Beantown Podcast - Things U Stink At (08132023 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: August 18, 2023

Stick Shift. AP Physics. Flying a Kite. Should I go on

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furnace. Welcome to my show, Quinn David Furnace presents the bean town podcast for Friday, August 18, 2023. It's five o'clock somewhere, namely Central Time Zone, 506 PM on a Friday, early evening, late afternoon. Getting closer to the end of summer. Football season is coming in hot. We got the preseason, game two for the Vikings tomorrow. Playing the Tennessee Titans at home.

So it's getting, we're getting closer. We're gonna have to schedule our 2023 fantasy football preview show. We'll see if we can get anyone on for that TBD there. Haven't planned that far ahead yet. My name is Quinn and this is my show. Quinn did for instance, the Bean Town podcast. Listener discretion is advised when you're checking out this fine program. Number one, we'll continue some language number two.

This podcast is objectively terrible. Thank you all for tuning in. Thank you all for the great positive responses we got to last weeks making of the album behind the scenes 1889, Quinn's version featuring all new hits that we largely just rattled off live on the air. We opened up with a battered woman excuse me then went to Grover, and belching some drinking on laganitas, what is it? Robusticus flavor, casinolous, maximus, that's what it is. The Greek-themed one, the triumvirate,

the olive-reeth, a full 9%. So that's how we're spending the night. Not going out staying and cooking a little chicken teriyaki bowl you got chicken, homemade teriyaki sauce, white rice, mushrooms, red bell pepper, and broccoli, fresh broccoli. I'm pumped for it. It's going to be a good stuff. That's what we're cooking tonight. Maybe catch a couple episodes of the shield right in the middle of season four Glenn close Anthony Anderson and Michael Pena all guest star that season loaded cast back there in 2005

Her whatever season four would have been for the shield good stuff real good stuff But yeah last week. Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for all the support. We had battered women, we had Grover, we had Bear Nuckle, kind of had that edge to go into it. And then we finished up with our bonus track, Over of War, which for those of you who are counting at home, yes, we held that note for 31 seconds. I had to go back. I don't listen to all of my shows back or even most of them I'd say it's probably like once a month they go back and listen to a show I'd listen to that one because well one I thought as a good show too We're gonna need to learn those songs a little bit more as we make the album. No progress was made between this recording on Friday and when we recorded the

Jam session on Sunday, so just five days, it's been a very busy week with orientation for new students at my place of employment. But I went back, I had to go back, I listened to the episode on the train on Monday morning, I think Tuesday morning. And then I went back every round, every rewound for a second, RE, W-O-U-N-D, to listen to that held note at the end of the Oervoir, which was our bonus track to commemorate the founding of the Eiffel Tower in 1889, the founding, the opening completion. Any number of words would work there.

31 seconds, we held that note. That was pretty good. Shifting tones, too. Intentional shifting. Speaking of intentional shifting, what we're going to be talking about today is relevant to that, including our trivia question. That's how you know this is show is good writing, prepared

well in advance. When you can sort of throw in those phrases that, you know, the casual, average listener might not pick up on, but turns out it comes back later, you know, two hours later in the episode like today. It's pretty exciting, intentional shifting, keep that phrase in mind. Hello to our friends in Pakistan. Or I guess, yeah, thank you to Pakistan. Thank you to everyone also listen. If you haven't caught last week's episode, 1889. All right, that's GarageBand, cut out number one

for the day. We're gonna try to limit it to one. But I do encourage you. I implore you to go listen to it. Not a super lengthy episode last week, so I think it was pretty proud of it. And looking forward to making that album. But yes, hello, and thank you to my friends in Packy Stan, Hyderabad Karachi, Kiber Pass, Cash Mirror. Wherever you are listening from, thank you for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Paki stand. So what we're talking about today is a little bit random,

more random than usual, but I was thinking I had nothing. You know, last week I went in and I knew exactly what I wanted to do as a concept episode. Today I was riding the bike just about two hours ago. Again, a little workout in watching the Cubs game, watching the Cubs offense just flail around. I mean, if it weren't for Christopher Morales, just Heroics in a three run,

