Beantown Podcast - New Tablet, Trazodone, and Wheel of Fortune Mishaps (10112024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: October 11, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss Wheel of Fortune mishaps, botched trivia, and Kamala's alcoholism

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn Davis furnace. Welcome to my show Quinn David furnace presents the Bean Town podcast for Friday, December 11 2024. What's happening? What's going on? How are you? My name is Quinn and this is my show Quinn David furnace presents the Bean Town podcast. I am the creator, the owner, the host, the occasional co-host when we got dogs interview with a dog going. Not today. She's in the other room. She's on her new drugs. Trazza, Trazza, what is it? Trapeze? Trapezious? That's a muscle. Muscle. Trapezist artist. Well, we call her kind of the clown so it's pretty close trap traz a fan something like that I don't know I knew

it until I started the episode and now I don't know so she's just chilling out hopefully being very chill maple the newest member of the Beantown family. We are coming to you live on a Friday afternoon it's about 530pm and definitely noticing those days getting shorter. Still got some good lightness going on here but we've got about what a month or so till daylight savings time ends and that's really just the kicker, the kiss of death when it goes from nice fall weather to feeling like it's just dark all the time and that's very dark and dreary. Fortunately you got the Beantown podcast with you every week non-stop without fail to help get you through it. Next week we may potentially be on location I haven't decided you

know how we're gonna record yet. I might have to do it pre trip because I don't know if we're gonna have timerip, but congratulations to friend of the show, Aaron Burns. A week from today, actually, we'll already be married. That's an afternoon wedding at a Catholic church on Friday in St. Paul. So we're going up there early Friday morning and we'll spend Saturday with podcasting legend, Grandma Sal and Grandpa Dave.

You know her from her episode on stamp collecting and you know Grandpa Dave from his roast of Quinn David Furness when he was just just laid into me. Nine-year-old man just making me cry. Good stuff. And this Sunday we've got Vikings-Lyons, two of the best teams in the NFL going toe-to-toe. Rachel's first NFL game. It'll be lit. And then we come back early Monday morning. So we'll see it'd be great to be able to record up from Minnesota or 48th state but I'm not sure if we'll have time. We'll see it might be an early record we'll see what happens but that's going to be coming up next week. I'm definitely looking forward to getting up there getting out of Chicago for a hot second and celebrating friends and seeing family. So looking forward to that and shout out of course to our good friends in Pakistan. Thank you for me making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the great Islamic Republic

of Pakistan. Hello, Hyderabad. Hello, Karachi. Hello, Khyber Pass, all the good stuff. The brain is moving at like, I'm at like two thirds speed. Okay, I don't feel brain dead, but I am far from alert right now. It's just a long day. Didn't sleep quite as much as I wanted to. Late night, early morning rise, that sort of thing.

And then had a stretch of six straight half hour phone screens I was leading today, three hours of it. And then kind of ended the day with some additional work. six straight half hour phone screens I was leading today, three hours of it. And then kind of ended the day with some additional offer activity, which is all good, positive movement, good stuff happening. But usually I love it when my Fridays are a little bit more laid back, a little bit more chill. And today was just a lot of talking. So when I stumble here and search for words, just know that I'm doing my best to give you quality information.

Quick programming note. I know last year we did a great episode live from the Orb. It was kind of a lot of fun up there in Michigan. Saga Tuck was kind of drizzling. You heard me climb the stairs and climb down the stairs, look off in the distance to Lake Michigan across Mount Baldhead. But this year is a year off from Sagatuck. So we've made the executive decision based off of some family things going on. We got a wedding going on in early December. We got a, Rachel's got a trip after that. So we'll have a year off from Sagatuck, which is a bummer, but we'll be back in full force

next year and it'll be back in full force next year, and it'll be good stuff. So no live report from the Orb. I trust it is still standing. No hurricanes around here to speak of, thankfully. But the Orb is one of those guys that just, he stands the test of time, literally. He's been up there since whatever it is the 50s or something like that he's not coming down anytime soon we're drinking uh it's a little change up today we're drinking a glass of rose i don't know the brand it's got a really hard to open glass bottle top the reason

