Beantown Podcast - 2024 Big Ideas Podcast (04192024 Beantown Podcast)
Episode Date: April 19, 2024Quinn comes to you LIVE with some big ideas about Taylor Swift, tertiary wedding invites, and a brand new mentorship program...
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Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents
the Bean Town podcast for Friday, April 19th, 2024. What's happening? What's going on? How
are you? Yes, this is discount royalty free version per YouTube
of The Entertainer by Scott Joplin. This is provided thanks to our friends over at
freesoundmusic.eu. So it's from the EU, so you know it's legit. You know what I read this morning
as part of my job? I read a letter of recommendation from a member of the
European Parliament, the EU Parliament. I don't even really know what this means
because don't you know individual countries in the EU have their own
parliaments like England or the United Kingdom as a Parliament right? So like
how how does that relate to the EU Parliament? I don't know is it just like United Nations or something like that on a smaller scale?
These are things I don't know the answer to.
But this is not the official Bean Town podcast trivia question of the day.
But I want you to guess what year was that letter of recommendation from that I read
on an application that was submitted today?
If you want more time, go for it. Pretty sure,
based off of we played 2000's music trivia last night with some, I played with
some co-workers downtown at a bar below our office. I believe to give you a little
clue here, this was the year that season one of American Idol came out. That was not
the clue last night, it was just part of a larger clue and I haven't confirmed
this yet. I don't know if it's true or not so you can go Google it afterwards if
you'd really like to know. But I believe the answer to both of these questions is
the year 2002 is when this letter of recommendation was from from European Union Parliament
parliament P-A-R-L-I-A-M-E-N-T. My name is Quinn this is my show
Quinn David Furnace presents the Beantown podcast now in our seventh year
a couple of housekeeping notes before we jump in here first and foremost hello to
our great friends in Pakistan.
Thank you for listening to our program.
Thank you for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast
in the great nation of Pakistan.
Listener discretion advised when you're listening
to Quinn David Furnace Presents the Bean Town podcast.
Number one, we occasionally some language
number two, this podcast is objectively terrible.
Third bit of housekeeping, obviously, we
are still not fully up and running,
fully operational, functional with Audacity,
which if you're unaware is the music recording software we
have.
I'm going to keep the temp tag on it,
temporarily switch it over to in sports when a manager or a coach
gets fired midseason so the new person
comes in and they're not like the official head coach they're just the temporary head coach or
intern in interim not intern interim i n t e r i m that's it we're putting the interim tag on audacity
it's one of those things where i won't get into the weeds here but
basically just I haven't transferred over the audio files, the mp3 files for
the intro and the outro music to load into Audacity which presumably is gonna
be super simple. The reason I haven't done it is because you physically have
to go into the MacBook, grab those files and then use that MacBook to send those files on an email.
And the thought, the daunting thought
of trying to send an email on that MacBook
is frightening to me.
Just itched my cheek, my chin purposefully
and realized I forgot to, that was the one thing
I really wanted to take care of
before my shower today.
I was gonna shave, which I did,
but I didn't cut my fingernails.
Long, and my fingernails aren't even long,
but longer fingernails, one of my biggest pet peeves.
I hate it, because it feels like it goes from
nothing, no problem, to oh my God,
I've got so much detritus under the finger fingernails every time I touch anything
It feels like it makes that transition for me at least in about
24 hours. It's crazy how quick it goes
Other bit of housekeeping here
Thank you again last week to Matthew Feather for coming on our program our seventh annual
Taxes special we had a great conversation.
If you missed it, go check it out.
Last week, we talked joint filings.
We talked Manson murders, a bunch of other things.
One thing I will say, and I apologize
to the listeners for this, with a new software like Audacity,
trying to figure out the kinks.
And the max volume you could get out of that baby last week
was tough.
It was a very low ceiling.
I remember I listened to part of the episode.
I didn't listen to the whole thing.
But when I was on a walk outside and I had my AirPods in,
I think my volume on my phone was all the way up.
And it was just right with the volume all the way
maxed out with AirPods in.
So apologies for that. It was like just right with the volume all the way maxed out with air pods in so
Apologies for that. I have tried to
Fix the situation a little bit here. I think that the audio I did a little test before this and I think we're good to go on
Excuse me max volume. So we will cross our fingers fingers fingers
And go from there. This is gonna be our big ideas
Podcast if you missed it you could have submitted your answer, your idea for a big ideas podcast on our Instagram. That guess everyone was just, you know, doing the slam
the laptop shut until Monday sort of meme. That's a very popular one these days. Or maybe I'm just
missing other people's submissions. I don't know where these things show up, but we've had a lot
of viewers on the Instagram story and no submissions yet, which is a damn shame. But thank you to those
of you. If you retroactively want to submit something to us, email us,
beanthompodcasts at yahoo.com.
Again, that's beanthompodcasts at yahoo.com.
What I'm drinking today, and we'll come back to big ideas,
we also have kind of our two other current recurring
segments.
If you're curious, right on cue is under construction.
We're coming back to that.
But we'll do this week on the campaign show, we'll do a trivia question and
we'll talk big ideas.
And then a couple just for the future things, a reminder.
I'll let you know the reminder right now before I get too far ahead of myself.
Then we'll talk about war drinking and then we're going to jump in.
Two weeks away from our top 10 horse special program.
It's an annual thing.
If you're new to the show this time around every year, Kentucky Derby weekend rolls around.
Whatever that weekend is, our show going into that weekend, we do a top 10 horse name special.
You might be wondering, hey Quinn, are you just like looking at all the horses in the
Kentucky Derby picking your 10 favorite?
No, it's not what it's about at all.
