Beantown Podcast - SNL Hot Takes, Feathers McGraw's Return, and Buschtona (02212025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to recap this year's Daytona 500, run through some Oscar nominations, and quiz you on some 2007 films

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show Quinn David Furness Presents the Beantown Podcast for Friday, February 21 2025, season eight of Quinn David Furness Presents the Beantown Podcast. And right, right when I hit record and I hit the play on the entertainer on my phone, my tongue brushes up against my bottom wire and realize I got a little piece of apple in there had a nice delicious apple from Trader Joe's about half an hour ago and dang nab it isn't that just that's we got I think we've done a pet peeves power ranking in the past at least once I think it maybe not

though I have to go back to be a good idea for a future episode but one of my personal pet peeves 29 years and well like 50 weeks on this earth and counting just anything stuck in your teeth I don't care if it's a corn kernel or an apple piece or sometimes there's a I don't know it's it's maybe it's like I was gonna say rosemary but that's too big but just like a tiny little almost like a you know not a needle obviously but just like a tiny little miniature needle essentially stuck in your A1s and your A2s. I don't know what are your back molars called. I have no idea. But the worst is when you're out in public or something and there's just no appropriate way to dig

something out of your teeth. You can try to do like a quick pass, you know, try to cover your mouth, maybe do a cough or something, you know, just create a little bit of a diversion. But if you got to go back to that well three or four times, you're toast, which I'm guilty of even as an adult. If it's really bothering me, I'm not afraid to like, make multiple passes, I'm probably fooling no one, but just such a pain in the butt, you got no floss or you're live on the air

of an award-winning podcast or whatever the situation is, you're stuck with it. So we're gonna try to move past it and not dwell upon it. I am the creator, director, and chief DDS. What is that? Dental doctor of sweetness? I don't know. When you're a dentist, you're always DDS.

Dentistry? Dentistry? Dendrites? Talking nerves here. And listener discretion, as always, advised when you are listening to Quinn David Furnish Presents presents the Beantown podcasts Number one will occasionally some language number two this podcast is objectively

Terrible welcome to week two of just Quinn and co-host maple hanging out here on the couch while mom's in South America It's been a good a good week, I suppose We'll start there with Maples minute. Last week had to do with RFK Jr. This week Dad sleeps in way too much. Oh man when Mom's here, 6.45, start whining, jumping on the bed with your little paws, tapping the kneecaps. When Dad's here, you start whining, he rolls over and tells you to hit the bricks pal and beat it because you are going out Name the movie for two extra trivia bonus cool points this week Email us being town podcast at yahoo.com. That's of course

Glen Gary Glen Ross of which they're they're throwing it back on Broadway pretty soon here. I don't remember the full They're throwing it back on Broadway pretty soon here. I don't remember the full Bopped myself in the chin with Samson q2u series. Let's let's check it out I was just gonna say I don't remember the full cast but it's it's Bill Burr Which is you know exciting. I don't know if he's ever done Broadway before this might be a brand new thing for him and then Trying to remember who plays the main character. We'll just find out right now. Oh, it's Bob Odenkirk. That's right. Well, he's not even the main guy. I think Kieran Culkin is. Here's the cast list for, let's see, Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross, premiering on Broadway or revival, whatever, March 10th, 2025. We are just two weeks and change away from that. That's pretty exciting. Kieran Culkin is Richard Roma.

I think that's Pacino's character, but I don't know for sure. I can't keep track of it. Bob Odenkirk is Shelley Levine. That's got to be Jack, Jack Lemmon's character. Shelley, that's a good fit, right? Bill Burr is Dave Moss. I don't remember. Is that Ed Harris? Not sure.

And then we got Michael McKean is George Ayr now? I think that's...is that the really old...I'm getting it mixed up with Jack Levin. I haven't seen Glenn Gary Ross in probably a decade. And apparently Alec Baldwin's character is not even in the play. So that's a bummer. But yeah, those four guys, Michael McKean, Bill Burr, Bob Odenkirk, and Kieran Culkin, that's a hell of a cast he got going on there. I would love to see that if I was in New York, but alas. I wonder if Pakistan has any Broadway shows.

