Beantown Podcast - Power Ranking the Months of the Year (01212024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: January 21, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE to power rank the months of the year

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Sunday, January 21st, 2024, season seven of the Beantown podcast is in full swing. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? It's cold not we're not at the historic cold That we had on Martin Luther King Jr. Day last Monday six days ago, and then it went into Tuesday But it's still I mean Went to Trader Joe's this morning and even just walking to and from the bus stop It's like a quarter maybe you know like point three miles something like that At least from the bus up to the grocery store a something like that at least from the bus stop to

the grocery store a little bit less from home to the bus stop but it was you know it was like negative two outside feels like we're up to the the feels like now we're up to nine so big-time heatwave coming and it's a high of 33 tomorrow and so it seems like we're kind of out of this scary cold for now which is good but this morning man I had little fingies I didn't bring my gloves and you know you're holding your garbage bags your grocery bags your reusable out in the cold and starting to feel a little nippy out there so good to be inside this is the first of kind of a two parter

we're we've always promised you here in the meantime podcast that we were never going to be a sellout. We're never going to take weeks off, you know, inevitably in the future when something comes up and maybe I'm sidetracked or sidelined or hospitalized or anything of that nature. We'll get a guest host in here before we let this show fall by the wayside and miss out on a week. But I'm gonna, I'll be up front with what we're doing today. We're doing a two-part episode and the two parts don't have anything in common. So it's really not a two-part episode. In fact, it's two different episodes on your podcast stream. But what I'm trying to get at is or recording two shorter episodes back to back

here. We're releasing them independently, one today for this week and then one for next week. And I'll try to do, I've tried to do this before and I failed trying to do like a delayed release on SoundCloud where you upload it, but you adjust the setting so it doesn't come out until Thursday, Thursday Friday whenever we decide to release it But that's the plan the reason for that is Already been a busy weekend. You know, we almost never record on Sundays these days. So pushed it back to the last day possible Next or the this week, you know got a got a work week Wednesday night doing some office trivia which I'm pumped for and

Then Friday and I do in some office trivia, which I'm pumped for. And then Friday, early, not early morning, but mid morning, I think our flights at like noon got to make our way down to Midway airport, catch a frontier flight to celebrate going down to Cancun, Mexico for a little bit, 48 hours, basically. Good friend of the show, dear friend of the show. And this is, this is the biggest stretch, like four week stretch ever for friends of the podcast here. You know, three weeks ago down in Alabama, we had good friend of the podcast three weeks ago from today, I guess, John Paul Pondowski getting married. Congratulations, John Paul. Well, this Saturday, dear friend of the show, Matthew Fiedler, who is a regular fixture on this program, getting married down in Mexico, which is, we're thrilled for that.

So that we're going down there and it's just like, hey, you know, leave the house Friday morning, don't get back till like midnight, Sunday night. And not really interested in recording while we're in Cancun. So that's why we're doing what we're doing today. What it means is that you're gonna have two pretty short episodes here. I apologize for the brevity, B-R-E-V-I-T-Y. But the hope is we're gonna get right into what our topics for today. We'll do our campaign trail check in a quick shout out to our good friends, our sponsors here, and all the other fun stuff. But there's not going to be a lot of fluff. I don't have a lot of extra stuff, just kind of a busy time as we get to the end of the month here.

The good news is, and we talked about Jai January a little bit already, before you say that listener discretion is advised when you're listening to this program, number one, we'll catch you in some language, number two, this podcast is subjectively terrible. Good news is today's January 21st, dry January is up in about 10 days here. And let's see, when is February 1st? That is a Thursday. So that could be a first day of Black History Month. Always a good reason to celebrate. Maybe a Thursday night. Maybe that Friday night.

I don't know. Friday night, Groundhog Day. If there, you ever wanted a reason to drink up Groundhog Day. I will say this, and this isn't a, we've done pet peeve episodes before before and I should bring that back because this one would fit right in I Don't say this. I don't bring this up to Personally assault anyone who says this because I know it's fairly common in fact. I feel like I hear it more This way the incorrect way than the proper way But something that really pisses me off just a pet peeve of mine and can't really explain why bugs me so much But when people call it groundhogs today they add the possessive S, the apostrophe S.

