Beantown Podcast - Quinn's Car Ride Convos Podcast (07272025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: July 28, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE from I-94 to discuss SPAM, bad mergers, and squirrely dogs

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn Davis Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn Davis Furness presents the Beantown Podcast for Sunday, July 27th, I think, 2025. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? Coming to you live from the driver's seat of the 2025 Kia Soul. Me and Maple, my co-pilot over here, it's like Lando Calrissian and An Sol over on Chewbacca rather, going to blow up the second Death Star. Just missing Wedgie Antilles over here. Yeah, we are in a car driving back home after dropping mom off downtown Minneapolis. Been up in Minnesota, the nation's twenty-seventh state for quite some time, the past couple of days. Enjoyed some time in the Twin Cities area and enjoyed some time up north,

the lakes around Brainerd area, and now going back home to get back to the daily grind. And we're just, we're doing it live, quite literally, hoping the audio quality turns out okay. It's going to be like listening to me on a phone call, which is somehow even worse than listening to me with that crisp, clear Samson Q2U series audio quality. But I'm just going to do my best to make it work here. Just a quick little check-in because even on travel days, summer vacation, you've got your different tiers of commitment, right? You've got people like, I don't know,

Jeopardy takes off the entire summer. And then you've got Jimmy Kimmel, who keeps running his show, but he's not really involved. And he just has guest hosts for most of the summer. And then you've got the Beatdown Podcast, do every single week without fail. Nothing pre-recorded about it. We come to you live, give you a new show every single week now in its eight season. Wouldn't that be something if we just pre-recorded

like 10 episodes back in May and just jumped back in in September? That would be, I don't know, we'd be out of the loop. We wouldn't be able to come to you with live reactions about Coldplay concerts or Summer I Turn Pretty or NFL Training Camp or Epstein Files or any of that stuff. So we're keeping our finger on the pulse here. My name is Quinton. This is my program. I am the creator, the host, and the chief driver. You know, the movies, the film credits, you have like the big stars, they always have special assistant to deal with things. Or Mary Louise Parker, Parker's driver. I think that was a trivial question from Weeds, you have to get the name of the actors. I nailed it here in this marker. We played a little bit of trivia, kind of unplanned, on... Oh, we got dog freaking out over here.

You know, we drove up here on Wednesday. Maybe you got it pumped up, but she's not doing well in the car. We drove up here on Wednesday Started at 3 45 a.m. And she was zonked half asleep half awake Raining half the time. She did great this little co-pilot, but the script has been flipped if you will here because we dropped Rachel off at her hotel in Minneapolis, and Maple is not happy about that. She is not interested in settling down whatsoever.

So this is an adventure. We got one hand on the wheel, one hand on the dog. It's the beauty of Beatdown Podcasts, though you can go hands free. How do you like that? Maple, but you have to lie down. You can't climb while we're going 70 miles per hour. Stressful times here on Being Town podcast.

You can go hands, kind of like that. Listener discretion is advised. Apologies for the kids out there for swearing. Listener discretion advised when you're listening to this show, number one will occasionally some language, as you can already tell, that this podcast is objectively terrible. And I gotta tell you, if there was ever a Beat Top podcast where you were just like, do I really need to listen to this one to kind of know what's going to happen next week? Probably not. It's not like the pit which we're watching right now

where whatever happens in the next hour, it's 15 hours of a single shift in the emergency room. Each episode is one of those hours. And if you jump in at 3 p.m. and you missed one at 2 p.m., you're probably not going to know the various medical cases that they're working on. Whether it's a finger amputation or a miscarriage or the guy with the pacemaker and the wires becoming unplugged. In the Beatdown podcast there's no pacemakers, no wires, just...

