Beantown Podcast - Top Fall Activities (10/4/24 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: October 4, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE to discuss movie theater beverage prices, top fall activities to pursue this Autumn, and Ridley Scott films

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Friday, October 4th, 2024. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn and this is my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast. I am the creator, the owner, and the, I don't know, what did we say last time? Something about catering probably. I always wanted to get one of those big plastic catering dishes or like foil catering dishes with the little candles they put under to keep it warm. I don't know, there's just something, I feel like if you got one of those dishes going it's almost a guarantee at the buffet or something it's a guarantee it's going to be

tasty whether it's a big old slab of mac and cheese or maybe braised short ribs or I don't know whatever whatever other kinds of foods you might put in there. We are doing a little janky recording setup here, partially out of laziness, partially just out of needing to be quick. Got somewhere to be. It's about two o'clock in the afternoon. I'm on lunch break. You've got to get back to it in a second here. So we're recording on the phone. We've got the entertainer playing from the laptop. I don't even know if it's coming through, did not do an audio check of the music with the recording but it's really inconsequential I feel. We're gonna be talking, not a power ranking

cause I didn't have time to sort it in my head and just kind of threw some ideas on the page. It's fall, it's October 4th, definitely into fall weather here, It's like 65 degrees. The winds are winds. The leaves are rustling. A lot of good crunchy leaf action. And had some rain overnight. So got some puddles out and a stiff breeze outside. Definitely noticed the sun getting lower in the sky. So we're gonna be talking about that in a second We're gonna be doing trivia. We got all the good stuff. We got this week on the campaign trail busy week

But before we do any of that I'll mention that listener discretion is advised When you're listening to this program number one will occasionally some language number two this podcast is objectively terrible I also want to take the opportunity to give a special shout out, perfect timing, to our good friends in Pakistan. The reason it's a special shout out is because today on the daily word game Worldall it was, if you haven't played, this will be a spoiler for you, but it was Pakistan was the country of the day. So they give you the country outline and you have to first guess the country and then there's different rounds,

you know, it's capital, flag. I always get stuck on the language one. In fact, I gave up on language today for Pakistan because I actually have no idea. And the top language in the country was like 36% spoken. So I don't know what's going on over there in Pakistan. You guys gotta get, you gotta get organized. Okay?

Hopefully you all speak English because I don't think Beantown Podcast has been translated into languages other than English. But I'm actively working on it because I'm on a 275 day Duolingo streak so officially have 90 days left in the year to complete my my New Year's 2024 resolution of doing Duolingo once a day and Espanol getting getting good with the with both of the past tenses right you got the Imperfect and the preterite I think one is for like a

tenses right you got the imperfect and the preterite I think one is for like a specific time in the past and one is for a general time in the past still getting better at parsing those two out and the the verb conjugations on the on one of them the specific time in the past a little bit tricky there's a lot of irregular verbs we might call them I R R E G U L A R. But nevertheless, I'm sticking with it. I'm in the diamond league, I learned here's a little Duolingo tip or trick for you that I learned and it is bearing fruit. So two weeks ago, for all my duo heads out there, and I do know you are out there, a lot of

overlap between Duolingo and the Bean Town podcast. So when you get, you know, you're in your league, Obsidian League or Ruby League, Sapphire, sounds like Pokemon games, but I'm in the Diamond League, which is the top league. So I'm basically in the top 5% of Spanish speakers worldwide, essentially, is what they're saying. Better than native speakers, a lot of people are saying that. But the way, so I learned my lessons. So two weeks ago was

when I first made it to the Diamond League. There's like 10, 15 leagues, something like that, and you can rise the ranks if you finish like top three, top five in a league in a certain week. I usually do Duolingo first thing when I wake up in the morning, maybe not first thing, but just as I'm lying in bed, you know, to keep my streak going, it's just a habit I have to, not for a long time, it may be one or two lessons, five minutes here, five minutes there. But what I learned is if you start early in the day on a Monday, you know, you start the weekly challenge, you determine whether you advance, you stay the weekly challenge to determine whether you advance,

you stay in the same league or you get relegated. Well, when you get to the top league, you can't advance. So it's either just stay in the same league or get relegated. If you start early in the day, it puts you in a pool of people who are, you know, duo freaks and the, hey, I'm a duo head, but I'm not a duo freak. And I just couldn't keep up you needed this isn't gonna mean anything if you don't play Duolingo but I think relegation zone was like 3000 and below 3000 XP and I would say on an average week I'm around like 2000 something like that so it's just like there's no way I'm gonna put in enough time to stay in here so the trick I learned because I got relegated to the Obsidian League and then I rose the ranks and came back and now I'm back in the

