Beantown Podcast - Low Quality Inn (01262024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: January 26, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss some memorable hotel, motel, and airbnb stays across the years

Hey, what's going on? It's Quindy and Furnace. Welcome to my show. Quindy and Furnace presents the Bean Town podcast for, I don't know, let's call it Friday, January 25th. Is that right? Is that what Friday would be? It's not actually Friday, January 26th. I can't even get my days right. It is Friday, January 26 January 26 when you are listening to this at least that's what I just decided off the top of that way you'd release this on Friday January 26 if you're listening to this right now I'm probably in a plane to Cancun to celebrate a good friend of the show Matthew Fieler's wedding congratulations to you Matthew and his lovely maybe by the time you listen to this, his lovely wife, John Key. In case you missed part one of this episode, this doesn't really even make sense then.

The intro music, all the fun stuff, basically. We're recording two shows back to back on Sunday, January 21st, which is something I almost never do here on the Bean Town podcast. In fact, I've never done anything like this where we record two sessions in a row and then just release them on different dates. Just happened due to scheduling conflicts and scheduling issues.

But if you missed part one, it has nothing to do substance-wise with part two because part one, we power into the months, part two are gonna be going through some some personal memorable stays and we even got a Memorable for all the wrong reasons stays based off of a funny meme that's been going around the internet that I've been enjoying And we even got a honorable mention a chip in from Fiance of the show Rachel Ramos, so that's gonna be good

Let's turn discretion is advised when you're listening to this show number one occasion use some language number two's podcast subjectly terrible We already shouted our friends in Pakistan a part one. We shouted our ad sponsors on part one we will have a brand new trivia question of the week for you here today and All that all that fun stuff. So this is part two, but it's really just a separate thing. It's complicated, it's confusing. Speaking of part two, separate thing, I read so Mission Impossible 7, which they don't use the numbers,

they just give them different titles. Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 came out in summer of 2023, I think it was. And it was unique when they when they released the title Dead Reckoning Part 1 because Mission Impossible movies always had distinct titles. Mission Impossible and then I guess Mission Impossible 2 is just Mission Impossible 2 and then Mission Impossible 3 is just Mission Impossible 3, but then they moved away from that and then it was Mission Possible 4

Whatever it was Rogue Nation 5 was Ghost Protocol 6 was Whatever it was that's my favorite one and I can't remember what it was called And then Mission Impossible 7 was Dead Reckoning part 1 The issue with Mission Possible 6 is you Google MI6 and you get the fallout. That's what it was. You Google MI6 and you just get the British CIA, whatever it is. That's not very helpful, a fallout.

That's what it was. Definitely my favorite one. Anyways, what I'm getting at here is this is Bintan Podcast. Recorded on January 21st, technically part two, because I just decided to call it that, but we're just recording on the day, and back to back. But it's actually Friday, January 26th, when this is released, if everything goes well with how I set things up on SoundCloud. So, let's jump into, of course, you have to start with this week on the campaign trail. Now this is interesting because on our previous episode that you listened to five days ago, Trump had won the Iowa caucus going back to MLK Day and Nikki Haley was still in it,

Ron DeSantis was still in it, Vivek had dropped out and endorsed Trump. Now it's Friday, January 26th, and we've already had the New Hampshire primaries. So some wild stuff that happened four days ago, three days ago in the New Hampshire primary. Of course, Trump won. We all knew that. But who would have thought that Nikki Haley would have rode into the polls

on a miniature horse, which is pretty cool. And we didn't realize that Ron DeSantis was actually a lizard person the whole time. And of course, no one expected that Michelle Bachman was going to be a surprise entrance into the Republican primary this year, but she surprised us all. Crazy stuff that happened at the New Hampshire. That's what they say about New Hampshire.

You never know what you're going to get in New Hampshire. It's wild. It's crazy. It's unexpected. So big shake up here on the campaign trail this week. Pretty shocking that it happened three days ago, because we definitely recorded after. But we're talking bad stays here. And this was born out of, so it's a good meme on the internet. So I had never seen this image before.

