Beantown Podcast - Pakistan vs Middle East Debate (05172025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: May 17, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss 30A Drama, geopolitical tensions, and the 4th hour of the TODAY Show

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn Davis furnace. Welcome to my show Quinn David furnace presents the Bean Town podcast for Saturday, May 17 2025. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn and this is my program Quinn David furnace presents the Bean Town program, Queen David Furnace Presents the Beantown Podcast. I am the creator, the host, the chief barista at this program. Chief barista, we were having a speaking of coffee, we have monthly coffee chats here in human resources and the discussion this past week was on Starbucks and how the Starbucks and how the baristas there are frustrated because every cup requires a sharpie mark you know you're supposed to write their names but some baristas are protesting because they're so busy by just writing a dot and there were like six of us on the call and I unfortunately didn't have much to

contribute I I don't recall the last time I went to Starbucks When Rachel and I started dating, you know for four or five years ago We would occasionally, you know down in Lincoln Park or Lakeview hit up the Starbys as we call it together and I'd get something here there, but you know, I need to take out a And I'd get something here or there, but you know I need to take out a Helok is that what they call it a home equity line of credit I always wondered because I see the term all the time and I always wondered do you say Heloc you say helok you say home equity line of credit, and I saw someone on shark tank

Last night say they took out a helok so It's not helic HELOC is the term. It's when you borrow against the value of your home. Look at us using adult terms here. But no, I am the chief barista of this program. It's 819 in the morning, one of the earlier programs we've ever recorded. I'm sipping my Mocha Master brewed, freshly ground caribou coffee beans original blend picked up from the jewel about a month ago and finally tapping into the bag. Caribou coffee is an interesting one.

Is that based out of, I don't know. Let's take our guesses. Where's caribou based off out of it? It feels like the type of thing that would be based out of Minneapolis, doesn't it? Like gun to your head. Where is Caribou coffee gonna be from? But then you start thinking, it's like, are there actually any Caribou in Minneapolis?

And the answer is no. Caribou reindeer, officially the same thing, I think. So where's Caribou? Where would you have Caribou? Denver, Denver would be a good second choice. I don't know in my mind. I think it's because the only place I ever go in my life with any sort of frequency or consistency and even then it's not much. But MSP, Minneapolis St. Paul Airport has a Caribou coffee in it, as I'm sure a million other airports do but I Only ever see caribou coffee there at the airport or in the grocery store

So then I'm like, it's got to be based out of Minneapolis, but that's probably not the case That'd be a good idea for a trivia game in the near future here Name, you know the city where this company is based out. There's some classic ones like Coca-Cola and CNN are in Atlanta. United is in Chicago. Kellogg is in Battle Creek. But then there's ones like Caribou that no one really seems to know. We're gonna look it up. We're doing, we gotta be host, creator, and research analysts here. Research support because our usual research analyst, Rachie, is out down in

Champaign for my sister-in-law's graduation. Congratulations, Samantha. So it's just me and Maple here hanging out and she doesn't have thumbs so it's hard to research. It's a good cup of coffee. Listener discretion advice when you're listening to the Bean Town podcast. Number one will occasionally use some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. One place I'm fairly certain Caribou coffee is not based out of is the great Islamic Republic of Pakistan. I know Trump was doing his like Middle East golf tour this week. Now, Pakistan doesn't really fall into the Middle East. It's kind of like Afghanistan, I feel like is kind of the last, last vestige of the Middle East.

And then you get to Pakistan. And I guess Pakistan still consider the Middle East, but you don't really think of Pakistan and like your Gulf, you know, Emirates in the same breath, typically. I feel like Iran is kind of its own thing. Like you got the Gulf States and then you got Iran, which is also a Gulf state, but it's kind of doing its own thing. And then you got Afghanistan and Pakistan, which growing up in the Bush administration were top of mind. You don't hear quite as much about them nowadays but thanks to the Bean Town Podcast we're kind of keeping them relevant as a country. Hello Kyber Pass, Karachi, Lahore, Kyber Pass,

again you know it's one pass but it really big, so it's worth mentioning twice. Thanks for listening and making our show the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Got a second sip. There you go. Got to pace ourselves. We can't pause this program once it gets running, so we can't even get up for a mid-show refill of coffee. So we might have to make it quick. Okay, Caribou Coffee. Here's something that's interesting.

