Beantown Podcast - Munchkins vs Oompa Loompas vs Hobbits (I had an edible) (01102025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: January 10, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to breakdown a whole cavalcade of little creatures and preview the all new Rachel Dolezal Snow White movie

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, January 10th, 2025. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn and this is my program. Now entering year eight, season eight, eight years of Beantown. It's infinity on its side. This Beantown is forever. I can't stop now. I'm contractually obligated. I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't stop until the FCC goons took me down.

My name is Quinn and I am the creator, host, and showrunner of this fine program. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast. I want to say hello as always across eight years to my good friends in Pakistan. I don't know what eight is in Urdu but I'll do some research and find out. Season Ocho, hello to my friends in Karachi, Kiribati, Khyber Pass, the three K's of Pakistan as they are known. Thank you for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the great Islamic Republic of Pakistan and of course, eight years and change listener discretion is advised. When you're listening to the Bean Town Podcast, number one will occasionally some language

number two this podcast is objectively terrible and I gotta tell you guys it's objectively dry. That's right, it's dry January. We've done it pretty much every year on the show save for 2021, which would have been what season three, because I just come off a year of no drinking but that doesn't stop us from double fisting we're having some diet coke with italian cream coffee mate a splash if you will what's what's more a splash or a dash a dash is a little bit more right but not by that much a pinch how does a pinch relate to a splash and a dash? I think

pinch, splash, dash. I think it goes pinch smallest, splash medium, and dash the heaviest pour, right? A dash has got to be more than a pinch. A sprinkle? Sprinkle is more for like salt because you can't really sprinkle Italian cream in there. I guess you could. It depends on the size of the droplet of cream, right? If it's a big droplet, you could definitely sprinkle. If it's a smaller droplet though, it's really tough to get away with. You just, it all is going to kind of run together and that's the problem you run into. But we got that going on one hand and then we got just a little sparkling water, lime flavored,

and the other hand with my Texas State Bobcats Koozie. This is day 10 of dry January, feeling pretty good. Not having too many cravings, which is good. I think for me what's helpful this year is knowing that I'm trying to shed five to 10 pounds or so before my wedding day. And so cutting out alcohol is a clear and obvious path forward towards that. The other thing is, just because I'm not imbibing in the beverage doesn't mean I'm not on a slick fat edible right now. Holy moly. Didn't do edibles in 2024 and I'm a mad man. I'm hooked. I'm addicted. Hooked on Phonics.

You know, this is a little bit of CBD, a little bit of THC. Five and five is what they call it. And took it about an hour ago. starting to feel the relaxation in my shoulders which was nice because I was actually feeling some tension there today and looking forward to getting the munchies because we're making a delicious turkey meatball and fusilli supper with the pizza pizza ranch salad I know you're thinking Kirk Cousins Pizza Ranch commercials up in Minneapolis. No, this is a separate Trader Joe's product. It's like eating an entire pepperoni pizza, but it's healthy. How's that? That's, man, delicious stuff. Delicious stuff. Looking forward to it. It's going to be tasty. Well, what else do we have on the agenda?

Dry January. Quinn's on his way to being high. There we go. That pretty much crosses off all the things I wanted to touch on this week. We do have a new segment and this would be better if she was my co-host, Maple was here next to me. It would be great if she was here to comment. But a new segment, we don't have any theme music yet, maybe we'll work on that. It's Maples Minute. And this is where we check in on the world of all things canines and occasionally feline and equestrian. And this is, Maple wanted me to share this tip with you this week on Maples Minute. Each week we're going to check in on a new tip or something we learned this week or it's just something wild from the zoological institutes or the worlds of, you know, the dog kennels

and boardings and crates and stuff. This week for Maples Minute we learned that borax, the common ant poison used in household traps, it's safe for dogs. So apparently borax is basically like sodium didrohyde, hydrazone or something. It's you know NaCl I think is its chemical element. And if you're a little dog and you've got there's an old ant trap from back in the summer and your parents didn't weren't considerate enough to pick it up you can actually chew on it and potentially ingest some of that borax and you'll be just fine. Albeit you know

wobbly, sleepy, sneezy, and scratchy but for Rachel that or for her maple that's just a day in the life so that's maples minute for January 10th 2025 season premiere of season 8 premiere of the bean town podcast we also have another segment a new segment and I'm gonna do my best to keep these going throughout the whole season we'll see how it goes as my hot take of the week and we actually mentioned this last week as we got into dry January. And the only preface I want to give to this take is that I'm still doing it. I'm still, I had a cup this morning and it was peppermint and I put a little honey in it and it just It'd feel like I'm just going through the motions with it my hot take recycled from last week to kick us off