Basically, the images of Hillary Clinton, probably back in 2016 or something, she's on the campaign trail. And the picture is just timed perfectly. From the context I've read, she is touring a working class family's home home, touring I guess is not the right word but just like in a home and just trying to connect with the you know Joe six-pack and say what Sarah Palin would say back in the day but the picture that they have of her is timed perfectly where she's just like standing in a in a doorway turned to look at look like towards the camera and her face just looks mortified.

And so the joke is basically like, you know, she's so out of touch with working class families and she looks mortified by their living conditions. This image has got to be, you know, super old, super, I mean, eight years. And so when the today's AFC division around game between the bills and chiefs got set up it's Patrick Wilhelm's first ever road game in a in a playoff competition which is shocking because this is like his fifth or sixth year of going to the playoffs. But they are finally they are a higher or a lower seed that chiefs are than the bill. So they're traveling to Buffalo. The meme is basically Taylor Swift when she has to book a hotel room, or Taylor Swift

in the nicest hotel room in Buffalo. And it's just that Hillary Clinton. Look, if you don't know, go find it on Twitter or Reddit, whatever you want to do. This inspired me as I was riding the bike this morning. I was like, what should we check in on here on part two? Although, we definitely recorded this Friday, January 26th, even though we're currently on a flight to Mexico. So here we go.

These are just a couple hotels. And there's some recency hotels, motels, Airbnbs, all that good stuff. Recency bias. I wasn't keeping meticulous notes of all the places I stayed when I was nine years old, 10 years old, so I don't know for sure exactly what I'm missing out on. But here are just some stays that I've had over the years.

Then we got some honorable mentions. We got a chip in from Rachel that weren't my all time favorite stays. I got a chip in from Rachel that weren't my all-time favorite stays. And I will say here, I don't mean to offend anyone, especially getting to the honorable mentions. These are things that were just family things growing up. Hopefully we can just all laugh at it now.

But I don't mean to sound, I don't know what the word is,ge is not exactly what I'm trying to say, but ungrateful, you know, because I wasn't paying for these stays. But you know what? It is what it is. A couple of things that I thought of that weren't even in my notes off the time I had, but we'll kick this off. My brother, Walt and I drove from Chicago to Oregon for Thanksgiving a couple years, I don't know, probably like eight years ago, something like that.

And we spent, I don't know probably like eight years ago something like that and We spent one night In our car in like eastern Colorado, Western Nebraska I don't remember exactly where but it was very cold on those planes and We were so cheap, you know, we weren't gonna get a hotel room or something. So we just pulled off to like a rest stop and the car was so full that you couldn't recline seats

or anything like that. So we just kind of sat there, turned the car off, wore our winter coats and tried to do that overnight for like six hours. And I think I kind of dozed in and out for about an hour or two, but it didn't go very well. It was so cold. And so I just went inside to the rest stop and sat on the toilet because it was warm

for about two hours and eventually came out and I think I think uh, Walt and I got going uh, and got to our next stop fairly fairly shortly after that, but the honorable mention uh, of that trip is that we spent two nights later because we spent a long time, or maybe it was just the next night, I don't really remember, but we spent a long time with friends, with Walt's friends in Colorado. We ended up staying in a hotel near Boise, Boise, I think is how you're supposed to say it. And I don't remember too much about that hotel other than, I think like the, you're supposed to like swipe your card

to be able to open the door and stuff late at night and that thing was broken. And they'd woke up in the morning and I totally, listener discretion I think is advised. I don't remember if we said this. I wouldn't really seem to be in top pocket. It's number one, will occasion you some language in between these pockets, so it'd be terrible.

I totally fucked up the waffle machine. One of those older ones where you definitely listening to Beantop Pocket, number one will occasion you some language on which these pockets are objectively terrible. I totally fucked up the waffle machine. One of those older ones where you definitely have to spray it or else it's going to really be a pain in the ass. Well, whatever the 100% version of that is, that's what I did because it was bad. So I don't feel too good about that. Not really a bad stay. It was my own fault, but just something I thought of as part of that stay as well. Oh, when Rachel and I was having this conversation

with a good friend of the show, John Paul Pendowski, he and I got coffee a couple of days back. And we were just talking about starting your relationships and what is it like when you're at your partner's parents' house and sleeping arrangements and stuff. And so I had to think back to it. And Rachel and I started dating four years ago. But I remember one of the first times they were stayed over.

