Beantown Podcast - Election Special 2024 (11012024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: November 1, 2024

This episode had everything: The Hanson Brothers, Beetlejuice, election picks, Trader Joe's Scotch, and so much more!

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, November 1st, 2024. Last show before election day. And probably only have five or six more shows before we actually know who is president. Whom is president. Correct grammar. I hope everyone's preparing, bending down the hatches. Great term. Because regardless of what happens, Trump is going to say that he won. And it's just going to be a national shit show. I hesitated because I knew I didn't want the FCC on my ass, but there are some things that are more important than FCC fines, right? And that's appropriate

verbiage. A listener discretion is advised when listening to the meantime podcast. I'm warning you occasionally some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. It's also, I'm watching the sunset right now, golden hour here. One of the last great sunsets with some excellent foliage action outside. Some of the trees here have completely lost their leaves. Others are a nice shade of mahogany, amber, gold even. But this is also, it's 5.03 PM and I think this is what, it's 5.03 p.m. and I think this is what, it's Friday, so it's the second to last sunset after 5 p.m. until what, March, something like that. Because daylight savings time kicks in or de-kicks in, kicks out. You can kick in, but you don't kick out as often. This Saturday, don't forget, you get...

If you ever felt like on November 3rd at 2am, you really wanted a chance to do it all over again. You're going to get that chance. That's one of my favorite things in life. How for us countries who do daylight savings time you just get you know once a year you lose you lose 2 a.m. and you're just kind of like what happened life has passed me by and then six months later you get to say I get a chance at redemption I get to 2 a.m. that's that's what life's all about Charlie Brown. I want to say hello to our friends in Pakistan. I don't know if Pakistan is free and fair elections, although I don't know if we're really in free and fair election mode here in the United States at this point.

I don't know, we're somewhere in between Russia and I don't know who's got the freest elections of all. Like a middle school where every kid gets a vote and that's it. Although hey man that's even far off because I remember one time in Hallstrom homeschool workshops as we're sipping on a Surly Furious here. I purchased these Surly Furious from our local liquor store maybe like two or three months ago and it's the sort of thing where I went through five in two weeks, two, three weeks, and then there's just been one sitting

in the back of the fridge for forever. And I decided today was gonna be the day when I polished it off. And I decided today was going to be the day when I polished it off. And we're double fisting with a glass of Scotch. Trader Joe's brand, in case you're wondering how wide I opened up the wallet this week. That's what we're doing here. But I wanted to mention there was, I was, I don't know, Student Council Hallstrom Homeschool Workshop Switch.

If you're listening, if you've made it through seven, almost seven complete years of being to a podcast and you're still listening to this crap, first and foremost, thank you, Pakistan, because you're probably our biggest funder at this point. Thank you for making us the 100 and, what was it, 12th, 14th? I can't remember at this point. The rankings changed so much. Comedy podcast in the great Islamic Republic with free and fair elections of Pakistan, Hyderabad, Karachi

Pass. That's not well. There's Khyber Pass. Does Karachi have a pass too? I don't know. You go up to Minnesota or watch in Fargo season three right now and there's Eden Prairie, Eden Valley, Eden Gardens. Sounds like either a Minnesota-based porn star

or a landscaping company. But I must have been, I don't know, I was running on a ticket, right? You got to vote by party, down the line. What did they call it, down the ticket? Good friend of the show, Matt Fiedler, I think was part of that as well. I was with it with my brother Jack.

And I think, I don't know if we all got nixed. I think Matthew was more well-liked amongst the student council czar. Shout out Robin McDonald. Don't know what you're up to these days, Robin. But sometimes got along great. Other times just didn't seem to click. I don't know.

And it was like election day, which must be in April or something every year, because you do elections for the next year. And Jack and I, at the very least, I don't know if a friend of the show, Matt, if you're listening, let us know. Email us, bintownpodcast at yahoo.com. Again, that's bintownpodcast, yahoo.com.

We were struck from the ballot. It's one of those things that this is basically political violence. Yahoo.com. Again, that's Beantem and Podcast, Yahoo.com. We were struck from the ballot. It's one of those things that it's this is basically political violence. You know, back then you're a little kid, it's kind of like, oh, that's, and I remember being really upset about it. Whereas to let you know, like exactly what happened, basically, we, you know, you campaign, you can be fun with it, you, we print out posters, put that stuff up. So you do that like a week, two weeks, leading up to actual election day. And then election day came and I remember like,

I don't think we were like in the meeting yet where everyone had to vote for, you know, president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, his coordinator, which is not like a handmade, you know, designated jerker offer. That's not what his coordinator means. It's a homeschoolers impacting society was our community service wing. And they did like one project a semester. And one of them was just raking leaves around the church. Were we impacting society?

