Beantown Podcast - Top Names from the 2026 NFL Draft

Episode Date: April 24, 2026

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss fun NFL player names, lingering, and the eastern timber wolf ...

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Starting point is 00:00:08 Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, April 24th, 2026. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn and I am the creator, host and chief draftologist of this program, Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast. I got to tell you, I made a Beantown blog post. I wrote up Beantown blog post on Wednesday night. It was our final mock draft of the year NFL draft round one last night rounds two and three tonight starting in an hour here so we're going to keep it high and tight we are going to be looking through some of the big board draft prospects in this year's NFL draft and going through some of the top names but when i i sent my final mock draft to my brother jack and he was like what the heck is this and he was not
Starting point is 00:01:03 aware that mock drafting was a whole kind of professional I mean, there are people who are like the mock draft experts. That's their whole thing. Like Mel Kuyper Jr. and Todd McShay, Daniel Jeremiah. Like, that's their, like, journalistic angle. And it just was wild to me. How he had never heard of, you know, mock drafts for the NFL or, I don't know, presumably for other sports. No shade.
Starting point is 00:01:34 You never go against the family. It just took me by surprise. You took me by the... and made that one night. Hunter, Jan's assistant in the office. I think the name of the album is The Hunted. I wonder if that, that feels like, doesn't it feel like the type role where that guy was like a PA on the show or something?
Starting point is 00:02:15 You know, some 22 year olds fresh out of college making $18 an hour living in West Hollywood. And they just found a perfect role for him. I like to imagine the photo shoot for that album cover was like two minutes tops. They just, he didn't even have to like go to wardrobe or anything. It was just, oh, you showed up to work today. I think he's wearing like a flannel shirt and khakis or jeans or something. It's like, okay, yeah, you just wear that. It's the little things in life.
Starting point is 00:02:49 Classic scene from the office, the dinner party. We will get to the NFL draft in a moment here after I let you know that The listener discretion is advised. When you're listening to this program, number one, we'll occasionally use some language number two's podcasts, objectively terrible. And I also, I haven't previewed all the names that we're going to be going through. We're going to be doing it kind of fresh.
Starting point is 00:03:07 We'll do it live. But there might be some names that sound like swear words, but aren't. When that NBA guy got drafted, Shabaz Napier, Shabaz isn't a swearer, but it's close. It sounds like it could be. Like an Arabic swear word or something, Shabaz. Remember he played for Yukon and LeBron was on the heat And he was like getting really excited
Starting point is 00:03:32 And he was like hyping him up and and convince the heat to draft him And then in that same offseason LeBron left to go back to the Cavaliers One of my mini Favorite LeBron moments Then and all the flopping You guys been watching this isn't news It's not like they just started doing this yesterday But these thunder highlights of them
Starting point is 00:03:55 flopping. I saw this insane one. Obviously, Shea Gilgis Alexander. That's right. Gilgis Alexander. Gildjus, I think, hyphen Alexander. We know how to spell it. He's the flop king, right? You got Sylvester Stallone is the Tulsa King. He got Shay Gilgis Alexander as the Canadian flop king. But I saw one. So they got Chet Holmgren. You'll remember him. He played for, what was he, Gonzaga? I can't remember where Chet Holmgren played. But this, you know, he's like 7-2 or something, 180 pounds. He's the lankiest string bean of a human you could imagine. I saw this highlight from the Thunder, whomever they're playing, the Sun's game.
Starting point is 00:04:41 And it's basketball fouls have always peeved me. But now they got the whole thing where, like, you know, you get the guys in the, you get the defender in the air out of the three-point line. and these offensive shooters will, like, jump to the side, not facing the basket to, quote, initiate contact. And it's like, if a defender is in the air, it doesn't matter if it's, like, not even between the ball handler and the basket. If the guy is, like, in the air, it's like you can run into him
Starting point is 00:05:12 and throw your hands up, and that's a foul. And I saw Chet Holmgren do it to this guy who's literally like a foot and a half shorter than him out of the three-point line. He gets three free throws for it. man, I hate the thunder. That's such a shame because they're, you know, like a young should be likeable, scrappy team, but instead they are just flop kings.
Starting point is 00:05:38 You got Draft King's sportsbook, Beantown Sportsbook, Tulsa Kings, now you got Flop Kings. And they won last year and they were going to flop their way to another title. I think there's some bizarre statistic where it's like the Oklahoma City Thunder get, you know, got like 700 more free throws this season than the second place team. I don't think that's true or anything.
