Beantown Podcast - Things That Have Disappeared (08232025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: August 23, 2025

That girl from American Beauty. Lincoln's heirs. The League of Nations. Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss people, places, and things that have disappeared, plus dog surgery, geographic realignment, and Marshmallow Treasures.

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Saturday, August 23rd, 2025. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn, and I am the creator, the host, and chief streamer of this show. Not that I stream the Beantown podcast over Twitch or Clubhouse or anything cool like that. I got to tell you. Well, the reason I'm the chief streamer, I was watching a college football game in Dublin, Ireland that I've got some friends at, Kansas State and Iowa State, which I'll get to, well, let's just mention it now because that's just a brief little thing. I had to look this up on my Google Maps just to 100% confirm. my suspicions were accurate, you know, Kansas State and Iowa State have a long-standing

college football rivalry getting back to, I don't know, the Taft administration or something like that. Farmageddon is what they call it. But did you guys realize Kansas and Iowa don't even border each other? And I actually, I looked at the U.S. map, I was like, are there any other great examples of states that don't border each other that feel like they definitely should? and Nebraska, that was a good one. Some lesser ones, I don't know, this is kind of subjective, but like Tennessee and South

Carolina feel, right, just from a vibes perspective, they feel like they should border each other. This one, there's a lot of space in between because of how big Idaho is, but it feels like Nevada and Wyoming should border each other, right? It's just a big old wasteland of nothing, although we got an ad on Peacock for visit Lake Tahoe last night. You can ski, you can go to the beach, you can gamble, you can Proctor, Proctor and Gamble. One thing I, let's move off this, and then I want to mention this app that I learned about yesterday.

Speaking of Proctor, and when I used to work at the law school, which gosh has been almost two years since I left, the biggest what's the word hoodwinking i don't know i felt totally jipped by it the staff were responsible and i don't think i'm going to hurt anyone's feelings when i say this because whose feelings would i would i be hurting i don't know if this is typical of other law schools or graduate programs or med schools or anything like this, I would, I would welcome, heartily welcome some emails or tweets at Beantowncast or Beantown Podcast at Yahoo.com. Again, it's Beintown Podcast at Yahoo.com. The point I'm trying to make is come exam time twice a year in December and May. May December, wasn't that the Natalie Portman Julianne Moore movie? I think so. Come May December,

the staff were responsible for proctoring final exam. at the end of each semester. And, I mean, you had to do a lot. You had to go into, like, exam central, which was a room, pick up all your exam materials, all the papers, the scantrons, instructions. There's a whole big five-page packet for do this, don't do that. What happens?

If this happens, what happens? That happens. There's walkie-talkies to communicate. But my whole thing was like, well, the worst thing about it was, there were some exams that would happen during the middle of the workday in which case you're just like whatever this is boring would be three hours but you have your laptop and it's like yeah it's kind of a pain in the butt but not the end of the world but the worst is and i think pretty much every semester i worked there which was gosh like nine or ten final exam periods there was always a 630 to 930 or 6 to 9 one of those i can't remember maybe 5 i think it was 6 to 9 time slot and you don't get you know you're a full-time exempt employee so you're salaried you're not making an extra you know whatever 50 bucks off of this it's one thing you feel like gosh i got to stay

i got to stay late until 930 that sucks but at least i'm making you know 50 bucks 75 bucks 100 bucks whatever it is off of this but when you're a salaried employee and they're just like, yeah, come on into your normal workshop from 830 to 4.30 and then stay for another 4.5 hours. It's just not quite as scintillating. So I do not miss proctoring. It felt like such a scam because I was like,

you have these faculty, these professors who spend all semester long with these students. They write the exams, and then all of a sudden they can't be bothered to proctor their own exams? I don't know. That always felt strange to me. I was going to call something.

something, a PETA, P-I-T-A, an acronym, which I will reveal after we mentioned that listener discretion is advised when you're listening to this program. Remember we're on occasioning some language showing to this podcast, objectively terrible. Pain in the ass is what we were going for. What I wanted to mention, and maybe this app is big in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan where we are so well-endowed, Karachi, Hyderabad, Burma, everything over there. generally. I'm just gesturing, you know, over east. If I go east, am I closer to Pakistan, then I am if I go west, I think so, because the whole thing when you grow up is like,

at least here in the Midwest, if you drill a hole to the center of the earth and come out of the other side, you're in China. I don't actually know in Chicago where exactly are, what would they call that? You think that's the antipode, A-N-T-I-P-O-D-E? I understand what anti means from a suffix perspective, but where does the P-O-D come in? What the heck were we getting with P-O-D-E? Not sure about that one. I think, yeah, I would gesture wildly to the east rather than the west. That Pacific Ocean is really big. A lot of people don't realize that. Bigger than pretty much anything else there has ever been. Terrestrially. Don't ask me to spell it. I did a little bit of market research to one of my side gigs involved, I don't know if I signed an NDA or anything like that,

let's say I did not do any sort of market research and I stumbled upon the app called Clubhouse a couple of days ago. Are you guys familiar with this app Clubhouse? It is very confusing and I was essentially giving feedback on the onboarding experience, but I think it was an app that I had maybe heard of in passing. But I think I was getting it confused with Telegram, which I also don't know what Telegram is. And then there were, when I was going to college, gosh, this was over 10 years ago at this point, there were like two apps. One was called Periscope. It was like live streaming before Twitch really like, I think Twitch was still around and I was in college, but I didn't think it was like the biggest thing.