We're all just kidding ourselves about tea. It's it's not it's not good. It's just What are we doing here iced tea hot tea? Arnold Palmer Hot tea, Arnold Palmer, but just maybe I got the wrong bags. I don't know, but I've tried peppermint. I've tried green tea. I tried Earl Grey. I tried English breakfast. I was so desperate.

I was at Trader Joe's an hour ago. I almost picked up a peppermint candy cane black tea, and I thought, if I can't like candy cane tea, then what am I going to like? Of course, I didn't end up getting tea then what am I gonna like? Of course I didn't end up getting it because then I remembered, excuse me, I've had black tea before and I really didn't care for it. But the hot take is that we're all just kidding ourselves. Tea is just, I don't know how it became the number one, you know, outsourced crop from agricultural tropics, you know, you would have thought it would have been plantains or basil or

When I said basil I was envisioning soy so I'll say soy or cacao beans or cocoa beans because I think they're There are two things two different things or because I think they're two things, two different things. Or what was the, you know, in the Tim Burton Willy Wonka movie, 2005, whenever that was, what was Johnny Depp searching for in those jungles when he comes across the Oompa Loompas? Here's a separate thing, you know, all the wicked heads are excited for wicked part 2 aka wicked you know be good I thought you know maybe ET would have had be good trademarked but apparently not well what's the deal when we talk about munchkins and oompa loompas so one is from you know Frank bombs can can can

at canary of characters if you will the, the land of Oz, the munchkins, who apparently, one of the, oh yeah, one of the Bach woodsmen, he's a munchkin, apparently, in Wicked, he didn't seem that short. I didn't, you know, I didn't really make that connection there. What's the relationship, if any, between the munchkins and the Oompa Loompas? So Oompa Loompas from Raoul Dahl's classic novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The sequel of course the Glast Menagerie even more scintillating, more Grandpa Joe screen time. But seems like these Oompa Loompas are like an enslaved people. They're all kind of orange. And then you got the Munchkins who are kind of enslaved. They sort of are under the nasty spell of the wickedly talented Wicked Witch of the East. But then

they get, you know free but they kind of seems like they're maybe secretly evil and then I want to throw a third wrench into this jambalaya of little characters we got the hobbits. I feel like the hobbits and munchkins maybe are a little bit more similar to each other. You know, interesting dress, some fun hairstyles. You know, they both love wizards, right? Gandalf and Oz, whatever the Wizard of Oz's actual name is, I don't know. Justin. So maybe the Oompa Loompas are the odd guys out here. Now who has the most musical talent amongst Hobbits, Oompa Loompas, and Munchkins? So I think we see in the original Wizard of Oz some decent Munchkin talent, right?

You have the Lollipop Guild, the Lullaby Guild. They sing, you know, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. They sing Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead. So they got some bangers. The Hobbit's not as known for a traditional single. It's more of a vibe and ambiance. I'm pretty sure at Bilbo's 1000th birthday party and the Fellowship of the Ring, I think there's some live music. Now, I can't recall

if it was more traditional, you know, Hobbiton folk music, if it was even ska or reggae perhaps, but I feel like the Hobbits, you give them a lute or a lyre or a pan flute or a regular flute or a penny whistle. I could see the hobbits throwing down. And then, of course, you got the Oompa Loompas now in the original film with Gene Hackman. It's a lot of just Oompa Loompa Doopadee Do and they kind of sing the same one over and over again. However, you get to the Tim Burton, Johnny Depp remake, and who's the good doctor, the kid.

