Beantown Podcast - Think Tanks, Tackleboxes, & KPop Homogeny (09252026 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: September 25, 2026

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss summer breeding, Gavin DeGraw's politics, and Maple's best in show odds

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, September 25th, 2026. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn and I am the creator, host, and chief holding down the forder of this program. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast. living that sweet sweet bachelor lifestyle my wife's son Harry Stiles retreat in the Big Apple so it's just me and Big Mike over here my wife's in the Big Apple my dog's named Big Mike

everything's bigger in Bean Town that's what they say what's happened and listen to discretion advice when you're listening to this program number one will occasionally some language number two the podcast is objectively terrible and of course thank you to our good friends in Pakistan. Thank you for making us the 78th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and of course our good friends in Nigeria. Thank you Abuja. Thank you Lagos. Thank you Benin City for making us the 178th ranked comedy podcast in Nigeria and probably

all of sub-Saharan Africa. Is Nigeria sub-Saharan Africa? Because it seems like When we're talking Sahara, do you guys ever see that? What was that? Was it Matthew McConaughey was in that movie? Sahara, it's like Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson or something. They're presumably driving across the Sahara Desert. Saharan or Sahara Desert? What's the etymologically correct term here?

Can we get a desertologist to chime in here? but I think the Sahara like you know is like the top half of Nigeria is in the Sahara and then the bottom half is not so what are we are we doing our little Sahel half Sahel half Sahara what's the deal there can anyone from Nigeria clue it in and let us know email us Beantown Podcast at yahoo.com and it's beantown podcast at yahoo.com that movie sahara i think i saw bits and pieces it was one of the movies when i was growing up and it came out where just like among some like members i'm like uh influential i guess promontory point that the place in chicago um what's the word uh influential promiscuous promotional

provincial there's a word i'm looking for and you're sitting there looking at your stereo like you're listening to a fireside chat with FDR in his wheelchair saying, Quinn, it's this. Hear me, listen to me. And I'm sitting here thinking, I can't. I can't come up with a word. It's like influential and it starts with a PRO, I think. Prominent.

That's a pretty good. That's probably what I'm thinking of. Some prominent homeschoolers in our community, which was very like, you know, classist, I feel like you had sort of the elite, the board members. and their kids and then of which I was one. I'm sort of the bourgeoisie over here. And then you kind of had the, you know, the everyone else, sort of an Indian cast system, C-A-S-T-E.

But at one point, and I'm over-exaggerating the prominence of this film, but there was one point in time when that movie Sahara came out where it was like, I don't know. I just feel like we watched it at a couple of like Bible studies on Wednesday nights or something or, you know, after church to get together on Sundays and I was like, oh yeah, this movie's all the rage. You got to watch Sahara.

And I don't remember actually ever personally watching Steve Zon in that movie. Let's see. Sahara 2005 film is a remake based on the best-selling 1992 novel of the same name. Sir is Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zon, and Penelope Cruz. You know what I was thinking of

with Kate Hudson. The Fool's Gold, right? Another movie I never saw. It follows a treasure hunter who partners with a medical doctor to find a lost American Civil War ironclad worship in the Sahara Desert. You know what I miss? I miss the golden age of Steve Zon. Not that he's like a highly influential Hollywood actor,

but I just feel like he had that run in the mid-2000s where he made a name for himself. And I'm thinking specifically of, I was going to say National Treasure, but that's not right, is it? That's Justin Bartha. Justin Barth is a national treasure, not Steve's On. I'm thinking of Daddy Daycare with Eddie Murphy and, what's it, Jeff Garland? Is that what Daddy Daycare is?

We're going on a whole rabbit hole of mid-2000s films. Actually, I'm going to lean into it. Let's research both of these. Actually, I don't really care about Daddy Daycare. I just want to make sure I had that cast right. Daddy Daycare 2003, Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garland, yeah. The point I was trying to make 10 seconds ago, and I said, let's lean into it. I, you know, I think we've talked about this many, many times before on the Bean Town podcast,

but I tend to wake up, I would say 50% of the time, give or take, with a particular song and or artist. I mean, he's usually a song stuck in my head. but, you know, that leads to me thinking about other songs by that artist. And today, I didn't even have this in my notes, but I wanted to, I figured I brought, bring it up since we're in the mid-2000s. Today it was, first it was five for fighting, the song Superman. I'm only a man in a foreign red sheet. I'm only a man looking for his dreams.

John And Dracic, that is his name. And then the other thing that popped in my head that was really a deep cut. Because I feel like five for fighting, it's like maybe once or twice a year. I will just like turn it on on YouTube because I was thinking about it. You know, whatever it is. Usually they're like 100 years. Superman, The Promise, Chances, one of those four songs. There's like the five for fighting songs I know.

That comes up once or twice a year. It's not that big of a surprise. What was a shock this morning, and I got a name for you that's going to take you way back, 20-ish years ago, all you One Tree Hill fans, Gavin de Grau. Holy cow, I woke up this morning and I had chariot stuck in my head. Oh, chariot. Yo, golden wings. Ah, do, do, do, do, oh, chariot.

