Beantown Podcast - Spices, Herby Fully Loaded, & In The Heights

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss Herbie Goes Bananas, golden birthdays, and dental surgery

What is that B.O.B. song? Airplanes. Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town podcast for Friday, August 15th, 2025. Rachie's golden birthday. What's happening? What? It's golden. It's sunny outside. Sounds like we're under attack. It's like Fallujah out there. Faluja, is that in Iraq? Was that in the Iraq War? Was that in the whole Kuwait, you know, burning the oil fields thing back in the 90s? I can't remember.

I think that was more of an early 2000s thing. What's going on? My name is Quinn, and this is my program. I'm the creator of the host and probably the chief historian. We're here to talk Fallujah and Black Hawk Down. And I remember that one time when the Americans went into Baghdad and they toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein.

We were watching it as a family in a motel room, and I think my parents didn't want us to be impacted by the footage, so they turned it off. And I don't know what ever happened to that guy, Saddam Hussein. But I don't know. We were just chatting earlier about, do the young kids of this generation even know who Osama bin Laden was? we got an audience it's it's rachel's birthday no we're not calling anyone out in particular

this person doesn't even know they were part of the osama bin Laden conversation how does that song airplanes go can you believe that airplanes in the night sky like shooting stars could really use a wish right now wish right now wish right now i saw a bob in concert one time at Dillow Day, Northwestern's student-run music festival that happens annually around, like, Memorial Day weekend, maybe, around there. I went to like two or three Dillow Days in my lifetime, and I was the last kind of real chance I would have had to go would have been when I was a graduate student at Northwestern, and I don't even think I got, I don't even think they gave grad students tickets. It just felt very out of the loop the whole time. I mean, that's just kind of like being a grad student in general. But I was very out of the loop from Northwestern when I was a grad student there.

I don't know. I felt very removed, unwanted at times. And now they've got what was coming to them. All the mass layoffs, what did they laid off like 400 positions two weeks ago or something like that. So obviously I wouldn't wish that on anyone as someone who works in the higher education space. Although let's do this briefly. Do a quick little eulogy. It's not like a pity party, feel sorry for myself kind of thing, but I do think it's worth mentioning because it's unfolding in real time right now. It's 2.35 Friday afternoon, August 15th. I actually have the day off

of work. Still did a little bit in the morning just to kind of cross some tease dot some eyes, but we'll get to that eulogy after I let you know that listener discretion is advised. When you're listening to this program number one will occasion me some language number two this podcast is objectively terrible and shout out to our friends in pakistan thank you for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the islamic republic of pakistan i want to um also just mention what we're drinking here we're still working on our wayfare not wayfare wayfair you got just what i need what was the deal with the the kelly clarkson you know her ex-husband died and then in the the obituary it turned out he was gay it was a whole big thing that's

probably why he was her ex-husband i didn't completely follow that i mean it's it's sad he died of cancer i don't think anyone wants that but it's you know it's uh it's kind of a spicy story that i didn't read up all the way on so if anyone's got any insights into that feel free to let us know uh you can tweet at us of course probably the best way to get in touch with the show at Beantown cast we log in like once every other year so good stuff there uh or you can email with Beantown podcast at yahoo.com and this beantown podcast at yahoo.com i'm not drinking a wayfar it's called a way bird from half acre a local Chicago brewery here up in the Bowmanville sort of mini neighborhood i guess that's it's kind of where Ravenswood and edgewater

meet just south of what is that rose hill cemeteries of big cemetery and you have half acre and spiteful our two breweries kind of nestled against the bottom of the cemetery. If you go south, you're in, you know, Ravenswood, Lincoln Square territory. If you go east towards the lake, you're in Edgewater territory. But it's kind of its own little, its own little thing there, close to Andersonville as well. And then I'm also, you know, we mentioned Bushwicks, not a sponsor of the show, but maybe someday. We mentioned Bushwicks are having a sip of that whiskey here. So getting started early.

I was watching the Cubs right before this, and if you've had to watch the Cubs at any point in the last three weeks, you'd be getting started early like I am. Can't buy a run, as they would say. Brief eulogy without going into too many details and I'm not going to say anything negative, but I've been working off to the side for an education consulting company. I've actually been partnering with them in some capacity since 2018. So it's been

about seven years at this point, like eight admissions cycles and have had more of a official part-time position since June of 2020. So the last five years in change, I have been over-employed, if you will. And it's worked out well with my current job. They're aware of it. and it's all hunky-dory, as they would say. I don't even know. What's the deal with hunky-dory? What does that mean? It could be Yiddish.

