Beantown Podcast - Post-Election Degrief (11082024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: November 8, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE with some blast from the past names, including Scaramucci, Blagojevich, the bad guy from Raiders of the Lost Ark, and much more

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, November 8th, 2024. What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn. I am the chief creator, chief chief creator you could really only have one creator unless you are like over the names of those Roman twins Romulus and Remus they both claimed to create Rome after sucking from the wolf tit there's also castor and Pollux I don't really know what their deal was a lot of brothers throughout history just broadly speaking Kane and Abel, Jacob and Esau, Ray and Emmett Stussy from Fargo season three, both portrayed by Golden Globe winner Ewan McGregor. I'm also the chief political correspondent.

This isn't going to be a whole long doom and gloom episode. I mean, we've had four days to three days to grieve now. Grieve or celebrate or somewhere in between. Wherever you fall. Obviously, we got to put a wrap on this week on the campaign trail. A great segment we had here in season seven. Thanks all for following along, but I will warn you that it's going to be a politically charged. I always love when something is charged. It's going to be a politically charged. I always love when something is charged. It's going to be, we're going to talk politics, not traditional though. We're going to be looking back to 2016 through 2020 because there's a lot of

terrible things from my perspective that are about to happen, but we got to remember the fun times too. And that's what we're going to try to do. Today we're going to do a callback to some names, some names that feel like they were from your childhood, but it was actually only four to six, some, I guess, four to eight years ago. So walk down memory lane is what we'll be doing. 6.25 PM here on a Friday night. I'm double fisting. I am finishing off a on a Friday night. I'm double fisting. I'm finishing off a bottle of a Red Blend or Cabernet Sauvignon. I can't remember one of those two. Doesn't matter. Nothing matters. Nothing really matters nothing really matters to me anywhere the wind knows that's Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen in case you hadn't heard that one before came out a couple years back some of you might know it.

Email is bintownpodcastyahoo.com. What are your favorite Under the Radar Queen songs? I had a great box set of Queen's greatest hits. I think it was two CDs, so probably 25 tracks, something like that. I'm trying to think. One of the ones that's really helped me out in my Duolingo streak this year, which

is still intact, where it's day like 308, 309, something like that for the year, getting close to 365, Las Palabras de Amor, Let Me Hear the Words of Love by Queen. What a great song. And that's helped me get through some Duolingo lessons here. Palabra, meaning word. What a fun word for word, man. The Spanish weren't messing around when they had that. Other great Queen songs.

Show Must Go On. It's a great one. There's a good Elton John version of that with Queen, where he's singing it with the band, Brian May and all the other guys. Ray and Emmett Stussy. Email us, bean-town-podcast-at-yahoo.com. Again, this is Bean-Town. Bean-podcast-at-yahoo.com. Let us know what your favorite Under the Radar Queen songs are, okay?

Don't email me, we will rock you. I don't want Bohemian Rhapsody. I certainly don't want crazy little thing called love, right? We've all heard these hits. You know what I don't think I've ever done? This is kind of embarrassing to me. I don't think I've ever just like opened up on YouTube and listened to a full Queen album. It's always been the greatest hits and then like the B-tier hits such as Las Palabras, De Amor. But certainly, Queen's got, you know, hey, it's like your second to last track on a 10-song album. You just kind of threw it in. It's not that great.

I don't even know how many albums Queen had in their heyday. I'm not that plugged into their discography to be perfectly transparent. I'm sure there are those out there listening to Artho, so I apologize. I just, Queen is not one where I know a ton about the albums. Really everything I learned was from Bohemian Rhapsody, which did that actually... Oh man, film buffs unite here. Did that actually win Best Film Editing? Because it got nominated and it was like a joke, right? unite here. Did that actually win best film editing? Because it got nominated. It was like a joke, right? And I think it actually won. And it was just, this was what five years ago or so when it

came out. And it was just one of the most insane things. Like it was terrible film editing. I didn't even mention what we were double fisting with. So we got a little cabernet what we were double fisting with. So we got a little cabernet, cabaret, great film musical that I've never seen. Don't know what it's about. It's a cabaret show, I guess. And then, I'm laughing. It's a diet Coke and Scotch, a classic drink out of my bend Oregon kind of thick plastic cup. I was laughing. I don't remember the context, but look, every, every laugh we can get this week I think we got to take and it's look as a secondhand laugh. It's not that exciting. So I apologize. But Rachel and I were watching TV. I think this was yesterday and somehow it, I don't know, we were just like playing around with maple being silly and

Somehow like SNL came up in some form or fashion and I started doing the entire introduction but not from like this season From like 15 years ago, so I'd had the old-school announcer. I don't remember the guy's name Don Pardo. Is that his name? P a r D o I was just like I think I used some of the current cast members, I was like, I think Michael Che, but I was doing the impression, that's why it was funny. And I did the, you know, at the end of the cold open live from New York, it's Saturday night, I did like the intro sax on. I'm not going to go through,. It had to be there. But then I was like, is Michael J. But then the creative part is you get to the end. And I think I actually did it backwards. I did

