Beantown Podcast - Stuart Little, Illustrated Movie Companions, and Bingo Parlors (11132025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss dollar movie theaters, parachuting accidents, and plum brandy

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Thursday, November 13th, 2025. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn, and I am the creator host and Chief Currency Exchange officer on this program. I got euros coming out of my ears, ready to go, packed away, flushed away. Classic Q. Jackpin film. Is that Ian McKellen, too? He plays The Bad Guy. Was he like a frog or something?

Who was the bad guy and flushed away? Was he a frog? What was the deal? A big old frog living in the sewers. Classic film. One of the first, maybe the first film in my life that I ever went to, like, just a one-on-one with a parent. I went to see flushed away with my dad at the dollar theater. I think it was, yeah, it was like the one or two dollar theater.

I don't remember. There used to be a mall. Well, it's still there. It's called North Town Mall, the kind of north-northwest side of Rockford along the river there. On Riverside Boulevard, I believe, in North Main Street. And in the basement there used to be a movie theater and a super cheap. Also saw March of the Penguins there,

classic documentary, I think, narrated by Morgan Freeman. And I think if you go look up in the history books, if you go to like the Rockford Archives or something, there was some sort of Christmas event in the parking lot of the North Town Mall back in the 70s where there was like a Santa who paratrooped in, parachuted into like the Christmas village or Christmas display or something. And I think he like went through the roof of the mall and died. really tragically. Anyways, it looks at, and I actually looked into this just a, I don't know, two months ago, something like that, as I was reminiscing about Rockford's classic movie theaters,

of which there were kind of like five main ones, right? There was like North Town Mall, which has been gone for 20 years. And then there's still the showplay 16 on East State, that's still there. There's the 14 up at like 173 in Perryville. That's still there. and then the two other ones there was a colonial village that was another like small mall that we had kind of at the five points area of rockford east side what a name for a shopping mall colonial village what are you trying to evoke i don't know it's it makes me think of the you know the tim robinson's

stand dan flash's sketch where he gets his shirts they're complicated they're at dan flashes but the mall itself is like an outdoor shopping center's called the shops at the creek. And that is at least like, you know, you got some nice outdoor. You got some nature shops at the creek. That makes sense. What are we doing calling something colonial village? I don't know. That was a weird one. I think I saw Stuart Little, the Michael J. Fox version with Jonathan Lipnicki, Hugh Lurie and Jeannie Davis. I believe, if I'm not mistaken, that it was the critically acclaimed Nathan Lane portraying the cat Snowball.

You ever see Stuart Little, the Michael J. Fox version from like 25 years ago, Rachel? It's a classic. I like when he's on the boat, and Jonathan Lipnicki's driving him around, and I don't know if he crashes or what happens, but it's good stuff. I think he gets stuck in the washing machine at some point, too. Kind of a little scary there. And then there was, what did you say, Rachel? he is crazy steward little crazy eby white classic and then there was the cherryville theater as well at the cherry valley mall it's just kind of it's interesting you know you think of when i

think of movie theaters in a mall i think of like them being in the actual mall and you can just like go from macy's to forever 21 to hot topic to sunglasses hot and then boom you walk into the movie theater i like seeing theater it makes me sound well researched and esteemed but at the At Cherry Valley, you can still go see the building where it is. It was like a separate offshoot building over by the Sears Garage, kind of by Magic Waters. This week on the Beantown podcast, Quinn reminisces about Rockford and Cherry Valley from 25 to 50 years ago. I think last I checked, last time I drove past there, which was five years ago or something. It was like a gymnastics studio or something now.

I don't know. I suppose you got tall ceilings. it's always interesting to me like you know the renovation that goes into transforming like an old movie theater into something else i guess that uh well i got i got some points of reference uh are like mega church that popped up in rockford you know in like 2005 2010ish heartland which i think has gone undergone a rebrand and all the old guard is gone the you know the old pastors and board of directors they're all wiped away and it's a whole new leadership I don't know what happened there. It was after I left town.

