Beantown Podcast - 05062018_Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast

Episode Date: May 6, 2018

Quinn comes to you LIVE from Boston, MA with special guest appearances from Ryan Ligon and Kristen English to profile Boston, commentate on an SNL rerun, and discuss whether Ariana Grande is hot (or not)

Alright, this is Quinn David Furnace coming to you live from Boston, Massachusetts, a city without a nickname. Actually, I am living or not living. I'm moving in, I didn't tell you guys right here on the couch. I am here with Ryan Lee and Chris in English, here in their home in Quincy, Massachusetts has been how I've been instructed to say it. And, yeah, we're coming to you live as we do every week. This is stop number three. In the bean town podcast, spring break road trip, extravaganza spectacular. Two weeks ago we were in Harrisburg, PA, last week Memphis, Tennessee, this week, Boston, Massachusetts, and then we finish up next week with Washington, DC, our nation's capital. Maybe we'll get someone cool, like Todd Palin. I don't know. I think he lives in Alaska though.

No, I think he lives in Alaska though. Yeah, so these guys are in the room with me. They got their dogs, what are they? Keke and Baxter or something? No, it's not Raymond's. No, it's hang on. No, I can get this because the Wi-Fi password. I'm sharing their Wi-Fi password with everybody. No, no, no, hang on. The third beer is really showing off right now. No, it's Dexter and Monkey. Yes, okay. We have confirmation.

Dexter and Monkey, they are little troublemakers and a little yippy, but that's okay. Keeps them honest. But yeah, this is Quinn David Fernandez checking in. Yeah, listener discretion is advised on this podcast. One, we use some foul language here and there, and not just the chicken kind, but the swear word kind as well. And then number two, the podcast is just objectively terrible. So there's your little foreboating, forewarning for that.

We are drinking some beer from Mexico tonight. It is Cinco de Mayo 2018. Corona premier, which I didn't even know existed until about three hours ago. Because we always, I don't know where I drink, it's always just Corona extra. And that's what they have. According to Christian, you can taste the difference. Let's do a quick taste test.

We drink at the same time. We really shared that moment. I don't know. I guess if I had a corona extra and a corona premiere next to me, then I could probably taste a difference. But I don't have a refined palate enough. We have that going and then we have Medellin. I don't remember which kind, what does it say? A special. A special. It means espresso in the Mexican, actually. So or Spanish, I suppose.

Yeah, I mean, trying to be nicer, less cultural appropriation. But yeah, happy birthday to all my Mexican friends out there. Pretty exciting time for you all. Let's see, go to Mayo. Yeah, that's what we got going on here. We're gonna do a little profile of Boston before we jump in here. And this one is truly this podcast.

You know, usually I got some notes in front of me either on my laptop or my iPad or my phone usually we got something to sort of guide the conversation this one we are going completely on the seat of my pants Yeah, we were joking before we jumped in here about the classic bill or I Lee before we jumped in here about the classic Bill O'Reilly rant tirade. We'll do it live because that's pretty much how we feel right now. So, and it's 10, 38 night and retired. And this is our like 20 for me today.

So, feeling it. But we're going to get through it. And I won't keep you too long. If you're looking for a podcast to help you sleep. This might just be the one. Here's how I like to describe John Kasich on TV. I saw him last fall at Hopkins. He's such a...

He just never says anything of actual importance. He won't totally come out in like bass tromb, but he like doesn't want to support him either. So he just tries to toe the line and sometimes he's got to grow a pair. So I like Ksiegly, but I don't know. But loss of train of thought. Now there's a funny picture of Ben Carson and Bernie Sanders up there.

What were we even talking about? I was gonna do something before I got to the profile. Yeah, I thought there was something I also wanted to say there, but oh well, that's okay, it's gonna kill me. Oh, no, here's what it was. So people often ask you, you know, why should I listen to your podcasts?