Starting point is 00:05:58 It just sounds good, doesn't it? It feels good to say. We're working on another juice, voodoo ranger, whatever it is. Beer here from New Belgium, I got the Sweet Baby Rays. Cousian, so I can't actually recall what the name is. Sweet Baby Rays reminds you of Sweet Baby James. Good night. you what is it made in ladies something like that rock goodbye sweet baby james blue is the color
Starting point is 00:06:34 all that i see do no no her in my dreams and rock goodbye sweet baby james i should know the lyrics i've seen james taylor like four times out of all the artists out there james Taylor is like a sneaky under the radar top five most seen for me. I mean, there's not that many people that I've, not that many artists that I've seen multiple times in my life. It would be a pretty short list that's like the war on drugs, the killers, death cab for QD, James Taylor. I think I've seen three times, two or three times.
Starting point is 00:07:16 I don't even know whom else is up there. Mr. Steve, the children's entertainer from Rockford, Illinois. there is a super deep poll for you you rockford heads will recall what do we think we think we're going to get any results if we google mr steve rockford illinois so you have a website or a facebook page this guy still active this was a children's entertainer i don't know if if his brand of comedy was specific to like the christian and or homeschool circles that i grew up to i grew up to you know if he's brand of comedy was specific to that I grew up in or if this was he was just more of a regional you know he'll do it do all kind of stuff we'll find out in a second we'll do Google search while I'm doing that
Starting point is 00:08:03 I do want to say thank you we're also having a sip of Trader Joe's bourbon I want to say thank you to our good friends in Pakistan Mahor Karachi Hydrabad Khyber Pass excuse me wherever you were listening from I probably never been a Pakistani person drafted in the NFL I mean, you don't, there's not like a ton of foreign talent playing in the National Football League. I don't think I've ever seen a cricket player where I'm watching it. Not that I watch a lot of cricket, but I've never found myself watching a cricket match saying, this guy could be a right tackle. It just doesn't really add up.
Starting point is 00:08:44 That's the difference between baseball and cricket. You give me the occasional, like, closer in baseball. we were just watching a Cubs Phillies game the other night and the Phillies had this short reliever. He wasn't short as in height, just he pitched like two or three batters. But this guy was an Antonio Alfonseca looking dude. Old heads, no, from 25 years ago.
Starting point is 00:09:09 The guy who had three fingers for the Cubs, something like that, Antonio Alphonseca wore his hat kind of off to the side. So it was a big boy. The Phillies had a reliever who was also a big boy. And then you got guys like, Ryan Howard was big. Prince Fielder, obviously, was massive. Like, it's not a stretch to say,
Starting point is 00:09:28 oh, yeah, you could slot Prince Fielder in there, left guard, and he'll hold down the, he'll batten the hatches, if you will. You don't really use batten outside of the hatches and stepping into the batter's box, but even that's not batten. Batten down? Does it have to be batten down? These are questions I have.
Starting point is 00:09:48 Anyways, Prince Fielder never would have been able to play in the NFL with that degenerative neck condition or whatever that forced him to retire. Didn't Prince Fielder and Cecil Fielder retire with the exact same amount of home runs? It's like 300 or something. Let's see. Let's Google that first. Father's son combo. Prince and Cecil. Is it Cecil or Cecil?
Starting point is 00:10:15 I don't know. Kind of a great, low-key, underrated name. Cecil. that you don't really see super old school, obviously, I think it's badass. C-E-C-I-L, Cecil, I call him Cici for short. And you might think, oh, C-C-C-that's a girl's name. Well, let me present to you another amazing baseball player,
Starting point is 00:10:37 not a cricket player, sorry, Pakistan, your part of the show is done. Another amazing baseball player who could be a kick-ass. I don't know, what position we think old C-C-Sabathia could have played. I mean, C.C. Sabathia coming around the edge, Miles Garrett style. Again, all up in your grill. I could absolutely see C.C. I mean, now, he's not the quickest guy.
Starting point is 00:11:00 So maybe CC's more of like a backup left tackle that they bring in on jumbo packages on the goal line. And you don't know if he's going to stay blocking or if he's going to eke out for a route. Ink out? Ink out or eke out? What's the footbally term? Ink out, I think. Anyways, I could see C.C. Sabathia. CCC catch. I could see that.
Starting point is 00:11:26 But yeah, I wanted to check this Prince and Cecil Field there. Yeah, this is remarkable. Father's son duo, exact same total of career hormones, 319. You know, send me your favorite statistical anomalies in sports. It's a big sports show today. I apologize, but hopefully we'll branch it out. The 319 father and son fuel their home run combo is pretty legendary. One of my other favorite things, I think I remember it off the top of my head,
Starting point is 00:11:57 but I'll Google it to confirm. Chris Davis, not that Chris Davis, not the Baltimore one, but H. Chris Davis, one who played for the athletics. I think he had four seasons where he finished, I believe the number is 247 batting average. I think that's right. Let's Google it. Yep, every single season for four straight seasons.
