Beantown Podcast - Playing with the Big Boys (05292026 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: May 30, 2026

Quinn comes to you LIVE to play with the big boys, drink strawberry wine, and insult multiple ethnic groups

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast for Friday, May 29th, 2026. Season 9 of the Beantown podcast, what's happening, what's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn and I am the creator, the host, and chief visionary of this show. Quinn DeVernis presents the Beantown podcast. Chief Ambassador? That's it. Well, I'm a visionary. I was given my wife some ideas this morning. She was having a little bit of a roadblock at work, and I said, you know, maybe do this, maybe do that. And I don't think any of the ideas got implemented today, but they're there.

They're in the back pocket. They're ready to go. And I'm the chief ambassador because, of course, as we learned you and me both last week on this program, not only have we moved up in the rankings, to where the Bean Town Podcast is now the 78th most popular comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. We are also tapping into the African market. Next big thing over here, we are 178th in comedy podcast in the Republic of Nigeria.

We'll have an African-related trivia question later on at the end of the show. But I had this thought. earlier today, it's one thing to be, you know, look, I'm a realist. I'd like to have fun with the show as much as you all do, but I'm realistic. I know it's silly, it's fun, we're just here having a good time. And hopefully you all have had a good time with us in the last nine years. But it's one, so it would be one thing if we were like, oh, we are the 100th ranked podcast in none of it. you know, Canadian territory or something like that.

Something silly. There's not a lot of big media markets in none of it. But we're talking prime time players over here. These are not your, you know, dinky little togos or Seychelles or Brunei. It's one thing if the Sultan listens. It's another thing. We're talking, and this wasn't a trivia question, but when you talk about most populated countries in the world,

Nigeria and Pakistan, I mean, we're talking big leagues. How does that song from the Prince of Egypt go? You're playing with the big boys now. Isn't that, you know, kind of before the ten plagues kick in and Moses is... One of my favorite stories, Moses kind of comes back from the whole burning bush incident. He's working with Aaron, his translator, his orator, his orator, if you will, O-A-R-A-T-O-R The band O-A-R

Didn't you love me Deeper than the Ocean Remember was it the It was like the 2018 Olympic Games or something Or 2020 or something I don't know which year that was Maybe it was Rio 2016 When Russia couldn't compete

And they still can't compete They're just like band But one of the years their acronym for their country was Olympic athletes from Russia, I think. It was O-A-R. And this year is something different, wherever the Olympics were in 2026.

No one knows. Somewhere in Italy. Milan, Cortina. It's confusing because the next ones, the next Winter Olympics, are also in like the exact same place, just like 30 kilometers the other direction. The French Alps.

You're going from the Italian Alps to the French Alps. Real original. They must have just had budgetary concerns and didn't want to build an entire new ski jump, so they just moved it over on a truck. But no, isn't it the scene in Prince of Egypt, which I think I've only seen probably once or twice in my life, and the most recent time would have been about 2002 or so?

I assume it came out around then. When Moses comes back and he's trying to get Ramsies to let my people go, and before God gets going with the plagues, You know, he's trying to, you know, we can do this the hard way or the easy way, and he's trying to do it the easy way. And that's when the Egyptian magicians start throwing down, literally. They throw it on their staffs.

And they turn into snakes, Egyptian magic. Definitely something we've talked about on the show before, one of our mini Easter specials. and you're playing with the big boys now, right, Maple? Just had the ice cream truck go past outside, not the truck itself, the little bike with the bells on the axles or whatever so that it makes noise as he's turning those wheels. I don't think I've ever actually, unless I'm forgetting something, which is very possible, 31, 32 years into living.

I don't think I've ever gotten an ice cream from an ice cream truck, man bike of any sort. There's a little storage container, a shipping container, you know, convenience stand, if you will, out in Horner Park where I go running two to three times a week. It's in the rotation. This convenience stand is open in the summers. It's in one of those little shipping containers. And I never stopped long enough to see exactly what's on the menu, although Maple and I walked

passed this week, or today earlier, three hours ago, we should have stopped to really investigate, but I'm guessing a lot of snow cones. And what are those, I don't want a racial, racially stereotype here. I'm not trying to be offensive. I'm trying to be descriptive. It feels like something you see more often in like Mexican grocery stores or neighborhoods, the stands in the neighborhoods like Pilsson here in Chicago. You know, you have like the big plastic cellophon bags and oftentimes they'll be filled with

popcorn but is it like pork rinds what is it's like these little circular things they almost look and i know that they are not this but just visually they look like dried out lemons or something so they're like circular pinwheels you guys know what i'm talking about and i don't know if if that's like exclusively like a mexican american snack or something like that um but what is this what can we google without sounding racially insensitive by the way as we We dig into race and snack politics here in the Beantown podcast. Listen to discretion is advised. When you're listening to this program, number one,

we'll occasionally use some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. I'll also mention, as we're figuring out what to Google search here, Mexican snack in a bag, I don't know. What should be Google? I am drinking a glass of wine. It's going to say a bottle of wine. If I managed to go through this.

