Beantown Podcast - Season 7 Recap (01042025 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: January 4, 2025

Quinn comes to you LIVE to recap Season 7 of the Beantown Podcast, including horse names, Islamic Peoples Republics, and the saddest advertisement from YouTube yet

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn Davis Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn Davis Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Saturday, January 4th, 2025. It's the end of season seven here on the Beantown podcast. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn and I am the creator host and chief launcher of Season Ocho on this program Quinn day would furnace resents the Bean Town podcast You'll excuse me. I'm a little under the weather today. Voice is a little bit soft if you had to turn me up to volume 11 and then after the podcast ends another one comes on and it's completely balanced the other way and extremely loud. I apologize.

Sometimes that happens to me. You're listening to a podcast and it's just something with the levels is low and you got it jacked up all the way and then it ends and the next one auto plays from a different uh you know a different show oftentimes NPR and it's balanced uh it's it's over balanced rather than under balanced and then it just is just sonically insane if you will but that's okay we're just going to do our best to get through this our season seven recap. Thank you to our great sponsors over the years, certainly in season seven, but across the seasons over in Pakistan. Hello, Hyderabad, hello, Khyberpass, hello, Karachi,

hello, Last 9 Edge Reperti, one of the clues, Rajasthan. Thank you for making us one of the, well, the 112th ranked comedy podcast. That's pretty good in the great Islamic democratic people's republic of Pakistan. Speaking of people's republic, I was spending some time this past week on a Wikipedia deep dive reading about the Chinese cultural revolution and Mao Zedong and Maoism, M-A-O-I-S-M, trying to, you know, get heads and tails over the whole situation, but the Wikipedia article was very long and I didn't take much away from it other than Chiang Kai-shek, you know, this Chinese nationalist guy who fled

to Taiwan. Well, apparently he was a good leader But he was also a brutal dictator So it's out of the frying pan and into the fire for those Chinese. They just can't win feel bad for those Chinese you might want to emigrate to Pakistan you want to talk about you know a great great place to be Shout out to Pakistan you know sometimes if you're I Shout out to Pakistan. You know, sometimes if you're, I'll speak from my own personal experience, especially at like Midway Airport or something, or certainly O'Hare, but

you'll see ads for like, come visit South Dakota. There's a TV spot running right now. It's like, come visit South Dakota, or Chattanooga is calling. I'm sure there's other ones I've seen. Oftentimes it'll be places you wouldn't expect like South Dakota or the Upper Peninsula or something. You don't see a lot of those commercials, at least here in the States for Pakistan. You would think Pakistan would have like, come visit the Khyber Pass.

You won't want to pass on the beautiful nature. It's all the great, it's like you got the nature shots, people canoeing down the Ganges and then you got the bustling city life in Hyderabad. And they're, I don't know, playing beach volleyball or something on the Indian Ocean. This is, I don't know, Paki San. I don't know if you guys got a marketing and branding

department. But if you want to give me a little ring, 815-298-7200, or better yet, because I love to get things in writing, you can always email us, beanthompodcast at yahoo.com. Again, that's beanthompodcast at yahoo.com. Set up a little pitch meeting. Recently watched some of Mad Men, so I have a general sense of how these things work.

And we'll make it happen. I want to mention listener discretion is advised when you're listening to the Bean Town Podcast. Number one, we'll occasionally need some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. If you have stuck with us through, here's my first New Year's resolution. If you've stuck with us through seven seasons,

and we'll get you a full season eight here over the next 52 weeks, if you're thinking this is the year the quality really boosts, I wouldn't put money on that. But crazier things have happened. Let's just leave it at that. But we're going to have all your favorites. We We're gonna have horse names, tax specials, we're gonna have a wedding week show, first time in history. It's gonna be very exciting here in season 8. More big ideas, probably more gimmicks. We've you know in

the past we've had palindrome of the day, we've had Mufasa the Lion King. I'd love to keep the trivia game going and as I mentioned that I realize I didn't come into this with a trivia question in mind so we'll just try to write it on the fly and see how it goes. But we're gonna have all that and more looking ahead to the future across 2025 here in season eight of the Bean Tom podcast. And if you are a new listener, if you haven't been with us from the beginning, yes, my name is Quinn and I do this program once a week, every week without fail. We're at about 360 some episodes at this point in the game. You could do the math, whatever 7 times 52 is. That's essentially where we're

at. Plus, specials and Father's Day songs and all that stuff. In case you're wondering, yes, I am drinking tea. This is British Earl Grey tea. And I'm about to take my first sip here out of my Panama Canal mug. It's a very thick ceramic mug that I dug out of an old box of my grandparents many, many years ago. Took it to college. So this baby's been following me for a better half of 12 years now. It's a beautiful mug.