Could there be more to this? So I'm Googling, or I did Google, Caribou Coffee. Just in my Google browser, in my phone, or my Google app. The first hit, as you might expect, is just the general Caribou Coffee homepage. Yada, yada, yada. Then you've got the submenu options, locations, new spring menu, shop, careers, Caribou perks. Then there's a separate option for Caribou Coffee, which who knows why that's its own option. But then the immediate next thing, it's not even a sponsored poster or SEO result or something. You know how like Google results work. It'll show you like a locate like an organization institution and it shows you its star ratings, call directions,

website share, order pickup delivery, a short little blurb about it, and then a location, you know, located in 41 East 8th here in Chicago, but it's not an open closes 630pm one to $10 per person, whatever. But this is not caribou coffee. It's showing me a location for Pete's coffee, which begs the question bags, beg, beg, begs the question, bgs, are caribou and Pete's the same thing? Is it like, Carl's Jr. and Hardee's are the same? Or what, there's an ice cream brand, Dryers and Breyers? Something like that.

It's Dryers and something else. They're the same but a different name. What's the deal here? Caribou and Pete's, are they the same? Okay, let's go to Caribou Coffee's Wikipedia page and do some investigative journalism. I-N-V-E-S-T-I-G-A-T-I-V-E, seven syllable words. Caribou Coffee Company is an American coffee company

and coffee house chain. It was founded in Edina, Minnesota in 1992. I feel pretty good about that. If you don't know, Edina is like, essentially Minneapolis. It's in Hennepin County. It's a first-ring suburb. As of September 2023, the company

operates over 750 locations worldwide. It's headquartered in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, which is also a first-ring suburb. So I'm taking the W here. Let's search. There was no mention on the Wikipedia page of Peet's Coffee for Caribou coffee. Peet's versus Caribou.

Why on earth is Peet's like a carrier of Caribou in places where Caribou doesn't't operate such as Chicago? Pete's oh, this is from this is from AI Google Gemini. So 100% accurate Pete's and caribou coffee have a complex relationship JDE Pete's must be someone's name acquired caribou's roasting operations Peets, must be someone's name, acquired Caribou's roasting operations.

Bean town needs to have roasting operations. You can't call yourself bean town and not have roasted beans live on air. Acquired Caribou's roasting operations in Minneapolis. J.D.E. Peets also has a long term strategic agreement to supply coffee and coffee products to Caribou's coffee houses. So I thought it was the other way around. But this means Caribou coffee continues to operate its own stores and brand while JD eats Pete's handles the roasting and sourcing of coffee for both their own brand and for caribou. That's one of those Kmart buying Sears situations back in the day where if you had asked me

who's the bigger company who's got the cash to acquire the other. I would have said Sears is buying Kmart hands down, but it was actually the other way. And same goes for Peets versus Caribou. I mean, I know Peets, but you would ask me who's bigger, who's buying whom. I would have said Caribou is definitely buying Peets. buying pizza. All these complex business relationships are, for lack of a better word, complicated. Let's get to our hot take of the week here. Preakness is today the Preakness Steaks. It sounds delicious. No, it is at the Preakness Race Course, I think they call it, which is crazy. It's in Baltimore. The reason I say it's crazy leads into my hot take. I lived in Baltimore for two years. The show was founded there. I don't be in town. You all know that. As we're here in season eight of the program. Preakness marketing is absolutely terrible

in Baltimore City, at least where I live. So I lived in Mount Vernon, which is the first neighborhood coming north out of downtown. So very nice, lots of like historic buildings, museums, kind of similar to like a, you know, like a Gold Coast kind of deal in Chicago, similar vibe, fairly well off, higher rent. Although my studio apartment was, I think I paid $8.50 a month, maybe $8.70 the second year I lived there. I'm sure it's way more now. I mean, the apartment was pretty shitty, but regardless.