walkoff home run on Wednesday and against the socks, Cubs offense just been trash going back to Sunday against the Metz At the Metz to know the Blue Jays they lost the Blue Jays Didn't do anything last Sunday they got embarrassed by the socks we went on Tuesday for Rachel's birthday Shadow to my lover my fiance Rachel Raymo's big two-week happy birthday We had a good time. They just the Cubs didn't do anything which stunk and Then Wednesday they only had what one run until the last better of the game when they had a good time. They just the Cubs didn't do anything which stunk. And then Wednesday they only had what one run until the last better of the game when they had a three run bomb

and then today they only put up three on the royals and lost again. You are not going to be competing with the braves and the Dodgers or even the burrs for that matter. If you cannot beat the white tocks of the royals at home. Like it's baseball is a weird sport, you know. You play 162 games. It's not like, you know, football where if you're the Kansas City chiefs, you're hosting the Kansas City Royals in a game of football then, you know, you might lose. No, let's say the Houston Texans in a game of football, then you know, you might lose.

No, let's say the Houston Texans in a game of football at home, then you might lose. And look, I mean, the Chicago Cubs aren't the Houston Texans, but let's just pick a team that's say the Green Bay Packers, right? Houston Texans aren't going to go into Green Bay in Lambo and crash the party, right? So that happens in baseball from time to time but as you get to this point in the season late August when you got what 40 games left something like that there is no more Excuse me. You there's no more excuses for just bad effort bad offense

Some some bad-managerial decisions here in their Ross has been good for the most part But you just can't lose to the white socks. Can't lose to the royals like Unless just something really goes off the rails get some bad luck It's just you can't what are you gonna be in October and you're gonna you're not gonna be hosting any teams as bad as the white socks Or royale I'll tell you that much you're gonna have to're not gonna be hosting any teams as bad as the White Sacks of Royal. They'll tell you that much. You're gonna have to be the dodges, the braves, and if you're lucky enough to go all the way, you know, the Astros, for example. Not that that's not that the cubs are going all the way, but it's just embarrassing, you know. You got the talent, you got the payroll, just not working. So, frustrating, very frustrating couple of days here on the

north side. Today's topic is things that have always been a little bit tougher than I think they should be or I thought they would be. This would be in a great episode of CrowdSource. I thought about that too late. We only came up with this concept about two hours ago. So I apologize for that. Maybe we'll put something out retroactively on Instagram. You can follow me at q.queen.de. We oftentimes, when we have shows coming up, we'll post a question that relates to the topic we are discussing and kind of get some responses. We did get one from Rachel, who had a great suggestion for this today.

I got to think of a more snappy way to label this, but it's basically things that have always been a little bit of a challenge or struggle for you, which is fun, right? Because everyone's gonna have different things, so as you listen along today, I encourage you to think about your own vices, if you will. Which will be brought to you by today's Palendrum of the Day. That is Yo Banana Boy. Hey, like, you know, if you're in

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Someone out, so if you don't know the apartment very well, which, how would you? I got my window out here, it kind of faced into a courtyard, but that courtyard opens up onto a recene, just about a 16th of a mile south of Addison which is just a block over from Rigglyfield. And you get these days game ended you know an hour ago where you get a lot of cars just kind of stuck in traffic and man they just start blasting their tunes and we got something going on here. It was Lady Gaga

about 10 minutes ago, and now it's just some random rave nonsense, but they're blast in it. And it's just loud enough to be distracting. So, you know what, if this show isn't the 5 out of 5 star standard that you've become accustomed to, I apologize. Speaking of 5 out of 5 stars, hey, if you're listening to this show,

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It's not going to be a guest host that replaced me on this baby until I am in the hospital for appendicitis or laryngitis or mononucleosis. That would be tough to podcast with mononucleosis, or they just take out my trachea in the middle of the night. It sounds kind of spooky. Hopefully that doesn't happen. All right, you can email us beantownpodcastatyahoo.com again, that's beantownpodcastatyahoo.com. Let's get into it. Let's read a couple here. We'll start with Rachel's and then we'll go in and we'll keep going. And then we have a trivia question for you. Remember the key phrase is shifting something, intentional shifting. That's what it was. I will say this remembering and recalling the phrases isn't going to actually help you with the trivia question anyway. I suppose I could rewrite it in a certain way to help you,

but it's just not. Okay. I don't want to hear you complaining about it. A lot of complaints. Well, really, we don't get many emails at all. Being top podcast, the out here.com, but I'm certain if we did, it would be like three to one complaints versus, you know, praises.