It's basically a creative exercise
where I come up with 10 horse names, theoretical names.
These are not real horses.
So far as I'm aware, these are not real names yet.
No one has claimed them.
They belong to me.
But basically, each year, I come up with a new list of 10 names
that I feel like would be great names for race horses.
It was born out of, and I don't know how this really initially started, you know, I don't come from like a horse racing family,
and I only ever watched, you know, the Triple Crown horse races each year, that's it.
But growing up I was always like, man, if I ever like could name a horse, I think I had the best name, which was Episcopalian,
you know, which ended up being our year one.
It was our top name.
But I was like, hey, we don't just have to do one name a year.
We can do a full list of 10.
Well, here we are seven years later, and we do 10 each year.
And so that's where we're at.
So this year we're going to do names 61 through 70,
I think is how that works.
And so what we've tried to do in the last couple of years
is reserve one spot for listener submissions.
So if you are out there, you're bean head,
whether you are new to the show, this is your first episode,
or whether this is your 330th episode, wherever we're at,
email us, beanthelmpodcasts at yahoo.com.
In the next two weeks here. Time is running out with your submission for this year's
horse name of the year.
I will read all the submissions I receive.
I'll do a little bit more outreach
to make sure we get some names in there.
But I will say it's still a wide open race, if you will,
for that listener submission spot.
I will say, and I'm not going to tease any names,
I'm not going to share anything.
I will just say, quantity-wise, I came up
with another two this week.
I'm already at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Is that right?
I'm at 8.
So I only have one more spot for myself,
assuming none of these current ones get the boot.
I do have a front runner that I like,
but frequently I do not make a choice for the number one
slot until right before I go to recording, which is important
because I track all of them, but I
have a list of ultimate number one horse names, right?
So this year we'll get number seven in there, number one.
I'm not going to go back right now on the show
and read through our past top names.
We'll have time for that in two weeks
when it's all about the horses.
But there you go, that's coming up in two weeks.
So I encourage you to email in.
Next week we'll be on the road.
Rachel and I are going to Indiana, Michigan City for just a little getaway and taking the South Shore Line.
Very exciting. But yeah, I'll be recording on the road in some capacity,
probably with my AirPods, kind of like what I did last time. We went out that
way, went to Michigan and I recorded live from the Orb, which was, I thought, a really good episode, kind of educational.
Got to read a bunch of the signs.
I learned a lot.
I thought that was one of, in terms of just like,
what's at the front of my cerebral cortex right now,
if you will, one of, I thought one of the more fun episodes
and just getting to do it at an iconic place,
Mount Baldhead, pretty fun. an iconic place, Mount Baldhead. Pretty fun.
I got to remember, there's a Mount Baldhead-like challenge.
It's like a 10k or something.
I think it takes place in August, Mount Baldhead
challenge.
Let's see what this is.
I think we've talked about this on the show before.
I don't want to go back through it.
I just want to make sure I get the date right.
September 7, 2024.
That is a Saturday.
It's after Labor Day weekend.
So this would be the start of the NFL season.
That's the type of thing I would love to do,
especially because it's like, if I could get a car, borrow a car
or something, could just drive there.
Would probably drive there the Friday night
and then run the race and then drive back home Saturday
afternoon.
But the Mount Baldhead Challenge,
basically, you can do a 10k or a half marathon.
And if you've never really been to Saugatuck or Mount Baldhead,
it's a really beautiful area.
And I actually haven't been directly there in the summer,
right there on Lake Michigan. But I'm going to put a pin in that I would gonna take a little bit
of coordination but I would love to do that so we'll come back to it what am I
drinking we are working on a Miller light if you're curious and I actually
had this thought right before I started recording we shoot kind of low-hanging
fruit among our many power rankings we've done.
We've never done a Quinn's personal take on light beer rankings.
I don't drink a ton of light beer.
I'm not one of those guys who's always coming home from Jules with a 24-pack of old style
or something like that.
I'll do that on occasion.
And I'm trying to be, this sounds really weird to say, I'm trying to be better about drinking light beer
just because I know that more or less
the one major thing holding me back
from really having a hot bod, if you will,
summer season, hot girl summer, hot podcast host summer,
is I just, I like to drink a lot of craft beer
and to me it's just like a fun exploration sort of of thing I got to go to old Irving brewery
This past Sunday for the first time and try some of their brews while I was
Listening to the Cubs game. That was a lot of fun after a hike, you know
These are the things I like to do but a lot of calories in those high
Craft brews high IPAs that sort of thing. I don't know why I'm saying high IPAs. It sounds like it's from the Alta Cama desert or something.
Alta Cama, what is that?
Anaconda, something like that.
Altaplano.
So you know this.
I've been working on Spanish.
I'm on like 108-day Duolingo streak.
Whatever the first day of the year is,
that was one of my New Year's resolutions.
I was like, you know what?
I feel like I get so much time in my day.
Let's at least take Duolingo seriously.
I never had it before, actually.
And I've done it every day of this year.
So it's April 19th.
So we're whatever, 108 days in, something like that.
So Altaplano means high plains in Espanol.
Drinking a little Miller Lite.
To finish that thought. Miller Lite is
not my go-to. The reason I have it is because I was at Jules maybe two weeks
ago and sometimes when you get up to the liquor section it's upstairs at the
Southport location. You exit the elevator and they might have like a cart with
discount, heavily discounted or sell items. So they had a bundle of four glass Miller Light
bottles for $3.
Which I guess in the grand scheme of things,
it's not like a, oh my god, flash sale, can't miss.
Because how much would a 12 pack of Miller Light bottles
usually be?
Probably not much more than $12 or whatever, right?
So it's not like, oh, this was a huge sale.