But I lived in Baltimore for two years and the only thing I ever heard about Preakness was just about, or just like as the event was approaching in passing with the bartender, who ironically we were just talking about Pete's Coffee, his name was Pete, or Peter, but he went by Pete, over there at Mother's Federal Hill Bar and Grill, G-R-I-L-L-E. That's how you know you got a fancy, high class establishment. If you're calling your restaurant Grill with an E, that's fancy. Where does that come from? Is that French? I don't know. Never really thought about it before.

But I talked about it with Peter once or twice and he mentioned like how he and his friends would go And just get sloshed in the infield but the rest of the time I lived there Even when it was Preakness weekend never heard a single peep about Preakness Sorry, it's not Preakness Race course Preakness is the name of the event. I got a cough going here still. As you can probably tell, we're going to try to tough it out. It's at Pimlico, which is a great name. If you don't know, Pimlico is not far from downtown Baltimore. As the crow flies, it's about four miles northwest, and it's only about two miles northwest of Johns Hopkins where I used

to work. Humor me while I grab a sip of water. I thought the coffee would help, but to no avail. And what I'm saying here, my hot take is the marketing was terrible. You got so many people in Baltimore, especially neighborhoods like Fells and Fed that want to get turnt up. Preakness should have been marketing the crap out of that. And then you got the inner city Baltimore city public school kids.

I know horse racing's not necessarily top of mind for them typically, but I don't know, bust those kids out there, give them free tickets. How about an after-school learning program where we teach kids how to ride horses? There's your next inspirational Disney Plus movie. It's like an extension of the wire season for a underprivileged inner city Baltimore city public schools kids, fourth graders, learn how to ride horses and learn more about themselves and each other and how to work together in the process. You know, there's a montage where they're you know there it's

like their first day they're tending the stables, smells like shit, they're going oh P.U. they're plugging their nose, waving their hand in front of their face. This other kid's on the horse, he falls off, the other kids are laughing and you know in the background you got like a hip rap song going or something like that. Or this is a good time to shout out the song that's been stuck in my head for the last week, Animal Spirits by Volfpeck. Do talk about catchy. You listen to that thing once it'll be stuck in your head for a week.

You listen to it 50 times as I have in one week. It'll still be stuck in your head for a week but even more so permanently. I say I don't know what we would call it Pimlico Dreams or something like that. Preakness... I don't know. Preakness something. You could call it Preakness Steaks S-T-E-A-K-, and the main character's name would be like Chub Johnson or something, and he really likes cows. But then he learns to ride horses, and he becomes a vegetarian.

I don't know, that could be a subplot. Or maybe the main plot, since he's the main character. I don't know. That's our hot take of the week. We've got Maples Minute here. It's brought to you by, if I can get through this show without coughing, Jesus Christ. It's going to be bad guys.

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We have unplugged the laptop and I'm now recording from my living room while I unzip my backpack with one hand. How do you like that? What a day here on the Bean Town podcast. A banner day for all the wrong reasons. I think we've been doing this for almost 400 episodes and I don't remember having a show go so poorly that I felt that I could not continue until I received medical assistance.

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combined with a fresh cup of caribou coffee? I'm your guinea pig. Maple's Minute this week. What did she say? Oh, it got too hot. That's all it was. Right buddy? Last two days here in Chicago, high 80s, we even kissed 90 on Thursday and someone was panting and not hydrating enough. Maples remember when it gets hot you got to hydrate buddy. This is a dog who does not drink very much water. I don't know what the average 18 pound dog is supposed to drink in terms of water, but I'm positive that Maple's on the low end of it.

