Beantown Podcast - Minnesota's Moment (08092024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: August 9, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE with a salute to the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Don't forget to head to beantownpodcast.com/blog to subscribe and read our latest stories!

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, August 9th, 2024. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn and this is my show Quinn and Friends Presents the Beantown Podcast. We're coming to you live from the north side of Chicago. We are one of the top 500 podcasts here in Chicago and hello and shout out to the great Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Still struggling a little bit on that medal count, but you know what when you're Pakistani the true gold medal lies within. That's what they're telling their athletes to keep their heads held high. You know what, when you're Pakistani, the true gold medal lies within. That's what they're telling their athletes to keep their heads held high.

And for the women to keep your heads covered. Preferably. Hello Karachi, hello Hyderabad, hello Khyberpass. I met a new intern in our HR department who's from Karachi. I almost asked him if he knows about the Bean Town podcast, but I didn't want to mix pleasure and work. You know, try to keep it professional over here in HR. I am the creator, host, and chief entertainment officer of this program. I was gonna try to do something with pilots or flying or Spanish, the verb to fly volar, airplane is avion.

But I couldn't come up with anything good on the fly. It's the Chicago Air and Water Show this weekend. They've been doing practicing yesterday and today. Actually, I was walking back from Jewel just an hour ago, about 4.30 in the afternoon here, I guess two hours ago by now. I saw the Blue Angels practicing, they're back. Did not have the Blue Angels last year.

Got them back here for the Chicago Air and Water Show tomorrow and Sunday. We'll go out to the lake Saturday, bring some drinks, got some floaties, hopefully the waves aren't too choppy. It'll be my first time in Lake Michigan this year, which is pretty late for me. Usually I try to get in swim in July at least. But mid August, that's the that's the prime primo temp for Lake Michigan that's about as good as it gets I feel like from probably start of August to early September is about as good as you're gonna get with the water temperature so

that'll be fun we got Rachel's birthday coming up here in less than a week happy birthday to my lover my my fiance, lots of exciting stuff happening. We have our engagement photo shoot in two weeks here. Or no, it's next week, that's creeping up. I won't give away any of the details. I won't say who we're wearing or where we're taking photos, but it's pretty exciting. I think it's the first ever time I have myself, I mean it's a joint effort me and Rachel, but

paid for a photographer to physically show up and take photos. The only situations where I've been around paid photographers in my experience are weddings. And then I guess when I was a kid, I think up in the Twin Cities, my immediate family, the six of us who went to one of those old timey replica, they put you against the backdrop. They put it in sepia, S-E-P-I-A. You wear cowboy hats. And that photo is somewhere probably hanging in my parents' house.

I'm trying to remember. I think I had a little pistol and a book of some kind. I must have been, I don't know, I think my great grandfather was still alive so I must have been like five years old something like that. And I remember Jack, brother of the show, being a little bit perturbed because I think the frame that we had that photo in, at least in our childhood home, seemed to cut his gun out of the picture. That caused a lot of consternation, if you will, C-O-N-S-T-E-R-N-A-T-I-O-N. And I think that was up in Minnesota, which is appropriate because this show is our salute to Minnesota, which we're going to jump into in a second here. Minnesota-centric show.

We got Trivia. We got Tim Waltz. We got a quick shameless plug that I'll mention in a second after I let you know that listening discretion is advised when you're listening to this program. Number one, occasionally some language number two is podcast, subjectively terrible. I'll say this. There's a lot on the docket I want to get to today. Sometimes when you sit down for a podcast, you're not, like last week, I was feeling fine

and then it just kind of devolved and we had, next thing it was like an 80 minute podcast. Was not the intention. I'll say my vision is the same this week, like want it to be short and sweet. And sometimes you got weeks where you just don't really feel like talking that much. And that's kind of where I'm at.

But hey, I'm getting into a little something something here. So we'll see how it goes. I don't know. My first one since last week, working through a six pack, number three total. But I don't know, it's 4.30 in the afternoon. I haven't really done much today. Foot is still, it's 4.30 in the afternoon. I haven't really done much today. Foot is still, it was torn.

I was going to say menisci. You got two meniscuses, so I guess you could have torn menisci. It would be terrible. Both your knees, how do you even get around? You probably just have to crawl on the sidewalk. No, torn ligaments in my foot that are, I feel like it got to 75% last week. And now we're at like 80%. So it's, whatever the opposite of exponential growth is,

it's kind of where we're at with the foot now. But, oh well. I wanted to mention a quick shameless plug because I feel like some of you out there know about this, some of you don't. Obviously, one of our big initiatives a couple years plug because I feel like some of you out there know about this. Some of you don't. Obviously, one of our big initiatives a couple years back, maybe in year three or something, was the website, beanthownpodcast.com, which I don't talk about the website all that much. But one thing I did want to highlight is the Bean Town blog.

