Beantown Podcast - Old Flash Games and Intrusive Thoughts (12062024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: December 6, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss new Christmas songs, fantasy football playoffs, and crunchy munchy dogs

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, December 6th, 2024. Only a couple more shows left in season seven, believe it or not. We're getting ready to head into Los Ocho I have started I am the creator owner and chief translator of this program I love I love when they at the start of a football game or you know episode of deal or no deal island they'll say you know this language this program is available in Spanish language press the button press the You know idioma espanola Lengua

Button on your remote control. I think we got to do that for the bean tom podcast press the Press the ocho button on your podcast app to get this program in Espanol and I'm still striving for striving towards the first ever fully Spanish language broadcast of the Bean Town podcast not a translation I'm talking OG and you might think you might think I'm foolish Run around with you. You might think I'm crazy. Oh All I want is you The cars rest in peace great band What do you what were my parents thinking when 11 year old Quinn?

Gets a ride to the library to pick up a Cars CD to you know burn onto the computer like what the what the heck is this kid case you're wondering I am on my fourth drink it was a staff holiday party this afternoon and we're coming into this program with very little substance We got co-host of the show maple the dog No last name. She's just maple. It's like Cher or Bono Chas Bono She's just coming in munching she's eating dinner Her food bowl was on the floor earlier and that was not

Satisfactory, so now it's been been moved onto the couch on her Yoda blanket and she is munching and crunching away. We'll see if we get lucky here. We might be able to do a interview with the dog. We'll see what happens. I don't know, Maple, you got any, you want to crunch into the mic? It smells like kibble over here. It's like a pet store.

It's not the greatest smell in the world. You got anything, buddy? Lots of crunching and munching, for lack of a better word. That means tasty supper, Pop. She didn't have breakfast. I don't know, this maple is very, is awfully unpredictable with her meals. I feel like we had gotten into a good rhythm with her eating two square meals a day. I love a square meal. Great nitro game. Oh man,

talk about peak Flash games. Let's write that down. Let's circle back to that. Okay, this is going to be a very niche episode. If you have never heard of Nitroam, if you've never heard of flash games, this could potentially be a very unrelatable episode for you. So I apologize for that. But look, after seven full years of the Meantown Podcast, I hope you realize at this point I am who I am. That's why we've gone from, look, let's be real. Let's not shy away from viewership and listenership numbers, whether you're coming to us from Castbox, Player FM, Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

Pandora. Maybe I'm number one on your Spotify rap. Tag us. And we're on Blue Sky at Beantown Podcast. I'm not actually bullshitting you this time. Listener discretion is advised when you're listening to the Beantown podcast, number one, we'll occasionally use some language. Number two, the podcast is objectively terrible. Spurks, Spurks, that's not a word, speaks well to both points. We just use language occasionally. And two, the podcasts are terrible. I am actually on Blue Sky though.

I literally joined this week. I was like, we've been talking about it for a month on the show. Low. What if we actually did it? But, you know, back in? But back in the heyday, like 2020 era, 2019 era of the Beantown podcast, which doesn't seem that long ago, but you look at the calendar, and it's about to be 2025 in four weeks. And you're kind of like, oh, well, that's

actually a long time ago. We were pulling hundreds. And we have multiple episodes. I'm not bullshitting you here. I can't explain it. I just kept putting out the same stuff and it just happened. A couple episodes that hit four digits in listenership, which was awesome. It was a lot of fun. And it really lead to a ton of additional engagement. I think it was the Pakistanis who don't always speak English, more the Urdu crowd. Shout out to our good friends in Pakistan. Thank you for making us see 112th ranked comedy podcast

in the Great Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Hello, Khyberpass, Hyderabad, Islamabad, and ever in between. And now we're doing like 25 to 30 an episode. And part of that is sad, because I love spreading my seed, the bean town seed, I love spreading the beans. But it's also like, I never started this show with the intention of being like, okay, if people really love this, then we're just going to focus on that and we're going to do whatever it takes to get big. I'm not a sellout, okay? There's so many insta influencers out there who it's, you know, especially for the ladies, I feel kind of bad because it's kind of like, oh you gotta, gotta go tits out, you know, for lack of a better phrase, to keep the

engagement going and you just kind of get to a certain point where it's like only fans are busted and then you flame out and that's kind of the life cycle unfortunately a lot of these influencers and I feel bad about that but here's the thing about the Bean Tom podcast we never show we never we never showed our tits in the first place okay right maple that's some good water right we never we never showed our tits on the Beantown podcast. That's gonna be the catchphrase for season eight. The closest thing was when I showed my tits on,

was it our season three, I think it was, kind of wallpaper or thematic imagery, if you will. Shout out to, I think my brother, Walt Furness, took the photos out on the West Coast. I was sitting on top of a garbage disposal. Garbage can is the more colloquial term for it. C-O-L-L-O-Q-U-I-A-L, I think is that. Colloquial is kind of, let's just call it spade a spade.

