Beantown Podcast - Ultimate Pie Power Rankings + St Paddy's / Birthday (03142024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: March 15, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE to present his top 10 favorite pies and celebrate another trip around the sun

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Thursday, March 14th, 2024. It's Pi Day. It's St. Patrick's Day. It's the birthday podcast. Really, it's all coming together here on my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast. I'm the creator, host, and I don't know, key gaffer, second unit gaffer of this fine program. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown Podcast. Shout out to the beanheads. Thank you for supporting our show, especially if you are listening all the way in the great Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Islamic State Republic, I don't remember where we landed on that. Thank you for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast

in Pakistan. Speaking of Pakistan, you're going to...a Dicey Riley, an Irish style red ale from Beguile Brewing right here in Chicago. Thank you to Paki Stand for tuning in and for brewing some good beer just in time for St. Patrick's Day. Shout out of course to our sponsors here at the Samson Q2U series for crisp clear audio quality from start to finish Genesis to Exodus all the way to Leviticus hey Final Jeopardy callback yesterday. I was embarrassed that I couldn't come up with Final Jeopardy yesterday because everyone else did But in my defense I was like three and a half four beers deep played but in my defense I was like three and a half four beers deep. I played that

spiteful. One of those one of those frustrating trivia games where you think you're gonna do really well because it's sports themed and then you get there and man one of the one of the categories was just guess this player's endorsement deal money and it's like yeah that's sports trivia that's true but just don't feel as prepared for it when you're talking about tennis guys I've never heard of and their endorsements for the company I've never heard of and it's like well I guess a hundred million I don't really know right it's like 400 million and you're just like all right next up but

when I was getting at Final Jeopardy, I was very proud of myself two nights ago because it was, world theater was the category. And I don't know about you all, the beanheads, but me, theater, musicals, any of that stuff outside of some Shakespeare and Henrik Ibsen. Theater is not really my go-to. It's not really something where I have a broad base of knowledge. And the question I mentioned, Henrik Ibsen, I don't actually have a big Henrik Ibsen knowledge base. Gibson. Gibson guitars, Henrik Ibsen. But to stay true to my Norwegian heritage, it was a clue.

And I had pretty much no idea what it was, something about a guy traveling to Morocco and Egypt. And I was just like, you know what? Let me tap into my classical music knowledge here and pulled P-E-E-R space G-Y-N-T out of my rear end. Should mention listening to the discretion of is advised when listening to this program. Number one will occasionally some language. Number two this podcast is subjectively terrible. I'm just like you know what? Pure Gint, that sounds good.

I think it's a play, but I couldn't remember if it was a play or an opera or a ballet. So I said you know what this could be a play, but then I was second-guessing myself because I associate pure Gint with second guessing myself because I associate pure gint with classical music. There's a pure gint suite I think by Greig and I've played that before. It's got I think pure gint has in the Hall of the Mountain King if I recall correctly. We all know that one here on the Beantown podcast. Bum bum bum bum. We all know that one here on the Bean Town podcast but long story short Pierre Gain was the right answer and I think two of the folks got it right

Including Ben Chan, but this this tournament champions is crazy It's that best first to three wins and today is game three Ben Chan winning game number one Trey Meyer with game number two is and then I'm happy way it's going because as long as you'll guess route doesn't win I'll be happy that guys don't get me started why did he even get invited the tournament champions that's what I want to know I don't even really have time or bandwidth to get into this but they just announced a Jeopardy invitational it's what face to like let but they just announced a Jeopardy invitational. It's Basically like let's bring back

some old Jeopardy players Some classic ones, you know from from recent past like Amy Schneider and Andrew he But then they're also bringing in if you guys have watched the chase You know a Brandon the the black guy with the bow tie and Victoria that she's like a you know her thing is like oh she's a queen she does a queen wave they're both gonna be playing it's it's gonna be wild stuff man seeing all that happen Jeopardy is this whole they're in a season of Jeopardy right but the whole season has just been tournaments there hasn't been a regular season game Holtzauer has been dragging them on Twitter it's There hasn't been a regular season game. Holzhauer has been dragging them on Twitter. It's hilarious. Hasn't been a regular season game since like what like May or something like that June. So it's just the weird I don't know you couldn't how could you

call this a season? It's like isn't a season of Jeopardy to me. But I digress big time. That was all based off of Leviticus. Yeah, I was embarrassed. I couldn't. Didn't get the Old Testament question. I guess I'll have to go back to the drawing board. And you know, he'll be there with me. The Samson Q2U series. When God speaks, he uses a Samson. Of course, our good friends at Cuts by Q.

Excuse me. It's a big belch from our Pakistani Dicey Riley beer. Getting in the mood. Oh, it says Irish style Red Ale. It might be Irish. I'll have to check on that. The cuts by Q. I need to do a little neck shave. I was just reaching back there.

