Beantown Podcast - Season 8 Recap

Episode Date: January 3, 2026

Quinn comes to you LIVE to chat about Wicked 2 4 Good, the NATO Alphabet, and meticulous grooming

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for the season finale of season eight, year eight of the show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast. It is Friday, January 2nd, 2026. The first time I said that out loud, I think.

What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn, and this is my program. We are so delighted that you are joining us to cap off a historic season eight of Quindadey Furness presents the Bean Town podcast. It's historic because it happened. It's history. And this is the last you'll be hearing from me in season eight until season nine premieres next week.

for almost MLK Day special. I think it's another two weeks to MLK Day. It's the third Monday of February, or that doesn't make any sense of January. So I guess we've got three more weeks here. But you got MLK Day. Then all of a sudden, boom, Winter Olympics, Milan, 2026, baby.

Also the same day as the great event, which is a fantastic Catholic school charity event that I like to have. attend year after year missed out on it this past year 11 months ago dog sitting maple so gonna be back with a vengeance this year going to figure out a dog sitting situation and go from there but my name is Quinn and I am the creator the host and your bartender here pouring you a champagne flute although did not have any champagne personally when the ball dropped two nights ago It was one of those things, at least for me, you know, a bunch of families together, we're in the basement, we're watching the TV stream, and we're not super organized, you know, everyone's just kind of doing their own thing. I think for the most part, people had kind of stopped drinking around like 10, 30, 11, because a lot of us are getting to the age where, you know, it's just, I got stuff to do the next morning. In this case, I didn't really, yesterday, New Year's Day, I pretty much did absolutely nothing.

and, you know, last year I was at a bar with a bottomless drink package until like 1 a.m. So don't throw stones in glass houses, I think, is what that means. But I'm getting old. I'm feeling it. And so never even, you know, broke into the champagne. It just kind of was there. And it's kind of like if you go to, you know, the Super Bowl or the Stanley Cup or something or the World Series and it's game seven. And both teams bring their own supply of champagne and then only one of them gets to tap into it and the rest of it.

I don't know. I think they send that to kids in Africa because it never gets open. That was kind of like our New Year's Eve. Not that it was a lame party or anything. I did tap into the fireball. I got to tell you this. I feel a little bit bamboozled and not actually. I don't have a strong opinion on this.

But I went to, you know, I was at my in-law's house for my. much of, you know, the past, almost past, I guess a week and a half. And I'm going to Binnie's, like two days before Christmas, Festivist, something like that. And, you know, I'm picking up some stuff for myself. It is dry January, by the way. I'll mention I'm drinking a Trader Joe's sparkling water. Mmm, raspberry lime. And I should also mention, as always, eight years in, listen to discretion advice when you're listening to the Beantown podcast.

Somewhere on locationing some language number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. So I'm going to binnies. I get some stuff for myself, get some, you know, gifts for other people, some wine, some beers for, you know, sisters, boyfriends and stuff like that. All good stuff. And as I'm on the way out the door from the peanut gallery, I don't even remember whose bright idea it was, no shade to them, but a little bit of shade because they're like, oh, you know, get a thing of fireball. And when I say a thing, I mean, like it was like a, it's like a, it's like a can. cane that had been we had seen you know this candy cane at a house party the weekend before where it's just like this giant plastic tube in the shape of a candy cane it's filled with fireball right not not the actual liquid but these tiny little what do you call them shooters i don't know how many ounces or liters or milligrams or gallons or anything that is but you know it's it's tiny it's like what 50 milliliters 100 millimeter something like that so it's the last second addition to the list as I'm out the door to go to Binney's Beverage Depot, which is if you're not

local, the Chicago land, it's the biggest liquor chain here in the Chicagoland area. So I go, they don't have any candy canes, but they do have the leftover Halloween party buckets. Hello. And there's 50 of these bottles in this party bucket. And it's like, all right, let's fire it up. You know, it's not the candy cane, but it's still festive. So I get the party bucket for Grandma's house on Christmas day that's the plan it's like all right bring the party bucket you're supposed to fill it up with ice that way anyone can just reach in grab a shooter have a great time dinner drinks dancing we've got it all at grandma's house and i i imbibed i wouldn't i wouldn't say too much but i got my fair share not of the uh the fireball but just generally of drinking i think what it was is once the boxed wine

came on christmas day that's when it was really just like oh man you you let your inhibitions go and it's you know that stuff is it flows very smoothly jesus knew what he was doing the wedding at cana you know i don't think they specify in the book of mark or wherever cana happens probably a matthew or john no one ever talks about mark or luke i think we talked about that two or three weeks ago on this very program but uh jesus was definitely doing the the water into red wine right It's just, and unless I feel like I'm in the mood for red wine, 75% of the time. There's a very small percent of the time where white wine is scratching my itch. No offense to those white winers out there.