the guest, the host first, and then I did the musical guest. It's supposed to be the other way around. But if you're, I don't know what exactly year this dates my SNL intro to that I just it's it was spurred on from oh it was a it was a Wheel of Fortune puzzle we were watching wheel like 730 last night I was halfway down a last night's Diet Coke and Scotch and so it's feeling a little frisky, like Don Pardo. And the solution to the puzzle was Live from New York at Saturday night. And that just, whole thing started because of that. But to cap this thought, the musical guest, it's not even that funny of a combination. It's just funny in my head. The musical guest I chose was Hanson. Which I guess tracks because we talked about Hanson for like three minutes

last week and the dream I had last, it wasn't even a dream. I just woke up at 4 a.m. and started reading about Hanson. And that's when we talked about Tinted Windows which was the band that Taylor Hanson had with the drummer from Cheap Trick and the guy from Fountains of Wayne and the other guy from Smashing Pumpkins, James E. High I think his name is. So I don't know I guess I'm just on a Hanson kick right now, although I haven't listened to a Hanson song in months. So the musical guest was Hanson and the host was Renee Zellweger, who I don't think was in Cabaret but seems like something she would have been in, right? I guess she was in Chicago.

The name on everybody's list is gonna be Bean Town. So yeah, that was my SNL introduction. Yeah, I had to be there. Listen to discussion is advised when you're listening to the Bean Town podcast. Number one will occasionally use some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. Thank you to our good friends in Pakistan for making us... I know I waffled last week.

I wasn't sure if it was 112th or 114th. Clearly 112th. It rolls off the tongue so much better. Also, it's what they emailed me. So it came from an official state email address. You know what was crazy? Well, thank you, Karachi Hyderabad, Kyber Pass for MAKES the 112th ranked comedy

podcast in the state of Pakistan. What was crazy is I work in human resources. I don't talk about my employment all that frequently, probably for good reason. No one wants to hear about human resources, but I will tell you this happened about, I don't know, what was this a month ago, a little bit less than a month ago. Basically the situation is, you know, when you hire someone to work for your organization, to fill out an I-9, it's a US form where you have to bring common person, you have to show, there's three columns of acceptable documents.

And you can bring one thing from column A, or you can bring one thing from column B and one thing from column C. Or you can bring all three just for overkill, but you only have to have one or the other. So an example of column A is like your passport column, because that's got, it's already been vetted and verified, if you will. B is like a driver's license, a photo ID, and then C is basically like a social security card birth certificate. So really getting your passport is the golden ticket here

for all you wonka heads out there. Because it's got the best of both worlds for all you Hannah Montana fans out there. The situation was, you know, God, how did we get to this story? What happened here that, shoot, and I can't even pause and go back that's really embarrassing that's tough that's a tough beat what happened was the guy we hired was living in Portugal but he

needed to be in person so yada yada yada this guy flew all the way from Portugal to Chicago to fill out some paperwork and then flew back to Portugal to work and he's working there remotely right now paperwork and then flew back to Portugal to work and he's working there remotely right now. And I had such a funny thing that was attached to that and I couldn't even remember what it was, which is just shocking. I'm not even that. This is my second glass of wine that I've had like three sips of. That's just how it's going this week. I should have known on Tuesday morning, why the heck did I bring up the human resources story? Tough. Tough beat. I got nothing. I'm thinking about everything that happened with it. He flew from Portugal to Chicago. He did it. He flew back. Everything

went well. We're talking about I-9. We were talking about Renee Zellweger in Chicago and Pakistan before that, but I got nothing. There was a joke in there somewhere and I completely botched it. Tough. And then I was going to go, I was going to zig when others were zagging and I just had a talking point that I wanted to go on here and completely botched that as well. I don't know, guys. Oh, here's what I was going to say.

It's not funny. But I should have known the week was going to be a rough start when Rachel and I were granted false hope Monday night watching Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs win in overtime. One of the craziest fantasy football like core memories, excuse me, this is just about my 20th year playing. So I have a lot of memories over the years. I think one of my favorites comes from, I mean, recency bias, but last year beating, winning the Super Bowl, beating my dad by one point in the championship game when

my dad by one point in the championship game when I had no idea what was happening because we had to leave our hotel in Alabama, Sylacauga, the red roof in, and get on a shuttle to a friend of the show, John Paul Blandowski's wedding and completely lost internet service like as the noon games were ending. That was the craziest thing that goes unheralded, unnoticed, about that championship game between my dad and I, not that this matters that much to anyone else, but every single player on our teams played in the noon window, which is just statistically almost impossible. And so you just had a full barrage of points.

Like, you never hear about that. You never see every single player, even from one team, playing in the same window, meaning Thursday night or Sunday at noon, Sunday at three, Sunday night. Now greater chances in the last week of the season because there's only three windows, but still crazy. But I won by one point and when I had to leave the Red Roof in, you know, I'm sitting there like a full bottle of wine in a suit. No idea what's happening. Just shocking stuff, man. But it's past Monday night. Bucks and Chiefs. Rachel has Patrick Mahomes. And she's playing against Xavier Worthy, a wide receiver, and Rashad White, I think, running back for the Bucks.

And I had Kareem Hunt. And you both, you know, we both need X amount of points to win and hope the other guy doesn't score points. Yada yada yada. We weren't going to win. We were both losing as the game ended in regulation. But lucky for us, it went to overtime and unbelievably Chiefs get the ball first, you know, drive down the field, score a touchdown. Rachel and I both got enough points on that drive to win our respective games. So you're getting there. It's the day before election day.