It's not a lot of praises in general, appraisals. Maybe that could be my next career change. It could be an appraisist. Appraisatory. I don't know, things to consider. So the topic for today, we're going to keep this pretty short and sweet. I'm, I'm gassed. It was an orientation this week. Do you have them in sleep in great? Kind of weird. Well, last night, okay, quick, very quick sign up, then we're going to get into it.

I promise, but we have new upstairs neighbors as of, I don't know, a month ago, three weeks ago, something like that. And I don't know if they got those Dutch wooden shoes if they're really into river dancing. Last night, the theme was banging away, but not in the fun sexual way. They were hammering. Stop hammer time, I almost said.

But the problem is, hey, look, if it's a Friday night and you're blasting your tunes because it's a lot of young people who live here here in your house party, if it's a Friday night, it's 11 p.m., like I get it. Like it still sucks. I prefer to not absolutely hear your stuff coming from your apartment in my apartment.

But this was a Thursday night, so work night. After 11, it was about 11, 15. I mean, it started before that. That's just when I tried to start going to bed and just the hammering going on. I don't know if they were putting up what must have been at least 42 to 44 tapestries in the room, the bedroom directly above us, but it was brutal. It was the worst. I had my routine when I get into bed. You know, assuming nothing's on TV, I will, you know, whip up my phone. I'll do a little Facebook,

a little bit of Twitter, a lot of Reddit. And then I usually play one or two games of cribbage. And that kind of gently lulls me to sleep. My eyes start to get real heavy, real tired, Gently lulls me to sleep my eyes start to get real heavy real tired Got a close-up shut down and then from there. I'm usually out in like It's kind of it's always hard to know exactly right, but I'm thinking like five to ten minutes at most Well the problem last night was I was doing all this while the bang is going on and thinking hey, it's 11.30 How many you know how at a certain points like how many more paintings can he hang up? I don't know if they were just big like Tim, the tool man, Taylor impressionist or something. I don't know if that's a full time job these days or what was going on. But I kind of did

my, you know, just banking on the fact that it was going to stop, right? I get asked to stop it at some point. And I did eventually, I don't know when, but I went through my cycle and then the banging was so loud. My heart, what had actually happened, which was the worst, my heart rate got really high because I was thinking like, at what point do I, they could be listening to this right now. I'm not speaking very loudly,

but I got the windows open, who knows? At what point, Rachel was really upset. I was upset, obviously. At what point are you just like, okay, it's 11.30, you're just banging the hell out of something upstairs. I don't know. At what point do I throw on a shirt, throw on pair of shorts, and go up there and knock and try to be friendly, but also stern,R-N at the same time. I definitely would have been in the right, there's a nice justified in doing that. But I really didn't want to, right?

You're lying down super long work week, had a split-a-bottle of wine, I was just like combatose. And it's a risk, right? You could have crazies living above you, right? What if someone is like legitimately crazy or like violent or, you know, it's like, you just don't want to run that risk unless you absolutely have to. And so I never did, but my heart rate was going so high

because I kept thinking like, okay, in another 30 seconds, I'm gonna go, in other 30 seconds, I'm gonna go, and obviously I never did, but it was just, at that point, it was really losing my marbles. To cap this off though, I had to go back through my cycle, go back, hit up some reddit posts, play a couple more games of cribbage, and then it was about 1230, I think, when I finally stopped really recalling what was happening. And then I woke up at like, I don't know,

615 or so and just couldn't go back to sleep. So, hoping we don't ever repeat of that tonight. The topic of today's show that we're finally getting to in the last like five to 10 minutes of the podcast because I don't have that many written down. I could have spent more time thinking about more, but we want to hear your opinions as well, your stories, beantime podcasts at Yahoo.com

or you can tweet at us, I am at q.cooindee, the show is at beantowncast. The topic is things that have always been tough for you, things you can ever really figure out as well as other people, things that seem like they kind of come easy for a lot of people and just not for you. Okay, so that's what we're talking about here. Rachel's entry into this was a great one. Spelling the word definitely. Now, the good news, this show is all about education and spelling, very important to us. and spelling, very important to us. So to spell, definitely, you have D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y, definitely.

