Beantown Podcast - 8th Annual Top 10 Horse Names Special (05022025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: May 2, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE with a fresh new list of this year's Top 10 horse names, plus a lot of Wizard of Oz content and more.

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, May 2nd. Duo de Mayo. What's happening? What's going on? Season eight. How are you? My name is Quinn and I am the creator host and chief draper of this program Actually chief painter, you know what? I'm giving myself a set designer and painting credits because I volunteered at a soup kitchen for half of the day on on Wednesday and It was advertised as You know soup kitchen you maybe pack some meals, move some stuff around, move things from point A to point B.

And I was like, okay, I got this. I volunteered at a local food pantry about this time last year and was packing stuff up and moving stuff in and out of the freezer. And, you know, wasn't an expert at it, but felt pretty comfortable. So I show up to the soup kitchen on Wednesday and turns out we're painting the entire time, painting a youth room. So for a couple of hours we first had to prepare. So we put tape around all over

the place and unscrewing outlet covers, whatever you'd call that. And taking lamp fixtures off the wall. That's a great word fixture. You use it like for a lamp or in soccer there are two fixtures that go into like the total aggregate, right? Or a fixture or a staple could be like a key chief component of something. Those are really the three times you use fixture. What an interesting word. But yeah, we painted for a handful of hours. I was painting the ceiling with a big roller and then I had to climb up on a ladder to

paint some trim high above. I was three rungs up and anyone who knows me, I guess we haven't really talked about this I don't think over the course of eight years. My biggest like stereotypical fear is heights. I am not a heights person. Anything with ladders, no thank you. Anything to do with being on a roof is just nearly debilitating to me. So to go up three rungs and do some painting and you're leaning a little bit and it wasn't my thing, but you know what, I toughed it out. And that's because that's what community means to me.

And that's why I was volunteering on Wednesday. A listening discretion advised when you're listening to the Beantown podcast, number one will occasionally use language number two this podcast is Objectively terrible, but hopefully you'll enjoy today. It's one of my favorite shows of the year It is a staple in the bean town collection at this point. It is our eighth annual horse names special And we've got a whole new set of names we have a brand new number one

for this year and we'll be getting into all of that and much more in just a few short minutes here I don't want to delay too much I want to get into that relatively quickly but just a couple of housekeeping things first if you had noticed my voice it I am a little under the weather. It's still very much TBD. If it's allergies, is it a common cold, is it COVID? My first thought was definitely allergies because it was just kind of like, I could tell my eyes were a little itchy and swollen and my throat was tickly. And over the course of the past three days or so, I've dealt with, you know, sore throat's been the biggest thing, but some coughing here and there, voice is not quite up to par, some sniffling, some sneezing but not too bad, I don't know, hay fever, it could be that, but unclear. So I'm toughening

it out. This is, it's debilitating enough, second time we use that word, D-E-B-I-L-I-T-A-T-I-N-G, I think, debilitating, does that sound right? To where I definitely would not have recorded today if not for the Kentucky Derby being tomorrow and wanting these horse names to get out there into the atmosphere. So bear with me as I do my best. They say when you are sick, you're not supposed to drink. And I said, this is my first podcast where I have the ability to drink to get off the wedding diet in five months here. So we are drinking a goddamn, we already say listening discretion, right? Goddamn pigeon porter. That's what it's actually

called from local brewery here, spiteful brewing. Spiteful was kind enough around my birthday back in early March to send me a coupon for, I think it was like eight bucks off. You know, just a general like gift card, like $8 gift card basically because I was turning eight. And I went up to the tap room after work one day just to get a four pack to go and you can, you know, get a four pack of goddamn pigeon porter which is a fantastic dark, rich, oaky oaky smoky oaky and smoky that's right Porter you know with eight bucks off it was like four bucks so that was a early birthday present to me that has not been tapped into until just now so very thankful for the folks up at spiteful for the gift card and happy to

imbibe can't go crazy nor do I really want to but maybe we'll save it for tomorrow. Maybe we'll make some mint juleps. That's what I forgot. I was just at Jule and I was thinking to myself earlier today, you know, I've never had a mint julep. I've never made one. Let me look into it. If you don't know, a mint julep is the primary drink or the kind of main drink they have. It's what Churchill Downs is known for. Kentucky Derby is tomorrow, May 3rd, which is why we're doing this horse name special today. A mint julep is just bourbon,

excuse me, simple syrup, which is just water and sugar, and then mint. I guess I could make a julep I can't make the mint oh julep what is that a flower I don't know what a julep is but I didn't get any fresh mint from jewel I don't know I think I got some dried parsley in the cupboard over there so we could try that I don't know email is bean town podcast at yahoo.com. What's the closest substitute for fresh mint? And maybe we'll try that in tomorrow's mint julep recipe. But yeah, we're toughening it out today. And I do want to

briefly just say thank you to Pakistan. Thank you for making C112, ranked comedy podcast in the greatest Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Don't have a wedding gift, like an official state sponsored gift yet, but it was just five days ago that I got married and you suppose with USPS and I saw a movie once with Tom Hanks where this FedEx plane crashed and so anything can happen out in open ocean. So my gift may be delayed from Pakistan, but that doesn't change how thankful I am for you, Pakistan. Hyderabad, Karachi Pass, Lahore, and much more. That'd be a good tagline. Sometimes on TV, at least here in Chicago, you'll see tourism ads for like Kentucky.

