Beantown Podcast - This Episode was Cobbled Together (08142026 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: August 14, 2026

Quinn comes to you LIVE with a brand new big idea, insights into ponies, and Oktoberfest limitations

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, August 14th, 2026, season nine of the Beantown podcast. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn. I'm the creator, the host, and I don't know. Key grip. We've definitely done grip before. Second unit art director. person keeps showing up on my Instagram people you may know. And as someone I took a class with in college, but like don't know personally at all. So I clicked on her Instagram today. She lives in Minneapolis and she's an art director. And I feel like it, you know, Beantown podcast largely an audio format, but from time to time will live stream. Like once a year at this point and there's all sorts of art.

Of course, if you've ever seen the beautifully. recently designed beantownpodcast.com. You know all about the beautiful blue colors. It's like you're listening to a podcast underwater while you're listening to our beautiful Beantown blog. Maybe that's what I should work on next. An audiobook of Quinn reading aloud, his greatest blog posts of all time.

If you're new to the show, thank you for listening maybe from Pakistan or Nigeria or wherever you were listening. Let's try to get more countries in this, you know. I don't know where the rankings go up to because Pakistan or 78th, I think, Nigeria, or 178th in terms of top comedy podcasts in your fine nations. But I think it'd be fun if we threw in like a Tahiti or so Nauru renamed themselves recently. No more Nauru. Nauru more Nauru.

Isn't it if like you're... your australian accent the word no it's got like four syllables in it's like now we're maybe that's not quite right i think it would be fun you know it'd be good if we could get the you know top 100 in the united kingdom you know but if we could at least get whales it would be nice um but yeah i'm basically the art director and again if you don't know we've we've got a great bean town blog beantown podcast dot com slash blog We created the Beantown podcast website a number of years ago. It's like season three or something like that.

And it doesn't get a ton of action, but it gets some. Every once in a while, we'll drop in a sweet blog post. And that's pretty much it. For a while, it was like, oh, you know, let's have a dedicated podcast page where you'll post the new podcast every week. And then I was like, that's silly. Who out there, and maybe this is how they do things in 19. Nigeria and Pachistan. I don't know. But what I was going to say is who up there is like, oh, you know what I would love to do.

I love to listen to a new podcast episode. Let me go to the website on mobile because, you know, you can go to Beintoppodcast.com on mobile, but it's clunky. You got to scroll a lot. That font is too big. And so you get like three lines in a blog post and you got to keep scrolling. It keeps you engaged, though. It's a good thumb workout.

But I don't think, I think people are just pulling up. there, Apple Podcasts or Spotify or Apple Music, whatever it is. But who knows? You know, we don't know anything about, we should do some market research. We don't know anything about these users, you know, Nigeria, Pakistan, you know, it's, what types of phones are you guys calling in on, listening from? I assume smartphones are still pretty prevalent over there. But I know in my limited time i'd never been to pakistan but i've been to africa not quite nigeria but rwanda close-ish you know it's everyone this was a decade plus ago but you know with the phones it's you know people got smart phones but it's still a lot of like flip phones and they got all the little stands on the side of the road right

where it's like get your sim card here buy a phone here and so i my question is you know if these loyal listeners in Lagos, Abuja, what was the name? There's one town, Togo Town or something like that, where it's like the name of another country town inside of Nigeria. I don't remember what it was, but the Nigerians out there, you can email us, Beantown podcast, at Yahoo.com, or there's a comment section on the website, Beantownpodcast.com. So after you go click play on Beantownpodcast.com slash podcasts, you can leave us a comment. to finish the thought we stopped updating the podcast page every week because it was arduous

a r-d-u-o-us and felt unnecessary but hey if we get enough international buzz that's what it is when you're flying maybe we'll change it when you're flying you know cross pan-atlantic trans-Pacific transatlantic and you know it's the fancy European flights that give you a couple pores of wine. That's how you get an international buzz. JFK to Madrid, Red Eye, something like that. You know, that movie Red Eye, I feel like, you know, it's what, 20-ish years old at this point? I don't think it's really made much of a cultural lasting footprint.

