Beantown Podcast - Top 10 Foods to have in the Shower (07182025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss the American Bison, Professor Plum, and the Arby's menu

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn Davis furnace. Welcome to my show. Quinn Davis furnace presents the Bean Town podcast for Friday, July 18 2025. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn Davis furnaceurness and this is my program Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town podcast. You're coming to you live on a Friday afternoon 515 p.m. Is there a better time in the world than 515 p.m. on a Friday? I mean, you could be doing any number of things. You're off work. You might be hanging out at the patio because it's beautiful weather outside. You might be on your couch recording a not yet Emmy nominated podcast. Although I don't think they are doing Emmys for a podcast so that probably explains it. You could be on a boat, you could be doing a run along the lake shore, whatever you want to be doing, it doesn't matter.

5 15 p.m. on the dot. This is the place to be. Thank you for being with me here on Quinn David Furnace Presents, the Bean Town podcast. We are one of the 112 ranked comedy podcasts in the Great Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Not to mention the the USA the American folks out here. I don't know about you guys, but man, I sure hate NPR and public broadcasting and investing in your local network.

So thank God we get Trump signing an executive order today or whatever it was to take away all the federal funding for the next two years from NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Is that what it is? for broadcasting services something like that Thank God. I am going to be so much less informed now. I will say this if this is the end of Wait, wait, don't tell me on NPR That's gonna be that's gonna be rough. We already had Colbert get cancelled yesterday And now we've got wait, wait wait don't tell me he's in trouble This is this is a bad time to be an American Let's just put it that way so maybe the folks out in Pakistan have something figured out. I don't know but

wherever you are listening from Pakistan Hyderabad Mah Chenae Madras that was a clue on Jeopardy yesterday, or Khyber Pass, etc. Thanks for listening. We're going to be doing some hiking. Maple's over here on the couch. It's me and Maple today. Mom is out at a nail appointment, but we're going to be, we got access to a car. Thank you to Pakistan for listening. We're going to be we got access to a car thank you to Pakistan for listening we're going to be going to a state park maybe Star Rock maybe maybe a tangential park but around the Illinois river down in central Illinois tomorrow doing some hiking that's probably what the Khyber Pass looks like I don't know I don't know which one is sort of more majestic,

more grand, etc. But we'll do a field report and get back to you tomorrow. I also, a couple other things I should mention, I'm the creator and the host and the chief, I don't know, mapologist, right? I've been studying the maps for two, three years here, not years, days, trying to figure out our hiking routes for tomorrow. But it also reminds me when I Google search my name, which I do from time to time, not from like a vanity perspective, but more just to make sure that because I work in recruiting and a lot of my time is spent with external facing people, I want to make sure, you know, these people are looking me up all the time. Some of them do random LinkedIn connections, yada, yada, yada, whatever. I just want to

make sure that my online image is reflective of how I want to be perceived and what I want to put out there. That's why I Google search myself in an incognito window from time to time, once every, I don't know, month, give or take. But the reason I mentioned that, oh man, I completely lost my train of thought. That's really embarrassing, isn't it? There were so many things I was trying to get to. Maple, hiking, I should mention listener discretion advised when you listen to this program. Number one, will it cage you some language?

Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. Why the heck did I bring up mentioning my name? Boy, that's rough. That is rough. If you're curious, yes, I've had a drink already I'm working on two and three we got a little Canadian Club whiskey going over here and a Conway's Irish ale from Great Lakes Brewing which I've never purchased but my parents brought over last summer when they were here they had some extras before they hopped on a flight so this baby has been in the back of the fridge for quite literally more or less like, I think they were here about 12 months ago. It's more or less the anniversary of when I sprained my foot playing kickball right before I went to Jamaica with my in-laws and my my wife's

family. We're pretty much at the year mark here and that was a tough time. I think that's when my mother and my aunt were here. I don't know it's hard to keep track of who was visiting at what time and why they're here and etc. But I am quite literally racking my brain. what is it? R-A-C-K-I-N-G, to try to figure out why I brought up the concept of googling myself. Something to do with working with people, external clients who might be looking up myself. It had nothing to do with, oh, vanity. I'm vain for looking up myself, but I didn't want to be vain for looking at myself.

How does that connect maybe to the Kiber Pass? I don't know. We're struggling here. It's one of those blank mind moments, a mind wipe. Like, I don't know, some kind of sci-fi movie. There's got to be sci-fi movies out there where they wipe your mind, right? Or what was it? The Dark Knight Rises? I've been seeing a lot of Dark Knight content.

And this is going to relate to, it's all going to tie together, I promise. But I've been seeing a lot of Dark Knight content. I think this year was the, gosh, was it the 17th year anniversary? I don't know. For some reason, I've been seeing a lot of Twitter highlights, tweets about, oh, Dark Knight Rises, or Dark Knight night rather came out, you know 2008 17 years ago. I feel like we should check that because I want to know that for sure I'm never gonna figure out why I brought up the topic of googling myself. I apologize

But to cap this thought on the dark night, which was yet 2008 Side very brief side tangent. I saw that in a theater in Albert Lee, Minnesota, where Maple and I are going to be visiting my grandparents, who are still kicking up in Minnesota. You might know them from season one of the Bean Tom podcast, the roast of Quinn David furnace. And my grandmother has been on the show and my grandpa roasted me.

