Beantown Podcast - World War II Hot Takes (06072024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: June 7, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE with some hot takes about Trump's 0 for 34 streak, UFC fights vs NASCAR, and some of history's greatest WWII films. Also this was episode 333 so that's cool

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast for Friday, June 7th, 2024. We're into June, halfway through basically season seven, year seven of Quinn David Furness Presents the Beantown Podcast. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn and this is my program. Quinn David Furness Presents the Beantown Podcast. I am the host, creator, the driver. Not only the driver, and you know the credits is always the big stars, like assistant to Mr. Nicholson assistant to miss Streep Madame Streep so I'm my own assistant right what's that old timey song on my

own grandpa we used to have the sheet music for I don't even really know anything about the song I'm my own grandpa. Intramusic by yours truly also. Okay, here we go. Let's learn something. So a little bit of background context. We had sheet music for this. I still remember this Wikipedia page does not have the image for it here. Whatever image was printed on that sheet music, I don't know. But we had it, and it was one of the many things that we had sitting in our piano bench. In the bench, you lift, you get up, you lift it up, lift up the lid, and there it is. And I have some experience with that this week. I put together a piano bench that has a little compartment there that can put all sorts of sonatas and etudes

and impromptus, I-M-P-R-O-M-P-T-U-U. That was a weird finish. You got the just impromptu, maybe a polonaise, a Polish dance, right? So we had sheet music from I'm My Own Grandpa. I can't imagine the sheet music was that interesting because I feel like most novelty songs from the 1940s are probably using about four chords, maybe four and a half. But here we go.

It's a novelty song written by Dwight Latham and Mo Jaffe. What a name, Mo Jaffe. M-O-E-J-A-F-F-E. Two words, Mo and Jaffe. Also known for Bell Bottom Trousers and the Gypsy and My Soul. So the one downside of the janky intro music where I'm literally on my phone playing it through a Google Drive file and trying to pick it up on the microphone. It's like it's either right next to the microphone or you're not hearing at all because this Samson Q2U series needs you to be up close and personal. So that was probably going in and out here. I Am My Own Grandpa was performed by Lonzo and Oscar in 1947, an American country music duo founded by Lloyd Lonzo George and Rollin Oscar Sullivan. This guy's first name was Rollin, not Rollin's,

Rollin. That's crazy. Well, this is an interesting thing. George, so this is, again, where, wait, this was not planned in any capacity. And we have show notes that we're going to get to in a second here. Lloyd, so it's Lloyd, Lonzo and Oscar. George, who is Lonzo departed in 1950. And Lonzo was later portrayed and not replaced, but portrayed by Johnny Sullivan, and by David Houghton until the 80s when the band retired. So it's like an old-timey like Branson thing. It's not like here's these two guys and our name is the band and then when someone leaves you know we get new names. It's literally

like the their characters that they're playing. I don't even have a good comparison for that. Imagine if, imagine if Mick Jagger left the Rolling Stones and they hired Adam Lambert to play Mick Jagger. It's not like, oh and here's our new singer of the Rolling Stones, Adam Lambert. It's like, no this is Mick Jagger. It's just portrayed by someone who's not originally Mick Jagger. That's Lonzo and Oscar. Anyways, excuse me, I'm My Own Grandpa is a novelty song performed by Lonzo and Oscar in 1947 about a man who through an unlikely but legal combination of marriages Roy Moore would love this, becomes stepfather to

his own stepmother by tacitly dropping the step modifiers he becomes his own grandfather. And if you want to we're're not going to spend time on this. Oh, the Rolling Stones are mentioned in this song. I didn't even look at that beforehand. What a poll. Out of all the rock bands I could have mentioned, sometimes your mind is just wired that way. I'm not going to go through the whole genealogy here.

There is a great visualization in the Wikipedia article. Nice little JPEG file that shows it off. And then when you click on it, you just get a, it's the Wikipedia version of the spinning blue circle, except it's like a bar with a little blue thing, like you're playing snake that just runs back and forth across the screen. So not super helpful, the visualization.

Then when you hit the back button, nothing happens. We've got to get out of that. What is happening? What's going on? How are you? Listener discretion is advised when you're listening to Quinn David Furness Presents, the Bean Town podcast.