But it's a pretty good movie. It's, I mean, it's very 2000s. But, I mean, if you look at the two leads, they've both, 20 years later, they're still both very relevant. I mean, Killian Murphy just won the Oscar, what, two years ago? Rachel McAdams, that must have been coming right off of Mean Girls when she was in Red Eye. But she's stuck around quite a bit, the notebook, game night. And then it's even got the girl from Glee, right? What's her name, Gemma Mays, I think, something like that, the Redhead from Paul Blart,

mall cop it's a good movie it's it's kind of light uh the the overall like vibe and tone is kind of like i mean speaking of rachel macadams movie kind of reminds me of this that movie she did last year or is it this year with um the sam ramy movie send help i think it was called where they you know plane crash stranded on a desert island Tobin something i can't remember that guy's name but it's you know there's there's times where it's like serious and spooky but there's other times there's just kind of bouncy and light that's kind of what red eye was like i think it's the what impacts that is i think the only time i've ever actually seen red eye was when abc used to like just straight up playing movies on like a tuesday night in the

summer would be like oh yeah we're abc and we're just going to show you a movie i feel like that sort of thing as far as network television that's kind of gone by the way sad night excuse me i can't speak now i don't want to by the way listen to discretion advice when you're listening to this program. Number one, we'll occasionally use some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. I don't want to come out and make too many assumptions here because I haven't physically had, you know, a TV with immediate access to network television since I was a senior in college. Now, all the TVs I've had as an adult, when I lived in Baltimore, when we started the show, I didn't even have a TV for starters. But since I moved back to Chicago,

I've never invested in the rabbit ears set up to get the network channels. I don't think it'd be that hard. In fact, it's probably something worth looking into just to see if I could set it up. So my point being, I haven't actually been scanning ABC and Fox and CBS and NBC nightly in the last decade or so to see if this still happens. But I remember being a kid and being, you know, I think it was like 80s. BBC primarily was the one playing movies, but I think Fox did too. Maybe like movie night of the week, it'll be Harry Potter in the Chamber of Secrets or something. Red Eye, that's where I watched Red Eye for the first time.

I don't remember what other movies I watched a network television as a kid. And I'm not talking about, you know, it's a wonderful life. We'll play that around Christmas or Ten Commandments Easter. I feel like Sound of Music was a classic holiday one as well, or even your Charlie Browns and your Rudolph. This was just like it's summer. It's a Wednesday night. That means it's movie night. And that's when I saw a red eye.

I think because the commercials interrupt every two minutes, that gives it more of a bouncy, light, airy feel. Maybe it's not that way if you just watched it in theaters. But good movie. Killing Murphy is pretty spooky. Starts off charming, then gets spooky. But it's a fun one. I enjoy it.

I give it five bags of popcorn. cup of soda and, you know, maybe one of those little pens in case you want to try a tracheotomy on yourself. It's a boilers for the movies. What else is going on here? It was at Jewel Osco, our local grocery store, one of them here in Chicago recently today, as recent as this afternoon, actually. And I actually, so I had this thought. First I went to the library, then I backtracked at the grocery store on my way back home. And I was thinking, what should we talk about on the show today? And I'm sure we've talked about this before seasonally.

But I was, by the way, we're drinking, we're not drinking October Fest, which we're about to get to in a second, but kind of a distant cousin, Hefe-E-E-E-Zan from Poloner Munkin. That's right, it's German. P-A-U-L-A-N-E-R and then M-E-N-N-C-H-E-N. M-U-N-C-H-E-N. It's got some. some sort of German-looking priest on the logo.

I don't know if he's Martin Luther or what. But it's a classic half-of-eyazen. It's good stuff. Excuse me. But I had the thought. Actually, because there was a brewery up in, it's in Evanston. And without going to the whole backstory, there's another brewery temperance that closed

and this brewery moved in. I think they existed before they moved into the space. But they've recently moved into the space, me need to go up there haven't yet it's it's at evinston so it's a half hour drive a little bit of a track but i got to add from them uh or just a post on facebook you know one of those you know 90% of the things you see on facebook they're not ads or sponsored but they do come from people and pages you don't follow so it's kind of like what's the point of facebook at this point it's basically reddit i mean even reddit i get a lot of posts these days from subreddits i'm not a member of and

Reddits just says, F it, we're just going to show it to you anyways. It's kind of that weird balance of like, and then, I mean, Twitter goes the entire opposite way where it's like you can have an entire feed of people you follow and then an entire feed of just people we were going to show you. Anyways, the point I'm trying to make, this brewery, I think it's called St. Errant, something like that, E-R-R-A-N-T, as in yet a errant throw. You missed your cutoff man. something like that. Or you're playing hurling, a great Celtic sport. I assume it's Celtic, I don't know. Hurling, H-U-R, L-I-N-G.