We we shared a bedroom, Rachel's bedroom growing up, but I wasn't allowed to sleep in the same bed yet. And so I slept on the futon, which is still in there, I believe. I think it's well, there is a is still in there I believe I think it's well there is a futon in the bedroom I think it's the same futon that thing is not good for sleeping man it's just it's not like a comfy kind of couch or something like that it's just like hard as a rock futon and I remember just sleeping on that and you know blanketed a pillow all that good stuff but it's kind of like sleeping on a sleeping on a wood board basically it was not prime not ideal so glad glad I

have moved off of the futon and into the regular bed when we get to get the pleasure of visiting bedding and Jose think thank you bed and Jose, for all of your generosity over the years, of course. But going back, those two were off script here, because I just thought of them. Kind of recently some other things that have been rough and against some recency bias, for sure, here.

But last time I went out west, I did a big West road trip. I think it was fall 2021 and My first stop You know I was in and out started in and out of Phoenix started and ended in Phoenix So my first stop I go up to flagstaff because I wanted to hike the Grand Canyon the next morning And I did flagstaff is like the closest you can get without paying a ton Because as you get towards the Grand Canyon, there's almost nothing there and everything's expensive. So I stay in just like the shittiest, the cheapest thing I could find in Flagstaff, I think

it was like 40 bucks or something and I think it was one of those deals where it was on Airbnb but it was actually just like a regular motel. It was just one of those things where you like check in, I think when I checked in, it was like an Indian college student working and the person in front of me, they were barking about something, but I had to wait a while and listen to them. And it was one of those things where you can just tell when you get there is like, this is rough. It's right on the street ground level, that type of thing. And then, you know, you just like park your car and you're walking in and there's all

sorts of bad grints, great word, V-A-G-R-A-N-T-S. Mulling about, another great verb, mulling. And you're just like, boy, this is rough. But get in there, one of those places where there's just, you know, you could just walk in, you're like, this place, I could easily be murdered here. I think of the famous hotel or motel scene in no country for old men

Where Josh Bullen's in one room and Del Toro? Is that no, it's not an issue Del Toro. It's What's his face? We don't have time to go through all this stuff Anton Chigur. It's the character's name is next to a heavier bar down And they're like the monies and the vent and stuff, and he shoots and whatever. Yada, yada, yada. That's basically what it was like, this place in Flagstaff. So I wasn't that bummed when I had to wake up,

or I made myself wake up at like 3.30 AM the next morning. So I could get to the Grand Canyon and start hiking by five. But yeah, that hotel in Flagstaff was pretty rough. Another hotel room or hotel room that was interesting, when my brothers and I went to Anchorage, we stayed basically our trip, we went to Alaska, we stayed in Anchorage for like two nights, then we went, hiked in Denali, stayed there for one night, we came back to Anchorage for one night and stayed there. We stayed in the same hotel in both of our stints and anchorage, but because they

were split up we had different rooms. First room, fine, no problem. Nothing fancy, two double beds, queen beds, something like that. No problem. Second time we come back, first we came back, we checked in, it was like midnight because we had been hiking in Denali all day and then we had a whole episode at a bar where they thought I was someone else and almost got shot which was wild. PBR and Doritos I think that's what we had for dinner before we stopped at a diner back in Anchorage. Anyways my brothers will remember this better than I would but we checked in we tried to check in and they're like your room's not ready it's like midnight it's like there's a what what are you doing or maybe

they overbooked they didn't have a room. We waited around in the lobby for like 45 minutes which is brutal when you've been hiking all day. You just you know sat in a car for like four hours and we were just like this this stinks. Anyways eventually we get put up in a room. I'm trying to remember all the things about it. I think there was blood on the floor. It was a room that was like under construction. It was like not supposed to be open to the public. That's not the right word. It's saying it. Not bookable basically. There is maybe no toilet paper I can't remember. And I don't believe our beds had any blankets or anything of that sort. It was just a rough night but you're

so tired. I think I remember waking up and in the morning being like, there's no toilet paper having to go to the front desk and getting some, so good stuff and anchorage. First time around at that hotel, no problem. Second time, not great. This one wasn't terrible, it was just wild. When I, we talked about this on our show, when I stayed at the pediatrician's office in Connecticut,