It's very colorful. And it's really cool. You've got three ocean you know ocean liners, cruise ships and they're kind of staggered each one behind each other and they're on the different like levels or LOCs. L-O-C what is it? KS or HS? LOCs with an H? That sounds Scottish. I don't know if a lock in a dam is a C or a K or an H or a K. I don't know. First time on this program in history

we've ever not known how to spell something. But it's a really beautiful mug. It's a shame that I'm sipping tea out of it in whiskey. It is dry January, unfortunately. But I want to just go on record here and say, I don't think I've ever had a cup of tea that I really liked. So with that in mind, here's our first sip. Yeah, it's just, I don't know, the whole tea and I hear we just spent, you know, hours praising our good friends in Pakistan.

I know they're a huge tea exporter, but it's just it doesn't do it for me. I don't know. I feel like I'm missing something. Like everyone's having a great time drinking tea except for me. Even coffee is like not my favorite thing flavor profile wise, but I'm just kind of used to it. Tea, it just doesn't work for me. I don't know. I've got a little bit of honey in here, but I just can't help but thinking I'm just drinking water with the slightest flavor. Now I know the immediate response to that, which is very fair, is like, oh maybe you got bad tea, maybe it's old. I think all these things can be true, but I also just like, I can see after sipping it, I can see where this is going, where it's supposed to go, and I just, it doesn't do it for me just give me give me a sparkling water that's what I spend most of dry January having is just sparkling water and had one yesterday

I'll probably have one again later today but you got to do what you got to do when you got a bad throat red itchy lots of post nasal drip maybe a great great punk rock band name don't you think post drip. You can call them P&D. So this is the end of season seven. I want to start, and I've got a quick list of things I'm going to go down here. But I want to just start off by tipping my cap to someone very special here myself. As we look back whenever we do these year end recaps, I always think back to the first time we did a recap, this year one recap of the Meantime Podcast. This would have been back in late December, early January. In fact, it staggered New Year's Eve of 2018 going into 2019 when we started this program. And is that right? 18, 19, 20, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Yeah, math can be tough sometimes.

And of course, I went out to an Airbnb in far western Virginia, nearly West Virginia, not quite there though. And I was staying in like someone's basement, it was an Airbnb. And I spent basically two days when I wasn't outside hiking and stuff. Cutting and editing is my biggest ever editing project, just chopping up clips from season one of the Bean Town podcast, throwing them all together in a year one recap. And it was like four hours long. And I don't know if there's a single soul out there other than myself who

actually listened to the whole thing, but that's okay. It's very gratuitous. But since then we've never, never had the willpower. That's going to be my nephew's podcast when we have a Beantown podcast spin-off. Don't worry, it's all under Beantown Networks. I don't have the willpower to go back through an entire 52 episodes now and do that chopping and editing. If there's any maybe college freshmen out there who want to be audio engineers or editors in the future, give me a ring or email us, bintubpodcastyahoo.com,

and I'll pay you like, I don't know. I think realistically, I think we could get like a three hour special, year seven recap, cutting up clips from the last 52 episodes, songs, our father's Day in bunches. I would pay you like a hundred bucks. I think that's reasonable. For what? Probably three or four hours of work. If you're good, you know what you're doing. Give us a call. Let us know. Looking back on season 7. I've just got some notes here. Nothing is in chronological order just

musings and be musings some of them show related some of them life related but Course big thing that happened this past year first thing that came to my mind sprained my foot it's probably I've had a sprained foot before and I've had a you know a non-contact shoulder kind of stress fracture situation going on. But in terms of disrupting my everyday life, I think this was probably the biggest injury I've had yet in my first 29 plus years of life. Stupid little kickball accident playing right field, trying to go for the ball, get out of the way of the second baseman at the last second, twist your ankle, slide your, whatever that's, they say twist your ankle,

