Beantown Podcast - Season 7 Happy Thanksgiving (11262024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: November 26, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE with some hot Thanksgiving takes plus playing center for a Baltimore City rec league team, reading off the wine bottle (homage to birthday shows of yore), and using hip gen Z lingo. No cap. Giving. Don't forget to use code 'mapleisanxious' for 20% off my substack.

Hey, what's going on? Happy Thanksgiving. It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town podcast for Tuesday, November 26 2024. I had to check that one. It just seems so late, right? It's not Thanksgiving. You guys are the 26th blasphemous My name is Quinn David Furness and this is my program QDF presents the Bean Town podcast. I am the chief uh Let's say first first line unit production

Designer, I don't know. I think it could be a good production designer, hair and makeup, key grip. Here's a job that I'm recruiting for right now. Camera vault coordinator. I could definitely be a camera vault coordinator for the Bean Tom podcast because I'm looking at this Lumix G4K camera that I got here from, purchased from good old friend of the show, Matt Fiedler, a few years back. And when I decided I was gonna switch to videocasts and then promptly switched out of that. So you don't need to see me and Maple, we're just sitting here on the couch.

Mom's at a Pilates class, drinking some wine on a Tuesday. Tuesday of Thanksgiving week, what a time to be alive. Still got work to do tomorrow, mostly in the a.m. trying to front load it so we can just chillax, relax, unwind, relax in the afternoon. Get ready for some Thanksgiving here in the Beantown Podcast, your seventh Thanksgiving here with Beantown. Thanks for supporting our show. Thank you to Pakistan. We talked about Canadian Thanksgiving last week.

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entered I think we should do a little David Dobrik Dave David David Dobrik, who was a disgraced YouTube vlogger, had this whole puzzle giveaway. The puzzle was a QR code. You had to put it together and then you scan the QR code and according to David one lucky winner would win $10,000 but he never actually announced a $10,000 winner. So turns out the whole thing was a scam because the puzzle was like 10 bucks a pop and he sold like a million of them. So there you go. That doesn't put you in the giving spirit. I don't know what will. Thank you to Pakistan, Hyderabad, Karachi, Khyberpass, all that fun stuff for making us see 112th ranked comedy podcast in the great Islamic Republic of Pakistan. And

I'll also give a shout out to my good friend Rock Chris, not Chris Rock, but Rock Chris, who is a vintage scam artist back all the way in season one of the show who emailed me asking if I could help him out. Nigerian Prince the whole nine yards and the story goes that I turned the tables a little bit, asked if he wanted to open up a lucrative diamond mine in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania. And eventually, we lost touch. But rock if you're out there, whatever your real name is.

Thanks for staying with us through 370 episodes, whatever we're at today. I mentioned the wine. This was one of those wines they have on an end cap at Trader Joe's. And it's like TJ's exclusive, only $7.99. And I said, well, jeez, if it's TJ's exclusive, it's got to be good.

Does being a TJ's exclusive make me more or less likely to buy something? Probably more, because it's big, bright, flashy lights. In these West Coast Trader Joe's out in LA, they've got neon lights flashing, little Ferris wheels. It's crazy what they got to get your attention. But the more I think about it, it's like if something's only at Trader Joe's,

I probably don't want it. I'd probably rather have something that's only, I don't know, at Windsor Palace Windsor Castle whatever they call it or the Taj Mahal or the Rainforest Cafe but I don't know about this whole TJ's exclusive thing what do you think Mabel interview with the dog? Nothing. Not even a tail wag? You don't want to wave your tail what if I wave at you? Hi buddy. Okay there's the slightest tail wag you've ever did see. Doing a lot of, if anyone wants to come over and hang out at Irving Park and Damon later, we're doing a lot of doors of boar training which involves me standing up walking to

the door, her anxiously following me, jiggling the door handle for a handful of seconds, locking and unlocking the door and saying, geez, this door is really boring. And then walking back to the couch, sitting down, and 30 seconds later doing the same thing. So for about 20 minutes right before we started recording here, Tuesday night, November 26th, that's what we did. And did it make any impact or difference in this anxious tiny little peanut-sized brain?