I think there's some, I think Killeen Murphy might do some hurling and red eye when he gets his throat stabbed by Rachel McCadams. I can't remember. It's been a while since I've seen it. But I thought to myself, was there a... Oh, this brewery, that's the point I was making, said, hey we're hosting an October fest on September 12th come up and see us like May West.

And I won't be able to make it because I've got a half marathon out of state that day, Mount Bald Head Challenge. But it got me thinking about September or October Fest in general. And I asked myself this question, how soon is too soon to crack open in October Fest beer? It's one of my favorite all-time beers. And obviously there's a relevant window to where it's socially acceptable to drink it. And I think it ends. Well, there's, you can debate, I think, both the start and end dates. This would be our poll question of the week.

Let us know in your mind, email us or tweet at us. What's the acceptable window? At first I was just thinking, you know, how soon can I have one? But at a certain point, you've got to transition out of it too, right? right? The sneaky thing, of course, being it's called October Fest, but the celebrations by and large actually happen in September. So I don't know who in Munkin, Munkin, you know, 5,000 years ago got their dates mixed up. They must have been using the Gregorian calendar, but they got the month wrong. But, you know, you start to see the festivals here in Chicago. There's a lot of them,

but they pop up, I would say, well, like September 12th, 13th, that's when the Lincoln Square one is too, which might be the biggest October Fest here in Chicago because it's a German neighborhood. So that's the first weekend after Labor Day. So second full weekend of September. So that seems to be the acceptable time for like the festivities to kick off. But I would say, I don't know. You get Labor Day is obviously like, oh, it's the end of summer. but I wouldn't blink my eye

if you were like you know what I'm going to hang up my shandy and whip out my October fest now I think you've gone too far if you pull out a doppelbach which is German for doubleback because that's that's a little bit too Thanksgiving Christmassy you know spiced

and heavy October fest is more pure fall that's just still easy drinking And, you know, you don't want to get all the way into the doldrums of the 7% box and, you know, your spiced mold wine and stuff. I think Octoberfest and half of Eisen even are kind of that transition when we're talking beer seasons. So, I don't know, if I had to put it, you know, my money where my mouth is,

I would say second weekend of September is appropriate to start. But you know what? Let's just, let's clean it up. Let's say Labor Day. Hey, if you, maybe you, because someone like me, don't love summer or a ton, absolutely love fall. So if you're like, okay, I'm done with the natty ultras and ready for a nice fall of beer, I won't, I won't be mad at myself even if I have an October Fest on Labor Day. I think that's appropriate. I think save it for the actual Monday. If you're, you know, the Friday, Saturday, Sunday leaving into it. Let's finish up our summer beers here. So Labor Day proper and then the latest, I don't know. It probably is sacrilegious to the Germans to say this, but I think you can continue with your October Fest all the way through Halloween, I would say.

Once you get into November, it's like, eh, transition out of it maybe. But even, you know, November, it's a fallish month for sure. So I don't know. All this is to say it's delicious. I also saw the ads for the stupid, uh, Pumpkin beers. Those are making the rounds. Every once in a while, like every two or three years,

I fall into the trap of being like, you know what, let's give this one a shot because it's always on huge display. It's like Sam Adams. And it'll be like $9.99 for the six bottles. And you're like, okay, you know what? It's not bad value. And then you drink one at home and you're just like, shoot, I got five more of these.

Obviously the Bill Burr. S&L sketch of him doing the taste test of the grocery store is pretty well excuse me documented at this point that's a classic but yeah the allure of the pumpkin it always draws you in it's like the sirens in the odyssey I gotta see that sometime soon I think I probably waited long enough I mean it came out what like three weekends ago so I probably waited long enough to where I could find an actual legit dream, you know, by sailing the high seas. Not that I would ever do that.

But, you know, you got to do what you got to do to get by in this economy. But sometimes there'll be, this doesn't happen all that often because I'm not, you know, crazed over movie releases typically. But sometimes there'll be a movie that comes out and I'm like, man, I really want to see this. Or maybe it's just I happen to have a free night home alone or something, McCauley Calkin style. And it just happens to line up with like, oh yeah, and this. or like a Saturday or something, and this movie came out that I would like to see, but it came out two days ago.

