Beantown Podcast - My Favorite Things ft. Julia Garner (11152024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: November 15, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE with Broadway trivia, Charli XCXXCXXCCX news, and an embarrassing mixup between film legend Judy Garland and wife of Foster the People lead singer Marc Foster Julia Garner

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town podcast for Friday, November 15th, 2024. What's happening? How are you? I am the creator, the host, the chief brewer of this show. Not that I've ever brewed, brewered or brewed any beer myself, but Rachybaby95 is doing the beatdown dance over here. This is why we gotta do video casts. I don't know, it's like she's making a TikTok dance. You're like one of those kids in that New Jersey family where they're like, we bring the boom. You know that one? Yeah.

I don't know what their deal is. And I don't have TikTok, but I see them on Twitter all the time. There's the one, it's like the Donkey Kong song almost. And they did that weird thing with their arms. And I don't know what the, I don't really know what the whole deal is, but I'm not on TikTok so I don't know. Maybe it won't is, but I'm not on TikTok, so I don't know. Maybe it won't be on X or Twitter for much longer. Apparently the new big thing is Blue Sky, which has been a big shift for me because

my employee software system is also called Blue Sky. So when I saw people start blowing it up on Twitter this week, I was really worried that my software was crashing or something but apparently it's the new woke lion liberal left media place to go if you don't want to be on twitter. So maybe we'll resurrect bean town cast on blue sky, look out for us there. I'm not ready to make the migration just yet but I don't know if Elon continues to be a little wacko and I might I may make the move we're here with co-host Maple oh she looked over she you're learning your name right not very good at sit lately though, I've been very distracted, too many crunchy leaves.

Yeah she wants to be on the show but I haven't got her the right size mic yet. Well when the entry music ends maybe, otherwise I won't be able to hear her at all. Shout out to our good friends in Pakistan. Thanks for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the great Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Hello, Khyber Pass Karachi, Islamabad. Thank you again. And of course, a big shout out to my grandpa Dave, Beantown podcast legend turning 92 today. That's pretty good. I talked to him earlier. He was observing some ducks and geese. He told me they were migrating north for summer, but I think that was something was off there. I asked him, because I snagged a book of Einstein essays on relativity from his library last

time I was up there, and I asked him if he'd ever read that one, and he said he hadn't. So I told him I would read the entire thing and type him up a 50-page summary that he can read along with his crossword puzzles. And now I'm regretting committing to that. However, I have chat GPT by my side. So we can take bets. You can email us, beanetownpodcasts at yahoo.com,

or you can follow me on bluesky at beanetowncasts. You can email me me what are the odds that Grandpa Dave Furness, 92 years young as of today, knows what chat GPT is. I'm pretty certain he doesn't, but they watch enough local evening news that there's a chance. So he can't slip a lot past Grandpa Dave certainly not a 2x4 that guy knows his wood balsa cedar is it balsa or balsam because I'm looking at a candle right now and it says balsam I always I always thought balsa in my head like balsa wood

but rhymes with salsa who knows knows? We are drinking. I mentioned I'm the chief brewer earlier, kind of like Ryan Braun. MLB heads will know that one. Flannel pajamas, one of my favorites from Beguile and oatmeal stout, as well as a little dash of scotch from Trader Joe's. Although I'm moving up in the world. This isn't the lowest shelf scotch from Trader Joe's. Although I'm moving up in the world.

This isn't the lowest shelf scotch from Trader Joe's. This is the next shelf up. So it's like 20 bucks instead of 14. So really going hard. Not going to be able to have a kid for another two months because I moved up to the second shelf scotch. But dad's got needs. Why are you sitting on the floor?

We got a brand new chair yesterday that I built. It took half an hour and you're sitting on the floor. You just, I don't know. I don't know guys. What a week it's been. We're going to get to cabinet picks in a second year but I want to end on a I want to end on a high note and actually the cabinet picks is going to vault us into the high note so we're actually gonna do a total change up here like Ryan Braun wouldn't be able to hit because he's a cheater

and we're gonna start with our trivia question actually no we're gonna start with Mufasa the Lion King because, because it's going to be in theaters only December 20th. Just in time for Christmas, just in time for the holidays. So you go to the mall. What's the name of the Chicago Ridge? You go to Chicago Ridge, you do your shopping. And then, well, you know, here's the thing.