Who knows? Tough to say. If anyone out there is willing to sell us a Prozac, prescription or subscription, I'll subscribe to your Prozac for definitely for me and not for my dog. We'll get on it. this wine is hard to read okay if you could see the bottle you know what i mean it's uh well first off it's french so that

that's strike one but the font on this thing is really little there's like font on the sides so you got like your main crest in the middle on this label and the crest says riche boire, R-I-C-H-E-B-O-I-S which means rich boy in French and then in the like seal, red seal, there's a shield and then they're lettering around that I have no idea what it says. It's just like way too small, way too impossible to read. Then the actual title of this wine is Cote de Rhone, villages, it looks like dillages, but that I don't know if that can't be right. Then in smaller font we go Appalachian Cotes de Rhone villages, so there's a V, why does that V look different than the other one? Villages Conte,

Contr, Controlle, Chalamet, Timothy Chalamet, Millicent, Millicent, that's the English name, 2023. So it's a, it's dated slightly. But then on either side of that, it's like reading the Dead Sea Scrolls over here. I'm not kidding. I know my eyes aren't great, but this font is so small. And this, what doesn't help, it's cursive. And I swear, we're doing like a 60 degree angle here. This baby is close to a full 90 degrees. It's slanted as hell. No, it's 30 degrees is what I was trying to say. It's closer. It's so slanted as hell. No, it's like, it's 30 degrees is what I was trying to say.

It's closer, it's so slanted, these capital letters are about to tip over and fall sideways. 60 degrees would be closer to being upright. It's 30 degrees, it's closer to horizontal. It's, oh man. In the Middle Ages, the Rhone Valley was already widely planted with vines and distributing its recognized wines throughout the old world. Wine was an important source of income. Oh, I got a history lesson here.

I was about to drop an F-bomb. This isn't on the wine bottle. I will just mention that listener discretion is advised when you're listening to this program. Number one, we occasionally some language from whose podcast objectively terrible. That's the left side. Here's the right side. This area was also the main I should be translating this into Spanish for my Latino friends. This area was also the main trade route in Europe, a place of wealth where thieves like to be hidden in the woods to seize wine shipments for the greatest misfortune of kings and popes."

Greatest misfortune? I suppose the popes go through a lot of wine. They got a lot of common folk to serve. And those big chalices, C-H-A-L-I-C-E-S. It's too bad the name Chalice hasn't really taken off in the African-American community as a popular first name, because I feel like if you were like a linebacker and your name was like Chalice O'Neill, dude, you'd get drafted in the first round.

No cap. That's a phrase, that's a Gen Z phrase that I don't know what it means, but sounds right, doesn't it? No cap. Or lettuce, that's apparently slang for money. No cap means something. You know what my one of my least favorite gen z slangs is? If you're curious there's there's not much that

interesting on the back of this bottle other than a cuvee. They complex and ripe expression just like me. Best paired with prime rib duck breast fillet or goat cheese. Well shit I'm shopping at Trader Joe's. They don't have any of those. I guess goat cheese, I suppose. I've never seen a prime rib nor a duck breast fillet at a Trader Joe's. Maybe it's these West Coast Trader Joe's

got that duck breast fillets. I never prepared duck before. Imported by Plume Ridge Claremont, California. Well, they were just talking of a big, talking a lot of smack, talking a big game about the Rhone Valley. We couldn't even get this from the Rhone. But it's bottled by Vig Nobles and Compagnie Negociante El Vueur, France. So, imported, they import it to California and then they ship it. Is that what that means? I don't know, but I can get 15 cents for this bottle in Maine, could be worth a road trip.

What I wanted to mention is my current least favorite Gen Z slag, slag, slang, slag is not really a word at all. Because it just, it's so lazy, it just eliminates one word. And it's like, well, the first couple times I heard this slang, I was just like, oh, they didn't finish their sentence, like you're missing a word. And now I realize that's just the way it is. But it's the whole, it's giving this. And it, it would be perfectly acceptable if he said if it's giving this so-and-so vibes what happened to vibes what you know a year ago vibe check was

a whole thing you know Republicans had to have a vibe check vibe check with Vivek Ramaswani and I you know I had to have a vibe check with, I don't know, saturated fats. That's not true. There was no vibe checks with that. That didn't happen. It's just an example. But this whole, oh, it's giving homeless or it's giving Republican, whatever you want to say.