Colloquial is kind of a tough word. I oftentimes shy away from spelling the tough words here in the Beantown podcast and I stick to the easier ones. O N E S. I used to know this lady and I think she still works there. Shout out. Maybe maybe they're listening in their offices up there in Evanston. Onus Cheetons. What a great name for an admissions officer. Onus, O-N-I-S. I don't think I've ever met anyone else in the world who had the first name Onus. And then Cheetums, what a great last name. She could be a poker player. Onus Cheetums, C-H-E-A-T-H-A-M-S. A nice African American lady. I think she still works there.

Kind of one of those mythical figures who's like, everyone talked about her when I worked there, but I never actually really interacted with her. Oh, and if you're out there, we love you. Wish I got to know you. I am double fisting here a Hopewell, my last Christmas ale four pack and then some Trader Joe's

You know $15 whiskey sometimes you just got to do what you gotta do I'm getting in all my sips all my sips all my savers here dry January is creeping up quick It is less than four months away, and it's gonna be extra this year. I was having this conversation with my I hate I was going to say mother-in-law here's what I hate and I'm almost free of this torture if you will. When you are engaged and we've been engaged for a year and a half more than that now slash just like you're in a very long term relationship which Rachel Rachel and I are anytime you want to talk about your partner's parents family whatever it's always like oh they're my in-laws but I'm not actually married so it's like oh my fiance is in-laws you got to add all the extra syllables or oh it's not my sister-in-law Miss Mandy it's

oh it's my future sister-in-law look the marriage. It's, oh, it's my future sister-in-law. Look, the marriage is just a day, signing a certificate. It's a very special day with, you know, we're going to do the Chris Brown down the aisle and all that stuff. It's going to be fantastic. Yada, yada, yada. But the whole like, oh, not actually my in-laws because we're not technically married yet. I hate that. Okay, for all intensive purposes, a classic Bean Town podcast horse name, intensive purposes. There are the in-laws. I was telling my mother-in-law, and where the heck did we come from to get even to that point? Gosh, you hate that when you get on a tangent and then you want, oh, dry January. I was like, okay, yeah, you know, I got to, I'm excited, I love the holiday season. I drink a lot of beer more than I should,

pack on some extra LBs. Not proud of it, nor am I ashamed of it. It's just a fact, it is what it is. But dry January happens every year. It's a tradition and it's happening again 2025. But with the wedding coming up at the end of April, I've had this on my vision board for quite a long time. A theoretical vision board where it's like we're extending it this year.

We're definitely going into February. I'm not gonna sit here and commit and say, yeah, I'm definitely gonna be dry all the way through February. We have to account for the great event, classic Catholic fundraising charitable opportunity at Bourbon Street in February. I would love to have a glass of wine or two. Although, if we're being honest, the great event,

as iconic as it is, no shade to any of my Burbank folks. 604.5.9. What up? But it's not really the like, get drunk type of event. It's so hard because all you're drinking there is really cheap wine. And I don't know about you guys, maybe my tolerance is just too high, but I... I couldn't show up completely dry to or sober to an event and then get drunk off of only cheap wine.

The headache would hit me hours before the buzz would hit me. It just would never work. So in the event of the great event, you would have to pregame heavily. And it's kind of like, I think it's a Friday. You're going to be working, probably commuting from the city that day. There's just only so many hours in the day to get turned. And so will we stay dry through the great event? Perhaps, not sure.

Now the tough thing comes in mid-March when I have St. Patrick's Day and then my birthday. It's a tough one-two punch. We haven't even talked about the Oscars, but I'll actually be curious about that this year with Conan hosting. So it's an indefinite ending point on dry January, but yes, I would love to drop like five to ten pounds. I'm not unrealistic about this. I don't want to pull an Ariana Grande and lose 20 pounds in a month and be like, I'm super skinny for this wedding.

I want to look natural, full, healthy, vibrant, vivacious, vigorous. Any other adjectives, Maple? No, she's just looking nervous. But you ate your supper, that was a good job. So you won't have your supper on the ground, but you gladly indulge in the couch. You need a dog psychiatrist so that you can lie

backwards on that nice couch and eat your supper. Where were we at? Oh yeah, dry January. It's going to happen and who knows when it's going to end. I can't see into the future. I'm not an oracle. I'm not a soothsayer. But I can't see into the future. I'm not an oracle. I'm not a soothsayer. But I can look into the future and tell you that Mufasa, the Lion King, is coming out two weeks from tonight, Maple. Two weeks from last night, midnight showing. It's always Thursdays.

