Beantown Podcast - Quarantined in a Blizzard (03222020 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: March 22, 2020

Quinn comes to you LIVE under quarantine to discuss how Jesus actually got a pretty great deal in getting sent to Earth, Vince Vaughn in the apartment above him, and Harry Potter box office numbers

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Fernos. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Fernos presents the Bean Town podcast for Sunday, March 22nd, 2020. What's going on? How are you? This is my show. This is what my voice sounds like. We're the bean town podcast. We're one of the top 500 podcasts in the northern Chicago area. Although don't quote us on that because we don't have the official statistics in yet. You know what I was hoping was that on this you 2020 census, we would get some, some podcasts, polling data, perhaps. Or maybe something tied into the primary. We had that, you know, just a, what, I go, we could go, say, Paddy's Day, it was only five days ago.

I swear to God, we voted five days ago and it honestly feels like it was about two weeks ago. I'm not even kidding, that's how I feel. That's how I'm doing over here in quarantine. Maybe we ditched the whole AD and BC kind of thing and we just go to BQ and AQ before quarantine and after quarantine and then After all that's for now. We can go to DQ chill and grill and chill

Right, that's what they're called DQ grill and chill when DQ Dairy Queen decided to expand the market to include a variety of classic fast food offerings such as burgers and grilled cheeses and chicken tenders. I sure do love them French fried chicken tenders. It's my sling blade voice. That ties into something we're gonna be talking about in a little bit here. Sling blade, you know. It's a good reference to having your back pocket. It's kinda niche. You know, what do we, we're like 25 years past sling blade now,

whatever year that was, 95, that sounds about right right doesn't it? I Don't know I'd have to look it up but Where was I quarantine? Oh It's talking about yeah, we're trying well. I was hoping you know With moving the podcast back Not back it started in beat-tun Moving the podcast to Chicago is I moved back to Chicago.

That we, you know, we get some questions perhaps about the podcast, which podcast do you listen to? You know, we'd put Beantown at the top. So more people would select that one, either on the primary form or the census. I'm not picky, whichever, but I did my voting by mail this year and I did my census online

and there was no mention of podcasts. It's a little disrespectful. I don't know if it's a, you know, Laurie Lightfoot, New administration kind of thing or if it's a state, you know, down in Springfield, those guys never know what they're doing, but It's disappointing all that all that's to say all All that all that is to say that

We we estimate top 500. You know, it's a best guess, a line of best fit. Remember that term from math class, line of best fit? What did that even refer to, man? Something with graphs, slopes, right? Y equals MX plus B, the y intercept. Why was it, how did we get to mx plus b? I mean, the y in the x makes sense.

But how did we get to m being the, m is the slope, right? And b is the y intercept. Well, Well, y is b the y-intercept. They get there. You're not going to call it y. But b doesn't really do anything for me. I would love a k or something. Kind of a more letter that's going to catch your attention more, stand out more, a K or maybe like a V, right?

It's like B, but different. Y equals MX plus V. I could revolutionize the American educational system. I tell you what, if I ever get the chance to be Secretary of Education, my first order is changing up the whole slope formula. Y equals MX plus B just seems a little bit antiquated, you know. But math was an interesting thing for me. I was always good at it. I always got A's in all my math classes, but a lot of the time is just a pain in the ass, man.

Like, I don't know, you think about this, right? School should, I don't know. I'm not trying to dance around this because like, yeah, if you're going to go be an engineer, it's good to know the formula for ellipses and soca toa and use substitution like I get all that stuff. But man, if you just want to be a regular person like the math you need to know is like how to find averages, medians, and I feel like you really don't need that much algebra. Maybe I'm just shielded in my higher education world, but I don't know.

I don't use algebra that much. Occasionally, maybe if you're really into investing or something Which I am, but I don't use algebra so I don't know it was always I always felt it funny And this is not a knock on on my parents or anything, but you know, I went to I went to college for music and In high school I took AP calculus and EP physics, which is just like, why? Oh man, calculus was okay. Physics was a real s-show. Listen to your discretion is advised when you're listening to the B Bean Tom podcast. Number one, we'll occasionally use some

physics-inspired language. Number two, you know, jewels and electrons and voletorbs and pekasards and number two, the podcast is objectively terrible. We're coming to you live from the quarantine. Here in my apartment up in Roder's Park. I just went for a walk. So, I think the worst part about this quarantine for me is that it's really messed with my, on that messed with my, but just forced me to adjust my workout

routine, which I was really happy with. In fact, ever since I moved to Chicago back in June, just my workout routine, which I was really happy with. In fact, ever since I moved to Chicago back in June, I've pretty much been on a hardcore workout routine, five or six days a week. If I'm thinking of all the days I've been in the office since June, there's probably been less than five days when I haven't gone to the gym during my lunch break. The hair in my tongue. How did these things happen? That is one elusive hair.

