Beantown Podcast - Squires, Sires, and Knight & Days (05222026 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: May 23, 2026

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Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn Davis Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, May 22nd, 2026. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? Memorial Day weekend, 26. Kind of sneaks up on you this year, doesn't it? It's so early. May 25th, is that officially the earliest? Memorial Day? day weekend can be what are the stipulations on a s t i p u l a t i on us last monday in may is that what we're doing with memorial day and then labor day the kind of inverse first monday of september i think that's how they do memorial day right last monday in may so ergo de facto little latin lesson for you. Latin lesson could be a good horse name. I feel like it's just about every week at this point we get a good horse name in passing. I'll be honest with you. It's been what, three weeks given change. Given change is not a phrase. Given take. Three weeks or so since we did our horse name special and I feel like in the last couple episodes we've come up with some solid ones. Given change. Was that

even was that? I don't think that's even what we just said. I've had a couple of drinks today. If you couldn't tell, I apologize. Given change wasn't even the name, but that's a good name in of itself, so that's two names. I could go back and listen to the tape. God knows we have no editing capabilities. Something with stipulations. I don't know. But the point I was going to make about horse names is I have not been writing them down. I feel like I'm in the honeymoon period of the ninth annual horse name special thanks everyone who listened to that show and chimed in we had prequeness last week belmont stakes is it this next week is it does it go Kentucky Derby two weeks off prequeness one week off belmont or is it two weeks in between each

i'm not sure we'll get to the bottom of that offline but the final point i'm trying to make before God forbid we move on is that I've been coming up with, I feel like I've been, you know, like saying names. I'm like, oh, that could be a good horse name. This could be a good horse name. But I haven't been writing them down. So I feel like we potentially have a treasure trove of names. That's giving myself too much credit.

I just feel like there's some solid ones from the last couple weeks. I haven't been writing them down. and if we get to season 10 and feel like man we really have a dearth a dearth DEA-R-T-H of names we'll come back to May

of 2026 because I know where the names live but for now we're just kind of throwing them out there and you know what not everything has to be inscribed or written down sometimes you can just have great horse names

that are out there and they exist for a fleeting moment in time and then they're gone. Inscribed. I mean, I feel like if you're a scribe, a scribe is not inherently like lower class, but I can't imagine a scribe in like feudal times being upper class. I don't know how you guys feel about that. But it reminds me it's evocative E-V-O-C-A-H. of other feudal systematic names. And what I love about this when I was in my, by the way,

listener discretion advice when we were listening to this program, number one, we'll occasionally use some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. By the way, and then we're coming back to Wednesday night Christian ministries, I promise,

can't forget. Not drinking a beer today, actually go in a very different direction. I've been on a vodka kick today, which is not like me at all. The very quick backstory, it's not terribly interesting, but maybe like a year, two years ago, my wife did a Costco run, and so she bought a big handle of Kirkland vodka. And we just, there are very few occasions where we are like at home and either have people over or just by the two of us are like, oh yeah, this could be a good vodka night.

It's just, it's not something we really do by ourselves. So we've had this, I think it was literally from like two St. Patrick's days ago, this handle of vodka. And so I was at Jewel Oskill, Osco, late last night, picking up some random supplies. And I was like, you know what? I knew I had the day off today, Hala. And we went to the Cubs game and my sister-in-law, thank you, Sammy, was watching our dog. And Miss Maple over here, who's snoozing. otherwise we would do interview with the dog so i was like you know what like let's do something fun like

let's try to use up our resources so i bought one of those 99 cent you know flavored water kind of things they come in the i think it's like a liter so i got cranberry strawberry strawberry i think is what i got you know it's it's not the not the greatest thing but it's legitimately a dollar for a leader and it's hard to beat those prices so like you know it's not the not the greatest thing but it's legitimately a dollar for a leader and it's hard to beat those prices. It's like, you know, let's get that. Let's just like do a vodka thing today, just for fun. Something different. Something that's not whiskey, something's not beer. So I pre-game the Cubs game with some of that. Again, this is a DIY cocktail of Kirkland vodka, ice cubes straight from the tap. Well, the cubes aren't from the tap, but the water is eventually frozen.