There's Periscope and one other. I don't know if it was Horoscope or what. But I did it for this, I spent some time in this app clubhouse and essentially your feed is like all. these different rooms in each room from what I could gather was audio only no video just people talking and I jumped into one of those and it was it was the room was called like kingdom of heaven and it was a bunch of people who sounded African which I know that's a I'm not trying to get into any sort of assumptions or anything like that they had what I would have guessed would have been thick West African accents. And they were preying over Donald Trump. So I don't know if

they were American who were immigrants or if they lived in West Africa and they were big Trump fans or something else. You know, you heard about the Trump administration saying they're going to review or renew, sorry, review, not renew, certainly not renew, certainly review all, what is it, 55 million visa holders in the United States. So I don't know if these West African who are praying know exactly what they're getting themselves into. But I stumbled upon that clubhouse, that room on the app clubhouse. If anyone's used it, go ahead and get in touch with us. I'd be curious to hear what you use it for. I will say there is one feature on X that I have very limited experience with, but it's kind of a similar thing. And I don't know

what it's called. But, excuse me, occasionally after DePaul basketball games in the winter, they'll be like these, let's just call them, audio rooms for lack of a better word where people can just like go in there and start talking. So you're just having a live conversation with anyone else who's in that room and you can also just like listen in and not speak, which is what I was doing on Clubhouse. I didn't you know how to speak. But I was also like, how can I find rooms that are more interesting than praying over Donald Trump with Nigerian accents? I don't know. If anyone legitimately uses this app, go ahead. And, Let us know. Let's get into it here. Our hot take of the week and Maple's Minute, let's just kind of marry them together. My hot take first is going to be teeth related. My hot take is you really only need like eight teeth or something. Okay. I don't know how many teeth the human mouth has. I can tell you the average dog's mouth. It's supposed to have 42 teeth and tribute to Jackie Robinson. But I think as long as I have, I think if you gave me

one good molar top, bottom, right and left, so four back there. And then my canines, I think it would be tough to not have your front teeth or your bottom teeth. You certainly couldn't sing, or maybe you'd be more inclined to sing. All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, my two front teeth, my two front teeth. You know, that was a Christmas, one of those more modern Christmas classics, like Domino, the Douglas the donkey, what is it called? Something like that, isn't it? Or I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. Some of these more, or Yukon Cornelius,

which I wrote last year. Don't forget, it's on YouTube, go check it out. I'm trying to get my songs on Spotify because we were putting together a playlist on Spotify for a boat we went on a couple weeks ago here in Lake Michigan. And I was like, oh, let's add, you know, we could do Daddy Long Legs, 2.0.2.

Oh, we could do, you know, in bunches, some Great Father's Day songs. And, of course, there's, you know, this is more of a Christmas thing, but Yukon Cornelies. Well, you can't find them on Spotify. So I'm thinking, how is it that the Beantown podcast goes on Spotify? But music by Quinn David Furness does not end up on Spotify. If someone out there at Spotify could get in touch with us about this matter, it would be greatly appreciated, frankly. But I think I could get by with, like, 18th.

What I don't want is like, you know, the Larry, the cucumber, you got two in the front and then nothing else, right? I need a little bit more substance than that. That's our hot take of the week, and it marries or dovetails nicely into Maple's Minute this week. Maple has had a big week. Let's give you just a quick recap. She's over here right now. She's jumping off the couch. She heard its time for interview with the dog to get the inside scoop.

And with that, she has literally. as I spoke, transferred herself from Yoda blanket here on the couch to the hardwood floor, pining ever so longingly, straight ahead at the front door, waiting for mother to come back from her yoga class. So, oh, and by the way, I'm drinking, we're double fisting. It's 1245, 1255 now, p.m. here on Saturday afternoon. Doing a little day drinking here. Still got my bushwicks. We got probably a one and a half good pores left of our bushwicks.

Which I've stretched. I haven't been drinking a ton of whiskey. Neat or on the rocks or straight would be a way to encompass both of those. But we got a little bit left. We need a refill. And then a two brothers brewing Domain DuPage, which is a French-style country ale is the last in my six-pack.

And it's good. I've been on a roll the last, like, well, it's been like three days here of sticking a pint glass in the freezer for a couple hours to get that frosted tips look like Justin Timberlake and Joey Fetone. But it's good.

It's fun to drink it out of a pint glass. You feel like you're out doing something, you know? You're not just drinking by yourself home alone. like McCulley Culkin. There was something else. Oh, I'd say it's a little preview for fall football season, which, I mean, I finally got to watch the Vikings preseason game last night, which was abysmal.

But then I was watching that Kansas State, Iowa State, first half football game, which was even more abysmal. It's raining and two relatively inept offenses. Just going at it in Dublin, having some potatoes at halftime. Do you think I, I, I, people are they like oh yeah potatoes ha ha funny but rolling their eyes and secretly hate you or do you think they recognize how amazing potatoes are it's like that's her identity there's so many things worse that we could have an identity about like i'll take the potatoes you could have

french fries uh oh groton more of a french thing french country ale which we're drinking right now tater tots there's a number of ways you would go with this but i i'm I hope the Irish aren't mad about the stereotype because if you stereotyped me into potatoes, it's like, that's not so bad. If it was like Ruta Vaga or something, I think it would be, it would get a little bit tiring. But potatoes, not bad. Chicago, other than crime, we do pizza and hot dogs. And I can't be too mad about that either, even though I don't have Chicago-style pizza all that frequently.