So if you don't know, a number of years ago when we launched our website, we launched the accompanying blog. The URL is beanthownpodcast.com slash blog. It's pretty easy to find. And I just want to mention it because I try to post, I try to quarterly give or take. It's not that neat, but I would say three to four times a year there's a new blog post. And rather than having to worry about, oh, am I connected to Quinn on Instagram or follow on Twitter or whatever? Because it's just my personal accounts and I don't use my personal social media that

much. But I still like when people know about what's going on with the show. But it's just kind of hard to advertise that sometimes. What you can do is subscribe to the Beantown blog. And all that means is completely free. You go to beantownpodcast.com slash blog. If you have not done this yet, you just punch in your email

on the right hand side of the screen. It's very simple, very basic, very straightforward. It's not like, oh, now you're gonna get spam emails from the Bean Town podcast or from WordPress or whatever. It's literally just any time there is a new Bean Town blog post, which again, we're talking like three to five times per year on average, you'll get notified. So I encourage you

to do that. Again, subscribe to the Beantown blog. Leave us a five-star rating on your podcast app, all that fun stuff. But I only mention it because I actually prepared... So it was what? Was it Tuesday morning, Monday morning? I can't remember when. I think it was Tuesday morning when Kamala picked Tim Walls as the VP pick. And Monday night, Rachel and I were actually watching a fundraiser online, Comics for Kamala. There's all sorts of people on there, big names.

Trying to remember who we saw live, like L'Oreal, Howie. I think Kevin Hart was in there, Ed Helms, Ben Stiller, J.B. Pritzker, classic comedians like that. But I was thinking, I was, cause I knew like Kamala's choice was imminent at that point. I was like, I just got a feeling. Cause I think it was down to Tim Walz or Josh Shapiro from Pennsylvania and maybe Mark Kelly from Arizona, the astronaut. I was like, I just got a feeling this is going to be Tim Walz. So I said, you know what? In the hard hitting journalistic integrity that is beanthompodcast.com slash blog, I

said, let's write this. The first time I've ever done this, I wrote a blog post before it was actually confirmed. So I actually put in probably 20 to 30 minutes of work on a piece. Really put myself out there, because she could have picked Josh Shapiro and the whole thing would have been just ruined. But I wrote it, saved it as a draft, woke up 6 AM the next morning, there it was,

and it was that Tim Walz was the man. So I rushed to the press's beanthumbpodcast.com slash blog to publish it. And I just want to promote my piece because I was a big fan of it. I'm always a big fan of what I write, but sometimes it's just kind of a couple paragraphs where I'm just kind of essentially a stream of consciousness.

This was more of a structured, funny kind of thing, the Walz Brothers. So go check it out on our blog post. Speaking of politics though, we'll also call that our This Week on the Campaign Trail segment. Obviously, the big news, Tim Wallace is VP and we're going to talk Minnesota in a second here. But Minnesota in the spotlight, man. Tim Walz in the spotlight. The Trump-Vance attack right now on the new announcement has been the same John Kerry attack from 20 years ago

that Bush pulled. Going after his military record. And I just want to say this. Here's the bottom line for me about Tim Walz. I'm not even going to address their criticisms of like, oh, he pulled out right when it was time to go to Iraq. He did retire right when it was time to go to Iraq. And it wasn't like, oh, he was in it for six months, then he retired.

The guy was in the military for what I think is 24 years. And he decided, oh yeah, I'll hang it up after 24 years rather than go die in Iraq so searching for dick Cheney's lost Intercontinental ballistic missiles That we never quite found did we so I don't know I feel like Trump and Vance are in this weird spot now where they want to attack. They got to find something to attack and they're choosing the military record, which is, it's

going to be a pretty thin attack because it's a pretty simple response. Oh yeah, I was in the military for 24 years. And even this, the comparison, the dichotomy between Wals and Vance, because Vance was, and I don't know how long he was in the military for, a handful of years, I think, after law school, or before law school, maybe. And he did go to Baghdad, and he was a press reporter there, which, not thrown any shade at. I'm just saying, if we're comparing apples to apples here, I don't know. It doesn't seem like the strongest attack, and then you realize, okay, so what else can

they attack? Turns out you can't, because Tim Walz is a bad man, as Stephen A. Smith would say about Aaron Rogers or LeBron James. LeBron James was a bad man in that comeback win versus Serbia. I don't know. We'll talk Olympics a little bit more in a second here.

I don't know if you guys caught that USA versus Serbia semifinals matchup yesterday on Peacock. But I really, I mean, Serbia had the U.S. on their ropes until the very end and then just they just collapsed, man. I felt like the USA went on like a 20 to 2 run. Serbia was up by 15 points going to the fourth quarter and then like halfway through the fourth USA was up by five. I don't know, it's just like, obviously the USA has the depth and the talent, they can

just tap into a whole different level. But it is really interesting kind of seeing, you know, you've got these 12 players on the roster or whatever it is for the US. And it's like, I feel like they finally just now figured out what is their top combination. Not that they've been struggling, they were cruising up till this point. But you kind of saw them playing different combinations of guys, different lineups against Serbia and finally, I'm going to try to just remember what it was off the top of my head, but I think it was Steph Curry, LeBron James, Joel Embiid.