You know, they say you're not supposed to touch your mouth, much less your tongue. But, you know, when you got a hair on your tongue, I think it's an eyelash. How did that happen? How did these things happen? Where was I? Quarantine. Oh, so I'd been in, you know, usually like Monday Wednesday Friday I lift and do, you know, something like squats with dumbbells or

launches or planks, you know, some some share like that. And then Tuesdays, Thursdays and the occasional Saturday morning I was running that that change I kind of flipped. So the past couple months have been running Monday Wednesday Friday and then occasionally Saturday and then lifting on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Well now it's like The running is obviously the easy option And I did that Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Saturday this week But it's like on days when you're not running and I can't run every day.

I can't do more than four to five days a week. My knees will never last. Much less my feet. I don't think I'm not sure if I've talked about some podcasts, but I've had plantar fasciitis for probably about a year now. And it comes and goes, I've been fortunate lately that it really only hurts after I walk around for a little bit. When I first moved to Chicago in the summer, I would wake up and go to the bathroom. And I could like hardly, I would have to support myself, like leaning against the walls and stuff just to get to the bathroom

because I couldn't really put any weight on my right foot. It's thankfully subsided a little bit since then, but that was really rough. But I can't run six or seven days a week. I just run six or seven days a week. I just, my legs will never hold up. So it's like, well, what do you do on the, I'm not, excuse me, on the not running days. And of course, you know, I'm not the only one dealing with this problem. So you're getting a lot of good home work.

God, I got belches, I got hiccups, I got planar fasciitis, everything all at once. It's a classic triple threat right there. And there's plenty of good at home stuff, but I just really, I don't know. I like keeping my workouts out of the house from like a mental perspective. I need to be outside.

You know, there's only so much like lunging and, you know, I have a couple dumbbells, 220 pounders, but I just don't like, I don't have a mat or anything in my apartment. So basically what I'm getting at is I like to make the excuse to not work out. So what I've been doing is on the days off, just going for long walks. That's what I done. Friday I didn't run, took a long walk to my lunch break. And I'm just recording this now. It's about five o'clock in the evening.

And I spent about two, a little under two hours just walking around walked like four and a half five miles This afternoon along the lake, but hot damn And if you're you're if you're in the Midwest you know this But I also my my friends in Baltimore seeing their Instagram's flowers blooming. It's like 75 degrees Looks like you know summer out there It's snowing and not like oh is it snowing outside like might be a little bit. No, it's like blizzard It thankfully, you know, it only started about an hour ago

So there's no extreme accumulation yet and I don't anticipate it really lasting but Man, and you know, it's you know, and you know it's coming. We always get snowstorms in Chicago, in March, in April, and occasionally may. But you add this on top of the quarantine and it's walking around in it because you got to, I can't just, I can't be inside for a full day. And if we ever, I was telling this to a friend,

if we ever go under martial law, which I don't think we will for this, but if there is ever war on our soil like, man, that'd be tough. That would be really, really rough on me. Physically is one thing, but it's more so mentally than physically, physically, I think I could, I could put up with it for a while,

but yeah, I gotta get outside. So, even though I'm very sore, I mean like seven and a half miles in the lake yesterday, feeling sore this morning, and my foot's been giving me some issues today, but it's like, man, you gotta go out there and do it anyways. That wind coming off the lake, man,

the snow is one thing, it's crappy that it's like, man, you gotta go out there and do it anyways. That wind coming off the lake, man, the snow is one thing. It's crappy that it's snowing. But what's really bad, man, the temperature, brutal outside, especially with the wind coming in, the temp itself is tolerable. But when you get in the wind was coming in hard off the lake today. Just like bone chilling.

And I'm the type of guy I was thinking this time I walked in and I'm the type of guy who, you know, yeah, it gets cold, whatever, can handle it, bundle up, throw on a coat, put a hat on, like keep moving, you'll be okay. And that tends to be my philosophy during cold weather. But there's something about today. I don't know if I was moving a little bit more slowly

because I've banged up a little bit in my foot's messed up. I don't know if it was just that, or if the wind was really that extreme, but it felt really rough, really miserable. It feels like, in case you're wondering, is 24 right now, with about 10 mile power wind. So, it felt a lot worse than that. Maybe it has warmed up, I don't think it has, but I think you get out on the lake,

and it's way worse. It's not supposed to stop snowing until 3am. So that's nice. I ran in the rain on both Wednesday and Thursday, which was tough. The rain, I feel like at least for me, I get used to it. And I guess I would rather run 50 degrees in degrees in the rain although it wasn't 50 degrees But for the sake of this hypothetical example, I would rather run 50 degrees in the rain than you know 25 degrees out

Like it is right now regardless of if there's snow or not but There's something about getting your socks completely soaked through and you're running on the sidewalk or you get cut off by somebody you're trying to pass and you take a big splash in a puddle and it just goes right through everything. Your sock is completely soaked. That's tough man. That's, it's not a great sensation. Drinking from our Jack Link's travel mug here today,