for that is uh rachel and i were talking earlier thinking hey it's time definitely time for a drink i've been feeling literally I felt like it's time for a drink since 1pm today. And Rachel mentioned she might be interested in some wine. So I said, hey, I think we got some open in the fridge already. And alas, we do. It's a bottle of rosé. But apparently, it's been open for a while. Doesn't bother me. I'll drink it. Call me the human vacuum cleaner. So I'm on glass two here, got some ice cubes

in it, and a nice ice cold glass of rosé. And rosé is not my go-to wine or anything like that. And typically I drop, stop drinking whites and rosés around September or so, if not before that. Really I reserve those for summer kind of social events, either chilling by the pool on ice or playing kickball or something like that. So it's not usually my go to fall drink, but hey, it's sitting there in the fridge. No one else is going drink it. Listener discretion is advised when you're listening to this program. Number one, occasionally some language number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. I do want to remind all of you that we, gosh, we

are just two plus months away from Mufasa, the Lion King, hitting theaters on December 20, 2024. I'm dealing with that a lot right now because I'm hiring for some theater roles at the DePaul Theater School, or TTS as we call it. And of course they spell it the fancy way, T-H-E-A-T-R-E. And I always kind of assumed that there was a rhyme and reason, not a rhyme or reason, but a rhyme and reason. That'd be a good horse name. Let's write that down before I forget. We had this, we went through this a couple weeks ago. We came up with some good horse names when we were going through some

biblical stuff. 2025 horse name special and again I'm not committing to this but uh gosh I gotta clean my phone screen. Reminds me of something else that I uh cleaned in parentheses yesterday, I'll tell you about in a second here, but Rhyme and Reason is going in the potential list for the eighth annual horse names special. You all will forget by the time we get there, seven months away in May, I'll be married by then. That'll be cool. Doing the podcast with a wedding ring on, hopefully it doesn't disrupt the radio waves.

The electromagnetic field doesn't get thrown off into orbit. Oh, and I remembered actually, gosh, down the rabbit hole, I don't remember what we were talking about. Rhyme or reason, where did that come from? I don't know. We'll see if we get back to it. I wanted to briefly mention, and I don't know if I'm even going to be able to remember all of it because we were half Asleep, but you know we have our there's two shows that we watch Monday through Friday when they're in season Pretty much without fail if we're just around it's you know They're they're top on the priority list and of course those are Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune and we place a much bigger I would say stock in Jeopardy

It's you know, it's a test of your metal And we place a much bigger, I would say, stock in Jeopardy. It's a test of your metal, M-E-T-T-L-E, test of your trivia knowledge. It's just a fast-paced fun show. So it's nice to watch that one when we're alert on the couch. And Maple was on trazodone, but the rest of us were alert on the couch. So we do that. And then last night, so sometimes we watch Wheel of Fortune when we're on the couch, sometimes it's just like, hey, let's crawl into bed, pull it up. Of course, we got Seacrest on there now. It's kind of a mindless, you know, you can still participate, it's still 20 minutes of entertainment, but it's very formulaic.

I mean, Jeopardy's formulaic too, but Jeopardy, you got whatever it is, 60 distinct clues plus Final Jeopardy every week, Wheel of Fortune,opardy you got whatever it is 60 distinct clues plus final Jeopardy every week Wheel of Fortune It's like hey you got different puzzles, but there's only What across the entire game like seven eight puzzles or so and the wheel is always the same every night And it's just kind of whatever the point the reason I'm bringing this up is That we were watching Wheel of Fortune last night, and it was just the most blood curdling if you want to get spooky with it is that we were watching Wheel of Fortune last night, and it was just the most blood-curdling, if you want to get spooky with it, episode I have maybe ever

seen. And I'm trying to see if there's the Wheel of Fortune thread on Reddit is not strong. Apparently, all these 80-year-olds in Florida who keep the show alive are not participating in weekly or daily Reddit threads the same way you would find on the Jeopardy subreddit. So I was trying to go to Reddit right now live to just try to get a recap to refresh

my memory. But I'm trying to remember everything that happened. There was just one puzzle where it was almost solved. There was just one word left. And the way the vowels were constructed that were already in there, it was almost solved. It was just one word left. And the way the vowels were constructed that were already in there, it was clear. It could only be a couple of things. And people were guessing J's and G's.