I was going to start singing a song, but it's from Oana. So that's really embarrassing. What is the Frozen song? Let it go. But how does that actually go? You don't need me to sing it at you. I mean, no one wants to hear me sing, let it go. It's just frustrating that I can't remember how it actually goes. And what's getting really frustrating is, I forgot the story we were going to tell before we got into the damn vodka thing.

We were doing our, oh, this is going to be really irritating to me. we were we were gonna do us quick sidetrack like what i'm drinking before we get into the the actual story oh christian ministries okay basically i'm gonna finish up the the story so i don't forget wednesday night i'm not forgetting basically drinking down our resources because we've had stuff that's sitting here for years and it's like you know at a certain point you just got to dump it or drink it and forget about it so now i'm i'm after the cubs game had a you know like two what two beers there had a mickelope and a golden mango cart whatever it is and cubs got embarrassed whatever lost against like seven straight or something so now i'm back uh wife's rachie baby 95's out

for supper with some friends and so it's just me in meppel so i'm like you know what i might as well it's a four day start of the four day weekend let me just have fun let me go nuts with it i am coming out of my cold if you listen last week you remember i was recording my podcast as i was getting into the cold and I was like I know I'm getting sick this is going to be a bummer and lo and behold I have spent the last seven days being sick very standard common cold nothing to write home about started with the sore throat congestion came is literally the most textbook common cold and today's day eight now technically and I'm largely behind it still some some some uh snobiles if you will, that I've got to blow from time to time.

But we're working on my vodka here, and we'll get a refill from Aldi or Trader Joe's or something, I don't know. The Aldi I go to has a very small, limited alcohol selection. And when I've been there recently, because it's a newer experience for me, I haven't been to this Aldi many times, so I'm very thrown off by just, the format and the location of things and so I haven't I've been like you know I've got like a job to do

I've got to get the beans and I've got to get the you know cohito cheese and the bagels and all that stuff so I haven't had the sort of I haven't been able to let my hair down to be like you know let me peruse this liquor section that is legitimately like I don't really know how to measure an aisle, but excuse me, like half of an aisle long on one side. That's what we're talking about here. So I don't know exactly what our

local Aldi has to offer, but maybe they've got some discount vodka. We'll see it. You know, for in the next five years when we go through our next handle. I used to, when I was in college, I would go to the Aldi down on North Clybourne south of

the Armitage Brownline stop there. And you could get, I swear to God, you could get winking owl red wine i don't know what type of red wine it doesn't matter red wine winking owl for 289 a bottle like a regular legitimate bottle of wine and i swear when i was 21 i was an r a in college and i lived in this uh residence hall but it was owned by a third party and that was 90% of what I drank because you dude if you're just looking like for the I mean this goes without saying based off of what I just said but if you're looking for the cheapest way when you're 21 to just get turned really quick for really cheap it's hard to

beat a two bait you round up three dollar bottle of red wine and i wasn't even a red wine guy back then and i'm still kind of whatever on it i'll drink red wine you know for fun in the fall and winter but it's not a super frequent thing but yeah drinking uh winking owl red wine back in the day from aldi i i am very hesitant to ever drink a winking owl wine again in my life. Not that when I was drinking it, you know, 10 years ago, I was like, oh, man, this wine sucks. Thank God it was $3.

But I just know how my hangovers go these days. He says is he drinks his third vodka, cranberry, raspberry of the day. Maybe four. Oof, tomorrow could be rough. It's just when you get into your 30s, this stuff is, it doesn't metastasize. Let's try spelling that one four times fast quite as quickly. Isn't it the worst?

Gays and boy. Isn't it the worst when you're like, oh, I'll take like a quick sip, like a half sip, so that I can get back to what I was going to say quickly and then you end up setting yourself back by 30 seconds because you're coughing, hacking up a lung. Just because you try to shave off a couple. seconds by not taking an adequate sip. What I was going to say about being a scribe, eight minutes later, is we used to go to church, you know, we'd go to church as a kid.