It was awesome awesome 90 years old I guess he was in his 80s at the time, but We're gonna be up in Albert Lee and that's where my brother Jack and I saw the Dark Knight in 2008 So I was 13. He was 15 I suppose and my grandma took my younger sister to a different film a different picture. I don't know what it was but I'll never forget, my brother Jack and I got into the theater like, it must have been running late or something, because we got in during the heist, the opening heist scene. I had to go back on YouTube years

later and see what the actual start of the Dark Knight looked like. Because when we came in we had missed, missed a couple moments 2008 was also the year YouTube was founded is that right was that slightly or was 2004 I'm getting my even years mixed up here unclear unsure I got some serious mind fog going on right now cuz I'm like why did I bring up the dark night I think it's just because I've just been seeing a lot of it on my Twitter timelines But what I wanted to mention And I don't talk about other

Podcasts frequently on this podcast Quinn David for instance the beat-up podcast now in season 8 We got to be close to episode 400. I think it's next month We hit it, but I'm a big my like number one Stan podcast last two ish years has been Purple Daily which is a Vikings centric podcast and they do content throughout the year pretty much every day and hats off to those guys they they work their their butts off it's it three guys. It's Judd Zolgad, who was the former Vikings beat writer at the Star Tribune up in the Twin Cities where Maple and I will be next week. And then Declan Goff, who was the producer, younger guy. He's about two

years older than I am, but big Minnesota guy. And then Phil Mackie, which is what I'm here to talk about. He's kind of the ringleader. He's kind of the main guy and a journalist, not quite as weathered or seasoned as Judd, but a great guy. I love Phil. But to give you a very brief recap into how I got to this talking point, every Friday on their shows, they do shows, you know, seven days a week. They pre-record for weekends. I don't blame them. And every Friday they do some sort of snake draft where the three of them go through, you know, one, two, three, three, two, one, one, two, three, and they pick from some sort of category. And so they've been doing this for about a year or something like that. And two weeks ago, they didn't do or last week, I think it was just last week, they

did not do one today. Last week, it was most overrated film franchises. And Declan, the young guy, the producer about my age is going to win. He had picks like Titanic and gosh, I don't even remember what Avatar was one of his picks, which I'm like and Gosh, I don't even remember what avatar was one of his picks which I'm like, yeah, I don't blame this guy and Phil was out here just throwing fastballs, but not the good kind Phil picked. I don't even remember Let's see if we can go on Twitter and remember because I can't remember the third one. The first one I wanted to mention is The Lord of the Rings which I'm gonna come back to at the end of this show. When we get into what I think is a really intriguing trivia question.

The second one Phil picked, and again these are overrated movies, I should also mention Phil just picked the entire franchise. And I took beef with that because both Phil and Judd, so two of the three guys were like, oh yeah, watched one of them, didn't like it, never watched the others. And the sense I got was a little bit of, not curmudgeony, smugness in terms of like, oh, Lord of the Rings, elves, wizards, tokens. I don't know what tokens has to do with this, but they seemed to not grasp the fact that like, I mean, people blow smoke up, you know, Game of Thrones ass, but a movie multiplied by five,

the cinematography, the acting, the writing, the special effects, the musical score, these things are all 10 out of 10. So if you're not into like high fantasy and wizards and spells, that's fine. I get it. That's okay. But what if you like movies that are like the greatest score and the greatest acting and the greatest writing and special effects that were revolutionary for their time. They shot these three movies fellowship to towers and return to the king back to back

to back over the course of like a thousand days. That's not right. Like 400 days in New Zealand in like 2000 2001. And these films are legendary. So for Phil Mackie I'm calling out Phil Mackie. We don't usually call it other podcasts hosts, especially ones that I'm a big fan of, but I am calling out Phil Mackie on this point specifically to list the Lord of the Rings as overrated is man, if you want to get into a hobbit discussion, that's fine. But you want to get into a Lord of the Rings discussion, having not watched them, you are in over your head. Anyways, I can't remember. I'm trying to scroll through the, the, their Twitter feed to find out what they're, um, what Phil's

third choice was. Cause you get three picks every week. But one of his honorable mentions was the Dark Knight here was the hangover. Oh, that's the other thing. He's I think we had a fundamental misunderstanding of the category because Phil was like, oh yeah, I'll take the entire Lord of the Rings franchise. Then his second pick. I'll take the entire Star Wars franchise. Which again, it's like, hey, if you want to say, oh yeah, Last Jedi is overrated or sucks or whatever. I don't even think that there's many of that people out there rating the Last Jedi highly or what is the last name? Rise of Skywalker? I still never seen episode nine. Don't want to.

Just I still never seen episode 9 don't want to maybe if Quinn jr. Wants to that's fine, but Star Wars if you want to overrate it, okay, but yeah, I mean you got to pick a movie You can't just like make a pick and include How many movies are we up to we got nine? We got three trilogies and we got rogue one. That's ten. We got solo. That's eleven We have the two Ewok movies. That's 13. You can't pick an entire 13 film franchise and say oh that's overrated But Phil's third pick was the hangover, which is again something I take issue with because hangover is two and three Particularly three completely unnecessary not a great film not quality

unneeded I get it that's fine but to say the original hangover was overrated oh my gosh says peak comedy this was one of the last great film comedies they made in what the late 2000s before that genre just completely went away. And one of Phil's big critiques, I hate to harp on him, he'll never listen to this, it's okay, was that Ken Jeong is just terrible. And there's a very real part of me that agrees. I think Ken Jeong is like overblown, too much, not worth the price of admission. I like him when he's more restrained like in the office. But he's such a small part of it. And it's like, dude, you got a great core cast. Ed

Holmes at his best. Galifianakis at his best. Bradley Cooper at his best. Throw in a little Justin Bartha who we talked about recently in the show about two months ago. And then, I mean, you get Mike Tyson as well, and it's just... Dude, the Hangover is peak comedy. And the reason I got into all of this is because Phil made a passing mention saying, the Dark Knight is also overrated, which is how we got into this literally like eight minutes ago, because this week is some anniversary for the Dark Knight. This is where I do a hard stop.