I was getting a little dicey back there, turning into Michael J. Fox from Teen Wolf and not the part in the basketball game where the guy whips his penis out. Good, high quality entertainment. I hate, you know, this doesn't happen often. I'm not oftentimes talking about Teen Wolf, but I've had it happen a couple times in the past where someone mentions Teen Wolf and I'm like,

oh, Michael J. Fox, great movie. And they're like, what are you talking about? It's not a movie, it's a TV show. Apparently it's one of these crappy CW shows, like Riverdale or One Tree Hill or Sweet Life on deck. And nobody seems to know that it was a Michael J. Fox movie in the 1980s. Well, some people know, just not the people in my circle.

So if you're out there listening, go check it out and look for the the penis in the stands iconic moment For a Bob's to bowls cuts to you know all that stuff like a bowls cut like Michael Jordan shaved head I could do that. I've shaved some heads in my time Haven't used an actual razor in a while though. I haven't bought a razor in like five years I just you know I just use my electric one the whole putting on the shaving cream, and it just, you know, it's a very sharp blade. I remember one time when I was really stupid,

which doesn't really narrow it down, but when I was a kid, probably like 12 or 13, and I started learning about razors, I grabbed a razor and my thumb looked like it had gills for about two weeks, so that was fun. Pretty bloody, but it's one of those things where you're just so ashamed because you know how stupid it was. It wasn't even like a oh, super curious, I wonder what's going to happen. It was basically like yeah I know this is going to cut me and let's see how bad it is. And I did it and it was pretty rough. Yeah, literally my thumb looked

like it had gills. It was kind of a scary image. Let's move past it. Cuts by cue when you need a fresh juice and they snap you or new call the experts at cuts by cue. Don't ask me for a straight shave okay I don't do that. Just say I don't want to the whole Sweeney Todd thing I don't want to get I don't want to get too close. And then of course our good friends at home pride Oregon home pride Oregon at gmail.com give him an email or a ring 541-403-16 ask for Steve telling quincentia home pride Oregon comm slash bean town podcast for Zero percent off your first order

Mentioned this show and Steve will say, oh yeah, I forgot that was still happening here in season seven. It's this episode, we're into like the 320s right now, maybe 330s almost. Homepart Oregon inspection perfection. Okay, that was a very long intro to the show. I wanna get into it here, starting with this week on the campaign trail.

So a lot happened. Last week we talked Super Tuesday. Last week we recorded, I believe Thursday night, we recorded just minutes, hours before the State of the Union, which feels like a long time ago because of all the raking through the coals that Katie Britt has endured. Here's our first Beantown podcast poll question of the week. Go to twitter.com or x slash Be town cast and answer respond to this poll question

Let us know what you're thinking had you ever heard of katie brit before last thursday because i'll be honest. I'm someone who Likes to stay up to date with us politics in the most part, but definitely don't know all the you know senators and congress people and that sort of thing I did not know katie brit at all. I knew Roy Moore. Okay, we're talking Alabama and What's his name John's no George Wallace I was gonna see John see Calhoun, but that's a different guy George Wallace big big Wallace heads here in the Bean Town podcast Not not me so much, but I can't you know, I can't choose my fans, right? We're big down in Alabama. It's because of the literacy rates being so low.

But Katie Britt, it's been, I'm a full seven days late to it at this point, so there's not really too much to say. But I want to applaud Scar Joe for just absolutely nailing the impression. It's one of those impressions that's so good where it's like you don't even really have to do anything to make it funny other than just replicate it.

That's when you know it's off the deep end. Yeah, Katie Britt was just, I don't know, man, it kind of reminded me of, and I think I saw, I might have seen this meme on X or Instagram or something, but they like Photoshopped Katie Britt into Gene Cousineau's acting class from Barry, what's his name, Henry Winkler. Great. If you know the scene or the show, you understand the reference, it's brilliant because it's

so terribly acted was Katie Britt that it would fit right into that show like a monologue from that show it would be perfect Yeah, so Katie Britt did her thing elsewhere Battleground states so after state of the Union Trump and Biden they both secured their nominations and now they're doing some hard campaigning They're visiting some battleground states. I read that online. It said battleground states. S-T-A-T-E-S-T-A-T-A-T-E-S, Hoth. H-O-T-H.

What do they mean by battleground states? Well, these are places that are toss-ups. We call them purples in my time. Speaking of purples NFL free agency crazy stuff man whole other show not gonna have time for it today but Georgia probably Pennsylvania I would assume Michigan these are all the ones that are likely purple and so you know they're fighting for the soul of America basically is what's going on there.

And then finally, I've been on a big, I don't know how this happened, I've been on a big Bill O'Reilly YouTube binge. And I'm not talking about going to Bill O'Reilly's channel and consuming his content. I'm talking about compilations like Bill O'Reilly Freak Out 1, Bill O'Reilly Freakout 2, Bill O'Reilly versus, what's the host of the Daily Show, Part 4, what is his name? That's really John Stewart. And then yesterday on the train, of all places, I watched the Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama pre-Super Bowl interview on Fox.

