Beantown Podcast - RIP James Earl Jones + Vaccines Gave me Brain Worms Maybe? (09132024 Beantown)

Episode Date: September 13, 2024

Now I know how RFK aka Bobby Jr feels with this whole vaccines gave me a brain worm thing

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town podcast for Friday, September 13th, Friday the 13th. I saw a little bit of Friday the 13th theatrics and celebrations and ghouls of all kinds on Twitter this morning but otherwise I feel like it's been a relatively quiet Friday the 13th maybe people are just not in the spook mode yet or maybe it's not been in the right crevices or nooks and crannies of the internet but usually there's a good spook post or haunt of some sort. It's been relatively quiet, but that's okay. I'll bring you the spook with my lack of preparation for this week's abbreviated episode.

What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn and I'm the host of the show. Quinn New Inference presents Bean Town Podcast. I am the chief marketing officer, chief financial officer, chief operating officer. I always liked that one because it looked like, you know, it's COO. So it always just sounded funny in my head. It was like coo or sue or, you know, just seemed sillier than CEO has so much power to it. And coo just didn't seem that interesting to me. Not interesting, but just not that powerful, you know

But yes, it is going to be an abbreviated Episode today and I know that's the oldest trick in the book, but we actually have massages at 5 30 p.m. And it's about 4 p.m. Right now so We are gonna we got like a 25 minute walk to get there too. So we're gonna get right into it. I won't, I won't lie to you. There are shows where it come in with big bold ideas and visions and no exactly what we're gonna talk about whether it's power rankings or geographical features or pop culture roundups and then there are episodes like today where just I got a couple different things I'm gonna hit on but I'll apologize in advance because I don't think I'm going to be knocking your socks off or anything like that.

I'm playing a little bit of the victim card here. I was triple vaccinated yesterday and I got through most of yesterday feeling pretty normal. And then towards the end of I teach a class on Thursday nights about eight o'clock is when I started to get the chills. I got the flu vaccine, got the COVID booster and got a Tdap, which is for whooping cough apparently. I don't think I've ever had whooping cough probably because I've been vaccinated, but now I got another five years or so where I won't be whooping. So that's good news. But woke up this morning with about 101 fever and just fighting through it.

I'm a fighter. That's how we do. And I don't know if you're supposed to drink alcohol when you're recently vaccinated, but we're going to do a scientific experiment here because we're working on a howling gourd, or I think it's howling pumpkin pumpkin ale

First pumpkin ish beer of the season from Trader Joe's had my fair share of Oktoberfest already I probably had two or three but It's my first soiree into the pumpkin beer. I Gotta say it's not too bad Do you think they got pumpkin beer. I gotta say it's not too bad. Do you think they got pumpkin beer over in Pakistan? Where I am the 112 ranked comedy podcast in that great Islamic Republic. Hello, Hyderabad. Hello, Karachi. Hello, the pumpkin patch outside of the Khyber Pass. Well, you probably couldn't have a pumpkin patch outside of the Khyber Pass because it feels like if you're not in the Khyber Pass, you're high up in

the mountains. I don't really think of pumpkins or gourds broadly as growing well in the mountainous regions of Pakistan and the Karakoram. Don't ask me to spell that one. I have no idea. It's a K-H probably. Beyond that, I got nothing. Listener discretion is advised from listening to the Bean Town podcast. Number one, we'll occasionally need some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible.

And of course, we got to start off with some somber news. You all know Mufasa, The Lion King comes out, I think December 20th of this year. And so we are only three short months away, probably just about a hundred days almost exactly until the premiere of Mufasa the Lion King and Well, it's gonna be missing its its star James Earl Jones the voice of Mufasa passed away this last week And that means we're gonna have to go to plan B

