Beantown Podcast - Pet Peeves & Hoobastank (08162024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: August 16, 2024

HEADS UP the Hoobastank is a little quiet so turn your volume up for that and down right after. Quinn comes to you LIVE to sing Hoobastank, preview the DNC, and bemoan Jewel Osco's ice cream cake selection

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So so so So So So So Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town podcast for Friday, August 16th, my 512th birthday, 51213 triangle. You guys remember those little geometry action for you speaking of remembering those Here's something you got to know about me

Here's something you got to know about the bean town podcast just when you open up your podcast app stitcher cast box player FM Spotify Apple podcast wherever you get your fix Whatever gets you off wherever you get your fix, whatever gets you off. You open that up, you think, gee, I've listened to 340-some episodes of the Beantown podcast before. I know what's coming. I know we're getting a little ragtime,

a little entertainer action. Boom, I hit you with a little hoobastank. And the fun part is I didn't even do a sound check before we started. No idea how it sounded. We've mentioned this in recent shows and this isn't a new topic but sometimes you just wake up and you got something stuck in your head. Sometimes it's music. Sometimes it's 18th century impressionist painters. I don't know when we're the impressionist, probably 19th century, right?

Seems like an impressionable century. This morning the tune of the day was Huba Stank, The Reason, which is how we chose to open the show and I saved you from these beautiful vocal chords, largely because I don't know the lyrics to Hoobastank's The Reason, except for basically half of the course. And I'm a pretty good piano player and not a great singer, so let's just stick to the piano, you know? But listener discretion is advised when you listen to this program. Number one, it will occasionally use some language.

Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. Number three, occasionally we'll play some Hoobastank. And you're not ready for it. And maybe you lost your virginity to Hoobastank. Or maybe you bet a lot of money on them to win that Grammy they were nominated for, for the reason. And now you just look back 18 years later, I think that song was 2006, and you're just filled with regret and heart heart heartbreak Is the word I was trying to say HG a toy can't even spell today HG a RT B. R. E a K Let's crack this thing open crack that shit. This is a you're running G Quinn. You're playing who bestank You can't spell how many drinks in our are you?

Zero, it's 3 p.m. not even 3 p.m. it's 250 on Friday afternoons my lunch break if you will and not drinking yet just because G I feel like if you start this early not opposed to day drinking but I'm just going to be out for the count by 7 p.m. you know that's just what happens when you get old I'm trying to crack this with one hand and I'm feeling anxious about it so I'm gonna step away from the mic for a sec to crack that shit. If you don't know the reference crack that shit original line from Nathan for you I think it's maybe season

three something like that one of his ideas is building a man cave in the basement of a clothing retailer so that women drag their significant others to shop. There'll be something for the men to do downstairs with Nathan, watching royalty free football, drinking beers, talking about favorite sexual positions, all the stuff that us guys like to do. Shout out to, of course who are good friends in Pakistan Hyderabad Caracas

Met a meta in intern. I don't know how he labels himself I think we mentioned this on the show last week from from in our office and HR from Pakistan So hello to wherever he is from I didn't catch the spelling. You know, a huge spelling head. Tori Spelling who is that? I don't know. Tori Spelling not Tori Hunter all you twins and angels fans out there. Tori Hunter has two I's which is pretty cool. Tori Spelling is an American actress and author 51 years old her middle name you'll never guess it's Davey. D-A-V-E-Y. Okay, she's famous from Beverly Hills and 90210, which is one of those shows that is a major blind spot for me. I know it's, you know, 90s royalty and it's very well known, but kind of like Melrose Place, Dawson's Creek, which

I think are also 90s things. Just a complete, you could ask, hey, what is this show about? And I would tell you, oh, Beverly Hills, 902 and out. Sounds like Beverly real housewives at Beverly Hills. So it's probably a reality TV show, but I don't think it was. I think it was a teen drama produced by Aaron spelling under his ever. It's all spelllling's who is Aaron Spelling is he Tory Spelling's dad? Spouse's children okay yeah well I I gotta

tell you I was spooked for a second as I opened up this guy Aaron Spelling who lived from 1923 to 2006 so he would have been 70 in the 90s when the show was happening and then I realized that Tory Spe spelling was like 50 right now and I was thinking did they were they banging while the show was going on you know were they husband and wife 60 years apart or whatever the answer is no so all of our fear or fears have been relinquished for the moment for the time being wow you play a you play a little hoop-a-stank at the start, and you're already 10 minutes in, excuse me. So let's jump right into it.