And it was the last thing I'll say this week on the campaign trail, although this was 2012 probably, so about 12 years ago. Bill O'Reilly's hammering in this interview, he's hammering President Obama on all these scandals. And man, it just makes you really pine for the old days when these scandals are the biggest threat to our democracy. We're talking literally Benghazi, right? So the scandal was people saying, oh, Barack Obama, he didn't refer to it as a terrorist attack that day. He waited a full day to label it a terrorist attack. Not like, oh, he didn't do anything or he was applauding the raiders.

No, just that he didn't label it a specific way. That was a big scandal. Obamacare rollout, huge scandal, which now it's just like, yeah, it was a tech issue. It's not ideal, obviously, but they took responsibility for it and they fixed the issue. And nowadays our big scandals are Trump selling secrets, storing documents in his bathroom in Mar-a-Lago, and just a whole other litany of potential crimes. I know the tan suit doesn't seem so bad to me these days nor did it when it actually happened. But that is this week on the campaign trail

and we're only heating up. We got eight months to the general election here. I just voted in the primaries. Did not vote for RFK. Not because I have anything that's RFK, but I just don't want to see Aaron Rodgers in the White House. So I had to just decline exercising that freedom. I always love when people talk about exercising their freedoms. Makes me sound like getting a real workout in.

So there you go. We're going to save our trivia until the very end. Although I don't think it's, I think it's one of those trivia questions where if you use your your noggin a little bit, you can at least narrow it down to like two or three answers, because it couldn't really be anything else. So we'll get to that in a moment here, but I do want to jump in, well, I guess before we mentioned,

mention our, get to our chief topic here, Pi Power Rankings because it is Pi Day today, 314. This is our birthday podcast, which we've done, we've done seven of these now in a variety of forums and fashions, I recall at least season one, if not season two, sitting down with a nice bottle of wine, reading the back of the wine bottle, what a just iconic moment in Beantown history,

and getting one of my favorite of all time, Pepperidge Farm, little frozen cakes there. That's good stuff. Used to be able to walk into Eddie's on Eager back before inflation, kick this all in the ass. Get one of those for like $3.99 or something. Good stuff. Rest in peace to Eddie's. I think Eddie's on Eager finally closed down. It was like there were rumblings of that, even when I moved from Baltimore five years ago. And they were saying, oh, it's just going to move to, they're building something new on Charles Street, just down the road from Eddie's which is at Eager,

at Eager and Charles basically. But it looks like per news reports that it actually finally closed. Although we have a new news article from the Sun, February 27th, so this is only two and a half weeks ago. It is the Sun, February 27th, so this is only two and a half weeks ago. It is Baltimore Sun and the community was determined how Mount Vernon found a new operator to reopen Eddie's. So there's this guy whose family operates in a pall house, which I think I went to one time with my brother Walt and maybe my

mother and aunt, but apparently he's to update the interior and reopen it. So good for him. Eddie's might be making a comeback. That was my, uh, that was where I did my grocery shopping in Baltimore. It's a huge food desert. Something I didn't really think about or realize until I moved there was just the crazy food desert that Mount Vernon is cause it's, it's crazy. It's like downtown Baltimore.

You wouldn't really think of it as, oh yeah, you're going to struggle to have a grocery store. But people for the last nine months or so now have not had close access to a grocery store. You really realistically got to go up north to the Safeway, like 25th and Charles. And even that thing was just a gamble every time you went in there.

All sorts of shenanigans in the most gentle sense of the word happening up at that Safeway and bad prices too. So excuse me good positive news today in Baltimore for those folks. The the bean town loyalists, the bean head loyalists who you know lie a flower outside of 817 st Paul Street every day. Thank you for doing that. I appreciate it. Let's get into our pie power rankings here But before we do that a quick birthday message and pie message from fiance of the show You just want my favorite pie

My favorite pie is French silk pie. And I didn't hear any good jokes today, so passing the mic back to you. Happy birthday, Quinn. Thanks, lover. Well, you'll have to tune in later to see where French silk pie may or may not fall on our power rankings, which have already been written at the time of recording number one for you. Well you don't know where it's a surprise where it's going to be for me. It's like selection Sunday.

This Sunday we don't even know if it's going to make the tournament so we'll see. You have any picks to who's going to win the Big Ten tournament? Who do you think? The Illini. Okay. All right. I'm still holding out hope for Rutgers. I think they might already be out though. So all right. Well, have fun at the wine bar.

What kind of wine are you going to have? Pinot Noir. Pinot Noir. That's a red for those who don't know. All right. see you later. Be here when you get home. OK, let's jump into our Pi Power Rankings. It's been a hot second since we did a Power Rankings. Thank you to fiancee of the show, Rachel Ramos,

for coming on. A quick honorable mention here. I do have 10. A quick honorable mention. And I wasn't joking when I said I had already written these power rankings before Rachel came on and gave her number one choice. So just remember that for future reference. Pi power rankings and then trivia question and we're going to get

out of here in a reasonable time. Because today, weird day today, it's been very, this is not going to be a long tangent, I promise. But very cloudy day when we woke up you had the combination of your daily savings time is this past Sunday Which quick shout out to friends of the show Matt and L Was it Matt and L? Their wedding was this past Saturday at the zoo Congratulations, we ate some of the chickens and, Rachel and I ate some of the chickens. Other people had the cows.

