. Well, you gave me pretty shitty bartenders. Apparently, like there's broken glass everywhere. They were drinking on the job, which is just like not an okay thing to do. Apparently, I guess it's a Utah thing. I don't know.

But then there's this whole big table blowup. You still have Mary trying to like stir up the. Okay, we're back on GarageBand, not SoundCloud. YouTube never cut out. I apologize. I don't know exactly how much we missed on Garage Band, but we were just recapping, you know, Desperate Housewives Salt Lake City. They're at this dinner. And Mary's still trying to stir up this whole hospital thing, which is just stupid, but she's also not

the center of attention on this, on this particular drama, because now it's like Lisa versus Heather and Whitney. And then Meredith is kind of just like there too and Jenna is just kind of there too. She's not really interested in Mary's BS anymore and then you have these two other friends as well who are just kind of sitting there and the servers are just kind of like coming around with drinks occasionally. And finally Lisa, like I'm sorry, I'm sorry,

but it's clearly not like genuine and Lisa's kind of just I don't know not it doesn't seem like a kind person she's gotten an attitude she feels much more like New Jersey East Coast than any of these other ladies so here here is sort of where we left it like I think Heather is my new favorite even though she's very scary looking. She's pretty normal, pretty grounded. And then you have Whitney who has got a lot of work done, but I think looks the best.

So those are the two blondes, they're cousins. They're pretty grounded, pretty normal, even though Whitney was the one who had the sultry affair with her boss, and now they're married for 20 years or whatever. And then you have Meredith who has the husband issue, husband has a secret family and her son is Brooks, but she seems pretty like fine and okay too. Then you have Jen Shaw who's like a little bit too dolled up for my taste, but she's the one who's like half tongue and knees and half Taiwanese or Filipino or something like that. She seems okay. And then you have my two

least favorites who are Alisa, who is a Brunepp and just very rude and not kind. And then you have Mary, who is married to her grandpa, and she is just the skiing and it's just, ah, she's the worst. So, that's a recap of episode two of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. I wanna give a shout out to our sponsors here, Home Pride Oregon, when you need your home inspected right now, even on Sundays, by appointment only you can call Steve at 541-410-0316

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what she prefers, TBD. For making the coffee for us yesterday morning, it was a delish before I had to work. I made a fun like opening PowerPoint slide, the titular slide, titular, what a great word, TITU LAR titular. That was not real. For anyone wondering who saw my Instagram story

or my Facebook post, it was titled, like, Pity the Fool, who doesn't know how to write a personal statement. I ran a personal statement workshop yesterday on Zoom as part of a larger organized virtual open house for work yesterday. And that ended up not making it to the final cut of the PowerPoint, but it would have been fun. Boy, Jess has just got some wild comments here in the live chat. Thank you for tuning in. My car is a 2013 Voxel V8 UX HALL Astra VXR.

And it still looks new. I don't know if we have that car in the States. Art, we don't, I'm not a car expert. I'm considering I've never owned a car before. I know my basic GMCs, Chrysler's, Ford's, Chevy's, Honda's, Accuras, Lexus, Nexus, Hyundai, Toyota. I worked for the girl at Target for a hot second. His name was Toyota.

I think T-Y-O-T-A, Toyota. Pretty fun. It is part four of the New England road trip, and it has been an exciting adventure, leading us up to the finale, which I think this last week's part part three was probably the most action packed, had the most things to talk about, although the pediatricians office in Waterbury Connecticut was pretty exciting too.

Part four, not that it's not exciting because if it wasn't I wouldn't talk about it, but it's a little bit more straightforward. My stays were good. I didn't do anything crazy with food. But let's jump into it here. I haven't actually reviewed these notes, which is sums up the level of preparation that we've put into the previous 149 episodes here on the Bington podcast.

But let me pull up my notes that I took. And I believe when we left off last time, we had just checked in, that's not what I wanted. We had just checked in to our place in New Hampshire, right? Which we talked about the Riverview Lodge, is that what it was called with the crazy lady who had, it was, you know, hate crime and all that stuff had to pay off $10,000 or whatever it was. And the smell of this place and it was just covered bridge covered bridge lodge, riverview lodge, I don't remember.