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Again, not to pinpoint our exact location here, but I got a nice view of O'Donovan's, a lovely little neighborhood bar and grill with an outdoor patio space, a covered patio, thing that you can open up with, nice little garage doors. The only reason I mentioned this wasn't on my show notes but I wanted to bring up the fact that O'Donovan's as we learned very abruptly there's a better adjective than I'm looking for but Monday night is motorcycle Mondays at O'Donovan's so if

you are you want to ride a fat hog and I guess it could be a motorcycle, that sounds kind of like Craigslist Personals, something you would see on... Rest in peace, Craigslist Personals. That was all the rage. You wanted to get laid back in the early 2000s. You just went to Craigslist Personals and you rode the hog, as we would call it back in college. No, it actually is Motorcycle Mondays at O'Donovan's. And I had seen that. We moved over here.

I was like, OK, let me peruse the website. Let's see what we're dealing with here. And then I've been to O'Donovan's probably once or twice in the two and a half weeks that we've lived here. And I've seen the signs here, I'm like, oh, that's kind of interesting. What do you, so, you know, you see a sign for motorcycle Mondays, what do you think happens? Well, it's probably a bunch of people on motorcycles congregate and then presumably when they leave, it's going to be really loud because people on motorcycles,

no offense to any beanheads who also like to ride the rails, as they would call it. But I feel like people on motorcycles frequently, this isn't any different from someone who doesn't have a spoiler on their car or something, just to be cool. But they like to make a lot of noise and make sure that you can hear them making a lot of noise. Well, when you live not above Odonovans, but near Odonovans and it's summer's summer it's

the dead of June right dog days the solstice is only what two weeks away here that's pretty crazy and it's motorcycle Mondays and people start peeling out at like 8 p.m. and they they don't stop peeling until like 1030 you hear everything and it makes your episode of Mad Men challenging to listen to especially because it's, Mad Men's not streaming anywhere unless you like pay extra on Amazon Prime and hey, I'm already paying something.

I'm not giving you extra to watch Mad Men. So of course these sites are either like Korean subtitles or no subtitles at all that you find it on and you just gotta kind of live with it So we really had to practice our active listening But we've gotten to season 2 of Mad Men and I feel like I still know what's going on So that's a win in and of itself But hey motors to put a put a dovetail on this speaking of dovetail dovetail brewery right down the street here to wrap this up Wrap it up our featured

featured song of the week George Michael and Elton John featuring George Michael. If you want George Michael some great falsetto action rest in peace, wrap her up. It's also an extended remix and there's a remix that's six minutes long that I have on YouTube and then they're not well not me but someone and then an extended remix that's 10 minutes too long. And I'm usually all for like extend those remixes as far as you can go but the 10 minutes is too much so I'll stick to six minutes. But at the end of rap we're up there naming all these babes basically throughout the 20th century and in in the extended, in the six minute version, you get extra names. It's great to look them up, because you're like,

I've never heard of these people. It's a bunch of, let's see, wrap her up. Let's read it. To wrap up Motorcycle Mondays, it is actually, if you want to go to O'Donovan's, and you want your crew trying to find your sense of belonging if you're a motorcyclist new to Chicago go check it out but try to be quiet as you leave okay here we go wrap her up

lyrics these are just the some of the names that are mentioned at the end of this song you email us let me know how many of these people you know there's a lot of them so I'm gonna're going to buzz through it. We haven't even gone to the show yet. Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Bridgette Bardot, Doris Day, Billie Jean, Samantha Fox, Joan Collins, Kiki D, Katherine Hepburn, Vivian Leigh, Grace Jones, Priscilla Presley, Vanessa Williams, Dusty Springfield, Nancy Reagan,

Rita Hayworth, Petula Clark, Julie Andrews, Superwoman, Annie Lennox. I can't believe Annie Lennox made it. That's cool. Mada Hari, Anuska Hemple, Shirley Temple, Talula Bankhead, Linda Lovelace, Little Ava, Natasha Kinski, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Miss Pat Vernes, Elsie Tanner. And so, yeah, if you've ever wanted to listen to a song where

all of those females are mentioned, go ahead and check it out. Wrap her up. OK, well, we got to, gosh, we could do a whole show on this, right? But this week on the campaign trail, I mean, it was one week ago, eight days actually, it was Thursday. Today's Friday, where I was in the car, along with

some good buds going down to Nashville for a bachelor party. So we drove there and back, eight hours each way. Well, this, we were talking, or I mentioned earlier about mentioning Rolling Stones, and then they ended up being in that Wikipedia article, believe it or not, for a song from the 40s. This is the same kind of telekinetic craziness. We were in the car. I'm in the backseat riding.