It's like 11 o'clock at night when the game finally ends. You're feeling, you're like, hey, this could be something. This could turn into something spectacular. Well, next thing I know, it's 5 AM. It's raining outside. I'm taking Maple outside for a walk, and then I go stand in line to vote outside of a church. And I even voted, I'll admit it, I'll come out on the record. I voted for Kamala and Waltz and I think Illinois was one of what, like six, seven states that they won.

That's slightly dramatic, but I guess just to cap off this week on the campaign drill, can Quinn accurately guess the states that went blue this election? I think it was, I think Maine did, which I think was a toss-up, but Maine, and I'm not claiming to know this exactly, this is just top of my head, Maine, New Hampshire, play along at home. Everything in New England. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia. That's 10.

And then as we go west, there's not a lot more. Like a shockingly low amount of states. Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado, and then it's just the the west coast, right? Oregon Washington was that like 12 states something like that just a shocking it was 12 or 17 so I was counting on one hand a shocking result I don't even have any bean town podcasts expert analysis going on here it just it is what it is and I don't even look every it's been multiple days by the time you listen into it it's either the weekend or next week. You know you've you've you've read all the articles what went wrong, what happened, repeated 2016, all

that fun stuff, polls were wrong. My only parting thought here is what the heck happened in Iowa? Because that was the big news story on what Saturday morning, Sunday morning, the the lady from Des Moines, the pollster, who is shockingly accurate, one of, if not the most accurate, pollsters in the United States. She's only messed up one presidential election in the last 30 years, something of that magnitude. She predicted Como was going to win by what, three or four points in Iowa?

And I'll be completely honest with you, I was a total sucker for that. I was like, oh man, if Iowa is going for that, this could be a landslide victory for the Blues. And it was the, I mean, she lost by like 10 points in Iowa, something like that. It wasn't close at all. Um, I have no idea. It doesn't make any sense to me. So that happened Tuesday sucked. I think I'm happier that we found out, you know, like Tuesday night, Wednesday

morning at like 2 AM that it was for sure happening then I mean think of it the other way if you were a huge Trump supporter and Last time around you had to wait Till Saturday was a Saturday after Election Day when Biden was declared winner like that was probably agonizing so That's an official rap on this week on the campaign trail, which seems weird to wrap because Trump never stops campaigning. My question is, this is kind of interesting, he can't, as of right now, he can't run again. Now I think it's what

the 22nd amendment, something like that, saying presidents are limited to two terms. I don't think Trump is gonna go after that, but I feel like if he wanted to round up the political will now that he's got the Senate, the Supreme Court, the House isn't confirmed yet, but by all accounts it seems like that's gonna happen too. Like if he really wanted to become king, it seems like he could probably pretty easily, right? I don't really know how repealing amendments works, but it feels like at this point in time, truth and laws, they don't really matter. It's like if you are in power and

you got more military and brass and guns and force, then it doesn't really matter. That's kind of the trajectory we were going on here with the 47th president of the United States. And I think the thing I'm most sad about is just Grover Cleveland now, losing his legendary status as the only non-consecutive president. It's just a bummer, right?

I don't want to see Cleveland and Trump next to each other. I love when that big old round guy with a mustache kind of looks like the walrus from Alice in Wonderland. I love when he had that little piece of history all to himself, Governor Cleveland, as my sister would call him. And then before we do anything else we'll keep this relatively short and sweet. We've got a couple of things in the second half cooking but nothing that extensive. There's some slight

depression on this episode in case you couldn't tell. Also just I mean long week for obvious reasons but long work week as well. A lot of stuff going on. People getting hired from Portugal. Other people who don't have work authorization trying to start just headaches all around. Really hard to get a refill on your pet's prescriptions. Has anyone else ever had a hard time? Literally, you know, poor Maple's got anxiety.

She's got multiple prescriptions for it. I've got the bottles from the vet who we go to. They wrote us a prescription. They filled it the first time. But we asked them when we were there, like a month ago, for her initial exam. It was like, OK, so when we need to refill this, what do we do? And they said, oh, just call the pharmacy.

Like, you got the numbers here. Just hand it to them, and they'll, you got it. So we love two blocks literally a quarter mile from a Walgreens. It's perfect. And look, this whole thing could have been way worse. But it's just a total pain in the ass. Because the very first time when we adopted her from Paws, an adoption shelter here in Chicago, it was such total pain in the ass. Because the very first time when we adopted her from PAWS,

an adoption shelter here in Chicago, it was such a pain in the ass. They wouldn't refill that one either. He had to go to the vet first. Even though we had the prescription, had all the refills on, I was like, I always just assumed if you had a prescription and your bottle said there's 10 refills left,

you could just call a pharmacy and get the refill, because I'm going to pay you. just call a pharmacy and get the refill because I'm going to pay you. I'm going to give you the money. That wasn't the case. We had to wait for the vet and we had to move up our vet appointment because she was running out of anxiety medication.

So that was stressful. I needed some anxiety medication just for that. And then what happened, I literally called the pharmacy yesterday and of course it's a pharmacy. So these poor guys, my mother-in-law, future mother-in-law is a pharmacist. And then what happened, I literally called the pharmacy yesterday. And of course, it's a pharmacy. So these poor guys, my mother-in-law, future mother-in-law, is a pharmacist. So you've got to wait on hold for this stuff. And they're like, oh, no, we can't do that.