Ellen DeGeneres could have something to do with it. Unclear. But I've gotten pay raises. I've gotten paid decreases. I've had 5 a.m. calls. I've had 11 p.m. calls. I remember one of the shortly after Rachel and I, maybe not shortly after, But maybe in the first year of our relationship, there was one time where I went over to her basement with a 7-Eleven coffee and took a call there while everyone else was partying and, you know, doing blow and hookers and stuff.

And I was there with my button-up shirt, you know, door closed, counseling and mentoring, young folks, you know, while all the noise was going on on the other side of that door, I was steadfast. So I have been more or less laid off, if you all today is officially my last day. And I, you know what, I received the news on, what was it, Tuesday or Wednesday. I think it was Tuesday. And, you know, you'd be proud of me when I say you, just the general Beantown listener group over there. I still took an 8.30 a.m. meeting with a student yesterday morning. I did some essay revisions and comments for a student this morning. So I, you know what, I stuck it out till the end.

It's like the string quartet on the Titanic playing, I don't know. What song do they play in Titanic when the ship's going down? Probably, I don't know. My heart will go on. I don't think so. That's what the research team says. You know, it's kind of like this Gen A.I. between Jenny and I and our research team, Maple,

you get all sorts of interesting comments here. Let's look this up. It's our movie feature of the week here on the Beantown podcast. Titanic String Quartet song. Nearer My God to The, there we go, was sung by the doomed crew and passengers of the SS Valencia. That's not Titanic. Oh, which may be the source of the Titanic legend, I see.

So this boat, what we're learning something. The SS Valencia ship sunk off the Canadian coast in 1906. And the Gemini, Google Gemini, actually this is from Wikipedia. It seems to think that that may be the source of the band, the quartet playing music as the ship went down. So what I'm getting from this is there wasn't actually a string quartet playing while the Titanic sunk, but it was more of a fictionalized experience from the mastermind himself, James Cameron, which we have to mention briefly, oh my goodness, the trailer for Avatar 3, scorched fire, whatever it's called, is out. So we had original Avatar in, what, 2008,

and then Avatar 2, Way of the Wata, which came out, I don't know, what was that, like 2021, something like that, 22 maybe. And now we're getting Avatar 3, presumably this fall, I don't actually know, the release date on it. It seems like, you know, they do it around the holidays. And these movies just keep breaking box office records, making money. I got to tell you, I like promoting the Avatar movies from sort of the joking meme perspective. I thought the first one was, you know, well done and groundbreaking, but also just a complete rip-off of the same dances with Wolves plot that was probably a rip-off of something else in turn. But the second one, I don't know, it's just like once you've seen those visuals once it's kind of like yeah it doesn't feel quite as

mind-blowing or groundbreaking now we're getting uh fire chief avatar three there's a bad guy he's a fire chief it's a woman i think and he still got i don't know we still got stephen lang still doing it you know he was the bad guy the marine although i was rooting for our boys and i was going to say boys and blue because it's like cops but the boys in blue in original avatar actually the avatars so i don't know the marines i guess the few the proud the faithful semper fidelis but then uh stephen lang's back in episode two way of wata and he's an avatar and it's just not quite it was way more fun to watch when the good guys were one species and the bad guys were the other species now it's like 99% avatars and i don't know i thought it was a lot more interesting just from like a watchability

perspective when you had some humans like Michelle Rodriguez and then you had whoa there's a plane one of those thunderbirds we got the air and water show tomorrow and they're doing rehearsals right now but yeah so it seems like it's going to be you know pretty much exclusively avatars and avatar three I think they need to take a page out of the T-Rex from Jurassic Park 2's book where he ends up in San Diego and what if avatars come to earth that's what I want to see. You know, in the original avatar, you get these humans, the whole time they got to wear these masks so they can breathe. I think Avatar 3 or at least Avatar 4, it could be avatar terrestrial. Maybe they go to the center of the earth. I don't know. But we should make

the avatars wear masks. You know, it's time for them to play a little away game. They've been spending too much time on Pandora. And I guess in Way of Wata, it was a more water-focused planet. Was that still Pandora or did they go offsite to somewhere else? Maybe it was Camino where they built the clone army. Master Ciphodeus, Star Wars, Clone Heads will know what I'm talking about. You know, when Obi-1 Kenobi shows up to Camino and he's, you know, he's got the hosts, the aliens with the big long necks, they feel a little bit standoffish. I don't know. I feel like they should have been more generous. At times they felt very generous. At times they felt very kind of iffy. It's hard to get a read on them. At least,

in theaters when I was seven years old and watched it for the first time. Maybe we'll have to do a rewatch of Attack of the Clones and see exactly what it was like. But that's my eulogy for my time as a part-time consultant for this company. So I saw a lot of kids achieve a lot of success. And I don't even know, like, I don't think there's maybe one or two employees at this company that are still around when I, from the time I started to, where the company is now, but certainly within my specific division, I am by far the longest tenured person. So ageism, suit, anyone? Maybe. We'll see. No. It's largely left on a positive note. But the income bridge is, Maple's going to have to go out and get a part-time job. What do you think,