I wonder if Pakistan has ever put on a production of Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross. I don't know how, or maybe they do a stage version of Zero Dark 30, because they already got the backdrop going for it. Did we find Bin Laden in Afghanistan or Pakistan? I think it was Pakistan, right? I actually have no idea. I don't know. It's been like an hour since I took an edible and it's not hitting me yet, but I will

say I sat down on the couch and to get prepared for the show and on three different occasions I tapped a different app in an attempt to open up Google Drive before I finally ran in a Google Drive. So maybe it's a fast acting one today. But they're fast acting out in Pakistan, I'll tell you that much. Thank you Hyderabad, Karachi Pass, Indus River Delta, just sort of the whole floodplain for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the great Islamic Republic of Pakistan. I haven't really heard Trump talk too

much about Pakistan so I let's see like first term the big countries that were involved North Korea. He's doing a lot with Kim Jong-un. That's the younger one, right? Haiti, he called the shithole country. That was a big headline. Got to Ukraine, obviously, eventually. That was the first impeachment. A perfect phone call. I don't remember who else.

Probably Germany. Feel like Angela Merkel. Probably Angela Merkel. Tough one to say. Probably really hated him. But now, second term we got a whole new oh and he was really he was supposed to be really tough on Russia. But that we kind of flip flopped that then term two. It's like we got a whole new cast of characters. Now he's all in on Russia are all in on Ukraine. Completely in step with Russia. So a little changing of the guard there, never

before seen. Since at least Nicholas II, I would say. Tsar. T-S-A-R. Rest in peace, big fella. Trump's really pissing off Canada. That's exciting. They booed our national anthem a week ago. The four nations tournament in Montreal, which was just fun to see that. Let's see. I feel like I'm missing something obvious, a big Trump enemy right now, but the state of Maine, I guess. JB Pritzker, Blagojevich is a big ally now. It's like World War I, right? You got some of the same players, Germany still hanging around, and Italy. But then you get to 1939, and all of a sudden you throw Japan into the mix. And it's just a great concoction.

You never know what is going to happen. We are actually sipping, if you can believe it, on something other than water, sparkling water, or tea today. That's right, for the second time this year, we're what, 50, 52 days into 2025. I got myself a drink. This is my first Dunkin' Donuts of the year. My second paid out of the home coffee I've had. I got, excuse me, went to my favorite little I've had. I got, excuse me, went to my favorite little red-eyes cafe, locally owned, Mrs. Kwan as I call her, is the only lady, only person working I've ever seen in there. I think she works like the whole seven days a week, no off days. I don't, I don't, she's

got a nice setup in the back there with a couch and TV. I don't know if she sleeps in there or if she lives in the apartment above or what the situation is, but that's my go-to spot. It's just a quarter mile north of here. But today I went to Dunkin' Donuts. Of course I had to try the Sabrina Carpenter brown shaken sugar espresso. And I'll say that, I mean, it's solid.

I don't have any issues with it. A little bit too sweet. Shoulda not done the three brown sugar syrups. That's way too much for a medium. So it is definitely too sweet. But the brown sugar shaken oatmeal blast, Frappuccino I think it's called from Starbucks, is probably my favorite drink.

So, it's a pretty close. Surprised it took Dunkin' this long for them to come up with it Which speaking of I I was on top of this year My birthday is in less than a month now And I know with Starbucks the thing is like you need to have had the app or be assigned in member For more than a month, but part two of that is you have to make at least one purchase in

But part two of that is you have to make at least one purchase in like the year before your birthday, the year leading up to your birthday to be eligible for the free birthday drink at Starbucks. So I had to make a gut call. Do I want to go buy a $8 coffee just so I can get a free one on my birthday or am I just going to say we're not having any coffee at all? Now or on my birthday and I opted for no coffee at all so there will be no free drink from Starbucks this year I was looking around I was I was poking around when I was doing that trying to see like are there good fast food offerings or any sort of freebies around here that can take advantage of on my birthday and just we've really lost the plot. You don't even get a free drink at Dunkin. You only get a free drink at Starbucks if you're already paying them big, big buckos. I think Baskin Robbins was like 10% off. It's

like, all right, we're done here. Major bummer. Maybe I'll just go out on the street and panhandle for cash. Hold up my license. Like the Nickelback guy. Start up. Look at this photograph. Every time I do it makes me laugh. Maple just gave me the major side eye.