Yes. But basically we were impacting the church that we already paid rent to. So I don't know how much of an impact that was. The whole thing with raking leaves, anyway, that's like the lowest form of community service. It's just organic waste. It's going to get, I don't know, moths or pill bugs, or a wave of locusts will clear it out. Very biblical locusts, grass hoppers, crickets, whatever those plagues were, frogs, blood in the water. You know

God's gonna take care of those leaves real quick. He doesn't need homeschoolers to do it. To finish the story essentially we were pulled aside by Robin, Mrs. McDonald, and told minutes before the election was supposed to take place that we weren't eligible and I mentioned his I hadn't even got there yet I think it had something to do with we hadn't hadn't turned in our his credits the proper way something like that I think our mail-in ballots got lost in the mail, which is appropriate. We'll put a cap on that Hallstrom homeschool nightmare, HHSN, not HHSW. Speaking of mail-in ballots, obviously it's election day this Tuesday and we're gonna get into Quinn picks the states. I'm not gonna pick the whole

thing because like 45 of the states, everyone already knows how it's going to go. And you don't want to sit there probably. I don't want to sit here and have me predict how Montana or Vermont or Hawaii are going to go, right? It's just, what are we doing? So we're going to focus on those purple states, and maybe those funky ones in Maine and Nebraska, where it's like everything looks normal on the map and then you got the

cross-shade pattern going and you're kind of sitting there thinking, gosh, how many surly furious did I consume before I looked at this interactive map from abcnews.com? Now there's something where those states have like half of their electoral votes are made up of just the popular vote and then half of them are by congressional district or maybe it's just by congressional district. And so Nebraska has three main has two I think that's how it goes I can't remember we went through this last year and had some people email in and explain it to us and my retention is not great. So we're gonna, but

speaking of mail-in ballots is what I was trying to say. I have always been a mail-in ballot guy here in Chicago since I moved back last five years and I would say it's been, you know, limited success because my ballot's been rejected twice going most recently when I voted for Biden going most recently when I voted for Biden, RIP, in this year's Democratic primary back in March or whenever Illinois was, got rejected. They didn't like my, excuse me, my signature S-I-G-N-A-T-U-R-E, so they took it a step further, which I guess is good for me because I'd rather have what happened, what I'm about to tell you, than my ballot getting rejected again. But the Chicago Board of Elections sent me my ballot in the mail and the USPS never gave it to me.

They just never delivered it. And it's not even one of those cheeky things where you log in to the USPS website and it's like, oh, we delivered it on this day and then it's nowhere to be found. It's just, it's in processing. That's what they say. So my mail-in ballot is out there someone someone probably using it to fraudulently vote in Georgia if I know anything about how this election is going down. Then we had the people what

was in Vancouver Washington who are burning ballots it's just just terrible so we're gonna pick some states in a second here, but spoiler alert, the outcome is chaos regardless. I don't even think at this point there is a margin that Kamala could win by. You know, she could sweep all these purple states by five percentage points each, which isn't going to happen, I think. And I think Trump would still, five percentage points each, which isn't going to happen, I think. And I think Trump would still, you know, just go nuts. And now that he's got, you know, 2020 was one thing, now that he's got Elon Musk in the fold as well, you know, controls an entire, like, arguably the most dynamic text based social media platform, obviously bigger than Facebook for this kind of thing.

And I mean, it's just a different vibe than Reddit. So yeah, Twitter, or X, I guess we call it, is just, you know, Elon's baby that in Tesla and SpaceX. I don't know how this guy got so rich. He's such a little pain in the butt. Probably going to get banned on Twitter. You probably are not going to be able to follow the at Beantown Cast on Twitter after this week's episode, so apologies, guys. It's been a hell of a run.

I know we haven't posted in months at this point, longer than that, probably. But rep, rep, rep. More politically themed. RIP to at Beantowncast on Twitter. Because I know I'm sure Elon listens every day. Before we get into anything else, I did want to mention Mufasa, the Lion King.

Guys, it's November 1st. It means we are one month and change away. December 20th only in theaters. Also Disney Plus, if it's not doing well in theaters, we'll know after the first weekend. But there's been rumors now that we're looking at a Disney slash animal film multiverse, which I'm very excited about.