13 days away from Mufasa. Find your pride. We have been advertising. We've been promoting it all year without pay. I think if Bob Iger knows what's good for him, he is going to say, Quinn, you have done so much for this program. You brought in millions of extra ticket sales. Come to a midnight show and get the 3D experience in IMAX.

Bring your own little lion buddy, Maple. And you guys can sing Circle of Life. You can sing, oh, I just can't wait to be king. Ba da ba bum bum ba da da wow. Ba da ba bum bum ba ba oh no. In my head, I know this is not true, but in my head, Jonathan Taylor sings all the songs. And I'm just imagining him in very 90s era, jean jacket, five feet tall,

in the recording booth. Yeah, the hot tunes playing in the background. He's just, imagine this, close your eyes. Both eyes, big bulky headphones, both eyes closed, hands on both headphones, and he's just singing. can't wait to be king. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, I have an un-good authority. They're bringing that one back for the closing credits of Mufasa the Lion King. Oh, they're trying to be all epic and stuff, but I don't know.

I think you got it. Kids don't want to be epic these days. Kids want to have fun Some kids take a beautiful dog and hide them away from the rest of the world I want to be the one who sees Mufasa. Oh dogs just want to have fun Haven't thought about that song in a while. Sometimes I get the riff, if I'm being honest with you, of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by, what is that, that's Cyndi Lauper.

I get that mixed up with Tom Tom Club. What's the name of that song? Ba-dup! Ba-ba-ba-dup! Whatever the name of that song? Whatever the name of that song is the guys from Talking Heads. I can't even remember the name of that song. I feel bad. All this is to say guys, we are two weeks away from Mufasa, the Lion King. Only in theaters the first weekend if it does poorly it'll show up on Disney Plus quickly. Mufasa, find your pride. Alright. In case you're sitting there thinking, God, Quinn came in with, we had, you know, our had the our expertise expectations expectations for you were low but holy fuck common meme I did I did write a trivia question so jokes on you new year's resolutions one do Duolingo every day in Espanol so that at one day I can

do a Bean Town podcast solo in Espanol to have a trivia question for every Bean Town podcast episode there is and I actually had a fantastic trivia question that's gonna be great for all the infrastructure lovers, geography lovers, lovers of our country frankly that I had written down from a couple weeks ago and I realized and I apologize I'm almost certain I did not use this question previously on a show I'm certain I would have recalled'm almost certain I did not use this question previously on the show. I'm certain I would have recalled doing it. But I had written it down.

I was like, oh, this would be a great trivia question. And so we're going to get into that a little bit later today. Before we do that, a couple of things I want to bounce around to. But first, of course, our good friends, who make this show possible, week in and week out. Home Pired Oregon, when you need your home inspected in Central Oregon, we were just talking at my office holiday party this afternoon about air duct cleaning.

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clear audio quality. Sounds like we're leaning towards having a biblical reading at our wedding to satisfy and satiate a certain, certain family members. Let's just leave it at that. So whether you're reading from Corinthians or the Pentateuch or a minor prophet or even Revelation, because that's where things get spicy. When God speaks, he uses a Samson. And of course, our good friends at cuts by Q. We're getting awfully close here to doing a little dog trimming by Q we might do a bath tomorrow we might do a haircut I know I know I know she's got the Grinch paws maple and you're like well it's almost Christmas it's appropriate to have the Grinch paws I just we got a Christmas photos with Santy Claus tomorrow and I don't want people to make fun so maple you want to bath before Christmas photos with Santy or you want to wait till Sunday? Because dad's gonna be drunk booing Kirk cousins on Sunday because he's got a day off on Monday. So do you want dad to shave you like a sheep shear

you S-H-E-A-R Harry shear while he's drunk or Before Santa photos tomorrow you have to choose one or the other but I'll let you decide Okay, you can get back to me tomorrow morning. Okay. All right. Good stuff. Oh and excuse me. That was crazy What happened to my voice there? Hmm when you need a fresh do some snappy or nudes call the experts at cuts by Q Mabel you are the groaniest whiniest dog ever met Why are you groaning? I had this thought and

