Beantown Podcast - Jamaica Podcast (07272024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: July 27, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE from Jamaica to discuss cricket woes, Rastafari leaders, and the Paris Olympics

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Saturday, July 27th. The last show of July. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn David Furness and I travel consultant of this show, you know when they like and Wheel of Fortune Or prices, right? It's always travel considerations provided by and then it's some random travel company. Well, that's me today Bean Town Bean Town Travels, I don't know some generic name like that. It's because we're coming to you live from a balcony here in Runaway Bay, Jamaica. It's probably 82 degrees Balmy, muggy. If someone says it's Balmy, I don't even know what that

means. I think we just kind of assume, oh yeah Balmy that sounds nice, but is Balmy, I don't even know what that means. I think we just kind of assume, oh yeah, balmy, that sounds nice, but is balmy synonymous with muggy? Is there a breeze associated with the balm? Balm is something you put on an itch or a scratch or a severe injury like a leg amputation. I don't know if balm is the only thing you wanna do, but I assume before you do a tourniquet or a splint you'd at least want a balm so you could have a balmy stump to put it that way. It's the last day we're leaving in a couple hours here going back to

Chicago and just been here a couple days hanging out and we're gonna talk Jamaica a little bit we'll talk. We'll talk the Olympics family faith friends all that good stuff you come to expect from Pintown podcast minus The intro and outro music which is too bad because I got first-hand close up taste of the uh, the great Tishomingo Blues the inspiration for the

show's outro music is the intro music from Garrison Keeler and Minnesota Public Radio is a Prairie Home Companion which we saw about a week ago six days ago Sunday night in Chicago at the Chicago Theatre. They did a nice little rendition of Tishomingo Blues to open the show for the most part. It wasn't the very first thing they did. A lot of singing, which has always been a Prairie Home Companion, but I was surprised just how much Garrison, just how much he leaned into the songs and if to provide a little bit more context, Prairie Home Companion radio variety show old school started back in the 70s. And it's been Garrison Keeler got me too. Turn the show over to Chris Delay in 2016 got cancelled

in 2020 with COVID pandemic and it's been off the air since then. Garrison Keillor is kind of just doing one last farewell tour. Minnesota Public Radio gave up the rights or just gave Garrison the rights. I don't know. Maybe they just didn't want anything to do with it to the name and likeness, however that works. And so he's brought his band of goons, Fred Newman, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, back together for the Malty City 50th anniversary tour. Not heavily publicized or marketed in just kind of random cities on random dates, but

this was Chicago. This is one of the last dates that he had. So I feel pretty confident in saying this is the last time we'll be seeing Garrison because he's in his 80s now and it shows but yeah it was a lot of a lot of singing a lot of singing hymns getting the crowd proud into it Garrison doing his crowd work working us to sing, be thou my, whatever the song is, be thou my vision. Be thou my vision.

One of those songs that you know the tune, but certainly not the back half of the first verse and certainly not verses two through 10. But it was good, we got a couple of the first verse and certainly not verses 2 through 10 but it was good we got a couple of the old a couple of the old classics not all of them though we got Tishman go blues little intro we had ended with news from like Wobbogone as you can imagine we had the ketchup jingle and the accompanying story going into it. We had a couple good Fred Newman features, the sound effects guy. Basically Garrison improvs a story with a lot of evocative imagery and Fred has to do

the sound effects with that. I think Fred's slowing down a little bit in his old age too. He's in his 70s and I don't think he was asked to do as much. He didn't really have I Don't think you would call them props, but it was mostly just his voice Doing the heavy lifting on the sound effects not a lot of cups or spoons or jangles or keys Or whatever he typically would use And then I think that's pretty much it for kind of the the main shows or the main segments. There was no Guy Noir, there was no Lives of the Cowboys, there was no Rhubarb Pie, there was no... oh there

was Shortbread, right, however goes, I can't remember. That was one other classic one they did. No Joke Show. It was fun. It was a good time. But moving ahead here. No intro or outro music for you today. And hopefully the audio quality is coming in good.

I did a couple test rounds. First I had the AirPods and see what that would be like. And then I just went au natural because I liked the microphone I was getting from my iPhone. Whatever I have, a 10, I don't know. Better than the AirPods. The iPhone quality, the iPhone replacement, this is my third iPhone,

it's something I think about quite a bit because you can start to notice when your iPhone is beginning to deteriorate. For me, the two primary culprits are battery life going down and just a little bit more slow, which is such a little bit, it sounds like a Trump something, Trump would say just a little bit more slow.