Just, it's just not what it's called. You know, it's Groundhog Day. It would be like calling it President Day. Well, it's President's Day because we have, we have a lot of presidents. We're not just celebrating one, but Groundhog Day, we're not celebrating the entire species, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genius species. How did I do? This is Larson, seventh grade biology teacher.

I'm pretty sure I nailed it. The planets are tougher. What do you got? Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and then the last three I always get mixed up. Is it go Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? I think Neptune's the last one. Wasn't it even a thing? We're speaking about planets. This is gonna dovetail nicely into our trivia question

in a second here. Wasn't it a thing when Pluto was still around? Everyone knows okay, Pluto's the ninth planet furthest away from the Sun, but weren't there times of the year like a week or something where Neptune was actually further away from the sun than Pluto. I don't know. Astronomy was one of those things I never had a dedicated class in. Like there was no required astronomy class that I ever took growing up. I guess you had physical science, earth science. I probably earth science.

I don't even remember when I took that, probably sixth grade or something like that. And that's probably when you learned about, you know, planets and like the Earth's core, the mantle and the sun and the, you know, the different parts of the sun, the corona, the solar flares, the sunspots. But in terms of just beyond what are the nine planets and in what order they are,

I mean maybe a little bit of supernova action, In terms of just beyond what are the nine planets and in what order they are, and maybe a little bit of supernova action. Never really got into astronomy, never took a class on it in high school and certainly didn't touch anything like that in college. Pretty cool stuff though. Hey, email us bintownpodcast at yahoo.com. What's your favorite planet and why? I think people talk a lot about Earth for a pretty good reason. I would say as you get out into the solar system, everyone knows Jupiter because it's

big and Mars is like always their life on Mars, David Bowie. Mercury and Venus get some attention because you can kind of see them in your day to day life when you look up at the sky if you know where to look. Saturn's got the rings like Michael Jordan, the goat and then you get Uranus gets all the sex jokes or Uranus or Uranus doesn't matter how you say it you get Uran or Anus so's probably, it's a pretty badass planet. I feel like no one talks about Neptune that much, but Neptune's kinda cool, right? It's named after the Roman god of the sea.

That's pretty badass. Now I don't know how they got from the sea all the way out into the milky way. It doesn't, those two things don't really go together. I don't think there's water on Neptune, but I don't think we would really know. How long do you think it would take if you're driving 60 miles per hour to get out to Neptune?

Let's see, we can figure it out. How promised you we were going to be tight and efficient on this program? And here we are talking about driving to Neptune. 2.779 billion miles, well that's from the Sun, okay? But let's just say 2.2779 000 miles, so that's miles divided by 60. So if you're driving from the sun in Neptune in a space car, Jetson style, from the moon or from the sun rather to Neptune, it would be, gosh, too many decimals here.

Da-da-da. I got to remember your commas. 46 million give or take, my 46 hours. I think that's what we got to 46 million hours. How many hours in a year? This is quality airtime here. There's 8,760 miles in a year, so we divide that 46 million divided by 8,760, and this is going to be how many years it takes you in that car. 5,287 years give or take. So that's probably a lot of years.

That's like going back to 3,000 BC. So if you were in a Jetsons car going 6, I guess you could probably go 65. I don't know what the speed limits are like an outer space This is like hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, which I read for the first time like two months ago Actually a little bit longer isn't I guess two months we were in Puerto Rico When I read it it would take you if you started in more or less 3000 BC This is like Samarians right su M e R I A N S Sumerians new Marians Neanderthals necrophytes all those old people if you started driving then you

would get to Neptune right about now in time which is pretty cool we're gonna be talking about time in a little bit here, but first I want to mention that the topic, actually a part one here, is power ranking the months. Been spending a lot of time with dry January and being so cold. You have a lot of time kind of hear thoughts by yourself, where you're not really doing anything other than just like