A nice cut of beef. Still others, I think, had some of the fresh caught wild salmon from the Chicago River. Delicious this time of year. So thank you to the zoo for supporting all that stuff. But shout out to them. And oh, so Daylight Sav savings time happened that night and I'm a look I'm a big fan of daily savings time I want permanent daily savings time but what it

means is you know past couple days waking up it's been rough right since it's a lot more dark and then today was a just the triple whammy of darkness from the weather and darkness from daily savings time, which is only two, but I'm gonna call it a triple whammy for added emphasis. But what I'm getting at, because everyone knows how the sun works, is just a lethargic day. I still got out there, still got my run in, still stick to my five days a week type schedule. Very windy though, and just kind of dark out. Blustery, Winnie Poo and the blustery day.

Great VHS, used to have growing up. But just doing my best to get through here. The birthday podcasts sometimes are very unhinged and they go off the deep end, especially once I hit the halfway mark of a bottle of wine but we're just you know we're we're taking it easy here with the Pakistani wine had a lot of beer last night and then this Saturday I mean god it's the the Mecca it's like Mecca for us you know Western Europeans Western Northern Europeans whatever Ireland would be what Northwestern

Europeans you don't hear about them too much, but they exist. Arcade Fire, right? We exist. Great song. Here's your song recommendation of the week. All problematic things with Arcade Fire aside at this point, We Exist from their Reflector album, music video featuring Andrew Garfield.

Very well done. Super catchy song very I think that's pretty close to peak Arcade Fire. I mean obviously Sorry funeral is Probably, you know just at its face value their best album and Suburbs obviously won the Grammy neon Bible is great too, but there's something about Reflector. Reflector is kind of the transition into the sort of band they are now, less indie rock and more just kind of like experimental. But boy, Reflector, they were still at the height of their powers.

And obviously it's been worse, both in terms of music and in terms of stuff coming out about Will Butler, or excuse me, Wynn Butler. Excuse me, I don't mean to disparate a fellow Northwestern Wildcat, Will Butler, who has since left the band over undisclosed conflicts. But yeah, go check out We Exist. We Exist is a great song to listen to when you are like, you had an edible and maybe a glass of whiskey so you're Technically crossfaded, but that's you're not off the deep end and you're just sitting there vibing you plug in your HDMI to the TV so you get some good speaker action going and

You're home alone guy. I'm just we're just setting the scene for what's gonna happen in about an hour here and It's one of those things where it's like a six minute song and it feels like it goes I'm just, we're just setting the scene for what's gonna happen in about an hour here. And it's one of those things where it's like a six minute song and it feels like it goes simultaneously it's like 30 seconds long, it's like, God, it ended so soon, but it's also like 15 minutes long, so it's just an experience. That happened to me yesterday kind of, and I love this, where you like get a little tipsy or something, and then all of a sudden a song or music just hits so much harder than it ever has before.

This is gonna just show off my nerdy side, but that happened to me yesterday, just like half a drink in. I came home before I went to trivia, got home from the office, and just was like working on a beer, or last, oh yeah, I was working on a temperance six pack. And I'd been working on it for a couple weeks.

But I listened to, this is the end of the tangent, then we're getting to our power rankings, listened to Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto rather, in what is that, what do they call it, F minor, I think. And just got into the third movement, just the third, first I started started thinking about Celine Dion and the second movement and then I was like, oh third movement. That thing's a total banger. And I was listening to the Christian Zimmerman recording. The piano is so crystal clear. So good. So two song recommendations. We exist Arcade Fire and then have a little bit more whiskey or take another half an edible or something and revisit Rachmaninoff's timeless second piano concerto. I saw it got a CSL mailer for their 2024-2025 season and someone's

playing Rachmaninoff one which is like no one ever plays rock one because it's like it's got to be two which is just like hard to beat the goat or three which is like the goat hold my beer I'm gonna one-up you two is much more re-listenable to me but three there's something so epic about especially the third movement I mean it's rock Mononov those are both great. But there you go. There's your listening homework for the week. Email is beanthompodcast at yahoo.com. Do you prefer rock one, rock two, or rock three?

This is going to be embarrassing for me, because I don't actually know. And I really only ever listen to two and three. But did Rachmaninoff stop after three? Or does he have anything beyond three? It looks like he might, which is crazy because maybe this is just my head being buried in the sand. But I only ever hear about two and three.

He has four. OK. Piano concerto one one which is what I just mentioned F sharp minor it's a hell of a key that sounds like a nightmare he composed it at age 17 and then rock to C minor I said F minor earlier apologies rock to rock three is D everyone knows that D minor and then piano concerto four I don't know much about his G is G minor. And looks like he had an unsuccessful premiere dedicated to Metner.