buddy, you want to do a lemonade stand, deliveries for Torderichie's pizza, the street. You could just set up shop on the sidewalk and say 50 cent pets. One pet, 50 cents. That would be $2.50 right there. Or you could, a little tail wag. You could, we've already got some great song ideas inspired by you. You could sell, you could be part of the writing room. Knock, knock, knock, knocking on maples hay. And it's like weird al, but for dogs. Right? She likes Guns and Roses. I'm always telling you, you like Guns and Roses, buddy. Send up your thoughts and prayers, hashtag Thoughts and Prayers. Maple's going into surgery on Tuesday all day, potentially.

It's got to be there 8 a.m. sharp, no eating or drinking the night before because they'll have a big old breakfast waiting for her when she gets there. And who knows how many teeth she's going to come back with. Maybe they'll do an X-ray and find out she's got to have her wisdom teeth taken out and all of her wisdom and institutional knowledge is going to be removed. So, Maple's doing that on Tuesday morning. We'll see how it goes. Do you think Maple's Minute is going to be the same after your surgery, buddy?

What do you think? That would be a good time to mention Maple's Minute today. Excuse me, and this is more of a, it's kind of a, well, we just talked about Sage Wisdom. That's appropriate. This is, it's kind of an adage, a proverb, if you will. and this morning we were getting some birthday breakfast at a little outside cafe area and unprompted, unwarranted after having been there for about 15 minutes, we're working on our coffee and our toast.

And the kind waiter comes out and asks if Maple would like a pup cut because she was sitting there just so kindly, lovingly. She's also getting bits of bacon, which was helpful. But that's Maple's proverb this week is pup cups will come for those who wait. Right, Maple? You got to be patient, buddy. The good news is after you have your teeth removed, you can still have pup cups, which is good. Pup cups, peanut butter, plain white rice, and maybe dad will go to the pet store and get a couple of cans of wet food.

Maple got a new toy this morning, a little sniff pad, if you will, you can hide cheese and all sorts of treats in there. And they say 10 minutes of sniffing is akin to one hour of one. walking. And so if Maple sniffs for only three hours, she'll finally be tired enough to be alone for more than 15 minutes, which is really exciting. So something to look forward to. If you're curious, we started Prozac about a month, a month and a week ago, or two months in a week ago, it's supposed to take four to six weeks to kick in. So Maple's double that right now. And no, no change, which is really exciting for mom and dad. So that's great. We got a special dog. We said we're going to donate her brain to science after she passes, not before. And we've got to make

sure we update your driver's license so that you're an Oregon donor, right? Good job, buddy. Nice stuff. That's Maples Minute. We've got a hot take of the week here for all of you, Tatea heads, what do they call them, potatoes. That is sponsored by our good friends at Home Pride Oregon, guys. If you are looking to buy or sell a home in Central Oregon, you got to take this seriously. You know how home prices have gone up in the last couple of years. $500,000, $2 million, $7 million, whether you are Drew Bledsoe or Rain Wilson or Brewer's legend, Richie Sexton, you're probably going to want to take this very seriously. So get someone who's very seriously good at what he does. That's my dad, Steve. 541-410316, owner and operator of

home prior to Oregon, he'll check your air ducts. He'll check your AC unit, your HVAC. He'll even, you know, if you got kind of a crawl space, he'll crawl up in there and check for mites, termites, and I don't know, cicadas, moths. You never really want to see moths flying around. I guess it's because they just eat everything. So generally you don't want moths. You ever listen to that NPR thing, The Moth, where they pull people from the audience and they tell stories and they pick a winner at the end. It's a pretty cool show. I went to a live taping once at the Lincoln Center, Lincoln Theater, is that what it's called? On Lincoln Ave there, right by DePaul's Campus. Lincoln Hall, that's what it is, Lincoln Hall. But it's pretty cool. Yeah, you just get to sign up beforehand and you get to tell a story. It can be about anything at all. And actually, when I went there, it was probably like 2019 was the time I went. someone I had drummed with in an African drumming ensemble for a couple of years when I was in college actually won with his story. I think his name's Peter. That was pretty cool. So congrats to Peter. Homebride, Oregon, Homespection, perfection. I of course also want to

give a shout out to the Samson Q2U series. Now, I don't know if this will lead us into our hot take of the week here. I don't know if the Kelsey brothers are using a Samson. It's probably a lesser product, I would assume. They're probably not even aware of the crisp, clear audio quality you get from the Samsung Q2U series, probably why their podcast, uh, in the Heights is struggling. So it's not called in the Heights. In New Heights. In the Heights is, uh, in the Heights is, uh, is that the one with, uh, with all the fairy tale characters or is, oh, that's into the woods. What is in the Heights? It's set in like Harlem or Queens or something like that. It's got the, is it Camilla Cabo or who was in the Heights? Was she an Oscar winner? Okay, we get our research team on this.