Well, nobody asked me that because people don't know I have a podcast, but if they did, they would ask me that and You know, you want to have right your your niche your corner of the market like what are you bringing to the table and the way I like to describe the bean town podcast is You know when you're like at a hotel. It's an away game for you and Your browser to the channels and it's cable and there's just nothing on you wanna watch. And so you get back to ESPN and it's like the fourth hour sports center and you're like, well, I guess I'll watch this because like,

it's fine and nothing else is better. That's kind of what the Bean Tom podcast is like, right, you just listen to it because yeah, it's not really good, it's pretty average, but maybe you've already listened to, because yeah, it's not really good. It's pretty average, but maybe you've already listened to, you know, all the Huey Lewis and the news songs you want in pod save America and stuff and you're just maybe it's like the end of your week and you're like, man, there's only shit out there. So I might as well take what's on the top of the crap

pile and that's the bean town podcast. So thank you for listening. Little profile of Boston here. This is just kind of off the cuff. What I remember from my US History class of Boston was founded actually as a spice port in 1456, the year that Christopher Columbus set sail. So a little synchronation thereian there for synchodomayo there and it was founded by the Dutch actually and as a spice port to trade with the the East

Indians if you've ever seen pirates of the Caribbean one two three four or five I think is that what we're up to now five something like that. We're gonna take We're going to take a time out and we're going to go through it because we got a fill time on this podcast. So we got Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man's Chest at World's End on Stranger Tides, and the last one that came out, Dead dead men tell no tales is number five Yeah, yeah, Johnny that brings his dog to Australia. That's a deep pole it gets into legal shit I'm sure there's a six one that keep making money. It's like Transformers like I Don't know many people out there who are like oh like we got to go see this new Pirates movie, but it continues to make money. So I don't know. Crystal Black Pearl was 2003 maybe. So 15 years already,

which yeah, yeah man, you're after Attack of the Clones. That'll date you. But so we mentioned Boston was founded, big hub for pirates, that sort of thing, you know, kind of close to the Caribbean. And it kind of, you know, nothing really changed until the 20th century when the Red Sox bought Babe Ruth from the Orioles. And that's sort of where the story goes next. You know, nothing really happened in like 1776 or anything like that. So speaking of the Red Sox, they got their name.

So in the 2004 ALCS Kurt Schilling had a bloody sock. Now an infamous moment against the Yankees and his sock turned red from the blood and that's how they got their name, the red socks. So, there's some history for you. That is Boston's baseball team. Let's see, they got a basketball team, the Boston Celtics. We mentioned cultural appropriation earlier, so I'm not going into that because it wouldn't

be appropriate. Boston also has a hockey team. The Bruins taken from the UCLA Bruins who in turn took it from the game Bruinscape, which for a lot of people is a, how do you describe it? Multi-million online, modal player. It's kind of like Club Penguin,

but for a less mature audience. You ever go on Club Penguin and it's just skin hot and heavy. I used to, so I never really did much online gaming growing up, but we would have Star Wars Battlefront 2 on our computer. And you could play like the most I-slee, space port level or something, and it would be multiplayer, and you could play like the most I-slee base port level or something and it would be multiplayer and you could chat with people which that was like 12 or something that was like my first

exposure to doing that stuff over the internet and yeah stuff got a little hot and heavy occasionally down in the base been at 7187 farm homely so yeah mom and dad if you made it this far there there you go. That was the Boston Bruins who are down three one in their series versus the Tampa Bay Lightning. So ripping piece Bruins probably not their year, but I don't know what the hell is going on on SNL right now. Bobby Moynihan looks like TJ Miller and having fun

and And then they got the the football team to the New England Patriots Foxboro which is like 30 miles from here is that sound right something like that and there have been a Foxboro myself but Yeah, I don't have any fun jokes or anything to say about the Patriots because when you kick ass as much as they do, you just got to kind of eat it. Those are the four sports teams of Boston. That's as far as I got in my head in terms of planning out how I wanted to do this profile

when I was in the bathroom 10 minutes ago. So the rest of it is truly improvised, doing it live. One thing to know about Boston is they love their dunking. I think Drill pass like 10 between the airport and here is like a 25 minute, 20 minute drive to get here this morning. Yeah, there's a lot of dunking. There's a dunking on every block. There's commercials all the time.