Diamond League. The trick I learned is that if you start later in the day, it thinks you're lazy. Muy perroso. As we would say in Espanol. And it will put you into a lesser league if you will. So there's less pressure. And I know it just sounds like I'm being muy perso, but I want to stay in the Diamond League. I'm also not going to play Duolingo just as a game to stay in some sort of league. I'm actually doing it being muy responsable. I'm doing this para me, you know, not para the glory. I don't know what glory is in Espanol yet, but So that's my that's my plan of attack. I'm in good shape. It's Friday. We still got you know 48 plus hours until Some hard decisions are made on relegation, but I'm feeling good about myself. So all that is to say

Thank you to Pakistan for making us the 112 ranked comedy podcast in the great nation of Pakistan, you know if I wanted to win at Duolingo and feel really good about myself I would just switch it around so that I was learning English from a Spanish angle because now I'm pretty much an expert in Spanish but I'm even more of an expert in English. So I could switch that around and really kick ass. I wanted to mention this week on the campaign trail, of course, this past Tuesday was the big vice presidential debate. And presumably, I'm just so you're aware, I'm lying down on my bed recording this. This is luxury. Everyone should

record a podcast once in their lifetime lying down. I still have to hold my phone up to my mouth here, my boca. El boca. That's Matt's mouth in Spanish in case you didn't know. But Tuesday night was the VP debate, and I think it was, everyone got a like cold dose of reality in terms of this is what political debates are usually like We've gotten so used to you know, we've had Trump now in three straight election cycles That we've just gotten used to having you know, these debates being an absolute circus unpredictable You don't know what's gonna happen next.

Every time he speaks, something wild is gonna come out of his mouth. Well, we got a little dosage of that with JD Vance, but otherwise, really, it was like two hours of just pretty straight policy discussion with plenty of lies and half-truths thrown in from both sides. The only good soundbite we got was thrown in from both sides. The only good

sound bite we got was when, or I feel like the only good one was, and this is what is really circulating on the internet, now I can't get comfortable. I feel like my dog Maple just, she really has a hard time finding the perfect spot sometimes. She's always scooching around on her various beds trying to get comfortable. We won't have interview with the dog this week. She's outside. She got a new bed yesterday and she's resting comfortably out in the living room with mom. The only good soundbite was when they were talking about Springfield, Ohio, the dogs,

the immigrants, the Haitians, and they were talking about the legal immigration move through which these Haitians have taken advantage of, utilized, however you want to phrase it. And you know, to the classic, CBS is like, just to clarify, they came here legally and JD Vance is like, Marta or whatever her name is, you promised me you weren't going to fact check. And it's just, why would you say that? That's a lose lose lose situation. It's a triple lose situation for JD. Otherwise, they

both kind of, JD and Tim, both kind of held their own. Nothing too crazy happened. They didn't get that feisty, you know. There wasn't a lot of like personal attacks. They're both pretty calm, laid back, personable people. So they're not really the kind to do a lot of attacks. But that was this week on the campaign trail. And now we're, I mean, we got a month till election day. It's crazy. I feel like it's, it's been, you know, looming.

It's been on the horizon. And now it's officially nut, nut-cutting time as they would say. So I saw I know in Ripon, Wisconsin which I had to look up where it was because I knew I've heard of it and I've probably even been there but I had to look it up that's where Kamala and Liz Chaney were campaigning today or yesterday. I can't remember. Actually now that I'm looking at Rippon, or Rippon, I don't know how to say it.

I apologize. It's right next to Arcade Acres and just south of Rush Lake. Monday, oh yeah, mean, mean, straight. Today's some soya, mean, mean, bright. That's what happens in Rush Lake, in case you you didn't know i don't know if i've ever been to now i feel bad because i've said it like four times and i don't know what the right way to say it is rip in there's a quarterback in the nfl he was on the vikings practice squad brett rip in former denver bronco but this is spelled differently, so is it Ripon? I don't know.