entire bottle of wine tonight. Tomorrow morning is not going to be pretty. And I have an early start time for my run. It's going to be hot here in Chicago. The sun's already coming up at 5.15 a.m. So it's going to be tough. This is a wine, a strawberry wine from a family member, a great uncle, I believe, of Rachel's.

It was a wedding gift, I think. Not sure, maybe an even earlier, like a bridal shower kind of gift. But this thing's been on our bar cart for what feels like two years. And we were doing some cleaning. Rachel was doing a mass dusting. Not for Prince, just general dusting. This past weekend and got to the bar cart, and I actually did the bar cart.

You're welcome. What's that song from Moana? sung by Dwayne the Rock Johnson. You're welcome. So Moana, we had Moana, and then I learned at trivia the other night that there was a Moana, too, which I missed the boat on.

You think Moana's ever missed a boat? I don't know. She seems crafty enough she could make her own boats. But then the reason I didn't think there was a Moana 2 was because I had seen pictures last year on Reddit of them filming the live action Moana and the Rock is playing his OG character from Moana. So I was like, oh, that is like Moana 2. That's what when people say Moana 2, that's actually what it means. But there's a completely separate Moana 2 that came out like two years ago. And now there's actually going to be a live action Moana. It's all very unnecessary. and complicated. But I was dusting the bar car and we got like the little rack or rings for wine and champagne bottles underneath the main area. And Rachel was like my wife was like, yeah, we got to just dump these. We're not going to, you know, they've been here too long. And to me when I hear something like that, that's what I call a personal challenge.

I am all about, you know, reducing. food waste and that extends to alcoholic beverages too. I want to give a special shout to my sister-in-law, Samantha, who was over here a couple weeks ago and took the initiative, took it upon herself to drink a bush light that's been in the back of my fridge, which I can't even, I can't even complain one way or another about it. The bush light was a gift from my friend of the show Matthew, not the tax expert, but I different one who brought some over when we were watching March Madness and it's you know there's a

time for me there's a time in a place for a bush light and that time and the place is like a 95 degree day and you're outside watching a NASCAR race and you just want something ice cold and I just haven't really had that feeling that experience in the last three months mostly because the only NASCAR race I watch these days is Daytona and that's in February but Samantha came over and polished off one of those bush lights free up some some fridge space maybe move in some i don't know whatever we got spiteful brewing laganitas no we don't have laganitas voodanitas voodoo ranger what's this three floids is that who does it i don't know let's keep let's keep moving here so i did uh but oh yeah we're drinking the strawberry wine it's very strong uh i'm i'm just getting into my second

here and already got the buzz. I'm buzzing, as they would say. It's one of those, you know, things where you start, you hold the glass up, you're going in for a sip, and what would they call them, the tannins? How do you think you spell that? T-A-N-N-I-N-S, something like that. The tannins hit your nose before you even taste it.

I mean, this is basically like half wine, have coniac it feels like okay i found it well now this is on amazon let's google what this what the title was here to see if that's what it's actually called because i i have a hard time um believing that this is its official name and not just like uh you know okay here we go duros that's what it's called We're on the Wikipedia page. Duros de Arena, D-U-R-O-S-D-E-H-A-R-I-N-A. Duros-D-A-R-D-A-R-D-A. Are a popular Mexican snack food made of puffed wheat,

often flavored with chili and lemon. So the round-flower duros puff up when fried. And, yeah, it just basically, I mean, just imagine, look at your car tire or something with the hubcap on. That's basically what this looks like. I've never had one of these, but it's basically just like a puffed. I mean, it's almost like, you know, the same consistency as like a puffed Cheeto, I think, from what I'm getting here. And, you know, they're called Duros.

They're also the first thing I saw on Amazon, they were called Doritos, but not D-O-R, D-U-R-I-T-O-S. So it almost come from the same Latin root. Durros, and Durro means hard, right? Physically, like, hard to the touch in Spanish, I believe. So I'd be curious about the etymology here. Sometimes sold by street vendors and can be purchased in their uncooked pasta-like form in any grocery store. But what is the, I mean, this is all, it's all connected, right? What if we Google Dorito, name,

meaning. The name Doritos, obviously it's a diminutive form of Doro of some sort because it's Ito. The name Doritos comes from the Mexican Spanish word Doridito or maybe not. Oh yeah, little golden things. That makes sense. Dorado is gold. Or little pieces of gold. The iconic snack was invented at Disneyland in California in the early 1960s.

