Beantown Podcast - Sandwich Gripes and Pokemon Moves

Episode Date: March 9, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to complain about Potbelly sandwiches, karate chop (TM), and Colbie Caillat's silence

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Sunday, March 9th, 2025. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn and I am the creator, the host, and the chief set designer of this

program. You saw a little bit of that action last week on our telethon. The 8th annual Pledge Drive telethon fundraiser, big success. In fact, I got a nice letter from the United Way two or three days ago that I've been meaning to put onto social media here. I actually took a picture of the letter and I just forgot to post it, but we raised something like $220 I think it was for the United Way of Is actually the Rock River Valley? So Rock River Valley catching strays over here I usually donate to the United Way of Metro Chicago and apparently I accidentally donated to more of my hometown cause. Hopefully you aren't too upset that I was so selfish.

Thank you all to everyone who donated. If you are a Topaz Elite member, your coasters have been shipped. I can confirm it. They're coming from Turkey or to be PC we're supposed to say Turkey-yay T U R K I Y E and there's some dots and umuans and enyeys like Kanye but enyey over different letters. Enya if you want to do some Lord of the Rings music what does she sing? The one from from first one, Let It Be. Let it be, do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do From the Fellowship of the Ring. Each one of those three Peter Jackson LOTR films, I'm ignoring the Hobbit, Has like a signature song, right?

The first one, Fellowship of the Ring, is Let It Be, or is it May It Be? Let It Be is The Beatles, so it's gotta be May It Be, maybe? I don't know. And then number two is Gollum's song, which I think is the least hummable of the three from The Two Towers. It's got some like spooky violin action going up high. Yeah, the Two Towers is kind of probably the most unsettling of the three regardless. With all the dead marshes and such.

And then the Two Towers always bored me when I was a kid. It's kind of got some Empire Strikes back to it, right? Empire Strikes back to it where you got a large portion, not a large, but a sizable portion of the two towers is just Mary and Pippin in the nths. And it's very purposefully very slow and drawn out. And probably in the original original book it was probably like 300 pages there in the fangorn forest but yeah as a kid that part or

those parts of the second film were just very boring to me much in the same way that the Dagobah scene or scenes in Empire Strikes Back I was just like man this is terrible what are we doing here? And in hindsight, it's really not that long. I think the Dagobah stuff is way shorter than the end stuff, but you know, is what it is. I wanted to see that final lightsaber battle between Luke and Vader. That's the lightsaber battle, the end of five.

Man, that takes the cake. I know Anakin versus Obi-Wan is iconic. I understand that. And I think from an action perspective it's the best. But there's just something so eerie about the Empire Strikes Back duel at the end, right? You're in Cloud City. Speaking of being chief set designer, that set was just... Man, it's so good. You don't know, he's fallen, he lost his arm, he's gonna fall to his death, he's gonna go into one of those cool tubes.

You don't know what's gonna happen. And then in Return of the King, you get into the West, which I think is Annie Lennox, L-E-N-N-O-X, who is one of those people like Enya, who I don't know anything about other than her association with that song. She's probably Scottish or something, I don't know. Thank you, but to cap it off, and we do have a limerick here to share live on the air from my sister-in-law, but thank you to everyone who called in last week, it was a lot of fun, the telethon fundraiser, a smashing success.

And we'll see you again next year for year nine. I also would like to thank our good friends in Pakistan for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Lahore, Karachi, Khyber Pass, Uttar Pradesh, wherever you are listening from, Urdu or otherwise. Thank you again. So we had our different tiers here. And in years past, we've done it where like, hey, if you're in the Topaz Elite Club, you get everything below it too.

And I think we did kind of a mishmash of that this year, because I only wrote one limerick for my sister-in-law who fell in that second tier. But I will say that if you donated to the show, I think in any capacity, you are currently featured on the bean-town-podcast.com wall of champions. So go to bean-town-podcast..com check it out. No, no cool graphics

or anything like that. But it's something nonetheless. But I did write a limerick for my sister in law. So Nicole, this goes out to you. Thank you for donating. Actually, she might've been anonymous. I can't remember, but either way, there's nothing anonymous about giving thanks. So here it is Nicole's limerick My sister-in-law loves to roam through cities and countries unknown At trivia night. She shines big and bright with knowledge. That's perfectly honed So there you go. Hopefully you enjoyed your limerick. And thanks again to everyone for supporting. What is still to come on the Beantown podcast outlook here for season eight?