It's just in case you're actually curious, where is this city? It's about 30 minutes west of Fond du Lac, which is at the south end of Lake Winnebago. So there you go. That's where it is. That's where they were campaigning yesterday. Liz Cheney, who I don't know much about Liz Cheney other than she was portrayed by Alison Pill, I think the actress's name is, in Vipe, what is it called? Vice, was that the Christian, Vipe, Vis, Vipe, Vipe. No, not Vipe, Vice, Christian Bale movie.

Was that Adam McKay from like, how old is that movie? Four or five years ago? Pretty sure that's what it was. Sam Rockwell was George W. That's good stuff. So that's it. Excuse me. Tough, tough sledding. I can't get comfy. I should just commit all the way to lying down. That's this week on the campaign trail. Okay, a reminder, Mufasa, the lying king, is not coming out in a month. You're gonna have to wait a little bit longer. It's two and a half months away still, but still you'll have it just in time for Christmas. Oh, imagine Christmas morning, your kids run down the stairs. There's no stockings because you spent all your money on four tickets, you and mom and your two kids, Bobby and Billy, and maybe even Maple. You spent all your Christmas hard-earned cash

on four tickets to Mufasa. It's not the tickets that get you. Those are only $24 each with IMAX glasses. It's the large fountain soda. Even though you're splitting one 32 ounce soda amongst the four of you, that fountain soda still runs you approximately $74 now. Extra if you want diet, $75 because it just is expensive to be healthy, right? I think we all know that. So that's why you can't afford Christmas gifts for your children, but you can afford to go see Mufasa in theaters only December 20th, 2024. I've been seeing December 20th for about a month without actually looking it up to make sure that's accurate. And we're just going to go with it. If you go to your local theater on December 20th, I'm like 75% sure that Mufasa

is playing. Okay. So don't, don't take my word as gospel and don't, you know, don't get on my back. Don't email us bintownpodcastyahoo.com. That's bintownpodcastyahoo.com if Mufasa is not playing in your local theater. I can't control it. I don't control where the movies go, where they don't go, who's got an IMAX, who's got 3D glasses. We went to see Iron Claw last December, which I think is the last movie I saw in theaters, which is crazy. I don't think I've gone to a movie theater in 2024, which is unlike me. But we saw, yeah, Iron Claw. Maybe we saw something at our local Alamo draft house I think I've gone to a movie theater in 2024, which is unlike me. But we saw, yeah, Iron Claw. Maybe we saw something at our local Alamo draft house in Wrigleyville before we moved.

I can't recall. But they had 3D glasses out there. And so I grabbed a pair. Apparently they weren't for Iron Claw. I really wanted to see Zac Efron and Carmy from The Bear. I really wanted to see those muscles pop on screen, but I think the last time I was probably 12 or 13. I remember one time I was at God Rest her soul Lois Dixon. I was staying with Lois Dixon while my parents were in I don't know Switzerland

something like that and all my friends were going to see Monsters vs. Aliens an animated film from gosh must have been like 2007 and I wasn't allowed to go even though they were going to Showplace 16 and the Dixons live literally like a three-minute drive from Showplace 16 on the east side of town. I don't remember why exactly I wasn't allowed to go but just broke my heart. Maybe I couldn't afford the ticket. Well I probably could have afforded the ticket but I probably wanted the jumbo soda and you know back then before inflation, before Joe Bidenomics really took off that jumbo soda. And you know, back then before inflation, before Joe Biden, Omics really

took off that jumbo soda was only two and a half dollars. And now it's ballooned up to what did I say? 75 if you want to die it. And I still never seen monsters versus aliens or cowboys versus aliens. I'm just waiting for the day when we get monsters versus aliens versus cowboys or monsters and cowboys vs aliens. They team up monsters and cowboys. Got a Frankenstein with a cowboy hat riding El Caballo. I would watch that movie, especially if it was in Spanish, because it would be educational for me as well. There you go. Before we get to our fall activities rundown and our trivia question, which is going to be for both the war buffs and the film buffs, I want to give a quick shout out

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another 23 I guess my spirit points ran out. I still get the email probably annually from spirit or whoever their partner is in terms of like their loyalty program. It's always like you got to use your points before the end of the year and they expire. So I click on it, I get really excited. I'm like, oh, I'll get something free even if it's if it's three episodes of the TV guide and then I go in and it's like you haven't flown with Spirit in six years you have zero points take a look at these magazines you can cash in you can spend real money or use your points you don't have and it's always zero points so that's pretty disappointing I don't remember the last time I flew Spirit I think Rachel and I maybe only a year ago I think we flew

Spirit to or no that was Frontier I don't know maybe we flew Spirit to Hawaii or Puerto Rico I think I think Puerto Rico was Frontier that's neither here nor there however let's talk fall activities and then wrap up with our trivia questions. So I was thinking first, oh, let's power, and I almost did this a couple of weeks ago, but let's power rank some fall activities. And then I was like, how are you supposed to actually delineate here? There's a good word for you. So let's just go down the line.