No, it's acting a little bit more slowly. Apologies for the beeping, there must be a truck below me backing up, hauling all sorts of coconuts and mangoes, or maybe it's just the solid waste from building 25 here at the Bahia Principe luxury Runaway Bay, Jamaica. It's an irritating beep and it's gonna exist. Oh there it goes. But what was I saying? I think I well, oh the phones you know you

never really notice the sharp, at least I don't notice a sharp decline in the performance of your, no the beeping is back, of your phone until you upgrade to a newer model, new phone, refurbished of your phone until you upgrade to a newer model, new phone, refurbished, whatever, and then you first start using it and you notice the speed and agility with which it moves. Sounds like I'm describing the X-Chair. If you don't know, the X-Chair,

one of my favorite TV commercials, kind of a commercial, I would call it like an infomercial junior. So it's not long, I think it's a 60 second spot, maybe even 30 seconds, but it's kind of got that infomercial quality to it. Showing off all the sleek, high def features and the 4K resolution that the X-Jear provides

to your Arbor, Arbor, Arbor reedles and your lumbars. But yeah, hopefully, so apologies if the quality is not good. I didn't get a good sense in our extensive pre-show technical run through of how this background noise is going to work. I'm in the balcony and looking away from, I don't have an ocean view, our room faces the opposite so you're looking towards the wall of the compound and then the road which is the main north coast highway of Jamaica. I don't know what it's called but it's what we take from

Montego Bay to get here probably 40 miles or so 45 miles and I was looking at this yesterday because I thought you know we've been to Oahu in terms of islands smaller islands we've been to O. I wouldn't call Jamaica or Oahu smaller islands, but compared to Greenland, perhaps, we've been to Puerto Rico, Riceport, and Jamaica. And then we've been to Hispaniola as well, but that's a pretty big island. And so when I go to these islands, I'm curious, hey, how long does it take to drive around? And I think Oahu is definitely the smallest of those three, right? And I think that was something like eight hours maybe. And then Puerto Rico I think was closer to ten, maybe even a little bit longer.

And then I looked at Jamaica and I couldn't get a completely accurate reading because my Google Maps apparently can only do like three stops. You know how you can do a multi-stop thing. I think four stops is maybe the max. And I was trying to do, you know, ten can do a multi-stop thing. I think four stops is maybe the max. And I was trying to do 10, 12 stops to pinpoint that accuracy to get every nook and cranny of the island in my findings. But I couldn't, so. My best guess is that it's about 14 hours to drive around.

It's not like you're following, there's not coastal highways the whole way. I think especially the south part of the island, you get west of uh kingston and spanish town there's not as much action but yeah about 14 hours the roads here uh seemed fine i've been on one stretch of road and that's it so i don't know but haven't gone deep into the mountains the blue mountains not blue ridge mountains john denver just blue mountains got the white mountains in new hampshire the mountains. The Blue Mountains, not Blue Ridge Mountains, John Denver, just Blue Mountains. Got the White Mountains in New Hampshire. It was a Jeopardy question last night. Oh, I nailed the final Jeopardy question last night, by the way, which I, there's one of those

ones where you're like, not fully engaged in the show. So we were watching it with sisters in law and Rachel for just young good-looking folks lying in a bed watching Jeopardy eating off-brand Cheez-Its. But I was so proud of myself for getting it because it was really kind of a shot in the dark But the I'll see if I can cobble together To be our first trivia question of the day cobble together what it was I don't have it in front of me right now, although I think I can Google it pretty easily It was ancient

animals And animals. And let's see if I can get my Wi-Fi to go here and we can just read the question right to you. We'll see if you can get it too in case you missed last night's season 40 finale of Jeopardy. And it'll be off till probably September sometime. Okay, here it is ancient animals. I got it word for word and I nailed it. The first fossils of these creatures with an elongated fourth digit were described in 1784 by naturalist Cosini Colini. And from what I know, my limited knowledge of ancient animals

and 18th century archeologists, I don't think that the name Cosimo Colini is particularly helpful. I think the key here is that it's an ancient animal and that it's in an elongated fourth digit. So with those two things going on, I thought about it for a second. Took me a minute or two to realize what an elongated fourth digit means. It's like a finger. And then once I figure that part out, so I'm trying to pick off an ingrown hair here. You're getting

the full experience here. Cuts by Q we do ingrown hairs as well. Speaking of cuts by Q, come back to Jeopardy in a second. Go check out our website. It's recently updated as of this week. Meantownpodcast.com slash cuts dash by dash Q. And did I mention listener discretion is advised? I think I did. But in case I didn't, twice as nice. Island time. Yeah, man. Listener discretion is advised when you listen to this program or occasionally use some language number to this podcast objectively terrible so the answer it gave you a lot of time to think about it for your final jeopardy yesterday is the pterodactyl and You get ten extra bonus points in the season standings season seven standings, which I keep meticulous track of