The vet has to call it. And it's like, I literally got the prescription here. I got the bottle. I got the numbers. There's refills. Like, what do you need? They're going to tell you the exact same thing. And so I got to call the vet and then leave a message and then wait all day and then they finally call back and thankfully they are on top of it. There were no

more issues after that but it was like yeah I just literally want this prescription to be picked up at the pharmacy because poor Maple is about to freak out if she doesn't get her anxiety medication. And also throwing a little bit for dad here because he's freaking out too. But as someone who's relatively healthy, thank God, I haven't had a lot of prescription experience as an adult, which is great. I'm so happy that I haven't. But if it's this hard for your pet how hard is it gonna be when you know I get they put me in an iron lung I got polio now that RFK is in charge of public health I'm gonna get the measles who knows what's gonna happen to me I'm certainly gonna need prescriptions good thing I have my good RX card that the vet sent me hopefully it works for human prescriptions too.

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You already mentioned Cain and Abel. Jacob and Esau. Jesus and James. Jesus had like six brothers. Dude, Mary was, they did not have a lot of contraception back then. Here's the thing, did Mary and Joseph ever get married? Or were they always just doing the domestic partnership kind

of thing? Because I mean, for like HR benefits and tax purposes, doesn't really matter to me. But in the eyes of the state, certainly it matters. I still don't remember why I introduced the whole HR story, you know, 20 minutes ago with the guy in Portugal. There was a good joke there and I just completely forgot it. I'm going to be so mad when I listen back to this, if I do listen back to. I'm out like a one-third of the time I listen back to the show, two thirds of the time I don't. Depends on how bored I get. It's like when I've

exhausted all, this is probably how everyone else feels, when you've exhausted all other entertainment options, you have read a book, listened to all the other podcasts you follow, you've watched, you've been watching an entire season of Stranger Things, season five coming out shortly. By shortly I mean at least you know in the next five years I would say. And then you've what you've stared outside and yearned once you've done all those things that's kind of when you turn to the Bean Town podcast and it's like well this kind of sucks it's been almost eight years I don't know how it's still going the host clearly has just given up but I at least I

can listen to this at two times speed and so it will only be 20 minutes not 40 minutes that's kind of what you have to look forward to and I also kind of like the trivia games okay I'll be honest there again that was you speaking not me I'm glad of like the trivia games, okay? I'll be honest there. Again, that was you speaking, not me. I'm glad you like the trivia games. When God speaks, he uses a Samson to cap that thought. And then of course, our good friends, coming to you live from a Samson Q2U series has got Crisp. Wait, we just did that. That's embarrassing. Cuts by Q. How about that?

When you need a fresh do something snappy or new, call the experts at Cuts by Q. My hair is officially entered medium status and that's when I start to get antsy and T-S-Y. I'm just like, what if I just cut it all down? Now granted I haven't done a gigantic shave down in like six seven years something like that but I'm tempted to. I'm not feeling the itch yet but literally I sometimes it's quite you're quicker to feel the itch with my Plaxoriasis and I need some Skyrizzy. Nothing is everything see how Abby can help you save. That's what they say at the end of those Skyrizzy commercials. It's not plaque psoriasis,

it's just old-fashioned psoriasis. And I've had it since I was a kid. Just it is what it is. But Rachel found a nice long gray hair on me today, so I don't know if it was a mutant or if it was more of a sign of things to come but I'm ready for gray I know this sounds like defeatist to say but as far as like oh I I miss being young and hip and being able to do stuff on the weekends dude I just got a dog who can't be left alone for five minutes without waking up the entire neighborhood. So even though I don't have kids yet, I am getting, I'm working on my dad bod and I pretty much live at home exclusively full time.

So although I'm approaching 30 and my mindset is more like, yeah, let's mid 40s, here we go. And again, probably for some of you that sounds silly to say, but that's where I'm at mentally right now. It just, it is what it is. At least I still have a full head of hair. I told Rachel I'm gonna try to, I might have to use some just for men, but try to keep my color before the wedding and then I suppose we just let it go let it go let it go I've watched the excuse me Bean Tom podcast YouTube clip of the day from like eight years ago a decade ago whenever this was John Travolta introducing a dinner excuse Excuse me. Now I can't say it. That's embarrassing for me to beat up box it podcasts going viral. Oh shoot. Idina Menzel, I think is her name, but he pronounces it.

It's like Idina Tantzil. Watch that clip like six times this week. Sometimes you just need to pick me up in the form of John Travolta. When you need a fresh do, something snappier new, call the experts at cuts. Bye, Q. I've got to say, I'm doing this recording from our office, which is our second bedroom.

And because it's so dark out, I got the overhead light on, so I can very clearly see my reflection in the window here. I'm getting distracted by all this beauty. I'm like the queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all? Host of the Beantown Podcast, Queen David Furness. I want to briefly mention, and I got a tiptoe around this, as Queen David Furness. I want to briefly mention, and I got a tiptoe around this, in fact, let's not even like get close to it. You know, imagine you were, imagine you wanted to go swimming and you lived in Chicago. You could go to Lake Michigan or you could drive two hours to Rock Cut State Park in Rockford, Illinois and you could swim in Lake Rock Cut or whatever it is.

