Beantown Podcast - Mufasa: The Lion King REVIEW (12202024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: December 20, 2024

Film buffs and Serengeti heads rejoice! It's the moment you've all been waiting for - the Beantown Podcast's official MUFASA: The Lion King review!

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the host and the chief oh it's a, that could be a nice set designer. We had a nice picturesque white landscape going on here. There's some crows over here picking at something, some Wonder Bread or something. I love crows. They can talk. Not really talk, but more just kind of not really talk but more just kind of repeat sounds that are made but who's to say what's actually talking and what's not talking you know now that's all they're picking it wasn't Wonder Bread it was like a soggy Chipotle napkin I can't be that case because she could we can hear what they were saying. They're probably be moaning. They're at lunchtime, B-E-M-O-A-M-I-N-G be moaning. Listener discretion advised,

when you are listening to Quindy of First Presentative Meantown podcast, number one, they'll teach you some language. Number two, podcast is objectively terrible. Our cohost, Maple, today back at home with mom, getting some work done. Only one of us was off work today. Maple and Rachel are hard at work closing business deals and hopefully not stealing any of my great ideas that I have.

Uh, I can't really share them yet, but you know, it is what it is. I want to say that this week some big movies coming out. Obviously we're going to talk with FASA in a second. You've been hearing us mention December 20th, Homeen and Theaters, 2024, unless it has a really bad opening weekend and then it'll show up on Disney Plus just in time for Christmas. So we'll see what happens there. But this was another opening weekend for Craven the Hunter. If you if you don't know is one of the Spider-Man villains.

I don't think he's ever been on screen in a film before. Now he goes all the way from no name to getting his own film. Bold choice. If you're curious, don't ask me to try to explain this too in-depthly, but this is not the MCU. This is the Sony CU, if you will. So you know how, you know, MCU Spider-Man is like Tom Holland. And I guess that there's been some crossover with like the Sony Spider-Men that Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire, they just had that, you know, Spider-Man, no way home come

out two years ago or whatever and Toby and Andrew were in it. But for the most part, Tom Holland in Avengers 3, whatever, whenever he first showed up, the Captain America sequels, all that fun stuff, She-Hulk, I don't know if he's in She-Hulk, I just assumed they were banging, I don't know. That's the MCU. That's Marvel and that's Disney. Then there's the Sony-CU, which is like Venom and Madame Web and Morbius, the Jared Leto one. There hasn't been But but like the spider-man Who is in that universe hasn't been on screen as far as I know I don't know if that spider-man in that universe is the same Tom Holland spider-man or if they have

Their own plans for their own spider-man guy. I also also haven't seen any of these movies, haven't seen a Venom, haven't seen a Madame Web, any of that stuff. And there's other ones too I can't even like I think, no I was gonna say Flash but that's DC Superman with Batman all that stuff over there. Anywho, the Craven the Hunter is a Spider-Man villain. He's in the Sinister Six along with Doctor Octopus, the Green Goblin, Vulture, and two other guys. I can't remember. Maybe Rhinoceros.

I don't know. Not that important. Maybe Electro, maybe who's the guy that Jamie Foxx plays in The Amazing Spider-Man 2? Max. I don't think that's his actual supervillain name, however. But I, the reason I mention it is, I think that now that the movie's been released, the statute of limitations on this are out. I participated, if not, please don't come after me Sony, but I participated in some market testing regarding some clips, if you will, of Craven the Hunter before the release date this was two or three months ago never before seen footage and I gotta tell you if

anyone was curious before Craven the Hunter was released and it's bombing by the way in fact it might not have been this weekend it might have been last weekend I feel if we've already got a lot of data on it. Apparently it's done worse than Madame Web and Morbius, which is hard to believe. But when I was watching those clips, and I gotta say I was on a focus group with a bunch of other people, none of us were very impressed. The vibes were kind of low.