Who knew? A restaurant called Casa de Fritos was discarding stale tortillas. until a local tortilla supplier suggested cutting them into triangles, frying them and seasoning them. Fidelays took it from there, nicknamed them Doritos as an odd to their golden fried appearance, basically little gold pieces, essentially. There you go.

There's the history of Doritos. So it doesn't come from Durro. Well, it seems like a different thing than. I don't know. Duro is hard. and durable, but then Dorado is gold, too. So we're kind of getting mixed up here. Anyways, let's keep this moving.

Our strawberry wine, by the way, reminded me of our Elton John's song of the week pick for today. That's Elderberry Wine by Elton John from his album. What do you think? Don't shoot me. I'm only the piano player. Something like that. I think that's where Elder Berry wine is from.

I don't think I've ever had an Elderberry. You don't really see them growing around the groves nor the forests here. You'd have to probably go to a different state or climate to find elder berries. I don't really know anything about elder berries in general, but for the sake of time, we're going to keep going, and that can be your research project. Other things I wanted to touch on here, this will be a shorter episode, by the way, I've got random things that I want to touch on, and you're saying, well, that's every week. Well, sometimes we come in with a specific topic or power ranking or something,

but here we're just doing a little, I would call this a survey of different topics. It's like I had a class, my first quarter of grad school, and my master's degree was in higher education, admissions, or not admissions, administration and social policy. I believe was the full title. Anyways. Took a class first quarter on Wednesday nights from six to nine called Higher Education Pro Seminar.

And it was just, I don't want to call it like a waste of a class because on one end it's a very useful thing. It's just like 10 weeks, bounces around 10 different topics kind of thing to really get you introduced to the world of higher education, which I think is like a very fair thing to say or to have as part of a master's program. But we had our faculty or teacher was this total legacy guy who I'm sure was a very smart and probably a really good writer, but not a good teacher. I mean, I think he was like a special assistant to the president at Northwestern back then

would have been Morty or Morton Shapiro. But this professor, I mean, he was, you know, adjuncting. So he was a full-time staff member just taught on the side. And he just basically the way this class would work, you do your reading, you'd read like one chapter of a textbook, bring it to class, and then this guy would lecture for two and a half hour, something like that with his TA, about one particular topic that was maybe related to the reading,

maybe not, but he would just go down a rabbit hole. and this guy was such a, imagine if Obama spoke like three times as slow. Obama's not necessarily a slow speaker, but he's just kind of got that cadence that sometimes lends itself to some breaks. And what we're talking about higher education, there's going to be some challenges. And we're really knocking out of the park. First we googled Mexican snacks in a bag.

Now we're doing Obama impressions. Second half of the show when I whip out my Jackie Chan impression is going to be lit. We're covering all the races today. But this guy, this professor, seemed like a very nice guy. I don't know. But he seemed kind of carried himself, presented himself like he was 80 years old back in the day. And I don't know how old he actually was. But just like a very slow mythos.

plotting kind of guy. And there's no chance in hell this guy had ever seen like a syllabus or a lesson plan. Just showed up to class, talked about what he wanted to talk about for two and a half hours. So this was the higher ed pro pro seminar. I almost called it pro style seminar, but that's a specific football offense, the pro style offense. And so we did this for 10 weeks. In fact, that was the class I skipped for game seven of the world's sense. series, 2016, Cubs versus Indians, because it was a Wednesday night. And I still remember,

God bless her soul, the TA that afternoon at 3 p.m., sent out a message. Reading the room, good on her for making a good faith effort, being like, we know there's a big game tonight. We'll plan to end class by 8 p.m. so that you can get to the game. And of course, this game starts, I don't remember. I mean, it was East Coast time, Cleveland. So I think it probably started at like six. And you're telling me it's the most important sporting event of my lifetime. And yeah, you could like start watching it in the eighth inning. That would be fun. I skipped it.

My two close friends in grad school skipped it. We watched the majority of the game together. And I just assume a lot of classes skipped it. I think I still got an A. I mean, that's one of those moves in grad school when you only have 10 classes and you just skip one without any sort of good excuse. That's one of those moves where you like, absolutely deserved to get knocked down to a B, but didn't happen. I do not remember how we got, I was talking about the master's degree in higher education.