I already mentioned listener discretion advice. I mentioned Pakistan. I'm the host, creator, and chief musical director of this program, a companionist. It's a classic. If you're a music major, if you're a piano major in college and thereafter, it's like you're probably going to have four to five ways of making money, and one of your jobs will 99% be in a companionist. Hard word to say. A company, a company, a companyist. I think that's what it is I always try to add an

extra I in there but I don't think it's necessary you either play for a church very classic you could be an organist that's a good skill to have those Catholic churches are loaded man people go nuts for that they pay their organists well you could like my friends used to play for calisthenics class which don't try to get me explaining to you what calisthenics is no idea it sounds like Pilates or yoga or bar class I don't know I went to a I went to a Taylor Swift themed hot yoga class last Saturday with Rachel.

A fun couples activity, also didn't know it was a Taylor Swift class until I got there, but it's okay, I survived and I feel very loose and limber. And big fitness update, started running this week. Monday did a mile, a Tuesday mile and a half, Thursday two miles, and I biked on Wednesday. So it's not one of those things where it's like, okay, yeah, Monday finally hits and if you're curious, yesterday was the four-week mark since

tearing up some ligaments in my foot. It's not one of those things where like, okay, I ran a mile, feel great, do great. Let's do a mile and a half tomorrow. I was slogging through it. There's pain. You could make the argument, hey, you shouldn't run while there's still any pain. I just feel like for something like this, the foot injury where you're just on your foot, feet all day,

it's not like I'm a pitcher in baseball with a shoulder where the stakes are really high and that baby's got to be coming out there at 95 miles per hour. It's just if I'm not doing further damage to it, which I can't imagine I am, and it's just a pain tolerance thing, then we're gonna get out there. I've been sitting on my ass for too long. I think if it's like a broken bone it's very different, right? It needs to heal, it needs to get into place and stuff like that, but just, you know, muscle tears, they fix themselves on their own. They're a self-sustaining economy, essentially. So, but doing well. I would say, if I wanted to

run, if the Malort 5K was tomorrow, Saturday morning, and of course it's not, we missed it by four weeks, I would be out there. And I haven't run three miles yet. Haven't done that in like a month. But I think if he asked me to run a 5k right now, I could do, I don't know, what's my normal time, like 22? I think I could do it in like half an hour. And I'd be pretty proud of that. Progress, baby.

Speaking of progress, this week on the campaign trail, Trump seems to be going backwards. And has anyone heard from JD Vance? I, dude, I'm loving this. All of the headlines, at least in the media, the news I consume, maybe let's, let's go to Fox News and see what's going on over there right now. But all of the media I've been consuming is just Kamala and Walls. There's no, like, Trump's trying to stay relevant. He had the Twitter thing, was that Monday night with Elon Musk, which I didn't actually tune into. But from all accounts, it was terrible. It sounds like it started really late, and then they just didn't actually tune into But from all accounts it was terrible

It sounds like it started really late and then they just didn't talk about anything interesting and there are a lot of glitches Which is great Trump's having a real bad string of luck with things starting late Of course when he was here in Chicago that event started an hour late DNC in Chicago this week or like it starts in what three days Monday through Thursday We should do a Bean Town podcast live from the perimeter. There's this big security perimeter they have around the United Center, multiple blocks,

that I assume you just can't physically access unless you've got credentials or a ticket. Is it too late to get a ticket to the DNC? Can you just, maybe not Kamala's acceptance speech, but maybe if it was, I don't know, Tuesday, and they're bringing in, I don't know, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, who else? Who are some of our old favorites