I don't think she's a big Nickelback fan. I don't know the name a big Nickelback fan. I don't know the name of anyone in Nickelback, but you have to imagine there's a Chad in there, right? Someone's gotta be named Chad. Our hot take of the week, so SNL 50, in case you're 12 minutes in and you're wondering, where is this podcast gonna land? Not much of anywhere. I never want to call my own work a filler episode, but we've got a commitment to you,

all the fans. And some days I come in hot and some days I come in tepid. T-E-P-I-D. And I'm just, I'm like Jane Goffette, Timur Morrison and Attack of the Clones, Star Wars 2. I'm just a man trying to make his way in the universe. That's me and Maple in the Bean Tom podcast. So just giving you what I got, okay? Laying it all on the line for you. I got notes. I got things we're going to cover.

There's a trivia question, all that good stuff, but I'm just doing my best. I will take the time to mention then we get to the hot take but before I forget before this edible kicks in even higher. Our one week from today it's our Bean Tom podcast pledge drive telethon special. The website is up go fund me you just go to our homepage beanthompodcast.com scroll down there go to the go fund me to You just go to our homepage, bintompodcast.com. Scroll down there. Go to the, go fund me to donate. And check out our DonorTiers. Brand new listener

thank you gift this year for the Topaz Elite Club. So that's very exciting. You're going to want to check that out. But then the telethon itself, almost exactly one week from right now, it's 420pm that's appropriate.ze it there will be edibles there'll be music I suppose dance I don't know this will be the first telethon pledge drive fundraiser will have had from this apartment but it's it's the eighth annual 7 p.m. got lots of

invited guests we'll see if anyone swings by other than just me and Maple. But as always, you can call into the show to play some games. We got to write some games for this year. And we'll have a live stream on YouTube. Last year was a real pain in the behind. Three different streams. YouTube just decided, you've streamed enough. you know, you'll be done after 42 minutes or 17 minutes. And so trying to do the tech stuff on the fly, it's already challenging enough just recording it and getting it right. And then when you enter in the phone number

or the phone handling, that's tough too. If you throw in a downed live stream, it just too many cooks in the kitchen as we would say. And it makes it tough. But similar to years prior, we'll have fun. We'll have games, comedy, laughs, telethons, our Fisher Price phone if I can dig it out and find where it is. So tune in 7 p.m.

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limited time only. Our hot take of the week. So to finish this thought that we introduced five minutes ago, SNL big 50th anniversary show was last Sunday night, during and after the Daytona 500, which we'll mention in a second here. But pretty fun across the board, great time, you know, it don't need to like do a full rundown or anything. And I haven't had I chose that over White Lotus and I haven't even seen it White Lotus yet. So it got a lot of catching up to do. But I liked pretty much everything they did it at SNL.

The one thing that is instantly forgettable for me, and it just felt so lazy, and it's kind of a hot take. It is the hot take of the week. It's a bummer because one of the versions of this sketch, the infamous one at Disney World with Lindsay Lohan, is one of the greatest SNL sketches of all time. So when they bring back the incomparable Rachel Dratch to play Debbie Downer as like a bartender

and De Niro's there, and I can't remember whom else, but it was just so lazy. I mean, the premise in and of itself doesn't lend to a lot of like creative changes or like out of left field items. But it wasn't just that it was like the same thing you've already seen. The writers literally just recycled multiple of the same jokes. There were at least two or three that were just the exact same lines from like the Disney

World one. There's like the cat AIDS one. And I don't remember, I guess I can't have children or it's official I can't have children. It's just like yeah this is funny but we don't want you to just like do the sketch the exact same way. It would be like if they did more Cowbell and it was just like the exact same song and the exact same outfit it's just kind of like yeah it's a great sketch but we've got it on video we don't't need a 2.0 in a similar vein I Am hopeful that the alien encounter one or Kate McKinnon talks about her nether regions and all that fun stuff I'm hopeful were retired on that it should have been

Retired already because the last time she did it was her farewell. It was like her last episode was really emotional She goes up into the spaceship and that was it this time It was just like back to the old ones. And I think that skits pretty funny, but I think a lot of people like it more than I do. Getting Meryl Streep out was great. That was the first time she's ever been on Saturday Night Live.