Because she's got a pretty small water bowl, and you pretty much just like top it off once a day and that's all she drinks. I have a very under hydrated dog. Maybe I don't know, maple is pretty hot buddy. You should drink more water. Try to drink more water. It's on hunger strike now that mom has left for the weekend. Hunger strike, water strike, cough drops not helping. If Gandhi can do it, so can Maple. Guys, this is brutal. I did have other notes here and they're sponsored by our good

friends at Home Pride, Swear, sorry, we shout it out, Home Pride Oregon. Cuts by Q when you need fresh juice, let me snap you a new. Call the experts at Cuts by Q. It takes you a second with the cough drops to really kind of activate them. At first you stick them in and they're just kind of there, but you got to get the saliva flowing and combine it with that blue blue goodness. I don't even know what flavor blue is. Hall's blue cough drops. What is it like? Minty blueberry,

glacier freeze. But it's Gatorade's got two primary blue flavors, right? Glacier freeze, that's like the light blue one, like the powder blue. But then there's the more traditional dark blue one. What is that? Is it like Indus River or something? I don't think the Indus River is super blue. I think a lot of people poop there and they bathe the cows there. So probably more of a gray. I think the blue Danube. That's probably pretty blue.

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to write the story so that Anakin just straight up kills her, because he kind of chokes her out. This is spoilers for 20 year old Revenge of the Sith. He like chokes her out on Mustafar after he sees Obi-Wan and then she's kind of like she doesn't regain consciousness for the rest of the film I guess until she like names Luke and Leia so that's pretty much the end of Padme after she gets choked. But she's still got enough will to give birth to Luke and Leia and then to

name them. And then she dies and it's like, oh, she lost the will to live. And then Palpatine is like, oh no, you killed her in your anger, which may or may not be true. I think they needed to make it more explicit that Anakin just straight up kills her. So I don't know, maybe she should have given birth on the plane ride over from Coruscant to Mustafar. That could have been good. And then Anakin kills her, I think that would have left a bigger impact on me. Excuse me. I don't know, maybe Hayden Panettiere or Christensen rather had it somewhere in his rider that he didn't want to straight up kill Natalie Portman all the way on screen. Maybe he was like I'm only

gonna go 75% of the way. Where were we going with that? Oh yeah that was our sponsors. Well, we went to Florida and I had a whole bunch of 38 drama that I wanted to go through. Now I don't even think I can, but if you're curious, these seaside towns or gulfside towns we went to were fascinating. A lot of these and this stretch of beach between Destin and which is east of Pensacola if you don't know. So I guess between Pensacola and Panama City, which is kind of like one of the last beach towns there is and then it's interesting a lot of the you know like the armpit of Florida, which sounds derogatory but just the way Florida's coast bends and you go eventually land down in like Tampa Bay, Clearwater, St. Petersburg. A lot of that stretch

around the bend basically from Panama City down to Tampa, it's not beach, it's just like wildlife, alligators, bayou and stuff. So the beaches kinda end close to where we were, which I didn't really know before going down there. But a lot of these towns, now I've got the hiccups on top of all of this. I have a cough, cough drops, coffee, and the hiccups. I thought recording at 8 a.m. was gonna be a great idea. Get it in before anyone's up in Anna, but it's been an unmitigated disaster. I've tried to mitigate with the cough drop, but it remains unmitigated. Hiccups are tough

too. It's like you never know when they're going to strike. It's like Pakistan and the Bush administration. I guess we struck them with bin Laden. I should have said Afghanistan. 9-11, RIP. Al Qaeda. What's the whole, is the whole, what is it, 8647? If you're not in tune with this, neither am I. But basically Jim Comey, the former FBI director, included like hashtag 8647 or something in

his tweet that since got deleted and it's some sort of small movement that other people are referencing. It's an anti-Trump thing. And I've like not been able to figure out what it is because I haven't looked for it. But I think it's something like 8,647 days since 9-11, like pretending or predicting a new big disaster about the strike of the US because of Trump. That's my hunch as to what it is, but I don't know. I did see on Twitter this morning that, well,