Who else was in like in that rotation that was kicking ass? Oh, KD, Kevin Durant was really good. And then you saw like Bam Eddabio and the guy from the Pelicans shuffling in and out. Anthony Davis, he's not in the Pelicans anymore, but it was basically those six guys with a little sprinkling here and there of Derek White and Anthony Edwards,

speaking of Minnesota. Talk about that in a second. But you know, you got guys like Drew Holliday with the long dreadlocks. Jason Tatum, I don't know, he hasn't played in like half the games and I think that's just a coaching decision. It's really interesting how you got this guy like Jason Tatum, who's, you know, one of the highest paid basketball players in the world, just won the NBA championship with his team, the Celtics, by far their best player. And just because of the way guys mix and match and work together or don't work well together, this guy, I don't even think he got minutes against Serbia.

But we pulled it out, USA baby. But we pulled that out, USA baby. A little bit of sadness, I was saying this in my work group chat this morning, a little bit of sadness. We got, excuse me, two more days of the Olympics here. I think the last big things are, at least for America, I'm trying to think. We got the four by 400 relays tomorrow, I think. Our men's volleyball pulled out of bronze, which is pretty exciting All of our beach volleyball is long been gone that the men's soccer finalists today Spain beat France in extra time

Trying to think if there are any other big ones our water polo team got knocked out today or knocked to the bronze medal match That's probably Saturday or Sunday. I don't know, it's tough. It kind of reminds me of like, it's like the last day of vacation. Last day of summer vacation is a good way to put it, where you kind of look back and you're like, did I have a good time? Did I see the things? Did I do the things I wanted to do?

Did I watch what I wanted to watch? And you're always kind of like, I'm sad, I wish I had more time, I wish I had done more. And then you think about it and it's like, well, I watched a lot. I watched a shit ton of swimming. Try to watch as much track and field as I can because I enjoy that. I enjoy the basketball games. Well, that's goes without saying we got the gold medal basketball match USA versus France, right? When Benba and Yana, that's gonna be legit. It's too bad there aren't any other Spurs players that are good that were on the US roster so that you could have guys playing against each other. Like I don't know if there are any teammates playing each other USA versus France, but it's exciting. That's got to

be tomorrow I assume at some point. And though the women's basketball is probably tomorrow or Sunday too, but it's one of those things where the women haven't lost a game or basketball team hasn't lost a game in like 60 games or something like that. So I don't know. What about women's soccer? What's going on there? Because the men's final was today. I just caught bits and pieces of it. Excuse me. The women's soccer final. It's the US vs Brazil. I mean, okay, I was going to say like, is this happening right now and I'm missing it? That'd be really embarrassing. It is tomorrow. It's Saturday. US vs Brazil. So So I'll be, well, I was going to say I'll be watching that as well.

We'll be out and about, Aaron Waters Show, aforementioned Aaron Waters Show tomorrow. Plus we got a Vikings preseason game. I mean, dude, I am full force football mania right now. And I try to avoid talking about the podcast as much possible because it's just very nitty-gritty football stuff and it's not that exciting for the mass audience but we will do a fantasy football preview at some point this month we got this show then we got next weekend essentially we got three more

weekends after today before the football season starts. So we will set one of those aside for our fantasy football preview. I've got three fantasy drafts this year. Very exciting. Got a schoolie one on the 31st. Looks like Labor Day proper is gonna be the Great White North's 19th anniversary draft, which is very exciting.

And then brand spanking new, we have the, I don't, we don't have a good name for this yet. We need to come up with something, but the, or maybe we do. Let's go back and see. Basically what I'm getting at is there is a new family fantasy football league going with Rachel's side of the family. It's a money league. It's called Voodoo Lounge which is the name of the bar side of Chuck's Southern Barbecue in Burbank, Illinois. Go to the Voodoo Lounge, great happy hour.

Missing it right now. Maybe we'll move next door someday and every Friday just get trashed. That's what my 30s and 40s are going to be all about. That's what I'm looking forward to in suburban life. Voodoo Lounge, we got that draft the night before the season starts which is pretty exciting too. So three drafts, lots going on, lots of money up in the air. Looking forward to it. So follow Beantown Podcast for that annual or seventh annual fantasy football preview coming up in a couple of weeks here. But yeah, we got Vikings versus Raiders preseason action. Excuse me, tomorrow at 3pm. Your first look

at JJ McCarthy, the Minnesota Vikings have been around as a franchise for approximately 60 years probably what 63 years something like that I think same year as my dad was born this is the first time in the history of the franchise they have drafted a quarterback in the top 10 of the NFL draft pretty Pretty hard to believe you go 63 years. It'd be one thing if it was like, oh, first time they've drafted a wide receiver or a left tackle.

And it's like, okay, yeah, like I get it. Between being a really like one of the most winningest franchises in the history of the league and you know, less premium positions compared to quarterback, I get it. But quarterback, like the most important position, not just in football and all sports, that's crazy to me. That was basically this week on the campaign trail.