Well, we've got a birthday podcast. My birthday, the big 3-0, is one week from today. So we'll be doing something maybe Friday night to celebrate. We'll see what happens. I usually crack open a bottle of wine and just let loose, but I'm trying to stay as trim as possible. I did have two drinks yesterday to celebrate my father-in-law's birthday. Happy birthday, Jose. Had my first bourbon of the year, a little bourbon on ice, and then a rogue leftover, if you will, Linies red ale.

I bought the variety pack that's got the vanilla porter and the cherry ale and the red ale and something else. But I bought that back over Christmas. And so you buy a bunch of beer and alcohol and stuff over Christmas, and it just kind of tends to last the first six months of the year or so. And then you get to June and the pool opens and then you got to restock, get some tequila, some vodka. I always like having some whiskey on hand

regardless to mix with some Coke Zero perhaps. And then you got to get the summer beers too. I did pick up a six pack of my favorite beer, Peanut Butter Porter from Saga Tuck Brewing. The Trader Joe's bias usually has it over Christmas, but this year it came out a little bit later. So I do have a six pack of that that I got in Byvin. But I don't know, next weekend is St. Patrick's Day celebrations here in Chicago, which we'll talk fugitive in a second here, but definitely gonna have to have some drinks then to celebrate

that on the birthday. We'll see what it looks like, but we got birthday podcast next week. And then we've got March madness selection Sunday is a week from today, which is always very exciting. So you'll have to fill out a bracket live with us on air. And then April's coming up soon guys that means taxes so you're going to want to listen to our tax special episode our expert Matthew Feather not currently contacted yet or contracted even because he gets paid big buckos but he's going to be on to talk to us about owning a small business and tax implications.

And then May comes around, and all of a sudden, it comes galloping around. What does that mean? Oh, of course, it's our eighth annual Horse Names special. So you don't have to wait. You can already start emailing us today, bintanpodcasts at yahoo.com. Again, it's bintanpodcasts at yahoo.com with your suggestion for a great horse name or two. And whether your suggestion makes the top 10 list for this year or not, we appreciate you

and we will read all submissions live on air. Submission is a great Pokemon TM, a technical move from gen one. It's a fighting type, I think. And I don't really... Does it have any gimmick or anything? I think it's just like a regular old fighting move. You know what's crazy about Gen 1? Not to get too into the weeds here, because I do want to move on. Oh, I also have to briefly, ever so briefly mention that listener discretion is advised when you're listening to this program. Number one, will occasionally use some language. Number two,

this podcast is objectively terrible. In generation one of Pokemon, super quick backstory in case you don't really understand Pokemon, when you're battling, you have moves that are TMs or HMs. And when you're in battle, that there's no, it doesn't matter whether something's a TM or an HM. It's just you use it to attack or make it harder to get hit or to poison your opponent or burn them or paralyze them or ice them up. That's when you hide a smirnoff ice and they accidentally see it.

No, you freeze them. But moves and Pokemon and their associated moves have different types in Generation 1. There's obvious things like electric, if you're Pikachu, or if you're a Blastoise, there's water, or if you're a Pharoah, which is like a flying sparrow, you're a flying type. And you have moves that are the same, like wing attack

is flying move. Dig is flying type. Dig you have moves that are the same like wing attack is flying move dig is or is flying type dig is ground type I will let you guess what type rocks light is it's rock so there's like eight or nine of these in gen one anyways there's a limited amount of fighting Pokemon and moves fighting is one of the types and I think the only ones in generation one are like the Machop line the evolutionary line Machop Machoke Mach generation one are like the Machop line, the evolutionary line Machop, Machoke, Machamp. Hard to get a Machamp in gen one because you have to trade your Machoke to get it.