But it was missing Gosling. And just, you know, it felt unnecessary. There's many other sketches I would have rather seen. But that's our hot take of the week. Two actually rolled into one. I loved it. Loved pretty much everything about it, but the Kate McKinnon and Rachel Dratch sketches sketch is felt lazy or stuck in the past I guess we'll say for the alien abduction sketch. Okay I mentioned the Daytona 500 and we'll finish that

thought as soon as we of course thank our good friends of the Samsung Q2U series. Those Daytona 500 drivers need God watching over them while they drive. And I feel like I got God watching over to me, watching over me, listening to me, amplifying me here, because I'm holding a deluxe Samson Q2U series, handheld microphone. Whether you're doing a podcast

or you're waving the white flag at Daytona, use the Samson Q2U series. Samson, when God speaks, he uses a Samson. And of course, our good friends at Cuts by Q, you know it's going to be an adventure. After this podcast ends, I'm going to go hop in the shower and shave my beard and stuff. Got a big bridal shower in two days here. Never been to a, never really been to a bridal shower before. I think the closest I got was when I, my old, my old, I was gonna say my oldest cousin,

I guess he's my second oldest cousin, got married at Harvard. And I was staying at a big Airbnb house there. I don't know how many of us were sleeping there. My family plus others, there must have been at least nine or 10 people in that home. But we I was upstairs with my my dad and my brothers in there. The bright this was like the day before the wedding, the bridal shower was happening downstairs. And so it was like, we're supposed to be out of the house, I guess. so we went for a run down to like MIT and back up and then we went and got pizza but it wasn't clear if it was supposed to be the full dinner or not. I

don't remember what ended up happening but I don't think we were there very long. And then we went back to the house but we couldn't be downstairs because that's where the bridal shower is happening so we had to stay upstairs and watch the I think it was the Mavericks and the Heat in the NBA Finals. It was either Mavs Heat or it might have been Spurs Heat. It was the time, I suppose probably 2014 or so, when the Heat went to four straight finals and they won the first and the fourth one, or they lost the first and the fourth one, but they lost the second and the fourth one but they or they they lost the first and the fourth one but they lost the second and third how did those go they beat they beat the let's see the first one they won or no sorry the first one they they

lost one in four they won two and three so they lost to the Mavs first I think it was then they beat Kevin Durant, James Harden, Russell Westbrook, and the Thunder. That must have been my what junior to senior year of high school I think or maybe senior to freshman year I don't know. And then they won again they beat the Spurs, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Janobli. Then the next year is a rematch. And the Spurs beat the heat. Regardless, all this is to say I'm about to hop in the shower to get the, to close, to wrap up the bridal shower thought. Yeah, that's like the closest I've ever come to being at a bridal shower, I think. So I don't know, I guess we're going to play games. I don't know.

I didn't have to plan it. So I am gracious, very thankful to the people who did and the people who are hosting and paying for it, namely my mother-in-law, I think, is the one who footed the bill. Not sure, but thanks, mom. Thanks to all the moms out there, just in case I forget it on Mother's Day. Thank you to all the moms.

So we're going to see how this edible is going and do our best to shave our neck. It's not that big of a deal guys. It's way worse if it's like four glasses of whiskey. One edible, I can handle that. Totally doable. Cutspy Q, when you need a fresh juice, something that's snappy or new call the experts at cuts by queue. All right. So this is already a well documented thing on the bean town blog we've written about this before but the day 2500 never goes on without a hiccup there's always a rain delay always a red flag, literal red flag.

This year was no different. They first moved up the start time an hour to try to avoid the rain. So they start at 1230 PM Central, 1 30 Eastern. They get in 11 laps of racing and then they has to go red for like four hours. It finally comes back at like 5 PM. And for the most, well, it came back for a little bit and then they put under yellow again. It was just, it was a whole thing. We finally get it, get back to going, uh, at like 5 p.m.