My mother-in-law is a big whiner, white specifically. Not so much, not really like a white supremacy thing, just more like a white preference, I would say. But to cap this thought off, to finish the thought, because we got stuff to get to and then I got to cook supper. like a it's uh kind of like a it's i'm excited actually something i've never done before the vision was like a rigatoni bacon tomato paste chicken broth cream kind of action with a side salad the trader joes was out of rigatoni so i went with penny what is that in uh lost at the end of like season three or something the uh the guy with the long hair who was living in the hat he holds his hand up as he's drowning.

Spoilers ahead to the Hobbit guy. And on his hand, he writes in Sharpie. He says, No, Penae's Boat. I don't think he really talks like that. But I do think he's got a, what's his name is? Like Hamilton or something in the show, I can't remember. Lost was a show I only watched once,

but I had some lost flashbacks this past week, past two weeks when we were watching Stradner Things Season 5 because I got the extreme sense. just like in loss with j jabrams in the writing room there was no way throughout the five seasons of stranger things that there was a coherent vision storyline for five seasons of this show when they started out in season one right because each season just twists and turns things they don't get answered from previous seasons introducing things they don't make sense based off a previous world building season five was absolutely guilty of that Not to mention, where do those demigorgans go? Season one, the main villain is a demigorgon, right? The cool guy with the plant head, and then all of a sudden, the final battle in season five, it's just Vecna and this spider dude, and it's like,

I thought the main bad guys were these demigorgans. Where did they go? It's about the extent I want to get into on stranger things here, because I got a fireball story to finish. So, you know, in my, you know, we got the bucket out in the garage to keep cold. and so I grab one and I have it as I'm watching the Vikings game pretty toasted feeling good it's a good time everyone's having a good time but I'm the only one who has a fireball shooter in the moment and we get back and there's 49 shooters left it's like okay well let's fire up

the bucket for New Year's Eve go to Jewel that day we ran out of ground chicken as often will happen one cooking around the holidays. I'm like, okay, I'm already here. Let me pick up some ginger ale. This will be good. Brand name, by the way. Canada dry or the other one? I can't remember. Schwaps. What is it? Shweps? That's almost the name of the Will kid from Stranger Things. Noah Schweps, right? So I'm like, okay, this will go good with the fireball. So I have one more fireball shooter on New Year's Eve. And no one else imbibes. I should have put, I should have brought the bucket in and whomp right in the center of the table in the middle of the poker game that would have really got the crowd going so now it's dry January January 2nd here

the bucket's still at my in-laws and I guess at this point we're looking ahead mark your calendars for like a good Friday could be the next good opportunity to tap into the bucket where I will be the only one to imbibe you're welcome Jesus and we'll be down to 47 shooters at that point and then as I'm just perusing the calendar here Juneteenth is an obvious kind of mark your calendar to celebrate freedom that'll get us down to 46 but no it's the reason

well I was going to say I'm chapped about it in all honesty I don't care I don't give a crap at all but it's just like you know you spend 20 bucks or whatever on this bucket because he want to get crazy with other people and I'm the only one over here getting crazy so I don't know if my sister-in-law if she discovered

is that the bucket's still there. Maybe she's going to go nuts. I think the kicker and the thing I'll end on here is I don't even really like Fireball that much. I don't know if I mentioned this. I mixed it with the ginger ale, the Shweps. That's why I got the ginger ale on New Year's Eve. But it's going to, we're going to need to have some serious pool party action.

Because I think my thing with Fireball is it's never going to be the first or second drink I go for. It's one of those things where it's like, okay, I had two beers or mixed drinks or whatever. or Monaco's that's what my father-in-law likes extremely strong and you're in the pool you're hanging out you're in dehydrated and you're like time to make a bad decision so I think that's what's tough about it because by the time you want to tap into the bucket it's you know you probably only got one or two left in you so we'll get there slowly but surely maybe we'll just

stretch it out stretch out the bucket until next Halloween or next Christmas whenever they bring the buckets back but if anyone I'm not going to to give up my in-laws address live on air that would that's not my place literally but if anyone is out there you know walking around the southwest suburbs you're like man i could really go for a hit a fireball shooter to be specific i know a place that'll hook you up a garage so just text me off to the side and we'll get you connected what is going on here it's our season eight end of year show recap I always like to give a very quick verbal nod to, well, first a nod, of course, to our good friends in Pakistan. Thank you for making us a 112-th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic.