There's a couple of Pokemon like that. We won't go down that rabbit hole. And then Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan. And there's fighting moves. And I think, I think low kick is a fighting move. I think submission is a fighting move, but the like move Pokemon have like signature moves and in Gen one I think you would say that the Machop line signature move or at least Machop is Machop's signature move is karate chop.

And if I gave you 20 bucks to guess what type is Karate Chop, you'd probably knowing fighting is a type, you'd probably say fighting, right? And you'd be wrong. It's normal type, which is just stupid. Why go through all the effort of creating fighting Pokemon? And I guess there's Mankey and Primeape too. They're like fighting monkeys, but those are fighting type. And then you give them like a signature move. I guess, I guess Manky has Karate Chop too, right? Okay. So these two Pokemon have Karate Chop. These two fighting Pokemon and it is a normal type move. So it doesn't make sense. There's a couple oddities like that in Pokemon of which I'm not going to take the time to run through all of them off the top my head because that's not super exciting air

We will proceed though. I mentioned that the fugitive Something I mentioned this is your reminder St. Patrick's Day here in Chicago in six days this year March 15th For the river dying and the downtown parade and I think the South Side Parade is on that Saturday as well. I've never been. One of these days I will. I think when we move to the suburbs, that'll be something I'd like to see once, maybe bring the kid too. But The Fugitive, this is your reminder. I watch it once a year and I encourage you to do so as well. If you're looking for a well-constructed classic thriller

movie that is sometimes, you know, with these, I hate to say older movies, because The Fugitive is what? 1993, and that makes me feel and sound very old. But I guess 32 years is old enough at this point. With these older movies, if you you will there's a fear from these gen xers gen zers not gen x gen z uh that oh it's going to be boring right oh harrison ford it's got to be black and white no this movie is gripping much like vice grip which belongs more to the uh crabby kingler line in pokemon i think it's a normal type move but I couldn't tell you.

Never really use crabby or kingler. Kind of hard to come by. Little crabs. But man you got Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Jane Lynch, Neil Flynn, The One-Armed Man, great music, Neil Flynn, the one-armed man, great music, fantastic quotes. I didn't kill my wife. I don't care. Mm. And you switch the samples. Pointing your finger at the Hilton Chicago or inside the Hilton Chicago, unforgettable. Or the one-armed man, this is my stop doc.

Sykes, oof, rest in peace. Rest in peace, Sykes. Spoilers. So yeah, go check it out. I don't think it's streaming anywhere, I don't know. But if you know how to do a basic Google search, I trust that you can find it easily. So good.

The train scene, man, just, I gotta pick out a night this week to watch it. I guess Rachel's going to a basketball game or to a watch party for the Big Ten tournament on Thursday, so maybe Maple and I will dedicate Thursday as our fugitive watch night. And then other, speaking of movies, we watched a movie last night that was completely off my radar because they don't have Apple Plus or Apple TV, I

guess it is. It was called the Wolf's. Not wolves, wolves as in if Wolf Blitzer had a clone, which is not all that dissimilar from what happens in, was it Mission Impossible 5? Where they don the wolf blitzer mask. Excuse me, I love the, I love don as a verb. We used to have a worship leader at our church growing up, Rock Church over there on Harrison Avenue. His name was Pastor, well, I don't know if he even went by Pastor. He was like the music leader for a time. He played the piano and sang, presumably, I don't know. I don't know what his last name was, but we called him Pastor Don. But he was known for being very fidgety on the piano bench while he was playing, or at least that was our perception of Pastor Don. And so we had a ceiling fan in our kitchen,

and it was always wobbly and we called it the Pastor Don fan. Don fan is a Pokemon, I think. See how this all comes full circle? A lot of Pokemon talk today, that's okay. But one time in our childhood home growing up, the Pastor Don fan got a little too wiggly. And one of the blades, I don't know how this stuff happens, well from a physics perspective I get it, if something just starts to break and then eventually breaks, but the Pastor Don fan, one of the blades just came right off, it had enough of the rest of the other three guys and went right into the kitchen sink. That's one of those things you kind of question, at what speed would the Pastor Don fan have to be going where if there was a small child in the kitchen at the time?