Whether it's deep dish or tavern style. But let's, okay, so Maple's minute, here's what happened. A brief, super brief timeline. No one's here for a history lesson. We adopted Maple almost a year ago, September 14th, 2024. The first vet we took her to had a partnership, a big corporate, you know, what did they call it, equity firm, something like that. You know, one of these big companies owns this chain of vets here in Chicago, but they have a partnership with the adopt. option center that we got Maple from. We took her to that vet a handful of times, you know, all sorts of other things going on medication, but they never really said anything about the teeth. And just that like, oh yeah, you should brush. Fast forward to May, we switch vets primarily because the other, the original vet is about a 45-minute walk. This bed is literally a five-minute walk. So it's a no-brainer. The first appointment we take Maple to, vet does a thorough examination. Shout out Dr. Stetcher. It's like a, a

combo of Skechers and Shoals, Dr. Stedger. And she says, oh, yeah, she's got some dead teeth here. There's some food in there. You guys should try to brush. And then, you know, we were switching her to Prozac at the time, but she's still on to no results currently, TBD. And she said, oh, yeah, she's got some dead teeth here, probably four, maybe three, three, maybe four, that we should schedule a surgery at some point when it's convenient for you

guys, they're like, okay, got the estimate. I think it was between like $800 and $1,200, something like that. Okay, that's going to hurt the wallet, but you know what? She could be feeling some pain from this. Let's do it. So eventually we get around, we find a soft spot in our schedule, right? They talk about that in sports, soft spot in the schedule. And so we scheduled Maple surgery for this past Tuesday. You heard us talking about it on the Beantel podcast last week. So we take her in, drop her off about 8.30 in the morning. and they say, oh yeah, estimated 1 to 3.30 p.m. for pickup. So I'm like, okay, not too bad. She's got to go under anesthesia, get some teeth taken out. She'll be fine. And I think the doctor called at about

2.30 p.m., something like that. And Maple was under. She was knocked out. And the doctor said, yeah, turns out the teeth are a lot worse than we thought. So now we're looking at extracting, I don't try to remember what the number was. It was either, I could go back and find it somewhere. It was like, oh yeah, it was like 15, maybe 16 teeth. There's one I still got to look at. And we were like, wow, that's pretty bad, Maple. But you know what? We're already committed to this. Go for it, Dr. S. So she does. We continue to wait around. It's about five, 30 p.m. when we finally get a second call from the doctor's office. And this could have been our trivia question of the week. Guess how many teeth maple had pulled? 24 teeth. When all was said

and done, she's looking at me like I'm insane right now. It's okay, buddy. You're feeling so much better. 24 teeth out of 42 potential teeth, assuming she still had a full set, are, excuse me, long gone. I was saying we should make a necklace out of him. I think it would be badass to wear your own teeth are on your neck. Because we're holding firm to the backstory that she fought off a grizzly and that messed up her teeth. Before we adopted her. Who knows? There's no way to know for sure.

Does fighting off a grizzly lead to tooth decay? It's unclear. The science is out on this one. But yeah, Maple is down here now. This is Day 4 of Recovery with about, she's got about 40, 40,000. 40 to 43% of her original teeth are remaining in her mouth. She's got the canines. She's got no front teeth or bottom teeth.

And she's got some molars, but not all of them. And she has been living large on canned beef dog food and white rice with a little bit of beef stock sprinkled in. And then pretty much every pill you could take as a dog is mixed in there as well. We got gabapentin. We've got Prozac, we've got an anti-inflammatory, and we've got an antibiotic, all swirling up into one beautiful cocktail, and we are going to just take it recovery one day at a time. They say 10 to 14 days of soft food. Also, the verdict is out on whether maple can ever have kibble again. We don't know.

We're going to give it a dry run, pun intended. in about not this time next week, but this time next week and change. Ten more days from now. So a lot of white rice. Hi, Maple. Hi, buddy. She's got a get well soon lamb from her auntie. That was definitely more than one minute.

But it warrants it when you have heavy dental surgery. That was a bigger surgery than I've ever gotten in my life. The biggest thing I've ever had is wisdom teeth taken out. They didn't even take all of them. I wish, and look, I'm not the one who paid for it, so I can't really comment on this, but I wish when I had my wisdom teeth taken out, which was like, I was like 17, I wish they would have just gone for all of them. Because it feels like one of those things where at some point, I think, I think two were taken out, two were left. It was either two and two and two or three

were taken out and one was left. It feels like the type of thing, and I am certainly no dental, you know, orthopedics, orthotrician, whatever they call, orthopediatrician. I'm not medically trained. I'm not classically trained. Although I have watched some YouTube videos, and I watch all of season one of the pit and scrubs,

including most of the season eight, you know, with like the new bloods, the interns they brought in. But not all of it. Don't hold it against me. They're doing a reboot, which we'll see how it goes. So I'm not classically trained, but I wish all my wisdom teeth had gone out. Because it feels like the recovery would have been pretty much the same, right? I mean, I remember being in, it's like going into my junior year of high school.

So I went wisdom teeth and then like two or three weeks later got braces on. And I was hold up in bed. I love being hold up. Actually, it's terrible to be hold up. But it's fun to say. eating mashed potatoes watching DVDs on the portable DVD player right this was before any of us had smartphones and yeah that's the first and only time I watched the dirty dozen which is just like what a movie from what the 40s the 50s is such a classic old school

homeschool move to be watching this black and white movie 70 years later. And it's like, oh, yeah, this is a good one. I'll turn this on. Like, why couldn't I watch, I don't know, Ghost or something with Whoopi Goldberg? What do you think, Maple? You ever seen Ghost? I haven't. I don't know.

What's the plot of Ghost? All I know is that Whoopi Goldberg won an Oscar for that one. I think that is more or less what I know about Ghost. Is it emotional? I don't know. We did watch our, it's our Beantown Hotgist film review of the week, a classic weekly segment here. We watched the movie Sharp Corner, sharp corner, sharp curve.