Or potentially going to try to bring. So we've got Lion King. Jungle Book is kind of a natural addition. You go from the continent of Africa over to the subcontinent of India. There's also been rumors that we could bring in a lady in the tramp. We could go, which is I think Paris or Italy, probably Paris, or maybe Italy. There's rumors that we could do a fox and the hound if you want to go North America

with Amos and his shotgun and hell of a picture when they fight that grizzly bear at the end and he's on the big log over the waterfall and then they all kind of come crashing down and just a hell of a film. Copper is the name of the dog, Todd is the name of the fox. There was always kind of a strange name choice right you got Amos it's like okay that's a good biblical old man name. You got Copper that's a great name for a hound. The titular hound. Great, I love that adjective titular T-I-T-U-L-A-R. And then you got Todd. What the hell is that Todd? Who names a fox Todd? It's like the old ESPN draft show Mel Kuyper Jr. and Todd McShay. Todd Todd Todd. Here's what you need to know about Johnny Manziel. He's fresh, he's looking

good, he likes to party, he's got a cannon for an arm, only downside is he kind of sucks and he's addicted to cocaine. But cocaine, as you know, not that addictive. So that's why I predict Johnny Manziel, Johnny Manziel is going to win NFL MVP this season for the Cleveland Browns. Now, you know, I don't claim to be a Mel Kuyper disciple from an impression perspective. So just be glad that I gave you something, okay? But yeah, we're looking at a lot of animal, Lassie could be back. That's when we, you know, how Marvel MC's got the TV shows now everyone's talking about the Agatha all the long finale last night with

What's her name that one lady from? Stepbrothers I can't remember what her name is Comedic actress, but yeah, so people are saying hey, what if we brought in Airbud to that could be good. So I said something before, and I was like, oh, that'll be the TV show. Oh, Lassie. Yeah, Lassie's coming back. We're doing a reboot TV show.

She's going to be part of the MCU, the Mufasa cinematic universe. Too easy. Too easy. So Mufasa, The Lion King, December 20th, only in theaters. Also maybe Disney+. Also, a quick shout, only in theaters, also maybe Disney Plus. Also, quick shout out to our sponsors here at Home Pride Oregon, when you need your home inspection. Stumbling over the words, it's not even an alcohol thing.

It's really just, to be perfectly frank with you, there's a lot of stuff I want to get to here. And Maple hasn't, she didn't have breakfast. And I'm concerned she's gonna start eating the door if I don't get her dinner in a timely fashion. Thankfully, mom's around, so that should quell some of the hunger. But just trying to get this in, and there's a lot,

my notes are chock full today of content. So Home Pired Oregon, apologies for stumbling over my words. You know who doesn't stumble? Steve. He's a safe certified expert double insured. When you need your home inspected something snappier new call the experts at Home Pride Oregon. 540-40316. Of course our good friends at the Samson Q2U series. No weeks off for Samson except for sometimes. Samson sounds great, excellent quality. We

could do a live reading of the Book of Amos. I don't know other than like sitting in a, you know, being held captive, hostage, some sort of Old Testament focused sermon back in my Hallstrom home school. What did we call it? HHSN? I don't know what the acronym was. It wasn't workshops, it was something else. It was only five minutes ago we already forgot, whatever. I don't know what I'm trying to say is I don't know anything about the Book of Amos. Maybe that makes me a bad, I was gonna say a bad Christian, but you know, what's the name of the not atheist, but apologist? No. Apathy? No. Agnostic. That's what it is. Probably like halfway between

agnostic and atheist. A-th-a-stic. Kind of tough to say. But you get the gist. When God speaks he uses Samson. And then of course our good friends at cuts by Q Just did a nice little shave by Q before hopping in the shower finished my run went to the jewel Got supplies for turkey tacos, and you know who is still doing even though you know 40 bucks for turkey and tortillas and green chilies and can of corn and for turkey and tortillas and green chilies and can of corn. And well, I got a, this leads me to my next talking point, which I'll mention after we finish the ad reads here.

Deconstructed apple pie, oh man, one of my greatest investments I've ever made. And I've got SpaceX stock, I don't actually. Although I don't know, I don't think I do, but here's my little insider secret, how I became rich by the age of 30. I'm like not super rich, but I'm one of those. This ties in with Fargo last night,

the episode we were watching with, what was his name? David Thullis is the British actor who plays the villain, V.A. Varga, in Fargo season three. You know him as one of the professors in Harry Potter. I can't remember his name, but he as one of the professors in Harry Potter. I can't remember his name but he's one of the like good guys. He comes in probably book three or book four or something like that and he's around till the end. I think he dies at the end. I can't remember. But this actor was talking about like you

know you and McGregor's character you're rich because you got the mansion and this $90,000 car but I'm rich because I wear a $200 suit, I fly coach, and no one ever sees my money. That's what rich is all about. That's kind of where I'm at. Not to say I, well, I did just buy a $200 suit. More than that for my wedding though. I got to try it on. We got to finish this ad read though. The point I was trying to make about being rich is I've auto, what I meant to say a minute ago and I never said it, I've automated my investments. So I do pay a small fee, but I'll

pay that small fee for peace of mind and financial freedom. I will just say I don't get into money very often on this podcast, but I just want to toot my own horn and say I'm very proud of how I spent, pun intended, the last five or six years of my 20s ever since moving back to Chicago, being able to save more, just good stuff. And then also November 2024, this month is a five year anniversary of my time with my software testing gig, if you will. It's been five years on the calendar since I started software testing, which is hard to believe.