If you do your shopping, then you gotta go to the movie theater. You probably wanna take a trip to the car first. So you go to Chicago Ridge, you park close to the Macy's or wherever you're shopping. I don't know if there's a Macy's at Chicago Ridge, I've never been shopping there before. You get your stuff, you go out to the car, try to avoid perishables such as ice cream, although I suppose in December, you could probably get away with it. But like a hot dip or something or a rotisserie chicken,

it's gonna be cold after you finish Mufasa the Lion King, which just announced this week, Barry Jenkins confirming that it is four hours and 27 minutes. So there's a lot of lions roaring in that film. The whole circle of life sequences at the end which I think is kind of fun. It kind of flips the whole genre on its head, the whole lion genre. And kind of reminds me of the cowardly lion in Wicked. I was reading the plot synopsis of Wicked this morning because I don't know anything about it and everyone's talking about Wicked, you know, it's coming out next week, the big

film. Part one, they're not advertising it as part one. Also kind of like Wonka, they're not advertising it as a musical, same with Mufasa, none of these are being advertised as musicals. And a lot of people just think, oh, it's prequel to The Wizard of Oz, also, you know, famously not a musical. But there are, I would do, I want to warn people there will be songs in Wicked Part One. And it is a part one. It's kind of the opposite of Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One. And now they changed the name of part two and they retconned the part one in the title. So if you're still following this, email us, bintompodcasts at yahoo.com.

But I wanted to mention, oh, I was reading the plot synopsis of Wicked. And each one of those, you know, they got the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion. And they find ways to shoehorn these characters in the prequel. it's just so not subtle. One of the guys becomes tin because his heart explodes or something like that. And the scarecrow becomes a scarecrow because he drinks a green elixir or something. And then the cowardly lion is just apparently,

Peter Dinklage plays a goat. And he doesn't want this lion to get locked up. But then he does. And because he's locked up, that means he can't talk anymore. But somewhere in between the timelines of him not being locked up and Julie Andrews, Wizard of Oz. That's not right. Liza Minnelli's mom, Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion

can talk again, because he's got a great musical number if I was king of the forest, right? It's everyone's favorite. So speaking of Wicked, we're going to, you know, usually on this show I play to the strengths of both myself and the perceived audience of like three and a half people listening. And, you know, I know what we like, I know what we're good at good at what we're not good at typically although I don't speak for our Pakistani listeners. So with all that in mind we're gonna flip the script here and Wicked is a clue for you because it can get you 10% of the way there. My question is per wikipedia.org, I don't know if you guys have heard about this one, name the list, name the top 10 longest running Broadway shows in history. And also Mufasa, find your pride. I don't know if you know they do that they did a Lion King on

Broadway. My question is will they do a Mufasa on Broadway? I guess we'll see what the box office numbers say. But it would be kind of fun. You see the big epic spectacle circle of life, but it's at the end. I guess they do circle of life at the beginning and end to a certain extent of The Lion King 2, so I guess Mufasa could be beginning and end too. Is the beginning of Mufasa going to be Mufasa getting, you know, lifted over the Pride Rock by his dad? I think his name is like Bob? Not sure. Bob the Lion. I would watch that. And then we can get a prequel to Mufasa and it'll be called Bob. No, Leo. Leo would make sense, right? Is it too easy? low-hanging fruit? To recap, your question was the top 10 longest running Broadway

shows in history. And this is by number of performances. OK, right. So if South Pacific had a first show in 1952, and then they didn't end up with a second show until 2011, that doesn't count. And the Broadway heads out there know I will be right about South Pacific, whether or not that's what the current facts say, I will be vindicated in the end.

One of these columns on the Wikipedia article is type, and the first one is an M, the second one is an M. Oh, a musical, I guess. I was thinking it was like, I don't know, midsize, sedan, compact, economy. All these rental car titles are just like, is there really that much of a difference between economy and compact? Because they give you two wildly different brand names. The economy is always like a Mitsubishi something I've never heard of. And then the compact is like a, you know, your most run of the mill sedan. You could think of a Toyota Camry and it's like, they're always the same exact price.

So do I want like 10% less space or 10% more space for the same price? And I don't know. I guess, I guess if you were really nervous about parallel parking. I would drive one of those smart cars sometime. In the right situation, I've never done it before. But you can scootch in anywhere. Could even be like those motorcycles that drive in the middle of traffic

or the entitled cars on the Stevenson going on the shoulder. OK, by number of shows, top 10 Broadway musicals of all time. And I can confirm, though that's actually not true. Excuse me. There's an, I was going to say I can confirm there's an M next to each one of these indicating it's a musical. One of them has an R and I have no idea. There's no, there's no key here. There's no notes. I don't know what R means. You might think it's revival, but one of these, so the R is next to a revival one, but then there's another revival on the list here. There's two revivals, and that one has an M next to it. So I don't, I don't, I don't know. I'm not sure what it means. Starting with number 10,