I think I don't particularly, or I don't believe anyone was harmed in the incident. I don't think anyone was in the kitchen, but that would be scary as shit if they were. You know, if you got a three-speed fan, does speed one cause decapitation with a flying blade? What about speed two? What's the level of injury we're dealing with here? Can a child file a homeowner's insurance claim against their parent? I don't know. These are things that I never had to grapple with as a kid. But now that,

you know, the circle of life is happening and we're bringing, you know, kids into this world before too long, I got to check out my ceiling fans to make sure there's no Pastor Don action going here because I don't want anyone to get decapitated. That would be a terrible way to go. And you'd need a new ceiling fan. Rough. But we watch Wolf's. And it's George Clooney and Brad Pitt. And then Amy Ryan, who you might know from The Wire or The Office. And then some kid from Euphoria.

Who wasn't, I had to go back and check the Beantown blog for the Euphoria season two recap critical review to see if I mentioned this kid anywhere. I don't think he I don't think I did. He wasn't Fezcom, he wasn't Ashtray, and he wasn't Jacob Elordi. And he wasn't the guy who sings La Rue, that crazy song that lasts four full minutes. So I don't really remember seeing this kid in euphoria at all. Maybe he was only in season one, I'm not sure. But it's a classic one night thriller, you know, shit hits the pass or non-fan, stuff spirals out of control, gotta clean it up, that sort of thing. And it was one of those movies, it's on Apple TV, where it was only, to me, it was like a two and a half star, no, two star out of four is what I give it. It was only tolerable because it was Clooney and Pitt and those guys, you could just watch whatever they do and it's going to be fine for the most part. But really that wasn't that gripping to me. Also featured

Chicagoland legend Richard Kind of Kind Bar fame and Larry David's cousin and Curb Your Enthusiasm. I love Richard Kind. But it got me thinking about other great one-night-only films. And I was tempted to do a full episode dedicated to this, maybe we will in the future. But off the top of my head, I mean, Collateral takes the cake. That's one of my favorite movies of all time, Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise. And then I don't know if Good Time, the Robert Pattinson Safdie Brothers movie is technically one night or if it stretches out longer than that.

But it's one of those lots of hijinks overnight kind of films. Excellent if you've never seen Good Time. If you're a big, if you like Robert Pattinson, you'll like this one. And then other films that take place over the course of One Night Boyhood, of course, Richard Linklater. take place over the course of one night boyhood, of course, Richard Linklater. I don't really know what Richard Linklater is up to these days. Was he the guy who did the Ethan Hawke trilogy before sunrise, selling sunset, and the sun also rises?

I've never seen any of those, but I've heard they're quite nice. It's him and someone else maybe her name starts with a J I'm not sure and then I heard James Cameron Avatar 3 is gonna be the longest one yet Avatar fire and ash ash tree from euphoria it all comes full circle you know what else comes full circle here is our good friends at HomePride Oregon. Guys, when you need your home inspected in Central Oregon, you cannot just go with whatever Joe Schmoe schlub six pack. You got to go with someone who's certified, someone who's got double double internace insured I N T E R N A C H I I can't really explain what that means but it's true

it's on the website rest in peace to home pride Oregon comm I should have bought up the the domain name when I had the chance could have sent people to being town podcast comm slash sponsors home part Oregon inspection perfection five four one four zero three one six or email home part over at gmo.com of course a good friends at the Samson q2u series gearing up for st. Patrick's Day here in Chicago if you want to swing by after 20 green beers and shots of Jameson and yell something into the mic while we're watching the fugitive you are more than welcome to do that.