It's an institution, you know? So you gotta have your dunking when you're out here. We had some dunking this morning, you know, it was good stuff. It tastes better in Boston than anywhere else. Can really taste the beans that you harvest right here from the coffee trees. Coffee plant, I think that's what it is, coffee trees. Remember that in the new, not, it's not new anymore, but the updated Willy Wonka movie with Johnny Depp and they give him like the backstory and he goes to the planet with the umpa lumpas,

and he's like eating the beans and stuff. That's crazy. Interview with a dog time. That was Dexter. He was scratching himself and the interview with the dog is a segment that we're going to consider exploring in the future. And we'll see how that first one turned out.

Yeah. Dogs say the darnest things, right? That could be a show. The dogs like howling on there, like my dog, Greekly, play some high notes on the piano and she just goes nuts. Was it kids say the darnest thing, but in that, a Bill Cosby show back in the day? I don't think kids say the darnest things? But in that, a Bill Cosby show back in the day. I don't think kids say the Darnest things was a Bill Cosby thing, but let's see.

It wasn't maybe not a original. We're going to the Google, let's see. You know what I was doing? Oh, you're right, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know that. Kids say the Darnest things. American County Sears hosted by Bill Cosby, airing on CBS as a special on February 6, 1995, then a full series three years later.

So yeah, Bill Cosby, we talked about him last week on the podcast, with a bastard. So rip. Yeah. Maybe not in peace. Yeah. Or R. Yeah. R. Mady. Yeah, what was that lasers earlier we're trying to pair the acronym is it light and shit or That's not as funny as I think it is, but we're having laughs anyways Man what show is this on TV Derrick of Roger Federer carry Russell Oh Don Cheetle.

This is gonna get like Oscars. Running wild, the Bear Girls. There's a couple Emmy nominations just waiting to happen. Oh man. It's actually pretty, something to think about. Laser. All right, here we go.

Amplification, amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Emancipation proclamation. They got Larry David to introduce Ariana Grande as soon because she was the host, yeah. We're watching it. So we're watching it. This podcast is just thrilling here. We're watching an old episode of SNL from probably like three years ago, the one in which

Ariana Grande hosts and performs. She does the Pandora radio, like the original Bruno Mars sketch, but she does it. And that was pretty funny, but they got Larry David to introduce the act, and it looked like it was pretty good. So yeah, I'm not a good impersonator of Larry David, but I don't know, guys, we're 15 minutes in. Any topics you want to bring to the podcast it came well prepared this week Ariana Grande sex you're not I'll answer that sexy That was the end of that topic She looks like a child people people should stop idolizing her as a sex symbol. She's got a high ponytail

That's never that's never an adult woman Is it not idealizing her as a sex symbol? She's got a high ponytail that's never an adult woman. We, I was talking the other day, things that turn you on. And one of mine on the list was the ponytail. You don't think about it often. And I don't think about it often, but I think about it. I'm like, Allison Williams and get out. Like, she's sexy.

She's got the ponytail going. She's eating the cereal one at a time like a squirrel. Like the biggest sex symbol in Hollywood, not Alson Williams, but Alson Williams ponytail right there. So yeah, I'm overexaggerating a little bit, but I mean for as creepy as she was in that movie, she was also pretty good looking. So I don't know. We were saying the new get out Ryan shared a status on Facebook. And I don't remember what she said, but it was something funny.

Oh, the new get out sequel looks good or something, but what was the status? The get out sequel was OK, but the horse race was a nice touch. Yes, I thought it was very good. It hasn't quite blown up. No. Are you on Twitter at all? No. I'm going to ask. That's where you got to go. It was very funny though. My get out sequel that I want wanna make is a holiday special.

It's called White Christmas, which is a joke that I've told to wait too many people now to be funny, but I just was really proud of it. So, Ariana Grande was born in 93, so she's 25 this summer, so. A little bit older than myself, but yeah, she does, I don't know. She's kind of got the sexy baby thing going on, which, hey, I don't know.

It's not like I'm watching her music videos and being like, man, this just isn't doing it for me, but at the same time, I see the argument against it. So I don't know. She's very talented. But we'll see how she does. Usually the pop star is like, don't last that long. Let me look at Katy Perry. Five years ago, she was the thing. And now people are like, what the hell happened to Katy Perry? So it seems to happen to pretty much everybody at some point.