who they might bring in to give a speech? I don't know, you could have some of the young guns, the Klobuchar's of the world. J.B. Pritzker, I'm sure, will be there. Brandon Johnson, although he's of the world. J.B. Pritzker I'm sure will be there. Brandon Johnson, although he's not very popular. Blagojevich will not be there. Although I had this great idea came into my head yesterday after one beer and it's a real thing and I asked Rachel about it and she seems on board. Sending Rod Blagojevich an invite to our wedding. Now, it's a little bit of a faux pas, not because he's a criminal,

but because we didn't send him a save the date. So it's going to kind of blindside him and Patty, I'm sure. I could realistically, I don't even need to buy postage. 2934 West Sunnyside Ave, right? It's about a half hour walk from here. Just walk right up to the mailbox, stash it. And that might be good. It might, I mean, I'm probably going to include a handwritten note alongside the invitation

to Blago because I'm going to say like, hey, you got to butter him up a little bit, right? He really likes when you let him know that he was, you know, falsely imprisoned. And I really appreciate the cameo he did for me that my siblings bought like four years ago. Ten minutes of just absolute nonsense but that's not what we're saying in the in the invitation we're saying gee Rod really love you or your neighbors we live right here down in North Center see out running sometimes I don't actually I haven't seen it yet but I know he does so and loved you at this past weekend. He was at two festivals frontlining his,

well, he's not the frontliner, he was just a special guest for like an Elvis or like a rock sort of thing. But he had his own band at the penitentiary in Colorado, the Jailhouse Rockers. And so I saw some, everyone was sending, and I know when people say everyone was doing this or that It's never everyone but I think legitimately three different people

Send me the blago clip of him singing all this this past weekend, which is considering I receive like three non work non immediate family texts a week on average. That's pretty good for me a Bleggo, maybe he could sing a song at the wedding. I don't know, we're not gonna have a live band. I would be okay with him just doing a solo show. Solo acoustic set, Blagojevich singing Elvis on an acoustic guitar. I would pay, I would float him like 100 bucks

if he played for, I don't know, half an hour. I'm, and I, that means a lot coming from me. I'm not the type of person to just willy-nilly throw a hundred bucks around. But that seems worth it. I think it would get the crowd going. So, Blago, if you're listening to this, highly unlikely, but if we don't see you at the DNC protesting, excuse me, we'd love to see you in April for the wedding. The only, I'm on Fox News right now and there's not even, one of their headlines is, new poll shows which vice presidential nominee is favored among voters. Well that's good because we're not voting for them. This other one, WWE great settles NBA goat debate between Jordan and LeBron with two words.

I don't, I didn't click on it, but I'm guessing it's six rings. And then my favorite quote from Trump had a big speech that went off the rails, which I know is just the norm these days. I don't know where it was. I think it was last night. But one of his great sound bites was, and I don't have the exact quote in front of me, but it was essentially, if Kamala is elected, everyone's going to have health care. And it was just, you've got to use that in her campaign

commercials, I think. Pretty quality. So that's this week on the campaign trail. I also want to mention, not going to go deep in here, because we still got a little bit of time, but is officially 126, is that right? 126 days till zebras, there's giraffes, elephants. Elton John now is confirmed to write a Circle of Light sequel, and Can You Feel the Love Tonight is now going to, now, now going to be, there's an X-rated version that he originally wrote in the 90s, because as everyone recalls from Lion King, which is not Mufasa, but it's Simba and Nala, Can You Feel the

Love Tonight, they're banging. I mean, it's total missionary pose. It's not like,asa, but it's Simba and Nala. Can you feel the love tonight? They're banging. I mean, it's total missionary pose. It's not like, oh, what are they doing behind those bushes? It's like, oh, they are getting it on. I think there's some serious lion hip thrusting, justations, gyrations. There's a lot of action going on.

So, Alton John, of course, he's not a prude. He has his original version that him and Tim Rice wrote and then there's also, you know, kind of the Disney-fied version that ended up making the final cut of the motion picture 30 years ago. But it's gonna be raunchy and get ready. So Mufasa, the lion king, comes out in 126 days. Mufasa, find your pride. Rawr. Rawr.