it's like your foot gives out from under you essentially. If that's the same thing as twisting your ankle out and all, but yeah, my foot was down bad. I missed my Malort 5K. That was a big bummer. I still have the shirt, but I would have loved to run it. And yeah, I was out of commission. I didn't run for at least two weeks and even then when I came back it was like okay today's the day we're gonna do half a

mile. So that was a big disruption. All good now. Still have some intermittent clicking in my bones on top of my foot from time to time. But thankfully not a big deal. Got to go right to, went right from the foot sprain to the beautiful island nation of Jamaica. It was my first time visiting Jamaica. I went with my Rachel and her family and got to soak, you know, soak my messed up foot, my sprained foot in the, you know, the beautiful natural warm

springs that the Jamaica countryside has to offer. Of course, I'm talking about the hotel resort pool. Not so natural, but the water comes from somewhere natural, potentially desalinized. JD Desalinger, a great author's name. But yeah, Jamaica was cool. Won some games to some aqua aerobics and had a steak that was just, there's one thing I've learned in five years now going to, four or five years going to all-inclusive resorts. The steak, rarely the smart choice. If there's a potato or something, usually safer. The steak, not that I got any sort of food poisoning or anything. We certainly had that before in the Dominican Republic.

But just tough. It's like 80% fat, 20% good stuff. Although I will say, I think it was our last night we went to one of those Argentinian steak houses where they bring around, they got the big metal rod. And it's like, OK, here, this one, this time it's pork chops. You want some? OK, this time it's carnitas.

You want some? Next time it's pollo. It means chicken in Spanish. We did do that restaurant the last night, and that was absolutely delicious. So I don't know. I guess they're getting different cuts going on. Cuts by Q, you got a T-bone, you got a wagyu.

I don't know what they're doing down at those resorts. Speaking of food poisoning, though, it wouldn't be Quinn David Furnace without another bout of food poisoning. I think this was number three or four in my life that I've had. And it was, it was just as rough, rough and tumble as I've ever had. I think, you know, the time it happened to me in the Dominican Republic like four years ago, that was, you know, that was because of all the like alcohol that was happening, it was, that was probably the most dangerous situation

and I felt pretty, pretty terrible. Just being in a foreign country and having to fly and just, just all in all, just a terrible situation to find yourself in. This one, you know, I was comfortable. I was lying in bed the whole time, but still doesn't make it that much more fun. It was, it was two days after the 4th of July.

I can't really explain it. It was a Saturday, and it was just classic food poisoning. We all know what happens. I'm not going into the nitty gritty details, but yeah. I was just down bad for about 36 hours or so, and eventually was able to meander down the street to the local Walgreens to pick up some Gatorades, but That was it never never discovered the culprit only thing that I really ate the day before was summer shandies la canitas Excuse me and some chips

Vegetables like red peppers and hummus, but the crazy thing is we were all having that so We were out by the pool. It was awesome. Next day, not so awesome. But another great bout with food poisoning. I watched Aliens in the morning. And my least favorite part of being sick to that extent is the deliriousness, delirium, if you will. I don't know if anyone else gets this, email us if you do, but when I get really sick like that, or if I have bad insomnia or something, which doesn't happen frequently, but the thing that happens to me is I have a particular tune or song, and it's always different, it's based off of something you've been listening to a lot lately but it just plays in your head over and over not the whole song but it'll be like a specific clip and I

don't remember which one it was this time it was definitely there was a movement of a Beethoven sonata because we're very cultured when we have food poisoning here on the show and then I think there was a killer's song as well something from like day and age, just like a five second clip that just kept playing over and over again. And it's such a bizarre kind of phenomenon because you are like, in a sense, you are playing it in your head. Like you were activating it, but there's a, there's a sense to where it's

like out of your control. It's a very kind of strange thing. And I hate it because at first it's out of your control. It's a very strange thing, and I hate it. Because at first, it's like, oh yeah, whatever. This clip is playing over and over in my head. It's a song I like, because it's a song I have recently listened to a lot. But then after the 30th time of it repeating in your head, you're like, oh my god, this has got to stop.