And then the actual song that was the theme song of One Tree Hill. I don't need to be anything other than a carpenter's son, whatever it is. I don't want to be anything other than, but I've been trying to be lately. All I have to do is to me and my peace of mind. Lost the tone. The pitch at the end. I felt like I was holding it together up until that point, and then it derailed. But yeah, when's the last time you thought?

thought about Gavin de Grau. So I googled him. He's coming to the Genesee Theater here in Waukegan, a suburb north of Chicago in Lake County, December 11th. Tickets on sale now. And it's maybe he's free because they canceled the, what, Trump, you know, concert, celebration of that, whatever that was with Kid Rock. They almost sold six VIP tickets.

I, when I was researching Gavin DeGro, I was going through his Wikipedia page today. Just kind of like, I know. He had like his first push with the chariot album in like mid-2000s. And then he made a little bit of like a charts resurgence when I was in high school, like 2011, 2012. He had, you know, one or two songs that were, you know, making radio waves. I'm in love with the girl. I'm in love with a.

And then that song, Not Over You. And I remember listening to that like right when I got my driver's license. Anyway, so it's been a long time since we heard from Gavin de Grau. So I had to research him. and found out I wouldn't go so far. I'm not trying to be smirch Gavin McGrath's name or ruin your childhood or middle age or however old you were in 2006. But he did play for Trump's second inaugurational concert ball and said he was very excited to meet the president. So I don't want to go 100% of the way and be like, yes, guys, a real piece of shit.

I think we said listen to discretion is advised. I think we got that out of the way early. But I'm probably not going to come back to his YouTube hits for another two or three years minimum. I'll go back to the five for fighting much more frequently. So those were the songs that were in my head when I woke up. But yeah, this Steve Zahn. And I mean, it's not like he just popped up and did a couple things and then you never heard from him again. I mean, I've watched a few shows recently where he has a prominent role.

in Righteous Gemstones, was it season three, I think, which would have been, you know, five, six years ago. He played like the main villain, essentially, in quotes. No one's ever like a real huge villain in that show. But he was in it. He did a good job there. And then he was in the first, he had a big role in the first season of White Lotus. I mean, obviously each one of those seasons is an ensemble cast.

No one is like the lead in the White Lotus. But yeah, I mean, he was one of the main guys. right he's married to that one lady what's her name gosh i can't remember not felicity huffman but it's kind of that vibe let's see what was her name they got the kids sidney sweeney is the daughter and uh that kid who sleeps on the beach is the sun i just want to see what that actresses name was first season Connie Britton that's her name yeah

what else did Steve Zahn do and then we'll move on from this I promise although we're just kind of hanging out here I wrote down a few things got a couple topics I want to touch on we'll get to our drink of our beverage of the week here maybe do an interview with the dog all the maples over here sleeping

but we're just hanging out here on the beat town podcast thank you everyone for listening last week for our top 10 spikes. That was a lot of fun. Got a lot of feedback on our rankings, which is definitely true. We definitely, you know, every week, gosh, it's between working three jobs

and trying to keep this household going and trying to keep up with the Bean Town podcast inbox. It is exhausting, but I do it for the fans. We definitely get a lot of mail week and week out. I'm definitely not just speaking into the void here. Right. Steve Zahn is best known for lead roles in the thing, that thing you do, safe men, happy Texas, joyride, national security, a perfect getaway, dive, a wimpy kid film series, Cowboys, and LaRoy, Texas. Of those, I believe I've seen one of them.

And I was going to say zero. But I saw Joyride pop up here in a filmography and it's literally my phone is just saying like, no, we're not going to click on that. Wikipedia link. I'm just tapping it repeatedly. There it is. I think I saw Joyride just like a year ago. Right? It's the one that it's obviously car driven, pun intended. I think it's Paul Walker. Okay, yeah, here it is. It just loaded. Yeah, I did. This was a screenplay by JJ Abrams, 2001. Paul Walker and Steve Zahn follows two brothers and their childhood acquaintance who are terrorized by a psychopathic killer after pranking him on their CB radio. Yeah, I just saw this.

I think I was doing, I would say like once or twice a year. I got a free night, kind of like tonight and I'm like, gosh, I need something to watch, which may be the case tonight. But I think I want to watch that Elizabeth Holmes documentary, not the Nathan Fielder one that's yet to be released, but like the HBO one, been on a big Elizabeth Holmes kick lately. We would just finish the dropout and we're very excited about the Nathan's. feel their documentary but i haven't seen the hbio documentary so i might check it out we'll see but every like once a year i will have a free night and i'm in the mood for a movie and i'll be like i'll just do a google search

of like top movie thrillers of all time because thrillers is probably my favorite movie genre there's ever been collateral still one of my excuse me one of my favorite movies in fact for a while when people ask me, Quinn, what's your favorite movie? I would just say, oh yeah, collateral is my favorite. Tom Cruise, Jamie Fox. But I think I have to reserve space at least a 50-50 timeshare for the fugitive, which is another thriller. Because I literally watch the fugitive once a year on St. Patrick's Day.