Rawr. Rawr. Rawr. Excuse me. Coughs were not part of that. Excuse me. The bubbly lime water is combined with the coughing and the carbonation is making it awfully difficult to proceed.

But we don't stop here in the Bean Town podcast. We got a motor that just won't quit. Okay, we're going to talk about just a couple pet peeves from this week in a second. And it is going to be a respectful length here. I think last couple weeks we've said, hey, we'll try to keep it short and then it just goes off the rails. Well, the only reason this episode is long, longer than like half an hour is because a hoob is stank otherwise this is a get in get out get what you need what's what's peaving your pets all that good stuff after we thank

our good friends at home pride Oregon so guys here's a little picture this close your eyes you're located in central Oregon it's a little picture this. Close your eyes. You're located in central Oregon. It's a hot new area. Bend, Oregon, one of the fastest growing cities in the country. You're thinking, gee, I'd like to get in on this action while the housing market is still cheap, cheap, cheap, before that bubble bursts, right?

Well, imagine big, big, big expenses if you don't do it right. I'm not talking about your real estate agent. I'm talking about a home inspector. And I got just the guy who's going to help you out. His name is Steve. He also goes by Steve-O, Lil Stevie, and my dad. 541-03-16.

You can also punch it in at Market of Choice. Maybe get a 20% discount. I'm not sure if they updated their system since he left, unclear. You could also punch in at Fred Meyer. I'm sure they've got a great discount program going on. Or just mention Steve yet. Check out for a free tote bag or something. I don't know what they got at Fred Meyer. We don't have those over here. Home Pride Oregon inspection perfection. Of course, a good friends at the Samson Q2U series. We went into the

basically the archeological archives last week to get one of our OG Samson mics, the only one that we still have. We bought two originally, one of them crapped out, the other one still works as evidenced by last week's crystal clear audio quality. This week we're back to one of the new guys. When I say new guys, we bought them like five years ago. But it still sounds great, right?

From Genesis to Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, the entire Pentateuch, and beyond. When God speaks, He uses a Samson. And of course, a big shout out to our good friends at Cuts by Q. It was a banner week, as they call it, for Cuts by Q. Website's not updated yet, but I'm going to get a pic this weekend. Not just any old pic, our engagement photos happening this Sunday, sponsored in part by Cuts by Q, beingtownpodcast.com slash cuts dash by dash Q. For a fresh look that I gave myself

this past week, I'm feeling very, I was going to say fit and trim. That's not the case. I've gained seven pounds in the last month, so that's not great. But if you just looked at, you know, eyebrows and above, you'd never know because it's a nice clean crisp haircut when you need a fresh do some snappy or new just call the experts at cuts by Q okay it's been a hot second since we did a full ad read I know because every time I do a full ad read it takes me a second to remember what I'm supposed to say because in, I think it's the cuts by queue ad read. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is.

There is the official copy I have in my notes is not what I actually say, but I'm so lazy that I've never actually updated the official copy. I just know, oh, when I get here, it says this, but I should say this instead. That's why we can't have any guest hosts for the program. And we never have in our almost about to hit the start of our eighth year in our history, never had a guest host. I'm trying to think, what are the top things that would knock me out and require a guest host?

Appendectomy. Lobotomy, phlebotomy. Really anything waist down I think I can handle. I don't really need my feet. So diabetes is not a concern. Death would probably be the ultimate. You turn it over to a guest host. I think if I die, little succession planning side, you know, staff, all staff meeting here, if I die, I think we should either end the show or turn it over to someone else. We wouldn't

call it a guest host, right? It makes less sense. Guest host implies that it'd be coming back from the dead, which frankly, I've been giving God and the Pentateuch and all that stuff and Samson so many shout-outs over the last 70 years. You'd think that if there was anyone out there, pastorically, historically, whatever, who's going to get a shot to get Lazarus,