I never stayed in like a single room before that had a sink in it. It was just in the bathroom, was shared for the entire floor. I remember going in there early in the morning to shower before getting out of there and going to the Finger Lakes and just being like, there's this one shower on this floor. Who knows how many people staying here. It was one of those things too, this old house that used to be a doctor's office and I was just single occupancy Airbnb rooms and I could never tell and I'm in when I was in there like how many people were in here but thank

God my door locked the whole thing was just kind of like unnerving I don't know it was I didn't have any bad experiences there. But it was just like there's a lot of people up here. So it's just like a lot of doors that are all closed. You can hear some people. I was like, I don't know who actually is here who's not. So, didn't see anyone when I went into the bathroom. Took my shower.

But you know, the whole thing is just like a big bathroom with one toilet, a couple sinks and one shower, and it's just like open to everyone. So got in, got out of there, no problem. But staying in an old pediatrician's office, interesting stuff. I stayed at an inn in Jackson, New Hampshire when I was still potentially plotting to summit Mount Washington, which did not happen because of the conditions. But this inn was owned by this crazy lady who'd been in all sorts of like discrimination

lawsuits for basically harassing, I think it was a Islamic or a Muslim woman when she tried to check in at the hotel. And I ended up reading that stuff, that story before I checked into this place in New Hampshire and I was mortified when I got it. Definitely had a little bit of a shining atmosphere going to it and it was one of those places where the carpet smells really bad and there were, yeah, there's some cockroaches, but I don't know. Maybe it's still around. Another one of those things, same trip as the pediatricians office where I was just like, trying to do this as cheaply as I could,

but survived another instance where I got out of there at like 6 a.m., just like wanted to abandon ship before I could get murdered, basically. We've mentioned this a couple of times, in fact, recently, but when I did our year one special, I stayed at an Airbnb in Virginia, rural southwestern Virginia. And using the space heater, I ended up losing power to most of the outlets in there.

Of course, later I would cook an Aldi, I think it was Aldi, I don't remember, a frozen pizza on a pancake griddle. It did not work very well. And the whole time I was there, my hosts weren't home. It was a basement unit under their house. And I did not have access to a circuit breaker. So I had, like, I think two or three outlets in there that worked. Which is just like you make do with it, but space heaters got to use one of them.

And you need some kind of light too. So it was somewhat shabby shabby by Living conditions, but we survived I survived. I think it was there for two nights three nights can't remember but anyways, I made it My whole year living at 715 West diversity Parkway Just it was well-documented

because that was what season four, season, I guess season four slash five, I think, of the Beantown podcast, but pretty rough. Just living on a ground floor. And first time in my life in the department I've ever had big ant issues. But that was pretty annoying. That one was not fun to have ant issues.

Where you're just like sitting on the couch and you got your coffee table, your TV, a very spartan setup. And all of a sudden you like look down at their ants crawling up your legs. Not super nice. Not something I really enjoyed. We got, you know, for the most part the ant issue got solved. Although I remember it was like, you know, they would come in from the front door, but then they also had a colony behind the mirror in the bathroom. And it took me a while to like figure out those holes. I had to watch them for a while, but then I like plugged them up with toothpaste or toilet paper. I can't remember which, but just, you know, the whole time kind of unnerving.

Other really bad thing about, well, there are a lot of bad things about that place, but just it took so long to get the smoke smell out of there. I still have it, you know, whatever it's called a carbon, not a carbon diffuser, but or an ozone, not carbon, like an ozone diffuser or something like that. Basically this machine you turn on and you're supposed to leave your apartment for like two hours, let it run, and then you set it on a timer, almost like you're like bug bombing your apartment or something like that, but it helps clean the air basically. I still have it. Thankfully, haven't had to use it, you know, since then, but it never completely fixed it, but it definitely helped.