Anyways, so we wake up early. The plan, I think I had mentioned this briefly, it's not a significant detail, but the plan was to hike a mountain that I had been given a recommendation from. So when I was finishing the day before, which is Wednesday, oh man, yeah, Wednesday. Because then we had Thursday,

and then Friday, and then we flew out Saturday. Yeah, I think that's right. So Wednesday, we were hiking Vermont's third tallest peak, Camel's Hump. And on the way back down, just very close to the parking lot, we ran into the sky, we kind of had like a Bradley Whitford look going on,

which I watched a movie last night. Oh, there's three things I want to say, two and a half things before we continue on with the story that I meant to say in the first half. This one I didn't even mean to say, I just thought of it now. I watched a movie last night called Other People, which I didn't know anything about. From 2016 and it's Jesse Plemons and Molly Shannon and Bradley Whitford. It's really good. Very sad. I mean, the premise is a mom is diagnosed with cancer and she's surrounded by her family members as she slowly transitions. I didn't actually know that that was the premise before I started, which usually I know

what I'm getting myself into. And so it was one of those things where there were times when I couldn't be like 100% focused on because I wasn't in the mood to get super emotional last night, but it's good. It's not like the whole thing is super sad. Comedy drama, drama, if you will. But well acted, kind of hyper realistic, right?

Like little vignettes of things that happen in life. So if you're looking for just like a solid, not like crazy sad watch, but for people who have gone through it, like yeah, you'll get emotional at times, because I certainly did. But it's called other people, it's on Netflix, it's called other people. It's on Netflix

is from 2016. And it's good. And then the other thing I want to mention, just I've been getting back into some arcade fire recently, one of my favorite bands, but it's tough because you know, a lot of the bands that I'm into really haven't done much in the last like three or four years, like arcade fire has been Like, Archive Fire has been very quiet. Portugal, the man has been very quiet. They both have had I think one new song this calendar year. But I've been digging into some Archive Fire B-sides and they have a couple from the the suburbs, I think.

The one I wanted to mention that I just love, like I've been listening to it, or there's two actually that I really like that. I've been listening to a lot lately that probably most casual fans, or even, you know, because I didn't know about them and I really love arcade fire until earlier this week.

I think you'd really like, one is called Get Right, and I'm just giving you some listening recommendations for songs that I'm really into. Get Right Right and then the other one is speaking in tongues, both really good. Go check them out after you finish listening to this episode. We'll be done soon, I promise. Wow, Jess is, Jess, listen to mostly 1960s music. Well, Manchester of the Beatles, that makes sense. Back to the road trip, though, on my way back down, I'd ran into this Bradley Whitford looking guy,

and he was telling me about all these different recommendations because I told him I was looking to hike in the white mountains on Thursday. And I'm glad I just wrote down like the phonetic spellings of the sex, excuse me, the suggestions he gave me because what I wrote down when I typed in my phone and how things are actually spelled was just like wild. I'm not even exaggerating. One of them was the way he said them was the bonds and I'm thinking like B bonds, like B-O-N-S, B-A-W-N NS B A W NS bonds like James Bond. There's three mountains, which I wasn't I didn't I didn't do those.

And then the other one because there it's a big big trip. And this was I was going to hike a new hamster and then drive all the way up to Bangor, which is like four hours. So it's going to be a long day. So I wanted a hike, but not something crazy. The other one he mentioned, which also I put into my phone as like, shakura. And it's, it's ch-o-c-o-u-r-a.