What's his name? Frankie Muniz or something like that. He's British. They sing different songs. You got the Michael Jackson one for, I think that's Mike TV when he shrinks himself. And then they certainly got one about expanding and exploding for Violet. For Ruka, I don't know, they got those squirrels. I'm not sure if that kind of remind me of the squirrels are kind of like the bucket boys outside of the Art Institute of

Chicago or Comiskey Park. I'm sure there's a song for Augustus Gloop. I can't remember. But they got some serious bangers, some serious musical talent. Seems like it's more of like a one direction thing. They don't really seem to play instruments from what I can tell. More of just a vocal pentatonix sort of deal. But yeah, that's a tough one. Email us, beanthelmpodcasts at yahoo.com. Let us know your votes for how these three cults, if you will, of characters stack up.

What are the different ways we could rank them by height? I'm sure. We just talked musical talent. We could do agricultural outputs, right? Your munchkins are more of your tea leaves guys, which is why I don't care for them. The Oompa Loompas do whatever the bean that Charlie was or Willy Wonka was looking for.

And then you got the hobbits. It seems like a lot of traditional crops. Right, when the guy from Lost and Billy Boyd and crew are running through farmer maggots fields, I think they stumble down a hill and there's a broken carrot or something. So I think a lot of the traditional, you know, old school vintage carrots, turnips, squash. You know, they're always in search of mushrooms. So I think those hobbits know their way around a hoe and a till. You do not hear a lot about tills these days. Excuse me.

I don't know. How else could we, how else could we rank these guys? I don't know. We'll come back to it. New segment every week, a different power ranking of munchkins, Oompa Loompas, and hobbits. Now don't get me started on those dwarves from Snow White. You guys see that new trailer? That's not new anymore, months old. It's got Rachel, Rachel, what's her last name from the Hunger Games? Rachel something, something or other from a songbird,

a fire, a song of fire and ice, the Hunger Games prequel that came out. Is it Ziegler? Is that it? I'm asking Rachel what Rachel's last name is. And we kind of have, I don't want to get into the whole, you know, Nella Larsen passing great novel about, you know, race and color and stuff. Same with Put-in-Head Wilson, frankly, by Mark Twain. Rachel Ziegler, is she white or is she black?

Same question I have with Ariana Grande and I don't even want to get into the whole you know all the all the libtards with their purple hair from Portland can email me and be incensed about how I even broached the topic. I think I'm a pretty woke person but I do you know I I was sort of the one who was kind of breaking that whole Rachel Dolezal story a lot of Rachel's in the last 30 seconds D O L E Z A L I was on top of that from the very beginning Apparently Ariana Grande is not black. She's Italian, but it's tough because much like

Her predecessors Michael Jackson and Sammy Sosa. She's really gone through a lot of different skin tones over the years. Also, does anyone know what Marilyn Manson's skin tone is? Because every time I see him, he's just a white, spooky ghoul. And I've never really had a desire to read more into the whole Marilyn Manson experience in any capacity, because I'm just spooked. Things that spook me every list every year I come out with are things that spook me for the show and for my fantasy football leagues and I need to make a mental note that in addition to the Today Show replicating peanuts from about 10-15 years ago,

number two on my list needs to always be Marilyn Manson. But yeah there's that trailer for the new live-action with animation included. Snow White in the seven dwarfs trailer and those dwarfs look pretty spooky. Maple you're here. What's your favorite dwarf, Maple? Definitely scratchy or snoozy, grumpy, barky, hungry, whimpery, anxious, scratchy, bitey, bad breathy, chew on rat poison-y, that would be a howl of a dwarf. Tough to fit under the billing, huh, Maple? Tough tough tough. If you haven't seen the trailer for the new Rachel Dolezal's Snow White and the Seven

Dwarfs, go check it out. Email us, beanetownpodcasts at yahoo.comcom or you can find us on blue skies social at bean town podcast. I think I don't remember where we ended up with that I might have just gone with white buns and sort of been under the umbrella of white buns Entertainment Network holdings, which owns bean town networks, which owns your subsequent corporations cuts by Q, right on Q, corporations, cuts by Q, right on Q, Bean Town blog, and the like. Rachel's going to get her nails done. What color are you thinking? Pumpkin glow? Mmm, maple brown, maple latte. Maybe we should be snowing in the seven doors next Halloween. Maybe we should be snowing in the seven dwarfs next Halloween. That'd be pretty fun.

Alright, have fun. Make good choices. You want to... What's new in pop culture? Give us a Rachel's 30 second corner. I thought it was at 530. Ooh, brutal. A lot of cross talk happening here on the Beantown podcast. Bye lover.