Just add, why did we cut out the vibes? It's like, it's not a full sentence Very frustrating maple you have any thoughts on that interview with the dog part two No, just a sneeze into the microphone, I don't even know if we could pick that up. We got to get you a little headset We can what we could do we could do Hmm. We can, what we could do, we could do, we could do a podcast with me behind a closed door and then you will really get vocal, won't you? We don't even need, you'd have a microphone. I can pick that up very well because everyone else in the neighborhood

can hear. Yes, they can. Yes, yes, yes. It's Thanksgiving in two days and I did not prepare very much. I will say though, I did prepare a trivia question, which we'll get to in a second here. And I also before I forget I of course want to mention Mufasa, the Lion King, only in theaters December 20th. Guys we are dangerously close. That's, we're under four weeks away, is that right? December 20th, that's three weeks from this Thursday basically. Yeah three weeks from this, three weeks from Thanksgiving opening midnight. See you there. With this dog situation I don't think I'm going to be able to make it out unfortunately especially for a

midnight show great killer song off of their Hot Fuss album. But I will probably just sail the high seas, if you will, and grab it the next morning. Or I suppose I could already find the director's cut released in China or something. Or maybe they did a, you think they do a big premiere in like Addis Ababa or something? Or does, how does Kenya and Tanzania feel about the whole Lion King franchise? You think that Barry Jenkins brought them in as consultants the entire

country? They have special lion, you know, is there like a prime minister of lion? Is there a mayor of the Serengeti that they bring in to consult on these ones? What was interesting to me, Mufasa, find your pride. Only a couple more weeks, just got to slog through this. But no, I did see a new trailer for Mufasa and it was like, well, it was Mufasa and Scar. And the first thing I'll say is they look the same, so not helpful. But it was all you know how movie trailers like show the clips and then in between that it'll cut to

like Microsoft PowerPoint and it'll have the text so it was like become and then more lions and then back to the screen who and then more lions and then you and then more lions or Timon Timon Pumbaa and then are and then it lingers or like find Your do do do pride You know with it the big drums in the background and then Mufasa only in theaters December 20th Or Mufasa the Lion King I should say Contractually obligated to mention that this belongs to the Lion King multiverse. Of which we're just getting started. Okay, wait till we have a Tarzan crossover.

Geez, that's gonna be good. Storm in the Camp. Did we get a Disney-fied Tarzan version? I don't think the live action, I don't think that's happened yet. Cuz we got the Alexander scars guard Tarzan King of the Apes or whatever is called return of the kingdom of the apes not sure But that wasn't like an official, you know, there wasn't part of the lion king

Multiverse as I've sort of coined here for Disney if they want to take me up on it great if not You know, I'll probably do something with it IP wise but this trailer was just the the words were just about scars like find out how he became the villain and I was actually really taken aback no cap because this whole thing is supposed to be about Mufasa and of course James Earl Jones his last film role giving the voice Mufasa again It's giving James Earl Jones rest in peace But this whole thing was setting up like oh, it's all about Mufasa It's kind of interesting because and I can't speak on this too specifically. There's some NDAs involved

But I recently did a focus group for Some other entertainment. Let's just say not adult entertainment Specifically, there's some NDAs involved, but I recently did a focus group for some other entertainment. Let's just say not adult entertainment, although I think mostly adults would be watching this, but it's not that kind of thing. Unless you really want to picture, I can't even say the person's name, whatever. But it's more common than I thought that these big budget productions are like all completed and stuff. And now it's all about the marketing release.

They're using feedback from folks just like us, common folks, serfs, if you will, S-E-R-F-S, to say, oh, I liked this. I didn't like this. You're watching multiple trailers of something and saying, I liked this. I didn't like that. This was stupid. And so something and saying, I liked this. I didn't like that. This was stupid. And so maybe that's what they did with Mufasa. Maybe they got a bunch of focus groups together

and people said, we hate Mufasa. Show us Scar. We want Jeremy Irons back. Of course, he will be returning. I have it on good authority that Jeremy Irons will be reprising the role of Scar. It will be Goldberg, of course, is back. And all the great hits were pumped for.

I just didn't know that this was what we should have done. We should have kept this one in the chamber. Have your Mufasa film. Give James Earl Jones his flowers. It's giving flowers. And then we do a separate Scar movie, because people are going to want that. But now we're rolling all our ducks into one. I don't know, maple, what do you

think you could have been extra in the Lion King? We did that earlier. Like sat this past weekend, Rachel held up. I was going to say Mufasa, but it's Simba really or Maple over Pride Rock and I played Circle of Life on the piano and we set her down and everything was good and then later we realized not from this instant but it just all happened bang bang bang that she had peed on the rug and we hadn't caught it until just then. So nothing, the pee had nothing to do with Circle of Life. She loved the Circle of Life.