These are the things that I've put on my list. Hap Hazardly. Hap Hazardly would be a great name for like a comic book, maybe like a superhero sidekick or something. He's always getting into trouble. First name Hap, last name Hazardly. Is it more of a sidekick name or a villain name? I think Hap Hazardly is too buffooning to be a good villain. So I think Hap, or maybe he'd be like a really, really bad like C tier villain like Modok. M-O-D-O-K. If you don't know Modok, be uh, go look him up and be prepared to get spooked by what you see. Spookier than Howard the Duck frankly. Hap Hazardly. I'm copywriting that. So first up I put corn maze. I come from the Midwest and very familiar with corn. I spent a lot of time in corn fields in my

lifetime. I will say though, I've been on like, been on, been in like one or two corn mazes and I think now I'm just, I'm just over the whole corn maze experience Because I don't know do they give you when you walk into a corn maze It's been 20 years probably since I was in a corn maze So they give you a map so you at least can like have a general idea of what you're supposed to be doing or you just Get lost what if you go to it? what if it's like in Harry Potter 5 or 4 rather and you get to the middle of the corn maze and you touch a cup or whatever it is and all of a sudden you're in Voldemort's graveyard speaking of Halloween in October you get spooked and then Peter

Pettigrew isn't a rat anymore any what does he do to see is he circumcised the kid from Twilight I can't remember exactly how it happens. Cedric Diggory. I don't think he circumcised, maybe in the book, not in the film though. And then he dies because of blood loss. No, that's tough. So that's my fear with corn mazes. You can also email us, beanthumbpodcasts at yahoo.com.

Again, it's beanthumbpodcasts at yahoo.com. Again, it's bean town podcast at yahoo.com. Let us know what are some of your fall favorite, favorite fall activities. Maybe we talk about them. Maybe we don't. Apple picking, that's a good one. I feel like last time I went apple picking was with my in-laws, almost in-laws.

And they were like, we were too late, I think. All the good apples were gone. I was gonna sing that song, Hero, by I need a hero holding out for a hero holding out for a hero in the beginning verses like where have all the apples gone? But I don't really know how that song goes. It's been a hot second since I watched Jennifer Saunders belt it out in Shrek 2. So, apologies. Sounds like they're making another Shrek, because that can be Shrek 5. There's no chance that it's

good. Shrek lost all of his mojo after Shrek 2, and that was 20 plus years ago now. So, rip. Whatever that thing, what do you call it? A paper turkey, where you put your hand down on the cardstock, multicolors, orange, red, brown, yellow, good fall harvest colors, lime green, and you trace your hand and you make a turkey out of it. Really fun. You can use colored markers to give him different colors and the tail. You can add a little ball sack looking thing on his chin to make it photo realistic. I loved doing that when I was a kid. We once had a, this isn't Halloween, this is more of a November thing but a like Pilgrim party growing up in Rockford hosted by the Andrews Tom Andrews the Patriarch very important figure in Christian society Alison Andrews Garrett Andrews there's

some twins at some point, Rock Church Royalty. And we wore little pilgrim hats and made little turkeys with our hands. And that was probably almost 25 years ago and that was the last time I did it. But it was good in, you know, 1999, 2000, and it was probably, probably just as fun now. And then even, even more technologically advanced paper, imagine the possibilities we could unlock. Next up, burning witches. I don't know, you know, we tend to celebrate witches a lot more now in the 21st century than maybe in 17th century Massachusetts But I would say as long as it's not like a real person as long as it's not like a real lady