But it's like, you know what?
I'll grab some.
It's on the way out, helping them with their inventory.
$3 or $4 bottles, I don't feel bad about that.
You go to Wrigley Field, which I might try to do this weekend.
Their beers, of course, those are 16 ounces.
But their beers are up to $13.50 now for the cheap stuff.
Miller Lite's or whatever they serve Bud lights I think and Michelob's
13.50 for a 16-ouncer so this this bottle I'm nursing right now was what 75 cents
for 12 ounces so and all your math majors out there can do some cost-expense
ratios I'm also working on a guy we got a 15 minutes in, one of the, a classic bean town.
15 minutes in, Quinn has discussed nothing of importance yet.
Talk about the last seven, 15 minutes, you all are sitting there like,
oh, the last seven years we've been doing this.
Drinking a little bit of scotch.
It's risky and it, it, it is what it is. It what it is it's not you know, it's relatively cheap scotch
I'm not really usually a scotch drinker
Usually the whiskey I buy I can either drink straight on the rocks or add it to something else
I don't usually drink scotch on the rocks by itself, because that's just, I mean, it's bold for sure.
But I'm doing that today, just because it's what I had.
So we're going for it.
I couldn't tell you the brand.
It's kind of a green bottle, also from Jules.
It was heavily discounted.
It was like $10, so down from 20 something.
OK, let's do this week on the campaign trail.
Gosh, we've got all the housekeeping out of the way.
This week on the campaign trail, the big news, of course,
the Trump criminal trial started.
This is the one that has to do with hush payments
to Stormy Daniels.
There's another lady, too.
Essentially, what went on, and I've actually
dedicated a little bit of time to this on Monday
when the trial started to try to figure out exactly like what happened, why is
it illegal? I'm not gonna try to explain all of it to you, but basically he, you
know, this whole story with Danielson, he paid her off to stay quiet, signed the NDA,
but it was misclassified as legal fees basically. And that's what Michael Cohen went down for.
And I don't, is Michael Cohen like in jail right now?
I have no idea.
It's hard to keep all these guys straight.
But you know, who is in jail is Michael Avenatti,
too many Michaels.
He was Stormy Daniels' lawyer.
And he was doing like a presidential run for a hot second.
I mean a hot second.
And now he's in prison for other things, stealing client funds,
basically.
But I meant to Google Michael Cohen.
And I googled Michael Avenatti.
That's how tough it is.
Michael Avenatti or Michael Cohen.
Gosh, this is tough.
What actually happened to him?
Did he go to jail?
Let's see.
Tough to say.
Oh, no, he completed a sentence in November 2021.
He was there for two and a half years.
So gosh, time flies.
Trump got elected eight years ago.
Crazy stuff.
He's been at the front of our political minds
for almost a full 10
years now. Just in some ways it's like yeah Trump's been around for forever I
feel it in my bones but the other half part of me is like it seems like the
most recent political thing right and that's almost a full decade old. We're
all getting older here. Anyways apparently so jury selection is finally complete now. It's's the end of the day Friday at 6 o'clock p.m. here in Chicago,
7 o'clock in New York. But basically, my understanding of what they've been reporting is that Trump
is having a real hard time sitting still and he has to be present for this trial. I'm not
sure exactly why because I know other things he doesn't have to be. So I guess it's because
it's a criminal trial. We need to get brother of the show Jack Furness here as an Ivy League trained lawyer.
He could explain this to us.
And he's hot on the scene.
He lives in New York.
But basically Trump got scolded for using his phone.
You're not allowed to do that in a courtroom.
He has been falling asleep.
There's been multiple reports of that.
And then the report I saw today is that he's been farting quite a bit.
So this is going to be an interesting one.
The election is 6 and 1 half months away.
And I've always, the general thought, I think,
has always been, oh, if you want to do well in an election,
you need to be out there.
You need to rile the base.
You need to be campaigning, fundraising, all that stuff. And so this is going to be a really interesting
test of what happens when Trump is not out there. I haven't researched this. My hunch or my
understanding is that he can go out on the weekends, right? Like there's no trial on
Saturday and Sunday. He's not in jail or anything like that.
So theoretically, he can spend his Saturdays and Sundays,
which I assume he will, out campaigning
wherever he wants to.
But five out of seven days a week, at least for the next,
it was this week.
And I think these things, I mean,
they just finished jury selection like yesterday
or today.
And that was just, so they' selection like yesterday or today.
And that was just, you know, so they haven't even
really started yet.
So it's gotta be another two or three weeks,
at least I would think.
Again, not a legal expert here, but that's this week
on the campaign trail.
I think Joe Biden is just kinda doing his own thing.
As long as he like avoids any major scandals,
I'm not gonna say like, oh, as long as he avoids
major scandals, he got this main in the shade.als, I'm not going to say like oh as long as he avoids major scandals
He got this made in the shade basically what I'm trying to say is like
he doesn't really have to do anything right now other than just like classic campaigning because
Trump is really tied up
Let's just put it that way. So that's this week on the campaign trail. I
Thank you for indulging me as we took a week off last week with friend of the show, Matt
Feeler.
Email us, beanthompakasiyahu.com.
Did you get a tax refund this year?
Did you have to pay in?
Let us know.
We'll aggregate some data and see how the beanheads are doing.
I also wanted to give a shout out to our sponsor, then we'll jump into our big ideas and then we'll wrap up with trivia. Thank you to our this this Scotch
kind of has a smokiness to it. I kind of like almost feels like I'm drinking a
summer sausage. There's a big idea podcast for you. Jack links getting into
the Scotch game perhaps. Could be good idea. I don't know if uncle of the show Andy Dennison is listening, but could be a good idea
Speaking of Andy Dennison fantasy football football broadly NFL draft this Thursday
Hopefully Rachel and I make it to our humble abode in Indiana before things kick off because the Vikings are at the epicenter
Of the NFL draft this year, which is crazy to say
Weird to think and feel we'll see what happens what shakes out, but NFL draft this year, which is crazy to say, weird to think and feel.