I was talking about Elderberry Wine. How the heck did we get here? What on earth were we talking about to start talking about a master's degree? This professor who talked slowly, basically I think the point I was trying to make was that this class in particular was so, high level and didn't drill down into any specifics. That's what we were talking about. We were talking about what's on the agenda for today. That it was just like kind of useless,

especially because it was very much like a self-directed class where if you want to learn, it's just going to be because you spent time reading this super dense textbook. You're not going to really glean much knowledge. I start glean, G-L-E-A-N from actually attending class and lectures. So I'm hopeful that most master's degrees out there in the country, in the world, are more practical and beneficial than the one I went through.

But not a – I wouldn't do the exact same thing over again. It wasn't like a big mistake, but I wouldn't do the exact same thing over again. We mentioned at the top of the show, that we are now the 178th ranked podcast in Nigeria, and I alluded to a potential trivia question, which is like, where do Nigeria and Pakistan fall on the world population list or rank of countries by population? And that's a separate question.

I don't know. I probably, are they both top 10? I mean, I don't have the list in front of me. This is just a fleeting thought I've had. We know the number, the top ones are China, India, U.S., Brazil. Like, those are definitely four of the top ones. But then beyond that, I mean, Nigeria, I think, is the most populous one in Africa. And I would have to think Pakistan's got to be right up there with like a, I think Indonesia is probably higher than those two.

But then after that, I mean, I'm guessing these two are both top 10, unless I'm missing, something obvious, like maybe the second one in Africa, like a Ethiopia or something. It's higher than Pakistan. But I think Pakistan probably is more than like a Bangladesh, so I think they're both top ten. You know what? Why not? Bonus question, bonus trivia question of the week. And we'll give you the list, but true or false, both Nigeria and Pakistan are in the top 10 for most populous countries of the world. I don't have my list in front of me yet, but I think it's true. I mean, we just walked through our reasoning.

I'm trying to think, are there any other obvious ones? I mean, Russia's got a lot of people. That could be a contender for a top 10. Anything more traditional Europe. I mean, I think what Germany is probably the most populated country in Europe. And I feel like Pakistan's going to have more, and Nigeria are going to have more than Germany. So now, I mean, Mexico is high up there,

but I don't think it's quite plain with the big boys now. There's nothing else in South America that would come close besides Brazil. Africa, we've investigated. Australia, no. And then you just get to Asia and you're thinking, what are the big boys now in Asia? And I would think off the top of my head,

obviously China, India, and then your sort of secondary grouping would be like an Indonesia, a Bangladesh, a Pakistan, and Iran, right? I don't think there's anything I'm missing. I mean, like South Korea and Japan are densely populated. But we're not playing with the big boys now if you catch my drift. Let's go to Wikipedia. Here we go. List of countries and dependencies.

by population. Here we go. This is the list. This one. Oh, I didn't know this had happened. This is breaking news. India, number one. My whole life, China's been number one.

And now Wikipedia is saying India is officially number one. Good for you, India. It's a UN projection. In this list, so they have a column in this table for the source. and it's the top source so the source for India oh wait the world I see the world is a UN projection and then this is fun India's an official projection

number two China official estimate do we think estimate and projection of different connotations here going down further we have I'm just looking at this column right now we have a national annual projection We have census results. We have national quarterly estimates, me trying to pay my taxes. Okay, that's not the most interesting thing,

but I thought it was just kind of curious. Here's the list as it reads on Wikipedia. One, India, two, China, three United States, four Indonesia. I think I said Brazil was four, but it's been bumped down. Number five, Pakistan. There you go. And number six, oh, baby, Nigeria.

The rest of these top 10 are ones we have mentioned. Brazil 7, Bangladesh, 8, Russia, 9, Mexico 10, and just failing to make the cut we have Japan, Philippines, Dr. Congo, Ethiopia, and Egypt. So there you go. Did you guys realize Nepal is number 50th? I was just scrolling down. I was like out of curiosity, who's 50th?

Because there's like 196 countries, something like that. If you had, you know, sometimes on Sporkel, you can play those games where it's like, you know, you have a big list of things, you know, to place, it alternates like click something in the top half, click something in the bottom half, like U.S. states, click something in the 25 most populated, click a state in the 25 least populated, it just goes back and forth. So you'd want to go California, then you'd want to go Idaho, then you'd want to go Texas, then Vermont, et cetera.