Right Maple? But it was just, we went from 60 to zero. Pretty quick on the vibes. The vibe check, no cap. It's giving Pride Rock. Pride Rock could be a subgenre of gay rock and roll. I think it could be good. And you dress up as Lions or as Rafiki or Timon or Pumba or Whoopi Goldberg. Was Whoopi Goldberg big in the LGBTQ

community or is she still or was she ever? I'm not sure does she have that sort of angle to her game if you will. Is she still doing the View? I think Trump's going to defund that. So I don't know how much longer the View has left. If the View is on, I'm pretty sure none of my old favorites are on, unless Whoopi and Joy Behar have stuck around. I guess they just show up five days a week, 40 weeks out of the year, and do some cocaine.

And they get Bradley Cooper comes on, or Jeremy Irons comes on to promote. Scar, The Lion King, Find Your Pride, only in theaters December 20. It's not too late to change the title. If it's going to be a Scar movie, OK, let's call it what it is. Or they bring on the Scissor Sisters for a musical performance, which if you didn't know, Scissor Sisters is back. They're touring in 2025 in the UK. Hoping they'll announce some tour dates here stateside.

Not that I would be able to go with this little bundle of joy my co-host next to me. But maybe. I don't feel like dancing. Come on. My two feet will find a way. And so on and so forth. Don't feel like dancing, dancing, tinkering down and around the moot. Speaking of a very Alton John centric show today, he co-wrote that song as he did with

Circle of Life. Well, he wrote Circle of Life and Tim Rice, Tim Meadows, Jerry Rice, whoever it was, wrote the lyrics. Not going to sing Circle of right life there you go that's Mufasa find your pride let's do some Thanksgiving hot takes in a second here which I didn't prepare I had the idea on the train ride home today from the office I was like oh that would be a good thing and then I just didn't actually write anything but first I do want of course, give a shout out to our good friends at HomePride Oregon,

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What was that dinner table conversation like with the Puritans and Roger Williams and John Smith and then Saqqa Jawai, Sitting Bull, Chief Black Cock? I think those guys are more West Coast, East Coast. But they couldn't really talk. Hand motions, do you want some maize? Oh, sure, yes. Do you want some smallpox?

Absolutely not. Well, do you want to get raped and pillaged? Certainly not. Well, this has been a reenactment. Samson's going to fucking hate it. And God speaks, he uses a Samson. And of course, our good friends at Cuts by Q. I think we mentioned this last, or maybe we didn't, I can't remember. I did a little,

I think we did. We forayed into the dog grooming sphere this past week, did some little matted ear cuts by Q for Maple. You're right buddy, You're looking at me like I'm crazy. I practically saved your life. I trimmed, not only do we do hair loss, we're doing weight loss at this point. You're so small that was like 10% of your body weight right there. You're welcome. We'll also give him a bath and all that stuff. Cool mohawk. Can you do a mohawk right now? I don't have the right tools. I only have my hands. You got to get you some hairspray. You can't stop the beat. That's right. Cuts by Q. Bullhives. Bullhives? What the heck is a bullhive? It sounds like something you find in a holler in Eastern Kentucky, a bull hive. And there's probably some vermin, critters of the like.

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Oswalt he's good in that show. The blonde female lead, I don't know her name, but she's pretty solid too. Walton Goggins, like sister I think. So good stuff on that show. Great, great guest performance from Margot Martindale in season two or three, whatever it is. And then even the controversial, what's his name, Michael? He's a comedian, not really an actor. Shoot, what is his name? He's not a great actor, but he kind of fits that role well. He plays some guy named like Dewey, I think. He's the chief villain in like season five

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When you need a fresh, do something snappy or new, just call the experts at Cuts by Q. All right, so Thanksgiving hot takes, I don't even have a hot take for this one. You know this whole, they call it Black Wednesday or Get Together and Drink Wednesday? This whole concept of like, I think this is mostly a college kids thing, but you come home from school and you know Wednesday night before Thanksgiving you just get black out drunk. Doesn't sound fun to me. I don't know if that's a hot take, but the