If you are out here saying the Dark Knight is overrated in any capacity, I don't have any bullets in my chamber. There, this is a what I would consider to be a zero fault movie, okay, I Do not frequently give out the ten thumbs up recommendation four stars Robert Ebert Roger Ebert approved but Hey, if I'm being short-sighted You let me know.

If there's something I am missing about the Dark Knight, email us, beentownpodcast at yahoo.com. But I mean, the acting, the writing, the score, the cinematography, just everything about it, Dark Knight, the pacing, there is no dull moment in the Dark Knight the whole time you are freaking terrified. Because the Joker Heath Ledger edition is fantastic. I don't know. I don't understand how someone could look at the Dark Knight and say, Oh yeah, that wasn't that great. Or that was overrated.

That wasn't that great. Or that was overrated. Or it's as close to a perfect film as we're going to get as a humanity. I don't know. I missed something there. I want to move past this. I'm not here to do personal attacks on Phil Mackie or any other podcast hosts.

What I commented on the YouTube video, because they do a much better job at uploading to YouTube than I do. It's been like four years since we uploaded to YouTube, although we'll go live for the fundraising special, the Talofan spectacular in February Everyone is entitled to their own Opinions about film about anything else. That's fine And i've gotten to the point in my 30s where like you you are entitled to your opinion And i'm not going to sit here and try to be little you argue with you that excuse me that being said Saying in one take that the Dark Knight, Star Wars,

Lord of the Rings, and whatever the fourth one was, I legitimately cannot recall this. I just said it live on here. Oh, the Hangover. Saying all four of those films are overrated is just you're just kind of sitting there on your couch saying like then like then what's underrated because yeah I those movies have gotten a lot of generated a lot of discussion but I mean I don't know I don't understand how you can look at what I don't know, I don't understand how you can look at what George Lucas did, what Christopher Nolan did, what Peter Jackson did, and then whomever directed the Hangover trilogy. It's got to be someone like Spike Jones or something.

It's definitely not Spike Jones, but it's like an Adam McKay kind of Joint right Spike Lee joint who directed the hangover Let's find out on YouTube Todd Phillips. Didn't he oh he did the screenplay He directed the the Joker movie where it all comes back to Batman doesn't it directed by Todd Phillips there it is Yeah, he did roadtrip where it all comes back to Batman, doesn't it? Directed by Todd Phillips, there it is. Yeah. He did Road Trip. What movie is that? Breckenmeyer, Sean William Scott.

I have never seen Road Trip. Sean William Scott is Country Mac from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Old school Starsky and Hutch. Hangover film series Joker. Isn't Old School the one with Frank the Tank and he says yeah pretty nice little Saturday going to Home Depot or Bed Bath and Beyond might get some new flooring or whatever I don't know I don't know if

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played for the Falcons for three years and then Washington Detroit and Seattle one year each after that not a prolific career and Never thought we were gonna get to TJ Duckett on today's show but guys if you have duct problems or here's a problem I had I saw a spider right in the corner of my wall and my my ceiling last yesterday I was gonna say last week but time flies when you're having fun I had to get out my stepstool and squish that baby with some toilet paper and flush him down the toilet because it was one of those things where like

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It had to be yesterday morning that Rachel showed this to me. So Rachel was out Wednesday night. We didn't get to like do our normal routine of watching TV and Jeopardy and yada yada yada. So Thursday mornings when Rachel caught me up, my wife by the way if you're new to the show, on pop culture news that I had missed in the last 16 hours or so. And she let me know that there was a big Coldplay moment. So Coldplay is on some sort of tour again. I didn't even know they recently put out music. But if you haven't seen this, it's what's been all over my Twitter feed, my Facebook timeline, my Instagram reels, whatever you would call them, I don't know. To set the stage ever so briefly, Coldplay was playing a concert.

They do like a kiss cam. And during this kiss cam, they pan to these two people holding each other ever so tenderly. And it turns out the internet doing the sleuthing that it's known for very quickly realized it was the head of this so the male was the ceo of this tech company and the female who he was uh holding i don't want to say fondling or groping but a whole thing ever so gently was uh the the head of hr more or less and there was someone else in the video as well. I'm not trying to get into specifics necessarily but our hot take of the week here is that if you are cheating on your wife because the CEO is married if you're cheating on your wife at a Coldplay concert you deserve everything that you have coming to you because there's so many great ways

to cheat, right? Underwater, a hotel in Paris, or the Grand Prix, P-R-I-X, which I've heard about but never attended. You could do emotional cheating via text message primarily. You could go to a U2 concert rather than Coldplay. But to get caught cheating on the Kiss Cam at a Coldplay concert just feels like want to cheat, you know, live with the scum of the earth like me here on the Bean Top podcast. Go sit in the, you know, two section 284. You're halfway behind a pillar. You're listening to fix you and you're trying to fix her and all that stuff. You know, live amongst the people. But if you are cheating and you're buying whatever Coldplay charges these days, I don't know, $1,000, I don't even know how many pounds that is, pounds, etc. in a box seat, you know, club level, yada yada yada. You deserve everything that you have coming to you.