It was almost as if Sony knew they put out a shitty product and now they were looking for a last ditch effort from the common man, you know, feedback to save their product. So I saw this nightmare coming a mile away. Aaron Taylor Johnson, Russell Crowe, someone else. I don't know. And then yesterday all of a sudden there's a new Superman movie coming out. The trailer gets leaked. It's James Gunn, the guy who did Guardians of the Galaxy. Now he's jumping back and forth so now you're wondering if there's going to be a Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy crossover with DC of whom Superman belongs. And then are they

going to find a way to fold in a brand new Sony Spider-Man that we've never seen before? And I say brand new, well this Spider or this Superman is brand new apparently. I'm looking at it and I'm thinking, boy, you know it's been a hot minute since I saw Henry Cavill on the screen. I'm pumped. Turns out it's on no name. I don't know who this guy is. The bad guy Lex Luthor is that kid from Fault in Our Stars, I think. Nicholas Holt. Holt. Holt. H-O-U-L-T Holt. I think he's what's

looter but it's not even the kids from social network. So we just keep you know running through new actors and actresses and I don't know how the general public is supposed to keep up but also I'm only gonna say this once I'm gonna go out on a limb Probably gonna get crucified Emails bean town podcast at yahoo.com for all your crucifixion needs Again, that's bean town human podcast yahoo.com

You're curious. Yes. I am going up a big incline definitely trudging right now If you're curious, yes I am going up a big incline. Definitely trudging right now up a bridge over the Metro and Amtrak tracks. But I've got to turn around shortly to get on another trail. Check out a new brewery. Well the brewery isn't new but I've never been there. I'll arm this brewery. Here's what I'm going to say about Superman.

It's so stupid. You can't make a compelling movie no shade to, you know, the Henry Cavill ones or the OG Superman with Clark Gable. I think his name was. The guy who ended up in a wheelchair. It's definitely Clark Gable and I think his name was, the guy who ended up in a wheelchair. It's definitely Clark Gable and not something else. Christopher Reeves. That, that certainly couldn't be it. But Superman and just his powers, it doesn't make sense.

He can fly. He can like shoot stuff out of his eyes. He's pretty omnipotent. O-M-N-I-P-O-T-E-N-T. Let's not go down the other side of this bridge so I don't have to do another incline. And what's the deal? Why be working at the newspaper reporter? You have laser vision. That's what you're spending your money on. And who, what's left Luther after anyways? You kind of this evil business guy.

I don't know. You don't have to be Superman to kill those guys anymore. You can just be Luigi Mangione, however you say his last name. I don't know. Beats me. But I remember back to The Man of Steel, the Christopher, not Christopher Nolan, Zack Snyder film from about a decade ago. And you got Michael Shannon playing General Zod,

Kevin Costner playing Superman's dad, and then Amy Adams as Lois Lane. Kevin Costner plays Superman's dad They gave me Adams his lowest lane Anyways, my last point that movie was so stupid because the final fight is just like these two unkillable guys By punching each other through buildings they both have like un Not not properly defined powers un... not properly defined powers. Snot bubbles.

And they're just punching each other. And as much as I like Michael Shannon, and not Clark Gregg, the guy from New Adventures of Old Christine. But he's also in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., a Marvel show. Everything comes back. So is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's been in Agents of Shield, a Marvel show. Everything comes back. So is Julia Louie-Dreyfus. She's been in a Marvel movie recently, I think. I can't, Christopher Walken, that's not his name.

Christopher Reeve, that's not his name. We just had it. Henry Cavill, Hank, I call him. Hank versus Shannon. Great, great play at the end of Man of Steel. But they're just punching each other and eventually one punches, so punchy that Michael Shannon dies.

And that's kinda how the movie ends. And so it's just like, well, they're just kinda punching each other. At least at the end of The Revenant, you got Tom Hardy, who is also Venom in the Sony CU Spider-Verse, not Marvel, but Sony CU, getting chased by Leonardo DiCaprio who has not been introduced in the MCU yet, but I have it on good authority he's in talks to play Hulk.

At the end of the Revenant, they're not punching each other through buildings they're they're like Shooting at each other from a hundred yards away in a landscape much like this one right now. I'm looking over the beautiful scenic Chicago North North Ranch of the Chicago River and eventually Leo Gets a good shot on Tom Hardy and he kind of bleeds out No, that's not how it ends. He I think he shoots him once. I think they both get shot We'll get stabbed for sure. But then he he comes back at Tom Hardy with a tomahawk then he pushes him in the river and

That's kind of the end of it That's how that one ends but I would prefer if if Henry Cavill had bone clubbed Michael Shannon in the back of his head with a tomahawk, I would have preferred that as the ending to Man of Steel. So we've talked about bad movies from this week. Now let's get into the good stuff. Guys, Mufasa, the Lion King. I told you we were gonna do this last week.