So I don't know what the studios are thinking in terms of, you know, replacements for Mr. Earl Jones. I don't know if we do, I think Childish Gambino is Simba, so if we just do like a, whatever the opposite of de-aged Donald Glover is, that could be good. Or we could do, I think what might be a nice little twist, you know that James Rolind Jones was the voice but not the body of Darth Vader. What if we did David Prowse who was the body but not the voice of Darth Vader? That could be a nice little tip of the cap. Or there's always Sebastian Shaw who I'm sure, and probably David Prowse too, has long since passed away and he was the

face of Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi. All you know all these things we could consider. CGI Sebastian Shaw. Not Sebastian Stan who's playing Donald Trump in the new Apprentice film. It's a whole separate thing. We'll talk Trump in a second. But Mufasa, The Lion King, Find Your Pride, pay homage, homage. I always, it's, it's, it's homage, it's, wait, what, what, which one is it? Homage, pay homage. It's homage, right, but I always thought homage sounded even more fancy and even more French. To the Lion King, rest in peace, Sir James Earl Jones. Fairly certain he was knighted by, if not Britain, Wakanda maybe? And it all ties back to, I

was gonna say Donald Glover, but he wasn't Black Panther. That was Chadwick Boseman. Also Rest in Peace. Mufasa, Find Your Pride. Also just on a quick pop culture note, Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season... where are we at? Is this six already? Can that possibly be six? Trying to remember if that's right. It's either five or six. One of those two, it feels crazy like we were in OG on that show. One of those two, it feels crazy. Like we were in OG on that show. One of the original ride or dies. That's one of their favorite phrases to use on the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. It's coming back this next Wednesday, I think it is.

Wednesday night, it's 8 p.m. Don't quote me on that. But that sounds right. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, you got some old favorites and you got some new favorites. We got the OGs, kind of the core fours, I like to think of them. Whitney, Heather, Meredith, and Lisa, so they're back. Inexplicably, Mary Cosby has been brought back to the cast.

She is just like potentially an evil person. And so that's gonna be, and she doesn't want anything to do with the cast or the show. She just wants to collect her paycheck. And they just decided to bring her back. They got rid of her, and then they brought her back. So I hate that. And then we got the Greek lady, Angie. There were two Angies for a while.

I think it was season three or season four. They tried out two friends of, Angie K and Angie H. And this is Angie K, I believe. Angie H, not getting a lot of screen time. And is there anyone else new? I have no idea. I think there's one other new person. Now, the big drama from last year

was this lady who I can't remember her name, because she has like three different names. She's spooky. But she was the big drama she was she had a burner Instagram account that caused a lot of issues and did a lot of cyber bullying and of course the dramatic finale she gets found out a big confrontation easily one of the greatest housewives episode of all time and so she got fired I can't even remember her name that's how little I care about her I can think of her Monica Housewives episode of all time. And so she got fired. I can't even remember her name. That's how little I care about her.

I can think of her. Monica? Is that her name? I think it's Monica. Monica Garcia was her Housewives name, but she's got other names. It's a very confusing, perplexing, complicated situation.

Anyway, she's out. She got blacklisted from the whole Bravo universe, as far as I can tell. And I don't really know what she's doing now And then of course Jen Shah is still behind bars Although I got to tell you her husband's defense coach Shah Sharif he's the defensive backs coach for the Utah Utes. They'd never look better Utah Utah looks like a sneaky good team this year. I don't know if they're going to be

able to get all the way up into the expanded playoff. There's eight teams now, but they got a shot. Utah's playing well. So we'll see how it goes. But yeah, Real House is a Salt Lake City coming back. I think it's Wednesday. It's either Tuesday or Wednesday. Speaking of Tuesday, we had the debate first, apparently first and only

debate between Kamala and Trump, sounding like Trump's not going to want to do a second one, which you have to think with how much Trump loves the attention and being in the spotlight and being on TV. If he's coming out and saying, oh, we're not going to do a second one, that's a pretty clear and obvious indicator of how he felt Tuesday night when. I'm very late to the party. Three days later, I'm sure everyone has either watched the whole thing like I did or seen all the reactions and Twitters and tweets and quotes and all that stuff.

I almost spent the whole episode just doing the best quotes from Tuesday night, but then I started to read through some of them and it was just kind of depressing. And I didn't want to, excuse me, I didn't want to relive that whole situation. It just wasn't very enjoyable for me. But I will say concepts of a plan just absolutely dynamite the number of memes that have come out of that. It's just been

spectacular. It was basically they were talking about health insurance and Obamacare. And the moderators before they left the topic completely press Trump and were basically like so just to be clear, do you have a plan to replace Obamacare? Because that was Trump's whole thing that he campaigned on going back to 2016. And then the whole Republican thing, well, they controlled the Senate, the House and the executive branch his first, I think, two years, 16 to 18. And then they introduced a law to repeal Obamacare without any sort of replacement, which is, regardless

of how you feel about Obamacare, it seems extremely irresponsible, but I'm not a policy expert. I did take one higher education policy class in grad school. My teacher was this adjunct guy, Matthew Holz-Apple, who at least almost 10 years ago when I took the class, didn't really know what he was doing. Nice guy. Didn't really know what he was doing. Didn't learn anything for 10 weeks.