thinking about your existence. I will say, starting a new job two weeks ago, plenty to distract me mentally there. Obviously, a lot to learn, a lot of new things to focus on. But then it's like, boom, you shut the laptop, 5 p.m., which I don't actually do, and it's actually 4 30 p.m. is when my work day ends. But then it's like, December, November, I get a nice glass of whiskey and just kind of fade away now. So I'm just kind of sitting there with my water. We are drinking in case you're wondering, my lemon lime water water water. This is actually the last recording session where we definitely don't need a drink or

we won't have a drink rather dry January. Next time we record will be in like two weekends You know will blow right past Groundhog Day actually if we play our cards right because Groundhog Day is a Friday We could record live on Groundhog Day one other thing that we're talking about a lot of calendars today leap day is Thursday February 29th this year. I don't think we've ever recorded on a leap day before, because there's only been one in the course of the BeanTown podcast going back to 2020.

And I actually have no idea. I'd have to go back and check if we recorded on that day. Probably not, though. This could be the first ever BeanTown podcast in its seventh year coming out on February 29th, just at February 29th. That would be kind of cool. Anyways, we're power ranking the months here. We also shout out our sponsors and give you a trivia question,

which is all about calendars. I do want to say thank you before I forget for both of these episodes here. Thank you to our friends in Pakistan for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in your great Islamic Republic. Hyderabad Karachi, Ulan Batar was a result or an answer, a question really on Jeopardy the other day. So there you go. Thank you for listening. Thank you for sponsoring us, not really sponsoring, no financial. Excuse me. Big Belch just had a little vegetable cream cheese come up there.

Shout out to Rachel for making a bagel stop on her way home from barcode class. But boy, that just kind of... So the nice little, you know, vegetable cream cheese with a subtle hint of stomach acid. Good stuff. Thank you, Pakistan. Alright, here we go. So I want to say I came up with this on the bike this morning and I kind of just gave it a once-over and went with my gut and then I made a few small tweaks. I will say gun to my head I would need more time to really come up with what I think is my perfect exact list. And it probably changes, you know, I'm sitting here, it's freezing cold outside and by the

window so you're getting a nice draft. My list in January is potentially different than my list in July when it's 88 outside and 72% humidity. This is our winter list. Let's do this. We're going to buzz right through it to stay on time here. Got to finish up these episodes before this Lions game starts. Rachel's got some free bets that she's getting into. Before you know it, potentially our entire life

savings will be lost to the betting world. And we're going to be starting from square one. So once I start, put a pin in this, I'll ask Matthew Feather. Congratulations to Matt on his wedding in a couple days here. When we get him on for our taxes special here in April, I'll ask him what are the pros and cons of cashing out your 401K or 403B early to bet on a, you know, a Bucks Lions playoff game? No one is doing that.

I'm just exaggerating for the sake of comedy. So we'll get his perspectives on that. Don't let us forget. But here we go. Something else I wanted to say, but that's okay. We're going to plow right ahead here. Okay. Coming in at number 12, it's January. Here's the thing with January.

We've already talked about it a little bit on this episode, but it's cold. It's dark. The sun's out today, which is nice, but it's cold. It's dark. I don't drink. Last time I had a drink in January, actually not that long ago, it was 2021 and you're thinking, you're saying to yourself, well Quinn, don't you always do dry January? The answer is well in 2020, I did dry January, then I added an extra 11 months. So then when 2021 rolled around, it was like, do I really want to do a 13th month of this? So I drank in January, 2021, but we're now back to three straight years now.

And I'll say this, it's not that hard for me, even yesterday, like we were at a brewery for friend's birthday party, then turned into a bar for the Packers game. And it's like, I didn't really miss it that much because it's something I need to do for my health. It's a good challenge. I like challenging myself.

I don't have to worry about... It's not like a gamble of how you're going to feel when you wake up in the morning. I haven't really noticed any body changes. It's been three weeks now. You need a little bit more time for that, but it's just good to feel refreshed and not have to worry about it. That being said, January 31 days, you do get a federal holiday MLK day last Monday, but it just feels like it goes on for a long time.