And my friend is like, well, what's going on with that Trump trial? And I've been following it for the most part, just kind of checking in day by day. And I was like, oh, you know, this was like, because when they went to the verdict, it was already like 6 PM Eastern time. So it was about 5 PM Central.

I was like, oh, you know, like, juries are deliberating. They'd been deliberating for whatever it was, like three days, something like that. So I was like, oh, yeah, you know, we'll probably stick with this into next week and maybe get a verdict next week. And I was like, you know, let me go to my phone and check. And all of a sudden, I go to CNN.com,

and it's literally like verdict reached, counts expected to be read soon, or whatever it was. And literally, we turn on the CNN stream, or NPR, or whatever we're listening to. And it was like 30 seconds before they started reading the counts, all 34 of them. Just the impeccable timing of that. So that's what this week on the campaign trail,

first ever president to get indicted for felonies. Although, hey, if Ford, here's a hypothetical for the history heads out there. If Nixon had not gotten pardoned, would he have gotten by Ford, is that like a felony that he could have potentially been convicted of? I feel like it probably is, right?

Like presidential spying, that feels pretty felonious, felonious monk. If you're curious what we're sipping on, it's Maker's Mark, and I did not buy it myself when we went to Nashville. There was a cornucopia of food and beverage, And so when the time came to leave, we were the only ones who drove everyone else flow, flow, everyone else flew, flow, flew, flown, flan, flan. We've talked about that on the show before. It's like Tres Leches, right? Tres, Tres Way, great punter, NFL punter. So we had to take all of this, you know, alcohol back. We, and then we divided it up three ways, the three guys who were in the car, some Conas, some Casamigos, some Makers Mark, a whole thing of White Claw unopened. But yeah, so Trump's 0 for 34 on the felony counts.

Tough, tough look. Sentencing scheduled for, I think, it was like July 11th is last I saw. Obviously, they aren't going to appeal it. My question is, does saying, oh, we are going to appeal this, and I'm sure I could find the answer online, but does saying, oh, we're going to appeal this and I'm sure I could find the answer online, but does saying oh, we're gonna appeal this Push off that July 11th date

Inherently or does something have to happen? With a judge or something for the appeal to actually you know scooch that July 11th date back These are this is what the bean town research team should should get on and These are, this is what the Beantown research team should get on. And then I was looking this up earlier today, because I couldn't remember the first, so there's two presidential debates. We're supposed to get three and a VP debate. That's tradition. This year we're going to get two, and we can't even do a VP debate yet.

We have no idea. Election day is five months away, which is a little bit of time, but not a ton of time. And there's no VP pick yet for Trump. Apparently, it's narrowed down to four candidates. This is what I saw on Seth Meyers. So it's got to be true. No, for the most part, I trust Seth's research team. Because he's really into the politics.

And I feel like he wants to get this stuff right, or else he'd get slammed. What I saw, so it's Tim Scott, it's JD Vance, the hillbilly eligibility guy. Hillbilly eligibility. It is Marco Rubio, who I guess is like still around. I don't know, I felt like Marco Rubio peaked in like 2012, but here we are. And then the North Dakota governor, which is a change-up because it's not the South Dakota governor, that's Kristi Noem. Apparently the, you know, putting dogs out of their misery thing. Although they weren't, those dogs weren't that miserable, they were just a

little bit feisty. That kind of took her out of the running. Well, it's this North Dakota guy. And I had this epiphany last night, that's way too strong a word, but more of a thought. Maybe a hot take. We're gonna have some hot takes in a second here. But my hot take was, you know, I was watching this and there, Seth Meyers or whoever it was, Colbert, I don't know, they're showing clips of this North Dakota governor. I don't even recall his name. He's a nobody. No one's ever heard of the governor of North Dakota before, North Dakota governor. But my epiphany or thought was this.

He's just casually on Fox News, like their morning show, Making the Rounds in New York or whatever. Doug Berg on this is his name. And I'm just thinking, if you're a sitting governor, do you have time to like, well, obviously the answer is yes. But I just can't imagine being like, oh, I'm a governor of a state. Also, let me head to New York for a weekend or something.