By the way, thank you for everyone who listened to the Ballad of Yukon Cornelius. Had a lot of fun making it. So we are going to, for the first time together, and if you don't wanna be spoiled, you're shit outta luck because we're gonna spoil Mufasa the lion king the plot overview. I haven't read it yet In fact, I was like, you know yesterday it came out last night midnight So you figure they're gonna update the plot on wikipedia at some point

So yesterday about every 30 35 seconds or so, I'm just refreshing, refreshing, refreshing, you know, over the course of the day to see, you know, what's the plot? And then, you know, it wasn't showing up. And so I finally gave up after, you know, a thousand clicks, 1200 clicks. And so what I decided is let's, let's have fun together on the show. Let's read this plot summary live from Wikipedia together. So now for the first time ever, we've been talking it up all year.

And I'm not gonna say this is a replacement for the in-person theatrical IMAX 3D experience. You know, you could do 4D. They got real lions sitting next to you. Smells of the Serengeti. A little meerkat jumps up out of your cup holder to take your order. That'd be kind of cool. I would do that.

But we're just going to read the plots and offices. We're going to react live. And this is my first time reading it. So we're just gonna read the plots and offices. We're gonna react live. And this is my first time reading it. So we're all in this together. Here we go. Mufasa, The Lion King is a 2024 American musical drama action adventure film directed by Barry Jenkins, yada, yada, yada. A prequel and sequel. See, that's confusing. We've talked about this before. It's trying to serve both masters. 2019 remake of the 1994 film The Lion King, Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner, Donald Glover, not Danny Glover, Donald Glover, Beyonce, Knowles, and John Conny. Not John Connor, that's Terminator, this is John Conny, K-N-I.

Reprise their roles from the remake. Okay. Oh, it's got blue Ivy Carter in her film debut. I think that's Beyonce's kid, Nepe. So here we go. Here is the plot. We're live, we're finding this out together. After the events of the first film,

which I haven't seen by the way, so I won't spoil that one for me, Simba and Nala, those are the two who are banging during Can You Feel the Love Tonight, have given birth to a female cub named Kiara and are expecting their second cub soon, boy they got busy, not waiting around at all. They leave to visit a serene

oasis where Nala will give birth, while Simba entrusts Timon and Pumbaa to watch over Kiara at Pride Rock. I don't know if I would trust Timon and Pumbaa with my kid, but I didn't write the screenplay. Rafiki, that's that baboon or mandrill, I think, Tafiki, that's that baboon or mandrill I think, soon visits them and after telling Kiara about when Simba was her age, decides to share the story about the youth of her grandfather Mufasa, the lion king, and his treacherous brother Scar, that's Jeremy Irons. Well with Timon and Pumbaa commenting on the story throughout, you can already tell it's going to be irritating as hell. It's like trying to sit down and watch a nice family movie around Christmas time and you're really getting, you know, plugged

in, you're locked in. Good seat on the couch for Kleiner feet up and all of a sudden, you know, Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen's stupid ass laugh come in breaking up for comedic and comic relief. You know, impossible to focus like that. In the past Mufasa is born to a small family of lions consisting of himself and his parents Massigo and Afia. I can already tell there's gonna be way too many names in this one. We preach about a mythical land called Milele.

M-I-L-E-L-E. A flood strikes. Always a big issue. Usually they depict Africa as not a lot of water, but in this movie they've kind of, you know, inverted expectations. Very smart filmmaking. And Mufasa's fear stops him from joining Afiya, that's one of his siblings, I guess. We don't know the gender. You know, 2024 liberal movie, it's probably an ungendered lion. Mufasa is swept away to a far away land

where he meets a royal cub, not club, royal cub named Taka, who saves him from a crocodile group. A crocodile group is a series of crocodiles called a group. All these African animals have bad ass names, like a troop, a pride, a flock, a gaggle. You're telling me it's a group of crocodiles?