I will say, though, this is super common. I even see it in like law school students' personal applications, where it's D-E-F-I-A-N-T-L-Y, right, defiantly. They mean slightly different things. Speaking of misspellings, I had a prospective student text me. They had my number because I called them about the wait list. And they texted me after I left a message because I asked for them to get back to me

one way or another about their interest, whatever. And they texted me back. They're like, hello, Chris, CHR, yes, still interested. I feel like we've come far enough with the voicemail technology and phone to phone contact here and with voicemails and they'll oftentimes give you a transcript of the voicemail. Does Quinn really sound like Chris that much? I feel like there's got to be two common names or Quinn's not super common, but two first names

that are not the same that you could definitely get mixed up, right? I mean, this is not really the example, this is not really what I was trying to say with that. Like, often times we'll say hello, this is Quinn, and often times, you know, on the phone or something people would be like, oh, Clint. Or Quentin, Quentin, Q-U-I, N-T-O-N, or Q-U-E-N-T-I-N. I see that, that makes more sense to me.

Clint or Quentin, Quentin, right? It makes sense, but Quentin, Chris, like that one doesn't really make sense to me. I don't know, what are some other ones that could be mixed up or other ones that should not be mixed up, but maybe someone would like, steward and bartholomew? Right, maybe I just start giving out biblical names. I'm going to answer the phone, hello. This is Bartholomew speaking.

How can I help you? Hello? This is doubting Thomas. Hello. This is Bartholomew speaking. How can I help you? Hello, this is doubting Thomas. Hello, this is Ham. H-A-M. Hello, this is a bed-n-go. What if he had three dogs? He named them Meeshack, Radio-Shack, and a bed-n-go. No, what is it? Rack, Rack, Meeshack, and a bed and a bed and a go at something like that, right? Me shack. Shadrack, me shack and a bed and a go.

There we go. Then you got the whole vegetales version. It's like Bob, Larry, and Benny or something. Then there was that kind of foxy little carrot. What was her name? Christy or something. Then there was that kind of foxy little carrot, what was her name? Christie or something? She's flying those, you guys remember this, the Daniel and the Lions, then King Nebuchadnezzar. That's not even Daniel and the Lions, then, but it's like the same

empire, right? Byzantine Empire. Daniel and the Lions, then, is when even Daniel in the lion's zen, but it's like the same empire, right? Byzantine empire. Daniel in the lion's zen is when he goes in the lion's zen and they don't eat him. This story, the chocolate bunny veggie tails when the three dudes, the three Jewish guys go into the fiery furnace and they don't get burned and the the assistant to Nebuchadnezzar Looks in and he's like no there's four guys in there now because apparently God Is in there too and they pull them out and they're not even not even crispy even oh Now they're playing a Viva La Vita by Coldplay out there Here's a throwback I listen to the song square one by Coldplay the Opening track off of the third album X and Y. Sometimes you just wake up and you get something stuck in your head. I can't explain it. But yeah, in this Veggie Tales, to adaptation,

adaption, adaptation. They got that big cucumber or that zucchini with all the warts mister something Always plays the bad guys. He's he's being Nebuchadnezzar and then they got that hot little carrot number blondie She's driving the the frickin cloud car from Bespin Empire strikes back. What a reference Pretty cool. Here are some things that I could never figure out very well First one is well documented riding a bike. I'll say this gone through different phases. So when I first learned, like, learned as a kid, I don't really recall, but I don't think it went super well. But it wasn't like, oh yeah, I tried it a couple times, gave up, just can't do it. I think I just never

really like applied it. And so I just never really like applied it and So I just got rusty and then I went through a brief phase in college and I don't you know We had bikes around the house growing up But I don't really recall especially as I got older into like high school and stuff I don't really recall like having a bike that was mine. It's not really an excuse per se I just don't really recall that being a thing. And then just, hey, frankly, you grew up in suburban America. It's a, and especially a place like Rockford,

not a very bike-friendly place. We still knew people who biked occasionally, but, and I think, you know, older brothers probably did more than I do, but, or than I did, but it just wasn't really a thing for me. I didn't, you know, it brothers probably did more than I do, but or than I did. But it just wasn't really a thing for me. I didn't, you know, it wasn't like I was going to use my bike to go somewhere. Um, and I know I just like when I was like to go out and explore, I like to go on foot. So I can bring my dog with me.