And there's just literally no word in the English language. It was nail, it was a crossword. So it was nail blank and clipper was the word. And they had the I, the E and the R. So they're missing the C, the L and the middle P's. And they're was the word. And they had the I, the E, and the R. So they're missing the C, the L, and the middle P's. And they're guessing J's. They're guessing H's or G's or something like that, K's maybe. And it's just like, what do you think this is?

And it wasn't people on the spot. It was people who had been waiting their turn. They weren't spinning. They were just standing there trying to solve it, looking at the letter board. And that was infuriating to me. Another thing that really pissed me off, um, when the, the, the couple or it was, it's girlfriend's week. So it's a lot of estrogen every night on the show, six ladies playing and well plus C crest.

And so it's a crossword. So when you solve the crossword, the clue, rather than it being like before and after, or places, or landmarks, whatever it is, it's a word blank, right? So it's always going to be nail this, nail that, nail whatever. And so it was like nail file, nail clippers, nail, I don't know, a bunch of different things. But when you solve, you're not supposed to say nail.

You just say the four or five words, however many are up there. And of course, this lady starts to solve it the right way, and then she backtracks. She's like, wait, let me restart. Nail clipper, nail filer, and they buzz her out, and it's really awkward. That one I had a little bit of tolerance for. What really bugged me, get to the final round.

So you do your final spin, the way it works. Everyone gets a turn. You're not competing against each other. You know, in live time, like a toss up, it's just it's your turn. What do you do? You call a letter and then if it's in there, great. If not, you get buzzed out. So you got to, you got to have a letter, a vowel or a consonant that's successfully in there to a vowel or a consonant that's successfully in there to keep your turn going, get your three seconds to solve. And it's so obvious what it is, and I can't remember what the puzzle eventually was, but the couple who ends up winning was the one who solved this puzzle as well. The same couple who put nail in front of everything in the crossword, as well as in their own coffin, eventually. But they did win, but not the bonus. But I'll get to bonus in a second.

I was so pleased that there was some karma and justice in the world, because these ladies were just frustrating me to no end. Across the board, all three of the pairs were just brutal. So you're supposed to call a letter, and then Vanna puts it up there. You get three seconds to solve. This team clearly knows what it is, but they're so excited. They're

not even paying attention to the rules. They could have gotten an extra, I think two letters, maybe two consonants with one call to get an extra what three grand or whatever it is. Instead of calling a letter, because they already know the puzzle. So you could call any letter you want. Ideally, you don't buy a vowel, but you can call any consonant you want. They just solve it. They leave whatever it is, two grand, three grand on the board just because they were too excited. And it wasn't like they had a ton of money built up already. I think they had like three grand going into their turn. So it's like, yeah, getting too excited, getting a guaranteed three grand, not a bad thing typically. But you're on a once in a

lifetime show, once in a lifetime moment you can call this letter and almost double what you got already and they just didn't follow the rules and so they left that out just for all of us little guys out here who've been watching the wheel all the way back to the art Fleming days it's just absolutely infuriating to see them make a mockery of the game like that and of course Seacrest isn't going to call him out. He's just, you know, la-di-da-di-da. Give me some Brian Dunkleman. I would watch him host Wheel of Fortune. And then Karmic Justice. The final puzzle was begonias, by the way. Living things. Absolutely brutal. Begonias. What? I mean, half of the people in the world don't even know what a begonia is. I couldn't tell you what it looks like.

I just know that it's a flowering plant. And it was $100,000. They missed out on it, which of course after you split it, you know, it's two people, it's not double the money. You split everything and then after taxes, it would probably be like $870 per person or something, but still that would cover your plane tickets.

I have very little um sympathy is not the word I'm tolerance for stupidity. I think there's some sort of Kevin Malone quote like that. We were previously 10 minutes ago when we got to rhyme or reason talking about Mufasa, the Lion King. I just wanted to remind you all that it is in theaters only guys. It's December 20th, 2024. I think last time I checked out, I don't know if Barry Jenkins has moved it up or down. But yeah, Mufasa, the Lion King, find your pride.