There's always more to do. Or I think a classic one is South Dakota. It's like more than just Black Hills. A couple states that run you know their own like tourism ads. I think Michigan usually has some. Wisconsin I've been seeing, specifically Eagle River, I've been seeing some ads. I'm not sure where exactly those are showing up. It must be on like Peacock or something. Because there's very few things I watch that actually have ads. My YouTube, I use an ad blocker and I guess it's only like streaming services. So probably Macs and Peacock. Those are the two streaming services I use that I get ads on. Although I guess if I'm on my regular worked laptop I wouldn't get

any ads either. So I'm not sure. We'll see. But let's see, let's check off the list here. We said thank you. Let's briefly, just so we can focus on the prize here, say thank you to our sponsors in, or on this program here. So I'm tripping over myself. Just a brief thank you, because I'm trying to save my voice. I'm on vocal rest. Ideally this would have been a show where we had the technology to just have me close my eyes and think about what I wanted to say and some robot voice could just do it. Much like the, I'm thinking like the robot chip implants that Alfred Molina gets in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2. And he's got. And he becomes Doc Ock, right?

And he's got the eight arms, or the four arms, I guess. And he's got four limbs of his own. That's why it's eight. And they kind of have a mind of their own. That's kind of what I want from the Bean Town podcast. Really, any sort of opportunity in life where I don't have to talk is a positive step forward. But we're toughening out regardless. Thank you to Home Pride, Oregon Thank you to cuts by Q and thank you to the Samson Q2u series

It'll pick up my voice even when it's low gravelly and running out of running out of gas running on fumes here Doing my best I've had to talk a lot today and just at the end of the rope, let's put it that way. Maple is in the other room. She's being extra velcro-y to mom, rather, ever since we dropped her off for her mini vacation last weekend while we were getting married. thank you by the way to everyone who came to our nuptials. I don't know, is that N-U-P-T-I-A-L-S? Because you say it like nuptials, right? But it's nuptials more. Nuptials, nuptials. You get that, I don't know where the second ooo sound comes from. Ooo-aa-aa. But Maple's going to be severely disappointed in about four or six days here when we drop her off again doing a little mini moon in Florida, which is a good reminder in my mind

we got to get a show out before we do that. Because the mini moon is very low on technology and very high on just drinks, sleep, beach, relax, and Maple's going to be on vacation again too from us while she's doing that. So she's going to be really pissed off. But that doesn't prevent us from doing Maple's Minute today. And we're talking Kentucky Derby, of course, all day. So Maple's Minute is a little kind of a brain teaser, not even a brain teaser. It's more just a question she might be pondering if we turn on the Kentucky Derby for her tomorrow.

So Churchill Downs, I think, it's like 1 and 3 quarters miles, 1.75. So my question is, how long would it take Maple to run 1.75 miles? She's got good straight line speed. However, it's supposed to be raining down in Louisville, and I don't know how Maple will do in the slop. She really hates puddles.

That's one thing I appreciate about her. We went on a walk this morning, it'd been raining all night, and there's puddles everywhere. And she's pretty good. She's not always 100%. But she's pretty good at identifying puddles and avoiding them. So she's not quite as wet and dirty

as she otherwise could be. We also saw a great, there was a big old puddle in the sidewalk the other day when you're on a walk and I saw a nice little robin just going to town on a birdbath. Just all up in there scrub a dub-dub, three birds in a tub. We used to have like these stone bird baths, I think we had two of them in my childhood backyard growing up And I don't know if I Don't know how much real action they actually got but decorative I guess you would say But Maples minute again, how long would it take maple to run 1.75 miles?

probably a lot slower if she was being ridden by a 120 pound Chilean man but assuming she was going bareback I don't know what do you guys think a little 18 pound dog she doesn't she wouldn't have the endurance she's not trained up she hasn't been trained by Bob Baffert who's coming back after a three-year ban to the Kentucky Derby she's trained by Quinn going to the park going off leash like two to three times a month. That's Maples training plan. She's kind of like me. She doesn't, you know, she's got good like long-term cardio but quick sprinter and then she'd

get really tired. So I think it would take her a second. I mean, when I think about like how far she could sprint in one little leg, I mean, probably like a 16th of a mile would be the most she could do. So she's got a lot more work to do. The horses do it in what two minutes give or take a little more than two. I think it'd probably take Maple like seven or eight minutes to get her on that track. She'd be really tired. She doesn't hydrate enough. That's Maple's biggest issue. You can give Maple like half a cup of water and she'll be good for three days. And then her eating schedule too. Man, she just... Sometimes she eats, sometimes she doesn't. It's very unpredictable. That's Maple's Minute of the Week. I also... And this is a very... This is an overly spicy

take just for the sake of being spicy, but this week's hot take of the week, and I'm going to piss off some people, and I'm also, this show's my own good fortune, I guess. Weddings are not that stressful. You're just unorganized. Now, yes, we gave ourselves two months, two years rather, not two months, 23 months essentially to plan a wedding, to get married, and there were some times where it was stressful and we paid for a day of coordinator which