I think Sharp Corner. It was a 2024 thriller with Ben Foster, one of my favorites. You might know him from Leave No Trace, Hell or High Water, or Alpha Dog, which we can come back to and mention in a second here. here when we get to our things, people, and places that have disappeared, segment. And what's her name? The Canadian. Is she Canadian, or did she play a Canadian, how I met your mother?

Or both. Colby Smalders. Kobe Smalders. Kobe Jack King Smalders. That's her actual name, Smolders? What a last name. She's definitely not a stage name. I'll tell you that.

your name from anything to Kobe Smallers. You just lean into it. Kind of interesting because the reviews were fantastic online from what I read, and it wasn't a movie that it wasn't like I hated it, but it was maybe not quite as deep or intense as I thought it was going to be. It was label a thriller.

And I don't know. It was on Hulu. We had to watch a bootleg copy because I couldn't into Hulu, but I don't know. I would give it, I would give it, I think I gave this review to Rachel Lassen. I probably give it out of five, four bags of popcorn, and some of those little de-icing salts they put on the roadway so you don't crash your car when it's icy out. And maybe some of those yellow and black arrow road signs you put three or four of them in a row to show that there's a curve coming. And then I probably add one more bag of popcorn to put it to five

because that would probably, I probably would have leftover salt from de-icing the roadway to throw on my popcorn. It would be a nice little Himalayan sea salt crunch to it. So five bagger at the end of the day. I do want to give a shout out to our friends at Home Pride, Oregon, guys, when you are looking for a home in Central Oregon, this is a million, billion, sometimes trillion dollar decision.

You've got to go with a home inspector who knows what they're doing. You don't want a rookie, and you don't want someone who's washed up. You want someone in their prime, and that sounds exactly like my dad. Steve, who has oftentimes been compared to Metroid Prime, that was a video game, right? Samus is the name of, what's it? So Metroid is the name of the video game series, and Samis is the name of the character, S-A-M-U-S. Not to be confused with the Sam Eye, the Himalayan mountain climbers who guide you up to Mount Everest, and you see all the dead bodies on your way up there, like Jake Gyllenhaal from the movie, Everest,

and Jason Clark, the Australian, who died climbing up there. And the one guy who made it, Josh Rowland, who's not Australian, so he can stop doing the stupid aching. He gets left partially or fully blinded. If you guys haven't seen this Everest film, you should go watch it. It's based on a true story. It's got Keir Knightley plays Jason Clark's husband. I was going to say husband. That would be a twist.

His wife, it was a truth. It was like late 90s, early 2000s, when the events happened, the movie came out like 2000, like maybe around 2010-ish. I watched it on a plane. It's actually a really good movie. How the heck did we get here? Oh, you know what? Because I know people, it's been a full minute

and now people are barking at their cars or wherever you're listening to, you're like, Quinn, you are totally wrong. Not about Jason Clark or Josh Bowling, but the Sammy are not the mountain climbers. Those are the Sherpas. The Sammy are, I think up in Lapland, you would find, Sammy, L-A-P, L-A-N-D.

Sounds like a place you'd go to get G-G-P, one, G-L-T-1 medication. What is it? It's not gabapentin. It's ozempic. What do they call those? G-R-R-P-1s? I don't know. My mother-in-law is a pharmacist. We should get her on the horn here. GLP, that's what it is. It's right. GLP, like Gulp without the U. There's no U in Gulp. That's what they say, but there isn't Gapapentin. Hope right organ inspection, perfection. Now I'm getting Gapentin and. And ozempic mixed up. Kind of your classic mix-up, but you hope your pharmacist doesn't get them mixed up

because Maple, if you've been taking Ozempic this whole time, this could explain when I took her to surgery on Tuesday morning. We go on the scale to make sure everything's good to go before she goes under. And the scale said she was 14 pounds. And Maple is she wafer and waivers between 17 and a half and 18 and a half. pounds. So to be 14, it's not like you're cutting down for your wedding day and you're like, oh, yeah, four pounds. I lost that. That's amazing. When you are, let's just call it 18 pounds even, losing four pounds is, well, like 20% of your, it's like 22% of your body weight. You can't,

that's not going to cut it. So they weighed her again in the back after I dropped her off. Presumably everything's okay because they took her teeth. But now she weighs even less because all of her big chompers are gone. So maybe she does actually weigh 14 pounds. Thank you, Gabba Penton. I also want to thank the Cutsby IQ barbershop and boutique and dog grooming services, which we might need to get into. Maple's got some serious Grinchpaws here.

And frankly, we're too far away from Halloween. We're still two months and a week away from Halloween to pass it off as she's getting into costume for, I don't know, who could you be Bigfoot? That'd be pretty cool. and certainly, unless Maple brings home a flyer at some point this week of the local community theater staging of how the Grinch still Christmas, I don't think she's going to get a spot as a Grinch,

even though she's got these great Grinch paws because they might not hold auditions until September, and I don't know if we can wait that long. So Cuts by Q might have to spring into action, or we could go to a regular dog groomer. Regardless, when you need a fresh deuce on the snappy or new, call the experts at Cuts by Cubs by Action. Q. And, of course, we have our good friends at the Samson Q2U series. Guys, it's not the Samus Q2U series. You know, Samus was a playable character in Super Smash Brothers. Was he,

she, Samus is a lady, boss lady, a badass bitch. Was Samis in the original N-Sign Nintendo 64 Super Smash Bros. game? I asked because I I have played a lot of Super Smash Bros. in my lifetime, but I would say about 80% was Super Smash Bros. Melee for GameCube. And then about 15% was Super Smash Bros. Brawl for whatever platform that was. I'm not caught up on my video games. And then I think I've played about five to ten rounds of original Super Smash Brothers. And it was literally like at my cousin Mitch's house when I was 10 years old.

up in Madison, Wisconsin. So I have a good grasp of who the characters were in the second installment, Smash Bros. Melee, but not who was original. I could probably name 50%. Let's do this. My question was, is Samus in the original Smash Bros. franchise? Or was it was Samus only included in the expansion?