Uh, but then there was a brief stint in college. I think it was my last year of college where we had a bunch of bikes in the place where I was in RA. And there were just so many that were old they'd been there for five years, whatever. So eventually they just took one. And I tried to learn how to ride and invest a little bit of time in it. And it wasn't like, oh yeah, I can't do it. But it was also like, I'm not great at it. Just because I haven't tried in 10 years or whatever.

And then I took that bike with me to my next apartment in grad school. And I think I gave it to friend of the podcast Sean Young who's been on once before back in probably year one. But that's sort of the last one. What I was 21 years old, seven years ago, that was kind of my last attempt at it. I don't even know if I've been on a bike since then. So yes, the old joke, the old adage is that, I can't ride a bike, and I've sort of played that up

for a laugh, occasionally here and there. But I don't think it's necessarily like, no one ever tried to teach me, obviously, my dad did. Or like, no, I'm just an epic failure, I can't do it. I just caught a fly mid-air. How did that thing get in here? Not like a house fly, a tiny little nap. Got it with my palm on my hand. I felt like I was Liam Neeson in Batman Beak.

Batman Beakins or something. I don't necessarily know that Liam Neeson. Raza Ghoul catches a fly in his hand in Batman Be or something. I don't necessarily know that Liam Neeson, Raza Ghoul, catches a fly in his hand and Batman begins. It just seems like something he would do on that cool mountain top, right? That's kind of the energy I was channeling regardless. Irregardless number one horse name. Lots of show throwbacks here. Now they're listening to Elton John, good by Yellowbrook Road. We have been all over the place on this. I don't even know where the noise is coming from somewhere in the alley. Hey, I'm not complaining about

their recent tastes. Coldplay Elton John, keep it coming, right? Maybe just turn it down as we try to finish off this show. But no, riding a bike is not my area of expertise. And I think the problem right now is living in such a living in a place where cars do not really respect bikers and there are multiple bike deaths every year here in the city. I don't necessarily feel compelled currently to be like, oh yeah, today's the day where I'm going to start biking. Other things flying a kite.

Now I'll say this, I don't think this is necessarily a slight on me or anyone, probably like my dad or brothers whoever tried to fly a kite with me. And I don't think we did it very often as a kid, but I just remember no matter what, like it just never worked. You always see kids in cartoons, or you read the kite runner, right?

When you're four years old and it's a little bit to adult for you. And it's like, oh, they're flying a kite. They're having a great time. And it just, we never had a ton of kites. But we certainly had, you know, a handful here and there. And look, I just never worked. It's one of those things where just thinking about it, sitting here in my little podcast in corner, it should be super easy, right? Find a windy day, run into the wind, hold your kite up, and just let it loose.

Then you gotta handle the spool. But it's one of those things I think I could do, given the right conditions in 2023, but I don't think I've ever actually look successfully flown a kite. That's probably the biggest black mark black spot on my career so far. I have three more for you. Perfect pancakes. Brother of the podcast, Jack Fernis will appreciate this one.

He's eaten a lot of my very average thick burger, ish pancakes. Even at one summer where we slept in the basement, for like most of the summer in sleeping bags, not even like an air mattress or on the couch, but like sleeping bags on the floor. Unique decision, played a lot of Pokemon, watched a lot of this will age us, you know, Beverly Hillbillies, that show was big when we were kids. And then wake up and like make pancakes. I think we must have been like 9 and 11 or something before detastling started. It was just strange, but I made a lot of pancakes that were just super thick.

To this day, I don't feel like I have a perfect recipe. I feel like I trust my dad To make excellent pancakes from scratch. I got to get a secret one of these days It might be loading up on the baking powder, but I don't know. I feel like I've you know probably made pancakes 200 times in my life and just Don't feel like I've ever gotten it perfect you know. When I was a kid I was always worried about and this was a legit concern because it would happen frequently under cooking them probably from the heat being too high and then you

bite in you got you know nice little pancake mix a little soggy and the interior, interior soggy-ness, never a good thing. And now as an adult, I don't feel like when I make, I don't make pancakes and scratch that often. But half the time I try to make pancakes, they turn into crepes. And half the time I make crepes, they turn into pancakes. No one's really complaining when you get a crepe