It's just like, it's a thing. There's no moving off of it. So how can I say the fugitive is not one of my favorite movies? Because it is. I absolutely love it. But this movie Joyride, yeah, basically. Basically, it was solid. It wasn't, you know, like mind bending, but it was really well done.

Basically, they're, like, driving. I think one of them just got out of prison. I think Steve's on, just, like, gets out of prison. Paul Walker picks him up. They're, like, on a road trip. They're having fun or something. And they got an old CB radio, and they prank this trucker, and then he ends up, terrorizing them, and you're not sure if it's, like, real or not.

Like, how real is the danger, essentially? you're kind of on the edge of your seat and then it all comes to a head at the end. Kind of like that movie, for the first Spielberg movie, D-U-E-L, paired with like a little bit more of a like a slasher-esque aspect to it. Kind of like dual, a three-sum between dual, no country for old men and like an 80s slasher movie. And, you know, give it like a B grade. That's how I would describe Joyride. So I'm not saying go out of your way to watch it tonight, prioritize it. But if you ever thinking, you know what, I got a free night and I like Steve Zahn and Paul Walker,

so I'll just throw something on. Maybe I'm making some banana bread muffins or something or, you know, chocolate wafers. You can throw it on. By the way, well, was there anything? We should close the book on this Steve's on. I mentioned White Lotus. I mentioned the other one. Oh, A Righteous Jump Sons.

Apparently he was in Stuart Little as well. I don't remember that, do you guys? I just remember, you know, Jonathan Lipnicki, Hugh Lorry, and Gina Davis. So who was Steve Zahn in those movies? Monty. Oh, he's a voice. Maybe you have a cat.

Yeah, Snowbell was Nathan Lane. Monty was Steve Zon. I'm guessing he was a cat. Anything else here, Daddy Daycare, we mentioned. Chicken Little. I don't think I've ever actually seen Chicken Little. Zach Braff, right? I don't think I ever watched that one.

Dallas Byers Club. I liked that movie. The Good Dinosaur didn't see it. Captain Fantastic. That's the Vigo Mortensen one. I don't remember Steve Zon being in that one either. I'm guessing he plays like the husband of the ex-wife. That seems like a good Steve Zon role.

but I have literally no idea anything else war for the planet of the apes Anaconda so he's been busy it's not like oh yeah Steve's on disappeared he's been doing stuff he's just

I felt like that that run in the early 2000s with Daddy Daycare and Joyride and Stuart Little I guess throw it in there that's when he was really killing it Let's move past Steve Zahn.

Let's mention what we're drinking here. I'm excited. It's a brand new friend of the show. Literally zero experience with it up until I saw it in a Michigan grocery store two weeks ago and decided to purchase. So I was coming home from the Mount Bald Head Challenge two weeks ago. And I had had two beers at Sagatuck Brewing, which makes one of my all-time favorites, the peanut butter porter, which unfortunately wasn't in season at the taproom when I was there, but that's okay. I had two of my favorites, the Oval Beach Pale Ale, I think is what it's called,

and then the Bonfire Brown, which are two of their core beers. I stopped in at the grocery store, and I got a couple different things, including something from Bells, just like a tall boy, you know, the one-off things they sell. That was for immediate consumption when I got home. and then, or I think it was the day after, but then I got an October fest from, gosh, where was that from? I can't remember.

I still have one left. A place in Michigan. And then I got a, this four pack of tackle box IPA from North, North Pier Brewing, is that what it's called? Yes, North Pier Brewing in Benton Harbor, which is a Lake Michigan coast town, west side of Michigan, west coast of Michigan. It's a, yeah, it's an IPA.

It's a pretty, like, straightforward IPA. It's a little bit fuller. Not in, like, it's not a hazy IPA, but it's got some body behind it, just like me in college. And let's face it, like, every other six months. I feel like my, I feel like I don't, and I don't really weigh myself that often.

Like, as long as I'm getting my exercise in, I'm trying to eat clean, like, I'm staying active. There's going to be months where I just feel a little bit more inclined to imbibe and, you know, eat some more ice cream. And then there's going to be months where I'm just like in Spartan lockdown mode mode. I'm a little bit closer to Spartan lockdown mode right now, partially just because I'm like not spending any money. So I'm not just like going out to breweries and, you know, having a good time and stuff. It's just, you know, whatever I drink at home from the grocery store. But, you know, I got less of a full body right now.

but I'm sure in March, you know, it'll balloon back up. That's just how these things go, and that's okay. I'm the, I just, you know, yo-yo. Back and forth, that's okay. And we're not talking like 60 pounds, or realistically like 15, 20 pounds. Probably like oscillating between like 195 and 210. That's where I live these days.