It's I mean, it's definitely an ingrained part of my routine. And it's hard to imagine life without it, although it will end someday for one reason or another, but just the fact that I've been doing this for five years now. Next week, I hit 42 grand across the platform over those five years. So that's my surly furious and trade-a-draw scotch money. This is all to say when you need a fresh deal, something snappy or new called the experts at cuts by Q. That wasn't meant to be like a wealth flaunt sort of thing. I mean, it's 42 grand over five years, but I'm just proud of myself. Yeah, it just, I can't imagine working in higher ed and not having side gigs and not like, and then like having a car. I would never be able to start a family or afford a house

or a car, even though I'm about to be 30. And that's the economy we live in, which is why I'm voting for Donald Trump in this year's election. So I got a deconstructed apple pie, which if you're curious what the heck is that, it's not like a fancy deconstructed apple pie, which if you're curious what the heck is that it's, it's, it's not like a fancy deconstructed apple pie where it was meant to be deconstructed is literally I'm like perusing the bakery section at the jewels. Two hours ago. On the way home from my run. Excuse me, and one of my one of the fondest memories that I have not not a singular time, but just a general memory,

especially when Rachel and I were earlier in our relationship, we're about to hit five years here. One of the things that we really liked to do, and it was a nice tradition, especially when we lived apart, was cooking on Friday nights. So we would, more often than not, I would come to her. But she came to Rogers Park frequently, and we cooked. But Friday nights, you get a bottle of wine, sometimes two, if you're feeling frisky. You split them, and you make a nice pasta dish or something. Then you sit down on the couch, and you watch TV.

But I would also like, it's good to make sure we have some sort of dessert, some sort of treat. Especially when we would do it at my house, go to Devon Market. I get our like, you know, it's good to make sure we have some sort of dessert, some sort of treat, especially when we would do it at my house. Go to Devon Market. I get our two signature dinner rolls, which were like $0.60 each. These things were the size of your head, so that's great. And then my favorite dessert to get

was the yogurt pretzels that they had at Devon Market. I think those things were only like $3 for a tin, if you will, a little plastic container. But not like the cheap size, like the medium size. And those things were just so good. You can get the strawberry ones too. And so we're cooking turkey tacos tonight. And even though a lot has changed over the last five years. Friday night isn't really a signature, drink too much wine, eat pretzels, and a dinner roll the size of your head kind of thing. We are still cooking and I said, you know what, let's get a treat.

Let's go to the bakery. Don't do that very often. And yeah, I was like, here's all the pies for $7. Or here's a deconstructed, there were apple pies and peach cobblers. And I said, it's November and I'm feeling more of an apple pie than a peach cobbler. And when I say deconstructed, again, it's not like, oh, this was meant to be deconstructed. It was literally like, I don't know what happened back in the bakery, but it looked like someone

had smashed an apple pie into a thousand million pieces. And so that's basically what we have, but it's the size of an apple pie into a thousand million pieces. And so that's basically what we have. But it's the size of an apple pie. It was $5 and there was a $2 off coupon on top of that. So I got this deconstructed apple pie for $3. And I'll say this, after I got out of the shower before I started recording, I was feeling a little bit hungry because all I had today was an apple and two pieces of buttered sourdough.

And I was like, you know what, I'm going to try this. I'm going to have dessert before supper, what we always dreamed of as kids, right? And although I also had a hundred grand bar today, so I'm loading up on the calories, that's okay. Sometimes you got to do that. You know, it's winter, going to need my blubber. I'll shed some pounds, you pounds on dry January and probably dry February too to get ready for this wedding.

I had a little bit, and it's absolutely delicious. I was a little bit concerned when I opened it up. I was seeing a lot of crust. I wasn't sure how much filling we were going to get. I was like, should I have also gotten a quart or a pint, rather? I guess a quart or a pint rather? I guess a quart's OK too. Vanilla bean ice cream.

I was worried that just the apple pie itself was going to be boring without the cream. But no, it's absolutely delicious. It's still very tender, clearly fresh. So shout out to the jewels for all I rag on them for their pricing. $3 deconstructed apple pie. I'll take it, man.

It's good stuff. OK, we got to keep going here. We got things to get to. I meant to read this earlier on in the show because it's kind of wholesome before we get into some tougher stuff. But I wrote a Halloween poem yesterday. You can read it on our website, beatonpodcast.com slash blog.