it was a repost from, it wasn't even a, usually on Twitter back in the day it would be like, oh, if you see something that's because it was either tweeted by someone you follow or retweeted by someone you follow. Nowadays on Twitter it's just like you see anything. It's just, you know, like Facebook. It's not like, oh yeah, I'm connected to this person so I'm going to see their stuff. It's just these sites are just going to show you whatever they want to show you, partially based off your algorithm,

partially just based off whatever they want to feed you. So I saw Don Jr. was like, wow, James Comey just tweeted that he wants to murder my father. This is your hero, Dems. And I'm sitting here like, yeah, I'm pretty liberal, but I Haven't thought about James Comey in ten years And I don't know how many Left-leaning people regardless of their persuasion would consider Jim Comey to be our hero I

Don't really have negative things to say about Jim Comey. It's just like Haven't really thought about the guy and be like if you're a big musical fan of the band fun It's like oh, yeah, that was you know that was a good time, but They haven't been relevant in a little while here When you're lost in a low and you're sinking like a stone carry on carry on carry on

I like that one that Nate Roost did with pink Just give me a reason just a little bit enough you can Try to love again Speaking of Twitter This actually was on my list here So I'll mention it here brief shout out because I like sharing the wealth with things I enjoy this has been around a while and we may have shouted it out already on the show because I've been following This has been around a while, and we may have shouted it out already on the show, because I've been following this account for two years. But Kathy Lee and Hoda, out of context,

or no context is what it's called. Kathy Lee and Hoda, no context, from the good old glory days of the fourth hour of the Today Show. I don't know how long they did that for. Most of the clips I see there from like 2010 to 2012. I think they were on even before that. But for a few years, Kathie Lee Griffin, fitness aficionado and Hoda Kotb, who you think is more of a traditional journalist, were just given full free rein of what's known as the fourth hour of the Today Show.

I don't know if the fourth hour of the Today Show still exists in any capacity. It's probably hosted by like Nate Berlison and Ann Curry's stepdaughter or something. But all the like memeable things about the Today show being like five fun fall activities for your grandma to do while she's in the nursing home or like here's a festive new cocktail recipe from Food Network star, you know, John Ralphio or something. It was all those aspects of the regular Today show just condensed into one hour. And Kathleen Hoda would just sit there and every day would have either a glass of wine or a mimosa or probably mint julep around this time of year or whatever specialty drink they have at Pimlico, an orange crush maybe, which if you don't know is a local Baltimore or Maryland maybe cocktail I think more Maryland the Baltimore it's just like orange soda and vodka and

grenadine maybe very simple very sweet simple and sweet just like me and maple right buddy I'm simple you're sweet you're not very simple you're pretty complicated pretty anxious But what we were getting at was that's a great the Twitter account itself just will post every day one clip You know because there's a lot of material they would do I assume five shows a week For probably you know 40 45 weeks out of the year and Yeah, every every weeks a little bit or every day's a little bit something different. There's a lot of lip-syncing songs,

or I think the other day there was a bunch of shirtless guys on there dancing, and it is just peak, you never know what you're gonna get next, type television, And they're usually pretty drunk. I don't know if SNL ever did like a fourth hour today show sketch, but it's not all that dissimilar from Bronx beat with Amy Poehler and my Rudolph. It's very similar vibe. So I don't know what kind of hoda Kotb, what a name. Feels like you're missing some vowels.

But I guess you got two O's and an A, but Kotb is crazy. I don't know, we think that's Pakistani. Hoda, I think is probably more Middle Eastern, right? We're back to the Pakistan versus Middle East debate. That's what we're gonna title this episode. Let me write that down before I forget. Pakistan versus Middle East. what we're going to title this episode. Let me write that down before I forget. Pakistan versus Middle East. I think Pakistan is more into cricket than the rest of the Middle East.