reason it doesn't sound fun is I cherish... Cherish should be another good first name. We had Cherence and then Cherish and then what did we have before? Completely forgot. That was a good one too though. Cherish my holidays and so I wouldn't want to wake up on Thanksgiving feeling hung over. Now I get the counter to that is well you can sleep till like noon. No one gives a crap. It's Thanksgiving. Everyone's just kind of lounging, hanging out, going for a turkey trot if you're active. Otherwise you know you kind of just have one meal it's at like 3 p.m. Why do you need to wake up? And it's like well maybe it's

just me getting old but I don't just sleep I don't just sleep off a hangover right? I'm gonna be in pain whenever I end up waking up so doesn't really matter if it's 7 a.m. for a turkey trot or 1 p.m. for you know Dolly Parton at the Bears Lions halftime show. So the whole Black Wednesday. But I get it. You're back from school. You're seeing all your high school buddies. But that's just my hot take. I think what lies at the core of this is, one,

I didn't really have high school buddies. And then two, by my second or third year of college, I didn't go back home for Thanksgiving or anything like that because my parents had moved. So that happened. I had one, definitely had at least one or two Thanksgivings in college slash grad school where I just like hung out by myself. I'm trying to remember what I did.

Oh, there was one great year. This was in grad school. This must have been Thanksgiving. There used to be a Papa John's on Devon Ave. In between, you know, like Loyola area and Clark that stretch there, where the whole uncommon ground used to be sushi place over there. That stretch. So on a Thanksgiving, you know, all my roommates had gone to their parents' house, family's house, whatever. It was literally just me on Thanksgiving in this four-bedroom apartment up in

Rogers Park and I was like, I gotta eat something. And so I ordered a pizza from Papa John's because I think, you know, it was probably like seven bucks for a large, something like that. Otherwise, I would have gone to J.B. Alberto's iconic Rogers Park institution, or even there's a Giordano's over there, but that's neither here nor there. What I want to say is just to slightly defend my Papa John's choice, because it's so much worse than those other places, but I think it was just cheap and open. But it was like $13.50, West Devon out, something like that. And I think I thought it was $15.30 or something like that.

And so I ended up walking in the wrong two blocks over, a quarter of a mile over, so long circling the block, just being like, what the heck is going on? And it's already a 20 minute walk to get down there from far well. It's about a mile. And finally figured it out. I won't bore you with the details. Nothing that interesting happened other than me just wandering. I finally got my pizza though and just housed an entire large, no topping, too expensive, zero topping pizza on Thanksgiving. And I know it's like, oh, that's a sobster. It's so sad.

You know what? Not terrible. I probably watched a bunch of football, which I love to do. Probably drank a lot. I got to probably do some homework because I was in grad school and I had an entire pizza for dinner. The only thing missing was like I don't know, a foot rub, I suppose. Hard to give that to yourself. But yeah, those days are long behind us, right, Maple? Now we have unlimited turkey

But yeah, those days are long behind us, right, Maple? Now we have unlimited turkey and Polish sweets. What's some other hot takes we could come up with here? Football, we got to move off this whole Lions and Cowboys hosting every year. I mean, Lions is good now, but give us a good game. Don't give me Lions bears. Give me lions Packers or lions, eagles, lions, you know Rutgers something good and the whole cowboy I'm just over the whole Cowboys experience. And I know they've been good up until this point in this year. They're off but just the whole Jerry world falling apart, the sun, the blinds,

the NFC East vibes, I'm just, I'm over the whole thing. If we're gonna switch to a, can we switch off of Cowboys permanent Thanksgiving hosts and at least may it have it be like a, I don't know, I think the Buffalo Bills would enjoy an afternoon slot. Buffalo can be a permanent fixture on NFL afternoon. I'd be okay or Thanksgiving afternoon. I'd be okay with that. Dallas, I'm just at least make it interesting. Give me Dallas Eagles or just don't give me the Giants. I don't want to watch Tommy DeVito. That is a snoozer and No one thought that Giants were gonna be good going into this season not even like the Bears were thought Oh, they might be scrappy. They're playing the Lions Giants come on