Or even, it wasn't even a weekend, because this was this week, so like Tuesday. Let me head to New York on Tuesday from North Dakota. That's at least four flights. Just like sit in on Fox and Friends. Couldn't you be doing governor-related things? I guess when you are in Trump's Final Four to become governor, that gives you a little bit of a pass to go do a media tour.

I don't think he's promoting a book or something. I don't know. Hey, you know what? I don't want to get too into the weeds on this because maybe the guy took some of his PTO. What do you think the state of North Dakota's PTO rules are? Is it one of those cool tech companies where you get unlimited PTO? Or is it two weeks? Who knows? Maybe if you serve, maybe it's like my job, if you serve in your role for 10 years, then you unlock an extra week of PTO, which shout out to me, it was yesterday, I believe it was my five year anniversary at my company. And that puts me officially halfway, I'm halfway to the 10 year mark, which is huge. Once I hit 10 years, I get 10 year almost 10 year tenure. And that will be an extra week of PTO for the big dog. And we're talking bean town on tour, baby. All right. So that's really this week on the campaign trail. Not much from Biden. Well,

not much from Biden. Hunter Biden's trial is hot and heavy. The whole thing is like not that interesting to me because it sounds like basically what he's on trial for is lying on a gun application, which is like, it's not that sexy, sexy you know it's like if he did it great give him his sentence whatever if not then let's get on with it it's just not as interesting as spanking a porn star with a rolled up New York Times or whatever it was Esquire, Time, Vanity Fair I'm not good with my magazines. Ever since the TV guide cut me off after three or four issues. I haven't been caught up on my magazines. I wanted to mention this real quick, and I guess we're going to get into hot takes pretty soon here, and this is probably getting us started, but simple question. What's the deal with UFC? Ultimate Fighting Competition, whatever it is, right? So I bring this up.

We're in Nashville, basher party. We got a nice little outdoor space in the backyard of the Airbnb with a TV projector. And it's covered, tons of chairs and couches. And it's just a nice little southern, nice weather space next to the pool. And so we finally get a laptop working one of the days, hook up the HDMI, feel like I'm right at home.

And of course, you know, it's a bunch of, it's all the bros, right? There's like nine of us. So I'll say, we got to watch some sports. It was either sports or porn. And I voted for sports. And I was joking about the porn but there I have like I have never personally been asked by someone else in a social setting if I wanted to watch porn together but I feel like I've seen

that on like Reddit or just I don't even know like I've come across it where, like, I think this is not people my age, but more if you're like 16, 18, where people like, guys, I think is what I've heard, like watch porn together in a social setting. Not in like a weird age imbalance kind of thing where one guy is like making the move and the other guy in porn is like the gateway, but just like, oh yeah, let's turn on some porn, let's watch it. It sounds like the worst thing imaginable to me. Not something I'm particularly interested in. So we weren't watching porn. We turn on UFC. You get it through your ESPN Plus subscription, whatever it is. I don't know. I'd never watched UFC before. But I do feel like ESPN is probably one of my two main sports news sites between ESPN and CBSSports.com. I'm split pretty evenly. Just for general sports updates, ESPN is always pushing their UFC stuff, which is fine.

It's on their platform. I get it. Not arguing that. But I never, you know, I've probably watched five UFC fights in my life and we sat down and watched like two I think and I don't know I was bored as shit it was either three rounds five rounds maybe the female one was three rounds man was five but it was just like even when it's like oh this is gonna

this is getting good like here comes the action, you know, this one of the ladies is like pinned down on the ground, is like in a headlock or knee lock or something, I don't know any of the terms, half Nelson, full Nelson, half Windsor, full Windsor, whatever it is. It's just like, this is not that interesting to me. And then what I hate, and look, this is just me not having a keen eye I'm not a trained eye I don't know exactly what to be looking for but you watch it and it's like I don't know who's winning who's losing half the fights and same goes for boxing half the time I watch it I'm like I'm pretty sure this person is kicking ass then you see the score come out I was like oh no they got their ass

kicked I'm like what what was I watching that's just my general was I watching? That's just my general, very uninformed opinion. There's going to be a lot more uninformed opinions to wrap this show here as we get into D-Day and World War II. But I don't know. I was not entertained. It would put UFC for me personally a notch above IndyCar slash NASCAR. And look, I'm a bigger NASCAR fan,

apologist, whatever, than your average Joe. Half the races, I think, are interesting and have really cool moments. And then there are just so many NASCAR races. Same goes for IndyCar, where it's just like, well, this was three hours long. I learned nothing. It was not interesting.