You don't hear a lot about the Qatari cricket team, although it would be fun because they could spell it with a Q. Q-R-I-C-K-E-T. Do they call female cricket, crickette, or is it still cricket? C-R-I-C-K-E-T-T-E. And my last question, because the English language is fascinating, cricket, the sport, also there's cricket, the bug. You have to imagine cricket, the bug, was around before the sport because I think one of the ten plagues of Egypt was crickets. So Cricket, let's learn something.

Cricket sport name origin. Let's learn about this. Okay nothing to do with bugs. This is from Google Gemini. Actually, no. Let's go to Wikipedia here. Show me the name. There have been several... No, that's about the game's origin. I want the name's origin. It's been suggested that Kreeg was an old English word for cricket, but expert opinion that it was an early spelling of craic, meaning funny games in general. Well, I saw something earlier about a Dutch spelling, so I'd like to get into that. A number of words are thought to be possible sources for the term cricket. In the earliest definite reference it was spelled CREKET.

The name may have been derived from the Middle Dutch crick, meaning a stick, or the Old English crick, meaning a crutch or staff, or the French word crickay, meaning a wooden post. The Middle Dutch word krikstel means a long, low stool used for kneeling in church. Glad the Dutch have a name for that. This would be some of the long, low wicket with two stumps used in early cricket. According to Heiner Gilmeister, a European language expert at the University of Bonn, cricket derives from the Middle Dutch phrase for hockey, mech de krikken, with the stick chase. It's more likely that the terminology of cricket was based on words in use in Southeast England

at the time, given trade connections with the county of Flanders, especially in the 15th century when it belonged to the Duchy of Burgundy. Many Middle Dutch words found their way into Southern English dialects. So there you go. Murky origins. I don't even have much else on the whole Florida drama. We call it 30A drama because 30A is the name of the seaside road that runs through all those little towns. But I did find it interesting that a lot of these or majority of these towns were created and are still being created in the last 20, 30 years.

One of the towns we went to, Alice Beach, it's like all these new one to $4 million homes that have been constructed and like half of them are completely empty, just waiting from the developers for people to purchase and move in. But it seems like it's slow going. But they filmed the Truman Show in one of the towns we went to. Was it Seaside or Seacrest or Seabreeze? There's a lot of sea towns. And yeah, they filmed the Truman Show there. and I did something

we did something interesting there Rachel found this spot we got in true Arrested Development fashion I never done this before it got a frozen banana on a stick seen Arrested Development a million times always money in the banana stand but I never have had a frozen banana for dessert. So yeah, it's basically like they put a stick, next on the Bean Town podcast Quinn explains frozen bananas, but no, they put it on the, put a frozen banana on a stick, roll it in like chocolate, liquid chocolate basically, but then you get an extra roll in whatever flavor you pick. I'm trying to remember what Rachel had.

I had s'mores flavor, so it was like, you know, dusty, a dusting of graham crackers is how I would put it. And then some mini marshmallows and a drizzle of Nutella. And Rachel had something with coconut I think it was, but there were all sorts of flavors, some of them too sugary. In fact I think you could combine flavors. You could probably ask for the works and get one of everything which would be heinous, H-E-I-N-O-U-S. But delicious nonetheless. So yeah, I had a frozen banana. It was pretty good and saw some of the Truman show spots, although it was dark so didn't actually but really felt like I was in the show, you know

Now the last thing I wanted to mention here, I don't even have anything on this We have a good trivia game though too to finish up, but you probably know at this point There's a Passion of the Christ sequel though, too, to finish up. But you probably know at this point there's a Passion of the Christ sequel coming out next year. Mel Gibson's directing. At first, when I put it on my list, I was like, oh, I'm gonna make a joke that Mel Gibson's attached to this one, too, and then I looked it up and he actually is directing it. So he's back from being canceled. I mean, I guess he did Haxar Ridge almost a decade ago, and so he's like mostly back now. But he wasn't in the Chicken Run sequel, which was

disappointing. But yeah, they're making a Passion of the Christ sequel. Jim Caviezel is back. And from what I saw from Google Gemini, it's gonna be about the three days following Christ's resurrection. My question is, Passion of the Christ came out what, 23, 24 years ago, something like that. It'd be basically 25 years when the sequel comes out next year. And are we really gonna be able to pass off Jim Caviezel still for being 33 year old Jesus or however old he was when he died the first time. I think both times he was the same age unless he had a birthday somewhere in there. He was only back on earth for like two weeks. He did his whole doubting