It'd be great to be my high school way. It'd be great to step on the scale one day and be like, man, I'm down to 170. That's great. I just don't, I don't even know how long, and I'm not, I'm not losing sleep over this, I promise you, I'm just talking out loud, thinking about it. I don't know how long, by the way, this tackle box IPA is 7.5%. So it does pack a punch. We're about a third of the way through, and we're just sipping here on a Friday. Been a long week of, not a hard week, but just long hours working jobs, one, two, and three.

So we'll see. We might do a little bit more when we finish up here. It's about 6 p.m. But in life, you got to know when to step away and, you know, rot on the couch for a little bit here and there. Not for a super long time. No one's sleeping until 11 a.m. or anything like that. But what was the point I was trying to make about myself? I don't know.

I don't think it was that relevant or important. So I think the best thing to do is just. keep going. If it's really interesting, we'll come back to it, I promise. Our interview with the dog was a fan favorite, I think was it, season eight of the show. And we got a good opportunity here. It's just me and Maple sitting on the couch, recording a show. And so we'll turn it over to you, Maple.

Now, you have a big competition tomorrow. That's right. It is the North Center Chamber of Commerce. Best in Show competition tomorrow at the North Center Town Square, 9 a.m. Central. So Maple, I know you're asleep right now, but what are your, you know, how have you prepared, how are you feeling going into competition where you are just, what, 15 hours away? Where's your head at right now? I swear, I set this microphone down an inch from the dog's nose and just total snooze down.

So that's how Maple's preparing. Yeah, we literally, no joke, we have, so every Saturday morning from June through October, we only got a few left here, that's sad. We have the North Center Farmers Market, which is a very low-key, chill, you know, farmers market. There's probably 10 vendors total each week, Saturday mornings from 9 to 1 approximately. And we go, it's not like a tradition, like we got to go every week. but whether we're going there just for that or just like passing through on our way back from coffee or something,

I would say we try to go one to two times a month throughout the summer into the fall. Oh, now look who's up. You got any thoughts? Nope, nothing. Anyways, tomorrow we started seeing some posters around town. And it's at our tiny little town square, which is outside the CVS, sort of like a cement area with a stage. You know, they do live music and stuff.

And it's just a, you know, small little community spot. It's nice. It's casual. And we started seeing posters a month ago for the North Center best in show. That's our neighborhood, by the way, for the best in show competition. And there's going to be all sorts of categories, prizes. Sounds like one of those, you know, loser mentality. Everyone's a winner kind of deals.

which unfortunately is the only category is Maple or the competitions Maple can really find success in. But don't tell her that. She doesn't need to know. This is the same kind of set up and spot where they host our annual Halloween costume contest for dogs, of which Maple, two years ago they did it very much like everyone wins kind of thing. She got a pig year back when she had teeth. She could eat it. It was fun.

And then last year they were much more hardcore. It was just like first, second, third. The rabbit won first. Maple did not place. And so it's been 11 months, and we'll see what she's got, what tricks she's got up her sleeve. There's all sorts of categories, like suggested categories, but I don't know if it's like whatever's on the poster is what they're actually going to do. One of the suggested categories was like, you know, dressing like your dog. Like, you know, you have the same matching outfits, basically.

And I was thinking of that. It's probably like the lowest hanging fruit. but I don't actually know if we, you know, Maple has a limited closet here. And so I don't know if I actually have anything that's like a perfect match. The one thing that we could actually do would be like Minnesota Vikings gear because Maple has a shirt and I've obviously got plenty of stuff. But I just feel like especially, you know,

five days ago with the Vikings beating the bear's ass, I don't know if it's the, you know, you're trying to win a competition in Chicago. I don't know if it's, particularly strategic to show up in Vikings garb. We're not particularly well-liked at this juncture. Give it a few weeks, and people might be more like, oh, yeah, Vikings, like, whatever, it's fine. And generally speaking, I don't think the bears hate the Vikings.

Like, division rivals, sure, but it's not like the Packers, where there's that extra level animosity vikis. I think it's kind of whatever. But, I mean, literally less than a week ago, the Vikings showed up, whipped the bears ass, and left town. And I don't think people are going to be super receptive to us dressing up like Minnesota Vikings tomorrow. So we might have to can that one.

TBD. We'll see what Maple's feeling in the morning. We could do, I guess, a few categories I think she could compete in. Fewest teeth. Most scared. Least likely to listen. Most poops on one walk. stinkiest breath

tiniest paws I just touched him she got really mad anything else you're thinking buddy highest vet bills winiest that's a good one most likely to get a birthday cake from her mom for birthday

that we still haven't finished yet maple's birthday was gosh this is embarrassing 11 days ago there's still a slice of cake in there I mean that's on me you know my wife's been doing good job ever since and she made it she did all of it i've done literally nothing with this piece of

this cake but she got like this um you know package kind of thing from the pet store you know comes with like a plastic mold in the shape of a bone and you cook it in there and you bake it in there and you know give her little pieces of it every day and my wife have been doing a great job every night is like her bedtime treat of doing that and then my wife left on tuesday and um i haven't given the dog there's one piece left in it I should have been sitting in there in the fridge for five days. So tonight's the night. I actually dug it out.