It's just, it is what it is. That's just how it goes. That's NASCAR half the time. So I'd put it like a notch above that UFC for me, because it's just a little bit shorter, and at least you get to see some punching. And then like a notch below, like, I don't know, the final round of the leader of the Masters, which

is going to sound really sacrilegious to some people, because it's like the Masters, the biggest golf tournament in the world. And I played golf, actually, if you can believe it, the first time ever in my life a week ago today, not officially. Don't tell the, don't tell the the course rangers who are very anal at the Hermitage in East Nashville. Don't tell them that I played because technically I wasn't supposed to. And hey, I didn't, I played like

three holes, right? But I wasn't allowed to swing a club and I did a lot of times and I smoked a cigar and I left my last little fat butt piece somewhere in hole 16 so statue to limitations right guys? But to wrap it yeah oh we didn't yeah oh the masters like the masters is one of those things where if it's Sunday either if I'm at a bar, you know, Thursday through Sunday and it's on, like I will watch it a little bit, or if it's like Sunday and I'm at home, you know, final round, nothing's really going on, then yeah, I just kind of want to watch it. Just because of from like a social thing, a lot of people are gonna be talking about it, so it's kind of like, okay, let me always tune in to watch this,

see if anything crazy happens. But I have an appreciation for golf, especially after I played it for the first time a week ago. But watching it, I'm sorry, guys. Long as shit, not that exciting. I mean, we played, it was a longer course, the Hermitage, right next to Andrew Jackson's birth, or estate. I don't know if he was born there, it says estate.

But it took us five hours to play around. And look, we're not experts, but also we, it took us a lot more shots to get it onto the putting green than your average person, right? Or three over, four over, that sort of thing. But also we were just like, we don't care. Like, we're just gonna do this, be quick. So I feel like I actually, no, I should notice the golf cards were very advanced. They had screens in there and they would tell you like, you could play music, you could analyze your hole, but it would also tell you, are you above pace, at pace,

behind pace for the average person playing this course? And we finished, I think it was 20 minutes behind pace, we were like 5.02, something like that. So you're telling me the pace for this, to play this whole thing is 4.42. And man, when you start counting your hours in the day, that's a shit ton of time. I mean, because we get there, tea time was like 1 basically, maybe like 1230, I can't remember.

Let's say 1230. So we get there, you know, like 1145, because you don't know, traffic can be bad at Nashville. So you get there early, 11.45, you're tooling around, driving some balls in the practice area, practice zone. And after you finish, you've got to return your car, clean stuff off. Of course, it's the boys, got to grab a drink at the bar.

And so we didn't leave until like 6 o'clock. And so to be somewhere for like 6 to 6 and a half hours in the afternoon, granted beautiful day, beautiful course. I had a great time being out there. But it was like the first 12, 13 holes, I was like, this is kind of nice. Just kind of driving the cart. And then after that, you're into hour four and you're just kind of like, yeah, I think I'm ready to just like Go home like I've hit the ball. I've driven the cart Gone in the sand trap. I've gone into the water

Almost fed a raccoon. That was cool But my drinks are all out there's only so many white claws and are all out. There's only so many white claws and cheap beers you can smuggle in there, because you're not allowed to. So you've got to be very sneaky with it. Of course, the cart girl comes around, and she's got $8 make-a-lobes or something.

And you're just like, eh. I guess if I was rich enough to play this course, the Hermitage, then I would definitely be rich enough to pay for $8 light beers. But the fact of the matter is, I'm not. I was not rich enough to pay the $160 or whatever it was fee to play this course, nor wealthy enough to have taken a myriad number of golf lessons, nor wealthy enough to have my clubs. Let's put it this way, I am wealthy enough, but there's just a million other things I like to do in my life than spend all that money on golf.

So maybe a set of putt-putt clubs I would do that. We should definitely, before we wrap the show with our World War II films hot takes, bet you didn't think we were going to get there, but we are. If you saw the title, you're thinking, like, oh, I guess Quinn forgot to talk about what he was going to talk about today. No, we're going to get there.