Who everyone thinks is a witch with cosmic powers and we actually kill an innocent person as long as it's more just like oh That's a goofy witch not not real like we could burn them. I'd be down for that. Boil them in a stew, bake them in the oven. I don't really want to eat them though, I just, I'm more kind of burning, I think would be good. Great war on drugs song, Burning. You can go find a live version on YouTube where Adam just nails the harmonica in the last where Adam just nails the harmonica in the last minute. It's excellent. Speaking of burning, something I have is later on down the line here, but I'll mention it here. Burning leaves in the backyard. Used to do that all the time growing up. Anytime there was something we could burn, Steve was on it. Leaves, witches, carcinogens, nuclear waste, send it up, burn it baby. Burn baby burn, just going far along. Yeah it was good stuff. You rake a big pile of leaves, you jump into them, you reorganize,

you put them in the wheelbarrow, you bring the burn pit, toss around the pick skin a little bit. Maybe you listen Sunday afternoon, you listen to the Bears game. Good stuff. Another memory I have growing up, you know, before we had reliable internet access, you get the paper on Sunday morning, it shows you the NFL matchups for that day. And of course it's all it's all a revelation, right? You don't know I was when I was that young, you didn't know how the schedule worked. And so it's like who and you don't know what the schedule

looks like for the whole season. So it's just like every Sunday morning is a surprise. Oh, who are the Vikings playing today? And what I loved is our little paper on Sunday was in color all the other days. It was just black and white, but on Sunday we'd have the little helmets next to each other to represent the match up, and I just thought that was the coolest thing. Easy to be entertained when you're five years old. Pumpkin spice lattes. Here's my question, pumpkin spice. Where, what is pumpkin spice? Where does the spice come from? Is pumpkin spice What is pumpkin spice? Where does the spice come from? Is pumpkin spice naturally harvested from a pumpkin or

if pumpkin spice some sort of spice mixture, I'm thinking potpourri largely, that you inject artificial pumpkin or real part pumpkin flavoring and then call it pumpkin spice. Does the pumpkin spice come from the pumpkin or not? These are the hard-hitting investigative questions. You know, pumpkin spice lattes have been around for a long time now and no one has seemed to answer this, or at least they haven't gotten in touch with me to answer this. And that's on them. Less on me. Where does the pumpkin spice come from? If you know, tweet us at BeanTownCast. I think I last checked the Twitter six to seven months ago, so I will see it eventually, but who knows when? Probably not before the holidays. Got a lot in the hopper right now. Wasn't the Kevin Spacey villain from A Bug's Life named Hopper?

I think, and I'm going out on a limb here, I think he was a grasshopper. Although, he probably hopped on other things other than grass. I feel like he could fly. I don't know if you need to hop that much when you can fly. Apple cider donuts, I don't really have much to say other than those are the goat See, I'm pretty hip. I use the term goat one of the consulting kids who I work with I'm in a you know group text with him and he told my colleague bet This morning, which is I think of thing you say when it's like, oh, yeah, sure, but it's bet. I

Don't know. What is like? How did we get here? It's not an acronym is it? It's just BET, but it's bet i don't know what is like how did we get here it's not an acronym is it it's just bet but it's not black entertainment network or why is bet black entertainment network that can't be right it's got to be black entertainment television maybe i don't know but bet okay so we're going to use that term a lot i don't like it because it's it almost sounds like you got, you know, you had like a hiccup or something. It's like, wait, what did you say? It was so short, one syllable, bet. At least yup is like, yup.

You really can drag out the y, bet. It's just like two hard sounds, bet. It's like, did you say something? I said, yeah, bet. Yup. Haunted house, I've never been in a haunted house before I don't think. Trying to think back all the, you know, almost 30 years of spookiness. Haunted house? Probably not because when I was a little kid up until

you know high school basically Halloween was off the table. I never been trick or treating and so I can't imagine what I've gone to a haunted house. I went to a home school hayride a number of times which is similar but not the same. There was a bonfire we didn't burn any witches unfortunately. Although in homeschooling community if you like touch or come within five feet of someone of the opposite gender, you could be labeled a witch. So for all the blacklisted Hallstrom kids out there who secretly had a boyfriend or girlfriend, we could have burned you at the bonfire.