If you don't know, Super Smash Bros. is basically like a fighting video game, but instead of just like fresh new made-up characters, they bring in characters from all sorts of video game franchises that had video, that you could play on your Nintendo, whether that was Game Boy, Nintendo 64, whatever it is. Sega Genesis, I don't know if that's part of it. So, Sporkel Smash Bros. Roster. Super Smash Bros. Quiz. So, oh, this is 84. No, I just want the original. Name every fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Quiz. No, this is giving me, it's, I just want to see original. Just want to guess the original characters.

We'll play live on air and see how we do as soon as we can find the right Sporkel quiz. I'm just trying to find a quiz. Every Super Smash Bros. character, nope. What I'm trying to do is find a quiz on Sporkel that is just the original Smash Brothers. You know what? We can play one of these and it gives you all of the games and we can just focus on the original and see how we do. We're trying to see if Sam's is in the original. We'll guess that first to get the answer to the question.

But before I forget, Samson, when God speaks, he uses a Samson. So again, I feel like I can get pretty good. Maybe 75% of the original characters. I'm going to try one more time because I'm just obsessed with this. Oh, here it is. Original Super Smash Brothers Character Quiz. Yes, but it's got their pictures. I almost just ruined the quiz.

Okay. So it'd give you insight into what just happened. I was like, oh, this one is just the originals, the name of the quiz. Let's click on it. But then it gave you the pictures of the characters. And it's like, yeah, if you show me the pictures, I can guess who was in it. This is some bullshit. Okay.

Mario, he's got to be in the original. Let's find out about Samis. Samis is also an original. Okay, well, that answer is that question. Looks like there were only 12 original characters in Smash Brothers. I didn't realize that. Okay. Who else? What do we think about Link? Link is in the original. That's good. Who else? We think about Yoshi. Yoshi's in the original? Do you think Kirby's in the original?

Kirby's got to be original. Yes? Okay, well, we're five for five so far. I will stop as soon as we miss one. Who else do we think was in the original Fox from, what is it, Starfleet, something like that? Fox is original, okay, there we go. We've gotten six so far. There's only six left. Okay, well, I'm already at 50%. I feel pretty good about that. But let's see if we can come up with anything else.

I don't know about like Luigi, Zelda. We think Zelda's in the original? No, Zelda's not. the original rats. That was our first mistake. Let's see if we can just give up and get the answer. Because I just want to see the roster. Let's just go search original Smash Brothers roster. Here it is. It's definitely some I wish I would have gotten. Well, that's not the actual list. It's so hard to Google these days. Jeez. Okay. N64, Captain Falcon, Donkey Kong, Fox, jigglypuff.

I did not realize Jigley Puff was in there. Kirby, Link, Luigi, Mario. I was on the fence with Luigi. I was like, because he seems like a prime expansion character. So it's like, if you got Mario, you basically have Luigi. I know Dr. Mario was introduced in, uh, May, uh, yeah, Maylay, but didn't get it. Ness. I never played the Ness games.

The 1994 Super Ness game, Earthbound, is when he's the main protagonist. I've never played any of those games. I don't know anything about them. Pikachu, Samis, and Yoshi. I feel bad about not getting Pikachu, and I guess Donkey Kong. Otherwise, I don't feel that bad about it.

All right. I just wanted to mention that this morning I was texting my wife after I finished my run. It was about 6.45, maybe like 7 a.m. And I used the verb sick as in if there was a bad guy roaming about which is sick maple on him so she can take him out with her limited teeth but she still got her canine so she can pierce the skin.

And I just want to not shout out myself but I like learning or confirming or both and maybe you want to learn something too or confirm something or maybe you're just listening to when you're an idiot but the verb sick as in to sick an animal on a

you know your bloodhound chasing down a criminal and outlaw it's spelled SIC it's not SICK to sick apparently it derives from the old English version of seek to seek to sick

so there you go Omar, A-Seek, that was a Bulls and Rocket Center, ASI-K, back a decade ago. Stacey King, Glass of Bulls color commentator would say, A-Sik and destroy. If you're not familiar with Stacey King's game, you got to go, I mean, most of, like, what I know of his catchphrases is very outdated. You know, it goes back to the Kirk Heinrich and Ben Gordon, post-Jordan, post-Jordan, era before the Bulls really started wandering in the desert for 40 years, which I think the cut

off is like, what, probably like 2015, something like that. It's been about 10 years of wandering in the desert. Basically, when Derek Rose injured his knee the 17th time, and Noah, Joachim Noah got phased out, and Taj Gibson started to lose his juice. But during that golden era, from like Probably 2007-ish to, like, 2013. Some great Stacey King soundbite. There used to be a Stacey King soundboard on the internet. And you could just, excuse me, you could just press buttons. I don't know if that still exists or not.

