Beantown Podcast - IP Theft / Swatting / RIP Mark Sanford (02032024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: February 3, 2024

Remember that politician who disappeared to South America for a week and then got busted sleeping with that hot Argentinian lady?

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Saturday, February 3rd, 2024. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? It's been almost two weeks since we recorded last which is very unusual here in Beantownland. My name is Quinn and I am the creator executive producer line first line first unit line manager. We've been watching the wire and we're finally well I've seen it once. Rachel and I tried to watch it together once but it was when we were living separately when we were first started dating and we would watch like one episode a week and that's just tough to do and just kind of keep keep into it and remember all the characters names and stuff. So over

the past two weeks or so we got through season one and now we're in episode into season two we got Frank Sabatka. The reason I mentioned it though is, you know, every time in episode ends, you know, it flashes some additional production credits and there's some good ones in there. I think I could add to the arsenal. It's a lot of like line unit manager and assistant to the producer and story by David Simon, et cetera. But yeah, it's been a while. Thanks for sticking with me as we did a little

Beantown faux pas, F-A-U-X, space P-A-S, and recorded two episodes back to back and then just spaced out the release dates. But it was for a good cause. Matthew Fiedler, congratulations on the big wedding. It was a week ago today down in Mexico. I was very happy that Rich and I could be down there for that. And Matthew's been a longtime supporter of this show.

Certainly he's been on every single season. Beantown's been running and easy to forget. And I don't think about this. This doesn't cross my mind all that often, but you'll recall back maybe like season started probably, well started and ended like season three of the meantime podcast. Matthew Feather and I had our own show called the White Noise podcast. And I think we released about seven episodes, something like that.

And there's at least two, maybe three never released episodes. There's footage out there that lives on Matthew's Google Drive somewhere of us shooting the breeze and talking about whatever we talked about on the White Noise podcast. It wasn't like a Peabody award-winning level of podcasting, but we had fun with it and it just kind of tapered off. So, someday White Noise the sequel, I'd be down for that. Listener discretion is advised when you're listening to Quintet with Furnace Presents the Bean Tom Podcast number one, we'll kid you need some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. I will say, Rachel and I mentioned we've been watching The Wire. It's been making some very conspicuous, CONSPICU OUS references.

It's happened twice now or something really just bizarre has happened in the show that relates to something that just happened in in my own personal life so first example we are Or you know a couple days ago they dropped tickets They being The tour company whatever what I'm trying to get at is a Perry home companion Which has been you know Garrison Keeler got you know Semi-canceled and Perry homeion kind of disbanded in like 2014, and then they brought it back with Chris Thiele under a different name for a hot second, and the

whole thing shut down in like 20, I don't know, what probably like 2020, I think pandemic took it out. Anyways, Perry Home Companion, if you don't know, it's an old school variety show from Minnesota Public Radio that was broadcast publicly on NPR, or nationally on NPR rather. And we got, we would, you know, always listen to it in the car growing up. Where we lived in Rockford, they would play, they broadcast a weekly episode once on Saturday at like 5 p.m. then again Sunday at like 10 a.m. We would usually listen Saturday, I think is Saturday evening is what we would do on the way to Bible study or something like that. I don't really remember. Regardless of that, they're bringing it back for 50th anniversary too. There's not

a lot of information on it, but I saw that they're coming to the Chicago Theater in July. So Rachel and I got tickets. Of course, I had to explain to Rachel what a Prairie Home Companion was, which is fine. Like, if you didn't listen to NPR a lot growing up, I could understand not knowing what it was. Totally understandable. The reason it's crazy, we're listening to or watching the wire, like, the next day. And I think, I think this was just in the first episode of season two. Both of these instances might have happened in season two, episode one.

But Preston Bodie is driving a car with his buddy, and they're leaving Baltimore, and they're having to switch to different radio stations. And a Prairie Home companion comes on, which is just such a, this is why you're season two. So it's like 2002, 2003. But it was just crazy because it was like, if Rachel was watching the show for the first time and that came on the radio, she would have no idea what it was. And she still kind of didn't. But I could be like, this is literally what we just got

tickets for, you know, hours ago, like this is what we're going to see for better for worse. I don't know if she's happy about that the second occurrence This was just last night Rachel's bit gotten really into the crossword puzzle the New York Times crossword puzzle, which is fantastic My fiance is super smart sometimes. I'll be like, oh do you want help with the crossword? But it's like I finished that in like 30 seconds this morning. Don't really need your help But when you get to the weekends sometimes it gets a little bit tougher So I like to lean over on the couch and help her out where I can. And one of the answers