We'll see what happens, what shakes out.
But NFL draft live from Detroit here in just, we're now six days from opening night, which
God, I am so thrilled.
I'm a big football fan, big Vikings fan, and I have a daily Vikings podcast I listen to
without fail.
Every during the off season, every Monday Monday through Friday they do put out content
on weekends that they pre-record but it's just you there's so much burnout
this time of year because leading into free agency all you can talk about is
free agency and then it happens for like three days and it's crazy it's exciting
it's awesome and then it's done and then you get another like five weeks of pre-draft stuff and it's every day, it's just draft, draft, draft,
draft. And then finally that's done. And then I'll be honest, from late April until early
August is pretty shitty from a football perspective. You pretty much get the schedule release in
May and then it is June and July are tough, tough months
in terms of content and putting stuff out.
Not a lot happening.
So that's coming up.
But I feel like there's a little bit of comfort in the fact
that, yeah, there's nothing really to talk about.
So if we're not putting out amazing stuff,
it's OK because this is baseball time, NBA playoffs, NHL
playoffs, whatever, horse races.
But man, the last five weeks leading up to the draft,
just insufferable.
Not because of any people putting out
material in particular, just the way I feel.
It's like we've talked to death about all
the different scenarios.
What could happen?
And it's all just speculation.
It's not like, oh, this piece of information came out.
This is real.
This is legit.
We have to listen to this.
It's all just teams putting out smoke screens, agents saying
this, so this happens, and trying
to influence this in the draft.
It's not like, oh, this came out on Twitter,
so that means this will happen in the draft.
It's all for six goddamn weeks leading up to it, from free agency to the draft. It's all for six goddamn weeks leading up to it from free agency to the draft.
It's all just, what if this happened?
This would be cool.
And so all these talking points are just talking to death.
So what I'm getting at in a long-winded way is just, thank God the draft is here,
because at least we can stop saying, oh, what if we do this trade?
XYZ.
Feeling burnt out big time by that.
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There was a biblical garb category
on Jeopardy the other night.
No mention of Samson.
There was Joshua at the city of Jericho.
I figure that was pretty close. So when God speaks, whether He's at Joshua, at Joshua,
at Jericho, going around seven times, blazing those trumpets. You think they were playing
like some, I don't know, New Orleans funeral brass band when the Saints go marching in
type of jazz
when they were walking around Jericho seven times.
Or they had to add good cardio.
You're blowing a trumpet, you're walking.
It's like the OG marching band, okay?
We don't really talk about this.
Maybe they teach that at Liberty University or something,
the first ever marching band.
First day of summer, two a days,
before they actually get out onto the practice
field to play their songs, they probably open up their Bibles and it's like, hey guys, the
first ever marching band.
Joshua and the Israelites going around Jericho seven times playing, we will rock you.
We will Iraq you.
I don't know.
Jericho's probably not in Iraq, but it would be pretty cool.
The pun would be very nice if it was in Iraq. We will Iraq you. All this is to say
when God speaks he uses a Samson. Next up the cuts by Q. When you need a fresh
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Guys, we got the last play-in game tonight.
Bulls versus Heat.
Jimmy Butler is out, which is pretty exciting.
Hope he rests up, but it's OK that he's going to be out.
Man, it would be really nice to, if we win this game tonight,
beat the Heat.
We lessen our draft position, and we
get to lose to the Boston Celtics in four games.
So that would be really nice.
So I'm really crossing my fingers for that.
My confidence level in the Chicago Bulls
has never been lower.
The most mid-team of all time, every goddamn year,
into the play-in games, into the play-in rounds.
Maybe we make it out.
Maybe we don't.
You get pick number 16 in the draft or whatever it is.
You pick some no name from Arizona or Memphis or Florida
State.
You're like, well, I've never heard of this guy,
but maybe they'll be good.
And then four years on their rookie contract,
they do nothing.
You're like, oh, I forgot this guy was on the team
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Okay, it took us 28 minutes, but we are to our big ideas.
And I'll say this, our big ideas show is just kind of a standing
invitation, if you will, a standing show. It's kind of developed into an annual thing, like once a year I think,
oh we should do a big ideas podcast.
Really just kind of a creative outlet for me to,
excuse me, relay some ideas that are just,
range from creative and terrible
to really not that creative and terrible.
It's not a, hey every year, this month, this week,
this is our creative ideas podcast.
It's not even a, hey once a year,
I gotta make sure I do this. It's just kind of, excuse me, when
I feel like it, we will do a big ideas podcast. I did want to mention one other
thing because I just saw this before we started recording and this could have
been a whole show, a theme for the show that we did, but neglected to do it.
Earth Day is this Monday, April 22nd, 2024.
So from all of us here at the Beantown Podcast,
I do encourage you, if you get the opportunity,
whether it's this Monday, this weekend, whenever,
take half an hour, if you could,
to go out and do something in your environment
to clean up the world around you.
Maybe it's just you see trash on the sidewalk.
Yesterday I was walking down Jackson Boulevard in downtown Chicago, getting ready to go for
my run and there was a plastic bag just floating in the wind like a Katy Perry hit.
And I said, this plastic bag's got to go.
So I picked it up, threw it in the dumpster,
and went along on my run.
So if it's simple, maybe it's a bigger project.