Stacey King Soundboard. If so, we'll play a couple of live on air here because there's some good stuff. All right, this isn't the same like website that I've used in the past, so I don't know if it's going to be good or not, but let's see if we can get it, good, good, get anything good. Oh, this is Derek Rose. Let's see if it works or not. This website sucks. Each item, rather than having like a play button you could click on, it's just like the hamburger menu icon. It's like, but nothing happens when you click on it. How the heck does this, this website is not functional. here's one more from real gm.com and it's not loading here's one from nba.com let's see if this loads and if not why didn't content unavailable all right must have gotten DMC aid let's get to our topic

briefly here because I don't even feel that much passion behind it these are people things or places aka nouns if you're playing 20 questions that have disappeared Fun fact, back in the days of corn detassling, a bunch of 12 to 15-year-olds walking down rows of corn picking out the tassels. Understandably, you would do a lot of different things to try to pass the time and not go clinically insane. And a good friend, Josh O, who will leave his full last name redacted, Josh O, we're playing 20 questions, and it was his turn to come up with the answer and then answer the subsequent 20 questions. And when we got to 20 and we ran out of questions and we lost the game and Josh won,

his answer that he had come up with that. We had to guess was, in quotes, this is what it is. It's not referring to someone else as just, this is it. The precedent of Africa. and I don't really have much else to say about that I'm not even here to like be moan or diminish just I'm almost impressed not because he thought there was a president of Africa

but just because how did your mind even even go there it's it's one thing to come up with something random that's real but to come up with something random that doesn't exist in our consciousness is, frankly, remarkable, I think is the best adjective I could come up with. But these are some people, and this was spawned out of, Rachel is watching, and she's, I think, almost finished, this new show on Amazon Prime called Overcompensated. And it stars someone who's an influencer. I've never heard of.

His name is Benito Martinez, which I thought was a short story. stop for the angels in the 90s, but that's neither here nor there. But I've seen, you know, maybe one or two episodes, and it reminds me of this other show, which I think I've only seen about 30 seconds of, but the secret life of college girls. And that show starred Renee Rapp. And this got me thinking, wait on, wait a minute, what the heck happened to Rene Rapp? Because it was what? A year or two years ago, when mean girls the musical the movie came out which is very confusing but just move past it

and then rene rap all of a sudden it's like okay so she was a kind of a young thin pretty blonde type the next Sabrina carpenter but she was before Sabrina carpenter yada yada yada so she's got her show kind of you know like sydney-sweeney had euphoria Renee rap r-a-p-p her ip R-I-P-D with Josh Roland, star of

we were just referencing a movie earlier that had John. Oh, Everest, right? See how the show ties everything together. But Renee Rapp is, she's got her show, sex life, is it sex lives or secret life?

Secret life of pets. Not the sex life of pets. Don't want to watch that. Maple Mike. Sex lives of college girls. And then she's going to venture into, oh, she's got mean girls, the musical,

where she plays Regina George. And then she's playing at Lalapalooza. She's doing songs. She's wearing baggy clothes. It's basically wearing, it's like when Billy D. Williams at the end of Empire Strikes Back is inexplicably wearing

Han Solo's clothes. It's like Renee Rap inexplicably wearing Billy Elish's clothes at Lalapalooza. It's like, why do you guys, you can only afford one outfit between the two of you? Get Finians, Debit Phineas. debit card. Finnegan's Wake. Is that a novel? What the heck happens in that one? Never read it. Don't know

anything about it. Email us and let us know. I don't know what happens in Finnegan's wake. I don't even know if that's a real book or not. But so Renee Rap, last I saw her was on a live stream of Lala Paloosa. I think it was just last year. I think it was the year that Chaperon did her stuff. But in the last year, where the heck has Renee Rap gone? She was she was climbing, you know, number one hits left and right. I don't think she actually had number one hits, but she was, you know, the next big thing in Hollywood. Everyone was talking about Renee Rapp. And now she's been nowhere to be seen.

So this inspired a longer list of people, places, and things that have since disappeared. And to just run through the list, I have a lot on here, but some other things. This came up last night. I don't remember how we got on it. We were finishing that movie, Ben Foster, Sharp Curve, Sharp Corner, I think he was called. Where the heck did the Nesquick Rabbit go? Ten years ago, this guy was all over the place. He was, you know, sipping chocolate milk out of a straw, he was eating cereal,

he was, you know, T-Ping Hershey World in Pennsylvania. When's the last time you saw anything out of the Nesquick Rabbit? You might have even forgotten that the Nesquick Rabbit existed. I forgot how to spell N-S-Quick. There's no C in it. It's quick N-E-S, like N-E-S, the character from Super Smash Bros. And then quick, Q-U-I-K. Like, there's a quick trip here in the western, west side of Chicago,

but it's not the quick trip, K-W-I-K. It is quick Q-U-I-K, my friend, who's actually in Dublin for this Kansas State game I was talking about earlier. He's a big fan of the quick trip. Again, it's not that quick trip. It's the other one. There's also the come and go. Who decided that come and go was going to be the name?

Obviously, they were juvenile in their sense of humor. But where, I mean, I have seen little to nothing from the Nesquick Rabbit in the last decade. Maybe he only shows up on Saturday morning cartoon commercials. Bluey and Cayu and Arthur. although Arthur ended what like five years ago D.W turned into a cop a dirty cop I'm not a cop not a dirty cop

what's the line from I was going to say the prestige that's not it they departed I think I've only seen the departed once and it was one of those things where like I watched it because when did it come out 2006 something like that

I think I watched the departed within a year or two of it coming to home release earlier than I should have. But it's one of those things in my mind now where I'm like, I know this is a fantastic movie, but there's no way in hell that I picked up on everything I should have

when I watched it originally, and I've never gone back to it. I've seen, like, scenes from it. I know the classic elevator scene when so-and-so gets got. Who is it? I'm not here to spoil it. I genuinely don't remember who gets offed

in that scene in the door. departed. It's someone major. Is it, is it Leo that gets killed? I don't think so. Who does that? Mark Wahlberg does the killing, right? And he kills someone important. Does he killed Matt Damon? I can't remember how that goes. I don't even remember the plot. Next up, we mentioned Alpha Dog, the film earlier. Emil Hirsch. Now, this isn't one where it's just like, oh yeah, he just removed himself from the public guy. Like, he had some allegations, and I don't remember exactly what it was. But there was a time, and there's a long laundry list of these types of people, but where Hollywood was trying to make Emil Hirsch the number one guy.

