Beantown Podcast - 07142018_Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast

Episode Date: July 15, 2018

Quinn rambles about crack princesses, the legend of Staten Island, and 10 deep Elton John cuts

Hey, this is Quinn David Furnace. Welcome to the Beentown podcast, the People's podcast. I will be your host for this episode number 27 Saturday, July 14th, 2018. here for work was in New York doing some stuff earlier. I am in Princeton right now and tomorrow and then I will be in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Monday doing some work. So quickly, a little mini road trip here. I don't know, interesting weekend. I'm working the whole time, but it's a lot of driving, but having some fun.

I've got some time to go do some exploring, so maybe not quite as relaxing as I wish. It could have been, but that's all right. Last weekend I was in Chicago. I will talk about that in a little bit. You heard our podcast last weekend. We were coming to you live from Rogers Park doing a little farewell to Farwell Action, which was a whole lot of fun if you couldn't tell from the podcast. I was with some of my favorite people, pretty much all my favorite people actually. So that

was that was a lot of fun to do that podcast. Then we had a party. After that, thank you all who came out made that night special. And good luck to the Farwell Brothers, which actually I referred now to the guys living in that house who I used to be roommates with as a Farwell Brothers, but actually Farwell Brothers used to mean something very different when I was in grad school.

I lived on Farwell Ave with a graduate school friend, and we had a similar, well, we worked for the same fraternity, and we lived about four blocks away. So we were the Farrell brothers, and we were pretty cool. But yeah, I don't know, it's a constantly evolving term.

A lot going on in sports, I'm watching the Cubs take on the Padres. My former flame right now, they just started. It's in the first inning because it is, it is 10.30 pm here, but that means that it is only 7.30 pm on the West Coast. So I never stay awake for these West Coast games, even when I lived in central time.

It was brutal to do it now in Eastern. I just completely gave up, which is a smart thing to do. Because these games, I mean, yesterday went into extra earnings, and the game probably didn't until 2 a.m. or so. Yeah, so good luck waking up the next morning. I don't get the people, I'm going on my quick low rant here. I don't understand how are the people, and'm going my quick low rant here, I don't understand how, how are the people, and I talk like an old man, and I'm 23. So I'm not actually an

old man, but, but I have so many friends who are like going out till two or three plus with fairly regular consistency at which I, in which I mean like more than once a week or around once a week. I just I don't get it like I hit 10 o'clock 11 o'clock especially if I've had a drink if I've had two drinks that just makes me sleepy. I don't quite understand it. I don't know how people do it. I don't know if do people like go do their normal work, they then come home and sleep for a couple hours or, but I see so many people who are going out after work immediately after work.

And they just have the energy to go from like 5 p.m. all the way to like two or three in the morning. That's like nine hours of eating and drinking and socializing. I just, I don't know. I don't quite get it. Good on you guys, but yeah, if you know something, I don't, then let me know because I am fascinated by people who do that. Watching a lot of sports lately, it's a huge time for sports. Wimbled

in, women's final was today. Serena Williams, who I've always said, as a choker, she lost to Kerber. Congratulations to Kerber. I hardly know her. I'm winning Wimbledon. The men's final, Kevin Anderson of South Africa. South Africa. You gotta work on that accent, right? It's South Africa.

It's like everything is turned upside down. South Africa. I promise I won't say that anymore. Kevin Anderson versus, let's see, Joker, he won. Where's Joker from, Slovenia or something? I don't know, some former comic country. Joker's a comic, you hear to hear first. That's happening tomorrow morning, the World Cup is happening, World Cup finals happening tomorrow.

The Frenchies versus the Croats. Is it Croats? Croats? Can we get a correct pronunciation up in here? That would be nice because I've heard mostly Croats, but I kind of like saying Croats. I don't know, probably because it reminds me of CROBAT, my favorite Gen 3 Pokemon. Anyways, getting off topic here, that's all the sports happening here. What am I talking about today?

I'm going to talk about my Chicago weekend from last weekend. I'm going to tell the story of the Princess in class, it's a story that I've been asked about many a time, and it's actually a pretty funny story, so we're gonna get to that shortly. I thought of a, I'm developing a new bit, the bit is not ready for the podcast, but I'm gonna throw the idea out there

and kind of see what sort of feedback you guys have. I think it's a funny idea, so we're gonna talk about that, and lastly, I'm gonna close up here is actually something that I've had actually a lot of people ask me about recently. You know, people always ask you who's your favorite artist, who's your favorite musician. And I don't really know the current people very well, which is, I would say, a huge over-generalization,

but my go-to is usually Elton John. Elton is great. He's been making music. His first studio album came out in 67, I think, and he's still releasing music. And he's been doing it for a long time, 50 plus years. So he's got a lot of material.