I was getting my tackle box beer here. I was like, oh, shoot, that cake is still in there. So I dug it out. So we're definitely going to have it for dessert tonight, buddy. So you got that to look forward to. I want to quickly say thank you to our sponsors at HomePriot, Oregon. Thank you so much. Home Pride, Oregon.

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You got fever pitch. Not a good movie, but still. Costner's coming in here with Bull Durham and for Love of the Game. And it's just like, I can't keep, I don't know if I've actually ever sat down and watched either of them. But it's confusing. Couldn't we have gotten more, you know, Stephen Root or George C. Scott for love of the game? Maybe, but too late now. I don't know how I pulled those names out of my...

It shows you the deep minds of my mind. That's right. Mines, Mines, M-I-N-E-S of my mind. I'm thinking Moria specifically. Like, where the heck did George C. Scott and Stephen Root come from? What do they have to do with baseball? I have no idea. Throw it into the library next to Gavin de Grave and five for fighting.

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on the Beantown podcast nine seasons in. It's one thing if the sponsor reads change every week, and are kind of keeping you on your toes. It's another thing to have had the same group of sponsors just slowly adding to them over the course of nine seasons, and the ad reads don't really change and nothing that interesting happens. So, you know, we're not actually,

here's a little insider clue for you. A lot of people probably don't realize this, especially in, you know, Benin City and Hyderabad. We're not actually getting paid. I'm losing money on this show every year, bleeding, between the $70 website hosting fee from WordPress because I know beantownpodcast.com gets a lot of traffic and the like $120 of unlimited podcast hosting from SoundCloud Pro

were bleeding money on the show. It's a wonder I'm still saving for a house right now with trying to keep this show. on the airwaves. But we do it for love of the game, right? Isn't that what George C. Scott said in Dr. Strange Love? Do it for love of the game. I never seen Dr. Strange Love.

I get Dr. Strange Love and Dr. Chivago mixed up. I don't think they have anything to do with each other. And are either, which, who's Dr. Strange Love and who's Dr. Chavago in the grand in scheme of their respective stories. Let's dig into this, okay? So Dr. Strangelove has this subtext. It's like, or how I learned to love the atomic bomb, I think. Dr. Strange Love, we're going to get to the bottom of this comparison.

Okay. Oh, shoot. Before we do that, I want to quickly shout out because I completely forgot this. Our Animal of the Week, I was watching football last night. And you know who was playing? Not the Green Bay Packers. Well, they were not really playing. playing in quotation marks but they were facing the Atlanta falcons and that made me think you know what

that's a good animal of the week but we got to take it a step further forget the falcons let's make them the peregrine falcons because like what the heck is peregrine and then i had this thought um because i was researching i was genuinely curious like what is like you hear about falcons and falconry all that simple like what is a peregrine falcon what does that mean and i actually wrote this down in my notes not what what Peregrine means, that would have been smart. Did I actually find out what Peregrine means, or did I just get sidetracked by this other thing I wanted to talk about? I think I got sidetracked by the other thing I wanted to talk about. Let's scroll down to the naming. Why is it called Peregrine? There's a description of it.

Okay, we're talking about its muscular back. Falco Peregrinus was first described under its current binomial name by an English oranthologist, Marmaduke Tunstall, KT's dad, and his 1771 work Orinthologia Britannica. Falco Peregrinus is a medieval Latin phrase that was used by Albert and Magnus in 1225. Paragrinus is Latin meaning one from abroad or coming from foreign parts. So there you go. That's how we got Peregrine Falcon. what I wrote down so you know you go to these animals

Wikipedia pages and it shows you like a world map of like where they where they live their habitat and it's color coded so Canada's in blue and sub-Saharan Africa and you know the Sahel and etc we talked about that already is green

but these labels for what these colors mean and the map I loved because you got basic things like winter visitor passage visitor but then and I wrote, I don't have an actual joke about this. I was going to set it up, but I spent too long talking about it. Now it doesn't work.

But one of the colors is breeding summer visitor, which is like me in college, but it doesn't really actually make sense because I never traveled in summer in college. And I had very little, if any, sex, especially in the summers in college. I feel like I always had like, girlfriends, you know, on and off throughout my academic years, but summer's things really clamped down.

You would have thought that would be like a prime time because I was like living in Chicago, you know, a great opportunity, you know, to just go out and hang some dong, right? We said, hanged on. Listen to discretion was advice. We warned you. But, no, it was like my first summer. I was still dating my extremely conservative girlfriend, but she had gone back to Wisconsin for the summer,

or, yeah, where she was from, and I was still living in Chicago. And then we, like, this was really stupid, like, really poorly planned. We, like, broke up at the end of summer. And I was like, what was I doing all summer? I was working on campus, orientation leader, doing long distance for someone I'd been dating for, like, seven months, when I could have been hanging dawn.