I'd feel like I'd be on the shortlist. I gotta be at least ahead of like the Joel Lowstein grifters of the world, right? I'm not grifting anyone. I asked for money once a year. I mean, if you're kind enough to donate, and what do we do? We fund the show with that money, and then I take exact dollar for dollar, and we've always done this, and then I say, you for dollar and we've always done this and then I say you know what we're going to take that we're going to donate to a local charity so you're supporting the show I'm supporting a charity I'm pocketing no money off of this and in fact we all know this by now but I lose money every February when I send out your donor gifts it's not like I've got some generous backer in the shadows who's like, gee Quinn, I really love your spirit and your mission of your show here. We'll fund the tote

bags. No, that's coming right out of my checking account, Bank of America, that I've had for 12 years. So you're welcome. But yeah, get me on the short list for that resurrection. That'd be good. for that resurrection. That'd be good. Okay, we got to get ahead here. I have five quick pet peeves. Not going to do a deep dive on each one of them. Just going to kind of list them off because I have a great trivia question that was inspired by a similar trivia question this past Wednesday night at Burning Bush Brewery, our local trivia joint and spot for $2 off pints on Wednesdays of select beers two every week. This past week it was a High Lemon and Sermon on the Malt. I've been trying to think you know it's High Lemon it's a super sour beer I'm trying to think is that a because all their names are like biblically inspired, right?

It's burning bush brewery. I haven't been able to figure out what High Lemon is. It's like that mad gab game when you say nonsense, but it's supposed to sound like something else. I can't figure out what High Lemon is. Sermon on the malt, pretty easy, but High Lemon, that's a tough one. If you have any ideas, email us,

beanetownpodcasts at yahoo.com. Again, that's beanetown. If you have any ideas, email us, bean-town-podcast-at-yahoo.com. Again, that's bean-town-podcast-at-yahoo.com. While you're emailing us, let us know what's been, excuse me, chappin' your thighs. Chapin' your thighs. Chapin', chapin' doesn't really matter to me lately. What are some of your pet peeves? Because I got a couple that I'm going to kick off here.

My first one is Raygon. Okay, we talked about ray gun Last week if you missed the episode or if you just missed the Olympics She was the Australian female representative for breakdancing at the Paris Olympics. She became an internet sensation for Gosh, it's still kind of going, but basically 48 hours. She was absolutely awful. She's a 36 year old lecturer, like an adjunct faculty kind of thing,

at a college in Sydney in cultural studies. And the reason it's a pet peeve for me is because Ray Gunn had her 15 minutes of fame. It was funny, the memes were glorious, it was awesome. You could tell she wasn't taking herself that seriously. And now she is so thirsty to stay relevant. She's coming out and saying all this stuff because there was a petition started that I tried to sign this morning but I couldn't find it.

Started to the Australian Olympic Committee and the Prime Minister to basically, not to do anything against Reagan, but basically to reevaluate how their athletes are selected because Reagan apparently organized the whole breakdancing selection process. I don't really know how that works. I haven't read into it all that much, but she was highly involved. And of course, now there's the clip out there that's been out there for a while, but she was highly involved. And of course, now there's the clip out there that's been out there for a while, but the person that she beat in the Australia final

to get selected to this, who also, by the way, wasn't amazing, but is clearly in a different league of break dancing than Reagan. So there's all these questions about her legitimacy and if she's making a mockery of the Olympics. And the reason it's a pet peeve is it's past just like, oh yeah, it's funny. Like you had your moment,

you kind of a frauded your way into the Olympics. And now she's talking about like how she, she's so sick of being bullied and she can't go on the internet anymore. It's just like, girl, if you're going to pull this stunt and let's call it what it is, it's a stunt, in front of not just your country, but the entire world, eight billion people or whatever,

you gotta mentally be prepared for whatever comes your way. Whenever you're this big, whether you're the Obamas, or Ice-T, or, I don't know why we're listing black people, but, or Ray-Gun, you gotta be ready. or iced tea or I don't know why we're listing black people but or ray gun you got to be ready you're gonna get praise and you're gonna get haters okay and don't come out here and be like oh why is everyone like hating my performance just you're gaslighting us so ray gun number one pet peeve of the week number two pet peeve of the week stems from a beautiful day yesterday. It was Rachel's 29th birthday.