I didn't do it this year, but last year in MLK Day,
I went out to Montrose Bird Sanctuary
and took a trash bag from home, you know,
a big 30 gallon trash bag, whatever it is, and filled the whole thing up to the brim
with bottles and trash and all this stuff.
Whatever it is, I encourage you to take some time.
Maybe it's just you're walking down the street and there's some litter in the yard and you're
like, let me take care of this.
One little thing can make a big difference.
So from all of us here at the Beantown podcast, Earth Day,
this is the only Earth we have so far until Matt Damon gets
those potatoes going on Mars.
So happy Earth Day to all of us here, from all of us
here at the Beantown podcast.
OK, our big ideas show.
I'm not even going to say the 2024 edition.
It's just a Big Ideas podcast.
And again, keep the conversation going at beantownpodcast.com
and emailing us beantownpodcast at yahoo.com.
You can leave comments in either spaces
about what your big ideas are.
Let's start off with the only one
that anyone else is aware of going into the show.
I shared this with Rachel when we woke up the other morning.
So I have this idea.
So I think anyone who's been married
can hopefully relate to this.
Or if you're engaged right now, you're
planning a wedding, whatever.
There are certain people in your life, friends, acquaintances, relatives,
right? When we get into the great uncles, great aunts range, there are people on my guest list
who are backups. They are not going to make the original 151 Pokemon or like 160 or something
like that. But it's just like people that would I love to,
this is how I would classify it.
I would love to have a beer with this person,
catch up with them, talk to them for 15 minutes.
Like that would be a highlight of my day
to be able to do that.
But this is a person or people who maybe
just not, you're not close to anymore.
Or you only knew them in a very limited capacity in a short period of your life.
So what do you do, right?
These are people, and maybe you're even still connected to them on social media or something.
You don't want to hurt their feelings by being like, oh yeah, we're having a small wedding,
sorry we can't invite you.
Not going for that vibe.
But you also can't have a 300 person wedding.
You're not made of gold over here,
not until these ads really start paying.
I've been doing ad reads for Home Pride Oregon
for about six years now.
And I haven't asked for any money,
but they also haven't sent any.
So it's kind of been a two wayway street of nothingness if you will. So here's the idea. Weekend before, so it's before
things get crazy with the wedding, before you really have to dig into the planning
right, it's the weekend before your actual wedding. You have a pre wedding
and here's what you can do. Obviously you get to invite all of these tertiary people.
That's kind of the primary benefit.
Another benefit, though, you get to kind of do a dry run,
if you will.
You kind of get to see what works well, what doesn't work
well.
Maybe the officiant's got some jokes, and all of a sudden,
oh, that one didn't land.
Let's cut that.
It's kind of like SNL, right?
They do a dress rehearsal an hour know, an hour before showtime.
They go through the whole thing.
They decide what's going to get cut, what they need to change, that sort of thing.
Guys, you can do the same thing for your wedding.
And it doesn't, here's the goal.
Here's the little sneaky part about it that's so tasty.
You can make money off of this.
Okay?
I know we're all concerned about bottom dollar. Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there will be sun.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, etc. Here's what you do. And I told this to Rachel. Obviously you don't need your venue, right? This isn't a rehearsal dinner.
This isn't a walk through. This is just a pre-wedding wedding, if you will.
You can do it at a local park shelter.
You could do it in someone's backyard, basically somewhere that you can get into for free.
And then we're talking food like this.
Obviously, you still want to feed these people.
But if they're going to your pre-wedding wedding, they know that they're not A-tier guest list, AMC stubs list.
And so they're not expecting to be wined and dined, right?
You don't need to get their dietary preferences.
You just go to, I don't know, Costco,
or whatever the most cost-effective way
of feeding the masses is, fish is in Loaves Night,
however you want to handle it.
You just get a shit ton of bread, maybe some mayonnaise,
bulk mayonnaise.
You get one of those big jars, it's like two gallons.
And just, I don't know, a bunch of cold cuts or something.
You could even get some, go to Jules,
you find the Miller Lite discount I was telling you about,
some cheap scotch that I'm about to sip from.
So you can do this cheaply
And here's the thing these fringe people in your life will be so
Happy to have been invited. They're going to shower you with gifts shower the people you love with love show them
However, the rest of the James Taylor song goes you could go you could walk away from this pre wedding wedding with enough money to bump up that
honeymoon from Michigan City per se to
Guatemala City home of the Jaguars I
Had to look this up. There was a Jeopardy question the other night and it showed an animal that was very clearly either a jaguar or a
Leopard I say Jaguar because that's how they say it in the British car commercials at Jaguar And it showed an animal that was very clearly either a jaguar or a leopard.
I say jaguar because that's how they
say it in the British car commercials, add jaguar.
But it was native to, I think it was either Mexico or Guatemala.
And I was like, well, it's got to either be a jaguar
or a leopard.
And then I looked it up, and leopards are only
like Africa, South Asia, basically. Jaguars are all over the place,
you know, Antarctica, Fargo, Siam, not to mention Latin America. I don't know how we
got into Jaguars, but basically bottom line, pre-wedding, wedding,
great opportunity.
You get to see all these people.
No one's feelings are hurt.
You still get to celebrate.
You get to party.
You don't need a DJ.
Just plug in the aux cord, turn on your favorite album, Herbie Hancock, Headhunters. head hunters
That's basically the song there's another 15 minutes, but we don't have time today
So that's that's big idea number one number two and I'll admit honestly this one is very well fleshed out. I just kind of was like two drinks in last night and heard something
triggered me and I was like, this is this is a big idea. And I wrote it down.
It's not that good, but it is what it is. That's the thing with Bean Town
podcast. It's a creative space for all walks of life, really all genders, races.