To pull back the curtain. I'm using the phrase pull back the curtain a lot And at work these days because I'm a huge wicked head. I'm using the phrase pull back the curtain a lot at work these days because I'm a huge wicked head, I'm a huge Oz freak and I love in Wizard of Oz when they pull back the curtain. But actually to pull back the curtain, I had this thought mid-week that I don't understand why Yukon Cornelius doesn't get his own song in you know the TV classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer from 1960 whatever everyone's got their own song Sam the snowman Santa Claus the elves her me Rudolph Clarice I think that's pretty much all. The Bumble doesn't have a song,

but he's a non-speaking role. But Yukon Cornelius is the Tritagonist per his Wikipedia page or his Christmaspedia page. So why doesn't, why doesn't Yukon Cornelius get his own song? He could have the dogs singing backup vocals? I looked this up, let's go to Yukon, like what, this wasn't what I was looking up, but when I went to Yukon Cornelius' Christmas-opedia page, and I don't think that's actually what it's called, it's, what it was a TV special-opedia. RankinBass.Phantom.com is what it is.

Um, okay, da da da da da. What I was trying to look up was what types of dogs does he have? So I think this was listed. I wanted to mention the types of dogs. I mean, we can all watch Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer at any point if we would like to. Oh, maybe this is ChristmasSpecials.fandom.wiki. Maybe this is what I was on. This is some rough dead air. All I was looking for were what there's four dogs that he has and it listed, hey, it's these four breeds. I think it was, oh, here It is. I found it. I found it. Okay. Yes

He is a tri-tag in ist from the 1964 Rankin and Bass television special Rudolph red-nosed reindeer he's an Arctic prospector whose sled is pulled by a team of dogs consisting of a poodle a Cocker spaniel that sound familiar maple a st., a dachshund, and a collie. So five, that's just, what an excellent creative decision. You know, the snow dog, archetype, huskies, and the like very well established. So you just say, oh, let's have a fun cartoon character who has five sled dogs that have nothing to do with Huskies.

That is, I applaud the creative vision there. But what I wanted to mention, and I promise this comes back to pull the curtain back. I had this thought earlier this week, why doesn't Yukon Cornelius have his own song? And so I thought to myself, we got to give UConn his own song. And if Rankin and Bass want to re-release it in, you know, 5K HD on Apple TV, whatever, I'm fine. You can use my song. Just pay me a couple grand, whatever. But I am working on my own UConn Cornelius song, OK? It's not ready for today. This was a situation where, like, if everything was very

quiet and slow this morning before my holiday outing at Whirly Ball, which is just bumper cars with a ball thrown in this afternoon, if all went well, we would have it ready to go, ready to premiere on the show today, but that's not the case. It did not, it was not a smooth morning. So we are still in work, still writing, still recording all that fun stuff, but we will have it either next week or our Christmas special the week after. The UConn, the ballad of UConn Cornelius title still TBD for you all here because UConn deserves his own song.

And so I just wanted to mention that that is coming down the pipe, coming down the hopper. Here's an intrusive thought. Here's, I want to, I want to frame it this way. One of my favorite podcasts, the Ringer Fantasy Football Show, I think those guys do a really good job. It's not that fantasy heavy even. It's fantasy heavy even. There's some of that, but those three guys, Danny Kelly, Danny Heifetz, and Craig Horbeck, just like three fun guys. Three white guys between between my age and 40. Guys in their 30s is another way you would put it.

And one of their segments is intrusive thoughts. Basically, after a week of football games, they have their intrusive thoughts like, oh, I don't think the Lions are winning the Super Bowl or something like that. All evidence says that's not going to be true, but it's just you've seen something you've got a gut-checked feeling. I have an intrusive thought. It makes me feel

really bad. So if you want to go on blue sky at Bean Town podcast and badmouth me about this, wholly welcome it because even as I say it out loud, I feel kind of poorly about it. But I've got an old acquaintance. I don't know, what's the name? We worked in the same industry, a peer, I guess. Colleague makes it sound like you worked together, but we were from halfway across the country. Someone I knew through working in the past recently became pregnant.

Congratulations. A big fan of that. The intrusive thought that I'm not a big fan of but I also feel terrible saying this they posted a whole long Instagram video videoing the whole moment they were you know urinating on the toilet finding out they're pregnant and then on top of that they put the whole Billie Eilish Barbie song on top of it. All you to feel Oh How What was I made

For And it was a very long video. 3 minutes on Instagram. The reason I feel shitty about it is like it's their first child. You don't know what they've been through. That's such an amazing life changing thing to have have that my intrusive thought is you

went through all this effort who knows if it was was it the first was it the authentic time you found you're pregnant or did you find a you're pregnant like oh I got to go sit down on the point to the toilet maybe pee again throw on some Billy and Phineas they really rack up the likes so the wholesome part of me is like this is an amazing video You can go back anytime in the future and watch this tear up. It's gonna be awesome your kids graduating college, whatever It's gonna be amazing But just the pain in the ass in me is like I didn't really want to scroll down on my Instagram feed and see someone peeing listening to Billie Eilish.