So I don't know. Rachel just got home. What was the name of the company? Amphibian? Astro... Astro something. You are in deep doo doo from one HR professional to another astronomer. Sounds like one of the sounds like a rival of What is Elon Musk do he does the SpaceX? Company which I feel like every time I I don't know you guys email me Let me know what you think every time I hear about SpaceX. It's like oh this SpaceX rocket Didn't make it off the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Or you know Trump and and Musk are fighting so SpaceX is gonna lose five billion dollars in funding. What is SpaceX even doing for

the greater good? I frankly couldn't really tell you. I have no idea what I mean NASA kind of got like sidelined. We're not going to the moon anymore. There were six shuttles. They're all shut down. I think. Does Quinn have the ability, the mental capacity? Likely not, but we'll see. To name these six NASA space shuttles, you got Columbia,

you got Challenger, you got Endeavor, you got Enterprise, and then that's two-thirds of it. There's two other ones. I always knew that there were two Cs and two Es, and I got the two Cs, I got the two Es. Is there Atlantis? Is that one Atlantis? And then, I don't know. I think I got five out of six though.

I feel like we should check. So again, to recap where we've been so far, Atlantis, Endeavor Enterprise, Challenger, Columbia, NASA, Space Shuttle. The Space Shuttle is a retired partially reusable low... Okay. All right, Wikipedia. We don't need to know exactly what it is. Just show me the six missions. Dead Air, Alive on the Beantown podcast. I'm just discovery Atlantis. Oh, we didn't get discovery.

Here it is in full summation. So Challenger and Columbia were the two that were destroyed. The two C's. The C's are cursed. And then you have Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavor, and Enterprise. I think there's the six. I think Discovery was the, was that the one we were not

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to give a very brief and ever so brief shout out to a local business not local to where I live but to the Rockford area Nickel World which is in kind of north northwest Rockford has been around for centuries aka decades it's on North Main 251 I believe or route to one of those two on the the West Bank of the Rock River just north of downtown Rockford bustling region and the reason they give it a shout out I saw in the news this week Rock River just north of downtown Rockford, a bustling region. And the reason I give it a shout out, I saw in the news this week that Nickel World, due to inflation and rising costs, was rebranding as Quarter World, which doesn't ring off, ring off the tongue is not a phrase, roll off the tongue quite as well as Nickel World does.

off the tongue is not a phrase, roll off the tongue quite as well as Nickel World does. But essentially it was like an arcade, you know, just like a place for young kids like me or 25 years younger than me to just go and be a kid and have a good time and not worry about, you know, the blatant, you know, drugs and pornography and racial relations and all that stuff out there. Just go show up and be a kid. And just bring a couple old Buffalo Nichols or Thomas Jeffersons or TJs that I always call them. Now you're going to need some of your Washingtons or a Kennedy half dollar might get you two wax in the whack-a-mole game. But be advised, Rockford residents, that Nickel World is now Quarter World.

Kind of sounds like Quarter Roy. Great fabric. One of the best fabrics I can think of. Speaking of Buffalo nickels, here's the next point I have here. Oh, we didn't even do Maple's Minute. That's embarrassing. Maple and I are driving up to the Twin Cities this week. Just the two of us, like Grover Cleveland.

Not Grover Cleveland. That was a president. Grover Washington, Jr. would say. And so Maple's Minute is that here are some top drive-through snacks for anxious dogs on a road trip because guys when you have a dog Who doesn't do very well when she's alone it is awfully risky to leave her in the car while you run into you know quick trip or

Road Ranger or Casey's general store, Casey and the sunshine band to get a slim gym or whatever you want to do. So you might have to rely on the drive through where you don't think about the car. And yes, this might mean that early in the morning, you get a big gulp and then you just pee in that the rest of the way.

So you don't have to leave the car. I don't know, We'll see what happens but top things you can get For your dog in the drive-through window would include an entire KFC tenders bucket with the secret recipe. I don't know. I feel like dr. Pepper KFC and coca-cola they kind of got their secret recipes and then on the flip side you got Baskin Robbins who's out here saying we got 31 flavors and we're not ashamed of them come replicate us so it's sort of some corporate espionage but you can figure out KFC you know you could probably also go to shout out to

Julasco because on Fridays they do cheap chicken Fridays. You go get a bucket. Today's Friday. Oh gosh, we should have gone to Julasco. You could go to Julasco, which is owned by Albertsons and get an entire bucket of chicken for $10. And that thing, I tell you what, you go up to Wisconsin around Tomah. It's going to cause it's going to run you.

I love when when companies run you a certain amount It could be 15 20 25 dollars. I don't know KFC. I've only been once in my life other things you could get I Was gonna say a dilly bar from Dairy Queen because it's kind of old-school classic, but some dogs can't have chocolate So what you could do is get a cherry dilly bar. So instead of the chocolate coating, it's made of cherry. I don't know because it feels like it's kind of just the same thing, but flavor differently, which raises the question. If you get a dilly bar from Dairy Queen, is it actually chocolate or is it just chocolate flavored? The flip side is if you get a dilly bar that is a cherry dilly bar, is it actually cherry

or is it just chocolate that is cherry flavored? These are experiments that Maple is going to have to figure out for us. And then finally, you can also get the entire Arby's menu, right? Maple, you can get your roast beef. You can get, oh, here's a question I have. I recall going to the Arby's in Rockford when I was, you I was a little tight, six or seven years old. It was for my grandmother's birthday. She was awfully excited. She had a coupon from the Rockford Register Star to get a two dollars off your Jamoca shake,