Starting point is 00:12:21 This is one that I've obviously come across before, but it is statistically, when you think about these batting averages, going down to three decimal points, to finish at a point 247, meaning for every thousand plate appearances, he gets 247 hits, to finish at that exact number, four seasons in a row, I think repeating it twice in a row would be critical. Three times is like, this got to be an error.
Starting point is 00:12:50 Four times is there's got to be divine intervention. To finish at exactly 247 because all it needs is like last game of the season, another plate appearance or another hit or something. I mean, you get to that many at bats. You probably have a buffer of like one or two before it like moves the needle. But it's absolutely insane that Chris Davis finished 247. four straight season. So email is Beantown Podcast at Yahoo.com.
Starting point is 00:13:22 Again, that's Beantown, Meaning Podcasts at Yahoo.com. Any other amazing sports statistical anomalies? And I want you to really swing for the fences here. Don't give me one that's just like this guy hit the longest home run in baseball history. It's like, okay, okay, that's fine. I've set the bar with Cecil and Prince Fielder and Chris Davis. It's a pretty high bar. So go ahead and top it.
Starting point is 00:13:46 I don't want any of your Bush League. What's his name? Orioles Shortstop. Roy Kaplan Jr. or something. What was that guy's name? The shortstop who played for like 18 straight years or something without a day off? We'll think of it. This is pretty embarrassing.
Starting point is 00:14:07 He's a junior, right? I think I got that part. I'd lived in Baltimore for two years and I can't figure this out. What the heck was that guy's name? Baltimore Orioles. shortstop record that should come up with the the results cal ripkin junior cal great names cal short for something kelvin that makes sense brain's not working quite as fast today in case you couldn't tell okay we're going to get to the bottom of this mr steve thing and then um for anyone
Starting point is 00:14:44 listening who is not from northern illinois growing up in the 90s we'll make it quick mr steve rockford Oh, Mr. Steve Rickford is what I googled. Mr. Steve Rockford. The first thing that comes up is a guy's name Steve Rockford in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. I am pretty sure that's not what we wanted. So Steve Rockford died 10 years ago, rest in peace. What if we do, Mr. Steve, maybe he was not from Rockford.
Starting point is 00:15:17 Maybe he just toured in the area. I mean, he was kind of like a clown, but he did like. Children's songs, and I don't know if they were biblical themed or just good for young ages. Mr. Steve, the music man, that could be him. Second result is Steve Allen, the former Tonight Show host. And then I'm getting a lot of like magic, magic Mr. Steve. That's not really what I wanted. This guy didn't do magic.
Starting point is 00:15:51 Mr. Steve, the music man. Let's go to his Instagram. This is their last shot. Then we're going to keep going. Yeah, this guy is definitely, he's way too young. This guy's like my age. Anyways, if you have any memories of Mr. Steve, the children's entertainer, go ahead and email us, Beantime Podcasts at Yahoo.com.
Starting point is 00:16:11 Let's get into these draft prospect names. Let me check. Actually, no, before we do that, because I almost forgot this last week. We have a good trivia question, also a football theme. But our animal of the week, honor of the NBA playoffs and for like a 10th consecutive year or whatever not having a really a team to root for my Chicago Bulls sucking ass we're rooting for the Minnesota Timberwolves and so I thought a good animal of the week this week would be the Timberwolf and now when
Starting point is 00:16:43 I Google this my thought was okay is the Timberwolf because you don't it's not really like a common name where you'd say oh yeah I went to the petting zoo and I saw a beautiful Timberwolf in the same way you would see a pig or a cow or a bison or a Portuguese manawar. So I'm thinking, is it actually a, is a timber wolf a real animal, we actually calling it that, or is it one of these like made-up animals, like a seahawk? There is no seahawk. It's an osprey. And I would venture an argument that the Seattle Ospreys would be a much more badass name than the Seahawks.
Starting point is 00:17:21 As much as I love alliteration, Ospreys is called. cool man so i looked it up on wikipedia and timberwolves are the accepted or is an accepted name but the interesting thing is it's not the main one it's one of those alternative names but i looked this up and i copy and pasted it so i wouldn't i wouldn't forget so the like actual name the most common name is the eastern wolf canis lupus lycanon sounds like a freaking harry potter professor also known as the Timberwolf, Algonquin Wolf, and Eastern Timberwolf. Now, if your main name's going to be Eastern Wolf, and you could also be known as the Timberwolf,
Starting point is 00:18:04 do we really need an Eastern Timberwolf? At that point, if you're a Timberwolf, ergo de facto, you're also an Eastern Timberwolf. So it seems like an unnecessary distinction. My question is they're really leaning into this eastern angle. I mean, east of what? If you're in Minnesota, I mean, I guess you're east of like the Rocky Mountains proper. I'm thinking up into Canada now.