That's like, I think I was doing my guy from Lost accent. I can't remember what his character's name is. Dennis? It's not Dennis. This is one of those where we got to go look it up, right? it's the guy who says not penny's boat or was that uh was it uh i think i got my characters backward was that the hobbit guy who wrote on his hand that it wasn't penny's boat not penny's boat meaning oh yeah the uh it was the hobbit guy who wrote it charlie as he's drowning and he shows

it to the guy who was married to penny something like that okay but i just want to know what this guy's name is sorry for uh from all all of you five minutes ago and i made that reference and you're like when you got it backwards but here's the thing if you just stick with the bean town podcast i'll get you the truth i really just wanted to see what this character's name was because now it's bugging me daniel faraday no that's that's the guy uh that's the guy who plays uh the guy from justified we really got a slowdown in the action here while i'm looking at up the other people uh group i wanted to thank just all of you beanheads out there for supporting our show over the course of eight seasons we started this program in a studio apartment in baltimore

a k bean town hence the name in uh it's like january 13th 2018 i think was our first episode so next week at some point uh we'll be hitting i guess in like 10 days we'll be hitting the eight year mark of the show hence the completion of season eight and we will be launching ourselves into season nine of the beating town podcast desmond hume by the way desmond that's his name he's married to this lady named penny and she comes to rescue him but it's not penny's boat hence what hobbit dude who is that mary from lord of the rings dominic monahan something like that michel's husband i don't think that's right writes it on his sharpie and then he dies and that's the end of that and his band never makes it big what's it called

drive shaft you all everybody you all everybody it's a straight rip-off of uh oasis rock and roll star classic going with I wanted to say thank oh I I want to give a verbal nod two things we thanked two groups of people and I got two verbal nods one to myself one to someone who's very close to me one I like to always think back to December of 2018 of the tail end of our first season I rented an Airbnb which ended up being this guy's basement and the power went out and it was really all and all like a bad experiences. It was in western Virginia, not West Virginia, but only like a mile away from West Virginia. Anyways, while I was there, I painstakingly edited an entire year's worth of Beantown podcast into a compilation of Best of, and I think it was like four hours, so which kind of defeats

a purpose. But I just like, that was like the most creative editing thing. I'm not a editor or anything like that. So that was the extent of my powers. It took a long time to do. But the year one recap, the longest official standalone episode of Quinn David Furnst presents the Beantown podcast. It's legitimately like four hours. And I spent New Year's Eve there. I don't even remember like what happened at midnight. I think I was just like in this basement. It was weird because the power was out and I had like one outlet left.

And it was really cold. I just had this weird space heater. And man, it was a bad Airbnb, all things considered. And I don't even know if I, like, stayed up until midnight. I don't really recall that very well. But the other, let's move past it so we can keep going here. The other verbal nod I want to give is to my wife, Rachie Baby 95 at hotmail.com,

because, one, just a general verbal nod, but two, in her second year ever playing fantasy football, Rachi Baby, aka the Real Housewives of the Red Zone, has taken home the trophy and a narrow margin of victory over my sister-in-law, Amanda, who had a hell of a season as well. Congratulations to both ladies, but in particular, my wife, Rachel, queen of the voodoo lounge, and the best part, we don't even have to move the trophy. It can still just sit right here on the TV stand next to the TV,

looking at it right now, and, man, if I had to drive back to the suburbs with that thing to give to someone else, I was going to be crabby. So, congratulations to Rachel. It took me, let's see, not to make this about me, but, I mean, when I played fantasy football, it took me until like my, I don't know, like my 10th year, something like that, until I, or maybe like 11th or 12th year,

until I actually won one. So Rachel, knocking it out in season two of year two of playing. So congratulations. We have some classic season eight statement, for you as we wrap up the year, and I haven't fully decided what we want to do with season nine as we get started with the new year, but I, you know, I know we've already announced Maple's Minute is going to be, it's not going to be a permanent fixture. It was just a season-long thing, as many of our quirks and gimmicks tend to be.