But that was where I mentioned Colonial Village, where I saw Stuart Little. That was what Heartland Community Church, like Rockford's first mega church, took over. And, yeah, it was a, I was worshipping, I was praising God in the same space. I was watching Michael J. Fox and Jonathan Lipnicki battle against Snowball the Cat. Crazy how life comes at you. but the final to cap this off the final point i was making is i was researching the old north town mall cinema because it was in the basement and movies were like a dollar dollar 50 something like that and that space is for sale i don't know the exact amount like a real estate

developer kind of guy i don't know if it was a good deal or a bad deal i don't remember the exact pricing structure but i could buy that old movie theater now the question is like does the popcorn machine still work or did they sell it off These are questions that I have. Do they still have the big screens? Could I, you know, go in there and bring my own copy of March of the Penguins and see it? Or, you know, projected on the big screen, these are things that I would want to do. Let's move past it. The last thing about the North Town Mall, there used to be a bingo parlor there, which is just like a, I feel like you walk around town these days.

You don't really see bingo parlors. And you could go in there and it was a bunch of old. people you light up you smoke it's it reeked of smoke in there not that i really spent time in there but my parents would volunteer there to like pay for a portion of our swimming i don't know if it was like to pay for like the the participation fee or if it was more of just like raising money on top of that for the swim club in town the rockford marlins but i want to give a shout out to my parents because if I was in my 30s, which I am now, and into my 40s, and all of a sudden my kid came home from swim club and was like,

hey, you know, swim club needs you guys to volunteer Friday night at the bingo parlor, organizing the little stampers and grabbing the balls out of the bigger ball, whatever you would call it, the bingo swish, I'll call it. I think I would say, are you kidding me? I mean, at least I could light up in there, but otherwise, Not my idea of a Friday night. So shout out to my parents. It probably wasn't their idea of a cool Friday night either.

But I guess you got to do it together. You got to do with friends. And you kept the swim club going. My dad, you know him from Home Pride, Oregon. He was the president of the Rockford-Marlin Swim Club for a year or two. I don't know if he's got that on his resume. But it could be good if USA Swimming ever comes calling. Could throw his name into the ring.

I mentioned euros and how I was the chief currency exchange eight minutes ago. The reason I mentioned that is because tomorrow we are going to Portugal and an assortment of other places. And we'll get you a live show live when I record it, not when you listen to it next week at some point. I don't know exactly where we'll be. It'll be one of my classic record on the iPhone kind of deals. And then we come back and we'll do a Thanksgiving show post Thanksgiving, maybe Black Friday Madness or something like that. I don't know if the theme's going to be exactly yet. But, excuse me, wanted you to make sure I got this one in before our overnight flight, Chicago to Lisbon.

So we'll see you over there. Yeah, Euro's got the power adapter. Made sure I trimmed my fingernails. Kind of checked off the big three before you fly over to Europe. I am drinking, by the way. This is, well, this is exciting. So I'm finishing off a four pack of tall boys, the maple wood. brownie points i think brownie yeah i think brownie brownie points is what it's called and uh i've been

nursing these i think i've just been having like one as i do the podcast maybe one other one for like three weeks i've been having these so there's four of them really stretched it out but i'm also excited my lovely bride listener discretion by the way as advised when you're listening to this program number one occasioning some language number two this podcast is objectively terrible. And since we're promoting the alcoholic beverages at this time in the show, I figure for the youngsters out there that you're Jonathan Lipnicki's might be time for bed. I am drinking plum brandy and I haven't had a sip yet. So we're getting the live. It's like a, it's like I'm a cool YouTube vlogger. We're doing a reaction video. This is a plum brandy

from Serbia, which is very exciting. And, let's Let's see. Let's do our first little, we got first you got to sniff it, right? I probably don't have the right glass for this. This is just like a classic, whatever they call these, a whiskey glass. I don't know. You guys know what I'm talking about. Circular, not tall. Real plum flavors.