Starting point is 00:18:30 Canadian Shield, which is not a show starring Canadian Michael Chickles. It's a rock formation, actually. Not really a rock formation, more of like an underground. I think it's the Canadian Shield because it's rocky and it's bad for growing stuff. And it's pretty much oil there. That's why it's the Edmonton Oilers. It's such a shame. It's a beautiful sprawling, well, it's not really sprawling.
Starting point is 00:18:59 Spread out area, which could be great for agriculture. But, man, you get 20 miles away from Lake Superior. All of a sudden it's just rock. I don't know if it's basalt, limestone, granite. Probably granite. That seems right. But yeah, the timber wolf is a real thing. I should have come up with more in timber wolves.
Starting point is 00:19:22 I think they're kind of cool. Maple, we got Maple over here. Dude, come over here for interview with a dog because you're basically a wolf. She won't even look at me. Mom went to get a pedicure, and the whole hour she was gone, Maple's just sitting on the floor, staring at the door, and now Mom has come home. She's in the bathroom.
Starting point is 00:19:43 Maple sitting on the floor, staring at the bathroom door. Just laser-focused, locked in. Now she's whining. Sounds just like a timber wolf. Maple, if you were on the Canadian Shield, not the spin-off show, but the actual show, or the actual ecosystem, your wines would give you away so fast.
Starting point is 00:20:07 Dude, these eastern timber wolves would snatch you up for breakfast. Just a tiny little snack, like your pup cup this morning, or your duck jerky, or your other duck jerky. That's what I got in Timberwolves. Let's keep this moving here. So it is the NFL draft. We are in the middle of round, about to get into round two. It's about, day two is about to start.
Starting point is 00:20:31 Day one is just round one. Day two is rounds two and three. Day three tomorrow, Saturday is rounds four, five, six, seven. Six, seven. And I'm excited, despite the Vikings making a very iffy pick, because last year didn't get to follow along too much because it was our wedding weekend, if you can believe it, one year anniversary.
Starting point is 00:20:52 one year of merry podcasts how do you like that so this year i get to be a little bit more plugged in although i had a late work event last night that cut into my viewing and we've got a wedding tomorrow congratulations to the newlyweds soon to be newlywes that's completely taken me out of rounds four or five six and seven so really tonight's my my shot that's why we we got to end the podcast before too long here i pulled up and i've done a little i did a little bit of bit of perusing of the list. This is just a list of names from CBS sports. So these are guys who are in the NFL draft this year, starting, you know, all the way with, with, you know, top prospects who were drafted last night. But I did want to mention there's some great, as we're getting into this,
Starting point is 00:21:41 some great names that fall into a couple categories that come to my mind. First, pod racing names, and we'll try to call these out as we see them. But, yeah, I don't think there's anyone in here named Subolba or Tinto Perlis, but there's, or Dudbolt, but there's some good ones in that similar ilk, ILK. And then this is a real deep cut that only probably seven people in the universe even know about, but this game Mini Car Racing had a, it was a PC CD-ROM game from 25 years ago. And the names of your competitors in this game had, I don't know, I don't know, just like a particular flare to it.
Starting point is 00:22:23 It's kind of like horse naming. You can't really, or what's the thing from, you know, the 1990s and whoever was, Bob Dole or whatever, defining pornography. It's like you can't define it, but you know it when you see it. That's kind of the deal with these names being good mini car racing or pod racer names. You just know it when you feel it. And that reminds me as we get into our list of names here. Final call. This is post time.
Starting point is 00:22:50 This is, you start to see the horses getting into their corrals or whatever, and you get really excited because you see the first one going, and then you realize it's still like eight more minutes of all of them getting in. And then there's always one horse who's like bucking bronco and causing a bunch of mischief, so they got to bring in the three other bitches to calm them down. Then finally it's ready to go, and they turn it over to that one guy, Larry something, who calls all the Kentucky derbies, but he only announces, they bring this guy out of the closet, not the gay closet, just the work closet.
Starting point is 00:23:24 They bring this guy out. There's probably good history or lore on this. We should explain it next week if we have time. This guy who just calls the two minutes of the Kentucky Derby and then hands it right back over to Mike Tariko or whatever. And that's all he ever does, which I'm sure he's a legendary like horse broadcaster kind of thing. He's probably like 85 years old now. So I have no complaints about that. Just saying this guy's living his best life.
Starting point is 00:23:49 It's literally like the last horse is going in, and then Mike Tarrico or whomever is like, and now we'll turn it over to Larry Oglethorpe for the call of the 177th Kentucky Derby. And then this guy does his great call, and it's literally a two-minute race, and then he turns it back over, and then the studio comes back in.
Starting point is 00:24:10 This guy is just killing it. He's making, like, a million dollars an hour. Probably more than that. He works for two minutes. How did that? Oh, that's where we're at as far as the year-long progression goes. We're getting ready to hand it over to Gary Oglethorpe or whatever his name is. We got one week until our 10th annual, sorry, 9th annual, getting ahead of myself. Beantown podcast, Horse Names Special.