What's the... Squirrely? That's the word I'm looking for. Squirrely Dogs. What is squirrely? Is it just S-Q-U-I-R-L-Y? Or is it... I'm missing an E in there. Is it squirrely or squirrely? I'm not sure. But yeah, it's, let's see, where are we? Oh, thank you, Pakistan, for making us the 112th Ring Towning Podcast in the Great Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Hyderabad, Lahore, Karachi. Thank you for tuning into my program. Our hot take of the week, I kind of want to get out in front of this because Our hot take of the week, I kind of want to get out in front of this because there might be a storm coming. Just like on Tatooine in Star Wars Episode 1, The Phantom Menace.

Pedro Pascal. So, I was talking to Rachel about this this morning. I'm starting to see some rumblings about this. And considering we're kind of a breaking news program here on the Beat Top Podcast, I sort of wanted to get out in front of this. So Pedro Pascal has been in every single movie and TV show that has come out in the last, I think, 22 months, three days. It's within his acting contract. So the latest thing he's promoting is the newest reboot of the Fantastic Four film series,

which is, I think this is the fifth Fantastic Four film they've made since the 90s. There's the one from the 90s, which I've never really seen. And then they did two, the only only cast that's gotten two movies was the, this is the, Iowyn Griffield, he's Scottish or something. Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, and McComish.

What's his name? Chickless, Shield. They got two. And both of those are pretty bad, but you know what? They were what they were. And then there was one like three or four years ago, maybe five years ago now, with Miles Teller and with Michael B. Jordan, I think.

And apparently that was really bad, which I couldn't tell too bad. And now they're trying it one more time with Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, all you Mission Impossible heads out there will know. And the guy from Stranger Things, Joseph Quinn, is that his name? And then my man, Yvonne Moss Bacharach, don't ask me to spell it, playing The Thing. So Pedro Pascal's out here doing a big media tour, and I wasn't really aware of this,

but apparently Pedro's thing is that he's got anxiety, and when he gets anxious, he needs physical touch to calm himself down, which what I'm saying is like, get yourself a fidget spinner or a Rubik's Cube or something, or one of those little like things with all the holes you can pop back and forth get one of those but he's popping Vanessa Kirby's you know waist there's video coming out of him

and Will DeFoe's wife it is just things are starting to heat up for Pedro which is really interesting because he's like in every single movie and TV show that's ever been created in the last two or three years it feels like. So I don't know where things are going to go, but our hot take in the week is that Pedro might be getting cancelled. I don't know if he should. I'm not the judge nor the jury, not an executioner. I was trying to execute as many flies as I could. Holy cow, if anyone else out there listening has ever been up to central or northern Minnesota in July, holy moly. I should have brought my fly field book because we got bamboozled and harassed by every type of fly and midge

and spudge and all that stuff that you could imagine. I don't know where the loons or the dragonflies were, the hunters of the Northwoods, because we were just getting shellacked and bamboozled. We tried a couple different state parks, thinking it might be better here, better there. We went all the way on the off, deep, special, and nothing seemed to really be working. Rachel and I are on a hot streak, by which I mean a cold streak.

Our last three state park visits, first one we got rained out, and then two we got flyed out and it's just been, it's just been rough. Yeah thankfully, thankfully none of the biting variety but just swarming, definitely the swarming, the riding. Right, Maple? You're gonna have to try to line up. You can't climb the bed and see the blankets up here. That's our hot take of the week. Maple's minute is that this has just been a very confusing week, right? You're on drugs. Where do you even start? On drugs. Dad wakes you up at 3A, 2.45 a.m. on a Wednesday.

You go sit in the car for eight hours. You do that big old drive, and then all of a sudden you get out of the car, there's Mom, you're downtown in a new city, you don't know what's going on, Dad takes you to waterfalls. You get pup cups, and then you go up, and there's flies all over the place.