There's nothing worse than a snowstorm on a Friday afternoon when your nail appointment's at 530 and they call and bump you up to 515. Probably they want to get out of their ASA sap for a hot date on a cold winter's night. We are going to truncate this episode, excuse me, because I really wanted to get some maple training in. Well, my mom's away. We did a little bit together earlier, now we're gonna do some solo action as well. Maple of course can't go more than about five to 10 seconds when we leave together, but alone, she's been up to six minutes before.

So we're going to give that a shot. Dad's had an editable, Maple had a trazodone earlier. And yeah, but we're going to get to that in a second. I am going to quickly shout out our sponsors, then it wouldn't be a Be Bean Town podcast without a trivia question. We're getting back to our roots here You know season eight back in the day. It wasn't uncommon to have a Bean Town podcast be 20 to 25 minutes now I feel like 40 ish is more standard. I'll occasionally bump it up to an hour mark. It's rare that I go under 30 minutes

But just for the sake of Miss Maple over here, we're going to kick this into high gear. Of course, back as always here on the show for its eighth year Home Pride Oregon, guys who need your home inspection in central Oregon, you have to go with the experts, go with someone you can trust, someone who's been there before. If that sounds like my dad Steve, you would be right. 5414-0316. Home prior to Oregon for all your home inspection needs. Of course, we also have the Samson Q2U series with us for eight seasons. When I started a podcast, guys, I was there in my studio apartment in Baltimore. I said, if I'm going to do this right, I'm going to need the right audio partner. So I went with the experts.

God trusts them. I trust them. It was the first ever microphone used to record the King James Bible, from what I've just guessed right now. That, of course, the Samson Q2U I've just guessed right now. That of course the Samson Q2U series crisp clear audio quality when God speaks he uses a Samson and of course our good friends I'm in need of a little back neck action not sure if I'll get to it. Probably don't want to have the electric trimmer in hand 90 minutes after the edible kicks in. So we're just going to maybe save that for tomorrow morning, perhaps, after the post AM run.

But cuts by Q, guys, we do it all. Bobcats, bowls, weaves. Rachel went to get her nails done just now. I could have done that. Bring your polish, BYOP. We do no French chip, just French dips. That's our motto over here at Cuts by Q. When you need a fresh do something snappy or new call the experts at Cuts by Q. And of course we are gonna wrap up. Sorry I got

distracted. There's you know I hate when it's 5 15 p.m. My workday ended 45 minutes ago and there's just stuff happening at work and it's not, I'm not directly managing it, right? My attention is on you, the bean heads, now in our eighth season. But just trying to keep abreast of what's going on and you get all the team's notifications on desktop that pop up in the bottom right hand corner so you only see the message preview. So I'm following like a quarter of every message that gets sent and trying to piece together this conversation. But I did want to, you know, in honor of Dry January, I thought let's talk alcohol. So we don't do these these types of questions a lot, you know, the list. But this is kind of

old school trivia stuff. We would do this. One of my favorite trivia games ever, Charm City Trivia, that I played all the time out in Baltimore. They're half times I loved because it would be like a top 10 list and you had, you got like, you could get up to six points and you'd get one point for each in the top 10 you got. Or it didn't always have to be top 10, it'd be like one was like name the six franchises with the most Stanley cups and if you get, you know, five out of six, you get five points. If you get just one right, you get one point. If you get, you know, all of them right, you know, so on and so forth. So I love that. So I said, I can't drink, but maybe you're

out there listening to the Bean Town podcast imbibing in a cold one or a hot toddy or a cold toddy. Don't ask me what they are. No idea. But one of the connections for New York Times, one of the connections the New York Times gained was ingredients in an old-fashioned bitters, sugar, whiskey, and grenadine probably. I don't know. I don't remember. I had an edible. Give me a break.

Top 10 in 2024 per spiritsbusiness.com. The top 10 selling whiskies in the United States in 2024 number 10 Seagram's seven I am aware of Seagram's I went to a school I went to school with a guy last name Seagrin so pretty close but I don't know what the seven is that just like took him seven times to get the right batch and then they stuck with it but I don't know what the seven is. It just took them seven times to get the right batch and then they stuck with it. But I don't really know if I've ever had Seagrams. But it's number ten on the list. Number nine, Maker's Mark.