Lame. Antaka's mother, Queen Eshi, E-S-H-E, God, there's a lot of names. We're only on the second paragraph. Roars to flee them. What does that mean? Hang on, let's revisit this. Royal cub Taka who saves Mufasa from a crocodile group

and Taka's mother, Queen Eshi roars to flee them. Free them I think is what it's trying to say. It says flee them. Okay, let's move past it. Eshi accepts Mufasa as her son, but Taka's father, King Obasi, grounds Taka for welcoming an outsider. Ooh.

Mufasa claims that he could be of service to his pride. So we're sort of getting a Moses and Ramses situation here. You know, swept down the river in a woven basket. So I'm seeing the direct parallels. Curious to see what the 10 plagues are gonna be in this one. Mufasa claims he could be of service to his pride and races with Taka to improve his speed. Mufasa lingers back due to exhaustion but Taka concedes defeat in

order for Mufasa to be welcomed into the pride much to Obasi's reluctance. So, so far up to this point, if I can be perfectly frank, Mufasa kinda seems like a little bitch. And this Taka, who I think is supposed to be Scar, seems like, you know, a well-meaning guy. And doesn't this, last week we predicted that Mufasa was gonna be the villain of his own story? Well so far he's not the villain but he's kind of a little bitch and Taka is being

nice so I'm counting that a I'm I'm logging a W on that one. Okay next paragraph. Mufasa and Taka soon grow into young adults where they strong brotherly bond. Well as she teaches Mufasa and Taka soon grow into young adults where they strong brotherly bond. While Eshi teaches Mufasa how to hunt, the land is assaulted by two white lions who attack Mufasa and Eshi, but Mufasa kills one and forces the other to flee. That's how you properly use flee. Free and flee, they're different words. Taka sees the attack or retreats from here, burning in the ire of his father. The white lion surviving... It should be the surviving white lion. I don't know who the heck wrote this.

Maybe it was originally in Afrikaans and they had to translate it. That's why some of the translations are a little bit shoddy. That would make a lot of sense. Moving ahead. The White Lion surviving reports back to King Keros, another name. The leader of the White Lion pride, White Power, called the outsiders. Another inverting expectations. Usually the whites would be the insiders and the ethnic group would be the outsider sort and the ethnic group would be the outsiders. So we're flipping the script very smart from the screenwriters and from Barry Jenkins. That's how he won the Oscar, no doubt.

The outsiders and the father of the lion who was also killed. Okay, so the leader, we're sort of developing a villain now. The leader of this outsiders club, the pride if you will, see that's how you refer to a people lion, is the father of the, the king is the father of the white lion that Lutasa killed. Okay. Kiros, that's the king, swears revenge but first orders his sisters, Akua and Amara, as well as the other lionesses to

kill the cowardly white lion. Ooh, cuz he's a little bitch he's gonna get killed. Yikes. Oh, it's off on the serendipity. I don't think John didn't say anything about this in the state of their life. It was just you know, serendipity over life. Can't believe it. It snucked.

The outsiders kill Obasi, Eshi and their clan. I think that was the, that's Taka's dad and mom, the king and queen. Mufasa's adopted parents, I'm not sure. And their clan have chased Mufasa and Taka who escape when one outsider is eaten by a crocodile. Okay, nice little extra plot point there. One outsider is eaten by a crocodile. Okay nice little extra plot point there. One outsider is eaten by a crocodile. That's got to look good in 3D. As Mufasa and Taka reach land

they encounter a stray lioness named Sarabi her hornbill friend Zazu who I think sort of a throwback Zazu who I think sort of throwback to the original Ion King, he's the bird, and a younger Rafiki who was exiled by fellow monkeys and baboons for being different. Oh Rafiki, is he British? I don't know. Rafiki tells him he's on his way to Millel find a new home and the group proceeds to follow him there. Now if you remember Millel is that, sort of that cool mythical place. But again, it's another name, sorry. Taka begins to grow romantic feelings for Sarabi. Ooh, I'm sensing a love triangle.