A musical and subsequent film in a Dominican neighborhood of Washington Heights. What borough is Washington Heights in do you think? We need our New York correspondent on this. While you're looking that up, I would just like to know the name of the actress, because she's, like, kind of famous, but I don't fully know who she is. And it's not Rita Moreno, and it's not Kamea Cabello. It's the third one in kind of that classic trilogy. And I think she got nominated for an Oscar. I'm going to recognize her name when I, or did she win the Oscar?

Nope, nope, none of these names, not Olga, definitely not Olga. No, she's got to be, okay, I might be missing. something. If the research team wants to keep on that, that would be great. There's this, this young actress, she's, she's Latina. She's probably like 30 years old, maybe a little bit younger. And she has recently, I thought she won the Oscar like three years ago for something. I don't know what it was, best supporting actress perhaps. But, no, I'm not talking about Mikey Madison, okay? But I wanted to, of course, let you know whether you are recording in, Oh, we still don't know where Washington Heights is.

It feels like a, I don't know, Bronx thing, frankly. Samson Q2U series, when God speaks, he uses a Samson. Manhattan. Okay, I would bet it's, when I think of Washington Heights, I think it's far north, like on the river across from Harlem. I don't even know if there is a river. What's the deal with the boundary? Gosh, we need a New York correspondent here.

the boundary between Manhattan and Harlem. What are we looking at there? We're going to town on it right now, pulling up Google Maps, and then we're going to find out who this lady is, whether she was in the Heights or not. Doesn't matter. Okay, we're still going to figure it out. Maybe she was in West Side Story. Let's check that out. Looks like, okay, there's Washington Heights. I see it. Oh, yeah, it's all the way up there, 168th Street. Right under Little Dominican Republic. Who knew there was a Little Dominican Republic? So it's like a cross... A girl from Hunger Games? No, no, nope, nope, dope, dope, dope, dope. She's not Latina, I don't think. So, like, there is a Harlem River.

Who knew in the Harlem River? That's her. Ariana Dubois. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of. Does it say if she won an Oscar or not? We got Washington. nominated for a Tony and two primetime Emmys and that's okay we'll research her later she has won an Oscar for West Side Story do we think okay research is tough yeah Washington Heights is across the

river if you go to the east across the Harlem River you have Harlem and the Yankee Stadium and all that fun stuff she did win for West Side Story so moral of the story is I was just mixing up in the Heights with West Side Story, which frankly I don't feel too bad about because they're both musicals set in New York City, and I imagine Stephen Sondheim has something to do with one or both of them. What we should break down next week is what's the difference between Stephen Sondheim and Stephen, what's his name, Soderberg? Is that someone to, or is he a Supreme Court justice? Not sure. But it feels like they're both kind of in that modern day musical world and that well then you got steven spielberg who directed

ariana dubois in west side story so it's all kind of neatly packaged together but we should also mention because i gave myself a nice little neck shave this morning the cuts by cue boutique and dog groomers when you need a fresh do something snap you're new call the experts at cuts by q 20 dollar flat rate i could do eriana dubois hair too speaking of hair it is our hot take of the week also camilla caballo translates to camia hair which is pretty cool our hot take of the week taylor swift has the worst hair not like worst hair of all time or just like worst hair in you know music just generally she's got the worst hair so what was the deal taylor swift tried to get into acting for a while

she was in cats and she was in one or two other movies i don't know rachel if you've ever seen any other Taylor Swift movies per se. But now she's making the rounds on this in the Heights podcast. She's dropping a new album called The Life of a Showgirl. And I don't know, she's, she's really landed on like, this is going to be my hair in my, my hair era, my Hera, if you will, her wife of Zeus. And frankly, I just think it's the worst. I don't know what the deal is with her bangs. Like her whole head is covered. Let me tell you, If you walked out of the Cutsby Q boutique and dog groomers with that hairstyle, I would give you a full refund.