And what I'm gonna do is share with you my 10 favorite Elton John songs that are from albums that people don't really know. So there are plenty of Elton John albums like Elton John and Honki Sheto and Goodbye Albert Road and Brown Der Cowboy. Elton's that people know pretty well because they've got a lot of the hits on them but they were kind of in primetime Alton John which is from like 1970 to late 70s.

So I'm gonna share some songs, these aren't like crazy deep cuts, right? If you are a cursory Elton John fan and if you're older and if you were around when he releases songs and you probably know them, some of them are singles. But these are just really good songs to listen to. And I was going to go through a quick list of time

and tell you why I chose them. So that's what's coming up on the podcast today. Listener discretion is advised when you were listening to the Bean Tum podcast. For two reasons, number one, we will occasionally use some objective language. Number two, the podcast is just subjectively terrible. So don't say I didn't warn you.

And that's kind of how we will set this up here. I'm sitting here in my hotel room in Princeton, New Jersey, sipping on dogfish head. What's this one called? Palo Santoma-Rone, woodaged brown ale, which I think translates to, pale saint, Marion, actually Marion Ravenwood from Raiders of the Lost Ark, and woodaged brown ale, well that's English, so, don't be a dummy. It's very good, it's 12%.

I'm working on my second one, although I had the first one about two hours ago, I ate this really crappy. Cheese steak, a filly cheese steak, right? You go to Princeton New Jersey, you get a filly cheese steak, that's just how it works. And I also got some, get this, called pizza fries, which I thought was going gonna be like French fries and maybe some cheese and some pepperoni Well, it was French fries clearly like Straight out of the orite of freezer section and covered in just like one giant slice of provolone or mozzarella And then just like the fries were swimming in

the marinara sauce and it was just it didn't work for me. It's gonna be a no for me dog. It was rough. The fries were already bad because they were just like store-bought frozen fries and they were just soaked in the red sauce. It was bad. Red sauce, it was bad. But, yeah, so if you ever see pizza fries, you've been warned. It sounded like a good idea on paper, you know. It's one of those things that seems like a good idea. Like, going in the hotel hot tub when there's other babes around,

but then you figure out that their moms, and it's just kind of like, it's an awkward situation. Let's just be blunt about it. I was in Chicago this past week and what you all know, because you listened to the podcast last week. I was doing a bunch of different things. I got to see a ton of people going, this was my fourth time that I got in bed.

I'm on this hotel couch, right got the suite and the couch is like okay but there are no pillows and it's got pretty uncomfortable armrests so I'm like trying to pull off the you know the psych the psychology psychiatrist couch look but it's just really crimping my style and more specifically my neck. So this is just very difficult for me, but going to Chicago is always fun. It can all be a little bit tricky because you want to balance, you want to basically,

you want to balance the amount of time you're there with the amount of people that you get to see the amount of time you want to spend with them. So there are certain friends where you want to spend a certain amount of time with other friends you want to spend more time with, other friends less time with that sort of thing. And it's always difficult to get that perfect because there are so many people in Chicago that they do want to see some of them who I really miss and who I still talk to fairly frequently. Some of them I pretty much only

talk to when I'm in Chicago but I still miss them and I enjoy their company. So it's finding that balance and the first three times I'd go into Chicago I had varying success in finding that balance. But this past weekend was great. I had a stark, perfect balance. I got to see pretty much honestly all the people I wanted to see, except for one friend who had moved to the West Coast San Diego, actually, as I'm watching a Padres game. Otherwise, I got to see everybody I wanted to see, which was great. But it was a lot of fun. I had, before we started recording, we were Jenkins of beer and some pizza at Farwell. And had a friend brought up the princess

in the classroom story from my undergrad days, which I had forgotten about, but it was actually a freaking hilarious story and I've had one or two other people in the past ask me to talk about the podcast. So I will do that right now. I won't disclose her name just because she's crazy and you'll see it. Not that she would ever discover. This podcast I don't think, but she's just crazy enough that it could happen. Anyway, so there's this girl. It was my senior year of college, which was actually my junior year.