Starting point is 00:24:42 And I can't pinpoint it. It's going to be Thursday or Friday next week, one of those two days. So be on the lookout for that. We want to get in before the Kentucky. Derby. You can email us your horse names. Last call, Beantown Podcasts at Yahoo.com or text them to me, whatever. I haven't actually seen the entry list of this year's Kentucky Derby. I don't usually study it any particular way until actual day of because they don't bet on horse racing or anything like that. But that's really kind of the side show at this point. It's sort of,
Starting point is 00:25:19 you know, horse name special number one. And then Kentucky Kentucky Derby and anything else is sort of after that. Let's look at our names here. Number two on the CBS Sports Big Board. I love this because it's Ruben Bain Jr. and it just feels like Ruben Bain would be a good name of a murderer, right? And turns out this guy killed that lady in a car crash. So it suits him just about right.
Starting point is 00:25:43 Did he get drafted by the... I thought it was the Chiefs, but I don't think it actually was. I'm just looking at the prospects here. I don't have the actual results. I don't remember who took Rubin Bain. Oh, the Bucks did it. I think. Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
Starting point is 00:25:56 murderers, swindlers, pirates, he'll fit right in. We keep going down here. I want to give a shout out to number nine, Sunny Stiles. You just don't see a lot of Sunnies. You got Sunny and Cher, sunny,
Starting point is 00:26:13 I don't know, Godfather, Sonny Corleone, and now you got Sunny Stiles. Not only is his first name Sunny, S-O-N-N-Y, which is kind of cool, but last name, Stiles, that's going to look good on the back of a jersey, man. Sunny Stiles went to the commanders, I think, if I remember correctly. I like this. At number 12, I think this guy got drafted by the Browns, maybe.
Starting point is 00:26:40 Kevin Concepcion, also known as KC. Concepcion, but didn't get drafted by the chiefs, which is a big miss for them. But I just like the last name Concepciona. This guy's named after having seen. sex. It's pretty cool. It's like the Spanish version of having sex. Good for you, Kevin. Number 14 on the big board, this guy got drafted. This is who the chiefs traded up for. He's a cornerback. I just wanted to mention this because I've never seen this first name in my life and I don't think I could have come up with this combination of letters if you gave me a million years. Mansour,
Starting point is 00:27:16 M-A-N-S-O-O-R. It almost feels, I don't know what the origins of Mansour are, but we were talking about potential Pakistani action in the NFL, if you were going to draft the guy who was Pakistani, I would give it like 700 to 1 odds, if not higher, that his first name would be Mansour. That kind of seems like a Pakistani Urdu, excuse me, inspired type of name. Mansour, not the last name so much, Delane. Excuse me, it means of the lane. But interesting nonetheless from LSU. There's a whole sweet, S-U-I-T-E of Tongan-type names that aren't quite as simple as the rock
Starting point is 00:27:59 that I'm not even going to try to pronounce here, but just as one example, because there's a number of these types of guys. Olayva Vega-I-Wain. It's not as fun as John Christie, Kaimi, some dolphin noise, says Fairbairn. If you've never looked at the name of the Houston Texans at this point, pretty long-time kicker, he just goes by Kaimi Fairbairn, K-A-A-a-a-a-posophie I-M-I. But his actual middle name, or his actual, yeah, middle name is like legitimately 20 letters. I'm not exaggerating. It's insane.
Starting point is 00:28:42 So I try to draft Kaimi Fairbairn on my team as frequently, and my fantasy team is frequently, as possible. One, because he's good and he kicks indoors. C.J. Stroud can't finish a drive to save his life. And the name is just fun. I try to type it out at least once a year. Keeps my finger sharp in typing class. Wide receiver Mackay Lemon, the Eagles drafted him. He's got an uphill battle of the climb. When your last name is Lemon,
Starting point is 00:29:13 you're going to be under the microscope. Any mistake made, they're going to call you a lemon like a car Mackay Lemon All right Let's keep going here Oh why did our list end at 20 We got to click see more
Starting point is 00:29:31 Who else here Well there's a lot But shout out San Diego cornerback This guy got drafted late last night I don't remember to wear But Chris Johnson And no he's not
Starting point is 00:29:44 The Chris Johnson He ran for 2,000 yards With the Tennessee Titans It's a completely different Chris Johnson shout out who else we got there are some other good names we're just going to have to do some scrolling number 37
Starting point is 00:29:58 edge from Oklahoma it's a it's a very kind of bland name after the first initial but I did want to point that out are Mason Thomas now first things first I feel like it's very uncommon to see like the one initial at the start and then the two more names like that's a classic you know Oppenheimer had that didn't he It was like, I don't know, something, something Oppenheimer or like J. Edgar Hoover.