I mentioned that, well let me talk about this one other thing real quick before I get to what I was about to say. Muscle twitching, right? Muscle spasms. Anybody who was a high school athlete, probably dealt with this a decent amount in high school I remember I got it really bad as much during like swim season And I remember like being downstairs in our our house growing up It'd be on the computer or something and a toe usually the big toe or the pinky toe, but occasionally you're I don't know your second toe which kind of feels like it should be the middle

toe based off of just like how it feels. But you still have your third and your fourth toes. We never really talked about this. I don't feel like as a society, we talk about this very much. So you're, you know, you got your hand, your thumb, your index, your middle, your foreth, your pinky, and they all have kind of different personalities. All right, you might think I'm a little bit crazy, but just stick with me here, and I think I think I'm making sense. You know, you look at your hand and you move your fingers around, and, you know, pinky's got its own thing, rings for ring, your middle

is obviously speaks for itself, index very important your thumb is a whole different animal all that good stuff but you go to the you go to the toe and I feel like you're third in your fourth toe is at least for me maybe this isn't everyone's experience but you're third in your fourth toes are kind of just like there you know you still got your big toe like the thumb of the foot. It's got its own thing going on. Your middle toe is not even, no, your second toe, but in my mind, in like how I move it feels like it should be a middle toe. But then, you got your pinky toe, which is very similar to your pinky finger.

No one's denying that. But then you got these third and these fourth middle toes. I can't, especially my fourth toe, I feel like I can do some stuff with this third toe, which I guess is technically the middle toe. I really feel like I can't do anything and you kind of, I can't do anything with my third toe without my fourth toe being long for the ride. So I don't know if they like share a muscle or if I'm just not very dexterous in my toe movements.

My philanges, is that the right one? I don't know. I took an admin physiology for like high school when I was in eighth grade, and I don't remember crap from that class. What's there, like, 208 bones in the body, something like that? We'll get our medical expert to chime in. But what I was going to say is, I remember sitting down there on the computer or something. Your toes would just be going to town.

They'd be having their own dance party by themselves in voluntary muscle spasms. Sometimes I feel like toes are a classic spot. Fingers are a classic spot. Although I have an experience, they finger twitch in a long time, although occasionally my middle one will get going. You get your eye going, your eyelid occasionally,

that's a tough one, that's a real pain in the ass. I've on and off, and it's not happening right now, but it literally was earlier today. I have a muscle in my elbow, my left elbow only, that will do some muscle twitching. Not that noticeable thankfully. My biggest one lately has been my pinky toe on my my left foot I think it is. It's not doing it right now thankfully, but it's one of those one of those muscle twitches is just like very, very subtle.

And you can't always like see it happening, although you can absolutely feel it. It's really interesting how you can tell that it's happening, but it barely makes any movement at all. In fact, I just like, I was lying in bed last night, getting ready to fall asleep, probably watching the office or something, and I felt it going. So I pull off the covers, turn on my iPhone flashlight just to watch it, because it's just involuntary muscle twitching. It's just like a fascinating nature thing for me, really my my best words there. It is a really interesting

physiological concept. Hey if you got muscle twitches and other fun spots that we've never even considered go ahead and email us bean-town podcast a Yahoo.com again that's bean-town B.e.a. and T and T and in podcasts at Yahoo dot com or you can tweet at us we're at bean town cast again my name is Quinn my handle on Twitter is at white buns Instagram I'm at q dot queen D you know I think about this occasionally maybe I should just like sink those up right I probably couldn't actually, white buns might be available on Instagram. I don't know, I assume Q.QueenD would be available on Twitter, I'm not sure. But yeah, any other muscle spasms, my calves don't really spasm at all.

They used to, well they don't these days. Thighs, not really, nothing going on with thighs, no. Yeah, most mostly appendages, and then, I don't know, anyone ever had any weird ones like your ear or something? That'd be freaky. Are there really muscles in your ear? I don't know. Again, didn't really pay attention in anatomy and physiology. I think I literally took it in eighth grade and it was the type of class that was just very

much like week to week. So like retaining information was unimportant. Much like when you'd be a kid, and I say you as if this is everyone's experience, which is not, but I would say nice you go to church, right? And if you're familiar with O'Wana, or O'Wana's, I don't remember. That's sort of a program where it's kind of a three-pronged, like, for 20 minutes, you're in the room, like, with other people in your grade, memorizing Bible verses for 20 minutes,

you're playing games, and for 20 minutes, you're like listening to the guest lecture or something, which my favorite one was on the guest lecture or something, which my favorite one was on the father's day week. The pastor would, I still, I've told the story to people, and in an attempt to just try to understand, and maybe I should just ask my parents, see if they recall, see if they know what was going on here. But like I don't understand why this, with the things it seems like the exact opposite

of what you'd want to do. But our pastor would read out loud the lyrics to cats in the cradle in the week of Father's Day. As like I didn't know to try to scare you straight or something, or it's just like, oh my gosh, this is so sad, don't be like try to like scare you straight or something or just like oh my gosh This is so sad. Don't be like the people in this song It seems like the opposite of the the like message you're supposed to be sending your cross on Father's Day But I guess you know, they didn't have our collection of bean-town podcasts Father's Day songs back then