Remember like palindrome of the day, for example. Trivia is definitely sticking around because that's something I enjoy. We'll see about the hot take. I don't know. I feel like my takes lately I've gotten kind of tepid. But we've got all of that plus some New Year's resolutions coming to. After we give a thank you to our sponsors, starting with our good friends at home prior to Oregon.

Excuse me. I think that this would be nice to send out season eight on the right foot to actually go ahead and give our sponsors the proper attention they deserve as soon as I can find it in my Google Docs page. one of these days I'm actually going to convert the Google Doc into just an iPhone note app because that's where I keep everything else with the podcast but I will say I'll give myself a quick tip of the cap

and then we'll do a quick of the tap to Quick of the tap tip of the cap to Home Pride Oregon and our restaurant sponsors I did update the website today because I came out with our season 9 season photo and then I also went in and I deleted a page on my website, the podcast page, which I don't think many of you have been there. But back in the day, like the first two years of the Bean Town podcast, I had a page, not the

homepage. It was the secondary page titled podcasts. You could get to from the menu at the top. And for the first, I don't know, 80 episodes or so of the podcast, I went in every week and added the podcast there and like did a little recap of what it was. And I just, couldn't, you know, I couldn't figure out how to do it automatically. And so doing it every week was just a pain in the butt. And I was just like, no one's going to the website of a podcast to access the podcast. They just go to their podcast feed on Stitcher, Castbox, Player FM, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever. So I gave up on it. But for literally the last six years, that page has just been sitting there. And the most like recent podcast on there is from like, I don't know, October 2019 or something.

And so today I was like, F this, we're just getting rid of it. So the podcast website, Beantownpodcast.com, is a much sleeker, shinier look to it. You can go check it out anytime you like. I'll also mention here before we say thank you to our sponsors. It is dry January, which means that Quinn is back on the Edibles game. I'm not really like an Edibles guy. Just generally speaking, I was going to say I've experimented quite a bit. That's not true at all.

I've bought edibles like five times in my life. But I'm on a five milligram edible right now. And we're just going to see where the night takes us. We're just going to have fun with it, see how it goes. But let's say thank you to our sponsors, of course, starting with our good friends. At Home Pride, Oregon, are you tired of selling your house for less than a quarter of what it's worth? All because you couldn't find a reliable home inspector in time. Well, Oregon listeners, there's good news.

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you're turning water into wine or spies in Jericho. That was a jeopardy question the other day. Here is my deal. Joshua's sending spies in a Jericho. okay and a couple things one how did spies work back then because there's no phones there's no radios they'll carry your pigeons well maybe they had carrier pigeons but when i think about a spy i'm thinking like okay you're sneaking in you got the cool little like lapel mic or something that you like kind of hunch and lean into and you're like oh they've got troops here or you know hey the red

wine here is really good maybe jesus was here but when you're a spy in you know 4 000 bc or whatever you sneak in you gather intel and then what you're just like you tell the jericho administration like hey thanks for letting me stay here for 48 hours i'm just going to be on my way and then you go back the way you came i mean jericho are you idiots part two of this why did you even need spies in jericho when all you had to do was go walk around this city seven times, blast the trumpets, and then voila, V-O-I-L-A-exclamation mark, has to have it or else it doesn't count. And then the city just crumbles.

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Again, that's Cuts. Q-U-T-Z by Q at Yahoo.com. All right, for the last time in season 8. sing it with us oh when you need a fresh do some that's nappy or new just call the experts at cuts by cue we got maple over here hi buddy maple hey dude she is lying on her back we take check her pulse oh she's up and she's saying pop it's been so long since i got to be on the show i got a lot to share interview with the dog season eight finale here we go live nothing a little bit of a huff that was about it uh but we got maples minute here and uh this is the last

maple this is your last maple's minute consistently well definitely you know this isn't just you know saying hey your segment sucked it's cut this is more of just uh we don't need to force it right it's going to be more organic much like this week i got nothing special other than to just say thank you to Maple for a hell of a year. It was a lot of fun getting to produce your segment week in and week out. And it's 2026 going back to work next week. Maple's going back to work, napping on the couch, snoozing in the kennel, helping mom be a project manager.