But you're too weak to do anything or play anything else, so it just sort of happens. But yeah, food poisoning, lots and lots of fun. Speaking of interesting things coming in and coming out of the digestive system, you all will recall last February we did our season seven Pledge Drive Telethon fundraiser. And I am announcing here that we will be having another Pledge Drive Telethon fundraiser and I am announcing here that we will be having another Pledge Drive Telethon fundraiser this year. Date TBD. The considerations are that let's see we have Super Bowl Sunday aka Vikings

Sunday on Sunday February 9th and then the 23rd is a bridal shower that I'm being asked to attend. The 23rd, usually the last Sunday of February, that would be like exactly when we do the Pledge Drive Telethon. So it's not gonna happen on that day this year. We might target the second. I don't know, we'll see. That could be the date we go for, March 2nd.

Pushing it into March a little bit, but we might try that. I think Rachel will be in Mexico so that could work well. Me and Maple raising money together for a worthy cause. And yeah, the reason I mentioned that I wanted to take it to the extreme a little bit this year you know the competitive eaters. I've done some hot dog or bratwurst eating challenges at German-American weekend, Baltimore Christmas Village, the two years I lived there.

Well documented. There's a YouTube video, all that stuff. But I thought, let's take it to the next level. Let's really destroy my stomach. And so I did drink live on air over the course of probably, what, 15, 20 minutes, an entire bottle of lemon juice, which had its pros and cons. The pros was it was awesome. The cons was the cons. The cons was it felt like shit after it. And brushed my teeth, right? Didn't make that mistake, but still,

we actually were at a bar later and I was kind of of just sitting there Not like oh my god. I have to puke, but it's just like What the heck is happening inside? Inside my stomach. It's just a lot of chemical reactions going on here your phosphorates and your adenoids and hydrochloric acids and the handle like So what's gonna happen? What are we gonna do for the season eight telethon fundraiser? I don't know, but probably something with less acidity.

Yeah, I don't know. I love to do like the one chip challenge or something like that, you know, a hot ones kind of thing spicy. Like I wouldn't mind doing that, but I don't want to spend that much money, right? The lemon juice was great. It was like three bucks. It's like, boom, you got your whole challenge. If you buy the one chip thing online, it's like, oh, spend 20 bucks on this.

I'm like, yeah, I'm not doing that. Maybe I'll eat it in an entire bag of elote dippers. That way I'm winning and you're winning. Elote dippers from Trader Joe's, my favorite chip. So crunchy, so subtle, so delicious. Just a kick of spice. Can really taste the elote in every crunch. I want to, before we continue here,

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We're almost out of tea. Gonna have to rush things along here. My New Year's resolution in 2024 was to do Duolingo Spanish every day. We're almost out of tea. I'm going to have to rush things along here. My New Year's resolution in 2024 was to do Duolingo Spanish every day, starting from scratch. I will say that the first handful of weeks into months were relatively easy. I did take, what, two years of Spanish, I think, in college. Maybe just a year year I can't remember so I had I had a base foundation if you will but I kept up

with it and I've kept up with it into 2025 so I have continued to do my dueling go streak my Spanish score is like a 45 which if you know anything about you know Spanish scores that's very high. You have Spanish steps and you got Spanish scores. So I'm riding that high and my resolution for 2025, I thought about this for a while and I wasn't able to come up with something that I thought was just like amazing that I really loved in terms of like lifestyle habits or changes. There's general things like I want to casually drink less which gets kick-started with dry January, of course. But I couldn't really come up with something that I was really connecting

with, so I decided I'm going to diary every day. And then I was like, well, how do I want a diary? I feel like you want something that is going to be easily accessible, tangible if you can. But I didn't have a good book set up, and I don't even like to write by hand. So we just got a Google doc going. It's old school, you know, kind of OG. So I am diorizing my life every day across 2025.

Not so much to kind of look back on and reflect because that was the original purpose really of the Bean Town podcast. And I don't know about you guys, I don't go back to 2019 and listen to a bunch of old episodes too frequently. But I think it's a healthy exercise to write down what happened, your thoughts, your emotions. And just spend two to three minutes reflecting on a day.

So that's the plan, that's the new year's resolution for 2025 for season eight of the Bean Town podcast. We of course had our great seventh annual horse names special on. I am hard at work on season eight already, but I did want to mention what the um, how there's a hang on. It was I wanted to recap where we were with the horse names from 2024. But I also found I had two different documents going for 2025 already. So now we're up to geez, we got 12345677 spots already tentatively filled for 2025 and that's even without the listener suggestion so it's never too early you know we still got what three four months until the Kentucky Derby here but if you do want to get in your suggestion for our season season

eight 2025 top ten horse names go ahead and send us a message. Twitter, Blue Sky, Carrier Pigeon. You know where to find us. So here were the 2024 top 10 horse names. Number 10, Havoc Harbinger. Number nine, Creamy Leeks. Number eight, Vetcher Vendor. Seven, Roo Ratio.