And I just wanted to read it live on the air here again, kind of like the financial thing, not to toot my own horn, but just because there's a million different places and ways to get content. And I posted it a couple of different places, but I just wanted to make sure you didn't miss it. So this was a Halloween poem I wrote this year. If you know me, sometimes I get in a creative mood

around the holidays. Father's Day, we write songs. Halloween, sometimes we write poems. So I meant to bob for, and you know, I eat an apple for lunch more or less every day. And I meant to bob for an apple like they do in the Great Pumpkin yesterday on Halloween. Happy Halloween, by the way. And I just never got around to it. Life, life just happened. So I did not

bop for an apple this year, but maybe next year. Here's my Halloween poem. It's called, oh it's not listed here, I think I called it Baby Dracula the Chef. In a castle dark and stormy, it's the first time I've ever read it out loud, so hopefully the rhyme scheme works. I did not proof read this out loud. In a castle dark and stormy by the glow of the moon, lived a little Dracula with an adorable wooden spoon. Not a fang in his mouth, nor a cape round his neck, just a chef's hat and apron grilling out on the deck. While others sucked blood, he stirred up his stew, adding bat wings, creepy crawlies, and just a hint of goo. His cauldron would bubble, his ladle would steam. This

vampire cooked up one delicious dream. He minced his garlic without a care or fright, dicing chives and onions in the dead of the night. For this Halloween feast he worked with delight, serving spooks and ghouls under candlelight. So beware if you see a cauldron that steams and hear tiny giggles or eerie little screams, for baby Dracula's meals are frightful and lean. There's soup for all on this Halloween. So there's your poem. Happy Halloween to all. And I'll just say before we move ahead at all,

I want to give a shout out to the entire neighborhood North Center, Chicago here, specifically St. Ben's where we live. I've never seen trick-or-treating like that. We went out, we took Maple out in her little pumpkin costume from about, you know, 530 to 615 prime trick-or-treating time, twilight if you will, and just the waves, the hordes, H-O-R-D-E-S of little kids and parents and there was a little bit of the like, you know, freshman in high school, you're too old, kind of old to be doing this actually but not a lot and just very wholesome I mean you saw all sorts of costumes so like everyone was out on

their porch giving out candy and it was just it was very I don't know maybe people made me believe in humanity again I even found an unwrapped, not unwrapped, a sealed, very very much wrapped Milky Way fun-sized bar on the ground today and I had to scoop it up. So yeah if you're keeping track I had a Milky Way and a hundred grand and already some deconstructed apple pie. So that's how today's going. It's Friday. Get off my back. Okay, guys. If you want to get on my back, email us bean town podcast, yahoo.com. Let me know what's what's chapping your your loins here before election day. We talked

about what was chapping my loins, Kamala in the town hall last week. But then we had the whole Trump garbage man thing. What was that, in Wisconsin or Michigan? And I don't know, man, he's taking this village people thing a little bit too far. He's dressing up like all the different occupations. We're going to come back to the election in a second here. I just wanted to mention some, there's, you know, there's so many movies out there where it's like, oh yeah, I know this movie. I've seen stills or clips from it, but I don't really know anything about it. And I decided this week, not once, but twice to read plot summaries of movies that I'm aware of, but knew nothing about. And I don't have much to say other than just what the movies were, but I now am aware of

the general plot of both Beetlejuice and Wicker Man. Beetlejuice obviously, the sequel came out last month, but I never really understood what it was. And it's pretty, pretty fucking bizarre. It's just like a mashup of I mean, it's like Tim Burton got really high. And through Michael Keaton and a bunch of makeup and then got, you know, Katherine O'Hara and Winona Ryder and just the whole thing. There's like the worms outside. It's just like, what is this? It feels like a bad fever dream.

And then I thought, well, let me look up the Wicker Man and I can't explain why. Oh, I think there was like a, so there's a YouTube channel on his trailers. And it was for the Wicker Man this year, or this week, sorry. And if you don't, well, there was a original Wicker Man movie, which is based off of a novel or short story, I think that was a British film from the 70s.

And then they remade it with Nick Cage in 2006, I think the year is. And I've seen the still, it's even a meme of him with the bees and the thing over his head a million times. I'm like, oh, this is the Wicker Man. But I don't, you know, up until literally Wednesday, I had no idea what is this movie about. I don't know anything about it. And it's basic. I mean, it's like, it's pretty fucking dark. It's basically a precursor to what's the name of that Florence Pugh one they made, which by the way, spoiler alert, I never actually watched, Midsommar. Basically, if you don't know, Nick Cage is like investigating the disappearance of his

daughter. He's a cop or an FBI agent and he goes to this island off the coast of Washington state and kills some bees, maybe accidentally, I can't remember. And then he falls into this trap and they burn him alive, human sacrifice. I mean, there's a lot that happens in between. But the, and then the crazy thing was, so at the end they put him in, they trap him inside this giant wicker man, hence the title, and set the whole thing ablaze and he dies and that's the end of the film. Except for when like one of the people connected to the murder of Nick Cage, it's like a post-credit scene, they go back to New York and they meet up with a very young

James Franco, this like Spider-Man James Franco and he's an undercover cop, something like that. I don't know how it all goes. But the original Wicker Man from the 70s, the British version, is even spookier, the end scene. And I didn't even give a spoiler tag, but I mean, it's been 18 years, so sorry. At the end of the, you know, in the Nick Cage one, they're just like chanting something, which is kind of spooky.