Boston Marathon was this past Monday.
Congratulations.
Friend of the show, Abby Witzak, who
are actually getting drinks with in an hour here.
Her younger sister completed the Boston Marathon
this past Monday.
Congratulations.
To Hannah, very well done.
OK, this second idea, we have, how many do we have?
One, two, three, four, five, six.
But five and six are tied together.
Oh, I was going to say, I was going to make this pun earlier.
It has nothing to do with big ideas.
Because I was deciding which beer
I wanted to grab for the show.
And I ended up grabbing the Miller Lite, obviously.
But I also have a, is it called Brick House or some Brick
Stone, something like that.
It's a brewery.
I think it's down in Bourbon A. But it's a juicy IPA that
is very kind of sweet and difficult to drink just
because of how strong and sweet it is.
But I was going to drink that on the show.
And then I was going to say, the juice is loose.
And it was going to be a tribute to OJ.
But it doesn't really work because he's dead and probably
a murderer.
And I didn't even drink the juicy IPA.
So really, none of the boxes got checked.
But I wanted to share that because I
had the thought in my mind, and there's
7 billion other people out there listening to the show,
potentially, who otherwise would never
get to hear that groundbreaking thought.
This next one, man mentor men.
That's what it is.
Basically, the word mentor has men in it,
so we've got to get some men mentoring men.
But man mentor men, I could be that man or it could be anyone.
Here's what I wrote down last night after two drinks.
Online counseling service, the exact same.
OK, this is where it gets better.
The exact same is BetterHelp, but we undercut them on prices.
And wouldn't you know it, I just got an email from BetterHelp
this morning.
They're like, you have some sort of free membership
through this fraternity.
I'm like, I'm not in a fraternity.
Although I am currently the staff slash faculty advisor
for a fraternity at DePaul, which is a whole other show that I
don't want to get into.
It's extremely frustrating.
But I also was a fraternity advisor
when I was in graduate school for, oh, god, who was it?
Delta Nu, I think, something like that.
I actually looked this up earlier this week
because I was like, whatever happened to those guys?
They were banned from Northwestern for a long time.
Then they came back.
When I was in graduate school, it was the first year
they were back on campus.
And so I was one of their advisors.
Just disaster all over the place.
And they're since gone again.
I don't know if they're banned or just disbanded.
But I did get an email from betterhelp.com.
So basically what Man Mentor Man is going to be about
is offering exactly what Better Help provides,
whatever it might be.
But it's just for men.
But it could also be for women.
But the name implies it's just for men.
But it's going to be like we start with men because of the name and it's fun, but
we expand to women.
And it can be women with mentoring women, right?
Something like that, I don't know, we'll workshop it.
We'll do that on next year's show.
But I don't know, I feel like men need to really mentor men.
And so this will be a mentoring space for men to be mentored by men, for men,
and with men.
You could do single men mentoring, group men mentoring.
This all reminds me of one of the classes I had take, core classes in grad school, was
a leadership development, I think it was just called leadership in education
was what it was called. And it was taught by a professor, I won't name drop, I'm not
trying to, I knew this guy only in limited capacity as a student, was 21 years old, 22
or whatever. He was a total dick like inside of the classroom. But I'll retract that.
Not a total dick, just rubbed me the wrong way.
And a lot of other people in my class,
a lot of other grad school friends really hated him.
I never hated him that much.
The one thing I did hate him for was that we had to spend $75
at art blick stores, whatever those are called,
getting the PDF of all their readings printed out.
That was like our textbook.
It was like, why couldn't I just access this on a computer?
Why did you put this behind like a $75 pay
wallet, blick materials or whatever?
Because it was literally just PDFs from Harvard Business
Review that we had to read for that class.
But it was all about leadership, coaching, mentoring.
I literally felt the whole class was like an MLM seminar.
And then to top it all off, it was
a class where we had to come in on two Saturdays out
of the quarter.
And that was my first ever time I
tried to run the Shamrock Shuffle.
I was like, cool, Shamrock Shuffle.
I'm a runner now.
I just run the Chicago Marathon.
Let's do it.
Signed up with some friends from grad school.
And of course, they scheduled it for the exact same time
as the Shamrock Shuffle.
And the cherry on top of that was
that there was a TA in the class who had graduated
from the same program.
He was like a year out.
And he got to show up late to this class
because he ran the Shamrock shuffle and
then took the train out from downtown and then he was late and we're all sitting
there just like this guy's showing up sweaty he's got his medal on and we're
like boy that would have been fun to run we all lost out on you know 50 60 bucks
whatever it was because they scheduled this class on a Saturday. Hopefully man
mentor man will be it's man mentor men not men mentor men, man mentor man will be, it's man mentor men.
Not men mentor men or men mentor man or man mentor man,
but it's man mentor men.
Got that.
Hopefully, it will be better than that leadership class I
took.
And we're not going to charge you $75 for a textbook that's
just PDFs, because we're going to undercut better
help on prices. OK, because we're going to undercut BetterHelp on prices.
OK, let's keep going here.
Don't be alarmed by the first word of this three-word thing.
Vibrating toe slippers.
Here's what I'm thinking.
This is where it was born out of Jason Bourne. I know I love slippers right who doesn't? And I
didn't you know up until I don't know how old I was when I switched over to
like always wearing house shoes. I didn't wear in when I say house shoes you know
slippers Adidas sandals what I'm rocking right now whatever capacity but basically
not being just barefoot or socks only in the house.
Excuse me, that was a foreign concept to me growing up.
I never had, I'm sure I had sandals in some capacity, or slippers in some capacity,
but I didn't wear them frequently and sandals were only for outdoors, right?