Bush light, which is probably one of the worst beers I can imagine, but it is what it is. It serves as a base for those days when you're just like unnecessarily aggressively drunk. If it's like St. Patrick's day or opening day for the Cubs or like first home game or whatever it is or like first first Saturday afternoon game and you're just like man I just gonna drink drink a lot so might as well make it a bush light and make it a boiler maker if you want with some whiskey but that's what bush light is good for otherwise it has no place in society that being said I see bush light on the fox Broadcast or whomever runs it. I think it's Fox still

But they they are they're running a promo where if you tweet out hashtag I don't know number one bush fan or Excuse me Bush, Tona I don't even remember what it is you can go back and check my Twitter at white buns with a Z because you'll see Like the last 20 tweets. I'll say the exact same thing Every time the Daytona 500 Race, there's 200 laps is in a lap ending in one so one 11 21 31 all the way up to 191

You send out a tweet using those two hashtags, and you'll be entered in each time to win sweepstakes For free bush, I don't know a koozie a trip to the production facilities in st Louis I think is where anhyzer bushes I don't know it was it was like a dry fit polo and a six pack or something. I was like, you know what? I'm here. It's just me and Maple hanging out. We're watching Daytona. Sure. Why not? So we did it the first lap and lap 11 and then the race paused for four hours. By the time that baby came back out of that edible was, I was up in the clouds, but I wanted to win the Bush prize, but I was only halfway paying attention to Daytona.

And I think I got in like 75% of the laps I was able to do an entry, it was every 10 laps. But man, that was nerve wracking because the other thing that was tough was the way Twitter works now apparently, you can't send the same tweet twice that's tough to say same tweet twice so you have to like make little adjustments to it so I had it copied and pasted basically what happened I'd be like zoning out I would look up at the TV I see was on you know lapping and zero I was like oh shit I gotta I gotta like fire this up so you go open up your phone you know well you're on an edible

We already already told you it took me four tries just open up Google Drive just now You go to your notes app you copy and paste the message you go to Twitter you paste it in but then you got it Altered a little bit and this just I Would oftentimes be doing that while playing to blast on my tablet So you're just like total mental stimulation overload and By the end of it. I was managing Daytona on one screen and SNL 50 on the other while still trying to tweet So frequently be with one hand and just boy that was tough because it was always like you notice a little bit too late

Like I needed to notice around lap six or seven in the cycle to give myself full time. Plus you're worried that you're watching it delayed stream and it's like how many seconds behind do I really think I am? That's tough too when you're when you're live streaming everything from the web. So tough times. End of the story. Moral of the story did not win any Bush tonic here unfortunately but it always makes you wonder it's like the whole David Dobrik puzzle thing with the QR code from coven where he said that there was a ten thousand dollar top prize but he never actually gave out the top prize so it's just like this guy sucks that's all I'll say about that.

I have been taking advantage of the time home alone, just me and Maple, this week to watch a handful of Oscar-nominated films. We already talked about The Substance. I think I watched that last Saturday night. Since we left you last, I've watched three more Oscar nominated films, including two best picture noms, Anora which is the latest film I watched that I think Sunday night

the latest or no Monday night the latest film by Sean Baker who is I think becoming a little bit more of a household name now but Sean Baker is famous for tangerine which is a great like South Florida movie. The Florida Project I'm pretty sure Sean Baker his most recent one before Enora was called Red Rocket which was good I didn't like it quite as much as Florida Project or or Tangerine but still solid and he's got other movies as well. I think tangerine I think I probably saw Florida Project first and then went back and watched tangerine but he does have movies from before that he has four other films starting in 2000 called Four Letter

Words then Take Out, Prince of Broadway, and Starlet. And then since then he's directed Tangerine, Florida Project, Red Rocket, and Enora. So I haven't seen the first four. I totally should because I love all of his films. And the cinematography on these are just fantastic. But yes, this was Sean's eighth film, I believe. And that was excellent. Mikey Madison, who is not on my radar at all. I don't really know anything about her, but she was nominated for Best Actress and is probably in a two-headed race with Demi Moore.