instead of a pancake, right? It's just, you feel a little silly when you try to make a pancakes. No one's really complaining when you get a craving set of a pancake, right? It's just you feel a little silly when you try to make a pancake. It was damn French or so influential. Penultimate thing here, AP Physics story problems, like I could apply this to AP Calculus story problems too, but man, I just remember my senior year of high school taking AP Calculus. remember my senior year of high school taking AP calculus. And it just never, never clicked for me. I still contend to this day that getting a three on that AP physical exam as lame as that sounds just saying it on a scale of one to five. That was an act of God. Because I consider myself to be a pretty bright person

instinctual learns a lot of those things and just good at school, not necessarily like, oh, you're brilliantly in all topics, but just like knows how to get good grades, good test scores, all that stuff. Because a lot of high school and younger education is just like a game if you can figure it out. I think I was really good at playing the game.

A B physics never caught on. I think I knew F equals M.A. and if you told me what the mass and what the acceleration was, I could, I could do some calculations and give you the force. But that was about the extent of my physics knowledge. I would feel pretty good with just some raw data in front of me because there's a lot of just like understanding equations, knowing what your SI units are, etc. And the APF is, because I took was, you know, it's not C, so it doesn't use calculus or whatever it is. I was just algebra two basically, a little bit of trig geometry. But yeah, once you threw in the story problem aspect, I just froze. I don't think that's uncommon.

I think a lot of people, students are that same way. But it was always like, yeah, after it finishes, I see the correct answer. I see how the, you know, this proper noun is this SI unit and this is, you know is whatever, like how it all fits together. It would always be like, oh yeah, that makes perfect sense. I got this next time and then you throw a different story in front of me on the AP test or whatever and I would just be like, nope, got nothing. I don't remember, I think it was, I don't know if it was physics or calculus. The only AP test I ever took in my life.

But the way AP tests are, you have two sections, you have like your raw numbers, basically, and then your story problems. Excuse me, and one of those tests, I'm guessing it was physics because, hey, we got two, I think half of the story problems on the AP physics exam were topics that we never covered in class, because we just like ran out of time just that

that great rockford Christian education at work for you and so I spent probably a solid 20 minutes just drawing pictures on my calculator I drew Chris Bosch right Miami Heat their big three as a big deal when I was in high school and yeah just somehow got a three, which is, look, that's not impressive for pretty much anyone, but considering there were multiple questions that we hadn't even been taught how to approach them, I feel pretty good about that.

And very lucky as well. Speaking of Rockford Christian, this year is my, or this past spring was my 10 year high school reunion, not reunion. The reunion is still happening this fall. It was the anniversary of my 10 year anniversary of me graduating high school. I don't remember someone on Facebook, I think, that I'm still connected to. I had like commented on some post, someone else's post that had to do with the 10-year anniversary, which is next week or something. And so I found it was like an online invitation

like the way you would RSVP for a wedding or something. But you could see all the people that were invited. And so I go in there and check the list, scan in the list. So only 70 people in my graduating class is not gonna be that big. No, I wasn't there. Same reason I, or same way I wasn't invited to my five-year anniversary. Here's the thing, it was I gonna go to either, absolutely not, high school is hell and really despised people I went to high school with, like just some of my least favorite people I've ever met in my 28

years. I still went into the page, so an RSVP, no, for a quenster because I didn't have an invite, but I wanted to let them know. I'm not going to be able to make it. So it wasn't even something cool. It's like in rock for an in loves park, which I get whatever. But it's like someone from the classes friend is playing in like a shitty garage band, like Cliff Breaker's kind of restaurant or something, so they wanted to go there. So, cash bar, you know, not even open bar. So no, I will not be there. Our final question or our final thing that I can never figure out very well beyond high

school just kind of broadly, stick shift, right? Manual transmission. My dad, he tried. A couple occasions took me out with his Honda cord. Try to make it work. Never did. That was really where my anxiety really shown. I think for the most part I have my anxiety under control. It doesn't really creep up these days, the way it did when I was in high school or college. But yeah, driving a stick shift, it just never happened for me.

It's very nerve-wracking, right? If you just wanna throw me in a parking lot where there's nobody around practice the stick shift. Okay, I'm not going to be great at it, but like I got the concepts. You throw me into traffic, especially remember one time at the intersection of Charles and I don't even remember what that is, the street that connects Charles and East State as if you were driving home from Temple Baptist, which is not called that anymore. It's called something else, I don't know.