Just don't have the energy in me to do a full big bellied, you know, find my pride. Excuse me. Sometimes a pride is small and quiet and just peaceful. Okay. And that's the pride I'm finding in myself today. Self-actualization. Like Kirsten Dunst from Fargo Season 2 would talk about. She's self-actualizing. Beantown podcast self-actualizing. This might be, in fact, I think I saw this last week. And I don't want to jinx it for fear of getting canceled by prematurely celebrating.

I think this is the 350th Beantown podcast episode, which is very exciting. Halfway to 700. Almost as many home runs as Barry Bonds. Although we did it without steroids, right? No steroids at the Bean Town podcast. This show has been fueled on listener engagement. Thank you to the Beanheads, Bean Town cast on Twitter.

Bean Town podcast, yahoo.com is the email, and beantownpodcast.com is the website. So thank you to all who have stayed engaged with us over the years, and wine and alcoholic beverages. That's what the show is fueled on, in my own little creative mind. Some weeks more creative than others. Speaking of listener engagement, though,

I do want to read an email. We don't get a lot of emails to the beanthompodcast at yahoo.com inbox. And when I say a lot, or I mean, like not a lot, actually not a lot of emails to the Bean Town podcast at yahoo.com inbox. And when I say a lot, I mean, like not a lot. Actually not a lot. We tried to build the show a little bit on relationship advice. That's kind of the hot thing is to offer

that sort of insight live on air. But people stopped emailing. I guess that's probably a good thing. I've kind of solved all the issues. And there's not really any another relationship issues left to solve. Dr. Laura could never. But I did get this email recently, 4.35 p.m. an hour and 12 minutes ago. It's from Spotify for podcasters. If you're curious, the email is no-reply at hello.podcasters.spotify.com. It says, hi there.

And I think you'll find this email kind of provides context into why maybe Bean Tom Podcast isn't like a top five, top 10 podcast in the world. I think this probably explains it. I'm not sure what Hawk Tuah or Talk2a or Joe Rogan are doing to sort of get around this issue. I feel like I've been particularly blacklisted, but let's just see what they have to say.

Hi there, we wanted to make you aware of an issue that may temporarily impact how your content appears on Spotify, but they don't tell me what the issue is. We recently uncovered an issue with SoundCloud that we are investigating and working quickly to address. For now, Spotify is unable to receive updates to new or existing podcasts hosted through SoundCloud. This means any new change made to your podcast from SoundCloud, including the publishing

of new episodes episodes will not be reflected on Spotify until this is resolved. We hope to have everything up and running again soon. Thanks for your patience and understanding Spotify for podcasters team. There you go, folks, the verdict is in the book is stacked against us. The deck is stacked against us. Right when we were just making it big on Spotify. I can't tell you how many phone calls I've had with John D. Spotify, owner and founder of Spotify. You know, I've been invited to all the conventions,

Spotify for Podcasts, or summits, in the Hollywood Hills and Camp David and the likes. I put in the work. And I'm finally making it to the top. And now, Spada, this is what these big guys do. You get a little bit too big. You make, you know, I'm taking the revenues off the platform and moving it to beanthelmpodguest.com.

And Spotify says, hmm, that's a little strange. We're not going to be able to distribute your podcasts anymore. Obviously, it just affected you and not these random Joe Schmoes out there who don't have 350 episodes, nor are they the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the, what, probably the second most populated, predominantly Islamic state in the world, Indonesia, then Pakistan would be my guess? I don't know if that's right. I'm just gonna assume. I mean, I know Indonesia is one. So, number, I mean Pakistan. Gotta be a good guess for number two. But this is not our trivia question. We're gonna get to trivia in a second here. I do want to mention, so that was our Spotify issue.