Six, Sweeper Cell. Five, vet your vendor. Seven, Roo Ratio. Six, Sweeper Cell. Five, Brood 19. Four, Indigenous Touches. That's a good one. Three, Matrix of Prioritization. Two, Sinusoidal. And number one, Fugue State. And thank you to everyone who did contribute guest names.

We always read them on the air. Only one of them can make the top 10 list. But if you do submit a name, we will read it. And listener suggestions, the suggestion box, if you will, is wide open for season eight. So get in touch with us and let us know. If you're curious, we now have seven all-time number one horse names.

And we'll have entry number eight this year in May, 2018 Episcopalian, 2019 Pentatuck, 2020 Irregardless, 2021 Intensive Purposes, 2022 Flamingo Phlebotomy, 2023 Dreadnought, and 2024 Fugue State. So that was a Names, always. I don't know about you guys. One of my favorite shows of the year. We get to be creative. We get to be silly.

We get to model things after real life. So that's always a lot of fun. Other things we did, we attended eight weddings, technically seven, but I like to think of it as eight in 2024. The eighth one was good friend of the show, been on a number of times, two hands really. John Paul Pandowski getting married down in Alabama last New Year's Eve. So happy anniversary to John Paul. And then shout out to other seven friends of the show who got married. Let's see if we can recall them in order. We had a dear friend of the show. Speaking of dear friends,

Matthew Fiedler getting married down in Cabo. Not Cabo, Cancun rather. Sorry, I've never been to Cabo. That was in January. In March we had a friend of the show, Peter Joseph Schiller getting married. Later in March we had friends of the show, Matt and Elle getting married. And then jump ahead to, so that's what, four. And then jump ahead to June, I played music for a good friend Ryan and Claire's wedding. And then end of the year, September. Another Ryan, my friend, he's been on the show, he was on our Farewell the Farwell back in season one, Ryan Singer getting married. October, friend friend of the show Aaron Burns getting married up in Minnesota school vikes That was the first Vikings Lions game tomorrow is the second one. I'll see how this goes and then in December friend of the show Abby Witzak subway aficionado still trying to get her on the show it will happen

Maybe season 8 maybe season 18 not sure but it's will happen. Maybe season eight, maybe season 18. Not sure, but it's going to happen. She's a not I'm not gonna put words in her mouth. She goes to subway more frequently than I do. And we just want to talk about it. So those were our eight weddings of 2024 big wedding year, probably our biggest one ever. But yeah, I love love. Love is in the air. I love, you know, in the Lion King, Mufasa, Can You Feel the Love Tonight, those lines just banging in the Dewey meadow, always brings a tear to my eyes. In, Let's see, there's so many other things that I wrote down that are not that interesting, such as this one just says sink issues.

We moved to a new apartment in May, and it was what, it was probably like August, August maybe, our kitchen, basically a pipe burst, for lack of a better term, in the kitchen. And we were without running water in our kitchen for like, well running water anywhere for like two days I think it was. Couldn't use the kitchen for about two or three days. That was fun. But we survived. In September we of course adopted co-host of the show, Maple. She's in the other room in the bedroom snoozing

with mom currently. We are both under the weather. Poor Maple is taking care of us, bringing us tea and giving us sweet potato treats. No, I'm kidding. It's the opposite. But yeah, Maple been a fun co-host. Here's to many more. It's been a very exciting yet challenging journey. Ups and downs, good days and bad days. And it's just the separation anxiety. That's the last big hill to climb with Miss Maple. That is very unpredictable with how she's going to do when it's just me and Rachel. But when it's just me, the other night we were doing our training, six minutes alone, she was doing okay, not like super relaxed, sitting down watching the door. But I was just outside hanging out, I got bored after six minutes and came back in.

So there's progress to be had inside that little brain of hers. But she's been a really exciting addition to the family. She's got a lot of clothes and a lot of toys and she gets a whole third of the couch all to herself. So a very fortunate dog, Miss Maple. Two other things. I went the entire year, entire season 7, entire 2024 without having an edible. Just never really got around to it.