My family and I would go to church, a non-denominational Christian church, not mega church, but that type of like belief system and vibe of like rock music, worship songs, but just like on a smaller scale. and we would go to regular old church, you know, they would have two services on Sundays. It'd be 8 a.m. And then Sunday school at 9.30. And then second service at 1045,

which is, I feel like, I don't know, maybe this is not true, but in like the church stuff that I follow and the YouTube streams I watch from time to time, I feel like they've gone away from this where you do like a service and then you do like a hard reset for an hour and then you repeat the exact same service with all the same music and the exact same message. That feels strange slash a to me and I know that's not uncommon.

I mean, we towards the end of high school or towards the end of my childhood and ergo de facto into high school, we would go to this mega church. And they would do like four or five on like, if it was a holiday, they'd do like five, maybe six services in the weekend. And it, the bizarre thing about it is it's just like the same thing repeated over and over again because you have to do it for capacity reasons. And I'm not like ragging on it. I don't have anything negative to say about it.

It's just kind of like taking a step back from it. It feels fascinating to be like, I can't imagine being a pastor, which I've done a sermon. I've done a Beantown podcast, Easter sermon. I think that was season one or season two back in 2018, something like that. I did an Easter sermon in my best southern draw, and I nailed it. But the point I'm trying to make, I can't imagine being a pastor and be like, okay, you know, the 8 o'clock, it was okay, but we could do this better in the 10 o'clock.

And then you do the 10 o'clock and you're like, man, I really nailed it. I hope I can keep it up for the 12 o'clock, the noon crowd, which if you're going to church at noon on a Sunday and you're missing football Sunday, like you're probably going to hell. Or maybe it's the opposite. Maybe you're going to heaven because you're not pulled in by the capitalistic national football league crowd. I don't know, maybe the bears are playing at 320 or something. But then it's like, oh, yeah, you know what? I'm going for my third sermon of the day.

Let me try to hit all these points again. It's like, oh, I couldn't quite land the plane as effectively the third time around today. Not to mention the two times I did it last night at 4 o'clock and 6 o'clock on Saturday. It's just a bizarre kind of concept to like do the same sermon and worship music. All that stuff four times. I mean, you have these Broadway plays, right? Or theatrical shows. And they will do, I think traditionally it's like you do eight shows in a week.

Monday through Saturday, you know, 7 o'clock or whatever. And then Sundays, 2 o'clock and 6 p.m. or something. But taking it to church. Take me to church. I'll worship at the throne at the sign of your life. Oh, like, and you can sharpen your knife. I know the head man with good God, let me show you my life. Take me to church.

We were just talking about Noah Khan, not related to Oliver Khan, nor Gangas Khan, nor Kublai Khan. This is, he's got an extra A, K-A-H-A-N to help delineate, differentiate himself. But we were just talking about Noah Khan. And, I mean, we're having a, this is at the Cubs game, we were having a separate conversation, but this made me think like that Hozier guy, I don't know what his actual name is. Hozier A. Jones, something like that. But what do we think the different, other than age? I don't know what Hozier looks like.

I imagine he looks exactly like Noah Khan, someone, some white guy with long brown hair. I was going to ask what what's the difference between Hozier and Noah Khan. I don't know much about Hoosier other than take me to church. Let's let's Google Hoosier. It's kind of like Hoosier. Like is this guy from Indiana? What does he look like? Oh my God.