yesterday that she had all but one letter on, and so I was able to bring it across the finish line, was my Sharona, which is a, you know, one hit wonder. I don't even know the name of the band who sings it. It's not a band that is like famous or that I know. It's by the knack. Not the New York Knicks, but the knack, rather. So I go, OK, that's my shirona. And then, minutes later, literally 20 minutes later, we're watching the wire. And there's a scene on the docks where someone's driving

a car through the shipping containers. And my shirona is playing on the radio and it's just like this is my sharon. We literally just this clue came up in the New York Times Saturday Crossword puzzle. So I don't know man, the wire is something bizarre is happening. You know season two, so it's all about stained glass windows and the Catholic Church, Polish Catholic Church, maybe someone's going to gift us a stained glass window or something from St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, St. Frank's, actually basically an anniversary present for both of us. Our anniversary is in late February and so the last Saturday of February here, Al Franken, he's actually doing four shows two on Saturday two on Sunday the 24th and 25th but Al

Franken is is out on the road. I don't know exactly if it's just pure standard material or if he's doing any sort of politicking of any sort. For those of you who don't know, very briefly Al Franken's guy from West St. Louis Park or like Brooklyn, I've read his one of his books before. He's kind of from both, maybe not even Brooklyn. I don't remember, Queens, not sure, but he was a comedian, a writer on Saturday Night Live, hosted Weekend Update, his most famous character Stuart Smalley, even got a spin-off film, which I went through the labor of love to watch myself, like a year ago. Not terrible, not amazing. But he was then a senator. A U.S. senator took over for Paul Wellstone, I think, when he died.

There's something like that. They're connected. Al Franken, I don't know the number off the top of my head, but let's find out here. So we'll all learn something. When he won his election, it was like the closest or one of the closest senatorial elections of all time. I think the final count made Bush versus Gore look like peanuts. If I'm doing the math correctly here, it looks like,

okay, so we'll just, this is 2008, when the initial count was completed on November 18th, Franklin was trailing Norm Coleman, the Republican by 215 votes. So it triggered a mandatory recount. After reviewing ballots that have been challenged Encountering 953 wrongly rejected absentee ballots the state camp Minnesota state canvassing board officially certified the recount results of Frank and holding a 225 a vote lead and there's all sorts of

Neal lawsuits and stuff that went on He won by 312 Votes at the end of the day in the Minnesota Supreme Court. So yeah, just 312 votes and there were, what, something like, looks like about 3 million votes cast and you won by 300. So that's absolutely wild. To finish this story, we were talking about Garrison Keeler and Me Too. Al Franken, if you remember, when Me Too was hot off the presses.

Basically, there was a picture on a USO tour that painted him in a not great light. It was a joke, and out of all the Me Too things, it was like the most mild thing I could imagine. He basically was like the poster child then for the Democratic Party saying, oh, we got to have a sacrificial lamb pony Some pony someone up, you know the damn shame not only was Al Franken, you know, he's super funny

And if you remember the Betsy DeVos hearings in 2016 17 whenever that was he just eviscerated her which is awesome to watch but he was Legit like one of the best senators in terms of his ability to Get stuff done and you know how likeable he was and all this stuff So that's all frank and he kind of stepped back for the public eye for a while But he's kind of back and I think relatively good graces nationally now So now he's he's back on the road and we're seeing him at the end of February. So that's that completes our

our Minnesota check-in on today's Beantown podcast. It's tough when you basically go two weeks without recording. There's just so much going on that I want to share with you all. There's so much to do here. Let's knock this out of the way real quick. Yesterday was Groundhog Day. Thought about trying to fit in a show yesterday and doing something Groundhog specific, but just ran out of time. I had, you know, I had, so yesterday was my first drink coming out of Dry Jair. My first drink actually since good friend of the show, John Paul Pendowski's wedding on New Year's Eve down in Alabama. And so not only did I want to have a drink, I really wanted to savor it. So I had a glass of whiskey, had a beer from Obscurity Brewing, and I was really just kind of soaking it all in. And the next thing you know, we got our

sixth annual, not we, brother of the show Walt Furness and my sister-in-law Kelly hosted their sixth annual Bill Murray slash Groundhog Day party. So kudos to Walton Kelly. I'm throwing that together. It's been virtual the last couple years and they always do a great trivia game and this year it was all audio clips, which was a ton of fun and I don't know how long it took Walt to put it together or Walton Kelly to put it together, but a lot of fun great times were had by all and I liked how it was like, wait, wait, don't tell me where the points don't really matter, because I think I got like, too right. And I don't even think

there was a Garfield clip. I spent the whole time waiting for Garfield clip. I was ready to ring in. That in Tootsie, which I did nail the Tootsie one. So that's good. But I decided yesterday, and if you're curious after the fact, gosh Quinn, how many whiskies did you have before you wrote this? I was in the middle of my first whiskey when I wrote this, which either means that I wasn't buzzed or toasted at all when I wrote it, or the more likely scenario is that it only took me three sips of whiskey to get to a creative point where I felt like when I'm about to share with you was a good idea.