Why do they call it Rock Cut? I don't know. It's hard to cut rock. That's basically what I'm doing here. I'm avoiding Lake Michigan, which this whole thing up till now makes zero sense to you. Basically, I was part of something this week that required an NDA.

Not like weird legal nefarious reasons, but just something that I, for fear of being sued, because it would be really stupid to be sued over like a hundred and some dollars. Basically, I was on a Zoom call earlier this week, and all I will say is that Mufasa was mentioned kind of out of the blue towards the end when I was like, I really had to pee. So you're kind of doing that thing where you're like Moving your lower body off camera and just like trying to smile and look nice essentially a work call. Let's let's call it it wasn't that but essentially a work zoom call and

Mufasa was mentioned and I just about lost my my shit It was basically like are you going to see this movie? and I was like yeah, are you going to see this movie? And I was like, yeah, I'm going to be there like, well, maybe now with a dog, who knows? But December 20th, only in theaters. I will be there. I will be wearing the cowardly lion costume, the original from Wizard of Oz, 1939, something like that. If I were king of the forest. A lot of good music on today's show.

We had cabaret, we had other songs. We had Frozen. A del tazi. No, I mean, I'm probably not gonna see Mufufasa, but I will find my pride only in theaters. December 20th, this year. I think that's the right date. That's kind of what I'm going with, because I think I looked it up in like June, and I think that was the right date, and we haven't really looked it up since. Not sure if they changed it. Speaking of Disney and changes, I saw a list of all the current, this is basically, this goes back like two, three years.

This is like, here are all the Star Wars films, not TV series, literally just films that are either either like they were announced at Disney Con or whatever or they've like news reports have come out that it's happening and this was an absurdly long list. I don't have it in front of me but basically it's like Ryan Johnson has a trilogy he wants to do but it's waiting till after Knives Out. Donald Glover and his brother Stephen are writing a Lando movie. It was supposed to be a TV series from the solo films, but now it's a movie. There's a movie that is like a sequel to, well let's put it this way, there is one called

Mandalorian and the man, Grogu and the Mandalorian I think. And it's a film sequel to The Mandalorian TV show. But then there's also a Star Wars film that wraps up The Mandalorian and the Book of Boba Fett. So don't ask me what the difference is between those two things I just mentioned. I have no clue. There is a film that wraps up Andor, which is the one with the prequel, the Rogue One, that

had that actor, Diego Luna, in it and the guy from the Bear, which season two is still to happen. Season one also had Andy Serkis. That was a great episode. The prison episode was fantastic. Easily the best Star Wars show, in my opinion, that they've made. And season two is still to come out.

I think it's next year. Because season one must have been 23 23, must have been last year. Maybe 22. It's been a while. There's another like sequel trilogy that's supposed to be episode 10, 11, and 12. Not the Rian Johnson ones, completely different. There's a Daisy Ridley film that's supposed to take place, you know, with her character coming back. Although now she's got Graves' disease, is that what it's called? I don't even know what it is, but she seems messed up.

No shade to Daisy, just her body is rebelling against her, just like the rebel forces did against Darth Vader. And then there's a Jedi prequel film set 25,000 years before the events of episode one. I'm not bullshitting you at all. These are all things that were like on this list and I haven't done my research to see like what's current what's not but these are all things that could happen. There was a new airbud installment airbud you, you know, goes to the Jedi Temple. So I don't even know what sport it is, but I guess being a Jedi is a sport. So Star Wars will be on that we got the next 40 years of projects here. That was Mufasa. Okay, my very last thing here, and I got a trivia question to wrap us.

Okay, my very last thing here, and I got a trivia question to wrap us. I wanted to mention, oh, I had this open on my phone, and then I closed it, and that was embarrassing. So, this is, I had this idea in my head. This is going back to the politics stuff. We'll keep this brief, we'll keep it light, because I just want to wrap it up soon here at 7 p.m., and I also need to make supper. BLTs and cheese curds, if you're curious, and some ghost pepper chips, courtesy

of Trader Joe's. So I was thinking here, no one that is in my circle. And I was going to say very few people. But I literally think half of the people who are like, oh yeah, Kamala, here we go, let's go blue, first one in president, were secretly under the table being like, oh yeah, I'm not actually voting for like a black woman, that's crazy. Let's just get Trump back in here.

I think a lot of people were lying, if I can be frank with you. And there's a lot of the focus the last couple days with Trump coming back in two months here has been on policy and it's gonna be a shit show I think. And I think it's gonna be very bad for my own personal finances but it is what it is we'll find out. But let's try to focus on the positive things. It's not even the positive things. Just think about all the names from the last four years of the Biden administration you can think of.

And when I say names, I mean like people involved with the running of the administration, cabinet leaders, press secretaries, campaign managers, all that stuff. And you're probably thinking, oh, I can think of like three to five people, right? Maybe some cabinet heads. The black lady is his press correspondent,

whatever they're called, speaker of the press. I don't even know what her name is, though. I see her frequently on the news. I have no clue what her name is though. I see her frequently on the news. I have no clue what her name is. This is the exact opposite of the first Trump administration, right? So what I'm going to do now, I don't expect this to be like a happy thing, but I think I always think it's fun when you like hear these names. You're like, oh gosh, I haven't heard like Obi-Wan in Star Wars.