handled or mitigated a lot of the stress. But generally speaking, all these people out there who are like, oh my god, planning a wedding is the worst. It's so hard. And it's like, you know what? Weddings can be tough. There's a lot of things you can't control. Bride zillas, mothers-in-law who are out there. And my wife handled a lot of, a lot of stuff that never even came across my desk. And I'm very grateful for that. But generally speaking, you can handle it. If you have good project management skills, good communication skills, you stay organized,

you get a spreadsheet, you're good at email, you're good at communicating. You don't take yourself too seriously. So if this flower's here, if that flower is not there, or I don't know, you run out of vodka that happened at our wedding, who would have guessed you'd run out of vodka? You just say, yeah, whatever. Just I'll have what he's having, right? That's what Harry said to Sally. I'll have what he's having. Classic quotes. I think it's what she's having, but I've never seen one here in Met Sally, so don't ask me to quote it. You complete me? What is that, Mission Impossible 2? No, it's Jerry Maguire. Mission Impossible

Dead Reckoning Part 2, aka Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning. It was supposed to be Dead Reckoning Part 2, now it's just The final reckoning. It's coming out this weekend, a couple more weekends. Where are we at? It's May 2nd. I'm pumped. With Maple now, unfortunately, it's not going to be a theatrical experience. It's going to be the first one in probably,

I think the last one I didn't see in theaters was Mission Impossible 3. So I've seen the last four in theaters. Ghost Protocol I saw with my family, where he climbs Burj Khalifa. And then Rogue Nation, Fallout, and Dead Reckoning 1 I saw by myself, I believe. We should do maybe next week. This could be good.

Mission Impossible is ranked. It's a healthy franchise. I've never seen the TV show either, but for as crazy as Mr. Cruise is, he's a fantastic actor, does his own stunts, this all goes without saying, and it's the ultimate can you separate the man from the craft. It'd be like if Hitler was a really good painter. What if Hitler painted the Mona Lisa? Would it still be in the Louvre? Probably not. But it's not really apples to apples because as far as we know, Tom Cruise hasn't really murdered millions of people. It's more of what goes on behind closed doors in Scientology. It's

unclear like what is the ultimate goal of Scientology? It's just like everything you hear about it is bad and like you know MLMs and scams and like intimidation and fear. It's like what's the point like is it just like another form of capitalism where like the rich people at the top get a ton of benefits and everyone else is just screwed over? Or what am I missing here? For any of my Scientology friends out there, I don't know if Chloe Fineman is listening or Tom Cruise or even Leah Romini.

I know you're out now, thank God. But if you wanted to shed some more light, I never got around to reading her book. Go ahead and email us, bintanpodcast at yahoo.com. Again, that's bintanpodcast at yahoo.com. Okay, one other thing. I just remembered I wrote this down because it happened late last night. I had taken some Nyquil and I don't remember where did this pop up from. Something happened in like the background of a show or someone made mention of a song. Here's what it was. Someone like made mention of a song, whatever it's called, Down the Road or something. It's like a somewhat famous song and if you don't know it from just my awful explanation,

what I'm trying to get at, we're talking about The Wiz. So it's a musical based on The Wizard of Oz, but it's for lack of a much better term, I apologize in advance, blackified. So it's like the Wizard of Oz, but it's the black experience. The Wiz, and there's a song, Ease On Down the Road, that's what it is. Someone made mention of it in a TV show I was watching. And I was like, I've heard this song before, I had no idea it was from The Wiz. And then that got me thinking, I have absolutely zero idea anything about The Wiz. If you had asked me to like rattle off facts 24 hours

ago, I would have been like, I got nothing. I know it's like a black version of The Wizard of Oz and that's all I know. Well, I get to, in the song, in case you're curious what song is it, it's like, ease on down, ease on down to rule, ease on down, ease on down. I've heard that song before. I never knew it was from The Wiz, obviously I've never seen it. And then I just went down a Wikipedia rabbit hole about The Wiz, it was a musical and then they made a movie out of it

in like the 70s I think it was, 80s maybe. And I came across, so what is it? Diana Ross is Dorothy. The Scarecrow second build, Michael Jackson, which I knew Michael Jackson was in the Wiz, but I hadn't really thought about it. So I had to look it up. I was like, OK, Michael Jackson is the Scarecrow.

Rest in peace. What did he look like? Was this more of a 1940s Wizard of Oz? Or was this more of like a Kill and Murphy, 2005 Batman Begins? What are we dealing with here? If you have never looked up Michael Jackson as a scarecrow, you've never seen that image. Let's just say it's doing its job, because if I was a bird or if I was just a human at like 10 p.m. living off of some NyQuil and, oh, I went double duty.

Don't tell my PCP, I took NyQuil and a, what's it called, the melatonin last night. Not good, totally zonked, worked like a charm. Trying to get through this sickness here. But when I saw that picture, and I've never seen The Wiz again, obviously, but when I saw that picture, I know I'm 45 years late to this, of Michael Jackson as a scarecrow,

I was just like, what the hell am I looking at? He's got Let's just put it this way There's a lot going on. I can't even recall everything that's like in the outfit. There's just a lot happening So I implore you I am PL o re To go look up Michael Jackson in the Wiz or if you've seen it, but it's been you know, 35 years Whatever look it up again because there's just to go look up Michael Jackson and the Wiz, or if you've seen it but it's been 35 years, whatever, look it up again, because there's this...