J-A-M-O-C-H-A, which is like mocha, but from Jamaica. And the question that this begs is does jamocha have chocolate in it? I think mocha by default when I think mocha I think chocolate and I think coffee. But if you add the ja in front of it, this throws all of this for a loop. The good news is we are driving to Great Grandma Sally's house and so I anticipate we could maybe bypass the Arby's initially, but if we get confirmation from her as we are driving from Great Grandma's house up to the Twin Cities area to meet with Mom, we could potentially stop for a jamoca shake. Regardless of whether jamoca is included, you get roast beef, you get,

what else does Arby's have on their menu? Curly fries, you could get other things. It's been a hot second since I've been to Jamo, or make up Arby's probably seven or eight years. So Maple, we're looking forward to giving you your first ever roast beef. You know who was eating really well? Those who's down in Whoville, they had the roast beast on Christmas morning. Those who's were onto something. Oftentimes, Christmas morning, it's like, oh, yeah, mom's

slaving away in the kitchen. She's making cinnamon rolls. What if we just got a big old slab or roast beast? I don't care if it's bison, buffalo, water buffalo, other types of buffalo. I mentioned buffalo because we have to get to it here. We mentioned buffalo nickel. Here's a question for the audience. And I did research beforehand to answer my own question, but it feels like there's a lot of confusion amongst the zoologists out there between the difference

or surrounding the difference between a buffalo and a bison. Because when we talk, you think about like, oh, America, what is our animal? Bald eagle. But then you get into larger land mammals quadrupeds and we think oh the buffalo right where the deer and the buffalo roam oh give me a home yada yada yada but there is no buffalo in America so how did we get to this point of oh let's call these fantastic beasts and where to find them if you will. Buffalo when they're actually called bison. And to clear the air, because I legitimately did not feel clear on this until 45 minutes ago when I researched it.

There's no, as far as the Bloom's taxonomy goes, there's no buffalo from America we're just dealing with bison and we frequently call them the American bison and so when we're talking about buffalo nickels for example that is clearly a misnomer it should have been the bison nickel but I agree buffalo is more exciting to say there are animals or creatures out there that are classified or categorized as buffalo, but these are specifically going to be like water buffalo or musk oxes. I think could fall into the buffalo genus unclear. But if you're ever out there thinking like, oh yeah, that looks like a buffalo, but it's here in Nebraska or Illinois or wherever. So like, should I call it a buffalo or a bison? It is, if it is America based, America born and bred baby, that is a bison.

To add further confusion to this, we are potentially doing some hiking tomorrow along the Illinois river and there's a state park near where we are going. And in this state park there are still two living kind of remnants of the past, but two living American bison. So you think, oh, that's a nice thought. Wouldn't you want to name the park after the American bison? Here's a little twist for you. This park is called Buffalo Rock. So if you are

sitting there, you're a kid listening to this of which there I'm sure there are many, you're trying to think what the heck is the difference between a buffalo and a bison. I can't really help you, but just note that you have been lied to. So if you get a buffalo nickel and you're thinking, gosh, I should go to Nickel World in Rockford. you're gonna need new directions because it doesn't exist anymore but to tell your your sixth grade life science teacher hey mrs. so-and-so there is no American buffalo it doesn't exist been wiped off the face of the planet there's only bison now there probably have only ever been bison but we're not a historian here on the show so bison equals america god country bible religion

thumbs up and buffalo equals lesser places like the stan countries where the water buffaloes are lesser places like the Stan countries where the water buffaloes are and moose lambs etc. No offense to Pakistan. Fine supporters of this show. That was a buffalo conversation. Brief thought here. How words on an animal theme. We have a good trivia question to finish up today. We haven't even gotten to our main content.

Oh, I forgot that we had that. Oh my goodness. Let's get through this. Next question here. How the heck have wild turkeys survived? Because I used to see wild turkeys frequently. I'm not talking about the whiskey. I'm talking about legitimate turkeys.

No, not for you bowlers, for you zoologists. Up by where my grandfather used to live in Wisconsin, you could see wild turkeys from time to time. And I googled this because when I think of a turkey, I think of a sitting duck. And you might say, well, that's ironic. You're thinking of ducks. What about turkeys?

Well, I guess a sitting turkey, perhaps. But these turkeys, they can't... Excuse me. I don't want to say they can't really fly, because then it's like, what constitutes really flying? What I found from Google Gemini, which is 100% accurate, is that wild turkeys can essentially fly up to 100 yards Briefly to escape predators and for you, you know Pakistanis out there a hundred yards. It's essentially just under a hundred meters very close But then I'm thinking you got these big old lugs They're delicious when ground I know because we have it in our pasta that we're having for supper tonight, and Thanksgiving and turduckens and the whole nine yards. How the heck did have wild turkeys existed and continue to thrive as a species?

You would think that foxes or marmots or bison would take them out but apparently not so kudos hats off I'm not wearing a hat right now but if I had one I would take it off for the wild turkey and then finally before we get to our top 10 shower food list food and drink list here I did want to briefly mention because this threw me for a loop. This is the wordle for today, Friday July 18th, but it took me to my sixth guest to get it because when you go on wordle and it's a word you've never seen before, frankly that makes it tougher. So today's wordle was loris. L-O-R-I-S it is apparently one of those tiny little monkeys with the big eyes. I think, I don't know, we got a research team over here. Madagascar, the film, isn't the, not King Julian, but he's got kind of a little, a little friend who is maybe very scared

of the lions and the zebras and theopotamus. Mort? Yeah but is he Aloris? That's the name of the animal L-O-R-I-S. Mort from Madagascar. If there's any DreamWorks heads out there or studio executives maybe you could get in touch with us to let us know. Because you know I'm aware of the ring-tailed lemurs and the Zaboomba fo aware of the ring-tailed lemurs and the Zaboom buffoos of the world but a Loris I have never come across before I know about Loris College in Iowa it's Lutheran we got our research team is shaking their head what did they say okaytailed lemur and a mouse lemur who are

not slow horses. Lorises. Slow lorises are found in Southeast Asia, so more of a Thailand thing, not Madagascar. This was incredibly challenging to try to listen in one ear what the research team was saying and say in the microphone What was going on that reminds me of the show slow horse? Excuse me slow horses is what I was trying to say which I had to look up Yesterday because the Emma nominations came out and slow horses was all over the place

apparently it's like a British spy show but for spies who suck at their job. And it's Gary Oldman, Oscar-winning Gary Oldman. So if anyone out there has seen Slow Horses, it's a play on words of what? Slow House, Slough House, something like that, which is the name of the police headquarters, spy headquarters. I don't know where they are based out of.