You're $20 back, which Taylor Swift makes $20 every nanosecond. So it probably wouldn't make that big of a, wouldn't really burn a hole in either of our pockets because we're both pretty rich. But I just don't, I don't, you know, she doesn't have to go full curly girl mode from the fearless album, per se. But it's just, she's really landed on this like, straight curtain bangs across, I don't know, maybe try something new because she's been stuck on that hairstyle for what feels like at least four to five eras. And I just think she needs a new

era. That's what the new album should have been about. And then what's the deal? So, you know, Sabrina Carpenter does her whole thing with like, okay, I'm going to do this album cover and everyone's going to freak out about it because it's super misogynistic or whatever, but then I'm going to release 27 alternate covers. Now I'm already seeing Taylor Swift has like seven different album covers for this album. When I was a kid, bands and artists, there was one album cover or if you know, you know the Beantown podcast, we do one cover per season. I'm not coming out here on January 1st and saying, oh, Beantown podcast, season nine just got renewed. And here's 25 different pictures of me, you know, with a, you know, maple on my shoulder or, you know,

kissing Mother Mary or drinking a glass at whiskey, whatever it is. You get one picture and then hey, if you want to put out a new album of music every month and do, you know, get a new artwork, that's fine. But you don't get to just do like 24 different album covers. It's just pick a cover and end it and preferably get a better hairstyle. I am witnessing our research team eat salami off the floor, and then there's Maple as well. No, that was Maple, the research team. Anyways, that's my hot take of the week. And sometimes our hot take of the weeks are hot takes of the week are kind of joshin around, but Joshin, J-O-S-I-A-N-A-Postrophe.

But this one I actually feel adamant about, and look. Taylor is her own woman. She can do her hair however she likes, but I have the right to complain about it. That's what this show is all about. Big old gulp of Bushwicks. Still to come, we have a trivia question of the week revolving her on one of my favorite topics,

United States National Parks. But I should mention, you know, Rachel and I were just doing our nightly wind down in bed, doing our games, our Spanagan. and Roku trivia and all that fun stuff and came across one of my favorite food, food fluencers, Carissa Dean Stanton, Harry Dean's daughter. And is that her name, Carissa Dean Stanton? Carissa Stanton.

What was her maiden name? Maidening name is Stanton, but now she's not the one who's married to Jared Gough, right? That's someone else. okay but she was doing some sort of herbaceous chicken meatball soup tortina is her last name dupina say it again dutina dutina dutina dutina dutina dutina dutina maybe could be cyprecian what do you call someone who's from cypressian cypressian cypressian Supretion. I like Sepretion. And she had a recipe for an herbaceous

meatball soup with orzo, something like that. It looked solid. And my first instinct, you know, because I'm a big, I'm a big fan of the franchise. I said, Herbie fully loaded because it's herbaceous. And I was lying there in bed thinking, like, there's got to be something there for the podcast. And then, you know, it's 16 hours later. or whatever and there's still nothing there but i figured let's do a little bit of a deep dive oh we're getting a a phone call this is fun the area code says it's from warner robins

georgia which oh that's a whole other deep dive we could go down what the heck did that name come from warner robins as a kid i always thought it sounded like warner brother's studios loony tunes i don't know who's calling me right now 478 area code if you have any insight into that feel free to email us bean town podcast at yahoo com and speed time podcast at yahoo.com with any insights about warner robins Georgia or warner robin's general admission frankly but i said there's got to be something there we can talk about with herbie fully loaded and that got me thinking spices what do we actually know about spices so i've got a couple different things we can explore here first the herbie

franchise of course erbie as i might call it but there's herbie the love bug right and that was was the original film, the one with Buddy Hackett, I think? And there was, you know, the three of them, and they're sharing a car, and then Herbie gets split in half. Is that the original? And then there's the bad guy and they're racing, some sort of street race. I don't really know what they're racing for. It's originally called The Love Bug, a 1968 American Sports Adventure Comedy Film,

screenplayed by legendary coach Bill Walsh, apparently. Oh, there's a separate one. He's a producer. He also worked on Mary Poppins. Anyways, the film was the first installment in the Herbie or Herbie film series. And the film follows the adventures of a sentient Volkswagen beetle named Herbie. His driver Jim Douglas played by the incomparable Dean Jones, who everyone knows from That Darn Cat or Beethoven or Million Dollar Duck, of course. And then mechanic Carol Bennett, not to be confused with Carol Burnett, played by, oh, of course, Michelle Lee, who you know from Knott's Landing.

And then Buddy Hackett, one of my all-time favorites, plays Jim's enlightened, kind-hearted friend, here's a name, Tennessee Steinmetz, S-T-E-I-N-M-E-T-Z, I care to who creates art from used car parts, and then there's a villain, yada, yada, yada, so a sequel, Herbie Rides Again, which I don't think I've ever seen Herbie Rides Again, but he's riding all over the place in movie poster made 38.2 million, which back in 1975 or whatever was 1974, that's like avatar numbers. And then there's a second sequel, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, which came out in 1977. And, oh, it's got Don Knott, who plays an eccentric mechanic wheelie Applegate. Don Natser, you of course know from the, what's that one show with Andy Griffith

show. A road race from Paris, France to Monte Carlo Monaco. In this poster, he's driving like on the edge of a cliff. I think we might have to watch that one later. The love bug turns the great race into a Herbie Derby. And then Herbie, this was followed by Herbie Goes Bananas, 1980. He's driving right out of a banana. He's wearing a sombrero and getting chased by a bull.

