Cloud Gate
Sculpture in Chicago, IllinoisWikipedia
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Sep 14, 2026
Amanda PoleHOST
Although,
Shannon HackettHOST
you know, if you come here in the winter, there's the ribbon that you can go on in Maggie Daly Park near the Bean, which is also really cool.
Shannon HackettHOST
There's this really cool, really beautiful from the air, you know, oval kind of shaped skating rink that you can go on.
Shannon HackettHOST
Have you guys ever been on that? John has.
Brett McKenzieHOST
They still persevered and held their, they call it the happiest hour is the BTC happy hour.
Brett McKenzieHOST
They held it at Millennium Park right in front of the Bean where the ice skating rink usually is.
Brett McKenzieHOST
like when you're an events coordinator, when you're doing logistical work for a trade show, for a conference, for anything, picking an outdoor experience is a gamble.
Brett McKenzieHOST
But as a Chicagoan, I feel like Millennium Park, you know, really is in the heart of Chicago.
Phil WatersHOST
And the targets are all Chicago-based targets, like Slice a Pizza.
Phil WatersHOST
The Bean.
Phil WatersHOST
The Bean.
Phil WatersHOST
Right.
Sean NoelPANELIST
You got to flick the bean.
CalebHOST
It's like, so it's the number one attraction, but apparently it's pretty disappointing to European tourists.
WaleedHOST
I mean, I feel like in Chicago, the number one attraction is, um, The Bean or The Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor.
WaleedHOST
When I get stopped on the streets, it'd be like, hey, where's The Bean? Or if someone was very articulate, they're like, where's Cloud Gate? I've had that once.
WaleedHOST
I'm like, what the hell? You know the name of this thing? It's just called The Bean.
CalebHOST
Anyway.
Nixie NockGUEST
Um, sometimes I will meet other people at conventions and I, if I feel comfortable, you know, I will do a short tasting or a scene.
Nixie NockGUEST
I don't tend to use, uh, convention attendees as my personal um pool of meat but every once in a while like if i really like find a find another attendee or a person who's working there a volunteer and i and i usually will never do like a sexual scene with them it'll usually be like a quick rope scene or quick impact scene with clothes on that um that i get to do that part and that's also super fun When I went to Chicago for Kinky College, I took a day away to go and see The Bean and go to Millennium Park.
Nixie NockGUEST
And then when I was in New York for Test Fest, we spent the day in Manhattan.
Nixie NockGUEST
It was 113 degrees.
AmandaHOST
But, like, the bean?
AndrewHOST
Yeah, like.
AndrewHOST
Oh, yeah, in Chicago, the Bean.
AndrewHOST
The Bean.
AndrewHOST
The Bean,
AmandaHOST
the Arches, St. Louis.
AmandaHOST
Yeah,
Sharon ParéHOST
Yeah.
Kristen ReynoldsGUEST
And they're like, "We're coming." So you have to go to the Bean.
Sharon ParéHOST
Okay.
Kristen ReynoldsGUEST
You have to get the obligatory reflection picture in the Bean.
Kristen ReynoldsGUEST
And then the, what I love about the Millennium Park area where the bean is, and which kind of flows into Grant Park, is again, you've got the waterfront, you've got Buckingham Fountain.
Kristen ReynoldsGUEST
To go through there, I think one of the surprising things about Chicago is the public space and the open park area.
Kristen ReynoldsGUEST
Really, I send everyone to downtown.
Kristen ReynoldsGUEST
Go down Mag Mile.
Jill RiddellHOST
Millennium Park is a park in downtown Chicago that was built probably was like 15 years ago now.
Jill RiddellHOST
And for people that aren't from the United States, it's famous for, if you ever heard of the Bean in Chicago, that's where the Bean is, is in Millennium Park, right downtown.
Ernest WongGUEST
So that's my story is the Bean.
Ernest WongGUEST
I was skeptical because I thought it was just going to be very Disney-esque, that I was going to just get these features throughout the park that people are going to, you know, tourists would come and they'd see them and they'd be like, hey, you know.
Ernest WongGUEST
And when I went out there on opening day and I stood in front of the Bean and everybody around me who I didn't know, I saw the reflections in that sculpture, and I'm standing next to them, and conversations start.
Ernest WongGUEST
And that's the interaction that I'm talking about, that people actually start to have conversations with each other.
Jill RiddellHOST
Do you think that that doesn't happen as much inside of a building as it does outside?
BrooklynHOST
So guess where I'm going to be on my birthday day? The
NicoleHOST
Bean in Chicago.
BrooklynHOST
No, no, no.
BrooklynHOST
More specifically, the number one place that I'm excited to go to Is McDonald's headquarters.
Anna DeShawnGUEST
That means other folks are probably losing their jobs because when people come to the city, they are going to the Loop.
Anna DeShawnGUEST
They want to see the Bean.
Anna DeShawnGUEST
Child, I could care less about the Bean.
Anna DeShawnGUEST
People love the Bean.
Anna DeShawnGUEST
But people love that Bean, okay? And it's a beautiful representation.
Anna DeShawnGUEST
They love that thing.
Anna DeShawnGUEST
And the Loop is a beautiful representation for what Chicago is.
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