we have Beauty and the Beast, which I didn't even know that was a Broadway musical I'm learning so much from 94 to 2007 number 9. We have Mamma Mia 2001 to 2015 Number 8. This is the one that has an R next to it. It's called Oh Calcutta and yes, there is an exclamation mark after both Oh! Calcutta and yes there is an exclamation mark after both Oh! and Calcutta. The original cast album cover looks very risque, I think they're naked. Wow. Oh Calcutta indeed. Number seven, a chorus line. One of those ones I've heard of and certainly has come up in Jeopardy before and I don't know anything about it, and I'm comfortable with that. That's okay number six Les Mis

Loved Loved What's his name Russell Crowe in the original? Broadway revival number five cats of course the Swifties out there will know that one number four wicked That was the one I gave you Curly running at the Gershwin theater. That's pretty exciting. I Curly Runny at the Gershwin Theater. That's pretty exciting. I don't know anything about the Gershwin Theater,

but that's pretty cool. You know, named after George and Ira Gershwin. A lot of people think Ira Gershwin was George's wife, but it's actually his brother. You're learning a lot here on the Beantown Podcast. Number three, The Lion King, Find Your Pride. It says official tagline, it says changed in July 2024 due to Beantown podcast support. Number two, Chicago.

This is also a 1996 revival, but it has an M next to it. So unclear what the M versus the R is. Bump, bump, ba-dum, bum, ba-dum. And number one, at 13, but um bum, but um and number one at 13,000 981 shows basically 3,000 more shows than Second place Chicago is Phantom of the Opera running from 1988 to 2023 Which is crazy

They made a movie Phantom of the Opera, which I never saw. I don't know, Rachel. You ever see the Phantom of the Opera movie? Yes, is it what is a five bagger? How many bags of popcorn are we talking? Well, the laws of physics would dictate only five bags of popcorn. and two of those little eye masks. It's more of a vertical mask and the theater masks are like where the masquerade kind of thing. So there you have it. I'm not going to recap from 10 to 1 because I already closed it out and I don't care about the theater that much but I do I do think it's a lot of fun you know because you can have theater spelled E-R or R-E and so anytime you have it spelled R-E just to sound extra pompous it's fun to say theater and really add the extra syllable in there. I want to say thank you to our

good friends at Home Pride Oregon. Thank you Home Pride Oregon for supporting this show over the years. Guys if you're buying a home in Central Oregon you know the housing prices now are up to 1.3 million dollars median prices. There's no more room to go out so we got to rebuild, rebuild, rebuild like Trump's infrastructure plan. So don't trust some Joe Schmo from you know, under the under the overpass there, whatever the highway is and bend highway 1253, I don't know 20, whichever one goes through there. Trust the experts. Call Home Pride Organ 541-400316 or email homeprideorgan.com. Don't try the website. It didn't get renewed. It's going to take you to

some porn site or something probably. So don't do it. It's sabotage. My favorite Beastie Boys song. Unironically. ironically. I don't even know the words to it. It's... I can't understand what he's saying except for sabotage. I know that that line is pretty good. Speaking of Under the Overpass reminds me of how it literally like I think it was four or five years ago, mid-20s, when I finally figured out slash looked up. I don't remember how it came to pass, overpass. If I looked up or just listened intently for the first time ever to the chorus lyrics from Under the Bridge by the Chili Peppers. Of course, that melody the chili peppers. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Of course, that melody pops up throughout.

But at the end, with all the little kids singing, I never had no idea for the first 25 years of my life what they were saying. And I finally figured it out. And now I forgot. So good reminder to listen to that song, though. I don't think I've heard that song in like a year, which is way too long.

Home Pride Oregon inspection perfection. They'll inspect your bridges too. I don't think Steve's certified for bridges, but he'd probably refer you. He'll only take a 5% cut. Speaking of cuts, cuts by queue when you need a fresh do something snappy or new, you can do like I did today. Called my own phone number because I read online there was an online new, you can do like I did today, called my own called my own phone

number because I read online there was an online hack where you can send someone a voicemail directly if you do that it like gives you an option to send a voice message and it goes straight to their voicemail and I got an email for a phone call a voicemail to our general line that was forwarded to me because somehow this guy decided this would be for me. And in classic talent acquisition format, this guy calls and just basically says, I'm just looking for a job. Can you talk to me one on one on the phone and go through my resume and tell me which

jobs I should apply for? To which I say, that is just absolutely insane. Why don't you do that work yourself? But rather than wanting to say that to him directly over the phone, I wanted to send him a voicemail so that I can just close the book on this guy and never have to talk to him. Well, I called my number, and it was total sham.