Mount Shakura. So I was gonna try to do that one from the Chiamdye Falls Trailhead. So woke up early in Jackson, New Hampshire, and it's like a half hour drive down to the trailhead, which is on the, and we talked about this last week, the Kangamangas K-A-M-C-A Kangamangas Highway, which is just like a scenic drive through the lower third of New Hampshire through the kind of bottom

edge of the white mountains. So I get there at like 6.30 AM, something like that. Right as the sun is rising. And or before the sun is rising, because this is pre-daily saving time. And I get there and you know, season tigers or outdoors people will probably have a opinion or perspective on this. But I get there in the parking lot, of course there's no one there. It's a Thursday morning at 6.30 a.m. and it's very clearly posted, you have to have a permit to park here and to hike here.

And I was just like, I don't know if I could have just like parked there hiked for, you know, six hours and being perfectly fine. I don't know if I was gonna be fined. so I don't know if I was going to be fine or fine. It just don't know how these things work. The thing is, it's like Newman and Cramer at the shower heads. We've got the cash.

We'll pay up. But it's not like here's a box where you can put in your cash. And I had the cash or, you know, an envelope of cash because I've seen that place. It's like you have to physically buy a permit from the state or, you know, from one of these locations or something like that. And it's like, well, these places aren't going to be open. And I'm not going to drive 45 minutes away from here to spend $20 on this annual permit or whatever it was for this hike.

And so I was like, man, I really want to do this, my Shakura, because it was the perfect blend of like, not just a tiny little mile loop or something, but also not like a full day, 12 mile up the mountain, kind of hike thing, kind of like, you know, camel sump, although that turned out to be quite the expedition. So I made the judgment call and I decided, you know, camel sump, although that turned out to be quite the expedition. So I made the judgment call and I decided, you know, I just, I just, I'm not a super like, I'm not a huge

risk taker with this sort of thing. So I think I could have been fine, but I don't know. I got in my car and I decided, okay, we need a new game plan. So I drove back into town to the Duncan parking lot so you get free Wi-Fi. I did that. I lost track of how many times. Whether or not I was actually getting coffee from a location, just sitting in the Duncan parking lot

on their Wi-Fi, that happened a lot on this trip. So I'm like, okay, I have a long drive, like four hours total off to Bangor, and I need, but I've got the full day to do anything I want. I have to get into Bangor by like 6.30 at the latest, because I have class at seven, but it's like, I got time to do that. So, long story short, I research,

and I find a nice, a nice medium-sized hike called Pleasant Mountain, which is like three miles out, three miles back. The elevation gain wasn't crazy, but it's kind of fun. The first part is very much like, you're just like climbing over rocks and stuff and it's pretty exposed, pretty open, but we had nice weather.

It was maybe mid-40s and not super windy, which was nice. And then you kind of, you're kind of like all over the map in terms of where this trail is going, but you go up and down a little bit through the woods, and then you finally get to the top of Pleasant Mountain, and there's a cool fire tower, and some other things going on there. You have good views.

It was a pretty clear day, so I could see off to the west, because I had now driven into southwestern Maine So we were out of the white mountains now to the east about 50 miles or so 45 miles or so and you could look off to the west I think I identified which one was Mount Washington, but I really don't know you know the white mountains hardly at all But you can you could see all the peaks pretty clearly it was neat And that was a nice hike you know it took me like mountains hardly at all. But you can see all the peaks pretty clearly. It was neat. And that was a nice hike. It took me like, I don't know, maybe two hours

to get up the mountain and then maybe half that to come back down. So it was short, it was nice. Anyways, I got to Bangor, long day of driving. And this was, I was staying with a lady and her boyfriend and they had a kid and I was just in their upstairs bedroom. Nothing really happened that night because I just had to teach my class for three hours. So I was just doing that and then I woke up early the next morning.

I was thinking maybe I was going to run around Bangor, but then I decided, because I wanted to do something along the main coast. And this is Friday, so my last full day. And I had gone back and forth, I had waffle, do I want to pay the, I think, 35 entrance fee to Acadia, and it's like, Acadia would be so cool, but I decided, you know what, there's probably other hiking right along the main coast. You know, that would be, I don't wanna say just as good, but would be a fun, you know, hike, right?