But if you like films, like if you've ever seen Good Time with Robert Pattinson or Uncut Gems with Sandler or like Prisoners with Gyllenhaal and Jackman. Basically it's a you know two-hour movie where you don't really breathe. That's kind of what Enora was. Enora had some comedic elements though. There was a lot of Russian Americans and some of the henchmen if you will were kind of comical It took me it took I'll say this with the nori if you if you've watched it

You know that you're gonna want subtitles cuz probably about half of the dialogues in Russian And it took me the first 10 15 minutes of this film to realize that I should be understanding what they're saying in Russian the stream I was on just didn't have any subtitles turned on whatsoever And so it wasn't just like not showing me the English. They're supposed to be subtitles for the Russian spoken When you watch the film because like half of the dialogues in Russian you need to know what's going on So that was a little bit of a mind effort for the first 10 minutes Because you're not sure, right? You're like, am I supposed to just be following context clues, facial expressions, that sort of thing,

and then eventually they're just in the car and it's the whole scene. Having a conversation in full-blown Russian, you're like, probably you should understand what's happening. Then I watch Conclave, which I went into fairly skeptical. Basically it's Rafe Fiennes from the English patient in Voldemort. Well, the Pope dies, and so all the Popes get together and their Cardinals get together and then Conclave to elect a new one.

So Rafe Fiennes is kind of the chief Cardinal, the leader of the process, but then it's got Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and I don't know who else. Just really, those are the three main ones. And basically, they try to elect a new pope, and there's like four contenders and Ralph Fiennes keeps stumbling upon dirt on each one of them that he has to investigate. And so it's basically like a political thriller. I went in skeptical because I just feel like I'm kind of over. Popes. I never did see. Didn't Anthony Hopkins play a pope at some point?

What was it called? The Pope? I don't know. I never saw it. But I just kind of like, it's not that interesting to me. I thought this was pretty well done. There was some humor in it. Well edited. And a twist ending that I thought was okay. It needed a little bit more room to breathe I feel like but Whatever it was solid. It's not gonna win best picture. That's okay. And then of course was it Thursday night No, that was last night. Or was it just last night? No, I watched the hockey game last night Wednesday night Wallace and grommet vengeance most foul Wallace and grommet are back This is nominated for best animated

feature it's a big two-headed race against the gentle giant the bad robot whatever it's called the good robot i don't remember but maple was plugged in if you don't know vengeance most foul refers to feathers mcgraw the villain from wallace Gromit 2, The Wrong Trousers, The Jewel Thief, it was a delight, I enjoyed it thoroughly, funny, edgy, hit you right in the soft spot, throwbacks to earlier films, Wallace and Gromit have never been better, let's just put it that way. So Vengeance Most Foul, total five bagger, five bags of popcorn that is. Run, don't walk to your Peacock account to turn that baby on.

And I turned it into a double feature because I watched the other ones are on Prime, Amazon Prime Video. So I watched the wrong trousers and then seamlessly transitioned into Vengeance Most Foul. It's a full two hours plus of Wallace and Gromit, but you get the double, the Feathers McGraw double feature when you want to talk about top movie villains. I mean you got, we just talked about Anthony Hopkins, both as the Pope and as Handel's elector, and then Darth Vader of course, Nurse Ratchet, and then you probably throw in the guy from Marathon Man, the Doctor.

What's the French guy's name? Who's very famous. Who is dead, but he plays the dentist. And then Feathers McGraw would just be, you know, probably round out the top six there. Marathon man. I just watched this movie like three months ago. What is that actor's name? He's very famous. Laurence Olivier. Yeah.