Which you know, we're we're still what three months podcasts, Father's Day Songs, back then, which, you know, we're still, what, three months away from Father's Day this year, but already cooking up some ideas for our third annual Father's Day Song, which will be exciting. But what I was getting at here was, you know, going back to the Natto-Monti physiology and cumulative stuff, and, you know, if you're good at memorizing, like this show is easy, man,

because you go into a wanna like to study your Bible verses, and you have these books, they have to like progress through, and in order to pass, quote unquote, you have to like memorize Bible verses. So it'd be like John 316. God, how does John 316 go? You know?

I thought that was the one I was going to be able to pull out my backpack. First by grace that we are saved, Jesus Christ God's and his only son forgotten begotten son That whosoever believe it in him shall not perish but have everlasting life Something like that, right? That's supposed to be the most like Famous Bible verse, right? That's something I had a thought about. It was just like memorizing Bible verses. Hang on, we gotta look this up. John 3, 16.

I think I was close. I think I just missed the beginning. Let's see, what does it say? For God so loved the world that He gave His only one and only son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. There it is, John 316. And I spent plenty of time in the bean-town podcast

digging into scripture and not necessarily playing devil's advocate, but just like pushing back on some stuff. But this whole concept, what I was trying to say there is I don't want to do that on this show. The specific show, wait till we get to our Easter special, which is only what, three weeks away, something like that. Oh, I talk about Passover, that's good stuff, man. But this concept of God loving the earth so much that he sent his son to die for it. But when the son dies, he goes right back to

where to heaven. So if I'm Jesus in this situation, God comes up to me with this plan and he's like, yo, I'm going to, I'm about to send you on assignment for 30, 35 years, and you get to have your own posse and all that stuff. And the minute you're born, there's going to be guys, straight players giving you gold, frankincense, and mer. And then at the end of the day, you get to come back here after 30, whatever years.

And you get to walk on water and shit and turn water into wine, a lot of water-based miracles in Jesus' employ. I take that deal too. Get out of the house for a little bit. You get out of heaven. It's not that bad. 35 some years or so. You get a whole period of time named after you

AD, Anodomini, Dominoos, whatever it is. And think of all the like Latin contadas and shit that got written about you and sung about you and Christmas, literally like the biggest holiday of mankind is celebrated in your honor because you got to like take this trip down to earth. Hey, I take that deal, you know, 10 times out of 10. So I don't really understand this whole like huge sacrifice for God, like, you know, and still, you know, 35 years or whatever. He's still an open communication with Jesus this whole time

It's not like you guys can't talk for 35 years There's still chat and you know, they're still coming up with a weekly game plan They're probably doing a zoom check-in every Monday morning. They didn't have zoom, you know, in in Israel and 35 BC or whatever, but still you know know, like a religious zoom or something. So all I'm saying is this whole concept, it doesn't actually sound like that bad of a deal. Where was I? We started talking about toe twitches, and we ended up talking about how maybe this whole sending Jesus down earth wasn't actually

that big of a sacrifice. I don't want to get into it. Save it for Passover. But hey, speaking of which, it's about the right time of the year to mention that if you turn on the Ten Commandments, the, you know, the, I was going to say Jane Polly, but she's not, she's not in the Ten Commandments. It's, you'll Brinner plays Ram Z's, right? And, Heston, Chuck Heston, Blaze Moses. If you start it now, you finish up with commercials, you'll finish up by like Palm Sunday.

So just in case you're trying to get the jump on everyone else, I was thinking about this earlier today. It's pretty clear that Corona is going to be lasting quite some time. In this current quarantine slash lockdown, that Corona is going to be lasting quite some time. In this current quarantine slash lockdown, depending on where you're at in the country situation, is going to be a thing for a while, which means,

and correct me if I'm not thinking about this, right? But like Easter services and all that stuff, completely next, right? Which is a shame because I have a delicious purple suit that I really only get to break out a couple times a year during important Minnesota Vikings games and then also at Easter service. But if there is no Easter service, that's going to be a bummer. That's going to be a big time bummer. I even have a hat, an Easter hat, to go with it.

One more thing here before I get to the ads, and this ties back into the sling blade mention that I had made earlier in this show. Scott Farrell's audiobook. It's officially called, his words, not mine, Scott Farrell's biography or triumph tears and tales of the stage by Scott Farrell. And in case you're wondering, the page numbers go through a page 148 and then they just stop. And I can't, I don't know why. There's like 500 pages total in this book and yeah, we get like 30% of the way and then it just, they're just done.