But at some point as an adult I switched over and I think it's fairly recently,
I think it's like the last six, seven years to where I'm like,
if I'm in my apartment, especially
with the hardwood floors, I think
hardwood versus carpet is a big factor for me personally.
It's like I always am either wearing my Adidas slip-on
sandals or my Vikings slippers that I got from, I think it was
Rachel's aunt
and uncle a couple Christmases ago thank you guys for that but I never until I'm
like crawling into bed at night I never socks or or otherwise I'm never not
wearing my house shoes my thought was okay they have those those socks toe
socks if you will there's even the ones they make for running.
Basically an individual whole orifice, if you will, dune popcorn bucket, for each individual toe.
So my thought is, what if you get slippers, they look like any other normal slipper, but you can plug them in USB-C to charge them up. And they kind of have individual toe things you slide right
into.
And you know when you go to get a pedagogy?
What the hell is that thing called?
Pedicure.
Tough one getting towards the end of our scotch.
You're getting towards the end of our episode.
And they put the little white foam cushiony things
in between your toes.
I don't know, because I've never gotten a pedicure before,
but I've seen this happen in the media.
Basically, that's what I'm envisioning with these slippers.
You stick your feet in, and then they kind of vibrate.
And maybe there's enough room for the things to kind of move
around a little bit.
Maybe not full 360 rotation but close.
They kind of get the detritus out of your toes. One thing that would be tough would be how do you clean these slippers? I don't know. You definitely want to unplug from your power source before you
do that but not really not my top concern right now. So vibrating toe slippers. They vibrate. They
can get uh maybe if you got your toenails are a
certain length they can kind of get under there and clean under there too.
So there's potential there I feel. 20 minute battery life charge, maybe longer
but I don't know. You could also add in a heating element for those cold winter
months. I think out of all of these bullshit ideas here, this one is actually the closest to
like an actual idea that you could do.
Okay, let's wrap things up here.
We got three more, but the last two are underdeveloped and tie into one another.
Next up, I was having this thought.
The transfer portal in college basketball
has become all the rage.
With NIL and transfer rules loosening,
it feels like every single player is always transferring.
It's so bizarre to me.
I'm not plugged in enough to the sport
to understand why is this person transferring,
why is that person transferring, whatever.
But case in point, Wisconsin Badgers, right?
They go to the Big Ten title game.
They go to the tournament.
They're two best players, AJ Storr and Chuckie Hepburn,
faces of the team.
They play so well.
Everyone's behind them rooting for them.
Both those guys transfer out.
Like after just in the last week, two weeks,
those guys are both gone.
And that's just one of many stories across College Best
where top players are transferring
to different programs, better NIL access, whatever it is.
I don't know.
But it's really kind of bumming me out
because it's like every single year in college basketball
now, you have a brand new team.
And it's like, who is this person?
This guy is not.
You're never going to get that kid from Kansas,
whatever his name was back in the early 2010s, who
looked like he was like 35 years old.
And everyone joked that he'd been there for like eight years.
Perry Ellis, I think, was his name.
You're not going to get that anymore.
So here's what I propose to balance out the transfer
portal.
And we've got to work through the details here.
But I'm proposing that at the start of a game,
you automatically get a certain amount of points
based on the amount of loyalty in your roster.
So we got to shake things out here.
We got to determine how it works.
But basically what I'm getting at, OK,
take this with a grain of salt. M as you need to nc double a I know you're
listening
let's just baseline okay we we we we tweak it as needed if you got a
senior on your on your roster starting lineup I don't know we got to mix
through this stuff a little bit four points
junior three points or let's change it this way. If they've been on your team
four years, four points. Three years, three points. Two years, two points. One
year, one point. Now obviously there are flaws in this. We got to work through it.
It could also be another fun, fresh idea. What if a fourth-year player scores a
bucket? That could be worth four points. What if a freshman scores a bucket?
That's only one point, right?
These are the things we've got to work through.
There are ideas that we can float out there.
But we shouldn't just look at my idea and say, well, you're,
you know, this is stupid.
You only have 75 subscribers, whatever it is.
You've done 300 episodes, 350 almost,
and you don't have any real sponsors.
No one actually really listens to your show. Your technology sucks.
You always make these big promises about donor prizes and you never deliver, although we
fucking deliver it on the bags this year, so you're welcome. If you missed out on this year's
Bean Town podcast donor prize telethon you missed out big time
because now you don't have a limited edition tote bag. I don't even have one
that's how limited it is. But all this is to say NCAA maybe you should pick up
the phone and listen. Pick up the podcast okay. Because this this idea is this going
places. You want to solve your transfer portal issue? Bean Top Podcast got your back.
Okay, my last two ideas.
First up, and I'm not going to go into tangent on this, we've already covered Taylor Swift
on this show many times.
Last year we did our 1889 album.
It was a total banger.
It had, you know, battered women on it.
Great song. We got to get going on our
there's a lot of pressure slightly off topic but a lot of pressure I was
thinking about this in bed last night. This year is the follow-up to
Daddy Long Legs, our annual Father's Day song and we kind of dropped the ball on
it for like a year or two you know two or three years ago came back hard in the paint Daddy Long Legs easily you
know just it was like a middling starving artist who's just been like
surviving for a couple years and all of a sudden they come up with a huge hit six
years in it's like where the fuck did this come from two f-bombs on one show. What a day
It's the Scotch
Dad it along legs lay up a thousand eggs and then you get the remix. Oh
Listen to that remix the other night
Things a total certified banger
Shout out to lover of the podcast Rachel Ramos for inspiring the idea to remix daddy long Legs, make it into more of a club mix.
And if you're wondering, is that getting played at the wedding?
That's an affirmative.