So identify through my research the night before that I'm going to go to Great Was Island. Again, don't know my main pronunciation too well. But I drive out to Great Was Island and I had a nice day. I got there pretty early. It was maybe like a 90 minute drive from Bangor or something like that.

So I had my Duncan and it's this like this island that obviously connected that you can still drive onto it. So it's not super remote. It's pretty close to New Brunswick. So I'm maybe 30, 45 minutes or something from the northeastern edge of the United States, frankly. But it's, you know, this nature preserve you walk on a trail for like a mile from kind of the middle of the island out to the shore. You get to the coast, the beach, and it's a very rocky beach.

And so I was really cool, I was really excited. It was a nice day, it wasn't too bad, very cloudy and a little windy, but in the trees, in the kind of interior of the island it felt fine. Get out to the coast, I walk out, because I've really been practicing my main accent. I've been listening to a lot of talk radio,

Boston sports radio, and then main radio in addition to last week's Montreal French radio. And so I wanted to practice my accent, which I was practicing the whole time I was walking out to the coast. And so I was gonna post a video on social media which I ended up doing with my main accent imitation. I walk out because I wanted to be like,

I wanna do something fun, right? I just wanna be on a random trail. I walk out into, you know, you're kind of like skipping hopping from stone to stone, something large, something that's small. But I get out into the ocean a little bit, not very far, I mean, we're talking like a hundred feet from shore, something like that from the sand, the beach.

And I'm out there for like two minutes, because I record this 10 second video. I'm not even like posting it. I'll post it when I get back to Wi-Fi. Anyways, I finish recording. I turn around the stones, the rocks, the mini islands that I had hopped on to get to where I currently was in the ocean completely gone.

The tide was coming in very fast and I'm not really panic mode because there's no reason to panic. But I'm just like, there is no land between me and the beach, which is maybe 30 yards away, something like that. And I assessed these situations, but I didn't want to really waste any time because the water is clearly just getting higher and higher. So I'm like, well, there's no way around this. So I hike up my pants and I waited through, you know, almost up to my knee, deep water back to the beach,

which was very cold and very smelly, the rest of my hike, but this was not the worst of my problems. The like middle portion of this trail on this island in this nature preserve, Great Was Island is like a mile and a half along the beach, along the kind of rocky edge of the northeast kind of corner of this island. And at first it was just kind of like hopping around and it's okay,

but I'd sort of turned a corner and the wind patterns changed and the rain broke from above from the heavens and the wind was insane. And I was miserable. It was also very scary because there are some portions with very like jagged rocks and you have to do some like scrambling and leaping over, you know, crevasses and things that I just am not super comfortable doing. And it just was, it was only a mile and a half, but I swear to God, it felt like five. It was so wet and so windy and I was so cold just frozen like a popsicle

And the the other thing I'll say is it might seem very like Simple in terms of where to go finding the trail that sort of thing because you're just sort of following the edge of the island Right, you're on the sort of edge of the island, the rocks, the beach, et cetera. But I didn't know exactly when it was gonna turn back inland to get back to the parking lot, and it wasn't clearly marked. And I did not wanna be on this island for, or on this, you know, edge of this island

for any longer than I had to be, because it was just, I can't stress how upsetting it was. I was miserable. Finally, after what felt like forever was probably like an hour, you know, battling the conditions, but you turn back inland and then it's like another mile back through the woods to the parking lot and that was fine. But just with having the the soggy feet, And that was fine. But just with having the soggy feet smelling like lobsters and ocean, and the occasional leap across a gigantic hole in the rocks, on very slippery and sharp rocks that the wind just blasting you and raining your face, Man, that was a tough one. It went from like, oh, this is a pleasant little nature preserve to holy crap.

I'm a celebrity, get me out of here real fast. If you've never seen that show, Padde Blagojevic, classic, she should have won. Not Lou Diamond Phillips. So I decided, I gotta work my way back to Portland. I'm kinda working my way down the main coast. Then I do drive to, you know, Bar Harbor, which is where Acadia is on. What's it called? Great desert island, something like that.