This book is really bad. I mean it's one thing the actual content of it is insufferable but I feel like as Poor Scott was writing this book he must have reached right about where I'm at in the recording of this audiobook and just kind of said fuck it like I'm not proofreading anymore. I don't care that much about sentence fragments. Punctuation is optional like it really goes to hell. But the reason I bring it up to two points. One, I've been working like a banshee at it. So I mean, if Corona hadn't happened

and we'd been going about our daily lives, it's likely that this thing would have taken all 12 months of 2020 to finish, not even exaggerating, because it was just such a pain in the ass to whip it out after work. It had to be a night where it wasn't doing anything, and even then putting in anything more than 45 to 60 minutes

in one sitting is actually really difficult. Recording an audiobook is challenging in another software. Recording this audiobook is a whole different beast. The other thing I wanted to mention, oh, well, to finish that thought, excuse me, I have been going through it like nuts, logging, you know, I've done a little bit, at least every day, sometimes more than that each day. But we are certainly over halfway.

But we are certainly over halfway. I can't tell you from a page number perspective because the page numbers don't exist, which I think I've already alluded to. But I'm on hour, maybe like nine or ten of the recording and the projected time was going to be like 16 or 17 hours. Where Slingblade comes in is that, you know, after reading this over and not over and over again, since it's something new every time, but just how awful it is, I got really bored with it. And so what I've started to do a couple different things.

One, if I, if we get to a part in a chapter where he's just like describing the plot of one of his really awful operas that he wrote, it's kind of like a count-o-law figure in some ways. This just clicked in my mind. I'm going to include this in my review. I got to take some notes when we finish up here because I'm working on my critical review of it as I'm going through it. And treating Scott as the villain, even though he's

the main character of his own book, which I think is an exciting and fresh new spin to take on it. But if he's just describing the plot for two pages, which happens more often than I would like to admit, then I will just speed read through it and only take breaths when necessary, which is kind of a funny phrase to use. But the other thing is, at the outset, I wasn't really doing anything with voices

because I just felt like it was going to be difficult, difficult to like, cut track of who was talking and all that stuff, but I've started getting into voices. So I decided to give Scott a sling blade inspired voice, kind of low and gravely, and occasionally I'll throw in an extra al reckon, or which is not the way Scott talks at all. It was a risky decision, not actually, but a risky decision because Scott has an extremely unique slash peculiar way of speaking. It's kind of a British accent. And when he talks, and when he talks on the book, he uses British slang, like petrol or

the Lou, but he's not, he's not, like he's from Rockford. In fact, he's, the way he describes like his family, it's very much like a white trash kind of environment slash upbringing, but he taught, I don't know. What I'm getting at is Scott does not talk like Slingblade or like, that's not the name of the character, but like Billy Bob Thorne in sling blade at all But I just went with it and I committed so most of most everyone else when they get their voices it's some some kind of variation of a Southern accent

Which is funny because these people the story takes place in like Rockford in Chicago and Wisconsin a little bit, so that's not what these people sound like at all. But I'm just kind of, you know, donning my best white trash, trailer trash, kind of accent doing my best there. The other thing I was going to get to, I was going to mention about this, is I have officially reached my part of the book. So we're in, you know, Fall 2012 because each chapter of this book is one year in Scott's timeline. And I

made it to my part in the book. There's nothing that while they're interesting. It's just fascinating to see you in there. Scott definitely doesn't tell. I don't even want to say the whole truth because he says some things that I'm just saying. I'm pretty sure that's not right in regards to my part of the story. So it does make you question a lot of what he says. And it's also hilarious because, I mean, there are just so many things in there that he describes or admits to that paint him in such an awful light

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who are a, I think Mexican family, I don't know, Latina, Latinx family, they have both units. One big happy family. We are family, what are us sister to me? That was my Christina Aculera version. And usually my apartment building tends to be pretty quiet overall. The only thing I ever typically notice is this family below me. They seem to have this one song that has a very distinct bass line and I swear they play it that if they're playing loud music which I can

clearly hear and it like vibrates the floor and everything that that one song is what they're playing 75% of the time. So that's that that's usually what I hear. But I tell you what today and it's not coming through in the podcast I don't think it slowed down a little bit but earlier this afternoon before I went from a walk, there was something going on upstairs, man. I don't know if it was like an end of the world, corona blowout of epic proportions or what.

But man, between the like, the loud noises and kind of the thumpin' happened out on the floor, thumpin' THUMPIN' apostrophe. It was like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, Oh man, John Williams and the Lost World. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, I was ready for some horns and string sections to be in, and they're like, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum,

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before, not up here granted downtown, but Vince Vaughan. Whoa. Vince Vaughn, what if he was my upstairs neighbor? I mean, let's not rule it out because the rent here is great and maybe he's, you know, saving up, banking up big to, you know, retire from acting in five years and move to, I don't know, Comarose, a classic African island at nation. And what if he was just feeling really nostalgic because of the quarantine and the snow, which is just coming down in buckets here. And what if he was just going through all his old movies and listening to the scores and he thought, you know what, Jurassic World, that would be a good one.