The whole Michael Jackson experience, I feel bad, because I'm sure he got shafted in many regards, just from a life perspective, but the whole Michael Jackson thing just creeps me out, man. And even when he was still alive, because he died when I was like 13, 14, something like that, towards and I think I don't think this is a hot take, towards the end of his life he was just very creepy. The white skin, the sunglasses,

the strange high-pitched voice, the weird stuff for the kids, the whole Neverland thing, it was just it's because that's like that's the Michael I grew up with, right? I wasn't old enough to... Obviously I had knowledge of Jackson 5 and Thriller and stuff, and I even had those songs in my iPod. So I knew that was Michael Jackson. But in terms of his public persona and perception, I only knew the creepy, pale-skinned Michael Jackson with sunglasses and the thousand nose jobs and holding his kid out the window and just, man, the whole thing spooked me.

Not to the same extent as Marilyn Manson. I don't know if anyone can explain what's going on there. It's just, it's like a childhood nightmare, right? It's like, here's how you would dress up if you're trying to spook children. So, rest in peace, Michael in Maryland. I don't even know what he's up to these days. You think he's just like, is he like Gene Simmons? He only does the makeup when it's time to perform and otherwise he's just like a normal dude waking up in Malibu drinking his coffee? Who knows? Speaking of coffee, one last

thing they were doing our horse names. Special shout out, speaking of weddings, to my dear friends and you know them from this show Ryan Austin Liggin and Kristen English for a couple of reasons. One, came to our wedding, which is baller. Two, Kristen successfully defended her thesis. She is Dr. Kristen more or less now. So congratulations, Kristen. But then they also for our bridal shower slash wedding bought us a Mocha master, which if you don't know is a really expensive coffee machine. And they have one and it's awesome. Great cup of coffee every time I'm over in Johnson Creek. And so we're going to set that up soon here, but now we have a mocha master.

And thank you to Ryan and Christian. And they left, you know, we had like a photo booth that did photos and videos at the wedding and Ryan and Christian left a fantastic video message. And it really got me thinking, you know, back in the day, these guys had a podcast, I think they started their podcast like a month after I started mine, Car Ride Convo's podcast, and then they streamed on Twitch for a long time during the pandemic. And then Kristen got understandably very busy with school. But man, if you guys are out there listening, or if you are a fan of any Ryan and Kristen content before they

really stopped creating much in the last year or two or three years, I guess now, we want them back. Bring them back. Whatever it's a Twitch channel or a podcast or something brand new or audiobooks, whatever it might be. I miss your guys' content. We will consume that all day long. and we'd love to get you back on the show as well. We used to get Ryan on every year for the Oscar special and that was when both Ryan and I were really plugged into the movies and it's less so these days, but great people and good on-air talent. Man, those two can just talk. I will listen to whatever they do. So shout out to Ryan and Kristen. It's been a while since we gave you guys a shout out.

Okay, you waited long enough. We're going to get into it. So here's the context. Ever so briefly, because I know at least, you know, from our wedding, it got some shout outs. I did not pay to have the podcast plugged. In my mind, the podcast was completely separate from anything wedding related. And there were some speeches and toasts and podcasts got some traction. So I know we have some new listeners. Thank you for tuning in. You're curious. Hey, Quinn, you said the podcast was going to be about XYZ. It's been 25 minutes. You haven't talked about it yet. Is that common? I say, yes, I'm sorry. You're lucky you didn't get a full ad read. But I've always found just generally speaking,

zooming out real quick, horse names to be just a fascinating concept because it's kind of no rules. Anything goes. You can spell words however you want. It can be phrases. It can be single words. And you're like, what makes a good horse name? It's just a vibe. That's all you can really say about it. Having a good horse name is just a vibe and you either get it or you don't. And so I always, you know, growing up and you know, I love just catching like the Triple Crown races, Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. That's the only thing I ever interact with, only time I ever interact with horses or horse racing at all throughout the year, just those three races. But I was like, you know, if I had a horse, I would name it Episcopalian. I always feel like that's like such a great name. Like, excuse me, feeds into my religious upbringing. It's a great single word. Usually

the single, single word names are the best. Not always. I'll reveal our ultimate top number one list here in a little bit here once we go through this year's top 10. But it's just such a fun, unique culture. I said, you know what? Every year in the Beantown podcast leading into Kentucky Derby, let's do a, just come up with 10 great horse names. These are not like, oh, I was reading the odds for this week's Kentucky Derby and I loved these horse names that were in there. No, these are completely made up, creative, from my own mind. And then in the past four or five years, we've started reserving one slot for listener submissions

as well. So one of the top 10 will be from you all the listeners. Love that listener engagement. But I'm a big fan of everybody plays, everybody wins Illinois lottery style. So if you did submit a name, in fact, that reminds me to do one last scan of email and Instagram, because those were the primary places. If you're not friends with me on Instagram, q.queend, go ahead and request me and let me know you're here for the Beantown Podcast,

because there's not a separate one for the Beantown Podcast. That's just kind of ridiculous. So it's just me personally. Let's make sure we've got all the name submissions we want here. Yep, there we go. OK. And you are still welcome to submit a name after the fact.