I do want to, before we talk about this week on the campaign trail, briefly say thank you to our sponsors. We did a full ad read last week, so that'll cover us for a couple years. Hello to our good friends at Home Pride Oregon. If you need your home inspected in Central Oregon, guys, this is a critical, crucial step. Median home inspector in central Oregon guys this is a critical crucial step you know median home price in central Oregon now is up to 3.7 million dollars so you can't just trust any old

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It's probably not Steve unless he's trying out an accent. I will say, I started off a phone screen here in Human Resources this past week and it was calling a someone with a very clearly female gendered first name and the person who picked up was a very deep low males voice and so I was caught off guard but I'm also very understanding of transitions and switches and whatever you want to do that's fine. I'm just gonna go with the phone And so I was caught off guard, but I'm also very understanding of transitions and switches and whatever you want to do. That's fine. I'm just going to go with the phone screen. So I said, Hey, is this XYZ? Is this still a good time to talk about this position? They said, yeah, absolutely. So I'm like, okay, well, didn't expect this at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning, but let's do it. Let's jump

in. And then two minutes into the phone screen, I learned that, well, I didn't learn anything really. At that moment, they just hung up. And I said, this is kind of strange. Something's off here. So I go back into that person's resume. I see, yes, I did indeed dial the right number. And so then I go into the calendar invitation that I had sent this person, and they respond back with their phone number, just as kind of a backup.

And it turns out they had the wrong phone number listed in their resume. It was a digit off, and that just is embarrassing. And if you can believe it, the day or like the hour before, I had talked to someone who spelled their last name wrong on their resume. And this isn't like a common thing that happens all the time.

This is news or a new development. But the fact that it happened twice on the same day, wrong last name, or incorrectly spelled last name and incorrectly listed out number was just shocking to me. I don't know. The millennials these days don't pay attention to detail. You know who does pay attention to detail? Steve.

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That's why we should have named the original podcast Quinn's I Don't know There's nothing really that goes with Quinn. I'm just sort of a monolith out here on the long lonely road to 350 episodes and far beyond. Wait till we hit 3,500 episodes. What is that? It's got to be 10 times now. It's been seven years, so we'd have to get to like 70 years. We started when I was 22, I think, 23.

So early 90s, not 1990s, maybe more like the 2090s, pretty much actually, is when we get to 3,500 episodes. So I don't know if I can do it, guys. I'm not saying we're ending the show now, but 2090 feels far away. I don't know. We'll see. When God speaks, he uses a Samson.

And of course, we're good friends at Cuts by Q. Gotta do some cleanup here. Although it's always tough when you got the flight out next Friday, we got a wedding next Friday, so it's like, do I want to clean up right now? Because then I should clean up again on Thursday, but I'm gonna have a busy day Thursday, probably in the office all day, teaching till nine at night. I really don't want to clean up then. So I might have to target it for Wednesday. We'll see. A lot of ducks in the air, a lot of balls in the air. When you need a fresh, you know, you know, it doesn't matter how many balls you got in the air, I will come.

I won't do ball work, probably. We haven't really gotten into the like land down under yet. If you're catching my drift guys, Brazilian wax, I'd probably do but I feel like I should close my eyes just from like a relationship perspective. I don't know if you ever got a Brazilian wax from the opposite gender. These are the questions that business owners like me are looking for answers to in this busy, fast moving pace. Fast moving pace, that's a new phrase.

If you haven't heard it yet, it's because it's so fast moving pace. Day and age. When you need a fresh do something snappy or new, just call the experts at Cutts by Q. Okay. This week on the campaign trail, guys, we are less than a month from election day, which is crazy. We're going to have to do our election special relatively

soon here. I guess we'll have next week in something Minnesota related, whether we are there or not. Shout out to the Minnesota Lynx WNBA team for taking game one, a huge comeback over the New York Liberty last night in the WNBA finals. taking game one a huge comeback over the New York Liberty last night in the WNBA finals that's pretty exciting. And then I guess you know week after that we got a Halloween special and then and then it's election day it's

the Tuesday after Halloween so things are coming up we might have to you know we do next week Minnesota week after Halloween, a spooktacular seventh annual and then election day special. I did a live from my diversity repartment apartment. I remember this like a video recording, probably one of the last Bean Town podcast videos we've done. It's been four years. It's haven't done a lot since then.