In the end of the British one from the 70s, they're literally like singing their spring harvest song as this giant wooden statue with a human inside burns down and everyone dies. They're like singing their song to celebrate their sacrifice. Pretty fucking spooky, man. That's why I don't... I went to an island off the coast of Washington once and I just said, I don't I went to an island off the coast of Washington once and I just said Mm-hmm good thing I didn't know about Wicker Man before I went out there What was it called Camaro Island? Come on a while and something like that because although there was a hot tub, which was great

I Didn't want to get trapped inside of a Wicker Man. So I'm glad I made it out because it could have been real bad So I'm glad I made it out because it could have been real bad. So there's two movies I learned about this week that are not new by any means, but now I feel a little, you know, if there's a question on Jeopardy or something, I can get Beetlejuice. Or at least, hopefully I can. Okay. I have this idea. Excuse me. And I was going to try to flesh out into a fully formed episode, but we're just going to throw it out there. This could have been great for our

big ideas podcast as well, but I just want to get it while it's hot. So you hear oftentimes of, this is more of a stand up bit that has not been written at all. You hear about like women in minority owned businesses and how those are, you know, gems in our community, small businesses, local businesses, we got to support those. But don't you feel that there are certain, I don't want to say industries, but types of businesses that are heavily dominated by, excuse me, like their owners, it would be shocking if they weren't women or minority owned. And so as part of my pro-Trump agenda this November, I think we need to find, we need to combat these businesses and have kind of turn the script a little bit,

flip the script. We need some more men and majority owned businesses, okay? That's right, I said majority owned businesses. So you've got an Ethiopian restaurant, right? Founded by immigrants. Well, what if some white guy from Staten Island named Prince, Prince, Prince, Prince Jones, he's Italian. And he likes he reads Machiavelli, and he opens his own Ethiopian restaurant in Jira Emporium They both start with E even though in Jira, I think starts with an I that's kind of why it's fun So Prince on Staten Island if you ever looking for a good meal and you want to support hard-working white males not that hard-working because he got a loan from his dad, but in Jira Emporium. Women owned businesses. I feel like a lot of floral shops, we live above a floral shop,

are women owned. We need more white males who didn't immigrate. And I don't know if there are more manly flower. You can tell that this idea was not, not flushed out. It was more of something that I had a dream about. And now we're just testing it live on the air and seeing how it goes. I don't know, maybe Prince Prince could just open that shop. This is really your print. I didn't Prince Jones. Is that what we call them? I don't think Prince is like the whitest male name I could think of maybe switch to Brock Brock Jones. It sounds pretty white doesn't it? We live across the street from Tordes Risi's old man Tordes Risi immigrated from Italy in the 40s and founded his iconic pizza here in Chicago How about a white, an Irish male, Phineas O'Hallahan.

That's with a GH, by the way. We got to support him opening his own pizza shop. We need more opportunities for white males in this country. So email us, beanthelpodcast at yahoo.com, with some other ideas for men in majority-owned local businesses. In fact, they don't even need to be local. They can be national conglomerates. What if Apple bought up all the, I don't know,

a lot of those, I feel like a lot of the Taylor and Dry Cleaner spots are owned by like Koreans or other Far East Asian immigrants. So what if we have like Tesla and Apple buy up all those spots and operate them? Coin laundry places? So that's my big idea of the week. Okay, we talked deconstructed apple pie. I wanted to just briefly mention, finally, before we do our election prediction and then finish with a trivia that I actually put some work into.

So hopefully you appreciate it. World map themed. I woke up at 4 AM yesterday morning because the dog was scratching and she's very loud. Her little nails click on the hardwood floor. Anyways, I can't explain it. I woke up and I was thinking, does the band Hanson have their own brewery or is it just a specialty beer?

Yes, that was my thought when I woke up. Exactly that. So I looked it up. I don't see any evidence of them having their own brewery, but they do have a specialty beer out of Tulsa where they're from. Then I got reading into Hanson a little bit more, you know, the Mbop, and the only one of the three brothers who, it's Zach, Isaac, and the other one, it's like Amos maybe, the only one who has his own Wikipedia page is Taylor. That's the one I was trying to think of. So he's the middle one who sings most of their songs, I think. At least like the lead voice.