Samson can pick up your voice from near or far, godly or satanic, whatever you prefer. When God speaks he uses Samson and of course our good friends at Cuts by Q. Maybe Maple and I will get matching green dues for a st. Patrick's Day we'll see we'll see what the week holds here when you need a fresh do something snappy or new call the experts at cuts by Q all right but yeah to finish that thought wolves was just fine I mean if you, it wasn't overly long. It was like 110 minutes, something like that. So if you're looking for like a solid thriller,

I think Wolves is fine. It didn't blow my socks off, but I was also descending into an edible. Not a hardcore one, like five milligrams of CBD and 2.5 THC. It's my sleepy time ones. But was starting to lose focus by the end of it. Let's just put it that way. Our hot take of the week, and I want to preface this by saying that I am not ungrateful I'm thankful anytime for free lunch no one knows more about being thankful for free lunch than I do but Friday was an all staff in-person meeting it's catered which is awesome love free lunch and I

also have not you know not someone who likes to bash on local businesses here now our good friends at potbelly is no longer a local business, but the first ever Potbelly was here in Chicago, just down the street here on Lincoln Ave. I live right off of Lincoln Ave and the first ever Potbelly was in Lincoln Park, Chicago on Lincoln Ave. But we always get Potbelly as the caterer for these quarterly in-person staff meetings. And this is nothing to do with anyone at the decision-making level, and everything to do with just the quality. Boy, pot belly is just terrible.

I don't really know how else to say it. It's just soggy. It's droopy. The catering is like, you know, you got the two sandwich halves, but they're not even... it comes out to like a six inch total, which I guess is normal, but I don't know. In the age of the $5 footlong, six inches just didn't do it for me anymore. I know the ladies out there will agree with that. But then you got you know we got salad served with no salad dressing.

I will say this the cookies are delicious. I brought home a sugar cookie and Rachel told me that was the worst cookie and I was of the opposite opinion. I thought those were the best cookies but that's okay because it's still irregardless, one of our great horse names over the years. But yeah, that's my hot take of the week. Potbelly just, I don't know. Maybe I'm missing something. This is in a similar vein to our Subway hot take. Maybe I just have it out for the sandwich chains. But we gotta get good friend of the show, Abby Witzak on because she's a subway defender

We've been saying we've been inviting her on the show without actually Physically inviting her for four years. It's just one of those things you say but one of these days I'm just gonna call her it was it was convenient for about two years there back in like season six and seven when we lived down the street from each other. But now, you know, distance absence makes the podcast grow stronger is what they say. We will get her on to discuss subway strategy. Let's just put it that way. So who's I mean, who's left Jimmy John's I have no beef with Jimmy John's. I've never gotten beef at Jimmy John's. Usually I'm a turkey. But we are, we are lacking here.

If the North Center Chamber of Commerce is listening, we are lacking a good solid sandwich joint around here. We got one option here around Irving Park and Lincoln area. Tuscan Hen Market, but it's like 10 to 3 Monday through Friday, something like that, and it's like a $13 sandwich. So what we really need is a Jimmy John's, I don't know, what are the other, you got your Paneraeras? I never have lived that close to a Panera where I just went all the time and trying to think the last time I even went to a Panera. I don't know.

There's not one close, but I don't know where the closest one is. We do have a subway, but it just closed. I never went to it, RIP. So I don't know. Email us, BeanTimePod, at yahoo.com. What's your ranking, if you will, of the classic sandwich shops? There's other places, too, like Jersey Mike's,

which is known for being very expensive. There's Firehouse Sub's, which I maybe have had once in my lifetime. I don't know. But I don't know. You would think a decent sandwich, irregardless of inflation and egg price and all that stuff, you'd think these places would be

able to stay at a solid, affordable price point, especially as McDonald's and other places are getting really expensive. But no, it's been the opposite. Subway, subway gone through the roof. I don't even, Rachel got a foot long from our subway around here before it closed like six months ago. I think it was 12 or 13 bucks just for like a regular,

you know, whatever kind of sandwich. I don't know. I think Jimmy John's at least is still just like eight bucks for a regular turkey sandwich, something like that. And it's not that exciting. But final sandwich shout out to it's semi local, I think Chiba Hut. I think they are in different states, but there's not a ton of them. We used to live very close to the Chiba Hut in Wrigleyville. And it's not cheap. It's Chiba, C-H-E-B-A, Chiba Hut.