It was my third year, but it ended up being my senior year. And I had basically maxed out the music theory, music history, musicology classes in the undergraduate curriculum where I went to school. And so being that that was what I was interested in, I requested it to take some graduate courses. And of course, they didn't care. I was the proof that I was what I was interested in, I requested it take some graduate courses and of course they didn't care I was I was approved. I was accepted so I was taking this music Classical music post-World War II class so in 1945 to basically 21st century, which is some pretty trippy shit And it was in I was the only undergraduate student in this class. I was in it with all grad students.

And there's this one grad student, a vocalist at my school, who had a pretty bad reputation at school. For a bunch of different reasons, two things, though. Number one, she was a pretty sure addicted to crack. I think was her drug of choice and I actually saw her do it. But from the people I knew, I pretty sure it was either Coke or heroin. It wasn't meth. It was Coke or heroin.

I don't remember which one, but I think it was Coke. And so she kind of had that reputation because that wasn't a common thing. I mean, everybody at school smokes pot. But to do coke was a pretty uncommon thing to be able to do that and be a, you know, a master student studying vocal performance. That's just like, that's tough to pull off, frankly. Number two, her side gig, I guess it's her primary gig, because I don't know how she would make money. She owned like her own dress up as a princess type company and go to kids like birthday parties

and stuff. Very simple concept. She did that. And I think that's fine, whatever. That's what you want to do, like make kids happy, but when you combine that with the, the, like, constantly high on cocaine angle, and she wrote this scooter all around campus that kind of just added to the lore, and here's the kicker. She would come into class almost always late, wearing her princess outfit still. Like how many classes did you guys get to take in

college where you got to sit behind snow white in every class? So anyways, so pretty frequently she'd come into class. I had my same spot I would set and ended up being right behind her. And I would take pictures and I remember I had one really good caption that I posted to Facebook back when Instagram wasn't a big deal. She was dressed as Cinderella. Hannah said, when the ball starts at nine, but you got night class, it was something like that.

It was hilarious. I really racked up the likes. That was like the peak of my social media popularity. Although I am a social media influencer, as you all know, so thank you very much. OK, so that happens. I had posted probably like, I don't know, three, maybe four times, just like pictures of her. I'm sitting behind her

So this is just her back in like her you know, Pocahontas and like her Jasmine and like aerial costumes all that stuff anyways This is on my personal Facebook. I'm not like taking her any anything. We're not friends It's just right. It's it's freaking hilarious anyways It's just right. It's it's freaking hilarious. Anyways, a little bit later After I had posted a picture. I don't remember any sort of particular incident of any kind But I get I'm trying to remember how this how this one. Okay, I get a Facebook message from her We were not Facebook friends, but to get a message from her being and she's freaking out like I'm pretty sure she's fairly high at this point And she like all caps like oh my god, you have to take it down and I just think this is hilarious So I you know, I'm playing with her a little bit. I'm pretty good at that that sort of like

Online trolling thing anyone who knows me. So I'm having some fun with it next Next thing you know, I'm getting a like a Facebook or like an email from her dad who is like some sort of up and up rich somebody, which actually after the fact made a lot of sense because I'm pretty sure she was like not actually a good singer and probably failing most of those classes because she was high on drugs. I think that her dad was like not actually a good singer and probably failing most of those classes because she was high on drugs. I think that her dad was like a huge donor to the School of Music and so the connection kind of

makes sense. She was basically getting her master's degree for free because of her social status. Anyways, when I get that letter from her dad, I'm just like, okay, this isn't worth it. Like, whatever, I got my likes. Okay. Let's take it down. So I take it down and, right, I'm thinking, okay, that's like the end of it, whatever. This was fun. Cool. Next thing up. Well, that wasn't the end of it.

I got three separate emails next. I got one from our professor, which was just like the most embarrassing thing because he was the head of the musicianship department. And like one of my close, one of the fact to members that was closer with on campus, like a very chill dude. It was like super nice. It always been good to me. And this, this, I'm going to come on and say this bitch had emailed him bitching about

my Facebook post, which was a no way insidious, right? Like, I think you're entitled to take a picture of somebody when they come into your class at 10 a.m. in the morning dressed like a princess. But anyways, that's just my personal belief. So now he was wrapped up in this. She also emailed my boss when I was in RA, which was just like stupid. And she emailed the dean of students. Like, what's even your complaint at this point?