You're killing me That should be preseason only 8 a.m. And not like 8 a.m. Cuz there's a game in Munich 8 a.m. Just 8 a.m. And that's a game in Munich, 8 a.m. just 8 a.m. and that's 9 on the east coast so it's not as bad. Other hot takes? Sweet potatoes? Not that good. Sorry guys. Here's what I want to say about this. Sweet potatoes in a vacuum? Okay. I can manage. And I don't even want to get into the whole sweet potatoes versus yams thing because I don't understand it. But when you have a plate or

a spread, a cornucopia if you will, a bountiful feast, a smorgasbord for our Swedish friends up north, if you are giving me old fashioned Russetet or Yukon Gold regular old mashed potatoes I say regular all this if it's a bad thing. It's a wonderful thing And then you're also showing me sweet potatoes or yams and or yams marshmallows or not Give me those mashed potatoes man. You give me the little bits of bits of brown red skin still in there ooh a little bit of butter or sour cream ooh you can make it up like devil's tower like Richard Dreyfuss in close encounters or you can go inverse you can make it a monoloa have a little gravy

volcano mount etna whatever you want to do for your Italians. Tommy DeVito. But yeah, I just, mashed potatoes are so much better than anything yams or sweet potatoes are bringing to the table. I've always felt this way. I've never been a sweet potatoes guy. As I've gotten older, I'm to the point where like, I will eat sweet potatoes and I don't dislike it. One of our kind of go-to recipes,

sweet potatoes is one of the three key ingredients. But if you want the other two, you're going to have to subscribe to my Patreon. But mashed potatoes are so much better. Sorry, I don't feel bad about that. You can even sprinkle some cheese on there. That would be delicious. Other hot takes. It's not a hot take to say turkey is rarely that good. I think that the fish with turkey is great

on a sandwich when you can slather that thing in spicy brown mustard and you know lettuce, pickles, tomato, some rye, that's a delicious bite. But when you when you expose your turkey, that's what you don't want to do. You just throw it on a plate. Look it's next to the gravy. It's next to mashed potatoes. You can even dunk some gravy on top or you could dunk your turkey in gravy. Dunkle beer, whatever that is, I don't know,

but it sounds delicious, I'm sure I've had it. But no, just the turkey by itself, it gets exposed, okay? It's kinda like, if I were to come up with a sports metaphor, and you have this great team, but then a bunch of guys get injured and then you just got one guy left who's really talented, he gets exposed. It's like, here's my example. This isn't the same thing as what I just mentioned, but it is sports. It's like when you're 22, living out in Baltimore, bean town, OG, and you're super, I was going to say insecure, that's not right.

Although slightly insecure, slightly neurotic, more insecure than neurotic. The word I was looking for was antisocial, no, introverted. There we go. That's what I was looking for, Maple. You're very introverted. You recognize that this, however, is a pivotal point in your life, maturity, growth, all that stuff, doing hard things, being uncomfortable. So you join actually multiple rec leagues. I played in a softball league one year. I don't remember anything about that softball league except for this one guy I played with,

just this big old black guy who was really nice. And I think he worked at Hopkins too, but in terms of our actual games, that's so strange. Zero recollection of like, were we good, were we bad? I'm sure we were terrible, but nothing. But I also joined a basketball league and I actually still follow one of those guys on Instagram. Not that we're like close or anything like that, but I still see his stories and stuff.

So played on this rec league basketball team and here's what I wanted to get at about being exposed. Oh, also quick side note. There is this other girl on the team. Her name was Paige, who seemed relatively normal. And we even hung out a few times outside of the basketball team, not really in any sort of romantic or feeling things out kind of way. It was more just like, oh, there's this art exhibit going on. Do you want to check it out?

Or the aquarium or something like that. Did that a couple of times. Kind of friends. Whatever. It wasn't anything that interesting or strong. Did that a couple times, kind of friends, whatever. It wasn't like anything that interesting or strong, but we stayed Facebook friends for a while. And she, I've never, I've got a lot of people in my circle who have become like crazy trumpers. And when I say crazy, I just mean very passionate, very extreme.

Extreme trumpers, extreme whatever, extreme, you know, what x, y, z. The list is endless. You can be extreme about anything. This girl, Paige, I had never come across anyone else who was extreme about this. A meat only diet. It was like the very positive benefits of eating only meat. There's no sort of parody or anything like this. She was digging out these links and articles from all sorts of just wild science sites. I'm sure I could still find it. I think I had to, I don't know if I unfriended her or if I just hid all her stuff. Granted, this would have been three, four years ago and Facebook was still usable. But I've never come across anyone else who was just all in on meat. You see the vegans, you see the gluten, you know, anti-gluten folks, the vegetarians,

your pescetarians, I've never seen it the opposite where it's just all meat all the time. To cap this thought, no cap. I was the tallest person on our basketball team. And look, guys, I'm taller than your average man. But when we're talking basketball, especially in like a city league, just ugly. So I played center. And I'm 6'1".