I also just want to mention, we're going to come back to the Olympics in a second here. Well, no, let's do this right now. In case you missed it, this was the most out of left fields. If you would ask me this time yesterday, hey is this going to happen tomorrow? It would have been like, how high are you bro? What are you smoking? Speaking of yesterday though, just a quick plug. In case you haven't heard the name Corinne Bailey-Rey in a while, girl put your records on. We saw her at a concert, not at a

concert, we saw her concert yesterday in Chicago and she can jam. She's still got it. She's like mid 40s. It's been 20 years since Girl Put Your Record On, but it's good stuff. She had a good show. I enjoyed going. Good job, Corinne. And it was a double feature, which I just knew that we were going for Corinne Bailey. I had no idea that Terrence Martin was going to be there. If you don't know, he's a producer in LA and also a saxophonist and keyboardist, and he's fantastic. I've seen him play with Herbie Cancock. I've seen him play with Kamasi Washington. This is the first time I've ever seen him solo, leading his own group. So, absolutely fantastic.

When they said, when we right got there, I can't speak right now, when we got there, they said, oh, it's a double bill. I was like, oh, who's coming on after Corinne Bailey-Ray? And they brought out Terrence Martin first. I was kind of surprised that he was before her, but it was excellent. Good stuff. Just had to mention that before I forgot. My colleague, my coworker, put in a group chat this morning. Oh, I didn't know breakdancing was an Olympic sport. And to be honest, I had seen rumblings about it, but I hadn't really given it a second thought.

Like, oh, yeah, that's interesting. And I kind of went about my morning, busy work morning. Around midday is when I was on Twitter and I started to see rumblings of this new story pop up. So if you don't know, break dancing is a sport at the Paris Olympics. I don't know if it has been in the past. I did not do my research. We're gonna plow ahead here.

If you didn't follow this story at all, you have to go read about it. Just Google search Ray Gunn and your life is going to change. R-A-Y-G-U-N. So essentially, almost like rappers, when you become a breakdancer, it's in life or in the Olympics,

you have like your stage name. So this lady's name is like Melissa Gunn or something like that. She's from Australia. Pretty much my understanding, all the other female break dancers are between like 19 and 22, maybe even younger, I'm not sure. They're very thin, hip, limber, really good at break dancing. Let's just leave it at that. Then you have Reagan. Imagine if you are a fan of the NBC show 30 Rock, there's a great scene where Liz, Jack, like Alec Baldwin's character at the end of the episode finds out that she has been

absent-minded lately because she has been spending her nights at Madison Square Garden as part of the Knicks dance squad. It's like a geriatric thing and of course, Tina Fey's like 40 in the show, but she as part of the Knicks dance squad. It's like a geriatric thing. And of course, Tina Fey's like 40 in the show, but she's part of it. This is essentially the vibe you get from Raegun. Raegun is a 36, I'm not calling 36 geriatric, right?

I'm almost there myself, but it's just very different when you're at the Olympics, right? She's older than the rest of the competition. She is a lecturer in cultural studies at a school in Sydney, Australia and she somehow, I don't have an explanation for this, I don't know if it's a joke, I can't figure it out, I like I don't understand if they're pulling a prank. I'm not sure and I'm not here to shit on ray gun I'm just saying you have to go watch

rayguns routine at the Olympics her breakdance because I've just had a loss for words and I'm not gonna say and you'd be like, oh she was so bad that I could do better No, I would break a hip. I'd be terrible. She was out there moving, she was doing her best, but it was like, this has to be some kind of joke. It almost made me think I was watching like a Sasha Baron Cohen kind of bit,

or like punk with Ashton Kutcher. Like the move she was doing, it was literally like every white person on the dance floor at a wedding. I was just, my jaw was agape. I couldn't believe what I was watching. It didn't seem like it could be real life, but it was. So go on YouTube, go on Twitter, wherever, just do a Google search for Ray Gun, watch her routine.

Absolutely mind blowing. Let's move past this. Google search for ray gun watch her routine absolutely mind-blowing Let's move past this. I wanted to mention we won't do a full deep dive because guys we got like What 12 more episodes more than that probably 15 20 before this actually hits theaters Mufasa the lion gang Hits theaters in 133 days Lion King hits theaters in 133 days. I've tried to make an effort to mention that on every show moving forward because I know we missed it a couple weeks back and I felt very very bad for the good very kind, generous, financially generous folks over at Disney. So Mufasa, find your pride. Okay, I mentioned there are a lot of things I was going to get through, so we're going to keep going.

This is the last thing I want to mention before we talk about our ads. And then Minnesota, which I'm going to get to pretty quickly. Just a very disappointing summer for like our main television shows. Me and Rachel, the things we watch. First and foremost, Summer I Turn Pretty, season 3, got pushed to 2025. We couldn't even enjoy it. Next, and this is old news at this point, right?

This came out like a month and a half ago, probably. The Bear, season 3, which we haven't finished yet, frankly, we're like three episodes left, very disappointing. And from what I've read online, it's not like, oh yeah, wait till you watch the last three episodes, that's gonna change your opinion. It's the same thing. Here's the problem with The Bear season 3. Nothing happens. And I'm not, I'm not like a, oh I need action all the time kind of person, but it's character development and you got to eat your vegetables there's no character development I literally told Rachel we were watching season

or episode seven or something the other day and I was like I forgot Jeremy Allen White was in this show even though he is the main character he's the namesake literally nothing has happened he ends season two locked in the freezer he messes up his relationship with Claire. He messes up his relationship with his cousin, Iban Masbacherak. And we are legitimately 75% of the way through season three. And he has not talked to Claire at all. And he has had like two conversations with Richie, Yvonne's character in the show.