So we got 10 days left. We're doing well. But January is number 12 for me. Number 11 is February. And this was a tough one for me because February actually has our anniversary, which is towards the end of the month. And Valentine's Day is always fun and silly and a lot of good memes and stuff. And it's only four weeks long. It's two to three days shorter than your typical month. But February, I think, is oftentimes in Chicago the most wintery month in terms of the snow and the cold and so it's just

I don't know man. I'll say the the the pro of February one is that it's shorter so you get through it quicker too. You do start to notice the days getting a little bit longer like I personally haven't really felt like I noticed that yet because it's still basically work ends and it's dark here in January. But you get towards the end of February, you start sniffing around March, and you start to pick up that scent a little bit. Obviously it goes into Mach 5 speed when daylight savings time starts. Then you go back to some trouble waking up a little bit in the morning, but then all of a sudden you get sun till like 6 p.m. It's like, this is pretty badass.

I'll take it. But February is number 11. Number 10, April for me. And this one, I think out of all the ones, this one I struggled the hardest with because there are some things about April I really like. Specifically, you get the tail end of March Madness. Usually like, March Madness is kind of split between

half in March, half in April. I like that. You get baseball seasons now in full swing, so that's good stuff. But April is tough too because even though you get, the days are much longer, coming out of winter, you don't always get, you don't always actually come out of winter.

In fact, I would distinctly recall when I lived in Baltimore, I was, I was in Chicago suburbs, like Aurora or something, and I had a big Sunday program on a Sunday in April. This must have been, you know, 2018, something like that, 2019, perhaps. And I had to cancel it because of a blizzard. And again, this is April, and you're just like, you don't. April feels like, oh man, it's spring, winter's done, flowers blooming, we're coming out. April is just like, it's the winter's last grip here in Chicago. And it's just, you're looking at the calendar,

you're like, it should not be this way. But it is. It's still winter in Chicago in April, and I think that's pretty depressing. I don't know if it's just the way our brains are hardwired, but it's just rain, snow, cold, and it's kind of gross. So that's 10 for me.

April number nine, or shifting gears now. Number nine is August. August is dog days of summer. It's the peak. And look, there are a lot of things I like about summer. I like how it's just like, oh, I need groceries or I want to go for a quick walk. You don't have to do anything. You just throw in your shoes and you go out the door

I like things I like about summer. Let's just combine these together. Okay August July June or 9 8 and 7 for me In fact may is is 6 so 9 8 7 6 we go in reverse order August July June May I'll just speak broadly about summer what I I don't like is Chicago gets some tough humidity and just you sweat a lot. Now, I will say my new job, I'm working from home a lot less, which is nice. But most days in the summer when you come home, if you were commuting from downtown and you're wearing,

I think this is something I'll say, I'm a big fan. I think my closet, my fashion sense is a lot better. Maybe not my fashion sense, but I have more clothes for winter, I think. In the summer, you're kind of down to, well, you just wear polo and khakis, but that's the least amount of effort you can put in for getting you know dressing up in the summer and stuff. So you're gonna sweat through it. You got sweaty pits. The pros, hey man, summer baseball, especially like a night game, usually it's nice. The reason August is first year is I feel like you can go to like a Cubs game at night in August and you're still just

gonna be sweating through everything. There's nothing you can do because it's just so hot Everything's dripping you get you know, it's June July is kind of the the perfect stuff for that because you don't drip as much Going swimming in the lake. It's the best in August. You got to give it that that's for sure But you step out and it's just too hot So pros and cons, what I really, I think what it comes down to is I just hate when you're like outside and you're sweating so much and you're just like, you just have to give up

because everything is too sweaty. So I think you get a little bit less, may I like, cause you're on the tail end or you're on the opposite end of summer, where you're like just getting into it and everything is new and you're like, wow, heat, sun, I've never experienced this before after, you know, a five month winter here in Chicago.

But yeah, that's how I feel. But hey, in the neighborhood here you get, you know, the reason May is all the way up at number five for me, or six rather, I know we just kind of blew past July and June, but we're going to just keep going with it. May, you know, you get, I feel like it's when you finally start feeling like it's, you know, I can live my life again. You can go out, you can make plans.