Not to mention the pictures are down. Anyway, so I didn't have to do anything with my professor. He just emailed me. I was like, can you take me down? And I was like, yeah, I did. Like yesterday. And then, but then I get an email from my boss in ResLife and I had to go meet with her, you know, walk in

and she's just like, okay, so tell me what's going on. I tell her the story, which takes 30 seconds, way faster than the story I'm telling now because I'm just terrible at telling so sync story is now apparently. And she just laughs and she's like, but you like took the photos down, right? And I was like, yeah, and she's like, okay, everything's good.

And I was like, I know. So I walked out of that. But then I had to go meet with the dean of students. And I walk in there, and I do the exact same thing. She's like, so tell me what's going on. She tells me that you've been cyber bullying here. And I tell her, I posted this on Facebook. Like, here's what the picture was.

Not taking her anything, not messaging her, there's no cyberbullying of any kind. The Dean of Students just laughs. And I'm like, yeah, I don't, what else am I supposed to do? And the Dean of Students is like, all right, you're a good man. I'm like, thank you.

So, that was the Princess story. Ended up being way too much of a hassle head of multiple meetings about it. But it was probably the peak of my social media fame. So if you guys want, if you think I should reupload a photo, I can go ahead and go find it. Because I still have it on my Facebook. I just changed the viewing settings so only I can see it. So that one day I could make

that glorious return because here's the thing. She found out I think because friends of a friend or something like that, I wasn't Facebook friends with her. And I'm pretty sure that I'm even further removed that I'm really not friends with, I don't know know we could go on Facebook We might have like one or two mutual friends But they're not people who I think I talk to and I'm sure she doesn't talk to them Anyway, so if you guys liked it all I'll re upload. I think the Cinderella photos the one I have I'll put that back up there That would be fun

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specifically from Jack Links. Well, let's move on, like all podcasts recently, this one has gotten away with me in time and haven't even gotten to the meat of what I wanted to talk about. But you got the Princess story, which was good stuff. I mentioned earlier on the podcast that I had a good idea for a new bit that I wanted to float to you guys. It is a, this is not a finished bit by any means. In fact, it's not even a bit right now, it's just an idea.

It's a Christian all-white, very conservative fraternity called Alpha Omega, which the name already just cracks me. I'm sure somebody has thought of this already and done some sort of routine on it, but I am now discovering for myself. It's called Alpha Omega. And I don't know, there's a couple of different things that happen in Alpha Omega.

I'm pretty sure instead of playing beer pong, you play communion pong every time someone gets in the cup, you gotta break bread. Let's just put it that way. I imagine they're having a, Alpha Omega's having a frat party, and there's a new kid on campus. He's a freshman, he's a Mexican immigrant,

and he wants to come party and rings the doorbell and Alpha Omega brothers, they open it up and say, hey, if you want to come party, you can do it legally. You know, there's a tragic event on campus. And Alpho, mega, they're sending their thoughts and prayers. So the whole thing is very fresh. I just thought of it yesterday. I'd have to just sit down and write some more. I think there's I think there's a bit there I think there's a lot you can do with

With with Christianity anyways. That's alpha omega. It's a white fraternity Pretty much any I mean it's it's so it's it's a white fraternity white male fraternity Here's a thing. Pretty much anyone is allowed though in this fraternity except for blacks, let tenos, any other people of color, immigrants, women, and anybody else who, if you're not white you're not allowed but other than that anyone else if you're a male and your white is allowed so it's actually fairly inclusive I think and I think that there's some rich material there if you think of anything that you think would be funny for Elf Omega to do or to happen Elf Omega I'm definitely fielding those those ideas those comments. So let me know in the comments section shoot me a

text shoot me an email you guys know where to find me. I'm on snapchat all the time. I'm a social media influencer. Thank you kindly. You know what I was doing today and I think I had mentioned this very early on in my podcast. I was driving past Staten Island today. Does anybody really know what's going on on Staten Island? They don't quite understand it. No one ever talks about Staten Island. Do people live there? Does the subway go there?

Are there houses on Staten Island? Right, is there anything really going on or is it just sort of this wilderness? I would get in there and investigate it for myself, especially because I was just across the Hudson from it today, but I'm fearful that if I go to Staten Island, it's gonna be like Will Smith and I in legend. There's just gonna be like zombies everywhere.

And then my dog's gonna turn into a zombie, and I don't even have a dog. So there's more problems than just the zombies right now. So if anyone listening to this podcast has ever been to Staten Island or if they've ever heard tall tales or legends that you can let me know as well because I just you don't hear anything about Staten Island. It's kind of like the Bermuda Triangle, stuff just goes there and it disappears. So that was just a thought I had. I do wanna finish up here, this couch.