So it kind of just drove around. Didn't really get out to do anything. You know, it's kind of like a summer town as you would expect. But actually my friend and former roommate, Sam Anderson, went out there with his family. This past week, and looks like yet a nice time. The picture is very nice. But I keep working my way back down. I end up, I'm going to drive to New Brunswick.

Just Brunswick, Maine, where my cousin, Daisy, is a professor. And on the way down there, I was listening to a lot of different radio things but just the one thing and I don't remember a lot about this but I just mentioned it. You know occasionally I'll find like the Jesus channel and you get some really good, like you get a combination of sermons

but then like the old school things that were made in the 70s, like stories that are made by old white guys with fun different voices and you know you get the kid actors and stuff. There is this one story that was about apparently sacrificial gifts. And the story is essentially you have these two kids and they have this dog and it's their best friend and there's this old man who lives in the spooky house at the end of the street up on the hill. And the old man asks them to buy their dog,

which is obviously like, no, we're not gonna sell your dog. But then the kid's mom is like, don't you remember what you learned about in church about sacrificial gifts and how in order to serve and love the Lord, you have to make big sacrifices sometimes? And so the kids are like, well, I guess our big sacrifices we have to sell our dog to Old Man,

Crowder or whatever this guy's name is. And so they sell this guy is their dog, which is just like the sad and they're super sad. And I'm just like, this, this is like a cult. We can't, you can't put this on the air. And it's a kind of happy ending. They, you know, the old man changed apart, home alone ending, ending whatever. Like, oh, I see the children are sad without their dog. Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. So he's going to give their dog back. But then the mom, okay, the mom is a real villain in this story because then she's like,

well, you can't just give it back because you paid them money for it, but maybe if they work for you, slave labor, you then eventually after a year or something, then they'll have made enough granted minimum wage for 12-year-olds was 35 cents an hour back in the 70s when this was made. Then after a year or something, then maybe you can give them the dog back because they'll have earned it.

And that's the story. And this wasn't like a joke. This is something that people are actually like producing and consuming. I was just shocked. I mean, this is one of the worst things I've ever heard. Anyways, I heard that on the radio, shocking. Met up with my cousin, we had some tea and connected, that was nice. Anyways, I get to Portland, which was a really nice Airbnb spot. I was just in this older couples. Like their basement was a private basement,

that had everything I wanted and just kind of chilled out there. Other stuff I could say but not super important. It had some really good pizza. Leonardo's pizza and Portland main came in with zero expectations. 10 out of 10 would recommend. It was fantastic. Best pizza I had on the trip. Wake up the next morning, it's Saturday morning, and it's like a two hour drive to Boston. I go down there, everything's fine, return the rental car, get on the plane, the only crazy thing that happened, I had to connect in Atlanta. And you know, I'm back in like 27D or something. And going out, you know, I had two flights with a layer of inditroid and it was a very orderly boarding and off-boarding, off-loading, de-planing process.

People were, you know, not doing this stand-up thing and rush the front, you know, they're like, they're over the inner comments like, please, six feet apart. And going out to Boston at the start of the show, everyone was falling, the rules was beautiful. This is what society could be like. Coming back, I mean it happened to a minor extent in Chicago, on the second half of my leg, but I get to Atlanta. And I'm close, like middle of the plane.

So we land, we get to our gate and just from the back comes a mass horde of very rude African Americans. There's no social distancing and they were, it wasn't just like, oh yeah, we're going to rush up to the front. It was like, we are, like we're playing for the Georgia Bulldogs or something, playing fullback at Georgia, the muscling, elbowing to move other people out of the way. And it's just like,

we all have flights that we're trying to catch. I just, man, it was just to see that level of like, disrespect, not only in terms of how you talked at people because there was some language being thrown around and some racial slurs, it was great. But also just kind of disorienting to see the physical contact given the current state of global pandemics. It was just nuts and something that I hadn't seen in a while and hoped to never