So crucify me, okay? I think we all have those thoughts though. Which leads us directly to our email address this week. Email us, what are those thoughts or moments where it's like you know you're in the minority opinion here or your thought or your reaction is maybe a little bit out of line or not appropriate or just like let people live their life. Get it? I get that.

But you just feel that way anyways. It can even be about me. That's totally fine. Like Quinn actually sucks. But the flip side of that as well, he's putting out content and he's barely asked for any money and he does it every week. And he's really putting his heart and soul into it. But the flip side of that is, well, he kind of sucks at podcasting.

You know, I just have to add the heart to tell him. Email us, beanthompodcasts at yahoo.com. Again, it's podcast at yahoo.com. Yahoo! That's what Yukon Cornelius says. I felt like there was something more there. I was going to sing the cuts by Q Jingle, but we already sang it once. All right, Maple.

You got anything else you want to get through here before we get to our trivia question? Oh, there was one thing from earlier in the show. I'm glad I wrote it down. Here we go. Notes. Nitrome is all it says. Excuse me. Then we do our trivia question.

Okay. So we mentioned our trivia question. OK, so we mentioned square meal. Maple did not have two square meals today. She had one, excuse me, square meal today. Maybe this is directly tied to her lack of sleeping. She's been, we hit a stretch in about the, I don't know, month and a half, two month mark, where she started sleeping through the night, which was awesome. I'm talking about the, I don't know, month and a half, two month mark where she started

sleeping through the night, which was awesome. I'm talking about you buddy. Hi buddy. Hi buddy. And then been good until about a week ago, two weeks ago, where lately and it's not really to the sun, because we don't get a you know light from the sun until about 6 45 ish is when you start to notice it 6 6 30 6 45 lately like 4 a.m. is when little miss girl over here has decided it's time to wake up and she's got some sort of allergy or something where she scratches a lot and i feel bad for her sorry miss maple i know it's a lot of scratching. But unfortunately, she'll wake up at like 4 30 a.m. and just go to town on the scratching and then jump up halfway in the bed and be like, Hey, you guys ready to like wake up? Let's get started. And it'll be five in the morning and we're just not ready for another two hours. And it's not like

a, Oh, she's has to go potty right now she's gonna poop on the floor no she can hold it she's she's fine she knows the setup it's been three months three three three rule one week from tomorrow is your three month anniversary very exciting huh maple but yeah she's not been sleeping well the last 10 days or so and not going back to sleep Which is very stressful for mom and dad who don't like waking up at 445 every morning and staying awake. So that's not been good right buddy pretty bad. Yeah, not fun But square meal made me think about nitro. So square meal was a great flash game a one or two player game where you basically,

your board or your field that you play on is very geometrical. It's like a grid, essentially, with one space and spaces can be empty or they can have blocks on them and blocks can have different features. They can be wood and they're breakable. They can be stones. They don't break. They can be jelly and they bounce, whatever it They can be stones. They don't break. They can be jelly and they bounce, you know, whatever it is. And there's bad guys that walk around and if they touch you, you get hurt and die or you can swallow these blocks and shoot them, spit them out into the bad guys to kill them, bonk them, that sort of thing. So that's what Square Meal was great game, really fun to play two players. So it got me thinking half an hour ago at the top of the show. What were the other great nitrum games? I

Think if I'm not mistaken You can still go to nitrum.com and there is a HTML5 section So games where you can still still play them because Adobe discontinued flash, gosh it's been probably 3 or 4 years already. So flash games permanently down. Now there's all sorts of emulators and all that stuff where you can find resolution. And there's many old flash games are available now through new platforms and that sort of thing. So all is not completely lost. Speaking of all is not lost, Coldplay, I saw, what is it called, All of My Love,

which I don't think it's a Led Zeppelin cover. This popped up on my YouTube this morning. There's a new Coldplay song or cover, or it's an old song, because I haven't listened to an album in like two albums, with Dick Van Dyke in the music video. I didn't realize that guy was still alive. He's got to be like 98 years old. Initial pre trivia question. Take your guesses. How old is Dick Van Dyke?