If you email beat on podcast at yahoo.com again, that's bean town podcast at Yahoo dot com correctly spell pair pair pair of pyridactyl it's like a pyridactyl with a head that's a pair or it could be a pair of pyridactyls that's two pyridactyls with pairs for heads it's a lot of pears. I can't really name variations of pears, I don't know. Isn't there one that's like au jus? Or is that how you cook your beef? I can't really remember. Let's plow ahead here.

Overlooking the tennis courts and the little tennis shack outside of it where presumably you can snag some rackets. And I don't think I've seen someone playing tennis at all while I've been here for four days, nor have I seen the shack being manned. That's a tough thing with tennis at these resorts. You know, if the court is open from, well it's not open right now, it's 7.45 so let's give them the benefit of the doubt, say they're gonna open at 8 and I'll let you know because we've got 15 more minutes left here. Not much beyond that but at least 15 minutes. So if the court opens from 8 and sunset is usually 7-ish, I think I looked it up. I think sun up, sun down here right now in July

is like 530 to 645, something like that, or 545 to 630. So let's just give them the benefit out, say eight to six, eight to seven. Well, I don't know if you've ever been to an island before, but that's the hottest part of the day when the sun is up. So really, I think they need to install some High powered LED certified

JD power award-winning You know baseball diamond lights here or call the folks over at Wimbledon and figure out what they're using I'll do they play Wimbledon games at night. I have no idea don't see a lot of night tennis but you could hear. And, you know, get those courts open from about 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. That's when people are going to flock to the courts, I'm sure of it. Speaking of hours being messed up, though, they have karaoke here, which is great, but it goes from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.

And maybe I'm a prude, I don't know, but every time I go on a beach vacation, an all-inclusive, you know, and I'm not someone who can naturally sleep till 10 a.m., 11 a.m., right? I wanna get up, wanna get my breakfast, get my day going. But then if you're out there in the sun, which by the way, yes, I have worn my sun shirt the entire time, my bare belly is getting the most sun it's ever got right now and I'm getting absolutely no direct sunlight

and it's cloudy with this balcony's overhang. No burns, look ma, no burns. That could be a new slogan for preventing wildfires. Wildfires. Wildfires sounds like a 12 and under youth hockey league team outside of Philadelphia. Where was I going? Oh, the tennis courts, the hours. Oh, but you're out in the sun from approximately, hey, if you sleep in, whatever, no big deal, man. 11 a.m. to sundown, 6 p.m., right? With maybe a little reprieve, R-E-P-R-I-E-V-E. You're getting that much sun time

and you're drinking the whole time, and then you go eat a big meal. That's the real kicker You eat at least two big meals a day sometimes three So if you eat a big meal at seven eight o'clock at night I don't know how you guys feel. I want to speak for the world or the island here But if i've been drinking all day in the sun, I have a big meal at eight pm You're asking me then to stay awake for another

Two to three hours just to get to the start of karaoke? I don't know man. It's uh, every day we've had this vision in our heads of like, okay today's the day we're gonna try to make it to 11 p.m. karaoke and then it's about 10 p.m. and you're absolutely dying. That's the thing too. I don't even, maybe I just need to, I don't know, forgo dinner

and order room service. Tried that last night. Phone lines all booked up. I felt like I was trying to vote for Bo Bice to beat Carrie Underwood in American Idol. I really wanted a beef wrap. Not because I was particularly interested in eating a beef wrap, but just it sounded so intriguing. Beef wrap, a pizza, Caesar salad, a little bit of I don't know chicken burger on the side with something else good that they had

cream cheese with cream right I don't know if that's cream cheese but you one of the items on the room service menu was just cheese with cream there's some good misspellings here there's a set of rib eye steak you could one night we had the Rob eye steak that's not Jewish it's Rob eye look like Rob with one eye there was something with without alcohol but it was an extra H, so it looked like vermouth almost without alcohol. There was Brussels Sport, not Brussels Sprout, but Brussels Sport. And I don't know, there was something else last night, I'm trying to remember what it

was. But that's okay. It didn't leave as much of an impact on me to make the podcast. Let's shout out our sponsors and then chat up a couple other things here. We got the Olympics. There's so much going on. We didn't do a Summer Olympics preview. If you ever wanted to beat on podcast hot takes on which sports are good, which sports are bad, and that level of kind of just decisiveness. Head back three years, 2021, our Tokyo Summer Olympics preview.