If anyone has seen Herbie Goes Bananas, 1980 adventure comedy film, you've got to email us because I wasn't even really aware of Herbie Goes Bananas. Followed by a television sitcom Herbie the Love Bug, 1982. So Herbie finally got his own TV show. It's like Night Rider. It was a five-episode mid-season replacement series. Sounds like it didn't go too long. It was the last production to feature Herbie until the 1977 television film, The Love Bug.

And let's see what happened after the... Well, now we're getting into Lindsay Lohan territory, which is awfully exciting. And then followed by the theatrically released, there we go, Irby Fully Loaded from 2005 starring Lindsay Lohan, Justin Long, Matt Dillon, and Michael Keaton, features cameos by NASCAR drivers, Jeff Gordon, Jimmy Johnson, Tony Stewart, and Dale Jarrett. So there you go, you probably didn't expect.

And there's been, well, has there been any sequel to Herbie Fully Loaded or was 20 years ago? That's what we need to do. We need to write the next Herbie. Herbie movie. And this time, it can be Herbie goes Herbie. And he's smoking pot, maybe. Wouldn't you like to see Herbie swerve in and twerking and all sorts of stuff? Herbie gets a DUI. What is it, if you get pulled over and arrested when you're driving, not under the influence of alcohol, but maybe the green stuff, the green herb, as we would call it back in the day,

Is that still a DWI or DUI, or they call it something different? It's still a DUI. Yeah, there's your script for the next one. Then they got a bust him out at jail with his other car friends. This could be a car's crossover, Cars 4, anyone. Was there a Cars 4? Did they stop at Cars 3? What do we think?

We think they stopped at 3. But there was a Toy Story 4, and there's rumors that Tim Allen needs money, and they're doing a Toy Story 5. there is a cars four so we've had four cars and four toy stories feels like Pixar is really running out of ideas can you do you think you could name off the top of your head any of the Pixar films that have come out in last five years hmm oh there was inside out too that's right we saw that one and then uh i don't know when did finding dory come out probably more than five years ago. And there was Coco's probably five or six years ago. There was Encanto, meaning I

love in my native tongue. Let's move past it. That was Irby. If the producers, if Dean Jones or Lindsay Lohan is done with her Freakier Friday tour, wants to get in touch with us, I would love to, excuse me, write that script. We could put Maple on it as well. Next up, we turn our attention to a real flash in the pan. What was this last summer or two summers ago already? Ice spice. What the heck? Where did she come from and where did she go?

Where did you come from? Cotton-eyed Ice spice. So if you missed it, because she was famous for legitimately like three months. Ice spice is, she's kind of an Arianna Dubois figure, but she's got a tight curly afro. I don't know this for sure, but I would assume she's somewhere between four feet and four and a half feet tall.

She just looks tiny. And she has no discernible talent, but I think she somehow became friends with, who is she friends with, like, Jennifer Lopez or something like that, or Ben Affleck. And she didn't really have any famous songs. She didn't really have any talent. She can't dance. She can't sing. but somewhere out there the people who are in charge of making people go viral or famous had her become for lack of a better term had her become famous for like two months three months

I think this was maybe already two years ago already that Ice Spice was like famous she probably has gotten to retain her Wikipedia page but I couldn't tell you anything about her I don't know where she came from. I don't know what her name is. It's probably like Natalia Smith or something like that. I don't think she's been in a Herbie movie. So that will kind of be a gauge for your fame level. Are you a Don Knott's or Dean Jones or are you more of a nice spice? And I think her last kind of vestige holding onto her 15 minutes of fame, she did some sort of, this must have been two falls ago, a pumpkin spice collaboration with Dunkin' Donuts. where you could get the ice spice drink or was it was that something with munchkins in it was that

the ice spice yeah had munchkins in it were there munchkins in the drink or is that something separate they were they were on the side or on it but that was really the last time ice spice you know was seen in public i think she went to one chief's game with taylor swift perhaps and uh that was maybe two years ago already. I don't remember. And since then, she has pretty much vanished. So we did a eulogy for my side gig earlier. Now we were doing a eulogy for Ice Spice. Next up, you got the Spice from Dune. Okay, so Dune heads out there, Frank Herbert. Herbert heads. We had the two Dune movies. There's potentially a third happening if Shalamay's schedule works out. But the whole thing is they're trading spice from the planet Arachnid, which is sort of a spider-themed planet. Now, in the movies,

they didn't focus on the spiders as much as the books. More of, they did more work on the sand worms. And of course, you have Timothy Shalmi writing the worm, riding the worm, which is a phrase that could lead to a DUI in other parts of the country. But what's to deal with the spice? Was the whole planet spice? Because it looked really dusty. If not, how do you tell the difference between the spice and just regular Earth or dust?