You can't actually do that. Whoever said that on Reddit was totally lying. But what I'm not lying about is a $20 flat rate cut like I gave myself. I didn't pay myself. I'm one of those small business owners who never takes a paycheck. I'll do odd jobs on the side just to survive.

Like cutting my beautiful locks, the back is a nice clean cut. I still use my Chicago Bulls hat that I think once belonged to Steve, owner of Home Pride Oregon. I don't remember where we got those but I'm not complaining. I use it to give myself a nice rounded geometric cut and it did the neck beard and the you know keeping things under control here as we get into the holidays. When you need a fresh do something snappy or new call the experts at Cuts by Q and tomorrow I I'm coming for a maple pause. No response.

I'm going to get her little nails too. And of course, our good friends at the Samson Q2U series. I don't really have anything good biblical today. I don't know. Samson is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. Just like God, just like the Samson QTU series. Samson, when God speaks, he uses a Samson. So the last thing I wanted to mention here, I was pondering different ways to take the show this morning when I was preparing,

and even this afternoon on my run. And it goes without saying that President-elect DJ Trump has, I think we should call him DJ Trump. I think that would make him, I don't want to say more likable, but just less menacing. DJ Trump has selected some very unique choices, most notably RFK to lead health and human services, add the aforementioned Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to run a new and Vivek Ramaswamy to run a new government cabinet called Doge, which is pretty wild. Basically, just like in the office when they have two people run a branch, now we have two people running the office of government efficiency, the Department of Government Efficiency. Don't even

need to comment to make jokes. It's just, it's all right there. You got child sex offender Matt Gaetz as the top law enforcer in the country, which is a unique choice. You have Christine Noam in charge of the dog shooting cabinet. That's not what it's actually called, but she is in charge of something. Homeland, homeland health, no, what is she? Interior maybe. She's from South it's actually called, but she is in charge of something. Homeland, health, no, what is she? Interior maybe? She's from South Dakota or North Dakota, so that would make sense. Fan favorite and just, we were, you talk about like six inches, six degrees of separation.

This is one degree of separation. Bean Town podcast and the secretary of the interior of national security, What is she? Tulsi Gabbard. She's not the secretary of state. She's something like that, though. She is in the cabinet. And we were this close to having her on the show for our telethon special this past year. And she no showed, which was really rude. But now that she's a Republican instead of a Democrat she's never gonna get on the show. But just we were this close and now she's in the cabinet with close ties to Russia. So that's all fun.

And then oh there's there's something else I wanted to mention but it completely slipped my mind. But oh so what I wanted to say on Twitter, also on Blue Sky, because in the last 22 minutes, we've completely transitioned from Twitter to Blue Sky. And I'm only on Blue Sky. Don't follow me on X, only on Blue Sky. That'll be a project for tomorrow. But there's a lot of the classic trend right now

is like Trump nominates so-and-so to be, and it's, you know, something ironic. But it's, truth is stranger than fiction, as Will Ferrell would say. I never saw that film. I heard it was good, but I don't actually know what it is. I've never seen it. And I thought, oh, that could be kind of fun. Let's come up with our own list. But I just felt played out, right? I've seen it all over Blue Sky the last 24 hours. And it's just, I want to be original here. So I promised you that we were going to end on a high note at the top of the show and I thought you know what we've done this type of thing here and there and certainly variations of it but I was out I was taking the dog for her post-supper walk

and I thought let's let's write down some random favorite things right I'm just like um just like Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz. No, who sings? Julie Andrews, rather, in Wizard of Oz. I was trying... The Sound of Music, which is Rachel's favorite movie. And oh, she's never seen it. That's embarrassing.

The end scene with Rolf and Christopher Plummer in the cemetery, oh man, that is peak cinema. That's the worst thing, we were talking about Broadway musicals earlier, the worst thing about the musical I know because they did a Carrie Underwood TV special on NBC like a decade ago. Apparently in the musical they completely cut out that scene, they changed the ending so that they just sing their little song at the you know Nazi competition and then they are into the mountains the whole climax of the film is in the Abbey Cemetery ABBEY yeah how are you gonna like yo it makes me so mad yeah start yodeling like the lonely goat herd. Yodeling. Hmm hmm. Da da da. Bum bum bum.