That's right, you don't have to wait, or you don't have to go back all four years. Those Tokyo games were delayed a year. We did a full, I think a two week preview actually of the Tokyo Olympic games from my apartment there on Diversi Parkway. Last time I lived on a parkway. And just didn't get around to it this year because life happened. But opening ceremonies were yesterday. I feel this is one of the things about vacation when there's a big thing that happens you feel out of the loop on certain things and most of the time I'm very pleased to feel out of a loop on

work and just you know the regular monotonous day-to-day life stuff but opening games I mean or opening ceremony that's a that's a big one you don't want to miss also Trump's ear not being wounded and FBI wanting to interview him and then JD Vance not definitely not but not 100% confirmed having sex with a couch. There's a lot of news I've been missing out on since we left Tuesday afternoon. But I saw some good boat action. We fell asleep to the replay, the rebroadcast of the opening ceremonies last night and we were in the M's so I was getting some Mauritius, Mauritania, Moldova, Montenegro. I think the last thing I remember seeing was Nauru. It was a pretty uh, it's a

pretty sad boat. You would think that you know being on a boat it would be more natural for them But I think there was like one guy so good for you now Rue. I think he was in the I think was like men's 100 meters or something like that. That's pretty cool You figure a hundred meters about it, you know how the the circumference of now Rue So probably gets pretty bored. That's why there's no marathoners there, because where are you gonna go? I had a friend who used to run marathons and we ran one or two races together and when we were in grad school she would describe training for marathons. I don't think she exclusively did this but I know she did it at least once because she told me about it. I don't know if it was IBS or just upset stomach, one off, whatever it was but she did a long run and I think it was at least 10 miles where she stuck to the neighborhoods and just ran up and down, not the same block but you know, Chicago blocks you like an eighth of a mile apart from each other and even smaller than that depending on where in the city you are and just up one you know just imagine a huge grid Chicago's a grid

system up one street over another street down one street over that's to the next street up the street and just did that for like 10 miles and that sounds like the worst thing of all time because she wanted to be close to home. But hey, when duty calls, when nature calls, you got to do what you got to do. Speaking of which, our good friends at the Samson Q2U series getting a well-deserved week off here. We're taking a vacation in Jamaica. Samson's taking a vacation at home. And you know who never takes a vacation is the Beantown podcast. Because this is week 29 of season seven, I believe. And we're into the 300s, we're well into the 300s. This is a podcast from a foreign country, pretty cool.

But Samson, thank you so much for supporting our program. And apologies for the audio quality being lower. It's not because anything Samson did wrong. It's just a travel light. Samson Q2U series when God or Rastafari, as we'll get to in a second here, Jah J-H-A speaks. He uses a Samson. You know, I don't speak for Jah, but Jah is supposed to just be God, but in Rastafari. And it's an Abrahamic monotheistic religion so we're really talking about the same guy here. Big beard, dreadlocks, nose ring, the white god I envisioned growing up. Also our good friends at Cuts by Q when you need a fresh tooth, something snappy or

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That was botched. Probably sounded like I was about to throw up. Here is the deal. I wanted to say I've got a cease coming, sneeze, and then do the sneeze. But the sneeze happened while I was still finishing what I was saying and just ruined the whole experience. Probably took this trip from a 10 out of 10 down to a 6. That and it's getting hot and I'm starting to sweat. Know our good friends, oh there's a morning dove on top of this utility pole calling into the mountains. Probably looking for chimkin or just another morning morning dove to I don't know have a sexy beach day with it's the weekend right live it up guys