Excuse me with a live election map where I actually picked the election map and I did not ever go back after the fact to see how accurate or successful I was. I could really showed those goons over at 539, whatever it's called, Nate Silver's cronies, how this is how you predict through intellect and wit and having your ear close to the ground as I am here in a very battleground Chicago, almost evenly split. It's purple, as some might say.

And plus we don't really know what happened in 2020 because did Trump win? Did he lose? We can't know for sure. And that dovetails into this week on the campaign trail. JD Vance had a very uncomfortable podcast interview. I watched like a 2 and 1 1, clip on Twitter just this afternoon, where this lady who kind of looked like Ruth Bader Ginsburg from 30 years ago asked him like five times, yes or no,

did Trump lose the 2020 election? And JD's new response is, well, let's look into voter fraud. So he didn't respond so that's what JD's been up to. Trump apparently I just saw this today was at a rally I think he's in Arizona Colorado maybe both places apparently though he was feeling butt-hurt about people saying he uses a teleprompter and so he literally had a speech written on a teleprompter that said, I don't use teleprompters. And that's just the most meta thing I can think of.

We should have a teleprompter. You know how easy this job would be if we could hire a cue card guy for the Beantown podcast? I just show up. I sit on the couch, I talk about whatever, so much less stressful than me constantly having to entertain the masses with my top of head thinking and limited notes and preparation. Life would be a lot different for me in this hypothetical scenario.

On the other side, Kamala is doing the the interview circuit. She was just on Howard Stern and then I saw she went on Colbert, a late show, and drank a beer. And I gotta tell you, I prefer presidents who aren't alcoholics, which is why I like Trump is sober, doesn't drink anymore, so that's probably why I'm changing my vote away from Kamala, because I just don't think we need that, you know, risky business in the White House. And then you got Tim Walz doing rallies in Detroit.

He's just kind of doing his own thing back in the unions, eating Detroit style pizza, hanging out with Ben Wallace. NBA fans from 20 years ago will understand the reference. Otherwise, just go Google Malice at the Palace and get to see a pretty cool Afro. So that is this week on the campaign trail. A couple other notes here. I want to do a quick eulogy.

E-U-L-O-G-Y. I am now on my third tablet, although technically my second tablet I've ever had. And just, it just happened this week, spray the moment. So when I lived in Baltimore, there's a work-issued iPad. And I just always had it with me, use it for whatever. There's even a data plan on it, which was really cool. I remember one time watching an entire Vikings Packers game on a drive from Chicago to Nashville, which is eight hours. So I did it on a Sunday afternoon, watched the entire thing.

I had a data plan, which was awesome. It's just like in my lap. You're not really watching it. You're like, you're cruising on the highway. So you're paying attention on the highway. You're like you're cruising on the highway so you're paying attention on the highway you're like listening and then you're watching it as you can during plays but you know slowly the iPad just turned into a tune blast player I started playing tune blast my favorite puzzle game akin AKIN not Acon akin to you know candy puzzle game, that sort of thing.

And then when I moved back to Chicago five and a half years ago, obviously no more iPad access. So I said, well, let's get the next best thing. Let's go to Amazon. I've got a prime account. You get a Fire tablet, whatever edition, whatever gen. I don't know. Seventh gen, eighth edition, something like that.

Too hard to keep track. Get it for like 50 bucks. And this thing right from the get-go was pretty slow. You know, this isn't like your Nooka, your e-reader, this is like a legit tablet. And I remember talking to a friend of the show, Matt Fiedler, that summer I was living in Rogers Park when I moved back and being like, this thing's kind of slow. Like, do you have any suggestions? I remember distinctly having that conversation on the phone, on the back patio. Yada, yada, yada. I've had that baby for a long time.

I had it literally until last night. But a couple of days ago, it was prime day. And I said, I wasn't on my radar. It just kind of popped into my head. I'm sitting there. I'm like, I wonder how much these tablets are going for. Because I only use my tablet for Toon Blast these days. You can't listen to audio when you plug headphones in.