So I wrote a poem for Punxy Tony Feel. I got to read it live on air at the party, which is a lot of fun. But in case you missed it, I want to read it for you all as well. And if you want to take a look at it, I would love for you to do so. We'll do our shameless plug portion of the show here for 30 seconds. You can go to beantoppodcast.com slash blog and you can read all of our latest blog posts. You can subscribe if you scroll to the bottom and to your email address. All that does is means when I post a new blog post, which is like two to three a year typically, you'll get an email knowing that we have a new blog post. So I'd love for you to do that. I'd also love if you subscribed to 28 of Furnace Presents, the Beantown podcast, wherever you listen,

SoundCloud, Apple podcasts, Spotify, iTunes, whatever it is. Go ahead and hit subscribe. Leave us a five star rating if you enjoy this program. And I will dovetail this very briefly into, because it's February. And we are here announcing the seventh annual Beantown podcast, Pleasure Drive Telephone fundraiser. I've reached a point where I just need to actually set

the specific date, because it's already February 3rd. So I guess we'll go for Sunday, February 25th. That will be our Pledge Drive Telephone fundraiser dates the day after our Al Franken Show. We usually do it on a Sunday, Sunday, midday, so that should work well. So be on the lookout for more information. The GoFundMe page is actually live,

but I haven't really distributed it anywhere. I was basically doing some, if you're curious, like why it's February 3rd and stuff's not up yet, for the GoFundMe or details about the actual day of the event. It's because I was doing some pricing on gifts, donor gifts, which we really just fucked up royally last year. So, so, so we, we're going, this is a teaser and I haven't, I need to like sit down and

get real with this and make sure that I can do this without losing a boatload of money. That's the thing with these donor gifts, it's a lot of fun, but it's not like, okay, yeah, well, your, your donation is going to cover your donor gift and anything on the top. Then we'll put that towards the operating budget of the show, which if you're curious is our SoundCloud Unlimited Storage and then the domain stuff for Beantown Podcast.com. It's like $200 a year or so.

But what we've always done, or at least in the last five years now, because I don't, you know, I'm not, it's a fun passion project and it's fun to have a telethon fundraiser and plus drive all that stuff. But at the end of the day, it's like, you don't have to give me money for the show to stay on the air. Like I will gladly float the 200 or so,

whatever it is every year to keep it on the air. Because I turn around and I match every donation that comes in one for one 100% to a local charity. We've done the United Way a lot in the past couple years, United Way, Metro, Chicago. And that's the plan again this year. So the summary of this is that I'm not making any money off of this. I'm losing money completely off of it.

But it's fun because we get to say, oh, this money's going towards the operating budget, gives me incentives to donate to charity, so everyone wins. It's a win-win-win scenario. What I actually brought this up for, though, is, okay, so if we do tote bags, which is what I'm looking into this year, customized bean-town-podcast tote bags, can we get it to a point with, you know, like a no-minimum order to where I'm not going bankrupt if 10 people decide they want to reach our topaz elite club, which would be fantastic for me, for charity, all that stuff. But it's also basically, it's a terrible business model. The more people donate, the more money I lose. So that's really what we're working with here. So that's what I'm trying to balance out. Once I officially get to a point where I'm like, okay, these tote bags are a reasonable cost. I'm not gonna be a sinking ship if 500 people find

out about this, which is unrealistic, but in theory could happen. Especially after I got to plug my poem last night at the Groundhog Day party, there's at least eight, nine people there. I just want to make sure that I'm not sitting myself up for a terrible financial failure, especially with a wedding in a year here. So be on the lookout for finalized details sometime this week, but I will come out here today and say,

February 25th, last Sunday of February, is when we're going to do our telethon fundraiser. Last year got nuts. We did a lot of songs. I'll say this now, I have an idea. We're going to do something crazy for this year's Pledge Drive telephone fundraiser. Not crazy like, oh, Quinn's going to play a Beethoven Sonati's number of practice before and live stream it,

and it's going to be terrible. Not that kind of crazy. This is going to tap into a different kind of level of live streaming and YouTube and Twitch that it's not original stuff that's been done before, but we've never done anything like it here in the Beantown podcast. So be in the lookout for details soon about what's,

and it's not the only thing, but something that's going to be happening live on air. And of course, we're not getting rid of the fun stuff. You can always call in. You can, we'll have our phone lines open. Jerry Lewis style, Jerry Lee Lewis style, Great Balls of Fire, Great Balls of Beantown. Great Balls of Beantown could be a new segment. We got to workshop that.