I was literally like, you know, this sounds just by listening to take me to church. I'm like, this guy's got to be some white guy my age with Wong. brunette hair and the first he's 36 so he's got five years on me but the first google image a very white man with a full beard and a mustache and very long brown hair i could not have drawn him better myself we can google image him see what he looks like okay there he is and then we google image noah khan and i recognize that they you know they look different like no one is confusing the two but as far as hair goes we're pretty much dealing with the exact same thing here

these these white guys trying to break into the alt rock scene as great as they are they might need to differentiate themselves the final point the reason we got to Wednesday scriptures and church activities in the first place was because I mentioned inscribing. And it reminded me of when I was in growing up, there was like kids programming on Wednesday nights. And if you're from the Christian tradition,

you might be aware of the franchise or whatever you'd call it, I don't know, awanas. And eventually our church transitioned to that curriculum, I guess you'd call it. But before that we had our own, I don't think it was the church's proprietary thing by any means because we had like textbooks and stuff. Anyways, the previous version, when you were in fourth, fifth, and sixth grade, you had like,

or you also had that when you were younger than that too, but it was a whole different thing. When you were younger, like first, second grade, it was like this cool jungle quest, and you had to collect like these badges and gems. And then when you were in fourth, fifth, and sixth grade, you had like this vest and they'd put like pins on it. But you had this tag.

textbook and it was like fourth grade level you were a page and though you had like this textbook and the whole theme was like you're tending to the horses and then fifth fifth grade you were like a sire or something siree that's right siree and you're tending to the horses and the stables and shoveling the poop and memorizing the book of ephesians and then in uh grade six that's when you know you made it dude If you were grade six, Rock Church, Wednesday nights back in 2004, you were on top of the world, my friend, because you were a knight. Like that Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz film, Night and Day. I don't know how much of what I just said is accurate.

I've never seen the film Night and Day. I think it's Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, but I don't know. You can fact check me because I've got so many extra things I wanted to get to today. We haven't even done Amarled the Week, which Maple is very upset about over here. But yeah, you were a knight in grade six. And then it all came to a, it was like you peaked in grade six, then you go all the way back to being a page, basically a little slave boy in grade seven, because they lump in, our church lumped in like the Wednesday night evening programming,

grade seven through 12, which this is the last point I'm going to make, and then I promise we're going to move on to Animal of the Week because I have actual notes here. We haven't touched any of them, which you're probably rolling your eyes at. My promise to you is we're going to wrap things up quicker than you think because it's 7.43 p.m. and I have not even preheated the oven for supper,

and I'm very hungry. And so that whole spiel is going to take half an hour to get everything cooked. And I don't want to be sitting here at 10 p.m. and supper. So I promise you're thinking here like, man, this is the preamble. What we could do is preheat the oven while recording live, which could be interesting. That's something to look into the next couple of minutes here. The last point I wanted to make on the church front, our church, and I don't, I'm not like, oh man, you guys really dropped the ball, like shame on you. That's not

the stance I'm taking. The stance I'm taking is like maybe if they'd given a little bit more thought, maybe this wasn't the best idea. Like maybe they should, maybe they could have tried to delineate things further. But I mean, look, these are all volunteers, people who love the Lord. So regardless of your, you know, perspective on religion, organized religion and Christianity these days, like I am appreciative of the adults and parents. who gave their time on Wednesday nights 20 years ago, and maybe even now, maybe they still do this. I don't know at my church that I was at growing up.

But they lumped in the 7th through 12th graders all together under one roof for Wednesday night programming. And not only is that legitimately six years variance in kids to young adults, but like I don't know about you but when I'm thinking you know if you're seventh grader you're you're what what are you 11 turning 12 generally something like that I apologize my math is not going to be completely accurate and if you're 18 you're 17 turning 18 so you could legitimately have someone who is 18 hanging out doing the same programming as someone who's 11 and it's just I don't know how you guys feel about this, but I feel personally in my own life development, the type of person and just the things I knew about the world and the things I was into when I was 11, night and day,

that's a nice little callback reference, they'd call it, difference than when I was a senior in high school. So I don't know, it might have been nice to have separate middle school programming, but I think our rock church, if we can call them by name, may have been slightly understaffed for the Wednesday night activities, of which I do not fault them because it's a strictly volunteer basis. But it's good stuff. It's my fondest memory, the last thing I say then we move on, there were some random one-off like summer Olympics themed event i think i was in like six