But before you can confess them to her, the outsiders pursue them, ooh. Sarabi uses bees. Now Sarabi is the hot minus. It Sarabi uses bees. Sarabi is the hot minus. It's gotta be Beyonce. Maybe, actually, I don't know. Is Beyonce Nawa? Or is it Fimba's mom?

Unclear. But before you can confess to her, the outsiders pursue them. Sarabi uses bees to stampede, I heard, a passing elephant, to distract the outside. Oh wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. pursue them. Sarabi uses bees to stampede a herd of passing elephants. Let's check the outside. Oh wait, the bees are stampeding a herd of elephants? I did not know bees could stampede. I was unaware. It wouldn't surprise me if a group of bees was called the Stampede of Bees, but I didn't know they could

physically stampede other animals. I think it's a colony of bees, but Stampede of Bees is a colony of bees but I didn't know they could physically stampede other animals. I think it's a colony of bees but stampede of bees. They distract the outside, distract, distract, that's how you say that word. The outsider allowing the group to escape. She falls off and gets injured. I don't know who she is. So the abbey I guess. A lot of pronouns here. Forcing the shocker to save her, but he claims to be recovering Sarabi that it was Kaka who saved her. So now kind of a little pit for tat. They both kind of had each other's back now. Covered for the other. Alright, moving ahead, next paragraph. The brothers and their group hide out in snowy mountains. Didn't know they had really snowy mountains in Africa. I mean you see some snow on top of Kilimanjaro for a time to time but generally speaking

not a lot of snowy mountains I feel. So Robbie tells Mufasa that she knew he saved her and they soon fall in love. It is gonna be a love triangle, I knew it. Secretly watching this, a jealous Taka meets with Kiros in his pride, offering a proposition for Kiros to get revenge on Mufasa for his son's death. So this Taka burns that quickly because he had a crush on this one lion, Serabi, and then Mufasa,

and a whole hustle bustle Mufasa saves her life. And because she's kind of digging Mufasa because of that, now Taka wants to kill Mufasa. That is a quick, that really escalated quickly. So again, Taka meets with Kiros, I think one of those white lions, but who knows, get revenge on Mufasa for his son's death, or offering that. The next day, the group reaches Mileo, a lush oasis, with Taka secretly leaving marks of the outsiders to follow.

That just seems... bad writing. I don't know. Maybe I'm missing something here. Alright. Gotta take a pause there, I gotta check the map. Make sure I know where I'm going here. It does blurry. While we're doing that, I should say thank you okay yeah we're still in the right track thank you to our sponsors home pride Oregon guys if

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Taka who I think is Scar if not, that would be a great a Great another turning the story on its head kind of situation You got it one thing you got to know about Mufasa the Lion King. You got to be ready for anything so He's leaving tracks because he wants these white lions to come kill Mufasa because his crush likes Mufasa now and now he wants to kill him. It's really a doggy dog world here in Tanzania and Kenya. Rafiki dubs Mufasa as his brother as the outsiders come to attack. I don't know if that has, maybe that just doesn't translate well on the plot summary. I don't know if that is supposed to have a greater meaning, but it is what it is. Mufasa learns of Taka's

betrayal while fighting Kiros. Not going to go back to find out who Kiros is. Maybe one of the white lions. Despite this, Mufasa rallies the animals in the land to fight off the white lions. I think Kraven can do that. One of his powers. He has the lion's blood and he can rally the animals. I think I saw that in one of the clips. What we need to do is a Mufasa-Kraven crossover. Next Christmas.

Good opinion. Kiros forces Mufasa into a cave, seeing his brother exhausted, a remorseful Taka intervenes. So a little redemptive moment here. And as he struggles against Kiros, the evil lion swipes his paw over Taka's eye, leaving a scar. Oh predictions. Correct. This Taka guy was scarred the whole time. Rafiki causes a cave in resulting in the case flooding. A lot of flooding. A lot more flooding than I was accustomed to. I'll just say that. I'm not going to comment on its accuracy. I don't know the the whole Rift Valley region what goes on there but just my general impressions coming into this,

not a lot of flooding. Maybe this is set centuries ago, I don't know. There's a flood. Akua and Amara, I think those are sisters of somebody, one of the white lions, I don't know, are killed in the collapse and they try to kill Sarabi, and the last lion's alive. Undeterred, Kiros attempts to drown Mufasa,