You don't have to think about it that much. So that's, but it's not quite as sweaty. It's not as drippy. So that's why August is nine July is 8 June is 7 May is 6 for me and I feel bad we're kind of short changing these power rankings a little bit but that's what we've got to do for a time-sake number five I tried I held on on this one for as long as I could because it's still cold but there's just so much fun stuff going on March is number five for me okay it's my birthday

yes I'm a big fan of St. Patrick's Day. Yes But you also get March madness going I'm a huge fan of March madness Baseball season technically starts at the tail end of March and you get a lot of you know spring training hype and stuff and a lot of good news about that It's still cold, but I think March is like Even though it's still cold you get slightly longer days daily savings time eventually, I think is in March, if not April. Easter is always a fun time,

but it's like you've been cold for so long that now it's like you're gonna start forcing yourself to get out there, get some vitamin D, see that sun one way or another if it's cold or not, just because you're like, this winter has been long as hell and I'm tired about it. I feel like March, you kind of push towards that optimism and then April, you kind of relapse a little bit

because you're just like, why is it so cold? But March, you get that glimmer of optimism. And that's what we're all about here on Quinn David Ferns Presents at Bintan Prakas. And then number four, almost in order, we have your fall months. So September is number four for me. I'm a big fan of September.

So you still, in fact, I might have been able to put this higher, but September, you still get the summer weather here in Chicago. You get football season starting. I get to teach my class, which I really like to do. It's a lot of fun. I put November 3rd. You really, you know, you get the front tail end of the, keep saying tail end, the front end of the holiday with Thanksgiving and stuff, but it's starting to go

a bit colder and then the days really shift towards darkness in November. October for me is number two. It's like prime fall, prime football season. Great weather. You can go out just like a light sweater. And then I got number one, December. Maybe a hot take, I don't know, but I feel like December is always like you work a little bit. And then the rest of the time you're just drinking a ton, seeing family, hopefully get to travel a little bit. It's cold, yes, but it's typically not so cold that it's unbearable. You just get to kind of enjoy. So then, you know, December 22nd, 23rd comes around and you get like a 10 day period where you're just eating a lot, drinking a lot, and time doesn't really exist in those 10 days, which is a direct link to our trivia question, which we'll talk about in one second

here. But again, my power ranking of the months, 12, I got January 11, February 10, April 9, August 8 July 7 June 6 May 5 March 4 September 3 November 2 October 1 December. Now I've been doing, I've got a 15-day dual lingo streak, I should try to do this in Espanol, but we haven't got we're just getting to days of the week now lunes martes Mircos It's like it's like when when tess or something like that. I don't know Wevis we base I think Thursday Viernes Friday sounds right

Sabado Saturday and Domingo Sunday, I think we haven't gone to months of the year though So get there soon enough Email is being top podcast a ah who calm. Let us know what your power rankings look like for months of the year Let's we got our bean Tom podcast trivia question of the week coming up in a second here Briefly check in on the campaign trail this week from the campaign trail that Iowa caucus was last Monday or Tuesday and Trump is just spending all his time in court. Something about E. Gene Carroll, which is a person's name I think. Maybe he's sexually assaulted her, I'm not sure. I can't remember which one is which. But Trump won Iowa Handily and I think DeSantis or Nikki Haley came in second

or third doesn't really matter. I learned apparently the Vivek Ramaswamy guy dropped out finally and now he's all in on Donald Trump. Chris Christie dropped out. So it's this is worst primary. Even like 2020 Democrat was pretty solid, right? Because it was beyond solid. 2020 Democrat was great. You got Biden, you had Warren, you had Klobuchar, you had Yang Gang, remember that guy? Beto O'Rourke tried to run for president. So it was like, this was really solid. Dude, this year, I know we've talked about this before, but this year sucks Because the guy the people who are like in a distant second and third Nikki Haley and Rhonda Santis Who have no chance of of of winning? They're not even fun. They're just so blah. I don't know this this election just totally blows man like