Nepal is number 50 in the world. I never would have guessed. When I think of Nepal, I think of just mountains and, the occasional Sherpa or monk. I'm legitimately blown away by the fact that Nepal has 29.9 million people. If you had asked me,

does DePaul have more people than Cameroon or Ukraine or Australia? Dude, for real, Nepal has more people than Australia. I know Australia is largely just a desert and a Luru. In Nemo, I wasn't born yesterday. I think it would have been nice if Nemo had an Australian accent. But Nepal being higher than that is crazy to me. Nepal being higher than Senegal?

For real? Now, on the flip side, anything as we get into the hundreds here, that is shocking to me, what I find interesting is that Republic of the Congo, which was what, French Congo, is 110, $6 million. people and obviously on the flip side dr congo which is belgian congo or zaire i think number 13 in the world 112 million people obviously is larger in size but to to go from six million to a hundred and twelve million i wouldn't have guessed that fun fun with country facts here in

the bean town podcast um i don't know anything else that feels really wild fun or interesting. Puerto Rico has more people than Namibia and Jamaica. I don't think I would have guessed Puerto Rico having more people than Jamaica, but good for you, Puerto Rico. Also has more people than, well, now we're getting into the fun islands here. So we'll move past it. What do we think the number, so this list, I haven't scrolled all the way to the bottom yet,

but this list was countries and dependencies, define that however you'd like. I don't really know how to get started. Take your wild guess and then we'll say thank you to our sponsors. Which country or dependency comes in last place? What is the very bottom of this table? Let's see. Pitcairn Islands, UK, 35 people.

It's an official estimate. That's a fun one. You got 35 people and it's an official. official estimate. You give me, I don't know how large, well, that's the thing, it's multiple islands. I was going to say you give me half an hour on Pitcairn Island and I can tell you exactly how many people there are, myself included. I don't need an official UN estimate.

You know, I want to get big government out of the way. But it's Pitcairn Islands. And when you click on Pitcairn Islands, the, Wikipedia article takes you to not pick Karen islands pick here and islanders which sounds like the sort of developmental team for the New York Islanders doesn't it descendants of the bounty mutineers mutiny on the bounty that's got to be what that references right HMS bounty what is mutiny on the bounty is that like a movie or something that they made based off of the real story I don't know why did they mutine

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I don't know, what do you call that, like, food product where it's got, it's kind of like the geometric pattern. You make the cookies out of them. You guys know you used to go to the grocery store and buy the, like, it would be right next to the sandwich cookies. In the grocery store, it's kind of like a wafer. That's the word I'm looking for. Layered wafer product is probably the official food terminology.

And you could get like a pack with vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate for like $2.99 at the Kroger back in the day. Now it's probably like $6.99. and 50% of the time it's on sale for half off and then other times it's not and you're like, how on earth is the list price on this thing? That's where we're at as a society. Anyways, my wife's grandma makes a version of that. Homemade called Andrute.

I don't know how to spell it. It's a combination of English and Polish letters, so it gets wonky. A-N-D-R-U-U-U-U-U-U-E. U-U-J-T probably on Drute. Probably pretty close. Maybe an extra U, but I'm not too worried about it. You know what pisses me off?

Speaking of extra U's, you know, we watch Wheel of Fortune every night. And every night there's something new that pisses me off. My biggest grievance, which is not the point I'm going to make here, but my biggest grievance is when people don't hop on the express. It's like legitimately less than 5% of the time. it's strategically an error or strategically the right move to decline hopping on the express and the other 95% of the time you want to get on the express but that i mean that happened on wednesday that's not what i wanted to mention last night it's the prize puzzle and you have a number of words in there

where it's like it's either like an i ng word or it's like a you know the like t h e and this person hadn't bought any of the vowels yet and it's the prize puzzle not only do you want to to solve the prize puzzle round to get your trip to pit Karen Island. But just from a sheer, I don't know what the stats are on this in modern day wheel of fortune, but the way they have it constructed now, you know, you got the toss-ups worth $1,000, $2,000, and then three at the end that are $2,000 each. You've got these other two puzzles that, you know, unless you get lucky in the wheel or they're huge puzzles, which they're usually not. Usually people are solving for anywhere from like $2,000 to $5,000, occasionally a little bit more, sometimes less.

And then the final puzzle, people will make a little bit more off of that. But then in context, the prize puzzle, people are getting trips worth anywhere from like $8,000 to $12,000 on top of the money they earned in the round. So let's say another three or four. So like on average, anywhere from like $12,000 to $15,000, your odds of winning the entire game if you solve the prize puzzle, I don't know what the actual stats are on. this but it feels like at least two-thirds of the time if you get the prize puzzle you're going to the bonus round and to unlock that extra opportunity to win at minimum $40,000 is game-changing. So when I see someone who is just spinning, spinning, spinning on top of the world, spinning inside of my head, spinning that. Spinning that.