Happy birthday to my lover, Rachel Ramos. And one of the things she really wanted was an ice cream cake. And so I went to Jule Osco Monday while she was out, and I said, I'm going to get an ice cream cake. Sounds amazing. I like ice cream cakes. So I go to their bakery section where they got the freezer. And I'm looking around.

There's some good options. But I was like, you know, at the end of the day, they got this classic Oreo one. Looks amazing. Like, let's do it. And before, you know, you hear what actually happens, then you're going to come at me and be like, oh, well, you should have known. Juulasco has a bakery section of regular cakes, if you will. They're just sitting out on their end caps in the

open whatever by the rolls and stuff. And then they've got this cool freezer kind of thing with all these other cakes with the traditional plastic top that you click it down and it seals up. So I grab one of these. It's sitting in the freezer from Monday until last night. We get home from birthday dinner, we break it out. Time for some ice cream cake. Nope, it's just chocolate cake with the white frosting all around it and Oreos on top. So Julasco, Big Pet Peeve,

why are we selling regular chocolate cake in the freezer section? This seems like a clear, trying to slip one past you, right? A clear hoodwinking, because if you were selling a regular chocolate cake with Oreos, you could just put that in your regular cake section, right?

But by putting it in your freezer, you seem to be heavily implying you're getting ice cream out of this transaction wrong So jewel very much on my shit list The good the the silver lining is Rachel got what's called a ninja creamy which is like makes frozen desserts essentially what I didn't realize is, and it makes sense when you think about it, but apparently you need to plan, you're supposed to like do everything

24 hours in advance when you're ready to eat it. Like if I wanted to make a banana ice cream, you would put in the, I don't even know what you put in, Greek yogurt and bananas and ice creamify it. But you do that and it takes 24 hours for it to be ready. So I was like, well, you got to plan your desserts now, which there's worse problems to have. But we should have done that for the ice so we can have ice cream cake tonight. But there's nothing in the freezer yet. It's still boxeded up but that's not what we're here to talk about we're here to call it dual osco number three something I could do a whole episode about but this is not a sports exclusive show we're not going to it's

just been on my mind a lot the last 48 to 72 hours plus the Vikings offseason to just give you a little taste of what's happened in the last just the last month right up until the last month things were going great we drafted our quarterback first ever top 10 pick moved up again to get a defensive end the top defensive end in the class all good stuff basically what's happened in the last month, month plus now at this point, our top cornerback draft pick, we got to the third round, Kiwi Jackson, was killed by a drunk driver. Our second best wide receiver, who was caught going like 100 some miles per hour last off

season in St. Paul, right before his rookie season started. So this year going into his second year, Jordan Addison, very good player. He got a DUI in Los Angeles. Our top free agent signing cornerback Shaq Griffin went down on the second day of training camp, and he's still not back. What else has happened? Well, the big news this week.

So last Saturday, Vikings win their first preseason game in five years, thanks largely in part to our rookie quarterback, JJ McCarthy, bawling out. And also, he tore his meniscus, and he's out for the year in that game. So that's nice. And just there's other things too. But it's just been just a fantastic.

Oh, Jordan Addison, the same guy who got the DUI carted off the field with an ankle injury this week. Severity level unknown at this stage. So the last month of being a Vikings fan, just been a whole lot of fun. And it's really deflated my balloon. So it's another pet peeve that I've got for you. Two last ones here. We talked about this a little bit last week, but the bear season three... I mean, we're not even done yet. We just watched the birth episode.

And my only question is, is Jeremy Allen White like still in the show? Or is he kind of just, is this just like a spin-off? They need to retitle this something other than the bear because he's the bear but he's not in the show. Because I think we just had what our second episode in the last three episodes where it's like just one or two characters and I just I don't know. I'm not opposed to like building out your characters, fleshing out your characters, but I don't think that you can go an entire season without fleshing out your main character flushing out your characters, but I don't think that you can go an entire season without flushing out your main character at all. Even your main, like, three characters in the bear out consider me Jeremy Allen White, how do you say your name, Edo I Adaberi, and then Ebon Moss-Bakarak, I think is how you