And yeah, I've just never really listened to it. I should though. Which is just ridiculous. Like he's one of the greatest pianist and composer of all time and he's got a piano concerto that's even later than two and three and I never really listened to it. So I think I've probably heard it before,

but I couldn't sing it at all for you. OK, that was our one unforgivable, highly unrelatable tangent of the show. We're going to jump in here. Although we get into these power rankings that just, you never know what avenues they're going to lead down to. But I got a good feeling about this. I want to charge ahead and be efficient here.

So these are our top 10 PIs for Pi Day Power Rankings. Before we hit number 10, an honorable mention here, the funeral pyre. And it's an honorable mention, because it's not a pie, it's a pyre. Right, hear the difference? Listen closely, pyre. It, hear the difference? Listen closely, pie, pyre. It's like, it reminds me of, I started doing Duolingo

at the start of this, I was going to say academic year, calendar year. It's just one of the, I wanted to be like, less random scrolling on Instagram and Reddit, although I still do plenty of that. And I wanted to at least spend five to 10 minutes a day applying myself in a different way that I hadn't been doing before.

So I've been doing Duolingo Spanish and it moves you so slow, but I'm just trying to build up some skills. I don't really think I've learned or progressed anything beyond my two years of college Spanish I did. Or maybe it was just one year, I can't remember. One or two years at DePaul as an undergrad. Speaking of DePaul, congratulations to us. Hired a new basketball coach today, Chris Holtman, who

was the coach of the Butler Bulldogs and then the Ohio State Buckeyes. Has a lot of very strong track records. So we are crossing our fingers and knocking on all the wood in Lincoln Park that this is gonna work out. But yeah, I've been doing Duolingo. The reason I mention it is sometimes they're, one of the exercises is it's just a fill in the blank

and you have to listen for the word and they give you two to choose from. And it'll be like, bebeer, bebeer, but they kind of distort it. They speak so quickly that you got to listen for the difference. That wasn't a great example, because there are ones that I can't think of right now that are only

one letter off. But it's what it is. So pie, pie, or funeral pie, or I don't want, that's not how I want to go out. You could just like throw me into Lake Michigan or something for all I care. I don't, you know, it doesn't really matter. I'd rather like be returned to whence I came.

I think that'd be cool to just like, I know this is a morbid topic, but to just like organically fade away over time, get eaten by those fresh caught salmon that get served at the weddings at the zoo and someone else can eat me. I'm down for that, right? The dust of the earth, that's me. So I'm not into funeral pyres personally, but hey, great scene, Lord of the Rings, return

of the king, when Danathor, steward of Gondor, basically lights himself on fire and then runs off the edge. Crazy stuff, man, that never trust a steward or a Stuart. There you go, Stuart, Stuart. There's your Duolingo, difference of the day. Coming in at number 10 here, we are shooting three-pointers,

al-youb slam dunk's right off the bat, this is gonna piss a lot of people off. Number 10, pumpkin pie. Okay, here's my quick take on pumpkin pie. If you gave me a beautiful, perfectly cooked slice of pumpkin pie and did a generous dollop of whipped cream on top. I could take a bite and I think it'd be amazing. But I've never wanted more than one bite of

pumpkin pie before and pie is supposed to be a sort of gluttonous experience. G-L-U-T-T-O-N-O-L-O-U-S, excuse me. And so the idea of going back for a third bite of pumpkin pie, there's just something about the filling where I just, it starts to really kind of get inside my head over time. You kind of keep chewing, but you're not really chewing, you're more just kind of mashing with your tongue. I Don't mind pumpkin pie flavor or just pumpkin flavor. In fact, I have a I think it's Burt's bees

pumpkin spice flavor that Chapstick that was in my office for you know Like four years and then I finally switched or transfer departments and had it clean on my my old office and so I brought the Burt's Bees home and I've been using the pumpkin pumpkin spice is what it is ever since and so it's it's on my lips more often than not but just eating the pumpkin pie it's the pumpkin pie is really just a vessel for additional whipped cream and there's it just doesn't do it for me. I know it's a controversial take.

I know pumpkin pie is the American dream, Halloween staple. But I have never shied away from making my opinion on pumpkin pie known. It's my power ranking, okay? Number nine, boysenberry pie. A little bit of a dark horse here. You don't hear about boysenberry quite a bit if you're curious, because I had to look it up. Boysenberry looks like a raspberry, kind of,

like a mixed hybrid of a raspberry and a blackberry. Kind of got the blackberry shape, but it's already got the maroon color of a raspberry Kind of got the blackberry shape, but it's already got the maroon color of a rasp berry I make it a I make it a point to say rasp berry I was on Wikipedia just now for a boysenberry and I accidentally clicked on the hyperlink for Dewberry There's a great chef from one of the early seasons of Hell's Kitchen Dewberry and He was like from Alabama or something.