It's somewhat improbable, I would say. But how many other people are blasting the theme from the lost world, or at least that's what I heard. That's what it sounded like to me. And maybe Julianne Moore was over, and that cute little kid, all those, and all those Spielberg movies from like, what, 80, like 82 to 95 or so, you had to have a cute kid.

Love a cute kid. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, That's good stuff, man. It's an underrated score. You never go to the John Williams tribute concerts and get the theme from the Lost World. You know, you get Jurassic Park all the time, but you never get the Lost World. And we won't talk about Jurassic Park 3.

The last thing I want to mention here on this quarantined episode of The Bean-Town podcast is something that we don't get much of we got we got fan mail We had a question and it was great because it was a throwback to To an interaction they had many many moons ago couple couple summers ago in bean town I went down to a many moons ago, a couple summers ago in Beentown. I went down to a tavern, I don't recall what it was called. I know exactly where it is, but I don't know what it's called. In Fels Point, which I didn't go to that often, it was kind of like bougie, I didn't have friends down there, a little more upscale, expensive.

And I played my friend Ian, who were Facebook friends. It's pretty official. He's got a couple kids. He's Scottish, big football fan, like to call you a wanker. Big on Facebook. Trivia host. And he would host all over the place. He hosted the reason I know him is because he hosted my normal spot.

Mother's bar and grill down in Fed Hill on Thursday nights, some 30. He was always the host. He is a good guy. But he would host other places too. And we even played on the same trivia team a handful of times like Star Wars trivia and stuff. But there was one time he was hosting a movie trivia. He's a really big movie fan.

I'm a big movie fan. So there's one time he's hosting a movie trivia at this bar. So I went down there to play by myself because as happened very frequently in Baltimore, I just had like tons and tons of nights where nothing was happening or no one would like respond to text, so I would just go find some trivia and go play by myself and have some beers. Back when I was having beers, I hadn't even talked about my dry journey

lately on the podcast, still going, but it was a movie trivia and we're getting ready to start in this guy walks in and I see him talking to Ian and Ian comes over to me and is like, Hey, we got this guy here. He's a tourist. Uh, looking to play some trivia and, uh, you know, you want him on your team? And I was like, well, whatever, sure. You know, it's just, you know, mid 40s guy looks pretty normal. I don't really know how else to describe them. And so, since it's not an issue to yourself, it's Tim P. From Winnipeg, that's what?

Manitoba? Winnipeg, Manitoba, does that sound right? Winnipeg and Edmonton, Alberta? Where is... It's not Saskatchewan. Winnipeg, it's south of the border. It's a map of the city. It's a mapatchewan.

Winnipeg, it's south of the border. Winnipeg, I think it's in Manitoba, right? Manitoba, toba, toba. Yeah, Alberta is Edmonton and Calgary. Winnipeg is a lot further east And so we we end up playing and believe it or not we won This must have been summer of like 2018 I suppose

In case you're you're counting at home the final question of this movie trivia was pretty straightforward, pretty simple, not easy, but straightforward and simple. Name the Harry Potter film that made the lowest amount of money at the international box office. I'll give you a, we'll come back to the answer at the end. I won't tell you right now because you really haven't had a lot of time to think into Duce. Whereas I had Tim and I had like five minutes to think about it.

We got it correct. We were the only ones at the bar, probably 20 teams or something that got it right, which is kind of shocking to believe because we use pretty like straight forward reasoning to get at it. Not that we knew that we had the right answer, but we were able to narrow it down to like two. And so just the fact that nobody else guessed what we guessed was hard to believe. But I'll circle back to that at the very end here.

We're almost done, I promise. But what I was getting at here is Tim wrote to us from Winnipeg, got an international email, which is good, made it past the firewall. And Tim has this to say, Dear Quinn, I don't you know if you remember Viva. My name is Tim, and I'm from Winnipeg, and we played movie trivia together

when I was touring the East Coast a couple of years ago. I hope you're well. I remember you had told me about your podcast and I check it out here and there. And I figured I would write you an email just to see how things are going and see what other podcasts you might recommend to me. Well, Tim, he said some other things, but Tim, thank you for writing and we appreciate it.

Here's the thing. I'm going to tell you to straight Tim. I'm not going to dance around the gulash here. I haven't listened to a podcast. This is not entirely true, because I listened to one earlier this week. But for the most part, I have not listened to a podcast in years.

There were times back when I was new to podcasting and slightly before and after that, where I just like, I made a concerted effort to try to get into them. Right, I listened to the first, the classic. I listened to the first season of serial with what's her name, Sarah McLaughlin. I will remember you. Sarah Cainan, great.