You get to sleep on the bed which is really cool but the next thing you know you're dropping off mom and you think maybe she's just got a work meeting or something but now dad's speeding 80 miles per hour in the left lane and you haven't seen mom for an hour and a half and you're worried that it might be a little bit more permanent. So apologies to Maple, that's really what's been going through her head. At least there's no flies here in the car park. Both flies. Just that. We do have some pretzels from the brewery that Maple will have some of these later. I think they're honey mustard. I'm not sure if dogs have mustard seeds. It's gonna say inauthentic flavor, which is which would be true, but there's a

better word. Artificial. A-R-T-I-F-I-C-I-A-L. Art Garfunkel, it's named exactly short for artificial Garfunkel. A lot of people don't realize that. That's Maples minute. I briefly want to just say thank you to our sponsors and then we're going to play a little bit of Minnesota trivia to close the show today. I am well aware that this is you know there's athletes who are at the top of their game and then there's podcasters who are at the bottom of their game as far as this episode goes. who are at the bottom of their game. As far as this episode goes, we're at the bottom of the game. Although speaking of athletes,

I do just wanna briefly mention I got to go to Eagan, Minnesota on Friday to see the Vikings headquarters in a training camp facility. Wasn't able to go in because the first public practice wasn't until Saturday. I missed it by one day. That would have been cool to be feel to go and watch it. They got a heck of a facility out there. Also, got to go to Minahaha Falls, which I don't recall if I ever got the chance to go as a small child, but

beautiful, beautiful park right along Minahaha Creek as it flows into the Mississippi River. And I got to do a nice little Mississippi River sunrise run on Thursday, which was nice. Beautiful place to run. So one thing I mean I'm a big big Chicago guy and the Twin Cities are great too, but Chicago beats it in most areas I feel but Yeah cops hopefully they're not for me But I gotta tell you Um Sorry Anytime you're driving on the highway you see those those flashing lights you kind of freeze up for a second Between the cops and the dogs going crazy,

we just got a little bit of everything on the show today. What I like about Twin Cities is the wide array and variety of city parks, which, you know, Chicago's got city parks too but Minneapolis and probably St. Paul as well it's just got there's just one every couple blocks and there's the nice thing you know not only there's so many that they're there they're always close but because there's so many they're less crowded, each one. Then you go to Chicago and some of the nicer parks just get really crowded or certainly along the lakefront.

And then some of the really good ones too, in terms of having more space, are just a little bit further away. Depending on where you live, you're on the north side, it's not super convenient to go down to Garfield Park or Douglas Park or Humboldt Park. So big fan of what Minneapolis is doing. Trying to see what's going on with these sirens. I've come into what you might consider to be a large clearing or a glen of some sorts where I can see

a good half mile in front of me. It's like that cop is still speaking on me. I want to see some good action. I want to briefly, speaking of good action, you guys gotta go to HomePad Oregon if you're trying to sell your home in Oregon. Or let's say you're a first time homebuyer and you're overwhelmed by this whole experience. The next thing you know, closing costs and then they say, oh don't forget your home inspection. You say, what the heck, a home inspection? Well, I got someone who's gonna walk you through the whole experience, A to Z, alpha to omega, start to finish, call Steve at 541-409-0316,

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next week when we do our LALA food to preview, which I just thought of and committed to. Maple and I will be on the call for that. Gosh, don't you hate when you give someone space to merge on the highway and they just come in hot? And what I mean by that is they come in not hot at all. They're going 35 miles per hour. And you're getting sandwiched by trucks in the left lane. You're sitting here behind this Toyota Corolla. Just you got to give it a little bit of oomph. I was never, well I'm sure I was the first or second time I did it, but I know a lot of young new drivers who get really anxious about the highway on-ramp merging process and experience, and to me that's always, and there can be times where it's very stressful, especially if it's like under

construction and you get almost no runway to join or if there's just some asshole or something, I get it. But it's just a situation, there are some things when you're driving, defensive driving is always good, but there's some situations where you just need to give it a little bit of gas, as Wierd Al Yankovic would say in his 1989 film, UHF, you gotta grab life by the lips and just yank. That's what you gotta do when you're trying to merge. Toyota Corolla up there is listening to this later. That's what she should do next time. I don't know how we're going to upload this. I think we're going to have to... we've done voice