That's when you've got to be a little bit more worried because you find the stream and it's got Korean subtitles. It's in English, but it's, you know, Korean subtitles. And, you know, someone's holding the camcorder, so you see, like, someone's head sticking out the bottom of the picture. And audio quality is okay. But usually if you give it two or three weeks, it's a little bit better.

So I should try that with the Odyssey. that's how i watched speaking of christopher nolan the first and only time i've ever watched tenet which is my least favorite nolan film and i i believe that it still would be if i watched it like the way it's supposed to be watched but when i watched tenet it was a pretty crappy in-theater stream and when you combine that with the audio mixing already being just a pain in the ass to hear what anybody's saying and Tenet, like, that's already a major criticism of the film. And so when you add in the poor quality of the camcorder stream I was watching, you know, back in 2018 or whenever Tenet came out, it's just like, eh, this is, this is rough. All right, time for our first Bean Town trivia question

of the week, unplanned, just like my parents and me. Tenet, what year do we think? think it was before I look it up. So I said 2018, oh man, this was post Interstellar. Was there anything after Interstellar before Tenet? I can't remember. It goes like, well, I'm not going to, what we're not going to do is sit here and all of a sudden go down to Christopher Nolan's Side Street where Quinn tries to name all

the Nolan films in order. That's not super exciting. But I know Interstellar came out my second or third year of college. so like 2015-ish i think interstellar's 2015 then am i missing anything did he do anything between tenant or interstellar and tenant or does it go interstellar tenant Oppenheimer is that the i might be missing something oh dunkirk dunkirk uh is pre-tenant i think dunkirk would have been like 2017 i think man that's a good one dunkirk 1917 That combo?

Oh man, it's good. You can even throw in the German Netflix All Quiet on the Western Front they did four years ago or whatever. That thing was a bang or two. Sad, but banging. Okay, let's just see Nolan Filmography. So, yeah, I think Dunkirk was the one I was missing.

Here we go. Let's go to Wikipedia, see what it says. Okay, Dark Night Rises, 2012. Interstellar, 2014, I think I said 15, so I missed it by a year. Then 17, Dunkirk, I think I got the year right on that. And then 10 at 2020. What did I say, 18? Yeah, because I was forgetting about Dunkirk.

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if not the absolute worst. Our animal of the week is random. Sometimes it's like, oh yeah, I saw something in the park, like a beaver or a raccoon, or I saw a cool nature documentary, and I'm like, oh, that would make a great animal of the week. Actually, I saw a video on Reddit of a baby buffalo, and I was like, oh, my gosh, the thing is so cute. And then I was like, I think we've done a buffalo for Animal of the Week like three separate times already. We just can't. I can't do it anymore.

So I picked something random that will allow us, based off of its name, for us to learn a little bit, something together. And then we've got one more big idea. We haven't done a committed or a dedicated Big Ideas podcast in a while. It's been like two years, I feel like. So we should plan that in September maybe. Big ideas where there's no bad ideas, no ideas are small. There's only big ideas. We have every once in a while.

We've probably had like five or six in her show's history, a show dedicated to just brainstorming. So I got one here that I could have saved for one of those episodes, but I want to share it with you on the show today. So we'll get there in a second about our animal of the week is the Shetland pony. And if you're like me, when that popped into my head walking down the street today, I didn't like see a horse or something. I think, oh, let's do a pony.

It just happened in my mind. And I thought to myself, first thing after I said, that'll be a great animal of the week. I thought to myself, where the heck is Shetland? And I genuinely am baffled. I have, I mean, I can guess. We're going to guess like England or something like that.

Somewhere in Jersey. Jersey, like not New Jersey, but like the regular jersey, feels like a place they would have wild ponies, doesn't it? Just off on the grassy hillside. But I have no informed concept of where Shetland is. Or how did we even get ponies in the first place? I mean, I don't want to go down a whole evolutionary road here. Not revolutionary road, evolutionary road.

But, you know, you got your wild horses. And it's okay if, you know, I understand how we domesticate them. You got to tame them. But how do we go from horses to ponies? It was like a horse banged a donkey one time. And that became a pony. I don't know. Let's go to Wikipedia, a good old-fashioned deep dive.