And it was interesting. It was in Baltimore, all that stuff. And then a couple other ones here and there, I think I'd listen to a couple episodes of, I don't even remember, not Armchair Expert, not the Decks Shepherd one, but Brooks Robinson, is that his name? No, that's not.

That was a Hall of Fame baseball player for the Baltimore Orioles. Brooks something. It was an SNL guy. And, you know, I haven't listened to like office ladies or stuff like that. I'll do my best to get into it. But the one, if I'm answering your question directly, Tim, the one podcast that everybody's got to check out, and it it absolutely a huge inspiration for for me and my show and of course my the quality of my show and the scope and the depth and the audience and numbers nowhere close to it never will be but Bill Burr's Money Morning podcast about an hour long read some ads

if you've never checked it out, you absolutely should. He does like a 20 to 30 minute episode on Thursdays as well. So this guy's putting out 90 minutes of just off the top of this head material every week. And I think he's been at it for about 12 years at this point. And I haven't followed it closely enough to know, but I don't think he's missed time or stuff like that.

Which is pretty spectacular, considering the amount that this guy tours and all the material that he actually has to write for his real job, which is stand-up comedy in addition to writing and starting in F is for family, the Netflix show. So the fact that he's able to put in 90 minutes of just talking into the void is pretty spectacular. Each week. So I'd encourage you to check out

Bill Beres podcast that he'll come out with to each week, which is just amazing. But yeah, and there's just, I mean, you know, hundreds of hours of, you know, goldmine, footage, thousands of hours at this point. So go check him out. But Tim, thanks for writing. Hope you're doing well. Hope Winnipeg's warming up. It's nasty here in Chicago, man. All the like, we really haven't seen any buds on the trees, but you've seen plants or like flowers in the ground doing their best to poke their heads out. I reckon, I reckon, this will just about

set them back a couple of weeks. To circle back, last thing here, and then I'm done, I promise. You can go back to your quarantine life, right? That's gotta be a TLC show at this point. Harry Potter, okay, so our thought process was this. And Tim, I hope you're listening. We'll take a little trip down memory lane together.

We immediately ruled out anything from like five on, right? Order of the Phoenix was a huge smash. Six, I don't recall as much about half-blood prints and it's released and all that stuff, but at this point, they were deep enough into the game. These were, every single one was a giant blockbuster. Right, we're talking parts of the Caribbean, transformers, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, you know, those movies just absolutely killed it. I feel like these

days we're not getting that as much beyond Marvel. Like everything Marvel does, they're killing it for the most part. And then you get some like fast and the furious action, but otherwise in terms of like the big franchises, I feel like there's not much happening right now. Even Star Wars, which obviously still makes a shit ton of money, but those last Jedi made a lot of money. And then the other two were just got slammed and soloed and do very well.

So I don't even consider Star Wars to be part of it right now. There was something about that 2000s decade into the early 2010s, where just tons and tons of franchises that were just killing it with every single release of which Harry Potter was one. So we knew that it wasn't gonna be five, it wasn't gonna be six, and it certainly wasn't gonna be either part of seven. So we even immediately cut it in half, right?

The back half, no way. So now we're into the front half, one through four. We thought, well, we felt like four was really kind of not necessarily when it took off, but you know, it had Robert Pantson in it and it was just kind of appealed. It was the four in case you don't know, the Harry Potter franchise very well, is very much to transition from children's literature to big time young adults, but just like adult in general kind of stuff too. It's the first one where you get like significant death of like a very important character,

etc. So we were like, this seems like a pretty, pretty big one, pretty heavy one. It seems like a pretty big one, pretty heavy one. Had a big name on the bill. I mean, Robert Petzen wasn't a big actor at that point, but something fresh. So we're now we're down to one through three. We thought, well, one probably not, because the book or I don't know how many books JK Rowling had gotten through when the first movie came out,

probably like four or five maybe, maybe not that many, two or three, something like that. But we're like, you know, there's a lot of people, a lot of parents and kids are gonna go see this. So we're like, yeah, I don't think it's gonna be one. So then we got down to two and three, and this is where we were like, I'm not sure which one to put. So we decided to just follow our gut and say, well, let's pick the one that, that from like a critics perspective, was not necessarily panned, but people just,

and it's not that the movie didn't do a good job of adapting the book, the storyline, and the characters in three as compared to pretty much all the other ones in my opinion. It's just weak. It's just kind of like, almost feels like a filler. Nothing that doesn't feel that important. I apologize to all the diehard Potter fans and I might be offending with this trivia discussion. But so we said, you know what? Let's go with three, let's do it. I think pretty much everybody else in the bar said two or maybe a smattering of one or four.