Starting point is 00:30:24 So that in and of itself feels like an anomaly in the 21st century. But the cooler thing is usually when you get a one letter shortening like that, it's something like J or, I don't know, something that's not R. What could the R stand for? It could be anything. Rubin Rutledge It's got to be some sort of
Starting point is 00:30:52 You know like Nixon's middle name was Millhouse And you're kind of like I didn't know that was a name in any capacity Or Mansour What if it was Richard Mansour Nixon That'd be cool Well the R could
Starting point is 00:31:03 It's got to be some sort of old-fashioned thing Watch it be something really basic Like Robert or something In that case we could call him Bobby Mason Thomas Would have gotten drafted last night Probably if his name was Bobby Mason Thomas Thomas. Next up, number 40, or, yeah, number 40 here. I love this one. Jeremy Bernard.
Starting point is 00:31:26 That's right. It sounded like I slurred my words, but that's actually Jeremy Bernard. First name, G-E-R-M-I-E, as in first name, germ, and then they wanted to have some fun with it, so they added a little I-E at the end, so Jeremy Bernard. Kind of reminds you of classic Cincinnati Bengals third down pass catching back Giovanni Bernard. But this isn't quite all. It's like we ran out of syllables halfway through typing. This is Jeremy Bernard. I've never seen someone called Jeremy before.
Starting point is 00:32:02 Now I'm thinking about the Mucinex, that green guy. Like if you ask me what's his full official, like what's his actual just like first name that we know by colloquially? I say, oh, his name is Jeremy. And then you go down a deep dive rabbit hole on Wikipedia and you find out his like actual name is Jeremy Bernard. you know, like, I didn't know this guy had an actual full name. Kind of like how the Monopoly Man is something.
Starting point is 00:32:27 He's got a full name. Or the Gerber baby has a full name. The Mucenex guy has a full name, and he's getting drafted tonight out of Alabama, Jeremy Bernard. There you go. Let's see. There's some other ones interesting here. Denzel Boston is a wide receiver who's going to get drafted today out of Washington. Any other cool, like, city names that you can think of that NFL players are named after.
Starting point is 00:33:00 I never heard of a Chicago getting drafted or a New York. You don't hear about Jeremy, New York at all. Miami haven't seen. Never seen a last name Seattle. I don't know. Boston's up there as far as, like, major cities. I guess Austin is a classic. Uh, the, the origins of Boston has a, a, uh, a name interesting, because, you know, the, the, the T-O-N shorting indicates it's a, you know, it's like if you were going from Jeremy to Jermie, it's like T-O-W-N to T-O-N, but then who was boss?
Starting point is 00:33:37 I don't know, like boss Nass, Star Wars bounty hunter from Empire Strikes Back. That's not who boss Nass is. That's Bosque. Uh, boss Nass is the Gungan leader from Phantom Menace. Misa no likea da Nabusa Between Gungans and Pod Racing A lot of good phantom menace action Today on the podcast Let's keep it going here Let's try to be a little bit more selective
Starting point is 00:34:02 And come up with some cool ones Kristen Miller I only mentioned because I don't think I've ever met a male in my life name Kristen But good for his parents Going Against the Grain Kristen Miller Genesis Smith, a safety out of Arizona.
Starting point is 00:34:26 It's not the last biblical name on this list. I'll tell you that much. Not because number 63 is Malachi Fields. 65, I haven't even had to scroll yet. 65 Emmanuel Pregnon from Oregon. And then the streak ends at 66, J. Sean Barham. I don't recall the apostle J. Sean. But he's 6-4-240.
Starting point is 00:34:49 So if he really wanted to be an apostle, let him. But we're right back to it because at number 70, Ephesians, Prysock. Talk about a first name I've never seen before, Ephesians. And you think, oh, that's kind of funky. Good luck topping that. Well, let me introduce you to the last name, P-R-Y-S-O-C-K. It's like you're doing your laundry and your last little sock gets stuck in the washing machine or something. You've got to pry that sock out of there. Ephesians Pryso. I don't know. I got my wife next to me.
Starting point is 00:35:29 What do you think about naming our kid, Ephesians? No? But you probably like Prysock. Prysoc Ramos Furness, P-R-F, due date, TBD. Back to the Bible because at number 74, we're just on a run of biblical proportions here, Zachariah Branch. No, these are football player names who are getting drafted this weekend.
Starting point is 00:35:54 These are not the horse names. Although Ephesians Prysock would be a great horse name. We should try to find it in this list who would be the best crossover horse name. I don't know. We've already mentioned a couple solid, but we'll keep going. We'll try to find something really funky here. We're kind of on a biblical run right now. I like this number 68 out of Miami.
Starting point is 00:36:17 Now I'm getting excited for Happy Hour. Keonti Scott. Reminds me of Silence of the Lamps. ate him with a glass of Kianti and a side of fava beans. I'm having an old friend for supper. I think that's what Anthony Hopkins says. Kianti Scott. Spelled differently, but I didn't want to lead with that.