This is just your life as a pop star artist, I suppose. I don't know. Maybe they'll just let her into Coldplay or something, and she'll live forever. Chris Martin. Yeah, I would go to that concert with or without Ariana Grande. But yeah, I'd never been to a cold-play concert, but my brothers have, I think, at the United

Center. Those tickets are usually pretty pricey, but they put on a good show. They're good, they're good frontman, if you will. So we were, we were talking earlier today about the old home school bands that used to make the festival circuits. There was a state with love, which is a band that Ryan was a really good frontman for. And there was what was Ricky's band name? At the uproar. Was Gus was Joel in that too. No, no, yeah, we're dropping names here for all the people at

Hallstrom who are listening to this like, oh man, throwback nostalgia. Like yeah, I'm bringing that dosage to you. What was the name of the like Jacob and Caleb band and their cousins? I want to say it was something something some sort of sexual innuendo that they didn't otherwise it was like the morning after or something like that. It sounds right. Some sort of like pseudo biblical thing that could also be interpreted. Yeah Nice We had that going on Were there like any other class? I just remember going to the basement of like that place by the cherry bowl one time

Like Julia or something and like watching you guys play. Oh, so that would have been the night that we of course opened. Like we always did. Always opening. Always. And then like the morning after, no, next was alios. Alios? Who was... Steve and Knight?

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. He lived in my neighborhood actually. Who else? Was his younger brother in that too, yeah, yeah. He lived in my neighborhood, actually. Who else? Was his younger brother in that, too, maybe? Yeah. Lots of family bands. Yeah. It's a family band.

Yeah, I'd forgotten about that one. The morning after, and then after then was at the outdoor. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Good stuff. Those are crazy shows, man. Get some sprite and something, and just go crazy on a school night. Yeah. Yeah, it was a different definition of a of a rager back then. There's a 15-year-old homeschool student

but no, we've had lots of led lots of good reminiscing today about growing up in homeschooling and the people we interacted with and we even went on a little gay witch hunt here for a couple minutes to try to identify the Halstrom Gays. So that was fun, but no, we did a podcast this afternoon and then we got a little something else cooking tomorrow and yeah, it's just been a weekend full

of love, laughing, podcasts, and now spot the internet. So, but mine's working great right now. So, fingers crossed. They're not salty at all. This is the part of the show where SNL just drops off. It seems like every week they can only come up with, well, sometimes none, but at max, two or three sketches that are actually good. I don't understand why that is.

Even when SNL is really good, the ones at the end are just like, is it really that tough? And I'm not a comedy writer. I aspire to be one, I guess. But is it that tough to come up with like that many sketches that are going to be like, oh, this is actually really funny? I don't know. If you can do it like for one or two, I can't you do it for like seven or eight. They have to meet the needs of the, I know. I would write it be like, no.

Yeah, that's why you don't write for us. And now, um, this is kind of like, uh, what, the shape of water going on actually right here. Um, yeah, there's a, is that Kate McKinnon? Yeah. Yeah. It's, uh, it's getting a little uncomfortable. She looks like Orlando Bloom's dad in Pirates of the Carefree

in two and three. Got like the barnacles and the, who's the actor that plays him? We've got to look that up now. Bootstrap Bill is at the character's name. Bootstrap Bill Turner. Is he? Am I right? He's the character's name. Bootstrap Bill Turner. Is he? Am I right?

He's the dad's guard. I can't keep those guys straight. Let's see. Portrayed by Stellen Skars guard. Well, because I like, and I know that this isn't right at all, but just like with the nori, or the skinny even glass names, I get like scar scar and Mads Michelson and like there's an Alexander

scar scar, right? He did like the Tarzan movie this last year. And I know they're different, they look very different. They're different ages, like just the names I get mixed up. So yep, I see it. I'm on his Google images page. And I know what Mads Michelson looks like. Like he plays handle selector and he was in Rogue One and then I really don't know Alexander Skars guy that much as he this guy's son. That's son, right? Yeah.