If you're listening to this and you haven't submitted, that means you missed the boat on this year's, but you can get it in for next year, or if you really want it to be read just next week, we can do that as well. But my promise to you all, the listeners, if you submit a name, it's getting read live on air. Whether I get it, whether I think it's's amazing or whether I'm just like I don't

get it doesn't matter if you throw something in while we're still at this grassroots stage you know we're only eight years in give give me another 50 years and then we'll really be taken off but we'll read every name live on air that's my promise to you and then we'll save one that was submitted to go into our top 10 list so thank you to the listeners who did chime in. We got a lot of great listener engagement. I'm not just saying that. Here were some of the or all of the names that were suggested from listeners.

Again, thank you for submitting. We have and I guess I could reveal names. Yeah, why not? You know, you should get credit from my wife, my wife. I've never seen Borat, but I guess I could reveal names. Yeah, why not? You know, you should get credit. From my wife, my wife, I've never seen Borat, but I know the reference. We have Tom Sandoval, Jr. The Bravo heads will appreciate that one. From Steve F. Don't know a Steve F. No, it's my dad and the officiant of my wedding. This is, Steve F added a really nice touch because this is something you can do with horse names.

I mentioned there's no limits. You can do whatever you want punctuation wise. You can add an apostrophe where it doesn't belong or you can make it all caps as Steve F did for morning wood. Morning wood all caps and it is W O O D. It could have been it would have been nice if it was like M O U R N I N-N-I-N-G or if it was W-O-U-L-D But you know you don't have to get crazy with spelling. We have a couple from super fan Joaquin Nolasco Some of his he's got three suggestions one Brown Quinney two Vowed Chai Q That's CHI not like the T-C-H-A-I. Or 312 Quincast.

I don't try to like toot my own horn or promote my own brand with these horse names. I'll let Joaquin do that for me. Joaquin, thank you for your submissions as always. From my aunt-in-law, I guess, my mother-in-law's sister, we have Jump On It. It's probably a Sugarhill gang reference Apache jump on jump on it let's see we have some for my co-worker Jen she's she's hot on the trail and she might be listening to this right now she says oh this is a great reference she this is where Jen's digging into the lore she's been

listening for a couple weeks here she She knows the references. This is great. We're building out the Beantown lore. First up is Orlando Knows. That was a reference to our hot take of the week one or two weeks back. Next up, I like this because it sounds like one word but it's two. It sounds French. Perrier. That's Perry as in Katy Perry and then space and then the word air A I R. 11 minute B O. That's probably a in Katy Perry and then space and then the word air a IR 11 minute Bo That's probably a reference to something. I don't even remember. That's a great thing. It's like I get some of these I don't get other ones and I just do my best, you know 11 minute Bo

carman crossing kar man crossing And this is inspired by sexism sexism sex in the city sexism César Mujeres I love that I'm in you know Duolingo Spanish camp my Spanish score is like 54 right now so I know what that means six ladies and then inspired by maple we have maples IET that's a good one M-A-P-L-E-X-I-E-T-Y, maple ziety. From Abby F., we have Usain Colt. That's a good one.

Kind of a classic pun. I don't know if Usain would get royalties on that or not, but that's a good one. And then we have one more listener suggestion, but that's the one that made it into our top 10. And I will give you a sneak peek. It was a really good one. It made it all the way to number three Which I think is probably the highest a listener suggestion has ever made it and I don't know exactly

But here we go guys we made it to the top 10 listen I'm gonna let you know I'm fighting through the tears right now The last night wasn't quite as bad but winst night was really rough. I think we're headed there For another night like this tonight where your throat just gets to the point where it's just like straight up razor blades. Just really painful. Not terribly dissimilar from the two times I've gotten tonsillitis, which were the two times I lived in Baltimore. Thankfully, my tonsils are not engorged nor enlarged as they were back then.

Tonsils are normal size, it's just redness back there. Maybe it's strep? Probably not, because I feel like strep you get like the little white pussy stuff in the back of your tongue too, right? That's like the strep thing. I don't know. Without further ado, we're going to do our top 10, and we're going to remind you of what our all-time list of number ones is. We have eight total running now, and then we'll finish up with our trivia question. That's the agenda to close out the show. And I tried to add context to each one of these where I can. Some of these were things that like came up in quite literally like June of last year. And so I scribbled down little notes as I start creating the list 12 months out and some of the times I remember what the notes mean and

sometimes I don't. So I'm just gonna do my best. But without further ado at minute 33, minute 34, this is the list one by one. Coming in at number 10, probably the one with a least amount of explanation needed it's popped up in what June I believe it was July maybe it's less funny now because we're living in it but the horse name coming in number 10 concepts of a plan you'll recall it one of the presidential debates either the first one or the second one, I can't remember if it was Biden or Kamala, but when asked about his plan for healthcare

reform, Trump said, I have concepts of a plan. And it's been what, 102 days, something like that. And there hasn't been any mention of healthcare reform. There's been a lot of arresting Supreme Court justices and deporting people, but not a lot of health care reform, but it's okay. We're making America grande otraves. Rachel's here. She's got chips and dip, and we read Tom Sandoval Jr. live on air. Everybody submits, everybody wins. All right. Number nine. This was from the only note I have on this in parentheses says