And I think we probably went winless in that league. I really don't recall. We weren't good. I'm terrible at basketball. I just don't have any knack for that sport whatsoever. I played a lot of intramurals in college. I have a general understanding of what is supposed to happen and how to be successful.

So it's not like I'm like, oh, how do you play this game? But just no God-given ability and very little work ethic, despite my two years as sixth man of the year, almost, of the Rockford Fire homeschool basketball team as coached by a good friend of the show Ryan Austin English and his brother Kyle. We played one game that we certainly lost against a very legit team that had a female point guard and she was taller than I was and she was their shortest person on the team.

I don't think they had someone who was a seven footer. It wasn't anything that egregious. But their center must have been at least 6'9", 6'10". And just the type of person who is there to win, who is there to rebound, and is just not looking to make friends. Their center was. And here I am, little 22, 23 year old pasty white kid who had walked there, by the way. I was a walk on, literally, walked from home to the court. It was like two and a half miles down to... What do they call that? What is that neighborhood called? Is you go east of Fed Hill out towards, I was going to say Mount

McKinley. That's not right. Fort McHenry, where Diamondback Brewing is. Whatever that neighborhood in Baltimore is called, it's really bumming me out that I can't remember right now. Something point, not a fellow's point, not right. We'll look this up and keep going. Diamondback Brewing though, if it's still open, great spot. But yeah, just got absolutely ravaged. I think it must have been probably like 50 to five at halftime, something like that. And then I think they kind of just realized whom they were playing. Locust Point

is what it was called. And it just turned into not that big of a deal. Looks like Diamond Brack, Diamond Brack, can't stop saying it. Diamond Brack is still open. That place opened up when I lived out there and it got to go once or twice, good spot. What's the name of the school we played at? France, this makes sense, very appropriate. Francis Scott Key Elementary, very appropriate because it's literally down the street half a mile from Fort McHenry where Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-Spangled Banner. Any other Thanksgiving hot takes? I know that wasn't really like a cornucopia of hot takes, but sometimes you just get down some rabbit holes and that's how these things go. I don't know.

We talked about turkey. That wasn't even like a, that was such a gimme. Everyone feels that way. Any other foods? I don't know, maple. I know you don't like anything that's fresh or green. But cranberries, no shade to anyone in my family or otherwise who's big on cranberries.

But it's just never been my thing. For me, it just doesn't fit in anywhere else on the plate. I'm not like, oh, I don't want my food touching kind of thing. Thanksgiving, I pile it on. But if I'm working with turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, stuffing, even like a spinach salad or something. There's just no place, there's no room on my plate nor on my taste buds for the sharp sweetness that you get from cranberries.

That's what the wine is for. It's to help you swallow your turkey and to unlock the healing benefits of tryptophan, T-R-Y-P-T-O-P-H-A-N, and for sweetness. It's not, I don't need cranberries for that. Now if the cranberries had hallucinogenic effects, or they were tryptophanic, then it'd be like, okay, I'll pop one of these. You know, I gotta, if I'm gonna sit here and watch the cowboys play the giants, yeah, I'll pop some cranberry. That's the slang. You don't pop cranberries, you pop cranberry.

It's pretty hip. It's giving hip, is what we would say. Yeah, I don't know. Anything else you got, Maple? Black Friday's overrated. All these takes are so played out. controversial on this show sorry maybe next year it'll be spicier season 8 maybe we need a theme for every oh you want to do interview with the dog you only wind when the mics far away that's nice season 8 I don't

know maybe every episode will have something. We did, we've done Palindrome of the Day this year, was this week on the campaign trail, and Mufasa. I don't know, maybe Maples tidbits, Maples wisdom. We need something alliterative. Maples, what do you think? We'll keep thinking.

You know, this is a great listener engagement opportunity as we transition to our trivia question here to close the show, because it's the holidays. And it's supper at 7.30. It's time for supper. We've got Jeopardy. We've got Dancing with the Stars finale happening right now, which we're missing.

My prediction is that the Bachelor wins. Joey Fatone, I think his name is. Emails, bintangpodcasts at yahoo.com. Again, that's bintangpodcasts at yahoo.com for suggestions for what we should do every week on the show in season eight. I just want to shout out, I bought this at a Meijer in the greater Dayton metro area. and I still have a couple left.