And I just kind of, we're just kind of sitting there like, and obviously everyone knows the first episode of season three is just like a trance-like 30 minute food porn kind of thing. There's just, it's so little happening. Rachel does not care for Abby Elliot's acting skills. I'm indifferent, but I understand where she's coming from. Abby Elliot and what's-her-face-from-Big-Bang-Theory, Kaylee Kwoku, they're kind of cut from the same cloth. They kind of have the

same voice. Has anyone ever thought about that before? They don't necessarily look alike. They're both blondes, but I don't know. So very disappointing in the bear. And then look, I'm just going to put it out there. Rachel hates it when I criticize House of the Dragon because Rachel knows I'm not a Game of Thrones person. And so I think she thinks that I really just hate House of the Dragon and I'm not a Game of Thrones person, and so I think she thinks that I really just hate House of the Dragon and I'm just watching it to put up with it. I don't believe that. I think there are aspects of House of the Dragon I really enjoy, and there's just as many aspects that I don't enjoy.

But I'll just say this, and this is not the unpopular opinion. This is just repeating what everyone's been saying for the last four days. House of the Dragon Season two finale, just trash. Just garbage. You can't have like the biggest show of the summer and like HBO, it's basically your biggest cart that you're tied to right now. It's like this and White Lotus.

How can you put that out there? And I'm not gonna go into spoilers. Well, there's nothing to spoil because nothing happened. This was literally the most, it wasn't even a good filler episode where you get good conversations, good dialogue, the story moves forward well. I just, I was baffled.

We didn't get to watch it till Monday night. So Sunday, 24 hours from the time it came out, that time we watched it to kind of see some reactions, see some analysis. And I really thought people were overreacting when they said, oh, it was terrible. This was just like how Game of Thrones ended, just awful. Then I watched it and my, my eyes were open. So I don't know, I don't know how you can invest all that time, energy, and money into a season of a show only to end it like that. I'm not saying that you have to do a big bombastic,

everything has to come crashing down, but there needs to be something interesting has to happen. This whole season, just like The Bear, just an entire season dedicated to like ten pages of a book essentially. Very frustrating. Speaking of a book, last thing I say then we gotta shout out to our sponsors and Plowhead here. I finished, while we were on vacation, it was already two weeks ago, reading Michael Crichton's Sphere. And while Rachel was at Lala last week, I took it upon myself to watch the film adaptation, which is from like 1998. And it is, what's his name from Rain Man?

It's really embarrassing that I can't remember. Keep wanting to say Martin Short. It's not that at all. He also plays Woodward and Bernstein and all the President's men. Well, I'm just going to Google it and come back to it because everyone else already knows and I'm the only one who can't remember. But it's also got Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson, Dustin Hoffman. And I just have a quick gripe with the movie, which wasn't that well done, in my opinion.

But in my opinion, the pivotal moment of Sphere, the novel, is when the main character, Dustin Hoffman, and again in the book, goes into the Sphere and experiences it. Not that he's in there for very long, but it's like the whole book is leading up to that Doesn't happen the movie They asked Dustin Hoffman's character like so did you go into the sphere and he's like, I think I did I'm not sure But we just it's not a scene in the movie where he actually goes into this fear and I just You must have been stupid to make this movie. Whoever it was. Barry Levinson.

I don't know. OK, let's keep going here, because I promised you I just wanted to give you a nice clean episode. Last week was Off the Rails. It was fun, but it was chaotic. Just a good description for the last 340 episodes of this show, broadly speaking. Thank you to our sponsors.

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some ladies standing in front of us at the Corin Bailey Ray concert yesterday who looks like they needed some cuts by cue action. You know when you see white people with long dreadlocks, like Jason, what's his name from season seven of Jason Castro from American Idol? And you're just kind of like, that's a choice. That's all I'll say about that. But then they're kind of dirty, and it's like, what's the vibe here?

This one white lady, she must have been 50 years old, kind of short and stocky. She had the classic white lady dreadlocks look going on. But she really amped it up because she had a bubble maker, or like a bubble blower, that came back, the wind blew it back onto us. And frankly, I think I got a bubble inside of my wine, and that's why I've been sick today. I haven't been sick but don't tell the malpractice lawyers. And then

she had lights in her hair which I've never seen before, very fun. And she was really shaking her booty when Corinne Bailey-Ray was doing her house set in the middle of her larger set. in the middle of her larger set. Yeah, if you thought Corin Bailey Ray was just, Go put your records on, tell me your favorite song. She also did a like a ten minute house set. House music, if you don't know. From Chicago. Go look up, who should you look up?

Frankie Knuckles or Grandmaster Flash? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha house music. Ha ha ha ha ha ha house music. It's basically that but for 10 minutes, but it sounds good, it's not, you know, it's better than me. I gotta pull up my YouTube search for Grandmaster Flash just before I forget so I can listen to that after.