But let's read our poem here so that we can proceed. Because we got a new music alert, not for me, but something I want to plug. We got our trivia question. We got to thank our sponsors because it's been too long. We got this week on the campaign trail. And then I just want to briefly mention what could have been a full episode, but it's going to be brief due to time constraints. A very kind of disturbing, well just we'll just call it that, disturbing thing that Rachel informed me about yesterday and I don't want to get into too much of it because I'm the advice of my counsel but it's not it's not fun. It wasn't it wasn't a fun thing to hear okay let's just tease

it that way and we'll get to that at the end of the episode. But here's our, here's our poem here. Okay, it's a poem for Punx-a-Tawney Phil. Here it is. A wonderful and mighty Phil, great seer of all that is wise, omnipotent, omnipresent, and certifiably omniscient. omnipotent omnipresent and certifiably omniscient. Wonderful counselor, victorious vizier, ageless as Keith Richards, wise as that tree in Pocahontas, your knowledge, noeth no bounds. For you roamed in Northwestern Pennsylvania long before civilizations of old,

and ye shall stroll through your tender gardens for millennia long after the human race perishes. Your pelt unmatched, your hide divine, your prophecy a covenant to all mankind. Let us celebrate all with which you bestow upon us a divine warrior amongst tribes, a Leviathan amongst God's creation. Till the end of days so saith the groundhog,

let's spring draw near, no shadow shall ever match, my surrathic faculty a happy groundhog day to all at the very end it should be no shadow shall ever match thy seraphic faculty because this wasn't from the perspective of Phil but hey one mistake and you know whatever that was two thousand words that's not so bad so there you go reminder bean tom podcast comm slash blog and I keep promoting it to other people Accidentally this bean Tom blog comm if you go there you're gonna get an error message. I looked into it last night and I was So it'd be an extra $12 a month to add that additional name and just direct you to the bean Tom blog or sorry

Not $12 a month. I definitely wouldn't do it then $12 a year. So $1 a month And I was like, oh $1 a month. That's nothing like yeah, I'll throw it on there And then I realized I was on my second glass of whiskey and it had a beer and I was like do I really want to be making any kind of Financial decisions big or small When I've had alcohol and the answer was no so I'll say, I'm at a point today where I'm like, yeah, it was $1 a month. I could definitely go do that. And wouldn't be that big of a deal.

I mean, I get effort taxes, like $8 from a software test in a single day. It takes 10, 15 minutes. So you just covered the first eight months of the year doing that. So maybe we'll do it. But I think only when we start hearing the complaints where people are like, we went to bean-townblog.com, we couldn't read your Groundhog Day poem or your euphoria recap,

or that weird-ass one last time where you had that dream about a jaguar trying to get into your room. So much for dry January, more like high January. What is it? California sober when you don't drink, but you're always high. Probably what people were thinking about when they read that Jaguar poem or they according to my website analytics, my SEO, if you will, no one actually read it. So that also is a plausible explanation. You can always email us being beentownpodcastsatyahoo.com, say Quinn. What's going on? $12 a year?

Pony up, baby. I love pony up. It's a great phrase. Reminds me of the Kentucky Derby. Top 10 horse names, special year seven coming up in what, three months here? Be on the lookout. Quick plug, new music from Dakar. And I went back and forth whether or not I wanted to mention this because it opens a can of worms

Excuse me into the ultimate can of worms the on-cinema universe And I was thinking to myself. How do I? Plug this song which is kick-ass a joke parody song that is actually kick-ass, a joke parody song that is actually fantastic. I wanted to mention because it reminded me of Daddy Long Legs, our season six Father's Day special song for the dads out there, in that is a joke song but the finished product is terribly catchy and you're just like how did this happen? That's what we're getting with Dakar and again how do I explain how did this happen? That's what we're getting with Dakar.