but Falling Rock strikes and kills Kiros as Mufasa swims away to safety. So call back to the start of the movie when he was too afraid to swim, or something like that, I don't remember. Taka is tempted to drown his brother, but instead helps him get out of the water. The flood recedes and Mufasa and Sarabi exit the cave together as the animals celebrate their victory, with Rafiki dumping the couple as king and

queen. Mufasa is soon reunited with Afia, I don't know who that is, who tells him that Masigo, no idea who that is, died in the past flood. Mufasa confronts Taka about his betrayal, showing forgiveness. But as a consequence, he vows only to refer to Taka as Scar. Well that's kind of stupid if someone betrays you. I'm gonna call you Richard instead of John. Richard instead of John. I don't know. That's not really like the gotcha moment that director Barry Jenkins was going for. Wufasa then goes up to the newly formed Pride Rock

and roars triumphantly. Back in the present, Chiara roars atop Pride Rock as the spirit of her grandfather looms over her. She and her friends soon reunite with Simba to meet her new younger brother, Kion. End of story. So that's it. That's Mufasa, the Lion King.

I feel like it was supposed to set up a reason why Scar is evil. But in this film, they just both take turns helping Mufasa and Scar just both take turns like covering for each other and helping each other out so I think you know mission failed on that account I that didn't really land for me I'm gonna give this one three and a half bags of popcorn and I don't know, a little gaggle of crocodiles perhaps. Maybe some of those hungry, hungry hippos because there's a lot of hippos

in the Serengeti traditionally. That's it, that's Mufasa the Lion King. That's what we were building up towards, building up to for a year. I hope it was worth it. If you go in theaters, email us, beansnoughtpodcast at yahoo.com and let us know if it's really as bad as the plot seems to make it. Just seems like a lot of flooding and groups of crocodiles and Mufasa does one thing and

you know, says, oh no Scar did it and Scar does one thing and says, oh no Mufasa did it and they're kind of like frenemies. It's basically wicked but for lions. Lionesses. So, that's it. That's Mufasa, the Lion King. We've got trivia in a second here. I don't think there's too much else. Programming notes.

I was thinking about this before we started recording. When are we going to? I just walked past a little free library, and the first book I saw on there was Star Wars Five Minute Stories. That's got Baby Yoda written all over it. I was trying to think, it's a Friday today, Christmas Day is Wednesday, but we've got a lot of activities leading up to Christmas. So I'm not sure if we're going to get in a Christmas special

before Christmas, but we'll just feel it out. Just be ready for anything. And if you, excuse me, if you see Craven or Mufasa in theaters, email us, let us know, or find us on Blue Sky Social, or your at Beantown podcast. And the Twitter is still active, technically, at Beantown Cast. I check it once a year at this point. Let's finish up with our trivia, we got Christmas trivia. I don't, you know, I'm out and about. I do less meandering with my words when, well, first when you're walking, you're out of breath, but also when you haven't had a drink, that tends to loosen me up a little bit.

Oh, I did forget to shout out our good friends at Hacky's stand, I think I forgot last week too. Apologies, I don't know if you're celebrating, you know, Christmas or Hindu Christmas or Shia Christmas or Shiite Christmas, whichever one of those you're celebrating this week. Thanks for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Hello, Hyderabad. Hello, Khyberfast.

Hello, Bethlehem. Thank you again. Okay, our trivia question for this week, and there's a bonus too, which you might enjoy. It's Christmas TV special classics. So here's the question, very simply put. four TV holiday specials in order of their release date from oldest to newest. This is old-fashioned trivia. This is who wants to be a millionaire fastest finger. Dude, I love that. You all sit, you sit, you know, it's ten contestants. You all have an equal shot at playing. You have to put the four things in order so there's a number attached

to them in some form or fashion and if you first you have to get the sequence right. If you get it right, whoever gets the sequence right in the least amount of time or the quickest is selected to play. I always love that when every once in a while, not super frequently, but every once in a while I would go down a rabbit hole of, uh, who wants celebrity, who wants to be a millionaire from like 2002. And it's Ray Romano, Rosie O'Donnell, Dan Quayle, and uh, uh, Nolan Ryan and stuff. maybe Wanda Sykes. And you know, they're just probably all drunk as a skunk. Ray Romano is always like the last person to get chosen

because they'll do it for like a week and they just go one at a time. So everyone gets to play eventually. And then you get down to the last two and they have to make the questions so easy so that they can both get it right but it'll be like 12 seconds and 14 seconds anyways this is an old-fashioned who wants to be a millionaire fastest finger so again release date newest excuse me oldest to newest here are the four holiday specials.