say his name, like Richie, Sally, what's her name, the female lead, and then Carmy. Nothing has happened for them this year, this season. And yeah, it's interesting to learn about Tina. Yeah, it was nice to get the Jon Bernthal flashback. Yeah, we get a little bit more excuse me Janet Leigh's daughter I was gonna say Hoda Kotb but that's not right. Jamie Lee Curtis. Way too much of what is it Maddie Matheson the Fack guy not

fat Fack this is his last name and it's just it's like what are we doing here? Not only is nothing happening this season, but we're focusing on all these characters that I just really don't care that much about. It made me long for, I think there's episode one, when they go to Oliver Platt's nephew's birthday or something like that. And it's Jeremy Allen way and I think

Ebon Moss back rack and they act they're like cooking catering at this party and they accidentally drug all the kids Like that's the type of episode I I need more of now that they got this fine dining and all the plates are like Weird things I would never eat. I just not that interested anymore. And then finally, Duolingo weird shit. I've been, so, yes, that's the pet peeve. Duolingo's weird shit. I've been on my Duolingo streak every day this year. It's day like 2.30 of the year, something like that. And just in the last three days,

I got into the preterite tense. Okay, so this is basically saying that something, talking about in action in the past that happened in a very specific day, there's two past tenses, I believe, in Spanish, and I'm on the first one right now, which is preterite. So it's like yesterday, I spoke Spanish. That's an example of that. Ayer, hablé, I think is how it is. Ayer hablé mucho espanol. I think that's what it is.

Still learning my side street on Duolingo. When they're teaching you new verb tenses, they don't give you a handy chart where you can see all the verb ending and stuff. They just give you examples, and you have to discern for yourself. And I thought, OK, that's ridiculous. Maybe it's just not in the lesson and there's another resource on Duolingo I can go find

through the app to like find these verb endings. Nope, you got to go Google it yourself. Why is Duolingo not give you like verb conjugation charts? That's such, I mean, I don't want to like, I don't know how else to learn it other than just like memorizing specific instances which seems like a very irresponsible way to approach that. But learning predator tense, that's not the problem. Two or three days ago they started introducing more animals. I've learned, you know, horse which I already knew, but pig, cow, lavaca. What was pig? It's something like Cerdo, something like that. But

they've been doing all sorts of weird shit, especially today. It really started yesterday a little bit too. I've been sending screenshots to my sisters-in-law because we also, we all do Duolingo, Rachel, and the rest of them, whatever. Here's just some of the English translations that I've been learning recently. So this, you, if you, when you listen to these, if you can think of, oh yeah, this, here's an instance when you go visit Mexico City that it's going to be really useful to know this. Just let me know because I'm missing it so far.

The horse cleaned the bathroom last Monday. Okay. We have the cow cleaned the dog's ears. La vaca limpio las orejas del perro. Awesome. The horses learned German. Los caballos aprendieron aleman. And one more for you. I said this sounds like the start of a horror movie. The Owls Learned English a long time ago. Sounds like something that you'd get in the prologue of Guardians of Gohul, classic movie. Zack Snyder's Guardians of Gohul. So there's some pet peeves I got for you. Email us, Bean Town Podcast, yahoo.com. Let us know, what are your pet peeves lately?

Let's finish this up with our trivia question. So I'll clue you in. So there's actually going to be three questions, which you're lucky. The first one was actually what the trivia question was on Wednesday night. And then I wanted to expand that to a bigger version of that question. And then I thought, well, if we're going to do it one way, we can do it another way. And you'll see what I mean in a second here. So three questions. First is the smallest, presumably the easiest one. I think by far the easiest one.

The question was, you can drive from Colorado to Wisconsin by passing through only two other states. Name the states. Okay. If you want a lot of time to think through it, which I get it, I mean, it took me probably I was two drinks in. So it took me like, I think I wrote down an answer about five to 10 seconds in.

I was like, oh yeah, that's definitely it. Seems obvious. And then I had a lot of second thoughts as I was trying to figure out where South Dakota comes into play. Because I was like, well, I know South Dakota borders Minnesota, obviously borders Wisconsin. So does South Dakota share a border with Colorado? South Dakota share a border with Colorado. And that's what I was going back and forth on.