And again, how do I explain who is Dakar? First thing you need to know is a band. You can go listen to it, you can go find their YouTube, go check them out. But it's a much like, think of it this way. Spinal Tap, they got some bangers. Bitch School, one of my favorite songs of all time. Spinal Tap is not a real band, but it also is. It's not a real band and that is from a, like Dakar, from a fictional piece of media, TV, web series, movie, whatever.

Much like Dakar from a fictional web series called On Cinema, creation of Tim Haydeker, pretty well known and then Greg Turkington, who You might know as Neil Hamburger. But over the course of the show, Tim playing a fictionalized character, a fictionalized version of himself comes up with a variety of different things. A show within a show called Decker, a band called Dakar, a million other things. They do Oscar specialss all that fun stuff. It's one of the greatest Comedy pieces universes that's ever been created in mankind is brilliant and there's no so there's no sort of way to be like I would just have a taste See if you like it It's if if you know Tim and Eric if you know Tim Haydek or you just got to start from the beginning and soak it all up

They did a five-hour Fake trial that you can watch the a five-hour fake trial that you can watch the entire five-hour thing on YouTube. That might be something if you want to watch the highlights and be like, is this funny to me? If it is, you might enjoy it. So Dicard is a band within this fictional universe, but they write banger songs because two of the guys in it are like actual real Italian musicians. That's how, you know, that's what they do for a living when they're not acting as part of this band. So they're new music and it's a big like diss track because there's

a lot of there's a feud with Tim in the universe with his bandmates and so they dropped him basically in their new songs Ride With The Devil but like you know a bang and spinal tap tune it's just like this music is actually legit good because it's created by real life people who are good musicians. So go check it out, ride with the devil, YouTube, Spotify, wherever you listen to it, iTunes, LimeWire, Napster, speaking of Justin Timberlake, SNL last week. I never got around to watching. Dakota Johnson and Justin Timberlake, I did watch the Berry Gibb Talk Show sketch.

It's a shame, man. It's basically the thing with the Berry Gibb Talk Show sketch because it's been over a decade or whatever since the previous installment. And there just wasn't anything fresher new about it. It was tough. It was a fun five minutes because you just don't get to see that reality with Fallon and Timberlake doing their thing together very often.

And so it was kind of fun to return to that world. But you get like a minute in, you're like, are they going to do anything that breaks them all a little bit, a little bit fun? That's one of my biggest complaints about these very popular recurring SNL sketches, even the legendary ones that are recurring. It's like, okay, well, kind of the same thing over and over again. And unless you are Bill Hader as Stefan and you can just, you got sort of the physical acting part of it down to make it so like

entertaining and gripping. It just doesn't, it really loses its luster. I think a good example is the Californians. I can watch the first couple or just if you gave me the whole series they've done 10 of them or whatever. I watched two or three and I'm like this is pretty funny and I get to the fifth or sixth one and I'm sitting there like okay, it's kind of not that great anymore and I know they're not meant to be watched sequentially one after another in rapid succession but yeah that's the only one I

saw from this last week's SNL the I oh gosh what's her name I owe at a beerie something like that she from the bear and from I think you should leave with Tim Robinson. She is going to be hosting tonight with No idea. No idea who the musical guest is. Don't recall. I wanted to think our spot. Oh, yeah. So that's Dakar ride with the devil. Go check it out. I don't have my ad reads in front of me, which is embarrassing But I do want to say thank you to our sponsors here home pride Oregon when you need your home inspecting the central Oregon You don't want to this this is a big decision guys, especially those housing prices. You can't you can't afford to just kind of Take shortcuts on this stuff

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at the Samson Q2U series, seven seasons in, still crisp, still clear. And if you wanna hear how Samson Q2U series, seven seasons in, still crisp, still clear. And if you want to hear how Samson does in other programs too, you can always go listen to the White Noise podcast. If you're thinking, hey, this isn't what it's supposed to be, right? This is from 2018 and nothing's happened on it since and no one's tweeting about it. Yep, that's the one, White Noise podcast with Matthew Fiedler and Quinn Furness. When God speaks, he uses a Samson. And I guess it's been since we last recorded,

but a big, a big cut spike hue, physically long locks of hair were chopped since we last recorded here for Matthew Fiedler's wedding. Wanted to look fresh, wanted to look, a new do, I was thinking, do I want the bob, do I want the weave, do I want the beehive, the bowl, the bob. I already said the bob. That's poor form to repeat yourself. No, I went with a classic kind of, you know, a three on the sides and like a six on top, something like that. A nice cuts by Q. One of the oldest, probably not oldest, one of the independently owned boutique and barber shops here in the Northwest, not

Northwest, north side of Chicago, but we cater to, we could do catering as well. We don't have any food licensure, but like I would pick up, you know, I would pick up like Calvars or Billy Goat Tavern. They have food, I don't know. I don't know if they've ever actually been to the Billy Goat Tavern or any of their locations. That's, I dined at Midway once at the Billy Goat Tavern. I guess that counts.