or seventh grade so this was like 2000 maybe like 2008 Beijing Olympics themed kind of thing but there was like a it was like three big events in the gym and i recall it being a big deal like parents coming out to watch and one of the events was it was meant to be figure skating but you were on roller skates. It was a big knife for roller skates. The other one was like a relay race. It was from one side of the gym to the other. You were on like these,

the little like wooden planks with wheels underneath. And then the other one was like the speed skating where you're going around in the big oval. I think it was a circle, but oval and you're on roller skates. And it just felt like a big thing. There's video footage. of it somewhere, I think probably lost

to the dustbin of history, but it's a very small percentage of the listeners, let's frame it this way, that have any interest slash idea what I'm talking about, but it was good stuff. And if, look, if you are still listening nine

years into the Beantown podcast and you are expecting a more generalized conversation that the whole world can relate to, this is not the show for you. This is, uh, we could, we could give this show many names. is Rockford Unplugged, Rock Church Unplugged. Quinn loves vodka.

But the name is Beantown Podcast. Let's do our Animal of the Week. And then we, I did prepare trivia this week. And we got a couple items here. And if you're sitting there thinking, boy, he hasn't thanked Pakistan yet. That's intentional. Not because I wanted to delay our gratitude, but because we got an announcement. It's like actual serious announcement.

Well, it's not serious. You're still going to have fun, but it's legitimate. Our Animal of the Week is the Rainbow Trout. Usually I will come into Animal of the Week with some sort of backstory. Like, oh, I saw this at the Forest Preserve this week. And so that's going to be the Animal of the Week. Or I came across that. And now that I'm saying that out loud, I was at this, you know what, let's just pretend.

Pretend with me for a second. Tender and Mr. Rogers neighborhood, but it's Mr. Quinn's neighborhood. So I was at this bar last night. I was at a work function, and we did an, you know, admitted student panel and then did a happy hour after the fact at the suburban bar in, I don't know, Gurney area, Grays Lake, Lake County, Illinois. And it's a very, like, backwoods-themed bar with all sorts of taxid. Dermy, which lends itself amazingly to animal the week, which I neglected to even recall until just now. But in like the great hall, I don't know if there's a fireplace, but nevertheless it was a great hall where most of the tables were there's a polar bear skin. I don't know if

it was real or not, but it was there. And then in like our little party room, there's all sorts of elk heads and ram heads and boars and all that stuff. But the animal of the week I picked was the rainbow trout. And I don't know if I saw a taxidermied rainbow trout or salmon or anything like that on the wall. But I feel like you could imagine a taxidermied rainbow trout on the wall of this pizza place is a pizza pub and bar with pretty average pizza, not amazing, not terrible. Bill's Pub If you ever get the chance

A solid spot If you want to see a polar bear on the wall And maybe a rainbow trout, who knows But You know, the last thing I will say about this As I'm sauntering over to preheat the oven Is I tried to come up With a trivia question of the week

That was fish themed And I just couldn't come up with anything good but I did come across a very interesting fish that I had never heard of before we are walking and talking right now by the way hopefully this computer doesn't crap out and I don't remember the full name of it but I do remember so a couple things I remember about it the fish itself is it's it lives in South America and it ends in the name much like

The Lost City, the ancient city of gold. Dorado. But I think it was D-U-A-R-D-O. But generally, you know, you guys remember that Disney film that Elton John did the soundtrack for. The Road to El Dorado. 16th century man, Elton John, if you want a little just random three minutes of your life, banger off to the side, Elton John, 16th Century Man from the soundtrack, that's a good one, man.