All right, let's take our first sip live on air. It's, yeah, it's good. It's plummy. It's not very sweet. It's pretty subtle. and it goes down very smooth i'm not really a brandy person in general i mean i watched all of moisha but otherwise i haven't had it that much but i don't know i might have to add this into the rotation i'm almost with my cognac and i'm almost i've got like one one or two fingers left of this

nevada whiskey i got for christmas 2023 because i need to tap into this kentucky stuff i got from christmas 2024 my my goal is always to make sure i at least open up the bottle from the previous Christmas before the next Christmas happens, just to kind of stay ahead of the curve there. But no, it's good. It's good plum brandy. If you're ever in Serbia next time, check it out. Get some plum brandy. It's delicious. Our hot take of the week here is sponsored by someone who knows a little thing, one or two things at least about heating and cooling. The aforementioned owner of HomePri d'Organ, my dad's Steve. If you're buying a home, if you're a new home buyer, first-time home buyer, you're moving up, or maybe you're even

getting towards your twilight years, and you're going from your McMansion down to a little Cape Cod, three-bedroom, two-bath, single-story, single-level kind of thing. I don't know if that's what a Cape Cod house is actually like. I don't know the whole terminology. I'm not really plugged into homes and real estate. So when people are like, oh, this is a beautiful farmhouse. I'm like, well, I don't know. What do you think? What does that mean? Ranch, I think is one, story, but I don't know. Don't get me started on Cape Cod. I already got started. So don't get me started again. He'll inspect all of them. I don't know how many Cape Cod houses they got out there in Oregon, but that's the thing about Steve. He went through like a thousand hours of

on, you know, in the field practical training. He's double internecchi insured. So better give him a call. 541-0-0-316. He might ask you, you got a ranch, you got a townhome, you got a mobile home, you got a recreational vehicle, you got a Cape Cod, you got a brick house, you got a walk-up, you got a two-flat, you got a three-flat, whatever you got. He's got your back. Home Pride, Oregon, inspection, perfection. My hot take is not particularly spicy or anything like that. It is, it's like if you go to Buffalo Wildlings, but you're from, you know, North Dakota or something, and you think soy sauce is spicy, you get like a two on the Scoville scale. That's kind of what this hot take is. So we had a big snowstorm here in Chicago back to like, you know, last

Saturday, Sunday, Monday, I guess it was going on. And it was, you know, early November, like November 6th, something when this was happening. And so my hot take is that when I think about like the calendar and what I associate each calendar with seasons wise and weather wise and temperature wise climate, I guess would be a good summary word for all of that. C.L. I am A-T-E. Climate. Climate. Seems like you should say climate. But, because it's not, it's not primate. It's primate. And they have the same Latin suffix, eight. But that's neither here or there. I just frankly wanted to get a spelling in on the show before I forgot. But the hot take is that snow in November is okay. I'm okay with that trade-off, even though it's, or I'm okay with snow in November.

even though it's awfully early, if we can trade it off for some actual spring in March, I got to tell you, I'm a big, I'm a big, you know, St. Patrick's Day fan. It's a great holiday. It's right around my birthday. It's a big deal here in Chicago. And I feel like it's like 20% of the time that you actually get somewhat springish, pleasant weather on St. Patrick's Day. I feel like it's usually just like classic winter day. not terribly cold, not zero degrees, but we're usually dealing with like 30s until low 40s. If you could, if you give me snow November, this is my actual hot take. If you give me snow November, that's okay.

I can handle that. If we could just trade off, like you get me a 50 degree day on St. Patrick's Day, and it doesn't need to be 50 overnight, but like when I'm out and about drunkenly stumbling from bar to bar, which these days it's usually just one bar or the couch, but that's okay. You know, give me 50, something like that. I'd like to be able to go out with a light jacket and jeans and be comfortable and not have to be like, well, just wear my actual winter jacket because it's March 15th and, of course, it's going to be cold. I told you it wasn't that spicy of a take. It's more of a reflection, right, than anything else.