But we said three, prisoner of ask a ban, which was the correct answer. We won. I don't remember what the prize was. I think just like, oh, it was, I think like a $25 gift certificate for first prize, which is pretty weak. I think I just paid off Tim's bar tab or something like that. Tim, if you're listening right, it's another email. And maybe you remember more than I do what we did with that $25.

But I didn't take any of it home with me. That was Tim from Winnipeg. Thanks for writing us. You can always email us, beantonepodcast.yahoo.com. And we'll read your stuff live on the air. Coming up on the Beantone podcast, we have our Easter episode happening in a couple of weeks here. We're also going to get, I promise,

we're doing our best to get Matt Fiedler on the show. He's going to come on. He's got to do our taxes episode. We'll be talking about some investment stuff. Obviously, this economy is in free fall stock market is suffering right now. So there is lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots for us to talk about with Matt. And it's also just been like, I don't even know. Many, many months since he's been on the Bean Town podcast, which is not okay. Matt swamped, but we're going to do our best,

especially working from home. I feel like we can fit this in. A tax day has been moved back, I believe. What is it, sometime in June or something? I would still love to get this in for April 15th, because it's just kind of, you know, the time is right. But, yeah, that's what I got for you. My birthday was on Monday, sorry last week was such a kind of depressing episode. There was just a lot going on. And now, you know, Corona has kind of taken over everything. So we're here.

We're quarantined. That's the working from home. If you think I'm completely on top of my shed and not that I'm not doing okay but that I'm just killing it every day, I'm not doing our best one day at a time. Trying to get outside, it's snowing, which is just great. That's one thing. My last point I'll say here, I feel like I would be, it would be way easier to kind of be on top of my game mentally, physically to an extent, but certainly mentally.

If it was warmer out, right, you give me some 50 degree days when I can just like go hang out, chill by the lake. It'd be like, oh, yeah, I got this, this is easy. But when it's snowing out, oh, yeah, I got this, this is easy. But when it's snowing out, man, and you're quarantined, I put this on social. It literally just feels like the ending of dark night rises, right?

You're quarantined, it's snowing. We're literally just waiting for, like, hines feel to blow up at this point. So we'll keep you posted. That's what I have for you. Thanks for tuning in long episode, but you know, not that I had a lot to say, but highlight of my day doing this podcast for you.

And I hope you'll listen. I hope you'll share with friends. If they, if someone could use a laugh or somebody could just use someone to talk to or listen to, you can also You know share my number 815298 7200 shoot me a text shoot me a face time Shoot me an angry bird's request if you're just looking for someone to talk to Yeah, that's what I got Very very very last thing. I'll say and I'm already late to this because he started doing

a Tuesday. But starting this past Tuesday, St. Paddy's day for two straight weeks, every day, including weekends, Ben Gibberd, whom you might know as a solo artist or the frontman for Death Cap for Cutie or part of the project, the Postal Service, is live streaming on Death Cap for Cutie's YouTube every single day at 6 p.m. Central for PMC Atal Time. He just is playing requests for about 45 minutes each day. It's awesome. You're just getting like, I mean literally 14 days

of like 45 minutes, he plays like eight songs a day. So eight times 14, whatever that is, four times 28. That's just like Ben Gibber playing 115 songs, just acoustic, and you just get to sit there and listen to him. So that's a treat. Certainly the highlight of my day, every day so far under quarantine. So if you haven't checked it out,

if you didn't know who's happened, I'd encourage you to listen to it. And if you miss it live, you know, he posts them they they go up on the page I missed one of them live on Thursday night. I watched it Friday morning But it's good stuff Final final final final thing the killers of a new album coming out in May, which I didn't know about I knew they had dropped a new single, but I didn't know it was a tattooing album But they they went on Kimmel's mini log on Friday and it was Brandon Flowers and Ronnie Benucci played it from

Brandon Flowers House in Utah they went into the bathroom Brandon was on synth and Ronnie was on guitar It's called caution. It's a pretty catchy song. It's pretty much in line with what the killers have been doing in a good way But it was funny. They played it for Kimmel and those guys have the Vegas connection So okay, that's actually what I what I wanted to say we're done here We're gonna turn on some Tishmingle blues. Well play us out. What do you mean to play us out? There's no words there. I can't read it If if there are any dinosaurs or events found upstairs, I will keep you posted.

And just a reminder that, you know, don't let Jesus guilt trip you into thinking this whole trip to earth was a real, you know, big hassle for him. He gets to, he started and have, and he ends up in heaven while he was here. He had magic powers, so an apostasy to follow him. Doesn't sound that bad to me.

All I'm saying, okay, not trying to offend anybody. Doesn't sound that bad to me. All I'm saying, okay? Not trying to offend anybody. That's what I got for you. Stay safe. Maybe we'll check in on you with a bonus episode or something later this week. Quarantine, make us all go a little crazy. Okay, that's it.

Have a good week. Be nice to everyone and stay safe. Watch your hands. Yeah, we'll check in on you soon enough. Bye guys. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. nd nd