And I still never smoked pot. I did have a calming mint last night. It's like two grams of CBD, one gram of THC, something like that. So barely even noticed it. But the edibles, for me, it's just about chilling out, calming. I think because there's Sativa and there's Indica.

And one of them is for hyping you up ready to party. The other one is for sleeping. So I always gravitate more towards the snoozy one because I'm just not that much of a partier anymore. But we're back, you know, basically a pod addict now. And then the last thing I wanted to mention here, this is nothing to do with the season seven year in review, and then we'll find a trivia question for you all and then we'll wrap because my throat there's nothing left. I got the saddest one of the saddest emails that I've ever gotten so this was just before I started recording I had to write it down. So YouTube offers something called Sunday Ticket something you can just buy and basically it allows

you to watch you know if there's you're in the noon window of a Sunday and there's eight games going on, once you can pick up to four and watch them, wherever you are in your market, I don't think there's blackout restrictions. Although they very well could be. Who knows? Maybe if the Bears game was on, I couldn't watch it.

That wouldn't surprise me. But they offer, at the start of the season, they've got their starter price. It's like $250 or something. It's pretty expensive. This is for regular season games only. So as the season progresses, there's few and fewer games. They bring down the price on their package.

You can see where this is going. Today and tomorrow are the last regular season games of the NFL season. Playoffs start next Saturday Saturday a week from today and YouTube They're so Sad they literally email me this morning You may all have gotten something similar to this and like our lowest price of the season only 499 YouTube Sunday ticket

$4.99 Just the event you want to watch, whatever, like you made it all, you made it four months essentially, more than that, four and a half months of the NFL season. Say, no, you know what? I don't really want to pay for YouTube TV or for YouTube Sunday ticket. I don't think I need it.

Now with one week to go, your team eliminated from the playoffs or in the playoffs, there's so few meaningful games this week. The NFL got bailed out big time when the Vikings beat the Packers. I had this thought. If the Vikings had lost to the Packers and the Lions had the division in the number one seed wrapped

up going into this week. What would the NFL have even done? Let's pull up the schedule and look at it. Not to get super technical with the NFL stuff here, but just to dovetail or to put an end to that Sunday ticket thought, $4.99 for two days of watching football. If you made it four and a half months without it, I'm guessing you don't need it now, especially for just a worthless, almost completely worthless week of games here in the NFL. But hey, it is what it is.

I'm just wondering how many clicks they got from From that 499 offer. Oh my fantasy hockey team. I got like three Washington Capitals and I just opened up ESPN to check the schedule. They're winning four to two going into the third period. Let's see how my guys are doing How do you even see who scored it doesn't it doesn't show? Oh, there we go. Okay, Dylan Strahm I got him on my team. I think he's the only one from even see who scored? It doesn't show. Oh, there we go. Okay. Dylan Strohm, I got him on my team. I think he's the only one from my team who scored. This week on the Beantown podcast, Quinn recaps his fantasy hockey team because he has a very good grasp on how to do well and how to not do well. Oh yeah, man. Dylan Strohm, 9.5 points. In case you're curious, that's a lot.

Hell yeah. OK, let's go to the NFL schedule. So again, for context, the Vikings and or for step back even more, the NFL, the last week of the regular season for the last 10, 15 years or so only does divisional games. They want the games to matter. They want them to be close, have a lot of meaning and impact, which usually is the case.

But they'll always put the last game of the season, Sunday night football, standalone. There's no Monday night or anything like that. They want that game to have a very meaningful impact So it will be like if you win you're in the playoffs if you lose you're out of the playoffs you know that type of game or if you win You get the number one seed if you lose you don't you know some something big like that So in this instance they get the ultimate gift the ultimate their ultimate Christmas wish

In this instance, they get the ultimate gift, their ultimate Christmas wish, which is Vikings versus Lions. Winner gets the division and the number one seed, which includes a buy to the divisional round. Loser still makes the playoffs, but they're the five seed, and they have to go on the road in the wild card round next week. So two weeks of rest versus one week automatic win versus non-automatic win and just the division crown on top of all that. So they got

very lucky. However, the Vikings had lost to the Packers last week. It wouldn't have mattered. The Lions would have clinched the division. Vikings would have been stuck in the five spot. Both teams could have rested starters if they wanted to. So in that hypothetical scenario, if that if that would have happened, you probably you know, you wouldn't have put Vikings Lions in the last game because because it was there'd be one in five seeding wise, it wouldn't matter. But and I'm not going to break down all the scenarios and stuff, but just looking at the scoreboard, what would they have done?