We're going to blow through it quickly, because I'm getting hungry. It's 6, 08 PM. And then we've got a quick little trivia question. But of course, I should mention, oh, there's a truck doing a big, big turnaround here on Irving Park. This is always fascinating when you see these 18-wheelers do all sorts of backing ups. Oh, he's just doing a U-turn.

I thought he was going to, like, pull into the coffee shop and, like, do some sort of special after-hours delivery. No, he just did a U-turn in the middle of Irving Park Road. I don't know what that was all about. Good for him for the aggression though. We got to say thank you to our sponsors. So first and foremost, you know what? I have Google Docs open on my cell phone. That's what we're using for show notes today. So let's actually jump right into our actual ad reads here, which we do not get to that frequently. If I can find them. In the meantime, I'll let you know next week, it's going to be an early release episode. Have a, probably like Wednesday, potentially.

Maybe Thursday, if I can fit it in, but we've got a wedding on Friday. But we've got a wedding on Friday. And then we will be headed out to the West Coast. Rachel is going to the Pacific Northwest for the first time ever, which is exciting. A sister of the podcast, Abigail Furness, is graduating from college, which is extremely exciting on that Sunday, which is also Father's Day, which is why I mentioned this. Father's Day, you might be thinking, God, Quinn, you came up with Daddy Long Legs last year as a smash hit, its own remix was born out of it. How are you going to follow that up? Well, I got an answer for you. The song is called In Bunches, and by the time you get around to listening to this, maybe it

will be made live. I have not decided as of today, June 7th, 6 p.m., when I want to drop the song. We will plan to play it on live on air, not live, but the recording I created. It's a banger. I'll say this, with some of the recording technology issues I've had lately those come through in the performance, but I think it adds to that raw grittiness of it. So in Bunches, Father's Day 2024, Bean Town Podcast Year 7. Let's just say Peter Cetera, it's gonna be a tear in your eye,

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It's hard to recall because they jump around so much. But that was two of them. Just trying to see if I can remember anyone else. Oh, I did not run the category because one of the answers was who was Jacob's second wife. The answer is Rachel, which was embarrassing when Rachel and I were watching. We didn't know it because we were both brought up in the Christian faith. So, RIP to us. But I don't remember what the other ones were. All this is to say, when God speaks, he uses his Samson.

We didn't really get to, we didn't really bridge the gap there, but it is what it is. Okay, let's see here, we got one more for you here. Cuts by Q. Bob and Weave, we all know the hairstyle, we all love it. But how many Chicago-based independent barbers can actually give it to you the way you deserve? Enter Cuts by Q. It's a little like Enter Sandman, only different. Cuts by Q has been independently owned and operated since 1995 and is probably one of the better barbershops serving Chicago, Chicagoland area, Northwest

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That's cuts, Q-U-T-Z by Q at yahoo.com. I kind of jumped around there. You get the gist. Oh, and you need a fresh do something snappier news called the experts at cuts by q guts by q yeah i did a little uh shaving by q and it was a three pronged right front of the neck back of the neck side of the hair toes chest that's more than three prongs but it is what it is toes, chest, that's more than three prongs, but it is what it is. Okay, final thing here, I'm gonna bust through this, well I want to get to trivia as well, I

gotta work on my maker's mark. So D-Day was yesterday, June 6th, it was the 80th anniversary, Biden was out there, good stuff, good stuff. So I was actually, you know, earlier today I was at a conference, I was brainstorming, like what am I, what are we gonna do on the podcast today? And I ran through a couple ideas and then it hit me like World War II movies, then I was like let's power rank them, but then I thought there's so many of them and so many I haven't seen and I don't want to just talk about the ones I've seen, you know, by myself. It's not that exciting.

There's so many great ones that I have not seen. So I thought let's, let's look at a long list of World War II movies, and let's do some hot takes. So let's go through it. Some of these I could certainly elaborate on more. And some of them I'm just going to choose not to. But it is what it is. So here we go.

I'm not just going to buzz through them and not add any context. But I am going to move fairly quickly here. So number one, Zone of Interest? Too boring. If you don't know, Zone of Interest came out last year. I was nominated for Best Picture. It was, I believe, a foreign language film.