Okay, those were, those were our ads. I just wanted to... House Nation, I think is what it's called. Grandmaster Flash House Nation. Let's see if that's what it is. House... it's like 10 minutes. It's awesome. There it is. Housemaster Boys. I don't think that's actually Grandmaster Flash, that's something different, but oh well. Okay, this is, and to end the show here, our salute to Minnesota. I am not gonna go through every single section that you would find in a Wikipedia article.

I don't have any internet in front of me right now. But I just wanted to say, so between Tim Walz getting the VP nom this week, Suni Lee, of course, you got to think back to a week, but she kicked ass. At the Olympics, she is from Minnesota. We got Anthony Edwards getting some international prime time highlighting here on the US Men's Olympic team. And of course, the Timberwolves were kind of the darling of the NBA playoffs back in

May and June. They made it all the way to the Western Conference Finals before finally running out of gas against the Mavs. But Anthony Edwards is a total badass. And then of course, you got J.J JJ McCarthy and the Minnesota Vikings Debuting in preseason tomorrow against the Raiders Minnesota is really having a Minnesotan moment and I just want to come out here to give my five-star endorsement That's like that's a pretty significant thing in this political climate Especially in an election year to get the five-star endorsement of the bean town podcast

That's legit. I feel like people from around Chicago that I interact with, and it's not very frequent that I talk about Minnesota, but their impression, if they've never been there in Minnesota, is just, oh, that sounds really cold. And here are my thoughts on that originally, or initially. I would rather a place like Minnesota, you get four seasons, you get your spring. Let's see if I can do this. Your primavera, or primavera, oh I don't remember. We're doing Spanish right now, Spanish lessons. Summer is Verano, I think. Fall is Otonio. And winter is Invierno.

See how we did. There's a lot of Duolingo happening in this household right now, me and my Spanish. That was my New Year's resolution to do Duolingo every day for a year. So we're 2 thirds of the way through that, which is good. Almost two thirds. And Rachel just started Polish Duolingo literally like two days ago.

So there's a lot of Duolingo sounds going on here. But you got Minnesota, and here's my thing. Are the winters cold? Yes. Are they significantly colder than Chicago winters? No. Couple degrees extra, less windy. I'm fine. You get a little bit more of a temperate summer. You still get the 90s, you still get humidity, it still sits on the plains,

but it's not as extreme as Chicago, which obviously is not as not extreme in and of itself compared to most of the rest of the country. compared to most of the rest of the country. You get a great kind of main metro area. The twin cities are absolutely fantastic. And there's twice the city to explore. It's not like one city and you exhaust everything. Well, if you get tired of Minneapolis, you go over to St. Paul. They're connected on public transit, easy to get to, easy to bop back, back and forth.

The food of Minnesota, I mean, call me a fat ass, I'm over here drinking a little something something. But I mean, hot dish guys, right? If you don't know a hot dish, get a can of cream of mushroom. Your favorite bag of frozen vegetables, some ground beef or turkey, a pound will do, and a bag of tater tots. Literally four ingredients, a little bit of salt and a little bit of pepper. I mean how good does that sound? Basically you pull out a casserole dish in a mixing bowl, you put together your your cook up your ground beef. Then you mix that in with your frozen veggies

and your cream sauce. You toss it into the bottom of your pan. Make sure you coat it so it doesn't stick so bad. And then you do a layer of tater tots on top. I mean, you can throw some hot sauce on there. You can do whatever you want. I don't care. It's just hot dish is so good.

And it's the perfect gift, the perfect thing to bring to a Lutheran potluck. And look, you can do Protestant, just generic Protestant. You could do Presbyterian. That's what we would go to when we go to Minnesota. Growing up, we'd go to Presbyterian church. But most predominantly, it's a Lutheran state, which I was pretty underexposed to Lutheranism.

Growing up, we had lots of friends, like detassling friends, who were Lutheran, but I had never gone to their church. I didn't know much about Lutheranism until I worked for a Lutheran church in high school for a year. And I was a big fan of their practices and beliefs and just their overall friendly going nature.

Solid music, not like rock band switch foot, Jeremy Camp, but also not like you're a Catholic doing the cantors and the dir dirges sounds like two warring family members whatever it is I don't know you got juicy Lucy's oh man if you don't know a juicy Lucy you get out two raw patties of beef take one throw some mozzarella in the middle maybe some some Gruyere You could do sharp cheddar. You could even do crumbled blue cheese. Oh man, that sharp bite. How good does that sound?

You pack it into the middle. You kind of make a little like, there's a word I'm looking for, but essentially a little bowl in the middle of that first patty. You pack your cheese in there. You smoosh the other patty on top. You seal it off Throw that baby on the grill with some nice homemade buns potato buns preferably little lettuce little horseradish

onion raw onion and a tomato and Maybe just a little bit to add to your horseradish a little bit of Thousand Island sauce you smoosh that bun on top Oh, man, you got a juicy loosey, you bite into it, you get all that cheese running down your your chin hairs from Cut Spice Q. Oof, that's good stuff. Only in Minnesota, baby, do you get a juicy loosey. And you go to the State Fair, right? Illinois State Fair is down in Springfield, no one knows about it. It's all just the farmers. Minnesota State Fair, halfway between Minneapolis and St. Paul, an absolute legendary event. Back when I was a kid, look it's been a decade since I was there, but you go on day one, you buy your cup of milk for a dollar, unlimited refills, just hang onto your cup.