Stand like a scarecrow Bring us your vision and love Oh, daddy long legs Lay of a thousand eggs Arachne to the stars of our dreams I don't remember the words It's kind of bowie-coated Bring us your heaven and love

I'll stop there If you're new to the Bean Town podcast from time to time we'll come out with a new Father's Day song. And I think, I don't think it was our most recent one. It wasn't, we botched it last year. Didn't do it last year. The year before was, I think, a song called In Bunches. But the 2023 song, I believe it was.

So like season six maybe of the show, Daddy Longlegs, by far our biggest ever single here on the show. And there's a remix that came out of it, Daddy Longleaks 2.0. I got to listen to that. I got to Google that so I don't forget. But spinning. This person just kept spinning. And it's one thing if it's, you know, you do a couple spins to lay a foundation. I, I, I, layer foundations.

It's a shake your foundations. It's an ACDC song. But this person knows that there's a, presumably, I don't want to assume anything about these contestants intelligence levels. But the final point I'm trying to make then, I promise me we move on. When you're in the prize puzzle, it is do whatever you need to do to solve that puzzle. Spend your money. The vowels are, what, like $250?

And you're making at minimum like $600 just from one consonant. Spend the damn money. Get the E's, get the U's, E's, E's, O's, whatever you got to do to solve that puzzle. I don't care if you don't have a passport. I don't care if you can't go to Nepal and see 29 million people. Get the cash value, get to the bonus round. There is some real stupidity on the wheel. We'll see what happens tonight.

By the way, when you Google, I just did this to save it for later so that I could listen to it when we finish recording. If you're curious, when you Google Daddy Longlegs 2.0, is the name of our remix. Unfortunately, our single does not come up first in the search results, and we're not on the page one of Google search results, which is sobering, really. But the first search result is from tailor-madegolf.com.

Daddy Longlegs 2.0, it's a golf club. So it's a putter, I think. There you go. I've never been compared to a putter, but here we are. Was there anything else I wanted to... Oh, speaking of sobering, this is not entertaining. I will keep you very brief, but I just had this thought. I had the day off of work today.

So I was playing some piano, and I whipped out the Beethoven sonatas volume 2, so 16 through 32 or whatever it is, 17 through 32, I don't know. And I cite read the first movement of Homer Claublevier. which is sonata 29 28 29 something like that and B flat major and it was the reason I say it's sobering is because it's a good reminder of not only how far I've fallen as a pianist but also just how freaking hard Beethoven's sonata hamletabier is the first person to ever play it live in person Franz Liszt. in case that tells you anything about how actually challenging this piece is.

The first move is not even as tricky as the fugue, the finale of the fourth movement, and that thing still took me like half an hour to sight read. So sobering, challenging, tough. Two other things to mention here. Three other things. First are Animal of the Week, the Cayman. So Pitcairn Islands was our island of the week, I guess. The Cayman is our animal of the week like the Cayman Islands,

but this is spelled C-A-I-M-A-N. It's like a little baby alligator. It's not a baby. It's not a young alligator. It's not a young Sheldon. It's just a smaller alligator. But it's got some slight difference. Like if you ever looked at a Cayman and an alligator and said,

oh, that's missing the bony septum, then that's a dead giveaway. In which way, I don't know. But I read that on Wikipedia earlier when I was researching Cayman. and it had like a breakdown of Cayman versus alligators and one of them is lacking a bony septum and the one that's lacking a bony septum is either a cayman or an alligator.

So next time you're in the wild, the marshes of Venezuela or the durian gap. That's like the Darian gap but for durian fruit. Darying gap, if you don't know, is the region in Panama kind of where it's like past, so like southeast of the Panama Canal.

And then if you're trying to get into actual South America to Columbia, yeah, you got to go through the Darien Gap. And it's, there's no permanent roads. They used to do expeditions across it so that people could say I drove all the way from, you know, the Arctic Ocean to Tierra del Fuego. Prude Ho Bay. in Alaska, P-U-R-D-H-O-E.

It's a place where all the prude hose live. But this durian gap, I don't know how long it is, it's like 20 miles, 100 miles, something like that, but it's just jungle and mangroves and swamps and it's just swarming with Caymans, I assume. So there's no permanent roads, you can't drive through it. So if anyone ever asks you, hey, you know that South America looks pretty cool

let's drive down there I'll tell you whoa hold up you're not getting past the Darian gap and if you even want to try it you got to bring some durians to offer to the Caymans because they're hungry ever since people stopped driving into the Darian gap

that Cayman's got nothing to eat so there you go Animal of the Week camins I got to add on a Snapchat You know what's stupid about this type of ad on Snapchat? It's not like I'm scrolling through someone's story and an ad interrupts it. That's irritating in and of itself.