So you know what, Maple, we're all going back to the grind. And if we keep our heads down and just keep chipping away at work. there's going to be more Maple's minutes in the future. So thanks for a good year, season 8th, a year of maple, and we'll do a belly rub later to celebrate, okay? No champagne, it's dry of January, but maybe you can have one of your CBD treats. Our hot take of the week,

we watched Wicked 2, aka Wicked 4 Good, which I thought was a big missed opportunity. You can't call it Wicked 4 Good because this was only the second one. So if you do, you know, Wicked 1, Wicked 2, Wicked the third and then you can have Wicked four good and frankly I would have liked to see you know the original stage adaptation which is only two hours 45 minutes broken into four movies you know kind of hobatize it H-O-B-B-I-T-I-Z-E I think that would have been a lot of fun

but my more legitimate realistic take is that Wicked 2 did not need to exist you could have gone one to two ways and this isn't the movie's fault this is the musical's fault but to speak solely to the aspect of the movie angle first just make just make wicked one awesome okay not even wicked one just make a really awesome wicked movie i got to tell you and again this isn't the movie's fault this the screenplay's fault from the the musical the second half of this obviously it's lacking in uh in fun musical numbers i mean if you lined up all the musical numbers of the entire Wicked, I think, like, the top five or six are all in the first half. But not only that, the plot of the second half after intermission, Wicked 2, 4 good,

it's just like all plot. There's almost no, like, character development, nothing interesting. There's no good, like, conflict, really. It just gets really dry. I know everyone, like, one, this isn't. news too everyone is like oh yeah the music uh you know the music the good music it's all in the first part but the story of the second part sucks too it's not interesting uh and the other thing i wanted to mention here oh just make you you could have just done one really good movie again

the stage uh adaptation not the adaptation the original wicket on broadway is two hours 45 minutes let's say you want to punch it up a little bit i don't mind sitting through a a three-hour, 30, even four-hour movie, if you give me an intermission. Because just the thing with Wicked 2 for good, visually great, acted pretty well. But at a certain point, I was looking at my watch and, like, there's nothing interesting happening here. I was mostly excited to see, you know, the cowardly line and the Tin Man and Dorothy and the scarecrow. And you get a little bit of tin man action, but you get like one and a half lines from

the cowardly lion. Dorothy doesn't even show her face. I don't know if it was Liza Minnelly or not. Couldn't really tell. And you only see the scarecrow, spoiler alert, in the last scene of the movie. Like, I thought this guy was supposed to get transformed. I want to see the transformation. I want to see the twisters.

Now, we get a little bit of twister. But what I really, my favorite part of the Wizard of Oz is when, what's her name, Maggie Hamilton, she's riding the bike home. And, you know, from the, what's Dorothy's last name? Annie M., Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Hamilton, Dorothy, uh, Dorothy, uh, what was the guy's name from Lost Desmond? Somewhere. Gail, I think, over the rainbow.

Rest and peace, Gail from Breaking Bad. I love when the Wicked Witch, she's riding her bike home, and then her bicycle turns into her broomstick and get the music. So I really wanted some sort of homage with Cynthia Arrivo riding her broomstick through this twist-a. But it didn't happen.

And just, I don't know. Excuse me, the whole thing fell flat. fine film production value but i think my takeaway my final thought on wicked two for good was uh and i'm not really a wicked head or a musical head generally although we'll get to that my new year's resolutions uh the the when you line up the two films i would watch the first one like ten times over before i tap into the second one

there's just nothing uh nothing really that memorable about it i guess jeff goldblum's song was okay wonderful marvelous i can't remember what it's called i would have liked my final final thought i would have liked a really good like jeff golden tap number you know he's got his own song kind of a you know getting closer to the halfway mark of the film and i i don't know if jeff goldblum can tap but he feels like a guy who definitely could tap, doesn't he? I'm thinking like Christopher Walken, Penny's from Heaven, or Christopher Walking in that one music video from like 2001. You guys remember that?

It's like an instrumental song. He's like dancing in the bar and stuff. I would have liked something like that from Goldblum as the Wizard of Oz. Feels like the Wizard of Oz should be able to tap dance really well, doesn't it? So big missed opportunity there. But that was my hot take. Wicked 2 just didn't need to exist. There were ways around it.

Like every year, I made some New Year's resolutions this year, but wanting to get a little bit edgier and really find myself, defy gravity, if you will. There's your idea. So we got Wicked 1. Wicked 2, Wicked 3, we'll come up. Wicked the 3. the third i think that's fun to do it that way uh we'll come up with a two two wicked

bet that's what it could be so it's it's wicked and then it's two two two two wicked then wicked the third and then wicked for good and wicked defiving gravity i can keep doing this i can't think of something to do for six though so let's go on to our new year's resolutions defiving gravity Something has changed within me Everyone deserves a chance to fly Here's my first New Year's resolution Inspired by American Psycho Which you know I finished reading on my honeymoon I think

I think this year I'm going to really groom myself meticulously That's right groom GROOM. We're talking And I'm going to get one of those attachments to your electric razor that gets up with the nose hair. I'm going to individually, no more shaving, if I can get TMI for a second, no more shaving my pubs. We're just plucking them out one by one with a tweezer. Probably do a Brazilian wax, whatever the version of that is for guys. You know, do that, I would say, weekly.