Nowadays, I have AirPods, so it's not that big of a deal. Plus, it's only when you're flying that you would need that anyways. And I fly a lot less now than I used to. But it's like, this thing is so slow. It legitimately will take me, I don't know, on average, and again, I'm pretty much exclusively using this for Toon Blast, where I'm one of the world leaders, like Angela Merkel or Joseph Stalin, legitimately two minutes

per level, when it could take about 30 seconds. So we're running about 25% efficiency here. Not to mention it's just too slow, pretty much can't do anything else. So I go on Amazon, you can find the like, I don't know if it's the latest version or second latest, but I don't really give a crap version. I think, I think the base price with the sale was like 45 bucks. And then if you can believe this, I got a $5 trade-in value. I've never traded in anything in my life. They say, bring your old tablet to an Amazon store, which I did right off campus last night

before going to class. Bring it in, pack it, ship it, and we'll give you $5 trade-in value. So this new tablet was cheaper than the old one. And I did a test drive last night when I got home from work, played some Toon Blast. And it's pretty damn fast. Now I don't know if it's going to last, but I will say shout out to me because not only was this a great swap, but I recall now, so after having gone through it yesterday for

about an hour, it took me, I remembered having to do this the first time around. Long story short, these Fire tablets only run Amazon apps in the Amazon store. So you can't just go to the Amazon store and say, give me Toon Blast. That's an iOS game. It's not even, I don't know how this stuff works.

It's not an Android store. I don't know, it's just the Amazon store, which is really shitty. So there is a process, and I won't get into this stuff works. It's not an Android store. I don't know. It's just the Amazon store, which is really shitty. So there is a process, and I won't get into the nitty gritty details, but there's a process where you can do a certain, pretty complex number of steps for me at least, from a tech perspective,

to go in and get access to the Google Play Store, where you can get Tuneblast, which is really all I want but but other normal apps if you will. And I'm just very proud of myself not only because you know I found the a number of articles online that explain how to do it and I've done it once before but it's updated now five and a half years later but essentially you have to download a bunch of different things make sure you have the right file because you're choosing amongst a sea of files, and it's all, you know, doesn't make sense to me. It's just a bunch of words and numbers and random assortments and I'm like, well how is this, how is it labeled this way? Anyways, I ran into some adversity or ran into some diversity. I once read a great counselor letter recommendation for a

student in West Virginia that started with, this student has faced a lot of diversity in their career. And it was one of those things where it's like, yeah, this is obviously misprint, but also they're from West Virginia, so we might be talking about actual diversity here. But yeah, it took me like a full hour, a process that probably for a tech savvy person they could have done in like two minutes. But I was able to get through it eventually so we got the tune blast machine up and running. I'm on to my third ever tablet here and I haven't really tried anything else with it. Maybe I'll snap some 240p selfies here and put

them on Facebook and we'll just do a whole big rewind to like 2009 tonight. That could be my good Friday night activity. Let's see if there's anything else. Only other thing I wanted to mention, the real hodgepodge episode, thanks for bearing with me, took Maple to the vet yesterday. Her first ever vet visit under our care. She got a shot, She was very strong. She was very brave. Now she's got her new trazodone prescription. And we're keeping our fingers crossed.

And her fecal sample, F-E-C-A-L, first time we've ever spelled that word on the podcast, came back negative, which is a good thing in the medical world. They tell you if it's negative, that's bad. Or negative, it's good. Very complicated, frankly. world they tell you if it's negative that's bad or a negative it's good very complicated frankly but yeah she's full steam ahead now we got to try to clean her teeth tomorrow I I put literally right before I started recording I put a piece of cheese multiple actually on a toothbrush and offered it to her for a positive association.

Learning a lot about psychology. Not even learning about it, just actually putting it into practice. I took psychology 101 at Rock Valley College in 2014, 15, something like that. Now I'm actually putting it into practice. Dr. Quinn, medicine woman, that's me. I want to end with a trivia question here. It's kind of random. It's not a great trivia question as far as structure goes.

But I just want to mention it was inspired. I was listening to my fantasy football podcast on my walk down to the office, or down to a class last night. And I don't remember where this came from, but it's one of the guys. So it's like two 30-year-olds and a mid 40-year-old guy. And they're pretty cool. They're casual. It's the Ringer Fantasy Football Show. I like it.