I have not looked this up yet. Again, the reason I mentioned this, I think it's a Coldplay music video. I think it's a new song, but I didn't click on it. I was so busy this morning, I just didn't get around to it. I believe the song or the video clip was called All of My Love. And the thumbnail is Chris Martin and Dick Van Dyke. So how old is Dick Van Dyke? I mean, I think he's really fucking old. He was in Mary Poppins. And Julie Andrews was like, looked like she was like 16 in that movie. So how old is Dick Van Dyke?

He's gotta be, I'm gonna, I think it's like Jimmy Carter levels of insane. I think Dick Van Dyke is 99 is my guess. Dick Van Dyke age is what we're Googling. 98, oh, you want to know the kicker? This is unbelievable. If I had this thought, if Coldplay publishes this video literally a week from today, I would have been right.

His birthday is December 13th, 1925. I am one week away. That's a brutal beat. One week away from correctly guessing Dick Van Dyke's age. I don't even feel bad about that, but kind of I do. That's my intrusive thought. I kind of feel bad about that. Sometimes you just had a couple beers and you're just like this is how I feel about my fantasy football teams too you're just like I am the only one who matters I am going to win if I don't win this is a colossal failure for mankind and then you remember there's nine other guys and gals out there who have all sunk time and energy into this as well. Some of them less than you, many of them more than you. And nothing, there's no fantasy football God out there who blesses and loves your team

more than anyone else that you deserve to win. Which is why I consider myself so fortunate that in two of the three times I've won, two of the three years I have won a fantasy football championship I've doubled up and won multiple in the same year which is just a blessing. I don't think I'm going to be frank with you, we're going to come back to Nitro. I don't think I'm gonna be frank with you. We're gonna come back to Nitro. I don't think I have the team to win by brute strength any of my three leagues. I'm teetering on the edge of a playoff spot in my school league. I am probably going to throw the results of the Great White North game to secure a four seed.

Although I could, especially after last night, new Steve's guys sucked. I could potentially go for a three seed with a win, but I don't want to face Brother Walt. And then in the newest league, the Voodoo Lounge, I'm a win away from securing a first round bye, a loss away from falling out of a first arm by and having to play next week. So we got a lot of things hanging in the hopper here hanging in the balance. But I just don't think I have the team. I mean, I've got a lot of like Jaden Daniels,

Jonathan Taylor, Derek Henry, my wide receivers are pretty synonymous across the board. Cooper Kupp and Nico Collins are kind of my go-to guys. And a lot of Trey McBride. And it's like, we got good players. But last year, I had elite guys that led to a title. Chris McCaffrey, C.D. Lamb. CJ Stroud. I had guys who were kicking ass and taking names. This year I just don't have ass kickers. And to be honest, because there are ass kickers out there.

Saquon Barkley. Josh Allen. Jamar Chase. Of which my father-in-law, not my future father-in-law, technically so, but who gives a crap? We're just calling him father-in-law. Jose, oh, Yogi. He's got all three.

Chase, Allen, and Barkley, which just seems unbelievable. It's the first three picks, obviously. It's like you play Clue, and on your first time you get into the billiard room, you know, first three picks, obviously. It's like you play Clue, you know, and then your first time you get into the billiard room, you say, billiard room, your first guest of the game, Mr. Colonel Mustard in the billiard room with a rope. And you're not bluffing, and you go all the way around and no one shows you anything.

And all of a sudden you're just like, well, I guess that's the end of the game, which is kind of funny because that actually, the last time I played Clue was the first and only time I played Clue in the last six years. This was while my, I think my sister-in-law was still in high school. We were all sitting in the basement and more or less that exact same thing happened. And you kind of feel shitty because it's like we spent all this time deciding oh yeah let's play Clue that'll be fun get people together and then you win in like two minutes.

It it's fun to win but it's just as fun to like have an intense battle. I think I literally got it on my second guess and it was just kind of like, that's what drafting Jamar Chase, Saquon Barkley and Josh Allen was like this year. So if my father-in-law does not win at all, it will just be a shocking travesty of justice. Other Nitro games that I really liked, and I apologize, they don't have the Well, what what happens if we Google nitro games? I remember twin shot was a lot of fun That's one where you're like the little angel guy with wings sometimes jumping up and down shooting arrows at the