But they asked, oh, the Obamacare repeal didn't go through because McCain voted nay. RIP. And so when the moderator, David, whatever his name is, pressed Trump about it, so to be clear, do you have a plan? Trump says, I have concepts of a plan. And that really just, that's the closest thing to actual legitimate thought out policy Trump's ever had. I believe he does have concepts of a plan, but I also believe that he doesn't know what

he's doing or care at all. So the debate was shocking, sad. I really thought in the first five minutes or so, Trump seemed pretty restrained and I thought, oh, maybe he's going to, maybe he got good advice going into this thing. Maybe he's going to pull it out. And then the wheels really fell off. And I don't even, the whole, man, the eating the dogs

in Springfield kind of thing, frankly, I'd never even heard of Springfield, Ohio until this past week. But it's such a unique, as a kind way of saying it, platform policy point to fight on when you're talking about clamping down on illegal immigration and just making up braids. I don't even know where did this come from.

Was it JD Vance thing? I mean, he's the Ohio guy. I just, it's really bizarre. Yeah, I don't think the Haitian immigrants are eating people's dogs and cats, but that was, they asked JD Vance about it. So it's like, so do you want to retract your statement because there have been no confirmed reports and JD Vance essentially said something along the lines of, well they haven't confirmed reports that JD Vance essentially said something along the lines of well they haven't confirmed reports that they're not doing it and just would be a nice fun four years with JD Vance in the White House. Let's keep our fingers crossed. I think the Walls Vance debate is October 1st so we got two and a half weeks to go before that. I'm licking my chops for that. Not

just not because I think JD Vance is stupid he's gonna get his ass kicked but I think Tim Wallace is gonna just go in there and show America what Minnesota is all about and Tim Wallace is just like a legitimate good politician he's not slimy he's just he's a guy. He knows what he believes in and he goes for it. So that's this week on the campaign trail. I had something I wanted. Oh, emails. And I had something I wanted you to email me about but I can't remember. It's never too early to advertise our eighth annual horse special. It's only eight months away. Email us, Beanthombodcastyahoo.com.

If there are any good names that came out of this past week's debate quotes that you want to throw into the ring, I definitely have concepts of a plan as a front runner. I'm not willing to commit to saying something is officially in the top 10 yet, but concepts of a plan, you're going to have to give me some really tough ones to get past that. All right.

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not Ham, but the other guy. Some crazy name I never heard of like Jareth or something. I think I started with a J. Gosh, I can't read the ads here. The brain is just, I don't know, the vaccines got to my brains. Maybe RFK was onto something. Maybe I got a brain worm from the vaccines like RFK did. I don't know. I think RFK would be more likable if we called him Bobby Kennedy Jr. I think RFK Jr. is just kind of like, this guy is kind of crazy,

and his voice is really strange. But if you called him Bobby Jr. or BJ Kennedy Kennedy BJ Kennedy, how could you vote against BJ Kennedy? Is lovely. It's a great name Samson q2u series when God speaks he uses a Samson and of course our good friends at cuts by Q He did a nice little neck shave by Q I need to make sure I do a little back of the neck shave before we got a wedding in exactly a week here Shout out to my friend, college roommate Ryan Singer, getting married up in Wisconsin. Best pianist I know. And

it's going to be a lovely affair, hopefully. I always like when things are referred to lovely affairs because in my world, affair is a very negative thing that you don't want to engage in, but you can have a lovely affair. Now if you were having an affair cheating on your wife, but it was very elegant and passionate, it would be lovely for some people, but not for other people. I think to be a traditional lovely affair, it needs to be lovely for all. A lovely time should be had by all not just the cheating parties Right if you're getting cheated on it's not as lovely probably low likelihood that it's lovely at all