Sometime before I die, and I don't think this is actually going to happen because it feels like this whole, I was going to say this whole type of stuff, is disappearing, but I got to tell you, there's all sorts of, like, local news and low-budget TV networks and stuff. What I really wanted or want at some point is some sort of, like, morning reflections. I don't need a whole half-hour show. It could be radio as well, I guess. Put me on, like, AM, 1730, right at the end of the dial. Just something where I can give, like, little reflections. It's kind of like every Monday now for my job, because desperately looking for things to fill the time because of our hiring freeze. I'm starting to post like hiring tips for applicants on LinkedIn.

I'm becoming a thought leader on LinkedIn and I go to Canva. We've got the peanut gallery laughing at me. You haven't been liking any of my tips. Every Monday at 11 a.m., you can go find them. They're inspirational. They're informative. And I am, I've really transformed into a LinkedIn thought leader, which is very exciting.

So I'd like to take that into a less social media-centric kind of platform and have like a little morning show. What I liked was it's not even a show, right? It's like, it's give me like 30 seconds. It's basically a commercial break. When I would, when I was growing up at like 6.59 a.m. on the NBC affiliate in Rockford, there would be a, I don't know what it was called, but there'd be a great little like 30, second 60 second reflection from the bishop of rockford thomas g doran d o r an and he just give you a little morning reflection he did it every morning i don't know if it was live or i mean i don't think it was

live i think he pre-taped it but he would have a new one every single morning and the song that was playing was that is it debussy and it's like do do do do do do do do do da da da da da da da da da da da da anyways you know it's like a i don't know if it's a prelude or i think think that's uh no i think that's the first i don't know what it's called but i believe it's from the dbc suite children's corner for solo piano it's the first one if you just go youtube children's suite i mean the whole thing is only like 20 minutes long if that uh but it's the first one from there it's in c major it's a classic that would play that was like the theme song that would play while he was giving his morning reflection and uh bishop doran has his long since past i think it was

i don't know i think it was like less than a decade ago but rest of in peace, I want one of those shows. And maybe I won't do the same WC piece, but I might go a different direction within Children's Corner. And I think the closing number, I'll do Gollywog's Cakewalk. That's right. When's the last time you heard, if ever, the term, the title, Goliwog's cakewalk. You don't see a lot of cakewalks these days because of the racial kind of undertones. You did a cakewalk at church? No, I'm at a summer party. Were you in Blackface?

No. Rachel won a cake. She did a cakewalk at a summer party. And she probably was walking to Goliwog's cakewalk unbeknownst to her, unbeknownst to her. Or something more her speed like Blackhead Peas or Jewel. We used to do cakewalks at the, this should have been mentioned, a couple,

a couple weeks ago for our Halloween spectacular, the rock church classic, Hallelujah Funfair, which is just a hell of a name. You thought Colonial Village was good. Try Hallelujah Funfair. And it's just like, you know, because as Christians, you're not allowed to go trick-or-treating,

but instead we would just have like trick-or-cheating but at the church. But I got to tell you, this thing was lit. And I know everything just seems like bigger and grander when you're a little kid and everything looks big and important. But this thing was like, legitimately like all the rooms in the church because this was a big church so there are like a lot

of classrooms there was a basement with more rooms there was a gym there are other spaces every single one of these rooms and large spaces was just decked to the nine with like different decorations each room had like a different you know teacher or parent that was responsible for like running the games and the activities in there and there'd be you know costumes and decorations and you know music playing and tons of food and there was always a cake walk in the gym it wasn't like it wasn't the whole gym was dedicated to that it was just a portion of it but i don't really remember what we did i think it was basically like musical chairs but i remember one year it was uh they gave you carrot cake cupcakes was the prize for the cake walk and i always thought i always felt really jipped because

one it's it's it's not a cupcake walk right and two it's carrot cake really is that really is that really what the creator of the cakeway is that what claude wc would have wanted you think gollywogs getting carrot cake i don't think so pal moan frere that's what he would say that's the cakewalk how did we get there oh this is all from bishop thomas g dorans yeah i would play at 659 a m and then the today show would start here comes matt lower and katie corrick talking about the hunt for sad Tom Hussein, 2003 special, baby. Rest in peace, Dick Cheney. Maple's Minute, she is next to me this week.