The dad's actor and then there's three of them. The other son played Pennywise? Oh sure. Yeah, so there's another one to throw into the mix. Yeah. And then there's another one after that, I believe, but he's the least successful of the three brothers. Kind of like the bonus Jonas, you know, never really took off or the Quinn Furnace, yeah. No, another Quinn Furnace, just one of the Furnace, one of them, yeah. Well, this, this is an interesting one. I don't know where this came from, but it seems like the accepted plural now for multiple

furnace people is ferni with two eyes. And I think it's just cleaner than furnaces and a little looks cooler, you know, FURN double eye. It would never fly to Ellis Island, but like 300 years later it's kind of cool. So the original furnace name at Ellis Island had 1S, but it was still furnace. So I tell people, because our name looks like furnace, and that's what most people just go with, because, excuse me, that's what it looks like with FURNE double SS, and then I tell people well the original used to just have one SS and they said well wouldn't that just be FURNs and then I'm like yeah you're right so no matter what you do it's not going to look like FURNs unless it's just FUR NACE. Is that wild turkey over there?

I mean yeah well I have some after but I, I'm only gonna go for another couple minutes here already at 25 minutes But I got eyes like a hawk, you know, I get like 21 18 vision. So like a turkey Turkeys have good eyesight Hell of hell if we know. Yeah, how is the sketch still going on? Feel like I oh there it is at the end. It was still the weird fish monster one. This, I mean we've had some rambling podcasts in the past. This one just turned into like a conversation where you're gonna be able to hear everything I say

just fine, it's gonna be like background noise from Ryan and Kristen, what are they saying? We'll see how it picks up, but I mean, I think by the time you get to the 26 minute of the podcast, there's probably like three people still listening, so, and I'm usually checked out at that point, so it's okay if If you're, if you haven't made this far because you'll never know that I'm bitching about you, so I Don't know I'd rather than me just rambled to try to fit 30 minutes. I'm gonna

Pretty much close it up there. You guys have any parting thoughts? Any cool phrases that you want to try out, you know, on live air? Like, uh, flu flop, but doodop. What did you say? I have an interest in thoughts. Yeah. I think the iron lung is a fascinating piece of technology. I think the more I think about it, the more I was like, well, humans are so stupid, but so brilliant. So the iron lung, like, you're in it almost all the way

except your head's just coming out, right? And it like, breathes. Which I never saw yeah the opposite of like mechanical modulation through like intubation or like a trick yeah definitely know what all of this shit means providing pressure to your nurse jack you over here also haven't seen that

show here. Also haven't seen that show. It's terrible. I mean, it's pretty amazing. Yeah, it's a fascinating piece of technology. I just think in 50 years we're going to look back and be like, oh, that was the medieval times. I mean, I've never been a medieval times. Oh, road trip. Because there's like multiple locations, right? But I don't know where any of them are except for whatever Hoffman estates. So this is why we own the internet. That's what the government said.

If you're net neutrality passed or Comcast, I guess. Yeah. Well, thank God this SNL episode is over. We'll have the news and then Donald Glover is on. All I want is like a funny Star Wars sketch and I'll be happy. So, I don't know. But, yeah, I mean, I think that's, I don't know, this is a pretty mellow, not necessarily sad podcast, but this is what happens when you prepare nothing. And I mean nothing. So Kentucky Derby was today, this date in history, and by this date, I mean like three hours ago.

Justify when there's a six-year in a row that the odds on favorite to win has won the race. So not to say it's getting boring, but the race itself, I remember the race last year, like neither one was like, Oh, what's going to happen at the end? I was like, this guy gets out in front pretty early. And that's just kind of the way it is. So it's still super exciting and pre-kneast and Belmont stakes are usually high, not high stakes, obviously, but those are usually pretty intense and not to say that they're always closer but I don't know at least those haven't been one six years in a row by the odds on favorite so yeah between LeBron and Kentucky

Derby I don't know about sports anymore man I might just hang it up for good no more sports for me no more sports sounds like another Dr. Seuss book. We were talking about something like that. There was something else I remember what the title was, but okay, that's good. We're going to drink some whiskey and watch Saturday live and I don't know, do something else. Maybe quote, phantom minus a little bit more. All right, that's it. Thanks for listening. This is Quinn David Fernis. We're coming to you live next week from Washington, DC

for a podcast to close out the Bean Town podcast, Spring Break, Road Trip, Extravaganza, Spectacular. Thanks for listening. I will check in on you next week. you