Boy, really got off the rails here. When you need a fresh do something snappy or new, call the experts at Cuts by Q, but I actually did get myself a big haircut and it's kind of spiky but I Like the spikes and like Sonic the hedgehog Or Remember the old Redwall books and Redwall films they made

there was like a Hedgehog in there. His name was like Ambrose spike or something. I hedgehog in there. His name was like Ambrose Spike or something. I always thought his name was Ambrose Beers but that's like a real person right? Ambrose Beers. American short story writer and journalist. So I don't think that the hedgehog in Redwall was named Ambrose Beers but I maybe maybe they share a name. American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran, lived from 1842 to 1914, wrote the Devil's Dictionary,

in a current at Albridge Creek. I remember reading that in my shout out to mother of the show, Jane Dennis and Furnace, taught me American literature in ninth grade. That's one, I don't remember exactly how it goes, but it's like, at the't remember exactly how it goes, but it's like at the end of the day was like a dream, right? It wasn't real. I think that's, and he's actually dead the whole time, like Bruce Willis in the sixth element, fifth

element. How many elements are there? I always, you know, I've never seen, I think it's called the fifth element, right? And I know it was a joke. It's a sixth sense, obviously. But fifth element, right? What is the fifth element? I set out to memorize the periodic table of elements when I was working in Baltimore. I had all sorts of study tricks and I was writing them down on sticky notes and stuff. And I think there was a time where I was pretty solid with the first 20. In fact, there was a trivia question, like a half-time trivia question at Charm City Trivia Mothers Federal Hill Grill. Still my favorite trivia company I've ever played trivia with. Shout out to Ian, our Scottish host, who was a great guy who moved back to Scotland, who was hosted every Thursday night. But there was a halftime question where it was like, excuse me, they'll give you the

atomic number and so a set of five atomic numbers and a set of five elements, you just have to match them up. And I think at the time I was able to leverage my studying of the periodic table and memorizing to actually get it correct, which was a big get for me, because I'm not a chemist, or any sort of STEM. I'm not a STEM girly, as the young kids would say, Gen X. But it has really fallen off for me. So what is actually the fifth element?

I don't know, because it goes, what, hydrogen 1, helium 2, and then 3, 4, 5 five get wonky, right? Isn't it like lithium boron beryllium? Let's see. I'm not gonna we're not gonna go through like the top hundred elements where I just want to see what the first five are. Oh did I actually I think I actually nailed this lives in the lives in the back of the head baby hydrogen helium Lithium beryllium boron. I think that's what I said. We have to go back and check the tape, but dude if that's right That's uh, it's like George just stands it going on on a high note. That's what we should try to do here I want to a couple couple other things. We've got three things here

Let's do this week on the campaign trail. And I actually Googled this week on the campaign trail because I realized I was listening to Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me, and they said something about Nikki Haley still being in the race, and I realized, gosh, I have not been plugged into the campaign trail since anything happened at New Hampshire. Have there been any primaries or caucuses of any sort

since then? I don't think so and It I realized that Nikki Haley is still in the presidential race. I just haven't seen much coverage. I haven't been seeking it out All you really see or all I've seen in the last week 10 days or so is just regarding Trump and trials and Stuff being pushed back and Illinois said he couldn't be removed from the ballots And so that's what I've been seeing, but it's not really fun vintage campaign trail stuff.

You know, it's not Herman Cain detailing his 999 plan, Rest in Peace, Big Fella. He spoke at DePaul while I was a student there, I think. Or, you know, John Edwards getting caught with a prostitute and it was it John Edwards who got caught like down in Argentina or Chile? That was someone else, right? That was like the governor of, was that, that was like the governor of New York or the mayor of New York city or something like that, right?

I don't remember who that was. Let's find out. Politician, and if you know, email us, btoppodcast at yahoo.com caught in South America he said he was like going to a fundraiser for orphans and turns out he was having an affair in South America Mark Sanford Republican South Carolina governor

From June 18th June 24 2009, his whereabouts were unknown. And he reappeared, admitted he'd been in Buenos Aires with a woman who's having extramarital affair. He met her in 2001, they started having sexual relationship 2008. And yada, yada, yada. So he disappeared for six days in June, a sitting governor of South Carolina and he was down having wild, crazy Copa Govana sex in Argentina. Good for that guy. I wonder whatever it just closed his Wikipedia page. Let's see whatever happened to Mark Sanford. Isn't it crazy between knowing the first five elements, because I haven't thought about that in a long time, the fifth element, by the way, would be Barillium.