A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Frosty the Snowman. So again, the four were, what did we say? Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Frosty the Snowman. So put those four in order. It's got pelted like, no, it's like a hail ball that came out of a tree. I don't know if a squirrel threw it at me. Maybe he really liked Mufasa the Lion King and I didn't.

The order, and I'll give you the years as well, the oldest, a Charlie Brown Christmas, sorry, that's incorrect, hot start. I wrote these out of order, which I listed them out of order to try to help me not give them to you in the right order when I read off the question, but then, you know, and then I just made the mistake when I actually read the answers. Here it is. First up, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, 1964. Second up, Charlie Brown Christmas, 1965.

Third, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 1966. Yeah, I didn't tell you it'd be easy. Those three are all in the span of three years. And then finally, Frosty the Snowman gives you a little bit more space, 1969. So again, Rudolph, Charlie Brown, the Grinch, and Frosty, that's the order. And a bonus question, something I didn't know, but it was kind of in my wheelhouse, and I'm glad I know it now Tchaikovsky's the Nutcracker the ballet Was based and it's kind of a confusing wordy question. So I'll explain it was based on an adaptation

Hang on joining a trail Oh close retrieval. Well, not today tomorrow Just in time. Okay. Here it is. Here's a bonus question. Last thing we got, I promise. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker was based on an adaptation of a fairy tale originally written, the fairy tale written by E.T.A. Hoffman in 1816. So, question very simple. There we got one important piece missing here.

Who wrote the adaptation? I think it's a short story or novella like that that Tchaikovsky pulled the plot from. So the original source material is a fairy tale written by E.T.A. Hoffman in 1816. Then a French author later came in, Then a French author later came in, wrote an adaptation with some of those characters, some of the plot elements, that sort of thing. And that story written by that French author, which is the answer I'm looking for here, is what Tchaikovsky used for the plot of the Nutcracker, his ballet. So a hint, I guess. Let's see. This guy wrote a novel that was turned into a movie featuring Leonardo DiCaprio when he was very young, tying it back to Leo since

we were talking about him being Hulk, hopefully, in the MCU or the Sony CU or the new Superman movie. Either of those three would be fine. The film was The Man in the Iron Mask. So the author of that novel and the adaptation of which, Nutcracker is based, Alexander Dumas. It's important to add the H at the end. D-U-M-A-S. That's who wrote it. Of three musketeers. Fame. All right, that's what I have for you guys. I hope

everyone's having a safe and merry, it's important to be merry this time of year, holiday season. Yeah, festivus on Monday. Airing of grievances, Christmas Eve on a Tuesday. Candlelight service. The whole going to a church service at midnight the night before Christmas just sounds awful. So I'm glad I don't do that. We used to do the candlelight service at our non-denom church growing up,

but I think it would usually be like 6 p.m. or something. I don't know if they had a midnight mass available, but I don't recall going to it. Those were fun. Get to hear some bangers like, oh, holy night. But then sometimes, by sometimes I mean all the time. You got these cheap you know 10 cent candles and they give you the like paper ring to try to protect your hand from dripping hot lava

but inevitably because it's hard to keep that candle upright for an entire hour long service. So, you start to sway a little bit and inevitably that hot wax, a million goddamn degrees gets on your thumb or like the base of your thumb right there, it's a classic spot to get nailed. So I would like a candlelight service with maybe battery operated candles would be my preference. That's what I got for you guys everyone. Merry Christmas. Not sure when I'll check in on you next time, but we'll be there regardless.

Here as we wrap up season 7 of Quinn Day at the Furnace presents the Beantown podcast. Everyone stay safe. Stay sane. This is Quinn. I'll check in on you guys next time. Bye.