So this fish, whatever, it's got like two word names, something like that. But the second word is Dorado. The reason I mentioned it, this fish has the world record for the longest fish migration. It swims all the way from the mouth of the Amazon, so out by the Atlantic Ocean, upstream in the Amazon, badass, 3,400 miles, I think it was, or it was like 5.5.5.000. thousand miles something insane just so that i can go back and reproduce and spawn i think those fish they got a i think it's like the males right they got to re-fertilize or fertilize the eggs or something so that's why i mentioned the dorado fish that's not the full name i apologize we're not giving it respect and apologies to the rainbow trout because i will be the first to admit that we didn't

give the rainbow trout the respect it deserved for animal of the week. But it's just fun to be mentioned because there's like a thousand billion animals out there that could be animal of the week. And so just to make it to one of our 52 Animal of the Week segments in season nine, it feels like an honor. I don't know about you guys. It feels like high praise. I mentioned we'll mention this very because it's just a random thought I had and then we'll do some thank used to our ads. I just now, like said, oh, that could be a, like that word choice doesn't make sense. I don't remember exactly what it was.

My actual point I wanted to make, this came up in jeopardy. This was a response in jeopardy today on Friday. The word itself was redouble. And I just, when Ken was reading the clue or the description, whatever, and the contestant was getting it right. Because I got it right to it was like, oh yeah, that's like redouble, I think. And then as they were jumping into the next clue, I just had this like existential moment where I was trying to define or not define, but think about the word redouble. Because the whole thing, the definition of the word redouble, and it's kind of like an old school militaristic term.

But it's like, oh man, if, you know, if our enemies or our troops are falling, they're not, you know, able to give the job to, we must redouble our efforts. and I'm over here on the couch, you know, three vodka, cranberry raspberries, in after the Cubs game. And I'm thinking like, redouble, I mean, is that like a, are we doing like a times four? What's the math? We're redoubling,

because redoubling seems to indicate that you've already doubled once. But I think the actual definition of redoubling your efforts is to say, like, we're just going to amp up the, you know, the temperature, the speed, amp up the voltage, ampiers, SI units, anyone? But I think if you redouble your efforts, all that means, etymologically, don't ask me to spell it, is we're just going to bump things up from normal speed.

But in theory, if you think about it, re-double, you're double-dippin on the doubling, frankly. Re-double? No sane person would say that's two times. Every sane person I know would say, oh, that's a quadruple timer right there. Redoubling. So I wanted to make my official stance known.

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you saying like oh 114th like that kind of sucks for like it's not all podcasts it's comedy podcast. You're like, okay, you kind of blow. But at the same time, there's like a gazillion people who live here. So 114th really is not so bad. Well, we got an update because now thank you Carlos for running the stats on this. Position 78 in the category comedy, Pakistan. So we have moved up 36 spots in the ranking. Thank you, Pakistan.

Hyderabad, Karachi, Khyber Pass, wherever you are listening from. Bean Town Podcast is officially top 78 in Pakistan for comedy podcasts. These Pakistanis like to laugh. But the fun doesn't stop there. It would be one thing if it was just like, okay, Bean Town podcast, doing all in Pakistan, improving. That's great. Amazing. Nope.

We got news. Next bullet point. position 178 in the category comedy Nigeria and if you thought Pakistan had a lot of people have I got news for you Nigeria basically more people than any other country at this point except for like another 10 Nigeria 178 more importantly we have a brand new market my friends brand new religion Christianity you know the same color flag but in general Really exciting. We're going from Middle East to West Africa.

We've got a whole, we got, you know, on one side of the Middle East, on the east side, Pakistan, all the way west across the Sahara to Nigeria. And we are catching fire, much like Katness Everdeem, the girl on fire. Nigeria. Hello. Abuja, Lagos. third town I haven't come across yet. Thank you for making us the 178th ranked county podcast in the I'm bleeding from my shin. That's not good. Good thing we got a Portillo's napkin here. Dude, Nigeria, if you're listening, you're like, what the heck? This guy's crazy. He's bleeding from his shin.