She is, well, I'll let you know, Maple's Minute is sponsored by the Samson Q2U series. Samson would have been great for the Hallelujah Funfair, like opening announcements, because when God speaks, he uses Samson. And, of course, they're good friends at Cuts by Q. Rachel got a haircut last night, and there were things she liked and disliked. liked about it. And I got to tell you who's got a 100% customer satisfaction rate is cuts by Q. Check out the Google reviews. Check out the website, Beantown Podcast.com slash cuts by dash Q. Sorry, we got slashes and dashes in there. So make sure you

were listening closely. Cuts by Q. When you need to fresh use some of the snap, you're new. Call the experts at Cuts by Q. This is the way Maple's Minute is supposed to work. Maple is getting a belly rub live on air as I'm discussing or presenting this week's Maple's minute. And before I actually said, I got to tell you, Maple, we're almost done with season eight here. Is that right? Season seven? What season is this? We started in 2018. Is that right? So this is season eight, the Ocho. Hard to keep track after, yeah, it's been like, it's been more than 400 episodes or season eight, I think. I don't know. Tough to say. 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 22, 23, 24, 25. That's eight. It always gets tricky because when you're, like, counting your age, you don't count zero as a year. But when you're counting, like, how long something's been around, you do count it. Always trips me up. I think, Maple, I think, you know, we might bring it back. I know this is going to be hard for you to hear. That's the first time you're hearing this. But once we get into season nine and beyond, oh, what the heck? Something.

loud banging in the other room. Once we get to season nine, we're not going to make this a every week kind of feature. It's going to be more of an ad hoc as needed basis. It's kind of what my consulting company told me, and then they've contacted me twice in the last three months. So Maple, that's kind of the same level of consistency you can expect out of your segment once we get to January. So sorry if that's hard to hear, but I still love you and I'll still feed you kibble morning and night, regardless. Your paycheck and self-worth is not tied to the status of Maple's Minute. Maple's Minute this week, thank God that my parents are leaving it. It's time for a vacation. Maple is getting a like 12-day vacation here. Just there's going to be tom rubs. There's going to be

pampering, paw massages, definitely ear squidges. And likely zero to, to very, to very, to very few moments being left alone and training and all that fun stuff. It is just she's going to be probably have one of those drinks with an umbrella, little umbrella in it. I love those. Probably wear her sweater, her sweater. Her auntie is going to take very good care of her. So that's Maple's Minute. She's going on vacation. Excuse me. I got really just one more thing here and then trivia. It's a truncated episode and I don't apologize for that because leaving for Europe in 24 hours here, and hours are precious at this point. I got a three-hour Justin Fields game to watch after this, so you know how valuable my time is. But I did want to mention,

so I was stocking up on books to bring on the honeymoon to make sure I, you know, get some good reading in, reading on the plane, reading when I have free time, and just wanting to relax. And if you're curious. I intended to get four books, and then it looked like it was going to be three, and then the library said one of them was canceled, so I ordered a fourth one, and then all four came anyways. The ones I have that I'm actually bringing, and the fourth one is funny, which is why I mentioned this. I have American Psycho, which I think we're all relatively familiar with the Christianville film from, what was that, 2000, something like that. So I've never read that. I have that. And then I have

the Lost City of Zed. About Percy Everett, was that his name? Percival Fawcett. Something like that. Percy Fawcett, I think, is what his name was. Written by, so it's a nonfiction book written by the same guy who did Killers of the Flower Moon. And it's interesting. I didn't even know this book was a book until recently. I actually, you