I haven't heard that name. Now there's gosh, I haven't heard like Obi-Wan in Star Wars. I haven't heard that name. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. It's kind of just, I don't know, nostalgia is a big thing for me. And I'm not yearning for 2016 through 2020 by any means, but here's some names. From, there's the final sip of wine. We're just now moving into the diet Coke and Scott. Here's some names. This is not an exhaustive list. This is from a CNN article. It lists 24 people and I will sprinkle in some additional ones if I can think of them. Because I had some ones off the top I had but then I was like I don't want to get 37 minutes into this and a full glass of wine in, and then I just forget.

And then it's a total just sucks. So I relied on this article from CNN that I found. Here are some classic names from the first Trump administration. I'm not even going to really dive deep. I'm just going to kind of read a list, and we can all decide whether we love these people, hate these people,

whether or not they're going to make a comeback. We'll see. So we're starting off basic. Mike Pence, Vice President, obviously. He seems pretty over Trump, so I don't think we're getting a comeback. Here is one. This was Trump's second Attorney General. This was one that I wasn't, and I don't even know that much about this guy, but the name was like, oh yeah, this was a trivia question one time. Bill Barr. Not Bill Burr, who's hosting SNL tomorrow night. This is Bill Barr.

And that's, I don't even really know what that guy looks like. Because when I think of Bill Barr, I think of, who's the guy, there's two people I'm thinking of. One is the Breitbart guy and one is the, oh man, the guy who just got out of jail. Are they the same person? Well, what does Bill Barr look like? Because I don't think I'm thinking of, let's just see.

This is great television here. This was Trump's second attorney general. Oh, Bill. OK, Bill Barr is who I was thinking of. So I'm not as dumb as I thought I was. Who is the other guy? Steve Bannon. That's who it was. He might be on the list here, too

I don't know Bill Barr got the little round glasses big big guy older guy He's back maybe his Secretary of Defense Oh his first secretary secretary of defense because of course Trump had like triples of everything like Bob Odenkirk and the I Think you should leave sketch. James Mattis. I don't know what that guy looks like, but he was the Secretary of Defense. Speaking of which, remember H.R. McMaster? I think he might be on this list, too.

What was the name of the guy who, like, when he did he go to prison, the Bush administration? His name was Bobby, Bobby something. He got in trouble for something. Bush general, don't get me starting on Condoleezza Rice. Bobby. Was that his name? No it wasn't. What if we just put in, because there was someone, you guys remember who I'm talking about? It was like an Iraq war guy, Bush general Iraq. That's not going to work. There was a famous, I don't think

he was the Secretary of Defense or anything, Bush generals. And I'm pretty sure this guy went to prison or something. Email us, because we're not gonna sit here for hours and try to remember guys from 20 years ago, but there was someone, he was like the head of the military and I think he got in trouble over something. This was definitely Iraq War era and I thought his name was Bobby but I don't think it is now. He went to jail for something. I'm gonna be so mad when I remember what it was. Email us bintownpodcast at yahoo.com or text me 815-298-7200 and I really just oh man if we didn't have this stupid current software, we could just pause. We could look it up.

Army leader. I'm not giving up. This was not scratching my itch. I have to figure this out. What was this guy's name? Army leader under Bush, not Colin Powell. Everything's giving me Powell. What about head of the army? Okay, I give up. Very disappointing. We're just, we're not gonna read everything here.

There's some names, don't ring a bell with me. His first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, that guy had a mug, great slicked back hairdo, sloppy steaks, lived for New Year's Eve. Nikki Haley, that's not even that much of a throwback. She was literally like the only other person who ran for president against Trump this year in the GOP primary. I don't really know what she's doing now. Are they on good terms? I don't think so. But I can't really remember. You know, these people will like go head-to-head, like JD Vans called Trump Hitler, and then, you know, the next day he's the vice president. So it's really hard to keep track. Apparently, Chris Christie was the presidential transition vice chairman.

And I'm not a Chris Christie fan in this day and age still, by any means. But he feels kind of like got that Rex Ryan energy. Maybe it's just a whole New Jersey thing. But it's like, I don't agree with this guy. But I think for the most part, he's got good common sense. But they're just loud and large men. So it is what it is. Number nine, we already mentioned, no this is number nine on the list, it's like number six on mine.

H.R. McMaster. What if I go... I'm not giving up on this. Iraq war went general... general... I'm not giving up on this whole... whoever this guy was. Iraq war general went to prison. I'm pretty sure this guy's from jail time. Not Saddam Hussein. Not Jeffrey Miller. I don't know who that is. Who led, god damn, and I even know what this guy looks like. Tommy Franks? No. Michael Mosley? No. There it is. David Petraeus. For some reason I thought his name was Bobby Petraeus. Okay. This has nothing to do with what we were talking about. This is literally like when I was 10 this guy was famous. David Petraeus, born 1952, this guy's 72 years old, retired US Army general, he was the director of the CIA from 2011 to 2012, okay so literally for one year. He had a high level ranking in the US Army.