Remember that, what was it, a Sean Penn movie about Christopher McCandalless? Is it McCandalls? McCandless? There's two S's at the end there. He goes to the wilderness into the wild in Alaska, and there's the Magic Bus, which we did not get to see, and it has since been moved to a government facility, I think. It's where he died of starvation. But Emil Hirsch is in that movie Elphidog, which is a really set, based on a really sad true story, starring Anton Yelchin, rest in peace, sad in and of himself. Ben Foster, which was the connection he made because he was in that movie Sharp Corner last night. Justin Timberlake, and I didn't recall this until I watched the trailer last night again, but Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone, and Amanda Seifery.

So really a jam-packed cast. But if you've never seen Alpha Dog, I mean, it's probably 20 years old or something like that at this point. But really good movie, very tense. And I would say this, if you're, like, looking for a good thriller and you don't want the end spoiled because it's based on a true story, just go watch Alpha Dog. If you're sitting there like, we were last night,

and you're just like, we're just hanging out at home, We're just chilling. We're having some drinks. Had some pasta for supper. We just need a good standalone two-hour experience. I would recommend Alpha Dog. Plus you get to see Justin Timberlake and Emil Hirsch. But Emil Hirsch has really just, he's gone. He's just flat out gone. Next up, one of my favorites, because I played a musical piece. the Lincoln portrait by Aaron Copeland with him narrating Paul Ryan. So Paul Ryan was the representative from Janesville, Wisconsin, and obviously served as Mitt Romney's running mate

in the 2012 election. He was all over the places, P90X, all that stuff. Great VP debating as Joe Biden. Widow's Peak. And Speaker of the House. And he lasted in a until some point in the Trump administration, I think, early on, would he resign? Was it like 2017, something like that? And since then, he's just gone. I mean, I remember, because I've been all over this for the better part of a decade now that he's been out of Congress. He was teaching adjunct at Notre Dame for a bit, which sounds like a hell of a commute driving from Jamesville, the South Bend, by the way.

But since then, it's just like, what do you think? what do we think he's doing? He's living there in Janesville. His kid's got to be like almost out of high school at this point. This is a larger question. I have a curiosity question I have about politicians and how they make their money after they stop being politicians. Now, many of them are lawyers and they just go back into private practice. But then they raised the question that I had when my friend Abby Witzack, good friend of the show, subway enthusiast, texting me the other night with a TikTok of Rod Blagojevich

singing jailhouse rocket at Chicago Street Fest this year, which he's been known to do. But the question I have about Blagojevich is how does this guy make money? Right? I think he lost his bar membership, almost certainly. He can't run for public office in the state of Illinois. I'm less concerned about how

Blagojevich is making money because I know he's on cameo. I've received one myself. It was terrible. Thank you to my siblings. purchased it, but the cameo itself was terrible. My bigger question, as someone who's become more plugged in or attuned to this kind of thing in the last handful of years, how did the Blagojevich afford the property taxes? If you don't know, Rob Lagojevich, governor of Illinois for almost a decade, something like that, went to prison for a number of years, got bailed out by Trump. Now he's a big Trumper. He was a Democratic governor. And his house is about a mile from here,

where Rachel and I live and I've been past it many times. It is a I wouldn't call it a mini mansion but it is a solid house with a lot of space. Takes up a lot of real estate literally here in

the Ravenswood Manor neighborhood. And my question is I mean these property taxes have got to be insane on a place like this close to the river. Primo. I mean how like

he doesn't get like a government pension does he they gotta have stripped all that away it's one thing if you're you know if you're tim waltz and you got a mansion out in brainerd or something like yeah your government pension will cover it but bologovic i assume maybe naively that he's lost all of that so how does he afford the property taxes think patty's on only fans i don't know other people have disappeared uh oh this is a physical thing, physical tickets. I remember when I was a kid, and I went to my first Cubs game, it was Cubs Padres. Cubs got smashed. But my dad won the tickets in a church raffle. He took my brothers and I. It was awesome. Core memory. But after the fact, I don't know where

this case was constructed either by my grandfather, who was a lumberman, who's still kicking in his 90s, Grandpa Dave, you know her. Or if someone else built this, I don't know. I don't know. don't know but we had a little wooden case that we had in our house and i don't know whatever happened to it but the case held like an autographed ball i think joe gerardy signed it or something like that he was a cubs at the time and it had our our ticket stubs in there and it's just such a shame i'm all for saving the planet you know stop the deforestation out there in the amazon but i don't know having physical tickets you can hold on to that's so much cooler than the stupid ticket master app where you just scan it and it's just gone. I mean, that's pretty lame.

Let's be real. Physical tickets, I miss it. This one is much maligned and I think very much associated with this entire concept we're targeting here, but Quiznos subs. And the only reason I want to give it a shout out is this isn't new, right? No one in 2025 is thinking like, man, now that I think about it, Quiznos are really not around anymore. This was a thing back when I was a junior in high school, 2011. But my first ever, let's put it in quotes, girlfriend, the first girl that ever paid me any sort of attention when I was in high school, worked out at Quiznos. And back then, this was 2011, it was like, oh, Quiznos, I had no idea.