Chocolate milk, strawberry milk, female human breast milk. I don't know what they've got going on up there, but it's delicious. I think it's mostly cow's milk in full transparency. I don't think before we get criticized here, I don't think it's actually breast milk, female breast milk. But I can't confirm it 100%. So we'll just kind of leave it out there slightly.

Fargo. Both the classic Coen Brothers film and the subsequent TV shows, which are not all set in Minnesota, I understand. I think one is in Kansas City, the Chris Rock one. But the film of course, obviously I'm not a dumbass, Fargo is in North Dakota, but I think there's like one scene in the movie where Steve Buscemi and his crony go over to North Dakota and the rest of the movie, like where William H. Macy's card dealership is and everything is in Minneapolis, I think Francis McDormand is like a Minnesota State Trooper

Great great so great mysteries up in Minnesota as well. And then last thing I'll say we got to get to our trivia here and wrap this show Fantastic wildlife, fantastic nature. Even in a place like the Twin Cities, there's so many great parks and lakes. And you get that in Chicago, too. This isn't like a comparison thing. This is just a pro Minnesota, across the board kind of episode.

And then, hey, if you really want to get nuts, you go up to Lake Superior, some beautiful seashore up there, Duluth. You can go over to what is it Manitoba and Ontario or Manitoba and Ontario both north of Minnesota. Quick geography check for you here. How's my memory? Oh yeah look at that. It's mostly Ontario but a little bit of Manitoba as well. Yeah, Winnipeg over there. Very close to Minnesota. And then my favorite geographical feature of Minnesota is the, what do they even call

this? The angle inlet. If you don't know Google angle inlet, It belongs to Minnesota, but it's only accessible on land via Manitoba. Pretty cool stuff. You got to drive. I think there was a story about this in COVID where people lived on the Minnesota the like mainland Minnesota, Manitoba border, but they went to school, or is the opposite they lived in the angle inlet, but they needed to go to mainland Minnesota for like groceries and stuff like that so there's whole there's a whole like special covid access given to people being able to get get in and out of the angle inlet

i'm looking at google maps here doesn't even look like there's a road oh there's one canada 525 it's a road oh there's one Canada 525 so good stuff this Manitoba welcome sign on Google images has a polar bear on it are there polar bears in Manitoba how far north does this thing go let's see well pretty far north before it hits none of it. Last thing here, I want to do a little trivia question. My take or my parting thought in Minnesota is that it is a fantastic state. Just for me personally, I mean, it votes blue.

The last time it voted red in a presidential election was Nixon in 1972. And look, we were all bamboozled by that guy, so I can't blame them. Their schools, absolutely fantastic, very kind people. I mean, their two best dishes are hot dish and juicy Lucy's. They're passionate about their sports teams.

Their good airport, MSP, Mall of America, Hello Shopping. And I didn't even mention the breweries. Some of my favorites, Surly Brewing, Fulton Brewing. There's another one right next to Fulton. I'm trying to remember what it is in the North Loop area by Target Field. Can't remember. There's another one that my Vikings podcast is talking about right now, Podreggs, which is in Northeast Minneapolis, that I want to try next time I'm out there.

So good stuff all around. And hey, 25 years ago, we used to go to the Perkins and St. Paul all the time, get the chocolate chip bear pancakes. Absolutely out of this world. Only at the Perkins and St. Paul can you get those specific pancakes, I'm sure of it. Here's our trivia question to wrap the show. Everyone knows Minnesota's nickname or I don't want to say everyone knows. If you didn't know, Minnesota's nickname is the land of 10,000 lakes. You'll see it on their license plates. Sometimes you'll see a loon as well, L-O-O-N.

Excuse me. Here is my question for you. Name, and this is a little bit controversial because I checked multiple sites and got different results. So this is from what seemed like, it came down to two. It was either MSN or the World Population Review. And I just want to say this, and this is a slight clue, gives one state away, but I went with World Population Review.

MSN was fairly similar to World Population Review's list in terms of top 10 states with the most lakes. That's what we're getting at here. They had Kansas at number two and World Population Review did not have them in there at all. So if you're out there about to guess, oh Kansas I know that has a lot of lakes, you're gonna be disappointed on this one. But I'm not here to tell you you're wrong. I'm just saying this is the list I'm going with. There was some sort of preamble on one of the sites

about man-made lakes. I don't know if that's how Kansas snuck in. It was pretty surprising to me if you had just asked me, you know, forget about sources and lists, like does Kansas have a lot of lakes? I would have said no. If you would have told me do they have the second most lakes in the union, I would have said no. If you would have told me do they have the second most lakes in the Union I would have said you must be high. High on Kansas maybe Patrick

Mahomes lives in Overland Park and just built a shit ton of man-made lakes for his golf course in his backyard I don't know. I don't even know if Patrick Mahomes lives in Kansas or Missouri they talked about his house a little bit last summer in the quarterback documentary, but I don't know for sure where he lives. We'll check that later. Okay, so here's the question, and this is going to be a tough one to get, so it's just going to be like, how many can you get? And you might want to take a second to pause and write down your answers, do some research.