Browns or Ravens? Ravens just have to win to win the AFC North and they're going to win. The Browns are terrible. So it doesn't matter for the Steelers what happens in the Bengal Steelers game. Now it matters for the Bengals, but they need to not only win, but have two other teams lose. And so you wouldn't want to put them in the Sunday night slot because there's a good chance one of the other two teams,

the Dolphins or the Broncos, would have won already. And then that wouldn't matter for them. And it wouldn't matter for the Steelers either. So that doesn't really make sense. If you were to put the Ravens and Browns in the Sunday night spot, that would make sense if the Steelers had won because the Ravens would need to win to win the Ravens and Browns in the Sunday night spot, that would make sense if the Steelers had won, because the Ravens would need to win to win the AFC North, but is it just as

good of a chance that the Steelers lose to the Bengals, in which case the Ravens don't even need to win to win the North, so you wouldn't want that to be in there. Panthers-Falcons, Falcons have to win to have a shot, but they need the Bucks to lose, and the Bucks are playing the Saints with a backup quarterback. So you probably can't have those two games being a standalone spot. That doesn't make any sense. Commanders, Cowboys, just seeding.

Commanders win, they stay the sixth seed. Bears, Packers, same thing. They could flip from seven to six with the Commanders, but you wouldn't. Neither of those have any sort of impact for the teams they're playing. So it's just moving up or down one seed line, not significant at all. Texans Titans, nothing. Texans have the division in the four seed locked up. Jaguars Colts, Colts have to win, but it's Joel Flacco. And even if they win

in the Broncos win, it doesn't even matter. So that's the thing with the Colts, the Broncos, and the Dolphins. You wouldn't want to put one of those teams in prime time. I guess the only one you'd want to do would be the Broncos game because Broncos vs. Carson Wentz and the Chiefs. Because you could probably have a good bet that either the Colts or the Dolphins are going to win, in which case one of those two teams would be watching Sunday night to get in, and the Broncos would have to win and get in or lose and be out. So that would probably, now that we're looking at it, you probably put the Broncos, Chiefs, in prime time.

I think that makes sense. The funny thing, of course, would be if both the Colts and the Dolphins lost, and then Broncos wouldn't even need to win Unless the Bengals won too. Getting into too much of a tizzy here. That's let's leave it there There's other games, but it doesn't matter by the time you listen to this all of this will have played out Let's do this day in history January 4th, let's find a trivia question here.

What better way to close out season seven of the Bean Town podcast than with lack of preparation and furious Google searching on your phone? Okay. Let's see here. Where can we find a good trivia question? So good born on this dates, Isaac Newton. Okay. I don't know if I love that one. Oh, okay. Here we go.

Here's a good one. 2007, this politician is elected speaker of the House of Representatives, becoming the first woman ever to hold the post. January 4th, 2007, this woman becomes the first ever female Speaker of the House. Don't overthink it. It is, if you want more time pause now the answer is Nancy Pelosi and then see if there's anything else good we want to we want to leave you with here mmm one about Lewis Braille oh here's one last thing here

1948 Burma granted independence by the British Empire British Prime Minister what is the modern day name of Burma and that was 1948 January 4th 2024 Burma so what country used to be known as Burma it's in Southeast Asia by the way it's not Vietnam, it's not Cambodia. That was Zaire, which a lot of people will know. But no, Burma, that was Myanmar. So there you go. That's it.

That was our, I was going to say half-assed effort. It's not half-assed. I'm sick, not feeling well, was not up to recording today, but the listeners demand it. We have to power through. Remember, you can find our latest blog posts, our latest haircuts. You can get in touch with us even. There's a contact form as always, beanytownpodcast.com. We would love to hear from you.

Email us horse names. Email us if there's anyone else who's been caught in whales, stomachs throughout history that we may be forgetting or neglecting. But beyond that, that's what I have for you guys. 45 minutes seems like a good place to wrap things up. So for all of us here Bean Town Network, season seven of the Bean Town podcast, my name is Quinn David Furness. This is my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Bean Town Podcast. Thank you for listening. Cheers to season eight and stay safe, stay sane. Check in on you guys next time. Bye. So so so so Thank you.