Presbyterian so I don't remember exactly where this came from but number nine is General Baptist. It's like you go to church and you're a Baptist, but you're not like a Southern Baptist, you're more just a General Baptist. Like we knew some people who, I knew one of the homeschool families at our co-op growing up was a preacher at a church on the west side of Rockford. But it wasn't a Southern Baptist church because it was in northern Illinois, you know, pretty close to Canada. And so that's just General Baptist. What I like about General Baptist too is it kind of reminds me of my pediatrician who is Sri Lankan. His name was Errol Baptist, E-R-R-O-L, and I like to imagine Errol as like a Sri Lankan military general back in like the 50s when the whole like British India

thing was coming apart and Mahatma Gandhi after the whole Rudyard Kipling thing. I like to imagine Errol wearing stripes and fighting in Colombo. Is that the capital of Sri Lanka? I don't remember. There was a whole Sri Lankan independence war, right? That was a thing. Was it like 1948, something like that?

I don't know. But that general baptism it take on more of the religious meaning, or you can be fighting the British Indians? There you go. That's General Baptist number nine. Number eight. Oh, this is great.

If you're getting hungry, I've got a solution for you. This comes from kind of an uncommon place. We don't usually draw names from ad campaigns, but this was too good to pass up much like this food from Panera Bread. Coming in at number eight, we have ciabatta dipper. He's Italian. His jockey is Italian. He eats a lot of carbs just like me drinking my goddamn pigeon porter. That's right. Chibata CIA B a T T a Chibata Dipper And I don't know if that's still around I know how long it lasted or if it's become a permanent fixture there you go There's fixture again on the Panera menu, but Chibata Dipper is just what it sounds like. It's basically breadsticks

Panera just reinvented breadsticks and they said let's call them ciabatta dippers. So it's a fun name. Be a good nickname for a child, ciabatta dipper. If he was a little bambino, ciabatta dipper. That was number eight. Number seven, this comes from the book of Exodus. This is lifted right from the scrolls, from the text. Number seven, I think we came up with this about a year ago. It is habit of gore-ing. Habit, H-A-B-I-T of gore-ing, G-O-R-I-N-G. To gore is to like, I don't know, imagine you are an elephant and some poacher, Don Trump Jr. is trying to shoot you down and you speared him with your tusk. Your tusk.

Your tusk went right into his ribs and punctured a lung. That's essentially what gore-ing is. Similar to mauling. Goring, mauling, spearing, all similar. We used to have, back in the very early days of PC, I think we were running Windows 98 and my uncle Jim, I think it was from my uncle Jim, actually, I don't know. One of my mom's brothers probably had gone on safari and hunted some, I don't know, emus, not ebus, emus. What are the, what's some examples of African deer with big longhorns? Impalas? Let's say impalas, okay. And what I'm about to say now really has nothing to do, very little to do with that, but we had a hunting video game. But this

was very like 2D. You like drive in a car and then you like pull up your gun with a scope and you're supposed to hunt, I don't know, elephants, giraffes, natives. I'm not sure who you're supposed to shoot. But if you didn't do a good job, the lions, presumably, or maybe the hyenas, I'm thinking, like Whoopi Goldberg from Lion King, they would gore you or maul you. I don't remember if it was gored or mauled. Hard to know.

This was before Phantom Menace, and so I wasn't as familiar with the term maul in general in general but yeah habit of gore-ing is something that happened in Exodus quite a bit I don't remember whose habit it was but someone was a habitual gore that's tough to say it's like rural juror from 30 Rock habitual gore a good one coming in six. Oh, this is misspelled here. It's embarrassing, but it changes the phonetics of it, so we have to make an adjustment. This is from my, we've already talked, this big, big episode for the Wizard of Oz heads. All you bomb, bomb nation, Frank bomb nation out there, who has already talked The Wiz, and now we're going to talk the wickedly talented Adele Tazi. I'm dying here, I'm running out of gas. This is from

Wicked. It's Tin Man Kin is the name. Tin Man is one of the characters in Wicked but he's not a Tin Man yet. He's actually, I don't know, who's the Tin Man in Wicked? Rachel hasn't seen it yet. Well you got Bach Woodsman. That's who it is, it's Bach Woodsman. So who becomes the Scarecrow? It's, I don't know, someone else else yeah I just don't remember is he's a munchkin this do you guys know this the scarecrow is a munchkin I feel like when

you watch og wizard of Oz or even that Zach Braff one which I've never seen with Mila Kunis and Allison no Michelle Williams it's unclear that the scarecrow is actually a munchkin, but apparently in like OG Frank Baum novels, munchkins weren't quite as tiny as they're portrayed as in the 1940s film with Liza Minnelli's mom. What's her name? Dorothy Parker? No. Judy Garland.