I think it was German. I mean, it was in German. It wasn't in English. But basically, it's about a family that lives right outside the walls of Auschwitz. And the dad is you know like a general there whatever and the whole point of the film was like here's how normal life you can lead well right on the other side of those walls

people are you know dying by the millions and like what do you do to like keep yourself sane and block out the noise literally and figuratively. The thing with Zone of Interest, it's like two hours and it's meant to be very just like mundane slice of life. You know, no music, nothing really happens to be perfectly honest. So for me, they took it too far. I'm all for like the slice of life, but it didn't really feel like there was much conflict. The conflict was just so toned down and internal. And not to say that the actors were bad, they certainly weren't, but it's like if you wanted a sense of like

conflict, obstacles, growth, resolution in any way, you really had to be just like a thousand percent laser focused into every single like facial expression and everything. Maybe it's because I hadn't edible before I started watching it but I never like to be like oh that movie was boring but Zone of Interest was a little bit too boring okay. Give us a little bit of spice would have gone a long way. Next up Dunkirk. It was great. I also wish that I knew what Tom Hardy was saying the entire film. And this is not unique to Tom Hardy nor Christopher Nolan,

AKA The Revenant. If you can watch The Revenant the first time and tell me exactly what Tom Hardy is saying, each of his lines, I remember the name of the character he portrays, he's the antagonist in the film. I'll give you at least five, five bucks, because I have no idea what Tom Hardy says in that movie, but I know he's a bad guy. And then Christopher Nolan, Tenet, does that ring a bell?

No idea what anyone is saying in Tenet. no idea what anyone is saying in Tenet. My least favorite thing of this like phase of Christopher Nolan, starting with probably Dark Knight Rises and certainly parts of Interstellar, Dunkirk, Tenet, and then Oppenheimer I thought was pretty good for the most part audio- audio wise but the audio mixing intentionally confusing Really irritating so love Dunkirk just no idea what Tom Hardy's saying inside that plane Next up. I don't know if Valkyrie is actually good if we just like It was good, but we don't really care We just forgot about it Tom Cruise of course the plot to assassinate Hitler is a big deal like 2007 or whatever it was

So I don't really know if it was good or not. I did see it at home. I just can't remember. All I know is it doesn't go so well for Tom Cruise and he gets severely executed at the end of the film. That's a tough, tough thing to pull off, folks. It's like the plot to kill Hitler. Well, what's the tension? I don't think it's going gonna work, right? If my memory serves me correctly, unless you want to do a little Quentin Tarantino rewriting of history. Probably the plot to assassinate Hitler is not gonna work. Next up, I've never seen Das Boot, and I hadn't really thought of it in years until I saw it on my Google search today. I just always assumed Das Boot was like that big stein thing that you order at a Oktoberfest or at a German restaurant like last shits in down the street from us. But no Das Boot

is apparently a film and I don't know anything about it so to read more go to beanthompodcast.com slash film reviews, which is not active yet, but maybe if you listen to this in a hundred years and I got around to it, then it will be active. You can try. Next up, I don't know what Hitler is actually mad about in the film Downfall, so you'll remember 10-15 years ago when YouTube was kicking off a very popular series of YouTube clips. It's all the same clip from the film Downfall, and it's Hitler throwing a hissy fit in his bunker with all his generals and stuff.

And the joke is everyone dubs in different English subtitles to say Hitler's mad about the bear season, about risk, whatever it is. I don't think I've ever actually watched the original thing, or actually, that's not true. I'm sure I have, but it's been a decade, so I don't really know what he's mad about. I mean, he obviously had a lot of things to be mad about, and he seemed like an angry guy in general, but I don't really know.

Next up, The Longest Day. That is a World War II movie. Here's the thing, if The Longest Day does not actually involve starting in Kiribati, that's K-I-R-I-B-A-T-E, and flying steadily westward to Hawaii, then you got to get a new name, okay? Because I researched this, and well, I googled it, someone else researched it and did the math on Reddit, and apparently apparently if you time it just right, if all conditions were prime and you flew west from Kiribati to Hawaii, you could have a 50-hour day. So I don't think that's what they did in the longest day, the World War II movie. If I'm mistaken, I'll eat crow, Cameron crow, black crows, another crow, but probably not the longest day. Another crow, but probably not the longest day. Next up, when I did my Google search, I asked AI,

hey, recommend me some of the best World War II movies, so at least I know what to think, where to start, et cetera. And they recommended to me both 1917 and All Quiet on the Western Front, both famous World War I movies. So, kind of off AI, at least for the rest of the day. Next up, if they made Casablanca in color, it'd be considered a classic. But obviously, it's been lost to the dustbin of history.