I'm like, you don't know what's going to happen on the Beantown podcast. Sometimes he bleeds. but he bleeds for your country. Thank you, Nigeria, for making us the 178th ranked comedy podcast in the Republic of Nigeria. I really strongly appreciate it. Excuse me. And then the rest of the email goes, this data is provided by podstatus.com. Happy podcasting, Carlos, from pod status. Thank you, Carlos, for the update.

is much appreciated. Thank you, Pakistan. Thank you, Nigeria. Dude, the Nigeria news is obviously exciting because there's a whole new market for us. But top 78 in Pakistan, for real? I'm glowing. I'm basking in the glow.

The oven just went off, which means it's preheated and it's ready. Making chicken. tenders, I'm going to slice them up, throw them into my salad, and some waffle fries too. Maybe maple will get one. But all this is to say, thank you Nigeria, thank you Pakistan. Let's finish up here. We've done most of our things here.

I did want to, on a quick, very, I will keep this very brief, I promise, but a quick somber note, rest in peace, Kyle Bush, who when I, so, you know, we don't talk NASCAR, hardly ever on this show. And I'm not really plugged in NASCAR at all. But when I was for a period there, I had some friends in school who were really into NASCAR and it just was a way that we could connect

and I decided to get into it for probably, I don't know, three, four years, something like that. And I chose my driver. It was Jimmy Johnson because he seemed like the least, for lack of a less offensive or at least redneck type driver

because he's from. you know, California and just was like a cool guy and, you know, seemed like pretty normal, whatever that means to you. Anyways, the biggest thorn in my side as a NASCAR fan rooting for Jimmy Johnson was always fucking Kyle Busch because he was so good and he drove in that stupid looking Eminem's car. He was so belligerent and he just did his own thing and was, you know, wrecking people and giving people with a finger and whatever he was such a pain in the butt because he was so good so about 24 hours ago when i was wherever we were i was like out to dinner with my wife or something i can't remember

but when i saw kyle bush died i was or no i was at i was at a work event i saw it pop up on my esbn and i was just like like what the hell not only was he dead i mean kyle bush still very successful. And I think the crazy thing to add the extra layer to that, he's gotten an older brother, Kurt, who's mostly retired now, who was not quite as successful as he was as a racer, but still very successful, one of a bunch of races. And so when you have that kind of point of reference, like, oh, he's gotten an older brother who's like just almost as famous as he is.

To see the younger guy go, it's just like, wow. So it's kind of the second time this year This sort of thing has happened With Kyle Bush passing A guy I really did not care for But at the same time You like There's a lot more to life than petty arguments

And being like, oh, I don't like that guy Because he's kind of like an asshole Like It's life and death And now he's gone 41 years old This guy's only a decade older than I am. And same kind of thing for my, this is less extreme because I didn't think this guy was an

asshole. He was just a friendly rival in our fantasy football group. And my friend Steve Johnson passed. He'd been in our like OG fantasy football league family for the last, what, 15-ish years or so. And so for him to pass what in February or something, I don't know. It's just, it's, it's, It's really, I mean, it's the circle of life. And who knows? Knock on wood. It's not going to be me next, but you don't know, like when stuff's just going to unravel. And I mean, Kyle Bush literally was in a truck's race like two weeks ago, like competing and hanging out and doing well and pit stops and all that stuff.

And now he's just not like, oh, yeah, he had to retire. Like, he's just gone. And I don't know, maybe that's a sign to not have a fourth vodka here, but like, it's sobering, I guess, is the last thing I will say. There's no other words that I really want to put on it. But I will stop there because I'm not a very, you don't come to the Beantown podcast to get eloquent words. So I apologize for that. But he was definitely a part of my later childhood for sure. so rest in peace

Kyle Bush it feels really bizarre that he's gone I know when Kobe died for the hardcore fans it was really strange and for me not a hardcore fan but it was still really strange so this is a miniature version of that but it's really bizarre when you lose a guy or a gal who's still very much in their prime

it's just like doesn't make any sense So not fun. The last thought I had here and then our trivia question and then we're done, I will tell it to you like I said it, like I wrote it down in my stupor. Not drunk and stupor. I wasn't drunk any days before right now. This was just a general stupor. St.U-P-O-R.