Because it all kind of looked the same. I think maybe if the spice was a different color, like a green or a violet, it could help stand out against sort of that brown, reddish, gray kind of earth tones. You know what I'm talking about? Your adobes, your bodegas, your masas down in the American Southwest, I think is kind of what they modeled it after. But yeah, I don't know what the deal is with spice. You sniff the spice and then you get powers.

I think that's kind of what I took away. from Dune. And then Rebecca Ferguson was like a regular mom, and then she sniffed the spice, and she got really powerful. I don't know why everyone isn't just sniffing the spice, because that seems to be the key to finding your voice, if you will. But that's the spice from Dune. Then you had the Silk Road, which is more focused on Silk, but I think they traded a lot of spices on the Silk Road. Now, the interesting thing, it wasn't just one road, right? It's not like I-90 or something that goes from Boston to somewhere in Oregon or is it Seattle where I-90 ends. Who knows? No way to know for sure.

The Silk Road was more of a trade network, as we would call it. And they were trading silk from China and Marco Polo was going this way and coming back that way. What did Marco Polo actually do? Because he leaves Italy. He's an explorer, right? He goes on foot all the way to China. China. And he may have, we don't know for sure, he may have either brought pizza to the Chinese or he brought pizza back from the Chinese. I've heard the story go both ways. But apparently they were trading spices there too. Now, what are the main spices of Far East Asia that they would have brought back? Perhaps coriander, cardamom, I don't know, Jasmine. Jasmine. Jasmine, I don't think they had in Italy.

I think that was more of a China or Korea thing, inner Mongolia, probably. Do you think Genghis Khan? Did he ride on the Silk Road, or was he more of a backroads guy? He had to get to Europe somehow. It seems like the Silk Road was more of a go south of the Caspian Sea kind of thing, and then through Iran and then Persia and Assyria and then maybe do a little side quest to see the Supretions, but I guess they avoided Russia and Ur-Katsks and Yakutsks,

and I suppose that makes sense because Russian winters are harsh, maybe a little bit more tolerable if you go through our good friends in Pakistan, the Khyber Pass. Almost without looking it up, it can almost guarantee you that Khyber Pass was a key post along the Silk Road. So that's got some spices attached to it. Two more things, Spice Girls. so they had that one song if you want to be my lover you gotta get with my friends research team

any other spice girl songs that were aware of or know of off the top of her heads did they really just kind of ride that one song want to be i tell you what i want spice up your life it's not not one i think i know but maybe we can't sing more than five seconds of any particular song or else we get DMCA'd out our ass, unfortunately. But what was, okay, so we got, there, there were five spice girls, do we think? Four, six, five sounds right. One of them, sporty, was that Beckham's wife? So there's, what's her name, Olivia Beckham, Grace Beckham? Posh Spice, Victoria Beckham. We'll call her Vicki. That's why I couldn't think of it.

carrot carrot spice scary spice Melanie brown was she black they call her scary because she was black or no no no no okay sporty mel me Mel B right Mel B she was sporty spice and then was one of them a redhead maybe yes that's ginger spice well there you go and then what was the fifth one we think baby spice she was the young one of the group uh so those were the spice girls i don't know how

they picked it i there was it would have been fun if they were like nutmeg and garlic powder turmeric would have been a fun one good old-fashioned table salt and crushed red pepper oh see that that's why they were only famous for like three years they had had wannabe and then spice up your life but and then they could have brought in bonus jonas and he what would his spice have spice have been probably i don't know we already had it i guess ginger spice was one who actually was a spice so hats off to ginger spice but i don't know email us bean town podcast yahoo what would bonus jonas spice name have been trying to rack my name i mean you can't go wrong with with a sage or a time.

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and time. What's the name of that song? It's Something Fair by Simon and Garfunkel. Parsmeri Fair or something. No, Rosemary Fair. What is that? Are you coming to Scarborough Fair? That's what it is.

Speaking of fairs, don't forget, the Minnesota State Fair starts this Thursday, August 21st at the Minnesota State Fair. Fairgrounds. Peterson's pork chops on a stick. If you ever were wandering the fairgrounds and thought to yourself, man, I need some pork. Go check out Peterson's. And although she's no longer there physically, she's there in spirit, my grandma Sal, you could have visited her for a number of years, Manning the cash register. Remember, folks, it is cash only. Minnesota State Fair starts next Thursday.