Thomas thing. And what else did Jesus do in those two weeks? I don't know. I guess we're gonna have to watch the Passion of the Christ to find out. Hopefully it's gonna end with his ascension into heaven. You know the special effects on that baby are going to be badass. But I think it would be interesting because, you know, we're not going to be able to believe that Jim Caviezel, who's now in his mid-80s, is going to be able to be a 33-year-old Jesus Christ. So I think it would be fun if there was some sort of time travel element involved. Like, what if Jesus goes into the tomb and instead of just him hanging out for three days playing, you know, craps or whatever you do inside of a tomb, what if he like went to the future to 2025 United States of America, because

Jesus is all about, you know, Jesus is American. And he saw the state of our nation and hashtag 8647 and he got, you know, so traumatized by that that he aged 50 years. And now he comes back and now he's like, Oh, I don't even know if I want to save the human race. Right. And so that's sort of his crisis of faith. I don't know after Jesus gets crucified the first time, do you think he could have backed out of the whole dying for your sins kind of thing? You think it was like once you die once you're locked in or did he have to die the second time? I guess he didn't die a second time. He goes up into heaven. I don't know the whole argument of like yeah Jesus went up into heaven two

weeks after dying But someday he's gonna come back and scoop all of us up And so just keep holding out. Hope. I don't know that argument seems a little bit flop floppy a little bit flimsy Like why couldn't why couldn't we all just be born into heaven then? Yeah, I know for me heaven is like a a lazy river and I just got like a great hot dog. You know when you, nine out of ten times you have a hot dog, it's just like oh yeah this was a fine hot dog but then sometimes you have a really good hot dog and it's like oh

my god this is good. And like an IPA but it's really cold and it never gets hot. A really crisp, cold IPA, a hot dog, you're floating in the lazy river. I don't know, you got like Kid Rock playing, but in this version Kid Rock is like a normal guy and he's just got great summer vibes. And I don't know, probably unlimited toe rubs and you just keep going around the lazy river forever and you never have to get out and it's always like sun setting so you see some long shadows but the Sun never gets any lower you're just the perfect temperature and I guess maples there too

that's what happened to look like I don't know if Jim Caviezel is gonna have anything to say about that or I guess Mel Gibson But we'll find out next year in passion of the court passion of the quest passion of the Christ to Even more passion comes out Was there a sex scene because there in the original passion of the Christ? I don't think so. I've never seen it There's temptation the last temptation of Christ, which is Willem Dafoe, I believe. And I think that's the one where he's like banging Mary Magdalene.

Did he have to do the soaking thing like the Mormons or was it, you know, anal and it doesn't count? I don't remember exactly what happens in last temptation of Christ. I haven't seen it, frankly. But, I don't know. We'll see if Mel wants to spice it up. What is Mel short for? Is Mel like a traditional first name in and of itself or is it Melvin? Melbert? I don't know.

Martine Meldonato? That's M-A-O. Baseball legend. Here's our trivia question of the week here as we wrap up this episode. So a fun thing when you're in the panhandle of Florida is like, oh yeah, you're closer to this place than you are to Miami because it's just so far down there in Florida. It's a long drive. And so yesterday, to give you context, this was 4 p.m. Eastern when I did this research. Because our trivia game, we have four sets of cities.

Each question is gonna be destined to here or destined to there. Which one is closer? When I say closer, I'm just talking about pure drive time per Google Maps, so no other filters added or anything. And again, this was done at 4 p.m. Eastern on a Friday. Excuse me. So peak traffic time in case that impacts your thought process at all. Hopefully you don't take this game so seriously that it would, but I like to be honest with you.