Ear hair, definitely going to, you know, get some scotch tape and just wrap it around my finger, you know, reverse and just go nuts in there. You know, nose pores, those are going to be a thing in the past. I'm going to wear a strip every day. It's going to be gone. I'm sleeping with cucumbers on my eyes. I saw EZMA do that when I was a kid in the Emperor's New Groove. played with great a plum by Eartha Kit and you know definitely going to become a hard body

and probably lose 60 or 70 pounds so that I can be a hard body like Patrick Bateman which brings me to my next one not to make light of this but I think you know I've gained weight over the years I've lost weight over the years what was it 2020 I lost like 75 pounds or something like that it was a lot of fun but it's a lot of work and there are shortcuts out there much unhealthy alternatives and i'm not talking glp ones i need to this year my second resolution in order to help myself become a hard body we're developing some sort of out of control addiction dependency whatever you want to call

it to either alcohol and not you know not craft beer we're talking we're talking about and like vodka and gin or bourbon or smoking cigarettes is something I'm definitely interested in trying because I've never smoked a cigarette before the occasional cigar but let's be real I need something that I can really suck down or I mean a hard drug I've seen a lot of shows about meth and it seems kind of intimidating the first time and then once you get into it that people really seem to enjoy they keep wanting more and again this isn't to uh poke fun there's nothing funny about addiction and i'm not going for laughs i'm just you know it's like what's the fastest thing maybe if i maybe i combine all three i have you know vodka tonics for breakfast like lucile bluth you know

from like 10 a m to 6 p.m and just chain smoking cigarettes and then 6 30 p.m. onwards have a good time I've got to get one of those cool crystal pipes. What do they call it? Paraphernalia. P-A-P-H-R-E-N-A-L-I-A, something like that. There's like a sneaky R in paraphernalia, isn't there? So it's like paraphernalia. I don't know.

That's one of the tougher ones we've ever had to spell. So again, no joke. No joking around, no cap. Just, you know, I'm probably hoving around like 195, probably 200 after the holidays I think I'd like to get down to like 130 you know we're just talking about

American Psycho Christian Bale the machinist you might guys remember that movie Black and White he looks really spooky it's like it's like the Killian Murphy skeleton zombie and the trailer for 28 years later that's kind of what I'm going for so if you have any recommendations

in nowhere I'm not you know we've done the whole Oh, I gained 20 pounds this year. I lost 75 pounds from just good diet, exercise, intermittent fasting. I've gone A to Z through all this stuff. I would be open to GLP ones, but I don't know. Seems expensive. And here's the other thing.

I read from Oprah that she's going to be on GLP ones for the rest of her life because she tried a year without them and she couldn't do it. She gained all the weight back. So I feel like, I don't know, maybe we need. you know probably won't do something that's addicting we you know but something that could really harm my body in a really short period of time is there anything non-addicting like that i don't know i would do the edibles but they just give me the munchies so goes the wrong direction uh let's see oh speaking of wicked uh i would like i think i'll probably see a musical a week i'm not talking like

pulling it up on youtube and you know watching some eighth grade play I think I'm going all out. Flapper-style, you know, tuxedo, I need a really good hat, that's for sure. You know, downtown Chicago, I figure every month we would, you know, we'd fly to Broadway or West End. Maybe we'll alternate New York and London.

Although I'd like to get in on that Peking Opera as well. I was reading this Chinese kids' college essay the other day. They kept talking about the Peking Opera and they got me thinking, I got to check this out. So, yeah, I'll probably, you know, Music Man, Cats, South Pacific, cat on a hot tin roof, which I learned recently is different than Fiddler on the roof. They're not sequels or prequels. One's not a prequel, one's not a sequel.