Let's see what happens here. Shetland Pony. Oh, man, look at these things. Hey, oh my gosh, curly flowing locks. It's beautiful. All right. Before we even get to Wikipedia, I got to say the AI calls the Shetland Pony,

an extremely hardy, compact miniature equine breed originating from the rugged Shetland Islands of Scotland. Okay, so Shetland is a series or group of islands in Scotland. Let's go to the map first before we even read more about the pony. Shetland Islands, UK, Scotland, these tiny little narrow guys. First thing I see on the map is the Shetland Pony Experience. Let's see how many stars it has. 4.9 stars, 58 reviews.

How does anyone get around on these islands? They're super thin and narrow. They look like they got one road the whole way. How are their cities on this place? There's Rones Hill. The highest mountain in Shetland, it's seven feet. It literally is like a cairn. Is that what they're called?

C-A-I-R-N with rocks stacked up. Munis Castle. That's kind of cool. There's a castle from ancient days. Okay, so the Shetland Islands are like almost directly north of the northern tip of Scotland. So that's where the ponies come from, apparently. By the way, I have no idea where Jersey is.

There's a Jersey cow, right? What do you think Jersey's, like original Jersey is? When I type in Jersey, nothing happens. Oh, it's a jersey is an island too. We've got a lot of islands today. Jersey is an island right off the coast of France. I mean, this thing has got to be five miles off the coast of. of France. Interesting.

But I associate Jersey solely with bloody England and not France at all. Which I assume it is actually English but they're so close. How did that happen? You could almost ride a Shetland pony across the way to get from France to Jersey. The Shetland pony

is a small, hearty breed of pony from the Shetland Islands of Scotland known for a strength, dense coat, and ability to thrive in harsh climates. That's pretty badass. I don't think I would thrive that well in harsh climates. Like if I had to live outside and it was really cold and rainy, like when I think of Scotland and then I go another 50 miles north of that, I think of like rocks, not a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables, more of kind of like foraging for weeds on the

ground and just constant rain and gray and clouds. I don't think I'd do well in those harsh environments. It's been present on the island since at least the Bronze Age. Historically, Shetland ponies were used for farmwork carrying peat and seaweed. Don't try to ask me to define Pete. I won't. And later as pit ponies and coal mines in Britain and the United States. So pit ponies, a horse used underground in mines.

Come on. Leave it to the canaries. Today they are used for driving and children's riding ponies. You know what? I think the Shetland ancestors would be like, you know, when I was a small pony, when I was a small lad, I used to work in the coal mines and live in harsh climates. And now you're showing up to children's birthday parties. But I still, I think this is a win. Ultimately, there's many fewer, I mean, you're a Shetland pony.

Are you going to die from a seven-year-old riding your back wearing a birthday hat? or are you going to die from consuming or breathing in, you know, coal dust? Give me the birthday party, okay? Maybe I'll get to meet Bozo the Clown. We had a first cousin once removed birthday party like five years ago, and they had Moana, a Moana impersonator, dressed something, you know, 25-year-old Latina female, dressing up as Moana.

And it was not great, but I think. think she was the cheap option. So that's no shade to the actress, the entertainer. I mean, you did a better job than I'd be able to do. But I was hoping we'd at least be able to get, you know, not let it go. That's frozen. The other one. No one knows how far I'll go. What's the name of that song? It's like the main song from Moana and I can't think of what it is. I don't know what it's called. I should have seen live action Moana, that would have fixed all my problems.

Anything else on Shetland Pony's here? The breed is overseen by the Shetland Pony Stud Book Society. We need a Beantown podcast, Stud Book Society. It'll just be pictures of Billy Connolly and Ian Summerholder. It has influenced several related pony breeds worldwide. Okay, let's leave Shetland Pony's there, but not ponies. One final thing. Google, where did ponies come from?

Excuse me. Not the word pony. Here's to go to Wikipedia. The Wikipedia article for ponies. Type of small horse, usually under a specific height of full maturity. Okay, we know about that. Let's get into the evolution here. History.