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inspection perfection. Okay. Do you have a couple notes here coming back to I don't know if you have anything else in the Olympics. But I guess maybe I do. We've been scrolling the telly. Oh, and before I forget, come back to the telly in one second here, everyone knows Yaman. It's Jamaican, at least in the US it very much feels like a stereotype, not a terribly negative stereotype, but oh if you're Jamaican you say Yaman and you smoke ganja and you've got dreadlocks and you like Bob Marley. I will say this, and this viewpoint has progressed throughout the trip a little bit because at first I thought when every

single person here who works here, lives here, whatever, says Yaman, it's like every other word they say is Yaman. My first day, especially being on a resort, I was like, oh, they're just pandering. Pandering is not even the right word. It's just putting on a show for tourists, right? But the more I've observed and it's not, you know, you've got like the entertainment team, their job is basically to entertain you and engage with the guests. But I mean, there are, there's maintenance guys, there's cooks, there's waiters, those camareros, that's what we call them here on the island. There's morning doves, there's tennis hut attendants who four minutes

to eight and still no action. I don't know, maybe Saturdays they open late. But all sorts of people, there's locals who are just vacationing here at the resort. Everyone, it's Yaman, and it's Yaman all the time. So, I think when you talk about like, the stereotype of every single person in Jamaica being all Yaman and stuff, I don't think it's like a negative, tourist-only kind of thing. I think that's actually what they say half the time.

Which, and I'm not taking any sort of positive or negative stance on this, it's just fascinating to me. Because it really seems like the sort of thing where you're in the US and you know two things about Jamaica and one of them is Yamon. And then you come here and you're like, okay, but let what it's really like and turns out that's what it's really like. Now look there's still a limited basis here. I've been hanging out in a resort. Haven't been to the Blue Mountains. Haven't been to a turtle cove to see what kind of language they use. But hey, my four days in Jamaica that's been my experience. So yeah, man.

But going back to the telly, the channels here start at 60, which I should have known was a bad sign because usually in regular television, by the time you get to 60, it's pretty rough. And that's been the case. But obviously we're not sitting here watching a ton of television, but occasionally in the mornings, you're freshening up or always between about 530 and 7 when you come back from the pool, getting ready for supper, got the got the telly on right, and then as you're

going to bed. So I've gotten, you know, a little bit of screen temp going here. I just have some thoughts based off of what I've seen. I wanted to write these down probably when I was in a drunk and stupor. Although I don't feel like, you know, with these resorts they water down the drinks so much. It can be tough to get drunk. Not only because of the alcohol but because of how much you eat as well. I don't speak for other people but I think one day I was I was feeling pretty toasted and otherwise it's just kind of like

You're just kind of drinking and hanging out you're not feeling sloshed which is good when you're in the water Not drowning is good But a couple things I've seen That wasn't particularly impressed with starting with cricket. Okay, and this reminds me to say hello to our friends in Pakistan. Good timing. 112th ranked comedy podcast in the great Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Hello Bangalore. Hello Pakistan City. Hello Khyber Pass. And I am comfortable moving down the rankings a couple of notches to 114 perhaps, 114 and a half because of my hot take here, because of how prominent the sport is in places like Pakistan and India. But cricket? Dude, kind of sucks. Maybe this is just my macho

American attitude and baseball being our national pastime, but have you guys ever sat down and just said to yourself, hey, I'm just going to take in this cricket game? It's an extremely boring sport. Cricket, we can do a power ranking of the most boring sports. I should write that down because that would be a good show, I believe. But it's up there with like a really boring NASCAR race, an oval, you know maybe short short track where nothing happens or and I don't hate on golf I think golf is an interesting sport I think it's a really cool sport but in terms of just turning it on television and watching it pretty damn boring okay but cricket cricket

might take the cake and look no I don't and look no, I don't know all the rules. I don't know all the terminology But you just got one guy with the ball Doing a big run-up to do his overhand pitch bounces once and the guy the batter the hitter whatever he's got a big flat paddle looks like he's gonna spank your booty and colonial Britain Or the colonies whatever whatever Pakistan would be. I don't know. Colonial Pakistan, something like that. And he swings it and the ball can go anywhere and that's kind of cool,

right? I appreciate that they've got this 360 circle degree kind of playing service and you've got all sorts of defenders out there to corral the ball, throw it back in, but it's just, it's not like there's base runners. You just hit the ball, you run to one side, you run to the other side, and it's like how many runs can you score before they get the ball back in? And then they do the same thing over and over again. It's that way for hours. And it's, are you kidding? Like this stinks. And you just got like two batters up there. They're tag teaming it.