Quinn, oh, it's a pullout. Sounds like an opposite of me in college. I will not be sleeping on this. I got a king size bed. I'm checking into the sweets here at Princeton earlier today and the nice guy's got a Jersey accent sounds like Chris Christie. Um, says, uh, we got you in for a king, right? And I said, I don't fucking know, man, whatever I signed up for online, just put me there. So I got a king bet. I'm belching from that. But pizza fries. Oh man.

Note to self. Don't do the pizza fries next time. Bad choice. Let's get to that Alton John action. Because I'm actually really excited about this. So for any of you, I mean, everyone knows Alton John. You know his hits, which are

probably way more than you can think of right off the top of my head, I'm thinking your song, tiny dancer, rocket man, crocodile rock, Saturday nights, all right, for fighting. Good by Yelvuk Road, someone saved my life tonight. I bye, Ellabic Rhodes. Someone saved my life tonight. I mean, I could list another 10 that are super well-known and on the radio all the time. Don't go breaking my heart. Kiki D. Don't let the sun go down on me, George Michael. Long story short, there are a billion really famous

album John songs. So as you can probably expect with 30 studio albums and a bunch more live albums, there are a lot of Elton John songs that you may have never listened to before but they are actually amazing. So these are kind of songs. Some of them were released as single, so some of them used to be popular, got some radio playback in the day, but the whole purpose of this top ten list that I'm going to give to you is that these are songs that come from albums that you probably don't know. So whether you're like a super Elton John

fan like me or not, you probably know some of his more famous albums. So what I'm pretty much cutting out here are his albums from 1970 until about 75, which is just prime Elton John. We're talking his self-titled album, which is number two. So I am going to not include his first album because there is a song on there that is a deep cut that's really good. But number two Elton John then Tumbleweed Connection, Mad Man Across the Water, Honki Chateau. Don't shoot me I'm only playing a player, good by Elbrick Road, Caribou, and Captain Fantastic, Brown or Cobboy. All those albums are just chock-full of hits and you probably know a lot of the songs already. So I have not

including those albums but these are songs from the rest of his, whatever 24 albums, from 1969 all the way up until I think the most recent one I have is 2004, although he has some albums since 2004. Songs from those albums, so number one is Skyline Pigeon. This comes from Empty Sky, which is his first album in back in 1969, I think, but Skyline Pigeon actually, you know, one of Alton's favorite songs is saying, it's a really beautiful ballad. Go check it out. If that's the theme of this whole list, go check these songs out. Listen to them by your cook and dinner or in the shower. I wouldn't do this list if I didn't think that they were interesting songs to listen to. So Skyline Pigeon number one.

I didn't think that they were interesting songs to listen to. So Skyline Pigeon number one. So then we skip past all of those albums from like 70 to 75. This is actually, this next one is from 1971, but it's not from an Elton John album. It is from the soundtrack of a movie called Friends, which I've never seen, and I don't think is terribly popular in US film culture, but the song is called can I put you on?

It is a really I Don't know. It's just kind of like a really good jam Altin has played it live Rarely, but it has happened occasionally if you know his 11 what is it? 17 oh oh it's British 17 11 70 so November 17 1970 album live album he plays it during that the song is called can I put you on really good music number three is another ballad like the theline Pigeon song was. It's called I Feel Like a Bullet in the Gun of Robert Ford,

which references the assassination of Jesse James. And this song comes from Rock of the Westies in 1975 album, which is a strange album. There's no other way to put that. It's entertaining, but I've straight up played it at my parent's house like in the background we're playing a game and I've had like my mom who I think would claim to be a pretty big All-in-John fan just be like this shit's terrible. So that comes from Rock of the

Westies. It's I feel like a bullet in the gun of Robert Ford. It's slow. It's I feel like a bullet in the gun of Robert Ford. It's slow It's it's kind of classic like Bernie top-end Not that's not like strange lyrics you can't figure out, but kind of like a story that Doesn't really make sense if you don't know the story But go check it out If you haven't seen the assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford who is the guy who killed him, that is a film from like 15 years ago, starring Casey Affleck is in there.

Let's see who else. I haven't seen that film in such a long time. It's Casey Affleck and it is Brad Pitt. Yeah. So a star-studied cast. It's from 2007. It is directed or produced by really Scott actually, who you all know.

Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, is in it, Jeremy Renard. Fff, Renard. Jeremy Renard is in it, Sam Rockwell. Man, I'm forgetting how great this cast was, Paul Schneider is in it. And Mary Louise Parker, who was from the his famous for Weeds. Anyways, Zooe-Ditionnell, also with a guest spot. She's unforgettable. It's a really good cast. Casey, KC athletics one in Oscar,

Saint Rockwell's one in Oscar, I assume Brad Pitt's one in Oscar. Anyways, moving on, that was, I feel like a bullet in the gun of Robert Ford, that was number three, it comes from Rock of the Westies. Number four, dancing time, bite your lip, get up and dance, it is the closing song from Blue Moves. And I felt a little cheap including this one

because this was actually a fairly big single in its time. And Blue Moves isn't a completely obscure album, but I could put Blue Moves in front of just like casual music listener and you probably wouldn't know, you probably wouldn't know any of the songs. So by Trillip get up and dance this totally a jam band song. It's got some lyrics going or different,

differentiation and lyrics for like the first two minutes. And then it's just like five minutes of jamming to the same course. There's a choir going, there's a string section, gospel, pop rock and all that stuff. It's classic, Elton John, David Johnstone. It's good stuff. James Newton Howard, the famous composer, plays synth on that song, so go check it out. There's a famous concert of Elton John in 1980, Central Park,

in which he plays his concert, and then he comes out for the encore dress like, who else but Donald Duck? He plays your song and Bikerlup and something else. I can't remember what else he plays. Another rocker I think maybe Saturday night, sorry if I'd be probably not remember. Anyways, songs Bichelip get up and dance. Number five is Sartorial Elequence. Don't you want to play this game no more? That is from the album 21 at 33, 1980. So it was like peak. This is the same year as the Central Park concert. This is like peak Elton on Coke right before he crashed. It's our total eloquence. The lyrics are the best part of this, which is interesting because

unlike almost all of Elton's songs, which are almost all lyrically written by Bernie Toppen, this one is written by Tom Robinson, who's a singer, it's got some writing credits to his name, but this one is one that I'm relatively new to, but it's called Sertorial Elequence, Sertorial. I can't tell you what that means but I'll look it up later. Anyways that's on 21 to 33 from 1980. There is another one. I think this is also from 21 to 33. It is never going to fall in love

again. This is actually probably the most famous song from that album, but still I don't think many people know 21 at 33 So that's never gonna fall in love again the title pretty much tells you what it's about and It's just sort of a I don't know the average kettle fan. I listened to you be like, yeah, this is just kind of bland vanilla But it's actually good stuff and it's catchy, it's got good harmony. It's called Never Gonna Fall in Love again. That was number six. Number eight is a great song.

This is a great song. If you don't know it, everyone should listen to it. It is from 1982 from the album Jump Up, which is a very obscure album, but the song is empty garden. Hey, hey, Johnny. It is about John Lennon. It came out about a year and a half after Lennon was assassinated. It is a really sad song, if you look at the lyrics.

It is a beautiful song, but yeah, I don't know. It's a really good one. And it's not a song you're gonna come across very frequently. Candle in the wind is such a huge hit. And I don't know, I like empty garden just as much as if not more from just a musical perspective. But it's empty garden. It is a tribute to John Lennon. It sounds very much like it could

be a Beatles song. So go check that out. It's a good one. Number eight on this list might be my favorite one from the entire list of 10 here. It is rap her up, which was a single that feels like it should have been, should have done way more, is from the album Ice On Fire, which is just prime 80s album title. It is Alton John featuring George Michael, may he rest in peace, rip in peace, George. It is, at just, I don't know, like this song should be played in clubs everywhere, gay, straight, lesbian or otherwise. It's super catchy. It's got a great baseline. You can find the extended version all over YouTube. You go find the version that's like six and a half minutes long. It is super catchy and it will make you want to dance. I don't know.

I can't even say enough about this. I'll turn this one on the shower. It lasts the whole time because it's six and a half minutes. And I'm getting pretty jiggy with it. I'm really going wild when I'm listening to rap her up. I get extra, extra clean in that bass line. Bo-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do- If you listen to it you know what I mean. This just popped up a couple hours ago. Nancy Sinatra died at 101, believe it or not, RIP Nancy.

This is turning into the funeral podcast. As you know, there's also the debut album from Arcade Fire, who I saw in concert last year, almost exactly a year ago, a little bit less than I guess, Arcade Fire is great, but we're not fancier of the Alton John yet. I'm moving slowly through this beer, which is a good thing, because it is powerful.