recordings on the phone before. I think we've got to upload it to a Google Drive and then when I get home on my laptop, we're supposed to get home at like 7pm right now, then I can upload from there. We're recording. It's about 12.50 p.m. here on a sunny Sunday afternoon. But that's the Samson Q2 News series. When God speaks, He uses a Samson. And of course our good friends at Cuts by Q. I've been saying it for about a month now. I've been meaning to give myself a Cuts by Q. haven't gotten around to it but when I am when I'm ready I sure will. You know I use a wall, a WAHL, as my electric trimmer. Maybe cuts by Q should come out with their own line of electric trimmers. That could be our next big foray into the market. We might have to up our prices. I don't know if we're going to be able to afford manufacturing costs with just $20 flattering cuts, but I don't know. We'll see. It could be a

good idea. So we were listening to a podcast this morning that neither Rachel nor I had ever listened to, but we were listening to it because it was interviewing an actor from The Summer I Turned Pretty. This lady was doing, I don't know, was it an ad-ree for a wig or something? She said, never get a bob because then it starts to grow out and it looks weird. And then you have long hair. I didn't really understand her logic. I was like, yeah, what did she want? What did you expect to have long hair at some point after like yeah what did you want long what'd you expect to have long hair at some point after you give yourself a bob it was very unclear it was like trying to follow eight seasons of beat out podcast but cuts by cute when you need a fresh do something snap your new name we'll do Bob's or weaves beehives

bowl cuts anything in between call the experts at cuts Cuts by Q815-298-7200, email cutsbyq at yavu.com again, that's Cuts! Q-U-T-Z by Q at yavu.com. Oh, and you need a fresh juice on the snapier noobs, call the experts at Cuts by Q. We're in a little bit of a traffic TIF right now. T-I-F-F. It's kind of a fun word. Usually, you know, it would be a synonym for a spat, but a TIF can be more of like a, it's just, it's a lot going on right now.

We're trying to get organized and be safe. And your dog's over here panting and got just the worst breath. It's a thing I can sit over here eyes on the road and I can tell instantly when my dog is breathing with the mouth open because she's just got the worst breath. I was going to say no demand but I guess no demands best friend. You gotta brush your teeth when you get home tonight, buddy. What we're gonna try to do safely is a little bit of Minnesota trivia.

Oh, one other thing I wanted to mention before we get to Minnesota trivia, I do want to thank, what was this? Leah, or Leah Ridley, L-E-I-A Ridley, emailed us, meetup, parkesadjaugu.com, meetup, parkesadjaugu.com. She emailed us on Monday, so we've been sitting on this for a while, and she just left a comment on our homepage, on our contact us form, which you can find on the website. And Lea Ridley says, could hidden oral bacteria be causing your dental

issues? See the details here. And that's what I would like to say. But looks like either a dentist site or a porn site. Not sure which one. But first I was like, well, my teeth are pretty good. I'm not too concerned about it. But now I'm thinking, oh, this could be intended for maple. So we might have to put on this and get home, buddy. And thank you to Leia or Leah Ridley for emailing us at eatuppodcast.youtube.com. I don't recall asking necessarily for lakes or email responses from listeners about eating oral bacteria, but if I did, I'm oftentimes having a drink on a program and I don't remember everything that I espouse or espout. What is the word?

I don't know. You could just spout off. I definitely spout off from time to time. Thank you Leia for emailing us. And anyone else? I guess for our next show if you have any dental problems or hygiene handy work you want to email us about? Go ahead and email us. MeantownPodcast.com and MeantownBeingPodcast.com. Okay, we're going to finish up with a little bit of Minnesota trivia. This is just coming from a site. The font, it's like a

PDF, so the font is way too small for what it should be on your phone. And so we're just going to do our best. I think there's like 15 questions in here, we'll see how many we get to. But yeah, let's just play this by ear and try to zoom in. Because we've spent the last five days in Minnesota, so I wanted to play some Minnesota trivia. I think I didn't finish the thought. We played trivia, not Minnesota-based, Minnesota-themed, but at a brewery that is the name Escaping, kind of northeast Minneapolis.