Mexican jumping beans That one was a lot of fun. There was another one, your guys kind of looked similar, but you were like, it was like an ancient Greek myth kind of thing. Sometimes you could ride a tiger. Again, these are all one or two player games and a lot of fun to play two players, especially if there's no friendly fire because sometimes you could just kill your brother and they would get really upset. There was this great cheese game. you were like a cheese ball like

the moon and the rats would fuck I just spilled hang on that was crazy I just okay scary moments on the bean top podcast I think we're good to go this is part two if everything's worked well that means have been able to successfully fuse parts one and part two together, but it's kind of up in the air. I was literally, I'm sitting on the couch, had my glass of whiskey in hand. It wasn't like, oh, Quinn wasn't paying attention. He tipped it over. I just did this weird thing where I was like, going to have a sip and I was like, no, I'm good, let me sit back up and put it back on the coffee table and it just flew out of my hand. I can't explain it. So we have a recorded part one

and the goal is to fuse together part one and part two because as you know, with our current recording setup, we cannot effectively just start and stop, it has to be two separate files. So I have to go to the internet to find a third party site that can fuse the two together. So that's where we are at. There was the cheese game, which we were talking about

as we had a ill-fated fate. And then of course, it was a hot air balloon game where you're like on a track. And there'd be all sorts of obstacles in the way you had to like, accelerate and decelerate and avoid the obstacles. That was a lot of fun. I'm on mobile nitro.com actually now. And they do not have a mobile friendly site which is great so every icon is extremely tiny and there's no way to be like oh yeah just go back to the original because I want to see the original games there was a not fruit ninja something ninja urban ninja it was like Japan focused and you just shot guys basically that was a lot of fun

I enjoyed that one excuse me I'll let you know the name of it if I find it we're looking at the games now unfortunately they are listed new to old rather than old to new so we're gonna try to hit some forward arrows here to see if we can get to the end of the list oh here we go we go. Okay, we made it to the end list. So there's hot air we already mentioned. I mean, there's other ones here that are good. I just didn't play them as much. Frostbite, that was one where you're basically ice climbers.

All right, we're having another sip of whiskey. Wish us luck. Oh, and then there was another, I'm not looking at the games here now. There's a great skating one where you have to skate circles around the bad guys to have the ice fall through. And then there was a I think it was called cold freeze. You're like a Yeti spinning on these ropes or poles to try to advance higher and higher. That was a good one.

And then what else do we have here? Oh, there's skywire and Hot Air. Those are two different ones. Similar to what I was thinking, however. Oh, off the rails. This was a good one. You're too like little Mexican cacti. And you're riding I don't know the name of this, but you know, those old like rail cars

where it's like you got to push down on one end and then on the other end. So you need two people to move in a positive direction. That's what Off the Rails was all about. There was Pest Control which is where you have to click the different bugs in a specific manner in order to kill them. It was very frustrating. In fact, I hated that one so much I'm gonna try playing that later. I know Dirk Valentine was a big one. I never really played that one so much. I'm gonna try playing that later. I know Dirk Valentine was a big one

I never really played that one as much though cheese dreams was the cheese game. I had just mentioned We go to page 2 See if there's anything else here good nitro my nitro game wise and again I don't know how many of these are playable to this day. Some of them are on their HTML file. Some of them are completely lost probably, which is a bummer. Final Ninja was the name of the ninja game I was thinking of. There's Mutiny, which is like a turn-based pirate game. That was kind of fun.

That was different than Miniclip had a similar kind of thing. Raft Wars wars similar setup Bomba I like that when you create little bombs and blow things up. That was a lot of fun I know fat cat was pretty popular But I didn't really play that one as much twin shot. There it is. That's how this all or no I was gonna say that's all how this all got started, but that's not true We were talking about something else avalanche your little penguin Downhill skiing that's not true. We were talking about something else. Avalanche, your little penguin, downhill skiing, that's a lot of fun. We're into page three here.

I think for the most part, we are past the games I ever really played as a kid. Yeah, I don't recognize any of these from page three. But there you go, nitroam.com. Go to HTML at the top if you want to play. Just having some reminiscing here around the holidays. And then finally our trivia question for today. This came about I think over Thanksgiving break. I was lying in bed and I don't recall I was looking at US

highways. So not interstate highways, not I-90, not I-10, I-70. No, not just the old fashioned Lincoln highways. US Route 30 or 20, which went through our hometown growing up, goes all the way from Boston to Oregon Coast. Or 14 or 41 both go through Chicago, you know the OG highway system. And I stumbled upon this and this was not something that was on my radar or that I knew about before it popped up but I wanted to ask the question because I think it's a fun question.