You would have gone up in flames. But yeah, I don't think I've ever been to a haunted house. Carving pumpkins? I've never carved a pumpkin before. Seems like there's a lot of guts inside. I did go to a pumpkin decorating event hosted by my good friend, speaking of Rockford, Calvin Fredrickson. for spiteful brewing He was doing a little pop-up at Roscoe Village tap. I think it was I think it was two years ago now I don't think it was last year. I think it was two years ago. So I decorated a Vikings themed pumpkin It said skull on it

And if I was really a great artist, I could have drawn the logo or a horn, but I'm not. I took beginning art in like second grade with Mrs. Benson. A lot of good homeschool and rock church names being floated on today's episode. But sadly I did not continue to develop those skills, which is unfortunate. Let's see, we're wrapping up here, we're almost done. A couple other things we just did, carving pumpkins. Oh, not getting drunk at a college football game because most of the college football games I've been to are at Northwestern University in Edmondson and they do not serve alcohol, which is just seems like such a big miss. Such a money-making revenue opportunity. Why

would you not have that? Although I think, I don't know if this is the most recent, I probably went to a Northwestern game since this, but once went to a University of Illinois football game for Dad's Day weekend a couple years back and was drunk when I walked in and then the only thing that they had at the game were those like I don't know if they were like Extra fruity trulies and it was 40 degrees outside and they were ice cold and it just didn't doesn't slap quite as hard when you're shivering on a bleacher drinking something extremely sweet I Think that's the last college football game I went to. Or wanting to get drunk at a high school football game. That would just be like not something I've done but a great fall

activity, right? It's like imagine going to your alma mater and watching a football game and you're just absolutely blasted, which would help if you're watching the Rockford Christian high school football team play Unfortunately, it will in years past. Unfortunately this year you don't even get the opportunity to get wasted because they cancelled their football program so extra double rip to the Royal Lions my lot my parting thought he before a trivia question I went to a high school where We were the Royal Lions for some things and then Royals for others. Our baseball team we were the Royals. I don't know something got lost in translation there.

I didn't get the memo. Someone missed. So there you go. Those are some of my favorite fall activities. Let us know what yours are in the comments. Don't forget to like and subscribe. You can share this episode on your LinkedIn. I've been doing a lot of LinkedIn work since I got promoted over to HR about a year ago. And I'm a total, total LinkedIn head scrolling, liking, saying congratulations using the preset messages. That's my jam, baby. Okay, let's finish with a trivia question. This day in history, October 4th, 1993, 31 years ago. It was actually the third and fourth, but it ended on this date. The Battle of Mogadishu takes place.

That's Somalia, for those of you wondering. This battle would go on to be fictionalized and retold based on a book in I think 1999 but named the film from 2001 that is all about the battle of Mogadishu. It's got a killer cast if you don't know. The cast probably won't help you but I'll read it off anyways because it's just I mean it's long long cast it's an ensemble film I watched this when I was probably I don't know came out in 2001 I probably was like 12 or 13 when I watched this and I only seen it once here we go Josh Hartnett Ewan McGregor Tom Sizemore Ewan Bremner if

you're a Danny Boyle fan you know him I'm just gonna go through the names I know here because there's a ton of them on here E.O.N. Gruffudd if you're a Danny Boyle fan you know him. I'm just gonna go through the names I know here because there's a ton of them on here. E. Awn Gruffudd if you are a fantastic forehead. Jason Isaacs has gotten more popular in recent years. Tom Hardy. Who else? Orlando Sam Shepard, Eric Bana, William Feitner, Jeremy Piven, Ty Burrell, the guy from Modern Family. All those guys are in this. Trevor Etienne, who I don't know, that must be Travis's dad. The film is Black Hawk Down. Black Hawk is the name of a helicopter. So Black Hawk Down was a battle of Mogad Zimmer the composer and Ridley Scott the director.

Named their first two films that they collaborated on. The years were 1991 and 2000. I think the 2001 is a lot easier to get at one best picture. It's getting a sequel that's coming out in the next month or two months I believe and the main character, in fact both the main and the antagonist die at the very end in hand-to-hand combat. The 2001, if you need more time pause now, the 2000 film was Gladiator, Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix, and then the tougher one is 1991. I definitely would not have gotten this, partially because I've never seen it, but let's just say it also ends presumably in death of both of the two

leads, although they're not a- it's not a villain and a protagonist, I think they're both protagonists. Susan Sarandon and what's her name, the mom from Stuart Little, Gina Davis. It's Thelma and Louise was also Ridley Scott and Hans Zimmer. So there you go. And they've had more since then, I believe. Not sure, but their first three collabs were Thelma and Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down. There you go.

That is the Beantom podcast for Friday, October 4th. I mentioned at the top of the show, I got stuff to do. So I'm going to pause there. We'll get our outro music going Everyone this is my show. Thanks for tuning in. I appreciate it. I hope that you stay safe Stay sane go find some fall activities to do and I'll check in on you guys next week. Bye I'm going to try to get the So Thank you.