So again, this is not... We're out of coffee, by the way, we're down to just our cough drop. This is not mileage or as the crow flies, this is just which time, which city could you drive to faster, essentially. So here is set one. Destin, Florida, which if you're going to play this game and you have no idea where Destin, Florida is, it might be a good time to open up an atlas or just Google Maps probably quicker on your phone to see exactly where Destin is so you're not completely in the dark. But essentially it's in the panhandle about an hour east of Pensacola. So like squarely in the middle on the Gulf of the Florida panhandle to give you some

general insight. Destined to Miami or destined to Louisville? And if you want bonus points, you can guess what the time difference is in seconds, minutes, and hours. There's no seconds in this though, so that'll just be for your own knowledge. Again, which one is shorter?

Destined to Miami or destined to Louisville? And again, we got four questions for you. If you want to think about any more, go ahead and pause with this first one. Per my research yesterday, destined to Miami nine hours, excuse me, nine hours, two minutes, destined to Louisville, nine hours, 24 minutes. So Miami was faster by 22 minutes. That's Louisville, Kentucky, in honor of the Kentucky Derby. Number two out of four, destined to New Orleans or destined to Jacksonville.

So little I-10 road trip there, destined to New Orleans, Louisiana, or destined to Jacksonville, Florida, largest city in Florida. Do of all. One more time, go ahead and pause. The answer is that destined to New Orleans is four hours, 22 minutes. Destined to Jacksonville is four hours, 38 minutes. So New Orleans quicker by 16 minutes and if you're curious if it's like oh does you mean the airport like downtown what

I literally just entered the city name on Google Maps and let Google Maps take it from there so take that for what you will number three out of four, destined to Chicago, Illinois, or destined to El Paso, Texas. I will let you know this is the biggest disparity out of all, because our first one was 22 minutes, our second one was, what, 16 minutes. This one is 6 hours nearly. 5 hours and like 6 minutes, something like that. The correct answer is that Destin to Chicago is much closer than Destin to El Paso. 13 hours 53 minutes to Chicago. 19 hours 47 minutes to El Paso. If you ever wondered how wide Texas is, destined to New Orleans again, four hours and 22 minutes. So by the transitive property, New Orleans to El Paso, about 15 and a half hours just to get across Louisiana and Texas.

That's gnarly, man. And then our last one, you knew we had to go big or go home for this one. Destined to Portland, Oregon. Again, that's Oregon, not Maine. Destined to Portland, Oregon, or destined to Cancun, Mexico. I'll let you know there is a one hour difference. So don't overthink it. You're probably just going to have to give it your best guess. And if you figured it out logically and want to show your work, email us,

beanthumbpodcasts at yahoo.com. The end's Bean Town Podcast at yahoo.com. And let us know if you're curious. I originally did Destined to Seattle versus Cancun, but it was exactly the same. And so I had to mix it up to give me a little bit of differentiation there, which should reveal the answer. That is Destined to Portland, Oregon is 41 hours.

Destined to Cancun, Mexico, 42 hours and little jog around the golf there so there you go that was our trivia game of the week thank you for playing thank you everyone for listening and apologies i'm kind of a wreck right now got the cough my nose is getting very runny and uh we're just trying to survive here gonna go make some breakfast And we're just trying to survive here. Gonna go make some breakfast and refill my coffee. And then Maple's gonna get a bath and she's gonna love it. So thank you all for listening.

Thank you for tuning into my program. Enjoy the Preakness Steaks later today, post time, 7.01 p.m. Eastern time at Pimlico in Beantown, Baltimore. That's what I got for you. Let's get our outro music going here. Eastern Time at Pimlico in Beantown, Baltimore. That's what I got for you. Let's get our outro music going here. I hope everyone stays safe, stays sane. I'll check in on you guys next time.

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