But tough, tough. And that was one where I could hear everything going on with my upstairs neighbors too. I'm sure they could hear me. Not that there was too much to hear, but yeah. Not a fun place. Plowing ahead here, getting into some honorable mentions soon, but just broadly speaking, and this happened all the time growing up, but anytime you woke up as a kid, you were sleeping on an air mattress and there was a leak in the air mattress, and so you wake up and you're

firmly on the floor. Not one of my more favorite experiences. Rachel's submitted one, actually a couple here I think. This was the quality in in Champagne, forever known now as the low quality in. It was senior year, the apartment wasn't ready for, the apartment where she's gonna live wasn't ready when she had to get down there for sorority recruitment.

And so along with a couple of friends, she had the hotel room at the low quality in. I think the biggest deal breaker from my conversation with her earlier today was that the carpet was wet. In fact it was sopping, S-O-P-P-I-N-G. It smelled like cigarettes so her friend who also liked to smoke lit up just to kind of feel included in the atmosphere if you will. They needed one of those ozone diffusers. A lot of commotion outside, hate when that happens.

We had, you know, we stayed, this didn't make my list, cause it was like, it could have easily, it was kind of low hanging fruit, but it ended up working out okay when we stayed at the Red Roof Inn in Alabama a couple days or a couple weeks ago. Everything was, you know, like as good as it could be for a first floor motel room.

But the next morning when we were getting ready to leave, go back home, there was definitely some big time commotion, a lot of yelling between a couple next door. And oh, that plays too. I forgot to mention this. I went to get ice that afternoon of John Popendowski's wedding and a frog came out of the ice machine when you put your bucket down under, a frog came out of the ice machine when you like, you know, put your put your bucket down under you like press the button for the ice to come out a frog came out. Poor little guy I don't think he made it but he was still alive when

he came out but he looked very cold. So if I had a small little like coat I could put on him that would have been good but I didn't so. Other one, Rachel had a bad Airbnb in San Francisco. She got bamboozled basically where they thought the neighborhood was in San Francisco, where Airbnb had sort of placed it on the map because they don't tell you the exact address, but it was not what they thought. They ended up in the tenderloin, which is a very gritty part of San Francisco and eventually they had to Abandon ship change places and Airbnb did not refund them. So that's a bummer Thank you to a lovely fiance of the show Rachel Ramos for her contributions

also, oh mentioning champagne one of the times who went down there for dad's day weekend Which would have been like a year and a half ago, maybe two years ago, I can't remember. We couldn't figure out the shower. We can only get the water to come from the bathtub. After doing some extensive research when I got back home, I learned that this is an older school thing and apparently there's like a lever inside of the faucet that you have to try to reach for to turn on the shower. But I had never heard nor seen anything like that before.

So apparently that's what we should have been doing, but couldn't shower when we were down there, which was a bummer. Other honorable mentions I have here, is my laptop's on 13%. Kano King in the Wisconsin Dells, just growing up with that. Like four beds, or sorry, like two beds for like nine people made it work. And then, uh, grandma and grandpa's like, Shepo Gazebo.

Loved staying there, kind of fun, but when you wake up on those Minnesota mornings, it's like 50 degrees outside, a little bit chilly. So there you go. Email us, bintanpodcasteatyahpodcast.com let us know about some of your quality or low quality stays. Let's wrap things up here with our trivia question very straightforward here. The world's northernmost brewery is located on this island and I will say did research on this I found a couple different sources but I looked at a map for myself and I feel pretty confident saying this. The world's northernmost brewery is located on this island. Go ahead to email us with your submissions

The answer here is the Svalbard craft brewery if you're curious it's spelled the brewery is called or spelled b-r-y-g-g-e-r-i Sort of the Norwegian spelling of it. It's on Spitzbergen, which is the largest island of Svalbard. So if you said Svalbard, I'll give it to you because Svalbard's actually just the archipelago, but the island itself is Spitzbergen, which is a great name, S-P-I-T-S-B-E-R-G-E-N. So there you go. That's part two of this week's Bean Town podcast.

I guess it's a new week, right? Always a new week. We did not record twice on the same day. Definitely would never happen. But laptop's about to die. Thank you everyone for listening to our show. We'll get our outro music going here. My name is Quinn David Furness. Thanks for listening to this program. I'll check in on you next week. Happy wedding, Matthew Feeler. Talk to you later. Bye. మారిలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాలాల� වවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවවව� ʻɪʰɪʰɪʰ you