So I'm reading on Taylor's Wikipedia biography and I realize, and this is another thing, much like Beetlejuice and Wicker Man, I'm very late to the party. I'm not pretending to break news here. However, Taylor Hansen was part of a super group that released one album in 2009 called Tinted Windows. And I just had to share this because this super group that came together for one album, not only was it completely off my radar, it's just the, like, one of the most bizarre amalgamations, don't ask me to

spell it, of people I could imagine in this super group. And I just wanted to mention it because I had never heard of this group Tinted Windows before 4 a.m., half awake in bed yesterday morning, and after the recording of this episode, I'm never very likely never going to think of them again. I'll think of Hanson, but not Tinted Windows. Tinted Windows was a supergroup formed by guitarist James E. Ha, The Smashing Pumpkins, Taylor Hanson of Hanson, bassist Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne rest in peace, he died during COVID, and Bun E. Carlos, former drummer of Cheap Trick. So yes, everyone's four favorite bands coming together as one.

We got Smashing Pumpkins. We got, sorry I think the dog's about to pee on the carpet. Oh she didn't, that's good. Fountains of Wayne, Hanson, and Cheap Trick all coming together for one album. I haven't listened to it yet but I am thinking I should. And then also if you're, well if you're curious, the album was called Tinted Windows. Okay, that was anti-climactic. Yes, that's the name of the band. Also the name of the album.

They also performed with Josh Latanzi as a second guitarist. And I don't know anything about him, but he's collaborated with Nord Jones and The Candles. The Candles, one of my favorite bands that I've never heard of before. Okay, so that's, you know, you never know what you're gonna get on the Beantown podcast, especially here in season seven, where we've played a lot of our cards already, frankly,

as we get closer to 350 episodes. And I'm not shying away from that. Let's go to the election map here. So again, I'm basing this in terms of what's red, what's blue, what's purple. This is a 538 projection via abcnews.com. So if you're curious what are the season potential swing states in here that have already been called by this map. Arizona is red.

Georgia and North Carolina are both red. Virginia is blue. And Nebraska and Maine like always looking like one of the ties I would have worn to a Hallstrom homeschool workshops student council election got their beautiful stripes so on this map that I'm looking at we have four states in purple we have Nevada Nevada I've heard is how you're supposed to say it. It's weird because Nevada seems like the more like, oh, I'll be proper and politically correct versus

Nevada seems like, oh, you're lazy. You're uneducated, kind of like Kamala versus Kamala. But it's actually from what I know, and I've been to Nevada, Nevada like five times probably in my life, it's supposed to be Nevada. I think people try to do the same thing with Oregon versus Oregon. Like, oh no, you know, it can't actually be Oregon. That's so simple and easy. It's got to be Oregon, but you know, it's actually just Oregon. It's basically the church instrument with just the tiniest extra beat thrown in Oregon. First Oregon. It's so close. Okay, so we're looking at four purple states here. I've got an interactive map. So the way this is set up according to 538 projection, we're kind of in a hole here,

us Kamala heads. I know I've mentioned my endorsement for Trump a couple times in the episode but that was parody in case you couldn't figure it out. We're at four states and I don't think Kamala could lose any of these per this projection. Let's see if Trump, because he's got 270 to win, right? So if Trump goes red, he wins. If in Pennsylvania, sorry, he wins. If he goes red in Michigan, even if he loses Pennsylvania, he wins. If he goes red in Wisconsin, even if he loses Michigan and Pennsylvania, he wins.

And what's the deal? Oh, Nevada, he, so Nevada, he could lose. Sorry, Nevada, we're all over the place. Nevada, he could win, but if Kamala won Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, then Kamala would win. Sorry, distracted. We got dog issues over here. So that's what we're dealing with here per the projections. Basically Kamala could only afford to lose Arizona, but she'd have to win the other three. She couldn't afford to lose Wisconsin, Michigan, or Pennsylvania. She has to sweep those three and that's the assumption that Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina go to Trump. So that's what I'm gonna go with. It'd be a very close election 270 to 268 but we're talking

swing states then that would give Trump, Nevada, Arizona, Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Florida, and some of the cool stripes from Maine. And then Kamala gets Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Tulsi Gabbard's Hawaii. And she wins 270 to 268. So that's officially I'm calling it. Now, that's what I think it's going to say on paper in terms of political violence. I don't know what's going to happen, bro. Could be ugly. So we're battening down the hatches to come back to where we started this episode here in Chicago.