Bum bum bum. Bum bum bum. Bum bum bum. Bum bum bum. Bum bum bum. This goat kind of looks like the lonely goat herd. Yeah, Maple's not amused. She's wagging her tail though. What is the name of, who plays Dorothy in Wizard of Oz? Liza Minnelli's mom. What is her name?

Julie Garland? Judy. Judy Garland. Well, now I'm thinking of... No, it's Judy. You're right. No, no, no. It's Judy Garland. 100%. But I was getting confused with Julia Garner because we were talking about her on our staff meeting this morning. Ruth Mozart. And she's married to Foster the People, who apparently put out an album in 2024, which I completely missed. I feel like Foster the People was a really hot item with that debut album and Pumped Up Kicks. And I think their second album made some waves, but this was only their fourth album.

12 years later, they'd been around. And I don't know, they were just like, I feel like as far as pop music goes and like pop culture, they were like pretty relatively famous and now like never think about them. The opposite of that is Charlie, who's hosting and musical, no, it's just her name. She's hosting and is musical guest on SNL this week. And she had this big comeback this summer. Well, I don't even know if it's a comeback, but she's been around for a

while. She was on the Icona pop record. I don't care. I love it. And then she was the like singer for that one, who was that Australian blonde lady who had that one famous song, I'm So Fancy. Iggy Azalea. And that was like 12 years ago, right? And that was all Charli XCX. And now I hadn't really thought about Charli XCX at all until we saw her at Summerfest last year, two years ago, whatever it was.

And she was at like 3 PM on a C tier stage. So you're thinking like, oh yeah, this lady was famous. You know, like eight years ago, she kind of had her thing, whatever. Now she's playing 3 PM on Friday at Summerfest. It's OK. And now she's hosting SNL again. So good for Charlie Publisher for getting her back

in the game. But I don't really know any songs. Apparently she's on a Billie Eilish song. So boss was telling me about it last she's at the concert last night at the United Center my boss was not Charlie she was in rehearsals in New York so I wanted to focus on my favorite things that was a five-minute way of saying Quinn's favorite things. And these are just, look this isn't a ranked list, this isn't ranked choice voting by any means. These are just things that when they pop into my head I can't help but smile or chuckle. First up, Maple and Rachy? How oracle.

Rachy doing her little intro music dance half an hour ago. Maple wagging her tail, lying over there with her little lamb. The lion and the lamb, you're so biblical. I've got to get you a mini-Samsung Q2U series. That's your little ear, right? You like it. Interview with the dog? I'll attach your little ear, right? You'll like it. Interview with the dog?

Nothing. Dead air. Yes, so that's number one. Maple and Rachie. And Rachie for starting our baked rigatoni supper. Where are we going with this? Good thing I wrote these down. Number two, Gangnam Style. Now Rachel's doing the dance. No, she's not.

I haven't listened to it in a long time. It's not even... You can, you might as well group in the Harlem Shuffle. No, is that what it's called? Cupid Shuffle? Harlem Shake. You know, that was a big viral sensation when I was it's like, because I think, I think Gangnam Style was the first video in history to reach a billion views on YouTube and now it's relatively common. You see Charlie X puts out a video and it will have a billion views in like two seconds thanks to the algorithm. Meanwhile Bean Town Podcast has like negative two views. People actively blocked the channel when it was recommended to them.

And I can't explain it. It's just, because now Ganu style is just like a, you know, it's a meme of itself. It's a joke, but good for Psy. I mean, he got his paycheck. That's PSY Psy. Can't argue with that. We're going to go through this pretty quickly because I don't need to give you a whole preamble backstory in each one of these, but I will occasionally make comments. Eating shredded cheese straight out of the bag, something I do very frequently in this day and age, which is a great Killers album, number three. That opening, the opening nothing to do with shredded cheese but the opening music if you will from losing touch which is the opening track of day and age by the killers it's just such a it's like the chimes it's just if you don't

know losing touch by the killers you know it's not one of their radio hits or anything like that it's the opening track on their third album which is Day and Age from 2000... I don't know what it's Day and Age, 2008. Something like that. Has Spaceman on it. Fantastic opener. Losing Touch and a very underrated killer song in my opinion. It's probably my most listened to track from day and age. I'm losing touch. But that's eating shredded cheese straight out of the bag. You give me light Mexican blend or mozzarella or cheddar or Tilla McSwiss. I'm not picky. It's so nice to just get a little not a handful of fingerful right you use three fingers thumb pointer