Now you know how when you load Snapchat you go to the left. It's like all your recent snaps. It shows you like your contact list basically. But now at the top instead of like what's the most recent Snapchat I got, it's just an ad. Like the row is an ad and it just says all you can. eat from Applebee's 1599 and there's a purple video you can click on to play and I didn't click on to play it but I did just want to put the word out there for all you industrious folks trying to save money applebee's all you can eat 1599 which is a I mean a solid deal I think if I was going to do it and

I was planning ahead a little bit I would just say I'm not going to eat I'm going to wake up not eat and then I will have my dinner quote unquote at like 3 p.m. Thanksgiving style. Go to Applebee's. I don't even have to be there for longer than an hour or two. I'm not trying to say like eat from 3 to 8 p.m. just like eat a big ass meal at 3.30, something like that after your appetizers and then just fade away into the night. You know, they'll probably upsell you. ask for an extra three bucks for a diet Coke. But that's fine. You want to be able to wash it down.

But all you can eat, you go up to the, do you think is Applebee's have like buffet bars or is it just like, I'm guessing what it is is they've got the all you can eat menu and it's probably like, they throw like two salads, like a how salad and a wedge salad on there. And then like two appetizers. I'm thinking French fries and onion rings. maybe potato skins. It's more of a TGI Friday's thing.

Then like three appetizers, you can probably get like the burger, the boneless wings, and the cassidia, and then one dessert, maybe the sponge cake. And that's the all you can eat menus. You can eat as much as that stuff as you want. To me, that's a challenge. That's a bring me one of everything, darling. I always wanted to call my female waitress,

Darling in a slightly pejorative but not all the way tone. But 31 years in, I haven't done it yet. So we'll put it on the bucket list. Not even meant to be, like, it's not intentionally demeaning or pejorative. It's just like it obviously is in some former fashion. But the intention is not to be that. It's more just like the ignorance of it. Maple, do you want me to call you darling?

we would do an interview with a dog here one of our favorite recurring segments but maple is sound asleep so we're gonna pass maybe save her thoughts for next week the last thing here before our trivia question I gotta actually pull this up because I ignored it the first time

is I was just you know I get all sorts of zany emails in the Beantown podcast inbox not personalized you know little ads and fake crap whatever So I got an email May 21st. I ignored it. I was like, whatever.

I'm not going to do this. And I still don't think I am because it seems like too much of a like serious. Like the person emailing me seems like they're trying to be serious. Like it's not a joke, but I would only treat it as a joke. I don't know. Maybe if I have enough of this strawberry wine, I'll email them back tonight. But they emailed me again yesterday. Excuse me.

Imploring me to respond. It's like that white guy with a beard and Phantom Menace. He's one of the like senators or something. And, you know, Obi-1 and Quigon are on the Naboo ship, but they're stuck on tattooing and Obi-1's with the ship. And the guy sends a transmission. And he's like, we're being invaded, you know. The, uh, Newt Gunray is, you know, he's holding me hostage.

You must contact. me. There's a very long, 45-second explanation of an analogy that was completely unnecessary. What do you think that guy's name is? It's like Maz Kanada or something. No, that's from the sequel

trilogy. It's one of those things where when I was really locked in to Star Wars, I would have remembered what that Star Wars character's name was. But now I don't. But in the spirit of,

of trivia and knowledge. I really want to recall what that guy's name is. Let's see if we can find this very quickly so that we can move on. It's one of those things I'll know it exactly when I see it. C. O Bibble, that's his name. He's the governor of Naboo. C.O. Bible.

Played by the incomparable. Oliver Robert Ford Davies, of course. He's in Game of Thrones, apparently. Master Crescent. Interesting. I say interesting as if I knew what this was. So this is the email we got. It is from Now Media Television with Ryan Kahn, C-O-N-N.