And he was just like this kind of overweight, pudgy redhead with a high voice. Jeffrey Dewberry. Season one, there you go. So, Jeffrey, but he went by Dewberry. And, oh, he has this distinction of, I didn't even know this. I thought he was a Ron Long around longer the first male to ever be

eliminated from Hell's Kitchen so he Yeah Didn't go didn't go very well for Dewberry. I wonder what he's up to today, but if you're curious at Dewberry They are small trailing. I don't know what that means. Wikipedia's gone too technical. Brambles, small trailing brambles, I love a bramble, with aggregate fruits, obviously, reminiscent of the raspberry,

but are usually purple to black instead of red. Alternatively, they are sometimes referred to as, get this, ground berries, as in on the ground, not like ground beef. So there you go, boysenberry pie. I guess it would just be like a fruity pie This was kind of one I put in just to sort of have it in here, you know boysenberry coming in at number eight the magpie Meg pie seems like one of those birds

That was and this is this is magpie, not magpie pie. Magpie is one of those things that's in like the little Jack Horner's, stuck his thumb into a pie and pulled a plum out or something. So nursery rhymes, right? Mother goose. You don't hear a lot about magpies in real life, but they are birds. They are widely considered to be intelligent creatures. The Eurasian magpie, for instance, is thought to rank among the world's most intelligent

creatures and one of the few species able to recognize itself in a mirror test. That's pretty badass. We've been thinking of getting a dog lately. We're moving apartments in about two months here. And dogs were on the, you know, dog friendly was in the category of must haves for us. And so we've prematurely started, you know, perusing the adoption sites

to see what might tickle our interests. And I think if you could get a, my sweet spot would be what if I could get a dog that was like a year to two years old, potty trained and Already knew tricks like recognizing itself in the mirror or going to the fridge and getting me a cold Pakistani Dicey Riley That's my dream with dogs. Oh

Man, but it's gonna be exciting. I'm looking forward to that. We can do think about it Oh, man, but it's gonna be exciting. I'm looking forward to that. We can do think about it Once we get a dog we can interview with the doc can be a weekly Segment here in the bean town podcast rather than just like once or twice a year When Bailey says to stop being a diva and actually comes on the show But There you go magpies There's also birds called magpies in Australia, but they are not however related to the other magpies of the world.

These little magpies are kind of cute. They have very long tails. The tail is longer than the rest of its body. That's kind of cool. Oh, the magpie is a national bird of Korea and a symbol of its capital, Seoul. See, we learned so much. Magpies are common orchard pests in some regions of the world. Protect your boysenberries, I'll tell you that much. All right, plowing ahead here.

That was magpies. At number eight. Coming in at number seven, a little out of the left field for you here Felix P a if you're curious, that's P a P I E Felix P a he was a Basically like a outfielder utility type guy from Dominican Republic, but of Haitian descent and

the only reason I knew about it was he you know, he played for the Cubs for a stint and Let's see the what else do we know about Felix PA here? PA like Pennsylvania abbreviation now born 1985 He played in the MLB for the Cubs Orioles and Pirates Also played in the Korean Baseball Association in the Chinese Professional Baseball League So he started with a Mesa Cubs rookie affiliate in 2002 He made it all the way up to the big leagues

First major league hit April 17th 2007 against First major league hit April 17th 2007 against Get this Greg Maddux of the San Diego Padres Padres, I have no recollection of Greg Maddux playing for the San Diego Padres But I guess it happened in 2007, 2008 He had his first home run in later in April 2007 Bounced back up and down between the minors. Cubs traded their left-handed center fielder, Jock Jones, in 2007. And Felix Pia replaced him, but then got injured and yada, yada, yada,

bounced around a little bit, went to the O's. yada yada yada bounced around a little bit went to the O's and as of April 8th 2022 he had still played With the get this You're not gonna you're not gonna believe that I'm that this is a real sentence here I Can't believe this. I didn't look at this before and here's the sentence from Wikipedia on April 8 8 2022 pa signed with the

Wild health genomes of the atlantic league of professional baseball and independent league Uh, obviously on the east coast and the southeast the wild health genomes. We gotta explore this They were an american professional baseball team. So he signed in 2022 and already the Wikipedia on wild health genome says they were a Baseball team founded it they were this is not looking good for the wild health genomes Founded in 2022 and they're already gone. They were a member of the Atlantic League founded in 2022 and they're already gone. They were a member of the Atlantic League. The genomes were owned by, okay, yada, yada, yada,

Lexington Legends, same owners. They're based out of Lexington, Kentucky. Gosh, what else do we know about the genomes? The genomes made history on March 23rd, 2022 when they drafted catcher Alexis Scrappy Hopkins with the eighth pick. What year is this? Scrappy Hopkins. Oh, get this. This is cool. The first woman ever drafted for an on-field role in professional baseball. Good for you, Scrappy. What do you guys think? Okay, let's copy this. Alexis Scrappy Hopkins. This is so fun. We're learning so much. What the

heck is Alexis Scrappy Hopkins up to these days? Sounds like a Trump thing right scrappy Hopkins. That's a god. I don't want to Don't put me on record. That's not my Trump impression, but you can imagine him saying it right like a like a disparaging nickname. Oh Scrappy Joe scrappy Joe Biden He's super scrappy Doesn't have the same professional skills as I do. Okay, I'm done trying to impersonate Trump. Unfortunately, when you Google Alexis Scrappy Hopkins, all you get are all these news articles where it's like, first woman in pro baseball, and that's great. But I really just want to know

Where it's like first first woman in pro baseball and that's great, but I really just want to know What Alexis scrappy Hopkins is doing today like where's the LinkedIn? There she is And she's playing catcher Good for you, Alexis scrappy Hopkins. I do wonder does she have the same arm. Can she gun those guys down at second base? Way better than I could, that's for sure. Okay, anything else here? Oh, the genomes fell with,

they lost to the Gastonia Honey Hunters, who are also now extinct. The Buoy Bay Sox, Frederick Keys, those are Maryland teams. The Spire City Ghost Hounds. And yeah, they had one season, 2022. They finished 67-65. And rest in peace. That's all we know about the wild health genomes.