Excuse me, not a lot of Trump signs in the lawn. So I feel relatively secure against the potential backlash that's going to happen next week. But if you are a blue member of society, if you're feeling blue, located in Nebraska or Texas or or a Montana or an Alaska, then you might want to, I don't want to say evacuate, but you might just want to lie low for a little bit. Because I feel like this is getting dangerously

close to the purge. And Trump's even proposed one day of, he wants to be dictator for his first day of presidency. And he also said, what if we just for one day, we rough people up and we really rough them up? So that's basically what the purge is. So not good, not great. I'll say that.

So just, you might to go out this weekend. And you don't need to do a COVID thing with a toilet paper but beans maybe. I had such a hankering we're I was at Jules last week. And I don't remember what I was getting but I was always made turkey burgers. Turkey tacos tonight turkey burgers last week I was this close to picking up a can of baked beans. I haven't had baked, like legit baked beans in years, probably not since I was in Memphis. And 360 some days out of the year,

baked beans are kind of like, why would I want that? And then one or two days hit and you're just sitting there thinking, man, don't even have to heat them up. I would, but you don't have to give me a whole pint or whatever the size is eight ounces. I don't know. 12 ounces of baked beans. I just go through that whole thing, especially through you throwing those little bacon bits, render the fat. Ooh, man, that'd be tasty. Render as a verb reminds me I've been

watching episode of Chopped in years. That was one of the things we like to do. We talked about Friday nights cooking with dinner rolls and yogurt pretzels and stuff. Would wake up after I ran for like 18 miles in the morning and come back it's like 7 a.m. get some breakfast going, watch some Chopped before Rachel hop on the 22 bus back home. Good stuff. Good stuff. Okay, here is my last thing here. Covered a lot of ground here. Thanks for bearing with us. But I did in honor of daylight savings time ending. This week I wrote a trivia question, a multi-parter for you, and there is a bonus.

So here we go. It's called Trivia Time Zones. Are these cities in the same time zone? This would be a great Sporkle game if it doesn't exist already. I'm going to give you, it's very simple. And I don't care about Daylight Savings Time. I just literally Googled it, it's very simple. And I don't care about daylight savings time. I just literally Googled it as it is right now. I don't know how popular DST, as we call it, down to save is outside of, down to save sounds

like a mini supermarket chain that you'd find in like I don't know a country that speaks English but not that great so like Philippines maybe. You go to Manila on honeymoon or st. Louis as I proposed to Rachel today but I don't think she heard me so we're gonna have to circle back and And their supermarket chain is down to save. I mean, you've got Tagalog, you've got Spanish, you've got some English. What are they doing in Philippines? I don't know.

It's not really a country I think about. Here's the game. Are these two cities in the same time zone? Yes or no. And if you're wondering what's my reference point, I just Googled time in the city, time in that city, and then I compared the two. And that was this morning, November 1st,

pre-daily savings time. Here we go, London and Madrid. And we're gonna go pretty quick here. So London and Madrid, are they in the time zone? Same time zone? No, Madrid is one hour ahead. Second up, Toronto and Buenos Aires. Going across the pond a little bit here.

Toronto and Buenos Aires, are they in the same time zone? The answer, no, Buenos Aires is one hour ahead. Next up, Yellowknife and Managua. Yellowknife in Canada is the capital of one of those sparsely populated territories. What is Yellowknife? Yellowknife is Northwest territory and the other one is Yukon. What is it called? Jackknife? Whitehorse. Yellowknife and Minagua, which is the capital of Nicaragua, they are in the same time zone, yes. Vladivostok and Sydney. Sydney the largest city in Russia or Australia. Vladivostok on the Kamchatka, Kamachka as Mike Dixon would say,

peninsula there on the east coast of Russia. Do you think they call it the east coast or is it just like so far from Moscow and St. Petersburg? No one ever thinks about it. Who knows? Are they in the same time zone? The answer, no. Sydney is one hour ahead. And then finally here, we mentioned Moscow already. Moscow and Mogadishu, are they in the same time zone? The answer is yes, they are in the same time zone. So there you go, just a fun, frivolous little game. But I did have a little bonus for you. And this one, instead of same time zone, we're going 12 hours apart. So here's my question. Are these two cities, as it stands right now, November 1st,

2024, daily savings time applied? Are these two cities exactly 12 hours apart? Chicago and Bangkok, Thailand. So it's 5 52 p.m. here in Chicago for two more days and then we'll jump back to 4 52. Bangkok I assume doesn't change but I don't know my Thai policies that well. More of a, more of a, what's the name of a Thai dish? What's the one I always get? Fuh? No, that's not it. What is it called? Fat noodle? Pad Thai? Jesus Christ. Just, brains, you know, brains shutting down here. If you're curious, yes, Chicago and Bangkok, as of right now, are 12 hours apart. Halfway across the globe spinning on top of the world. The greatest song I've ever written, man. Daddy long legs, they have a thousand legs. Okay, that's enough.

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