Starting point is 00:36:37 K-E-I-O-N-T-E. Out of Miami. Keanti Scott. I do want to give a shout-out to TCU Senior coming in a number 76, Bud Clark, because it's just in a world of wild names, Ephesians, and a bit of, things and prysox just bud clark i can't imagine my baby being born and just me just being like yeah let's do bud excuse me no shade to it i just it would never come to my mind to say oh yeah
Starting point is 00:37:12 this kid looks like a bud this is a fun one 78 edge rusher out of texas tech first name is kind of funky last name throws you totally off the scent first name ramello i was like okay that's unusual but it's fine. R-O-M-E-L-L-O. The last name, height, H-E-I-G-H-T. Like, where did, what happened,
Starting point is 00:37:35 etymologically, historically, historically, 55,000 years ago, however long it was, where this person was just like, you know, you look like a tall person,
Starting point is 00:37:46 so we're going to call you height. I've never seen that one as a last name before. That's pretty wild. Let's keep it going here. Find some, other fun ones. This one isn't his actual name, but his nickname is great. So I got to point it out.
Starting point is 00:38:03 Number 89, Dominique Orange, but his nickname Big Citrus. He's 6-2-3-22. That man can pack a punch. Big Citrus. We're moving ahead here. There's another biblical name. Well, we got back-to-back. We got, well, three out of four ain't bad, actually.
Starting point is 00:38:26 Zion Young, and then Elijah Surratt and Eli. Hyden Reich. Good biblical run. 105 Rayshon Benny. Benny is a great name. Benny and the Jets. Benny and the Jets. We got the Rivers twins back to back here. I don't know if they actually are twins,
Starting point is 00:38:50 but they're both 5'10. They're both seniors, so maybe Eric Rivers, why I was here from Georgia Tech and Chandler Rivers, cornerback, Duke. how do you like that this one is fun out of Penn State the senior edge rusher
Starting point is 00:39:09 Danny Dennis Sutton but Danny spelled D-A-N-I which I feel like you know there's certain names where it's like they sound the same but you spell it one way it's male
Starting point is 00:39:18 the other way it's female like Aaron is a classic example so it'd be and I I've seen it go this way actually the Vikings had a guy named Aaron Henderson his brother EJ played as well
Starting point is 00:39:30 but E-R-I-N I don't think have ever seen it go the other way where you have a female a r o n speaking of biblical names but this is a this is new ground danny d a n n y you see all the time as a males name short for daniel but i don't know if i've ever seen d a d a n i as a shortening for a male name so good for you danny dennis sutton uh number one uh 110 florida senior jake slaughter i only mention because i love how the word slaughter does comes nowhere close to rhyming with the word laughter, despite being one letter apart.
Starting point is 00:40:11 Slaughter laughter. There's a thinker for you. Let's see. We're getting into the mid-100s here. I think there were a couple others that I wanted to clue in on here, but we are starting to get into new ground. There's a tight end out of Georgia, a senior Oscar Delp. DELP, it's like Yelp, but with the D.
Starting point is 00:40:33 Delp. And let's see. Let's see if we can find a handful of other fun ones. David Guesta. Kentucky Senior, defensive lineman. Translates to David. I like, basically.
Starting point is 00:40:58 Takario Davis. Kind of reminds me of Taco Charlton. We got spinning dogs over here in the circus, spinning for chattaca. cheese. That'll be Maple's charity night, spinning for cheese. Oh, no more spins. Well, maybe. She's very confused. Doesn't know what to do. Story of her life. Now she's pawing. Now she's not doing a good job. All right, we're running out of steam here. Let's find one or two more good ones. Demetrius Crownover.
Starting point is 00:41:29 That's a fun name. Offensive tackle. Get a load of this, literally. 6-7-336. Holy moly. You got to like this one. Penn State Senior, Zachie Wheatley. You don't see as many Zachies these days. But good for Mr. and Mrs. Wheatley for going all in and saying, we're going to name you Zachy Wheatley. This one I see come up,
Starting point is 00:41:54 and then there was another one of a similar ilk. Second time we've used ilk today, but I wanted to mention it. Number 159 is a Notre Dame cornerback, a senior. His name is Devontas Smith, which if you're like, there's already a Devontas Smith. Heisman winner, wide receiver for the Eagles.
Starting point is 00:42:13 Yes, this is another one. I also know there's a Justin Jefferson in this class, who you probably know as a Vikings wide receiver. While now there's a clone, seven years later. And that's going to bode well, actually, leading us in a moment into our trivia question, which is all about duplicate names. So we'll get there in one moment here.