Where's the rest of the team? I don't know. This whole cricket madness is just not my cup of tea. And apologies to the billions of people out there who it's their favorite sport but I'm urging you to go watch a half inning of baseball because you'll see all sorts of cool pitches, you'll see managers getting out there getting in the umpire's face, you'll see guys actually running around the bases not not just 10 meters back and forth or however far it is. You'll see collisions at the plate. You'll see hot dogs. They'll sing in between the seventh inning, half

innings. Sometimes they go to the Jumbotron, they got kiss cam. I did not see any kiss cam at this cricket match I was watching in fact it wasn't just one i've probably tuned in three separate days and watched a little bit of cricket thinking oh maybe there will be a streaker on the field something to liven it up but no just hours and hours of swinging a paddle out of ball and sometimes the defenders catch it usually they don't they throw it back in and it's not very exciting so cricket you burnt that's a Seth Meyers thing you burnt I think maybe it's from SNL I don't remember the exact opposite of this we were watching Olympic seven on seven rugby I don't know know what is the norm of rugby is it 11 on 11 because you can tell seven on seven looks smaller in the fields a

bit more wide open. These games at the Olympics I don't think this is you know standard maybe it is I don't know but seven minute halves it's not completely like soccer the clock never stops but the clock was moving most of the time seven and a half so you know 14 minutes of game time probably 18 to 20 minutes of actual Gameplay and the half were just like two minutes. It wasn't a super long. So this whole thing takes 20 to 25 minutes That is the exact opposite of cricket. It's action. It's guys grabbing each other's buttocks This is not just one ball. There's there's balls swinging around

The ball itself is a cool oblong shape. There's scrums. There's stiff arms I think I saw one guy giving up another guy an iron claw There's tries there's kicks and then that next thing, you know, it's over Like one round of cricket one one half inning or whatever, is the same exact time as the entire seven on seven rugby game. So, I don't know, maybe I'm just not a patient man, but also your sport is named after a really lame bug.

If it was called praying mantis, I could get into it, but cricket, if maybe locust. Locust could be good. Something else is on tv and this was after you know a long day in the sun and a couple drinks and a big meal and so I don't remember exactly what my take was on it but I remembered to write it down. Last Man Standing the Tim Allen sitcom that he did on ABC. But I just watched a dinner scene with him, his wife, and his three daughters. And it was just the most, like, who was the audience for the show? White, old men, ages 50 to 80, who yearned to make America great again. That's who was watching Tim Allen's last

minute standing. At least Home Improvement was, you know, it was kind of family, faith, fun. You had Pam Anderson, you had Richard Karn, Debbie Dunning, Wilson, and how could you be JTT himself, Jonathan Taylor Thomas. And I don't know, I don't maybe home proof was different. It felt like the jokes were based off of like family dynamics and not politics, right? Last Man Standing, holy cow. I mean, it's not like, oh, whoa, Tim Allen's Republican. I didn't know that. Kat's been out of that bag for 60 plus years. But just abrasive. And just weird with like the gender roles in that show.

And it's commentary on that. I don't know how that show lasted for whatever it was, six, seven years. I don't even have any further comments because I watched it for like 30 seconds and I didn't write down the specific things I wanted to comment but Rough rough rough rough show Plowing ahead here. This is not a new Thought I think I think a lot of people have felt this way for a while or maybe not

maybe I'm just a weirdo, but I did catch a little round of family feud and not to besmirch family feud, but the scoring system absolutely blows. So it's like, you gotta get to 300 points as a family. The first, and you get as many points, you know, there's a hundred possible points in each round. So it's top six answers on the board, whatever. They mostly add up to a. But they don't always

because they apparently they survey 100 people. And you could have top six answers add up to like 94 points and you could have six more answers that each got one vote. And those would be one points but they're not available in the game. So you can't actually get 100 points if you did a perfect round. Usually the max like 90 to 95. Anyways, first two rounds, standard scoring. So if you're a family, you win both those rounds,

you kick ass, you could get every single question right, dominate, other team has not even played yet, and you could have, let's say, 180 points, and you need 300 to win. The next round is doubled as I recall. And I think if you got a perfect round there, let's say that's another 180 points, then in theory you go above 300. But the way they do it with scoring, I've never actually seen in terms of the points

available, I've never seen someone win after the third round, the first double round, which I think they do it on purpose. I don't think that you can actually sweep the answers like that and win the game after three rounds. So then you have your last round, which is triple scoring. And so max score there is usually somewhere like 250. And so there it really is just kind of if you're the team who's been dominating the whole time, you win that one, then you And so there it really is just kind of If you're the team who's been dominating the whole time you win that one then you finally get rewarded for it but if you're the team that's been

sucking ass for the first three rounds you can just casually stroll into that one and You won't win the game by getting that but you'll at least send it to overtime and then it's just a 1v1 top answer and it's almost almost as stupid as Quidditch where isn't there a scene in Goblet of Fire or something it's like the Quidditch World Cup where Victor Crumb is down by like 170 points and the snitch is worth 150 so if he catches it the game is over and he does just that and you're kind of sitting there thinking what the fuck are you doing Victor Crumb wait till your team gets within striking range 30 more points send one of those medicine balls into the middle hoop 30 points Gryffindor or