Missed opportunity. And then my second summer, I was just, like, doing dormitory work, manning these check-in the front desks. And I don't even, I don't think I, like, had a summer girlfriend. I don't know. This is literally 12 years ago. I would have to think long and hard emphasis on the hard. Let's keep this going here.

We were, that's our animal of the week, the peregrine falcon. we were digging into a really juicy film breakdown, kind of a classic cinema question. Dr. Strange Love versus Dr. Chavago. So let's just get this straight. Dr. Chavago or How I Learned to Stop Waring and Love the Atomic Bomb. It's a 1964 political satire of black comedy written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Okay. So this is The Shining Guy. other movies Paths of Glory Spartacus Lolita 2001 Space Odyssey that's the movie I was trying to think of

oh and also Clock Orange So Dr. Strange Love is a black exploitation film and is based on a thriller novel by some guy named Peter George, two first names. And basically like a Cold War era thing starring Peter Sellers, who you know as the Pink Panther, I believe. That's right.

And George C. Scott, classic actor Slim Pickens, who I don't know anything about, but it's a fun name. And it parodies Cold War Fears of Nuclear War between the U.S. and Soviet Union. Seller stars as three different characters. The story concerns a paranoid brigadier general of the U.S. Air Force,

who orders a preemptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, follows the president of the U.S., his scientific advisor, Dr. Strange Love, a Royal Air Force Exchange Officer, those three people are all played by Sellers, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, George C. Scott, as they attempt to stop the crew of a B-52 from bombing the Soviet Union starting a nuclear war. It feels like one of those movies that's worth watching, but I just don't know if I will. That's all I have to say about it.

Now, we shift gears. One year later, you want to talk about confusing? You make these films back to back. That's not helpful. Dr. Chavago is a 1965 epic historical romance film based off a 1957 novel, story set in Russia, so they're both Russian movies, basically. Set during World War I. No one knows about Russia during World War I.

As soon as I said that, I realized that wasn't true, right? It wasn't the October Revolution, 1917. So kind of like one of the most famous things about Russia was during World War I. So I retract and redact my statement. It's more so just like when I think about Russia and I think about the Russian Revolution, I'm not thinking about World War I. I'm thinking, you know, they're doing their own thing. I don't associate those two.

So that's where I'm coming from. I hope you can forgive me. Set in Russia during World War I in the Russian Civil War, the film stars Omar Sharif in the title role as Yuri Shavago, a married physician and poet whose life is altered by the Russian Revolution and subsequent war. Julie Christie as his lover, a bunch of other no names playing supporting roles,

immensely popular in the West. it was banned in the Soviet Union or the book was. Comes in at over three hours, says it trivialized history, but acknowledge the intensity of the love story like me and my wife, and the film's treatment of human themes. Nominated for 10 Oscars, 1-5, Best Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Cinematography, Art Direction, and Costume Design. Here's one I wouldn't have expected.

As of 2022, it is the ninth highest-grossing film worldwide, after addressing for inflation. So number is of the 1998 A-F-I-500 movies list, 39th. So there you go. So that's Dr. Strangelove versus Dr. Chavago. I feel much more confident in my ability to discern between the two moving forward. Thank you for coming on that journey with me. I have two other thoughts, and then we'll wrap with our trivia question.

We'll close this show out before things get really steep. I promise. We've been kind of close to the edge of going stale this show, I feel like. I wouldn't say we've been teetering, although email us, let me know if we're wrong. I think we've kept it high and tight without too much art direction. My first question, so SNL season 52 or whatever premieres 52, 42? Are we on 40 or did 50? 50 just happen, right? This is like 52. The host Jalen Brunson, New York Knicks, they just won the title in June. But the musical guest, Katzai, I don't, I need someone to explain to me. I don't want to go down a race or ethnicity, you know, in music path here.

I'm not, I don't want to come across as ignorant. I'm genuinely curious. So Katzai is I understand it, and I literally have done no research. I just, I think I asked my wife about once and then I've seen like the preview basically for the SNL episode so they are

a K-pop band and K-pop popularity is not new in America nor is it for girl groups because like black pink is a huge thing and you know those guys who sang dynamite

BTS and that's just two examples there's many others the question I have is like and again this is where my ignorance is showing and i recognize that to me it feels like the whole k-pop like schick and sound we were just talking about this what two three weeks ago with house music which i love by the way but it's like it sounds very similar and admittedly i'm not going to go all the way out on a limb here and make bold claims because i've never heard of cats i saw

i will watch s&l tomorrow i will i will reserve judgment until till then. So for now this is just curiosity. Am I alone in thinking that there's not a lot of perceived differentiation amongst the sounds and style of these various K-pop bands that have popped up in the U.S.? Because to my uninformed, untrained eyes and ears, it feels very similar from band to band.