I have not seen Slow Horses. I do not know what streaming show it's on. Streaming channel, rather. We started the pit last night on HBO. There's 15 episodes, each meant to be one hour. I feel like after watching the first episode of The Pit, that's a good time to take predictions on who's going to die and who's not going to die.

It's all about reverting expectations, right? So the people who feel like they're safe, they're done. The people who feel like they're on death's door, they're done. So this main guy with a beard, he's going to jump. The alcoholic, he's going to be just fine. The Indian girl who's 20, she's going to start an OnlyFans. Rachel is all over that. She's giving me a big thumbs up.

I don't know. Oh was, oh, the, you know, it's interesting. This kid brings in his mom and she's vomiting. Turns out she brought him in because he's got a kill list. It's giving very much the S.H.I.E.L.D. vibes. If you remember the last season of the S.H.I.E.L.D. when Dutch figures out he's gonna go sleep with the mom But the son is like a serial killer and he figures that out too That's the vibe. I'm getting from this. There's a lady who's Nepali, which is very similar to Pakistani She gets her foot cut off on the subway She's gonna be fine. You can't kill that many ethnicities and still get Emmy Noms. So those are my predictions. Maybe we'll get into it more next week.

We'll see what happens. Let's see. That was, oh yeah, we mentioned the loris again. L-O-R-I-S. It's a monkey. You got to, I don't know, ape a lemur a creature. I hate when people are like, oh, yeah It's a cute little monkey like actually that's an ape. I Do not do this about monkeys and apes. I do not make distinctions Well, this brings up an interesting point. My sister-in-law was in Colorado this week. We texted about it. We're cool. She was... No, I'm not even going to belittle my sister-in-law. She sent a very charming, happy video. She's hiking in Colorado. She says, oh, look, I saw a moose. That's very nice. My wife, Rachel, shows me the video. I'm like, internally, boom, that's not a moose.

I'm not trying to come out here and shame people. So I text my sister-in-law off to the side. I'm like, here's some pictures of elk. Here's some pictures of moose. I'm curious, which one does this look like more of to you? Because I didn't have the video saved. It was just in my wife's, I'm not an asshole I approached it very tastefully and but turns out it wasn't it was it was not a moose it was an elk but what happens in the mountain stays

in the mountain so no I'm not out here coming out on like a public podcast or Twitter or anything saying like oh that was not a booze that was an elk. This is all in between the family dynamics. So strike that, right, Maple? Strike it. Okay, I had a plum in the shower yesterday. I want to brief... Yeah, the pit was in the trash the pit was in the trash Who are getting some oh No, no, no, no This is not as fun when you can only hear my side of the story Trust me. No one's ever gonna hear about this

It I am of the belief Quinn furnace Bean Town podcast on the record. I believe my sister-in-law saw a moose while she was hiking in Colorado. End of discussion. Here is the 15 minutes into the podcast. Here is the topic of today's show. Top 10. Here is the topic of today's show, top 10 food and drink to consume in the shower. And just wait, because we have a very involved trivia question as well. I had a plum in the shower yesterday, which I don't think is that uncommon. But we received plums. My research team can tell me where the heck did these plums come from?

From Costco. I was really up until just now thinking like, oh, there must be a family member that I'm not aware of that has a nice plum grove. And we got fresh handpicked plums. But no, these were from Costco. Frankly, I never bought plums from Costco before. I'm not here to judge. It's just kind of an uncommon purchase, I guess we'll say. But that's what they told Thomas Jefferson in 1803 or 1802 with the Louisiana purchase. And look what happened. So we got these plums and they just kind of been sitting there marinating in our fridge for weeks on end. And so yesterday, two or three weeks ago, we received them. And so we really got

to get you a microphone over here. It's not as fun for the audience when they can't hear you. The Bean Tom podcast is much better as a two-headed monster plus maple. So we got these plums in the fridge. And I know what you're thinking, Professor Plum Clue. I've never seen the movie Clue. Who do you think played professor plum get our research team get on that thank you I know the main character the who is he the butler was he mr. body I don't know Tim Curry rest in peace he's not dead but he's in a wheelchair so you know professor plum played by Christopher Lloyd who you might know from Back to the Future and the creator of The Bear. So who else was in that cast? What else have you the film from the mid 90s.

Elsewhere in the clue cast we have Madeline Kahn, of course. Tim Curry, who we just mentioned. Colleen Camp. Leslie Ann Warren. How about some, you know, some A-listers over here? Eileen Brennan? Oh, that's who, that's Saul Goodman's brother. Who does he play? Colonel Mustard? Mr. Green? Oh, that's who I would play as include Mr. Green.

Lead singer of Spinal Tap as well. Anyone else? No. Who? What about Colonel Mustard? Is that the guy from Arrested Development who divide? Martin Maw, rest in peace. Gene Parmesan, who is also the bad guy Bart Gaffulli in the, the Olsen Sisters head west, right? How the West was fun. I see it right here. Yep, there you go. That's a movie that Rachel knows.

OK, we have to get through this because I have to end this goddamn episode. Top 10 shower, food, and drink. Ideally, I'm not lying. I would have gotten to this half an hour ago, but we're just going to bust through it. The reason I bring up number 10, it's maybe out of the box. That was a great to.