He was a four-star general, which, my understanding, is pretty high. He oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq. That sounds pretty good. He was fourth director of the CIA under Obama. So I guess I was looking for Bush stuff. He was Obama. So it was like a year too late, a year too early rather okay so what happened because

this guy got in trouble right no plans to run for public office okay it wasn't as big as I thought basically what happened? Okay, he had an extramarital affair with someone just like that guy. Remember, it was at a South Carolina governor. He like went down to Argentina and hiked for a week with his sexy Latina lover. That story was crazy. I don't remember that guy's name. That was not Jonathan Edwards. That's a whole separate thing thing what do you think that guy's doing these days next on the bean town podcast I'm actually gonna Google it because we're just in that mode now in January 2015

officials reported the FBI and Justice Department prosecutors had recommended bringing felony charges against David Petraeus for allegedly providing classified information to Broadwell some sort of probably the same thing as Dick Cheney's oil company, whatever that's called. Eventually, Petraeus pleaded guilty. It should be pled, right? Plead guilty to one misdemeanor, charge of mishandling classified info.

Just mishandling classified info. I mean, it's like, ideally you don't do that, but come on. Sentenced at two years of probation to find $100,000. So what is Jonathan Edwards doing today? And what was the name of Dick Cheney's oil company? Anyone who watched the Adam and K-Film vice must know. Except for me, I'm the only one who can't remember. I can't remember.

Just too much alcohol at this point. Jonathan Edwards was a preacher and philosopher. He was also the, what was he, like the senator from Massachusetts? There's also Jonathan Edwards triple jumper. Okay, we're getting closer. There's also Jonathan Edwards who was a vice presidential nominee. Oh, his name is not actually John, Jonathan. It's Johnny. His full name is Johnny Reed Edwards. So he's a lawyer now, North Carolina, not Massachusetts. He was Kerry's running mate. He had a big scandal and then he

returned to his law firm. Medical malpractice. What just like I can't even comprehend this as just a basic bitch citizen. He was just trying to like afford a house and a kid. This guy was like a senator. Then, you know, was snaps away from being, that's not really a phrase, snaps away, steps away from being vice president and ultimately president if Kerry got taken down. And now he's just like chilling in his South Carolina home,

North Carolina, wherever it was I mentioned, being a medical malpractice attorney. He just shows up to work every day, does some paperwork, talks to a client on the phone, goes home, got a huge mansion. Oh, yeah, he was almost vice president. I don't know. It's just weird.

Same could be said of like Paul Ryan though, because I know James, the Midwest team over here, Paul Ryan from Janesville, after he left, you know, he's Speaker of the House. This was a big deal. He was two steps away from being president. He was Romney's VP candidate 12 years ago. Then he like resigned from politics. He taught a couple classes at Notre Dame and what does he do now? I mean does he even work? Did you make enough from being a politician that you can just like retire comfortably? Granted houses in Janesville are like 150,000 bucks but I don't know. This whole thing is

fascinating to me. Maybe it's because I've never become famous nor will I ever but it's like what do you do after you become famous? Like you don't stay famous forever. No one talks, no one talks or thinks about, I'm the only one, I'm the only podcast in America talking about Paul Ryan right now. And I despise that guy. But he's out there. He's probably in Chicago. He's in Janesville. He's like 30 miles from here, 50, something like that.

He's just at home Friday night watching Despicable Me 4, just like me, with his family. His kids are probably in college by now. We played the same show together, Lincoln Portrait, Bloy-Janesville Symphony Orchestra, 4th of July 2013. Call me, okay? I want to get Paul Ryan on the show. I'm gonna make this a thing. I know we wanted to get Rod Obligevich, who literally lives like a mile from me, ran by his house today. But Rod wouldn't respond to my comments or my requests. Paul, like, I mean look, it's gonna be Christmas break here. It's for the holidays. We gotta get you on,

buddy. Okay, let's wrap this. John Bolton, we all know him and his mustache. John Kelly said some bad things about Trump before the election. Didn't matter. Mick Mulvaney, there's a great name. Mick Mulvaney looked like the villain from Raiders of the Lost Ark, the German guy with the little glasses who grabs a medallion

and burns his hand in the Karen Allens little bar in Nepal. That's what Mick Mulvaney reminds me of. Scaramucci, how could we forget? Let's do a whole run on press people. Scaramucci, Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is now the governor of Arkansas, took over from her dad. She was press secretary for a while. There's that Hope Hicks lady.

I mean, look, obviously, Sean Spicer and Scaramucci are the gold standard. Scaramucci wasn't even press secretary. That's the term. I couldn't think of it earlier. He was literally just like communications director, and he also did the press conferences. I don't remember the exact number.

I think Scaramucci was around for like nine days, right? And this was early Trump presidency when we're all just like in shock still. And I was like, what the heck is happening? So every little thing that happened seemed monumental. And now a Scaramucci would just be like, oh, who cares? It's Scaramucci. But that was a big deal.

Also side note, remember the lawyer for, we're talking about this like it was our childhood. This was like five years ago. Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels lawyer who had a brief presidential run. This was back when the two leading candidates for the Democratic Party were Michael Avenatti who went to prison and the guy from New York, Bloomberg, who donated a billion dollars to Johns Hopkins while I was there. You're welcome. Look, the first and only ever billion dollar donation in history comes when yours truly is working at the

organization. Not a lot of coincidence there, Bloomberg. Thank you. But yeah, Michael Avenatti. remember that guy? You probably don't, because he was famous for like five seconds. Betsy DeVos, how could we forget? Dude, all the confirmation hearings this time around, it's so boring. There's no tension.