I've gotten into it in the last year and a half, essentially. More of an entertainment thing for me than an actual knowledge and insight kind of thing. Not because I'm holier than now, but it's just like, look, I played fantasy football for 20 years. There's some insights you can get for sure. But a lot of it at the end of days, when you get to this stage, it's trust your gut and whatever happens, happens. Anyways, the older guy in his 40s mentioned,

actually no, it was one of the 30 year old guys, mentioned Jim Croce, which is really embarrassing because that was the answer to this week's trivia question. And the other two guys didn't know who that was, and I was just like, wow, that's kind of crazy. So what we're going to do live on air production meeting is give you the question so you can at least learn something maybe. And then I'm going to come up with a different trivia question on the fly. Maybe we'll play a sparkle game together. Uh, because that was really embarrassing.

I gave away that happened on now. Wait, wait, don't tell me. Um, not Carl Castle rest in peace, but Bill Curtis gave away the, he's doing the limerick challenge towards the end of the show. And he just, instead of, you know, you get to the last sentence out of the five, and you leave the last word or term blank so the listener can guess it, and he just read through the whole thing.

That's more or less what I did right now. The question was, not even at this date in history, I just wanted to mention it. September 20th, 1973, this singer slash songwriter dies in a plane crash at the age of 30, the night before the release of his single, I got a name. And the answer, of course, was Jim Croce. Let's go to Sporkle. This is literally on my phone, top of my head, live on air, production change. And let's find a quiz, a simple quiz that we can play together. And I'm not, I'm not anticipating doing well on this. I don't even know where we're going to go. But here we go, this will be fun. This is complete the lyrics Elton John edition.

Except, Jesus Christ, there's 210 questions. So we're just gonna play through a couple, and then if you really loved the quiz, you can go play through, um, like the other 200. can go play through like the other 200. This quiz isn't going to work. There's I don't even know how this puzzle is formatted. It's like a big, long, it's one song, I think. The way it's formatted, it's like over a picture of Elton John so the words are impossible to see. This quiz sucks.

We're not doing this one. If you want to go play it, that's fine. We're not doing it. We're not doing it live. Okay. Quizzes by... I really want to do an actual quiz. Countries by third letter minefield.

I don't know. What is this? Let's play it. Play the quiz. It's got, this isn't going to work. It's very visual. We are striking out here. Can I think of a great trivia question off the top of my head? Tomorrow is Yom Kippur.

So what's a proper way to, congratulations to a Jewish person? Is it shalom? Is that good? Mazel Tov, I think, is birthday or Jewish Christmas, maybe? I'm not even sure. Here's one mixed word quarterback scramble quiz. Can you name the NFL quarterbacks by unscrambling their full names? Okay, we could do a couple of these. First one is Mott Darby. So anagrams Mott Darby M-O-T-D-A-R-B-Y Mott Darby and it's first

name last name. So I'm just going to play along and you get it when you get it. I get it when I get it. It's Tom Brady. Next one is Auntie Room O O-N-T-Y. Last name Room. That's gotta be Tony Romo. We'll do a couple of these. We won't do all of them. Next one is first name H-O-N-J. Hange. Last name W-A-Y-L-E. Whale. Well, it's gotta be John Elway. They should have done someone like, who's that one guy who was a wide receiver number 14 who played for the Vikings, started a playoff game against the Packers at quarterback? Joe Webb. Interview with the dog? Oh, we could do that.

She wants to come on? Okay. Well, if you want to keep playing the Sporkle quiz, you can. We've got Interview with the Dog. Come on, Maple. It's our last thing on the podcast. Come on, buddy. Oh yeah. Interview with the Dog. Do a big bark. Come on, Maple. I haven't read in years. We're watching the same things.

You'd be able to answer that too. I'd have got nothing. Anything else, Mabel? No. She's just hungry. She needs her trazodone. Supper time in the city. Yeah, we're gonna have supper right after we hop off here. Okay. Well, thanks all for listening Thanks for interview with the dog. Sorry for botching trivia We'll come to you next week with something Minnesota related than our Halloween spooktacular and then election day So my name is Quinn David furnace everyone. I hope you stay safe. Stay sane and I will check in on you guys next week. Oh, Maple's dancing. That's so nice. Wow.

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