And eventually I was like, I'm pretty sure it doesn't. I can't envision it for sure. But the answer that I came up with first, which was right, I was like, there's no way it's not this. Because I know that both of these states are in play. So I was like, okay, Wisconsin borders Iowa, not for a long time, but southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa, clearly a border. And then Iowa obviously borders Nebraska. That's just basic sense, common sense. And I know that Nebraska borders Colorado because that's why Nebraska's got that cool little indent out west in the sand dunes because it

borders Colorado. It's a 90 degree angle I believe. So yes there you go the answer is to get from Colorado to Wisconsin you can drive through two states Nebraska and Iowa. So I thought, okay, let's expand that out. This was the official Bean Tom podcast trivia question of the week here. And it's one of those, you're probably just going to have to pause if you really want to go through this. And I'll give you both questions at the same time because I came up with this one, I was

like, oh, well, we could do it the other diagonal too, and that would be fun as well. So the original question was, what are the, what is the fewest number of states, and bonus points if you name the states, that it takes to drive from Maine to California? So no cheating and going through like Ontario and stuff, you have to stay in the US the whole time.

But fewest number of states and I will also mention I didn't do a ton of math checking here this was just me sitting down and going through it a couple different ways and I'm pretty sure I have it right but hey if I give the answer and you're like oh this is definitely not right email us and let us know and we'll apologize in the next episode. And then the bonus question just the other diagonal. Washington state to Florida. Fewest states, fewest number of states to get from point A to point B. I believe in this second one, so the northwest to southeast corners, I believe there are

two, oh no I was gonna say there's two ways to do it at this number. Oh yeah, there are, and it's just a minor fluctuation at one edge of it. But, okay, so California to Maine and Washington State to Florida. Fewest number of states. And if you need a hint, it's fewer states going from Washington to Florida than it is from Maine to California. I'll say this, if you want more time, go ahead and hit that pause button, because when we come back, we're gonna just walk through it. So, pause the opportunity if you want to. Okay, so here it is.

We'll start with a longer one. This is from Maine to California. Here's what I came up with. Again, feel free to call us out if we're wrong. And if there are variations, you can call us out too, but, or you can just like, if there are different ways to come up with this number, depending on the states you go through. I don't think there are for this one, but maybe we'll see. So I came up with 12 as my answer, not including Maine and California. You go from Maine to New Hampshire. It's your only option.

Then Massachusetts, which is one of two options. And then to New York, down into Pennsylvania, just for a sliver. I'm just out by Erie. And then you cross over into Ohio. And then you cross over into Ohio. And now things, I think things start to clear up a little bit here. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, pretty clean through the Midwest. And then once you're in Nebraska, you go to Wyoming, which is the western border of Nebraska is Wyoming, and then Wyoming borders Utah. Utah borders Nevada, Nevada, California. So that's what I came up with 12 states and if you're going from Washington state to Florida

there's a slight variation here but I believe the answer is six and the answer is Florida too and I I think if you counted diagonals at the four corners, you might be able to get to six as well, but that felt like kind of cheap. Do what, does Utah and New Mexico or Arizona and Colorado technically touch each other? I don't know how that stuff works. Not getting into that. So to get from Washington state to Florida six, I have Idaho out of Washington into Wyoming,

into Nebraska, into Missouri, and then just barely touches Tennessee across the Mississippi there. And then once you hit Tennessee, you can do either Alabama or Georgia, because both border Florida. So six was what I came up with. There's your Bean Tom Podcast trivia questions of the week. If I'm wrong, they'll be really embarrassing

Email us. Let us know. What are your pet peeves? And how'd you do on trivia this week? Thanks so much for listening As promised I'm gonna end it there. I got I got nothing else. I got got to get back to work So my name is Quinn David furnace. This is my show Quinn David furnace presents the Bean Tom podcast and The embarrassing thing here is that I don't have the music queued up. Oh here we go. Everyone stay safe, stay sane, enjoy that DNC, maybe you'll see us there and I'll check in on you next time. Bye! so so uh so

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