Unless that was your kink and you're into that Not sure when you need a fresh do something snappy or new call the experts at cuts by Q I Had this thought I'm not gonna go into a whole long thing here because I want to give our trivia question and then wrap things up, but this podcast link is going to start with a two and that's going to be hopefully refreshing to you all. If you play me on one and a half times speed, you can get this thing over within like 15 minutes. It's going to be awesome. Pumpkin spice. And maybe we'll expand on this in coming episodes. Best fall treats or like power ranking fall flavors. Because it's September 13th right now and I think

September for me is firmly a fall month. But it's like 82 degrees outside right now and there's not kind of that chill in the air yet. Some of the leaves are falling, but not most of them. And so this just isn't like a, we're not fully falled yet, if you will. But I was thinking initially, maybe this will be a launching point for a future episode, but the whole concept of pumpkin spice, what's going on here? This isn't a referendum on pumpkin spice.

This isn't a criticism of it. I actually enjoy it for the most part. But what is pumpkin, like, how do you, who came up with pumpkin spice? Because you have pumpkin, which is a flavor in and of itself. And then you add the spice to it. It's not exactly spicy. It's just full of spice. But it's kind of like potpourri. When we talk about spice, what exactly are we dealing with here? Let's get down to the molecular level, M-O-L-E-C-U-L-A-R. What does spice mean? And is this spice naturally harvested from the pumpkins? Is there some sort of pumpkin spice hybrid going on or maybe it's the pumpkins grown in the Khyber Pass that are known for their spices? I'm

not sure. If you have any intel, here's what you can email us about. If you have intel on pumpkin spice, what's going on there? Email us, beanthumbpodcasts.yahoo.com again. That's beanthumbpodcasts.yahoo.com again. That's beanthumbpodcasts at yahoo.com again. I'm not here to criticize it. I get one or two traditional pumpkin spice lattes, PSLs, as they're known in the business, a year. In fact, I did have an iced pumpkin coffee from Dunkin' downtown this past Wednesday.

Somewhat enjoyable. Not a top ten drink, but somewhat enjoyable. Hey, my uh, the veins in my foot, I can almost completely see again. I got veiny feet, as a lot of you do, but I sprained my ankle back at the end of uh, well, it was like mid-July,

so it's been almost two months now. And my foot has been, well, it was relatively swollen. Excuse me. And for the longest time, I couldn't see the veins on top of my bony feet, which isn't the most sexy imagery, but it's something that I like about my feet. We need, it's a foot podcast now, we need Quentin Tarantino and former Jets and Bill's coach Rex Ryan to get in here. Big foot fan if you don't know the story. But that's, you know, that's progress. Now I got hammy issues. I got new hamstring sleeves. I've

had calf sleeves before. I've had knee braces. We're moving up the leg. Now I got hamstring sleeves. Bought them yesterday. Gonna test them out tomorrow morning for the first time. Maybe going to adopt a dog tomorrow, which is exciting. We're 0 for 1. We already tried once. We're gonna go back and try again. We'll see how it goes. A dog that likes to play fetch, hopefully. I got him tennis balls.'m going to put one in his little crate, his little bed for him to come home to tomorrow potentially. So that could be exciting. The last thing I wanted to mention here, it's an inspired trivia question. So we played trivia Wednesday night in our normal spot, Bernie Bush Brewery. Shout out. Fantastic place. And just, we were off our game all night. Neither one of us was super into it. I don't know,

not in like a negative way, but just we were struggling and Rachel almost didn't go and I wanted to go just to get out of the house a little bit, but it was a tough night. The frustrating thing was the first round, which almost always we miss one or two questions out of six. We swept the first round, so we're thinking like, oh, this is going to be our night. And then it all came crashing down to the picture round, where we do three out of 15. Usually we average between 10 and 12 for the picture round. Well, we knew three of them.

So that was a bad omen. And just felt like you were swimming uphill the whole time. I don't know what it would feel like to swim uphill but I imagine it would be challenging. So but one of the questions that I did nail in the second round was a question that listed four US states from north or four US states and you had to place them from north to south by their northern most point land, you know, on land. And so I thought let's take this concept and let's kick it up a notch like Emeril Lagasse would bam.