But I think it's way better than, way more affordable, and tastes better than your Jersey Mikes or your potbellies, for sure. So shout out to Chiba Hut. And the one here in Wrigleyville has a bar which I won Star Wars trivia at once and good happy hour. Should have frequented there more but it is what it is. Email us with your opinions on sandwich shop rankings. Now, I don't have much to say here, this is Maples Minute. It's going to be less dog related because she's physically in the other room. I'm here recording in the office. Maples Minute, and this is something I told her, so it's my

thought originally and I want credit for it, but Maples Minute is that you don't hear a lot about Colby Calle these days. We were watching Love is Blind and you know they are in these shows The Bachelor and Love Island and Bachelor Nation whatever. It's always the the cheap knockoff covers. Some you know youtuber with a ukulele singing you know whatever Taylor Swift song All Too Well during the breakups or whatever it is. But this version was the song Lucky by Colby Kelly and Jason Mraz, which you might remember from about what 12, 13 years ago, something like that. Lucky to be in love with my best friend, lucky to be coming home again, whatever, however it goes. Jason Mraz at least was on Dancing

with the Stars last year and he had some cool hats. Talk about staying relevant. Colby Kelly, I don't even... she had that song Bubbly in like 2007 or something and then I think she had a second album that did okay and then she had that song with Jason Mraz, Lucky. And I don't know what she's been up to. At least, what's her name? Girl Put Your Records On, Corin Bailey Ray is staying somewhat relevant.

We saw her at Grant Park, Millennium Park actually, last summer. But Colby, I haven't seen Colby on the docket for the Millennium Park summer concert series So if Colby's out there, I know she's in a rut or what but this is your wake-up call that you know The fans are demanding a new album Even okay go they're putting out their first album in ten years next month, so Colby's got some explaining to do. And finally,

our trivia question of the week here. Kind of random, but I stumbled upon this fact and thought it was highly interesting. The pretext to this is that there was actually a larger bill at one time. No, we're not talking Psyduck, Golduck, or Ducks in general, Pokemon heads, we're talking units of currency. There was a larger bill, a hundred thousand dollar bill actually, that used to exist but it was never in circulation, it was just used like internally for the federal reserve or something. And the person on the $100,000 bill was Woodrow Wilson, I believe it was.

So here's the actual question. The US $10,000 bill was last printed in 1945 and is the largest denomination of US currency ever printed. Excuse me, my question to you is who is Mug, M-U-G, whose mug was on the $10,000 bill? And the answer, your first hint, is that you got to really lean more into the Alexander Hamilton side of things, if you will, than the traditional George Washington, Abe Lincoln, you know, Andrew Jackson side of things. So it is not a president is your clue. It's timely to the year-ish 1945. I don't know the exact years that this person was hanging around.

If you want additional clues, this person's name is still highly relevant when you think of modern banking. And let's see, their first name is a fish, which is pretty cool. It's not bluegill. It's not Billy Largemouth Bassill, it's not billy largemouth bass, and it's not sturgeon, nor is it gar. G-A-R. That was the answer in one of the answers in the crossword puzzle today. Gar. If you want any more time to formulate a guess, go ahead, but I'm going to reveal the answer now the person who was featured on the $10,000 bill last printed in 1945 was Salmon P. Chase who was Secretary of the

Treasury which is why I said you got to lean more into the Hamilton side of things. So that's what we had for you today a little bit all over the place but give me a break I put on a two-hour show two and a half hour show for you all last week we'll be back next week in just a couple days here their birthday podcast St. Patrick's Day podcast maybe maybe some interesting new tidbits about the fugitive when we watch it for the 30th time or wherever we're at this year but that's what I had for you guys today thank you for listening thank you for tuning in and supporting the show. Happy March, happy daylight savings time. Let's get our outro music loaded here on the phone. That would be good. And email us with

your opinions on sub shop quality. For all of us here at bean town podcast.com and bean town networks. My name is Quinn David furnace. This is my show. Quinn David furnace presents the bean town podcast. I will go ahead or stay safe, stay sane. I'll check in on you guys next time. Take care. Bye bye. So so so so Thank you.