whoever Victor Crumb played for Hungary I think and then catch the Golden Snitch just I got no tolerance for stupid scoring so a family feud I don't know I'm not coming here with solutions to the problem but it kind of sucks and then oh just a couple other things I came across this morning there's some like Mike Huckabee show. Not the Mike Huckabee show. It's not his show. Because it's current. And I think Mike Huckabee show got canceled when Sarah became governor of Alabama, or no, that's that's K.I.V.

Arkansas. Think she took that off the air. But there's some other show. It's like channel 106. Next time you're in Jamaica, go there. You'll see what I'm talking about. Have not actually lingered because I get there and I see Mike Huckabee and I'm just like, why, why would I watch this? He's got his gray beard. He's always, it's always two screens. It's him and some other person, like an interview. But I don't know. So if you were thinking, gosh, what's Mike Huckabee been up to these days, go to channel 106. If you don't have it, come down here to Jamaica, man. He's big,

huge in Jamaica. And then two more things here I've noticed. This was just this morning. Third day, and not consecutive days. I think it was Tuesday, Wednesday maybe, and then today, wedding crashers on TV. Maybe it was last night, I can't remember. And I always get to the same scene. It's Rachel McAdams at a wedding, which I think does the whole two hours, does it take place at one wedding? No, that's not true because there's a there's a scene where they go to um wow that guy goes to um Owen Wilson to see Will Ferrell. Ah the meal of my my teeth just squeaked that was weird. It's like the gopher from Winnie the Pooh. It's a super special power I

didn't know I had until this moment. Must be the Blue Mountain coffee, which I'm now a lot of and we're switching to bottled water. And then I think right after the scene when they go see Will Ferrell, they go to a funeral to pick up some ladies. But otherwise, I think the whole movie is just at a wedding. I don't know, because I've never really watched it. But I have seen the same scene from Wedding Crashers on three separate occasions on this trip on HBO Family, which I didn't know existed until right now.

So if you ever think to yourself, gosh I haven't seen Wedding Crashers in a while and I would love to go on a Jamaican vacation come down to this particular resort because they have HBO family and they love wedding crashers. And then finally, last night scrolling the channels, it's not particularly humorous, but Jimmy Kimmel live on two different channels not close to each other in the channel list. But it wasn't actually Jimmy Kimmel because he takes summers off. So, this was the best part.

Two Jimmy Kimmel Lives, neither one hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, also not hosted by the same person. One of them was Anthony Anderson, which was like two weeks ago. One of them I think was from this week. It was, I don't know his name. I didn't realize this guy was really a famous actor who could step in and host Jimmy Kimmel. The black guy from New Girl, and I apologize, I don't know his name.

I don't know if I've seen him in anything other than New Girl, which I've watched maybe the first two seasons of. But not, and not the Wayans brother, the like main cast guy. I don't know, I think he was interviewing Ken Jeong or something in preparation for the Olympics. So, that's some Jamaican telly notes. Let's see. Oh, one other thing I thought of that I'll just kind of leave you with as we

get into trivia here. Why do watermelons have two kinds of seeds? That was a thought I had at breakfast the other day. Shared it with the family and no one had a good response. So calling all botanists. Why do watermelons have two seeds and when we make seedless watermelons, why do we get rid of just one of the seeds and not both of the seeds? these are questions I have and it's kind of silly but it's also completely honest. I don't know other fruits that have two distinct types of seeds. what's going on with watermelons? cantaloupes don't have that. they just got all the mushy stuff right in the middle. you scoop it out it's easy watermelon is infiltrated throughout

speaking of infiltrated last thought here before we do trivia I've got about 30 pages left in my novel sphere by Michael Crichton author of Jurassic Park the terminal man and screenwriter for critically acclaimed 90s movie twister. I think that was 90s. I don't know. I think my teeth almost whistled again here. I don't know if we're picking it up here in this iPhone 10 built-in voice recorder. Who knows? But Michael Creighton's sphere. I've got about 30 pages left. No spoilers. But they're about to go into the sphere. That's pretty exciting stuff. We'll see what happens. I'll come back with a

two-page double spaced book report on my findings and the themes. I never really cared for book reports when I was in school because at a young age it's always like oh, two pages double spaced, how do I get that far? How do I type that much? That's so much work. And then you reach a certain point where you're actually better at writing and expectations for the quality of your book report go higher and all of a sudden it's not just sum up the