It's as if he's conning me into whatever he's emailing me about. It's almost too perfect. Exclusive television, I'm not bullshitting you. This is just the email I received. exclusive television on-air contributor invitation. It's a red call-to-action button in the email. Book a 30-minute Zoom meeting to discuss. Quinn, I'm reaching out to personally invite you to become a recurring on-air contributor

for our television show, Pivotal Change, hosted by seasoned leadership expert and investor Ryan Kahn. Pivotal Change is the ultimate show for entrepreneurs ready to build thriving businesses with real world strategies and actionable insights. Each episode delivers tactical knowledge, inspiring stories, and expert advice to help you succeed as a business owner and investor. Pivotal change airs over the air on now media television networks, the first bilingual media network. This is good because I can almost speak Spanish,

in the U.S. nationwide on Roku and Apple TV, as well as on syndicated platforms, including IHeart Radio and Sirius XM. Why you and most importantly is this for you. Based on our research, we believe you can deliver tactical knowledge, compelling insights, and actionable strategies that empower top-tier business owners, thought leaders, and visionary entrepreneurs to improve and grow their businesses. It goes on and on and on. Basically, they want to book me a 30-minute Zoom video to talk through my story as an entrepreneur.

It says there's a fee associated with each 12-minute interview on TV. I hope to God they're paying me and not the other way around. Now Media provides contributors with full copies of their broadcast interviews with no restrictions on use. Our dedicated brand amplification team supports contributors in enhancing both personal and business branding across multiple platforms, yada, yada, yada. So they want me to schedule a Zoom interview. By the way, this is from Juan D. Guavara Torres, president and CEO of Now Media Television Networks. So they want me to schedule a 30-minute Zoom interview to see if I have good chemistry with host Ryan Kahn, aka the con artist. So I don't know.

I've ignored these first two emails, but if they implore me a third time, I might just book a 30-minute Zoom consultation. My issue is I don't know if they're reaching out in the capacity of Cuts by Q, Bintow podcast, The Bintown blog, write on Q. I basically have been a self-appointed ambassador for the Samsung Q2U series. It could be that. And I don't know which Quinn they want. Can wear many different masks. Call me the Man in the Iron Mask, Alexander Dumas.

Our trivia question of the week, per Wikipedia, Name the five African cities of 10 million people or more. Now, I will say this one caveat before we jump in. Originally when I clicked on the Google search results of my query, it was like World Fact Book or something, something that feels like it should be more official than Wikipedia. And it gave me slightly different responses. So I'm not here to pretend or say,

I am the all-knower of truth and you are wrong. You can guess what you want to guess. You can go your own way. But considering I use Wikipedia for most of this stuff, we're going off of Wikipedia, I think the distinction was, Wikipedia was focused more on metropolitan areas. And PopulationReview.org or whatever was focused on city limits.

So we're doing metropolitan areas named the five, and another way of saying this is the five most populated cities of Africa. But from what I saw on Wikipedia, these five most populated cities all have 10 million or more people, and I thought that was a fun way to ask it. So the reason we asked this question is because of our Nigerian fans, I want to kind of get them engaged, get them hyped up. And so that's a little bit of a clue for you that Nigeria may or may not be involved in one of the correct answers to this question.

So again, we will prepare to reveal the answers here. If you want more time, pause because I got to pee, I got to make supper, refill my wine, all the important stuff. Maple wants to watch. There's a new nature documentary. on Peacock, narrated by Tom Hanks, so she wants to see that. So we got a lot to get to here. Again, to wrap the show, per Wikipedia, named the five African cities of 10 million people or more. From 1 through 5, number one, Cairo, the capital of Egypt.

Number two, our good friends in Nigeria, love it. Lagos, no longer the capital, but used to be. Number three, we already talked about Dr. Congo. This is Kinshasa. Number four, Seithyrika. It is Johannesburg. And number five, kind of the dark horse contender here on the list, the capital of Angola, Luanda, on the Atlantic Ocean.

I think, and I should have played this before, I looked at the answers. I know I would have gotten Cairo and Lagos. Kinshasa might have been a toss-up. I knew I know I would not have gotten Joe Berg or Luanda. So, willing to admit my shortcomings, I probably would have guessed like, I don't know, who do I, what do I think in Africa is really populated? I probably would have guessed like, I don't know, Ethiopia always feel sneaky to me, so maybe in Addis Ababa, or like a Dara Salam or something, or, I don't know, other cities. I would not have landed on Luanda. I can tell you that much.

Even in South Africa, I probably would have guessed Cape Town before I guessed Johannesburg. It shows you how much I know. We've got a lot more knowledge, a lot more insights, and a lot more countries and rankings and listener analytics for you next week on the BeanTob podcast. So you'll just have to wait until then. I hope everyone enjoys their last week. weekend of May, June is almost here, summer solstice is almost here, we'll probably do something really culty for that, worshiping the sun or something, I don't know, could be good.

We'll figure it out for next time. Until then, my name is Quinn Davis Furness. I hope everyone stays safe, stay sane. I'll check in on you guys next week. Bye-bye.