Number nine is from the album the big picture. We're jumping all the way to 97 here It is called recover your soul and this song actually Has a special place in my heart because And if if my brother Jack is listening to this, he will remember this. We were, we had my grandpa's truck in Northern Wisconsin, just the two of us, this was probably, he was probably 16 or 17, just new to driving. I was like 13, 14.

And we got the truck for an afternoon, which was like a cool, pretty big deal. And we took it to the local town of Birchwood, Wisconsin, which is just a heck of a place. Let me tell you. And we took it into town where there's all of like five shops in a school. Birchwood high school must have like 30 people in the graduating class. There's nobody there. One of the shops, of course, is you'll see all over the Midwest as a junk shop. It's a nice way of saying antique shop, just the other way around. And so we go in there, we're just poking our heads in, and we're poor high schoolers.

We don't have any money or not spending anything. So we're just like entertaining ourselves. They're for like 10 minutes. And we're walking out and I spot out of the corner of my eye in Alton John cassette tape. Now granted, this is, you know, this is this is probably like 2009, 2010-ish, ethylatist. So cassettes are already way on their way out. Like CDs are the thing. No, very few cars at this stage in the game still have cassettes. But we owned old cars, and they had these tape players in them. So I buy an Alton John tape. It only has two songs on it. It has the big picture, excuse me, the big picture, and it has recover your soul, which is actually a pretty good song, considering it's this late in the game for Alton. It's I don't know go check it out. Beautiful lyrics really catchy

chorus peak Alton you know his voice is not you know early 70s Alton it's different after the surgery after the drug issues but it's a recovery or soul and it's from the big picture. That was number nine on the list. The last one I have here is from Peachtree Road. This is another kind of cheap one because this is actually a pretty popular modern Elton John single, but I don't think many people know Peachtree Road

or at least anything other than this song, but it's the color of the cat. It is about a man who undergoes a gender change to become a woman. It's super catchy. It's very emblematic or representative of Alton John's 21st Century sound. He has fun jamming to it. You can go find it online. He gets the backup singers going, good horn section, very upbeat, funny lyrics that you'll miss if

you're not really paying attention. Good puns, all that stuff shows you that Alton still got it. So that one's called they call her the cat endless in-u endos there regarding the female anatomy. Anyways, that was my list of 10 Alton John songs. If you made it to this point, and you are actually interested in checking out some deeper cuts from Alton John, that wasn't the deepest of the deep right.

I could have sat here and I could have given you not only 10 songs as I get comfortable in this uncomfortable couch again Not only 10 I could have given you 10 super obscure songs from 10 obscure albums And they that still could have been fun But these songs are actually you know I hand picked them because I really enjoy listening to them I can parent anyone who has 10 songs and instantly be Satisfied in a good mood be feeling good about my listening so go check it out some of those ten songs and instantly be satisfied in a good mood, be feeling good about my listening. So go check it out. Some of those are really good lyrics and slower. Like I feel like I've got a bowling gun or a rubber fort or I recover your soul. Some of

them are just really good dance songs. They're bangers. Like, but your lip, get up and dance. Wrap her up. call her the cat. Those songs are all like crazy fun to dance to and they're just really fun to listen to. So check those out. That's Halton John. He's amazing for the stuff you know and he's just as amazing for the stuff that you've never heard of. So if you do want to explore him a little bit more, that's my list.

I'm thinking next week, I've also been getting some people because anyone who knows me knows that I go to the movies a ton and I've probably seen, let's see, we're in July. This calendar year alone, I've probably gone to the movies around, to the movies around, I don't know, let's say 40 times, maybe closer to 50, that's 50, that's too high, 40 times, that sounds about right. I've seen a lot of movies, some of them I repeat, but a lot of them not, and it's a lot of movies that I actually will forget about unless I talk about. So, I think I'll make a list of, obviously not all the movies I've seen because that would be ridiculous, but I'll make a list of some of the more notable ones that I saw if I can remember them because there are, you know, it's pretty rare for me to go see a movie and walk away and just be like this was just a total waste of my time. And that's largely because I know what I'm picking

before I pick it's charge. What war is that from? Pick it's charge. We're going to need a fact, check on that later. Maybe the Civil War. I don't even know. But the arms are really coming out here as we get close to midnight. I will make a list of the movies that I've seen this year that I really liked.