The last thing I'll say, you know, to pull back on all this stuff is I've spent very little time watching or listening to Black Pink or BTS and certainly not Cat's Eye. So I'm open to like, and I'm excited to see how it goes tomorrow. My other like genuine curiosity question is like you get bands like a, you know, Black Pink or BTS. I legitimately don't know like how talented singers slash dancers are these people. and how much is it just like manufactured and were lip syncing and some rich studio executives just was like well let's put these people together like they've got it because you got certain

bands who like there's a lot of like real talent and then you got some of these like boy bands or groups like a one direction or a you know in sync where there's some talent and then you got other guys like look no offense to joy fatone and lance bass but i don't know like how much star power there actually is and how much it is just right place, right time. And same goes for the, I think Harry Styles is probably pretty talented, but I don't know about like the Louis Tomlinson's and Zanes and that one British guy and the one who looks like Ellen. I don't know. I say the one British guy because he just looks the most British to me.

What's the, he's got, you know, the darker hair or like the, it's like chestnut blonde. like a little goate. What's that guy's name? Wait, Zane's a guy that died. Blonde guy is Nile, Horn. He got Louis Tomlinson, Harry Stiles, and then the fifth guy. I don't know what his name is David Chestnut,

something like that. I thought for a time it was like Louis Tomlinson was going to be the one who faded away the most, but I think this fifth guy, Jerrick. Jared, what's his name? I think he, in my mind, in my One Direction power rankings, is the least, Liam? Is there a Liam?

I think he's the least famous in my mind personally. It may be wrong. Liam Payne. Yeah, he just looks like he could be any, you know, one of those glee guys. I don't know. Speaking of which, I've been following Dancing with the Stars. This was not on my agenda to talk about. I'll say it quickly.

I've been following Dancing with the Stars, you know, first two episodes. episodes are out, third ones this week. I'm pulling for my man Guillermo. I think we talked about this last week. The point I'm trying to make, I realize Rachel pointed this out to me, one of the guys on Dancing with the Stars, they announced him as like, oh yeah, he's from not general hospital, Gray's Anatomy, Harry Chum Jr. And I was like, I thought that guy looked familiar. And she's like, yeah, he was on glee. And I was like, oh my gosh, this is a true fact. Harry Chum Jr. is the only, I couldn't believe this until I looked it up,

he's the only member of the original main core Glicass that is still alive. Corey Monti, Puck, dead. Not Rachel Dolazol, but that other lady, she's dead. Lee and Michelle, I don't think actually dead. The cheerleader, dead. So you just got Mike, I think his name was Mike, right? He was like maybe a football player, but I don't know, probably not. And then I guess you got the Kevin McHale, the wheelchair kid, and Chris Colfer,

not technically dead, but career-wise dead. Okay. Now we've had these newbies come in. Darren Chris, still alive, but not OG cast, okay? And we're just talking to the high schoolers. Obviously, the adults in the room have thrived. Jane Lynch, Matthew, what's his name? And Gemma Mays.

I feel like, you know, first it was kind of like Steve Zon, held the crown of Hollywood royalty, and then Paul Blart and Glee came out and Red Eyes. We talked about that a couple weeks ago, Killian Murphy and Rachel McCadams. And then it was Gemma Mays was Queen of Hollywood for a time. And then it kind of reverted, you know, bopped around to like Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren and stuff.

But for a time, it was Gemma Maze. Last thought I have here before trivia, because one of my part-time jobs involves doing some application reading. That's as much as I will share. But I've been reading applications from a lot of folks who have some very prestigious, you know, titles and work experience, et cetera. And something I've been seeing lately is think tanks. And it just got me thinking, you know, should the Beantown podcast form its own think tank?

What do you guys think? Beantown Podcasts Yahoo.com. Beantoppodcast.com slash think tank. Head there, voice your feedback, fill out our survey. One lucky poll winner will win a $5 gift card to the Beantown podcast shop. What do think tanks think about? It's a collection of knowledgeable people who are experts in their industry. and they just show up and they start thinking.

You rent a really expensive Palo Alto office, Theranos style. It all comes back to Elizabeth Holmes. And you just start thinking and you become a thought leader. I think probably the most impactful work you can do if you are to think tank is use ChatGPT to write a LinkedIn post and then post it and get a lot of, you know, response to saying this is a great.

idea. Thanks for being such an impactful thought leader in our space. You know, you got to say, I'm incredibly honored. You got to use some m-dashes. These are all things we could accomplish in the Beantown Podcast Think Tank. If you want to join, send in your application, Beantown Podcasts at yahoo.com. Include a cover letter and make sure it's written by chat, GPD. because I'm always maximizing efficiency in my time. Okay. I thought Dan Bernstein in his podcast,

if you're from Chicago or the world of sports, you know Dan Bernstein. Longtime 670 The Score sports host got fired like two years ago. It's a whole other story. But now he runs his own podcast, Dan Bernstein unfiltered, five days a week. And I thought he had a great point in his daily show. show yesterday talking about, you know, how everyone's all over, you know, leveraging AI to maximize

your fantasy football output. And his point was like, if you, like, what is, what is so, like, precious time intensive in your life to where you can't take out the time? If you decide you want to play fantasy football and then in the same breath, you say, yeah, I'm going to use AI to optimize my lineup and take care of the research for me then like what are you doing and i mean i see both sides to it you know some people are just focused on wins and results and gains capital gains we're gonna definitely gonna we're definitely gonna touch on the idea of capital gains in our think tank but i i wholeheartedly agree with dan it's like at some point with the whole ai and optimizing every hour of your day like we got to say enough's enough