Out of the box? Out of the box. Number 10, chicken noodle soup. And you might think, gosh, you are absolutely crazy. But I had to think, I had to add in one food item here where it's like, what if you add a little bit of liquid? What if you get some splashes? S P L A S H A G E. What's going to not affect the flavor too much? You add a little bit of extra hydration to your chicken noodle soup. No one's going to be saying anything. Okay. So a nice steaming bowl of chicken

noodle soup. I don't care what recipe you use, but if you throw in a little bit of extra H2O in there to counteract the chicken broth, I'm not upset. So number 10, chicken noodle soup. Number nine, the reason we got into this business in the first place is a plum. Here's the reason I had a plum in the shower in the first place.

We had three plums total. So I had the first one a couple days ago and it was way too juicy. Okay and there was juice squirting all over you know left right up and about and so I thought gosh what can I do in the future to make cleanup a little bit easier and so I thought well if you're eating a plum in the shower with running water, you don't have to worry about juices and stickiness and yada yada yada. So that's why a plum is number nine on my list of top food and drink to consume in the shower. Number eight, I felt like I owed it to this one because I have it four or five days a

week. Just throw it in here because it works just fine. I felt like I owed it to this one because I have it four or five days a week. Throw it in here because it works just fine. It's similar vibes to the plum. It's the old fashioned staple Mr. Reliable, the apple. I don't care if you're doing Gala or Fuji or Cosmic Crisp is a Trader Joe's specialty. But apples can get really sticky.

And so if you take that thing into the shower, you just run your hand over that little faucet and boom, you are good to go. You're still gonna have to find a place to dispose of the core, but I will say this, I recall a road trip with a family member, a decade ago or so and we had some apples in the car and you know this family member is eating the apple next thing you

know you know you think you're gonna roll down the sunroof or something is that a sunroof or a moonroof are the exact are they the exact same things we should use? We could use some research on this sun roof versus moon roof. Moon roof seems sexier, but sun roof is like, I don't know, what I'm used to. But this family member ate the entire apple, stem, core, seeds, the whole nine yards. And I was shocked. I had never seen someone eat the entire apple before. So maybe if you're really feeling yourself in the shower you can eat the entire apple and unlike the plum where it's a little bit tougher to get away with eating the whole thing you can just eat the entire apple.

So that's number eight. Number seven something something we just finished here, a whiskey. Now I like having a whiskey in the shower. It's not as common. It's our first beverage on the list here. The concern with the whiskey is you frequently will have whiskey, old fashioned kind of glass. And it's kind of, you got to consider this. It's kind of a large area of which you could have hot scalding water seep into your whiskey. And no one wants super watered down whiskey, maybe a little bit.

Like I just drank mine right now, live on air with some ice cubes in it. On the rocks as we would call it. But when you add in scalding water from the shower head, it's not quite the same experience. So that's why it is at seven and not higher up. Number six, this is kind of a fun one because you can sort of make a game out of it.

Cherries. Cherries are delicious, they're bright, they're tart, they're amazing. But you got the stem in the pit, so what are you supposed to do with those? Well, here's what you can do in the shower. You can tie a knot with the stem in your mouth with the tongue. And then what I like to do with the pits, you know, set up the garbage can, put it on the toilet seat, the sink, whatever you want to do, you know, set up the garbage can, put it on the toilet seat, the sink, whatever you want to do, you know, give yourself a target. You say, Kobe, and then you, you shoot the pit out of your mouth, tongue induced, and

right into the garbage can. If you get it, you know, three points, whatever, yada, yada, yada, create your own scoring system. But it's a lot of fun. The one concern you've got to have, it's kind of what the concern I had with my plum pit yesterday. You don't want this to accidentally get on your tile

or wall or porcelain because just without a lot of direct experience, these feel like the type of things that could stain easily and you do not want stains when you are renting let me tell you so if you are going to set up a game with your cherry pits make sure you are accurate number four and I could see an argument we are into our top oh sorry we skipped number five wine I don't care if it's white red pink doesn't matter the same glassware concerns happened with wine where you got kind of a wider mouth to it but wine is kind of like dude imagine you're just like had a long hard day let me have a really powerful antioxidant inducing glass of red wine.

I'll keep it off to the side so the water doesn't get in, but even if a little splash does, not a big deal. I'm gonna be anti-oxidized. That's why wine is number five, and it's good for weddings at Kena too. Number four, you could have made an argument for me that this should have been number one, because you can give yourself, you can make yourself a little bowl of this, and it really frankly does not matter at all if there's water on it or not. You get some solid grape action. I don't care if it is cotton candy, purple, red, green. Sometimes you get some

grapes that are more white, but grapes you want to wash them anyways. So you get the, you know, the water streaming down and they're so poppable. Grapes are so poppable. I think the only reason it's not number one on my list is you still got this big old stem kind of branch and it's like, what do I do with this thing? Kind of harder to fling into the garbage can than maybe your average cherry pit, which I feel like you have more control over shooting from your mouth. But grapes, guys, if you are looking for just like a old reliable, never going to give you up, never going to let you down type of shower food grapes coming in at number four

hard to beat. Number three I picked one more fruit here because it is just a a great water fruit watermelon. You can get if you get the seedless ones, we still have seeds watermelon should be either 100% seedless, which is no seeds or 50% seedless, which is no blacks, just whites, Jim Crow laws, or we can have 0% seedless, which is all black, all white, Oreo style, racial harmony. But if you get the 50%, which I think is pretty common, where you don't have the black seeds, you just have the kind of white seeds, you shoot them out your mouth. Or you can swallow them, the white seeds aren't that bad, frankly. But watermelon just feels like a good, it's going to be sticky, it's going to be messy. So you're going to want that running water regardless that's why watermelon is