Thank you. I never saw the biopic with Renee Zellweger yeah we got our fact checker back Rachel and Maple are back Maple's wondering when supper is happening 6.03 p.m. we got to get started on that our ZD has to bake it's okay we're almost done but yeah if you were a tin man, don't get me started on how you would procreate. Sounds rusty. You ever have those? I had a bed in college that was really squeaky like that. I guess sometimes our beds are like that too. You gotta sharpen the... not sharpen, TMI.

Not sharpen the screws, tighten the screws. That's what you gotta sharpen the not sharp TMI not sharpen the screws tighten the screws that's what you got to do yeah but if you were a kid of a tin man Bach jr. BJ BJ Woodsman mmm sound like see it sounds like he owns a lumber company Bach Woodsman and tin man kin that's our sixth name all right we made it through the top the first five five. Here comes number five. This was a actually not an official listener suggestion because I just pulled it, but a shout out to my well my brother Walt is the one who wrote the term and then my brother or cousin Mackinday or Mackinday as my late grandfather would have called him, was doing his PhD defense, MIT PhD in physics. That's about, if you ask me, what's the smartest degree you could ever have, excuse me, it

would be Yale Law, physics, MIT, or I don't know, like Divinity School from Oxford or something like that. They know a lot about the Lord out there. But we were zooming in to my cousin, Macindae's defense, thesis defense. And I think my brother Walt was brave enough to ask a question, which is really bold when you're asking a physics related question to someone who's been studying physics for like 15 years. But the term he used, and I don't, I couldn't really tell you what this means, but it's a fun term to have and it's a great one word horse name. Number five is super diffusion.

S-U-P-E-R-D-I-F-F-U-S-I-O-N. I don't know, I'm just imagining like a hadron reactor. Is that a thing? H-A-D-R-O-N. I think that's a type of nuclear reactor, but hadron is fun to say. And you got all those molecules swirling about, tornadic shape, and they're doing a whole lot of super diffusing. So if you were a horse and you were named super diffusion you'd probably be really fast because your atomic molecules presumably could you know burn through your fuel sources with high efficiency. So that's why super diffusion is number five. Number four, back to religion for the last time

on this list I promise. I guess we had what? Two here, three, two and a half. Number four, this is probably the only one where I got fun with spelling. Well, I had a couple of them. Number four, Gregorian chance, but it's not chance. It's chance as in roll the dice,

take a chance on me as Abba would say take a chance take a chance take a chance take a chance take a chance take a chance Gregorian chance what if he did a Gregorian chant version of Abba's take a chance on me he would have to be very slowed down we did uh you know in school, you go through like six sections of music theory, six sections of group piano, six sections of ear training. But the sections of music theory were rolled into musicology, aka music history as well. So it'd be like half, you focus a lot on music theory first and then you kind of get the basics down and over the course of the two years, six quarters it transforms into music theory more.

But I think it's either the second or the third year you focus almost exclusively on 16th through 18th century music, basically everything up until Bach and gosh, it's a lot of madrigals and chants, Gregorian chance, and just a lot of other stuff that is not exciting as well. Shout out to, oh gosh, we had a professor who's still there. Judy, I think her name is. I don't recall. I think I'm friends with her on Facebook. She's a musicologist. And she was really passionate about it, so she did her best. But yeah, I spent a whole 10 weeks learning Gregorian chants. And I had to give a presentation on one of those guys. I don't know. I can't remember his name. It shows how much it stuck. But

yeah, if you are pre-JS Bach, you're really out there. Everything's played on a harpsichord or whatever they had back then in the 17th century royal palaces of Verona. I don't know. Lutes, a lot of lutes, L-U-T-E-S. Gregorian Chances number four, which brings us to our listener entrant of the year. This came in at the last hour, the 11th hour as they would say, on a 12 hour time system. This is from my brother Jack F. This is right up his alley. Number three, it's a fantastic horse name. In many other years, this could have made it to number one. Let's just put it that

way. If I saw this in the Kentucky Derby tomorrow, I wouldn't blink twice because this is a fantastic horse name. Jack got the assignment. Tip of the cap. Number three, it is legalese, which is like when you're speaking like a lawyer, but you soup it up a little bit. Legalese kind of looks like Legolas, which brings us back to the whole Orlando Bloom thing we were talking about earlier. But it's a great horse name. Legalese and number three are listener discretion, listener, listener entrant of the year. Congratulations to Jack F. There'll be a special prize in your inbox tomorrow. Probably not. You can imagine it.

Which brings us to number two. Like most good ideas, I got this from Dancing with the Stars. I think I was watching with Rachel. Maybe we were on the lookout for Family Matters star Reginald Vail Johnson or someone else. But this particular program, this particular show we were watching involved a segment where you could be brought back from elimination

or something like that. And in order to do that, you really had to dance your ass off. There's not any ordinary dance to come back from the brink of elimination. You had to dance, coming in at number two this year, the redemption cha-cha. Imagine losing to a horse named redemption cha-cha. That would be humiliating. Oh, he was on the, he was on, Tom Sandoval Jr. didn't even make the top 10. He was just honorable mentions.

This is an exclusive list. It's tough, but everyone gets read on air. It's okay. It's all right. We got to get you a mic. People will love when they can hear what you say. Oh, we have a mic. We just got to plug you in.