That restaurant chain was still around. And I don't know if there's any Quiznos left, what, 14 years. years later here but rest in peace quiz quiz no's toasty subs i'll take a quiz nose over a subway any day of the week because it's toasty that's the difference you go to subway they can toast it's not as good jersey mics jimmy johns hit the showers give me a toasty quiz nose sub Post. Not postmates, not post-its. All you Gen Zers are like, oh, what do you mean by post? Bras? No, this was post. They make their own cereal. Make a lot of different cereals. Waffle Crisp was my favorite cereal as a kid.

I probably have had it five times in my entire life. But it's basically like, think about honeycomb. Now, change that color from like a whitish yellow to a golden amber. That's right, Amber, A-M-B-E-R, bro. And then sprinkle some maple syrup on there, and you've got Waffle Crisp. Man, that stuff was good. You can still, every year or so I'll go on eBay and be like, oh, I wonder how much a box of Waffle Crisp is these days, and it's like $40. I'm like, nah.

Nah, bro. Not going to do it. And I don't even know the last, excuse me, the last time I had a bowl of cereal. But man, Waffle Crisp was, it was iconic. I also, this thought popped in my head really doesn't have much to do with Waffle Crisp, although it is a cereal. I was in the shower this morning off of my run

and I had the thought of Marshmallow Treasures, which I think was a Kroger store brand, small box of Lucky Charms knockoff that my dad would get when he would be in charge of grocery shopping. Marshmallow treasures. It had an octopus on the front.

He was, like, looking over all of his marshmallow treasures. It was awesome. A couple more here. These are classics, retail Kmart and Shopko. And sure, you can throw sears into the mix as well. And if you want to get spicy, you can get borders in there, too. Our Bushwigs is gone. We've got, like, three sips left of our beer.

But, man, there was a time where if you needed something, you got in the car, you went to the Kmart, you went to the Shopco. And, you know, I have personal ties to both of these. I worked at Kmart in high school, and then the last time, if you can believe it, I ever went to an optometrist appointment, was in a shop co in Oregon shortly after my parents moved out there, and I was still on their health insurance. And that's the last time I had a vision test, if you don't count the getting my real idea at the DMV earlier this year.

A whole other story, which we covered in depth back in. February and the Weekdown podcast. Singular Wireless. You remember this. It was like an orange logo. It was, uh, you know, looked like, I don't know, kind of gooey. And gooey is a great adjective. It was like the four, I mean, it basically looked like, uh, I don't know, how would you describe it? If anyone knows what the singular wireless logo looked like, which I'm envisioning in my head, but struggling to describe, let us know. But yeah, it was orange, and it was a big cell service. And I think for a time, the American Idol told free number to call in to vote for Bo Bice or Carrie Underwood was singular wireless.

I know they had U.S. cellular for a time as well. But I think there was a time where it was singular wireless. Rest in peace. Now it's just, it's like you have to either be like Verizon. T-Mobile bought Sprint, so there's no more Sprint. And what is it, the Ryan Reynolds one, Boost Mobile or Kruise. I guess there's still, uh, there's another one out there I'm missing. Can't remember what it is.

I think, I don't know. Can't remember what it is, but rest in peace, singular. Gateway, you guys remember those old computers that had like the cow color scheme logo? It was like a cube and it had cow, you know, white with black splotches, like a Roar Shock test. Do not ask me to spell that one. We had a gateway computer when I was a kid, and haven't heard much from Gateway lately, so I think they're pretty much gone under.

Rest in peace, Gateway Computers. Three more, these are all people. This one's for the history heads out there. Percy Fawcett. The British explorer who was searching for the Lost City of Zed, as they would say in British English, Lost City of Z, as we know it. But he literally disappeared into the Amazon rainforest

looking for the lost city of Zet and they never found him. Rest in peace. He took his son with him and they disappeared and the son was played by Tom Holland in the movie and the dad was played by Percy Fawcett was played by someone. Oh, Charlie Honum

and then they had the Twilight kid in it too, Robert Petitinson. Rest in peace, Percy Fawcett. Unless he found the fountain of youth, and he's still out there somewhere. The lady from the Mandalorian, Carla Gugino. No, what was her name? I don't know. She got fired from the Mandalorian after one season for some really controversial tweets. She was like an MMA fighter, and she is gone.

So, rest in peace to Carla, something. And then finally, Bruno Mars. What the heck, this guy was all over the pop world. He was the hot item, the hottest ticket in town. And I don't know where he went. I couldn't name you a Bruno Mars song from the last decade. He had that one was his mini band called Silk Sonic. I'm going to leave the door open.

I'm going to leave the door open. Bruno Mars. So there's people, places, and things that have disappeared. If you've got other things to add, snow bean time podcast at yaku dot com finally our trivia question so i was thinking about maple's teeth and that got me thinking about predators out there with big old teeth so my question is what's the oldest great white shark that they've ever found on record per a 2014 study named the the number of years that they believed this great white shark had lived to if you're curious this is not the

great white shark but the greenland shark is the old this known fish out there, I think. And they carbon dating-wise estimate that it's lived between 270 and 515 years old, which is a pretty big gap. I don't know what sort of carbon they're dating, but I feel like I could improve that a little bit. But the great white shark, they believe, want more time, go ahead and pause. I really got a pee, so we're going to end this recording. They believed is 73 years old, probably dead at this point, because that study's 11 years old, 73 years old. I'm 50. 50 years old. That's what I got for you guys. Thank you for listening to my show, Quity of Prince Brzettes. The Bean Town podcast, email us with all those

things we mentioned. I'm going to turn on our outro music here because I really have to pee. It's like bad. Stay safe. Stay sane. I'm going to go pee. I'll check in on next time. Bye-bye. Thank you. I don't know. I'm going to I don't know.