plot but it's talk about introduce the characters talk about the themes any other interesting findings and then I don't know about you guys but I was always constrained by the word count or the page limit it's like how do I talk about all these things from this 400 page novel in a three to five page paper or whatever it is. Basically just trying to get it organized is the challenging thing. But Michael Crichton's Fear, it's Bean Town Podcast's Book of the Week. And last thing here, and then we're doing trivia

because we forgot last week, our countdown to Simba, the Lion King. I don't know, we don't have our counter with us. It's December 20th, I remember that. I think that's what it is. So we're about we're under five months ago. But remember, it's not Simba. It's Mufasa, the Lion King. Mufasa, find your pride. That's one of the taglines I'm working. I don't know if Disney's

you know, Bob Iger is going to come calling or not. But I sort of want to be ready in case he does. Mufasa. The lion within. I guess that's kind of too similar to Lion King. Mufasa. Claws out. You know, Mufasa reminds me, last thing before we go to trivia, we were at, you know, these resorts they do entertainment at night. They always got a show at the theater. And last night was titanium night, which upon hearing it the first time, I assumed it was going to be some sort of like Transformers themed, lots of metal and heavy clanking of blocks of steel. It was actually just a lady with a violin and four dancers. There was no steel, there's no transformers. But at one point she was playing a tender melody

from Black Panther, Brian Coogler's Black Panther. And then it transitioned to America theme and she was playing Adele, someone like you maybe, I don't remember. And then there was a cowboy hoedown, where the backup dancers had cowboy hats and chaps on. And then it transitioned back to Adele, fire to the rain. I don't really know what the theme was there. There's like a red city projected behind her with fire on the bottom. And then the show just kind of ended. So next time you're around Runaway Bay, get a day pass, come to the titanium show every Friday night. It was it happened. Okay, finally here I was doing some light reading on what I thought was called Rastafarianism, but

apparently the most proper term is just Rastafari. And which is a kind of a pseudo religion slash cultural and social movement that started in like the 50s maybe here in Jamaica, man. And it was one of those things where I just, you know, I was traveling to Jamaica and realize, you know, I've heard of it. I associate with Jamaica, but I really know nothing about it. So I did a deep dive into the Wikipedia article and it's pretty interesting. I did some reading probably seven or eight

minutes and I encourage you to do that as well. But we'll leave you with this trivia question. And it's not written out right now. I'm just kind of thinking back to what I recalled. But here we go. I'm just gonna tell you what I'm just kind of thinking back to what I recalled but here we go I'm just gonna tell you what I'm thinking and if you're curious it's 818 and no attendance at the tennis court so don't come try to play here on a Saturday because it's not gonna be open at least not before it gets blazing hot. So Ras Tafari takes its name from a specific person who was had this birth name and I don't have the name in front of me but it starts with R-A-Ras and then

Tafari is the second name and then he's got a last that's like co-menant or something like that. that's like Comenant or something like that. But this person that Rastafari is named after was a 20th century ruler who ruled from about 1930 to 1974 I believe is what it is. And Rastafari believes that this person, some people believe he was the second coming of Jesus Christ, people who believe he was just a prophet for Jesus so name this world leader The answer is not Ras Tafari. He's got a much better known name Who is sort of the central figure other than Ja in Ras Tafari?

Again he ruled from 1930 to 1974, ended up being assassinated in 1975 and if you want an additional clue he was the ruler, wow this is kind of the last big clue I can give you, but ruler of Ethiopia. So you want any more time go ahead and pause but the correct answer the primary central figure and the in the Afrocentric Pan-African religion of Rastafari is Haile Selassie. Great first name Haile. It's highly likely to get assassinated by a communist uprising, a military coup in Ethiopia in the 70s. Sort of a complicated figure from what I could read.

I did some reading on Rastafari and then that transitioned into reading on Haile Selassie, but he was around for a long time and had a lot of friends and a lot more enemies. Rastafari, Haile Selassie, European Tom Podcast, Tribute Question of the Week. Okay, that's what I got for you guys. Thank you so much for tuning in. And coming back to Chicago, we'll be back with a whole new round of shows next weekend as Lollapalooza Weekend. Maybe we'll break down the lineup, maybe we'll think of something far better to talk about,

I don't know. But my name is coin david furnace i hope everyone is having a great week happy july stay safe stay sane i'll check in on you guys next time bye