Starting point is 00:42:35 Whiskey's all gone as of that sip, which is always a good. indicator that it's time to go. I'll be quick here. Just a couple of the things I see that I want to point out. This guy, 164, Mississippi Senior Defense Alignment is 6-8-3-30, and his first name is Zavian, but it's Z-X-A-V-I-A-N. I don't know how we got there, but Zabian's a big boy.
Starting point is 00:43:05 Caden Curry reminds me of the multiple times we went to get Indian on our honeymoon. Delicious. Isaiah World. This guy just covers the entire planet. And as we approach 200 here, anything else that we really want to touch on. This is a fun one. L.T. Overton, but he's not a left tackle. He's a defense alignment.
Starting point is 00:43:28 So really missed opportunity there. A quick little biblical run, Hezekiah Masses, cornerback from Cal and Bishop Fitzgerald. Safety from USC. I know he said like one or two, like 10 ago, but this is just so much fun. Because these are all names. I'm going through this list fresh. I saw the first like 50, 60 maybe.
Starting point is 00:43:52 And now there's Justin Jefferson at 220. I had been aware of him from past mock drafts. I don't know. We're into the mid-200s now. Is there anything else here that is really going to be super fun that we want to call out? Let's do a couple more scrolls. going once Diego pounds that's fun
Starting point is 00:44:13 P-O-N-D-S going once going twice I think we're good we'll pick one more last name one like last finish with this kind of name and then we're good there's another Romello by the way
Starting point is 00:44:28 all right if you want oh I was going to say we'll do the last two and I'm done scrolling 260 this could be a good alter ego for me out of Boston College Senior Edge quintavius Hutchins and then the last name on my screen here as I stopped scrolling. 266 linebacker out of Texas A&M Senior Scooby Williams. So there you go.
Starting point is 00:44:51 There's some of our top names from the NFL draft this year. Who's going to get picked? Who's not? Tune in to the NFL draft rounds, 2 and 3 starting in about 20 minutes here. And then day three rounds 4 through 7 tomorrow. Our final thing here, I will say thank you. Thank you to our sponsors. Home Pride, Oregon, Cuts by Q, Samson Q2U series, and Beantown Sportsbook.
Starting point is 00:45:16 Thank you for supporting this show. Without further ado, let's get to our trivia question of the week. So I'll be up front. If you're not plugged into the NFL, you're not going to get this one. So apologies, but we won't linger on it too long. Do you have to, do you have to, they have to let it linger? I kind of did that with like a British accent, but they're Irish, right? The cranberries, Rip, what was her name?
Starting point is 00:45:46 Jessica or something? It wasn't Jessica, but you know what I mean. Dolores, Gladys, something like that. Do you have to let it linger? All right, here's your trivia question. This player name, we're talking about two separate players here with the same name. went exactly number seven overall in back-to-back NFL drafts, 2018 and 2019.
Starting point is 00:46:16 Tell me the name of the players. So again, there's two players. They had the same name. They're still both active. And in 2018 and in 2019, they went exactly seven overall. And there are a number of hints we can do. But before I jump into that, let me let it linger for you.
Starting point is 00:46:41 NFL buffs. So same named player. No relation. Excuse me. This is not a, I don't know, I guess, isn't there, like, I was going to say George Foreman.
Starting point is 00:46:58 Does George Foreman have multiple kids named George Foreman, or am I making that up? I don't know. Hint number one, the colleges they attended. The 2018 player, this is a big give. giveaway. Wyoming, 2019 player less of a giveaway, Kentucky, I believe.
Starting point is 00:47:18 Hint to the teams they were drafted to in 2018. Again, this is seven overall, so this is the seventh pick of the first round. 2018, the Buffalo Bills, 2019, Jacksonville, Jaguars. And then final hint, probably less of a hint and more just like a clarification, so no one comes at me. in case you already figured it out and you're saying like oh they're not exactly the same well here's my final hint the player taken in the second draft so the 2019 draft that player has since hyphenated his last name so they no longer have the exact same like professional name on their profile the second player added a hinds in front of the other last name
Starting point is 00:48:04 So if you haven't figured out, the answer is Josh Allen. There actually is, I believe, a moment in history where Josh Allen, the defensive end, who was drafted in 2019 to the Jaguars, drafted Josh Allen, or drafted, a sacked Josh Allen, the Buffalo Bill's quarterback, of course, who was drafted seventh overall by the Buffalo bills in 2018. So there you go. That's our trivia question of the week. that's what I had for you.
Starting point is 00:48:34 For all of us here at the Bean Town Podcast, I want to thank you for tuning in. Hope you enjoy the draft. Hope you enjoy your spring weather. I'm going to skedaddle here. I'm not going to linger anymore. And, yeah, that's what I have for you. So I hope that you stay safe.
Starting point is 00:48:51 I hope that you stay sane. My name is Quinn Davis-Fern. His horse name special next week. We'll see you then. Bye-bye.

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