A little bit confusing. You know, we probably don't need to have roofs in two separate major Broadway musicals. If I could just put that out there. Pygmalion. which is the play that came before my fair lady Eliza Doolittle and the other guy but yeah I'll probably get to see a musical a week

I'm thinking what do you think about that maple means you're going to have to stay home quite a bit I'll bring you back the playbill I always like those playbills the worst is when you're you're halfway through reading the playbill or the concert notes or whatever and then the show starts and they dim the lights and then you're like how the heck am i supposed to read this is dark you guys won't mind if i

use my iPhone flashlight for another five or ten do you you know plays and musicals they never really got the like pre-show trailers like you would get uh you know from nicole kidman when you go see Avatar 3 What if you know I don't know It could just like each Each city

Could have a small troop of people That's right troop T-R-O-U-P-E It's like toupee But troop And they just recreate Some of the great scenes

That you could go see You know You're there to watch Cat on a Hot tin roof And then you know These five Jewish guys With fiddles And I don't know

whatever else happens and fiddler on the roof they come out shingles and they do a little number and it's like well that's the trailer for fiddler on the roof coming to you know next week next week and it's out it's here so come see our show and then nicole kidman does a little guest talk you know whatever there's different ways to do it but that's one of my resolutions uh next cook more with live animals maple cover your ears i'm just going to give a hot take here oh we already gave it uh i'm not talking dogs okay I'm thinking like, you know, you go to the, you know, get a lobster or something, they grab it out of the tank and then they just throw that baby right in the pot

and he just cooks. I don't know. There's definitely like some fish I've seen on YouTube shorts or TikTok or something where people just kind of eat it. There's like pranks where you eat a goldfish, right? But I'm talking like fine dining, fine cuisine, stuff I can do here in my kitchen in Chicago. I don't know if I go to. to the Julesosco. Is there anything I can buy that's alive there? I don't think so. We used to, as a kid though, we'd go to grocery stores that had the lobster tanks.

And I never really thought that much about it, but maybe I should go drive back to Rockford, see if we can still get a lobster straight from the tank. You know, speaking of live animals, where I lived in Rogers Park the second time, season two and three of the show, I used to go walking down Devon. If you go to Devon, if you go to Devon, and oh man what would that be Devon in California something like that you can find there's the shop I don't know if it's still there

but you can buy live chickens it's in little India whatever that intersection is is it Devon and Western let's see but yeah you could walk past there you could buy live poultry and it was just a lot of fun

right Devon and Western that's what it was yeah I think it's right over here here. Chicago Live Poultry, I see it. It's open. It closes 8 p.m. Eat fresh, live better. 7773, 381, 1,000. And let's see. This is from a year ago, so who knows if these prices are intact. A white chicken, XL, $17.99, a young hen, $18 each. Old brown hen, $10. Roaster, not rooster. This is a roaster per the menu. $20 each. A duck is $20. turkey is 65 quail's only seven and you can buy rabbit there 20 i don't want to go too much further in this because the more i talk about and think about the less fun i'm having uh but yeah cooking with live

animals i don't think i'd want to cook with a rabbit or a duck i think i would be you know like a crab give me a crab or a clam or a muscle do they feel things do they have a brain I feel like the Cornish game hen that I could buy at Chicago Poultry, it's got some sort of thoughts going on. Case in point, Mike, the Headless Chicken. There's a story for you to read some other time. A couple other two things I want to memorize here. The NATO alphabet.

Actually, potentially the most out of all these silly New Year's resolutions, I'm joking with you about. potentially the most useful thing and most easily attainable because you only got it. There's 26 words, right? And I already know Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta. What's E? I don't know. G is golf.

F is Foxtrot. H-I-J-K-L-L-M-E. N-O-P I don't remember the other ones I'm just going to name the entire alphabet here But I already got like four or five So it can't be that hard right What do you think Z is is it Zulu I don't know

But it seems like they'd be a lot of fun It'd be a lot easier to like I don't know Talking code to people When I'm cooking live crabs with my wife I'll say you know Hand me that crab Charlie Roger Delta Bravo and she'd say, are you having a stroke?

I'm just going to say laughing. That's not it. Extras, is that the name of the Ricky Trevea show? Oh, hey. Excuse me. Are we having a laugh? Never really seen extras. It's just clips of it on YouTube, but it seems like a real jolly good time.