I think it's a question, you know, multiple answers, you can probably use your intuition to get one or two in a somewhat straightforward manner, but I'm going to be honest, like, I think if you gave me all the time in the world and I had to come up with all four correct, I don't think I could get it. And I've been to only looking at this list, I've only been to two of these, I think, two of these cities, and one of them was just passing through. So here's my question, very straightforward. The US interstate system serves as 46 of the 50 US state

capitals. In other words, 46 of the 50 US state capitals. In other words, 46 of the 50 US state capitals have an interstate that runs through them in some capacity. You know where this is going. Tell me the four US state capitals that do not have an interstate system running through them. And I'll give you, I'll already start to work on clues. If you just want to bare-knuckle this and no clues at all, go ahead and pause, but I think it's helpful to talk

through it. Two of these capitals, middle of the country. Two of these capitals about as far away from each other as you can get in the grand scheme of the United States. Let's start middle of the country. In fact, I said on the top of the trivia question, I thought I had been to one or two of these. I don't think I think I've only been to one of these. I know one for sure I've been to. The other one I thought, oh, I've been there because I've driven through there. Well, that's not true if there's no interstate running through there. So I don't think I've been to this place. It is a French name. And I want to give a shout out to my

history teacher in like fifth grade who pointed out the way to differentiate the two state capitals, this one and its neighbor to the north is that this name X is a proper name reaching up for the Bismarck, which is a type of donut or pastry, I think. So Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota. So we're looking for the capital of South Dakota. It is Pierre. And I've, excuse me, I've learned that you it's you know looks like Pierre like one Pierre. It's just pure like Santa Monica Pier P I E R R E capital South Dakota Pier is your first option that does not have an interstate run through it

You would think the way the Dakotas are set up 94 goes through North Dakota and it goes through Bismarck where it crosses the Missouri is that right? I don't know we got to double check that you would think I-90 would go through peer but apparently it's off the beaten path. Why would they make peer the capital? I don't know. I guess the interstate system came in later. Next up we got to go pretty much straight south of peer and it's not Des Moines, go one more state named after a president. It's I think probably got to be one of the smaller US state capitals. I don't know anything about this US state capital. I don't know what goes on there. I don't know why it was the capital. It just is there. It's probably like the 20th most populous city in the state.

The capital of the show me state is Jefferson City and there's no interstate that runs through it. It's just kind of there. If you know anything about Jefferson City, email us, bintanpodcasts at yahoo.com. Because I'm not bullshitting you. I know nothing about it. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Next up we go to the East Coast.

You okay buddy? Big cough. Your clue is I once saw Jurassic World 2 there. What was it called? Jurassic World... Fallout? Dominion? Rise of the King of the Apes? I- one of the Jurassic World Chris Pine movies- Chris Pratt, sorry- is Dominion. But I think that's the third one. I don't know. Jurassic World... I don't know. Pterodactyl Paradise?

But I did see this in this city. I don't know, pterodactyl paradise. I did see this in this city. One of our actually, this is a throwback, one of our Bean Town unplugged episodes of which mostly music based, this one was not, but this one was centered around my day out in this state. I had a rental car. And I just spent some time. I went to my god.

What is the name of that? Where they brew 60 minute IPA. Whatever that's called in Milton. It's not Dovetail. That's stupid. What is that called? Dogfish Head is in this state. It's not Milton, though. It is Dover? Dogfish head. Uh, is in this state. It's not Milton though, it is Dover, it is Delaware.

There's no interstate that runs through Delaware. Basically Delaware you have, um, 95 runs through the little circle. Wilmington at the top and there's no other interstates there. Just highways. Okay, last up, I think we saved the, what I would characterize, because these three were good ones and I don't think I would have been able to guess them off the top of my head. I feel confident in my own experiences and abilities that I could have guessed this last

one off the top of my head. If you're curious, it is not Honolulu. Hawaii got its own, Hawaii has its own little thing going on with interstates. You could call it fake news if you want, but it's out there. There are interstates that run through Honolulu. I've driven on them. So the obvious last answer here, it's like not even connected to the rest of the state. It's kind of a bizarre place for a state capital.

Anchorage makes so much more sense, but they're gonna do what they're gonna do. The last of the four is Juneau, Alaska. Juneau, the right answer, it's Juneau. So your four here, Juneau, Alaska, Dover, Delaware, Jefferson City, Missouri, and Pierre, South Dakota are the only four states that do not have a US interstate run through them That's what I got for you guys. Wish me luck as I piece together these two audio files Apologies for being sloppy and spilling My bourbon. Thanks for listening. We got Much more for you here as we wrap up, close out, season seven of the Beantown

podcast, including our Christmas special in two weeks. The UConn Cornelius song coming your way shortly, so stay tuned for that. Guys, my name is Quinn David Furness. This is my program, Quinn David Furness Presents, the Beantown podcast. I hope that you stay sane, stay sane, find some good Christmas music to listen to because I'll check in on you guys next time. Bye everyone. So so yeah So Thank you.