I don't really have additional clues or hints I'll give to you. Maybe I will, I don't know. But the question, very plainly put, is Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes. So what are the top 10 US states by number of lakes per worldpopulationreview.com. So starting at number 10, there was another discrepancy

between MSN and the list I chose. MSN had Colorado and the site I use has the state directly above Colorado. And there's your hint, it's Wyoming, number number 10 number nine is just a very large state and it's hard to not have a lot of lakes when you're that large you probably don't think of it as having a lot of water it's kind of has a reputation as being arid but number nine everything's bigger in Texas. Number eight, still pretty large on the area side of things, east of the Mississippi.

And it's one of these states, one of the only states, maybe, that has a series of lakes that have a specific name that are famous. Think Cornell, Utica, Ithaca, Syracuse, all that stuff. It's around the Finger Lakes of course that is the state of New York is number eight. Number seven we're going west young man back west we already touched on Wyoming number seven you might be thinking oh well Crater Lake right no well you're close but you got to go a little bit north of there.

It's actually the great state of Washington, named after Booker T. Washington. Number six, it is also the state, an extra bonus trivia question for you here. It's the state with the most lighthouses in the US. And it's a state, I was actually doing some light reading about a specific ghost town in the state that I'm excited that's all I'll say about it I'm gonna highlight this in December when we get the chance to visit this

state hopefully it is a state with an upper peninsula which might be helpful maybe maybe not I don't know number Number six is Michigan. Number five, we're staying in the Midwest. In fact, we will for number four as well. Number five is a state that borders Michigan, but a lot of people probably don't know that. Number five is Wisconsin. Number four is a state that borders Wisconsin. I think a lot of people do know that. There are a couple different rivers that form the border. More northerly up would be the St. Croix River that forms the border of Wisconsin in this

state. And if you still can't figure it out, well, it's really the topic of this episode. So tough, tough, tough, tough. Number four, so the land of 10 000 lakes it is not the uh state with the most lakes in the union at least according to this list number four is minnesota oh this list is very problematic because we i just looked at the top three and um i had michigan on here twice so let's rectify this And I had Michigan on here twice. So let's rectify this.

That was just embarrassing. Okay. If you're curious, the list I'm pulling from his world population review, it's called Lakes by States 2024. So what we're gonna do, we're gonna say Michigan is actually number two, which opens up a new number six.

Oh no, I'm not an idiot. World Population Review is an idiot. They have Michigan at two and six as well. I feel cheated. Bad sourcing, bad, bad, not sourcing, vetting on my behalf. Okay, now they have the full list of all the states and now it is upon me to figure out what are we doing here? I think Kansas is actually the legitimate error we were talking, we made fun of Kansas earlier. And now it's like no, it's actually on the list. Kansas has a

120,000 lakes we have to look into this so We're gonna say that Kansas is actually number two and I was just being foolish earlier But I need to figure out what's going on with that. You have to figure out what's going on. That's what Trump always wants to know Florida guys is number three. Sorry. I didn't give you a hint there Kansas apparently is number two that leaves one last state here Don't overthink it go big go home. It is Alaska Okay, so More or less here's the top ten list and I want to get to the bottom of this Kansas thing, then that's the end of the show.

10, Wyoming, 9, Texas, 8, New York, 7, Washington, 6, Michigan, 5, Wisconsin, 4, Minnesota, 3, Florida, 2, Kansas, and 1, Alaska. Let us know how you did on that list. Here is my last official act before we play our outro music. Why, Google search, why does Kansas have so many lakes? There's no way this is all natural. From cdn.agclassroom..org almost all ponds and lakes in Kansas are the

result of human efforts so is it just because it's something to do with the civilian conservation corps in the 1930s they created a shit ton of lakes that's kind of your summary here they have a lot of rivers and then they created a whole bunch of lakes in the 1930s for their farming efforts. Now, why did Kansas go nuts with that and a place like Nebraska, or Iowa, or Oklahoma, whatever did not, I don't have a response to that. That is just going to be, you know, next time on the Bean Town podcast. I don't know. But that is the response. So if you're thinking, I am an all-natural kind of guy. I don't recognize Kansas. I getcha. I gotcha. But also just shade to populationworldreview.com or whatever it was for literally listing Michigan twice.

Maybe think I was taking crazy pills. Okay, that's our salute to Minnesota. We're keeping this under an hour. And that's what I have for you. So next week we'll get some more stuff. We'll get closer to fantasy football and NFL season starting. Happy birthday to my lover Rachel. Last year of the 20s. It's's gonna be good. I'm excited.

That's what I have for you. Stay safe, everyone. Stay sane. Let's get our outro music queued up. I got nothing else for you. Time for another beer. Happy Friday. Enjoy your weekend. Check in on you next time. Bye. so so so Thank you.