see again. But I thought there was like a legit race riot that was about to break out because it wasn't just like a grown roller eyes. There was some very combative people. Not only the group that was moving and grooving and boogieing their way up to the front, looking like frickin' CJ Ham, their blockin' for Dalvin' Cook. But just the people that they were bumpin' out of the way and rightfully so were very upset. So it was just a lot. There was a lot going on and I just sat there with my head down. And it wasn't just them. There were a lot of other people too

who are doing the standup, rush to the front of the plane as far as you can get sort of thing. So even though I should have been like the 50th person off the plane out of 120, I ended up being like the 90th person. Because every time you think it's gonna be your turn, you stand up, you check your mirrors, you look over your left shoulder,

can I go into the alley or the aisle now? Nope, because there's a huge line of people passing you, which is just like, what do you do in that situation? It's just frustrating, especially with COVID, because I'm not trying to like physically cut in front of someone who is about to make a move on my row because I don't wanna be in close contact with that person. Yikes, it was just, it's always an adventure. But I tell you what, I get back to Chicago, like seven p.m. or something Saturday night

and it's daylight savings time, ending that night so I did get an extra hour of sleep but back to the reality back to normal and that my friends is a rap on the New England road trip. Can you imagine if I had tried to do that all in one episode? It would like be four hours long because there's so much I didn't want to cut out and I tell you what There's so much more that I could have shared with you. Obviously I gave you the bus parts, but there's a lot more that I could have shared with you. Obviously, I gave you the best parts, but there's a lot more that happened. And they, you know, what happens in the Green Mountain stays in the Green Mountain.

So as a reminder, we started in Boston. We went down to Providence, Rhode Island, Manhattan, Waterbury, Connecticut, the pediatrician's room over to Cooper's town, baseball hall of fame, the Finger Lakes, Ithaca, Cornell, ever heard of it, highest rank in the Ivy League, went up to Udicca, Udicca. Up to like placid, two-time host of the Winter Olympic Games, all the way up to the border of Canada, listen to some Montreal French radio, over down to the world's tallest filing cabinet and

home of Bernie Sanders, Burlington, Vermont. We hiked camel's hump, scariest hike I've ever done in my life. I see windy and very cold at the top with zero visibility. And then that also included a nice little poop in the woods. We stayed at in this new Hampshire lodge with this owner who has been accused and had to pay out due to a hate crime. And we hiked Pleasant Mountain in Maine, which was very pleasant with a neat little fire tower. We went out to Great West Island where I thought it was gonna die a couple of times

and we listened to a lot of Boston sports radio and boy boy do they still miss Tom Brady and Leonardo's pizza in Portland great slice of pizza. That was our trip with a whole lot of Duncan maybe I don't know 10 to 12 different Duncan runs in my six to seven days. A whole lot of apple cider donuts from a number of places and a lot of driving. I don't know the exact mileage somewhere around 2000. You know, I was driving about six or seven hours a day.

Oftentimes way out of the way for one reason or another, but I saw a lot of things, had a good time and it was nice to get away for a little while. I'll tell you that much. So thank you for tuning in to not only the four parts of the New England road trip, but today's Bean Tom podcast, that's what I have for you. Next week, some sort of Thanksgiving special,

I don't know what it's gonna look like, but from my family to yours, happy Thanksgiving. Yeah, we're gonna settle in here, watch some football, and have a nice little relaxing day. I've already gotten, I already walked three miles this morning, got my groceries, so we are in here for the long run, get some tune blast going, check the tweets, I'm all set for some action.

Everyone, thanks for listening Episode 150 of the Bean Tom Podcast. That's pretty cool, pretty exciting. If we end it now, we'll finish right about an hour, which is where I wanted to be a lot less. But that's OK. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for listening.

Everyone, stay safe. Stay sane. Enjoy your Thanksgiving. I'm going to check in on you very soon and have a happy Thanksgiving, which I already said, like three times and I'll check in on you soon, which is the second time I've said this. That's all I got.

Ending the YouTube stream, peace, YouTube, and for those listening to just the audio, I'll check in on you next time. Bye. I'll check in on you next time. Bye! nd nd you