They originally developed as a land race adapted to a harsh natural environment. We're considered part of the draft subtype typical of northern Europe. so some of your microevolution there. By the way, because I didn't know this, I'm learning this now. A land race is a domesticated, locally adapted, often traditional variety of a species of an animal plant or fungus that's developed over time through adaptation to its natural and cultural environment of agriculture and pastoralism. And then interestingly enough, the image, the Wikipedia image for a land race is a corn, corn roots

which you've ever seen and these ones are red and they look like you know witch's fingers and stuff you've ever seen those corn roots they're like above the ground I know I have a lot more experience with this with Mighty Tasseling

but usually when you think of like corn you just think of like a stalk that goes into the ground and then the fun stuff's happening underground right but there's corn roots they're like these tiny little fingers that look like it's like a hula skirt around the entire stalk towards the base, towards the ground.

And it's kind of gnarly looking, a little spooky. So that's what the image was. I'd forgot about that. Usually I'm so focused on the leaves and tassels and ears, but these little roots too. Speaking of roots, Beantown podcast song, suggestion of the week, Talking Heads, Pulling Up the Roots.

Talking heads has been my pool soundtrack this summer. Some people lean more into, you know, big booty mix or Pitbull, Sirius XM, or, you know, whatever you're into is fine. Mylea Cyrus parting the USA. And I certainly at times will lean more yacht rockish or Sugar Ray and Sugar Ray adjacent artists. I'm thinking like walking on the sun by smash mouth. But this summer so far it's just been a talking heads playlist. Pulling up the roots is a great one. So there you go.

There's your listening suggestion. If you don't know it, take a shot of gin or something and just vibe out to pulling up the roots. As we got a siren going past year. All right, one other thought I have And then we get to our trivia question, which relates to the book I am almost done with. I've got like 150 pages left.

Hunt for Red October. Tom Clancy, Jack Ryan, Classic. Excuse me. Here is my big idea I had. It's a store or shop of any sort, you know, retail site, storefront, that has two purposes. It fixes your shoes.

and sells baked goods, we call it cobbled together. Hello, it's perfect. And I'm sure it's so perfect. I'm sure it exists somewhere in Jersey or Shetland, whatever. But I can legitimately tell you, I've never seen those two things mashed up together, cobblers and cobblers. I've never seen them cobbled together before.

So I just, I'm really proud of that one when I saw it. Or when I, not when I saw it, when I thought of it in my head, I was just like, oh, this is, this is too good. Plus, it's, I mean, it's fun. I think so often, we're so, you know, such a materialistic consumerist society, our shoes, you know, the tongues are flapping or the soul's bottom out, whatever it is. and we just say, you know what, let's get a new one. We never call up our local cobbler and give them any business. Similarly, I feel that cobblers lately have been overshadowed by pies, cakes, general sweets. And you don't see that many cobblers these days.

So you kind of got these two out of, you know, whatever the opposite of N-Vogue is, out-of-vogue concepts, cobblers and cobblers. And I think, you know how you're seeing these colleges and universities with low enrollment? Thanks to Obama-era policies and Obama cutting the birth rates. And so they're merging together to, you know, band forces, stay alive, sort of like a sort of like a collegiate. legit Avengers. I think we could do the same thing with cobblers and cobblers. You go in,

you drop off your shoes at the window, you say, hello, I'd like my pair of, you know, moon boots to be cobbled, thank you. And then you slide on over to the bakery and you, any number of cobblers. Plum, I think, is typical. typically traditional one. Peach, for sure.

Even jackfruit could be cobbled. So I'd like a slice of this or you can do samples. You know, you go to these ice cream stores. They give you the tiny little spoons. You know, like, oh, I'd like to try, you know, pumpkin pie or apricot surprise or good old-fashioned vanilla bean, vanilla Sean Bean. I think you should be able to sample the cobblers as well. is sort of how I'm picturing this.

You get a slice, you go, you know, find a table. You enjoy your slice. Maybe you talk with the locals. And boom, 10, 15 minutes. Well, we can sell coffee too and tea and THC beverages. Second big idea. A T-THC store, name we still got to figure out, but you sell, well, we just call it THC,

but it's T-E-A-H-C. and it's like you have green tea and you get high as hell. There you go. Trademark, don't steal my idea. T.HC. That could also be like a mix of tea and HC. Isn't that the name of, it's like an orange juice box? HC. You know what I'm talking about?