I don't know, I've never seen the fifth element. I don't know if they made a movie about that. Doesn't sound that exciting, frankly. But then Mark Sanford, which I never would have pulled this guy's name out of my head, but just recalling that that story like existed and this was what 16 15 years ago already. That's kind of crazy What is uh his his Wikipedia page really falls off after 2020

Oh, he He had a short lived presidential campaign challenging Trump in 2020, citing his alarm of the nation's finances, but didn't last very long. And that's that 2020 suspension of his campaign is the last we've heard from Marshall Clement Sanford Jr. There you go. He's going to say, rest in peace, big fella, but he's alive. He's just say rest in peace big fella but he's alive. He's just probably lives in South America. Good for that guy. I imagine him walking around when Osari's smoking a cigarette and wearing the cool like banana canvas kind of thing. Fruit

of the loom, cornucopia, horn of plenty on their head. There's got to be a better name for that but I don't know what it is. But this week on the campaign trail, circling all the way back here, this is an article from PBS. And I'm not just going to read you the article, because that's just like stealing journalism basically. But this week on the campaign trail, there's a lot of... And I wanted to share this because I learned this.

It's an increase in swatting, SWATTING with members in Congress and people on the campaign trail like Nikki Haley. So high profile targets of hoax 911 calls including Nikki Haley, special counsel Jack Smith and nearly three dozen members of Congress. So I had to learn, I saw the term, I was like, I have no idea what this is. Swatting is essentially when you do a prank, phone call in the 911 and say, oh, this person, Nikki Haley, they have a kidnapping suspect at their house. And so the jurisdiction sends in the SWAT team. And the goal is not to like embarrass someone, but basically that whoever you're sick and the dog's on is going to get injured in the chaos in the melee.

And so people, there's been a rise apparently in the last couple weeks of the, the swatting calls to judges and Nikki Haley and special counsels, basically anyone going up against Trump in one way or another. And so it's a terrible, you know waste of resources and time and you know SWAT could be taking care of the real The real bad guys they would say and so that's what swatting is so I learned a new term Today and that's basically the most Interesting thing that's been happening in the campaign trail

Because everything else is just Trump doesn't have to do anything except sit in court and he just keeps winning states So it's really between you know Just not only the sheer fact that it's a rematch Biden versus Trump Whatever no one really wants that or cares about that two old guys But we don't even get like a Like a fun lead up to the election. It's just I guess Trump's still giving speeches We're just not seeing them as much because the media learned that To basically they learned from 2016 to just give him less coverage rather than more coverage and

rather than more coverage. So basically, you're just not seeing his stuff very much, which is fine, because he's played his greatest hits and he's boring now. But what it means is, you know, because Biden doesn't really have to campaign, he's not switching up VPs. I guess the biggest thing we're waiting on right now is who's Trump gonna pick as a VP,

but even that is like, I don't really care, just tell me and then we can have fun with it. But I don't, you know, it's not like, oh God, the suspense is killing me on this one. I gotta know, is it gonna be Michelle Bachman or is Palin gonna make a resurgence? That would get me interested, okay? Pick someone who's interesting. Don't pick someone boring like the Tim Scott from, he's also from South Carolina. Is that right? We were just talking about Mark Sanford.

I don't know. We'll see. We'll see what happens. Rhonda Santis, probably not. I feel like they hate each other. We got two more things here. Let's talk about this disturbing thing that happened. And again, I can't get into too many details.

And part of this is like funny and joking around part of it is some intellectual property potential theft, which I take very seriously here on the beat on podcast. We talked many years ago, maybe like three or four years ago about making beat on podcast a trademark copyright never came to fruition. But now I'm rethinking it probably should because it turns out there are people out there who are after my ideas wouldn't be surprised if Daddy Longlegs became a new Taylor Swift hit, knowing what I know now, basically without getting into too many details on advice of legal counsel.

I had a fantastic idea regarding sort of an Avengers kind of Marvel-esque universe surrounding a certain food, a breakfast food brand that is about to introduce something, a new advertising campaign is all I can really legally say. And there's this whole kind of world building aspect that could go into this to really take this, let's just call it a brand, from 10th place to Kansas City Chiefs level.