If we can buy and resell sports and concert tickets, why can't we buy and resell flight tickets? That's your big picture thought for the day. The other thing I wrote down right as we were going into recording was arcs. Like the Noah's Ark and the Ark of the Covenant, which you know both from the Exodus story and from Raiders of the Lost Ark. But the reason I wrote down Ark is I had the thought of like, I feel like arcs in general, I was going to do like,

like A-R-P, no, A-R-K. Really big deal in the Bible for a couple of different reasons. Noah's Ark, huge, like the last remaining remnant of man and humankind on the Ark. So kind of a big deal. And then also, like, where do we put the Ten Commandments in the other arc? You know, not the first Ark, but the second Ark. And then Indian Jones finds it and so do the Nazis, yada, yada, yada. Are there any other famous arcs?

I feel like as far as just the word generally goes arc. There's kind of two extreme cases of it. And otherwise there's not any other arcs. It's kind of been an all or nothing arc situation. If you think of a third, email us Beantown Podcasts at yahoo.com. again, it's Beantown, B-E-A-N-T-O-N podcast at Yahoo.com. That brings us to our trivia question of the day.

We're bringing it back to fish, which we were talking about with our animal of the week. Here is the trivia question as it lives and breathes. This fish gives birth through the male rather than the female, making it one of the few animals where the father carries the young. Again, this fish gives birth through the male rather than the female, making it one of the few animals where the father carries the young.

This feels, generally speaking, like the type of question where there could be multiple correct answers, and so I'm not here to bust your balls. If I reveal the quote-unquote correct answer and you're like, well, I guess this in Wikipedia, Pedia says this right. Don't come at me. Just email Spintown PodcasteaiHoo.com. We'll give you credit in the season long standings. I have a specific answer in mind because it feels like the most common

one. And my clue is, it's got another animal name in it. And it's not only another animal name, it's an animal we've done in Animal of the Week like a month ago. And it's a near and dear and deer type of animal to this podcast. And there's kind of a Pokemon that is like basically this thing. You know, it's interesting with the Pokemon creators between the animators and the namers, they got really lazy on some of these with Gen 1. That's a thing that I tip my cap to as you got into later generations. They got a lot more creative with like animation.

We're going to name this something weird. And you're like, that doesn't feel like an English word at all. It's like, well, because we, at a certain point, we had to stop naming Pokemon seal, which is just like a regular animal, but we'll make it look slightly different. Or in this case, you know, Cedra, which just looked like exactly one of these animals. That's the right answer. But we're just going to, you know, animate it slightly differently, make it look more mad. And it's like, okay, well, did we really not have any creativity and,

1997 when Pokemon came out or whenever a year it was. The correct answer, the fish that gives birth through the male rather than the female is the seahorse. Badass. Good for you guys. Seahorse males. Ombres. Ombres de la Mar. That's right.

My Spanish Eho's note. That's what I had for you guys. I need to go heat up some chicken. I gotta take the dog for a walk, and I don't know, maybe we'll watch, uh, I was gonna watch that Sam Ramey Send Help movie with Rachel McCadams, but I think, I think Rachel Baby 95 might want to watch it, so we might save it. Maybe we'll watch, uh, I got one more episode left in the Malcolm in the Middle Revival, but it's just so, uh, here's the word I will use for it, not bad, unnecessary.

And what frustrates about me, my last, thought and then we're done, I promise, is I recall distinctly like six months ago, Brian Cranston coming out in an interview and being like, I wouldn't have done it if I didn't feel like is a story worth telling. And I'm three out of four episodes into this quote, story worth telling. And I'm just like, Brian, bro, like, who hoodwinked you? Because this is not the story worth telling. Nothing has happened. in three episodes. So that's what I got for you guys.

My name is Quinn Davis Furness. I appreciate you tuning into my show. Quinn David Furnish presents the Beantown podcast. You know I will be back next week. So strapping those seatbelts. Stay safe. Stay sane. I'll check in you next time.

Bye, guys.