Like the Senate just confirms whoever they want. Like Democrats can say whatever. It doesn't even matter. We could have potential grizzly. It doesn't matter. Elaine Chao, wasn't she married to like George Stephanopoulos or something? I don't remember that.

I know that's not right. Anyone else here? Michael Cohen. I saw a great viral video this morning on Twitter. Michael Cohen was talking about moving to Canada for fear of the death penalty. And there was, I don't know how this works. It doesn't seem like it should have been real.

Maybe it wasn't. But people were like putting Zoom filters on his face. If you're hosting the call, no one should be able to put Zoom filters on your face. But they were doing it anyway. So I don't know what happened to Michael Cohen, but his former attorney. Ty Cobb, who I thought was a baseball player.

He was a lawyer, apparently. Anyone else? Omarosa was a housewife from where? Atlanta? I don't know. One of the ones I haven't seen. She was in charge of outreach to African Americans. And then the last one I want to mention, this was not on the list, I do just want to mention here

though because it's like the ultimate what the heck is this guy up to? And I think it makes it even better because we had no idea what this guy was up to when he was in charge of cabinet. Dr. Ben Carson was the head of Housing and Urban Development, HUD. I think he was one of the only ones that was... was he there the whole time? I think he was. I can't confirm it. I'm not knowledgeable on this topic, but he was the ultimate like no one knows what the hell is going on there. He's doing nothing, good nor bad, and obviously he's been out of that position for four years now, but it's just like he was one of the most famous surgeons in the world over at Johns Hopkins. They need to be,

somehow gets appointed head of housing and Urban Development, does nothing. Just like shows up to Zoom meetings and in-person meetings, wears a suit and then goes back home. He didn't even have to move because he's from Baltimore or worked in Baltimore and had Hopkins and was working in DC like you just take the mark every day, MARC, commuter rail for those of you who don't know, Penn Station and Union Station, 45 minute ride. And now what is he doing? Okay, so we're going to get Paul Ryan on here, we're going to get Ben Carson on here.

Now I'm worried Ben Carson's going to sleep through the interview, or sleep through the alarm for the interview, but Paul, I'm fairly confident. We're both mid both Midwestern guys. I love to just hear, like, what do you do after you become one of the most famous people in the world? And now you just sat home in Janesville for four years. Like, what do you like? Are you picking up shifts somewhere?

I know you was teaching a little bit. Do you do, do like consultant work? I don't know. Consulting and being a vice president? Did Kamala call you? These are questions I have. To wrap here, our trivia question. Last week, or just a hard 180, last week,

the two oldest teams in professional football squared off in an NFL game. I want you to name the teams. You get a bonus question if you can name their original cities and names. So I was thinking about this in the shower after I'd already come up with the question. And I thought, you know what, if you're an NFL fan you could take a stab at this. Who are the two oldest teams in the NFL and your clue is they played each other this last week. But then I was thinking like, if you're not an NFL fan, like, this is just a pointless question for you. So I thought, let me give you the whatever, 14 or 15 matchups, however many games there were, 32 teams in the NFL. It's bye season. So I think, I

think it was just the Steelers and Niners on bye though. So I think it was 15 teams, 15 games rather, played each other this last week. So to reiterate, I'm wondering who are the two oldest teams in the NFL? And they played each other last week. And I'm going to give you each pair of matchups. And then you can tell me. And then you get a bonus point if you can name these two current teams, current or their original cities and names.

So just a fun little question here, largely for the football heads. Here were the games that happened this last week, week nine in the NFL. Houston Texans vs. New York Jets. Indianapolis Colts vs. Minnesota Vikings. Dallas Cowboys vs. Atlanta Falcons. Miami Dolphins vs. Buffalo Bills. The, I was gonna say Oakland. Las Vegas Raiders verse Cincinnati Bengals. The Los Angeles Chargers verse Cleveland Browns. The New England Patriots verse Tennessee Titans. The Washington Commanders verse New York Giants. New Orleans Saints versus Carolina Panthers. Denver Broncos versus Baltimore Ravens.

Jacksonville Jaguars. You can say Jaguars, Jaguars, Jaguars, whatever you fancy, versus the Philadelphia Eagles. The Chicago Bears versus the Arizona Cardinals. The Detroit Lions versus the Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams versus Seattle Seahawks, and the aforementioned Monday Night Miracle for Rachel and I, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs. In the spirit of moving things along here, if you want more time, go ahead and pause

now because I'm about to reveal the answer. The answer to this question, who are the two oldest teams in the NFL that happened to face off versus each other this week? It was the Arizona Cardinals and the Chicago Bears. And if you're looking for the bonus point, their original team names, the Arizona Cardinals were the Chicago Cardinals, and the Chicago Bears were known as the Decatur Staley's. And no, I did not do research, although I thought about it. Cardinals, and the Chicago Bears were known as the Decatur Staley's. And no, I did not do research.

Although I thought about it, I was like, Oh, I should research. Like what's the origin behind the Staley's name? I did not. You can do that. You can email us, btownpodcastyahoo.com, because that's what we got for you. It's way over. I wanted to speak to like a 40 minute show. We're at the hour mark. So apologies for that.

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