middle finger and you just you just grab some globules gl ob gyn no ob u l e s glob. Next up, grill mates. So this is Rachel's project, grill mates from McCormick Spices out of Hunt Valley, Maryland. And I had the brilliant idea. And I was going to say, please don't steal my idea, but I guess we're putting it out there. This is a public IP now. So grill mates, they're the spices that you put on your steak, your hamburgers, your hot dogs, your cheddar worsts. When you're grilling in the summer,

you're buying McCormick spices. So things like paprika or smoked cayenne or rub sage or nutmeg. I don't know what you'd put nutmeg on, but you can find a way. So here's my pitch for a new campaign for grill mates. Everyone likes little childlike anthropomorphized, don't ask me to spell it, you know, grill mates. So these are gonna be little spices and they're little glass bottles. They got eyes, they got ears, they got feelings, legs, arms. And they're just little, they're, they're essentially grill buddies, but it's grill mates. And then you take it a layer further, and it's grill mates, right? So they're Australian.

And they can say, you know, g'day mate, because it's grill mates. And you can have a whole panoply, P-A-N-O-P-L-Y, of characters. I'm thinking Salt needs to be kind of the leader, sort of like a doc from Seven Dwarfs situation. But of course you're going to have Black Pepper. Maybe he's like his wife. And then you got someone who's really spicy, kind of like the crabby old neighbor, but he's like a salsa dancer, and that could, of course, be Cayenne. You've got Paprika, who's got a flair for the fancy. And then you've got Nutmeg, who's like the little cute neighbor kid. You've got Mustard Seed. I think we lean into like a Martin Mole, Colonel Mustard

from Clue, Rest in Peace kind of thing, kind of a crabby old grouchy, Kurtwood Smith type character. But this is Grillmates. And when I pitched that idea to Rachel before her big pitch meeting, I don't think she took me up on it. But did you present Grillmates to the team today, my idea for Grillmates?

No. We're sitting on a potentially billion dollar idea here. So we'll keep sitting on it. That's the there's a lot of downsides to no one listening to your weekly podcast, but this is a significant upside. Next up here, Bluey. I never really seen Bluey except for a YouTube compilation that I was watching on the couch with my father-in-law about a year ago and I don't know I don't recall the context behind why we sat there for 20 minutes and watched this completely like cut up out of order Bluey compilation I don't have an explanation but he just seems like a good guy Bluey seems like

he's got his head on his shoulders yeah you gotta you gotta pound them up and ground them up. Big savings on burgers at the Jewel tonight. 50% off. So you get like four legit hamburger patties for $3.50. And yeah, we're making baked rigatoni, which is supposed to have ground beef, ground turkey. And I was like, I could pay like five, six bucks for the 1.2 pounds of ground beef, which big step for us. I don't remember the last time I bought ground beef. It's been months. I'm like fully turkey now, but this was so on sale.

I couldn't pass it up. You know, 350 for the pound I'll take it. We're out of whiskey which means we got to wrap things up here but Bluey just seems like a good kid you know. Smart kid, wholesome. Next up here we got grilled cheese. So I know we already mentioned cheese once, but can you ever imagine a situation in your life when you're sitting there thinking a grilled cheese doesn't sound good right now? It doesn't need to be fancy. It doesn't have to be restaurant quality. Literally grab two slices of sourdough. Lather those things up in butter. She likes the beef. Maple likes the beef.

Get two slices, if you will, of... you can do American, you can do cheddar, you could do whatever you want to do. But you scare that thing up on the griddle. There's never a situation in my life where I said, you know what, a grilled cheese, that sounds terrible. It always sounds good. It's, you know, probably like 500 calories, not good for you in any way. In fact, bad for you. And just absolutely wonderful. I ate a lot of grilled cheeses from the dining hall in college. I mean, if they're lathered enough, you can get through an entire grilled cheese in four bites

if you're really applying yourself. And sometimes I want to. Next up here, this is appropriate. It just came in the mail yesterday, today, and I have it burning next to me right now. It's a pine-scented candle. I want to mention it's actually because you Google pine scented candle on Amazon and every result is balsam and cedar. We mentioned balsa wood earlier this is

balsam. But I was so I don't know if they just don't make pine maybe it's you know federal regulations but I was just sitting there last night, and I thought, you know what? I've been working my tail off lately, and I deserve to spend $16 on a pine-scented candle. So it's the holidays. I'm usually in the whole, when do you start putting out the Christmas tree

and listening to Christmas music sort of argument? I'm usually a staunch December 1 kind of guy, but between the last two months, Maple's adoption date two weeks or two months from yesterday, which is exciting. She's in month three with us now. Been a very exciting experience and also probably the most challenging two months of my life plus election stuff plus you know the whole Nico Collins going to IR sort of thing for fantasy fans it's been really rough and I thought to myself you know what I really just love and I'm not here to like push it on anyone else but