That's number two, Redemption Cha Cha. So to recap from 10 to two, where are we? We have a mic, we just got to plug you in. That's number two, Redemption Cha Cha. So to recap, from 10 to two, where are we? We have number 10, concepts of a plan. Number nine, General Baptist, eight, Chibata Dipper. Seven, habit of, this is the easier one to bend myself. Seven, habit of goreing. Six, Tin Man Kin. That says Tim Man Kin.

Originally it said Tin Man Kim, like the Rudyard Kipling novel. I guess it was listening to me talk about the Sri Lankan Civil War. Number five, Super Diffusion. Four Gregorian chants, three legalese, two redemption cha-cha. That leaves us with number one. It actually made a last second spelling change, if you will, because I thought it would be more fun this way. I've mentioned this once or twice before.

I have been listening, re-listening to the Scott Ferrell biography audio book, which yours truly recorded over 30 painstaking hours during COVID. And if you're new to the show, Scott was this guy I knew in high school. He's about 10, 15 years older than me. He ran an opera company out of Rockford, which was just awfully low budget, really terrible. Scott doesn't have music background. It's just, imagine really it's like David Cross's character Tobias in Arrested Development trying to get into acting and theater.

That's essentially what we're dealing with here. Oh, Walgreens is calling. Maples Gabapentin is ready. That's essentially what we're dealing with here. Oh, Walgreens is calling. Maples Gabapentin is ready. That's good. But one of Scott's, and he wrote an autobiography, which has about 400 pages, and I recorded the whole thing. It's unlisted on YouTube, so don't get sued. You can get the links if you text me. I'll provide it to you. But one of Scott's favorite phrases to use, which isn't like a terribly, it's not like he invented this phrase or anything like that,

but he just overuses it so much. And he's obsessed with having the perfect show, even though every show he's ever had has been just terrible. In my experience, oh, I played piano for one of his shows. That was my only interaction with Scott. He loves the term stage business as in, am I supposed to be stage left, stage right? I need something to do. I need something to do

with my hands. What hat am I wearing? I need more stage business. He'd always complain when he would be in other people's operas about not having enough stage business. So I added a D to the end of stage instead of stage business. This is staged business. And that's our number one horse name for the year. Staged business. A tip of the cap to Scott Farrell. Which brings us to our all time horse name. It's like Pokemon. You beat the Elite Four, your Pokemon go into the Hall of Fame. And you gotta sit there and watch them, and it'll be like two Pokemon you actually used a lot, and then it'll be like the level five Pidgey

you've been using for Fly ever since you beat Erika or whomever. Here we go, trip into the archives. Our first year 2018, we had Episcopalian. 2019 was Pentatuck. 2020 Irregardless. 2021 Intensive Purposes. 2022 Flamingo Phlebotomy. 2023 Dreadnought. Last year, 2024, we had Fugue State. 2025, this year's number one horse name is Staged Business. Although I will say, I probably have felt this every year, but I felt really strong. There were some great names here. I mean,

the listener suggestions were strong. Legalese was one of my favorites I've ever seen. For a while, I was really feeling ciabatta dipper and almost wanted to make that number one, but fell into number eight. And Redemption Cha Cha, I mean, it's just, how can you top that? But someone's got to be number one. So this year, the honor went to staged business. We are two years away from having an all-time, this is like AFIs, 100 laughs, 100 tears, or whatever, an all-time top 10, top 10, which would be pretty cool. It's like horse names squared so that's the top 10 list for this year and to cap us off I have a

relatively simple trivia question for the map heads out there we've been talking Kentucky Derby we talked Kentucky so my question is very simply name and I'll give you the number, you just fill in the names, name the seven states that border Kentucky. Excuse me. That's it. Seven states border Kentucky. Excuse me, doesn't matter which order you go in, but there are seven states that border

Kentucky. So if you want any more time, go ahead and pause. Maybe we should do the car talk thing where they give you the trivia question at the end of the episode like we do but then they don't reveal the answer till the start of the next one. That could be intriguing. Something to consider for future episodes but I don't want to forget because inevitably what's gonna happen, I will read the question and I'll start next week's episode before I make a habit of it and then I'll never be able to answer and people will just be out there in agony screaming at their

Google nests or however you listen to the Bean Town podcast I don't know it's not my it's not my my place to ask I think that's enough time. Starting with Illinois is number one. And going clockwise goes Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and just a little bit of Missouri. So there you go again, the seven states that border Kentucky, we have Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and Missouri. So there you go. Again, the seven states that border Kentucky. We have Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and Missouri. That's what I got for you guys. My voice is far beyond its last legs, like a horse when you shoot it. That's what we're going to do.

Except instead of getting shot, I'm going to go make some baked CD. So pretty similar. That was our eighth annual Horse Names special. Thank you so much everyone who submitted their names. I had a lot of fun reading them. You can still submit names. Maybe we'll read them next week, maybe next year, who knows. But you missed the boat on the eighth year special at least. This is my show, Queen of Inferno Presents, the Bean Town podcast. This would be a good time to get our outro music playing and a good time for me to go on vocal rest the remainder of the night. Thanks so much for tuning into

my program. Stay safe, stay sane. Check in on you next time. Bye. So So So Thank you.