The other thing I want to memorize is really going to help me with Jeopardy because I swear every other goddamn episode there's a clue about some guy from the 14th century and it's always James I first or Edward II or William of Orange I'm going to memorize the kings of England going all the way back to

Charlemagne or Julius Caesar whoever was the first king of England I don't know we got Charles II right now I got that and Elizabeth the second before that so that covers my last 150 years and Victoria was sometime in the

19th century I think So I got most of them down Got a couple left But I'm going to memorize the Kings of England Two more I'm going to do a lot more sports betting Finally today I was in the shower Doing a Cutsby Cube Listen into my Chicago Sports Podcast

And I get yet another Because it's about every three to five minutes at this point I get another advertisement for my bookie And this is on top of advertisements for Fandul An Underdog And Draft King's Sports and Caesar's sports book and bar tool barstool Bella Bartok sports book a bar talk sports book now for the Hungarians in your life and I said you know what up until I heard the ad today on

the podcast I was kind of on the fence about sports betting now that I've heard the five million sports betting advertisement in the last two days I think I'm just going to dedicate this year to just betting it all. You know, I'm going to do a $5 million bet back bonus token guarantee, $200 or cashing your deposit back, you know, they're going to match my $5 bet, another $5,000 where you get your money back, a no risk, low hassle bet, free parlays, same game parlays, over, unders, props, player props live in-game betting

second chance token back guarantees and money lines I'm going to do all of it in 2026 so if you're expecting Christmas presents don't because I won't have any money unless I take advantage of the $3,000 bet back token back guarantee

only at I don't know hard rock cafe does a hard rock casino have their own like gambling platform i don't know can't keep track i think even progressive insurance is getting in on it now the last thing i want to do my last new year's resolution uh going to lead a seance i already got like five million candles in here so probably just lead a seance as well those are my resolutions grew myself more meticulously some sort of pillet dependency or addiction, see a musical a week, cook more with live animals, memorize the Kings of England and the NATO alphabet, do a lot more sports betting and lead a seance.

There you go. I don't know if that was 10 or not. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Close enough. Let's wrap up here because I got a maple's got to eat. I've got to cook. You're not just walking across the street and ordering a pizza. I got to get the pasta just right.

I got to chop up the onion, the garlic, the bacon. I got work to do over in this kitchen. So let's finish up with our trivia question. It's very simple here. I don't remember, oh, this came up. We were watching this new Netflix show, or Peacock, Hulu. Who knows? But it's got, what's her name?

Not Julia Stiles. It's got Matthew Reese, the guy from the American. Americans, the Welsh guy, Claire Danes, that's who it was. And they're at a restaurant and he gets the Brandino, which I, when I'm listening to this, I'm like, okay, it's like a little Italian fish or something. Excuse me, where it's like the Italian name for Bass, I think. This is a sensualant brandzino. And she orders, or he orders for her, but spoilers, the chicken Pomodoro.

And that instantly, my curiosity antenna went up because I was like, you know, I've heard that before, but I have no idea what Pomodoro is. look it up, read through the recipe. It's pretty classic, pretty elegant, pretty simple, very rustic. But that developed a very quick and easy, much like a Pomodoro. A trivia question for you guys. So Pomodora, I'll tell you it is Italian. You tell me what does Pomodoro mean in Italian? A very simple question. No bonus back bet guarantee points. Just a question. What What is Pomodoro mean? I give you five more seconds.

If you want to pause to really narrow down your options because this is the last thing of season eight here, you can. But I will tell you right now, I'm not making, well, I'm not making a chicken Pomodora tonight, but there is going to be a red sauce, so pretty close. But if you're curious, Pomodoro is tomato in Italian. That's what it is. well kicking my feet up on the coffee table here not actually because i don't want to break it

but uh season eight end of an era specifically season eight that was the era that's what i got for you guys i know i don't have any big uh you know bob barker you know spay and neuter your pets or anything no grand takeaways just you know a final thanks to everyone for listening to the show show whether season eight was your first year or whether you've been with us as an OG since the beginning 420 episodes ago or wherever i don't know when exactly episode 420 is i think it's still maybe a month or two away but we'll have to get really high for that or maybe i'll have you know my pill addiction going by then i don't know which pills specifically

but we'll get we'll get there we'll figure it out i'm a creative guy right i get paid to do these things maybe i don't even need a pill addiction i just if the seance goes wrong i think every time uh alphaba tries to cast a spell and wicked two four good it wouldn't make sense if it was wicked four too good but it could right we scrapped the whole four good thing what if they made three you know solid wickeds and then wicked four was too good it's too good all right that's my My name is Quinn David Furness. Thank you for supporting my show across eight years. We will be here next week, as always.

Samson, Maple, Sparkling Water, the whole cast and crew will be ripping and roaring for our season nine premiere happening next weekend. Until then, I hope everyone stay safe, stay sane. After eight years and counting, I'll check in on you next time. Bye-bye. And I was still.

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