And so I don't even remember I think the four states that were in the trivia question on Wednesday night were I think it was South Dakota, Utah, Colorado and Kansas, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado, Kansas. That was the question that inspired my question. The answer is, you know, from North to South, it's South Dakota, I think it's that, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado, Kansas. So I nailed that one like a split hog.

But I thought, let's, because we got some geography buffs, I think, listening to this show. Some good honking going on outside. Quick side note. I spent like 20 minutes of my life last night. So we live on the third floor of a walk up above one apartment and one retail on the ground floor. And just a neighborhood street coming to a T intersection with, or it's not even a T, but with a major road here in Chicago. So you get, I'm looking outside

of the traffic right now, you get a lot of good stuff. But last night at about 1 AM, there was a traffic stop, which is relatively unusual for Chicago. Usually when you're driving in Chicago, it's like the Wild West. You can kind of do whatever you want. You're not going to get pulled over. But they were pulled over. One car, one cop car pulled over right at the intersection here.

So I could kind of see everything going on. The blue lights woke me up. And actually, what woke me up. And actually what woke me up even before I saw, I heard, you know when the police can like talk over their loud speaker and it's very, well it's meant to get your attention, right? Well, with the windows open it got my attention last night. I don't know what was said. I think it was like pull over. But I wasted 20 minutes of my life because I was thinking like, oh something juicy is going to happen.

Like, it's going to be a DUI. Like, let's get in here. Let's dig in here. But it was literally just... I think there was some issue with the license plate not matching up to the car registration because the people in the car didn't seem aggressive at all. And the cop was spent most of the time just like standing by the window not talking to the driver waiting

for something on his radio. So I think there was some sort of check happening. But then I couldn't really hear much. I'm just far enough away, just high enough off the ground where you can't hear a low level 1 AM conversation. And so unfortunately, all I got was the cop saying, I'm not going to write you a citation. So there's something going on. But it was like 20 minutes. I was literally sitting like a child waiting for Christmas morning, looking out the window and nothing

that good happened. So that was a two minute aside to basically say nothing, which is kind of an encapsulation of the Bean Town podcast. Here's my question. Put these US states from north to south by their northernmost point. And I'm going to preface this by saying this is extremely tough. If you get this right, it's probably a lucky guess, because some of these are just way too close for you

to like know it just by in visual in in visualizing it okay there's a new verb for you here are my states Missouri West Virginia Colorado and Maryland again the states are Missouri West Virginia Virginia, Colorado, and Maryland. Take each state's northernmost point by latitude and then sort those from north to south. I intentionally chose like the hardest four I could think of. I spent a decent amount of time researching this, at least five minutes, and putting together kind of a diabolical little program for you here. So what I'll say, because I'm ready to wrap, if you want more time, go ahead and pause. Again, your states were Missouri, West Virginia, Colorado, Maryland.

I will reveal the answers here. I'll also tell you their, you know, hours, minutes, whatever. I don't exactly recall how latitude works in terms of like what the different apostrophes mean but here it goes. The northernmost is Colorado and that's a flat top like Malcolm Jamal Warner. It's the 41st parallel. Next up is West Virginia, and that tops out at 40 degrees, 36 minutes, I think, is that what the next one is, but it's 40 and then 36. Missouri is third at 40, 35.

So yes, West Virginia was 40, 36. Missouri was 40, 35. It is ghoulish. Missouri was 40, 35. It is ghoulish, it is diabolical, it's just downright rude. And then Maryland, 39, 43. So they're all within one and a half, 1.6 degrees. Again, it goes Colorado, then West Virginia, then Missouri, then Maryland. If you actually legitimately got that right, because you visualized it, let us know.

I got a special prize for you. It'd probably be a pat on the back, but that's better than nothing, because I haven't gotten a pat on the back in a long time. A physical pat on the back, I'll find you. Okay? It'll be kind of spooky. Guys, that's what I got for you. Thanks for listening to my show, Quinn David Furness Presents at Beantown Podcast.

I promised you this episode would start with a two. And so literally to cheat, I'm just going to sing the outro music. Ba da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. Hey, everyone. Hope you stay safe. Stay sane. My name is Queen David Furness.

I'll check in on you next week. Bye.