But we learned about Scrappy Hopkins, so that's a win in my book. Felix, PA, number seven. Number six, Key Lime Pie. It's lime pie. It's limey, it's kind of green, and it's got a lot of offshoot flavors. Like you could have a lot of key lime pie flavored suckers or I don't know, chips.

Not really ice cream. You don't see a lot of key lime pie ice cream, but other subsidiaries Key lime pie is good. I like the liminess a little bit tang to it But you got to be in the right mood right I would need to be in the Florida Keys or drinking a Keystone light or I

Don't know just general key jangling to enjoy a key lime pie. Anything like that though as I got older, as I've gotten older, right? Birthday on Saturday. The overly reliance on sweet can be tough. Where it's just like, I don't know how much of this I can handle for my teeth to start to burn. It's kind of my take on a key lime pie, but you give me a nice slice, maybe a little bit of meringue.

We're not going to cover, spoiler alert, we're not going to get to a lemon meringue pie, but a nice key lime pie. It's fun, it's tropical, it's flirty, it's fun, just like me. Coming in here at number five, raspberry pie, and I'm not talking like a boysenberry pie, but the computer program, Coming in here at number five, Raspberry Pi. And I'm not talking like a boysenberry pie, but the computer program. And that's about all I could say about Raspberry Pi.

I remember it being all the rage when I was in high school. People talking about Raspberry Pi. I don't really know what it is. It's like a switchboard or something. Like a motherboard circuit you put into a computer? Is that like an operating system? How does that work?

I have no idea. My good friend, Sean Young, when I was in grad school, lived with Sean and two other friends of the show. Well, one's not so much a friend. The other is the Ryan Sanger. Got his wedding later this fall. But my friend, Sean, was building his own computer, and I think he eventually did.

But it was always like he was trying to cobble together. Speaking of cobbles, cobblers, I'm not getting into peach cobblers here. Oh, I love a cobbler. Oh, man. Delicious. But did Sean use raspberry pie in his computer? I never asked, because it was always like,

hey Sean, how's the computer going? And he'd be like, oh, it's going good. I'm still waiting for this part. And I'd be like, okay. And because I know nothing about computers, that's about the extent of the conversation I could have. I apologize, Sean. Back in those days, I was not as inquisitive,

not as good at being curious and supporting people's interests a little bit more selfish. Still something I'm trying to get better at. I think it stems from just like social anxiety, curious and supporting people's interests a little bit more selfish. Still something I'm trying to get better at. I think it stems from just social anxiety. But you know what? I hope you built the computer. Whether you used Raspberry Pi or not, I hope it kicked ass.

So there you go, Raspberry Pi. That was a GarageBand cutoff. I don't know where we left. Well, last left off. That's tough to say Raspberry Pi number five number four The only thing on this list that's not actually a pie a Boston cream pie It's not a pie. It's a cake, but I feel like Boston cream pies are more famous now in donut form

than In actual cake form. I say this, we were talking about Baltimore quite a bit earlier, Baltimore Orioles, Eddie's on eager. My routine, Sunday mornings before a family chat, wake up, walk down to the Duncan down there at like Calvert and Madison or Reed I think read probably and Pick up and this is gonna sound

Horrifying with this is what I did and every to this day. I still like to plurts plurge splurge on occasion not on donuts too much, but I Do love donuts. I just can't do it as often anymore. I used to weekly get me myself my medium coffee This is Duncan before they had the app and stuff or they probably did I just didn't do it as often anymore. I used to weekly get myself my medium coffee. This is Dunkin' before they had the app and stuff. Or they probably did. I just didn't have it. I don't know. My medium coffee and three Boston cream donuts.

And you'd have one before family chat, one during, and one after. And then you'd be set. You watch some football. You kick back. And then you go to the spot late at night. Not that late, like 7 o'clock. Maybe pick yourself up a quesadilla and a half

loaf of French bread. Just the ultimate carb load day. But it was always Boston cream donuts. That was my go to. So shout out to Boston cream, number four. Number three, pie. It's pie day. It's pie math PI 3.14 15

Something I don't know it's pretty good shout out to my brother Jack who's invested some resources and time in his past Memorizing as many digits of pie that he could I have no idea How far he got when he decided at what point you're like a hundred digits in? at what point do you just look at yourself in the mirror like a magpie might and say what am I doing with my life? Not to say it's not a noble pursuit, especially if you're doing your calculus homework by hand, but when do you reach your breaking point with pie? Digit memorization. Pi is the fixed ratio, an irrational number, of the

circumference of a circle divided by its diameter. Circles are bad ass, regardless of the size. That ratio is the same, and that's what pi is. I tried before we started recording to actually look up the etymology, because we're big on etymologies here on the show of Pi and I couldn't really find anything other than hey, it's like a Greek letter. So Not super helpful It's not even a Greek letter. It's just like a Greek word. But how did they decide to call pi pi, right?