Two more here. The King's speech. What was he giving a speech about? I don't know. Was it just like a rally cry? What was he talking about? King George II, III, VI? I think King George II is like Revolutionary War stuff.

Probably King George VI, probably, is who Colin Firth was playing. What was he talking about? I don't know. Also, side note, darkest hour, Gary Oldman won the Oscar for playing Churchill. Pretty boring. Not that exciting.

It came out the exact, like, a week week after Dunkirk or around the general same time. And Dunkirk was really exciting and Darkest Hours not. Good for Gary though he got his legacy Oscar. Finally, Schindler's list was good but frankly I wish he got more out and also more of Voldemort would have been nice. There you go those are my World War II film hot takes let us know what your World War II it could be films or just World War II hot takes if you really want to talk about Battle of the Bulge or Midway with Dennis Quaid. I didn't have a hot take about that because I've never seen it and I haven't seen a Dennis Quaid movie since The Rookie. 2004, Jim... what's his name?

Yada yada yada. Jim Morris. From Texas. Good for you, Jim. I wonder if he's still coaching baseball or he hang up the cleats? Who knows? Let's get him on the podcast. Anyone has a Jim Morris connection, agent maybe? Let us know. Bean done podcast. Yeah, who'd I got?

All right, last thing, our trivia question here. Today, June 7, 2024, it is Pat Sajak's final Wheel of Fortune game. Obviously, he taped it a couple months ago, but today is the actual day it's airing. We're going to watch it after this. We watch Jeopardy!, we watch Wheel of Fortune, then we jump right into Mad Men. It's sort of our nightly routine.

So here we go. In honor of Pat Sajak's final episode of Wheel of Fortune today, tell me the five letters that contestants are granted to start a bonus round of Wheel of Fortune. And when I came up with this question, I was like, this one seems really easy, but then I realized, like, if you watch Wheel of Fortune all the time, then it's probably a second nature to you. But if this is just a show that you're like, oh yeah, I'm aware of Wheel of Fortune, I've

seen that once or twice, you might not know this. So I show that you're like, oh yeah, I'm aware of Wheel of Fortune. I've seen that once or twice. You might not know this. So I felt like it was probably a good question. So again, when you get to the bonus round, you have to guess a puzzle without spinning or anything. It's just kind of hangman style. Well, not really. But you get six letters, five consonants and a vowel

that are given to you. So if those letters appear in the puzzle, they will show up on the screen. And then you get to pick three more consonants and one more vowel to show up. So what are the consonants and vowel that are automatically included in every prize puzzle, no matter what?

You never have to guess them, they're included. So that's my question. And my bonus question, we'll just give you both questions and then both answers. Bonus question, the current price to buy a vowel in the regular game of Wheel of Fortune is $250. My question, back in the 70s, this game's created by Merv Griffin. Who, what, or what was the original price of buying a vowel? So there you go. Two questions. What are the six letters

they give you? Five letters. I said five but it's six. I wrote five but it's six. Six letters they give you to start the bonus prize round and then what was the cost of buying a vowel back when it started? So the five, I keep saying five because I wrote that down it's embarrassing. It's five consonants in one vowel that you're automatically given in this order specifically. R-S-T-L-N-E. There you go. R-S-T-L-N-E. And then a little bit of a trick question here. The bonus, current vowel price is $250. How much was it back in the 70s when they started the show also 250 the vowel has never been affected by Inflammation or inflation really neither Certainly never been inflated. I've never seen it inflamed

There you go guys, thanks for bearing with me that was Quinn David first presents the Bean Town podcast for Friday June 7th is, Queen David Furnace presents the Bean Town podcast for Friday, June 7th, 2024. Let's get our outro music going here, guys. Hope you stay safe, hope you stay sane. My name is Queen David Furnace. If I can find my Tishamingo Blues, I'll do that. Hope you take care of yourselves and we will see you next time. Here we go. Bye. Stay safe, stay sane. I think I said that already. All right, that's enough of that. So so so So Thank you.