I absolutely love like holiday you know the peanuts and any sort of like jazz piano Christmas stuff and good smelling candles and lights. So I'm just gonna, you know, I'm keeping it to myself for now. I'm not sharing this on Blue Sky or anything, but I really wanted a nice pine scented candle and so I spent $16, 17 bucks, whatever it was, and now I have it. So there you go, treating myself. A couple other things here. A joke book. I already mentioned my Grandpa Dave, Happy Birthday 92 Today in the Einstein,

but I also grabbed a couple of his classic joke books. And so I have those on the shelf. I gotta dig into those. If I was really smart, I would have grabbed a joke from a joke book and read it to you live on air so you know what we're dealing with here. And I'm going to do that now. The thing you have to be cognizant of, I can't pause this recording per FCC regulations. So you're going to have to deal with a slight disruption here. So give me like 15 seconds to find the book and I'll be right back. All right, so there's two but I grabbed the top one it's 2100 a classic, you know, classic even number 2100 laughs for all occasions by Robert Orban, call him Bobby orb.

Reading off the front cover short sharp topical and funny arranged in categories for reading telling laughing. So I'm literally opening this up somewhere in the middle. This is massage parlors is the category. I'm not bullshitting you. Okay, here we go. I'm just, looks like there's a handful of jokes here. I did not vet these at all. They might have happy endings. I don't know. I had this conversation with Rachel a month ago when we grabbed these books. Because I had looked through this stuff. This isn't the joke, by the way.

This is still me. I had looked through this stuff when I grabbed it and I was like, you know what? Jokes in the 1940s or whenever this book was written are just different than our sense of humor now. Here we go. And now a special message for all you businessmen in the audience. Never bring home work on the weekends unless you happen to own a massage parlor. I don't I don't know if that's a joke or not. Let's keep going. This is a

new new thing. Everyone has some problem. Take the Venus de Milo perfect lips, perfect eyes, perfect shoulders, perfect hips, the world's most beautiful woman. Couldn't get a job in a massage parlor. There's something about massage parlors that I don't know about. You know what, let's... Those were two jokes about massage parlors. Here's the IRS. Okay, look, the IRS is timeless. We turn back a couple pages because they're in alphabetical order. It's very confusing to be an American. The Star Spangled Banner tells us that the land of the free and the IRS tells us it isn't.

Who is this Robert Orban guy and why is he writing jokes? Couple more. The IRS works on the principle of supply and demand. What you don't supply, they demand. This is, okay, now that sounds like a Roddy Dangerfield kind of thing. I'm getting this more. Okay. The the 60s audiences would have gone crazy for this. And then finally here, this is in case you were thinking we're going to step it up humor wise. You know, for the final joke of this segment, you're going to be disappointed. What can you

really say about the IRS? It's like a Bermuda Triangle for money. There you go. So that's our jokebook segment for today. We'll revisit that in the future and keep your expectations low. Joe Cool, the Snoopy character. A lot of good Snoopy characters. I like the flying ace, but Joe Cool, he just kind of stands there, leans against the wall. He's got really cool sunglasses, and he's kind of like, he's a student at the school,

but he doesn't really seem to go to class. And it seems like he's clearly older than the kids, but you know, he's Joe Cool and he's got his own theme song Joe Cool Joe Cool there's a great cover of Joe Cool by BB King on YouTube you could go listen to next step up to keep with the holiday theme here, almost done here, driving really slow through a structured Christmas lights event. We had this thing called the Festival of Lights

in Rockwood growing up and I checked it out today. It's still going. Excuse me, but I also remember in a neighborhood close to my parents subdivision in Oregon. There's a great kind of neighborhood lights Production happening every Christmas right at least there was last time I was out there four or five years ago And it's just so cool the drive slow you put that car like two miles per hour. You're just rolling You're not even driving you're rolling that foot's on the brake How many other times you just get

to roll like that? I don't know. It's pretty cool. It's a fun feeling. A cinnamon roll with an inordinate amount of frosting. So everyone likes a cinnamon roll. No one's ever said a bad thing about that, but sometimes you have a cinnamon roll. There's not enough butter or frosting and it gets a little dry. You know, you got the outside and it's like, you're just chewing on some dough and it's still tasty. You can still got the cinnamon. You're not upset about it, but you're like, what if this whole thing just melted in my mouth?