Those are the stakes we're talking about here. And I have a fantastic idea for how to build up this universe, a whole new cavalcade of characters and phenomenons and experiences really. And there's a whole, you know, kind of theme park idea that we're floating. And basically, I learned yesterday

from my lovely fiance, Rachel, that there are people within and associated with the company who have potentially stolen this big picture jackpot kind of idea that I've come up with. And it's just, well, it's very troubling. That's pretty much all I can say about it right now. Advise, been advised to basically dance around the issue, like Len Goodman would. But it's disturbing. So all I'm saying is keep us in your thoughts.

Remember the little guys. Remember to support small business, small business ideas, creativity, the arts. Don't forget that when we announce or when we get to our beat up podcast, pleasure, I have to helathon annual fundraiser here, seventh annual in 22 days. So if you're wondering how I'm doing, it's not great. And I'm just going to keep my head down and try to hang on to my intellectual property as much as I can.

So, that's all I can really say about it at this time. Last thing here, our trivia question of the week. Don't think I forgot about you. Rachel was at a boxing class with her sister, my future sister-in-law. This morning they've done it a couple times now, seem to be having a good time. And that made me think about boxing and sunny list in and boxing movies. I actually invited Rachel to come on here to preview some of her

or review some of her favorite boxing movies. She said she likes Cinderella Man. I said, what about the fighter with Mickey? No, Mickey Rourke is the wrestler, Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg. But the trivia question in getting it here is related to the boxing at the Summer Olympics, because the 2024 Paris Olympics are coming up in about five

months here. And so here's what we pulled. I went through a couple of different potential trivia question ideas for it, and this is what I landed on. So to clue you in, it's going to be more of an Olympics question than a boxing question But we'll all learn something today. So boxing if you didn't know it's been at every single summer Olympics games since this introduction To the program in the 1904 summer Olympics, which I think the first modern Olympic summer Olympic games were Athens

1896 I think is the right year. I'm not quite sure but Actually before we finish our question we could actually figure that out inaugural games took place in 1896 in Athens okay I feel pretty good about myself so my question for you here is my page just scrolled all the way to the bottom had to scroll back up so there was one summer Olympic game, or games, if you will, where boxing did not take place. It was in the year 1912. So basically, their third iteration, where it was going to be part of the games, the host country said, nope, not going to have it be part of these games because this country's

law banned the sport at the time boxing wasn't allowed and it's happened after 1912 at every single summer Olympics games since so over a hundred years straight now. My question to you very simple who was the host city slash country you'll get right either way but they're kind of they go hand in hand with each other. It's not one of these niche cities in South Korea where you're like, I don't know if that's South Korea, North Korea, East Korea. So who hosted the 1912 Summer Olympic Games where boxing was not part of it? And I know that's pretty much like, hey you I don't have all my summer Olympics memorized I have a lot of my memorized by 1912 kind of fell off my radar after we hit the

Centennial mark, so I'll give you a clue The country's name so this isn't the city, but the country's name in its native language. So this would be like You spell Chicago CHI CAG GO in English English, which is the biggest language in the United States. So that kind of thing. You spell, or you spell it... Here's the country's spelling in its native language, okay? S-V-E-R-I-G-E.

That's how you spell the country's name in its own language. So if you need more time, you want more time to mull it over, go ahead and pause. Now we're going to reveal the answer. If you're curious, the language S V E R I G E is Swedish. So sphere gay is So Sphere Gay is Sweden and the host country, sorry the host city rather, no trick question, it is Stockholm. So Stockholm 1912 was the only time after boxing was introduced in the 1904 Olympic Games where boxing did not take place. There's your BeanTown podcast trivia question of the week, that's gonna do it for us here at BeanTown Podcast. Thanks so much for tuning in.

Thanks for being patient with us as we sort of did a double duty on the recording episodes and they were kind of shorter and, you know, not my best work. I'll just put it that way, but I think this was, was a fun one. We learned a lot here on the show. We had a lot of laughs. We had some spellings. We did ad reads, all that fun stuff. So as a reminder

February is pledge drive month be on the lookout soon in the next week I would say for information on how to support the show information on donor prizes this year and The pleasure of telephone fundraiser will be happening Sunday, February 25th officially next weekend super bowl weekend. maybe we'll do something football related, could be a lot of fun. Otherwise, that's what I have for you guys. Oh, I forgot to say this at the top of the show, so we'll say this here. Thank you to Pakistan for supporting our program, making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the great nation of Pakistan, Hyderabad, Khyber Pass, Kaliningrad, wherever you're listening from. Thanks for tuning in. Guys, my name is Quinn David Furness. This is my show, Quinn David Furness presents the

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