And then last thing I want to mention here before a trivia question just some some new music I've been Perusing lately this week some new some old but okay go first and foremost is they've got an album this year The first one in about what 10 years 11 years They released their first music video off the lead single a stone only rolls downhill I think it's called but it's basically like 64 iPhones go check out I mean they're world famous for their music video so their newest one is out now it's been out about two weeks but since then this week they released two more singles some bangers a good kind of

lo-fi study beats kind of one little sleepy That one's very solid too, but I'm excited. The big bummer is that, okay, Go Doing a Tour, it's their first tour in, gosh, since their last tour, which was when I was in graduate school, so nine years ago, which is crazy, hard to believe, eight, nine years. But their tour stop in Chicago, this time around is the same day as my rehearsal dinner for my wedding so probably not going to be able to make that one work unfortunately but okay go they got a new album out this

year three singles off of it now go check it out and then I just have to give a shout out so Rachel and I have been watching Better Call Saul. We already mentioned Michael McKean once on this episode already when we were talking about Broadway. Well, for those of you who don't know, Michael McKean, you know, famous actor, comedy actor, Chris Guest Films, Chuck in Better Call Saul, and of course, David St. Hubbins, lead singer of Spinal Tap. So I've been listening to some tap the last couple weeks as we've been watching Better Call Saul, just because, you know, it's iconic. And the great thing about Spinal Tap is they're so good at their instruments and Michael McKeon's a fantastic singer

Excuse me can't stop belching That you got songs that are funny and you know the film itself is a is a masterpiece But some of the songs themselves are total bangers to like bitch school great. That's a great tune Give me some money is great. I mean, Heavy Duty. All this, you know, this is good stuff. Clam Caravan. But the song I discovered this week that I'm sure I had heard at least once in the past, but it didn't ring a bell for me at all, is from their second album, Break Like the Wind. It's called Just Begin Again. It's a ballad,

but it's a duet with Cher. And it is just, man, I've listened to it like 20 times in the last week. That song is a total banger. Michael McKean's range is unbelievable. It rivals Cher in the song. Just that, you know, all jokes aside, and it is still a funny song with funny lyrics, but All jokes aside, and it is still a funny song with funny lyrics, but just a masterpiece. Great song. Pure early 90s. Gotta love it. So go check out The Taps. Just beginning again from their second album. 92, I think. Break like the wind. Let's wrap up here with our trivia question of the week. So I have been reading No Country for Old Men this past week and a half, two weeks or so. It's a pretty quick read, so I'm trying to savor it. It's a tight, I mean, it's like 270 some pages, but the way it's written, you could easily take this baby down

in an afternoon if you were really committed. Maybe a full day, I don't know. But it's been fun how close it sticks to the film. It's almost identical. I think we talked about this before. Anyways, my trivia question today revolves around the film. So No Country for Old Men, which was released in 2007, there's your first clue, had a one per Wikipedia.com, had one day of filming delayed due to smoke from an oil rig from this film which was shooting directly adjacent to the Coen Brothers production. So this is not like a new revelatory information, this is like a classic movie trivia kind of thing, but it's one of my favorites. It's two films that were

linked together going into the Oscars and competed in a lot of the same categories. But No Country for Old Men, I think did a lot better as far as the awards go. So basically there were two two movies filming at the exact same time and they ended up being probably the two best films of the year. So if you know anything and this is in 2005 or 2006 whenever they were filming, No Country for Old Men sat in West

Texas so that is a very similar landscape for what they were going for in the answer, the correct answer. If you want more clues, it's a Paul Thomas Anderson movie and its actor has lots of accolades. One of the very few actors to have won Best Actor thrice at, I was about to say the Olympics, but that's's inaccurate the Oscars. It is of course Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood which like No Country for Old Men is an absolute masterpiece. They are very different films though I feel like No Country for Old Men perfectly not perfectly but what I was just saying about like uncut gems and good time and in Nora it fits that mold of I do not have any room or time to breathe

whatsoever. That's no country for old men. And There Will Be Blood definitely has more room to breathe. It's more of a character study. But great final scene in the bowling alley with Paul Dano. Man, your milkshake. Good stuff, right, Maple? The milkshake, you like it? You never had a milkshake, you'd have diarrhea. Woof. Guys, that's what I got for you today. Thanks for bearing with me on a Beantown podcast on a Friday. 22125, Season 8. Final reminder, next week is our Pledge Drive Telethon Fundraiser, 7pm Central. We'll have a live stream and you can call in 815-298-7200

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