It was the first time I'd ever played Sporkle, they call it what, Sporkle Live? It's like a Sporkle branded trivia game. It's a lot of fun. You get to do it on your phone and the infirmary was well-attended and got to expense most of dinner onto mom's work card which was nice. So yeah, it was fun. And we didn't do so bad. I think there were 27 teams and we got ninth place, which is not bad for just two young kids trying to make their way through life. Who is it from Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer? Tommy used to work on the doooogs. Tommy and Gina?

Union's been on strike, he's down on his luck. So, uh... My sister sent me, or sent our family a video clip of one of her high school friends who was a musician. And it's going around the country singing what appeared to be Bon Jovi covers. He was singing, I don't know, he was living on a prayer, I think. I don't know, I asked about it and we could follow up in terms of, is it a pure, I don't think it's a purely Bon Jovi cover maybe, but that would be pretty badass, sing all his greatest hits. Manfielder and I covered Bon Jovi one time on a Meantown unplugged episode about six, seven years ago. He was saying, I'll be there for you, these five words I swear to you,

when you break I wanna be there for you, I'll be there for you. Great underrated duet between John and Richie Sanfora, S-A-M-D, Bo Waterman. All right, here's some questions. What Minnesota company invented Post-It Notes? This is not post serial, this is Post-It Notes. What Minnesota company invented it?

I'm pretty sure it's 3M. Unfortunately, the answers are in a different part of this PDF. So we're going to do some swiping and scrolling. Yes, it is 3M. I'm playing along with you. You couldn't tell already. I opened up this PDF. It looks solid. So we're just going to play together. Number two, what kind of animal is the mascot for the University of Minnesota? It is of course the golden gopher. We're going too fast. Maybe we should repeat the question give me more time. Alright, here's number three. What were the call letters of the television station in the Mary Tyler Moore Show? I actually don't know. I don't think

I've ever seen the Mary Tyler Moore Show. There was someone, I don't remember who it was, but they were some form of media that I follow. Oh, it was the Cubs. The Cubs were playing in Minneapolis two weeks ago. They, you know, on the field, reporter Taylor was doing Mary Tyler Moore parody of the theme song when I had to go. After I saw the parody, I had to go back and watch the original Mary Tyler Moore intro to see how accurate it was.

It was pretty well done, but I'm gonna be ignorant here and let you know I don't know too much else about the Mary Tyler Moore show. The answer is WJMTV. Mary Tyler Moore. That was my first guess. Number four. Name the processed meat product that is manufactured in Austin, Minnesota. Name the manufactured meat, uh, processed meat product that is manufactured in Austin, Minnesota. I don't even need the answers for this one. But you probably wouldn't associate it with Minnesota as much as you might Hawaii, because

it's very popular in Hawaii. The answer, of course, is spam. Spiced ham. Spam. I've been to the spam factory in our museum once as a kid in Austin, Minnesota. And I drove outside of it like two years ago, just kind of heard shits and giggles. Didn't really have time to go inside. It was also like 10am on a Tuesday. They made out a little bit. Not sure. Alright. Got a little traffic slowdown here. Got to be attentive eyes on the road. Lot of traffic out here, we're in northwestern Wisconsin. More than you would expect on a Sunday. Which is unfortunate. I guess I'm a little bit spoiled because they did the inverse of this drive. Oh, holy shit, just got cut off. Yikes. That truck was giving me no fun. We just flew right up here on Wednesday which makes sense because it was 5 a.m. on a Wednesday

versus 1 p.m. on a Sunday. But still, people go to... I think everyone would be at their Lutheran potlucks. I guess now we're in Wisconsin and not Minnesota. No, maybe it's more Catholic. All right, that was spam. Oh, this is a fun one right up our alley. Number five, namely five states that border Minnesota. Number five, namely five states that border Minnesota. And throw in the Canadian provinces too. What's north of Minnesota?