might recall, we may have talked about this a little bit on the show a couple weeks ago, but they did a movie, The Lost City of Zed, based on this book when I was in grad school. So it's already been a decade since this movie came out. But it stars Charlie Hunnam and Robert Patinsen and Tom Holland. And so I watched a movie. I went with a friend Nick, who one of those people you like get to know pretty well in school and spend a lot of time with him and then graduation hits and you never hear from them again. hope he's doing well no idea what happened to that guy but we saw the lost city who said it wasn't at colonial village but it was it was here in chicago um but but it's based on a book and so i got

the book so i'm excited if you don't know it's basically like the hunt for el dorado essentially but there's this british explorer percy faucet i think his last name was and uh i won't spoil the ending but we don't know the ending so I can't spoil it for you. And then the third book I got, oh, it's a Stephen King from like 20 years ago, 15, 10 years ago maybe, like 10 years ago. What is it? It was called like, I don't know, like Mirage or something like that.

A sci-fi, I think it's less horror and more kind of Michael Crichton-esque. I don't think it's called Mirage. It's something like that, though. So those are the three I got. And the reason I ended up getting that Stephen King one in the first place was because I had requested a different book. And then the library emails me to say, oh, it's not available. So we're going to cancel your request. I'm like, okay, well, I want to make sure I have a third book.

Not that I'm going to read all three of these and finish them, but I just want to give myself a little bit of cushion, you know? Way better to have too much to read than not enough. That was my thought process. So what was the fourth book that I requested that didn't come in, but then it ended up magically coming in? Well, it was Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. You probably all know the Da Vinci Code. Well, he has a prequel starring the same character, Robert Langdon, right? And then there was a third one, Inferno.

I'm talking about this as if it wasn't a major motion picture. You know the great film. Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor. Classic. It's set in Vatican City. it's really it's good stuff so i'm at the library yesterday get my books and uh i get the stephen king one and it looks like a normal book and then i get this book that is i've got it in my hand right now this baby's taller than the samson q2 u series it's got to be a foot and a half

tall very thin i'm like something is not right here this is not the classic dan brown novel that i was looking for and wouldn't you believe it i i hate when this happens. I am currently in possession of the Angels and Demons, or Angels and Demons, the Illustrated Movie Companion. It's the only official book hailing the extraordinary filmmakers at the heart of this thought-provoking and unorthodox thriller. It's a very particular choice of word there, unorthodox. I like it. Reuniting Academy Award winners, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Tom Hanks, this suspense-filled movie based on Dan Brown's ticking time bomb novel, Sprints through Crips, Catacombs, and Cathedral

to decipher clues, prophesying the mutilation of Cardinals with mysterious symbols. Crips, catacombs, and cathedral sounds like it could be one of those Barbie PC games you get on CD-ROM. Barbie's trying to, like, basically pull a

Robert Langdon, you know, find all sorts of mysterious, religious texts, translate them as only Barbie could do. There's much more to the summary of this book here. But I've got this giant-ass picture book, for lack of a better word, angels and demons, the illustrated movie companion. And so I thought, you know, because I'm not

going to like sit here and read this and look at every single piece. It's just, it's just going to be a straight return. In one of these days, I will hopefully read angels and demons, for real, not the illustrated companion. I have read the Da Vinci Code, you know, probably 15 years ago, something like that. Dan Brown, if you're curious, did write the forward for the illustrated companion. We got a nice picture of Ron Howard here in this cool kind of fedora-looking thing in Vatican City talking with locals, talking with Hanks. There's the introduction from Brian Grazer. Now we got a preface. This book has two introductions and a preface. How do you like that we're looking at green screens okay here's the cast so tom hanks is robert langdon you know what

this reminds me of there used to be those you know like movie companion books i guess is what you'd call them but we had them for star wars and the one for uh attack of the clones was great because then had this great uh picture of christopher lee sir christopher lee as count ducu and he's looking all smug and the little caption is signature look of superiority That was for Christopher Lee. Rest in peace. So we got Tom Hanks, Bob Langdon, is I would call him. I let Zuru, that's a hard one to say, is a Vittoria Vettra.