We need to we need to start over we need all new people even Trump's not that exciting right now Because you just been hearing this stuff for Going on in almost a decade his campaign stuff and it's like he's played all his hits I don't know if he has many new ones in the chamber. I don't know but he won Iowa by a lot But this this week on the campaign trail brought to you by our good friends at Home Pride Oregon, when you need your home inspector in Central Oregon, don't forget Steve, 541-410-0316. If he doesn't pick up the first time, try again because he's out of the country right now. HomePrideOrgan.com, and again, if you try HomePrideOrgan.com, it's claimed by someone else. So I don't really know what happened there.

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To wrap up this episode Beentown podcast trivia question of the week the so I learned this today I was doing some research on months and calendars and that sort of thing And we all know excuse me about you know Julian calendar Gregorian calendar. I actually had to look it up cuz I was like I don't remember Which one is the one we're currently on Jewel so Julian calendar came around first It was named after Julius Caesar and then it was replaced eventually by the Gregorian calendar named after Pope Gregory I think it was 13th sounds right But here we go

The reason we replace it because it's good the Gregorian calendar is a little bit more accurate. I Think that if I remember correctly, it's like they both had leap days to replace it because the Gregorian calendar is a little bit more accurate. I think that if I remember correctly, it's like they both had leap days, but there's something with the Gregorian calendar where it's a little bit more exact because it's not exactly 300, like the extra day every four years isn't exactly right. It's still off by a couple seconds or something like that and so I I don't remember how that gets fixed basically is it something like you have to like leap year or leap days don't occur once every 200 years or something like that when it's supposed to there's something to that but here's our trivia question and this I'm sorry cuz it's just gonna be like a. There's no way that you would just casually know this. But it's

an interesting fact. I thought it was kind of cool. So the Julian calendar was 11 minutes and 14 seconds longer than the tropical year, meaning, you know, the time it takes the sun to return to the exact position it was in, or the earth to something. For something to complete one revolution around the Sun, I think, for the earth to create one revolution to, boy, this is like that meme where the little kid is like, have you ever had a dream where, and the dream, and it takes him like 20 seconds to say one thing. It's basically what we're doing here with the trivia question here.

So here's the question. So when the Catholics switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, they had to skip time in order to make up for what the Julian calendar messed up. So how many days did we skip and effectively erase from history? This is an interesting thing. If you go back to 1582, if you just followed the Gregorian calendar all the way back to Jesus' time basically,

there is a certain period of time that is just completely missing from our recorded history, which was really interesting to me. It's in the month of October, and I don't really have any more clues to give you. But the answer, emails at bintanpakas.com, what your guess is, how many days did we have to erase from history? The answer is 10. So it's like October of 1582.

If you go back and you wanted to know, what happened on October 7th, 1582, or whatever it was, something in that 10-day date range, there's just, we just erased it. The day we were on the Julian calendar, and it was October 5th, 1582 or something, and then because the calendar was off, it measured time, not quite exactly right, the Catholics introduced a Gregorian calendar and basically said okay today is October 5th, tomorrow is going to be October 15th, and so there is

no like October 12th 1582 in the Gregorian calendar, hard one to say. G-R-E-G-O-R-I-A-N. Interesting stuff. So the year 1582 only had 355 days in it, I guess. Pretty badass. There you go. That's part one of the Bean Tom podcast episode. And I know this gets released on Sunday, January 21. And our part two is going to be released in the future date.

But in all full disclosure It's being recorded back-to-back. So we are what we're gonna do to make this feel even more like a part one part two We're not even gonna have our typical outro music for part one nor our typical intro music for part two We'll save Tisha Mingo for end of part two. So we'll find something else cool to play. But let's wrap this up so that we can get to part two. Thank you so much for listening to our show. This is Quinn David Furniture presents a meantime podcast and I'll check in on you in like 30 seconds. But when you listen to this, it'll actually be a couple days. So everyone stay safe. Stay sane. I will check in on you shortly. Bye. Thanks for watching!