Rachel and I have been splitting them but mostly been me. Chocolate peanut butter pie Oreo. There's a there's the that's the pie I want on Thanksgiving. Forget the pumpkin. Oh my last hot take pumpkin pie. Yeah it's not like oh I just like the taste of pumpkin pie thing. The consistency just a little bit strange to me. Now here's what I'll say about this in closing before I attribute question. If you give me a nice well put together slice of pumpkin pie with a heaping dollop of whipped cream, I'm not going to sit there and be like, no thanks. Like I'll eat it and I'll enjoy it. But then I think about all the other pies I could be having, right? This

is the same thing as potatoes versus sweet potatoes. All the other pies I could be having. Apple pie, yes please. Chocolate peanut butter pie, yes please. Chocolate French silk pie, yes. Key lime, maybe too sweet too sweet but still I'll take it it's Thanksgiving you got to be grateful you got to give thanks so with all that being said oh now we got a now we got a crying dog cuz mom comes home naples you can be on the show. Interview with a dog. Come on.

Come be anxious in the mic. The world needs to hear your voice. Now we're just climbing Mount Rache. Five feet, six inches. We've already tried three other times on the show. Come on, Maple. One time she did a sneeze. That's good.

Yeah. Can we hear your tummy rumble? Whoa. That's crazy. All right. Let's close here with our trivia question. It goes into one of my favorite Malty versus peanuts. Here's my trivia question. And there's a bonus, too. When it goes into one of my favorite Malty versus peanuts Here's here's my trivia question, and there's a bonus to its Thanksgiving of course. There's a bonus don't unplug the mic maple This this character only appears in the cold open of a

Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, the TV special. Whoa, she's crazy. Which character only appears in the cold open of a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and not in the rest of the special? Somewhat shockingly, I might add. The only clue I can give you is if you know what the cold open is. It's slam dunk, if you will. Much like me in that Baltimore City rec league. If you want more time, go ahead and pause. I will tell you, and this will probably give you away, the cold open has to do with a certain character kicking, not cooking, there's cooking later, but a certain character kicking a football.

And the character we're looking for is not the kicker, but a certain character kicking a football. And the character we're looking for is not the kicker, but the holder rather. Of course, who I'm referencing, whom I'm referencing is Lucy van Pelt only. And this was, and I haven't seen Charlie Brown Thanksgiving in a year, at least probably more, but didn't know this all the time I had. I found this out on the train. I was researching. Peanuts specials a little bit. Lucy is only in the football scene to open the program and then the rest of the episode she's not in it at all. And I was reading about this apparently, well a couple interesting things.

And then we'll do our bonus question. This was the first episode outside of the football cold open. The rest was just an original script. It wasn't based off of any previous strip that Charles Schultz had written. So it was fresh. It was brand new material, which I thought was interesting.

And then that dovetails into the second point, which was, there are some characters who had just been introduced in the Peanuts multiverse. Marcy, Peppermint Patty, and I think Franklin were all really big at the time. And so basically, and I think this was more just speculative than Bill Melendez actually coming out and saying this.

But basically saying something along the lines of, well, they got all these fresh new characters. You have to have Charlie Brown. You got to have Snoopy, Woodstock, Linus. So there's just not enough time nor lines for Lucy. And also, Schroeder doesn't appear in Charlie Brown Thanksgiving either. So some interesting stuff there.

Your bonus question, this TV special was what number installment in the list of peanuts holiday TV specials? So not overall TV specials because there's there there were a lot before this one. Bless you Rachel. 1973 was the year it came out. So how many holiday specials came out before Charlie Brown Thanksgiving? If you want any more time, go ahead and pause. The answer is third. And you get triple bonus if you can come up with the two that came out before.

It's the classic ones, Christmas and Thanksgiving. And then I think fourth and fifth were Easter and Valentine's Day, but Thanksgiving was number three in the release order of holiday specials. So there you have it. There's your Bean Tom Podcast trivia question of the week. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I hope that if you're going to do that turkey, make sure you dunk it. Watch out for cranberries, Watch out for sweet potatoes.

Load up on the stuffing. And if they give you a pumpkin pie, just say, yeah, I'll eat it. But do you have anything else? So that's what I got for you guys. Thanks for tuning into my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town podcast. Happy holidays. Christmas is coming.

Season eight is coming and we'll be with you the whole way. So let's cue up that outro music. My name is Quinn David Fernes. This is my show and I'll check in on you guys next time. Stay safe. Stay sane. Bye. so so So so so Thank you.