I will let you know what they are and what I liked about them. Oh, I was saying I rarely see movies that I don't actually like. There's a couple of exceptions, particularly Jurassic World 2, Falling Kingdom, out in theaters now. Remember in the original Jurassic Park when they find that Stegosaurus poop, that Stegosaurus poop was a much more entertaining piece of shit than Jurassic World 2, Falling Kingdom, excuse my language, but I want to make my feelings on this very clear. It is a terrible movie, it's garbage, I don't understand when they were writing this script,

what was the thought process? It's just say what you want about sequels and cash grabs and all that's fine. But this was just next level garbage. I don't understand. Who thought this was a good idea? In the immortal words of my mortal grandfather, Bill, someone needs to be shot over this. It is a travesty of justice. This, that's all I wanted to talk about as we are

in minute number 47 here, which is pretty long. I look back when I last couple podcasts of them way too long. And I always remember back to my first episode, which was January 13, 2018. Remember saying these podcasts aren't going to be too long, but they're not going to be so short or they're like 15 minutes, but they're not going to be like an hour. And I've had probably like five podcasts hit the hour mark already. This one will not have one other thing to announce and then I'll be done. So some of you know, my summer vacation is finally coming up soon.

I'll be doing a normal podcast throughout the vacation, but I will be doing a special. Probably our third entry into the Bean Town Unplugged Series. This special is going to be lit. It is the roast of Quinn David Furnace coming to you live from the Pacific Northwest. It's going to be conducted by family members. We will see, maybe we're going to get Grandma Sail back on the podcast. Maybe our friend Jack, our brother Jack will come back on the podcast.

He was a star of that cribbage episode as well as our first ever being town unplugged series, which he sang Wonderwall. That was a lot of fun. We're going to get some new characters, new faces on the podcast. Well, you will see if my brother Walter will be making an appearance. We'll see if my sister will be making an appearance. Jane, my mom has been discussed often, early and often

on this podcast. She's, we've had an often on again thing with the subscribing. If she wants, she can make her being Tom podcast debut. Even my dad, there have been rumors that my grandpa Dave might have some zingers for the podcast. It is the roast of Quinn David furnace. So if you have any jokes that you want to roast me on or any stories or anything, you can actually be part of the action.

I'll be happy to distribute those stories, those jokes. I'm completely serious about this to members of the family so they can read them for you, or you can send them directly to them if you know any of my family members. Because it's going to be fun, it's going to be a roast. I don't have the date, I don't have the release date for it specifically specifically yet, but our schedule for the rest of the month and into August next week will be a normal podcast. I have to work in being town. So I'll be doing it from home. And then then week after that, we would come and do live from Anchorage, Alaska, and then the week after that we would come into you live from the Vancouver area. Somewhere in between Anchorage and Vancouver will be the roast of Quinn David Furnace. That's what going to be in between episodes 29 and 30. So look out for that. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. I don't know if there's really anything out there to make fun of me for, but if there is,

my family will find it. I tell you what. So look out for that. Thank you for listening to my podcast, The Bean Town Podcast. Remember to like it. If you actually like it, you think this is funny, you think it's entertaining

or just good listening, then just tell somebody about it. I don't know. I like to wear, in fact I'm wearing right now, my bean town podcast hat. I've got the merch if you want. Hit me up. We do hat shirts, whatever you want. I'll work with you to design it. It's pretty fun. Yeah, tell some people about it. I don't know if you like it. You know. People are always talking about their mainstream podcast, Potsave America and all the other mainstream podcasts, but if you like this one, just don't know. Tell some of you about it, not because I'm trying to become this podcast emperor or something, but I just think it's fun to be able to connect with more people and learn from new people and meet with new people and share in their experiences. I think that's, I don't know, that's really cool.

So talk about it around the water cooler at work if you like it. To be a town podcast, it is the People's Podcast, as voted by you, the fans. This has been Quinn David Furnace. This is my podcast. This is my voice. Thank you for listening to my podcast.

I will be coming to you live next week from home base. And otherwise, that's pretty much what I got for you. I'm going to finish off my Paulo Santomaron, Wood aged Brownale beer. And I'm going to watch this Cubs game and I'm going to crash about half an hour once we get this uploaded I'm going to go to my king size bed because it is much more comfortable than this crappy psychiatrist pull out couch and and I'm gonna keep working tomorrow so thank you for listening I thought the podcast was in like five minutes go it's actually ending now this has been Quinn Dave's furnace I'm signing keep working tomorrow. So thank you for listening. I thought the podcast was in like five minutes ago. It's actually ending now. This has been Quinn Davis-Fernes.

I'm signing off for the night. Enjoy your week, enjoy your weekend, and I will check in on you next week.