What does pi mean in ancient Greek ever ever? Circling I don't know. How do they come up with it? These are mysteries of the universe Number two, maybe a shocking upset here, but this is how I feel apple pie now. I love apple Apple pie specifically And I like what I like about apple pie is you can go different ways with it You can do traditional or you can go all in on like the cinnamon and sugar Make it super, you know crusty you can throw in whipped cream. You can do traditional, or you can go all in on the cinnamon and sugar, make it super crusty. You can throw in whipped cream.

You can throw in vanilla ice cream. You warm it up. It's just especially you got good apples going. It's going to be delicious. It's pretty hard to fuck it up, frankly. But it's number two, because I've got it number one. And I promise this was no collusion But we had Rachel on the show about 20 25 minutes ago And I asked her what her favorite pie was Rachel hadn't been home all day

She walked in as we started recording Hadn't seen her since early this morning 8 a.m And I didn't come up with these rankings until half an hour before we started recording at 6 7 o'clock at night now and I asked Rachel what she hadn't seen any lists. She didn't know I was going to ask her, what's your favorite pie? She just said French silk pie. And she said, it's number one. And I said, well, you haven't seen what our list says is number one.

She's like, well, that's just how I feel. And I guess maybe the universe is sending us a sign that we're right for each other. Other signs would be that we're engaged and been together for a long time, and we just signed our wedding caterer. So those are good signs too. But the ultimate sign that you and your lover are right for each other is that you both put French silk pie as number one on your pie power rankings because guys, at the end of the day, there's nothing better than just sitting down and eating basically cream creamed chocolate or chocolate cream with a little bit of graham cracker crust beneath it below it beyond it outside of it and sconce in it

especially to get those little like you know those little like chocolate things, like a chocolate ribbon basically is the best way I can describe it. They put it on top and a little bit of whipped cream. Every bite takes five minutes off your life, clogs your arteries by that much more, but it's worth it. And I haven't even had a French silk pie in years, but it's so good. Shout out to mother of the podcast, Jane. She used to make French silk pie every once in a while.

We'd take votes before like a Christmas or something, two pies, what do you want to make? And I would always vote apple pie and French silk pie. And then inevitably, you would end up being a pecan pie and a pumpkin pie and be like, oh, I guess Quinn's ballots got lost in the mail. But regardless, I appreciate the baking and the cooking. Regardless. So there you go. Irregardless, horse name.

Honorable mention, funeral pyre, 10 pumpkin pie, 9 boysenberry pie, 8 mag pie, 7 Felix P.A., 6, we're going backwards, key lime pie, 5 raspberry pie, 4 Boston cream pie, 3 pie, to Apple pie and number one French silk pie. I don't know what makes it French. It's not it should be called chocolate pie basically chocolate in pie form Synonymous, but there you go. That's our power ranking list. We have officially hit low battery mode On our MacBook Pro I want to thank everyone for supporting this show. Happy Pi Day, happy birthday to me, happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone this weekend. If you're celebrating, celebrate responsibly, turn on the fugitive. I'm gonna be doing

that either tonight maybe or tomorrow night I guess. I don't know but maybe I'll start it tonight. pour myself some whiskey and See what happens to a good friend. Dr. Richard Kimball everyone cue up the outro music Thanks again for supporting this show. Oh, we didn't do our trivia question. Okay super fast oh my god Because we're about to lose our battery here. Oh Man I Just typed in because we're about to lose our battery here. Oh man.

I just typed in Google Docs and it took me to an actual Google Doc. Oh, we gotta, we're gonna lose our battery. We gotta, I'm freaking out here, partially because I have to pee. That's the worst when you're at the end of your show and you're like, I really gotta pee. Happens to me like every week.

OK, trivia question here. Don't cue up the outro music. Super fast. That's the telethon. Oh my god, this is just, I'm having a meltdown live on air. It'll be even worse if the battery dies. I'm gonna lose this recording. That would be awful.

Here we go. Born in 1731, she was the first ever first lady to publish her own pie recipe. And it came in her manuscript Book of Cookery. That's book B-O-O-K-E. So who was the first lady who was born in 1731 who eventually would become the first ever first lady to publish her own pie recipe? I mentioned earlier you only have like a couple choices.

Basically what first lady was old enough to be born in 1731? If you want more time go for it. The answer Martha Washington. There you go. No more time to elaborate. Thanks so much for tuning in. Cue up the outro music. Happy St. Patrick's Day. Happy birthday. And I'll check in on you guys next week. Stay safe. Stay sane.

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