Is it both Ontario and Manitoba? What do we think? Let's open up Google Maps. Well, first let's make sure our voice recording is still recording, it is. Yeah, but the five states that border Minnesota plus any Canadian provinces or territories. The five states would of course be North Dakota, South Dakota. I'm saying of course, with so much confidence when I stop here, North Dakota, South Dakota. It's got to be Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin, right? Does that sound right?

Well, I'm not as confident as Nebraska, but it's probably right. It's not. What am I missing? Oh. What am I missing? The five states that border Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota. What am I missing? This is embarrassing. It doesn't border Nebraska, which when I originally said Nebraska, I was like, that doesn't sound quite right.

Hm. Just did a little zoom out on my phone and apparently I dropped the pin in Arkansas. What the heck am I missing? Michigan Count, some sort of water border? Because I'm looking at a very zoomed out map I'm seeing. Ever so clearly Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota. Let's quickly go to the Google search. States that border Minnesota. See what people said. Yeah, four US states. Okay, I don't know

what this quiz is on. Let's go down to the answer sheet and see what it says. And then, yeah, I was right, Manitoba and Ontario. Okay, so what are the answers per this quiz? Oh, yeah, it's per the Lake Superior boundary, Michigan as well. All right, let's move past this. Number six, what Minnesota product used to commercial jingle from the land of sky blue waters? What Minnesota product used to commercial jingle from the land of sky blue waters? I have no idea. Got to be something fish based, right? Tuna? I don't know. I don't know that many Minnesota products. Land of lakes butter? Let's see what the answer is. Ham's beer. Huh. I don't think I've ever had a hands number seven what is the stage name of

the famous musician Robert Zimmerman I tell you is Bob Zimmerman that might help you it's got a nice mural in downtown St. Paul that I saw last fall the answer Robert Zimmerman is Bob okay how many of these are there's 20 we don't in downtown St. Paul that I saw last fall. The answer, Robert Zimperman, he's Bob Gellin. Okay, how many of these are there? There's 20, we don't need to go through all of them. Let's just see if there's another one or two good ones. Let's see, who was the Minnesota native that wrote The Great Gatsby? That's a good one for all your AP late heads out there. F. Scott Fitzgerald, wrote the great Gatsby. Named a fictional Minnesota town, popularized by Garrison Keeler and the Prairie Home Companion.

That is a fictional town that Garrison Keeler created that would have been Lake Wobegon. And let's see, anything else here? Name the hometown of the Jolly Green Giant? That was one I almost guessed for the hands of your question. I'm pretty sure it's Blue Earth, Minnesota. Oh, I'm wrong, it's Lasur, Minnesota. L-E-space S-U-E-U-R. Damn French. But isn't the Jolly Green Giant statue in Blue Earth?

Am I making it up? We can get our research team to look that up. All right, let's see if we can find any other good ones. I don't know this one. What cartoon characters lived in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota? That actually, it rang a bell on this. I didn't say it before I looked at the answer, but it is rocking. All right, we're gonna end it there. I want to say thank you to everyone who stuck it out for 35-ish minutes of the Beans on Podcast live from Interstate 94 along with the research team people over here. That's pretty much what I got for you. We will have a Lollapaloo preview coming up in a couple of days here live from Chicago with the Citizen Q2 series.

Good to get back home and otherwise I hope you have enjoyed your July. It is hot everywhere. I hope you have some air conditioning. I hope you are staying cool. My name is Quinn David Furness. This is my program Quinn David Furness presents to me Tom Huggins. Whenever this gets uploaded I hope you stay safe, stay sane. I'll check in next time. Bye bye.