coming in number three for me number two something I don't remember last time I had in the shower but certainly had all the time in the bathtub growing up a popsicle a popsicle in the shower or the bath it is hard to beat and I don't care if you want to do bomb pops or we used to have oh man I love the you could do little like chocolate ones filled with ice cream or you could do like the orange creamsicle ones doesn't really matter you get a good popsicle well constructed and what what takes this to a level 11 out of 10 is if your popsicle stick has a joke on it guys no longer should Laffy Taffy have a you know monopoly on the joke market popsicle sticks should be having jokes on their sticks as well. So that's why popsicles are number two. And then number one, how could it be anything else? A shower beer. The cans, they got it down with the small mouth opening. So you're going to get very little extra hydration

in there. If you do, it's NBD, no big deal. But a nice crisp shower beer straight from the fridge. Those bubbles are fizzin'. You're rewarding yourself after a long, hard walk, run, lawn mowing experience, whatever it might be. A crisp shower beer, number one, hard to beat. So our top 10 list here from number 10 to number one, number 10 chicken noodle soup, number nine plum, number eight apple, number seven whiskey, six cherries, five wine,

four grapes, three watermelon, two popsicle, and one beer. Which brings us to our trivia question of the day, going all the way back to what we were discussing at the top of the show about some misguided, overrated film snake draft picks. I thought, hey, this could be fun. Let's do, because this feels like an actual brain teaser like something where you can like Really think about it and reflect and come up with a solid guess so my question is in the fellowship of the ring

There's there's nine characters who are part of the Fellowship of the Ring. My question for you is List these actors and I will give you the actors by Birthdate by age from youngest to oldest So again in the Lord of the Rings the Fellowship of the Ring refers to a group of nine rings, the Fellowship of the Ring refers to a group of nine characters. I'm going to give you the nine actors who play those characters and I would love for you to give me their names in order of youngest to oldest. If you're curious, here are the actor or the characters first. the actor or the characters first are you have so you have the four hobbits you have Frodo Sam Mary and Pippin you have the wizard Gandalf you have the two humans Boromir and Aragorn and then you have an elf Legolas Katy Perry recipes and you have, and you have the dwarf Gimli. Those are the characters. And the actors for the four hobbits, you have Sean Astin, Elijah

Wood, Dominic Monahan, and Billy Boyd. For the wizard, you have Gandalf played by Ian McKellen. For the two humans, you have Boromir played by Sean Bean and Aragorn played by Viggo Mortensen. The elf, Orlando Bloom, plays Ligolus and the dwarf, John Rhys Davies, who you might know from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, or any of the Indiana Jones pictures. I think he's in one in three, right? He plays Gimli.

So again, to recap, the purpose of this trivia question, I want you to list the actors, the nine actors, in order, from youngest to oldest. I don't know how much else, how many other clues or context I can give you. These films came out between 2001 and 2003. So if you want time, because there's nine parts to this, if you want to give yourself a second to really try to kind of formulate this, please feel free, give yourself a pause on your podcast player

app, but I'm going to go through the answers now. So without further ado, from youngest to oldest. At youngest, and I'm going to do it by year, none of them share the same year. They all have individual unique years to them. So I did not get their exact dates, but their years. Number one, Elijah Wood Frodo, born in 1981. So he was approximately like 19 through 21, 19 to 20 when they filmed the films. Next up, this might be a shocker, Orlando Bloom is the second youngest amongst the fellowship. He was born in 1977, the year Star Wars came out. So he was approximately 23, 24 when they filmed these movies. Next up we have Meriwether, played by Lost alum Dominic Monahan, one year younger than Orlando at 1976.

Then we have Sean Astin who you might know from the Goonies who was born in 1971 so he was about 30 when they filmed the Lord of the Rings. Next up is Pippin. Billy Boyd, 1968 so about three years younger than Samwise Gamgee. Then we got a little bit of a jump about nine years we have Sean Bean who you might know the the Game of Thrones heads Ned Stark might know Sean Bean who was born in 1959 so he was approximately 42 ish Jackie Robinson when they film Lord of the Rings One year younger than Sean we have Viggo Mortensen at 1958 Then our last two you probably know this one John race Reese Davies

1944 so he was in his late 50s as they filmed Lord of the Rings and then finally the wizard himself Ian McKellen were born in 1939 Here's the thing when I was a little kid like watching Lord of the Rings for the first time If you would have told me that Gandalf was only what? 61 when they filmed it I would have been like oh that guy is old like that's an old man but like oh yeah he's in his 70s maybe 80s but Ian McKellen was only 61 when they filmed the Lord of the Rings and he's still kicking to this day so again from youngest to oldest to briefly

recap we go Elijah Wood Orlando Bloom Dominic Monahan Sean Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Sean Bean, Viggo Mortenson, John Rhys Davies, and Ian McKellen, from youngest to oldest. That was an unexpectedly long Beantown podcast. I apologize for that, guys. That's what I have for you on today's program. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast. I think that's all I wanted to cover. We did trivia. We did all the other fun stuff. Wherever you are going, wherever you are off to, I appreciate you listening to my program. We do not receive any federal funding, so we should not be in trouble like NPR or CPS is CPB whatever it is. But I don't know. I don't have anything else to say about that. I need to go get another beer.

My name is Quinn David Furness. I hope everyone is staying safe, staying sane. I'm going to check in on you next week. Good luck to me, Maple, and my wife Rachel tomorrow on hiking. Bye bye.