I don't think in my life I'll ever get to the point where I'm able to just like step away from all of my jobs. Like I just, I feel like I'm just always going to be working some kind of job until I just, one day I'm just dead and that's it. Partially out of necessity, partially out of just habit. But my point is I don't know if I'm ever going to like get to the point where I feel like I'm just like retired.

Let me move to like a cabin in the Northwoods. And I can just fish all day and, like, live and have my jazz music going on. Like, I don't know if I'm going to get quite to that point of serenity or bliss. But there's got to be some sort of in between. I've got to say enough's enough with the optimization. Okay. That's my parting thought with you. We have our trivia question of the day.

It's in honor of recent sports achievement as of, what, yesterday it happened. So there is a famed group of Major League Baseball players who belong to the 40-40 club. If you're listening to the show and you need me to explain to you what that is, you're probably not going to get any of the answers right. But we'll play it straight and see where it goes. The 40-40 club means that in one MLB season, you achieve as an individual player 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a season. and you ask why is that fun or interesting other than just being able to say 40-40.

It's just two very kind of different skill or tool sets, power versus speed, which if you're a perfect machine-generated player, you have both, but that's just not how it usually works in Major League Baseball. Like Kyle Schwerber is not out there hitting or stealing 40 bases. He's stealing like one a year probably. And on the flip side, Ricky Henderson's not hitting 40 home runs, okay? May he rest in peace. I don't think Ricky Henderson is dead,

but I know zero about Ricky Henderson outside of his MLB career. So I'm just going to say it. My question, name all, what do we got? Eight members? Seven, there's seven, as of yesterday. Seven members of MLB's 40 home runs, 40 steals club. And I remember hearing about this when I was growing up, and when a certain player in 2006 became the fourth member ever.

I remember it being like blowing my 11-year-old mind being like, oh my gosh, I can't believe he did that. And it's happened three times since then. So 2006 was the fourth time. And that's the exact midpoint of these seven. So seven players have done it in MLB history, ranging from 1988 was the first time. 2026 was the most recent time. It is pretty intriguing to me. I don't know the exact explanation for this.

but, you know, I'm not trying to say like, oh, yeah, back in the day, Babe Ruth was stealing a bunch of home or stealing a bunch of bases. I don't, you know, the tubby little man, but it is surprising just with how different baseball was back then. I am a little surprised at like a Babe Ruth or a Hank Aaron or a Willie Mays or even like a DiMaggio or Ted Williams. Like, none of those guys ever did this. So that, I think that showcases how special it is.

obviously fewer games in a season back then which which helps if you need more time uh you know i don't know what to tell you pause i guess i'm going to tell you now the seven players by year uh who uh and i think i have the names memorized off the top of my head i can do that here are the seven members of mlb's 4040 club as of yesterday 1988 88 first player to do it Jose Canseco for the Oakland Athletics. 1996 for the San Francisco Giants, Barry Bonds. And in my notes here, it's spelled B-I-N-D-S, Barry Binds. I think that's the name of a gay porno.

1998, this one actually didn't write down the team. I think it was the Rangers at this point. It was definitely pre-Yankees. Either Mariners or Rangers, I think Rangers. Alex Rodriguez, one of my least favorite humans. Then the midpoint 2006, this was with the Nationals. So post-Yankees, Pre-Cubs, Alfonso Soriano, 2006, which was what the National's second season in existence? I think they started in 2005.

Don't quote me on that. And then three in the last four seasons here, number 20, or not number, number five, 2023 with the Braves, Ronald Lecunia Jr. Number 24, this one has the asterisk. It's the only 50-50 season in MLB history. Shohei Otani, of course. And then you probably know at this point why I'm asking this question, 26, 2026, number seven, soon to be named MVP of the National League,

Cubs player, first Cubs and history to earn this, Pete Crow Armstrong. So there you go, the seven members. all Hall of Fame or about to be Hall of Fame. Actually, I don't know about Alfonso Soriano. Is he going to make it? Is he in? I don't know.

I don't know. I have to look at that. You can look it up. You can let us know. Email us. Here's the list. Jose Canseco, Barry Bines, Alex Rodriguez, Alfonso Soriano, Ronald Ocuni Jr., Shohei Otani, and Pete Crow Armstrong.

That's what I got for you guys. Thank you so much for listening to my program. We'll keep this under an hour. if we start right now with our outro music. My name is Queen David Furness. Stay safe. Stay sane. We'll see you in October. Wake me up when September ends.

That's me. Bye-bye.