What if we just Google HC? What do we get? Common abbreviation for a head coach. HC. Drink. Am I making this up? High C. Oh, my gosh. Gosh, that's embarrassing. I apologize.

Yeah, high C, it's, oh, from Walmart for 274. Flash and Fruit Punch Cartons. Anyways, THC is not a bad idea. We could throw that in. I mean, it could be part of the cobbler store. But I would want to make sure we have signage so people know we sell THC and tea and high C beverages. So things to consider, we'll put the marketing team on that. And then you finish your cobbler, you finish your THC, your high,

whatever THC drinks do to you, I don't know, you're buzzing. And then you pick up your shoes, your moon boots, and now you can carry on with the rest of your Saturday morning. We're open until noon, close on Sundays. Otherwise we'll cobble you. And this just came into my head, but hopefully Marvel doesn't soon. me because it's different. Here's our tagline. Put this on the website, on the business cards, on the, we'll probably make some promotional hats with little propellers on them like Bill Murray

wears in Space Jam. Here's the tagline, it's cobbler in time. There you go. Maybe the best idea we've had in the meantime podcast all season. I don't know. Put that one in the Hall of Fame. Let's leave it there. Let's not ruin a good thing. Our trivia question of the week. So again, I'm reading, I've never read a Tom Clancy book before. And I've seen, actually, I think I've only ever seen Hunt for Out October. And I think I saw it on ABC, so it took like five hours with commercials. Alec Baldwin, the OG Jack Ryan, and Sean Connery and others.

But I'm reading Hunt for Red October, the original novel. and obviously it's a lot of submarines and navies and all that good stuff. So I had this thought on my head. Who's got the biggest Navy in the world? So I said, let's just make a top 10 list. You take a little bit of time, guess as many as you can. And we'll see how it goes. So by the way, this is top 10 largest navies in the world by total assets.

And this is from the world population review. So I'm not going to stand here and try to pretend like, I can tell you exactly what an asset is, but I'm thinking an aircraft carrier, that's an asset. Submarine, that's an asset. A battleship, that feels like an asset. Dingy, maybe? Don't know. So there you go.

Top 10 largest navies in the world, so national country navies, like Shetland's not going to have their own, but Scotland could. But it doesn't. It's not on here. Top 10 largest navies in the world by total assets. This is according to world population review. So, pause, if you want more time. You know, we're just going to go 10 to 1, and you can see how many you got here.

Number 10, Sri Lanka. I don't know how that's possible. Maybe Sri Lanka is one of those tricky, you know, sneaky things where it's like because it's completely surrounded by water, its coastline is actually longer than Chile's coastline. It's probably one of those cool things. Sweden, number nine. Got to patrol the Baltic Sea.

Italy, number eight, makes sense. You got water on three sides of you. They got a lot to look out for. Thailand, number seven. I think they've got the water on both sides. Atlantic and Indian oceans. So that's double the Navy. Number six, I think we're just going to have to take their words for it.

North Korea, just because it's in vogue to have a badass Navy. when you're North Korean. Number five, I probably wouldn't have guessed, but makes sense because there's a shit ton of water surrounding everything. Indonesia. Coming in at number four, India. I don't really hear a lot about, like,

the Indian coast and Indian beaches, but it is a big old triangle jutting out into the Indian Ocean. So India is number four. Number three, thanks to Obama, we're bottoming out at number three of the U.S. Getting your asses kicked. Speaking of Red October, coming in, and number two is Russia.

And then number one, they've got to be first and everything these days. It's China. So there you go. From 10 to 1. Sri Lanka, Sweden, Italy, Thailand, North Korea, Indonesia, India, USA, Russia, and China. Anyone noticeably absent? Let us know. I feel like France likes to be involved in these things, so that's kind of a surprise to me.

Australia is a lot of water, but they just don't feel very military. Ristik Philippines is a lot of water. Japan, but I think they've really cut back ever since the whole Pearl Harbor thing. And I mean like Canada or Brazil just has a shit ton of coastline, but I don't really know what wars they're planning on fighting.

So there you go. That's the Beantown podcast for Friday, August 14th. Last thought here. A happy special shout out to my beautiful wife, Rachi Baby 95. Happy birthday.

Hope you have a good. one for all of us here at the bean town podcast my name is quinn david furnace i hope you stay safe stay sane got the outro music right this week check in on you next week bye bye