So that's why I like having a cinnamon roll with so much frosting. Every bite you get to lop up some more of that frosting. That's good. We got a a not coming up here but I just thought of another one. Not DePaul basketball games. My team, my alma mater, my employer puts food on the table for this family. Their basketball team 3-0 this year. What I hate seems like almost all of their weeknight games including tonight I think I don't want to uh you know just be smirched them but I think the game and certainly on monday

night I did these home games started at 8 p.m on weeknights and I don't know if that has something to do with the tv contract or what it is but especially if there was ever a day and this used to happen where I like want to go to the game after work well if I finish work at 430 or 5 like normal people do what am I supposed to do for three hours it's not even enough like oh you yeah it's perfect time I go out to supper or something like I don't need three hours for supper plus transit give me a 7 p.m. give me a 630 that would be perfect what's with an 8 p.m. start especially on a Friday that doesn't work for me. Discount beer in the shopping cart at

Jewel if you don't know sometimes and then I saw this today now the disappointment today was there was a ton of discount beer you knew it was discount because it's mile high of Oktoberfest and Sam Adams stuff and you know it's you know it's all discounted but there's no pricing on any of it. Usually they'll put a price tag on the cart or on the beer directly. Tonight was a bummer even though this is one of my favorite things. Usually you can get like half off but there's no pricing tonight and I love Oktoberfest beer so that would have been great but no idea

because they could just say oh this is a big discount one dollar off well it's not that big of a discount but in times past sometimes you can get like four cans for three bucks or something look that's not a complete steal but it's something not my last not here not people passing on the Express on Wheel of Fortune this happening in last night if you night. If you don't know, they put the express wedge out there for the prize plus around. And essentially what it is, if you land on it, you get the opportunity to call consonants or vowels

same as you would otherwise, but you're not spinning. Consonants are worth 1,000 vowels, I think, are just free. Or you buy them. I don't know. It doesn't matter. The only caveat here is if you miss a letter, or you miss solve or anything, it's bankrupt rather than just losing a turn. And so the upside is absolutely massive. And the only situation

would you would never want to ride the the express on Wheel of Fortune is if you were already winning by a ton and you had like a million dollar wedge in your possession, possession or a wild card and you didn't want to bankrupt those. Otherwise you're getting a thousand dollars which is more per spin than you're going to get on almost any other wedge except for one. And this lady passes the passes up on the express ends up missing a letter anyways so she would have gone bankrupt. But the next person solves it. But it's just the, it's, I wouldn't comment on it unless it was an absolute epidemic this country is facing.

I would say at least a third of the people on this show pass on the Express. And it just makes me so mad. All you got to do is call a letter, and fill out the puzzle. It's just you playing. And people pass on it. It's very upsetting.

is fill out the puzzle. It's just you playing, and people pass on it. It's very upsetting. Almost done here. That one part in Madam Blueberry when Junior Asparagus is at the mall with his dad. And actually, I got to move through this quickly, because this one actually gets me emotional. It ties in closely to some childhood, not trauma, but just experiences.

And he really wants the train set, but they can't afford it. So they get the ball. But his dad is he's like, Oh, we can't afford that one. But I can get you a ball from like the big, you know, like the ball rack with like the bendable strings and juniors like, Oh, like this ball is awesome. Thanks, dad. And I'm like gonna cry. So we're just gonna move past it. And then last up here, a glass of whiskey and melatonin. Because both those good things are great by themselves. But and I don't do this frequently. This is like a once once a month kind of treat for me. But you get a nice buzz going from a glass of whiskey or scotch, and then you're like,

you know what? I was already going to sleep well. Let me throw a melatonin on top of this and just completely revolutionize my sleep game. I don't even need the Dak Prescott sleep number bed or anything like that. Email us, beanthownpodcasts at yahoo.com. Let us know what are your favorite random things.

Doesn't have to be the Julie Andrews raindrops on roses. It can be sitting in my underwear, eating a pint of ice cream, which if we had a sequel, I would put on there as well, which maybe we should. We want to keep the vibes high here on the Bean Town podcast and on Blue Sky. Speaking of being high, I have not been high this year. Just with Edibles, I was kind of like

an on the fence relationship over the last two or three years and I was, like sometimes it would be a good experience, other times I would not like the way I felt. I just never really locked in, it wasn't consistent for me. And I've just gotten to the point where I'm like, I'd rather have a glass of whiskey and a melatonin That's what I got for you guys. Thanks for listening in my program. Let's get our outro music going here

My name is Quinn David furnace. This is my show. I hope everyone is staying safe. I hope you are staying sane and Almost Thanksgiving. Oh gobble gobble. We'll check in on you next time. Bye everyone. So So So