I like Maker's Mark as they do the fake little candle wax kind of thing. It's kind of fun. It's neat. It's cool. And I remember the first time I ever had Makers Mark was on one of our Bean Town Unplugged episodes when I was in Lexington, Kentucky from my hotel room. I did bourbon tasting, which was a lot of fun. I should pull that that that one back up. I had my hair in a man bun. It was pretty cool. It wasn't even a man bun. It was like, uh, DW's imaginary friend, Nadine from Arthur's just sprouting out the top.

Uh, but that was the first time I had maker's mark and I definitely like it. It's not like the number one thing I reach for, but not cause I dislike it just cause it's usually a little bit more expensive. Number eight, something I, uh, the very first whiskey I ever tried in my life. Evan Williams, holy cow. I don't know if we just got like the Evan Williams light or it's improved in the last decade, but when I was a sophomore in college,

living up in Buena Park, Chicago, good friend of the show, Sam Anderson, and I would rip shots of Evan Williams. And holy cow that it stung like a bee. Not my favorite thing. Classic, classic Quinn and Sam. You set a timer for five minutes before you're supposed to leave for the house party and you see how many

Evan Williams shots you can do. Usually it was somewhere between four and six apiece. And I don't miss that at all. I miss living with Sam, but the Evan Williams I don't think I've had since I was about 20 years old. All right, next up here we have seven from Japan. It's actually, I don't know, six is from Japan. Seven, I don't know anything about Black Nika. N-I-K-K-A. Kind of reminds me of Nikita by Elton John. Hey, Nikita, is it cold in your little corner of the world? And six, Santuro Kakubin.

That's Santuro S-U-N-T-O-R-U Kakubin, K-A-K-U-B-I-N. I don't know anything about it. If you know anything, if you've had, again, that's Santuro Kakubin before, email us, bintownpodcast.yahoo.com. You might want to save that one for Blue Sky. Number five, a classic Canadian club. I always associate Canadian club with being a little bit lower quality, but I don't really know why that is Sometimes we just have these associations in our head that are not necessarily founded in fact But Canadian club, I'm sure I've had it once or twice but

You know, I don't I don't know if I bought it before number four Crown Royal. Here's one I have never bought before as far as I know. And you see a lot of advertisement for it and it's really got the distinctive crown kind of imagery going on. But I don't think I've ever actually bought Crown Royal. Purple, that's kind of its like color. That's the thing that it's known for, right? Number three, Jameson. It's classic. It's a tall,

almost greenish bottle. You know it well. And we've got friends who have a kid named Jameson. You don't see it that often, stateside. Jameson Williams, I guess, is the drug-using, performance-enhancing drug-using wide receiver for the Detroit Lions. Number two, Jack Daniels. Talk about a classic. I always get Jack Daniels and Charlie Daniels mixed up in my head, so anytime someone says Jack Daniels, I just imagine a plump cowboy looking fellow singing about the devil going down to Georgia.

And number one, best selling whiskey. I guess we just read this out as a list. I didn't really give you time to ponder it. Hopefully you've learned enough that you should have just paused when I asked the question, because you never know if Quinn's had an edible or not if he's just going to start blasting and reading off the names. Number one is Jim Beam. Don't know much about Jim Beam. I mean, that's probably a crazy thing to say, but I think it gets mentioned quite a bit in George Thorogood's iconic half talk, half song, one bourbon, one scotch.

A warm bourbon, one scotch, a warm beer. Yes, I know the title is all three, but I just figured I would sing it instead of listing a rule of three. Well, I ain't seen my baby since I don't know when. I want double bourbon, scotch and gin. Give me a triple shot of that stuff. One, two, three, four, it's not enough.

I want bourbon, I want scotch, I want be-ah. Alright, Maple, you ready to do your training? Guys, thanks so much for listening to my Program Queen David furnace presents the bean town podcast more importantly. Thanks for sticking with us with us through eight seasons It's bigger. It's better than ever remember bean town is Infinity guys for all of us here across bean town networks. My name is Quinn David furnace. This is my show I hope everyone stays safe, stays sane. Thoughts and prayers over in Los Angeles. I'll check in on you next time. Bye. Yeah. so

is So Thank you.