There he is, speaking of Star Wars, Ewan McGregor, as Carmelingo. What a name. Camer Lengo, Patrick McKenna. This movie was like Conclave before Conclave was cool. Stone Scarsguard, Armand Mueller Stahl, This week on the Bean Town podcast, Quinn reads the entire cast of angels and demons. And now we're just getting, so we're past the cast. Oh, here's a page dedicated to the conclave.

That's pretty cool. The Sistine Chapel, the Sistine Chapel set. Anyways, we could do this for half an hour because there's a lot of pages in here. And I mean, it's interesting enough. I mean, maybe one day I'll go to Vatican City. I don't know. But here's a section on the costumes, the Super Collider. There's a lot of good stuff in here. So I got to tell you, if you're looking to really experience angels and demons, the book and the film at the same time, but you only have about, I don't know, 30 to 40 minutes that you could take out of your day, I can't recommend enough the angels and demons. Illustrated movie companion book.

Excuse me. How about that scene? Oh, here's, what's like, oh, this must be storyboarding. Looks like comics. Excuse me, how about that scene when Ewan McGregor sets himself on fire? There's a, there's a drawing of it.

That's pretty cool. Oh, this guy's hanging above the fire. The emulation scene, is that what you would call it? Great thriller. All joking aside, angels and demons. That's a fun. fun film and hopefully one of these days i'll get the chance to read it but i think i was genuinely surprised when i when i saw the movie who the bad guy was and i think if i watched it like

as an adult it probably wouldn't be that big of a surprise but you know what that's the magic of of the movies oh the anti-matter explosion sounds like what happened in the bathroom this morning after all those beans I had this week. All right. Oh, there he is. Obi-1, holding the fire. What's going to happen next? Don't know.

You're going to have to watch the movie. Read the book. Let me know. And then let me borrow it so I can read the actual book, not the animated illustrated companion. Let's finish up with a quick trivia question here. I have a list of what I believe are eight, eight commonly advertised prescription drugs.

Everyone knows prescription. drug commercials, we all love them. They got a great cadence. People start off being really unhappy and by the end of the 30 seconds, they're really happy. We all know what a prescription drug commercial is. So what I have here, and we'll go through these quickly, there's not, I know, we don't need to elaborate unless you're like in pharmacy school and this is going to help you study. But I'm going to tell you the names of eight drugs. We'll go one by one. You give me your best guess as to what medical condition they help with. Now, obviously, in some of these, if not, most of them, there are drugs that handle multiple different things, right? So if you're

keeping score on the season 8 leaderboard and you want to dispute any answers, you can email your supporting evidence, like an AI summary or something, because that's where I got my answers from to bean town podcast at yahoo.com. I'm going to this beaton podcast at yahoo.com and I'll check it out. But these aren't intended to be like back of the dictionary, hard to find ones. These are intended to be like you see these commercials all the time. And I'll try to point out classic commercials as I see them. First up, eloquists.

We've all heard of that one. What do you think eloquist does? Got to tell you, if you don't want something to be too thick, you want it to be too blank. Eliquis is for blood thinning or blood thinner. It'll thin your blood. Which I guess is just like adding more water to it? I don't know. How do you... Is eloquist just like water? That they shoot into your bloodstream or how does that work? What would you put into your blood to make it more thin? Don't you just need water to do that? Not sure. Unclear. Not a pharmacist. Next up, probably the, for me at least, the easiest one on here.