And then let's see here. The last thing here, where do spices come from? I think we've covered that largely, but I don't know. If you asked me to, he gave me an unlimited budget and asked me to go out there and find coriander. I wouldn't know where to start. What is that? Is that a flower?

Is this some sort of like underground plant? Can I find it on the Silk Road? No idea. Something like a garlic powder. little bit more confident in but even like salt where the heck are we getting salt from there's salt mines but you just drive up to a mountain and with your pickaxe Yukon cornelius style and say hmm this feels salty i guess you could go to like the ocean and boil the water and that could give you some salt are you going to get the same excuse me quality salt from a mountain as you might get

from boiling ocean water, that's a question I have. And then finally you have the Himalayan pink sea salt, which was definitely traded on the Silk Road because the Silk Road more or less passes. What did the Silk Road go above or below the Himalayas? Above, right? Because you'd want to, well, once you get through the Khyber Pass, then you kind of have to go through the Tibetan plateau. And then it's a straight shot east to Guangdu or Shanghai. So, I got a hair in my whiskey. That's never fun. That's a good sign that we need to end the show. But now before we do our trivia question, I didn't get it.

So now I have fingers covered in whiskey. Whiskey fingers is a classic problem. Another reason why you might get a DWI or DUI. Does anyone, if there are any, gosh, this thing is really buried in there. If there are any lawyers out there who know anything about the difference between DUI and DWI and how, there it is, how the green herb, mother's milk, if you will, how that plays into this, go ahead and give us an email or tweet at us, or blue key, not blue key, blue sky at us. It's hard to finish a show and you've got whiskey fingers, but we're going to do our best.

Our trivia question of the week is not super well formulated here, but I've got it in front of me. And the question is simply put, name as many states as you can, U.S. states that have are home to multiple U.S. national parks. So again, there's something like 4,000 national parks in the United States, and there's a handful of states that have multiple of them. So name as many states as you can that have more than just one national park in them. So can I think of, yeah, well, we got the research. team playing along. That's fun. We got Florida. Can you name how many national parks are in Florida? Good guess. It's three. I think if my memory serves me correctly, you have Everglades, you have Biscayne, and you have dry tortugas. That was actually the, that was the trivia question,

or a trivia question, a final question when Rachel and I last played bar trivia up in Minneapolis. And the question was, what is the only state east of the Mississippi River that has multiple national parks in it. And we heard all sorts of answers ranging from Pennsylvania to Virginia to Tennessee. But the correct answer is Florida, which has three if my memory holds. I've got the list in front of me as I can check it. But what's a good example of a state that only has one? Oregon, I think, just has Crater Lake National Park. Probably easier to think to the east, right? Like Kentucky mammoth cave or Ohio has what is that one it's just south of Cleveland I can't remember what it's called West Virginia has one new river anyways let's let's

tally up how many there are and then if you want more time to actually guess you can your bonus question is name the state that has the most national parks there's two that are at the top. They're separated by one. But there is a clear winner. So the number of multiple entries here is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, I think is what I have. Although this last one says, whining, that's not a state name. I mistyped something. So maybe it was supposed to be Washington. No, I had Washington on my list already. I don't know what this was supposed to be. You can find this out for yourself. So a slightly flawed experience. But from least to most, there's a bunch with two. My list says whining has two. Now,

whining's not a U.S. state, but it's on there. Thank you, auto-correct. I'm too far into this Bushwicks to go back and check. Not to mention I have whiskey fingers. A Texas has two. What is it? What is it? Big Bend is one. And then, I don't know, probably something out further west. I'm not sure if I know the other one that's in Texas. South Dakota has two. New Mexico has two. Nevada has two. Montana has two. Hawaii has two. Now we get into the three range. There's three of them. Washington has three. What? North Cascades, I think it's called. Olympia National Park and then probably like Mount Rainier National Park, something like that. Florida we talked about has three. Arizona has three. Now the top three, we have Colorado with four, which I could not name. There's Rocky Mountain. Mountain is the obvious one. Then there's three other ones. And then our top two, Alaska coming in at eight, and then the big winner, California with nine. So those are the U.S. states that have multiple national parks. And there's one more unclear one that I call labeled whining that has two

and we'll never know the answer. Because that's the end of our program. Quinn David Furnace presents the Beaton podcast. We've got the birthday gal over here. Any final thoughts? Anything you want to share live on air? No, she's got nothing. What was the Starbucks drink you had, a triple raspberry pump? Raspberry cold foam, cold brew. And how many, it was a venti? Is there actually a size above venti that is like, if you ask for it, they'll give you, or is it just venti's word? Crop top? Trenta. Can you get that or is that like, okay, but you didn't want to get the Trenta today? No, just a venti. It means 20 in Italian. for those of you scoring at home.

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