Where, I don't know, we have to strategically deploy it.
Rachel's considering it to walk down the aisle.
I'm considering it to walk down the aisle.
We're considering first dance.
Rachel and Jose danced to it.
We're going to see okay there's a lot of
competition over it but there's pressure to follow up with the sort of another
certified banger I have not started writing and I'll be candid with you
Father's Day is two months away we've got two months to figure this out
will it be spider themed I don't know I don't want to get redundant but we'll
see we'll see okay but I don't want to focus on Taylor Swift too much
She did drop an album and this is all for Rachel Rachel told me she dropped an album last night the
Tortured Poets Society, I think is what it's called and
Apparently at midnight she dropped the album which has 15 songs and then two hours later per Rachel's report
She dropped the same
thing but with another 15 songs? This is where I'm confused. She dropped an album
with 15 songs and then she dropped dropped she released something with 30
songs. Is it 15 of the old songs and then 15 new ones? Is it 30 new ones? What are
these 30 new songs and why did she release them two hours apart?
Why isn't she sleeping? It's 2 a.m. Even if you're LA it's only midnight or it's already midnight.
She's in her 30s now you would think you would need some sleep. So here's my big idea and we're
going to get to the other one in a hot second here but and I'm not here to go off I haven't listened
to the album yet I'm not here to criticize the album or the songwriting or
Jack Antonoff being just completely bizarre
unless last week and not to mention his album I'm not a fan of personally
but here's my big idea and I'm just gonna leave it at this Taylor Swift give
it a rest she just spent the entire like last year
being on top of the world Travis Travis Kelsey, who I think they're still dating,
he just won the Super Bowl literally two and a half months ago.
She's on screen all the time, everyone's talking about her.
It's only been two months of people not talking about Taylor Swift
as the number one headline every single second of every single day.
Two months.
And she's out here dropping another album because she's so starred for attention. I'm not here to comment on the
music, criticize music, anything like that. It's just from like a culture perspective,
like, Hey, just like pump the brakes, like go do literally anything else. You don't have
to put out an album three months after your tour ends or whatever. Exhausting. I can't handle another
Taylor Swift front of the news cycle because it's just not interesting to me anymore. So apologies.
That's just how I feel. My last idea, I'll leave it very simple. Remember that band BTS, the K-pop
band? They had that song like Dynamite or whatever it's called.
Like, huh, like sugar, like a time in the, huh, huh, huh.
I don't even know if that's the same song.
Bring that BTS band back, right?
It was kind of fun.
It was kind of edgy.
Like no one knew, no one knows what they were saying.
It was like 10 people in one band.
Everyone was like, had their favorite.
I didn't really know any of their names
or what they were saying in their songs. But there's kind of that era or that aura. Sorry,
mine is on era's tour. Aura of mystery about BTS. And it's like, yeah, I mean, that's kind of fun.
Kind of like overly produced. But it's not like sad sob stories.
Taylor Swift, I wrote this song with my blood last night. He called me, he left another voicemail, and I just had to express these feelings in a song. And then some sad sap, Jack Antonoff ballad,
you know, that people like, oh my god, she expressed her feelings. She was so brave.
Give me the BTS Katy Perry inspired, you know, overproduced bullshit, okay?
With some cool dance moves, theoretically.
Because I watched some of the dance moves Taylor had in the Airis tour film and not
impressed.
I can do the stanky leg.
Let's see Taylor do it. That's here,
that is this year's, or I don't want to limit myself, this week's Big Ideas
podcast. Again, email us, bintompodcast at yahoo.com with your big idea. We're
gonna get this in under the hour mark, I promise you. Especially with no outro
music. Baby steps, right? Not Giant Steps, John Coltrane, Baby Steps. We got the
intro music in here.
I'm not going to go with the outro music.
We're finishing up with our trivia question.
And it's going to be very simple.
And it's not related at all to anything we've talked about.
But it was like all my Twitter timeline
was about this based off of the accounts I follow,
which will show you how I use Twitter.
This week, here's the question.
This week was the 40th anniversary,
I think it was April 16th, 1984,
of this Peanuts musical special.
And yes, if you're wondering,
the title track from it is an absolute banger.
Rachel and I came across this for the first time maybe a year ago. I still listen to the title track here and there. It is just
magical what they did with that program and absolutely critically panned. People
hated it but I love it. It's a peanut special with adults in it. Pretty cool at the club.
And I will say this, the name of the musical special refers to Snoopy.
And those are all the clues I have for you.
So again, this week, 40th anniversary of this Peanuts musical special, and yes, the title
track from it absolutely slaps in the name of the special slash title track refers to
Snoopy.
And if you need more time, go ahead and take a pause because we're wrapping up things here.
But the answer to this week's trivia Bean Tom podcast trivia question of the week is
Flash Beagle.
They call him Flash, Flash, Flash, Flash, Flash Beagle.
And if you have never listened to Flash Beagle before I envy you in your virgin ears
because your life is never gonna be the same. Four minutes of just goodness. Okay so Flash Beagle
happy 40th birthday to the one and only Flash Beagle. Guys that's what I got for a long show today. No apologies, all apologies, Nirvana.
I saw Ben Gibbard do a cover of All Apologies
on a piano at Talia Hall back in 2019, 2020,
something like that.
Good stuff.
Couple Seattle guys.
That's what I have for you, everyone.
Thank you for tuning into my show.
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Apologies, it took us a hot second
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He's in Hawaii.
If you ever thought, hey, I wish I had more bean town.
There's a neat little trick you can do on your podcast app.
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But that could give you, this could be a four hour episode.
You're trying to pass a, you know,
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I don't know if that's better or worse than listening to nothing, but it's something.
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