we have Cialis. I had to throw in a softball. And if you got softballs yourself, you might want a little bit of Cialis get in that tub. Ideally, you got two because then you and your partner could be in a Cial commercial. And of course, it's for erectile dysfunction. You know what's interesting in the Cialis commercials with the bathtubs and they're looking off into the sunset. It's always a man and a woman. Wouldn't it have twice the impact if you had two men, an older gay couple and they're both experiencing this issue because you talk about Cialis you have the male and the female in the bathubs well Cialis is only for one of those people but if you give me an elderly gay couple you're getting twice the bang for

your buck emphasis on the bang something to think about for the marketing goons over at Cialis third up we have Humira it's a fun one to say if you're typing on your keyboard and he wanted to type Humera, it might be a challenge to do that typing unless you take into Humera that morning. That's right. Humera is for arthritis. Next up, oh, this is Rachel's favorite commercial on air right now. We have Zolair. And if you're eating a little peanut butter sandwich at school and you forgot your Zolair that morning, you might be F'd. And I don't, you know, there's a couple different Zolair spots

going around on TV right now and it seems like the kid makes a recovery but I'm not sure I think in one of the spots he might not make it it's unclear that's right Zolair is for allergies like peanut allergies

but I think generally you can take care of any allergies allergies are interesting right like what is that scientifically what are we talking about here like does it hit your bloodstream and it doesn't thin it enough like what's actually going on

when an allergy happens, an allergic reaction. Got to get a medical expert on this show. We're halfway home. That was Zolair. Next up, well, let's save this one for the last because it's just my favorite. Next up, we have M-O-J-A-R-O. M-O-U-N-J-A-R-O.

Sounds like the name of an African drum or something, the M-Jaro. You know, I was in African drum ensemble in college. It was lit. It was a good time. we would have because you have to have like a concert at the end of each quarter for it to count and we'd always have the saddest concerts there'd be like 10 people there which i don't really blame anyone because you know i was like 20 years old i wasn't doing

like marketing or advertising wasn't telling my friends like oh you got to come out to this african drum ensemble concert we got it's going to be lit so shout out to the people who actually made an effort to be there but it was fun I think there might be a video on YouTube or Facebook or something of me and the drum ensemble. It was a lot of fun. Mujaro is for good old-fashioned diabetes. Unclear if it's one or two, but diabetes nonetheless. Three more we got Simbalta.

Symbolta, from what I can tell, is actually kind of similar to what Maple takes every day, if that helps. It's not anxiety, but in humans, it would be good for depression. That's what Symbolta is. We didn't have a Symbolta in our African drum ensemble, but you see symbols sometimes in your classic orchestral arrangements. Next to last year, we have Shantix. And I won't reveal exactly what the name itself is,

but Shantix inspired a new entry into the 9th annual horse name. special top 10 list, which we reveal every May. So I think I'm up to five now. I've been writing things down throughout the year as I stumble upon them, horse names. And this was the newest one today inspired by Shantix. It is not Shantix. But if you're curious what Shantix does, smoking cessation is what Shantix does. It helps you get over smoking.

Maybe you tried the gum or the patch. You need something a little bit more chemical, a little bit more. high-powered so you try shantics what if the patch dude is it got like a little it doesn't have like a prick or something it's just like that whatever chemicals in the patch absorbs into your skin and those chemicals cause an allergic reaction that help you not smoke i don't know i took biology 101 and then chemistry 101 when i was a student in community college when i was 17 and those are the last pure science classes i ever took so all that in physics my senior of high school but they don't teach you about shantics in physics class unfortunately my high school physics teacher died this week

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I thank you for listening. I thank you for tuning in. And if you need anything from me, I will catch you in two weeks when I get back for my honeymoon. We could have done like a guest host next week. That could have been Maple's job. But I haven't organized anything yet. We've never had a guest host. And I don't know.

Maybe one of these days. Got to get someone who can really capture the spirit and lack of preparation that goes into every show. I think that's a good place to end it. My name is Quinn David Furness. This is my show. Queen David Furness presents the Beantown podcast. I hope everyone stay safe, stay sane. I'll check in on you guys next time from Europe.

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