But it's a big hill as you're going up to turn east onto Charles to go back towards home. Now I want to look up this street, see what it was called. It wasn't like a super well-known street or anything like that. Or was it Charles and it wasn't Charles in the East state? It was, first we got to find Temple Baptist. This is going to be great for the non, oh yeah, it was Charles in the East state.

Great for the non-rockford audience here. It was a fair view, that's right. Big Hill, oh I guess it's Park Peter. This is very confusing. We can edit this out. It's fair view when it intersects East State, right? That's right where State Street Station used to be. The Popeyes.

And then it's a fair view. You go past that schools, we're going south. And at certain point, it turns into Peter Avenue. And then at Charles Street, it turns a fair view. You go past that schools were once out then at certain point it turns into Peter Avenue and then at Charles she turns into 31st. So in the span of about 600 feet it has three names there. That's awfully confusing. But yeah, I just I never really got it to a point where I felt comfortable with it. Probably just because I like again you practice with it here and there but you're never jealous. I was never just like out in dad's car Know what I felt comfortable doing that and then I you know haven't touched a stick shift since I was probably 17 years old

And I don't know if they ever will again, so there you go Those are some things that I never really quite figured out things that Other people seem to pick up that I just never quite got. So if you have yours, email us, beantownpodcastatyaahu.com. We would love to hear about it. We're gonna close it with our Beantownpodcast trivia question of the week.

So most of us know, we just drive automatic transmissions now, but manual transmission, obviously the OG. So here we go. I was doing a little bit of research on a sort of that shift from manual to automatic shifting, whatever we, whatever that phrase was earlier, intentional shifting. So here we go. So here is your trivia question in the week.

I guess we can throw in some parts here. I tried to highlight the most important things. I don't have a written out question here. I'm question in the week. I guess we can throw in some parts here. I tried to highlight the most important things. I don't have a written up question here. I'm on the Wikipedia article. Okay, so this is, I'll just give you the context. The, we're asking about is the first ever automatic transition. It was dubbed the Hydromatic Drive, HYDRA-MATIC,

M-A-T-A-C hydromatic and then drive. It went into production in May 1939 for the 1940 model year. And I'm wanting to know who was the maker of these cars, okay? If you want an additional clue, the cars they went into were the series 60 and the series 70, 1939 in 1940. So you tell me, is it your Ferraris, your Lamborghini's, your Chryslers, your Cadillacs?

Who could it be? If you want any more time, you can go ahead and pause the answer here. Oldsmobile, the oldsmobile series 60 and series 70, the first cars from general motors behind the scenes to use the hydromatic drive, the first ever automatic transition in the US. And then for fun, a little extra bonus action, you can take a guess. How much, if you wanted to buy an old mobile series 60 with the automatic transmission installed in it, how much extra was that in dollars at the time? Okay. The answer, and again, this is in 1940, $57.

And if you want to do it, if you're curious what the conversion rate on that is for $20, $22 last year, $1,191. Okay, there you go. And it rose to $100 from $57 for 1941. So as I steep increase in extra 43 bucks in US dollars, that would be about $800. So there you go, there's your bean-top podcast,

Trivia question of the week. If anyone ever asks you what maker had the first ever automatic transmission, you could say GM, but more specifically you could say Oldsmobile Series 60 series 70 and it cost you only 57 dollars at the time only 57 dollars is a pretty penny. So there you go there is today's bean town podcast thank you so much for tuning in thank you for listening we will be behind the scenes more working on our 1889 album maybe we could have a song about ultimate bill. I don't know a little bit too early

Wait till we make our 1939 album songs from the World War two But that's what I got. We're gonna have some fantasy football preview stuff coming up shortly here and Another week summer's almost over but get out there and joy at everyone Let's queue up some outro music. I hope you're staying safe, staying sane. Oh, before we do that, a quick shout out to friend of the show, Matthew Feeder, bachelor party tomorrow on the water. Gonna be a good time. You know him from our tech specials, so give him some love if you can. Okay, now we can queue up our music. See you tomorrow, Matthew. Hope you're having a good day. Stay safe, stay sane.

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